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THE GREAT EASTERN at WEYMOUTH. tear The GREAT EASTERN is now l y in g at PORTLAND, etkpfi Weymouth. for the reception of visitors, previous to nn her Trial Voyage.,—SPECIAL FAST EXCUR ,„Z. TRAINS, via SOUWEST ERN RAILWAY, will 'i"t on each Week-day, from 17th to 24th September, inclu t.ve, to WEYMOUTH, from London and the undermen tond Stations, as follows : FARES TO WEYMOUTH AND BACK. First Second Covered Class. Class. Carriages. L ea're London (Waterloo- A.M. bridge Station at 7.0 Vauxhall at 7.6 Kingsto n at 7.25 ++„... Woking, at 7.50 125. 6 d. 10 s. B ' . t , Farnborough at 8.5 j Basingstoke at 8.35 Winchester at 9.12 Rishopstoke at 9.30 Southampton (West- 1 0 s: Bs. 6s A re end Station). at 9 . 45 Pre at Weymouth at 12.5 a R eturning from Weymouth each week day at 4 . 30 p .m., and r r i lYing in London about 9.45 p.m. ne Excursion wille to return the -tial Excursion Train s on th e day following that on by which trey are issued, thus enabling passengers to remain at Wey mouth from 12 noon till 4.30 p.m. on the following day ; or aNe ngers with Excursion Tickets may return by the Ex oZsion Train the same day, in their otion. Excursion lekets taken on Saturday are availabl e to return by the ,Aerial Train on Monday. p„ptildren under Three, Free ; Three to 12, Half Fares ; cakets not transferable, and available at Weymouth only. A 1 , 11 carpet-bag only allowed as luggage. G 'earnboate will ply between Weymouth Quay and the reat Shi CHEAP EXCURSION TO THE NORTH, ea _ via GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—A TRAIN w ill Liaddington on SDAY Septeber 24th, at n. for OXFORD AT (Fares Uß , 11s , and 5s m 6d), Banbury (ii„ " and 6s 6d), Leamington and Warwick (18s and 88 ) , Bi* '" , llgham (205 and 9s 6d), West Bromwich, Wednesbury, ,91ilston (21s 6d and 10s), Wolverhampton (22s fkl and lOs Wellington and Shrewsbury (27s Bd and 13s), Llan- I ll en Road and Chester (3.38 and 15s), Birkenhead and Liver -14 Ms and 17s); re t u rning on MONDAY , October 3d, DI Liverpool, at 10 30 a.m , and inter mediate stations . Per handbills. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAT. ' -. 44 . CHEAP EXCURSION to the WEST of ENGLAND.. • 4, 111, _, facilities for vigilin.g TAQVigTOCK, TRURO, ANCE, and the LAND'S END, &c.—On WEDNES , the 6th of October, an EXCURSION TRAIN will leave 4 pington at 0 a.m., for WESTON-SUPERMARE BRLDGWATER (Fares 208 and 138); Taunton and v erton-road ( 22$ and 15s) ; Exeter (228 6d and 16s) ; Barn staple and Bideford (308 and 208) ; Starcross, Dawlish, and ei glirnouth (25s and 178) ; Newton, Torquay, Paignton, A nd„ Totness (27s and 18s); Kingsbridge-road and Plymouth iaand 208), returning from Plymouth on Saturday, October I;,.'' at 6.20 a.m., and intermediate stations as per handbills. v r o sengers wishing to proceed to any stations on the Ta c'ek, Cornwall,' or West Cornwall - Railways will be fur nished at Plymouth with Ist, 2d, or 3d Class Return Tickets, 7Tallable for return up to the 14th October, inclusive, at a Ain ;le fare for the double journey. (.BEAT WESTERN RAILWAY.— TOURISTS' SEA-SIDE and FAMILY TICKETS, available fora month, or longer by extra payment, are now 'Ted at Paddington To WEYMOUTH, 355. First-class, and 255. Second-class trues taking not less than Four Fi rst or Six Second-class etc pl . ? EXETER, DAWLISH, TEIGNMOUTIT, TORQUAY, Kyr L t aNTON for DARTMOUTH, BIDEFORD, or BARN -8.,f-BLE (for ILFRACOMBE), 50s. First-class, and 355. Vnd-class to parties taking not less than Three tiskets. 4 5 ,: 0 „ PENZANCE for the LAND'S END, 655 First Class, second-class, to parties taking not less than three tickets. ,„iro the ISLE of MAN, via Chester and Liver p ool, 70s. First '",!s and 50s. Second-class, I, l ' o ANGR, B EAUMARIS, and LLANDUDNO, 70s. Tilt -e B lass and O 508. Second-class. te a 0 CARNARVON, via Llangollen - road , C a p el Curig, and eerls —to BALA, via, Llangollen-road or Corwen—or NEWTO, via Oswestry, 70s. First-class and 50s. To NARBERTH-ROAD and NEYLAND for TENBY MILFORD HAVEN, 70s. First - c lass and 50s. Second attßs. T o KILLARNEY and SOUTH of I RELAND via Milford laa eiase.ll and Waterford, £5 58. First-class an d £4 Second sT°7EßSEY and GUERNSEY , v ia We y mouth, 455. First cli.fB and 355. Second-class. Or further particulars see k Great Western Time Books. ndbilla will be sent on appcatiowto the Superintendent, a _ dd ington Station. TAE LIVERPOOL and LONDON FIRE and LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. E s t a blished 1836. Offie "—No. 1, Dale-street, Liverpool, and 20 and 21, Poultry, London. Liability of Proprietors Unlimited. • Invested Funds PROGRESS OF THE COMPANY. Fire Premiums. Life Premiums. Invested Funds 35,472 19,840 •• • . 388,990 •• • • 113,612 • 49,128 •• • . 620,898 •• • • 276,058 121,411 •• .. 1,156,035 The Annual Income exceed s £450,000. POl Idl es expiring on MICHAELMAS-DAY should be re newed before the 14th October. SWINTON BOULT, Secretary to the Company. Year lsig • 1 813 1858 TRORLEY'S FOOD FOR CATTLE. —Every m o 13 eroon having an interest in domestic or farm animals t‘,..,111d obtain a supply of this celebrated and economical ~""4 . which will prove invaluable during the approaching lel.H°l For keeping horses idgood condition it is unequal- Pits fatten with surprising rapidity upon it, and their il increases in flavour and value. Cowkeepers will fincl V; of in the increased quantity and improved qua it'? of the milk during its use. All animals are benefited by 'l , ,, st t Pamphlet on this interesting subject, accompanied by tuit Montels from the principal Nobility, Gentry, and Agri j4RTrists, forwarded on application. In casks containing Roil,leds (measures enclosed), price 505., carriage paid to any n ;,,,";! , y Station in the United Kingdom. Post-offVe orders aNT'vVe to Joseph Thorley, 77, Newgate-street, LOll6lll. by ' A • --The public are cautioned against being imposed apon Worthless imitations. 'ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. tl,Purinz the p*st year (1858) 40,403 received the benefits of ic:„18 Charity, either as out or in door patients ; and since its li ,..undation to 31st December, 1858, the number relieved was u pwards of 649,000. The r• thi s ,mmmitteg entreat AID to enable them t o continue worka di charity. STANFORD S. SMITH, Sec. SIGHT AND HEARTNG.-SPECTACLES.- ppj,,OWERFUL TELESCOPES.—OPERA, RACE, and i llo ,'''rECTlVE GLASSES. Messrs. S. and B. Solo -..,"5, Opticians. 39, Alhemarle-street, Piccadilly. Observe „JPosite the York Hotel, W.—Opera, Race-course, Field, p e lyeneral Out•door Day ad Persective Glasses, B . I Y Mall, for the waistcoatspocket,h each conptaining 12 and cruses,per constructed of German glass. Will show di stinctl y ° ll B to know them at two-and-a-half and three miles, t:',.z..2 1 obJect from tto ten miles distant. Her Majesty's In -:‘ Guards are making use of them as day and night glasses t al yrierence to all others ; they are also preferred for deer- En - by sportsmen, gentlemen, and gamekeepers. Tele atirk„a ''t inches long. by which a per son ma y be clearly seen tan c e - `°'wn at 31 miles, and an object at 12 to 14 miles dis tao,„ and with an extra astronomical eve-piece, Jupiter's see n 's, Saturn's rings, and the double stars are distinctly lAU the above can be had of larger and all sizes, with I, - i i .`„ a sing powers, and are secured by her Majesty's Royal Its.,"'" Patent. The Royal Exhibition, 1851. A valuable, 41' 8 : L 1 ; Y-invented, very small, powerful Waistcoat -pocket s ee „s , the size of a walnut, by which a person can be 'w e '. and known one and a half mile distant. They an lion; every purpose on the Race-course and at the Opera to - ;:r. Country scenery and ships are clearly seen at four RtaiZ, miles. They are invaluable for shooting, deer and ,•cr , yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers t ra .. tourists. Price 30s.—Spectacle Lenses of the greatest i nv u e sParent power. The great advantage derived from this atr ei t i lti oti is, that vision becoming impaired is preserved and thesgthened, and very aged persons are enabled to . employ 41, 4 sight at the most minute occupation—can see with those tmir 9 of a m uc h less magnifying power , and t he y do not re lioN,„e t he frequent changes to the dangerous effects of further t h erno ertul asstance. can be suited at the st strte part s of the world Persons by sending one of the glasses oumoof t ey e , ,spectacles in a letter, and stating - the distance from the hot "ley can read small print with it, and those who have ik,T e _Plade use of spectacles by stating their age. Deatpess : — Do f Discovery.—The Organic Vibrator, an extraorclitanly t lerfully small newly-invented instrument for Deafness, kin r l 7 different from all others, surpasses anything of the of the that has been, or probably ever can be, produced. Being 4 n ,same colour as the skin, is not perceptible. It enables bitt_persons to hear distinctly at church and at public assem is vs ; the unpleasant sensation of singing noises in tbe ears entirely removed, and it affords all the assistance that t)Zt ib lY could be desired.