The Sun. — London, England, 1857-01-26 00:00:00

AMERICAN AND RUSSIAN GUNNERY. We (Times) have received the following valuable communication from a correspondent writing under the signature of " Vulcan :" " The progress made in the American navy in the creation of an enlarged marine and in the intro duction of guns of immense calibre suggests an inquiry into the operations of the authorities at Woolwich—what are they doing towards the main tenance of that supremacy which has been the tra ditional boast of the English navy ? Are we to continue to rely upon our floating castles with their grim array of 6 8-pounders, or upon our new gun boats, armed with guns of no greater power, when other nations are adopting weapons specified to carry projectiles o f 1351 b. eac h , capa bl e o f throwing more metal than four 32-pounders ? The two great exponents of opposite principles, Russia and America, are devoting their attention to the manu facture of guns capable of throwing shot and shell of enormous weight ; but no visible steps are being taken by the English Government to keep pace with her late foe and her giant son. An immense steam battery is being constructed at New York; and in St. Petersburg the Czar is engaged in the erection of one of the largest forges, iron ship building yards, and engine factories in the world, on one of the principal quays in the government part of the city. The operations are being con cluded with the greatest secrecy and despatch. That the works are on a gigantic scale will be evi dent to the least scientific, when I state that 14 steam hammers are being placed in the forge, for the purpose of constructing, together with forgings for marine engines for the Russian navy, monster wrought-iron ordnance. The works are being built chiefly by English mechanics, from one of whom, just returned to England, this information is derived. At the commencement of the late war much was written and said about increasing the ca libre and power of our ordnance. Yon asserted that large guns i f enormous strength and size could be produced with the improvements for forging iron introduced since the previous war. About this time official circulars were forwarded to certain iron manufacturers, inviting them to attend at Woolwich Arsenal (at their own expeuse it was distinctly intimated), to give the old select com mittee of artillery officers the benefit of their views and experience upon the subject of the manufac ture of large ordnance, and more especially of wrought-iron guns. Some complied. One firm, which had some years before successfully made the largest wrought-iron gun in existence, offered, at their own risk and expense, to construct wrouc,ht iron guns of 12, 13, 14, o r 15 i nc h b ore , on ly stipu lating for payment in case they stood the requisite proofs. This was too simple and practical a mode to find favour at the Circumlocution-office, and a civil letter was despatched to them, respectfully declining their offer. Had the government accepted that proposition, and cordially assisted in providing suitable vessels for these proposed monster guns, one or more would have been in the Baltic the first campaign ; and what about Cronstadt then ? This part of the question I leave for Sir Charles Napier, Sir Robert Peel, and the Grand Duke Constantine to settle in their own friendly and pleasant way, merely suggesting that Cronstadt, and perhaps the war, might not have survived the first year of the contest,—such vast results might have been attained by a single moderately sized gunboat, with one gun dropping 3001 b. shot into the forts at leisure, at a distance of between three and four miles, where the little gunboat would scarcely have heels seen, and, if seen, would have been far beyond the range of the Russian guns. But the opportunity was thrown away, and the war prolonged. As I have said, the manufacture of a monster gun was entrusted to an engineer, certainly one of the most eminent in the country, but, as such, having no exp er i ence i n th e prac ti ca l forging of large masses of iron, and a grant of pub lic money was made to him for the purgose of building a manufactory for the special purpose of making thisgun. This, of course, occupied consider able time. The war was going on, and the gun was wanted ; yet nine months were spent in a maenifi cent experiment. At the end of that period it was announced that the manufacture of the monster gun was a failure, and there was no doubt about the fact ; so far it was a failure. Redtape had another triumph, having managed " how not to do it ;" and wrought iron as a material for ordnance was in imminent danger of being put back for ano ther score of years. This triumph was not of long duration. The same private firm that 15 months before had offered to construct monster guns on the "no success no pay" principle—thinking, I suppose, that it would be useless again to make that proposition—now stepped forward and offered to make a gun as large or larger than the one which the government had tailed to construct and present it, free of all cost, to the nation, with the single, and apparently singular stipulation, that after due proof at Liverpool it should be immediately used against the enemy. Strange stipulation ! Could it be that these hard-headed forgemen had an im pression that their present would not be acceptable and that every exertion would be made by the Bar nacles to shelve it ? It appears something like it, the monster gun was made, and proved by the proper officer sent down from. Woolwich for that purpose ; and, as your readers are aware, that proof was satisfactory, not only to the crdnauce authorities, but to all the naval and military offi cers present. The manufacturers, wishing next to show its defensive capacity against the so-called impregnable iron-plated floating batteries, forged a large wrought-iron plate of exactly the same strength and section as those which cover our floating batteries, and set it up as a target, placing it against nine solid baulks of timber end on, well strutted and secured, and still more solidified by a heap of sand. The first snot at pointblank range knocked this plate to shivers, carrying large pieces of the fragments, some of them several hundred pounds' weight, 300 yards beyond the target. The knowing ones said, " Sic transit gloria" of the floating batteries ; that their brief sun bad sot ; and that any hostile floating batteries wou'd find the monster guns that would be mounted on all our forts giving a very satisfactory account of the non-resistance of those ugly tubs to the persuasive arguments of 3001 b. shot. _ Nine or ten months have passed since the prov ing of the monstergun, and our Government know no more about the power of such guns against the floating batteries than was shown them so long ago by a private mercantile firm at Liverpool Experi ments have been tried to test the range of the guy, and it has been shown that with half the usual proportion of powder from 10 to 15 per cent more range has been obtained, and with much greater precision of fire than can be obtained from the best ordinary service guns, while it can be as easily trained and worked as any other gun now in use. The authorities do appear at one time to have felt the expediency of testing the floating batteries and of proving whether they are really the formid able vessels they have been represented. An order was issued for the battery Trusty to be taken down to Shoeburyness, and there to be moored at 600 yards' range from a battery of guns, of which it was supposed that the monster gun would be one. But, after preparing the battery at considerable expense, the official courage seems to have failed, for, after a valiant declaration from some officers and men that they would sand by the Ship, the battery was ordered back and the fittings to be.re moved. _ . The recent experiments at Woolwich ford the Purpose of testing the power of resistance of timber lined with 4-inch iron plates, of the same thickness and strength as floating batteries, proved that the o rdinary service guns would be of but little use ag ainst these Batt. ries. Let us not, however, forg e t the tremendous effects of the monster wrought-iron min when tried, under the superin tendence of a Government officer, against a similar target at Liver ceases to be a toPIL The difference in the results mind the difference in of surprise when we bear in 6811 s and a 3001 b shot, thet weight of a blow from a 1,500, feet t velling at a velocity pro bably exceeding I should not fo c r o g t : t oete to l :T e e r n s t e i c o o n nd tliat after the monster gun was ainiudiaperxreedr:tthLrii)vuegrh pool, it was i uti mated. to thema l e n, when received at an official quarter, that the head-quarters, would he further outrance, —i.e.,that this splendid and uniqu e be wickedly and wilfully burst, orlruaett weapon wt°o"ll,',„l burst (for it has been. tried at Slaoebuere- attempted beyond the proofs which were pronoruYnuessdmuch satisfactory by the Government officer pronounced quite' question of Liverpool), for the purpose of solving the of how much wrought-iron guns would bear. Against this the manufacturers very properly p ro _ tested, declaring that the gnu was made for the service of the nation, and not with the view of baying scientific experiments tried upon it. Shortly afterwards they again proposed in the proper quar ter to make, free 'of all expense, two more guns, not so large as the moster gun, yet as large as any of the largest in tile service, for the purpose of their being tried a otr6rance, and of ascertaining what they would bear before bursting. They sought in the