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THE IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT
AssociAT to N, (Limited).
Capital Subscribed, £5,000,000. Paid up, £500,000.
• BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
, Chairman, JOHN CHAPMAN, Esq.
Xenophon Balli, Esq. G. G. Macpherson, Esq.
E. J. Coleman, Esq. W. Scholefield, Esq., M.P.
Mr. Alderman Dakin. Sir S. D. Scott, Bart.
James Dickson, Esq. H. Danby Seymour, Esq.,
P. D. Hadow, Esq. M.P.
J. 0. Hanson, Esq. Joseph Thornton, Esq.
G. F. Holroyd, Esq. Alfred Wilson, Esq.
J. G. Hombre, Esq. M. Zarifi, Esq.
Captain J. Gilbert Johnson.
MANAI
Henry J. Barker, Esq. I

LGERS.
I T. Fraser Sandeman, Esq.

REPORT of the Directors submitted to the Third Ordi-
nary General Meeting of the Proprietors at the London
Tavern, on Tuesday, the 23d January, 1866,
JOHN CHAPMAN, Esq., in th?. Chair.
The Directors have the pleasure of presenting their
Report for the half-year ending December 31, 1865, to-
gether with a Statement of Accounts made up to that date.
The balance of undivided profits brought forward after
payment of the dividend in July last was £53,141 155., and
the amount of net profit realised during the past half-year,
after payment of expenses, and after providing for all bad
and doubtful debts, and for rebate of interest on Loans
and Bills not yet matured, is £91,860 17s. 7d., making a
total of £145,002 12s. 7d. to be now disposed of.
Good evidence of the satisfactory progress of the Asso-
ciation is afforded by this statement, which fully boars out
the confident opinion expressed by the Directors at the
last general meeting.
It is recommended that the above sum be appropriated
as follows, viz., that—
£so,ooo 0 0 be applied to the payment of a divi-
dend for the past six months of 10s.
per share, being at the rate of 20 per
cent. per annum :
833 6 8 to the payment of income tax: and
that from the balance the sum of
75,000 0 0 be placed to the credit of a " Rest ;"
leaving a sum of
10,169 5 11 to be carried forward.

£145,002 12 7
The Directors have resolved to commence tho formation
of a" Rest" as essentially conducive to the best interests of
the Association.

It may be mentioned as an important feature that the
entire amount of the profits for the half-year results from a
continuous succession of transactions of a very regular
description, and of a nature _.to indicate that no apprehen-
sion need be entertained us to the permanent character of
the business in which the Association is engaged ; and the
Directors believe that with a continued exercise of care and
discrimination the Association will attain a position not
inferior to that of any other monetary institution in the
kingdom. .

By order of the Board,
W. C. WINTERBOT TOM,
Seen.tary.
27, Lombard-street, London, 10th January, 1866.

BALANCE-SHEET OF THE IMPERIAL MERCAN-
TILE CREDIT ASSOCIATION (Liunitud).
31ST DAT OF DECEMBER, 180.
CAPITAL AND LIABILITIES.

Du.
To Capital-
-100,000 shares of £5O
each, £5 per share
paid up
To Liabilities—
Cash held upon de-
posit £2,110,063 3 9
Sundry balances in
accounts current 15,926 17 8

Bills payable
Bankers' credits 585,000 0 0
Endorsements and
guarantees
Sundry charges and
commissions due

To rebate on bills and
loans not duo
To Profit and Loss—
Balance, being net
profit carried down

7,676 17 10

£500,000 0 0

2,125,990 1 5

2,581,665 7 9

39,38317 4

115,002 12 7

£5,392,041 19 1

X 145,00212 7
We have compared the above statement with the books
of the Association, and examined the securities, and hereby
certify to their correctness.
0. J. H. ALLEN,) Auditors.
JNO. YOUNG; f
London, 15th January, 1866.

The following resolutions wore carried unanimously:-
1. That the Report and Accounts as submitted and read
be and are hereby received and adopted.
2. That a Dividend of 10s. per share, free of income tax,
.be and is hereby declared, and that the same be payable on
the 24th inst.
Proposed by Sir S. Morton Poto, Bart., MP., seconded,
and carried unanimously-
3. That the best thanks of this meeting be given to the
Chairman, Directors, and Managers, for the zeal and ability
with which they have conducted the affairs of this Asso-
ciation during the past half-year.
JOHN CHAPMAN, Chairman.
(Extracted from the minutes.)
W. C. WINTEIMOT TOM, Secretary.
Jan. 23, 1866.

