The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-27 00:00:00

LEEDS, FRIDAY.
THE CORPORATION ADDRESS.
Lord Palmerston was received at the Leeds
Town Hall shortly after noon yesterday, by the
Mayor (W. Kelsall, Esq.), and the Corporation.
The following address was then read by the Town
Clerk (J. E. Smith, Esq.) :
" To THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD VISCOUNT PAL-
MERSTON, M.P., K.G., FIRST LORD OF HER MAJESTY'S
TREASURY.
" We, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the
borough of Leeds, in the county of York, gadly embrace
the opportunity which your lordship's visit to the town
affords us of offering for ourselves and the great consti-
tuency we represent, a tribute of respectful gratitude for
your able and distinguished public services, now extending
over more than half a century. We thankfully acknow-
ledge, as characteristic of your lordship's Parliamentary
and official life, a steady adherence to those sound prin-
ciples of government which, under Providence, have se-
cured our national honour and happiness, loyalty to the
Sovereign, the maintenance of law and order, and the pre-
servation of our glorious constitution by reforms adapted
io the progressive requirements of the country, and neither
prematurely forced upon it before it was prepared for them,
nor timidly or selfishly withheld when they could be advan-
tageously accomplished. Imbued with these principles,
and endowed with the high requisites for British states-
manship, your lordship has been alike distinguished as a
Minister of the Crown, and a champion of constitutional
and social improvement ; strengZhening the people's reve-
rence for the Crown by the beneficial exercise of its powers;
and promoting constitutional and social improvement by a
powerful support to the great measures of Catholic Emanci-
pation, Parliamentary Reform, and the Repeal of the Corn-
laws. In our foreign as well as our domestic relations we
owe to your lordship a large debt of gratitude. Amongst
living statesmen it is to your lordship that the glory of
making the name of an Englishman as much respected as
that of an ancient Roman pre-eminently belongs. Under
your guardianship, a British subject, if innocent of crime,
is secure in every quarter of the globe. Nor has the benefit
of your lordship's administration of foreign affairs been con-
fined to our own countrymen. Other nations have, at critical
periods, owed to it their escape from impending war; and your
lordship's counsels have ever tended to the preservation of
peace on the only basis that can perfectly secure it a due ob-
servance of the reciprocal obligations between governors and
governed. Against the excesses of irresponsible power on
the one hand, and unbridled license on the other, your
lordship's warning voice has been often raised; and the
wisdom of the warning exemplified by the blessings flow-
ing from its observance, or the calamities resulting from its
neglect. Your lordship's high qualifications for the public
service happily led our beloved Queen, with hearty satis-
faction to her Parliament and her people, to confide to your
hands, at an important crisis, the most honourable post a
subject' can fill—that of Prime Minister of England. The
energy and ability with which the difficulties of that crisis
were surmounted, and the skill and judgment with which
your lordship has presided over the national councils
during your tenure of office, constitute additional claims
(which we are proud to acknowledge) on our admiration
and gratitude, and strengthen the confidence which we
share with the great body of our fellow-subjects that under
your lordship's guidance our country will steadily continue
in its course ofJoyal attachment to the Sovereign, reverence
for law and order, and judicious improvements in its time-
honoured institutions.'
Lord PALMERSTON, lir reply, said—l can assure
you, Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, that it is impos-
sible for language adequately to express the high
feelings of pride and gratification with which I
have been inspired not only by the cordial and
friendly reception which I have met with from the
inhabitants of this great city, but more particu-
larly by the kind and flattering expressions—too
flattering lam conscious—of confidence contained
in the address which has just been read. Under
any circumstances, such proofs of goodwill and
confidence from a great and important portion of
the community would be most gratifying to the
mind of any man, but I feel peculiar pleasure, be-
cause I have had, through friendship and through
official relations, a sort of connection with this
great borough of Leeds. It was my good fortune
to enjoy the personal friendship and to receive
the valuable official assistance of your distinguished
townsman, the late Mr. Baines, a man of whom it
may be said that he was the type of an English
gentleman—(cheers)—esteemed and respected in
private life, and endowed with those statesmanlike
qualities which fitted him to perform important
functions in the service of the State. (Cheers.) I
trust that ram not flattering myself too much in
thinking that I claim a continuance of the friend-
' ship which I enjoyed with him in the person of his
respected brother. (Cheers.) But, gentlemen, if
public men undergo labours and anxieties in the
performance of their public duties, they receive an
ample reward in such marks of personal confidence
and good will as those with which I have been
honoured to-day, and especially when they proceed,
as in this case, from one of the most important
communities in the kingdom, one of those great
seats of industry which constitute the wealth, the.
