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THE GREAT EASTERN.—This Steam Ship is expected to leave PORTLAND, near Weymouth, on her Trial Trip about the Bth proximo, and will return to ROLYHEAD. First class passeno - ers only will be taken. Fares £6, £B, and £lO, according to cabin, including provisions, but exclu sive of wines or liquors, which can be obtained on board. ~..For further particulars apply at the offices of the Great C il) Company (Limited), 11, king William-street, London, THE GREAT EASTERN FOR AMERICA. . The Great Eastern is appointed to leave HOLYHEAD 4or PORTLAND, U.S., on or about the 15th September. First-class Passengers only will be taken. P assage -money (including stewards' fee and provisions, VUt without wines or liquors, which can be obtained on board), £lB or £25, according to cabin. Return Tickets -ranted on liberal terms.—For passage or Other information, apply to the Great Ship Company (Li nlited), 11, King William-street, London, E.C. CHRIST CHURCH, BLACKFRIARS-ROAD. THE Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR, ',Lenin anied by the Ri , rlit Hon. the SHERIFFS will OPEN the A LBERT INSTITUTION on WEDNESDAY, the 24th of tuggat, at 3 o'clock.new Institution is in Gravel-lane, h arlotte-street, Blackfriars-road, and consists of a reading - - toot., school, dormitories, baths (on a small scale) and wash , °uses for the working-classes. Tickets of admission to be had of the churchwardens • at the Vestry ; at all the Schools ; and of Mr. Alli no th am, bookseller, 2?, Blackfriars-road. Donations will be srratefully received by the Rev. Joseph Brown Christ Church Rectory, Blackfriars-road ; by T. J. Lee, Esq., 85, Blackfriars-road ; by the Treasurer, Charles J. .van Esq., No. 11, Bryanston-square ; and may also be paid (Jirect Barclay, the "Christ Church, Blackfriars, Fund," and Messrs. :Bevan, and Co., bankers, 54, Lombard-street. One nrtndred rounds will finish the buildings, fittings, and fur ure. C ONTRACT Y,f)ft SALT BEEF AND SALT PORK. Departm,sut of the Comptroller for Victualling, s on :erset-house, 6th August, 18.59. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the Ir .._ OFFICE of LORD H1; 1 11. ADMIRAL of the UNITED crzi, GDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO nth GIVE NOTICE, that on THURSDAY, the la September next, at Half -past f_lne o'clock, they will .s.Leady to treat with such Persons as play - be willing to .IVNTRACT for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's 2:Stores at the undermentioned Port 9. the follow ug quantities of SALT MEAT, all of the cure of the present 4480 u, viz.,: NAVY BEEF. NAVY PORK. Tierces. Barrels. Tierces. Barrels. Deptford 1,500 1,500 .... 5,000 7,500 Gosp ort Pipzioutn . l,OOO 1,000 Ef aulbowline. .. 1,500 1,300 .... 2,000 2,500 Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the tef,iders are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for such part thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a g r eater quantity, or of not contracting for any, and also an unlimited power of selection. ' l4 - separate Tender must be given for the Beef and a sepa rate tender for Pork, and every tender must specify where 41 t Meat is intended to be cured. "' ' e nders not for be admitted. Pork, of the cure of the United States of Ame ea, will ._ P ersons tendering for more than one Port must give a sepa rate Tender for each Port. -t he Beef and Pork to be delivered into the respective stores th e f ollows—viz.. one-third of each quantity for each place by Mat day of January, 1860 ; another third thereof by tne Tilla d a ay of March, 1860 ; and the remainder thereof by the a „ 1 dy of May, 1860, or any greater portion, or the whole, at 1 ,1 , Y earlier p er i o d , if p re f erre d by the party tendering, and to t'Paid for by bills payable in seven days from and after the "jctive dates thereof. art tendering are desired to take special notice that the ueC Of WOODEN HOOPS IS ABOLISHED, and that IRON HOOPS Vrlll be required for the Casks, in accordance with the nditiolis of the revised form of contract. pit,orrn of revised contacts, may be obtained, and the conditions h e revised contracts, to which particular attention is called, a,. a 3: be seen et this office, at the Victualling Yards at Gos t,L.and Ply m outh, or by applying to the Agent Victualler t ,„ xlaulbowlin e ; or to the Collectors of her Majesty's Cus ns at B r i sto l , Limerick, Belfast, Waterford, and Newry; or th. t il,e Secretary to the tmaster-General at Duin or to ‘'ornrilmder conduc ti ng the Packet Service at Liverpool; 1 1 0 _ the resident Agent for Transports at Leith. lir Tender will be admitted for a less quantity than 100 is ree, or 100 barrels. tender will be received after Half-past One o'clock on fo e day of treaty, nor any noticed unless made on the printed' 1 1 'w provided for the purpose ; but it ge will not be te necessary the party tendering, or an ant appoint by him, ruld attend at this Office, as the result of the offer received -,',„ °111 . each person will be communicated to him and his ' 4 .P.osed sureties in writing:. in payment for any Beef or Pork delivered into her n is ' e stY's StOres will be sent to parties upon transmitting the itlal certificates of rece be ipt. Ad very tender must addressed to the Secretary of the the niiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner of the Envelope Wor , d B " Tender for Salt Meat," and " Comptroller for " a llincr " and must also be delivered at Somerset °Use. TRIO FOOD FOR CATTLE.—Every th oui person having an interest in domestic or farm animals foe d, nbta supply of this celebrated and economical fle as ,, Which will prove invaluable during the approaching . led . For k,vping horses in good condition it is unequal- Ilegh 1 - "Za fatten with surprising rapidity upon it , and t heir ncrease s in savour and value. Cowkeepers will find 4- 4 4' !Idvant a , e i n .fle increased quantity and improved pla it. It the milk its use. All animals are benefited by Teety Pamphlet on this Lnteresting subject, accompanied by monials from the cipE!l Nobility, Gentry, and Agri orists, enclose application. In casks containing AVeeds ( me nrice 505., carriage paid to any (measures , letn,„,TY Station in the Unit:ld Kingdom. Post-office orders W b ute tp Joseph Thorley, 77, Nawq.te-street, London. by e public are cautionesi against being imposed upon orthiess imitations. GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH, Awl) USED IN THE ROYAL LAUNDRY, PRONOUNCED BY HER MAJESTY'S LAUNDRESS to be THE FINEST STARCH SHE EVER USED. WHEN YOU ASIC FOR GLENFIELD P &TENT STARCH, SEE THAT YOU GET IT, As inferior kinds are often substituted. Sold by all Chandlers, Grocers, &c., &c. WOTHERSPOON & CO.. GLASGOW AND LONDON AND HEARING.—SPECTACLES.- 1 , %,,,,,P0wERFuL TELESCOPES.OPERA, RACE, and 14, 7 , 4 ' 0 PECTIVE GLASSES. Messrs. S. and B. Solo s, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. Observe 4 11 °I ) Posite the York Hotel, W.—Opera, Race-course, Field, -y e Zeneral Outdoor Day and Night Perspective Glasses, , 8 7 small, for the waistcoat pocket, each containing 1? d " I sea, constructed of German glass. Will show distinctly •Iti i i Plis to kn ow th em a t two-and-a-half and three miles, T o , an object from eight to ten miles distant. Her Majesty's ifn "' S t Guards are making use of them as day and night glasses seareference to all others ; they are also preferred for deer aco,,nuung' by sportsmen, 'per ad gamekeepers. Tele autaai inches long, by which a on may be clearly seen ten —u° 'svu at miles, and an object at 12 to 14 miles dis ,„,..'e and with an extra astronomical eye-piece, Jupiter's g. Saturn's rings, and the double stars are distinctly i Z. 1 1. 1 . : All the above can be had of larger and all sizes, with t et La sing powers, and are secured by her Majesty's Royal tens. Patent. The Royal Exhibition, 1851. A valuable, qi,7l l Y - Invented, very small, powerful Waistcoat-pocket Ne r, tve size of a walnut, by which a person can be a we . ; and known one and a half mile distant. They an konsee„verY Purpose on the Race-course and at the Opera to Country scenery and ships are clearly seen at four etalir miles. They are invaluable for shooting, deer atid + n g , Yachting:, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, tr a "'Jurists. price 30s.—Spectacle Lenses of the greatest 14,,118P.arent power The great advantage derived from this ot re en t.on is, that vision becoming impaired is preserved and 11,,,fr — g t .,,hened, and very vol persons are enabled to employ lan, 'Olt at the most miouti.' occupation —can see with those g uiles of a much less magnifyrin, power, and they do not re the frequent changes to the dangerous effects of further te rn :L .lll l assistance. Persons can be suited at the most their'e Vart of the world by sending one of the glasses out of ey e , peeacles in a letter, and stating the distance from the neY clan read small print with it, and those who have JsT ew "V s ile use of spectacles by stating their Age. Deafpess.— entire] -Cf Pow e i," f leo r very.—The Organic Vibrator, an extraordinarily small newt invented instrument for Deafness, kin d Y different from all others, surpasses anything of the that th has been, or probably ever can be, produced. Being de af a same colour as the skin, is not perceptible. It enables bli e erraons to hear distinctly at church and at public &seem -18 e nu thf unpleasant sensation of singing,: noises in the ears kossib i .