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PPIPP7 St. ri nd ,ca na eel £ 5 he re. ale na , P h. ANY THE LANGHAM (Limited). HOTEL • 1 £l5O 000, in 15,000 . o f Apt Ceo°eNalc Capita , , • ja i i Incorporated nude which the Liability of eefih ar e . r the _Limited L 191 . 1 . y , 19t s h h and 20th Vict., cap. £1 per Share, and £1 10s. on holder is strictly limited by y ted to the amount o f his Sb.ares. Depost on application months each. Allot ment. Further calls not to exceed £2, 10s,, at intervals of not less than three SOLICITORS. For List of Directors see Prosp ec t us. Messrs. Davidson, Bradbury, Hardwi ek, and Carr Weavers' Hall, 22, B as i nghall- street , CONTRACTORS. Messrs. Lucas Broth ers , Belvedere -road, 'Lambeth. BANKERS. Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, 75, Cornhill. Hanover-square Branch of the London an d County - B ank. BROKER. Francis Burnand, Esq., County Chaml ill, E.C. ' ell, 14, co. rnSE CRETARY, pro tern.—Gilbert I , ogie, la .s ,„ . Temporary Offices-22, Abingdon-strßett 1• 1 ': eat l inster. This Company has been formed for tb . d rtiurpose of erect . 4 and magnificence ing an Hotel on a scale of com . f . oe hitherto unattained in London, or. .on gr oun d s now known as Mansfield Home and Gardens , Langham-place. The area of the estate mean ,mares 180 feet in depth, and 333 feet frontage, command . ng from the south end of Port- An.ed view to the Regent's Park. land-place an uninterrup+ Aislions of the proposed structure can idea of the dime be formed by comps xison with the Grosvenor Tlottl, which it will excee a by one-halt The site •Je altogether unsurpassed for its salubrity, its aspect, sr A central situation. Immediately adjacent to the • Embus' .es ohs ustria, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, and Por tugal, ' And Consulate of America, the Hotel will be cone' :noted with the view, among others, of affording ap prmirie.te aecommodation to diplomatic bodies and the re- P re smatalives of foreign courts. Placed in the midst of the lead ng thoroughfares, the Hotel will offer material advan tage s to the public at large, rihe approaching completion of the Metropolitan Rail way Station, in Portland -place, will bring the Hotel, more sv i immediate connection with the Great Northern, the London and North the Midl and lines. W estern, thf3 Great Western, and The Directors have concluded a provisional agreement, with the present lessee of the property for the sale to them of his entire interest for the nnederate price of £3,500. This interest consists of a lease for fe/9 years at a ground •re3t of £l,OOO per annum. The ma*.erials now on the property Ste to be taken by the Compr ny at a valuation of what they are worth towards the constemction of the Hotel, and the lessee has consented to Pccept payment for the same in ...,,, . Paid -up Shares of the Co mpany. The mansion, built by V.--;43401. at.-a cost 0fX25,090, is in thorough condition, and is peculiarly suited for adaptation as portion of the building. 'There are no other inner tats whatever to be bought up . before taking possession of the property. The Hotel will contain many commodious Sitting .rooms, Apartment en suite, Coffee Dining, Library, Reading, Smoking, and Billiard._zoom;, Telegra . p_h and Post-effice, a Lifting Room d B ladies d f • • an families , With every corafort`and an Baths together with a Coffee -room for and upwards of 300 Bedrooms, replete I 'Modern improvement. Impressed with the requirements of the time, aueDirectors have determ i *hereby ~ , pod to base their charges on a ge.d . uated scale, the extensive resources of the es a ‘elis m t h ent will . 4 be placed at the disposal of families at a moat cost. ' T he G reat /1 th hotel companies or .etn, Great Western, and many other_ es might be referred to as evidence of the Pr°BPeCts of the L ghara Hotel Compemy. At their first annnal me meeting held in June, ' profits a bide f Hotel Company decl _and, out o a Great , annua l on th,e, The Queen's capital, , dividend at th ate of 25 er cent. per era 3.8 e 4, the f et 13 •steadily 4 14creaeed.. recentj- 4'4 Queen's y declared • ' Hotel C'ompany, Norwood, has Great Northern N.? .1 Well; and feel Eu aY t wlAch since has a dividend of - 10 per cent. The 9: , Corp also pays remark d b ol and North.Westers Hotela3lA'3l:e Hotel was sold to the Loi The plans of thells• ' Away Company at a large premium . i r te ii, proposed Hotel and elevation, may be seen at the office Ord every inform ~.,4 , the Secretary, who will be happy to In the event of "t`u°ll' b scribed, the de, • three-fourths of the capital not being su Peespectup Asits will be returned in full. be obtained fr. , 'es and forms of application for shares may from the ' Jin the Bankers, the Solicitors, the Brokers, or street, - _clecretary, at the temporary offices, 22, Abingdon- Westminster. ... ............-__ . - West PAST AND „WEST INDIA . DOCK COM -1.--4,‘,, PAry.---The Court of Directors of the East and f• early Baia DoCk Cocatany her by give notice that aHa Y . Court et Ge Meetinne , of the said Company d william IV., ..1, uant tonalthe directin n Of the Act Ist and 2 DA-y, 'cal). 52;44 the Dockn No. 8, Billiter-square, on Flyoint ' the lite Jo, sing and app . 10 2: elq t t b.. neXt, force, the purpose of clioo_ will be held, .b irecto occa - • rptation. and also one other Dire -tor to fill the vacang___,lch slotted by the d se - of D nc4an Dunbar, Escl•— 1w " IStock of P .l l ,e _ et- ig• a frees will b declared On the CaPita ts in t he room of those going out of office ny .•,-.0-1 Conakany half e year en ding the 30th. June. - Y order of the Court, • . . • fast and Weitl ndia Dock Ifouge, GE ORGE COLLIN, Secretary.:Billiter-square, -• • . 11.4..... r e _ AW 2 7 . th .J. une, 1K82.2. 9 U Will be . taken at Two o'clock •:•••" ' GUARim A ~.,•'. * • ASSURANCE ---.LvFIRE AND LIFE .. precisely. _, -I .. - COMPANY, • .• - , N0.,11, Lorabard-strest,`London, E.C. . Established 1821- one Million. .. '' Subscribetiktital, Two Mi llions. —Paid up, DI RECTORS. Sir 1111 Ni-To FARQUIIA.K., Bart., M.P., chairmantiman, CIIARLES TO IL LIAM cuRTIS, lsq., Deputy Cha • /1-enry Rule Berens, Esq. John Laboribhere, Esq. zlettrY tonhani Carter Eile' ' John Martin E sci-,,' ~ Charles F. B ere n s, Ilse' '' ' 0 '3l-1130he'''' -sq. 3"/Aneis Iran rj„k, • ,an 4 .. -. :Sir Walter it 1,••' •'"sq• ' James Morri s , E Norman,Esq. • James Gooti;c.nalual'a r4ll ' henry lds Es% Renry It e Y n O O) , ' ts- ski . 1111180/1 Nat key,- s .c . ' • . "ti- ' J -It ar • - - j°ln 14"e7 ' .X‘ ''' 1 * "" 14:1'.. SL_at*aesift'aullm-ooh. Esq, Jobn G. llubbard, Esq., XI% , ktemnry vigne, Esq. AUDITORS. Le Loyd, Esq ton Esq. 1 Ilem •LS es Thorn , Cornelius Paine, jun., Esq. I Noel wZi.ting, Esq. Thos.Talleinaeh, Esq., Secretary I Sainl. Brown, Esq., Actuary ------ . LIFE DFIPARTMENT.Ux nEn Tirt p n, ow 81 0 „ OF AN ACT or PATILIAmtT, this Co rnpany tOW offers to new In surers EIGRTY PER CENT. •of the Profits, at Quinquennial . privoi4sons, or Low Rate f 1 0 - - ~reinitun without participation of , Since the establishment of the C ompany in 1821, . Amount of Profits allotted to the equivalent Reversionary cash value X 660,000, which. represents Bonuses of £1,058,000. After the Division of, Profits at Chri strpas 1859, the Life Assurances ill force, with existin B ' uses thereon, amounted to upwards of .f. 4,730,000, th e 1., ucom ml e from the Life Branch £207,000 Per annum, and the Life -Assurance Fund, independent of the capital, exceeded X 1,618,000. LOCAL 3IIL' , I,TIA and VOLUNTEER CORPS.