HORSHAM; DORKING, AND LEATHER
HEAD RAILWAY COMPANY.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the next ORDI-
NARY HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of this
Company will be held at the London, Brighton, and South.-
Coast Railway Company's Station, London-bridge, on FRI-
DAY, the 9th day of February next, at Eleven o'clock a.m.
precisely, to receive a Report irons the Directors, and for the
general purposes of the undertaking.
Notice is hereby further Given, that the said Meeting will
be. made Special, for the purpose of submitting, for the con-
sideration and approval of the shareholders, Articles of
Agreement, dated the first instant, modifying the ters s of
arrangement for the amalgamation of this Company with the
London, Brighton, and South-Coast Railway Company.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be Closed on the
2d day of February, and will remain closed until atter the
Meeting.
W. R SEYMOUR V. FITZGERALD, Chairman.
GEORGE W. BROWN, Secretary.
Company's Offices. 28, Great George-street,
Westminster, January, 1860.

THE EAST INDIA IRRIGATION AND
CANAL COMPANY.

NOTICE OF CALL.
NOTICE IS TIEREBY GIVEN, that. in pursuance of a
resolution duly passed by the Board of Olrectors, the Share-
holders of this Company are requested to pFy, at the Com-
pany's Bankers, Messrs. Ransom, Bouverie, and Co.. No. 1,
rall-Mall East, S.W., London, a CALL of ,ei 1' R. per share
(making £l3 10s. per share paid), on or be,fore 111URSDAl.
the 15th day of February next. upon 'which sum of £1 10s.
per share int. rest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum will
be paid from that date.

fnterest at the rate c,f 5 per cent. will be charged upon
such portions of the above Call as shall not be paid by the
day named.
Notice is also Given, that Shareholders are at ty to
pay up in advance of Calls to any amount and upon any
number of shares, upon the understanding that interest at 5
per coot. per annum will be paid thereon from the day of
payment.

JOHN WESTWOOD, Secretary to the Company.
8 and 9, Queen-Ptrect-pace, Southwark-bridge,
London, E.C., Jan. 13, 18G6.

HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN,
49, Great Ormond-street, Queen-square.
Patron—Her Majesty the QUEEN.
The Committee have much pleasure in announcing that A.
J. B. BE RESFORD HOPE, Esq, M.P., has consented to
preside at the FOURTEENTH ANNI EESA.RY FESTI-
VAL of this Charity, on Etbruary 12, at Willis's Rooms.
FIRST LIST OF STEWARDS.
The Most Noble the Marquis Vice-Admiral Sir Augustus
of A bercorn Clifford, Bart.
The Right ilonourab'e the The Rev. Sir C. Macgregor,
Earl or Shaftesbury, K.G. Bart.
The Right Honourable Earl Sir Archibald Alison, Bart.
Amherst Admiral Sir William Bowies
The Right Honourable Vis- Cot. Beauchamp Walker, C.B.
count Gort Colonel home Purves, C. B.
The Bight Rev. the Bishop of Colonel F. It. Wa do Sibtliorp
Chichester Lieut.-Colonel Frederick C.
The Right Rev. the Bishop of Keppel
St. David's Litut -Colonel Playfair
The Right Honourable Lord Michael V. Bass, Esq., M.P.
Leigh Allen A. Bathurst, Esq., M.P.
Right Honourable Viscount Stephen Cave, Esq.,
Milton, M.P. W. W. Fitzwiltiani Dick, En..
Colonel the Hon. Percy E. M.P.
Herbert M.P. Albert Grant, Esq., M.P.
The Hon. and Rev. Charles K. D. Hodgson, Esq., M.P.
James Willoughby J. Dyee Nicol, Esq., H. P.
The Honourable Arthur Kin- Arthur J. Otway, Esq., M.P.
naird, M.P. Charles Waring, Esq, hi. I'.
Sir R. N. C. Hamilton, Bart.
The complete List of Stewards will shortly be published.
Additional names will be thankfully. received. The expense
to each steward is limited to one guinea.
Subscriptions in aid of the funds are earnestiy solicited, and
will be thankfully received by the Treasurer, Henry Sykes
Thornton, Esq. ; or by any of the Stewards.
SAMUEL WIIITFORD, Secretary.

