The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-04 00:00:00

THE ATLANTIC and GREAT WESTERN
RAILWAY.
Capital anthorload.
Shares $30,000.000, in shares °IVO each.
Mortgage Bonds, all Millions Starting, or Thirty Millions
Donors.
Issue of Consolidated Sterling Mortpge Bonds tor Y 2,771,100.
having 26 years to nut, bearing interest at Seven per Cent. pet
Annum.
Secured on the whole Line of the Atlantis end Great Western
Railway, with Branches. Extensions, and Equipment.
of Mortgage Honda
£3.,511,400 being reserved for redemption
already issued on the several divlsiocut
The Boucher, of COO, or MO doperseach. with Interest, payable
quarterly, tree of Income tax, in London. in Sterling. or in
New York. In gold, at the Company's °Mesa They are psi,
able blesser but can be animated at builder's option.
110AILD OP £Olll2Ol IV LONDON.
Sir S. MORTON HMO, Bart, ILP., Manama.
S. Goodson, Esq., ll.P.,ChsarroanGmat Eastern Railway London.
W. Fenton, Esq., Deputy Chairman Great Western Iltallwey,
London.
C. J. Kennard. Yaq , Director of Consolidated Bank (Limited),
London.
Edwin B. Mosley, Iraq., Barned's Banking Company (Limited),
Liverpool
Joseph Robinson, Esq., Deputy Chairman Ebbw Vale Company
(limited), London.
"Iwo.
The Consolidated Bank (Limited), London, Ilanchester, and
Norwich.
The National Bank, London, and Breaches in Ireland.
Means. A. Heywood, Sees, and Co., Liverpool
The Bank of Scotland. Edintiargh, and Branches.
SOLltTroas—Manes. Freddields and Newman, Bank buildings,
London, LC.
MUM
Messrs. Joshua Hutchinson and Bow, Angel-court. London, E.C. ,
Messrs. E. F. Setterthwalte and Co., V 3, Thropeortonetrest.
Landon, B.C.
Ileum /animas, Son. and Yuma 7. Aleget.coort, limdoe, E.C.
lhe report of J. S. Forbes. Esq., well known to the British
railway public as vice.pesident of the Dutch-Rhenish Railway.
and general manager of the London, Chatham. end Dover
hallway. contains full Informallon derived from personal inspect
-
tion of the position and toreeplets of the Atlantic and Grea
Western Railway, from which It 6P
The Atlantic and Great WasternMTrray system comprise,—
607 miles now In work, including 17 miles recently
°toned.
100 miles in course of construction,

STO D ARE. 266th REPRESENTATION.
THEATRE of MYSTERY, Roptlan-baII.—MARYIELS In
MAGIC and VENTRILOQUISM-retreat sensation created by
the SPHINX, a Mystery; the testantaneom growth ot flower
Trees. and the roil Ludlam Boob* Vick as only performed by
Colonel Stades*. and introduced by him for the drat time in this
country April 17. 1111/.—LIVERY MMHG, at 5; Medalled's.?
and Saturday, at S.—Stalle at llitcheirs, Old 8014-14.144, sal
8011-selics. raptisa-liall.—Adialssise, Hs. sso, Stalls. Se.
" Almost mirsculoue"—Vide Times,' April HA ISSE

THE OXFORD.-THE MARKET GIRLS,
an Operetta, by J. Offenbach, la which MI Rauell,
Mr. A. St. Minn, and the whole talent of the cedabilshinent will
appear, with augmented band sad chorus, conducted by Yr. Y.
Jantilllnana, THIS EVENING.

THE OXFORD.-THZ HUNGARIAN
BROTHERS and SISTER, KIRALTY. In their new Enter-
tainment, Messrs. Durtah sad Davies, H. Power, the Verbena,
Herr Preskow, the Hamden gymnast, and other available talent
THIS EVENING.

G_
ROSVENOR HOTEL, Victoria Station,
Belgravia, London, S.W.—The new ASCENDING ZOOMS.
constructed by the eminent hydraulic engineers, Maim I
Easton, Amos, and Sons, with all their recent improvements, to
secure strength and safety. is now completed, and in daily use.
This machine makes every floor In the Hotel conveniently aeons.
Able to all Da irtaitoes. ANDoellons for apartments, ad-
dressed to THILDERIC SMI , the Manager, relit receive the
most prompt attention.

