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THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY do hereby give Notice. that the Rate o' I:xebange at which they will receive Cosh for Bills on Bengal and adras will, from the present date, and until further notice, he 2s. nid VI, Company's Rupee, and for Biils on Bombay 2s. ld. the Com- May's Rupee, ~,,.. ..fr , 0 , 1, P I „ i ✓ ..,, I t .... i, ) ~.i „4_,,•,v..., ,%.,*,,,, it (Prom, the 31Ornia,7 P00,t,) Tho zrent \V l I ~• JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. N O . 20,146.) LONDON, TUESD AY EVENING, JANUSRY 13, 4D • STAMP?I) 4 KIOR • 11R. ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC, . BADEN, up the RHINE. and PARIS, is NOW OPEN E`ERY EVENING (except Saturday) at 8 o'clock.—Stalls, Area, 2s. ; gallery, Is. Stalls can be secured at the box office, tgYPtian Hall, Piccadilly, every day between eleven and four, with ellt any extra charge. The Mor,ing Representations take place every Tuesday and Saturday, at Three o'clock. MR. W. S. WOODIN'S OLIO of ODDITIES, with New Costumes and various Novelties, Tocal and Cha ,Eatteristic. every evening (except Saturday) at Eivht A MORN- Mi PER FOR MANC E every s A.TUR I) 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 bteri entirely redecorated. A RGYLL ROOMS.—LAURENT'S CASINO, 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. ROtticourt. The Proprietor begs to inform the public that th;s ttshionable place of resort ha= been entirely redecorated during the tecess. Doors open at half-past eight, corx.ruenee at nine. Admis sion One Shilling. R. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 4, Coventry-street, Leicester-square.—Open (for Gentlemen AL../ ugly) from 10 till 10, containing upwards of one thousand models .nd 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. Serrozs, ; and a new and highly-interesting series of Lectures is now in course of delivery by Dr. K mix, at a quarter past 8 p.m. precisely. Admission, One Shilling. Catalogues containing Lectures as delivered by Dr. Khan (gratis). GENERAL TOM THUMB, the AMERICAN DWARF.—Crowded Houses.—Patronised thirteen years ago by aer Majesty, EI.R.H. Prince Albert, H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, &c., &c. xhibitin7 every day and evening, previous to visiting Russia, in Regent Gallery, 9, Quadrant, from II to I. 3 to 5, and 7 to 9 o'clock. He is beautifully proportioned, and the mallect man alive. His performances are remarkably talented and enchanting. New Characters, Costumes, Songs, Dances. Statues, &c. The General continues to wait on the nobility and gentry, at their resideaces. on due notice. His miniature equipage promenades the streets daily. Admission, is. each, regardless of age ; Stalls, 2s. and 35.; children half-price. TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. • AN ARCHITECT and SURVEYOR o f 13 years' experience. having commercial practice in the City, is desirous of .receiving a Young Gentleman in his otlie- on Probation (previously to his being artieled), in order* thathe maylmitittli idea of the ditties of the profession, and also afford the advertiser the means of ascertaining that he possesses the requisi:e energy, ability, and taste. A moderate Premium will be required should he be accepted as a PUPIL The term of years to be agreed upon. Address, in first instance, " Gothic," City News Rooms, Cheaps:de. NATIONAL (late Cholera) ORPHAN HOME, Ham Common, Richmond.—F,unded 1849, after the visita lion eine Chol Person—Field-Marshal H.R.11. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, K.G. PATitoNEss—H.R.H. the Duchess of GLOUCESTER. On SUNDAY MORNING next, January 18th, a SERMON will be preached In Christchurch, Blackfri , rs-road, on behalf of the above Institution, by the Rev. JOSEPH 111:0WK, M.A.. Rector of the Parish. Divine Service will commence at 11 o'clock. There are seventy-six Orphan Girls in the Home, and an election of fur more will take place the next day, Monday, the 19th. All in'ormatien will be given by the Secretary, R. W. Newman, Esq., 9, Inner ample-lane, and by the Matron of the Home, to whom subscrlotions may be paid; also to the Home account, at the London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury, Henry Kingsaote, Esq. reAsurer. JOSEPH BROWN, M.A., 7 Honorary RICHD. WHITTINGTON, M.A. , 5 Secretaries. BANK of L O N D O N. HEAD BANKING-HOUSE—Threadneedle-street. Cusanga-CROSS BRANCH-450, West Strand. • BOARD OF DIRECTORS. CHATR3I"—SIr JOHN VILLIERS SHELLEY, Bart., M.P., 25, Park-lane, and Marestield-park, Sussex. VICE-Clumucts.--JOHN GRIFFITH FRITH, Esq. (Frith, Sands, _ and Co.), Austin-friars. . John. Edmund Anderdon, Esq., Devonshire-terrace, Hyde -park. Colonel William Elsey, 11.E.1.C.5., Bank House, Acton. Thomas Gooch, Esq. (Gooch and Cousens, London-wall), Brixton Vise. Jeremiah Greatorex, Esq. (Bradbury, Greatorex, and Co., Alder manbury), Spring Hill House, Upper Clanton. Alexander Constantine loredes, Esq. (Firm of lonides, Sgouta, end Co., Gracechurch-street), Tulse-hill. Charles Joyce, Esq. (Firm of Charles Joyce and Co., Moorgate , street), Gloucester-gardens, Hyde-park. Thomas Luce, Esq., M.P., King-street, St. James's, and Malmes bury, Wilts. Henry Morris, Esq., late of the Madras Civil Service, 25, Mark lane, City. Sir Henry Muggeridge, Alderman of London, St. Andrew's-hill, City. Alfred Wilson, Esq. (Venables, Wilson, and Tyler, Queenhlibe), Firgrove, Weybridge, Surrey. Current or drawing accounts received and interest allowed on the balances. Dkrosir AcconNTs.—The interest allowed on money placed on deposit at three days' notice of withdrawal is now 51. per cent, Whether deposited by customers or the public. No gratultiespayable to officers and clerks. MATTHEW MARSHALL, jun., Manager. BENJAMIN SCOTT. Secretary. ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SIXTU SALE. CUSTOM-HOUSE, London, January, 1857. FOR SALE, by ord er o f th e H onoura bl e the Commissioners of her Majesty's Customs, at the Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing-lane, on MONDAY, Jan. 19, TUESDAY, 20th, WEDNESDAY, 21-t, THURSDAY, 22d, FRIDAY, 23d, and MON DAY, 26th, at twelve at noon precisely, the following GOODS for home consumption, viz.:— Agate Ornaments, Bey in Embroidery, Ba'rs, Brushes, Books, Brandy, Cambric Handkerchiefs, embroidered; Clocks, brass, black, bronze, and ormoulu, Coffee, Cordials, Cotton Articles, Elastic Web bing; Embroidery or Needlework, Habits, Sleeves, Collars ; Furni ture, viz. ' Cheat of. Drawers, Tables, Cabinets, Ch a i rs , & c . ; Fl owers (artificial); Geneva, Glove - , Hair (pig's), Hair Guards, Hat Linings, Ivory Ornaments and Brooches ; Jewellery (mock), viz., Bracelet., Brooches, Pins, Chains, &c.; Lace Articles; Leather Articles, viz., pia ness, Sa , dles, Boots and Shoes; Mats (table), Needles, Org n, Opera Glasses and Optical Instruments, Paper, Pipe Stems, Perfumed Spirits, Picture Mouldings, Portemonnales, &c.; Prints, Rum, Segars, Sticcades, &c.; Shawls (wove) ; Spirits, plain and mixed, Silk Manu factures, viz., Velvet, Braid, Vestments, Canvas, Trimmtogs, China Gstiza. &c.; Sugar, Tallow, Tapestry, Tel, Timber, Toys, a Vessel, Watches (Gold and Silver), Water (Mineral), Waterproof Clothing, Wine, and various other Goods. For Exportation or for Home Consumption, on payment of the Duties : —Books, Sugar, Spirits, Tea, Wine, and other Goods. For Exportation only :—Sweetened Spirits, &c. For the benefit of the Crown : —lron, Rope, Canvas, Sugar, Spirits, Wine, &c. The above goods may be viewed• at the Queen's Warehouse, Cus tom-house, and Cox's-quay, Thames-street ; at the London, St. Katha rine, East and West India Docks ; Tobacco Ground ; and Gordon's Sail Loft, Princes-stairs, Rotherhithe ; on Thursday, the 15th, Friday, the 16th, and Saturday, the 17th of January, from Ten in the morning until Three in the afternoon, and on the days of sale from Ten in the morning until Twelve at noon. Take Notice, that goods sold at this sale will not be delivered unt'l after two clear days of the day on which they are sold, and that no lots can be paid for at the office of the Receiver-General after Two •'Clock in the afternoon, and that on the days of sale money will not be received by the Receiver-General after eleven o'clock in the fore noon. Catalogues may be bad at the Queel's Warehouse, Custom-house, Thames -street, price one shilling each. CANCER HOSPITAL, London and West B romptFecretary's Office, 167, Piccadillyis Institu tion has been established exclusively for the treatment of the poor afflicted with cancerous diseases. Out-door patients to attend at 167, Piccadilly, on Tuesdays, at 2 o'clock, In-door patients are admitted at the Brompton Establishment, for one month, and for a longer period if recommended by the medical officers. The number of per sons under treatment as in or out-door patients have averaged for the itst three years about 400 cases each year. Since the foundation of this Hospital in 1851, 1,799 poor persons, suffering under every form of this dreadful malady, have received the benefits of this Charity. A Weekly Board manage Its affairs, and every informa tion connected with the Institution may be obtained on application to the Secretary. Contributions to enable the Committee to continue this great work of benevolence are urgently solicited, and may be paid to William Loxham Farrar, E,q., the Treasurer, 6G, Lincoln's inn -fields; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand; and at the Secretary's Offices, 167, Piccadilly. _ . By order. W. J. COCKERILL, Secretary. