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nded, ively •this lwas ;- se of alive' ,Ras 3eecle, g the= 2: --- vcrp 'earl allow, Imlay as 01 1 man err °, 7 irt ,D pri , g all tche a )r the ►t bet wife' n 016 ,f the re d to I Nsa %rge ls ` wing .croO ;able'4 fi the )n t fO.! tint"i her 0- n" I 3 60 k' s 400 430 A 4 s roa led for lctiori• r ere 1° iption 6 16 3 .17 , 1 7 6 o g :1 6 5 17 6 ;16 wife of of l'a faV ICIS tg hter )buro. THE ITALIAN IRRIGATIONN CO , IPAN Y. Societt Anon with Limited CA Liability AL ility and Shar es t o B earer. Sham capital 25,0C10,000f. (131,000,000). Divided into 5f),•)6! ~,!19,c.5 of 600 f. (11;20) each. I .)eposit on application Li ppr share, and Lion allotment. The Italian Government guarante es a minimum interest of six per cent .on the capital, slid also a sinking fund to Provide for its redemption. D IRECT'JRS I N ITALY. The Marquis de Cavour, Member of the Chamber of Depu ties. The Count Oldofledi, Senator (formerly Governor of Bologna). 11. Farina, Regent of the B an k o f Mil an. 3D° Vince:nz(6(formerly Minister of Public Works at Naples). M. G. De Fernex, Banker, Turin M. Laurent, Banker, Parma. DIRECTORS IN ENGLAND. G. G. Macpherson, Esq. Chairman of the Agra and United Service Bank, restock It. Reid, Esq., Director of the Oriental Bank Cor poration. Eames Dir:kgob, Esq. (Lennox, Nephew, and Co.), 16, Old B road-srreet. L ient. - 0 ,- Jlonel W. Campbell Onslow, Director of Mw:tr as Irrigati on and Canal Company. the Wrr, 'Walter Cargill, Es C q., Di rector of the Eastern Bengal :IF.ilway Company. G. Mansel, Esq., Director of the Agra and United Ser vice Bank. P. D. Hadow, Esq., Deßity-Chairman of the Peninsular 'and Oriental Steam Navigaticn Company. P. Surtees, Esq., Chalcott House, Kingston, SurreY. J, P. Brown Wesfhead, Esq., M.P., the London and - beputy-Chairman of North-Western Railway Company. 'LINKERS IN 1-4()Nuox—Messrs. Masterton, Peters, and M Co., 35, Ni c h olas-lane. ANK EEs IN ITALY —Messrs. Charles De Fernex and Co., SOLICITORS Turin. —Messrs. Rixon and Son, 38, C annon-street. 13K°R.Rits- -Messrs. Foster and Braithwaite, 68, Old Broad-street. JOINT ENGINEERS. Monsr. Chas. Nod, Turin. • J. Abernethy, Esq., M.I.C.E. London. ir e4l r2orary Offices, 16, Gresham-house , Old Broad-street S ECRETARY, pro te m. — Leicester ' Dayly, Esq. „„, OB JECTS OF THE C OMPANY.—The object of this ' u orepany is to carry into effect the valuable and highly re munerative concession which has been granted by the Ir ks 4n Government for the construction of Irrigation Works 41 Northern Italy. , So great has been the reputation. and success of works of Irrigation in Italy, that they have been regarded as models of scientific coLstruction. by the engineers appointed by the Government of India to devise and execute the extensive Plans for the irrigation of that country. From the earliest ages the artificial irrigation of land in. 'Warm climates has furnished one of the most safe and profit able investments of capital. In India the application of this tYsteru has yielded a reven ue o f f rom 30 to 100 per cent. on the cost of S ' ,, onstructi on ; i n th e royal domains of Aranjuez, and i. ' Pain, it ha s i ncreased the produce of the soil ten-fold ; t has given to the plains of Lombardy their proverbial r enown for exhaustless fertility. The district assigned to the operations of this Company 'comprehends some of the richest portions of the famous riplain, extending from the foot of the Alps to the frontiers of lorubardy, and justly celebrated ar, the garden of Europe. ' 4 Company will immediately proceed to construct the Great Irrigation Canal of Northern Italy, in coaformity Wh'With the designs of the celebrated engineer Chevalier Noe, ,0 enj oys the highest reput a ti on in Europe for hyd rau li c Ten,orks, and wlio se pl ans have, after careful examination, approvrd of by M r . Ab ernethy and accepted by the Italian Gowrnment. A ecl) The • Muin Canal, 52 m il es l ong, 80 feet wide, and 20 feet ..,4, will commence a t Chi avasso, ten miles north of Turin, Hass V tr , rough the ri c h di stricts of the Vercellais and the 1 -an elm' e and terminat e a t th e r i ver Ticino, near Novara. , - 9 4'4 Will derive an inexhaustible supply of water from the /i:ver Po, which has been called the Nile of Italy, on ac tount of the rich alluvial matter brought down by its cur - rent. It will irrigate more than 300,000 acres, and it its esti mated th a t th e rental of the proprietors will thereby be in creased by £840,000 per annum. In order to obtain the great advantage of uniting under °he management all the irrigation works of the district, an the cession of the existing canals of the Dora Baltea and C anal Sesia, which will thus become tributary to the Grand ' 4l 4a' of the Po. The payment for these canals will be Il ukie at defe rre d d ates, and the amount is included in the Lliaranteed capital. OTT RANTEES OF THE ITALIAN GOVERN- Or:aT.The Government guaran t ees a minimum interest i , six per cent. p er annum on the entire capital to be ex pended in the purchase or construction of the canals, the preliminary expenses, and the management and mainte nance of the Works of the Company, thus making its shares -,:afe and ath.,antageous investment, independently of the LA ge profits which may be anticipated from such important W The Ital” 4 . „ ian Government also guarantees the repayment ~.1 3' Lae capital through the operation of a sinking fund. The "edenicaion of the shares will take place annually by lot, this great advantage to the shareholders, that, after having received back their capital in full, they will temain participators in all profits exceeding 6 per cent. during the remaining term of the concessio.n. The provisional concession was signed by the Ministers of Agriculture and Commerce, and of Finan ce , on th e 15th Ultimo, and the Government has engaged to procure for this C ompany all the necessary powers which require the con tent of the Legislatur. :EXPENDITURE.— cost of the works will be frayedde by the share capital of the Company, and by bonds maned under the authority of the Government, with interest Na C !' l laranteed, E very b ond will be stamped by the Govein nt, and th e i nterest of 6 per cent, will be paid at the tional Treasury. irt,,y r evisional contracts have been made with the sanction 2 a pprobation o f th e Italian Government for the execu- G,ey_ll cf all th e works by experienced contractors, wh o are .ared to deposit ample caution money for the fulfilment their engagements. heI'ROFITS.—The directors desire to avoid holding out ggerated estimates o f th e l arge profits to be derived from their irrigation works, in addition to the guaranteed interest ~i )f 6 per cent. ; but the official returns in their possession, ;Weil have been prepared with the most:scrupulous accu -4cY, and which may be seen at the offices of the Company, illatify them in anticipating profits fully equal to those ~w il ieb. have b een o b tained under the most favourable cir 7Tastances in Italy an d ot h er countries. In making these calculations, there can be no bettor Tkie wing statement eu place in our OWE. Eastern guide than wh a t h as Empire, as exhibited in th e ° c l : n ' JITMNA CANALS, NORTH-WESTERN PROVINCES.— nVerlThleHt returns show that the value of the crops saved )men ne year by the water supplied by these canals, whose s g - th. is 445 *miles, was £1,462,800. In 1853 the Court If Directors sanctioned an expenditure of £15,276 on the Zaatern Jumna Canal, which in one year yielded a clear ::fofit to the government of £9,769, besides enormously in ,,,,"reaing the value of the crops, and thus benefitting the " u ttivators to a far larger amount. ~_ ``NORTH-WESTERN P ROVINCES.—In these provinces ,_ e xpenditure of £557,000 was found sufficient to const ruc t w orks irrigating 1,300,000 acres , and thus obtain a produce 14 W 60 tho,ooo souls a nnulue of £2,500,000, support i ng a population , 4 Gs EAT GANGES CANAL, NORTH-WESTERN . PR0k.,11'12,5.--Colonel k.,11'12,s.--Colonel Baird Smith, the director of this canal, bf: ' ll 'course of construction, estimates that it will be cora -,.)