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. < • • • BOARD AND RESIDENCE. A Superior Home is offered to a Gentleman of steady habits, en gage 4 during the day, by a family residing near Regent's- Park. For a young man coming to London for the first time this would be found a desirable residence. Terms moderate. Refercaces to be exchanged. Address, J. I'., Wright's Dairy, Granby-street, Hampstead-road, N.W. GLENFIELD PATENT •STARCH, USED IN THE ROYAL LAUNDRY, AND PRONOUNCED BY HER MAJESTY'S LAUNDRESS to be • THE FINEST STARCH SHE EVER USED. Sold by all Chandlers, Grocers, Arc., &c. CONTRACT FOR SHIP CHANDLERS' GOODS. Department of' the - StOrekeeper-General of the Navy, Somerset-place, 25th, Sept., 1858. 'THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE. That on TUESDAY, the 12th October next, at Two o'Clock, they will be ready to treat with ' such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying her Majesty's Dockyards at Deptford, Woolwich, Chatham, Sheerness, and Portsmouth, with SHIP CHANDLERS' GOODS, under a Contract for twelve months certain, and afterwards until the expiration of three months' warning. Patterns and samples of the articles may be seen, and a form of the Tender, a schedule of the articles, and the conditions of the Contract obtained at the said office. No Tender will be received after Two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party attends, • or an Agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for ," and must be delivered at Somerset place, accompanied by- a Letter signed by Two responsible Persons, engaging to become bound with the Person tender ing, in the sum of £5OO, for the due performance of the Contract. PROFESSOR WILJALBA TO-NIGHT.—POLYGRAPHIC HALL, King William street, Charing-cross.—TWO HOURS OF ILLUSION.—For One Month only, previous to Professor Frikell's departure on a provincial tour. Every evening at 8; Saturday afternoons at 3. Private boxes, one guinea; box stalls, ss. ; orchestra stalls, 3s. ; area, 2s. ; amphitheatre, ls.—Places may be secured at the Polygraphic-hall, and at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. • ADELAIDE GALLERY CASINO, Lowther Arcade, Strand.—The above ROOMS are OPEN EVERY EVENING. The celebrated band of the Argyll Rooms will play, by particular desire, selections from Il Trovatore, La Fraviata, and Rigoletto. Conductor, 3lons. A. LAMOTTE. Principal cornet-a-piston, M. Boulcourt. Leader, Mr: Charles Hall. Doors open at half-past 8, commence at 9. Admission, ls. DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 3, TICIIBOURNE-STREET (Opposite the Hay market). Open daily (for Gentlemen only). LECTURES by Dr. SEXTON at Four and Eight o'clock, on important TOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, and PATHOLOGY (vide Pro grammes). • Admission ONE SHILLING. DR. KAHN'S NINE LECTURES ON THE PHILO , SOPHY OF MARRIAGE, &c., sent post free, direct from the Author, on the receipt of twelve stamps. • ALHAMBRA PALACE, Leicester-square. (The best Ventilated Buildingin Europe.) Lessees, Messrs. Ilowes and Cushing. - WALLETT'S GREAT EQUESTRIAN COMPANY Are still in their zenith of attraction—novelty trips the heels of novelty. Senora DELAVANTI in her incredible and terrific Ascent on the Atlantic Telegraph Wire, is daily and nightly hailed with cheers; Wallett, the Queen's Jester; Pastor, the Star Rider of America; Julia Tournaire, Cook, the wonderful Delavanti Family, Herr Footit, &c., appear at each Exhibition. TWO PERFORMANCES EACH DAY, ' Commencing at Half-past Two and Eight o'clock, p.m. Admission—Privato boxes, £1 10s. to .£2los. each ; stalls, ss. ; reserved seats, ss. ; second boxes, 2s. ; pit, is. ; gallery, 6d. Box-office open from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. No fees for booking places. Children under 9, half-price. ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL. —Director, Mr. R. DurrELL.—EXTENSION OF THE SUMMER SEASON FOR ONE WEEK MORE, by special desire.—THlS EVENING (Tuesday) Concert in:the Handel Orchestra, supported by Mrs. Lawrence, Mrs. P. Corti, Messrs. P. Corm, Russell Grover, C. Sloman, Elijah Taylor, and Master Haydn Corgi. On the Ballet stage, Mr. G. Thompson, will go through his wonderful evolutions.— Mr. James Robinson, the Great American bare back rider, will appear in the Cirque Imperial, in conjunction with the talented Company of Equestrians (including Madame Blanche, the Equestrian Magnet), under the direction of her Majesty's Clown, H. Croneste.—Splendid Illuminations.—Brilliant Py rotechnic Displays.—Dancing before and after the fireworks. —Two Bands.—Open every evening, wet or dry, from Monday . to Friday, at Seven ; Saturdays at' Three. Military Bands at Four.—Maypole and waltz dances by Chapino's Troupe until Six, when the usual entertainments commence.—Admis sion, One Shilling; Children, Sixpence. 'Open on Sunday at Five ; refreshment ticket, 6d. TNTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE -1 SOCIETY, 142, Strand, London, W.C., Feb. 25, 1858. — Established 1837.—Payment of Premium within Days of Grace.—lt always has been, and still is, the practice of this Society to pay claims under policies of assurance, notwith standing the death of the assured occurring within the 30 days of grace, and Wore payment of the annual premium, provided payment thereof be made, or notice of the death be given to the office before the expiration of such days of grace. For the Court of Directors, E. S. SYMES, Chairman. THE INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 142, Strand, London. Empowered by Act of Parliament, for LIFE ASSURANCE SURVIVORSHIP'S, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &c. DIRECTOns. EDMOND SHEPPARD SYMES, M.D., Chairman: W. Kenworthy Browne. Esq. Henry J. Hodgson, Esq. Samuel King-Church. Esq. Johd Moss, Esq. John Elliotson, M.D.,Cantab., John Symes, Esq. I Joseph Thompson, Esq. SECRETARY TO THE BOARD. Alexander Richardson, Esq. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. Augustus Blondel, Esq. AUDITORS. Professor Wheatstone, F.R.S., and Professor J. R a e'ord Young. MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL. J. Elliotson, M.D., Cantab., F. MS., 37, Conduit-street. ACTUARY. W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., &c. ASSISTANT ACTUARY. Barker Woolhouse, Esq. BANKERS. • Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Rowcliffe, Bedford row. The next Quinquennial Division of Profits will be declared in May, 1860. Examples of Bonus up to May, 1855 : Bonus in Permanent • Policy addition Bo nus in taken Age. Assured. Cash. Reduction to Sum of Annual out in Assured. Premiums. £s. d. £s. d. £s. d. 1838 55 3,000 867 17 7 428 1 4 56 3 8 1841 48 4,000 749 4 0 325 16 0 32 0 4 1845 50 2,000 232 18 0 156 15 0 16 6 0 1848 60 2,000 154 2 8 103 16 8 10 15 2 1851 5.5 2,800 120 17 0 72 14 6 6 7 7 1 The followinz are amonzst the advantages offered by the International Life Assurance Society:— The Society was established in 1838. Two-thirds of the profits are divided amongst the assured every five years. - its subscribed capital is five hundred thousand pounds. Its investments, at the date of the last annual report, amounted to one hundred arid seventy-one thousand pounds. Its annual income is ninety thousand pounds. The number of policies now in force exceed six thousand. About one thousand new policies are added every year. Since its commencement the Society has paid in claims upwards of three hundred and twenty thousand pounds. For prospectuses and every other information, apply to the Chairman, 142, Strand EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman. 142, Strand, London, W.C. ON PHYSICAL DISQI7 L IFICAT lONS, GENERATIVE INCAPACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. New and improved Edition, eularv,ed to 106 pares, ill astrated by 100 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel, just pub lished, price, free by post, is. THE SILENT FRIEND : A Medical Work on the physical exhaustion and decay of the frame, from the effects of solitary indulgence, infection, and the injurious consequences from the use of Mercury: with observations on the obligations of marriage, and directions for obviating cer tain disqualifications. By It. and L. PERRY and Co., Sur ge'ons. Consultations as usual (sec page 197). Sold by J. Allen, 20,. Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row; Sanger, 160, Oxford „ street; and Gordon, 146. Leadenhall-street, London. The CORDIAL BALM of SYRIACUM is employed in both sexes to renovate the impaired powers of life. Its action is purely balsamic: its power in reinvigorating, the frame in all eases of nervous and sexual debility, obstinate gleets, impo tency, barrenness, anddebilities arising from venereal excesses, has been demonstrated by its unvarying sucess in thousands of cases. Price Ils. per bottle, or four quantities in one for 335., which saves 11 R. The CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE, an anti- syphilitic remedy, for purifying the system, and is recom mended for any of the varied forms of secondary symptoms, such as eruptions on the skin, blotches on the head and face, en largements of the throat, tonsils, and uvula; threatened destruction of the nose, palate, &c. Its action is purely deter sire, and its beneficial influence on the system is undeniable. Price lls. and 335. per bottle, also a saving of lls. PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS constitute an effectual remedy in either sex forall cases of gonorrhoea, gleet, stricture, and diseases of the urinary organs. Price 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d.' and 11s. per box. Sold by. Daniel Church, 78, Gracechurch-Street, City ; Bart ley-Hooper, 43. King William-street (fourdoors from London brid7e); G. F. Watts' 17, Strand ; W. Sutton and Co., 10, Bow churchyard ; W. Edwards, 67. St. Paul's-churchyard ; J. Sanger. 150, Oxford Street ; Hannay and Dietrichsen, 63. . 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BEDFOED SQUARE, LONDON, Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Hono rary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Li centiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fear ful consequences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, which have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Manhood, and premature decay at all stages of life, than, perhaps, any other class of disease known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is particularly recommended to persons entertaining- secret doubts of their physical condi tion, and who are conscious of having hazarded the health, happiness, and privileges to which every human being is en titled. It is absolutely necesstu, that all men should know that there are principles of personal management which cannot be violated without incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of inconsiderate self indulgence, how those penalties may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, and how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and, above all, that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional derangement 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 ; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street ; or from the Author, who may be consulted daily, from 11 till 2, and from 6 till 8, 37, Bedford-square, London. at his residence, The work may be had in India, of Mr. Yon Litzky, Loll Bazaar ; Calcutta—Messrs. C.and J. 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Edited by W. HARRISON AINSWORTII, Esq. 'Contents for October. No. CCCCLIV. Memoirs of Marie Antoinette. . Raby Verner. By the Author of "Ashley,7 , The Princess Orsini. By Sir Nathaniel. Adventures of an Old Sailor. Who is Sane By Edward P. Rowsell. , Northern Lights. By Heberden Milford. Prison Hours. Mutations. Too Old. By Mrs. Bushby. Hans Ernst Mitterkamp : An Autobiography. A Peep at the Far West. By an Englisher. Chapman and Hall, .193, Piccadilly. • Sold by all Booksellers and Newsmen. F RASER'S MAGA 1854 CONTE ,ZINE for OCTOBER, 2s. 6d. ENTS. The Yellow Gown. A Ghost Story. By G. J. Whyte Melville. The Cruise of the Betsey. The —Murders at Deutz. Richard Ford.—ln Memoriam Itccent Travellers in Central. America. nanworth. Chapters Xl. XIV . Hints for Vagabonds. By one London : John W. Park, of Themselves.—The Mo selle. The Political Pulpit of the Civil War. How I killed a Cariboo. The Queen of the Forest. By W. Allingham. Sylvester Du Bartas. Cloudlight on the Bigi. British Columbia and Van couver's Island. r and Son, West Strand. VEIST'S RACING RECORD for 1858. Part VIII., price 3d., will be published on the Ist of October. The Record, containing a complete calendar of Sport in England, Ireland, and Scotland, in 1837, and nomi nations for 1858, may be had, price two shillings. W. Wright, Fulwood's Rents, Holborn. NO MORE PILLS nor any other MEDICINE for Indigestion (dyspepsia), habitual Constipation, Flatu lency, Acidity, Palpitation of the Heart, Torpidity of the Liver, Bilious Headache, Nervousness, Biliousness, General Dibility, Diarrhoea, Cough, Asthma, Consumption, Despondency, Spleen, &c. Send 2 penny stamps, and you will receive post free, Crl pages, the people's edition of "PERFECT HEALTH RESTORED," without pills, purgatives, or medicines of any kind, and with out expense, by a simple, pleasant, and infallible means which saves fifty times its cost in other remedies, adapted to the general reader. Supported by testimonials from the celebrated Professor of Chemistry, Dr. Andrew Ure, Dr. Shorland, Dr. Harvey, Dr. Campbell, Dr. Gattiker, Dr. Wurtzer, Dr. Ingram, and many thousand other respectable persons, whose health has been re stored by it after all other means of cure had failed. London : Barry du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, and through all Booksellers in Town and Country. THORLEY'S FOOD FOR CATTLE.— It is only a short time since this singularly efficacious article of animal diet first made its appearance; and already its celebrity is world-wide. It has been a subject of wonder, and has puzzled many a brain to explain how this has been brought about. Yet when we are acquainted with a few facts concerning - the food, our wonder will cease. A few days since, a gentleman wrote, stating that he had a horse which was a " perfifct hag of bones." He tried all kinds of things to get the animal into condition, but in vain. He then bought some of Thorley's food; and he says the effect was wonderful. The horse rapidly grew fat, and in the course of a few weeks had gained no less than 12 stones. Again we find at the late agri cultural shows at liirmingliam, Cardiff, fie., the animals which carried off the highest prizes had been partly fed with Thor ley's food for cattle. Such facts speak for themselves, and we are forced to the conclusion that its celebrity arises solely from its own intrinsic merits, and the great demand for it can proceed alone from the good opinion and testimony of those who have tried it. All parties interested in horses and cattle will do well to apply to 77, News - ate-street, London, for a pamphlet•which is sent post-free. NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE. :ndigestion (Dyspepsia), Constipation, Tint•;'eney, Phlegm, Nervousness, Biliousness, Liver Complaints, Hysteria, Neuralgia, Sleeplessness, Acidity, Palpitation, Heartburn, Eruptions, Impurities, Irritability, Low Spirits, Diarrhoea, Hemorrhoids, Headache, Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Spasms, Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy or at sea), Sinking Fits, Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption, also Children's Complaints, effectually removed by _ . n U BARRY'S delicious Health-Restoring REVALENTA ARABICA FOOD, which saves fifty times its cost in other remedies in illness, and is, moreover, the best food for infants and invalids generally, as it is the only food which never turns acid on the weakest stomach,nor interferes with a good liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner, and restores the faculty of digestion, and nervous and muscular energy to the most enfeebled. We extract a few out of the many thousand expressions of gratitude from invalids :—Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de Decles—" Y have derived con siderable benefit from Dit Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, and consider it. due to yourselves and the public to authorise the publication of these lines. Stuart de Decles." Cure No. 49,332. " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, ner vousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness at the stomach, and vomiting, have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food. Maria Jolly, Wortliam Ling, near Dips, Norfolk." .Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Na zing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Herts, a cure of extreme ner vousness, indigestion, gatherings. low spirita, and nervous fan eS. Cure No. 48,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liverpool : a cure of ten years' dyspepsia, and all the horrors ofnervous irritability. Cure No. 18,216. Dr. Andrew Ure, ofcon stipation, dyspepsia, nervous irritability. Cure No. 34,210. Dr. Shorland, of dropsy and debility. Cure No. 36,212. Cap tain Allan, of epileptic fits. Cure No. 46,116. Major Edie, of enlargement of the liver, and total prostration of strength. Cure No. 36,418. Rev. Dr. Minster, of cramps, spasms, and daily vomitings. Cure No. 26,118. Dr. - Harvey, of diarhoca and debility. Cure No. 39,628. Dr. Wurtzer, of consumption. Cure No. 32,830. Wm. Hunt, Esq., barrister, of paralysis. • Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, wood merchant, Frimley, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver de rangement, partial deafness. Cure No. 58,816. Mrs. Hoize, aged 107 years, of dyspepsia (indigestion), debility, irritability, and nervousness, which hail tormented her for 70 years. Cure No. 56,814. Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester, of two years' diarrhoea. Cure No. 52,612. The Dowa , Yer Countess of Castle stuart, of many years' nervous irritability, bile, andrindig•es tion. Cure No. 34,812. Miss Virginia Zegners, cured of con gumption, after her medical advisers had abandoned all hopes of recovery. Cure No. 180. "Twenty-five years' nervousness, constipation, indigestion, and debility, from which I have suf fered great misery, and which no medicine could remove or relieve, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's Food in a very short time. IV. B. Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London." No. 4,208. "Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms, and nausea, for which my servant had consulted the advice of many, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's health-restoring Food. I shall be happy to answer any inquiries. Rev John W. Flavell, Riddlington Rectory, Norfolk." No. 32,836. " Three years' excessive nervousness, with pains in my neck and left arm, and general debility, which rendered my life very miserable, has been radically removed by Du Barry's health restoring Food. Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Ross, Skib bereen." Cure No. 3.006. "Thirteen years' cough, indiges tion, and general debility have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Revalenta Arabica Food. James Porter, Athol street Perth." Important Caution against the fearful danger of spurious imitations : The Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood granted an injunction on the 10th March, 1854. against Alfred Hooper Neville, for imitating "Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food." Suitably packed for all climates, and with all instructions. In canisters, 11b., 2s. Od. • 21b.. 4s. 6d. ; 121 b., 225. Super re fined quality 11b., 6s. ; 21b., Ils. ; 51b., ; 101 b., 335. The 10Th. and 121 b. canisters are forwarded carriage free, on re ceipt of Post-office order. Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent street, London ; Fortnum, Mason, and Co., purveyors to her Majesty. 182, Piccadilly ; James Well, 4n, Sloane-street ; also at 60, 'Gracechurch-street ; 330, 430, and 451, Strand ; 94, Cheapside; and 60, Bishopsgate. street , 08, 150, and 198, Oxford-street. , , t3; ,‘ 410 ,_, . 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' a.m. a.m. London (Euston Stat.) dep. 9.20 Batley dep. 9.30 p.m. Dewsbury o 9.35 Warrington Liverpool Stockport Manchester Staley Bridge „ 3.45 Manchester Greenfield Marsden Huddersfield ...... .. „ 4.30 Warrington „ 11.15 Dewsbury Batley FARES FOR THE DOUBLE JOURNEY Covered Carriages. Ist Class. To Liverpo lls. — ol To Manchester and other Stations los. 20s. The tickets are not transferable, and are only available by the above Trains. . Particulars may be had at any of the Company's ,offices, or tickets and bills at the office of Mr. • Marcus, Crosby-hall chambers, Bishops ate-street, City. .By order. Euston Station, Sept. 22, 1858. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. OTTOMAN (SMYRNA TO AIDIN). The annual meeting of this company was hel(1 yesterday at the London Tavern ; Sir Macdonald Stephenson, the chairman, presided. Mr. J. L. ELKIN, the secretary, read the report. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, congratulated the proprietors on the favour able position of the company and on the progress that had been made in carrying out the undertak ing. Scarcely 12 months had elapsed since the commercial depression commenced which had the effect of discouraging the public from all under takings of the kind, and he thought, under the cir cumstances, they had attained a success which was not anticipated. The directors felt the utmost confidence in the success of the undertaking and made the necessary arrangements for constructing the works. They had deter mined on making the first 40 miles of line from Smyrna to Ephesus as soon as possible. The concession was a liberal one, and resembled, in some respects, that of the East Indian Railway. The Turkish Government had guaranteed 6 per cent. on the capital, and should the railway pro duce a dividend of more than 7 per cent. per an num the company would divide the surplus profits with the Government. The just mode adopted by the Turkish Government towards the companyhad given great satisfaction. There was no doubt what ever as to the soundness of the guarantee, for the net commercial returns of the line would in all pro bability amount to a much larger sum than the guarantee, which, so far as the Government was concerned, would be merely nominal. The impor tance of the undertaking could scarcely be over rated. Smyrna was a place of historical and poli tical interest, it was the ancient capital of Asia Minor, having t large export and import trade. The district to the south-east was very productive, and there was no reason why all the great modern improvements should not be introduced, which would have the effect of greatly facilitating trade, adding to the comfort of the people, and decreasing mortality. They had received a report from Mr. Meredith. It stated that the line was 70 miles in length, and for convenience of execution, and to make a portion of it available for traffic as soon as possible, it was divided into three sections, and de termined to complete the first section, 40 miles in length, from Smyrna to Ephesus. The second section, commenced at Ephesus, was eight miles in length, and the third section, about 22 mike in length, to the city of Aidin. The completion of the first section would enable them to open it for a lucrative traffic. The heaviest works On the first section were in an advanced state, and a large quantity of rails and sleepers had been delivered on the line. It was fully ex pected that the first section would be completed for traffic by the autumn of next year. There was a tunnel on the second section, which might be com pleted in two or three years. The works on the third section were light, and might, if desirable, be completed in 12 months. He said that Mr. Edwin Clarke had made his report, that part of the first section had beim ballasted and the permanent rails had been laid for a distance of upwards of two miles. The works on the remaining 32 miles on the first