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f CI- - e ~~ C z e e__ • == . 081 • at A P V "4 s p v i d t • Lmiar• Ark ' :41)` Wf' L 4I): o ' v•• 4 • 4 11,--k . - //64, 104 - ; 1.141 A ,•••** • •• • - ,NP. • '4ll „ :` , C - 14 %t e r . .:*7; 1 014 t\ A 11l Ni.', Vi" SI 'AU ER : lc-- 1-c . 3 e.T . , Af .ii-,,, :',• , ..1.,'.. i-iro-',4 PAST INDIA HOUSE, 29TH Ocroaaa, 1856. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INt)IA CONE PAN )t do hereby give Notice, that the Transfer Books of the said Company's Stock will be shut on '1 Ut SDAY, the 9th of l'ecember next, at Three o'clock, and opened again on TUES DAY, the 13th January, 1857 That the Warrants for the Dividends on the said Stock, payable on Tuesday, the 6th January, 1857, under the 11th section of the Act 3d and 4th Wm. IV., cap. 85, will be ready to be delivered on that day. JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. LOND )N, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY h, (N(. 20,1390 11 R.t. oit 4). Zi TAMPED OUDE RAILWAY COMPANY.- No Application for Shares will be received after four o'clock on Tuesday, January 6th, ! 857. By order of the Board. CHAR I .ES TWIGG, Secretary. No. 8, Moorgate-street, January 3d, 1857. NOTICE OF DIVIDEND. BANK OF DEPOSIT, No. 3, PALL MALL EAST,_LONDON. hstabli.hed A.D. 1844. The Warrants for the Half-yearly Interest, at the rate of 5 per Cent. per annum, on Deposit Accounts, to 31st December, will be ready for delivery on and after January the 10th, 1857, and payable daily, PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. Parties desirous of INVESTING MONEY are requested to axaznine the plan of the Bank of Deposit. Prospectuses and Forms for Opening Accounts sent free on appli cation. L AW LIF'E ASSURANCE SOCIETY, Fleet-street, Ist January, 1857. Notice is Hereby Given, that a GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors of the Law Life A ssurance Society will be held at the Society's Office, Fleet street, London, on NI ONDAY, the 2d day of February next, at 12 o'clock at noon precisely, pursuant to the provi do= of the Society's Deed of Settlement, for the purpose of receiv ing the Auditors' Annual Report of the Accounts of the Society up to the 31st December last; to elect a Trustee in the room of the late Bight lion. Sir John Jervis, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of com mon Pleas, deceased ; and for general purposes. By order of the Directors. WILLIAM SAMUEL DOWNES, Actuary. METROPOLITAN COUNTIES and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 27, Regent street, Waterloo-place, London. Capital, 100,000/. TRUSTEES. Xt. lin. Spencer H. Walpole,M.P. I Richard Spooner, Esq., M P. Henry Peter Fuller, Esq. I E. Vansittart Neale, Esq. Life Assurance business transacted in all its branches. N.B. The bonus declared at thn last divlsioa of profits averaged 33 per cent, on all the premiums paid. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager. THE PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION and BENEVOLENT FUND. Established 1840. JrausTar..s. Thomu Baring, Esq., M.P. I W. G. Prescott, Esq. Thomas TiaoheY, EN, M.P. Baron L. de Rothschild. M.P. TIZAIIIIZZA OF THE BENEVOLENT RIND—John Abel Smith, Esq., M.P. LIFE ASSURANCE DEPARTMENT. 16, Moogate street, London. December 23, 1856. Notice is hereby given, that the SIXTEENTH ANNUAL GENE RAL MEETING of the Members of the MUTUAL LIFE AS4U RANCE DEPARTMENT 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:Richard Henry Jones Mr. Richard Price I Mr. WillianJeremlah Jordan. Mr. William Stanhope Sawtell By order of the Board. WILLIAM THOMAS LINFORD, Secretary. BENEVOLENT DEPARTMENT. Notice is hereby given, that the SIXTEENTH ANNUAL GENE NAL MEETING of the MEMBERS and FRIENDS of the BENE VOLENT DEPARTMENT, will be held at the London Tavern, Bishopegate-street, in the city of London, on WEDNESDAY, February 11, 1857, at Six o'clock in the Evening precisely. JOHN ABEL SMITH, Esq., M.P., Treasurer, in the Chair. By order of the Board, WILMA NI TWO kt AS LINFORD, Secretary. The annual accounts of both departments may be inspected at the office one week prior to the general meeting. UNION ASSURANCE SOCIETY (FIRE, LIFE, and ANNUITI. S). A.D. 1714. Cornhill, and 70, Baker-street, London. College•green, Dublin.—Gronengen• street, Hamburg. Exchange-street West, and Tithebarn-street, Liverpool. North Nelson-street, 1 , dlnburgh. Instituted In the reign of Queen Anne, AD 1714, with large Invested Fun's. DIRECTORS &C. CHAntsfAx--JOHN RE ‘i INGTON MILLS, Esq. DEPUTY-CuAntmArt—HENRY ALDWIN SOAMES, Esq. James Bentley, Esq. John Paynter, Esq. Thomas Bodley, Esq. John Rogers, Esq. Daniel Britten, Esq. Henry Rutt, Esq. Nicholas Charrlngton, Esq. George Spencer Smith, Esq. B. 1 reston Child, Esq. Rlchd . Horsman Solly, 5 sq. William Gilpin. Esq. W. Foster White, i• sq. Thomas ewis, Esq. Samuel Wilson, Esq., A l / 4 1. Thomas Mills, Esq., Biz% Stephen Wilson, Esq. John Morley, Esq. LIFE. Reduced rates for young and middle ages, with guarantee of a Company In existence upwards of 140 years, and a large accumulated capital. The last Bonus (1855) gave additions to policies varying from 25 to 70 per cent. on the previous seven years' premiums. Lower rates, without profits. Two-thirds only of the premiums may be paid until death. Decreasing and increasing rates of premium, and half-yearly or quarterly. Medical fees allowed. FIRE. Insurances at the usual rates, and profits returned on policies taken out for seven years by p• ()rapt paymeut. Loses occasioned by ex plosion of gal made good. The offices close on Saturdays at two o'clock, excepting in the fifteen days after each quarter-day. Insurances now expiring must be paid on or before the 9th Janu ary, at the office in London, or of the respective agents. WILLI A.M. B. LEWIS, Secretary. A.D. 1720. R OYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION, (Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First), For SEA, FIRE, LIFE, and ANNUITIES. OFFICES--ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. BRANCH OFFICE-29, PALL-MALL. Octavius Wigram, Esq., Governor. George Peiutes Barcla, Esq. Sub-Governor. Sir John William Lubbock , Bart., , Deputy-Governor. DIZZCTORS. Hon. John T. Leslie Melville. Henry Nelson, Esq. Edward Howley Palmer, Esq. Sir John Henry Pally, Bart. Alexander P. Prevost, Esq. Abraham George Roberts, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq. William Soltan, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq. Thomas Tooke, Esq. William Wallace, Esq. Charles Baring Young, Esq. Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Edmond S. P. Calvert, Esq, John Garrett flattley, Esq. Edward Maxwell Daniel, Esq. William Davidson, Esq. Alexander Drnee, Esq. Riveradale Wm. Grenfell, Esq. Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq. William Tetlow Hibbert, Esq. James Stewart Hodgson, Esq. Lancelot Holland, Esq. Charles John Manning, Esq. MEDICAL REFEREE—SamueI Solly, TICE,—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of FIRE PREMIUMS falling due at Christmas will expire on the 9th January. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this Cor poration on advantageous terms. In the Life Department, assurances are granted with participation in profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such participation. The Reversionary Bonus on British Policies has averaged nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured, or 48 per cent upon the Premlinus paid. Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums payable by those persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The future division of Profit will take place every Vir 3 years. Any sem not exceeding 15,0001. may be insured on no life. This Corporation affords to the Assured Liberal Participation in Profits—with exemption from the liabilities of partnership. A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual Socie ties—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital Stock. The advantages of modern practice—with the security of an Office whose resources have been tested by the experience of nearly a Century and a-half. Royal Exchange, London. JOHN A. MOHAN% Actuary and Secretary. GUARDIAN FI ASSURANCE No. 11, Lombard , DIREC FRANCIS HART DYKE, HENRY HULSE RERUN! John Dixon, Esq. Sir W. M. T. Farquhar, Bart. Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Brt. Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. John Harvey, Esq. John G. Hubbard, Esq. John Labouchere, Esq. John Loch, Esq. Stewart Marjoribanks, Esq. A ETD l' LRE AND LIFE i: COMPANY, l-street, London. I . TORS. , Esq., Chairman. "S, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. John Martin, Esq., M.P. Rowland Mitchell, Esq. James Morris, Esq. Henry Norman, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, Esq. John Thornton, Esq. James Tulloch, Esq. Henry Vigne, Esq. A. W. Robarts, Esq. TORS. ' Lewis Lloyd, Jun., E s Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. Q• f John Henry Smith, Esq. George Keys, Esq., Secretary. Samuel Brown, Esq., Actuary. LIFE DEP ARTMENT.—Under the provisions of an Act of Par moment, this Company now offers to future insurers Four-flfths of the Profits, with Quinquennial Division, or a Low Rate of Premium without participation of Profits. The next division of Profits will be declared in June, 1860, when all participating Policies which shall have subsisted at least one year at Christmas, 1859, will be allowed to share in the Profits. At the five reversionary Bonuses divisions of Profits made by this C ompany, the total added to the Policies have exceede 913,00/. At Christmas, 1854, the Assurances in force amounted d to upwar o ds of 4,240,0001. ; the Income from the Life Branch in 1854 was more than 200,000/. ; and the Life Assurance Fund (independent o the Guarantee Capital) exceeded 1,700,0001. FOREIGN RISKS.