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_ - - - - A " o N'S 344 6. ..1,1 1' 1 . 4' 4'A .NN •to at,_c - ft' -4- •, ; ~, t 1 )i • 4 --`9 1 k 11 111&. psi 14 0 oxst< ot . r • 4.• .PE ' ol' GREAT WESTRoRN RAILWAY. , CHEAP EXCURSION to Oxford, Banbury, Learning- V ll , Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury, Llangollen 4 °M, Chester, Birkenhead, Liverpool, &c., from Paddington, PP MONDAY, Sep tembor 13, at 7 a.m., returning 'on 'Saturday, the 18th,from Liverpool (Landint , Stage) at 8.30 a.m. , and in termediate stations as per handbills. Fares—Oxford, 6s. 6 d. and 4s. ; Banbury, Bs. and !is.; Leaming-ton or Warwick. 10 s. M. and 65.; Birmingham, Vs. and 7s. ; Westbroinwich,.Wed b„„t‘B,tury, or Bilston, 12s. ed. and 7s. Gd. ; Wolverhampton,l3s. ; Wellington or Shrewsbury, 17s. and 10s. ; Llangollen oed or Chester, 18s. Cd. and lls. ; Birkenhead o r Liver p ool, 416 . and VS: 6d. Children under 12, half-price. agiS" for a THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1858. PRICE 4D . STAMPED, No. 20,658 PROSP Eel& OF A WES2'ERN ROUTE TO AUSTRALIA. PUBLICATIONS. HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO • LEEDS. Sir went dare , we of lope.(1 pri been ity of 10' ) 17/4 1 , any LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE GOODS TRAFFIC. Th e . • T Public are informed that the general Goods Traffic of . 11 ~,e, Stone, Leek, Cougleton, Macclesfield, and Burslem, and - 6 , `,°wlla on the North Staffordshire Railway, are received at •C s n uen; Raydon-square, and at all the London and North stem Goeds Offices in London. Ra— f. s and other particulars may be obtained at the Com - Da , A; Y'l ' Goods Offices in London , and at a ll the Offices of their and 'llLa, Messrs. Pickford and Co. ; and at Mes srs. Cha p lin Horne, who have made extensive arrangements, from 1)) pt collection and delivery in London , and in the Towns n " abOve. . _. By order. ➢LARK InTISIL General Manager. Ruston Station, London, August, 1858. pROFESSOR WILJALBA FRIKELL.- piOTO-NlGHN,—Polyg,raphic-hal, King William-street, 3r o a n i lng•cross.—TWO HOURS OF ILLUSION.—For One Only, previous to Professor Frikell's departure on a of - 3 ' 11 ,1 4 tour. Every evening at 8 ; Saturday afternoons B; a p -rrivate boxes, one guinea ; box stalls, ss. ; orchestra 3s. area, 2s. ; amphitheatre, ls.—Places may be Z9red at the PolvoTaphic-hall. from 11 till 5, and at Mr. Itchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. ADELAIDE GALLERY CASINO, Lowther trE N ,A ir r ea,„ de, Strand.—The aboVe ROOMS are OPEN EVERY Play i; "G. The celebrated baud of the Argyll Rooms will Y Particular desire, selections from Ii Trovatore, La ~aviata, tata, and Rigoletto. Conductor, Mons. A. LAMOTTE. r fa ;pipal cornet-a-piston, M. Boulcourt. Leader,. Mr. Charles Is. " Doors open at half-past 8, commence at 9. Admission, DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, target TICHBOURNE-STREET (Opposite the Hay- ._ Open daily (for Gentlemen only). 1,R0n,„ -KES by Dr. SEXTON at Four and Eight o'clock, on aLrtant and interesting topics in connection with ANA -151" 1 PHYSIOLOGY, and PATHOLOGY (vide Pro cilluneto. Admission ONE SHILLING. KAILN'S NINE LECTURES ON THE PHILO 4bY OF :MARRIAGE; Are., stampst free; direct from the uthor, on the receipt of twelveps. A LHAMBRA PALACE, Leicester-square. The best Ventilated and Coolest Building in Europe.— or „;ees, Messrs. Howes and Cushing. Entire Change of Per oti ''`ance. Madame DE L AVANT I will make a Grand Ascent p, Portion of the Atlantic Telegraph Wire to the Dome of c '‘e Alhambra Palace, bein,g one hundred feet in height, and 'w, o hundred feet in length, a feat never attempted by any Other artiste. WALLETT'S celebrated CIRCUS COMPANY. „' f . x ,ttaordinary and brilliant sucless of the unrivalled Troupe r•questrian and Gymnastic Artistes and splendid Stud of Two Performances daily. Midday Entertainment ": half-past 2 ; Evening at 8 o'clock. Private boxes, £2 ; "'ells, 5s - reserved seats, 3s. ; boxes, 2s. ; pit, ls. ; gallery, Box-office open from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. No fees for "'"oking places. Children under 9 years of age, half-price. ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL. x ,„ Director, Mr. R. Duffell. Open, wet or dry, EVERY v-,riNiNG. THIS • EVENING, and during the Week, CUAL and INSTRUMENTAL CONCERTS by unrivalled 0 4Pa• On the Ballet i ll Stage,Thompson in his Im• perial Mr. evolutions on the Spanish Franca. In the Cirque perial Mr. James Robinson, the great American bareback an (who has been engaged for 12 nights more), Madame wiAche (the equestrian magnet) and the Decanter Equilibrist, appear every evening, in conjunction with the neweques -1C1! company, under the direction of her Majesty's Clown, br.i(Toueste. Illuminations and Fireworks of unequalled 'IN II4IIO y. surpassing every other exhibition in the metropolis. '• ,',nuerrtil rope ascent. Dancing on the Leviathan Platform and after the fireworks. Hours of Admission from Moti f' to Friday at 7 o'clock. On Saturdays at 3-4 he Military :oda at 4. 'A .maypole dance on the ballet stage, and tk i irY dances on the leviathan platform, by Cimpino's kr :nted troupe, until 6, when the usual performances com iclce. Admission, ls. ; children, fd. Open on Sundays for ; refreshment tickets, 6d. G MONDY, September 13th, AN GRD ILLUMINATION tbr the benefit of Mr. DUFFELL. ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL. p a „ ‘ . —Triumphant success of the New. Equestrian Corn e,;" under the direction of her Majesty's Clown, H. bar(, Mr. JAMES ROBINSON, the Great American M agnet, back rider, and Madame BLANCHE, the equestrian EVERY EVENING. THORLEY'S FOOD FOR CATTLE.- It is only a short time since this singularly , efficacious „thele of ay is world-wide.nimal diet first mad It e bas been a a eance ; and already its celebrit ar subsubject of wonder, 4 brought about.y man a brain to exlain how this has been Yet when we are acquainted with a few facts a "corning the food, our wonder will cease. A few da y s since, , gentleman wrote, statinc , that he had a horse which was a therfect bag of bones." He tried all kinds of things to get f e , r mlimal into condition, but in vain. He then bought some horley's food; and he says the effect was wonderful. The ; ern e rapidly grew fat, and in the course of a few weeks had tualped no less than 12 stones. Again we find at the late agri (mai shows at Birmingham, Cardiff, &c., the animals which :tded off the highest prizes had been partly fed with Thor aP,.food for cattle. Such facts speak for themselves, and we fr`:fob to the conclusion that its celebrity arises solely In its own intrinsic merits, and the great demand for it can Ivlil o eed alone from the good opinion and te stimon y of those have tried it. All parties interest ed in horses and cattle Pall, do well to apply to 77, Newgate - st reet, London, for a Phlet which is sent post-free. CONTRACTS FOR SALT BEEF AND SALT/PORK. Department o f the Comptroller for Victualling, Somerset Comp July 30, 1858. TIM COMMISSIONERS for Executing the °ace of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of ! eat Britain and Ireland, do Hereby give Notice, That on !:!lURSDAY, the 30th Sept. next, at half-past 1 o'clock, they Rill b e ready to treat with such persons as may be willing* to ,;ONTRACT for Supplying and Deliverincr into her Majesty's v lctuallingStores at the under-mentioned Ports, the following quantities of SALT MEAT, Pt the cure o f any coun t r y, and all of the cure of the presen season, viz. Navy Beef. Navy Pork. Tierces. Brls. Tierces. lirls. Deptford 4,500 MOO .... 0,500 4,700 Gosport tlymouth l,OOO 1,500 .... 1,500 800 rtaulbowline ten 2 heir Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the 11 iers are opened, of contracting either for e the whole, or for 1: e ,:l Part thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a greater f L i nti tY. or of not contracting for any, and also an unlimited , colver of selection. separate tender must be given for the Beef and a separate t me for Pork, and every tender must sp ecif y where the ' i ytt is intended to be cured. r at genderedering for more than one port must give a sepa ,;,Lfor each port. R s I 'le Beef and Pork to be delivered into the respective stores t he 31s viz. :—one-third of each quantity for each place by Pe 31st of January, 1850; another third thereof by the 15th eV of March, 1850 ; and the remainder thereof by the 30th t a a Pt April - 18.10, or any greater portion, or the whole, at any Paid er period, if preferred by the party tendering, and to be ;„for by bills payable in seven days from and alter the re 'ective dates thereof. Parties tendering are desired to take special notice that the Use of wooden hoops is abolished, and that IRON HOOPS „ , 3 , will be required for the casks , in accordanc e with the "Aditions of the revised form of contract. k form of the tender may be obtained , an d the conditions of _the revised contracts, to which particula r attention is called, „nay be seen at this Office ; at the Victualling Yards at ru Gos volt and Plymouth; or by applying to t he A g ent Vic aller at Raulbowline ; or to the Collectors of her Majesty's Ctts "Ma at Bristol, Limeeck, Belfast, Waterford, and Newry ; to the Secretary to the Postmaster-General at Dubin ; or t ,„ "1„ e Commander conducting the Packet Service at l Liver ; Or to the Resident Agent for Transports at Leith. i t :o tender will be admitted for a less quantity than 100 ' , -res or 100 barrels. tender will be received after half-past 1 o'clock on the IV of treaty, nor any noticed tinless made on the printed rte provid-d for the purpose ; but it will not be necessary g i,„tite party tendering, or an agent appointed by him, 'flid attend at. this office, as the result of the offer received N t ,'„nl each p , :rson will be communicated to him and his pro hied sureties in writing'. At'Pla in payment for any beef or pork delivered into her Ab ldesty's Stores will be sent to parties upon transmitting ;usual certificates of receipt. r at tender must he addressed to the Secretary of the Ad- N ‘ l ,',. 