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NPR to 04 to 4 414 to -- -6 Lr, 43 ) 9'ril ril )ril nil 14' ion ° , ainc 3 „ l ls ' i tratev astra' )rld to Pcat ° x ipt j 40 ail°. on-oneisugP- wif6 ood, of near to Saillt John 0 , the AdYe , tig e Ellen 1110 01, Nay'', N. 11. ,eVESI far (111. _-!' )I,IS, ). 112, TRR ITALIAN IRRIGATION CANAL comrANy. socate Aronyme with Limited Liability And ,i3nares to Bearer. Share capital 25,000,000 f. (t 1,000,000). DiviciA into 50,000 shares of 500 f, (120) each. tieor w it on ar , lication £1 per share, and .t 1 on allotment. Tile Italian Government guarantees a minimum interest of six per cent. on the capital, and also a sinking fund to provide fos its redemption. DIREtTORS IN ITALY. The Msrquis de Cavan', Member of tbe Chttniber of Depu tie3. The Count Oldofredi, Senator (formerly Governor of Bologna). Farina, Regent of the Bank of Milan. " 0 - Vincenzi (formerly Minister of Public Works at Naples). 11 . G. De Fernex, Banker, Turin Laurent, Banker, Parma. DIRECTORS IN ENGLAND. G. G. Macpherson, Esq. Chairman of the Agra and United Service Bank. Lestock R. Reid, Esq., Director of the Oriental. Bank Cor poration. James Dickson, Esq. (Lennox, Nephew, and Co.), 16, Old Broad-street. Lieut.-Colonel W. Campbell Onslow, Director of the Madras Irrigation and Canal Company. Wm. Walter Cargill,-Esq., Director of the Eastern Bengal Railway Company. C. G. Manse', Esq., Director of the Agra and United Ser vice Bank. P. D. Hadow, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. F. Surtees, Esq., Chalcott House, Kingston, Surrey. J. P. Brown West head, Esq., M . P,, Deputy-Ch a i rman o f the London and N or th-Western Railway Company. BANKERS IN LONDON—Messrs. Masterton, Peters, and Co., 35, Nicholas-lane. BANKERS IN ITALY—Messrs. Charles De Fersex and Co., Turin. S OLICITORS—Messrs. Rixon and Son, 38, Cannon-street. Bi toxEns—Messrs. Foster and Braithwaite, 68, Old Broad-street. JOINT ENGINEERS. Monsr. Chas. Nod, Turin. J. Abernethy, Esq., M.1.C.E., London. Temporary Offices, 16, Gresham-house, Old Broad-street. SECRETARY, pro tem.—Leicester Bayly, c OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY.—The object of this ,„" 1 1 3 any is to carry into effect the valuable and highly re il"...unerative concession which has beed granted by the Ita • pa Government for the construction of Irrigation Works 14 northern Italy. So b.., great has been the reputation and success of works of -- 0 - it.gation in Italy, that they have been regarded as models 0 'LIMO° construction by the engineers appointed by tho Diana of India to devise and execute the extensive for the irrigation of that country. From the earliest ages the artificial irrigation of land in rra climates has furnished one of the most safe and ableprofit vestmentsin of capital. In India the application of this rem has yielded a revenue of from 30 to 100 per cent. on e cost of construction ; in the royal domains of Aranjuez, dPain, it has increased the produce of the soil ten - fold; ,ILa it has given to the plains of Lombardy their proverbial retown for exhaustless fertility. The district assigned to the operations of this Company "zprehends some of the richest portions of the famous tain, extending from the foot of the Alps to the frontiers of nabardy, and justly celebrated as the garden of Europe. !,,- 1 1c Company will immediately proceed to construct the ''''eat Irrigation Canal of Northern Italy, in conformity vith the designs of the celebrated engineer Chevalier Noe, mho enjoys the highest reputation in Europe for hydraulic INorks, and whose plans have, after careful examination, ?eon approved of by Mr. Abernethy and accepted by the Italia n Government. The Main Canal, 52 miles long. 80 feet wide, and 20 feet deep, will commence at Chiavasso, ten miles north of Turin, IL:8 through the rich districts of the Vercellais and the recline, and terminate at the river Ticino, near Novara. ' will derive an inexhaustible supply of water from the '"N'er Po, which has been called the Nile of Italy, on ac f4tult of th e rich alluvial matter brought down by its cur - :Cut at will irrigate more than 300,000 acres, and it is esti ated that the rental of the proprietors will thereby be in 'teased by £840,000 per annum. ..ku order to obtain the great advantage of uniting under 4 4 e Management all the irrigation works of the district, an th rt augement has been concluded with the Government for th e cession of the existing canals of the Dora Baltea and • Sesia, which will thus become tributary to the Grand Made of the Po. The payment for these canals will be - gaele at deferred dates, and the amount is included in the A• ranteed capital. 11'LIARANTEES OF THE ITALIAN GOVERN ENT.—Thete., Government guarantees a minimum interest :ix . , per cent. per annum on the entire capital to be ex ira_.`ied in the purchase or construction of the canals ! the • u'amar7 expenses, and the management and mainte ce of the works of the Company, thus making its shares , v a ete and advantageous investment, independently of the oge profits which may be anticipated from such important ri cs . of t r„he Italian Government also guarantees the repayment ... 40 13 capital through the operation of a sinking fund. The ',2piption of the shares will take place annually by lot, wOA this great advantage to the shareholders, that, after ing received back their capital in fall, they will remain participators in all profits exceeding 6 per cent. during the Letnaining term of the concession. The provisional concession was signed by the Ministers ( A Agriculture and Commerce, and of Finance, on the 15th ultimo, and the Government has engaged to procure for this ~ ‘ 4 Thapany all the necessary powers which require the con- Sent of the Legislature. .....EXPENDITURE. —The cost of the works will be de inra_Yed by the share capital of the Company, and by bonds ed under the authority of the Government, with interest "ar• anteed. Every bond will be stamped by the Govern ! and the interest of 6 per cent, will be paid at the Vona' Treasury. rovisiona 1 contracts have been made with the sanction ti 7);, of of the Italian Government for the execu vr,;' of all the works by experienced contractors, who are fired to deposit ample caution money for the fulfilment their engagements. PR OFITS.—The di b rectors desire to avoid holding out 7g:erated estimates of the large profits to be derived from ii tf e ir irrigation works, in addition to the guaranteed interest • Per cent. ; but the official returns in their possession, 1. 1 . 11 have been prepared with the most:scrupulous accu 1-f., and which may be seen at the offices of the Company, ;ifY, them in an ticipating profits fully equal to those ~ u'; have been obtained under the most favourable cir ca-rBtances in Italy and other countries. In making these to_there culations i can be no better guide than what has j o place n our own Eastern Empire, as exhibited in t he Ov ing statement: .„ ti o :tMNA CANALS, NORTH-WESTERN PROVINCES. — 'erriment returns show that the value of the crops saved e u "2 1 „ 8 year by the water supplied by these canals, whose of is 445 miles, was L 1,462,800. In 1853 the Court 1. - "ireeters sanctioned an expenditure of £15,276 on the I ,7"tera Jumna Canal, which in one year yielded a clear c h ... °4 t to the government of £9,759, besides enormously in curjug the value of the crops, and thus benefitting the ,'Lvaters to a far larger amount. ORTH-WEsTERN PROVINCES.—In these provinces vnl'Tenditure of £557,000 was found sufficient to construct 01,`,. 4 s irrigating 1,300,000 acres, and thus obtain a produce of annual value of £2,500,000, supporting a population 0000 souls. lias-iItEAT G ANGES CA NAL, NORTH-WESTERN PRO kol,,-,g.—Colonel Baird Smith, the director of this canal, At course of construction, estimates that it will be com or"'',,_ for £2,000.000, and that it will raise the annual value '"e crops it will irrigate to £7,000,000, and the gain to ',cultivators will exceed £3,000,000 per annum." etiqatract from Report by Lieut.