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DVBARRY'S 'CELEBRATED INFANTS' FOOD, forDELIC aTE INFANTS, CHILDREN, and INa V ALMS, Supersedes the expense and dangers of wet-nursing, is more easily digested, and imparts more healthful nourishment than tilflh ; acidity, cramps, bowel complaints, flatulency, cough, restless ness, scrofula, eruptions, are avoided by it, and perfect regularity of tbesysnan and sound sleep tn3ured. Many respectable families who have reared and saved delicate Infants by this Food can be referred to, and a copy of their Testimonials may be had free on forwarding a stamped and addressed envelope to Barry Da Itarry and Co., 57, ftegeat-street, London Prices: —ln Canisters, Is.; 25.; and 121 b. at 2i The large Canister will be forwarded free of carriage on r.,celpt of Post Oft* Order. COOKS'S CELEBRATED READING SAUCE, which is so highly esteemed with Fish, Game. Steaks, Soups, Grills, Gravies, Hot and Cold Meats, and unrivalled for gene ral use, is sold by the most respectable dealers in fish and sauces. J. and C. Cocks, Reading, sole Manufacturers. APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED. ir EA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE J SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, and all Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad, and by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach to perfectly digest the food. The daily useof this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe• guard to health. Sold by the proprietors. Lea and Perrini, 19, Fenchurch.street, London, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester; also by Messrs. Barclay and Sons, Messrs Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and mar shants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. N.B.—To guard against imitations, see that the names of "LEA and PF.RRINR" are upon the lake and patent cap of the bottle. ARETIRED PHYSICIAN, whose sands of life have nearly run out, discovered while in the East Indies a certain cure for Consumption, A sthma, Bronchitis, Coughs, Colds, and General Debility. The remedy was discovered by him when his only child, a daughter, was given up to die. Ile had heard much of the wonderful restorative and healing qualities of prepara tions made from the East India Hemp, and the thou/Alt occurred to him that he might make a remedy for his child. He studied hard, and Sueceeded in realising his wishes. His child was cured, and is now alive and well He has since administered the wonderful re medy to thousands of sufferers in all parts of the world, and he has never failed in making them completely healthy and happy. wi s hi ng to do as much good as possible, he will send to such of his afflicted illow beings as request it, this r cipe, with fall and explicit direc dons for makin rit up and success f ully using it. its requires each applicant to enclose hint six stamps—one to be returned as postage on the recipe, and the remaind er to be applied to the payment of this advertisement: Address to H. James, M.D., 14, Cecil-street, Strand. THE SECRET INFIRMITIES -OF YOUTH AND MATIIRITY lust published, urine Is., post free, in an Envelope, for 13 stamps, SELF-PRESERVATION. — A Medical Treatise t... 7 on the Functions and Disorders of the Generative System, and on the cure of Nervous and Physical Debility, resulting rom vicious habits acquired during the critical passage from youth o 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 detecting, by •irinary examination, the cause and effect of every variety of these omplaints, with numerous engravings and cases., BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, 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 ezcesses, which have produced more misery in Vouth, degradation in Man hood, and premature decay at all stages of life, than, perhaps, any other class of disease known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is aarticularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of their physical condition, and who are conscious of having hazarded the health, happiness, and privileges to which every human being is entitled. It 18 absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are 1 rinciples of personal management which cannot bo violated with at incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret sue eed the heyday of inconsiderate self-Indulgence, how those penalties may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed. Intl how the evil and its consequences maybe avoided, and, above all, that there is scarcely any degree of physic al infirmity or functional erangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. Published by J. Allen, 20 Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row, and may be had of Mann, 39, Cornhill; Horne, 19, Leicester-square; Gsrdon, 14d, Leadenhali street or from the Author, who may be consulted daily, from II till 2, and from 6 till 8, at his residence, 37 Bedford-square, London. The work may be had in India, of Mr, Von LP zky, Loll Bazaar; Cslcutta—,fessrs.C. and-f. Hormusjea, Apot o-street ; Bombay ectilator Office; Madras—Mehissilit , ()nice A ra Dodsworth; Co'orabo, Ceylon i an. , of 41 t. , ,,,trhotat the rloloni.. NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE CURES ( a ithout Physic) of Incligention (Dyspepsia), Constipation. Flatulency, Phlegm, all Nervous., Bilious, and Liver Complaints, hysteria, Neuraltria, Dysentry, Diarrhoea, Acidity, Palpitation Heartbura, Headache. Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Spasms, Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy or at sea), Sinking Fits, Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, Connumption, also Children's Com plaint, ate effected by DuBARRY'S delicious REVALENTA ALARICA FOOD, which restores health without purging, inconvenience, or expense, as it Slimes fifty times its cost in other remedies. It is, moreover, the best food for infants and invalids generally, as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor inter feres with a good liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner, and restores the factr,:lty of digestion, and nervous and Muscular energy to the most enfeeibled. We extract a few out of the many thousand expressions of grati tude from invalids:—Cure No, 71, of dyspepsia, from the Right lion. the Lord Stuart de Decies. " I 'have derived considerable benefit from Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, and consider it due to yourselves and the public to authorise the publication of these lines. Stuart de Decies "-Carte No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, and sickness: at the stomach and vomiting, have been rem ove d by D u B arry ' s exext ll en t F oo d. Maria Jolly, Wortham 1- _.. !F. near Digs, Nortolk. '—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs , Z;, Razing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Iterts, a cure of extreme ner - C ) u .e snoss, indige s ti on , ga th er i ng s , l ow s pi r its, and nervous fancies.