4 ..itY. and bear iu the left-hand corner of the envelope the * " Tender for Salt Meat," and " Comptroller for Vic tualling ;' and must also be delivered at Somerset House. NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY 'OTHER MEDICINE. I n d igestion (Dyspepsia), Constipation, Flatulency , Phle g m, N ervousness, Biliousness, Liver Complaints; Hysteria, N euralgia, Sleeplessness, Acidity, Palpitation , Heartburn, ~ Impurities, Irritability, Low Spirits, Diarrh oea, I lemorrholds, Headache, Debility, Despondency, Cramp s, s Pastns, Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy or at sea), ' i nking Fits, Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, Consump tion, also Children's Complaints, eirectually removed by )U BARRY'S delicious Health - Restoring s . - REVALENTA ARABICA. FOOD, which saves fifty the its cost in other remedies in illness, and is, moreover, best food for infants and invalids generally, as it is the Inlly food which never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor interferes with a good liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner, and restores the faculty of direstion, and nervous and tnuseular energy to the most enfeebled. We extract a few out of the irony thousand expressions of Vatitude from invalids :—Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, from the 4 , l ght Hon. the Lord Stuart de Decies — " I have de r iv ed con - "lerable benefit from Du Barry's Revalenta Arablea Food, ; 111 1 consider it due to yourselves and the public to autho rise Ve publication of these lines. Stuart de Decies." Cure No. 4 ,342. " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, ner 'nusness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, i leltness at the stomach, and vomiting, have been removed by Rarry's excellent Food. Maria Jolly, Wortham Ling, near Ishiss, Norfolk." Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jae Obs, of Ozing Vic irage, Waltham Cross, Hefts, a cure of extreme ner ellaness, indigestion, gatherings, low'spirits. and nervous f an - 7 8 . Cure No 4814. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman G ateacre, near ' v er1)001: a cure of ten years' dyspepsia, and all the horrors A l ' i mervous irritability. Cure No. 18,216. Dr. Andrew Um, of con ', nation, dyspepsia, nervous irritability. Cure No: 34,210. t. ,• Shorland, of dropsy and debility. Cure No. 38,212. Cap ` nu Allan, of epileptic fits. Cure No. 46,116. Major Edie, of c?.i.largement of the liver, and total prostration of strength. 6, 4 1,e No 31,418 Rev Dr Minster. of mmps, spasms, and vom . itino•s . . Cure No; 26,418. Dr. Harvey, of diarlioea C ure debility. 'Cure No. 39,628. Dr. Wurtzer, of consumption. (•" r e No. 3! R3O. Wm. Hunt. Esq., barrister, of paralysis r e No. 46,:'70. : Mr. James Roberts, wood merchant, Frimley, l ! thiy yetrs diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver de . a Pg'ement, partial deafness.. Cure No. 58.81 . 6 Mrs . . Irrize, , i - sed 107 years', of dyspepsia (indigestion), heredbility, irritability, i N nd nervousness, which had torniented for 70 years. Cure ( l i n . 56,814: Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester, of two years' kth arrhoea. Cure No. 52,612. The Dowager Countess of Castle t•,,,-art, of many years' nervous irritability, bile, and indiges %,"". Cure No. .54,812. Miss Virginia Zeguers, cured of con 1 .2 1 1 3 ti0n, after her medical advisers had abandoned all hopes of Cure . No. 180. "Twenty-five years' nervousness, f,, s . , Pation, indigestion whichebliy, f rom which I have suf r-ar,',l great misery, and no medicine could remove or A 0 .-.4eV el e be.A i effectually cured by TM Barry's Food in a • -W o ?' short time. W. B. Beeves, 181, Fleet-street, London." mt,4;208. "Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility', " Cramps, spasms, and nausea, for which my servant had ~nslilted the advice of many, have betm ePctually I; ed by Du Barry's health-restoring Fond. T shall • "aP Ri p to answer any inquiries. FN p e , Ja n -vv . y ddlington Rectory, Norfolk." o. :12,836. " Three a r e :; l excessive i n ' T n, and general debility, which rendered my life very e, has been radically removed by Du Barry's health li4 - 2 f 9El' Food. Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Ross, Skib tk,,"n•"" Cure No. 3,90 d. " Thirteen years' cough, indip.:es ex"" and general debility have been removed by Du Barry's eedent Revalenta Arabica Food. James Porter, Athol siteet Perth." portant Caution against the fearful dang er of s p urious ations • Vice - -Chancellor Sir William Page Wood nted an • on the 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Seville, for imitating "Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica. Food." /11 Suitably packed for all climates, and with all instructions. t i n rsters, 11b., 2s. Od. ; bliss M. • 121 b., 225. Super re -10113. and 11b., fis. ; 21b.,; 511;., 225 ; 101 b., 338. The itnd 121 b. canisters are forwarded carriage free, on re at44,l Post-office order. Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent ,endon ; Fortnum, Mason, and Co., purveyors to her Itatiest at 60, 37 .2.15?, Piccadilly ; James Well, 4u, Sloane-street ; also ea t iracechurch-street ;. 330, 430: ai3of 451; Strand ; Pside ; and 60 IBiellopsgate•Otreet , 63, 150, aK.d 198 j v2l-440:Weet. ‘II.IN LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, London. The Profits of this Society will be divided in future, Quinquennially instead of Septennially ; and Policies will participate at each division, after three annual payments of premium have been made, instead of five as heretofore. Policies effected now, or before Midsummer, 1860, will par ticipate in four-fifths, or SO per cent., of the profits at the next division in January, 1863, according to the conditions con tained in the Society's Prospectus. The Premiums required by this Society for insuring young lives are lower than in many other old established Offices, and Insurers are fully protected from all risk by an ample guarantee fund in addition to the accumulated funds derived from the investments of Premiums. Policy Stamps paid by tile Prospectuses may be obtained at the Office in Threadneedle street, London, or of any of the Agents of the Society. CHARLES HENRY LIDDERDALE, Actuary. LEEDS, TUESDAY EVENING. Her Majesty and the royal family reached this place at a quarter-past six o'clock, and their recep tion, we need scarcely say, was of the most enthu siastic and gratifying character. The journey of nearly 300 miles from Gosport. was so admirably performed throughout as to leave scarcely any fact worth recording save the remarkable and gratifying proof the royal progress afforded of the accuracy with which the network of railways, now intersect ing every part of this country, can be traversed at any moment when circumstances may require it. The Mayor, with the chief members of the cor poration, met her Majesty upon her arrival. A royal salute was fired from a battery of artillery at the station, under Lieutenant-Colonel Kennedy, and the guard of honour was formed of the 22nd Regiment from Manchester. Before leaving the station her Majesty caused to be conveyed to the directors of the Great Northern railway her thanks for the great attention which had been shown to her comfort and convenience on the journey. The railway throughout, with scarcely an exception, was certainly in capital condition, and the smooth and easy passage of the train, at rates of very high speed; reflects great credit upon the skill and watchfulness of -Mr. Brydon, resident engineer of the company, who himself was among the officers accompanying the train. The general direction of_the journey was super intended by Mr. Seymour Clarke, who accompanied her Majesty to-day from Gosport to Leeds, and will go forward to-morrow with the . regal party to Banchory, on her further progress northward. Immediately after the arrival her Majesty pro ceeds to Woodsley-house, the residence of the Mayor, which has been entirely given up by Mr. Fairbairn for the use of her ;Majesty - during her brief stay in Leeds. This house is situated in the suburbs, on a gently . rising eminence overlooking the town. The exterior is handsome though unpre tending looking in all, save the very massive and richly