section were generally light, and might be com pleted by the autumn of next year. A temporary wharf had been constructed at Smyrna for landing materials. Two locomotives had been landed, and were now working on the line. A large proportion of the permanent way was on the ground, and the stores for the construction of the electric telegraph throughout the line were delivered, and a tele graphic communication with the station at Ephesus would be at once established. The next most im portant thing was the traffic. The law of increasing existing traffic by the construction of railways in Europe would scarcely apply in this case, because the circumstances were different. The facilities of railway communication were so much greater in proportion than the existing modes of conveying traffic, which were the slowest and most inconve nient that could be devised. The concessionnaires of the line had obtained data in respect of the traffic, which had been afterwards tested and confirmed by Mr. Wakefield. That gentleman had stated that the'price of the carriage of merchandise from the bazaar at Aidin to Smyrna, a distance of 72 miles, was £3 10s. per ton, or about ls. per ton per mile. He further stated that the means of transport was the sole limit to production, the district being very productive. The imports of Smyrna for one year, 1857, amounted to £2,535,000, and the exports to X 2,487,000. The number of vessels that visited the port in that year was 1,750, and the tonnage 437,000 tons. The population of Smyrna was 160,000, and of the city of Aidin 30,000. The population of the intermediate places was in proportion to their size and extent. The cost of the line would be about one-fourth or one-fifth of the cost of railways in England. They intended to introduce the principle of carry ing the largest number of passengers they could at the lowest rate. He could not help thinking there was a great analogy between their railway and railways in India. The mode of conveyance was the most costly, tedious, slow, uncertain, and un safe that could be imagined, while railways afforded the most perfect and the most rapid mode of con veyance. It was difficult to say what effect such a change in the mode of transit would have in deve loping the traffic and resources of the district. He had no doubt the traffic would increase with the increased facilities afforded. When the East Indian line was projected it was thought the trade would be principally in goods and minerals, and that the passengers would be inconsiderable ; but after the line was opened for traffic it was found that one million of passengers availed themselves of the facilities of the railway in the course of the year, and the goods and mineral traffic had vastly in creased. No one could say what their line from Smyrna to Aidin would coo, but he knew of no country in which the introduction of English capi tol would produce better results. He concluded by moving that the report be received and adopted. Captain WARREN seconded the motion, which was put and carried unanimously. On the motion of a proprietor, Mr. G.W. Browne was elected auditor, the remuneration being fixed at £5O per annum. The CHAIRALIN announced that Mr. G. F. Hol royd and Mr. A. Wilkin, who had given notice of their intention to become candidates for seats at the board, had withdrawn their opposition as can didates. _ _ The meeting was then made special, for the pur pose of electing six directors, who would continue m office till March, 1862, the present directors being eligible for re-election. Captain WARREN said he had much pleasure in proposing the election of Sir M. Stephenson as a director of the company, and in doing so he con sidered he was promoting the best interests of the company. (Hear.) Mr. G. THOMSON seconded the motion, and it was carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN then proposed that Captain D Warren, Mr. P. P. Blyth, Mr. E. C. Smith, Mr, W. G. Thomson, and. Major-General Tremenheere be elected, directors of the company. The motion was seconded and carried unani mously.. • _ _ _ _ _ On the motion of Mr. A. Beattie, seconded 137 Mr. Toulon, a vote of thanks was passed to the chairman and directors, and the meeting separated. THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. • LEEDS, MONDAY AFTERNOON. The eight sectional meetings of the British Asso ciation, which are going on contemporaneously in different apartments of the Town-hall, are well attended, the interest in the proceedings, which rather flagged on Saturday, being as great as on either of the preceding days. Several additional names have been added to the list of arrivals, in cluding the following. :—The Earl of Carlisle, Col. Rawlinson, K.C.B. the Rev. A. Hume, D.C.L., Mr. T. Avismi, F.S :A.; and Mr. Josh. Mayer (who attended as delegates from the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire) ; Dr. Achille Foville, jun., Paris ; M. T. J. Silbermann, College of France, Paris ; Dr. Havenclever, Aix-la-Chapelle ; Mr. J. Wether al, United States; Mr. W. Collett, Rio de Janeiro ; Dr. Bitigley, Sheffield ; Rev. Professor Clark, Cambridge University ; Mr. Robert P. Greg, F.G.S., Manchester; Dr. J. P. Joule, F.R.S., Man chester ; Dr. A. Matthieson, London ; Ven. Arch bacon Musgrave, &c. In Section A, which is for the consideration of mathematical and physical science, the following papers were read on Saturday :—By the Rev. Dr. Booth, " On the Mutual Relations of Inverse Curves and Inverse Curve Surfaces ; " by Colonel Sykes, " On the Desirableness of Renewing Balloon Ascents in England.,,kr, Meteorological Objects ;" IT the Rev. - J. mini e, ';On the Configuration of the Surface of the Earth ;" and Colonel Sykes called attention to Astronomer Broun's having successfully established a meteorological and mug netical observatory in Travancore, at 6,200 feet above the level of the sea, and to the result of magnetical observations at. Trevandrum, as com municated in a letter from Mr. Broun to General Sir Thomas M. Brisbane. Among the papers read in the same section to-day have been the following:--By the Rev. Dr. Booth, " On a general method of deriving the Properties of Umbilical Surfaces of the second order, having three unequal axes, from the Properties of the Sphere ;" by Sir David Brewster, " On the use of Amythyst Plates in experiments on the Polariza tion of Light ;" by Professor Hennessy, " On the Heating of the lower strata of the Atmosphere by contact with the Earth's surface ;" and " On the Decrease of Temperature over elevated land ;" by Dr. Gladstone, " On the Fixed Lines of the Solar Spectrum." Professor STEVELEY read a paper by Mr. A. J. Cooper, M.P., "On the Parhelia and ascending nodes of the Planets." In Section C (Geology) to-day the first paper was by Professor Phillips. It was an interesting notice on some phenomena at the junction of the granitic and schistose rocks in West Cumberland, and remarks on the slaty cleavage in the Lake dis trict. This was followed by a paper by Mr. H. Sarby, " On some Peculiarities m the Arrange ment of the Minerals in igneous Rocks, and on a new Method of determining the Temperature and Pressure at which various Minerals and Rocks were formed." The following were also appointed to be read in this section to-day :—By Professor Harkness, " On the Distortion of Fossils ;" by Pro fessor King, " On the jointed Structure of Rocks, particularly as displayed in some Localities in Ireland ;" by Mr. David Page, "Further Contribu tions to the Palaeontology of the Tile-stones, or Siluro-Devonian Strata of Scotland ;" by Pro fessor Huxley, " Observations on the genus Pteraspis ; " by Mr. Charles Moor, "On the Conglomerates near Frome and their Organic Remains ;" by Mr. W. H. Daily, "On two New Species of Crustacea from the Coal Measures in Queen's County, Ireland, and some Remarks on Forms allied to them ;" and " On the Fructification of Alethopteris (Cyclop teris) Hybernica, from the Upper Devonian or Lower Carboniferous Strata in Kiltorkan-hill, county Kilkenny ;" by Mr. Lucas Barrett, " On the Atlas and Axis of the Plesiosaurus ;" by Mr. Edward Charlesworth, "On some remarkable Yorkshire Fossils, including the unique Plesiosauri in the Museum at York, with pictorial Restorations by Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins, of the Crystal Palace ;" by Mr. S. Baines, ." 