--‘,c,cl for 12,000,000, and that it will raise the annual value 11 1 Lue crops it will irrigate to £7,000,000, and the gain to 9 cultivators will exceed £3,000,000 per annum." HExtract from R epor t b y Lieut.-Colonel C. B. Young, e isting chief engi neer, L ower Provinces of Bengal, dated ,h May, 1858 : th e Whatever th e results of different calculations may be, Jere can be no question, I believe, that canals as irrigation Acrks are remnnerative in India, whether the profits be 50 cent, and upwards, as Col. Cotton rates them, or, accor ;g to the more moderate estimates of Lieut.-Colonel Baird o„kith, about 24 per cent., or, according to the experience 47 the canals in the North-West Provinces, 12 to 16 pet . W., it is equally the result in all cases; I believe that 3 'll•c-psy , richly to both Government and to the people the ko ~,..1"-ey expended on them." t° the 6 per cent. interest on the shares allotted in England, ttß'ether with all dividends out of profits, will be paid half ilay, at 25 francs exchange, by the Company's bankers in I,__The works which the Company has undertaken have -vei l urgently demanded by the whole population. The Undertaking is received with the greatest favour in Italy ; 20,000 shares. are reserved for that country, leaving 30,000 for nn "'liar-tient in England. 1. _APlAications in the annexed form may be made to the --Vud-ert D irectors at the Company's offices, or to the Jare,kers of the Company in London. A copy of the concession may be seen at the offices of the Company. Loudon, April 4, 1862. T FORM OF APPLICATIO N POE SHARES. ° the London Directors of the Italian Irrigation Canal Company. t Gentlemen —Having paid to your bankers the sum of 44adreis of fah , I ' hereby request that you will allot me £.20 each in the Italian Irrigation Canal Company, 1 14 • hereby agree to accept the said shares, or any smaller raber that may be allotted to me upon the terms of the b t a 4 tat , - Ja , to be approved by the Italian Government, and to gaytho further d e p os it of Li per share upon the shares aZ °t t.od to me at su c h ti me and in such manner as you may PPoult. I am, Gentlemen, Name in full ........ Address in full .. ~ Date ........ 1) 1 1. CULVERWELL'S LAST NEW WORK, OURSELVES. 0 2 Sperrnatorrhcea, Syphilis, Stricture, Utemorrhoids, Nervous Debility, Palpitation, &a., C. MARRIAGE : Its Expectances and Disa !Fitments. 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At the end of the dance each girl, in turn, approached the dead man, stooped down, and gave him a kiss, after which all danced round him, and concluded the dance with merry laughter." The subject of "The Growth of Lon don " is somewhat stale after the elaborate and able articles which have appeared in the Week,ly Dispatch, arNi the lectures of Mr. Mark Lemon. "A Visit to the Trappists " details the mortifications to which that most ascetic religious order is subjected. Fiction is liberally represented, the more prominent tales being " A Tangled Skein," and "The Herds man of La Cainargue," and the number concludes with a little tale, by Mrs. S. C. Hall, " about Sister Jane." MR. J. E. READE'S NEW NOVEL. On Friday, April 11, in 3 vols., SATURDAY STERNF,. By JOHN EDMUND READE. Also now ready, in 2 vols.; The screw frigate Arethusa, 51, 500-horse power, fitting for the Chatham steam reserve, has been removed into the steam basin, at Sheerness, to be completed. steam reserve in th e M edway, are now b e i ng screw steamers, attached td the bro T u h g e h f t o f l o lo r w w i a n r g d for immediate commission :—The Zebra, 17, 200 horse power ; the Cormorant, 4,200 horse power, and the Racehorse, 4, 200 horse Ono of th e il m rz o *l s iB t h in Q te u r a e r st le in r g ly ar ß ti e ct e s w in . the present ,n diurvinlg times,"the number is that on " S oc i al Life in Medieval Eng land," a review, i n f act, of 111 r. Wright's recent work on " England i a d n d d l e g i i i v g e e s s . us no In s it e the a " writer traces the progress of manners during the " good . mediaeval to regret that our has been c as t i n t h e 19th cen tury. " Theold times," says the writer "as we call them, were in reality the youn g timeg. ' That which we call the wisdom of our ancest ors , was th e inex perience of our ancestors working out experiments in the dark." Still he pays a deserved tribute to the solidity of the Anglo Saxon character. It must have contained, he says, "An element of power rarely found in primitive races. Almost all other early races have died out, and left few or no traces behind. The Anglo-Saxons lie at the very founda tions of our language and our institutions." So f ar we have cause to be grateful to our ancestors and accept the substantial benefits they have trans mitted to us as a set off to the laxity of their morals and the roughness of their manners. Mar riage, it seems, in the primitive Anglo Saxon times, that is before the introduction of Christi anity, was a very slippery ceremony; " the only stipulations, or conditions, connected with it that had any binding force, related to such chattels, money, or other property as might be involved in the arrangement." Whilst in Ireland the lady was usually taken for a year's trial ; then, if she did tot suit, was restored to her family, hor reputation being considered none the worse for wear. The Normans, on their arrival, looked after the comforts of their own indoor life. They introduced improvements in Saxon domestic architecture, and indulged in greater privacy. " Dinner was a pub lic ceremony down to the close of the Anglo-Saxon rule. Banquets were invariably conducted in the one large, open, indiscriminate apartment. But the Normans knew the pleasure of a little occa sional retirement, and of small entertainments, where they could enjoy themselves without being gazed at like wild beasts in a cage at feeding time." And they accordingly bailt a banquet-room over the hall, where they could dine at their ease. Even in those days there was a code of etiquette. " You were forbidden to pick your teeth with your knife, or to offer the remains of your dish to another per son, or to dip your meat in the salt-cellar, or to return food from your mouth to your plate ;" whilst nine in the morning was the usual hour of dinner, five in the evening that of supper, and all proper people went to bed at nine. Of the morality of the Normans the writer speaks anything but fa vourably. The ladies " were as passionate, self willed, and imperious as the heroes who wooed them with devotional homage before marriage and beat them afterwards. Their gentle blood was as incapable of submitting to restraints in the pur suit of pleasure, as if it coursed in the veins of the coarser sex, whose license they constantly usurped. They not only laid aside that reserve which is almost a constitutional attribute of woman, but ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-THIRD SALE: CUSTOM HOUSE, London, April, 1862,-- FOR SALE, by order of the itonolyable the Commis sioners of her Majesty's Customs, at the COMMERCIAL SALE ROOMS, Mincing-tme, OrCHURSDAY, the 10th, and FRIDAY, the 11fh of April, 1862, at Twelve o'clock at noon precisely, the following GOODS, for Exportation or Home Consuaiption CAN WRONG BE RIQTFC ? by Mits. S. C, Hurst end Illackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF " FRIENDS IN COUNCIL." This day, Post Bvo., 55., ORGANISATION IN DAILY LIFE. AN ESSAY. London : Parker, Son, and Bourn, West Strand. lAnch.brs, boots, brandy, candles (stearine), clocks, chicory, coffee, cordials, dice, empty bags, fishing nets, geneva, gla , s, ',2; - uns, painters' colours, pepper, perfumery, perfumed spirits, ' rum, raisins, segars (succades), spirits (plain and mixed) ; a q uantity of files, plane irons, chisels, gouges, &c. ; sugar, ships' gear, tobacco, tea, timber, toys, wine, watches, and various other goods. The above goods may be viewed at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom House, Thames-street, at the London, West India, and Victoria Docks, and Tobacco Ground, Rother hithe, on Wednesday, the oth April, from ten o'clock in the morning until three o'clock in the afternoon, and on the days of sale, from ten o'clock in