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AN EXAMINATION for DIRECT . comnissioNs the LINE will be held at King's College, s l lil 21st ' 22d 22d, 2;d, and 24th B :T t em b er ne xt.—For any further ?foration plication should be made to the Military Seere- Y, Horse ds. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. OILEAP EXCURSION to BATH and BRISTOL, from Pad tti&n, on SATURDAY. the 4th of September, at 6.30 p.m., re ':ng on Monday at 6.30 p.m. from Bristol, and 7 p.m. from Bath. -~,-.s—Bath, 12s. and Gs. ; Bristol, 14s. and 7s. VREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. w Ailwr E n xemnioN to OXFORD, BANBITRY, LEA3IINGTON, the s tu and BIRMINGHAM, from Paddington, on SUNDAY, " . o Dtember, at 7.45 a.m., returning the same night. Fares w tord, s. 6 d. and 4s. ; Banbury, Bs. and ss. ; Leamington and " 4 1' ick, 10s. 6d. and 6s. ; and Birmingham. 12s. and 7s. EYMOUTH and CHANNEL ISLANDS STEAM-PACKET COMPANY (Limited). STBAI T C OMMUNICATION BETWEEN WEYMOUTH AND ALDERNEY AND CHERBOURG. SHORTEST SEA ROUTE. On and after the 2,1 September, 1855, by the CYGNUS, AQUILA, or BRICIIITON, fast, powerful, paddle-wheel steamers. Eve n , FROM WEYMOUTH. 'tonday, at 11.30 p.m To Cherbourg direct. Eve ry R "ursday, at 9.30 a m -a, ' ar 'lay, at 9.30 ....... To Alderney and Cherbourg. FROII CHERBOURG., Ever h direc. Tu esday, at 9.30 a.m. To Weymout iTe rY 310nday, v er7 Thursdayat 10 , at 11.30 30 m p.orn m. To Weymouth direct. , FARES:- SINGLE JOURNEY. Ve 3 ,... ttew ......................... .. .. ..... -..-. ...... .... let Class, 2d Class. versa o Uth t o Alderney or Cherbourg, and vice 41(14 ' , 11' s Pee, each way eY to Cherbourg, and vice versa 'ilr RETURN WITIITN ONE MONTH. t ." l oHth y e -to Alderney or Cherbourg, and vice A pr ................................................ kcieZst Cherbourg,y p row , o and vice versa llB. Gd. Ss. Il eelcin: i f '' s may be obtained on board at moderate rates. Through ?ay 1,2 ',Mu the principal Stations on the Great Western Rail -8411,,,' ~ugland to and ,rom the principal Stations on the Western 'ffe st „ a 2 e ßrance. Further particulars at the offices of the Great Of 11; 4 "-i, ttailway, England ; and at the Western Railway of France ; tirk;:_ 4o bert Besant, Weymouth ; of Mr. Gauvain, Alderney ; Mr. "'tp, Cherbourg ; Mr. Renouf, Jersey; or Mr. Jones, Guernsey. .entionth, Au g j us OS t ,ElPBlsl • i ' MA W 8 • TINDERS, Manager and Secretary. iti•-......_____ 18s. 12s. 2s. Is. 7s. ss. R. ICAUN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, TI CHBOURNE.STREET (Opposite the Haymarket). Open daily (for Gentlemen only). kat D xroN at Four and Eight o'clock, on surand interesting tdpies , in connection with ANATOMY; ' 4 uGY, and PATHOLOGY (vide Programmes). bit . Admission ONE SHILLING. e.it kii "'-aliN'S NINE LECTURES ON THE PHILOSOPHY •OF Neip - t — '". &C.. sent post free, direct from the Author, on the twelve stamps. A I :,HA.MBRA PALACE, Leicester-square. e5,,.. 4 he best Ventilated and Coolest Building in Europe.—Lessees, Olty ~.„."*Rowes and Cushing.—CßUlSEß, the greatest novelty of the the' r ,flul APPEAR lIORNING and EVENING, in connection with 44 ,elebrated CIRCUS TROUPE of Mr.W. F. WALLETT, whose fame tat4 l ,l l 't become an established fact. The Proprietors of the a b ov e th e iL 4 htnent, with every desire to cater for the amusement of til t , Patrons, have entered into an arrangement with the kv" 4 "I'EST HORSE TAMER of the DAY, Mr J. S. RAREY, for the " At ilat it„ t . TION of the Celebrated Horse CRUISER, in his subdued 4,, showing the power of man over the brute creation. The won lx,P."',subjection to which this hitherto savage animal has been do l lut by Mr. Rarey has become the wonder of the world. Mid td. i 42 ; stalls, 55.; reserved seats,ls.• boxes, Is.; pit, Is.; gallery, ills pr a ° ,! - ofilco open from 10 a.m. until' 5 p.m. No fees for book ---..........._A. Children under 9 years of age, half-price. .0.- ROYAL GARDENS,' VAUXHALL. u fr?y, 310Letor, Mr. E. Duffel. Open, wet or dry, EVERY EVENING,S t e VaY till Friday, at 7 o'clock. On Saturdays at d eetiet„,', Baud at 4. A. maypole dance on the balle st , age, an eau' iir',..`anees on the leviathan platform, by Chapino s troupe, e)iiiq r ,; n waen the usual performances commence. Admission, ls.; ti• er " e h'"*„. Open on Sundays for promenade; refreshment ticket, the ee'll and Instrumental Concert by unrivalled corps. 7 1 3. IMPerial, this evening, and during the week, an en ull to m ?" ,., equestrian company, of the most celebrated English , rou e ,ira artistes, under the direction of her Majesty's Clown, H. Illuthinatlons and Firework displays of unequal bnl- 111 10 4 ti;. 4r Da 8 eing every other exhibition in the Le metropolis. Dane viathan Platform at 9, and after the fireworks. it,9, A . 3 CAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL. "' JA.XES ROBINSON the GREAT AMERICAN BART 'mat Z„,Elt, having recovered from the effects of his recent acc "'" appear Every Evening during the Week. it O YAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL. ko„_Str. B DONALDSON, the Celebrated ETHIOPIAN llAR tit 4 7 3 3, frc:m B. Broadway Theatre. New York (author of " I'm AT.,. Eve 41arlestown ng d during tan e W other popular Negro melodies), will appear nihe R9,' AL GARDENS, VAUXHALL. th u 1; 41 , 0 11E8TE, the Queen's Clown, has the honour to announce aas formed an entirely NEW EQUESTRIAN COMPANY, of 4 4%Z% English and Foreign Artistes, who will make their first 3 0th ;C„nee Under his direction, THIS EVENING (MONDAY), the of th is 'oust, and continue for a limited season. All the members ttnt ,„ e°, aliany excel in their art, and they are determined to has ;V:,this engagement a series of equestrian feats which has ueen equalled in a single performance. R , PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION. Established 1810. TRUSTEES. ,_rbet a ,7„'„aiing, Esq., M.P. I Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq. t.re r """ ankey M.P. M.P. I Baron L. N. de Rothschlld, 31. P. cleseription' of Mutual Life Assurance for all classes. 15, xOO rflat WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary. J et, "IPX,ETE LIFE ASSURANCE , BY INDISPUTABLE POLICIES, Iritho„'ALIMITED LEAVE OF RESIDENCE AND TRAVEL, Specified"' levalidati% the Assurance, or increasing the premium '3t th thwVoer — Por prospectuses and forms, or inspection te i ., ll ! Deed of. Settlement and List of Shareholders registered in )7014 the A.et 7 and Vic. C. 110, apply to the Manager of the 'IL ALLIANCE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 35, Old Jewry, ALEX. ROBERTSON, Manager. TR E TRAVELLERS' AND MARINE 7, t„ INSURANCE COMPANY. Lo bury, and 42 and 43, Poultry, London. T R ,„ which is iacorporated the eciabusiness of 'I eu• iIm,,CCIDTA.I, DEATHINSURANCE COMPAN, --- 1549 ith , E and Empowered by Spl Act of Parliament. TRUSTEES. 11 2 0 r T REW 31AaseALL, Esq., (Bank of England.) 8x1..1.1114 Same, Esq. (Bank of England). erON 3. PARKER, Esq., Q.C. t e t he ha ll e i tNl T BLAIR MAYNE, Esq. e n , EC be e ,„".," Of the ACCIDENTAL DEATH INSURANCE COMPANY frurchased by the TRAVELLERS' AND MARINE INSURANCE the Policies of the late Company adopted under the Lellers, p urchase are guaranteed and kept in force by the Tra 'lllB a b l V Marine Insurance Company, upon precisely the same e •onditions under which they were originally issued. ;n a l Policies i ssue d 39,000 - Paid since 1849 £7 1 ,000 i• ns Annual income from Premiums (1857) Mait ee . eFfected against General Accidents, Railway Accidents, v i• olth e — „' .loks ; either Fatal, Non-fatal, or both together ; with r .,Toeti us Medical expenses extra. For Proposal Forms, Pro rid all other information, apply to the Manager, at the er to any of the Company's local Agents. 7, sn ,_ EDWARD SOLLY, Manager. Lothbury, London. SITTI\T LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, London. 9nenn be Profits of this Society will be divided in future, Quin t - Inetead of Septennially ; and Policies will participate a ' 44 415, i' l kon, after three annual payments of premium have been fog ,nstead of live as heretofore. , 11 1 fa u e r l f ," effected now or before Midsummer, 1860, will participate ",, , eifeC ur ths, or 80 per ' cent., of the profits at the next division in 41%3% 1 861, according to the conditions contained in the Society's T h i'ecu e. ikrs':e Premiums required by this Society for insuring young lives a! e ',9 l ver than in many other old established Offices, and Insurers 04 1 lily prqtected from all risk by an ample guarantee f un d i n of re i t oe to the accumulated funds derived from the investme n t s hlic m', 3' Stamps paid by the ODlce. str,4Pectuses may be obtained at the Office in Threadneedle ' L ondon, or of any of the Agents of the Society. CHARLES HENRY LIDDERDALE, Actuary. tit, APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED. ' 4 ,,,i L l i. and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE 'tthi ulA u treM imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, , 111 1 b - ,.. 40 a5t Meat, Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and S alad, vertej u nlente and invigorating properties enables the stomach to Lard gidigest the food. "trd .. " 3 ' use of this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe- So t " ) health. 4 la by t l , ,„ a - Ildon - „, - --,.e Proprietors, Lea and Perrins, 19, Penchurch-street, ...."m -",,..' 68 , Broad-street, W orcester ; also by Messrs. Barclay '.ltr tens ' 2xessrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and mer ,N.B,.:4,"„nriott ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. a nd PX): o4 ;.,s ll ard against imitations, see that the names of " LEA s "----........:17. 8 " are upon the label and patent cap of the bottle. 14 1 . 110 MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE, Vet ti t'n (Dyspepsia) Constipation, Flatulency, Phlegm, Ner. IR - ;;L es s. Biliousness' Liver Complaints, Hysteria, Neuralgia, cer t ,L' s aeos Acidity, Palpitation, Heartburn, Eruptions, Im aitirtsd-z. Irritability, y' Low Spirits, Diarrhoea, Hemorrhoids, lilt e ki eg e,Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Spasms, Nausea, and 4 4thn , 8 Bronchitisgy or at sea), Sinking Fits Cough, eff `"4. Consumption, also Children's Complaints lirctually removed by P IT 13 1 4 .11 ,RY'S delicious Health-Restoring 1 14 c i ost 11111otlier " ARABICA FOOD, which saves fifty times remedies in illness, and is, moreover, the best food be, ' tr ent!' and invalids generally, as it is the only food which teel 3r ,t,_ ll rns acid on the weakest stomach, nor interferes with a ttne nueral diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner One fe ral the faculty of digestion, and nervous and muscular to the most enfeebled. tacinektract a few o u t o f t h e man y thousand expressions of grail tiAllroin invalids :—Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, from tho Right Hon. Tre a r r , r d Stuart de Decies--"I have derived considerable benefit Arabi ca Food, an consider it due to th,elves and the v public to authorise the p " Fifty years' inde- publication of these e tr t Stua r t de Deciea."