0 Yorkshire Flag with Fossils ;" and by the Rev. W. Thorp, ,6 On the Permian System in Yorkshire." In Section D (Zoology and Botany) on Saturday the following papers were read :—By Mr. R. H. Meade, "On some Points in the Anatomy of the Arancidoe, or true Spiders, and especially on the Internal Structure of their Spinning Organs ;" by Mr. H. T. Stainton, "On the Formation of the Cells of Bees ;" by the Rev. Dr. Whewell, " On the Cells of Bees," by Mr. R.L. Ellis; by the Rev. T. Hincks, "On the Reproductive Organs of Sertu• laria Tamarisea ;" by to Rev. F. F. Statham, " On the Occurrence of Bombyx Mori in this Country;" by Mr. Samuel Smith, "On the Formation of Or ganic Balls found on the Shores of the Mediter ranean ;" and Mr. Henry Peckitt read some notes on Earth Worms and Larvae. In the same section to-day the following papers were to be read :—By Dr. Lankcster, "On the Epidermal Cells of the Petals of Plants, by Tuffen West:" by Mr. R. Wariington, "On some Addi tions to his Portable Microscope ;" by Mr. C. Brooke, " On some Improvements in the Stage of the Microscope ;" by Mr. W. Ladd, " On a Mag netic Stage for the Microscope ;" by Mr. R. War rington, "On the Multiplication of Aetinia in Aquaria ;" and by Mr. G. llyndman, " Report of the Belfast Dredging Committee." Professor OWEN nest read an elaborate paper, by Mr. G. A. Lewes, " On the Spinal Chord as a Scnsatorial and Volition Centre." The writer maintained, from practical ex periments and obser vations, that the spinal chord was a centre of sen sative volition both in man and animals. Some discussion followed, in which Mr. T. P. Teale, of Leeds, surgeon (who was in the chair), and Mr. T. Nunneley, also of Leeds, surgeon, controverted the conclusions at which Mr. Lewes had arrived. In section E (Geography- and Ethnology) en Saturday Sir Roderick Murchison, the President, gave some particulars from a letter dated " Simla, 21th of July," which he had received from Dr. William Russell, the well-known correspondent of the Times, confirming the rumours of the death of M. Adolphe Schlagentweit, at Yarkand. He (the President) regretted to say that there was no longer any doubt of the death of this adventurous traveller. After penetrating as far as Yarkand, where no European had ever been before, he was living in the suburbs of the city at a period when a war broke out between the Yarkandese and the Chinese, and he was slain by a number of the former, who sur rounded his house in the night-time. Fortunately, the chief portion of his papers would be saved, M. Schlagentweit having left them, before proceeding to Yarkand, at a place within British influence. His travels were connected with a geographical discovery of much importance, as no region so far to the North-West of India as Yarkaud had been previously approached by a Eurepean. M. Schla entweit and his two brothers had tra ve ll e d by:the authority and at the expense of the East India Company. The brothers did not penetrate as far as Yarkand, and they had since returned to Europe. Mr. 'IEATES read a translation which he had made of a paper written by Dr. S. Muller, and oi -1 titled" A Geognostic Sketch, of the Western Portion of Timor." • A brief discussion afterwards arose relative to the island, which is situate in the Indian Archi pelago, between India. and Australia, and about 200 miles distant from the latter country. Mr. Crawfurd spoke of Timor as a poor and wretched place ; but Mr. Marsh, M.P., who had visited it, thought that this was a more unfavourable view than the island justified. He mentioned that the natives were very similar to the aborigines of Northern Australia, and also stated that the Timor pony, though rather diminutive, was a beautiful specimen of the horse tribe, being. in fact, a minia ture Arab. Mr. H. CONYBEARE read a paper "On the Phy sical Geography of the Neighbourhood of Bombay, as affecting the design of the Works recently erected for the Water Supply of that City." The most interesting portion of the paper was that in which the author described the formation of the works for supplying Bombay with water, of which works he was the successful engineer, The water is collected in an immense reservoir, the largest in the world, abOut 14 miles from Bombay. This reservoir is made by damming up a portion of the valley of Ghierka, and the full extent of it is 1,294 acres. As the rains fall, as it were, only once in a year, it is necessary to have a store of water for a twelverhontli's supply, and this is now supplied. Mr. GALTON read a paper by Mr. J. Spotswood Wilson, " On the General and Gradual Dessication of the Earth and Atmosphere." The writer drew attention to the fact that those who had traTelled in continental lands, especially in or near the tropics, had been forced to reflect on the changes of climate that appear to have occurred. There were parched and barren lands, dry river channels, and waterless lakes, and not unfrequently traces of ancient human habitations, where large populations had been supported, but where all was now deso late, dry, and barren. He had been first led to a consideration of the subject by phenomena of this nature that hh.d come under his own observation, particularly in Australia, and he soon discovered that dessication, so very observable there, was too extensive and permanent to be explained by occur rences of an irregular nature. Remembering also that similar appearances had been observed in other parts of the world, for which no satisfactory cause was assigned, he had collected the observations of travellers in r9gard_ to various countries, and en- deavoured, by the evidence they afforded in the fail ing of the water systems, to establish the theory of a general and continuous decline of the humidity supported by the atmosphere, and then to discover in the operation of some law of our terrestrial sys tem the cause of dessication in both land and atmosphere. After quoting largely from the works of various travellers and writers (among he latest of whom was Dr. Livingstone), and giving interesting descriptions of dried-up rivers and desolated tracts of country in Australia, Africa, Mexico, and Peru ;which had formerly been inhabited by man, Mr. Wilson proceeded to give his own theory as to the cause of this desiccation, contending that the upheaval of the land, the waste by irrigation, and the destruc tion of forests, all of which had been put forward as the cause, were insufficient to account for what had been described. He remarked that the amount of aqueous vapours that can be borne by the atmo sphere at any time must be in proportion to the mass of the atmosphere itself, from which it fol lowed that-a realm - tit:ol4pr the mass of the atmo sphere would produce a corresponding decline in the amount of hydrous vapours absorbed and supported. If, therefore, a physical operation involving a waste of the atmosphere could be discovered, it might be concluded that at least one cause had been found for its declining humidity, and a decline of tem perature was another cause. Agreeably with these conditions it was learnt that a vast amount of the atmosphere, and of the ocean likewise, had be come solidified. The rocks, in the history of their own formation, bore witness to the tendency to this transmutation in the character of both.. The de ments of water were hydrogen and_oxygen, and the atmosphere was composed of oxygen, 'nitro gen, and carbonic acid, in which hydrous vapours mingled in varying quantities, all of which had entered largely into the formation of rocks and minerals. The coal plants had absorbed largely all the elements of air and water, but particularly of carbon, of which coal contains on an average from 80 to 90 per , cent. Carbon united with oxygen formed carbonic acid, which, combined with lime and solidified, formed more than two-fifths of all limestone rocks. Oxygen was said