proper department for information as to the most useful 'size and strength to make the guns. In reply they received--the information, and with it the thanks of the paid servants of the nation ? Nothing of the kind. They received the cold shoulder, in tha shape of an effective hin; that their grawitous services were not agreeable to the powers that be, and that it was not the pro vince of a prate firm to initiate any improvements in those deptuctments of Government which are under the bettign sway of thus Barnacles. There fore, British public, be quiet ; allow the Barnacles their usual inter-parliamentary slumber, for you may rest content that when the people's represen- ' tatives again assemble some one will be found bold enough to require a full, true, and particular investigation into the relative merits of rnonsterguns and armour-plated floating batteries. Mr. Richard Waygood, of the Newington Iron works, in a letter to the above journal says,on read inga letter signed," Vulcan," I thought it my duty to give you the result of my own experience with the authorities at Woolwich. At the commencement of the late war I noticed in your journal the loss and destruction caused by the bursting of the Lancaster guns, by killing and injuring those who used them, besides the loss of the gun itself, after the great labour and expense of getting it in position. Having been in the habit of strengthening cylinders of cast iron for hydraulic presses so as to bear three times their original power, I considered, and then matured, a plan by which the same desirable object might be effected on pieces of ordnance ; I suggested that a series of wrought iron bands bored, heated, and shrunk on the gun, which had been previously turned parallel to receive them, would, if properly executed ac cording to a plan I laid down, add to the strength of the guns nearly three times, without increasing their size or altering their appearance. I immedi ately wrote explaining the method and its advan tages to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, who took a very favourable view of it, and recom mended me to bring it before the authorities at Pall-mall. I applied to them accordingly, ,offering them the thing unconditionally without honour or reward. After some considerable delay I received a reply declining the matter. About six months subsequently I accidentally met Captain Addison, whom I had a few years before assisted to mature a farnace for heating cannon balls, a machine now in use. He at once saw its importance, and went to Lord Panmnre ' from whom he obtained an order for me to be furnished with a gun for me to operate upon. I then fetched a 12-pounder gun, and carried out my improvements upon it. On taking it to Woolwich it remained unnoticed for nearly three months, but when it was tried it proved my calculations were correct, as it bore all the trials to which it was subjected ; and I am in clined to think they were rather formidable, as all its neighbours, while undergoing the same ordeal, went to pieces, including, I believe, the wrought iron gun spoken of by your correspondent " Vul can ;" and they have still the gun in their posses sion, and, lam informed, uninjured. The last I heard of it was that it was to be taken to Shoebury ness for lurther trial. I was subsequently requested to attend the " select committee" to give information. I attended accordingly, and was examined (if you may call a few irrelevant questions for about six or seven minutes by three of the board at one end of the room an examination), but the subject appeared new to them, and the important and scientific part of the matter was not touched upon at all. As I expected, I received a letter from them refusing its adoption. I certainly did feel regret at their dem sion, seeing that this very committee were at that very moment autho!ising the expenditure of thousands upon thousands in the manufacture of wrought iron conical shells for the Lancaster guns, which are now only of the value of old iron, without having a single gun in the service from which they could with safety be propelled. Any manufacturer who neglected to avail himself of an invention which not only saved expense, but produced a superior article would soon go to the rear. Oa what principle I should like to know do these people act I I am well assured that had my ideas been acted upon at the first there would have been a considerable saving of life and labour, besides a large sum of money in the purchase of new guns, which they were at that time ob taining in large quantities, they having many thousands lying at the arsenal only as old iron, which, at about the fourth of the cost of new, would have rendered fur ther purchases untieceary, besides producing an " arm" possessing a p. Ter of range unknown to the service or that of any PJwer in Europe. This identical plan will be sooner or later adopted, as no other will be found possessing at the same time so great an increase of power with so small a cost. A ULF-INDICATING BALANCE BAROMETER. Monsieur Erie de Beaumont has received a letter from Rome, dated Jan. 8, in which the writer, M. Secchi, give, a description of a new construction of barometer, hich possesses the advantage- of not being able to be br.,ken, of giving the readings exact, which Aneroids and others do not, and of recording those readings by ,elf-acting mechanism. The writer says that all improve ments hitherto have been limited to the employment of large tubes to avoid the evils of capillary attraction, and to the obtaining of greater exactitude in the readings. All attempts to make the instrument graphic—that is to say, self-acting to . record the different variations, and to make the indications more minute—have not yet been successful. The principle on which the new barometer is constructed will be understood by the following :statement :—Suppose the cuvette of a barometer to be placed on a table and the glass tube so arrange I as to admit of its being lifted by hand. The force that will be required to lift the tube will be equal to the weight of mercury in the tube, or, in other words, to the amount of atmospheric pressure exercised on the mercury of the instrument. We shall therefore be able to really weigh the pressury of the atmosphere by attaching the barometer (the tube only) to one end of a balance, and weights to the other ; for it is evident that at every change in atmospheric pressure a corresponding increase or decrease in weight will have to be made at the other end of the balance to maintain equilibrium. To ascertain the value of absolute pressure on a unity of surface, itwM be necessary to take into consideration the weight of the tube, and also of the weight of that portion thereof which is immersed in the mercury contained in the corvette, and especially the internal sectional area. The knowledge of the latter, so far from being an obstacle, is a positive advantage in construetion; for, by increasing the sectional area, the force that actuates the instrument will also be increased, and willconsequently permit of more exact and more minute readings. If the sectional arza be 10 square centimetres, and the pressure varies by centimetres in height, the weight to be planed at the other end of the balance will be that of 19 cubical centimetres of tiler- I curt', or 135 grammes ; while, if the sectional area had been equal to 1 square centimetre only, the weight would have been but 13 . 5 grammes. Starting from these ob servations, M. Secchi adopted the following construe' ion for his barometer, which has been made and used in the observatory at Rome. The barometrical tube is attached to one end of a steelyard or balanced lever, which carries at the other end a counterbalance weight and a pointer, 15 millimetres or, of an inch in diameter, which is reflected in a mirror. The mirror alse reflects a graduated scale, so that the variation of 1-10th of a line of the pointer is indicated by a movement of six lines on the reflected image. The writer enumerates the following advantages peculiar to his invention :-1. As the atmo spheric pressure is weighed, and not indicated by the height of the column of mercury, the tube may be constructed of any non-fragile material, such as iron, which does not amalgamate with the mercury, provided the bore is of equal diameter throughout. 2. By increasing the sectional area of the tube, the addition el weight will give sufficient motive power to a pencil at tached to the other end of the lever to mark the varia tions of atmospheric pressure (after the fashion I presume of the indicator diagrams of steam-engines). 3. By the interventions of suitable gearing, the scale of obser vations may be augmented without inconvenience or danger of exactness of the instrument. 