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SALE OF PROVISION 7 P, &c., A.T GOSPORT. ADMIRNLIKSET-PLACE, 7th January, 1357. - rr LI _ii. 1 • . E CommissiOners-for Executing the Office of Lord nigh Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do Hereby Give Notice, that on IVEDNE‘ABAY, the itS 11 inst„ at 12 o'clock at noon, the Captain Superintendent will put uP( to Sale, in the Royal Clarence Victualling Yard at Gosport, several ' Lots' of Army and Navy Provisions, Victualling Stores, Seamen's Clothing, Transport Bedding, &c , &c., &e.; consisting of Salt Meat, Lemon Juice, Rice, Tongifes, Chlor.de of Lime, Brandy, Ale, ttc., &C. all lying M the said Yard. Persons wishing to view the Lots must apply to the Superintendent • for notes of admission for that purpose. Catalogues and Conditions of Sale may be had here and at the 1 Yard. L ONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. —TO RAILWAY CONTRACTOR -1 AND OTHERS.—The Directors are desirous of receiving Tenders for Widening the Railway between Primroe-hill Tunnel and Willesden Station. - Parties desirous of tendering may inspect the drawings and spe ciflcationg, and obtain a statement of the quantities, at the Engi neer's Office, Euston Station, on Monday, January 19, between the tours-of 10 and 4 o'c'ock. Seaied Tenders, addressed to the Secretary, at this Office, to be sent in on or before Wednesday, 28th January, at 1Q o'clock a.m. By order. CIIA.S. E. STEWART, Secretary. Se mtetary's Office, Jan. 7, 1857. ' GREAT INDIAN PENINSULA. RAILWAY COMPANY. Creation of 2,000,00 4 1. further Capital. The Board of Directors hereby intimate to the Shareholders of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company that the Hon. East India Company have sancti ned the raising of further capital in this Com pany to the extent of 2,000,0001., with interest guaranteed at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum. It has accordingly been resolved, pursuant to the act, to issue the said capital rateably among the shareholders, in shares of 201. each, One new share to be given in virtue of every Two shares of 201. value standing on the register of the. Company on the 16th January inst. And the Board have, by such resolution, made a call of 21. per share on every new 201. share so allotted (with the option to the shareho der of paying up the wh , 4e 201.), which is hereby declared uayable at the Bank of Messrs. Ueywood, Kennards, and Co., Lom bard-street, London, on or before the 26th day of FebruiFy, 1857. Circular letters of allotment, with directions for payment, and forms of Receipt, will be forwarded to the address of the several sharetelders. IL) The shareholders are hereby informed that share certificates, if left at the office after notice is given that they are ready lOr delivery, renialn at the risk of the proprietors.. (Signed) CORNELIUS NICHOLSON*, I;tiperintending Director. 3, New Broad-street, London, January 9th, 1857. T . . PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL a_ LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION and BENEVOLENT FUND. • Establi4h.d 1840, TRUSTEES. Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. G. Prescott, Esq. Thomas Hankey, Esq., I.P.N Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P. TREASURER OF THE BENEVOLENT FUND—John Abel Smith, Esq., M. P. LIFE ASSURANCE DEPARTMENT. 15, Ijoorgate street, London, December 23, 1856. Notice is hereby given, that the SIXTEENTH ANNUAL GENE RAL It4EIMING of the Members of the MUTUAL LIFE ASSU RANCE 34EPARTMENT will be held at the London Tavern, Rishopsgate-street, in the City of London, on MONDAY, the 19th day of January, 1857, at Six o'clock in the Evening precisely. The following Directors, in accordance with Rule 7, go out of office by rotation, but, being eligible, offer themselves for re-elec tion, viz, : Mr:Biellard Henry Jones I Mr. Richard Price Mr. Wiillan Jeremiah Jordan. I Mr. William Stanhope Sawtell, By order of the Board. WILLIAM THOMAS LINFORD, Secretary. BENEVOLENT DEPARTMENT, Rolle* is hereby given, that the . SIXTEENTH ANNUAL GENE- R AI, MEETING of the MEMBERS and FRIENDS of the BENE VOLENT DEPARTMENT, wilt be hell ht thq London Tavern, ElshoPsgate-street, in the city of London, on WEDNESDAY, February 11, 1557, at Six o'clock in the Evening precisely. JOHN ABEL SMITH, Esq., M.P., Treasurer, in the Chair. By order of the Board, • WILLIAM TWOMAS LINFORD, Secretary. The annual accounts of both departments may be inspected at the office one week prior to the general meeting. MR. W. S. WOODIN'S OLIO of ODDITIES, with New Costumes and v rions Novelties, `focal and Cha racteristic, every evening (except ~a turday) at Eight A MORN ING PERFORMANCE - every SATURDAY, at Three. Private Boxes and Stalls may he secured, without extra charge, at the box-office, Polygraphic-hall, King William-street, Charing-cross. The hall has been entirely redecorated. RGYLL ROOMS. -LA URENT'S CASINO, Great Windmill-street, St. James's.—The above elegan Rooms are now open every tvening 4tor the winter season, with Laurent's celebrated Orchestra. Principal Cornet-a-piston, 51. Poulcourt. The Proprietor begs to inform the, public that Gus fashionable place of resort ha 4 been entirely redecorated during the vcess. Doors open at half-past eight, commence at nine. Admis s on Ono Shilling. FIR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL M U SEUM, 4, Coventry-street, Leicester-square.--:Open (for Gentlemen ( JAY) from 10 "till 10, containing npvrards 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. SEXTON, F.R.G.S. ; and a new and highly -interesting series of Lectures Is-now In course of delivery by Dr. Lung, at a quarter past S p.m. precisely. Admission. One RhWhig- Catalogues containing Lectures as delivered by Dr. Khan (gran* pURSUANT to an Order of the Hi g h Court of Chancery, made in a cause, Sarah Stanton against Henry - liuggeridge, James Allberry, and Henry Whitten Teesdale, the Creditors of John Toms Stanton, late of roirlan i Grove, Larkhall. lane, Stockwell, in the county of iu rey, Tea Dealer, who dies in or about the month of Jane, 1856, are, by their solicitors, on or before the 31st day • Uannary, 1857, to come in and prove their debts at the Chambers of the Vice-Chancellor Sir It:chard Torin Kindersley, at I'o. 3. Stone-buildings, Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex ; or, in default thereof, they will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said Order. Monday, the second day of February, 1857, at 12 o'clock at noon, at the said Chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the Chime. Dated this 9th day of December, 1856. CHAS PUGH, Chief Clerk. • • . WILLIAM ,HENRY GREEN', 20, Moorgate-street, Plaintlff's Solicitor. • 1%1 R. HOWARD, tirgeon-Dentist, 52, Fleet street, has introduced an entirely new description of ARTI FICIALTEFTIi,exed without spring3,wiros, or, ligatures. They so perfectly resemble the natural te e th as not to be 'distinguished from the original by the closest observer; they will never change colour or decay, and will be found very superior to .any teeth ever before used. This method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painful operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, a n d i s • guaranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth rendered sound and useful in mastication.-52, Fleet-street. At borne from ten till five. EXPEDITION to PERSIA.—The MAP of PElt.4 a, with Part of the Ottoman Empire. By G. LONG, M. A. Price 6d. plain ; 9d. coloured. - Published in the Series 'of the Useful 'Knowledge Society. Can be obtalned of all' bookelellers. Also, same series and price, a Map of Afghanistan, Belooelistan, with parts of Persia, Bokhara, and Sinde. London : Edward Stan ford, 6, Charing-cross, S.W., whose' catalogue of maps can be had on application. CECRIST'ATAS PRESENTS. THE exuberance of the feeling's, amid scenes of gaiety, induces the fair and youthful to shine to advantage under the gaze of many friends, and therefore to devote especial attention to the duties of the toilet. It is at this festive season that "ill 0 NIBARDMENT of CANTON.—The ATLAS Afi o' INDI %, 26 Coloured Maps, contains in addition go the maps of India, revlsn,cl by JOHN W a LKEE, Esq.. (0 ographer to the Honourable East India Company), maps of Canton and its ap proaches, acao and Hong Kong; China and Bartnah ; Persia; Arabia; Japan ; Asiati c A rc hi pe l ago ; I s l ands in the Indian dcean ; Pohnesia, &c., selected from the Series designed and engraTed by the Useful Knowledge Society. The Atlas, Price one guine ; the Maps Singly, coloured. 9d ; plain 61 A. list of the Ma and A tiasep in the s er i es , may b e o b tained on application to dward Stanford, 6, Charing-cross, Londo n (S.W.) NEW ZEALAND.,--The Uuseful Knowledge Society's MAP of NE W ZEAL aND has recently been thoroughly revised from Admiralty SurVeys, and additions in the Interior, by WALTER lit 4NTELL, Esq., &c. Price, coloured 9d. ; plain 6d. The Family Atlas, selected from the series, contains 80 maps and index, price three guineas. London : Edward Stanford, G, Charing-cross, S.W. CANADA, UPPER and LOWER, with the RAILWAYS.