— • No. 48,314. Mi ss Eli za ' e th Y eoman , Gateacre, near Liver p i o ~ : a cure o f ten ye•o-'s dyspep &a, and the horrors of nervous irritso blit y. Cure No. 18;416. Dr..4‘ndrew Ure of constipation, dyspep sia. rcr rows irritabi-lty, Cure No. 34,210. Dr. Sherland of dropsy • and dentlity. e••us .. ' aro, 34,212_ Captain Allan of epileptic tits. ON PHYSICAL DISQ UALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE care Na. 42 .116 Major Edie of enlargement of the liver and total INCAPACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO M ARRIAGE. pro dra , ion of strength. C ure N o. 3 6 ,4 18 . R ev. D r . Mi ns t er of Moles, spasms, and daily vomiun m Car e. N o. 26 418 D r. li a r- New and improved Edition, enlarged to 196 pages, illustrated by 100 are. . . i , c y of diarrhoea and debility. Cure No 39,628. Dr. Wurtzer Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel, just published, pric e, of co nsumption. Cure No. 32,8f1Z. William Hunts, Esq., barrister, free by post, Is., of paralysis. Cure No. 46,270, V":r. James Roberts, wood merchant, T HE SILENT FRIEND : A Medical Work 01 thirty years diseased lungs, spatting of blood, liver derangement, on the physical exhaustion and decay of the frame, from tiv• partial deafness. Cure No. 4 ,fl tot. Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester, of two years' diarrhoea' Cure No . 52,612. The Dowager Countess - effects of solitary indulgence, infection, and the injurious conse quences from the use of Mercury ; with observations on the oblige of Castleatutu•t, of many year . !! s a ',vvous irritability, bile, and kldi- i.ons of marriage, and directions for obviating certain disqualifica inia Zeguers, cured of con gestion. Cure O. 54,812.in'aviVirg sumption, after her medical . _, e ' n sers had abandoned all hopes of 'ions. By it. and L. PERRY and CO., Surgeons. Consultations as usual (see page 197). Sold by J. Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, rater recovery. Cure No, Pa t .Y -11 yo Years' nervousness, con- noster-row • Sanger. 160, Oxford - street ; and Gordon, 146, Leaden • stipation. indigestion and deb il ity, from which T have suffered great nau.strtet, ' London. medicine, could r n emove or relieve, have been misery, and which 00 The CORDIAL BALM of SYRIACUM is employed inbothsexes effectually cured b ) Du Barry's; Food i_ o a 4 very short time. W. It. to renovate •he impaired powers of life. Its action is purely balsamiC; Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, Loud on.' N . ,208. " Eight years' die- Its power in reinvtgorating the frame in all cases of nervous and penal's, nervousness, debility, si JO crtunps s- Paurns, and nausea, for .exual debility, obstinate elects, impotency, barrenness, and debt restoring which my servant had consul fed the advice . of many, have been 1 ~,,, i titles arising from venereal excesses, has been demonstrated by effectually cured by Du Barry's health, John Food. FlaVell.Ridlington Rec ul'•' be its unvarying success in thousands of cases. Price its. per bottle, happy to answer any inquiries. Rev. . or four quantities in one for 335., which saves Ils. tory, Norfolk." No. 32,836. "Thrce years' raiexcessiveebii nervousness, The CONCKNTRATKD DETEnnivE ESSENCE, an anti-syphi with pains-in my neck and left.a.-.111, and geriliCall itY' Whieli ran- . itic remedy, for purifying the system, and is recommended for any of • deed my life very miserable , 'has been • Archdeacon y , Stuart, of Res's. removed by D u •he varied forms of secondary symptoms, such as eruptions on the Barry's health restoring Fooe.. A.ex' ' * =kin, blotches on the head and lace, enlargements of the throat, Skibbereen." Cure No. 3,906. "Thirteen years Cough , by Du Barry's excellent indigestion, tonsils, and uvula ; threatened destruction of the nose, palate, &c. and gencral debility- have been removed treet, Perth " Its action is purely detersive, and its beneficial influence on the Revalenta Arabica Food, Janie 3 Porter, Athos • system is undeniable. Price lls. and 335. per bottle , also a saving of spurious imita Important Caution against Oki fearful dangers of p l Is. tation e:— Nt Ertrtrst PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS constitute an effec . The Vice-Chancellor Sir 'illiam Page Wood gran ted... .an Injune , dal remedy in either sex for all case s of g onorrhcea, gleet, stricture, tion on the 10th March, 181 4, against Alfred H o oper Nevule, for and diseases of the urinary organs. Price 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d , and II s. Imitating "Du Barry's Reval Int& Arabica Food." per box. S iitably paciced for all clim a tea, and with tail instructions lii canisters, lib Is nd ; Ilb 4s icl ; 51b Its, 121 b 22 5. The 121 b car• - Sold by Daniel Church, 78, Graeech nrch-street, Cit y ; Bartlett Hooper, 43, King William-street (four door s from London Brid g e) ; riage free, on receipt of Post- vice order. Barry Du Barr y an d G. I'. Watts, 17, Strand ;W. Sutton and Co., 10, Bow-churchyard; Co.. 77, Regent-street. Londoz.,• Fortnum, Mason, and Co.. pm' VV. Edwards, 67, St. Paul's -churchyard; J. Sanger, 150, Oxford veyors to her Majesty, 182. Pie. eadilly ; also at 60, Graceeharcb - street ; Hannay ant Dietrichsen. 63. Oxford-street ; Butler and Erect ; 330, 430, and 451, Strand ; 4, Cheapside ; 149, Blob( matt.. Herding, 4, Cheapstde ; Trout and Harsant, 229. Strand ; and all I teed ; and 150 and 155 (WM -street . medicine vendors throughout the United =Om. (Front the Correspondent of the Times.) hops to be able to tell you by the next mail that we are at least "before Canton." All our powers of force and persuasion are arrived, or are upon the eve of arrivals Mr. Reade is come in his gigantic ship, the Minnesotta, and although the monster made an involuntary breach of etiquette in the number of guns fired, the Plenipos have fraternised in cordial fashion. It is understood that on the 16th the Calcutta flagship will change her anchorage for Tiger Island. The rest of our fleet will gradu ally gather about her up the river. Then in delibe rate strength our heavily-armed vessels will move right up and occupy the river under the walls of Canton. They will clear the water, remove all sunken obstacles, protect the necessary recon naissances of the land approaches to the city, and make matters comfortable for the final assault. Then the great Yeh will be summoned, not to treat, but to surrender the city. Should he neglect or refuse, proclamations will be issued directing the unarmed peop!e to depart the city during the im pending operations. , Then will come the final scene —the landing of the Marines and the land forces, the shelling the forts, the breaching the walls, and the storm. According to all precedent Hong Kong is full of rushing rumours. "Yeh has been degraded." " Yeh has abandoned the city." " Yeh has asked to open negotiations." "Yeh will give up the city without a fight." " Yeh will die at his post." " Yeh has mined all the gates, excavated all the streets, turned every highway into a tiger pit, put ting upright spears at the bottom and light bam boos, covered with earth over the top." "Yeh has 22,000 men within the walls, and 200 guns on the fortifications opposite the river-" It will be bard if some of these opposing predictions should not turn out to be rather like the event, but all we know with any certainty is, 'that the Chinese Government have been sending down troops from the north,- and have been mounting guns upon the walls. The two sister ships the Imperador and the Ins • peratrix, are