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, T et Ter . 1 _ _ • . , . 1 • • r - • -, s l * • • I'4'7 • • 0 • e lg t ' I I I' a 4 Ar+ :`1\tf4 '.43 4: 4016 kZ:4 c.e - .h -1•••• :1115R: -411..' , 1',.7,! , , • . • , • - .1 — 'esi .4 1 10;.." • } -"' Hwy. . I f;g _ . 4-- - ~ • 4 7, ia jt Cre 10: • . • • '" r4 F.IIW -1 . • _ , , .• ! • ' „ • • •b. • •• ' / ( be no difficulty in chtaiiiiii that sum otTadvantagspoq Tre B , ard of Control propoped&tia ree'fig i n per cent en the cipitelsu'iacrihed. but fiber ay r • parry t • whom the off-r was male dcclin-d eral interviews between the railway company and to MONT BLANC IS OPEN TO-NIGHT. rs. CRYSTAL PALACE—Messrs. SAWYER and STRANGE, of The London," Fleet-street, supply the R,e freshment Department. —Dinners in every vai iety, from Is Gd to as ; and Light Refreshments of all kinds. See the daily bills of ;are. CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS, Polygraphic Hall. TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY. THIRD ENT I. RTAIN MENT.—Many Patrons of the Christy's having been unable to gain admission owing to the limited numbers of Stalls, they have now Introduced an extra row, which will afford more comforts to their numerous patrons.—Evening at 8, and on caturday atorntng, commencing at 3. Prices—Boxes, It. is.; Stalls, 35.; Area, 25.; 1:11&, Is. PROFESSOR WILJALBA FRIKELL. ST. JAMES'S VIE ATRE.—Every Evening at S.—Wed nesday and Saturday Afternoons at 3—" TWO HOURS OF ILLU SIONS."—Private Boxes, two guineas, ono gu'nea-and-a-half, and one guinea ; Stalls, 55.: Balcony Seats, 45.; Boxes, 39.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 19.--Places may be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL AND P XTEIOLOGICAL MUSEUM, 3, TICHBORNE-STREET (Opposite the Haymarket). Open daily. Admission, ONE SHILLING. LECTURES by DR. KAHN, at Three and Eight. DR. KAHN'S N +NE LECTURES ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF MARRIAGE, &c., sent post freo on receipt of twelve stamps. DR. ADELAIDE GALLERY, Lowther Arcade, Strand.— ARGYLL CASINO, with R. BIGNELL'S celebrated band; formerly conducted by the late EattLE LauaENT, now con ducted by the great artist, :lions. LAmorrE, of the Grand Salle Valentino at Paris ; principal cornet-a -piston. Nf. BOULCOMIT, " the greatest artist in the world on that instrument;" Leader, Mr. CHARLES HALL. The above band plays selections from "La Traviata," "It Trovatore," and "Lucia Di Lammermoor," nightly, and is to be engaged for Concerts and Balls. Apply to R. R. BIGNELL, at the "Original Argyll Rooms," Great Windmill-street, Hay market. Doors open at half-past B. Admission, Is. GREAT UNITED STATES' CIRCUS. Messrs. HOWES and Cus arsG, Proprietors.—The largest Equestrian Establishment in the World, numbering over Two Hundred Men and Horses, is NOW OPEN for a Short Season, at the ALHAMBRA. PALACE, Leicester-square, giving Two Perform ances each day, commencing at half-past Two, and a quarter to Eight o'Clock, p.m. '4,* In consequence of the immense attendance at the evening's performances, the proprietors beg to state their intention of continuing the Grand Morning Entertainments daily until further notice. The Day Performance is fully equal to that of the Evening. Admission—Private Boxes from 2/. 2s to 31; 3s each ; Stalls, Is ; Reserved Seats, 3s; Boxes, 2s; Pit, Is; Gallery, Gd. Private Boxes and Stalls can only be secured at the Alhambra Palace, and Mr. Mitchell's Library, 33, Old Bond-street. Box-Office open from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m, No fee for booking places. No Programmes are correct but those purchased inside the building, and only One Penny each is allowed to he charged. Carriages must set down is ith horses' heads towards Charing Cross; taking up to the North. G RANDES NOUVEALTTES IN PARIS.- LA. COMPAGNIE LYONNAISE, No. 37, Boulevard des C tpucines, Paris, Have just exposed for sale their NovEurirs for the SEASON, com prhing SILK-STUFFS, LACE, Indian and French CACKFMIRES, printed Mcsugg and PIQUES, FANCY STCFFS Of all kinds, WEDD,NG OCT PITS, MANTLES, BURNOUS, &C. The successive aggrandizements of the establishment of LA COM PAGNIE LYONNAISE have rendered it one of the most extensive in Europe ; the ware-rooms at the present day comprise upwards of thirty saloons or galleries, having four separate entrances. Being their own manufacturers, their productions are not liable to the extra charges made on account of intermediate agents, and thus this company can afford to offer to the public on terms far more advan tageous than any other house. Every article, even the Cachemires Is marked in plain figures. LA COMPAGNIE LYONNAISE have established houses at Lyons, Kashmere, Ale.:c. - n, and Chantfly for the manufacture of Silk stuffs, Cachemires, and Lace, but they have no succursale for sale is any country whatever. METROPOLITAN COUNTIES LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 27, Regent- treet, Waterloo- Place, London, S.W. Life assurance, annuities, endowments, and loans on advantageous terms. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager. N.B. Policies in force, notwithstanding* the Decease of the Life Assured, provided the Premiums be paid within the thirty days Of grace. FIFTH DIVISION OF PROFITS. N ORTH BRITISH INSURANCE COMPANT. Rstablished 1409. Incorporated by Royal Charter. PRESIDENT —His Grace the Duke of ROXBURGIIE, Sir PETER LAURIE, Alderman, Chairman. Solicitor, ALEXANDER DOBIE, Esq., Lancaster-Place. Capital of One Mil:lon—accumulating Prem , um Fund 654,0001. Revenue from Life Premiums alone 116,030/., anntrilly increasing Niue-tenths or Ninety per cent. of the profits are septennially - divided among the insurers on the participating scale of Premiums. All Profit Policies ,•ffected during the current year will share in the Profits of Seven Years, and will secure a larger BONI:3 at every future division of Profits. _ The Bonus accumulations at last investigation ranged from 25 to 70 per cent, on the Premiums paid. ROBERT STRACHAN, Secretary. 4, sank Buildings, Lothbury, London. E.C. INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 142, Strand, London, W.C., Feb. 25, 1858: estab lishedlB37.—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 notwithstanding the death of the assured oc curring within the 30 days of grace, and before payment of the annual premium, provided payment thereof be made, or notice of the death be given to the office before the expiration of such days of grace. For the Court of Directors, E. S. SYNIES, Chairman. THE INTERNATIONAL LIFE ISSUR kNCE SOCIETY, . 142, Strand, London. Empowered by Act of Parliament, for LIFE ASSURANCE, SUR VIVORSHIPS, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &c. DIRECTORS. EDMOND SHEPPARD SYMES, M.D., Chairman. Wm. Kenworthy Browne, Esq. Henry J. Hodgson, Esq Samuel King-Church, Esq. John Moss, Esq. John Elliotson, M.D., Cantab., John Symes, Esq. F.R.s. Joseph Thompson, Esq. SECRETARY TO THE BOARD. Alexander Richar3son, Esq. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. Augustas Blonde], Esq. AUDITORS. Professor Wheatstone, F.R.S., and Professor J. Radford Yokng, MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL. J. Elllotson, M.D., Cantab , F.R S., 37, Condult-street. ACTUARY. W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., &c. ASSISTANT ACTUARY. Barker Woolhouse, Esq. BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. Messrs. Gre gory, G regory, Skirrow RSOLICITOS. , and Roweliffe, Bedford-row. The next Quinquennial Division of Profits will be declared bay, IS6O. Examples of Bonus up to May, 1855 : Policy Bonus in Permanent taken Age. Su m addition Bonus in Re luction of out in Assured. to Sum C as h. A nn ual Pre- Assured. mium. £ £s. d. £s. d. £s. d. 1838 55 3,000 867 17 7 424 1 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 10 111 2 1861 i 55 2,800 120 17 0 72 14 6 67 7 The following are amongst the advantages offered by the I nter nat ional Life Assurance Society:— The Society was established in 1833. Two-thirds of the pNats are divided amongst the assured every live years. Its subscribed 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 torce exceed six thousand. About one thousand new policies are added every year. Since its commencement the Society has paid in claims upward ,, of three hundred and twenty thousand pounds. For prospectuses and every other information, apply to the Chair- Man, 142, Strand. 142, Strand, London, W.C. EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman. AN ACT OF GRATITUDE.-5,000 Copies of a Medical lloek for Gratuitous Circulation. — GEORGE Thomas, Esq., having been effectually cdred of nervous debility, loss ofmemory, and dimness of sight, rest.lting from the early errors of youth, by following the instructions given in a Medical Work by a Physician, he considers it his duty, in gratitude to the author, and for the benefit of nervous sufferers, to publish the means used. He will therefore semi tree, to any address, in a sealed envelope, on receipt of a direct ed envelope enclosing two stamps, to pre-pay postage, a copy of the medical work containing every information required. Address, G. Thomas, Esq., Craven House, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE CIIRE3(n ithout Physic) of Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Constipation, Flatulency, Phlegm, all Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints, Hysteria, Neuralgia, Dysentry, Diarrhoea, Acidity, Palpitation, Heartberd, Headache, Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Spasms, Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy or at sea), sinking Fits, Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption, also Children's COM plaints ate effected by I) U ALA B B A ICA RFOYR'OIS deli ) which restores E A healthwitho L ut E A purg T ing Inconvenience, or expense, as it saves fifty times its Cost in other remedies. It is, moreover, the best food for infants and invalids generally, as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor inter feres with a good liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner, and restores the faculty of digestion, and nervous and Muscular energy to the most enfeebled. We extract a few out of the many thousand expressions of grati tude from invalids :—Cure N 0.71, of dyspepsia, from the Right lion. the Lord Stunt de Decies. " I have derived considerable benefit from Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, and consider it due to Yourselves and the public to authorise the publication of these lines. Stuart de Decies."