-t-Mapa of - these Provinces lnHtwo sheets, are included in the new edition of the CYCLOPAID lAN ATLAS. just published, price one guinea, containing 39 Co'cured Maps of the various parts of the world, amongst which will be found maps of the United :States in two sheets, British America, with the :Arai.: Regions, West India Islands, Australia, New Zealand, &c., &c.. se lected from the Useful Knowledge Society's Series. The maps singly, plain Gd; coloured 91. London: Edward Stanford, 6, Charing-cross, S.W. "'LIVING CELEBRITIES : a Seri e s of _IA PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS, by Mum. and POLIBLAN K. The number for January contains E. M. WARD, Esq., R.A., with Memoir. Maul! and Polyblank, 55, Gracecharch-street ; and all book and printsellers. rrHOM'S IRISH ALMANAC and OFFICIAL 11 DIRECTORY of the UNITED KINGDOM . , for 1357, is Row published; price 7s. 6d., or bound with the Dublin Post Office Direc tory, 13s. ad. All the materials of whieh this publication Is com posed are collected from the most authentic sources expressly for this work; which contains, together with other information, a State and Civil Servide Directory for Great Britain, Ireland, and the Colo nies; Navy, Army, and Militia Directory, with an Alphabetical List (now for the first time published) of Officers in the Army, including those on Half-pay, and General and Field Officers retired from the Army, but retaining their rank.—Peerage, Baronetage, and Knight age Directory.—The Statistics of Ireland: Population, Revenue. 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ROWLANDS' MACAS4AR OIL, For creating and itugaining a luxuriant head of hair; ROWLANDS' KALYDOR, For rendering the skin soft, fair, and blooming ; and ROWLANDS' ODONTO, or Pearl Dentifrice, For imparting a pearl-like whiteness to the teeth, are called into in creased requisition, to the attainment of those personal advantages sa universally sought for and admired. Be ware of spurious imitations 1 1 The only genuine of each bears the name of "Rowlands" preceding that of the article on the wrapper or label. Sold by A. Rowland and Sons, 20, Batton-garden, London, and by Chemists and Perfumers. CANCER HOSPITAL, London and West Brompton.--Recretary' s Office, 167, Piccadilly.—This institu tion has bebn 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 Tear. 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 ian-tields ; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand ; and at the Secretary's Offices, 167, Plccadllly. By mkt W. J. COCKERILL, Secretary. 1.-) OYAL FREE HOSPITAL , G ray ' s -i nn-roa d . I I C Patron —The QUEEN.—Founded 1828. The sick poor are admitted on their own application alone; no re commendatien 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. artaing 7th November' 2154 Di tto 14th N ovember.... • • 2, , 043 . . Ditto 21st November.... • . 1,972 Ditto 28th'Novernber 29th and 30th ;:govember..... Total in November 8 of which 2,775 were new cases, the remaind' . er (sl7lll under • 47 ment) having been admitted previously . treat- The clergy of all denominations have unlimited access to the patients. Heavy expenses are inevitably incurred in affording such exten sive relief. The Committee, ther e f ore, earnestly entreat the aid of the public. The management of the Hospital is in the hands of 30 Governors, yearly elected from the general list of sub scr ib ers, at theannual General Meeting in January. A Board Is held every Thursday, at 4 o'clock (Rev. B. Owen, Chairman), to' conduct the business, when any subscriber may attend, if so disposed, the Board being at all times desirous of receiving suggestions or giving e x pl anation. The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on volun tary contributions and legacies, which are received by the Treasurer, John Westerman, Esq., M.P., Nicholas-line ; also by Messrs. Contts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Berries and Co. ; Hans om and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Gly n and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co.; itarclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; Williams. Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Her ners-street ; Westerman and Co.; and at the Hospital. Clothing for the destitute patients will be thankful& received. By order. J. B. OWEN, M.A., Chairman. , . ANEW „AXII IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE. Patent Office Seal of Great Britain. Diplome d'Ecole de Pharma cie Pharrnacien de Paris. I mper i al College of Medic i ne, Vienna. t TR IEREMAR No. 1,2, and 3 prepared in the form of a lozenge, dazoil_o!.taste,or smell, and . can ' be carried in the waistcoat pocket. Nfai,... o on cases, divided into separate doses, as administered by .r,....e'au, Lalleinand, Roux, Ricord, &c., &c. 1:. ll', en RATION, No. 1 is a Remedy for RE to. nseuZ•XATION, SPF,It MATORRFREA, and all the distressing icc =g reisia:" t gising from early abuse, Indiscriminate excesses, or too k trength anndee In hot climates. It has restored bodily and sexual now I n th, 2. l gorir to thousands of debilitated individuals who are whate,W, ',7l6 Y r nent of he a lth a nd the Functions of Manhood; and . RIAGE , t i: l .ttl ar be the cause for DISQUALIFICATIONS for MAR ', e effect ually subdued by this Wonderful Discovery. effectually, i n the., TRIESE3IAR No. 11., eradicates all tra„:„,""t apace of three. days, completely and entirely forms, Gleets, Strja °f Go norrhoea, both in its mild and aggravated Urine, Pains of thet ',lrritation of the Bladder, Non-retention of copalvi and caw ) , haves'pl and Kidneys, and those disorders which eso long been thou ht an antidote for, to the I Oh of the health of avvrtasttLportlon of the pgopuiation. stld Alt No. 111., is the great Continental P Y for Syphilis and Secondary SYlnl)- toms. It also constitute:arned al stream, Cutaneous Eruptions, reheevieertain cure for Scurvy, Scrofula, and all and expelling in its course all corrup tions and impurities from th4nliti alio virus of disease, a „ d as altogether to eradicate through the medium f the pere it s with the insensible perspiration never-failing remedy for that ela of the skin and urine, and the English Physician treats wit:sjscibf disorders which tell y unfortunay lion of the patient's constitution, erdcury, to the inevitahle dastruc the world cannot restore. ri whe t .: h casese sarsaparilla in which saves lls., and in 5/. cases, four in one for 335" To be had wholesale and retail in LondoY:liere is a gayly of 11. 12s. 140, Leadenhall-Street; Prout, 229, Strand ; / 7 , Derby and Gordon, ford-street ; Sanger, 150, Oxford •street; li are ,_TaY and Co., 63, Ox ringdon.street ; Butler and Harding, 4, c h a' - ' 3 and Son, 97, Far eaPald . • Paul's Churchyard. u , Edwards, St. • lIUMAN FRAILTY ; a Popular 1 Work, price I s., post free, beautifully illustrated with 100 Medicaltravings, and containing the odinions of Valpeau, Lallemand, lleux, Ricord, &c. It gives copious instructions for the perfect reiteration of those Who are prevented by impediments from entering into the married state, also showing the dreadful results from early abuse, gonorrhcea, and syphilis, and the benelts arising from the chemical tests arm examination of the speramtoza, by the adthor's newly-constructed Microscope, with powerful lenses,—Piper and Co., 23, Paternoster- OW 1 and from all agents for the sale of"Trieaemar. .) The Third Edition. Just Published, price 55., by post, free, ss. 6d. ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORREREA, with the View of distinguishing the Tin:vinery from the Real Sufferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure.. Translated from the German of Dr. PICEFORD. "Dr. Plektord , s known to English readers by his frequent praal ,al contributions to German modical literature. This iv the first itite, he informs as, that he has addressed himself to the now-medi 3al reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall letect any Aber - equally flagrant evil which it may be in his power to cor rect."—London Medical Gazette. " The,tribe of Quiet Sympathisers,' end Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed; and if this book lould find its way into the hands of those whe suffer from the corn , olaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would be laved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of lase importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— touch mcney...... Tlds volume is well qualified to ;out an end"to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to place the treat ment upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore 'ikely to do much good."—Medical Circular. , London: H. Balliere, 219, Regent-stree'. NO. 20,144.) PUBLICATIONS. Wilt be ready on Wednesday next, the lAth instant, SAVINGS BANKS, : their History, Laws, Investments, Interest, Responsibility of Government, Trustees and Officers, Defalcations, Past .Progtess, and Present Results. By the Rev. J. BEAUMONT II AWK.IN t?, B.A. • London : Longman and Co. SUITABLE FOR A PRESENT. .Just pnblished, in crown tom., price 6s. cloth extra, TMMORTELLES from CHARLES DICKENS . AL A Selection of Extract 4 from his Works, and Essays on them by ICH. John Mouth 28, Maddox-streot, Regent-street: Just published, Price 6d., by post, 7d., PUSEYISM in a FOG. Holy Flower Show in Belgravia, or Puseyism at . s Discount. The Bishop of Ox ford's Reception in Belgravia. The Perilous Crisis. Jesuits in the Church of England. - - Charles Westerton, Hyde-park-corner. FRASER'S IVIAGA. 