THE PANTHEON TURKISH BATHS,
S. Moat Marlborostroet, W.
Ladles, Mondays, ta. ; geaMoon, an other days.

_ .
WITH the GARDENERS' CHRONICLE and
AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE of the 9th and 16th De•
comber, the weeks before and atter the CATTLE BROW, will
the
be
published a SIIITLEMINT containing full particulars ot
STOCK and IMPLEMENTS at the HALL,
ISLINGTON. Order of any Neitarendor.AGRICULTURAL A Single Copy sent
on receipt of sit damps.
°taco for Advertisements, 41. Welllngtonstreet, strand, W.C.

Total. OM
Of which 126 miles belong to the Company. and 81 miles are
leased for 99 years, at a low rent ($273,07t • year). Though not
yet hilly completed, the traffic already equals that of many of
the bast Ataencsn lines.
Daring the lint eta months of 1861 the receipts upon the
oft
mils then open were $1,679.737, equal lat the ['molt mho 01
exchange of seven down to the g) to £3119.645. Blues July
490 masa have been open, and the receipts have been 14,011.07 d,
equal to rhi7,3.1r2 for three months. or at the rate of a. 1.149,814
per annum. The subjoined monthly traffis return 'hoes the
steady lucreue of traffic :

Just published, ha oue handsome volume, teap. Svo,
price let dd. cloth,
pozhis. By the lata EDMOND G. ARMSTRONG,
of Thong College, Dublin. With a bimodal Protium.
London: Edward Meson and Co., Doveretreet, W.

Price ed.—Elgpper tastefull hty Pages, with
printed numerous iColours, llustrations • In •
Wray in
THE CHRISTMASWEEK NUMBER of "ONCE A
."
Bradbury, Evans. and Co., 11, Bouverleetree>

TOTAL.

Viten
open.

Passeogen,
MAW, &C.

Dollars.
111,751
1060.715
111,412
117,611
135,434
163,758
102.666
213,445
210,614
257.861

Dollars.
249,379
377.909
=9.403
90.909
324,968
350,288
482,808
628,059
446,711
63,060

Dollars. I Dollars.
861.130
220,041 I 387,648
226,73.1 . 449.815
107,267 i 406,660
214,679 41/0. let
314,621 ^ 614,022
SAWS I 695,6211
406,076 I 738,618
446.044 ,
3243,067 66
67777,02

PUNCH'S ALMANACK FOR 1866.
puNcirs ALMANACK, price 3d.
PUNCH'S ALMANACK, on the Bth.

EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS will bein
EVERYBODY'S hands, and In EVERYBODY" S mouth,
EVERYWHERE. on the Roth December.
Linsdos : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.

of 33
I by 1
at Wea

es of the Oil Creek
has hitherto been
Magma, Company.

