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GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the next
HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEE LING of the Proprietors
of this Company will be held in London, pursuant to Act of
Parliament at the PADDINGTON STATION, on FRIDAY,
the 21st day of February next, at One o'clock precisely, for
the election of four directors in the place of Capt in Thomas
Bulkeley, Edward Leemintr, Esq., the Hon. Frederick George
Brabazon Ponsonby, and Dr. Richard Pritchard Smith, re-
tiring by rotation, and for other purposes of business.
The said General Meeting will be made special under the
powers of the Great Western Railway (Capital) Act 1861, for
the purpose of converting all or any of the Chester or Bir-
mingham shares of the Company, whether guaranteed or pre-
ference shares, into stock of the like denomination.
It will also be made special for considering, and, if ap-
proved, for empowering the directors to contribute a sum not
exceeding £lO,OOO towards the purposes referred to in the
Wenlock Railway Act, 1861, and to make any agreements for
the appropriation of the said amount under the powers con-
tained in that Act.

be taken at 1 o'clock precisely.
SHELBURNE, Chairman.
BARRINGTON, Deputy-Chairman.
Directors retiring are re-eligible under the provisions of
the Act; and in compliance with a bye-law, notice must be
given to the Secretary on or before the 7th day of February
of the names of any proprietors who are to be nominated for
election as dirt etors at the said Half-yearly General Meeting.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of all Stock and Shares will be
CLOSED on and from the 6th day of February, and will not
be re-opened until after the said Half-yearly General Meet-
ing on the 21st day of February.
By order of the Board,
CHAS. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary.
Paddington Station, 22d January, 1862.

REAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
vlr NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the HALF-
YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of this Company, to be
held on FRIDAY, the 21st instant, will be made SPECIAL,
for the purpose of submitting for the consideration and ap-
proval of the Proprietors an agreement with the Wycombe
Railway Company, for the use and working by this Com-
pany of the extensions of their line, and for other purposes
under the provisions of the Wycombe Railway (Extensions
to Oxf, rd and Aylesbury Act), 1861.
The business of the Special General Meeting; will com-
mence at the conclusion of the business of the Half-yearly
General Meeting.
In pursuance of the Bye-laws of this Company, Notice is
also given, that the Secretary has duly received in writing a
declaration that it is intended to nominate the undermen-
tioned Proprietors (duly qualified), as candidates for the
Direction, at the Half-yearly General Meeting of the Com-
pany, to be held at this station on Friday, the 21st day of
February instant, viz.:—
Captain Thomas Bulkeley,
Edward Leeming, Esq.,
The Hon. Frederick G. B. Ponsonby, and
Dr. Richard Pritchard Smith.
SHELBURNE, Chairman.
BARRINGTON, Deputy-Chairman.
Paddington Station, Feb. 7, 1862,

aENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COM-
PANY. —lncorporated by Act of Parliament.
71, Lombard-street, London.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the HALF-
YEARLY GENE tt AL MEETING of the Proprietors of this
Company will be held at the Company's Offices, 71, Lombard-
street, on TUESDAI, the 25th inst , at 2 o'clock precisely,
pursuant to the Act of Parliament, to transact the usual busi-
ness, and to declare the dividend for the half-year ending the
31st December, 1861. MARTIN PRA ET, be
London, Feb. 1, 1862.

RIO DE JANEIRO CITY IMPROVEMENTS
COMPANY (Limited).
The applications for Shares having already far exceeded
the total number to be allotted, Notice is hereby given that
no further London applications can be received after TO-
MORROW (FRIDAY, the 14th inst.), and none from the
Country posted later than the evening of that day.
MULLENS, MARSHALL, AND CO.
HILL, FAWCETT, AND HILL.

PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION.

Established 1840.
The 21st Annual General Meeting of this Association was
held on Wednesday, the sth February, 1862.
The Income for the year 1861 was £45,657 5 4
The Accumulated Fund ..
The Report and Balance-sheet may be had on application
to the Agents, or at the Chief Office, 15, Moorgate-street,
E.C.

