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London, England, 1854-12-09 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1854.

LOANS 'from 50/: to 50014, on the Security of
tits borrower and two responsible Housekeepers. No Life
Assurance. Interest, 6 per Cent—Address (with post-head), Messrs.
LAWRINC X and CO., 110, Fenchurch-street, Ciiy. Personally
from 11 to 3.

THE 16s. TROWSERS REDUCED TO 14s. ;
Trowsers and Waistcoist, 225. ; Coat, Waistcoat, and Trow-
sers, 475. ; made to order from Scotch Tweeds, all Wool, and
thoroughly shrank, by B. BENJAMEN, Merchant Tailor, 74,
Regent-street. N.B.—A perfect fit guaranteed.

GAME LIST.-LONDON MIDDLESEX,
• and WESTMINSTER. •
SECOND PUBLICATION for 1854.
LIST of PERSONS wbo have taken out GENERAL GAME CEA-
TIFiCATES at 41. Os. 10d. each, including the Additional Duty of
0 per cent. under the Act of the 3d Vic., cap. 17. '
Aldersou, Frank, 9, Park-crescent
Alexander, Capt. W. C., Enfield
Anderson, Edmund, Esq., 51, London-wall
Ashby, Morris, Staines
Bally, John Walter, 71, Gracechurch-street
Baldey, George, 5, Laburnam-terrace, Shoreditch
Baring, Edward Charles, Esq., 8, Bishopsgate-street-Within
Barker, Alexander, Esq., 103, Piccadilly
Barnard, Thomas, Russell-street, Covent-garden
Barnett, John, Gray's-mn
Bathurst, A. A., Esq., 8, Grosvenor-square
Bathurst, Henry Allen, 10. Baker-street
Baynes, Walter Francis, 18, Mansfield-street
Bea ,ment, Richard, Rutland-gate
Beckwith, Rev: E. G., Cloisters, Westminster
Benham, Henry, Teddington
Berry,William, Esq.., 29, Graeechurch-street • f
Berkeley. Edward S. F., Esq.. New Borid-street
Birch, John William, Esq., New Broad-street.
Blackett, Jag. Doughth, Bog , Shorter's-court
Booty, Mr. James, 15, Stafford-row
Bowles, Lieut.-Gen. Sir George, 27, Curzon-street
Brodie, Alfred, 5, Cavendish-square
•
osrgtuonar-street
BBrroovugrh4toDna,vßid.,,JE.s,qlo,,,rDiaeorsgenit
Brunsden, James, St. Leonard-street, Bromley
Buckle, Chrisir. Richd., Esq., 7, Tavistock-place, St. Pancras
Burgoyne, Jas., Esq:, Lowther-cottages, Holloway
Cadogan, the Earl of, 15, Chesham-place
Calloutti Thomas, Little Queen- street
Carew, John, Oxford-square
Chambers, George, Esq., 6, Russia-row
Chohrondley, Joseph, 3, Nottingham-place
Codrington; R. Esq:, 126, Leadenhall-street
Cole, Charles Nicolas, 3, Gloucester-crescent's
Collin, Wm. Anthony, Lincoln's-inn
Colville, Lord, 42, Eaton-pliice
Cowell, Stepney, Col., 31, Hertford-street .
'harle% Hillingdon-house, Hillingdon
Crawahay, Herbert, Colney Hatch, Friern Barnet
Crompton, Chas., Esq., 22, Hyde-park-square
Cross, Edward, Esq., 15, Trinity-square
Currie, M. F., St. Leonard-street, • Bromley
Daid, Henry, ES7-, Trinity-lane
Daniel, John H. Esq , 2, Halkin-street west
Daniel, Col, Henry John, 54, Grosvernor-street
De Lisle, Alfred T., Esq , 16, Devonshire-square
Rigby, Capt., J. A., 43, Bond-street
Dixon, Major-General, Mount-street •
Dobree, Joseph Hankey, Esq., 15, Norfolk-street
Dunning, John, 97, Edgeware-road
Edwazds, John Robert,•Esq., 23, Chester-street
Ellis, Arthur Edward Augustus, late of Military College, Bagehet
Evans, Price, Jas., Esq., 51. Cornhill
Falconer, Christie James, Esq.; 7, Wilton-street
Fane, Robert George Cecil, Esq., 4, Upper Brook-street
Yarnell, James, Esq., 14, King-street, Clerkenwell
Finch, Henry Young, 35, Cross-street, Islington
Fitzgerald, Jelin, Esq., Great Western Hotel
Foster, James L. Esq., 5, Southwick-street, Paddington
Frazer, John, Enfield
Frovan, Joseph 8., Hampton
Goddard, Alfred, Esq., King- street
Goddard, Robert Headrick, 16, Giltspur-street
Godley, John Robert, G 9, Gloucester-place •
Good, Henry, Fulham
Grenfell, Arthur Richard, Upper Thames-street
Flagg, Colonel John, 31, Gloucester-place
Hankey, Thom .s, Esq , 7, Mincingiilane
Herbert, Joseph, New Palace-yard
Hicks, Johnson, 6, Lyon's Inn
Hill, James, Royal Mint
