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and Darnford also took passage by this vessel. The
following officers have arrived here daring the week
from England and the Continent—Lieut.-Col. Mit-
ford, town major, and family ; Major Irvine, Major
Agar, Mrs. Agar, and two children ; Capt. and Mrs.
Wilson, Capts. Cartwright and Watson, Assist.-
Surg. Fraser, Lieut. Griffin,Ensigns Hare, Brown,
and Leader, Commander Strickland, R.N., and Mrs.
Strickland. The following have left in addition to
those who took their departure by the Orentes—
Lieut.- Col. Mattel, commanding
the Royal Malta
Fencible Artillery, for England, on leave; Lieut.
Oliver, 22d Regiment, by the Foxhound, for Greece,
on leave. A Prussian steam corvette, the Preussi-
cher Adler, Commodore G. Klatt, and two gunboats,
the Basilisk, Lieut. H. Schan, and the Blitz, Lieut.
M'Lean, have lately arrived in the Mediterranean
from the Baltic, and touched here on their wsy to
the Levant. They left on Sunday and Monday last
for Athens, where the Blitz is to remain until fur-
ther orders. The Preussicher Adler and the Basilisk
will go on, the former to be stationed at Constanti-
nople, and the latter on the Danube. They are likely
to remain in these waters for two or three years.
The Malacca, 17, screw corvette, Capt. G. Napier,
came in this morning in five days from Missolonghi.
EShnegilsanod in en on
hecrwsaey home, having been ordered to
consequence of legal proceedings having
been taken by one of her former officers (Lieut. Ar-
mitage) who was dismissed the service by court-
martial, and who has brought a charge of conspiracy
against certain persons belonging to this ship, who
gave evidence in the-case. Deputy-Commissary-
General Horne arrived to-night by the Euxine
from China on his way home. He remains a week
at Malta."

The paddlewheel sloop Ardent, which was recently
brought to Woolwich from the south-east coast of
America, and paid out of commission by Captain
Parish, has been surveyed throughout and con-
demned as unfit for further service. She yesterday
commenced returning her boilers and machinery,
preparatory, it is stated, to her being broken up.
The gunboat Speedwell, Commander Cottam,
commissioned to replace the Recruit (intended for
service on the West Coast of Africa, and afterwards
condemned), was inspected yesterday. The crew
were mustered at the powder buoy at Woolwich,
by the Commodore, Sir Frederick Nicolson. and
Commander Luke, superintendent of the Steam
Reserve. The Speedwell afterwards left Woolwich
for Greenhithe to adjust compasses for sea.
A new class of gunboats now under consideration
at the Admiralty, to be built of iron and to be
armour-plated, will shortly be commenced to re-
place the condemned gunboat fleet at Haslar. In
these vessels the twin screw principle, well known,
and approved by Mr. Reed and the Admiralty
Board, will be thoroughly carried out.
An experimental target, representing a portion of
the,Warrior's side, has been built at Woolwich, and
is now ready to be forwarded to Shoeburyness for a
trial of the heavy Armstrong guns. The target,
measuring 12ft. Gin, broad and 10It. high, is securely
bolted to a huge platform, lined on either side,
lengthways, with 12 empty casks, which will be
partly submerged during the experiment. About
2ft. of the target will be also under water. The
target isfplated with iron slabs of 4jin. thickness,
and is firmly backed by logs of 18-inch teak. The
greatest care has been taken in its manufacture to
select and test the whole of the materials, so as to
render the trials conclusive.

Mr. HENLEY assured the company that it always
gave him great pleasure to be present at the hospi-
table gatherings of the municipality of the city of
Oxford, and he must express his deep regret at the
causes which prevented their esteemed friend, Mr.
Langston, from being present, as he had so often
been on former occasions. It was his sincere wish,
and in that wish he knew they all cordially joined,
thai it might please God to restore his hon. friend
to health. (Cheers.) His right hon. friend had
been pleased to call him (Mr. Henley) an old agri-
culturist, and had appealed to him to say whether
this was not the very best harvest he could recollect.
Now, it was quite true he had been an agriculturist
as long as he could remember, and he should con-
tinue to be one as long as he could do anything.
But the very fact of his being an old agriculturist
had taught him not to be too confident of any-
thing, and farmers did not reckon up everything
till the end of the year, although they had got in
the harvest. He believed the recent harvest had
been very good—nay, an excellent harvest ; but the

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Dr. G. Duncan, surg. additional
to the Narcissus; Chas. Moore, chief engineer to
the Fisgard, for the Valiant ; and John Bonny,
chief engineer to the Cumberland, for the Clio.

