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London, England, 1857-12-21 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1857.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, 16TH DECEMBER, 1557.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That
a Proprietor of Ea,it India Stock, John Jones, Esq., has given notice
of his intention to submit the following motion at the Quarterly
General Court of the said Company, appointed to be held at their
House, in Leadenhall-street, on WEDNESDAY neat, the 23d instant,
viz..—

That it is due to the advanciog intelligence of the people of
India that a Deputy from each University in the several
Presidencies be maintained at the public expense in this
country, with a view to inform the Proprietors as to the
wishes and complaints of the people et India."
JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.

REAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-
CRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.—EXCURSION, at low fares to
Oxford, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Shrew bury, Chester, Bir-
kenhead, and Liverpool.—On SATURDAY, Dec. 26th, a Train will
leave Paddington at 8 a.m., returning on Wednesday, the 30th of
Dec , from Liverpool at 815 a.m., and intermediate Stations as per
handbills. Fares there and back :—Oxford, 6s. 6d. and 4s. ; Ban-
bury, Bs. and 55.: Leamington and Warwick, 10s. 6d. and 65.; Bir-
mingham, 12s. and 7s. ; West Bromwich, Wednesbury, and Bils-
ton, 12s. 6d. and 7s. 6d. • Wolverhampton, 13s. and Bs. ; Welling-
ton and Shrewsbury, 17s. and 10s.; Chester, 18s. 6d. and 1 ls. ;
Birkenhead and Liverpoolo2ls. and 12s. 6th Further particulars an
application at the Company's Offices.

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS
for ORPHAN and NECESSITOUS CHILDREN, PINNER.

Patron, His Royal Highness Prince ALBERT,

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That a GENERAL HALF-
YEARLY COURT of the Governors of this Institution will be held
on MONDAY, the 28th inst., at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-
street, to commence at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, when an Election
of Children (eight boys and four girls) will take place, when all
such questions and matters as nay be lawfhlly brought before the
Court will be discussed and decided.
ALFRED LENCH SA.UL,, Secretary.
81, Choapside, Dec. 21, 1857.

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOL
for ORPHAN and NECESSITOUS CHILDREN, PINNER.

PATEON—His Royal Highness PRINCE ALBERT.

The ANNIVERSARY DINNER to celebrate the foundation of
this Institution will be held at the LONDON TAVERN, Bishops-
gate-street, on S kr-UEDA:7, the 26th of December. W. M.
THACKERAY, Esq., has kindly consented to take the chair. Mr,
Alderman and Sheriffs Lawrence, and William Roupell, Esq.,
M.P., have promised to attend. Tickets, One Guinea each, to be
obtained from any of the Stewards, or at the Offices of the Institu-
tion, 81, Cheapsidc.

ALFRED LENCIi SA.ITL, Secretary.

December 21,1857.

GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY,
No. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C.
DIRECTORS.
HENRY HULSE BERENS, Esq., Chairman.
JOHN G. HUBBARD, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
John Martin, Esq., M.P.
Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
James Morris, Esq.
Henry Norman, Esq.
Henry R. Reynolds, Esq.
Sir Godfrey J. Thomas, Bart.
John Thornton, Esq.
James Tulloch, Esq.
Henry Vigne, Esq.
.TORS.

John Dixon, Esq.
Francis Hart Dyke,•Esq.
Sir W. M. T. Farquhar, Brt.,M.P,
Sir Walter It. Farquhar, Brt.
Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P.
John Harvey, Esq.
John Labouchere, Esq.
John Loch, Esq.
Stewart Marjoribanks, Beg

AIIDI!

A. W. Robarts, Esq. Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq.
Lewis Loyd, Jun., Esq. I John Henry Smith, Esq.
George Keys, Esq., Secretary.

Samuel Brown, Esq., Actuary.

LIFE DRPARTMENT.—Under the provisions of an Act of Par.
flament, this Company now offers to future insurers Four-fifths of
the Profits, with Quinquennial Division, or a Low Rate of Premium
without participation of Profits.
The next division of Profits will be declared in June, 1860, when
all participating Policies which shall have subsisted at least one year
at Christmas, 1859, will be allowed to share in the Profits.
At the five divisions of Profits made by this Company, the total
reversionary Bonuses added to the Policies have exceeded 913,000/.
At the last 'valuation at Christmas, 1854, the Assurances in force
amounted to upwards It 4,240,0001:; the Income from the Life
Branch in 1854 was more than 200,000/. ; and the Life Assurance
Fund (independent of the ,:uaranteed Capital) exceeded 1,700,0001.
FOREIGN RISKS.—The Extra Premiums required for the East
Ind West Indies, the British Colonies, and the northern parts of the
!halted States of America, have been materially reduced.
INVALID LlVES.—Persons who are not in such sound health as
would enable them to insure their Lives at the Tabular Premiums
may have their Lives insured at Extra Premiums.
LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their values, pro-
vided such Policies shall have been effected a sufficient time to have
attained in each case a value not under 501.
ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, received
and registered.
MEDICAL FEES paid by the Company, and no charge will be
made for Policy Stamps.
Notice is hereby Given, That Fire Policies which expire at
Christmas must be renewed within fifteen days at this Office, or with
Mr. S BMS, No, 1, St. James's-street, corner of Pall Mall, or with
the Company's Agents throughout the Kingdom, otherwise they be-
come void.
Losses caused by Explosion of Gas are admitted by this Company.