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. Patron—The QUEEN.—Founded 1828. 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 f this Charity, either as out or in-door patients, on their personal application:— Week ending 7th November 2,154 .....,...;_ Ditto 14th November.... • • 2,043 Ditto 28th21 at November .... • • 1,972 ......... Ditto November 2,309 29tha nd nth ve be • • Total in November ..... 8,747 of:hich 2,775 were new cases, the remainder (still under treat ment) having been admitted previously. The clergy of all denominations Yhave 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 theiZlovernors, Annual yearly elected from the gene ra l li st of subscribol at general Meeting in January. A B oar d i s held every; Thursday, at 4 o'clock (Rev. J. B. Owen, Chair man ) , to conduct theusiness when any subscriber may . attend, if so disposed, the Board bein all times desirous of receiving suggestions or giving explanation g at The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on volun tary contributions and legacies, which are received by the Treasurer, John Masterman, Esq., M.P., Nicholas-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutt^ end Co. ; Drummond and Co.; Herpes and Co.; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne,. and Co. ; G lyn and Co. Jones Loyd and Co.; Barclay and Co. , Denison and Co. ; Wi lliams, ; Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney , and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Her ners-street ; Masterman and Co. ; and at the Ilospipd. Clothing for the destitute patients will be th ankfully received. By order. J. B. OWEN, M.A.., Chairman. A NEW AND IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE. Patent Office Seal of Great Britain. Medicine, Vienna. i I College of Pharmacien de Paris. Iall".-a __ i n the form of alozenge, Diplome d'Ecole de Pharmacie TRIESEMAR No. 1,2, and 3, prepared devoid of taste or smell, and can be as administered by to doses, Sold in tin cases, divided into separate doses, c carried in the waistcoat pocket. Valpeau for v PE . Lallemand, Roux, Ricord, &c., & ._ TRIESEMAR No. 1 is a the distressing LA.XATION, SPERMATORRIMA, and all i inate excesseS, Remedy or too ei onsequences arising from early abuse, indiscr m long residence in hot climates. It has now and vigour to thousands of debilitated re in d d b i o v el id il u y al a s n w d new in the enjoyment of health and the Functions who are RI crs. derfal Discovery. Whatever May be the came for DISQIJALIFIC , ATIONS for MAR -- — "aey are effectually subduei by this I on :teeth " TRIcSEMAR No. 11., .„,,, - auY, in the short space of three days, completely d a ag nd g e r n av tl a r t e e ly d / o ;7: a n tes all traces of Gonorrhcea, both in its mild "[re' 'ile.% Strictures, Irritation of the Bladder, Non-retention of v me Pains of the Loi and Kidneys, and those &so -31)aivi and Cubeb have s . 1 n been thought an antidote for, to the flair ofthe health of avas s t ° p o orfion of the populAtion. Is the TRIESEMAR No. 111., toms. great n s. ,_''°llttrlCntal Remedy for Syphilis and Secondary SYmP - Cutaneous" '.O constitutes a certain cure for Scurvy, Scrofula, an orr d u al p_ l bons and hap ritions, removing and expelling in its course all c . te the virus of airsictasiese from the tal stream, altooether to eradica ihrongh the m edium , nd l e t xpel it with he th as s e it i i n n se au ls d ib u le rt p H e e r , s a p l i t r a at t i s on a fur th. t e t pciir,es of never -failing remedy the . English P h r di t sorders which unfortunately • ion of the patient a treats e it a h 8 1.ler d c ry to the inevitable dsstruc 'a col atitZthe world cannot restore. which saves Ils., and in 54. rr 1 c o u n ii a s li N u yln , ch all the sarsaparilla in au; Whe ., re o b r .four cases s i a n vi o n n o. e o t f 'or ii. 3 l 3 2 s s , : To be hrd wholesale and re' ail in Londo y n of Derby and Gordon, 140, Leadenhallstreet; Prom, 229, Strand; Hannay and f 3rd-street ; Sanger, 150, Oxtorthstreet; Barclay and Son, 97, Far -I:nl,km-street ; Itutier aid 'larding, 4, Cheapslde ; Edwards, St. Co., 63, Ox- Paul's Churchyard. lIUMAN FRAILTY ; a Popular Medical work, price IS., Chet free, beautifully illustrated with 100 engravings, and containing the Opinions of Valpeau, Lailernand, Roux, Ricord, &c. It gives copious instructions for the perfect restoration of those Rho are prevented by impeditnents from entering into the married sta'o, also showing the dreadlul results from early abuse, gonorrhcea, an t 83-Phills, and the benefits arising from the chemical tests and eximination of the sperinatoza, by the author's newly-constructed mizrescope, with powerful lenses,—Piper and Co., 23, Paternoster () w aucl froro all agents for the sale of"lrleaemar.' PIINJAUB RAILWAY COMPANY.—No further Application for Shares in the above Company can be received after TO-MORROW (Wednesday), the 14th inst. _ THOMAS BURNELL, Secretary. Gresham House, Old Broad-street, Jan. 13, 1857. How SAWARD CAME TO BE A BARRISTER.—The Law Times says :—" The question is properly asked, How did ',Tem Saward,' who figures in the great city for geries,' get to the bar ? In the Law List he is described as James Tewnahend Saward, Esq., of the Inner Temple and the Home Circuit.' The date of his call is the 28th of November, 1840. He has been for a long time the associate of thieves. Who is he ? By what two barristers was he proposed ? By whom of the Benchers approved ? For without this preliminary cer tificate of character admission of a student is imprac ticable. The Inner Temple boasts of a sort of prelimi nary classical examination. Was Jem Saward' subjected to this ? These are questions which the society has a right t o as k, an d th e p roposers m i g ht pro perly be called upon to state what was their knowledge of him." GALLANT CONDUCT. —About 12 o'clock at noon on Sunday last the brag Era, of Rochester, while off Easing ton, was struck by a tremendous sea, by which one of afterw ar d s the crew were washed ov er b oar d. Th e vesse l was shortly un driven on shor e b e t ween C as tl e Ed en Dene andnrde where a number of villager s were gathered to get h er on the shore, among w h om were M r. Rowland Burdon, chairman Ce of the qua r t e r s ess i ons , and the cur a t e of Castle that a chain of h an d s be formed den. Mr. Burdon proposed ing the rope, and th a t the taller m en s h ou ld go i n fi rst. . for the purpose of reach- The proposal was at onc' k e eper went first, Mr. Burdon second, to ; a s t a l war t game. Castle Eden next. They then advanced and the cur a t e o f until Mr. Burdon was up to the shoulders, wh en th e en d into th e wa t er of the rope was caught , and acommunication with the vessel, and the crew Weredra obt a i ne d Mr. Burdon had p rom p tl y sent downfrwonm the castle on shore. a supply of brandy and other restoratives, together with a quantity of blankets , for the shipwrecked mariners.— Yorkshire Gazelle. WILLS AND CHARITABLE BEQUESTS. —The will of the Right Hon. Julia Anne, Countess Dowager of Roden, was proved under 4 , 0001. Rear-Admiral Sir H. Hart , K.C.H., 18,0001. The Rev. W. H. Cooper, of Kemp Town, 25,000/. J. Venn, E-q., of Highbury p ar k , 25,000/. T. Worthington, Esq., Sharston Hall, Cheshire, 45,000/. within the province of Canterbury, an d has left some thousands to charitable institutions in Man chester. John Collett, E : q , formerly M.P., 80,000/ , leaving 5,0001. at the discretion of his executors, to p a y fines imposed upon poachers, and legacies to charities. John Kenyon, Esq., F.R.G.S., F.G.S., of Devonshire place, West Cowes, and Wimbledon, 180,000/. within the province. The will, though short, contains nume rous legacies to his literary friends, and one of large amount. Those not exce• ding 5,0001. each are free of legacy duty. 5,000/. to the University College Hospi tal, Gower-street; to Robert Hawthorn, Esq., one of his executors, 20,000/. ; and to James Booth, Esq., the other executor, 5,000/. He has also left the residue of his property equally between them,—///ustrated News. LAW AMENDMENT SOCIETY. TREATMENT OF DANGEROUS CRIMINALS. A meeting of this society was held yesterday evening —Lord Stanley, M.P., in the chair. After the preliminary business had been disposed of, The Secretary (Mr. Hastings) read the following