decorated cast-iron gates which open on a short carriage way to the entrance. It is quite a sight to see the reverential interest with which this house is now regarded. Hundreds of the good folks of Leeds remain outside it all day long, and happy are those who can jam their heads between the open work of the iron gates aforesaid; and so gaze upon the gravel walk beyond. Had it been the home of her Majesty from infancy it could not excite a deeper interest than now apparently attaches to it, even before she has as much as seen the spot. In the mind's eye of the Leeds populace we are surethat Buckingham Palace has become a place of little import when compared with Woods ley-house. Inside, however, for its size the house is one of the most complete and richly decorated mansions in this part of the kingdom. The whole building was redecorated last winter, and it is evident at a glance that money has been lavished upon it with an unsparing hand. The dining-room is one of the most perfect little bijous in the Italian style we have seen. In the drawing-room one is at a loss which most to admire, the magnificence of the details or the perfect harmony and good taste of the whole. The vestibule and hall, toe, are ex ceedingly well-proportioned, furnished with the most excellent taste, and adorned with some noble specimens of the English school of painting. Cer tainly neither at Stoneleigh, Abbey, nor even at Worsley-hall were the preparations at all compara ble to those which have evidently been made for her Majesty at Woodsley-house. The grounds round the house are varied and beautiful, and in the most exquisite order. In rear of the house the guard of honour will occupy tents on an open space of ground. One of the most interesting of the many inci dents which will occur in her Majesty's route to the Town-hall is her inspection of some 18,000 children of the Free and Sunday Schools on Woodhouse Moor. This monster gathering of juveniles will of course welcome her with " God save the Queen," and signal boards will be worked so as to insure good time throughout the entire mass. The effect is likely to be very fine. In our yesterday's fin pression we gave a brief and necessarily hasty ac count of the Town-hall as it appeared from a cur sory view. We now give it, with its chief dimen sions, in more particular detail and more worthy of the noble building. The whole hall covers an area, of some 17,000 square yards, with a fine open space in front and sides. The site was purchased for £9,000, and though at first rather low in isolation to other parts of the town, the situation being very central, the difficulty of level was soon got rid of by throwing up the platform or mound of earth on which the hall now stands. The external form of the edifice is that of a paral lelogram, being 250 feet long by 200 feet in breadth, and its general appearance, from the approach to the main front, is imposing in the extreme. Stand ing on an elevated platform, it is surrounded by Corinthian columns and pilasters, supporting rich entablature and balustrade, altogether about 70 feet in height. The large hall, which is the chief fea ture of the building, rises out of the centre of the quadrangle to ' the height of 92 feet from the ground, and at each of the four corners is an orna mental turret, 12 feet square by 106 in height, the four containing the smoke and ventilating flues connected with the various courts and rooms. The south, or principal facade, is approached by a handsome flight of 20 steps, 110 feet in length, and has a deeply recessed portico of 12 columns, 10 of them being in front, and two recessed. This cannot fail to command attention and admiration by its grandeur and the harmony of its composition. In the centre of this •facade, and adjoining the south end of the large hall, rises the dome, which will, when completed, be 225 feet in height. That part of it immediately in sight above the roof is com posed of a square die, ornamented with panels and mouldings, upon which rest 20 Corinthian columns, also forming a square, with entablature and balus trade complete, having a corresponding number of pilasters • behind the columns, ' forming the inner wall. This portion forms the belfry and is as high, as it is intended to be carried until after the meet ing of the British Association, when'the works will be resumed and carried about 80 feet higher, and will then contain a clock, now being made by Dent, to have four illuminated dials, 13 feet in diameter. Above this commences the dome proper, which will be covered . with lead and surmounted by a stone lantern finial. The two. sides and north end of the'building are somewhat similar to the south front, excepting that the columns and pilasters which surround them are near to the walls, and'the inter-columns, or spaces between them, have two tiers of circular-headed -windows. There are several entrances to the building on 1 each side, and at the north end ; but the principal entrance is under the south portico, and consists of a large archway, 32 feet high by 21 feet wide. 'The lower part contains three splendid doors, composed of highly ornamented wrought and cast iron work, glazed. The tympanum or crown of the arch has been filled with an emblematic group of figures, and the panels are elaborately carved. The group placed immediately over the three doors leading to the vestibule represents Leeds in its commercial and industrial character, fostering, and encouraging the arts and) sciences. The central figure, which is almost colossal, is that of a female, having in the outstretched right hand a; wreath, and in the left the distaff. On the right is a personification of Poetry and Music; with the lyre and pipe, a faun's head and wreath of flowers in the background, and also a figureoflndustrylooking towards the principalfigure, and holding in her hands samples of textile fabrics. Industry rg represented as seated on a bale of goods and resting her arm on an anvil, surrounded byvarious implements of trade. On the left are also two figures—one representing the Fine Arts and the other Science, each of which is appropriately typi fied. The'panels forming the architrave to the arch and spanning the group are tastefully carved with various devices, selected from the arms of the town, with scroll ornaments, &c. The centre panel con tains the scales of justice, surrounded with palm branches. The large panels on each side of the entrance doorways are filled in with bold and classic scrolls and foliage, in the centre of each of which is a child bearing the fleece, having beneath the fasces and other emblems of Power and Justice, and above the caduceus of Mercury. The interior of the building is characterised by almost unequalled adaptation to the various muni cipal and ;judicial purposes it is intended to sub serve, 'besides which it is in several important portions marked by ornamentation of the highest style of excellence. The principal entrance opens into a. vestibule of very fine proportions, with a domed ceiling, supported by four arches an cifluted pilasters of the composite order, the apartment )oint vear bur- )Nv not awl of t hat id that hoth er batioo e Sa l .y gOO LL itra te4 e they • sell; • Latec- er a d Olio monei d e out , pi- 1856 grea t ared itants to PO ;. ter ar 31ct, to-c ll4l. 'Jag ,11r Oats t e-as aPP,II of cu „ ti r ; ix )11 seift told 9.._, a of br: e el'-e Ld 4 63, LE; t° e. wr at ie niog . v' 10a, w i d ij ! rni l'a- 32 0 to 36s 3 4 s to , 0 30s to 530., t ° 1 2,4 580 to ich lei nail/ it , su lt 0 ;n8 tom the 10 13 1 . 1 r e. ay i t i e Li tt° o OarC l 0 ructiO .....%'''.‘## AS lr a•• 00' r, 131 c ~, s~' tjj° tile 10111 Id : ° oi l ' . tr Ho f -- 1 4,5 4 3 0 °' t r:tr el ;di tea=' tof P Jog ,go c, jl9a°, so w' , be te Of NOTICE. MARY lIOWITT'S NEW STORY, " TRUST AND TRIAL," Will be ready immediately. In 1 vol., with illustrations, 10s. 6d. bound. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great 31arlborough-street. NEW NOVEL—Now ready. 11VA DESMOND ; or Mutation. 3 Vols. London : Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill. pEISVS RACING RECORD for 1858. Part VIII., price 3d., will be published on the Ist of October. The Record, containing a complete calendar of Sport in England, Ireland, and Scotland, in 18.17, and nomi nations for 1858, may be had, price two shillings. W. Wright, Fulwood's Rents, Holborn. NO MORE PILLS nor any other MEDICINE for Indigestion (dyspepsia), habitual Constipation, Flatu lency, Acidity, Palpitation of the Heart, Torpidity of the Liver, Bilious Headache, Nervousness, Biliousness, General Dibility, Diarrhoea, Cough, Asthma, Consumption, Despondency, Spleen, &c.. 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NV. • 3: PALL MALL EAST, LONDON. Parties desirous of Investing Money are requested to exa mine the Plan of The Bank of Deposit, by which a high rate of interest may be obtained with ample security. The Interest is payable in January and July. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. Forms for Opening Accounts sent free on application. In Chancery.