-Colonel C. B. Young, 2i t f ejating chief engineer, Lower Provinces of Bengal, dated Z',lvlay, 1858 : ta le ' , hatever the results of different calculations may be, ,°. can be no question i I believe, that canals as irrigaon k;' ,l are remunerative n India, whether the profits be 50 C' eclat. and upwards, as Col. Cotton rates them, or, accor- u , k h ito the more moderate estimates of Lieut.-Colonel Baird about 24 per cent., or, according to the experience t ce 4 4 ° canals in the North-West Provinces, 12 to 16 p er th . .s it is equally the result in all cases ; I believe that koY repay richly to both Government and to the people the It e'S' expd on them." to nether 6 pe recent. interest on the shares allotted in England, e" , er with all dividends out of profits, will be paid half ""•37, at 25 francs exchange, by the Company's bankers in n. bEla works which the Company has undertaken have t t ir,, is urgently demanded by the whole p o p ulation. The . 2 0 "ertakingreceived with the greatest favour in Italy ,000 s h ares are rese rved for that country, leaving 30, 000 fi t' allotment in England. Applications in the annexed form may be made to the Stokers Directors at the Company's offices, or to the 4, rokers of the Company in London. A copy of the concess i on m ay be seen at the diem of the `'ompany. London, April 4, 1862. TORE OF APPLICATION FOR SRARVEI. ° the London Directors of the Italian Irrigation Canal Company. entlemen,—Having paid to your bankers the sum of 411 4 , I hereby requ est that y ou will allot me es of £2O each in the Italian Irri g ation Canal Company, l am ber her e by agree to accept the sa id shares, or any smaller that may be allotted to me, upon the terms of the tayl t e, 8 ) to be approved by the Ital ian Government, and to kl et " further deposit of £ 1 per sh are u p on the shares kp h , s .vti to me at such time and in su ch manner as you may I am, Gentlemen, Name in full • Address in full Date 11 --'----. . %it Published, containing 190 Pages, with 100 Engravings, free by post,l2 S tamps, sealed 20 stamps, ' 1 .,.. SILENT FRIEND, the Greatest Medical 1 4,, vNork of the .it , e or Youthful Indiscretion Anatomy s Z l -At' / ta F ' Br is,,cre describing the of t t Pediments o anhß e productive System In health and disease, and pointing 4 2 t„e sure means of perfect restoration to manhood wi-th gitipt77 on Single and Married Life, containi n fugg Pre b,, known as the Preventive Lotion, and g the -,.‘ ;0 'l- „dity of contamination. Address K. and L. PERRY and Ni 4 u , 11. rners-street, Oxford-street, W. Attendanpeurcrieoly, 4, 1 . 0 !0 till 8 ; Sundays, 11 till 2, by a Consulting ~. ~ .n, 4 44 e r of the Royal College of Surgeons of EnglanatKegls ader the New Medical Act). ___.----- A _______ 1 harmony FACULTIES OF THE BODY, in ~°Dei arfliony with those of THE MIND, approach dev.e)- itlefii i nlaturity, the rising h 4 being, surrounded 1 y - 'tor l , B circumstances— "' i n t ry, some pernicious— oc,s4.kQ,s!usceptible of imp sn r in es e sio s n a s u w a hich according to the I„,',ked of rRUDENCE and KNO I TLEDGE With which he is en -al , may be the sources of happiness or of unspeakable ery . 4 % zi e of the most deadly and terrible of the influences last ta 21 to originateattliat period when parents fondly hope r 41 s' lle ob'ect ma of their love are being prepared to fight 'll:lcLtabet,caittespgreiatd.battle of life —namely, the scholastic 11 48 - e'oll Habits are then contracted, in. k (0 1111 (c'ung ignorance -er of their effects. which, if irt ar 7 ~ , pt e l , _ tend to sink the VICTIMS or E is a 4 fl ava d t ee e cf e r 11,1sieqtotht• degradation and woe. The evil s_ ,.. l : ,7 l , profession y , di t Sr too generally evinced by the mecum :I:Beeab:ty 7 the nature NI thecavteedry, existence of the l k „ I leral alt dug from the cause ndi and to which the wtl t, and inadequate designation of "Nervous Disorders has been given. One of the consoesrednecliecsaotef Z l4 ~I leg lect i that the treatment of the in .) - 4 4 8 „ ° t disease s ' which afflict society has been taken „Dr y - uqualified and uneducated persons. '' e -L 'A'ATERT 31 D Licentiate of the , . ~ ttlt - Pothe car i &c., 37, Bedford-square, Lon don, is Boya Society D AND It tt/m ° ILY PR e A B f , TITICNER REGULARLY qUALlrtron for 20 ~Nfr t . nt tt o who' has devoted his exclusive atten t'llat - til - the cure of these affections, which war with the very NCi WI. AL „ICo r , 9 Of human HAPPINESS, HEALTH. and FU successful pr ~_tee , ~_ The result of his experience and ac ; „: R 14,7 3 ' ue pe se i with adtane in his Treatise, price is.%_. -- TtvA , rto r ;„, l,, ' id by Mann,3o Cornhill, London, pr"v Altvrt tree for' 13,501 d by Mann, 30, Cornhlll LondoP, price h CCC for 13, or with sealed ends for 20 stamps. 4 ) t 4 1 ! l e for consultativn, daily, from 11 till 2, and 6 till 8 -dssquare. N°. 21,769. METROPOLITAN RAILWAY CARRIAGE and WAGON COMPA.NY.(Limited). Completely registered for the letting of carriages and wagons to rail way companies, mineral owners, merchants, and others. Capital £lOO,OOO, in 13,000 shares of £lO each. With power of increase ; deposit V. per share on application, and V. 10s. on allotment. No further calls for three months, and no call to exceed 3s. per share. DIRECTORS. James IL Atkins, Esq., Stoke Newington-green, N. Henry Elwell, Esq., Handsworth, Deputy-Lieutenant, Staffordshire. The Hon. C. E. Hobart, Wimbledon, S.W. Henry Haymen, Esq., Director of the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway Company. James Mitchell, Esq., Director of the Calcutta and South- Eastern Railway. James Oughterson, Esq., Bentinck-street, Manchester square, and Madras, Bankers—Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., Lombard-street. Brokers—London—Wm. R. Hartridge, Esq., 80, Old Broad-street; Birmingham—John Smith, Esq., 28 Bennett's-hill. Auditors—Messrs. Deloitte and Greenwood, Public Accountants. Solicitors—Messrs. Swift, Wagstaff, and Blenkinsop, Great George-street, Westminster.' Secretary—Mr. Richard Stephens. Temporary offices-13 A Cannon-row, Westminster, S.W.; and 80, Old Broad-street, City. Tho progressive development of the resources of the country, and the extension of the railway system at home and abroad, have created a demand for railway wagons and carriages which existing companies cannot adequately supply. The metropolis is the leading emporium of the coal trade, and an already enormous yet growing traffic in goods of every description, to and from it, is carried on, upon all the leading lines of railway, by public companies and commer cial firms, which, having their chief offices in London, would naturally seek to be supplied there with the necessary means of conveyance, if a company existed ready and cap able to contract for the same. The legitimate and profitable employment of capital, in providing for such wants, is aeon in the result of the opera tions of the several joint-stock companies which have been formed in various provincial localities for the letting of wagons and carriages to railway companies, mineral owners, merchants, and others, and the many advantages presented by the metropolis as the seat of such a Company, in addition to the actual requirements of its trade, suggest the formation of the Metropolitan Railway Carriage and Wagon Company. The plan adopted by wagon companies in the provinces has been to contract for their supply of carriages and wa gons with some firm whose business it is to construct and repair them, so that each company becomes bound to the builder with whom they contract for the construction and maintenance of its stock. The Company, however (while reserving the power to build and maintain its own stock), will open its contracts to the trade, the advantages of which plan are obvious. Railway carriages and wagons are usually let on lease, and their maintenance or repair undertaken by the builders for a term of years at a fixed per centage on the cost, so that the net profit, after setting aside an annual sum to meet depreciation and renewals, may be divided to the full. The following figures exhibit the satisfactory position of the leading