4. The new construction is independent of the form of the miniscus, of the purity of the mercury, of its specific gravity, and of the temperature and difference of gravity peculiar to different latitudes, for all these qualities exercise influ ence upon the volume of mercury, and on the height of the column of mercury In the tube, which has to be measured to obtain the weight of atmospheric pressure, whereas, with the new instrument the weight is given at once. Another advantage of employing iron fcr barometrical tubes is, that there is no danger to fear from the adhesion of air or moisture, and that the mer curt' may be boiled without f ear o f b urst i ng. Iron baro metrical tubes will likewise permit of other fluids being employed, and probably advantage - iusiy, instead of mercury. The writer further states that he invariably found his row barometer indicate variations of atmo• spheric pressure before ordinary barometers did so, and that by avoiding loss from friction, most exact instru ments may be prod . need. The perusal o f th e d escription of this ingenious invention has suggested its application to some practical purposes, which I beg to submit to I the attention of your engineering and scientific readers. The suggestion has for its object to con s t ruct — Audible or Danger-Signalising Barometers, which, if placed on board a ship, would tell the captain and whole crew of the approach of storms ; or which, if placed in mines, would warn miners and inspectors of the presence of fire-damp, as well as indicate its precise locality. For this purpose it would be only necessary to employ a weighing barometer, the pemrer of which wee com posed of sonic suitable ceeductreg material, but insie lated from the rest of the instrument. The pointer should be in communication with one of the poles of an electro-magnetic battery. The dial, over the face of which the pointer would have to travel, should be composed of glass, or other suitable non-conducting ma terial, with the metallic points inserted at those grada tions which indicate dangerous variations of atmospheric press ure . These points would have to . pla.•ed cam I municatiqn with the other pole of the battery. Ti.e reader will see by this arrangement, that when the pressure of the atmosphere shows the pr r e i senc of danger,. either at sea . from storms or squall. la n t io contactofe a w r t u h r re t t h e e d hydrogen metallic n d g a n a u m z i n r th e r B e o l p i t n : . i t al t: i t n e t hrtehw. the i e; the dial, and so complete the electric circuit, which would have the effect, by the intervention of the ordinary well-known apparatus,. of sounding a n a l arm , e ither by ringing a bell or exp l o di ng au powder. The arrangement may be varied to suit the .tliftt ease, by making the o d f ia n i on o-f c s o o rd e uet co in u g du m et a i t il e g ria ra l s 80 1 thatat4,aL l yiul th o ed d a b n e b ger re p a o k i i n n t u s the electric circuit that would give the alarm. In the case of ships, the barometer m i g h t be placed cap lain,s cabin, with an alaruni there, and anothe ln r on the l near the wheel. While in mines, a barometersh(oueeld". be placed in every gallery, with an al arm to warn the miners who might be there ; and it should also be in ein com munication with an alarura and corresponding dial indicator at the mouth of the pit, so that the -over• looker might at all times know the state of the atmos phere in every part of the mine, and be duly warned of the first approach of danger.—Xining Journal. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1857. M. KOSSUTH AT MANCHESTER. On Saturday evening, M. Kossuth addressed an assembiage of about three thousand persons, in the Free-trade Hall, Manchester, on the present state of Continental Europe. The Rev. Dr. M'Kerrow presided, and there were present Mr. Kershaw, M.P., lq.r. Absalom Watkins, and other gentlemen of influence. The present had been announced as one of his Excel lency's addresses to the working classes. Ni. KOSSUTH was received with several bursts of cheer ing. He said the late war was over, the dead were buried, the Te Deums were chanted, and the French ambassador, the illegitimate brother of the not very legitimate Empe ror of the French, now married a Russian princess. (Laughter.) What people among the nations was the better for all this ? If any man could say, be ought to change places with the present lecturer, for he must know more of invisible mysteries than he (M. Kossuth) could tell. (Hear.) The " famous victory" of Blenheim was not more futile than the famous victory at Sebastopol. Turkey was now the "sick man" indeed. Europe in ge neral was substantially in the same state as before the war. That struggle offered the elements of a mighty drama of destiny, but it had been allowed to degenerate into a mere episode of diplomacy. To estimate the political system of continental Europe we must recur to the acts of spoliation which followed the success of the continental league against Napoleon. The pacification of Europe was effected on the principle that the constables who catch the thief have a right to divide the stolen goods for their own bene fit. (Hear.) The Holy Alliance was based on two princie ples—that princes reigned solely by right of divine dele gation, not by the will of the people ; and that they were bound in copartnership, or a sort of " mutual assurance company," to aid each other in keeping down the people. The coalitions subsidised by England to pull down the autocrat of the continent resulted in a conspiracy to exterminate constitutional freedom throughout Europe, and the history of the last forty years bad exemplified the operation of the execrable principles of the treaties of 1815. He might congratulate the British people that the working of their constitution bad prevented this nation being enlisted under the same banner as the other great powers, even when the propensities of her rulers were in that direction. It was an historical fact that George IV., in October, 1815, wrote to the Emperor of Austria that he entirely concurred in the principles of the Holy Alli ance treaty, but that this must be understood merely as his private opinion, since the forms of the British coesti tution would not allow him formally to accede to that compact. (Applause.) But England, as afirst-rate power, had scarcely acted up to her mission, for there was an immense difference between passive dissent from wrong and active opposition to it. George Canning, indeed, had nobly maintained the principle that every nation had a right to choose its own rulers, and that no nation should interfere with the exercise of such freedom in another. Before Canniog's attitude of resistance to injustice the uplifted arm of united despotisms went down powerless. England was saved from war, and retained her pre eminence. Oh that Canning had lived to 1849. (Cheers ) Then, not all the Czars in the world had dared to molest Hungary ; that nation had been preserved independent, and England would not have been under the costly ne cessity of entering on the recent struggle. (Hear.) Hungary would have been a far safer bulwark than Austria against Russian encroachment, for Austria was under treaty with Russia for a partition of Turkey. (Hear.) He was unable, in a brief lecture, to give many details of the policy of Europe, but he would endeavour to show the connection between British interests and those of European liberty. He would merely say, in , passing, that each of the struggling nationalities bad singly been successful until interfered with by neigh bouring enemies to liberty, and that in the case of Hun gary, Russia as well as Austria would have been de feated but for internal treachery in the ranks of the patriots. (Hear, hear.) At present, however, the joint-stock company of despotism, s t reng th ene d b y t h e I accession of a new accomplice in the parvenu Emperor of the French, was more flourishing than before the late war commenced. The French Emperor's object in the late war had been his recognition as a member of the Holy Alliance, and when that was gained he was willing to make peace. The present plots against continental Europe had been disturbed by the after dinner freak of the King of Prussia, threatening an attack on Switzeriand, but that had ended in smoke. Most joyful was he (M. Kossuth) that the Swiss had maintained an attitude of such dignity and firmness. (Great cheering.) To complete his picture of con tinental Europe he need not enlarge on the sufferings of the people. The theme was sufficiently familiar to us, and it was wide as the world. Nations were denied their rights, man was denied his rights inherited from nature's God, moral personality was denied to a civilised age, and society was writhing in the agony of an unna tural condition. It was treason to love one's country; it was death to defend its rights. The very prayer for justice and retribution was a crime, and the sigh of an• guish an unpardonable offence. There was no escape from the scaffold or the prison for patriotism except by silent degradation or by exile. In fact, the homeless ' victims of oppression had increased in number to a new nation—the nation of exiles. Just as the children of Israel were scattered in expiation of national guilt, so was the nation of exiles scattered over the face of the earth in expiation of the crime of loving their country, while purpled ambition walked with dilated front, trium phant in succenful crime. A distinction was made be tween private and public morality. Even where power was not sullied by immorality, it was sullied by burning the incense of propitiation before the golden calf of suc cessful 'crime. (Hear.) And, forsooth, by way of com passion for so many evils, mankind was urged into a putrid swamp of gross, corrupt materialism, which poi soned the root of our humanity, and poisoned whatever was noble and divine in the human soul. The lesson to he drawn from the present state of things was twofold. First, that Europe was on the eve of a great political crisis, because its condition was too abnormal and unna tural to last. Men might talk of peace who were com fortably seated on the lap of freedom, with plenty of money to boot ; bat it was heart-revolting, absurd, and unjust to expect that the oppressed nations would take the moon for green cheese, Oppression was not peace; security to the elaveholder was a curse to the slave. Tranquillity to:tyrants was desolation to the peoples ; therefore the second part of the lesson