—Cure No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescribable agony fruit dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, and sickness at the stomach and vomiting, have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food. Maria Jolly, Wortham Ling. near Diss, Norfolk."—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Hazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Herts, a cure of extreme ner veasness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. — C are No. 48,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, (lateacre, near Liver po : a cure of ten year's dyspepsia, and the horrors of nervous irrita bility. Cure No. 18,216, Dr. Andrew Ure of constipation, dyspep sia, eryous irritability. Cure No. 36,210. Dr. Shorland of dropsy and debility. Cure No, 31,212. Captain Allan of epileptic fits. Cure No. 42.116 biker Edie of enlargement of the liver and total prostration of strength. Cure No. 36,418. Rev. Dr. Minster of cramps, spasms, and daily vomitings, Cure. No. 26,418. Dr. Harvey of diarrhoea and debility. Cure No. 39,e28. Dr. Wurtzer of con sumption. Cure No. 32,883. William Hunt, Esc' , barrister, of para lysis. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Rob erts, wood merchant, Frimley of thirty years diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, partial deafness. Cure No. 4',814. Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester, of two years' diarrhoea. Cure No 52,612, The Dowager Countess of Castleetuart, of many years' nervous irritability, bile, and indi gestion. Cure No. 54,812. Miss Virginia y aZeguerse,d all , ,,, e o tt u r i .i d e hsosoft:ees o onf con sumption, after her mediCa,l, T a v, de e i ht e y r . s thr h e ad e ab r a s t , id n o, recovery. Cure No, 180 . stipation, indigestion, and debility, from which I have suffered great very misery, and which no medic ine could r emove or reli eve , have been L s electually cured be Du Barry's Fo od in a short time. W. It. Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London." No. 4,208. "Eight years' Ws_ penile, nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms, taatni' a' d nausea, for which my servant had consulted the a effectually cured by Du Barry's health r ( e i ; ic to e ril o ig Food. Ishe been lbe n happy to answer any inquiries. Rev. John Flaveelsi„„e nervousness,,l,Zidli ngtonltee tory, Norf o lk." N u . 32,836. "Three years' x with pains in my neck and left arm, and generealedebilityo,,tNe'hdiebhyreDnu tiered my life v e ry miserable, has been radically removed Harry's health restoring Food. Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Bess, Skibbereen." Cure No. 3,906. " Thirteen years' cough, x ind e ie c e e sti e on t , and general debility have been removed by Du Barry's llh Itevalenta Arabic:). Food. James Porter, Athol-street, Perth." Important Caution against the fearful dangers of spurious imita tations:— The Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood granted an injunc tion on the 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Neville, for Imitating "Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food." Suitably packed for all climates, and with lull instructions. In canisters, llb 2s 9d ; 21b 4s 6d; 51b Ils , 121 b 225. The 121 b car riage free, on receipt of Post-office order. Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, liegent-street. London; Fortnum, Mason. and Co.. pur veYers to her Majesty, 182, Piccadilly ; Jame 3 Wells, 45, Sloane street; also at 60, Oranechurch-street ; 330, 430, and 451, Strand; 4 , Ckeapside ; 49, and GO Bishe s ate. street • 63, 150 and 198 Oa ord-ritriot P g rING. hat the passed le 10th f DAY. p to the ie result .;e it be iffices to for the Univers ly to the :olonela, 9 as tbe case of 3St ram• nee and ;, seems rial, and ught be- Bernard rnals are ar© ap- Torthern y in the by that t Calais, rwo yea :pedition ports in just been any Irisk e at two ;he Calle le Puerta ghfare in ;he name er short Verdago. delibera t escape. was still ng him. vero the posed by the duty de Mau- munici- I ago, the )ocarae so ploy the !ounoil of d by the Aamation s clover, per load. s ; clover, per load• Is clover, per load. morning, mourrence were being le-market, k towards ruthers, a bad just Angel, at gored her tat. Mrs. a she lies d at Pen- ►nd a fair w sale, at 36a to 50 ; !s ; beans, 12s; peas, the corn ther high • give ad .one there N. Is 33 ....40 44 ....40 42 ....40 46 -.36 38 ; . 118 36 40 : - .:55 36 r". 33 36 , received nig, from 111 Pri 10 3 , 30 -- 711 kinds of l in soma Beans. Os Od Os 03 os od ....14 6 ....19 0 ....19 3 ~..16 9 ...I8 9 ....17 0 , James tkahire, ill, 71st 7, Mrs. -. R. C. Pancras du 4th late W. wnton Bart. ce, 1. Old .streot, Nifton, Legrove nerdbt atreetl PIING • D. No. :Mill fi .1. IN 0 . 20,539.) PUBLICATIONS. THE NEW NOVEL, Noss' ready at all the Libraries, in 3 cols. lOLET B A N K. AND ITS INMATES. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great 3larlborough-street. Now ready, in 1 vol. Svc), with Portraits, 215., bound, CARDINAL WISEMAN'S RECOLLEC TIONS of the LAST FOUR POPES. " In this volume Cardinal "Wiseman seems purp,sely to avoid en tangling himself hi disputed articies of faith, and dwells rather upon the personal, historical, literary, and artistic view of his subject. Ile relates his experience of Rome and her rulers in a pleasant genial style."—Literary Gazette. Hunt and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, in 1 vol., 10s. 6d., bound, THIRD EDITION of " JOHN HALIFAX, AA GENTLEMAN." Also, now ready, by the same Author, in 1 vol., 103. 6d., "A WOMAN'S THOUGHTS ABOUT WOMEN." " A book of sound counsel."—Examiner. Hurst and Blackatt, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street. This day, in crown Bvo., with Plans of Battles, is. Gd., THE ELEMENTS of the ART of WAR. By LIEUTENANT COLONEL GRAHAM, Late Military Secretary to General Vivian. London: Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. NOTICE. -Mr. THACKERAY'S LECTURES the ENGLISEI HUMOURISTS of the EIGIITEENTII CENTURY. New Edition, post Bvo, price 2s. 6d. cloth, will be ready in a few days. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cernhil. Cheaper Edition of MR. KATE'S LIFE OF LORD METCALFE. Now ready, in 2 vols, small post B vo., with Portrait , pr ice 12's. cloth, L IFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF LORD METC kLFE. By JOHN WILLIAM KITE. A new and Revised Edition, with additional letters and papers illustrative of Metcalfe's views of the dangers besetting our Indian Empire, and the best means of counteracting them. London: Smith, Elder, and Co.. 65, Conti-till. New Edition, post Bvo, price ss. c'oth, ATJTOBIOGRAPHY OF LUTFULLAH, a MOIWIEDAN GENTLESESN. - —.- Edited by E. B. EASTVVICK, Esq., F.R.S , F.S.A. "We have read this book with wonder and delight. Lutfullah's story will aid, in its degree, to some sort of understanding of the lndi n insurrection."—Athenaeum. Read fifty volumes of travel, and a thousand imitations of the oriental novel, and you will not get the flavour of Eastern life and thought, or the zest of its romance to perfectly as in Lutfullah's book.—Leader. " As an autobiography, the book is very curious ; it bears the ,strongest resemblance to Gil Blas of anything we have ever read." —Spectator. " A treasure as well as a rarity in literature."—Eclectic Review. London : Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill. Now ready, crown Bvo, 4s. cloth, ATREATISE ON POLITICAL ECONOMY. By Nassau W. Semox, M.A., late Professor of Political Economy in the University of Oxford. Fourth Edition. "It is at once philosophical and popular ; presenting throughout a remarkable specimen of clearness, simplicity, and condens Ilion of langu age, applied to subjects which It is often difficult to treat with out harshness and obscurity,"—Edin , urgh Review. London and Glasgow : Richard Griffin and Co. LONDON IMPROVEMENTS. Practical Suggestions for Relieving the over-crowded Thoroughfares of London ; securing improved means of Locomotion ; diverting the Sewage from the Thames, and appropriating it to Agricultural Use ; with estimt to of Cost and Probable Revenue ; also, Map, Pans, and Vie Ts. By JosaPH MITCHELL, F.It.S.E., C.E., Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Price 21. 6d.; per post. 2s. 10d. London : Edward Stanford, 6, Charing-cross, S.W. THE STORY of the SULTAN MOURAD and his WELCO viE GUEST may be obtained GRATIS on appli cation to any Bookseller or Newsvendor throughout the king,domi or It will be sent FREE from the Pub'ishing Office to any person for war.lng his address. Office, 148, Fleet-street, London, E.O FEIST'S RACING RECORD for 1858. Part 111., price 31, will be published on the Ist of May. The Record, containing a complete calendar of Sport in England, Ireland, and Scotland in 1857, and Nominations for 1853, may be had price two shillings. W:Wrlght, Fulwood's Rents, 11( 'born. ON SPERNIATORRIMA.—TransIated from the German of Dr. Pick ford. Just pub!ished, the Fourth Edition, price 55., by post be. 6d., ON TRUE Ar FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA, with a View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors in;Rela tion to its Nature, Consequences, and Treatment. By Dr. PICKFORD, With Important Introductory Remarks by the Editor. " The editor has conferred a great boon by translating this little book and by lay ing bare the scandalous practices of unqualified adventurers who profess to cure a disease of which they know nothing, with no other object than to fill their own purses. This volume is well cal culated to put an end to the emnyrical system of treating Sperma torrhoaa, and to place the treatment upon a more rational and phy siological basis. It is, therefore, likely to do much good."