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M R. W. S. ew c \l o rtOODlNumes :S n pL s N IO . a o ti f es O y D o ß l lZlE Ch S., w rae , teristic, every evening (except ~a ttirday) at Ei:Jit. A \TURN ING PB,RFORNt.INCEeverySA URD AY, at Three. Private Boxes and Stalls may be secured, without extra charge, at the Box-office, Polygraphic-hall, King William- street, Charing-cross. The hall has been entirely redecorated. RGYLL ROOMS.-LA URENT'S CASIIN , Great Windmill-street, St. James's.—The above elegan Rooms are now open every evening for the winter season, with Laurent's celebrated Orchestra. Principal Cornet-a-piston, M. Itoulcourt. The Proprietor begs to inform the public that this fashionable place of resort ha= been entirely redecorated during the recess. Doors open at half-past eight, commence at nine. Admis sion One Shilling. 1)R. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 4, Coventry-street, Leicester-square.--Open (for Gentlemen Only) from 10 till 10, containing upwards of one thousand models and Preparations, illustrating every part of the human frame in health and disease, the race of men, &c Lectures delivered at 12, 2,4, and half-past 7, by Dr. G. SEXTON, F.R.G.S. ; and a new and Wetly -interesting series of Lectures is now in course of delivery by Dr. KAHN, at a quarter p,st 8 p.m. precisely. Admission. One B ,hillinE. Catalogues containing Lectures as de livered b y Dr. Khan (gratis). NOTICE OF DIVIDEND. BANK OF DEPOSIT, No. 3, PALL-MALL EAST, LONDON. Establighed 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, are ready for delivery and payable daily. PETER MORRISON, :Managing Director. Parties desirous of INVESTING MONEY are requested to examine the plan of the Bank of Deposit. Prospectuses and Forms tor Opening Accounts sent free on appli cation. LAW LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, • Fleet-street, Ist January, 1857. Notice is Hereby Given, that a GENERAL MEETINTI of the Proprietors of the Lew Life Asmrance Society will be held at the Society's Office, Fleet street, London, on MONDAY, the 2d day of February next, at 12 o'clock at noon precisely, pursuant to the provi sions 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 Right Hon. Sir John Jervis, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Corn. Mon Pleas, deceased ; and for general purposes. By order of the Directors. WILLIAM SAMUEL DOWNES, Actuary. GREAT INDIAN PENINSULA RAILWAY COMPANY. Creation of 2,000,00 n/. further Capital. The Board of Directors hereby intimate to the Shareholders of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company that the Hon. East India Company have sancti ned the raising of further capital in this Com pany to the extent of 2,000,0001., with interest guaranteed at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum. It has accordingly been resolved, pursuant to the act, to issue the laid capital rateably among the shareholders, in shares of 201. each, One new share to be given in virtue of every Two shares of 201. value standing on the register of the Company on the 16th January inst. And the Board have, by such resolution, made a call of 21. Per share on every new 201. share so allotted (with the option to the shareho der of paying up the whole 201.), which is hereby declared DaYable at the Bank of Messrs. Heywood, Kennards. and Co., Lom bard-street, London, on or before the 26th day of February, 1857. Circular letters of allotment, with directions for paymeet, and forms of Receipt, will be forwarded to the address of the several Shareholders. The Shareholders are hereby informed that share certificates, if aft at the office after notice is given that they are ready for delivery, remain at the risk of the proprietors. LONDON di SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the next HALF YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors of this Com pany Will be held in the Company's Offices, at the Waterloo-bridge station, Lambeth. on THURSDAY, the 12th day of February, 1857, at One o'clock in the afternoon precisely, when the Directors will sub- /nit a report on the affairs of the Company, which, among other t hings, will call the attention of the Proprietors to the terms and objects of a Bill proposed to be Introduced into Parliament uy the pinPany for altering the C o mpany's authorised line at Salisbury, or mating a railway from Romsey to Redbridge, aid other purposes, and as to the propriety of proceeding therewith ; a Dividend will be declared, and the general business of the Company will be trans acted. ~And Notice is Hereby further Given, that at the same Meeting there Will be an El ec ti on o f t wo Di rec to r s, when Henry Charles Lacy, f: 8 (1., and Lleut.-Colonel John Luard, who retire by rotation at this Erne will offer themselves for re-election. James Theobald, Esq.. of Yde Abbey, Winchester, has also given notice of his intention to become a candidate at the same meeting for election as ai Director of this Company. The Books of the Company for the Transfer of Stock and Shares 'nil be closed from Thursday the 29th day of January, till Thursday, I.lle 12th day of February, 1857, both days inclusive. By order of the Court of Directors. L. CROMBIE. Secretary, Waterloo-bridge Station, London, 22d January, 1857. COCKS'S CELEBRATED READING . SAUCE, which is so highly esteemed with Fish, G ame , St ea k s , 00 uPs, Grills, Gravies, Hot and Cold Meats, and unrivalled for gene ral use, is sold by the most respectable dealers in Ash and sauces. J. and C. Cocks, Reading, sole Manufacturers. NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE. FOR CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION, D YSPEPSIA , NERVOITS, EILIODS, AND LIVER COMPLAINTS, COUGH, A STHMA , CONSIIMPTIoN , AND DEBILITY. Dv BARRY'S delicious HEALTH-RESTOR ING REVALENTA ARABICA FOOD saves fifty times its cost in'other remedies, and cures the above complaints and their Consequences, such as hemorrhoidal affections, flatulency, disten sion, acidity, heartburn, palpitation of the heart, nervous headaches, hysteria, neuralgia, deafness, noises in the head and ears, pains at the pit of the stomach and between the shoulders, erysipelas, erup tions of the skin, impurities and poverty of the blood, scrofula, dropafter e sy, rheumatism, gout, n ausea and sickness during pregnsncy, atin g, or at sea ; low spirits, spasms, epileptic fits, spleen, general debility, inquietude, sleeplessness, involuntary blushing, paralysis, tremors, dislike to society, unfitness for study, loss of me mory, delusions, vertigo, blood to the head, exhaustion, melan choly, groundless fear, wretchedness. It is, moreover, the best food for infants and invalids generally, as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor interferes with a good liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner, and restores the faculty of digestion and nervous and muscular energy to the most enfeebled. Supported by testimonials from the celebra ted Professor of Chemistry Dr Andrew tire, Dr. Shorland, Or . Har ',fey, Dr. Campbell, Dr. Gattiker, Dr. Wurzer, Dr. , ngrarn, Lerd Stuart de Decies, the Dowager Countess of Castlestuart, and 50,000 Other well-known individuals, whose health has been restored by this useful and economical diet, after all other means had been tried in vain for many years, and all hopes of recovery aban toned. Analysts by the celebrated Professor of Chemistry Andrew Ure, M.D., F.R.S., &c., Ste• " London, 24, Bl ooms b ury - square. I. I hereby certify, that having examined Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica I find It to be a pure vegetable Farina, perfectly whble some, easily digestible, likely to promote a healthy action of the stomach and bowels, and thereby to counteract dyspepsia (Indiges tion) constipation, and their nervous consequences. "ANDREW UaE, M.D., F.R.S., &c., Analytical Chemist." Ukase by the Emperor of Russia. 0 Russian Consulate - General, London, Dec. 2,1847. " TheConsul-General has been ordered to inform Messrs. Barry, Du Barry and Co., that the Revalenta Arabica they had sent to his Majesty the Emperor, has by imperial permission, been forwarded to he Minister of the Imperial Palace. Suitably packed for all climates, and with full instructions. In canisters, llb 2s 9d ; 21b 4s 6d ; 51b lls ; 121 b 22s ; super refined quality. 