was that revolu tion, and revolution alone, nothing else, could emancipate Europe from the infernal coalition of despots. If there were any man present who could point out, from the records of history, an instance of one nation which has succeeded in wringing liberty from the fangs of despot ism, otherwise than by a revolution, let him stand up and give the lie to him (.11. Kossuth), while he entreated them to trace the will of God revealed in history, that nations willing to be free must strike the blow for it, or must remain enslaved. (Cheers.) There were people who would make us believe that, were it not for the restless ness of a score or two of agitators, all would go smooth, and the world patiently abide the time when despots would of their own accord fall in love with liberty. It was absolute nonsense. Mere restlessness of spirit might cause riots and coups d'etat, but revoiutions were the chileren of necessi,y. M. Kossuth concluded with his often-repeated and eloquent appeal to the British people to maintain the principle of non-intervention in the com ing crisis, and foretold a hopeful issue. The problem of the future was reduced to the stability of one man—Louis Napoleon Bonaparte —who was a dictator to the despots at this moment, because they feared the free France that would come after him. (tTheers.) He (M. Kossuth) had never lost faith in the instability of success founded on crime ; and he concludes) by the assurance that "Hu inanity expected every Englishman to do his duty by freedom in the coming crisis." (Great cheering.) The proceedings concluded with a resolution sympa thising .vith the lecturer, and repudiating English alli ances with despotism against liberty. SIR ROBERT PEEL .AND THE PRINCE DE LIGINE. (From the Press.) BRUSSELS, JAN. 21. On Monday, the 19th, a numerous deputation of the English residents at Brussels, naval, military, and civi lian, waited upon the Prince de Ligne at his hotel in the Rue Royale, to declare their reprobation of the personal vulgarities uttered by Sir R. Peel against the Prince in his disreputable speech at Birmingham. The deputatio❑ expres-ed a hope that the offence would be judged by him to be—as it was, in fact—an isolated ebullition of low breeding, highly displeasing to the English of all parties, and which the unanimous censure of the Angli can press had placed in its true light—as unbecoming a gentleman. A deep regret was also signified that the nobleman selected by the King of the Belgians to ne his special ambassador at the coronation of the Queen of England in 1838, and lately deputed in the same.capa city to the Emperor of Russia, should have met with an insult from an Englishman, utterly unprovoked, and couched in terms unknown to the language and to the sentiments of honourable. The Prince de Ligne, in warm terms, acknowledged the compliments paid him by the deputation, and ob served- "Gentlemen, believe me that I am most grateful for this your spontaneous act of courtesy and goodwill ; and I P ro am m p d t e e e d p y y s u e n t s h i b u l g e o to f t r h e e p e g i e n the e r ovuus vulgar r n d a n iz e g a r s e : s h i o a n t h u a: warrantably made upon me by Sir Robert P-el. I con jure you tobe persuaded that I do not suffer the dis pleasure I may experience at this low-bred indigt iy to affect for one instant the high respect and sincere regard long and cordially entertained by me for England and the English. The coarse verbiage adopted by Sir R. Peel to revile me belongs only to a sot (irro,gne) and a blackguard (gamin), and as such I regard it with proper contempt ; but, without seeking that personage, should chance ever place me in unpalatable contact with hits, I shall not hesitate to say that his conduct towards me has been that of an underbred good-for-nothing (mal eleve et vaurien), And now, gentlemen, on my, part, I have to express my sorrow and extreme displeasure that any countrymen of mine, and. without m y aut h or i t y, should have used this untoward circurnstanCe as a reason to offer you the incivility of refusing your admission to the bal noble. Such conduct on th e i r part appertains to that category of social offences which we have had once sion to deplore. I have been greatly pained at such illbred and unworthy conduct. Allow me, gentlemen, to say that out of this unpleasant occurrence i have, at any rate, derived the pleasure of y our personal acquain tance, and of being able, in returning you my hearty thanks for your considerate attention, publicly to testify my constant and . ardent regard f or your country, its inhabitants, and its instittitions." " Eliza, my child," said an qld dame to her pretty niece who would curl her hair in beautiful ringlets, " if the Creator had intended your hair to be cu r l e d, h e wou ld have don e i t himself."—" So he did, aunty, when I was a baby, but he thinks I am big enough now to curl it myself." LAW INTELLIGENCE.—Jan. 24. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. WALKER V. SLEIGH. Mr. Edwin James, Q C., moved for a rale to show cause why an order made by Mr. Justice Crompton should not be rescinded, and why the above cauees should not be tried at the next sittirgi. The plaintiff had purchased of the defendant a publication called the British Army Dispatch, and the action was brought to recover back the purchase money, 1,1001., on the ground of misrepresentation of its value. Before the cause came on for trial it was compromised on the defendant agree ing to pay 506/. by instalments and on certain other terms ; these terms, the learned counsel now stated, the defendant bad ♦iolated. The first instalment had be come due, but was not paid ; and when the officer went to arrest Colonel Sleigh he produced a protection from the Insolvent Court, which would expire on the 24th of February, by which time the defendant expected to be member for Greenwich. This was a gross breach of faith, and might have the effect of defeating the plain tiff's remedy. The Court granted a rule to show cause. ' VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir R. T. Kindersley.) IN RE THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK. Mr. Glasse (with whom was Mr. W. D. Lewis), on behalf of the official manag&r, said that the case of Mr. Kirkman and 73 other shareholders related to a charge of alleged fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of the directors, or some of them, on the occasion of the purchase of shares. The que tion had been raised at law as between the shareholders and creditors, but here it was as between the shareholders inter se. The Vice-Chancellor said that the chief clerk's view was that, although there might be misrepresentation, still that did not prevent liability as contributories. If the evidence was- gone into on such fraud there might be a considerable time taken up and expense incurred, and that appeared to his Honour to be the most reason• able course to adopt, more particularly in the absence of Mr. Selwyn, who appeared for the 73 shareholders. Mi. Glasse said that he mentioned the matter with the assent of Mr. Selwyn ' s clients. The Vice-Chancellor said that, from what took place in chambers, it appeared to him that it was contended on the part of the shareholders that he ought not to de termine the abstract question at present, but the official manager contended that he ought to do so. I-- EXCHEQUER CHAMBER. ` THE QUEEN V. W. BAYLEY AND ANOTHER. The prisoners were indicted for manslaughter. The chief evidence against the prisoners was the dying decla ration of the deceased, who stated that he believed he should not recover, and the surgeon stated that it was impossible he could do so ; but a constable stated that he saw him shortly before the declaration, and the de ceased said to him that the surgeon had given him some hope, but he did not himself believe that he could recover ultimately. He died two days afterwards. The counsel for the prisoners submitted that the deceased having stated that the surgeon had given him some hopes, the declaration could not be received. Mr. Justice Wines received the declaration, but reserved the point for the consideration of this Court. The prisoners were found guilty. Mr. Digby Seymour submitted that there was not here such a complete apprehension of death as to make the evidence admissible. The Chief Baron was of opinion that the conviction was right. The real belief of the man wai the question, and here he had said that, notwithstanding the opinion of the surgeon, be believed be could not recover. Mr. Baron Martin said it was a question for the judge at the trial, and not for this Court. The other judges concurred. Conviction confirmed. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. THE CASE OF MR. DILLON OF THE LYCEUM THEATRE. IN RE CHARLES JAMES DILLON. At the rising of the Court Mr. Parry, an actor, made an application to Mr. Commissioner Phillips in the case of Mr. Dillon, of the Lyceum Theatre, who was heard uhder the Protection Act, and agreed to pay into court 501. a year for his creditors. Mr. Commissioner Phillips inquired the position of the case, and the reason of the application. Mr. Parry said Mr. Dillon was in prosperous circum• stances, and should be required to keep up his payments. He had heard that 13/. had been paid into court. The officer of the court (Mr. Ingpen) informed the learned commissioner that Mr. Dillon had paid 381. into court, and a dividend of ls. 4d. in the pound was about to be declared and paid to the creditors. Mr. Dillon was en ; aged at the Lyceum Theatre, and required time. Mr. Parry remarked that Mr. Dillon was lessee of the theatre. Mr. Commissioner Phillips thought Mr. Dillon should be summoned to show cause why be had not kept up his payments. If he had not paid up he would be with out protection. Mr. logpen mentioned that Mr. Dillon was at the mercy of all his creditors, and in fact he had been served with two writs. Mr. Commissioner Phillips recommended the appli cant to take advice in the matter. He (the Commis. sinner) was of opinion that the best course would be to issue a summons on Mr. Dillon to attend the court, and the matter would be then gone into, Mr. Parry acquiesced in the suggestion, and it was understood that the course recommended would be adopted. TAE SAMARITAN INSTITUTION. THE DEFENCE.