greatness, the prosperity, and the dignity of the
, United Kingdom. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, in
youe address you have embodied opiniens founded
on just principles of national government, you have
expressed your sentiments as to the propriety and
necessity of progressive improvement in all the in-
stitutions of the country, but you have wisely ob-
served that those improvements phonic] not on
the one hand be forced prematurely, nor, on the
other hand, be delayed too long. (" Hear, hear,"
and cheers.) It is perfectly true that men who
have deeply reflected on possible improvements,
who have convinced their minds of the good which
would result from such changes, are often impa-
tient of the delay which necessarily intervenes be-
tween the conception and the execution ; but these
rapid and " pen stroke" improvements may suit
despotic countries, where the executive Government
is all in all, and where the nation is compelled to
obey those impulses which proceed from above ;
but in a country like this, where the whole nation
participates in the function of Government, where
public opinion is as powerful as the edicts of the
governing authority, there time and delay are often
essentially necessi.:ary for the accomplishment of
good and useful legislation. (Cheers.) If improve-
ments and reforms are not fully discussed, if all the
objections on the one siclo and all the advantages
on the other are not put forward before the mind
of every reflecting man, if p:iblic opinion is not
fully prepared for the change, the ,7,00 d effect which
might otherwise result from such changes is not
fully and properly accomplished. And thus it has
been with all those great improvements which you
have noentioned in the address that has been just
read. (Near, hear.) perfectly true that
within the last 30 years greater improvements have
been made in the laws and institutions of the coun-
try than perhaps were accomplished in any coun-
try or by any nation within the same period of time.
We have seen that great disgrace to human nature,
negro slavery, abolished—(cheers)—by a sacrifice
nobly offered and nobly endured by the country—
a sacrifice great indeed in point of money, but
which was amply compensated by the great and
honourable result which it attained. (Hear, hear.)
We have seen our Catholic fellow-subjects placed on
a footing of equality with the Protestant part of
the community. We have seen those laws which
related to dissenters—the Test Acts—repealed.
(Cheers.) We have seen the corn laws repealeil—
(loud cheers)—a change which produced content-
ment and prosperity to a very large portion of the
community ; for whereas before, when the seasons
were adverse, and the price of food was raised, it
was natural men should think that the high price
of provisions was created by the sordid avarice of a
section of the community ; whereas every man must
now feel that if his food is dear, it is the result of
the inclemency of the season, and not in consequence
of any misgovernment of man. We have seen the
changes made in the laws regulating municipal cor-
porations—changes vastly important with reference
to the grand principle of local self-government.
And we have, more than all, seen the great improve-
ment in the political organisation of the country
vhich was effected by th parliamentary reform of
1832. (Cheers.) Well, gentlemen, all these changes
were the result of long discussion, of conflict of
opinion, and of conflict of interest ; and if it were
not so, if it had been accomplished by some sudden
stroke of the pen, they would not have resulted in
the good which has been effected by them, being the
result of discussion, and coming upon a country pre-
pared to receive them, and sensible of the advantages
they brought with them. (Hear, hear.) Gentle-
men, this address which has been read has adverted
in terms for which I beg to express my heartfelt
gratitude—has adverted to the general system of
administration, and especially to our foreign rela-
tions. If, gentlemen, the Government of which I
have had the honour to be a leading member has
been successful in its conduct of affairs, the merit is
due, first of all, to the generous support which it
had received from the people of this country, to the
unbounded confidence of the Crown, and to the dis-
tinguished ability of those colleagues of whom the
administration has been composed. (Hear.) We
have indeed been successful in assisting to spread
political liberty in other countries beyond our own
—(hear, hear)—not by dictation, not by armed in-
terference not by imposing on nations unwilling or
unprepared innovations even calculated for their
good, but by twisting those who were helping
themselves, and by aiding the development iu other
countries of those principles of political freedom
which we have the happiness of enjoying in our
own. (Loud cheers.) It is thus, gentlemen, that
in Belgium we have contributed to the establish-
ment of the system of government which has
rendered that country as happy and prosperss asr
any other country on the face of the earth. ( cad,
hear.) It is thus that we assisted the Spaniar
and Portuguese in obtaining constitutioand ns mwoeclehl!evde
on the general principles of our own,
contributed greatly to the happiness and
inprosperity
another
of those nations. We are now seeing
part of southern Europe changes in progress which
I trust may lead to the establishme.nt of a system
in Italy as conducive to the happiness and pros-
perity of the-Italians as, unfortunately, some of the
Governments which have existed
in
in that country
have contributed to their unliappen awl jheir

MEETING OF THE RAGGED SCHOOL AND
SHOE-BLACK BRIGADE.
