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London, England, 1864-07-05 00:00:00

BEDROOM CANDLES.

"RICE'S CANDLES, which will not drop
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sold in boxes le. and 3s. each, are recommended as the best
carriers.

" EXTRA. HARD 5.12 CHAMBER CANDLES,"
sold in boxes 2s. each. Thicker candles intended for those
who will not burn thin.

" SHERWOOD ECONOMIC BED LIGHTS,"
in packets of 36 candles for one shilling, intended for use
where cheapness I= a great object, will be found an improve-
ment on the ordinary candles, as they gutter less.
Si ecial candle ticks 'o fit thin candles, Is. and 2s. 6d each;
reducing sockets, making them fit any candlesticks, 2d. each.

TOIL ET SOAPS.
Sherwood Brown Windsor Soap, with a pleasant scent.
Belmont Glycerine Soap, contains erice's Glycerine.
Camphor and Glycerine Soap, fo tender skins in winter.
GLYCERINE. SH ERWOODOLE
"Price's Glycerine" may be Cleans gloves and removes
had from any Chemist, in grease and other st
caosuled bottles, lettered Perfumed, in capsuled bot-
" Price's Patent," from 6d. tles, 6d. and is. each.
upwards. Impure Glycerine
has been sold the state-
ment that it is "equal to
Prices."

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London.

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A.D. 1720.
ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION
(Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First)
FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES.
Offices, Royal Exchange, London.
Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall.
OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor.
GEORGE PEARKES BARCLAY, ESQ., Sub-Governor.
Sir JOHN HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.

Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq.
Robert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville.
'ohn Garratt Cattley, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq. Hon. Josceline W. Percy.
Thomas Dent, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq.
Alexander Druce, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Fredk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P.
!'AL Amadeus Heath, Esq. William Wallace, Esq.
Wm. Tetldw Hibbert, Esq." Chas. Baring Young, Esq.
Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. '
Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S.
NOTICE.- -The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of
FIRE PREMIUMS falling due at Midsummer will expire
on 9th July.
FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this
,orporation on advantageous 1-,rms.
FAR M ING- S TOOK.
Ronne on British Life Policies has of a Steam Thrashing ,--
_,Lachine.
The Reversiona:y_ extra charge is made for the use
ave-
raged ',early 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured.
Eclllivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums
payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus.
the divisions of Profit take place every Five years.
Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one
Life.

This Corporation affords to the Assured—
Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from
the liabilities of partnership.
A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual
Societies=with the guarantee of a large invested Capital
Stock.
The advantages of modern practice,—with the security
of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex-
perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF.
ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary.

CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.

MEETING THIS DAY.

The quarterly meeting of the shareholders was held this
day at the offices, 33, Norfolk•street, Strand.
Mr GRUNEISEN, th© Secretary, having read the adver-
tisement convening the meeting,
The NOBLE CHAIRMAN (Viscount Ranelagh) read the
following report of the executive committee, which was
agreed to :

The annexed returns show the satisfactory state of the
Society's business' for the first three quarters of the finan•
vial year :

Shares in Shares Total
Qrs. ending Shares in Shares Total
pEogress. Complete. Shares. Receipts.
£ s. d.
Dec. 24,1&3 lB9 C 3 252 15,323 11 7
March 25, 1804 ll3 67 185 17,371 511
June 24, 1364 432 81 513 20,880 9 5
Three Quarters
ending Mid-
summer' 1864 739 211 950 23,515 6 11
Totals to Sept
30, 1853 15,537 4,174 19,711 701,146 18 7
Grand totals to
June 21, 1864 16,?76 4,335 20,661 754,722 5 6

The total sale of land to Midsummer, 1861,

;52,67019 4

i 5......
The total withdrawals since the formation
of the Society (7th Sept., 1852) to Mid-
summer, 1864, are
The returns of the register of the order of rights are as
follow :

Completed. Drawn. Seniority. Total.
5,368 3,234 1,706 10,308
Deduct rights exercised on estates, &c, .... 7,797