February 6, 1862.

WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary,

PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of
Chancery, made in a cause wherein Frances Browning
is plaintiff, and William Browning and others are del en-
dnts ; and in another cause wherein Frederic Browning is

plaintiff, and the said Prances Browning and others are
defendants, the Creditors of James Browning, late of St.
John-street, Clerkenwell, in the county of Middlesex, and
Upper Thames-street, in the city of London, and No. 53,
Gloucester-terrace, Hyde-park, in the said county of Middle-
sex, oil merchant, who died in or about the month of April,
1861, are, by their solicitors, on or before the 20th day of
March, 1862, to come in and prove their debts at the cham-
bers of the Master of the Rolle, in the Rolls-yard, Chancery-
lane, Middlesex, or in default thereof they will be peremp-
torily excluded from the benefit of the said Decree.

Wednesday, the 26th day of March, 1862, at 12 of the clock
noon, at the said chambers, is appointed for hearing and
adjudicating upon the claims.
Dated this 10th day of February, 1862.
GEO. WAITING, Chief Clerk
RICIID. SMITH, 298, High tlolborn,
Solicitor for Frances Browning.

PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of
Chancery, made in a cause wherein Frances Browning
is plaintiff, and William Browning and others are defendants,
and in another cause wherein Frederic Browning,* is plaintiff
and the said Frances Browning and others are defendant,
persons claiming to be Next of Kin according to the Statutes
of Distribution of the Personal Estate of Intestates, and
persons claiming to be the Heir at Law of James Browning,
late of Saint John-street, Clerkenwell, in the county of
Middlesex, and Upper Thames-street, in the city of London,
and No. 53, Gloucester-terrace, Hyde-park, in the said county
of Middlesex, Oil Merchant, who died on or about the month
of April, 1861, are, by their Solicitors, on or before the 20th
day of March, 1862, to come in and prove their claims, at the
Chambers of the Master of the Rolls, hi theßolls-yard, Chan-
cery-lane, Middlesex, or in default thereof they will be per-
emptorily excluded from the benefit of the said Decree.
Wednesday, the 26th day of March, 186?, at 12 of the clock
at noon, at the said Chambers, is appointed for hearing and
adjudicating upon the claims.
Dated this 10th day of February, 1862.
GIfO. WHITING, Chief Clerk,
RICHD. SMITH, 298, High Holborn,
Solicitor for Frances Browning.

THE POPE S TEMPORAL POWER.

M. Louis Veuillot, whose name since the sup-
pression of the Univers has been rarely before the
world, once more comes forward to claim public
attention. He has just published two duodecimo
volumes on Rome, which he fancifully calls " Par-
fum de Rome." M. Veuillot's opinions on the
Roman question, and particularly on the temporal
power of the Papacy, are well known, but on the
present occasion he is so blinded by rage as nct to
perceive that the language he uses against all who
disagree with him, and of course against all who
have contributed to weaken that Power, is calcu-
lated to injure rather than to serve any cause.
They are made the object of vituperation far sur-
passinl anything even he has yet said. M. de
Cavour was not merely a moral monster, but a
physical one. His head, his features, his bust, his
legs, his spectacles, are mocked at ; and Piedmont
is sufficiently punished for its crimes by having his
statue on her soil. But the person on whom he
empties the full vials of his wrath is Father Pas-
saglia, who, as you are aware, has published a work
proving that the temporal power is not a dogma of
the Church. When he speaks of the learned Jesuit
he actually gets beside himself, and raves like a
maniac.

