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aBEAT WESTERN RAILWAY VI NORTH WALES.--TOURISTS' TICKETS to CHES TER, CA RNARVON, LLANGOLLEN, BALA, &c., for One Month, are now issued at Paddington.—Fares (rail and coach), 70s. and Ms. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY, ISLE of MAN, BANGOR, BEAU3IARIS, and LLAN DUDNO. RETURN TICKETS for Ono Month are now,issued at Paddington. Fares (rail and boat) : 70s. and 50s. GREAT -WESTERN RAILWAY SOUTH WALES.—TOURISTS' TICKETS to MIL. FORD HAVEN, available for Narberth-road (for Tenby) Carmarthen, Swansea, Neath, Chepstow, &c., for One Month are now issuettat Paddington.—Fares : 70s. and 50s. I WESTERN RAILWAY, ‘}i FAMILY TICKETS to DAWLISH, TEIGNMOUTH, or TORQUAY, for One Month, are now issued at Paddington, to partied of not less than three persons.—Fares (each passen• ger): 505. and 355. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. JERSEY and GUERNSEY. via WEYMOUTH.— RETURN TICKETS for One Month are now issued at Pad. dington.—Fares : 455. and 355. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. 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Fares—Oxford, 65.-6 d. and 4s. ; Banbury, Bs. and ss. ; Leamington-or-Warwick. 10 s . 6d. and 6s. ; Birm ingham, 12s. and 7s. ; Westbromwich, Wed nesbury, or Bilaton, 12s. 6d. and 7s. 6d. ; Wolverhampton, 13s. and Bs. ; Wellington or Shrewsbury, 17s. and 10s. ; Llangollen Road or Chester, 18s. 6d. and 11s. ; Birkenhead or Liverpool, 21s. and 12s. 6d. Children under 12, hall-price. ROME AND FRASCATI RAILWAY COMPANY. The Half-year's Interest on the Bonds of this Company, Nos. 1 to 120, due on the 22d of September and Ist of October, 1858, will be paid at the Agency of the Banque Generale Suisse, 2, Royal Exchange Buildings ; or at the Banqu e of the same Bank, 30, Rue Louis le Grand, Paris. • By Order, F. FRIELIGRATH, Manager of the London. Agency of the Banque Generale Suisse. LONDON & NORTH= CHEAP EXCURSION DERSFIELD, MANCHEST] SATURDAY, September 18, DAY, September 22. DOWN TRAM SEPT. 18TE. I ArESTERN RAILWAY, r from LONDON to IHID 'ER, and LIVERPOOL, on 1, RETURNING WEDNES- RETURN TRAIN, SEPT. 22, A.M. London, Euston Station, depart 9.30 Batley depart 930 Dewsbury ,, 9 35 Huddersfield Marsden ..... „ 10 10 Greenfield Staley Bridge „ 10 40 Manchester , 10 45 Stockport , 11 0 Warrington „ 11 30 Liverp00l London, Euston- P.M. _Warrington arrive 3.20 Liverpool Stockport Manchester Staley Bridge Greenfield Marsden „ 4.15 Huddersfield „ 4.30 Dewsbury , „ 4.50 Batley - ' „ 5.0 FARES FOR THE I station......arrive about 4 45 rOUBLE JOURNEY. _overed Carriages. First Class. To Liverpool Manchester and other Stations 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 thetoffice of Mr. Marcus, Crosby-hall chambers, Bishopsgate-street, City. By order. Euston-station, September 9, 1858. 'BANK OF DEPOSIT. Established A.D. 1844. 3, PALL MALL EAST, LONDON. Parties desirous of Investing Money are requested to exa- Tninclbe Plan of The Bank of Deposit, by which a high rate of interest may be obtained with ample security. The Interest is payable in January and July. PETER MORRISOIsT -Managing Director. Forms for Opening Accounts sent free on application. INTERNATIONAL LIFE [ASSURANCE 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 before payment of the annual premium; provided payment thereof be naade, or notice of the death be given to the office before the c l ic - Oration of such days of grace. FOr the Court of Directors, E. S. SY3IES, Chairman. H E INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 142, Strand, London. Empowered by Act of Parliament, for LIFE ASSURANCE BURVIVORSHIPS, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &c. EDMOND STIEPPARD SYMES, M.D., Chairman. W. Kenworthy Trrowne, Esq. Henry J. Hodgson, Esq. Samuel King►-Church. Esq. Johd Moss, Esq. John Elliotson, M.D.,Cantab., John Symea, Esq. F.R.S. 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. Radford Young. MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL. J. Elliotson, M.D., Cantab., F.R.S., 37, Conduit-street. ACTUARY. W. B. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., r.s.s., &e. ASSISTANT ACTIrARY. Barker Won'house, Esq. BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Rowdiffe, Bedford- row. The next Quinquennial In May, 1860. Examples of l Division of Profits will be declared mus up to May, 1855 : Policy Sum Bonus in addition Bonus in Permanent taken Age. Auspred.Cash. Reduction out in Sum of Annual Assured. Premiums. s. d. X a. d. X s. d. 1838- 55 - 3,000 867 17 7 428 'l' 4 56 3 8 1841 48 4,000 749 4 0 325 16 0 32 0 4 1845 59 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 55 2,800 120 17 0 72 14 6 6 7 7 EAST INDIA HOUSF, 15TH SEPTEMBER, 18:A. THE FINANCE, HOME, and PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE of the COUNCIL of INDIA,• Hereby Give Notice, That the Debentures for the Second Pertion of the Loan, Act 21 Vic., cap. 3, will be ready for delivery, at the Treasury, at this House, on and after MON DAY, the 20th instant, J. COSMO MELVILL. The following- are amongst the advantages offered by the International Life Assurance Society:— The Society wns established in 1838. Two-thirds of the profits are divided amongst the assured every five years. Its smbscribed capital is five hundred thousand pounds. Its investments, at the date of the last annual report, amounted to one hundred and 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. Tor prospectuses and every other information, apply to the Chairman 142, Strand. EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman. 142, Strand, London, W.C. NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE. Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Constipation, Flatulency, 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 11 - 1 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 Decies—" I have derived con siderable benefit from Du' Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, and consider it due to yourselves and the public to authorise the publication of these lines. Stuart de Decies." Cure No. 40,332. " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nor - Yousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness at the stomach, and vomiting, have been removed by • Du Barry's excellent Food. Maria Jolly, Wortham Ling, near Dies, Norfolk." Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Na zing Vicarage. Waltham Cross, Herts, a cure of extreme ner vousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fan des. Cure No. 48,314. lliissElizabethYeoman,Gateacre,near Liverpool : a cure of ten years' dyspepsia, and all the horrors of nervous irritability. Cure No. 18,216. Dr. Andrew Irre, of con 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. yomitings. Cure No. 26,418. Dr. Harvey, of diarhoea 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 dyspepsialindigestionl, debility, irritability, and nervousness, which had tormented her for 70 years. Cure No. 56,814. Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester, of two years' diarrhoea. Cure No. 52,612. The Dowager Countess of Castle- Stuart, of many years' nervous irritability, bile, and indiges tion. Cure No. 54,812. Miss Virginia Zeguers, cured of con sumption, 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. W. B. Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London." No. 4,208. " Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility. with cramps. spasms, and nausea, for which my servant bad COnsu Red 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. ' Piavell, Riddlington Rectory, Norfolk." INo. 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. 3,906. "Thirteen years' cough, indiges tion, and general debility have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Rev/dents 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. 1 b canisters, 11b., 2s. lid. ; 21b., 4s. 6d. ; 121 b., 22e. Super re lined quality 11b., 6s. ; 21b., ; 51b., 228; 101 b., 33r. The 1 61 b. and 121 b. canisters are forwarded carriage free, on re eeipt of Post-office order. 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'THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS -1- for SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18th, contains the following splendid ENGRAVINGS :—THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO LEEDS : The Great Hall—Her Majesty Leaving the Rail way Station en route:to Woodsley House—Kirkstall Abbey —Cloister Court of Kirkstall Abbey—Her Majesty passing the Sunday-school Children on Woodhouse Common—Writ ing -table Suite for her Majesty. SKETCHES IN CHINA—The Burning of Telesio's Store ; the " Sansparell" Naval Brigade Landing at Canton.—Railway Bridges for India (Two Illus trations).—Seal of the First King of Siam.—The Doncaster Cup—The Italian Salamander at Cremorne Gardens.—Por trait of Mr. Morphy, the Celebrated Chessplayer.—Funeral Car of Napoleon I.—Longwood, St. Helena, the Residence of Napoleon I. Napoleon's Tomb, St. Helena—Testimoniul presented to Mr. Davis, of her Majesty's Staghounds. With the Latest Foreign and Colonial Intelligence and all the News of the Week. Price sd. ; stamped, 6d.—Office, 198, Strand. 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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 s u bj ec t o f won d er, 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 " perfect bag of bones." He tried all kinds of things to get the animal into condition, but in vain. lie 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 Birmingham, Cardiff, Re., the animals which earned off the highest prizes had been partly fed with Thor ley's food for cattle. Such facts spe a k 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, Newgate-street, London, for a pamphlet which is sent post-free. ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. New and improved Edition, enlarged to 196 pages, illustrated by 100 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel, just pub lished, price, free by post, ls. 'THE SILENT FRIEND : A Medical W or k -I- 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 disqlialifientions. By R. and L. PERRY and Co., Sur geons. 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SELF -PRESERVATION.--A Medical Treatise on the Functions and Disorders of the Generative System, and on the cure of Nervous and Physical Debility, resulting from vicious habits acquired during the critical passage from youth to Manhood, with practical observations on the Phy siology of Marriage in its social, moral, and physical rela tions. To which are added remarks on the wonders of the Microscope in revealing the hidden mysteries "of Life within Lite," and its advantages in detecting, by urinary examina tion, the cause and effect of everyvariety of these complaints, with numerous engravings and cases BY SAMUEL LAWERT, 37, BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON, Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Hono rary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Li oentiate 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 produ ce d more misery in Youth, degradation in Manhood, and pre ma t ure d ecay 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 doubta 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 necessary 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, infirmity iatbyoovreall , that functional there is scarcely any degree of physical derangement to which the timelyaid of science cannot apply a cure. . Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row, and may ty, had of Mann, 29, 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 tin 8, at his residence, 37, Bedford-square, London. The work may be had in India, of Mr. Von' Litzky, Loll Bazaar ; Calcutta—Messrs. C.and J. 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The thunder of the cannon which aroused the sweltering community of Shanghai from their noon day siesta yesterday announced to them the im portant fact that Lord Elgin, after an absence in the north of exactly three months, had returned from the scene of his anxieties and his labours with a treaty in his pocket containing concessions on the part of the Imperial Government so extensive that the most sanguine were astonished, and the croakers remained altogether incredulous. For this, how ever, there was some excuse, as an abstract of the American treaty, signed some days before the Bri tish, had been published, and contained none of the important concessions, and it was not considered likely that our Transatlantic allies would be so far wanting in their usual acumen as to allow us to include in ours provisions the omission of which would imply that they considered them unattain able. It is satisfactory to learn that the treaty has been not only signed, but has received the Impe rial assent. It is rumoured, however, that this latter was only extortei from his Celestial Majesty by the fact that the 59th Regiment were actually in the Peiho and on their way to Tien-sin, and, if necessary, to Pekin. The contents of the treaty which has just been signed are now pretty well known to the public. There can be little doubt that they are of .a charac ter entirely subversive of the traditional policy of the Chinese empire, and that the effect of this im porhint document, when its pro - itsions come to be carried out, will be to revolutioniser the present system of internal economy in this country and replace it by one formed under the stimulating and enlightening influences of that Western eivilita tion which is now to be introduced throughout the length and breadth of the