FOR GENTLEMEN.—GEO. HOBSON begs
to call the attention of the public to his NEW STOCK in
AUTUMNAL GOODS, consisting of West of England Beaver and
Venetia' Cloths, Scotch and Heather Twist, Mixed Doeskins,
Cashmere and Toilanette Viraistcoatings, both of English and Conti-.
rental manufacture, which will be found en inspection at prices most
moderate for Best Goods.—GEONGE HOBSON, 57, Lombard-street.

DU BARRY'S CELEBRATED INFANTS'
FOOD, for DELIC UTE INFANTS, CHILDREN, and IN-
ALIDS. Supersedes the expense and dangers of wet-nursing, is
nore easily digested, and imparts more healthful nourishment than
Milk ; acidity, cramps, bowel cornplain:,s, flatulency, cough, restless-
ness, scrofula, eruptions, are avoided by it, and perfect regularity of
the system and sound sleep in cured. Many respectable families who
nape rc.uoa and caved delicate Infants by this Food can be referred
to, and a copy of their Testimonials may be had free on for warding
a stamped and addressed envelope to Barry Da Barry and Co., 57,
Regent-street, London Prices :—ln Canisters, Is.; 25.; and 121 b.
at 21s. The large Canister will be for warded free of carriage on
receipt of Post Office Order.

PEDESTRIANISM.

CORK, Dec. 17.

The great match made by Captain Brine and F.
Leahy, Esq., between Lieut.-Colonel Astley, Scots
Fusilier Guards, and T. Taylor, Esq., of Passage, in
the vicinity of Cork, came off as intended, this day, in
the Cork Barracks. Nothing could exceed the excite-
ment on the occasion, 1,0001. having exchanged hands ;
and although the weather was far from favourable,
there could not have been lees than 2,000 people pre-
sent. The hour appointed was two, and after a
party of the Elthorne Militia, 200 strong, had been
told off for keeping the course and the preliminary ar-
rangements made, the ground was measured by Sir John
Benson and Captain Brine, R.E. Owing to the heavy
morning rains the ground was slippery, which made the
betting slightly in favour of Colonel Astley.
The following is the account of the day's amusement :
FIRST RACE.-100 yards flat, sweepstakes of 20 sovs
each, between Mr. Johnson, late of the Rifle Brigade,
Captain Shaw, 36th Regiment, and Captain Brine, R.E.
The former giving the two latter 4 yards start. At
starting the betting was 3 to 1 against Captain Brine,
even on Mr. Johnson, and 5 to 4 against Capt. Shaw.
Captain Brine, R.E. 1
Captain Shaw, 36th 2
Mr. W. Johnson 3
Run in 11 seconds. Won easily.
SECOND RACE. —ll yards flat, 300 sovs aside, 25 for-
feit, between Lieutenant-Colonel Astley, Soots Fusilier
Guards, and T. P. Taylor, Esq. Betting previous
starting-5 to 4 against Mr. Taylor. Eventually Col.
Astley backed himself at 2 to 1, which was taken to a
very large amount.
Lieutenant-Colonel Astley 1
2
Mr. Taylor
Won cleverly. Run in 11 seconds.
TRIRD RAGE.-100 yards, over 4 hurdles, 3 feet high,
between Colonel Astley and Captain Shaw, the former
giving the latter 6 yards start. Betting even.
First Heat—Dead Heat.
Second Heat.

Captain Shaw
Colonel Astley _ •

The second heat won easily.
For the information of our readers it may not be unin-
,eresting to state that Colonel A stley is supposed to be
the best amateur runner in Great Britain and Ireland ;
but Mr. Johnson once beat Colonel Astley, even in 100
yards, by a foot, a few weeks back. Mr. Taylor beat
Mr. Johnson twice, in 100 yards, by two yards ; and
Mr. Taylor lately beat Mr. Machell, 14th Regiment
The various weights of the winners are—

it. lb.
Colonel Astley l2 10
Mr. Johnston ll 0
Captain Brine a. 11 7
Mr. Taylor II 12
After the races, the Royal Eltborne Militia gave a
,uneheon and dance.