1857, price 2s. The Interpreter: a Tale of the War. By G. J. Whyte Mel ville, Author of "Digby Grand," &c. Part I. Tuscan Proverbs. Ticket of Leave. Trip to Scotland. Cornelius Agrippa and the Alche mists. A Visit to a Model Farm in Asia Minor. Archbishop Whately •n Bacon. The Last Salmon before Close Time. London : John W. Parke: ;INE for JANUARY, id., contains:— sermons and Sermonisers. Sketches and Studies from Bel gium.—Bruges from the Belfry Tower. The King of Denmark's tide. From the Danish by the Hon. Mrs. Norton. A Staff Officer on the War in the Crimea. flie Tea-Table. An unpublished Poem. By Hartley Coleridge. The Triumph of Barbarism. By a New Yorker. !I and Son, West Strand. LONDON POSTAL DISTRICTS.- STANFORD'S PATENT POSTAL DISTRICT ENVE- Lore.s, indicatl to Correspondents the district to be appended to tha address in reply. Samples awl prices on auplicati , n to Edward Stanford, Mapseller and Stationer, 6, Charing•cross, S.N. LONDON NEW POSTAL DISTRICTS .- he MAP of LONDON', coloured to show the new Postal Districts, prepared by direction of her Majesty's Postmaster-g,ne ral,afor the use of the Provincial and London post-offices, to faciti. tote the earlier delivery of letters, &c., can he obtained of,ldFvard Stanford, 6, Charing•cross, S.IT. Pricc, sheet, ss. ; case,' 7s•' Ed. ; rollers varnished, 10s. 6d. ONDON POSTAL DISTRICTS.---SKETCII IA MAP of the LONDON POSFAL DTI.TRICTS, extending upwards of 12 miles from the General Post Office, with a list of prin t ipal places and the district in which they . are•sitnate (prepareld for the Postmaster-GeneraPs Animal Report). Price, one large sheet, 25.; case, 4s. 6J.; rollers varnished. is. London: Edward Stan ford, 6, Charing-cross, S.W., and all booksellers. . LONDON POSTAL DISTRICTS. -.THE USEFUL KN , )WLF.DGE SOCIETY'S 3IAP of LONDON, coloured to show the NEW POSTAL DISTRICTS, With the !Post-' office List of principal streets and places as divided into Postat Dis tricts, by command of the Paktmaster-general. Price, p!ain 154 coloured, Is. Gd., in sheet or folded ; mounted on linen in case, 2s. 6d. (per post two stamps additional) ; rollers varnished, 6s. Lotdon : Edward Stanford, 6, Charing-cress, S.W. I DR. LIVINGSTON'S DISCOVERIES !IN AFRICA.—The MAP of AFRTCA, in the Series designed and engraved by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, illustrates the Route and Discoveries of this distinguished traveller. Compiled from the maps i n th e p ossess i on o f the Royal Geographical Society. Price, plain, 6d.; coloured, 9d. A list of 221 maps in this series may be had upon application to Edward Stanford, 6, Cbitring cross, S.W., London; per post for one stamp. ,STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Jan. 9.—The advance in our market in the price of cotton, and consequently in the price of yarns and clotti, continues to obstruct business considerably, and few sales of any importance have been made to-day or during the week. The business in domestics has been confined to small quantities, and operations have been nearly suspended in printing cloths from the same cause. For 36 and 40 inch shirt ings tes a considerable advance in price is also asked, and yarns the like . other goods, are in limited request. In Producers ofm a b r o k t e h t y co a n rn tin a ti n e d s n e l x o e th ee s d r in e g w ly ell firce. engaged ln fa l e n t d indisposed' - to take orders under the full • ' LEICESTER. finds —The new year . the stock in the manufacturers' hands of wools unusually belt. The high price and yarns has conduced '''' • to this effect ; still the operatives have been better employed, and their condi tionniuch improved Busi ness has scarcely as compared with last year. Busi giving way in the begun to move, but as there is no again risen wool market, and worsted yarns having a halfpenny per lb • soon be made to asso rt p . this week, purchases must price of cotton yarns'' ort up stock. Owing to the high uf•ual purchases, thinkimnanufacturers have put off their even a further advance thinking it might recede, but now that spring trade are ordered, and the place, samples for the will tend to relieve the other b demand, though lat er , o ur general trade looks v ranches. O a th e w h o l e very healthy . — Leicester Leicester Journal. , NOTTINGHAU, Thursday.—Lace We are sorry to oh serve that a degree of slgugishness still oh home trade ; for wo would have expected a e rf . mterises the t' state of things this week ; and may be allowedatodifferet those engaged in the trade against its deceptive caution n a nces, as it is really surprising from informationapear gathered on all sides to find men remainingin the busi ness, as many are, we may say, almost at the mercy of the London houses. The se g entlemen are said to mis lead the manufacturers considerably by adviin‘e themto go on with certain styles to any extent, and then being unscrupulous enough to countermand or disavow their orders on the first cloudy aspect of trade. This evil, we think, we Lave hinted at befere. We are glad, however, to be able to report more favourably of the foreign trade, although it is too early to say anything positive ; but we may say, from the commencement which has this week been made, that to all appearance the foregn season will be a good one. Hosicry—Stock taking having been concluded, London, Menchester, Scotch, and Irish home trade buyers have just stepped in and begun to look about them with the turn of the year ; and unless the enormous prices of materials prove an impediment to business, we may expect to see con siderable activity within the next two or three weeks. To form an idea, however, of the difference that must thus be occasioned, it is only necessary to remember that this time last year the 10Ib. bundle of cotton yarn was in some instances obtained at Bs. 2d., the same quantity at the present moment being at 13s. 2d„ and pointing to wards 15e.—Leicester Journal. 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Mclerson :ex-Under-sheriff of LC ndon, writei: to:a contemporary, as 'follows : Six,--,Vour Correspondent, the R3V, John Davis, 'the Ordinat,y of Newgate, has called public attention, in your impression of the Bth inst., to tlie"case of John Markham, who, being innocent, ius yet convicted, and sentenced to four y ears prinal servitude, for aiding in uttering a forged c'cieque ; and yOu have in your leader of this day commented on the necessity of redress to him for the Trieirens wrongs he ha; sustained. As lam well acquainted with the facts.of this man's case, perhaps you would afford me a small space to Dar ra.ie them, although no language, nor - the most vivid imagination, can picture the extent, the dciPtli, the boriorS'of the man's' sufferings, as he detscribed . them to ,me after hiS release. Re was,walkingin Oxford-street on a Saturday in April last, when a policeman touched :him on the sh(aulder, and finally loOk him to the station-house. Be ing'Saturday, he was detained in a Cell there till' Motiday, : and was then taken before a magistrate. Bi-fore he was finally committed for trial he was reitianded' from.time to time for. six weeks; one nat inth of the. time .of these 'remands be was ained in the House of Correction, and the rereamder in — Newgate. On his trial he. was, most AU?, defended by Mr; Seijcant Ballan tiae, who, intereited ,the case and satisfied ',if his. Client's intitmdeace, .exerted' :himself to the ut 'host to wociire his acquittal by a most.'eloquent sli !Cal nevertheleis he was convicted ; a witness, certainly a most respectable' anti. Honest_ witness, had. positively sworn to his identity. The jury relic d on this testimony ; the 'witness was mistaken ; the man was sentenced to four years' penal servitude. I , heard 'his trial ; I was satisfied he had been unjustly convicted. The execution of his sentence began ; he was two ino - z the in Newgate , picking oakum with the convicts there, who in this prison. are all in one room together—three , murderers at one time, pirizes who had.. deliberately planned wholesale massacres, to be accompanied by indescribable atrocities . ; burglars, garotters, thieves from their birttb, receivers, and putters'up of robberies, and the: perpetrators of unmentionable crimes. The am uaement of this den of devilry is to narrate their crit nes, and to plan fresh ones. Now, John Mark ham a was innocent, and he constantly asserted his innocence ; in consequence lie was persecuted and tormented by his associates here with time most vir °lent and relentless malignity. It is impoSsible to--narrate the constant outrages perpetrated on "tame countryman," as he' was was called by these felons. Tire advocates of the :13ankt hatter Ao q 4l . dui-, posed to treat the movement in favour of an ituiry' - . , (From, de Daily Anus) 1 ...