land. Under a system of passports the subjects of the treaty Powers are to be allowed to travel to any part of the interior of China, to have free access to all the great inland markets, and to make their purchases when and where they please. The ports of Leuchow, in the Gulf of Pechele, of Niuchwang, Chin-kiang, and Swatow, of others in Formosa and Haman, are added to the list of those at present open, and ports have been fixed upon up the Yang-tse-kiang, the opening of which, however, is necessarily post poned until Nankin and other important cities on both sides of the river are recaptured by the Im perialists, and cleared of those hordes of miscreants who have for so many years disturbed the peace of the empire. The disposition openly manifested by many in this country to sympathise with these rebels, and the mischief which the presence of European and American adventurers among them might cause, have rendered this intimation with regard to the Yang-tse-kiang necessary ; but it is to be hoped that when the nations of the West find their interest practically involved in the extinction of the rebels they will be influenced by those mate rial considerations which generally triumph over others that are merely of an abstract nature, even if they are not guided by the higher considerations of the impropriety of taking advantage of the con cossion of a Government by trying to subvert it. The much vexed questions of transit and Cus toms duties have engaged the serious attention of the plenipotentiaries, and arrangements have been made by which it is hoped the, inconveniences arising out of the present system will be removed. Many other points affecting the present state of our commercial relations in China are discussed and provided for ; but 'as the treaty contains up wards of 50 articles, time would not admit (even were I capable of doing so) of my discussing these details or their merits. But the-clause of the treaty which in the eyes of Ihe-Aghisrese—Emperor is a greater concession than all the others which he has-granted put together, and which in the eyes of all those who have studied the question on the spot contains the only safe guarantee for those con cessions, is that clause by which it is stipulated that Great Britain shall henceforward have a resident Minister at the Court of Pekin who shall communi cate directly with the highest officers of the State ; and that, moreover, the Chinese Government shall educate student interpreters in the English lan guage, so that the system of diplomatic communi cations from us in Chinese may be discontinued, and official intercourse be for the future maintained by each nation in its own language; the contingency of a Chinese Minister being sent to the Court of St. James's is also provided for. Thus, at all events, the great principle of equality between the two na tions, which must lie at the root of satisfactory mutual intercourse, has been established, and it is to be hopecrwill inaugurate a new era in the his tory of our diplomatic relations with the empire. The Imperial Government will, no doubt, very soon discover that foreign subjects are kept in check much more surely through a Minister at the capital than through a superintendent of trade at the other end of the empire, and that those difficulties which Chinese and foreign authorities could raise at plea sure will diminish in number when they receive an immediate reference to the capital. Another important advantage arising from the residence of a British Minister at Pekin is apparent when we consider the position which Russia occu pies relatively to the empire of which that city is the capital. With a Russian mission there en per manence, and the right to send a special envoy to confer in person with the Imperial Cabinet, it is evident that this great European power, whose Asiatic frontier is conterminous for thousands of miles with that of China, would be in a position to exercise an undue influence in the councils of his Celestial Majesty, and obtain advantages to the ex clusion of other nations. These considerations ren der the establishment of a British Mission at Pekin an object of the utmost importance, and it behoves the Government to exercise the greatest discrimi nation in the selection of the representatives des tined to conduct diplomatic relations under condi tions of so novel and trying a character. Such is a general outline of the treaty which has just been concluded, and such is the nature of the concessions which have been obtained from the most jealous and exclusive Government in the world, not at the cost of a protracted war involving a great expenditure of blood and treasure, for the army which was destined for that purpose has been engaged in more urgent service elsewhere ; but by the judicious exercise of pressure at the right time and place. Our entire loss of men killed in action during the naval and military operations in China since the arrival of the Plenipotentiaries in this country has been very trifling. Let us hope that the same moral influences which have won the treaty may be no less successfully employed in carrying it into operation. It is to be hoped, also, that when our resident Minister comes to be established at Pekin, he may maintain that diplomatic ascendancy which has enabled us to include in one treaty alone those pro visions which it was predicted could never be ex torted from the Chinese Government, such, for in stance, as the right to a permanent Minister, or per mission to trade in the interior of the empire. And we have reason to suppose that the neutral Powers used their utmost influence, after their own treaties had been signed, to oppose the concession of more extensive privileges to Great Britain. Indeed, so far as Russia is concerned, it is not difficult to account for the motives by which her diplomacy was actuated. The unsatisfactory accounts which we have just received of the state of our relations at Canton lead ur.