to form half of what is known of the material of the globe. • Be sides existing in air and water, it formed a part of most earthy substances, and of nearly all the pro ductions of the animal and vegetable kingdom. The solvent power of water was very great, and acted particularly on the calcareous and alkaline elements of stone, especially when it held carbonic acid in solution, which was abundantly supplied to almost every large river by springs, and was col lected by rain from the atmosphere. The oxygen of the atmosphere was also gradually absorbed by all animal and vegetable productions and by almost all mineral masses exposed to the open air. Hence the equilibrium of the elements of rocks was destroyed and finally reduced into powder gind rendered fit for soils. From such facts as he had adduced, and others, Mr. Wilson concluded that there was a gradual solidifying of the aqueous vapours, and consequently of water, on the face of this terrestrial world, which he inferred was ap proaching a state in which it will be impossible for man to continue-an inhabitant. Yet, he added, we should feel satisfied with the, prospect that the term of our occupation is not yet half expired. Races preceded us in the chain of existence, and there was no reason-to suppose that others would not follow. Indeed, some of those that are destined to succeed seem to be already in existence, and have their home in the icy sea, where they enjoy a climate which exceeds man's endurance. Various considerations lead to the conclusion that the fit ness of the earth for man may extend to a perio 1 much longer than that in which it has been occu pied by him, nor will that term end till after the Polar bear, the walrus, and the narwal have be come inhabitants of the-tropics. Sir R. MuncinsoN said that whatever was thought of Mr. Wilson's theory his facts were very good. (Hear.) It was certainly not a very plea sant idea to think that our race was to go out of existence—that it was to die through thirst. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) Geologists would be disposed not at all to agree with Mr. Wilson in disavowing the influence of the elevation of land in causing some of the effects alluded to ; but they certainly believed that the quantity of water now existing was very much what it was when the world began. (Applause.) This morning the proceedings in section E (Geo graphy and Ethnology), were commenced by Lieut.- Colonel James, R.E. the superintendent of the Ordnance Survey, delivering a brief address " On his Geometrical Projection of Two-thirds of the Surface of the Earth." Dr. NORTON SHAW next read a communication which had been received by Sir R. Murchison from Mr. Asa IVhitney, of New York, " On the Forma tion of a Railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, through the British Possessions of North America." The writer stated that he had for a number of years exerted himself to induce the Government of the United States to construct a railway to the Pacific through their own posses. sions, but, as there was now no probability of their doing so, he desired to urge the English Govern ment to avail themselves of the territory which they possess in North America to undertake the work, being convinced that it would be attended with very great advantages, and would give Eng land a control over the commerce with all Asia. The PRESIDENT said, he should be much de lighted to see such a project carried into execution, but he thought it very probable that public men might entertain serious objections to it at the pre sent time. There might be considerable inter national difficulties in the way ; for instance, it might be found impossible to construct the line with out deviating a little into the territory of the United States, and it was very desirable that any mixed interest should be avoided. (Hear.) llc c 1.1 1 -(1 say nothing further upon the subject than this, that it would be his duty to communicate the paper to Lord Derby, and he hoped it would receive his lordship's earnest consideration. (Hear, hear.) If it should be possible that the colonial Government of Canada, aided by the Home Government, could en tertain the project, the object of Mr. Asa Whitney would be fully answered. He (the chairman) feared—and he believed this was the opinion of most English people—that the Government could not do anything in the matter, and the scheme * seemed too gigantic for any joint-stock company to undertake. He certainly hoped, for the interest of Europe and the nations of the world generally, that something, somehow or other, should be done sooner or later to realise the project. (Hear, hear.) Mr. R. MONCKTON MILNES, M.P., said, the de velopment of British Cohunbia and the adjoining island (Vancouver's Island) would certainly give to such a project as had been described a prospect of reality which otherwise would have been very visionary. He thought it most probable, if such a scheme was to be realised in British teiritory, it should begin _at that point at which one would naturally suppose it should have ended, namely, on the Vancouver's Island side, and not on the Halifax side. General CHESNEY then read a paper " On the Extension of our Communication by means of Elec tric Wires," and a discussion afterwards arose, in the course of which Sir Henry Rawlinson expressed his belief that within the next 12 months there would be perfect telegraphic communication be tween England and India. It being now three o'clock the discussion on these ethnological subjects was, after a few observations from Admiral Fitzroy and Sir H. Rawlinson, post poned till this day. The sittings of the sections will conclude this day (Tuesday), and the closing meeting of the Asso ciation will be held to-morrow (Wednesday). This evening Professor Owen will give a discourse in the Town-hall " On the Fossil Quadrupeds of Aus tralia." [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment.—The most soothing, cooling, searching, and' healing application hi therto discovered. The properties of the unguents used by the people of the East have for ages past had the praise of all who have witnessed their miraculous effects; but, notwithstanding their great excellence, their curative powers are not so manifest, their admirers not so numerous, their virtues not so widely celebrated as those of Holloway's extraordinary ointment. It is known, used, and appreciated in every part of the globe. It cures all eruptions,wourids, sores, ulcers, and tumours. It gives motion to stiffjoints, restores the despairing - to health and the enjoyments of ife, when all its pleasures seem to have vanished from them for ever PRICE 4 D • STAMPED, SD. THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. VALENTIA, SEP T. Since my last communication no improvemen has taken place in the electrical condition of the Atlantic cable, nor indeed until within the last few days have any operations or experiments (beyond those the results of which have already been com municated) been undertaken to ascertain the nature of the leakage in the cable, or the possibility of working through it in its present condition. Up to yesterday everything remained in static quo. During each alternate hour the regular succession of signals previously alluded to are despatched, and during the intervals the galvanometers of Professor Thom- son are watched for some indications of currents from the other side; but these, unfortunately, are seldom seen at all, and still more rarely can these slight deflections be depended on as currents from Newfoundland. However, there is still this much cause for satisfaction that the fault does not get worse at any time, while it occasionally for a time improves, considerable and distinct " reversals" from Newfoundland being discernible. The opinion prevalent among many here that the principal fault in the cable is comparatively near shore daily gains ground, and, though Professor Thomson's opinion is directly opposed to such a supposition, I cannot help thinking that there really is more in it than was at first supposed. For the reasons given in my last