„:i.;3...4.,. r , 4 ' 7-- ... into its effects as au attempt, to intreduce the sys tem of unlimited paper money. It is true that a small knot of financial theorists is in favour of such a measure, but we are convinced that an over whehning, majority .of the commercial men of Eng land advocate, like ourselves, the practical conver tibility of the bank note. By practical convertibility we mean, that all riot issued;- b&yond the amount required forth(' internal transactions of the country, shall be represented by spebie in the Bank coffers. The chief point, therefore, to which the 'committee will have to direct -its attention -is: the average amount of paper moneyrequired•for the home trade. It must he evident to all, that this cannot be a con stant and invariable quantity.. It must vary with many different things. To go . no further, it must vary with the varying relative proportion of our exports to our' imports, with the greater or less activity of the home trade and consumption, with the greater or less, number of "contracts and transactions that, from any cause, required. ,to be settled in coin, or notes, the legal equivalent of coin. It must never be forgotten thatlthaibank note. serves two purposes ; one iO, to make the payments in transactions between parties dwelling in England—the other, to enable the holder : o pay his debts wherever his creditor'may happen to be. For the'former<purpose it is clear that there is no necessity that the. note should be convertible into, or rather represented by, gold ; :for the latter, this convertibility is 'absolutely necessary, inas much' as' the debt may be contracted abroad, and can only be paid advantageously by the transmis sion of specie. To meet the first class of payments notes issued against any securities of known value May be safely employed ; and what we can desire is, that. some power may be given to the' Bank Directors to enable them to increase or diiiinish that portion of their issue under proper restrictions 'as the varying exigencies of the public may re quire. To the regular criminal imprisonment in New gate has little terror ; he rather likes the opPortu• laity of telling boasting stories of crime to such an audience, and at this amusemeutthe most criminal shines the most, and is thought the highest of. In the course of time Markham was removed to Millbank, where there is a separate confinement— a dreadful system ; locked up in a gloomy, solitary cell at half-past 5 in the evening, to bed at 8; rise at 6 in the morning. Can any one conceive the horror of this man's thoughts ? He had parted with all his ready money and many of his things fur his defence ; he bad a wife and child ; they were utterly destitute ; she parted with every stick of furniture and every rag of clothing during his imprisonment, and many a day was without a meal of victuals, and now in agony unutterable he of t en thought of her and how te was existing. From Millbank Markham was moved to Penton where he was three months in solitary con finement—solitary and separate even in chapel, where each prisoner is enclosed in a w ooden box, so that he can see no one but the clergyman ; here in the chapel, at the.sound of a human voice the convicts are, often affected, faint away, or shriek out. " Why ?" I asked Markham. " Oh, they think of home or something of that," he replied. At this prison the prisoners wear a mask made of cloth, very hot and very unpleasant. At length the really guilty man was taken, and admitted that Markham was totally innocent. The touch of nature which makes all mankind kin is- not wanting even in crime ; this man sent Markham's wife Si. by a mode most ,elabotately .circuitous, to avoid being traced. The Governor of the Pentonville Prison finally broke it to Markham (in so thoughtful and consi derate a manner that it made the deepest impres sion upon the unhappy man) that he was no longer a prisoner; that it was proved he was innocent ; that he was now a free man, and might go as soon as he liked. Thopovernor then sent a policeman in "plainclothes to inform Markham's wife of his liberation, and gave him a sovereign. Well, he is free. The delirious joy of unexpected liberty passes away, and now he has no work, no means of getting a living=—character gone; Was ho not tried, convicted, and sentenced ? People won't , believe he was discharged from ptisou because he was innocent ! I was much struck with ' the justice of the following remark from your lead ing article, and the necessity of your recommenda tion being adopted—" He should be invited to attend at the court where he had received his sen tence, and his innocence should be as emphatically proclaimed by the presiding judge as his supposed guilt had been on a former occasion." By the exertions of the Ordinary of Newga - te another man, Martin by name, who had been con victed and sentenced to four years' penal servitude for highway robbery, with violence, at Bethnal green, was proved to be innocent. I heard this man tried and doubted his guilt. When undergoing his sentence he came under the care of the Ordinary of Newgate ; he believed him to be innocent. We ransacked Bethnal-greed for three days, and got undoubted evidence that he was not guilty, and, moreover, discovered who was the guilty man. Martin also was parclon6d, and not long since be stood in my office an emaciated wreck of his former self. Before he went to Millbank he baid he didn't know his own 'strength, and could work without fatigue the longest day. But, say the financiers of the "`Mercator" school, your note is then the representative of a fiction. The words " I promise to pay five pounds", mean nothing, for you have no gold'of that current value to pay it with, and your securities may rise or fall in value—they may, in fact, be unsaleable when most needed, and therefore vitiate the promise to pay. If this argument be gcod for anything, it is good against the existing arrangement. The fixed issue of the Bank is 14,475,0001. On the security of what? More than, eleven millions of this Sinn is guaranteed by perhaps the most inconvertible of all securities held by any bank, the Government debt to the proprietors. What, then, becomes - of the principle of absolute convertibility ? It is clearly understood by the Charterites themselvs as a rela tive term. But "Mercator," and those of his creed, would have us believe that unless the inconvertible issue is maintained at this mystic 14,475,600/. there , would be a peril of some dreadful character always impending over commerce. Now, whaewe have been asking for from the moment we first ventilated the question is, some facts in support of that ,opinion, for all those within our own cognisance are diame trically opposed to it. It cannot be that an occa sional extension of the issues beyond the authorised limit would send the B tnk paper to a discount from a doubt of its convertibility. In 1847 a very con clusive proof was given to the contrary. On the announcement that more votes were to be issued, unrepresented by bullion, so far from there being a rush on the part of the public to change the notes they held for gold, the preaious metal literally poured into the Bank coffers with such rapidity that there was no necessity for , carrying the pro posed measure into effect. In fact, commerce was • suffering under a panic fear of a deficient circula tion, and therefore individuals kept in their hands a provision to meet the possible want. There was abundance of gold in the country, but the surplus beyond that which might probably be needed for exportation was held by the public for purposes of internal circulation, which might be quite as effi ciently performed by bank notes. We have been on the verg e of similar p an i cs more th an once s i nce that period, and we have little doubt that a measure analogous to that of 1847 would have at once re lieved the pressure. But, says "Mercator," it is this beautiful ma chinery of the Bank Act which has carried com merce so safely through the great perils of recent years. To our thinking, the Bank Act treats com merce occasionally very much in the style of the illustrious Squeers drilling his small pupil ; itgives it a knock on one side of the head, which upsets its equilibrium, and then administers a thump on the other side, which sets it upright again. But if this strict regulation of the issues by the bullion be the great palladium of our monetary system, how is it that the commerce of France has gone through perils far greater than our own within the last six years, and his, to say the least, escaped them quite as effectually ? The Bank of France has no limit fixed for its issues, but it-has a limit fixed for its rate of discount ; it cannot, under any circumstances, charge more than. 6 per cent. Let us see, then, what effect this variable ratio of its issues to the bullion in its coffers has had during the last two years of commercial pressure. In 1855 the difference between the highest and lowest points of its bullion was 9,493,0001., while the ex treme variation in the Bank of England Iraq only 7,240,0001., and of course the note issite - of the latter was reduced to the same extent. But the issues of the Bank of Franca only varied during the year 2,826,0001., the ratio of gold to notes being consequently at one period as 1,000 to 1,400, and at another as 1,000 to 2,796. 