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selves special security against disturbance by simply re-
gistering their placa of meeting. Every preacher and
teacher of religion is free to expound the Bible to others,
and every-person is sillowed to exercise the right of pri-
vate judgment.
We have observed' that in proportion asinequalities on
religious grounds have been removed from amongst us
by the Legi-lature, so has the nation become more firmly
united in it-elf. Nor has inconvenience arisen to the
Crown, to Parliament, or to the people by the increase
of religious liberty.

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Tenders for the supply of WAX, COM OSITION, and TAL-
LOW CANDLES. and OIL and SOAP, for the use of this office,
during the year 1856.
The Tenders must be delivered at the Secretary's Department of
this office, at or before noon, on Saturday, the 22d instant, and they
must be enclosed in sealed covers, addressed to .• Her Majesty's
Postmaster-General," and endorsed, "Tenders for Candles, &c."

Our experience proves that freedom in the teaching
and profession of religion is safer for the civil governor,
more conducive to the peace and happiness of the pet ple,
and more favourable.io the development of a nation in-
tellectually, socially, 4.and religiously, than either perse-
cution or patronage on account of religion.
As we feel that we owe so much, under the blessing
of God, to the civil, tincl' especially to the religious free-
dom, which this nation enjoys, and as we attribute to
the same cause much of the devoted and unanimous at-
tachment which all hearts bear towards our beloved
Queen (whom may God Almighty in his good pleasure
long preserve to us) ;, so we humbly pray that your Ma-
jesty may long be upheld and supported by the King of
Kings, and may be honoured to give yet further to your
people the blessed privileges of civil and religious liberty,
and of witnessing its fruits -as they ripen into concord
and prosperity within, respect and strength without,
and into a unanimity.of love and loyalty to your Ma.
jestv's person.
The deputation consisted of Mr. Apsley Pellatt,
M.P. (chairman), Mr. Benjamin Haubury (trea-
surer), Mr. S. Gale„Mr. W. Beddome, Mr. James
Carter, and the secretary, Mr. H. Terrell.
A deputation from the Religious Societies of
Great Britain was introduced, headed by Sir Cul-
ling Eardley (in theabsence of the Earl of Shaftes-
bury), when Sir Callag... NIA an address of congra-
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of Sir Harry Verney, Bart., Rev. C. J. Goodhart,
Rev. P. Latrobe, Rev. Dr. Beecham Rev. J.
Howard Hinton, Mr. James Lord, Mr. G. H.
Hewit Oliphant, Mr. John Bridges, and Mr. Ed-
win Hough. The address was signed by

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THE KING OF SARDINIA.

(From the Court Circular.)

