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_~ _J 1 . • r- " - cz): . - 4 , 3 • fi max-- • l • ' ' N., 1144 [ CAI IP.- ►, r ,e.f 1 :•• 1 • ' • ‘,,,:f.4 114 1 • • 1.%•--- Itrf ~ f Y.. 111101 • 'kg • • ;3 1 , :: -•: * n - r ; ; a,,) • .$ • • 45 _. . • s. • • DI t131.0-730J1 - 3. ,• --• • ' 1, 1 / 4 11,7_ - - • l e • . MONT BLANC TO-NIGHT AT 8, and TO-MORROW kI'TERNO:)N AT 3. amucl CHRISTY'S' MINSTRELS, Polv2raphic Hall. TWO FIIINDRED AND FIFTY-SEVENTH ENT t..IITAIN MENT.—Many Patrons of the Christy's having been unable to gain admission owing to the limited numbers of they have now introduced an extra row, which will afford more ccintorts to their numerous patrons.-1 , vening at a, and on ' , aturday 'c, commencing at 3. Prices—Boxes, 1/. is.; Stalls, 35.; Area, 25.; Back, is. PROFESSOR WILJALBA FRIKELL. ST. JAMES'S TREATRE.—" TWO TIOURA OF ILLU SIONS." Every Evening at B.—Wednesday and Saturday Afternoons at 3.-- Last Three Weeks previous to Professor Frikell's departure for Russia—New Trick, " The Shower of Toys." Stalls, 55.: Balcony Seats, 45.; Boxes, 35.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, is.— Private Boxes and places may be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. GREAT UNITED STATES' CIRCUS. Messrs. HOWES and CUSEIING. Proprietors.—The largest Equestrian Establishment in the World, numbering over Two Hundred Men and Horses, will perform 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.—Admission—Private Boxes from It. 10s. to 31. 3s ; Stalls, Is ; Reserved Seats, 3s ; Boxes, 2s ; Pit, Is ; Gallery, 6d.—Box-Offico !open from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.—No fee for booking places. ADELAIDE GALLERY, Adelaide-street, West Strand.—GßAND CASlNO.—Licensed pursuant to .Act of Parliament. with RIGNELL'S celebrated band ; formerly cm ducted by the late EMILE LAURENT, now conlucted by Mons. Ls )(OTTE, of Paris; principal cornet-a-piston, M. Bour.couar ; I eader, Mr. CHARLES HALL. Admission, Is. Doors open at half-pastB. The above band is at the service of the Nobility and Gentry for Pri vate Balls, &C., &c.—Apply by letter to R. R. BIGNELL, Argyll R° olll 3, Great Windmill-street, St. James's. CASINO de VENISE, High Holhorn.—Mr. w. M. PACKER'S GRAND ANNUAL BENEFIT FULL DRESS BILL, TO-MORROW, Thursday, April 8, under distin guished patronage ; on which occasion a variety of original and pleasing dance music will be performed by the celebra ed band under his direction, and every available means used to render this ball the most attractive of the season. Doors open at half-past 9. Dancing to commence at 10 punctually. Ladies' tickets, 3s. ; gentlemen's, 55. Supper at I. Tickets, 3s. 6d. No complimentary admissions can be granted. NEW PROGRAMME of LECTURES delivered daily, in Dr. KAHN'S MUSEUM, 3, Tichborne-street, Hay market. Dr. SEXTON, at al4 past 1, on " The Circulation of the Blood ;" at 4, on "The Curiosities and Mysteries of the Hair and Beard; " at 8, on " Skin Diseases ; " and at 9, on " Reproduction." Dr. KAHN, at 3, on " The Philosophy of Marriage " N.B. The Museum has received numerous additions. Admission, Is. Dr. Kahn's 9 Lectures post free for 12 stamps. Open (for Gentlemen only) from 12 till i , and from 7 till 10. CREMORNE. - TO-DAY.- WEDNESDAY. —These extensive grounds Will open at 3—Popular selections by the Military Band—Classical Entertainments by Mr. T. Elliott and Family—Vocal and Instrumental Concert, supported by tqlented Artistes—At 7 the Commodious Theatre will open—Performances ala Risley —to be followed by Mr. J. G. Ogden, the celebrated de lineator of Irish character—To be succeeded by the favourite Ballet of Action entitled " The Vine Dressers of Como, or the Fairy and the Demon" —The Dancing on the Crystal Platform will commence at half-past 8---Grand Display of Fireworks from the Pyrotee nic Temple at half-past 10-111unsinatiotug, Transparencies, Cosmoramic Views, Ste. —One Shilling. On Friday the Gun Trial takes place in the Ashburnham Pavillien, in .which a reserve will be made for visitors at Is. each. N.B.—The express boats from the City now .reach Cremorne in half-an-honr. " OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT " says Twenty-one Million Pounds of Tea have been released by th• Possession of Canton.