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THE NEW NOVEL.

WILDF L O W E R,
By the Author of " The House of E more," is now ready
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Also, in 3 vole.,
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THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER.
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Also, just ready, in 3 vole.,
THE DAYS OF MY LIFE.
An Autobiography. By the Author of " Margaret Maitland."
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Now ready, in one vol., with 1,500 Engravings of Arme,
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Kew Edition, corrected throughout to the Present Time, from
the Personal Communications of the Nobility, &c.
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SIR ARCHII3ALD ALISON'S

HISTORY OF EUROPE,

From the

nt of the French Revolution in
London, England, 1857-01-17

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desserts to match, Ps. i;(1.; if to balance, 61. per dozen extra; car-
vers, 48.3 d. per pair; larger sizes, from 14s. tkl. to 265. per dozen ;
extra tine, ivory, 325. ; if with silver ferrules, 375. to 50s. ; white
bone table knives, 7s. 6d. per dozen ; desserts, 58. 6d.; carvers,
2e. 3d. per pair; black horn table knives, 7s. 4d. per dozen ; des-
sorts, Gs.; carvers, 2s. 6d.; black wood-handled table knives and
forks, 68. per dozen; table steels, from 18. each. The largest
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and otherwise, and of the new plated fish carvers.
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Tea ditto

fea and Coffee Sets, Cruet and Liqueur Frames, Waiters
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Teaditto

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• •
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PROPERTY and INCOME TAX
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anti Inetime Tax from 7d. to in the pound. and a more equi-
table adjustment or u total repeal of the Tux *Too Trades and
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THE GREAT CENTRAL MEETING,
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OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

From the 3forging Post, Oct. SO, 1856.—" Exhibits exquisite
artistic feeling in ornamentation, and perfection of mechanism
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From the Morning Chronicle, Oct. 30.—" Excellence of design
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From the Morning Advertiaer, Nov. I.—" The high repute
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taste, and desigu."
GOLD WATCHES, Horizontal Movements, Jewelled, &c.
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SILVER WATCHES, Horizontal Movements, Jewelled, &0.,
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London, England, 1857-01-17

FRANCE.

The protocols of the sittings of the Conference will
not be published till after its notification to tl •
powers.
The Neufchatel question excites much discussion
in the French papers, which have maintained that a
peaceable solution would certainly be arrived at with-
out the invasion of the Helvetic territory by Prussia.
M. Walewski had seut a despatch to the Federal
Government, which contains the following pas-
sage :

Ls France, des que les prisonniers auront etc mis en
liberte, s'engage a faire tows res efforts po.ir amener un
arrangement repondent ens vteux de la Suisse, eu assn.
rant la complete independence de l'uncienne principaute
de Nenfchatel, par la renonciation du Rol de Pausse aux
droits que lni attribuent les traites de 181:5.
Baron Brunnow, it is expected, leaves Paris very
shortly for Berlin.
Ferouk Khan, the Persian Ambassador, after many
delays, has reached Marseilles, and is hourly expected
in Paris.

General d'Orgoni, the Bavarian Ambassador, re•
mains yet in Paris, it is said, to conclude his missior.
His suite have left on their return home.
An investiture of the Order of the Bath is to be
held at the British Embassy this day. The French
officers designed for this honour, and who have not
yet received it, will be then invested with the in.
signia. After the ceremony a grand dinner will be
given at the embassy.
The trial of Verges is fixed for the 17th, but it is
thought probable will be postponed.
London, England, 1857-01-17

THE PRESS.

The charges for collecting the Revenue were
uniformly about 4,500,0001., so that if we
deduct that amount both from the Revenue
and the Expenditure, it will show that the net
revenue for the eight years would be about
53,000,000/., and the net expenditure about
50,500,000/. For greater exactitude we will
average the eight years, and show the
results:—

Gross Revenue for the eight years
1843.50
Less charges of collection for the
eight years 36,954,530

Average of eight years

53,010,809

Total Expenditure for the eight
years 1843-50 £118,701,814
Less chines of collection lor the
eight years 30,951,530

Average of eight years

31,408,410

Excluding the two years of Irish famine, 1847
and 1848, which were exceptional, the results
would be much more favourable :
Gross Revenue for six years
1x41:1.40, and 1849.30.
Less charges of collection for the
six years

Average of six years

53,193,915

Total Expenditure for the six years
1843.46, and 1840.50 £130,480,003
Less charges of collection fur six
years
London, England, 1857-01-17

fiSLEWS CRYSTAL GLASS CHANDE-
kJ MEM for GAS and CANDLES.—A great variety of the
newest and richest designs always on view; also a large assort•
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and every description of table glass at very moderate prices.
ORNAMENTAL GLASS of the 'lowest and most beautiful de-
scripdou. Export and furnishing orders executed with despatch
—44, Oxford street. Manufactory, Broad-street, Birmingham
Established li'j7.
London, England, 1857-01-17

Obituarg.