-THE CONCLUSION OF THE INQUIRY. On Saturday, Mr. Surr Ed ward Pack Barber, the Secretary to the Samaritan Institution, appear-3d before Sir R. W. Carden, in answer to several charges of ob• taining goods under false pretences with intent to defraud Messrs. Hoare and Co., of Lower East &lath field ; Messrs. Manners and Wells, of Whiteobapel ; Messrs. Huntley and Palmer, of Reading ; and Messrs. Ponsferd and Co., of the City Flour Mills, Blackfriars. The evidence on the part of the defence, on this occasion, was of a similar nature to that oared previously, viz., to prove that beer was served at the dinner of 1855. Mr. Sleigh addressed the bench in support of the prosecution, and brought his remarks to a conclusion. Sir R. W. Carden said—The defendant is charged with obtaining goods by false pretences with intent to defraud, and it appears from the evidence that be as secretary to the Samaritan Institution, in the month of December, 1855, wrote letters to Messrs. Hoare and Co., and other gentlemen, soliciting contributions. for a dinner to be given to the poor on Christmas-day, and I will read the part of one of those letters which appears to me to be material to the charge : gg Samaritan Institution, Victoria-street, Farringdon-street, Dec., 1855. " Gentlemen, --The Committee of this Institution pur pose giving the s6 u o s ., u t a o l t C h h e ri d st e m si a to s to di p n o n o e of roast beef, plum of theaty ee o f, f P L l o u n m do p ri u , d a d n ui d g earuestly solicit the favour of a contribu tion, either in food or money, towards that laudable ob ject." It will be observed that the defendant did not apply specifically for beer, biscuits, or flour, but only fur a con tribution either in food or money towards the (Daher. It appears that, in consequence of those letters, certain contributions, consisting of beer, biscuits, and flour, were suit by several benevolent individuals to the insti tution, and it is clear upon the evidence, and from the defendant's own letters, that such contributions were received, as also that the donors intended those commo dities to be distributed to the poor people on Christmas day. It has been proved beyond dot.bt that a dinner was provided for the poor at the institution on Christ mas-day, 1855 ; but it was equally clear, from the evidence of the witnesses for the prosecution, that no beer or biscuits were distributed to the poor at that place on Christmas-day. The flour, or the greater por tion of it, may or may not have been used by the defen dant for the purposes of this dinner. On the other hand, the defendant has produced witnesses who have s , orn that they did receive beer on that occasion ; that a mug was placed before every man, woman, and child present at the dinner, and that some biscuits were exhibited rather as ornaments than otherwise. There is not a doubt that a class of witnesses have been called for the prosecution, as well as on behalf of the defendant, upon whose testimony little or no reliance can be placed. I am, however, impressed with the fact, that fiv e police constab es belonging to the City and Metropolitan forces, who can have no interest but to speak the truth, swear most distinctly that no beer or biscuits were given to the poor on that occasion, and that they never saw a mug on the table during the day. I cannot help observing that no official of the institution, or any one of the committee, or any of the visitors who are proved to have been present at this dinner, except, indeed, Mr. Langridge, the missionary, whose evidence does not appear at all satisfactory to me, have been called for the defence. They must have seen whether beer or biscuits were distributed or not. The conclusion I have formed from the evidence on this part of the case is, that no beer or biscuits were given to the poor people at this institution on Christmas-day, 1855, and to that extent the intentions of the donors have not been carried out by the defendant. The finance com mittee of this institution consists of ten gentlemen, and I cannot lose sight of the circumstance that until to-day only one of them has taken any interest in the proceed. ings ; but sufficient has probably transpired during this investigation to warrant them furnishing a full financial statement to the subscribers. Indeed, from what ap pears before me, Mr. Barber seems to be the only official connected with the institution, excepting perhaps Mr. Horsley, who appeared before me in the first inste.nce as representing the institution, and having performed his duties in that respect, he next appears as advocate for Mr. Barber, showing no ordinary zeal for his client, alter which he was called as a witness by Mr. Barber's counsel. Neither Mr. Horsley nor the other gentlemen who had been called to-day could give any ititsrwation as to what took place at the institution on Christmas day, 1855. In considering this case, I cannot fail to observe that Mr. Potter, the gentleman who instituted these proceedings, has taken no personal interest in the matter. The course he has taken, no doubt with the best intentions, was with the view of directing public attention to this institution ; and whatever may be the result of this inquiry, the investigation will have this beneficial effect that it will direct the attention of sub scribers to public charities in general, and to this insti tution in particular, to the mode in which their con trioutions are distributed. To that extent I consider no doubt, receiv e th e t h an k s o f the public. It appears Mr. Potter is deserving o f gr eat praise, and he will, to me, also, somewhat important and fortunate for the defendant that in the course of this case the parties from whom the goods have been obtained have not preferred any charge against him, and not any of these patties are called as witnesses except Mr, Few, .)f was strumoned on bebait of the prosecution. Tne quos tions I have to consider here are whether these goods were obtained by the defendant by false representations, and with an intent to defraud. The misappropriation of charitable funds or goods belonging to an institution by their paid secretary or servant is certainly an indict able offence, and punishable either as larceny or embrz• zlement, but these are not the charges now before me. I have devoted a great portion of time to the inve,.tiga; tion and consideration of the present charge, and I may have been subjected to some misapprehension in my anxiety to arrive at the truth, amidst conflicting testi mony of the most painful description. Is is no part of my duty to consider the consequences to the prosecutor or the accused, but to determine impartially the legal effect of the evidence on either side. To support a charge of obtaining goods by false pretences it is not sufficient to show that they have been obtained upon a fraudulent promise to make a particular use of them hereafter. Whatever, therefore, may be my opinion of the defend ant's conduct, and however deserving of reprobation it may be, I do not think I should be justified in sending him for trial on the charge before me. The defendant is therefore dismissed. This announcement wag received with a burst of un controLable applause, which the officers with some difi• salty suppressed. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. KENDAL AND WINDERMERE. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Kendal on Thursday ; Mr. L. Heyvvortb, M.P., in the chair. The report stated that the directors had instituted a most searching investigation into the accounts and divi dends of the company, and the result had confirmed their previous persuasion that no money had been improperly expended, and that the income and expenses of the com pany were legitimately and accurately stated. This in vestigation has enabled the directors to conclude that the capital account may henceforth be considered closed, and they direct attention to the fact that if the amount invested in the hotel and houses at Wiedermere, as well as the amount of land sold, be deducted from the ex penditure, it would be found that the cost of the line was very little above 20,0001. per mile, including the whole of the working plant and stations and extra sidings, as well as the remainder of the land which the company have still on band. The leading features of the revenue ace unt are an increase of 2411. on the passengers and 2991; on goods and minerals, being a total increase of 5411. as compared with the corresponding half year of 1855. The working expenses have slightly decreased, leaving the net balance of increase 4971. on the half-year, the actual amount of theenet income being 2,138/. At the last meeting it was decided to take from the income one-third of the cost of the new engine, and two-thirds from the reserved profits; consequently, 1,5381. was the amount available for dividend for the past half-year. A dividend of 2s. 6d. per share would leave 9801. to be carried to the reserve fund. In Sept. last the Lancaster