—" Re Clapperton, deceised, Smith v. Watts." Leasehold Public House with valuable Reversion thereto at the expiration of nine ears, Two Dwelling-houses adjoin ing, and a Leasehold G r oun d of 1.50 per annum. MESSRS. GREEN and SON will, pursuant to an order made in the above cause, SELL by AUC TION, at Garrrway's Coffee-house, 'Change Alley, Cornhill, on TUESDAY, September 21st, 1858, at 12 for 1 o'clock, pre cisely, in lots, a LEASEHOLD 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 situation for business, let on lease for an unex pired term of nine years, at the low ground rent of £5O per annum, 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 premium may be secured ; also a Sho p and p remises No. 3, White Lion r street, 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. Crossley and Burn, solicitors, 34, Lombard-street ; of Messrs. W. and R. W. Baker, solicitors, 3, Crosby-square, Bishopsgate-street; at Garrrway's • and of the auctioneers, St. Michael's - house, St. Michael's-alley, Cornhill. THE TRAVELLERS' AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY.. 7, Bank-buildings, - Lothbury, and 42 and 43, Poultry, London. With which is• incorporated the bUsinesS of THE ACCIDENTAL DEATH INSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1849, and Empowered by Special Act of Parliament. _ TRUSTEES. Matthew Marshall, Esq., (Bank of England.) William Smee, Esq., (Bank of England). Kenyon S. Parker, Esq., Q.C. Henry Blair Mayne, Esq. The business of the ACCIDENTAL DEATH INSURANCE COMPANY having been purchased by the TRAVELLERS' AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, all the Polities of the late Company adopted under the Deed of Purchase are guaran teed and kept in force by the Travellers' and Marine In surance Company, upon precisely the same terms and con ditions under which they were originally issued. Total Policies issued 30,000 •-- Claims paid since 1819 £71,000 Annual income from Premiums (1857) • Insurance effected against General Accidents, Railway Ac cidents, and Marine Risks ; either Fatal, Non-fatal, or both together; with or without Medical expenses extra. For Proposal Forms, Prospectuses, and all other information, apply to the Manager, at the Chief Office, or to any of the Company's local Agents. EDWARD SOLLY, Manager. 7, Bank-buildings, Lothbury, London. FIFTH DIVISION OF PROFITS.: NNORTH BRITISH INSURANCE COMPANY. !Established 1109. 'lncorporated by Royal Charter. President—His Grace the Duke .of ROXBURGIIE, K.T. Sir PETER LAURIE, Alderman, Chairman. JOHN I. GLENNIE, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. William Borradaile, Esq. John Connell, Esq. Archibald Cockburn, Esq. P. Sorthall Laurie, Esq. R. P. Prichard, Esq. Charles James Knowles, Esq., Q.C. Solicitor—Alexander noble, Esq., Lancaster-place. Capital of One Million —accumulating Premium Fund £604,000. Revenue from Life Premiums alone £116,000, annually in creasing. Nine-tenths or Ninety per cent. of the profits are septennially divided among the insurers on the participating scale of Pre miums. All Profit Policies effected during the current year will share in the Profits of Seven Years, and will secure a larger Bonus at every future division of Profits. The Bonus accumulations at last investigation ranged from 25 to 70 per cent. on the ROBERT paid. RO emi BER STRACTIAN, Secretary. 4, Bank Buildings, Lothbury, London, E.C. GUARDIAN FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, No. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C. DIRECTORS. HENRY HULSE BERENS, Esq., Chairman. JOHN G. HUBBARD, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. John Dixon, Esq. John Martin, Esq., M.P. Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq. Sir W. M. T. Farquhar, Bart., James Morris, Esq. M.P. Henry Norman, Esq. Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart., Henry R. Reynolds, Esq. Thomas Hankey, Esq., 31.1'. Sir Godfrey J. Thomas, Bart. John Harvey, Esq. John Thornton, Esq.. John I,abouchere, Esq. James Tulloch, Esq. John Loch, Esq. Henry Vigne, Esq, Stewart Marjoribanks, Esq.' AUDITORS. Lewis Lloyd, jun., Esq. I Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. John Henry Smith, Esq. - • Thos. Tollemach, Esq., Secretary. Samuel Brown, Esq., Actuary. Life Department.—tinder the provisions of an Act of Par liament. this Company now offers to future insurers four fifths of the profits, with Quinquennial Division, or a low rate of premium'without participation of profits. The next division of profits will be declared in June, 1860, when all particlpatincr policies which shall have subsisted at least one year at Christmas, 1859, will be allowed to share in the profits. At the 5 divisions of profits made by this Company, the total reversionary bonuses added to the policies have exceeded .£913,000. At the last valuation, at Christmas, 1854. the Assurances in force amounted to upwards of £1,240,000, the income from the Life Branch in 1854 was more than £200,000, and the Life As surance Fund (independent of the guaranteed capital) exceeded £1,700,000. Foreign Risks.—The extra premiums required for the East and West Indies, the British Colonies, and the northern parts of the United States of America, have been materially reduced. Invalid Lives.—Persons who are not in such sound health as would enable them to insure their lives at the tabular pre miums may have their lives insured at extra premiums. Loans granted on life policies to the extent of their values, provided such policies shall have been effected a sufficient time to have attained in each case a value not under £5O. Assignments of Policies.—Written .notices of, received and registeree. Medical fees paid by the Company, and no charge will be made for policy stamps. Fire Department.—lnsurances are eff ected upon every de scription of property, at moderate rates. Losses caused by explosion of gas are admitted by this Company. ON. PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPACITY, AND IMPRDIMENTS TO 3I.ARBIAGE. New and improved Edition, enlarged to 196 pastes, illustrated by 100 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel, just pub- priee,iceTi3iiii;st, is. THE SILENT FRIEND : A Medical Work on the physical exhaustion and decay of the frame, from the effects of solitary indulgence, infection, and the injurio us consequences from the use of Mercury : with observations on the obligations of marriage, and directions for obviating cer tain disqualifications. By R. and L. PERRY and Co.; Sur 2eons.. Consultations as usual (see page 197). Sold by J. Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row; Sanger, 160, Oxford street; and Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street, London. The CORDIAL BALM of SYRIACUM is employed in both sexes to renovate the impaired powers of life. Its action is purely balsamic: its power in reinvigorating the frame In all cases of nervous and sexual debility, obstinate gleets, impo tency, barrenness, an ddebiliti es arising from venereal excesses, has been demonstrated by its unvarying sucess in thousands of cases. Price lls. per bottle, or four quantities in one for 335., which saves lls. The CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE, an anti-syphilitic remedy, for purifying the system, and is recom mended for any of the varied forms of secondary symptoms, such as eruptions on the skin, blotches on the head and thee, en - largements of the throat, tonsils, and uvula; threatened destruction of the nose, palate, &c. Its action is purely deter sive, and its benefi c ial influence on the system is undeniable. Price lls. and 3.35. per bottle, also a saving of lls. PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS constitute an eff , xtrial remcd in either sex for all cases of gonorrhoea, gleet, stricture, and diseases of the urinary organs. Price 2s. 9d., 45. 6d., and lls. per box. Sold by Daniel Church, 78, Gracechurch-street, City ; Bart ley-Hooper, 4:1, King William -street (four doors from London bridge) ; G. F. Watts, 17, Strand ; W. Sutton and Co., 10, Bow churchyard ; • W. Edwards, 67. St. Paul's-churchyard ; J. Sanger, 150, Oxford Street ; Hannay and Dietrichsen, 63, Oxford-street; Butler and Harding, 4 ; Cheapside ; Prout and Harsant, ,Strand, and all medical vendors throughout the Ihaited liirtgclym being 70 feet high and 48 feet by 45 wide. It is separated from the large hall by a glass screen. In the centre of the vestibule stands the colossal statue, in white marble, of Queen Victoria. The Great Hall is entered from the vestibule, and, whether viewed in relation to its size, the hari mony of its proportions, or the extreme beauty of its decorations, it is one of the noblest public rooms in the country. Its dimensions are 161 feet long by 72 feet wide and 75 feet high, giving, as will be seen from the following table, a greater area than that of almost any other provincial hall : Feet Feet Feet long. wide. high. 228 66 92 Westminster-hall _ Liverpool St. George's-hall 169 .. 74 .. 75 Leeds Town-hall ' 161 .. 72 .. 75 Bradford St. George's-hall Birmingham Town-hall . 145 .. 65 .. 65 Durham Castle _ __ lBO .. 50 .. 36 Liverpool Concert-hall London Guildhall 153 .. 50 55 London Exeter-hall - - 130 .. London Euston-sq. Station-hall 125 .. 72 .. -- 61 .. 