RETIRED REAB•ADMIRAL ROBT. HENLEY RODERS died
at Plymouth on Thursday week. This officer entered
the navy in the spring of 1796 as firit-cla•la volunteer
on board the Concorde, 36, Captain Anthony Hunt,
whom he followed in August of the same year, into
La Virginie, Bt. After cruising on the Irish and
London, England, 1857-01-17

/ortign an Colonial luttlityntt.

PRUSSIA AND SWITZERLAND.
SETTLEMENT OF THE DISPUTE.
A private telegraphic despatch from Berne ow tha
15th announced that the National Council had
adopted the propositions of the Federal Government,
with the considerations of the Commission, by 91
votes against 4.
The message of the Federal Government proposed
to annul the proceedings commenced against the in-

THE PRESS.

surgents of Neufchatel, and to set them at liberty
with the reservation that they shall not be sent ouc of
the Helvetic territory until the official conclusion of
the arrangements:
It is also proposed to suspend the armaments and
to dismiss the troops, as Switzerland need no longer
consider herself as in a state of war.

The message further announced that the Ministers
of Russia and Austria to the Government of Berne
had communicated to the Federal Council note.{ con-
formable to those of France anti England, which
engaged to obtain the consent of Prussia to the entire
independence of Neufchatel.
A telegraphic despatch of Thursday from Berlin
announces that " the affair of Neufchatel is arranged."
The New Prussian Gazette positively denies that
Prussia has contracted any other engagement than
that of entering into diplomatic negotiations on the
affair of Neufchatel as soon as the prisoners shall
have been set at liberty unconditionally. It adds
that no great power has requested any other promise.

A Russian circular on the question has been pub-
lished ; but, at this advanced stage of affairs, it is
without any particular interest, except as expressing
an opinion strongly in favour of Prussia.
London, England, 1857-01-17

(3)lttrogolitan rtaritcts.

(Reportedexclusively for "Ttix Pities.")

CORN EXCHANGE Since our lust report only mode-
rate supplies of English wheat have come to hand, coastwise
and by land carriage. For moat kinds the demand has been by
no means active, yet prices have been supported. Fine foreign
wheats have commanded more attention, at full quotations ; but
inferior parcels have ruled dull. Floating cargoes of grain have
moved off slowly, but without change in price. Malting barley
has sold briskly, at a further improvement in value of is per
quarter. Grinding and distilling sorts have realised full quota-
tions. There has been a steady inquiry for malt, at last week's
currency. Good sound oats have sold at extreme rates. Inferior
parcels have been neglected. Both beans and peas have sold
at full prices; and all kinds of flour have maintained previous
values.

ENGLISH—Wheat, Essex and Kent red, 52s to 65e; white,
54s to 745; Norfolk and Lincoln red, Zks to 67e. Malting barley,
dOs to 535; grinding ditto, 31s to 33s ; distilling, 37. to 361+.
Malt, 63s to 78s. Feed oats, 24. to '2ss; potato, 25s to 31s.
Rye, 38s to 425. Tick beans, 35s to 375; Harrow, 40. to 435;
pigeon, 42s to 48s. Grey peas, 39s to 41s ; maple, 41s to 43s ;
white boilers, 40s to 44s per quarter. Town made flour, f.Bs to
60s; country marks, 43s to 47a; households, 588 to stts per
280Ibs.
London, England, 1857-01-17

AUSTRIA.

The Emperor of Austria is to be in Milan by the
20th. M. de Bach, Austrian Minister of the Inte-
rior, left Vienna on the 7th to join his Maje-,ty at
Milan; M. de Bruck, Finance, was to leave the next
evening ; and Count de Buol, President of the
Council, in a few days.
In addition to the amnesty already granted, says
the Cologne Gazette, it is affirmed that on the occa-
sion of the visit of the Emperor of Austria to Milan,
a certain number of persons condemned for political
offences will be pardoned, and that in addition the
Italian nobles will be assimilated in all respects to
those of Austria.
London, England, 1857-01-17

AMERICA.

Advices from Philadelphia to the Ist inst., and
New York to the 31. it of December, have arrived.
The Central American Treaty it was not antici-
pated would be ratified by Congress without much
discussion. Those articles recognising the nation-
ality of the Mosquito Indians, and the right of com-
mon interference in the affairs of Nicaragua and
Costa Rica, will, it is said, be warmly opposed.