—Cure No. 49,332. s tim able agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, con flatulency, spasms, sickness at the stomach, and vomit- We'"eve been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food. Maria Jolly, betl;...eln Ling, e ss, Norfolk." Cure No. 47,121. Miss Eliza aeob9, of Nasing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Herta, a cure of ve o e nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and ner 4:r_ancies.—Cure No. 48,314. Miss Eli za b e th Y eoman, Gateacre, 44 Liverpool: a cure of ten years dyspepsia, and all the horrors .„nervous irritability. Cure No. 18,216. Dr. Andrew Ilre, of con -4141e n. dyspepsia, nervous . irritability. Cure No. 34,210. Dr. Or "‘nd, of dropsy and debility. Cure No. 36,212. Captain Allan, ePileptic fits. Cure No. 42,116. Major Edie, of enlargement of l it iv ,er and total prostration of strength. Cure No. 36,418. Rev. 2 6.41. dste r. o f cram ps, spasms, and daily vomiings, Cure No. Wu rt 'i er bv- Harvey, of diarrhsea _and_d i e 3 b o i . lity. Cure t No. 39,628. Dr Wm.Hunt,Esq. barrister of N ow of consumption. Cure N 0 .3 2, YSis. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, wood merchant spitting of blood a l lied Friml4, of thirty years' diseased ltinge o , begeervaolor7eynegaersm,eonft,dpyarvtoiaplsidaeafness. Cure N . 58,816. Mrs. Hoize, 46 ,814 u8118 which had tor ( m in e d n i 0 ears. Cure No. (indigestion) f d o e r bi 7 lity y ir a ri rs t , ability, and diarrhoea. o r• Laxton, Leicester, of two Fear'abna.n.,...:o.l26el2a. The Dowager. Countess of Castlesetuarxtoof sm4,gainty . had pi irritability, bile, and gestion. Years' neri Nita, z egu had , hopes of recovery. nervousness constipation , cured of consumpctuioren,saofte. irCsmuor.eediTciwale.andtvyl.stievrse which I have s constipation, indigestion, and debility, from ree love o suffere d hav gre e been nmeisffecrycLaanlldy which h d by Du 4,247,7 Short time. W. B. Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London." ;No s . spa s ,. ' Eight ye ars . medicin eßarry, s could roo d dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramp Of row : , er , nausea, for which my servant had consulted the advice Food. haje been effectually cured by Du Barry's health -restoring Play_,, snal l be happy to answer any inquiries. Rev. , John Year s , Riddlington Rectory, Norfolk." No. 32,8313. Three left excessive nervousness, with pains in my neck and .7 ,e 1 7 and general debility, which rendered my life nealta serble, has been radically removed by Du Barry's Skibb o res toring Food. Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Ross, e ta reen." Cure No. 3,906. "Thirteen years' cough, indigestion, kevslants Aeneral debility have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Arabica Food. James P or t er , Athol - street , Perth." tiotll. r tant Caution agai ns t t h e fearful dangers of spurious imita ti-Th- e Vi ce - Chancellor Sir William Page Wood granted an injunc ,,,‘',O on the 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Neville, for tu nstillg " Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food." Bnit • abiy packed l'Gr all climates, and with all instructions. In 1 -3 ", b 11= 6 7 . , ; , ers, 9d ; 21b 4s 6d ; 121 b 22a, Super refined quality ,„_ w , -lb lie; Sib 225 ; 101 b 33x. The 101 b 121 b canisters are arded" carriage free, on receipt of Post-oMce order. Du Barry and e Co., 77, Regent-stre e t , L ondon; Fortnum, Mason, and CO., Put street°"t° her Majesty, 182, Piccadilly ; J ames Well, 43, Sloane 0, ales , als o . O ci at 80, Graceehnrch-street ; 380, 430, and 451, Strand ; ( 91 . 4itzse Pe t1 e NA 60, Dishopsgateltreet Les, 150 1 and leB, Oz- 168 e d 158 0 ' —8 Od 168 64 194 04 wife of !Itainw. e of gr 0 of E. Georg e )ourne - Req. 11" w ife of 1, Glow rington, ham, at Btygere. aughter '-square , median , the late 3, by the Daniel' younge r "nyan• ch, gir a r Le go's-. r of cb, D°,l: Roger "" Gutbrie• Ur. VP• l i za beth 5, aft": ty-sefe !-terr ge i '''l" for fortli f ai ntly ° Iger L aci/ hinstone, ug hter °I e. Liza' ttg, mly, 80 I. of gr. rgt• ter o 'rev, Bed gar y, ttf c i ;hire, a il , aall. 11611 f0U 14614 ECe) 14°. l e COUati No. 20,651. PUBLICATIONS. MIL. THORNBITIIY'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in S vols., E VERY MAN his own TRUMPETER. By G. W. THORN BURY. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, IS, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, in 2 vols., with Portraits, 215., NOVELS and NOVELISTS, From ELIZABETH to VICTORIA. By J. C. JEAFFRESON. Mr. Jeaffresgn has here given to the public a goodly collection of the novelists of this country, with sketches of their lives and a history of all they wrote and said that was worth remembering. rho volumes contain a fund of information which cannot fail to be as pleasing as valuable to all lovers of literature."—Post. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street. L EY'S MISCELLANY, PRICE HALF-A-CROWN For SEPTEMBER, contains—The Earls of Kildare—A Monti in the South of Spain—The Rock—Ferrari's Guelfs and Ghibel l ns—The Guardsman in Constantinople—Down the Nile—Case and Conduct of Tiinity College, Dublin—Twice Avenged—Byways of the Black Forest—Faint Heart never won Fair Lady. By Dudley Costello. London : Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. B EN FEIST'S RACING RECORD for 1858. Part VII., price 3d., will be published on the let of September. The Record, cbmtainin g a complete calendar of Sport in England, Ireland, and Scotland in 1857, and Nominations for 1858, may be had, price two shillings. W. Wright, Fulwood's Rents, Holborn. NO MOIE PILLS nor any other MEDICINE n for Ind' Indigestion (dyspepsia), habitual Constipation, Flatu lency, Acidity, Palpitation of the Heart, Torpidity of the Liver, Bilious Heads e, Nervousness, Biliousness, General Debility, Diarrhoea, Coug , Asthma, Consumption, Despondency, Spleen, &c. Send 2 penn stamps, and xou will receive post free, 64 pages, the people's ed tion of " PERFECT HEALTH RESTORED," with ut pitie s Lives, or medic:Mei( of Any_kind , and,wittaut ex, -*mak by* le, pleasant , rue infallible means which saves hits , ' Awes its coat i other remediei ; Adapted to the general reader. Supported by . testimonies from the celebrated Professor of Che mistry, Dr. Andrew tire, Dr. Shorland, Dr. Harvey, Dr. Campbell, Dr. Gattiker, Dr. Wnrtser, Dr. Ingram, and many thousand other respectable persons, whose health has been restored by it after all other means of cure had failed. London : Barry du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, and through all Booksellers in Town and Country. BALE OF PROVISIONS, &c. AT DEPTFORD. Admiralty, Somerset-place, 28th Aug. 155. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITEP KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on WEDNESDAY, the 15th September next, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon, the Captain Superintendent will put up to Sale in her Majesty's Victualling Yard at Deptford, several Lots of ARMY, VICTUALLING, TRANSPORT, and ME DICAL STORES, consisting of Ground Coffee, Salt Beef and Pork, Cooks' Fat, Biscuit and Biscuit Siftings, Raisins, Cooperage Stores, Seamen's Clotl*ng, Bedding, &c., &c., &c., all lying in the said Yard. Persons wislOng to view the Lots must apply to the Superin tendent for Notes of Admisliou for that purpose. Catalogues and conditions of sale may be had here and at the yard. SALE OF HER MAJESTY'S VESSELS BATIIURST AND FLAMER. Department of the Storekeeper General of the Navy, Somerset-place, 27th August, ISSS. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on THURSDAY, the 16th September next, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to receive Sealed TENDERS for the purchase of her Majesty's undermentioned Coast-Guard Vessels, viz, Tons burthen. Where lying. BATHURST, about...., 240 Gravesend. FLAMER, about..., No tender Will be received after two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party attends, or an agent for him (duly authorised in writing), to make a deposit of £25 per cent. on the amount of the tender. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admi ralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for the purchase of H.M. 'easels," and must be delivered at Somerset-place. Persons wishing to view the vessels must apply to the Inspecting Commander or the Coast Guard, at Gravesend. Catalogues and Conditions of Sale may be had here or on appli cation to the Inspecting Commander of the Coast Guard, at Gravesend. In Chancery. —" Re Clapperton, Deceased. Smith ♦. Watts." Leasehold Public House with valuable Reversion thereto at the expiration of nine years, Two Dwelling-houses adjoining, and a Leasehold Ground-rent of £5O per annum. MESSRS GREEN and SON will, pursuant to an order made in the above cause, SELL by AUCTION, at Garraway's Coffee-honse,'Change Alley, Cornhill, on TUESDAY, Sep tember 21st, 1853, at 12 for 1 o'clock precisely, in lots, a LEASE HOLD PUBLIC HOUSE known as the Rose and Crown, situate at the corner of White Lion-street and Turk's-row, Chelsea leading to the Chelsea New Bridge, in a direct line from Sloane-street, a first rate and commanding situatiotr for business, let on lease for en un expired term of nine years, at the low ground rent of £5O per an num, held (with the houses adjoining) direct from the Earl of Cadogan, for 26 years from Christmas ' 1858, at a ground rent of £5O, giving a valuable reversion for 17 years, when a large pre mium may bo secur:d; also a Shop and premises No. 3, White Lion-'7treet, Chelsea, let at £2O per annum ; a Dwelling-house, No. 2, Turk's-row, Chelsea, let at £3O ; and a Leasehold Ground-rent of £5O per annum, for 26 years from Christmas, 1858, amply secured on twelve dwelling-houses in Turk's-row, White Lion-street, Chelsea, producing a rental of about £250 per annum. May be viewed by permission of the tenants. Particulars had (gratis) of Messrs. Croslcy and Burn,solicitcirs,3a, Lombard- street; of Messrs. W. and R. W. Baker, solicitors, 3, Crosby-square, Bishopsgate-street ; at Garraway's ; and of the auctioneers, St. Michael's-house, St. Michael's-alley, Cornhill. GEORGE HOBSON begs to call the attention of Gentlemen to his New Autumnal Trousers, 218. to 255. Also his New Partridge Mixture Shooting Coats. Excellence with Economy. GEORGE HOBSON, 57, Lombard-street. Established 1796. DEAFNESS, NOISES in the HEAD.—Dr. WAITERS, 32, Spring-gardens, Cha►:ng-cross, London, guarantees to Cure Deafness in one examination, by a safe and painless treatment unknown in this country. One thousand cures can be referred to. Hours of consultation, 11 till 4 daily. A book, this day published, for country patients to cure themselves, sent to any part on the receipt of a letter enclosing six postage stamps. THORLEY'S FOOD FOR CATTE.