The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, 1859.

METROPOLITAN, COUNTIES, AND
GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
- 27, Regent-street, Waterloo-place, London, S.W.
Life Assurance, Annuities, and 14: ndowments.
Loans on real and personal security.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager.

BANK OF DEPO.SIT,
Established A.D. 1844, '
No. 3, PALL MALL EAST, LONDON, S.W.
Capital Stock £lOO,OOO.
Parties desirous of investing* money are requested to ex-
amine the plan of the Bank of Deposit, by which a high rate
of interest may be obtained with ample security.
Deposits made by special agreement may be withdrawn
without notice.
The interest is parable in January and July."
PETER' MORRISON, Managing Director.
Forms for opening accounts sent free on application.

THE ROYAL STATION HOTEL, Paragon-
street, Hull, requires only to bevisiteo, to be pronounced
one of the most splendid hotels in England. The situation is
open and healthful, a few minutes' walk from all the public
buildings and places of business, and being connected with
the Railway Station, affords railway passengers arriving or
departing by every train day or night, the advantage of being
on the spot, and having their wants and wishes immediately
attended to.
The public should know that under the present manage-
ment they will find every comfort and convenience at the
same charges they are paying at the minor hotels. It has
accommodation for upwards of one hundred and fifty visitors,
is fitted up with every luxury an hotel can command, and is
so arranted for the advantage of every class of visitor, that
Beds can be had from is. to 2s. •, Private Rooms, from 2s. to
Is. ; Breakfasts, from Is. Gd. to 2s. ; Dinners, front 2s. ; and
All other charges of that moderate character which will give
satisfaction to every class of visitor who may pay the hotel a

The hotel contains Gentlemen and Ladies' Coffee Rooms ;
a special Room set apart for Commercial Gentlemen ; fourteen
Prirate suites of Rooms ; large spacious Rooms for Dinner
Parties, Public Meetings, (gm., &c. • two first-class Refresh-
ment Rooms ; two Smoke ROOMS ; Bath and Billiard Rooms.

Night Porter in attendance.
EDWIN TAYLOR,

Proprietor of the Royal Station Hotel, Hull, and Crescent
Hotel, Piley.

N.B.—TATLOR'S CRESCENT HOTEL, fronting the sea,
for Families and Gentlemen. It has accommodation for up -
wards of one hundred and fifty 'visitors. Table D'Hote at
fire o'clock. Omnibuses and Cabs from the hotel meet all the
trains. Good stabling and coach-houses. Moderate terms.

BURROWS AND CO., Wholesale Wine Mer-
chants, LIVERPOOL.
Stores Lime-street.
Offices 54, Duke-street.
The Proprietors bee. most resp^ctfully to call the attention
of the trade, noblemen, clergy, &c., and the public in general,
to their extensive stock of Choice Wines, of rare vintages.
BURROWS and Co. are not disposed to comment upon the
purity of their wines, which is daily most laudably acknow-
ledged by the public and eminent medical men of all coun-
tries, as the increasing ratrOnage of the highest families in'
the land is a sufficient guarantee.
They beg to call particular attention to their pure Tonic
Wines, as being so valuable to Invalids and persons of weak
stomachs.
A sample case, containing three full-sizAd' wine bottles,
will be forwarded to any address on receipt of P. 0.0. for Os.
Gd., or a dozen for 245. ' •
It is a well-known fact that impure and adulterated wines
are the greatest foes to health, producing acidity -in the
stomach, and debilitating the digestive organs, while pure
wines will accelerate the digestive powers, invigorating,
strengthening, and bracing the nervous system.
Their Tonic \Vine is admitted to be most essential to in-
valids, both old and young, and-should never be absent from
the homes of the weak and sickly. Its properties are duly
acknowledged and appreciated by the leading men of the
faculty, both at home and abroad.
To prei•ent imposition each bottle is sealed with the name
of the firm.
All orders to be made payable to HENRY BURROWS.

PRESENTS.— ORNAMENTAL and. SCIEN-
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manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mineralogist to her
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Mr. Tennant. arranges elementary collections of SHELLS,
MINERALS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate
the interesting study of MINERALOGY, CONCHOLOGY,
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PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE-
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THORLEY'S FOOD FOR CATTLE.—Every
nerson having an interest in domestic or farm animals
should obtain a supply of this celebrated and economical
food, which will prove invaluable during the approaching
4eason. For keeping horses in'good condition it is unequal-
led. Pigs fatten with surprising- rapidity upon it, and their
flesh increases in flavour and value. Cowkeepers will find
great advantage in the increased quantity and improved qua-
lity of the milk during its use, All animals are benefited by
it. A pamphlet on this interesting subject, accompanied by
Testimonials from the principal Nobility, Gentry, and Agri-
milturists, forwarded on application. In casks containing
118 feeds (measures enclosed), price 505., carriage paid to any
Railway Station in the United Kingdom. Post-office orders
payable to Joseph Thorley, 77, Newgate-strect, London.
N.B.—The public arecautioned against being imposed upon
by worthless imitations.