Companies already established, which have been profitable beyond the most sanguine expectations, and have required in every instance an increase of their original capital ; and, from careful estimates which have been made, no reasonable doubt exists but that results equal if not more satisfactory will accrue to this Company. same of Amount Dividend per Company. of Share. cent. Reserve! Price. X X Midland 10 and occasion- 100 toPremi um. 105 Wagon 50 ally large 58,010 Company ...... bonuses per cent. The Railway Rolling Stock 10 0 20.504 3.5 to 40 Association.... per cent, Birmingham 10 10 10,308 40 to 45 Wagon Compy. per cent. Gloces terWag on i 10 10* in the first 3,500 85 to 40 Company ...... year's working per cent. * This Company build and maintain thoir own stock. Tho liability of the shareholders is limited to the amount of their subscription. A deposit of £1 per share is to be paid to the bankers en application, and £1 10s. per share on allotment. Should no allotment be made, or two-thirds of the capital not be subscribed, the deposit will be returned in full. Applications for shares to be made to the Brokers or Secretary of the Company, from whom prospectuses, forms of application, and other information may be obtained. EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT LOAN, authorised by H. I. M. the Sultan, for £1,811,010 ster ling, to be issued in Bonds amounting to £2,195,200 at 82f per cent. The Bonds to bear interest at 7 per cent. per annum, from the Ist of March, 1862, payable half-yearly in London. The Loan to be redeemed in 30 years by an accumula ting sinking fund. The Bonds to be drawn by lot half--yearly, and paid eff at 100. The first drawing in July, 1862. _ _ _ . . _ Agents in London—Alessrs. Frailling and Go"schen, 12, Austin-friars. This Loan has been contracted for by the Viceroy of Egypt, with the Bank of Saxe-Meiningen, for the purpose of extinguishing the floating debt of Egypt, and is specially secured on the revenues of the provinces of the Delta, pro ducing an annual sum exceeding £600,000 net, while the charge for the interest and sinking fund on the Loan will be £176,000 per annum. _ The net revenue of Egypt, after providing for the tribute to the Porte, exceeds £3,500,000. There is no foreign pub lic debt and no paper currency. A special authorisation of H.I.M. the Sultan for the issue of this Loan has been obtained by the Viceroy. The Sultan's authority, and the special appropriation of the revenue of the Delta as security for the Loan, will, under the terms of the contract, be stated in the bonds. Arrangements have been made for the regular transmis sion of the requisite funds for the half-yearly interest and sinking fund to Messrs. Friihling and Gischen, in London. 'I he terms of issue are as follows :- 5 per cent. on Application. 10 „ on Allotment. 15 „ 10th May, 1862. 15 „ Nth June, 1862. 15 „ 10th July, 1862. 15 „ 10th August 1862. 71 „ Ist September, less £3los. per cent., being one half-year's interest on the nominal amount of the Bond. 82} _ Subscribers will bave the option of paying the instal ments in advance on allotment, or on any of the above dates, under a discount of 7 per cent, per annum on such prepay ments ; but, in default of due payment of the respective instalments, all previous payments will be liable to for feiture. After allotment scrip certificates will be issued to "bearer." These certificates will be exchanged for bonds to " bearer" of £lOO, £5OO, and £l,OOO each, after payment of the final instalment. Coupons will be attached to the Bonds, payable the Ist of March and the let of September, at the counting-house of Messrs. Friihling and Giischen. The drawings for redemption of the Bonds will take place every half-year, in the months of July and January, in London, in the presence of a notary public. Tho Bonds so drawn will be paid at par with the half yearly dividend. The first drawing will take place in July, 1862. The original contract for the Loan is deposited at the Bank of England, in the names of the Bank of Saxe-Mein ingen and Messrs. Friihling and Giischen. A certified translation can be inspected at the office of Messrs. Fresh fields and Newman, 5, Bank-buildings, London. Applications for allotment to be addressed to Messrs. Friihling and GOschen, 12, Anstinfriars. Forms of application may be obtained of the brokers, Messrs. Laurence, Son, and Pearce, Auction Mart, E.C. In the event of no allotment being made, th e deposit will be immediately returned. FRUHLING and GOSCHEN, Agents for the Loan. EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT LOAN. FORM OF APPLICATION. To be forwarded to Messrs. Friihling and GOachen, 12, Anatinfriara, after payment of the preliminary deposit to the bankers. No-. To Messrs. Friihling and GOsehen Agents for the Egyptian Government Loan. Gentlemen,—llaving paid at the Chief Cashier's office, Bank of England, the sum of I hereby request that you will allot me £-- of the Egyptian Government Loan, and I hereby agree to accept the same, or any smaller amount that may be allotted to me, and to pay the further sum of £lO per cent. on the same when allotted. I am, Gentleman, your obedient servant, Signature Address in full Date E G YPTIAN LOAN. —NO FURTHER APPLICATIONS for this LOAN will be RECEIVED AFTER TWO O'CLOCK on TUESDAY NEXT the Bth inst. LAWRENCB, SON, and PEARCE For the Agents of the Loan. London, April 5, 1862. DR.BUCHAN'S INVIGORATING ESSENCE, WE o N r E N s S E , R at V 0 0 n U e e S r e R s th E r L e A s X a n A d T i O v i N g r a a n t e d s w G i tEhNrnEaßg cal rapidity the most Debilitated Constitution , thereby ensuring permanent health, increased strength, energy, and a re doubled development of the muscular system. One tria l will o conviction, and prove failure impossible. Price p er bottle 48. 6d , lls or four times the quantity, 335. Wholesale Agents, Barclay . and" Sons, 75, Farringdon-street ; and of all chemists throughout the world. POST -OFFICE TURKISH BAT H S, 19, St. Martin's-lc-Grand. 25. till 5, and ls. rxl. from 5 till 9 ; Sundays, is. till I. An ESSAY on'TURKISH BATHINth gratis. ornviows OF THE PRESS. ‘, The Use and the Abuse of the Turkish Bath.—A very useful pamphlet has be en published by Dr. Culverwell, the propr ietor of the Turkish Baths in the neighbourhood of the which presents to the uninitiated a mass of inte information, while those who have already encouraged this n ew system will derive additional advantage if they some of the practical regal *which the writer observe enforce. Herald host-office , ni: in e e ' endeavours to en d and Standard, N0v.12, 1861. ; a has hsef alreadyahras aBnow he has rovedeestabl ished established, ahimselfbi ii; h t e h d e , to r e i nb p e u t t ha a ew t I worthy l i o ry i t ~ The Post -office Turkish Bath? 19 St.Martin's-le-Grand. philanthropist, n „. pees nearer the ti th t atitu on a more nearly than any disco very of monern (I.J" - °anion or in abolition of the practice ea vention ablshd of physic, than an v y the Tuikish Bat . . P City lo thbeillg merely to direct ~e, in all its appliances, the attention of our ..., the that they possess readersur object one of the best set of baths, at iv which the country can Pr °dlic t t. and most admirable in effec , • r • i hver well has fitted ur his baths with a degree of produce Martin's-le-Grand, elegance, luxury, and reftnenieu , which, considering the space at MB CUS I "Ma aIo is truly Bur taste or delicae prising, while everything that .. _ Y could desire has been obtained to add to the comfort and i n , visitor. . . We may justly say • a n ever feels that if a ra himself regenerated and new made, it is on" e um, -- 0 g out eels — lll 7 of the Turkish 1311th."—Era, 0ct.,13, 1851. CD4l3Uititti9llB daily tall 2 fol. • *77E!!l' ..4. , . NE c v -- ... 47( Z / 1 7 _f___(....„. ---- e Z 7 a„-- -- e- P (-- ------7 ---4------e----- -- - y :4 ,"-.• (~ ..,..,-. ~., ••,..;-1 X .:;: : L ., ;: 1 e ..;, , ,_ ,-- - • ~:tr.;:.' :''."' 