—Medical Circular. London, 11. Balliere, 219, Regent-street. Sent free by Post, Price Is. (in stamps), 64 pages, THE EASY SELF-CURE, without MEDI CINE, INCONVENIENCE, or EXPENSE, of constipation, indigestion (dyspepsia), diarrhoea, phlegm, dysentery, nervousness, biliousness and liver complaints, flatulence, distension, acidity, heartburn, palpitation of the heart, hysteria, neuralgia, nervous headache, deafness, noises in the head and ears, erysipelas, eruption of the skin, imourities and poverty of the blood, scrofula, cough, asthma, bronchitis, consumption, dropsy, rheumatism, gout, nausea, and slcknes., low spirits, pasms, cramps, epileptic fits, spleen, general debility, inquietude, sleeplessness, paralysis, tremors, dislike to society, unfitness for study, loss of memory, delusions, vertigo, 1)lo to the head, exhaustion, melancholy, groundless fear, indeci sion, wretchedness, by a natural and pleasant means, which saves fifty times its cost in other remedies. Supported by many respect able persons, whose health has been restored by it, after all other means of cure had failed.—Mann. Nephews, 39, Cornhill, and through all Booksellers in town and country. CONTRACTS for CANVASS. Department of the Storekeeper General of the Navy, Somerset -place, 19th April. 1858. THE Commissioners for executing the Offi ce of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland do Hereby Give Notice. that on Tin:soil', the II th May next, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such per sons as may be willing to contract for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Dockyards at Deptford, Portsmouth, and Devon port, with 22,770 BOLTS OF CANVASS, (including 720 Bolts of 18 inches wide) to be delivered by the 31st of December nest. Tenders may be made for any quantity not less than 1,000 Bolts, and no tender will be received unless made on the printed form, properly filled UP, which, together with " Instructions ;or making the Canvass," may be obtained on application to this office. No tender will be received after Two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed unless the party attends, or an agent for hat duly authorised in writing. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words, " Tender for Canvass," and must also be delivered at Somerset-pace, accompanied by a letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become hound with the person tendering in the sum of 251. per Cent. on the value for the due performance of the Contract. TO THE WEALTHY AND RESPECTABLE CLASSES, itiFIE honour of an INSPECTION of the .11 following ARTICLES OF DRESS is requested by H. J. and D. NICOLL : For GENTLEMEN, at 114, 116, 118, and 120, Regent•street, and 22, Cornhill, Paletots of every description, some being of beautiful light fabrics for summer, and others of thicker materials, which, like those for trousers and waistcoats, are th Pest specimens of English manufactures. A large assortment may be found ready for imme diate use ; some arc waterproofed, and the whole are marked In plain figures, at most moderate prices. In the Establishment. 141 Regent - street , for LADIES' and YOUTHS' CLOTHING, the same excellence prevails, particularly in Mantles and other Garments of silk and cloth. Messrs. Nicoll employ Cutters for each specially. TO THE NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED. CHARLES WATSON. M.D., Fellow and Honorary Vice- President of the Imperial African Institute of France, and Physician to the Bedford Dispensary, 27, Alfred-Place. Bedford-square, Lon don, continues to Issue, on receipt of six stamps, " THE GUIDE TO SELF-CUIGC." . . The true Guide to those who desire a speedy and private cure.' —University Magazine. " Tbe NEW AMERICAN DISCOVERY' shows the absurdity of the English mode of treating such complaints, will prove a blessing to the afflicted, who may safely and easily regain pristine health by adopting the means presented."—Evening Star. For Qualification, vide Diplomas and " Medical Directory." NEW AND IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE. Patent Office Seal of Great Britain. Diplome d'Ecole de Pharmacia Pharmacien de Paris. Imperial College of Medicine, Yieuna. TRIESEMAR No. 1,2, and 3, prepared in the form of a lozenge, devoid of taste or smell, and can be carried in the waistcoat pocket. Sold in tin cases, divided into separate doses, as administered by alpeau, Laßemand, Roux, Ricord &c , and adapted for both sexes. rrRIESENIAR No. 1 is a Remedy for L.,RE LAXATION, SPERM kT3RIIII(EA, and all the distressing consequences arising from early abuse, indiscriminate excesses, or too long residence in hot cl mates. It has restored bodily and sexual , trength and vigour to thousands of debilitated individuals who are now in the enjoyment of health and the Functions of Manhood: an whatever may he the cause for DI•42I7ALIFICATIONS for MAR- ItI4GE, they are effectually subdued by this Wonderful Discovery. TRIESEMAIt NO. ffectually, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely eradicates all traces of Gonorrhoea, 13 - 411 in its mild and aggravated forms, Gleets, Strictures, rritation of the Bladder, Non-retention of Urine, Pains of the Loins and Kidney , i, and those disorders which "Jopaivi and Cubebs have so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health of a 'cast portion of the population. TRIESEMAR NO. 111. Is the treat Continental R.-medy for iyphilis and Secondary Symp toms. It also constitutes a certain cure tor Scurvy, Scrofula, and all utaneous Eruptions, removing and expelling in its course all corrup tions and impurities from the vital stream, as altogether to eradicate the virus of disease, and expel it with the insensible perspiration , hrough the medium of the pores of the skin end urine, and is a never-falling remedy for that class of disorde••s which unfortunately the English Physician treats with Mercury, to the inevitable dectruc i ion of the patient's constitution, and which all the sarsaparilla in ti e world cannot restore. Price 1 Is., free by post, Is. Bd. extra to any part of the kingdom - or four cases in one for 335., by post, 3s. 2d. extra, which saves I Is., and in 51. cases, whereby there is a saving of 11. 12s. 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Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row. haebAyUthor may be consulted Daily Trievanaar. a s p n e: mi:otmoTzall agents fir itio 5410 of 4, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 18581 AlL ir ON DON and NORTH-WESTERN R ILA WAY.— RETURN TICKETS at First Class 215., and Closed Carriages Ids. 6d., available for seven days ; and at First Class 375., and Closed Carriages 175., available for 29 days, are issued until further notice, by all trains, according to class, batween London (Euston Station) and Liverpool, Birkenhead, Chester, Warrington, Wigan, Preston, Manchester, Stockport, Staleybridge, Greenfield, Oldham, Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Batley, and BI stal. Care should be taken at the London-road Station, Manchester, to ask for tickets by the London and North-Western route. London, Euston Station, April 9 , I S S S. By Order. contingency of a loan of only 200,0001. being granted, and bore date July 2, 1856. In ansa'er to the first part d the que-tion toe bon. member had not quoted with perfect accuracy the evidence of the witness to which the question referred. The question limiting the loan to 200,0001. raised in the legislature was strictly ne gatived. ARMY WARRANT, 1854. Col. NORTH asked the Secretary for War whether ..he Royal Commission to take into consideration the warrant of October, 1854, had yet been appointed, and, if so, when they were likely to meet ? The CHANCELLOR. of the EXCHEQUER sand the Royal Commission referred to had been appointed, and would meet f..r the first time to-m,rrow. DUBLIN PORT DUTIES. Mr. VANCE moved for a select committee on certain duties on ships and other imports leviable within the port of Dublin. The hon. member said these duties were peculiar to the port of Dublin, and were originally imposed by the Corporation of Dublin for the formation of a harbour of refuge at Kingstown, from which the trade of Dublin derived no benefit. The duties were a boon to the foreign trade of every other port but Dublin, and it would be impossible for the inhabitants of that city to retain its foreign trade if they were continued. The motion having been seconded, Mr. HENLEY said he could not consent to the abolition of the duties without provision being made for repaying the advance granted to the corporation of Dublin for forming the harbour of refuge secured on these tolls. Ho had no obj ction to the committee, but it was a question of money resting with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. GROG AN addressed the house in support of the resolution. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said be could not consent to hold out the prospect of diminish ing the sum paid to the Consolidated Fund by the city of Dublin on a c intract solemnly entere lint° for the advance of money beneficial to Dublin. He had no objection to the mode in which the tolls were levied. If there was anything i'jurious in the present system to the com merce of Dublin it should be inquired into and remedied if possible. He should not oppose the inquiry, but he should a violation of the contract above vefei red to. After some remarks from Mr. J. D. Fitzgerald, Mr. R. Lowe, Lord Palmerston, and Mr. Vance, in reply, The motion as amended by the Chancellor of the Exchequer was then agreed to—r'z , to inquire into the mode of collecting the duties, and if any equivalent could be provided for the sum now paid to the Con solidated Fond. SEPTENNIAL REPEAL ACT. Mr. COX said he believed that no one would appea. ,o the ceneideration of the house without effect. He, therefore, appealed to thew on that occasion, as he should have to trouble them for some little time. He would not, however, go into the history of this question further back than fur the last 500 years. It would be enough fer him if he snowed that up to 1715, when the act which he sought to repeal passed, there were short Parliaments. The first act he found which had reference to the duration of Parliaments was in the 4,11 Edward 111., in tha year 1330. By that it was etatel that it was accorded that a Parliament should be holden once in every year, arid oftener if e ecessary. It appeared that that act had been pretty well observed, but nevertheless breaches of its provisions oecurred in the reign of the earns king; and in order that there should be no mis take, by the 36th El ward 111., c. 10, it was enacted that a Parliament should be opened once in every year, as was ordained by the previous statute. Parliaments were accordingly held during the next ten years in exact conformity with the siattre. It appeared that during the 57 years of the reign of Ede-. 