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Ategistered pursuant to the Joint-Stock Companies Act. 1856-7, by which the liability of Shareholders is limited to their subscriptions. capital £60,000, in 12,000 shares of £5 each. Deposit on application £1 per share, and £1 on allotment, but no further call will be made until after 12 months, when the remainder will be called at intervals of not less than six months, as and when required.__ DIRECTORS, John Brown, Esq., Rose Hill, Chesterfield, Director of the __Union Bank, Sheffield. Rangeley. Esq., Unston Ironworks, Sheffield. William Tuxford, Esq., 106, Upper Thames-street, London. P. R. Pierce, Esq., Whittington, Chesterfield. Robert Simpson, Esq.. 4, Charlotte-row, London, .Blaina Ironworks, Monmouthshire. ' John Stanton, Esq., M.D., Upper George-street, Bryanstone square. - - BANKERS. Messrs. Smith, Payne and Smith, London. Messrs. Crompton, Newton and Co., Chesterfield. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Tucker, Greville and Tucker, 28, St. Swithins's-lanc, William Clayton, Esq., Solicitor, Chesterfield. Annirons. Messrs. Harding, Pullein and Co., Public Accountants, Loth bury, London. Mr. Henry Osborne, Chesterfield Bank. BROKERS. London—Messrs. ScruttotiitUASon, 81, Old Broad-street. Sheffield—Messrs. F. E. and S. Smith, George-street. Leeds -T. E, Plint, Park-row. Liverpool —Messrs. Theakstone and Hargreaves, India. buildings ; and J. W. S. May, Dale-street. 3 lanchester—Messrs. Johnson and Son, Stock Exchange. Bristol—Mr. John Kempson Thomas. SECRETARY—Mr. H. Ti. Downman. Offices- 27A, Bucklerabury. This Company has been formed for the purchase of the Freehold Landed Estate of 152 acres, together with the Ma chinery, Plant, and the Coal, Ironstone, and. Minerals, there under, as also under 119 acres of land adjoining, embracing live seams of first-rate coal, togetlipr nearly 900 acres, adapted for house, gas, coke, and manufacturing purposes. The property is situated in the parish of Whittington, near Chesterfield, on a branch of the Midland Railway, and near the Chesterfield Canal. The colliery is raisin.. above 750 tons per week. which is con tracted for by highly respectable firma,. whilst the machinery la capable of raising 1,000 tons per week, and as soon as the lower seams are reached, the outlay for which is provided for in the capital of £60,000, at least 2,000 tons per week, inde pendently of the ironstone, will be raised. The present returns from the Land, Colliery, and Iron stone, after all deductions, will give a net profit of 16 per cent, to the Shareholders; and when the workings are ex tended (within two years) nearly double that profit may be relied on. By the arrangements for the purchase, £20,000 remain on Mortgage over a period of years, and not more than £2 will be called up for the first twelve months, and £2 during the second year, beyond which it is not expected further calls 'Will be made. Full particulars, together with the valuations and estimates of Messrs. Jeffcock and Walker, Traslehurst, and others, and the calculations of an experienced Mineral Agent, will appear is the prospectus, which, with Forms of Application, may be had at the Offices of the Company, and the respective Solici tors and Brokers, to whom applications for Shares are to be addressed. THE NORTHFLEET DOCKS and LONDON QUAYS COM ?ANY, LIMITED.' OFFICES -10, CANNON-STEET, LONDON, E.C. CAPITAL £1,500,000, IN 15,000 SHARES OF £2O EACH. With power to the Directors at any time to increase the Capital to £2,000,000, according to the requirements of the. Company, by the issue of 25,000 Shares of £2O each, which will be offered in the first instance to the then existing Share holders. Deposit £2los. per Share, £1 of which is to be paid on ap Placation. nruEvrous. „„thairman—The Right Hon. J. Stuart Wortley, M.P. J-kputy:Chairman—James Nugent Daniell, Esq. (Chairman of the Blackwall, and Tilbury and Southend Railways). Sir James D. Elphinstone, Bart., M.P., Portsmouth William H. Furlonge, Esq. (Messrs. Magalhaens, Reay, and Co.), 75, Mark-lane, City. 140rd' Alfred Hervey, M.P., 6, St. James's-square. x atrick Douglas Hadow, Esq. (Director of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company). - Kear7Admiral Sir George R. Lambert, K.C.8., Norbiton , place, D Kingston, Surrey. Dawson Lowden, Esq., Leinster-gardens, Hyde-park. Lieutenant-Colonel Neville, 5, John-street, Berkeley-square. Robert Pulsford, Esq , 58, Upper Belgrave-street, Belgrave .. square. ueorge Edgar Ranking, Esq. (Messrs. John Ranking and Co.), 11, St. Helen's-place. lienry Tootal, Esq.. (Chairman of North and South Western Railway Junction, and Deputy-Chairman of the Shrop shire,, Union Railway and Canal Company). Francis Wright, Esq., Butterley Iron Works, and Osmaston Manor, Derbyshire. (With power to add to their number). .Toseph Barber, Esq., Brewer's Quay, Lower Thames-street, Will join the Board after the formal transfer of his pro ,. ' Derty to the Company. oNSULTING ENGINEER—John Hawkshaw, Esq., 33, Great George-street, Westminster. X NGTNEER—Sir Charles Fox, 8, New-street, Spring-gardens. AANlOERS—Messrs. Currie and Co., 29, Cornhill, and the London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury. S OLICITORS—Messrs. W. Murray, Son, and Hutchins, 11, Il lirchin-lane. Ilt OXEßs—Messrs. Hill, Fawcett, and Hill, 29, Threadneedle street. SECRETARY—James Le Geyt Daniell, Esq. TAE object , of the NORTUFLEET DOCKS AND LON DON QUAYNCOMPANY. LIMITED, is to provide the Port of London with the following among other import - ant advantages DIiI DOCKS.—The Port of London, as compared with Liverpbol, Southampton, and many other Ports in the - United Kingdom, is greatly deficient in Dry Dock ac commodation. It is a remarkable fact that there are no Dry Dock's on the Thames belonging to any of the eXist 'hag Dock Companies, whereas Liverpool, for example, possesses eighteen Dry Docks, besides those at Birken head, capable of receiving ships of the largest tonnage, which at present cannot be accommodated in any Dock in the Thames. INCREASED WET DOCK GENERAL ACCOMMODA TION.