60 With the exception of a small balcony over the entrance at the south end, the room is without (Pal- [cries, and. the general effect is considerablyen [lanced by the uninterrupted view thus obtained of the entire hall. It is enriched with ornament in •elief and in colour in an almost lavish manner, every portion being more or less decorated. The sides of the hall are divided into five bays by com posite Corinthian columns and pilasters in imitation of Rosso Antico, with gilt bronze capitals and bases, standing upon a surbase inlaid with rare specimens of marbles. The inter-columns (or wall spaces be tween the columns) are of a pale green colour, bor dered with a rich fret ornamental margin. The columns and pilasters support an enriched entabla ture, which, like the surbase, also runs entirely round the hall. From this entablature springs the fine circular ceiling, which is divided into five bays, corresponding with the columns, each bay being subdivided into five compound panels, highly orna mented with foliage, in relief and coloured. The, hall is lighted by 10 semicircular windows imme diately above the entablature, and at the springing of the ceiling. Projecting from the keystones are rams' heads, from which are suspended 10 of the most superb cut-glass chandeliers by Osler, specially made for the hall. The north end is formed b y a huge semicircular alcove, in which stand the orchestra and the noble organ, built by Gray and Davison. The case for this instrument was designed by Mr. Brodick, the architect of the hall, and it is, as we have said, one of the finest and most elabo rate of its kind in England. With all its domes and spires it seems a very cathedral of harmony. The ornamental portions are entirely of wood, and executed in a highly Satisfactory manner. The pipes are burnished and diapered in gold, the wood work being either gilded or of polished - wainscot. On the top are four figures and the Leeds arms, standing in bold relief against the deep azure back ground of the cove, powdered with stars. In the second recess of the large hall on the right, on entering, is the statue of the late Mr. Edward Baines. It is in statuary, marble and of colossal size, and at the same time simple and dignified, the figure being represented as in the act of addressing an assembly. The whole of the coloured decorations in the large hall and vestibule have been executed by Mr. John Crace at the cost of £1,600. On the west side of the hall are two large refresh ment-rooms, and on the opposite side ant: and cloak-rooms, communicating with the side or car riage entrance of the hall. Returning to the vestibule, and taking the corri dor to the left on leaving the large hall, we come to the Council Chamber, which is 50 feet by 40 feet, and 35 feet in height. It is lighted in the day time by a coloured glass skylight, and at night by four gilt chandeliers. The room is highly orna mented, but the coloured decorations have for the present been left out, there not being time to com plete them before the inauguration. Continuing on the east corridor, we pass several large and lofty rooms, appropriated for the offices of the borough surveyor and other officials, after which we come to the Nisi Prius Court, a lofty and well ventilated apartment 50 feet by 45 feet. Vaal to it are several rooms for witnesses, counsellors, and other persons. At the opposite side or corner of the building, and connected with this court by a large vestibule, is the Crown Court, of the same size, and precisely similar in its arrange ment and enrichments to the Civil Court. The fittings of this court have been completed. It is connected with the prison on the basement, by a stone staircase from the dock. There are immedi ately contiguous many large and commodious rooms intended for the use of officials. Leaving this and continuing the route along the west corridor, we come to the Borough Court, which is 50 feet by 40 feet, and 40 feet in height. Like the Council Chamber, it is lighted by a skylight in the centre. The fittings in this court have also been completed. It has a communication with the police establishment in the basement by means of an iron staircase fromthe dock. Adjoining, and in some instances communicating with it are several rooms for the magistrates, their o clerk, the chief of police, &e. Returning to the door by which we entered, and taking the corridor to the right , we h av e im mediately before us the south vestibule, the corri dors and the vestibules thus completing the entire circuit of the building, the large hall being in the c entre. They are well lighted by the several windows opening upon them, and - are fitted with s g e a s m A e t e pendantsc staircaseh r e aod night.leading ncotrrheidofirrsst fithenrner,iswabeb hand somes- planned on precisely the same arrangement as the ground floor, the courts alone being excepted. The rooms in the centre part of the east front on this floor are appropriated as reception rooms for the mayor, and are connected with folding doors, so that, if requisite, a hundred guests can with com fort sit down to dine at one time. The cost of the whole building has been within whole borough, and apparently all the towns Ll T O h O , 00, e 0 around it, have been iept in most painful anxiety with regard to the weather, which has certainly been such as to warrant the most unfavourable sur mises. During Saturday it rained heavily, and was cold and otherwise miserable. Sunday it was still worsethclouds that beend to-day, such a master of menacing cloud though there has been no rain th a t confidence in to-morro w is as far from being res t o red as ever. r e ; has LEEDS, MONDAY. Her Majesty and the Royal family arrived here at six o'clock. All well. Thousands of people throng the streets.' Her Majesty was most enthusiastically received. Leeds is inundated with visitors from all parts. The weather is unfavourable, and threatens rain. THE ROYAL PROGRESS. Her Majesty and; the Prince Consort, aceom panied by ,the Princess Alice and the Princess Helena, left Osborne at a quarter past 8 o'clock yesterday morning for Leeds, and embarked at Cowes on board the Fairy. The Royal suite con sisted of Lady Churchill, the Hon. H. Stopford, Sir C. Phipps, General Grey, and Ponsonby. The ships at Spithead, consisting of the Victor Em manuel, 91, screw ; the Archey, 14, screw ; the Racer 11, screw; and the Russian steam corvette Bazan, manned yards, and saluted on her Majesty's passing. The Royal party were received on their arrival at the Clarence-yard, Gosport, by Admiral Sir G. F. Seymour, Rear -Admiral the Hon. G. Grey, Major-General Sir J. Y. Scarlett, and Staff; Captain Hastings, C.B. ; and Captain G. Seymotir, C. 8., with a Guard of Honour from th e R o yal Marines. At the rai lwa y station there were in at tendance the Hon. I t. Dutton, M.P., Mr. Ch a plin, M.P., Mr: C. Castleman, with other directors of the South-Western Railway, and Mr. S. Clarke, the general manager of the Great Northern, under whose direction the s p ecial train throughout the entire line of railway was placed. Large numbers of persons had assembled to witness the departure of the train, and their loyalty found vent in repeated cheering. The train arrived at Ba s i ngs t o k e a t a few minutes before 11 o'clock, and there s t oppe d f or a few moments to take in water. Her Majesty had on this occasion determined not to pas s th roug h th e streets of London, and accordingly on arriving at the Falcon junction of the South - lyestern Railway the train crossed over the Richmond branch to the Kew junction, proceeding by Wandsworth, Putney, Barnes, and Chiswick to Kew, where it arrived at a quarter past 12. All this portion of th e journey was accomplished most satisfactorily , the t ra i n h av i n g arrived at each station in succession with the most exemplary punctuality.. This was as cer t a i ne d by telegraphic signals sent to the head-quarters of the South-Western Railway Company by each station master as soon as he had provided for the departure of the train from his particular locality, and the line was kept as clear as the necessities of the case demanded, in order that the Royal train might not be impeded in its course. Prince Alfred accompanied her Majesty to Kew, where the • Prince of Wales met the Queen, and their Royal Highnesses, alter the departure of the train, pro- cceded to the White Lodge, Richmond Park. Mr. Walpole also joined her Majesty at Kew, as the Secretary of State in attendance. The morning was beautifully fine, and large numbers of persons had congregated along the line for the purpose of catching a glimpse of the Queen. After a delay of a few moments at Kew, the Royal train started again, and passing Acton, Willesden, and Kilburn, ran into the Camden goods station, Camden-road, and thence to the King's-cross goods station, where a considerable number of persons had been allowed, through the courtesy of the authorities, to witness the Royal departure. There • were present at the station, Mr: E. B. Denison, M.P., the chairman, • Col. Duncombe, M.P., Major Pack, Mr. Ainswick, and other directors, the police arrangements being under the direction of Mr. Inspector Williams. Neither her Majesty nor any of the Royal party left their carriages at this point. The engine was shunted, and