111. there were 37 Perim -9 y l gpw o ;:atr i otr o lisinsa l em e tea y: l e tl as ac e ra 39 ts ft years,ipaatrol oee nient-; the reign of Ri c h ar d 11. th ere were 26 Parlia 111., ments held iu 22 ye ars; i n th at o f H enry IV. th ere were ld 22 :gareadthienr t ia le y e . r T eig he n n o c f a H m e e n t r h y e V re l i . g t n h o er f e H w en er r e y h v e n nt r th y aa Vtt defiance, tyh ethat w time dh they 1 y 1 „ i ee n lr at many parliaments as he chose ; and from that time till 15th Charles 1., parliaments were held very irregu latey ; with one exception, and that was during the time of Queen Mary, who in the five years that she reigned called together five parleinaents. From 'he 16th Charles I. the legislation on this subject assurn-d a different character ; for that act did not provide for the holding of triennial parliaments, but it contained an enactment by which if the king did not call a parliament together within three years, the people were empowered to call one together for them selves. Another act was p assed in the reign of that k i ng , which declared that be should i , call a parliament within every third year. The 6th of. William and Mary, c. 2, was the real triennial act. It was an act which provided for the frequent meeting and calling together of parliaments, and it enacteil that a parliament should be called together once in three years; and then for the first time we find that no parliament was to last longer than three years. After the pass ing of the act of William aad Mary it was rigidly ad hered to ; a Parliament was called, which lasted three years and then dissolved. Passing over the reign of Queen Anne, he came to that of Geo. 1., when, unfer• tunately for the c o untry, there was a change of Govern ment—the Tories were tuned out, and the Bing took into his councile the Whigs of that day. Clianges of Government were not effected in those days quietly and without excitement, as was the case now, but they were attended with rioting, violence, and bloodshed, and it was in the midst of su circumstances that the law was passed which he sought to repeal. In Jan., 1715, some remarkable words were put into the mouth of tho king, who had just come to the throne ; for, in a proclamation issued calling Parliament together, the people were directed to elect such persons as had regard to the Pro testant succession. Toe frightful and enormous expen diture which occurred at that election was made the rea- N w h b e ig n s, the wh n o e rea son for passing the act w hi c h h e n ow sought to repeal. V were ina Parliament majoritymet ,otno took care tlh4a,t should all th e be done to prevent their opponents getting into power again. During the year 1715 there was a rebellion in Scotland, an insurrection in the north, and outbreaks in all parts of the country e and there was not a large town in the country but the diabolical outrage of putting men to death for their political opinions was committed ; and it was in the year 1716 that the King came down to Parliament to give his assent t r a bill for suspending the Habeas Corpus Act. That was the position of things when the Septennial Act passed. At that time the whigs sot about to see how they could best retain the power they bad obtained, and what did they do t They did not bring a bill into the House of Commons which was to extend the duration of parliaments, but it was introduced into the House of Lords, which was then a sealed place, of the proceedings in which no ono knew anything, and it was there passed and brought down to the Commons on the 19th April, 1716. One would have supposed that a bill of such a character would have received considerable discussion, and a long time would have elapsed before it was passed through its several stages ; buc having been brought in on the itth of April, and read a first time on the same night, im the following 26th it was passed and sent back to tho Rouse of Lords without any amendment. That shown f what the state of the country was, and what fear amid trepidation the Parliament was in. Members jumped at the idea of .ecuriug their seats for another four years, and they were glad to pass a bill for that purpose in one week. The hon. gentleman here quoted from Hume's History, which had been written forty years af terwarda to the effect that the mini: tern were in such a dreae: •1 to meet ano Parliamont,and io a e d k te 5u tli and unconstitutional step of passing the het t a b e a t ld they Septennial Act, which took the place of the Triennial Act of William. Although the bill was only in the House of Commons cue week the people got an inkling of it, and seat up petitions against it. One of those petitions came from A hinedon, and it set forth that the most valu able privilege which they enjoyed was their being represented in Parliament, anti that though they had a member who was faithful to his duty, yet if he forgot the extension of the duration of Parlia tinht duty by e a l ittomore than three years, they would be unable to make such change in their representation as they thoug ht desirable fur a cons id er able lapse of time, an d therefero they objected to any alteration of the d ura tion of Parliament beyond three years. Another pe tition was from Horsham, and it stated that the peti tioners looked on the bill as an overturning of the con stitution and an infringe latent of th e i r liberties. A mo tion was made to re ject this petition, and on a division 157 voted for its rejection and 90 in its favour. The House of Commons would no. receive that petition. The Septennial Act was entitled an Act for enlarging the Continuance of Parliament as arranged by the Act of William and Mary, passed for providing for the frequent calling together cf Parliament; that act was recited in the preamble, which went on to say that it had been proved that the said act was burdensome by reason of the expenses it caused in the election of members of Parliament, and by reason of the heat arid animosity it created, which were greater than they had been before it passed, and that if the said provisions were continued then, when a restless faction were endeavour. ing te;renew rebellion and promote invasion, the re sults would be most disadvantageous to the country. That was the substance of the preamble of the bill. If, however, the existence of heats and animosities were a goo d cease thee for it s passing, it was not a goo d cau se for its continuance now, any more than the fear of rebel lion or of invasion. We bad ua fear of rebellion or of invasion, however it might have been during the admi nistration of the noble lord the member for Tiverton. No ; the succession to the throne of these realms was as secure as it could possibly be, and though he (Mr. Cox) was acquainted with some men who thought the monar chical forte o f government was not the right one, and were advocates of R e publicanism, yet even these tnen, while they were in England, felt so great a reverence for our luonarchy that they postponed their feelings of Republicanism in its favour. There was no reason now why that act should not be repealed, or that we should not go back to his constituents ea often as once in three years. But he believed that if a member was true to his pledges and attentive to his duty to his con stituents, be would be elected as long as he chose to seek their sufleages. He would maintain that shorter Par liaments led to less expense, and to less temptation to do wrong at elections. Ile did not say this merely as a matter of opinion• lie had long been a member of a body whose members wer e ele cted annually , and who went back every year to their constituents and gave an account of what they had done he found that when a man did his duty he was sure to be re-elected. i 3 der the influence of the Septennial Act, constituents forgot all about their member's, just as members forgot all about their constituencies. He had heard it said that an objection to the repeal of the Septennial Act was that practically there were triennial Parliaments now, and that Parliaments 'since the passing of that act bad been, in fact, on the average, triennial. He denied, however, that the average had been fairly struck. He had taken the trouble to ascertain the average leagth of the Parliaments since the reign of George 1., and he found that the average time which each Parliament sat was five years, while many of them sat for seven years. Before sitting down ho wished to make an appeal to the noble lord the member for the City of London and the noble lord the member for Tiver ton, both of whom appeared to be bidding for the leader ship of the Liberal pee ty. He wished to give them the opportunity of making an advantageous bid for that leadership. Let them bid in the first place for the repeal cf the Septennial Act, and he should be glad to see them both make the same bid, and at the same time, in order, as the auctioneers would say, that the act might be re pealed in two places. In conclusion, he begged to move for leave to bring in a bill to repeal the act 1 Geo. 1., c. 33, commonly called the Septenn i al Act, and to limit the duration of Parliament to three years. (Hear.) Mr. HADFIELD seconded the motion. The question having been put, •Mr. WALPOLE said the hon. member had carried the house back in historical recollection to a period which had rather surprised him, and he had made an appeal to the Government on constitutional doctrines connected with old periods of history to support the measure. Now he wished to remind the hon. member that his recollec tions of history were not remarkably accurate. The first statute to which the hon. member bad referred was a statute cot applicable in the least degree to thefrequency f elections, but referred to the frequency of the session of Parliament. The act of Edward 111. provided that Parliaments were to sit once annually, and did not re late to the choice of members. The hon. member had quoted history for the purpose of showing that in the reigns cf Henry IV., Henry V., and Henry VI. Parlia ments were frequently held, but if the hon. member would turn to the history of those reigns ho would find that Parliaments were not frequently chosen. In the reign of