--The EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY anticipate the arrival of this, and have reduced the price of their 61b. bag of Sound 'llea to 2s. 2d. per lb.; anl Coffee in the Berry t• 1 ld. — Warehouses, 9, Great St. Helen's-churchyard, Bishopsgate. EORGE HOBSON begs to invite the attention of Gentlemen to his new Stock of Trowserings for the pre sent season, price 21s. to 255. G. H. submits for inspection his new Overcoats, in all the new ap proved and *various shades of colour for sp lug wear. Excellence With Economy. A snit of clothes made in a few hours' notice. GEORGE HOBSON, 5' Lombard-street. Excellence with Economy. METROPOLITAN COUNTIES LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 27, Regent-Ireet, Waterleo- 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. OFFICERS PROCEEDING TO INDIA, also CIVILIANS, can effect ASSURANCES on their LIVES with the COLONIAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY on the USUAL TERMS, the Directors having RESOLVED NOT TO INCREASE THEIR RATES at this time. _ Prernisms can be paid to the Company's Agents at Calcutta, Ma dras, cr Bombay, or at any other of their Agencies in the East. The Directors also advance Loans on good security for temporary Periods. The Colonial have Agencies in every British Colony, where Pre taloa. are received, and claims settled. WILL. rrio. T FIO vi SON, Actuary. SAMUEL R. FERGUSSON, Resident Secretary L0ND0N...................... 81, Lombard-street (E.C.) EDINBURGH (Held-office) .... 5, George-street. DUBLIN • • .. 65, Upper s'ackville-street. GLASGOW— .......... ........ 58, St. Vincent-street. FIFTH DIVISION OF PROFITS. N ORTH BRITISH INSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1909. Incorporated by Royal Charter. Paistinirr —His Grace the Duke of ROXBURGIIE, K.T. Sir PETER LAURIE, Alderman, Chairman. Solicitor, ALEXANDER DOBIE, Esq., Lancaster-Place. Capital of One Million—accumulating Premium Fund 6.14,0001. Revenue from Life Premiums alone 116,000/., annually increasing . Nine -tenths or Ninety per cent. of the profits are septennially divided among the insurers on the participating scale of Premiums. All Profit Policies effected during the current year will share in the Profits of Seven Years, and will secure a larger BONuS at every future division of Profits. The Bonus accumulations at last investigation ranged from 25 to 7e per cent- on the Premiums paid. , 4. Bank B u ildi ngs, Lothbury, London. ST R E ACHAIs, Secretary. E.C. : INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 142, Strand, London, W.C., Feb. 25, 1858: estab lished 1437„ —Payment of Premium within Days of Grace, —lt always has been and stilt 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 eirpiration of such days ct grace, For the Court of Directors, E. S. SYMES, Chairman. THE INTERNATIONAL LIF E ASSURANCE 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 Richardson, Esq. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. Augustus Bloudel, Esq. AUDITORS. Proctor Wheatstone. F.R.S., and Professor J. Radford Yong, MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL. Elltotson, M.D., Cantab , F.R.S., 37, Conduit-street. ACTUARY. W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., ♦SSISTANT ACTUARY. Barker Woolhouse, Esq. BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Gregory, Gregory, Sktrrow, and Roweliffe, Bedford-row The next Quinquennial Division of Profits will be declared it, May, 1860. Examples of Bonus up to May, 1855 : Policy Bonus in Permanent taken Age. Sum addition Bonus in Re action or out in Assured. to Sum Cash. Annual Pre- Assured. mium. s. d. £ s. d. £ S. d. 18 38 55 3,000 867 17 7 424 1 4 56 3 8 1841 48 4,000 749 4 0 325 hi 0 32 0 4 1845 59 1,000 232 18 0 156 15 0 16 6 0 1848 60 2,000 154 2 8 103 16 6 10 15 2 I*l 55 2,800 120 17 0 72 14 . 6 67 7 The following are amongst the advantages -offered by the Inter national Life Assurance Society : The Society was established in 1838. Two-thirds of the profits are divided amongst the assured ever five years. Its subscribed capital is five hundred thousand pounds. Its investments, at the date of the last annual report, amoanted to one hundred and seventy-one thousand pounds. Its annual income is ninety thousand pounds. The number of policies now in sores 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. EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman. 142, Strand, London, W.C. XEA AND IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE. Patent Ofiice Seal of Great Britain. Diplome d'Ecole de Pharmacie Pharmacien de Paris. Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TIESEMAR No. 1,2, and Aberepared in the form of a lozenge devoid of taste or sme ll , an d can carried in the waistcoat pocket., Bold in tin cases, divided into separate doses, as administered by Valeeau. Laßemand, Roux. Ricord &c., and adapted for both sexes. PRIESEMAR No. 1 is a Remedy for RE to_a. LAXATION, SPERM ITORRIREA, and all the distressin eZo lo arising from early abuse, indiscriminate excesses, or e t u b a n t g a rzi d deuce in hot cl mates. It has restored bodily and sexual . now in the e vigour to thousands of debilitated individuals who are whatever m njoyme n t of health and the Functionsanhood RIAGE, the a; be the cause for Dp , QUALIFIC ATIONS for MAR °le effectually sabclued by this Wonderful Discovery. e ff ec tually, in the shortosotinacoe4hf- TRIESEMAR NO. 11. three days, completely and entirely , rritattan o b i eradicates all traces or in its mild and aggravated forms, Gleets, Strictures, the Bladder, Non-retention of Urine, Pains of the Loins and Kidneys, and those disorders w hi c h Copaivi and Cubebs have so long b een thought a t i n ti a o n n tidote for, to the rain of the health of a vast portion of the population. TRIESEMIR No. in. R,mecly for Secondary''"thotriiBSeaunrvdycrofula, and all Is the great Continental Symp toms. It also constitutes a certain cure expelling in its ' Cutaneous Eruptions, removing and 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 through the medium of the pores of the skin and urine, and is a ne ver - failing remedy for that clan of disorders which unfortunately - the English Phy s i c i an t re I t s with Mercury, to inevitable the destr uc _ lion of the patient's constitution, and which a ll the sarsa p aril la in the world cannot restore. Price s. II. free by post, is. B d. extra to any part of th e ki ng d om ; or four cases i n one for 335., by post, 3s. 2d. extra, which saves I Is., and in 5!. cases, whereby there is a saving of 1 1. lie. Sold by Daniel Church, 78, Gracethurch-street, City; Bartlett Moeper, 43, King William-street, (four doors from London tridge) ; Watts, 17, Strand ; Prow, 229, Strand ; Tiannay , 63, Ox ford - street ; Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Ed wards, St. Paul's Churchyav '. • H UMAN FRAILTY ; a Medical Work price Is., po s t f ree, illustrated with 100 engravings, containing the °pinions of Valpeau, Lallemand, Roux, Ricord, Ezc. It gives instruc tions for the perfect restoration of those who are prevented by im pediments from entering into the marri'd state, also showing the dreadful results from early abuse, gonoirl - ,k,a, and syphilis, and the ben efits arising f rom the chemical tests and examination of the !Mermatoza, by the newly-cen , tructed microscope, with powerful lenses. Th e Author may be consulted Daily according to the rules 4 the Book. —Sold b y J. Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row, gild from all agents for the sale of " Trieoeraar. -~ emi rman, morn ,ed in Le bar ind at . on an the from ;earner in the ?rench baying p, but ited to ing the break, h-east, Consul tptain, npting iperin ds, by en and id was guard boats uccess- I souls, ,u 1 and They r them d and ►ceeded. 1 to the extri n, an i 311,1 e of to float t there as the dead It one, , and on ibtained. ,nd peas 63 to 503; bead, )s; pear, Est week, ,ok place tiled the S. S. ...24 29 ...40 44 ...38 42 ...39 44 ...38 40 ~..35 37 irs 36 39 ....32 - 35 -...32 3i of grain. but ulti- Beans. 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By CHARLES PHILLIPS, A. 8., One of her Majesty's Commissioners of the Court for the Relief of _ _ _ Insolvent Debtors. London : J. Ridgway, 169, Piccadilly, W. A. W. Bennett, 5, Bishopsgate-without, E.C. LIVING CELEBRITIES : a Series of PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS, by MAULL and PoLiBLANa, The number for APRIL contains STERNDALE BENNETT, Esq., with Memoir. Maull and I'olyblank, 55, Gracechurch-street, and 187 A, MCA dilly ; and W. Kent and Co., Fleet-street. FEIST'S RACING RECORD for 1858. Part 1I 1., price 3d., will be published on the lit of May. The Retord, containing a complete calendar of Sport in England, Ireland, and Scotland in 1857, and Nominations for /838, may be bad price two shillings. W. Wright, Fulwood's Rents. HI lborrt. ON SPERMATORREICEA.