Hill, Alexander, Esq., Throgmorton-street
Hill, James, 11, Mansfield-street
Hitchcock, Roberta Esq , 2, Gresham-street
Hotigsoi, John Stewart, Esq , 8, St. Helen's-place
Holt, William, 30, St. John's-wood road
Hornby, Henry Hill, 19, Upper Harley-street
Hotchkin, Spencer, Kensington
Ilowes, William Henry, Esq., Mincing-lane
Hume, James, 80, Harley-street
Jackson, Robert Edwin, Esq , Bank-buildings
Jeffery, William, King-street, St. James's
Jephson, Sir Richard, Bart., Argyll-street
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Henry William,t
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Karslake, Preston, 6, Queen's-square
Kerr, Lord Frederick, Rutland-gate
Kenagh, General Thomas, 35, Albemarle-street
King, Charles, Enfield
.Kitson, captain George, King's Arms-yard, Colerean-etreet
Knox, Alexander, Esq., Throgmorton-street
Knyaston, Roger, 43, Devonshire-street
Landsed, George, Esq., 54, Friday-street
Lane, William, 4, lied ord-place
Leach, John, Esq., 17, Upper '4=es-street
Lightfoot, Thomas S., Old Buragton-street
Lightfoot, 11. W., Orsett place, Paddington
Martin, Admiral Henry, 53, Wimpole-street
Matthews, Wilkinson, Lincoln's-inn
Medley,- Fras. William, 50, Westbourne-terrace
Metcalf, Frederick, Regent-street
Meyrick, Edwd. S., Esq., Queen-street
L Mills, Joseph; East India-r. ad, Poplar
• Montgomery Alfred, Esq., 8, Chesterfield-street
Moor, John, Esq., Great Western hotel
Morant, William, Park-lane
Morton, Thomas, Esq., Throgmorton-street
Mowbray, William H., Great George-street
Murray, James, Downing-street
Netherwood, Baines, 62,1 King-street. Camden-town
Nettleship, William, 21, Red Lion-square
Paris, Chas., Esq., 17, Bolton-street
Percival, Dudley M., Esq., Wilton-street
Philips, Wm., Esq., 33, Finchley-road, and Bond-street
Philips, George, Esq., Charlwood-street
Picard, John, 12, Queen's-terrace, Bayswater
Pickering, Arthur P., Lincoln's-inn ,j
Picklington, Roger, Chelsea
Pitcher, Robert Samuel, St. James's-street
Potter, Samuel, Esq., 30, King-street
Poynder, Edward 4amuel, 56, Wimpole-street
Prescott, George Edward, St. James's-square
Price, John Blount, 24, Milner-square
Pritchard, Robert Albion, Esq., Doctors'-commons
Pym, Chas:, 15, Montague-place
Riddell, F. Hy., Lincoln's-inn
Sanction, Philip, 28, Cumberland-terrace, Regent's-pa:k
Sellwood, Mr. Henry, 49, Upper Grosvenor-street
erocold, Chas., Brewery, Liquorpond-street
Sharp, Edward, Gray's-ina
Shaw. John, Gray's-inn •
Sillan, Augustus, Esq., 2, Crosby-Square
Simpson, John, Saville-row
Simpson, John, 10, Henrietta-street,Cavendish-square
Sinewing, Charles, 3, Alpha-place
South, sir James, Kensington
Spicer, William George, 19, New Bridge-street.
Stephewon, Thomas, Esq.. 37, Upper Grosvenor-street
St. Ledger, Major J., 22, Baker-street
Stout, James, Old Brentford '
ebutt, Rev. Francis, 39, Austinfriars
Teesdale, John Marmaduke, Esq., Fenehnrch-street
Thompson, Edwd. P., Arlington-street
Townsend, Wm. Henry, 72, St. James-street
Townsend, E. D., Esq., 112, Cambridge-street
Travillyan, Sir Chas., Westbourne-terrace
Tribe, Joseph, Millwall
- Turner, James William, Kensington
Valiance, John Henry, 20, Essex-street, Strand
•Wad'tilove, Edward,jun., 17, Gloucester-place
Waldegrave, the Hon. G., 26, Portland-place
Warren, Col. George, 130, Leadeuhall-street
Webb, Thomas, Mile-end road
Wells, Algernon, Esq., St. Swithin's-lane
Wells, Ifordaunt, Hendon
Were, J. 8., Esq., 152, Westbourne-terrace
- Wetherell, Nathan, Lincoln's-inn
Whalley, John, Enfield
Wigram, Wm., Esq., 15s, Grosvenor-square
Wood, Dr. Faints, 31, Half Moon-street
Wood, Col. Thomas 12, Cavendish-square
Wood, Algernon, Wilton-crescent
Wood, Joseph, jun., Victoria-street
Woodgete. Capt. W. S., Chester-terrace
Wombwell, Charles Orby, Cowley-grove
Wyman, Edward James, Enfield
Wynward, Lieut.-Col., Little Ryder-street
Yates, Edward, Esq., Compton-terrace, Islington