11b 63 ; 21b lls ; 51b 29.8 ; 101 b 325. The 101 , , and 121 b canis ters are forwarded carriage free, on receipt of Post-office order Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street. London; Fortnum, Mason, and Co.. purveyors to her Majesty, 182, Piccadilly ; also at 60 , Graceehurch-street ; 330 and 451, Strand ; 4, Cheapside ; 68, Cornhill; 49, Bishopsrate-street ; 55, Charing-cross; 54, Upper Baker -street , 63 and 150, Oxford-street. IN'ASSAD' RAILWAY COMPANY. — Societe Anonyme, or Chartered Joint Stock Company, with liability limited to the amount of share, au thorised by decree, and by a special law passed by the Cham bers of Nassau. Capital 1,600,0001., of which 1,000,0001, in Nassau Four Per Cent. Guaranteed Bonds, and 200,0001. already subscribed and paid up by the Wiesbaden Railway shareholders, Share Capital to be issued, 400,0001 in 20,000 shares of 20g. each. DIRECTORS—LOCAL BOARD. MM. von Roesller, Director of the Ducal Bank of Nassau. „ A. Hergenhahn, Member of the Supreme Court of Nassau. , C. Grossmann, Ducal Notary, Wiesbaden. C. Kalk Sohn, Banker, Wiesbaden. DIRECTORS IN ENGLAND. Joseph Christopher Ewart, Esq M.P. Original Directors of the Wie Theodore W. Rathbone, Esq. •' den Company.sba- William Nicol, Esq. Together with a Committee in Paris. BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., London. Messrs. J. J. Weller, Sons, Frankfort. BROKERS. M eeere : P. Cazenove and Co., Lothbury. Messrs Joshua Hutchinson and Son, Angel-court. .., SEC RETARY—W. W. Lander, Esq. Tho most im 11" n Agency ' 18, Cannon-street (E.C.). p fallowin ortant feature s i n thi s un d ertak i ng are th e g : First—That twenty for traffic, and eight more nr-s` the Railway arc already open Y completed. Second—That about two rililes .t n c f s arl Nassau of the Company's capital being provided by th© per Government in Four per Cent. bonds, every one pound Government : i n i t. added to the net re suite of the traffic ' above four add three per cent, to the dividend payable on the Third- That a dividend of at least seven capital an d an num is thus secured to the shareholders during cen `l i .npeerfi'Acres- The Nassau Railways will continue the F ran k f e e r t : nd --, i i- i 0 :: : Wies baden and the Wiesbaden and Rudesheim Lines from bairn to the frontier of Prussia, opposite Goblenz. Cologne Railway already open to Bonn and Rolandsworththe is being rapidly completed to Coblentz, the line of railway c o munieation between Cologne and Frankfort will thus be co ra ml pleted by the Nassau Company. The annual traffic between these two points considerably exceeds 1,000,000 passengers and 1,000,000 tons of goods. The official traffic tables show that, taking only the present traffic in the Lahn Valley, and one-fourth of the traffic along the Rhino, the receipts of the Nassau Railway Company will suffice, on this moderate estimate, to secure a dividend of 15 per cent. to the Shareholders, in consequence of the larger Portion of the capital being supplied in Nassau Government Gua.ranteed • Bonds at 4 per cent. RHINE RAILWAY. ' 25 0,000 passengers (being one-fourth of the existing traffic), at Id. per mil e on 60 miles .. ............... £62,500 250,000 tons of goods (being one.fourth of the exist ing traffic), at lid. p er m il e ........................... 93,750 , 156,250 LA.HN RAILWAY Present traffle above 90,000 246,250 Deduct working expenses, 50 per cont. at most 123,125 123,125 Inter es t on Bonds ,£40,000' Sinking fund • 7,500 To Wiesbaden Shareholders lO,OOO 16 per cent, on Nassau Shares 400,000/ 60,000 117,500 Surplus, after providi 15 per cent. to thelar ng for all charges, and paying Shareholders Applications f0r£5,625 deposit of 2/. per eta shares, which must be accompanied by a and to the offises of e t L e may be addressed to the brokers, Beloe, Esq., Brunswi c k. st Company in Loudon ; to H. C. ;reet, Liverpol ; to Messrs. J. J. Weiller, Sons, F rankfort to the Agency in Paris, 101, Rue Neuve des Petits Champs allotment. It:1 • 1 A further payment of 3/- per share will be requirecl(autppPo Applications for bonds ) will be received from par ties applying for shares, in theapecrooportion of one bond for every two shares, and must be 101. for every 100/. applied for. Inlpanied by a deposit of bonds certificates will be payable by instalments of lot. Z i raining 801. will be al at themselves ltlh s e eb l v em e d s eea w pno i t l si l imt b eed e , issued for the instalments, and the given in exchange for tie last paym oup t , bondsb to the amount of the moneys • rts. N ASSAU RAILWAY COMPANY._ No further Application for Shares or Bonds in this Company will be received after SATURDAY, 24th inst. W. W. LANDER, Secretary. 18, Cannon-street, Jan, 22,1857. '?:',..‘,.:Y, i ... ....:; , ,,:;.. i ,-.,.; L.144e, 1 .1,4,A.,..;.: (No. 20,156.) PUBLICATIONS. THE NEW NOVEL, WI L D F LOWER, By the author of " The Mouse of Elmore," Is now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. 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Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. • .IVING CELEBRITIES : a Series of L PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS, by Menu. and POLYBLANK. The number for January contains E. M. WARD, Esq., R.A., with Memoir. Mardi and Polyblank, 55, Graceehurch-street ; arid all book and prlntsellers. Just published, price 2d., or post free 3d., the 102 d Edition of. THE NATURAL REGENERATOR of the DIGESTIVE ORGANS, the S rom CR, LIVER, NE EVES, LU - GS, &c., without Medicine, Galvanism, Electricity, inconve nience, and expense, by 'n easy, natural, pleasant, end infallible remedy, which saves fifty times its cost in other means of cure. Supported by testimonials from the celebrated Professor of Che mistry, Dr. Andrew Tire ; Dr. Shorland ; Dr. Harvey; Dr. Camp bell ; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wurzer ; Dr. Ingram ; Lord Stuart de Decies ; the Dowager Countess ofCastle-Stuart ; Tsl ajor-Gen. Thomas King, and many other respectable persons, whose health has been restored by it, after all other means of cure had failed. London : Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street. The Second Edition, Just published, price Sc., by post free, sc. 6d., TRICTURE OF THE URETHRA. THE PATHOLOGY AND RATIONAL TREATMENT of STRICTURE of the URETER 4, in all its Varieties and Compli cations, with Observations on the Use and Abuse of Instruments in the Treatment of Diseases of the Urethra. The whole Illustrated by numerous Cases selected from the Records of upwards of Tweaty Years' extensive and successful Practice. • By F. B. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S. E. "We know of no man to whose care we would sooner Intrust the treatment of a severe stricture."—Medical Circular. London: H. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street. CANCER HOSPITAL, London and West Brompton.—Secretary's Office, 167, Piccadilly.—This Tnstitu ion has been established exclusively for the treatment of the poor : ffiicted 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 ereat work of benevolence are urgently solicited, and may` be paid to William Loxham Farrar, Esq., 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. RJ OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. 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 application: • Week ending 7th November 2,154 Ditto 14th November... • Ditto 21st November .... Ditto 28th November 9th and 30th November • • . • Total in November .... • . 8,747 of which 2,775 were new cases, the remainder (still under treat ment) having been admitted previously. The clergy of all denominations have unlimited access to the patients. 'Heavy expenses are Inevitably incurred in affording such exten sive relief. The Committee, therefore, earnestly entreat the aid of the public. The management of the Hospital is in the hands of 30 Governors, early elected from the general list of subscribers, at the Annual i;eneral Meeting in January. A Board Is held every Thursday, at 4 o'clock (Rev. J. B. Owen, Chairman), to conduct the business, when any subscriber may attend, if so disposed, the Board being at 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 Treasurer, ohn Masterman, Esq., M.P., Nicholas-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Berries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; rcscott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Glyn and Co. ; ones 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. ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE New and imp rove d Editi o n, enlarged to 196 , INCAPACITY, .AND IMPEDI M ENTS pa T g O es M i A llu lt s Anatomical Coloured k.ngravings on Steel, just published, price, free by post, I s ., R tra lA te G d E by . 100 THE on th S e l p L hy E si N cal T exh F au ß st l lo E n N an D d : decayA effects of solita r y indulgence, infection, and the injurious coo f Medical the frame, from W o n t r s h e ke quences from the use of Mercury ; with observattais on the obliga- Dons of marri age, and directions for obviating certain disqualifica tions, By It. and L. PERRY and CO., Surgeons. Sold by Piper Brothers, 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, and Sanger. 