His Majesty the King of Sardinia left Windsor
by a special train of the Great Western Railway
for London at twenty minutes before ten o'clock
yesterday morning, attended by the gentlemen of
his court.
The King arrived at Buckingham Palace at half-
oast ten o'clock, attended by his Excellency the
Marquis d'Azeglio and the gentlemen of his suite,
Lord Byron, and Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood,
slid was received by Lord Ernest Bruce and Mr.
Norman Macdonald.
His Majesty received addresses of congratulation
immediately after 1-is arrival. The Lord Mayor
and her Majesty's Commissioners of Lieutenantcy
of the City of London were first introduced, when
his Lordship read the following address :
We, the Lord Mayor, the Aldermen, and the rest of
her Majesty's Commissioners of Lieutenantcy for the
City of London, gladly seize the occasion of your Ma-
jesty's auspicious visit to our beloved Sovereign to
tender the homage of our high consideration and respect,
and to manifest the joy with which we welcome your
presence in the metropolis of the British Empire.
We regard with admiration the liberal and enlight-
ened policy with which your Majesty, in the earnest de-
sire to promote the happiness and welfare of your sub-
jects, with a noble confidence in their love and gratitude,
has voluntarily bestowed upon your people the ines-
timable gift of a free government.
We have seen your Majesty with true magnanimity,
worthy of all imitation, unite your arms with those of
the Western Powers to vindicate the independence of
Euripe, and to maintain the integrity of the Turkish
Empire against the attacks of its powerful and aggres-
sive neighbour.
We have witnessed with the liveliest satisfaction the
efficient services in the field of battle of your valiant
army, side by side with the victorious troops of our illus-
trious ally the Emperor of the French, and of our be-
loved Queen, achieving a glorious triumph, and proving
themselves the worthy soldiers of the sovereign who
has himself fought and bled in their ranks in the cause
of Italian liberty.
In the prosecution of this just and righteous cause we
humbly rely upon the blessing of the Lord of Hosts to
crown the successes of the Allies with an honourable and
lasting peace, and we pray that your Majesty may long
be spared to accomplish your high destiny, and to reign
over a free, prosperous, and happy people.
The King was graciously pleased to return the
following answer:—
Les sentimen• qua vous venez da m'exprimer de la
part des Commissairrs Royaux de la. Lieutenance di la
Cite de Londres me touchant profondement.
Le bonheur de icon people a toujours forme le plus
cher de noes vceux ; c'est done avec une Bien vive sane-
faction quo je vois que mes soins pour l'a,ssurer sort si
W.orablernent interpretes par les representans
marici-
paux de co grand pays.
Vous avcz man r„:„ e— ',everts fa;is
par les soldats Piemontais pour se montrer digues de
comhattre a, cote des heros de Balaklava et d'lukerman.
De pareils exploits etaient bien faits pour exciter chez
eux una noble emulation..
Le but de cotta grande lutte est trop juste et honorable
pour douter que l'energie et la perseverance des Pols-
sauces Alliees ne finisse par etre couronneas d'une paix
glorieuse et durable.
My Lord et messieurs, agreez ja vousten prie mes
souhaits les plus sinceres pour votre prosperite et pour
cells do vos concitoyers.
Mr. Ambrose Moore, the mover of the address,
and Sir Moses Montefiore, the see' nder, had the
honour of being presented to his Majesty by the
Lord Mayor.
The Commissioners present were Sir H. Mug-
geridge, Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Rose, Mr. Un-
der-Sheriff Stone, Messrs. George Alliston, Francis
Bennoch, Henry W. Blake, Daniel Britten, Wm.
Joseph Eastwick, Robert Ellis, Samuel Gregson,
M.P., Thomas Gabriel, William Hughes Hughes,
jun., John Kinnersly Hooper, Jonathan M. Key,
.obert W. Kennard, Alfred Latham, James Mal-
colmson, George Magnay, Robert Obbard, Richard
Nathaniel Philipps' William Rathbone, William
Dalleson Starling, Josiah Wilson, Edward Wil-
son, and Charles Fenton Whiting, and Colonel
Sykes, accompanied by Mr. Henley Smith, clerk
and treasurer.
A deputation from the merchants, bankers, and traders
of the City of London were then introduced, comprising
the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P.;
George H. Barnett, Esq. ; Jas. Pattison Currie, Esq. ;
John Dillon, Esq. ; Bonamy Dobree, Esq. ; Russell
Ellice, Esq. ; Geo. Fanning, Esq. ; C. R. Harford, Esq.;
Thomas Hankey, Esq., M P. ; H. B. Heath, Esq. ;
Sir J. W. Lubbock, Bart. ; L. Lloyd, jun., Esq. ; John
Masterinan, Esq., M.P. ; the HOI!. J. T. Leslie Mel-
ville ; Jas. Morris, Esq. ; Sheffield Neave, Esq. ; J.
H. Palmer, Esq. ; H. J. Prescott, Esq. ; W. G. Pres-
cott, Esq., A. W. Robarts, Esq.; Henry Robarts, E.q.;
G. R. Smith, Esq. ; Thos. C. Smith, Esq. ; W. W.
Saunders, Esq. ; Thos, M. Weguelin, Esq., and many
other gentlemen waited upon his Majesty, and presented
the following address :
Mar IT PLEASE YOUR, MAJESTY,
We, the undersigned merchants, bankers, and traders
of the City of London, avail ourselves of the occasion of
your Majesty's visit to our beloved Queen, to offer to
your Majesty the tribute of our profound respect, and to
tender the assurance that we welcome your arrival in
this country with the most heartfelt satisfaction.
We venture to express our admiration of the noble
firmness and decision with which, under circumstances
of peculiar difficulty, your Majesty has shown yourself
the steadfast and consistent supporter of civil and reli-
gious liberty ; and we pray the Almighty Disposer of
events long to preserve your Majesty's lifet and health,
for the advantage of the people whore you govern and of
the civilised world.
The close alliance now existing between your Majesty,
our revered Queen, and the Sovereigns of France and
Turkey, is the source of the utmost gratification to
us, and we have regarded with satisfaction and pride
the distinguished gallantry of the Sardinian Army in
the East. The continued success which has attended the