= to regret more than ever the delays caused by the naval authorities in the Gulf of Pechele at the com mencement of negotiations ; had these been brought to a close, as they might have been, two mouths earlier, there can -be -little doubt that instructions would have been mat down to the Imperial Com- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1858, sedan chairs,. and a large body of naval officers in full dress. A little later the French and - English squadron 'of gunboats, 13 in number, simultaneously dressed with flags and manned yards—a holiday scene which called forth shouts of applause from swarms of Chinese, whose shining polls and jet black tails thronged the banks as far as eye could reach. Directly the sedan-chair in which the Am bassador was seated made its appearance the proces sion started. The French sailors cheered, the Eng lish responded in that deep bass which makes a British hurrah ! so different to that of all other nations, and the glorious strains of " God Save the Queen," by the united bands of the allies, pealed over the waters of the Pei-ho and Great Canal, and re-echoed from the timeworn battlements of this ancient city as if its old walls rejoiced in the tidings of the better and more active future about to dawn upon China. Marching down the bank ofthe canal the procession crossed by a bridgetof boats to the side on which the city stands, and then passed along the river bank, until the open plain was reached beyond the southern wall. Englishmen—it is very evident —were never intended to be carried about in sedan-chairs ; any one doubting such an axiom had merely to look on the hot and uncomfortable-looking mortals boxed up in the wake of our ambassador—it was unneces sary to ask them, for all looked and felt as if they would give the world to be allowed to get out and walk, could such a proceeding have been consistent with the dignity becoming so great an Occasion. The only people who did not appear inclined to suffer martyrdom on behalf of the dignity necessary in full-dressed officials were those youthful naval officers who had to walk for lack of sedan-chairs ; and without desiring our countrymen to conform to the rigid ceremonies laid down by the Board of Rites, it must be acknowledged that the pulling of dogs' tails, or " catching " plethoric Chinamen in the wind, by vivacious midshipmen or engineers of gunboats accorded but ill with the presence of the representative of her Majesty. Passing over a mile of plain, which was as level as a table, and bounded only by the horizon, the procession proceeded to an isolated yamun or joss house, which had been visited by Lord Elgin on the day negotiations commenced (Julie 4). The crowds of Chinese thinned off as the distance from the city increased, and those who were present divided their attention between curiosity to see the barbarians and catching locusts for their next day's meal. During the last fortnight all Tien-sin have been eating locusts in a roasted state ; baskets full of them are seen at every corner ; itinerant vendors - shout " Locusts, fine fresh locusts !" all day long ; every bird (and sparrows are as impertinent here as elsewhere) may be seen with a locust in its mouth. Gunboats report acres of drowned locusts having been seen floating in the river, yet there is no diminution of them, and with all thiS prodigious number of insects, sweeping herbage and crops off the face of the province of Chili the natives do not complain as if it was an unusual visits• tion. The sun went down as the procession swept, to the tune of " Bonnie Dundee," round the angle of the Temple of the " Glory of the Ocean" and entered its southern portal. Like the major portion of such edifices in this neighbourhood the Temple stands on an artificial mound of earth raised some 15 feet above the level of the adjacent plain, as if to avoid inundations. Four walls, facing most ac curately to the four cardinal points of the compass, enclosed and hid from view an acre of ground, covered with a series of temples and porches rich with ornament and elaborate painting, tastefully interspersed with open courts containing fine trees, one of the few natural productions the Chi nese have good taste enough to properly appreciate. The, grand entrance faced to the south, and at it a number of mandarins and 'a Chinese band received the procession, and cow/Acted it through the build ing •until the most northern court was reached. There the Sappers, Marine Artillery, and Marines formed round three sides of it, fronting a raised place of audience evidently constructed for public ceremonies. On the centro of the said platform, which was most tastefully arranged, three tables and chairs • were placed. In the left-hand one 'acing our guard sat the Mantchoo " Kweiliang," Senior Commissioner and Chief Secretary of State ; on the right was the Mongol " Hwashana," Second Commissioner and President of the Civil Board, while the:vacant seat and table between them was for the British Ambassador. On either side from this centre a row of chairs had been placed for the officers of the suite, &e., and when the Imperial Commissioners had, in conformance to Chinese etiquette, handed Lord Elgin from his sedan-chair to his seat in the centre, and all had taken their respective places, the coup d'ccil was most striking. The ambassadors of the high contracting Powers were not in full dress, but behind them and on either hand stood fully a hundred officers of the two nations glittering in gold and gay colours, the rich silks and embroidery of the Chinese contrasting pleasingly with the lace and broadcloth of the English and French. In one respect there was a striking difference ; it was in the English portion of the audience being all armed ; each one carried either musket or sword, whereas a fan was the most formidable weapon worn by bold mandarins who, from the number of peacocks' feathers attached to their caps, must have been perfect Cids in a fray. Wherever the eye lighted upon a space free from groups of men or officers, the background was found to be elaborately filled up with ornaments very characteristic of the land we were in. Highly peaked and fretted roofs, turned up according to Chinese rules, supported huge-mouthed demons, griffins, or dragons, and screened from the-weather, elegant panels, rich in scrollwork, or oyerloaded with elaborate carvings of pomegranate, lotus, and citron. Among the red coats came out in strong relief a most awe-inspiring lion, chiselled quaintly out of stone ; such teeth, such claws, such a tuft to the tail and Calmuck-like expression of countenance as only a Chinese artist could have conceived. _ Curious paintings hung from the walls, and handsome scarlet cloth screens, most elaborately embroidered in floss silk of brilliant colours, covered every chair, table, or otherwise bare space of woodwork, and over all the light of the moon and a small number of pretty lanterns shed a richly picturesque effect. In this picture, of which I can only convey a very feeble impres sion, sat the three Commissioners in strong relief ; and as we looked upon them, and the eye glanced from Kweiliang to Lord Elgin, the idea involun tarily arose that, after all, a civilisation which only dated from the year 50 8.C., when that much to be lauded standard bearer of the T ent h Legion struggled with a set of naked Painted sa vages on Deal beach, decidedly carried off the palm against one which went back beyond the deluge —aye, half-a dozen deluges--for the intellect and vigour stamped upon every look, word, and action of the Scottish Earl formed a fine contrast to the highly polished surface which ill concealed the subtle cunning of the