The Washington correspondent of the New York
herald reports that the Supreme Court have de-
cided that Congress has no power over the question
of slavery in the territories, and that the Missouri
compromise is unconstitutional and therefore null
and void.

The conviction of Huntingdon the forger, and his
sentence to four years and ten months' imprisonment,
had given great satisfaction.
Advices from Carthagena, Nov. 23, assert that the
British blockade of the port of New Granada would
come into effect soon after Admiral Bruce, with
three vessels of war, had arrived at Panama, and it
was said the British intended to establish a depot at
that point, if practicable.
Accounts from Costa Rica and Nicaragua confirm
our previous intelligence as to the critical position
of General Walker.

INDIA.
THE EXPEDITION TO CADVL.

The India mails, with advices from Bombay,
Dec. 17 ; Calcutta. k ; Madras, 13; and Ceylon, 17,
have arrived.

There is no news of the Persian Gulf expedition.
The force under Brigadier Chamberlayne had
nearly reached Cabul. The Bombay Times of Dec. 3
contained the following in reference to the advance of
this force :

An army of 5,000 men has for some time past been ad•
yancing by the hills of Kohat in the direction of Cabal, so
quietly that we hardly knew anything of the proceedings
till a letter from an officer with the force made us aware
that they had got within fifty miles of the capital of the
Ameer, without knowing the object or destination of their
despatch, Sir John Lawrence was about to proceed to
meet Dost 3lahomed in person.
This force, when last heard of, had marched
through the Meeranzie Valley to Thull, sixty miles
from Kohat and one hundred and eighty from Cabul.
Moving onwards from Thull it crossed the river
Koorum and entered the valley of that name, still
keeping on the great road to Cabul.
London, England, 1857-01-17

MARRIAGES.

BURROWS—VICARS—On the bilt instant, at Terling, by
the Rev. T. D. Bernard, vicar. assisted by the Rev. H. Bur..
rows, incumbent of Christ Church, Regent's Park, the Rev,
Leonard Francis Burrows, Fellow of Wailhant College. Oxford,
to Mary Mansfield, second daughter of the late Captain Vicars,
Royal Engineers.
CAMPBELL-CLARKE—On the 7th of November, at Poona,
near Bombay, Alexander H. E. Campbell. Esq., 2111 Madras
II Light Cavalry, to Sarah Eliza, daughter of Mnjor•Geucral
Augustus Clarke. Madras Army.
COLEBROOKE— RICHARDSON—On the 15th instant, at St.
ClPaes, Knightsbridge, Sir Edward Co'eorooke, Bert., to Eliza-
beth Margaret, daughter of John Richardson, Esq., of the
Kirklands, Roxburglishire.
NORTH—LOCKWOOD—On the 15th instant, at Holy Trinity
Church, Walton Breck, Liverpool, by the Rev. W. K. Horton,
Rector of Wickham St. Paul's, and Rural Dean of Halstead,
Essex, Alfred North, Esq., of Liverpool, to Jane. eldest
surviving daughter of the late Rev. Win. Lockwood, Vicar of
Kirkby Fleetham, Yorkshire.
PA K ENHA lI—VERNER—On the nth instant, at St.NTichael's,
Pimlico, Wm. Sandford Pakeitham. Fmq., to Henrietta Con-
stantia, daughter of Colonel Sir WM. Verner, Bart., M.P.
PIGOTT—DOYNE—On the 13th instant, at St. Martin's•in•the•
Fields, Hatay de Ilinzy Pigott. Captain s3rd Foot, to Frances
Catherine, daughter of Philip l'uvdett Doyne, late Captain
Royal Horse Guards Blue.
London, England, 1857-01-17

THE PRESS.

against Pierce, and " Guilty" on the first count
against Burgess and Tester.
The prisoners having been placed at tho bar for
judgment,
Mr. Baron MARTIN proceded to deliver judg-
ment—remarking in peculiar and severe terms upon
the villany of Pierce's conduct toward.: Fanny Kay,
and the folly and crime of Burgess and Tester
suffering themselves to be drawn into a scheme of
plunder. The learned Baron, regretting that he
could give Pierce no heavieepunishment, said to
him :