160, Ox ford-street; and Gordon, 146, Leadtnhall-street, London. The CORDIAL BALM of SYRIACUM is employed to renovate the impaired powers of life. Its action is purely balsamic ; its power in reinvigorating the frame in all cases of nervous and sexual de- bility, obstinate gleets, impotency, brirrenness, and debilities arising from venereal excesses, has been demonstrated by its unvarying success in thousands of cases. Price 115. per bottle, or four quan tities in one for 335., which saves lie. The CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE, an anti-syphi litic remedy, for purifying the system, and is recommended for any of the varied forms of secondary symptoms, such as eruptions on the skin, blotches on the head and face, enlargements of the throat, tonsils, and uvula ;:threatened destruction of the nose, palate, &c. Its, action is purely detersive, and its beneficial influence on the system is undeniable. Price I Is. and 335. per bottle, also a saving elm ~,,ERy's PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS constitute an effec tual remedy in all cases of gonorrhoea, gleet, stricture, and diseases of the tuinary organs. Price 2a. 9d., 4a. o. ant I Is, per box. Sold by Barclay and SoWns,Fnag,lingdon-street ; Darby and Gosden, Paul's- S cbare n h and ard ; J fo .4anger, 150, Oxford street 10, Bow-churchyard ; al 6 li , st sa r tn ee d t vD ; side ; ietrichsen, 63. Prout and Harsant, 2 Oxford -street Butler and , Hannay Strand ;and all Harding, vendors throughout the United Kingdom, I S 'S V , r e ? e d 'E e i tcLdi;wenac‘ll3rv4edaen h:nnc' The Wiltshire Independent sad M. become tA election rumou rs we have heard that in theneiovnent of the other l Beach,ie rairt S pea ker being elevat ed to t h e peer Age, W. gyp, B. Esq., of Oakley H all, cousin of Sir M. E. Beach, of Wiiiianntrip, W ill in all probability bon. gentleman's successor in the representationga o f Hampshire. It is also reported that Mr. "Wyndham Portal, a brother-in-law of Mr. Beach, will contest the borough of Andover, backed by the rowerful influence of the Earl of Portsmouth." ImErisn CHAlN. — Th ere is now in progress, at the n forge of Deacon 111‘Alpine, Broomielaw, the largest chain ever made in Scotland. This monster chain is being fabricated fo3the purpose of m ooring the bu the oy chain s of the River Trustees. The iron bar from which is tormed measures 2 inches ,in diameter, and each link weighs 431 b. Each portion of the chain, eight fathoms, is connected with the next length by means of avy coupling of 501 b. to 521 b. weight, and the enti re len g th of the ch a i n when finished will IN; 120 tathomP.—akid- Pvi liera/d. 1 .4 1 ; LONDON, SAT URD A V Eli 14‘,1N IN G, JAN U A it struck him that associations such as the one he was addressing arose out of the faulty institutions of the coun try. He said— We ought pot to be meeting here, gentle. men' t We have people whomwe choose every seven year s, wh4e business it is to do the duties we are now doing. I want to know what the Parliament in Westminster sits for. :CA Voice—" That's the 'point.") Do they sit there o lOok on while we work ? What is it we are doing now ? Ve are going into the very. discussion into which Parlia ierft ought to go night after night. We have our power, elaise the mischief has riheri.to such a height that pea ile Won't stand it any longer, and that,, they take tk is 3xt sordinary mode of expressing their opinion. 'Now, wh t I wa t to do is this :•--LI avant to get at some effect tiv instrument to work odt the purposes which we are en avowing. to do in ; this eiitraordinary and, if I may use the term, 'spasmodic effiirt. 'How is that to be done ? W Y; sir, the House of Cottons, ought td be the watch do sof the people. Now, what I want to do is to make ou House of Comme its en fit and willing to perform ts en ; and therefore I saye sir, that younannot expect to ave any real financial reform until you have had Per lin entary reform. I have pe'reuad'ed the Administrative Re orm Association of that feet,- and the consequence is, wehave determined that all our organisation, spreading ever England as it does, all the various means we have of isfluencing public opinion, are to be directed to that en 4, as well as to the direct aim of the association. Arid what we intend to do is this—first of ail, to persuade the people that the great mischief lies in the present constitution of the House of Commons, and to bring your minds round to demand a' full reform of that house. We intend —and here lam making a bold declaration, and it may, Sir, probably alarm you—we intend to do s iaur utmost to affect the coming elections of this`ciiiihery; and froln that we in tei;id: to threat our efforts.; So' the formation of a real party.iu the House of. Commons, whose business and aim it will be to act as one rishVaeot_make the Ministers feel that we are reformers of finsidoW x•eform---reismners. after the manner of the Financial Reform Association. He (Mr. Roebuck) hoped for their co-operation, and drew a picture of the construction of the " parties' in the [louse of Commons, again pointing out the influences abich were used by the great parties in London to se cure the vote of Mr. A for Ministers. The great towns of this country were given, a great number of them, the power of returning members of Parliament by the Re ferm Bill. They chose what they thought to be efficient representativee. Those men, as soon as they got to London and entered the House of Commons, found that Rouse divided in a very curious manner. There was a line ran down it from the very middle, from the Speaker's chair ; and on the one side sat the Opposition, and on the other side sat the Ministry ; and it was ex pected that every man who came into that house should take the one side or the other. There (continued the lion. gentleman) it is, indeed, a fact—there are a certain wild, impracticable, wonderful set of men called inde pendent members. (Laughter.) They wander about in space, like a . planet that has no sun round which to revolve. They go about they know not where, and they find them selves, in strange places they know not how, (Laughter and applause.) The Minister and his satellites—(a laugh) make their situation a very uncomfortable situation. Rejected from the Ministerial side, they go to the Oppo• sition, and there they meet in the same way, with " What do you belong to, and what do you mean ?" and it you don't swear iu the words of one party or the other you are, in the slang phrase, " nowhere. (Laughter and applause.) The consequence of this is, that when these very simple gentlemen come from the north they find themselves as I say—nowhere. They do not know what to do; and Mr. A. brings up Mrs. A., and Mr. A. is affected through the means so very well known to be employed by the great parties in Lon don. Mr. A is affected through Mrs. A. Oh 1 I have seen it, and I have known it so often—that Mrs. A wanted to go to the Queen's ball, The way to get there was to make Mr. A vote with the Minister ; and when he voted with the Minister she received her invitation. (" Hear, hear," laughter, and applause.) I am not speak ing, Sir, without my host upon this matter ; I know well what I am saying ; and I have known instances of cajolery of this kind, of mean appliances of this description —of this sort of low and disgraceful means by which to reach a man'shead and his heart, quite as debasing es the one I have described. (Applause.) Well, then, had these men found, when they came up untainted, untouched, unknowing—had they found a party to which they could ally themselves they would have gone there. (Hear, hear.) But no, finding none such, they wandered to one side or the other ; and let me tell you that, wandering to one side or the other, they got into what I find has a wonderful influence in the north as well as the south—namely, what is called good society. (Laughter.) They found themselves all at once shaking hands with noble lords and ladies ; and it is wonderful, perfectly marvellous, to find, Sir, that gentlemen whom I thought sturdy, well.to-do, well-going, honest men, who have made their way in the world—to find these people bowing down to the very ground, aye, crawling upon their bellies—( oud laughter)—before noble scions, or little pet.y or atures who did not know, hardly know, their right hand from sham Ink; but because they signed their, name without their Christian name— llanglater)--sfside-gendeinan were their most obedient, bumble servants. (Applause.) Now, Sir, Ida not preclude from s , my, reprehension . this_ good town of, Liverp?ol. (Hear.) `I find there is a wonderful desire in ; the princely merchants of this princely town to be thought' fine gentlemen in the house. (Laughter.) If they could only hear the sort of criticism and sarcasm that follows their own individual debasement, I think they would be prouder of their position as independent men than sub• servient followers. Lady A says to Lord A, who is the Minister (say A, B, C, or P), who is Minister of the Crown, the Prime Minister —my Lady A says, " Who' is that vulgar fellow, A, that you have introduced to. me?" (Laughter.) He says, "My dear, now don't use, that language. I acknowledge that fellow to be a vul ar fellow ; I know it—know it as well a s Y en ; but he, has a vote in Parliament ; now do be civil to hint" (Loud laughter.) And so she is civil to him, and the poor man votes ever after as Lord A. bids him. And these are your watchdogs. (Laughter and applause.) He (11r. Roebuck) wanted to point out through the Ad ministrative Reform Association every time in which a man thus actually departed from his duty and betrayed his trust to the people, and he believed that they could do that by means of that organi sa tion. He believed , they would do much good by instructing the people, Yet if they got to learn in that way the feelings of the people upon their representatives they would do much more to carry financial reform than all the pamphlets they might publish. • It appeared to him that when they had got together even a very small