January 16, 1866

THE IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT
ASSOCIATION (Limited?.
Capital Subscribed, £5,000,000. Paid up, £500,000.
CHAIRMAN.
JOHN CHAPMAN, Esq.
MANAGERS.
Henry J. Barker, Esq., and T. Fraser Sandeman, Esq.
This Association makes Advances upon approved mer-
cantile and other securities, and receives money on deposit
at interest for short or long periods.
Depositors for periods of not less than three years may
procure, on application at the Offices, Debentures of the
Association, bearing interest at 6 per cent. per annum,
payable quarterly by coupon " to bearer" attached.
W. C. WIN TERBOT TOM, Secretary.
27, Lombard-street, London, E.C.

TOpARE.-THE HOLIDAYS.-
THEARRE OF MYSTERY, EGYPTIAN HALL.
MARVELS in MAGIC and VENT ttILOQUISNI, as per-
formed by command before her Stsjesty tee Queen and
the Royal Family at Windsor Castle, Tuesday Evening-.
Nov. 2,, 18f5. The marvellous SPHINX, the BIRTH of
FLOWER TREES, and STODARE'S crdebrated INDIAN
BASKET FEAT, as only performed by him.

Every evening at 8 ; Wednesday and Saturday at 3. Stalls
at Mitchell's. Old Bond-street, and Box-office, Egyptian
Ball. Admission, ls. and 20.; stalls, 36.

"Almost mirmulous."—Vide Times, April 18,1865.

CANTERBURY HALL.
RI-FUM
During the Week will be performed the above most
extraordinary Entertainment, containing all the novel-
tics now in this country, and including the services of
Les Montagnards, their first appearance ; Mr. E. Mar-
shall, Mrs. and Mr. W. Randall, the renowned Talliott,
Les Freres d'Etoile, Signor Tescano, a la Donato; Les
Tableaux d'Amour, illuminated by the Magnesium Light ;
Fairy Orchestra, designed and painted by Mr. T. Burgess
and Mr. W. Gowrie ; and Grand Ballet of upwards of one
hundred ballerines. The whole written and composed
expressly for this establishment by William Vandervell,
Esq. In addition to the vocal and instrumental entertain-
ment, EVERY EVENING.
Admission—Area, 6d; stalls and balcony, ls.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION,
Ba
NEW ADDITIONS.—In the ker-street,
Chamber of Horrors are
full-length Portrait Models, taken from Life, of CHAR-
LOTTE WINSOR and STEPHEN FORWOOD, alias
ERNEST SOUTHEY.
Open from 11 a.m. till dusk, and from 7 till 10 p.m.
Admittance, One Shilling; Children under 10, half-price ;
Extra Rooms, Sixpence.

ARGYLL ROOMS, WINDMILL-STREET,
Piccadilly.
Musical Director and Conductor, M. LUIGI CURTL
Principal Cornet-a-piston, M. M'Eleney. Euphonlon, the
celebrated Signor Luigi Mosca.
Programme this Evening and during the Week—Grand
Selections, IL TROVATORE and IL LUCIA. Solo vio-
loncello, M. Sloman, Jun. L'AFRICAIN VALSE and
ECLIPSE. GALOP.
Doors open at half-past 8 o'clock. Admission, Is.
Manager, M, GREIVET.

ToIIN GOE:NELL and CO.'S CHERRY
TOOTII PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth
powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the
enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to
the breath. Price la ed.—Bu Wharf, Itotherhithe, Lon-
don.

WHAT DO THE WILD WAVES SAY
NOW? —That the FIERY CROSS has arrived.
bringing some magnificent KA ISOW CONGOUS of delicious
vo. at a mere commission on
flavour.
eiartnioaonrtd whichprice m,
of aihneoEwAbhka€lllllDlA TEA CO .11PAN Y,
No. 5, Great St. Helen's Churchyard, Rishopegate-street.

STARCH 31A.NUPA.CTURERS
TO H. R. li. TILE PRINCESS OF WALES.
G LENFIELD PATENT STARCH,
Used in the Royal Laundry,

AND AWARDED TUE PRIZE MEDAL, 1862.
Sold by all Grooero, Chandlers, &o. &o.