— It is only a short time since this singularly efficacious article of animal diet first made its appearance ; and already its celebrity is world-wide. It has been a subject of wonder, and has puzzled many a brain to explain how this has been brought about. Yet when we are acquainted with a few facts concerning the food, our wonder willeease. A. few days since, a gentleman wrote, stating that he had a horse which was a " perfect bag of bones." Ho tried all kinds of things to get the animal into condition, but in vain. He then bought some of Thorley's feet; and he says the effect was wonderful. The horse rapidly grew fat, amid in the course of a few weeks had gained no less than Ls stones. Again we find at the late agricultural show at Birmingham, Cardiff, &c., the animals which carried off the highest prizes had been partly fed with Thorley's food for cattle. Such facts speak for themselves, and we are forced to the conclusion that its celebrity arises solely from its own in trinsic merits, and the great demand for it can proceed alone from the good opinion and testimony of those who have tried it. All parties interested in horses and cattle will do well to apply to 77, Newgate-street, London, for a pamphlet which is sent post-free. THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YiDITTII AND MATURITY. ---- Just published, price ls., post free, in an Envelope, for 13 stamps, SELF-PRESERVATION : A Medical Treatise on the Functions and Disorders of the Generative System and on the Cure of Nervous and Physical Debility, resulting from vicious habits acquired during the critical passage from Youth to Manhood, with practical observations on the Physiology of Mar riage in its social, moral, and physical relations. To which are added, remarks on the wonders of the Microscope in revealing the hidden mysteries of "Life within Life," and its advantages in de tecting, by urinary examination, the cause and effect of every variety of these complaints, with numerous engravings and cases. BY SAMUEL LA'MEILT, M.D., 37, BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON, Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful con sequences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, which have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man hood, and premature decay at all stages of life, than, perhaps, any other class of disease known to modern pathologists. 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Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, Paternoster-rew and frOm all wasp/ tile 0019 VZ " TrtgOenihr," )- - __.) - e r , 4 :1 „6,7 - - ARM 8;(15461‘. PRICE 4D. STAMPED, SD. THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION, LETTE FROM CAPTAIN MTLINTOCK. The following letter from Capt. M'Cliatoek, R.N., com manding Lady Franklin's screw yacht the Fox, contains some further interesting particulars of his voyage in Baffin's Bay : Arctic Yacht For, Holsteinborg, April - 28 to May 6, 1858. " My dear Barraw.—Never was there a more beggarly account of empty boxes. Our proceedings-, - are a blank. It is not our faults you will readily believe, Out ice is as capri cious as it is stubborn, and so we have found it. Melville Bay appeared to ine to be prceiselyin,the same state that we found it in 1848, at the same date (15th Almost). But last year the southerly winds blew so constantly that the ice be came more and more close as the season advanced. But one opportunity offered, and, of course, I availed myself of it by attempting to reach the north water. We thought we were safe ; the water sky ahead was not far distant, but our enemy astern—the south-east wind—came on too rapidly, closed up the ice, and left us helplessly beset on the 18th of August ! For nearly a month hope and fear alternated as we drifted slowly across Melville Bay, as the Norib Star did before us; but a severe September gummed us up and left us, chafing with disappointment, a legacy to the pack. From the near neighbourhood of Cape York, which was last seen bearing north-east in October, we drifted down past Dett aver', and finally made our exit from the pack in let. 63 deg. 35 min. N., and long. 58 deg. 25 min. W. " What :a happy release, you will say ; and truly so it was. Thank God, we have suffered neater sickness nor hardship; no ice movement disturbed us during the winter, although often near enonegh to excite feelings of gratitude for our pre servation. We have lost one valuable man by an accident. He fell down iti hatchway and died of the injuries received. We have not had a single case of Moms on board mere serious than a cold or headache since leaving England. My crew are all that I could desire ; their zeal and cheerfulness are beyond all praise. 1 have sent for Lady Franklin a brie statement of our proceedings; how sincerAy I sympathise with her is more than I can expreis. HoWever, lam not without hope that the loss of a year is the work feature in the case. If it pleases God to permit us a moderate share of success we shall turn out an efficient corps of, travellers this autumn. We are now up to all the dodge* we can build our snow huts quite as quickly as even Rae's 'people, basing frequently done so during the winter in less than half-an-hour! Our provisions are excellent, and ample for another winter, and should we be forced to spend an addi tional one (that is, a third winter), we have enough of most things of our own, and shall take care to provide ourselves at Beechy Island with what we may require. My plans are unaltered, except that I shall probably have more time, and will endeavour to get at the bottom of all the Pond's Bay reports. Peterson' is admirable; most faithful, intelligent, and experienced. I hope to obtain through him most valu able information. " I desire no change in any of my companions, nor do I think any change could be for the better. For myself, I feel no regret at this failure which can at all be named with that which I feel for poor Lady Franklin and all our kind friends at home, including yourself, my dear friend. The disappointment is too g reat for such minor consideration. Next to the painful suspense of another year, I dread the unavoidable expense of wages the provisions, clothing, &c., have already been paid for—but I dare not allude to this to Lady Franklin. My hope is that we may finally be rewarded with such a measure of success that the Govern ment will relieve her of the cost. " I wish you could have seen, from a balloon, our escape from the grip of the ice ; I never saw a finer sight ! Closely packed heavy ice tossed about by a tremendous sea. Our bow is an acute ironshod wedge, and impelled by steam we slowly advanced, in spite of the most fearful buffetings. Not wishing to pile up the agony,' I have said as little as I could about it; but in all my experience I have never wit nessed anything approaching to it. In a day or two I shall start for Lievely, the coal mine, and the further north. 1 have asked Lady F. to write to me to Lievely next spring, as I hope to touch there on my return in September, 1839. Perhaps you will kindly write also. Excuse the brevity of this scribble, but between writing to the Admiralty and to many friends my time is occupied and wits jumble up into a conglomeration.—Ever most sincerely_ yours, "F. L. 11ITLINTocK." ' Mr. Peterson was iceranster with Capt. Penny and with Dr. Kane. TILE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. • We have been favoured with the following account of the landing of the Telegraph Cable in Newfound- land : The American Governm:at having requested the Admi ralty to furnish another vessel to assist in laying down the Atlantic Telegraph Cable, by sounding Trinity and Bull's Arm'Bay, and to lock out for the Niagara on herapproaching the land, to pilot her up the latter place, her Majesty's ship Porcupine was selected for that purpose, and ordered to leave the survey at the Hebrides on the 25th of May. She replenished coals at Cork on the 6th of June, and proceeded on her voyage across the Atlantic a week in advance of the other ships. She encountered for ten days, when nearly midway across, the same gales which so seriously damaged the Agamemnon, and it is a curious tact, illustrative of the rotatory character of these summer gales, that another vessel 200 miles to the N.E. of them had, on the same day and hour a gale of wind from the opposite direction to the quarter they experienced it from. The vessel arrived at St. John's on the 88th of June, and left the next day for Trinity, and commenced operations with the surveying, taking the precaution to keep a look out on the summit of Bull Island, whence they could obtain a clear view of 40 miles to seaward for the vessels. Nearly a month had elapsed, the survey was completed, and every one was beginning to get anxious about them, when, on August 4, at 3.30 p.m. the beacon fires of the lookouts gave them warning of the approach of the long-looked-for Niagara and Gorgon. At 7 p.m. Captain Otter boarded the Niagara, and although it was so late, expressed his willingness to conduct her to the head of the bay, boats having previously been despatched to show the position of the channel. The following was the order in which the ships proceeded :—Porcupine, Niagara, and Gorgon • each boat marking the channel burned a blue light, and t hen hoisted a lantern, to show her position as the vessels approached. This, with the vessels' lights, and the fire-beacon on Bull Island having extended to some of the trees (with which the place is entirely covered), gave to the otherwise darkness of the night a partial illumination, and threw the vessels out in bold relief, which, ha contrast with the high and gloomy appearance of the chits, gave to the whole a peculiarly grand and picturesque effect. They arrived in the terminus-bay at 3 a.m., and soon the rattling sound of the anchors letting go brought the clerks and other officials, who had been long waiting anxiously for the vessels, down on the beach to welcome their arrival. Shortly afterwards the boats of the vessels were seen to muster round the Niagara, with numbers of the officers on board, and then, with the connecting link of the two con tinents in tow, they pulled with right good will towards the _ shore. On landing, the shore end was carried up through a road only recently cut through the pritamval forest to the termi nus-house, a wooden building, about one-third of a mile from the beach, which connects it with all the electric telegraphs in North America. From this house the distance by the telegraph line to New York is 1,080 miles, to St. John's, 80. - When this place was reached the great work, as far as landing this end of the cable was concerned, may be said to have been nearly complete, and when Mr. Field, amid the stumps of faller trees, informed the assemblage that he was communicating with the Agamemnon on the other side of the Atlantic, this wonderful undertaking was consummated. At this stage of the proceedings Captain Hudson, as senior officer, assembled the people present, returning thanks to the Almighty for granting such favourable weather, with out which it was evide nt to the most unreflecting that the undertaking could not have been successful ; he then con cluded by thanking all the officers and work . men for their exer tions and assistance in carry out the c arr y in g Friday, 6th, 1 1 . 