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The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Ceylon, Captain Evans, with the heavy por tion of the Calcutta and China mails, arrived this morning. She brings 134 passengers, and 104 packages for the Exhibition, and 1,289 bales raw silk, value 1120,000 sterling. The Ceylon left Alexandria on the 22d March Malta, 26th ; and Gibraltar, Ist inst. STAMPED quarters of a million for the completion of Stevens's battery, half a million to the Washington Navy yard, for new buildings and machinery for rolling and forging iron armour plates for the ships, and one million for the construction of a mail-clad steam battering ram. The project of the last-named engine appears to have strongly fascinated the Northern mind. Its construction is, moreover, re commended on the most practical grounds, as the South has two shot-proof batteries nearly ready at Mobile, and two others on the lower Mississippi, against which the Federal squadron in the Gulf would be as powerless as was that at Hampton Roads before it was reinforced by the Monitor. The ram, according to the proposition before the Senate, is to be "of not less than 5,000 or 6,000 tons burthen, and of great swiftness and strength." The New York papers observe, truly enough, that "if constructed in accordance with these conditions, the ram will undoubtedly be an engine of warfare against which no iron-plated vessel, battery, or ram in the world, either built or being built, can cope." But after Congress has done its best, it will depend on the skill of the naval engineers of the United States to combine in one [vessel qualities which Governments have hitherto sought in vain in iron-clad ships. In the United States, as in England, there are people whoseimagination is so overpowered, and who are so possessed with the notion that "something must be done," that no projects are too wild for them to entertain. There are also there other people whose professed business is simply to "study public opinion," and who fool the former class to the top of their bent. As a specimen of what these latter can do, we give an extract from the New York; Herald : Marlborough, ler M ae t and Osborne were at Alexandria; at Malta, the R e dpole, French sloop tar, the Scy ll a, Procris, a A l rn ay p a h , io ß n a , n F sh ir e e e . , Fire fly, Medina, Boxer, and Growler ; and at Gibral yE'sxmshoiuptshD, Coligny and transport Perdrix, and United States sloop Kaersarge. The Confederate steamer Sum ter still remained in the bay; off Algesiras, the Spanish squadron and Federal sloop Tuscarora. His Royal Highness the Duke of Brabant left Gibraltar on the 30th for Tangier, in her Majesty's N i e is Ptu li ne irn , steamer Intrepid. The Gibraltar Chronicle of the 28th ult. says : Letters from Tangier mention the arrival there on the 25th, of 150 mules with specie, to the amount, it is thought, of about half a million of dollars. The treasure was in charge of Hadj Abd el-Kader Ashash, one of the Sultan's treasurers, who has returned to the Court. Another treasure caravan is daily expected from Fez, to complete the million of dollars required for the next instalment to be paid over to Spain. The Sultan certainly . appears to be struggling 0 manfully to fulfil his engagements. By the last accounts the Sultan .was about 20 miles north of Rabat, and near Mehedia. A fight was going on between the two tribes, R ecan i a and. Shragna. The insurrection in the vicinity of Mo rocco is said to have died out of itself. This means probably that the rebels, having cut off the heads of a few of the officials, who, by tyranny and oppression, had driven them into rebellion, have again returned to their allegiance. The Emperor intended to move southward after crushing out the rebellion in the northern districts. It is a grand point to have the start in these engines of destruction, and America will have gained that point over every power of Europe. In the event of a war between the maritime powers, that nation which has the most and best iron-clad ves sels first at sea will be able to maintain the su periority to the end ; for not only can she destroy and capture all the mere wooden war vessels of her enemy, but prevent the construction of iron-clad craft by entering her ports and burning her navy yards, with the ships on the stocks. No coast for tifications now built can keep such vessels out of an enemy's harbours. They can be easily demolished or rendered untenable, and seaboard cities will be at the mercy of iron-clad frigates. How do the Powers of Europe and the United States relatively stand in regard to such vessels? The following table will show what has been done and is now in progress in Europe ; England is building France Spain Austria .... Total Of the English, according to the recent state ment of Lord C. Paget, six are to be of the same model as the Monitor, having a turret and two guns. The Warrior and Black Prince, already com pleted, are each upwards of 5,000 tons burden. In addition to her other guns the Warrior carries one which throws a projectile of 4501b5. weight. This vessel is shown by her trial trip to Lisbon, in smooth water, to be in some respects a failure. The iron-clad ram, the Defence—of whose performances on her trial trip we gave an account In our columns last week—appears to be more sea worthy, but a clumsy structure, though it is stated she made 11 knots an hour. Her burthen is 3,660 tons. The French iron-plated frigate Gloria is the first ever built, and a few others have been finished by order of Napoleon, which are regarded as an improvement on her ; but what is done in this re spect is kept as secret as possible, while the Em peror gets all the information ho can of English experiments and of our own—as, for example, through his Minister, M. Mercier, in relation to the Stevens battery. The United States have the following already built, contracted for and proposed : The Monitor The Galena, built at Mystic The powerful vessel at Philadelphia The Adironback The Stevens battery The Naugatuck, built by Stevens 1 Iron-clad gunboats ordered by Congress 2O Iron-clad frigates recommended by Senate Naval Committee 2O The iron ram, do. Gunboats ordered by Massachusetts 2 Total.. New York State will probably add one or two more, thus making a naval force of 50 iron-clad gunboats, greatly exceeding the combined iron plated vessels of all Europe, and able to whip the navies of the world. The New York, Times, which thinks the perma nent the midst interests of a s of thel lthi snation excitement, should no not be. with more forgotten in moderation than its contemporary, points out that it is better to look at actual wants than to indulge in dreams. If we once had provision made for our present safety and for the destruction of the rebel iron plated floating batteries—which we should consider done 'were the ram, a brace of Monitors, and the three iron-clad gunboats now in process of construc tion completed—we could almost wish that we should pause awhile before going any further, at least, that we should await the results of the expe riments that will be made with these before spend ing many more millions. It is our national tem perament to " put things through," and rush to an extreme, and there is just a danger that the mania for iron-clad vessels may cost us dearly. Having provided for our immediate necessities, let us bear in mind that we have large and prospective needs as well as present demands ; and that it is the plain dictate of prudence to avail ourselves of all the ex periments, on both sides of the Atlantic, that tend to throw light on these novel and still obscure, though overwhelmingly important questions. One thing is certain, we are bound to have an iron-clad navy that will defy those of the most powerful European nations. Already, at one leap, we have taught the world more than all it knew respecting this new 'warlike enginery. The country is opulent with creative genius and engineering skill. This genius and skill will now largely take the direction of iron-clad vessels. Let us, therefore, not sink money in building structures which the rapid strides in the science may soon render obsolete. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE METROPOLITAN RAIL WAY..—On Saturday morning the police forwarded to Mr. Brent, the deputy coroner, the particulars of the death of William Hollingworth, aged 28, a labourer in the employ , of Mr. Jay, the contractor for the construction of the Me tropolitan or Underground Railway. It appeared that the deceased was engaged on the previous night between the hours of seven and eight, along with some other men, a t . the new station at King's-cross, in lowering a large an d heavy iron girder, when suddenly one of the links I)! thet chain broke, and the beam fell, knocking the deeessed w w,_, h ground. In its fall the beam struck a piece of timbe r, m ie leaves fell on the deceased, and killed him on the spot a wife, who is now near her confinement' family. EXPRESS TRAIN. An a nd a young NARROW ESCAPE OF AN are carried ous result, occurred accident, which narrowly escaPen asen train leaving Cheltenha t , on Wednesday last to the expres tr s a m had just arrived at the very 2.25 p.m. for London. very high embankment b five miles from through Badgworth, abou t forward. Th e . driver at Once sounded T y b w e hich the rails wheels of the • Ch e l tenham, when the axle of the leading the rails, engine snapped applied the train was brought and drop ped between the rails, the engine at in the centre the same time ui P an alarm, an d left the r • stan d before the engine e itc b h re in a f rsbeing rails, although the fact to of i a ts koepl ng the track at all under such circumstances is „ ;to i n explicable , Had the engin e once loft the rails t --- life m ust have ensu ed loss o f , as the Badgworth embank ment is of unusual height. ,As it was, very slight damage was done to the permanent way, and beyond the inconve nience of a three hours' detention on their journey, no injury was sustained by the passengers. Great credit is due to the driver altd glard for their promptness in the cuiergelley, .1 THE BRAZILS AND RIVER PLATE. SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 6. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Tyne, Capt. Jellicoe, with the Brazilian and River Plato mail s and 115 passengers, arrived this morning. She brings on freight—specie in gold, £12,905 silver, £725; three packages of diamonds, 1,014 bales of tobacco, 281 rolls of tobacco, and 156 packages of sundries. The Tyne experienced strong gales from Lisbon to Cape Finisterre, and a heavy north-west swell across the Bay of Biscay. During her passage she spoke the following ships :—On March 21st, lat. 2.30 N.,10ng,30.18 W.,the English barque Pizarro, steering north ; 29th, lat. 26.40 N., long. 19.34 W., English ship Lady Eyrc,steering south-west; 30th, Portuguese brig Mercury, in lat. 29.16 N., long. 17.40 W., standing south-west ; 31st, English barque Atkinson, in lat. 32.30 N., long. 15.0 W., standing south-west ; and on the Ist April, in lat. 36.15 N., long 11.45 W., Hamburg brig Esther, steering same course. The following is from the Buenos Ayres journal, the Commercial Times, of Fob. 26 : We have had a change of Ministry. Dr. Obli gado has retired after good service, and Dr. Costa has been appointed to his place. Our army has re tired from Rosario, part also from Cordova, and our budget has consequently been reduced for war esti mates. This measure has been very well approved of, as ono of our greatest grievances was the heavy war expenses which we were incurring. In the interior of the republic there is peace and order. All the provinces have agreed to give the direction of affairs to Buenos Ayres ; the only exception is Salta, but we have every reason to believe that the question must be amicably arranged. Trade with the provinces has been resumed, although on a, small and prudential scale, as might have been ex pected. However, it is the general belief that after the proximate meeting of Congress we may expect an increased demand and prosperous trade. Gen. Mitre has determined to cease hostilities against our only enemy, the Governor of Entre Rios, Ur quiza. The latter, possessing an immense fortune, has likewise determined, in order to save it, to sub mit to the course of events, which he has had neither the forethought, intelligence, nor perseverance to check. Both the English and natives here have been very well pleased with the pacific termination of the Anglo-American question. The news has been very beneficial to us ; we have peace, and can now deliver ourselves with tranquillity to our various pursuits. Our produce trade has consequently im proved, and with it all the others. Business trans actions have not been very great, but they have met the requirements of both buyers and sellers. On the 26th February there were great rejoic ings at Buenos Ayres on account of the recom, mencement of the works of the railway to San Fer nando, which had been interrupted by the disas trous gale of August, 1860. A new concession, extending the period for the completion of the lines (15 miles only in length) to three years, had been the day before granted to the Buenos Ayres and San Fernando Railway Company (Limited) of London. The first sod was turned by Gen, Mitre in person, amid the cheers of a large concourse of the principal inhabitants. Mr. Eugene Murray, the contractor, proceeded immediately with the works. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. RIO DE JANEIRO, MAnon 10. The Tingettled state of the weather has continued to am barrass communication with the interior, and the supplies of coffee during the past week have been as insignificant as in the preceding month of January. This has enabled dealers to maintain their firm position, or rather to exact and obtain a further advance of 400 for the better, and 200 for the lower descriptions in the sa l es effected from Bth to 22d ult. In sugar there has been a good demand for exportation, and prices rising. P.S.—Two p.m.—Exchange—Market very firm to-d a y ; business done at 251 d., 25Rd., and2sld. BAIIIA, MARCEL 14: The demand for sugar has been principally for caPerw,r qualities. In coffee very little has been done, a few huncirj! bags only having changed hands at 5,600 for ordinarYP" zareths, and 6,300 Moritibas. In cotton no.ohsal have :equal transpired ; last price was 9,700 per arroba, wili Freimhts for to 9d. per lb free on board, freight excluded. dr„ .__ ed in the Channel and British ports, 60s. ExchuiLe s Pvu ,000 wore the beginning of the week at 26a, at which firm atjtho effected ; latterly it has declined to 2 5 i, w, x 65,000. latter rate. Transactions amount to;bo c u o b , MAncn 18. pERNAM" rainy weather, the Although we have experienced s Tr L2 d show an excess receipts of sugar have not dimin ished , . er arroba, and 1,800 bags There has been no over last crop of about 15,P° the month either in whit es Liverpool, ltd. per lb., all with 5 variation of importance during go : About , a nd maccio cotton have been sold, " (.2. - 00 0 P former at 11.000 and 11.250 per arroba, all f.o.b. o 2, r so ll o lus b co ags vad f o o os unto . latter at 11.700 m . _ £l6O , 000 have been per cent . Lon d o n, per iYile, at z6d. to 25 1 d and , ei g t , and 300,000 f. on Freights ce6t:: : :::: C p. e o a g ep t r 0 r t 0 Cont.nz a) Bfo: B cha a nIIk rates for discount, 10 per cent. negotiated °ll iirei 90 days' •h . 4 9 Lisbon transactions 25 0. , 365 to 369 rs. per franc ; on Paris, " at 10 nor annum• ........