—The Extra Premiums required for the East and United Stan We Indies, the British olonies, and t he northern parts the States of America, have been materiall INVALID LIVES.--Persons wh o are not ins uch reduced. sound health as would enable them to insure their Lives at the Tabular Premiums, May have their Lives insured at Extra Premiums. LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their values, pro 'Tided such Policies shall have been effected a sufficient time to have attained in each case a value not under 501. ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES. —Written Notices of, received SW registered. MEDICAL FEES paid by the Company, and no charge will be made for Policy Stamps. Notice is hereby given, That Fire Policies which expire at Christ- Inas mast be renewed within fifteen days at this office, or with Mr. Sams, No. 1, St. James's•street, corner of Pall-m. 41; or with the Company's agents throughout the kingdom, otherwise they become void. Losses caused by Explosion of Gas are admitted by this Company A NEW AND IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE. Patent Office Se a l of Great Britain. Diplome d'Ecole de Pharmacie P harmacien de Paris. I mper i a l C o ll ege o f Medicine, Vienna. TRI ESEMAR No. 1,2, a n d 3 , prepare d i n th e f o rm of pocket. of a lozenge, devoid of taste o r smell, and can be carried in the waist by Sold in tin cases, divided into separate administereddoses, as Valpeau, Lallernand, Roux, Ricord, &c., &c. TRIESEMA R N o. 1 i s a Remedy f or RE LAXATION, SPERMATORRIBEA, and all the distressing conse quences arising fro m ear l y abuse, indiscriminate excesses, or to l ong residenc e i n hot climates. It has restored bodily and sexual stren gth and vig our to thousands of debilitated individuals who are , n o' , In the enj oyment of health and the Functions of Manhood; and Whatever may be the cause for DISQUALIFICATIONS for MAR , AIA QE, they are effectually subdued by this Wonderful Discovery. RIESEMAR No. 11., effect ually, in th e short space of three days, completely and entirely feaates all traces of Gonorrhoea, both in its mild and aggravated trine' (poets, Strictures, Irritation of the Bladder, Non-retention of Co _, v , . alas of the Loins and Kidneys, and those disorders which 'iur °f th e Cubebs have so long been thought an antidote for, to the ' health of a vast portion of the population. 13 the gr eat TRIESEMAR No 111. Continental Remedy for Syphilis ' and Secondary Symp toms. It also constitutes a certain cure for Scurvy, Scrotula, and all Cutaneous Eruptions, r emoving and expelling in its course all corruP tlons and Imp omies t the virus of di se rorn the vital stream, as altogether to eradicate through the m e tt e 2_ and expel it with the insensible perspiration the pores of the skin and urine, and is a never-failing rem e r y fo r the English Physician trre that class of disorders which unfortunately o nset 4stiwith Mercury, to the inevitable destruc tion of the. patient's _ ttlieln. and which all the sarsaparilla in the World cannot restore. ' I Is., or four cases in one for 335„ which saves lls, and in 5 ,. P as T o be had wholesale and retail's; Whereby there is a saving 140, Leadenhall-street ; Front, Sanger, 150, Oxford -street • f 1/.125. __U London, of Derby and Gordon, z' 29 , Strand; Hannay and C0.,C0 63, Ox- Paul's ford-street ; Butler and 4 B , ar ch c e la a y ps a id n ,, d ; S E on th, , .92 rd , s, Fa s tt- . ringdon-street ; Paul's Churchyard. .....„...... price Is,, post free, bcautifully illustrated with 100 engravings, HUMAN FRAILTY ; a I) opu l ar M e d ica l work, peau, Lallernand, Rolm, Ricord, and containing the opinions of Val Ste. It gives copious instructions for the early ab use, gonorrh oea , perfec t restorati on o f those who are prevented by i m p e di ments from entering iuto the married 41 state, also sho w i ng th e d rea df u l results fro and syphilis, and th e b ene fit s arising fromthe chemical tests and Piper and Co., 2 examination of the spermatoza , by the author's 11 a . ..1 .."....' 1 Y-constructed microscope, With powerful lenses,,—Pl 2- Paternoster- OW i gla from all agents for the sale of "Trleaenutr.., PUBLICATIONS. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vo's. , 0 is A G R E Y. By the Author of " Anne Dysart," &c. " (le of the most charming books of the season, and worthy of the author's former w Tlts."—John Bull. " The characters are well delineated, the story is lucidly told, and the conversations are spirited and impres , ei with the ind,viduality of the speakers. Altogether the work is a success."—Daily News. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn. SALE OF OLD STORES' AT PORTSMOUTH. ADMIRALTY, SOMERSET-PLACE, 3d January, 1857. THE Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain ,nd Ireland, do Hereby Give Notice, that on WEDNE'zDAY. th' 21st instant, at 12 o'clock at noon, the Admiral Superintendent will put up to sale, in her Majesty's Deck Yard at Portsmouth, several Lots of OL STORES colsisting of old Canvass, Hammocks, mmocks,Hessen and Buntin in Rags, old Leather and Broken Files; Rope (cablelaid and hawserlaid), Rope Rubbish, Coal Bags, Ocham, Hemp Rakings and Rubbish, Lignum Vitm, &c., &c., all ly;ng in the said YE.rd. Persons wishing to view the Lots must apply to the guperintendent or notes of admission for that purpose. Catalogues and Conditions of Sale may be had here and at the Tard. IN the matter of the Joint-stock Companies Winding-up Acts, 1848 and 1849, and of the 1 rotestant Life and Fire Insurance Association. By direction of the Vice-Chancellor Sir licchard TorM Kindersley, the Judge of the High Court of Chancery to whose Court this matter is attached, and by whose order the winding-up of the above-named association is proceeding, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That His Honour purposes, on MONDAY, the nineteenth day of Jaruary, 1857, at Twelve o'clock at noon, at his chambers, No. 3. Stone buildings, Lincoln's-inn, Middle s ex, to proceed to make a Call upon all the Contributories of the said Association, and the said Judge purposes that such call shall be for pour - Tcanids..,Tera 81111- Huge par share. . • • All part's', Interested are entitled to attend at such day, hour. and place, to offer objections to such call. Dated this 2d day of January, 1857. CHAS. PUGH, Chief Clerk. WILLIAM KINSEY, Solicitor for Alfred Alnger, the Official Manag I*, 9, Bloomsbury-place. MR. W. S. WOODIN'S OLIO of ODDITIES, with New Costumes and v irlous Novelties, Tocal and Ch 1. racteristic, every evening (except , aturday) at Eight ANI OR ST ING PER FOR 1,1 ANC E every SA. r URD AY. at Three. Private Boxes and Stalls may be secured, without extra charge, at the Box-office, P v Iranhic-h K inz William-street, Charing-cross. The hall has been entirely redecorated. PRINCESS'S CONCERT and BALL-ROOMS, Castle-street, Oxford-street under then anagement of Mr. FRA MPTON, late of the York-road, Lambeth. Mr. F. intends giving a series of Rails every T HMISDAY Evening, commencing on Thurs day next, Jan. Bth. Lady's Ticker, 2s. 6d ; Gentleman's, 3s 6d. Dancing to commence at 10 o'clock. A new Cafe will be opened for refreshments. RGYLI, ROOMS.-LA (TRENT'S CASINO, Great Windmill-street, St. James's.—The above elegan looms are now open every evening for the winter season, with aurent's celebrated Orchestra. Principal Cornet-a-Piston, M. oulcourt. The Proprietor begs to inform the public that Ors fashion Able place ot resort ha. been entirely redecorated during the recess. Doors open at half-past eight, commence at nine. • Admis •on • ine aAR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 4, Coventry-street, Leicester-square.—Open (for Gentlemen nIY) from 10 till 10, containing upwards of one thousand models .nd preparations, illustrating every part of the human frame in ealth and disease, the race of men, &c. Lectures delivered at 12, ', 4, and half-past 7, by Dr. G. SEXTON, F.R.G.S. ; and a new end oghly-interesting series of Lectures is now in course of delivery y Dr. KAntr, at a quarter past 8 p.m. nrecisely. Admission. One Catalogues containing Lectures as delivered by Dr. Khan (gratis). GORDON CUMMING, the LION HUNTER, will be AT HOME in his Encampment, surrounded by the spoils and trophies of his achievements, and give his popular ENTER TAINMENT, describing his ADVENTURES in the Interior of SOUTH AFRICA, every evening throughout the week, at R o'clock. A SPECIAL AFTERNOON PERFORMANCE cn SATURDAY, at Three o'clock. Several important ad itions and embellishments have been made to the Hunter's Museum, and three new views—illustra tive of 0-trich Hunting in the Karoo, the Death of the Giraffe. and Vultures on their Prey in the Desert—painted by Samuel Hodson, added to the series of Dioramic Scenes. The Lion Hunter's native Bushmen will appear incidental to the Entertaiinment. Piano by Mr. Harries Wilson. Admission, Is. ; area, 25.; stalls (which may be taken daily between eleven and four), 35.-232, INVESTMENTS in BRITISH MINES.