30 a.m.—. Field conveyed the gratifying intelligence that he was communicating direct with Valeu tia Bay, Ireland. Monday, 9th.—The Niagara, the Porcupine, and the Gor gon went to St. John's. Great enthusiasm was shown by the inhabitant... P public illumination, a ball, and regatta, were got up during the brief stay of the vessels, an d al l classes on shore vied with each other in expressing their de light at the su ccessful termination of this undert a ki ng. They left St. John's on the 11th of Aug us t , and have carr ied a line of deep sea soundings across the Atlantic, nearly on the parallel of 40.36, the deepest water, 2,621 fat h o ms, being found on the meridian of 17 deg. W., and it continues nearly this depth until 13 deg. W., where it shoals suddenly to 800 fathoms, and then decreases gradually to 70 fathoms, in long. 10.0 W. The Porcupine arrived at Plymouth August 27. The cable is submerged at a depth varying from 150 to 100 fathoms (oft muddy bottom), through the centre of Trinity Bay, and when it reaches the c ommencement of Bull's Arm Bay it decreases to 60, and continues this bot tom until within 21 miles of the landing-place, when it gradually decreases, and the bottom is a mixture of mud and sand. The Bay of Bull's Arm, which has just been brought into notoriety by the fact of its being selected for the terminus of the Atlantic cable, is at the West end of Tr i nity Bay , and separated from Placentia by a narrow isthmus of a mile and a half in breadth, the distance round by sea being upwards of 2uo. It is ene of the many islets and sounds which abound in Trinity Bay, and has been chosen owing to its situation with regard to the prevailing winds, which prevent it from being so frequently encumbered with the drifting icebergs annually sent down by the current from the l'olar region_ , . It is situated 40 miles from the eastern promontory of the bay (Break -heart Point), but up the bay, in the centre of which the cable is laid, more encouraging names, and prophetic of the success which has attended this undertaking. are to be found, as " Heart's Desire," " Heart's Ease," " Heart's Content," and not far from the spot where the cable is landed " Hope All Bay." These places were named by some of the early naviga tors. Cabot, Sir Walter Raleigh, Hudson, and Sir Humphry Gilbert, who was unfortunately lest, with all his crew, in returning), all helped to explore this coast; and, more re cently, the celebrated circumnavigator Cook, who first com menced his distinguished career as a surveyor in Placentia Bay. Snug fishing villages, containing from 20 to 60 houses, are now to be met with in most of these hArbours, the littlest of N Elv S PAPER . - • 2 C-^ which is at Tr nits, on the north sidOirtitigrtfar MO. AP entrance. H re the magistrate and rtmVl• . , contains a pop Teflon of 1,000 inhabi nktc: 450 re-or engaged in fis lug. , The people appear to be well off, aid 4re:principtgf tge English or Iri h descent, the children still retaining= accent of the ountries from which their folefathertorigp: flatly etnigrat d. Nature has so bountifully supplied the sea around then with fish for t sir support, that they have neglected thesoll for agricultural purposes, and are consequently dependent on imports foci their supplies, -although it has been proved that corn andl almost every kind of vegetable will grow during the short-summer which they Julie juin, J. September. The population of the island is abOtit 90,000, nearly one.; aaT half of whom are Roman Catbolici. There is a Roman Ca-u kot tholic and a Protestant Bishop at St. John's and severareery ), earnest missidnaries at the different stations on the island; • but, as the peciple are so scattered, it is difficult with the ex- Wing means for them all to receive spiritual instruction. The scarcity of schools 'and schoolmasters is another great evil. Few of 'the children, or even the grown-up people, in the smaller villages can read or write. , Nearer the sea coast the country is wooded, but it gets clearer as you advance inland. Minerals are plentiful, but not looked after, the people's attention being so entirely taken up with fishing. A most valuable lead mine, yielding 8G per cent. of ore, lies recently been worked .. by an American on some land 'ceded to Vie Neufiundland Telegraph Company by the Celenial Government. • It is about ten miles trom the Atlantic terminus, and, extraordinary to relate, the exist ence of the ore had been known for some time, but from want of capital and enterprise it remained entirely neglected un , il its value was appreciated by its present pro prietor, who -will in a few years realise a molt handsome revenue ftom it. Nothing of the interior is known, except from Indian report and the journey of Mr. Cormaek across the island from Trinity to George's Bay in 1822, he being the only white man who has penetrated the interior-. It presents, therefore, a flue unexplored field for the naturalist or geologist. THE NEW GRAVING DOCK AT LEITH. The rapid extension of the dock and pier accommodation of the harboun of Leith during the last ten years has beet: accompanied by a steady and progressive increase in the trade of the port, *bleb has been felt not only to justify the construction of the works already formed, but to render further additions and improvements absolutely necessary. The principal recent improvements consist of a considerable extension of the old or eastern pier, the construction of the western pier or low-water landing slip, and of the spacious Victoria Dock, with an entrance GO feet wide, and the deepening of the entrance channel to the harbour and docks. The Victoria floating dock, which was flniehed in thel*On ning of 1851, gives excellent accommodation to the larger . • class of vessels, to which the chief trade of the port has for a number of years been gradually changing; but the five dry or graving docks already existing, though well -enough adapted for repairing second or third class vessels, are quite unsuitable for laying up large steamers or first-class mer chantmen ; while the want of a commodious building slip for large ships has also been felt for some years. In March, 1854, tile . Leith Dock Commissioners addressed a memorial to the Treasiiry; explaining the state of the works under their elnirge; and pointed out the great importance of having a graving-dock and building-yard constructed without delay. The memorial was accompanied by plans of the new works—proposed to be placed at the west side of the Victoria Dock—by Mr. Rendel, the engineer ap pointed by the Treasury, in which the estimated cost was put down at £30,000. These plans were sanctioned by the Treasury; but having, pefore operations were commenced, been exhibited in Edinburgh and Leith, a great many alterations and improvements were suggested, to carry out which it was found necessary to construct new plans for a dock upon a larger scale and on a different site. The new plans, which include a building-yard and two patent slips, were also drawn up by Mr. Rendel, and after being ap proved by the Commhsioners, were submitted to the Lords of the Treasury in May, 1856. After a good deal of corres pondence, and the receipt of a favourable report from two commissioners appointed by the Treasury to inquire into the general condition and prospects of the port, &c., the plans were finally sanctioned by their lordships on the Bth of March last. According to these plans, the new graving dock will be situated on the east sands, at the outer side of the old pier, end will have its entrance immediately from the harbour, adjacent to the old or first lighthouse on the pier. The length of its floor, which will run nearly in a north and south direction, will be 300 feet; its extreme width at the top or coping level will be 80 feet, and the top width at the entrance 72 feet. The level of the floor will be eight feet below the erdinary low water of spring tides, and the en trance sill will be five feet below the same level. These dimensions will enable the dock to take in at one time, with the utmost convenience, two of the largest steamers that come to Leith, or to accommoda'e any of her Majesty's war frigates requiring repairs. In order to avoid the risk a:tending the dry docking of vessels in a tideway, from the tide falling faster than they could be shored, the entrance is to be stopped by an iron " caisson" or lock, by which the tide may he retained or excluded at pleasure, and by means of which the dock may also be made available as a fitting basin. The caisson will also form a bridge over the entrance to the dock. The building-yard, which is to lie on the south of the new dock, will have a frontage to the harbour channel of 350 feet, and a length east and west of about 600 feet, affording sufficient frontage for a large and small building slip, and ample room for timber depots, The estimated expense of completing the whole works, al; given in by Mr. Rendel, was £44,000. The contract has been entrusted to Mr. Wilson, of Granton, at a figure some what less than the above estimate, and he has undertaken to have the works completed by the close of 1859-18 months from this time. Operations were commenced by Mr. Wilson a few days ago. The area of the new dock has been staked out, and a beginning has been made in opening the south portion of the old pier, where the entrance will be situated. A massive bulwark, to keep back the water during the progress of the work, will be immediately extended from the old lighthouse to- the present timber slip. An pther work of some importance to the trade of th e port hair - a - so been commenced by Mr. Wilson, =ltaly-, the erection of a 20-ton steam-crane, on the centre of the west quay of the Victoria Dock. This crane is intended chiefly to facilitate the shipment of coals, for which there was for merly no accommodation at all, the shipping being effected in a very primitive manner by means of baskets or sculls. The crane, with the necessary machinery and erections, will cost aboue£2,ooo. It has been manufactured by Messrs. Glen and Ross, engineers, Glasgow; and is expected to be fitted up, and ready for working in a month. The funds for carrying out these operations, it may be as well to state, are wholly supplied by the Leith Dock Com missioners—the Treasury merely sanctioning the works and approving the plans. Eight years ago the Commissioners expended about £75,000 on the construction of the Victoria Basin and West Pier, which sum they were authorised by Act of Parliament to borrow from the Edinburgh banks. Besides paying the interest on this money, and meeting all other demands, out of their ordinary revenue, the commis sioners have in bank at the present time about £30,000; and as their surplus revenue averages upwards of £lO,OOO a-year, ft is anticipated that on the completion of the new works, at the end of eighteen months, this sum will be raised to £45,000, by which the whole expense of these operations will be at once met, while a new and decided impetus can not fail to be given to the trade of the port of Leith.—Edin burgh Courant. LIFE INSURANCE CONVERSAZIONE.