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c‘ung r out 3tk'Al~ ei.d. inst., 'iend,• fields .ound he his t, the count: out wsis PPre' acter , and' court deal rho 3. ien at t the mt. i Jen inter- wife .ation •e the Id no o the apply ances d ook Nvas look iefore lth er, er. look t sido r was y her tem- home m on- pint, -each from mur him, ately iid it never lduot to a that , at up 6 bad ;mild table ful mad wand of for pay vheat, vane° trade, 3 and ply of .ce at as 1e lYs a t r..;c03. THE ITALIAN IRRIGATION CANAL COMPANY Soci6ti, Anonyme with Limited Liability and Shares to Bearer. Share capital 25,000,000 f. (a 000,000). Divided into 50,000 shares of 500 L (£2O) each. Deposit on application £1 per share, and on allotment. The Italian Government guarantees a minimum interest of six per cent .on the capital, and also a sinking fund to provide for its redemption. DIRECTORS IN ITALY. The Marquis de Cavour, Member of the Chamber of Depu• ties. The Count Oldofredi, Senator (formerly Governor of Bologna). ' M. Farina, Regent of the Bank of Milan. De Vincenzi (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. Lestock R. Reid, Esq., Director of the Oriental Bank Cor poration. James Dickson, Esq. (Lennox, Nephew, and Co.), 16, Old Broad-street. Lieut.-Colonel W. Campbell Onslow, Director of the Madras Irrigation and Canal Company. Wm. Walter Cargill, Esq., Director of the Eastern Bengal Railway Company. C. 0. Mansel, Esq., Director of the Agra and United Ser • vice Bank. P. D. Iladow, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. F. Surtees, Esq., Chalcott House, Kingston, Surrey. J, P. Brown Wes head, Esq., M.P., Deputy-Chairman of tho London and North•-Western Railway Company. BANKERS IN LONDON—Messrs. Masterman, Peters, and Co., 35, Nicholas-lane. BANKERS IN ITALY — Messrs. Charles De Fentex and Co., Turin. SOLICITORS—Messrs. Rixon and Son, 38, Cannon-street. BROKERS—Messrs. Foster and Braithwaite, 68, Old Broad-street. JOINT ENGINEERS. Monsr. Chas. Noe - , Turin. J. Abernethy, Esq., M.1.C.E., London. Prospectuses and Forms of Application may be obtained from the Brokers, and at the offices of the Company. LEICESTER BAYLY, Secretary, pro ten, No. 115, Gresham House, Old Broad-street. ITALIAN IRRIGATION CANAL COM PANY.—The applications for Shares in Italy being already largely in excess of the number reserved for that country, Notice is Hereby Given that the London List will be CLOSED on SATURDAY next, 19th iu st. LEICESTER BAYLY, Secretary pro tern. 14th April, 1862, 15, Gresham House, Old Broad-street, City. TIME GREAT COPPER LODE OF HUA CAYVO (MEXICO) COMPANY (Limited).—Capital £200,000 in 40,00 shares of £5 each. To be incorporated under the Joint-Stock Companies' Acts, whereby the liabi lity of the shareholders is limited to the amount subscribed. £1 per share to be paid on appliccttion, £1 in one month after allotment, the remainder to be called up by instalments, as the development of the property may render necessary, but no instalment will be called before a period of six months from the date of allotment. DIRECTORS. GEORGE CURNOW HOCKIN, Esq. (Chairman), Lee park, Director of the Anglo-Mexican Mint Company. Thomas Willis Fleming, Esq., 10, Lancaster-gate, London, and Stoneham-house, Hants. George Grant Francis, Esq., Cae Bailey, Swansea. Wm. Gardner, Esq., Messrs. H, and W. Gardner, brewers, St. John-street, Director of the City Bank. Albert Pelly, Esq., Messrs. Albert Pelly and Co., 18, Finch-lane, City, Robert Richardson, Esq., 3, Kensington-gardens-square, London, late of Swansea. Thomas R. Warren, Esq., of Panama, merchant. BANKERS. The City Bank, Threadneedle-street. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Sewell, Sewell, and Edwards, Gresham-house. William Compton Smith, Esq., 43, Lincoln's-inn-fields, BROKERS. Sir R. W. Carden and Son, 2, Royal Exchange-buildings Messrs. Sewell Brothers, 58, Old Broad-street. AUDITORS. Messrs. Harding, Pullein, Whinney, and Gibbons, 3, Bank-buildings. SECRETARY (pro tem.)—Mr. Samuel Merrick. Offices, 85:Gresham-house, Old Broad-street. Mexico is a country well known to be teeming with in exhaustible mineral resources, from which Spain formerly derived enormous riches, and thus added materially to her greatness and prosperity. The intervention in the affairs of Mexico by the Allied Powers—England, France, and Spain—by giving confi• dente to British enterprise, will, undoubtedly, add wealth to those who early embark in the mineral developments of that country. PROSPECTUS. This Company is formed for the purpose of purchasing the rich and extensive copper, gold, silver, and lead mines, called La Purisima and Dos Amigos, with their Pertenen eias covering 56 acres, including all lodes and veins therein, situate in Huacayvo, Chihuahua, adjoining the State of Sonora, on the Gulf of California. Also for the purchase of a large tract of land surround ing these mines, held in perpetuity by virtue of a decree of the State, thickly covered with woods and forests, the 'whole estimated at 142,000 acres. And further, for the purpose of working the above mines, and erecting works for the reduction of the ores, by which the Company will reap the double profits arising respec tively from mining and smelting. The rivers Fuerte, or Uriquc, and Papagochi running through the properties afford ample and most valuable water power. The Government has conceded, for a period of five years, absolute exemption from all taxes, levies, and duties of Whatsoever kind or nature. The presence of rich ores cropping out and appearing on the surface of these mines, and the value of the ,lodes, is established by the survey and report of Mr. Robert L. lrAumaile, an English engineer resident in Sonora, and the accredited Government mining engineer and assayer for that State, and fully corroborated in a valuable paper read by Mr. Charles Sevin, F.R.G.S., before the Royal Geogra phical Society of London, so far back as January 24th, 1859 (See Journal of that Society for 1860).—Extracts from Reports to be seen at the Company's offices and in full Prospectus. The richness of the lode is proved from assays made by AIL D'Aumaile on the spot of ores taken promiscuously from every part of the vein, by which an average of 33 per cent. of copper has been obtained, while those assays tested in Europe by Messrs. Johnson and Son, Basinghall-street, London, and by Mr. Thomas Penrose, assayer to Messrs. Richardson and Co., Swansea, give still more favourable results, leading to the inference that the yield of metal ex ceeds that of any copper mines yet discovered.