—The crowded state of the river above Woolwich renders navigation tedious, dangerous, and expensive ; and this, in addition to the want of Dry Docks, compels steamers, and other vessels, especially those of the larger class, to avoid the Port of London. Nevertheless there is a greater concentration of Shipping in the Thames than in any other Port in the World, and the Trade of London with all parts of the Globe is rapidly and steadily increas ing. This is proved by the statistics of the Board of Trade reports, which further show that the Port of Lon don paid, in the year 1856, £4,761,416 more than all the other Ports of the United Kingdom put together, while during the last thirty years no proportionate increase in Dock accomodation has taken place. PLANS AND ESTIMATES of the whole undertaking have been carefully prepared, and have been investigated by a Committee appointed for that purpose. The Reports of the Engineers show that a sum of £2,000,000 will be suffi cient to carry out the undertaking in its integrity, leaving an ample margin for the purchase of the properties ; and the Engineers have named to the Directors eminent Contractors, who are willing to take and guarantee the execution of all the works within the estimates. It is in tended, however, to construct the works -at Northfleet, by gradual operations, according to the requirements of Commerce, and it is not expected that more than £1,250,000 will be called up within the first eighteen months ; no call to exceed £2los. per share. In the event of the Directors not deeming it advisable to pro ceed, the deposit will be returned to the Shareholders, less the Preliminary Expenses, which will not under any circumstances exceed Five Shillings per Share. Applications for Shares to be made to the Secretary, at the Offices of the Company ; to the Brokers, Messrs. Hill, Fawcett, and Hill; 29, Threadneedle-street, London ; also to John B. Neilson, Esq., Liverpool ; William Mewburn, • Esq., Manchester ; Nathaniel Lee, Esq., Birmingham ; Thomas Parkinson, Esq., and Harry Hughlings, Esq., • Halifax ; Messrs. 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" The NEW AMERICAN DISCOVERY' demonstrates the absurdity of the English mode of treating such corn- Plaints, will prove a blessing to the afflicted, who may safely and easily regain pristine health by adopting the means pre sented."—Evening For Qualification. vide " Diplomas," and the " London zdliSal Directory.' THE GREATEST MEDICAL DISCOVERY OF THE AGE. A. NEW, MILD, AND MOST SUCCESSFUL MODE OF TREATMENT. - - PERRY'S PATENT CONCENTRATED ESSENCE OF COPAIBA and CUBEB SACCHARATED GLOBULES, an „agreeable Preparation of the very essence of the Balsam of vopalba and Cubebs, perfectly tasteless, still retaining at the flame time its curative powers. In all cases of Gonorrhoea, Gleet, Stricture, &c., a single trial will prove the efficacy of this invaluable remedy ; as it at once acts upon the Urino-Genital organs, restoring them to their healthy state. Price 118. per box (or free by post for 13 8.) sent direct from the Establishment, No. 19, Berners- Street, Oxford-street, London. The CORDIAL BALM of SYRIACUM is employed in both ,Sexes to renovate the powers of life, when exhausted by the influence exerted by indulgence on the system. Its Power in reinvigorating the frame in all cases of debility arising, from excesses, has been demonstrated by its universal 811 ccess. To those persons who are prevented entering the ruqrried state it is invaluable. Price 11s. per bottle, or four quantities in one for 335., which saves 118. ; or in £5 cases. • The CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE, an anti-svphilitic remedy, for purifying the system from conta- I riination, and is recommended for secondary symptoms, blotches on the head and face, enlargement of the throat, ton sils. and uvula; its beneficial influence on the system is un deniable. Price Ils. and 335. per bottle, also a saving of lls. HEALTH DEPENDS UPON PURE BLOOD. 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By the most obvious indication it admits of being shown that the Electrical and Nervous energies are identical; hence, that when the latter fails, the former can take its place, and that when, from irre gularities of any kind, the nervous system has become debili tated, paralysed, or exhausted, and the patient brought to a condition little short of total prostration, then by the action of Electricity, imparting certainty and efficacy to medical treatment, he can be re-invigorated, and his health re-esta blished to a degree almost warranting the designation of SECOND LIFE. Published by Mann, 39, Cornhill, and of all Booksellers. ECONOMY. -A TEN GALLON CASK (equal to Five Dozens) of the finest SOUTH AFRICAN SHERRY, for Four Guineas, or 20s. per Dozen ; best PORT, 245. per Dozen. Cask or Bottles and Case included. Three Dozens Carriage Free. HENEKEYS', ABBOTT, and Co., Importers, 22 and 23, High Holborn, London, W.C. Esta blished 1831. 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This burner regulates and distri butes the delivery of the Gas in a manner to produce a very great amount of light, as well as to effect a considerable saving of gas, by preventing a large proportion of it from being blown through partially consumed, and which partial combustion is a double source of injury and annoyance—it soils the ceiling and deteriorates the atmosphere."—l am, Dear Sir, very truly yours, "(Signed) SAMUEL SAINSBURY. " To Mr. Hart, 69, Fleet-street." GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH, USED IN THE ROYAL LAUNDRY, AND PRONOUNCED BY HER MAJESTY'S LAUNDRESS to be THE FINEST STARCH SHE EVER USED. WHEN YOU ASK FOR GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH, SEE THAT YOU GET IT, As inferior kinds are often substituted. Sold by all Chandlers, Grocers, &c., &c. WOTHERSPOON & CO., GLASGOW AND LONDON. FEARFUL STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION.- - 200 LIVES LOST. A fearful steamboat disaster has occurred on the Mississippi. A despatch from New Orleans of the 28th ult., says :—" The steamboat Princess, from Vicksburg for New Orleans, exploded her boiler, caught fire and burned to the water's edge, at Conrad's Point, near :Baton Rouge, on Sunday morning. Four hundred passengers were on board at the time, two hundred of whom are lost and missing, mostly residents of Louisiana and Missis- sippi. A large number of those on board were ladies. Those known to be killed are :—S. W. Seymour, of Baton Rouge; Mr. Calhoun, of Mays ville, Kentucky; th e pil o t an d ass i s t an t eng i neer of the Princess; H. B. Murphy, of St. Louis; J. Hodges, of Mississippi ; and three whose names are unknown.' Among the missing are Chas. Bannis ter and L. Howard, representatives from New Or leans to the State Legislature ; Joseph Clark, second clerk, and Samuel Warts, of Virginia. No other Northern or Eastern names have as yet been ascer tained. A large number were badly scalded and otherwise injured. The boat and cargo are a total loss. The former was one of the finest on the river. A later despatch says :—A boat, arrived from the wreck of the Princess, brings a number of the wounded. It was foggy at the time of the explo sion, and the Princess, being behind time, had too much steam on. A Baton Rouge despatch says :—The engineer is reported to have said he would reach New Orleans in time or blow up. The engineer was cut in two. About a hundred persons were wounded, and many of them are in a dangerous and dying state. It is impossible yet to ascertain the number of the lost. Several boats saved many lives. There is much excitement here, and all along the river. 