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MR. JEAFFRESON'S NEW NOVEL.
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BABEL : the Young Wife and the Old Love,
I
By the Author of "Crewe R!se,"
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AMERICA and ENGLAND.—The Restoration
by the People of the Unfired States to the British Severely,
of the Ship RE-(OLU l'E at Cowes, Dec. 16, 1856. Dedicated by
permission to her Most ,Iracious Majesty.—PAUL and D./MINI('
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Majesty, beg to announce that they will shortly publish an EN-
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Her majesty has graciously granted facilities towards the painting
of the Picture, which will include portraits of all the personages con-
cerned in this very important end unprecedented event.
The moment selected for the action of the Picture is that in which
Captain Hart,tein, having delivered, in ever memorable Language,
the measige of goodwill with which he had been charged by his
countrymen, received her 31ajesty's emphatic reply, "Sir, I thank
you." _ .

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ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRIRKA
with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the
Real sufferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-spren.,
Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure.
Translated from the Herman of Dr. PICKIrORD.

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B AIVQUEr To TilE AMERICAN OFFICERS
Cl' TEE RESOLUTE.

On Tuesday evening the civic compliment to the gal-
, lant officers of the United States' navy (Commander
Hartstein, Lieuts. Wells, Stone, and Davidson, Dr.
Ilacc6un and Dr. Otis), who brought to Portsmouth the
Arctic ship Resolute to restore to the nation as a gift
from the United Stet* was given by the Mayor and
Corporation at the Portland Hotel, Southsea.
Mr. Chas. Crasweller, Mayer of Portsmouth,presided:
He was supported by Major-General Breton, the Lieut.
Governer ; Col. Eyre, commanding the Royal Artillery
in the South-West District ; Col. Foster, commanding
Royal Engineers ; Mr. Crosskey, United States' Con-
sul-General for the district ; Chevalier Pappalardo, Vice
Consul at Portsmouth ; the Rev. J. P. M'Ca'hie, Vicar of
Portsmouth ; Mr. D. W. Carter, J.P. ; ' Capt. Harris,
R.N., of her Majesty's ship Illustrious ; Capt. Barker,
R.N., of her Majesty's steamship Retribution ; Captain
Richards, R.N. ; Lieutenant-Colonel • Parke, Royal
Marine Artillery ; Lieut.-Col. Wright, Assistant Quar-
termaster-General ; Major Nelson, Brigade Major ; Capt.
Tester, Aide-de-Camp ; Dr. Dornville, R.N., formerly
surgeon of the Resolute ; Mr. J. W. Ashby, R.N.; Lieut.
Malcolm, R.N.; Capt. Evelegh, Mr. W. G. Chambers,
&e. There were about 30 members of the town council
present ; the total number of the company being 65.
The dining room was elegantly equipped with suitable
flags and devices, and the tables ornamented with 'some
beautiful flowers from the conservatories of Sir George
Staunton, of Leigh Park.. The band of the 22d Regiment,
under the directiOn of Mr. Wallace, was in attendance.
On the removal of the cloth the toast of " The Queen,"
followed by that of "The President of the United States,''
was given by the MAYOR, and greeted with enthusiasm.
"The Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the rest
of the Royal family," by Alderman BRAMBLE, was also
acknowledged in a becoming manner.
The MAYOR, then rose to propose the toast of the
evening. He said—lt Will be in 'the recollection of all
present that H.M.S. Resolute, under the command of
Capt. Kellett, accompanied by H.M.S. Assistance, com-
manded by Sir E. Bideit;i, left this;cauntry in the early
part of 1852 for the purpose of exploring the Arctic re-
gions, and the whole world, as well as the British na-
tion, fondly hoped that they would have been successful
in their search for Sir John Franklin and his crew. I
need not tell you how sadly they were disappointed. I
need not inform you—for it is patent to you all—that
the Resolute was abandoned amid the ice of the Arctic
regions, and that she was found in a most extraordinary
manner by our American brethren soma 1,200 miles
from the place where she was left hard and fast in tire
icy rock—(cheers)—that this ship, the Resolute, has

been purchased, repaired, and refitted by the. American

Government ; and that by a special vote of Congress
she has been sent to this country as a present to
the nation: (Cheers.) May this legal act of Congress
receive in this country a corresponding mark of proton:El
respect and estgein ; and may it tend to cement with
increasing effect the beneficial frienchhip which has so

.ong existed between these two powerful nations !