letter from Lord Brougham : " Brougham, Jan. 8, 1857. "My dear Hastings—lt appears to me very important that the attention of the society should be directed speci ally to the complaints, not by any means groundless, which have lately been made of some things connected' with the administration of the criminal law. Of the change required in the law itself I have more than once made mention; but I now refer to certain matters in the administration of it. I shall at present only mention one of them, but it is really of great importance generally and permanently, although at this time, from accidental cir cumstances, it possesses peculiar claims to our attention., Surely some arrangement ought to be made for giving the Home Department more regular and effectual :latest ance in the exercise of that most important and difficult and most delicate office of remitting or commuting pa nishments ordered by the sentences of courts. It is not interfering with the high prerogative of mercy to regu late the manner in Which it shall be exercised. The prerogative would remain. whatever checks we Might impose upon the advice to be tendered. Nay, the very department to which assessors might be appointed would be at full liberty to disregard thar recommendation, a, the sheriff is in the writs of inquiry executed by hit n with his assessor. But there is a case more closely reset n tiling the one in question, where the royal prerogative in criminal, as well as in civil causes, is in substance touched, though not in form. The Judicial Coinr&.ttee ,of the Privy Council hears and determines tho , C causes; and though its recommendations do not ,bind the -Crown, and maY be wholly disregarded, yet I question if any instance can he found, even before that tribunal was established, certainly there has been none since, of any other judgment being given by the Crown than ace' rding.to the report of the committee. But lam sure never dreamt that when we were forming the court, with powers far more extensive than the former pt.s sessed, there was any encroachment made upon the pre rogative. It well deserves to be considered by on.: of our committee in what way this help should.be provided for the department. Several plans have suggested( them selveo, but it is manifest that here, as in so matoy other branches of our inquiries touching the amendnemt of the .aw, the want of a minister of justice will be sure to meet us at each step, and that the creation of such an office would probably supply the defect complait.ed of. Thera cave been some cases lately in our criminal courts serving of serious attention, on account of the erroneous views taken by juries, and not perhaps aufficienily checked by the bench. But without more full and accu rate information than I have been able to obtain as to the facto, I do not even wish to state my doubt and diffi culties.—Believe me, sincerely yours, "H. BRO UGHAM. " The SECRETARY then read a report presented. by the Criminal Law Committee on the paper read at the pre ceding meeting by Mr. Hill, in reference to the means of treeing a country from dangerous criminals. The commit. tee were of opinion that some alterations in the scale of punishment were necessary, and 'that a more vigorous administration of the criminal law would render thecom mission of acts of violence, robbery, and aggression mat ters of rare occurrence. They thought the Lite increase in the number of crimes of a violent character attributable in some degree to the disbandonment of the militia, which bad throivn on the country 70,000 men without adequate means of employment ; but the root of the evil was, in their opinion, to be found in the worse than useless sys. tem of short imprisonments. The committee were opposed to Mr. Hill's recommendation, that all persons who could not show how they subsisted stiould be' liable to imprisonment, thinking that it might lead to great abuse. They were also adverse to the renewal of the transportation system, if by that phrase were meant the establishment of a new penal colony, and were convinced that all the advantages which attended a penal settlement abroad might be better secured in one at home. They did not think the ticket•of-leave system had as yet bad a fair trial. After reading the report, Mr. HASTINGS moved that it be adopted and printed, and further moved the adoption of the following resolu tions, embodying the substance of its recommendations : "1. That the 4th section of the 16th and 17th Via sap. 99, ought to be repealed, and that terms of impri. ionment equal to the former terms of transportation should be adopted in place of the periods of penal servi tude laid down by that section." "2. That courts of justice ought to be empowered to inflict, at their discretion, one of such terms of imprison ment on any offender convicted of simple larceny, vvi.h. out any proof of previous conviction of felony." "3. That it is not expedient to establish a now penal colony, or to renew the former system of transportation ; out that it is highly desirable to encourage the emigra tion of reformed criminals after they have passed through proper period of punishment and protection in this country to such colonies a 3 may be willing to receive them." The meeting then proceeded to discuss the resolutions separately. Mr. E. WEBSTER moved as an amendment to the pro. position of Mr. Hastings that the report be simply re ceived, and printed for circulation, without the resolu• tions, and argued in favour of the establishment of a new penal colony in which new inducements to reformation should be held out to convicts. Mr. ELLIOTT, who seconded the amendment, con- tended that there was no possibility of reforming bar ,lened criminals without sending them to a penal colony. Mr. A. PELLATT, M.P., objected to the report on the ground that it drew no!,distinctian between reclaimed and nnreclainced criminals, and observed that reforms• tion for the mass would be impracticable until adequate provision had been made for the employment of criminals on their release from confinement. He saw no reason why an improved system should not be adopted without a recurrence to transportation. Mr.T. HILL thought that sufficient facilities existed for employing criminals in this country, either in agri cultural or in manufacturing operations. The only material difference between the committee and himself related to the nature or degree of evidence which ought to be required in courts of justice for the establishment of guilt. He admitted that that was a question which required to be well discussed, and that it would be an evil to make any change that would not meet with ge neral concurrence. He did not desire anything that would endanger the free institutions of the country, but it must be remembered that freedom to the criminal was practically slavery to the honest man. (Hear, hear.) Adverting to transportation, he strongly condemned the renewal of it in any form, and argued that the best course would be to increase the accommodation to pri soners either in this country or on some island adjacen t to it. Mr. J. DILLON thought it ought not to be assumed that none of the oolonies would receive criminals under any circumstances, and expr:lsed strong disapproval of the lenient treatment of criminals. Mr. HASTINGS, in replying, said he thought the ob- ject of the committee would be attained by the printing and circulating of their report. Lord STANLEY said he might, perhaps, as chairman, be allowed to make a few remarks. The debate had, practically, turned on the subject of transportation. Chat subject divided itself into two distinct questions first, what they were to do with the criminals while they were under punishment ; secondly, what they were to do with thena after their term of punishment had ex- pirr i. As regarded the first of those questions, he be lieved there was a very general agreement among.t all who had considered the matter, that while a criminal was actually undergoing his sentence it was in all rd spects better to retain him here than to send him abroad. Under the former arrangement there was no possibility of his mixing with the home population, because he was kept secluded ; there were plenty of pub lie works upon which he might be employed; they saved the expense of his passage ; they had a more effective superintendence than could be obtained on the other side of the world, and which was a consideration that ought not to be entirely neglected ; there was a better climate here than in moat places abroad where public works could be usefully executed. The real difficulty was met with when they came to consider the other question— what they were to do with thbfie whose strictly penal term had expired. It seemed to him that there were only three courses which could possibly be adopted. The first was to send the criminals to colonies which were already occupied; the second to found new colonies expressly for the purpose of receiving