The Archbishop of Canterbury, President of the So-
eietv for Promoting Christian Knowledge ; the Earl of
Shaftesbury, President of the British and Foreign Bible
Society ; the Earl of Harrowhy, Vice president of the
Bible Society and Church Missionary Society ; the Hon.
A. Kinna:rd, Vice-president of the Colonial Church and
School Society ; the Bishop of Melbourne, Vice-presi-
dent of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel—
Bible Society, &c. ; F. E. Vernon Harcourt, Vice-
chairman of the Council of the British branch of the
Evangelical Alliance ; Sir C. Eardley Eardley, President
of the British branch of the Evangelical Alliance ; Ma-
jor-General Alexander, Life Governor and Member of
the Committee of the Church Missionary Society ; Peter
La Trobe, Secretary to the Church and Missions of the
United (or Moraviae) Brethren ; Edward Steane, D.D.,
Hon. Secretary to the Committee for the Promotion of
Religious Liberty ; and also by a number of other gen-
tlemen connected with various religious societies.

The Lord Mayor and Commissioners of Lieute-
nantcy and the other deputations were severally re-
ceived on entering the reception-room (one of the
lower drawing rooms) by Lord Ernest Bruce, Vice-
Chamberlain, and Mr. Norman Macdonald, the
Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's-office, who
conducted them to the King, the Vice-Chamber-
lain on the right and Mr. Macdonald on the left.
His lordship and Mr. Macdonald remained near
his Majesty during the reading of the addresses.
The King was attended by the Marquis d' Azeglio,
hi sMinister Plenipotentiary at this Court; the Count
de Cavour, the Duke Pasqua, and other gentlemen
of his suite.

His Majesty, after the presentation of the ad-
dresses, held a diplomatic levee, which was attended
by the Count de Persigny, Ambassador of France,
and the Secretaries of Embassy ; M. Van de 'Weyer,
Minister of Belgium, and the Secretaries of Lega-
tion ; Baron de Cetto, Minister of Bavaria ; Count
de Kielmansegge, Minister of Hanover ; M. Tri-
coupi, Minister of Greece ; and M. Charilaus Tri-
coupi, Secretary of Legation ; M. Musurus, Mi-
nister of Turkey, and the Secretaries of Legation ;
Baron Bentinck, Minister of the Netherlands, and
the Secretary of Legation ; Count de Lavradio,
Minister of Portugal, and the Secretaries of Lega-
tion ; Count Colloredo, Minister of Austria, and
the Secretaries of Legation; Senor Lanzas, Minister
of Mexico ; Mr. Buchanan, Minister of the United
States ; General d'Oxholm, Minister of Denmark ;
Count Bernstorff, Minister of Prussia ; Baron
de Hochschild, Minister of Sweden and Norway ;
M. Carvalho Moreira, Minister of Brazil, and the
Secretary of Legation ; M. Comyn, Charge d'Af-
faires of Spain, and the Secretaries of the Mission.
Their Excellencies appoared in uniforms ordiplo-
matic Prultnrpck.p7,l _
hood wore their respective ensigns.
Dr. Granville bad au audience of the King.
His Majesty left Buckingham Palace for Guild-
hall at a quarter past 12 o'clock, attended by his
Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio, Count de
Cavour, Duke Pasqua, Chevalier Nigra, Count
Morozzo de la Rocca, Chevalier Luserna d'An-
grogna, Chevalier Carderina, Chevalier Ribazi,
Count de Persan, Count de Barone, Count de
Robilant, Lord Byron, and Colonel the Hon. A.
N. Hood.

