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P ORTUGUES E RAILWAYS ROYAL COM. PANY.—Capital, 35,000,000 francs (.£1,403,:.00), M 70,000 ;Zhares of 500 francs (£2O). The SUBSCRIPTION to the above is OPENED at Messrs. C. Devaux and Co.'s, 62, King William-street, where the Prospectus may be had, with copy of the statutes as approved 1, 1 Royal decree of the 22d December, 1859. S OUTH WESTERN RAILWAY.- EPSOM SPRING RACES., GREAT METROPOLTT AN STAKES, on THURSDAY, 10th, and FRIDAY, 20th April, 1860. Frequent Trains will run during These days from "Waterloo and Vauxhall Bridge Stations to Epsom. Ordinary fares will be cliarg,ed down to Epsom till 11.15 kna. and up from Epsom after 7 p.m., viz. : _Single Journey 2s ,d .. is M ls 2d Return Tickets 3s Od .. 2s Od . • sOd Passengers holding these Return Tickets cannot return from Epsom until after 7 p.m. on each of the race days. Additional Special Trains will run from Waterloo -bridge Epsoat from 11.30 a.m. till 1.20 p.m., returning from Epsom rom 3.30 p.m. till p.m., during- w hich time the ordinary trains to and from Epsom will be suspended. Fares by these Additional Trains : To Epsom and Back 4s Od To or from Epsom 2C. Paetinular class of carriage ca n be g uaranteed. I' .„ SPetial Direct Train will l eave IVaterloo-bridge station `°F, Epsom at 1 15 p.m. punctu all y on e a ch of the race days. 'te am boats call at Waterloo and Hungerford Bridges 14' 0 I - ig up or down the river nearly every five iwntit es. 'Tickets may be procured on and after Tuesday, l'ith April, tt Messrs. Tattersalls' ; the Universal Office, Regent-circus ; Griffin's, Green Man and Still, Oxford-street ; Golden Cross, Charing-cross ; 53, King William-street, City ; the Swan with Two Necks.., Gresham-street, City ; and at the Waterloo bridge station. Waterloo-bridge Station, Apri', 1860, By Order. ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIXTII SALE. CUSTOM HOUSE, London, April, 1860. FOR SALE, by order of the Honourable the Commis stoners of her Majesty's Customs, at the COMMERCIAL SALE ROOMS, Mincing-lane, on WEDNESDAY, 25, Thursday, 26, Friday, 27, Monday, April 30, aud Tuesd..y, lay 1, 1860, at Twelve o'clock at' noon, precisely, the fol lowing GOODS for home consumption, viz. : Arms, Brussels lace, bags, boat', braces, bracelets, braid, *brandy, brooches, brooch pieces, butts tor piano action, cam bric handkerchiefs, embroidered ; cartridges (blank), cap crowns, capsules, clocks, marble, ormolu, &c. ; coffee, cotton articles, &c. • combs, embroidery or n eedlework, collars. &c. ; furniture, Indian,' carved wood, Florentine, mosaic, and mar qu terie work, viz., c a binets, card tables, ; Geneva, gilt elides, ink bottles (pocket), ivory ornaments, &c. ; jewellery of gold and silver, &c., viz., Albert guards, hair pins, knives, &c., neck chains, rings. bracelets, &c. ; lace articles, life buor, microscopes, mathematical instruments, mouldings, orna mented, &c., mus ical instruments, viz., clarionet s, flutes, or gan harmoiums, violins, &c. ; needles, opera glasses, pistols, pipe stems and pipes, &c. ; perfumed spirits, porte-monnaies, rum, shawls, wove and chenille ; segars, sewing machines, soap stone ornaments, spirits plain and mixed ; silk manu factures, viz., broad stuffs, chenille, fringes, gloves, trim mings, &c., stay busks ; sugar, Swiss wood work, tea, timber, tissue cloth, toothbrushes, webbing, elastic ; waistcoating, watches,silver, &c. ; wine, and various other goods. For ex portation or for home consumption on payment of the duties —Sugar, spirits, tea, wine, and other goods. For exporta tion only—Plain and sweetened spirits. For the benefit of the Crown—Sugar, spirits, &c. The :above goods may be viewed at the Queen's Ware house, Custom House, Thames-street ; at the London, St. Katharine, East and West India, and Victoria Dock Tuesday,and Tobacco Ground, Rotherhithe , Monday, and _April 24, 1860, from ten o'clock in the morning until three o'clock in the afternoon, and on the days of Sale, from ten o'clock in the morning: until twelve o'clock at noon—the tasting of spirits and wine being restricted to the day of sale as regards the, Queen's warehouse. Take notice, that goods sold at this sale will not be de livered until after two clear days of the day on which they are sold, and that no lots can be paid for at the office of the Re iceiver-General after two o'clock in the afternoon, and that on the days of sale money will not be received by the Receiver- General after eleven o'clock in the forenoon. Catalogues may be had at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom House, Thames-street, Is. each. PRACTICAL GE 0L 0 GY, —KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON. Prof. TENNANT, F.G.S., will give a Course of TWELVE LECTURES on GEOLOGY, having especial reference to the Application of the Science to Engineering, Mining, Architec ture, and Agriculture. The Lectures will COMMENCE on FRIDAY MORNING, April 20, at 9 o'clock. They wilt be continued on each suc ceeding Wednesday and Friday, at the same houf. Fee LI 115..6d. R. W. JELF, D.D., Principal. KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES. — Statistics show that 50,000 Persons annually fall vic tims to Pulmonary Disorders, including Consumption, Diseases of the Chest and the Respiratory Organs. Preven tion is at all times better than cure ; be, therefore, prepared during the wet and wintry season with a supply of KEAT ING'S COUGH LOZENGES, which possess the virtue of averting, as well as of curing a Cough or Cold ; they arc good alike for the young or for the aged. Prepared and sold in Boxes, ls. id., and Tins, 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and 10s. 6d. each, by THOMAS KF,ATING, Chemist, &c., 79, Ft. Paul's-churchyard, London. Retail by all Druggists, &c. IMPORTANT TO CLERGYMEN, PUBLIC SPEAKERS, AND SINGERS. St. Paul's Cathedral. SIR,—I have much pleasure in recommending your Lo- Eenges to those who may be distressed with Hoarseness. They have afforded me reef on several occasions when scarcely able to sing from the effects of Catarrh. I think they would be very useful to Clergymen. Barristers, and Public Orators. 1. am, Sir, yours faithfully, THOMAS FRANCIS, Vicar Choral. To Mr. Keating. CERTAIN RELIEF for the AFFLICTED.— Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, pre pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. Scott, of Bromley, Kent, are a sure remedy for affections of the liver. indigestion, bile, sick headache, giddiness, loss of appe tite, lowness of spirits, &c. They can be taken at any time, without any danger from wet or cold, act mildly on the bowels, without pain or griping, clear the skin, remove sallowness And pimples, purify the biwl, brace the nerves, and invigo rate the whole system. Sold by most druggists, in boxes, is. lid. and 2s. M. each. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Livpr Pills. The genuine are a square green package, with William Lambert, 20, Jermyn-street," en graved on vas Government stamp.; 'hist Published, in 1 vol., Svo. with numerous Anatomical Plates, post free, on receipt of six penny stamps, VITA VITAI,IS. - A - NEW MEDICAL WORK on the NATURE, TREATMENT and CURE of EPERMATORRYPEA, and other URINO G ENIT AL DISEASES, and consequent exhaustion of the NERVOUS SYSTEM. caused by the errors of Man in youth and ftgr, producing a degeneracy .of MENTAL and PHYSICAL ET KENGTH, terminatina in debility of the generative or vans and INCAPACII T FOR M KIED LI I , ' E, sheaving why these Diseases so often appear incurable when in reality y the cn be effectu ally removed by the most simple means, ether 'with the Author's remedies for preventing in foetion. 