body of men who would say they would act as one Men, they would make the Minister understand that they would set their fan, against all the maladministration of which he was the instrument. When they had done that, and if they had only gathered together six men who would say so, before next session came there would be added to their number many a revolting independent gentleman. He hoped to see the chairman join that party, and he hoped to see every independent constituency telling their member that he must do so too—that he must not ally himself with one aristocratic part or th e other, but that he must cons ider the people of En g l an d. ( reiterated (Applause.) He in' s tanced the cases where m en o f worth and ability had been set aside for same em pty jackanapes who had just come from college or his mother's drawing. p agreat the man army, a t a o n n d c o. r oom, and who, struttin g up th e house, was made a i the phrase,way they dthat Hede b n i o s unced former it was "an army, of lions led on by asses." He re; ferred to the number of famous admirals England had possessed, and who sprung from the people, and to the scarcity of generals. The navy was not then an aristo cratic service ; the army always was. There was a fine coat, there was. Captain So-and-so; and, as Sir Walier Scott said, " Women, like tu r tl es , are t a k en by a pi ec e of red rag." The army was a sort of refuge for the des aitute aristocracy. The consequence of this was seen in the Crimea—a standing ignominy to the people of Eng land, who bore such a thing ; and not till they had seen the fatal result, the fatal policy, read in such dreadful characters on the plains of the Crimea, did they rise up to ask for army reform. He said that army reform was administrative reform. The consequence did not extend only to that to which he bad alluded, but he found, though he was unable to prove it in the progress of the investigation of the Sebastopol Committee, that every step of the inquiry was marked by proofs of corruption, and that corruption went to high places. He wanted that corruption laid bare. Rethought, with the party in the House of Commons he spoke of, they should be able to probe the mischief, and let out the foul substances, and he hoped that what he knew to be a fact would not long exist. In conclusion, he said—l know, Sir, that real honest and distinguished mercantile houses refused to have anything to do with Government contracts, be cause they were obliged to-preface their proceedings by bribing the departments. I am not now speaking in' a whisper. What lam now saying I see the gentlemen below will tell to the people of P. —ngland. And lam as sure of this as I am of my own existence —tbat from the very top to the bottom of the standing departments ' the per manent departments, of this country, there ' is eorrnp lion to be found. I want this exposed. It can only be done by a united effort on the Part of the people of this country, acting through the House o f Commons, and upon the House of Commons. This Reform Association may work its Lela out, but the people who profit by the mischiefs which they perpet rate will laugh it to scorn. But let the House of Commons once lay its finger upon their giros, and they will feel It is by that little finger a very h eavy one. means alone you can effect your nurpose • and I would ask and entreat of you to bear • ' o this in mind, that we are acting now, here in this hall in what I would call in the cant phrase of the'da an , Icondition. It is not our proper undertakebusiness'toyabnorma. b.ess of the House of Commons ; but thee u a si v n e a House of Commons whichww o ld we ought to h supersede such meet jugs as this. In order, then, that, we by ou r united efforts, contribute to this gr end, eat ma3 l , have accepted the invitation to come here. - I determined to say what I would have said the . ae . , oment I appeared before the people of this grea t . Sown, because I thought, by stating it to an audie ace like the present, it would make its way throe h all parts of the country—and I see i t will (100 v - 4 sing at the reporters). I thought by so doing I stiould condsce to the same e nd you have in view, the. same end I ha ve in view, and I believe all right-minded men have in view, and I am sure that every man who wishes the prosperity of England will have in view ; and, MR. ROEBUCK, M.P., AT LIVERPOOL. On Thursday evening Mr. Roebuck, the member for Shern" l,l , was present at the annual public meeting of the Liverpool Financial Reform Association, held in the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street, which was filled with an attentive audience. Mr. L. Heyworth, was in the chair, and on the platform were some of the - influential membsrs of the association. The Secretary read a letter from Mr. T. B. Horsfali, p M.P., declining to suppoyt a resolution of which he had received a copy, on the ground that there appeared to him to be such a strong fee!ing in the country — a feeling in which he doncurred—against the continuation of the present income tax. This announcement was received with hisses and cheers. Letters of apology for their 'absence, but expressive of their approval, on the whole, of the- pi4nciples and objects of the association were read from Mrs J. C. Swart, M.P., Mr. W. Brown, M.P., and Mr. R. Glad stone. Mr. Eggert expressed his opinion that he did no t think the country was yet prepared to re'petti all duties on raw produce and substitute in their stead an equit able property and income tax. The CHAIRMAN, having complimented the audience for their attendance, declared that hitherto fiscal legis lation had been a mere matter of accident, left en tirely to chance or to the cunning of State-craft trickery, and that they wanted to know what sort of fis cal legislation they should have that would be the least injurious to the trade and commerce of the country, and offer the least hindrance to the general accumulation of wealth. He begged their serious attention to what was abort to be addressed to them, because he said, from a want of Correct information, there was a large body of our countrymen who took offence at the idea of paying a tax immediately out of their pockets, and that tax was the income and property tax. He wished no distinction to be made between the rich and the poor, but every mau to pay his equal share, and loa believed that there was no taxation except direct taxation, such as the income and property tax, which would immediately attain that end. He wished to point out the benefits that had en sued from Sir R. Peel's adoptio❑ of the principle, and hoped that a voice would go forth from that assembly which should be heard in every corner of the country, and that the wrong course men were apt to take on a shallow and superficial view of the subject would be directed and brought back to the only true source of fis cal regulation, which was direct taxation. The Secretary having read the report of the operations of the association, which recommended perseverance in the effort to bring to a successful issue the combined objects of financial reform, direct taxation, and perfect freedom of trade, Mr. DAWSON moved the first resolution, which was— " That the beneficial results of the fiscal changes intro duced by the late Sir R. Peel—changes rendered practi cable by a partial adoption of the principles of free trade and direct taxation—are evident, in the immense develop. ment of the resources of the country thereby permitted, and demonstrate the sound policy Of extending the opera tion of these principles in such a manffer as to seoure still greater freedom to commerce, manufactures, and industry." He pointed out that as the country had now reached the termination of a period of unusual expenditure some of the existing taxes might be dispetsed with, and that they had to decide where the reduction might most fitly be made. He found that 23,000,000/. a-year, or nearly half the annual revenue of the Government, was already raised by direct taxation, and he asked if that policy should be continued ? He illustrated the beneficial re sults of direct taxation since its adoption in 1842, when the trade of the country was in a very depressed and de clining position, and expressed his opinion that the po licy was a sound one, and should therefore be continued. Mr. CROSSFIELD briefly seconded the resolution, which was carried by acclamation. Mr. ROEBUCK then proceeded to address the meeting, and was received with protracted and deafening applause. He said he had accepted the invitation so kindly sent him by the Financial Reform Association of Liverpool, be cause he thought by doing so that he should torward the great end of financial reform- -not because of any vain notion that he himself had any power upon the matter, but because he represented the great, and he believed what would be the influential association—the Admini strative Reform Association of London. He thought that their views and principles were identical, but he did not bind himself to all the prinCiples which might be enun - elated by the Financial Reform Association of Liverpool. To put their aims under one' head, it was that every one in the community should be taxed