—OR the invi tation of Mr. Coatsworth, of Savile-street, lately appointed agent fir the National Alliance Assurance Company, a number of the members and several gentlemen interested in the business of life assurance assembled at the Royal Sta tion Hotel, on Monday evening, the .2(1 inst., to meet Mr. Robertson, the author of " Indisputability as applied to Life Policies," and who, as Manager of the National Alliance Company, had introduced the plan of giving unlimited leave of travel and residence, or whole world licence, as It is called, so as to render a life assurance policy a complete and negotiable security, altogether uncli allengea bl e , and not to he defeated by anything - which either the office or tie insured life could do to invalidate it. The mee t i ng was partly of a conversational kind, and in answer to several questions Mr. Robertson satisfactorily explained the present state and e h a e r n g; sesatt pointed success o p f r o t s h p e e c t e s o , a n tpnal company .e s t He o p t e h r e a n t ! n w g g us r e e by analysing the clauses of an or dinarysa t o f c clearness, out the difference between an ordinary and an indisputable w an d showing the effect of the conditions hole world olicy, policy, p , and and exceptions they contain,. he . proved to the satisfaction of his bearers that until a claim had arisen and been ad mitted by the company who granted an ordinary policy, no one, not even the company who granted the policy, could affirm with confidence whether the policy wa s go od or wort hless. Supposing life companies, like individuals, to be governed in some degree by the powerful principle of self interest, they would be a littl e care f u l i n t h e i r i nves tigations before issuing the policy, because, while receiving the premiums, they know that the more correct the in formation given by the insured, his referees, and the medical adviser, the more easily could they resist payment of the claim when it arose. An ordinary policy is by its terms utterly worthless, if there has been any error or mis statement male; whether innocently or fraudulently, either by the insured or his referees. Whereas, in graatiag an in disputable policy the company take upon. themselves both the burden and the risk of all inquiries, and prohibit themselves from ever after questioning any state ment that may have been made. Mr. Robertson then showed that unless whole world leave was granted, the holder of si policy might find his supposed security t o tally defeated by the insured life choosing to go beyond the prescribed limits. In answer to a question by one of the members, whether it was possible to ascertain the number of disputed claims, and if they were very numerous, Mr. Robertson said it was quite impossible to say ; because the very terms of the . ordinary policy were such as prevented a claimant from goi ng into a court of law, although there had been no fraud, with any chance of success, if any mistakes bad occurred. Such cases were arranged out of court. His belief, however, was, that the cases were few indeed in whleh life companies refused to pay without having som e s us p icion of unfairness having been practised on them , but it w a s obviously unfair to re tain in their own hands the power of refusal to pay, without a sufficient cause. Since he had come into the room he had taken up the Times paper of that morning, and there he found a case reported where a life company defended them selves on two pleas—the one on the ground of fraud, and the other because there had been some incorrect statement involving no fraud, and the result of the trial was a verdict. in favour of the company on the second plea. The judge and jury were bound by the terms of the policy to decide against the claimant, although the attempt to prove fraud had con,pletely failed. It is only a bold and reckless person who will resort to law, on the faith of an ordinary policy, and therefore the number of cases occurring in courts is no criterion of the number of disallowed and compromised 1 claims. The representative of a London office put .thefol lowing ease:- •Supposing a policy to➢have been obtainedl. by undoubted fraud, ought the company to pay e ? Mr. Robertson said most certainly, and fer the fo lowing reasons :—By the practice of life assurance the company employ their own agents, medical examiners, andt trend necessarily forms and appliances of inquiry , and a successful necessarily implies fraud or gross ekrelessneas on the part of the agent or other persons employed by the e company._ Life policies are granted not only to the assured t his as signs, and are intended to be, and are . held out s by the granters as negotiable instruments,asseeuriies. ow, sup posing a fraud to have been committed, and the insured life, of course, dead, whether is it more just that the loss should fall on the b ona f ide holder of the policy or on the office? Clearly on the company, who, by the fraud or care lessness of persons in their employment, ha ve b een t h e caus e of such a policy having been granted. Wh ere a com pany binds itself to pay such assurances, it will take the proper and sufficient means to prevent themselves from being imposed Sundry other matters relating to the principles and. p practice of assurance having been discussed, the meeting expressed their thanks to Mr. Robertson for the information they had received, and their determination to advocate tl:e principles of indisputability and whole world Packet. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1858. MR. BERBSFORD 'TOPE, M,P., AND HIS CONSTITUENTS. MAIDSTONE, SATURDAY. A great Conservative fete was held yesterday, at Mote park, in this eeighbeurfiood, which had been thrown open to the townspeople of Maidstone by the Earl of Romney. An enormous marquee had been erected, in which the dinner was to take place, and about 3 o'clock Mr. Beret ford Hope and Major Scott, the members for the borough, made their appearance on the ground, escorted by their principal supporters, and followed by processions formed of the Conservatives of each - of the wars in Maidstone. Banners and flags were displayed in great profusion, and no less than seven bands accompanied the procession. At the dinner—which was presided over by Edwin Stacy, Esq.—upwards of 1,400 persons were present. Both the members were received with great cheering. Mr. BERESronn HOPE, in the course of hie speech, thus remarked on the events of the last session :—When the dis solution of Parliament took place some fifteen months ago, when Lord Palmerston was in the ascendant, when Conser vatives even came forward and said, " We support Lord Pal merston. Lord Palmerston is the man for us," what did we see ? Thatiminister who, rightly or wrongly, at the com mencement of the year 1855, was supposed to be the only pilot who could weather the storm, that man who was sup posed to have brought back again to earth the wonderful power by which Walpole and Pitt ruled the destinies of the country with a rod of iron—that minister has fallen snore thoroughly, more completely, more hopelessly than any statesman who within the memory of man has been called upon to administer the affairs of the country. I need not relate the history of the change of public opinion which astonished so many people, but which did not astonish me, fur I had even at the time of the greatest enthusiasm in his favour taken a measure of the ministry, which has since proved more accurate than would have been-believed possible had I then mentioned it; that last appointment to a place in the ministry ore person whose name I will not mention, but who concentrated on his own person the indignation of all honest and moral men of every shade of political opinion, was almost the last drop irtbe imp which was ro soon to ovstilows And what was the reason of the final overthrow ? It was the upraised voice of free and glorious England ex claiming, " We will that England shall be free. We will that England shall be the refuge of the unfortunate. We will that England shall be the sacred shrine of liberty is the western sea. (Cheers.) We will not abandon that glorious prerogative at the voice of oily foreign sovereign or poten tate." (Renewed cheers.) Gentlemen, of the many votes that I gave in the last session of Parliament there is none of which I am more proud, none which I more rejoice to own before you than the one which I gave on the first division on the Conspiracy to Murder Bill. There were, as you will probably recollect, two divisions upon that bill, and on the second '299 members went down to the house, and hurled the Palmerston Government from power. (Cheers.) But three weeks before, there was another division, when a small body of 99 walked into the lobby to protest against the introduc tion of that bill. Now I might have been satisfied if I had only been one of the 299, and I might have been glad of the solid results. I trust, however, that I have sufficient under standing of the meaning of things to have been enabled to have reconciled, first to myself and then to my friends, how it was that, being one of the 299 who voted against the second reading of that bill, I was not one of the 99 who opposed its introduction. That would have been the case if I had only been in the majority on the 2d division; but I was also in the minority on the first division, and more than that, I was one of those who stood up in the house and en tered a protest against that unpatriotic and most nefarious measure. (Cheers.) I did not merely vote against it because I saw that the consequence of that vote would be the defeat of the Ministry, but I raised my voice against the bill when the prospect of turning out the Government seemed utterly hopeless, and when all I could do by giving that vote was to raise one voice to heaven for our old laws, our old con stitution, and the maintenance of the old spirit of freedom in true and honest England. (Cheers.) In giving that vote did I give a vote for bloodshed, for rapine, for war ? Did I move a finger towards breaking the alliance with our next neighbour, an alliance which all who value the peace of the world and the prosperity of empires hold most dear. I deny that I did, and I assert that if any men more than the rest of the land came forward to strengthen and support the French alliance, it was those 99 men who in the British House of Commons said "no " to the first reading of the Conspiracy to Murder Bill. I make this assertion because I am deeply convinced that that alliance is not one which rests on dynasties, or which depends upon the breath of colo nels of regiments, looking for favour and promotion. (Cheers.) It is an alliance which is based upon the solid convictions of a great and glorious nation. In the path of peace, in the path of liberty, in the path of mutual confidence, in the path of commercial intercourse, lie the true way to love and friendship. If we had passed that Conspiracy to Murder Bill we might have pleased the present government of France, but we should not have pleased the great French nation—that great French nation which has so often changed its form of