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A T a GENERAL COURT of PROPRIETORS, - 4 --1- held at the B %Sic of N H GLAND, on TURSDAY, the 20th 31 arci., 1862, E Resolved, - That the thanks of this Court be given to the Governor, Deputy-Governor, and Court of Directors of the Bank of England, for their able management of the affairs of the Corporation during the last half-year, and especially for the accommodation derived to the public by the arrangement under which the shuttingls of the stock books have been en tirely superseded. Ordered, —Th a t th e said resolution be advertised in MI the daily morning and evening papers, JAMES STE vutuT, Secretary. TURIN AND SAVONA RAILWAY NOT ICE Io COMPANY. w e ill ei b p e TIETIEBY GIVEN, That Scrip Certificates Ti 51) - , Y for. deli very, i n exchange for tie Bankers' hours 'on and a f ter M ONDAY, 31st inst., between the_ Oflic;3.l aroft 2. The B an k er ' s R ece i pts must b e l e ft at the char days previous to the delivery of the Scrip, By order of the Directors. Gresham • House, 18th March, 1862. .-~ FeONOINIIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, ..i 6, New Bridge-street, ifillackfriars. London, 7th March, 1862. This is to Give Notice, London, the Annual GENERAL trOILTRT will be held at 'ciao Society's house, No. 6, New Itriclg-e-strect, mackfriav:6, on SATIRIDAY, the 224 da 3 larch, at Two o'clock '7drtroisely, to receive the Auditors' Re port - of the receipts a'.1401 disbursements of the Society during the year 1861, and to elect Auditors for the present year. BY 0 :11 , ,T of the Board of Directors, ALEXANDER MACDONALD, Secretary. T HE -1 I 0 1 TECTOR ENDOWMENT, LOAN, AND ANNUITY COMPANY. At tiv, Annual Ordinary General 'Alee;ing of the Share lio h: ; ers - in this Company, held on Thursday, March 20, at theirt ollices, 34 King-street, Cheapside, the following Re pot' for the year ending 31st December, 1801, was unaui rnously adopted : The Directors have the pleasure of meeting you on the pre sent occasion to lay before yon, according. to custom, the statement of the receipts and disbursements of the Company lor the year ,vhich ended on the 31st December last, to sub further yo'n a report of proceedings, and to transact such tion 0 Pratters as devolve, in accordance with our constitu tion, n the Annual Meeting of Shareholuers. ,[ue Directors who retire by rotation on this occasion are .;,uosp,e Tyler, Erg., and William Henry Thornthwaite, Esq. ; reoOth of these gentlemen are again eligible, and have ex ssed their willingness to continue their services to the - .l . o °M ,.„ l ?arlY, and are therefore now recommended to you as ; . 1“," 1 -44' the list for election, by the present meeting. 1 , 'le Auditors of the Co - rapany's Accounts, G -, ,,0r,, ,, e IL Lad '',l_Y, Esq, Joseph Wi.'diams, Esq., and George /.owe, Esq., "`„;`, 6 ,?, how retire is annual custom, and all are eligible and "itng to serve in the f3Pane capacity 'tor the current year. STATEMENT SHEET. .I),_Tohnis printed 'statement which has been forwarded to each _ , e r shareheAders so fully details the various operations of V_ past yerAr, that' little Is left to be said in addition. All o';,separtrnen'c.s of the Company's business are in most, ex '''`ent and efficient working order , and white this condition Riad r, laxity . , . I„,4gti is maintained, few incidents arise sufficiently fourcj„, n ,ent, to claim attention in a (eneral Report. - ' - 'eposits, as shown in the published sheet, continue to a s th a very large and important branch of the business ; and u ?rese are neither forced by thp crump ai lkof advertisement, het ( e duced by the offer of high rates of filterest, we cannot „,...,eel both that our mode of management meets the public hinirements, and that the public feel entire confidence in ' i."'"elne . their funds in our hands. It has been our object to ifotlcles this department as generally useful to the public as whle ; and it has proved a convenience, not only to those , p i _o have no immediate employment for their funds, while 114'h?'-; mortgages and other investments, but is extensively a.....: 1 in a more permtnent way by those who desire a regular tine f in a ler their capital, and who wish at the same , o 'ne to have the power of withdrawing their deposits, wholly 14.2 n part, acc ue o in ' r r t di 4 c tf g . to their convenience, at any time when "'Zile:n:4Tel snificientl money advanced during the year on loan ee aut Y shows the activity of this department. The most and no 'and careful supervision has always been exercised, ration and have been spared to render this branch of ope 'of its as beneficial as possible to those who avail themselves the e,ln temporary difficulty, and also safe and profitable to that`' ° P l Pany. As a result of this it is gratifying to state arcs? our loans are in a most favourable condition, and that sos itrs and mischances are remarkably few and small, though alth fl a rge a sum is now employed in the department ; and zadtetlnii strictly this report speaks only of the year which last December, we may be allowed to mention, as a loa n e ,. r of great satisfaction, the regularity with which our si4ePayments are comi ng i n at this present time. Since the foundatio n of this an Society, somewhat over me '7OO has been advanced on 10, and the number of tip ants who have been aided in this way is about 1,070, al citi_g' an average amount of loan of rather more than £2OO In each case. On looking back through all these transec ti°Ps, it is satisfactory to notice thWit, from our commence tient to the present time, our losses have amounted to no More than about 1/ per cent. ot the total funds employed during these years. This mast strike any one as a very atn alrproportion, con F id?ring how e3p2Cially we are exposed,' in conducting this class of business, to chances of loss, both from the misfortunes of llorrowers and the ingenious devices tif the fraudulent It '.ts with a real sense of' satisfaction to br.lefiect how much substantial relief has been afforded by this anch of our business to so many, and at times when such I.lloPans been of the greatest value ; the profit which the Y derives from the loan is no adequate measure of sue services and benefit done to those who, through our fro b ,ga, have been aided in their difficulties, and often saved "%repat and pressing troubles. la cea l ,, t , ° Peclopy your time unnecessarily, we will only say, Cltest ~'.'ilair,a, that it is, and has always been, our most ear- Corth,`:,e_t_3lre and endeavour to advance the interest of this r,;,nY in every way, in every department—to extend it in and a . er Qf benefit and usefUlness to fhe public at large, and 1 ,;,.._k I egititnate and natural consequence, in its profits orzae`,"-runerations to its shareholders. With our present MO re 'FJation and staff, and above all, with our experience, acar, than double our present funds could be employed, svith On e - sly any increase of outlay, and the Company would at ~,e take that n sition which we wish to see it occupy. eeap'ihte Di rectore o recommend that the interest on our_ share 01 a 1 for the current year be as before, namely, at the rate '0 per cent. per annum. ______ VIAITOIITS round DOOIIS and WINDOWS C vp,...... EF.FECTUALLY PREVENTED BY 11 .... "'‘' l l ' S. INDIA-RUBBER MATERIAL AND 'Wind ANTI - DRY-ROT CEMENT, ow Never yn-8, And doors, however imperfect , th us i mprove d , w ill e. Wet, V -rte a rattlinz noi se, or a d m it o f D raught, Fogs, Dust, 'With t' t , Will last for Ten Years, and will open and shut ZnatcA g re atest ease. Windows , 2s . ea ch , an d d oors, 3s, 6d., es . 3 it an d workmanship includ e d . Ch e ff oniers, book in cu triy, Wardrobes, &c., thus r ezu l aTe d , will not admit of the b re , Sion of (lost smoke, blacks, Am. .I...ettors addressc4 to . 'srs. CITUBCH and SON. No. 13, Circus-street, Bryan r4f(ji le - square, London. ATTENTION TO PHYSICAL VIGOUR is a duty that every man owes to himself and to his coun -117. Pure air, moderate di et, cheerful occupation, and the ot•easional use of Parr's Lite Pills will produce such an effect upon the system, as to give VIGOUR and STRENGTH, and make people fit for the performance of arduous bodily exercise. PARR'S LIFE PILLS may be obtained of any Med'elne Vendor, in lxiXes, le. I 11s. each. i a ..., 2s. 9d., and is Family Packets DR. CULVERWELL'S LAST NEW WORK, On OURSELVES. Gleetp .81),Crer i-ous D niato rthcea, Syphili s, Stricture, haemorrhoids, Debility Palpitation, &c., &c. MARRIAGE : I Its Expectances an d Disapp-int-rnents. impediments removed, and Healthy Offspring secured. Price ls.. by post Is. td.; of Mann, 29, Cornhill ; or Author, 3, Great Marlborouh-street, Oxford-street, W. Consultations daily from 12 a.m. till 9 p.m. JOZEA U' S COPAHINE MEGE.