Unexercised rights
The last share number on the register by seniority is No.
14,813; and the last share issued up to Midsummer. 1864,
was No. 20,661. The executive committee have the grati-
fication to report to the shareholders that the two allotments
of the Plough-lane, Battersea, estate, on the 6th of April
and the 22d of June, have been remarkably successful. The
board was induced to acquire this valuable building property
owing to the rapid sale and development of the York-road
estate, which was the society's first acquisition of land in
Battersea. The Plough-lane estate is a continuation of the
Yerk-road, towards the Wandsworth-road, and the estate
is close to the Clapham Junction and Wandsworth stations,
and to the steamboat piers. The first portion of the Plough-
lane land, offered on the 6th of April, was entirely sold
prior to the second allotment on the 22d of June, and a very
large sale has already been effected. The contract for the
works on the entire estate is already signed, and no time
will be lost in completing the roads, the committee having
been enabled to secure for the estate increased facilities of
communication with the adjoining localities and railway
stations. Building operations have been commenced, and
the value of the land has been amply proved by the resale
by allottees, at premiums, of their plots. Increased house
accommodation in the vicinity of Battersea Park and the
central stations on the south side of the Thames is so much
in demand, that it may be expected At ith confidence that.
the Plough-lane estate will be more speedily covered with
houses than any property previously allotted by the Con-
servative Land Society. The works for the Bishop's Stort-
ford and Colchester estates are in progress. The roads in
the Henwiek-road, Worcester, have just been completed•
Another allotment is fixed for Wednesday, July 20, when
the sale of the Avenue estate, Southampton, will be com-
menced; and on this occasion will be also offered to the
holders of rights of choice, and to the general public, a
handsome villa residence, " The Orangery," just erected on
the St. Margaret's estate, Isleworth and Twickenham;
villas and houses on the Round •hill-park estate, Brighton,
commanding extensive views of the sea and country; two
villa residences at Enfield, close to the station; four villas
on the Iffiey-road estate, Oxford; and several houses in
occupation on the Kentish-town, Hackney, Old Ford,
Roman-road (North Bow), and Putney estates. The allot-
tees of the society will please to bear in mind that the last
day for sending in claims for the freehold franchise in the
counties is Wednesday, july 20; and on or before that day
the solicitor should be put in possession of the necessary
information, in order that they may be duly registered. In
the event of any objections being made, the purchasers of
land through the society's instrumentality must take spe-
cial care that the solicitor is supplied in time with the re-
quisite deeds and particulars, specfying at the same time
the most convenient polling districts in the county or coun-
ties in which their property is situated. If there be any
alterations in the qualifications, or any change of address,
the allottees should at once communicate with the society's
legal adviser, who will attend to their interests free of ex-
pense.

(Signed) RANELIGH7 Chairman.
(Countersigned) CHAS. LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Secretary.

Persons in debt may obtain instant protection against
imprisonment or seizure of their goods, and an entire release
from all debts and liat.ilities without publicity, by application
to Messrs. Marshall, solicitors of the Court of Bankruptcy.
Charges under £5 payable by easy instalments. Offices—
(established 1830),12, Hatton-garden. City branch .6. Moor
gate-street, Bank.—A:Dm

Head-quarters, July 1, 1864.
Upon receipt of an order from his Royal High-
ness Prince Frederick Charles to under:ake a land-
ing- upon the island of A leen within the next few
days, Gen. Von Horwarth, at present commanding
the combined army corps(the 6th and 13:h divisions)
occupying Sundewitt, determined,
tifi o completing
all his preparations the preceding night, to cross at
r
dawn on the 29th ult. The passage was to be
effected upon 160 boats and 32 pontoons by the
entire army corps at the Satrupholz, northward of
Sandberg.
The difficulties of this undertaking were very
considerable, and apparent even to an unpractised
eye. History contains few examples of the passage
of a river in front of the enemy. Here it was re-
quisite to cross an arm of the sea whose width,
depth, and rapid current prevented the erection of
a bridge, and whose hostile shores bristled with
numerous well armed batteries and entrenchments.
r:IS was necessary ta,expoice the troops to a foroign"
element upon a number of slight boats not only
threatened by wind and weather, but by many
hostile war ships commanding the sea, the iron-clad
vessels in particular, capable of inflicting serious
losses. Even if the landing of the first batta-
lions succeeded it was necessary to be prepared for
encountering a superior enemy, who long since
expecting this attack, would have had time enough
during the suspension of arms to reorganise his
troops and make every preparation for energetically
repulsing all attempts to land.
His Royal Highness Prinee Frederick Charles,
surrounded by his staff, took up a position at half-
past one a.m. at the Alsen Sound, between the ruins
of Fort No. X. and the burnt farm of Steengard,
from which point the entire operations could be
observed.