another having been supplied, the train moved away from London amid the cheers of the assemblage. The announcement that the Royal family would break their journey northwards at Peterborough, for the purpose of taking luncheon, as a matter of course diffused the most lively satisfaction among the citizens. This being, we believe, the first occa sion on which so distinguished an honour had been conferred upon the ancient city, preparations were made to give due eclat to so important an event. Through the Marquis of Exeter the local authori ties made application for permission to present an address to her Majesty demonstrative of their loyalty, and on Saturday a reply favourable to this request was received. The morning being beauti fully fine, notwithstanding the heavy rain which fell on the previous night, the numerous trains arriving at Peterborough brought a large influx of visitors, and the city presented quite a holiday appearance. The Great Northern Railway station was literally besieged, and a variety , of cunning expedients were resorted to by anxious strangers to obtain a momentary glimpse of the elegant suite of apartments shortly to be occupied by the Queen. Such alterations had been made on the west or down side of the station as to afford separate suites of rooms for her Majesty and her attendants. The spacious refresh ment room was prepared for the luncheon. The superintendence of the furnishing and decorations was confided to Messrs. Holland and Son, uphol sterers, of London ; and by the liberality of Mr. Percival, proprietor of the Great Northern Hotel, aided by the railway company, the whole was carried on in such an admirable manner as could not fail to please the Royal party. The furniture was of the most costly and elegant description, the decorations were chaste and beautiful, and a profu sion of the choicest flowers, tastefully arranged, • diffused their perfume through the apartments. The west platform, where the illustrious visitors were to alight, was carpeted with scarlet cloth, and the wall was covered with evergreens and flowers, interspersed with a multitude of flags and banners; garlands depending from the roof. On either side of the draperied doorway through which the Royal arty were to pass were the letters " V." and " A." ingeniously worked in dahlias, the entrance being surmounted by the Royal arms in white and gold. The railway company did their utmost to provide accommodation , fora considerable number of spec . . tators by the erection of temporary platforms on both sides of the station, the bookstalls being removed for the purpose. Long before the time at which the Royal train was due (2.37) these plat forms were crowded with a gaily dressed throng, chiefly consisting of ladies, and every spot com manding a view of the station had its occupants. The Marquis of Exeter, as Lord Steward of the Household, was in attendance to receive her Majesty •, and many of the nobility and gentry of the neighbourhood, together with the Bishop of Peterborough and a large body of the clergy, were also present. Precisely at the time named the Royal train, which consisted of eight carriages, rolled majes tically into the station ; a brass band, which occu pied a gallery crossing the line, playing " Rule Britannia," bells ringing, and the people cheering and waving hats and handkerchiefs. Altogether a more animating scene has seldom been witnessed at Peterborough, and the Queen was evidently gratified with her loyal reception. Before her Majesty left the Royal carriage the Marquis of Exeter introduced the Ron. G. W. Fitzwilliam, M.P., who presented the following address, which was most graciously received : " May it please your Majesty,—We, your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the magis trates of the liberty, improvement commissioners, clergy, high bailiff, and inhabitants of Peterborough and its vicinity, desire to approach your Majesty on this auspicious occasion with a heartfelt expres sion of our devotion to your Majesty's throne, per son and family. " We are justly proud of the high position which, under your Majesty's enlightened rule, our coun try occupies in the scale of nations. We regard with becoming respect and admratlo - 1 the noble attributes and generous sympathies which so richly adorn our gracious Sovereign, and add lustre even to a British crown ; and we view with lively grati tude the bright example set before us in every rela tion of domestic life by your Majesty and your Royal Consort. "In the great achievements of your Majesty's reign we see, not only triumphs of arms unsur passed in the annals of martial England, but blood less victories of science and art, without a precedent in ages past, and to remain without a parallel for centuries to come. " The future historian of great Britain will asso ciate the name of Queen Victoria with an epoch of freedom, light, and progress ; in our minds and hearts it is intimately blended with the dearest in terests of country and of home. " Cordially, then, yet in all humility, we welcome your Majesty to this ancient city, with a fervent wish and prayer that your way may be prosperous and that you may long enjoy every earthly bless ing, not the least of which, we are persuaded, in your Majesty's estimation, is the love of your people." - - Tier Majesty and the Prince Consort, with the two Princesses, then alighted, and entered the apartment prepared for them, where an elegant collation had been provided. At five minutes past 3 o'clock the Royal party again appeared upon the platform, and her Majesty was escorted to the Royal carriage, and shortly afterwards the train moved slowly away, amid the acclamations of the multitude. MR. ROBERT STEPHENSON AND, THE WORKMEN AT SUNDERLAND BRIDGE. The workmen employed at Sunderland-bridge presented Robert Stephenson, Esq., M.P., and his brother engineers, with an address, on the occasion of his visit to Sunderland in company with the members of the Institute of Mechanical Engi neers. The following is a copy :—" Gentlemen, — We, the .workmen .eniployed upon Sunderland bridge, beg to welcome the engineers of England, whose works have made this country of ours famed over the habitable globe. The bridge, when com- pleted, we trust, will be both an ornament to the borough of Sunderland and a lasting monument of the skill of practical engineering. We also trust our labours, so far as they have progressed, will meet with your approbation, and are proud of this opportunity being afforded us of testifying our ad miration of the eminent men who compose the In- stitute of Mechanical Engineers." Mr. STEPHEN Sox, in reply, said—There are no members of society for whom I have a higher re spect than for industrious and intelligent workmen. It is to them that the engineer is indebted for the full and efficient realisation of his conceptions, which, however good they may be, must largely de pend upon the skill of the workmen for their suc cess. The progress made in the higher branches of engineering during the last 30 years may be attri buted in a great degree,to the improved skill and intelligence of the workmen. The advance of me chanical science, and its application to useful pur poses, must always go hand-in-hand with the skill and also with the comfort of the working classes. I cannot refer to a better example in proof of this than the bridge upon which we are now standing. The alterations and improvements which you are so admirably carrying on could not have been exe cuted at the time when the original bridge was de signed. If the engineer, therefore, had even de signed the bridge as it is now intended to be made, his mental labour would have been vain and useless, for there was not sufficient skilled labour in the country to realise such an idea. I merely take this bridge as an appropriate example on the present occasion, because it is a work you are now carryiug out under my own direction ; but it is only neces sary to look around, and we meet everywhere with engineering works to which the remarks I have iust made apply in the strictest manner, and reflec tion on such subjects teaches us to feel that skilled labour is the great fulcrum upon which all our and that the success of this so cial progress depends, is just in proportion to the skill of the labour brought to bear upon the great works so thickly scattered throughout our country.