IROYAL ARABIAN
ScIRCASSIAN BEAUTY
A ER, ARABIAN SOAPS,
I WASH,AD
ENAMELAALMAE RSTAECWR lAlrEsok D
and GOLDEN CIRCASSIAN HAIR 1V ASH can now be
obtained at all chemists in town and country. To guard
against imposition all enamels, washes, and to,let requisites
vended in her name have the Royal Arabian signet attached
to them.--47A, New Bond-street, where she can be consulted
daily.—Agents required in WWII and country.

DENTAL NOTICE. —Mr. ESKELL, Surgeon-
Dentist, of ft, Grosvenor-street, Bond-street, having
announced for a considerable period that " he is NOT con-
nrcted with any one of the name, and t;utt he has N 0 r RE-
MOVED, and does not intend doing so," begs respectfully to
state that as he considers the general public are now suffi-
ciently w. 11 aware of the facts he will cease to make till.; or
any other professional statement in the pub:io papets on and
alter the 2Sth of February next.

DEAFNESS.—The SOUND MAGNIFIER, and
Invisible Voice Conductor. It fits into the ear, not
perceptible; the unpleasant sensation of singing noises in
the head is entirely removed. It affords immediate relief
to deaf persons, and enables them to hoar distinctly at
church and public assemblies. Every other kind of hear-
ing instrument. Messrs, SOLOMON, 39, Albermarle-
street, Piccadilly.

DR. SCOTT'S LIVER AND BILIOUS
PILLS.—A NEVER FA MING RESlEDY.—Prc-
oared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr.
ioott, of Bromley, Kent, will he found invaluable to all who
,utter from bilious and liver nomplaints, inligesticn, wind,
'puma, giddiness, dizsiner4 of the eyes, &O. For habitual
outiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier
,1 the blood, they ore truly excellent; mild in their opera-
tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appe•ite, pro-
mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system.
fold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing,-cross.
London, and by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three
times the qaautity in one, 25. 94. Be sure to ask for Dr.
Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square
er; en package. with " William Lambert," engraved on the
stamp.

TEETH. AND PAINLESS' DENTISTRY.
Messrs. LEWIN and SIMEON MOSELY and
SONS, Dentists,
30, Berners-street, Oxford-street, and 448, Strand,
Opposite Charing-cross Railway Station.
Their painless artificial teeth are unequalled for economy,
durability, comfort, and all purposes of articulation and mas-
tication. Operations of every kind being unnecessary, the
most nervous patient can be supplied without fear of pain or
inconvenience.
Consultation free. Teeth from ss, Sets from 5 to 25 gs.,
warranted.
For the efficacy, utility, and success of their system, vide
„Lancet."
Daily attendance at 30, Berners-street, Oxford-street, and
448, Strand, London; 13, WhitefriargateMull ; 10, Norfolk-
street, Sheffield; 4, East-parade, Leeds; and 14, St. Nicholas-
street, Scarbro'.
Observe—Established 1830. No connection with any of the
same name.

PRIM? 4d.
STAMPED sd.

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The Western States and Pree're:fi'ci-e.74-'1:-::—'-'-'44.7;‘*:-/