Pekinese official. Kweiliang, now 74 years of age, has fine features, with a generally plcasin4 . expression of counte nance. Polished in address, and with a high re putation for intelligence, there is still something wanting to convince one of his sincerity, in which respect the Mongol Hwashana has considerably the advantage of hin t . H e, Hwa _ shana, the Second Commissioner, is a stout, thick set man, in age a little over 50 years. His counte nance is coarse, but betokens far more chara c t er than is usually met with in the Stolid features of the sons of Ham. Hwashana's nose has been unani mously declared to be a facsimile of that of the Protector Cromwell ; thosp who believe in noses may at once put him down as a Republican, regi cide, and fanatic. I should merely think him a man of strong will, with some honesty, counter acted by sensuality, and a fear of the sword his Imperial master keeps hanging over all his ser: vants. Grouped around these two high function aries stood a number of inferior mandarins rejoic ing in decorations of peacock's feathers and squir rel's tails, attached with the coloured ball distinc tive of their rank to the crown of their conical summer hats. Of these alone deserving notice was Pien, the private secretary of Kweiliang, a very clever young mandarin, on whom has fallen all the detail and labour of the negotiations, and who ap peared to have great influence with his superiors ; the other was a general, attached to Hwashana, whom our Transatlantic friends had made so much of, in consequence of the discovery that he was a " viscount" by birth, that he at one time, in the early stage of the negotiations, became intolerably saucy, and had to be taken down a whole flight of steps by one of the able sinologues attached to the British Embassy. By the side of Lord Elgin stood his two Chinese secretaries, Mr. Wade and Mr. N. Lay; they were intrusted with the Chinese ver sion of the treaty, and the English version was under the care or Mr. D. Cameron, senior Attache. To the left of Kweiliang—the left being the seat of honour in China—sat Admiral Sir M. Seymour and the Hon. Mr. Bruce, Secretary of Legation ; the names or places of the rest baffle all power of description, beyond that I saw Captains Sir F. Nicolson, W. K. Hall, S. Osborne, and Roderick Dew, together with Messrs.L. Oliphant, H. B. Lock, Geo. Fitzroy, Dr. Saunders, an artist named, we believe, Morrison, all of Lord Elgin's Staff making a gallant struggle for places with a crowd of lieutenants, midshipmen, engineers, and domestics, who were evidently bent on proving to thelmperial Commissioners how " fierce and uncontrollable" was the natural disposition of that Western tribe the " Ying-keih-lee." Without, however, waiting for any order to be established, or may be despairing of it, the higher Powers at once proceeded to business, after a short overture, in which the most tender in quiries as to the state of health of not only the respective Commissioners was gone into, but her Most Gracious Majesty and, the Emperor Hienfung were likewise both reported to be as well as could be expected. Lord Elgin then suggested that he would sign and seal tbe English copy of the Treaty, while the Commissioners did as much to the Chinese version ; they assented, and the work proceeded rapidly. Owing to the pressure of business, Mr. Wade had been obliged to compile the final copy of the Treaty in . -Chinese with much haste, a haste which added in no small degree to that industrious Sinologue's anxiety that his document should be a perfect one and bear the test of Chinese and Euro pean criticism. One article, relating to the indem nity for losses at Canton and the expenses of the war, was separate from the Treaty. After Kwieliang had attached his signature to the articles which were filed together, Mr. Lay placed the indemnity one before him. Chinaman like, he at once saw a possibility of escaping from even one little part of his contract, and immediately made an attempt to do so. " What is this ?" said he, looking the pic ture of innocence at Mr. Lay, " What's this ? Never mind it ; I don't know anything about it ;" and he gently pushed it aside. "It is one of the articles," said Mr. Lay, " and here," pointing at a particular spot, " you must sign it." The faithful " Pien" now came to his master's assistance. " What is it ?" appealed Kweiliang to his secre tary ; "Aml to sign it ? Do you know what it is ?" " No, I know nothing about it," said the polished Pien in his most silvery tone. " Au, au," smiled Kweiliang faintly, " never mind it, never mind it," and again the article was gently pushed aside, to be again brought up by Mr. Lay, who, calm and unruffled, still pointed perse veringly at the blank spot at the foot of the sheet of paper, and reiterated in still more silvery Pe kinese, " It is the article touching the indemnity, and you must sign here, sir." Pien was quicker than his superior in seeing that the barbarian was not to be outmanoeuvred, and in a moment under stood all about the article in dispute. "Oh, yes, it is all right ; sign," said he to Kweiliang,. The old man quietly drew the paper towards him, and at once attached his signature. The respective Sec retaries now advanced to a small table, and then the great seal, especially struck for this occasion, the sole credential indeed of the Imperial Commis sioners, was stamped in vermilion on every copy of the Treaty, and then Mr. Wade officially re ported to his Lordship that the Treaty of Tiensin was duly signed and sealed. A vast deal more satisfaction was expressed in the countenance of the British Ambassador at this announcement than could be detected in those of the Imperial Commissioners, yet they looked like anything but men who had made a disgraceful treaty. Indeed, in spite of all the undoubtedly great concessions made by them on the present occasion, it is very certain that the Treaty of Nan kin struck more directly at the fundamental laws of this empire, and that, too, at a time when the power of Western nations was far less known and feared than at present. Keying then ceded not only Hongkong in perpetuity, but acknowledged our right to Chusan so long as the treaty was not fulfilled, an alienation of the territory of the central nation which caused his impeachment, and, as we are still writing, his death. He it was who first acknowledged the perfect equality of all nations, and that there were more sons of Heaven than he of Pekin. Those principles have now received a very great development, it is true, but it would be unfair to say that we have been oppressive in our demands, or obtained that from China which we will not cheerfully reciprocate. Lord Elgin expressed his fervent hope that the peace just concluded might be a lasting one, and beneficial to both nations, which the Commissioners