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. SEPTEMBER 11) 1852.
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N°.18,713.] LONDON SATURDAY
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THE ENGLISH, SCOTTISH, and AUSTRA-
Ag CHARTERED BANK.
To be Incorporated by Royal Charter, with limited liability.
Capital 500,0001. sterling, in 25,000 Shares of 20/ each, with power
to increase to 1,000,0001. Deposit 41. per Share.
DIRECTORS.
Win. Ormsby Gore, Esq., M.P., Director of the London Joint Stock
Bank.
James Alexander, Esq., (firm of Redfern and Alexander, Australian
Merchants)
Philip P. Blyth, Esq. (firm of Blyth Brothers, and Co.)
Andrew Caldecott, Esq. (firm of Caldecott, Sons, and Wilicocks)
Charles Johnston, Esq., Chairman of the East London Water Works
Company
Thos. Wm. Laroche, Esq. (firm of Ralph Fenwick, Son, and Laroche,
Australian Merchants)
John Masterman, j un., Esq., London, Banker
Ambrose Moore, Esq., Director of the London Joint Stick Bank
John Sanderson Rigge, Esq. (firm of Sanderson, Fry, Fox, and Co.,
Merchants).

With power to add to their number.
BANKERS IN LONDON.
Messrs. Masterman, Peters, and Co.
The London Joint Stock ',ank.
BANKERS IN SCOTLAND.
The British Linen Company.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Hughes, Kearsey, and Co., London.
Messrs. Hunter, Blair, and Cowan, W.S., Edinburgh.
OFFICIAL AUDITOR.
J. E. Coleman, Esq.
BROKERS.
Messrs. Joshua Hutchinson and Son, London.
Messrs. Sheppard and Sons, London.
Messrs. Allan and Dunlop, Edinburgh.
SECRETARY (FRO TEN.)