—No Extra Prbm•oll-4 is required for service therein. IN-VALID LIVES assured at corresponding Extra Pre rahns. OAN!, granted on Life Policies to the extent of their tralucm, 'if such value be not less than £5O. A S'zi fGNMENTS OF POLICIES. —Written Notices of, re- CAL FEES paid by the Company, and no charge ler Policy Stamps. NOTICE IS HERESY GIVE that FIRE Policies 'which IS at 3fidsurniner must b enewed within fifteen days at this Office, or with ISIr. SAM r S, No. 1, St. James's street, corher of Pall-Mll; or with the CompanY's Agents throughot:it the Kingdom, otherwise y become void. Losses caused by E Isin of Gas are admitted by this xp o o Cerapany. ---________ ST E 0 ID 0 N What is it? See Patent, Mareh 1, 812, No. Cl ABRI ES Self-adhesive Paten t Indestructible MINE RAL TEE PIT and FLEXIBLE GUMS. without palates, sprint:a, or Wirys and without operation. One set lasts lifetime, and WARRANTED FOR MASTICA.TION and ARTICUATION. Purest materials only, at half the usual cost. Mesr.irs. GABRIEL, the old-established Dentists, 27, FIARLEY-STREET, CAVENDISFI- SQUARE ; 34, LUDGATE-lIILL, LONDON ; 65, NEW-STREET, BIRMINGHAM; and 134, DUKE-STREET, LIVERPOOL. 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VITA VITALIS.—A Medical Work, illustrated with 100 Engravings from Life, descriptive of the errprs and excesses of youth and maturity, and the debility arising from the too frequent indulgence of the passions, with' an Essay on true and false Spermatorrhcea, containing a prescrlp tion of the Author's Invigorating Lotion, an external appli cation, with directions for its use, also showing how manhood can be restored with increased muscular, development. By MEDIC - US, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, England; Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, &c. &c., who may be consulted daily, from 11 till 8; Sundays, till 1 o'clock. GIVEN - AWAY TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS. HENRY SMITH, M.D., of the University of Jena, has just published, for the benefit of Nervous • ufferers, a FREE EDITION of his valuable work, THE WARNING VOICE TO YOUNG MEN (120 pages). A medical work on the cure of Nervous Debility, Loss of Memory, Dimness of Sight, Lassitude, Indigestion, Dislike o Society. Spermatorrhcea, Local Weakness, Muscular Re axation, Languor, Listlessness, Depression, &c., which, if neglected, result in consumption, insanity, and premature death ; with plain directions for perfect restoration to health and vigour. The book will be sent, post free, secure from ob , ervation, to any address, on receipt of a directed envelope and two stamps. Address, HENRY SMITH, M.D., e, Burton crescent, Taviatock-square, London, W.C. ArOZEAU'S COPAHINE MEGE.—Copaiba and Cubebs are doubtless.the best remedies, but are of a re pulsive taste and odour, and occasion collicky pains, nausea, and gastric disturbance. M. Jozeau has succeeded in render ing them perfectly innocuus adopted increasing all their curative. pToperties. It has been by the Paris Academy of .Niedicine after more than a thousand trials in Paris and the different London hospitals, viz., St. Thomas's, Guy's. and St. Bartholomew's, under the care of Messrs. Lloyd, Poland, and Legros Clark.---(Lancet, Nov. 6, 1857). The Copahine, which is in form of a pretty pink sugar plum, effects a nure in about six days. 100 Capsules, 4s. 6d.; post free, ss. 2d.—At JOZEAU'S, French Chemist, 49, flaymarket, London; 22, Rue St. Quentin, Paris; and all Chemists. DR. 'WATSON (OF THE LOCK HOSPITAL) ON NERVOUS DEBILITY AND SECRET DISORDERS. Si4ELF - TREATMENT SIMPLIFIED, through ' the aid of the TEST-TUBE, ITRINOMETER, and MICROSCOPE when employed for special diagnosis in all tissues, &c. disorders of the nervous in cluding , sexual, and generative system, spermatorrhcea or se m inology, lo ss of po w er, noctur nal and di urnal wastings, and withering of the nervous By D r. W ATSON, M em b er of the E co l e d e Medicine, Rouen, National Academy of Sciences, Paris, and Fellow of the Imperial Institutetd France, &c. Presented to Nervous Invalids," with a view of superseding dangerous medicines and expensive consultations. Sent post free on recetpt of two stamps by Dr. Watson, 27, Alfred-place, Bed two -s qllare, London.' Consultations daily from eleven till pet Zr. six till e i g h t, on all those ailments and infirmities embp ar to y outh, manhood, and old age, and which tend to F IV d shorten lif e. incritished qualifications vide diplomas. IlegisteredC°Z • Just published, VIGOUR. GUIDE To MANLY -11 - d u e l r t in t g he SUZeOns, tip riß ____ Price ls., by post 14 stamps, sealed 22, 13Y Messrs P TO and CO., Showing ho with renew Iv lianitl °°cl b d health I nlay e secured in Fourteen Days, lar development, to,lncreased strength, and perfect muscu Medical Act. duties so necessary Zrthe nerformance married most sacred Contents :—Funetto_ the happiness of life. organs—Diseases of n t s h and disorders of the reproductive testes in youth, ad /i 4 kidneys, spermatic chord, and mat o rrhcea —Non -r et ent lon age' and advanced life- Sper -The urine, and urine. _and irritability of the bladder mination, microscopically Zodcl„e.,Pcmits—their clinical exa urethra—Gonerrheea, gleet, aurn i callY— Stricture of the syphilis, primary, secondary, ands _ urethral discharges— and confirmed, cured by the ~g,othoMtaT7, constitutional, ment, without the administration of in e r n m e 7 mode of treat- To be had from the Authors, 44, IVeyntontiZ':B. Portland-place, Regent's -park, „ vv., ..._. ertreet, one door from from 11 to 2, and st o w n c they may be daily consulted t f lif 8, on those diseases •ht therosc s o e, and for which they which bb , " failingr- remedies, the fruits of ey have discovered never practice. r 'lanY Years' te and hospital priva AN IMPORTANT DISCUSSIO "'Times," the "Lancet," and other leadine, The als have been lately canvassing the social considerltturlilis volved in " the amount of de ath and disease caused byvicin; Some interesting statistics are brought to bear uOll the inquiry ; but it would greatly add to their value if they in cluded the facts respecting the origin, the ravages, and the prevention of that SPECIAL VIC E, which wars more than any other against the welfare of society—destroying the happi_ nese and d'sappointing the objects of matrimony, us der mining the constitutions, blasting the prospects, embittering and shortening the lives of its victims, and spreading desola tion through families. The essential particulars relating to this great social evil (the besetting snare of inexperienced youth and the curse of maturity), together with ample instructions for removing its effects, and recovering health, vigour, and all the enn oblin g privileges of our being, are contained in Dr. LAIIERT'S "SELF-PRESE RVATION," a Treatise on Nervous and Physical Debility, of which the 90th Edition has just been pub3shed by Mann and Co., 39, Cornhill, London, price sent post free for 13, or in a sealed envelope for 20 stamps' Dr. LAIIERT, M.D., &c., having for 20 years devotee. himself entirely to this branch of practice, may be consult a td daily, either personally or by correspondence, at histresidetlCe, No 37, BBDFORD-SQUARB, Lconiou. • . Tr '-ip • , ;•/t • •. t • 4 , 4 .4- 4 4 I._ '' • _ _ . a_ . . , ; , . • _ TT J '; 4I C I • • fr a .L ; •ue igo/11e S . - \\,, - .41110 k -,-. L O. c*, s ftb olit .„, 1 . . •••• - PRICE ..... ..4d. STAMPED ....sd. THE FRENCH IN AIEXICO. A letter from Mexico, dated May 28, says ;—The Government have published a decree, " by which persons promulgating false reports are to be ad judged conspirators and punished accordingly." By false r eports are meant roports - unfavourable to the so-called Constitutional came. Several.respectabie people have already been _thrown into; prison Li.. stating that Zaragoza has met with ascvere eheek . dayfermrete. ftw and this has so alarmed the rest o f the Population that r tl a ie ss y eg have become arrived Cruz, but they wisely consider that ‘1 self Treserva tion is nature'sfirst law, l ! and do not seem at all disposed to favour us w ith . the details of:what has taken place in the neighbourhood oE Oriz aba. as t b dumb m other b a s s statues. m so. .