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" My dear Elcho,—On thinking over our conver sation of yesterday it has occurred to me that there may be some advantage i n my express i ng to you rather more fully than 1 then did, and in writing, my opinion on the resolution which Lord John Russell has given notice that he will move as an amendment on the second reading of the Reform Bill. - "I think this resolution highly objectionable, and I deeply lament his having determined to move it as well on account of the public evil it has a ten dency to produce, as from the regard I have for so many, years entertained for him. The question of parliamentary reform is fast getting into a state very dangerous to the country; it seems to me, therefore, to be the duty of all public men to give their, best assistance towards settling it, and at all events strictly to abstain from using it for the pur po,.7e of party warfare. But if the settlement of the question is the object they have in view, I cannot understand how the party opposed to the Govern ment can doubt that they ought to agree to the second reading of the bill that has been introduced. It is true the bill is a bad one, and I certainly could not vote for its . passing in its present shape. But it contains provisions for creating new rights of vot ing, for, partially disfranchising some places that now return members to Parliament, and for enfran chising others. These principles, applied more or less extensively, are those' on which any possible reform bill must be founded, so that amendments which the committee would have full power to in troduce into the bill, as coming within its original principle, might bring it into any shape that might be thought right —even into that recommended by Mr. Bright, if his views should unfortunately gain acceptance. " Hence, if the second reading were agreed to, all who disapprove of any of the present provisions of the bill would have the opportunity of proposing others in lieu of them. Were this course followed, the house and the country would be enabled to form a fair judgment on the several schemes that might be brought forward, and the discussion of these could not fail to throw much light on the question (at present so obscure) as to what changes in the constitution arepracticable, and really desired by the public. " But instead of allowing the bill to be thus col sidered in detail, Lord John Russell will invite the House of Commons to get rid of it by a resolution condemning it on account of defects which, grant ing them to be as great as they are alleged to be, might still be removed in the committee. The re solution is to declare the opinion of the house. That it is neither just nor politic to interfere in the manner proposed in this bill with the freehold franchise as hitherto exercised in the counties of England and Wales; and that no re-adjustment of the franchise will satisfy this house or the country which does not provide for a greater extension of the suffrage in cities and boroughs than is contem plated in the present measure.' The importance of the first part of the resolution is taken away by the announcement that the Government intends to mo-• dify the part of the bill to which it relates. Th e second is more matdral. Its effect would be to pledge the house to some unknown extension of the suffrage in towns, so that it may be supported by persons holding every variety of opinion as to what the borough franchise ought to" be, from those who go to 4he full extent of advocating universal suf frage, with Mr. Ernest Tones. A majority in favour of a resolution of this kind might succeed in overthrowing the existing. administration, or in compelling it to dissolve Par liament (the last in my opinion would be a great misfortune at the present moment) ; but lam totally at a loss to see how it would conduce to the safe settlement of the difficult question of reform. Suppose that a majority in favour of his resolution led to Lord John's being himself raised to the office of prime minister, either immediately, or after a new Parliament had been elected—is there the slightest chance that he.would be more fortunate than his predecessors in finding a concurrence of opinion in favour of his own views ?- If he were to propose a £5 rating franchise, for instance, he must of course reckon upon the opposition of the mem bers who support the present Government, and also on that of Mr. Bright, and those who share his views. He would also most probably find it neces sary to propose a much more ex t ens i ve disfranchise men.,, of small boroughs than the present Govern ment recommend, and on this point likewise he would encounter a great conflict of opinion which would be very difficult to deal with. With these obstacles in his way there is little probability that he could carry a measure even through the House of Commons, much less through both Houses of Parliament. All therefore that we should gain by the move would be the disturbance produced by a change of Government and probably by a general election, together with a great increase of the diffi culties of this already difficult question, by making it the subject of a party battle, and influencing men's passions with regard to it. " I must add, that stopping the progress of a bill by voting a resolution in favour of some abstract principle which might be embodied in clauses And moved in committee, is a course - which has not very often been pursued by the House of Commons, and never I believe with advantage. There are only two cases strictly in point that I can remember. One was the resolution, carried by General Gascoyno in April, 1831, the object of which was to defeat the first Reform Bill, by declaring the opinion of the house that the total number of members re turned for England and Wales ought not to be diminished. The other was the celebrated resolu tion carried by Lord John himself in 1835, which declared that no measure upon the subject of tithes in Ireland could lead to a satisfactory . and final ad justment, if it did not