—Statement of Assays to be seen at the Company's offices and in full Prospectus. It is proposed by the Company to smelt the ores upon the ground, adjacent to the mines, and only to transport the metal to the coast, thereby lessening the expense of carriage to the port of shipment. It is estimated that the very large alloy of gold and silver which the metal contains will be sufficient to pay the cost of transport of the copper to a European market. Very rich gold deposits are also found in various parts of the main vein. Under these circumstances it is scarcely necessary to say that the profits of the undertaking, with ordinarily prudent management, must be large, in further proof of which the vendors have consented to postpone the payment of half the purchase-money until the net profits shall amount in any one year to 20 per cent. on the called-up capital. The purchase of this valuable mineral property, includ ing the existing reduction works, plant, machinery, &c., together with the territorial grant, and all privileges attached thereto, without any reservation of rights or royalties, has been agreed for with the proprietors upon the following advantageous terms : That £lO,OOO be paid, and 5,000 paid-up shares be allotted to them on delivery of the property Co the Com pany's confidential agent, to be despatched to Mexico for that purpose. That a deferred payment of £lO,OOO and an additional allotment of 3,000 paid-up shares be made when the net Profits shall amount in any one year to 20 per cent. on the called-up capital. That, on a dividend being declared, the shares given to the proprietors, in payment for the property, shall only be considered in value the same as the shares of the subscribing shareholders, whatever amount may have been paid up on them, Juan A. Robinson, Esq., of the port of Guaymas, Gulf , of California, Sonora, has undertaken with the assistance of the Company's confidential agent, the management of the mmes, and th e es t a bli s h men t o f th e re d uc ti on wor k s on the spot, until such time as the enterprise shall have proved remunerative, and a dividend shall have been declared. The long residence of this gentleman in the country, toge ther with his great practical experience and high commer cial standing, ensure to the Company an additional guaran tee for its success. Samples of the ores, as well as of the copper, gold, and silver extracted from the mines, together with maps of th© locality, may be seen at the offices of the Company. All charges for agency, promotion, advertisements, brokers' commission, legal and other expenses , including the costs and fees of registration of the Company, have been estimated not to exceed 3 per cent. on the nominal capital of the Company. , Applications for shares may be made to the bankers and brokers of the Company in the affixed form. Allotments Will be made according to priority of application; and, in case of non-allotment, the deposit will be returned without deduction. The Great Copper Lode of Huacayvo (Mexico) Company (Limited). Offices, 85, Gresham-house, Old Broad -street. Form of Application for Shares. Shares each. Deposit on application, £1 per share. To the Directors of the Great Copper Lode of Huacayvo (Mexico) Company (Limited). Gentlemen.—Having paid £— to y our bankers, the city Bank, for shares in the Great Copper Loa() of Iluacayvo (Mexico) Company (Limited), I request you to allot me, and I hereby agree to accept such shares , or any less number, subject to the provisions of the Joint-Stock Companies Act, and to sign the Articles of Association then required, Name Address........ Date , The above form, when filled up, is to be left with the Dankers on payment of the deposit. Just published, containing 190 pages, with 100 Engraving's, free by post.l2 stamps, sealed 20 stamps, THE SILENT FRIEND, the Greatest Medical Work of the Age, or Youthful Indiscretions and conse 'Wen, Impediments to Marriage, describing the Anatomy of , t he Reproductive System in health and disease, and pointing "lit the sure means of perfect restoration to manhood ; with ~4 11 Essay on Single and Married Life, containing his Pre "cliPtion known as the Preventive Lotion, precluding the . 2 0 ssibility of contamination. 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THE PRESENT DISTRESS IN TRADE fully explained in J. GROSSMITII'S " GOVERNMENT UPON FIRST PRINCIPLES." The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficulties ex perienced in 1860. The Crisis is at hand. 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, price 25., free by post, 2s. 4d., ON SPERMATORRHCEA. By F. B. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.E., And formerly Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the Cure of Strictures of the Urethra. 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VIVA VITALIS, illustrated with 100 Engravings from Life (of Cases attended at the Hotel Dieu, Paris, and other Hospitals), descriptive of the baneful effects conse quent upon the errors and excesses of youth and maturity, and the debility arising from the too frequent indulgence of the passions. containing a prescription of the Author's Invi gorating Lotion, an external appl cation, with di , ections for its use, with an Essay on true and false 4permatorrheca, every stage of Syphilis, and all uretnral affections, showing how manhood can be restored with increased muscular develop ment, by the most simple means ; thereby removing all Dis qualifications and Impediments to Married Life. By MEDICUS, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Eng land, and Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, registered under the New Medical Act, who may be consulted at the resid ence , 44A, Maddox-street, Regent street. London, W. (opposite the side of St, George's Church), daily. 11 till 2, and from 5 till R ; Sundays, li till 2. To be had direct as above, and from all Booksellers in Paternoster row, London. POST -OFFICE TURKISH BATHS, 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand. 2s. till 5, and ls. Gd. from 5 till 9 ; Sundays, Is. till 1. An ESSAY on 'TURKISH BATHING, gratis. • OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. " The Use and the Abuse of the Turkish Bath.—A very useful pamphlet has been published by Dr. Culverwell, the proprietor of the Turkish Baths in the neighbourhood of the Post-office, which presents to the uninitiated a mass of inte resting information, while those who have already encouraged this new system will derive additional advantage if they observe some of the practical regulations which the writer ..... & . T . h cu P iv o:t r. ;l i e e h Turkish r a k l Baths,irseLy established l9,St. iqtair reputation' ondeav e ours to enforce."—Herald and Standard, N0v.12 1861. Martin's-le-Grand. -1 e -G r a n o d i . an able physician , • he h philanth-opist as now proved h imse lf t o b e a worthy _ ~ in as tar as he has of the City, an institution that established, in the heart disco very of modern days, goes nearer the nearly than any o phy than any proposition or abolition of the practice the Turkish Bath. . . Our object invention beer yet established, the attention of our City readers to the fact that merely to direct one of the best set of baths, at 19, St. Martin's-le -Grand, they possess which the country can produce; perfect in all its appliances, and most admirable in effect. Dr. Culverwell has .