right hon. gentleman must excuse him from saying
that it was the very best he had ever known. In
all that had been said by his right hon. friend with
hceoumnitgryhthseaym, most
respectheartily
t coo
nt
chuer rperdo.s 13
eirli teyy stof country
be
broad and open contrast to almost every nation in
thankful in a becomin g
the world, and they must
they now enjoyed might be.i...
spirit to Divine Providence, in order that these
great blessings which
continued to them. The present condition of this
country certainly afforded a subject of deep congra-
tulation; because, let them look where they would,
to the far east or to the west, no man could
say whether
av there was greater prospect of war. He
either
hoped- that the clouds which now darkened that
political horizon might pass away without a storm,
and that by the blessing of God peace might be pre-
served. (Cheers.) Speaking in the presence of one
of her Majesty's Government he might be permitted
to say that he trusted they would continue to fol-
low that wise course of policy which they had
hitherto adopted, and endeavour to keep the nation
clear of any troubles that might hereafter occur in
foreign countries. (Hear.) He had no fear but that
the honour of the country would be safe in their
hands; at the same time, when they saw a prospect
of great troubles springing up in other countries,
he thought it was not out of place in any public
man to raise a warning voice, and to express a hope
that the same care which had hitherto been mani-
fested in keeping it free from the quarrels of other
people, would continue to be exhibited in the pre-
sent threatening aspect of affairs. Difficulties had
sprung up in every direction, but hitherto he was
glad to say the course which had been taken by our
rulers was such as to place this country in a per-
fectly impartial position among the contending-
parties, and he felt disposed to give to the servants
of the Queen, whoever they might be, the fullest
support, so long as they continued to preservev
the honour and dignity of the country and to
avoid an unnecessary interference with.
no
affairs of other nations. There could "
all
doubt that by so doing they would obtain, from
~ would
otherwise
classes of the people a general support, which would
enable them to adopt a course which
enough to
hie right honour-
they might not find themselves strong
take. He could have wished that
to
able friend would have been ablern
matter of deep re-
have held out
hopes of better times. It was a day by day and
d nothing but ac.
gret to every Englishman that
almost hour by hour we °
country which of all.
possess in itself all.
imaghappiness, and prosperity,
countsothers oofnbe
the elements of Peaacematter of regret that there
for so
lowoodushlded fromiLt/itaot
and it was alniost.n, up in the United States a
seemed to be growing ''
concerned he had never been.
towards this country,
slightest reason for - find the it. (Cheers.)
able to
sincerely that he was in a position to
He wished
f he could sac any prospect of the termina-
tion that ffaereliansgEonfgibaintat.erwas
t dreadful struggle now going on in.
ion of that
tAmerica, but he was unable to do so, and the best
advice that he could give to her Majesty's Govern-
ment was to continue the same impartial conduct
they had hitherto evinced, and to hold themselves
and this country entirely aloof from it.
(Hear, and
cheers.)

Various other toasts of a local character were
given and responded to, and the proceedings
terminated.

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colds, catarrhs, humours, and abscesses, and all scrofulous'
diseases and glandular affections usually become worse eft
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the skin as near to the affected part as possible, will. "oe
found the most safe and efficient means of immediat sly
subduing pain and finally eradicating the seeds of fat Aire
mischief from the system. Whenever the frialad y 1:
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cleansing and healing influence of Holloways ru medies ;
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moderate time and fair attention,

TEWSPA PI Ift

AZ: 11-17P< •
)th.;
1?,-A
'N.ri,""",'•k,
we enjoy. (Cheers.) If we look vaapalacksit
, -;
east or the west we find an a. Alta
narchy end a republic plunging into civ, s
war, which is the worst of wars, and more
fraught than any other with public calamities, and
wherever we turn our eyes upon the great end
powerful country of America we see bloodshed in the
field and sorrow on the hearth. Contrast that with
the contentment, the tranquillity, and the remark-
able prosperity which upon the whole exists among
ourselves, and above all with that cordial and sin-
cere affection to our institutions, and towards each
other, which happily prevails among all classes of
the people of this country. (Cheers.) I do not
speak of those slight differences of opinion upon
public questions which must necessarily arise among
a free people, who are in the habit of discussing
openly and fairly all such questions. Such diffe-
rences of opinion do not disturb the mutual respect
and the sincere regard which the various classes of
society in this country feel for each other—but I
speak of that deep and broad undercurrent of unity
on all questions of paramount importance which are
essential for the existence of a free, happy, prospe-
rous, and powerful country, (Cheers.) That pa-
triotic feeling is manifested upon all occasions in
which the honour of the c 3untry is concerned, and
it results in respect for our institutions, and not
only in loyalty but in warm affection, amounting
to reverence, towards the person of our Sovereign
and her family. We watch with the deepest inte-
rest every event that tends to augment their hap-
piness, and when, as we have read today, an occa-
sion occurs which recalls the loss, the trials, the
suffering, and the sorrow of our gracious Queen,
the whole nation vibrates with sympathetic feeling,
and joins in the expression of sentiments and
loyalty and lore. (Hear.) ,This, then, is the happy
condition of our country; we owe it to a higher
power, and it is therefore our duty net to be found
wanting. But considering the advantages and the
blessings we enjoy, we ought by the exercise of
energy, industry, perseverance, and fidelity to those
great principles which should be the rule of every
man's conduct, to endeavour to increase those
blessings and multiply those advantages
for the
benefit of the commmunity among whom we live.
I believe that the foundation from which •we
derive those blessings will be found in the exist-
ence of our national institutions ; and they,
thank God, are in this happy land fixed on so broad.
and deep a basis that they will survive every storm,
and continue to be, as they have ever been, the envy
and admiration of every country in the world.
(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN next gave " The Health of the
County Members," observing that the county was
singularly happy in having as one of its representa-
tives the Right Hon.J.W. Henley, who had always
commanded the esteem and respect of his fellow
countrymen, and who was listened to in the House
of Commons with the greatest attention by men of
all shades of party, for whatever might be their dif-
ference of political opinion they all admired the
sound commonsense observations of the right hon.
gentleman, and were grateful for the light which
he invariably threw upon all public questions when.
under discussion in the house. Col. North had also
proved himself a faithful representative, and mast
now be considered a tried public servant, while their
younger but not less respected member, Col. Fane,
had given proof of ability and energy which en-
titled him to their gratitude and esteem. The toast
was most cordially received.