embody the principle of ap plying the surplus property of the Irish Church to general education. Both these resolutions afford, I think, warnings of what ought to be avoided, not examples to be followed. The first was universally condemned at the time as a factious proceeding ; it led to the immediate dissolution of Parliament and the signal discomfiture of its authors. The second (in which I have never ceased to regret that, much against my own judgment, I was induced to concur) was so far successful that it stopped the progress of Sir R. Peel's bill relating to Irish tithes, and overthrew his Government, but it pledged the House of Commons to a principle, of legislation to which it was unable to give effect. It delayed the passing of any Irish tithe bill for three or four years, keeping up in the meantime a most mischievous struggle and agitation, and in the end the House w as com p e ll e d to abandon the principle it had declared, with no slight discredit to itself and to the party on whose advice it had acted. I can an ticipate no better result from the move now contem plated ; I hope, therefore, that the resolution which is to be moved will be resisted by yourself and others who prefer the interests of the country to those of a party. In your place I should certainly vote against it, even though I concurred in the prin. ciples set forth in the resolution, and were prepared to support them if brought forward in the proper form of amendments in the committee on the bill. " I have no wish to conceal the opinion I enter tain on this subject—on the contrary, I should be glad to have it known ; you are, therefore, quite at liberty to make what use you please of this letter. —Yours very truly, " GREY. " The Lord Elcho." (From the Times.) Everybody knows what it is to be thrown all at once out of a noisy crowd into a quiet little corner, such as a churchyard or the quadrangle of a City Hall. You have the same feeling as when a sudden bend of the shore brings your boat under the shelter of a rock, or as when you get into harbour after a rough passage. Lord Grey and Lord Elcho must have found themselves in just such a nook, whence they could talk and write quietly about Lord John's Resolution and Lord Derby's Dissolu tion, and the precedents of 1831 and 1835 bearing on the point, and what is to come of these things. They would seem to have agreed so entirely that nothing remained but for Lord Grey to put on record the results of the conference. We now, therefore, have a report of the proceedings, with the decision of the Court. When we add that we entirely agree with that decision, and think both Lord Grey and Lord Elcho men of great sense, our readers will perceive that we are quite serious in this account of Lord Grey's letter, and the conversa tion which led to it. We are sincerely of opinion that these two most respectable spectators of the fray have come to a very correct estimate of Lord John's Resolution ; that it can answer no good pur pose ; that it is an in v it a ti on to the Whigs to affirm what is either superfluous or vague ; that it proposes to do at a wrong time, and against Parliamentary usage, what can be done more conveniently and properly in committee—that being the time'to settle particular questions of enfranchiseme n t and dis franchisement and rates of qualification, All this is very good, and were these two noble Lords histo rians, writing as historians love to write' on events at least a hundred years old, or were they members of a well -regulated debating society, with a similar rule as to the date of their thesis, we should think this a very good piece of political criticism. But when we have expended our admi ration of the letter before us it then occurs to the mind to ask, " What is the good of it ?" Who will pay the smallest attention to it ? Will Lord John Russell withdraw his Resolution in conse quence ? Does Lord Grey touch the motives which prompted the step ? Was this the way in which Lord John himself considered the question, and can any point be named up to whi c h h e and his critics agreed ? The fact of the case most prominent in Lord John Russell's mind is one that Lord Grey has overlooked, or thought unworthy of notice. Lord John considers that he has a right to reform ; that the subject is not only in bad hands, but in the grasp of a depredator. His resolution means nothing more or less than " Stop thief !" That is the whole philosophy of the. question in his eyes. If he saw the thief turning a corner half a mile off, or sur rounded by a body of confederates too strong for attack, he wou'Al not cry " Stop thief!" partly be cause it would be useless, and partly. because he might suffer something worse than t'he loss of his property. But, having taken a rapid measure of the distance, the vicinity, the people about, and all the circumstances of the case, he concludes that it will be of some use to halloo, and that he may do so, if not with success, at least with impunity. So he fixes at once on the most exceptionable points of the' bill, and, without caring for principles and usages, pro claims war at once. This it is hoped will kill the enemy. It is something to knock your bird down, even though you don't know what is next to be done. What will next happen, of course, will be a dis solution, which Lord Grey thinks anything but a desirable event. There, probably, is no one point on which both Lords and Commons and all the good and wise people of England, Ireland, and Scotland are more unanimous than. this. There is scarcely any minor public calamity that would not be pre ferred to the necessity of spending a million of money in the most unsatisfactory possible way, merely that 650 gentlemen may find themselves either where they were before, minus so much cash and character, or rninvs cash, character, and seats into the bargain. We could fancy we hear the cheers of the 650 at Lord Grey's remarks on a general election. But there are at least two gentlemen'tolwhom all the " difficulties," and "dis turbances," and " passions," and "p ar ty b a ttl es ," and all the rest that we should get by a general election, are matters of the utmost insignificance. To Lord John Russell the first of all human consi derations is to get into office, and Lord Grey does not venture to doubt that this Resolution is the straightest way to that end. To Mr. Disraeli it is, for various reasons, most important to stay in as long as he can ; and the dissolution which Lord Grey is so concerned to see in the horizon may be managed so as to give the present occupants of power three or four more months of it. This