§vot . The correspondence by the . French steamer has been stopped, and as no letters have been received from Vera Cruz for upwards of three weeks we re main here very much in the dark. Notwithstanding all these precautions the truth will bezel:tut, and although I cannot furnish you with heart-stirring accounts of battles won and lost, I think the follow ing. will prove, although a .short, still a tolerably accurate statement of what has taken place since the date of my last. After the attack on the Cerro de Guadalupe, the French generalAncling Zaragoza in greater strength than he eipected, it' inwreadi3nti-with s, the small foree.be had at his command (not ,more than, 5,000 men), to tontinuo his march upon . the capital, and he therefore commenced aretreat upon Orizaba; this retreat; or more properly countermarch,ap pears to have been conducted in a most leisurely manner, for on the lBth he Was still at the Cumbres de AOultzinge,-having taken 12 days to perform a distance of some 20 leagues. Zaragoza, with about 11,000 men, followed -in the same direction, or as the .Government ,say, in pursuit, and there Is a report . that CaraVajal, in command of the Mexican cavalry, got very severely handled on the morning of the 14th, and lest 'sane 300 men in an attack he made on the rearguard of the Freneh;li. On the 18th Marquez, with' about:2,ooo men, was endeavouring to form a junction, with. Lorencez when he was attacked by ,a large body of Zaragoza's troops.under General Tapia, The French, who had already in ,P,art descended .the Cumbres, hearing the 'firing, countermarched,' and taking pessession of a small eniinence which commanded the entrance ef the • tarranea Seca, a small valley in which' the fight was taking plane, fell with tremendous :effect upon' • the forces lof Tapia, which' are said -to- have, been almost annihilated. - The Mexicans are reported to have lost 1,000 in killed and wounded, besides 2,000 prisoners. In fact, this 4 4ittleaffair l ' as it is termed 'by the Go vernthentergans, likely to 'act as' a'veiy consi derable damper to that exuberanoe of valour which, after the repulse of the Zouaves' in their reconnoi tring expedition of the Cerro de , Guadalupe, ~. threatened Lorencez And his army. with nothing short of annihilation. ' That something serious has occurred 'is clear from the ominous silence - preserved by the Government. That it may act as is warning to Mexieani generally, and thus in the end g r ave the' effusion of much blood, is the wish of every humane person. The French Commissioners- showecl a sad want of discretion in putting forward Almonte and his party in such a way, as Jo lead the Mexic , aii i na tion to believe that it was the inteillion o the French Emltieror to 'reinstate the - dhurZtilitain,--- eird the presernce of suell'a man as the'lladreiVli rand& in the French camp was of itself sufficient 'to insure them the hostility of = the whole of-the l e iberal party. , Almonte I believe to be a most re spectable and well-meaning man ; still he is of the Consetvarive side. What we want is a fusion of parties, and that a foreign force, professing to sup port neither, could easily have brought about; once in possession -of the capitaii-neither party_would have dared openly to oppose its progress, because each in the end would have hoped to benefit by its presence. it would be easier to establish a ,new form of Government altogether than to establish either one of the contending factions. All we want is a foreign force in the capital, and the rest will follow as a matter of 'course.. Hitherto we have had but a series of blunders to deplore. It was a blunder to send an allied force of 10,000 men, unprovided with, the means of trans port. It was a blunder to allow that force to remain inactive at Vera Cruz when a four days' march upon Jalapa or Orizaba would have provided them with that transport. It was a blunder to acknowledge the present Government by sending up Deputy Com missioners. It was a still worse blunder, when these Commissioners had failed in their mission and when there was no Mexican force in the field, not to take active measures. It was a blunder to enter into tre liminaries founded on falsehood, and which could by no possibility lead to good results, and it was an unpardonable blunder for the Commissioners here to declare null and void a formal convention made by the three Powers in Europe, and thus afford a pretext to the Spanish commander for the with drawal of the forces under his command. These unaccountable proceedings have led Mexicans to believe that the three Powers are afraid to interfere in the affairs of the country, lest they should bring down upon them the hostility of the United States. They have given time to the present Government to collect resources both in men and money, and they have, to all appearance at least, satisfied Juarez and his Government that England and Spain have retired from the contest, leaving France to settle the matter as best he may. Now, it is absurd to Suppose that any partial disagreement between their agents here could ever, t lead to a coolness between i : a v o such Powers as France and England upon such question as it is to imagine that a tr e aty wou ld be entered into for objects common to b o th countries without those objects being car ri ed it would be but a mere act of mercy at once to disabuse the Mexican people and lay the fair to state that whatever m atter before them in its true light. It is b ut M. difference of opinion may h av e existed between de Saligni and Sir Charles Wyke, the utmost unani mity prevails between theFrenchelalnthdaEt ynagnlishtrreeastiy dents. The latter know but too w made with a M e xican Governme n t is not worth the paper it is wri tten on, and that their ve r y ex i stence now depends upon the success of the F rench expe • dition. I t is not surprising, ther e f ore, that the con duct of her Majesty's representati ve and that of Spa i n should be universally condemned. Some idea ma y be formed of the state of trade when I inform u that one of the leading English firms, you which in ordinary revolutionary times and •at this season of the year sells goods to the amount of 50,000 dols., has, during this present month of May, sold only 700 dols. worth ; still it has to pay heavy percent ages on capital, forced contributions, double taxes, and numerous other impostione. The case of one is the case of all • To add to their other misfortunes the city latterly has been inundated with hundreds of thousands of false dollars, so admirably made and corresponding so accurately in weight that it is almost impossible to detect them. Where they are manufactured, or whence they come, nobody knows; one thing is certain, that the Govern ment have taken no steps to discover forgers. Day after day are decrees promulgated, subjecting the unfortunate inhabitants to fresh exactions, and with such rigour are they levied, that a man rich to-day may be a pauper to-morrow. Re spectable persons are thrown into prison upon the most frivolous pretences, and there kept for indefinite periods. A man even talking of inter vention is liable to be shot. This is scarcely a Government deserving of much considerations. It is l mar vellous to find a nation tamely submitting to al this ; but they are so bound down by ty rann y that 1 ' an y additional outrage only renders them the more su bmissive. They ar e rea lly worms that will never turn. Every day may be seen 50 or 100 able bodied men, dragged from their homes to recruit the army, marching through the streets guarded by three or four soldiers, followed by their wives, 6PAPER tr . :Iz l 4, A 4 4, .1-C 1 sisters or Mothers in a is'so common that it a . . a. thltimen themselves seem se'• utterly indifferent that