the morning until twelve o'clock at noon—the tasting of spirits and wine being restricted to the day of sale as regards the Queen's Warehouse. Take notice, that goods sold at this sale will 'not be de livered until after two clear days of the day , on which they are sold, and that no l o t s can b e paid for at the office of the Re- 1 ceiver-General after two o'clock in the afternoon, and that on the days of sale money will not be received by the Receiver- General after elevim o'clock in the forenoon. Catalogues may be had at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom House, Thames-street, sixpence each. power. The Diadem, 32, screw, Capt. Scott, is ordered to be paid out of commission at Portsmouth, on the 16th inst. The Victoria and Duke of Wellington, screw three-deckers, at Portsmouth, are named as the next ships for conversion to shield ships on Capt. Coles' principle; and the work of razeeing them to their middle decks will be immediately taken in hand originally laid down as a sailing h Th d and was afterwards altered and adapted to the screw. H er eng i nes are o f 7 00 horse power, and her burden in tons is 3,7.71. Th e tr e e e - c Dukek er, w , a 8 Victoria was laid down as a steamship, from designs furnished from the office of Sir B. W. Walker, K.C.B. She has a much flatter floor amidships than any of the converted throe-deckers, and has doubt lees liar this reuson much greater stability than they. adapted for conversion t o a two years since S cupola h u e k e i s . , therefore,' ssbhi pew th aa sbetter launchedeither ts ome heßoyal Sov ere i gn or D from Portsmouth Dockyard. Sheds of 4,127 tons burden, and is fitted with engines of 1,000 horse power nominal, and attained a speed on her light draught trial in Stokes Bay, of nearly 131 knots. according toumber, number, but p T r h e e se c e u t po i l n a t s ee f t o io r ns th , these t b w e o eLt ship ins , the number of guns they will contai n an d th e i r T o ca e li f b u r t e ur is e , coofnctionugresee,cieens.he precis e na t ure an d a matter depende n t thickness of the armour plating on their sides from below the water-line upwards is also a matter for future consideration. These ships cut down and converted to cupola ships when armed, stored, manned, and ready for sea, will have to carry about 800 tons less weight than they would have under the same circumstances as 131 gun screw steam ships, supposing that they are rigged when cupola ships, and carrying the same masts and yards, anchors, and cables. Fifth Edition, 35., DROVERBS AND THEIR LESSONS, By R. CITENEVIX TRENCH - , D.D., Dean of Westminster. By the same Author, ON THE STUDY OF WORDS. Tenth Edi tion, Revised, 4s. ENGLISH : PAST AND PRESENT. Fourth Edition, 4s. SELECT GLOSSARY, Second Edition, 4s. London : Parker, Son, and Bourn, West Strand. Temple Bar. As yet the interest of " Captain Dangerous" is admirably sustained, and the tale bids fair to be the very best of Mr. Sala's productions. In this num ber the adventures of the hero among the Blacks come to an unpleasant but scarcely unexpected. end; that respectable fraternity being pounced upon by a " mob of constables," aided by a file of grenadiers; Master Dangerous (who has now attained the ripe age of 12) valiantly breaks the head of one of the latter with a "demijohn" of brandy, and is sen tenced to be hanged by the neck till he is dead. Comforted, however, in his affliction by a good Quaker, ho writes to the King, and his Majesty is gracious enough to laugh at his effusion, and through " the intercession of a foreign lady, that was his favourite," he remits the youngster's sentence to transportation for life " to his Majesty's plantations in North America," whither he is now about to pro ceed, having been bought by " Sir Basil Hopwood, a rich merchant and alderman of London, who paid a certain sum a head for us to the King's Govern ment for taking us to America, where he might make what profit he pleased, by selling our wretched carcasses to be slaves to the planters." This part of " Aurora Floyd" is also excellent. She is mar ried, and is content Pf not happy, but there is a storm brewing in the distance, In "A New View of Shakspere's Sonneta" Mr. Heraud expounds his view of these much-discussed and imperfectly-under stood poems. "Back to Scotland" is an amusing account of a Scotchman's impressions of his native land on returning after a long absence. There is a biographical and critical notice of " Winthrop Mackworth Praed," who died at the age of 36, and who, the writer thinks, would, had he lived, have rivalled Macaulay in Parliament and Tennyson in poetry. "Burke's Australian Explorations" are touched on, and the poem " Drowned ! Drowned! is above average merit. THE CLOISTER AND THE HEARTH_ Immediately, in 3 vole., price 155., a New and Cheap Edition of CHARLES READE'S FAMOUS STORY. Handsomely bound in roan cloth, gilt and lettered. Orders received by all Booksellers. Trubner and Co., 60, Paternoster-row. Admiralty instructions have been received at Chatham Dockyard, directing a survey to be made by the dockyard officials of the pe ddlewheel steamers Adder, African, and Otter, employed principally on harbour service, in order to ascertain whether the hulls and general condition of those vessels are such as to warrant their being furnished with new en gines and machinery. The Popular Science Review. The third number of this useful periodical opens with an article by M. de Quatrefages on the " Phosphorescence of the Sea," in which that very singular and beautiful appearance is accounted for. The first requisite for its presence is, that the water be in motion. :hey took the initiative in those advances which, all the world over, are assigned to the province of men." The writer then touches on those curious continental tribunals, the courts of love, which never became naturalised in England, and ends with a tribute of praise to Mr. Wright's industry and research. " Phases of London Life," also a popular subject and well handled, contains some curious anecdotes and statistics of mendicancy. The'articles connected with Theology are styled " The Act of Uniformity," and " Aids to Faith." That on " Congregational Psalmody " discusses the various phases of this branch of musical art, from the time of the Early Christians to the present day. The writer of " The Recent Revolution in the Papal States," warm in the Italian [cause, tells us that " if the solution of the Roman question be long deferred, the people of Italy will take it in hand themselv es , an d compe l the Emperor to with draw his troops from Rome ;" and the subjects of the remaining articles are " The West Indies," " Lives of the Engineers," and "Life of the Right Hon. Wm. Pitt.' The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—Frederick W. Brown, chief engineer to the Tribune, vice Barber, superseded from ill health ; Henry Williams, confirmed as chief engineer ; P. Butler, engineer to the Fisgard, for the Columbine ; G. F. Bell, engineer to the Zebra ; T. F. Hight, first-class assist.-engineer to the Cum berland, for the Herring; T. Baldwin, first-class assist.-engineer to the Zebra ; H. Birch, first-class assist.-engineer to the Indus, for the Shamrock; E. Eckersley, first-class assist.-engineer to the Hawke, for the Lark; W. C. Batty, acting first-class assist.- engineer to the Cumberland, for the Spanker ; J. H. Bray and Frederick Hallett, acting second-class assist.-engineers to the Zebra; and J. M'Millan, acting second-class assist.-engineer to the Cumber- [and, for the Resistance. 