LIST OF PERSON; LICENSED TO DEAL IN GAME.
Aley, Wm., Knightsbridge
Allinson, James, 2, Warren•street, Camden-town
Allwright, Wm., 56, Rathbone-place
Baker, Samuel, and Charles Newcomb, Half Moon-passage,
Gracechurclstreet
Barnard, Robert, Kensington
Bedsor, Wm., Kensington
Bendel', Thomas, chelsea
Berry, Wm., 32, King street, Portman-square
Bolton, Thomas, Newgate-market
Bowron, John, 3, Newcastle-place, Paddington
lecaddick, James Shuttock, Chelsea
Brown, William, Newgate-market
Burrough, John, Kensington
Buxton, William, 37, Paddington street
Cl iyworth, Josiah, Gracechurch-street
Chappell, J., Hungerford-market
Chittiek, Frederick, 58, High-street, Portland-town
East, James, Newgate-market
Evans, Edward, Hammersmith
Fisher, John, 23, Duke-street, St. James
Fowles, Robert, 4, Upper Duncan Place, Islington
Foxlee, Msry Ann, 95, St. John street-road, Clerkenwell
Fricker, IVilllem, Old Brentford
'Purnell, Charles, 3, °alert-market house
Gosden, Francis, Kensington
Guston, Henry. 110, Goswell-street, Clerkenwell
Hall, Charles, 52, Albemarle street
Hall, William, 9, Conduit-street West, Paddington
Hammond, George, 9, Johnson-place, Paddington
Hill, William, Chelsea
Hodges, Augustus J., 13, Princes-street, Westminster
Hones, Thomas, Chelsea
Hu% Charles, Notting-hill, Kensington
Hughes, Charles, 79, Edgware-road
Hughes, Charles, 69, High-street, Portland-town
Jeffery, Frederick, and Erby, William P., Hammersmith
Kemp, George, 14, Morton-terrace, Kentish-town
Lambe'', John, 119, Fore-street, Cripplegate
Martin, Arthur, 5, LOwer Eaton-street
Matthewson, Charles, Kensington
Moody, Charles, 83, Goswell-road,Clerkenwell
ohn, 51, Charles street, Westminster
Norman, James, 93, Bishepsiate-street Without
Offer. Thomas, 44, Lamb's Conduit-street
Payne, John, 13, Oxford-market-house
Phillips, Georg 5, Red Lion-passage
Priest, 'leery, ii, Great Marylebone-street
Rice, Brothers. Gos well-road, Clerkenwell
Richardson, William, 22, Holmes-terrace, Kentish-town
Richardson,Riciiardson:
Frederick,
sTlh,rHealgdhne-setdrleee-ts, ptreoerttland.
town
Smith, Isaac, 6, Celbridge-place, Paddington
Taylor, William, 35, Little Pulteney-street
Todd, Anthony, 50 Illgh-street, Clerkenwell
Todd, Messrs., 18, Lamb's Conduit-street
Tozer, Henry, 16, Murray street, Camden-town
Vaughan, Alice, Leadenhall-market
Wellington, John, 13, New-street, Dorset-square
„Willan, George, Triangle, Hackney
Made up to November , 1854.
By order of the Board.
T. KEOGH, Secretary.
Inland Revenue Office, Fomerset House.