—FuII particulars of the most important Dividend and Progressive Mines will be found in the Fourth Edition of BRITISH MINES CONSIDERED AS AN INVESTMENT, recently published by J. 11. MURCHISON, Esq., F.G.S., F.S.S., price 3s. 6d.; by post 4s. Mr. MURCHISON also publishes a QUARTERLY REVIEW of BRITISH MINING, giving the position and prospects of the Mines at the end of each quarter, the dividends paid, &c. The Review for the quarter ending 30th Sept. last contains a Map of the Bassett district, price Is. "The book will be found extremely valuable."—Observer. " A valuable little book."—Globe. " A valuable guide to investors."—Herapath. "A useful little volume."—Morning Herald. " Of great value to capitalists."—Sunderland Times. " Parties requiring information on mining investments will find no better and safer instructor than Mr Murchison."—Leeds Times. " One of the most valuable mining publications which has come under our notice, and contains more information than any other on the subject of which it treats."— Derby Telegraph. " To those who wish to invest capital in British Mines, this work is of the first importance."—Welshman. " This work enables the capitalist to invest on sound principles ; it is, in truth, an excellent guide "—Plymouth Journal. Copies of the above publications can be obtained at Mr. Murchison's offices, 117, Rishopsgate-street Within, London ; and reliabb- infor mation and advice will be given at any time to those who may re quire it. CANCER HOSPITAL, London and West Brompton.—Secretary's, Office, 167. Piccadilly.—This Institu ,ion has been eqablished excluiively for the treatment of the poor smicted with cancerous diseases. Out-door patients to attend at 167, Piccadilly, on Twsdays, at 2 o'clock. In-door patients are admitted at the Brompton Estalishment, for one month. and for a longer period if recommended by the edical officers. The number of per ,ons under treatment as in or out-door patients have averaged for the last three years about 400 cases each ear. Since the inundation of this Hospital in 1651, 1,799 poor persons, suffering under every , orm of this dr , adful malady, have received the benefits of this Charity. A Weekly Board manage its affairs, and every informa tion connected with the InstituVon may be obtained on application to the Secretary. Contributions to ena;ile the Committee to continue this reat work of benevolence are urgently solicited, and may be paid to William Loxham Farrar, E , q., the Treasurer. 66, Lincoln's inn -fields; Messrs. Cou'as and Co., Strand; and at the Secretary's Offices, 167, Piccadilly. By order. W. J. COCKERILL, Secretary. 1 ? OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. gl.; Patron—The QUEEN.—Founded 1828. The sick poor are admitted on their own application alone; no re commendation is required. During. the past month the following number received the benefits of this Charity, either as out or in-door patients, on their personal ,pplication:— Week ending 7th November 2.154 Ditto 14th November.. •• • • 2,043 Ditto 21st November.... • • 1,972 Ditto 28th November.. .• 29th and 30th November. 269 in N .... • • 8, of wh:ch 2,775 were new cases, ov the ember remainder (5ti11 747 under treat ment) having been admitted previously. The clergy of all denominations have unlimited access to the patients. ifeavy expenses are inevitably incurred in affording such exten sive relief. The Committee, therefore, earnestly entreat the aid of .he public. The management of the Hospital is in the hands of 30 Governors, yearly elected from the general list of subscribers, at the Annual General Meeting in January, A Board is held every Thursday, at o'clock (Rev. J. 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 explanation. The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on volun tary contributions and legacies, which are received by the freastu er, John Masterman, Esq., M.P., Nicholas-l ane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ;„ Berries and Co.; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Denison and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Ber 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. THE INCOME TAX AGITATION. On Saturday a meeting of the vestry of St. Marvle bone was held at the Court-house ; J. A. Nichelab Esq., churchwarden, in the chair. Mr. TAVERNER, in a short speech, moved the following resolution :—" That the vestry petition parliament, and adopt such other measures as they may consider neces ary for the repeal of the acts of parliament which increased the property and income tax from 7d. to Is. 4.i. i❑ the pound, and for obtaining a more equitable assess• ment of the tax upon tradesmen and professions, or a total repeal of the same, and to appoint a committee to co-operate with other metropolitan parishes, for the purpose of obtaining the object in view." Mr. SIMCOCS seconded the resolution. Mr. BRIDGMAN objected to the vestry being made an arena for the discussion of political subjects, as they had been elected to carry out mere parochial and local matters. Mr. W. WILLIAMS, M.P., said he did not so much object to the property tax, but he considered the tax on income a most shameful proceeding. Whilst be was in favour of the vestry aiding the movement for getting rid of the income tax, he would at the sams time urge them, as he had recently done a large public meeting of his own constituents, not to be content with the mere repeal of the-e taxes, but also to keep a watch ful eye over the Government expenditure, and insist on the same economy being now renewer! which had begun to exist shortly before the late war broke out. (Hear, hear.) If this were done, in a short time they might expect a reduction of taxation. Mr. JACOB BELL said that the income tax was of that most unjust and oppressive character that it was utterly impossible that it could find any defenders. 116 noped that the people of Mtryleboite - wOuld be fully alive to the subject, and that when the public meeting was held the demonstration would be an unmistakeable one. The resolution, on being put, was carried unanimously. Mr. TAVERNER then moved that the following gentle. men be appointed as the committee to co-operate with other metropolitan parishes, and to draw up a petition to Parliament, and present the same for approval at the next vestry, viz., Mr. Jacob Bell, Mr. Taverner, Mr. Soden, Dr. Russell, Mr. D'lffanger, jun., Mr Gliddon, Mr. Freeth, Mr. Head, Mr. Suncock, and Mr. Wing field. The resoulution was carried. A meeting was held on Friday at the Corn Exchange, Stowinarket, Suffolk, to protest against the present income tax. The Rev. C. Hill presided, and stated that Mr. H. S. Waddington, M.P. fur West Suffolk, who was unable to be present, had offered to present any petition which the meeting might adopt. Resolutions aitainst the tax were agreed to, and also a petition to Parliament. Capt. Bennett. the other M.P. for %Vest Suffolk, expressed his read , nes4 to support the petition, and stated tint, from what had fallen from Admiral Berkeley, at Gloucester, he did not believe the Go. vernment intended to continue the present tax. At,a public meeting of the inhabitants of Abingdon, held in the Shire Hall, which was attended by the Mayor (in the chair) and a large number of direct tax payers, the following resolution relative to the income tax was carried unanimously. The resolution, which was proposed by Mr. Stacey and seconded by Mr. Dickey, is as follows : " That the present enormous charge of sixteenpence in the pound on incomes and pro perty is, from the mode of assessntent, most oppressive and unjust, and as the understanding at the time of pass ing the acts of Parliament by which the tax was increased was, that they were to continue one year after the ter mination of the war, and no longer, the meeting is of opinion that those acts of Parliament ougbt to be repealed from and after the sth day of April next." Mr. J. Kent proposed, "That the meeting adopt a petition against the tax to the House of Commons, and that Major Reed be requested to present and support the same." This resolution was carried. SOUTHAMPTON ELECTION. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY. The angry spirit in which the election contest has been carried on here is beginning to display itself in acts of personal violence. On Saturday the magistrates were engaged in adjudicating a case between two officials of the corporation, one of them of high rank. Both had quarrelled so violently in the public street about the elec tion that one sought to bind the other to keep the peace. The justice room was crowded with political partisans, who made the place an election arerth. Mr. Falvey, tie stamp distributor, is still suspended from exercising his functions. The Beard of Inland Revenue are acting under an Act of Parliament, which prohibits its officers from persuading any one to give, or dissuading any one from giving, his vote at an election in word, message, or writing. The penalty for so doing is 1001. and disquali fication from serving her Majesty. In 1852 and in 1853 Mr. Falvey was solicited by Sir Alexander Cockburn to speak in his behalf just previous to the elections in three years, and he was solicited also a short time since by Mr. Edwin, James, the barrister, to speak in his favour. But those eminent lawyers were of opinion that a person in the civil service could speak at such times, because the constitution recognised no election going on until a writ was issued, nor were there any candidates or voters known in law before tilt re was a vacancy in Parliament. As soon as a writ was issued and a nomination took place, then employes in the civil service were muzzled, and soldiers were confined to their barracks. The men who professed to be candidates before an election were regarded simply as persons bidding for popular applause. Mr. Falvey, as