- fitted -- ; his baths with a degree of elegance, luxury, and refinement, which, considering the space at his disposal, is truly sur prising, while everything that taste or delicacy could desire has been obtained to add to the comfort and luxury of the visitor. . . We may justly say that if a man ever feels himself regenerated and new made, it is on coming ont_of a Turkish Bath."—Era, Oct 13, 1861. Consultations daily tilll2 a.m. DR. CURTIS' MEDICAL WORK, MANHOOD : k MEDICAL ESSAY ON SPERMATORRIRE NERVOUS AND GENERATIVE DEBILITY, &c. Just Published, the 150th thousand, with numerous plates, in a sealed envelope, price Is., Sold by all Booksellen, and sent post paid, by the Author, fort 2 stamps, TA ANHOOD: the CAUSE and CURE o f PRE MATURE DECLINE IN MAN, with Plain Directions or Perfect Restoration to Health and Vigour. By Dr. J. L. CURTIS, 15, A lbermarle-street, Piccadilly, London. • rN CONTENTS: TRODUCTORY CHAPTER on the Physiological Structure and Functions of the Reproductive Organs. CHAPTER H.—Causes of Spermatorrhcea and Impotence; Ear ly Vicious Indulgences; Dangers of Neglect. CHAPTER Review of the various Disqualifications Marriage ; whether resultin g f rom Y outhful A b use, the Follies of Maturity, the RestsE of Climate, or Infection. CHAPTERS IV. d Gonorrhoea and Syphilis. V. on the modern Treatment of Lao l sto ' h iso e ,n.t ß o o w o k iu e o h n izi o sE l u av d d e id s te wdwit the eon! numerous s varied a o anda preventive WORK. "Curtis on Manhood.—This is a truly valuable work, and hould be in the hands of young and old "—" Sunday Times," great boon by publishing this t 3 d lurch, 1856. is described the s ource of those diseases "The author has conferred a little work, in w hich which produce decline in youth or more frequently premature old age."—" Daily Telegraph , " mar° 4 27, 1856. • This work, w hi c h f o r twenty years has s t ood the test or professional criticism and empirical hostilit y, treats in aplain and sympathising manner on the various disqualifications 9nd impediments arising from riervous excitement and de bility ; and to invalids suffering from youthful errors and excesses it will be found valuable and useful."— Record. London : Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane Pater noster-row; Mann, 29. Cornhill. - , Holm 9i co sultation-10 to I and, 6t9 Sudaye, 10 tlll 2 9 1 Preirlri.1"`" 4; 1 4 , /7c7ie) lEWSTAPErt • ' \ .../ 1 %.../..k.r 4.c . • P °llll / 1 10 , Ater k "- F . • - data • br - • \ A ear itt . ' 4 , 3 , P'` ` l 4:. ;P1 \ te It 0I T ) • `i) ' • 9' . 14 % , +;'J 411111:i . • • f 4. circle was completed in 3 min, 64 e t .: 1 111 in 5 min. 2 sec., and the entire cr(ole,,rx in 8 min. 56 see. The next triai.,„_ speed, the engines being stopped dead, theMip fectly stationary, the helm a-starboard, mid the time being taken from the engines moving fairly ahead on the word being given. The rudder was got over to 26 deg. before turning ahead, but after the en gines got into full play this was reduced to 24 deg. owing to the stretching of the tiller ropes, or some other cause. The ship's head began to move round a little in this experiment, in answer to her helm, before she actually got way upon her by the action of her engines, a fact that deserves notice. Eight points, or the quarter of a circle, were made in 4 miq. 7 SEC. Sixteen points, or half the circle, were made in 6 min 48 sec, and the entire circle was com pleted in 11 min 52 sec. The next trial was made under precisely similar circumstances, but with the helm aport. The rudder on this occasion was got over to 27 deg. and kept to it, an extra turn having been taken round the barrel of the wheel with the ropes, which may have caused the difference in the degrees maintained between this trial and the last. The first eight points, or quarter circle, were made in 4 min 5 see ; the 16 points, or half-circle, in 7 min 16 sec, and the entire circle was completed in 12 min 20 sec. The revolutions of the engines during this experiment, however, varied from 22 to 34. The last trial concluded the completion of the circles. With reference to the time given for the completion of the first portion of the circles, it is necessary to state that the point taken — th e N a b light vessel— was only about a mile distant from the ship when the times were taken, and it is well known that the closer the object taken for a point is to a ship in noting time to make a circle, the more inaccurate the time given for the first completed parts of the circle must be. The figures as representing th e t i me in which the circles were completed may, howe'Ver, be taken as correct. At the same time, as the pre sent trial is only a comparative one for the next trial, when the ship will be tried at the same marks and under, as near as possible, the same circum stances of wind and weather as yesterday, the temporary wooden casing being removed, and the rudder being brought to its original area, the means taken yesterday are all that can be desired under the circumstances. Arrangements have been made for bringing the rudder over to 35 deg. when the hydraulic steering apparatus is fitted to the ship, but the question remains to be solved whether, under those circumstances, the rudder head, or outer sternpost, will stand such an im mense strain. It is but repeating an oft-told tale, the truth of which is acknowledged by most people, that the rudders of our screw ships are in their wrong position abaft the screw, and that the only true remedy for our present weakness of steering and weakness of stern-frames would be the adop tion of subaqueous rudders and non-lifting screws. The temperature of the ship below during the trial was much improved yesterday upon that of her trial of speed at light draught on Nov. 19 last, on her ar rival at Spithead from Greenock. On deck the ave rage temperature was 49 deg. On the engine -room platform the average was 85.03. In the stokeholes the seven thermometers gave an average, commen cing from forward to aft, of 79.6, 96.6, 102.6, 102.0, 91.6,101.3, and 80.6. At her present draught of water the ship's area of midship section is 1,150 ft., with a displacement of 6,384 tons. The area of her screw blades is each 66ft. In outward appearance the hull of the Black Prince is much more graceful than the Warrior's ; this is chiefly owing to a less breadth of bow above the water-line, and to her hammock berthing forward and her head having been raised considerably above those of the War rior. This work has been done since the ship's ar rival at Portsmouth, and, although it certainly can not help her materially in a sea-way, it still adds much to, as we have said, the gracefulness of her outward appearance. An immense amount of work has been done to the ship since her arrival at Ports mouth in the shipwright's department, comprising the fitting of her hammock berthing fore and aft, the arching of her upper deck ports for her Armstrong