The Sun. — London, England, 1859-04-19 00:00:00

/E OPERA-COLONNADE HOTEL (late W 1 i Feuillade's), Charles-street, lla.yrno.rket, IS NOW OPEN. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. On EASTER MONDAY, will be produced Shakspeare's historical play of KING HENRY V. King Henry V., Mr. C. Kean ; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean. NL STEW THEATRE - ROYAL , AD ELPH Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. On EASTER MONDAY, THE SERIOUS FAMILY. Messrs. B. Webster, Sic. After which, THE DEEM ON TWO STICKS. Mr. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Misses Woolga*, Keeley, Arden, and Kate Kelly. Followed by THE PRETTY GIRLS OF STILBERG. 31r. B. Webster, Billington, Eburne, Misses Woolgar, Keeley, and Arden /Acting manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box Office open from 10 to 5 —no charge for booking. No f e e s to serv ants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough On Easter Monday will be produced a new Comedietta, by J. M. Morton, Esq., supported by the company. After which, THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE. To conclude with VANDYKE BROWN. Mr. J. Clark, and Miss M. Ternan. Commence at 7o'clock. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Extraordinary Attraction for Passion Week. THIS EVENING, the performances will consist of novel and unequalled Equestrian Entertainments. First Appearance of Mr. Henry Cooke, from the Cirque Napoleon in Paris, with the astounding Quadrupedical Won ders, consisting of Pantomimic Dogs and Monkeys, as ex hibited before the Emperor and Empress of France. After which, the matchless and unrivalled SCENES IN THE CHICLE, introducing, the great Star Riders and Miss Emily Cooke, Madame Blanche, Madame Bridges, Madlle. Fleurette, and Madame Francisco, being the greatest amount of female equestrian talent ever seen in one nig,ht in any theatre. Grotesques—Messrs. Hemming and Thorne. Mr. W. Cooke's stupendous Elephant Ajax, with all his highly trained stud of beautiful Horses. In addition to this galaxy of attraction the renowned rider Jahn Henry Cooke, the greatest equestrian the:world ever produced, will appear. Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke. The splendid romance of IVANHOE ; or, The Knights Templars, is in active preparation, and will be produced on Easter Monday with extraordinary magnificence. Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, is.; Pit, 2s, ; G a ll er y, is. ; Upper Gallery, CA. Private Boxes, £l4 s , £2 2s, sad £1 Is. Commence at Seven : Carriages at 11. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road. — Proprietor—C. MORTON. The public is most respectfully informed that the FiNv. ARTS GALLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW OPEN DAY AND NIGHT , from 11 o ' clock a.m. until 12 )'clock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec- Jou of Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters and is also devoted to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels he may confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist ing Music Hall, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and the recently added Ante-Hall, will present an attraction which, whether as regards the architectural beauty of the structures them selves, or the varied and hitherto unattempted combinations within, will be found to be wholly without parallel in the Kingdom. The MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT commences as usual at Seven o'clock. In addition to th e usual entertainment, the SAUVLET FAMILY, of Amsterdam Fight in number, whose varied Instrumental performances .have created so marked a sensa tion in the principal cities and t owns o f the Continent, will perform every Evening at Nine and Eleven o'clock. THE WEATHER.—STN OFFICE, APRIL 19. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 48—highest since noon yesterday. 38—lowest this morning 47—this day at noon. and during the night. BARomETER-29•68—falling. WIND, North-Easterly; light, with fine cold weather. A 4 .16" r ,;., ~.., tit , 4 4 ...,..,%kkar- , '''' ,;.' , ‘..e4., 4 - „ ' '\ --..... •-?` ' 4 W,, ..,.: THE SUN. TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1859. PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. lier Most Gracious Majesty has, in the following ter ms . , announced t o h er fifth Parliament the fact of its dismissal : -I ‘h LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, W e are commanded by her Majesty to inform you that it is her l‘lajesty's intention forthwith to dissolve the present Parliament, with a view to enable her people to express, in the mode prescribed by the Constitution, their opinion on the state of public affairs. GENTLEMEN OF THE II01:SE OF COMMONS, We are commanded by her Majesty to thank y o u for the wise liberality with which you have g r anted the necessary supplies for the military and naval defences of the country; and for the provi sion which you have made for the exigencies of the other branches of the public service during the intervalh which must e l apse b e f ore the estimates for 2Y e ar can be cons id ere d b y th e ne w Parliament, 'Lich her Majesty will direct to be immediately called. MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, Her Majesty commands us to inform you that the appeal which she is about to make to her people has been rendered necessary by the difficulties ex perienced in carryi ng on the public business of the country , more than a as indicated by th e f ac t, that within little year two successive Administrations have failed to retain the confidence of the House of Commons ; and her Majesty prays that, under the blessing °f 'Divine Providence, the step is about t o take which she may have the effect of facilitating the discharge her high functions, and of enabling her t o conduct the government of the country under the advice of a Ministry possessed of the con fidence of her Parliament and her people. Th le anxionslygookee for revelations respecting the state of affair s on t i: of Parliament have 2 Continent to both Houses been, duly made. It will be seen that h er mut flB Gov ernmen t h ave a ll through p reserved a fl the best cal cul to nn and c onc iliatory course, ated quillity, a n d to prevent preserve peace and tran being let slip throe " the dogs of war" from ghout th e Europe. fairest regions of That Austria was th e oria , b, delinquent is unquestionable. It was h er °----a* interference with quasi indepen most unwarrantable reducing their Sovereigns to mere entn Italian States, every aspiration f or and suppressing—erman satraps, om and improved i ns tit u ti ons on th e part of the oppressed Peoples, that led to the grave complications which have not as yet been disposed of. There is an in nate feeling of despotism prevailing in every man Court, W hi ch nothing can mitigate or amelio rate. Th e Ger " famili es, ' as they are styled, fondly imagine that any increase of liberty —any consti tutional privil ege conf ed o n a n community—i invasion of their own • san ghts, and must be re s i s t e d at any cost. It is true that the may not be i n ps Wally co ncerne d . any degree interferedwi t h , or y o But it would be a bad. es arnel3le, and they might be expected to make concessions, if any of th e neighbouring rulers showed th e way. Thus we have heard something more