„` e lY removed, and it affords all the assistance that obs erv _ could be desired.-39 H , Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. — "Pposite the York otel, w 0 1\r E HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD ON The f CONVICTION. A e. t .arful dangers to invalids from spurious imitations of 4 - , E'Nf A l ' l tY's in ITEALTH-RESTORING REVA ARABICA FOOD led to an investigation, and, r aPplication in 18.54 for protection, the High Court of Ney • fil er Y granted an injunction restraining Alfred Hooper "Y ttril t " hia agents, under a penalty of .435,.000, frpm stlling cle resembling or being a colourable imitation of Du prig r B Reval enta Arabica, of w hi c h we are the f!oleproe hwards. . Now, giving therefore, this is to give notice thatthoeabov lu a u ° Will be paid, upon conviction, to anyone tu,for breach of the injunction. An inte lli g ent eelipirta m y e i n s no admonition to shun all shopkeepers who positions. London : BARRY DU BARR Y No M ORE SICKLY OR ILL-CONDITIONED HORSES ito OR OTHER CATTLE. ` 6 stn rect - ',..CS HORSE and CATTLE-IMPROVING FOOD ldiff,;',;L'e efficiency, vigour, endurance, and muscle of 111- °O4 or apparently worn-out Horses, Cows, Thil hew Calves, Sheep, and Pigs. In a short time it improves +Ad c a PPe'aran ce and value by 20 and 30 per cent. RAREY 11 1, Regent's Quadrant, London. In tins at 35., at Cs., ) 13 8 ,;i"n caOks, of about 450 feeds, 50s. ; of about 1,000 feeds, aboui• lid. per feed. °f ca - ittagrdeed on receipt of post-office orders. The casks free P iloNO MORE MEDICINE ' II E - R d A '„ i f .,,,ree by po t opular treatise, sixty-four Pages, --1- •unAt - EPNERATION of the DIGESTIVE ORGANS, Of in"do,ally ORGANS, the effectual Cure,. without ;sredicine, Aci d . `Zestin n (d , • ileatiapchea3'st7opiposifal,hheedtual Constipation, Flatulency 1111 0 'tY ' Pal it el-107ft, Torpidity of the Liver, Biliousness, General Debi- Afithrna =11" ption,'DesPondency, Spleen, &C., 41% i~tbou" Pills ' Purgatives, u m ei. Medicine of any kind, by a l'ea(l3 e, Pleasant, andinfallible means ; adapted to the general er • London : Barry Du Barry & Co., 77, Regent-street. 0?g ------- Lo s t - 1 --_—_.— 7. I- -,..,A , LIFICATIONS AND IMPEDIME NTS TO ...e.,,, .... MARRIAGE. rAition enlarged to 196 pages, illustrated by 100 An s a . - 0" 11 1"11 Ellerayings on Steel, just published, free by pn t, Str re "lAt of t w et , f)..._. o penny stamps direct from N. 19, Berners -710, .iord-street, London, rum ti;eg,rlNT FRIEND ; a Medical Work, on indulge u nce, with 0 , i nSurions consequences from the use of Merc i ry. tio„ F ser vations on the obligations of marriage, and d ree a Val °I. o bvilting certain disqualifications ; and containing Iliable 14 ta Prescription of a Lotion to prevent Infection. -c-4 GREATEST MEDICAL DISCOVERY A ND,. OF THE AGE. MILD, AND MOST SUCCESSFUL MODE Th., OF TREATMENT. Voprietors of PERitv's justly celebrated Patent Me foarnyve confided their Prescriptions to a Physician ofthe site o ersity of Erlangen, and Member of the Royal Col 4„eW je u rgeons of England (who is registered under the "Xf, 01 .,iedical Act) and attends daily at No. 19 Berners-street, fpnda";"reet, between the hours of 11 and 2, and from 5 till 8 eitt i , a excepted) to advise Patients on their Diseases and 1, cm, and thus add to the speedy certainty of Cure. COP 4 A T T A 'S PATENT CONCENTRATED ESSENCE OF Prep a - r - a - t . , and CUBEB SACCHARATED GLOBULES, a Cubebs lon of the essence of the Balsam of Copalba s and In ar ; Perfectly tasteless, retaining its . curative power tri al b ..cases of Gonorrhea, Gieet, Stricture, &c., a e on e .„,""u Prove the efficacy of this invaluable remedy ; as it at th e i.. - ' , B upon the Urino-Genital organs, restoring them to tr,healthy state. Price 2s. 9d. (by post 3e. 3d.), 4s. Bd. (by A.V3 8 ..X.,.. 6 d.), and lls. per box (by post 130.), sent direct from ze rners-street, Oxford-street, London. CORDIAL BALM of SYRIACUM, a remedy for p" lu atorrhasit, is employed in both sexes to renovate the 1 v ers of life, when exhausted, reinvigorates the frame in " oes l of sexual debility, and to those persons who are Ah 1. eve, tied entring the married state it is invaluable. Price ch ind 119. per bottle or four quantities in one for 335., sr.r4es 11A. ; or in £s 7 cases.: CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE, for tV""dlls try all its stages; and is recommended for secondary IPfoins. blotch es on the head an d face, en l argement of the roat, to . m.ls, and uvula ; its beneficial influence on the stem is undeniable. Price 4s. lls. and 335. per bottle, 1 " 11 0a savior; et 11s. .NIEALTIN DEPENDS UPON PURE BLOOD. AY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS a cure for all aseiii - cif the skin, such as scurvy, scrofula, ulcers, boils, elotches uld pimples on the face and body. Price 2s. 9d., le• ed., a m , per box. Is T 0 be lin, %direct from No. 19, lierners-streetniford- street 3ndon, up w receipt of Post (Moe Order. N°. 20,956. PUBLICATIONS. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., 215., EMALE INFLUENCE. By LADY CHARLOTTE PEPYS. " This is a very agreeable novel, containing some lively sketches of society. It possesses many sources of amusement and edification, and can lay claim to attention on the score of exhibiting skill in detail of events and shrewdness in descrip tion of character."—Sun. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street HURST AND BLACKETT'S STANDARD LIBRARY. ADAM GRAEME OF MOSSGRAY. By the Author of "Mrs. Margaret Maitland," price 55., ele gantly bound and illustrated, will be ready, August 30th, forming the Sixth Volume of HURST AND BLACKETT'S STANDARD LIBRARY OF CHEAP EDITIONS OF POPULA It MODERN WORKS. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW NOVELS OF THE SEASON. In One Vol., price 55., cloth, THE CURATE AND THE RECTOR. By Mrs. STRUTT, Author of " Chances and Changes,' being the new volume of "Routledge's New Library of Fic tion," in which series have appeared— WHO IS TO HAVE It ? By the Author of The Nether woods of Otterpool." THE MAN OF FORTUNE. By ALBANY FoNBLANQUE, Jun. HOLLYWOOD HALL. By JAMES GRANT. THE WIFE AND THE WARD. By Lieut.-Col. MoNEv. London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, Farringdon street. MR. DISRAELI'S NOVELS AND TALES. Library Edition. In Five Vols., crown Bvo, price 255, cloth extra, THE NOVELS and TALES of B. DISRAELI, ALP., comprisin g— The Young Duke Contarini Fleming Coningsby Venetial Tancred Ixion, etc. Alroy Vivian Grey Sybil Henrietta Temple Library Edition, printed in a good type. London : Routledge, Warn , street. and Routledge, Farringdon The Fourth Edition, Just Published, Bvo, in cloth, pricy ss. by post free, ss. Gd. ON TRUE and FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA; with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors in relation to the Treatment and Cure of Suferers from De bility of the Generative system, or Sexual Hypochrondriasis. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. " Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practical contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medical reader. We trust that this may not be the last, if he shall detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his power to correct."—London Medical Gagette. " The editor has conferred a great boon on the sufferers from this distressing malady by translating this little book, and by laying bare the scandalous practices of unqualified adventurers, who profess to cure a disease of which they know nothing, with no other object than to 1111 their own purses. The difference between true Spermatorrhcea and the various forms of disease which resemble it are accurately de scribed, and thus a safe guide is offered for the treatment of the malady."—Medical Circular. " We have delayed so long upon the contents of the preli minary chapter, that we have scarcely left ourselves space for any notice of the subject specially treated of by Dr. Pickford ; but the moderate price at which the brochure' is sold, places it within the reach of every one interested in the matter."— Dublin Medical Press. London : H. pailliere, 210, Regent-street. LONDON RIFLE BRIGADE.— The RULES are NOW READY-8, Great Winchester-street, Broad street, E.C. cCOLLUM'S GREAT ANGLO - SAXON CIRCUS, ROYAL ALIIAIIIBRA PALACE,—The greatest array of equestrian talent ever combined into one company—Star riders, male and female—Star clowns—highly trained steeds—sagacious ponies—magnificent dresses and appointments—delightful music. Two performances daily, commencing at 3 and 8 p.m. THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, High ifolborn, RE-OPENED for the SEASON.—This establishment, pre-eminently distinguished for the elegance and matchless beauty of its decorations, combined with the perfection of its management, is OPEN EVERY EVENING. Great alterations and improvements have been made during the recess, and nothing has been left undone that could en hance the beauty of the place, or increase the comfort of the visitors. Doors open at half-past 8; overture at 9; closing at 12 punctually. Admission is. ITINEGAR. Patronised b' her Majesty's v Government.—CONDY'S PATENT PURE COTCEN TRATED MALT VlNEGAR.