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i ...... I wal I the ,till EAST INDIA HOUSE, 12Th JAN., IF/57. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST I NDIA COMPANY do hereby give Notice, thlt the Rate of rschan g e at which they will receive, Cash ,or Bills on Bc7l;zat and Madras will, from th e p resen t d a t e, an d unt i l ;Luther not i ce , b e 2 s. e.! 7 4 t , l In Company's Rupee, and for Bills on Bombay 2.5. Id. the Com- PauY's Rupee. JAMES C. 3IELVILL, Secretary. R. ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC, 0 1) M BADEN, up the RHINE. and PARIS, is NOW OPEN 46 EVERY EVENING (except Saturday) at S o'clock.—Stalls, 3s. ; 0 . area, 25.: gallery, la. Stalls can he sectire4 at the box office, 5 9 Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, every day between eleven an l tour, with out any extra charge. The Morping Representations take place 4 0 i every Tuesday and Saturday, at Three o'clock. 31 ..... 38 31 R. W. S. WOODIN'S OLIO of ODDITIES, with New Costumes and various Novelties, Vocal and Cha racteristic, every evening (except saturday) at Eight A MORN ING PERFORWANCE every SATURDAY, at Three. Private Boxes ,1 . 1 . nd Stalls may b e secure d , w i thout extra charge, at the r)ox-office, S ro lygr aphie-hall, King William-street, Charing-cross. The hall has CI been entirely redecorated. II RGYLL ROOMS.-LAURENT'S CASINO, Great Windmill-street, St. James's.—The above elegan Roo ms are now open every evening for the winter season, with 1 1 - aurent's celebrat e d O rc h es t ra . Principal Cornet-a-piston, M. o ulcourt. The P ro p r i e t o r begs to inform the pohlic that tits fashionable place of resort has been entirely redecorated during the re cess. Doors open at half-past eight, commence at nine. Admis sion One Shilling. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 4, Coventry-street, Leicester-square. —Open (for Gentlemen only) frorn 10 till 10, containing upwards of one thousand models :.8 Preparations, illustrating every part of the human frame in :alth and disease, the race of men, &c. Lectures delivered at 1 2 , !, 4 , and half-past 7. by Dr. G. SEXTON, ; and a new and Z'gillY-interesting ser i es o f L ectures i s now In course of delivery y nr Kum. at a quarter past 8 p.m. prdcisely. Admission, One ° 'lng. Catalogues containing Lectures as delivered by Dr. Khan (Gratis), a% ENERAL TOM THUMB, the AMERICAN DWARF.—Crowded Houses. — Patronised t rt _ e en Years ago by her Majesty, H.K.H. Prince Albert, the utichess of Kent, &c., &c. Exhibiting every day and evening , r e vious to visiting Russia, in Regent Gallery, 1.9, Quadrant, from 1 1 0 1. 3to 5, and 7 to 9 o'clock. He is beautifully proportioned, and the sma ll es t man a li ve . His performance 3 are remarkably talented and enchanting. New Characters, Costumes, Songs. Dances, e n t , ll es, &c. The General continues to wait on the nobility and t'L'ILrY. at their residences, on due notice. His miniature equipage promenades the streets daily. Admission, Is, each, regardless of ; Stalls, 2s. and 3s. ; children half-price. TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. AN ARCHITECT and SURVEYOR of 13 years' experience, having commercial practice in the City, is desirous of receiving a Young. Gentleman in his oftic on Probation p r eviously to his being articled), in order that he may,a?.quire an i dea of the d u ti es o f t h e profession, an d also afford the advertiser the means of ascertaining that he possesses the requisite energy, ability, and taste. A moderate Premium will be required shotdd he be accepted as a NM. The terra of years to be agreed upon. Address, in first instance, " Gothic," City News Rooms, Cheapside. NATIONAL (late Cholera) ORPHAN HOME, Ham Common, Richmond.—Founded 1549, after the visita tion of the Chokra. P AThon—Field-Marshal H.R.H. the Dake of CAMBRTDGE, K.G. Persosass—H.R.H. the Duchess of GLOUCESTE.?. On SUNDAY MORNING next, January 18th, a SERMON will be Preached in Christchurch, Blackfriirs-road, on behalf of the above I n stitution, by the Rev. JOSEPII BROWN, Rector of the '''arisn• Ther Divine Service will commence at 11 o'clock. _e are seventy-six Orphan Girls in the Home, and an election Or four more will take place the next day, Monday, the 19th. All information will be given by the Secretary, R. W. Newman, -.Bc l , 9, Inner 'I emple-lane., and by the Matron of the Home, to nom Subscriptions may be paid ; also to the Home account, at the London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury, Henry Kingscote, Esq. JOSEPH BROWN, M.A., 1 Honorary RICHD. WHITTINGTON, M.1.,5 Secretaries. IiANIC of LONDON. MAD BANKING-HOUSE—Threadneedle-street. CHASING-CROSS Mullen-450, West Strand. C.. BOARD OP DIRECTORS. -.. .TEBAN.—Sir JOHN VILLIERS SHELLEY, Bart., M.P., 25, Park-lane, and M aresfield-park, , usses. . VICZ• CHAIRHAN.—JOIIN GRIFFITH FRITH, Esq. (Frith, Sands, and Co.), Austin-frlars. J ohn Edmund Anderdon, Esq., Devonshire-terrace, Hyde-park. Colonel William Elsey, 11.E.1.C.5., Bank House, Acton. Thomas Gooch, Esq. (Gooch and Cousens, London-wall), Brixton Use. Jeremiah Greatorex, Esq. (Bradbury, Greatorex, and Co., Alder b'ant'urY), Spring Hill House, Upper Clapton. .Alexander Constantine lonldes, Esq. (Firm of lonides, Sgouta, en d Co., Gracechurch-street), Tulse-hill. Charles Joyce, Esq. (Firm of Charles Joyce and Co., Moorgate street), Gloucester-gardens, Hyde-park. Thomas Luce, Esq M.P., King-street, St. James's, and hfalmes bury, Wilts. " Henry Morris, Esq., late of the Madras Civil Service, 25, Mark 'axe, City. • City Sir Henry Maggeridge, Alderman of London, St. Andrew's-hill, Aill'ed Wilson, Esq. (Venables, Wilson, and Tyler, Queenhithe), irgrove, Weybridge, Surrey. Current or drawing accounts received and interest allowed on the balances. Deposyr AcconaTs,—The interest allowed on money placed on deposit at three days' notice of withdrawal is now Cl. per cent., whether deposited by customers or the public. No gratuitiespayable to officers and clerks. MATTHEW MARSHALL, Jun., Manager. BENJAMIN SCOTT. Secretary. ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SIXT II SALE. CUSTOM-HOUSE, London, January, 1857. rOR SALE, by order of the Honourable the - 1 12 Commissioners of her Majesty's Customs, at the Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing-lane, on MONDAY, Jan. 19, TUESDAY, 20th, WEDNESDAY, 21,4, THURSDAY, 22d, FRIDAY, 23d, and MON DAY, 26th, at twelve at noon precisely, the following GOODS for home consumption, viz.:— Agate Ornaments, Berlin Embroidery, Bass, Brushes, Books, Brandy, Cambric Handkerchiefs, embroidered; Clocks, brass, black, bronze, and ormoulu, Coffee, Cordials, Cotton Articles, Elastic Web bing; Embroidery or Needlework, Habits, Sleeves, Collars ; Furni ture, viz., Chest of Drawers, Tables, Cabinets, Chairs, &c. ; Flowers (ar tificial); Geneva, Gloves, H a i r (p ig's). Hair Guards, Hat Linings, Ivory Ornaments and Brooches ; Jewellery (mock), viz., Bracelets, Brooches, Pins, Chains, 8r..c.; Lace Articles; Leather Articles, viz., Har ness, Saddles, Boors and Shoes ; Mats (table), Needles, Org Opera Glasses and Optical Instruments, Paper, Pipe Stems, Perfumed Spirits. Picture Mouldings, Portemonnates, Sze. ; Prints. Rum, Segars, Succades, &c.; Shawls (wove) ; Spirits, plain and mixed, Silk Manu factures, viz., Velvet, Braid, Vestments, Canvas, Trimmings, China Gauze. &c.; Sugar, Tallow, Tapestry, Tea, Timber, Toys, a Vessel, Watches (Gold and Silver), Water (Mineral), WaterprodClothing, Wine, and various other Goods. For Exportation or for Home Consumption, on payment of the Duties :—Books, Sugar, Spirits, Tea, Wine, and other Goods. For Exportation only:—Sweetened Spirits, &c. For the benefit of the Crown :—lron, Rope, Canvas, Sugar, Spirits, W i ne, &c. . The above goods may be viewed at the Queen's Warehouse, Cus tom-house, and Cox's-quay, Thames-street; wt the London, St. Katha rine, East and West India Docks; Tobacco Ground ; and Gordon's Bail Loft, Princes-stairs, Rotherhithe ; on Thursday, the 15th, Friday, the 16th, and Saturday, the 17th of January, from Ten in the morning until Three in the afternoon, and on the days of salt from Tcu in the morning until Twelve at noon. Take Notice, that goods sold at this sale will not be delivered until after two clear days of the day on which they are sold, and that no lots can be paid for at the office of the Receiver-Getters' after Two o'Clock in the afternoon, and that on the days of sale money will not be received by the Receiver-General after eleven o'clock in the fore noon. Catalogues may be bad at the Q neea's Warehouse, Custom-house, Thames-street, price one shilling each. CANCER HOSPITAL, L on d on an d W es t • Brompton.—Recretary's Office, 167, Piccadilly.—This Institu tion has been established exclusively for the treatment of the poor afflicted with cancerous diseases. Out-door patients to attend at 167, Piccadilly, on Tuesdays, at 2 o'clock. In-door patients are admitted at the Brompton Establishment, for one month, and for a longer period if recommended by the medical officers. The number of per sons under treatment as in or out-door patients have averaged for the last three years about 400 cases each year. 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, E.q., the Treasurer, 66, Lincoln's inn -fields; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand; and at the Secretary's Offices, 167, Piccadilly. _ . By order. W. J. COCKERILL, Secretary. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. , Patron—The QUEEN.—Founded 1828. cowmen The sick poor are admitted on their o wn a ppli ca ti on a l one ; no re dation is required. Oaring the past month the following number received the benefits of this Charit application y. either as out or in-door patients, on their personal .... Week ending 7th November 2,154 .......___. Ditto 14th November 2,043 ....- 7 -....- Ditto 21 st November " man to 30th 28 th November....., 2,309 November.— • Total in November ............ of:which 2,775 were new eases the •"• 8,747 remainder (still under treat ment) having been admitted pre;iousl The clergy *I all denominations yhave unlimited access to the patients. Incur red in'affordin g suc h eaten- Heavy expenses are Ine v it a b ly sive public relief. The Committee, th erefore, earnestly entreat the aid of the The management of the Hospital is in the hands of 30 G overnors, yearly elected from the gen era l li st of subscribe General Meeting in January. A B oar d Is held evres. at th e Annual ry Thursday, at 4 o'clock (Rev. J. B. Owen, Chairman), to conduct the business, when any subscriber may attend, if so disposed the Boardl being at g iv' in p g en ex de p n a t nation. all times desirous of receiving suggestions or the T on volun tary Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly de Treasurer, I b b y y Messrs r tary contributions and legacies , which w ic l h i o ic l h as a -l r a e n r e e , ce a t John Afasterman, Esq., and Co.; Drummond and Co.; Berries and Co. ; lifu o is i e y rn n aanndd o C .' o ot .. ts ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Denison and Co. ; Wi lliams,' ; Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Ber ners-street ; Masterman and Co.; and at the Hospital. Clothing for the destitute patients will be thankfully received. By order. J. B. OWEN. M.A., Chairman. PIINJAUB RAILWAY COMPANY.—No further Application for Shares in the above Company can be received after TO-MORROW (Wednesday), the 14th inst. THOMAS BURNELL, Secretary. Gresham House, Old Broad-street, Jan. 13, 1857. A NEW AND I3IPOI TANT DISCOVERY IN THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE. Patent Office Seal of Great Britain. Diplome d'Eco . l i edo oty P a h ie a n rm ria a TRIESEMAR No. 1,2, and cle Pharmacien de Paris. Imperipreparedal College in of t ) h t e eti fe icn rm e , administeredlozenge, devoid of taste or s me ll, an d can b e carried in the waistcoat by pocket. Sold in tin ,ca ses , di v id e d i nto separa t e doses, as Valpeau, Lailemand, Roux, Ricord, &. c. &c. TRIESEMAR No. 1 is 'a Remedy indiscriminate excesses, or and sexual RE LAXATION, SPERMATORRIREA, and all the f( t ) li r stress t in oe g c onsequences arising from early abuse, who are long residence in hot climates. It has restored bodily strength and vigour to thousands of debilitated for .MAh new in the enjoyment of health and the Functions b of d whatever may be the cause for DISQUALIFICATIONSIiY individuals and itIA GE, they are effectually subdued by this Wonderful an D h is oo co d :er' TRIESEMAR No. 11., eftectually, in the short space of three days, completely d an a c ß l gr en av tl a r t e e ly d ergat eatea all traces of Gonorrhcea, both in its mild an forms, (sleets. Strictures, Irritation of the Bladder, Non-retention of ' Urine, Pains of the Loins and Kidneys, and those disorders Copaivi and Cubebs have so long been thought an antidote for, to the loin of the health of a vast portion of the population.. t°nlg e TRIESEMAR No. 111, M great Continen Cutaneotal Remed for Syphilis . and Secondary SynlP • It also con stitutes a certain Y cure for Scurvy, Scrofula, and all us Eruptio ns, removing an d expelling in its course all corruP- Vona and impurities from the vital stream, as altogether to eradicate the virus of dige ase. and expel it with the insensible perspiration through the medium of the pores of the skin and urine, and is a never-failing ...‘ 1. -.“celY for that class of disorders which unfortunately the Enlish Physic! ton of t the patient's an treats with Mercury, tothe inevitable dostruc constitution. and which all the sarsaparilla in the world cannot restore. Price lls , or four cases in one for 335,, which saveo Ils., and in 5/. a% whereby there is a saving of 1/. 12s. To be had wholesale and retail M London, of Derby and Gordon, 140, Leadenhall-street; rout,p 229, Strand; Hannay and Co., 63, Ox ford-street ;Sanger, 150, Oxforchstrect; Barclay and Son, 97, Far- Paul'sfreet; Butler and Ilarding, 4, Cheapaide ; Edwards, St. Churchyard. 11 OMAN FRAILTY ; a Popular Medical work, price Is., post free, beautifully illustrated with 100 engravings, and co lt ntaining the opinions of Valpeau, Lalleinand, Roux, Ricord, &C. gives copious instructions for the periect restoration of those who are prevented by impediments from. entering into the married state, also showing the dreadful results from early abuse, gonorrhoea. and syphilis, and the benefits arising from the chemical tests and examination of the spermatoza, by the author's newly-constructed microscope, with powerful lenses:—Piper and Co., 23, Paternoster and from a agenta for the Me ot"rriestquar.. How SAWARD CAME TO BE A BARRISTER.--The Law Times says :—" The question is properly asked, How did 'Jem Saward,' who figures in the great city for geries,' get to the bar ? In the Law List he is described as ' James Tewnshend Saward, Esq., of the Inner Temple and the Home Circuit.' The date of his call is the 28th of November, 1840. He has been for a long time the associate of thieves. Who is he By what two barristers was be proposed ? By whom of the Benchers approved ? For without this preliminary cer tificate of character admission of a student is imprac ticable. The Inner Temple boasts of a sort of prelimi nary classical examination. Was Jem Saward' subjected to this ? These are questions which the society has a right to ask, and the proposers might pro perly be called upon to state what was their knowledge of him." GALLANT CONDUCT.—About 12 o'clock at noon on Sunday last the brig Era, of Rochest er , w hil e off Easing was struck by a tremendous sea, by whi c h one o f shortly aft er t t o h n e ' crew were washed ove r b oar d. Th e vesse l was wards driven on shore between Castle Eden Dene and Hoyden, togeth en, where a num b er o f villagers er on th e s h ore, among whom werewleirre. and the curate of'Ca chairman of the quarter sessions, that a chain of hand s s i. e le f n E rm de e n d Rowland Burdon, c • for the purpose of reach. ot 0 the taller men should go in first. T i n h g e the rope, Burdon agreed to ; a stalwart game- Mr. Burdon proposed and that They thenou second, and the curate of keeper went first, M r . o C o a t s i t l le m E r. de ß n o n rd eoxot.WaTshoepadvanced into the water to tae shoulders, when the end crow were obtained of the rope was caught, and drawn on shore. n from the castle with the vessel, and the together with Mr. Burdon had promptly sent we d re a supply of brandy and other restoratives, a quantity of blankets, for the shipwrecked mariners.-- MUTABLE BEQUESTS, _ The will of the Dowager olfißoden, YovvrkitLirseAGNaDzecttHe. Right Hon. Julia Anne, Countess e was proved under 4,000/. Rear-Admiral J. Venn, E-q., of Highlour K.C. 18,000/. The Rev. NV. H. Cooper, of re ad ' Y Park Town, 25,000/. 25,000/. T. Worthington, Esq., Sharston Hall, Cheshire' ' 45,0001. within the p rovince of Canterbur y , and has left some t,housaudi to charitable institutions in Man chester. John Collett, Esq , formerly M.P., 80,0001, leaving 5,0001. at the discretion of his executors, to pay fines imposed upon poachers, and legacies to charities. John Kenyon, Esq., F.R.G.S., F.G.S., of Devonshire place, West Cowes, and Wimbledon, 180,000/. within the province. The will, thouol short, contains nume rous legacies to his literary friends, and one of large amount. Those not exceedin4 5,000/. each are free of legacy duty. 5,0001. to the Univ.rsity College Hospi tal, Gower-street; to Robert Hawthorn, Esq., one of his executors, 20,000/. ; and to James Booth, Esq., the other executor, 5,0001. He has also left the residue of his property equally between them.—BNlMlta NCIVB. (N e . 20,146,) ÜBLICATIONS. Now ready at all the Libraries, In 3 vo7s., It 0 S A G It E Y. By the Author of " Anne Dysart," &c. "`Rosa Grey' is a pleasant novel."—Examiner. "One of the most charming books of the season, and worthy of the author's former works."— John Bull. Hurst and Blackctt, Publishers, successors to Ileury Colburn. Price Three Pence. SAVINGS BANKS, their History, Laws, Investments, Interest, Responsibility of Government, Trustees and Oflfcers, Defalcations, Past Progress, and Present Results. By the Rev. J. BENUMONT ILIWKINS, Loudon : Longmans and Co. THE NEW ZEALANDERS. New Edition, with Frontispiece and Vignette engraved on Wood, In post Bvo, price 7s. 6d. TRADITIONS and SUPERSTITIONS of the NEW ZEALANDER.; ; with Illustrations of their Manners and Customs. By E. SAWITLAND, M.A. Cantab., Author of " The Southern Districts of New Zealand." Second Edition, thoroughly revised and enlarged. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. This day, Two vols., kap. Bvo., 95., T HE MYRTLE and the HEATHER. A Tale. By A. M. GOODRICH. By the same Author, Two V015.,95., GWEN ; or, The Cousins. London: John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. Mr. Newby has just published, 2 vo:s., 215., NAPLES: Religious, Social, and Political. "Lord 13***** , * is a shrewd observer and pleasant writer." —Critic. "The pictures are lively, and as bright as the colours and climate they reflect. " Spec ator. " Decidedly worthy of public attention."