(Cheert..) Allied as we are in blood, in language, in
manners, in commerce, in science, and in arts, we hold
both nations as brothers, and long may they exist in
peaceful fraternity. (Cheers.) We are 'spout-ad this
evening with the presence of Captain Hartstein and his
brother officers of the United States navy, who have
navigated to this country the R3solnte, now in Ports-
mouth harbour. We hail their presence here this even-
ing as the official representatives of the United States
with, the greatest pleasure and satisfaction. I propose to
you, gentlemen, "Captain llart•tein and the other offi.
cers of the Resulute," with a hearty welcome, and three
times three."

Full justice was done to the toast.

Captain HARTSTEIN, on rising, was greeted with pro.
longed cheering. On its subsiding he said—Mr. Mayor
and gentlemen, for your kind expression of good feeling
towards' my country, :myself, and the other officers of
the Resolute, I sincerely thank you. We have been sent
to your shores on a mission of friendship —(loud cheers)
—and we have met with a brother's welcome—(renewed
cheers)—for which our thanks are due to all. I most
cordially express those thanks to the municipal authori-
ties of this city, who are among the first in the generous
competition to offer us the hand of greeting and hoipita•

lity. (Cheers.) And let we ere the earnest hope
that the union of our flags on this festive occasion may
prove emblematical of the foclings of our re,psetive coun
tries for all coming time. (Cheer,:.) I again thianli you

tor the manner in whicli you hive drunk our healthy, and
hope every success Int), attend this city in its commerce,
and its citizens in all their undertwiings. Prolong,d
cheering followed this terse addresi. Captain liarstem
concluded by prop3sing "The Health of the 1111y,,r
and Corporation of Portsmouth, and success to their

commerce."
The MAYOR returned thanks.
Alderman STIGANT proposzd "Tne American Consul
and Vice-Consul for the district, Mr. Cros,key and
Chevalier Pappaiardo," which was received with the
warmest cordiality.

Mr. ertOSSKEY returned thanks, aid in doing so paid
a high tribute to the zeal and assiduity of his colleague,
Cheralisr Pappalardo. ide said, from the lengthened
period that he had had the honour of being American
Consul at Southampton and places adjacent, he had hal
an opportunity of forming an opinion of the English
character, and therefore he was not at all surprised at
the manner in which they had received the pledge of
affection on the part of the government and people of
the United States. (Cheers.) Although it had fallen to
the happy lot of Amei iCA to inaugurate thin auspicious
event in the annals of nations, he had no doubt toat had
the relative positions of the two countries been changed
England would have done just as they (the Atnericam)
had done—(loud cheers) ;—and she had no greater wish
than for sonic opportunity to occur wherein she could
prove that she was not ta be exatellecl in such acts even
by her first-born daughter, America. (Cheers.) England
must rejoice in America's prosperity, even as America
rejoiced when she heard of the increase of British pros-
perity and the extension of the British empire in legiti-
mate directions. The world was large enough for both
nations to fulfil their respective destinies without coming
into conflict with each other. (Cheers.) The East
seemed peculiarly England's sphere of action, while the
%Vest would appear to be the sphere in which America,
rather than England, should exercise the influence
which the Anglo-Saxou race bad never failed to exec
vise among a semi-barbarous people or over un-
developed countries. At all events, it was their duty
to cherish the present kindly feelings existing between
them, to avoid all talk of war, and to be chary of each
other's honour and feelings as they would of their own,
far hard words too often led to hard blows. (Cheers.)
When he heard the possibility of a war between the two
countries, the idea appeared to him to be so unnatural
that he found himself repeating, with the transposition
of a few words, an old nursery rhyme, as familiar on their
side of the Atlantic as on this, and it might not be inap.
propriate on the present occasion to repeat them :
•` Let dogs delight to bark and bite,
" For God hath made them so;
" Let Turks and Russians growl and fight,
" For 'tis their nature to.
But Anglo-Saxons should never let
" Their angry passions rise,
"Their great big hands were never made
"To tear each other's eyes."
(Cheers, and laughter.) He (Hr. Crosskey) recom-
mended both English and American mothers to adopt
this version in teaching their children, as a war between
England and America would be so dire a catastrophe
that it would be execrated by all lovers of their kind ;
it would be a violation of the first principles of nature,
and in disobedience of the law of the Great Ruler of the
Universe. (Cheers.)
The MAYOR proposed "The Navies and Armies of the
United States and Great Britain." Enthusiastic plau-
dits greeted the toasa
Lieut. C. H. WELLS, First-Lieut. of the Resolute, in
returning thanks, said he did not considerthat the Ameri-
can officers of the Resolute were strangers in a strange land ;
had it been otherwise he should have experienced no little
embarrassment on an occasion of this kind. He felt him-
self peculiarly fortunate in being able to visit England in
the Resolute on an occasion which would beconfe histo-
rical, not only on account of its being a pledge of good
feeling from a son towards a parent, but also from the
way in which they had been received by her Majesty
Queen Victoria—(loud cheers)—and, he might add, by
the people of England generally. (Cheers.) He bad not
words to express the gratification he felt at the sincere
—he might say national—welcome he bad received on
reaching the shores of England, and he should carry
away with him a thousand agrteable memorials of Eng-
land and Englishmen. (Prolonged cheering.) It had
been his good fortune on more than one occasion to meet
with army and navy officers of England, and be had in.