John Wilson Pillans, Esq.
The vast tide of emigration whi,th has recently flowed from Eng-
land and Scotland into the Australian colonies, composed of indi-
viduals possessing in the aggregate a large amount of capital ; the
recent discoveries of their great mineral wealth, and the increase of
their agricultural and commercial resources, render the extension of
sound Banking Establishments, under cautious management, a sub-
ject of the greatest importance to the future welfare of those valuable
and rising colonies.
The English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank has been
formed for the purpose of establishing banks of issue and deposit in
the principal towns of Australia; for conducting exchange opera-
tions ; for making advances upon bullion, gold dust, and other un-
doubted securities ; for granting letters of credit upon the different
establishments of the company, and for the transaction of all other
usual banking business in the colonies.
The Directors have the satisfaction of announcing that they have
secured the ca-operation of several influential parties in Scotland,
with a view to place the business of the company upon an extonded
basis.
It is intended that the management of the company's affairs shall
be vested in a London Board, and that the Branch Establishments
in the colonies shall be conducted by properly qualified managers,
assisted by Local Boards. The selection of a Colonial Inspector will
receive the most careful attention of the Directors.
The intercourse between Great Britain and Australia has now be-
come certain and regular, by the establishment of direct steam com-
munication with that country, and the Directors in London will thus
be enabled to exercise an efficient control over the local managers of
the branches to be established in Australia.
The high ra• e of interest obtainable in Australia for advances on
good security, promises a profitable employment for the capital of
the Company whilst the impulse given to commercial undertakings
by the recent gold discoveries, will secure an ample return upon the
various branches of business to be carried on by the Company at its
Local Establishments.
The great field open for this Company's operations may be under-
stood from the fact, that there are only two establishments in
England at present employed in conducting banking affairs with
the important colonies of Victoria and New South Wales, and these
are eminently successful, and are realising large profits for the share-
holders.
It appears from the last printed half-yearly report of the Bank of
New South Wales, dated 21st April, 1852. that the following results
have been realised by that well-conducted establishment.
'1 he Directors state that the profit and loss account will enable
them to declare, not only the usual dividend, at the rate of 10 per
cent, per annum, but an extra dividend, at the rate of 10 per cent.
for the half year, to be applied in aid of the extension of the capital.
In addition to the above the Directors state that they have set
apart 5,0001. to defray the cost of freight and insurance on the ship..
went of coin from England; that they have passed 2,4951. 14e. sd.
to the augmentation of the reserved fund; and have carried the
whole of the present office furniture account, and the balance of pre-
,iminary expenses to profit and loss aceount ; and, after all these ap-
propriations, it appears from the report that the sum of 1,7381. 7s. 7d.
remained to be carried forward to a new account for equalising fu-
ture dividends.
The Directors allude to the unparalleled circumstances in which
the Branch Bank, at Melbourne, has been placed by the gold dis-
coveries in the sister colony, and they recommend the erosion of
2,500 new shares, of 201 each, fir the increase of their capital. They
add that their stock of coin (notwithstanding the great extension of
their exchange business, involving a considerable accumulation of
funds in England), amounted to the large sum of 230,4701. 12s. 6d.,
being more than one-fourth of the whole amount held in the colonies
of New South Wales and Victoria. The Directors state in the report
that having in view the great change in their financial affairs then
in progress, and the duty it appeared to impose upon them of bring-
ing all the resources of the Bank within their immediate control,
they had ordered the shipment to Sydney of upwards of a quarter of
a million sterlinr from this country.
Application has been made for a Royal Charter of Incorporation
to limit the liability of the Shareholders in the English, Scottish, and
Australian Chartered Bank, and the operations of the Company
will be commenced immediately on the charter being obtained. If
the charter be not granted, the deposits will be returned to the sub-
scribers in full.
power will be taken by the deed of settlement to be executed in
compliance with the terms of the charter to increase the capital of
the Company to 1,000,000/. ; and, if the capital be increased, the new
shares to be created will be offered, in the first instance, to the
existing Shareholders, and to such influential parties in the colonies
as may be likely to extend the business of the Bank.
It is considered that the deposit of 4/. per share will enable the
Directors to commence operations in an efficient manner, and on a
scale commensurate with the importance of the undertaking. An
interval of at least three months will intervene between all future
calls, none of which, it is expected, will exceed 21. per share.
Application for Shares may be made, in the form annexed, to the
Secretary (pro tem.), at No. 4, Adam's-court, Old Broad-street,
London; to Messrs. Joshua Hutchinson and Son, 39, Lothbury ;
to Messrs. Sheppard and Sons, No. 28, Threadneedle-street, London;
or to Messrs. Allan and Dunlop, St. Andrew-square, Edinburgh.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered
Bank.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 201. each
in the above undertaking, the whole of which, or any less number
that may be allotted to me, I hereby agree to accept, and when re-
quired, to pay the deposit of 41. per share, and execute the Deed of
Settlement of the Company.
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
Nai{in...... .•• .. • •••• • • •
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POLITICAL BANQUET at NEWCASTLE.
NEWCASTLE UPON-TYNE, THURSDAY. ---
Yesterday
evening from two to three hundred of the nobility, gen-
try, and merchants of this town and neighbourhood met
in the Great Assembly Room here, at a public banquet
given by them to Mr. Wm. Ord, of Whitfield, Northum-
berland, one of the late representatives of this borough,,
"on his retirement from Parliament, as a testimony of
the high esteem entertained for his character, as well es
of approbation of his independent, upright, and con-
sistent conduct as a Member of the House of Commons,
and his unswerving attachment to the cause of civil
and religious liberty, during the long period of half a
century."
The Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Mr. J. Hodg-
son) presided; and was supported on his right and left
by Earl Grey, the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl of Durham,
Mr. W. Ord, Mr. Hutt, M.P., Mr. Headlam,
Bonham Carter, M.P., Mr. Ingham. M.P., Mr.
ALE, Mr.
Blackett, M.P., Mr. Beaumont, M.P., the Hon.
Captain Howard, M P.,Sir Walter Trevelyan, Dr.
Headlam, Captain F. rey, Mr. Alderman Losh, Mr.
J. L. Bell, sheriff of Newcastle, Colonel Beckwith, Mr.
Philip Howard, Mr. G. Ridley, Mr. Bowicke, Mr. Lamb,
and Colonel Bigge. A number of ladies occupied seats
running along each side of the room. The occasion
was interesting from the speeches it elicited from Earl
Grey and the Earl of Carlisle.
The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the toast of the evening,
the health of Mr. Ord, read letters which had been re-
ceived from Lord John Rawl!, the Marquis of Lans-
downe, Sir James Graham, and Lord Pannaure, in
answer to invitations addressed to them to attend the
banquet, who individually expressed their regret at
their inability to be present on the occasion, but bear-
ing, at the same time, one and all of them, their willing
testimony to the public and private worth of Mr.
Ord, and to the steady and unvarying support he had
given to measures of a liberal and progressive tendency
during the long time he had sat in Parliament. He then
traced the history of civil and religious liberty and of
Parliamentary reform in this country, from the out-
break of the first French revolution down to the present
time, identifying with their advancement the services
rendered by Mr. Ord during the fifty years he sat in the
House of Commons.
The toast was drank with acclamation.
Mr. ORD, after thanking the company for the compli•
pay him, said it was true
that for half a century he had had the honour of a
seat in Parliament, and that during that long
period measures of the greatest irnportaace to the
meat they had been pleased to
happiness and prosperity of the potpie and to
the general good government of the country had
met with the sanction of the Legislature; and if he bad
contributed in the humblest way to the progress of those
measures he owed it entirely to having attached himself
in early life to that party and those men whose constant
and steady perseverance in the good cause had resulted
in such signal success. When he considered the perse-
vering opposition by which one and all of those mea-
sures were resisted by a great and powerful party in the
country, and when he looked back to the prospect which
Reformers had before them fifty years ago, he owned he
telt quite as much surprise as satisfaction at what had
been accomplished in that interval. The Hon. Gentle-
man then, in some detail, reviewed the progress of
civil, religious, and commercial freedom during his poli-
twichailchlitfhee especially
laws
on the ameliorations
undergone in his remem-
brance; adding that, notwithstanding the advances that
had been made in these respects, and the predictions
made at one time by a party in the country, that the
Throne and the House of Lords would be thereby en-
dangered, the crown now rested as safely on the bead of
her present Majesty as ever it did on the brow of any
of her royal predecessors; and their Lordships sat as
securely on their scarlet benches as at any previous
period of our history.—(Cheers.)
Earl GREY, in responding to the toast of his health,
proposed by Dr. Headlam, said—Gentlemen, I am alto-
gether at a loss adequately to express the gratitude I
feel to my worthy friend Dr. Headlam for the flatter-
ing terms in which he has proposed, and to you for
the kind manner in which you have received, the toast
which you have just heard. I feel it to be no small ho-
nour to have this signal compliment paid to me by such a
company as that which I now see around me, and which
has been drawn together on this most interesting occa-
sion to pay to Mr. Ord a tribute of
respect and esteem
to which ho is so well entitled.---(Cheers.) I assure you I
feel much gratified in having been permitted to join with
you in paying this tribute; and there is only one draw-
back to the gratification I feel—namely, that we are
met to pay this tribute to Mr. Ord upon the occasion of
his ceasing to be a representative of Newcastle. I
lament that his connexion with you as your representa-
tive, which has lasted so long with equal honour to him
and to yourselves, is now brought to a termination.
But it has been brought to a termination in a
manner as honourable as that in which the
connexion itself was formed. Mr. Ord having re-
signed from a just sense of public duty a situation the
duties of which ho felt ho could no longer adequately
perform. Gentlemen, lam indeed most happy to have
this opportunity of meeting him and you upon this occa-
sion. I cannot help remembering that both from Mr.
Ord and from many whom I see around me I have
from the very commencement of my political life
experienced, both in public end in private, kindnesses
wnicn 1 must indeed be insensible to forget. I cannot but
remember that at the very outset of my political life I
made in this very room almost my first appearance at a
dinner given to me on the occasion of that very contest
to which Dr. Headlam has just referred And that on that
occasion, as subsequently, I received from Mr. Ord the
greatest kindness and the most useful services, and
not only kindness, not only
e the most handsome sup•
port, bat I received—what is more rare to receive—much
more excellent and moat judicious advice, which I will
not hesitate now to say, I deeply deplore was not quite
on every occasion followed. Mr. Ord has told you, and
I think it was a just observation, that this is a meeting
of higher importance than the mere gratification of per-
sonal feelings. He has said it was an occasion on
which those who have for many years supported
certain opinions on many of the most important
questions on which men's opinions and minds_ can
be divided, are met together to declare in
those
the face of the public their adherence to .
opinions, and their settled and deliberate conviction,
that that by them they have promoted the public good
o
country.—(Loud cheers.) Mr, Ord has
said that he
has followed consistently the party whoa eli -
ted opi-
nions which he sincerely believed to be right; but we
must also add that Mr. Ord not only adopted the opi-
nions of that party; though it is the fashion to say that
party
party spirit deadens men's sense of what is right, I think
Mr. Ord is a proof of the reverse, for throughout his
long career,
while there was no more steady partyal"
than Mr. Ord, there never lived a man who throughoutr
has shown that be eye
•-5 actuated by no personal
personal
selfish feelings. He never had, I believe, a perso
otject in any act of his public conduct, but throughoutpublic
he looked to the public good, and to thegood
e allowed,
alone.—(Cheers.) New I think that
undue are
rvaunting of
without any undue ostentation or any
ourselves, to look back at the times that are gone
to see what has been the result of maintaining those opi-
nions which we have ever professed.
Mn o
da s that are
chairman have told you something o.c
thdeifficuylties which
gone by, and pointed out to you the
conviction of re-
turmerly beset those who adopted the -
let we ask, is there
form and general improvement. Now
not in the present state of this great country some
proof that the opinions which
they
supported, and
were not lightly
the measures which they advocated,
e odha T. r s
or injudiciously taken up?.....(CeeerS.,
told you, and told you must justly, that in times which
even I can remember to a certain extent, every, even
to,
a
y
the smallest, reiorm was objected
1 that fur
it eman
ndane
years successfully resisted, on the
pans he has asked
gered the stability of the Throne
firmly on the brow
you whether the Crown sits less
cheering.) I will
of our gracious Queen.—(Great
go
back to those
go somewhat further. I will not _
f th Fench disastrous times times at the beginning
cir
ferrae d;r I will not
lotion to which the chairman bas -e r, when it was na-
even look back to the time of the
was
great deal from
tural that the country should suffereet I will look back to
the conseences of that war; but I
are a good
the first few years after the "r*
d enough to remember
many in this town who are °,,.1 filled by myself, of
who held the office now unw"" ynd when that noble-
lord-lieutenant of this countnYitabe House of Lords,
roan declared in his place
ibetween the Tyne and the
that there were 100,000 men .
insurrection
agai
spension of the
Government. We remember, d
gerous spirit of insubor-
Habeas Corpus Act, and the an
know also in those days
We
dination which prevailed.
how much distress prevailed throughout the country,
ovulation was grievously suf.
and how frequently the h'el country was oppressed
fering—hoer much the $c °different a state of things
with taxation, and how very.si of that what do w© see
Instead
read to take up arms in
was that from now. met
res
now? Instead of 100,000
8 that between the Tyne and
insurrection, I firmly beleivuevry other part of the country,
the Wear, as between 'Le if his services are really
ee,
there is not one man, Wiveg
them, not to pull down the
wanted, is not ready to
-0f the country, but to maintain
throne or the institutions 0
sys see around us in every
them.—(
the indication Loud cheers.)
direction
only complaint
progress and improvement;
so much so that the I now hear in the
,ais
'v
really not hands enough to
country is, that there are
tions. Now, to what are wo
carry on agricultural P
Qe? No doubt, in the first
to attribute this great humbly
to acknowledge with the
place, it becomes ,
us
debt we owe to Providence in cast-
deepest gratitude the !
times. But all the purposes
Mg our lot in these happy out by secular means, and
of Providence are
workedwhich have brought this country to
among those meati
d condition we must reckon those great
measures
its presentw imphich rove
have been referred to. It is because
es of the people have been redreseed
the political grievanie
w°
against Roman Catholics and
—that the penal a
reealed; it is because by that
Dissenters have been
.c_,
e h after so severe a struggle, was ul-
great measure, which,
mean the Reform Bill—(Cheers)—
timately carried—I
never, professing to be a perfect measure,
which, though
no man can deny has placed in
yet is a measure whichthe hands of the people of England the real power of
deciding on their own
laws and their own government.
Imperfect
it may be called, but no man
can doubt that since
—(Cheers.) Impertthe
Reform Bill passed the House of
•
Commons is DOW what it never was before—an m '
etru-