—Globe. "The subject is one of European interest "—lllustrated Times. " For entertaining narrative it can hardly be Oxceeded."—Sporting Magazine. " A book of greater interest has not come under our notice for many years."—Guardian. ILLUSTRATED BY CROWQUILL AND LEECH. WiJibe ready in a few days, price Is. each, THE COMIC COCKER; Showing how things may be managed without the troublesome ai ofArithmetic. Illustrated by ALFRED Cnowerau,. 75 Engravings. COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR. Illustrated by LEECH. Above 50 Engravings. Full of drollery. London : Ward and Luck, and all Booksellers. Thfs day published, price ss. 6d., cloth, the FOURTEENTH VOLUME of HOUSEHOLD WORDS. Conducted by CHARLES DICKENS. The Num bers, Parts, and Volumes are always on sale ; and a General Index has been prepared to the First Ten Volumes, which are also sold bound together in Five, handsome cloth, price 21. les. Office, 16, Wellington-street North, Strand. Sold everywhere. The Third Edition. Just Published, ;rice 55., by post, tree, ss. 6.1 0 N TRUE FALSE SPERNLA.TORRH(EA, with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the Iteal Sufferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Care. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. "Dr. Pickiord is known to English readers by his frequent practi atl contributions. to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs as, that he has addressed himself to the nos-medi• cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall detect an) other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his power to cot'. roct."—London Medical Gazette. " The tribe of' ' Quiet Sympathisers,' and 'Medical Priends,' arc mercilessly e:cbosed: and if this bool could find its way into the hands of those whe suffer from the com• ilaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds wont( oe saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is 0 , en importance, thotigh it is that which the quacks most prize— :much money.-- This volume is well qualified to put an end to th, mpirical system of treating Spermatorrheca, and to place the treat. cent upon a more rational and phpiological basis. It is, therefore, ikely to do much good."—Medical Circular. London: 11. fialliere, 019. Recent-street. pIIRSITANT to a Decree of the High Court o Chancery, made in a cense of John Henry Sharp against James Carter Sharp and others, the Creditors of JOHN STONES, formerly of liumberstone, in the county of Leicester, and late of Hayes, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, who died in or about the month of April, 1842, are by their solicitors, on or before the 10th day of February, 1557, to come in and prove their debts at the chambers of the Vige-Chancellor Sir Richard Torin Kinderbley, No. 3, Stone buildings, Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex, or in default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said Decree. Saturday, the 14th day of February, 1857, at One o'clock i n th e afternoon, at the said Chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudi cating upon the claims. Dated this Bth day of January, 1857. CHARLES PUGH, Chief Clerk. MASON AND S f URT, 7. Gresham-street, City, Plaintiff's Solicitors. R. EU/WARD, urgeon-Dentist, 52, Fleet street, has introduced an entirely new description of ARM 'MAL TEETH ,tixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so erfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from rhe original by the closest observer; they will never change colour or 'ecay, and will be found very superior to any teeth ever before used. this method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painfu; eration, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and uaranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth , -ndered sound and useful in mastication.-52, Fleet-street. At 'tome from ten till five. THE PIINJAUB RAILWAY COMPANY.— From Mooltan to Lahore and Urnritsir, being an Extension of tho Scinde Railway, and now under survey, with the sanction of tho Hon. East India Company: Offices— Gresham House, Old Broad-street. To bo incorporated by Act of Parliament. Capital, 2,500,0001., in 125,000 shares of 2 Jl, each (with power to increase). Two-fifths of the shares to be allotted to the shareholders in the Scinde Railway C mpany, in the proportion ef two shares in the Punjaub Railway Com pany for every one share in the Seinde Railway Company. The directors havo every expectation, on the completion of the survey, of obtaining from the Hon. East India Company the same terms and conditions as those granted to the Scinde Railway Company. Deposit, 2s. per share. CHAIRMAN, W. P. ANDREW, Esq., 26, Montague-square (Chairman of the &in& Railway Company). DIRECTORS. Sir HERBERT MADDOCR, M.P. (lito Deputy-Governor of Ben gal, Director of the Scinde Railway Company), J. EDMUND ANDERDON, Esq. (Director of the Bank of London . _ . and Scinde Railway Company). HARRY BORRADAILE,• Esq. (late Bombay Civil Service, Director of the Scinde Railway Company). THOMAS WILLIAMS, Esq., Grove-cud road, Regent's-park (Di. rector of the Scinde Railway Company). AUDITORS. . _ Alexander Mackenzie, Esq. (Director of the Oriental Bank Corporation, and Auditor Scinde Railway Company). Major John A. Moore, F.R.S. (Director National Provincial Bank of England, and Auditor Scinde Railway Company). Engineer—T. A. Yarrow, Esq., C.E. (Engineer to the Seinde Railway Company). - Bankers—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co. Solicitors—Messrs. Marten Thomas and Hollams. Superintending Engineer in the Punjaub—W. Brunton, Esq., C.E. Agent in India—J. Neville Warren, Esq. (Agent to the Scinde Railway Company). Secretary—Thomas Burnell, Esq. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Directors of the Punjaub Railway Company. I request you will allot to me shares in the capital of the above-named Company, and I hereby engage to accept the same or any less number, on the terms of the Pros pectus, and to pay the amount thereof, and sign the deed of settlement as and when required by the Directors, and subject to their rules and regulations. 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If they ho somewhat austere and rigid, according to our notions, they are at the same time honourable and scrupulous. Indepen dently of this, they aro for the most part staid and sober men of business—takin g no transcendenta views of human affairs— having no high-flown notions of prerogative, and no extravagant conceit in their own power and wisdom. Pursuing what is just as far as practicable, they are, as men of shrewdness and sense, content with what is possible and practicable. With such a nation, or their representatives or public men, England and France are sure to have no difficulties which may not be immediately solved. But, with the other belligerent, his Majesty Frederick William IV., the case is widely different. The King of Prussia, unfortunately for himself, for his subjects, and for Europe, is one of the most crotchetty, captious, punctilious, and high-handed among prerogative Sovereigns, with a most uneasy, because too full blown, sense of his own dignity and importance. To be sure, the family is of the newest, and there was only one really ,great man among them, old Fritz, of conquering and martial memory ; .but even this is no excuse for the fussy self-importance of a monarch whose house—though of yesterday compared with other princely houses—can count at least four or five generations of kings. The real fact is that the Monarch of Prussia has more medileval scholarship than sound practical common sense, and that he has been wholly apoiled —partly by his half-mystical German education, and partly by the long apprenticeship which lie served to the Russian political system under Alexander, who always had the whip-hand of him—an ascend ancy which the Russian Czar left to his brother and successor, and the King's own brother-in-law, the late Emperor Nicholas. With a monarch such as this Prussian one—strange by nature,strange by edu cation, um bratile, capricious, wilful, yet not without moments of speculative benevolence and kindliness —benevolence which he uniformly denies himself the luxury of putting into practice—it will be indeed difficult to deal. Whenever his own personal va nity or ambition are concerned, or there is a pro bability of the extension of his power or authority, or of his territory, the Persian King is utterly unreliable—indeed, we may say faithless—and we need but refer to his Majesty's conduct in 1848 and 1849 for proof of the fact. Under the pressure of the rampant German democracy in 1848, and with a view to his election as Emperor of all Germany, he gave to Prussia a constitution one of the most democratic in Europe. The equality of Prussians was proclaimed before the law ; guarantees of free dom of the person were afforded ; every Prussian was allowed the right to express his ideas freely, orally, by the printing press and by artistical de signs ; the secrecy of letters was held to be in violable ; offences in diffusing ideas were cognisable only by the general penal code ; feudal tenures, family entails, and privileges