you would suppose them fatalists. How easy with ordinary management would it be to goverif such a people. The,PPrktgat the reactionary chiefi had joined Juarez turns out to - be unfounded. - Marquez with 2,000 cavalry joined the French after the Sega of the 18th. Whether much reliance is to be placed on such auxiliaries would certainly. seem problematical: There is a report that Tampico is to be , talfen possession of. Why this was not done long ego no one can understand. Gonzales Ortega is said to be 013 his way to this city with the San Luis and Zacatecas contingents, amounting to 6,000 men. MORNING OF 29TH. The c arrespou deuce by - the French ,packet,arrivcd. last night; it was not stopped by the, Government lits, at first suppved.. .Tire xri fortxnate courier died of vo»3ito on the road, and for some titre no one _could ba found who would hazard his life by being 1 the beiirer'ef corresl3onffence. • •W were surprised to find that - no further French troops were under orders for thissto - Autry ; from:the turn thin gr.; 'have taken no .titue _ ought to be_lost, and. reinforcements ought to be sent without dele'y. The partial suc cess at the cup de Guadahipe - has inspired this party with confidence, and , it may require One or twO • threAings to convince them that' dial. troops are not eqUal to contend with the heroes of Solfe • rino. It appears that in the action of the 18th the -French had but two killed and ten wounded, Mexi cans upwards of 700 killed and 1,000 taken .pri soners. General Douet left Vera Cruz for Orizaba With 1,000 men on the 18th. It said that he will be opposed by La Llane at the Chiquihucti. ' The Custom;house of Vera Cruz has been :handed over to bi the and . by them 'delive red- to -Al ~oArte-i - il, il, t e= legit, `is : injndieioui. -It !is ,also t; F . ren say ch th, rumoured -that, al 'fresh -Cenvention has, been -signed by the three 'Powers,,ieaving the - management to • ) t France b IS w - otild seep to be a movp.intbe right , direction. The Moniteur of yesterday morning publishes the folloling news froM Mexico of the 28th of May, received tai Sunthimptonl— - " Marquez, with 2,000 troops, effected a junction with the French expeditionary corps on the 18th of May, The Mexican vanguard, consisting of 1,500 men, endeavoured tv prevent this movement, but was 4.lmost entirely destioyed by our troops." The llioniteur adds : 4 4 We hope that the expected official reports will hasten to confirm this information." • The following aecotuat contains soma interesting details : " CITY OF MEXICO,_ MAY 28. " On the 11th of May, at 9 a.m., the French army commenced retreating from Amozoc, and succes sively passed through Acatzingo, Queeholac, San ralinar, Istapa, and over' the heights of Acultzingo, arriving on the evening of the 17th at Orizaba. • " During the retrograde movement of the French great discord arose among the reactionary bands assembled at Atlixco and Matamora4 Izucar. One plirtY of them, headed by Marquez, Cobos, Vicario, Sze., resolved to join the French, and act in concert with them. The others, commanded by Zuloaga, Zires, Bm, determined ,not to take part in the con flict. The forces of Marquez and Cobos consisted of from 3,000 to 4,000 men, chiefly cavalry, and, although undisciplined and ill-armed, they never ceased to harass the troops of General Zaragoza, threatening them in flank and in rear. "After the return of the French to Orizaba, General Zaragoza's army remained echeloned along the road from San Augustin del Palmar to Acult zingo. General Tapia, with .two pavaltreorps, was posted near thilattor - point, situated at the base of 'Les - diirribr'es, in - drder to watch - this' moVenfebts of Marquez, who was endeavouring to join the trench. On the morning of the 18th, General Tapia received inforthation that the forces of Marquez were debouching'by the Barroom - &Ca, and iiiM'ediitely prepared to.meet theM. " Marquez, in order to avoid the main body of General Zaragoza's army, instead of taking the main road and passing by the Cumbres, entered the defiles of the mountains between Tehuacan and the Cumbres with 2,000 men, following paths which generally are only wide enough for one horseman to pass at c time. Thus he arrived on the 18th at Barranca Sees, two leagues from Ingenio, and six from Orizaba. " The Barranca Seca is a gorge, half a league in diameter, surrounded on all sides by inaccessible mountains, with a narrow opening in . the direction of Orizaba. This opening, although very narrow, is divided by a mamelon commanding the.whole position. At the bottom of the gorge, exactly facing the opening, the mountains are separated by a road, affording passage for only a single file of horsemen. It was through this narrow and difficult path that Marquez's forces debouched. On learn ing this movement Gen. Tapia prepared to meet the enemy with his two corps of cavalry. He found the army of Marquez drawn up in battle array at the bottom of the gorge, and entered the defiles in order to prevent it from escaping. ' The conflict commenced at about nine in the morning; but at first was confined to skirmishing. Gen. Tapia sent for reinforcements to hie side, despatched Gen. Negreti , w ho w as at Acultzingo, and Marquez, 0 couriers to Orizaba in order to inform the French of his perilous positiomarAtbo forceGofuettnhihsaflfo-rpcaestefnoeturerrrieavaedat the of 1,100 infantry, sen t b y Negreti, the scene of action.. p gorge and eng ages in combat with the cav a l ry o f the deadly, and the reactionary forces would passes. The have been cut to pieces at the bottom of marques. Thermometer guarded when about five o'clock about 2,000 French troops suddenly made their appearance. Immediately on receipt of Marquez's message a b Ctuchhonemadg:bs:earbutgtrwee!dYe Vincennes, and the o 9 cl 9 y t h o f R Z e y en t ' of the line, had been set in motion to reinforce him and arrived at the critical moment, occupied the outlets of the gorge, and took possession of the mamelon which commanded the whole position. " Thus all the Mexican forces, not only those of Tapia, but also those commanded by Marquez, found themselves shut up within the gorge. A frightful carnage ensued. Neither party had ar thiellteerhey. y,rand firearms were scarcely used in the The battle was fought hand to hand for the space of two full hours until night closed in. Towards the close of the conflict the French, owing to the darkness, were unable to distinguish the Mexicans, and charged both the soldiers of General Tapia and those of Marquez. At length night ter minated the conflict, the French withdrawing to Orizaba, accompanied by Marquez and his cavalry, and General Tapia's troops returned to the posi tion which they occupied before the battle. The Mexicans suffered immense losses, which, w ithout ex aggeration, may be estimated at 50 per cent. of their number. Marquez, it is said, lost 600 me n. .. As for the French their loss must have be en equally severe, although the number is not known . is reported to have been killed in th e Vicayo " The following morning at about a entil o'clock id and carried off the Mexicans visited the battlefi n i buried the dead bodies o f their c the spoil. The French only arr ve u d mr a a t d n eg oon al a l n e d f died. which were found striPeali The wounded left on the field all night near l y o t e r d y of from I General en. ap c i l a aim ar s e t e h st e im g of one against t wo hf a r n aov : m'iln it i g h : h eo t olu i oo f gs : shoe h tsl a l tnolfoftohore proport ion reasons which can hardly be understood exc lusively i o ffi c ial reports of thisactiouha tz precedingbx i n u sive and it is necessary to accept a ccount with all r eserve, b e i ng derived y from private sou rces. ersptuoboidish n:d, [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills. — Alleviation and Cum. —The most loathsome sores, foulest ulcers, and most hopeless bad legs assume a healthier ap pearance after a very few applications of Holloway's cleansing and healthy unguent. It promptly iurr u es g i sh aspect and soon reduces the irritability of ulcers, which have fruitlessly exhausted the su r ge on's • to the direc tions patient's endurance. By paying attent io nay easily and °I " sg ikill tions folded round each pot the afflict - 0 f.