The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-08 00:00:00

N° 22,005.

Sailor"—" Home, home, Sweet Home"— The Sailors'
Home—time to go home, but before doing so we introduce
you to

Last Scene.—(Danson and Sons.)
ENGLAND'S GLORY AND RICHES
BROUGHT BY HER OCEAN WAVES I
Box-office open from Ten till Six daily. Doors open al
Half. past Six, commence at Seven.
Acting Manager, Mr. F. B. CHATTERTON.

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY
1 Liability Limited by Act of Parliament.
&00,000 in 120,000 Shares of X 5 each. Deposit on allot.
went, One Pound per Share.

Guaranteed 8 per cent. by the British Government upon
completion and working of the cable.
CHAIRMAN.
The Right Hon. JAMES STUART WORTLEY.
VICE- CHAIRMAN.
CURTIS M. LAMPSON, Esq.
ELECTRICIAN.
CROMWELL F. VARLEY, Esq.
• CONSULTING COMMITTEE.

William Fairbairn, Esq., F.R.S., late President of the
British Association.
Joseph Whitworth, Esq., F.R.S.
Professor Wheatstone, F. R. S.
Professor W. Thomson, F.R.S., of Glasgow.
SECRETARY—George Seward, Esq.

BANKERS.
In London—Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., and the Bank 01
England.
In Lancashire—The Bank of Manchester.
In Ireland—The National Bank and its Branches.
In Scotland—The British Linen Co. and its Branches.

BROKERG.
Messrs. Foster and Braithwaite, 68, Old Broad-st., London.
Messrs. P. Cazenove & Co., 52, Threadneedle-st., London.
Prospectuses and Forms of Application for Shares may be
bad at the Brokers, or at the Company's Offices, 22, Old
Broad-street, London. _

By order.
GEO. SAWARD, Secretary.

T 1 HE BRITISH AND FOREIGN MARINE
INSURANCE COMPANY (Limited.)
Incorporated under the Companies Act, 1862, which specially
limits the liability of each Shareholder to the amount of
his Shares.
Capital, £1,000,000, in 50,000 Shares of £2O each.
With power to increase to £2,0 0,060.
First Issue, 25,000 Shares.
Deposit, on Application, £1 per Share, and £1 on Allotment.
DIRECTORS.
Archibald Boyd, Director of the Union Bank of
London
Francis C. Braun, of Blessig, Braun, and Co Liverpool.
Thomas Chilton, of Holderness and Chilton, Pre-
sident of the Chamber of Commerce
Francis Anderson Clint, of Clint and Co., Chair-
man of the Shipowners' A asociation .
Chas. B. Colchester, of Colchester and Woolner
William James Fernie, of Fernie Brothers and
Co
Arthur Bower Forwood, of Leech, Harrison, and
Forwood
Peter George Heyworth, of Heyworth, Pearce,
and Balman
Thomas Harrison, of Thomas Harrison and Co
Thomas Kendall, of Kendall Brothers
Edward Lawrence, of E. Lawrence and Co
George Lyall, of Lyall, Still, and Co
Andrew Malcolmson, of J. and D. 3lalcolmson
and CO
Robert Maxwell, of A. F. and R. Maxwell
George M. Papayanni, of Papayanni Brothers
John Park, of Williams, Park, and Co
Chas. K. Prioleau, of Fraser, Trenholm, and Co.
John Ravenscrof t, of W. and J. Ravenscrott and
Co., Chairman of the North and South Wales
Bank
James Searight, of James Searight and Co London.
Samuel Stitt, of Silt_ Brothers and c
Thomas Wilkinson Tetley, of Hollinshead, Tet-
ley, and Co.
Thomas Stenhouse, Director of the Chartered
Mercantile Bank of India, &c,
Henry Trelfall Wilson, of H. T. Wilson and
Chambers

Liverpool.

Liverpool.
London.

Liverpool.

Liverpool.

Liverpool.
Liverpool.
Liverpool.
Liverpool.
London.

Liverpool.
Liverpool.
Liverpool.
Liverpool.
Liverpool.

........ Liverpool.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Fletcher and Hull, Liverpool.
Messrs. Flux and Argles, Mincing-lane, London.
BROKERS.
London—Messrs. Laurence, Son, and Pearce, Auction Mart,
E.C.
Liverpool—Messrs, Thomas Tin'ey and Sons.
Messrs. G. and T. Irvine.
BANKERS.
The Union Bank of London, London.
The Union Bank of Liverpool, Liverpool.
TEMPORARY OFFICES OF TIIE COMPANY.