—TransIated from the German of Dr. Pickford. Just pub ished, the Fourth Edition, price 55., by post ss. 6d., ON TRUE dz FALSE SPERMATORRIREA, with a View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors in Rela tion to its Nature, Consequences, and Treatment. By Dr. BICKFORD. With Important Introductory Remarks by the Editor. "The editor has conferred a great boon by translating this little book and by laying 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 empyrical system of treating Sperma torrhcea, and to place the treatment upon a more rational and phy siological basis. It is, therefore, likely to do much geed."—Medical Circular. London, H. Balliere, 219, Regent-street. ON THE DISEASES OF WOMEN. Second Edition, witk Illustrations on Steel, Price One Shilling, Free for eighteen stamps, AN ESSAY on the PHYSIOLOGY and SPECIAL DISEASES OF WOMEN, forming a complete guide to, and with fall instructions for the removal of, the emer gencies of Youth, Womanhood, and Old Age. By Dr. HALL. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. " The subject is treated in a clear, concise, and practical manner, and should be in the hands of all females."—Lancet. " Will form a valuable addition to the domestic household."— , •dedical Circular. " Every husband ought to present this Essay to his wife, and every mother to her daughter, containing as it does most valuable infor mation that concerns their physical and social happiness."—Meath Journal. London: Direct from the Author, Dr. Hall, 1, Upper-Gower-street, Bedford-square ; and by order of all booksellers. 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, neural;qa, 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 sickness, low spirits, spasms, cramps, epileptic fits, spleen, general debility, inquietude, sleeplessness, paralysis, tremors, dislike to society, unfitness for study, loss of memory, delusions, vertigo, blood to the head, exhaustion, melancholy, groundless fear, indeci sion, wretchedness, by a natural and pleasant means, which saves fifty times its cost ?n 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. B ANK OF AUSTRALASIA. (Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1835.) No. 4, Threadneedle-street, London, March 13, 1858. The Court of Directors Hereby Give Notice, that a HALF-YEARLY DIVIDEND of 245. per share, being at the rate of leer cent. per annum on the capital stock of the Corporation, and also a Bonus as additional interest of 565. per share, making together 41. per share, or 20 per cent. per annum, will be paid to the proprietors, free of income tax, at this office, on and after Tuesday, the 13th of April next, between the hours of 10 and 3 o'clock. The Transfer Books will be Closed on Friday, the 19th March, inst., and continue ao until the dividend and bonus become payable. By Order of the Court. WILLIAM MILLIKEN, Secretary. IIHE AMERICAN HORSE-TAMER.-Mr RAREY'S arrangements for Teaching in Classes his Method of Training Colts and Taming vicious Horses, after the Easter Holi days are as follow : l'onday .. ..April 12 At the Round House, Tuesday ............ „ 13 Kinnerton.street, Wednesday ........ „ 14 Motcombe-street Thursday .......... „ 15 Belgravia. Satuntay •• • " 17 1 In Yorkshire. Tuesday ............ „ 20 Monday ............ „ 26 Tuesday „ 27 Wednesday ........•• „ 24 In Dublin. Thursday ...... „ 29 Monday ........ .. May 3 Tuesday Wednesday.... Thursday Monday Kinnerton-street, Tuesday „ 11 Motcombe-street, Wednesday „ 12 Belgravia. Thursday 3TESSRS. NICOLL'S ESTABLISHMENTS IL are thus divided:— No. 114, REGENT-STREET, is their Depot for Paletots, Uni forms, Gentlemen's Evening and Morning Dress. No. 116, for the manufacture of the Guinea Trousers. No. 118, for Half-Guinea Waistcoats. No. 120, for Waterproofed Guinea Capes, and Servants' Liveries. No. 142 is their new Establishment for Ladies' Riding Habits and Mantles. No. 144 contains their other new Department for Clothing young gentlemen with the taste, excellence, and economy whereby Messrs. NICOLL have secured wide spread confidence. The Wholesale Warero'ms are at the rear of the Regent-street premises, viz , 29, 30, 31, and 41, WARWICK-STREET. Tho City Depot Is at 21 and 22, CORNHLLL. The addresses of the various Agents are duly advertised in the journals of the United Kingdom and the Colonies. A► N ACT OF GRATITUDE.-5,000 Copies of a Medical Book for Gratuitous Circulation.