— issue, and fearlessly guide their own ailments to a 4 PIV f itamm at ion and the remove all further cause of trouble. gratifying to watch the sub?idence! pc, in through . the _ and anxiety. It is gradual decrease of swelling cooling and sedative properties of this wji l Lv inestimable Oint nieut, aided by Holloway's rills, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENI N G, JUNE 30, 1862. THE 570121 OF THE LEASE OP MONTAGU-HOUSE (From the London Review) It is more than probable that the report of the Thames Embankment Committee will give rise to much animated discussion both in and out of Parliament. We are just now dealing with but a small instalment of a grand scheme which, sooner or later, will certainly be carried out, and which will substitute wide public quays, such as adorn the Seine in Paris and the Arno in Florence, for the mean and ruinous sheds and foul mud-banks at present degrading and contaminating the margin of the Thames. The section of this scheme, which has been lately under the consideration of a comraiftee of the House of Commons extends but from Blackfriars to Westminster. We have learnt with consternation that the report of the committee recommends that the public road along the embankment shall extend no further than from Blackfriars to Whitehall stairs, and that it shall, at that point, turn up into White • hall and pour its traffic into Parliament-street. The only reason given for this extraordinary suggestion is, " that further time may be thus afforded for ascertaining the best means of relieving the thoroughfares of the metropolis." It must, however, be clear to everybody who has attended the sittings of the committee, that the reason thus given is not the real reason ; that the motives by which its members have been influenced are very different from those by which they say, and we hope, they suppose they have been actuated. Between Whitehall-stairs and Westminster-bridge stand the residences of the Duke of Buccleuch and of one or two other gentlemen, who possess considerable Parliamentary influence. If the original scheme submitted to the com mittee be persisted in, a public road will be opened in front of these houses, between them and the river, by which they will be separated from it, exactly as the houses in Picca dilly-terrace are separated by Piccadilly from the Green park. The Duke and his neighbours object to this intru sion ; they are desirous that the embankment shall be made, they are even _willing to incur a portion of the cost of making it—for its construction would be an enormous ad- vantage to them—but they are determined if they can, that in front of their houses there shall be no traffic, and that the new quay—public everywhere else—shall be kept strictly private in front of their residences. W e do not propose to discuss the many important ques tions opened by this strange recommendation of the com mittee, before the report and the evidence on which it is based are made public ; all we at present propose to do is, to detail the circumstances under which the site of Montagu. house—probably the most valuable plot of ground in Lon don—was recently smuggled out of the hands of the Crown into those of the Duke of Buccleuch, who now stands for ward, by counsel, as the chief obstructor of the proposed public improvement. His Grace holds the ground on which Montagu-house stands on a lease from the Crown for 99 years, commencing in 1855. The old mansion, recently pulled down, was built in 1733 and a lease of it for 62 years, commening in 1806, was granted to his Grace's father in 1810. It appears from Parliamentary papers now before us, printed on the 11th of August, 1854, that the Duke has long been anxious, for good and sufficient reasons to obtain a renewal of the old lease granted to his father in 1810, and that the Lords of the Treasury, with whom the matter rested, have been equally determined not to grant any such renewal, on the ground that the site of Montagu-house would, in 1868, be requred for the erection of public offices. Early in 1852 the Whigs were driven from office, and Lord Derby succeeded them. At this crisis the Duke of Buccleuch, in no way discouraged by the decided refusal which he had already received from the Whig Lords of the Treasury in 1850, again pressed that department tor a re newal of his lease. In June, 1852, we find the Duke's agent, Mr, Frederick Nichol), of Carey-street, addressing Mr. Charles Gore, of the 'Woods and Forests, on behalf of his employer, and renewing the very same application that had been firmly rejected but two years before. In spite, however, of Mr. INTichoLl's importunity, and in spite of the marked and affectionate interest which Mr. Charles Gore appears to have taken in the subject, the Tory Lords of the Treasnry, who had just come into office, and probably expected to remain in (for they anticipated great' things from the impending dissolution of Parliament), very properly declined to entertain the gross job suggested to them by Messrs. Nicholl and Gore. and their refusal is 're corded in a Treasury minute, dated Aug. 17, and in a letter addressed by Mr. Charles Gore to Mr. Nicholl, dated Sept. 11, 1852. Here the subject would probably have dropped for ever had not the general election, which took place in the autumn of 1852,,proved unfavourable to the Tory cause. The new Parliament met on the 4th of November, and while the Chancellor- of the Exchequer (Mr. Disraeli) was girding himself up for the onslaught which he knew would be made on his financial measures by Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Forbes Mackenzie, the Patronage Secretary of the Treasury, was exerting himself to prop up shaky votes and to make poli tical converts by the usual means found efficacious on such emergencies. It was well known that if the Tories were . forced to resign, Lord Aberdeen would succeed Lord Derby ; and the Duke of Buccleuch, a nobleman of vast political influence, was more than suspected by the Carlton Club of entertaining dangerous Peelite tendencies. It became there fore desirable that he should be well looked after, and con ciliated as much as possible. So, at this critical juncture, the subject of the lease of Montagu-house suddenly cropped up again, spontaneously as it were. It does not appear, from the papers before us, that the Duke himself revived it; or that Messrs. Nicholl and Gore bestirred themselves afresh on his behalf. Never theless we find that on Dec. 8 (the discussion on Mr. Dis raeli's 'financial measures, on which his Government de pended, having been fixed for the 10th), a friendly letter was addressed by the Secretary of the Treasury to Mi. Gore, apprising him that " my lords" had reconsidered the matter of the renewal of the lease so much desiderated by the duke; that since their last- refusal to grant it "my lords" had obtained information regarding the terms of the leases of the houses in Richmond-terrace, which had changed their views ; and this new information, coupled with the fact that the duke was a very old tenant of the Crown, had induced them to agree that a lease of 99 years should be granted to him. A reference to the plan facing page .2 of the papers be fore us shows that ," my Lords" did not adhere 'very rigidly to the truth in making this communication, in asmuch as the information regarding the terms of the leases of the houses contiguous to Montagu House had which