of rank were all abo lished ; and Prussians paying 245., who had resides for six weeks, wore to vote as primary electors. So soon, however, as the King saw that his elec tion as German Emperor was hopeless, and that the tide was turning against democracy, his ardour for this democratic constitution cooled, and we need not say no trace of it now exists or has existed in Prussia for many a long day. Nor did the King only play thus fast and loose with his own people. He was as false to his brother monarchs as his own subjects, and was willing to become an Emperor of a German Empire from which Austria was to be excluded. Instead of avail ing himself of Scandinavian or Sclavonian sympa thies, and making the Danes and the Poles his natural allies, he taught the Danes, by his unprin cipled aggression ou Schl esw i g , t o l oo k rat h er towards Russia, and the Poles to consider Prus sians as much their enemies as the Russians them selves. The King of Prussia, in truth, by his perverse policy, had the unenviable and bad dis tinction of making Poland a bulwark for Russia against Germany, instead of making her a bulwark for Germany against Russia. But the worst pas sage in this King's career was his enthusiastic encouragement of his soldier-subjects in their attack on Schleswig-Holstein. In this the Prussian monarch was governed by mixed motives of the very lowest kind. His first desire was to enhance his own popularity, to increase his own power and territory, and, above all, to filch a seaport, or even a portion of the seashore, from Denmark. Denmark had repeatedly refused to join the Prus sian Zollverein, and such was the revenge taken on her by a King who professes to be deeply pene trated with the Evangelical spirit, and who him self homilises (if we may coin a word) with unction on matters best left to the regular ministers of every Christian faith. With a monarch of this peculiar character, whose career since 1848 has been wholly guided by vaulting, yet insensate, ambition, or by unprincipled cupidity for the territory, towns, sea board, and fleets of other States, it will be ex tremely difficult for mediators to deal. England and France must remember that the very selfsame Frederick, who clamours now so lustily for his sacred and divine rights as Prince of Neuchatel and Valengin, is the selfsame King who, in the streets of Berlin, bellowed forth Hoch ! for the sacred cause of German Nationality. Hoch 1 for a German Empire of which he was to be himself the head. .Hoch I for a German Fleet, of which this landlubber representative of Teuton turgid. ness was to have the guide, usufruct, and direc tion, the actual command to be entrusted to a Prussian Admiral—such a thing being unknown in nature or art, on land or at sea. Such is one of the parties between whom the two most powerful nations in the world have to arbitrate, and whom they have to satisfy in making an award. That England and France can and will satisfy Switzer land, no one doubts ; but who believes that they can or will satisfy Frederick William IV. That Monarch, in his cloud-capped mystical fits, firmly believes that his sway is purely theocratic, and that all his princely privileges are perfectly sacrosanct. Long protocols and diffuse diplomatic papers will be dispersed through Europe from the offi cina of Potsdam, and we may be far advanced in February ere this ceremonious Potentate shall have stated his case. Meanwhile his punctilious pride may be worked on by the Russian Court and the Russian faction at Berlin, so that these obstacles must be boldly looked at by the powerful mediators. We have little doubt that if the King of Prussia plays this solemn game of antiquated jure divine formalism, that he will be abandoned by all his small satellites of Germany, and that his perversity will be rebuked by Austria, who, on the Swiss question, as on the question of Bolgrad and the Isle of Serpents, has played a wise and fitting part. But there remains in the background Russia, who, as Sir J. Malco:m's schoolmaster said of his early pupil, "is at the bottom of every mischief." With England, and France, and Austria of one mind, however, in reference to Switzerland, Europe may well disregard the manceuvres of Russia. It is stated by our Paris Correspondent that the Federal Council of Switzerland (supposing always that Prussia renounces the sovereignty of Neuchatel) is desirous of knowing when, and at what precise epoch, the King will do so ? This is a wise and prudent precaution, and serves to show that the Federal Council well know their man—we cannot say know their King—for the King of Prussia never was even King of Neuchatel. One thing alone is clear in this imbroglio, and that is, letahe King of Prussia be in what humour he may, England, France, and Austria will prevent a single Prussian soldier from entering Switzerland. r PRICE 41). STAMPED RUSSIA AND THE CIRCASSIANS. - ---....--.-.... (From the Morning Herald.) The Rus , 4ans are at their old game with the Circassians, and, if the intelligence recently re ceived be correct, have lost the last move. There has been, it would seem, a great battle at Bayuk, iii which the Russians came to the attack with 10,000 men, and were def ea t e d, w i t h t h e l oss o f nearly 2,000, besides several guns. Further de tails aro wanting ; but enough is known to satisfy all devout believers iu the moderation and inoffen sive character - of Russia, that, if ever she suspends her military operations, it is in order to prepare for more extensive and effective operations, and that she is as intent to-day in removing the Circas sian barrier as she has been at any time since 1783, when she occupied the country between the bend of the Don and the northern' slopes of the Cau casus. The Paris Conference has completed its work we are told—the neutralisation of the Black Sea being one of its ostensible objects ; but to say nothing of other advantages and opportunities en joyed by Russia for regaining her command over those waters, she has been p erm itt e d to retain all the places of strength on the coast of Abasia ; and the Russian plenipotentiary, at the moment that he affixed his signature to the recent protocol, knew perfectly well that a Russian army was on foot in Circassia, and that it is the hardly-con cealed intention of the Russian Government to get hold of the eastern seaboard of the Euxine, if they are not already i n f u ll p ossess i on of it. Now, of this intention the B r iti s h Government hashad abundant notice. Before the treaty of peace was concluded Lord Palmerston was asked whether the forts on the coast of Circassia were to be re stored to Russia, and the consequences certain to ensue from such a policy were at the same time fully pointed out. -- the - First Minister replied, that there was nothing to apprehend from the restoration of the forts in question to the Rus sians, and, therefore, that no provision would be made respecting them in the treaty. It appears that Russia has profited by the consideration manifested by her recent foes. Not only are those forts now garrisoned by Russians, but Russian cruisers watch the coast, and but the other day committed so serious an outrage upon Turkish commerce as to call for the interference of our admiral in the Black Sea. We are at a loss to comprehend how the common sense of Englishmen can be imposed upon by provisions so hollow as those of the treaty of March, glossed over though they be by the specious language of my Lord Pal merston. So far as the neutralisation of the Black Sea is concerned, if by that term is meant its free dom from Russian control, except that the fleet at Sebastopol has been suck, and some time must elapse before that which is now being built at Nicolaieff is fit for sea, there is nothing that we know of to prevent Russia dominating as before in the " interior waters" of Turkey. All the places we had wrested from her we have delibe rately restored. In exchange for the nominal freedom of the Danube we consented to replace her in all her positions of offence from Odessa to the Don, and from the Don to Fort San Nicholas. We all know that Russia never yet respected a treaty when it was her interest to break it, and, when we have not only applied the incentive but afforded the ready opportunity for violating her latest engagement, we are led to believe that she will be peculiarly sensitive respecting it. There is something almost incredible in the credulity of Englishmen ; but they are commonly shrewd enough in the ordinary affairs of life, especially when their pockets are touched. The late war has cost the country one hundred millions, to say nothing of the sacrifice of human life. This price was paid cheerfully, because it was be lieved that we had arrested the danger and the nuisance arising from Russian aggression. What if that money might as well have been sunk in the waters of the Black Sea itself for any sub stantial benefit which has or is likely to arise from the expenditure ? What, if five years hence Russia has more than repaired all her losses, laughs at the production of the Paris Congress, as she laughs at this moment at our credulity, and once more lords it in the south, if she does not strike home that long-meditated blow at the city of the Sultan with a rapidity and success which will astonish Western Europe t There aro public writers who, to carry on the farce, tell us that the moral effect of the war has told against Russia amongst