11Y A PHYSICIAN, Fec., Fee. (registered under the New Medical Act). Address, Medici's, 19, Berners-street,woxford street, London. Sold by J. Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, rnoster-row, and all Booksellers in T awn and Country. Pate- Fost free for Two Stamps. XTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY of 1--A an entirely NEW TIrEORY of CURING DISEASE, being the recorded Experience of 30 Years' Special Practice in Great Britain, France, and America—with the latest Scientific Discoveries, denominated LOCAL SET. -T AT 11E NT, discovered abroad, and which is so simple that all can linctiso fig himself privately, sucessfully, and at the smallest cost, "NEWiding doctors' fees and tbeir mineral poisons. The MODE " is an EXTRAORDINARY DIS COVERY. for the Treatment and Self-Cure of Weakness, Debility, Nervousness, Lassitude, Depression of Spirits, Loss of Energy, Appetite, Pains in the Back and Limbs, Tim olitude,idity, S e lf-Distrust, Dizziness, Want o f Energy, Love of S Groundless Fears, Palpitation of the Heart, Noises in the Head and Ears, Indecision, Wretchedness, Impaired Sight and Memory, Indigestion, and Bodily Prostration of the whole system. Also, PINTS TO THOSE CONT E7APLATIsTG MARRGE. In order that all classes may avail the T m selves of the above, the Author has not and - ,fni not allow the same to be sold, but he will forward it to those who send their address, and two stamps for pasta '4e. Address, thr,s—iViu. HILL, Esq., M.A., No. 27, Alfred-place, Bedford-square, London. NO MORE MEDICINE FOR FIABITVAL CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION (DY ND L IVSPEPSIA), DEBILITY, NERVOUS, BILIOUS, PULMONARY, AER COMPLAINTS. lriU BARRY'S DELICIOUS HEALTH 1, RESTORING REVALENTA ARABICA FOOD.— Vert(licate No. 36,418.—1 n our practice we have been enabled to appreciate the virtues of Du Barry's Food. In its effect on Chronio dyspepsia (Indigestion), nervousness, constipation, diarrheas, on bilious and liver complaints, cough, asthm e de bility, and incipient coneumption, we find it the safest remedy. —Dr. Ure, M.D., F.R.S., Dr. Harvey, Dr. Bright, Dr. Shor land, Dr. Campbell. Du Barry's Food tures effectually—Acidity, asthma bilious ness, blood to the head, bowel complaints, bronchitis, ca tarrh, colds, A ong estion, constipation, consumption, "ramps , cough, debility, despondency, diarrhoea, distention, dizziness, dropsy, drowsiness, dysentery, dyspepsia (indigestion), erup tions. exhaustion, fevers, epileptie fits, flatulency, gout, ha bitual constipation, headache , heartburn, hemorrhoids, hys teria, impurities, indigestion (dyspepsia,) irritability, irrita tion of kidneys and bladder, liver complaints, loss of memory, Tow spirits, nausea and sickness, nnvousness, nervous fan- Vt.'s, neuralgia, noises in the ear, pains between shout sleet, palpitation, partial paralysis, phlegm, pulmonary com plaints, rheumatism, scrofula , sinking, sle eplessness, sore pephroat, per meal , asms, tit ightness across the chest. At about one nn y e ffectually cures the above, also children's complaints, and saves fi fty times its cost in medic ine. It does net turn acid nor interfere with a liberal diet but imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner, and restores the faculty of digestion, and nervous and muscular energy to the most enfeebled. We extract a few out of many thoussnd cures :-- Cure No. 51,81 6 , from t he Rev. James T. Campbell, Syder atone Rectory, near Fakenham, Norfolk : "In all eases c.f digestion, and particularly where the liver is af f ecte d , 'consider it the best of al l remedies. —Jain eampbekl."f..;, R(1 lg Cure No. 71, of Dyspep sia, from t a . ie Ri ght llonetita e the Lord Stuart de Decies : " n ave derived edlisiderhble benefit from Du Barry's —74 lento Arabite rote', Stuart de_ Decies."—Cure No. 49;32 ; " Fifty rah , llideacribald: agony from dyspepsia . . , - aervettsnese, iesthma, coug h , Constipntioh, flatulency, "jeaems, elcktlneis at the ste, - ,caeh and vonikng„ have b" en removed by Barry' . excellent. rOod. Ti Aria Jo 17„ Wort'hant Ling, near Vise, Ngreolk."--Vinfe NO, 5t, 0 87: 7:4cid-Matsbal Pee Duke iA Plmilketr, 'Of a 6, - astrM inflatrima tren . tir the stomach.--core No. 51,614 i Uaron de Polentz, rtelettl of Lanclettutl, •st ?UMW yotra s horrible sufferings cf Ilia' nerves and an 49ittnate constipation. cnre No: 47,121 : MISS Ellialr.t.t "limbs , of Nasing Vicarage. Waltham ()toss, Iterts, a care of extreme neiteaakileest Indigo/Mose inttherings, low spirits, and Xer l ichis ()are Nil. 48,.14: Miss Ellzab9.th NreoMih% etitere, near Li': wetioot a cure of ten T een elyillsoma, and all the herrorsot n*TVene -2C'efte NO. 18,216: Dr, Andrew Ure, of Constipation, dyspepsite nervous i rritabilit y .—Cure No. 34,210: Slnerland, el 01tOpey and debility.—Cure No. 30,1112 t Cap isken Allan, of epileptic fits. —Cure 42,1131 liln3or Edio, el etalargenvetit of the liver, and total prostration of strength Vat's No. 1 1 ,418 Rev. Dr. Minster, or ofettipt, spasms, amt daily vomitings.—Cure No. 2MIB t Dr. 'Harvey, of tiarrhaea and debility,—Care No. 50,618: Dr. Wurtzer, of e'onsurnption.—Cure 1 o. 32,880: William Hunt, Esq., Bar rister. of paralysis.—Cure No. 46,270 : Mr. James Roberts.. timber merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, 30 years' disitased nags, spitting of blood , liver derangement., partial deafness.—Cure No. 46,814: Mr. Samuel Laxton, Lei' rester, of two years' diarrham -- Cure. No. 52,612: The Dowager Countess of Ca.stlestuart, of many years' ner cons irritability, bile and indigestion, —Cure No. 54,812: Miss Virginia Zegue.le cured of consumption, after her medi cal advisers had abandoned all hopes of reewery. — Cure No. 180: "Twenty-five years' nervousness con, et i pa ti o n, indigestion, and debility, l from which have euffered great misery, and which no medicine could re move or relieve, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's Food in a very short time. W. B. Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London."—No. 4,208: " Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, Spasms, and nausea, for %which my servant had consulted the advice of many, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's health-restoring Food. I shall be hap?) , to answer any inquiries. Rev. John W. Flavell. Ridlington Rectory, Norfolk." No. 32,836: " Three years' excessive nervousness, with pains in my neck and left arm, and general debility, which rendered my life very miserable, has been radically removed by Du Barry's health-restoring Food. Alex. Stuart, ArAder.con of flosq, Cure No. 3,9.6: Thirteen years' cough, indigestion. and gene ral debility, have been removed by Du Barry's excelle - Food. In Canisters : 11b. 2s. 9d., 21b, 4s. 64., 121 b. 225., 241 b. 40s. Superrefined quality : 51b. 225., 101 b. 335. The 101 b., 121 b., and 241 b. canisters carriage free on receipt of Post-office Order, by Barry Du Barry and Ca, 77, Regent-street, London ; Fort num, Mason, and Co., 182, Piccadilly ; Abbis, 60, Gracechurch street ; also at 63 and 150 Oxford-street, 330, Strand, 4, Cheap- Ogg, 7._iondon ; fwd through all mous and °hernia* sa id ,reet, St on Li he a nd tone, l him man rated 'do a t hint kick thing r said ;ainst ! d the is she ,on his pre ro should mi d of then One doing on for 38. e until harac ld cer- I seller , supP l l9 Barley before• is to NI Ss to 35 8 5s to 274 2s to 48 4 2s to 45s grower. vane Of demand Twardis. Bs 0 25 0 Ds to 45 1 lis to 42 ranee on rce, and mproYeu a health , ' new, 0' barley 1 0 a 34e P er ; WO' 11 0 ...23 I patohe t 10 MAYA ,Mal ' Apr,.gai,ll6 May 3 APr ilig n APrii 18 April ! 