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A writer in a contemporary says : The Slavery
issue in America is finally settled, and the national
decision in regard to the tenure of land and labour
south of the Ohio promises to be materially hastened
by the discussion of those Free Trade and anti-
Monopoly questions which are now dividing the Republic
into new and distinct camps. The conflict between the
principles of Protection and Free Trade in America dates
back to the formation of the Union itself, for the Nor-
thern Slates then exacted certain monopolies in trade and
commerce as the price of their consent to Southern de-
mands in regard to labor. While, in after years, the
South steadfastly subordinated all questions to the main
idea of preserving and extending its peculiar institution,
the North was equally pertinacious in pressing its system
of economics upon the country, and in building up for its
own benefit huge manufacturing and trading monopolies.
This condition of affairs might have continued •to exist
even beyond the present time but for the entrance of a
new actor upon the scene. The states lying west of the
Alleghenies were comparatively unimportant and power-
less until within the past fifteen years ; but European
immigration and the unceasing outpour from the Eistern
and Southern States 'have at length given thenta nu-
merical preponderance over the other sections, and a con-
sequent majority in Congress. The motives which
induced the Western States to commence hostilities with
the South were similar, but not precisely identical with
those which actuated their allies east of the Alleghenian
range. The same passibnate veneration for the Union in-
fluenced both sections alike ; but while the latter opposed
Slavery on abstract grounds, the North-West felt the
tyranny of the institution, and resolved to destroy it as
the nearest and most oppressive of monopolies.
Having crushed Southern monopoly in labour, the West
turns its forces against other monopolies elsewhere. The
war between the South and its Eastern and Western op-
ponents is concluded, another contest has already com-
menced, wherein the South and West will bo firmly allied
against the monopolies and prOtective policy of the Eastern
States, and the late Message of President JOHNSON is the
declaration of war inaugurating this new campaign. The
two paragraphs in the centre of the Message protesting, in
the PRESIDENT'S own words, against "monopolies, perpe-
tuities, and -class legislation," express the footings and
wants of that action of the Union to which Mr. Tonxsox
politically belongs; and they have called forth the appro-
val of his Western fellow-citizens in a higher degree, per-
haps, than any other portion of. his Message.
In thus stating the present position of parties in the
United States, I am not "taking sides" with or against any
section, geographical or political. The ANGLO-AMERICAN
TIMES, I believe, regards the Union as " one and indivi-
" sible," and it designs to avoid .in its columns, as far as
possible, the use of such terms as " East," "South," and
" W6st." But the existence of these sectional divisions
cannot be ignored while laying down tho proportions of
the politico-economic revolution now commencing in the
United States. This task might have been left to your
English contemporaries, but the pre-ss of Great Britain
seems resolved to ignore the existence of any portion of
the Union west of the Alleghanies. There are three
"centres" in the American Republic, three capitals as it
were :—Washington, the political; New York, the com-
mercial; and Chicago, the centre, or representative, of pro-
duction. During the war, the correspondents of the
English press, with a single exception, avoided the
scene of active operations, and compiled their let-
ters front the reports of American newspapers,
or from such " hearsay" evidence as they could pick up in
Now York-, Philadelphia, and Boston—that is to say,
hundreds of miles (mall from the nearest battle-field. And
this same policy continues to be pursued by them. Repre-
sentatives of the English press in America confine their
investigations to the comfortable and easily accessible
cities above-mentioned, while they almost ignore the ex-
istence of Washington, Chicago, St. Louis, and Cincinnati;
a policy tantamount to regarding Liverpool, Dublin, and
Glasgow as the chief representatives of English interests,
and taking small account, if any, of London, Manchester,
and Birmingham. While this short-sighted system con-
tinues, Englishmen must expect to be kept in almost total
ignorance of a country and people with whose prosperity
their own is so vitally connected.

ask whether the nobility which cast in its lot with slave-
holders was a nobility indeed—(loud and continued cheers)
—really transcending in nobleness the natures of ordinary
men, so that the world still needed it and must maintain
it as the type of exalted humanity and cynosure of honour,
or whether the day was not arrived when society must let
chivalry rest with the dust of the Crusaders, and take up
with homely justice. Nor could it be forbidden to ask
whether it was well to let the state impose on us spiritual
guides, when, in a most manifest contest between good
and evil, they almost unanimously took the side of evil ;
and, after going up to their pulpits to preach a religion of
purity and mercy, came down to stand with atheist sciolism
in defence of slavery. (Cheers.) The sympathies of our
privileged classes in this matter had been but natural and
inevitable, and would scarcely have deerved or excused
one bitter word, had they only said frankly they desired
the downfall of institutions opposed. to their own, instead
of talking about. sympathy for the weak, and respect for
national independence, and anxiety for the triumph of
free trade. (Laughter and cheers) Mr. Goldwin Smith
concluded by noticing the influence of this association upon
English opinion, and rejoiced that its last words might be
looking at the inevitable results of the conflict—" Slavery
is dead everywhere, and for ever." (Enthusiastic cheers.)
Mr. G. S. LEFEVRE, M.P., moved a vote of thanks to Mr.
Goldwin Smith, and

Dr. SANDWITIL seconded the motion, which was carried
amidst loud cheers.

The Cattle Plague.