—GEOßGE Tuoseas, Esq., having been effectually cured of nervous debility, loss ofmemory, and dimness of sight, vsst.i!ng 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 send 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. TO THE NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED. CRAM ES WATSON, M.D., Fellow and Honorary Vice- President of the Imperial African In'titute of France, (Physician to the Bedford Dispensary), 27, Alfred-Place, Bedford-square, Lon don, continues to i-sue, on receipt of six stamps, " THE GUIDE TO SELF-CURE." " The true Guide to those viLo desire a speedy and private cure, —University Magazine. " The N ENV AMERICAN DISCOVERY' showing the absurdity of thr‘ 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." NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE 'TIRES ithout Physic) of Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Constipation Flatulency, Phlegm, all Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints, Hysteria, Neuralgia, Dysentry, Diarrhoea, Acidity, Palpitation, Heartbur Headache, Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Spasms, Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy or at sea), Sinking Fits, Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption, also Children's Com plaints are effected by iU B ARRI'S delicious REVALENTA ALABICA FOOD, which restores health without purging, 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 an I muscular energy to the most enfeebled. We extract a few out of the many thousand expressions of grati tude from invalids :—Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart 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."—Cun No. 49,832. " Fifty years' indescribable agony from 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, Nortolk."—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, 2 , 4 azing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Herts, a cure of extreme ner vmsnoss, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. — C tee No. 48,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liver. 100 ):: a core o: ten year's dyspepsia, and the horrors of nervous irrita bility. Cure No. 18,z16. Dr. Andrew Ure of constipation. dyspep sia, ervous irritability. Cure No. 34,210. Dr. Shorland of dropsy and ehllity. (lure No. 36,212. Captain Allan of epileptic fits. Cure No. 42.116 Major Edie of enlargement of the liver and total prostration of strength. Cure No. 36,418. Rev. Dr. Minster of cramps, spasms, and daily vomitings, Cure. No. 26,418. Dr. Harvey of diarrhoea and debility. Cure No. 39,628. Dr. Wurtzer of con sumption. Cure No. 32,883. William Hunt, Esq., barrister, of para lysis. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, 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 Castle3tuart, of many years' nervous irritability, bile, and indi gestion. Cure No. 54,812. Miss Virginia Zeguers, cured of con sumption, after her medical advisers bad abandoned all hopes of recovery. Cure No, 180. "Twenty-five years' nervousness, con stipation. indigestion, and debility, from which I have suffered great misery, and which no medicine could remove or relieve, have been etlectually cured by Du Barry's Food in a very short time. W. It. peeves, 181, Fleet-street, London." No. 4,208. "Eight years' dis- Penne, nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms, and nausea, for Norfolk." e hich my servant had consulted the advice 'of many, have been with h etaally cured by Du Barry's health restoring Food. 1 shall be demi my life v Barry's health CreserL'. Rec tory,happy ao e r answer f any inquiries. Rev. John Flavell, Ridlington Rec- Owns in my nCeoc.k32;nBd36l.eft‘a‘ r T n, h "Three d years' gei, e r e axice debility,ss w hiwhich nervousness, ren. r m in i g se F ra e b od le . , h A as ie. b . ee s n tua ra rt d , ic A all re y hd r e em ae o o v n ,ed of by ßo D es, u Revalenta Arabica y Fo Skibbereen." and general debility 11.h°' 3 , 9 06. " Thirteen years' cough, indigestion, Important Caution e re been removed by Du Barry's excellent James Porter, Athol-street, Perth." againAt the fearful dangers of spurious imita tation s: The Vice-Chancellor Sir W imitating " Du Barr arch, 1854 y's RevalentamAraPbaigcae Wood Food. 10th M . a " granted an ininne lion on the , against Alfred Hooper Neville, for S u itably packed for all climates, and with full instructions. In can i s ters, lib 2s 9d ; 21b 48 ~a ; Mb Ils , 121 b 22 5 . Th e 121 b car riage free, on receipt of P oat-office order. Barry Du Barry AM Co., 77, Regent-street, Ih2, Lon don; Fortnum, Mason, and Co., put s t riec adillY ; James Wells, 4a, Sloan:, street 330, 430, a n d 451, St ran d ; 4: 49, and6o,.Biabopagate-ntreet G 3, 150 and 198' Ox- Ord-stralt. v r Y c ee h r t ea ; t p a o s edhsee ; r a t ' 1 61; t , le G st r Y a ' cec B u rch- LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1858. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, TUESDAY. Subscription Plate of 50 cove, for 3-yr-olds and upwards, T.Y.C. (5 fur. 140 yds.) Mr. T. Parr's Odd Trick, 4 yrs, Set 71b...(E. Forster) 1 Mr. S. Williams's Rosa Bonheur, 4 yrs, Bst 71b • (Flatman) 2 Mr. Howard's Theodora, 5 yrs, 9st (Fordbam) 3 Betting-6 to son Theodora, sto 2 agst Rosa Bon heur, 3to 1 ages Odd Trick. Won by a length, bad third. Sweepstakes of 50 cove escb, for 3-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 101 b ; and fillies, Bs , Sib. Winners of a stake value 500 sovs, 41b extra ; of two such stakes, or one of 1,000 sovs value, 71b extra. D.M. (7 fur. 201 yds.) 8 subs. Lord Derby's T,,xopholite, 9st (in. 41b ex.) (Flatman) 1 Baron Rothschild's Mentmore, 9st (in. 41b ex.) (D Hughes) 2 Captain Saville's Pioneer, Bst 10Ib) Duke of Bedford's Soldanella, Bst 61b (E Sharp) 4 Betting—Even on Toxophilite, 6 to 4 agst Mentmore. Pioneer and Mentmore went away in advance, and ran side by side to the new ground, where Toxophilite, who had been lying with his nose at their quarters, took up the running and won easily by a length and a half ; bad third. The Twenty-fifth Tuesday Riddles worth Stakes of 200 cove each, h ft, for now 3-yr-olds ; colts, Set 710 ; fillies, Bst 4lb. Certain allowances. D.M. (7 fur. 201 yds.) Duke of Bedford's Leontes, Bst 41b. (E. Sharp) W. o. Renewal of the Sweepstakes of 50 cove each ; colts, Bst 101 b ; fillies, Bst 7 1 b. P.M. (7 fur. 201 yds.) 4 subs. Mr, Barber's Polly Peachum, 84 71b (Flatman) 1 Duke of Bedford's Killigrew, 8410 lb ......(S. Rogerc) 2 Mr. J. Noblis's Proud Preston Peg, Bst 71b (J. Osborne) 3 Betting-5 to 4on Proud Preston Peg, 7to 4 agst Polly Peachum. Won by a length and a half ; a head between second and third. The Third Sale Stakes of 50 soya, h ft, for year' purchased at the annual sales in 1856 ; colts, 84 101 b ; fillies, Bst 61b. Certain allowances. A. F. (1 mile 2 furlongs 73 yards.) Mr. Howard's Eclipse, Bst 71b (Fordbam) 1 Lord Chesterfield's Telegram, 84 71b ..... (Fiatman) 2 Mr. R. Sutton's Euryd e., Bst (J. Kendall) 3 Betting-6 to 4 aget Eclipse, 7to 4 aget Eurydice, 7 to 2 agst Telegram. Won cleverly by three-quarters of a length ; bad third. The Newmarket Handicap of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft, and 5 only if declared, &c., with 100 added by the Jockey Club and 50 from the Town Race Fund. Winners extra. Clermont Course (1 mile 6 furlongs 55 yards). (58 subs., 29 of whom declared.) Count F. de Lagrange's Monarque 6 yrs., Bst 91b (Flatman) 1 Mr. J. Barnard's Wouvermans, 3 yrs, sst 21b (Ctistance) 2 Mr. T. Hughe's Worcester, 4 yrs, Est (Haley) 3 The following also ran :—Brother to Bird-on-the-Wing, Queen of the East, Bel Esperanza, Newington, Siam's, Fadladeen, Barege, East Langton, Pavilion, Bellefield, Stapleton. Betting-11 to 2 apt Pavilion, 7 to 1 each eget Brother to Bir&on-the-Wing and Wouvermans, 8 to 1 agst East Langton, 9 to 1 agst Monarque, 10 to leach aget Fa.lladeen and Worcester, 100 to 6 each aget Bel Esperanza and Stapleton, 20 to 1 aget Sichaens. Won by three quarters of a length ; Worcester was beaten about seven lengths from Wouvermans. East Langton was a bad fourth ; Stapleton was fifth ; Sichaaus, Pavi lion, and Bellefield were next. li agr ~ BETTING UP TO SIX O'CLOCK. TWO THOUSAND. 6to 1 aget Toxophilite (offered) GREAT METROPOLITAN. l 0 to 1 agst Telegram (taken and offered) 10 to 1 agst Monarque (taken and offered) DERRY. 14 to 1 agst Toxopholite (taken and offered) 14 to 1 apt The Hadji (taken) 20 to 1 aget Cock-a-doodle-doo (t. and offered) 1,000 to 20 agst Menttnore (offered) In the town in the morning, 1,000 to 10 was taken about Fadladeen. MONDAY.—Handicap. T.Y.C. —ln the hurry of transcribing, 8 to 1 agst The Royalty colt was omitted from the return of the betting on this race. DURHAM RACES.