now both arrived, and have discharged their cargo of Marines in good health at Wantung, opposite the ruins of Bogue forts. Captain Sher rard Osborne, in the Furious, goes to Manilla to bring up the last two of his squadron of gunboats. Captain Osborne has acquired great credit by the success which he has brought all his chick cocka trices home—not to roost. To the Drake belongs the honours of the race; but they have all done well. Many are the adventures of these wee things, all flight and sting, in their passage through the waste of waters. The big ships of commerce, when they sighted one of these specks in mid ocean, took various ideas of the unusual sight. Some bore down towards it as a wreck offering hope of salvage money, and bore away again as they grew nearer, frightened at its vicious and piratical looking hull. Some recognised the little daring vixen thing, and came near to see, dipping ensign and offering sea luxuries. One Scotch ship fairly bolted at first view, andcrowded all sail to escape when the terrible little cruiser manifested a desire for al in terview. The commander of the gunboat had his reasons for a closer interchange of compliments ; he made all sail, started up in pursuit, then got up his steam, and a regular chase ensued. At last the Scot chman was overhauled, having led the gunboat some way out of her course. Tee officer boarded her in no very good humour, and asked why he had been led this dance, and whether the master did not know a pennant when he saw it. "Eli," said the Scotchnian, " I kenned vera weel what ye war ; but I thought sure eneuch ye'd just be in distress for something." The Adelca,oi,nlseoate have thisd raaterivhaesd she m not been heard be dailyheardof, but as her consorts expected. We are alo entitled to expect a return of some 400 or 500 of the Marines and troops lent to India. The authorities there have received the assistance they have obtained from the Chinese expedition with less acknowledgment than might reasonably have been expected, and quite neglected to avail themselves of the moral influence which might have been drawn from the sudden arrival of Lord Elgin with no incoLsiderable nor opportune force ; but I suppose they 'till keep their promise and send 'us back these men, the rather ,because there must soon be a glut of troops at Calcutta. They will probably arrive faster than they can be sent up the country. In a few days, therefore, we may reasonably ex pect to have7oo guns and 7,000 men in these waters. Of the latter we shall probably be able to land 4,000 ; but, alas, the great bulk of them will be blue jackets,—capital fellows afloat, but terrible stragglers ashore. Jack's habits all induce him to consider that going ashore means going upon a spree. Jack will help to take the city, or would take it single-handed ; but we must not trust him to hold it. I believe I may now say that the Baron Gros has determined to co-operate in our enterprise. He has 3 frigates, 2 corvettes, and 4 gunboats here, and about 1,000 men, whereof he can land about 600 seamen. We have plenty of force to do the work single-handed, and some delay may possibly be oc casioned by waiting until he can get his frigate,the Capriciouse, now in dock at Shanghai, down south wards. So far, therefore, as actual assistance goes, perhaps we might as well have been alone ; but in other points of view this co•operation must be very satisfactory. What his casus belli may be lam not informed. and as it is no part of my business to spe eulate upon it, I take for granted that it is sufficient It is clear, however, that it cannot be stronger than ours. The action of the French, therefore, will justify in the eyes of Europe the course which we are now taking, and as the two squadrons will doubtless act eardially together, this will be another public proof of the friendship and common policy of the two nations. It is equally well understood that the Americans are to retain their position of lookers-on. Judging from the great draught of water of the Minnesota, even tbis " looking-on " must be a very distant view. The torpidity of the last five months, therefore, has chang ed to the bustle of preparation. Toe sea men are being drilled to act ashore, the 59th are being marched and countermar led, targets are set up in the secluded valleys of Hong Kong, and the sharp ring of the rifle may be heard at early morn and dewy eve. Every one who can smuggle him self on board a gunboat has been up the river to get a peep at the doomed city. Many who did not need this smuggling process have yielded to the same curiosity. General Ashburnham is said to be under orders for departure for India, and is about to exchange " Head Quarters House" for the Ava, Lord Elgin taking the house and the General taking the steamer. If these orders should be imperative in their character, I apprehend that nothing can be done until he is gone, for it would probably be in expedient that operations of magnitude, such as must occur after the taking of the city, should be originated by a General whose engagements else where will not allow him to conduct them to a close. The General, however, was loth to depart, and not unnaturally so. Colonels Wetherell and Packenham and Major Crealock have been hard at work for months arranging the plan of operations, and must be equally disappointed at having to leave their laboratory just at the moment of pro jection. Major Macdonald might reasonably ex pect to exercise his talents as Provost-Marshal in the city of Canton, instead of joining his regiment in India when the hard fighting will probably be over. But altered circumstances compel altered arrange ments. Our staff officers and our doctors and our commissariat are ludicrously dispro portionate to our present force, and the public service must silence private hardships. When General Ashburnham, therefore, went up to Macao Fort and to the Fort of the Fatshan Creek, it was, as I suppose, only to take a Pisgah look at the promised land. It is said that he waits to see what the next mail may bring. Before this goes be may possibly have taken his departure. Lord Elgin, accompanied by the French Secre tary of Legation and Col. Foley, has also been up . to Macao Fort, and taken a careful survey of the city from the top of the Pagoda. He called upon Baron Gros at the French anchorage at Castle Peak Bay and held long converse. The Chinese, who professtobe quite convinced thatall this " bobbery," to use their word, is only to frighten them, and who still repeat " Englishmen no can take Canton," are quite certain that "Number one Mandarin" only went up to try and open negotiations with Yeb. I also have been cruising about in these waters. After 4 months' absence it was pleasant to revisit more tranquillity than upon a former occasion the fort on the Fatshan creek, now called " Seymour Fort," and to look again upon the city from the Macao Pagoda. I cannot de!ect any alteration in the defences of the city since I was last there. The Shameen forts at the end of the 3-mile reach still look ruinous. Gough Fort seems to be surrounded by rather fewer tents than when I lact saw it. All the traps and pitfalls are probably completed. There is, however a closer interest now in bringing a powerful glass to bear upon the heights which must so soon be won by