THE MEDITERRANEAN.

MALTA, DEC. 24.

The present war between Spain and Morocco preventing
supplies from being sent to Gibraltar, besides ercaviling the
place with refugees, not to mention the fact of the fleets of
France, England, and Spain being in the vicinity, and even
the troops at Algesiras drawing some supplies from Gibral-
tar, food has become very clear there Beef and mutton, of
the best quality, is 7d. per lb. Fowls, from 2s. to 3s. each ;
potatoes, ld. per lb; eggs, Is. 4d. the dozen. Bread con-
siderably cheaper than in Malta, at which place 'things are
slightly cheaper than last year. This being Christmas
time the market is crowded, and is abundantly supplied
with all the necessaries of life, and looks very gay, the meat
and fruit garnished with flowers and gold leaf, and taste-
fully ornamented with boughs. The show of meat, beef,
pork, mutton &c., is excellent, and poultry of the finest to
any extent, and very fine vegetables and fruit, Piles,
almost hills, of magnificent oranges, mandarins, egg
oranges, blood oranges, and pomegranates, and melons in
great profusion. Prices—Best beef and mutton, 6d. the -
pound of 14 oz. ; turkeys, from 3s. 6d. to Bs. each; sucking
pigs, 2s. 6d. to 4s. each ; oranges, 4d. the dozen ; manda-
rins, 6d. ; melons and pomegranates, td. tho pound ; bread,
3td. the pound ; macaroni, 4d. the pound. All these aro
very dear for Malta, particularly the two latter. These two
last are the principal food of the inhabitants, and their
dearness presses very heavily on them.
From Christmas 1858 to 1859 Malta has very much im-
proved. The governor has been a most excellent steward
of the land revenues, which ho has administered most ably.
He has greatly increased the revenue, at the same time ho
has increased the value of Government property. 110 has
tranted houses and shops on long improving lease ; and in
Isveral cases he has very judiciously remitted a portion of
Isnt on condition that the tenants would lay out a sum on
reproving the dwellings. He has fairly inoculated the people
With a spirit of , improvement and a taste for building.
',▪ It has induced a vast number of shopkeepers to pave their
sPps with black and white marble, and in other ways to
"e"orate them ; and for months past all the most respectable
nakeepers have been enlarging and beautifying their shops,
iplaeing additional gaslights both inside and outside their
°t a,
regilding their signs and renovating their establish-
rneN ; and the result has been a vast improvement. The
Puuke roads and squares the Governor has personally super-
lntekled ; garnished thorn with trees and gaslights ; and
urnatsented many of the public buildings, by recolouring
them or substituting coloured glass. St. John's Church,
the tkterior of which was very dismal, is now really an
ul.ll.,aNat to the town ; and few places can boast of cleaner
or better
kept streets than Valetta. He has also brushed
up all the Government employes, giving many uniforms,
and Aging all to appear clean and respectable. The im-
louvreiltent in the palace is something wonderful : the pas-
sages ute all clean, well kept, and garnished with the ar-
mour °t
the past knights of St. John of Jerusalem.
It 's ksual in Malta for the rich families to assist their
poorer sts
sghbours with luxuries on Christmas-day, and I be-
lieve "1,4 k this year there will not boa human being in Malta
good dinner and a glass of wine with it. I have
made 'n'tkiries in all directions and from all classes, and I
fully belie that not one of her Majesty's subjects in Malta
need be Isktlgry
on Christmas-day, but that every one will
be Pruvid4 with good and wholesome food.
All that tete in her Majesty's employ-will not only have
the ilecesNes, but the luxuries, such
Eng-
land can estlimand. as few poor in
The s°l4es and sailors have made grand preparations for
pbuanelqdi,unetgss,°:llz day.
et
pies.
inTpurerkfuesyise,nr.oasEtivneg pigs,ryves shealrns, inppelrutmis
dressed out by
grand
ad de
le
st
pe
ld
abanquetting style, tasteful chandeliers have
been
n er
between decks, and the sailors have shown
wriethattthses,toPrainnt,a,s adorning their messes with orange boughs
pendant from them, and there is to be a
of chairing the popular officers round the
decks, for on.
s
earistmas Jack is allowed license, and he con-
siders he has a
,)e s
apet
of e
charming
pdaar
nt h t to show how he appreciates the kind-
Z'Officers by chairing them on that day.
lady, the bride of a popular captain, has
acc
bulet:iistion to dine with the officers on board on
a
bard a council among the seamen whether
they that
d, we
butoseamen h
tl,c;aair her round the decks, which one old
fellow said 124—'tasily be done, if they could only get her
to "close reef e teinoline."
T
the soldiers, have leave to go into the
w
°4fliskts are very wisely doing all in their
power to induce Lasta to make their ships and their bar-
racks their home.
A quantity
hag been t
of holly
ay
Pere, and has decors,
town, t would noe
I over
and
and miseletoe was brought out in the
el
‘t the shop of the Gunter of Malta,
and great
demand upon him for a little bit of
his treasure. 'rues could not got missletoe have with-
out hesitation chriatch
somo other green by that name
for the nonce.
ie
also sent to her sailor son a good supply
of em
Wiklisor Castle, and I saw a gentleman
taking some of this as a vreat prize to his Maltese wife.
Bands are peratu
ag the streets, every second tune
Iminrc Majeeasttyfro has
being " God save the '4lksen," and her health will be drank
over and over again by her soldiers and her sailors at Malta
; this Christmas.
The a ball on the 26th in honour
of theirsolndeiewrs of the
for the "Nall-roona