them; the third, to keep them in this country, with tickets of leave, or without them. As to the proposition to send them to colonies which were already peopled, that was an expedient of which he altogether despaired. The colonists would not consent to receive criminals, and no sane man would entertain the idea of forcing them to do so. It was often said th-re were particular settlements which would receive a fe convicts. The reception of a few would not meet the case ; it would, at the utmost, only postpone for two or hoe pare the adoption of the remedy which must be resort ted to at last. The alternative lay between founding anew colony for criminals, and providing for them at hot ize. As to the former, it was surrounded with diffi cul ties, In the first place, it would be absolutely necea ear yto exclude free settlers from any penal colony. A. ism r penal colony must be exclusively penal ; otherwise the free settlers would gradually strengthen in influence till they became the majority, and prevented any further iml ?ortation of criminate. Even, however, if free settlers we re excluded, a similar result would ultimately arise. The convicts who were sent out would have children -for of course women would be sent ; and in 30 years there would be a new generation, consisting of persons who, being themselves innocent, would object to the im portation of criminals as strongly as settlers who had gone out from England. (Hear.) Besides, there was the practical question, where were they to find such a place of transportation as would be required ? (Hear.) As to selecting a small South Sea island, that was out of the question. A. large area would be required, for a very considerable number would have to be sent, and one, if not the principal, object of sending out criminals would be to put them in a place where there would be almost unlimited space for all. Three situations had been named ' —one the northern part of Australia, another Vancou ver's Island, the third Hudson's Bay. Now, to every ono of those locations there was some grave objection. As to North Australia, there was, in the first place, the certainty that, whatever the distance might be, the cri minals who were lodged there would, when allowed a certain degree of liberty, find their way sooner or later to the other Australian settlements. In the next place, it must be recollected that the whole of Northern Australia was between the tropic', and that the settlement of Port Essington, which was founded there, was given up because the climate was found to be unhealthy. In fact, all ex perience showed that in low-lying lands thus situated the European race degenerated, and its labour was un profitable. With regard to Vancouver's Island, he thought the neighbourhood of the Californian diggings, and the feelings of the inhabitants of the United States, were conclusiveobjections to its beingselected. The same objections did not, indeed, apply to Hudson's Bay ; but then he believed it would be found that a subsistence was only to be obtained there by hunting, the climate offering insuperable objections to the keeping of stock and the cultivation of land. These considerations, it seemed to him, disposed of all the localities which had been men tioned as available. In this state of things the only alternative left to them was to try and make the best of detention at home. On this subject he would remark, b the first place, that he did not think the ticket-of leave system had yet had a fair trial, much less was responsible for the whole of the outrageous crimes which had been recently perpetrated. A large number of men had been discharged from the Militia ; regiments of the line which had returned home, on being re duced, bad naturally got rid of some of their worst cha racters ; and owing to those two causes there was no doubt a larger criminal population than there would have been under other circumstanc es . B u t, i n t h e next principle oil whi c h th e ticket rkamtheed had b een f a i r l y carr i e d out. o p f l - a l c e e a , v he e systemd i d not w t a h s i n f: 'As he understood that system it Was implied that the residence and occupation of every man having a ticket of leave should be known, so that if there were merely a strong suspicion that any such person was getting his living dishonestly, he should on that ground alone be called to account. The principle of the ticket-of-leave system should be applied with much greater strictness than it had been. Now he would just point out one or two means by which he thought the existing evil might be alleviated. It struck him as a great misfortune that in their prison discipline there was no provision for an intermediate state between actual seclusion in prison and absolute freedom of life out of doors. ([bear.) The man who left prison was bewildered by the new state of things in which he found himself. Moreover the men who were the best behaved in prison were often the worst behaved out of prison —and for this reason, that they were the men most susceptible to any influence', whether good or bad, which were brought to bear upon them. The man who was docile when subject to good influences was equally docile, perhaps, when placed in contact with his old eompanions. (Hear.) He thought, therefore, that one evil which required to be corrected was the sudden transition from a state of absolute prison seclusion to a state of absolute freedom. He was also of opinion that more consideration ought to be given to the recom mendation of Capt. Maconochie, that the length of a man's imprisonment should be made to depend to a cer tain extent on his own labours. Another question arose, namely, whether, taking into consideration the state of employment i n thi s country, and the ex t reme d i ffi cu l ty of sending cri m i na l s a b road, it would not be practicable to provide c on ti nue d emp l oymen t for those wh o were willing to accept i t on public works, er otherwise, after their discharge from gaol. It was, he thought, a reproach to the state of the law that a ticket of-leave man should be compelled to come before a police magistrate, as had been the care recently, and say— " What am I to d o ? No one will give me employment." (Hear.) He would conclude by saying that, though th ey did not pretend to see their way out of all these difficul ties, they should at least warn the public against trying vain and fancied remedies. It was better to know that the problem remained unsolved, than to put trust in some imaginary solution, which was sure to break down at last. On a show of hands the amendment was adopt , A, and the meeting adjourned till that day week. ANOTHER BRITISH SUBJECT ARRESTED IN PRUSSIA. We have to make an announcement to our readers of a most humiliating nature, and calculated to fill them with renewed indignation at the low estimate in which the Bri tish name and the rights of British citizenship ara held at this moment by the despots of Europe. Our readers will remember that, for some time past, a controversy has been carried on in the columns of this journal respczting the rights of those of our fellow-citizens who have acquired by naturalisation the rights of an Eng lish subject. Legally speaking, there can be no doubt whatever as to these sights. They are plainly enough de fined by a distinct law ; and, moreover, the certificates g:anted to all the naturalised subjects contain a clear spe cification of the privileges conferred upon them. The Act to Amend the Laws relating to Aliens contains the follow ing precise statement ;—" And be it enacted that, upon obtaining the certificate and taking the oath hereinafter prescribed, every alien now residing in, or who shall here after come to reside in, any pert of Great Britain or Ire land, with intent to settle therein, shall enjoy all the rights and capacities which a natural-born subject of the United Kingdom can enjoy or transmit, except th-t such alien shall not be capable of becoming one of her Mr. jesty's Privy Council, nor a member of either House Parliament, nor of enjoying such other rights and capaci. ties, if any, as shall be specially excepted in and by the certificate to be granted in manner hereinafter mentioned." This is surely sufficiently plain ; and it is further con firmed by the formula of the certificate itself, which runs to the effect that the petitioner is admitted " to the full sights and capacitic: of a natural-bora subject, except the capacity of becoming a member of the Privy Council, or a member of either House of Parliament." Strong in these stipulations of the law, our naturalisc I fellow-citizens hitherto have fondly believed that, except the two cases specially mentioned, they enjoyed equal pri vileges with ourselves. They thought they were entitled to all the rights of British subjects; and they laid the flattering unction to their soul that, in case of any attacks on their personal freedom in stranger countries, they might rightfully