than hints, that" free institutions were on their trial ; " and even the Ulysses of the House of COBURG is not di sposed to yield a single point which he could safely retain, and by the close double matrimonial alliance with' FRANCIS JOSEPH, has afforded unequivocal evi dence of the direction in which his sympathies are most powerfully engaged. It was Austria which, in this instance, jointly with France, crushed the rising hope of decided ameliorations, not only in the Eternal City,. but in the States of the Church. It was their occu pation by foreign bayonets which protracted -- fortunately it could not perpetuate—one of the worst Governments that ever afflicted a community, and ruled with a rod of iron the People committed to its charge. As we have stated, Loiris NAPOLEON was a co.delinquent so far as the POPE was concerned, but it was Austria alone that influenced Parma, Modena, and Tuscany, that erected the formidable fortress at Piacenza, and encouraged even Naples to persevere in the conduct of whiclit PoERIo and his liberal associates were at once the scandal and the victims. Towards the close of last year the true state of feeling between France and Austria became known to the Government, and immediate instructions were given to our representatives at both countries to do all in their power to remove any existing misconception. The first overt act, the inauspicious statement by the Emperor NAPOLEON, which entitled her MA JESTY'S Government to more direct interference, was not made until the opening day of the year, and no time was lost in directing every energy to the preservation of peace and averting war. Lord COWLEY ascertained the views and sentiments of NAPOLEON, and, after a brief conference in Lon don, proceeded forthwith to Vienna. His mission was one of mediation, and it was eminently suc cessful. Everything promised to be speedily and satisfactorily arranged, so as to get rid of the dead weight that was consuming the resources of both countries, and acting on their finances with almost as destructive an operation as even war itself. was at this stage of the proceedings that Russia most unfortunately, and, we fear, somewhat designedly, interfered by proposing THE BUBBLE CONGRESS, which knocked every beneficial and satisfactory arrangement on the head. The Cabinet of St. Petersburg well knew the difficulties that impeded every attempt at forming such an assem bly with full and ample powers to remove every difficulty. It might have been that they were jealous of exclusively British mediation, or that they desired delay for any of the purposes to which delay might be turned ; and the certainty of the exhaustion that must have attended the costly arma ments maintained by the rival Powers might not have lessened its anxiety to do a little quiet mischief with perfect impunity. Its exertions in the cause of peace (!) would give it an additional claim on the Bourses and Stock Exchanges of Europe to meet its little demand of £12,000,000, a mere trifle to the Autocrat, but which might be employed in rather a different manner from that ant ici p ated b y I the over-credulous lenders. The course proposed had, however, the sanction and acceptance of NAPOLEON, and therefore could not be rejected ; certain conditions, however, were introduced—" Subject to the general condition that the Congress was not to interfere with the settle ment of 1815, which was uniformly admitted. The four conditions on which it was agreed the Congress should meet were :—First of all the evacuation of the Roman States by foreign troops ; second, the reform of the administration of the Roman States ; third, the best means of preventing a war from breaking out between Austria and Sardinia; and, fourth, the providing a substitute for the separate treaties between Austria and those of the Central States of Italy, between whom and Austria separate treaties have been en tered into. Those conditions were accepted by France, by Russia, and by Prussia; and they were accepted by Austria, with a fifth condition, which in reality was only her interpretation of the third condition. The third condition was the means by which peace can be best preserved between Austria and Sardinia; and the fifth condition of Austria was, as we have said, an interpretation of the third condition, for it was a definition of it—namely, that in the opinion of Austria it involved the dis armament of Sardinia. This last condition we long since repudiated, as we are happy to say it has been repudiated by statesmen of all parties—by the Earl of MALmEs- BURY and Mr. DISRAELI in the first instance, and subsequently by Lord PALMERSTON and others of the Opposition. It had been suggested that if Piedmont would voluntarily disarm, she would receive the guarantee of the great Western Powers to protect her against any attack by Austria. We do not see that this proposition was by any means open to the objec tions that have been offered against it by those only anxious to damage her MAJESTY'S Govern mentperfas nut nefas. It is scarcely possible that Austria would have ventured on any onslaught, when she must have brought against her such formidable opponents as England and France. The proposition for a general disarmament was, however, a more felicitious solution of the great problem. And that although accepted by the Five Great Powers, has been rejected by Sardinia. It will, however, be easy to bring VICTOR EMANNITEL to his senses. The English Government has faith fully and efficiently discharged its duty, and we are rejoiced to find that England will preserve a neutrality, albeit, it may be an armed one should war unfortunately ensue. There is, however, still hope of peace, and for that we shall be indebted to the prudence and discretion of her Majesty's Ministers. This great fact cannot be lost sight of at the approaching elections, and Lord PALMERSTON may see cause to regret having elicited the explanations in every respect so creditable to his opponents. We are of course set down £),,S impracticables, by all the timid and all the trimmers. We can see but one thing, and we would peril everything for one favourite point. The Sun has identified itself with the Ballot; and whoever is in office, WThigs or Tories—whoever presents himself at the hustings, Whig, Radical, or Tory, Conservative or Liberal Conservative—we give them no rest, we mast have the Ballot. The best man of the day must be told he is not up to the mark unless he will support our object. In a word, say some, we would spoil all for one thing. Now, we are not very desirous to repudiate any thing but the obvious temper of such accusations. The substantial justice of the description of our policy is undeniable. We have repeatedly told a Tory Cabinet that to concede the Ballot would be to establish their power ; that it . must be forced from them one day if they would not give it, and better give it and keep in than withhold it, go out, and leave others to go in and give it. We had little hope, indeed, of our arguments being successful, but we would ten times rather have Toryism with the Ballot than pseudo-liberalism without it. We have also been ever ready' to " embarrass Lord JOAN," or even Mr. BERKELEY, or Mr. Anybody, when they were not taking what we thought the manly and fair course on what we deem the most fundamental of all reforms. We have stuck to our point in season, and out of season, too, as