The King was conducted by the Vice-Chamber-
lain and Mr. Macdonald to his carriage, which was
dra.wu by cream-coloured horses, and was attended
by four of the Queen's footmen in full state liveries.

His Majesty's suite occupied four state carriages.
A numerous detachment of Life Guards formed the
escort.

As the King entered his carriage the band of the
Foot Guards on duty with the guard of honour
commenced the Sardinian National Air, and con-
tinued playing until his Majesty had quitted the
quadrangle of the Palace.
The King, on leaving Guildhall, honoured Vis-
count and Viscountess Palmerston with a visit at
their residence on Piccadilly-terrace, and after-
wards proceeded to the terminus of the Great
Western Railway at Paddington, returned by a
special train to Windsor, and arrived at the Castle,
attended by his noblemen and gentlemen in wait-
ing, at twenty minutes before five o'clock p.m.
The Queen gave a dinner in the evening in St.
George's ball, to the following distinguished party :
—The King of Sardinia, the Duchess of Kent, the
Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Royal, the
Princess Mary of Cambridge, and the Duke of
Cambridge, Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, the
Duchess of Sutherland, the Lord Chancellor and
Lady Cranworth, the Duke and Duchess of Wel-
lington, the Sardinian Minister, the Turkish Mi-
nister and Madame Musurus, the Marquises of
Breadalbane and Abercorn, the Earl of Harrowby,
Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, Lady
Caroline Murray, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the
Earl and Countess Spencer, the Earl and Countess
of Derby, the Earls of Clarendon, Lucan, Malmes-
bury, and Aberdeen, the Rev. Lord and Lady
Wriothesley Russell, Viscount Palmerston, Lord
Wodehouse, the Right Hon. the Speaker, Major-
Gerieral the Hon. C. and Mrs. Grey, Miss Barring-
ton, Sir G. Grey, the Right Hon. S. Herbert, the
Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Right Hon. M.
T. Baines, Baron Marochetti, Vice-Admiral Sir
Thomas Cochrane, Captain Milne, R.N., Cheva-
lier Canna, Colonel the Hon. J. Macdonald, Major
Purves, Count de Cavour, Duke Pasqua, Chevalier
Maxime d'Azeglio, Chevalier Nigro., Count Mo-
rozzo de la Rocca, Chevalier Luserna d'Angrogna,
Chevalier Carderina, Chevalier Riberi, Chevalier
Cigala, Count de Persan, Count de Barone, Count
de Robilant, Lord Byron, and Colonel the Hon.
A. N. Hood.
The band of the 2d• Life Guards played during
dinner in the gallery of St. George's Hall.
Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended
in the music gallery, and, under the direction of Mr.
Anderson, performed the following compositions :
Overture—Egmont .. Beethoven.
Min uetto—lphigerae
Polonaise—Faust° ............. .
March—Oberon
Mozart.
Overture—ll Seraglio

of events that we reflect upon the unbroken success which
has proved the superior power and bravery of the Allied
armies and fleets, supported as they have been under al-
most incredible privations, by a lofty sense of the right-
eous cause in which ,they are engaged, and in which the
arms of Sardinia have borne so generous a part.
Our most gracious Sovereign and her illustrious Allies,
undazzled by the splendour of repeated triumphs, and
the continued progress of victory, seek no more than to
vindicate the rights of nations, and secure a lasting and
honourable peace.
In the contest for this high purpose, our beloved
Queen, acting in concert with her allies, may firmly rely
upon the strongest and most cheerful efforts of the loyal
citizens of London and of all her people, united as they
are in duty and affection to her Majesty's person and
government, and in a determination to defend the cause
of national independence, and of civiland religious liberty.
His Majesty replied as follows :
MY LORD MAYOR,
I offer my heartfelt thanks to you, to the Aldermen,
and to the Commons of the City of Landon, for the cor-
dial congratulations which you present to me on the
occasion of my visit to her Majesty the Queen, and to
the British nation.