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, on the 20th
inst., a further order was made. After reciting pre-
vious orders, it goes on to say—lt is expedient to
alter and amend the said orders of Nov. 23, 1865,
and Dec. 16, 1865, respectively : Now, therefore,
the Lords of her Majesty's Privy Council do hereby,
in exercise of the powers given by the said act so
continued as aforesaid, order as follows :

1. The power given by the said orders to any
local authority, as defined by the said order of Dee,
16, 1865, to declare by notice published in any
newspaper circulating within its jurisdiction, and also
by notice published in some newspaper or newspapers
circulating within the county or counties bordering
upon the county within which the jurisdiCtion of
such local authority is situate, that it is expedient,
for a time to be specified in such notice, that ani-
mals, as defined by the said order of Nov. 23
1866, or :some specified description thereof,
shall not, either absolutely, or except under
such conditions as such local authority shall
think fit to impose with a view to prevent the
spreading of the said disorder, be brought from any
other part of Great Britain into anyplace within his
or their jurisdiction, shall extend, from and after
the day on which this present order comes into ope-
ration, to all raw or untanned hides and skins, and
all horns or hoofs of any animals as defined as afore-
said, or of any description thereof to be specified in
any such notice, except such hides, skins, horns, or
hoofs, as are directly imported into the United
Kingdom from India, Australia, South Africa, or
America, and to the offal of any such animals as
afore Said, and also to all dung, hay, straw, fodder,
or litter likely to propagate infection ; and it shall
not be lawful for any person, in contravention of
any such notice, to bring or send any hide, skin,
horn, hoof, offal, or other article as aforesaid, ex-
cept in accordance with such conditions as afore-
said, from any place in Great Britain beyond such
jurisdiction ; and• the copy of any such notice shall
be sent forthwith by the local authority by which it
is made to the clerk of her Majesty's Privy Coun-
cil, and shall be published by him in the London
Gazette : Provided always that nothing con-
tained in this clause of this order shall make it un-
lawful for any person to send or carry any such
hides, skins, horns, hoofs, offal, or other articles as
aforesaid, by railway, through such jurisdiction ;
and provided also, that nothing contained in this
clause of this order shall make it unlawful for any
person to bring or send, with the license of any two
justices acting in and for the jurisdiction to which
such notice applies, any such hides, skins, horns,
hoofs, offal, or other articles as aforesaid, from any
land and premises in his own occupation, and be-
yond such jurisdiction, to any other land or premises
in his own occupation within such jurisdiction, dur-
ing a time to be specified in such licence.
2. The power given by the said order of the 16th
day of Dec., 1865, to any local authority as thereby
defined, to declare, by notice published in any news-
paper circulating within its jurisdiction, that it is
expedient, for a time to -be specified in such no-
tice, that no cow, heifer, bull, bullock, ox, or calf
shall, except under such conditions as such local
authority shall think fit to impose with a view to
prevent the spreading of the said disorder, be re-
moved from any particular part of the jurisdiction
of such local authority to any other part of such
jurisdiction ; or from any place or places within
such jurisdiction, to be specified in such notice, to
any other such place or places, also to be so speci-
fied ; or from place to place generally within such
jurisdiction, or within any specified part thereof,
shall extend, from and after the day on which this
present order comes into operation, to all animals,
as defined by the said order of the 23d day of
November, 1865, or any specified description
thereof ; and also to all raw and untanned hides and
skins, and all horns and hoofs of any animals as
defined as aforesaid, or of any description thereof to
be specified in any such notice, except such hides,
skins, horns, or hoofs as are directly imported into
the United Kingdom from India, Australia, South
Africa, or America, and to the offal of any such
animals as aforesaid, and also to all dung, hay,
straw, fodder, or litter likely to propagate infection;
and it shall not be lawful for any person to remove
any animal, or any hide, skin, horn, offal, or other
article, as aforesaid, in contravention of any such
notice : Provided always, that nothing contained in
this clause of this order shall make it unlawful for
any person to send or carry any such animals, or
any such hides, skins, horns, hoofs, offal, or other
articles as aforesaid, by railway,
through such juris-
diction, or to send or carry any such animals, or
any such hides, skins, horns, hoofs, offal, or other
articles as aforesaid, if brought by sea from any
place out of Great Britain into such jurisdiction, to
the nearest convenient railway station for the pur-
pose
of carrying them through or out of such
jurisdiction.
3. The aforesaid order, bearing date the 16th day
the proviso at the end of
of December, is hereby amended by omitting the
Inthe said order ; and the said
twhoerdsisf fourth
is to
outcblea clause of ofasr;
proviso Provided always
follows
that nothing contained in this clause of this order
shall make it unlawful to send or
Carry any such
animal by railway through such jurisdiction, or to
send or carry any such animal, if brought by sea
from any place out of Great Britain into such juris-
diction, to the nearest convenient railway station,
for the purpose of carrying it through or out of such
j urisdietion ."
4. Any notice given by virtue of this present
order may he renewed, revoked, altered, or varied,
from time to time, in the manner provided by the
said recited orders, with respect to notices given
under and by virtue thereof.