—Copaiba and Cubebs are doubtless the best remedies, but are of a re and Prisive taste and odour, and occasion colicky pains, nausea, gastric dis•urbance. M. Jozeau has succeeded in render lag them perfectly innocuous by increasing all their curative P oPerties. It has been adopted by the Paris Academy of Rfredicine a ft er more than a thousand trials in Paris and the f erent London h osp i ta l s. viz., St. Thomas's, Guy's, and St. l art holomew's, 13. - ndur the care of Messrs. Lloyd, Poland. and 4egros Clark.--" Lancet," Nov. 6, 1857. The Copahine, which orm of a pretty pink sugar plum, effects a ure in about 7!xdays. 100 Capsules 4s. 6d.; post free, ss. 2d— At G. due St. Q uenO4EATT'S, French Chemist 49 Haymarket, London ; 22, tin, Paris; and C'hemists. VrTRULY EFFICACIOUS AND recipe MILD.- Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS' and LIVER PILLS, pre ed without any mei in oredientom the of Dr. 'Pott, of Bromley, R'ent, curial will le found , invaluable to all who :aBPiferrom bilious and 'fiver complaints, indigestion, wind 48tiins, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, & c. For habitual I)veness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier , the blood, they ,re truly excellent ; mild in their opera ,,_mn and grateful to the stomach, they create appe ite, "lotepro digestion, and .strengthen the whole nervous system. I"Kkld by W. Lambert 20, Jerrayn-street, Hayma r k e t, L on d on, aridy most druggists, in boxes, Is. lid., and three times I , ll e, quantity in one, 2s. iod. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's , - ”tlicus and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green vael caVe, With " William Lambert." engraved on the stamp. GIVEAT'AWAY TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS. f-JENRY SMITH, M.D., of the University of Jena, has just published, for the benefit of Nervous -itirerers, a FREE EDITION of his valuable work, THE VVAitNING VOICE TO YOUNG MEN (120 pages). A vrred.cal work on the cure of Nervous Debility, Loss Of ?Memory, Dimness of Sight, Lassitude, Indigestion, Dislike to Society, Spermatorrhma Local Weakness, Muscular Re laxation, Languor , Listles s ness , Depression, &c., which, if neglected, result in consumption, insanity, and premature death ; with plain directions for perfect restoration to health and vigour. The book will be sent, post free, secure from ob , ervation, to any address, on receipt of a directed envelope and two stamps. Address, ITENny SMITH, M.D., 6, Burton ereseent, Tavistock-square, London, W.C. rII7E VIGOUR OF YOUTH RESTORED IN ti }7 141 POUT?, WEEKS by Dr. RICORD'S ESSENCE OF .. 0 Ibis wonderful agent will restore manhood to the most battered constitution, whether arising from self-pollution, ,:xcesses, nocturnal emissions, the effects of climate, or natu ral causes. The time required to cure the most inveterate ; .. e is (which eeks are, if used according to the printed in .t uctions r o T his life-restoring rem e dy s h ou ld b e ta k en b y all a b out t o fb ar rY, as its effects are permanent. It is acknowledged by ,c.`; Medical press to be the greate s t di scovery ever ma d e. thi'llecess in every case is a s cer t a i n as t h at water quenches rst , 1 / 1 % Ricord's Fgsence of Life is sold in cases, with full gatructions for lls., or four quantities in one for 335., „ I ld Will be pent to any part of the world, carefully packed, -arljeeei remittance or post-office order payahle to l'rout Co, , Patent 31edieineWarehouse, 229, Strand, London. A 1)1 . CUItTIS' MEDICAL WORK, MANHOOD: ... 51 ED ICA L ESSAY ON SPERM ATO R.R,FRE A NERVOUS AND GENERATIVE DEBILITY, &c. -1, Published, the 150th thousand , with n u merous plates, n a sealed envelope, price Is., Sold by n ll Booksellers, and e : t Post paid, by the Author, for I 2 stamps, ANHOOD : the CAUSE and CURE of PRE cc,TLNE IN MAN, with Plain Directions erfect Restoration to Health and Vig•our. By Dr. J. L. "15/, 15 , A..berniarle-street, Piccadilly. London. ITV'CONTENTS: TlTt„_--ODUCTORY CHAPTER on the Physiological 'f.:„ l, re and Functions of the Reproductive Orga ns . C 4 r ,'APTER 11. Causes of Spermatorrheea and Impotence; ci on e Indgens:angers ot Negct „tAPTEIt if I.— ul AReview of the various le D qualifications i ; whether resulting from Youthful Abuse, the F ollies of Maturity, the Effects of Climate , or In fection. (3 0 -A- PTERS V. and V. on the mo d er n Treatment of ri,j' e tr ) (Pft nrirl ,; stf3p, ' , i'°cir 0 meludes with numerous varied and interesting fiction" Wile I Is added the Author's recipe of a rrcventive REVIEWS OF THE WORK. rtis o Manhood.—This is a tru work d , an ni.ould belt; n the bands of young and old ly v — a " l Sunday Times," lWareh, 1856. „.Phe author has conferred a great boon by publishing thi s s : L i lle work, in which is described the source of those disease ..,^,Teb produce decline in youth or more frequently premature Daily TelegTapb," March 27, 1856 . " This work, which for twenty years has stood the test of Professional criticism and empirical hostility, treats in aplain s Y rn Paillifilm.r manner on the various disqualifications r, lit ld impediments arising from nervous excitement and de. ➢ ; and to invalids suffering fTeln youthful errors and ex cesses it wilt he found valuable and usetul."—Record. Loudon 1 Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, Pater ., nostcr-row; 349,n0, 89, Cornhill. COUDILItittiQII7-ig to 3 and 6 to *1 SuildaYs, O il 2 A S THE FACULTIES OF THE BODY, in harmony with those of THE MIND, approach deve loped maturity, the rising human being, surrounded by factitious circumstances—some salutary, some pernicious— becomes susceptible of impressions which, according to the degree of PRUDENCE and KNOWLEDGE With which he is en dowed, may be the sources of happiness or of unspeakable falsely. Some of the most deadly and terrible of the influences last referred to originate at that period when parents fondly hope that the objects of their love are being prepared to fight honourably the great battle of life—namely, the scholastic and collegiate period. Habits are then contracted, in unsuspecting ignorance of their effects. which, it not ar rested, tend to sink the VICTIMS OF ERROR to the deepest depths of d egradation and woe. The evil is aggravated by the apathy too generally evinced by the medi 'al profession, not only as to the nature but the very existence of the diseases arising from the cause indicated, and to which the general and inadequate designation of "Nervous Disorders and Debility " has been given. One of the consequences of thiS neglect is, that the treatment of the most delicate classes of disease which afflict society has been taken up by unqualified and uneducated persons. Dr. LA'MERT, Licentiate of the Roya. Society of Apothecaries, &c., 37, Bedford-square, London, IS THE ONLY PRACTITIONER REGULARLY QUALIFIED AND REGISTERED who has devoted his exclusive attention for 20 years to the cure of these affections, which war with the very fountains of human HAPPINESS, HEALTIL and FUNCTIONAL VIGOUR. The result of his experience and successful prac ticemay be perused with advantage in hi s T reatise, " SELF rIIESERVATION," sold by Mal-111,39, Cornhill, London, price Is. ; post free for 13, or with sealed ends for 20 stamps. At home for consultation, daily, front 11 till 2, and 8 till 8. 37,13ecliord7oquare! PU BLICATION THE NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all Or, Libraries, in 3 vols., THE WHITE ROSE OF CHAYLEIGII. , now vols.. PASSAGESAIso IN THE LIFE OF A FAST YOUNG LADY. By Mrs. GREY, Author of "Thu Gambler's Wife," (to. Hurst and Blaekett, 13, Great Marlborough-street THE CLOISTER AND THE ItEARTH.