some will think. We stick to it still, but we nevertheless have a practical suggestion to offer ; we have made it before,l but it may be o f spec i a l use j us t now . v e will admit that there may be apprehensive , timid Lib era l s , as well as hypocritical ones — men who really are i n f avour o f popular liberties, but who thi n k , as people say say of Italians that of slaves, or as Austrians , the people are not prepared yet for too much liberty. We may know that a candidate really does lean to popular rights, and does not use them only as a hustings cry ; and we confess it may bo hard, may perhaps split up a Liberal constituency, and ', let in a Tory," if such a "good-hearted candidate" be required to swallow the Ballot unmodified and entire. We say then, LONDON, TUESDAY gVENING, are not in any way merely hypothOtical, it will i be sufficient to direct attention to the unJeniable and perfectly reliable facts accumulated by the secre tary to the association, which has been already formed under the happiest auspices, for Promoting the Erection of Drinking Fountains in tho Metro polis. That official, Mr. WAKEFIELD, has issued a selection from the facts in the form of an at tractive little pamphlet, entitled " A Plea for Free. Drink ing Fountains," in which we read, amon3. other most encouraging statements, in reference to Mr. MELLEY'S Fountains in Liverpool, that—" a calcu lation based upon a series of observations, tal,:en at different seasons, and in different parts of the town, by persons of perfect reliability, employed for the purpose, gives an average number of upwards of 1,000 persons drinking every day throughout the year at each of the 40 fountains scattered through out the town and its outskirts. This would give fifteen millions of persons who annually drink at the Liverpool fountains. And in a subse quent communication, dated March 5, 1859, Mr. MELLEY writes that he is quite sure that if 20 more fountains were judiciously placed in Liverpool, both the new and old fountains would average 1,000 each the year round—that is, if Liverpool were adequately supplied with fountains, they would be frequented 22,000,000 times in the course of the year." Immense, however, though the advance already made in that locality by the erection of as many as 45 fountains there in all, it is calculated that no less than 80 fountains altogether would alone be adequate to the wants of Liverpool. Supposing which estimate to be in any degree accurate, actually 400 fountains would be neces sary to meet • the requirements of London and Westminster. Nobly, most eloquently, did the Earl of CARLISLE close his admirable appeal in behalf of the humane project for extending the boon of these Free Drinking Fountains to our metropolis, with the utterance of these fervent and impassioned words—" I have only further to remind you of the value that has been attached by the holiest lips that ever spake on earth to the cup of cold water ; and I think I am not making an irreverent allusion to it, when I ask you on this occasion to give it a literal interpretation." Beyond these there could not be more earnest or more impressive words of persuasion. MR. MACINTOSH S INCENDIARY MATERIALS FOR WARFARE. TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE SUN. SIR,—In justice to Mr. Macintosh, I beg to cor rect an error which I perceive you have made in your number of yesterday ; and having given so prominent a notice to a letter sent to you relative to Captain Norton being congratulated by the son of General Sir William Napier (sent to Capt. Norton at Sir William's request), " as being now generally allowed to be the real originator and inventor of the great improvements in gunnery projectiles," &c., I beg to state, in explanation, that although Captain Norton has amused himself (for some time past) by experimenting at Chatham with shells filled with liquid and other incendiary materials, he has done so, well knowing that the inflammable materials he was using were not compositions of his own inven tion, but were those of Mr. John Macintosh, of North bank, Regent's-park. Although Captain Norton was "fully aware" that he was experimenting with materials patented and invented by another inven tor, he has not had the courtesy of explaining this fact, nor has he yet requested any of the periodicals or newspapers to correct the error they have all invariably committed, in ascribing the invention of the compositions he experiments on, when using incendiary shells, to him, whereas Mr. John Macin tosh is the true and real inventor. I beg to add that both the " War and Admiralty Departments" have been fully cognisant, since 1853, prior to the last Russian war, and have made several official experiments with Mr. Macintosh's incendiary com positions for filling shells, which, although satisfac tory, have not yet been adopted into the ser vice, for reasons which the late Secretary of State for War, Lord Panmure, can best explain; he having, as you are already aware, "officially sealed-up" Mr. Macintosh's patent, No. 1774, during the continuance of the last Russian war, and then allowed Mr. Macintosh to obtain his patent, "(Vier" the war was concluded, and then refused to either purchase it, or adequately remunerate him for this illegal seizure. The application for the " New Patent Law" sufficiently explains this fact, and further, that this " New Patent Law" has entirely originated from the result of Mr. Macintosh's inge nious and laborious inventions. Trusting you will kindly give equal publicity to this statement,—l am, sir, &c., April 19. JUSTICE. N.B.—Mr. Macintosh's specification, No. 1774, can be inspected at the Great Patent Seal Office, 25, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty the Queen held a Privy Council at one o'clock yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. It was attended by his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, the Marquis of Salisbury, Lord President ; the Lord Chan cellor, Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Privy Seal; the Earl of Derby, First Lord of the Treasury ; the Chancellor of the Exchequer ; the Right Hon. Sotheron Estcourt, Secretary of State for the Home Department ; Major-General Peel, Secretary of State for War; Sir John Pakington, First Lord of the Admiralty ; Lord John Manners, First Com missioner of Public Works ; the Marquis of Exeter, Lord Steward; Earl de La Warr, Lord Chamberlain; and the Duke of Beaufort, Master of the Horse. At the Council Parliament was ordered to be prorogued from this day (Tuesday) until the sth of May. • Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. At the Queen's Court Mr. Justice Hill was presented to her Majesty at an audience by Mr. Sotheron Estcourt, Secretary of State for the Home Department, kissed hands on his appointment as one of the judges of the Court of Queen's Bench, and received from her Majesty the honour of knighthood. The Earl of Derby, Sir John Pakington, the Marquis of Salisbury, Major-General Peel, and the Duke of Beaufort had audience of the Queen. The Queen and Prince Consort left Buckingham Palace for Windsor Castle at 25 minutes before 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and the Princesses Alice, Helena, Louisa, and Beatrice. In attendance were Lady Churchill, Lady Caroline Barring ton, the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Hon. Flora Macdonald, Lieutenant-Colonel Cavendish, Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood, Captain Du Plat, the Master of the Household, and Major. Elphinstone. A detachment of Light Dragoons escorted the Queen from the Palace to the Great Western Railway Terminus at Paddington. A special train conveyed her Majesty to Windsor. The Duke of Oporto, attended by his Excellency Count de Lavradio, Lieutenant-General Visconde de Campanha, and Captain Sergio, went yesterday morning to inspect the Great Eastern steamship. His Royal Highness took leave of the.Clueen at Buckingham Palace on her departure for Windsor Castle, and left London in the afternoon for South ampton. The Marquis of Londonderry left his residence in Grosvenor-square, yesterday morning for Mount Stewart, county Down. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and family will leave town on Thursday for The Grove, near Wat ford. The Earl and Countess of Craven and family left town yesterday for Ashdown Park, Berks, for the Easter holidays. The Earl and Countess of Suffolk, andthe Ladies Howard have left Farrance's Hotel, Belgravia, for Charlton House, Wilts. The Earl and Countess Fitzwilliam have left town for their seat, Wentworth House, Yorkshire, to pass the Easter holidays. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston will leave Cambridge House to-day for their seat, Broadlands, for the Easter holidays. THE DISSOLUTION.—Though the prorogation of the existing Parliament will take place this day, we believe that the writs for the new Parliament will not be issued until Saturday. They will be proclaimed in the several boroughs and counties on Monday, and when three clear days have elapsed from that date the elections for the new Parliament will begin in theboroughs,and three days after wards in the counties. According to the advices from Piedmont the war preparations in that country, as well as in France, require some further weeks of active effort for full completion. Clara Seyton, whose power of personation—a natural gift, unattainable by those who are not strangely plastic—is very extraordinary, offers her omnibusful of si ngular characters, for the fiat time to a London public, on Tuesday, at St. Martin's Hall. • In the principal towns of tlie province 4, carrying, alike, sketches from Regent street, our sea-ports, aud from the wilds of Yorkshire — from the United States on the one hand, and from France on the other—she has been met with admiration, laughter, and warm applause, under peculiar circumstances, and not to drive things to desperation, test him with the Permissive Ballot. It was at one time said, we believe not without some foundation of truth, that a permissive ballot was contemplated in the Government Bill, but it may be worth a moment's thought whether it shall not be made the testing point with candi dates, in certain cases. But let good care be taken that the word be not abused, A ballot permissive to individuals is as bad as no ballot at all. It needs but a moment's thought to understand that if a person has only the option of voting by ballot, and if he be dependent on any landlord, employer, mortgagee, lawyer, or banker,—he will receive a pretty definite hint, that for him to vote secretly will be as dangerous to his pecuniary interests as for him to vote the wrong way. Indeed, neither friends nor enemies of independent voting have ever seriously proposed a ballot permissive to individuals only. But a ballot permissive to entire constituencies is a very different thing. So far as that consti tuency is concerned, if it be of any reasonable size, it will be protected. There, at least, justice will be done to the mode of voting, which we insist on as essential, in the actual state of human nature, to thorough electoral independence. We should not be unwilling to vote, in certain cases, for a candi date who would sincerely endeavour to secure, in some places, a fair trial for the Ballot. But the fair trial itself must be made fairly obtainable. It has been proposed that three-fourths of the registered electors should have power to demand the Ballot. This is simply absurd. Three fourths of the electors is frequently the most which can be brought to the poll. How could they be expected to sign a memorial ? Moreover a large proportion, a majority of the electors, in boroughs which most need the Ballot, would for that very reason be afraid to append their names to a memorial or a petition. It is just where intimidation and corruption most prevail that only a small number of really independent electors dare petition for the application of the Ballot to their constituency. This points to giving to one-fourth, or at most to one third, of the average number of electors who have voted at con tested elections, the right to demand that the votes in that place shall be taken by Ballot. But the fairest plan of all is—and the one which we should insist on—that it should be competent to a very small number of electors to require of the returning officer that he should take by ballot the opinion of the whole constituency on the question whether they wished to adopt the practice at all future elections. If the majority of the electors really do wish it, then on what pre text can the most hardened old Whig persist in refusing it to that constituency ? They must obvi ously best know the difficulties under which they vote, and ought to decide on the best mode of exercising their suffrage. We should think any professedly Liberal candidate who refused to allow a constituency to decide by the Ballot whether it would have the Ballot or not, a political hypocrite. We would not have him at any price. Ho must be as averse to electoral independence as the most avowed old Tory, and we would rather have the latter than a man who professed liberalism, but who only wanted to keep us under his thumb. There has recently sprung into existence a very humane project of the simplest kind well im aginable, and yet at the same time one of the most practically and directly benevolent. It is sub sidiary to the temperance movement ; and so directly subsidiary to that movement that the Reverend Father TIIEOBALD MATHEWhiMSeIf need not have disdained the glory of suggesting the generous enterprise. The originator of this scheme, so far as we can learn, was Mr. CHARLES MELLEY, a young merchant of Liverpool. That benevolent young merchant at his own expense raised a public drinking fountain in Liverpool —a drinking fountain which he has since then (also entirely at his own cost) multiplied in that town to the num ber of thirty-five. Besides these thirty-five foun tains erected solely by the public spirit and private munificence of Mr. MELLEY, there are a few more erected by other means in Liverpool—increasing the aggregate of fountains in that town and its vicinity to somewhere about forty-five altogether. Else where the movement has already advanced, and is still steadily, in some places, rapidly advancing. There are twelve of these drinking fountains erected in Aberdeen ; there are two in Bolton ; there is one in Bradford ; there is one in Rochdale ; there is one in Edinburgh ; there are three in Burnley ; there are four in Birkenhead; there are thirty-two in Glasgow ; there are seven in Sunder land. Already, indeed, it is known that, in the aggregate, there are as many as 250 of these public drinking fountains erected, and henceforth perpetu