The means of transport admitted of 31 battalions
being brought over at a time. Each detachment
embarked at four different points, and was landed
at as many different places upon the hostile coabt,
ie oppositeu te
nto a
st the eaFe
no
ehrl
ae
I v
t k aopup
Nansten, to whose bolde Wood.
energy the first execution of the expedition was
entrusted, had the Roder and Goben Brigades under
his command for the day. The Roder Brigade
(64th and 24th Regiments) and the Mandenburg
Jager battalion No. 3 had the advanced guard and
were first embarked. Generals Von Manstein and
Roder were in the foremost boats of the first
detachment.
When the boats were about two hundred yards
distant from the host:le shore the first shots of the
enemy's outposts blazed at them through the twi-
light. The force in the boats returned the fire, and
replied to the first hail of grape from the enemy's
batteries with a thundering hurrah.

Springing out of tne boats and wading through
the shallows, the brave Brandenburgers rapidly
gained the opposite bank, stormed the hostile bat-
teries, and drove the enemy back into the Fohlen-
kappa! Wood, notwithstanding his desperate
attempts to hold his rifle pits.
In the meantime the enemy had thrown up fire-
balls, which, lighting up the entire shore, clearly
revealed the Prussia❑ attack.

The boats were rapidly rowed back to the
Schleswig shore, The pontooners of the 3d and

7th battalions at the seat of war had been specially
reinforced for the purpose of this undertaking by
three fresh companies from home (belonging to the
23, 4th, and sth battalibn3), and the new arrivals
viei in devotion and endurance with their veteran
comrades.

Favoured by the calmness of the sea the crossing
rapidly continued with comparatively trifling loss.
The numerous battle ships did not venture within
rang:- of the Prussian batteries. The Rolf Krake,
which lay in the Auguetenburg Fohrde with some
gunboats, and from that position had already fired
upon the troops first rowed across, stear..ed to the
norther❑ issue of the Alsen Sound, while the second
detachment of the Roder Brigade was crossing and
fired shell, without, so far as is known, occasioning
any important loss. Attacked by our strand bat-
teries and two rifled field batteries which unlim-
bered in her immediate vicinity, the ironclad steamed
along the whole line under continuous fire, and
apparently seriously damaged, down the Alsen
Fobrde; she is said to have returned subsequently
to escort the gunboats lying in the Augustenburg
Fohrde, after Which she disappeared attogther from
the scene.

Meantime the enemy's batteries were incessantly
cannonaded by our artillery and thereby prevented
from annihilating the infantry on their passage.
Pressing on victoriously, the Roder Brigade and
Brandenburg lagers had succeeded in driving the
enemyte
head out
ofof
his
eoraPophalney de
n appe
deeply
y lamented Wood .
Here
bfy hise la t
h
comrades, Capt. Count Maltzahn, of the Bth Bran-
denburg Regiment, No. 61, an officer who had re.
distinguished himself before Duppel, end
decorated for his bravery. Lieutenant
K
an officer of the Landwehr, who com-
mctiedm h,e Regiment No, 64, was killed at this
had
eaadcom-
manded beendeia ynto

