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ITALIAN IRRIGATION CANAL COMPANY. The Directors having received the Report of their Repre sentative at Turin that all the arrangements with the Italian Government, preliminary to the ratification of the concession by the Chiwilbers, have been completed, and that £2per share his bet n paid on the 20,000 shares reserved for Italy, the .ALLOTMENT of S HARES for this country will take - place on THURSDAY next, the 15th inst.—By order. LEICESTER BAYLY, Secretary. pro tem. 15, Gresham-house, Old Broad-street, City, May 12, 1862. SPECIAL NOTICE. CLERICAL, MEDICAL, & GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Established 1821. All persons who effect Policies on the Participating . Scale before June 30th, 1562, will be entitled at the Next Bonus to one year's additional Share of Profits over later Assurers. Tables of Pates and Forms of Proposal can be obtained of any of the Society's Agents, or of GEORGE CUTCLIFFE, Actuary and Secretary. 13, St. James's-square, London, S.W. TO SEED CRUSHERS AND oTnEits. GAINSEOROUGII, LINCOLNSHIRE. ]/It. ALFRED SMITH will Offer for Sale, by Public Auction, at the White Hart lintel, in Gains borough, on FRIDAY, the 30th of MAY, 18',2, at Five for Six o'clock in the Evening precisely, a most Valuable and Complete OIL situate on the east bank of the River Trent, and at a distance of al•out hail-a-mile from the Port of Gainsborough. The machinery belonging to the Mill is of modern construction, in thorough working order, and capable of crushing t 0 quarters of Sea d in 24 hours ; and up wards of 3,0 0 cnr:ers can be st, red on the, premises. At tached to the Mill are requisit( , Workmen's Cottages, Ware houses, and ot , er outbuildings ; and adjoining to it are about 10 acres of excellent Pasture Land, on part whereof a compact modern Dwelling-house has been erected, ani surrounding which are excellent Pleasure Grounds and Gardens. At the same time will be Sold, a Freehold CLOSE, con taining 4a. 2r. 13p.; Also, a First-rate MANSION HOUSE, situate in the Town of Gainsbormigh, with Shrubberies, hot Houses, Pleasure Grounds, Carriage How es, &c., thereto adjoining; and also several excellent Trading Shops and Houses, situate in the best business localities of that place. The above Estates were lately in the occupation of Messrs. Francis Gamble and Son, Seed Crushers, or of their tenants. Descriptive particulars may be had 'gratis) on applying to Messrs. Edwards, Eastty, & Co., Brokers, No. 19, Old Broad strt et, London ; to Mr. Wilkinson, of the Lincoln Bank, Gain.borough ; or at my Offices. WILL. PLASKITT, Solicitor. G ainsborough, 9th May, 1: 6Z. Wr S. WOODIN'S CABINET of CURIO • SITIES—NewIy Polished and Re-lined—Pour- GRAPHIC BALL, King William-street, Chasing-cross, TO-NIGHT, and every Evening, at eight (except Saturday), with new characters, music, songs, and dances. The scenic illustrations and effects, elfin ly new, painted by and under the direction of Mr. Wi;l am ( allcott. First Morning Per forn ance, Saturday; Msy 17, at 3. Stalls, 3s. ;urea, 2s. ; am phitheatre, Is. Box-office open from ten to five. ARGYLL ROOMS. Great Windmll-street, llaymarket.—GßAND CASINO FRANCAISE.— Or en every Evening for Promenade and Dancing, with the celebrated Band of 50 performers. Conductor and Principal Cornet-a-Piston, M. BOULCOURT.—The new Imperial Qua drille, Valse Cotillion, and L. Mosca's Peep o'DeyValse will be played nightly. A new Conversation Salon has been added to the above Establishment for Reading, Coffee, and Refreshments.— Admission Is.—Manager, M. Grenet. Tipp • OYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION' FOR THE PRESERVATION OP LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK, } (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. PEESIDENT dmiral his Grace the Duke of Northum berland, K.G., F.R.S. CITAI it3TAN --Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P. 'DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, during the past two years, the Institution has incurred expenses amount up to £28,650 on various Life-boat Establishments on the Coasts of Eng'and, Scotland, and Ireland. During the past two years the Life-boats of the National Life-boat Institution have cen instrumental in rescuinT the Crews of the following Vessels:— Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose Schooner Jane Roper, of Ulverstone Brig Pallas. of Shields .. Ship Ann Mitchell, of Glasgow .. Smack John Bull, of Yarmouth .. Schooner Catherine, of Newry Barque Niagara, of Shields .. . • A Barge of Teignmouth .• • • Brig George and James, of London • • Brig Zephyr, of Whitby •• •• •• Coble Honour, of Cullercoats • • •• Schooner Eliza, of North Shields • • •• Barque Oberon, of Liverpool • • Brigantine Nancy, of Teignmonth Smack Wonder, of Teignmouth Brig Scotia, of Sunderland •• •• •• Sloop Three Brothers, of Goole .. Sloop Charlotte, of Woodbridge .. Brig Ann, of Blyth •• Sloop Hope, of Dublin Schooner Druid, of Aberystwyth .. Barque Vermont, of Halifax, U.S. •• Schooner William Keith, of Carnarvon Brig Flying Fish, of Whitby • • •• Smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis .. Steam Dredge, at Newhaven •. Schooner Admiral Hood, of Rochester .. Schooner Susan and Isabella, of Dundee .. Schooner Rose, of Lynn Brig Prodroma, of Stockton •• Brig Eliza, of Middlesborough Brigantine Freia, of Konigsberg .. Brigantine Diana, of Fredrikshamn Brig Gloucester, of South Shields .. Brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham •• •• Brigantine Nugget, of Bideford • • .- Schooner Prospect, of Berwick . • •• Slcop Thomas and Jane, of St. Ives • • A Fishing-boat of Whitburn .• Brig Arethusa, of Blyth . • • • 1.4 Schooner Dewi Wyn, of Portmadoc 404 Flat Cymraes, of Beaumaris Schooner "William, of Morecambe .. Smack Gipsy, of Newry • • • • 4,1 Schooner Margaret Anne, of Preston Brig New Draper, of Whitehaven Schooner William, of Liverpool .. Lugger Nimrod, of Castletown •. •. Brig Providence, of Shields Brig Mayflower, of Newcastle •• • Schooner Village Maid, of Fleetwood . Barque Guyana, of Glasgow Brig Roman Empress, of Shields .. Brig San Spirld'one, of Galaxide . Schooner Voa.dor du Vouga, of Vienna . French Brig La Jeune Marie Therese . Barque Perseverance, of Scarborough Schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewater Ship Danube, of Belfast • • •• • Schooner Hortensia, ot Hanover Schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven Brig St. Michel, of Marcus Spanish Barque Primera de Torreviega (saved ves sel and one of the crew) Schooner Harrell, of Penzance (saved vessel and crew) • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Brig Anne, of Plymouth (saved vessel and crew) 8 Schooner Betsy, of Peterhead (saved vessel and crew) • . Barque Frederick, of Dublin .. Barque Peace, of London .. Lugger Saucy Lass, of Lowestoft .. Schooner Fly, of Whitby (saved vessel and crew of four hands) .. Smack Adventure, of Ttartvich.. Pilot cutter 'Whim, of Lowestoft Barque Undaunted. ot Aberdeen Wrecked boat on Blackwater Bank', on the Irish coast, saved one man .. Schooner Skylark, of Folkestone Brig Lively, ot Clay, Norfolk ~ Barque Robert Watson, of Sunderland .. Schooner Auchincruive, of Grangemouth .. Schooner Friends, of Lynn Schooner Eliza Anne, of Dublin .. Brig Content, of Sunderland •• Smack Ellen Owens, of Cardigan .. Galliot Epimachus, of Amsterdam .. .. 1 .. 6 .. 5 4 .. 4 .. 10 .. 2 .. 8 .. 6 .. 5 .. 4 .. 1 .. 6 .. 6 .. 5 .. 6 .. 4 .. 5 .. 5 .. 5 .. 