according to his means. To this aim he had come down from London to signify his adhesion, and to thank them for all they had done is the great science of financial reform. He said that they in London did not foresee the coining danger as the Liverpool Association did in 1848 ; and, therefore, when the storm did burst upon them they were unprepared. He then referred to the facts which have so often been commented upon in reference to the condition and efficacy of that army which left our shores for the Crimea, which he declared was lost by the in firmity of pur pose of a Ministry, and not by the arm of the enemy. The evil did not arise from transitory causes ; they were inherent in the very administration of the country, and it was for the purpose of putting down that mal-administration they had banded together in London. He related how they had, after two years' labour, discovered that they were on the wrong road, and expressed the honour he felt at being invited to preside at that time over their meetings. He entered into the details of the system they had adopted, and stated that they had an organisation which would enable them to communicate with eAse with every post town in the kingdom. They had endeavoured, and would still further endeavour, to learn all the mischief they had endured—first, the mode of taxation itself; next, its collection ; and, thirdly, its distribution. In reference to the first, the Liverpool Association had pointed out and endeavoured to teach the people the great advantages of direct taxation ; but, although he agreed with them, there was something to be said upon the subject of direct taxation which he thought was not said. There had been, and there was then, a strong feeling growing up against the injustice of the income tax. He acknow ledged that i?justice, and endeavoured in his place in Parliament to ameliorate the mischiefs of that tax. His idea was that a man who had 1001. or 1,0001. a year from funded or lauded property was far more able to pay a tax of 5 or 10 per cent. than the man who made 1001. or 1,0001. a year by his brains or his labour. There were some political economists, but all ♦ery rich seen, who thought he was wrong. In the House of Commons he said so ; and he recollected Mr. Gladstone, a man well known in Liverpool, telling him that his argument was not to be answered, but that he must have the money. He showed that in the case of the man with the landed or funded capital it remained, but that in the other case nothing was left. What he pro posed to do was to capitalise this 1,0001. a year, and tax it then as they would tax funded property. Then they would act justly. Or they might take another course, and he pointed out that course in the House of Commons. They might say, to that man, " We will allow you to insure your life; you shall lay by so much every year for the purpose of insurance, and we will tax you for the remainder." This would be something like equality between the man of funded and landed pro perty and the man who earns his income by the exercise of his brains and labour. But that was a sort of process not agreeable to those who govern the House of Com mons, the powerful majority of whom were men con nected with landed and funded property. He said this class were wise in their generation, for they excluded from the operation of the tax all under 1501. a year, thus avoiding giving offence to the working classes of the country, but the middle classes of it they bound nand and foot, and treated accordingly. He showed how a working man under the present system of taxation contributed a greater portion to the taxes than the rich man, whose consumption of the necessaries of life, such as tea and sugar, bore a much smaller proportion to his expenditure than the expenditure of the other. He did not join in the cry against the income tax as income tax, but against the injustice of the manner in which it was levied. With regard to the collection of the taxes, every man must knew that the mode was one of impropriety ; it was uncertain, and it was always found that the tax gatherer got rich. There was something peculiar about money—it sticks to the fingers which handle it ; and he had found continuously, in his experience of life, that the tax-gatherer was the most flourishing man in the small community in which he lived. He therefore ap proved of the two associations directing their attention to the mode of collecting the taxes of the country. He considered that mode of distribution involved all the mischiefs of the country. He asked for what were the taxes levied, and explained their object ostensibly. They were for the purpose of protecting the people of andtaa h nu e yd pure aoslnal ewt w . this country,—their persons, their property, and repu tations. Re said, when that is fully accomplished all acs ao9wi of l s 1 maogikudoecvdhoe on the of m tt e hh n eop t se institutions institutionsvl eeattained,requisite great end to that end is so much stolen from the people. But people were robbed. We h a av d e persons for wt p hen a e r tc a proportion w hi tho he h eBknow how much the have persons for service — and spoke, po first. e 1 13 m u had a d heard in the country oe tt u whr the last . bear a very se of Commons the whole afternoon e occupied about giving some hard-workingman 1001. , and in the next breath, and before you can turn your head round, away one million of money. He appealed to have voted o t h he chairman if that had not occurred in his experience been quite so long as his own. He then said he ich had to the point at whicla he supposed they w. rebeyondal y beeno f t ha t ... Got uad come Quid differ, for //71-z 4///(;) .• un+ [ 4;). STAMPED SD, T.Ltlt FALKLAND ISLANDS. The tollowing letters have been addressed to the editor of the Times : Sir—My attention has been called, by one of your lead ing articles this day, to a letter by Mr. Eddy, advocating the Falkland Islands as the most eligible situation for a convict settlement. Having resided there seven years and a half as Governor I may be permitted to explain many of the erroneous as sumptions of Mr. Eddy, which his imperfect knowledge of their climate, soil, &c., have led him into. First, I admit that as to the question of economy of transport the Falk land Islands have the advantage over the Australias and Vancouver's Island—not as compared, however, with kind- son's Bay. The pensioners, or military settlers, alluded to by Mr. Eddy, were sent to the Falklands during my administra tion in 1849. The expedition consisted of a captain and 30 non-commissioned officers and privates. I was instructed to make over to each man 25 acres of land, on which wooden cottages, brought from England with them, were to be erected at the expense of the colonial Government. Rations, fuel, and a right to employment on public works were also secured to them for the first and part of the se cond years; and a right of commonage, in addition to their land, of 100 acres was allowed to each man. On their arr.val great discontent was manifested among them, participated in by their officer, and I had much diffi culty in inducing them to suspend their judgments as to the entire impracticability of boths oil and climate to grow anything besides the natural grasses of the country; and it was not until they saw, some months afterwards, a crop of very tolerable potatoes dug iu the Government garden that I could persuade any of them to commence cultivat ing plots of their own. Notwithstanding that there were slew of these men indefatigable in their attempts to raise produce of various kinds, not one of them has ever suc ceeded in maintaining himself or family by agriculture. Vegetables of all the ordinary descriptions succeed pretty well, provide you raise a wall sufficiently high to protect them ; turnips will, however, grow without shelter. The inability to live by cultivation is not confined to the pensioner class. Up to the present time no settler in the Falkland Islands has ever maintained himself by agriculture alone, and the numerous experiments I made (most of them at my private expense) convince me that it is impossible to do so. Wherever the soil is not pure peat' is mixed up with heavy stones, and it cost me about 301. to clear and prepare one acre in a selected situation for a crop of turnips, and, although I manured it with guano in one part and stable manure and blood in another, the crop in no way recompensed the outlay. I repeated the experiment after two years with no better result. In gardens, however, I have seen with extreme care turnips as fine, although not quite so large, as I hare ever seen in this country. My trials to raise wheat, barley, oats, Sze., were complete failures. In one instance only I obtained a tolerable sample of barley, grown under the shelter of a wall. As Mr. Eddy has introduced Lord Grey's name in his letter, I will merely say that as regards the steps I took for the settlement of the pensioners I met with his lordship's approval, and hav ing transmitted the samples of grain I attempted to raise Lord Grey agreed with me in thinking it inexpedient to encouraging further experiments. The staple produce of the Falkland Islands hitherto has been the wild cattle, and