claim the protection of the English authorities. This illusion has been sorely disturbed by a recent circular, emanating from the Home-office. A stereeytyped letter has been sent round, at the order of Sir George Grey, inti mating to every naturalised subject, that " no certificate or act of naturalisation places him beyond the lawful power and control of his country, unless he has received from the Government of such country a certificate of denationalisa tion, or been formally released from his original obligations as a subject or citizen in some other legal way." We need not say what consternation this circular—which is the most flagrant contradiction to English law—has created among the numerous naturalised British subjects in this country. A subsequent circumstance, however, has even added to the panic. A gentleman, duly possessed of a cer tificate of denationalisation, nevertheless received the Home-office letter, informing him that, in the event of his travelling out of England, he became divested of his qua lity of English citizen ! And when he demanded an ex planation from the proper, quarter, he was favoured, as one of our correspondents informs us, with another com munication from the Secretary of State, "intimating that, in spite of his double certificate of naturalisation and de nationalisation, he is a British subject at home only, and not abroad !" - These suspicious circumstances made it apparent enough to us that something wrong must be lurking behind this official letter -writing. Having fresh in our memory the case of M. Tarr-- kidnapped by the Austrian soldiery, and obtaining freedom only through the unceasing exertions of the English press—we considered it a duty to attempt lift ., lag the veil from the Home-office correspondence, And to discover whether, perchance, it had connexion with some shameful event, similar to the illegal arrest of M. Turn We grieve to say, from the investigations we have made, that such appears unfortunately to be the case. Sir Geo- Grey's circular seems to be nothing less than a clumsy attempt to decline all interference in the case of a natura lised British subject who was recently arrested in Saxony, and handed over afterwards to the sbirris of the King of Prussia, and is suffering at this moment in a Prussian dun geon—awaiting trial before a court-martial, from which he will, perhaps, receive a sentence of death ! Our readers will be startled at this announcement. Un happily the details are such as to leave no doubt of the gravity of the case. We are informed that the British subject in question is M. Ziepel, formerly holding the office of Assistant-Judge, as well as that of Lieutenant of the Prussian landwehr at Halberstreat, bnt since 1819 a resident partly in this coun try, partly in one of our Australian colonies, and for years a naturalised English citizen. During the popular move ments of 1849, when the Prince of Prussia and his despotic confederates were about to overthrow German liberty and to disperse the national Parliament at Frankfort, M. Ziepel— faithful to his duties as a free man, and faithful, too, to the then existing Constitution of his country—ap pears to have acted in conformity with justice and law, and opposed the efforts of the absolutist conspiracy. When the cause of dynastic reaction proved victorious, he came to England, and acquired here, in due form, the right of British citizenship, and, with it, the claim to •a full protection of his personal liberty abroad. After some years of residence in English Australia, he lately returned to England, with the intention of definitively settling here. Shortly after his arrival in London, however, he started on a visit to Saxony, there to em brace an aged mother and to bring over a bride to the land of his adoption. At Dresden he was recognised and arrested by the police, handed over to the authorities of the next Prussian frontier town, Halle, and from thence conducted as a prisoner to the Prussian fortress of Magdeburg. There he is still in chains ; and, as far as we are informed, accused of a heavy catalogue of so-called " crimes," which az e to be judged by the tender mercies of a Prussian military tri bunal—M. Ziepel, on account of his former quality as a lieutenant of the landwehr, being "still considered as belonging to the Prussian army !" We shudder at the thought of what may be the issue to the unfortunate traveller of these military procedures. A few years ago that sanguinary sot, the King of Prussia, caused several privates of the landwehr, who had been mixed up with the movements of 1849, to be shot on his very birthday fete. Even should M. Ziepel escape with life, still—if the hand of Great Britain be denied to him —it is incalculable what sufferings may be imposed upon the luckless captive. In presence of a danger so imminent, we would awake our Government to a sense of the duty imposed upon it of securing without delay the release of our fellow-citizen. It is not now the time to inquire whether the latter has acted prudently in venturing so close to the Prussian frontiers as Saxony. The point at issue for us is alone that he has a right to expect to be saved by us front the fate which the rathless persecutors have prepared for bins. The case in his favour is clear and unmistakeable. A natural ised alien, who is "admitted to the fall rights arid capaci ties of a natural-born subject," ought, legally, to be pro tected by Great Britain. even had he ventured to step into the very territory of Prussia herself. But M. Ziepel is far from having done so! He has merely ventured into Saxony, a kingdom the acutest inquisitors of which could not scent out any matter for accusation against him. Yet he was arrested by the Saxon police, and treacherously given up to the vengeance of Frederick Williani IV. It matters little to us that the Court of Dresden hag a treaty of extradition with that of Berlin. That treaty may have power over subjects of Prussia and Saxony ; but it cannot be advanced as a right of violating the sacred character of a British subject. If naturalised Englishmen are hence forth forbidden to enter every country that has'treaty of " extradition" with some other despot, the whole Conti nent of Europe would soon be shut against them. This assumption reduces their rights of citizenship to a perfect farce, inasmuch as it would be a very questionable benefit to purchase the privileges of a British citizen with such an onerous clause affixed thereon. We refrain to-day from further remarks. We content ourselves for the nonce with the statement of the facts, — hoping that the voice of popular indignation which was raised when M. Turr was in the fangs of the Austrian police, and which again made itself heard when Mi. Morris Moore had his personal liberty jeopardised by the Berlin police, will once more call aloud for the rescue of another of our fellow-citizens from the claws of the Prussian tyrant.—!horning Advertiser. THE RECUSTRATION OF TRANSFERS. The following document has been recently addressed to the Stock Exchange by the Soutti-Eastern Railway Company : " &uth-Eastern Railway, London Terminus, Secretary's Office, Jan. 1, 1657. "Dear Sir,—l have pleasure in replyi'g to your in• quiry, with reference to the px , ctice adopted by the S iuth-Eastern Railway Company as to t' e registration of transfers and the issue of certificates of stock and shares. "On the receipt of each transfer at this office, a notice is addressed to the transferer of the stock,'ad vising him that a transfer of stock (of the amount specified) has been lodged with Lve fur immediate regis tration. " The transfers, with the particulars of the stock certificates received by pest, are entered by me in a daily list, which is signed for by the transfer clerk, to whom the documents art then handed fcr examination. When the transfer clerk has ascertained that the si,zna tures are properly attested, and the deeds are sufficiently stamped, ho acknowledges receipt to the senders by return of post. "Those transfers and certificates which are received at the counter undergo a similar examination, and a receipt for them is handed to the party who presents them, which is required to be surrendered, in exchange for the new certificates issued in the name of the transferee. "L, cases where stock certificates presented with the transfers are not exhausted by the issue of new certifi cates, and a balance remains to meet future transfers, a certificate to the effect that the coupons of such balance of stock are at the office, is entered on the margin of the deed by which they are transferred, either by myself, or by Mr. Cox, the transfer clerk. "The registration of the transfers is pr ocee d e d w ith by the transfer clerk on the day following their receipt, as also the preparation of new certificates, which are en graved on paper bearing the company's watermark, and have printed across their face, in large figures, the amount of the stock or