ally flowing in various parts of the United King dom. No wonder that the movement should have at at length found its way to the - Metropolis. The marvel is rather that it should not have extended sooner as far as London and Westminster. As yet, in all this wide, wide world of London there is only one of these public drinking fountains in actual course of erection at the present moment. Glasgow, as we have seen, has already thirty-two fountains — Liverpool, as we know, has some forty-five in all— London has yet got—not quite one ! And that solitary fountain the capital owes, in a great mea sure, to the public spirit of Mr. GURNEY—the MELLEY of the Metropolis. Competent authorities estimate the expense of raising these fountains differently— the simplest not exceeding in cost £lO, the more ornately decorated requiring no more than £3O, at the most liberal calculation. As to the benefits likely to accrue from the more general adoption of the project, these have been admirably sketched out recently by the rector of St. Giles'-in the-Fields. "It is impossible," says that rev. gen tleman (Mr. TIIOROLD), "to over-estimate the benefits which will arise from the establishment of drinking fountains in various parts of the metro polis, more especially in localities where the poor are thickly planted and are constantly moving about to or from their work. When a man actually earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, he finds out what thirst means. It is no inconsiderable kindness to enable him to quench that thirst with out risk to himself or to his family. And, indeed, the mischief which these drinking fountains will obviate preponderates, in my own view of the case, very considerably over the positive advantages which they will confer. Drinking,' like many other bad habits, does not always spring from a love of vice for its own sake. No man is very bad all at once,' and no man is a drunkard all at once. It is the habit of drinking intoxicating liquors un der the pressure of thirst, in default of any better substitute, that has gradually turned a sober fellow into a drunkard almost without his know ing it; and I am convinced that hundreds of working men will only be too glad to avoid temptation and keep their money in their pockets, if they can quench their thirst with a dranght of cool pure water close by. Drinking fountains will pre vent drinking, and all who subscribe to them may have the satisfaction of knowing that by means en tirely unobjectionable they are lending a most real aid to the diminution of intemperance among workin g men." In testimony that these great advantages THE SUN, APRIL 19, 1859. LATEST NEWS. THE BOMBAY MAIL. The following telegram has been received by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com- I?anY : " MARSEILLES, TUESDAY MORNING. " The Ellora, with the mails from Bombay, arrived at Marseilles at '7 this morning. " The mails left for London at 10 a.m. " Thirty-three hours' quarantine enforced." THE CONGRESS. The following telegrams have been received at 31r. Reuter's office : ,PARIS, TUESDAY, APRIL 19. The Moniteur of to-day contains an article on 'the present state , of affairs : " The different European Powers have expressed themselves on the following four points as the basis of the deliberation of the Congress : "1. To concert means for the maintenance of :peace between Austria and Sardinia. " 2; The manner in which the evacuation of the Roman States by the French and Austrian troops may best be effected. " 3. Whether it is desirable to effect reforms in the internal administration of the Roman States and the other States of Italy whose administration may be faulty to such an extent as to a create a permanent and dangerous state of trouble and dis content, and what these reforms shall be. " 4. To substitute for the treaties between Austria and the Duchies a confederation of the Italian States for their mutual protection, both internally and externally. " Austria has since demanded the disarming of Sardinia, and then subsequently proposed a general disarmament. England modified Austria's proposal in the sense that it should only be necessary to admit the principle of a general disarmament, re serving the manner of regulating its execution until after the assembling of the Congress. France believes that Piedmont could not be invited to dis arm if she is not to be represented at the Congress. " The English Government having, however, in sisted upon it, France, willing to prove her con ciliatory disposition, has promised to request Pied mont to disarm, on the condition that Piedmont and the other Italian States be invited to take part in the Congress. The article goes oh to cite historical precedents, and hopes that this proposal will meet with the unanimous consent of the Powers. France has even added that she is disposed to assent to a general disarmament previously to the Congress." Everything, therefore, justifies the belief that, even if all difficulties are not yet removed, a definitive understanding will ere long be established, and that no further obstacle will oppose the assem bling of the Congress. MARSEILLES, MONDAY, APRIL 18. Advices have been received from Rome to the 16th inst. The departure of volunteers, which had hitherto been inconsiderable, now begins to in crease rapidly. 250 young men have left Perouse for Piedmont. A seditious riot took place the day before yesterday among the students of Bologna, and the troops were obliged to fire upon them. It is stated that several persons were wounded. Austria is increasing the garrison of Ferrara. Advices have also been received from Naples to the 16th inst. After a terrible attack of his malady, the King received the sacrament and afterwards blessed and bade farewell to his family. Signor Filangieri has been summoned to Caserta. TURIN, MONDAY. The Piedmontese Gazette of to-day publishes the answer of the Sardinian Government to the London Cabinet with reference to the request of the latter that Sardinia should consent to the principle of a general and simultaneous disarmament before the assembling of the Congress, This answer was 'orwarded by telegraph, and the following is its text : " If Sardinia had been admitted to the Congress on the same footing as the other great Powers, she would, like France, have accepted the prin ciple of a general disarmament in the hope that her assent would not produce consequences detrimental to Italy. Her exclusion from the Congress does not permit her to make any such engagement, and still less the engagement which England requires. However, to conciliate the efforts of England in behalf of the safety of Piedmont, and in order to maintain tran quillity in Italy, Sardinia is willing, if Austria will cease sending fresh troops into Lombardy, to undertake : " 1. Not to place her reserve under arms, as had been resolved on since the Austrian reserves had been called in. " 2. Not to mobilise her army, which is not on a war footing. " 3. Not to move her troops from the purely de fensive position which they have occupied for three months." The news received favour the expectation of an early assembling of the Congress. TRIESTE, APRIL 18. The shipchandlers of this town have received orders from London to be prepared for the arrival of English men-of•war. The Austrian Government has hired six Austrian Lloyd steamers. PIEDMONT. The /Void of yesterday publishes the following telegram : " GENOA, SATURDAY. " Six hundred Tuscan volunteers have arrived, and a second detachment of the same strength is hourly expected. "Letters from Milan state that the Archduke Maximilian has left for Vienna." FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY• BOURSE, April 18.