the nations of Europe —that it has controlled her aggressive policy, and taught the wild feudatories of Central Asia to doubt the invincibility of her arms. This teaching may suit the views of those who resort to it, but it has no foundation in fact. The result of the late cam paigns, especially the defence of Sebastopol, are considered throughout Europe as eminently credit able to Russia, and have raised her military cha racter to the same extent that they have depressed our own. She is looked upon throughout the Con tinent as having maintained a conflict single-handed against the two most powerful nations of Western Europe, aided by states of known gallantry and even of military renown ; and as having retired from the struggle with dignity and honour. As to the people of Asia, we need only refer to the fall of Kars, and the more recent movements along the Caspian, in proof of the absurdity and false hood of any suggestion of their loss of confidence in the mighty Czar. We repeat what we have as serted, that we have lost not only money, but re putation by the war, and that the peace is a trans parent imposition, and we have only to hope that the representatives of the people will demand from fills Government a statement of what we have gained by our war expenditure so far, before they consent to the continued imposition of a war tax. t H en E mndau ß dncut O hsr Y i oAnigL d i ssat isf actiongtYACHTohoe la te d c 1 a i A wt n P as P r : fhb : a rz yr ssbe lieutenants n to, i u ghness the Prince of Leiningen to fill the vacancy in there APPOINTMENT S , —W e Tca e.sW occa sio ne d performed selection of u h n i d s e a mo n g S n e pt e n n o d o r the Royal Yacht. If we understood that the appoint ment in question was considered in the light of a royal nomination, we are not so disloyal as to permit a breath of discontent to dull our pages with reference to it, but for some time the yacht has been given to officers on an count of good service claims. The senior at present in the yacht is Lieut. Dalyell, who lest an arm in attempt. ing to storm the Redan ; and although a young officer, no one fomtd fault with the selection, since, but for this, he might have remained a lieutenant all his life, in conse• quence of his personal disability. His serene highness, on the other band, was sure of promotion at no distant period, from his exalted rank, and his late:appointment has the effect, therefore, of needlessly depriving some officer not equally blessed with a title of the chance of gaining merited advancement.— United Service Gazette. BIRMINGHAM AND MIDLAND INSTITUTE.—The annual meeting of the subscribers of the above institution was held at the rooms yesterday at noon ; the Right Hon. thi Earl of Dartmouth, president of the society, in the chair. The report was of a satisfactory character, the numbSs of students in the various departments having consider. ably increased during the present year, and the indus. trial classes had been almost seltisupporting. The nen 4 building now in course of erection is expected' to be, completed within the time specified, but several thousand pounds are still required to complete the amount. The Right Hon. Lord Hatherton was elected president for the ensuing year. CRYSTAL PALAGIL—One Shilling Day.—Monday, Jan. 12.—Admissions on p a y ment, 3,016 ; do. by BOABOI2 tickets 832 ; total visitors, 4,448. .iONDON, -- lI , UESJ.AX EVEN - ENG. JAN U Alt Y la, 1857. LTY AMENDMENT SOCIETY. TREATMENT OF DANGEROUS CRIMINALS. A meeting of this society WWI held yesterday evening —Lord Stanley, M.P., in the chair. After the preliminary business had been disposed of, The Secretary (sir. Hastings) read the following letter from Lord Brougham : " 13rougham, Jan. 8, 1857. "My dear Hastings—lt appears to me very important that the attention of the society should be directed speci ally to the c.)mpiaints, not by any means groundless, which have lately been made of some things connected with the administration of the criminal law. Of the change required in the law itself I have more than once made mention; but I now refer to certain matters in the administration of it. I shall at present only mention one of them, but it is really of great importance generally and permanently, although at this time, from accidental cir cumstances, it possesses peculiar claims to our attention. Surely some arrangement ought to be made for giving the Home Department more regular and effectual assist ance in the exercise of that most important and difficult and most delicate office of remitting or commuting pu nishments ordered by the sentences of courts. It is not interfering with the high prerogative of mercy to regu late the manner in which it shall be exercised. The prerogative would remain, whatever checks we might impose upon the advice to be tendered. Nay, the very department to which assessors might be appointed would be at full liberty to disregard their recommendation, as the sheriff is in the writs of inquiry executed by him with his assessor. But there is a case more closely resem bling the one in question, where the royal prerogative in criminal, as well as in civil causes, is in substance touched, though not in form. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council hears and determines those causes; and though its recommendations do not bind the Crown, and may be wholly disregarded, yet I question if any instance can be found, even before that tribunal was established, certainly there has been none since, of any other judgment being given by the Crown than sec rding to the report of the committee. But lam sure I never dreamt that when we were forming the court, with powers far more extensive than the former pes sessed, there was any encroachment made upon the pre rogative. It well deserves to be considered by one of our committee in what way this kelp should be provided for the department. Several plans have suggested them selves, but it, is manifest that here, as in so many other branches of our inquiries touching the amendment of the law, the want of a minister of justice will be sure to meet us at each step, and that the creation of such an office would probably supply the defect complained of. There have been some cases lately in our criminal courts de serving of serious attention, on account of the erroneous views taken by juries, and not perhaps sufficiently checked by the bench. But without more full and accu rate information than I have been able to obtain as to the facts, I do not even wish to state my doubt and diffi culties.—Believe me, sincerely yours, "'H. BROUGHAM." The SECRETARY then read a report presented by the Criminal Law Committee on the paper read at the pre ' ceding meeting by Mr. Hill, in reference to the means of freeing a country from dangerous criminals. The commit. tee were of opinion that some alterations in the scale of punishment were necessary, and that a more vigorous administration of the criminal law would render the com mission of acts of violence, robbery, and aggression mat ters of rare occurrence. They thought the late increase in the number of crimes of a violent character attributable in some degree to the disbandonment of the militia, which had thrown on the country 70,000 men without adequate means of employment ; but the root of the evil was, in their opinion, to be found in the worse than useless sys tem of short imprisonments. The committee were opposed to Mr. Hill's recommendation, that all persons who could not show how they subsisted should be liable to imprisonment, thinking that it might lead to great abuse. They were also adverse to the renewal of the transportation system, if by that phrase were meant the establishment of a new penal colony, and were convinced that all the advantages which attended a penal settlement abroad might be better secured in one at home. They did not think the ticket-of-leave system had as yet bad a fair trial. After reading the report, Mr. HASTINSZ moved that it be adopted and printed, and further moved the adoption of the following resole• tions, embodying the substance of its recommendations "1. That the 4th section of the 11th and 17th Vic sap. 99, ought to be repealed, and that terms of impri• sonment equal to the former terms of transportation should be adopted in place of the periods of penal servi tude laid down by that section." "2. That courts of justice ought to be empowered to inflict, at their discretion, one of such terms of imprison ment on any offender convicted of simple larceny, with out any proof of previous conviction of felony." "8. That it is not expedient to establish a new penal oolony, or to renew the former system of transportation ; but that it is highly desirable to encourage the emigra tion of reformed criminals after they have passed through a proper period of punishment and protection in this country to such colonies as may be willing- to receive them." The meeting then proceeded to discuss the resolutions separately. Mr. E. WEBSTER moved as an amendment to the pro position of Mr. Hastings that the report be simply re ceived, and printed for circulation, without the resolu tions, and argued in favour of the establishment of a new penal colony in which new inducements to reformation should be held out to convicts. Mr. ELLIOTT, who seconded the amendment, con tended that there was no possibility of reforming har dened criminals without sending them to a penal colony. Mr. A. PI3LLArr, M.P., objected to