'But' in spite of those violent fluctuations, the value of the Bank of France note was as invariable as that of the notes of Bank of England. By not restrict ing its circulation as the gold diminished, the Bank of France was enabled to assist com merce materially, and its discounts during 1855 reached the sum of 150,480,0001., without a single lose by failures. In 1856, again, the variation between the highest and lowest amounts of specie was two millions greater in the Bank of France than in the Bank of England ; and the 'ratio of the bullion to its circulation varied from the pro portion of, as 1,000 to 2,138, to that of, as 1,000 3,731; and yet when this latter enormous excess of paper against gold existed, the credit of the note, and its consequent convertibility in practice, did not suffer for one moment. " Mercator is, we believe, a banker of long standing, and a financier of high repute. He can not be ignorant of the facts we have stated, nor that still more remarkable fasts of a similar kind can be brought forward. We are at a loss, there fore, to understand, on what principle he ignores them conclusive as they are against the danger of variable issues. We are notoriougly no friends to the popular financial theories current in France— still less do we admire the practice of State finance as conducted there of late years ; but there, is no doubt that by the power of expandingits circulation on einergeneies, without reference to the amount of specie in its coffers, the Bank of France has en abled the country to tide over moments of com mercial peril as grave as any that have menaced English credit within the same period. It has not been able to prevent a crisis—neither has the Bank Charter Act ; but had'such an Act been in exist ence in France during the last two years, no man can doubt that there would have been a general collapse, which might have created anarchy and confusion, and arrested the commercial progress of the country for an indefinite period. The position in which the Bank Act places us is this : Peter has furnished Paul with the iron for building a bridge, and Paul has paid him by a bill at three months. Pater has to pay James for a part of the iron with Isis own bill, but cannot, now that it is due, take it up with that which he has received from Paul. He is unable to get this latter discounted, except o f t o h r i nt the last an exorbitant rate. Wh y not ? Is Paul's credit east t h w is ind own has d b o e u e b n t ebdl blowing n N g e o a f st t t h h e re k e in w d eks — e an , and the gold ships are delayed. Yoga tout I As soon as the wind changes the Bank of England can issue some more notes . , and will be happy to exchange them against Paul's bill for a moderate consideration. And that is the way the Bank Act works —and it is the perfection of human wisdom. - _ A FORTUNATE ESCAPE.—It has been stated that the number of miners of the Charles coal-pit of the Firminy concession, near St. Etienne, who were drowned by the recent irruption of water, was, 14; but two of them have, it appears, miraculously escaped. When the water rushed into the pit these men were, at work in an isolated gallery, which the water did not fill ; but they knew that a number of galleries were in commnni cation with a pit at a considerable distance, which had been abandoned some years before ? and they determined to attempt to save themselves. In several places they found the galleries blocked up by falls of earth, but they resolutely out their way through them. After working for a whole day their lamps went out, but, encouraged by the progress they had already made, they determined, although without food, to persevere. After nearly three days' labour, they succeeded in reaching the abandoned shaft,. but found it closed. Guided, however, by their knowledge of the localities, they eat a narrow passage , and at last saw daylight ; but when they found them selves so exhausted by fatigue and hunger that they then despaired of saving themselves. One of them, however , by extraordinary exertio n s cre pt through the pas sa g e, and endeavoured to e x t r i ca t e hi s co mpanion, but in vain. He then called f or h e lp, an d a ft e r awhile several persons came to their aid. The other man was likewise got out, and both were sent to the hospital. Having had nothing to eat for so long a time tbey were ravenous for food,'but it was only given to them. sparingly. Th e men say that they were more tban once ao hopeless of , escape that they were di.posed to allow themselves to ' die ;but COT' th t • fidAnce in God, and the thought of their wives and :hildree, encouraged them to persevere. THE CRINESE REBELLION. The Moniteur de la Flotte has some news of the pro gress of the rebels in China, which had not come to us with the last mail.' On the 6th of November the insur rectionary army fought another battle with the troops of the government, and the Imperialist? were obliged to evacuate the city of Shanghai completely, and take refuge on board the junks and other vessels of their fleet. The prince of the rebels, Tien-Ti, has given himself out as the last direct descendant of the dynasty of Ming, which was overturned by the Maatchou Tartars, in 1644 ; and the generalissimo of the insurgent army has put forth a curious proclamation, in which he says : " By acting as we are now doing, we are obeying the orders which have come to us from Heaven, and we are likewise complying with the desires of the people assembled around us, to exterminate the Mantchou Tartars and make them vanish for ever from the earth. When we carefully study the emperors of the great Ming dynasty, we see that their outward countenances and attire were so beautiful and imposing that the memory of their features and appearance has been transmitted through a hundred generations ; whilst these hideous Tartars, who are as ugly as they are ignorant of the principles of justice, have caused us also now to resemble brute beasts, by which they prove that they hemselves are not men. "These obstinate Tartars have impressed upon our nation a stamp of misfortune which still continues. We have lifted up the standard and the sword of justice to exterminate them ; in a few days, when we have received the supreme Orders; we shall come and tell the people in what fashion we ought to be dressed ; meanwhile let us take care of our victorious troops, that they may go on joyfully with their great work. "At the - present time Shanghai is but a decaying city, find.produces not enough for itself. Our duty then is to provide not only for the wants of our soldiers, but to see thatthe people have what is necessary for them. When a ship came into the port formerly she brought much rice. Why is it not so now ? • "I, who am n owsuperier magistrate of Shanghai, feel ing afraid lest ,rice should become as scarce as pearls, and firewood as scarce as cinnamon, and no more pro visions be left, do, therefore, issue this proclamation, copies of which shall be diffused as numerously as leaves on the trees, to induce the nobles and the people to andbring to as lg s si olon m vnuve u nai rt c brnet h l mye food trhesane;ltl awr merchants ir s ttechhhh t e: h a Moen anxieties nisn p txght o i e:e s t s aoi i cen b nosd l em y oohfe e na a t naht u dnhe t de o will trafficpeople.iotherl b Shanghai, ehgahoDneord ode y ffwro o oir u lmlt understand hraeel commands. " Shanghai, in the first year of the restored dynasty of Ming, in the tenth month, and on the seventh day." A book, professing to be the biography of the pi etender Tien-Ti, bas been circul a t e d, i n w hi c h it is s tated that his ancestor, the last of the Ming, the virtuous 'Ychang-Ti, who was dethroned in 1644, and pursued 'by the infamous Chountchi, the chief of the Mantchous, took refuge with his family in the mountains of Kimang Si, where he dwelt obscure and poor. His descendants lived on quietly, till the time when the present head of the family, having had a divine revelation informing him of his divine birth, yielded to the solicitations of the people about him, and came forward as their champion against the oppression of the Mantchous. - - LONDON, SATURDAY . i_EITENING, JANUARN 10, 1857. REPEAL OF TM? INCOME TAX• A public meeting convened by the mayor—E. N. Grace, Esq.—in compliance with a very numerously-signed requi sition, was held in the Guildhall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on Thursday last, to consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament against the income tax. There was a large at tendance of merchants, shipowners, and other persons in terested. Mr. M. CLAYTON having read the requisition, Sir J. FIFE rose to propose the first resolution. In doing so, be intimated his intention of taking each of the allegt, tions contained in the resolution in succession, and show ing how trulytheydesignatedthe income tax, as at present existing. The first charge against the tax was that it was unjust, unfair, and oppressive. There was one single fact in illustration of the truth of this allegation, which 'he thought was sufficient to convince the most fastidious and the most sceptical. It was this :—A man who by his in dustry, anxiety, and toil, obtained an income in some large town or city, amounting to 1,0001. a year, paid a certain amount of income tax; bra neighbour, who had landed pro perty worth 20,0001., from which he received 1,00001. a year, paid his tax, and each of them paid exactly the same amount. This was a fact of such outrageous injustice as to be nearly incredible, and yet it was true that a man :who eikry year was worth 21,0001., paid exactly the same amount as if he had not sixpence beyond his 1,0001. With thii fact before them he thought he was entitled to say that the history of this country did not record an instance of more barefaced injustice. (Applause.) Well, then, it was stated that in the mode of its assessment it was inqui sitorial, so much so indeed that nlany of them' had shiamk from going before the commissioners with an appeal against ,(A. voice—No use to go and appeal.) Not the toast, but at present, fortunately for this town, they 110 a surveyor who seemed to have some sense of justice in his breast, and blessed were the inhabitants who had a sur veyor of income tax who possessed some of the feelings of a gentleman, or they might be robbed'and cheated ta any extent. (Hear.) Next it was alleged that it was calculated to create dissatisfaction and