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' ___, 19, 1 .PREVENTION OF SHIP WRECK-NB W PRISCIPLE IS IRON BHIPBUILDISO. she was accompanied to Durnoch with a guard of honour, and being brought before Sergeant Mac kenzie, for summary trial, she pleaded " guilty" to wa to the various impeachments aga inst her, and had sen lehici expiration f)lra4tidoanvso'fimmp.hriicsohnisncenrztensehdiauridioyn her s , at introduce our heroine to the' inhabitants of the county of Ross." 2 ILE NA VI. Few will be prepared to credit the fact that there is at thi: moment quietly riding in that noble basin for the reception of British and foreign shipping, the East and West India Docks, an almost perfect counterpart, in a structural point of view, of the celebrated tubular bridge (slung some few years since by Stephenson over the Menai Straits), in the form of a fine iron clipper ship, called. the Fanny Maud, being the first iron steam ship built by Messrs. Robert Taylerson and Co. , of Port Glas• gow and Comilla, on the "diagonal'' principle, and which principle is alleged by the projectors to be the "only" principle in shipbuilding cepeble of re sisting the disruption of a vessel in cases of ship wreck by casualty and collision. In view, more over, of the innumerable melancholy catasti ophes that ever and anon occur upon our coasts, as deve loped in that dark national record of disasters the " Wreck Chart," a practical attempt like the pre sent, in the way of diminishing the loss of property and life, and redeeming this national disgrace, de serves the more serious and attentive consideration, not only by the Government, but by the mercantile marine. • When it is known, too, that not less than 80 millions of property—to say nothing of human life—belonging to this country is constantly afloat and findieg its way into iron vessels ; that during the past year, according to the returns of the Board of Trade, there were not fewer than 1,461 wrecks and 1,613 lives lost; and thateduring the first three months of the present year the number of wrecks has amounted to something like 700, the considera tion of the question becomes not only imperative, but appalling. Doubtless a majority of wrecks arises from apparently uncontrollable causes, but in many of these instances, if constructed suffi ciently strong, the devoted vessel — or at least h er crew—might be rescued or relieved. The disasters that daily happen on our coast are at length draw ing the attention of Parliament and the public to the question, and it is hoped that in conjunction with the efforts of the newly-established association for the promotion and improvement of naval archi tecture, recently established under the scientific auspices of Mr. R. A. Brooman and Mr. E. J. Reed, the inquiry into lights, buoys, beacons, and chain cables something . essentially practical will be done in this way, despite the prejudice of interested ship builders or the apathy of well underwritten ship owners, and that a recurrence of those fatal catas trophes that have characterised the loss of Royal Charters, Birkenheads, Hungarians, and Ondines will to a considerable extent cease. As a first step in this desirable direction, Messrs. Taylerson have satisfied themselves that there is a radical defect and weakness in the existing form of building iron ves• sels—firstly from the fact of the frames being in a "vertical'' direction and parallel to each other, not offering sufficient resistance to any force or strain having a tendency to tear the ship asunder trans versely ; and, secondly, the frames being secured to the outside shell by rivets running in a direct ver tical line from the gunwale to the keel, entailing one continuous line of weakness in that direction. Ships built in this way, to use the expressions of the nautical profession, on encountering any ob struction literally " broke their backs," or were severed in two from gunwale to keel. Messrs. Taylerson's proposition in relation to their new " diagonal" principle is, that while in the case of the vertical principle the line of resistance to any force acting in the direction of the vertical planes of the ship will be in a line: with the shortest cir cumferetitial line of the body of the ship, thereby opposing the least amount Off resistance to fracture coming in the direction of these plane§ ; in the case of a ship built in accordance with the diagonal prin ciple, the line of resistance to forces acting in the direction of these vertical planes will be diagonal to the circumferential line of the body of the ship, thereby opposing the greatest amount of resistance that can be given at an angle equivalent to the in clination of the frames, In addition to the diagonal the vertical principle is introduced, ere that the ves sel becomes a complete network, as it Were, of ada meat. Before she can break in two parts ot tear her plating asunder, as in the case of the Eva, Duke of Sutherland, Countess of Strathmore, Tayleur, &c., she must break through 20 frames of angle iron 41 by 3 by 1 inch, as well as 10 reverse frames of angle iron 3 by 3 by 7-16 inch, diagonal butt ends, stringers, 4 sister keelsons, deck of iron, &c. ; whereas, in a ship built on the vertical principle, the poop, main, and lower deck beams are secured to one frame only, both on the starboard and port side, and they are 3 feet apart at least, which leaves every alternate frame unsustained by any beam ; she has, therefore, not a single frame to break, but tears the plating from keel to gunwale without any resisting power of her frames whatever. These are the leading novel principles on which the construction of the Fanny Maud is based. She is intended, we understand, for the East India, China, and Australian trade, and lying, as she does most conveniently, and in contrast between the Empress Eugenie and the Parsee in the East and West India Docks, she is well worth a visit. In deed, a large number of scientific gentlemen inte rested in the progress of steam navigation have been over her •, and also Captains Robertson and Tulke, of the Admiralty and Board of Trade, by the direc tion of Sir Baldwin Walker, the Surveyor of the Navy. She is about 2,500 tons burden, and has a full poop and forecastle, which greatly increases her available capacity for passengers and stowage of cargo. The saloons are fitted up so as to combine the utmost comfort with elegance. They have the benefit of an efficient system of ventilation, by which any unpleasant closeness is comparatively prevented, an I all the lights are so planned as to obviate dan ger. The plans and elevations are on the most ap proved principle and liberal scale, so far as the building, outfit, and general completion of the ship are concerned. The anchors are according to Trot man's patent, and the chains are made of the best Staffordshire iron, and proved in accordance with the requirements of the Admiralty and Lloyd's Rules, for 12 years, Class A 1, at least. SAR4?INLf. A letter from Turin, dated April 15, says—lt is a fine morning, and all the Vatican thunders 'are powerless to rob the Piedmontese of sunlight and warmth. It is perfectly marvellous to see how well people c..n manage to thrive under the Pope's excommunication. As in the memorable incident of the Jackdaw of Rheims, it may be said : " Never was there such a terrible curse ; But, what gave rise to no little surprise, Nobody seemed one penny the worse. ' That is all. People do not even give themselves the trouble to laugh at Popes' Bulls. We have here in Turin the Fischietto and Pasplino—under Mr. Punch, the very beet dealers in jokes the European press can beast. Well, even these worthies seem to think St. Peter's artillery beneath a jest. Come out with me for an hour's walk about the Turin streets, and you will be able to see the effects of the Pope's malison. Look into the faces of these sober, earnest, God-fearing Piedmontese, the most sensible people on -the Continent. Every men's face calm, serene, radiant with the con sciousness of true freedom, tells you plainly, "le crams Dieu, ct n'ai point d'autre cravats." Under the porticoes, in a walk of five minutes, you are accosted by about, 20 newsmen, hawking about their cheap goods, wet from the press. The Italian press may be deficient in means, it may boast nothing above average talent, but it is gloriously free, suf ficiently fair, uncompromising, and not unmindful of dignity. -Nen &phase the French Emperor, the Diritto is as boldly outspoken as The' Times, and the Unione has most nobly fought its way to the most unlimited discussion of religious subjects. But on with our walk, up to Piazze Castello, past the palace where the good King—honest map— to is packing up his portmanteau, ready for a start Central Italy this aftern oon at half-past four; fur ther along Dora Grosse, straight up to the Roche melon a mountain 9,0 00 feet h i g h and 30 miles off, which , in this thin atmosphere, seems almost to bar the way at the end of the long, straight street. The Turinese are all up ; some bound to the cafe for a frugal breakfast, some to hear mass, but all with their morning paper in their hand or pocket —a kind of talisman to keep off the evil eye, or fettatura, of the priests. A mass does no harm, even though the mass-sayer is not to be trusted. See,—this huge gloomy building on our left was the Jesuit College. Have no fear—it was. The other sombre edifice on our right is the Barnabite Convent. The monks are few ; they pursue harm less studies, and are quietly dying off. Our child ren just hear of them as a myth. The rubbish of the middle ages is fast clearing off. Now turn to the left, tinder the blossoming plane avenue, round the half-dismantled citadel — a fortress making room for a railway station, brute force blown away by a whiff of steam. Now out into open space—the Piazza d'Armi or parade-ground. It is the grandest of European panoramas—abroad green field fenced round by a mass of glittering snow, hundreds of miles of Alps standing on end like the waves round Moses's host. See! the earth is teeming with spring life ; the lark is carolling up in the air ; the seasons go round, even though P o p es ma y scowl. On one side of the vast square four legions of Na tional Guards are on drill, the Turin burgesses playing at soldiers; ay, and ehaking off their sloth, breathing fresh air, engaged in Wholesome, even if harmless, exercise, learning tidy and clearly habits, gathering the sold ;" which, according to the wise German saying, " the morning hour has in its mouth." People are apt to take the value ofationa free institutions too much to the letter. Nl Guards may be of little use either as soldiers or policemen, btit them ten thousand militiamen, use less only because people know not what uses they may be put to, 12 years ego 'Would have been in bed, or in their dingy cafes, or, at the utmost, mus tering into heeded processions. Now they are clad like men; they have the bearing of men ; these musters and manoeuvres, if they do no more, strengthen, straighten. beautify the whole race, and mental advancement keeps pace with physical improvement. These men catch the spirit of dis cipline, of association —they become brethren in the ranks. T National Guards in lady is still an it in to stituti he on in its infancy. All efforts to turn account have been unavailing as yet, though Pied mont has the example of Switzerland close at hand to show how a man may supply the want of a sol dier. Yet neither is this citizen militia as idle a piece of mere show as it is in France. The French are already too military a people. Mock soldiers are of little use where every man at the shortest notice can be turned into a fighting machine ; but the Italians, and to a certain extent even the Pied montese, had no taste for soldiering. The whole of this Southern race lay prostrate, and almost thought the trade of arms the exclusive privilege of the Gaul and Teuton. To make Italy a country it is necessary to turn the nation into an army. Better these people should handle even a militia musket than play on the flute. Hark ! drums and trumpets! Here come soldiers in right good earnest. They are some of the batta lions who marched up the hill of San Martino in July last. Heaven save you, brave Macedonians of Italy ! Your stern discipline and hardened consti tutions have redeemed the name of the common country from obloquy ; they have won over to your King that crown which has been for so many centuries the football of the Transalpine nations. Breathe your sober, earnest, modes t s p irit into the Boeotian Lombards and the Attic Tuscaus, whom your bravery has ass ociated to your destinies. There is, indeed, good hope that the work of am an l gamation of the Italian mil i t ar y forces m gassed. so be prudently, no less than ivigor c tusly, ac Tuscans, IFAmilians, and Lombards are to be ad mitted into the Piedmontese corps, without, how ever, swamping the old army by the too sudden and general introduction of te new, raw mate rials. Every province of the untied-Italian king dom is to be garrisoned by regiments belonging to some of the other provinces. 'The Pistoia Briga the de, for instance , will be quartered In Piedmonts Aosta Prigade will take up its abode in Tuscany only, however, 'With this distinct provision, that every corps shall be recruited out of thhancee levies h it may c su pplied by the dist rict in whic be staticued. By this means a regiment which consists now entirely of Piedmontese will in a year admit some hundreds of Lombard recruits ; a Lom bard squadron will fill its ranks with Bolognese or Itornagnese levies. The kernel of the corps will remain always the same ; it will go by the same Mune, it will be commanded by the same officers ; but, as military service is limited to a few years only, the extraneous elements will gradually equal and eventually even outn umber the original mass, and after four or five years the work of assi milation will be very nearly complete, without hating in any sensible manner altered the nature or organisation of the corps. That the araalgarna tion of the army rill lead to the fusion of the people no man need. doubt. The constant shifting of garrisons will lead to the mutual understanding and, it is to be hoped, goodwill of the -serious members of a fatnily o long estranged from each o ther that their very consa nguinity had become mere matter of theory and faith. The arrival of a regiment in a town of which the soldiers scarcely knew the name, and in which they are taught to consider themselves at home, among a people who hardly understand the new-comers' dialect, and who are yet made to hail them as brethren, gives the namewholeass of the population a practical definition o f the of Italy—a name which was hitherto a mere abstraction, but will heneeforth be used to designate that fatherland which Providence in 'ended to belong to the Italians. [AnvEnTisamENT].