the report on the ground that it drew no,distinction between reclaimed and unreclaimed criminals, and observed that reforma tion for the mass would be impracticable until adequate provision had been made for the employment of criminals on their release from confinement. He saw no reason why an improved system should not be adopted without a recurrence to transportation. Mr. F. HILL thought that sufficient facilities existed for employing criminals in this country, either in agri- cultural or in manufacturing operations. The only material difference between the committee and himself related to the nature or degree of evidence which ought to be required in courts of justice for the establishment of guilt. He admitted that that was a question which required to be well discussed, and that it would be an evil to make any change that would not meet with ge neral concurrence. He did not desire anytking that would endanger the free institutions of the country, but it must be remembered that freedom to the criminal was practically slavery to the honest man. (Hear, hear.) Adverting to transportation, he strongly condemned the renewal of it in any form, and argued that the best course would be to increase the accommodation to pri soners either in this country or on some island adjacent to it. Mr. J. DILLoN thought it ought not to be assumed that none of the colonies would receive criminals under any circumstances, and expressed strong disapproval of the lenient treatment of criminals. Mr. HASTINGS, in replying, said be thought the ob ject of the committee would be attained by the printing and circulating of their report. _ . Lord STANLEY said he might, perhaps, as chairman, be allowed to make a few remarks. The debate had, practically, turned on the subject of transportation. ['hat subject divided itself into two distinct questions : first, what they were to do with the criminals while they were under punishment ; secondly, what they were to do with them after their term of punishment had ex pired. As regarded the first of those questions, he be lieved there was a vary general agreement amongst all who had considered the matter, that while a criminal was actually undergoing his sentence it was in all re • spects better to retain him here than to send him abroad. Under the former arrangement there was no possibility of his mixing with the home population, because he was kept secluded ; there were plenty of pub lic works upon which he might be employed; they saved the expense of his passage ; they had a more effective superintendence than could be obtained on the other side of the world, and which was a consideration that ought not to be entirely neglected ; there was a better climate here than in most places abroad where public works could be usefully executed. The real difficulty was met with when they came to consider the other question— what they were to do with those whose strictly penal term had expired. It seemed to him that there were only three courses which could possibly be adopted. The first was to send the criminals to colonies which were already occupied; the second to found new colonies expressly for the purpose of receiving them; the third, to keep them in this country, with tickets of leave, or without them. As to the proposition to send them to colonies which areceivel were to g readeatl h er criminals,aye s p p e a o i p ea l e dn d . d, Thent h o a t se a w onl a oe s n m a i s n at ns expedient of eont tc eo w rn h t sa i e c i nn h t t b e the to e i w d e e r a e opfaforcingr s t e h t e t r em t o ela do s v r s o h . ich lt w w o a u s ld of ?ec il e ga ive id i t l h f e e r w e convicts. The reception of a few would not meet the case ; it would, at the utmost, only postpone for two or three years the Adoption of the remedy which must be resorted to at last. The alternative lay between founding a new colony for criminals, and providing for them at home. As to the former, it was surrounded with diffi culties. In the first place, it would be a bsolutely neces sary to exclude free settlers from any penal colony. A new penal colony must be exclusively penal ; otherwise the free settlers would gradually strengthen in influence till they became the majority, and prevented any further importation of criminals. Even, however, if free settlers were excluded, a similar result would ultimately arise. The convicts who were sent out would have children— ' for of course women would be sent ; and in 30 years there would be a new generation, consisting of persons who, being themselves innocent, would object to the im portation of criminals as strongly as settlers who bad gone out from England. (Hear.) Besidee, there was the practical question, where were they to find such a place of transportation as would be required I (lien.) As to selecting a small South Sea island, that was out of the question. A large area would be required, for a very considerable number would have to be sent, and one, if not the principal, object of sending out criminals would be to put them in a place where there would be almost unlimited space for all. Three situations had been named —one the northern part of Australia, another Vancou ver's Island, the third Hudson's Bay. Now, to every one of those locations there was some grave objection. As to North Australia, there was, in the first place, the certainty that, whatever the distance might be, the cri minals who were lodged there would, when allowed a certain degree of liberty, find their way sooner or later to the other Australian settlements. In the next place, it must be recollected that the whole of Northern Australia was between the tropics, and that the settlement of Port Essington, which was founded there, was given up because the climate was found to be unhealthy. In fact, all ex perience showed that in low-lying lands thus situated the European race degenerated, and its labour was un profitable. With regard to Vancouver's Island, he thought the neighbourhood of the Californian diggings, and the feelings of the inhabitants of the United States, were conolusive objections to its beingselectecl. The same objections did not, indeed, apply to Hudson's Bay ; but then he believed it would be found that a subsistence was only to be obtained there by hunting, the climate offering insuperable objections to the keeping of stock and the cultivation of land. These considerations, it seemed to him, disposed of all the localities which had been men tioned as available. In this state of things the only alternative left to them was to try and make the best of detention at home. On this subject he would remark, in the first place, that he d:d not think the ticket-of leave system had yet had a fair trial, much less was responsible for the whole of the outrageous crimes which had been recently perpetrated. A large number of men had been discharged from the militia ; regiments of the line which had returned home, on being re duced, had naturally got rid of some of their worst cba racters ; and owing to those two causes there was no doubt a larger criminal population than there would have been under other circumstances. But, in the next place, he did not think the principle on which the ticket of-leave system was framed had been fairly carried out. As he understood that system it Was implied that the residence and occupation of every man having a ticket of leave should be known, so that if there were merely a strong suspicion that any such person was getting his living dishonestly, he should on that ground alone be called to account. The principle of the ticket-of-leave system should be applied with much greater strictness than it had been. Now he would just point out one or two means by which he thought the existing evil might , be alleviated. It struck him as a great misfortune that in their prison discipline there was no provision for an intermediate state between actial seclusion in prison and absolute freedom of life out of doors. (Hear.) Th.e man who left prison was bewildered by the new state of things in which he found himself. Moreover the men who were the best behaved in prison were often the worst behaved out of prison—and for this reason, that they were the men most susceptible to any influences, whether good or bad, which were brought to bear upon them. The man who was docile when subject to good influences was equally docile, perhaps, when placed in contact with his old companions. (Hear.) He thought, therefore, that one evil which required to be corrected was the sudden transition froma state of absolute prison seclusion to a state of absolute freedom. He was also of opinion that more consideration ought to be given to the recom• mendation of Oapt. Maconoohis, that the length of a man's imprisonment should be made to depend to a cer tain extent on his own labours. Another question arose, namely, whether, taking into consideration the state of employment in this country, and the extreme difficulty of sending criminals abroad, it would not be practicable to provide continued employment for those who were willing to accept it on public works, er otherwise, after their discharge from gaol. It was, he thought, a reproach to the state of the law that a ticket: of-leave man should be compelled to come before a police magistrate, as had been the case recently, and say— " What am I to do I No one will give me employment." (Hear.) He would conclude by saying that, though they did not pretend to see their