6, Cook-street, Liverpool.
39, Lothbury, London, E.C.
Notwithstanding that several new Marine Insurance Com-
panies have been established within the last few years, it is
generally recognised that the means of effecting marine in-
surances are not sufficient to meet the increasing expansion
of trade, insurers being now driven to effect their insurances
in remote towns in the provinces, in Ireland and Scotland,
and on the Continents of Europe and America.
The actual pric.l of shares in the existing Marine Insur-
ance Companies demonstrate clearly that the business is
highly remunerative.
Of th new Companies one only has been established in
Liverpool, and it has already secured a very large and lucra-
tive business.
More than half the exports and imports of the kingdom
pass through the port of Liverpool, and there is no doubt,
therefore, that another Company having its Chief Offices in
London and Liverpool will meet with ample support.
Binder these circurusta.... t... Dritioh and Foreign Marine
in5tu......-compaily has been established.
• The business of the Company will be confined to the issu-
ing of policies on freight and goods only, and it is expressly
provided, as a fundamental element in the constitution of
this Company, that no insurance shall be effected on the ships
themselves.
The principle of limited liability, as applicable to insurance
companies, came into operation during the month of Novem-
ber last. The Directors, observing that in banking and other
important commercial enterprises limited liability has met
with universal favour, have adopted it as an unalterable
principle in the present undertaking.
The Directors, therefore, express the greatest confidence in
the success of this Company.
Such provision has been made by the Directors for the pre-
liminary expenses as will secure the Company against pay-
ing any promotion money.
A copy of the articles of association lies at the offices of
the Company for inspection.
The prospectus and forms of applications for shares may be
obtained of the brokers of the t ompany. Application for
shares to be addressed to the Directors ; but no application
will be considered unless a payment has been made to the
bankers of the Company of fl per share, on the nu giber of
shares applied for. This sum will be returned if no allot-
ment is made to the applicant.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
(To be retained by the Bankers.)
To the Directors of the British and Foreign Marine Insur-

ance Comt any (Limited).-
Gentlemen,—Having paid to your bankers the sum of
, being a deposit of J.:l per share on shares
in the al ove Company, I hereby request that you will allot
me that number, and I agree to become a member of the
Company in respect of such shares, or in respect of any le,s
number you may allot me, and to execute the Articles of As-
sociation, when required ; and I request that my name may
be placed on the Register of Members for the shares so al-
lotted.

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GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
No. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C.
Established 1821.
Subscribed Capital, Two Millions.
DIRECTORS.
Sir 3tINTO FARQUHAR, Bart., M.P., Chairman.
CHARLES WIL LIAM CURTIS, Esq., Deputy Chairm n.
Henry Hulse Berens, Esq., G. Shaw Lefevre, Esq.
Henry Bonham Carter, Esq. John Martin, Esq.
Charles F. Devas, Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. James Morris, Esq.
Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Henry Norman, Esq.
Jalnes Goodson, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. Abraham J. Robarts, Esq.
John G. Hubbard, Esq., M.P. James Tulloch, Esq.
John Labouchere, Esq. Henry Vigne, Esq.
'ORS.

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Cornelius Paine, jun., Esq. I Noel Whiting, Esq.
Thos. Tallemach, Esq., Secretary I Saml. Brown, Esq., Actuary

LIFE DEPA RTMENT.—UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF AN
ACT OF PARLIAMENT, this Company now offers to new In-
, firers EIGHTY PER CENT. of the Profits, at Quinquennial
Divisions, or a Low Rate of Premium without participation of
Profits.

Since the establishment of the Company in 1821, the
A mount of Profits allotted to the Assured has exceeded in
cash value £660,000, which represents equivalent Reversionary
Bonuses of £1,058,000.

After the Division of Profits at Christmas, 1859, the Life
Assurances in force, with existing Bonuses thereon,
mounted to upwards of £4,730,000, the Income from the Lite
Branch £207,000 per annum, and the Life Assurance Fund,
ndependent of the capital, exceeded £1,618,000.

LOCAL MILITIA and VOLUNTEER CORPS.—No
Extra Premium is required for service therein.
LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their
values, if such value be not less than £5O.

ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, re-
ceived and registered.

MEDICAL FEES paid by the Company, and no charge
or Policy Stamps.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that FIRE Policies
which expire at Christmas must be renewed within fifteen
days at this Office, or with Mr. SAMS, No. 1, St. James's—
street, corner of Pall-Mall ; or with the Company's Agents
throughout the Kingdom, otherwise they become void.
Losses caused by Explosion of Gas are admitted by this
Company.

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By GEORGE MACDONALD, M.A.,

Author of "Within and Without," " Phantaates,"

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is thoughtful with gleams of true art. It would be difficult
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President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCTI,
Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq.

This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free
and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for-
mality of governors' let rers. It is entirely devoted to desti-
tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom-
panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient
magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered
capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of
the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the
funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of
these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Alereover,
it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more,
on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week.