—The difficulties and dangers o 1 bringing up infants by hand or wet nurses have been entirely overcome by Du Barry's delicious Revalenta Arabi Food, which feeds, strengthens, and removes all the little pains and irregularities infants are so subject to.' 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Bewley 'and Draper ; at Edinburgh, Raimea and li C 'll' at Liverpool, Nixon and Thew; at Manchester, Sharp " Scott; at York, Raimes, Blanchard, and - C0.,; atouatlil t0pt0314144 hgal es S F.; Va ., PAP E 4.1-4ce4, eee Ary "sea lawyers," who are so unportifi,i l A'ay, 3eni to have crept into the Houlof Incl on Monday last they were especially busy in their vexatious industry: After asking the Secretary to the Admiralty a great number of very interesting questions, and making an almost endless quantity of tiresome speeches, none of which have been read Tiy one not compelled to the task, they • took advantage of the forms of the house, and by smart technical objections prevented him opening his mouth to answer them. The consequence is that. we have on hand a heap of condemned stores in the shape of weevily speeches b€longing to Admirals or tic last eenturynone of whose names, so far as we know, are intimately connected with the plenning of any great British victory,—and we are still lack ii°e the explanations , which the Government was ready to afford as to its intentions in respect to many points of very great interest both to the public and to the naval service. This is a method of interfering with public business which is con cinch.° rather to the amusement of aged officers than to the advancement. of the interests of the ecr vice which, in their more juvenile days, those officers ornamented. The player who plays Mee cut in, and is killed off early in the tragedy, is sails . - tied when his part is over, and goes to bed, lleVer waiting, jaded old hand as he is, to see how the Romeo drinks the poison, or how the 'Juliet flourishes the dagger. So these veteran officers seem • to have thought. that when they had made their speeches all the rest was time wasted, and the -- sooner the curtain dropped the better for all who had spoken. Sufficient, however, has been said to make it quite evident that the project of a Navy Reserve has proved an absolute failure. So little is tie Admi ralty competent to deal with the subject of manning the ships they build, and so little do the profes sional men they ccnsult understand the influencing motives of the men they command, that they have produced an elaborate scheme which has for the; men no inducements whatever. All - those papers . we saw stuck about everywhere last autumn,-which were so special in their requisitions and so guarded in their offers, turn out to be so much waste paper. The Admiralty have contrived to invent 50,000 places under Government which no one will accept. Every one who dared to act upon the dictates of mere common sense said at the time that it must be so. Even we ourselves, who were most anxious to sec success attend any project for manning the Navy, could only hopelessly wish this one well. It seemed to be absurd ; but non-professional people must not rashly apply the rules of common sense to profes sional suggestions until professional incompetence has been proved by the result. That has now been abundantly accomplished. Those old gentle men at the Admiralty have shown themselves ut terly unable to put their pinch of salt upon Jack's pigtail. That achievement requires some intelli gence, some knowledge of the world as it is, some acquaintance with the human nature of the nine teenth century. They can b uild shi p s and pull them to pieces again, but t he y cannot raise, dis perse, and congregate men by official letters. The trap has failed, the springes are all empty, and v: o. have no Naval Reserve. In this respect we stand just in the position we held when Ministers under took the work last year. Then for a little moment public opinion was fixed upon the importance of this question. It was thought to be not impossible that some occasion might occur to render it essential that we should be able at any given moment to man every ship we could put afloat in these English seas. Con trasts were then drawn between the facilities en joyed by our neighbours and the difficulties which we ourselves laboured under in this respect, People thought gravely of the French system, by which large bodies of conscripts are trained to act as soldiers on seaboard, and of that further French convenience which compels every seagoing French man to be registered for service in time of war. Unfavourable comparisons were made between this system and ours, which is to go into the market and buy the men up as we want them, but to make no preparations against any unusual necessities. Under pressure of these re flections Assets determined to have a Naval Reserve. Everybody saw the absolute necessity for it, and almost everybody thought he saw the best means by which that necessity could be met—that is to say, by paying the market price for it. The Coast guard seemed, however, to some to be capable of expansion into a perfect system for keeping a suf ficient body of seamen in employment until we wanted them. The Admiralty thought that .E 5 year would be a retaining fee sufficient to keep all the Mercantile Navy at the command of the Queen's Captains. Our advice at that time was to do the thing substantially and 'efficiently at once, and not to grudge spending upon the means of manning your ships and your guns three per cent. of the .rneme e which you are annually lavishing, and t> no slight extent. Wasting, - upon those ships and those guns. Of conrie; we were riot listened to. The Admiralty were Sure they could have the men upon their own terms. It now proves that their Coastguard Reserve is not a reserve at all ; that the men enrolled in it are to a very large amount not gunners, not men-of-war's-men, not even sailors, bat mere landsmen ; that the Naval Volun teers as a force do not exist ; that all the argu ments which were last year pressed so forcibly against the absurdity of building ships and neglect ing the most obvious precaution for manning them apply as stringently at this hour as they did ten months ago, when the whole nation was moved by 451,4,4 them, Something must be done to repair this disgrace ful failure. So far as the Coastguard is concerned, Sir Charles Napier has given notice of an intention to bring it specially before the House of Commons. Sir Charles, however, has not the art of investing a subject with interest, or of inspiringhis ship his hea will rep! with confidence that his schemes or s work. What the public require is not a general wrangle among all the ancient naval officers who have seats in the House of Commons, but a means of manning the navy. We want a naval reserve — but only as cheap as may be as cheap as may be, consistent with certainty and efficiency. e want a new institution by which men may be obtained at any moment of emergency to man all those ships we are building at such a treneendous cost. If we are not to have the men, then let us save our annual fifteen millions and retrench the luxury of the s less ships. If we are to have the ships, then let us make up our minds to buy that last " ha'porth of t ar " which is necessary to make them ships of war. At present we are not even tending towards s uch an object as this. Failing our in ridiculous offer to buy a reserve ready grown, we are not even attempting to breed one. W Naval Schools and Training e