Henry VIII., which lasted some 33 years, the hon. member would find that one Parliament eat for six years, during which time the greater monasteries were destroyed, In the reign of Mary, the summonses to which the hon. member had referred, were not for new Parliaments, but new sittings of Parliament. In the reign of Edward VI. one Parliament sat for five years. au the reign of Elizabeth, the Parliament of 1552 was :not dissolved till 1585, and during that period it sat twenty five times. He miglit go through the reigns of James I. and Charles I. for the purpose of showing that from the fir-t, statute quoted by the hon. member down to the act passed in the long Parliament, in the reign of Charles 1., there was not an instance of law or usage establishing the proposition that Parliaments were to be annually elected. The first time any limitation was put to the duration of Parliatuente was in the long Parliament of Charles 1., which decided that Par liaments were not to last longer than three years, but broke through its own law, and declared itself indissoluble except with its own consent. (A. laugh.) The second time that any duration was put to Par liaments was by the Triennial Act of 1691, which passed both houses, but did not, in the first instance, receive the assent of the crown. That alteration in the consti tetion imposed upon the crown the necessity of calling a parliament once in three or seven years, according to the alteraaens made during the reigns of William 111. and George I. That was the historical account of the constitution of the couetry with reference to parliament, d wnen the hon. member pointed to the Septennial Act as a vio'ation of the constitution, because it enabled the parliament then elected to sit for seven years in• stead of three, he seemed to have fergotten that if that parliament had simply repealed the Triential Act, there was nothing whatever either in the common law, the constitutional law, or the statute law of the country, to have prevented it from lasting during the whole reign of the King. So far as related to the constitutional view of the question, the appeal of the hon. member with respect to annual parliaments was not justifiable. (Hear.) The question submitted to the house by the hon. member was this—whether the extension of par liament from three to seven years in the reign of George 1., and the limit of parliament to seven years which would other win have been unlimited by the constitu tion, was the best period that could be fixed upon for the duration of parliament. No doubt disputes might arise as to whether seven years was the exact period which ought to be fixed upon. He thought all would agree that annual parliaments would be too short, and that a parliament for the life of the Sovereign would be too long. (dear.) In the former case there would be such a frequency of election that there would be no thing staid or certain about legislat on. In tree latter ease,' here would be such an impunity to members that they would never he kept in awe by the necessity of go ing to their constituents for a renewal of their trust. (Hear.) The real question then was, whether a law which had existed for nearly 150 years was not a wise provision for the duration of parliaments in this coun try. For several reasons he considered it the most wise duration that had ever been suggested. The first rea son for upholding it was this—that unless the duration was one of some extent, great inconvenience would arise from the want of experience of members, from the want of some confidence in the probability of their re turn, and also because the daily business was better transacted when the return was made for a longer period than it would be if made for only three years. This was a question of experience, and the noble lord the member for the city of London, in his history, from the peace of Utrecht, quoted the authority of Sir R. Steele in support of that proposition. He believed the descrip tion there given of what formerly took place under triennial parliaments to be a just one, and wished ti ask the house whether they desired to see the same inconveniences and evils occurring again. During the first year the members would have to learn their business —daring the second they would be engaged in endeavouring to legislate—and during the third they would be seeking to gain popularity, in order to be in a position to meet their constituents at the end of the period. (Hear) Such a state of things would be any thing but advantageous to cautious and well considered legi-latish, and would render the house not the repre seotative of the deliberate judgment and conviction of the sensible and thinking part of the community, but the mere reflex of their more hasty conclusions, preju dices, and passions. (Hear, hear.) These were the reasons which induced him to oppose a return ho trien nial parliaments. The experiment had not answered, and lie thought it most unwise to try it again. But had the experiment of the Septennial Act failed (Hear, bear, anal Yes.) He heard one hon. g entleman sa y " yea," and would beg to recall his attention to what had occurred in Parliament before the Septennial Act passed, and what bad taken place since. Who were the great governors of the country before the passing of that act ? Did they s't principally in the House of Commons! If hon. members would look over the names of the great ministers of the country in former periods they would find the influence of the House of Commons nothing contrasted with that of the House of Lords. Let them look at the Burleighs, the Bucking hams, the Shaftesburys, the Salisburys, the Sunderlands, the Halifaxes, the Godolphin's, and at the time when the change took place Henry St. John and Robert Harley recommended their own transfer to the upper house, because they would be able to carry on the go vernment of the country more efficiently there than in the lower house. But what had been the state of the 1 raver house since the passing of the Septennial Act The greatest number of the statesmen, and certainly some of the most important men who hal presided over the affairs of the country, had been members of the House of Commons, and not members of the other house. He might name the author of that bill, one of the best ministers that ever lived—a man whose love of peace was only equalled by his love of constitutional freedom. (Hear, hear, and Oh, oh.) And what were the next names? Pelham, Grenville, and Lord North ; and, greater than almost any minister that ever loved and elevated the honour and dignity of this country, came the first Mr. Pitt. Passing over the short reigns of Rockingham and Shelburne, how was the next period of history filled up t By Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fex. And when those two mighty chiefs were carried to their graves, where they now sleep side by side, they were followed by a man to whose memory he might be allowed to pay a tribute of little less than filial effeetion—Mr. Percival ; and with the exception of the Duke of Wellington, Earl Grey, Lord Melbourne, and the present prime minister, most of whom had risen to eminence through their coefftets in the House of Commons, he would ask the house whether the greatest names to which historians and posterity would hereafter refer would not be the names of the Commoner Canning —(hear, hear)—the Commoner Peel—(hear, hear) —and perhaps he might add, without being supposed gullq of flattery, the Commoner Lord John Russell, and the Commoner Lord Palmerston. (Hear, hear.) Not only had the character and position of the House of Commons been raised during the existence of the Septennial Act, but legislation had been improved. He did not attri bute this to the Septennial Act, but he did attribute a great deal of the dignity, power, ability, and authority which the house had exercised to the measure which the hon. member now asked the house to repeal. He trusted that since the legislation of the country had improved under the Septennial Aot—since the authority of the house had in no respect been lowered—since it bad been kept in harmony with the other house, which he doubted would have been the case under the Triennial Act—since snebility, and authority, and dignity had been added to the executive government, and the house had held its own free and independent course—he hoped the house would pause long and composedly before reverting tuorea measure which had failed as a substitute fore weeded which experience proved had admirably i (Cheers.) was ht understood A rs D to F od iE t L o D ol ,: e na ct id to st ir Robert Walpole corrupt minister that ever existed— The bon. member —and of that great apostate, Pi tihoeuda taus cri a e o f n o r o t a the division,t "OR TA-W EST ERN 'S for STORES.—Tne Directors are the Supply of the undermentioned LONDON and RAIL %VA:Ir.—CON f RAC' prepared to receive Tenders for Stores, viz.:— No. of Contract 3. Copper 4. Canvas G. Carpets and Rugs 7. Axles 8. Coals 9. Crucibles 10. Curled Hair 12. Co' ours 12a. Drysaltery 13. Coach Trimmings 15. Bags, Ropes, &c. 16. Glass, Plate 16a. Glass, various 17f. Lamp Cottons It. Leather. I $2. Leather Specifications and Forms of Tender may be had on and after Mon- ion, day, April 19th, on application to the Secretary, Euston Stat London. Forms of Tender for each Contract are printed separately, and parties applying should state the particular Contract or Contracts for which they propose to tender. Patterns may also be inspected on and after Monday, April 19th, from Ten till Four o'clock, at the Company's Pattern Room, Euston Station, and any further information requirel may be obtained on application to the heads of the several departments. Tenders may be sent in before Ten o'clock on Monday, May 3d. By order of the Directors. CHAS. E. STEWART. Secretary. Euston Station, April 15th, 1858. No of Contract -19. Lead, White and Red 19a. Lead, Ingot, Sheet and Pipe 20. Iron, Yorkshire 20a. Iron, Staffordshire 20b. Tyre liars 21. Iron Castings 22. Ironwork 23. Wheels 26. Oil Cloth 27. Steel 28. Springs and File! 29. Tin, Block 31. Varnishes 34. Hats 35. Caps "UR OWN CORRESPONDENT" sa y s o Million Pounds of Tea have been released by the Possession of Canton.—The EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY anticipate the arrival of this, and have reduced the price of their Gib. bag of Sound Tea to 2s. 2d. per lb. ; and Coffee in the Berry to 11d.