appeared cordially to echo ; and then, after some poetical allusions to the moon, which was smiling upon them from the blue vault overhead, the atten dants were desired to bring in some slight refresh ments. His lordship and the Commissioners re spectively proposed the health of each other's Sove reign, and at last, with many expressions of mutual esteem, the Ambassador of England rose to take his leave. Again the Marines presented arms, again the air of " God save the Queen" rolled through the many courts of the Temple of the Glory of the Sea ; scaring bats from their quiet corners, and birds in their numbers from tree and roof; again the Coolies shouldered their sedan-chairs, and away we all went at a killing pace over the moon-lit plain, jostling now through narrow streets redolent of everything that is foul on God's earth, with a strong smack of opium and garlic in addition, now skirting the grey ,walls of the city, and frightening from heaps of offal numbers of yelping dogs, which added their cries to the shouts of the bearers, warn ing their countrymen to clear the road for the " fierce ;.nd intractable ones"—indeed from the scampering away from our front and slamming of doors we feel firmly convinced that the bearers shouted " That the devils were coming!" and, al though not complimentary, it decidedly proved highly efficacious in rendering our route unimpeded through a densely-populated suburb. A whiff of pure air told us we had reached the water at the bridge over the great canal, and in a few minutes we again stood on the steps of the yamun of the. British Embassy. P.S.—I open my letter to add that this day, July 4, 1858, a decree has been ',received from the Em peror, in which he, not only says that he has seen the Treaty of Tien-sin, but agrees to ratify it ! The American and Russian Ministers being exceedingly credulous, simple-minded individuals—of course we must give them credit for being sincere—were at one time very well satisfied with a simple acknow ledgment of the Treaty by his Imperial Majesty Hienfung, and wished the Chinese to infer Lord Elgin was very exacting in requiring a ratification on the spot. You at home will, of course, think with us, that his lordship did perfectly right in obtaining every guarantee from the Court of Pekin. Lord Elgin and suite emba,rked on, the 6th of July CONTRACT FOR STOCKINGS FOR THE ROYAL MARINES. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling, Somerset-place, 14th September, MS. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the -A- OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT. BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on MONDAY, the 27th instant, at half-past One o'Clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supply ing and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, all such GREY WORSTED STOCKINGS for Serjeants of the Royal Marines as shall from time to time be demanded, under a Contract for twelve months' certain, and further until the expiration of three months' warning. A Pattern of the Stockings may be seen at the Royal Marine Office, New-street, Spring-gardens, between the hours of one and four o'clock. The conditions of the revised contract may be seen at the said office. No tender will be received after half-past One o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed, unless made on the printed form provided for the purpose, and which may be obtamed on application at the said office. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words "Ten der for Stockings," and must also be delivered at Somerset place. THE SIGNING OF THE TREATY OF TIEN-SIN. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT ,OF THE TIMES.) TIEN-SIN, RIVER PEIHO, JUNE 26. By one of those accidents which so often occur it so happens that the treaty of peace with China was signed by the Ambassador of Great Britain and the Imperial Commissioners " Kweiliang" and " Hwa-shana" on the anniversary of the day (June 26, 1843) on which the ratifications of the treaty of Nankin were exchanged at Hong Kong by Sir Henry Pottinger and Keying. That once much lauded treaty, the first earnest effort of Great Britain to bring this vast country and its industrious but wrong-headed people into the general commu nity of nations has lasted exactly 15 yekrs ; and, although the cheers of seamen and the " God save the • Queen" played by our bands have to-day sounded its requiem, it would be most unjust to say that the treaty of Nankin was not a most able one and highly profitable to all commercial nations, or that it has not effected much, very much, towards bri ng i n g China and the Chinese to understand and appreciate in some degree the pc:over and civilisa tion of the West. It is, however, from an abler pen than mine that you must learn in what respects the treaty of Nankin fell short of the requirements of the present day, and to what extent the present treaty promises greater political, social, and com mercial advantages ; but before I proceed to give a description of the ceremony performed to-day it is as well to remind you that the circumstances under which the treaty of Tien-sin has been nego tiated and brought to a successful issue are widely different to those connected with the now defunct Treaty of Nankin. In 1842 the Ministry at home distinctly laid down for Sir Henry Pottinger the articles of the treaty he was directed to obtain from the Emperor of China ; they authorised him to act upon the aggressive, and to apply any amount of pressure until those terms were conceded, and with out any wish to detract from the diplomatic skill and decision of Sir H. Pottinger, it is but fair to say thai in Sir W. Parker and Sir Hugh Gough he was sup ported by two officer; singularly fitted by their enterprise and energy to bring his demands to a speedy concession. On the present occasion it is very evident, from what has passed at home as well as out here, that the Ministry—whether that of Lord Palmerston or Lord Derby—had neither made up their minds to be at war or at peace with China nor did they know what demands to make or repa ration to insist upon. After a grand parade in 1857 of the formidable military and naval force which was to support the negociations of Lord Elgin as ambassador to the Court of Pekin, we see him in the spring of 1858 anchored before the entrance of the River Peiho with a solitary gunboa and an old sailing frigate, besides the steam vesse he was embarked in; and they only arrived in time, owing, we hear, to his having assumed the respon sibility of giving the . Pique and Slaney orders which ought to have emanated from their admiral ; and when, after weeks of delay, a force did arrive, on Lord Elgin rested not only all the responsibi lity of making demands which Lord Derby's Mini stry might in no way agree in thinking