way out of all these difficul ties, the should at least warn the public against trying vain and fancied remedies. It was better to know that the problem remained unsolved, than to put trust in some imaginary solution, which was sure to break down at last. On a show of hands the amendment was adopted, and the meeting adjourned till that day week. ANOTHER BRITISH SUBJECT ARRESTED _ . IN PRUSSIA. We have to make an announcement to our readers of a most humiliating nature, and calculated to fill them with renewed indignation at the low estimate in which the Bri tish name and the rights of British citizenship are held at this moment by tho despots of Europe. Our readers will remember that, for some time past, a controversy has been carried on in the columns of this journal respecting the rights of those of our fellow-citizens who have acquired by naturalisation the rights of an Eng lish subject. Legally speaking, there can be no doubt whatever as to these rights. They are plainly en oug h de fined by a distinct law ; and, moreover, the certificates granted to all the naturalised subjects contain a clear spe cification of the privileges conferred upon them. The Act to Amend the Laws relating to Aliens contains the follow ing precise statement :—" And be it enacted that, upon obtaining the certificate and taking the oath hereinafter prescribed, every alien now residing in, or who shall here after come to reside in, any part of Great Britain or Ire land, with intent to settle therein, shall enjoy all the rights and capacities which a natural-born subject of the United Kingdom can enjoy or transmit, except that such alien shall not be capable of becoming one of her Ma. jesty's Privy Council, nor a member of either House of Parliament, nor of enjoying such other rights and capaci. ties, if any, as shall be specially excepted in and by the certificate to be granted in manner hereinafter mentioned." This is surely sufficiently plain ; and it is further con firmed by the formula of the certificate itself, which runs to the effect that the petitioner is admitted "to the full rights and capacities of a natural-born subject, except the capacity of becoming a member of the Privy Council, or a member of either House of Parliament." Strong in these stipulations of the law, our naturalised fellow-citizens hitherto have fondly believed that, except the two cases specially mentioned, they enjoyed equal pri vileges with ourselves. They thought they were entitled to all the rights of British subjects ; and they laid the flattering unction to their soul that, in case of any attacks on their personal freedom in stranger countries, they might rightfully claim the protection of the English authorities. This illusion has been sorely disturbed by a recent circular, emanating from the Home-office. A stereoytyped letter has been sent round, at the order of Sir George Grey, inti mating to every naturalised subject, that " no certificate or act of naturalisation places him beyond the lawful power and control of his country, unless he has received from the Government of such country a certificate of denationalisa tion, or been formally released from his original obligations as a subject or citizen in some other legal way." We need not say what consternation this circular—which is the most flagrant contradiction to English law—has created among the numerous naturalised British subjects in this country. A subsequent circumstance, however, has even added to the panic. A gentleman, duly possessed of a cer tificate of denationalisation, nevertheless received the Home-office letter, informing him that, in the event of his travelling out of England, he became divested of his qua lity of English citizen ! And when he demanded an ex planation from the proper quarter, he was favoured, as one of our correspondents informs us, with another com munication from the Secretary of State, "intimating that, in spite of his double certificate of naturalisatio n and de nationalisation, he is a Briti s h su bj e ct at home only, and not abroad 1" These suspicious circumstances made it apparent enough to us that something wrong must be lurking behind this official letter-writing. Having fresh in our memory the case of M. Tarr- kidnapped by the Austrian soldiery, and obtaining freedom only through the unceasing exertions of the English press —we considered it a duty to attempt lift ' jug the veil from the Home-oiUce correspondence, and to discover whether, perchance, it had connexion with some shameful event, similar to the illegal arrest of M. Turr. We grieve to say, from the investigations wo have made, that such appears unfortunately to be the case. Sir Gew Grey's circular seems to be nothing less than a clumsy attempt to decline all interference in the case of a natura lised British subject who was recently arrested iu Saxony, and handed over afterwards to the sbirris of the King of Prussia, and is suffering at this moment in a Prussian dun geon—awaiting trial before a court-martial, front which he will, perhaps, receive a sentence of death ! Our readers will be startled at this announcement. Un happily the details are such as to leave no doubt of the gravity of the case. We are informed that the British subject in question is M. Ziepel, formerly holding the office of Assistant-Judge, as well as that of Lieutenant of the Prussian landwehr at Halberstadt, but since 1819 a resident partly in this coun try, partly in one of our Australian colonies, and for years a naturalised English citizen. Dating the popular move. meets of 1849, when the Prince of Prussia and his despotic confederates were about to overthrow German liberty and to disperse the national Parliament at Frankfort, M. Ziepel— faithful to his duties as a free man, and faithful, too, to the then existing Constitution of his country—ap pears to have acted in conformity . with justice and law, and opposed the efforts of the absolutist conspiracy. When the cause of dynastic reaction proved victorious, he came to England, and acquired here, in due form, the right of British citizenship, and, with it, the claim to a full protection of his personal liberty abroad. After some years of residence in English Australia, he lately returned to England, with the intention of definitively settling here. Shortly after his arrival in London, however, he started on a visit to Saxony, there to em brace an aged mother and to bring over a bride to the land of his adoption. At Dresden he was recognised and arrested by the police, handed over to the authorities of the next Prussian frontier town, Halle, and from thence conducted as a prisoner to the Prussian fortress of Magdeburg. There he is still in chains ; and, as far as we are informed, accused of a heavy catalogue of so-called " crimes," which are to be judged by the tender mercies of a Prussian military tri bunal—M. Ziepel, on account of his former quality as a lieutenant of the landwehr, being " still considered as belonging to the Prussian army I" We shudder at the thought of what may be the issue to the unfortunate traveller of those military procedures. A few years ago that sanguinary sot, the King of Prussia, cause.' several privates of the landwehr, who had been mixed up with the movements of 1849, to be shot on his very birthday fete. Even should M. Ziepel escape with life, still—if the hand of Great Britain be denied to him —it is incalculable what sufferings may be imposed upon the luckless captive. In presence of a danger so imminent, we would awake our Government to a sense of the duty imposed upon it of securing without delay the release of our fellow-citizen. It is not now the time to inquire whether the latter has acted prudently in venturing so close to the Prussian frontiers as Saxony. The point at issue for us is alone that he has a right to expect to be saved by us from the fate which the ruthless persecutors have prepared for him. The case in his favour is clear and unmistakeable. A natural ised alien, who is " admitted to the fall rights and capaci ties of a natural-born subject," (right, legally, to be pro tected by Great Britain, even had he ventured to step into the very territory of Prussia herself. But M. Ziepel is far from having done so! He has merely ventured into Saxony, a kingdom the acutest inquisitors of which could not scout out any matter for accusation against him. Yet he was arrested by the Saxon police, and treacherously given up to the vengeance of Frederick William IV. It matters little to us that the Court of Dresden has a treaty •f extradition with that of B !Ain. That treaty may have power over subjects of Prussia and Saxony ; but it cannot be advanced as a right of violating the sacred character of a British subject. If naturalised Englishmen are hence forth forbidden to enter every country that has treaty of " extradition" with some other despot, the whole Conti nent of Europe would soon be shut against them. This assumption reduces their rights of citizenship to a perfect farce, inasmuch as it would be a very questionable benefit to purchase the privileges of a British citizen with such an onerous clause affixed thereon. We refrain to-day from further remarks. We content ourselves for the nonce with the statement of the facts, — hoping that the voice of popular indignation which was raised when M. Turr was in the fangs of the Austrian police, and which again made itself heard when Mr. Morris Moore had his personal liberty jeopardised by the Berlin police, will once more call aloud for the rescue of another of our fellow-citizens from the claws of the Prussian tyrant.