demoralisation. This was one off' the worst features of the case, because the tax as at present levied actually held out a bonus of fraud and im position. (Cheers.) Many persons so much regarded it as a swindle that they thought their honour not cornpro wised by misrepresenting the circumstances in which 'they were placed. Sir John then pointed out how peculiarly oppressive was the income tax to gentlemen of the medical profession, and how inapplicable in their case was the re medy by appeal, inasmuch as the books of a medical man contained secrets which he was bound in honour to keep. (Hear.) It had always been adinii,ted that in taxation some broad principle should be kept in view, that it should rest npon the broadest shoulders--upon those for whose benefit government was carried on. Now he would ask any man in his senses if this principle did not point to a property tax—(applause)—which was the most humane and just of all others; while the income tax, for tbereasons he had shown, was the most unjust, inquisitorial, and cruel. The latter was a tax which pressed with peculiar severity upon the industrious and enterprising classes. M. HENRY TURNER seconded the resolution, and re marked that this was one of the short days of the year, but if they should speak during the whole of one of the longest days, it would be impossible to go through all the iniquities and villanies by which the income tax of the present day was levied. He spoke the sentiments of every person who paid taxes when he said that we had been more extensively robbed, insulted, and cheated by this system of taxation than by any other which had been devised. (Cheers.) The system of taxation, from beginning to end, was one of darkness and mystery. Many of them, he had no doubt, had appealed against the tax, and knowthe difficulties in th e wa y o f ge tti ng j us tice. H e cou ld speak to the matter with perhaps more knowledge upon some points points than many present, having had the pleasing duty imposed upon him of being an income tax collector — (laughter and applause)—and had seen somewhat of the villanies of the system. He would not allude to them in full, for no doubt they were too well acquainted with them, and had again and again paid the tax upon enormous sums rather than be at the trouble and annoyance and expenses of an appeal. The resolution, on being put to the meeting by the Mayor, was carried unanimously. Mr. W. LOCKET HARLE, in proposing the next resolu tion, alluded to a sentence in a recent speech of Lord Pan. more, in which that minister had characterised the pa , tience which the people of this country had exhibited under taxation us admirable. They had been told that the income tax had been leavied for the purpose of carrying on a great, and he was about to say, a successful war, but he would not say it, for wo had paid a price for that which had not brought adbitional glory to thee country. It brought to their recollection errors innumerable, military and naval, and errors of statesmanship. Every man appeared to be in the wrong place, and we had to pay dearly to maintain the greatness of this country. Yet, scarcely any person complained. Every man appeared willing to pay the cost of the war, and truly might the war minister say the pa tience of the people was admirable. Now, however, the government must be told that the war being over taxation must cease. (Cheers.) They must have observed in all parts of the country a strong feeling abroad that this particular tax should be altered entirely. The people could not bear it any longer ; those who toil and spin, whose brains are on the rack from morn to night to maintain their position in society, could not any longer tolerate this tax. (Hear.) Mr. Hark then entered into some explanatory statements relative to the tax, and denounced its inquisitorial charac ter. Mr. Gladstone might reason over eight columns of a newspaper to show that it was impossible to make a dis tinction between income tax and property tax. Did not this proie the barrenness of statesmanship of which they complained ? The people felt without any reasoning that Mr. Gladstone and the parties who supported him were palpably wrong, for it was plain and evident that there was a marked difference between property which had becn created and property in the course of formation. (Hear, hear.) All ho asked for was, that the govern ment should not tax a man 'who was. industrious who was toiling year by year, and day by day, a they would tax him who was an idler, who enjoyed his ()Nun cum dignitate, and had arrived at the happy state when he could think no longer, except it should be how to preserve his property from ticket-of-leave men. (" Hear," and laughter.) Mr. Harle next alluded to the act of Parliament limiting the duration of the tax to the Clth of April which shall first happen after the expiration of one year from the ratification 'of a definitive treaty of peace, and contended that to all intents and purposes the war ceased in the early part of last year, and that it was a mere quibble to allege, in favour of the continuation of the tax that the ratification of the treaty did not occur till after April. He drew a melancholy picture of a British House of Commons debating this one word " ratification," and contended that our representatives should be most imperatively- requested to support the abolition of the tax. He concluded by moving the second resolution. Mr. C. JACKSON seconded the resolution, which was carried by show of hands. Mr.' JOHN SHIELD, jun., briefly moved the next resolu tion. Mr. E. W. CIIALLONER, in seconding the motion sug gested that as 30 years' purchase was generally given for landed property, 10 for that embarked in trade, while not more than two years' purchase could be obtained for a pro prietor paying the major portion, the trader the medium share, and the professional man, whose income ceased with his existence, the minimum amount. This, he contended, l i would remove the monstrous inequality which at present characterised the tax upon income, and if properly balanced, could be made to produce the same amount of revenue, and an infinitely greater amount of satisfaction to all parties concerned. (Applause.) C. ALLIIUSEN, Esq., in proposing the last resolution, stated as his opinion that the tax was an absurdity, inas much as it proposed to do an impossible thing, namely—to tax the income of every individual without providing the moans to show what the income really was. (Hear, hear.) He had had a great deal of experience in the sharp practice which the collectors of the tax were in the habit of using. His books had been examined, his word of honour doubted, and himself insulted by those persons, who, however, con soled him with the idea that the law required them to act in such a manner, and they, as the parties deputed to carry the law into effect, were compelled to take the course they pursued. Ile had asked them to point out to him the law, and when ho had seen it he found that it favoured his own representation of the case, for it stated that the collectors should take his affidavit as to the amount of his income, and if that did not satisfy them they should obtain the bookkeeper's affidavit, and then if they disputed the united testimony of himself and bookkeeper they should examine the books themselves. He had thought it only light and proper to resist the demands of the collectors, and his case had lasted two years, but he finally got his money back again. (Hear.) He concluded by proposing the resolution, which was put and carried. The meeting concluded with a vote of thanks to the Mayor.—Xewcastle Chronicle. MEETING IN FINSBURY. Last evening a public meeting was held at the Royal British Institution, Cowper-street, Finsbury-square, for the purpose of considering the propriety of petitioning the Legislature, and taking other measures to obtain a repeal or modification of the income tax in its present form. Mr. JOHN BROWN, the senior churchwarden of St. Luke's, was called to the chair. Mr. R. PHILLIPS moved the first resolution, condemning the income tax as being, in its present form, unjust and o ppressive; unjust in principle, inasmuch as it levies a percentage on trades and professions, always precarious and uncertain, and not easily definable in amount; oppres .glve, inasmuch as the only . method of levying, it is by re quiring returns from the parties to be charged, exposing,. consequently, 'their affairs, t o ' a void which many parties pay.upon sums never maned. He belided that tlie income tax pressed in its present form most ,uojustly upon all classes of society; . even upon those who did not pay it, for he believed it was one of the consequences' of the tax,that 15,0a/Men in this great city were now out ;of employment. (Hear.) ' • - • • Mr.. STARLING seconded the resolution, and entered into . a variety of socialand domestic statistics with a view to show how injurious the tax was to families with incomes ranging between 1001. and 200/ o a year. - The CHAIRMAN put the resolution to the meeting, and it was unanimously adopted, ' . Mr. G. KING 'proposed 'the next resolution, which was as follows - "That the enormous amount of the present charge as adopted by the House of Commons was a tem porary measure only, to continue during the war; and as the war is over this meeting trusts that every legitimate means will be taken to obtain an immediate reduction, as well as a more equitable adjustment of the tax, or the re 7 peal of it on all trades and professions.", He trusted the country would never be silent while the tax remained. He was.far .from wishing' to sow the seeds V discord in the country, but he could not conceal from himself the fact that great ill-feeling would prevail if the Chancellor of the ExChequer persisted in' retaining the tax contrary to "the publicly expressed feeling of the country: ' • • ' MT. :BONIPACR Beconded the resolution, which was spoken to by Mr. Pallisser, Mr. Ailed Walker, Mr. Higharo, and other gentlemen, all of whom gave' details, showing the unequal acid oppressivt+ nature ofithe tax. A petition to the House of ,Coninozfi frapodying the resolutions was agreed to, ancl,.Was entrtlsted to Mr. Thos. Dimcombe, M.P.; for pre4-Ontrition. ' Thanks were voted to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. Sr. PANCEAS.