The Weekly Board feel it their Imperative duty to make an
EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support,
to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that
daily present themselves.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward
Mas erman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and
Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Berries and Co. ; Ransom and
Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Givn
and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison
and Co. ; W lliams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and
Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool ;
and at the Hospital.
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THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CCXXV.,
will be Published on WEDNESD &Y NEXT.

CONTENTS.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

HERALD.--It is never an easy matter to predict
the policy of the present Government. Lord Pal-
merston's Cabinet has not, and cannot possibly
have, any guiding principles or any strong collec-
tive convictions. Formed by a coalition of men who
were yesterday—and would if their official connec-
tion were dissolved become again to-morrow--in-
veterate and bitter antagonists, it fluctuates to and
fro as pressure from without gives ascendancy to
this or that statesman, or as the chances of parlia-
mentary warfare appear favourable to this or that
idea. One day Mr. Gladstone is the ruling spirit,
another day Lord Palmerston has it all his own
way; this year everything is to be sacrificed to a
commercial treaty, next year the resources of the
country are strained to the uttermost in order to
support a policy of antagonism to the very power
with which that treaty was to unite us in the bonds
of common interest and intimate alliance; now ex-
travagance is in favour, and now economy—one
thing only we need never expect, and that is con-
sistency. Coalitions,
from their very nature, can-
not be consistent. When Conservative rene-
gades, old 11 higs, and Manchester Radicals unite
to govern the country, their union can only
be maintained on the principle of alterna-
tion. As under the old Roman constitution, when
the two consuls took the field together, Emilius
commanded in chief one day, and Varro the next,
so now we are all for fortifications and a spirited
foreign policy with the Premier, and anon with the
disciples of Mr. Bright, all for peace, isolation, and
a reduction of expenditure. And as the Roman
plan resulted in the rout of Camay, so one invari-
able result attends the conduct of our affairs by the
present Ministry—the country always suffers, whe-
ther an important branch of revenue is sacrificed to
Mr. Milner Gibson or an extra twopence added to
the incon e tax to carry out the crotchets of Lord
Palmerston ; whether we assert the theories of Lord

I. Travels in Peru.
11. Institutes fbr Working Men.
111. Constitutional Government in Russia.
IV. Editions of the Greek Testament.
V. The Ticket-of-Leave System.
VI. The Art Loan Exhibition.
VII. Life of Christoher North.
VIII. The Stanhope Miscell nies.
IX. Three Years of a Reform Administration.
John Murray, Albemarle-street.

Russell, at the risk of a quarrel with France, or
indulge the American sympathies of the Radicals
by the total sacrifice of the trade of Lancashire.

The enormous cost of a Ministry of this kind is not,
perhaps, the worst of its inconveniences;
inconveniences; but it is
aconsideration
importance. England
is rich h to afford almost any policy which
o cnoo g o f no trifling
any coherent patty can be supposed capable of ad-
vocating. She can afford the expense of maintain-
ing armaments powerful enough to make her in-
fluence felt and her dignity respected all over the
world; she may bear, with some grumbling, the
cost of war kept up through years of peace; she may
support forces sufficient to allow her Ministers to
dictate in the East, to medd:e in the West, to
quarrel with every one, and be prepared to make
their quarrel good. Or she may find in the
elasticity of her revenue the means of remitting
one innocuous tax to gratify a demagogue, and
another to purchase commercial concessions from a
despot; she may even be able to undergo a series
of financial experiments and still make both ends
meet. But she cannot, rich as she is, endure
at once the expense of both systems ; find
means to support the warlike policy of Lord
Palmerston, and to carry out the commercial
fancies of Messrs. Cobden and Bright. She
cannot endure to have her revenue sacrificed to

The 13th Edition, greatly improved, with Coloured Plate,
price 2s. 6d.,

DR. RAMAD GE on CONSUMPTION, in a
Series of Papers, illustrating the most important
Points in the Treatment of that Disease.

" Pathological Anatomy has never afforded more conclu-
sive evidence in proof of the curability of a disease than it
has in that of consumption."—Carswell.
"Experience convinces me that Dr. Ramadge's work is
full of interest, and merits the special attention of practi-
tioners."—Lebeau.

CANTERBURY HALL.-
THE THIRD EDITION of the celebrated Panto-
mimic Entertainment THE ENCHANTED HASH, thirteen
characters, including Harlequin, Columbine, Clown, and
rantaloon, sustained solely by Mr. F. Marshall, re-written
by W. F. Vandervell, Esq., new characters and new dr,J3ses.
UNSWORTH, in his renowned Speech upon all the topics
of the day; and the following Comic favourites: -Eugene,
Arthur Lloyd, Frank Hall, and Miss Georgina Smithson.

GRAND SELECTIONS from POPULAR OPERAS, as
usual, conducted by Mr. Jonghmans.