is their view of the case; though Lord Grey does not seem to observe it. At this time of day it is vain to be very indig nant at a step the only object of which is the overthrow of one party and the rise of another. It is the sort of thing that men will do to the end of the chapter. The maxim, " Measures, not men," may do very well at the hustings a hundred miles down in the country, but the "men" themselves who are made the subjects of this invidious comparison cannot be expected to postpone themselves so com pletely to certain paper schemes. Lord Grey, how ever, seems to intimate that, granting a general deal°n to leave things much as theyare at present, and granting Lord John R usse ll an d hi s f r i en d s t o be in power, they would only find their troubles rather aggravated than otherwise by their new po sition. Well, possibly they would. Very likely, for the first month or two, Lord John Russell would not sleep so soundly as he does now. He would have to defend a position continually at all points, instead of taking his time about it, and at tacking here or there, as the fancy takes him. He would find the independent sections of the house still ready to join against the possessors of power. All this is true, but the risk is Lord John's, so he thinks, and he is ready to stand it. Lord Grey reasons as if the only object was to do a good amount of safe Parliamentary Reform. Strange to say, the impression in the country at large has been most honestly and unconsciously the very op. posite of this. It has been assumed throughout as a simple, and not at all a discreditable fact, that the object of all this talk about Parliamentary Reform has been to get this man or that man into power, or to keep him in. When Lord John re-opened the question which he had the credit of closing twenty-seven years ago it was taken for granted that he had become dissatisfied with that state of the representation which left him out of office, and that he conceived another Reform Bill might bring him in at least, if not keep him in. Again, nobody supposed that either Lord Derby or Lord Palmerston was an enthusiast for Parliamen tary Reform. It was only a necessity of their position. Lord John Russell conceives the course he is now taking to be a necessity of his position. He sees a weak paint in the defences, and he pro poses an assault, with a view to get in. If he fails to get in, and stay in, he may possibly wish that he had thought as Lord Grey does about the affair. If he succeeds, as he hopes, we will find the posses sion of office and power a very sufficient reply to Lord Grey's strictures on the policy and duty of the steps he is now taking. But that the whole affair is a struggle for Office—a mere question of " Ins " and " Outs "-'-no one less charitable than Lord Grey can doubt. (From the Morning Chronicle.) Lord John Russell has reckoned without his " host." A party leader should make sure of his followers, ere he stakes his reputation, and their prospects, on the fortunes of a f ac ti ous movemen t . The Noble Lord the Member for London in his eagerness to outbid a rival c l a i man t for office, has forgotton the most essential element of success. There was a time when the name, alone, of Lord John Russell was a towe r o f strength. But that influence sprang from the moral support of a great party, although a certain species of reflected pres tige might survive its withdrawal. The. Noble Lord is now sorely testing the intrinsic value of that prestige. To the Independent and Unaffi liated Members below the gangway, he may ap pear not to have lost his wonted importance, but for every strain of flattery that alures his ears in those regions, he is compelled to hear a jarring remonstrance from his ancient associates. One most important section of his former followers now openly attach themselves to the fortunes of another Chief; and there are symptoms of further defection, even in quarters where such conduct might least have been expected. It was but the other day, Mr. Edward Ellice—a gentleman always supposed td be in a mysterious way a baro meter of Whig opinion —wrote a temperate and well-argued letter, setting forth the reasons which would induce him not to oppose the Government Reform Bill. Now we have Earl Grey delivering himself in the same strain. " The question of Parliamentary Reform," says the noble earl in his letter to Lord Elcho, " is fast getting into a state very dangerous to the country; it seems to me, therefore, to be the duty of all pub lic men to give their best assistance towards settling it, and, at all events, strictly to abstain from using it for the purposes of party warfare." That is to say, " Reform" having recklessly been made the stalking horse of a party, and the question having been undertaken by the present Government on the default of their predecessors, it is to the interest of the,community that a rational and well-considered measure should be passed, with the consent and aid of all parties, rather than that they should exhaust each other in struggles for supremacy, leaving the question at last in the hands of demagogues and democrats. Earl Grey sees, as other shrewd and well-meaning Whigs have seen before him, that if , the effect of Lord John Russell's resolution were to defeat the Government Bill, there would then be no alternative but the wild and destructive theories of Mr. Bright. There would, of course, be an inter mediate period of Ministerial crises, furnishing .4. t0 that gentleman fresh weapons against the aristo cracy and the middle classes; but, unless Lord John Russell could hope to be more successful than Lord Derby in carrying a measure, with the consent of all parties—which Lord Grey demonstrates to be impossible—" all we should gain by the move would be the disturbance produced by a change o f Government, and probably by a general election, together with a great increase of the diff icu l t i es of this already difficult question, by making it the subject of a party battle, and inflaming men's pas sions with regard to it." Lord Grey, then, recommends Lord Elebo and bis friends in the Lower House to vote for the second reading of the bill, so as to afford an oppor tunity for discussing in committee the provisions which may be deemed objectionable. This would afford a clear stage to all parties—even to Mr. Bright. There are few public men from whom a I remonstrance such as this could come with more effect. Not to speak of the noble earl's " hereditary" claims, he has always approved himself a sincere and earnest politician, disdaining faction and cant. Following so closely on