-39, Albem ar le-street, Piccadilly. "`r•e--opposite the York Hotel. W : MEDICAL ADVICE. bn• LA'MERT, Registered L.S.A., Honorary et th 'Member ot the London Hospital Medical Society, M.D. n h • University of Erlangen, Are., may be CO/VAULTED ~rtt ses ot Debility, Nervousness ana lila Secret In tro ties of Youth and Maturity, from Elegyen till Two, and olx till Eight, at his residence, 3 7 BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON br. L led—nZravin Insr ous s Viert has just published , price Sixpence, with nu entit gs and Cases, a New Edition of his Work, 'which SELF-PRESERVATION , eznhilvin,ll,be sent free, in a sealed envelope. by Mann, ag, ata - ,, ondon, or by the Author, to any address, for raps. . -- SECT O T CONTENTS. v i - I .—The Physiology of the Generative Organs. t iv :e'rtpiq p, , —u e y—. Pb rt Manhood -The Morals of Genera s,o, .tYsiology—True and False Morality. tt e rjloN 111.--Marriage in its Moral, Social, and Physical ta v :'" ) °"—lts - Expectancies and Disappointments—frigyan .3. 4:,Ttox rhYsical Contrasts in securing Healthy Offspring. IV,—Spermatorrhcea and Impotence —The causes .8 terility in hoth Sexes—Self-inflicted Miseries. iii e j o eTi " V.—The Vices of Schools—Effects of certain per m, " hilbita on the mental and general faculties —Import- ; - 'e of Moral Discipline blill'err Vl .— Treatment of Nervous and Generative De `,ari,;,'Potence and Aterility—Dangerous Results of Tr.. - " nazardous Specifics —The Author's Principles of tr,;;Lrnent; Medical, Dietetic, and General, derived from ------ ntY Tears' successful practice. 0 1 \ 1 E HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD ON CONICTION. b, T he fearful d angers t o invalids from spurious imitations_ of f Li,i, ll ARRY's invaluable HEALT 11-RESTORING REVA h "TA ARABICA FOOD led to an investigation, and, -Don p o s _ -Pplication in 1854 for protection, the High Court of Zsi' n "rY granted an injunction restraining Alfred Hooper ' lll i, and his agents, under a penalty of .C-6,000, from selling I P? article resemling or being colourable imitatin of Du Revalent b a Arabica, of a which we are the sole pro- Drietors. Now, therefore, this is to give notice that the above reward will be paid, upon conviction, to anyone giving infor -41"i04 of any breach of the injunction. An intelligent Public requires no admonition to shun all shopkeepers who h C O ttempt impositions. London: !BARRY DU BARRY NO 3 10ItE SICKLY OR TLL-CONDITIONED HORSES OR OTHER CATTLE. BA RRY'S HORSE and CATTLE-IMPROVING FOOT) Nstores the efficiency, vigour, endurance, and muscle of ill rditioned or apparently worn-out Horses, Cows, Bul thls, alves, Sheep, and Thos. In a short time it improves % tr aPPearance and value by 20 and 30 per ce nt . RA REY en d r 77, ReCent's Quadrant, London. In tins at 35., at 69., at Ils. ; in casks, of about 450 feeds, 5 0 s. ; of a bout 1,000 feeds, lzs_ being* about I%d. per feed. c F ea o r r r w ia a r: r e d . ed on receipt of Post-office orders. The : casks free NO MORE TE ri r,..riee 2d. free by post, a popu MEDIC lar tatise N , sixty-four rages , 'nE NATURAL REGENERATION of the DIGESTIVE ORGANS, Dracticslly illustrating the effectual Cure, withot edicine, Acidity, P a l lit Indigestion (dyspepsia\ habitual Constinstios,u Fla M tuleney pitation of the Heart, Torpidity of the Liver, i "°" lit y, Headaches, Nervousness, Biliousness, General Deb' - `Y , uaugh, Asthma, Consumption; Despondency, Spleen, &C., ale, Pills, Purzatives, or Medicine of any kind , by a ...Ile, pleasant, and infallible means ; adapted to the general " 44 er. Loudon : Barry Du Barry & Co. 77, Regent-street. PUBLICATIONS. Cheaper Edition, 2s. 6d. THE YOUNG LADY'S. FRIEND : A Manual of Practical Advice and Instruction to Young Women on entering upon the Duties of Life after quitting School. London : John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. Just published, Bvo, in cloth, price 55., by post free, ss. 6d., THE TREATMENT of STRICTURES of the URETHRA; showing why they so often appear In curable, 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 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 found in the private study of all who are subject to stricture."—Medical Circular, Dec. Ist, 1858. • • London: 11. BaiMere, 219, Regent-street. THE LONDON.—The attention of Gentlemen is especially drawn to the advantages offered in these elegant and spacious Saloons, which fulfil all the require ments of a West-end club of the most aristocratic and exclu sive character. f.'on trouve dans la Salle de Lecture non seulement les meilleurs journeaux Anglais, mats aussi Allemand, Francais, et Beige. F. SAWYER, Proprietor, 191, Fleet-street. THE QUEEN'S HOTEL, Queenstown.—Mr. ROBERT WILSON respectfully apprises tourists and families visiting this delightful watering-place, the air of which is famed throughout Europe, that the s p lendid esta blishme4eo well known as the " Queen's Hote " has come under his management. This hotel is one of the finest in the United Kingdom; and besides being furnished with all the luxuries and appliances of a First-class Hotel, it combines all the advantages of a beautiful situation, commanding. charm , lag views, the best attendance, ample accommodation either for families or single visitors, close contiguity to the steam boat pier, and the finest promenades of Queenstown, and a scale of prices so moderate as to enable its visitors-to enjoy all the advantages of a first-class hotel on vhe same terms they would have to pay in a minor one. From its open and healthful situation the Queen's Hotel is also peculiarly suit able for invalids. THE ROYAL STATION HOTEL, Paragon street, Hull, requires only to be visited to be pronounced one of the most splendid hotels in England. The situation is open and healthful, a few minutes' walk from all the public buildings and places of business, and being connected with the Railway Station, affords railway passengers arriving or departing by every train day or night, the advantage of being on the spot, and having their wants and wishes immediately attended. to. The public should know that under the present manage ment they will find every . comfort and convenience at the same charges they are paving at the minor hotels. It has accommodation for upwards of one hundred and fifty visitors, is fitted up with every luxury• an hotel can command, and is so arranged for the advantage of every class of visitor, that Beds can be had from is. to 2s. ; Private Rooms, from 2s. to ;* Breakfasts, from ls. Gd. to 2s. ; Dinners, from 2s. ; and all other charges of that moderate character which will give satisfaction to every class of visitor who may pay the hotel a visit. The hotel contains Gentlemen and Ladies' Coffee Rooms ; a special Room set apart for Commercial Gentlemen ; fourteen P, mate suites of Rooms ; large spacious Rooms for Dinner Parties, Public Meetings, &c., &a ; two first-class Refresh ment Rooms ; two Smoke Rooms ; Bath and Billiard Rooms. A Night Porter in attendance. EDWIN TAYLOR. Proprietor of the Royal Station Hotel, Hull, and Crescent Hotel, Filey. N.B.—TAYLOR'S CRESCENT HOTEL, fronting the sea for Families and Gentlemen. It has accommodation for up wards of one hundred and fifty visitors. Table D'Hdte. at five o'clock. • Omnibuses and Cabs from the hotel meet all the trains. Good stabling and coach-houses. Moderate terms. McCOLf.:6I'S GREAT ANGLO-SAXON CIRCUS. R OYAL ALRAMBRA PALACE. - Almost an entire change of performance. New and interesting attractions. Two performances daily, commenc ing at Sand 8 p.m. ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill - street , Piccadilly. —These elegant rooms are now open for the Winter Season for Promenade Concerts, with the celebrated Argyll Band, condugted by Mons. A. Lamotte ; principal cornet-a-pi , ton, K.Mutleourt. Dancing at 10 o'clock. Doors open at 8, commence at half-past. Admission, ls. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS , .1 High liolborn, RE-OPENED for the SEASON.—This es t a blishment, pre-eminently distinguished for the elegan3e and matchless beauty of its decorations, combined with the perfection ot its management, is OPEN EVERY EVENING. Great alterations and improvements have been made during the recess, and nothing has been left undone that could en hance the beauty of the place, or increase the comfort of the visitors. Doors open at half-past 8; overture at 9; closing at 12 punctually. Admission is. D AILY, AT THREE O'CLOCK ( and on MON DAY and 'SATURDAY evenings at half-past eight), Dr. KAHN will DELIVER his celebrated and popular LEC TURE on the " Philosophy of Marriage." The MUSEUM, 3, Tichborne-street, Haymarket, is OPEN DAILY (for gentlemes only). Admission, ls. Handbook free to visitors. Dr. Kahn's treatise on " The Philosophy of Marriage," free by post for twelve stamps, direct from the Author, 17, Harley-street, Cavendish-square. GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH, USED IN THE ROYAL LAUNDRY, UN O rnormirrrcEn BY HEN MAJESTY'S LAUNDRESS to be THE -FINEST STARCH SHE EVER USED. WHEN YOU ASK FOE GLENFIELD P &TENT STARCH, SEE THAT YOU GET IT, As inferior kinds are ofteN substituted. Sold by all Chandlers, Grocers, &c., &o. WOTHERSPOON & CO., GLASGOW AND LONDON TRULY EFFICACIOUS and MILD.— Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, prepared vritnout any Mercurial Ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. Scott, of Bromley, Kent. These Pills will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and liver complaints, indiges tion, wind, spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &c. For nabitual costiveness, and as a family aperient medicine, they are truly excellent ; mild in their operation and grateful to he stomach, they create appetite, promote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Sold by most druggists, in boxes, Is. lid., and 2s. 9d. each. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package, with "W. Lambert, 20, Jermyn-street, en graved on the Government stamp. 3, GREAT MARTHLBO E ROU PANTHEON. GH-STREET, W., NEAR DR. CULVERWELL, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Licentiate of If idwifery, and Apo thecaries' Hall, London, can be consulted daily (only) as above, on all cases of Nery , us Debility, Languor, Incapacity, Loss of Memory, Sterility, and all Functional Derang,ensents of both Sexes, emanating from early and excessive indul gences. Has Just published, price ls. ; by post, 13 stamps, 18 sealed, No. 4, An entire new and orioinal Work, entitled OURSELVES. ' 'Synopsis : The Physiology and Anatomy of our Generation - The Origin of Disease —Symptoms, Treatment, and Cure. Also, an Exposition of, and Remedy for, all Urinary Derange ments and Marital Disqualifications, MALE. The modern treatment of Syphilis, Stricture, Blennerrbagia (Gonorrhoea), Spermatorrhcea, Impotency, and all Diseases of the Urinary Organs, with Prescriptions, Src. FEMALE. The Physiology and Anatomy of Women- Functional Ir regularities in Health and Sickness—Choice in Marriage— Their Expectancies and Disappointments—The Cause and Removal of Sterility—The Theory and Symptoms of Gesta tion—Use of the Speculum, and the securing of Healthy Offspring. Also, No. 1. HEALTH, ITAPPINESS, and LONGEVITY ; On Debility, Nervousness, Dyspepsia, and Indigestion, No. 2. LOVE AND MARRIAGE : Their Obligations, Happiness, and Disappointments ; Love and other Matches. Sterility Removed, and Healthy Off spring secured. No. 3. THE CASE BOOK : 100 Cases of SPERMA.TORRMEA, Their Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment, Confessions and Cure by Cauterisations, Galvanism, &c. &c. &c. To be had of Mann. 39, Cornhill ; and the Authors.' Advice to the Working Classes, fee Half-a-Guinea. DU BARRY'S. REVALENTA ARA BICA CHOCOLATE POWDER Contains the greatest amount of easily assimilated nourishment for strengthening delicate persons, children, and infants with weak stomachs, chest, or nerves, and, at 3-pence per meal, affords a delicious breakfast, lunch, or supper. It is the best dietetic hoincepa title preparation, and may be eaten either alone or mixed with Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food. Admirably adapted to rear Infants with. In Tins at is. Od ; 11b., 35.; 21b., ss. 9d. ; 51b., 12. ; 121 b., 265. he 121 b. forwarded carria,,e free 77, Regent receipt s ef Post-office orTder. Du Barry and Co., street, London ; and through all Grocers and Chemists. NO MORE MEDICINE DU BARRY'S DELICIOUS HEALTH-RESTORING REVALENTA ARABICA FOOD Cures effectually Indiges tion (dyspepsia), constipation, flatulency, phlegm, nervousness, biliousness, liver complaints, hysteria, neuralgia, sleepless ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, erupt ion hem irritability, low spirits, diarrhoea, dysentery, hemorrhoids, headache, noises in the head and ears, debility, diabetes, pa i n s between the shoulders , de s p ondenc y , cramps, spasms, nausea, and sickness (during pregnancy or at sea), sinking fits, cough, asthma, bronchitis, consumption, also Children's complaints. W e extract a few out of 50,000 ex p ressions of gratitude from 1 nvalids thus cured : Cure Lord Stuart de Decies n of i man y years' dyspepsia. Cure No. l 49,832. " Fifty years' i describable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms. sickness at the stomach and vomiting:, have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food," Maria Joly. Cure No. 53,816. Field Mar shall the Duke of Pluskow, of dyspepsia, constipation, ner vousness and liver complaints which had resisted all baths and medical treatment. Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. Cure No. 18,216. Dr. Andrew 111 re, of constipation, dyspepsia, andnervous irritability.r Cure No. 34,210. Dr. Shorland, pile dropsy and debility. Cure No. 36,212. Captain Allan, of epptic fits.. Cure No. 36,418. Rev. Dr. ,Minster, of cramps, spasms and daily vomitings. Cure No. 26,418. Dr. Hervey, of diarrhcea and debility. Cure No. 29,628. Dr. Wurtzerof consumption. Cure N 0.46,270. Mr. James Roberts. merchant, Fernley, Surrey , of 20 years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, partial deafness. Cure No. 4,208. ' Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, Rectory, Norfolk. spasms, and nausea,have been effectually cured by Du Barry's health-restoring Food. Rev. John :W. Flavell, Ridlington ndigestion, and general debility. James Porter, Athol-street, "--Cure No. 3,906, of thirteen years' cough, Perth. Sold in canisters, 11b. 25. 9d. ; 21b. 4s. 6d. ; 121 b. 225; order. Barr Super refined quality, 51b. 228. ; 101 b. 335. The 101 b. and 121 b. canisters are forwarded carriage free, on receipt of Post-offiee y Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London ; Fortnum, Mason, and Co., to her Majesty, 182, o. purveyors Piccadilly ; also at 60, ' -street ; 330, Strand ;4, Grace(' urc Cheapside; 49 and 105 and 63, 60, Bishopsoate-street ; Oxford street ; 85, Tottenham-cot. ,_ irt-roa ,d • also in Liverpool, at ', I Ntions, 1, Castle-street ardt and Co . Dublin, i Jr. Butler, Medical B ; II L . eels, MAO ;. a , nf -noheetero Sharp and Scott dclinbtugh, Raimee and coir PURSUANT to a Decree of the High C ourt of Chancery, made in a cause " William Henry Mott, an infant, ainst John Mott and Andrew Pritchard, ' the Cre ditors of WILLIAM GREEDY MOTT, late of Cheapside, in the,city of London, and of Manor House, Gunnersbury, in the county of Middlesex, silversmith and jeweller, who died on the 3d day of May, 1857, are, by their solicitors, on or before the 7th day of November, 1859, to come in and prove their debts at the Chambers of the Vice-Chancellor Kindersley, at i Stone -buildings, Lnln's-inn, Middlesex, or in default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said Decree. Saturday, the 12th day of November, 1859, at 12 o'Clock at noon, at the said Chambers, is appointed for hearing and ad judicating upon the claims. Dated this Bth day of August, 1859. CHAS. PUGH, Chief Clerk. RUTHERFORD and SON,Plaintiff 's solicitors, 58, Gracechurch-street. CONTRACTS FOR OATS, COCOA, TEA, SUGAR, AND TOBACCO. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport Services, - Somerset-house, 16th September, 1859. • COMMISSNERS for EXECUTIG I- THE OFFICE of IO LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of N the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE LAND, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on THURS DAY, the 6th October next, at Half-past One o'Clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, the undermentioned articles, viz :-- OATS ' 5OO quarters. COCOA When to be delivered—One-half in Two Weeks, and the remainder in Two Weeks afterwards, or earlier if preferred by the party tendering. TEA. loopo lbs. SU GAR 3OO tons. TOBACCO , When to be delivered—Half of each in Three Weeks, and the remainder in Three Weeks afterwards, or rather if pre ferred by the party tendering. Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the Articles. ('heir Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the tenders are opened, of contracting either for the whole or for such part thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a,greater quantity, or of not contracting for any, and also an unlimited power of selection. The Cocoa, Tea, Sugar, and Tobacco to be exempted from the Customs' duties, and parties tendering are to state where they are respectively lying. Samples o f the Oats (not less than two quarts), of the Cocoa (not less than two pounds), and of the Tea (not less than two pounds)from the bonded warehouse), must be pro duced by the parties tendering. • Each tender for Sugar must specify the mark and landing number of each cask or package, the ship in which imported, and the country or place of its growth or produce, and an average Sample (not less than 2lbs for each import mark) must be produced by the parties tendering, and not an average of different marks or several imports ; and any parcel that is found not to be of the same mark or average quality as the samples tendered and accepted, will be rejected by the officer s. Each tender for Tobacco must specify the several trade marks and numbers, and the countries or places of its growth or produce, and a fresh drawn Dock sample of each cask or package must be produced by the parties tendering, and any cask or package that is found not to be of the same mark. number, or quality as the sample tendered and accepted, will be rejected by the officers. The samples produced by persons whose tenders are not ac cepted, are requested to be taken away by them immed iatel y after the Contracts have been decided. No tender will be received unless made on the printed form provided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on application at the said office, or to the officer conducting the Packet Service at Liverpool, or to the Collector of Cus toms at Bristol. Particular attention is called to the recent modifications of the conditions of the contract, which may be seen at the said office, and at Liverpool and Bristol. No tender will be received after half-past One o'clock on the day of treaty, and it will not be required that the party tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend -at the office on the day of contract, as the result of the offer received from each person will be communicated to him and his pro posed sureties in writing. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Ten der for ," and must also be delivered. at Somerset house. THE DISPUTED ISLAND OFF BRITISH COLUMBIA. The San Francisco Times contains the following account of the little " difficulty" which appears,to have grown up in our newly-recognised colony : " VICTORIA, V. 1., Aug. 7. "You are, perhaps, aware before this, while you have been absorbed in political controversies at home, or watch ing the events of the great world in the far East, war, with all its attendant evils, has been threatening us here in the distant North. " Some weeks ago came to this port, in the United States steamer Massachusetts, General Harney. His arrival was acknowledged by a salute, and, after a day's sojourn as the guest of Governor Douglass, he passed by on the other side.' "A few days after the General's departure for Puget Sound, our town was thrown into the greatest excitement by the news that a company of American troops had seized the disputed island of San Juan, and that barracks were being established upon it. No one knew by whom the act was authorised, and especially did certain chivalric Ameri cans, with Filibustering proclivities, seem not to care. Then commenced blustering and bloviating on both sidss, the American population waxed rampant, as usual on such oc casions, and the British indignant. Numerous lively dis cussions sprung up among groups of citizens at the street corners, and a considerable quantity of the king's English was demolished on both sides. " Very soon vessels for the conveyance of passengers to the seat of war were in demand. Small boats were char tered for the trip, and several steamboats departed with visitors, both English and American, to the island of San Juan, a distance of 15 or 20 miles from this place. Two of the English vessels of war from Esquimalt Harbour had gone over on the first reception of the news. Most of those who went to the island did so, perhaps, through curiosity ; but others, no doubt, went determined to lend a hand to their respective countries if their services were needed. In the harbour of San Juan were found, beside several British men.of-war, the United States' ships Massachusetts, Shu brick, and a revenue cutter from Fuget Sound. A company of American soldiers, to the number of 40 or 50, had taken possession of the island, and' quite boldly indicated their in tention to keep it, as will be seen by the followinc , order, which was posted in various places about the island:-- (Order No. 1.) " ' Military Post, San Juan Island,W. T., July 27 "' 1. In coriiplianCe with orders and instructions from the General Commanding, a military post will be established on this island, on whatever site the commanding officer may select. " 2. All the inhabitants of the island are requested to report at once to the commanding officer, in case of any in cursion of the Northern Indians, so that ho may take such steps as he may deem necessary to prevent any future oc currence of the same. " 3. This being United States territory, no laws other than those of the United States, nor Courts except such as are held by virtue of said laws, will be recognized or allowed in this island. " By o*Jer of CAPTAIN PICKET. " James W. Forsyth, Second Lieutenant, 9th Infantry, Post Adjutant.' "It will be observed from the tone of this order that it ignores the Treaty and Boundary Commission, and admits of no compromise ; if, therefore, it proves to have had no higher authority than General Harney, and any concession is hereafter made, it will afford us another example of the reckless manner in which Filibustering American citizens jeopardize the peace and compromise the honour of their countr'Sr. " From the first,it appears that the British desired to avoid a collision, as their ability at any moment to take the island can scarcely be doubted ; it was their wish to gain a joint military occupation of the island with our troops, until orders could be received from the heads of the two Governments. A proposition to that effect having been made, was rejected ; but, it is believed, will yet be acceded to. It is unnecessary to repeat that if such a concession is made, after what has passed, it will be a dastardly compro mise of the country's honour. " Affairs have rested in this plight, with little change, during the past week. A small company or two from Fort Bellingham have been added to the American forces ' and a N u mber of Americans have gone from this place and Wash ington Territory, with the avowed intention of settling at San Juan. A British vessel of war brought down some Sappers and Miners from Fraser River a few days since, and renewed the request to land their forces, but were re fused. They had not landed at the last accounts, and mat ters remained in statu quo. " On Wednesday Governor Douglass issued a protest against the occupation of San Juan Island by the Ameri cans, and declared the island to belong to her Majesty Queen Victoria. His Excellency also sent a message to the Vancouver Legislative Assembly yesterday, in which it is declared that the British forces will be landed on the island. If such be their intention, a collision seems inevi table. "The disputed island lies north-westerly from the en trance to Puget Sound and the mainland of Washington Territory, in the vicinity of Port Townsend, the broad, beautiful Sti ait of Fuca being between. Sailing from the Sound to Victoria, across the Fuca, San Juan appears to be a part of Vancouver's Island, and the disputed channel cannot be distinguished until you have come down oppo site its mouth or junction with the Strait. " Notwithstanding the treaty, and the loud talk that is made about the commanding importance of San Juan to the Americans, it naturally belong s to the British, and is of infinitely greater value to th em than to the United States. The channel in dispute is the gate to the Gulf of Georgia, Fraser River, and British Columbia —mostly British water and British possessions. If this channel is by the treaty, de termined to be the boundary line, it only gives us a small island of small value, with no other advantages, as we own nothing north of it, while to them it is the doorway to all their possessions. This is no reason, however, why the United States should not have the island, if by any right It belongs to them ; but if John Bull goes to war for this island it will be because it is of great value to him ; and if Jonathan backs out, as he usually does, it will be because it is not of much value to him and his master. King Cot ton and Lord Democracy tell him it is not in the right direction to be worth fighting for. "Considerable ill-feeling appears to have arisen among the people at Victoria in consequence of this movement of General Harney. The Victoria Gazette, having assumed a positibn upon the subject which is deemed there to be an ' American view,' is asailed severely by several English writers in the Colonist. "The Pioneer and Democrat commends the action of General Harney in taking possession of San Juan Island. It says The treaty is based upon the principle that all south of the parallel of 49 degs. was United States territory, and the deviation made was simply to give Vancouver's Island —only a very small portion of which was south of that parallel—to that country which, had the line continued directly across it, would have owned the greater part of it. If, then, the question were one of doubt as to the proper channel, a consideration of the intent of the treaty must solve that question in favour of the United States. But it is not a question upon which a doubt should be permitted to exist. The Canal de Haro is the broadest, deepest, and most direct channel from the Straits of Fuca into the Gulf of Georgia. And this would not be questioned were it not for the value of the intermediate islands. To England they are valuable as well for the land, of which there is much that is of a superior quality on some of the islands, as also that they are supposed to command the southern entrance to the Gulf of Georgia. To us they are necessary as a military post, being the only place suitable for the protec- tion of our people from the hordes of Northern savages, from whom we have already suffered, and from whose threatened attacks many of our settlements down the Sound are kept in 'continual alarm. San Juan is just the place for a pest. The Indians must pass within striking distance in coming to and returning from the settlements.' The following is Governor Douglas's message : " Government House, Victoria, Aug. 3. "To THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AND ROUSH OF ASSEM BLY OF THE COLONY OF VANCOUVER'S ISLAND. " Gentlemen,—l have to communicate for your informa tion the intelligence of the landing of a detachment of United States' troops on the Island of San Juan, avowedly (see encl3sures Nos. 1 and 2) for the purpose of forming a military post, and of asserting the sovereignty of the United States over that island. " Having received' no information from any quarter that the United States ever contemplated taking possession of any part of the,disputed territory while the boundary line remained unsettled, I am forced to believe that the late un warrantable and discourteous act, so contrary to the usages of civilised nations, has originated in error, and been under taken without the authority of that Government. " That impression is corroborated by a letter (a copy of which