have, indeed, o ur Ships, but they' are altogether inadequate even as a partial effort towards this object. But w h y do we ot use the ships we have in commission for till's purpose ? Boys may be had in any number. V , neducated, ungrown, unformed boys, are the , great drug of our social system. You may have as many as you like of them at . any .moment. Why should not that proud . fleet which is sailing about from port to port, gaining such glory front wh occamio ld nal e ncounter with a breezey shou no t that fleet in these pi ten-knot ping times of peace be half-handed with boys ?So of that other gay squadr on which is doing its holiday work so gallantly in the blue waters and in the pleasant sunshine of the Mediterranean, but which has no i m mediate prospect of hard w ork or heavy Mews —why should not that second fleet be a train ing school for future tars 't'The Captains and the First-Lieutenants world, of course, ex claim in full chorus against any such proposi tion ; and, if a man-of-war were the captain's private yacht, and were maintained out of the captain's private funds, it would be most reasonable i h n ien and his First Lieutena nt to do so. Under such circumstances a captain should never be asked to , carry troops, or to burden himself with stores, or to take any man on board who might not be rated. on his books as an able as the ex i enci bodiecl seaman.. lie should. g es of his own pass from port to port temperament might yequire., and he should put back unquestioned into his favourite chckyard. whenever his master reported.to his that an extra gallon of water was foun . d inside his ship. But we Would venture to submit . that so long as a ship of-war is built with public money, and kept afloat at the expense ot . some hundred thousand pounds a year, it is equitable as well as Exp(dient that she should conduce to the sustentation of the service whereof she forms part. There are times when she must wear out able-bodied seamen, bnt there are also times when she ought to cre ate andinexpensively done, in this direction ; but we do not suggest that, the particular wasn't of a nave reserve could be thus altogether satisfied. The habit of employing and educating a large number of boys, however, would have a tendency to make the British seaman rather a less rare and difficult to be caught animal than he has recently been. What we complain of is the neglect of many obvious means, such as that which we hat ave t just pointed out, by which t he Navy might, he sacrifice some prejudices, and at the cost of a little trouble, be made to a greater extent self-sustaining. But upon the main question of a Naval Reserve we say aga i n what we ineffectually said ten months ago — that there would be no difficulty in saving any sum necessary to be spent on the human machines out of the money already wasted upon the wooden and iron 011C§e"" 21 e6O ON, T The court-martial for the trial of the mutineers of her Majesty's ship Edgar is expected to assemble on board her Majesty's ship Victory in Portsmouth harbour on Monday next. The screw steamship Royal Albert, 121, Captain Henry J. Lacon, -was removed on Tuesday after noon from Hamoaze into the lock at Keyham steam yard, Plymouth. The wind was blowing very strongly from the eastward, and an ordinary ob server might have doubted the prudence of making the attempt in such weather. Commander George Biddlecombe, additional assistant-master attendant, took charge afl )at, and hav in g a paddlewheel steam- ing on either side, advanced cautiously against the wind towards Keyham shortly after two o'clock. On nearing, a powerful warp was, under the in structions of Commander James Brown, master attendant, connected with the ship and a capstan on the south side of the lock, and a smart gang of blue-jackets and marines, having fitted the capstan bars, soon got a strain on her. Other warps were attached from the port bow to capstans on the north side, and, guiding ropes being also fixed to both quarters, she became, when the tugs cast off, completely under control ashore, and the huge mass, • handled almost like a toy, was without the slightest grating or collision quietly lodged in the lock, in the charge of assistant master shipwright, Mr. Henry Peake, who, with his foreman, Mr. Rowe, was in attendance to re ceive her. After being relieved of some 300 tons of coal, she will be placed in dock for repair, and will be fitted with four new boilers. Nearly a month will elapse before she can leave the yard. The flag of Rear-Admiral of the Blue Geo. Elliott, Capt. of the Channel fleet and second in command, con tinues flying at the mizen of the Royal Albert. The screw steam frigate Melpomene, 50, Capt. J. F. W. Ewart, was prevented on Tuesday by strong easterly gales from leaving Plymouth Sound for Hamoaze. She was appointed to go in yesterday, weather permitting. The paddlewheel steam sloop Firebrand, 6, Com mander J. N. Bruce, left Plymouth on Tuesday evening with two companies of the third brigade of Royal Artillery for the Channel Islands. The gunboats Sheldrake and Biter are appointed to be taken out of No. 2 dock, Keyham, Plymouth, to-day, and the screw steamship Royal George, 102, will be placed in dock the same tide. The Shel drake will be placed in No. 1 dock to-morrow. Mr. Geo. Lumb, gunner, of the Donegal, at Ply mouth, was dismissed from the navy on Tuesday by sentence of court-martial held on board the flag ship Impregnable. Measures are being adopted at Devonport to test the soundness of the timbers of the Albion, 90. The funnel of the screw steamship Nile, 90, Capt E. K. Barnard, in Plymouth Sound, was raised on Tuesday, preparatory to her early departure for Bermuda. The sailing ship Indus, 78, Capt. Hall, C. 8., was removed on Tuesday from Devonport dockyard to the sheer hulk, and had her masts and bowsprit taken out; she was then brought again alongside the dockyard, where her crew will be paid off, pro bably to-day. The screw steam sloop Surprise, 4, Capt. Lord E. Cecil, now stripping in the basin at the Devon port dockyard, and which arrived from the West Coast of Africa on the 12th inst. at Plymouth, sailed thence on the 4th of May, 1857, for China, with a convoy of gunboats, with which she arrived at Hong Kong. She was present on the 28th of December, 1857, at the bombardment of Canton, and touching at Amoy, Ningpo, and Shanghai, was at the Peiho on the 23d of May, 1858. On returning she called again at Ningpo and Hongkong, and went to the Isle of Ling Ting, where she was engaged with and captured 27 pira tical junks. Thence she proceeded to Hongkong, Labuan, Moarra, and Bruni, the chief town of the island of Borneo, where the captain and officers visited the Sultan. On the homeward route she called at Sarawak, Singapore, and Penang, the Mauritius, the Cape of Good Hope, St. Paul de Loando, and Sierra Leone. Mr. Jones, previously senior assistant, succeeded to the duty of chief en gineer on the death of Mr. F. R. Purchase, Oct. 8, 1858. The former master, Mr. S. C. Wayth, was invalided at the Cape of Good Hope, and died on his passr; ge home in the hired troopship Princess Charlotte. Her present master is Mr. C. G. John ston. Capt. Cresswell, who previously commanded the Surprise, left at the Cape of Good Hope on pro motion, and was succeeded by Lord E. Cecil, who had been ordered out from England to take the command. The Bacchante, 51, screw, was commissioned at Portsmouth yesterday morning by Capt. M'Kenzie for the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir T. Maitland, C. 8., the future Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific sta tion. Mr. J. W. Ozzard, we understand, will be secretary to the Admiral. Mr. It. W. Drummond, acting assist.