—MONDAY. The Trial Stakes of 5 goys each, with 25 added, for 3-yr-olds, let ; four, 84 101 b ; five, 9st 41b ' • six and aged, 9st 7 1 b. Mares and geldings allowed 31b, and maiden 3-yr-olds at the time of starting allowed 41b; 4-yr-olds and upwards, 71b. A winner of 100 sovs in any year, 51b ; twice, or of 200 sovs, 10lb txcra. One mil , . (4 nubs.) Mr. G. Forster's Bradley, 3 yrs, 7st Mr. Masterman's The Early Bad, 3 yrs, bet 101 b (Bullock) 2 Betting-2 to 1 on Bradley. Won easily by a length. The Hopeful Stakes of 5 soya each, with 50 added by the members for the City of Durham ; for 2-yr-olds ; colts, Bst lib ; fillies, Bst 3ib ; a winner before start sing, 41b extra ; twice, or 100 love., 61b extra; horses having started twice, and never won, allowed 31b. T.Y.C. (10 subs.) Mr. J. Bateman's The Dutchman's Daughter, Bst (Challoner) 1 Mr. F. W. Hayward's Amazon, Bst 31b ...(Chatton) 2 Mr. Masterman's Sir Walter Scott, Bst 31b (Scott) 3 The following also ran Grace Darling, Fabius, b c by The Flying Dutchman. Betting-7 to 4on The Dutchman's Daughter, 4to 1 agst Amazon, and sto 1 agst Grace Darling. Won in a canter by a length a half ; a neck between the second and third ; good fourth. The Durham Handicap of 10 'ors each, 5 ft, 3 only if declared, with 50 added. A winner after the weights were published of any handicap value 50 sovs, 41b, of two fifties or 100 sovs, 7lb extra. The second to save his stake, and the winner to pay 10 soya towards ex penses. One mile and a half. 14 subs, Bof whom declared. Mr. Dawson's Gorsehill, 3 yrs, Oct 101 b (in. 71b ex.) (Bullock) 1 Mr. J. G. Henderson's Logie o' Buchan, 4 yrs, let 121 b (J. Forster) 2 Mr. Shipley's Breeze, 5 yrs, Bst 71b ............ (Austin) 3 R ga and Mauchline also ran. Betting—Even on Gorsehill, 6 to 4 agst Breese, 9 to 2 agst Mauchine. Won cleverly by half a length, two lengths between the second and third, bad fourth. The All-aged Selling Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 30 added ; for 2-yr-olds, 7st ; three, Bst 121 b ; four, lOst; five, lOst 9:b ; six and aged, lOst 121 b. Mares and geldings allowed 31bs. The winner to be sold for 100 sovs ; if entered to be sold for 801., allowed 7113 ; f,a• 60/., 121 b ; for 501., 17Ib ; for 401., 211 b ; or for 30/., 281 b. The winner to be sold. T.Y.C. 7 subs. Mr. Green's Caliph, aged (301.), Bst 9 b ...... (Munclay) 1 Mr. Waldy's Omen, 3 yrs (301.), Oat 121 b --(Aust in) , 2 a Mr. Marson's Milksop, 3 y rs (301.), Est 121 b (Porteus, u Bating—Even on Milksop. Won by half a length, bad third, Hagar was four b, the rest nowhere. The winner was bought in for 32 guineas. w ith 20 The Tally-Ho Handicap of 5 soya each, 3 ft, added, for horses that have been hunted with an y established pack of hounds during the season 1857-8. A winner of any Handicap Stakes of 50 sous after the weights appeared 71b extra ; the second to rave his stake. Gentlemen riders. Pr-fessionals sib ex tra. Two miles. (7 subs.) Mr. J. G. Henderson's Logie o' Buchan, by Arie l, 4 ,rs, 11. t (Mr. R. I'Anson) 1 Mr. Coxon's Phoenix, aged, 104 131 b ...( Mr. Coxon) 2 Mr. Hepple's Canny Fellow, 5 yrs, 103 t 101 b (carried 10-t 13'b) (Mr. Cowen) 3 Mr. J. Casson's Actress, aged, lOst (car. lOst 9lb) (Owner) 4 Betting-2 to lon Logie Buchan, 3to 1 agst any other. Won easily by a length. A length between the second and third. Bod fourth. DIIRHAM.---TuEsnAy. The North Durham Handicap. One mile. Herne .... Florence. The New Stakes. T.Y.C. The Dutchman's Daughter Harraton.. . The Scurry Handicap. T.Y.C. b f by Burgundy out of Prioress Florence [AnvawnssmENT.] — The salutary effect of Du Barry's deli cious Revaleuta Arabica Food in removing Indigestion (Dys pepsia), Flatulency, Constipation, Nervous, Bilious, and Liver complaints, Cough, Asthma, Consumption, and Debility with out Medicine, is admirably displayed by the following letters: " Ridlington Rectory, Norfolk, June 10, 1850. No. 4,208. Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility with cramps, spasms, and nausea, have been effectually removed by Du Barry's health-restoring Food. I shall be happy to answer any inquiries. Rev. J. W. FLavetb." " Bury, Lancashire, Aug. 17, 1851. Gentlemen,—For a considerable time I have suffered severely from a violent pain in my left side, extreme flatulency, accompanied by an intolerable sensation of heart burn, and other disagreeable symptoms of dyspepsia. Various remedies, alleged infallible, were tried in vain, and for a long time I was never twenty-four hours without violent pain ; indeed I was unfit for the performance of my daily duties. I was induced to try your food. In less than an hour I found relief, and my recovery was very rapid. The duties which previously had been an intolerable burden became a delight ful exercise, and I have since accomplished more labour with less fatigue than I ever expected