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LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 11, 1854.

PUBLICATIONS.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-
EXTENSION to WOL,ERIIAMPTON.-- NOTICE IS
IIEuEBY GIVEN, That on TUESDAY, November 14th, the Bir-
mingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Line, connecting the Great
Western flails ay at Birmingham with Wolverhampton, Wellington,
Shrewsbury, Osweitry, Chester, and Birkenhead, for Liverpool, will
be Opened for Public Traffic. On and after that day passengers may
proceed by certain trains to and from stations between Paddington
and Wolverhampton without change of carriage. Those proceeding
to and from stations north of Wolverhampton will have to change
ca-riages in the Birmingham stalon for the present, every facility
and accommodation for which will be provided there.
Train Bills for the remainder of the month may be procured at all
stations after the I Ith instant.
Paddington Station, Nov. 9, 18
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NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The Hannibal, 91, screw, Captain the Hon. F. Gray,
arrived at Plymouth at six o'clock on Thursday morning,
en route to the Black Sea. A detachment of Royal
Marines embarked on board‘the Hannibal yesterday for
a passage to the Black Sea. Fifty men of the Royal
Artillery will also be drafted to her for active service in
the Crimea. The Hannibal is appointed to sail on the
14th inst.

Now ready at all the Libraries, In 3 vols.,
THE CURATE OVERTON.
F O
" A powerfully-written story, the characters and incidents
of which are portrayed with great artistic skill, is here made use of
for the purpose of exposing the machinations of the Papists and of
their allies, in our ow,: churcla."—John Bull.
"'She story of this work is interesting and vigorously narrated.
It will be read by Tractarians and Romanists to decry it, and by
orthodox or Low-Church Protestants to praise it to the skies."—
Observer.
Burst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to henry Colburn.

The Kent, 78, has been ordered to be fitted as a sheer
hulk, in the place of the Spartiate, condemned.
The Meander, frigate, Captain ii lldie, watt paid wages
in advance yesterday morning, at Plymouth, by Rear-
Admiral H. Eden.

BANK OF Dru.osir,
No. 3, PALL MALL EAST,. LONDON.
Established A.D. 1844.

PARTIES desirous of INVESTING MONEY.
are requested to examine the Plan of this Institution, by which
a nigh rato of Interest may be obtained with perfect security.
Interest payable in January and July.
PETE It MORRISON, Managing Director.
Prospectuses and Forms fur opening Accounts sent free on application

Shipwrights are making great progress in fitting oat
the Cornwallis, 72, as a floating battery.
The True Briton and Chapman, transports, are load-
ing at Plymouth with provisions for the Black Sea,
with all possible despatch. The Conrad is returning her
damaged cargo of provisions to the victualling-yard,
Stonchouse.

ECONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY.
The Right Hon. Sir T. FRANKLAND LEWIS, Bart., M.P.,
Chairman.
HENRY FREDERICK STEPHENSON, Esq., Deputy-Chairman
Advantages—The Lowest rates of Premium on the Mutual System
The whole of the Profits divided among the Assured every Fifth
Year.
No charge for Policy Stamps, nor for Service in the Yeomanry or
Militia Corps.
Policies in farce nearly 7,000.
The Assurance Fund exceeds 1,400,0001. Income 230,0001. per
Annum.
The sum of 397,0001. was added to Policies at the last Division,
which produced an average Bonus of 671. per Cent. on the Pre-
miums paid.
For particulars apply to
ALEXANDER MACDONALD, Secretary.
6, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars.
SPECIAL NOTICE.—Proposals for Assurance must be made
prior to the let January, 1855, to entitle the Assured to participate
in the next Division of Profits in 1859.

APPOINTMENT.
Lieutenant Edwin A. Porcher (1846), recently serving
in the Majestic, has been appointed to the Tartar, 21,
ateam-vessel, at Chatham.

PROMOTIONS.
The following Mates have been promoted to the rank
of Lieutenant :

George D. Fitzßoy (1851).
George E. Barnes (1851).
John 0. Kidd (1851).
Charles F. Smith (1851).
Robert E. Pakenham (1851).
George T. Gordon (1851).
Thomas W. `Olivet
Eugene C. Batty (1851).
Arthur W. Gillett (1851).
Alfred H. Alston (1851).
Chas. A. J. Heysham (1851).
George J. Dall (1851).
St. G. C. D'Arcy.
Arthur Wing (1852).
John G. C. Evered (1852).
Frederick 0. Handfield (1852).
William H. Nurse (1852).
Henry G. Payne (1352).
Philip R. Sharpe (1852).
Francis W. Bennett (1852).
James H. Whitshed (1853).
Horatio L. A. L. Maitland (1853).