government and shifted its rulers. No good neigh bours ought to interfere with the internal concerns of ano ther country ; it is for them to decide what form of govern ment they choose to accept, and so long as the French nation likes to keep the house of Bonaparte upon the throne it is our duty to keep good friends with Louis Napoleon, not be eause he is on the throne, but because he represents the French nation. (Hear.) We are at peace with the French nation, but net because it is ruled by a Bonaparte, and that is the great distinction we ought to draw. In rejecting the Conspiracy to Murder Bill we did not interfere with the great commercial French nation or the great commercial middle classes of France. Things may have been done, and no doubt were dune, which wereedispleasing to the ruler of France; but after those events had eccurrt d, all that we did was to make a grave protest in the sacred cause of liberty, by declaring that on the shores of the Atlantic, with England and the United States and our colonies all speaking the same language, all governed by free institutions, no state of things could be endured in which the right of asylum was not maintained in its :,rue and proper position. (Cheers.) I am sure it the present dynasty of France does get consoli dated on the throne it must sooner or later come to this con dition and govern constitutionally, and the first great im pulse to that will have been given by that faithful and energetic action of the British Parliament which in one moment vindicated the honour of the people, and at one blow hurled Lord Palmerston and his ministry prostrate to the ground. (Cheers.) This brings me to a great fact which has been present to the thoughts and almost to the eyes of every one who now hears me. What I say with re spect to Cherbourg is, let it be a lesson to us to mind our own Oohs. A nation doubtless has a right to build dock yards and forts at its pleasure, and to cast heavier cannon than it ever before possessed. But what are these forts erected for? What are the cannons pointed at? Why do we see those great excavations, those enormous works recall ing to our minds, as their ruler proudly remarked, the marvels of Egypt? Why do we see those farts bristling with one thousand pieces of ordnance? The answer is plain. They are placed there to maintain the supremacy of the country which has erected them. It is for us to say whether that supremacy shall be offensive or defensive. The dock yard of Cherbourg points towards England, the cannon look across the Channel. We are told that France is our best and truest ally. Ido not deny it. I will gladly admit the fact in the face and in spite of Cherbourg; but if Cherbourg is to be to us no reason for doubting France, still less should it be a reason to France for doubting England, if, in consequence of Cherbourg, we augment our national defences, aid put Portsmouth, Ply mouth, Milford Haven and, above all, the island of Alder ney, in a proper condition to resist any hostile movement on the part of a foreign nation. (Cheers.) It would be well to put those places in a proper position of defence; but far better would it be than fo r tifyi ng P or t smou th, Ply mouth, or Alderney, if we were to send out into the Chan nel, bold, erect, sturdy, unchallengeable, and majestic, those mighty symbols of our great nation, the wooden walls of our land. (Loud cheers.) Cherbourg has been made, the Queen has been received with peace and honour, and God be praised for it ; but let us, as the results of what we have seen, send our workmen swarming into the dockyards, let the axe and the hammer ring, let the rigging be spun, let the sailcloth be woven, let the number of our men be doubled, trebled, and even quadrupled from the merchant service to man the yards of these ships, and let us be in a condition to show these Frenchmen that we are as well pre pared to meet all exigencies as they can be, and that it is determined ever to maintain its well earned appellation of glorious old England, the home of the brave and the free. (Cheers.) This is what I have to tell you about France; and now I come to another subject which has occupied very much of our time during the last session of Parliament—l mean the affairs of India. Mr. Lawrence has most kindly alluded to a speech which I made on the Ellenborough de spatch, and has given me credit for the spirit in which it was delivered. I recollect very well I said that I never had such pain and difficulty in making up my mind as I had upon in the because I thought both sides were very much in the wrong, and I am glad to think that the independent course which I then took, so far from lowering me, has tended rather to raise me in your estimation. (Cheers.) But to throw aside the whole question of the Canning pro clamation with the rejoinder, and to come to the general question of India, we have had three India bills, and Heaven knows how many resolutions. The debate upon those bills and the resolutions were, I believe, almost as numerous as are the people here to-night. (Laughter.) We had one thing one day, another thing another, and Heaven knows what the day after. Now what is the line I have taken ? It may not be one in accordance with the popular feeling, but am satisfied it is a wise one—(hear, hear)—because Parliament has, after all these debates upon propositions which were varied almost every day, come as near to it as its honour and consistency would allow it to do. That line was to stand up, nn by my vote — for I did not think, seeing so many mouth open, that I ought to ad d much to the gabble of tongues upon Mr. Cardwell 's motion itself-4o endeavour to keep things as much as possible in the same condition in which they were. I sa w that great 01 ( 1 com p an y w hi c h, w hatever might be its fa ults, had splendidly and nobly ad ministered the affairs of India for many years—that com pany which had consolidated civilisation and paved the way for the introduction of Christianity, and which bad raised a mighty empire in the East mainly by the exertions of the middle classes of this country—l saw that great old company attacked in what I conceived to be a most unfair manner. I certainly do not think it very fair when a man is falling to give him a push down hill, but that seemed to me to be the way in which Parliament attacked the East India Company when in its difficulties, and when it was fighting its way, and straining every nerve and muscle to save India to England. (Cheers.) It was a manoeuvre originally got up for the sake of tiding over a session, and avoiding a reform bill. If a minister had been permitted for such an object to have abolished the East India Company it might have consolidated the rebellion in India by making those superstitious and rebellious sepoys imagine that they had right on their side. When I saw this I was determined to do all I could to support the East India Company, and when that was hopeless, to keep things as nearly in their old state as I could, and in this I triumphed. The night before the division on the Conspiracy to Murder Bill, there was a motion by Mr. flaring to postpone legislation on Judie. Lord Palmerston had a majority of 143, which seemed to strike the Company to the ground. But, then came the change of the Cabinet, and afterwards Mr. Disraeli's bill upon the top of Lord Palmerston's, and that did not seem to go down very well either. Before the time came for its second reading, Lord J. Russell's suggestion of proceeding by resolutions, on which to found a bill, was agreed to, and then in discussing these resolutions we got into such a tang:e that it does not seem to me that Solomon himself would have been able to set us right. At length up jumps a private member and proposes, at one fell swoop, to undo half the change, and to appoint an Indian Council, which shall be as like the East India Company as two eggs are like each other. Ministers and the Opposition alike get pp And em- brace the scheme. The bill is postponed for the time, and eventually the suggestion is embodied and incorporated in the bill, and so it is passed. The East India Company has been struck to the ground, but in its place there is a coun cil and a minister, many of the features of the government by the company are retained, and the majority of the per sons appointed to form the new council of India are taken from the Court of Directors. That is the history of the great change in the government of India. I hope it will prove successful, and that through the noble exertions of Havelock, Nicholson, the Lawrences, and Id-. Frere, in another year the Indian difficulty will take its place among the records of the past. There was another vote to whip h, if you will allow me, I should wish to address a few observa tions. The question is one to which Mr. Lawrence alluded, namely, the part I took in reference to the Galway Di-fi an chisernent Bill. You know that when on the hustings I told the freemen that in me they would find a man to fight their battle before any Government, for the simple reason that I do not consider it either just or statesmanlike to sweep away a whole class of the constituency, because offence against the electoral laws might be in justice imputed to some few individuals among them. I said that many years ago all elections were scenes of turbulence, that It was impossible to expect perfect purity from all freeholders—possibly 10s. men, none of whom were immaculate; but that in these days there was such an increasing spirit of intelligence, such a sense of high responsibility, that the people believed in the sacredness of political privileges among all classes of the constituency, and that they ought rather to be increased than diminished. Any man, therefore, who voted for the disfran chisement of the freemen of Ireland aimed a blow against the freemen of England ; and therefore it wa s t h a t I fet, when that bill was before the house, that the battle of the freemen of Maidstone was to be fought. We felt that the whole cause of the freemen, as well of England as of Ireland, was before the house, and that is the reason we stood up to resist the bill. - I do believe that ameng the freemen the great majo rity will be found to be men of upright and honest character, fully alive to the political responsibilities with which they are, invested, and who scrupulously and conscientiously act up to their political opinions; and I say that the way in which they have exercised their trust is the best guarantee that those who fought their battle in the Legislature were right in so doing. (Cheers.) The hon. gentleman resumed his seat amid the cheers of the assemblage, which, in con sequence of the park gates having been thrown open imme diately after the dinner, now numbered several thousand persons. Major SCOTT, 31.1 3 ~ also briefly addressed the meeting, and the party adjourned to the spacious grounds of the park, where dancing, old English games, and other sports were kept up until half-past nipe o'clock, when a display of fire works took place, and the chairman and hon. members re turned to Maidstone by a torchlight