PENALTIES.
The Commi.sioners of Inland Revenue Hereby Give Notice, That
every pereon taking, killing, or pursuing game, without first obtain-
ing a certificate, incurs a penalty of 201., aid is also liable to be sur-
charged in double, the amount of the certificate duty.
Any person in pursuit of game refusing, on being duly required, to
produce his certificate, or to permit the same to be read, or a copy
to kill
in order that a
thereof to be taken, or refusing to declare his true name and place of
residence, also incurs a penalty of 201.
Gamekeepers are desired to take notice that a certificate
beyond
tyotnhde
of 11.
gamekeeper, it is
therel rt et
limits
of the
b6seud
manor
willo rrnafoottre authorise
wboubtyb emiaasnyy
deputedpers person
ent; a
requisite, not only that he should be deputed by some lord ore lady of
aequisitr,
manor or reputed manor, but also that such deputation should be
registered with the Clerk of the Peace, or the gamekeeper will be
liable to be surcharged in double the duty of 4/. Os. 10d , and also to
be prosecuted by any common informer for the penalty of 201.
N.R.—lt is the intention of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue
to publish
or
in a separate list the names and residences of all persons
surched in double duty for sporting without certificates.

• o.aitted la error in Ant publication.

THE,CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.—
The ANNUAL ACCOUNTS.—A Copy of the. Annual Ac-
counts and Balance Sheet for the Financial Year ending the 29th of
Sept., 1854, to be presented at the Second Annual Meeting, next
TUE • DAY Afternoon, the 12th inst., at Exeter Hall, has been duly
forwarded to every Member of the Conservative Land Society. In
the evenof any Shareholder in town or country not having received
such cop±, immediate application is requested to be made to
, UifARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Secretary.
33, Norfolk-striet, Strand, Dec. sth, 1854.
One Hundred Rights of Choice will be drawn next Tuesday, and
Fifty Shares added by Seniority. Members should refer to their
Pass Rooks to be sure that their subscriptions be not in arrear at
the 24th Public Drawing on the 12th inst., up to which date Mem-
bers may be taken to be included therein. Viscount Rane!agh will
take the chair at Three o'clock.

BANK OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.
Incorporated by Royal Charter. The Court of Directors
hereLy give notice, that a HALF-YEARLY DIVIDEND at the rate
of six per cent. per annum on the capital of the Bank, will be pay-
able to the proprietors of shares registered in this country, on and
after the sth day of January next, at the office of the Corporation, No.
7, St. Helen's-plac, Bithopsgate-street, between the hours of Ten
and Four. •

No transfer can be made between the 15th instant, and the sth
proximo, as the book§ murt be closed during that period.

By order of the Court. -
G. DE B. ATT WOOD, Secretary.
/co. 7, St. Helen's-place, London, sth Dec., 1854.

CONTRACT FOE COFFEE.

Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and
Transport Services, Somerset-place, Bth December, 1854,
TEtE Commissioners for Executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, do Hereby Give Notice, that oa WEDNESDAY, the 13th"
instant, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons
as may be willing to Contract for supplying and delivering into her
Majesty's Victualling Stores at DEPTFORD,

a . Whe 11,to be delivered.
lbs. Halt lila weekihnd the remaladerina
- - - "
120,000
wferereetd
abftyetrhweapradne,yortenedarelrlienrgi.f pre-
COFFEE (Raw) ...