—The market opened very steadily, and with an upward tendency, as it was reported that the Powers had agreed on the pre liminary conditions for the meeting of the Congress. Threes began at 67f. 60c., improved to 67f. 90c., and are now at 67f. 70c. Mobilier have been done at 667 f. 50c. to 685 f. ; Austrian, from 518 f. 75c. to 520 f. ; Orleans, 1,262 f. 50c. to 1,265 f. ; Lyons, 825 f. to 827 f. 50e. ; Northern, 902 f. 50e, to 905 f. The market continued firm till towards the close, when in consequence of numerous offers there was a slight decline. The following were the last quotations :- 41 per Cents. 95 Credit Fonder 645 Do. end month —lBelgian 41- 9B 38 3 per Cent 5....... 67 55 Piedmonteso (5) Do. end month.... 67 60 Roman Bank Shares 2760 --Austrian Criklit Mobilier .. 682 50 Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 677 50 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern . 907 50 .. 905 New ditto 720 .. 780 Lyons and Maditerranean B3O .. 830 .__ NOW ditto . • Geneva 515 .. 510 Midi .• Southern Western 530 . .. 532 50 Eastern - .. 627 50 Grand Central _ • • Sardinian 370 .. 370 —An Austrian - Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 71c. ; money, 25f.210. ; throe months, paper, 24f, 95c.; money, 24f, 900, AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 18. At noon to-day the royal mail steamship Niagara, Captain Millar, arrived in the Mersey, from Boston and Halifax, bringing dates from New York, by telegraph, to the 7th, direct from Boston to the 6th, and Halifax to the night of the 7th. Her specie is 31,250 dols., and 81 passengers. On the 14th inst., in lat. 48.58 N., ion. 28.38 W., passed the royal mail ship Arabia, and also a screw steamer, supposed to be the Jura. On the 15th, in lat. 15.16 N., 23.17 W., spoke the iron ship Jamaica, of Glasgow. On the 17th, at 11.50 p.m., passed the royal mail ship Africa, hence for New York. The screw steam-ship New York, from Bremen and Southampton, arrived at New York on the sth. The trial of Mr. Sickles for the murder of Attorney-General Key commenced on the 4th, but up to the latest the proceedings had not gone beyond the impanelling of a jury. One day was spent in obtaining five, and a second in securing three more. The case is expected to occupy a fortnight. The number of witnesses is very large. The elections, so far as they have gone, are highly favourable to the Republican party : There are several large crevices in the Mississippi, above New Orleans. On the 4th they were flooding many plantations at Diamond Island, and great fears are entertained of a break just above the city. Five hundred men are employed strengthening the levee. The river is nine inches higher than it was last year at Vicksburg. The St. Joseph Journal learns that an extensive war is on foot between the various Indian tribes on the Plains, headed by the Minnecougues, and that negotiations are now pending between the Chey ennes, Arapahoes, Crows, and other tribes. NEW YORK, APRIL 7. The steamer Indian, from Liverpool,, arrived at Portland to-day. Our cotton market is firm, and pretty active. Middling uplands, 121 e. Bread stuffs are generally unchanged, but flour is rather lower. At New Orleans, on the 6th, cotton closed firm, 12c. for middling. A cotton press and numerous adjoining buildings have been destroyed by fire. A large quantity of cotton was consumed. CONSUMPTION. We la§t year described from a paper addressed to the Academy . of Sciences, Dr. Churchill's method for treating consumption by means of hypophosphites. Since then, the efficacy of these salts has attracted the attention of medical men in various parts of the world ; and as their' purity is an essential condition of success in the treatment of that terrible disorder, we subjoin the follow ing method of preparation, published by the discoverer himself :—A tin vessel holding about four gallons, and twice as deep as it is wide, should be half-filled with a moderately thick lye formed by dissolving pure quicklime obtained from white marble (carbonate of lime.) Add about five sticks of phosphorus, and boil gently for 12 hours, restoring the water as it evaporates, and keeping up the supply of phosphorus, when ever the liquid ceases to evolve phosphuretted hydrogen gas. Filter the liquid when cool, and then pass a current of carbonic acid gas through it until the precipitate which at first forms be wholly re-dissolved. Boil again to expel the excess of carbonic acid, filter when cool, and evaporate to dryness in a water bath, or else boil until a film is formed, and crystallise. The salt thus prepared contains the pure hypophosphite of lime, without any free lime, which would be highly injurious to the patient. The hypophosphite of soda is obtained by adding carbonate of soda to a solution of hypo phosphite of lime, taking care to employ an excess of the latter, so that no portion of the carbonate may remain undecomposed, its presence being de trimental to the efficacy of the hypophospite. Whether the hypophosphite of lime or that of soda be used, they should be taken dissolved in half a tumblerful of milk, or else of sugar and water, at breakfast, along with the food. Dr. Churchill shows that the remedy is as certain in its effects as that of quinine in the ague, and will afford hopei of a cure even in the third and last stage of the disease, unless the patient be suffering from a complication of some other affections, or the extent of lung already involved by the tubercular deposit be too great to allow of recovery.—Gdignani. THIS DAYS MARICBTS HAY MARKETS. SMITIIFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 15s to £4 lOs ; clover, do., £4 Os to £6 ss; and straw, £1 4s to 88 per load. Trade steady. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £2lss to £4 lOs; clover do., £4 Os to £5 5s ; and straw, £1 5s to £1 9s per lead. A fair demand, at late rates. WHITECHAFEL.—Meadow hay, £2 lOs to £4 lOs ; clover do., £4 5s to £5 58 ; and straw, £1 3s to £1 78 per load. Both hay and straw moved of steadily at our quotations. COLONIAL. TEA.—An extensive business has been transacted, and the trade have bought freely, prices showing a further up ward tendency. Good common Congou is quoted 14 , 2 4 per lb. SUGAR.—The market has been moderately active, and prices of all descriptions are fully supported. The stocks on hand at the present time show a deficiency of about 4,200 tons compared with those of the same time last year. In the Refined Market there has been rather more activity, previous rates being well maintained. COFFEE.—The private contract market 'has been un favourably affected by the unsettled state of political affairs on the Continent. A fair supply has been received of the new crop of plantation Ceylon, and at public sale previcus rates were in most instances realised. RlCE.—There has been a steady demand for East Indian qualities, and quotations are firm. Rum.—Good qualities of Demerara have been inquired for, and prices range from 2s 2d to 2s 3d per proof amount llon. SALTPETRE. — The market has b een firm, a fair a of business having been transacted at fully late quotations. TALLOW.