meat which answers to the really expressed opinion of
the intelligence of the country.—(Renewed cheers.) No
measure which is now demanded by the majority of in-
telligent and educated men can be long refuse,l. and no
rnt!asure which they object to has a chance of being car-
riecl.—(Tremendous cheers.) By that retorm Parha-
ment has the means of accomplishing the (rids to which
it is directed. There have been other reforms still more
directed to improving the condition of the paoPle,
ana
among them are certainly none of more importance than
those commercial reforms to which Dr. Headlam has
referred. And in adverting to them I cannot bat re-
mind you that Mr. Ord was ono Of the very earliest of
those who advocated sound opinions on this surject.
well remember that in the very first .ession that I had
the honour of a seat in the House of Commons I had the
plea,ure of voting with Mr. Ord, and also with Lord
Carlkle, in a minority which I believe did not num-
ber more than 16 or 17 to some 200 or 300 against the
principle of the now defunct sliding scale.—(Cheers.)
When we look back to the past we cannot but remem-
ber, as Mr. Ord has justly said, that all those measures
which have proved to be so beneficial, which have turned
out by positive experience not to be of that dangerous
character which was imputed to them—that no one of
them was carried without a long and protracted struggle,
in which Mr. Ord always bore an honourable part.—
(Cheers.) Having had the pleasure of sitting so long
with him in the House of Commons, I cannot help
saying that among the members of that House there
was none whose opinion carried with it greater weight
and influence with his colleagues than that of Mr. Ord.