just, but likewise of authorising acts of hostility, and then urging and stimulating the Executive to act with some firmness and decision in performing their part. In 1842 it was a fair tilt between Chinese manda rins and Downing-street; in 1858 Lord Elgin has had not only to contrive to keep with our sprightly yet thin-skinned allies of France, but anxiously to check-mate the Russian, who has no desire to see any of us north of the latitude of the Yang-tse kiang as being likely to interfere with certain annexations to come off in the Corea and Man chooria, and to meet the dog-in-the-manger policy of the Americans, who know they can neither profit by the rice and cotton of India, or the broadcloths and hardware of England being poured into Northern and Central China. Prior to the day on which it had been arranged that the ceremony should take place, a gunboat had been considerately despatched from Tien-sin to bring up from the squadron, anchored seven miles outside the Peiho river any officers who might desire to be present ; and on the 28th of June she returned, attesting by a huge freight of some 76 officers, with 76 full-dress cases and 76 cocked hats, the readiness with which the invita tion had been accepted. On the same evening sinister rumours were whispered about Tien-sin of an Imperial decree having just arrived forbidding the Chinese com . missioners to concede some very important demands, and that the treaty was postponed. At a later hour these tales were traced to the yamuns, in which dwelt the Russian and American Plenipos—"les neutres" as our witty allies term them—and all anxiety was at once dispelled. The 26th of June came in, as every day has done sine e we have been in Tien-sin, with bright sunlight and a cloudless sky overhead and a heard-baked earth underfo'ot, through a deep crack in which rolled on to the sea the muddy waters of the Pei-ho. Tien sin city, with its mud-built houses, looked as mean and uninteresting as ever, and but for the swarms of respectably clad Chinese who at an early hour in the afternoon thronged the thorougfare by which the procession was to pass it would have been hard to say that Tien-sin cared whether peace or war was to be the issue. Within the British Ambassador's yamun, in and out of which naval officers were all the day strolling, the various secretaries and attaches were busily copying and preparing the articles of the treaty, while Lord Elgin was everywhere, proving that up to the very last minute his labours had in no way abated. Amusing bulletins were hourly flying about the squadron, and canards without number. About noon some wiseacre declared he had seen the French Admiral, and that our treaty would not be signed. Against this appalling intelligence some sanguine visitor to the British yamun would roundly assert that the Secretary of Legation had been seen calmly smoking a cheroot, or that Lord Elgin laughed heartily and rubbed his hands at 4 p.m.—two most- convincing proofs of all being well. Then a stream , of sedan-chairs poured from the city into the yamun, and the Chinese secretaries, Mr. Wade and Mr. Lay, could be seen in their float ing residence busily comparing their manuscript treaty with officials deputed for that purpose by the Imperial Commissioners. Lastly, at 6 o'clock in the evening, just as the sun began to throw strong shadows athwart the narrow streets, and the hot day was succeeded by the delicious evening of this latitude, the military guard of honour fell in on the bank of the Pci-ho, just above the point where the Great Canal joins the stream. The Royal Engi neers, under Captain Lambert, RE., the Royal Marine Artillery of the Sampson and Furious, un der Lieut. Nott, and the Marines of the squadron, commanded by Major Boyle, of the Calcutta, consti tuting a force of 400 men, were divided into two bodies, preceded by a band of music ; and in the intervening space_was arranged a long stream of 30 " N.l z y • i'?-7 L , ~~ ~"Ttic_G PATeI, missioner Hwang, who is now acting against us in the South, t o repress hostile demonstrations on the part of the Br aves , and adopt that conciliatory policy 'which the I mper i a l , " Government has ,pro mised will for the future`iiiilizence th e i r .- matie agents in that quarter.' As- proo-fiit:this, ng reports have al rea d y reached this Pace Ilwa has been recalled, and that he is tbe succed e by Kweiliang, late Imperial Conunisso ioner at T e ien-s d in. If this be true the troubles in the south will shortly be terminated without any great sacrifice of life and property ; should it be otherwise it will be for us to make use of the cool months to cause our name to be feared, and our authority respect e d i n the neighbourhood of C an t on , by inflicting signal punishment on those misguided patriots who have defied our power, and resorted to measures of fero city and treachery. THE INDIAN COUNCIL. The Council of India sat yesterday at the India House, Leadenhall-street. Lord Stanley, the Sec retary of State and President of the Council, aDam occupied th e chair, as on each of the preceding meetings. The council assembled at 1 o'clock, but his lordship arrived at the India House about half-past 11. The members present were Sir Frederick Currie, Bart., vice-president ; Mr. John P. Wil loughby, Major-General Sir Robert Vivian, Lieut.- Colonel" Sir Henry Rawlinson, Mr. T. Prinsep, Sir Henry Montgomery, Bart., Mr. Charles Mil's, Mr. R. 1). Mangles, Mr. Elliot Maenaghten, Sir James Weir Hogg, Bart., Captain Eastwick, and Mr. William Arbuthnot. Mr. Mangles met the Council for the first time, he having been prevented attend.. ing the previous meetings by indisposition, which detained him on the continent. Colonel Sir Proby Cautley was not present, and Mr. Shepherd's in disposition again precluded his taking his place at the council board. Sir John Lawrence, of course, has never yet been present. The Council remained in deliberation for up wards of two hours. The President submitted to the Council his scheme for the revision and arrange ment of the wholC establishment of officers and servants in the several departments at Leadenhall street and the Board of Control, which he was em powered to propound by the recent act of Parlia ment, and that " with all convenient speed." His lordship has made such reductions in the two establishments as appear to him consistent with the due conduct of the public business for the future. By the terms of the recent statute the Secretary of State for India is required to submit a scheme for the permanent establishment of the Queen in Council, within six months after the commence ment of the act, and her Majesty, by the advice of her Privy Council, is empowered to fix and declare „what shall constitute the establish ment of the Secretary of State in Council, and what salaries shall be