letter there is, no doubt, a fault existing in the cable upon the bank which divides the shore water from the depths of the Atlantic, about 220 miles from the...lrish coast ; but this fault, without the , existence of several minor faults nearer shore would not account for the total interruption of the currents sent from either termini. All that Professor Thomson, Mr. Henley, or Mr. Varley can say re specting the fault is that it gives a resistance to the electric current equal to 300 miles of the cable. But it does not therefore follow that the interruption is 300 miles away ; for, by passing the current through a few yards of fine wire, or a basin of salt water, the very same amount of resistance can be produced. Though the distant fault may tend to interrupt the small portion of the electric current which passes the nearer faults, yet, if these more accessible ones were repaired, it is the opinion of many here competent to judge of the matter that the supposed loss of in- : sulation out at seawould not materially affect the,' working of the line. The more recent advises from Newfoundland decidedly tend to strengthen th e opinion that the main interruption is close to.. this place. Mr. Cyrus Field, in writing from Araerica, says that "no messages have been received from Ireland since the Ist inst., though the insulation of the cable remains perfect." Now, according to the experiments of Prof. Thomson and others, it has been ascertained that a loss of insulation 300 miles from either shore would affect the currents sent from both ends equally, whereas if the defect were close to either shore the loss of insulation would only be apparent at the terminus nearest to it. A very similar defect to the present occurred a short time ago in one of the North Sea cables. Mr. Varley and other scientific gentlemen tested the cable, and pronounced the defect to be 170 miles off. The cable was accordingly underrun and cut at a dis tance of 30 miles from the shore, when it was found , that the defect was much nearer, and after a variety of other experiments had been tried the faulty place in the cable was discovered, not out at sea at all, but actually in the portion of the cable buried in the beach. The above incident, which I believe to be substantially correct, should teach the autho rities of the Atlantic Telegraph Company not to pronounce their scheme a failure until the theoreti cal experiments (which are but uncertain guides, no matter how ably conducted) are verified in some measure by practical tests. The practical tests can not be obtained - without underrunning and cutting the cable for some distance from the coast. This operation will undoubtedly require fine weather to rondo 4 -certainly uttorregfill_ Thc iumnl season of fine weather, of which there has been very little this year upon the coast, is now almost over, and people down here already begin to look out for the commencement of those violent storms which render these parts of the Irish coast exciting, if not amusing places of residence during the win ter time. During October, which here as well as in other parts of the United Kingdom is usually a a fine month, much might be done towards under running and repairing at least some of the damaged portion of the cable. There is certainly no time to be lost, for every week that the cable remains at the bottom diminishes the chances of its being raised from the more considerable depths should it be ne cessary to do so. The Cork steamer, which arrived here on Monday last, brought Mr. Henley's gigantic magneto-electric machines, which as soon as they were landed were put together and got into opera tion on the following day. The machines are a slight modification of the magneto-electric machines which in place of batteries are used for working over all the telegraph lines in Ireland, though of course on a gigantic scale, being the largest and most powerful instruments of the kind yet con structed. The two permanent magnets, from which the electric induction is obtained, are each com posed of 30 horse-shoe steel magnets two feet and a half long and from four to five inches broad. The induction coils attached to these each contain about six miles of wire. Some idea of the power of this instrument may be gathered from the fact that one shock from it, if passed through the human body, would be sufficient to destroy life. With the aid of this instrument Mr. Henley hopes to be able to work through the cable during some part of each day, even if the fault should prove irreparable. The smaller in4rnmentc of tlif.,‘ same kind, which are used by the Magnetic Telegraph Company, have been found to work better over badly insulated lines than any other description of instrument. What is undoubtedly true of faulty overground lines may prove so also of the Atlantic cable ; and certainly, as far as the experiments have already gone, Mr. Henley's instrument seems likely to work through the line in its present condition if anything will do it. A variety of experiments have been tried lately, both by Professor Thomson and Mr. Henley, to discover the relative tower of different electrical currents to pass a fault. For this purpose the wire connected with the cable was stripped of its gutta percha covering in one place and the fault immersed in water. The relative amount of electricity which passed by the fault into the cable was accurately measuredby a delicate galvanometer. It was found that a current of elec tricity direct from the battery cells was hardly per ceptibly reduced in quantity after passing by a break in the insulation an eighth of an inch long ; the induced current from Mr. Henley's magneto electric machine was slightly interrupted in passing the same fault, but the high tension induced coil currents, which have been used from the first in sending messages from both sides of the ocean, were found to be almost entirely stopped by it. These experiments, besides showing the kind of electricity best adapted for working through the cable in its present defective state, also show most conclusively that one defect in the insulation, however great, would not be sufficient to interrupt the communica tion ; so that there must be several faulty places in the line. That some if not the majority, of these places are close to the land there can be very little doubt. The soundings from Valentia for about 60 miles to sea show a rocky and irregular bottom, which, indeed, the precipitous cliffs which line the coast, and the numerous lofty islands which sur round it in all directions, would show without the use of the sea lead. Over these submarine hills and valleys a very strong current sweeps, to resist which it would require a cable at least three times as thick as the one now in use. The small piece of the At lantic cable which connects Valentia Islandwith the mainland, a distance of about an English mile, is repeatedly being cut and injured by the tide drift ing it across the rocky bottom, and it is quite pos- ,si p ... e • -.\-----) r, r Ac j oria,, t zt s'ble to suppose that the rapid eurrent-6 from the broad estuary of Dingle Bay ma)\ll;* --- ettier .!