—Warehouses, 9, Great St. Helen's -churchyard, Bishopsgate. EORGE HOBSON begs to invite the attention 74 of Gentlemen to his new Stock of Trowserings for the pre sent season, price 21s. to 255. G. 11. submits for inspection his new Overcoats, in all the new ap proved and various shades of colour for sp , ing wear. Excellence with Economy. A suit of clothes made in a few hours' notice. GEORGE HOBSON, 57 Lombard-street. Excellence with Economy. IMPERIAL PAR LIAMEN T. HOUSE OF LORDS.7(YESTERDAY.) The LORD CLIANCELLOR took his seat on the wool sack at fiva o'clock. PRESBYTERIAN CHAPLAINS. In reply to the Marquis of LONDONDERRY, Lord HARDINGE said, paid Presbyterian clergy- men had been appointed at the Curragh and Aldershot. As there were now 800 Presbyterian soldiers at Shorn• chile, it was the intention of the War Department to make a similar appointment there. THE INDIAN RESOLUTIONS. Lord MONTEAGLE asked what was the course to be pursued with respect to the resolutions that had been laid on the table of the other House of Parliament ? He wished to know whether it was the intention of the Government to lay similar resolutions o❑ their lordship,' table, and if so, both Houses could simultaneously cJa- sider'the question? The Earl of ELLENBOROUGII said it was not the intention of Government to invite their lordships to ex press any opinion on these re, , olutions In due time the resolutions would be rent up to their lordships from the other house, and the noble lord would have an oppor tunity of expresing his opinion upon them. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH NORTH AMERICA. Earl GREY gave notice that on Monday next he should move for a copy of the correspondence that had taken place with respect to carrying out a telegraphic communication between this country and North America. LOAN SOCIETIES BILL. This bill was read a first time. CUSTOMS' BILL. On the motion of Lord DONOUGHMORE, this bill was read a third time and passed. THE ORGAN NUISANCE. The Marquis of WESTMEATII presented a petition, signed by 40 householders residing in Belgravia and Pimlico, praying for the suppression of the barrel•organ nuisance in the streets of the metropolis. The noble marquis said the nuisance of which the petitioners com plained had reached such a point that a legislative en actment was loudly called for. The police seemed to treat the matter with perfect indifference, and he thought persons residing in the respectable thoroughfares should bo protected against such offensive and annoying conduct as was persevered in by the persons who were employed by the proprietors of organs. Viscount DUNGANNON said he thought the noble marquis had made much ado about nothing. He thought it was unseemly that the time of their lordships should be occupied in discussing a question of such an insignifi cant nature. The petition was ordered to lie on the table. SECOND READINGS. Lord REDESDA.LE moved—" That this house do not read any bill a second time after Tuesday, July 27, except bills of aid or supply, or any bill in relation to which the house shall have resolved, before the second reading is moved, that the circum stances which render legislation on the subject of the same expedient are either of such recent occurrence or real urgency as to render the immediate consideration of the same necessary."—Agreed to. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YEsTERDiy.) The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Symington, Biggar, and Broughton Railway Bill wam furthir considered, and ordered to be read a third time. RETURNS. A number of unopposed raturns were granted. DR. BERNARD. Mr. ROEBUCK gave notice that he should, on Thursday, ask the Attorney-General whether it was his intention to proceed with the indictment for conspiracy against Dr. Bernard. GALWAY ELECTION. Col. FRENCH gave notice that on the order for going into committee this night on the Galway Freemen Disfranchisement Bill, he should move that the house go into committee on the bill this night six months. METROPOLITAN TOLLS. Mr. BYNG gave notice that he should on this day fortnight move an humble address to Her Majesty, Praying the appointment of a Royal Commission, to enquire and report into the best means of abolishing turnpike tolls within six miles of Charing Cross. (Ilea:, hear ) THE CHEQUE STAMP. :ee on t i h ill e A be D d Y get g , av y m e penny stamp onl should be affixed to c he q 101. (Hear, hear.)u o n v o e ti a c s e tahnatamheensdhroonelodt, that under in commit PUBLIC MONEYS. Mr. RIDLEY asked the Chancellor of the Exche quer whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Go vernment to introduce, during the present session of Parliament, any measure t ) carry out the recommenda tions contained in the report of the sel:ct c ommittee nn public moneys, presented to the hous e in August, 1857? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the moment the state of public business permitted beintended to call the attention of the house generally to the whole subj..et of public accounts and the appropriation of public moneys--(hear, hear)—and he would then state what measures the Government intended to bring for ward in reference to it. (Hear, hear.) AMENDMENT OF THE LAW OF BANK RUPTCY. Mr. GLYN inquired of the Solicitor-General, when it was intended to bring in the bill for the amendment of the Law ef Bankruptcy ? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said her Majesty's Government hoped to be able to introduce a bill for the amendment of the law of bankruptcy and insolvency at the end of this or the following week. It was proposed to introduce it io the House of Lords. MILITIA OFFICERS. Captain O'CONNELL asked the Secretary for War whether it was Cho intention of her Majesty's Govern ment to give any allowance to the medical officers and subalterns of the !militia regiments which they intend to disembody, snd. whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Gov ernment to make any change in the relative rank of the regimental captains and of the adjutants of the militia regiments, so as to affect the seniority of the former over the latter ; and, if so, whether he would explain the reasons for such a change? The CEIA.N.CELLOR, of the EXCHEQUER said be had received a note from General Peel stating that each subaltern on disembodiment would receive an allowance equal to six months' pay, and the surgeons and assistaut-su rgeoos, equal to one year. Paymasters would receive t -,air pay for three mouths after the dis embodiment of the regiment, and an allowance of three months' pay oh ► the last day 01 that payment. The case of the other o sicershad not been brought under General Peel's notice. NEW ZEALAND LOAN. Sir J. TR XLAWNY a,ked the Secretary for the Colonies, wh. Aher he had received any information con tradicting the . statement made t) the late New Zealand Loan Guarat tee Committee, that the idea of accepting 200,000/, in teas{ of 500,0001. was distinctly negatived by the Rouses of Represetaatives ' • aud, whether it WA R not in fact trim that the case of only obtaining 200,0001. was carefully pr ovided for in a format resolution? Lord STANL .EY . said he had t xamined the minutes of the House of . . Representatives of New Zealand, and he found a resoloatia, rt was passed by them, providing for the [P 40. ►S rAmpED endeavoured to make some further remarks but tens unable to obtain a hearine, and resumed his seat. The house then divided. Tee numbers were— For the motion . Against it RAILWAYS IN INDIA. Mr, LIDDELL, in calling the attention of the house to the delay that has occurred in the construction of railways in India, and in moving for leave to move for the appoint ment of a select committee to inquire into the causes that have led to that delay, said the subject was one of great importance, and well deserving the most serious conside ration of the house. So far back as the year 1841, this great subject was brought under the consideration f the Government of India by that great man, Sir Dinah 1 Stevenson, celebrated as an engineer. Ile went out to India and made a survey of the line, and subsequently made his report. A company was established, but the scheme recommended by him was not carried out at the time, and the difficulties of the company increased, until they necessitated its dissolution. In 1843 the bill for the Great Trunk lines had been obtained, and in the year 1850 a branch line was sanctioned from Cal cutta to Rhanneegungee. In 1850 some progress bad been made in the construction of lines, and he found, that there were in that year 121 miles of railway con structed in the Presidency of Bengal, 87 in Bombay and 81 in Madras. It would be very unfair in him, were he to state that 300 miles of railway only were open ; for pani passe there had been some hundreds of rules con structed in the various presidencies. One great cause of the delay was in the changes in the decisions of the Go vernment as to the course the 'dues should take ; and the course en the line being sometimes altered, led to con siderable delay in the execution of the plan. In addi tion to those causes, the greatest cause of all wan the great mutiny. In Bombay there were natural difficul ties. The lines in the Madras Presidency were more easily constructed ; and amongst the facilities were the cheap price of labour, which, for instance, was at some thing about 21. a day fit women and children. The calculation for the whole co-t of constructing railways in India was somewhere under 10,000/ In many part. of India, railways had been c . nisti ucted at a cost of 6,0001. a mile ; and he begged to remind the house that the average cost for the whole of India was 33,0001. In consideration of the vast sums of money which this country received from India, they were bound to ex tend ti them that which every civilised Monarch con• ferred on his subjects. The Government, however was not in a position to construct th o s e railway. themselves, because of want of money, and they headed the work over to the companies to construct themselves, and hay ' ing the Government sanction, it will not, to be surprised that they assented to the Government superintendence exercising the power of selecting and altering the lines as they might think proper. On the other hand the Government, in consideration of certain concessions