paid to the persons on the establishment. The Order in Coun cil, when made, will be presented to both Houses of Parliament within 14 days after their next meeting. Considerable anxiety was felt throughout the whole of yesterday among the officers and servants in Leadenhall-street in reference to the manner in which the scheme of the President of the Council was likely to affect their individual interests. The chamber in which the Council hold their de liberations is a remarkably handsome and commo dious apartment. Until now it his been used as the court-room of the old Court of Directors. It is spacious and lofty, and lighted, by three windows. It is said to form an exact cube of 30 feet, and is situated on the ground floor, on the western side of the main entrance to the building from Leadenhall street. It is immediately contiguous to the ball in which the Court- of Proprietors have held their meetings from time immemorial, and communicates with it by folding doors. It is elegantly orna mented with gilding and mirrors, and the fire-place which is directly opposite the chair :of the Presi dent, is an interesting work of art, enhanced by a fine piece of sculpture, in white marble, over the mantelpiece, emblematic of the relations of the company with its former empire in the East. The council meeting yesterda3 was attended by Mr. J. C. Melvill, son of Sir J. Melvin, in his capa city of Assistant Under-Secretary of State, an office to which he has been recently appointed ; Mr. J. S. Mill, Examiner of India Correspondence.; Mr. P. Melvin, Military Secretary ;-' Messrs. Hawkins, Pridcaux, and Danvers, and others of th e it iper i or officers of the establishment. The energy and deto tion displayed by. Lord Stanley in the discharge of the &titles incident to his high office form a theme of frequent remark anion g the 'employees at th e I n di a House, His lord s hip frequently makes his appear once there as early as 10 in the morning, and on more than one occasion has remained until seven in the evening. He is assisted by Mr. G. Trilbot, in the capacity of private secretapy. During the last week, one, and sometimes two, of the committees into which the Council is divided for the purpose of facilitating the transaction of the general busi ness, Imixelat-, .-- . ...:0 .., ..,.... , : - - . . . .. THE LAZE WILLIAM WEIR. (From the Daily _Yews.) In these columns, not lightly to be turned from public uses, we claim to-day a space for private sorrow. There arc griefs that will not be sup pressed. The kindly man, the statesmanlike and well-furnished journalist who, for the last four years, has guided the political course of this news paper, is taken from our midst. William Weir died at 20 minutes past three yesterday afternoon, at his town residence, after an illness which lasted only a few a days. Our late colleague was peculiarly fitted to engage the affectionate reverence of those with whom he acted. The credit of the newspaper press of the present day is upheld by the exertions of men of broad and deep learning, high literary ability, Ride knowledge of mankind, quickness of observa tion, and untiring energy. The combination of these qualities in one character, however, is rare in any .profession, They were united in our late Editor. Mr. Weir was born in 1802, in North Britain, and having made the best use of the schools of his na tive country, completed his academic studies at the University of Gottingen. In 1826, having returned to these islands, he was called to the Scottish bar. Before a long time had elap se d h e exc h ange d a legal for a political and literary career, and for several years conducted one of the most able and influential newspapers of Scotland. Removing to London he at once took a high position in his pro fession, and joined the Spectator. On the estab lishment of the Daily News his vast knowledge and high ability attracted the notice of its con ductors, who associated him to their editorial staff. In 1854, on the death of Mr. Frederick Knight Hunt, Mr. Weir succeeded to the principal editor ship of this journal. His sure appreciation and firm grasp of facts, his public spirit and ardent attachment to the cause of freedom and progress, are characteristis for which the readers of the Daily Xercs will at once give him credit. But the genial qualities which endeared him to all with whom he came in contact, the never-failing bene volence, the simplicity, and the truthfulness which shone in every word and act—these arc best known to us, and as we recall them, we are made to feel how poor and inadequate is this tribute to the generous, noble man whose loss we deplore.- INSUBORDINATION AT 'PORTLAND CONVICT PRISON. A somewhat serious conspiracy among the con victs at this establishment developed itself on Mon day last, but fortunately an intimation had reached the governor's ears which led to the adoption of the most vigilant precautionary measures. For some time there have been evidences of dissatisfaction on the part of the older convicts at the terms on which those convicted since the new regulations came into force can obtain a mitigation of their sentence by good conduct; and so strong and general had this feeling become, that a large number would appea r to have entered into a combination to overpower the warders and break loose. Some of them seem to have been heard to make their boast of what was intended, and this led to the procuring. of addi tional warders from Milbank, and the doubling of the military force at the barracks. On 'Monday morning the convicts were marched down as usual to the quarries from which the stone is obtained for the Portland Breakwater, and everything went on quietly up to 11 o'clock, shortly after which time about a hundred from different gangs, as if by pre concerted signal, made a rush upon the warders. They were, however, surprised by a strong force of soldiers, who had been concealed in readiness for 41_ ...___ the emergency, surrounded by briang — bayon et s, and firmly secured and ironed. Next morning about 60 of the more prominent actors in the above scene were sent to Milbank for a long period of solitary confinement, and the others received 6 lashes each. Notwithstanding the result of Monday's proceed ings, there were still signs of insubordination on Tuesday, several other convicts refusing to go to work, and further punishment had to be inflicted ; but since then order has been effectually restored. [ADVERTISMIENT.] way's Ointment and - Pills.— Marvellous cures of sciatica, stiff joints, paraly s i s o f th e limbs, and other crippling - ases of the bones, sinews, and muscles, have been acco uplished by Holloway's Oint ment. It is the only unguent which produces any im pression on these complaints. The pills also work won ders. 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