share capital represented by each piece. A complete list of these is then prepared by the transfer clerk and hand( d to me, together with the regis tared transfers, the old certificates, and the new certifi cates prepared for re-issue. "These undergo a further examination, and before signing the new certificates I ascertain that old certifi cates for an equivalent amount of stock are presented, which, on signature of the new, are cancelled. The docu ments are then banded back to the transfer clerk, by whom the new certificates are then issued. A form or receipt is at the same time transmitted to the am nts or. stockbrokers, to be signed by them and returned to ~he company. _ _ _ "In the Abstract of Transfers' the following parti culars are carefully noted :—When and how the certifi cates of cancelled stock have been disposed of, To whom the new certificates of equal amount have been sent, with the numbers and dates of the respective receipts. The stock registers are posted up daily, and the postings are called over and verified periodically. "In the case of transfers of fixed 41 per cent. shares, a similar course is adopted, with the addition that. be fore the company's seal is affixed to the new certificates, the cancelled shares are laid before the directors for exa mination, after which they are sealed by order of the board, and are therefore issued. "The daily lists of transfers, and of certificates of new stock which have been issued between the intervals of the meetings of the board, are also laid upon the table at the regular fortnightly meetings. "The accuracy of the issue stock and shares ,in the company undergoes a further complete check at the ter mination of each half-yearly period. The dividend lists are made oat in detail in the transfer-office from the stock and share registers. In those lists are set forth the names and addresses in full of each proprietor, the amount of stock and shares respectively held by them, the gross amount of dividend apportioned to each, the amount of income tax deducted, and, lastly, the netnnount of each dividend warrant. The several columns, on being added up, must accurately correspond with the gross amount of dividend declared at the half-yearly meetings of the com pany, on the total stock and share capital issued, with the total amount of income tax deducted from the gross divi dend and payable to the Government, and with the net amount of dividend payable to proprietors. On this verifi cation being completed the dividend warrants are prepared and issued ; on which the lists are handed over to the ac countant, who checks the several payments as they are made and returned by the company's bankers—l am, dear sir, yours truly, " S. SMILES, Secretary. "M. Slaughter, Ezq., Secretary to the Rail ways Department, Stock Exchange." UNLOOKED•POR COMPLIMENT.—On Friday night last, after addressing a meeting of the electors, Lieutenant- General Sir William Codrington proceeded to the Dor.k. yard station of the North Kent R ai l way f or d e p ar t u r e to London. While waiting here a seaman named Robert Gardner, son of sub-Lieutenant Gardner, of the Royal Sappers and Miners, advanced to the gallant General and presented him with a full dress sword, which he bad taken from the house of the Russian Governor at Yalta during the occupation of that town by the British troops. General Codrington, who was taken by surprise at the circumstance, accepted the present with hearty thanks. , TITLES OP ENGLISH KINGS.—The first King's speech" ever delivered was by Henry I. in 1107. Exactly a century later,' King John assumed the royal " We :" it h a d never before been employed in England. The same monerch has the credit of having been the first English King who claimed for England the sovereignty of the seas. "Grace" and "my Liege" were the ordi nary titles by which our Henry IV. was addressed. " Excellent Grace" was given to Henry VI. who was not the one nor yet had the other. Edward IV, w as "Most High an d Mighty Prince." Henry VIT. was the first English "Highness." Henry VIII. wds the first complimented by the title of ;" iVhjesty ;', and James I. prefixed to the last title "Sacred and_Most Axcellent."—Nonaras.Retincl froin RUSSIA AND THE CIRCASSIASS. _~ (Prom the Morning Herald.) The Russians are at their old game with the Circassians, and, if the intelligence recently re ceived be correct, have lost the last move. There has been, it would seem, a great battle at Bayuk, in which the Russians came to the attack with 10,000 men, and were defeated, with the loss of nearly 2,000, besides several guns. Further de tails are wanting ; but enough is known to satisfy all devout believers in the moderation and inoffen- sive character of Russia, that, if ever she suspends her military operations, it is in order t o p re p are for more extensive and effective operations, and that she is as intent to-day in removing the Circas sian barrier as she has been at any time since 1783, when she occupied the country between the bend of the Den and the northern slopes of the Cau casus. The Paris Conference has . completed its work we are told—the neutralisation of the Black Sea being one of its ostensible objects ; but to say nothing of • - _,her advantages and opportunities en joyed by Russia for regaining her command over those waters, she has been permitted to retain all the places of strength on the coast of Abasia ; and the Russian plenipotentiary, at the moment that ho affixed his signature to the recent protocol, knewperfectly well th at a R uss i an arm y was on foot in Circassia, and that it is the hardly-con cealed intention of the Russian Government to get hold of the eastern seaboard of the Euxine, if they are not already in full possession of it. Now, of this intention the British Government has had abundant notice. Before the treaty of peace was concluded Lord Palmerston was asked whether the forts on the coast of Circassia were to be re stored to Rtissia, and the consequences certain to ensue from such a policy were at the same time fully pointed out.' The First Minister replied, that there was nothing to apprehend from the restoration of the forts in question to the Res- - sians, and, therefore, that no provision would be made respecting them in the treaty. It appears that Russia has profited by the consideration manifested by her recent foes. Not only are those forts now garrisoned by Russians, but Russian cruisers watch the coast, and but the other day committed so serious au outrage upon Turkish commerce as to call for the interference of our admiral in the Black Sea. We are at a loss to comprehend how the common sense of Englishmen can be imposed upon by provisions so hollow as those of the treaty of March, glossed over though they be by the specious language of my Lord Pal merston. So far as the neutralisation of the Black Sea is concerned, if by that term is meant its free dom from Russian control, except that the fleet at Sebastopol has been sunk, and some time must elapse before that which is now being built at, Nicolaieff is fit for sea, there is nothing that we kfiow of to prevent Russia dominating as before in the " interior waters" of Turkey. AU the places we had wrested from her we have delibe rately restored. In exchange for the nominal freedom of the Danube we consented to replace her in all her positions of offence from Odessa to the Don, and from the Don to Fort San Nicholas. We all know that Russia never yet respected a treaty when it was her interest to break it, and, when we have not only applied the inceirive bu afforded the ready opportunity for violating her latest engagement., we are led to believe that she will be peculiarly sensitive respecting it. There is something almost incredible in the credulity of Englishmen ; but they are commonly shrewd enough in the ordinary affairs of life, especially when their pockets are touched. The late war has cost the country one hundred millions, to say nothing pl,l7the sacrifice of human life. This price was paid cheerfully, because it was be lieved that we had arrested the danger and the nuisance arising from Russian aggression. What if that money might as well have been sunk in the waters of the Black Sea itself for any sub stantial benefit which has or is likely to arise from the expenditure ? What, if five years hence Russia has more than repaired all her losses, laughs at th• production of the Paris Congress, as she laughs at this moment at our credulity, and once more lords t in the south, if she does not striktOionne that long-meditated blow at the city of the Sultan with a rapidity and success which will astonish 'Western Europe ? There are public writers who, to carry on the farce, tell us that the moral effect of the war has told against Russia amongst the nations of Europe —that it has controlled leer aggressive policy, and taught the wild feudatories of Central Asia to doubt the invincibility of her arms. This teaching may suit the