COURT-MARTIAL.

A court-martial is to be held this morning on board her
Majesty's ship Impregnable, 104, flag-ship of Admiral
Sir William Parker, at this port, for the trial of Mr.
James William Peck Foord, paymaster of the Meander,
in the Sound, "for neglect in not rendering his cash of
victualling accounts when paymaster in the royal navy
for her Majesty's 'deans sloop Sphinx, to the officers of
the Comptroller of the Victualling of the Navy, as re
quired by the Admiralty instructions for the government
of her Majesty's naval service."

PRIZE MONEY FOR THE PAITLINA, &o.
Messrs. Stilwell have given notice that the pro-
ceeds and tonnage bounties granted far the seizure of the
Paulina and the schooner, name unknown, on the 30th
of April, 1853, by her Majesty's sloop Linnet, Henry
Need, Esq., commander, will be deposited in the registry
of the Court of Admiralty on the 13th inst., agreeably
to act of Parliament.

PRIZE MONEY FOR THE RESTAIIRADOR.
Messrs. Stilwell have given notice that an account
of the proceeds and tonnage bounties granted for the
seizure of the Restaurader, on the 18th of March, 1853,
by her Majesty's sloop Ferret, Reginald John James
George Macdonald, Esq., commander, will be deposited
in the registry of the High Court of Admiralty on the
13th inst., agreeably to act of Parliament.

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LORD ABERDEEN AND TEE REST OF THE
GREEKS IN ENGLAND.

Lord Aberdeen bas got hold of a new phrase, if not
of a new idea. At the Lord Mayor's banquet Lord
Aberdeen dropped his stereotyped " just, lasting and
honourable peace," and talked of bringing " this contest
to a happy termination." Unluckily the new formula
is as susceptible as the o;c1 of being interpreted in many
different ways, according to the "mental reservation"
of the speaker. But this is nut the worst. lie is a
most unfortunate and ill- conditioned man. Lord Aber-
deen. Last session of Parliament he could scarcely an-
swer a question, or meet a charge, without being unne-
cessarily and unjustly rude to somebody. And iu his
speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet Lord Aberdeen .
contrived to insult gratuitously almost the whole of the
English people. Lord Aberdeen, while eulogising his
own valour, expressed the opinion that " many of those
who were most eager for the war are now the most
easily discouraged by those vicissitudes which are the
unavoidable incidents of a state of warfare." Where
has this calumniator of his countrymen seen any symp-
tom of discouragement in any portion of the English
public ! The public expectation of early triumphant
results of the war has been sometimes more and some-
times less sanguine, but the least favourable anticipations
entertained at any time have only inspired Englishmen
with a more stubborn resolution to struggle on until
things went better. Lord Aberdeen's wantonly offen-
sive imputation. of faintheartedness to the nation whose
indignant voice compelled him reluctantly to assert the
principle of national independence, in opposition to his
friend the Czar, is merely the splenetic effusion of a
cold-hearted and imbecile old man, placed in a position
to the discharge of the duties of which he is incompetent,
and overflowing with malice towards all who make him
feel his impotence.
A very strong feeling is at this moment expressed
against the Greek merchants resident in London and
Manchester. We do not wonder at it, their impertinent
obtrusion of their sympathies with the Czar, and of their
desire that the arms of the Allies should be baffled, has
been more than mortal patience could endure. Never-
theless, we are more disposed to warn against excessive
for
re brave made
m a
en long,fai
en a
indulgence of the indignation their folly has kindled than
to fan the flame. Men so utterly destitute of right
feeling and common sense as to insult the people among
whom they have
sojourn—at the very moment that so many families are
inmourning
ot
insa f battle tatl ed —cannot profitable
pa o
ls
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sibly possess the talent, the secretiveness, the self-con-
trol, to do us harm. At the very utmost they can only
act as spies of the Czar, and what can they tell him that
he cannot learn earlier and more precisely from our
newspapers ? For our own part we think it is rather an
advantage that we, have these blockheads among us. At
the beginning of the miserable attempts of the Greek
Court and Government to stir up the insurrectionary
movements in the frontier provinces of Turkey, there
was a small party in this country disposed to sympathise
with the Greeks, and puff them as an intelligent, high-
minded race. Nothing has helped so much to disabuse
the English public on this score as the presence among
them of the G reek merchants in Manchester and London.
These men have been sent hither as among the most
acute and enterprising of their countrymen to manage
their commercial affairs ; they have enjoyed the advan-
ta,s.e of mingling with the enlightened society of the west
of Europe ; yet see what poor, silly, waspish creatures
they are. They ought to be tolerated among us, as we
tolerate the monkeys in the Zoological Gardens, in order
that we may have opportunities of studying the charac-
teristics of their race. It is beneath the dignity of Eng-
lishmen to get seriously angry with them.
It seems the more necessary to insist upon this view
of the matter, because the Times has been strenuously
labouring to fan the flame of popular indignation against
the Greeks. That newspaper is denouncing, in its
wonted brickbat style, n*in whose actions and expres-
sions, reprehensible though they be, merely give utter-
ance to sentiments and opinions which, not ninny months
ago, were advocated by the Times itself. The Times,
while denouncing the offensive demonstrations of the
Greeks in Manchester and London, claims for any un-
English Englishman who may sympathise with them
immunity and freedom of speech. We confess I,hat,
on the contrary, we can tolerate much in these aliens
that excitev in us the most uncontrollable disgust and