variably received from them—and he spoke the senti-
ments of every American naval officer—the utmost kind-
ness and hospitality. (Cheers.) It bad been his good
fortune to meet with a great number of them in Ports-
wouth, and he had now visibly before bile one, Colonel
Eyre (of the Royal Artillery, who sat opposite to the
gallant speaker)—whom he had the pleasure of knowing
in China ; it tended to make him feel quite at home
when he found himself surrounded by persons whore he
had had the pleasure of meeting before. (Cheers.)
Mr. CROSSKEY then r: sponded for the American army,
and

Major General BRETON returned thanks for the British
army. He assured them that he felt highly sensible of
the handsome and enthusiastic manner in which they
had received the toast.
Captain Halms, R.N., of her Majesty's ship lilus-
trious, acknowledged the toast on behalf of 'he British
navy. He regretted that the Commander-in. Chief (Vice-
Admiral Sir George Seymour) was unavoidably absent,
as he would have done greater justice to the toast. He
trusted that the nations would always be united, as they
were bound together by tae t,trongest commercial in
terests, and by those ties of blood which ought never to
be severed. (Cheers.)
Mr. W. H. GAREINGTON, in proposing the health of

Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour, said nothing would
have prevented the attendance of the Admiral upon so
happy an occasion but the recent death of a near and
dear relative. (Hear, hear.)
Captain BARKER, of her Majesty's steamship Retribu-
tion, acknowledged the teast on behalf of the Port
Admiral.

Dr. E. J. SCOTT proposed "the health of Major•

General Breton, Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth::
He said—During the period of this distinguished'and
gallant officer's residence among them his urbane and
courteous demeanour and the benevolent manntr in
which he bad identified himself with all the local chari-
table institutions would he greatly remembered by them.
(Hear, hear, and cheers.) That was not the arena for

hie) (Dr. Scott) to dilate upon the gallant general's

scrvices to his country, but he would wish to draw_their
attention- to the manner in which he perfouned his
duties daring the late season of great reap ,nsibillty.

when's° many of eur gailont soldiers embarked from his
district his indefatigable z3al and untiring attention
during that period were such as to merit the %veiniest'
admiration. (Loud cheers.)
31:ler-General BRETON, in returning thanks, said—
They had certainly had some rather ban work to do, but
he must not take mere credit to himself than was his
due. (Hear, hear.) He had throughout received most
valuable assistance from the navy, from the admirals
downwards,. at all time,,, and in all seasons ; indeed in
season and out of season, and when he could not have
expected it. With their aid and that of the other kcal
authorities, especially the railway companies, they had
been enabled to do what they otherwise could not have
done. 'Fie could not conclude without testifying to the
kiodness and hospitality which the sick and wounded
had received from the inhabitants on their return to
their native shores. (Cheers.)

Alderman OwErt proposed " The health of Mr. Henry
Grinnell," of Istew York, projector, at his own expense,
of the American Arctic expedition in search. of Sir John
Franklin.

Dr. OTIS, of the Resolute, responded. Ho said be
was happy, in the unexpected absence of Mr. Cornelius
Grinnell, to thank them on behalf of his distinguished
countryman. The distance between England and Ame-
rica was not so Brea: that 'common sympathies could not
be interchanged. (Cheers.) Sir John Franklin left
the English shores on a mission of science in which
Americans were equally interested, and when, after
years had passed, tidings came that the gallant Sir John
and his companions were imprisoned in the Polar z )ne,
and that the British Government bad sent expedition
after expedition to their relief—when the noble Lady
Franklin had thrown her fortune and influence into the
cause of aid and rescue—the spirit of sympathy was com-
municated to the American people ; it was taken up
and embodied by the merchant prince to whom they
had just done honour, and carried out with a generous
zeal and energy of which Americans might well be
proud. (Applause.)
Captain RICIIALMS, R.N., proposed "The health of
Dr. Kane of the United States' Navy," which was greeted
with the warmest approbation. He gave a review of
the dontr,r'a Arctic p>rseverance, and regretted that the
state of his health compelled him prematurely to discon-
tinue his exertions.