Tenders,may be made for the whole or any Portion of the Coffee.
Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the ten-
ders are opened, of co acting either for the whole, or for such
part thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a greater quantity, or
of not contracting for any, and also an unlimited power of selection.
Samples (not less than 21bs.) must be produced by the parties ten-
dering. '
The Samples produced by persons whose Tenders are not accepted
are requested to be taken away by them immediately after the Con-
tract has been decided.
The conditions of the Revised Contract may be seen at the said
office. No tender will be received after ene o'clock on the day of
treaty, nor any noticed, uniois made on the Printed form provided for
the purpose, and which may be obtained on Application at the said
Office.
Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Coffee,"
and must also be delivered at Somerset-place.

SCOTTISH WIDOWS' FUND and LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
• Established A.D. 1815.
Head Office—Edinburgh, 5, &t. Andrew-square.
Parties proposing to become Members of this Scciety are reminded
that Policies effected before the close of the present year will rank
at all future Divisions of Profits as of a full Year's Standing above
those delayed till 1855.
JOHN MACKENZIE, Manager.
WM. LINDESAY, Secretary.

Edinburgh, December, 1 554
N.B.—The amount of Assurances which may be undertaken by the
Society upon Individual Lives has now been extended from 5,0001.
to 7,0001.

LONDON HONORARY BOARD.
George Young, Esq., 47, Wimp°le-street and Mark-lane.
Charles Edward Pollock, Esq., Barrister, Temple.
David Hill, Esq., East India House.
John Murray, Esq., Albemarle-street.
Samuel Laing. Esq., Chairman of Brighton Railway.
Sir John Thomas tlriggs. Admiralty.
Leonard Horner, Esq., Home•otiiee.
John Taylor, jun., Esq., C.E., Queen-street-place.

DR. CULVERWELL ON NERVOUSNESS, DEBILITY, AND

INDIGESTION*.

Mss, on Urinary Derangements, Constipation, sod Memorrholds, Is
each, by post Is. Gil.
. - .. .

WHAT TO EAT, -DRINK, AND AVOID.
"Abstentla multi curantur morbi."

A popular exposition of the principal causes (over and careless
feeding, &c.) of the above harassing and distressing complaints,
with an equally intelligible and popular exposition of how we should
live to get rid of them ; to which is added, diet tables for every meal
In the day, and full instructions for the regimen and observance of
every hour out of tko twenty. four. Illustrated by numerous
cases, &c.

LIGHTS AND SHADES OF :MARRIED LIFE.
'4 He which that hath no wif, I hold him lost,
Ilciplesq, and all desolat. Ile that hath no child,
Like sun and winde."—Chaucer.

Subject :Marriage, its expectations and Necessities—Development
of the Affections—Love Matches—Precipitate, impelled, and retarded
Unions—Marital Incongruities—Mutual Unsuitableness—Mental
Incompatibility ttnd Physical Defectiveness—Advantages of Inter-
marriage—Theory of Gestation—Hereditary Resemblance—Mode of
determining Legitimacy. On Infelicitous, Infertile, and all Unas-
similable Alliances—Law of Divorce, &c.,

CILLSTITY AND ITS INFRINGEILENT3.
A Lecture to Toughen.
" What passions hurt the body=st/haf improve,

Truth; as refined as Athens ever heard!'

Subject : Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The advent
of the passions. Chastity and its infringement. The casualties of
licentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narrative,
and remediative. Advocacy of early marriages, &c.
4.

ANOTHER PRUSSIAN .NOTE.

To complete the series of documents upon the
Eastern question, we. give below a translation of
the Prussian, Note of the 15th November, the last
of the many exchanged between the Cabinets of
Vienna and Berlin before the adoption by both
Powers of the additional article to the treaty of
20th April. Immediately on receipt of this de-
spatch Count d'Arnim, the Prussian representative
at Vienna, signed the said additional' article with
Count Buol, 'the Ausirian Minister of Foreign
Affairs :

" NOTE PROM BARON DE MANTEUFFEL TO COUNT
D'ARNIM.

" Berlin, Nov. 15.