is the date of the last minute refusing to grant the proposed renewal, but as far back as the 7th of October, 1850. And, as the last refusal had taken place in Septem ber, 1852, the Duke was but three months older tenant when he.got the lease than he had been when the selfsame Government had flatly refused to grant it to him. Be that as it may, two days after "my Lords'" conciliatory letter was written to the Duke the discussion on Mr. Disraeli's financial measures was resumed in Parliament, and after a debate which lasted four nights the Tories were driven om office by a small majority, and the Peelites succeeded them. We are not in a position to say on which side the Duke of Buccleuch exerted his influence on that occasion in the House of Commons, or whether he exerted it at all on either side ; but such are the more than suspicious cir cumstances under which his Grace got a lease for 99 years, on remarkably easy terms, of one of the most valuable pieces of land in the metropolis, as proved by official documents and by dates which cannot be disputed. _ _ The ludicrous manner in which Mr. Disraeli dragged be fore Parliament in 1854, with the view of damaging Mr. Gladstone, the circumstances under which he himself had sanctioned the minute authorising this shameful jDb are now well known. Mr. Disraeli declares that in the hurry of business he initialled the document in ignorance of its contents, and we give entire credence to his assertion, for he undoubtedly had plenty of work on his hands at the time. But we would ask whether it is even now too late to insti- tute some inquiry into the job,"and whether the actual per petrator of it cannot be, if not brought to justice, at least ascertained and stigmatized ? And, although we do not presume to insinuate that the Duke of Buccleuch did more in the matter than to accept the bribe which the Tory Government, in the agony of im pending dissolution, possibly forced upon him, we are of opinion that a Committee of the House of Commons, when cognisant, as they now are, of the disgraceful circumstances under which the renewal of the lease of Montagu-house was granted, would not feel disposed to evince much considera tion for the objections which its tenant may raise to the opening of a public highway along the embankment be tween him and the river. The time will undoubtedly come when the proposed quay will be prolonged, in front of the Houses of Parliament, from Westminster-bridge to Vaux.. hall, the contiguity of Westminster Abbey to the Houses of Parliament precluding the possibility of widening the thoroughfare between them. And when that time does come, if we give way on this occasion to the Duke and his allies, we shall have to repurchase back from them, at an enormous cost, the indusputable right which we now pos sess, and which the committee so strangely recommends us to abandon, of making an uninterrupted public quay from 131ackfriars to Vauxhall. Beyond Vauxhall the quay already exists. A Suspicious CASE.—It was reported in The Sun a fo r t n i ght ago that a vessel, the Mary of Exeter, laden with teak, h ad been picked up floating upon her broadside, off the Fer n Islands, -and towed into the Tyne by three powerful steam tugs. This vessel having been discharged of her cargo has b een righted. She was surveyed on Sa turday morning la s t in Shields harbour, and holes were found in her bottom ) b ored from the inside. I n one of these holes a wooden plug was found, which is in the pos f3e6BioA of tlu) Collector of Custom s at North Wads. LITERATURE. The Sandwich Islands. By Manby Hopkins. Longman and Co. This work, by the Hawaiian consul-general, gives an extremely interesting account of that group of small islands, mere specks in the map of the world, one of which is notorious as having been the place at which Captain Cook was killed. Since then their progress in civilisation has been rapid. They have adopted European customs and clothes; have learned to read, write, and cast accounts; pos sess a constitutional government, a free press, and an agricultural society ; have accredited agents at the European Courts ; and rank among the kingdoms of the earth. it is this transition from a simple to a sophisticated state that Mr. Hopkins has set himself to chronicle, and the ability with which he has performed his task will be widely re cognised. "The importance of the Sandwich islands," he says, " politically and commercially, arises from their particularly central situation. They lie in a diagonal position from south-east to north-west, in a parallelogram rather exceeding one formed by the 19th and 22d degrees of north lati tude, and the 155th and 160th meridians of west longitude; and it will be seen, by reference to a map, that the group is nearly equidistant' from the coasts of America and Japan, and that a radius from its centre would touch in succession the shores of Central America, the North-West States, the Russian territory, the Aleutian Archipelago, Japan, the Phillippine Islands, Torres Straits, New Zealand, and the Feejes Islands_ And whilst Australia is just beyond the ambit, California and Vancouver's Island are within a shorter distance of the Ha waiian Islands." Their origin is volcanic, though the ceaseless labour of the coral insect has tended to increase their size or to produce reefs at greater or less distance from the shore. They have no metals, but possess dense forests, rich valleys, and many rivers, whilst on the pasture lands large herds and numbers of horses are raised, many of the latter being in a half wild:state. The climate is tem perate and equable; there are no noxious reptiles, but insects and vermin have entered with civilisation. Thestrong, well-made, a n d hi g hly cou rageous. meha I. w ou ld a ll ow s i x o f hi s peo PI i are meha warriors to throw their spears at hi m , hi mse lf arme d ia only with one of the javelins, with which he would turn aside the flying weapons, each ready to let out his life-blood." They are daring swimmers and bold riders, do not hesitate to attack the shark, and will " plunge down the waterfall into the ocean when the leap is forty feet and upwards in height." The ieenery is thus described "On approaching the group from certain directions the the first objects which meet the sight are the two lofty peaks on Hawaii, each 14,000 feet in height—two miles and a half—one of them capped with perpetual snow, which contrasts with the deep blue of the tropical sky above, and with. the darkness of the lava forming the sides of the mountains. A rude and irregular outline of high lands then presents itself; and on the north side are seen, on a nearer view, the dark forests which clothe the lower region m of the mountains; whilst giddy precipi ces f ron t th e sea , o f whose mLe flls the to waves bet in perpe n di cu l ar height, against w at, and su rge) and thunder through the caverns which they have hollowed for themselves in their ceaseless war. In some places, streams, which have united their waters on their way, rush together over one of thos e palis, or precipices, into the ocean. Still nearer, the white foam is seen pouring in sheets over coral reefs,' of which there is sometimes an outer and inner ridge. The islands are generally lofty ; the small isle of. Lehua, near Niihua, having an elevation of 1,000 feet. The upland region of Hanai has an uniform height above the sea' of 4,000 feet. Once through the reefs, or anehoied in a lee ward roadstead, scenes of gentler beauty are discovered— pleasant bays, with sandy shores, a native village, often with its small chapel, and generally with its school,. sheltered by groves of palm and cocoa-nut, and the deeper green of the bread-fruit tree; rivers running down to the sea, down some of whose cascades the native girls and youths cast themselves with laughter, and take a bath, which