guns, head, boats, crutches, davits, bridges, -sky lights, second catheads, cabin fittings, and general fittings of upper and maindecks. In progress are the fitting of the capstan for steam power, the examina tion of water-tight and ballast compartments, the bed. for the auxiliary engine, ventilation of the magazines, making maindeck ports watertight by vulcanized indiarubber linings, fitting sluice cocks, and a mul tiplicity of other work, together with the construc tion of a " head" for the accommodation of the cre w at sea. This latter innovation is the result of the Warrior's cruise at sea, the experience gained on that occasion proving that the "head" of a ship in its ordinary position is inaccessible to the crew of an iron cased ship, owing to the liveliness of the motion of the latter description of vessel over that of an ordinary wooden constructed ship at sea. The work in the engineers' department, although not of THE SUN, LONDON; THU RS DAY EVENI N G, APRIL 17, 1862. PRICK .... -..4d. STAMPED ....sd. purity, and morality, let him turn to the pages of the French Republican journals in the time of the worship of the goddess Reason. Let no one sup pose the writers were not sincere, though the lady who sat in the car might have in the flesh undergone the ordeals of the correctional police. Let none suppose that the " Union" now does not fire the Northern heart and move the souls of those great masses which have lain so long beneath the weight of dollar bags, from the Canadian lakes to the Sus quehanna and the Ohio, to-day with afresh current of thought and feeling; a new arterial system of hope and action has been put into them. One of the great triumphs of their young career is that they have slain the mother that fostered and bore them ; which had, however, become a step-mother and tyrannized them to death. There is no one in Con gress, there is not in Senate, in House of Represen tatives, in pulpit, or stump, or in the forum, a man who has a word to say in this year of grace 1862 against a war against the press compared with which there has been nothing known even in the days of Andrew Marvel. The utmost the boldest journals venture upon is to give warning to their agents to flee from some doubtful wrath to come. And the American people are very glad of it ; least ways, they don't appear at all dissatisfied. Here are billiard-table keepers and whiskey drinkers g , .ttiog up public meetings, and all sorts of interests moving against taxation, but not man cries out " murder," or even "robbery," far less " fire" at the visible extinction of all life in the press in its func tion of giving news. Devotion to the Union cannot do much more. When an American is content to do without news in his newspaper he has exhausted submission and forbearance, and made his sacrifice. My next letter will be from the neighbourhood of Fortress Monroe. The Rinaldo is still lying off Old Point Comfort, and two French vessels, one the Catinat, have hurried up to enjoy the spectacle of a renewed encounter between the knights in armour. The Racer is off Charleston, whence comes the rumour of another arrival of arms and muni tion in a steamer which ran the blockade. There is no news yet from the Nashville, and the shipowners are by no means happy in their minds. In the forthcoming encounter one of the opponents of the Merrimac intends to try large shells upon her. The Navy Department has given orders for the manufacture of a number of fiat headed bolts on Whitworth's plan, to pierce the iron plates, if possible. In reference to this matter I may observe that an erroneous impression, for which I am in some degree responsible, appears to have been created in Europe that Capt. Dahlgren is of opinion that shell could be used with effec Wendell Phillips would, I can easily believe, lay down his life as calmly for the sake of the cause as he would, if needs :Avcre, head a crusade for it in which thousands would fall amid the horrors to which Earl Russell alluded in his speech the other evening—l mean to us out here, for it has only just been received ; and by parenthesis let me say that its moderation, temper, impartiality, and truth fulness have obliged the most anti-British papers to admit, while attributing to it the worst motives, that the conduct of the British Minister has been characterised by an , undeviating adhesion to an honourable and strict neutrality. Defoe describes the treatment which a man may expect who acts in a similar manner between political parties, and Great Britain will, I fear, fare little better from either North or South when the war is at an end. For some time, however, whatever that end may may be, the attention of both parties will be devoted probably to the settlement of the negro question and its adjuncts, and with the end of the war comes a time of great trouble and fierce excitement. Can the people of the two sets of States ever live to gether again ? How long will it be before the wild guerilla of the South can be reduced ? In a war extending over such a large portion of the Northern:continent of America, conducted under such different circumstances, it is not to be wondered that There to no uniformity of action among the leat, , ers, and oo general priocipl es of con duct among the subordinates. I have seen evidence which satisfied me that the Confederate troops com mitted grave excesses before they evacuated Nash ville, just as the Federals misbehaved when they advanced last September to Munson's-hill, and re cently were guilty of smaller misdemeanours at Centreville. General Price returned the money which he had taken out of a Missouri bank to pre vent it falling into the hands of the Federalists to the rightful owners when he next advanced through that much vexed State or Territory—for a territory it may become if it be not now a province governed by a military legate. "We are a peculiar people, sir, and no one can understand us but ourselves," is a common saying in the States, Confederate and Federal—used alike by Loais J. Wigfall and Ed ward Everett. Certainly the results of self-know ledge do not show that it is peculiarly valuable if we look at the present war. When Mr. Raymond made his speech against the proposal to let the State of New York act as a sovereign State, and arm its own coasts and frontiers, the was fighting against the deep-rooted and' innate secessionism which is found in the very life• blood of the Union. It is the great source of evil present and of evil to come. It made the whole body corporate of lowa, Governor and all, so elated mentally and bodily over the successes of their troops that the papers were obliged to give them a temperance lecture the other day. Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, New York, Rhode Island—every State has its separate entity, and is treasuring up its struggles and its sacrifices, its losses and its - victories, for some Armageddon of its own. State jealousies have been much developed by the war. The en listments by one State of the citizens of another have been either openly forbidden or secretly op posed by the governors and politicians who de nounce the development of State rights in seces sion with the greatest force and vehemence. They all unite, it is true, to hunt down the fox or the lion, or whatever he may be who is destroying their fold, but they are animals distinct in species, and even in genera, nevertheless. If the South was a monomaniac in its faith that cotton was king, the North is almost equally mad in believing that it can, by opening "cotton ports" in such places as Beaufort and Fernandina, induce the great European Powers to depart from their rule of neutrality in the quarrel. As this war proceed it evolves a diver sity of ideas and principles in the great "bund" which is fighting for the Union. The South is tolerably homogeneous ; the North is actuated by motives as diverse and various as those which actu ated the leasers of the Holy Alliance. But there was no difference between Czar and Prussian King as wide as that which separates Halleck from Fre mont. The latter is, indeed, favoured above all men, because he is an incarnation of faith to millions— ground to about twice its present size. The field-officers' quarters, as well as the barracks and other offices, will be removed to another locality. It is also contemplated to take in a porticn of Chatham dockyard, and to throw the barracks back as far as the residence of the master ropemaker ; the public road leading to the New-stairs will not, however, be blocked up, but communication with that portion of the buildings will be maintained either by means of an arch thrown over the road, or by an under ground passage. The new barrack buildings will provide accommodation for 700 additional marines, thereby enabling 1,500 men to be quartered in them, by which all the demands upon the establishment will be met. The site of the new barracks has been officially inspected by Col. Langley, Deputy-Adju tant-General. The inspection of the 3d depot battalion at Chat ham, under the command of Lieut.-Col. C. E. Fairt lough, was made yesterday by ,Major-Gen. A. J. Lawrence, C. 8., Inspector-General of Infantry, ac companied by Lieut.-Col. A. Alison, C. 8., Assist.- Adjutant-General. At 9 o'clock the depot battalion, consisting of the Ist. and 2d battalions of the 19th Regiment, 51st King's Own Light Infantry, 75th, 81st, and 91st Regiments, assembled in front of its quarters at the hut barracks. The depot battalion has been reduced to about 600 men of all ranks, of which number rather less than 400 were under arms 'esterday morning. Aftera careful inspection of the troops the battalion was marched to Chatham lines, where the officers and men were exercised a consi derable time in a variety of movements, which were very creditably executed. In a subsequent part of the day Major-Gen. Lawrence made the usual in spection of the books and accounts of each depot of the battalion, which brought the half-yearly inspec tion of the troops of the line at the garrison 'to a close. From the satisfactory manner in which the troops have acquitted themselves the report of the inspector-general is expected to be favourable. Major-Gen. A. B. Stransham, Deputy-Adjutan General, made his first annual inspection of the Ply mouth division of Royal Marines on the Hoe on Tuesday, when they assembled some 1,500 strong, under Colonel. Commandant Holloway, C. 8., A.D.°, They were put through the usual manual, platoon, and bayonet drills by Lieut.-Col. Curry, and were afterwards exercised in light infantry movements. Their appearance and discipline secured the approbation of the Adjutant-General, who sub- sequently held a levee at the headquarters, Stone house Barracks. Capt. Walker, of the 66th Regiment, at present stationed at the camp at Colchester, is under orders to join his regiment in India. Lieut.-Col. Freeling has assumed the command of the Royal Engineers in the eastern district, in the room of Col. Hadden. The duties of the office had been temporarily dis charged by Capt. Clarke. Yesterday the Ist battalion of the Coldstream Guards arrived at Liverpool from Dablin, in the City of Dublin Company's steamers Iron Duke and Windsor. • The corps brought in the Iron Duke, against armoured ships. His theory is that iron shot at a low velocity will prove most destructive, and will solve the problem of meeting such antago nists, when guns have been constructed of adequate calibres. The Government of the United States is quite alive to the importance of this question, and their officers are not at all likely to treat it unskil fully or inefficiently. Even Congress begins to push forward the work, and readily votes mosey for the construction of an iron fleet, although Stevens' great ram is not altogether approved as a medium of expenditure. numbering five officers and 219 non-commissioned officers and men, was under the command of Lieut.- Col. the Hon. W. Fielding. The Winds or brought 11 officers, 463 men, the officers including Col. T. M. Steele, C. 8., and Lieut.-Lord E. Cecil, A number of women and children arrived with the same vessels. In the course of the day the whole body proceeded from Liverpool for London by the London and North-Western Railway. On Tuesday there was inaugurated with military ceremonial a monument on the esplanade of Edin burgh Castle to the officers and men of the 78th Highlanders, about 250 in number, who fell in the Indian campaign of 1857.8. The monu men t, which is erected by the surviving officers and men of the regiment, is in the form of a Celtic Cross, and is elaborately carved. The names of all the officers and men commemorated are inscribed on the pedestal in old letters. Gen. Walker, commanding in the North British district, conducted the ceremonial, and made a short address on the services of the regiment to the troops present—namely, the Scots Greys, the 26th Cameronians, and a battery of Royal Artillery. " the substance of things 1 oped for—the evidence of things not seen "—and so he is feted and be sworded and berhymed, because he represents an undeveloped idea. When he was removed from his command the officers of one of his regiments assem bled and voted that he was a good general and ought not to be removed. To Americans, save those THE BLACK PRINCE OFF THE WIGHT. As previously announced, the Black Prince iron frigate, fitting for commission at Portsmouth, yes terday made her experimental trial outside the Isle of Wight to test the capabilities of her enlarged rudder under steam. The original area of the rud der was 130 ft, but with the temporary wooden casing, under which she was tried yesterday, the area was increased to 153 ft, giving an increased area of 22.04 ft. The draught of water of the ship was, aft 23ft lin, and forward 22ft. The propeller is an improved Griffiths's—that is, with the tip of the blades inclining forward, with a pitch of 30ft, a in the regular army, that proceeding does not ap pear remarkable. Just