—Families, by using this de icious Vinegar, insure purity, and effect a saving of 50 per cent. See Report of Dr. Letheby, City Officer of Health ;Dr Hassall, of the " Lancet" Commission, and others. Sold by the Trade, in bottles labelled and ca ruled. Whalesale, 63, King William-street, London-bridge, E.C.—Six Quart Sample sent free to any Railway for 3s. 6d. TRULY EFFICACIOUS and MILD.— Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, prepared without any Mercurial Ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. Scott, of Bromley, Kent. Th ,, se Pills will be found invaluable to all who suffer from MEM 4 and liver complaints, indiges tion, wind, spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &c. For nabitual costiveness, and as a family aperient medicine, they are truly excellent ; mild in their operation and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, promote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Sold by most druggists, in boxes, ls. lid., and 2s. 9d. each. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package, with "W. Lambert, 20, Jermyn-street," en graved on the Government stamp. MEDICAL FRIEND AND MARRIAGE GUIDE. ITO THE NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED. —Sent free on receipt of two stamps, for postage, drc., by Dr. RAPKEY,27, Alfred-place, Bedford-square, Londo n , W. C., " THE GUIDE TO SELF-CURE." " The first man of the day in these complaints."—Medical Review. " Those about entering the Marriage State should peruse the Author's invaluable little work, as the advice he gives on health and disease reflects much credit upon him as a sound medical philosopher."—Critic. " The true Guide to those who desire a speedy and private cure."—University Magazine. " The NEW AMERICAN DISCOVERY' demonstrates the absurdity of the English mode of treating such com plaints, will prove a blessing to the afflicted, who may safely and easily regain pristine health by adopting the means pre sented."—Evening Star. _ _ CAUTION.—As a duty due to the profession and the public generally, Dr. Rapkey advises all persons having doubts of the legal qualifications of their medical attendant, or parties whom they may be about consulting, to procure from the Royal College of Surgeons, London, the Official List of Registered Members, price Is., or Dr. R. will, on receipt of the price in stamps, gladly assist and protect the afflicted public by forwarding the same. 3, GREAT MARLBOROUGH-STREET, W., NEAR THE PANTHEON. DR. CULVERWELL, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Licentiate of Midwifery, and Apo thecaries' Hall, London, can be consulted daily (only) as above, on all cases of Nervous Debility, Languor, Incapacity, Loss of Memory, Sterility, and all Functional Derangements of both Sexes, emanating* from early and excessive indul gences. Has Just published, price ls. ; by post, 13 stamps, 18 sealed, No. 4, An entire new and oridnal Work, entitled OURSELVES. Synopsis : The Physiology and Anatomy of our Generation The Origin of Disease—Symptoms, Treatment, and Cure. Also, an Exposition of, and Remedy for, all Urinary Derange ments and Marital Disqualifications, MALE. The modern treatment of Syphilis, Stricture, Blennerrhagla (Gonorrhoea), Spermatorrhcea, Impotency, and all Diseases of the Urinary Organs, with Prescriptions, &c. FEMALE. The Physiology and Anatomy of Women--Functional Ir regularities in Health and Sickness—Choice in Marriage— Their Expectancies and Disappointments—The Cause and nemoval of Sterility—The Theory and Symptoms of Gesta tion—Use of the Speculum, and the securing of Healthy Offspring. Also, No. 1. HEALTH, HAPPINESS, and LONGEVITY ; On Debility, Nervousness, Dyspepsia, and Indigestion, No. 2. LOVE AND MARRIAGE : Their Obligations, Happiness, and Disappointments ; Love and other Matches. Sterility Removed, and Healthy Off spring secured. No. 3. THE CASE BOOK : 100 Cases of SPERMATORRMEA, Their Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment, Confessions and Cure by Cauterisations, Galvanism, &c. &c. To be had of Mann, 39, Cornhill ; and the Authors. Advice to the Working Classes, fee Half-a-Guinea. DU BARRY'S REVALENTA ARABICA CHOCOLATE POWDER Contains the greatest amount of easily assimilated nourishment for strengthening delicate persons, children, and infants with weak stomachs, chest, or nerves, and, at 3-pence per meal, affords a delicious breakfast, lunch, or supper. It is the best dietetic homcepa thic preparation, and maybe eaten either alone or mixed with Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food. Admirably adapted to rear Infants with. In Tins at Is. 6d ; 11b., 35.; 21b., 55. 9d. ; 51b., 12s. ; 121 b., 265. The 121 b. forwarded carriage free, on receipt of Post-office order. Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent street, London ; and through all Grocers and Chemists. NO MORE MEDICINE DU BARRY'S DELICIOUS HEALTH-RESTORING REVALENTA ARABICA FOOD Cures effectually Indiges tion (dyspepsia), constipation, flatulency,"phlegrn, nervousness, biliousness, liver complaints, hysteria, neuralgia, sleepless ness, acidity, w spirits, Palpitation, heartburn, dy eruptions, dysentery , h e i m m o p rr u h ri o t i i d es s: headache,irritability, lo noises in the head and ears, debility, diabetes, pa i n s between the shou p l u d r e i r n s k d p e r s e p gn on s d n e s n y c o y r , c a r t am s P e f rn a k s ng nausea, and malassitchial. sickness t bronchitis, consumption, also Children's s, cough, complaints. We extract a few out of 50,000 expressions of gratitude from invalids thus cured : Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies of dyspepsia. Cu re N e o. si 4 s 9,B n 32 e . rvo " u F s i n f e ty ss year t s hm ' in mdeasncryibyaebalres' agony from ,as a, cough, conetipation, flatu a l v en e cy b , een spa r s e m m s o , red sic b kn y sickness at D a a t rry th ,s e stomach and vomiting, h Cure No. 53,816. Field Mar excellent Food," Maria Joly. atehr v s h o a n i s ] ntehs s sDukend liverof P 1 us ko complaintsof dwyisdpcehp had re s is constipation, ted a and medical treatment. Cure No. 47,1:21. Miss Elizeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indi p ,_o N e o stio ls n , , 2 g ls ath D e r ri . n A g n s d , r lo e w w spirits, and nervous fancies. Cure No. 34,210. Dr. Shorland, of dropsan— Ure, of constipation, dyspepsia, andnervao. udseibririlittayb.ilictyu.;eCkiroe 36,212. Captain Allan, of epileptic tits. Cure No. 36,41 8. Rev. Dr. Minster, of cramps, spasms and daily vomitings.n Dr. 26,418. Dr.Hervey,ofdiarrhceaanddebility. Cure No. „MB Wurtzerof consumption. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts. ittin . merchant, Frimley, Surrey, of 20 years' diseased 'units, spitting of blood, liver derangement, partial deafness. Cure No. 4,208. " Eight years' spasms, and nausea, have been effectually cure by Du Barry's health-rostoring Food. Rev. John VV. Flavell, Ridlington dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, Rectory, Norfolk. Food. No. 3,906, of thirteen years' cough, indigestion, and general debility. James Porter, A th o l-street, Perth. Sold in canisters, 11b. 2s. 9d„. 21b. 4s. 6d._; 121 b. 225; Super refined quality, 51b. 22 5 . ; 10Ib. Ms. The 101 b. and 121 b. can isters are forwarded carriage free, on receipt of Post-office order. Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London ; Fortnum, Mason, and Co., purveyors to her Majesty, 182, Piccadilly ; also at 60, Grace•church-street ; 330, Strand; 4, Cheapstde ; 49 and 60, Bishopsgate-street ; 105 and 63, Oxford street ; 85. Tottenham -court-road ,• also in Liverpool, at N a i r x . Butler,, C as tle Medicals tre e l l a : B L ; e : e xi de a , tt ß ch e e in ste ha4dt s a h n a d rp Co a y v,co ubli n c ti gdiaburgh, Ralmea and Cch t - ' ) • ,S., - _ 1 1 t,4 A r- 01 •a" ~• ' 44, "•• - • . 1/ • , +iv +f• 6t # ft& Zo• 1; • . 2 1 -17 - Atit, . st, , /A - Txty v .4.47" at - Bi gonv I/mu; Ce, THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUG:: TusT 20, 1859. THE LONDON.—The attention of Gentlemen is especially drawn to the advantages offered in these elegant and spacious Saloons, which fulfil all the require ments of a West-end club of the most aristocratic and exclu sive character. L'on trouve dans la Salle de Lecture non seulement les meilleurs journeaux Anglais, male aussi Allemand, Francais, et Beige. ELECT GENCE. 