"But here," he cries, "is the real infamous wretch, in
comparison with whom all others seem innocents. Here is
the monster more formidable than fire, worse than the
Pagan and the renegade. This is the priestly enemy of the
Church—the parricide, the Judas, still wearing the robe of
the Apostles, his mouth still full of the Divine mystery.
Infamous wretch I We will not despise you; whatever the
paltriness of your mind, crime is in your heart, and this
crime is too great. May you be accursed for the crime of
your heart May you be accursed of the people you have
scandalised; may you be accursed of the astonished priest-
hood throughout the world May the mother that has
given you birth curse her womb! May the bishop who or-
dained you curse his hand! May you be cursed in Heaven!
Accursed be you, sacrilegious priest, profaner of the altar,
abominable parricide, violater of the most sacred oaths! All
that you have betrayed you have betrayed ten times over.
It is of you it has been said,—' It had been good for that
man if he had not been born.' If you do not repent, may
God count your steps in the path of evil, and not forget one
of them; may He accumulate upon you the load and the
infection of the sins which you cause to be committed, and
of those which you have remitted I May all the bless-
ings which you have received, and which you have repudi-
ated, turn against you; may they fall heavy on you; may
they crush you like a sacrament of Satan i May the holy
ointment burn you ; may it burn your hands held out for
the gifts of the impious; may it burn your forehead round
which the light of the Gospel was to have beamed—that
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among even the warmest partisans of the Papacy.
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THE CIVIL WAR IN 45IERICA.

(From the Special Correspondent of the Times.)

As to the Burnside Expedition, one does not know
what to believe or think. The Southern papers
state that an expedition which went out from
Roanoke Island on Monday last could not discover
the vessels of the expedition in Pamlico Sound.
But there is positive intelligence that on the 21st of
January (Tuesday last) there were upwards of 100
vessels inside the bar at Hatteras and 25 large
steamers outside. What they have been doing
ever since no one can tell. No communication
had been received from them at Fortress Mon-
roe. It would seem as if these expeditions
were singularly unfortunate or ill-managed. Here
is the last of them, fitted out with much care,
with elaborate preparations of many weeks, and
covered with a cloak of the profoundest secrecy,
so that to this moment there is no certainty where
it is going, and the enemy will know more on that
point than we do. It sails, encounters a storm, and
as I write may be exposed to the furious gale which
rages here, or which may have swept over it, as we
learn there has been no communication between
Norfolk and the coast since Monday, in conse-
quence of bad weather. It appears off the enemy's
shores several days before anything is done. 'lhe
Confederates are alarmed, but at the same
time put on their guard. They are enabled
to accumulate troops, to strengthen menaced
points, to place women
and children in safety.
Newberne and Roanoke Island get ready for de-
fence. The militia of North Carolina are called
out. By the time the expedition lands the hands
of the Confederates will be much better prepared
for resistance. Every day wasted bet ween the ar-
rival of the expedition in sight of land and its
descent is of incalculable value to the enemy. But
even if they are beaten and driven out of their
, what happens ? The victo•
rpiaolutrsy
Generalsand w okswrri
writes despatches, issues proclama-
tions, intrenches himself, feels feebly about for his
enemy, rests for weeks inactively, or engaged in
petty reconnaissances, makes some weak demon-
stration which ends in a skirmish, and retires to
his intrenched position. I do not wish, Heaven
knows, to be a carping critic, but I appeal
to any one who knows the facts in the United
States themselves to say if that description is not
literally true. If the possession of runaway negroes
and the seizure of a few villages and some
thousands of bales of damaged cotton be the sole
object of these expeditions, no doubt they are very
successful. But as far as real mischief is done, or
the interruption of communications, or the dis-
traction of the forces, as yet little or nothing has
been accomplished by the hundreds of ships, and
thousands of men, and millions of dollars, employed
in the various Northern armades, from which so
much was expected. Gendral Burnside's may prove
an exception, and I am not disposed to question the
ability of the officer or the conduct of his men.
Biloxi, it now turns out, was not occupied. A naval
force appeared before the place which was deserted
by nearly all but women and children ; a small sand
battery was found unmanned, and its 6 -pounders
and 9-pounders where taken away, and a schooner
laden with lumber (wood) was captured. The town,
such as it is, of course, is in the hands of the Fede-
ralists virtually, for they can occupy it whenever
they please ; but it is not intended to use it for an
advance inland. There is a report from Southern
sources that Cedar Keys, some small islands near
the Florida railway terminus, have been occupied
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received permission " to pass our lines into the
United States" from General the Rev. Leonidas Polk,
at Columbus, states, through the Cincinnati Gazette,
that he found no evidence of Union feeling since
General Phelp's proclamation, before which there
was some " suppressed" sentiment of the kind be-