imagine the officers of a regiment of Zouaves passing similar resolutions when Canrobert was superseded by Pelissier, or those of a Highland regiment acting in the same way when Sir Colin Campbell was passed over by General Codrington ! A peculiar people indeed ! A very great people, too, with a future on this con tinent which, if not exactly that the phrenzied flights of their orators, when they expatiate before King Bunkum (rectiuB Buncombe) would make it, must be grand and prosperous. As a matterof contrast it would be worth while:for any one to look over the American papers before the reign of him of the ." vultus instantis tyranni" and those of the present time. I have a journal now under my hand which, not content with criticising every movement of the military chiefs, gives the fullest details of every military operation, details the disposition and march of troops and ships, and includes an elegant extract respecting the President himself, whom it accuses of being a sort of Louis XIV., gallant, gay, and profligate, prostrato at the feet of the wife of a Cabinet Minister, whom it recommends an attack upon by public petition. Perhaps that particular journal is to-day the most noisy and determined supporter of Mr. Lincoln. Within the last few days for instance, Mr. Seward has done something or other to offend the delicate monster which called itself his organ, and accordingly it is using its rougher voice, which " utters foul speeches and detracts," about him. His press and telegraph cen sorship and his passport system are, it now appears, " alike laughable ;" his imprisonment of suspected persons has done no good; and the end is, oh, miserable man! he will have to answer for these and other acts in violation of inquiry. If the of the constit u ti on , h w e h a i d ch w w hi i e ll h su b r e e a l r y s a be er t o e w st n ed li b e y s ri uneasily, what ought to be the state of the caput of a Republican Secre tary h e o f t o S p t a t o e f ! t The he h il t l o n w e l o t h f S s so from the inferior creatures at the bottom, is robing down on him to their intense delight. I n th a t mus t tbhee flesh thei their great purse by them. The satisfactiont reve nge for all wro ngs su ff ere d i n evinced by officers of the regular army and navy at the dejected and subdued condition of the American press is intense; and yet they forget that, but for the increasing support and energies of that press, which, with all its faults, had struggled with heart and brain for th e Union, they might have but a poor army and navy under them at this moment. Their answer to such remarks generally is that "the press has done it all." The press and the politicians are believed by those who detest both to be at the bottom of the mischief—and when it has been dis posed of they may find some difficulty in getting out of the power of their new masters. department, has still been of an unusual ehmacter, although having little to do with th e ma k er of the engines. In this department th e c hi e f po i nts in the so extensive a nature as that of the shipwright's completion of the ship's fitment consist of the ship ment and fixing of her auxiliary engine, and the fitment of her steering hydraulic apparatus. The ship was brought into harbour again at the conclu sion of the trials, and berthed alongside the Belle rophon hulk temporarily, her orders being to go alongside the dockyard and receive her masts, &c. The coals used were specially placed on board for the trials and were the same as were supplied to the Warrior on her trial trips, and which are also kept in store for the use of her Majesty's at half speed, 32. I t would dupri during g.tT Navi gationhhee tmean ea Steamalsn Were—at Coal revolutions e r e—. a t from f uolfl Nixon's perfluous to speak o f th e performance sbttyphheae.eeace yac ht s on b — sgö e t i r sns d te a Aber d are of the machinery of the ship after Vint has already been said of its working on her trial of speed, and also of the working of the Warrior's, which are from the same manufactory and made from the same patterns as those of the Black Prince. diameter of 24ft Gin, and an immersion of 2ft 7in. It is hardly necessary to state that the engines are by Messrs. Penn and Son, of 1,250 nominal horse power, made from the same pattern as the Warrior's. The ship was in command of Capt. H. Broadhead, commanding the reserve at Portsmouth, Mr. G. Murdoch, inspector of machinery afloat at Ports mouth, and Mr. Miller, assistant, engineer of the dockyard, superintending the proceedings on the part of the Admiralty, the machinery being under the control of Mr. Holliday, of Messrs. Penn and Sons, and Mr. Tucker, the chief engineer of the ship. Capt. B. A. Powell, C. 8., commanding her Majesty's ship Defence ; Commander Hope, R.N., and other naval officers were on board as visitors. The ship cast off her fastenings to the Duke of Wellington, to which vessel she had been made fast since being undocked the previous day, at 9 50 a.m., and at slow speed left the harbour, increasing the revolutions of her engines to 40 as she passed the Spit Buoy, clear of the harbour channel, and to 52 revolutions as she passed the Nab, or Bembridge light vessel, where full speed was given to her and a course laid to give her the necessary distance from the light ship to make the circles, the Nab being taken as the point on which the circles were to be made. IMPROVED FINANCIAL PROSPECTS OF INDIA. (From the Times.) Nothing can be more cheering than the anticipa tions of the Indian press as to the prospects of the Indian revenue and expenditure. Although the licence-tax has b een re p ea led, and the income-t ax appears lik e l y to yield only two millions of revenue, the balances in the Indian Exchequer have risen to the almost incredible sum of eighteen millions. The a military expenditure is reduced to el even and half millions from upwards of twenty millions sterling, and we are gradually getting rid, by virtue of this very economy, of the principal cause of our d anger , su bstituting for it the most efficient guarantee of safety in the shape o f an European army really adequate to the demands of the ser vice. The prospects of trade are said to be good. The rise in the price of cotton, occasioned by the civil war in America, will distribute far into the remote interior the means of contributing to the revenue. The stamp duty appears to have been a complete success, and to raise a consider able sum with very little trouble or discontent, The railways are advancing towards completion, and penetrating every year deeper and deeper into the i • nterior districts of an enormous t . con went, which have hitherto, by want of roads and defects of water communication, been almost cut off from the civilised world. The internal navigation of India is rapidly improving under the agency of companies which have invented a peculiar class ofstearner,admi rably adapted for the navigation of her shallow waters. In fact, all