5 Total For these and other Life-boat services the Institution has voted .cl,kil:l as rewards to the crews of the Lifeboats. It has also granted re A arils •a mounting, to £515 108. for saving 573 shipwrecked persons, by shore-boats and other means, mak ing a total of 871 persons saved from a watery grave during the last two years. ' ' The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the Society, and other means, since its formation, is upwards of 12,2C0: for which services 82 Gold Medals, 704 Silver Medals, and £15,250 in cash have been granted as rewards. The Institu tion has also expended £57,200 on Life-boat Establishments. The public cannot but sympathise with the vigorous efforts now being made by the Society to save the lives of Ship wrecked Crews. Their help was never more needed than at the present time, when, through the extraordinary exertions the Society has made within the past few years, it has now One Iltmdred and Twenty-one Life-boats under its man agement, `or the maintenanceot which, in a state of thorough efficiency, a larg,e permanent annual income is absolutely needed, it its humane mission is to be perpetuated. The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following con tributions Tier ISTaJest £ s. d Clark I‘t Y the Q ueen , / L •• Clerk, Colonel, R. A. • : annual 210 0 Cotton, Sir St. Vincent,• Bart:: :: :: Coutts and Co., "Ar e annual 11 0 don. 2.5 0 Di 2 bY• G W .. . Esq 7;7" na " ers —•annual 10 0 0 Erie, Lord Chief .T.nstleecrb°rue Castle :: annual 0 0 Faushawe, Vice-Admiral girA lO 0 Hai yey. Bey. G. G. and Mrs. —' '''' ,., .B. 2d dun. 25 0 0 l am bton, Messrs. W. H . ..& Co .: p.,.;kera .. • 7 c d l t o oh l i t , .. l.en.2l : o - 1 1 0 0 0 0 00 t a nesberoupit, the Earl of .. ~ Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. ~ :: •• annual 50 0 Moore, TZey. G. II ltol , nr-too, T.T A ear. Pm, M.P. .„ ' • d on- is 15 0 Smith, Mrs. Georp,v, Greenwich .. ..... anneal 50 0 Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. .. .. annu li :l 3° ° Donations and Annual Fu' seriptions will he thankfully% 0 reived by the Bankers of tln , Intuition, NT, ssrs. Wiai,llises: Percival, and Co. 70, Lombard-Arca; '.Messrs. Coutta ana co., Si. Strand ; l'ae, , srs. Berries, Farquhar, and Co., .Tame i's-street, London ; by a 1 the Bankers in the United . Kinaclora ; and by the Secretary, Weltard Lewis, Esq., at the Office of the Institution, 11, John-street, Adelphi, Lon don, lIT.C. Payments maybe made by Cheques or by post-OffiCe Orders (crossed), to Messrs. Wills, Percival, and Co., or to the Secre tary. -------_ SAUCE. -LEA AND PERRINS beg to caution the Public against spurious Imitations of their world:rem:wed WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE. Purchasers should ASK FOR LEA AND FFRRINS' SAUCE, Pronounced by Connoisseurs to ne "TILE ONLY GOOD SAUCE." *** Sold Wholesale and for Export, by the Proprietors , SV reester ; 111 - ec•F rs. CuossE and Br.AcKwvr.r.; Messrs. BAR cLAY and SONS, Lcndcn, and by Grocers and Oilmen universally. TOZEAU'S COPATTINE MEGE.—Coplibq end Cubel , s are clonbtle: , s the best remedies, but are of a re pulsive taste and odo ur , an d ecras i on collicky pains, nausea, and gastric disturbance. M. ,Tozean has succeeded in render ing them perfectly inuocuons by increasing all their curative propertb s. It has Leen 12e:oiled by the Faris Academy of Medicine after more than a thousand trials in Paris and the different London hospitals. v:z , St. Thomas's, Guy's. and St. Bartholomew's, under the rare of Messrs. Lloyd, Poland, and Legros Clark.—(Lancet, Nov. 0, 1 , !.7). The Copahire, which is in form of a pretty pink sugar plum, effects a , tire in about six days. 100 Capsules, 4a. 50.; pest tree, ss. 2d.— At G. JOZFAIT'S, Freneh Chemist, 40, Haymarket, Londcn; 22, Rue St. Quentin, Paris; and all Chernies. T RULY EFFICACIOUS AND MILD.— Dr. SC • OTT,s BILIOUS and LIVER ?ILLS, pre pared without any r u ,„ • . mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. Ecott, of Bromley, ne ,f'i: li will be fouud invalmble to all who e i z} gees suffer from bilious and plaints, indigestion, wind , past ug, giddiness, i c o o f m the eyes, &o. For habitual costiveness, as a family aperient medicine, of the blood, they Pre trill and as a purifier y excellent; opera tion and grateful to the s'ornauh, !nt; mild in their mote digestion, and -tretgthen thethey ..reate appe ite, pro- Sold by W. Lambert, "` 3 "reYn-atree7 l lc . ile nervous system. and by most druggists, in boxes, u. ' l ; l l , Ymarket, London, the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be s ure to lLi c aud three times Bilious and Liver Pills. The n. n n i, - e- -e are !or Dr. Scott's package, with " William Lambert," enar tive ,i t square green ch the stamp. N°. 21,800. I'UBLICATICiNFi. MRS. NEWPON CROSLAND'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., S . BIA AK E. By Mrs. NEWTON CRoSLAND. Also, new ready, in 3 v,.15., OWEN : By the! Author of "High Church," &c. Hurst and Vackett,l:% Great Marlborough-street. Xow ready, in 2 vols. Svo., with Portrait, 30s. bound, TE LIFE OF EDWARD IRVING, Minister of the National Scotch Church, London. Illustrated by his JOURNAL and CORRESPONDENCE. By Mrs. OLIPI IAN T. "A lull, detailed biography of Irving we have not seen till now. In Mrs. Cliphant's volumes we' trace the history and mark the aspect, the joy and grief, and conflict of his life, as we have never before been able to do. Her work is ad mirable, presenting a most living, consistent, vivid picture of Irving."—Macmillan's Magazine. Hurst and Illackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Uniform with "THE WOMAN IN WHITE." Just ready, price 65., with Illustrations, E A S T L YNNE. By Mrs. HENRY WOOD. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. 'VILE PRESENT DISTRESS IN TR.A.DE fully explained in J. GROSSMITIVS " GOVERNMENT UPON FIRST PRINCIPLES." The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficulties eu - perienced In 1860. The Crisis is at hand. Anxiety in busi ness has now become the grim torture. Purity of motive. Intelligently exercised, must animate all Governments, or all is lost, All denominations of Constitutions are carefully examined in J. Grossmith's "Government upon First Prin• ciples." . Kent and Co., Paternoster-row. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. The numerous and urgent appeals which are made for admission by the homeless and destitute sick render It im perative on the Committee to entreat the continued bounty of the affluent :md humane to enable them to persevere in the extensive system of relief afforded by this Hospital. • • During the psst year, in addition to 1,190 in-patients, no less than 50,496 out-patients received the benefits of this Charity. Since Christmas two additional wards have been opened for the reception of in-door patients. - - - - Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edwar I Mas- Lerman, Esq., Nicholas-lane ; and at the Hospital. STANFORD S. SMITH, Sec. IRNAI4IENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, Vv ind Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant assort ment of VA S S , Figures, G roups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink stands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weighta, &e., in Italian, Alabas 'er, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENN.A NT, Mine ralogist to her Majesty, 149. Stand, W.C., London. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS, INERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate he interesting study of MINERALOGY, CON CIIOLOGY, And GEOLOGY, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSYRUCT ON in GEOLOGY and MINE RALOG' Y is given by Mr. TENNANT. at 149, Strand, W.C. TEA.—STRACHAN and CO.'S Strong Rough " Domestic" Black at 3s. 4d. per lb.-26, Cornhill, London, E.C. rrEA.—STRACITAN and CO.'S Fine " Inter mediate " Black at 3s. Sd. per lb.-2G, Cornhill, Lon don, E.C. TEA._ STRACIIAN and CO.'S Delicious " Drawintr Room " Black at la. 2d. per lb.-26, Corn bill, London, E.C. Dr. Hassan's Certificate of Purity, and a Fri 'e Current free on application, 26, commit, London, E.C. RUPTURES.-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S AMC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (.ErtrreTEn AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1851), is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to he the most effective invention in the curative treatment of 11 ERNI A. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, s here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resistin g power is supplied by the Moe-Main Pad and Patent Lever , fitting with so much ease and closeness that it canto;; be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may he had, and the truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir cumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. ed., and Us. 6d. Postage, ls. A. Doublo Truss, 31s. 41(1., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. ed. Postage, is. 16d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly. JEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c. They are porous, light in texture, snd inexpensive, and are drawn on lilre an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., to 16s. Postage 6d. JOAN WHITE, Manufacturer. 228, Piccadilly. Fort Free 12 'damps, (I N the Successful TREATMENT and CURE Vi of SPERMATORRIREA, by a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians. 11. J. Smart, 10, Ave Maria-lane, Paternoster-row, London. DR. ( I TTLVERWELL'S LAST NEW WORK, OURSELVES. On Sperrnatorrhcra, Syphilis, Stricture, IRemorrhoids, Gluts, Nervous Debility, Palpitation, &c., &c. MARRIAGE : Its Expectances and Disapp I,lments. Impediments removed, and Healthy Offspring secured. Price Is., by post ls. la. ; of Mann, 29, Cornhill ; or Author, 3, Great Marlborough-street, Oxford-street, W. • Consultations daily from 12 a.m. till 9 p.m. AN EFFECTUAL REMEDY.-LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is admitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and consumption. I 'frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce in curable, admirably allays the tickling which provokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it. Prepared only and sold by W. Lambert, Chemist, 20, Jermyn-street, Haymarket, London, and by all nruggists, in bottles, 131 d., and three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular, and ask for Lambert' a ksthmatic Balsam. GIVEN':AWAY TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS. HENRY SMITH, M.D., of the University of Jena, has just published, for the benefit of, Nervous , ufTerers, a FREE EDITION of his valuable work, THE WARNING VOICE TO YOUNG MEN (120 pages). A medical work on the cure of Nervous Debility, Loss of Memory, Dimness of Sight, Lassitude, Indigestion, Dislike o Society. Spermatorrheea, Local Weakness, Muscular Re axation, Languor, Listlessness, Depression, &c., which, if neglected, result in consumption, insanity, and premature neath ; with plain directions for perfect restoration to health ‘nd vigour. The book will be sent, post free, secure from ob , ervation, to any address, on receipt of a directed envelope Ind two stamps. Address, HENRY SMITTI, M.D., b, Burton neecent, Tavistock-square, London, W.C. Just published, Bvo, in cloth, price 55., by post free, ss. 6d., ON THE SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT of STRICTURES of the URETHRA ; showing why they so often appear Incurable, when in reality they might be removed by the most simple means. By F. B. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.E., And formerly Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the of Strictures of the Urethra. " This work is the production of a surgeon whose special attention has been directed, through a long professional life, to the treatment of strictures of the urethra. The cases which Mr. Courtenay has given supply ample evidence . of his great discriminative power in the diagnos is of the various kinds of stricture, and of the scientific principles upon which their management is founded. By his systematic m anaf2:ement an immense mitigation of pain to the unhappy sufferers is attained, and future mischief prevented. The work we can most unreservedly and confidently recommend as a valuable contribution, both to the general and professicnal reader, and ought to be lour d in the private study of all who are subject to stricture."—Aedical Circular. London: H. Bat Mere, 219, Regent-street. COUGHS, ASTHMA, AND INCIPIENT CONSUMPTION ARE EFFECTUALLY CURED BY FEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES.— Statistics show that 5 0 ,001 persons annually fall vic tims to Pulmonary Disorders, including . Consumption, Dis eases of the Chest, and the Respiratory Organs. Prevention is at all times better than Cure; be, therefore, prepared dur ing the wet and wintry Fenson with a supply of KEATING'S Cough Lozenges, which possess the virtue )l averting, as well as of curing a Cough or Cold ; they are good alike for the young or for 1 - .110 ft, od. Prepared and So'd in Boxes is. lid., and Tins 2s. Pd.. 4s. ad., .1),(1 10 61. each, by 'I iioarAs KEAT,NG, .Chemist. &c., 7 9, St. Paul's Churchyard, London. Retail by all Drug gi.ts, &c. THE VIGOUR OF YOUTH RESTORED IN LIFE. F OUR WEEKS by Dr. RICORD'S ESSENCE OF This wonderful agent will restore manhood to the most f battered constitution, whether arising . from self-pollution, excesses, nocturnal emissions , the effects of climate, or natu ral causes. Th e time required' to re the most inveterate case is four weeks ; and, if used ao ding to the printed in 4ruetions (which are very sim ple ) , cc h failure r is impossible. Tis life-restoring remedy should be taken by all about to Iry grry, as its effects are permanent It is acknowledged by press to be th e greatest discovery ever made. s ucc e c d : cal s in every case is as ce r t a i n as that water quenches tlllie ni irr. st. PEico rd's Essence of Life i s sold in cases, with full in s4ructions for I:Ee, at lls., or four quantiti es i n one for 338., 3 ‘ ncl Will be sent to any part of the w or l d, carefully packed, ' rece ipt of remit P.IICC or post-oflice orde r p ayable to Trout at% Co.. ratelat MediAneWarchcupe, 229, St rand, London. 11 _____ pOST-0 F F I CE 'i' URK I s H ----- 1 3 --- AT H s so, St. I.lrartin's-lc-(rand. 25. till 5, and Is. &I. from 5 till 9; Sundays, is t . An BSS NY on TURKISH BATHING, „ n . • .in 1. ratis. orruoiss OF TIFF; PRESS. "The Use and the Abuse of the Turkis B h ath.--A p. , useful pam!dilet has been published by Dr. CulverellT, ii i 3; proprietor of the Turkish Baths in the neighbourhood of the Post-office, which prese nts to the uninitiated a mass of inte_ restin.c , informal ion. while those who have already encouraz e d this new system will derive additional advantage if they observe some of the p: actical regulations which the writer 9ndeavours to e n force. '-- Herald and Starl,drarrtdi,N,so-yk.-IG?.,rlaBL.. " The Post-ofTice Turkish rath.,lo, St., a n —Dr. Cuiverwell has already established the reputation of an ab7e phv6ician ; he has.n ow proved himself to be t a worthy philanthr4ist, in as far as lie has established, in he heart of the City, an institution that more nearly than any metros very of modern days, goes nearer the abolition of the p of physic., than any proposition or invention yet established, the Turkish Bath. . . Our object being • merely to direct the attention of our City readers to the fact that they possess wohainnihsedi bathec m o h f o t the l s t e ‘av e. admirable tmi e l y rtaia. s yld e , le t ti o i le : pee b rof i a o.fe t ie l it i i s .e , e at . lit, - I e - C, r ~, n d which, rais site e, c n o i whileoi i t (l a e ei rnvi obtained ar g - y ' D p r. er C fe u e l r ve in rw a- ell it h s a a s P fi P t i t ia e ndceus p ' do - ranee, luxury,and refinement , the space'at his disposal, ‘ is truly sur ttoliinaitltniteasetoemofro d t e andlica c r u c x o u u r l d . ot desire th e visitor. . . We may justly v that r if a man eN? ' er feels himself regenerated and new made, itis_ . on:.com " ing out:of:a Turkish ISath."—Era, Oct 13, _ _ .. 