is here enclosed) from the Hon. W. L. Marcy, Secre tary for the United States, dated Washington, July 12, 1855, to her Majesty's Minister at Washington, which con tains instructions from the President of the United States to the Governor of Washington territory, and displays in the clearest manner the conciliatory and moderate views entertained by his Government on the subject of the dis puted territory. "Though the right of Great Britain to all the islands situated to the westward of Vancouver or Rosario Straits is to our minds clearly established by the first article of the treaty of 1846, and though those islands have, since the foundation of this colony, been considered as a dependency of Vancouver's. Island, it is well known to you, gentlemen, that out of respect to the construction that has been put upon that treaty by the Government of the United States, we have abstained from exercising exclusive sovereignty over them. " Convinced that any assumption on either side of ex clusive right to the disputed territory, would simply be a fuitless and mischievous waste of energy, neither detract ing from nor adding force to the claims of either nation, wise and considerate policy enjoins upon us the part of leav ing so important a national question for settlement by the proper authorities, and of avoiding complications fereign to the views and wishes of, and probably embarrassing to both Governments. " Immediately on being informed of the landing of United States' troops at San Juan, her Majesty's ship Tribune, under the command of Captain Hornby, was despatched to that. quarter, and soon after a detachment of Royal Engi neers, and Royal Marine Light Infantry, were ordered from New Westminster, by her Majesty's ship Plumper, Captain Richards, and those troops will be landed at San Juan to protect the lives and property of British subjects. " You will observe, gentleman, from enclosure No. 1, that the captain in command of the United States' detach ment of troops, in a public notice, dated 27th July, assumes the exercise of exclusive sovereign rights in the Island of San Juan, while the President cf the United States alto gether disclaims such pretensions, and seeks at most to dis continue the joint right of sovereignty and domain in com mon with Great Britain. We may presume from that cir cumstance that the notice in question was framed in ignor ance of the intention of the United' States Government, ann that the pretensions set forth will not be maintained. " Entertaining such opinions, I have not failed to impress on her Majesty's naval officers now stationed at San Juan the desire of her Majesty's Government to avoid every course which may unnecessarily involve the suspension of the ami cable relations subsisting between Great Britain and the United States ; at the same time those officers have been in structed and are hereby prepared to assert the rights and maintain the honour and dignity of our Sovereign and her dominions. I have the honour to be, gentlemen, your most obedient servant, " JAMES DOUGLAS." In the report which Mr. Nugent, as United States' Commissioner at Fraser River, made last winter, he explains in a few words the nature of the pending dispute as to the islands as follows : "The treaty of June 15, 1846, stipulates as follows : Article 1. From the point of the 49th parallel of north latitude, where the boundary laid down in existing treaties and conventions between Great Britain and the United States terminates, the line of boundary between the terri tories of her Britannic Majesty and those of the United States shall be continued westward along the 49th parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which sepa rates the continent from Vancouver's Island, and thence southerly through the middle of the *aid channel and of Fuca Straits to the Pacific Ocean. Provided, however, that the navigation of the said channel and straits south of the 49th parallel of north latitude remain free and open to both parties.' " There are two channels between the continent and Van couver s Island, both leading out into the Sti aits of Fuca — the Strait of Rosario, a narrow channel nearest the main land, and the Canal de Haro, which, besides being the beaten track, is much wider, has greater average depth of water, and is nearer to Vancouver's Island. It is claimed on the part of Great Britain that the Strait of Rosario, being the channel nearest the mainland, is that contemplated by the treaty ; but a very slight consideration of the circum stances under which the line was run, as well as of the warding of the article above quoted, will show that this , position is wholly untenable. In the first place, the only reason why the boundary line was caused to deflect from the 49th parallel before it reached the Pacific Ocean was to avoid the southern end of Vancouver's Island, on which there was then a British settlement, The intendment of the article was merely to save Great Britain the Island of Vancouver, and consequently the nearest channel to Van couver was undoubtedly that through the middle of which the treaty contemplated the line should run. Again, the islands bordering on the continent belong to the continent, unless otherwise stipulated ; but there is no stipulation ex cept as to Vancouver's Island, neither was there any reason existing at that time why there should be, as none of the islands in dispute were then occupied by subjects of Great Britain." TEE LATE SIR J. STEPHEN, S.C.B. We announced yesterLy the death, on Wednes day last, at Coblentz, in his 71st year, of the Right Hon. Sir James Stephen, K.C. 8., Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge, and formerly Under-Seoretary of State for the Colonies. The deceased was the son of Mr. James Stephen, Master in Chancery (well known for his writings and exertions between 1815 and 1830 on the subject of eolonial slavery), and was born about the year 1790. "He was educated," says a biographical sketch in the English Cycloyedia, " at Trinity-hall, Cambridge , where h e g raduated B.A. in 1812. Having chosen the legal profession, he was tailed to the bar at Lincoln's-inn. He had hardly . begun practice as a Chancery barrister when, in 1812 or 1813, he became connected offi cially with the public service as counsel of the Colo nial department. For 11 years he was at once counsel for this department and a Chancery barris ter in extensive practice. He then retired from the bar, and became at the same time both counsel to the Colonial Department and counsel to the Board of Trade. He held these offices jointly for 10 years ; after which; during the Whig Government which succeeded the Reform Bill, he left the Board of Trade and became Assistant Under-Secretary for the Colonies. From the Assistant Under-Secre taryship he was subsequently promoted to the per manent Under-Secretaryship, spending 14 years in the two offices together. He was thus connected with the civil service 35 years in all, during the whole of which time his relations were mainly with the Colonial Department. His impressions of the state of our Government offices, and of the Colo nial-office in particular, derived from this long experience, were published, with other opinions on the same subject, in a Blue-book in 1855, when the question of the reorganization of the civil service, by the adoption of the system of appointments by competitive examination, instead of by patronage, was first. agitated. The opinion there expressed on the condition of the public ser vice, as regards the intellectual capacity and culture of the majority of those comprising it, is by no means favourable, but the writer speaks of splendid ex ceptions. Of these exceptions the writer himself was certainly one. While in the Colonial-office he was one of the ablest and most efficient public ser vants the State possessed, and his final retirement from the Colonial Under-Secretaryship in 1847 was a great loss to the department. He then received the honour of knighthood. It was not only, however, as a public official that he had up to that time dis tinguished himself. A man of general thought and culture, he had all along employed his leisure in studies ranging beyond the topics that interested him as an official ; and he had latterly contributed extensively to the Edinburgh Review on subjects re lating to the history of the Church and the develop ment of religious opinions. A collection of these articles, already widely known and appreciated in their scattered shape, was published in two volumes in 1849 under the title of Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography.' In the same year Sir J. Stephen was appointed to succeed Wm. Smyth, M.A., as Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge, which office he still holds. In 1851 he published two volumes,' Lectures on the History of France. this work is now in a third edition, and there have been several editions of its predecessor. The two together have given the author a high and peculiar place in our graver contemporary litera ture. Among other slighter things which Sir James has published are one or two lectures delivered to popular institutions. One of Sir James's sons, who has followed the legal profession, is likewise known by various writings. His brother Sir G. Stephen, is also known as the author of Adventures of a Gen tleman in Search of a Horse,' Adventures of an At torney." The Juryman's Guide,' The Clerk,' and 'The Governess,' in C. Knight'S series of Guides to Trade ;' of a novel