-At the weekly bleating of the vestry of St. Pancras (the Rev. Canon Dale, the vicar, in the chair), the Rev. R. Eckett i in the absence of Mr. Brettingham, who had given notice of the, subject, brought forward the following resolution—" That in the opinion of this vestry the income tax on trades and professions is alike- odious, inquisitorial, tyrannical, and unjust; and that a com mittee therefore be uow formed, with powers similar to those exercised by the committee appointed by this vestry for the repeal of the tam on windows, namely, to prepare petitions to the three estates of the realm, and to solicit the aid and co-operation of every city and borough in the king doin for the unconditinal repeal of this iniquitous tax." The Rev. Mr. Eekett regiettod that this motion did not ex tend to the property tax, not that ho thought the property tax should be entirely repealed, but that it might be more evitably assessed. Persons with house property for instance, were taxed upon the gross amount instead of the net, when perhaps they might have to pay 25 per cont.-out of the , rents they received before they came to their hands. The motion was seconded; and after a slight modification of the strong language contained in it the resolution was carried unanimously.' fo w r a t s h h e e p ld urp in ose th o e f ou ß il n d i h s a T l o l, L p .— ri A stol l , a y rg e e ste p rd u a b y lic aft m er e n e o t o in n g , petitioning Parliament on the subject of the income tax. The Mayor presided, and the meeting was addressed by Mr. G. Shaw, Mr. Goss, Mr. EL Visger (town councillors), Mr. H. J. Mills (editor of the Bristol Gazette), Mr. M. Bowden (glass manufacturer), Mr. Herapath (magistrate), Mr. P. F. Aiken (banker); Mr. C. Tovey (town councillor), Mr. C. T. Dando, and Mr. W. H. Gore Langton, M.P. Mr. Berkeley, M.P., was unable to attend., Resolutions were adopted calling for the repal of the additional 9d. in the pound on the sth of April next, and for the total abolition of the tax in 1860 ; and suggesting that the duty of collecting should be transferred to the Inland Revenue Department. A petition embodying the resolutions was agreed upon, and the member's for the city were 'requested_ to support its prayer. Mr. Langton, M.P., expressed his intention, of doing the utmost in his power to carry out the objects of the meeting. A vote of thanks to the mayor was awarded by acclamation, and brought the proceedings to a close. CANTERBURY.—On Thursday evening a public meeting of the inhabitants of Canterbury and the neighbourhood was held in the Guildhall, under the presidency of Mr. W. J. Cooper. when the following resolution was moved by Mr C.' P. Cooper, Q.C., seconded by Mr. Councillor Jack son, and carried unanimously :—" That a Government will ill perform its duty which, when the irttion is not engaged in any great European war, shall continue a tax so unequal and unjust, so plying and inquisirfal, a- yea- - so liable to evasion, so vexatious, galling, and oppressive, and alto tiler so obnoxious and odious as that now levied upon income." A second resolution was also adopted, entrust ing the forwarding of the resolution to the Right Hon. Lord Palmeritou to the hands of Mr. Purton Cooper, Q.C. THE COAL TRA (Fromm the Newcastle Chronicle.) , The importation cf seaLborne Coals iutollsondon irons. in December 1856, amounted to 280,880 - 7" Imported from ht Jan. to 31st Dec., 185 6 3,119,834 ,P, 1855 Increase in the present year 103,016 Dolivery in December amounted to 291,3119-1 • Delivery from Ist Jan. to 31st Deea., 1856 ' ,; .„ 1855 Increase in preo,nt year 83,451 Coals by railway and canal in December 104,011 Coals ,by railway and ,canal from Ist Jan. to 31st .Dec., 185 t 1,161,036 1855 ' Increase in present year 110,614 Thoi weather throngliOut.becember was not of a cha rActz favourable to consumption, and the , trade ditripg ti?e month was continuously depreseed, "With' scarcely any change from the prices prevalent in November viz., about 19s. for best Wear„and 17s. for the best Tyne , house coals.. Stearri sorts have .also' ruled very. low, • sellib it 15s. to 163: 1 1 4 re igh have- shared -in the de pression, and,hayebeen at 7s. tide, and 7s. l 3d.,.whiCh are lower rates than we recollect for many winters. * Sevetdri shiPOineisi declining to charter' On these tern F, have laid their vessels up..- • .) :; The importation sea-borne in December exceeded that 'of the cevesponclim: . ; tie i nth last...year by 107,000 rons, tint the supply hi Deceinbilr, tp coif nary winds, was much belbw an• Still prices' at the close of 1855 were some shillings below those which ob. tained throughout the previous autumn,, and doubtless the effect has' been to torte extent that the public re frained last year from:laying:ill their usual stocks.. We give below a statement ; of the importatims of sea- borne coal in the last three years (classifying the several sorts as correctly as possible) together with the quanti2- ties sent by railway and canal in the same periods.: 185.1: 1851 J,856. Tyne House Coals , 277,637 265,221 226,086 Snodezland &,Seahana Do. 915,816. 802,696 43,010 Hartlepool& Stockton Do. 590,952 524.530 509,409 Total House Coals 1,781,405 1,592,450 1,668,505 Stoim" Gas Coking Manufacturing Welsh Yorkshire 646,351 576,960 519,007 &c. 275,569' 220,789 248,182 200,627 183,750 1/1,020 86,144 120,789 147,466 31,911 32,474 ' 35,249 19,620 9,732 8,19) Total seaborne Coals by Railway & Canal 979,170 1,162,486 1,273,270 Total 4,678,731 4,179,3 M 4,393,154 It i3.out of our power to classify the portion by rail way and canal, except such as below, for the lait two years the inland coals consisting of 50 or 60 curiously named sorts, we have no means of dividing them into house, steam, &c. 1855. 1856. , . House coals from Wear, Sze 168,943 129,639 Gas,' coking, &c., from Wear, &c 52,746 , 31,801 Coke Welsh Inland Total by rail and canal 1,162,435 1,273,270 As wa prognosticated some years .ago, the supply of low class house coats from the Tyne is rapidly diminish ing, whilst similar competing sorts from the midland counties show a great increase. The quantify carried by the 'Great Northern Railway from Durham, which in 1855 amounted to 221,690 tons, fell off to 164,440 tons in last year, and shows pretty clearly that our ship- Owners have not much reason to fear their competition in carrying coals from the districts north of York. The main production of the Tyne district sent to Lon don consists of gas, steam, coking, and manufacturing sorts. The gas and coking desCriptions have as yet, met with little or no competition worth mining, but'eteam and manufacturing kinds continue to be beaten back by railway coals, which sell at prices• which' render it more than doubtful whether any profit can •be left to coal owner or railway company. We look with considerable alarm on the prospects of our London trade for steam and manufacturing coals, when, next year, the enactments of the Smoke Prohibition Bill: will be extended to all steam vessels and factories between London-bridge and the. Nore, though it is pro posed to pollute the water and the air with the sewerage of the metropolis some 10 miles down the river. We fear it is too late to agitate successfully for an abrogation.of the act, but we think if our members and coalowners had been as active as the proprie tors of the smokeless Welsh coals, such an absurd extension of a highly penal_ law might have been prevented. We subjoin an account c,f the coals on which City's dues were paid by the several railway companies, &e., in. the last three years : 1854. 1Y55. 1856. Great Northern ';93,562 ' 517,603 591,435 North Western 271,011 339,657 443,672 Eastern Counties 167,958 145,327 126,775 Great Western i.... 84,59!, • : 80,951 73,048 South Eastern ' 22,9'34 , 23,471 11,266 South Western Grand Junction Canal 32,153 ', 23,251 25,295 Thames - lO6 Common Roads 1,960 1,403, no return. 