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In designing the Enterprise a moderate speed only has been secured; Mr. Reed having considered that where the speed must neces sarily be limited to about nine or ten knots an hour (as it must be in plated vessels of the Enterprise's dimensions), it would be imprudent to sacrifiee the protection of any vital portion of the chip for the mere cake of a mile an hour, or there abouts. We arc informed that her Majesty's steamer Enterprise, which has been commenced during the present week at Deptford Dockyard under Mr. Reed's superintendence, is the embodiment of t line and a an entirely new system of naval constru c t ion, an d is even a more remarkable vessel than the A merican Monitor, of which the world ha 3 lately heard so much. Like the latter vessel, the Enterprise has of r ee g l u i u m s a s d t e a e na x i t u rm u e p ly ab s o t N r ,c on t g hi i s n lo t w ne s n h e o i t g - h p b ro o o u f ri l io u o l d l. s t a h l e so E a n n te e r le p v r a is t e ed ha b s at b te e r e y n ° But, 11 o unlike water h eMonitor, provided with upper works, within h wh" ic ample and healthful accommodation is afforded for officers and men, and by means of which the ship has been made thoroughly seaworthy, so that she may be sent to any part of the world. The armament which the English vessel carry will likewise be much more powerful than the Monitor's, and each gun will have a range of fire greatly exceeding all that has ever before been obtained with ordinary broadside guns, and scarcely inferior to that which the Monitor's turret, or Captain Coles's cupola secures ; while all the difficulty and danger that attend the employment of immense revolving towers in rigged sea-going ships, are got rid of. The system of construction which Mr. Reed, the designer of the Enterprise, has developed, is applicable to ships of all sizes and classes, and while it is the first system that has rendered the construction of comparatively small sea-going fleets practicable, it is also the first which has rendered the application of extremely thick and heavy armour to our larger ships pos sible. It is said, on good authority, that it is perfectly practicable to build ships upon this sys tem which shall carry armour plates of ten inches or even a foot thick, and shall at the same time be armed even with the 300-pounder Armstrong guns, if Sir W. Armstrong can supply them. If fact, we can see no mechanical limit either to the offensive or defensive powers which may be given, not to our coast defence vessels only, but even to our sea-going ships, if Mr. Reed's method of applying the armour where it is indispensable, and there alone, be found practicable and fully carried out. As the tendency at present undoubtedly is to increase both the thick ness of our armour and the pewee of our guns, we may consider ourselves furtunate in having had this new system of naval construction produced just at this present crisis. It is no less gratifying to know that the new vessels will cost no more than our old fashioned wooden vessels, excepting the mere price of the armour plates put upon them.—Mechanics' Itlagazzne. PRICE ...4d. STAMPED ....sd. step will be a dangerous one for the Taipings. Eight hundred of the French troops from Sttigon are about to leave Hung Kong for Niegpo (it is suaosed), and the probability is that the city will be token under allied protection in the same man ner as Shanghße, and thus the intimation conveyed to the insurgents that we meant to protect both places will be made good. We hear that a thou sand of our own troops are at present on their way from India, so that decisive action appears to h ave been determined on—certainly this is better than half measurer, _ At Canton some alterations l'aVO been made in the importation of opium, steamers only being now permitted to bring opium into that port. Some races have been held here, of which an account appears elsewhere. It is stated that the Governor-General of the Two Kwang will shortly pay a visit of friendship to Sir Hercules Robinson. THE SUN, LoNDor, TUESDAY EVE NI \`G, MAY 13, L 862. 1118 NAVY. ~~_ Yesterday morning Prince Arthur landed early from the Vivid, rnd, in the company of Col. Owen, R. 1., Director of Works, inspected the new fort at Tregantle and the battery at Cawsand, to the west of Plymouth. his Royal Highness then crossed the Sound to the eastern batteries constructing at Bovisand, Staddon-heights, and Turnchapel, where he was received in a barge, which conveyed him to the Old Citadel at Plymouth. In the evening he re-embarked on board the Vivid. To-day he will probably go to Tavistock. _ _ _ The Shannon screw frigate, Capt. Wainwright, was undocked yesterday at Portsmouth, and placed in the steam basin preparatory to commencing her experimental screw trials. The Coquette, 5, screw, Commander Alexander sailed from Spithead yesterday afternoon for the China station. The Java target ship, at Portsmouth, has been removed from her moorings in Porchester Creek to a berth in Portsmouth harbour, preparatory to being broken up, when she will be succeeded as a target ship by the Sultan, old line-of-battle ship, which has been specially selected for the purpose. An examination of the remains of the various ar mour plates on the sides of the Java would be the means of imparting a considerable amount of in struction relative to the resisting powers of ships' armour. As may be surmised, the plates, the majority of which are 4 inch, are very uneven in thesr quality, comparing them with each other. Some have broken up like sheets of glass under the impact of the first two or three blows, while others exhibit extraordinary tenacity and resisting power. Two of the latter class deserve special mention. Both are 41 inch plates, and both had been pre viously fired at on their day of official testing by the Stork's 68-pounder. They had exhibited such good qualities on that occasion that it was deter mined to try them experimentally with two wrought iron shot at a short distance with increased charge. The first plate fired was manufactured at the Thames Iron shipbuilding Company's Works, The charge of powder was 221 b., and the distance 50 yards ; the shot buried itself two-thirds its diameter in the plate, and remained, causing no fracture. The other plate, manufactured at the Atlas Works, Sheffield, was fired at also with a wrought iron shot at the same range,but with 251 b. powder. In this instance the shot entered the plate three , fourths of its diameter and remained. The screw steamer Galatea, 26, 800 horse-power, recently fitted at Chatham, is ordered -to be com missioned at Devonport with a complement of 485 officers and men, including one captain, one subal tern, and 69 non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal Marine Artillery and Royal Marines. The Echunga sailing transport, with military invalids on board from Hong Kong, sailed from Spithead for the Thames yesterday afternoon. In the list of naval appointments contained in The 82171 of Friday, read "R. W. Beaumont" instead of " R. W. Beaufort," surgeon, to the Jason. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Commodore Robert Douglas Gordon, to the Vesuvius, commissioned ; Lieut. , Charles S. Brownrigg, from the Excellent, to the Galatea ; Lieut. George H. Blake, to the Vesuvius ; Sub-Lieut. H. A. Monteith and Sub-Lieut. Ralph de B. Hawtrey, to the Galatea ; Dr. Joseph Brown, surgeon, to the Galatea ; Dr. Robert Hague, assist.- surg., to the Hawke ; Dr. Francis B. Hurley, acting assist.-surg., to the Trafalgar; C. W. Wakeman, C. A. Vog well, and T. J. Richard, acting second. class assist.-engineers, to the Asia ; Alex. Collins, assist.-paymaster, and Thomas D. Riordan, acting assist.