the similar manifesto of Mr. Edward Ellice, Earl Grey's letter exposes the false position assumed by Lord John Russell. and fairly foreshadows his inevitable failure. With some of the most respectable and influential of the Whig party against him, not even the undivided support of his ultra-Radical associates could save him from defeat ; but those gentlemen, taught by experience, are not very likely to be caught in the noble lord's net, unless they scent something stronger, and•more suited to their appetites, than the very vague resolution that stands for Monday next. THE TWO SICILIES. NAPLES, MARCH 9. In spite of the mystery which surrounds the King, tis generally believed that his Majesty's illness becomes more serious. The chamber of the royal invalid is closed with care, and no one enters it but the Queen, the Physicians Leone and Ramag lia, and the four sailors and quartermasters of the royal yacht, who act as nurses. A feeling of insecurity continues, and every one sells his Rentes. lam informed on good authority that even the royal family sell. At all events it is certain that a person named Morelli, who is em ployed at the great book, in the beginning of the week carried the book of the public debt in which the Rentes are entered to the palace, in order that the administrators of the Bursillo particolare of the younger sons of the King might sign the sale of the Rente which they had pre viously bought with the money of the young princes. The bank is in great agitation, the agents being embarrassed by the numerous sales, and the threats of the police. The news of Lord Cowley's mission, however, has produced a certain amount of confidence. Public affairs are in suspense ; everything is at a standstill. The here ditary Prince is permitted to take no part. The Ministers Bianchino and Murena arc not admitted to the King. To lessen his sufferings he is obliged to have recourse to opiates. The police exercise the utmost rigour towards all who speak of his illness. Two days ago a gentleinan in the cafe under the Palazzo Angri, in the Toledo, ventured to express his regret at the silence of the official journals on the subject. On his way out he was arrested. Miserable people ! Even the solicitude of the people for their sovereign's health is construed into a crime. The festoons and preparations for the marriage fetes dangle in the winds, faded and weather-beaten, the subjects of epigrams and mockery. Arrests con stantly take place. Carlo Capuano, a political pri sdner recently liberated, has again been arrested. Yet in the midst of this misery and desolation, with laws of more than Draconian severity, the people are gay, and sing about the streets, ." E morto co lumi—Carnevale !" How is this ? The fact is, that public opinion against the Government, and in favour of the rights of the people, has made gigantic strides. The attitude of Piedmont has elated the people, and given them firm confidence in the future. It is at Naples as at Rome, they have resolved to remain in a state of solemn calm not to disturb the progress of events by petty agi tations about things of little moment, but to wait and assist the great operations begun at the head of the peninsula, in Lombardy. The Austrian princes returned some days since from Bari by way of Avellino, where they informed the intendente that there was no probability of the King's return for some weeks; that functionary, however, for the public good, thought fit to give out that he would return in a week. It is said that the princes are going to leave the kingdom, having obtained three millions from the King, and another million from the Grand Duke of Tuscany, but I cannot vouch for the truth of these reports. Yesterday a monk, in the ardour of sanctity, left for tart, to inter cede with the Almighty for the King's health. FATAL AFFRAY AT WASHINGTON. Much space is occupied in the American journals brought by the Africa with the reports of and com ments on the shooting to death of Mr. P. B. Key, United States' Attorney for the district of Columbia, by the Hon. D. E. Sickles, a senator, on the 27th ult. The New York Times gives the following ac count of the tragedy : "Philip Barton Key, the United States' Attorney for the district of Columbia, was talking with Mr. Butterworth, of New York, at thc corner ofPennsyl vania-avenue and Sixteenth:street, near the south entrance to the Executive Mansion, and some 20 yards from the Club House on President's-square, when he was accosted by the Hon. D. E. Sickles, of New York. Mr. Sickles charged Mr. Key with destroying the honour of his wife and his own hap piness, and, drawing a revolver, instantly shot him down. One ball . entering in at the left side passed completely through the body of Mr. Key, a second. Was lodged in his thigh, and a third, glancing, in flicted a slight bruise. Mr. Key fell, imploring Mr. Sickles not to kill him, and died in a very few minutes. Mr. Sickles and Mr. Key had been very intimate, but circumstances led him to suspect an improper imtimacy. Mr. Sickles received from some enemy of mankind an anonymous letter, stating, , with precision so minute as to make sus picion imperative, that Mr. Key had rented a house on Fifteenth-street, above K-street; from a negro woman, and that he was in the habit' of meeting Mrs. Sickles there two or times a week, or oftener. The person and dress of Mrs. Sickles were accurately described, and the usual time of the interview specified. Accompanied by a friend, Mr. Sickles went to the house desig nated, and found every statement of the anonymous writer corroborated. Mr. Key had taken the house, and he had constantly met there a lady answering very closely in description to Mrs. Sickles. A watch was set, and on Saturday evening, the 27th, Mr. Sickles resolved no longer to play the spy upon his honour, determined to confront his wife directly with his terrible suspicions. At first Mrs. Sickles strongly denied her guilt ; but on her husband's asking her whether, on the Wednesday previous, she had not entered the house in Fifteenth-street in a certain particular dress, and concealed by a hood, she cried out, lam betrayed and lost,' and swooned away. On recovering her senses she ad mitted her guilt, and besought mercy and pardon. Mr. Sickles calmly said he would not injure her, since he believed her to be the victim of a scoundrel, but that he had a right to a full confes sion. Two . ladies in the house were sent for as witnesses, and in their presence Mrs. Sickles made a full confession in writing, stating that her con nexion with Mr. Key had commenced in April last, under Mr. Sickles's