-engineer, Royal Navy, and who was received by the steam reserve at Portsmouth from the Siren on his dis missal from her Majesty's steamer Oberon by court martial,was yesterday dismissed from her Majesty's Navy, by order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, as an habitual drunkard. The boilers and machinery for the Philomel and Cygnet, two of the new class of gunboats, have been delivered at Portsmouth dockyard from the factory of the Messrs. Napier, of Glasgow. The Blazer and Decoy gunboats will be launched from the gunboat slipway at Haslar to-morrow, and the Fancy and Angler gunboats afterwards hauled up. The Bulldog, 6, paddle, fitting at Portsmouth, will go out to Spithead to test her machinery on the 23d inst. The &ryalas, 31, sets*, daDt. tarieton, C. 8., is convicting her deck and outside caulking in the steam basin at Portsmetith: She Wilt tiloVe out in about a Weeks time. Report sends her to Madeira, Rid, and the dtiO: Harbinger, and the Prothesa were yesterday chartered by the War Department to ship military stores from Woolwich for the Me• diterrencal; the ioliowing appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—Capt. D. M‘Leod Macken zie, to the Bacchante; conin.issioned as a flag-ship for rordigtt Service ; Commander It. It. Wratislaw, to the Ranger, commissioned; Lieut. J. H. Hat chard, to the Implacable; Lieut. 11. T. Gammell, to the Impregnable y S. Long, Mate, to the Bac chante ; E. L. Green, mate, to the Royal Albert ; P. Karney, naval dada ) to the Bacchante; 11. D. Macaulay, midshipman, to the Ariadne ; R. B. Trollope, midshipman, to the Aboukir; R. G. Baker and W. Le Cocq, midshipman, to the Bacchante; .i. A. R. Spicer and J. C. Barnell, midshipmen, to the Bacchante; W. M. Moger, midshipman, to the Algiers; F. J. Easther, midshipman, to the Mersey; 11. C. Kane, midshipman, to the Melpomene; T. 0. Lewis, first-Class assistant.engineer, to the Ranger; F. Windley, second-class assistant-engineer, to the Ranger; N. Stearn, third-class assistant-engineer, to the Asia, for service in the Osborne ; G. Park (b), acting third-class assistant-engineer, to the Ranger ; and 11. Somerville, assistant-paymaster in charge, to the Ranger. The mounted 'loyal Engineer Train, now sta tioned at Brotnpton-barracks, Chatham, being under orders to proceed to their summer quarters at Al dershott Camp, will, it is understood, be succeeded at Chatham by a detachment the same quartHe of the Royal rsorseat Artillery, who wil oupy Brompterr. A brigade field-day of' the troops at Chatham took place yesterday Morning, when Major .General Eyln re had the entire force of the garrison on the lines. addition to the Ist, 2d, and 3d battalions of infan tray, the battalion of Royal Marines and the corps of Aoyo, WWI gugi4eorri won present, whole, numbering upwards of 4,000 men. These brigade field-days are announced to take place en each Wednesday during the summer :Cason. THE PRIVA PJNIC DODGE. (From the City _Article) The English funds showed great firmness on Tuesday, closing at an improvement of a quarter per cent. The opening transactions in Consols for money were at 94 to and ultimately there were buyers at 91q. For the account the last official quotation was 9.1:4. After regular hours there was increased strength. The fact of a good amount of Australian gold having been taken to the Bank produced a favourable enet, and about five o'clock it transpired that the whole sum of £1,550,000 lately withdrawn by a discount house from the Bank has been returned to that establishment. The scheme having been exposed, and foreign capital being in course of arrival, little concern was felt as to the course that might • now be pursued. It is satisfactory, however, that the sur render, if such it is to be deemed, which was sooner or later inevitable, has not been longer delayed, and a hope may be entertained that some pledge will be.given to the public against a repetition of the annoyance at a time perhaps when the country may be suffering from bad harvests, war or inva sion, and when the pro,pect of producing em barrassment would be proportionately more pro raising. To those not thoroughly versed in banking ques. tions a few additional words on the recent distur bance in the discount market will be useful, al though with all classes in this country there is, happily, sufficient love of open dealing to cause the bad aspect of the affair to be comprehended at once in its general features. It is felt that with a com mercial nation, unless there are at all events certain conventional principles which, by common consent, arc never to be outraged, business would become practically impossible. In banking matters, above all, the rule is held sacred, and wherever any de liberate attempts to produce embarrassments have assumed a form to admit of legal cognisance little mercy has usually been shown. The importance of maintaining this sentiment will be universally un derstood. If the London and Westminster Bank , or the London Joint-stock Bank, for example, were to entertain a grievance against the Bank of England, and were to adopt the idea that all me ans of hostility . are fair, either of them could produce the most disastrous results, since they each hold deposits on private account of nearly equal magnitude with those of that establishment. But everyone would reject the idea of the possibility of s uch a course being even dreamt of. Now, the question with the discount houses arose simply as follows :—These houses invite the public to deposit money with them on the condition that it shall be repayable at call or on a week's notice. This money they employ in the discount of hills having various periods to run, from a few days to six months. Of course, they would like to extend their transac tions indefinitely , but this is impossible, unless they can contrive that in the event of difficulty some other parties shall be compelled to come to their assistance. Supgose one of them to hold deposits to the extent of £4,000,000, on which they allow 4 or 41 per cent., the Bank rate of discount being , 5 per cent. They cannot keep a large reserve, be cause the loss from keeping a great amount unem ployed, for the use of which they are paying 41 per cent., would be too heavy ; yet a large reset se is indispensable while they are under the liability to return more or less suddenly evet y shilling they have taken. To avoi d this necessity they wish, therefore, to have the power of going to the Bank of England to demand that the Bank should re discount the paper which they, the bill brokers, without taking the previous precaution of making sure that they were able to hold it, have negotiated. Thus, in case of panic, the Bank, instead of meeting the wants of its commercial customers, would be liable to extraordinary calls from persons, who solely in reliance upon their ability to get help, had made enormous engagements they had never had sufficient power to fulfil. Such a system must be totally inconsistent with a healthful condition, and so completely has this fact always been seen that any banking firm habitually resorting to re discounts was certain to be held in feeble repute. The evil, however, has a further exte s nt. It will be asked " If the bills brought in by the discount houses, even at a time of panic, are of good cha racter, why should the Bank refuse them, since the effect of their being