The reception that I met with in this ancient land of
csastitutional liberty, of which your address is a confir-
ftraEl•on, is to me a proof of the sympathy inspired by
the policy I have hitherto pursued, a policy in which it
is mli aitention constantly to persevere.
T e cloFe alliance existing between the two most
powerful nations of the earth, is honourable alike to
the wisdom of the Sovereigns who govern them, and
to the character of their people. They have under-
stood how preferable is a mutually advantageous friend-
ship to ancient and ill defined rivalry.
This alliance is a new fact in history, and is the
triumph ,of civilisation. Notwithstanding the misfor-
tunes whiah have weighed upon my kingdom, I have
entered info t hnr alliance,-becau-sether llousent4llVtry
ever deemed it to bo its duty to draw the sword when
the combat was for justice and for independence.
If the forces which I bring to the Allies are those of
a State not vast, I bring with them, nevertheless, the
influence of a loyalty never doubted, and supported by
the valour of an army always faithful to the banners of
its Kings.
We cannot lay down our arms until an honourable,
and therefore durable, peace, has been secured. This
we shall accomplish by seeking unanimously the triumph
of true right, and the just desires of each nation.
I thank you for the gond wishes you this day express
for my future happiness, and for that of my kingdom.
While you thus express yourselves with respect to the
future, it gives me pleasure to speak of the present, and
to congratulate you on the high position attained by
Great Britain. This is to be attributed to the free and
noble character of the nation, and also to the virtues of
your Queen.

The following remarks by our contemporary, the
Morning Herald, will sufficiently explain the reason
why we were unable to procure a copy of the Cor-
poration address and the King of Sardinia's reply
in time for our first edition of yesterday :
" A person from the office of the Town Clerk, who
had previously, as is customary on these occasions, in-
formed the gentlemen of the press that copies of the ad-
dress and reply would be given to them—brought to the
reporters one copy of the address, with the manuscript
of the King's speech. The latter was written in the
King's hand, and, as is usually the case with such Royal
documents, was exceedingly difficult to decipher. Fear-
ful of making some mistake, the gentlemen of the press
asked for the fair copies, which had been promised to
them before the speech was made, when the individual
we have before referred to said it "was a matter of great
courtesy that we were allowed to look at the address at
all. The corporation had given us tickets to enable us to
report the proceedings, and we ought to havedone so, and
taken a note of the speech." This offensive and ridicu-
lous remark (for reporting a speech delivered rapidly in
a foreign language was of course impossible) was fol-
lowed by others equally uncalled for, and the gentlemen
of the press were on the poiut of leaving the hall when
the higher officers of the corporation interfered, and
after considerable lapse of time the kind intervention of
the Lord Mayor, to whom our warmest thanks are due,
eventually procured copies of the address and the reply
of the King."

DEPARTURE OF THE KING OF SARDINIA.

His Majesty and suite, accompanied by his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, aro expected to leave
Windsor at 5.0 a.m. ou Thursday morning, the
6th, arriving at the Bricklayers' Arms Station at
6.0 a.m. The Royal special train will leave the
Bricklayers' Arms station at 6.0 a.m., performing
the journey to Folkestone-harbour as under :
Bricklayers' Arms station 6 a.m., New Cross 6.5,
Forest Hill 6.9, Sydenham 6.11, Anerley 6.13,
Norwood 6.14, Croydon 6.16, stoat's Nest 6.22,
Mersthaui 0.23, Red Hill 6.31, Godstone,,O.A.Q.
Edenbadge 6.47, Penshurst 6.54, Tunbridge (here
-c rninntea win +.bo ro.ce for the en-
gine to take water) 7.3, Paddock Wood 7.10, Mar-
den 7.17, Staplehurst 7.20, Headcorn 7.25,
Pluckley 7.32, Ashford 7.39, Smeeth 7.45, Hythe
7.51, Folkestone Up. St. 8.1, arrive at Folkestone
Harbour at 8.10. The distance, 82 miles, will be
performed in 2 hours 10 min.
The directors of the South-Eastern Railway have
issued the following instructions to be observed on
the occasion :