I do declare that if I stood in that dock to receive sen.
tepee f should feel more degraded to be in your place than
in that even of either of your associates. You had been
long connected with this man Agar; he trusted you, and
he gave you 3,0001. stock to be invested for the benefit of
his child and its mother, together with 600/., his share of
the produce of this robbery, and the rest of the gold which
had not been sold. In all you must have got out of him
about 15,0001. This you stole and appropriated to your
own use. It is a worse offence, I declare, than the act of
which you have just been found guilty. I would rather
have been concerned in stealing the gold than in the
robbery of that wretched woman—call her harlot, if you
will—and her child. A greater villain than you are, I
b.-lieve, does not exist.
He then sentenced him to be imprisoned for
two years, the first, twelfth, and twenty-fourth months
to be passed in solitary confinement—Tester and
Burgess to be transported for fourteen yea's.
In connection with the gold robbery and the dispo-
sition of the Turkish Bonds, au action was tried in the
Lord Mayor's Court this week between Pierce and
Williamson, the police officer, for the possession of the
Turkish Bonds belonging to Agar, but seized in
Pierce's house. The Recorder held that as the goods
were in the custody of the law they were not attachable
until after the trial of the plaintiff.
At the conclusion of the trial, Mr. Bodkin applied
for these Bonds on behalf of the Company. Mr.
Baron Martin expressed an opinion that by right
they belonged to Fanny Kay.
London, England, 1857-01-17

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Life Assurances of every description effected.
Half the Annual Premium maybe paid duriug the first five years
Oae•third may remain on credit during the whole of life,
Endowment Assurances, payable at 60, 55, CA, &c.
Loans to Assurers on personal or other security.
so per cent. of profits go to Assurers on the bonus scale.
The last bonus averaged 63 per cent. on the Premiums paid.
WILLIAM ItATRAY, Actuary.
DIRECTORS.

Benjamin Hawes, Esq., Ormond-house, Old Kent-road, Chairman
'l'. Nesbitt, Esq. (A. and T. Nesbitt), Philpot-lane, Dep.-Chairumix
Charles Baldwin, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Ilyde-park
George Denny, Esq.. Great St. Helen's
J. C. Dimedale, Esq. (Dimsdale, Drewett. A; Co., bnkrs.), Cornhill
J. P. Ultima, Esq., F.K.S. (Martinez, Gassiot, and Cu.), Mark-
lane and Clapham
Aaron Goldsmid, Erg., 3, Warnford-court, *Throginorton-street
Sidney Gurney, Esq.. Paper-buildings, Temple, and Brighton
W. K. J 8011.14011, Esq.. Fen-court, Fenchurch-st., and Camberwell
John Nolloth, Esq., Union-terrace, Peckham
Meaburn Staniland, Esq., Boston, Lincolnshire
Daniel Sutton, Esq., Earl's-terrace, Kensingtcn
(I'll. Bellingham Woolsey, Esq., 49, Westbourne-trrce., lirde-prk.
London, England, 1857-01-17

TURKEY AND THE EAST.

The defeat of the Russians by the Circassians inia
great battle near Bayuk is confirmed. The former
have retreated, with a loss of nearly 2,000 men and
several guns, out of an attacking corps of 8,000
strong. The Circessians were commanded by the
son of Safer

Intelligence from Constantinople states that the
fleet under Lord Lyons had received news of its
eventual departure, but Lord Lyons had also been
informed he would have to stop in the Black Sea as
long as the Austrians remained in the Principalities.
Le Nord this week makes the following announce-
ment :

Tbe Russian Government has already given orders to
recal from the Isle of Serpents the lieutenant and the
seven sailors by whom England and Austria were so much
alarmed.

News from Teheran of November 27 has been
received by way of Trieste. At that date the Court
of l'ersia had received no official declaration of war
from the English Government, and appeared to
reckon very much upon the presence of Ferouk
Khan in Europe.
A courier from the army had arrived in the capi-
tal. The Persian troops had occupied without oppo•
sition the fortresses of Gourian Lach and Djouv-
veine. Operations were expected to be suspended
at the end of November on account of the season.

The British fleet in the Persian Gulf was reported
to be hastening its operations.
The Shah was making great preparations for de-
fence, notwithstanding the penury of his finances and
the tear of revolt.
London, England, 1857-01-17

an Dilitarg 3ntelligentt.