a per- onal friend of Mr. Andrews, has been chiefly engaged in defending the personal honour and consist ency of that gentleman, which have been assailed by his former political friends in the warfare consequent on the disruption of the Liberal party. Mr. Weguelin, who throughout the contest has acted in the most kind and courteous manner to all parties, is much mortified that Mr. Falvey bas incurred the displeasure of the board whose servant he was. Mr. Andrews professes to be not at all dismayed at the unfavourable opinion of his Parliamentary qualifica tion entertained by Lord Palmerston. He says that, when he ceased to be a journeyman, a similar opinion of his capabilities for a master coachbuilder was expressed by his brother tradesmen ; and he says also that he is rather glad than otherwise that his lordship has sided with Mr. Weguelin, because he shall now have the honour of beating the Pre mier and the Governor of the Bank of England. He is throwing his whole energy into the contest, canvassing by day and addressing the electors at night. He has scarcely an organised committee, and has no recognised legal adviser. The workmen canvass one another for I him at meal times and after they leave work. The state of the constituency is such that it is impossible to say who is likely to ge: in at present. The writ, it is expected, will be issued the 4th of next month. On Monday next there is to be a meeting of the friends of Mr. Andrews, when the name of the person who in formed against Mr. Falvey to the Board of Inland Re venue is to be proclaimed. The whole town is on the tiptoe for this revelation. Twenty years ago a South ampton Custom-house official voted for a member of Parliament, and was dismissed, but he and his family were provided for by the political party whose cause he served. All persons will rejoice when the election is over. The injury it has caused is incalculable. Friend ships have been destroyed, and business has been neglected. The contest, when concluded, will have lasted upwards of three months. Mr. James was driven [row the town solely from theimpossibilityof devoting the time to canvassing, and Mr. \Veguehn is put to the grtatet,t inconvenience from having to be so much in BJutharnpton. CORN MEASURES-IMPORTANT MEET. ING AT GLOUCtSTER. GLOUCESTER, SATURDAY. One of the largest meetings of farmers, millers, land lords, and corn merchants, that has been held here for a long time, took place, at the Beli Hotel, this day, the object being to establish an uniform system of buying and selling corn, the want of which is a great inconveni ence to the corn trade throughout the country. The chair was taken by J. C. Hayward, Esq., chairman of the County Quarter Sessions, and a practical agricul turists. Mr. HAYWARD, in opening the proceedings, stated that much inconvenience bad been experienced by the want of au uniform system of sale of corn by weight ; and it was thought that AS the new Gloucester Corn Ex change was opened that day, it was a fit opportunity to come to some resolution on the subject. A body of millers bad previously met, and came to the resolution to buy by weight 62Ihs. per bushel. This was the rate at which corn was sold in Birmingham, Liverpool, Here ford, and numerous other market 3, but the weight varied all over the country ; and in Gloucester English wheat was sold generally by the 601b5., and foreign per 62Ibs. He thought on inquiry that the weight of the Glouces tershire•grown wheat generally averaged 601bs. per bushel, and that would be well to adopt that as the standard weight in the Gloucester market. A discuston followed, several of the corn merchants and millers opposing a motion for establishing 60Ibs. as the weight, and advocating 62 be. as far more convenient to them as sellers and importers, while it was contended that it would not affect the farmers, as, from a letter read to the meeting by Mr. Long from Mr. Millick, it appeared that when wheat was soul at 62lbs„ or 70lbs. to the bushel, it was reduced to bushels at 601b5., for the purpose of the averages. Mr. SHARP stated the variations in the custom at dif ferent market towns throughout the country, and ha had ibbsi.aswionuf urldayboemoof eit stc h o e n r y m en il i l e e n r or tto fa h r i t m ne . r, b H u e t that the no o at all parties were unanimous in preferring weight to measure. reTresolution adopting 601bs. as the standard weight was ultimately agreed to. We are informed that a company is in the course of formation for the employment of 40 fore and aft schooners for the Atlantic whale fishery. Two-thirde of the capital is already promised. THE DEPARTED YEAR. (Prom the Examiner.) Expired, precisely at midnight, on the night of last Wednesday, at the advanced and extraordinary age of 366 days, the proligate old year 1856. We want the pen that wrote the epitaph on Colonel Mathes to do justice to the memory of one of the most unprincipled years the •'isequies of which we ever assisted in cele brating. He was an annul mirabilis of commercial immorality, and, for confounding right and wrong and ?muns and tuunt, had as good a claim to the title of the " Year of Confusion" as his ancestor 46 8.C., whose irregularities were rather Cmiar'd than his o sn, and were atoned for by the reform they introduced into the talon• dar. If 1856 bad any religion, it was the religion of the dirtiest of divinities, who never before counted such a host of enthusiastic rogues in his service. Tne year was "littered under Mercury," like Autolycus ; but the Autolyci who distinguished themselves were ambitious knaves, far above " the snapping up of unconsidered trifles." They snapped up fortunes as common pick poch ets snap up handkerchiefs, planned their robberies over champagne, and executed them in curricles and tandems. Such was the astonishing Badleir ; such the dashing Robson and refined Redpath ; such was Sir Dean Paul, whose house of business was both " house of prayer and den of thieves ;" such was the Gordons and Cummings ; such the worshipful company of the Royal British Bank--giants of fraud, titanic swindlers, men with maws for widows' houses, and who devoured the portions of orphans like ogres in pantomimes. It is difficUlt to find a week among the last 152 not infamously- distinguished by - sane _bugs commercial -de falcation, some . Aaring embezzlement, some bankruptcy, some atrocious breach of trust, some huge shape or or another of avarice and rapacity—senators, bankers, doctors, clerks, servants, alternately figuring in the drama of crime, occasionally diversfled with an appall. ing suicide on Mampstead-heath, or a frightful deed of blood like that still mocking justice in Dublin. As a politician the past yesr resembled the noble lord at the head of the Government, in being more framed for its foreign than its domestic politics. The year 1856 was too busy abroad to find time for doing much that was useful or creditable at home. The deceased, in truth, was an old hypocrite, and made his warlike operations and d , ploinatic manoeuvres a pretext for not doing what he wanted the honest disposition to do. The war and peace served his turn equally well. Sword in hand how could he take up the business of legislation ? And when he dropped the sword for the olive-branch he found an ex cuse-in the latter also for doing nothing—the dothestic employment that he loved. In short, as a Parliamentary character, he bore a striking likeness to wore members of the hon. house than we care to name—he was a mighty talker and a small doer. This character was by none supported better than by the Metropolitan Board of Works, which entered into it with spirit. To talk being the special gift of the board, the Government judiciously left them nothing else to do, appointing a commission to drain the metropolis, while the board will continue to discuss the question. Turning to another department, the Horse Guards, we have only to censure it for being out of the fashion of the day. The Duke of Caiubridge did something, and did it energetically and well. His Royal Highness put down practical joking in the only practical way, and introduced improvements into the system of staff ap pointments, most valuable in themselves, and to be received as pledges of further reforms in our long neg lected and misruled army. The military humbug of the year was the Chelsea Commission ; its history belongs to the chapter of the year's bubbles, including the board we have just men tioned, the ticket-of-leave system, the Russian Rail way Company, Sir Charles Napier's fame as an admiral, and Mr. Disraeli's character as a. Otatesman. Abroad the year wag not idle; but it achieved nothing very dazzling. We finished an ill-managed war in a hurry, and we patched up an unintelligible peace with the greatest deliberation ; the year involved us in a variety of diplomatic embarrassments from which it did not live to extricate us ; the present Conferences are the old bungler's bequest to 1857, and whether they may not prove a damnosa h,ereditas it will take a new year to disclose. Then he made us a little ridiculous, it can not be denied, in Italy, withdrawing our ambassador from Naples, for what reason it is impossible to say, unless it was because the Americans dismissed our Charge d'Affaires from Washington. The old ytar was very much what the Romans called an ardelio, or mis chievous busybody ; and if he claimed the merit of de livering us from a great war he left us a pair of ugly little ones in its place, one in Persia about a lady (the eldest cause of rupture between Europe and Asia), and the other in China for a point