4 should not do so until the report was put to the meeting. An hon. PROPRIETOR complained of the arrange ments which had been made with the Birkenhead Company, because it contained a guarantee. The cause of the groat evils which befel them and re duced their dividend was this system of giving guarantees. The CHAIRMAN replied that with respect to the complaint of Mr. Puncher, as to the accounts, he would find the discrepancies complained of ex plained to him if he called at the accountant's office. Mr. SEELEY asked for an explanation, why it was that while their capital was increasing their revenue was going on diminishing ? They now asked £63,000 for additional works, but in his opi nion it would be much better to divide it, and add to their 41 per cent., than to adopt such a course. Why were they called on to make new railways all over the country ? Their present concern was large enough to manage, without going farther in con structing new lines. The pioprietors had n• chance whatever in coping with the directors, be cause they rode over the country soliciting proxies, and got thorn to sanction plans of which the share holders knew nothing. The CHAIRMAN denied that the directors used any undue influence. If any fault was to be found, it was with the proprietors themselves, who scarcely ever came to their meetings. With respect to the expenditure of the company, he should not be found to do anything inimical to their interests; but it was necessary for him, in the situation he held, to look not only to the interests of the present but future proprietors of the company. Mr. PUNCHER hero moved his amendment, but it was negatived, and after some further discussion the report was adopted. For the half-year ending 30th June last, a divi dend of £2 2s. 6d. was next declared. The business of the half-yearly meeting having concluded, HERTFORD. Yciterday evening the election for Her 3 ,:f or d , after a spirited contest, i n w hi c h an extraf,rdinary amount of party feelin g was en li ste d or both sid es , fell upon Mr. Cowp er , th e new Vi .. ' oe -P res i dent of the Board of Trade. From thP first the right hon. gentleman took the leaf at the pall, and main tained it throughout the day. At 10 o'clock he was 61 ahead of his opponent, the Conservative candidate ; at 11 o'clock, 80 ; at 12, 82 ; at 1, 89; at 2, 101 ; and at four o'clock, when the poll closed, the numbers were : For Cowper For Dimsdale 204 Majority for Cowper— —77 Both yesterday and on the nomination day the place presented an appearance so picturesque, and all classes of the inhabitants ranged themselves on one side or the other with a feeling of partisanship so genuine and undisguised, as to - carry the mind 30 years, back, before an utilitarian spirit had sought by degrees to divest the election of members of Parliament of almost all that was characteristic of the national manners. Party banners floated ' from tne windows of almost every house in the principal streets of this pretty country town, the occasion was made the pretext for a general holi day, the whole population were in full dress, and one could scarcely meet a youn g woman w h o di d not display on her bosom the colours of one or other of the candidates, arranged in a jaunty rose tt e. Ladies of distinguished rank, besides, all wearing party emblems, came from the surrounding neigh bourhood to wilivss the ceremony. There was so liberal a run throughout the day among great num bers of the humbler orders upon many of the beer houses as to forbid the notion that the score was in all cases paid by themselves, and every now and then the public decorum was interrupted by a fac tion fight in the streets. Nearly 40 special con stables had been sworn to assist in maintaining the peace, but the most of them kept herding together at one spot in front of the Town-hall, and were seldom at hand when wanted in other parts of the town. At five o'clock, Mr. Henry Squire, the Mayor, accompanied by the two candidates and their friends, repaired to the hustings and made the offi cial declaration of the poll, as stated above. Mr. Cowper stood forward to express his thanks, but the partisans of Mr. Dimsdale, ranged in a compact mass in front of the hustings, refused him a hear ing, and he simply bowed his acknowledgments and retired. Mr. Dimsdale subsequently addressed the crowd from a window of the Salisbury Arms. He said he had waged an arduous contest, and he ascribed his rejection to the unfair influences from various quarters with which lie had had to contend. He added that it was his determination to contest the representation whenever an opportunity again presented itself; and to the Conservatives for the support they had given him, and to the Liberal electors, for the courtesy with which they had re ceived him during his canvass, he expressed his obligations. It remains to be stated that on the night preced ing the poll Ben Caunt, the pugilist, and five other men connected with " the ring," one of whom was a coloured man with the appropriate sobriquet of " the Black Diamond," arrived in Hertford. Their advent soon became noised about the town, and the circumstance was deemed sufficiently alarming to attract the notice of the Mayor. To one of the police authorities, who asked an explanation of their visit, Caunt said he had received from a man named Raw, who keeps a beerhouse in the town, an invitation for him and some of his " pals," as he called his companions, to come to He r tf or d. R aw is said to have identified himself with the Conser vatives during the contest, but it is but due to Mr. V.msdale's committee to state that they were in no way whatever concerned in the transaction, the merit of which belongs to Raw alone, and that they were the first to denounce it. At the instance of the Mayor, Caunt was induced to leave the town yesterday morning, but his five comrades remained behind throughout the day. F. SAWYER, Proprietor,l9l, Fleet-street. THE LONDON.—S AW Y E R'S famous LONDON DINNER, consisting of two soups, two fish, two entrees, joints, two sweets, cheese, and salad, at a fixed charge of 2s. 6d. (attendance, 3d.), is served from Two till Eight in the spacious Saloon. In the Coffee-room, Dinners from the joint, with vegetables, cheese, and salad, ls. 6d. (attendance 3d.), and soup, fish, en trées, &c., a la carte, are served from One till Nine o'clock. Ladies' Private Rooms and Dining Saloons. Spacious and well-ventilated Wine, Coffee, and Smoking Saloon. An extensive and carefully selected stock of Rhenish, Mo selle, and other Wines, imported expressly for the London Dinner, Open on Sundays from Four till Nine, F. SAWYER, Proprietor, 191, Fleet-street. The CHAIRMAN informed the proprietors that as the agreement between the Birkenhead Company, the Great Western, and themselves, was as yet in the hands of the lawyers, he should be compelled to postpone the special meeting until Saturday, the 10th of December next. The proceedings then terminated. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE INEEK. t - Miles Opened. Receipts. Railways. ..._____.."._____. „....____......____, ... 1859. 1858. 1859. 1858. - - e Ballymena and P or t rus h ... 35 35 £ £ - D Bedale and Leyburn lO 10 - - Belfast and Ballymena 65 65 1,223 1,362 e Belfast and County Down 2O 17 573 412 a Birkd., Lane., & Ches. Junc 32 32 2,969 2,735 13lyth and Tyne 2O 13 1,658 1,405 • Bristol and Exeter llB 117 7,813 7 , 688 t Caledonian l9l 198 14,961 14,129 Ches.&Holyhead(witliMold) 94 91 - - 1 Cockermouth & Workington 8 8. - - 1 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 272 281 1 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6} 6 1 1283 404 Deeside l7 17 465 407 • Dublin & Belfast Junction 56 56 1,342 1,302 1 Dublin and Drogheda 63 63 1,972 1,962 Dub. & Wicklow (in. Kingst.) 404 40} 2,3 t 3 2,476 Dundalk and Enniskillen • Dundee and Arbroath l7} 174 706 659 Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l 31 1,195 1,208 East Anglian 674 671 873 894 E.Counties,Nrik.,&E.Uni on 489 489 25,494 25,212 East Rent 194 - 360 E.Lancashire(in. Blackburn) 111 106 - - Edinburgh and Glasgow... 142 142 8,116 6 Edinburgh, Pert h,SE Dundee 78 78 4,184 4,056 E'orth & Clyde Junction ... 294 294 396 ,456 Furness 22 22 1,297 1,244 Glasgow & South-Western 1834 1834 7,717 7,305 Great Northern 283 283 26,723 23,709 Great North of Scotland treat Western 466 466 36,547 35,449 full and Holderness Inverness & Aberdeen Junc 57 15 1,055 555 Irish South-Eastern 2s} 254 267 309 Killarney Junction Lancaster and Carlisle (in Kendal and Windermere) 100 100 8,966 , 8,181 Lane. & Yrks.(in.Blackburn) 289 289 37 , 910 35,855 Limerick and Foynes 2 20 228 213 Llanelly 46 35, 522 610 London & North-Western London and Blackwall 5 5) 1,764 1,759 London & South-Weste rn Loud. Brighton, &S. Coast 202 183 4 20 , 4 45 91,904 L'derry and En n i s kill en Lond., Tilbury, & Southend 42 40 2,751 2 , 714 Man.,Sheffield,& Lincolnsh 173 1731 10,660 10,395 Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 9 0 1,084 007 Maryport and Carlisle Midland Midland G t.Westn. of' Irind 177 177 4,256 4,228 Monkland Monrnouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,487 2,383 Newcastle and Carlisle 7B 78 - - Newport,Abcrg.,& Hereford 50 43 1,408 1,308 North British (in. Dalkeith) 149 149 6,808 6,647 North Devon North-Eastern 7364 720 39,426 38,676 North London 9 9 2,664 2,645 North Staffordshire 233 233 7,989 8,779 North-Western 464 464 - N. Yorkshire and Cleveland 101 - - Oxford, Wore., & Wolver 94 94 4,921 4,799 Peebles lB 18 428 - St. Helen's Canal & Railway 30 30 2,053 1,901 Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern ll5 115 5,020 4,750 Shrewsbury & Birmingham 294 294 2,200 1,810 Shrewsbury and Chester 4B 48 3,521 3,389 Shrewsbury & Hereford Shropshire Union 291 29 942 970 South Devon South-Eastern 3Ol 301 26,796 25,431 South Wales l7l 171 7 , 6 7 3 7,420 S. Yorkshire and River Dun 108 108 2,759 2,481 Stockton and Darlington Taff Vale 54 54 4,414 3,806 Ulster 52 36 1,726 1,723 Ulverstone and Lancaster Vale of Neath 254 25} 1 ,898 1,897 Warrington and Stockport l2 12 - Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 339 444 Waterford and Limerick West Cornwall 274 274 650 703 W.Hartlepool H arbr. & R ail 39 39 3,835 3,626 Whitehaven Junction l2 12 600 540 Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 621 554 W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt 7 7 344 327 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 1,191 1,080 • Austrian B2B 673 36,017 29,718 Belgian Eastern Junction 264 264 255 282 Buffalo and Lake Huron Detroit and Milwaukie lBs} 140 2,033 1,054 