General Von Manstein meanwhile col-
lected point.
hist Lieu.. force for
further attack, which however
encountered an unexpectedly stubborn resistance at
Ronhof, and to the south of Kjas, whence the
enemy
appears to have obtained stronger rein-
feraements
at about half-past four. The engage-
ment was checked here for some time, but the
serried advance of the Goben brigade, which had
now crossed, and Was rapidly hurried up, with the
arrival of a rifled field battery, quickly decided the
struggle in our favour, Notwithstanding his ob-
stinate resistance the enemy was driven from posi-
tion to shortly after six o'clock the
village
entirely in our possession.
Towards eight Sonderborg was taken by the*Goben
Brigade, although t
opfos Kjasitio position, and
was
the enemy
had again attempted
to make a stand to the north of this town. His
retreat by way of Ulkebul and Wallerup now
became more hurried.
He tried in vain to hold
impetuous the latter place, but the -petuous attack of the
Roder Brigade speedily dislodged him from this
position.
Shortly after 8 o'clock the portion of the infantry
of the combined army Corps, two rifled field bat-
teries, and part of the Ziete
n Regiment of Hussars,
weren
of theponthe island ; and, notwithstanding the
fatigues night, harried, in emulation of their
to follow officers' example, up the retreating enemy
to his ships. A brief engagement took place again
oa
ft
theth
Schmidt
e Sude r h a I
Brigade---p-
-rincipally, it is believed,
z' near Horup Haff, in which part
the 4th Westphalian Infantry Regiment No. 58,
took several hundred Prisoners who had been un-
able to reach the Kekenis peninsula, whither the
main body of the enemy had withdrawn. First
Lieutenant Bar, adjutant of Regiment No. 53, a
talented and promising efficer, fell here, shot
through the heart.

terpart of the defeated
reached his ships.
opposite Ballegaard, which
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ns Kebmee kl
snv
et s
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hg
ar
ve ae
had been retained at that position by a simulta-

neous demonstration, are reported to have em
menu
aeraktesda at
Mils,
Niol er, the
up their entrench•
explosion being perceptible at a
great distance. Tile Danes also set fire to Sonder-
tare, after blowing

borg before retreating, thus uselessly destroying the
town, already totally evacuated by the inhabitants.
which first en-
The efforts of the Prussian troops

the conflagra-
d
damage. The
ttieorne, sauncdceedperdevi:ntienxgtingfuuristhhienrg
Danes also set fire to their large camp of huts
near Ulkebul. His Royal Highness Prince

Frederick Charles had already crossed at
Sonderborg towards 8 o'clock, and thence followed

The Ministry of War published the following
telegram from head quarters yesterday:—
June 30, Noon,
Despatches of this morning, sent off at 8 45, an-
nnunce that our troops had withdrawn fighting
from their position beyond Horup Haff. From
this point the enemy did not pursue them farther,
whereupon the division retreated in good order to
Kekenis, so that our troops were beyond the Haff at
noon. At 1.30 this morning the enemy passed
Lysabbel towards Wibey, but at that time the
greater portion of our force had embarked.

The Marine Ministry has published the follow
.ng

" Rolf Krake sustained a severe engagement,
yet without material damage. The steamer Hertha
and the gunboat Willemaes with two gun sloops,
got oat of the Fohrde, in the Alsen Sand, but a gun
sloop and a gun yacht had to be blown up to avoid
tbeir falling into the enemy's hands. The crews
were saved. The Hertha, the Willemaes, and the
two gun sloops landed 1,000 men of the Alsen
garrison at Faaborg, upon the south of Fahnen. A
despatch from Kekenis yesterday states that the
liner Frederick VI. and the depot ship Bellona had
also reached Fuhnen with troops.

The War Ministry publishes the following this
morning :

General Steinman arrived at Faaborg (Fuhnen)
at seven o'clock yesterday evening, He quitted
Osterbury upon Alsen at 2.20 p.m., at which time
the embarkation of the last of the troops and war
material had taken place.

Scene in the House of Commons Last Night.

The opening of the lists for the great parliamen.
tary passage of arms was characterised by all the
material features which denote intense public inte-

rest. The purlieus of the House of Commons were
crowded, as might have been expected, and within
the walls of the privileged chamber the gathering
of members was early and the attendance large.
Ordinary arrangements were set at nought, and in
the gentlemanly scramble for seats the rank and file
on both sides found themselves in strange and re.
mote places, and were abundantly content they had
got any places at all. On this occasion the gallery
on the left hand of the Speaker was the most full,
the point of attraction this time being the front
Opposition bench. At exactly half-past four the
hero of the next three hours entered the house, and
was greeted with a very hearty cheer by his friends.
The first object on which Mr Disraeli's eye could
have fallen was Mr Gladstone, looking remarkably

'resh, and decorated with a rose in his button-hole.