--(Cheers.) I have now a very fow words to say, and
these are rather of the town of Newcastle. I think that
town is honourably distinguished from many other
places by the manner in which it has appreciated the
services of Mr. Ord, and in which it returned him
to Parliament on the strictest nrinciples of purity of
election. The town of Newcastle has indeed always been
distinguished for its devotion to civil, religious, and com-
mercial liberty—(Cheers)—and though you have lost
the services of Mr. Ord, I rejoice that you have still two
Members of the same opinions; and I cannot better con-
clude what I have now to say than by giving " Pros-
sperity to the town of Newcastle, may it long continue
to send Members to Parliament worthy to succeed Mr.
Ord, and to maintain its character by supporting those
principles which we this day commemorate."—(Cheers.)
The Earl of CARLISLE, in acknowledging the toast of
" Lord John Russell and the members of the late Ad-
migistration," given by Mr. Alderman Losh, said—Mr.
Mayor and gentlemen, as my Noble Friend and kite col-
league has already addressed you, and as I have had
the very high hoaour of having my name coupled with
the toast, it devolves upon me to return thanks to you
for the manner in which you have been pleased to re-
ceive it.—(Cheers.) And though, perhaps, I should
not now be warranted in returning thanks for her Ma-
jesty's late Administration in a corporate capacity, and
though they are probably scattered over every corner of
the land—(A laugh)—yet, all scatterred though they be, I
can answer for every member of that Government,
beginning with its distinguished chief, Lord John Rus-
sell, whose letter we have heard read to-night—(Cheers)
_that they all as one man thoroughly sympathise with
the purposes of this meeting, and will cordially appre-
ciate the honour which has been done to them collec-
tively in connexion with it.—(Cheers.) Indeed, I may
say, that both as a member of the late Government, and
in my own individual capacity, I feel it a singular grati-
fication to have had the opportunity of being present on
this occasion. The excellent and appropriate remarks
of your worthy chief magistrate, as well as the very able
speeches of those who have followed him, have all but
exhausted what belongs to the purport of our meeting,
and, with respect to Mr. Ord, would have left me little,
indeed nothing to say, if I did not remember that, as
connected with the ancient borough of Morpeth, and
appearing here as one of its ex-representatives—
(Chvers)—ancl being able, as I am glad to ate, to
speak on behalf of others who are here likewise pre-
sent, we may at Morpeth appropriate some share of
interest in Mr. Ord—(Cheers)—for it was as his col-
league, as Member for Merpoth, that I began my
own political life.—(Cheers.) After the passing of
the Reform Bill, as we have already heard, he was
transferred to a larger and busier constituency, that of
this ancient and famous capital—(Cheers)—and if he
had still been bent upon promotion—if he had not con-
sulted his own nice susceptible delicacy rather than the
wishes of others—l am not sure even whether a niche
might not have been found for him even in the county of
Northumberland.—(Cheers.) But I wish, gentlemen, to
mention but two points more without engrossing too
much of the time which I feel ought not to be substract-
ed from the main purpose and the chief hero of the
present meeting. The first point is, what are the quali-
ties which in a community and in a country like this
appear best calculated to ensure abiding and permanent
regard? lam sure that Mr. Ord would be the first to
reprove us if we grounded any main portion of the sin-
cere approval with which we regard his long political
career on the frequency of his own oratorical displays.
Speak well and speak sensibly, and to the point, you must
know from experience, no less than from what we have
heard to-night, he could always do Nevertheless, ne
did not err on the side of over-redundancy in his ora-
torical exertions, and if we couple this fact with the cir-
cumstances and the composition of the present meeting,
could we have a better proof that the good will and appro-
' bation which we should most desire to attain du not
attach themselves so surely to the fleeting glare of more
display, or to the showy arts which sometimes captivate
unthinking multitudes, as to the more steady, sober qua-
lities of plain good sense brought to bear on subjects of
high public moment, and exercised with undeviating
consistency and unassailable integrity.—(Cheers.) The
only other point I would mention connects itself more
immediately with the toast you have just heard adopted.
I think we may view in Mr. Ord a model and an expo-
nent of sound, good Whig principles--(Cheers)—and
they are the same principles of which the late Adminis-
tration made it their constant boast to be the represen-
tatives.—(Renewed cheers.) How far they succeeded
—how far they always pleased everybody, a more
difficult matter—is another question. Bat this I will
say for them, as I most sincerely believe it, that on
all main, essential points, they were true to their own
honest convictions, and that they maintained that
extendsll , gentlemen,
over
a considerable
principle of commercial freedom which they re-
ceived from their illustrious predecessor, not only with-
out suffering it to recede, but showing that it could
advance and make progress in their keeping.—(Loud
cheers.) Well,
experience,thoug h no t
which no
over so long a period quite as that of Mr. Ord, I have
in my
nsid own
nable politicaltim e,
heard it often said, and he must have heard it still
of tener, and said, too, with much positiveness and con-
fidence, that the Whigs, as a political party, were ex-
tinguished, annihilated, done for, smashed—(Great
laughter)—and that Whiggism, as a political creed, was
repudiated, spit upon, dead, and buried.—(Laughter.)
All I can say, if this is true, is, that I have seen mar-
vellous instance of political resurrection and political re-
juvenescence.—(Cheers and laughter.) Nay, more, even
now, when the Whig leaders, the subject of your late
toast, have been removed from office, when we are en-
during the sway of a Tory and Protectionist, and, per-
haps, more in will than in power, a reactionary Admi-
nistration—(A laugh)—l feel convinced in my own mind
that the old Whig principle is still full of youthful sap
and vigour, and that, like the oak on Mount Algidos,
it will continue to gather resources and vigour
from each descending stroke.—(Loud cheers.) The
party may be out of place, their chieftains may be
out of power, they may no longer be on the sunny
side of the street, if men choose to think it so—(A laugh)
—but I do feel in my own mind assured that their opi-
nions and principles will still pervade the conduct of
public affairs, marshalling the march of Imperial Go-
vernment.—(Tremendous cheering.) I say this, not I
trust from any bias or blindness with respect to their
claims on their countrymen, but because I believe the
opinions and principles they express to be moving in a
middle course between opposite extremes, fenced in on
the one side by respect to property, by the sovereignty
of the national law, by the supremacy of the universal
Gospel—(Cheers)—and guarded on the other side to the
greatest extent by the privilege and the widest commu-
nity of enjoyment which can be conceded to all alike,
consistently with those pro-eminent obligations.—(Loud
cheers.) I have, gentlemen, on this occasion to add that
to-night has shown that by the light of those principles
a man can guide his public course consistently and
honourably for upwards of half a century, and to-night
has also shown that the public approval will cordially
recognise and appreciate the honoured close of such a
career as that which we now ratify.—(Loud cheers.)