entitled, "rhe Jesuit at Cam bridge,' and of a pamphlet on The Niger Trade and the American Blockade,' as connected with the slave trade, a subject in which he has always taken much interest." [ADVERTISEMENT.] - Mr. Benson, Ludgate-hill, has just published a new illustrated pamphlet on watches (free by post for two stamps). It should be read by all who are about buying a watch, as it contains prices and important information as to—What watch to buy 1 where to buy it 1 and how to use it! Colonel Simmons, Royal Engineers, in a letter to a contemporary, says : The subject of efficiently manning the navy is of such great importance that you may, perhaps, think the following observations and suggestions worthy of consideration and insertion in your journal. I was much struck the other day in reading the able and interesting account of the Great Eastern steamship, given to the public through your columns, by the statement that the proportion of her crew was as follows :-180 connected with the engine depart ment, 180 officers and crew, or what may be called the nautical department, and 145 for the hotel de partment. The question naturally suggested itself, if the Great Eastern requires only 180 in her nau tical department, why should any ship in her Ma jesty's service require more, except to supply casu alties, which may naturally be expected to be greater ? The crews of ships of war may be classed under three heads, assuming every ship to be fitted with steam power,—engine, nautical, and gunnery de partments. The engine department is easily and fully sup plied from the civil and military dockyards and the numerous manufacturing establishments of the country, and can be supplied in greater abundance by England than any other European country. The nautical department is made up of officers and seamen. Of the former there is no lack of supply, whereas the latter, from the roving nature of their occupation, and from the magnitude of the demand, for which the supply is scarcely adequate, are difficult to procure in large numbers in a, com mercial country like England, and constitute the real 'source of embarrassment in maintaining an efficient navy. Moreover, the peculiar duties of their occupation in general as seamen in the mer chant service do not make them acquainted with the service of guns, nor fit them for all the duties of men of war's men. Therefore there is a constant difficulty in procuring any very large force of such men on a sudden emergency who can be regarded as fit to sustain the honour of the British flag before an enemy. For this reason it would appear advisable to limit the number of seamen on board ships of war to those actually required to navigate them, and to extend the corps of Marines, drilling and instructing the whole force as Artillery, and abandoning the ar rangement by which they are now constituted as light infantry. The organisation of the entire corps of Marines as Artillery would not preclude their being drilled as infantry, and being made capable of acting effectu-. ally as such on shore, for which purpose small arms might be kept on board ship for their use, but the result of increasing the Marine force would be that wherever a fleet was present a larger force of well disciplined troops would be available for disembar kation, to act as naval brigades on land, and for such an expedition as that which will now probably be undertaken in China. Suppose this arrangement were carried out in a line•ol-battle ship, which at present has a crew say of 1,000 men, composed of 100 in the engine de partment, 150 Marines, and about 750 seamen. The crew, according to this suggestion, would con sist of 100 in the engine department, and say 700 Marine Artillery with 200 seamen. The Marines could do all the pulling and hauling work on deck, assisting the seamen, who would suffice to do all the work aloft, and the seamen might be drilled to assist at the guns. The demand for seamen would thus be materially reduced, and it would probably be found that the number required at any time could be always ob tained without difficulty, and whenever levied they would be found to know all that was required of them to make their ships effective as men of war. Their place would be supplied by a body of men not near so costly in their nature as able seamen, and who, from gunnery being their special duty, would naturally constitute a far more efficient body of gunners - than seamen hastily got together and im perfectly trained to the use of guns. In fact, it is well known that the best gunners on board ships of war at the present day belong to the Marines, as also do the best men in the use of small arms. Why, then, perpetuate a system which was per haps necessary, when every ship was dependent only on sails, and which, in addition to the embar rassment it causes, deteriorates the value of the ship as a battery or machine for war ? When the crews of the splendid merchant ships which traverse the ocean with their valuable car goes in all directions are seen to suffice for their safe navigation, it cannot be necessary that ships of war should be manned, as they now often are, with four or five, and sometimes even ten times as many sailors. The smartness of the ships in shortening sail and in other nautical manoeuvres may, per haps, suffer—although this even may be questioned —but it cannot be doubted that their batteries, which are of more consequence, would be improved, and much of the difficulty now experienced in man ning the navy would be got rid of by increasing the corps of Marines by some 20,000 or more men, making them all Artillery, and diminishing pro tanto the force of seamen. As improvements in artillery are introduced, such as the Armstrong gun, this organisation of ships' crews will become absolutely essential ; in the meantime to man a line-of-battle ship, or even a ship of war of each class on this principle, would be a costless experiment (a few such ships' crews would be very serviceable in China) which would afford a satisfactory answer to all questions that may arise out of this suggesti3n, which, as I have never seen it advocated, I hope may find a place in your columns, which will at any rate subject it to abun dant discussion and a thorough sifting of its merits and demerits. The following letters have appeared in reply to the above : Sir,—When a man of Colonel Simmonds' weight recommends the expulsion of the seaman from the British navy and the substitution of the marine, it surely becomes some naval officer to expose the error of imagining that the great naval problem can be so resolved. I shall regret much if no bettee answer than mine be produce ; failing such, how twer, the instinct of right being strong within me, I hope to be able to dispel, at least partially, any reader's belief in the practicability of Colonel Sim monds' scheme for manning the navy, as published in your impression of the 16th inst. A grave proposal certainly, and if adopted a very I ' dangerous one, I think, for the future weal of Eng land, " to equip the fleet with Marine Artillery men, and let there remain on board but a small contingent of seamen." Colonel Simmonds states that ho has never seen his suggestion as yet advo cated, but I recollect within the last few months reading like suggestions in two separate letters signed, if I remember aright, by " A Marine Officer" and " A Marine Artillery Officer." Our ships, according to these ideas, are to relapse voluntarily into mere batteries of soldiers. The sea-bred, sea-clad animal, England's own particular child, is to be dispensed with, and, consequently, the nation providing most soldiers, and able to build most ships, must reign over that element which we have hitherto fancied our insular position and mari time qualities give us some right to assert supre macy upon. Pleasing information, forsooth, for certain huge military States. Is this an argument—that, because the nautical proportion of the Great Eastern's whole comple ment, when steaming peacefully from her Thames moorings to Portland harbour, consisted only of one-third, therefore the proportion of seamen on board line•of-battle ships should be reduced to one fifth (?), for Col. Simmonds proposes that among the 1,000 men of a liner there shall be but 200 officers and seamen. The question is simply this an Artillery man fight a ship at sea, and be as handy for various naval exploits as a sailor ? With certain conviction I answer " No." Admitting for the moment, for the sake of ar gument (for, holding a contrary opinion, I main tain the masts and sails of a ship continue as an indispensable secondary power to ships of war) that men-of-war no longer require spars, that they should be mere hulks—mere floating batteries — still I say they would be better manned by sailor bred men than by soldier-bred men, The man with the loose easy dress, the supple active form, and the hardy unshod foot would be fitter for sea fighting and general sea work than would be he whose very essence must continue to be a belted uniform, an upright firm figure, and a pair of thick boots. Where both are Englishmen, it can, of course, be no question of pluck, but simply of adaptation. The naked foot I consider a great point ; it gives a sort of cling to the deck when working a gun, and a power of balance under all circumstances. Colonel Simmonds would, perhaps, propose that the marine artilleryman should throw off his boots ; but then, I say, he is disabled as a soldier, and half turned into a