although there is no doubt that since the Government dis posed of the entire property over them and all other wild animals in the island, including horses and pigs, to—first, M. Lafone, of Monte Video, who subsequently sold his con tract, with the consent of her Majesty's Government, to the Falkland Islands Company, the present possessors, the numbers of them have largely decreased. There are and always have been, however, sufficient to supply numerous shipping, both mercantile and naval, touching the ports with fresh beef, to which the settlers and shopkeepers were enabled to add during the last five years of my office vege tables, occasionally fish and provisions of every sort. I am therefore surprised that Mr. Eddy should hays fallen into the mistake of supposing that Australian ships are unable to procure refreshments at the Falkland Islands. I admit that, occasionally, tho stock of poultry was defi cient, but the impossibility of raising grain or of importing it at prices to indace large breeding of fowls is an answer to that allegation. Rabbits at one dollar per dozen, and any number of wild geese at is. each, form, however, some substitute for the scarcity of domestic fowls. • Mr. Eddy likewise assumes that no facilities for repairs of shipping exist at the Falkland Islands. I have no me moranda of the number of ships refitted, but I recollect in one week seven large vessels coming into port, most of them seriously damaged, and all (except one, which was con demned as unseaworthy) repaired and forwarded on their voyages. Another instance I recollect of an American ship of 800 tons which struck on a rock and tore off all her false keel and part of her kelson. ' This ship was refitted, and returned to the United States. I feel it due to the exertions I made, in conjunction with the colonists, to render the islands useful to the vast number of shipping passing them to copy a letter I received from Captain Bar nard, R.N., of her Majesty's ship Vixen, which entered the harbour in a disabled state : " Stanley Harbour, June 6, 1853. "Sir,—l beg to acknowledge with many thanks the re ceipt of your Excellency's letter of the 4th inst., offering all the aid in the power of the local Government should I experience any difficulty in procuring supplies of coals, provisions, and stores required for her Majesty's steamer under my command. Fortunately, I have been enabled to supply all our wants from the stores of Mr. Dean (Lloyd's agent) at so reasonable a rate that I have taken on board 300 tons of coals and a large quantity of biscuit, flour, and sugar, and shall not have to trench ou the Government depots, excepting for a small quantity of wide plank, spe cified in the enclosed requisition, "On my return to Monte Video I shall consider it my duty to report to the Commander-in-Chief the great facili ties that now exist at the Falkland Islands for coaling,wa tering, and procuring every requisite necessary at the shortest possible notice fur a much less price than at any other place between this place and England. The arrange ments for watering will enable the largest ship to complete in a day. " I have, &c., " H. BARNARD, "Commanding her Majesty's ship Vixen " His Excellency Governor Renuie." Having thus explained the state of the Falkland Islands as they were when I left them about a year since, I shall only offer a very brief reply to Mr. Eddy as to my reasons for thinking them ineligible for the foundation of a large colony of convicts. A gaol may be formed on any given site, and prisoners may be coerced to work and to submit to discipline. On those points no difference of opinion exists ; but the ques tion undecided is where that site is to be selected. I have already, in your journal of the bth inst., given, under the signature of " A Practical Man," my views as to the loco. lities I think most eligible. I will therefore only now discuss the special merits of the Falkland Islands. Let us suppose an expedition fitted out on a large scale, with all the needful appliances for forming a settlement. For the first year or more full employment will be found for xll the convicts in building prisons, guardhouses, &c. Those works completed, what is to be undertaken with any reasonable prospect of beneficial or remunerative result ? In my evidence before the committee of the House of Lords, last session, June 21, I replied in answer to a ques tion of the chairman (Lord Harrowby), that with the ex emption of a patent slip for the repair of shipping, there are, as far as I can judge, no public works of any great utility required of sufficient importance to employ a large body of convicts ; and as the machinery of the slip must be made in England, its erection would not involve great labour. As to the docks, suggested first by Lord Grey, and alluded to by Mr. Eddy, I was of opinion when on the islands, and subse quent consultations with eminent civil engineers since my return convince me, that the nature of the ground and slight rise of the tides (only abort 6 feet) would render the construction, if not impracticable, at all events so costly as to make the attempt highly inexpedient. The facility of water carriage all round the islands is so great that roads, if made, would never be used for heavier goods, and no settler on his unshod horses would ride on them. Draining might to a considerable extent carriedbediirerent on, but to move large parties and to guard them in localities, to cut drains for land of little or.ne valAufet,ecroutblde scarcely be advantageous in any point of s v ni i e a w ; he reckoned cattle of the Falkland Islands the fisheries nr e ely that is an em the pursuit next in importance w; h b c , " with the necessary boat ploy ment unsuited to prison b required, might escape on c ial ly engage.t h e The cattleAmericana,a r not e l a g t e" c r a a e s l r i n d p n o a e f r y t w e i crhuemploy w t to o n w y a h roem, number;he y evriihto. le T o h f e th te e r e m ri o m f in p t i l u s i m sh u ua st e b n e t maintained itBa : inneerdS 'bayntabeneCak'rrelvyaesrotnlinmeable probability of the man coot maim is t hero any ex ' voluntarily on the islands? My experience tted settling t e ma to the con trar y . Notwithstandin g the high convinces wag es procurable by artisans and labourers, the former, shipwrigh t s , earning sometimes 4 and 5 dollars per diem, the l a tter from 4s to Gs., few of them remain permanently, and the small population is kept up chiefly by fresh arrivals. The hardships endured by the fishermen, although the gains are sometimes considerable, prevent their continuing for any length of tine to follow that occupation, and the facilities which now exist for every man who can pull a rope to obtain service on board of the shipping touching at the islands enables the industrious to carry off their earnings to any part of the world, or the idle and vicious to change their residences, I, moreover, doubt exceedingly the groat safety of the Falkland Islands as a prison. If you nr,ke regulations of very st riugent character you will diminish the attraction of the islands is a touching port for resits and refr , shrnent. No vessels excepting under circumstances of real distre S N 1 ould ever come there, as the freedom beaAlry creations of the crews and passengers would be seriously ntorfered with for the memory oecn of the cowrie% //e' ( I Z2 e;_e7 and of corn's* if the discipline is less perfect escape would by no means be difficult. ; ."•;E !'4' SP T.' It The convicts during their senfen —s tr' , . , • settling permanently in a colony', N ' / ''C'' , t t: ,- 4 , , offers so few pleasurable or protitibl 'Pf A. • \--, , , ..'t !" go soon as freed the able-bodied among 11 lx • 4 Islands, leaving the helpless or itilF-diskp4 , lta ~ ' i1 , t,„ 1 burden on the Government.—Yolirs, ,: ' - 1; rktr*l. t ra i '., 4 / GEORGE • Lafq Governor, Falls latirslafil. S 43, Hertford-street, Mavfmir. Sir—Will you permit me to add a few words to those o )ur correspondent in this day's paper ? My experience as a seamen about the Falkland Islands and Tierra del Fuego while in command of the Fuegian Mission schooner during the past two years enables me to confute what Mr. Eddy has advanced on the subject ; and I consider that it would be an immense boon to the corn mercial and nautical world were the Falkland Islands made a penal settlement. That the colonists would not object to it I know to l the case from what I have frequently heard them say; and also from what his Excellency the present Governor has often told me ; indeed, I believe that some request has al ready been made to the Homo Government in reference to it. Of the advantages to be derived by all classes who have an interest in our shipping and commerce I will not now dwell, more than to say that I am convinced many ♦essels that now pass the Falkland Islands owing to circumstances connected with the difficulty in getting repairs speedily executed, would, were it a penal settlement with abund ance at our command, call there instead of going to Monte Video, and endeavouring to attract attention to this sub ject and narrative of my cruise lam preparing for publi cation, that I shall be happy to give any public informa tion in