This table includes the ,
Railway, which was comb
worked by the atlantic and Ono.
but does not form part Of the Coma Wetly...
The actual result, therefore, Is a pins receipt at the rate of I CHEAP JACKS AND DEAR JACKS.
upwards of g 1.400,000 ayear at the present exchange, with 100
miles till still to open, and a large increase of trams only waiting for
a further supply of rolling stock. (From Dr. Marigold's Prescriptions (the Christreu samba
This large traffic la owing to two causes : 1 of All the Year Round), by Charles Dickens.]
1. The At
and Great Western line forms the central link , Why arc we forced to take out a hawker's
of the greatest tine of through traffic In the world, viz., that be- : Homo, when no mai thin w expected of the paitcusi
times the Western States of America and the Atlantic. Prom •
its shorter distance, and Advantage of forming pert of hawkers? Where's the differetice betwixt us ? Except
broken line of 1,200 miles on a uniform six-feet gauge, It mast , that we are Cheap Jacks and they are Dear Jacks, / don't
always be the best line of communication by which the euormous see any difference but what's in our favour.
goods and.pmenger traffic centering in the Western cities of For look here! Bey it's election.time. lam on the
Cinciunati Clevebind, Chicago, &min Louis, can arrive at New i footboard of my out in the market-place on a Saturday
York and the tea-board I eight. I put up a geaeral misoellaimons lot. Imy : "Now
2. me local tragic is Neatly enormous, owing to Its traversing ~_ independent wo I'm a voi
the
tellsney.dbcovered oil districts of Pennsylvania, and the great "re. my Era and Sam• '---Dg
coal ei of Northern Ohio. Some idea of the local trafite ' to give you each a chance as you sever had in all
thus waiting for development, may be formed from) the single ; your bore days, nor yet the days preceding. Now I'll
fact, that this oil district now yields at the rate of 3000,000 show you what lam a going to do with you. Beres a pair
barrels per I' Bum, for the conveyance of which as much as 3d. . of razors that'll shave you closer than the board of guard.
to ad. per ton per mile la willingly paid. lane, here's a fist-iron worth its weight in gold, here's •
A consolidation of the several divisions of the Atlantic and j ;
irying-pen artificially flavoured with enema of beefsteaks
Great Western Hallway ander one executive has been made, and
a mortgage for 30 millions dollen, or 8 millions steribig of bonds to that degree that you're only got for the rest of your
has been createdand aWo • capital of 30 millions dollars of shares live. to fry bread and drippiog in it and there you are re.
of 50 dollars each, based on the whole iroperty of the company. • plete with animal food, here's • genuine chronometer watch
The Ise. aline will 4,1900060 these Murwaig Wu", with the in such a solid silver case that you may knock at the
exception of 1,919,00 U dollars of preference shares pledged as ' door with it when you come home late from a social
part of the yea; it.!-hifciz
.11; grlereififvoareteareorof
ateble.rentfieirreenintsf,duigt :
meeting and room your wife and buoy sod nee up your
those certificates are paid off, when the whole svill become omit- ; knocker for the postman, and here's SO( i dozen iilller
nary share capital. Provision is made in the mortgage deed . plates that you may play the cymbals with to charm the
(under which the consolidated mortgage bonds are issued, for 1 baby when it's fractiona Stop ! I'll throw you in swathes
securing the rights of the existing mortgage bonds, and also for article and I'll give you that, and it's a rolling pia, and if
their exchange at maturity, or earlier, by consent of the holder, • the
ges. baby can only get it well into its mouth when its
11 authorised by the Board of Control . this being Completed, the ; s a__,,. t. s com •
ing end rub the gums mos with It, they'll
present cinsnlidated mortgage will become the first mot, gage
over the whole railway, with /Y branches, extensions and equip. come through double, in a fit of laughter equal to being
merits. ! tickled. Stop again '. I'll throw you in another article,
The consolidated capital therefore will consist of soo,oo, nee, , because I don't like the looks of you, for you haven't
half in shares and half in mortgage bonds, which provides for Um . the appearance of buyers unless I lose by you, and
completion of the entire line. because I d rather lose than not take money to-night, sad
To meet the interest ou these bonds at 7 per cent. in sterling . that's • lookieg-gless in which you may see how ugly you
atter payiue all working expenses, it is calculated by Mr.
Forbes guts gross annual receipt of $8,442,000 would be suit. i look when you don't bid. What do von oir now? Como!
meet,
which is considerably lees than the actual receipt, and do you say a pound ? Not you, for you vent got it.
3,573,000 dollars less than Mr. Forbes'. estimate of theipt,
annual Do you say ten shilliega ? Not you, fyou owe more
receipt when the additional 100 miles are opened. so that the to the tallyman. Well then, I'll telly ou what I'll
security for the bonds is ample, and there Is every prospect that, do with you. I'll heap 'em all on the footboard of
in addition, a high rate of dividend will be paid on the 30,00%000 :
dollars of share capital. i the cart—there they are ! razors, fiat-iron, frying-