979,170 1,162,486 1,2i1,700 A great increase in the quantity carried by the Lon don and North Western Company will 6e observed. This company has within the last 12 months expended a con siderable sum in the erection of depots, sidings, trucks, &c., and also in an elaborate systein of signalling to enable them to carry a large addition to their already enormous traffic, with what results the frequent acci dents reported (and not reported sufficiently) show. The Great Western Company, we believe, are also bitten with the same mania for coal traffic, and are preparing. to carry largely, though, with their badly situated ter minus, they are placed at a great disadvantage compared to their rivals. - We concluded our remarks on the London coal trade for 1855, by stating that the prospect for the ensuing year was most cheering, and we must again 'repeat the words as regards the trade for 1857. It is probable that we shall not have so bad a spring trade as prevailed last year, but in the face of a competition of 1,273,270 tons per annum (about equal to the yearly quantity sent to London from the Tyne) it is idle to expect a fair range of prices, and much higher rates (as we have bef -re said) would not be advis able. We think, indeed, it is a fair source of congratu lation that, considering the immense accession to the supply of London which has sprung up only in the last five or six years, we have not yet had to encounter as low a range of prices as we have witnessed from our own internal competition within a very short interval. • It is to the cheapening of cost in getting to market that we must mainly look for a means of successfully competing with the railways ' • and that screw steamers can and will eventually, with proper facilities, secure to this district its pre-eminence in supplying the metropolis with coals, we have very little doubt. ,The quantity of coals carried to London by steamers -in -1856 amounted to 238,597 tons, against 85, 000,tonsin 1855. The war and the high freights offer-• ing in some other trades have prevented their employ ment to the still greater extent we hoped for, and it will be a,mattqr of some years before they come into general use which we anticipated for them. Only four or five screws were einployed regularly all the year. The greatest number_of voyages was made by the Ross, D. Mangles, which carried 36 cargoes, amounting to 23,205 Was. The Samuel Laing, since April, has made 31 voyages, carrying 18,464 tons. We conclude with giving a statement of the quantities of coals received into London from the several ports, and a list of the entries of the Coal factors. We shall next week give a few more statistics of the trade. ' Ships. Ports. Tons. 358 Newcastle 83 Seaham 177 Sunderland 196 Hartlepool and West Hartlepool 18 Stockton. and Middlesbro' 4,261 11 Blyth • 2,742 14 Scotch 34 Welsh .80 Yorkshire, Ere 921 Factors. Ships. Hill, Wood, & Hughes,2,lBB Smith, Sour&ld, &Co 966 Dixon, Harris, &c 954 Marshall, Page, & Co Bl7 i Hugh Taylor 714 S. Clarke 517 William Milnes 499 11,681 2,861 280,880 Factors. Ships. Charleton and Watson 377 F, D. Lambert Miller and Potter 227 Fenwick, Laroche, & Co. 205 Metcalfe & Son 46 Carr, Lamb, & Co ll Agents ... 1,124 THE . MALLS.—SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. 9:—The Royal Mail Company's steamship Tamar, Captain Jellicoe, sailed to-day for Lisbon, Teneriffe, St. Vincent, Pernam buco, Bahia, Rio Janeiro, Monte Video, and Buenos Ayres, with the Brazilian and River Plate mails, specie value 15,000 t., jewellery value 25,800/., a full cargo, and 108 passengers, among whom are Capt. and Mrs. Piers, Captain Prance, Drs. Barton and Rigo. The Spanish screw steamer Hamburg, Captain Lagier, also sailed this afternoon with 13 passengers and 650 tons of cargo, for Santander, Barcelona, and Marseilles. The European and Australian Royal . Mail Company's steamer Colum bia, Captain Pender, leaves on Monday .next with the .mailsfor the Australian colonies. The United States mail steamship Arago, Captain Lines, is to leave Havre on Tuesday next, and Southampton on Wednesday, with the French and English mails, for New York. The Union Steamship Company's screw steamer Celt, which put back on Monday, was taken into the graving -dock on Thursday, and thoroughly examined by Mr. Job ling (Lloyd's surveyor) and Mr. Ruble (engineering surveyor to the Board of Trade). The vessel was, found to be perfectly sound, in, every respect, and she will leave here again to-marrow (Saturday) for the Brizile, under the command of Captain Cook. B 0 0 D. A custom has long prevailed at the close of the year of taking a wholesome and profitable retrospect of our affairs. This habit is not confined t? indi. viduals—la,rge corporations, public and private compa nies, do the same thing ; journalists give retrospective sketches, dwell on their past succeeseJ, and abound with' promises of still more meritorious efforts. Oar readers may, many .of them, have been employedin some such useful stock-takings during the past week. We do not p'ropose on this occasion to endeavour to aid them in that portion of their important labours ; our business now is with future probabilities, using merely the results of past experience as imperfect data on which rest our calculation. It is almost needless to search into the his. tory of prices as ag4de7isrin these we have been commonly at the mercy of the seasons of high or low mean summer temperatures, or varying rainfalls, ey e need only compare the prices of wheat in the correepoud ing years of different ceatuiies to be convinced of this ; for instance, the average price of wheat per quarter was in 1641 ... 57s 1d 1141 ...41s 5d 1841 ... 643 3d 16S0 ... 68s id 17s0 ... 28s 10d 1850 ... 40s 4(1 1651 ... 23s id 1754 ... 303 9.1 1851 ... 72s 7d The farmer therefore who, with regard to future prices, thus looks back upon former markets finds little to afford him useful information. But then there are other consi derations which arise from the statistics of past years that will probably not be without their use. He will reflect that the advance of knowledge, and of consequent peace and security, is leading to vast increase of corn, cultiva tion in countries hither too ill-governed for agriculture to flourish he will not forget that her onward steps are never found among the wild hordes of the earth—that they a re barely traceable in the lands of the serf. Such an inquirer too will reflect on the increasing corn cultivation of the American far west; on the improving agriculture of more than one portion of Africa; on the opening out of the rich valley of Armenia by the proposed Euphrates Railway, and of many other at-present-neglected fields, the certain effect of a constantly open English market. Then, again, he will note that whilethe foreign supply inerease3 the home demand for food is steadily enlarging ; and this accelerated consumption, be it remembered, is not to be attributed merely to a numerical increase of the population. It is to a large extent caused by the great addition which is now steadily making to the bettor fed portion of our working classes—a result which is the sure attendant of an enlarged demand for skilled labour. The cultivators of our islands, then, are much more deeply interested in the increase of our manufactures, in the de. mend for our machinery, and our capital for foreign rail ways, than we were once wont to consider. Moreover, this demand for food is not confined to bread ; the demand for animal food also increases with equal rapidity. The skilful, well-paid machine-maker is not the man whose merits or whoSe means are adapted to a bread-and-cheese diet; he has better expectations and rights. The demand for animal food, then, increases, and will probably con• tinue to do so, as long as England shall go bounding' on in her career. But here we may usefully pause to reflect that whatever may be the danger to out own farmers from a foreign supply of corn, there is little or no danger of a similar price-depressing supply of imported live stock, since that supply is to a great extent limited by certain obstacles over which the merchant can exercise little control. In looking forward, then, to future seasons, distant market-days, and the safest principles for our guidance, we may well conclude that, as a general prin. cip le, Ihe hi gh esteh and the most advanc e d s y s t ems o f cul tivation will be ever the most likely to withstand all fo.. reign corn competitions, and that to a more than equal degree the same remark applies to the improved breeding and feeding of live stock. To the landlord, too, such reflections may be profitably applied. If he is of opinion that skilful practice and its handmaid science are the best securities for a well cultivated farm, a prosperous and a contented tenant—if he ie really satisfied of that fact—and of another great truth, that practice and science are ever steadily advancing hand in hand—then let such a landowner further usefully and practically remember that he is not commonly, even when aided by a country attorney, the best Mentor to take upon him self the direction of that cultivation. Rather let him keep his attention to the character and ability of a pro posed tenant, and then only to the necessary covenants as to the state in which he shall leave the farm for a suc ceeding occupier. Having done this ' then let him believe fervently that the tenant will be by far the best judge of the most advantageous system to carry out,—Marklane Express. SUICIDAL MANlA.—lnformation has been transmitted to the coroner for West Middlesex of two determined cases of self destruction. In the first case a young lady named Belinda Batchelor, residing at 17, Camden-road villas, whose age was only about sixteen, committed the dreadful and rash act by swallowi ng a l arge quan tity of corrosive sublimate) ; while in the next, a master sweep, residing in Mary's-place, Hampstead-road, destroyed his life by div.ng into a large tank of water, the desperate deed being. the result of excessive despondency, arising from the deceased having run through a large snit' of money, some 11/, or so, during the week, - z ae_ A?idi