—Advices from St. Petersburg announce a fur ther advance in prices, and quotations are firmer. P.Y.C., on the spot, is now at Ms. April to June delivery, Ms 6d, and last three months, 55s per cwt. COAL MARK (Prices of Coal per Ton at s. d. Wylam l4 0 Howard's West Hart- ET—APRIL 18. the close of the market.) Walls End. ley 15 0 Haswell Gas. ll 6 Walker Primrose 11 6 Tanfield Moor 11 0 Holywell 13 6 s. d Benson 0 Hartlepool. l7 0 Harton Eden Main 15 6 Russell' Hetton 15 9 South Hartlepool. 15 3 Nixon's Merthyr 21 0 Powell'aDuffryn Steam 21 0 Keiper Grange l6 0 Kelloe l6 6 Heugh Hall 15 0 Trimdon Thornley.. l4 0 :et, 98—Sold, 68. Walls End. Haswell 17 6 Lambton. 17 6 Riddell 14 3 Braddyll's Hetton 16 0 Ships at maxko THIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON, April 19.—Wind this day at noon, S.E. ; light airs, and fine. PORTSMOUTH, April 18.—Wind N. to N.W.—Sailed— Queen of the Wave, for Madras. PLYMOUTH, April 18.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Her Majesty's ship Termagant, from Portland. Sailed—Eliza, Cape Rouge, and Birmingham, for Quebec; her Majesty's ship Perseverance, for Milford. FALMOUTH, April 18.—Wind variable.—Sailed —Ito land, and Electric, for New York; Gullerus, for Bangor, United States. CARDIFF, April 18.—Wind W.S.W.—Sailed—Lady Louisa, for Bombay; Moffat, for Rio Janeiro; Nos, for Rio Grande. CLYDE, April 18.—Wind N.W.—Arrived —Fleetwood, from Mauritius. SOUTHAMPTON, A pril 18 --Arrived — lndus, steamer, from Alexandria. GLOUCESTER, April 18.—Sailed—Ocean Wave, for Rio Janeiro. NEwrou'r, April 18.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Hermine, for Havannah. HOLYHEAD, April 18.—Wind William, for Quebec. (13i ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning. Wind NAV., fine. Arrived—Samel Fales, from Bombay. Calpe, screw steamer, off the port. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning. Wind E. ; tide first hour's flood ; fine. Arrived, April 18—Odin, from Frederickstadt ; Caren Cecilia, from Souraba. Arrived, April 19.—Justitia, from Frederiekstadt ; Janskia, from Ottendorf. Sailed—Quiver, for Corfu ; Southern Cross, for Ma dras. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. Wind N.E., moderate. No arrivals. Sailed—Ataburgo, the last one oft he outward bound. DEMONSTRATION TO SIR 301 IN LAWRENCE, BART., K.C.B.—At an influential meeting held yesterday at Willis's Rooms, it was unanimously decided to invite Sir John Lawrence to a banquet to be given by officers of the civil, military, and naval services, and by gentlemen connected with the official administration of India. It appears that Prussia is about to contract a loan equal to between £8,000,000 and £9,000,000 sterling. This will be likely to absorb the means of the Berlin capi talists, and to cause them at the first convenient moment to throw upon the London market any portion of the new Russian Loan to which they may have committed them selves. It appears by a circular from Messrs. Schlusser and Co., of St. Petersburg, just issued by Mr. Henry Willis, that the sup ply of oats will again be very large, be ing about 900,000 qrs. Tho supply of wheat will depend upon the demand. Of other goods the barks were expected to bring down 25,000 ton's of hemp, 12,500 tons of flax, and 210,000 qrs. of linseed, besides other goods. An early opening of the navigation was anticipated, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—(Tms DAY). The House of Lords met this day, according to usual custom, to prorogue Parliament, previous to the dissolution. The prorogation took place by Royal Commission. ROYAL ASSENT The Speaker and members of the House of Commons were summoned to hear the royal assent given by commis sion to the following bills : Exchequer Bills £13,274,400, Consolidated Fund Appropriation, Manor Courts (Ireland), Evidence by Commission, Medical Act (1858) Amendment, Indemnity, Nottingham Charities, Marriage Validity, Recreation Grounds, Local Government (Supplemental Act), Manslaughter, Public Offices Extension, Confirmation and Probate Act (1858), Naval Medical Supplemental, Revision of Penalties, Affidavits by Commission, Supperannuation, Combination of Workmen, Municipal Elections, Kirkwall Harbour, Londonderry Bridge, Sunderland and South Shields Water, Weymouth and Melcombe Regis Railway, • Glasgow Corporation Water, Travellers' and Marine Assurance and Accidental Death Insurance Amalgamation, Findhorn Railway, Banff and Macduff Railway, Great Western Railway, Falmouth Docks and Harbour, Norwich (City) Water, Glasgow Public Parks and Galleries, Kingstown Water, Mersey Docks and Harbour, Poole Water, Cork and Kinsale Junction Railway, People's Provident Society, Scarborough Gas, Standard Life Assurance, Tralee and Kilkenny Railway, Commercial Docks Amendment, Belfast and Londonderry Junction Railway, - Tavistock Markets, Leominster and Kingstown Railway, Great Northern Railway, East Suffolk Railway, Purday's Disabilities Removal, and several other private bills. The Lord Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Hardwicke, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Marquis of Exeter, and Earl Delawarr. ROYAL SPEECH. __ _ _ The LORD CHANCELLOR then read her Majesty's most gracious speech, which will be found in another column. At the conclusion of her Majesty's speech, Parliament was declared prorogued in the usual form. Their lordships then broke up. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(Tins DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at a quarter to two o'clock. --- THE POLYTECHNIC INkITIITION. _ ___ . _ Sir B. HALL moved that there be added to the return relative to the Polytechnic accident, kc., ordered on the 11th of April, a copy of the official report of Mr. Christo pher Eales, architect, made to the Coroner of Middlesex; as to the accident at the Polytechnic Institution.—Agreed to. THE DISSOLUTION. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said it was understood that the prorogation was to take place to-day, and he therefore wished to ask the honourable gentleman opposite when the dissolution would actually take place; when the notice of that dissolution would appear in the Gazette, and when the writs would be returnable? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said a council would be held on Saturday, at which her Majesty would be advised to dissolve Parliament, when the writs would go out on Saturday evening. POOR RATES. Mr. NEWDEGATE moved an address for a return of the number of persons rated to the poor, at the sums of £5O, £4O, £3O, £2O, £lO, and upwards, respectively, in each county or division of county, exclusive of the represented cities and towns in England. and Wales ; distinguishing, as far as possible, the number who are householders (in the same form as return No. 508, of session 1854).—Agreed to. Precisely at two o'clock Sir Augustus Clifford, Usher of the Black Rod, entered the house and summoned the Speaker and Members to the House of Peers, to hear her Majesty's Speech read by Commission, on the occasion of the prorogation of Parliament, and also the Royal assent to several public and private bills. The SPEAKER immediately left the chair, and accompa nied by the whole of the members present, about fifty, pro ceeded to the House of Lords. On their return the SPEAKER read the Royal Speech, and having shook hands with several of the members, left the house. A supplement to the Gazette of Friday has just been published, containing several orders and despatches received by the Secretary of State for India. Their con tents have been already anticipated. REPRESENTATIVE OF ROB ROY. -- We are assured that Major M'Gregor, a nephew of the late Mr. Dunbar, who lately arrived here, is a lineal descendant of - - Rob Roy. Whether he possesses the distinguishing quali ties of his illustrious progenitor we are unable to tell.