roof, but that Mr. Key had since hired the house in Fifteenth-street, in which they had constantly met. Mrs. Sickles's confession was made in the midst of the bitterest contrition and misery. Her husband simply asked her to give him back her wedding ring, and desired her to write to her mother to come and take her from his house for ever. Mrs. Sickles made no objections, admitting the justice of her punishment in the most affecting language. Her mother will arrive to-morrow to remove her from this fearful scene of guilt, remorse, and blood. Once having quitted the presence of his wife, Mr. Sickles gave way to the most terrible emotion, and passed the night in a state bordering on distrac tion--a feeling which was worked into madness this morning on seeing the cause of his misery, Mr. Key, with ga y audacity pass opposite th e w i n d ow of his wife's room and wave his handkerchief—the usual signal for assignation. Asking Mr. Butter worth, who was at his house, to f o ll ow K ey an d engage him in conversation, so that he should not get out of sight, he rushed up stairs for his pistols, and quickly following, found Butterworth and Key together, at the corner of Sixteenth -street, where the tragedy took place. On coming up Sickles walked directly to Key, and said, " You have dis honoured my bed and family, you scoundrel; pre pare to die !"—at the same time drawing his pistol. Almost simultaneously Key placed his hand inside his ;vest, and drawing what appeared to be a pistol, but what was really an opera-glass, said, " You had better not shoot !" Sickles at once fired, Key at the same time throwing his glass at him. This shot only grazed Key, slightly raising the skin of his side and he immediately leaped behind a tree to avoid another shot. Sickles followed, and Key, catching his arm, endeavoured to prevent him from firing, but Sickles disengaged himself, and firing again, shot Key in the upper part of the right thigh, close to the main artery. Falling on his hip and supporting himself with his hand, he cried, Murder ! don't shoot !' Sickles still fol lowing, fired again, with his pistol close to Key, the ball passing through his body below the breast. In the meantime the report of the pistol and Key's cries startled those in the neighbour hood. Mr. Thomas Martin, a clerk in the Treasury Department, who happened at the moment to be leaving the club, rushed back, and calling out Key is murd ere d !' M r . D o yle, Mr. Upshur, and M r. Tidball, who were in the club at the time, proceeded ) ) _. 4 - 1 .- (7 - , ez-1-,, 1 1N ET, SP PER lre l ,,_ & ;& - .. - * A ' • ; ~- ~.- 7:1 "' 4,, hastily to the spot, where th ey four ' 4:1 ing over the body of Key, with his pistolitesensd S - - at - his-heatlrwhich he-tried twice to discharge, but which. snapped both times, and Mr. Butterworth standing•by composedly. On Mr. boyle's touching Sickles on the shoulder the latter at once desisted, and turning round said, 4 Gentlemen, this man h as dishonoured my bed!' Upon this lie took Butter- ' worth's arm, and walking fr om the hesot most perfect self-possession, proceeded Attorneypto with the - General Black's, and delivered himself into custody. On. Mr. Sickles leaVing, Messrs. Doyle, Tidball, Upkrur, and Martin conveyed the body, which still - had faint gasps of breathing, to the parlour of the ' club-house, when the Assistant-Surgeon-General was at once in attendance, but Key was beyond all medical skill. He breathed but twice after being laid upon the floor. The parties involved in this sad story all lived within the immediate circle of our daily Washington life; two, at least, of them being also as well known in New York as •in the federal metropolis. Key was about 42 years of age , _ tall in stat ure , a b out six feet, with an easy and fashionable air, but by no means prepossessing in appearance otherwise. His face had a sickly hue, and he had been for some time suffering from heart disease, or I imagined he was, which gave him a soured and dis contented look, Otherwise he was extremely po pular, and those who knew him best said his eccen tricities of manner covered a very kind and generous • heart. His father, Francis S. Key, was the author of the national song, the ' Star-spangled Banner.' He was a widower with four children. On his mar riage he narrowly escaped a duel with Colonel May, who conceived that he had unfairly ousted him from the affections of the lady who became his wife, and who was a beautiful and charming woman. " Mr. Sickles, the member for the Third District of New York, is a native of this city, and was ori ginally a printer by occupation. He is a man of nearly 40 years of age, of good presence and grace ful manners, As a member of the State Senate, as well as in the House of Representatives, he had made himself remarked by a quite unusual coolness and self-possession, which gave him great advantages in debate, and had acquired for him a w e ll-d eserve d reputation as a rising young leader cf the Democratic party. In 1853 Mr. Sickles was married to his wife, now ruined and heartbroken, then a young girl fresh from her school life, and remarkable then as now for something especially soft, lovely, and youthful in the type of her very peculiar beauty. She is of Italian origin, and possesses all the Italian lustre and depth of eye, united with a singular contour and delicacy of feature. Mr. Sickles had seen her grow up from childhood, and was attached to her with an almost idolatrous affection. Shortly after their marriage Mr. Sickles was appointed Secretary of the American Legation at London, in the household of Mr. Buchanan and his beautiful wife won universal admiration abroad, not more by her charms of person and manner than by the gaiety and innocent joyousness of her character. Mrs. ,Sickles may be 22, and has two children. She is the daughter of Bagloli, the celebrated music teacher, of Fourteenth -street. When Mr. Sickles surrendered himself- to Attorney-General Black he requested such disposition to be made of him as was proper. The Attorney-General sent for a magistrate, who, with the Chief of Police, came speedily. Soon after the Mayor arrived, announc ing the death of Key, and Mr. Sickles was con ducted in a carriage to the gaol, where he now is, awaiting an examination. I called upon him this evening, and found him surrounded by several col leagues and other sympathising friends. He was evidently labouring under strong mental excite ment, and his haggard countenance presented marked evidence of the effects of the fearful emotions which have harrowed his very soul during the last 24 