The consolidated bonds have 25 years to run, with coupons . Pen, chronometer watch, dinner plata., rolling-pin.
for Inn rest at seven ,per cent. per annum, payable quaterly, and looking.glass—take 'em all away for four shillings, and
free of income tan, at the Company's office, in London or New I'll give you sixpence for your trouble !" This is me, the
York. In gold. Interest is payable ou nth January, 15th April. Cheap Jack. But no the Monday worming, in the same
15th July, and 15th October of each year. market-place, comes the Dear Jack on the hustings—his cart
It is proposed to appropriate the total authorised issue of
$30,000,000, or L 0,000,000 sterling consolidated mortgage bonds and what does he say ? "Now my fro and independent
as follows : , woters, I am a going to give you such a chaste' (he begins
1. A reserve of 1,18,162,000 will be pieced with trustees to just like me) "as you had in all your born days, and
meet. either by conversion or payment is hen due, the existing : tbat'a the chance of *ending Myself to parliament. Now I'll tell
divisional mortgage bonds. being the total amount that has been you what lam a going to do for you. Here's the interests)
issued, or authorised to be issued, as certified by Meisrs. Cole- of this magnificent town promoted above all the rest of the
man, Tur•land, Youngs, and Co., after due examination of the
civilised and uncivilised earth. Here's your railways
Constwny's books and registers, or equal to e 3,224,400. This in-
cludes all bonds issued to the public, and also the bonds de- carried, and your neighbours railways jockeyed. Hare's all
posited with trustees for the certificates of debentures Wised in • your sous in the Post-olfice. Here's Britannia smiling on
November, 1064, the security of which remains unadected by , you. Here/ the eyes of Europe on you. Here's uniwersal
the present arrangements. prosperity for you, repletion of animal food, golden corn-
./ The balance, viz.. A 1,171,600 Ls offered for public subicrip- . fields, gladsome homesteads, and rounds of applause
lion at the price of Ls
per ClOO bond, including the coupon due from your own heart all in
cue lot
and
that,.
January 15, 1886, payable as follows :
£5 per £lOO bond on application ; myself. Will you take me as 1 stand ? Yon
10 „ ~ on allotment : won't! Well then, I'll tell you what I'll do with you.
25 „ on 15th January, 1866, lees coupon LI Via ; Come sow, Cl throw you in athing you ask for. There !
due on that date : Church.rates, abolition of church-ratee, more malt-tax,
20 „ „ on lath February, 1866; Ino malt tax, uniwersal education to the highest mark or
20 „ „ on 15th March. in6B : si. niwersal ignorance to the lowest, total abolition of dogging
allowing for the January coupon, the net price of each LlOO '
bond will be Alill 55., or allowing for discount on prepayments lo the army or a dozen for every private once a month all
under £7B. • round, wrongs of men or rights of wonien—only say which it
Subscribers will have the option of paying in full, under dis- shall be, take 'em or leave 'em, and l'm of your opinion
couut, at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum ; but, in default of . altogether, and the lot's your own on your own terms. There!
due payment of the respective instalments, all previous pay• . You won't take it yet ! Well, then, I'll tell you what I'll do
Isom will be liable to forfeiture. The definitive bends being
it with you. Come, you are such free and independent woters,
now ready will be delivered, in exchange for scrip,
as
anon
as
--
and lam so proud of you—you are such a noble and ee-
l.'
A3dpli'er oldtlT laws authorising the consolidation of the several • bghtined constituency, and I am so ambitious of the honour
division, and branches of the Company, of the deed of trust or and dignity of being your member, which is by far the
mortgage, of the form of consolida, ed mortgage bond, and a highest level to which the wings of the human mind can
other documents relating to the present Dime of booth, are de• soar, that I'll tell you what I'll do with you. I'll throw
posited for inspection at the daces of the solicitors. ' you in all the public-houses in your magnificent town for
Applications must be addressed either to the Secretary, at nothing. Will that content you! It won't! You won't
the offices of the Company, 5, Westininsterchambers, Victoria-
street, Westminster, S. W., to the tauten of the Company. or to take the lot yet? Well then, before 1 put the horse
the brokers, from whom prospectuses and forms of application in and drive away, and make the offer to the next megt
be cannon,aid. nificent town that can be discovered, I'll tell you what
Lodon, December 2, 1865. Ili do. Take the lot, and I'll drop two thou-
sand pound in the streets of your magnificent
town for them to pick up that can. Not enough? Now
look here. This is the very furthest that I'm a going to.
I'll make it two thousand five hundred. And still you
won't ? Here, missis ! Put the horee—no, atop half •
moment, I shouldn't like to turn my back upon you neither
foifle, I'll make it two
lotionthousnd seven hundred and
fifty por • tr
und. There ! Take the
I'll count out two thousand seven hundred and fifty pound
on the footboard of the cart, to be dropped M the streets
of your magnificent town for them to pick up that can.
What do you sty +. Come, now! You won't do better,
and you may do worse. You take it +. Hooray! Sold
-Mu, and got the sat!"

ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
FORM OT APPLICATION.
(To be retained by the Bankers .1
To the Board of Control, Atlantic and Great Western Railway
Having paid to Company.e
th corn of £ , I hereby
requestthat you will allot m 4 Consolidated Mortgage
Bonds of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway , and I hereby
agree to accept such Consolidated Mortgage Bonds. or any less
number that may be allotted to me, according to the terms of
the prospectus.
I am, y oar obedient sett ant,
Signature
Address In full
Bate

OVERCOATS.—HAMILTON and KIMPTON
mill especial attention to the NEW WINTER GOODS for
OVERCOATS, and Nolte an early inspection of the saran. N.B.
Specimen garments always on hand.
No. 105. Strand, opposite Exeter HalL

HYAM and Co.'s OVERCOATSCoa and SUITS.—
Morning and Lounging , Hall [Ores., Undrss, and
Full Dress Suits, Trousers, Vesta, de., in all the fashionable
styles and seasonable materiala
RYA 11 and Co., 66 and 67, OXFORD-STREET, W.
HYAM and Co.'s PRICES and GARMENTS.—
Overcoats and Capes, tla. ta 845.; Jackets, 2ls. to
Prince of Wales Coats. Sas to RD ; Trousers, ready made and to
measure, 14a. tki. to
Cos., Testa, tis. to 21a.: Suits, 425. to Sta.
HI AM and o 86 and 67, OXFORD-STREET, W.

H YAM and Co.'s SELECT DEPARTMENTS.—
No. 1. Clothing for tramedlate wee:. No. S. or
De-
partment No. S. Boys' and Youths' Department No. 4. Rats,
Caps, Heater", and Outfit Department
H YAM and DSIII
Co., NI and 17, 0110N137, 11.
branch Establishments—Blrmingbant Leeds, and Dewsbury.
----------.

BLOSSOM of HONEYSUCKLE, a delicate and
di•tuague perfume extracted trees the gOlreff, by -MO
00iNELL aed Co., Perfumers to ILILH. the MIX• 111 01 wales,
No. 12. nese was-court, Losobard-sovot, Lauda&

---
BRAMAN IN AN 011ATORIO.—After which a little
thick-set man, with a light brown wig all over his eyes, •
generally common appearance, and most unmistakably
Jewish aspect, got up to sing one single line of recitative.
He stood with his bead well on one side, held his music
also on one side, and far out before him, gave a funny little
stamp with bis toot, and then proceeded to lay in his pro-
vtaision of breath with such • tremendous shrug of his
shoulders and swelling of his chest, that I very nearly
burst out laughing. Be said—" But the children of Israel
went on dry land "—and then he paused ; sod every sound
was hushed throughout that great space ; sod then, al if
carved out upon the solid stillness, came those three little
words, "Through the sea!' And our breath failed, sod
our pulses ceased to beet, Red we beat our heads, 113 awith
ll
the wonder of the miracle seemed to pass over us
HYAMand Co.'a BOYS' SUITS and CAPES.— , these accents—awful, radiant, resonant, tri eumphant !He
Overcoats and Capes, 16s. ed. to as.: Knickerbocker, sae down while the whole house thundered its applause. I
Eton. Narrow, and Osborne Snit*, 15° M. to 45n: Jackets.. turned to Philip Words in speechless agitation. " &ahem !"
cd. to Ins.; Trousers. sr. 6d. to las 64.; Vests, U. 6d. to said he, wiping hie eyes. I often afterwards heard this
7s. ta.; Jackets and Vests alike, 15s. 6,1 to We 6d.
I greatest singer of our country. who was, doubtless, amour
, the greatest of any age or country ; but although the stamp
YA NI and Co., 66 and 67, OXFORD-al/ELT, W.
of yams was on everything that be did, strangely
mixed up with it was a love of gallery popu-
lerity, which led him continually into faults of
test*. What could exceed the profound pathos of his
" Deeper sad deeper still!" His " Lash me into mad-
nese still rims through all my fibres : but then °Pith
just at the end of " Weft ber, angels," with which be bad
seemed to lift one into paradise, he must seeds roar out an
interminable cadence, hideous and vulgar, for which the
gods cheered him, but for which is sober truth he deserved
to be his ed.—Corekiii eforannt for December.