my power that may lead to so desirable and such a boon to Cape Horn ma, iners as the establishment of a penal settlement to the Falkland Islands. With regard to the Fuogian Mission, Mr. Eddy is under a slight mistake as to ite being located on East Falkland. It is on one of the west islands, and there are circumstances connected with it shortly to be made public that will show that there can bo very little fear of any hindrance being evinced on their part to any plan for the deportation of our convicts to the Falkland Islands. The " peculiar privileges granted to the mission" consist, I believe, only in the per mission to choose a small portion of land in the West Falklands, and purchase it at the usual price, without hav ing it first submitted to competition by public auction. When I left the Falklands in November last the purchase had not been effected. I am, sir, your very humble servant, W. PARKER SNOW,' Late Commander of the Allen Gardiner. Grosvenor-house, Knightsbridge, Jan. 21. e ~® 24, having attained that end, sir, I shall certainly have at tained the great end and object of my life. (The hon. gentleman resumed his seat amid vociferous applause.) Several other gentlemen addressed the meeting and moved resolutions approving the principles of the asso ciation, which were unanimously adopted. A petition in favour of direct taxation was prepared, which, after obtaining the signatures of the inhabitants, is to be in trusted to the care of Mr. J. C. Evart. Votes of thanks having been. voted to the chairman and Mr. Roebuck, the meeting separated. From the London Gazette t of Last Night. WAR-OFFICE, JAN. 22. The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of Major-General Robert John Hussey Viviin, of the Madras Army, late serving with the local rank of Lieutenant-General while in the command of the Turkish Contingent, to be an Ordinary Member of the . Military Division of the Second Class, or Knights Corn mandere of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath ; and of John George Shaw Lefevre, Esq., C. 8., Clerk of the Parliaments, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Divi sion of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the Most Honourable Order. Her Majesty has also been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of Col. Augustus Halifax Ferryman, of the 89th Regiment, and of Lieut.-Colonel William Lenox Ingall, of the 611 Regiment, to be Ordi nary Members of the Military Division of the Third Class, or Companions of the said Most Honourable order ; and of Henry William Gordon, Esq., Principal Storekeeper to the Army lately serving in the East, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Third Class, or Com panions of the said Most Honourable Order. FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 1. The Queen lir,s been graciously pleased to appoint Henry Woodfall Crowe, Esq., to be her Majesty s Consul at Hel singfors: • • FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 21. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Lord Napier, now Secretary to her Majesty's Embassy at Con stantinople, to be her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Hilary Term, 20th Victoria, Jan. 23. This Court will, on Monday, the 2d, Tuesday, the 3d, Monday, the 9th, and Tuesday, the 10th, days of February , next, hold sittings, and will proceed with the cases remain ing unheard at the end of the term, in the new trial, spe cial. and Crown papers. The Court will also hold a sitting on Tuesday, the 24th day of February next, for the purpose of giving judgments only. By the Court. WAR-DEPARTMENT, PALL-MALL, JAN. 23. Royal Artillery—Tla'e undermentioned Gentlemen Cadets to be Lieutenants :—Ed win Wm. Sandys, Allan May, John Minton Maunsel, George Lloyd Engstrom, Conway Richard Reeves, Michael John Sexton, and Wm. Scott. Royal Engineers—The undermentioned Gentleman Cadets to be Lieutenants :—Henry Darby Crozier, Henry Spencer Palmer, Robert Barton, Robert Owen Jones, Valentine Gardner Clayton, and Henry Cooper Seddon. COMMISSION SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANT. County of Glamorgan—The Hon. Wyndham Henry Windham Quin to be Deputy-Lieutenant. NATAL PRIZE MONEY. Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-house, Jan. 22. Notice is hereby given to all persons interested therein, that preparations are now making for the intended distri bution of proceeds arising from the Greek vessel San Spiridione and the Russian vessel Sloviano, captured on the 2 -th and 29th May, 1855, by her Majesty's ship Curlew. Agents or other persons having any just and legal de mand, unliquidated, against the said proceeds, are required to transmit the particulars of any such demand to the registrar of the High Court of Admiralty, in order that the same may be examined, taxed, and allowed by that officer, and paid under the sanction of the Judge of the said Court. Agents and all other persons holding powers of attorney, prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue of which they may he legally entitled to claim the share 'of any captor, are requested, with as little delay as possi ble, to transmit the same, accompanied by the usual do cuments, to the Prize Branch of the Department of the " Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset house." Due notice will be given, by future advertisements in the London Gazette, of the date proposed for the com mencement of distribution ; and, at the same time, the amount of an individual's share in the respective classes will be announced. ~~ ~~~~,~~ (e-e) -- K-7 6 BANKRUPTS. George Deeks, auctioneer, i'irestbourne-grove, Bays water, to surrender, Feb. 3, at one, and March 3, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Cole man-street-buildings ; Davis, Strand. Joseph Walters, hatter, Northampton, Feb. 6, and March 6, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Aldermanbury ' • Reed, Langford, and Marsden, Friday-street ; Jeffery, Northampton. George Ball, plumber and glazier, Now Lenton, Not tinghamshire, Feb. 10, and March `, at half-past ten, at the Shire-hall, Nottingham. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham ; Cpppo, : Nottingham ; Harrison and Wood, Birmingham. Thomas Cantrill, railwa# giesse Manufacturer,* Itivers. terrace, York-road, King's-cross ' Feb. 6, at one, and March 3, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-streot ; Wright and Bonner, Fenchurch-street. John Morley, joiner, Nottingham, Feb. 10, and March 3, at half-past ten, at the Shirehall, Nottingham. Harris, official assignee, Yottingharn ; Coops, Nottingham. William Henry Dickinson, table knife manufacturer, Sheffield, Feb. 7 and March 21, at ten, at the Council hall, Sheffield. Brewin, official assignee, Sheffield ; Broad bent, Sheffield. Edward White, stockbroker, Cushion-court, Old Broad street, Feb. 3, at half-past two, and March 3, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-court; J. and J. H. Linklater and Hackwood, Sise dan e. Henry Frederick Jsrss, merchant, Manchester, Feb. 12, and March 5, at the Manchester District Court. Herna man, official assignee, Manchester ; Stead, Manchester. Stephen Towan, currier, Plymouth, Feb. 2 and March 2, at ten, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter ; Elworthy, Plymouth. John Ladd, builder, Liverpool, Feb. o and March 5, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool ; Pemberton, Liverpool. James Schofield, tailor, Ashton-under-Lyne, Feb. 3 and March 3, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester ; Brooks and Marshall, Ashton-under-Lyne. John Dickson, builder, <lto., 206, Fleet•street, City, Ireb. 3, at half-past eleven, and March 3, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee ; King and George, King-street, Cheapside. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. _ _ _ Samuel Dobbie, grocer, - Lasswade. James Smith Lee, dealer in fancy goods, Trongate-street, Glasgow. James Paton, draper, Airdie. BANK OF An Account pursuant to the Act the Week ending on Saturth ENGLAND. rth and Bth Victoria, cap 32, for r the 17th day of Jan., 1867. LRTMENT. 1881:11t DEP . Notes issued ...... 23,975,935 Government debt.... 11,015,100 Other securities...—. 3,459,! , 0 0 Gold coin and bullion 9,501,938 Silver bu11i0n........ £23,976,935 M. MAMIIALL, Chief Cashier. D tted the 22d day of January, 1857. $23,9.6.935 W&NKING DE X Proprietors' capital .. 14,553.000 Rest 3,379,903 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav ing's Banks, and Dividend Accounts) 3,397,114 Other deposiis 11,075,931 + ven Day and other 8i115........ . 853,094 'AILTMENT. Government securities (includg.Des.d Weight Annuity) .......... 11,550 467 Other securities ...... 16,866 2 1 Notes • • .......... 4,813,91 u Gold and silver coin.. 605,474 $33,259,043 £33,259,042 f. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. L 857. Dated the 22d day of January, AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from the returns made in the week ending Jan. 20, 1857, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain : s. d. From the British Possessions in America.......... 35 6i Muscovado, the produco of the Mauritius..... ...... 36 11f Muscovado, tho produce of tho East Indies.... ...