•atne edict upon the thin Atlantic cable which gis across its mouth. It is the unanimous opinion of nearly all here that the laying of 10 or 12 miles of fie thick shore-end of the cable would tend perma nently to obviate a great many of the difficulties with which the electrical department of this under taking has been hitherto interrupted. There arc few parts of the United Kingdom that are so thorov"l7 'oaknown and ont-of-the-way as - Kerry ; indeed, until Valentin. was fixed upon as the European terminus of the Atlantic Telegraph, this part of the world was as little known and as little- visited by people from England as the wilds of Siberia. Yet, on the western coast of Kerry there is much to interest the lover of the picturesque, and. a variety and pecu liarity about the scenery which cannot fail to in terest the most used-up of tourists. The thousands who annually do the hackneyed lions of Kilarney little think that, beautiful as they are, they see but one of the picturesque places of Kerry and meet with the very worst specimens of Kerry people. For Killarney is a place that lives entirely by the " tourist trade," and, like most parts of the world where this is the case, the peasants are usually qualified professors of the lucrative arts of lying and cheating. To see the beauties of Kerry to-per fection the tourist should penetrate into the so called wilds beyond the lofty ra - age of 21laegilli cuddy's Reeks, but among these " wilds" he will be surprised to find thickly scattered through the mountains and bogs a peaceful, industrious, and thriving agricultural popuktion, and the district traversed by roads which, though engineered among difficulties of no common kind, for stability and regularity 'night put to shame the roads of the most civilised and p apulous counties in Eniland ; the towns, of which. Cahireiveen and Knight's -town are fair specimens, are small, being more places of trade than of residence ; but small as they arc they contain- the elements of progress and improvement. instead of those of deesy, as is too often the case With towns_ A few years have made a sur prising aange for the better in this district, which' in the latter days of O'Connell obtained an unen viable :notoriety for wretchedness and want of cleanli cress, and a few years more will see both Cahir , .th-een and Valentia large and populous towns. The l aaul in the barony of Iveragh, in which Va lenti a. is.situated, though not rich, is improvable, and even in its present condition is eminently ada pied for grazing and rearing live stock, which, with butter, front the staple articles of trade h( ;re. Of Valentia harbour, the most westerly ]'.arbour in Europe, and , probably one of the most sheltered in the United Kingdom, most people have heard, though for some unexplained cause it is seldom visited by ships, and is altogether neglected by the Government and the Harbour Commissioners. Providence helps those who help themselves. The people of Galway, though far from the most westerly port, and even without a' harbour in which a ship can safely anchor, come forward and assert their town to be the natural highway between the United Kingdom and Ame rica, and they are so far believed that a line of Transatlantic steamers is placed upon the station. Then we hear, for the first time, that the steamers cannot run during the winter if the Government do not turn the exposed roadstead of Galway into a harbour by building an expensive breakwater. With less money than'this work will cost a railway could - be built to Valentia, and the harbour made one of the finest in Europe. A scheme for con structing a railway between Killarney and this place has lately been set on foot, and, as it is warmly supported by all the landed proprietors of the West of Kerry, it will, in all probability, be soon carried out. There are certainly no engineering difficulties against it, for the whole length of forty miles can be constructed without making a single tunnel, and but one cutting of any consequence. Regarding the scheme as the first step towards establishing a western harbour and packet station at Valentia, it is likely to prove a beneficial one, both to those engaged in forwarding it and to the district, which, like a great many others in this island, is rich in minerals, and but requires facilities of communica tion to develope them to advantage. Slate of a superior quality abounds throughout the whole barony, and, indeed, is worked to a considerable extent on the island of Valentia. -while traces of copper and iron are abundantly to be met with among the mountains. The county of Kerry, in common with several of the adjoining counties, was visited last Friday by an extraordinary flood of rain, which has for a time completely devastated the country. The rain commenced about four o'clock on Friday morning last, the 17th, and continued to fall literally, not figura tively, in torrents for twelve hours without intermission. Never before in the memory of the present generation was such a copious and sudden fall of rain witnessed. Not only was every little watercourse turned into an irresistible torrent, but the sides of the mountains presented the appear ance of gigantic cataracts. The thousands of tons of water which momentarily fell upon them, unable to find channels through the ordinary ravines and watercourses, rushed down the mountains in vast sheets of muddy foam, sweeping away everything before it. The mischief done was almost incalcul able. Farm houses, farm produce, and cattle were carried away, not as much as a stone remaining to show where they had stood ; and I regret to add that in many parts of the country a great many lives were lost. The courses of some of the larger rivers about here were entirely and permanently changed by the tremendous body of water flowing into them. For a day or two after the flood sub sided no mails were received, and, though the mail bags arc now got across the rivers where the bridges have been destroyed, the roads, some how or other, arc still impassable to anything on wheels. The positive loss of property throughout the country has been very considerable, but the sums which will be required for the repair of the bridges and roads injured and destroyed will be greater still. It ap pears it is the intention of the Government to fortify Valentia harbour. Several of the Royal Engineers have been down here surveying the surrounding heights for the purpose of choosing the most eligible positions for Oic forts. One battery is, I believe, to be placed on Doulas Head mountain, at the right hand entrance of the harbour; a second on the Island of Begennis, which divides the entrance, and a third on the Island of Valentia, to command the left hand, or lighthouse side. Other redoubts and batteries will no doubt be distributed among the hills which command the interior of the harbour. The Port Mageo, or third entrance at the back of the island, will also doubtless be properly protected. While the engineers arc down here executing these works, it would be as well for the Govern ment to turn their attention to the improve ment of the harbour. But a very little labour and outlay would remove the few obstruc tions that now exist in it, and enable ships of the largest tonnage to sail in and out with the greatest ease in any wind or in any state of the tide. Beyond the continuance of the few experiments which I have alluded to at the beginning of this letter nothing will be done with the cable until the preconcerted experiments at both termini of the line have been made. They have been fixed to take place early in the ensuing month. The result of these experiments will no doubt show with greater certainty the nature and position of the faults than could be shown by experiments at one end only. These researches will also demonstrate the possi bility or impossibility of making the line work in its present defective condition. THE REVOLVER.- - A fact highly flattering to the . inventive genius of the British Isles is dwelt upon with un wonted frankness by the American press. The American Government having entered into large contracts for its navy with " Adams' Revolving Arm Company," was so - satisfied with the efficiency and superiority of the revolvers • supplied, that an official statement to that effect was issued; - and, induced thereby, some American capitalists have'made arrangements with the patentee for the right to manufacture in that country. It is said that the value of the Adams' • revolver has been considerably increased by three new pa tents—one affecting the lever rod, another a double ache!' cocking and the third a simple check, Which .pro v ides againsethe possibility of an accidental discharge. Tfie patent hammer is a beautiful piece of finished mechanism, by which a direct pressure upon the charge is obtained, and it fits so close to the barrel that it is scarcely observable I These patents are taken out in Mr. Adams' name, that gentleman having recently entered business entirely on his own behalf. 1. , M 4 l ~%. 1. ,s,. l i s t r,rl A. ..z.-0 .w. , , s‘t v p.i. a S ~ / di