PUBLIC
MEETING, St. Martin's-hall, to TELECatAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.
Pestablish the opinion of the Wasting Chases as beteg in
--
favour of the OPENIhG of MUSEUMS, de., on SUNDAY, and
to expose the means employed by Sabbatartan organisations to
impose upon the Government and the House of commons ; I
THURSDAY EVENING, Dec. 7, at half- 8.
Sir JOSHUA WA LMSLEY is to take the Chair.
Thos. Hughes, Esq., M.P., has promised to attend.
R. Si. MORRELL, Hon. Sec.

(arovsn'e runozims.)
IMPORTANT CHANGES IN GREECE.
ATHENS, Dac. 2.
The Chamber have abolished, the Council of
State by a great majority.
The Minister of the Interior has tendered bin
resignation.
Count Sponneck left this evening.

THE NEW AUSTRIAN LOAN.
VIENNA, Dm. 3.

The official Wiener Zeitung of today contains a
long article upon the new loan, in which, in order
to confute exaggerated representations of Austrian
finances, a detailed account is given of the public
debt, whereby it is attempted to be shown not only
that the taxation is not overburdened but that it
is rather relieved by the large loan lately con-
tracted. The article further states that,
the money market not being favourable for
financial operations, the Government, limiting
itself to the satisfaction of its most immediate
wants, had contracted a loan destined, in accord-
ance with the law of the 23rd November, to meet
only a part of its requirements. The article
expresses the hope that next year the Government
will raise on better terms the balance still necessary
to oover the State liabilities. By the improvement
of the financial condition, and by measures oondu-
, cive to important commercial reforms, Austria
would soon still further develop her internal
resources. In conclusion, the Government is congra-
tulated on the fact that this opportunity has not
been neglected to connect the interests of France
and Austria, whereby the foundations of a lasting
peace have been laid, and ground broken for creating
a guarantee of real safety abroad.

SWEDEN.
STOCKHOLM, Due. 3
At a private meeting of nobles held peter-
day the friends of reform were in a majority, and
the prospects of the new constitution being
adopted are considered to be more favourable.
4,000 working men have signed a petition for
reform.

NEW SWEDISH LOAN.
STOCKHOLM, Dec. 2, DINNING.
A contract with several German banks was
signed to-day, at the office of the National Debt,
for a loan of nine millions of thalers, for the con-
struction of Swedish railways.

ROME.
(Via Mimilloa.)
ROM, Nov. 29.

It is officially announced that the Papal govern-
ment is under the necessity of concluding anew loan
of 50 millions of lire, to be guaranteed upon eccle-
siastical property.
The Neapolitan brigands, who have been stir-
' rounded by Papal troops, have asked to be allowed
to surrender without submitting to any rigorous
conditions. It is asserted that they support this I
demand by producing a document showing that
the Papal government had to a certain extent
connived with them. The number of this band
of brigands is 350; all armed with revolvers.