views of those who resort to it, but it has no foundation in fact. The result of the late cam paigns, especially the defence of Sebastopol, arc considered throughout Europe as eminently credit able to Russia, and have raised her military cha racter to the same extent that they have depressed OUT own. She•is looked upon throughout the Con tinent as having maintained a conflict single-handed against the two most powerful nations of Western Europe, aided by states of known gallantry and even of military renown ; and as having retired from the struggle with dignity and honour. As to the people of Asia, we need only refer to the fall of Kars, and the more recent movements along the Caspian, in proof of the absurdity and false hood of any suggestion of their loss of confidence in the mighty Czar. We repeat what we have as serted, that we have lost not only money, but re putation by the war, and that the peace is a trans parent imposition, and we have only to hope that the representatives of the people will demand from the Government a statement of what we have gained by our war expenditure so far, before they consent to the continued imposition of a war tax. xi. :1; I DUBLIN, MONDAY MORNING. LORD CARLISLE AND THE CORK CONSERVATIVES. The advice tendered by the Cork Protestant As sociation with respect to the selection of a succesor to the late Dr. Wilson has elicited the following Viceregal reply : " Vice-regal-lodge, Jan. b. 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" The tribe of ' Quiet Sympathisers, and 'Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed; and if this boot :ould find its way into the hands of those whe suffer from the com Taint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds wont, te saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is o ass importstn, 3, though it is that which the quacks most prize nuch money... ...This volume is Well qualified to put an end to th, mpirlcal sys' - m of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to place the treat vent upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore ikely to do mach good."—Medical Circular. London: H. BaMere, 219, Regent-!treat. PRSUANT to a Decree of the High Court o f Chancery, made M &cause of John Henry Sharp against James Carter Sharp and others, the Creditors of JOHN STONES, formerly of Hurnberstone, in the county of Leicester, and late of Hayes, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, who died in or about the month of April, 1842, are by their solicitors, on or before the 10th day of February, 1457, to come in and prove their debts at the chambers of the Vice-Chancellor Sir Richard Torin Kindersley, No. 3, Stone buildings, Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex, or in default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said Decree. Saturday, the 14th day of February, 1857, at One o'clock in the afternoon, at the said Chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudi cating upon the claims. Dated this Bth day of January, 1857, CHARLEA rtmil, Chief Clerk. MASON AND STURT, 7, Gresham-street, City, Plaintiff's Solicitors. Mlt. R HOWARD, surgeon-Dentist, 52, Fleet street, has introduced an entirely new description of ARTI ICIAL TEETH Axed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They it , erfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to be distinguished fron he original by the closest observer; they will never change colour of ecay, and will be found very superior to any teeth ever before used. ibis method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painfu' iteration, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is uaranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth •endered sound and useful in mastication.-52, Fleet-street. At tome from ten till five. THE PUNJAUB RAILWAY COMPANY.— Vrom Mooltan to Lahore and Umritsir, being an Extension of the Scinde Railway, and now under survey, with the sanction of the Hon. East India Company. Offices— Gresham House, Old Broad-street. To be incorporated by Act of Parliament. Capital, 2,500,000/., in 125,000 shares of 2111. each (with power to increase). Two-fiahs of the shares to be allotted to the shareholders in the Scinde Railway C mpany, in the proportion of two shares in the Punjaub Railway Com pany for every one share in the Scinde Railway Company. The directors have every expectation, on the completion of the survey, of obtaining from the Hon. East India Company the same terms and conditions as those granted to the Scinde Railway Company. Deposit, 2s. per share. CHAIRMAN - . W. P. ANDREW, Esq., 26, Montague-square (Chairman of the Scinde Railway Company). DIRECTORS. Sir HERBERT MADDOCK, M.P. (late Deputy-Governor of Ben gal, Director of the Scinde Railway Company). J. EDMUND ANDERDON, Esq. (Director of the Bank of London and Scinde Railway Company). HARRY BORRADAILE, Esq. (late Bombay Civil Service, Director of the Scinde Railway Company). THOMAS WILLIAMS, Esq., Grove•end•road, Regent's-park (Di rector of the Scinde Railway Company). AUDITORS. Alexander Mackenzie, Esq. (Director of the Oriental Bank Corporation, and Auditor Scinde Railway Company). Major John A. Moore, F.R.S. (Director National Provincial Bank of England, and Auditor Scinde Railway Company) Eugineer—T. A. Yarrow, Esq., C.E. (Engineer to the Scinde Railway Company). Bankers—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co. Solicitors—Messrs. Marten Thomas and II ollams. Superintending Engineer in the Punjaub —W. Brunton, Esq., C.E. Agent in _lndia—J. Neville Warren, Esq. (Agent to the Scinde Railway Company). Secretary—Thomas Burnell, Esq. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Directors of the Punjaub Railway Company. I request you will allot to me shares in the capital of the above-named Company, and I hereby engage to accept the same or any less number, on the terms of the Pros pectus, and to pay the amount thereof, and sign the deed of settlement as and when required by the Directors, and subject to their rules and regulations. Name (in full) Occupation Address and date Referee REPRESENTATION OF CLARE. It is stated in one of the morning papers that Mr. Cornelius O'Brien means to retire from the representation of the county of Clare, and that the present Attorney-General, the member for Ennis, will be called upon to stand as a candidate. PROGRESS OF INTEMPERLNCE. lessons partially p ract i se d b y the disciples late Father Math ew are slowly but surely falling T he of admirable the into disuse in Ireland. Several of the country journals are complaining recently of the vast spread of intemperance in their several dis tricts, and the consequent increase of crime of the second degree, such as robberies, assaults, (IN. Th e local magistracy of the town of Tipperary are about petitioning for an extension of their powers to enable them to visit the crime of drunkenness with punishment as severe as that allowed under the provisions of the Towns' Improvement Act, a shtuto not in force in Tipperary : 1851. 1855. 1856. Number of spirit-dealers in Tipperary 6) 61 70 Number of persons convicted of drop.- keuness B e9 874 1,021 Numberof persons convicted of assaults el 79 101 Number retur &led. to assizes or quarter sessions Number committed for murder at faction fights • There are towns where the increase is even more marked than in Tipperary. ROYAL FREE, 11Q6PITAL ) (Gray's Inn Rond).—The number of patients reiievei st this Flospital, durirg the week ending 10th January, 1857, is 2,519, of which 707 were new cases. a-wers-,Engraii'd an France--4tre aloha; all that in them :ties for the settlement of the .spiarrel -with the Swiss Govern. ment and his .