AN ALARMING SPXCTAOLE.—To see a sturdy fellow
with a oigar in his mouth which cost as much as a loaf
of bread, following a band of music and carry a banner
with the inscription, " Bread or work."—New York

tADVIIRTISEHENT.F. SIGHT AND HEARING - SPECTACLES.

POWERFUL TELESCOPES OPERA, RACE, AND PEW
GLASSES.—S. and B. Solomon, opticians, 39, Albemarle.
street, Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York Hotel, W.
By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable and ex.
traordinary improvements in the most powerful and brilliant
Telescopes, Camp, Race-course, Opera, and Perspective
Glasses, to know the distances. These Telescopes possess
such extraordinary power that some, three and a-half inches,
with an extra eye-piece will show distinctly Jupiter's moons,
Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; with the same telescope
can be seen a person's countenance three-and-a-half miles
distant and an object from 16 to 20 miles. For the waist-
coat-pocket, and are of larger, and all sizes, with increasing
powers accordingly. The Royal Exhibition, 1851. A valu-
able, newly-invented, very small, powerful, Waistcoat-pocket
Glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and
known one and a-half mile distant. They answer every pur-
pose on the Race-course and at the Opera-houses. Country
scenery and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles. They
are invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, to
sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Opera,
Camp, Perspective, and Race-course Glasses, with wonderful
powers. Invaluable preserving Spectacle Lenses of the
greatest transparent power. The great advantage derived
from this invention is, that vision impaired becomes pre-
served• and strengtkened and very aged persons are enabled
to employ their sight at the most minute occupation—can see
with those lenses of a much less magnify ing power—and
they do not require the frequent changes to the dan-
gerous effects of further powerful assistance. Persona
can be suited at the most remote part of the world by send-
ing one of the glasses out of their spectacles in a letter, and
stating the distance from the eye they can read small print
with it, and those who have not made use of spectacles by
stating their age. Deafness.—New Discovery.—The Organic
Vibrator, an extraordinarily powerful, small, newly-invented
instrument for deafness, entirely different from all of hers,
surpassing anything of the kind that has been, or prob ably
can, be produced. Being of the same colour as the skin, is
not perceptible. It enables deaf persons to hear distinct ly at
churchaud at public assemblies ; the unpleasant sensatic n of
singing noises in the ears is entirely removed, and it affords
all the assistance that possibly could be desired.-39, ANe•
marlo-street, Piccadilly.—Opposite tin York Hotel, W,

DEATH OE MR. JAMES COPPOCK.