I, that it

opinion, I believe it is well unne.-
should be crushed in the bud.
Grant has been receiving lavish attentions once
more in New York. He is everywhere the object
of as much feting as he can bear, and more than
he can bear. I think there is no hour of the slay
during his stay here in which be is not over-
whelmed with deputations, 'invitations, presence,
serenades, and so forth. All the clubs have re-
leaved him, and last night a " reception" on a
tremendous scale was got up at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, at which not less than two thousand people
were present. The crush was of course awful, sad
the number of those who set eyes upon him, much less
shook hands with him, was small ; but the enthusiasm
about him was genuine. There could hardly be a
better proof of the sterling good sense of the public
than the position which Grant holds in tbeir esti-
mation. Nobody has come out of the war with as
much glory, and yet he has not been the most
brilliant of the generals. The qualities which be
has shown have been rather every-day virtues in a
very high degree, than genius. Re is, in other
words, a Wellington, and not a Napoleon. What
makes his position all the more remarkable, too, is
the fact that he is not an orator, cannot put two
sentences together in public, is not of com-
manding presence, and is not j marked by a
dashing air. He is a plain, pleasant-looking man.
rather careless about his dress, and rather silent
except in the company of small parties of friends.
Then his disinterestedness as regards popular ap-
plause is something very unusual. He has been
content throughout the war to let othees play the
brilliant parts, reserving for himself whatever was
most difficult and least showy. The wonder is not
that such a man should succeed, but that be should
be so thoroughly appreciated by the public. It is
very clear that most of the current notions of de-
mocracy which have been handed down from clas-
sical times will have to undergo thorough revision
when this American republic has been in existence
a little longer.

PROPOSED RESTORATION OP THE WEST-
MINSTER CHAPTER OUSE.

On Saturday a meeting was held in the old
Chapter-house at Westminster Abbey, to conskler what
steps should be taken for obtaining the restoration of this
memorial of early English civilisatioo. The chair was occu-
pied by the Very Rev. ths Dean of Westroinstor, sod
among those present were Earl Stanhope, Lord Lyttalton,
the Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, the First Commiedoser of
her Majesty's Office of Works ; Mr. Botaford Hope, H.P.
Right Hon. Sir Page Wood, the Rev. the flab-Doan (Lord
John Thymus), the Very Rev. Canon Bickerer/Ith, the DOOM
Of Chichester and St. Paul's, Mr. Tile, ILP., Mr. Goodwin,
and Mr. Do Morgan. —The Chairman opined the
by giving the history of the Chapter-hoar It wasPerne=
able coincidence, he said, that the original elleeterAenee
was
erected just 800 yearn ego this year, the date of its erection
being given as 1063, and for three centuries it was used by
the monks as • Chapter-louse. In 1366 it was first adapted
as a meeting-house for parliament, go tbat it wee, in fact,
the cradle of our constitutional government and Mortise.
The horse remained the meeting place of parliament until
the reign of the eighth Henry, namely, until the time of
the Great Reformation, when it became tbe Record-offioe
of the kingdom, and so remained until the removal of the
records a few years since to the new Record-office in Fetter
:ans. The very rev. gentleman pointed to the desolate car
detion of the how now, it being left with all the dusty
fittiop of the Record-office, and said that a place of this
historical and archaeological iotorest should not be thus neg-
lected ; and the Antiquarian Society had convened this
sasUois with • view.' adopting some mesons whereby
the neglot of former times might be remedied. Mr. G.
Gilbert Scott was then called upon by the chairman, and
he at OM $999e4e4 te flill/ e 41119 KOOKS of the boats:
The date of the present structure was not • matter of doubt
or mystery, for it was recorded by Mathew Paris and other
authorities that in 1245 Henry 111. undertook, at his own
oast. the reverecticia of • portion of St. Edward the Con-
fessors structure. The building being one marking the
epoch of • great transition, the perfection of the fully de-
veloped window tracery, and one of the earliest specimen
in this country, it was important to know when it was first
commenced, and by the records it was shown that in 1253,
sight years after the commencement of the work, certain
material was bought to fill up the windows, so it appeared
to be coeval with Ls Saints Chapelle, at Paris, with which
it accords perfectly in style. He pointed to the present
condition of these beautiful windows—decayed, mutilated,
end blocked up with brick. The building had exquisite
vestibuloand these were as much disfigured as the win-
doss. He then proceeded to give a detailed amount of the
architecture of the buildiag,which he deecribedas verybeau-
tiful, and then said that if those present wanted to know
how decay, mutilation, misuse, and squalor, continued over •
period of three centuries, bad reduced what was once one of
the noblest of interiors to a disfigured wreck, they had only
to " look around." He went on to show Chats perfect and
faithful reiteration could be effected, and roamed his sot
amidst loud cheers. Earl Stanhope proposed "That this
meeting shares the regret experienced by the motion con-
vened by the Society of Antiquaries in May, 1862, that
nothing bad been done to repair the noble Chapter. house,
teastininsteroshich is rich in arebwological and historian's-
rcet." The Very Rev, the Dean of St. Paul's seconded
the resolution, which was carried uesnimoualy.
Mr. Beresford Hope, HL P., said be addressed the
minting as the mouthpiece of the architects of Ragland,
and he could say that the were as enthusiastic for the
as
restoration of this noble bni ' the antiquarians. He
had been asked to propose is resolution, "That this
meeting anxiously desire to impress upon her Majesty's
government, and upon both houses of parliament, the pro-
priety of restoring the Chapter-house, without delay, to its
oriental architscturel beauty." He said that foreigners
reproached us with allowing—what was not allowed in •
despotically-governed country—our national monuments to
decay, and he urged that we should take speedy steps to
show that we were quite equal to any kingdom or empire in
the world in our love for our memorials of bygone times.
This restoration would cost some 20,0001. or 30,0001., let
them say 30,0001., and the Howe of Commons, which bad
spent many times this sum on people's parks, would not
grades the sum. Sir E. Head ascended the resolution,
which was also carried. The Right Hon. Sir Page Wood
then proposed • third resolution (which was agreed to), re-
appointing the committee with some additions, with power
to form a deputation to wait upon the Chancellor of the
Exchequer. The meeting was also addressed by Mr. lite,
M.P., the Don of Chichester, and Lord Lytteltoa.
eti-