H E 0 X F 0 R 11,
6, OXFORD STREET.
George B odson's Irish Entertainment.
Unsworth's great Stump Speech, "Or any other man."
Eugene's burlesque Songs and Dances.
W. Randall's Comicalities.
Caroline Parkes' Pantomimical Sketch, "Little Red Riding
Hood_"
EVERY EVENING.
In addit'on to Drew Dean's Flute Solos, Operatic Selections,
&c., by Miss Russell, 31 iss Townley, and Miss Oesten ;
Messrs. Albert, Greene, Bernardi, &c., &c., with full Band and
Chorus, Conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans.

RGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Piccadilly.
Open nightly for Promenade. There is added to the
above elegant EAtablishment a Grand Conversation Saloon,
Reading Room, and Smoking Lounge. French, German, and
English papers taken in. The musical arrangements under
the direction of Mons. Boulcourt.

The Band is composed of the best Musicians in the metro-
polis. Admission 'B.—Manager, M. Grenet.

THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM ;
containing the Wonders of Nature and Art, shown by
innumerable superbly executed Models, illustrating every
part of the Human Frame, together with a variety of highly
interesting Natural Preparations, Malformations, and Mon-
strosities. (Ipen daily, from 11 to 10 (for Gentlem n only).
Admission One Shilling. Entrances 29, George-street, Han-
over-square, and 44A, Maddox-street, Regent-street, Lon-
don, W.

Explanatory Lecture every Evening at Seven. Illus-
trated and Descriptive Catalogues sent, post free, for twelve
stamps. Address the Secretary, as above.

AN EFFECTUAL REMEDY.—LAMBERT'S
ASTHMATIC BALSAM, without confining the
bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant,
is admitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving-
coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con-
sumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty
pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which pro-
vokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption its
effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even
lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief in
a few minutes after taking it. Prepared only and sold by
W. LAMBERT, Chemist, 8, Kin- William-street, Charing-
cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 134 d., and
three quantities in one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular, and
ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam. The name and ad-
dress is engraved on the stamp.

S T E O E I D 0 N :
What is it? See Patent, March 1, 1862, No. 500.
GABR 1 EL'S Self-adhesive Patent Indestructible MINE-
RAL TEE Hi and FLEXIBLE GUMS, without palates,
springs, or wires, and without operation. One set lasts a
lifetime, and WARRANTED FOR MASTICATION and
ARTICULATION. Purest materials only, at hall the usual
-ost.

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27, HARLEY-STREET, CAVENDISH-SQUARE;
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the crotchets of the Peace Party, and at the same
time to be called upon for a permanent war ex-
penditure, No other nation could so long have
found it possible to pay for a Coalition Ministry ;
we are already beginning to find the burden intole-
rable. Partially made aware of this by the debates
of last session, the Cabinet has, as we are positively
informed by one of its acknowledged organs, de-
voted its serious consideration to the subject of ex-
penditure. " The heads of the great departments
have been engaged in a searching revision of the
estimates, with the view of diminishing expense, so
far as can be done without impairing that efficiency
which it is the principal object of the nation to pre-
serve." We are very glad to hear it—and we will
not be so ill-natured as to ask why that which it is
found possible to do in 1863 could not have been
done in 1861. We will not inquire whether this
late awakening of the Ministerial sense of respon-
sibility be due to an earnest conviction of the neces-
sity of retrenchment for the country's sake, or to a
thorough comprehension of the difficulties anu dan-
gers of the next Parliamentary campaign; whether
the laborious investigation of their estimates by Sir
G. C. Lewis, the Duke of Somerset, and Mr. Glad-
stone, be prompted by compassion to the suffering
taxpayers or by fear of Mr. Cobden ; whether their
tardy conversion be due to the eloquence of any
other figures than those which represent the num-
bers in a possible division ; whether it be the Finan-
cial or the Patronage Secretary of the Treasury who
has assisted at the councils of these repentant
spendthrifts. We will give them all credit for
good intentions until we know what their inten-