sailor. Without this naked claw and loose rig, who are to be the boarders, swarming through the chains and over the netting into an enemy's ship ? Who are to give the marines a lift over, first their muskets and then themselves ? Who are to man the boats —and, pleasing the future to grant such days again, who are to form the night expeditions, when whole boats' crews, deserting sinking boats, clamber up a vessel's side, cut through the board ing netting. and gain the deck by sneer activity ? Is it to be expected that your drilled artillerymen will capture and run the prize out of a hostile har bour as well as a party of: half men, half monkeys, who can put their hands on every rope iu the darkest night and almost make sail by instinct ? for I presume that the steam would not be handed over with the exact working pressure, on by the enemy's engineer, and that it might be expedient to have recourse to the much-despised sails. Colonel &almonds says that it is well known "the best gunners on board ships of war at the pre sent day belong to the marines." I have been in the navy since I was 13 years old, and have never heard of such an opinion being expressed either by a professional or an unprofessional man ; on the contrary, those who have had an opportunity of judging have ever held that the best shots afloat were English captains of guns; as regards their practice on shore, I would invoke the testimony of any artillery officer who witnessed the Naval Bri gade firing in the Crimea. To drop the hypothesis of the batteries being mastless, I would ask Colonel Simmands how his marine-manned line-of-battle ship is to execute either of the orders - to "furl sails" or to " make sail," supposing her boats to be away, manned and armed, and such a not improbable proceeding to be necessary. How they would furl sails even under ordinary circumstances I do not understand. If it be true that our only resource for manning the navy is reduced to this, then it would be surely wiser to diminish the numerical force of our ships, and man only those we have men for, in the same fashion as England has always manned her navy, and to which fashion it is that she owes her naval renown. But I deny our having arrived at this strait. A standing navy has not yet been attempted, neither has a permanent increase of wages been established, a very different matter from the spasmodic bounty system. Were an American frigate to arrive at. Liverpool with her 160 per annum for petty offi cers, and £36 for able seamen, she would encounter little difficulty in filling up vacancies. There are yet plenty of men to - be hired, but the marine can never be a substitute. More efficient, more serviceable corps than those of the Royal Marines and Royal Marine Artillery do not exist. It is in no spirit of disparagement to them that I humbly suggest the trade of seaman ship to be still needful—requiring apprenticeship and training as much as any other trade—and that every marine is not necessarily a "jack of all trades." Trusting, sir, that a naval man's opinion on the subject of manning the navy may receive as much prominence as a military man's. I have the honour to be your obedient servant, FREDERICK A. MAXSE; Captain R.N. September. 17. Sir,—Thnpreposal of Colonel Simmonds, in the Times of this day, to man our ships 'chiefly Nvith marines would, I fear, end in a short time in a de ficiency of marines as well as sailors. It must be remembered that the corpi of Royal Marines is no modern experiment ; it has nobly stood the test of all trials for - 150 years, and in the words of a recent report to Parliament, it is an " efficient body of men, second to'none in the service of the State ; they are excellent troops both as artillery and infantry." A marine, to be efficient, should have his service equally divided between land and sea, and if too long on shore he loses his "sea legs," and, on the other hand, if he is too much afloat lie loses his " land legs," and, is no longer the same useful, man he now is, "per mare, per terram." It is this. change that makes the Royal Marine corps a popu lar service. It is at all times readily recruited, and no men have a finer esprit de corps. It is wise to " let well alone." At this time there are 12,000 marines embarked, and if the present fleet is to be our ordinary. establishment it is evident there should be the same number of marines in reserve on shore ready for reliefs, or for embarkation on an emergency. The reserve is under 5 4 000, including the Axtiliery. With 40,000 continuous service seamen, training ships for boys at all the ports, 24,000 marines, and the introduction of a law for ships' court-martial, there *avid be no difficulty in - manning the navy. —I am, &c., Sept. 16. A COLONEL, ROYAL MARINES. Sir,—All wise men must admit that when you are in real difficulty there is nothing so fatal as at tempting to "shirk " it. We are now face to face with a riddle which we as a nation must either solve or die. The questisn of manning the navy is well understood by every thoughtful person in the country to be that on which our political existence depends, and it is the duty of every one to do what he can to prevent the public from being led off on a false scent. As I cannot but think that Colonel Simmons has. with the best intentions, done some thing of this kind in your columns, may I be alloWed a few words of criticism ? How are we to find the means of meeting on the sea a nation which has its whole maritime popula tion under an efficient system of inscription ? This is the question, or rather only one part of it, I'4 it may be our fate to have more than one such nation on our hands. We have had quite lessons enough to show us that this can be no longer left to chance, and your columns, Sir, have con 4 ained many excel lent suggestions on the subject. Those which are at all likely to be useful may be resolved into two. We must either subject our seafaring classes tb a system of registry and ballot,,apply the same prin ciple to the whole non-seafaring population for the supply of local militia, or we must induce by very high pay a large number of men to enter the ranks of a permanent reserve force. I should myself pra fer the former, and believe it to be quite feasible. No one has much hope from the plan which the 'Au thorities are about to adopt at present, and which is neither one n6r the other. But Col. Simmons proposes that we should cease to trouble our heads about seamen at all, and supply their places to a great extent by Marines. This would be, indeed, an easy solution of the problem, if it were a solu tion, for Marines are the cheaper commodity e.nd more easily obtained. But has Colonel Simmons really considered what the effects of such a wholesale change would be ? Take his own ease of 700 Marines out of a crew of 1,000 in a line-of-battle ship. He must be well aware that we dare not reduce our masts and sails on board ship, in spite of :he introduction of steam, because in war time coal must be reserved for action, and the cruising must be under Bail. When he has taken the officers, the engineers, Ithe ship's boys, and the so-called " idlers " out of . the 300 who are not Marines, how many will he have to go aloft ? He would, I suspect, be very sorry to be in such a ship on a lee shore. Merchant ships afford no parallel. They have not to brave the risks of cruising men-of-war ; their safety does not de pend on celerity of movements ; as it is, many of them are lost for want of a proper number of hands. Or, take the manning of the ship's boats into consideration. Who is to perform this duty ? There will be but a small number of the 300 avail able, and it cannot be expected of the Marines. If, indeed, it is meant that the Marines are to do the duty of sailors then we shall have to call them by their right names. They must have the same pay, and will belong to the same class of men. Their distinctive character as sea-soldiers, in which they perform so admirable a part, would then dis appear, and the service would sustain a very grie vous loss. But, it may be said, that Col. Simmons has over stated his case, and that instead of a proportion of about one-fourth Marines in a ship's company, as at present, we might safely increase it to one•third, or even one-half. Mr. Lindsay differed from the rest of his brother commissioners on this pI int be , and proposed something of the sort. Mw,believe that a change, even to this extent, would be most dangerous. We shall be called upon to match our selves against a fleet manned for the most part by seamen. It will be a fatal error if we oppose them at sea with soldiers. A Marine may be excellent at gun drill under ordinary circumstances, and as a small-arm man ;he will be also, at least those who have been embarked, proof against sea sickness, but in the emergencies of a general action, and especi ally in bad weather, it cannot rationally be expected that he should have the qualities of one to whom the sea is his natural element. The thousand critic it contingencies which may occur under such circum stances demand the activity and the resources of a man trained to depend on himself in a life-long con test with the winds and waves. The very qualities of the Marine which make him so valuaole an auxiliary on board ship and so useful when landed — his training to act as part of a machine and his excellent discipline—interfere with the power ht is required to exert as an individual. Let any one, for instance, study our naval actions in the great war and ask himself whether soldiers could have performed such fetes as our seamen in boarding the enemy. Steam can make no essential difference in this respect, nor the long-range guns. As in the . jec ) i ., kt. ; ;, ,! . :Arb late_ Italian_ _battle?, _there _will_ be all ',4ii:('' ''' t'; -A, vigorous eildeavlupi l tor get to ,olose guar if.g - 4, -- , - „--o'64i ! - r 'cannot eit:iy:ff t iamb.scribe 'to ) Colonel i ... ,ndk t Av i t-T .