those things which, under the Government of the East India Company, were always in the Paulo Post Futurum tense—always about to be done, and never done—are now actually coming to pass. Add to this the mystery of the power of India to absorb the precious metals with out limit seems now in a fair way to be solved. Th e Government has commenced to issue its notes, and to test, for the first time, the real state and position of the Indian currency. The effect of this operation will be to enable the Government to become pro. prietors of f our m illions of its own stock, which it will hold as security for the excess of notes issued above the bullion reserved to meet any demand that may be made. It may,- perhaps, be thought that the terms granted to the Bank of Bengal have been unnecessarily liberal; but any error of this kind, if an error has been committed, Will not be difficult to remedy. Like the Warrior, her sister vessel,theßlackPrince was fortunate in point of weather, the strong N.E. winds and tumbling seas which had previously pre vailed having subsided into a moderate westerly breeze with smooth water, so that the trials were made under most favourable circumstances. The first two trials were made to complete a circle at full speed, the time being taken from the giving the order to shift the helm, with 12 men at the wheel, which number of men was continued throughout. The first experiment was "hard a-port," the ship's head being on with the Nab, and the rudder was got over 16 deg. The first half of the circle was completed in 3 min, 52 sec., and the second in 4 min. 13 sec., completing the circle in 8 min. 5 sec. To these first half-circles, however, it will be neces sary to again refer. The next attempt at making a circle was thro wn ou t o f cons id era tion altogether, owing to a di s c re p anc y i n ti me , and the succeeding attempt was s schooner a l course, when the helm had to be collision. c compelled i g h t o t athwart thrown the ship's aside owing to a shifted to avoid a The second successful experiment was made with the helm hard a-starboar d, over 13 dogs., and the hal in completed f .eirel the e rudder being being g o t in 3 min. 56 sec., the second .) min. 63 sec., eom pleting the entire circle in 9 min. 49 sec. The helm w kept in the same positi on as in making this asnow last circle, the rudder being, of course, at the s ame angle, and a second circle entered upon, with out change in helm or rudder, the time, of course, in this instance being taken with the helm in the required position, and not from the mome n t of a given order. The half -circle was made, under these circumstances, in 3 min. 32 sec., the second half in 6 min, 6 sec., and the entire circle in 9 min. 38 sec. The next experiment was with putting the helm down hard a-port, and taking the time when the ship's head came on with the object (the Nab) whence the circle commein'ced. The first half-) In one of Wilson's or Anderton's ornithological papers there is an account of the wonder and fierce ness of a certain sort of American woodpecker when it was first put in a cage. All the present actions and behaviour of the American press are described to the life in it. At last it began to tear out its own feathers. Here is Mr. Stanton --the man of an hour, the lawyer of yesterday ; the hippodamos, the press-tamer of to-day. How he has grown, almost in a moment, into life and power ! So did Danton, so did Fouche, so did Robespiere. But, remember, they had no such cause as " the Union." If they thought they had, they were no doubt wrong. 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This gentleman will play every evening at 11 o'clock, until further noti ce , var i a ti ons 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 ls. A HOST DESIRABLE BREAKFAST BEVERAGE. EPPS'S COCOA (Commonly called Epps's nomceopathic Cocoa). The delicious aroma, grateful smoothness, and invigo. rating power of this preparation have procured its genera adoption as a most desirable breakfast beverage. ilb., and lib. packets, at is. 6d. per lb., by Grocers. TILE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. (Ft om the Special Correspondent of the Times.) BALTIMORE, MARCH 31. The expeditionary force is nearly all embarked and concentrated at Fortress Monroe, or on the mainland between the James and York rivers. Be fore this letter leaves Boston it is probable I shall have reached the scene of operations, embarking either here or at Alexandria or Washington, as the case may be, with my companions. The General commanding and the Staff have not yet gone on board the steamers detailed for their use, but the utmost is done to get stores and all the vast variety of materials connected with such an army and such an expedition in readiness, and, no doubt, this week will witness remarkable events around Fortress Monroe. If the Confederates are as well informed as they are supposed to be, they may be keeping the Merrimac to the last moment, till the whole force is ready to begin operations, and it will then be seen whether the assurances of the naval officers that they are quite prepared for her are well founded. Another iron clad steamer has arrived here to coal, on her way to Old Point Comfort, to aid the Moni tor. The Nangatuck is 101 ft. long, 20ft. beam, 7ft. depth of hold ; draws 52ft. light draught, 9ft. when submerged to fight ; but she does not afford such protection to the gunners as the Monitor, though her deck is only a few inches above the surface when she is depressed by the admission of water. Her armament consists of one 100 pounder rifled gun and two 12 pounders to keep off boats and boarders, and she made 11 knots an hour on her voyage. Notwithstanding all the preparations of the naval authorities to frustrate any attempt of the Merri mac to run out, there is a great chance of her run ning the gauntlet, and of blowing up or destroying the large ocean steamers engaged to butt at her. We shall soon know more about it. Since last mail there is little to record, but on the whole the news is favourable, as it comes to us, for the Federals. The Confederates under Price and Van Dorn are said to have crossed the Boston Mountains, reduced to a suffering handful, and the Federal General Curtis, unable to pursue them, owing to the devastated condition of the country, has returned to Keithsville, Missouri. From Island No. 10 comes an admission of failure, though the bombardment was renewed on the 29th. The other night I went to hear Mr. Wendell Phillips deliver a lecture on the war at the Smith sonian Institute. The lecture-room was crowded— not a black face to be seen, however. That circum stance was not so remarkable perhaps, but it cer tainly was worthy of note that no coloured man, as I am told, came to the subsequent lecture on Tous saint rOverture, whom Mr. Phillips designates as greater than Napoleon or any one else, except perhaps old John Brown. I had heard that Mr. Phillips was a " great orator"—he is nothing