At three o'clock this afternoon a meeting of the
supporters of the Leeds Ragged School and Shoe-
black Brigade was held in the Music Hall. The
orchestra was occupied by the children of the school,
who, in the interval which occurred between the
assembling of the audience and the arrival of the
Premier, occupied the time by singing several
hymns. Many of the unfortunate children showed
their literal qualification as pupils of such an in-
fititution, many of them being without shoes or
stockings, and bearing other outward evidences of
extreme poverty. On the arrival of his lordship
the National Anthem was sung.
His lordship having taken the chair, Mr. R. B.
SMITH, the honorary secretary, read the second
annual report.
Lord PALMERSTON was enthusias27ollrydsrhecipeisvoeidd.
On rising to address the company,
—Ladies and gentlemen—and I put ladies before
the gentlemen, not simply on account of the courte-
ous deference which is due always to their sex, but
because we are met upon an occasion of charitable
benevolence, and in actions of charity and bene-
volence the ladies always take precedence from the
kindness of their nature over the male part of the
community. (Cheers.) There cannot, I am sure,
be anything
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improvements
which m
in recent times only that the benevolent
social
is
sndnoatctive charity of the wealthy and the pros-
perous has been directed to better the condition of
those in humbler classes of life. But formerly the
attention of men was directed simply to afford
bodily relief. The comforts of the body were con-
sidered to be sufficient to occupy the attention of
fellow
those who wished to relieve their fell •
has creatures.been
It is only of late years that public attention
active and suc2essfully directed to the minds of
men, as well as to their bodily comforts—(hear,
hear)—and there can be no institution more
usefully applicable to the intellectual and moral
culture of the rising generation than that for
the encouragement of which this distinguished
meeting has now assembled. (Cheers.) If
we look upon it simply as regards the poor
creatures who are the objects of the institu-
tion, it is plain to see that nothing can be
more praiseworthy, and nothing can be more use-
ful, than institutions of this sort in their effec!.
We all know that from the arrangements of Provi-
dence it is impossible to effect that in large commu-
nities there shall not be the rich and the poor—it
is impossible to hope
014 hump arrantantitti

T LEEDS. 1 misery. (Hear.) But, gentlemen, our action is the
1 action of opinion alone. (Hear.) We leave the ,hall entirely relieve the humbler classes of society
Italians to deal with their own affairs, and all w I
hope and wish is that other countries should follow
our example—(hear)--and that the people of those
e fom the pinching affliction of poverty, and all
-Ilse distresses, both physical and mental, which
ar'e from such a condition. But wealth and corn-
-for:2,
regions, favoured by many of the gifts of nature, alleviate the infection of poverty—(cheers )
should be allowed to arrange their internal affairs in sity atyhere cannot be a better direction a genero-
lean that which this institution points out.
a manner which may seem to them best adapted for ri,
'ere 'trust be in all great communities—and the
their happiness and welfare. (Confirmed applause.) greater •
ke community the greater the development
You have been pleased to say in the address, of industsv ,
that by the attention paid by the Government of lation the and the greater accumulation of popu-
saore will the class exist—there must be
this country to our fellow-subjects travelling and in a great community a vast number of children who
residing in foreign parts they have been clothed with either have parents whose poverty prevents them
the protection of England wherever they may harm- from eating as they ought to do for their children,
lessly and innocently be. Why, gentlemen, that or whose improvident and dissolute habits render
must be so, because a country great and powerful them negligent and indisposed to give that care
like England, whose inhabitants are educated in the and attention, which even their limited means
principles of respect for the laws, and whose people, might enable them to afford. (Hear, hear.) There
when they travel abroad, go for the purpose of coin- must also be many who, by the visitation of Provi-
mercial enterprise or for individual instruction or dente, have been from the earliest period of life
recreation—who never indulge in plots and conspi- deprived of those parents upon whose care and at-
racies, however they may differ in opinion as to the tention they ought to have relied. Well, then, in
merits of the institutions in the lands they visit— these cases, institutions of this sort step in to
(hear)—I say that the inhabitants of such a country rescue the neglected child from the improvidence
as this must be respected wherever they go, because or neglect of its parents. They rescue the orphan
they are sure that their countrymen at home will from the destitution which too often besets him.