1111 E NAVE Bentley's Miscellany. Mr. Harrison Ainsworth's " Lord Mayor of London" is progressing with spirit ; the after dinner conversation is given in this number; Mr. Pitt's triumph over his political opponents is described; Mr. Candish is once more caught, persists in deny ing that he is the Lord Mayor's brother, and is brought before the king; whilst Alice Wentworth mysteriously disappears from the ball. " Travels in Equador" is a review of a work on that country by M. Holinski, of which leprosy is one of the scourges. " The disease, too, attacks all classes : the Marquis Larria, one of the richest men in Equa dor, was rendered a frightful object by it. Not wishing to lose the pleasure of society, be had a glass cage made in his saloon, which, while conceal ing him from his guests, enabled him to take part in their conversation. It seems as if the leprosy in South America is something fearful ; not only do the features lose all human aspect, but the noses and lips are destroyed. In some cases hands and feet drop off without any sensible pain, but through a slow and regular ulceration." Under the head of "Recreations in Switzerland," we have an aecount of the ascent of Mont Combin from St. Pierre. "Table Talk," by Monkshood, is, as usual, gossip ping and amusing. Ouida flings his French phrases about gaily as ever; his tale, this time, is styled " The Beauty of Vicq D'Azir," a lady who was wrongly thought to be "not a proper person." Dudley Costello's tale, " Crooked Usage," has reached its 49th chapter, and an article called " Slavery in America," reviews Xavier Eyma's work " Les Peaux Noires." A general order has been addressed from the :orseGuarda to the army, dated the 24th of March, 1862, by which permission is granted to the troops composing the detachment left by Sir Henry Have lock in the Alumbagh, to reckon an additional year's service towards pay and pension. In all such cases the year added is allowed to reckon towards the qualifications for " medal and gratuity." Intelligence has been received at the invalid depot, St. Mary's Barracks, Chatham, of the departure of upwards of 2,000 sick and invalid non-commissioned officers and men, and time-expired men, whO have been sent home from India and China, for the pur pose of being discharged. The vessels now on their passage home with them are the Renown, the Lady Jocelyn, the Holmsdale, the Newcastle, and the Middlesex, from Calcutta; the Cospatrick and the Windsor Castle, from Bombay; the Exchanger and the Flying Cloud, from Hongkong; the Empress of India, from Kurrachee ; the Akbar, from Colombo ; and the Sir James, from the Mauritius. The periodical relief of the detachments of Royal Marines serving at the Island of Ascension, being about to take place, Admiralty orders have been re ceived at the headquarters of the Chatham division calling for volunteers from the corps for service at that island. The class of volunteers required are artificers, engineers, wheelwrights, masons, carpen ters, excavators, clerks, &c., all of whom must have had a fair education, and possess a good character. If married they will be permitted to take their wives with them. The volunteers will proceed to Ascension on the sth proximo, in charge of Lieut. Rokebv. CoThurn's New Monthly Magazine. An elaborate description of " The Lake Districts of Canada" challenges attention at the beginning of the present number. it is carefully compiled, and those who are interested in that colony will fini it worth perusal. Nothing is more remarkable, in some of the newly settled parts of the American continent, than the enormous rise in the value of land. Look at Chicago, for example, in which " a corner lot, in one of the principal thoroughfares, on which stood a chemist's shop, was sold during Mr. Hancock's residence in the city for sixty four thousand dollars, or £12,800, the same lot having been bought twenty years previously for a sum about equal to the cost of one of the shop-windows —namely £20." The subject chosen by " Sir Nathanial" for his bi ogra phi ca l s k e t c h this month is the Swedish hero or madman Charles the Twelfth, on whom Johnson waxed eloquent in "The vanity of human wishes," and whose flight after the disastrous day of Pultowa served Byron as an introduction to "Mazeppa," and who met his death, Carlyle tells us, by "assassination instigated by the Swedish official persons it is thought." The bullet passed through both his temples, he had clapped his hand upon the hilt of his sword, and was found leaning against the parapet in that attitude—gone upon a long march now." In " The Heart via the Head" we have an essay upon preaching. "A Federal Foray," based on the present American struggle, shows how a Captain Weston lost his lady-love through sackiag the house in which she lived, and the tales of the "Shadow of Ashlydyat" and "Granville do Vigne" will gratify the lovers of Action. ............... The St. James s. The general belief in the existence of great men, and the differences of opinion as to the sense in which " great " is used, have in this number fur nished materials for an amusing paper. Carlyle, according to the - writer, stickler for " earnestness and sincerity." Emerson defines a great man as " one of great affinities, who takes up into himself all arts, sciences—all knowables—as his food ; who can spare nothing; who can dispose of everything." Mr. Ruskin believes that "the first test of a great man is humility;" whilst Professor Ranke con siders that the title of great "belongs only to those who have fought, not merely for private, but, at the same time, for great general interests." The writer then canvasses the pretension of heroes of different grades, notes their shortcomings, and thus vindicates the cause of mediocrity. "This exalta tion of heroes—this sycophantic homage to great names, repeated from generation to generation, till they aro depressing, has become detrimental to the best interests of humanity. It breeds habitual con tempt in one class of people for the pursuits and actions of another ; it tends to encourage the absurd popular notion of some "coming man, wh o , n hi m _ self alone," in any emergency is expected to set things right ; it tends to discourage the recognition and the ready acceptance of the fact shown by the experience of the last two centuries, that associa tion, organisation, and a division of labour, are the truest means that can be adopted for the material and moral progress of mankind ; it praises the past at the expense of the present ; it compares the moderns with the ancients, only to give the palm to the latter ; in a word, it is an incubus upon civil!- 1 cation itself?' The article on "Dancing in all 1 Ages" will be found interesting. One of the most singular of these exercises was that practised in Bohemia under the name of the Death Dance. 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" " The regiment of La Tour a'Auvergne, when itt garri son at Paltni, in Calabria, received orders to start er mid night, and to reach Tropea by forced marches, in orrice' to oppose the l an di ng of the enemy, w h o threatened the hal '- hour. It was in the month of Jane; the troops had to traverse a distance of about forty miles ; leaving at mideight, they arrived about seven o'clock in the evening, and having rested for a short time only, they suffered considerably from the heat of the sun. As the battalion was the last to arrive, they were apportioned the worst barracks ; and. 800 men were crowded into a building which, under ordi nary circumstances, could not have contained above the half. They squatted upon straw laid upon the earth, with out covering, and without undressing. The building was an old deserted abbey. The inhabitants of the locality warned the soldiers that they would not be able to retain even this lodging, that it was haunted nightly by spirits, and that other regiments had tried in vain to obtain rest there. We laughed at this credulity,. but were muck as t on ished when, at midnight, there is from every corner, of the ruin the most frightful erica, and to see the soldiers rush out and flee panic-struck. When questioned, they all declared the devil inhabited the abbey, that they had seen him enter by an opening in the door of their apart ment under the form of an enormous black sLiaggy dog, that he rushed at them crossed their breast with the quick ness of lightning, and disappeared upon the opposite side to that at - laich he came in. We ridiculed their terror, and endeavoured to prove that the phenomenon depended upon simple and natural causes, and was, in fact , the result of the excited imagination. We failed, however, in convinc ing them, and in persuading them to return to their quar ters; and they passed the night upon the beach and scat