Mr. J. L. BELL gave " The health and future happ)

of my
he advocated
my father, and
ness of the Right Hon. the Earl of Durham.. .
The Earl of DUAISAN, who was received with the
most enthusiastic plaudits, said—Gentlemen, I beg to
cthorfekr ryeeduofnormtehein vderriynklngdemseyrvbeedalhoo,noaunrd
mu
r. have
l
especially for the mention he
.has been pleased to make
of my father. At the same time I wish. to express the
great pleasure I feel in having had this opportunity of
pl
liberal
r ato l anpr i friendnoolidplea
wh
during his life.—(Load cheers.) After the able speeches
you have already. beard, I will not detain you any
showingal also to mt
those sree s
longer, except again to thank you for your very kind at-
tention to me.—(Cheers.)
Several other toasts appropriate to the occasion were
drunk and responded to, and the Company separated
shortly after ten o'clock.

THE PEEL STATUE AT BURY.—The inhabitanes
,
of Bury have raised to the memory of the late Sir Robert
Peel a statue in bronze at a cost of 2 500/., which
uncovered and was publicly inaugurated on Wednesday
The The site on which it is erected is the market squar; iio2„the
centre of the town, and almost immediately in fronthami the
centre ber
parish church. A large company assembled ,Itis said to
Hall, about half a mile distant, the house
whic—w the resi-
be that in which Sir Robert was born. It is nr°incipat gen-
tlemen of Mr. Edmund Hardman. Among tie,
-Iv v Pso, and the
tlemen present were Mr. Frederick Peel,
il I;awrence Peel,
Very Rev. the Dean of Worcester and 1% r•_.
W Brown, MY.,
brothers of the lamented statesman;
aMtrnumber of the local
Mr. Wilson Patten, M.P., and a gl,eury. There were also
gentry and leading inhabitants of .:
a lodge of Freemasons present,
Fellows. Several speeches were
The telegraphic
the rate of exchange had bine
quotationsfrom several lodges of Odd
delivered upon the occasion.
come less
tation being 11 40. From Amsterdam
of docks.
higher for almost all "lc P Vienna show that
was first
unfavourable, the quo-
Amsterdam they are Slightly

PIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
TIMES.—It is a fearful, but at the same time an en-
couraging reflection, that the destiny of a nation is left
by the order of Providence in a great measure in its own
hands. It' it is to fall, its own vices and weaknesses
are selected as the means of punishment; if to rise. its
virtues are the winge to bear it Lauft and enable it to
tulfil ,its glorious destiny, There is but one Power
which is
able to conciliate the apparent contradiction of
individual free mill and Providential direction, aud into
the hand of that Power the destinies of nations are com-
mitted. I Poland be divided and annihilated, her own
divisions gave the signal to the:spoiler and suggested the
partition under which she fell. If Italy groans under a
grievous and degrading yoke, it is because she omitted
to cultivate the manly virtues which make men free and
valiant, and abandoned herself to the miserable discord
and jealousy which have placed 24 millions of Italians
at the feet of 100,000 strangers; and Ireland, whose
orators and writerr, whose clergy and laity, rack their
ingenuity in perpetually devising new solutions of the
problem presented by her misery and poverty,—is
not Ireland more manilestly than any other country
in the world the author of her own misfortunes, the
architect of her own ruin ? To men familiar with the
vast exuberance of capital in this country it must ap-
pear almost iacredible that so small a portion of our su-
perabundance finds its way across the Channel. While
the smallest and most uncertain gains among nations of
the most doubtful faith and unetab'e independence are
eagerly sought for by British capital, it is an undeniable
feet that there are very few countries in the world which
have not received more of the overflow of British pros
perity than Ireland. While we have lent 150,000,000/.
to the faithless Government of Spain, have covered with
roads and railways the repudiating States of North
m erica, are deep in the mysteries of Mexican finance,
and profound in the secrets of Peruvian and Chilian
and
bonds,we pass by a beautiful and fertile island close at
our doors,
and leave its resources undeveloped by the
capital wo so lavishly squander elsewhere. The reason
is only too clear; __we have to deal with a nation of
homicides, a nation
innocent blood, but el
whose feet are swift to shed
rgod lingering when call
and lose without muchreignriagty%,as may lose else-
where,for the gains of
l
one place compensate for the oases of another ; but a
man's life is a venture which cannot be apportioned or '
divided; he sets it all on one cast when he runs into
danger, and nowhere does that danger meet him in so
fearful and repulsive a form as inlreland. Men will for
a very small reward, or even for sport, face the open
dangers of the field; but to see in every wall a fortress
pp an ambuscade,
ice
for the lurking assassin, in every co
in every peasant a murderer or an
ote by no
accomplice, and to
know that from these things you are cted
innocence of life, by no courtesy of prdemeanour,
of the
the
sacrifice,
liberality, by no justice, by no mercy,
by nobyno
by no popularity, and that these endearing qualities
attract the blow by ;rendering the vengeance oal
secret tribunal more signal and more inscrutable,
is a trial
which shakes the nerves of the boldest, and renders m
ready to brave anything anywhere rather than wither;
under the feverish and agonizing anxieties of a life in the
disturbed districts of Ireland. The abstinence from
murder is the first condition of the re-organization of
Irish society. It is not much we ask, but little as it is,
it cannot be granted. The priests continue to stir up
the fierce passions of the peasantry, the peasantry unite
in a vast conspiracy against those on whose capital they
depend for bread, and, when they slay those who feed
them, they wonder that they are fed no more. The
prophets prophecy falsely, and the people love to have
it so; and therefore to prophets and to people no other
refuge is left, save to fly from a land which they drag
down with them by their follies and their crimes. Tho
recent murder of Mr. O'Callaghan Ryan, which has
suggested these remarks, seems to have been an orainary
affair, neither rising much above nor sinking much be-
low the usual level of Irish agrarian atrocity. The un-
fortunate gentleman was, as appears very usual on these
occasions, a person of popular manners, much kindness
of heart, and held in high and well-deserved estima-
tion. Such a victim was peculiarly calculated to strike
terror. The cause also was, as usual, the determination
to retain possession of land. Mr. Ryan had been on a
visit of conciliation to some troublesome tenants, against
whom he was unwilling to proceed to extremities. On
his return he suddenly received a shot in his side, fell
from his horse, was dragged off the road, and had his
skull literally beaten to pieces by the assassins with large
stones and a hatchet. Two men are in custody on sus-
picion. The tragedy is so trite, the details so ordinary
and well understood, that we almost owe our readers an
apology for dwelling on the well-known and universally
recognised features of Irish crime. Whether it be Mr.
Bateson, Mr. Mauleverer, or Mr, Ryan, the details are
almost identical, and no harder task could be devised for
the m-mory than retaining distinctly for any consider-
able time the details of several Irish murders. It
is exactly this which is so awful and so hopeless. In
other lands murder is the result of individual tempera-
ment. A monster arises,—a Rush, or a Manning, an
Elisabide or a Papavoine,—marked out by strong and
sharply defined peculiarities from the rest of the human
race, and dips his hand in innocent blood; but in Ireland
murder is a pursuit, a habit, almost an institution. A
book of practice describing the action of ejectment would
hardly be perfect which did not note the particular
period at which the suit is most frequently abated by the
murder of the lessor of the plaintiff. While the one is
preparing his case the other is loading his blunderbuss,
and the issue is removed from the courts of law to the
lonely coppice, the secluded by-path, or the deserted
stone quarry. So long as these things continue—and
there is no prospect that they will speedily come to an
end—so long as the priests shall testify their sympathy
if not their open approbation of deeds such as these,
philanthropy may preach and Parliament may legis-
late, but Ireland will remain a field of blood,
a land to be avoided by all those whom imperious
necessity has not chained to her blighted soil. The
crimes of the nation most justly become its punishment;
it makes a common cause with the murderer, and ven-
geance does not fall on the murderer alone, but is shared
by the whole land which he contaminates by his crime.
It is a scourge wielded by their own bloody hand, which
is driving this people forth to expiate in eternal exile
the crimes and the sympathy with Grim© that tors from
their shores all who would aid or relieve them. It is
left to them to execute vengeance on themeelves, and
they are doing it completely. Until this curie be rooted
out there is no solid prosperity for Ireland. Gleams of
hope there may occasionally be—for who can help hoping
for the future of a country so richly endowed by nature?
—but solid prosperity there can be none till a man feels
that his life as well as his money will be safe on Irish
ground. All that a man has will he give in exchange
for his life, and little will broad estates or well-paid
rentrolls avail him if his steps are dogged by murder
and his thoughts disturbed by the reasonable apprehen-
sion of sudden and violent death.