---- Immediately, in 3 vols., price 158., a New and Cheap Edition of cHA. RIES KEADE'S FAIIIOU 3 STORY. Ilandeomely bound :11 roan cloth, gilt and lettered. Orders received by all Booksellers. Trubner and Co., 60, Paternoster-row. THE PRESENT DISTRESS IS 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 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. Groasmith's "Government upon First Prin ciples." Kent and Co., Paternoster-toW. Just!published, Svo, in cloth, price ss„ by post tree. 6s. 6d., ON THE SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT of STRICTURES of theIMETIIRA; Showing why they so Often appear Incel7:ole, when 111 reality they might be removed by the Dlost simple means. Bri V. B. COURZENAY, M.R.C.S.E., And fOrmerly Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the Cure 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 diagnosis of the various kinds of stricture, and of the scientific principles upon which their management is founded. By his systematic management 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 professional reader, and ought to be fourd In the private study of all who are subject to stricture."—Aledical Circular. London: H. RaiMere, 219, Regent-street. MR- CHAS. DICKENS' NEW READINGS.- On THURSDAY EVENING, March 27, Mr. CHAS. DICKENS will READ, in St. James's Hall, Piccadilly, at 8 precisely, DAVID COPPERFIELD (in six chapters), and Mr. 808 SAWYER'S PARTY from PICKWICK. Sofa stalls, 45.; Body of Hall and Balcony, Two Shillings; Area, One Shilling. Tickets at Messrs. Chapman and Hall's, publishers, 19, Piccadilly ; and at Austin's Ticket-office, St. James's Hall. THOMAS HEADLAND, Secretary. MR. AND NIRS. CHARLES MATHEWS "A t,HOME," At Her Maj?,sty's Concert Room, 'Haymarket. Every Evening (except Saturday), at Eight. Wednesday and Saturday Mornings at Three. Private boxes, stalls, 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, us. ; First Circle, 95.; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Unreser ve d Seats, 2s. and is. MRS. MACREADY, the Eminent American Artiste, will give one of her ENTERTAINMENTS, consisting . of Dramatic and Poetical Selections, at WILLIi'S ROOMS, onWE DNE SDAY EVENING, March 26, commenc ing at 8 o'clock.—Reserved seats, 55.: Unreserved, 3s. Re served seats, numbered, can be procured at Mitchell's Royal Library, Bond-street; Sams': Royal Library, St. James's street ; Austin's Ticket Office, 28, Piccadilly ; and at Willis's Rooms. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. Mi ss REBECCA ISAACS, Miss M. TIIIRLWALL ; and Messrs. PARKINSON, BARTLEMAN, &c. EVERY EVENING. ROYAL ALHAM BRA PALACE. The MEXICAN WONDERS, STEVE ETIIAIR, the GORILLA, and the INFANT KCENI6I. EVERY EVENING. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. Mrs. BRIAN and Messrs. WIELAND and CRITCH FIELD. EVERY EVENING. Operatic Selections. Musical Director, Mr. Thomas Bartleman. O YAL ALHAMBRA PALACE.-GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE on SATURDAY (TO-MORROW), March 22. Commence at 2. Carriages at 4. ARGYLL ROOMS.—Series of New Music, Valses, Quadrilles, and Polkas, by the unrivalled Band of 50 performers, under the sole direction of Mons. I3ouL 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 the profession by leaving their card at the door. By order of the Proprietor.—Manager, Mons. P. Grenet. Admission ls. A MOST DESIRABLE BREAKFAST BEVERAGE. 14 1 PP S'S COCO A. J (Commonly called Epps's llomceopathic Cocoa). The delicious aroma, grateful smoothness, and invigo rating power of this preparation have procured its general adoption as a most desirable breakfast beverage. fib., ilb., and llb packets, at ls. Gd. per lb., by Grocers. TERM—MR. ESKELL'S INVENTION, of which he is the only Patentee. Patent granted 17th July, 1860. Artificial Teeth, to last a life time, are fixed without pain or extraction, without springs or wires, on elastic and self-adhering, bases, guaranteed for mastication and articulation and to restore (without detection) the natural appearance of the mouth.—Mr. ELL'S TREATISE, Which fully explains his invention, post free for seven stamps. —lnspection of specimens and Consultation free.—R, Grosve nor-st eet, Bond-street, London ; and 39, Bennett's-hill, Birmingham. OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road.-- The Weekly Board have great satisfaction in announc ing that the financial position of the Charity justifies their opening two additional Wards for the reception of the pa tients, and they venture to rely on the continued liberality of the public to enable them to support this considerable in crease of annual expenditure. Contributions received by the Treasurer, Edward Mai terman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co.; Williams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co.; Nisi et and Co., Berners-street ; J. Barned and Co , Liver pool; and at the Hospital. J. B. OWEN, M.A., Chairman of the Weekly Board. RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED ,AND EXHIRFFED IN PRE GREAT FXHIBITION 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, is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the t,ody, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease nd closeness that it cannot 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 31s. 6d. Postage, ls. A. Doublo Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. ed. Postage, is Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White,'Post office, Piccadilly. VEW 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 t exture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on lik ean ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d• 10 to 16 , s., s. each. Postage 6d. JOIIN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228,'Piceadilly. POST -OFFICE TURKISH BATHS, 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand. 2s. till 5, and Is. 6d. from 5 till 9 ; Sundays, Is. till I. An ESSAY on TURKISH BATHING, gratis. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. " The Use and the Abuse of the Turkish Bath.—A very useful pamphlet has been published by Dr. Culverwell, the proprietor of the Turkish Baths in the neighbourhood of the Post-office, which presents to the uninitiated a mass of inte resting information, while those who have already encouraged this new system will derive additional advantage if they observe some of the practical regulations which the writer endeavours to enforce."—herald and Standard, N0v.12, 1861: " The Post-office Turkish Bath Q, 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand. —Dr. Culverwell has already established the reputation of an able physician ; he has now proved himself to be a worthy philanthropist, in as far as he has established, in the heart of the City, an institution that more nearly than any disco very of modern days, goes !Tearer the abolition of the practice 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 one of the best set of baths, at 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand, which the country can produce; perfect in all Its appliances, and most admirable in effect. Dr. Culverwell has fitted up his baths with a degree of elegance, luxury, and refinement, which, considering the space at his disposal, is truly sur prising, while everything that taste or delicacy could desire has been obtained. to add to the comfort and luxury of the visitor. . . We may justly say that if a man ever feels himself regenerated and new made, it is oncoming out: of „a Turkish Bath."—Era, Oct 13, 1861. Consultations daily till 12 a.m. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 21, 1862. IHE NAVY. ThE NASHVILLE. The brigantine yacht Alfred, the property of Mr. Cunningham, the patentee of the system of reefing topsails from the deck, was berthed alongside Ports mouth dockyard on Wednesday, for the purpose of exhibiting that gentleman's new plan for the rig of steamships of war. The improvements claimed by Mr. Cunningham for his system consist, of a reten tion of a full amount of square sail power ; a greatly increased amount of fore and aft sail power ; sim plicity in the arrangement of spars and rigging, with a considerable reduction in the quantity of standing and running rigging ; a better arrange ment of the standing rigging for the supp3rt of the masts than is obtained under the old system ; a bet ter division of the sails and spars; the ability to brace the yards nearly fore and aft when steaming head to wind, and a great reduction in the weight aloft. This plan gives an amount of fore and aft and square sail sufficient to meet all the require ments of ocean-going steamships. In the Defence and the Resistance the Cunningham plan has not been carried out fully in the fitment of the topsails, as the lawer yard is fixed to the cap, on the Ame. rican plan of Howes double topsail yard, and the upper yard only rolls the sail up. By this arrange ment, when both topsails are furled and yards stowed, both yards lie together at the cap, the lower yard some 10 or 12 feet higher from the deck than it would be if it also were fitted on the Cunning ham plan. It offers great obstruction to the wind, and must of necessity increase the strain aloft when contending against head winds and seas. The display of the Alfred's topsails fully proved the great advantages which would be ob tained by the Defence and Resistance were they fitted with both their topsail yards on the patent reefing plan, in lieu of the lower one being made a fixture, as at present. This alteration, in addi tion to the advantages referred to, would also ren der their rig more agreeable to the eye. The yacht was visited by Rear-Admiral H. Eden, Rear-Ad miral Superintendent Hon. George Grey, Major- General John Stevens, and many other officers, all of whom took great interest in the proceedings. The paddlewheel steam sloop Styx, 6, Comman der the Hon. W. J. Waid, was appointed to leave Plymouth Sound yesterday (Thursday) for the North American and West Indian stations, The Confederate steamer Nashville reached Beau fort, South Carolina, on the 28th, at 7 a.m,, from Southampton, having successfully eluded the block ading steamers at the entrance of the harbour, one of which—the Albatross, it is supposed—fired some twenty or thirty shots at her without effect. She had on freight 3,000,000 dole. worth of stores, in cluding powder. An officer of the Nashvill3 gives an interesting account of her adventures "Leaving Southampton at 4 p.m. on *the 3d of February, within full sight of the Tuscarora, which had but just returned from a six days' cruise outside the harbour, and was then engaged in coaling up, the Nashville steered for Bermuda, and, after success fully weathering a terrific gale of six days' duration, which disabled one of her engines, reached her des tination at 2 p.m. on the 20th, without having much whicalis a glimpse even of the eight had been expressly detailed by Government to effect her capture, and tv c h a e caught sgehl Lincolnst ofso w er whose vigilance had been stimulated by the offer of 200,000 dole. as prize money for the ' rebel' steamer. Supplying herself with coal, the Nashville departed from Bermuda at 11 a.m. on the 24th ult., under the pilotage of the master of a Southern schooner which had run the blockade a few days before with a cargo of turpentine and resin, and who expressed the fullest confidence in his ability to conduct the ship safely into port. On the 211th ult. she encountered, on the' margin of the Gulf ttream, the- Yanitea schooner Robert Gilfillan, Captain Smith, bound from Philadelphia to St. Domingo, with an assorted cargo of flour, pork, butter, cheese, and other pro visionte Removing from the schooner such of her cargo as was deemed valuable, and transferring her crew to the steamer as prisone rs , t h e pr i ze was fired, and in a few minutes completely destroyed. About dawn on Friday morning the steamer reached the vicinity of her destined harbour, off which was espied a Yankee war steamer, isd of two rifled 6- appa rentlypounders, in watch for the approaching vessel. It was the crisis of the trip; and its perilous nature may be understoodof the when that oit s knownconste that the entire ar mamentf her antago n i s t cons i s t e d o f ofimmense calibre and while Nashvilleen severa lrange .formidable Nothing daunted, however, energy wrought up to the highest pitch of deter mination, the gallant commander of the Nashville, and d isplwayitihngitthaesisgtnaarsi an flag,g d , which, i n th e uncertain stripes at his masthead, light of the morning, was well calculated to blind vessel to The manoeuvre to be steered boldly the Yankee commander as to the real character of towardsth e s t stranger, g the e r , blockading ordered his t steamer. er was promptly performed, and the Nashville was almost within musket range of the Yankee, but be tween her and the harbour, when Captain Pegram ordered the stars and stripes to be lowered, and in their stead the stars and bars of the Confederacy displayed at fore, main, and peak, This defiant movement of tho Nashville was almost immediately after responded to by the Yankee, who, as if now recognising the rebel' steamer, fired a volley after her, and started in rapid pursuit, firing as rapidly as the guns could be loaded and discharged ; but the eager agitation of the Yankee gunners marred their aim, and the shots fell far wide of our noble steamer, which was then dashing onward under a full head of steam, and iu a comparatively few minutes was safely within range of the protecting guns of Fort Macon, and beyond the range of her chagrined pur suer." The artisans and labourers employed on the Py lades, 21, 400 horse power, under repair in No. 4 dock at Chatham, have been transferred to the Ra coon, 22, 400 horse power, which was taken into dock on Wednesday, to be thoroughly repaired and made ready for commission. The repairs required to be effected in the Racoon will not occupy any great length of time, and, as soon as these have been completed, the shipwrights will again be placed on the Pylades, in order that the latter may be completed for sea. The following armament is or dered to be furnished the Pylades :--One 110 pounder Armstrong, four 40 pounder Armatrongs, and 16 8 inch 60 cwt. guns. Her boat armament will consist of one 12 pounder, and one 9 pounder Armstrong, together with a 12 pounder Armstrong and a 6 pounder brass gun, for short practice, with carriage.elevating The contractors' trial of the Resistance, at light draught of water, took place at Sheerness, onWed nesday last, and was attended with very satisfac tory results, both as regards the working of the machinery and the speed attained. The Resistance is sister ship to the Defence, and is of 600 horse power, and 3,668 tons. and will carry 18 guns. She was built by Messrs. Westwood and Bailes, of Mill wall ; was launched in April, 1861 ; was fitted in the Victoria Docks, and completed in her Majesty's dockyard at Chatham. The vessel weighed anchor and left the harbour under half steam at 10.30 a.m., in charge of Captain Thompson, of her Majesty's ship Cumberland, and chief of the steam reserve at Sheerness; Mr. W. Price, inspector of machinery afloat, and Mr. Baker, chief engineer of Chatham Dockyard, attending the trial on behalf of the Admiralty. The machinery was under the charge of Mr. Thomas Holliday, who represented the contractors, Messrs. John Penn and Son. The following are the results of the trial : Average speed, with full boiler power, 12.331 knots; pressure of steam, 20 ; revolutions, 70 ; vacuum, 25 to 26; average speed, with half boiler power, 11,394 knots; pressure of steam, 20; revolutions, 64; va cuum, 26. The circle was accomplished in 7 minutes 25 seconds, the diameter of the circle being about 300 yards. The engines were stopped dead in four seconds, started ahead in five seconds, and turned from that position astern in four seconds. Draught of water forward, 19ft 9in ; aft, 23ft 6in ; Griffiths screw, pitch 21ft. The average temperatures dur ing the trial were—engine-room, 97 ; after stoke hole, 100 ; fore stokehole, 80 ; on deck, 47. These results have been accomplished with a velocity of piston-rod upwards of 500 ft per minute, and this too with a smoothness of motion and entire absence of vibration specially noticed by all on board. The Resistance answered her helm in a very satisfactory manner. Respecting the feeling in England during the presence of the Nashville at Southampton a cor respondent of the Eichmond Examiner says : " My informant speaks in glowing terms of the kindness of the English people, who showered on the crew and officers of the Nashville all manner of sympathetic attentions, As an instance of the good feeling of the English towards us, and of their confidence in our cause, it is related to me by an officer of the Nashville that £400,000 sterling—. 2,000,000 dols.