and Carlisle Company intimated that it was their inten tion to "conduct their goods business with the town of Kendal and neighbourhood at their 0 tenholtne station;" in fact, to endeavour to appropriate to themselves the goods traffic of the town. As the hoe had been constructed by the consent and with the sanction of the Lancaster and Carlisle Company, to serve as a branch for that line to the town of Kendal, great expen diture having been incurred for that special purpose ; and, moreover, as the company had formed its relations for the conveyance of goods with other companies, the directors did not feel authorised to surrender to another company a large portion of the terminal charges the Kendal Company were entitled to receive for collecting, forwarding, and distributing the goods between Kendal and other places, and collecting the charges upon those goods. A proposal to refer the matter to arbitration was refused, and in return an offer was made by the Lan caiter and Carlisle Company to give a certain fixed suns as a rental for the Kendal and ‘Viodernsere line, which the directors felt bound to decline. Ou the Ist Jan. the Lancaster and Carlisie Company commenced its oppo sition to this company by carting goods down from Oxenholme, and had stopped goods to the utmost extent of its power. Under these circumstances the directors appeal to the shareholders for their support. The expen diture on capital account amounted to 228,6781. The traffic for the half-year ending the 31st Dec. amounted to 7,3281., the expenses to 2,5021., and the interest on debentures and pieference shares to 2,6871., leaving a net balance of 2,1381. _ On the motion of the CHAIRMAN the report was adopted, and Mr. E. ere wdssu was elected an auditor. The meeting was then made special to consider a notice sent by the Lancaster and Carlisle Company their intention to terminate all through rates on and after the Ist Jan., 1857. After some discussion a resolution was passed autho rising the directors to submit the matter to arbitration, if the Lancaster and Carlisle Company would agree to that mode of settlement. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the pro• ceedings. EASTERN COUNTIES. The attention of the Board of Trade has been called by certain residents of Norwich to the partial disuse of the Victoria station in that city. The terminus of the Norfolk RAH way at Norwich is in Thorpe hamlet, while that of the Eastern Union Railway (the Victoria) is in St. Stephen's, a totally different part of the city. Since the working ajeement was entered into between the Eastern Counties and the Norfolk and Eastern Union Companies the number of trains leaving and arriving at the Victoria (Eastern Union) station has been greatly diminished, a great portion of the traffic having been diverted by a branch connecting the Norfolk and Eastern Union lines with the Thorpe station. The Board of Trade decline to interfere, as they consider they have no means of giving effect to any order they may make on the subject. LLANELLY AND LLANDILO. This line was inspected by the Government inspector on Tuesday last, and opens to-day for public traffic. The length of the line is seven miles, and it forms a continu ation of the old Llanelly Rail way to Llandilo. When the Vale of Towy line is completed, which is expected to be the case in the course of a few months, it will extend the line from Llandilo to the agricultural and mining districts of Llandovery. Mr. J. Samuel, the engineer, has succeeded in comp!eting the line within his estimate 8,0001. per mile, and it appears the works have been exe cuted in a substantial and satisfactory manner. The Vale of Towy line is being constructed at a similar cost under the same engineer, and the completion of it is looked forward to with great interest by persons locally interested. MINING IN THE PHII,LIPINE ISLANDS. Great activity has been lately shown in exploring and developing the mineral and metalliferous deposits of the Island of Luzon, one of this group—Mr. W. Eathorne Gill, who has acquired considerable experience in Cali fornia being the engineer-in-chief of an association formed in Madrid, denominated La Exploradora Phil pina Compania. The auriferous veins are situated at Monte Malagit, near Paracale, and have long been worked by the native Indians. A shaft has been sunk abuut 46 iaras, and the edit level has been driven a considerable length. The lode is quartz, in tersected with ferruginous veins ; the country is gneisq, with dykes of syenite, and beds of steatite. Eight stamps are erected, and Mr. Gilt was daily in expecta tion of receiving the grates to affix to them. It is not the intention to employ amalgamation, but merely to crush the ore and wash it, and the estimates are that $2 per ton will cover aq. expenses. In contradis. Unction to this, in his report, Mr. Gill states that the cost to the Noveau Monde Company at Mount Oplair, furnished by Mr. Phillips, was $17,50 ; by the same gentleman at the Pine Tree works, $23.50 ; while Mr. Atwood's expenses at Gras Valley were $8.29. It is, however, to be remembered that in California the aver age daily wages of a labourer were $4, while in Luzon they are $l, and this is partly paid in rations. The Indian miners, though unskilled, are very tractable, and have been accustomed to mining from their infancy. The profits to be realised on a ton of quartz are calcu lated at $lO, and the limit to the revenue cau only be fixed accordift to the means adopted for raising, the quartz. Occasionally, mica is found in the veins for several fathoms in length. In other localities, no great distance from the works of the association, magnetic iron ore has been found, and in the neighbouring moun tain large specimens of native copper have been disco vered ; while there is a tradition among the Indiana that white gold has been extracted, this, from its de scription, being evidently platioa. Mr. Gill is of opi nion that the district is highly mineralised ; it is well wooded, and merely requires good management and economy to afford brilliant results. From that gentle man's acknowledged experience, there . is every promise that the metallif er ous resources of the island will be care fully and adequately developed.—Mining Journal. In one of our Courts, lately, a man who was called on to appear as a witness could not be found. On the judge asking where be was, a grave elderly gentleman rose up, and, with much emphasis, said, "Your lordship, he's gone." Gone ! gone !" said the judge, " where is he gone ?" "That I cannot inform you," replied the corn. municative gentlema n, "but he is dead." This is eon sidered the most guarded answer on record. [Anvsar iss mssr.j—The fol'owing extraordinary cures with out medicine of Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Flatulency, Consti pation, Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints, Cough, Asthma, Consumption, and Debility, effected by Du Barry'si delicious health -restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, are not t least Down,remarkable : — From the Dowager Countess ofC e a li s i t n i e : stuart. — Cure 52 , 612 . - Rosstrevor , County of DOW, Ir December, 1854.—The Dowager Countess of Castlestaal *t f ee l s induced, in the interest of suffering hum an ity, to state that Du Barry's excellent Revalenta Arabica Food has cured her, after all medicines bad failed, of indigestion, bile, great standing. This This be nervous ness and irritability, of manyyears' F oo d deserves the confidence of all sufferers and may con sidered a real blessing. loqu,ii:iie,isft years' indesc r ib a bl e will be cheerfully an swered. Cure No. 49,832.- nervousness, asthma, coug h , constipa tion,agony from dyspepsia, y flatulency, spasms, sickness at the s t omac h , an d vomiting, have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food.—MaitiA JOLLY, Wortham Ling, near Diss, Norfolk." Supported by testimonhtls from the celebrated Professors of Chemistry Dr. Andrew Ure ; Dr. Shorlaud ; Dr. Harvey • Dr. Campbell ; Dr. .4 - attiker ; Dr. Wurzer • Dr..ln.. Lord Stuart do Deeies • the D • Countess of Oa r s a t ' le- ' Dowager stuart; Major-Gen. Thomas ' King, and many other respectable persons, whose health has bee ir if restored ' by it, after all other means of cure had failed. For further particu:ars re pect ing this invaluable food our readers are referred to Du Barry's ativertis6ment in another part of this paper. PRICEB op s p roil, the Od: rUBLISUED EVERY TUESDAY AND FR. LONDON, FBID JAN. CANALS. • Names of Companies. tshtn &Oldh Birmingham Coventry.. • • Derby .. • • • • GrandJunetn Do., 6 pr. C t. Grand Union Kennt Avn Leeds &Livf p Leicester .. Leicstr & Nib LoughL'rogh Macclesfield. Neath • • • • . • Oxford.. • • • • ? l j Dividend RI Per Annum. 98 7.. p. et. 40 41. MO Ili. 100 61. 15s. 100 I/. pr. ct. 10 6 , pr. ct. 100 7s. 6(.1 40 63. (00 251. , 00 51. 83 11.55. 143 701 1.00 21. 10s. 100 161. 100 Name of Company. Berlin .. ••• • . East London Do 4 per Cent. Pref. Do. 5 per Cent. Pref. Grand Junction .... • • Do. New ••• • • • Lambeth • • .... • . • • .. New River Company.. Southwark & Vauxhall West Middlesex • • • - Do. Do, .. •. • • Name of Company. aungerford .....• .... Southwark .......... Ditto New of 7% p.c. Waterloo..... Ditto Old Ann. of Si. Ditto Nw ditto of 71. Vauxhall GAS-LIGH Name of Company. British Provincial Brighton ...... •• •• • • City of London .. •• •• Equitable • •• • • European .... ... •• Great Central Imperial ...• Ditto New Ditto Denenturei Do. Continental I st Cap Do. Do. 2d Cap Do. Do. 3d Cap Do. Do. 4th Cap Independent •London Parl. Preferen. . •• Ratclitif • • . Surrey Consumers United General Westminster Chartered Ditto, New • Western A .. Ditta B Name of Company. Albion .