Dutch Rhenish Grand Trunk of Canada 879 849 9,116 8,102 1 Great Indian Peninsula l3O 884 3,394 1,546 Great Luxembourg - 122 38 2,361 1,667 Great Western of Canada 345 283 5,473 5,823 Lombardo-Venetian 285 285 - - Lyons and Geneva 142 107 "8,082 4,425 Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 284 224 9,338 8,891 Maria Antonia' 2l 21 232 286 Northern of France 574 574 43,853 44,935 , Norwegian Trunk 44 44 1,229 984 , Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn B4l 781 83,216 58,625 Paris and Orleans 9 22 85 7 44 , 833 42 , 784 J Paris and Strasburg Royal Danish 69 69 590 670 Sambre and Meuse 6B 68 1,165 1,183 Southern of France 777 773 116,801 13,622 West Flanders W. and N.W. of France._ HULL. The nomination took place yesterday (Friday). The show of hands was slightly in favour of Mr. Lewis, the Liberal candidate. A poll was demanded on the part of Mr. Somes, the Conservative candi date, and fixed to take place to-day (Saturday). The contest promises to be a very severe one, each party being sanguine of success. ( PAPER / ~L Bankes that the old lady above save* was- -- not real wife, and this conjecture is confirm'eLFby theitti* that the ceremony of marriage between SAwthurl and Miss B an k es was performed at Hatersea church at the beginning of last December. However that might be, they left Miss Smith's, and, after staying a short time at a Mrs. Grabow ski's, t4y finally took up their abode at the house of Mrs. Wheatley, at Alma Villas, Richmond, for which they paid 15s. a week. According to Smethurst, he had settled the whole matter with his legitimate wife, a n d s h e h a d agreed to accept a certain sum for her lodgings, and to ask no ques tions as to where or how he lived. Smethurst and Miss Bankes lived on at Mrs. Wheatley's until the end of last March, when the lady became very ill. For some time previously she had suffered from sickness and diarrhoea, but the disease was now se rious ; moreover it appeared that the lady had be come pregnant. In fact it was necessary to call in a doctor, and after some deliberation it was decided to summon Dr. Julius, the leading practitioner in Richmond. 11l as the poor woman was, Smethurst himself was the only attendant. A nurse bad been suggested by the landlady, but Smethurst objected, saying that he was too poor ; though at the very time he had a balance of some £2OO at the Bank. On this affectionate quasi -husband, therefore, de volved all the disagreeable duties of the sick-room. The food was mixed and administered by his own hand ; the chamber utensils were placed outside the bedroom door by his own hand. During the day no human being entered that room but Smethurst ; during the night no human being sat by the bedside but Smethurst. The complaint under which the poor woman suffered required, above all things, cleanliness and pure air, and this Smethurst as a medical man must have well known, and yet during the many weeks of illness " the bedroom was never thoroughly cleaned out," though, indeed, the bed was made by the landlady every day. It was surely a strange fancy for a man with more than £2OO at his banker's to insist upon acting the nurse to a sick woman, and performing all the most tender and disgusting offices. It was perhaps stranger still that, of all the varieties of rice, beef tea, blancmange, meal, coffee, and jelly, that en tered that bedroom, not one sorap—except some sour rico—ever came out again. If anything was mixed with the poor woman's food, no human being ever had an oppoatunity of tasting it. Ac cording to Smethurst, indeed, his tender regard for Miss Bankes and his parsimony made him consume all the remnants. Nor is it surprising to find that living upon th's diet, with such fatigue, and under such anxiety, the afflicted husband, as he told the jury in his parting address, should have lost in weight some sixteen pounds. It was on the sth of April that Dr. Julius first saw the poor lady, whom he took for the wife of Smethurst. Having learnt the symptoms of the case from him, he prescribed certain remedies. They gave no relief. They neither stopped the vomiting nor the diarrhoea. From the sth to the 18th he went on trying all sorts of prescriptions, but with out the slightest effect. At length, completely puzzled, he handed over the patient to his partner, Dr. Bird. His remedies equally failed. 'The dis ease relaxed not for a moment. Cases were ran sacked by various witnesses from the annals of medicine, but amidst all the anomalies of disease they searched in vain for a case in which no single symptom was abated a jot. At length Dr. Julius came to the conclusion that some drug was being administered to counteract the effect of the medi cines. Now that drug was, in his opinion, some irritant poison. Dr. Bird, after vainly attempting to stay the disease, came to the same conclusion. And upon comparing notes it was found that both agreed. True, neither Dr. Julius nor Dr. Bird had ever seen the poor lady alone. Smethurst was him self always in the room, and himself explained the symptoms. More medical advice was demanded, and the eminent Dr. Todd, of King's College Hospital, was sent for. He saw the patient, pre scribed for her; still the bad symptoms were un abated. Dr. Todd, therefore, came to the same conclusion with Dr. Julius and Dr. Bird, that some thing was administered to counteract the effect of the ordinary medicines, and that it must be some irritant poison. In short, if those experienced medical men were to be believed, this man alone in that wretched room in Alma-villas was daily and hourly with his own hands adminis tering to the lips of the lonely woman, whose character he had destroyed, scientific doses of that subtle poison which was stealthily sapping her strength and drying up the sources of life and all this under the very eyes of three medical men, one of them at least of the highest reputation. But the end was drawing near. Once only had the sister of poor Isabella Bankes appeared. She came to see her sister about the 19th of April. But even then she was not permitted to do anything for the sick woman —not even to make her some blanc manger or arrow-root. In spite of her desire to come again, she was prevented by Smethurst ; and in fact it was only just before her death, and when she was speechless, that she was again permitted to see her. But the same day on which Smethurst wrote to Miss Bankes to say that her sister was too weak to see her, he called on an attorney for the purpose of getting a will prepared by which Miss Isabella Bankes was to leave him all her property. The poor woman, forsooth, could not see her sister, but she could see a strange attorney. The attorney came on the Sunday morning, and the will by which Smethurst obtained the whole property was exe cuted. It is worthy of remark that in this will Miss Bankes signs in her maiden name, and Smethurst told the attorney he was only living with her for a season. It was just in time, for on Tuesday, the 3d of May, the helpless victim died. In the meantime arsenic had been found in such a way as to prove that it had been deposited in the woman's body, and Smethurst was apprehended. At first he was released on his own recognisances, and, strangely enough, when his nursing care was withdrawn from the patient, the distressing symp toms ceased—her exhausted strength however was not to be revived. But the body was opened, and in it was discovered a certain quantity of antimony. Was it then a mixture of arsenic and antimony which this affectionate husband had been administering in that lonely bedroom in Richmond ? If it was it is difficult to conceive anything more cruelly heartless. Here was a married man inveigling away a weak woman from her sister and her friends going through the mockery of a marriage to quiet her scruples, and analysing the weakness of her con stitution until he discoversthe best means of putting her out of th e wa y— an d, th en , i n th a t so litary f.bed room at Richmond a d m i n i s t er ing day by day .he poisonousdwruhfiset he escaped insueh detection. proportionsdeteetan. T as skou r l o d e, en sureno death doubt the tseo incomelon gas os7ooConsols o Isabellasol s ; butßanke sthen,so was as Mrs. Smethurst lived, there was the danger of an indictment for bigamy, and, as it seemed, the additional danger of the birth of a child. What was to be done ? As Smethurst told the jury, his best plan would have been to have poisoned the old woman, but that was probably difficult and danger ous. Something must be done at once. Isabella Bankes was entirely in his hands. He reasoned with himself thus :—" Let her make a will, leaving me £1,700. Then let her die of poison, which I can administer—doses of arsenic and antimony —in such minute quantities that traces will not be dis covered. In this there is some chance of escape. But if I remain as I am, the sham marriage at Batter sea may be discovered, Isabella Bankes may become a mother, and then I may be indicted for bigamy, and be obliged to fly the country. It is better for me to poison the woman in secret—though if the crime be discovered I must stand the chance of an indictment for murder." The stakes were fearful. Smethurst played boldly and skilfully, but happily his prize is Death. '-i.'