British daring, and in eranaiu. ing the ground along which our forces must proceed. It is broken ground, capital skirmishing ground, but very difficult for the transport of guns Mr. Power, who now conducts the Commissariat Department has organized a corps of 750 coolies— " Hakkas„" or men drawn from a mountain district which has always had little respect for Mandarian authority. They look very well -when they are paraded at Hong Kong, and they work very well, but whether those fellows will drag field-pieces up over those inequalities in face of fire from the fort is yet to be seen. I believe it is not proposed to bring this novel transpOrt corps actually under fire, but the question is at what distance they will take frieht I passed also by Whampoa, which has not been seen except by the Earl and the General and their protecting gunbpats since the, commencement of the war ; I beg pardon, I mean since the conamence went -of the misunderstanding between the local authorities at Canton and Her Majesty's civil and military officers there. I only know by decription how populous and busy the place once was, how thronged by boats, how crowded by shipping, how echoing with drunken shouts, how rife with fierce debauchery. The town is apparently very moral now. There is scarcely a boat on the river. The docks are all destroyed and the blocks of granite emulate the eccentrici y of the blocks of the Bogue forts. Many of the wooden houses that advance upon piles into the river are losing their - per pendicular and leaning forwards like_ a drunken man poising himself; some are already down ; all look ruinous and desolate. Here and there a few Chinese were gathered. together to stare at us as we passed, but they were more hag gard than any. Chinamen I have ever seen. They male no sign and laughed no laugh. They were probably the minions of vices locally extinct. I passed also by the French anchorage, and had some communicatiin with their fleet. This is a beautiful. apotin_thia clear, ,Geol,Weather, and I dare say they derive immense satisfacta'?on ill perforating the hills by their ball practice, and setting fire to brushwood by their shell practice. But still don't quite wonder that they should be ready to fight anybody in anv cause to get a little distraction. The Baron's suite are all Marquises and Counts, and grand seigneurs of high degree, who had come out with the idea of a sort of Royal progress to Pekin. They have been six months at sea, coped up in the Audacieuse, and are still in their floating prison. One of the officers said to me, "We get up every morning at daylight because there is each a deuce of a noise (tappage d'enfer) with washing the deck' that no one can steep all day long, ashe would wish, and we see always that same sea and those . same rocks, and that everlasting sugarloaf lull—ee n'est pas gai. Now aud then we have our distractions. The Admiral, who is very amiable, allows us occ a sioually a spectacle. But the sailors only play one piece, and the women are repre,ented by two broad chested mariners. One of them tells us in the course of the dialogue, in a male bass voice —" Helas ! vous voyez que je suis belle. C.anme c'eet mal heureux d'etre belle !—Ce n'est pas auauean.." I hope their friends in Paris will cease to envy them, and sympathise with their sufferings. • My letters from the North tell me that the Chinese have just issued an impertinent proclama tion, warning the barbarians not to venture into the interior, and declaring that even if they should not create disturbances there punishment will await them. It is just As well that I made my survey of Hangchau before this proclamation appeared, for nobody doubts the power of the Mandarins to in cite the population to force on!" a disturbance" with the most peaceable Europeans. Count Putiatin is back to Shanghai. He has made a new treaty in Japan, and it seems that the terms are liberal, sh wing a teedency on the part of the Japanese to throw over their exclusive ness. Russia has been granted land to build Go vernment storehouses, and the Japanese have bought several European merchant ships. They have heard of Queen Victoria's gift to the Emperor, and are anxiously looking for tier arrival. She is now beiug ornamented in Hong Kong harbour, but she will disappoint the Japanese. She is neither a ship of war nor a pleasure yacht, and is specially ill adapted for the habi's of the people for whom she is destined. The Dutch naval officers have been to see her, and chuckle at the little respect she will obtain for British naval architecture. I learn from the same source that Pekin is nearly in a state of famine. Rice is said to cost 300 cash (about ls. 6d) a pound. The same letters tell me of the death of Mr. Beale, one of the Medici of Shanghai. He had accumulated an enormous fortune without contract ing the limits of a most lavish expenditure. He heel just resolved to return home. I was his guest for some time at Shanghai, and was indebted to him for much information. He had discussed with me his plans for his new career in England, and his influence would have been great upon all questions relating to China. But while he was gathering in the threads of his multifarious operations Death put his hand upon him. He died deliriously, point ing out the headlands and the cities he fancied he p e n s er h r w e l a saw in his voyayg m missionary ailoft h 3 at e towards England. Well, Pas cal says, "La mo s t em plus aisee 4 supporter sans y perhaps sb a pen app y i n e ed his e death.la mort sans a p m t h e l r d i l also.'' Soby death of o the same with i youngt av 1 whom and l honest heartedba om much convers e . It i s f r i g htf u l t o look back upon the number of y ou thf u l an d energ etic men whom I d had have known intimately during my few months' sojourn in the East, and who have succumbed to this climate. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE CHANGES IN THE MINISTRY. (Front the Daily News ) There are two or three considerations connected with the rece n t c h ange i n th e Cabinet that deserve a serious noti ce , f or th e y a ffect the character and stabilty of the Cabinet, and the situation of the country. First of all, no congratulations are addressed to Lord Palmerston on having secured the services of the Marquis of Clanricarde in the political govern ment of the empire. Lord Palmerston's moat de voted organs in the press are silent as the grave ; they have not one word to utter on the occasion ; they shun the subject ; not even the reproaches of their opponents can extort a word of excuse, apology, explanation, much less praise. There is, then, it "ein e subserviency of a point beyond which the p olitical the Government journals w ill not descend, and th a t p o i n t h a s been-reached by Lord Palmerston. In the second place, no public man, no politician of eminence or sagacity, no person with any posi tion in life, no one possess i n g a particle of serious ness, earnestness, or r egar d fur the public welfare, but expresses astonishment at this act of Lord Palmerston. At clubs, in private society, in all public places, the feeling is the same. Everywhere the inquiries are—" What can have been the motive t what does it mean 1 is Lord Palmerston intoxicated with success ? or has he been subjected to influences he could not