indignation when we witness it in any one wlie claims
to be regarded as a Briton. The poor stockjobbing and
speculating Greeks of private life can do us little harm ;
but " Greeks in heart," holding responsible situations,
may do. The men of Macchester would do well to re-
flect that not a few of the most offensive mis-statements
and sentiments of the Greeks living among them hays
been endorsed by one of their own representatives in
Parliament. The most offensive Greek at this moment
in England is, "The classic Thane, Athenian Aberdeen."
—Daily News.

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[PRICE SD.

should not be found much affected by a law not carried
out in those very parts of the city and it suburbs where
crime is chiefly concocted and matured, and where there
are the most opportunities for its commission. While
the magistrates within the Royalty carry out the act,
they find themselves besieged by a circle of neglect,
drunkenness, and crime outside the Royalty, pervading
a population of nearly 100,000. At Glasgow, Paisley,
and Brechin the act has f ,ir play, and its results are lees
qualified.
Of course we do not forget in these remarks that the
Sabbath was made fos mar,, and not man for the Sab-
bath. Iu our humile opinion Sunday observance is a
matter for reasonable arrangement, and that any man
absolutely needing locomotion, refreshment, and even
moderate recreation on that day, has as much right to
expect it as the ox or the as to be drawn out of the pit, or
the sick to be healed. Point out any case of necessity,
and that case roust be met, either by a special provision
of the act, or by a dispensing power in the hands of the
magistrates. We say that it must be met, simply be-
cause so long as it is not met it will give a character of
extravagance and absurdity to any general enactment,
and eventually lead to its repeal. When a gentleman is
brought to a standstill within fifty miles of his dying
child on a " Sabbath-eve," or when a man compelled by
the inexorable public to work all Sunday night at an
employment draining his strength, and requiring it to
be continually recruited, cannot get a glass of the mildest
stimulant, then a stigma and a scandal is brought upon
law, for nature and common sense will not endure so
tyrannical a discipline. The public convenience is the
best rule in these questions, and, though individuals must
continually be called on to sacrifice theiradvantage or their
comfort to the general good, it will never be toleratedthat
a lawful, honourable, and necessary employment shall be
accompanied with severe and unnecessary hardships,
simply through the rigid application of a law. There
can be no possible analogy between the case of a man
hard at work in the way of a necessary calling, and that
of an idle man seeking early in the day for a stimulus
which he has no occasion for, and had better be without.
There is, of course, much practical difficulty in meet-
ing particular cases without letting in large classes, or,
in other words, devising exemptions which shall not be
fatal to the measure. That is a difficulty. The appli-
cation of common sense always is difficult, much more
difficult than the application of a Procrustean rule which
shall convict itself of folly at once. For a hundred who
can reason in an exact and mathematical manner only
one can reason sensibly and wisely, and in that ratio is
wise legislation more difficult than laws done by rule of
three. Nevertheless, this is the only legislation that
human nature will tolerate or that will endure.—Times.