The friends and political connections of this well-knolln
Parliamentary and electioneering solicitor will regret to
learn that his death occurred, after an illness of four
days, at his house in Cleveland-row, on Saturday even-
ing. Only a fortnight since he was engaged some days
in the country on Ibis circuit duty as Treasurer of the
Kent County Courts ; and so lately as Monday last he
was transacting business apparently in his usual health
at his offices in Parliament-street, Westminster. On that
evening he went home to hie private residence complain-
ing of a sudden inflammatory attack in his chest. His
respiratory organs • were severely and spasmodically
affected, and his danger was aggravated by a chronic
derangementsiril.HollanOdf,tnaheorheeaarlat,rmofinlogng standing. On Friday
his medical attendant, Dr. Neil; called into consultation
intervening. He continued
the last 24 hours of his life, and expired without a
gmedyumapiltyomeisnaknindgdedluirriinnmg
struggle on the following evening at 6 o'clock.
Mr. Coppock was born on the 2d of Sept., 1798, and
was a native of Stockport, in Cheshire. lliss was the
eldest son of a respectable rnercer in that borough, and,
after a good middle-class education, be served his ap-
prenticeship in his father's business. In 1820 be was
placed as a clerk in the establishMent of a large whole-
sale haberdasher in London. He early commenced busi-
ness on his own account, employing a small capital in
a silk firm in the city. In that connectioe, partly in
consequence of the commercial disasters which followed
un the French Revolution of 1830, he was unsuccessful.
He had married in 1829, but tilion his failure its a mercer
he boldly abandoned trade; and resolved to adopt the
profession of the law ; and its 1832 he articled himself to
a respectable solicitor in Farnival's-inn. During his
five years' clerkship he earned his livelihood, and indus-
triously pursued his new Avocation. Although not
admitted on the roll 'ef attiresteys:till the year 1836,
he acted as an earnest voluntary partisan in the first
Finsbury election contest following the Reform
Act of 1832. At that period ho first published
the "'Hectors' Manual." After.' the second gene-
ral election under the reformed representative
system, the Liberal leaders in London, profiting by the
late Sir Robert Peel's counsel to " Register ! Register!"
founded a counter Registration Society, with branches
throughout England and Wales. Mr. Coppock was by
the late Mr. Sutton Sharpe recommended as the most
fitting secretary to the new association, and especially as
the author of the Electors' Manual. Continuing his
articles of clerkship he received, we believe, a salary of
3001. a-year as such secretary, with a residence in the
society's rooms in Cleveland-row. This new occupation
naturally brought him into communication with all the
principal Liberal agents and solicitors of the provincial
counties and boroughs, personally or by correspondence.
Three or four years afterwards, on the close of the
society's operations, he became lessee of its house in
Cleveland-row, where be first established himself as a
solicitor and Parliamentary agent. His original wide-
spread connection with the constituencies of the United
Kingdom immediately constituted Mr. Coppock's office
the centre of many election arrangements and contests,
and led to his professional employment in the conduct
of contested returns in the House of Commons. His zeal
and daring in fighting political opponents with their own
weapons are too well remembered to need detail. Fortu-
nately corrupt practices and illegal acts at elections have
been of late years largely diminished, partly by legisla-
tion and punishment, and partly by the improved moral
conduct of the borough constituencies, though " Othello's
occupation" may not yet have entirely vanished. None
can question the fidelity of Mr. Coppock's service to his
political clients, and his word was invariably relied upon
by opponents in all arrangements and " compromises."
We desire in this brief obituary notice not to reopen past
electioneering feuds and public inquiries in Parliament
connected with Mr. Coppock 'e personal services to past
Administrations and former Whig and Radical candi-
dates for seats in our Legislature. Such bygone
transactions are rather matters for future history than
for present renewed commentary, and the public press
of the day has sufficiently criticised the two great
political parties and their individual election doings.
It is enough to state that Mr. Coppock entered the
electioneering arena as an avowed partisan of the Libe-
ral party. His best friends could not approve all his
acts, but he had a universal credit for ability and integ-
rity in his representation of partisans. His self-reliance
and indomitable courage constantly involved him indiffi-
culties, and he often taxed too severely his physical and
mental powers. Indeed, his professional over-exertion
in the numerous election committees of the last session
probably shortened his life. He acted as manager of
sometimes four committees sitting on the same day ;
sometimes singly concerned for sitting members and pe-
titioners, or acting as agent for country parties. It was
also in the spring and summer of this year that, unfortu-
nately involved as a shareholder and leading director in
the Surrey Gardens, he had the additional anxiety on
his mind of that unfortunate speculation, and with an
abridged leisure for attention to the interests of hienselt
and co-proprietors. Receiving last August his appoint-
ment as County Courts' Treasurer, and being therefore
in a public official capacity, he moat acutely felt the
public reflection§ he incurred In common with hie
brother directors, and the more so because, as he ex-
pressed himself in a letter in our columns, he admitted
only his lack of judgment, denying all imputation on his
character as an honest man. Certainly he was the
largest creditor and loser by the failure of the company.
Thnsoppressed in body and mind nature gave way under
severe pressure. An hydraulic machine cannotbe worked
beyond its proper power. Perhaps the best tribute to
the memory of this peculiar public man (and we do not
record his unexpected death as that of a private indi-
vidual) is the fact that in private fortune he made no gain
by his singular and busy political career. He had
arranged to retire from business. His estate will pro-
bably realise a small independence, and one really earned
naturalbyhibsemreogrreettedbya
business as a solicitor. His death
will
to the " party'
man std. generis, and politics was his calling and his
may
nevern y personal son
fullyal
supplied. fri en ds, a n
He his
w loss
sa
a
pleasure. Probably our future electoral system will
never create need of a second James Coppock.—Times.

and have avoided much personal reproach, could he
have escaped from the influences and the atmosphere of
the earlier part of his career. As it is we have now, it
is to be hoped, nearly out-lived the violencee of party
and the electoral corruption they engender ; and,
although at general elections a certain amount of ma-
nagement and organisation will always be resorted to
on either side, the necessity and the prudence of
appointing a successor to Mr. Coppock may be doubted.
In private life, Mr. Coppock, if not highly culti-
vated, was a kind and generous man, full of quick
observation and genial humour. His unfortunate con-
nection with the Surrey Gardens arose from the large and
liberal assistance he gave to their former proprietor. For
his advances to that individual he had ample security.
This security, however, he abandoned when the company
was formed ; and the result of his association with it was
the loss of a large, let us trust not the greater part, of
his savings. Mr. Coppock was originally forced into an
active share in the management of the gardens. Unsuit-
able as it was to all his habits of life, so long as he could
take a prominent part in their conduct, the entertain-
ments were profitable. The general election withdrew
in the second season his attention from them. After a
long, laborious, and harassing parliamentary session, Mr.
Coppock had, instead of repose and relaxation, to meet
and encounter all the trouble and annoyance arising from
their unexpected embarrassments. The vexation and
mortification of this affair, joined to the want of relief
from business during the long vacation, and to the duties
of his new office, did their work on Mr. Coppock's robust
and sturdy frame, and assisted in bringing him to a pre-
mature grave, with the regrets of all his personal
acquaintances.--Daily News.