TEETH.-By MR. ESKELL'S INVENTION
(Royal Seal granted 17th July, 1860), Sets or partial
Sets of Teeth, exquisitely enamelled to nature, are made and
fitted in a few hours by means of his patented soft elastic and
imperishable base of the colour of the gum, to which it ad-
heres with wonderful tenacity, dispensing with springs or
unsightly fastenings, and defying detection by toe closest
observer. The peculiar attribute of Mr. Eskell's invention
is, the readiness with which these teeth can be re-adapted to
any change of the mouth (even by the wearer); and as they
act independently of all disturbing causes which affect teeth
of ordinary construction, they are guaranteed tc, last a life
time, as • well as for mastication and articulation. Mr.
ESKELL'S TREATISE, which fully explains hisinvention,
post free for seven stamps.—lnspection of specimens and Con-
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tions really are ; and we will not attribute to them
any other motives than these suggested for the
purest patriotism and the most disinterested peni-
tence. It is not necessary that we should remind
our readers how earnestly the chiefs of the Con-
servative Opposition endeavoured last session to
stem the current of extravagance, or how posi-
tively the spokesmen of the Ministry maintained
that there had been no extravagance, Mr. Glad-
stone's strange admissions and candid self-im-
peachment at Manchester notwithstanding. But
we trust that one thing will be distinctly
understood ; that Conservative advocates of eco-
nomy have no tolerance for the usual Whig substi-
tutes—that they do not propose and will not permit
a reckless and extravagant retrenchment like that
which, after seven years of Liberal Government,
resulted in the disasters of the Crimean war. Nei-
ther the Opposition nor the country will tolerate
what is generally found to be the fulfilment of Whig
promises of economy—a hasty curtailment of neces-
sary expenditure, without any reduction of that
profusion which is profitable to the interests of the
party in power, and without any regard to the real
requirements of the public service. What England
demands, and will have, is retrenchment in the di-
rection indicated by the Conservative leaders, not
retrenchment inspired by the spirit of Mr. Bright.
We know that we can have a formidable army, an
irresistible navy, a thoroughly effective system of
defence by sea and land, for less than we are now
paying for defences that are declared by our rulers
to be insufficient ; and these things we intend to
have, either at the hands of the present Ministry,
or at those of abler or more conscientious successors.

The New York Herald of the 26th ult. states
that the captured steamer Stettin, which has been
taken into the Federal service as a cruiser, had succeeded
in capturing a large paddlewheel steamer while attempting
to run the blockade off the Charleston coast. The captured
vessel is supposed to be one of the new blockade runners
recently sent from England.
MILAN, Dec. 28.—The police are in despair. A
photograph is circulating here which represents Dr.
Zanetti at the moment when he is extracting from the foot
of Garibaldi the ball of Aspromonte. On the reverse of the
photograph are the following words in Italian :—" Garibaldi,
faithful to the King, risked his life while shouting Rome
or death ;' to which the King replies Die I' "

REVENUES OF THE COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—
The amount paid by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue
to the account intituled the Chief Registrar's account, for
the week ending 30th December, 1862, has been duly cer-
tified at £1,146 14s. 4d, the largest sum we believe yet paid
in by the commissioners in any one week ; but even the
smaller amounts that have been received, have resulted,
up to the 30th October, in a very favourable balance to
the account of the chief registrar. This fact is the more
gratifying, from the circumstance that so large a propor-
tion of the business occupying the attention of the court
during the year has been of the insolvency category, a
very considerable number of cases paying only the £1
stamp, and another very considerable proportion pay-
ing no stamp duty at all. It may be, indeed, very
reasonably calculated that, but for the pressure of
,this
class of business, the number of the £5 petitions would have
been much larger than it has been, so that the funds of the
court would have been enhanced by the large amount pay-
able from the higher stamp duty, and from the allowances
upon collected assets, &e. There might seem to be now
room in the building in Basinghall. street for taking the
lower class of cases apart from the higher classes ; and if
this could be arranged it would be in every point of view
desirable. Of course insolvency, as a fact, is insolvency,
and an insolvent an insolvent; but in this respect, as in all
the features of our highly artificial state of society, there
are practical distinctions which must be kept in view. It
is impossible. by any moral reasoning, to persuade an East
India merchant that, because ho cannot pay, and i.s, c.oui_
ster
fore in the strict sense of the term insolvent,ahnein,
lvent
so
inercially or socially, in the same category as
his account
coal-shed keeper; and his creditors, Loth
the distinction.
h
and on their own, are equally sensible
cognate classes, are
Deb' or and creditor alike, in this and
averse from being mixed up in
the
same bankruptcy admi-
nistration
in the same court-room with the mob of insol-
vency.—Gazette of Bankruptcy.
The Rouen Charitable Committee has decided on
ball on the 7th of next
m
rand
requested the Chamber of Commerce to
giving
onth, anda haveg
allow
the fete to take place in the Grande Salle des Consuls.
The m‘iyor of Rouen, in the name of the municipality, has
promised the committee a sum of 3,000 f., and the Prefect a
aura of 2,006 f. The committee has also resolved that all its
preient members, and those who should hereafter join it,
shall each contribute an annual sum of 10f. for the next
two years,