THE AUTHORITIES OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT have
determined to increase the force of the Commissariat
officers on the Chinastation. Orders have been issued
that a number of persons connected with that branch
of the army shall hold themselves in immediate
readiness to embark for Hong Kong.
A CIRCULAR HAS BEEN ISSUED, making some slight
alterations regarding the undress uniform of the
army. The tuft of the men's forage cap is to be dark
blue for all regiments of infantry except light infantry
and rifle regiments, which are to be of the same
colour as the forage cap—viz., green. Chin straps
are to be worn—peaks only to be used on the stations
prescribed by regulation. The forage caps of officers
and men of light infantry and fusilier regiments are
to bear the Arabic numerals, surmounted by a bugle
or grenade, as the case may be ; the officers' in em-
broidery, the men's in brass, as by pattern lodged at
the Army Cloth►ng Department. The knapsacks of
all regiments are to have the numbers in Arabic
numerals,ll inches in height, painted in white in the
centre of the pack.
THE INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF INFANTRY (Sir Colin
Campbell) has ordered that every subaltern in the
British army of less than two years' service shall be
required to fill up and return a nioathly report of the
state of his regiment to the officer commanding the
depot.
SEVERAL. EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS AND ALTERA-
TIONS are being carried out at Chatham Dockyard,
which, when completed, will make that establishment
the most commodious Government dockyard in the
kingdom. One of the principal improvements now
in progress is at No. 7, granite slip, which is to be
lengthened sixty feet, giving a length of 330 feet. No.
2 dock is also in course of being lengthened to 360
feet, and will be the largest dock of any belonging to
the naval establishments.
London, England, 1857-01-17

RUSSIA AND PERSIA.

Letters from St. Petersburg speak of an intrigue
in Teheran to depose the present Shan, and to put
Monad Mirza in his place. The Russian troops
have occupied many islands of the great and little
bays of Balkan, and have established their head-
quarters on the island of Keftenoi.
Other letters from St. Petersburg speak of the
Shah's application to the Czar for aid, and of his
intention to cede to Russia in exchange for assist •
ance " all the territory comprised between the town
of Bajazid, chief town of a paskalik, and Nachits-
chewan, which separates in Armenia the Russian
possessions from those of Turkey."
The Russian flotilla in the Caspian Sea is reported
to have disembarked Russian troops on the S.E.
coast, alleging as a pretext the ancient treaties be•
tween Russia and Persia. _ _

The Russian Ambassador, Annikoff, has left
Teheran for St. Petersburg, it is said, charged with
a mission to demand assistance for Persia.
An article in Le Nord of Wednesday enters at
great length upon the subject of the Persian expe-
dition against Herat. The writer maintains the
justice of Persia's cause, the absurdity of England
attempting to insist upon a convention never ratified
(Colonel Sheil's in 1853) being binding on the
Persian Government, and attributes the origin of the

war entirely to English intrigue. The article then
proceeds with professions on the part of Russia of a
desire to see an amicable settlement of this dispute,
and of active inter'erenze towards a restoration of
peace between the two powers.
London, England, 1857-01-17

lrelant.

THE RIGHT HON. VISCOUNT DE VESCI and the Right
Hon. the Earl of Belmore have been elected repre-
sentative peers ; the former in the room of the late
Lord Hawardon, and the latter in that of the late
Earl of Bandon.

TIIF: INC031I: AN: AGITATION is rapidly spreading
over Ireland. A great meeting has been held a.
Belfast, while oth:...rs are convened at Armagh,
Longford, and Claro, k. 0., in fact, very generally

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over the country. A more equitable adjustment cf
the tax, and the abolition of the war increase, were
the points insisted on most strongly at the Ballast
meetings. . .

THE DEAN OF LISMORE, it is believed, will succeed
to the vacant Bishopric cf Cork.
A HORRIBLE ♦MURDER has occurred in Carlow. A
farmer named Dyoe was brutally murdered by two
brothers, named M'Clean, on Saturday evening last
while on his way home from Tullow. At the inquest
a verdict of " Wilful murder" was returned against
the 31`Cleans, who, of course, are at large.
London, England, 1857-01-17

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Tattler's Life and Sermons.

Just publisbed,in small 4t0.. on tinted paper, printed and bound
In antique style, with red edges, price Las.,
THE HISTORY AND LIFE
of the Rev. Dr. JOHN TAULER, with Twenty-fl%e of his
hormone. (Temp. 130.) Trauslated from the German, with
Additional Notices of Tauler's Life and Times, by SUSANNA
WIN KWORTH, Translator of " Theologica Germania"; and a
Recommendatory Preface by the Rev. CHARLES KINGSLEY.
London: SMITH. EIDER, and Co., 63, Cornhill.

The New Historical Novel.
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(LIVER CROMWELL. A Story of the Civil
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LECTURES to LADIES on PRACTICAL
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London, England, 1857-01-17

Friday, January 16.