of etiquette, our admiral insisting on paying Governor Yeh a visit, and blowing down the walls of Canton to force a passage to his Excel lency's drawing-room. It was one of the eccentricttiee of the subject of this obituary record that he was much more polite to his enemies than his friends; he was all cour tesy and tenderness to Russia, but he buffeted the Chinese con amore, doing his celestial allies more daraitge w ith his artillery in a single, day th em Sir Charles Napier, "with his magnificent Baltic fleet, did to the Czar in a whole campaign. _ in O4thhepciaocnetsinween,teiihoer thepro proceedings of part t f n t o he m p o a r s e t t l o 2 b months in high places weie for the most part no more to be corn- Powers behaved e our domestic ry badly; between their Royal misdemeanours and those of vulgar there w as even some the e h l e ikeness and ignoble criminals. The designs of Prussia against Switzerland bore a strong resemblance to the offence of robbery with violence. Her conduct with respect to Neu chatel was just as if a highwayman were to commence operations by picking a quarrel with a traveller, to have a pretext for knocking him down, and effecting his other purposes. France seemed for a m oment inclined to aid and abet Prussia, but France did nothing so ill during the last 12 months as the attack she made on the English press, which was like a case of garotting , t o strangle freedom of discussion here as it has lo n g since been strangled in Paris. We must say, however, of the French Emperor personally that he was the only m art in Europe who, in 1856, behaved too well, having incurred a public rem onstrat, ce or scolding from one of his o wn Ministers for carrying his princely virtues to a vicious exce ss. The mis deeds of Russia have been more in the line of swindling. or something between that crime and the less dignified one of petty larceny. However, the hue and cry was raised in time ; and, though she has not been sent to her own Siberia, as she well tit s e rved, she has at least been compelled to drop her booty. We sincerely pity the Turks with such dishonest next - d o or neighbours. The normal state of Turkey his been that of Notting hill, and her friends in the Congress of Paris proved themselves about as vigilant anti effective as th e p o l ice of London. As to Austria, her conduct has been rather shabby than wicked. What could he shabbier than to force herself on the hospitality of the Venetians, who never invited her, and woo wade no secret of pre ferring her room to her company? The man who sponges for a dinner ought at least to be an agreeable fellow, not personally offensive to his r e l uctant host on other grounds as well as the social intrusion. We have by no means exhausted our accusations, but let us be just before we commit our old a:quaint ance to the tomb of history and "dark b ac k ward an d abysm of time." He was not without his good points. He was not the monster " nulla virtute redemptum," —he left us richer than he found us , notwithstanding the enormous expenses of the war ; he re-estab lished our relations of friendship and frat ern i t y with the United States ; he deserves the praise of having commenced the laying down of the electric wire to connect the old world with the new in the bonds of a magical intimacy ; he did a great deal, to his immortal . , honour, to smooth down the chief difficul ties which have hitbi rto intercepted the blessings of education from the bulk of the People ; and he took a highly popular course towards the close of his days in lifting up his voice against the income tax, which was in him a most disinterested proceeding, as it was not in the nature of things that he could live to benefit by the reduction. It is, however, devoutly to be wished that flu) pre sent may be a year of better manners and conditions, profiting by his predewssor'a errors, and departing from his evil ways. Let 185 7 put his own house in order, he ew e rigidlyillhaveerough to do ; let ai m k ee p hisfrom picking anti stealing, and or bands abstain a little from forging checks a• id coupons, from prussic acid and strychnine, fr om bl u d geon i ng, garott ing, and housebreaking — in short, from Sadleir and Robson, from Palmer and Marley, and a ll th e i r wor k s . Moreover, while distingekbing more nicely between aneunt and tunes in private dealings, let 1857 discrimi nate better also in public transactions between friend and foe. Parcere superbis et debellare subjectos is a bad reading of a noble text, and a policy utterly unworthy of England. We trust the maxim has not been so re versed in China. OCCULTATION OF JUPITER. --The occultation of the planet Jupiter on Friday evening was observed at the Liverpool Observatory. At the immersion the four satel lites and the planet were all seen to disappear behind the moon. Clouds came over immediately after immer sion of the fourth or preceding satellite, but they speedily passed away, and the immersion of the remain irig three satellites and Jupiter was &so observed. At their immersion the satellites became fainter for three or four second-, and then suddenly disappeared. The time of entire obscuration was 50 minutes 58 seconds. The most remarkable fact was that nu distortion of the image of Jupiter was noticed, contrary to almost all past experience. FREEDOM OF HAMILTON TO DR. LIVINGSTON.— On Friday afternoon the freedo m of the burgh of Hamilton was presented to the Rev. Dr. Livingston, the African miles of Hamilton. The ceremony too k p l ace in the County otm traveller, ty whose Hall, Hamilton, b hpl c (at Llantyre) is within two in presence of the Provost, Ma gistrates, and Town Council of Hamilton, and a select party of gentlemen from the town and neighbourhood ; Robert Henderson, Esq., Provost of the burgh, in the chair. The Provost, with a very few complimentary sentences, presented the burgess ticket, enveloped in an elegant morocco case. Dr. Livingston, in reply, after returning thanks, gave an interesting account of some of ) his adventures in Africa. In the evening a soiree was held in the large upper room of the County Buildings ; Thomas Anderson, Esq., banker, occupied the chair.— ScoCanan. THE DOUBLE MURDER IN NEWINGTON.—The inquest upon the bodies of Edwin Fuller Bacon, aged two years and a-half, and Sarah Ann Bacon, an infant 11 months' old, who were found murdered at the house of their parents in Four Acre-street, Newington, last Tuesday morning, was held on Friday afternoon at the Beehive Tavern, Carter-street, before Mr. W. Carter, coroner. The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder " against Martha Bacon, and the coroner ace qdingly issued his detainer for the trial of the prisoner on his inquisition, she being already in custody on the niagi-i -trate's remand. a..nlkeedPotoeLlToEf one of the GoevaerrlynojudrFgoers Ford, Illinois, t e lls a n of that State, but the governor does not put upon record the name of the considerate magistrate. At the court over which this judge presided a rn:ri , named Green was convicted of murder,puound th e e uu j i u pr g t e was obliged to pass sentence of t d h e e at j h tn u lge said to him •.--`` murder, and th want of you and m Calling r. G or Green, o t , h t e h prisonerjury s say yo youri se , ul t y h ol e u l r a friends i e s n a d y s s downyou are ou I to od i a b u e h are uo r g r. o i l t l y iv il l o r i . that condemns you ; it is Creek to know that it is the jury and the law, isoner replied—" May it please Green, at what time, Sir, would you like to be hun g 2 The law allows you time those who kill yf t o h or e uprr hod ep oa y s have a h o t a u i r v o e n i" no a pmTo The ee e apr ready o a k t i 1 anyl t h e tin's so u l ; My preparation " Mr. Green," returned the is made, and you can fix the tim e to au. it? , ourself ; it is serious matter to be hung. It can't happen to a man but once in his lite, unless the rope judge, ali the ‘ s ' a i n : B i s to a very ine Sir . should break bofore his neck is broke, and you had bet ter take all the time you can get. Mr. Clerk, since it makes no difference to Mr. Green when he is hung, just look into the almanack and see whether this day four weeks comes on Sunday." The clerk reported that that day four weeks came on Thursday. "Then," said the judge, " Mr. Green, if you please, you will be hung this day four weeks, at twelve o'clock. The Attorney ' General, Mr. James Turney, here interposed, and said, " May it please the Court, on occa-ions of this sort it is usual for Courts to pronounce a formal sentence, to re mind the prisoner of his perilous condition, to reprove him for his guilt, and to warn him against the judg ment in the world to come." "Oh, Mr. Turney," said the judge, " Mr. Green understands it. Mr. Green, don't you ?" " Certainly," said the prisoner. g , Mr. Sheriff, adjourn the Court." Four weeks from that day Mr. Green was hung, but not CO much to his own satis . faction as his appearance promised on the day of his conviction. —.4 'noncan raper AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 4. The Royal mail steamship Africa has arrived, with advices from New York to the 24th Dec. and 50,0001. in specie on freight. The Canada, hence, arrived at Halifax on the 231 Dec. On the 25th Dec., at 6 p.m., the Africa passed a large steamer bound westward, and on the follow ing day the screw steamship Edinburgh, from Glas • gow for New York. In Congress the discussion on the President's Message had been continued and adjourned. The application to the President by the gentlemen con nected with the Atlantic telegraph to