—was at one period advanced to the Nashville by a single meocantile house. All classes are loud and earnest in their expressions of sym pathy for the Confederacy and of detestation of the ' Yankee nation.' " THE CAPTURE OF THE STEAMER LURAY BY THE FEDERAL CRUISER. The following is the copy of a letter from the mate of the Labuan steamer :—" Ship Island, Feb. 14, 1862.—1 t is with regret that I have to announce the seizure of the steamer Labuan, by the United States' sloop of war Portsmouth, while lying off the Rio Grande, loading cotton for Havana. This hap pened on the lat of February, at four o'clock in the afternoon. We saw the Portsmouth in the offing during the forenoon, flying French colours, and taking a prize schooner, but I thought we were safe, as Captain Hamshaw told me that, in case we were boarded by any man-of•war, to show them the papers which he left. Captain Hamshaw went on shore on the 27th January, and was detained on shore by strong gales, which prevented him from getting on board. About 4.30 the first lieutenant came on board, and asked to see the ship's papers, which I showed him. He afterwards looked down the hold, and remarked they were loaded with cotton, asking at the same time where it was shipped. I told him it was shipped from Matamoras. He re turned to his ship, and shortly after sent another boat of officers and men, who ordered me to get up steam and shift our berth nearer the Portsmouth. I did as required, on being given to understand that they only wanted to have the ship clear of their guns. After shifting our berth, I was ordered on board. On my arrival on board the captain told me that he considered that we were a lawful prize—that we were taking in American cotton in American waters. This I denied, and told him that it was shipped in Matamoras, and that we were in Mexican water sour longitude, by a number of observations, being 97.5 45 W., and our latitude 25 55 N. He told me that it did not matter ; he would send us to Ship Island to await the commodore's decision. On my return on board I found that there were on board at least forty marines and sailors belonging to the Portsmouth. Oil discharged on the cargo of a prize schooner Monday the 3rd Febru ary, took all the seamen an d Mr . Gillies, engineer, Suud inytoa they us, and oat of the ship, and ordered the officer in charge to prepare to proceed to Ship Island. They took all !the sprits, wine, ale, and porter on board the Portsmouth. The captain of the Portsmouth then cautioned me not to attempt to retake the ship, as it would certainly end in our destruction. On Tuesday, the 4th, at 3 a.m., we started on our voy age to Ship Island, where we arrived on the Bth, and find that the commodore is off on a cruise, and here we must remain until he comes, but we are sure to be sent to New York, to be tried by an admiralty court. We have on board 439 bales cotton. On our arrival at New York I shall apply to the consul, and act under his directions." — Eastern Counties Herald. The Conqueror, 86, screw steamship, 2,845 tons, 500 horse power, late Waterloo, has been removed from No. 3 dock at Sheerness, where she has been fitted with new 12-inch pumps, adapted for fire engines, and is placed under the sheers in the basin to have her masts put in and fitted for commission. The undernamed have been nominated to naval cadetships :—George Richard Bethel', Charles C. Macpherson, Albert Clinton Allen, and Colin H. Paget Jones. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Commander C. H. Simpson, to the Mullet, commissioned ; Sub• Lieut. Alfred Anderson, confirmed to the Shannon ; Sub-Lieut. Edward B. P.!Kelso, confirmed to the Warrior ; G. E. Steel, second class assistant-engineer, in valided, from the Termagant •to the Asia, as supernumerary, for hospital treatment; J. Brough, acting second class assist. engineer, to the Odin ; T. H. Hayman, second master, to the Mullet; W. C. E. Parker, master's assist., to the Magicienne ; H. H. Wyatt, assist. paymaster, to the Warrior; and R. M. Colwell, assist. paymaster in charge, to the Mullet. THE ARMY. - By the appointment of Major-General T. Wright, C. 8., to the colonelcy of the 30th Regiment a pen sion for distinguished and meritorious service is placed at the disposal of the Duke of Cambridge. A number of the most able non-commissioned officers of Royal Engineers have been sent up to head-quarters, Chatham, from Woolwich, Alder shott, Shorncliffe, and the other stations, to go through a complete course of instruction in the various departments connected with military engi neering, in order to qualify themselves for appoint ments as instructors to the Volunteer Engineer Corps, in accordance with the regulations recently issued on the subject. During the time they are attached to head-quarters they are relieved from all regimental duties, and are employed on the field works in the construction of the various kinds of batteries, in accordance with Vauban's theory ; the formation of double, single, and flying saps, and generally in the various duties con nected with the practical portion of the science of fortification. In the evening the non commissioned officers selected for the special course of training are instructed in the schoolrooms in military drawing under the instructors of the establishment, the object being to render them tho roughly competent to carry forward the instruction of the volunteers of the several Engineer Corps to which they may be appointed. The fishermen marry youn a j te lpmate to take charge of the gear, g, for they recoire to dry and mend the nets, to sew on the head-seams, to Co ll ect " flithers" (a flit shell-fish), and other kinds of bait, and prepare the tin. The men put the corks upon the nets, . The cotton-nets, years in u s e, are found to owuhtileahsthtahvoeseboefenheamb o p u : d t s r e ; more e n easily, and are less liable to injury gfi:,;ft, All the Filey yawls carry the letters " S. H." (the abbreviation of Scarborough) on BENSON'S WATCHES AND CLocKs..—" Perfection Of their bows. J:it the year 1716 b a ounty of 4s, was given mechanism. Morning Post. Gold watches, sto 100 guineas; on each 1' lof fish caught in order to encourage the ,Arre silver watches, 2 to 50 guineas. Benson's new Illustrated apprentices ; but in 1836 the sum was p am phict, free for two stamps, descriptive of every construe- emple - ,frao nt of _ . by the do tion of watch, enables persons in any part of the world to -..adually reduced by ls. a , select with the greatest certainty the watch best adapted . 1839. The average value of fish taken in the year their use. Watches sent free and safe by post on reed -to from £20,000 to £27,000 ; in some years as much as _Apt et ranges ,o a remittance. --.T. W. Benson, 33 and 34, Ludgate-J" , ry , have been paid to the North-Eastern Railway for until it finally ceased in 47, cyraiii, LonclQA F..C. — Eatabliohe4.l 170. -411 ' " 41/4 i'' ' '' Q 0 a Week. 1 ita transport. — 2; NEW AMERICAN IAX BILL. The new American Tax Bill, prepared by the Committee appointed for the purpose by the House of Representatives at Washington, will probably, owing to the extent to which it is destined to operate on dearly every branch of domestic and trading expenditure, cotttitlite a subject of lengthy debate, and receive many altetations to conciliate local and political influences before it heecrrece; law. After that date great interest will attach to the practical reports that may be received every quar ter from the army of collectors and excisemen to be called into existence. Among the items is one that seems to impose a duty of 3 per cent. ad valorem on all manufactures not otherwise specified; but this possibly requires explanation, since it would place every branch of occupation in the Republic under excise supervision, or afford a temptation for false swearing, if the returns are to be accepted on oath, which it may be feared would soon become serious. The duty on gas will, perhaps, be inveighed against in the terms formerly employed to denounce our extinct window-tax ; but, if oils of all kinds ate likewise to be subject to duty, the imposition is re qUisite for a fair adjustment. The excise to be levied on paper generally will amount to about ls. 3d. sterling per cwt., but on the description used for bank-notes it will be £1 per cwt. A large con sumption of the latter must be calculated upon to make it worth while to establish a distinction. The duty of sd. per barrel on flour, unless the trouble some system of drawbacks is to be constantly in operation, will, of