procession. REPRESENTATION OF GREENWICH. Mr. Townsend, M.P., has forwarded a communication to the secretary of the local political association, de,ignated the Townsend League, in which he states—" I have invari ably promised that I would resign my seat as a member for the borough when I found it impossible to represent the interests of my constituents—and, moreover, that such re signation should be tendered to that large body of the elec tors who have struggled manfully to sustain me in my posi tion as a member of the House of Commons. lam anxious to keep faith with my friends, and I think that the time has arrived when I ought to resign the trust which I accepted at their hands." A meeting of the association has been con vened, at which Mr. Townsend has promised to attend, and it is contemplated to hold public meetings in each of the three towns comprising the borough for the purpose of enabling Mr. Townsend to announce his resignation and ad dress his supporters. The only candidates at present in the field arc Alderman Salomons and Mr. Ernest Jones. The latter is making some progress amongst the supporters of Mr. Townsend, and several cemmittees have been formed to secure his return. Mr. Chambers at present declines to e a o p m p e m a r u ; n but iea teawi twith the numerous H section . i m o n r. o c f the p e b l e e l c l o r r e s l a u r e e s t a i n b g o u h t t m o to become a candidate. A paragraph, stating that Mr. Townsend, M.P., was about to appear on the metropolitan stage for the benefit of his creditors, has elicited from that gentleman a letter, in which he says, " It is not for me to say a single word en the subject of my own merits as an actor, but will merely embrace the opportunity of saying that I formerly played under the name of M o rtimer,' but more recently under that of Winter,' and have always had the good fortune to play to crowded houses, and on each successive representa tion the audience has been warmer and more enthusiastic in its expressions of approval of my humble endeavours. I can, with at least some satisfaction to myself, say that I never in my life played for my own personal advancement, but always in aid of the funds of some charitable institution, or for the benefit of some actor, or private individual, poorer than myself. I have no doubt there will be a very divided opinion in the minds of the public, as there is in my own, as to the propriety of this Shaksperian movement ; but I cannot forget that it is my bounden duty, by all fair and honourable means, to use every exertion in my power to pay my creditors, which with the greatest economy and perse verance, I could hardly, as an auctioneer, ever expect to be able to do, considering the peculiar nature of the business; the ruinously injurious effects of a recent bankruptcy, and the great depression and competition in the auction world. The offer, therefore, of the engagement is, under the cir cumstances, both tempting and seductive. Nor can I f Rot —and I may, I trust, be allowed to remind the public—that a large majority of the officers in her Majesty's army, and some of th.e first men in the land, occasionally appear on the stage, and the Queen, the court, and the aristocracy very properly sanction the performances by their presence.* * * As I shall most probably fill up a few nights in the pro vinces prior to my London engagement, I shall in the course of next week publicly resign my scat into the bands of the great body of reformers who, in March, 187, did me the high and distinguished honour to send me to the Mouse of Commons as their representative." MAIL ROUTES TO AUSTRALIA. Memorials to the Government to try the Pacific route for mails to Australia are signing all over the kingdom. The Suez route has been tried and found wanting. Two years ago, a company of enterprising and Intelligent merchants undertook to convey the mails between Southampton and Sydney, via Suez, in 56 days. The Government gave them their own price—nearly £200,000 ayear—to do it, and they began under the most favourable auspices. The Government really thought that they had at length established a mail communication with Australia which would he satisfactory to the colonies. Mr. Rowland Hill, the Post-office Se cretary, even went down to Southampton to assist in the inauguration of the new company, and yet the latter hopelessly and ridiculously failed. For upwards of seven years the Suez route for the conveyance of the Australian mails has been tried, off and on, and during that period almost every other route has been trie d," and not one cf them has succeeded. It is natural, therefore, that public attention should be directed to the only mail way to Australia that has not been tried, viz., the one by Panama. How stands our mail communications east and west on the road to Australia ? Easterly, we have a mail communica tion to Ceylon from Southampton, a distance of 6,393 miles. which is run over in 31 days. Westerly, we have a mail communication from Southampton to Colon, a distance of 4,400 miles, which is run over in 22 days, but this time could be considerably lessened by going a direct instead of the present roundabout way. The 31 days occupied in going to Ceylon could, however, only he lessened by faster steamers. Now the antipodesC of England is New Zealand, or thereabouts. If the globe were cut in halves through England, at right angles to the equator, Australia would be a long distance within the same hemi sphere as Suez. The arc of the great circle between South ampton and Sydney on the eastern route, is therefore of much less length than an arc of a similar circle between the same places on the western route. But mail packets would deviate very little from the latter arc in going from England to Colon, and from Panama to Sydney, while such packets on the eastern route being compelled to sail almost due east between Gibraltar and Alexandria, and between Aden and Ceylon, a distance of nearly 4,000 miles, cannot, of course, take the shortest cut. Notwithanding, therefore, that Australia is on the same hemisphere as Suez, the dis tance of Southampton from Sydney via Egypt is about the same as the distance of Southampton from Sydney by way of the Pacific, that is, nearly 13,000 miles each way. The ques tion of the rival routes is consequently almost narrowed to this—Shall the Australian mails he carried across the eastern or Pacific ocean ? In each ocean a mail packet would have to make one long stretch between coaling stations, that is, between Point de Galle and King George's Sound, and be tween Panama and Tahiti; but the eastern ocean is a tur bulent one, with violent and contrary winds, which make steamers go hundreds of miles out of their course to avoid them, while the Pacific is a tranquil body of water with fa vourable winds for crossing. Captain Porter, an American, performed the daring feat a few years of going round the world in a paddle-wheel steamer called the Golden Age, and without making any preparation for coaling, he crossed the Pacific from Sydney to Panama in 32 days, and he gives a highly favourable account of the great facility with which the great ocean can be crossed. One very great advantage of the western route is that a letter from England would reach New Zealand in 50 days, whereas by the eastern route it must take 70 days to reach that colony. The late Australian Nail Company received about £lOO,OOO a year for carrrying the mails. A considerable portion of this was paid by the colonies, and they would have paid more if the mails had been carried satisfactorily. Now, let Sir E. Bulwer Lytton divide a sum say £250,000, between the Peninsular and Oriental and tile ltoyal Mail Companies for carrying the mails between Ceylon and Syd ney and between Panama and Sydney, once a month each way. Both companies have got plenty of vessels on the spot to do the work. If Sir Edward were to do this and succeed in satisying the most pressing want of the Austra lian colonies, he would earn for his party and his Govern ment the highest character for practical ability. When once the news reaches Australia that Eugland can com 7 mu nicate instantaneously with Ameri ca, our colonists will be more excited than ever about a rapid mail communica a- tion with England. It may be sai d that by merely est blishing branch lines from Australia to Panatna and Ceylon, there would he no adequate provision (madeconveying passengers all through to England. the for mail packet companies, for their own interest, will take care of the pas sengers. If the passengers are made uomfortable between Ceylon and England, they will go by w nc ay of Panama and if they cannot find proper accommodation by the Royal Mail steamers from Ceylon, they will get to Englantd by way of New York in American packets. All the Govern ment have to do is to get the mails to and from Australia and Ceylon, and to and from Australia and Panama as quickly as possible. [ADvErtnsEmENT.] -- Holloway's Pill 9. -- Liver Complaints.—The virtues of these incorpparablo Pills are f u lly appreciated in every part of the civilised world. As they act on the general system through th e c i rcu l a ti on , there are few diseases which theycannot cure ; but they are es p ec ially efficacious in all the disorders of the liver. For these they are an indubitable specific. They possess unri valled potency for good, while they cannot do harm. A c hild might physic itself with these pills, and without the slightest danger, except from such excess as wou ld ma ke the most wholesome aliment In the world an evil. By re ducing the superfluous bile, regulating its due secretion, and giving tone to the stomach, they effect a perfect and permanent care! THE ARMY. The colonelcy of the 2d Dragoons has become vacant by the death, at his residence in Norfolk, of Lieut.-Gen. Money. The gallant officer, who was in his 80th year, entered the army 64 years since, and between 1794 and 1815 saw a good deal of hard service in Holland, Egypt, and the Peninsula ; he was also present at Waterloo and Quartre Bras. The General received the Peninsula medal with one clasp for Salamanca. The dates of his commissions were—Cornet, April, 1794; Lieut., May, 1794; Captain, May, 1800 ; Major, Dec., 1809 ; Lieut.-Col ~ June, 1814 ; Colonel, Jan., 1837; Major-General, Nov., 1846; and Lieut.