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lieved to exist; that the blockade is ouly effective
enough to be provoking, and that four vessels ran it
to Savannah in one week ; that the Sumter is not a
privateer, but a regular Confederate States' man of
war; that new Orleans is defended by fortifications
and 50,000 men under General Lovell. These state-
ments always require salt ; but there is no proof
necessary to attest the spirit and animosity of the
Southern defence. In the North there are dissen-
with slavery and
in asperity as the
war continues and the want of a
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fixed principle is
more obvious.

As to Congress, it is engaged in providing for the
future of a question which is not now on its hands.
rather than with the present of the vast problem
which lies before it and presses on the United
States in the financial crisis. There is no haste to
approach the subject of taxation; but every one

has something to say fo~ or against slavery. The
banks are by no meens inclined to take the new
currency at par. The Boston banks won't touch it ;
they are threatened, therefore, with suggestions for
the creation of the new national banks to supersede
and new bankruptcy laws to crush them. The
whole of the United States system seems to depend
on the willingness of the people to pay taxes to the
extent of £50,000,000 a-year. The constitution
places difficulty in the way of party legislation to-
wards direct taxation, and indirect taxes and customs
duties will yield but a small portion of the amount
which is required to place the issue of paper on a
sound basis or on any basis at all. From all sides
comes the demand for money. General Arthur
asks for elaborate permanent fortifications and
temporary artificial obstructions for the seabo.ard of
the State of New York. Local volunteers and
artillery companies are suggested ; big guns are
demanded. Everywhere Oliver is asking for more.
Mars marches with Plutus by his side, and Mr,
Chase is bewildered by the claims of the übiquitous
monster. On one head he is not so much perplexed,
however, and that is in providing for the ten new
regiments voted as an increase to the regular army.
Do what they could, the authorities have only suc-
ceeded in filling up two of the new regiments, so
that there are eight, which exist only in the nume-
rals and in the officers attached to them. Notwith-
standing their experience of the prodigious cost and
inefficiency of the volunteers compared with regu-
lars, the press and the people dislike any increase
in the regular army, and there are people who
dislike West Point, and believe in Heaven-born
generals.
The order issued on the occasion of the Federal
victory over Zollicoffer in Kentucky is calculated to
do good, for there is a void to be filled in the sys-
tem here, which produces a dead level of indifference,
andleats down the zealous and energetic to the stan-
dard of the lazy and apathetic. It would surprise
one very much if the army on being canvassed did
not vote by an immense majority for the creation of
an order of merit. The men who were at Dranes-
ville are very proud of bearing the name, though
won in civil war, on their colours.
The new Secretary of War, Mr. Stanton, proposes

to appoint two commissioners to visit the prisoners
in the South, to provide for their wants at the ex-
pense of the United States, as far as may be allowed.
He does not appear to apprehend any difficulty in
obtaining permission from the Southern authori-
ties for such a mission, but it is not improbable that

the idea will be rendered abortive by the reluctance
of the Government at Washington to yield to the
requisitions of the Government at Richmond for a
proper acknowledgment of its status. Hitherto the

informal attempts to communicate for the exchange
of prisoners have been frustrated by the rigid re-
quirements of the Confederate officers, who will not
receive along the lines of the Potomac any letters
from flags of truce on the part of the Federal autho-
rities unless they are properly directed to General
—, of the Confederate States Army," or to " the
President of the Confederate States of America."
The Cabinet of Washington is not willing to make
such admissions, as they would involve, they con-
ceive, the recognition to a certain extent of the Con-
federacy. Colonel Corcoran, who bears himself like
a brave man in his captivity, writes from Columbia,
in South Carolina, IL a spirit which shows that he
thinks the Government should make an effort for
the release of the prisoners, and uses some ambigu-
ous, if not ominous language, in his last communi-
cation. He says,—
" I have never yet been heard to utter a single word of
complaint against any action of my Government, nor do I
now wish to be classed among the faultfinders, but while
many of those who deserted their posts on the battle-field,
and ran off from the face of danger to a place of safety, have
been rewarded with almost unprecedented promotion I think
it ,is due to the officers and men who remained in the per-
formance of duty faithfully to the last, and thus fell victims
to a long imprisonment, that they should receive at least
sufficient consideration to relieve them from the most dis-
agreeable position that men can possibly be placed in. To
the men who took advantage of my absence to break up the
old Sixty-ninth for the advancement of their own sordid in-
terest, under the mask of patriotism, I shall have something.
to say on a more favourable occasion."