THE INDIA CHARTER ACT.
The Select Committee of the House of Lords on the
India Charter Act of 1834 have reported the evidence
which was laid before them. The period allotted to the
inquiry was evidently insufficient to enable the Commit-
tee to master the whole question submitted to them; and,
for the present, `• they confine themselves to the obser-
vation that the general tendency of the evidence is fa-
vourable to the present system of administering the
affairs of India." This conclusion probably refers to the
Homo establishment, and to its relations with the pro-
vincial Government, rather than to the existing distribu-
tion of duties among the local authorities; for it does not
appear that either the financial or the military system of
preliminary
India has yet received any detailed consideration. We
understand the Committee only to express a nary
opinion that the division of power between the Board of
Directors and the Commissioners for the fairs
s for
of India
ought to be maintained, in preference to an
y scheme
immediate
bringing our Eastern empire under the
more
control of the Crown and of Parliament. Mr. Mill urges,
with great force, the necessity g some means of
of providing
antagonistic discussion in dealing with
country which has no legal organ of publitche opinion. affairs
should think," says that able
" that the effect of carrying and experienced witness,
India like that of the colonies, on the Government cf
of State, would be the by means of a Secretary
most complete despotism that
could possibly ethxeisthinibta country like this." And whoa
we remember ory
English or European
manner in which they of the colonies, with their
rpulations, and the arbitrary
absence of representative be
ave always been governiateaninatthe
easy to form a different concilnasstiiotumtions, it wi..
One member of the Committee,ot)eheotsviteover!rw
g Mill's it is is not difficult to conjecture,
trine, with singular simplicity—"j Howhose name
the onittrobleoaf
despotism, when Parliament would b? 1" iteere indeed?
the conduct of the Secretary of could
—except that both Houses wouldStatceertainly indifferent
to the subject, and probably gbneorant of it, whilst
qi ()talon would almost
their votes on any P
infallibly be determineddis_utebtly
ap-uolitical considerations.
-,,,a ex-Minister might
An experienced P
aieicciraentaries of State have, not
have reflected that
0 trol of Parliament. It is true that
unfrequently,
the cdinscussion, and even of possible cent
the fear of publioinent,
might form a check on great
sure and impseaar ethat,
in some cases, a Ministerial Act
delincitieentt9l4arted or reversed by the House of Com-
-
mi-,,ht hlitit these securities, such as they are, already
mons. fullest extent. The Board of Control is
exist to the
to the Crown and to Parliament for every
answerable
111001113 of Indian administration. The House of Com-
mons
had the satisfaction of learning, during the pro-
gress of the Affghan war, that the causes of that inex-
plicable invasion could not safely be published; and after
the disasters of Cabul had been incurred and repaired,
Parliament acquiesced with readiness in the assurance
that it was useless to re-open transactions which were
finally concluded. That ill-omened undertaking un-
doubtedly showed that tho Indian Government is liable
to grievous errors; but the inference to be deduced from
it is not that the Cabinet is unduly controlled by the
Board in Leadenhall street. The directors
would
never have originated the war, and, according to their
constitution, they had no power to prevent it,
under a legal obligation to transmit to Indiaßeing
dispatches forwarded to them by the
Board all
of Control,
the Chairman and his colleagues can only remonstrate
against any unfit exercise of the superior
t,
On one occasion only they resolved o force the Com-
missioners to move fora mandamus to enforce an order

which they 4. onsidered unjust. 'fbe BJarti of Control
judiciously geve way, never than force the dispute to
extremity; teat it is stated that some of the directors were
prepared. not only to teenit the inevitable issue of the
mandamus, hut to abide the consequences of disobeying
irr, by pin g to prison in prefereece :o signing the dis-
patch. N:. moral or political objection to obedience
will avail Clem; but if an order issued by the Board of
Control appears to be illegal, the eirectors aro autho-
rised to h ave the question determined by drawing up a
special eat:. 1 for the decision of the Court of Queen's
Bench. T his power, however, has never yet been exer-
cised; and in practice an amicable understanding exists
between the 1 representative of the Crown and the Court
of Directorra. The higher authority of the President of
the Board is fully compenewed by
the superior infor-
mation whi ch is necessarily possessed by the permanent
officials or the India "louse.
Mr. Melv ilea vvidenae, as well as that of Mr. Mill,
shows the ileaccuracy of Lerd Derby's statement—sue-
ported though it was by Lord Erleebereugh—that the
Directors have in reality
no political power. Thee who
write and forward dispatches must h,vo sumo inn ience
over the pcNey to which they give iff:q.:t, ever, teough
an indepwn,leut function,ry may p,,s+ess a vk to on all
their proceedings. With reepeet to the practical work-
ing of the e.resent system, there is no eeeoseity for rely-
ing on conjecture. The Secretary to the CCUJIMUY fully
explains the method in which the public busietess is con-
ducted. All dispatches from ludie ore address td in du-
plicate to the Court and to the Board: but the ie;rectors
have the initiative of dispatches which are sent from
home. These documents must, ac;:urciing to law;. be
submitted within fourteen drys for the approbation of
the Board; but the practice is for the drafts of all kat—
portant documents to be forwarded by the Chairman to'
the President of the Board, as " previous communica-
tions"—or, in the language of the office, as " P. C. dis-
patches." The Commissioners, if they think fit, alter
the draft, and the Chairman either adopts or declines
the alteration before submitting the dispatch for the ap-
proval of the Court. The subsequent official reference
to the Board becomes, therefore, in most cases, ft matter
of form; but, if a difference of opinion should still exist,
the decision of the Commissioners
.is, after cer-
tain specified delays, conclusive. Mr. Mervill says:—" I
have ascertained that, of the P. C. drafts, more than
half arcs returned unaltered; and a very large proportion
of the remainder is returned with alterations gf nerally
only verbal, or with corrections of facts and figures.. .
Of the drafts which go out cf the state of P. C. into that of
official communications, 5 per cent, is the proportion of
those in which any alteration takes place at the Board.'"
The abolition, in 1834, of the commercial functions of
the Company, has, among other consequences, concen-
trated the attention of the directors on financial and
political questions, and increased the preponderance of
those members of the Court who possess a personal
knowledge of ledia. Between 1814 and 1834, twenty-six
directors were elected, seven of whom ha i not been
previously resident in the East. Since 1834, there have
been twenty-one directors elected, only one of whom
had not formerly resided in India. As might na-
turally have been expected, individual directors
take a more active part in the general busi•
ness of the Court than they did prior to
that year ; but the member of the Committee
who seems least disposed to acquiesce in the
present Indian constitution, fails to extract from the
witnesses any admission that the power of the Chairs
is inconveniently affected by the change. Mr. Meivill
considers that the working of the Court is greatly im-
proved; and it is stated that a general indisposition exists
to oppose the Chairs unnecessarily. " Is there not,"
Mr. Mill is asked, " a great practical alteration in the
system of government?" "I do not think it is a great
practical alteration." he discreetly replies; " it is some
practical alteration." " But," his interrogator proceeds,
" we have now to consider whether it is expedient to
retain a Government very different from that which
existed in 1834?" " I should not say very different," is
the reply; "in some degree it is different.' A change
which simply consists in the increased efficiency of a
piece of constitutional machinery can scarcely be consi-
dered a revolution.
It is satisfactory to find that the
Government of India is not
supposed to form the Home
not
body which is popularly
mere convenient fiction. .as Lord Derby supposed, a
tic or European politics harivreonabtel
Except in (pos where
thedomes-
tic
aßroda rf eln r onir
aCi otnhtarnolt
that
ts interfered, the authority of
of the Court of Directors.--
y been far more nomi-
nal Chronicle.