" Thanks to the kindness of Count de Buol, your
Excellency is already acquainted with the reply of the
Imperial Cabinet to our overtures of the 30th of last
month. Count Esterhazy has since communicated to me
the despatches addressed to him on the sth instant, of
which I annex a copy to complete the archives of the
royal mission;
" We felt great satisfaction in finding that the Austrian
Cabinet appreciated the sincere desire of an entente
which directed our propositions of the 30th October.
Oar satisfaction in this respect was the greater, as in the
ensemble of the impression which the observations made
in reply by the Austrian Cabinet produeed upon us, we
fund the desired and hoped-for conviction that the two
high Courts are sufficiently agreed upon the means, and
upon the object of their common position as reg'ards the
great questions ii connection"with the Eastern question,
to make shortly and equally in common ulterior propo-
sitions to their other allies at the Federal Assembly.

" Animated by the desire that this may take place
within the shortest possible delay, we have examined, in
the most scrupulous manner, the reasons which in a gene-
ratorspecial.manner, Austriaha.4thought fit in its point of
view, to oppose to the eventual federal resolution previously
formulated by us, In acting thus we have taken the
largest account of the considerations resulting for Aus-
tria from her European position, and from the obligations
resulting therefrom.

"We-think we may paes over the special reasons in
silence. I must, however; is a general manner, point
out, as resting on a misunderstanding, the supposition
that it was our wish to declare thefour points exclusively
and under all circumstances, obligatory for us and for
our allies, and, consequently, to bind Austria within
this circle.

"Art. 3 anticipated in a general manner the case in
which new demands might be put in the interest of the
union of the Central States of Europe, and only stipulated
for this case a preliminary resolution taken in common.
We maintain that Austria, by declaring herself willing
to accept this stipulation under the form of a resolution
of the Diet, would only be acting in the spirit of the
treaty of the 20th April.
" However, and as we have observed above, we ap-
preciate the objections raised by the Court of Vienna,
and we have endeavoured, as far as the maintenance of
our own conviction would allow us, to put aside from
the new project annexed to this, and of which his Majesty
the King approves entirely, anything which might be in
contradiction with the Austrian interpretation ; to intro-
duce, on the contrary, nearly word for weld the three
points such as Austria formulates them herself in the
draft of instructions for the Imperiatenvoy to the Diet
—a draftof which has been communicated to us—in such
manner that we think we may confidently count upon.it
that Baron Prekesch will be authorised to pronounce
himself in the committee in favour of the adoption of the
project.
Majesty'the King in deigning, as I have already
observed, to approve of such a dtcision by the Diet, is,
nevertheless, penetrated with the conviction that to avoid
discussions and dissentient votes, it can only be adopted
when it shall have been preceded by the conclusion of an
additional article to formulate the obligation of the pro-
tection to be accorded to Austria in the Principalities,
obligations which the Austrian Cabinet itself allows to
go beyond the primitive principle of the treaty of the
20th April. His Majesty has also ordained that in draw-
in, up this additional article everything should be avoided
of .a
nature to retard an entente. To this dominant con-
sideration is due the annexed project, also approved of
by his Majesty, and which your Excellency will commu-
nicate to Count Buol, with the observation that; if it is•
approved of by his Majesty the Emperor of Austria,
your Excellency is authorised to sign it without loss of
time, with Count Buol. If at Vienna they should pre-
fer that it should be signed here, Prince Esterhazy might
easily be authorised, by a telegraphic despatch, to sign
it with me. The formalities relative to the full powers
might be completed afterwards.
" Nevertheless, if the signing the additional article
takes place, it ought to be immediately communicated as
well to our German allies as to our representatives at
Frankfort; and its unanimous adoption not only would
not cause any new delay, but would considerably sim-
plify the labours of the committee appointed thereon, as
the latter would only have to formulate its propositions
by referring to the additional article, and those proposi-
tion, if based upon a project agreed upon between Prussia
and Austria, might certainly count upon unanimous
adoption, as well by the committee as by the Federal
Assembly itself.
" Your Excellency will communicate the present de-
spatch and documents annexed without delay Ito the Im-
perial Cabinet. His Majesty the King is very anxious
that this important affair, relative to which his Majesty
is mclved by the most profound solicitude for the Prussian
and German interests, as also for the general interests of
Europe, should attain a prompt solution in the sense
indicated above ; and in this he counts confidently upon
the active and decisive concurrence of his august ally, his
Majessy the Emperor of Austria. I await, with the
greatest interest, the reports of your Excellency upon
the result of these measures.
"I am; &c., (Signed) "DE MANTEUFFICL."