control !" Neither the r warmest admirer, nor the most indifferent Liberal ; neither the bitterest Tory nor the most lukewarm Conservative, can suggest a reason or conjure up an explanation. "It looks like insanity," says one man, in stance,,ltis of Palmerston's "It is another levity," remarks a second. some a pproaching catas trophe," exclaims a third. But with all alike, the hardy caprice of Lord Palmerston in passing prelude o f over respectability, character, and talent, in order to light on—Lord Clanricarde, is perfectly in ; explicable. In the third place it is to be remarked that the choice is Lord Palmerston's own aat. In such appointments there are no common ministerial re sponsibility in eabir ets. The Prime Minister selects his own colleague s ; and on this occasion Lord Palmerston made no exception to the general rule. It has been made a complaint against Lord John Russell that while Prime Minister ho once or twice kept his cabinet in ignorance of his inten tions, and took the public into his confidence be fore them. If so, Lord. John no longer stands alone in this respect ; for it is apparent that the ap pointment of the new Lord Privy Seal came with as much surprise on several:members of the Palmer ston Cabinet as it did on the public. Loyalty to their chief may forbid any vain attempt to undo an accomplished fact, and may keep together a cabinet which the accomplishment of that fact has mortally woundel, brit the mortification of the country is not greater than that of Lord Palineiston's col leagues. And lastly, it is to be observed that on that section of Liberal politicians which have hitherto felt itself bound, by what it deemed to be con siderations of public duty,lto give the present Go vernment more support than it really deserved, the effect of this appointment has been seriously to diminish, if not entirely to destroy, all activity and earnest interes.. in the Cabinet over which Lord Palmerston presides. On this point we speak with a knowledge of opinions most reluctantly but seriously expressed. Interest has been converted into indifference : and though support may be continued, its character will he completely changed. That]which was earnest will become perfunctory ; and the maintenance of Lord Palmerston in power will no longer be regarded as a primary duty or a political obligation. Men of high honour, 'of elevated sentiments, of ' public morality, and of deep interest in the country, cannot de otherwise than accept this act of Lord Palmerston as indicative of a personal recklessness and a disregard of enlightened public opinion, wholly unsuited to the position to which the gene rous feelings of the country have raised him..f They did not see without pain the recent abuses of minor patronage which the premier and Mr. William- Cowper have been guilty of in the appointments of the lion. Mr. Howard, Lord Mulgrive, and Mr. Tollemache ; but for them some excuses and some apologies, howeverreiserable and inadequate, could be suggested. But in this last act they find an occurrence for which ns exprination can reconcile: It has deeply wounded political suseptibilities, and most justly provoked a resentment which past ser vices will not remove. It is more than an indiscre tion ; it is a fatal error which illuminates and • brings into strong and unmistakeable relief the true character of the man who now governs England. Without exaggeration, then, the public may safely conclude that the firstgreat and serious shake his been given to the Palmerston Cabinet ; and not by the skill of its opponents or by the desertion of its friends, but in the most unendurable way, by the inherent and insuppres , ible levity of its chief. At first the very limited field of choice-which Lord Palmerston had for the formation of his Cabinet, though it brought together a weak combination, so far as political ability or administrative power were concerned, operated with a confiding public to its advantage. - The desertion of the Peetites rallied the people to its support, and the impossibility of retaining Lord John Russell gave it the co-opera ad tiou of his friends. B tas Lord Palmerston his grown itftireriingliC 'ncrea,sed. in power, he has waxed insolent. I 1 ad -of improving his Ad ministration he has 3 diminished its moral force ; instead of recruiting it, he has weakened-it. And the - reason is plain. Lord Palmerston wants tools and instruments, not competent and sufficient colleagues. Such a system never lasts in England ; and we are now witnessing the " beginning of the end." It will fall to pieces of itself, if only rope enough be given to it, and the game be left for Lord Palmerston himself to play out. And just as Lord Palmerston has in this instance abus2d the generosity of the country, its enthusiasm, and its ovei weeeing confidence in him, so, it is im possible not to perceive he means to try and abuse the majority which the General Election gave him. His intention to propose without inquiry a transfer of the Home Government of India to the Political Government of the day is announced, although three short years ago Lord Palmerston, as a mem ber of the Aberdeen Cabinet, rejected that propo sition when it was brought under the consideration of that Government. He means to try and take advantage of the excited condition of the public mind as to India, of the misery anti woe produced by the Indian revolt, and of the alarm occasioned by the state of India, to precipitate a-id force through Parliament a measure which he then re jected, but which will inordinately augment the power of the Crown, and wake portentous and hazardous changes in our constitutional system. To aid him in this serious projec', he calls in Lord Cianricarde, a desperate politician. Concurrently, a large increase in our military establishments will also be proposed, to the unavoidable augmentation of taxation and the complete disarrangement of that financial scheme which has been deliberately adop ted by Parliament with a view to the ultimate relief of the country. The situation of public affairs, and the pi ospects of the Empire, are daily becoming g raver and graver. The hopes of secur ing the abolition of the Income Tax arid a reduction of the duties on tea, sugar, and coffee two years hence grow less and less. It is no longer possible to t.:epara'e the consideration of India from the general situation of the empire, its domestic policy, and its financial condition, and how Lord Palmerston, who has never been able t ) take a comprehensive view of any subject affectinglhe general interest of the com munity, is, even with the aid of the new Lord Privy Seal, to rise equal to this emorgency, defies all conjec , ure. The public ought, therefore, to look ahead in time ; it ought to be alive to a comprehension of all the approaching difficuties ; it ought not to believe in the permanence of Lord Palmerston's Cabinet. Hitherto, the present House of Commons has been tame and characteristic enough, because all was plain and simple enough.... .The Palmerston cry which gave many men their seats had not ex hausted its influence. But in England a hot fit is not seldom promptly followed by a cold one 1 and nothing so chills and freezes English sympathy as so senseless and wanton an act as that for which Lord Palmerston has now made himself solely