not look with indifference upon insults and injuries They give to those children early habits of industry,
which may be undeservedly visited upon their fellow- early habits of order, instruction of a moral and re-
men. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, you have alluded to the ligious description, early instruction in those things
maintenance of good order in this country. No doubt which may conduce afterwards to their success in
it is the desire and the duty of the executive govern- life ; and when we see the vast demand which.
ment to watch over the naintenance of order in the this great city affords for the industry and
kingdom whose destinies are committed to their intelligence of every working man and woman
charge ; but happily in this country that duty on within, we may see that those seeds which are
the part of the Government is easy, and reduced thus sown in the minds and habits of these little
almost to nothing. The peculiar character of the children are not sown to run to waste and to bloom
English nation; and that which strikes foreigners without result; but as surely as you instruct those
most when they visit our shores, is the manner in children in the means of proper, and social, and
which the people of these realms govern themselves orderly, and moral life, and in the means of procur-
and maintain order among each other. (Cheers.) It ing by their industry their livelihood, so sure will
is that spirit of order, that obedience to rule, which it be when they come to a day when their labour
not only affords the best security for internal peace, may be profitably employed, they are certain of
but which, applicable and applied as it is to all the finding an adequate demand for that labour, and
concerns of public and private life, is the elemen- profitable remuneration for its exercise. (Cheers.)
tary principle on which the wealth and increasing As far, then, as sympathy for these unhappy little
prosperity of the country is founded, not only in its beings extends, we should have adequate, com-
public respects, but even in its commercial and in- pletely adequate motives for assisting an institution
dustrial avocations. I say, then, that for this the of this kind. But if we take a larger view, and look
Government of the day can take but little credit. upon these institutions as bearing upon the social.
It is the people of the United Kingdom to whom interests of the country, we shall, in that view also,
the merit is mainly due, and no doubt it is find the strongest possible motives for encouraging
to the daily and yearly increase in the diffu- and enlarging these establishments. (Hear.) One of
sion of instruction and education among the great evils of civilised society is the uncivi-
the people, the decline of which it is im- lised portion of the:community. (Applause.) There
possible to contemplate, that this spirit of must be—and it is vain to hope it should not be—
order is mainly attributable. You are pleased there will be in every great community a certain
also in the address to refer to the loyalty of the amount of crime, of offences, of dissolute habits, of
people of this country. Well, Mr. Mayor, that recklessness and improvidence. But the amount of
loyalty is innate in the mind of every British sub- these evils will greatly depend upon the direction
ject—(loud cheers)—for if there is one peculiarity which is given in the earliest years of life to the
perhaps more than another which belongs to the minds of the rising generation. (Hear.) It is true
British character, it is a sentiment of gradations of that it may sometimes happen that those who have
rank. Every rank knows its own position. Neither had instilled into their minds in early childhood
is it jealous of those above, nor does it treat with- the best principles, may in, after life yield to
out respect those who may happen to be below. temptation—be led away by fortuitous circum-
There is a general consciousness that in human stances, and desert those paths in which. they were
society there must be degrees, and that the preser- early instructed to go. But these cases are com-
vation of that gradation is essential to the welfare paratively rare. You will find that the great
of the community, and that feeling—and that sen- source of offence and of misfortune—for crime is
timent—is directed with increased intensity towards misfortune—the great source of all those evils which
the sovereign who sits on the throne. (Hear, afflict afflict large communities and nations lies in this :
But if at all times that abstract feeling would lead the want of early and proper instruction of child-
the people of this country to sentiments of fervid ren in the first years of their life. (Cheers.) Well,
and devoted loyalty, it is yet our happiness to be we may take in moral and intellectual things,
ruled over by a sovereign who possesses in a degree examples from what is done in physical and mate-
never surpassed all those qualities of bead and rial matters. 'Why, if you want to dry a morass—
heart which are calculated to secure to her the if you want to get rid of noxious exhalations from.