STATE OF TRADE.

NOTTINGHAM, Dec. B.—The usual anticipations in the
lace trade lead us to expect the transaction of a fair busi-
ness at this season, with an additional stimulus towards
the end of January. But the current seasou exhibits a
total and almost unaccountable cessation of business.
Half time has in many instances been introduced, and
quarter time is spoken of. Materials, however, continue
firm, fot although wrought silks may be procurable at
old rates, raw materials are only negotiable at the ad-
vance—it being known that the arrivals for the next
four months will only average 2,000 tons a month,
whereas the deliveries for the last ten months have been
at the rate of 4,000. Thus if only 3,000 tons a month
should be demanded for consumption, the inroad upon
stocks would be very considerable.
In hosiery there is no alteration and no improvement
to report. The continued accounts from Australia sug-
gest doubts of the stability of many of the colonial firms
unless they can be assisted over their difficulties ; and
there are this morning rumours of two very considerable
failures of wholesale houses in London which have ex-
ercised a further depressing influence on trade.—Notting-
hamshire Guardian.
LEICESTER, Dec. 7.----Busitess continues active in the
departments preparing goods for the East, and produces
a beneficial influence in other branches by engaging
surplus labour, which otherwise would be unoccupied s.t
this season of the year. Prices of wool and yarn remain
firm.
BRADFORD, Dec. 7.—Wool—There have been more
lookers during the week, but the business doing is very
limited, and prices without change in bright-haired
wools. Other kinds continue in favour of the buyer. I
Noils and brokes are sought after, and with only a small
quantity making. Yarns—There is somewhat more
confidence in the yarn trade, arising from the very di-
minished production and the unwillingness of spinners to
produce yarns at the present prices. All seem satisfied
that yarns have seen the lowest paint, and any change
must be upward to induce the machinery now idle to be
put in motion. Pieces—The business doing is limited,
and may be expected to continue so till the turn of the
year. The stocks of finished goods held by the mer-
chants is much less than has been for many years at this•
period, and of grey or undyed stock they had none ;
whereas they have in previous seasons bought largely
for the spring. All is yet to do, and the stocks held by
the manufacturers are unusually light, and but few
making ; and, with more than forty less spinners and
manufacturers than at the close of the year, it is reason-
able to expect a return of activity.—Bradford Observer.
LEEDS, Dec. s.—We have no improvement to report
of the state of the woollen trade. Both on Saturday
and to-day the business done at the cloth halls was to a
very trifling amount ; very little has also been done out
of the market. Prices rule steady, and the stocks mo-
derate, but in the present state of the demand the manu-
facturers are lessening the production, and, in conse-
quence, the mills are becoming less actively employed.
Business has been dull in the warehouses since this day
week, and, in the absence of the usual demand for ship.
ping, little is expected by way of improvement for some
time.
HUDDERSFIELD, Dec. s.—ln some departments of the
market there has been a trifle more doing, but generaly
there have been no sales of moment. No one seems in-
clined to speculate, and job lots appear almost a drug.
The yarn spinners, who have usually been busy at this
period, are, like the rest, very fiat.

THE INVESTIGATION All LAMBETH WORKHOUSE.—
Yesterday Messrs. Austen and Cave met again in the
Board-room of Lambeth Workhouse, for the purpose of
hearing the defence of the officials affected by the
evidence taken en the previous occasions. The whole
of the sitting was occupied with the examination on
oath of Mr. Joseph Piercy, the master, who at great
length entered into the various charges brought against
himself, denying some, and offering explanations Os
others. Readmitted having confined the woman Mailea
in the surgery adjoining the dead-house, but stated that
when giving the order it had not occurred to him thot
at
it was not a proper place.
td paint, but said he preferred it. With respect to the
man who lay in bed so long because he
ed had no clothe.,
he (the master) ordered them to be suppli directly he
heard of it, and severely censured Hyde for not having
provided them long before. The inquiry was further
adjourned. •