••• 36 6 Average of the above three descriptions............ 36 16 STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, JAN. 23, The market has been a shade firmer in consequence of the harder tone of the Liverpool cotton-market. Up to this morning there was a great anxiety to sell among spinners not under order, and the circle of sellers was increasing, but to-day they are less willing to make the concessions required, though still buyers are able to operate rather cheaper than they were eight or ten days a g o . Many of our spinners are engaged for months for ward in certain descriptions of yarn, all'l for these goods buyers find a difficulty in supplying their orders within the limits of their correspondents. In 40-inch shirtings rather easier prices are taken in consequence of the un favourable news by the overland mail, but other cloths are affected much in the same way as yarrw. Very little business doing. THE SUPERANNUATION TAX.—GLARGOW PETITI ON.-- A petition from the officers of customs at the port of Glasgow, against the superannuation tax, has been placed in the hands of Mr. Alexander Hastie, the mete• ber for the city, for presentation to Parliament. Mr. Alexander Bailie Cochrane, of Latuington, the new member for the county of Lanark, has also prom i sed to lend his influence and support for the repeal of the obnoxious tax.— Civil Service Gazette. The Weekly Register and Catholic Standard of to - day announces that the Irish Catholic A.rchbishops are summoned to R , me, and that it is expected that D. Cullen will be created ' a Cardinal. The appointment 1g announced, by the same paper, of the Honourable and Reverend W. Clifford, D.D., bon of Lord Clifford, to the Catholic See of Clifton, which has been some time vacant. Naval and .61.1.uutiy iiltehigence. The Imperieuse, 51, screw, Captain Rundle B. Watson, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning, having left Port Royal on the 29th ult. Arrogant, 47, screw, Captain Henry Lyster, was to leave Port Royal on the Ist inst., consequently she may be looked for about Sunday next. The Imperieuse brings no news. She goes into harbour this morn- mg. The Resolute Arctic exploring ship, arrived at Chatham, has had nearly the whole of her internal fittings removed, and yesterday her water tanks were taken out and placed in the dockyard. The men belonging to the dockyard are busily engaged dtamantling her, and a great part of her rigging has been removed. She is lashed alongside the Resist ance, but will be removed to the sheer hulk for the purpose of having her masts taken out. The Simooni, iron steam troopship, Commander Cooke, R.N., was officially inspected at Spithead yesterday by Vice-Admiral S:r George Seymour, the Commander-in-Chief, prior to her being de spatched to Cork to embark troops. The Megmra, 6, iron steam troopship, Comman der Purvis, R.N., had her compasses adjusted in Portsmouth harbour yesterday. Mr. Underwood, master-attendant of Portsmouth dockyard, has been employed for some days past in selecting a position and laying down moorings on the Sussex coast (off Chichester) for a 42 gun frigate, one of the Coastguard squadron. A. number of convalescents from the Royal Military Hospital at Woolwich yesterday appeared before the medical board, and 24 of them, belong ing to the Royal Artillery, were, on examination, pronounced unfit for further duty, and were con sequently discharged the service. Major-General Sir W. F. Williams, accompanied by his staff, attended at " guard mounting" on parade yesterday morning, and acted as field-officer for the occasion. The troop of Royal Horse Artil lery under the command of Colonel Anderson were marched in the morning through the village of Plumstead, and on the high road for upwards of 10 miles, and returned by the same route to Wool wich. The battalions assembled on parade fronting the barracks, and were put through a course of field-gunnery exercises. The division of Royal Marines Light Infantry was drawn up in the bar rack-square, under the command of Lieutenant and Adjutant Fraser, and subjected to a course of " marching round" and position drill. A court-martial assembled on Thursday after noon on board H.M.S. Impregnable, in Ha moaze, for the trial of Lieutenant Edward Barkley, of the sloop Siren, on a charge of being drunk on the 15th of August while on the South American station. The charge being fully proved the Court sentenced the prisoner to be dismissed the service ; but recommended him to the favourable considera tion of the Lords of the Admiralty, believing that there were extenuating circumstances in the case. An honorary medal for meritcrious services, for , warded by the Lords Commissioners of the Admi ralty, was yesterday presented on full parade at the Royal Marine quarters, Woolwich, by Com mandant Colonel John Tatton Brown, to Quarter master-sergeant Daniel John Ryan, accompanied by an annuity of 51., after a service of 30 years, 25 of which he had served as a non-commissioned officer. Having been discharged at his own request, their Lordships were pleased to grant him a pen sion of 421. per annum in addition to the annuity . of Si. His brother non-commissioned officers took the opportunity before his departure of testifying their esteem for him as a comrade, and offered him their best wishes for his future welfare. Me dals for long service and good conduct were like wise sent for delivery to Provost -Sergeant William Nells, with a gratuity of 151., and Private James Glass, with a gratuity of 51. The iron screw steam. store-ship Industry, Mas ter Commander Allen, of the Admiralty yacht Vivid, in temporary command, left Woolwich yesterday morning, laden with boilers and machi nery for Portsmouth. The Admiralty yacht Black Eagle, Master-Commander Petley, is under orders to keep in readiness to leave Woolwich on special service. The Inez de Castro arrived at Lisbon on the 16th from Glasgow. Her Majesty's ship Princess Royal, after communicating with Rear-Admiral Dundas, had entered the Tagus. As she came to anchor too close in shore she grounded, but got afloat again on the flow-tide. The French ship Auster litz had anchored just inside the bar. No news had been received of the Royal Mail packet Tamar. The Durham, which was detained at Lisbon, spoke, Jan. 18, lat. 41.33 N., long. 9 36 W., the screvr steamer Douro, bound south, and, on the 21st, lat. 48.9 N., long. 7.12 W., the screw-steamer Rattler, also bound south. and A t o newbe constructedst steam-vessel, m -vesae ordered to be laid down no a fa t nyteihmriysplraoarvrgdeed. P dimension s, T r li n e cP n itl c i s 6 - a m ll. ade yester stahreyAd plansmirahltayv, have and bdwe will time p we r 02 0 rpBkoa is 1 to t and bbee tw a e p e p ti r approvedc ommenced p e b i r y a : a few days. She app me 1 3 1 t 3O f n e e t s t o w y e e r r e Idwa n Ty d ba i et cu tf l ho a ei r i s o , Awd a im n i il ra a l b t o y u o: t i_ . _Lieutenant Robert Deare, to the Iris ; Lieute nant Arthur R. Owen, to the Majestic ; Ernest H. Allfrey, midshipman, to the Malacca. Tao men are at present in prison at Dorchester for sheepstealing. They were discovered by a bloodhound being put on their track. bee S n TA t T a E ke O n r in S b T e . h j al A fo rE f 3 ;l B iose PARK.—Muche something trouble who might bas he done for those who are o bli ge d to w ' alk The ground in front of the Pal ace i s a comp l ete s W amp, and no a w t e te l l i n a p v t e haduring has s t h b e e e c n o n n t l i a n d u e a n t o c eof the w cleanse it. e t Sweepers weather a that re not allowed in the park, but boot-cleaners are ready at the gates. SINGULAR CASE.—At the Lynn County Court a few days ago was tried the case of Royston v. Horningold. \lr. Naylor was counsel fmr the plaintiff, the tenant of Lady Howard, of Castle Rising, whose rights were con cerned ; and Mr. Wilkinson appeared for the defendant. In ~he course of the trial it appeared that in the year 1852 the deferpla,,t's boat drifted upon a marsh . let to the plaintiff, and, miles away from a human habitation, he continued to reside in it, by degrees throwing up a hank so as to inclose half an acre of the marsh. Here he lived and slept and was merry, although when the tides were high, his place seemed like all oasis in the sea, getting his living by fishing and fowling, and sometimes being of great service in cases of are ck. The marsh being of no great value his " A uatip g" ws+s passed over, especially as tie serp presents of to Mr. R,,yston, the tenant, and he would not have been intre-reo with had he not tres ,,assed so As t;, create this action, 13evond the bank Hornigold had thrown np, large flocks of sheep were at low tides depaqured, and 11, - 1.6°1d .etup a puny and a donkey to bring his EA, &c., to Lynn, and depas tute,d I.hein on the plaintiff's tuarth. This was not :t,lloAed, and ite told he mast pay t or this ; set t emboldened, he k.,14 up a claim a 'lie", was clear, aotion 'anti brought. The judge said theand now t hi s nnd that no person had a right to :‘scpia.t in..w 11 on .1 any other persona land , . and gave nominal damages, to whichh the plaintiff, assented. Mr. Naylor, oa :be part of i ~Di),~I .e . 1. - %OIT•