-- I FIRE NEAR NEIVGA" 1:-:---- ARKETShortly before lane, Newgate-Market p r emises belonging t o M Saturd ay night a fire broke out in the the hour of 12 o n '' al . R. Wilding, a wholesale butcher and slaughterraan, carryingr: T, on fi business at 23, Warwick but they i n remen la f bomyd most inces santly, Were Unable e get sv the spiteoro three their exertions, f to Were burned fire extinguished until ' two o f the floors "e Mulled out, the contents consumed anddestroyed. rh. The Fire-office. lose, Which is considerable, will fall upo r n ee th Another fire took lace about the sam e e time n : the Premises of Mr. P. O'Shaughnessy, a boot and shoe maker, carrying on business at No. 4, Unian-street, Lisson grove, which could not be extinguished until the second floor was partially burned out. The cause of the fire could not be ascertained. Fortunately th e su ff erer W as insured in the Friend-in-Need Insurance Society. SHOCKING DEATH OF A YOUNG WOMAN,—An appalling accident happened on Thursday morning, at the which , paper works of Messrs. Potter and Co., Hollins, Lower Dar wen, near Blackburn, by a young woman of the name of Hannah Thompson, aged twenty, was instantly deprived of life. Tho deceased, who had been employed ra the works some time, had been in attendance there durb A, 1 the whole of Wednesday night, and w hile she was clean * . ;: a .. the scotching machine, about five o'clock on the follot - p .. . merino . g, her head was by some means caught in th e f rn lit c ; chinerY, and it and the upper part of her body w ere A . —"- into the scutcher, and lawfully mangled, emum• n. . —raTsu kna, 1110 1 ‘411'" tauools doattbe THE SUN, LOINDOR, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1862. PUBLICATIONS. a New and Cheap Immediately,C CLOISTER v 4 /2T , D ric ' e .i.' l ll ss E ., HEARTH.--- Edition of CITARLES READE'S FAMOUS STORY. Handsomely bound in roan cloth, gilt and lettered. Orders received by all Booksellers. • Just published, price 25., free by post, 2s. 4d., ON SPERMATORRHCEA. By F. B. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.E., And formerly Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the Cure of Strictures of the Urethra. " The aim of the author is to present a common-sense view of the Causes, Nature, Consequences, and Treatment of this Disease, as also to free these questions from the Professional Fallacies, the Popular Delusions, and the exaggerations of Quackery by which they have hitherto been surrounded, to the destruction of the health and happiness of thousands. These objects are discussed in a common-sense and highly practical manner."—Medical Circular. London : H. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street.: MR. AND MRS. CHARLES MATHEWS "AP HOME," At Tier Majesty's Concert Room, Haymarket. Last Nights of the present Entertainment, which will ter minate at - Easter, when they will appear with an Entirely New Programme. Every Evening (except Sni - nrclay), nt Eight. Wednesday and Saturday Mornings at Three. Private boxes, staffs, and places may be secured at the Box office, which is open daily from Ten till Five, and at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. No extra charge for booking. Carriages to be ordered at Ten. Stalls, ss. ; First Circle, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Unreserved Seats, 2s. and is. CHRISTI'S MINSTRELS. --The Original, Well-known, and only CFIRISTY'S MINSTRELS are performing nightly to crowded houses at the POLYGRA PHIC HALL, Bing William-street, Strand. Tickets to be had at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Austin's Ticket Ofhoe, St. James's Hall, Piccadilly.— Mornin: Performance every Saturday at three o'clock.— W. P. COLLINS, Sole Proprietor. A RGYLL ROOMS.—Series of New Music, Valses, Quadrilles, and Polkas, by the unrivalled Band of 50 performers, under the sole direction of Mons. BouL CORT, Conductor and Composer. This gentleman will play every evening at 11 o'clock, until further notice, variations arranged by himself on the Cornet-a-Piston.--The free-list will be open for thp profession by leaving their card at the door. By order of the Proprietor.—Manager, Mons. P. Grenet. Admission Is. ONE ITUNDRED AND FIFTY-THIRD SALE. CUSTOM HOUSE, Landon, April, 1862. FOR SALE, by order of the Honourable the Commis sioners of her Majesty's Customs, at the COMMERCIAL SALE ROOMS, Mincing-lane, on TB URSDAY, the 10th, and FRIDAY, the 11th of April, 18112, at Twelve o'clock at noon precisely, the following GOODS, for Exportation or Home Consumption : Anchors, boots, brandy, candles (stearine), clocks, chicory, se t , ea, Th tim am b e e s ii, s t t o r y ee s t , , coffee, cordials, dice, empty bags, fishing, nets, geneva, glass, guns, painters' colours, pepper, perfumery, perfumed spirits, rum, raisins, scgars (suclades), spirits (plain and mixed) ; a quantity of files, plane irons, chisels, gouges, ,to. ; sugar, ships' . other goods. The above goods may be viewed at the Queen's Warehouse, wine, watches, and various India, and Victoria Docks, and Tobacco Ground, Rother 'lithe, on Wednesday, the 9th April, from ten o'clock in the C ge u a s r t , om tobacco, () at the London, West morning until three o'clock in the afternoon, and on the days of sale, from ten o'clock in the morning until twelve o'clock at noon—the tasting of spirits and wine being restricted to the day of sale as regards the Queen's Warehouse. Take notice, that goods sold at this sale will not be de livered until after two clear days of the day on whichthey are sold, and that no lots can be paid for at the office of the Re ceiver-General after two o'clock in the afternoon, and that on the days of sale money will not be received by the Receiver- General after eleven o'clock in the forenoon. Catalogues may be had at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom House, Thames-street, sixpence each. TN CHANCERY. -- Between HERBERT REGl plaintiff, and CHARLES JOHN TOOTELL, IN REGI NALD WHEELER, an infant, by Robert Locke, his cep onid, and leasehold estates in the townships L ne L K E t WlrEieLndYN' WYNNE, and ALFRED LLEWELYN WHEELER (an infant , by Henry Burslem, his guardian), Defendants, and in the matter of an undivided moiety of and Burley, and Otley, in the parish of Otley : and freehold estates in the township of Gomersall, in the parish of' Birstal : the townships of Leeds, Potter New ton, and Chapel Allerton, in the arish of Leeds : the town ship of Manmngham, in the parish of Bradford : the town ship of Ossett-cum-Gawthorpc, in the parish of Dewsbury, and the township and parish of Batley, all in the county of York : and of and in freehold estates situate in Goswell-street Newhall-cum -Clifton, and Old-street, in the wish of St. Luke, and Horseferry road and Turton-street , in the Palen of. frit, John the Evan gelist, Westminster, all in the count y ofMiddlesexand of the entirety of freehold estates in the Parishes of Edmonton and St. Margaret's, Twickenham, both in the county of Mid dlesex, and in the parish of Putney, in the county of Surrey, and at Brockley 11111, in the parish of Sydenham, in the county of Kent, all which moieties and estates respectively were de vised by the will of Henry Belward Ray, Esquire, deceased; and in the matter of the Act to facilitate Leases and Sales of settled Estates ; and in the matter of "the Ray Estate Act, 1858." Notice is hereby Given , t hat, p ursuant to the said Acts, and to the general orders of the said Court, a Petition was on the twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, presented unto the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, for hearing, before the Vice-Chancellor Sir Richard Torin Kindersley, by Charles J o h n Tootell, of the Common P icas Office, Chancery-lane, and Llewelyn Wynne, of No. 46, Lincoln's-in n -fi e l ds, i n the county of Middlesex , Esquires, praying that an order might be made authorising: the petitioners to concur with Richard Silver Oliver, Esquire, in carrying out an agreement with and affecting, a demise to William H ollingsworth of three houses in Old-sfrect aforesaid, and for vesting , in the peti tioners powers of granting mining, building, and other leases as to all the real estates com p r ised - in the will and codicil of the said Henry Belward n a y , deceased, and authorising the petitioners to sell certain allot ments of laud at Twickenham , Putney, and Brockley Hill in the petition mentioned, and to concur with Robert Edmund Oliver, Esquire, in selling a field at Burley afore said, called the Fox Garth, and the Denton Tithe Rent charges in the petition mentioned, and certain slips of land at Potter Newton aforesaid, and in selling, to. Mr. Thomas Rhodes certain coal under land at Birstal aforesaid. And Notice is Also Given, that