course, act as an advantage to the foreign flour= fade of - Franceand other com peting countries. In the same manner the duty on slaughtered animals will affect the provision trade. Under the system of licenses every dealer and shopkeeper will be included. The income-tax, which was formerly proposed to extend only to in comes above £l6O, will now be enforced down to £l2O, leaving still a good margin of democratic ex emption. The stamp duties are apparently to be multitudinous, especially if, as is stated, they are to be employed not merely on legal, but on " all kinds of commercial papers," besides telegraphic messages and express parcels. The figures subjoined are all reduced from dollars and cents. to sterling : Spirituous liquors, per gallon, 7-3--d ; ale and beer per barrel, 4s ; tobacco, stem or leaf, per lb., 11d; ditto, manufactured, 22d per lb additional ; ditto, cigars, 22d, sd, or 10d per lb additional, according to value; lard and linseed oil, burning fluid, and coal oil, per gallon, 22d; refined coal oil, sd; gas, per 1,000 feet, ls ; bank-note paper, per lb, nd printing ditto, per lb, 3 mills; soap, per lb, 5 mills; salt, per ewt, 2d ; leather, sole, per lb, „Id ; ditto, upper, per lb, id ; flour, per barrel, 5d ; all other manufactures, 3 per cent. ad valorem.; railroad passengers, 2 mills per mile of travel; commutation tickets, 3 per cent. ; steamboat travel, 1 mill per mile; omnibuses, ferry-boats, and horse railroads, 3 per cent. on gross receipts from passengers ; adver tisements, 5 per cent. on amount of receipts an nually; carriages, annually, 4s to £2, according to value; gold watches, 4s; silver ditto, 2s ; gold plate, per ounce, 2s ; silver plate, per ounce, 4d ; billiard tables, £4 ; slaughtered cattle, per head, 2s ; hogs, ditto, 5d ; sheep, ditto, 22d. Licenses—Bankers, £2O; auctioneers, £4 ; whole sale dealers, £l6 ; retail ditto in liquors, £4 ; retail ditto in goods, £2; pawnbrokers, £lO ; rectifiers, £2O ; brewers, £lO ; hotels, inns, and taverns, ac cording torental, rising gradually from £1 to £4O; eating-houses, £2; commercial brokers, £4; thea tres, £2O; circuses, £10; bowling alleys, each alley, £1; wholesale pedlars, £10; other ditto, from £1 to £4; coal oil distillers, £4. Income Tax—Three per cent. on all incomes over £l2O. Legacy Duties—Legacies and distributive shares of personal property from one to five per cent., ac cording to the degrees of relationship. Stamp Duties on all kinds of legal and commer cial papers, all patent medicines, telegraphic mes sages, and all goods by express. PROCLAMAION OF THE KING OF PRUSo'LI. BERLIN, MARCH 20 (EVENING,) The official Staatsanzeiger of to-day publishes the following decree addressed by the King to the Ministry : " I request the Ministry of State to immediately take the necessary steps for carrying out the elec tions. It is the mission of my public authorities not only to secure the conscientious fulfilment of the prescriptions of the law, but also to afford to the electors explanations which leave no doubt as to the principles of my Government, and to oppose the influence of hostile parties who endeavour to un settle the natural tendencies of the public mind, as was manifest on the occasion of the last elec tions. I firmly adhere to the principles which I stated in November, 1858, to the Ministry of State. These principles rightly interpreted still remain to direct the policy of my Government; but the inter pretations which have been erroneously attached to these principles have produced complications, the happy solution of which is the next task of the present Government. In order to bring about the further development of the present Constitution, the legislation and administration are to start from liberal principles ; but we can only hope to obtain the blessing of progress if, after ripe and quiet examination of the present state of things, we know how to satisfy real wants, and to render available those elements of existing institutions which possess vitality. Then only will the reform of the laws bear a real Conservative character, while haste and too great rapidity only have a destructive effect. It is my duty and my earnest wish to insure the complete effectiveness of the Constitution to which I have taken an oath, and of the representative rights of the country, but also in the same measure to maintain the rights of the Crown, and to maintain them in that undiminished strength which is neces sary to Prussia for the execution of her mission. The weakening of the Crown would be greatly in jurious to the Fatherland. This conviction also lives in the hearts of my subjects. It is only ne cessary for me to explain clearly and openly to them my real thoughts for their welfare. As regards my foreign policy, especially towards Germany, I main tain without any change the policy which I have followed up to the present time. The Ministry of State will take care that the principles which I have stated are duly carried out during the approaching elections. Then I can expect with confidence that all electors who are faithful to me and my house will support my Government with united strength. I enjoin my Ministry of State to give instructions to the authorities according to these views, and to recall to all my functionaries their special duties. " WILHELM." Countersigned by all the Ministers. The Stern Zeitung of today contains a compre hensive leader upon the political situation. It says : "The change in the Ministry and the dissolu tion of the Chamber were acts of the extretnest necessity. The Chamber was destined from the commencement to come into collision with the Government. The incidents which occurred at the elections plainly demonstrated this. Symptoms of dangerous illusion, of passionate desire for praeticAlly unattainable ideals, were manifest at that period in many of the constituencies. They displayed their preference for those men whose poli tical programme, setting aside all the monarchical traditions of Prussia, consisted in endeavouring to connect the country with the movements of 1848 and 1849. They favoured those who further agreed in organising an opposition to the measures for army reform already initiated, and which had been recognised by the wisdom of the Sovereign, indis in conjunction with all his Councillors, as an Un d er pensahle condition for the power of P russia. I these auspices the Chamber of Deput ies came into • being, and necessarily succumbed to the curse of its birth. If a favourable result, securing the in terests alike of the Crown and the country, is to be obtained from the approaching elections, a stop I must be put to the agitation for progress devoid of plan which governed those which recently took place. Every doubt respecting the actual inten iti9n of the Government must be removed, and the directed i t n o s w ill a t l ti s 9 i n n finds support in the ad ' -rice of the Crown itself, must to steadfastly - op gitcha:iintihseterogp, position, on ly posed. The task of the present Cabinet will be id enlighten public feeling fully upon all those points. The Cabinet will be compelled to declare that the decision to be come to is highly important. The question is whether the power of government is to remain with the King, or to vested in the Chamber of Deputies. The programme of the newly consti tuted Ministry will be no other than that laid down in the speech of his Majesty on the Bth of Novem ber, 1858, and it will henceforth smooth the way for every healthy developme n t and every reason able and lasting reform." The article concludes in these wo rds : " The Prussian people w ill remember at the fit ting hour that the banner of progress h as hitherto been borne in she van by its noble minded King, and will refuse t o follow any other flag bearing a similar inscription." THE APPEARANCE AND EX7EN7 OF A COAL MINE. If we may take a homely and. • e imate illus tration 0f..,a Newcastle coal an et Is : conceive St. Paul's and the ittlonurnip,O l t to repre sent the two shafts, and'onrilel m'es ' a the streets' we traverse the workmen and the interior of the pit. St. Paul's Churchyard and the Monument yard shall be the busy spaces at the bottom of the shafts; Cheapside shall be the main-way of the pit, and the numerous streets branching off right and left from it—as Bread-street, Queen-street, etc. — may be the side passages. The streets