BANKRUPTS. —ROBERT HENRY HILL, GEORGE ROBERT
HUDSON, and FREDERICK HUDSON, LOTIcIORWSII, importers--.
HORATIO BUNTING, Colchester, SOMISMAII—JOREPH GELBTHORP,
Nottingham. builder—JOSEPH BAXTER. Gooch•street, Birming-
ham, victualler—JosErn HENRY CLARKE, Leicester, hatter—
WILLIAM DUCKWORTH, Church, near Accrington, Lancashire,
cotton manufacturer— WILL/AM BURCH, Back•hill, Hatton-
garden, laatmaker RICHARD HARRISON and JOHN JAMBS
Cott:, Twig Folly, Bethnsl•green, barge builders—Jomx OLD•
HAM, Long•acre, Currier—DAVlD SHOVE, Croyden, Surrey, tallow
chandler—WlLLlAM T-- GRAVENOR, Birmingham, hatter and
milliner—THEODORE ROBERT KENwAY, Birmingham, broker and
corn. merchant.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.—ADAM WATSON, Ilutche-
sontown, Glasgow, coal merchunt—AtExAmmta AITKENFLEAD,
Glasgow, baker—Emit Gotsxon and Co., Glasgow, importers of
foreign goods— Bkonin, WISEMAN, and Co., Glasgow, mer-
chants.

BIRTHS.

BENNITT—On the 3rd ult., at Stourton-hall, near Stourbridge
the wife of Captain Bennitt, of a eon.
MONCRIEFF—On the lith instant, in Oinneeetei
wife of Colonel Bioncrieff, Scots Fusilier Uuardi,

rl)nucardestie,roq •sf
ausoaren:gistbe
London, England, 1857-01-17

The Late Sir John Malcolm.

Just published, in 2 vole. k.vo., with Portrait, price 3(4. cloth,
THE LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE
of MAJOR•OENERAL SIR JOHN MALCOLM,
late Envoy to Persia, and Governor of Bombay. From Unpub-
lished Letters and Journals. By JOHN WILLIAM KAYE,
Author of "The Life of Lord Metcalfe," "The History of the
War in Afghanistan," Jo.
London: SMITH, ELDER, and Co., 65, Cornhill.
London, England, 1857-01-17

[SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1857.

Mr. Buskin on Turner.
Just published, price One Shilling.
NOTES on tho TURNER GALLERY-1856.
By JOHN RUSKIN, M.A., Author of " Modern Painters,"
" Stones of Venice," " Seven Lamps of Architecture," *c.
London : SMITH, ELDER, and Co., 65, Cornhill.
London, England, 1857-05-16

This " praying in the dark " by Lord PAL-
miterozi cannot possibly please. Musicians
too confident in their capacity sometimes
produce enraged audiences, and sibillation
only could follow a Dutch concert between
such a trio as the CHANCELLOR and the present
Crown lawyers. People will not forget the
ready abilities shown on this important sub-
ject by consummate jurists like Sir FITZROY
KELLY and Mr. NAPIEh, not to speak of the
large legal reforms vigorously carried out by
Lord ST. LEONARDS during his term of the
Chancellorship.

So also in his Ministerial nominations the
Prime Minister's mode of managing cannot
be clearly seen. Sir JOHN RAMSDEN is un-
questionably a young politician of promise,
but the War-office, one might suppose, is not
exactly the quarter in which the Honourable
Baronet's abilities would be best utilised for
the country. In the Colonial Department
Mr. CHICHESTER FORTESCUE iS chosen to fill
the post vacated by Mr. BALL. The Member
for Louth is an ardent " pro-Catholic " in Irish
politics, and there have been strong complaints
in recent years that the Roman Catholics of
the Colonies have been indefatigable in pro
mating the interests of their Church. When
Lord JOHN RUSSELL filled the office of Secre-
tary for the Colonies, the Noble Lord showed
some vigilance with regard to Roman Catholic
progress ; and we observe that in the current
number of the Dublin Review the Prime Minister
is lauded for his liberality towards the Roman
Catholics, while the official favours given by
him are gratefully enumerated.
The Dublin Review rightly estimates the
Premier. He would walk into Westminster
Abbey with Lord SHAFTESBURY on one arm,
and Cardinal WISEMAN on the other He is
for episcopal appointments in England show-
ing the merits of "high blood" and "Low
Church." He is for invading the principle of
the Establishment in Ireland, and for con-
firming the hopes of the Roman Catholics by
choosing the pro• Catholic Mr. CHICHESTER
FORTESCUE to succeed Mr. BALL, who was an
avowed Roman Catholic How culpable is
the vacillation, or how ridiculous is the incon-
sistency, of a statesman who makes appoint-
ments with such carelessness of con-
sequences!
London, England, 1857-05-16

MEDICAL PROFESSION BILL.