solicit his patronage to the scheme had been crowned with success. The President had issued an order for the arrest of Cornelius K. Garrison, Charles l'gpr,n, and General William Walker, to answer the Accessor3r Transit Company in a plea of trespass for convert ing and. disposing of the goods and chattels of the company to the value of $1,000,000, and also a further sum of $1,000,000 damages for interrupting their business. There had been a large meeting in New York for the purpose of devising the proper manner and seeking the means to send material aid to Walker. The Herald, remarking on it, says : " It is a singular evidence of the tone and tendency of popedarliphilen among the better classes of society here that several of the most fashionable and leadieg hotels should have come publicly forward with contributions. The St. Nicholas Hotel sends 100 barrels of bread, the Metropolitan Hotel, 5,0001 b. of bacon, and the guests of several other popular house: send in contributions of money. There is another contribution that has rather an ominous look-1,000 rifles." At the earnest request of Walker's discarded envoy, Goicouria, Mr. Roberts, of the United States' Steamship Company, had consented to let one of his steamers call at Greytown, to relieve those misguided Fillibusters who were in a starv ing condition. At New York, while lying at the pier, the steam ship. Knoxville, of the Savannah line, had been destroyed by fire. Some fishermen engaged on the western edge of the Grand Bank, about 50 miles from land, had hooked some wreck, which is supposed to be the American mail steamer Arctic, which sank in 1854. It is stated that it will be several weeks before the Adriatic is ready for sea. The NeW York and Liverpool packet ship New York went ashore on the night of the 19th, two miles from Basnegat inlet. Next morning the second mate and six men succeeded in landing with a rope in one of the ship's boats; the passengers were afterwards landed in safety. The captain (M‘Kinnon) was brutally ill-used and seriously in jured by seven of his crew, while endeavouring to suppress insubordination. He snapped a pistol at one man • it missed fire, and he was knocked down, and but for the mate, who stood over him, would have been murdered. The mate also was in great danger, but one of the mutineers took his part. Next day the man WS killed by his comrades. For four days and nights the emigrants, 300 in number, remained without shelter or food of any kind on the bleak coast. In the same gale the brig Tasso, of St. John's, Newfoundland, was wrecked. Four of her crew and two men who had gone off from the beach were drowned attempting to get ashore. The negro insurrection excitement had net ceased. A despatch from Louisville of Dec. 20 says : "The Russellville Herald of Wednesday last says that the negro insurrection excitement exists in the neigh bourhood of Volney and Gordonsville.- A number of negroes had been arrested ; a negro at one of the iron works in Tennessee said he knew all about the plot, but would die before he would tell. He thereupon received 750 lashes, from which he died. At Cadiz, Trig county, Kentucky, a free negro was hung after being tried by a Vigilance Committee. There are a number more in gaol, some of who o will be hung. Judge C.)ok has called a meeting of the C )urt for Christmas-day. Ex citement runs very high." Havannah advices are to the 15th Dec. The stock of sugar on hand was 65,000 boxes, and at Matanzas 3,000 boxes ; molasses contracts made freely at 74 to 8 rials per keg of 51- gallons for clayed ; muscbvado molasses, 8 to 94 ditto. In the New York money market the demand continued active and the supply adequate at 9 to 10 per cent. for first class 30 to 60 days' paper, 12 to 15 per cent. for second class. In exchange the demand for remittance, was very limited, and continental lower. Bills on Lon don at 8i to 9 per cent. pm. ; Paris, 5.20 to 5.21 i ; Hamburg, 36ff to 36g. Stock transactions were limited and the market steady. Railroad bonds firm, but inactive. The cotton market was about one-eighth of a cent, better, owing to the advices from the south of a probable short crop, and a very general belief that the yield would not exceed 3,000,000 bales ; the market closed firm. In the flour market the Canada's advices had added to the dulness. Canada in moderate supply, at from $6 40c. to $7 70c. for superfine to best extra; southern in good request for export, and buoyant. Red and white wheat firmer, on account of scarcity; the home prices had a restricting tendency. Pork irregular ; ness a shade better, price lower, stock moderate. Beef in better demand, partly speculative, and prices slightly higher ; stock moderate, and holders indifferent about selling. Lard kc to lc lower. Cheese firmer. Prime north country crude turpen tine held at $3 50c, and Ilmington sold at $3 43/c. Spirits of turpentine much firmer ; 43c. cash had been refused, and sales made at a higher rate. White resin scarce, and wanted at full prices. Salt in bulk dull. Freights firmer to this port, and the business moderate, at 50 to 6&d for corn and wheat, is 9d for flour, and id to 5-32 d for cotton ; to Lon don, 2s 2d for flour, and 3s to 4s for pork. NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 22. Good demand for cotton ; maricet firm. MOBILE, Dec. 19. Middling, 111 to 11i. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. The Jeremiah Thompson and the City of New Tork, hence ; the Macedonia, from Shields; the Plymouth Rock, from London ; and the Damon, from Cadiz—all at New York. THE PACIFIC. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 4. By the steamer Orinoco, arrived to-day from the West Indies, we have news from Panama to the 9th Dec. H.M.S. Monarch, Admiral Bruce, the steam corvette Pearl, Captain Sotheby, and the Esk, Captain Sir James M'Clure, arrived on the previous night from Punta Arenas. It was not known at Panama how long the British squadron would remain, or for what purpose they had come. The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamer New Granada, Captain Paton, arrived at Panama on the 6th Dec., with the semi-monthly South Pacific mail and $271,770 in specie. Her dates were Valparaiso,' Nov. 16 ; Callao, 27 ; Paita, 30 ; Guayaquil, Dec. 1. When the New Granada left Callao the following English vessels of war were in port :—The President, the Naiad, and the Cockatrice. The screw frigate Tribune had sailed from Valparaiso for Panama. At Chili, Joaquin Carbacho had been sentenced to death for the murder of his wife in the principal square of Santiago, iu the middle of the day, and iu the presence of a number of persons. He im mediately gave himself up. Jealousy was the cause of the fatal act, and public feeling was in favour of a reprieve. The works of the Santiago and Valparaiso Railway, and those of the Tacua and Santiago line, are progressing rapidly. The new Cabinet was completed. The Chilian war steamer Esmeralda, 20 guns, built in England for the Government, had arrived safely at Valparaiso. Her officers speak highly of her performance during the voyage. There is no later news from the Republic of Ecu ador, neither is there any of interest from Bolivia. From Peru we learn that the revolutionary movement in the south seems to be on the in crease, and two of the national vessels, the Loa and the Apurimac, had gone over to the revolu tionary party. The Izuchaca, the Tumbes, and the IJcayli had been sent after them by the Govern ment, and a number of English and American beach-combers were enlisted to aid in their cap ture. The general opinion was that the Govern ment ships would most likely get the worst of it, and either be taken or join the revolutionary party. The President Castilla had issued a decree pro nouncing the Loa and Apurimac pirates, and that vessels of any nation were authorised to seize them. General Lizarzaburu had been named 31inister of War and Marine.l Marshal San Ramon, with all the force he . co th uld muster, marched from Islay to Tacna tjom e division of General Freyre, quartered there. The Contercio states that the revolutionary movement in Ariquipa was on its last legs w hen the news of the Apurimac having pronounced in its favour 1 gave it new life. The Ariquipa correspondent of the Comercio says :—" On the pronunciaraento' of the Loa and Apurimae, SAI Ramon retreated thence to Tambo with 180 men, and the same day Islay declared in favour of the revolutionary party. Ou the 19rh San Ramon reached Tambo, where be was detained by Gtlonel Brusset, but the same night he made his escape—it is supposed to Puno." Private letters from Lima inform us that it was thought Castilla would be able to put down the re volution, as the Convention would vote him extra ordinary powers. Commercial advices from Valparaiso state that during the fortnight ending Nov. 15, a general stagnation had been felt in the market. The trans actions verified offered little interest, sales having taken place principally for local consumption, and but very little for abroad. The sales for Bolivia had been very poor, and those for the Argentine Republic were hardly perceptible. This slackness was to be explained by the fact that the purchases for the spring were already made in August and September last, and those for the summer season only begin in December next. In home produce nothing worthy of note transpired. The high prices in the leading export articles still continued. The market was pretty well supplied with all kinds of merchandise. We have received, via Panama, papers from Melbourne to Oct. 13, but the principal mail had previously put us in possession of news from tkat colony to the 20th. WEST INDIA MAILS. SOU] The Royal Mail Com Captain T. W. Sawyer, mails from the West Ind cific, in charge of Lieut. are— THAMPTON, JAN. 4. ►pang's si;earuer Orinoco, arrived to-day with the ies, Mexico, and the Pa- Inglis, R.E. Her dates Tampico Dec. 2 Trinidad Dec. 11 Vera Cruz — 5 Barbadoes ..... 