1. An engine, to assist in case of need, and
timed to run at the same rate of speed as the royal
train, will follow the latter at a distance of one
station in the rear. In the event -of the royal
special being five minutes in excess of the time
allowed for the running between any two stations,
the light engine following will be permitted to
proceed after it with the greatest caution.
2. Platelayers, provided with the requisite sig-
nals, will be stationed at different parts on the
line, particularly at level and occupation crossings,
facing, and other points, to keep the line clear, and
signal the train forward.

3. Bricklayers' Arms will telegraph the departure
of the ropal special to all down stations ; so that in
case it does not start to its fixed time, the respec-
tive station-masters may, by reference to its rate
of speed, as shown in the above table, be enabled
to ascertain when it will pass their station.
4. The royal train will be telegraphed from sta-
tion to station in the ordinary manner, subject,
however, to the special arrangements in that de-
partment which will be made on the occasion by
the telegraph superintendent.
5. The following ordinary trains will give pre-
cedence to the royal special, viz. :—The 4.0 a.m.
and 5.0 a.m. Down Dover and Reading goods
trains (Nos. 5 and 6 in service-book) will not leave
Bricklayers' Arms until after the royal special has
passed New Cross (main line) station.
6. The guards appointed to work the Royal
trains are Jones and Joy.

THE LATE COLLISION ON THE GREAT
WESTERN RAILWAY.

Yesterday Mr. Wakley, coroner for Middlesex, as-
sisted by Mr. Brent, deputy-coroner, resumed at the
Beaumont Arms, Shepherd's-bush, the investigation
touching the death of John Moore, a breaksman, aged
41, late in the service of the London and North Western
Railway Company, who was killed in a collision which
took place at the Harlesien-bridge junction of the Great
Western Railway, under circumstances already briefly
detailed. The inquiry caused considerable sensation,
and a number of gentlemen attended on behalf of the
two companies. Messrs. Parker and Hives, solicitors,
likewise watched the proceedings on, he part of the
North-Western Company, and Mr. Herring appeared at
the initanee of the Great Western Company on behalf
of Bennett, a policeman on the railway, whose conduct
was seriously mixed up in the melancholy transaction.
It appeared that at Harlesden-bridge the Great West-
ern rails are crossed on the level by the London and
North-Western. On the morning of the collision the
line of the Great Western was signalled as clear for the
Rissage of a coal train along the London and North-
Western across the metals of the Great Western Com-
pany. At the time the signal was clear, the danger
signals were put on to prevent any trains passing along
the Great Western line until the coal train had, gone
across. These signals, it was stated, ought to have
been seen by Bennett, who was stationed in the Acton
cutting, so as to have enabled him to stop a goods train
which came up at the time towards Paddington. Ben-
nett, however, according to the evidence of the engine
drivers of the goods train, showed the white (or safety)
instead of the " danger" signal, and when at last they
caught sight of one of the danger signals it was too late.
They could not stop the train in time to avoid a colli-
sion, and the two trains met at the crossing. The goods
train was about five hours late, having been due at Pad-
dington at 1.10 a.m.
In answer to the coroner, Mr. Herring said he did not
intend to place his client under examination.
The Coroner then remarked that the whole inquiry
turned upon the conduct of three persons, viz., Ben-
nett, signal man, and Collins and Brown, the engine
drivers. After some further discussion, the jury deli-
berated alone for half-an-hour, at the expiration of which
period the Coroner stated that the jury had agreed to a
further adjournment, in order that they might have
the benefit of some practical disinterested gentleman's
experience in the matter, and at the same time the jury
hoped that before the next meeting the directors of the
two companies would take the dangerous state of the
Harlesden junction into their serious consideration.