crossing these again give us an idea of the narrow continu ous excavations of the smaller dimensions ; and if we could make these in both cases regular, we should in both have a system of panel-work. The blocks of houses in the city would be as pillars in the pit, and could we but suddenly let down a thick covering over the roofs, and exclude light and air, we should have the counterpart of a northern coal-pit, even as we have it very nearly upon a foggy November or December day. More than twice or thrice recently we have thought our com parison not inapt as we tramped along Cheapside and by St. Paul's : city and coal-pit were equally dark, equally miry, and equally perilous ; for the dangers of the road, arising from omnibuses and careering cabs, are hardly much less in a city mist than the dangers from falls and fire damp in a coal pit. The distance from St. Paul's to the Monument, however, conveys no adequate notion of the extent of a large coal mine. We ourselves have paced along some four miles underground in direct lines, and some five miles in winding and intersecting passages. Yet, as we have been informed, we had but entered into the far interior, had but trod the suburbs of the vast howling wilderness of pit waste, had but passed through the peat main pas sages, and a few side passages, leaving miles upon miles of close and damp darkness untrodden. Tracing our progress afterwards upon a colliery map, we have come to understand how little we had explored ; and there is one old pit, not many miles from Newcastle, in which, if all the passages had to be passed through by a human being, he would be required to travel more than 50 miles. There is, indeed, a saying current in the North, that the pits at Killingwo rth have more than a I hundred miles of excavation; this, however, we doubt, not from actual knowledge, but from the very magnitude of the space. Remembering how difficult it is to cut through even one mile of solid and dense coal strata, we cm hardly credit that any one mine has more than one hundred miles of gallery excavation ! In the process of working out the strata for 50 or 60 years, of ;course vast hollows would be made, and a mile a year would certainly not be an excessive estimate for a very busy mine. It must be remembered that the whole of these excavations have been, and are being made by human hands. No coal-cutting machinery has yet been brought into operation below the surface, at least to any extent; and we might well be asto nished if we could reckon the entire aggregate of coal-mining excavation in the north of England. That it exceeds;by much one thousand miles we have no doubt. Twenty or thirty of the older and larger ro t b h a e bl T y y b n e quite safe in assuming Tyne, the Wear, and the collieries could make up this amount of m ilea g e, and if we should add to g eth er all the ex cavations seinoiutlyd of s ubterranean p streets and ways as ex tending . in fifteen hundred miles; that is, by piecing , t Tiatn o hlel g eet e osli th ee wer vicinity i h every hollow way from first to last, and from Tyne to Tees. Think, then, of these fifteen hundred miles as the handiwork of thousands of human beings who have wrought in darkness, simply because there alone, far from sunbeam and flowers and glittering streams, could they earn their honest wages, and hardly win the bread that should support home and family.—Good Words for March. • • DEATH AND FUNERAL OF A GIPSY GIRL. About six weeks since a party of gipsies, bearing with them a very beautiful girl, named Lepronia Lee, evidently in the last stage of consumption, encamped on the grounds adjacent to the Grey hound public-house, at Kirton, about eight miles from Ipswich. No sooner had they taken up their quarters than the intelligence of the illness of one who appeared to be a great favourite with the tribe was sent to all parts, and in a few days Kirton was the centre of an encampment, numbering some 50 or 60 men, women, and children, some arriving from Norwich and other distant places. Medical aid was immediately called in, and Mr. Taylor, surgeon, of Bucklesham, was daily in attendance upon the poor girl. Dr. Bartlett was also consulted, t but from the first all hope was g one . Thrdgovhere illness of the girl at Kirton, wh ich extended Rev. Mr. weeks, she was frequently visited M . r . . Bartl et t,. tha n h e is ig / h a b dy ou , r a h n oo d d s7 w e h ra o l sp o e t n h t er y s lad ies me. hours r e : siding in . with her daily, reading portions of the Scripture. Indeed, so great was her desire for the consolations of religion and her affection for those of her sex who so kindly visited her, that she never appeared satisfied but when they were present. On Sunday afternoon, the 2d inst., the poor girl breathed her last, having retained her consciousness until the last moment, and with her last breath expressed her hope in a gloriousimmortality. The greater portion of the tribe were at Kirton Church at the time her death took place, and when it became known the moaning and lamentations of her people are described as dreadful in the extreme. The deceased was interred in Kirton churchyard on Friday, the 7th inst., the procession being headed by a hearse, after which followed the two sisters and cousins of the deceased, dressed in white muslin corded with white silk, their heads covered with white veils reaching almost to the ground. The men were dressed with black silk hat-bands tied with white ribbon, and also wore white gloves and neck-ties. The women of the tribe were in deep mourning. Many hundred persons came from all parts of the district to witness the procession. 'Li l l, greatest decorum was preserved throughout, a shortly after their return from Kesgra . ve the mein bers of the tribe started for their various tdceisrtciunma-- tions. The tribe appeared to be is aat stances, and consisted of the fainil s I Youngs, Smiths, and Silcocks.—Bury a o u o Post. l e n t t 7e pith Lees, - - A Woull ABOUT ()UR WRE.Ch.s.—Fishing-boats and merchant ships, with their crews, are the antecedents of men-of-war and naval armaments, and aro the nursery of those elements of our maritime defence. While we are fortifying our arsenals, and strengthening, our dockyards anew in their structure and resources—while no Qx . pense is spared in the strategic system which converts our Southern sea board into a line of military posts—and w hile every precaution is taken a g ainst the possibility ofan enem y landing up on our shores—a duty as sole .., ing, and pa triotic is neglected in a time of perfect peace,, Pres'''. n that of affording. s helter and protection to our fishermen an d m erchant seam en on the line of is allf one of the greatest highwa y s of our commerce , Impregnability but an impossibility; every fficient), front of approach or assault cannot be e ou r vessels of war if menaced° which i s alike impolitic and inhuman to resist the Y guarded ; but it expenditure entrea ties of the very cla ss t hyiachn enemy; should my ; anlook whileto m w a n o nottatho our u d e g x e p re upon building batteries, we ought what is necessary in order to preserve our coasts from those risks at sea which make the yearly wreck chart a national reproach.-- Once a Week, 40,ri2.7"777 , ' ` 4 •; 1 -4 C),. 0.1‘'A,,, 211g<M§TBBN BANK Liar !.10 , - • ,. .., ~, v. .31 , Es sBs. BAIRD > . ~ :. . 