12 Havana — 11 Grenada Puerto Cabello ... Nov. 25 St. Vincent Santa Martha Dec. 7 St. Lucia Greytown — 5 Martinique Carthagena Colon — 9 Dominique — 14 Jamaica ll Antigua — 15 Jacmel- Porto Rico Be rbice Demerara Tobago By this steamer we have dates from Panama to the 9th of Dec. She also brings home some of the Wye's missing mails. The Orinoco brings 35 passengers, two distressed British ieaman, and one naval invalid, $978,589 in spscie, and a cargo consisting of 44 serous of cochi neal, 26 serons. of jalap, 195 cases of cigars, 104 bales of tobacco, 157 bales of sarsaparilla, 12 casks of ginger, 388 bags of cocoa, 29 kegs of arrowroot, 1 bale of skins, and 361 packages of sundries. On her homeward voyage the Orinoco experienced from the 17th to the 23d ult., inclusive, strong N.E. winds, with a very heavy head sea ; from the 24th to the 26th, moderate S.E. breeze ; from the 27th to the 2d of January fresh breere from the S.W., and on entering the Channel a strong gale from the W. Our Jamaica letters of the 11th ult. inform us that since the departure of the last mails the events which had transpired were scarcely worthy of any notice. The business of the session was progressing steadily and in some way as harmoniously as could be aeticipated under the circumstances. The motion of Mr. Porteous respecting the importation of slaves into Cuba had been withdrawn under the idea that it would be undignified in the island Legislature to petition Parliament on that subject. There were rumours, however, that public me e ti ngs would be held for the purpose of memorialising the Imperial Government. The death of the Hon. Mr. Shirley, Custos of Trelawny, and senior mem ber of Assembly for that parish, had thrown great gloom over the island. He was a large landed pro prietor, and considered one of the wealthiest men in the colony. The House of Assembly adjourned business till after the funeral, and attended that ceremony officially. The Lieutenant-Governor had given his assent to several important bills. A donation given by Mr. 8.. Labouchere, her Ma jesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, had diffused great satisfaction. The island was rather unhealthy, which is generally the case at this season of the year • fever was prevalent. From De Cordova's Mercantile intelligencer we learn that the sales of sugar averaged 22s to 25s per 100 lb. In pimento sales had bees effected at 24d to 3d per lb. The stock of corn was large ; a cargo of 1,500 bags from Savanilla sold at 3s per bushel. All descriptions of butter were very dull of sale. Exchanges on London were quoted, for Jamaica and Colonial banks, 90 days' sight, 4 per teat. pm. ; 60 days, 1 per cent. pm. ; 30 days, 14 per cent. pm. Private bills at par. At Demerara a short session of the Colonial Le gislature had been held, convened for the special purpose of considering whether the resolutions of the Combined Court of 1855 and 1856 might not be altered so as to require the payment of the bounty money in cash at the time of the inden ture of the Coolie, and also whether the colonSe would be prepared to provide for the payment of the expenses to be incurred in India for continued immigration after the season 1856 and 1857. A string of resolutions submitted by the Attorney General to carry out these views were agreed to. A proposition having been made by some Liverpool capitalists to establish monthly steam communication between the colony of Demerara and Great Britain by way of Madeira the Legislature, at its special session, passed the following resolution : _ "That this Court will favourably consider any scheme for establishing st,am icommunication, with vessels of not less than 1,000 tons, between this colony and any part of Great Britain, via Madeira, the Western Islands, and Bar badoes, with the view of promoting immigration to this colony from those places; and that his Excellency he requested to make known the same by advertisement in some of the leading newspapers in Great Britain." The Row/ Gazette (Georgetown, Demerara), of the 9th tilt., says "The weather during the past fortnight has been very wet, but on the whole favourable for the growing canes, though it has seriously impeded the manufacturing ope rations, as it was impossible to dry the megass. The exports during the fortnight amounted to—sugar, 3,855 hhds., 785 tierces, 687 tierces, 1,287 brls., 425 bags ; rum, 151 puncheons, 335 hhds., 165 brie. ; molasses, 711 puncheons, 162 hhds., 62 brls. ; rice, 4,092 bags ; beef, 130 barrels, 50 half-barrels ; cocoa-nuts, 1,310 ; cod fish, 70 casks ; and lard, 5 cases. Trade among the merchants is brick, and freights are looking up." The Barhadoes House of .Assembly continued en gaged at 'west dates with the bill for the incorpora ' tion of the city of Bridgetown ; upwards of thirty clauses were got through in committee at the last meeting, but it was considered doubtful whether the bill would pass. His Excellency Sir J. Cloete, commander of the forces, and staff, returned from Demerara on the 6th. A change of weather bad taken place. It rained steadily the greater part of Sunday, the 7th, and there had been several showers almost daily afterwards up till the packet's depar ture. The canes had very much improved, but the crop was expected to be a short one. Files of the St. Lucia Palladium, to the 6th of December have been received, but they contain nothing of interest. The planters were preparing for commencing crop, while the many 'fine showers which had lately fallen had served to bring forward the newly-planted canes, and to encourage agricul turists in augmenting the cultivation for 1858• a war From St. Kitt's there is no news, be sides m Bisho encounter between the two local pap ers. p Davis was on a tour through. his diocese. At St. Vincent's the Hous e of Assem b ly con tinued at war with the Lieutenant -Governor upon the subject of the circum stances connected with the conduct of Mr. Crosby, the recently suspe n d e d Islandsgenerally were much police magistrate. w it the exceptio n of lunsadusiaal;hg till suffering f rom the effect of healthier than t e h s a t n Mar tinique, which w better yellow fever, a lthough - than by last mail. NAVAL AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. Her Majesty's sloop Brilliant, 20 guns, Captain J. A. Pa"ter, arr ived at St. Th omas on the ltt December, • from A.ntigua, and on coming into harbour exchanged sa lutes with Fort Christian. The Brilliant left on the 4th for Porto Rico. Movements of her Majesty's Ships :-17th December, at 'cit. Thomas's, the Basilisk, waiting for the outward steamer ; the Arachne sailed at 7 a.m., for Bermuda. At Bermuda, Dec. 9—tha Boscawen (Admiral Fan.,bawt), and the Nile. At Greytown—the Imperieuse, Cossack, Archer, Victor, and Pioneer. At Panama— the Mo narch (Admiral Bruce), Rik, and Pearl. At Colon—the Orion and Intrepid ; the Arrogant sailed on December 6 for Jainaci and England. At Jamaica—the Imauw, Amphion, Euryalus, Termagant, Tartar, Falcon, and Mai hitt-. At Trinidad—the Eurydice. At Porto Rico —Brilliant ; off Cuba, the Atalanta. At Colon, the United States' corvette Cyane ; at St. Thomas's the Danish corvette Naiade. Movements of the Royal Mail Company's steeam-ships: —The Conway, Capt. Lewis ; the Derwent , Ca p tain Reeks ; the Solent, Capt. Bayntum ; and the Trent, -Cant. Leeds, at St. Thomas's. The Eagle" - Cleio. Holk!cak: at Jamaica ; the Tharnes,.Cant. Woolvotd,pri the - Spati . .; ialt Main ; the Wye, Capt. Giliies, atMarbadoea. The Clyde had not arrived out at St. ThyfziaS's when 'the -. Orineeo left. Advice; from Martinique bring intelkigende a be ginning h av i ng b een g i ven t o theFranco::American'lipe ro - of Transatlantic Steamers. Both the Frapcoisi4agolakid the Alma had made their appearance in those seas. The Francois-Arago left Havre on the 30th Sept., was at Cadiz from the 9th to the 12th of Oct., and arrived at Martinique on the 2d Nov., between 9 and 10 a.m., thus taking 10 days to Cadiz, and 22 days from that port to Martinique —in all, 32 days. In the words of a Mar, tiniqne paper—" This is certainly no master•strcke. In those 32 days one of the English steamers would have accompli , hei with ease ttie voyage both out and home ; and, if the Franc da•Arago is not in a condition for bet t'r work, serious thought should have been given t > put her in hospital." After lying ten days at Martinique, where her machinery underwent certain r-pairs and she took in 350 tons of coal, she took her departure for Guachloupe, en route to New Orleans. She had on b , ard 602 tons of merchandise, 200 tons of flour fcr Guada sl o e c n u e d , 6 s o t , e olo e f. r in of valuables,the Franca American Co m p an y, the and 83 passengers. The Alma, arrived at Martinique on the 4th inst., and is thus ,p,ken of by the Outre-Mer of that date : "We had reason to place confidence the Alma. This vessel has justified all exp ctathns. She left Havre on the 11th October, and has consequen'ly accompli,hed her transatlantic voyage, touching at Cadiz, in 24 ,lays. Without that stoppage she would have a n ti c i pate d the E. , glish steamer. We think we are right in say ing that the company would do well, in the interest of the work it has undertaken, to