THE ADDRESS OF THE CORPORATION OF
LONDON.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY,
We, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of
the City of London, in Common Council assembled, desire
to offer to your Majesty our grateful congratulations on
your Majesty's arrival in this country, as the honoured
guest of our beloved and most gracious Queen i • and on
behalf of our fellow citizens, and for ourselves, we
humbly tender to your Majesty the warmest expression
of our gratitude for the welcome visit to our city,
with which you have deigned to honour us this day.
We hail the arrival of your Majesty as a happy proof
of the extension of those friendly and intimate relations
which it is the wish of this pec,ile to cultivate with all
nations, and which are daily drawn closer by the cordial
intercourse of Sovereigns, the interchange of mutual
courtesies, and the progress of unrestricted commerce.
We see in your Majesty the representative of a long
line of illustrious Sovereigns, and rejoice to find the
throne filled by one who in the present mo-
mentous epoch, has joined his armies to those of France,
Turkey, and England, and who has not only avowed his
desire to participate in the triumph of the principles for MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT.—MANCHESTER, Tues-
which the Allied Powers are now resolutely contending, day.--There is no great change in our market to-day,
but animated by the generous sentiments of his Sub.. and the business is not considerable. Nevertheless, as
Alpine people and the traditions of the House of Savoy, compared with the past fortnig'ht, the transactions in
has heroioally thrown himself into the cause of justice Yarns have been more multifarious, and qualities suita-
and civilisation, with a resolution to Persevere until a ble for India and Italy, also certain descriptions suitable
durable peace, guaranteeing to every nation its legiti. for the home trade, are likely to be affected by a short-
mate rights, shall be obtained. time movement at Oldham, and are in more request,
It is with solemn gratitude to the Almighty Disposer and secure full rates.

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Naval and Military Intelligence.

The steam transport Victoria, Captain Thornhill,
arrived at Spithead yesterday from the East. She sailed
from Constantinople Nov. 15 ; Malta, 21 ; passed Gibral-
tar on the 27th, on which day, off the Rock, she passed
the ship Golgonda, and the Harbinger and Calcutta
steam transports going into the Bay. The Victoria
brought no invalids, only a cargo of 350 tons of shot and
shell. Dr. Stone, Capt. Rouq, of the 00th, Mr. Palmer,
R.N., and Mr. Duck, of the Commissariat Department,
came in her al passengers.

The Pedea ran transpce, No. 58, Capt. Broughall,
arrived at Spithead yesterday from the East, with a cargo
of shot, shell, cartridges, rum, &c., condemned stores.
Tht steam transport Imperador, No. 178, Capt. Jas.
Brown, arrived at Spithead yesterday afternoon from
the East. She left Constantinople on the 11th ult., and
arrived at Renkioi on the 12th ; sailed the 13th, and
arrived at Malta on the 17th ; left on the 18th, and
arrived at Lisbon on the 27th, and left on the 28th. She
brought as passengers Lieut. Richmond, 3d Dragoon
Guards ; Lieut. Maitland, R.N., wounded in the foot ;
Major Campbell, Royal Artillery ; Mr. A. R. Elliott,
master mariner ; Mr. Sloane, ditto ; Mr. Fuleher, pay.
master's clerk ; 7 naval invalids, 11 merchant seamen,
1,463 common ten-inch shell, and 1,240 hollow shot,
transshipped from steam-transport Sydney as ballast.
She brought a mail from Lisbon. The Imperador has
been teu months out, during which time she has been
upwards of 17,000 miles, in 281 days' steaming time,
c {riled 6,827 officers and men, and 1,795 invalids from
Balaklava to Scutari, Renkioi, and Smyrna hospitals,
and has been in port 37 times.