hours. Nevertheless, his manner wag calm and collected, with his nerves steady. Of course I did not question him relative to the affair. He volunteered the remark, however, that it was unavoidable, and that he could not have done otherwise. He added, 6 Satisfied as I was of his guilt, we could not live together upon the same planet.' She was induced to sign or write a paper purporting to be a full acknowledgment of her infidelity with the deceased. In it she admitted that the deceased and herself had signals, by which she could let him know whether she could meet him, and explained those signals. Shortly after she ex- plained the signals the deceased came over from the club house, where he had been using a lorgnette to see whether the signal was out, into Lafayette-square, and in sight of those in the house he waved his handkerchief at the house. She declares that she . has had enough of fashionable life in Washington, and prays for oblivion. She describes her husband, when he returned to the house, after having accom plished his bloody work, as entering her room look ing looking like a marble statue, only uttering the single. sentence, ' I have killed him. Mr. Sickles was accompanied to his house by two subordinate officers of the district, who made him pledge his word of honour, before they would consent to allow him to enter his wife's room, that he would do her no harm. That he still entertains for her feelings of the strongest affection there is no doubt. He believes that Key seduced her from the path of rectitude, and that but for him she would never have proved false. When a gentleman remarked to him in the gaol, ' This must be a terrible blow to Mrs. Sickles,' he exclaimed, pressing his hand upon his brow, ' Yes, poor child! poor child!' and walked away. When Mr. Sickles procured the written confession of guilt from his wife, and di rected her to send for her parents to take her home, he determined that she should not take with her their child, a beautiful girl of sixyears ; but tc-day he has consented that the child may go with her, and remain until his case is determined here. The wedding ring which he demanded and obtained from her has caused her the greatest grief, and to day he directed that it be returned to her. Mrs. Sickles concede's that her husband has done right, and states that Mr. Key received an anonymous letter on Thursday night last, which he showed to her, -warning him against continuing his visits at Mr. Sickles's house, calling his atten tion to the fact that he was much older than Mrs. Sickles and ought not to pursue her, and assuring him that, unless he desisted, Mr. Sickles would detect him, and that in such an event the consequences would be serious if not fatal to one or both of the parties. It is believed that this letter was found upon the body of Mr. Key before the coroner's inquest. Mrs. - Sickles's mother arrived in this city from New York this evening, and will accompany her daughter back to her home. It is reported that Mrs. Sickles is enceinte, and has made an affidavit that she became so in consequence • of her intercourse with Key. When Mr. Sickles entered the room assigned him at the gaol—the best in the building—he asked the gaoler if he hadn't a better one to put him in. ' No,' replied the gaoler ; 6 this is the best place you members of Congress have afforded us.' Mr. Sickles ' caved.' Numerous offers of bail have been pouring in upon Mr. Sickles ever since he was committed, but, having voluntarily placed himself at once in the hands of public justice,he prefers patiently to wait until his act shall be finally pronounced upon by a fury of his country after a full and complete hear ing of the case ; and while this may subject him to some inconvenience, his own feelings and those of others involved, whom he is willing as far as possible to spare, will be saved from the repeated discussion of the unhappy circumstances attending this case. " Mr. Sickles's father arrived last night and had a painful interview with him. The mother .f Mrs. Sickles also visited him this morning in company with Surveyor Hart, of New York, and was so over come by her feelings as to faint. "Mr.Butterworth has published a minute statement showing how far he was connected with the recent terrible occurrence. He says that when he left the house of Mr. Sickles he had no thought of meeting or seeing Mr. Key, his object being to see Mr. Stewart. He had no arms with him, and did not know that Mr. Sickles intended to take arms. Mr. Sickles left the house after he (Butterworth) had done so, and without any suggestion on the part of him (Butterworth) came towards the club house. When Mr. Key saluted him (Butt erwort h) , h e did not know that Mr. Sickles was approaching, nor did he see him until he turned to leave Mr. Key. It is not true that he sought or detained Mr. Key, who first addressed him (Butterworth). Their i n terview did not l as t one m i nu t e . It is freely rumoured that a brother of the deceased declares his purpose to kill Sickles on sight. Mr. Sickles has consented that for the present Mrs. Sickles and their child shall remain with her mother, who has been telegraphed for, and expected to arrive h ere . to - night. The gaol was to - day visited by ma ny o f Mr. Sickles' s f r iends. Numerous rumours are a fl oa t concerningggrate theall the parties, having th e e ff ect to a facts already painfully distressing, and many of the reports are pure fiction. The • verdict his was, ' Mr. Key came to balls fired by Daniel R d o e f oth the coroner's by pistol jury Sickles, while standing on the south-east corner of Lafayette-square, the wounds therefrom causing his death in a few moments.' " DINNER TO nit, WILLIAM ARMSTRONG AND CO.'S WenxmEN.— On Saturday Sir W. Armstrong and Co. gave a dinner to the workmen employed in their manufactory in celebration of the honour which her Majesty has conferred upon Sir William by admitting him to the order of knight hood. The w or k s were s topped at noon, an d a h a lf d ay ' s holiday was given to the men. About four o'clock they mustered in the works to the number of about 900, and marched in procession to the Assembly Rooms, where the dinner took place. The only drawback to the enjoyment of the festivity was the absence of the donor of the feast. It was understood that Sir William was unavoidably absent in London on urgent business connected with his recent ap pointment as Inspector of BMW Ordnaticc..—lfeteCadele Chronicle. ation 1, the istra- hton, b, the ;hire, -road Esq., tago, shed, Esq,, TOSS, roan Elon. Llex ,.P., rsity anco )lino ~obt. yde• n 0... 0, 112 1 y of