ever marred the transaction of public business in this
county. (Cheers.) One of those who were the first
in the year 1834 to request that I would fill the then
vacant chair was the late Sir Thomas Winnington.
knowing my desire, at that moment particularly,
when I was myself fresh from party contests for the
representation of the county, that if in deference to
the wishes of the county I undertook the duties of
the chair, no party spirit on my part should mingle
with the attempt, Sir Thomas Winnington, with
a kindness which I highly appreciated, did me.
the honour to propose me on that occasion. (Cheers.)
Time has passed away ; many of the friends who
then encouraged- me are now, alas, no more; and
Sir Thomas Winnington is one of them. But upon
this occasion, when you are assembled to do honour
to the close of my chairmanship, I see another Sir
homes Winnington sitting near me• (Cheers )
From the present Sir Thomas Winnington, as from
his father, it has been my misfortune to differ upon
principles of public policy ; but for the private vir-
tues of Sir Thomas Wianington I entertain those
sentiments of esteem and respect which arc justly
and genrally entertained. (Cheers.) I see around
this table also abundant proof, in the presence of
other gentlemen, that no party feeling mixes here;
and I hope I may infer from this gratifying fact
that you believe that, in the discharge of my local
duties, being as I am of necessity a member of a
political party, and one who has acted, and long
acted and held office with a political party, I have
never carried party feeling beyond its proper limits
nor allowed it to be mixed up in business with
which it has no legitimate connection. (Loud
cheers.) It is true that between the two periods
to which I have thus adverted nearly a quarter of
a century has passed away; it is true that during
the 24 years I held the office of chairman -I-did en--
deavour to discharge its duties to the best of my
ability ; I did endeavour to deserve the confidence
with which I was honoured, and to conduct the
affairs of this county for the public interest. (Hear,
hear.) And if I were enabled so to do, let me one()
more acknowledge; as I have before acknowledged
over and over again, that for that result I am
mainly indebted to the constant support which I
received from my brother magistrates, and to the
able, courteous, and intelligent assistance which the
learned gentlemeni who have successively consti-
tuted the bar of the quarter sessions have never
failed to give me. Let me now say that whatever
may have been my humble services as chairman of