Mr. CROS,SKEY acknowledged the toast on behalf of his
absent countryman, Dr. Kane, who, like himself, was a
Philadelphian.
Alderman G. SHEPPARD gave the la3t toast—" May
the natural link between the United States and Great
Britain never be severed." He said, the United States
stands c ,nspicuous—a mighty nation growing in all the
essentials of greatness, still in the vigour of youth, eqrnest
in the cause of progress ; her ships and her commerce
found in- every port and country of the. world ; hor
agents spread far and wide for the extension of her com-
mercial greatn'ess ; thus as a nation affording a brilliant
exemplification of the fact that, where in infancy the
spirit of freedom is implanted, there will be energy and
strength of purpose in after years. (Cheers.)
This c3ncluded the toast list, and the Mayor and most
of the company left, it being near midnight.

THE GREAT NORTHERN AND THE COMMIT-
TEE OF TEE STOCK EXCHANGE.

The following documents have been forwarded to us
for publication :
The Great Northern Railway, Secretary's office,
4 Kin i's-cross Station, London, Dec. 24.

Sir,—ln return to your two letters of the 19th and
22,1 inst., forwarding copies of resolutions passed oy the
committee of the Stock Exchange on those dates respec-
tively, I have, as instructed, to transmit copy of a minute
of the Board of Directors of this company at their meet-
ing yesterday.—l am, sir, your obedt. humble servt.,
(Signed) J. R. MOWATT, Secy.
Geo. Webb, Eq., Secretary of the Committee
of the Stock Exchange.

The Great Northern Railway, Secretary's-office,
King's-cross Station, London.
Extract from the minutes of the proceedings of the direc-
tors at a meeting of the board hold on Tuesday, Dec. 234
Read letter of the 19th Dec. from Mr. G. Webb, sea.
retary of the Stock Exchange Committee, transmitting
copy of a resolution passed by that committee' on the 19th
inst. as follows : "Resolved, that transfers of the shares
and stock of the Great Northern Railway Company and
of those other companies connected therewith be verified
at the office of the company previous to the delivery of
the same."

Read further letter of the 22d inst. from Mr. Webb,
forwarding copy of another resolution of the committee
on the 22d inst. as fellows : "The committee having re-
-ceived evidence that the Great Northern Railway Com-
pany have refused to register transfers of stock accom-
panied by coupons, officially signed by the regircering
clerk of the company and by the secretary, for which
stock certificates of due registration in the names of the
sellers have been issued by the company's secretary,
Resolved unanimously That there being no security to
the public under the circumstances, the committee will
not recognise any further transactions in Great Northern
Railway Company's stocks or sharer, nor of the stocks
or shares of those other companies connected therewith,
and order the name of the Great Northern Railway
Company and of such other companies be struck out of
the official list of the Stock Exchange so long as such
transfers shall remain unrecognised."
At the desire of Mr. Denison, the ohairman, the secre-
tary explained to the board the course of examination
pursued with every transfer sent in for registration sub
sequent to the discovery of Redpath's frauds, and stated
that in these cases in which discrepancies, fraught with
suspicion, were discovered in the accounts of the parties
transferring, they or their brokers had been written tn,
and the cause of delay in passing the transfers explained,
and further time asked for, so as to afford opportunity
for the thorough examination necessary to decide whether
such transfers were entitled to be registered, begetting,
unavoidably, much delay, and that such expla:iation of
the delay generally satisfied the parties interested.
The secretary further explained that it was only in
such cases of considerable doubt and difficulty that the
great delay /alleged to have occurred had taken place,
though of course there was, inevitably, interruption in
carrying on the current business, the books and docu-
ments, and the clerks conversant with them, being con-
stantly trequired by the solicitors in preparing for the
prosecution of Redpath ; but that he, the secretary, is
not aware of any ground for asserting that the company
intended, or even contemplated, refusing finally to ac-
knowledge transfers when the parties were duly regis-
tered in the books, and had sent in or lodged at the
office proper stock certificates with the transfer ; that on
the contrary, in several instances when he, the secretary,
had the advantage of personal explanation with proprie-
tors, he impressed them with the opinion that all stock
properly acquired, and duly registered, must, in good
faith, be recognised.
In support ref that statement read letters be, the secre-
tary, 11AI addressed to ;Niue:4-s. Lladton and Sons, Messre.
Smith and Sons, Messrs. Mullens, Marshall, and Co.,
Mr. M. A. Barnes, and to several other parties ; and
also letter received from Messrs, Field, Son, and Wood,