claimed and exercised paramount control in the construc tion and management of the lines. It was said that they had given land to the estimated value of a million ster ling. He did ;not know on what bases that estimate rested, and he should like to know how much money had been paid to the ryots whose lands had been thus disposed of. But in addition to the land, cf whatever value it might be, the Government gave guarrantees, varying from 4t to 5 per cent. upon the capital em ployed in the construction of the lines. There were other agreements which he need not particularise, but the general effect of which was to give the Indian Government power to take the railway.. from the com panies under certain stipulated conditions, or in the event of mismanagement. It was clear that these conditions having been entered into, could not be dis turbed during the construction of the present lines, bat 1 )(Acing forward as he did to the very large extensions of railways in India, it was most desirable in future to leave their promoter• as unfettered as possible, or, at all events, very materially modify our present sys tem. The extent to which the Government exercised surveillance and control, and interfered even in the most minute particulars under that system, was such as to lead to inevitable delay, to great s )reness and vexation of spirit, between the Government consulting engineers and the Company's engineers, managere, aed officers ; and he need not add that a cordial understanding and harmonious action between persons so situated was ab solutely essential to success, efficiency, and economy. The Indian Government stipulated expressly that the appointment of all managers, agents, clerks, and officers, and the entering into contracts of every kind should be subject to their sanction. That was the extent of their power, and he would not weary the house with many de tails to show the way in which it was enforced, but would take ono illustration from the case of the Madras lines of railway, because, as that presidency bad not been disturbed, like other portions of India, there could be no reason for stating that the delay which had taken place was owing to ether causes than the coa-eless io tervention of the Government officials with the manage ment of the lines. One great cause of this delay was to be found in the fact that the consulting engineers, who was entrusted by the Government with the supervision of the works and the regulation of the lice, was a mili tary man. He wished to speak with all respect of the scientific branches of the service, but however skilful they taight be in the construction of a fort, or the de fences of a position, they were, and must be, altogether at sea iu the construction of railway embankuiente, via ducts, or tunnels. If their position were reversed, and a civil engineer placed over them, when engaged in the defence of such a position, such a course could not fail to lead to disasters ; and, by placing them as the control lers of civil engineers, they were called upon to perform duties for which they were not fit. One would imagine that the companies would be permitted to enter into con tracts, and engage their own inspectors of work on their own responsibility, and without external interference. Nothing of the kind. Everything had to be done sub ject to the authority and direction of the Government consulting engineer. The Government forbade the com panies to engage inspectors of works out of the country, and they were not to be had in it. They refused liberty to enter into contracts, and disputes were continually arising from this cause. Sometimes the consulting en• gineer was in favour of what were called sealed tenders, while the company's manager advocated open contracts, or, in other cases, the simple system of paying ready money for the articles required, according to the locality and the circumstances. In one case the agent of the Madras lines had purchased 3,000 sleepers in Malabar, which the consulting engineer decided were not made of any of the woods specified in the agreement. Ile refused to allow them to be used until he was fat niehed with the proper botanical name. A long and irii,a log correspondence ensued, which lasted some months, and at length it was found that the wood of which the sleepers were made was exactly what it ought to have been, but that it went under a somewhat botanical name in Malabar. (A. laugh.) Then as to stores from home. The Government sanction had to be obtained for the purchase of these stores, and thus it frequently happened that articles which were urgently wanted at particular places, during the construction of the works, were not sent out to India till 15 or 16 months after the necessity for them had past away, and the things were not wanted at all. That was the case in one instance within his own knowledge, with respect to some iron pumps that were required on the Madras and Vellore line. So vexatiously minute was this everlasting interference, that he had heard of a Governor in council actually entering into a violent discussion with a railway engineer as to the position and construction of a water closet. It was tide system that led to the delays Of which he complained during the construction of the works. But even after the lines were completed the same fatal intervention produced the most mischievous results. The consulting engineer claimed to fix the fares, appoint the trains, and regulate the traffic ; and hero again, as a necessary consequence, continual disputes arose between him and the officers of the companiee. He did not men tion names, or attack individuals, but merely exposed a bad system, which urgently call for reform. While this was the case in India, other obstructions were offered by the Government at home. In fact the obstruction was felt quite as strongly, if not me re strongly than it was in India. The plan of that line was first submitted to the Indian Government in 1853. In August that year a surveying party wan sent out, and in the follow - ing April they submitted to the Government lea India a survey of 1,114 miles, of which the home Government sanctioned the construction of 330 miles in 1355, mind that to a point which might be said to lead nowhere but to a bad port, and bad bar, and a station which was almost useless for general purposes. This the result of three years' consideration on the part of the home Government of India. The same delay had been shown in the case of the extension lines of the same company. He under:toed they were still under consideration, and be earnestly hoped that the ex tension to ludore, which was the centre of the trade in opium, would be pushed forward more rapidly in future. The result of the system of constructing railways in In dia, where contrasted with that pursued in the United States, was eminently satisfactory. Since 1830 there had been 25,000 miles of railway constructed in the U n ited States, or at the rate of 1 , 000 miles a - ye ar, while, after; all the years which had elapsed since railways were fi_r o s . mooted for India, we had only opened 500 Dice Cos Kennedy in 1842 estimated that, with a prpfsysoop, of railways in India, two thirds of the numberhat ocoutrotry, at present required would be sufficient for t mount i n g to , and more efficient than the whole number at nre' s 6n o t o r f6 quired. This reduction in a force a hien would repre would effect a saving of 2,500,000/., w more than neces sent a capital of 60,000,0001., India. On commercial, midt'e'ricedae to his motion. he th iught the hoe-e sh.ouaeconding the motion, snid be sary for the construction of theya pFnrudompeocsoendomraiiclwgaroyusnfdo: Mr. CRAWFORD, 'nation of the house to the quarter wished to draw the a totthtaecphre,d,pfeorrttihmeen. on-con struc- In 1843 Mr and in 1844 returned and Directors, having cons', .t tri o . z s t h oef i pe railway blame e t: c : s. en the subject of railways in that reported dared the subject, communicated, on May 7, their views etrYGovernor-General of Bombay, and suggested that hlisnvlBs4 the Court of °ileuadidtdtli attention to i a , to the a civil engineer, and Mr. Stephenson should be authorised to proceed to India for the purpose of in vestigating the whole question. They proceeded to India and returned in 1846, when they reported their opinions h .r o ryT c oh o ue rnmunicated their mt views l t i h o e nt B ow o toh a u r e ldat be f ea rr D de g ir o u e f i e s t C i e o r to t r carry t th e e ta I t: , d o p h o s e a d t fiv un dertakings, and as money was then cheap there would , S* 4 = grid v rtal East India Board the latter offered to guarantee aliatie'n° deed of 5 per cent. for 25 years. It wasaleireigreielAbaa - in order to prove the substantial characterOfthe rat company who undertook to construct a certain portion of the line in Bengal, that they should pay .100,0001. in three months. After some negotiations WI khepheneon was again despatched to India, with a etaff . Of officer s, to make the necessary arrangements, but then canoe the commercial crisis in 1347;and there being' eat difficulty in getting money, she undertaking fell to he ground. He (Mr. Crae ford) attributed this unfortunate circumstarce to the dilatory proceedings of the Board ef Control, who ' emoted the unlertaking in 1545, when money was cheap. a b t e e i ly no a a rr f a e n w ge n d eer t e ha th t An lion. ME TIBER moved that the house be counted, but several members were immediately brought in, and r t a n i e l m wa b y ere: c r .u site ld ent, Mr. CR.A.WFORD proceeded to explain that it wine there an th 4 e o be con structed by private individuals, and not by Government, and that the railway companies should have th power f selecting offi dete rmining ce:s and det erm i the made e of con 'erection. T ors declined to pay a divi he Court o f Di rect I dend on the capital, but they agreed to • a certain annual interest ou the capital af the reek 337 company, g ving the sharehol lere the option of throwing the rail way on the hani's of the Government ifthat - • interest were not paid. Another conditien was, that the Govern ment should he represented at the workin g beards of the companies by an ex-officio director on the part of the Co ve/ ninent authorities. Sir J. Melvill was sent out for that purpose, but he ha I tio sooner taken his seat at the board than he discovered that he had not