re sponsible. There is no need of combinations, and there ought to be an absence of all action out of which new charges of intrigue, coalition, and conspiracy can be fabricated, The course is clear. Let us have the full policy of the Cabinet out ; its India Bill for augmenting the power of the Crown, and its Reform Bill for increasing the power of the people ; its propositions for increasing the English and the Indian Armies ; its Estimat e ; its financial plans ; its account of its foreign policy ; its explanations of why it has submitted to - the incarceration of British subjects in foul Italian dungeons for seven mouths without trial ; its account of what it means to do with the Principalities ; its declaration whe ther it means to tolerate a revival of the African slave-trade. When all this is laid before us, we shall be better able to appreciate the necessity of Lord Palmerston to England. THE NEW INDIA. SECRETARYSHIP. (From, the Morning Herald.) A rumour is in circulation to the effect tha, Lord John Russell has received a communication with reference to the new India Secretaryship. The member for London has tried his hands at so many different tasks, that little doubt need be en tertained of his undertaking, if actually invited, the regeneration of India. Prudence is not one of his lordship's particular characteristics, or he might be induced to pause before he ventured, even with his damaged reputation. to join a Cabinet tilat has of late evinced an alacrity for sinking. Lord John Russell's vacillations at the Vienna Conferences are not forgotten, and assuredly the people of this coun try will look with suspicion upon any scheme for the reconstruction of India which is to be carried out under his direction. The secession from the Palmerston Administration of L , rd ilarrowby, who, though not commanding much influence, was certainly generally much respected, and the ap pointment to his post of the notorious Lord Clanri carde, have created great sensation. His lordship's character may be gleaned from his acts as they stand recorded in the public prints of the last few yearA. Lord Clauricarde is, moreover, animated by the bitterest hostility against the East India Company, and the necessity of inviting the co-operation of such an ally may afford the public some idea of the sweeping nature of the measure that Ministers have in conte Japlation. At any rate some desperate work is in progress or Lord Palmerston would not seek the co-operation of a nobleman whose influence must prove detrimental. His presence at the Coun cil Chamber will disgust many of the Premier's warmest friends, and that Lord John Russell can consent to be his colleague will excite some sur prise. The member for London, however, has one weakness—love of place ; and, tired of the back benches, he may be thoughtless enough to rush back to the old familiar spot, even at the risk of a greater fall than that by which two years since he was pre cipitated from power. Should it turn out that an alliance has actually been effeoted between these rival politicians, the ex-Prime Minister and the present Prernu r, one inference may be drawn from the fact, viz., that Lord Palmerston has decided upon a thoroughly Democratic Reform Bill. His own feelings and s ympathies are in favour of doing nothing, and he would gladly postpone the consideration of reform either in Parliament, or any thing else, for an indefinite period. . The impatience, however, of those who afford him a qualified support made him commit h im self, and the hour for the performanc e of his pledges ap proaches. For some time he has wavered between C o nservative principles and Democratic illusions,, unable to decide, not which suited him best or which might prove most beneficial to the country, but which would ensure for his frail venture a longer lease of power. If hehas really induced L-_,rd John Russell to enlist amongst his rank and file, the character of the new reform scheme will no longer be a matter o f speculation. Upon this point the member for London's views are pretty well known. With respect to India, the determination seems g eneral that hencefo rw a r d this mighty empire is to be governed upon Christian principl es . W i th ou t i em barking u a crusade against infidelity or false s y s t e ms of religion, we are to raise the Christian standard, and not to be ashamed of the faith We THE PROTESTANTS IN FRANCE. (From the Times.) The Protestants of France are in rather a sad case. They are a small minority scattered over the count' y, and overwhelmed every where in -num ber by their rivals, who compose the - great mass of the population. It is not worth the Govern ment's while to be civil to them, or even to be fair to them. Such justice will only offend, one large portion of the majority, have no merit in the eyes of aurther portion, and will positively please only a small circle of candid and just men who look to principle, and whose principle is state impartiality in religious matters. It is not worth a Govern ment's while to please a small sect and still smaller circle of -Dsictrinaires, as Oey will he called,,et.th'e cost' of offending the mass—though whin we speak - t of the mass we are speaking teAllyof the pric,t - - hood—that compact body which represents and at the same time misrepresents the mass. The mass of the French people, Roman CathAic as it is by pro fession, would not be disposed of itself to buliy a small Prot , ettnt minority ; it is only the priest hood- which does this. But the pr;esthocel is a poWerful, compact ph al +tax, aging with unanimity, and wielding a large int - Inoue though-its influence is formidable rather for the area over which it spreads than for the quality of the intelligence which it controls. In thisstae of tkngs it would, we suppose, be Quixetry in a French Government to be insisting on puncti:lous justice to the 'Protes tants—a significant mark of the great difference between French public opinion and Enailsh. Here it would be Quixotry in a Government to favour the largest and most orthodox denomination or to spite the smalle.st or most eccentric one. Here it is in justice ; in France it isjustice—that is, Quixotry.' The least act of unfairness to the meanest sect in this country would raise a cry from millions, a ,, d bang Governmr-mt to its senses in the course of a morning. We might not care two straws for the doctrine of the seat, btr, the principle of State im partiality is so rooted in our soil, and has taken such hold. of the English mind, hat any violation of it would be immediately set doWn as a violation of a fundamental law: The French Protestants are not, it would seem, allowed sr hools enough to carry on the education of the young members of the communion. The French law proVides nominally the amplest liberty on this point; but, as a writer in the Journal des Debuts observes, French laws take away in one part the liberties which they allow in another. The law of 1850 on primary instruction provides that every French citizen of 21 years of age, and furnished with a regular diploma testifying his capacity, can open a school after formally announcing his inten tion to do so. Thi., is the gift, but now comes the drawback. The Rector of. the Academic Council of the Department of the Prefect filling the same functions