taken would be just the same as if similar bills were to be discounted for the public 9" But it has been found that the discount houses at such periods are never willing to pay those advanced rates by which alone the crisis can be, dealt with, and that, owing to their peculiar position and the magnitude of the interests which, through the faci lities afforded them, they have contrived to get into their grasp, they are apt to insist that they shall be supplied at a certain rate, or, failing this, to get up a movement to frighten the Government into a sus pension of the Bank Charter Act. The history of the last affair of the kind may easily be referred to, and no one reading it can fail to perceive that it is an imperative duty on the Bank directors to take care that, as far as they have the power, such events shall never happen again. The Bank have no wish to interfere with the discount brokers, and the discount brokers can have no claim upon them. Under the Act of 1844 the Bank of England is in a position precisely similar to that of all the other banks of the country, and we have never before heard of ate attempt by underhand or any other means to compel a bank to do business with persons whom, from experience, they would rather avoid. It would be just as reasonable to make the demand on the London Joint-stock Banks, whose total de posits available for discount purposes far exceed those of the Bank of England. These institutions decline to hold their funds at the service of the discount houses, and the Bank of England must be allowed the same freedom of action. If the business which the discount houses would force upon them could be demonstrated to be safe and profitable there is sufficient banking rivalry to Cause it to be sought. Neither the Bank of England not their colleagues, could have any object but that which should animate all traders—enamely, to make the largest profits that eaii pdssibly be edrapsisted by safe and honourable means, and when the dis count houses find themselves unable to per suade these establishnaents to meet their *lets they may fall back upon the conviction that if the refusal arises merely from infati 4 l,tion Hr rirejudiee such ; is the business keenness in London that other partiei; will be disposed td copse into the field. Good bills are the most marketable Certhiiddity in thoi world, and the idea that it can be necessary to coerce any s i n glet:stabliohnierit in,to takin g ; tin article for which there is such universal competition, ge6,iii:l the most preposterous that can be entertained. If the Bank of Englasid is so facilish,ds not to. know its own inte rests, the best punishment Will be tti lea - te it to suffer the, consequences. It employs its money* with the freedom accorded to all persong in this country, in such manner' 6.g B:seitill lieA to it, aqd it leaves the discount houses to do the same. it enjoys the Government balances, and makes what the Govetnnient deems an adequate allowance for them. It is open to any body, of capitalists to establish a new bank on the principles desired by the discount houses, and also for the Government to patronize such new bank, if they think the Bank of England too cautious. There can be no grievance, therefore, on any side, and nothing to justify a resort to covert m ethods of attack and annoyance such as are ordi narily' banished from the rules of honourabs to em le com munities. It is just as bad to g e t up plot barrass a bank or the public as to write anonymous letters, or to perform any other meanness that con sists in taking people at a disadvantage. With all their faults, Englishmen have never been prone to vices of this kind, and, moreover, they have sufficient shresvdness to know the inevitable results. If any it further illustrsation of these results were neede no d, would now be found. The Bank of what England l has fits must have been largely swollen by transpired, and, at the same time, the directors, by their firm course, have gained an extraordinary de gree of public confidence and approval.. 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This statement is 'published in the hope that others gaicted may sectue the mom of Otainipg the !inn relief. similarly The Northern Ensign tells the following story —" A few days ago, a girl belonging to the tinker tribe; named Sarah Johnston, in her wanderings entered tho house of a. shepherd in the Strath of Kildonan, Sutherlancishire, and finding no one pre sent but the mistress and her ehildtett, iciOk udvan tap cif the. opportunity to levy black mail from tier. After Making stindty large demands on the dairy and larder, ghti anppilr of warm milk, and the good wife becoming alarthed by the threats of the girl, complied, and despatched ono of the children to tht hills for produce being duly hand the cow, which was broughted home and milked, the Over to Sarah. Surfeiting herself with the warm milk, Sarah threi the dish and the remainder of the milk in the face of the woman, vetid hda piirately tent off one of the children for the assistance of a g a.mekee neighbouring gam ekee p er. The per, who, it appears, wears a long beard; instantly repaired td the seen of danger, andhaving threatened Sarah with summary ejection, she immediately pounced upon him with the fury of a hyena, eeiz.ing hold of his beard with one hand and administering a heatti beating with the other. In his endeavours to re lease his hirsute appendage from the enraged girl. she caught one of his fingers in her teeth, and bit it severely. After getting a sound thrashing, the unfortunate gamekeeper got himself disengaged. and considered it the better pait of valour to retreat till the force against the girl was augmented. A despatch was therefore sent off for farther troops to meet the enemy, and other two men by-andsby appeared. Despite the odds, however, Sarah gave fight, but at last one of her opponents adopted the expedient of throwing a plaid over Vie head of the desperado, by which she was secured, and ultimately ejected from the house; But the contest did not close here ; for no sooner was Sarah released than she commenced attacking the party with stones. Meantime, another despatch was sent off to llelmsdale for the police, the girl at the ans same time keeping the whole party at bay, by meof stones and other missiles, challenging them to another conflict, and proclaiming herself as the victor. The policeman hurried to the scene of ac tion with all possible speed, to enforce the majesty of the law, and under his brawny arm the heroic Sarah had to succumb, and was taken to Helmsdale as a prisoner. Arrived at Helmsdale, a conveyance was obtained to carry Sarah to Dornoch gaol ; but the drama was not yet completed. When at the farm of Lothbeg, Sarah managed to escape from the gig and to conceal herself among the farm-houses, where she succeeded in manoeuvring the policeman, afterwards running o ff , and getting considerably a-head of him. D e termined not to be outdone by a tinker girl, Charlie immediately obtained a horse and g ave chase, Sarah meanwhile running over bog and moor, roads, bridges, and streams, with the policeman in full chase, at the rate of some ten miles an hour. Sarah was at last out-distanced , and somewhere about Berriedale she had once more to give herself up to the officer of law and justice, under protest, however, that the liberty of the sub ject was gricy9usly interfcred, with. Pali scored; , g ed N A low, tpon hose was reet, into I nes, him, sting Ills,' itto- ICerl" 1101- ,C.C ., E$V -roa", Esq•, Royal 1' - 1 - A 1 I