the necessary autho- . rity to carry out the views of the Government. Th e hon. gentlemau then proceeded to say that the Indian railway companies were unable even to coinmunicate with their agents in Lelia, or to do the least thing pos sible to promote the undertaking% with which they v ere connected without asking permission of the directors of the Eist India Company to take the course proposed. The result was greet delay and lose. He mentioned in stance, in which Mr. Turnbull, one of the engineers in India of the company with which he (Hr. Crawford) was connected, complained of the way in which he was ham pered in regard to his duties. He could not employ a man at 21. a month without being obliged to state to the authorities the why and the a herefore of the appoint ment. It wae not the fault of the railway compeuh-s that railways were not rapidly ccnstrerted in India. much of ' the delay was occtsiened by the absurd obstruwions of the Rest India Company. He mentioned the case of the East India Railway Company in proof of this fact. The progress of that company was interfered with for four years by the governing power in India, but when the company obtained the land, it constructed in the course of three years 123 miles of railway, equal to any railway in this country. Tee other rail ay comeaniee would al-o ' have acted with greater energy in the construction of the various lines in India, if it were not for the absurd inter ference to which they were cut j_c ed by the East India Company itself, and by the jealousies which existed be tween the East India Company and the Board c f Con trol. He urged that one mode by which facilities could be afforded to the railway compai ies for the progress of their works, would be to give to Sir Jas. Tvlelvill power to act for the Kist India Company, instead of the rail way companies heating to go through those ferries by which their whole proceedi igs were inconveniently interfered with, Mr. BAILLIE said that this question was of deep importance to the people of India and to the Govern ment in a political ail military point of view. He con curred in thinking that it matey of the great trunk rail wa)s in• India had been c impletec l , it would h av e been of incliculable advantage to the Government. It wan therefore the duty of Go;einment to further the cowl 1-tion. He believed that the Government was not justly chargeable with neglect in this re pact, but that any delay which had taken place was nether owing to the vicious system of management. The railroads were sanctioned, first of all, in 1831, and there nes no agree ment a ith the Government as to the time within which they should stretch out the lines. T. were 4,220 miles of railway, and the amount of capital sanctioned by the Government was no less than 23,000,0001 , and" the East India Company had given a guarantee of 5 per cent. on that sum, a. d that was the reason why the company had exercised that efficient superintendence which had been so much complained of. (Hear, hear.) The Government of India was deeply interested, and hence the active supervision of the Government. Under these circumetauces soli-ions must often naturally take place between the engineers employed by the railroad coinpany and those the Government. That often arose in this way :—An engineer was often sent out to survey, at, a salary of 2,000/. pw annum, and when he got out there, and found his services indispensable, he would 'write horns air an increase of salary, and then the com pany would say to the Government, " We cannot get on without his services," and propose to award an increase, as suggested ; but probably the Government would place a veto upon this, and hence coutineal collisions. But notwithstanding this vicious system, great progress bad been made in the Indian railways in different parts of India. The hon member here enumerated the lengths of various lines of railroad in different parts of India. Some of these lines had been completed in as short a tune as they could have been constructed in this cams ry. elle delay might have taken place in consequence of the vast increase of business upon the hands of the Government lately ; but he believed that at the present mement they were going on as fa t as could be reason ably expected. It would, however, be impossible to give up the system, and as that would be the effeut of this euoti an hr could no: assent to it. Mr. AYRTON said that great embarrassment was often the result of the present system of railway manage ment in India. It never could, he thought, have been intended that the ieterferecce of the Government should almost be of daily occurrence. Engineers of the highest experience were sometimes controlled by young officers of limited exeerience. The most minute mat t-rs were often subjects cf investigation and dispute. He must, however, say that this motion of the boo. member was not exactly adapted to the evils he had brought under the notice of the house. He only proposed inquiry, and that would increase the delay complained of. He doubted a'so whether it would be wise strict nly to augment the amount of railroads in India. He thought they should not be carried on with too great rapidity, but rather that they should be left to their legitimate development. If the Government had undertaken these works they would not have had 100 miles of railway in existence at the present morneut. As an illustration of teis he said it took the Government seven years to put up telegraphic cammunication, which might otherwise have been ac cemplished in three years. lie was sorry, therefore, to see the present disposition to put the Government in the place which private enterprise would occupy to much greater advantage. It was dangerous for Governments thus to meddle with industry. Tee qnestion of "cheap railways" had b-en fairly and fully examined by men of science and great practical experience, and they had come to the conclusion that the lines as now constructed in India were haeed on the just medium between the one extreme and the other. The case of America was net analogous, because in India they cou'd not get the timber on the spot as they could in America. On the contrary, eome of the timber for the sleepers for the Indian lines had actually been sent from this country. The hon. secretary said the Indian railway companies had no interest in these questions, because the Government might be called on to repay ; but were not the railway companies en titled to half the profits, and to other collateral advan tagee, and when the charges were p aid off to all the pro fits ! (Hear, Lear.) Was the hon. gentleman aware that the lines now formed exhibited a profit exceeding the guaranteed interest ? One Bombay company during the last half-year realised a net profit equal to five per cent. on the estimated menage cost of the lino ; arid that profit was increasing, and now tr ceeded five per cent. When these lines were extended to their full limits, and the commerce of the country was thus developed, if the railway companies were not too much interfered with, they would arrive at that stage at which the returns would not merely repay the Govern ment, but leave something substantial for theruselveie He lieved, however, in conclusion, that the motion before the house would not have that practical utility which the mover supposed. They were going to have a new Go vernment for India. Let them give it a fair trial, and if it did not better than the present. then let there be a full and searching inquiry, and let the Government be brought to a proper sense of its duty. As for censuring any one, that was a hopeless task, for the moment any one bega n tie to endeavour to discove r who was really at fau lt , was sent and from Leadenhall - street to Cannon-roe, thence to India and from India home ag ain. an old pro- Mr, R . D. MANGLES said there , ‘.B and the East verb that "Threatened men lived long, bdy core or a po- India Company, wh ether a bode sols for it required, it rate, must be extremely vivacino,u)d, a ser f , seemed, no less than two bills (Laughter) thnt during the comparatively Il ies o resolet ions e complained to put an end to its existence. tively unimportant discussions earlier part of the evening there which had occupied then ce of m embers In tho house, but had been a full attendanc e cf m embers In the house, Lt that when this questoo if vital importance. to India that when this quest actually on the point of being came on the hous. being in fact, only 20 members pre counted out, thereber than there generally was at the sent—a less -um Court e f DireCtOrS b efore the year 1853. In rebutting is which had been made gainst the the va rious acc uent he touched first on the a subjeet of East India Conenae tie 3n railways, n d said that it bad been alleged that the East lodise Company h a d neither the means nor the money to ca rry out these undertakings ; but it bad not been shown w hy the E a st India Company could not as easily have raised the money as private companies. He confessed, however, that toe present system was perhaps the better of the two. In reply to the hon. gentleman (Mr. A.yrtou) who had said that the East India Government failed iu all the great public works which it undertook, he would ask had that hon. gentleman never heard of the Ganges Canal, which was 900 miles long, the largest work of irrigation ever constructed in the world 1 That was constructed by the Government which the hon. gen tleman asserted never succeeded iu its public works. The next illustration of the failure of the East India Com pany was certainly the most unfortunate that was ever brought forward by a member of that house, and that was saying a good deal. (Laughter.) He referred to the electric telegraph. The fact way, that Dalhousie's suggestions were accepted, and, by the next mail, a no tification to that effect was seat out to him. His lord ship's energy was well known. Immediately on theerree ceipt of the approval of his scheme, preparations_ w made for getting out the requisite materiel, an_ d 3,00 G miles of electric telegraph were constructed n pat_ci e l rica lu n less than a year. (Hear, hear.) As to witten be h t he In system of railways being co m p ared en tlem that dian the system, he begged to inform hon. vfas 9,000?. per mile, average cost of the A mer i ca n lines 595 100 90 89 92 5181 610 6921 640 447 a 6931