-paymaster, to the Galatea : J. W. Ozzaid, paymaster, advanced to the first-class ; C. A. Prit chard, paymaster, advanced to the second-class; and E. J. Giles, paymaster, advanced to the third class. THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. A correspondent of the Few Dirk Herald, writ ing i'rona the Federal squadron off New ()define, gives is description of the strength of the Federal fleet and the defences of New Oi•leans:— " The sq'iadron (he says) consists of 8 sloops, of from 10 to 2S guns each, 15 gunboats, carrying from 5 to 6 guns, 1 schoon , 2r, 9 guns, and 21 schooners, each carrying a heavy mortar and two 32-pounders —total, 45 vessels, carrying 286 guns and 21 mor tars. The first obstacles to be met with by this formidable fleet in its approach to New Orleans are Forts Jackson and St, Philip, the first on the west ern, the second on the eastern bank of the river. Both are strong fortifications, and were pronounced years ago to be capable of beating off any navy in the world. • Fort St. Phillip commands some three miles of the river, exposing an ascending fleet to a direct raking fire for the distance of more than a mile. It is supported by three or four batteries, and has in all 85 channel-bearing guns, several of which are sup posed to be 100-pound rifles of English manufacture. Fort Jackson, with its flanking batteries, mounts 90 guns, 16 being in casemate, and is a very formi dable work. Both forts are built of brick. Just below the two forts, stretched diagonally across the river, and supported by a raft and seven vessels, are several heavy chains, which must in some man ner be removed before the forts can be passed. These chains are protected by,earthworks at each end, besides being under the fire of both forts. At their western extremity, where they are made fast to an anchored raft, a passage is left for the rebel fleet to piss up and down, and through this passage they daily issue. The New 1 orle 2 it/ties sums up the news on the subject thus : The news of the capture of New Orleans, which we received from the South at a late hour last night, clears up gloriously the mystery which for some time has hung arovnd the movements of our navy and army upon the Lower Mississippi. We had already had intelligence that our bombketches had opened fire upon Fort Jackson, 60 miles below the city, and yesterday morning we published news, derived from the rebels, that one of our gunboats had run past that work. But the defenders of the fort, it vc as said, had sent word to their friends that they were confident of their strength, and were able to endure the shelling as long as our fleet was able to keeps it up. That news was up to Tuesday last. It appears certain that, notwithstanding the rebel bombast, Fort Jackson, and probably also Fort St. Phillip, on the opposite side of the river,were reduced that very day ; for by the gray dawn on Wednesday morning our armada had steamed past the fortifica tions, any by noon it appeared, with power and terror, before the Crescent City. At this point the telegram stops short, and leaves us completely in the dark as to what has been done during the last four as is probable, sent in a capitulation lre of the city, and what days. dem an Whether Vh for eth thee r Gen. Blet may have followed—a compliance with or refusal of the terms of the demand—we do not yet know. But it is altogether unlikely that any serious at tempt was made to defend the city itself. Indeed, New Orleans was utterly incapable of defence, when once our fleet got in front of it. With 100 gun and mortar boats riding high above the city, ready to pour down upon it a torrent of fire and iron, it would be madness for the rebels to dream of any other terms than unconditional surrender. It has been thought that the land force accompany ing the expedition was too small to repossess a city which must still count somewhat like 150,000 in habitants; and so it would be if the military con tingent had to act alone; but the fact is that the naval arm, when once raised over the city, was of itself sufficient to hold it in complete subjection ; and the only work for the troops "would be to seize and garrison some few important positions in the city, raise the stars and stripes over the United States' property and other public places, and act as a repressive police force. The rebels will be dis armed; the Union element, which is known to be strong in New Orleans, will be organised ; and General Butler, from his headquarters in the eSt. Charles Hotel, will put in force whatever other measures aro necessary for the securing of public order. The seizure of this, the greatest city of the Jef ferson Davis Confederacy, will be a terrible dis• heartenment for the rebels, and is in itself almost equivalent to a defeat of Beauregard's army at Corinth, if that army has not yet been destroyed by the forces of Gen. HaHeck. At all events, it will compel the rebels of the south-west to fight their last battle on their present line of operation. Beau regard is pressed, if not already assailed, by Hal leek in front; General Mitchel will prevent his re treat towards Mobile; Butler forbids his approach to New Orleans ; and our gunboats can pass up the Mississippi and attack Memphis in front—acting in conjunction with Commodore Foote above. The way is also opened for the gunboats to pass up the Red River and. across the entire of Lou . isiana. to Shreveport ; to pas s up the Arkansas River and through the entire State of Arkansas to Fort Smith ; and to pass up the Yazoo River and through a great part of the State of Mis sissippi. In fact, it opens up a passage through more than a half of the remnant of a Confederacy still nominally held by the rebel rulers, Thus, by this splendid stroke of our river navy, we see not only the fall of the Southern metropolis, but also a moral and territorial gain for the national cause,which far overshadows in importance even this. If the news be allowed to reach the rebel army at Corinth—and it certainly cannot be kept from it more than a day or two—it must complete its demoralisation ; for it will demonstrate beyond a peradventure that the cause in which it fights is hopeless. There can be no prospect to the rebels of recapturing the city, for the railroad leading to it will be destroyed, and a de scent by the river is impossible. The whole of South Louisiana is a vast plain, and in no event can the rebels make a stand anywhen near the city. New Orleans is the great commercial and finan cial emporium of the ;youth. It is to the Gulf coast what New York is to the Atlantic coast. Its fall will be to the South a worse blow oven than the capture of New York byean enemy would be to the North. Through it more than half of the cotton crop of the entire South passes to the world, while its exports of sugar, molasses, tobacco, and corn ex ceed those of any other southern city. There is, probably, not much cotton there now, but the fact that we also virtually possess a great part of the ' cotton-growing territory, will secure its speedy ex port with or without the will of the planters. A New York telegram of the 29th, in the Boston journals, says—" Special despatches from Washing ton state it is rumoured that the Government is in possession of information which may possibly lead to cessation of hostilities. A mediation and compro mise form the basis of the rumour. Doubtful." The Kew York World publishes the following from its Washington correspondent : " I have reason to believe that there has been discussion at the Treasury department respecting the policy of raising the blockade of Southern ports as they came into possession of the Union forces, and I am assured by a gentleman who is in constant communication with the Government, that there is little doubt the blockade of New Orleans will be raised immediately on the Union authority being established there. It will be remembered that the blockade was not established along the whole line of the coast at ono time, but part by part, and of course it can be raised by the same method." The Con federate papers were commenting upon the possible chances of a defeat at Yorktown. The ,Cobile !sews says : Probably at least 200,000 of the best men Lincoln has under arms compose the forces which threaten the Confederates in front and flank. If they have of march they taken up the advance line fight must us or retreat dishonoured and defeated without a blow. If we decline to fight them we must yield Richmond, and that is giving up Virginia. If we fight them and are signally defeated, Richmond and Virginia are lost, for nothing will exist to stem the inpourEng of the horde of victors. If we fight them and defeat them we