5. This order shall come into operation on the
25th day of January, 1866, and shall be in force
thenceforth until the Ist day of March n•!xt, and no
longer, unless continued by some further order.
6. Every person offending against this order shall,
in pursuance of the said act, for every such offence
forfeit any sum not exceeding £2O, which the jus-
tices before whom he or she shall be convicted of
such offence may think fit to impose.

A PARTY SNOWED-1;1%—On Thursday week (the
morning of Forwood's execution) several vehiclesleft
Faversham for Maidstone. One containing a party of four
commenced its return journey about 4 o'clock, and on ap-
proaching Stockbury stuck fast in the road at a spot where
the snow which had fallen during the day and the pre-
vious night had accumulated to the depth of five or six
-feet. Seven other vehicles were also stopped by the snow
at the same place. The horses were extricated, but the
carriages had to be left and dug out the following day.—
South Eastern Gazette.

The Western States are complaining that by the incon-
siderate "class-legislation" of the older Northern States
and the incubus of local monopolies, the vast and fruitful
regions bordering the Father of Waters and his many
tributaries, have hitherto lost the advantages which ought
to accrue from superior fertility of soil, excellence of
climate, and greater population. The grievances of the
West, in fact, are of the most practical and easily under-
stood charade; and they necessitate a radical amendment
at Re very distant date. To use the words of the Chicago
Tribune —the most influential organ of the press in the
great West—" When a farmer has to give three bushels
of corn to send one to market a distance of one hundred
miles; ono hundred bushels to get a pair of boots ; one
thousand bushels to obtain a suit of clothes ; or two tons
of corn for a ton of coal, it is time for him to look around
and see what is the matter." The system maintained
by railroad and steamboat corporations is followed in Con-
gress itself, and, to a great extent, by the Federal Govern-
ment. The Comptroller of the Treasury recommends in
his Into annual report that Congress should pass a law
compelling all the National Banks in the Union to redeem
their bills, in what lie calls "the great commercial and
financial centres of the country—New York, Philadephia,
and Boston." Should this advice ho followed, Chicago,
St. Louis, Cincinnati, and other Western cities, will re-
ceive a sudden check to their prosperity ; fur the points
of redemption being distant a thousand miles, Western
bankers will be forced to keep a large proportion of their
funds in the far East, to the manifest detriment.of the
manufacturers, producers, and traders in the region of the
great lakes and the Mississippi Valley. The like system
of "class legislation" and "monopoly" has been carefully
followed in the appointment of Congressional committees,
Western representatives being excltdAd, as a rule, from
fair participation in those important branches of legisla-
tion, and yet the Eastern States are merely the factors and
agents of that section of the Union which is building up
Eastern prosperity and supplying a largo portion of the
outer world with the means of existence. Such a condi-
tion of affairs cannot possibly continue ; and the agitation
now prevailing in the regions of the Mississippi, Missouri,
and Ohio rivers, presages a very early and radical settle-
ment of this long-standing injustice.
Tho policy of the Western States on this question
will be the subject of a future communication to your
columns. I confine myself to-day to the more statement
of the grievances alleged, and would add in this connec-
tion that the interests and aims of the South are identical
with those of the West upon this issue. Both sections aro
producers and consumers, and they have a common inte-
rest in selling their produce at the lowest rate in all
markets, and in buying in the cheapest.