- PRICE 4 D . STAMPED, SD. railways in the United Kingdom has averaged £24,243 per mile—viz., £38,779 in England, £27,532 in Scotland, and £15,061 in Ireland—the average cost of lines of railway for which Acts have been obtained since 1848, and which are now opened for traffic, has amounted to £10,500 per mile—viz. £12,600 per mile in England, £B7OO per mile in Scotland, and £6,600 per mile in Ireland. Of the total amount of money raised, £81,683,179 has been raised by loans, £61,854,547 by preference shares, and the remainder—viz., £181,837,781—by ordi nary share capital. The average rate of dividend on the whole of the ordinary share capital in railways invested was 3 . 06 last:year against 3.60 in 1857, and 3.40 in 1856. It has always been 3 and a decimal since 1852; in that year it was 2 . 40; in 1851, 2.44 ; in 1850,1.83; and in 1849, 1.88. The average interest on the pre ference capital and loan was 4.63 last year; it ranged at 4 and a decimal from 1851 to 1858 ; in 1850 it was 5 . 00, and in 1849, 4.94. The percentage of the gross receipts (less working expenses) to the total amount of capital and loan has ranged from 2 . 83 to 4.06. It was 3.75 last year. " It may be assumed," says Captain Galion, " that so long as the propor tion of the net receipts to the capital expended in creases in each year the property is in a sound con dition." Last year, however, the net recipts unfor- tunately exhibited a decrease. The proportion of passenger traffic to the whole traffic was 43 per cent. in England, 36 in Scotland, and 57 in Ireland. 139,193,699 persons were con veyed by railway last year, against 139,008,888 in 1857. The receipts from passengers amounted to £ 1 0,376,309, against £10,592,798 in 1857. The re ceipts from goods, cattle, minerals, parcels, &c., in 1858 amounted to £13,580,440, against £13,581,812 in 1857, which represents £1,458 per mile in 1858, compared with £1,524 per mile in 1857. The total receipts from goods, cattle, minerals, parcels, &c., may be divided as follows, viz.: —£7,711,350 was for the conveyance of 25,593,996 tons of mer chandise, £4,046,061 was for the conveyance of 48,396,501 tons of minerals, £501,398 for the con veyance of 11,206,110 heads of live stock, and £1,321,631 for the conveyance of parcels, &c. Al though there has been on the whole an increase in the receipts for goods, minerals, live stock, &c., in 1858 over 1857, the stagnation in trade caused by the panic had a perceptible effect upon the receipts of the year ended the 31st of December, 1858; in this year there was a diminution of £70,393 in the receipts on account of general merchandise as com pared with the receipts of the year ended the 31st of December, 1857 ; this occurred entirely in Eng land and Scotland. The traffic in live stock also showed a decrease of £22.350 in England and £1,097 in Scotland, which was reduced in the general total to £15,960 by an increase of £7,487 in Ireland. The total receipts from all sources of traffic have amounted in England and Wales to £20,244,095, or £2,939 per mile in 1858 against £20,527,748, or £3,105 per mile in 1857; in Scotland to £2,536,933, or £1,949 per mile in 1858, against £2,501,478, or £2,040 per mile in 1857 ; and in Ireland to £1,175,721, or £1,041 per mile in 1858 against £1,145,384, or £1,076 per mile in 1857. The aggre gate receipts from all sources of traffic for the whole kingdom having been £23,956,749, or £2,572 per mile in £lB5B, against £24,176,610, or £2,715 per mile in 1857. Of the 140,000,000 passengers (in round numbers) conveyed last year 18,302,384 were first class, 41,693,289 second class. 79,145,464 third class and Parliamentary, and 52,562 holders of an nual or season tickets. The other " live stock" in cluded 2,323,305 head of cattle, 6,938,160 sheep, and 2,048,619 pigs. The general results of the traffic in 1858 exhi bited by these figures are undoubtedly unsatisfac tory, inasmuch as, while the length of railway in the united kingdom has increased by above 400 miles, the receipts were actually less in 1858 than in 1857 by £217,861, and the working expenses ave raged 49 per cent. of the receipts, instead of 47 per cent., as was the case in 1857. On some of the principal railway companies, however, the traffic has materially improved. We have already dealt with " accidents." From the tables it appears that one passenger in 5,353,603 has been killed, and one in 332,204 been injured from causes beyond their own control during the year 1858. The proportion of killed and injured from similar causes to the number who travelled was one in 312,794. A select committee of the house sat last year upon the subject of railway accidents, and after a careful consideration of the question they were of opinion that the responsibility of the management should be left with the railway companies, and that interference by the Government is, as a gene ral rule, not desirable. As a contrast to the system of leaving the responsibility of management on the companies, Capt. Galton has appended a transla tion of the regulations imposed on the companies by the Government, drawn up by a commission of inquiry inta the safety of railway travelling in France, from which it will be seen how close the interference by the Government in railway manage ment is in that country. " A careful study of these regulations appears to show that interference in the details of railway management is scarcely pos sible, unless the interference be carried throughout the whole system." " There can be no doubt," adds the captain, "that the true interests of railway companies are nearly identical with those of the public, both in respect of safety and convenience in railway tra velling, and it is to be hoped that each year the rail way companies will be led more and more to understand this, and, that while doing their utmost to accommodate the public, they will increase their dividends by improved management, and avoid that reckless competition by which so large an amount of money has hitherto been annually 'wasted." ,667 I / 5,823 71E TRIAL OF DR. SMETIIURST. (From the Daily Hews. Another cause celebre has be ) en concluded. Thomas Smethurst, the surgeon of Richmond, has, after a trial of five days, been condemned to death. Like the infamous Palmer, the prisoner was of the medical profession, and like Palmer, too, the crime with which h e was charged was secret poisoning. It was difficult to imagine a case more atrocious than the murder of Cook, but it seems that the crime of Smethurst is even more daring and more heartless. Even now that the jury have pro nounced their verdict, it is difficult to believe that any human being should be guilty of the charge; although, after reading the evidence, it is well nigh impossible to doubt that the verdict is tho roughly justified by the facts. The story is full of mystery. This man was not only a man of education, but he had retired from his profession, and was living with his wife in fur nisheid lodgings. His wife was certainly an old woman, above 70, he having married her some 30 years ago; but, as he himself told the jury after the judge had assumed the black cap, " he had taken her an excursion to Paris and Heidelberg last year, had behaved to her with the utmost kindness, and had brought her back safe to Eng land." And it must be admitted, that no single word or act of unkindness appears ever to have escaped from him. No account was given of his previous life, except that he had kept a water-cure establishment in the neighbourhood of Farnham. It is singular that a man of independ ent means and of respectable connexions should have been left alone in his difficulties. Not a sin gle friend came to support him in the dock, or even to vouch for his former respectability. Sometimes the appearance and manner of a man furnish indications of his character. The murderer shows it in his face. The innocent man accused falsely has a calm dignity, which inspires respect. Smethurst displayed neither of these characteris tics. A short, rather thickset man, with brown hair, and somewhat bald, his expression betrayed none of those repulsive features which sometimes mark great criminals. In fact, even the sister of the poor murdered woman described him as a " kind and tender nurse, and with a countenance showing amiability." It is true that in addressing the court his voice somewhat trembled, but at the awful mo ment after the verdict; of " guilty" had been pro nounced, and the judge had assumed the black cap the man spoke with an audacious se lf- possession and a deliberate fluency of falsehood which con year, Mr. and M rs. f o u rr n o d w e a d r those h w e h c o l o h s e e a r o d f h l i a m s t . Smethurst went to reside at the house of a Miss t Srn o i t l h a , d e t s A a i y i s s L water. oui s aAt and this same house lived w Miss Isabella Bankes. Their connexions were respectable, and their pecu niary means, am oun ti ng to something above £2OO a year each, rendered theta Neither of th e sisters wass young quit e ; n Missd e p l e s n a d b e e n l l t a . had reached the age of 43, and did not enj o y the best health. Although she was somewhat beyond the age of passion, for Dr. Smethurst, , she se ems t o h ave conce i ve d a and in fact their conduct so scandalised Mi ss Smith that she insisted upon their leaving the house. It is not quite clear whether Mi ss Bankes knew that Smethurst was a married man, though having lived in the same house with hi m an d hi s wife, it is difficult to understand her ignorance of the fact. The pro bability is that Smethurst had persuaded Miss FATAL ATTACK OF APOPLEXY AT A TABLE D'HoTE.