tered through the town. When the sergeants and oldest soldiers were interrogated upon the following day, they de clared that they were iriuccessible to any sort of fear, that they did not believe in ghosts or hobgoblins, and appeared persuaded that the scene in the barrack was a reality, and not to be attributed to imagination, as they were scarcely asleep when the dog rushed in, that they saw the anim a l dis tinctly, and that they felt suffocated at the moment when ho jumped upon their chest. The regiment was de tained in Trepea, and occupied the same building on the following night. The men had been spoken to, and were comforted and supported by the presence and the scepticism of their officers, who placed themselves in the different chambers; yet about one o'clock the same shrieks arose, and the same individuals who had been assaulted by the hell-hound on the previous night rushed in trepidation ithto the open air in order to escape suffocation. The watchersc, saw nothing but the panic. The surgeon of the regiment, who is the narrator, adds, that although repeatedly exposed to similar hardships, ho had never witnessed his comrades so affected, and attributes the epidemic to the state of the atmosphere and other very obvious circumstances. Every event is explicable save the simultaneous appearance of the same spectre at the same time in dream to a number Of hadividuals. Even upon the supposition that all the soldiers were drawn from the same district, and that in Auvergne the recognised form of Satan was canine and of the Catholic colour black, there will re main an unexplained difficulty, not more inexplicable, however, than many phases of waking thought. But the writer admits that " the mater:als of enerall which the fabric of dreams is composed are g y recent and ordinary impressions fantastioallf ar ranged," b ranged," and instances the following narratirve y Dr. M'Nish of Mal SPXPER ;144 4, • S's/ t.a s and dreams of different classes of the sane and iyl.- sane generally when asleep and while subjected td different external circumstances. The inability tcr , sleep and to pass into dream is the first charac teristic to be noticed. To the healthy man vigil— ance is the intimation of perilous activity and a forerunner of mental disease; in the maniac it is followed by dementia. This supports the view that there is something more restorative in sleep tirlan mere rest." With the statement in the last sentence we can hardly agree. It seems to us that the bene ficial effect of "balmy sleep" results solely from body and mind being in complete repose, and thereby enabled to recruit the waste of mental energy physical power which has taken place during - the day. It is, in fact, the most perfect form of rest, but that it contain anything more restorative than this sce see no reason rk:r believing, and in this vied~ we are strengthened by the illustrations of the writer. "All physical morbid conditions are," he says, "attended by distressing dreams," thought they are not "invariably characteristic either c.- , ,_ the nature of the affection, or of the ph:ce aff"ct ed?" Among the most curious forms of disease dreams is EPIDEMIC NIGHTMARE. CLERICAL. MFDICIAT„ and CIENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 13, St. James's-square, London, S.W. Established 1824. Empowered blr Special Act of Parliament. BONUS MEETING, 1862. The Report presented at a Meeting held on the 2d January last, for the declaration of the Seventh Bonus, showed, in evidence of the progress of the Society, that during the quin quennial period which terminated on the 30th of June, 1861, New Assurances for a total sum of £1,486,370 had been effected, being an increase of £62,215 on those of the previous five years ; that The Income had increased from £166,800 to £195,400 per annum; that The Assurance Fund had risen from £1,154,276 to £1,422,191; and that a Reversionary Addition to the Policies of £275,077 was then made, as against £232,479 at the prior division. In illustration of the results of the Division, that the Reversionary Addition above named averaged 48 per cent., or varied with the different ages from 33 to 89 per cent. on the Premiums paid in the five years; and that the Cash Bonus averaged 23 per cent. on the like Premiums, being amongst the largest ev er d ec l are d b y any office. The Report explained at length the nature of the invest ments, and the bases of the calculations, the results of which, as above shown, are eminently favourable. The following are among the distinctive features of the Society:— I Credit System.—On Policies for the whole of life, one half of the Annual Premiums during the first five years may remain on credit, and may either continue as a debt on the Policy, or be paid off at any time. Policies for Terms of Years may be effected at rates pecu liarly favourable to Assurers. Invalid Lives may be assured at Premiums proportioned to the increased risk. 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'a_—lr_ already Heralddyes established Standard, d i a h r e d , r :T p o u v iia l t .? i , o l n Bn o l f . himself 3 s l e l i r:i t r o i's b - e le- w Grand. , —Dr. Culver an able physiCian , far as he has philanthropist, in as ._ established, in the heart "The Post-office . of the City, an institution that more nearly than any disco very f ~ 0 . modern da ys, goes nearer the abolition of the practice of physic, than any proposition or invention yet established, the Turkish Bath. • • Our object befoul merely to direct the attention of our City readers to the fac "that they possess one of the best set of bath's, at 19, St. Alartin's-le-Grand, which the country can produCe; perfect in all its a i pliances and most admirable in effect. Dr. Culverwell hafpfitted p' his baths with degree of elegance , luxury, and refinemenut, which, considering; the space at his disposal, i s truly sur prising, While everyth ing- th a t taste or delicacy could desire ii,ls been obtained to add to the comfort and luxury of the visitor. . . We may justly say that if a man ever feels binismi relftnerated and new made, it is on:smiting' Otit:of:a Turkish Bath."—Era, 0ct.,13,1861. Cusultatins daily tllll2 it,m. RUSSIA AND POLAND. The Official Gazette of Warsaw of the 2d inst. publishes the following : Written at the Citadel of Warsaw, by a Com mission of Inquiry, March 28, 1862. 1 By virtue of a decree of the Governor-General, issued in pursuance of an order from 'the Aide -de- Camp Gen. Vamiestnik, today, Prince Bebutow, together with the delegates named by that order, Dr. Tytns, professor of the Academy of Medicine ; Charles Minter, proprietor of the house, No. 1,337; and Alex. Preyss, Chief Director of the Society of Land Credit, proceeded to the above-mentioned place in order to verify the report which was circu lated in the city that Alex. Zamoyski, printed and confined in the citadel, and accused of having reveal cir culated a revolutionary address to the Archbishop th at pieces of flesh beatenpurposeof i t with causing so his accomplices, Felinski, had been, during an examination for the had fallen from his body. Accordingly, Alex. Za. moyski ) archevist of the Society of Credit, was sum. much him inhumanity to Itoned from the place where he was confined before the above mentioned delegate!. His identity havin g been roved b the Chief Di r ector p re P y Yea to the question Which Wtt put to him by the delegates, if he hail 'been severely beaten, he replied , a n d a ffi rme d it upon his honour, that since his arrest no t on l y h a d he been free from corporal pun ishment, b ut not even a hand had been placed upon h im. Prin ce B e b u t ow having asked him if he Was not in duced to make this avowal from fear, he said instantly he would undress to prove the truth of his words ; but the delegates, who had no doubt on the matter, agreed that this was unnecessary, and that the falsity of the reports had been sufficiently proved. Thereupon the proces verbal was closed, read over, accepted, and signed in the following order : D R . c ruirußlNsKl, eg, min", AL. pßEy ss, PRINCE n uEBUTOW. FATAL ACCID E T AT TTIE EXIIIEIT IDN NBUILD ING.