DAILY NEWS.-Mr. Seward was 61 last May,
and he can therefore remember the war of 1812.
Lie was a very clever boy, too, with a gentleman of
ability, cultivation, and prominent social position,
for his father; so that he took head to political
events as they passed, and received political training
from his childhood upwards. He was early marked
for a high position in his own State of New York,
and, few doubted, for office at Washington. He
was reputed a scholar ; and some pronounced him a
philosopher. This last reputation was won by two
methods which he is understood to find very con-
venient at this day, after forty years' use. He can
always, on the shortest notice, justify any view, or
explain any phenomenon by some grand natural
law from which there is no appeal, or from which
his admiring hearers are not at the moment dis-
posed to appeal. It is true, these very grand laws
of nature do sometimes sanction opposite con-
clusions, but that cannot be helped ; the law
can't be wrong, so the conclusion must be the
flexible part of the apparatus. This is the way in
which Mr. Seward is an abstract philosopher. His
way of being a concrete one is exceedingly attrac-
tive to his friends. He is entirely devoid of ambi-
tion ; he so covets the lot of a country gentleman,
tilling his fields in the mornings and studying
ancient philosophy in the evenings, that he is always
on the point of leaving public life for ever. At
every turn of hie career he has been winding up his

DEATH OF MR. CHAS. DANCE, THE DRAMATIC
AUTHOR.—Mr. Charles Dance, the dramatic writer,
suffered
on Monday, at Lowestoft, in his 69th year. He had
the late Insolvent n red for some time with disease of the heart. Besides
maybeingb:vseiillidknown as a dramatic writer, and the founder, it
was
successively
the burlesque school of entertainments, he
for more than 30 registrar, taxing officer, and chief clerk of
years.
Court, where he had held office
Olympic Theatre Mr, Dance aWlien Madame Vestris held the
productions
was one of the stock writers.
"The ucticons were "Beulah Spa,"
Among his successful
" The Morning Call,"
was a member of the Garrick and other
r th l ,e
ir i
superannuation
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Insolvent known
Squire," &c. He
he has leftgu anloities
to a large circle for his social and
children,
and Be-
fore the New Bankruptcy Act abolishedcoot
Debtors' Court Mr. Dance retired on a pheeranhnauas tion al-
lowance of £BOO a-year, which allowance not long
enjoyed. Although twice married,
and had survived both his wives. Mr. Dance had resided
in Moraington-road, Regent's-park, and retired to Loaves
toft for the benefit of his health,

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public affairs, and very impressive about the impos-
sibility of his being induced to undertake any more
public duty. There is something about his philo-
sophy which reminds irreverent people of Square's;
but then, philosophers are not so very numerous in
the world but that one may easily bring up the re-
membrance of another, and the copiousness of dis-
course and instruction which is common to Mr.
Jones's tutor and Mr. Lincoln's factotum really is a
point of resemblance. After a few years' practice
in the law, and before he was 30, Mr. Seward was
an active member of the Senate of his own State;
and from his life of philosophy thirty-two years
have been cut out and given to politics. The office
of Governor of the State seemed to belong to him ;
he was well qualified for it, and his family eminence
indicated him for the honour. If he had succeeded
on his first attempt he would hardly have been
heard of in this country till within the last two or
three years ; bnt he was not elected till 1838 ; and
thus the affair of the Caroline, and tht danger of
war on account of M'Leod occurred while Mr.
Seward was Governor of the State of New York.
It was his duty to take care of the territory of his
State; and very vigorous indeed was the part he
took in the attempt to criminate Great Britain
generally and M'Leod in particular. The acquit-
tal of M'Leod was the natural and most satisfac-
tory close of the controversy, but it left behind it
a strong impression of Mr. Seward's characteris-
tics as a controversialist—characteristics now

familiar to all the world through his own pro-
fuse publication of despatches. Thirteen yearb
ago he appeared in the Senate at Washington;
and for upwards of ten years he was generally re

garded as a virtual, though not an avowed aboli-
tionist. He was stronger and brighter in this phase
of bis life than in any other. He was regarded as a
constitutional anthority by the anti-slavery party ;
and he was more consistent and for a long( r time,
than he has shown himself in any other department
of political controversy. As the Republican party
became developed he manifested his antislavery
tendencies more and more openly, till he pledged
himself to his countrymen as an abolitionist by his
great speech at Rochester in 1859. It is an interest-
ing speculation (for which we have not room) what