this county, they"_ have been generously, nay, pro-
fusely rewarded; for let me remind you that this
is no less than the fourth occasion upon which I
have received a public recognition of those services,
whatever their value may have been. It is now 10
years since my brother magistrates were kind enough
to enter into a subscription to place my portrait in
the County-hall. That portrait was hung in its po-
sition on a day when an unusual number of county
magistrates assembled, under the presidency of my
venerable and lamented friend the late Mr. Pearson;
and I can never cease to entertain the most grate-
ful recollection of the kindness which vas shown
to me upon that, to me, memorable occasion. The
next instance in which a public recognition of my
services in the chair was made has been already ad-
verted to by my noble friend. In the year 1854,
having then occupied the chair of the quarter ses•
sions for 20 years, and finding that its duties were
really incompatible with the duties which arose
from my Parliamentary position, I requested leave
to resign the office in order that it might be placed
in other hands. Upon that occasion I received an
address, couched in the kindest and most flattering
language, and signed by 125 of the magistrates of
this county, begging me to resume the'duties which
I intended to resign, upon the clear understanding
that I was to be at liberty to absent myself from
the sessions whenever my other duties required it,
and intimating that my valued friend,,Mr. Curtler,
was willing to be a party of the arrangement, and
to take the chair whenever I was unable to attend.
Gentlemen, I could not refuse a request so preferred,
and I resumed the duties of the chair accordingly;
but in the spring of 1858, when I was called upon
to take the arduous position of First'Lord of the
Admiralty, I felt that the time had come when it
was impossible for me longer to perform the services
to the county which I had been willing previously
to perform, and I then again requested that I might
be'allowed to resign the chair which I had so long
filled. The request was acceded to. It was allowed
to be reasonable; and. that resignation on my part
wn.s followed by the presentation to me of an address
to which I attach a degree of value that it is quite
impossible for me to express. That address is one of
the most touching and beautiful papers of its kind
that it ever fell to my lOt to read. It bears the
signature of nearly 200 of the nobility and gentry
of this county in the commission of the peace. It
hangs upon the walls of My house as one of its most
valued ornaments, and I trust it will remain there
long after I have passed away. (Cheers.) I own-
that the last thing I expected, after receiving these
repeated. proofs of kindness, was that I should re-
ceive in any other manner a tribute from the
county for those services. I had scarcely received
that address, when I was told that a subscription had
been entered into, intentionally limited in amount,
and the result of that subscription has.been the
splendid present you have given me to-night. The
distinction between this proof of your kindness,
and those to which I have before referred is this—
that whilst they proceeded only from the magi-
stracy of thecounty this has been subscribed for by
my neighbours and friends of all classes in this
county and city. (Cheers.) Can you wonder, then,
that 1 should feel overwhelmed by those reiterated
instances of favour and good-will towards me in my
own neighbourhood, or that I should feel it to be
impossible adequately to express the sentiments by
which lam at this moment influenced.? (Loud.
cheers.) I am the. more sensible of the value of
these compliments, because, as a matter of strong
opinion, I must distinctly disclaim the idea that
any man who performs the local duties which have
devolved upon him has thereby established any'
right or claim to those rewards. The chair of the
quarter sessions of a great English county is in
itself a high honour—is in itself its own reward.
(Lou I cheers.) I hold that the chair of the quarter
sessions of an English county is one of those posi-
tiros of gratuitous duty which every Englishman
is proud to occupy. Notwithstanding what we
have read from the pens of certain newspaper
writers, whose ideas of quarter session's affair.; are
limited, I believe, in most cases, to what they can
pick up in the streets of London, I hold that the
chair of the quarter sessions is one of the most
honourable posts to which an English gentleman
can aspire. My noble friend has alluded, in terms
in which I entirely concur, to the principle which
regulates this part of the administration of our in-.
ternal affairs. , Under that system of self-govern-
ment to which we Englishmen aro so much at•
taohed, one of the most peculiar, but in my opinion
one of the most valuable of our institutions is that
under which our laws are administered and our
internal affairs are regulated by the voluntary and
gratuitous exertions of the gentry of England, and
to be thought worthy by the gentry of England to
preside in our local courts, and to take the leading
part in the management of our internal affairs, has
long been, and long may it continue to be, an
object of honourable ambition with the noblest, the
wealthiest, and the most distinguished of our coun-
trymen. (Cheers.) I may find proofs of the
truth of this position here in our own county of
Worcester. Who were my immediate predecessors
in the Worcestershire chair? The late Sir Chris-
topher Smith, the second Earl Beauchamp, the
'eldest brother of my noble friend sitting near me,
and the late lamented Earl Plymouth. By whom
have I been succeeded ? (Prolonged cheering.) By
a noble lord (Ward) of high position, of 'great
wealth, and of acknowledged talents. (Renewed
cheers.) And by the desire which my noble friend
entertained to be my successor in that chair he has
given practical proof that he recognises the truth
of that trite but great maxim of which we have
heard much of late, and which ought to dwell in
the heart of every right-minded Englishman—
that " Property has its duties as well as its rights."
(Great cheering.) But I can find a further illus-
tration of my position, if illustration were neces-
sary, in the fact that in successive administrations,
both of Whig and of Tory politics, no small por-
tion of those who have been entrusted with the
highest duties of the state are also those who have
devoted their years of comparative leisure to the
duties of the chair of the quarter sessions in their
respective counties. (Hear, hear.) I might men-
tion many. I will only mention one ; but that is
a remarkable instance. It is the name of a noble
lord wbo was decidedly one of the most able chair-
men of quarter sessions who ever presided over the ,
business of a county, and he was also one of the
justlythe period popular
th
aatn
tdh re es p
partye ct respected ofm they f emnidusis
snteear
d
me-7itntghough I do not know whether they will agree
with me—were unfortunately in the ascendant.
(Laughter.) The noble lord to whom I refer was
one of the most respected members of the 'Whig
administration : I allude to the' late Earl'Speneer,
better known, perhaps, in his public capacity as
Lord Althorp. (Hear.) I believe, then, lam jus-
tified in saying that the honour oefilling the chair
at qua tier sessions is an honour of:which the most