may object on the ground of " pubiioy morals." This proviso is, of course, only legally directed against a bad 'character in the schoolmas ter; but, once inserted in the law, it is interpreted to apply to any had consequence whatever which may be supposed likely to follow the erection of a - Protestant school. It is voted a danger to "public morals" if the Roman Catholic part of a district dislike Co) erection of this new school, and if there fore discord and itritation can be apprehended. If the priesthood of the district communicate their apprehension of tbis result to the authorities of the commune, the authorities of the commune decide against the erection of the school, and the refusal is confirmed by the Academic Council. If the Min ister of Public Instruction is appealed to, be dis owns any power in the matter, and pronounces the decision of the Academic Council final. Of course, such a rule of interpretation is simply to say that whatever displeafes tne priesthood is opposed to pub lic morals. But not only aro the Protestants denied schools, but even places of worship. Churches raised by private subscription, and ready for use, remain uuoccup;ed in many places, for want of the necessary authorisation. The Protestants, after building their church, come to the Mayor for this final legal form, and are told, to their astonish ment, that there are no Protestants in the place, o not enough to make a congregation. What is to be done In one case of this kind the village crier was sent round to beat up the members of the communion by " tuck of drum ;" they appeared personally before the Mayor, who being a liberal genii ma n, did not deny the evidence of visible ariihmelic, and granted the authorisatioc. Here is an inwance of petty grinding persecution from a body which only a doz on years ago fillet! Europe with its protests against what they called persecution in their own case, and on the very same subject. What limit was there to the complaints on the part of the French priesthood against the old law of public instruction, which the law aof 1850 superseded? What ,, utcries were there against the tyranny of the Institute, and the interference of the State with the liberty of instruction, and with the right of Raman Ca'holics as cameos '1 What a watchword was that hardly t-n years ago—liberty of instruction I But then it was the Roman Catho lics whose liberty was curtailed. Now these very men, after protesting so fiercely and vociferously for their own "liberty of instruction," ate denying the same liberty to the Protestants. They gain this result by the grossest and most palpable mis interpretation and distortion of the law—by a gloss which would be considered in this country an impudent outrage upon law and justice, and which no judge, in no court, high or low, dare sanction. Yet, with their faces fresh branded with disgrace by such acts as these, these men have the brazen effrontery to simulate surprise that English Protestants should imagine for a moment that Roman Ca holic authorities countenanced persecu tion I " W hat ! persecute? Impossible. That was an error of a dark age, which we have long unlearnt ; that was the fault of the age—not of the religion." Yet, with these words on their lips for the benefit of the English public, Roman Catholic authorities are now actually preventing the Protestants of France from educating their own children l They deprive them not only of the privileges of citizens, but of the rights of men. What are the Protestants of France to do under the circumstances t What are they to do amid a tyrannising majority, which it is not worth the Government's while to check ? We wish we could give them better hopes,*but we know the obstinatet selfishness of numerical strength, adopt it is ntoe checked by the principle of justice,adopted public country at large, and incorporated with P opinion. Probably they are not much emigrate, to difficulty emigrate, which was the solutio adopted in the 17th century. The have, more fGorairhetm's'. over, a powerful pen on their sideyM. which ought to be able to do something One pen has befor e no w s h a ke e n tiu m h an a y ve a s h om ug e e p ftt o b w r e ic r of injustice. Exposure may even in France. One ruling mind in that country, at any rate, kis wider sympathies and a more libe ral code than this cr ooked and grinding ty ranny o f a large sect over a small one represents. It is im possible that Louis Napoleon can sympathise with such a narrow, petty policy ; he has larger ideas ; he h a s a respect for enlightened public opinion. 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The long lingering proree of•wPiliing - 44# unwieldy - vessel towzirde the wiiter. A1'1)&4 reco.onacuced for the. - Sixth thine eitfle..r to: on .Monday. During - the lobg inter - rid wide. 'fhb "e'fg , rts were given up; in cc' , _quence of that Mayialmosc: be termed the to, destructi in of the apparatus` tt ed iu ford . , o ;: t i'VaS;Mo.g.ii t her dovrn. the watts, an' immense , nunaher of Ilarger and- ritr• - nlgeX' _hydraulic nrei , es ,have Fem . . - fixed in place of tlitic broktn and 1.111 st "final" attetaPts. - Now no lesi tl.an 11 presses are fixed agiinst the af cradle, i.na 10 a,g,,iins' the forward one. Among t. .e fernier is a monster ram—one of the two bpecially mad , for hiiistinglhe Britannia. Bridge—and perhapi the largest ever cast in this or any other country. It is, indeed, a mot ponderous machine, the cylinder weighing 15 tons 760113.• the frame, 9 tons ; piston, 3 tons 1,1321 b.; and the bolt, 3311h.-38 tons in all. The .diameter of the piston is 20 inches, and .the thick ness of the lion of the cylinder 10 inches. In raising the Britannia Bridge au h3draulic ram of exactly the same size and strength as this was.ripped from top to bottom—in fact, the one now at Millwall was cast to supply the place .of that broken at Menai. There Seems scarcely any possibility of an accident 'happening to this, for the base of piles on which it rests is calculated to resist a pressure of 200 tons, and more than that, therefore, cannot be exettad by the ram itself. All the other new presses are supported on bases of piles of adequate strength, the piles being driven down between the beams of the launching ways where the Leviathan herself formerly rested. It was intended to have com menced pushing her down in the Course of yes.erday afternoon, but the " leathers" of some of the pistons of the - rams were misfitted, and required such alter ations as c writ be completed before to-day (Satur day), and may very possibly compel a still further postponement till Monday. The chsies by which the stern and stern of the Leviathan are dragged towards the river have been immensely strength ened, and are secured, at the fore part of the vessel, to Trotman's anchors and to sunken piles, and the 'stern to piles driven deep in the river bed on the Deptford side. With till these aids to progress very little doubt seems to be entertained that the launching on this occasion will be commenced " positively for the last time." We sincerely hope it may. Admiral Borton bas addressed the following to a contemporary _ r; _il ax i • m rj, papers been • - .. recently filled tke most ffAt.actous notion:, as lop •' the best mode of launching the Leviathan; I should not have troubled