---Of Saturday an inques t was held at St. George's Hospital on the body o f J a mes Rollyer, aged twenty-two, a labourer employed at the Who was killed by falling out of a chair while being drawn up t o th e t op o f th e dome to remove some of the material'4 Yerdiot, "Qcciw dental death." Exhibition, THE TNCUBATION op THE PYTHON.—AII hopes of the hatching are now at an end ; the eggs were removed on Friday morning. Thero is no doubt that the frequent of the partial young, u ra removals of the bl an k et in uncover i ng the eggs, and t h e occasional nume rous sudden ch anges of temperature for the proper develop ment BartloWo diA!notiOn,cwohiiii3 en:oo7l:igtial. .5 wo thelsnake, caused too know from Mr. were 14 t4eira*l) 8111 - XING WATER. However favourable the circumstances may otherwise have been for the production of the phenomenon, perfectly tranquil water was always completely dark. A concussion, no matter how feeble, was requisite for the manifestation of light. A grain of sand thrown upon the dark surface gave rise to a luminous blot, and the undulations proceeding from this centre were perceptible as luminous circles, be coming larger and larger, but at the same time more and more faint in proportion to their distance; just as the eon centric undulations themselves became more feeble as they receded from the centre. A stone as large as one's fist produced similar effects, but in a more marked degree ; and then, moreover, the drops resulting from the splash resem bled the sparks flying from an anvil on which the black smith is welding a bar of iron raised to a white heat. Tran quillity being again restored to the surface, all returns to obscurity, and the keenest observer could detect nothing that would lead him to suppose that this water, dark even to blackness, was ready at any moment to burst into corus cations, and recognise by its phosphorescent play, the descent upon its surface even of the minutest fragment of straw. The oyster-bed was always encircled by a phos phorescent belt, arising from the constant undulations of the sea, which broke upon the beach in gentle ripples. Seen from a distance, these little waves, barely four inches in height, presented a dead white tint, which might have been mistaken for foam illuminated by moonlight; but on a nearer approach their appearance changed, and !hay seemed to be crowned with a faint bluish flame, comparable to that proceeding from a lighted bowl of punch. When they burst, the illumination, even as it appeared to a person standing at the water's edge, became whiter and more vivid, and the undulations often resembled waves of molten lead or iron, bespangled all over with innumerable sparks of a brilliant white, or whitish-green hue. A similar ap pearance was presented on the sand after the wavelets had burst; for they imparted to it a uniformly white and luminous tint, from which there appeared to spring myriads of scintillations more vivid and intense than the luminous ground. As the water became absorbed by the sand, its limits were clearly defined by a bright luminous cordon or band, which indicated the extent to which it had spread upon the shore. When the hand was plunged into these tlery waves, and then withdrawn, it was at first completely IZgainous ; but after a few seconds there only remained a number of glis tening specks, which were, however, tolerably persisiait. Water arawn from the beach, and poured from a certain height, exactly resembled molten lead, and the splashing drops presented precisely the same appearance. This lumin ous display was of considerable duration, and it was suffi ciently brilliant to deceive the instinct of animals. During one of these nocturnal rambles, in which I was accompanied by a friend who was aiding me in my experiments, the watch-dog belonging to tho oyster-bed came bounding to wards us, and barked loudly, thinking, no doubt, that he had to deal with robbers. We repulsed him with the con eteanntttelotfeao urhi w hi ch:lb reihenffee c a w l n i in t s h ,t°L? threa tening fi Another circumstance whereby we may recognise that o n fi e r ci re e order sh t e o ata es ta ea orne pe seepe f fic ro tef m dtil, tahni dis tance.ds beach oe o an v cch e u m ssf e rio n omn t i c s lav n uh e si ce ec,dh s necessary y e tthfioderefthoo has e t injusttrw ei manifestation dngedprao o pd f pue t hcaefiress,eeaxl as one exactly phenomena, is the following : That portion of the approaches it, to be quite free from phosphorescence; but when trodden upcn, this is found not to be the case, for the the same effect as the stone which is flung into the tranquil water. The very ground appears to kindle under the steps of the pedestrian, and the fine gravel presents the aspect of red-hot cinders; this appearance, under the most favour able circumstances, extending at times to a distance of 60M0 inches from the impression loft by the foot. The cause of this phosphorescence is now found to be marine animals, the smaller kinds of which exist in such innnZnerable multitudes that the spectator sees, " as it were, a i t 3 he e t of flame spread out before him, whole waves being rendered luminousfi n ds, ;.. and, having steeped his hands in tn., water, he edefen animal ." them, that they , too, a: e.. washed with light." To ascertain the influence of theft; an c u lw filtration through a fine handkerchie f was tried. " The Noctilucm remained upon the linen, to which they imparted a brilliant light; whilst, on the other hand, the filtered liquid presented no signs of phosphorescence, notwithstanding every means employed to promote it. When the noctt lucce were carefully washed from the filter and placed in water that was previously dark, they at once imparted to it a phosphorescent appearance." Pursuing his observations and experiments further M. de Quatrefages ascertained that the brightness of some proceeded from a luminous mucus ; of others from an internal substance, but in the great majority of cases he saw " the light manifest itself in sparks or scintillations, along the course of the muscles alone, and only during their contraction. This luminosity, however, the writer states, is " a phenomenon very different in character from that of phosphorus exposed to the air." Nor is it attributable to "electricity," but to " the living organism itself, and what may be termed par excellence the vital tissue, namely, the muscular, produces the luminosity solely in virtue of its vital function, namely, in that of contraction; and the light emitted appears to be perfectly pure and in dependent of any other product." An interesting paper, too, is that on " The Sun and Solar Pheno mena." It seems that that important luminary has, during the past year, " been in an extraordinary state of perturbation" through an eruption hayl_n_ff broken out on its face. No alarm, however , aa need broken can be felt as to its fate. It is going on as wel l .n away; be expected, the blotches are gradually a for it is subject to these fits every nd Coour," also remaining ,articles treat of I , Light , The Ap " The Great Exhibition Buildings, 43 -plate Manufac plication of Science to Electotrnes7" five The The White tures," "Artificial Precious S Clover,"and "The Human " and a Scientific Su m _ He.art.: There are "Miscellanea," " Review a , mary. s ,Journal. The ill edical Critic and Psychological " Blessings on hira that invented Sancho. "It corers a man all u p pi leel ) ," said True, sound sleep does so; but if mind- “) a cloak." ill at ease, the dreams that may or body be ere we uncon ditionally hideous," "shall give us io Y come, "making ditionally accept honest Sand; e ' use" ' Dream thought and after the revelations on i o's dictum, especially Dream life" in the p resent number of this journal. Not that it proposesrtotheir value, but it relates a settle the question as to the natur e of dreams o nu mber of very cl ar i ons o b serva ti ons an d experi ments on the subject , and is evidently written by one who has devoted , considerable attention to i t. "What is wanted which these subject h isasysnotthsee w in r u it e e h r, fa " c i t n s t a h s e a prose cution of the prin ciple upon this might be obtainedcse b m y i g c h om tb p e