-Miljesty Frederick William IV., King of Prussia. In so far as Switzerland is con cerned, the. mediators will experience little dim ctilty. The Swiss are a plain,. serious-minded, straightforward people—truthful, steady,, and well principled. What they say they really mean, and Aniit — tkeis promise they will to the letter perform. If they be somewhat austere and rigid, according to our notions, they are at the same time honourable and scrupulous. Indepen dently of this, they are for the most part staid and sober men of business= —.taking no transcendental views of human affairs having no high-flown notions of prerogative, and no extravagant conceit in their own power and wisdom. Pursuing what., is just as far as practicable, they are, as men of 1 1 1 1 shrewdness and sense, content with what is possible and practicable. With such a nation, or their representatives or • public men, England and France are sure to have no difficulties which may not be immediately solved. But, with the other Lis Majesty Frederick William IV., t b h elli ec g a e s r e en is t, widely different. The King of Prussia, unfortunately for himself, for his sulajecti, and for Europe, .is 'One of the most crotchetty, captious, Sovereigns,puneti punctilious, with d h a i h s t a nded uneasy, among pe r because r otoogve a f t u i blown, sense of his own dignity and importance. To he sure, the family is of the newest, and there was only one really great man among them, old Fritz, of conquering and martial memory ; but even this is no excuse for the fussy self-importance of a monarch whose house-- . -though of yesterday compared with other princely houses—can count at least four or five generation; of kings. The real fact is that the Monarch of Prussia has More mediaeval scholarship than sound practical common sense, and that lie has been wholly spoiled —partly by his half-mystical German education, and partly by the long apprenticeship which he served to the Russian - political. system under Alexander, who always had the' whip-hand of him—au ascend ancy which the Russian Czar left to kis brother and successor, and the King's own brother-in-law the late Emperor Nicholas. With a monarch suClPas this Prussian one—strange by nature, Strange by edu cation, timbratile, capricious, wilful, yet not without moments of speculative benevolence and kindliness —benevolence which he uniformly denies himself the luxury of putting into practice—it will be indeed difficult to deal. Whenever his own personal va nity or. ambition are concerned, or there is a pro bability of the extension of his power or authority, or of his territory, the Persian King is utterly .unreliable—indeed, we may say faithless—and we need hut refer to his Majesty's conduct in 1818 and 1849 for proof of the fact. Under the. pressure of the rampant German democracy in 1848, and with a view to his election as Emperor of all Germany, he gave to Prubia.a constitution one of the most democratic in Europe. The equality of Prussians was proclaimed before the laW ; guarantees of free dom of the person were afforded ; every -Prussian was allowed the right to express his ideas freely, orally, by the printing press and by artistical de signs ; the secrecy of letters was held to be ; offences In diffusing ideas were cognisable only. .by the general penal code ; fendal tenures, family entails, and privileges of rauk were all abo lished ; and Prussians paying 245., who had resided for six weeks, wore 'to vote as primary electors. So soon, however, as the 'King saw that his elec tion as German Emp , ror was hopeless, and that the tide was turning against democracy, his ardour for this democratic constitution cooled; and we need not say no trace of it now exists or has exiwed in Prussia for many a long day. Nor did the King only play thus fast and loose with his own people. He was as false to his brother monarchs as his own subject , , and' was willing to become an Emperor of a German Empire from which Austria was to neexcluded. Instead of avail ing himself of Scandinavian or SclaVonian sympa thies, and waking the Danes and. the Poles his natural allies, he taught the Danes, by his unprin cipled aggression on Schleswig, to look rather towards Russia, and the Poles to consider Prus sians as much their enemies as the Russians them selves. The King of Prussian, in truth, by his perverse policy, had the unenviable and , bad dis tinction of making Poland a tfulwark for Russia against Germany, instead of making her a hulwark for Germany against Russia. But the worst pas sage in this King's - career was his enthusiastic encouragement of his soldier-subjects in their attack on Schleswig Holstein. In this the Prussian moiftrch was governed by mixed motives of the very lowest kind. His first desire was to enhance his own popularity, to increase his own power and territory, and, above ail, to filch a seaport, or even a portion of the seashore, from Denmark. Denmark had repeatedly refused to join the Prus sian Zoliverein, and such was the revenge taken on her by a King who professes to be deeply pene trated with the Evangelical spirit, and who him self homilises (if we may coin a word) with unction on matters best left to the regular ministers of every Christian faith. With a monarch of this peculiar character, whose career since 1848 Las been wholly guided by vaulting, yet insensate, ambition, or by unprincipled cupidity for the territory, towns, sea board, and fleets of other States, it will be ex tremely difficult for mediators to deal. England and France must remember that the very selfsame Frederick, .who clamours . now so lustily for his sacred and divine rights a s P r i nce o f N euchatel and Valengin, is the selfsame King who, in the streets of Berlin, b e ll owe d forth Hoch ! for the sacred cause of German Nationality. Hoch ! for a German Empire of which he was to be himself the head. loch ! for a Garman Fleet, of which this land lubber representative of Teuton turgid ness was to have the guide, usufruct, and direc tion, the actual command to be entrusted to a Prussian Admiral—such a thing being unknown in nature or art, on land or at sea. Such is one of the parties between whom the two most powerful nations in the world have to arbitrate, and whom' they have to satisfy in making an await]. That England and France can and will satisfy Switzer land, no one doubts ; but who believes that they can or will satisfy Frederick William IV. That Monarch, in his cloud-capped mystical fits, firmly believes that his sway is purely theocratic, and that all his princely privileges are pnlectly s'aerosauct. Long protocols and diffuse diplomatic papers will be dispersed through Europe from the of-' aim of Potsdam,, and we may be far advanced in February ere this ceremonious Potentate shall have stated his case. Meanwhile his punctilious pride may be worked on by the Russian Court and the Russian faction at Berlin, so that these obstacles must be boldly looked at by the powerful mediators. We have hale doubt that if the 'King of Prussia plays this solemn game of antiquated jute divine formalism, that h e w ill b e abandoned by all h i s small satellites of Germany,- and that his perversity will he rebuked by Austria, who, on the Swiss question, as on the question of Bolgrad and the Isle of Serpents, has played a wise and fitting part. But there remains in-the background RuSSia, who, as S:r J. Malcolm's schoolmaster said of his early pupil, "is at the bottom of every mischief." With England, and France, and Austria of one mind, however, in reference to Switzerland, Europe may well disregard. the manoeuvres of Russia. It is stated by our Paris Correspondent that the Federal Council - . of Switzerland (supp..sing always that Prussia renounces the sovereignty of Neuchatel) is , desirous of knowing when, and at what precise epoch, the King will do so ? This is a wise and prudent precaution, and serves to show that the Federal Council well kuow their man—we cannot say know their King—forth e Ki ng o f P russ i a e that is, let EthriegKlanindg, gisoofFefplrNeartniucresuescii:in at t s . imbroglio, and ne o ve n r e he may, a b a e nd in w A l u ia s t tr h ia um w ou il r l prevent a single Prussian soldier' from entering S wit zerland. _ THE ROYAL Y ACHT APPOINTMENTS.—We understand t lieutenant s 1 jat inucit good di ssatisfaction elaim s for rs services bee n occasioned rerform e dprior among r to, and during the late war, by the selection of hia Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningeu to fill the vacancy in the Royal Yacht. If we understood that the appoint. meat in question was considered in the light of a royal nomination, we are not so disloyal as to permit a breath of diicontent to dull cur paged with referenee to it, but for some time the yacht has been given to officers on ac count of good service claims. The senior at present in the yacht is Lieut. Dslyell, who lost an arrifin attempt ing to storm the Redau ; and although a y lung o ffi cer, no one found fault with te selection, since, but for this, he might have remained a lieutenant all his life, in conse quence of his personal disability. Hie serene highness, on toe other haul, was sure of promotion At no distant period, from his exa:ted rank, and his lr.te'appointment has the effect., therefure, of needlessly depriving some officer not equally blessed with a title of the chance of gaieing met iced advancement.— United Service Gezette. BIRMINGHAM AND MIDLAND INSTITUTE —The annual meeting of the subset: ers of the above institution was held at the rooms ye , terday at boon ; the Bight Hon. the Earl of ILrttuouth, prehident of the society, In the chair. Tile report was of a sazisfa..;:oricharacter, the number of etodents in the vr:'..)ua d?oartments having censider. ably inerea , ed durlip• the _ ,n t ' ybeua several v n e ( r i al tl b e o i tl id a u n : t sel.liupporting. The new —-a now in cour ,, e of erection tu txuected to be pltned within the time t,pecitied, ponnd,t are still required to complete the amount. The Right lion. Lord ilatbon was elected pre. , ident for the-ensuing year. • CaYarit, PALACv Day—*o n day, Jan. 12 —Admissions on payment, 3;616 ; do. by ems= tickets 832 ; total vikitota, 4,448,