A large number of respectable young men from
all parts of England are emigrating to New York in the
numerous steamers which aro now plying between various
English ports and the United States. This exodus appears
to have arisen inconsequence partly of the ease with which
New York can be reached from England, and from the
accounts constantly received of the wealth of the United
States, and the scope there for enterprise.
ESTIMATE OF PROPABLE COTTON SUPPLY.—
Messrs. Ellison and Heywood, cotton brokers,
Liverpool, have issued their monthly cotton report, and
annual review of the cotton-market for 1865. It is a
document of great length, very elaborate in its treat-
ment of every point interesting to the trade, and the
lateness of its appearance is accounted for by the
great research which was necessary for the accurate
compilation of such a document, some of the facts em-
braced in it having to be waited for till the last
moment before publication. Tho following extracts
give an estimate of the probable supply of cotton :
"The new year opens with the promise of a healthier
and more remunerative trade than has been experienced for
several years pad. The doubt and uncertainty that still
surround the future of supply will tend to repress ex-
cessive speculation, and load to a cautious and steady legi-
timate business. As to supply, we look for a moderate
increase upon the total import of 1865 ; loss from the
Mediterranean, but more from other quarters. We are
yet so completely in the dark as to the quantity of cotton
remaining in the Southern States that any estimate of
supply from America must be more than usually conjec-
tural. We have assumed 800,000 bales, but should not be
surprised
to see that figure exceeded. Muchwill depend upon
the amount of the next crop and the proportion which we
shall receive before the close of the present year. The
stimulus of high prices, and the proverbial energy of the
American people, will, perhaps, produce a larger yield
than seems at present to be generally anticipated, yet one
that will fall very far short of the requirements of the world,
and therefore render any important decline from present
rates improbable. The monetary disturbances of the past
year, and the high prices of cereals have exercised a pre-
judicial influence upon the Indian crop, more grain and
less cotton having been put into the ground than in the
previous season. But wo have about 160,000 bales more
afloat than at this timo last year, and which, bat for the
great depression experienced in the spring, would have
been shipped in time to have been included in the import of
1865, we think it highly probable that the import of 1866
will reach from 1,250,000 to 1,300,000 bales, against
1,266,000 bales last year—due allowance being made for
shipments to China. Should the arrivals from America
show any important excess upon our estimate, no doubt
prices would be depressed, and the shipments from India
curtailed, as was the case last year. The Egyptian crop
accounts are very unfavourable. Opinion differs as to
the probable deficiency, compared with the yield of last
year ; some authorities place it as high as 50 per
cent, others as low as five - nod - twenty per cent.
Taking the least unfavourable view of the matter, Great
Britain's sharo of the crop would be about 250,000 bales,
against 334,000 bales. A similar reduction for Turkey,
whence the advises are equally discouraging, would give
ns 60,000 bales, against 80,000 bales. From' the Brazils
the news is very cheering, and we anticipate an import
thence of about 100,000 bales more than last year— say,,
440,000 bales, against 340,000. The West Indies, Peru,
and miscellaneous sources will most likely send us 150,000
bales, against 131,000 bales.

110 USES.—Mess ro rs.
an TOPLIS and ROBERTS
have numeus furnished a unfurnished TOWN,
suburban, ald Country RESIDENCES to
on tatin
LET or g
SELLexact
~
Particular 4 forwarded for three stamps, up s
requirements ~nd rental. Offices, 2,
street,e and South liensing,ten, facing the Museum Conduit-street, Regent-

SOUTH KENSINGTON, HYDE-PARK,
Queen's, and Rutland Gates, Queen's-gate and Peters-
ham Terraces, Queen'b-gate, Cornwall, and Princes Gardens,
Elvastonlace, Cromwell-road, Onslow and Thurloe Squares,
Bolton s. ilrc. Messrs TOPLIi and ROBE WI'S have RE 'I-
DENCES to SELL and LET in these and surrounding
localities. Offices, 2, Co nd uit-street, Regent-street, and
South Kensington, facing the Museum.

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the storms
of the past year the National T.ifebsat Institution, by
its ...ifeboats and other means, contributed to the savin,f of
707 persons from afferent wrecks on our coasts. The Insti-
tution also expended .£21,374 in the same perhal on its life-
boat establishments, in addition to granti,i2. £4,950 for re-
wards for saving life and exercising the lifeboats.
The Committee of the Institution earnestly A PPEAL to
the public for ASSISTANCE to enable them to nest the
continued heavy demands on the Institution's 150 lifeboat
eta ions.
Contributions are received by the London and country
bankers ; and by the Secretary. Richard Lewis, Esq., at the
Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, Lonemn.

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THIS EVENING (Wednesday). Mr. Charles Deffelli's
new opera, in one act, CHRISTMAS EVE. Madame F.
Lancia, Madame E. Heywood; Mr. A. Cook, and Mr. D,
Miranda.