—An English gentleman of advanced age, named Sanford, was suddenly seized on Friday last, whilst at the table d'hote at Meurice's, with an attack of paralysis and apoplexy. He was previously in good health, and was en gaged in a cheerful conversation with an American gentle man, when he dropped his knife and fork, and fell on the table in a state of insensibility. Dr. Shute, of the Rue Castiglione, was immediately sent for; and afterwards Dr. Forbes Winslow, of London, a physician of well-known re putation for the treatment of diseases of the brain, who happened to be in Paris, was summoned to a consultation. Dr. -Window considered the case to be a hopeless one, and Mr. Sandford died early on Sunday morning, neverhavins• rallied. Unfortunately he had no relations or friends u with him at th e h o t el, as he was travelling alone with a courier. Several telegTares were immediat e ly hours s ent to England his family did not arriv e i n Paris until some death.—Galignani's Messenger. ELECTION EXPENSES. —Yesrday the election ° the auditor for Esse x ma d e hi s re t u rn of t af after, r bhui expenses incurred his candidates, Messrs. Bram • £243 ; professional 504 . , ph Riqr eso by the successful Conservative southern division of that n ecohu candidate items, 1 The auditors ston and Watlington, for appears that every vote polled ecl the good round sum of £4,374 bursements having county. The hon. gentlemen reached sheriff's charges amounted to 2s. 10d. Of this sum agents' e cent nearly the expense, x e p a e e n h e , e i the d d i s i ! superintendents, inspectors, tee e s an an v d as d se is r b s, ur e s o e m m n e l n it t t s e , e f l, checkoG l ; and assistant clerks,.a messengers, £1,041; printing, and advertising, --.-- , hire of carriages, &c., for conveying committee rooms, £267; and miscella voters, - I e auditors charges and "reasonable the total disbursements to £4,433 188 Bd. expenses "raised and Mr. G. Ward Hunt were let off much Lord Burghley easily in Northamptonshire, their total expenses being more £2,652 14s. 9d. The conveyance of voters in this case cost messengers, &c., 1745 each; printing, ea £7B each; sheriff's expenses, £l3l each; and ex, penses of committee-rooms, £34 each. EAST INDIA (UNCOVENANTED SERVANTS.)--• The following is a re t urn o f the number of native -an ropean uncovenanted servan t s, respective)y, in a d Eu- ,e service of the Indian G overnment who are in the receipt of 250 rupees per month, and upwards, according to re/ ,urns made up to the Ist of May, 1858:—viz., natives, 339 , and Euro peans (includi ng A ng l o -I n di ans), 849, makii ,g a total of 1,188, RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday, at the Euston Station, for the trans action of general business. The chair was taken by the Marquis of Chandos. The SECRETARY having read the advertisement convening the meeting, the report, given in this journal a few days since, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN then said—l presume the pro prietors, following the course usually , adopted, since the report has been circulated with the ac counts, will take the report as read. I have, then, very few words to offer before submitting it for your adoption. The proprietors will perceive, from the statement in the report, that the increase in the receipts is attributable in a great degree to additional traffic, and still at the low rates, and not, as I certainly expected last Christmas would have have been the case, from, to a great extent, an alteration of the rates 'which had been disturbed by the competition; and that is explained by the cir cumstance that during the competition many special bargains and other arrangements had been made by other companies, which prevented the small rise in the rates, which it had been agreed on all hands was a proper rise to be made, taking effect until those special bargains had dropped. The result has been that for a large portion of the last half year we have still been carrying on the traffic to a very considerable amount at the reduced rates which were forced upon us during the competition. Taking an instance, I may mention a very large amount of traffic between London and Manchester where the rates agreed on by all parties was 385., but where, until the latter portion of last year, we were unable to obtain more than 30s. And with regard to passenger traffic also, to a con siderable extent, the same remark applies. The low rates at Manchester induced, as a consequence, the reduction of the rate to many of the towns in the neighbourhood, and the large number of excursion trains run to those places have had the effect of preventing the traffic being car r i e d on at the full rates which it was intended to charge, and whioh I am glad to be able to say will be adopted within a short period—rates which will conduce to the interests of the proprietors, and which the public can afford to pay, and will, I think, be glad to pay for good service. You will see from the report that the measures presented to Parliament for authoris ing arrangements between the Great Northern Rail way Company, the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin colnshire Company, and this company, after having been approved by the House of Commons, and the principles of those arrangements held not objection able by the committee of the House of Lords, were still rejected by that house. The result of that rejection will be to prevent the completion of the arrangements between the respective companies, until further powers shall be obtained from Parlia ment; but, as we have stated in the report, and as I am glad to be able to repeat, the Great Northern, and the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Companies and ourselves are in perfect accord with regard to the mode in which, pending further ap plications to Parlianent, the traffic of the lines shall be conducted and the business of the companies carried on. Ido not know that there is anything in the accounts to which it is necessary I should call your attention now, before the proprietors have had an opportunity of putting those questions which I have no doubt they will put en any points which may require explanation. Therefore, merely ' calling attention to the fact that this is the first meeting of this company which has been held with out the presence of one of the earliest promoters of railways, Mr. Henry Booth, and asking you to join the directors in an expression of their appreciation of the services he has rendered to the interests of the railway world at large, but particularly to the interests of this company, I will mov e the formal adoption of the report. (Cheers.) Mr. PUNCHER, M.P., thought their miserable dividend was attributable not to excursion trains or bad management, but to thriftiness. He believed, however, that though the directors were careful, those employed by them were not so, for he knew an instance where £20,000 was expended without any cause whatever. Their stations were kept in a very expensive manner, and too much money was spent in pulling down and building up without any cause whatever. They were losing XI,OOO a week between London and Rugby in consequence of the carelessness of their officers and servants. He in tended to move that a committee of seven, three to be a quorum, be appointed to examine the accounts of the company, and to compare them with the printed accounts circulated among the proprietors, REPORT ON RAILWAYS. The report of Captain D. Calton, Royal Engi neers, on the proceedings of the Board of Trade relating to railways for the year 1858, has been published as a blue-book. It adduces the following facts :—ln the session of 1858, 113 railway bills came before Parliament, and the length of new line proposed by these bills was 698. But only 73 of the bills were passed, and 328 miles of new line only authorised. In 1857 82 acts were passed, authoris ing 663 miles of new line ; in 1856, 59 ; and in 1855, 73. The amount of money authorised to be raised last . year for new lines and new works was £6,834,705, against £10,336,413 in 1857, £5,784,426 in 1856, £9,192,038 in 1855, £9,211,602 in 1854, £15,517,601 in 1853, £4,333,834 in 1852, £9,553,275 in 1851, and £4,115,632 in 1850. The gross total sum authorized to be raised in the 13 years from 1846 to 1858 (both inclusive) amounted to £265,142,590. In 1846 alone, the period of the great railway mania, £132,617368 was authorized to be raised for the construction of 4,538 miles of railway. The total amount of money authorized to be raised by railway companies by shares and on loan to the end of 1858 was £392,682,755, of which £325,375,507 had been raised, leaving £67,307,248 to be raised. There are no means of ascertaining how much of this sum appertains to the portions of railway for which the Parliamentary powers have expired. 15,659 miles constituted the total length of line authorized down to the end of 1858; but 1,610 miles have been abandoned ; 9,506 miles of line were open at the end of last year, and 4,543 miles (duly authorized) remained to be opened. 6,976 miles were open on the 31st of December last in England, 1,342 in Scotland, and 1,188 in Ireland. The narrow guage is quite in the ascendant, seeing that, of the 9,542 miles of line open, 6,352 miles were narrow guage, 749 only broad guage, 261 mixed guage, and 1,180 " Irish" guage. Of single lines, there were 2,088 miles of narrow, 255 of broad, 52 of mixed, and 753 of " Irish" guage. Of 426 miles of new line opened in 1858, 372 were laid with only one line of rails. 