must exceed any douche ever experienced at the severest of our water-cure establishments. At the mountain foot grassy plains meet the forest, roamed over by herds of cattle, which, in many instances, have become m ild. Coffee plantations and sugar-cane give their verdure to the culti vated districts." The volcanic features are very remarkable. The crater of Kilanca is the largest active one in the world, the circumference of the orifice being esti mated at from six to nine miles, and its depth at 400 to 1,000 feet. In this pleasant place was supposed to dwell, in heathen times, the Goddess Pele, who with attendant divinities of equally unaccountable tastes, bathed and sported in fire and sulphur. Eruptions sometimes take place on a scale of terrific • grandeur. "If," says an eye witness, on some moun tain side.the largest fire that ever devastated St. Francisco could be reproduced, and four or ,five hundred domes, like that of St. Peter's at Rome, when illuminated, be dotted about on "the slopes be low, the general effect might be that of a very pretty miniature on ivory of the eruption on Mauna Loa." The capital of the islands is Honolulu, a city of about 12,000 inhabitants, remarkable for being built without a single chimney. In other re spects it appears to have quite a European character " people Of a ll na ti ons are mee ti ng in the wide streets; English, American, 'French, German, Chinese, South Polynesians, are repre sented here ; busy with commerce, with polities, with dinner at the very excellent hotels, or, in that rest-inviting climate, busy doing nothing." The presant King Kamehameha the Third is a very intelligent and enlightened sovereign, who has travelled in Europe and America, and has turned his experience to good account. "On a small scale," said he to Mr. Hill, " I am endeavouring to do with the blessing of God, what Peter the Great of Russia, did on a large 'ecale "—a remarkable sentiment for the King of the Sandwic Islands to utter. Although the Islands had been undoubtedly touched at before Captain Cook's arrival, he was the first to discover them, in the common sense of the term, and the fact of his having been killed at Hawaii, has indissolubly connected his name with them. This renowned navigator seems to 'be no great favourite with Mr. Hopkins, and the version he gives of the intercourse between the English and natives, and the cause of the conflict does not wholly redound to the credit of the former. Their arrival created great astonishment. "The appear ance and get up the British Seaman' of that day was a peculiar one; it was especially wonderful in the eyes of the .Kanzak,a (native). The cocked hat adhereing to the head, was to them identified strictly with the wearer, so that the spies who went to ex amine the ships described the people on board as having + heads horned like the moon.' • They had fires burning in their months,—no doubt cigars ; they ate the raw flesh of men; this was the red, juicy watermelon brought from Monterey; they took, like Peter Schlemmit, anything they wanted out of their bodies,—such was the first impression of pockets on the native mind ; and what was more laughable than all (for the Hawaiians are essenti ally a risible people), was the utterly unintelligible gibberish the strangers spoke. All these circum stances, together with the firing of some guns, made the natives conclude that their visitors were gods." They thought, in fact, that ?ono, the Hawaiian Hercules, who, having killed his wife through jealousy, had become frantic, and turned wanderer, had returned, as he had promised, " on an island bearing cocoa -nut trees, swine, and dogs." They, therefore, at first, paid Captain Cook divine honours, which he seems, by this account, to have unhesitatingly accepted ; but misunderstand ings gradually arose; the islanders lost faith in the divinity of their visitors, and tha tragedy of Keala keagua Bay was the unlucky result. The most re markable native who has appeared in these islands is Kamehameha the First, styled by Mr. Hopkins the Bonaparte of the Pacific, and who " had the unusual advantage of having two fathers. He was at once reputed to be the son of Keona, brother of the King Kalaniopun (Cook's Tereobu), and he was equally claimed as the offspring of Kahikili, King of Mani. As he received inheritances from both claimants to his paternity, he could scarcely object to an arrangement which in many cases might be felt embarrassing." This chieftain signalised him self by conquering all the neighbouring islands, and his administrative talent seems to have been of a high order. Still he remained an idolator to the last, as the arguments of the missionaries were not sufficiently convincing to induce him to change his creed. He seems to have been a practical man of a humorous turn, for, " at the conclusion of a highly coloured appeal about the power of faith," he • pressed on them the crucial test of throwing them selves, in faith, from the top of a neighbouring pre cipice, his belief to be dependent on their safe ar rival at the bottom of it." So deep was the grief at this great king's death that one of his chiefs pro posed, as the right way of testifying it, that they should eat the corpse raw, but as the majority de murred, probably thinking it would be disrespectful, the deign was abandoned and the king's remains were " tied up in a bundle of tapa and put safely away." So safely indeed that they could never be found after. The national religion now began to decay, the people lost faith in their idols, the high priest led the van, and at length, strange to say, they burnt and destroy ed them all. "Then, the writer eloquently says , " to fancy's ear, came moan to , ing along the rocky s hores, murmuring in the passionate mountain torrents, and sighing in the, winds, the melancholy wail, ' Great Pan is dead! through the—old primeval, forests clothing the flanks of the volcanoes, echoing from dread prom pices, and heard on the winds that :rushed down smiling valleys, came the same despairing strain, ' Great Pan is dead!' The ocean, as he ran his waves hoar'sely in the rude shore and into the resounding caverns, took up the universal cry, Blush, 0 Zidon, saith the sea,' was formerly the exhortation, when vile rites polluted and human sacrifices terrified the Syrian shore ; but now, as the coming tide - sent in her white breakers and boomed over the coral ledges of Hawaii, the tri umphant song, which mingled with 'the roar of waters had the same burthen,—‘ Great Pan is dead!" But although paganism was thus aban doned, the Christian religion did not immediately, supply its place. The people indulged for a season in infidelity, tilt the missionaries effected a change, and large numbers of the people were in a certain sense, converted. Since then the chief events of moment that have taken place in these islands have been of a politidal character. Thus the King, in 1840, voluntarily conferred on the people a constitution, and the independence of the kingdom has been guaranteed brthe principal European Powers. The present monarch, Kame hameha the Fourth, seems a patriotic sovereign,• whose whole thought is how to benefit his subjects, but it is greatly to be feared that his successors will have none left to govern. The Polynesians seem a doomed race. •The inhabitants of these islands have diminished to one-third of what they were in Captain Cook's time, and the destroying agencies are still at work. Of' their nature Mr. Hopkins gives some indications, and he expatiates at considerel)le length on. -the_ intrigues of the various missionaries who have settled here, and the results produced by their teaching. In fact, the account of all connected with these islands is as complete as could be desired. The matter is ex ceedingly well arranged, the style is easy and fluent, and the book is