In a short time Lard Palmerston entered, :Ind the
peculiar parliamentary applause was loud and gene-
ral from behind and below the Ministerial benches.
The slight obstruction to the real business of the
evening having been disposed of, Mr Disraeli pre-.
seated himself, and commenced in a remarkably
didactic tone; and for a period counting by more

than an hour and a half confined himself to nar-
rmive, interspersed with but little comment, and
abstaining almost wholly from anything like
aggression. As his manner is he turned from
the Ministerial phalanx, and talked at an
angle to a point somewhere between the last
seat on the front bench below the gang way and the
peers' box on the left of the great door of the housi.
However unconsciously, this position was well
chosen, for after a while, and just when Mr Disraeli
was criticising some of his despatches, Lord Russell
came in and seated himself exactly in the sight-line
of the Speaker. At this time every nook and corner
of the house was full, and conspicuous in a front
seat below the bar was the Poet Laureate, sitting
in close contact with the Duke of Argyll ; while
the gallery over the clock and the passage behind
was overflowing with peers and foreign diploma-

tists, notable amongst whom was the Duke of Cam-
bridge. Seldom if ever has a great member of
Parliament had so full and so attentive an audience
as Mr. Disraeli drew on this occasion ; and probably
there has seldom been a special party speech de-
livered under circumstances of less excitement, or
which elicited so few cheers. Every point which
was made was faithfully caught up by the Opposift
tion ; and, as many of that body were in the gallery
opposite to their leaders, their cheers reverberated
with a sound as if they came from the supporters
of the Government, producing an odd effect. But
in truth the incitement to burst out with spontaneity
was sparse, the humorous invitations to laughter
rare—the most pronounced being when Mr Disraeli,
reading what he designated a pathetic appeal from
the Government to France for aid and co-operation,
as it were put his voice into mourning and whined
out his words, concluding by a mock resort to his
handkerchief. No doubt when the moment of
peroration came, the right hon. gentleman exerted
himself vigoiously, and went in for loud declama.

tion ; but there was effort in this, as there was all
through the speech, and more than an ordinary tone
of that coldness which seems constitutional in Mr.
Disraeli, and which he does not escape from except
when he flings responsibility to the winds, which
was probably by no means his intention on this
moment. During the first three-quarters of this
two hours and three-quarters' oration, Mr Glad-
stone, following a custom with him when Mr Dis-
raeli is speaking, lay back in his seat, with his eyes
closed, and seemed to court a slumber, sugges-
tive of contemptuous inconsideration of what his
opponent was saying, leaving to Mr. Layard to cull
out quotations produced from the Bluebook which
would have to be answered away. It was thus far
a time supposed that the Under. Secretary for Fo-
rsign Affairs was to follow Mr. Disraeli ; but ere
long, despite of his pre-conceived intention, Mr.
Gladstone gave evidence that he was listening at-
tentively, composing assiduously, and even taking
furtive though copious notes. When his turn came
he sprang up with an alacrity which was encourag-
ing to those who preferred to listen to him, to the
restoration which others sought at the critical hour
of half-past seven ; for even the " mighty master"
of debate failed to keep all the assembly, which had
mustered so thickly in every possible spot that could
be occupied. Those who remained were well re-
warded by hearing a speech which, as it was step
by step an answer to that of Mr. Disraeli, was
necessarily an impromptu ; which combined argu-
ment, illustration, humour—more genuine humour
than Mr. Gladstone often developes—sarcasm, high
sentiment, and a boldness in defence which amounted
to indignant and honest defiance; while the closing
sentences rose to a height of eloquence which con-
trasted, with a happy effect, with the sterner and
more practical, but not therefore the less powerful
part of the speech, which was equal, and more, to
the reputation of the speaker. If a speech could
settle the political contest now going on, the debate
might have ended there. As it was, it brought out
cheers from many a lukewarm supporter of the
Government, and concentrated with a certain in-
voluntariness, the sympathies of every member—
save one, perhaps—who were gathered in the rear
and flank of Ministers. The intervention of Mr.