•- assertion,. thateimintime of peace "the . . ';''': . -: - ;,1)N,:.' nets onboard shipsot war at the present day bApi, a s to the Marine,s;!- .I Bays. shown, .I.think, no • dispo sition to IM - derratiLthe,_real valuo of that body, but Leaanot-in-tho courso-of -a pretty long-i-xpPricnce recall the name of any ship I served in where ench was the case. There is no one like a trained tea man for naval gunnery, though a trained Marine among a number of untrained seamen will he, 'of course, their superior until they are brought to his mark. No, sir, with ail . .. _...... trigs we have been, I am convinced, on the right tack in adding as many of the soldier's accomplishments as possible to of the - sailer: - It - was that which gave us our superiority in the great War. May the day be far distant -when we shall attempt •to reverse the proCess.. There is no necessity tither for such a downward step. There are plenty of the old stock to be got if we only .set about it in the right way. But we want a refarni within Itli4) .service;as well as measures- -to- connect it, -with the mercantile marine. We want the abolition of corporal, punish ment, except under sentence of court-martial; we want a total reform of the. Board.of Admiralty and its freeddin'froin all connection With political par ties ; we want. the readjustment of our half-pay lists ; we want 'a better system of education for our officers, and the total abolition of promotion by interest. These are the "points of our charter." We all have our nostrums ; these, are mine. I should state'them with more diffidence if I were singular in my opinion. ' I am, sir, your obedient servant, ~ A NAVAL OFFICER. Sir,--In the admirably suggestive article on the above subject, in your impression of Friday last, you have struck upon a: vien which, if properly worked, will prove a prolific source of advantage to the army as Well as the navy. The workhouses, in London and throughout the country would most gladly avail themselves of and prepare the youths thrown upon their succour for one of these services if Government issued instruc tions " that all qualified lads at a fixed' age, - on making application, should be received into one of these services." But without some such distinct understanding, attention will still be given to pre pare, these " foster children of the country " for occupations tending most quickly to relieve rate payers of their burden. The same remark applies to many orphan and charitable institutions. Lads generally have an almost instinctive love for the navy, which by a little judicious training might be developed, and preparation made for immediate usefulness when they enter upon active service. - The prejudice which at ono time locked the door against this class which i taken up by refuges and reformatories is shown by letters publighedin the Times of to-day to be fast passing away, and the training through which such youths must pass cannot fail to make them capital sailors. The prospect of good food and plenty of it, an adventurous oecupat ion, and certain reward for well discharged duty, has introduced an extraordinary desire on the part of many youths of the poorest class, who have been in the habit of attending the Field-lane Ragged Schools and Refuges, to engage in the naval service, and although, through the application' of Mr. Fraser (the schoolmaster), in the course of nine weeks, 41 lads have been received into the Royal Navy, lads whose wits have been sharpened by the keen edge of want, and whose quickness and good conduct have already secured the commendation of their officers. Yet this ac cepted number is but a moiety of those who are anxious to be engaged, and who in , a few_years could not fail to become the best of seamen. Trusting the attention of the authorities may be drawn to this, fact, and further facilities opened to this class, I Vaie the honour to be, sir, your very obedient servant, SAMU - EL 'TAAN:ELL, „ lion. Sec. to Field-lEllle Ragged Schooi ittid Reipge,pr - thy 20, Aldermanbury, Sept. 1.7; ' EXTRAO.RDINABY SUICIDE. An inquest was held at Cambridge, on Saturday last, on the body of Henry John Masters, of the East-road, who had committed suicide by hanging himself in a loft on the previous evening. It appeared that the deceased had been in a desponding state for some time, and had been heard to say that he was a wretched man ; that he was considered nothing more than a boy at home, and was not allowed by his wife to take any active part in the business, and such like remarks. On the ,evening of his death he left at the house of Mr. Reuben Houghton, his most intimate friend, about `half-past eight, some papersi consisting. of Ito will made on the.3lst ult., and a policy of assurance on his own life for. £lOO, bidding„Mr. Houghton good bye, and looking very wild. On Friday morning he sent a little boy named Arthur Benton for a rope, and gave him twopence to purchase it with, but when it was brought to him he said it was not thick enough, and gave him another halfpenny to fetch, a thicker one, telling him that it was a pig's rope that he wautod. With this he hanged him self. He left behind him several long letters. One of them, addressed to his wife, was filled with re proaches about the manner in which she had treated him ever since he had married her. It concluded as follows :—" But I forgive you all, as I am going to leave all that was once dear to me. I hope you will be more kind to Polly and Jessy, and let them be treated the same as the others. May God in his infinite mercy turn the hearts of your unruly family, and show them and you that they have lost a more valuable friend than you prized in my lifetime ; may my never dying spirit hover over you and keep you from all harm. You will get married again ; I pity the un fortunate man that ever comes under your roof, he might as well be a toad under an arrow. There is some difference between the smiles-in the shop and the frowns in the room ; you cannot when alone give a kind answer. Oh, the deceit no one could believe ! I always was cheerful before strangers a' I did not wish to let every one know what a Tool I had made of myself ; I can safely say the face has worn the smile when the heart bieedeth, and many have said he has jumped into a good home ; I can safely say I jumped out of one. You know I was unhappy—why did you not try to soothe me? No, but you were the more aggravating. Give my kindest love to Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter, Mr. and Mrs. Bailey, Miss Mutimoor ; give Mr. Bailey, 'my best great coat, Mr. Hough ton m y two black waistcoats ; give Simon Clark my three others ; my best black coat 'to Mr. Scott, Burleigh-street, and hats ; give the remainder of clothes to my cousin Swan (butcher), opposite. Mr. Walton's, East-road ; and further, when you see my child go to school, look upon her as one destitute, an orphan, through I w t r h i a t e n k t h y e o s u e e ni n Y ouh G g l t i o t y h o a u t r uynekuihnadvneesleft mMeynGeordve! few lines. When the wind blows and the snow falls meditate'upon these few lines, and say, 'God forgive his sins, and take him to that heavenly rest where there is all joy and happiness." Keep this, look at it well, and you know all is the truth, so help me God. My time is getting short now, so I write no more. I go and pray to my heavenly Father to forgive my sins, and yours, and those connected with us. No more on earth from your loving gad unhappy husband. " I. H. MASTERS." In another letter, mucked in very affectionate terms, the unhappy man took leave of his mother, and child by a former marriage. The jury consulted for a short time, and returned the following verdict :—" That the deceased de stroyed himself while in a fit of insanity, brought be about trriot t i he censure n on through the bad conduct of his wife, and they thought she ought to be called before the jury and severely TeThemp: sercens ured Coroner should i hse aebennyoignt thought it b c e o dwr r o oetuounglehdtr the ' e ' wifebb t tue itn r that h writing h by him, and that the verdict of the ju r y s h ou ld b e, g family r " ed, and acted i n accor d ance w ith The j d u i r s y se e n e s n io e ns r . the Th co e ro f n u e n r e ' r s a s i ng e u g f etshe a suggestion. eceased took place in the cemetery on Wednesday. There was a large con course of persons to *witness the ceremony , a nd it was feared that some d em o nstrat i on of a hostile nature towards the wife of the deceased would have been made; if such an intention ever existed it was not carried into effect, for the simple reason that the supp ose d o bj e ct of it was not p resent. The body was f o llowed to the g rave b y a lar g e number of deceased's Mends and relatives, who proceeded, some in mourning coaches and some on foot to the cemetery. t A his v i it i c= tt_-----=---- , r A in N cip pit al E sh l lp 'S. o — f is UNITEDof course e i C p o e L e t L e Ed in , ik P r ofessor of History and English and Mr. G. L. 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