Mr. HEADLAM moved for leave to introduce a bill
to alter and amend the laws regulating the medical
profession, the object and provisions of which he
briefly explained, the bill being in its main pro-
visions the same as that which had been before the
last Parliament.

Mr. COWPER observed that the whole subject
being in the greatest confusion and in the most
anomalous condition, a great number of licensing
bodies competing together, and incompetent persons
gaining admission into the profession, legislation
was called for, and lie thought no one would 'oppose
the reintroduction of this bill.

Lord EI.O HO did not oppose the motion, but
thought it would be a more practical proceeding to
take up the bill of the last Parliament as amended
in the select committee. If this were not done, he
should move fur leave to reintroduce his bill of the
last session, which protected the interests of the
Universities.

Mr. HEADLAM said the bill guarded the rights
and interests of all bodies connected with the medi-
cal profession as well as the interests of the public
at large.
Leave was given to bring in the bill.

HOUSE OF LORDS- THURSDAY.
OPIUM MONOPOLY.

The LORD CHANCELLOR, in reply to the Earl of
Shaftesbury as to what progress had been made by
the law officers of the Crown in the inquiry into the
legality of the opium trade in Indic, said that a case
had been drawn up by the legal advisers of the
Board of Control, which was about to be submitted
to the law officers of the Crown.
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PRUSSIA AND NEUFCHATEL.

The settlement of this que,tion is hourly expected.
N. Walewski, it is reported in Paris, has expressed
his hopes that the end of this week would bring
such definite instructions to Count Hatzfeldt and N.
Kern as would permit the signature of the final
protocol of the conference.
A Paris letter, in the Independance of Brussels,
says :

The last difficulties in the Neufchatel affair appear to
have been got over. A telegraphic despatch, which has
reached the French Government, has made known, as I
am told, that the reply of King Frederick William is most
favourable, and displays conciliatory sentiments. If lam
well informed, the letter of Napoleon 111. to the King
admitted that Prussia had a right to complain of an in-
discreet publication of diplomatic documents, but never-
theless recommended her Sovereign to make concessions,
as he could do so more easily than Switzerland, the Federal
Government being restricted by the Constitution. It is
known that it was the incident of an inopportune publicity
which caused the King of Prussia to withdraw from the
conference, and to present demands which placed in
question all that the plenipotentiaries had done. It is
probable that the King of Prussia has desired to let the
honour of his return to ideas of arrangement (after the
Helvetic authorities had been blamed for their indiscre-
tion), and of his renunciation of the maintenance of the
status quo, be ascribed to the Emperor of the French. On
the whole, the news which has arrived does not.permit us
to doubt that the work of the conference will be achieved.

The Cabinet of the Tuileries has received the reply
of the Swiss Government on the subject of the pub-
lication of the documents relative to the Neufchatel
affair. The Federal Council is said to justify the
publication which it made by the difference existing
between the institutions of Switzerland and those of
monarchical States.

The Vienna correspondents of the German jour•
mils persist in attributing a political object to the
recent visit of the Prince Napoleon. The Gazette of
Prussia denies that the visit had any pulitical signifi-
cance or importance whatever. The Prince during
his stay at Berlin was the object of attentions, says
Le Nord," lee plus flatteuses." The King had con-
ferred upon the Prince the Order of the Black
Eagle.
London, England, 1857-05-16

THURSD.kY.

Mr. Roentiot—that on that day fortnight he would call the
attention of the house to the subject of our relations with
Brazil, and move fur a select committee to consider those
relations.

Mr. A. KINNIARD—that on Thursday, 'the nth of June, he
would call attention to the petition of thei Protestant mission-
aries in Bengal, presented on the 9th of February, and move an
address to the Crown on the subject.
Sir C. NAPlER—that on the 27th Instant he would move for a
select committee to inquire into the constant on of the Board
of Admiralty, with a view to render it more efficient, and better
adapted to the various duties it lied to perform.
Mr. MACKINNON—that on that day fortnight he would move
for a select committee to consider the expediency of a more
equitable adjustment of the land tax, an.l of allowing a further
reduction of the same, and considering whether by any other
means it might be rendered more pi oductive.
Sir G. GREY said that he would postpone the introduction of
the Reformatory bchools Bill till F tidily, the 25th instant, for •
week, to afford time for consideration of their amendments.

Sir C. WOOD—that Le NouM move the Navy Estimates on
Monday next.