The f‘dlowing were the naval movements at Ports-
mouth yesterday :—Vice-Adrniral Sir Thomas Cochrane,
the Commander-in-Chief, struck his flag and proceeded
to London on his way to Windsor, being invited to di4'
tittrita--Mitntrattcl the King of.Sailinia'at-thnealle-
this evening. Her Majesty's steam yacht Osborne, to-
gether with the Blenheim, 60, Lieut. Jackson ; the
Vivid, Admiralty steam yacht, Master Commanding W.
H. Allen ; and the Fire Queen, do., Mr. W. Paul, Mas-
ter Commanding—all left Portsmouth last night, under
the ccminiand of Capt. G. T. Gordon, of the Victory, for
Dover, where the Osborne will embark the King of Sar-
dinia for France to-morrow. The Hawke and Hastings,
60-gun blockship;, Captains Ommanney and Fanshawe,
are ordered to prepare for s:a. 'roe Meander, 44, sailing
frigate, Capt. Willie, arrived at Spithead from Devon-
port. Toe Hecla, 6, paddle-sloop, Commander Aplin,
from the same port, also made Spithead yesterday. The
Sampson, 6, paddle-frigate, Capt. Hand ; the Polyphe-
mus, 6, paddle-sloop, Commander Warren ; and the Sa-
lamander, 6, do., Commander Mecham, returned to har-
bour from Spithead yesterday. The Exmouth, 91, screw
two-decker, Capt. W. K. Hall, is ordered to return to
Plymouth. Tue Lucifer steam•vessel left Portsmouth
for Plymouth yesterday afternoon.
The new screw steamship Conqueror, 100, was com-
missioned at Devonport on Monday by Lieut. Edey, for
Captain Symonds.
The Government hired screw steam-transport Berwick,
Capt. Farmer, with 7 officers, 20 foremen, and 207 men
of the Army Works Corps, under command of Capt. H.
Fortescue, which left Blackwall at 6 a.m. on Sunday,
put into Plymouth Sound on Monday afternoon for coal,
and sailed in the evening for Balaklava.
The transport-ship Castle Eden, Captain Young, from
Portland, which arrived on Sunday at Plymouth with
300 convicts, is appointed to embark 16 there, and to
sail this day for Bermuda.
A Spanish lugger from Bilboa, bound to Hamburg,
put into Plymouth Sound yesterday morning, having on
board the master and all the crew of the brig Harmony,
of South Shields, Capt. Clarke. which foundered in the
Bay of Biscay on the 28th of Nov., six days from St.
Sebastian, with wheat for Rouen.
The paddle-wheel steamer Dee, Master Commander
Pullen, sailed from Woolwich yesterday morning, with
machinery and boilers for Portsmouth.
The new mortar-raft arrived at Woolwich yesterday
morning, from Shoeburyness, in a damaged state. The
experiments intended to have been were not thoroughly
completed. 104 rounds were, however, fired, which
proved that the principle was good, but that some modi-
fications were required, and more substantial metal in
the pontoons which float the raft and its weighty piece
of ordnance, so as effectually to resist the force of the
recoil without the probability of damage.
Major-General Ashmore having, by his recent promo-
tion retired from the command of the Royal Marines, has
left Woolwich. It was the desire of the officers unani-
mously to mark the high appreciation of their late Com-
mandant's merits on his departure from office, by enter-
taining him at a public dinner, but circumstances pre-
vented the General from accepting their proffered invita-
tion.

Leave of absence has been granted to Captain Oliver
N. Chatterton, 35th Foot, from the 4th to the 30th of
December.

Assistant-Surgeon Skews, Royal Newfoundland Corps,
on being reliev.,d -17ky at Chatham, is to proceed
on boaru th. contract mail steamer-Liverpool, via Hali-
fax, for Newfoundland, to join his corps.
To-day a board composed of Captain-Superintendent
Wyvill, Mr. Drummond, Deputy-Inspector-General of
Hospitals and Fleets, &c., will be held in the Dockyarl,
Chatham, for the purpose of awarding pensions to such
sailors and marines as may be considered anfit for fur-
ther service, subject to the approval of the Board of
Adniralty.
On Monday evening 53 invalids, belonging to different
regiments, from the depot battalion, Winchestsr,
reached Chatham, 23 of whom were taken into the
General Hospital. On Tuesday a party of invalids of
the Rlfle Brigade arrived from the camp, Aldershott,
seven of whom were received into hospital.
Acting Assistant-Surgeon LezArs is under orders to
proceed to Plymouth on board the Urgent steamer, to
go in medical charge of a draught of the Laud Transport
Corps to the Crimea.