—Morning Advertiser. THE REVSTRATION OF TRANSFERS. The following, document bas been recently addressed to the Stock Exchange by the South-Eastern Railway Company : " South-Eastern Railway, London Terminus, Secretary's Office, Jan. 1, 1657. "Dear Sir,—l have pleasure in replying to your in quiry, with reference to the practice adopted by the South-Eastern Railway Company as to the registration of transfers and the issue of certificates of stock and shares. "On the receipt of each transfer at this office, a notice is addressed to the trausferer of the stock, ad vising him that a transfer of stock (of the amount specified) has been lodged with me for immediate regis tration. " The transfers, with the particulars of the stock certificates received by post, are entered by me in a daily list, which is signed for by the transfer clerk, to whom the documents are then handed for examination. When the transfer clerk has ascertained that the siena• tures are properly attested, and the deeds are sufficiently stamped, he ackaowledkes receipt to the senders by return of post. "Those transfers and certificates which are received at the counter undergo a similar examination, and a receipt for them is handed to the party who presents them, which is required to be surrendered, in exchange for the new certificates issued in the name of the transferee. "Iu cases where stock certificates presented with the transfers are not exhausted by the issue of new certifi cates, and a balance remains to meet future transfers, a certificate to the effect that the coupons of such balance pf stock are at the office, is entered on the margin of the deed by which they are transferred, either by myself, or by Mr. Cox, the transfer clerk. "The registration of the transfers is proceeded with by the transfer clerk on the day following their receipt, as also the preparation of new certificates, which are en graved on paper bearing the company's watermark, and have printed across their face, in large figures, the amount of the stock cr share capital represented by each piece. A complete list of these is then prepared by the transfer clerk and handed to me, together with the regis tered transfers, the old certificates, and the new certifi cates prepared for re-issue. " These undergo a further examination, and before signing the new certificates I ascertain that old certifi cates for an equivalent amount of stock are presented, which, on signature of the new, are cancelled. The docu ments are then banded back to the transfer clerk, by whom the new certificates are then issued. A form or receipt is at the same time transmitted to the ageits or. stockbrokers, to be signed by them and returned to i,he company. " In the 'Abstract of Transfers' the following parti culars are carefully noted :—When and how the certifi cates of cancelled stock have been disposed of, to whom the new certificates of equal amount have been sent, with the numbers and dates of the respective receipts. The stock registers are posted up daily, and the postings are called over and verified periodically. " In the case of transfers of fixed 41 per cent. shares, a similar course is adopted, with the addition that, be fore the company's seal is affixed to the new certificates, the cancelled shares are laid before the directors for exa mination, after which they are sealed by order of the board, and are therefore issued. "The daily lists of transfers, and of certificates of new stock which have been issued between the intervals of the meetings of the board, are also laid upon the table at the regular fortnightly meetings. "The accuracy of the issue stock and shares in the company undergoes a further complete check at the ter mination of each half-yearly period. The dividend lists are made out in detail in the transfer-office from the stock and share registers. In those lists are set forth the names and addresses in full of each proprietor, the amount of stock and shares respectively held by them, the gross amount of dividend apportioned to each, the amount of income tax deducted, and, lastly, the netamount of each dividend warrant. The several columns, on being added up, must accurately correspond with the gross amount of dividend declared at the half-yearly meetings of the com pany, on the total stock and share capital issued, with the total amount of income tax deducted from the gross divi dend and payable to the Government, and with the net amount of dividend payable to proprietors. On this verifi cation being completed the dividend warrants are prepared and issued ; on which the lists are handed over to the ac countant, who checks the several payments as they are made and returned by the company's bankers—l am, dear " S. SMILES, S ecre t ary. sir, yours truly, " M. Slaughter, Esq., Secretary to the Railways Department, Stock Exchange." UNLOOKED•FOR COMPLIMENT.—On Friday night last, after addressing a meeting of the electors, Lieutenant- General Sir William Codrington proceeded to the Dock yard station of the North K en t R ai l way f or d eparture to London. While waiting here a seaman named Robert Gardner, son of sub-Lieutenant Gardner, of the Royal Sappers and Miners, advanced to the gallant General and presented him with a full dress sword, which be had taken from the house of the Russian Governor at Yalta during the occupation of that town by the British troops. General Codrington, who was taken by surprise at the circumstance, accepted the present with hearty thanks. TITLES OF ENGLISH KINGS.—The first "King s speech" ever delivered was by Henry I. in 1107. Exactly a century later, King John assumed the royal " We :" it had never before been employed in England. The same monaroh has the credit of having been the first English King who claimed for England the sovereignty of the seas. " Grace" and "my Liege" were the ordi nary titles by which our Henry IV. was addressed. " Excellent Grace" was given to Henry VL who was not the one nor yet had the other. Edward IV. was " Most High and Mighty Prince." Henry VII. w as the first English "Highness.:' Henry VIII. was the first complimented by the title of Majesty ; " an d James I. prefixed to the last title "Sacred andijdost Excellent."—Monarchs Ret i red from Bu6nell. IRELAI4I3. DUBLIN, MONDAY MORNING. LORD CARLISLE AND THE CORK CONSERVATIVES. The advice tendered by the Cork Protestant As sociation with respect to the selection of a successor to the late Dr. Wilson has elicited the following Viceregal reply : " Vice-regal-lodge, Jan. 8. " Sir,—l am directed by the Lord-Lieutenant to ac knowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday, and the memorial which you have transmitted to him. Rh Excellency is fully aware, of the solemn responsibility which devolves upon him upon the occasion of the lame❑ted vacancy in the diocese of Cork.—l am, sir, your very obedientservant, " FRED. HOWARD. " Mr. R. B. Tooker , the Mardyke, Cork." According to Saunders's News Letter of this morn ing it is believed in well-informed circles that the bishopric will fall to the lot either of the Ven. Archdeacon Fitzgerald, domestic chaplain to the Archbishop of Dublin, or to the Rev. John Gregg, minister of Trinity Church, Gardener-street. Dr. Fitzgerald is, or was, a supporter of the National system; Mr. Gregg, on the contrary, is, and always has been, its most strenuous opponent. The average income of the vacant see is but 2,0001. a year, but the ecclesiastical patronage is a fair set-off for the smallness of the revenue. LAW APPOINTMENT. Mr. Edward Griffin, son of the Lord Bi s hop of Limerick, has been appointed by the Attorney- General supernumerary Crown prosecutor for the county of Limerick in the room of Mr. De Moleyns, Q.C., promoted one of the permanent Crown prose cutors, vice Mr. M. Barry, appointed to an Aus tralian judgeship. REPRESENTATION OF CLARE. It is stated in one of the morning papers that Mr. Cornelius O'Brien means to retire from the representation of the county of Clare, and that the present Attorney-General, the member for Ennis, will be called upon to stand as a candidate. PROGRESS OF INTEMPERANCE. The admirable lessons partially practised by the disciples of the late Father Mathew are slowly but surely falling into disuse in Ireland. Several of the country journals are complaining recently of the vast spread of intemperance in their several dis tricts, and the consequent increase of crime of the second degree, such as robberies, assaults, &c. The local magistracy of the town of Tipperary are about petitioning for an extension of their powers to enable them to visit the crime of drunkenness with punishment as severe as that allowed under the provisions of the Towns' Improvement Act, a statute not in force in Tipperary : Number of spirit dealers in Tipperary lB6o. 185 6 5 1 . 1856 70 Number of p ersons convicted of drun . s4. ken ness .. .. Nm f ...... 0n .... 8 84 80 874 1, 101 021 Nu u nab be er r o returned to assizes of zes or sa r a l s uar u t l e t r s sessions 7O 13 28 17 Numbe r committed for murder at faction fights There are towns where the increase is even more marked than in Tipperary. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, (Gray's Inn Road).—The number of patients relieved at this Hospital, during the week ending 10th January, 1857, is 2,519, of which 707 Were new cases.' . A --r