arnig systematised; the condition PATCHWORK. "I dreamed," he writes, "that I walked upon the Great, Canal in the neighbourhood of Glasgow. On the opposite side stood the splendid portico of the Royal Exchange, actually' some miles distant. A t gentleman, whom I knew, was standing upon one of he steps, and we spoke to each other. I lifted a large stone and poised it my hand, when he said he ;vas sure that I could not throw it to a certain spot which lin pointed out. I made the attempt, and fell short of the ma: k• At this moment a well-know friend came up, whom I knew to excel at putting the atone ; but strange to say he .had lost both his legs, and walked upon wooden substitutes. This struck me as exceed ingly curious ' • for my impression W 313 th3t he had only lost one leg and had but a single wooden one. At my desire he took up the stone, and without difficulty threw it beyond the point indicated by the gentleman upon the opposite side of the canal." - The elements of this patchwork are to be found a walk upon the previous day along the canal with a friend ; a remark, on passing the Exchange, as to the improveu effect which might have been secured by the selection of an ele vated site ; the passing an excavation where a workman had a few days before been so crushed that both his legs had re quired amputation; the recollection of a joke as to the re moving the leg of the friend who was the stone-throwing athlete. Of more practical value, if not so readable, is the article on "The Health of the Army, Prospective and Retrospective." It lays especial stress on ven tilation, and gives a number of illustrative dia grams. " The Province of Psychology" is the sub ject of a paper by the Rev. W. G. Davies. That on " Slow and Secret Poisoning" has an attractive title, but it says little of poisoners, much on poisons, and contains some curious statements as to the benefical effects of arsenic taken in small doses. The remaining papers treat of " Hallucinations in Insanity," "The Unity of the Human Species," " The Legal Doctrine of Fact in Lunacy, and the case of George Clarke;" and of " Medical and Lite rary Gossip" there is an ample supply. MISCELLANEOUS. Good Words—Excellent and varied as usual, the contents offer something for all. Thereee is a paper rchbihp W hately and " Influence. w on rit i e ‘ s Sun o d n ay " , H " o b p y e th a e n E d di F to e r a . r: A„ Gerald Massey has a poem called " Pictures in the Fire." The tale of " Mistress and Kaid" increases in interest, and the remaining articles will be found well worth perusal. The Sixpenny Magazine.—An article on " The Steam Navy of England" opens this number. Four talus are in progress. A large instalment of "Fables, Ancient and Modern," appears. Our o!d friend Cellini, styled " Goldsmith, sculptor and manslayer," is treated to a memoir ; and " Animal. Life in the Ocean" is interesting and excellent, as usual. Every Boy's _Wagazine.—" The Wild Man of the West" has reached its sixth chapter; and we find " The Ghost of Bob Dowser's Dog," " Amongst the Showfolks," and " Adventures of Clever Jack,:' still in progress, There is an article Chess, ' another on " Hockey," and one on the game called "French and English." Bally's Monthly Magazine.—Dewted to " Sports and Pastimes," this number contains an excellent p tah o be r i t oc r g l a t t o nh f uya l ;t o ia h onn n e S os s c f a o y t a t , stt t ay h ll e ee d c c e a l i e ,l A b e a r l a p t ih, e Ca d ha t a ra nrdl i i n oe e n. 2T r , Thorn hill," riatt: hill," and various other articles on Racing, Cricket, &c. chambers's Journal ; The Book of Days--Both and these publications are full of readable ma tt er,_. known. the excelleno of the former is universii o l 7 o '"' e us, will The latter, of which the third part is.be.,,,wahing when complete form 1 . work . contaierinE.d.:i„dging of interest for every day la the year, au a well as agree from this specimen, it will be so.i able. Arts and Sciences Newton's London Journal of contains a critique on the Memoir of Brunel , vari ouso scientific notices, an acco unt ie Signals, th and two diagrams, the o,,neux o f recent patents, and s Gagne Weav e other of " Paignon Vanua ing." Illustrated Natural llistory.—Thifi -R"tledge's and excellent serial work, eon very interesting ev an .... G. . G•Wood, is now upon tho ' ducted by 00 Fishes. The engravings are numer ous of d to naturalists it will be peculiarly ous and good,an valuable. Orley Farm, by Anthony T rollop° ; Barrington, by Charles Lever. — Th o former i s i n i ts fourteenth latter in its third, number, the reputat io ns of their respective authors. Lectures on the Ancient and Modern Dramatic Poets, by B. C. Jones. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. _The eighth part is reached, the ninth lecture is co mmenced, and the theme is the tragedies of Aschylus. The Health of the Royal Navy Considered. • Hard wicke, Pie a;ii -- " ,, ../37.—This is a letter, in the shape of a pamphlet, addressed to the Right Hon. Sir John S. Pakington, Bart., by Gavin Milroy, M.D., &c . The sub ject i s important, and the writer has evi dently studied it accurately. PLYMOUTH, Saturday.—The barque Westbury, 330 tons, Captain 1 homaa Smith, belonging to Mr. T. B. Walker, from Launceston January 3, with 1,244 bales of wool and 40 tons of ground Mimosa bark, and 2 passengers for London, was off Start Point at 4 p.m. on Thursday under all sail, with a light mind from south-west. She she was co mpelled to keep under easy sail. experienced strong unsteady winds in the early portion of b W y a ,thereterrific Nv and so continued her voyage; fell in with ice in lat o 2 s, long 170 AV, where and 57 south latitude, until she ,reached 100 westlongitude , having bad to veer and haul 45 times to avoid so many bergs. On February 3, during a heavy squall from so ut h_ wes t, lat 58 S, long 72 W, the ship broached to, lost fo re ,. to pgallant mast and several sails, and incurred other da_ e lg s t t, 4 a 7 cc S ont l p on an g ie 4 d s raa violent ge; andgale o f r n em the eo a n t h t b . w , a s s ea a ; the ship wag peepe d, and lost more canvass. ole pooped Thehey of Kandy and carried away h The same skylights, &c. Westbury rounded C, ) ~, or wheel, crossed the equator March 4 ; , end spoke 41‘,/le liorn Feb. 4 ; N, long 26 47 IV, the ship City of Randy,arch 5, lat 0 41 Liverpool ; and March 15, lat 16 19 N, from Arica for long 40 7 W, the barque_Blonde, from Hull. ~- .. a ; ~- Now ready, Bvo., sewed, Price One Shilling, T HE AUTHENTIC REPORT of the TRIAL BY COURT-MARTIAL OF CAPTAIN A. M. ROBERTSON, Fourth Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, held at the Royal Barracks, Dublin, on the 6th of February, 1862, and follow ing days. With Portraits. Fine Paper Edition. with Photographs of Col. Bentinck, Capt. Robertson, and Adjutant Barran, price 2s. 6d. "A trial has just been concluded in Dublin, which has rivalled even the Windham case in notoriety and scandaL"— The Times, March 27. Dublin : DPGlashan and Gill, 50, Upper Sackville-street. London : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. Edinburgh : John Menzies. - THE PRESENT DISTRESS IN TRADE fully explained in J. GROSSMITH'S " GOVERNMENT UPON FIRST PRINCIPLES." The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficulties ex perienced in 1860. The Crisis is at band. Anxiety in busi ness has now become the grim torture. Purity of motive. Intelligently exercised, must animate all Governments, or all is lost, All denominations of Constitutions are carefully examined in J. Grossmith's "Government upon First Prin ciples." Kent and Co., Paternoster-row. Just published, Bvo, in cloth, price 55., by post f ree , 5 8. 6d., nN THE SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT o f s•-•• STRICTURES of the URETHRA; showing why they so often appear Incurable, when in reality -they might be removed by the most simple means. By F. B. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.E., And formerly Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the Cure of Strictures of the Urethra. " This work is the production of a surgeon whose special attention has been directed, through a long professional life, to the treatment of strictures of the urethra. The cases which Mr. Courtenay has given supply ample evidence of his great discriminative power in the diagnosis of the various kinds of stricture, and of the scientific principles upon which their management is founded. By his systematic management an immense mitigation of pain to the unhappy sufferers is attained, and future mischief prevented. The work we can most unreservedly and confidently recommend as a valuable contribution, both to the general and professio na l rea d er, an d ought to be found in the private study of all who are subject to stricture." —Medical Circular. London: H. Bailliere, 219,Regent-street. MR. AND 'MRS. CHARLES MATHEWS "AT , HOME," At Her Majesty's Concert Room, Haymarket. Last Nights of the present Entertainment, which will ter minate at Easter, when they will appear with an Entirely New Programme. Every Evening (except Saturday), at Eight. Wednesday and Saturday Mornings at Three. Private boxes, stalls, and places may be secured at the Box office, which is open daily from Ten till Five, and at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. No extra charge for booking. Carriages to be ordered at Ten. Stalls, ts. ; First Circle, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Unreserved Seats, 2s. and ls. eI_IIRISTY'S MINSTRELS. The Original, kJ Well-known, and only CIIRISTY'S MINSTRELS are performing nightly to crowded houses at the POLYGRA PHIC HALL, Icing William-street, Strand. Tickets to be had at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street; Mr. Austin's Ticket Office, St. James's Hall, Piccadilly.— Morning Performance every Saturday at three o'clock.— W. P. COLLINS, Sole Proprietor. ARGYLL ROOMS.—Series of New Music, Valses, Quadrilles, and Polkas, by the unrivalled Band of 50 performers, under the sole direction of Mons. BouL conT, Conductor and Composer. This gentleman will play every evening at 11 o'clock, until further notice, variation s arranged by himself on the Cornet-a-Piston.--The free-list will be open for the profession by leaving their card at the door. By order of the Proprietor.—Manager, Mons. P. Grenet. Admission is. DR.BUCHAN'S INVIGORATING ESSENCE, for NERVOUS RELAXATION and GENERAL WEAKNESS at once restores and invigorates with magical rapidity the most Debilitated Constitution, thereby ensuring permanent health, increased strength, energy, and a re doubled development of the muscular system. One trial will force conviction, and prove failure impossible. Price per bottle 4s. 6d., lis., or four times the quantity, 335. Wholesale Agents, Barclay and Sons, 75, Farringdon-street ; and of all chemists throughout the world. CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. The quarterly meeting was held this day at the offices in Norfolk-street, Strand—Viscount Ranelagh in the chair. The Secretary (Mr. Gruneisen) read the advertisement convening the meeting. Viscount RANELAQI then read the following report : " The executive committee of the Conservative Land Society have the pleasure in this thirty-eighth quarterly report of announcing to the shareholders that the receipts for the Christmas and Lady-day quarters of the present financial year are remarkably satisfactory, as will be seen by the annexed tabular statement : ' Shares Quarters ending in Shares Total Receipts. Complete Shares progres. Dec. 24,1861 202 41 243 £13,529 1 4 March 25,1862 lO3 26 129 17,821 17 11 305 67 372 35,350 19 3 Totals to Sept.3o, '61113,766 3,780 17,546 561,588 10 3 Grand totals to l, Lady-day, 1862 The above Lady-day quarter shows an increase of £3,093 14s. 9d. over the corresponding period of last year; the present Lady-day quarter also shows an increase of £4,292 16s. 7d. over the preceding Christmas (par r ter • the total sale of land to Lady-d a y, 1862, amounts to £304,885, 10s., being an increase to the extent of £42,265 15s. 7d. over the returns to Lady-day, 1861. The total withdrawals since the formation of the society (Sept. 1852), to Lady-day, 1862, are £168,298 ss. 6d. The returns of the register of the order of rights are as follow :—Com plated, 4,607 ; drawn, 3,140 ; seniority, 1,651; total, 9,398 ; deduct rights exercised on estates, &c., 7,o47—unexercised rights, 2,351. The last share number on the register by seniority is No. 13,128, and the last share number issued up to 25th of March, 1862, was No. 17,918. Two allot ments of land and houses for the present financial year have taken place. The first was on the 16th of October last, when the Queen's-road estate, London-road, Tonbridge Wells, was offered ; and the second was on the 12th of February, when two estates at Newark-upon-Trent, at Beacon Hill and Northgate, were submitted for selection to the holders of rights of ehoice. The Queen's-road estate is divided into 63 lots, including sixteen substantially. built Gothic cottages. Situated as the property is deed to the church of St. John,.within easy distance from the railway station, and adjoining the most picturesque promenades in Tonbridgo Wells, it is not surprising that the sales already effected have been so satisfactory ; and when the new roads are opened to connect the property with the Woodbury Park estate, the remaining plots will bo in demand. It is the intention of the board to offer during the year the re maining ra agP rlr r t ad ion o c f o t m honruniions now madeestate,ooedabturyPark b th e e tw lr e ec n T t and speedy bridge Well s an d London having increased the popular watering -pl ace . Th e two Newark necessity of a ddi t i onal house accommodation on this allotted at the Town -hall after a . estates were at which the Mayor presided. NT' :se public meeting, nextaptliazotniontliewpeare consideredofihEecuso and-thaLP the Hon. and Rev. W. c • mount Ingestre, M.P. ) M.P.,_ attended on the • • .calbot, and Colonel tine; t s ix isf e a o c in to nytte% that unanimous solutions were pair „dig of the society's system of workin.. - 1- , gate estate is divided into 75 pl o t s Beacon Hill The North into - and e into 32 plots, the prices rangt... from 134 11 e to per plot, so that lading land can thus be secured 4226 on both estates for all c bu lae,ses of the community. The roads and drains will son bo constructed, and building operations will speedily follow. The next allotment is fixed for Wed nesday, the 30th of April, on which occasion an additional quantity of the valuable itoehampton Park estate will be offered ; as also the fourth portion of the building land on the Round llill Park, at the end of Richmond and Prince's roads, Brighton ; and houses on the Round Hill Crescent, now in occupation, or ready for habitation. It is likewiae the intention of the Executive Committee to inelnd e in the forthcoming April allotment ground rents at the I 3 attersea and Roman-road, (North Bow) estates. The Hon. E. Duncon.ihe, m. p ., being unable to con ti nue his services, has resigned hi s p l ace at the board. Th e di rectors have been, and are, in negotiation for various estates in different parts of the country, and are also looking out for an eligible purchase in or near London. The Tottenham and Hamp stead Junction Railway Bill, now before the Legislature, affe ctin g ae the Kentish -town estate, the necessary step s h ave taen to protect the interests of the allottees and of the society. The Executive Committee, in conclusion congratulate the members on the cheering prospects for the ' future?' Can any one answer the question, what is a Magnet? 'W e only know some of Ls marvellou s effects, and adm i re the in. genuity of those who apply ith power to beneficial uses, for instance Herring's magnetic brushes, &c. Dr. Hassall re ports, "I regard them as the most perfect brushes hitherto made, as respects their mechanical construction and their magneticil action," They are the remedy for grey hair, neuralgia, rheumatism, Sic. N.B . — Counterfeits are being Offices, 32, liagualtall-street, 1,94071. ME ether , ICa on been . the N 1 to g up n an with ition a fltIA at r 5" a L. AD . e svgfe vac of .parßt Lurch' 'mice ° Es4•t E l gio AO, } lint. ttri ot LilCtt , 1 Sir ;ton- [aryl l ova, fans, ......... 112, ty .