the said petitioners may be served with any order of the C ourt, or of the Judge in Cham bers, or Notice relating to the subject of the said petition, at the office of the said Llovelyn Wynne, No. 46, Lincoln's-lun fields, London. Dated this 26th day of March, 1662. L. WYNNE, Solicitor for the Petitioners. barked at C a l cutta and Madras numbered 90 men of all rank s , with five women and two children, be longing to the Ist Dragoon Guards, Royal Artil lery, 6th Regiment, 43d Light Infantry, 59th, 60th Rifles, 68th Light Infantry, 69th, 74th Highlanders, 75th, 76th, 3d Battalion Rifle Brigade, Madras Artillery, and Madras Native Infantry Regiments, the whole under the command of Capt. Pym, 75th Regiment, and Lieut. Farrar, 21st Madras Native Infantry, and in medical charge of Dr. Whylough, 75th Regiment. The mortality on board was very high, 10 deaths having occurred during the voyage, including Lieut. Archdale, Madras Native Infantry, Mr. Ludlan, of the Indian Civil Service, Quartermaster-Serge an t H arr i son and one man of the Royal Artillery, S ergean t Maphen and one man of the 75th, and one man of the 60th Rifles. The voyage was protracted to 120 days by calms and contrary winds. The Hydaspes brought home the following officers as passengers —Cant. Gordon, Madras Native Infantry ; Lieut. Campbell, Royal Artillery; Lieut. Mears, 36th Madras Native Infantry ; and Cornet Browne, Ist Dragoon Guards. In order to ascertain the state of education among the non-commissioned officers and men of the army, a code of regulations has been issued from the Horse Guards, directing periodical examinations to be made of the troops attached to the various stations. In accordance with these orders, the first of the examinations of the whole of the troops coin prosing-the throe battalions of infantry at Chatham has just been madeat that garrison, under the direc tion of officers appointed to superintend the same. It terminated on Saturday. The result so far as can bo at present ascertained, is rathor more favourable than was anticipated, the returns showing that out of the large body of troops quartered at Chatham, who, it is but reasonable to infer, may be taken as an average specimen of the rest of the army, about fifty per cent., or nearly one-half, possesses what may be considered a good knowledge of reading, writing, and the first few rules of arithmetic. These examinations will take place every six months, and a tabular statement of the result will be forwarded to the Horse Guards. By direction of the Lords of the Admiralty, and with the sanction of the Duke of Cambridge, Lieut. L. Rokeby, of the Chatham division of the Royal Marines Light Infantry, has undergone a complete course of instruction in fortification, engineering, and the scientific branches connected with that de partment of service, at the Royal Engineer esta blishment, Brompton, in order to qualify himself for proceeding to the Island of Ascension, where he will be stationed for several years for the purpose of conducting a series of scientific observations on the part of the Government. Lieut. Rokeby pro ceeds to Ascension on the sth proximo, and takes out a valuable collection of scientific instruments. Trubuer and Co., 60, Paternoster-row. THE PRESENT DISTRESS IN TRADE fully explained in J. GROSSMITIPS " GOVERNMENT UPON FIRST PRINCIPLES." The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficulties ex perienced in 1860. The Crisis is at hand. Anxiety in busi ness has now beoome the grim torture. 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Now Ready, price ls., post tree 14 stamps, or in a sealed envelope 20 stamps, a popular Medical Work on NERVOUS EXHAUSTION. VIVA VITALIS, illustrated with 100 En graviugs from Life (of Cases attended at the Hotel Dieu, - Paris, and other Hospitals), descriptive of the baneful effects conse quent upon the errors and excesses of youth and maturity, and the debility arising from the too frequent indulgence of the passions. containing a prescription of the Author's Invi gorating Lotion, an external appbcation, with directions for its use, with an Essay on true and false Spermatorrhcea, every stage of Syphilis, and all uretnral affections, showing how manhood can be restored with increased muscular develop ment, by the most simple means ; thereby removing . all Dis qualifications and Impediments to harried Life. By MEDICUS, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Eng land, and Licentiate of the Royal College ot - Physicians, Edinburgh, registered under the New . 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Impotence; Early Vicious Indulgences; Dan CHAPTER lII.—A Review of the various Disqualifications DI Marriage; whether resulting from Youthful Abuse, th e Dangers of Neglect. Follies of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection. CHAPTERS IV. and V. on the modern Treatment of Gonorrhoea and Syphilis. The Book oncludes with numerous varied and interesting aces, to which is added the Author's recipe of a preventive Lotion. _ _ REVIEWS OF THE WOBIL "Curtis on Manhood.—This is a truly valu able wor k , and hould be in the hands of y oung an d o ld . " —"Sunday 1 1 1Ines,', ii The author has conferred a great boon b üblishing this 23d March, 1856, little work, in which is describ e d th e sour ce of those disciu3en w hich produce decline in youth or more f reque ntly premature old age.,,—..Daily Telegraph," Maros. 27, 1856. p This work, which for twenty years has stood the test of an d s ympathising manner on the various 'disqualifications and impediments arising from ucrvous excitement and de bility : and to invalids suffering from youthful errors and empirical hostility treats in . a Plain professional criticism and cm excesses it will be found valuable and useful."—ltecord. London : Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, Pater noster-row; Mann, sg, c onitiu. jjours of CO3igulltati9ll-4 0 to 8 and 0 to 5 i guano, 0 tilk.Z THE NAVY. The Defence, 18, iron frigat e, Ca pt. B. A. Powell, C. 8., arrived at Spithead at 5 p.m. on Saturday, from Plymouth Sound and the Channel. It is ex pected that she will go into Portsmouth harbour to make good defects and alterations. The Speedy steam gunboat, tender to the Dasher, Commander P. de Saumerez, sailed from Ports mouth, for the Channel Islands, yesterday, after completing repairs. She has conveyed to Jersey materials for the construction of a ship-gun prac tice battery. The Royal Sovereign screw three-decker, at Portsmouth, has an additional number of hands placed on her to day, to hurry forward her conver sion to a shield ship as rapidly as possible. She has now 150 shipwrights employed upon her, exclusive of riggers and labourers. The steam tender Vivid returned to Woolwich on Saturday morning, having conveyed H.R.H. Prince Leopold and attendants to England, after passing the winter at Cannes. The chartered' transports Prairie Flower and Rowena commenced shipping on Saturday, at Wool. wich, for Fort Amhnrst, Newfoundland, and Gibral tar. The Prairie Flower will take shrapnell and diaphragm shells, and the Rowena 110 Armstrong guns, carriages, platforms, &c., for Gibraltar. The launch of the screw steam corvette Wolverine is announced for Wednesday, the 14th of May, at Woolwich. Aboat 50 smiths employed in Woolwich Dock yard received 14 days' notice of dismissal on Satur day. The screw steamship Gibraltar, 99, at Devonport, is ordered to be prepared for the first division of the steam reserve. It is expected that she will be sent to relieve one of the ships belonging to the fleet in the Mediterranean. No orders from the Admiralty were received last week by the authorities in the dockyard at Devon port in reference to any of the ships under construc tion there. Instructions have been received at Chatham Dockyard from the Admiralty for suspending the conversion of all timber shipbuilding until further orders. The following appointments wero made on Satur day at the Admiralty :—Commander A. H. Hos kins, to the Zebra ; Commander J. H. I. Alexander, I , to the Coquette; Lieut. Oliver T. Lang, of the Dia dem, to the Zebra ; Thomas Craig, surgeon, to !the Zebra; Joseph O'Brien, assist.