deep-rooted affection of every one of the subjects unhealthy districts, you don't simply go to pump
which she governs. (Hear.) It is true, as you out the water which lies stagnant upon the ground,
have observed, that our sovereign is deeply imbued hut you go to the source of the evil, you go to the
with the principles of the constitution of which she head of the spring which perforates into these
is the head, and little indeed is the merit of those marshy districts, and by turning its spring into
who are appointed by her to administer in her channels diverting them from the country which
name, if they follow in that track which she points they impregnate you lead them in a healthy cur-
out to them to pursue, and if they in the adminis- rent for the use of mankind, and, by so diverting
tration of those powers which she confides to their them, that which used to be a noxious morass you.
hands are sedulously and strictly observant of the turn into profitable, and cultivated, and healthy
limits which the constitution of the country has land for the use of man. (Cheers.) In the same way
imposed on the executive authority, But there is I say we should intercept the sources of crime at the
another point in which our sovereign peculiarly fountain head. Inculcate early in the minds of the
deserves the admiration and the gratitude of the children* of the country maxims of religious and.
country—for not only are her cares directed to the moral principles. Teach them betimes the value
time present, bat with a far-seeing foresight she and importance of rules, regulations, and orders.
has trained up and educated her royal children. Teach the child, even in his school hours, to be
She has imbued them so deeply with all those sen- obedient to certain regulations, and you will find
timents and feelings which fit them to be members when he becomes a man that he will be more ready
of that royal family whom we have the happiness to to submit to the laws of his country, and to main-
look up to, that oven after that day—long we hope tain order in the society of which he is a member.
to be deferred—when her reign may cease, she will (Cheers.) 'Well, then, if you succeed in this—if
bequeath to her people the legacy of a family worthy you rescue from vice and crime a vast number of
to succeed her and sure to obtain the confidence those unhappy children, who, if left to all the
and affection of the country. (Loud cheers.) And hazards and temptations to which their condition
thus, gentlemen, though of late years we have seen exposes them, would become criminals and victims
in other countries sovereigns who have been so un- of the law, I say you are conferring an enormous
fortunate as to lose the confidence of their subjects, benefit on society—a benefit not confined to the day,
and to entail both on themselves and their people not confined to the creatures who are the objects of
all those calamities which arise from such a forfeiture your charity, but a benefit which becomes every
on the part of the ruling authority, we have the day greater and more extensive, which pervad.es
satisfaction of seeing in this country that every day the whole mass of society, and the advantage of
rivets more closely those bonds of affectionate which will be felt in future generations as
well
attachment which now exist, and which I trust as in the present time. (Cheers.) A point was
never wil' be diminished between the sovereign and mentioned in the report which has been read
the subjects of the realm. (Hear.) My Lord Mayor which shows another and important bearing of this
and gentlemen, I beg again to return you my institution. You have been told that that had
warmest thanks, and to assure you that expressions happened which in human nature might have been
like these of confidence and good will, on the part expected—that though instruction, moral and
of such an important portion of the community, are intellectual, in the ordinary course of nature, de-
the greatest encouragements which public men can scends from parent to child, yet that some time
receive in the discharge of their duty, and the that current will be reversed, and moral and reli-
amplest reward by which the honest and conscien- gious and intellectual instruction will go upwards
tious performance of those duties can hope to be from the child to the parent, and where the child
followed. (Hear, hear.) has been well brought up and instructed and the
The MAYOR then called for "Three times three" parents have had the misfortune of being differently
for Lord Palmerston, which was heartily given, the situated, the example of the child will operate
loud bass of the organ being used as an accompani- upon the conduct of the parent, that parents will
ment, and adding considerably to the effect of this be reclaimed from habits that bring them to
demonstration. poverty and disgrace, by seeing in the example *of
The proceedings concludedwith a round of cheers their children that which they will blush not to
for Lady Palmerston. be able to imitate and to follow. (Cheers.) I cannot
After the presentation of the address the Mayor believe that in the great, wealthy, commercial town
entertained the noble lord and a select party in the like this, full of charitable institutions, where
1 State-rooms to luncheon. The " Health of Lord men of capital and men of comfort already libe-
' Palmerston" was given by the mayor in compli- rally and generously contribute everything that
mentary terms ; and the noble lord, in replying,_ tends to the comfort: and well-being and wel-
apologised for the necessary brevity of his remarks, fare of those who are below them, I cannot for a
and stated that he had arranged to visit during the moment believe that the appeal which has been
afternoon some of the great manufacturing estab- made by the Secretary in the report which he has
lisliments, which had contributed so largely
.to t e read will not be attended with complete success,
prosperity
and the happiness of the inhabitants, and when the Secretary this time twelve months
and at the same time to the welfare and greatnessh shall read the report of the proceedings of the year
of the country. His lordship concluded by giving which is about to begin, he will be able to answer
" Prosperity to the town of Leeds." you that this institution, although comparatively
Mr. W. BECKETT.