Mr. Stanton's proposal receives the sanction of
the press, and it may lead to some unexpected re-
sults. He is obtaining confidence because he is
doing something. The whole soul of the North is
sighing for " something to be done." But, as yet,
there seem few to be found to do it. The new Se-
cretary has suspended 1,400 appointments recom-
mended by Mr. Cameron, and the officers will be
put on their good behaviour. All measures which
smack of vigour make the people think they are
getting some value for their money. The difficulties
in the way of exchanging prisoners have not been
diminished by the actual transfers of captives be-
tween the North and the South, but it would'give
immense satisfaction to the country if an arrange-
ment could be made for a general exchange. Some
hostages are required on both sides. As long as the
privateers are under sentence of death here the
Confederates will not let Colonel Corcoran and his
companions go. •

In an able, clear, and temperate letter to the
New ork, Tribune to-day Judge Daly argues to de-
monstration that the Government is bound to treat
the Southern privateersmen as prisoners of war, and
that it is as cruel as impolitic to delay exchanges of
prisoners. He observes, at the conclusion of his
excellent argument, that " if the North adds to the
horrors of war death by hanging of all who fall
into their hands as traitors and pirates, they will
leave the South no alternative but resistance, and
that even in triumph they will have entailed as the
consequence of such a policy the bitter inheritance
of maintaining a Government by force over a
people conquered but not subdued." The inherit-
ance is not quite secured, but it will assuredly,
when it is gained, be one of the sort called by
lawyers "dainnosa," and the tone and temper of the
South becomes more bitter every day, judging by
language of the press, which now finds free access
to the North, and is largely reproduced here.
There is nothing more of consequence to record.
From Port Royal, Ship Island, Norfolk, the Poto-
mac, there is nothing new. Some more Lilliputian
bales of cotton are expected from Beaufort, and
there are 8,000 negroes there whom Gen. Sherman
seems to be managing with skill, engaged in useful
work and paying for their keep.
A horrible war has been raging in the Indian ter-
ritories and in the Kansas borders between the Con-
federate Indians and the half breds under Albert
Pike and the Federal Creeks, Cherokees, &c., under
the Indian leaders Gouges and John Ross. The
latter have been defeated with loss and driven out
of the country, and it is supposed Ross is killed.
The Federal bands under Tennison in that region
are marauding in a manner worthy of their allies,
destroying, plundering, and burning all before
them, and it is intimated that Jennison, who is one
of the blackest of Republicans and fiercest of Abo-
litionists, is now paying off old scores during the
Border ruffian troubles.

Washington was formerly crowded with contrac.
tors. It is observed that they are not so numerous
or pressing as of yore, and some of them have been
heard to declare they will not enter on any agreement
with Government till some chance exists of getting
paid in currency. The weather is dreadful all over
the country—storms, rain, snow, sleet, frost, and
thaw all intermingled.

lAN. 27.

The i vltelligence of the effect produced by the sur-
render of Mason and Slidell on the British public
was telegraphed, as well as some of the remarks of
the London papers. There is some uneasiness ex-
pressed at the continued preparations in Great Bri-
tain for war, and in reference to the reclamations in
the English papers, and to the attacks on the Fede-
ral Government for the stone blockade, it is replied
that England sunk ships in the lakes to close up the
American harbours, and pursued the same course in
the war with the First Napoleon in respect to Bou-
logne. Scott's History is quoted, but I have no