entertaining as a novel whilst being instructive as a history. Roads and Rails, and their Sequences, Physical and .Moral. By W. Bridges Adams, Engineer. Chapman and Hall. To make a book readable two things are requi site; first, that the writer be master of his subject, and, secondly, that he display a certain degree of enthusiasm in its exposition ; and both these in a high degree Mr Adams has bore shown himself to possess. In fact, .bis enthusiasm will sometime make sober-minded people inclined to smile. In his opinion there is nothing like steam. Rail roads, according to him, will.:-reform the world. And, indeed, the results to which he points are so desirable that it is impossible not to wish that his previsions may prove correct, however much one may doubt the power of steam to produce them. When we consider the wonderful material , and aesthetic civilisation of ancient times, a civilisa tion, of the latter kind especiallyiof which we are only beginning to have a faint conception, and: when we consider that all that was produced with out the agency of steam, we feel somewhat scepti cal as to the peculiar efficacy of that motive power' in producing such results. Nevertheless, we are. far from wishing to detract from the merit of Mr. Adams's book. It is thoroughly honest, manly, elo quent, and eminently suggestive. It is perfectly free from all taint of snobbish exclusiveness, and its aim is to advocate and promote the greatest happi ness of the greatest number. Thus, if he err some what as to the means, he is perfectly right as-to the end. For instance, speaking of the evil of too great a subdivision of labour, he says that, "Farm men, and factory men, and mechanical men, dwell ling near each other; and capable of chaiOng to each other's employment, would not be Japer or helplesS. Their faculties would quicken by variety and their lebours of loathing would - bect*ltiboure of love,'t But- , -" It is only by cheap antooriVehient transit, facilitating the aggregation of pekicins and things, and their dispersion, that thisr :desirable change can be brought about?' To cntiellice to it he would have steam supersede comnidir earriages on common roads. "Long it cannot / lac ere- our suburban roads and our country roirds-will- have iron rails inserted in their surfaCesi!civefe, locomotives with small -wheels will 'work in' hilly districts, and locomotives with-Ur:Or wheels on more level districts," then 3 t the' squalid huts will pass away and be no More; the easy means of transit will unlock the latent faculties, and the labour—both of townsmen arid countrymen— will be convertible to either locality." We fear there are other difficulties besides , mere want of transit ere this kind, of communion can be reduced to practice. There are few, we imagine, who could successfully or profitably pursue more than one call ing, and the common proverb about the "Jack of all trades" expresses the general opinion on this point. " Let the shoemaker stick to his last," is a still more antique saying to the same effect, and we suspect it will be applicable to the end of time. But Mr. Adams considers that it is not mechanical labour alone that is to benefited by railways, but art. "Little," he says, "do artists dream of the high purposes to be wrought out by the agency of railways, unless, indeed, they dream that high art and nature's beauties and wonders should be reserved, only for the few, while the many toil to give them leisure. Would ye build, temples, oh, ye men of art ! temples to God ? Would ye build these temples only for the rich ? No e the true artist builds for mankind. Where then, would ye place your temples ? I n th e squa lid haunts where men congregate, in the cities that have grown up in the days of barbarism ? No, no; the high places of the land, the wild heaths and pine groves made by God ere man was—where the lark sings, and not the dens where the mouse chirps and the rat burrows — are the true sites for your temples, where the hand of the spoiler shall not come to build them round with dens of iniquity. Aild how shall the people go to worship at God's altars thus placed in the pure ana holy air, how—but by the railway you run down and scorn ?" Hitherto it has been thought best to place temples where they could be generally seen and be most conveniently used, where, in fact; people "most do congregate." We fear that even the respectable classes, to say nothing of the lower orders; would demur at paying a railway fare when they wished to go to church ; and then what would the Sabbatarians say to the employment of stokers, engineers, guards, porters, and 'olher officials on their day of rest ? If our temples ilik exclusive it is not because they are built in town rather than the country, but because of the peculiarities of the Church of England. We have no temples for the poor. With us the road to heaven can only be re spectably reached through Sunday clothes and renting a pew. In Roman Catholic countries it is different. The church there is as free to the beggar as to the prince, and the consequence is that whilst infidelity is widely prevalent among our lower orders it is there confined to the educated classes. Not that we advocate Roman Catholicism. Heaven forbid ! We merely point out to Mr. Adams why railways alone will not make people lead religious, sober, godly lives. He continues—" Again, artists, would ye build temples to the drama, to th e muses —IN here would ye place them save on the railway line ? The day has gone by when it was a need for men to build close cities; and the time is coming when, as of old, the tree will again shadow the dwelling. Time and space have been vanquished, and the residences of regenerate man have yet to be constructed. Turn whither we will, do what we will in art, artistry, mechanism, agri culture, exercise, health, knowledge, or,' if it must be, war—in all things henceforth the iron way is the way of our worldly salvation, of our mental progress, of our souls' rescue from:degradation.." This. is sufficiently comprehensive, and we tr a us a t n i d t may come to pass. Provided our dwelliinag our persons be rendered healthy and beautt; what minds educated and refined, we care it is rather means be used in the process. But tsidered to be who curious that Mr. Ruskin, is considered advocate for the great apostle of art and th d e great advocate deadly foe of aittlend elevating the workman should it is to them that railways, and should consider it is one of the the iniquity and perversityßentf should be mainly this generation to be wisdom. Upon one counsellors there all r eformers saideformers agree—that reform is missions of doctorsotwoidnigier, and in a multitude of point certainly . al which doubtless admit, to some rife among us , ant. needed. Filth, ign orance, vice, disease, are evils too the fact dbe not a perfect one, mere of its extent at least, of remedy; and•even if the remedy propose directing attention to the subject is sure to conduceto good. Of interesting suggestions the present and our only regret is that many of present be carried into operation. work Bu :1s t () much of a practical tendency,National Defence" tit thereci sanfanliolei and andthe c t h h a e p a t p e rpeoendix Railways way s a " Guns and Armour" merit ' especial attention. In concl us i on, we recommend all to read this work, not that they will agree with all the writer advances, but that they cannot fail to be charmed both with his enthusiasm and his integrity of purpose. MIILLINGAR, 26TH JUNE.—Three threatening notices were found posted in Killucan, one on Mr, Moore's gate, one on the market houso, and the other on the church gate, threatening any person who would use mowing .ma chines with death. Si milar notices have boon pos t e d m other parts of this county, mg‘ --- is at ti, ty be on le ad 1 he ia ~s es• pg )s; 30$ ,~