-General, June, 1854. The Culonelcy of the 2.1 Dragoons was con ferred upon General Money in May, 1852. The following reinforcements are ordered to be held in readiness to embark at Gravesend for Calcutta in the under mentioned vessels :—viz., Octavia, 1,055 tons, Capt. W. J. Dale ; Alfred, 1,291 tons, Capt. W. H. Pope • and Gosforth, 810 tons, Capt. 1. L. Porteous-15 men Of the Bth (the King's) Regiment, 20 men of the 19th Regiment, 80 men of the 20th Regiment, 15 men of the 23d Royal Welsh Fusi liers, 63 men of the 24th Regiment, 25 men of the 29th Re giment, 30 men of the 35th Regiment, and 30 men of the 75th Regiment from Chatham; 20 men of the 2d (the Queen's) Dragoon Guards, 50 men of the 7th (the Queen's Own) Hussars, 90 men of the 64th Regiment, 45 men of the 82d Regiment, and 35 men of the 90th Light Infantry, from Canterbury; 60 men of the 34th Regiment, 90 men of the 37th Regiment, 45 men of the 38th Regiment, 50 men of the 54th Regiment, 11 men of the 88th (Connaught Rangers), and 50 men of the 97th Regiment, from Colchester ; 18 men of the'6oela Rifles, Ist battalion, 15 men of the 2d battalion Rifle Brigade, and 20 men of the 3d battalion Rifle Brigade, from Winchester ; 104 men of the 424 Royal Highlandefs, and 60 men of the 79th (Cameron) High landers, from Stirling, 39 men of the 93d Highlanders, from Aberdeen ; 43 men of the 13th (Prince Albert's) Light Infantry, from Ferm ey ; and 20 men of the 80th Regiment, feenLiinttexantovith 109 men from the Royal Artillery, from Woolwich ; total, 1,270 non-commissioned officers and men. Of the above reinforcements 500 men are ordered to embark in the Alfred on the 3d of September, and 450 in the Octavia and 320 in the Gosforth on the 2d of September. Further draughts of troops will be despatched from the camp at Colchester in the course of the next few days. 16 men of the 56th will leave for Bombay, and 93 from the 44th and 66th Regiments for the Madras presidency. On Saturday an order was received at Chatham garrison countermanding the order previously given for the embarka tion of reinforcements for Kurrachee in the Velocity on the Ist of September, as the authorities have refused to allow troops to proceed to India in that vessel. Tenders were on Saturday received at the East India-house fur another vessel to supply the place of the Velocity. The whole of the extensive works which have been in pro gress for several months past by the Royal Sappers and Miners and the East India Company's Engineers at Chat ham, for a series 6f grand siege operations on a scale of great magnitude, in the presence of the Duke of Cambridge and other distinguished visitors, are now completed, and on Sa turday orders were issued by Colonel Saudham, director of the Royal Engineer Establishment at Chatham, for the Royal and East India Company's Engineers, together with the troops of the Line who are to take part in the operations, to be held in readiness for that duty to-day, as it is expected his Royal Highness will visit Chatham this morning, in which case the grand review and siege operations will take place immediately on his arrival. Lieut.-Colonel Maydwell, appointed Deputy-Adjutant- General at Ceylon, was entertained on Friday evening, at Colchester, on his departure. The Green-hill encampment, in the Royal Artillery garri son, Woolwich, occupied by the Royal Antrim Rifles, was on Saturday removed, the troops having been provided with their winter accommodation. Eight companies are allotted quarters in the Royal Artillery Bartacks, and the remainder with the Royal Marines. A few days ago it was announced to the regiment, by order of the Commander-in-Chief, that volunteers would be received into the various corps of the Line ; accordingly a considerable number have presented themselves from day to day on the application of the recruit ing officers, the majority volunteering for the 60th Rifles; and having passed the necessary medical attestation, they were, on Saturday, sworn in, and paid 10s. each, a portion of the bounty money. During the day a party of stragglers entered the barrack-room in a state of intoxication, and conducted themselves in a most outrageous and insubordi nate manner. They were consequently ordered to be placed under restraint, and were conveyed with some difficulty to the guard-room at the north-west gate of the garrison, not, however, before they had violently resisted and injured some of the picket in charge. At the guard-room the riot and dis turbance assumed a more serious aspect, as one of the en raged fellows succeeded in wresting the bayonet from the sentry on duty, and made a violent plunge at his face. The blow aimed by the drunken man fortunately did but slight injury ; the point of the weapon, however, according to the statement of the sergeant, passed over the leather stock of the sentry and grazed the skin of his throat. On being at length overpowered, those most unruly were placed in irons and some it was found necessary to confine hand and foot. Scenes of a somewhat similar description have been of fre quent occurrence with the Antrim men since their arrival in Woolwich. Scarcely a day passes but they are engaged in some street brawl with the civilians, when, from the dan gerous and savage character of the men under the influence of liquor, the police have found it imprudent to interfere, and the Royal Antrim Rifles, en perceiving the number of their opponents increase, have in more than one case, in their disgraceful street rows at Woolwich, deemed it the wiser part of valour to beat a hasty retreat, amid the hoot ings of an infuriated mob of men, women, and children. The number of recruits received and passed as fit for ser vice in the Royal Artillery Regiment at Woolwich during the past month is 70—considerably over the amount given as ewered during any month for some time past. Mr. Horsefall's celebrated gun, manufactured by the Mer sey Steel and Iron Company, and presented to Government on the understanding that it should be employed in defence of British rights, has undergone a most severe and length ened course of trials on the sands at Shoeburyness, and, finding it faultless and incapable of injury with any amount of charge,lthe War Department has ordered it to be removed to &mime-common, to be reserved until called into requi sition according to the tenour of the grant. The weapon was fired at Sboeburyness, loaded with 701 b. of gunpowder and a 13-inch solid shot, which obtained a flight of n miles. The monster gun left Woolwich arsenal yesterday morning in the Bornarsuud, one of the transports belonging to the mili tary store department of Woolwich, for Postsmeutb. THE MILITIA. The Royal Sussex Artillery Militia has received orders to assemble at Lewes on Wednesday, Oct. 20, for 21 days' training. It is expected that the West Essex Militia will be quar tered during their ensuing training at the camp at Col chester. THE NAVY. The screw steamer Mersey, 40, having been masted and jury-rigged, proceeded from Chatham to Portsmouth on 1 Saturday afternoon, in charge of Mr. C. H. Dillon, master of the Wellesley, 72. The Mersey was towed as far as Sheer ness by the Adder and Lizard eteamvessels. The screw steam-frigate Valorous , 16, Capt. W. C. Ald ham, has had four new cabins built on her main deck. The Valorous is under orders to proceed to the West Indies. The paddlewheel steamvessel Porcupine , 3, Capt. Otter, arrived at Plymouth on Friday feom the west coast of Scot land. His Netherlands Majesty's screw steam-frigate Admiral van Wassenaer, 45, Capt. De Vaynesvan Brakell, from the Texel, arrived at Plymouth on Friday, to be docked and have her propeller examined. On Saturday the new screw steam corvette C1i0,22 guns, was launched at Sheerness. Her dimensions are as follows : —Length over all, 229 fr. lin.; ditto between perpendicu lars, 200 ft.; ditto of keel for tonnage, 171 ft. 10/in.; breadth extreme, 40ft. 51in. ; ditto for tonnage, 40ft. lain. ; ditto moulded, 39ft. sAin.; depth in hold, 22ft. Bin. ; burden In tons, 1,471 59.94. The Clio was chris'ened by Mrs. Con stantine Read, daughter-in-law of the Master-Shipwright. She is placed under the factory shears to put in immediately all her heavy machinery. She is to be completed for the pendant forthwith. The Meeanee, 80, has been put out of the fitting basin at Sheerness and placed to harbour moorings. The Scylla, new screw steam corvette, has completed her equipment at Sheerness and is at harbour moorings. The new screw steamship Mars has been put out of No. 3 dry dock at Sheerness. The Locust, steamvessel, Lieut. Commander John B. Field, recently returned from Scotland, has been taken into No. 1 dry dock at Sheerness to have defects repaired. The whole of the fortifications on the sea defences at Sheerness are to be reconstructed and provided with all the appliances requisite for working guns of the heaviest calibre (both for shot and shell), which will be mounted as soon as the works are ready for receiving them. Tenders are to be sent in to the director of contracts, War-office, Pall-mall, on Wednesday, the Bth Sept. next. The following appointments were made on Saturday, at the Admiralty :—R. S. Kinahan and A. Markham, acting mates, to the Royal Albert ; E. W. Shirley, H. M. Omma ney, J. D. D. Fremantle, F. A. Sergeant, and M. T. D. V. Butler, midshipmen, to the Royal Albert ; A. G. M'Kech nie, naval cadet, to the Cesar; G. King and J. E. Erskine, midshipmen, to the Caesar; and A. H. Kelly, assistant ; surgeon, to the Argus. THE EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY OF PIANOFORTES. —At the City Police-court, Manchester, on Friday, a re spectably dressed young man, named ohn Dooaer, was charged with stealing a number of pianofortes, the property of his employers, Messrs. Hime and Addison, music dealers, St. Ann's-square. Ser g eant Buckle y , of the detective police,' said he received information last Friday, from Mr. Hime, that on going through his stock he had missed nine piano fortes. Inquiries were made for several days, and on Wednesday night, at a beer-house in Cambridge street, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, a piano was found, which Mr. Hime identified. Mr. Hime said that it was only within the last fortnight that he had suspected anything. He missed ten pianos and a harmonium from his stock. The piano referred to by the first witness had not been sold ; it was entered is his book, by himself, as having been returned from hire on the 28th of April last, and it had not been sent out on hire since. The prisoner was a French polisher in witness's employ, and spent the greater part of his time at the warehouse behind the business premises in St. Ann's-square. The prisoner and a man named Holt had the care of the keys of the warehouse. In their dinner - hour the warehouse should be locked up; but witness did not know what they did with the keys. Holt had of late been very much out with the van, and the prisoner had been left alone in the warehouse. Mr. W. Hay, a warehouseman and beer house-keeper in Cambridge-street, who also tunes and deals in pianos, said a rosewood piano was sent to him about a month ago, by a Mr. Wright. Witness was to tune it, and sell it on commission. Mr. Wright, of Cambridge street, said the prisoner and a man named Russell, another French polisher, who is not yet in custod, brought the y piano in a van to his house, about three months age. Wit ness paid £l5 for it to Russell, in the prisoner's presence. He did not know where the instrument came from. This was the piano which Mr. Hime bad identified. Mr. May bury said all the pianos either had been or would be reco vered. The witness Wright had bought more than one, but the police were only ready in the one case at present. The prisoner WM therefore num* to Fridays I ♦ , .~' 7 the 'end Kew 2s to , per LI the so'n the tS nt peSS )475; 1 300; I -I. of !lupe red in ,er qr. -sow. t pre carer, orabll alitieS o ats s s per