CoNvocAnoN met again on Saturday, the Upper
House assembling at Queen Anne's Bounty-office, in
Dean's-yard. Some amendments having been made
in the address, the Upper House was prorogued to
the 20th of May. Tha Lower House met as on the
preceding Wednesday, in the Jerusalem Chamber.
The attendance of proctors was not so numerous as
on Friday. In all there were about forty members
present. The Rev. J. Harding presented a gravamen
complaining of the exclusion of the unbeneficed
clergy. The gravaman was referred to the com-
mittee of gravament. A
discussion arose uron the
mode of summoning Convocation and conducting its
business ; it VMS complained that the Lower House
was n..t allowed sufficient time for discharging its
important functions, while there were no rules for
conducting its discussions such as those which were
enforced in other deliberative assemblies. A motion
brought forward by Dr. Wordsworth, for a com-
mittee to consider the best means of obtaining the
counsel and co operation of the laity, particularly in
diocesan or occasional synods, and in the archidia-
conal visitations, was carried, and the committee
appointed, when the Prolocutor tat half-past fcur
p.m.) read the schedule of prorogation, and inti-
mated that the meeting on the 20th of May
would merely be formal, for the purpose of presenting
the address to the Crown.

MAY 16, 1857.
London, England, 1857-05-16

i',llD3 anb Volta.

THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK.
Mn. COMMSSIONER HOLROYD delivered judgment in
this case on Thursday last at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. The learned commissioner, before pointing
out the legal liabilities of the company, observed :
I think this is not a case for further delay. I
do not believe that a scene of greater reck-
lessness, fraud, and criminality of conduct in the
management of a banking establishment was ever
exhibited in a court of justice than is disclosed by the
examinations taken in this court under the adjudication
of bankruptcy against the Royal British Bank ; and I may
observe that these examinations will be admissible in evi-
dence against the parties in case of a prosecution.
Mr. Commissioner Holroyd then at length entered
upon the question of the legal constitution of a
joint-stock bank, and delivered the following as his
opinion of the criminal responsibility, of which there
could be "no doubt.," of the directors and general
managers of the Royal British Bank
It is not necessary on the present occasion to go in
detail into the facts brought to light during this most pain-
ful inquiry, or to single out any particular persons as
delinquents ; that will be for elsewhere and hereafter ; but
having regard to the course pursued in the management
of the affairs of the Royal British Bank, in defiance of the
Act of Parliament to regulate joint•stock banks, and of the
provisions in the charter, I think that the directors and
general managers of the bank are open to some one or
more of the following charges:—
lit, commencing business before all the shares were sub-
scribed for, and at least half the amount paid up, and
London, England, 1857-05-16

TILE •PRESS.

papers on the subject that might arrive. Meanwhile,
the house might presume that Sir John Bowring and
the parties out there were not men to disgrace the
Government by acting in the way that had been re-
presented. He must say that he thought such
charges ought not to be brought against British
officers unless there was a reasonable presumption
that they were well founded.
The Earl of MALMESBURY defended Lord Carnar.
von from Lord Harrowby's rebuke, and hoped the
Government ,would cause a bona fide inquiry to be
made, and lay the results before the house, however
long it might be before they were arrived at.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH also hoped the Go-
vernment would think it right to make the fullest
inquiry into the conduct of their officers.
The motic.n was agreed to.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—TvEspAr.

Her Majesty's gracious reply to the Address was
brought up by Lord Castlerosse.
EXCHEQUER CHAMBER (IRELAND).
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Mr. FITZGERALD, in reply to Mr. J. gland as to
whether her Majesty's Government intended to bring
in a bill this present session to assimilate the Court
of Exchequer Chamber in Ireland to that of Eng-
land, said that, having consulted with the Irish
judges during the recess on this question, he had
drawn up a bill with their almost unanimous con-
currence, which he should shortly lay before the
house.
London, England, 1857-05-16

CONVEYANCE OF VOTERS AT
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Lord R. GROSVENOR moved for leave to bring in a
bill to alter the law in reference to the payment of
the conveyance of voters to the poll and the hustings'
expenses by the candidates at elections, observing
that his proposition was based upon a recommenda-
tion of a committee of the house in 1834, and was

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consistent with tho spirit of our legislation for the
last thirty years.
The house divided upon the motion, which was
carried by 151 to SS.
COURT OF CHANCERY (IRELAND) BILL.

Mr. WHITESIDE moved for leava to introduce a
bill to make provision for the appointment of
Registrars to the Masters ot: the Court of Chancery
in Ireland ; also fur the safe custody of title-deeds
and documents lodged in the said court; and to
amend the practice.
Leave was given.
Captain MADAN obtained leave to bring in a bill to
mend the Grand Juries (Ireland) Act, 1830.