would have been the consequences to his country if
his nomination by the Republican party in 1860 had
taken effect. The consequence of its not succeeding
has been that from that hour he has retreated from
the ground of his Rochester speech, so that wenow
see him extol ed by our Secessionist journals for his
moderation, and stigmatised by the leaders of the
Republican party in America as the malign in-
fluence which retards the regeneration of the Re-
public. Thereare some strange things in the retro-
spect of his course. As Governor of his State he
dared the vengeance of Virginia on hehaif of cer-
tain sailors who were concerned in the escape of
some slaves. As a senator be exposed himself to a
long course of insult and calumny from Mr. Roe-
buck's "gentlemen." Next, it was understood that
Mr. Lincoln, after being elected, had a strong dread
and dislike of Mr. Seward as an abolitionist ; that he
was delighted to hear of Mr. Seward's invincible
determination to bury himself at last in the seclu-
sion that he loved ; and that when the President
elect proposed to pay his former rival the harmless
compliment of offering him an office he would cer-
tainly refuse, he was confounded past concealment
by the arrival, by the first post, of Mr. Seward's
acceptance of the Secretaryship of State. And now
the spectacle is of the President's inability to part
with his Minister, while the popular fear is that Mr.
Seward's influence will weaken, and not fortify,
the resolution of the executive in fulfilling the
pledges of the Government in dealing with
the well-understood cause of the war. How
have these strange things come to pass ?
However much may be said on the spot, the case
is pretty generally understood and agreed upon in
fact, though not in any avowed way. Mr. Seward
gives no impression to observers of having ever had
a genuine conviction in his life. He may suppose
he has, and therefore has often spoken as if he had;
but his lifelong habit has been to address himself
expressly to the assumed state of mind of hearers
or readers; this is a practice which grows gross
and palpable in course of time, and at once generates
distrust in others, and renders the min himself in-
capable of seeing, feeling, and understanding things
As they really are. Mr. Seward never felt as other
men felt, that a revolution had begun, and that
there would be a bloody war. He has never felt
the pervading emotion of the Northern population,
animating them to root out the curse of their polity,
and finish the struggle in the most thorough way.
He long ago paltered with the great doctrine of
free labour on which he had before taken his stand ;
and now his countrymen perceive that his whole
action is of a retarding—not to say damaging—
character. It does not appear that he is much more
liked by Democrats than Republicans. He might
slip from under them in making a compromise with
the South, as probably as he has slipped from under
the Republicans in the critical year of their policy.
He himself probably cannot help it now. Those
who have read any score of pages of his despatches,
and, much more, those who have heard him dis-
course for an evening, can well understand how
this may be. When it is said that his coaxing
style of address is unpleasant and impolitic, this
does not mean that he flatters the inclinations and
vanities of those to whom he speaks or writes, but
that he expec's to win them by philosophising,
which he supposes they will take for a compliment.
He has thus arrived at offending all orders of
minds by treating them like infant scholars. A
milder degree of this method was once admired by
prepossessed constituents, and he now tries it with
aggravation on the Foreign Ministers of the Euro-
pean Powers, and on high and low at home.
Whether the President likes it, or whether he puts
up with it for the sake of having a self-confident,
plausible, and indefatigable Minister to lean on, we
shall know some day. Meantime, the last mail
brings us much light as to what is going on.

PRICE..... ~..4d.
STAMPED ....sd.

LORD PALMERSTON AT ROMSEY.

Yesterday the annual) meeting of the Labourers'
Encouragement Association for Romsey and the
surrounding district was held in the Town-hall at
Romsey. Lord Palmerston presided, and distri-
buted the awards to the successful candidates.
The proeeedings commenced with a dinner given
by the association to the successful competitors,
upwards of 100 in number, consisting chiefly of
shepherds, teamsmtn, ploughmen, and other farm
labourers, together with the wives of the prize-
men in the cottage and special classes. The repast
was of the good old English character, as substan
tial as it was bountiful, and the amplest justice
was done to it by the happy guests. Indeed, if
the committee had added to their prize list a reward
for gastronomic achievements, a keener emulation
in the use of knife and fork could hardly have been
evoked. When this part of the business was de-
spatched Lord and Lady Palmerston entered the
hall and were received with loud and general cheer-
ing. They were accompanied by Mr. INlonckton
Milnes, i\LP., Capt. Buckworth Powell, the Mayor
of Romsey, the vicar, and other principal inhabi-
tants. A large number of ladiesand gentlemen were
also present to witness the ceremony.
The list of premiums having been handed to his
lordship by the secretary,

Lord PALMERSTON then addressed the labourers
as follows :—My Friends and Neighbours,—l can
assure you that it gives Lady Palmerston and my-
self very great pleasure to be present at these an-
nual meetings, where those who have most distin-
guished themselves in the course of the year either
by, skilfulness in their respective occupations or by
good conduct in the service in which they have
been engaged come here to receive tokens of the
merit which they have displayed. I don't call the
gifts which are here presented to you rewards, be-
cause they fall infinitely short of anything that can
be called a real reward for the good conduct which
you have pursued. But they are tokens—and sub.
stantial proofs to your friends and your neighbours
in this and the adjoining parishes, publicly and
manifestly indicating what your conduct has been
in the service in which you have been employed.
It is often and well said that " virtue is its own
best reward ;" and it holds equally true of good
conduct in the career in which any man may be
engaged, that it, too, by its necessary and natural
consequences, is its best and its ample reward.
Those who have exhibited great skilfulness and
aptitude in their different agricultural occupations
will have their reward in the employment which
the knowledge of their high qualifications is sure