cripple, perhaps fatally, the war power and war spirit of the North. THE OVERLAND MAIL. INDIA. The news from India by this mail is scanty, and its interest is eclipsed by that of Mr. Laing's Finan cial Statement, a telegraphic summary of which, dated six days after the departure of the Calcutta mail, appeared in our impression of yesterday. The following is from the Frzend of India of the 10th April. _ _ Lord Elgin has given great satisfaction by the tone of his replies to two public bodies—the Chamber of Commerce and the native gentry of Bengal, who approached him with addresses of congratulation. The latter took occasion to mingle with their congratulatory observations some remarks which appeared to evince a feeling of general hostility to their European fel low-subjects. Alluding to the present facilities for the introduction of British capital, skill, and energy they hoped " that his excellency would see the in expediency of violent changes iu the laws of the land or of artificial aid to sulpitatists, incompatible with justice to other classes of the community, such as cannot fail to frustrate the end which all have in view, as well as to tarnish the British name and honour." Lord Elgin replied to this graceful hint by dwelling upon " the maintenance of order, and the vigorous repression at the earliest moment of any attempt to disturb it," as his chief duties, ren dered indispensable by recent events. His answer to the Chamber of Commerce, on the other hand, was distinguishedby a warmth and frankness which were called forth by the fairness of some remarks in their address. He said—" I hail as one of the most hopeful of the signs of the times, your assur ance that the belief in the" supposed antagonism of interests between the non-official Europeans and the natives of the soil is passing away—and the manly, creditable declaration contained in your address, that nothing which injures the well-being of the people at large can benefit you, and that you ask for no privileges for yourselves which you are not prepared to advocate for them. I invite you, therefore, gentlemen, to communicate with me un reservedly and frankly on all ouestions by which you suppose that your interests may be affected, or where you believe that your knowledge and expe rience may be useful to me, and to give me credit for sharing your conviction that, rightly understood and fairly pursued, your interests—the interests, namely, of that enterprising class which •carries into regions morally stagnant and materially un improved the vivifying influences of British energy land British capital—are coincident with those of the community at large." CHINA AND JAPAN. The following is from the Overland China Mail of the Ist April:— On the 13th ult. a rebel fleet with provisions and munitions was dispersed and partly destroyed by our gunboats some distance up the river, where their presence was deemed -hostile to the safety of _ _ Shanghae. On the 14th ultimo, an Imperial force encountered the rebels at Sooking, an unwalled town between Shanghae and Tsingpoo ; the fight was at first likely to be in favour of the insurgents, but the arrival of Co]. Ward and his force of dis- ciplined Chinese gave the Imperial party a com plete victory ; the engagement is said to have been sharp, as the rebels, though finally routed, made a desperate resistance. The defeated force fell back upon Tsingpoo, which is 25 miles from Shanghae, and forms their nearest head-quarters. Admiral Hope is continnally out with parties, either reconnoitering, or driving off the enemy. The fight near Ming-Hong, in which our own force took part, on Feb. 27, has been fully described by a correspondent of the North China Mail. We quote the concluding part of his letter : From inquiry and observation the number of Taiping rebels holding the place could not have been less than 6,0u0 ; of these between 600 and 700 were killed, and upwards of 300 taken prisoners. The streets and houses presented an awful specta cle. The bodies in some places lying in heaps, and the plain beyond the village was strewed with those who were shot down in the flight. The practice of Bradshaw's mountain howitzers was good, as soon as the range was obtained, but the rockets were a failure. The French guns also played with great effect. Every one engaged beho.ved with coolness and courage, advancing gradually, and getting through the before-mentioned formidable obstacles forming the outer defences, through the trench, and right up the breastwork long before the guns were silenced. As for the Chinese organised under Col. Ward, they seemed to know no fear, end perhaps exposed themselves too much. The loss of this force was one officer very badly wounded, about ten rank and file killed, and 40 wounded, some severely. Two or three English marines were wounded; but from their being kept better under cover, the foreign portion of the force suffered slightly in comparison. The British admiral him self, accompanied by Mr. Alabaster, the consulate interpreter, was right in front, directing the attack in that pert ; while Ward and his men vigorously assailed the enemy on the left. After all was over, the village was set on fire, and the foreign troops embarked for Shanghae. In the foreign settlement of Shanghae the fore going facts form the leading subjects of public at tention. The admiral's conduct is censured by a few, but approved of by many more. In addition to the corps of volunteers at present organised, viz. an infantry and a mounted corps, it is proposed to have an artillery corps. Nearly 80,000 refugees are at present in Shanghae, and it is a hard matter to attend to their wants. Foreign and native as sistance has been liberally given them, but their presence has caused a kind of dearth, and made living more expensive. In this crisis the tea packers combined to squeeze their foreign employers ; but an appeal to the Taou-tae resulted in a proclamation forbidding such combinations. It has been neces sary to warn the police in the foreign settlement against joining the now popular corps commanded by Col. Ward; some of them had asked p ermission to do so, but were refused. From Peking there is no intelligence of import- ante. From Japan, we learn that there has been a destructive fire in the foreign settlement of Yoko hama, which has caused to ono or two merchants very considerable loss. The Second Minister of Foreign Affairs, who is also a member of the Goro gio, was lately set upon and assaulted by a band of assassins; he escaped with his life. The matter is considered by some to have a political significance. The three Nort hern p orts are still, by the last advices, closed up with ice. From flankow we hear that trade is promising well. Mr. Th omas Dick, who has charge of the customs at that port, has entered on his duties, and is likely to prove a competent officer; The cold wea ther was abating. The imperialist " braves" quartered hi the neighbourho o d have been very troublesome, so much so that a complaint has been forwarded by the foreign residents to her Britannic Majesty's consul at Shanghae. They have been equally so at Kittlriang. From Nanking, a correspondent of the North China Ileraltriays that the • Imperial forces are ap pearing on the opposite batik of the river, and seem to meditate hostilities against the holders of the ancient Ming capital. From Nino bpor we have news to the effect that a rebel fleet i s preparing to capture Chusan ; this ?HE ARNE Detachments of the Coldstream and Fusileer Guards, under the command of Col. de Bathe and Capt. Blackett, arrived at Eastbourne on Friday, from Aldershot and London, to go through a course of musketry practice. Upwards of 100 of the men are under canvass, as there was not sufficient bar rack room to accommodate them. _ In addition to the particulars given a week since in Me Sun with respect to the new cavalry bar racks at Colchester, it may be stated that a regi mental reading-room and school-room are to be pro vided. Upon the ground floor will be a day-room, in which the men can assemble at pleasure, 135 ft by 27ft in extent ; and above will be the reading room, 75ft by 23ft, with library, librarian's quar ters, cook's room, and coffee-room attached. The schoolroom will be 40ft in length by 20ft in width. Attached are apartments for a schoolmistress and an enclosed playground for the children. The hired troopship Sir George Grey, Captain Wilkins, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the Cape of Good Hope. She sailed thence on the sth of March, arrived at St. Helena on the 17th, and sailed again on the 13th. She has brought home Major Romer, 59th Regiment, wife and family; Lieut. Tibbs, 2d Battalion 11th Regiment ; Ensign Lapel, 85th Regiment ; Staff-Surgeon M'Queen, and 97 invalided soldiers from the Royal Engineers and Artillery, 10th, 11th, 13th, and 87th Regi ments ; two prisoners, under sentence of court-mar tial, of the 59th; and 23 women and 28 children. Mr. 