-- John o' Groat Journal. THE WESTERN BANK.—The magnificent build ing of the Western Bank, in St. Andrew-square, was pur chased on Wednesday by Messrs. Gibson-Craig, Dalziel? and Brodie, W.S., for £15,000, for the Scottish WidoWS' Fund Assurance Society.--Glasgow Press. The sum of £1,205 has been raised in aid of the proposed memorial to the late Augustus O'Brien Stafford, M.P. The committee have contracted for the stone a nd timber work at Limerick Cathedral for £BOO, and for the stained glass for £4OO, which works are now in progress. About £4OO more is required to complete the designs of the architect. Mr. Edward M. Whitty, author of "Friends of Bohemia," and who is well known as a newspaper writer and critic, sailed from Liverpool yesterday for Australia. Mr. Whitty is the son of Mrl. auditJ..Whty, editor and pro prietor of the Liverpool Daily Post Journal. Next Friday, being Good Friday, the Stock Ex change will, of course, be closed. Some of the members are in favour of closing the house on Saturday, but the uncer tain state of political affairs will probably prevent the ador t AND CHINA MAILS.—S OUTHAMP TON, Indus, with the heavyportion of the East India has arrived. She brings lA i n o pial of THEaI thisn9 INDIA step.-ThChinae in spede, 1,400 bales of silk, and 140 passengers. "lei! dates are Alexandria, 4th ; Malta, Bth ; and. Gibraltar, 13tn inst. Exchange, 50f. THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY.—We have been requested to state that the National Portrait GallerYt 29, Great George-street, Westminster, will be open to the public by tickets on Easter Monday, Tuesday, and Wedne sday, from ten to five o'clock. Tickets procurable, as usual, from Messrs. Colnaghi, Messrs. Graves, and Mr. J. Smith (of New Bond-street), may be had also, on application, of Mr. Metchim, stationer, 20, Parliament-street, and of W. Dufour, stationer, 17A, Great George-street, Westminster) EMIGRATION TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—On Friday evening, the 15th inst., at Southampton, the emi grants for Table Bay were embarked on board the shiP Bride, numbering 254 souls, equal to 2061 statute adults, consisting chiefly of agricultural labourers, and female domestic servants, selected by the Hon. Mr. Field. Active steps are being taken in order to have the, Great Eastern ready for sea by the latter end of the month et July or the beginning of August. The unrestricted NI: dom of access which was given some weeks since by 'lli' company is now followed by a system of the most rigid e elusion. The directors (the Observer says) found that th°, privilege accorded to the public was grossly abused ; ha d been extended to a much longer period there would not h ave been a moveable or portable article left in the hull of 010 great vessel. Wherever there was a piece of moulding Of metal which could be wrenched off the visitors appeared to think it a fair trophy. The knobs and handles of the cabin doors rapidly disappeared, and Capt. Harrison's cabin Ws? literally stripped of everything beyond th e b ar e boards an partitions [ADVERTISEMENT.]—ThorIey's Food for Cattle is now beginning to seriously attract the attention of the farmer, breeder, and feeder of stock. Two years of uTrremitting care and attention hav e ena bl e d it s i n ventor to take high ground as a benefactor to these interests ; and notwithstand ing the many drawbacks, the malevolent shafts hurled against it and its probable utility, the food, from its admitted value, will become a necessity to the agricultural interest. Expeiience has proved, first, that it effects a considerable saving in the consumption of provender; secondly, that it produces health and vigour in all animals subjected to its influence : and lastly, increases in a remarkable degree all early development of fat. Mr. Thorley, originating th singularly efficacious food, aimed at a compound calcula to supersede, to a certain extent, the tedious and expensily mode then p r evailing of fattening stall-fed beasts. In 01 he happily succeeded ; and success prompted a very natural desire to improve iip se o ri n p t t h ie e n in o v f e d n a ti m on es , t s ie o anasitmoainiaTkheeit uagP: p 1 i h c a every s slow to encourage its us e , an d manifested a l sf b a l r e m to farmer Nva =w illingness to rely upon its efficacy, fancying he possesse? in the produce of his farm, ample materials whereby to fee l and fatten his c attle at a chea per rate than by tire eruployals or addition of ar tificial f ood. The tests to which this food h b ee n subjected have proved its perfect admissibility a s a ale% addition to the natural produce of the farm ; inasmuch all cases a subtraction of one-third may be safely sub to in the usual food of animals ; and that the produce realised, and rendered marketable in two-thirds of the t in 'u' ef , usually consumed in developing fat ; it, therefor e, been tioa apparent that a certain saving is effected by a fair applicoe,sct of Thorley'. Compounded Food. It is believed that the pr unprecedented low price of wheat has induc ed its very cvof ral use, in preference to any other of the usual articles food ; it is, however, much questioned whether whea t e is nourishing and proper food for the wo rkin g horse, Tts"_ll,re's it is not for cows or pigs. Mr. Thorley's h e althF oo d , e possessing the advantag e of g reatl y invigorating tl2. Wei ° g ri ra th ai e a n p physical si andcal p w o h w e e n r of miredal l atter of food, materially assists their digestive powers—a that the andand increasing great consequence, since it is an undoubted fact s tea c .__ se , e c n re t a le sin s nourishment contained in their ordinary food is lo eons:, quent upon the impaired or defective action of the _dr,°_r e ' it a an wi nn th als th i e s i: organs ; it will also be found to be particularly r°Lye in restoring to good working condition horses which been over-worked, or become weak from disease, _ r naturally of a feeble constitution. In cows its effpl e undoubted, indeed almost marvellous, nearly doublini.6_,%o yield of milk and butter, whilst it at the same time e a the quality of both. In pigs its fattening qualitiesna:iifest more remarkable, displaying in a few week s o its l d or Illa uw superiority over every other kind of comp. Such Inuj factured food adopted in the feeding of swine. a ..e _ hov , been its marked success, that at all ourgreatc cattle fed their cattle Royalty, noblemen, and others who have er . on Thorley's Food, have i n varia d bl a y o carri d off the p ti n have been awara,..o other prizes, whilst cards of common . The patronage of Ro e ) , di agriculturists, must prove clergy, and of our 1 g thisgentleman to pursue his onw great incitement 'alty of our principal nobilitY, course ; and mpound on a couthmatica " highly-favoured a shed patronage, high and distinguished patronage. he mayto conglidently rely, in pr.oducoiliglicl s