of the kind. He has none of the burning force of the true orator, but he possesses much of the unadorned eloquence which distinguished Mr. Cobden. His manner is easy, natural, unimpassioned, but very earnest ; his language flows on easily and lucidly, without depth and without turbulence; his action is simple, unexaggerated, and expressive, and if he be not altogether either Cicero or Isms, ho deserves something better than rotten eggs and paving stones for his sentences. The very fact of his being permitted to appear at all and open his mouth in public in the district of Columbia was remarked upon, as a singular proof of the vast change in public opinion effected within the last few months; but if I were to judge from the expressions of some of his auditors, such as Senator M'Dougall and others, the who went away i n hi g h dud geon , h e wou ld h ave been in F or t W arren very spee di ly had they pos sessed pow re e ci r n o ir f e is a s o u ni in e g a / a e l t : r c e n s n d tr e olca o cl a iet t . he And indeed itdid part of a Unionist to near the words of one who declared he was against the Union if it meant a constitution guaranteeing the rights of slaveholders, as it de manded great forbearance from any but a fanatic to listen to one who declared old John Brown was the greatest man that ever lived since Ile who died for us was born. For a British subject, too, it was hard to bear with the violence and intemperance of sentiment uttered in the softest and most saccharine manner, for it could not be very agreeable to him to hear that M r. Phillips, in extinguishin g s l avery, wished to m a k e th e U n ited States so po wer f u l that they could t a k e o ff t h e d ec k o f any ship, under any flag, any man they pleased ! He made several attacks, cov er t an d di rect, on G re at B r i t ai n ; but I am bound to say t h ey e li c it e d no appl ause from his audience, alth ough h i s a ll us i ons t o F remont were received with much cheering. When he de clared he was " not acquainted with the mysteries of rail-splitting," all eyes were turned on the pry sident's secretaries and some members of his Go vernraent who were in the lecture-room, but they mande no sign. All this exaggeration and bad taste are in favour with the " earnest" men on the Abo lition side; they are supposed to indicate sincerity I and strength of conviction and love of.truth. Mr. 2'HE NAVY. Letters received from St, Thomas's, West Indies, dated March 30, state that Capt. Hancock, com manding her Majesty's frigate Melpomone, was in command of the Windward Islands division of the fleet. Port-Admiral Sir Houston Stewart, K.C.8., went yesterday in the tender Princess Alice from Hamo aze into the Sound, and mustered the grew, and in spected the condition of the paddlewheel steam fri gate Magicienne, 16, Capt. the Prince of Leiningen, which has had her compasses adjusted, received her powder, and embarked supernumeraries. She is now ready to leave Plymouth for her destination, in all probability the Mediterranean. The Lords of the Admiralty have determined on having No. 3 dock, the Queen's dock, in Keyham Steamyard, lengthened forthwith. The hired troopship Sir James, which arrived in the Thames on Tuesday evening with troops from the Mauritius, landed her sick and time-expired men at the Government-quay, Gravesend, yesterday morning, when the whole were immediately for warded to Chatham, where on their arrival those requiring medical treatment were admitted into Fort Pitt Hospital. The Sir James sailed from Mauritius on Jan. 31, the passage :to Gravesend being a very fair one. The number of troops brought home was 100 men of all ranks. A Swedish corvette arrived in Plymouth Sound yesterdly afternoon, and saluted the flag of the Port Admiral, &c. A numerous party of convicts arrived by early train from London at Chatham yesterday morning to be employed on the works connected with the extension and improvement of Chatham dockyard. The following Commanders have been promoted to be Captains R. Rodd, G. 0. Popplewell, F. T. C. Strode, J. W. D. Macdonald, C. L. Waddi love, J. M. Bruce, W. Horton, G. M. Jackson, R. B. Oldfield, R. B. Pearce, G. A. C. Brooker, C. W. Buckley, V.C., H. P. De Kantzow, S. D. M'Crea, L. E. H. Somerset, and N. B. Bedmgfeld. The following Lieuts. have been promoted to be Com manders :—A. R. B. Carter, G. M. Smith, C. Gib bons, M. S. L. Peile, R. Bradshaw, S.W. Armstrong, A. R. Owen, F. W. Wilson, C. E. Stevens, J. H. Colton, H. E. G. Earle, H. L. Round, W. F. Irwin, W. H. Annesley, A. J. Chatfield, S. P. Brett, W. Menzies, and T. T. Bullock. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Lieut. G. S. Brown, to the Excellent ; Lieut. Herbert, C. A. Brand, and Lieut. Robert A. Edwin, to the Adventure. THE ARMY. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, accompanied by Sir Richard Airey, Quartermas ter-General, Major-General Lord W. Paulet, C. 8., commanding the south-west district, and a numer ous btaff, yesterday visited Portsdown-hill, near Portsmouth, and inspected the forts in progress of construction along the crest of the hill. His Royal Highness is expected to inspect the troops in gar rison at Portsmouth on Southsea-common to-day, prior to his return to London. For some time past the Royal Marine Barracks at Chatham have proved altogether insufficient for the accommodation of the largely increased number of officers and men attached to headquarters. It has been in consequence found necessary to quarter 400 men in one of the Line barracks at the garri son, a course which the authorities have been obliged to adopt notwithstanding the manifest dis advantages of separating the men. 'Taking this into account, and also the probable speedy return of the Royal Marine battalion from Mexico, which will largely increase the strength at headquarters, the Lords of the Admiralty have decided on the immediate enlargement of the barracks, in accord ance with the plans laid before Parliament some three or four years back, when the sum of £60,000 was taken in the Estimates for the proposed work. Of this amout a considerable sum has already been expended in the purchase of the land on which the additional barrack buildings will be erected, the proposed enlargement necessitating the removal of one large hotel, one tavern, and about 20 private houses. The whole of these have been taken down, and the site cleared as far as the boundary wall of St. Mary's parish church, to which the new bar racks will extend. The plans for the proposed en largement have been approved by the Admiralty, and the works will be immediately commenced. The block of buildings forming the right wing of the present barracks, inhabited principally by the single officers of the division, will be taken down and removed as far as the boundary wall of the church, which will increase the barrack parade- METROPOLITAN RAILWAY CARRIAGE AND WAGGON COMPANY . (Limited). 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