'Paisley, late of the Royal Engineers Depart ment at the Cape, also came home in the ship. Fine weather, with generally favourable winds, was ex perienced during the passage until the 6th instant, when heavy weather was experienced, which continued the remainder of the voyage. The Lizard was sighted on the 10th instant. On the 19th of April, in lat. 23.53, long. 35.40, Captain Wilkins report that the southern cross and polar star were both distinctly visible at midnight. The ship received htr orders and sailed for the Thaws, with the troops on board, last evening. Numerous applications have already been received by the Duke of Cambridge, through the Deputy Adjutant-General, Royal Engineers, for Royal En gineer instructors to be appointed to the several Volunteer Engineer corps, under the regulations re. cently issued by the Commander-in- Chief. Orders have accordingly been forwarded to the head-quar ters of the Royal Engineer establishment, Cb.atham, directing that the several candidates for appoint ment as instructors are to be completed in their course of instruction as speedily us possible, in order that no delay may arise in supplying instruc tors to those Engineer corps requiring them. The whole of the Royal Engineers who have gone through their rifle drill have commenced a course of pontooning with Gen. Pasley's large pontoons, with the view of enabling the instructors to acquire a knowledge of their use, in order to impart it to the Volunteers. Intelligence has been received at Chatham from the companies of Royal Engineers lately despatched to Canada ; announcing that they aro employed, without intermission, in strengthening the fortifi cations and erecting new defences along the line of the British frontier. The officers anti men are all a the 4th in excell en t h ea l t h, an d are anx i ous ly awaiting the permission o f G overnmen t t o h ave their wives and families se n t out to t h em. Th e com p an i e s of Royal Engineer s now stat i oned i n B r i t i s h N ort h A mer i ca Woolwich ,7th, 15fh, and 18th, in addition to which tti re the are two companies stationed Ar s enal do ot not, Bermuda.as The instructions issued on Saturday regarding admission to stated yesterday, render tickets unnecessary. Visitors can only be admitted on Tuesdays and Thursdays, be tween the hours of ten and four o'clock, on produc t tion of cards, which must be obtained at the War office, Pall-mall. The statement in regard to the admission of foreigners is ; qu.to correct. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. The arrival of the new governor, Sir Dominick Daly, and the departure of his predecessor were the chief events in South Australia in the month ending March 26. The Register of that date says:— The comparative failure of the harvest and the low price of grain, following upon the unsatisfactory results of agricultural operations for the last three years, have dealt a heavy blow to the farming inte rest, and rendered things in that direction very uncertain for the future. Hitherto we have been able to find a market for the chief portion of our surplus produce in the neighbouring colony of Victoria ; that market is now, however, all but closed to us by the increased production of our neighbours, and prices have fallen below a remunerative point. By a re duction in the price of labour, by the employment of machinery, and by resorting to better modes of farm ing, it is possible that wheat may be grown at a price that will enable us regularly to export it to the English market at a profit. If so, the agricultural interest might be largely extended here. But if not, then agriculturists will have to turn their attention to other pursuits, as a very small proportion of our farming power will be sufficient to produce all the wheat we require for home consumption. Looking at the wheat- averages in Great Britain for the last twenty or thirty years, we are sanguine as to the result of exporting our breadstuff thence. Messrs. Hughes and Co.'s Wallaroo and Moonta Mines on Yorke's Peninsula are turning out large quanties of ore; and the Cornwall Mining Com pany's claims are becoming very productive. The Bremer Mine, in the Mount Barker District, is also looking well. Some of the new discoveries in the north are said to show large quantities of surface ore, but we are not in a position to give any special information respecting them. The Burra Burra and liapunda Mines are working as usual. At the former, however, the number of hands has been considerably reduced, in consequence of the large demand for mining at Wallaroo, and from the deter mination of the directors to dispense with all un necessary expenditure. We hope, by the end of the year, the export of copper and copper ore will show a large increase upon that of any previous year in the history of the colony. NEW SOUTH WALES. We read in the Sydney Herald of March 21 : The event of the month most remarkable is the advance made in the production of gold. Accounts have reached us privately which, if borne out by further experience, will justify the conclusion that gold mining has made a decided spring, and that its share in our exports will entitle the colony to rank with the most important gold-producing countries. More than twelve thousand ounces were delivered at the Mint last Saturday from the various fields ; but our telegram informs us that the next escort from the Lachlan —a comparatively new district—will amount to fifteen thousand ounces. The produce of the last five or six years has been no mean item in our exports, but it has been subject to considerable fluctuation, from the restless movements of the diggers and the Chinese disturbances, which have been attended with so much general loss. We have never yet had a Ballarat or Bendigo to fix the mining population, or to give those great results which have been achieved by its concentrated efforts. There is, however, no reason, that we have ever been able to comprehend, for supposing that the political line which divides this from the adja cent colony distinguishes their probable auriferous fortunes. It has always been the faith of New South Wales that industry and perseverance would some time or other fall upon the right place, and that we should see some such examples of progress as have been so often witnessed in the neighbouring colon RAILWAY AND 'PUBLIC COMPANIES IN PARLIAMENT. Yesterday the committee appointed to consider the merits of the various railways for the Kentish and South-Eastern district assembled in committee room No. 4. The bills of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company for their proposed extensions to Walmer and Deal, and from Bromley to St. Mary's Cray, were postponed for the present, and the ease of the Mid-Kent and Addiscombe Rail way for a three mile junction line between Becken ham and Addiscombe, and to raise £35,000 by new shares, and £11,500 by loan, was opened. The bill is opposed by the London, Chatham, and Dover, and by the Brighton and South Coast Company, in favour of whose locus standi Mr. Serg com eant Wrang ham made a long address. Ultimately the mit tee decided