880 miles of new line were reported to be in courso of construction on the 30th of June, 1858, and of these 219 miles were opened before the last day of the year. 38,546 per sons, an average of 43.79 per mile, were employed on the 30th of June, 1858, upon the lines in course of construction. The length of line open for traffic in the United Kingdom on the 30th of June, 1858, was 9,323 miles, and the number of persons em ployed thereon amounted to 109,329 persons or 11.72 per mile. £325,375,507 was the total amount raised for railways on the 31st of December, 1858, represent ing an expenditure of £34,243 per mile of railway open. It is assumed that on au average 6 per cent. of that expenditure has been for Parliamentary and legal expenses, 18 for land and compensation, 66 for works, and 10 for rolling stock. It is worthy of notice that, although the cost of THE QUEEN'S HOTEL, Queenstown,—Mr, ROBERT WILSON respectfully apprises tourists and families visiting this delightful watering-place, the air of which is famed throughout Eurone, that the splendid esta blishment so well known as the "14ueen's Hotel " has come under his management. This hotel is one of the finest in the United Kingdom; and besides being furnished with all the luxuries and appliances of a Yirst-class Ifotel, it combines all the advantages of a beautiful situation, commanding charm. ing views, the best attendance, ample accommodation either for families or single visitors, ChM Continuity tp the steam boat pier, and the finest promenades of Queenstown, and a scale of prices so moderate as to enable its visitors to enjoy all the advantages of 4 first-class hotel on the same terms they would have to pay in a minor ortp. FIVITI its open and healthful situation the Queen's Hotel is also pecpitarly Rat able for invalids. METROPOLITAN, COUNTIES, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 27, Regent-street, Waterloo-place, London, S.W. Life Assurance, Annuities, and Endowments. Loans on real and personal security. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager. HOUSEHOLD WORDS. EXCELLENT CONGOU TEA, of the EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY, in their celebrated 61b. Bags, is a thing now as familiar as " Household Words." Every family should obtain it " Once a Week" " All the Year Round."—Warehouses, 9, Great St. Helen's Churchyard, Bis hop sgate. SPURTING INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER—FRIDAY. ST. LEGER. Even on Promised Land (offered) 8 to 1 offered agst any other DERBY. 10 to 1 agst Buccaneer (taken) 100 to 8 agst Wizard (taken) 100 to 8 agst Nutbourne (taken) 20 to 1 agst Umpire (taken) 20 to I:agst Cramond (taken): YORK AUGUST MEETING. FRIDAY. The Rawcliffe Stakes of 10 soya each, with 100 added, for two-year-olds; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. Al lowances and penalties. T.Y.C. 23 subs. Count Batthyany's Rose Middleton, by Connaught Ranger, Bst 41b (Wells) 1 Col. Townley's Sparro w H aw k, B s t 41b (G Oates) 2 Mr. Bowes's Richberta, Bst 41b (Aldcroft) 3 The following also ran :—Rattlebone, The Gem, Sutton, Seaton, Bonny Bess, and Brother to tho Flying Cloud. Betting-5 to 2 agst Sparrow Hawk, 4to 1 agst Rose Middleton, 5 to 1 agst Rattlebone, 6 to 1 agst The Gene, Rose Middleton laid in front throughout, and won cleverly by half a length ; same distance between second and third ; two lengths between the third and fourth. The Gem was fifth ; Sutton, Seaton, and Bonny Bess finished nearly abreast next ; Brother to The Flying Cloud was last. The Consolation Scramble of 50 sovs, added to a handicap sweepstakes of 5 sovs each. T.Y.C. Capt. Christie's Miss Julia, by Melbourne, 5 yrs, Bst 21b (Fordham) 1 Lord Glasgow's Senorita filly, 3 yrs, Est 41b .. (Bray) 2 Mr Copperthwaite's Lady Kingston, 3 yrs, Bst 31b (French) 3 The following also ran :—Birdcage, Hesperithusa, Cox wold, Mrs. Stowe, Benbow, Viga, Layton, Maid of the Mist, Punch, and General Havelock. Betting-5 to 1 agst Lady Kingston, sto 1 agst Vigo, 5 to 1 (at first 5 to 2) agst the Senorita filly, 7 to 1 each agst Miss Julia and Birdcage. Miss Julia made all the running with Lord Glasgow's filly second, and won by two lengths; same distance be tweeen the second and third ; a length between the third and four Tr; Maid of the Mist was fifth ; Coxwold and Layton were next. Soon after Starting Vigo stumbled, unseated L. Snowden, and galloped past the winning post in front of Miss Julia. Snowden was unhurt. The Tyro Stakes of 5 sovs each, for two-year olds. Op tional selling weights, &c. T.Y.C. Mr. Scaife's Simplicity (£3O), 7st 101 b.... (Goodwin) w. o. The Great Yorkshire Stakes of 10 sovs each, with 100 added ; for three-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 21b. Certain penalties. One mile and three-quarters. 82 subs. Mr. C. Peck's Napoleon, by Voltigour, Bst 71b (Bumby) 1 Sir C. Monck's Gamester, Bst 71b (Aldcroft) 2 Mr. Gibbon's Eskdale, Bst 71b The following also ran :—Valentine, Layton, The Slave, Cynricus, Red Eagle, and Aristodemus. Betting-5 to 4 agst Gamester, 7to 2 agst Eskdale, sto 1 agst Napoleon, 8 to 1 agst Cynricus. Eskdale made the running, with Tho Slave second, for the first mile, when the latter gave way, and Gamester took the second place. Below the distance Napoleon joined the leading two, and the trio came on neck and neck together. A magnificent race from the half distance, with Napoleon and Gamester, resulted in favour of the former by a head; Eskdale was beaten by a head only from the favourite. Nothing near the three. The Gimcrack Stakes of 10 sows each, with 100 added, for two-yr-olds ; winners extra; the second to receive 25 sovs out of the stakes. One mile. 33 subs, Mr. Merry's Thormanby, Bst 71b Lord Zetland's Vanquisher, Bst 101 b (inc. 31b extra) (J. Osborne) 2 Lord Annesley's Sweetsauce, Bst 71b The following also ran :—lnterest, Emily, Merrimac, and Slingsby. Betting-6 to 4on Thormanby, 4to 1 agst Vanquisher, 7 to 1 agst Sweetsauce. Interest was first oil; but was soon passed by Thor manby and Slingsby, the latter taking close order with the favourite ; after going a short distance and racing with him to the turn for hone, where he was beaten, and Vanquisher took the second place. The favourite main tained his advantage to the end, and won easily by a length ; Sweetsauce, who came with a rush at the finish, was beaten a head only for second place ; two lengths off interest was fourth ; Emily was a bad fifth ; the other two beaten off. The Sixth Aske Produce Stakes of 50 sovs each, h ft, for two-year-olds. T.Y.C. 4 subs. Colonel Townley's Sparrowhawk, by the Flying Dutch man, Bst 41b (G. Oates) 1 Sir C. Monck's Polyanthus, 3st 41b (L. Snowden) 2 Betting-2 to lon Sparrowhawk, who made all the run ning, and won easily by a length. The Nursery Handicap Plate of 100 sovs. T.Y.C. Mr. Gordon nas Harebell, by Annandale, 7st 91b (Withington) 1 Mr. H. S. Thompson's Eidolon, Est 111b....(Grimshaw) 2 Mr. Gray's First Lord, 7st 51b (Fordham) 3 The following also ran :—Slingsby, Rescue, Springwell, The Crim Tartar, The Flying Dutchman, Mendicus, Lucknow, Walkington, Argyle, Teal, The Moulvie, and f by West Australian. 5 to 1 agst First Lo ß rd e , tt 7 in t g o - 1 5 ag to st 2 m ag oui st v M ie, is l s o A to gn l e ea s fi ch lly a , agst Harebell and Eidolon. Won in a canter by two lengths ; bad third. The Colt Sapling Stakes of 50 sovs each, 30 ft, for two year-olds, Bst 71b. T.Y.C. 8 subs. 1 Lord Zetland's Bivouac, by Voltigeur 2 Mr. Merry's Brother to Rainbow Betting-5 to 4on Bivouac, who won a good race by a head. The Members' Plate of 50 sovs, for three-year-olds and upwards. Optional selling weights, &c. One mile and a-half. 9 subs. Mr. Jackson's Caliph, by lon, aged (X3O) Mr. Taylor's Rough:Bob, 4 yrs (£3O) Mr. J. Osborne's Vatty, 3 yrs (X3O) 3 Five ran. Won by two lengths ; bad third. The winner was sold for 40 guineas. LATEST BETTING. ST, LEGER. sto 4 on The Promised Land (laid freely) 7to 1 agst Summerside (off) 25 to 1 agst Napoleon (taken) DERBY. 10 to 1 agst Buccaneer (taken) 14 to 1 agst Nutbourne (taken) 14 to 1 agst Wizard (taken) 14 to 1 agst Mainstone (taken) 100 to 6 agst Thormanby (20 to 1 taken freely) 20 to 1 agst Umpire (taken) 5000 to 150 agst Lanchester (taken) 1000 to 30 agst Rap (taken) 1000 to 20 agst &assay (taken) 1000 to 20 agst The Drone (taken) 6000 to 75 agst Contadina (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Brother to Schiedam (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Upperhand (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Sampson (taken) STATE OF TRADE. —MANCHESTER, Aug.l9.—The market is quiet, but with a rather better feeling than on Tuesday, and some business has been done for China and India. A telegram from Bombay brings rather better accounts, but most of the buyers seem disposed to await the arrival of their letters. For Germany and the continent there is not much business. Fine and double yarns are firm. The lower and middle counts have undergone no change. The majority of spinners being well under con tract manifest no great desire to press sales. The middle counts of yarns are rather easier in price. The supply of printing cloths still falls below the demand, and prices are very firm . Longcloths and T- c l o th e are stea d y in price, with only a moderate inquiry, I I l_ y _ t~