—Newcastle Daily Chronicle. The West Coast of America is exciting the greatest attention. Panama has become a great packet port. It is the Southampton of the Pacific. The Straits of Magellan are likely to be a consider able thoroughfare ; English and American fleets are stationed on the coast. By the last accounts a portion of the former was moving down on Peru, to protect English interests there ; another portion was moving up to British Columbia, with naval stores ; and a third portion was about proceeding to other parts of the coast, collecting specie. United States troops are passing over the Isthmus of Panama on their way to Oregon and California ; the English military engineers are crossing the Isthmus on their way to Vancouver's Island. A considerable European emigration, chiefly from Ger many, has been going on for years to Southern Chili. The richest silver mines in the world are on the:south-western coast of America, and the richest gold mines in the world are on the north-western coast. On the western coast also are the most valuable manure deposits to be found on the globe. Newspapers in the English language are now pub lished in Chili, Peru, Panama, Mexico, California, and Vancouver's Island. Mail steamers will most probably soon cross the Pacific to and from Panama. Everything indicates increased trade and a vast increase of the population of the American coast bordering on the Pacific Ocean. Already there is a considerable trading intercourse between Australia and South Western America ; an extensive emigra tion is going on from China to the Chinchas and San Francisco, and the South Sea whale fishery is an important and extensive branch of commerce. At the present time there is a line of British mail packets running from Panama to Valparaiso twice a month, and calling at fifteen ports. The distance of their mail route is 2,718 miles, and the annual subsidy is £25,000. There is also an'American line of mail packets running fortnightly between Panama and San Francisco. They touch at eleven ports. The length of their mail route is 4,200' miles, and the subsidy is about £70,000 per annum. The postage derived from this line of mail packets is already upwards of £40,000 a year. This line of steamers has conveyed 175,000 passengers to Cali fornia, and brought 200,000,000 dols. worth of gold thence to Panama. For four years this company have paid a dividend of 12 per cent., and they . pay Vanderbilt, the leviathan shipowner of America, a large sum every year to prevent his placing oppo sition steamers on their line. There is also a line of mail packets running between Panama and Central America. It is unfortunate that there are so few convenient means of getting from the Atlantic to the Pacific. A railroad from cast to west through the United States, or through our own North American pro vinces, which would be the nearest way to British Columbia, will not be accomplished for many years to come. The Straits of Magellan are too far south to be of very great service in reaching the northern coast of America or for crossing the Pacific.' The route' by them to Vanconver's Island is only 1,500 miles nearer than that by Cape Horn, The most northerly of the Central American routes to the Pacific, the Tehuantepec, will never be a favourite one, in consequence of the dangerous northern winds so often met with in the Mexican Gulf. The Nicaraguan route is not at present used, because of the disturbed state of the district and the disputes with the Government who own the territory in which the Nicaragua Lake is situated. The only useful route now is the railway across the Isth mus of Panama, and although not so near a route to the gold diggings in British North America by many hundreds of miles as a more northern passage across Central America, it perhaps forms the shortest cut of any to Australia. From the statements of Sir E. Lytton to the deputation about the Australian mail service, from the fact that the directors of the Royal Mail Company have had an interview with the Colonial Secretary about estab lishing a mail communication to Vancouver's Island and Australia from Panama, and from the inade quacy of the present line of American steamers from Panama to San Francisco to accommodate the tide of emigration now flowing to Frazer's River, it is probable that a line of British mail packets will run along the northern coast of the Pacific to Bri tish Columbia, and also across the great ocean to New Zealand and Australia. Such lines will not only be of incalculable service to British North America and our Australasian colonies; but they will immensely promote British interests 'in the Pacific. France has obtained a footing in Tahiti, and the United States at the Sandwich Islands. The South Sea whale fishing employs at present a greater amount of American than English shipping, yet the great South Sea has an abiding interest for England. The mighty and tranquil ocean that rolls lrtwcea Aale...ica and New Holland has scarcely yet been properly explored. It has always been a favourite field for English missionary and maritime enterprise. The beautiful isles of the Pacific would perhaps furnish many products of the vegetable kingdom which could be transplanted and become useful for manufactures or for human food. Owyhee,Erromanga, and Pitcairn are classic spots with Englishmen. At the first place our greatest navigator Nook, met his death. At the second, Williams met with his martyrdom. The third spot is associated with the most romantic mutiny and adventure in the history of navigation, and was connected with an attempt to transplant the bread-fruit tree of the South Sea islands to our West India colonies. The great difficulty in establishing a steam packet communication with our distant gold fields has been, and will continue to be, the high price of coal and seamen's wages. This may be considered more than anything else the real secret of the failure of all our attempts to carry mails to Australis. One of these defects could be remedied by an ex tensive employment of Lascars in manning the mail steamers on the eastern route between India and Australia, and of natives of the South Seas, such as the New Zealanders, in manning the mail packets on the western route between Australia and Pa nama. The cost of fuel would be immensely re duced if in screw steamers the propeller could be lifted. with facility. How to do so in large steamers is, at the present time, one of the most important problems in shipbuilding and practical mechanics. The screw steamer at presentloscs one-half its value simply because its propeller in monster ships can not be lifted or feathered, and it consequently has to be continually at work, no matter how favour able the wind is for sails, consuming a vast amount of fuel unnecessarily, for if not in motion it acts as an enormous drag on the speed of the ship. Should the Royal Mail Company undertake the establishment of a monthly mail packet communi cation. to Australia and 'Vancouver's Island, the whole length of their mail routes will be about 50,000 miles, with about 50 sto pp in g p laces, and their ships will run over eve r y y ear u p wards of a million nautical miles. Jr - RECK OF THE BARQUE A NORTH SHIELDS. LICE 0. BOMBAY, AUGUST 4. 11 The barque Alice, Captain Pearson, of North Shields, which left Aden on the 4th of July for Bombay, with a large consignment of ordnance stores for Government, consisting of gunpowder and ammunition, got aground on the coast, near the village of Coorla, about eight miles south of Ali baugh, on the night of Thursday, July 15. Th e on ly passengers on board were Sergt. Macdon a ld, of the Ordnance Department, with his wife and four children, and a foreigner, a medical man by _profession. The ship was approaching the harbour, and it appears that the captain mistook a landmark on the Coast for the Colaba Lighthouse, towards which he accordingly steered. , The weather was very hazy, which rendered the land quite invisible, and the captain was not aware of the danger until the ship struck. On seeing how matters stood he immediately secured the ship and cast anchor, intending to move out to sea in the morning, On the approach of dawn a furious gale set in, which rendered it impossible to extricate the ship from her perilous position, and it was accordingly resolved to land the passengers. A boat was pre pared, and the European passengers, with the native lascars on board, were placed in her, and rowed ashoresby four of the crew. This was accom plished without any misadventure, and Sergeant Macdonald, leaving his family at the spot, made the best of his way to Bombay to procure assistance and report the circumstance to the authorities. Arter a wearisome journey to Mandwa, on the oppo site side of the harbour, where he arrived in a famished condition, he embarked in the Government boat that plies from there daily, and reached Bombay on the 18th. Captain Pearson had in the mean time, after securing the ship as much as possible, come on shore with the despatches for Government, and arrived in Bombay late the same evening. The ship having gone to pieces, the crew, with Mrs. Macdonald and family, returned to Bombay on the 21st July, having lost all they possessed. CHERBOUPG AND P Sztr C 4.., 1 N -4 4 . 1 ,br 41 Ile opening of the n ew basinifTti tAg4, the Emperor of the French, kiingr_`, - WAirtittvA/4„V of the English to " come and se e k viis.'