in the affirmative, and then proceeded with the general evidence. The opposition of the Lancashire and Yorkshire, Cheshire, Midland, Great Western, and other interests, to the bill of the London and North-Western Railway for additional powers having been concluded, the committee passed the bill and settled the clauses. The TeamN - alley was Extensions Bill of the North Eastern Railway also passed. In the committee on the West Riding ( Hull and Grimsby Railway, the evidence of Capt. t a h a e y. Nor E th vid E en as e t e er i n n O'Brien, general managerof R f a a v i o l u w r a o y f, the occupied iv etheng entireten, Drayton, and Newcastle was continued ; Mr. Ashdown C.E., being the principal witness examined. The case of the Rad stock and Keynsham Railway, in Mr. Adair's com mittee, is tending to a termination. In the committees on Scottish railways, the case of the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction, and Inver ness and Ross-shire Railway Companies' Bills, for the purpose of vesting the latter in the former, the authorised loan capital of the united company to amount to £271,580, was opened by Mr. Hope Scott, Q.C., and witnesses examined by Mr. Mere wether, Q.C., and Mr. Loch, and the opposition hav ing been overruled, the bill passed unopposed. The committee having decided that the North British Company had no locus standi in opposition to the bill of the Edinburgh and Glasgow, further evidence was taken in its favour. The bills disposed of in the Lords were the London and South Western Additional Powers Bill, for a branch from the South ampton and Dorchester, near Wareham, to Creech. Heath, in the Purbeck Clay District, for enlarging their stations at Nine-elms, Vauxhall, and South ampton ; for additional rails to Southampton ; and to regulate their share capital, the present amount of which is declared to be £9,207,316; North Devon Railway and Dock, to authorise the Admi.raltyrov• repay the company £3,000, to be laid out in imp_ Zon ing and deepening the estuary of the Taw ; donderry and Coleraine, to revise powers granted for the creation of four classes of debentures, and with liberty to lease the line. Ceylon Railway, t o wind up the undertaking ; Weston-super-Mare Pier, Hatfield Chase, Limerick Markets, Tranmero and Halifax Corporation. Improvement, THE DESTRUCTION OF SMALL BIRDS. The season has begun for holding jubilees of the Sparrow Clubs, and scarcely a week now will pass in which we shall not be called upon to record the celebration of one or more of these village festivals. We shall be requested to chro nicle how farmer Giles took the chair ; labourer Hodge, the vice ; how mine host of the Toad under the Harrow supplied a supper in his usual splendid style, utterly regardless of cost ; how old Job Lynx eye, tenant farmer, and young Abel Anvil, black smith, produced so many thousand heads of small birds, and triumphantly carried off certain sweep stakes provided for the victors; how the evening was spent in mellifluous harmony; how the patriotic aviscides passed a most agreeable night, and how they did " not go home till morning." Now we have serious doubts whether these bird slayers do not do a great deal more harm than good; and we should be greatly obliged if some experienced person, cap able of fending a correct opinion on the matter, would direct his attention to it, and favour us with the result of his inquiries. Our own decided im pression is, that it is mischievous folly to destroy indiscriminately all small birds ; but we should much like to be favoured with really sound practical information on the subject. Hitherto our French neighbours have been the most inveterate of bird destroyers. The result has been so enormous an in crease of those reptiles and insects which prey upon the crops of grain and other vegetable food, and so deficient a harvest, that we should not be surprised if the French Government were to resort to strin gent measures to prevent this wholesale slaughter. Let us state just two facts for the consideration of our rural readers, and there we shall leave the matter for the present. The cockchafer deposits from 70 to 100 eggs, which are soon transformed into white grubs, which live on the roots of our most valuable vegetables. The weevil produces from '7O to 90 eggs, which laid in so many grains of corn become larva), and soon eat up the corn. Now swallows, hedge sparrows, and other small birds live principally on grubs, caterpillars, and other insects and an imal cules which prey on and destroy the pro duc t s of agriculture. Ten swallow s were recently killed and dissected, and in their stomachs were found the re mains of 5,482 insects, which must have been the result of a very feW hours' feeding. We trust that our farmers will be induced to think over this ;matter, and will not join in unreasoning crusades against sparrows and water wagtails, on account of the good supper at the " Toad under the Harrow," and of the conviviality of the guests over the dead bodies of larks, wrens, finches, white throats, and others of the fea ihered songsters, whose notes for purity, richness, melody, and variety, we will back against all the boisterous glee of all the bacchanals who ever assembled at the ie Toad ander the Harrow" aforesaid.— West Surrey Times. TEE _ROYAL SOVEREIGN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—l observed in your impression of Saturday some remarks relative to the Royal Sovereign, cutting down, with which my name was coupled, as it also was with the experiments said to be about to take place against a shield fitted in the Trusty. The erroneous impressions which I find to be entertained. by my own profession and the country at large relative to my responsibility in these matters induce me to hope you will allow me, through you r columns, an opportunity of explaining how I am situated with respect to them. So . far from my being in any way responsible in either case, I have not even been consulted; and as regards the Princ: Albert, now being built by Mr. Sammie, my part is ne e apparently limited in her construction to preparing tile drawings for her shields. . auc i e g or It therefore becomes evident that any defici barge. shortcomings which may occur cannot be laid to tit t_iY c - o . c h and I made certain statements in your columns in ... what I April last relative to vessels on my plan. 1 rer.asertiens," then said—" I am ready to s t an d or fall by 111 ''' were I allowed to carry out my views',... bee n put together The shield now fitted in the Trustloor not the press without my knowledge, and it wai; o have not been allowed. that I learnt it was being done._ c learn, I fear it cannot beto seuepneeridinetreenddteit, representand, fro nvention. Such being the r es uoilictaSkrti Itisenro::::DO0:::: h er b MlaBjoesty%;' ship severable for the results cif 0 : So 1:0: OUn u e r .: s . case, I cannot in any' - way understand are to be made fo i rmer shield (which under. , the experiments whiff quite ready to put Eder Captain A, However, we re . at - al e a v m ents, that some reliable Powell, C. 1 3., and x n bine a y l l an, 1a u Excellent) and t with g e wthSoeiurri delvVtehinieeleinthavmegi d valuable data should be gained from whatever experi an meets it might be deemed advisable to submit it to. went such a I can now only leave it to the impartial judgment of others whether this shield, put together without my know.. ledge or superintendence (or even that of the leading man formerly employed on it), can be considered a fair experi ment, or be productive of any reliable results in connection with the great question of offence and defence —a question upon the right so l u ti on o f w hi c h so much in this p resent day depend s,—Your obedient sawn', COW PER P. Cars. 2, Clarence-parade, Southsea, May 12. --- .., --""----'' The returns of the savings' banks in t he state or New York show that the aggregate deposits th ° ist a January, 1862, were 61,083,150 dollars, or less than on the Ist of January, 1861, by 3 1 36 7 247 dollars. i ►~. I I I