discontinue this stoppage at Cadiz, which must always prove a cause of delay and of long voyages. The Alma left Havre with 200 tons of merchandise and 60 passengers, of whom four are for our colony—viz., MM. Ar• noux, chief superintendent of our military hospital, Raoul Dopaz, Dallier, and Estavard. The Alma, riding at anchor beside the Arago, will start this evening in continuation of her voyage. She has taken on board a considerable portion of the passengers and freight of her limping neighbour." The Orinoco spoke on the 26th Dec. the ship Prince Alfred, homeward bound, in lat. 30.56, long. 45.28. Naval and Military intelligence. The 52d Light Infantry depot at the provisional bat talion, C:iatbain, has received such a large number of volunteers from other corps that the regiment, the ser ♦ice companies of which are stationed in India, is in creased to its required establishment, and the recruiting parties have been directed to join their depot at Chat ham. The depot of the 26th Cameronians at Chatham has also received a considerable number of volunteers from other corps, including several men from the 14th Foot. Lieut. his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen is appointed to her Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert. H.M. steam sloop Hermes, 6, Commander Gordon, arrived off Portsmouth in the night cf Saturday, and went up to Spithead yesterday. She goes to the Cape a' Good Hole . The steam troopship Simootn, 18, Commander Ccoke, will be ready for sea at Portsmouth by Sunday next. The steam troopship Megmra, 6, Commander Purvis, has shipped near'y all her crew, and has lower rigging over the mastheads. She is, it is said, to embark troops la Cork for conveyance to the Mauritius. The operations at the new heaving-up slips at Haslar, Gosport, where is established the berthing for the gun and mortar boat flotilla, were completed last week by taking up the gunboat Gnat. The process was perfect, and proved the simplicity and practicability of the prin. ciple in using one trunk line, and disposing of an inde• finite number of vessels by lateral arrangement. The Gnat was drawn up the main line 10 feet per minute, and upon the transverse at the late of 15. When oppo site the shed appropriated fin her she was drawn into it by a screw of three inches diameter, running the whole length, and when in their berth was freed from the cradle by four small hydrau ics ; the cradle was run from under the vessel and placed on the trunk lin- to receive another. The Government purpose laying up 200 of these gun and mortar boats at Haslar. A tremendous gale from the south-west was experi enced in the Channel on Friday night, and during its height the screw steamship James Watt, 91, Captain T. V. Alison, and the steam frigate Shannon, 51, Captain Win. Peel, lying, inside Plymouth Breakwater, parted their chains and were obliged to let go their hest bowers. Both got up steam to ease their mooring, , . On Saturday in-rniug the Confiance and Zephyr steam vessels went off from Devonport dockyard, and supplied them with anchors and hemp cables. Tney will leave the first lair wind, under canvas, for Lis:-on. The French steamship Joseph Perrier, Captain Huzey, whioh left Southampton on Thursday for Charlestown, United States, put into Plymouth Sound on Saturday. Tue following appointments were made on Saturday at the Admiralty Commander A. D. W. Fletcher, to the Scourge; Lieut. Samuel D. G. T. May, to the Formidable (for ordinary) ; George P. Barney, second mas er, to the Simoom ; G. G. Duff, mato, t. 4 the Hawke ; H. Kent, mate, to the Stmooru ; J. D. A Irvine, mate, to the Simoom ; A. Eaton, mate, to the Hawke ; N. C. Barton and C. R. Gayer, mates, to the Megwra ; and the Lion. C.-Crofton, mate, it) the GoirnwalAis.- - THE PARIS CONFEREINTAS. The Debats is the only Paris journal that offers an account of the proceedings of the first sitting of the new Conference. The details given by this journal are confirmed, on a most important point, by the Nerd of Brussels. The Conference met, as previously stated, at half-past 1 in the after noon of Wednesday, under the presidency of Count Walewski, and it comprised all the secondary Plenipotentiaries who had participated in the la bours of the first congress, with the exception of the second representative of France. Count Kis seleff, the Russian Minister, was not present at this sitting, contrary to what had been anticipated, and his Court was represented by Baron de Bruuow alone. The Debats says :--- "The president explained the motive and the object of the meeting, stating that, when it was sought to carry into execution Art. 20 of the treaty of the 30th March, difficulties arose which obstructed the operations of the delegates charged with the establishment of the new frontier between Bessarabia and Moldavia. These diffi culties referred to two points:: the possession of the Island of Serpents, situated iu the Black Sea, opposite the moteths of the Dunube, and the possession of the town of Bulgrad, The powers, he added, should have come to an amicable arrangement with respect to the means of terminating these difficulties ; a protocol has been prepared, and it is only necessary for the powers to adopt and sign it. Russia has consented in advance to abandon Bolgrad, and to allow that little town to be annexed to the principality of Moidavia. In exchange, she will receive a strip of territory situated about twenty kilo metres from the Danube, between the river Yalpuck and another river of lesser importance. In the midst of this strip stands the tomb of Conrad, the population of which amounts to about 3,000 souls. It has been stated that the conference, in order to prevent new diffi culties, would itself fix, before separating, the details of the new line, by means of documents already furni-hed by the delegates, or that, at the least, if it were not suffi ciently enlightened on the question, it would refer the set tlement to these same delegates, and would fix a period which should witness the termination of their labours. This might have been of great importance ; the delay which has taken place in tracing the line cf frontiers bas authorised Austria and England to maintain their respective occupations, and this motive would have ceased on the day when the frontiers would have been estalslished, and the territory handed over to Moldavia by Russia. The conference, it is said, has delegated to the commi,sion the charge of definitively establishi n g the frontier, and it has not, thought proper to institute a delay, as had been reported. Meanwhile the occupation of the Princip-diiies by the armies of Austria, and the occupation of the Black Sea by England, will continue. It is, however, added that Austria has renewed her i declaration of the 4th April, with resp ect to her n enttoi of speedi'y withdrawing her troops into her own terri tory. The Island of Serpests . rema i n in possession of Turkey ; the lighthouse established there so me y ears ago in obedience to the re iterated demands of commerce Will be maintained, and kep', up under the eyes of the temp irary commission and of the permanent commission safe rn t o o y f t to o h t e f h eo e t l hsfieorsintsurrounding congress, gnagsittingstrie°sils,soebtwau. t e l bh t e m a td a ° instituted by Art. 17 of the treaty of peace to watch ill t rp u a ; w h e san everythingrousf up, t b h aa e ts over the n nd fi lli ned to signing the protocol already drawn up. si,b effectedeb confined detailedao The statement made by the Debats, relative to the determination of the conference to leave the settlement of the boundary question to the com miNsion appointed for that identical purpose, is borne out by a Paris correspondent to the .Nord, who writes : " Lord Cowley and Baron de Hubner insisted on the new line of the Russian frontiers being verified on the spot by the commission which has already accomplishol the first portion of 'he labour This would pi olong the occupation of the Principalities and of the Black Sea by about two month.." The Ford accompanies the above with the fol lowing remarks : " We experience great difficulty in b lieving in the sue case of these moteeuvres. It is even singular that they should have been attempted, fix it has always been stated that the delay which had occurred in the meeting of the coderence arose from the desire of avoiding any compli cation, by arriving at a previous concert on ail prelimi• nary points. Should similar manceuvres take place, will it not be said that time has been uselessly lot t, and that the aim of the conference , which, in the worts of the Moniteur, is to put an end ' to the diffif Oise which ob struct the execution of Art. 20 of the t•raty of 30th p t a r l e i a t t l e y s w a March will not be attained 1 The conferences have evidently no other importance or cause of existence the complete execution of the treaty of 30th March. arch. o N f o t w h , e ai; l l a o c n k g a s s ea the do e e v s ac n u o a t tio ta n k o e f p tb iaoe, e Prtial ld remain a dead letter." --- IMPahTATIoN OF CORN. The quantity of corn, in. eluding oats, &c., imported into this country from Jan. to Nov., numbered as many,as 10,989,008 quarters and cwt&. AWIDOW LADY, thoroughly acquainted with the routine of Housekeeping, Is desirous of an ngage ment as D.,mestic Companion to an elderly or invalid Lady or Gen tleman or Widower with young children, where one or m re servants are kept. A comfortable 11 ,- /me the chief concideratien. Unexcep tionable references given. —Address C. G., Mrs. Powell's, 4, Trinity street, Blackheath-hill.