4. „ . , ~,e , On Wednesday the Second,Divisidik..._, of Session pronounced judgment in the Me oft e liquidators of of the Western Bank of Scot Ind against Mr. William Baird and Mr. Jame's Baird. It will be recollected that with. thirteen out of th e former directors of the bank, whom the liquidators origma.. ' 11y prosecuted, a ,compromise was latt. 4 entered into whereby the thirteen agrees to pay a sttO of £200,.000, in full dis charge of the liquidator.s' claims againA them. Messrs. Baird , however „ stood aloof from .the compromise, and the? now pleaded that the liquidators, had, in discharging th :., 13, practically discharged the whole claim. This ,p.lea the Court has- now dismissed, and the judges, , 1 \fier reading lengthened opinions, unanimously agree,rl to certain findings, to the following effect :—" First,. that it is 1 relevantly averred that the defender, .1 - am,s Baird, and other persons who were in office with h in; from J une , 1853, to June, 185 G, were jointly g uilt y of . gross negligence, by failing to perform the f lutie's of manu,y:emcnt intrusted to them, and lev,ving these duties to be performed by the ma na g er, Ivilli out any superintendei:ce or control by the board of directors, or an y q uorum or authorised commiJtee thereof, by m ea n s o f James Lee and Co., of New York, to b e em pl o yed by . them in the e manager was enable to make ad vances ou t o f t h e Ends of d the bank, la violation of th e contract ( w hi c h limited the busi ness of the bank t o thi s coun t ry ), ti: prosecution of of h the business y lossesne h s e s a o v ftheba w nk e i;: America; in consequence ,lustained by the bank. Second, that it is relevantly' u'verred that during the period from June, 1847, to 1852 with am him Baird, asd and directors 0 rotherof the p e h i 'a r I'S os , ire :w th l e owerein office were jointly guilty of g ross ne g lec t by failing t o defender, Wceilli perform the duties of management intrusted to them, and leaving those duties to be performed by the manager without any superintendence or control, by means of which negligence the manager was enabled to ;, • . -, and did, make, advances out of the funds otthic.!;i;i4j,,wii - 3i of dip.iio* . itg biVII.e. ,..„... persons known to be unworthy of credit, by vvbial" great losses were sustained by the bank. Thilrd, the Court find in the same terms against the def'onder James Baird, as applicable to the period, June, 11352, to June, 1856." To the above extent and effect the Court sustained the relevancy of the action, and. allowed the pursuers to lodge the draught of issues prepared in accordance with these findings. To any further extent the Court found the averments in the record irrele7ant as grounds of action. The liquida tors had by a previous minute withdrawn the charges of fraud ori Jinally contained in the record, and by the present juulgment various other charges confined to gross negligee were dismissed by the Court. In particular, the C.ourt wholly dismissed the second branch of the actin n, which sought to find the defenders liable for the whole losses sus tained subsequent to the loss of one -fourth of the capital, to the extent of several millions sterling. The Court held that, excepting on the g:round of fraud, which had been departed fr om, this branch of the case could not be sustained. THE SECESSION PLRISON-2TES Xl l CHICAGO. (From the New York Times.) CHICAGO, 1:EB. 24. The great sensation of the week with us h.ls been the arrival of several thousand rebel prisonex"s — a part of the fruits of the victory at Fort Donnela.on- Camp Douglas—where the prisoners are confined- - is located on the United States Fair Grounds, at Cottage Grove, about half a mile south of the city limits. It occupies several hundred acres, around which is a high board fence. The buildings are of wood, mostly one story high, in long ranges. Some are of two stories. The accommodations, as bar racks, are probably as good as any in the country, and as Uncle Sam provides liberal rations, our Southern brethren will undoubtedly fare much. better than they did while in the Confederate army. One reason for bringing them here was that they could be subsisted much cheaper than at any other point. Those already arrived are principally Tepees seeans, Texans, Mississippians, and a few front Vir ginia. Their costumes are in every variety of style, fashion, and material. They represent to the life the "poor white trash " of the South, as we have seen it described. The backwoodsmen, with their jeans and butternut-coloured stuffs, pre dominate. All their head gear would come under the appellation of a "shocking bad hat." Add to this that they wore worn and dirty, and7you can form some idea of the tout ensemble of this part:on - of the rebel army. Overcoats were scarce, and in their places were blankets of every description, worn as shawls, and of these, those made of carpet ing appeared to predominate. The men appeared pinched and hungry, as if they had been upon short commons for months. From the harbhips they have recently endured, the general appearance of the men were wretched, and called forth an invo luntary feeling in the hearts of all who saw th em. They had all the outlines of poor, ignorant, and de luded men, who have been seduced into the rebel lion by their demagogue leaders. In conversing with them in the camp, this idea is more than confirmed. The Tennesseeans, espe cially, are heartily sick of the part they have acted, and do not hesitate to declare that they were forced or deluded into taking up arms. The most false and abominable representations were made to them, and being mainly unable to read, they were not able to detect the baseness of the men who led off in the rebellion. I give below a few specimens of their talk. The Mississippians are dogged, and their voice is still for war. The Texans, most of them, give up all as lost. I come to a middle-aged man, who was evidently a small farmer or backwoodsman, and accosted him: " Well, my good fellow, how do you like your Northern trip ?" " Wall, I kinder like the looks of the country round here. I'm seven hundred miles from my_ kin, but if they were here I would never go back." - when you get back to your homes, you mul speak a good word for us among your neighbours. " I will that, see'n I've been treated perfectly gentlemanly." To another—a Virginian—l remarked, " How about Floyd ?" "He is good to take care of himself. I followed. him 180 miles on a retreat in Western Virginia. He ain't much thought on down our Ivey. If he escapes the Lincolns, I shouldn't wonder if he fared hard from some of our fellows." I asked another if he was not ashamed to fight against the Union, and the government whicii has done so much for them. He replied, " I never fought agin the Union, and I never will." _ " What were you doing at FortDonnelson ? Were you forced into the army ?" " Wall, no, not exactly forced; I knew I would. be, so .I j'ined. I thought I'd feel better to go my self !" " What do you expect to gain by the rebellion ?" "We find our leaders have lied to us. Our big men wanted to ge t rich and get into office, and so . they have got us in to this mess by their wlaienst is . .st have nothing spin the old flag. All v cr constitutional rights, according to the instrument under which our forefathers lived. They toldt s that the election of Lincoln would ; -eprive US . these, and we believed them. But We now know that they were lies." Another said that they had been made to believe that the Northern army was and Germans, and they werecomposed of negroes they came to see the nationalperfectly amazed when whites and mostly Americans. soldiers and find them A Mississippian—hearing giving up the emit a Tennesseean talk of Give it up, never. contest—said very energetically, I should • If I could get out of here to morrow,Davis will never go into the fight again. Ji ff. ham old MibSi`i • give up this contest so long as he sippi to back him." 1 have no doubt that 8 out of cycril 10 of the boners would no more triAilile if libertwd. them g i ve ar c us Many lit indignant at the mariner in which they have been deluded and imposed upon, and would cuter the Union army and do good service, if permitted. But as there are plenty of good men and true, who are above suspicion. the experiment will not probably be tried. There is a general dis position on the part of our citizens to make them as comfortable as possible—looking upon the poor ignorant souls as so many victims of wiles and in trigues of the Confederate leaders, who are really repentant of the folly and wrong of which they have been guilty. There are many in the hospital; Pneumonia is quite prevalent, and many deaths may be expected. They were exposed, after the capture, to cold rough weather, without tents or fires. Th e steamboats were so crowded that they had to re main on the outer decks unprotected during a severe cold rain storm, which wet them throu g h and through. In this condition they were put u pon Po th e cars, to make a 350 mile j ourne y t o this city, The result is much sickness of an aggravated type. ti- Id ,es Ir. by -3s ne' ce9 ; big ;ed. -ter the SOl d r 0 P I°O/ 0 4O ) 0 ) 480 ;, 21, 1 6 ' r: • 2 1 ' 19' 10 ' r. 31. 03' 3 wil° , Of 16 shif" 120 0° 71 3118 t lar i q ) th ° Lev ls :: )101 , ... ,Wt°ll PIP 1104 : 1 ,o1) 1), 7id°• V A ago- ill° 1, , eta" ,„ Of shirOf Reg' Ll l4 ' ).1 121 rit y 00