THE ILLNESS OF THE BISHOP or EZETEIL—The
venerable and much.respected bishop of this diocese has
been suddenly deprived of that activity and vigour of body
which has rendered him so conspicuous for several years
past among the remarkable oetogenatiaus of the age.
About two mouths ago his lordship returned from Durham
to his favcauite residence at Bialsopetowe, a mile and a
half from Torquay. He was in the enjoyment of his cus-
tomary health, =impaired, although latterly not robust.
up to Tuesday in last week. He was then attacked with •
paralytic seizure in his right arm, which gradually
extended itself to the whole of his right side. His lordship
has been aeriduously attended by Dr. Toogood, of Torquay.
and although in the early stage of the seizure etroog and
immediate fears were entertained of the result, the vener-
able bishop, thanks to his excellent constitut=e, is by
degrees recovering from the shock, and at Bishopstowe
yesterday (Friday) we teamed that his lordship was pro-
greasier, very favourably. Although this attack has
' deprived his lordship of ability to move without help, be
' had sot been manned to his bed.—Western Morning Peter
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT COSIMIVSION.—The Capital
punishment Commissioeet a met last week at N 0.2, Victotis-
street, Westminster. Present—His Grace the Duke of
Richmond, Lord Stanley, M.P., Sir J. T. Coleridge, Dr.
Litehingtoe, Mr. H. Waddisgtoe, Mr. Charles Neste, M.P.,
Mr. Gathorne Hardy, M.P., Mr. G. Ward Hunt, M.P., and
Mr.W. Ewart, M.P.; also the secretary, Mr. J. H. Patteson.
OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS.—Lord Augustus W. F.
Loftoe, sow her Majesty's Minister at Munich, has been
appointed ambersdor at Bertie, is encoessioa to Lord
Nasser. Sir Henry Fraseis Howard, Minister to Hanov,
Brunswick, and Oldenburg, has bees appointed Minister at
Musick. Sir Charles Deimos Wyke—last employed is
Mexioo—has bees appointed to the mission at Haeover, aad
will be also accredited to Oldenburg and Brunswick.
THE WINDSOR. STEEPLECHASIVI.—This event is
now positively heed for Friday gad %turtle,. the 24th
and 25th of February next, end in addition to the
wail programme, the cup given by the bripde of Gaud,
will be run for there.