• •• • • •• • • • • • • tlliana Br:;. and For. Ditto Marine ..... •. Athenaeum. ...... • • • • Atla3 A rgus Life ••••• British Commercial .. Church of England .. City of London •• Gen. Lite County •• •• •• •••• •• Crown Eagle.. Equity and Law...... European Life Family Endowment •• Genera 1............ •• Globe . •• •• • • • Gresham Life . Do- D 0....... • • Guardian .......... •• Imperiai Fire... .. Imperial Life Indemnity Marine.... Law Fire .......... •• Law Legal and General Life London ........ London & Prov. Eaw• • Marine .• Med.lnvlid& Gen. Life Minerva Monarch New Equitable Phcenix Profess:onal Life Provident Llfe::.. • : :: Rock Life........ . • .. Royal Exchange ....•• Sun Fire Ditto Life . United Kingdom .... Universal Life ... Victoria Life Namo of Company. Australasia....... Bank of Egypt ...... Bank of London ...... British North American Ch. Bk. Ind. Aust & Ch. City C010nia1.............. Commercial of London. Eng. Scot. & Aust. Ch. Lon& Char. Bk. of Aus. Do. New ........ London and County .. Lon & Eastn. Bnkg. C. London Joint-Stock ... Londn and Westminatr Nat. Provincial of Eng. Ditto. New .... • ... Ditto ditto Nation: 1i Rank New Loath IVales Orientui Bank Corpora. Ottoman Bank Frovincial of Ireland Ditto, New... ...... South Australia Union of Australia.... Ditto . • • • • • • • • Union of Hamburg.... Union of L0nd0n...... UM , y Mutual .... • • • • Western Bank or Londn Name of Company Commercial ........•• Do. Preference East and West India.. Grand ,urry D. & Canal l )0. Loan Notes .. .. Do. 5 per cent. Pref. London .• . St. Katharine ........ outhampton ........ Victoria Ditto New ........ LIST OF SCI Narncs 01 Companies Peak Forest Regen t's • • Rochdale.... Stftrd &Wor. Stoarbridg l / 4 . Severn and Wye Rail. Warwick & Binning. Warwick & Napton..3 Worcstr & Binning. j Wilts & Brb WATER-WORKS. Dividend per Annum. 51. per cnt. 64. per cnt. 41. per cent. 51. per cent. por cnt. 51. per ent, 4!. per cent. BRIDGE Dividend per Annum. 108 per cent.' 11. 12s. Od. 11. Vs. Od. 28s. LT AND COK. Dividend per Ainum. COMMA: Amount Share. 71. per cent 51. per cent. 21. per cent. 10s. 5L per cent. per cent LOI. per cent 31. ss. 4/. 169. 41. 10s. GI. per cent. 51. per cent. 51. £ll. ner cent. 13s 6d per eh. GI per cent. rEANCE CO: Dividend per Annum. IINT-STOCK Dividend per Atinum. 201. per cent. 51. per rent. i'. p. c. & bs, 4i per cent. 51. per cent. 101. per cent. C. per cent. led, per cent. 61 per cent. 12% p c. & bs 161. per cent. 51. per cent. 20'. per cent. 101. per cent. 31, p. ct.Scbs. al. per cent. 51. per cent. 10/. per cent. 211. per cent. Ol.pcSe DOCKS. Dividend per Annum. W. pr cent. 61. przlent. 41. per cent. 51. pr cent. If 4341. per cnt. 4 per cent. 5/. Os per c. Amount of Share. X 2. d. 10 0 0 Stock. 25 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 GI 0 0 5 1 8 Amount of Share. £ 8. d. 25 0 0 100 0 0 30 0 0 100 0 0 60 0 0 40 0 0 70 10 3 s. d. 20 0 0 20 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 21 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 Stock 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 25 0 0 60 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 59 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 'ANIES Amount of Share. 20 0 0 100 0 0 BANKS. Amount of share. X B. d. 40 0 0 25 0 0 103 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 , 100 0 0 'lOO 0 0 100 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 15 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 Amount Share. X s. d. Stock. Stock Stock. 100 e 0 100 0 0 1 25 0 0 Stock. Stock. 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 ITTISEI COMPANIES' Dividend per Annum. Amount of Share. Z B. d. Stock. 100 0 0 00 0 0 5 0 0 stock. 50 -. 0 0 20 0 0 14 0 0 'RICES. I s. d. X a. d. all 150 0 0 all 12 10 0 100 0 0 42 15 0 41 0 0 43 10 0 41 0 0 all 52 0 0 16 0 0 all 10 0 0 all 4 0 0 Paid. 71. per c. 11. 14s. 6d. bs it. p.c. & bs. 15s. Od. 41. per cent. 71. 10s. 71. I Os. 61. 5 pr ct./t bs. 41. 1/ 16s. ss. 5% per cent 11. 41. per cent. 6 per cent. 5:. per cent 5/. per cent t2l. i.er cent. 145.& 21. bs :5.. p. ct. &bs. 2s & 'is bons 51. per cent. 4s. per share il. ss. 18s. & bs. 4% per cent Si per cent. N. per cent. G y 4 per cent 51 p. ct. 51. per cent. 51. per cent l 2 .per c. A p. c. bs & bs. I4s. 41. & bonus. 5/. & bonus. 51. & t onus s. d. 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 1 0 0 50 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 20 0 0 11 1 0 0 L. 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 I 50 0 0 , 2 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 tOO 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 G 5 0 0 10 0 0 6 5 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 i Stock. s. d. 50 0 0 11 0 0 25 0 0 all 5 15 0 25 0 0 5 d 2 0 0 2 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 5 0 +, 5 0 n 4 0 0 47 b 50 0 0 AO 0 0 31 0 0 2 10 0 13 0 0 2 10 0 12 10 0 2 0 0 12 19 0 2 0 0 20 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 o 10 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 5 10 0 l 0 0 0 5 0 0 X s. d. 18 15 0 50 0 0 6 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 22 10 0 15 0 0 25 0 0 2 10 0 3 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 Paid. Name of Company. Bank of Scotland . British Linen Company Caledonian Bank .. •• City of Glasgow Bank Clydesdale Bank .... C , mmercial Bank .. Eastern Bank.. • • • • .. Edlnb 8; Glasgow.... National Bank •• • • •• North of Scotland Bank Royal Bank of S cotl. Union Bank of Scot. Western Bank • • • • • • •• Affiance Fire and British Guarantee . • • Caledonian Fire Insur City of Glasgow Lite.. Co onial Life ..• -- •• •• Edinburgh Life Incur. Eng. & Scot, Law Life Life Assoc. of Scotland National Fire and Life North British Insur... Northern Assurance Co. Scottish Provincial Scottish Union Insrnc. Standard Life ••• • • • Ti. per cent. 81. per cent. 81. per cent 51. per cent. 53y 1. p cent. 11. per cent. 61. per cent. 3%1. p cent. 6% per cent. 51. per cent 5/. per cent. 81. per cent. 71. per cent. 554/. pr cent. 41. per cent. 10,.p0r cent.' 61. per cent. 5/. per cent. 61. per cent. bloer cent. 61. per cont. 61. per cent. IL per cont. 73&/. preent. 51. per cent. X a. d. 100 C 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 1 5 V 0 i g I 5 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 'lOO 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 10 0 0 200 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 X s. d. 100 0 0 100 0 0 2 10 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 iOO 0 0 2 10 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 15 0 0 3 5 0 3 0 0 1 4 0 20 0 n 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 7 0 Price. MISCELLANEOUS. ---------7---- Dividend Airtou i Name of Company. per of Annum. Share. Paid. Price. ---- Acadian Charcoal Iron African Steam Ship .. Assam iea Auction Ma . ri .. .. • :: er Cent. 50 0 0 Australian A.friculturl I % l .:rcent 10 10 0 0 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 a 19 0 0 24 :....: st"',"Je p r :l cent. 50 301 3.0 0 • 1 2 1 0 s O O 6 d O O O . 7 . 71_ Australian Trust ... 7 i A .i n u g st i r o a: m la e n xi ß ca o n ya iv i r N in fa t i . l . sc,j/.. lOs. British s A pe m: c r e i n ca t u ß L o an ad d s , 10 0 0 all ' per cent. 50 0 0 40 0 0 . Ca D na lt d to a , . s .. pe .. r .. cexitb . d: , Ditto, A Per cent. .. 6p c. bds 1874 percent 100 0032 10 0 Do.-) 5 / 11 .. per cent Stock 100 0 0 D 1)1 1 1.1 ° 0:6 pC. bds 1876 per cent. Stock 100 0 0 100 0 0 110% Crystal; i tt,j Preference,,,,Palace 100 0 0 . per cent. Stoc k 100 0 0 111% Crys. Pal ice of ranc 6/. per cent. Stock 5 0 0 all 71 pr — . cent 2. 1 1% t N r 14cvTi g e lt e tn al ton . d . s 3%7. — er cent 5 4 :(1 ... o 0 5 _ a s ll 0 5 _ 14 Eng.& 408. Cop. Smelt. I 50 0 all Ellazlris. Uag. T. Co. 50 0 0 all 61. p er i: cent. Stock. iOO 0 0 92 Equitable Reversionry 5/per cent. 1( 5 / 0 0 0 0 Ditto New .. •• .. -.— i 22 00 10 0 0 0 --- ( len.,%evers. & Invest. 51. p c and 11 25 0 0 all Gen. Sc. Col. (Lim.) 100 00MO 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 all o 0 Gen.SteamNavigation 10/. per ct. & 1 5 4 3% Loudon (len. Omnibus 121. per cent Nucleon's 8ay.... •• •• 5/. per cent. Stock Stock all 5 1 A nungerford .....• •• •• 100 0 0 10 0 0 all Lon. Ne. &Na. Maus°. th 0 ~ all London RfrversionarY 10 0 0 all 3 Mex. & S. .American 5/, 2 p l e —. r s c s ent. Nat. Discount Comp • • 25 0 0 50 0 5% 1 9 9 Nor. Br!. Austra lasian d 0 0 all N.S.W. Gov.sp.c. Deb. Si. pe 6 re . ent 0 North a E u rope, Stm. Si. per cent 2 20 , 0 0 ! all 17 10 0 14% erice's P a tent c and• Co— Peel River Land&lllln. -- 50 0 all 2% ; 2 Pen. & Oriental St eam 71. p er 50 00tO 0 0 14%cent 50 0 0 all 61 Ditto New •• ...... Reversionary Int. Soc. 1%1. pr cent 10C 0 0 all 88 Ditto New •• —•• •• 4 2 /. pr cent. 130 C I 20 0 0 _. Royal Mail Steam.... 4/. p. qlny• 100 0 0 1 0 0 0 66% S CO ttigh AMP Invest. Isi. per cent. 1 0 0 an P 1 0.... 1 . 0 — 373 3 4 , ou th Australian Land 71. per cent., 100 0 0 0 2 8 0 T r ust and Loan COMP. 7141. pr cent. 20 0 0 5 4 0 . Vita Diemen's Land.. it 103. 'yic. C4ov. 6 per et. Pds, 6 per cent. ‘ ~.... _ __ 1 R S. [PAY k.VEIN.th . 1857. Dividend per Annum. X s. d. 100 all Country Markets. GTON GRAIN 3.I.A.RKET— JAN. 23. WHEAT. 1 RAitIAY OATS. I sw,M• S. 70s 03. 45s 6d l 01403 481 0 _ . _ _ . _ _ First.. Second Cs 3d : 38s 8d 24s id 1 37s 9d Third 3 ls Od 130 s Od 1 19s 6d 1 30s Od Total quantity of wheat in market, 738 qrs., 674 sold barley „ 441 qrs., 393 sold oats ,1 437 qrs., 426 B ,l d ll beans • ~ 135 qrs., 113 gold AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. Wheat, 2/. 