/9 our members of Parliament and otfiers i ef,co trymen with an opportunity to delive henisblv( of their opinions relative to the progressive naval - and military works going at Cherbourg for the last ' hundred years. We have accordingly been favoured with statements made at public meetings by gen- _ tlemen who have seldom much to say in their places, but who have come out rather strongly on their return from Cherbourg, and blown the war trumpet in rather an alarming manner, telling their gaping audiences that the French could send down and ship off 100,000 men " at a moment's notice, as it were." These alarmists wish us to believe that these Cherbourg . works are a menace to England. No such thing These works arc constructed en tirely for defence of the public esiablishments, which have been in progress for the last 80 years, and in order to prevent for the future a recurrence of what happened in 1758. The French have not a single natural and safe place of anchorage and shelter for either merchant slips or men-of-war along their north coast from Ushant To Calais ; and it was necessary that the very indifferent ba v of Cherbourg should be sheltered by a breakwater. The little streams that fall into the bay are barely sufficient to supply the place with fresh water ; there are no sheltered inlets whatever in the bay ; the commercial and military basins had to be du g out of the solid earth, and when once duo. out they required defensive works, without any reference whatever to aggressive war with England. If aggressive works are sought for, they may be found on the rocky and insignificant island of Alderney; where an expensive breakwater is in progress, to form a little half-sheltered rocky bay on the north east side of the island, where a few small war steamers might find very equivocal shelter from the sea and protection from forts recently built. These works we regard as very questionable ; they were not intended to protect the interests or trade of the 1,200 poor islanders, but to prepare a place from which might issue a war steamer to pounce upon the small coasters creeping along the- French coast between Alderney and Cape de la Hogue. Cher bourg is the only naval station on the north coast of France, and is, after all that has been said, inferior to either Portsmouth or Ply mouth. At Cherbourg the imperial establish ments are all in close proximity, and within the same lines—namely, the dockyard, steam factories, victualling and > minance departments, medical hos pitalsi-barracks, iopery,•&e:, and they have, as has been correctly reported, three floating docks, with an area of 52 acres English ; but they have no river, no creeks, no place whatever where ships might be laid up in ordinary, and swing round, exposing their sides to sun and air. When Mr. Lindsay told his collier friends how large the Cherbourg docks were he might, as an Englishman, and a merchant too, have added that the imperial docks at Cherbourg were only equal to one-eighth the dock accommoda tion at Liverpool, prepared by private companies. If, unfortunately, we should have a war with France, we need not fear anything from Cherbourg, if we keep up our wooden walls and employ the resources we possess. Plymouth or Portsmouth have each far greater facilities for aggressive war than Cherbourg, and our establishments here are more efficient and. extensive, but separate and under different superin tendence. We have, in separate localities, the dock yard, steam-yard, victualling-yard, gun-wharf or yard, powder-mills and magazines at Bull Point, and the naval and military in Stonehouse-creek. Again, we have barracks in Devonport, Plymouth, and Stonehouse ; a citadel and forts, &c. ; we have, too, a breakwater and reservoirs of fresh water, and we have tmrivalled inner, deep, and sheltered water for our ships. The sea-frontage walls of Devonport dockyard and victualling-yards extend into the Hamoaze, and receive ships alongside at low water of spring tides; and for an extent of 1,500 feet from Froward Point to North Corner, ships of the line lie alongside the yard afloat at low water. Now, although the ships at Cherbourg, when in basin, lie afloat at low water, they cannot go in or out at all times of the tide, simply for this reason—that the water in the bay is 12 or 15 feet more shallow than the water in the artificial basins. The bay is sandy and bottom rocky ; therefore can not be dug out and kept permanently deep. The jetty, running out from the town and com mercial docks, is about 1,800 feet long, but the outer end on which the lighthouse is built dries at low water of spring tides. Mr. Lindsay and other members of the " House" would have done well to consider the physical:condition of Cherbourg before they attempted to frighten us " out of our propriety.' The English do not require such exten sive basins at their dockyards, because their dock yards are on the shores of deep and sheltered inner waters. Hamoaze is our great natural basin of some 650 acres of deep water—deeper even than Plymouth Sound. Portsmouth has similar but not equal advantages ; so has Sheerness, Chatham, Woolwich, Deptford, Pembroke, Cork, Malta, &c. The French naval ports in the Bay of Biscay—viz„ Brest, L'Orien't, and Rochefort, have very fair water accommodation, and are less liable to attack than Cherbourg would be, if less strongly fortified. We, in England, naturally take to the water ; everybody gets afloat in some way or other, for pleasure, profit, or necessity. The French prefer the land. Here we have pleasure boats of every shape, size, and form; but in France few delight in boating. No French pleasure boats of any kind were seen at Cherbourg, and the reason probably was, that if a shoemaker, grocer, or tradesman of any kind were to amuse himself in boating, yacht ing, or fishing, some busy official might Ft him enrolled for the Imperial naval conscription, and thus place before his mind's eye the dangers at sea and the risks of a foreign prison. The French people know very well that it is best we should remain at peace, and foster friendly relations. BOILER EXPLOSION NEAR LEEDS. FOUR KILLED AND SEVEN INJURED. (From the Manchester Guardian.) On Saturday morning, about a quarter after six, o'clock, a frightful explosion occurred at the mill of Mr. Samuel Almond, woollen manufacturer, in the village of Gildcrstone, near Leeds. The ex plosion scattered destruction around in every direc tion to life and property. As soon as the confusion had subsided, and the sufferers were collected and examined, it was found that four persons had been killed on the spot, and seven others very seriously injured. The following arc their names : Dead.—John Bradley, aged 18, the fireman , whose act was the immediatei cause of the explo sion. George Woffington, a boy of 14 years. Sarah Halliday, aged 22,. Alic e Wri g ht, a g ed 21. Injured.—The following persons were most of them severely injured :—James Almond. Martha Bobshaw : this unfortunate woman was far ad vanced in pregnancy, and there is but very little hope of her recovery. John Gregson. Caroline Gregson, who is stated to be in a dangerous con dition. Mary Ann Thompson. Jane Halliday, a fracture of the leg and other injuries • she is the sister of Sarah Halliday, who was killed. Jane Collinson. The body of John Bradley, the engine-man or fireman, was found in a horrible condition in a field, 150 yards from the mill. In its flight, it had come in contact with a stone wall, at a distance of 140 yards from the mill, with such force that a portion of the wall was thrown down. Parts of the skull, the brains, &e., were found scattered about in the field, and the body in its flight had been denUded of clothing. Amongst other effects of the explosion, a room in which several young women were working. was thrown down, causing two of the deaths recorded. Considerable portions of the mill and of the adja cent pottery of Mr. E. Ackroyd were also blown down. Portions of the boiler, with bricks, stones, flags, timber, iron, &c.,were found in all directions and at distances of 200 to 300 yards from the boiler- seat. Three men were l•ad . ng a cart in the yard at the time of the explosion. The cart was smashed and the horse killed, as well as a pig that was near ; but all the men escaped without severe injury. As to the cause of this catastrophe, we fear it is but too obvious. It seems that during the night the steam was got up, or kept up, and that the boiler was for several hours left in the charge of a mere, lad, to fire up, &c. Bradley, the regular en gineer, a young man of 18, who appears to have been very ignorant and unfit for such duties, came about six o'clock in the morning, and sent the lad home. Bradley, upon looking at the boiler, was amazed to find that some of the plates were red hot. Knowing no better, and desiring to coo l them with out delay, he at once turned on a quantity of cold water. Of course, the explosion followed instan taneously, and the wretched youth fell amongst the victims of his gross ignorance. On Saturday evening a coroner's jury was im pannelled, and, after the bodies had been identified, so as to enable the co roner to issue his Nvarrant for their interment , th e inquiry was adjourned to Friday next. Some excitement was occasioned in the literary world by the sudden suspension from the Messenger of Paul d'lvoi, the charming and witty chronicler of that paper. The offence for which he thus incurred punishment was merely that of declaring that the enthusiasm created by tie Emperor s appearance in Brittany was exclusively expe rienced oy the journalists. The meanness of the order which was immediately issued to all the papers to refuse employ ment to the indiscreet chronicler has been loudly reprobated by all parties, and to such extent that the interdiction has been defied, and Paul d'lvoi is himself again.—Ourt Journal.