THE SHEFFIELD MURDER.
raY atternoon,
The inquest was resumed on Tntisd
in the sessions-room, at the Town-hall, which was
greatly crowded with spectators. The deputy-
coroner, after calling over the names of the jury, in-
formed them that the police had obtained evidence
tracing the prisoner and the deceased within a short
distance of the field where the latter was afterwards
found murdered. He believed the evidence would
show that midway in the interval between the pri-
soner leaving Naylor's with the deceased, at two
o'clock on Thursday, and the prisoner calling at this
Royal Standard, a little after four o'clock, and leav-
ing the pack of the deceased, the two were seen walk-
ing along the footpath of the field adjoining that in
which the murder was committed.

At the conclusion of the voluminous evidence,
bearing out the deputy-coroner's assertion, address-
ing the prisoner, he said—You have heard all the
evidence given by the witnesses. Would you wish
me to read it over again to you. Prisoner—No.
The DEPUTY-CORONER—As we have heard in your
presence all the evidence to be adduced, it is now my
duty to inform you that I am ready to hear any vo-
luntary statement you may please to make in refer-
ence to the object of this inquiry. You are not bound
to say anything; and whatever you may say will be
taken down, and will be used for or against you on
your trial.
The prisoner, in a firm voice and repeating the
words dictated by his solicitor, said—l am not guilty
of this supposed murder; and, if sent for trial, I re-
serve my defence to the charge.
The prisoner signed his name to the statement
" James Barbour," though throughout the proceed-
ings the name had been treated as Barber.
The DEPITTINCORONER then addressed the jury,
laying before them a clear and concise summary of
the evidence.

The jury retired, and after an absence of 20
minutes returned into court with the following ver-
dict :—" We unanimously agree in a verdict of
Wilful Murder against James Barber." Mr. Renton,
one of the jury, added that they thought it their duty,
before separating, to thank Mr. Raynor, and the
officers under him, for their indefatigable exertions in
this melancholy case.
The Coroner at once made out his warrant for the
prisoner's committal to York Castle. MiCormack,
who had been admitted as a witness, was brought up
in custody, and after signing his deposition, was in-
formed that he would be detained in custody until the
magistrates could consult as to the means to be taken
to secure his attendance on the trial.

FATAL ACCIDENT on the MANCHESTER.
SHEFFIELD, and LINCOLN RAILWAY.
We regret to learn that an accident happened on
Wednesday night to the 9.10 Great Northern train
from Sheffield, near the Woodhouse junction. The
_
line passes on a high embankment,
Dore House (the residence of Mr. T. Smith,
oiunaii•).
near Handsworth. It was a short train
ill of two
breakP
senger carriages, a luggage van, and -
guard'sbesides the
van. There were only six passenge7i
the grounds _f ",
driver, the stoker, and guard. Through
as yet unexplained, the train got
theoff the line,.
somaencdautshee,
embankment on
engine and tender went down
the right side, while the carriages, luggage
van, and guard's break we
down on the
other. The guard was killed on the spot.
cnatrriages, luggage
van, and guard's break "
the fire-box of the
The driver
that he was
lay horribly roasting.
engine
t stoker r hisw
immediatelyhri
De the
cHaot eud incapable
et:a es mnodsf e
beggedlve s'o
a v i o
glefortunatelyngth the
escapedpassengers
eenxgtreri:
ous injuries. and
awldi tebd there
s nd
tl
Tw for assistance and lights. Mr.
of them made their way to Dora
aslefesgolgi's cm
Smithaccompanied them, getting fur-
ther nearestnesigmhibtheufro,uMndr.thlllatbtbheerstlareoina.
a small viaduct in the embankment,
fields, when it had got off the line,
impossible,driver
hado n
jrateii
leadingascitcto certain .
cleared.
and lay as we have described. Ittowhaesipqtuhiteepoor
be lay with the fire upon his legs in a state of
makes it surprising that life could con-
atinlldmuch further help arrived, .
agony, which .
con-
tinue. On the other side the luggage van lay on the
flat at the bottom of the embankment, smashed, and
its contents, consisting of files, scissors, teapots, white
lead, and other articles, scattered in all directions.
Next it, going up the embankment, were the first class
carriage, the second class, and lastly the guard's van,
between which and the second carriage was found the
guard crushed and lifeless. It seemed that he had
been caught between the carriages in slipping out of
his compartment, and was killed instantly. Mr.
Smith sent for other assistance, and among the rest
for that of Mr. Ball, surgeon,
of Handsworth ; and
knowing that the time was approaching for the ar-
rival of the express train due at 10.30, he went down
the line with a red light to meet it. Having stopped
that train he took one of his red lights
and went
still further to prevent any other train from coming
to the scene of the disaster. He also took theht
repre-
caution of sending the stoker, then somewhat re-
covered from the shock, towards Sheffield,
oo.ngyelusly.
goods train which might chance to e_rgomi
Darnl
ward. After a time further aid arrived dui
and from Sheffield, but still there was
raising the engine off the poora
last extricated by digginghtoinitheo chance of
and he was at
driver,the ground beneath
passengers were refreshed
themmodated for the night at
pAolelrtmheena,id
andth at couldawbe given was afforded
blianAdirsw. Smith,orth. and accommodated

ARISTOCRATIC DIGGERS.—A member of the Legis-
lative Council of Victoria was seen a few days ago retailing
apples at the diggings. Another gentleman, well known in
South Australia as an old colonist, hospitable country gentle-
man, and is now wending his way on foot to the
same centre of attraction, his outer man clad in a blue shirt,
and carrying a heavy " awag,"—Austra/ian and New Zealand
Gazette.
The Duke of Hamilton has, it is stated, left the
bulk of his personal property—
amounting, it is acid, to
Dago than 100•0001.—to his dAughter, Lsdl Ling9l24