2 3 10-12ths 1 Barley, _V. 18 8 6.l2thr Oats, ... 11. 4 1 8-12ths I Beaus, V. 17 9 3-12 tbs „ , DALKEITH GRAIN MARKET—JAN. 22 Qrs. Best: Current. Infetiqi 632 Wheat 62s Oct 1469 Oats 3ls Oct 2os 80 ..... .... 164 Oct 794 Barley 4ls Od 363 34 22 Peas & beans 40s 13 49s 9d ABERDEEN-JAN. 23. Potato oats 22s Od to 24s Od 4olbs per bushel Common oats 20s Od to 21s 6.1 Be , -e 33s Od to 37s Od s3lbs Bar!, _Arley 33s Od to 37s Od , Wheat, red (spring)3ss Od to 40s Od 1 621bs „ „ white 3os Od t o 50 s Od Oatmeal 17s 6d to 18s Gil per boll. Flour 50s Od to s!s Od per sack. PROVISION MARKET. Beef, per lb 6d to 8d 1 Mutton, per lb. 6d t o 8d Lamb, do., Os Od to Os 0.1 1 Veal, per lb ... 9d to is Od Pork, per st...os Od to 6s 6d Salmon, per lb Os to Os Grouse, per brace Os to Os Tallow, p stone, Os to 12s 01 Rabbits, each... Butter for exportation (preser Eggs, wholesale price, per do: Butter, p lb. 1s 1d to is 21 Eggs, p doz. Os Od to N 101 Hens, p pair 3s Od to 3s 6d Chickens,do. 2s Od to 2i; 61 Ducks, do., 2s Od to 2s 61 Ducklings,o Os Od toll . 01 Turkeys, each 4s Od to 53 01 Potatoes, pr pock, 9d to 101 9d to 10d. nt cure) per owt.9ls Od to 969 )zen PRICES. Barley flour,l4lb.Os to 2s 44 ~ dust, ..... Nto Os 10d „ per lb 2d to 2id Sids, 6l ;one, 33. 6d. to 48 0d 2-Ib. 10af...4d. RETAIL Flour,l4lb 0s Od to 2s 10c1 Oatmeal Os Od to is 10d Beremeal ....Os Od to 2s Od Peasemeal... Os Od to 2s 8d Cheese, per imperial sti 4-Ib. 10af...8d. 1 DUBLIN, JAN. 23. A dull market existed to-day, and although little alters• tion in the currencies of Tuesday last can be noted, the general tendency was to lower rates. White wheat, 32e Ocl to 35s Od lied ditto, 31s 6d to 33s Od; ditto new, —s; barley, malting, 173 to 253 6d ; grind• ing, 15s to 20s 6cl ; oats, old, Ils to 14s; ditto, new, —s Oct to 15s Od ; oatmeal, 14s to 15s Od; here, new, 16s to 18i Od ; rapes: -d, 30s Od to 32s Od per brl ; halters' flour, 20a Od to 263 Od per cwt; Indian corn, 31s Od to 37 s Od per 480 lbs. LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 24. &room. EXOHANGIC.—The market is dull, and prices are generally about yesterday's rates. Caledonian, 304—East ern Counties, 9/. Bs. 9d.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 9611 —London and North Western, 106 a—ditto, one•eighths, dia.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 33Z- 4h —Mid land, 82$ A—North-Western, 4/. lls. 3d. d.—South.East ern, 221—Birmingham Guaranteed, 74—Grand Trunk of Canada, 121. 16s. 3d. ex d.—Great Western of Canada (new shares), 2i p. LEEDS-JAN. 24. STOOK EXORANGE. — North-Westerns, 71 7/. 160. 31-- ditto (pref.), 140—North British, 91—Great Northerns, 23 —Dovers, 22/. 6s. 3d. BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 24 STOCK EXCHANGE.—Prices are a little firmer to-day. The following are the transactions done : Great Western, 65i—Great-Western Birmingham Guaranteed, 75i. Clow , in prices :—Great Western Birmingham Guaranteed, 754 i—South Staffords, 94 a —Great Western, 654 SEIBORNE MAILS. [When the date for making up a mail falls on a Sundab the mail remains open until the day following ; except in the case of the Indi a ma il, v i a S ou th amp t on, w hi c h , on s uch , occasions, is made up the previous evening.] FOR FROM -.------...--• Made up at W hence By what When By what . the des- Post•Ofllce. patched. Vessel. expected Venel. ..•••••••••11 '-......... ..... -....... Lisbon 7th,l7th, &I South- A . lham- Spain ampton 1 27th of tke Madrid Jan. 24 bra- Gibraltar Gibraltar 1 -) Malta 4th and Egypt ...• South- 20th of ampton . 0 1 02 nhe Ceylon .. f3l of the Indus the L• India 0 (via Ceylon) China Penang .. •• i M the ampton . Singapore Waning South- Icdus Feb. 4.. Colon lb° Australia(via} in t South- Jan. 31 Ugh the Cape) _1 ampton Cape of Good Hope ...... Mauritius .. E Feb. 5.. .. Dart- Harbin- O, ~,,,,,u md mouth ger Jan. -0 "••• Ceylon .... India . ..... Lisbon....., Madeira .... CapedeVerds Brazil 31 Feb. 9 .... 1 South- RuenosAyres 1 ampton - • - Hedvaav Feb. 12 Avon Falkland Is lands J Wes Indies . o an (except Ha vana and Honduras). 2d d 17th let and Venezuela South 16th of 4 Grey Town f tile New Granada month. ampton Parana the Aw .. - 0 ' Chili .. •• • • month. Peru .• 'California • Honduras — / 16th of .Nassau .. South- 31 Feb. 17 ..} • the ........ ampton month. Mexico .. • • Havana .... Feb . 2.. • • } South - Parana Feb. 1 Atria ° ampton Madeira .... Teneriffe .. lan. 23 .• 1 Pl y - Candace Feb 6 itthi o P 4 W C.otAfrica mouth British North America .. 1 Every Fri. } Liver- EurOpa fan. 26 Niagartis United States pool United States Feb. 3 and L iver- America North alternate '' America .. Tuesdays. United States British North 31 Feb. 25 ..} pool •••• • • • • Jan, 29 ....•• • • South- America .. ampton Herman Feb. 19 Arai' , Canada .... 1 E r an. 27 .. } Liver- Anglo- Feb. 4 i' T ' Arne. pool Saxon rica_•... 31—Morning. E—Evening. 1 - ADVERTISEMENT. 1 SIGHT AND HEARING SPECTACTO POWERFUL TELESCOPES, OPERA, RACE, AND PERSPECTIVS Gtesszs.—Messrs. S. and B. Solonions, opticians, 39, Alba: marle-street, Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York Hotel (W.) By lier Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable el* . : extraordinary improvements in the most powerful a nd brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Racecourse, Opera, and per* epective Glasses, to know the distances. These teleacopel possess such extraordinary powers . that some th ree and a-bil inches, with an extra eye-piece, cull show distinctly Jupiter" moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars. With the 00 0° telescope can be seen a person's countenance three miles anal half distant, and an object from 16 to 20 m il es. They are 01 larger and an sizes, with increasi ng powers accordingly.--'le Royal Exhibition, 1851. Valuable, newly-invented, very smalls powerful waistcoat-pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known 1 miles distant ; they anew"! every purpose on the rac e - course, and at the opera hetteugl country s?enery, and ships are clearly seen at Bto 10 miles. They aro invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, t° sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists, Opens , nee-course, camp, and perspective glasses, with wonderful power. Newly- constructed Spectacle Lenses ' of the B' o° l est transparent power. The valuable advantage derive. from this invention is, that vision becoming impaired I 0 preserved and strengthened, and very aged persons are enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occe' patios —ca n see with these lenses of a much less magnify'ing power—and they do not require the frequent changeg to the dangerous effects of further powerful assistance' I Persons can be suited at the most remote part of the world/ by sending one of the glasses out of their spectacles in I letter, and stating the distance froin the eyes they can read small newspaper print w ith it ; an d th ose who lulY, not made use of specta c l es by s t a ti ng thei r ,age. Deli% ness. New Di scover y. Th e O rgan ic Vib ra t or, an eS__ traordinary powerful, small, newly-invented instrument f or deafness, entirely different from all others, to surpass all , thing of the kie.d that has been, or probably ever can be, : produced. Being of the same colour as the skin, i s no t pat eeptible ; it enables deaf persons to hear distin c tly a t e huruh , and at public assemblies ; the unpleasant sen sa ti on o f s inglY* noises in the ears is entirely removed ; and it affords all the assistance that possibly coald be desired. -39, Alb ema rle.. street, Piccadilly alwervo—opposite the York Hotel. (Vir.) BIRTHS. OP A soli. On the 23d inst., at -Woolwich, the lady of Major Sha w' Royal Artillery. On the 21st inst., at Flighbury, Mrs. Edward Nicholsorie OF A DAUGHTER. On the 22d inst., the wif e o f th e R ev. Daniel Moore, of Peckham. On the 22d inst., at Swansea, the wife of Capt. T. W' Pixley. MARRIED. On the 21st inst., at the Chapel of the British Eraha. g t. at Paris, by th e R ev. T homas Hale, D.D , chaplain to ttr Ambassador, Alex. George Home, M.D. of Whitfie Edinburgh, to H anna h Priscilla, youngest daughter of th e late Josiah Fairbank, Esq., of West-hill, county of Yor y. On the 22d bast, at St. Stephen's Hammersmith, by . 0 , Rev. T. C o ll e tt , Charles Schnieder, Es place, of Mabled° place, Bu r t on crescent, to Fannt daughter of i' late P. W. Lekuex, Esq., Ey, tham, younges Bent. On the 22d DIED inst., at his residence, 52, Cadogan - Pl ace ' George Lawrence, Esq. Din' 8 ethveß23. Ou the 22d ins , „ at the Vicarage, 'Whitsbury, —° Purvis, Lieutenant in H.M.'s 10th Foot, youngest 101 , 02 ° . the o n o d F i • nst t E v icar b R p i a i z r leth al h a g G e ( J a r s 0 0 , ~ a ury-s ree , Mic a aged 83, On the 23d inst Francis Jackson, Esq., late Pr° o f Marsh a l-G eneral of . YO the island of Granada, third WA Joseph Jackson Esq., of Orpington, Kent, aged 47. o et. On th e 23 d inst. , at her residence, 3, Johnstcine-el. late Bath, Caroline Freeman, youngest daughter of the Thomas Freeman, Esq., of North Sound, Antigua. of On the 234 inst., Elizo, wife of Henry Cary, Esq" Woodford, Essex, aged 49. _......,.. _____ [IC C " LONDON : Printed and Pnbliqhed. by MITRDO 0 "t,,T of No. 112, Strand, Printer, a t 7'h,e bun Meat 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the c oup t~ of Middlesex, Monday, January 26, 1867. Price. Price 51 Os 17s 7s. Od Paid. Paid. Paid. Paid. Paid. Price. Price 5% 112 Price. Price. 42W, 15N 11% 20% 10% Price. 5%. 90 2 18% 50 38 13% 59 Price.