you with the following observa tiou "In the Times of the 29th inst., a gentleman who signs himself An Engineer,' attributs the great obstacle to her being launched to the increa , f.d friction of corroded metqs, and another corresp, n demt, who signs hirnsta " Naiiticns." recomme ,., the doing away with the tackling altogether which is attachod. to th anchors in the fit , ._!r for heaving the 'monster off. _ _ On the 34 of November, the first day the trial was made for launching the Leviathan, I was pi e sent during the operations, and expressed my sur prise to Mr. Hope, the chairman of the committee of management, that the tackling was attached to some barges moored in the river, as it was quite rnanifeit to me, that however securely they may have been moored their scantling was totally ina dequate to bear the great strain to which they would be subject. The result was, as I anticipated, their eritrais were torn out, and thus ended the first day's trial. At the same time I made the above ob,ervatione to Mr. Hope, I recomm.nded that large anchors should be embedded in toe river to which the tackling should be applied, and in case LI ey came home in consequence cf the gnat strain 'hat would be applied to them to b tck them, which would mos , effectually prevent their moving, how ever great the strain might be. All this has bceu done, and the next time I saw Mr. Hope be told me that he had mentioned my valuable suggestions to Mr. Brunel, who, in reply, said I ought to be on the committee of management. " Now, sir, the only thing that is required to make tho above plans perfect, in addition to the hydraulicrams, and to ensure the undoubted success of he operations, is that which I also suggested, and which is, to moor three larger bulky head and stern iu a line abut 30 yards from the extremity of the ways on which the Leviathan is to be launched, and pass a powerful chain through the mid ship port of each hulk, which must be supported with timbers underneath each midship port • one end of each of these chains will be fastened IO the rings of each anchor, and to the extremity of the other end just clear of the bulks nearest the Leviathan will be attached the tackling for heaving the ship off. By this means there wilt be au elevation of from 5 to 6 degrees ft om a horizontal line from the Leviathan's bottom, for the propelling power of heaving the ship off, which will tend to raise and thereby enor mously alleviate the friction of the ways, be they corroded or not. Whereas there is now a depression of four or five degrees below the horizontal line in the power employed, which pulls the enormous weight of the monster on the ways, and cone , sequently increases the vis inertia and the friction to an incredible amount. "In addition to the tackling attached to the anchors, the capstans on board the hulks could be made use of for employing additional power in heaving the Leviathan off the ways. " The great desideratum in alt mechanical in ventions consists in its simplicity, and therefore the minimum of friction." THE MERSEY DOCKS AND CoNSER- VANOY BOARD. LIVERPOOL, JAIL 1. The new BOA/ d was elected to-day under the powers of the Mersey Conservancy and Docks Act, 20th and 21st of Victoria. It consists of 21 mem bers, of whom 18, called the " elective members" of the PrOlisional Board, have been chosen by the clock ratepayers ; the remaining three, called " no minee members," being app)inted by the Conser vancy Commissioner. The gentlemen selected by .he Conservancy Commissioners are Mr..j. Laird, shipbuilder, Birkenhead ; Mr. T. M. Mackay, of Liverpool ; and Mr. Christopher Bushell, of Liver pool. Mr. Laird has distinguished himself as a most untiring and successful advocate for the con struction of docks at Birkenhead, and the develop ment of the resources of thri - Cheshire side of the Mersey, as opposed to the schemes for carrying out the plans of dock extension on the Liverpool side, until at least the Birkenhead Docks are completed. He is chairman of the Birkenhead commission rs, and the acknowl« dged chief of the Birkenhead party Mr. T. M. Mackay is an active partner in the firm of Messrs. James Baines and Co., owners of the Liverpool and Australian " Black Ball" line of clipper ships: and Mr. Christopher Bushell is Vice- President of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, and the gentleman who, in his official capacity, enunciated those views upon the commercial state of the country, caused partlybythe effects of overtradine The 18 elective members of the, Provisional Board are as fellow ; those gentlemen whose names are distinguished by an asterisk having been members of the defunct committee :—Mesers. Ralph Brockle bank,* Liverpool, merchant ; James Aspinall Tobin, Liverp-01, merchant ' • Joseph Hubbaok, * Liverpool, merchant ; Robert Rankin,* Liverpool, merchant ; Samuel Robert Graves, Liverpool, mer chant (chairman of the Liverpool Shipowners' As sociation); John Kirby Rounthwaite,* Liverpool, s team-packet agent ; Cha rles Turner, .Liver_peol, merchant, chairman of the defunct committee ; Thos. Darnley PAnderson ,* Liverpool, merchant ; Wm. Inman, Liverpool, merchant; W. Rathbone, jun.,* Liverpool, merchant ; James Smith,* * Livtrpool, tim b er me rchant ; Jos e p h Mondell,Liverpool, shipowner ; Robertson Gladstone,* Liverpool, mer chant ; Eyre Evans,* Liverpool, merchant ;Francis Shand, Liverpool, merchant •; Tho. Bold,*Liverpools merchant ; John Lockett,* Liverpool, merchant ; and S. J. Arnold, Liverpool, merchant. The poll closed at 4 o'clock, but it was not until about 20 minutes to 5 that the numbers were announced by the returning officer, Mr. Recorder Henderson. Admiral Evans, acting conservator of the river and hart)? ur, announced the names of the Government nominees. The property to be transferred to the new board comprises the Birkenhead Docks, the Liverpool Docks, the new landing-stage, with power to pur chase the Liverpool observatory, to impose and collect the town dues, to exercise jurisdiction over the navigation, or in aspect of the conservancy of the river Mersey, hitherto vested in the corporation, &c. The new board is to repay to the Liverpool corporation all such moneys as may have been ex pended up to this day, or which the corporation may hereafter be compelled to pay in respect of bonds or works executed by them upon the Birk enhead Docki, pr any of the property thus trans ferred to the bard. In consideration for the loss of the town dues, and the transfer of the landing stage and observaoty, the b0.r4:1 is to pay t% the Live! poo! Corporation the sum of 1,500,000/. in 15 equal haif-yearly payments on the first day. of July and January in each year, the first payment to be made in July next, these payments to be a charge upon the general revenues of the board, which is to render to Parliament a yearly account of its receipts. DEATH OF LIEUT. W. T. STRETTELL —We have to announc • the death of Lieut. William Thomaß Strettell, second son of the late Edward &retell, Es q., Advos..a: General to the East India Company at Calcutt. wn officer entered the navy in gay, 1806. NEW NOVEL BY MISS KAVANAGH. Just ready, in 3 vols., post Bvo, A D By JULIA KAVANAGH, L E. Author of " Nathalie," &c. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colbuin, 13 Great Marlborough-street.