-surg., to the Zebra; George Lapidge, paymaster, to the Coquette ; Charles J. Card, paymaster, additional, to the Cumberland ; Edward T. Piper, Thomas Suckling, and J. A. Dashwood, midshipmen, to the Zebra; Keppel Gamier, midshipman, to the Marlborough ; J. L. Y. C. Scarlett, A. K. B. Granville, Charles Campbell, Francis W. Sanders, and P. S. W. Mayow, naval cadets, to the Marl borough, for disposal ; G. H: Moore, Arthur W. Moore, and John D. Nickolls, naval cadets, to the Tribune ; Charles K. Hope, Charles H. Leycester, A. M. Jephson, and John H. Rainer, naval cadets, to the Bacchante, for disposal ; W. D. Morrish, naval cadet, to the Neptune; An drew Nance, naval cadet, to the Shannon ; Angus Macleod, L. A. Beaumont, and Willoughby E. Still, naval cadets, to the Magicienne. THE ARMY. His Royal Highness the General Commanding in-Chief will hold a levee at one o'clock on Friday, the 11th inst. Instructions wore on Satur da y r eceived at the Royal Marine Division at Wo olwic h , directin g th e following detachment of the Light Infantry to be held in readiness, to form a p ortio n of the corps about to proceed to the Isle of Ascension, namely —First Lieutenants Grady and Rokeby, two ser and 36 privates. ge l a t n w ts, a t e w a o rponcoounoereadlso,nonseadtorrudmamy eihr,the departments of Woolwich Arsenal, that the Secretary of State for War had been induced t o modif y the order for warded on that day week , ann ulling the per mission to exhibit the various works of art and in genuity manufactured in the departments. The great majority of the articles will, therefore, continue to be forwarded, excluding onl y t he unfinished sec tions of the Armstrong gun s, the boring and rifling instruments, and other inventions, W hi ch it i s deemed impolitic to expose to the scientific inspec otitohnero of rforeignvisitors. wereseq e on selectionA uently of 18 guns and d espatched on Sa turday for the Exhibition, an d th e remainder are ordered to follow without delay. The East India screw steam troop ship, Hy daspes, 2,240 tons, 300 horse Power, Captain G. H. Foster, with cavalry and infantry troops from various British and Indian regiments, arrived at Gravesend from Calcutta, on Friday night, and on Saturday landed her troops at Government-quay under the superintenaence of the officers of the staff at Chatham. The Hydaspes sailed. from Calcutta on the 4th of December last, called at Madras on the 14th of December, and sailed thence on the 21st of the sa me month. The only place touched at during the voyage was Ascension, w hi c h was I reached on ,the 24th Yebruary. The troops mg TILE AMERICAN IRON-CLAD NAVE However much or little the encounter of the Mer rimac and Monitor directly teaches, in America as well as in England it has stirred both the public and the Government to action as no mere reasoning ever could. It may now be convenient to gather up and review our information respecting the recent action of the United States Government in refe rence to iron-clad ships. It has been said that the Monitor was the work of a private citizen, and that it was forced upon the Government against its ideas and wishes. In truth, however, as long ago as the special session in July last, the Secretary of the Navy called the attention of the Congress to the subject of iron-clad vessels, and appropriation of 1,500,000 dols. was made for the purpose of having one or more constructed. On the 6th of August an advertisement was published calling for plans. By the 16th of September the board of three naval officers appointed to examine and consider the plans, presented their report, and recommended Captain Ericsson's plan among others for adoption. The contract for the Monitor was signed on the 4th of October between the Se• retary of the Navy and the builders. It provided for the completion of the vessel by the 4th of January, i.e., 100 days, and for payment by the de partment in the usual way ; and further, that if the vessel sustained a satisfactory test she was to be accepted, and thereupon the last 25 per cent. of the contract price was to be paid. The Monitor was one of three iron-clad vessels which were un dertaken about the same time, a fact which was stated in the messages of Secretary Welles to' Con gress last autumn. That document was published in England, but the attention of the English press was mainly directed to certain portions of it calcu lated to sustain a factitious excitement, and this part was generally overlooked. From the follow ing passage in the report of the Board of Naval Officers, of which Commodore J. Smith was chair man, it will bo seen that the expectations of the builders of the Monitor were not romantic. They said of Capt. Ericsson's design : This plan of a floating-battery is novel, but seems to be based upon a calculation which will render the battery shot and shell proof. We are somewhat apprehensive that her properties for sea are not such as a sea-going vessel should possess. But she may be moved from one place to another on the coast in smooth rater. We recommend that an experiment be made with one battery of this description on the terms proposed, with a guarantee and forfeiture in lease of failure in any of the properties and points of the vessel as proposed. Price 275,000 dols. ; length of vessel, 172 feet ; breadth of beam, 41 feet; depth of hold, 111 feet; time, 100 days ; draught of water, 10 feet; dis placement, 1,255 tons ; speed per hour, 9 statute miles. Various delays occurred in the construction of the vessel, which was not completed by the contract term ; she was launched on the 30th instead of on the 4th of January. The congratulations of the Navy department in answer to a telegraphic despatCh announcing the event, concluded with a request to " hurry her for sea, as the Merrimac is nearly ready at Norfolk, and we wish to send her there." Of the iron-clad vessels nearly ready for service, the next in importance is Stevens's floating battery, which has been described in detail. This vessel, it is alleged, will make 19 knots an hour, and throw a greater weight of metal than anything afloat. It will, however, take two or three months to finish her. The Galena, an iron-clad vessel, built at Mystic, in Connecticut, and now being finished at Green point, New York, will be ready for sea in a fort night. She appears, however, to be too lightly constructed. The Areto York, Times calls her " a plated egg shell." Another " dark" vessel, which, being at present without a name, is referred to as " the formidable vessel now building at the Phila delphia Navy-yard," may probably be classed with out injustice with the Galena. The Naugatuck, a small but strong gun - boat, is a present to the government by Mr. Stevens, and a miniature of his large floating battery. Her speed is ten knots an hour. She can carry coal for twelve days, and her armament is a single one hundred-pounder Parrott gun. Like the Monitor she can be sunk at will nearly to the top of her deck—thus presenting only a narrow stripe to the bnemy's shots. It is supposed that, from the small surface she exposes, she could easily steal up to a hostile vessel in a dark night and deliver her missile with effect. The Adirondack, a wooden frigate, is being plated with iron. The foregoing vessels represent the iron-clad navy of the United States at the date of the action at the mouth of the James River. It remains to speak of the subsequent action of Congress. The bill introduced by Senator Hale, who is chairman of the Senate's Committee on naval affairs, is designed to lay the foundation of the new navy of the United States. It appropriates 13 million dollars for the building of iron-clud gunboat, three- MI! NV S PAPE R Z f 0.. IA 4 S Led Ire ife ; ions Dao V e . the tith o.l l d Tet or D int t of the •ill I l i°bp h of L th e alto' a tined' voo ' l ; c ere, 001. )./ to 6t B to 3 '" to 3° fu.llY 11 novi• 0 -- -5 9 to 2E 4 0 4: 3 e ; p• 0 664, stir, rate"' a ca. )r i '6° w ee d V s roe' i~ PIO' F e li% -iariC ,