to bring to them. Those, also, who have exhibited
Faithfulness, sobriety, honesty, and good behaviour
,n a long course of service may be quite certain that
hey never will be at a loss to find work if any un-

oreseen circumstances should throw them out of

their situations. And, moreover, all those persons
who have so distinguished themselves are sure to
obtain in the kindness, goodwill, and good offices of
those who may employ them a recompense which

to their feelings must ever be more grateful even
)
than some more substantial benefits. (Hear.) There-
fore, my friends, I think these institutions are ex-
ceedingly useful in encouraging your efforts to im-
prove agricultural processes and stimulating all of
you to good conduct in your respective spheres. I
have told you that good conduct brings its own
reward, and it does so in various ways. A man who
is habitually idle, negligent, and addicted to drink-
ing and smoking, spends the greater part of his
wages upon ale and tobacco, and his wife and family
are thus deprived of the means of obtaining those
necessaries and comforts which the extent of his
earnings might well enable him to procure for
them. On the other hand, if a man is sober and ab-
stains from frequenting the alehouse and the tobacco
shop, be will be able to devote the whole of his
earnings to the benefit of himself and his family,
and ha will see in the happiness of his wife and
children ample testimonies of the good effects of
the sobriety and gooi conduct which he pursues.
You all know that example is generally far more
powerful in its influence upon conduct than precept.
The example you may set to your children will have
a greater effect upon their future conduct in lie:
than even the best counsel which might be given
them unaccompanied by a good example; b cause
if children see that their parents are indolent and
indulge in bad habits it will be in vain that the best
advice is given them ; they will irresistibly be led
into following their parents' evil courses. But if
your own conduct holds out to them a practical
illustration of the good advice which you may have
received from your pastor and those who take a
deep interest in your welfare, that advice will be
strengthened by the force of example, and you will
find your children grow up to be a source of happi-
ness to yourselves and a credit to the community to
which they belong. (Hear, hear.) I will now pro-
ceed to distribute the prizes, and I trust that the
good dinner you have had will open your hearts to
rejoice the more, not only over your own individual
success in the competition, but also over the good
fortune of those around you. (Cheers.)
The noble lord then went through the prizes
seriatim, accompanying the awards with some jocu-
lar remark or kind word of encouragement to almost
every one of the winners. The prizes were nearly
all given in money, and consisted of sums varying
from 503. to 55,, the amount being accompanied in
each case by a printed card or certificate recording
the merits of the owner. The fiest category was
composed of the shepherds who bad bestowed the
greatest care upon their flocks; the second were the
teamsmen, who were rewarded for fidelity and
length of service, and for " never having re-
turned intoxicated with their teams." In distri-
buting the 10s. or 20s. due to the members of this
class the noble lord expressed a hope that the men
would not squander any part of the money now paid
to them in departing from the excellent virtue of
temperance which had earned them this prize. (A
laugh.) Then came the rewards to the best plough-
men, seedsmen, drillmen, rickmakers, and thatchers
Next followed the turnip hoers, with respect to
whom the noble chairman observed that he was sorry
to see there was no good hoeing in the parish of
Romsey, where he was sure it was much wanted--
(laughter)—and that he trusted the labourers of that
district would make the fields look greener and less
variegated with charlock and other weeds than they
had lately been. To these succeeded the prizes to
farm servants for bringing up their families without
parochial relief, &c. In this class there was a sou:
they Were
of 30s. awarded to a labourer in the noble lord's own
employ "for having made provision before mar
e_en
with the like sum to his wife for " similar prudnee,"
.
Referring to this case the noble l?rdaesid,
crown to her
husband, 30
this er.
all taught that a virtuous wife.:
es tne of reward-
s. to hers.
(Laughter.) but here was a wife v?
to explain that
(Laughter.) He ought ,
privilegesociety
left for their masters to do.
were engaged in farm
reward-
ing not
substantiallyass u m e to
thoseth e in
we I vh 0
service—that speaking of the prizes to cottagers,
(Hear, hear.)
he eulogised the neat manner in which the cottage
they
allotments were kept in that neighbourhood. In this
last class the wife was included with the husband—
and for a very good reason—because the husband
spent the day out at work, and it depended upon his
partner to keep the cottage tidy and trim ; and it
was quite evident that unless the labourer found his
home clean and comfortable when he returned from
his toil he would be tempted to seek comfort, though
not perhaps cleanliness, in the neighbouring ale-
house. (Hear, hear, and a laugh.)
Among the remaining prizes was " the bishop's
Bible," awarded to a labourer for the regularity of
his attendance at church and his consistency of
character.

The list having been completed the noble CHAIR-
MAN expressed the great pleasure he felt in having
been the instrument to distribute the prizes, and
said ho hoped when they met again next
year they
would not only find as many successful competi-