The toast was responded to by r:, of recent establishment, has yet thriven like a
Lord P - ALMERSTONThe healthof
next proposed e vigorous plant which has already by its branching
the Mayor." shadows overspread a great portion of this great
gave " The Re-
His Worship, having responded,.. , .
and important town; and that the benefits which
presentatives for the West Riding,' coupled with its founders contemplated have begun to be amply
the name of Sir John Ramsden, who briefly re- realised. If that be so, I will venture to say
turned thanks. that the people of this great town of Leeds will
The noble viscount then departed from the hall, have done an act which will not only be highly
amidst loud cheers from the guests as well as from satisfactory and gratifying to their feelings when
the crowds collected outside. they reflect upon the results, but will be of infinite
value and importance to the social condition of this
great and important town.—The noble lord re-
sumed his seat amid loud applause.

THE BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENT LAW DE-
PUTATION.—A meeting held yesterday, prelimi-
nary to the reception of the deputation by Lord
Palmerston, attended by the delegates of the va-
rious Chambers of Commerce and Trade Protection
Societies of the West Riding, Samuel Morley, Esq.,
of London, and Mr. J. Batmen, secretary of the
Mercantile Law Amendment Society, it was una-
nimously resolved :---" That this meeting is of
opinion that it is most desirable to urge upon the
Government to adhere to the principle of the pay-
ment of the official assignees embodied in clause
101 of the bill of last session, providing also that
the further payment of the official assignees beyond
the fixed salary should be subject to the consent of
the creditors' assignees.

FAILURE OF MESSRS. DAVIES AND CO., BANKERS.
—The failure was announced yesterday afternoon of Messrs.
Robert Davies and Co., bankers, of Shoreditch. The fact
of their being in difficulties had transpired before the ter-
mination of business and a run ensued, which compelled
them to close their doors. Their customers were mostly
among the shopkeepers of the neighbourhood, and their
total liabilities are believed not to exceed £140,000. The
liquidation, it is feared, will prove unfavourable—possibly
not exceeding 10s. in the pound, the firm having sustained
some large losses from advances on building speculations.
Before the stoppage took place the London and County
Bank were appealed to for assistance, but the balance-sheet
rendered was such as to prevent compliance. That esta-
blishment, however, will open a branch in the locality, and
will endeavour to mitigate the effect of Messrs. Davies'
stoppage by making advances on the security of the divi-
dends to which the creditors may appear entitled. An-
nexed is the circular issued by Messrs. Davies and Co. :
" 187, Shoreditch, October 26.—Sir,—In
consequence of
the failure of a firm
which is largely indebted to us, we are
under the painful necessity of closing eur banking-house.
Under these circumstances, we have applied to the Lou.
don and County i as far as possible, the Bank to lessen
im-
mediate inconvenience to our customers by making ad-
vances to them, which, as we have been this day informed,
may be obtained on application at their banking-house,
South ISea I House, Threadneedle-street. A meeting of
our creditors will be held at the London Tavern in Bishops..
gate •street, on Monday next, the 29th lust, at 12 for 1
o'clock precisely, at which you are particularly requested
to attend.—We are, sir, your very obedient servants,
ROBERTIDAVIES and Co."
No gold wastaken from the Bank to-day, but the
whole of the £152,000 by the Red Jacket, whose arrival
was announced yesterday morning, will go abroad.
DEATH OF THE DUKE DECAZES.—The Duke
Decazes died on Thursday in Paris, in consequence of an
accident which befel him at Tours.
HEALTH OF SHEEP.—Mr. Baylis, Mr. Hemming,
and many others, who have given Thorley's Condiment to
sheep, record a favourable experience of its use. All declare
4 heir sheep to be healthier and freer from disease, where the
condiment is properly given. Writers on the natural his-
tory of the sheep unanimously mention that this animal
reffrs ollpinf sof pnametgai foci,