to bo able to perform. I have neverb ad a return of my complaint. —I remain, &c., D.Tuomes." Supported by testimonials from the following celebrated Pro. fessors of Chemistry: Dr. A. Ure; Dr. Shorland; Dr. Harvey; Dr. Campbell ; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wttrzer ; Dr. Ingram ; Lord Stuart de Decies; the Dowager Countess of Castlestuart; Major Gen, Thomas King, and many other respectable per sons, whose health has been restored by it, after all other means of cure had failed. Suitably packed with full instruc tions, In canisters, 11b. 2s, 9d.; 21b. 4s. 6d.; 51b. lls. ; 121 b. 225. Tho 121 b canisters are sent carnage free on re ceipt of Post-office order. Barry Du Barry, and Co., 77, Regent-street, London. Important Caution against the fear ful dangers of spurious imitations.—The Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood granted au Injunction on the 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Nevin, for imitating "Du Bury'eltevalwata Arabica Food.'; 171 E ISLAND OF PERIM. Of late years the French newspapers have so much fallen in importance and ability that their articles are rarely read by the general public in this country, and they may be engaged for a long time on a subject before we become aware of it, even though the matter concerns ow selves. Be it known, then, that the great question debated at present by whatever of journalism still exists in Paris is the Island of Perim, the reek at the entrance of the Red Sea hich the East India Oempany oc cupied some months since. So great is the interest excited by this new theme that even the Isthmus of Suez is f 4. a time forgotten. This great philan thropic project has, indeed, cause to complain of the inconstancy of the Parisian j.mrnalists ; several newspapers have not had an artic'e on the subject for nearly a week. Those who will - glance over the broadsheets of our neighbours are aware that be tweena scientific essay on the Artificial Alimenta- tion of Prawns and an antiquarian essay on Car thaginian Horseshoes an article on the piercing of the Isthmus of Suez h is a right to a distinguished place about every three days. Judge, then, of the importance of Perim, which has for a time carried the imagination of our neighbours to the other ex tretni,37 of the Red Sea The two queslions are, however, one ;an as they have received comparatively little attention in this country, while the Continental press his been ringing witti them, it may be as well to offer a few words of explanation. Ever since the establish ment of the Overland Route to India the political gossips of the Continent have seen with extreme jealousy the extension of what they call " English influence" in Egypt and the parts adjacent. It might strike them that a nation which acts is likely to have more influence than nations which merely talk ; and, moreover, that t free commuuity of active men must necessarily extend its 'relations with countries which lie on their way to a most valuable dependency. This country has, indeed, done wonders for Egypt since Waghorn suc ceeded in his notable enterprise. The whole mail traffic and a large part of the passenger traffic between England and India, China, Australia, and the Indian Archipelago has been diverted to the route of Suez and the Red Sea. The perishing cities of Egypt are, living again, touched by the renovating influence of British enterprise and civili sation. Alexandria, Cairo, and Suez are becoming places of the highest importance, and the Vice royalty is taking its position as the wealthiest and most prosperous state of the East. All this has been done by Englishmen, and what has been done is as nothing compared with what will be effected before a few years have passed away. Already the Railway is nearly finished between the Mediterra nean and the Re i Sea. The Indian Mail now traverses the country twice every week, and it is certain that with the rapid increase of trade, the de partures of first-class English steamers from Suez will soon be almost daily. Our telegraph lines will soon be laid along the Red Sea an 1 the shores of Arabia to Kurrachee'or Bombay. Thousands of British solders will yearly cross the Desert on their way to and from our Empire in the East. We may add that the direct trade of Egypt with this country is of thc.very greatest importance, and that the Viceroyalty is linked to England by continually strengthening interests. Such facts as these, one would think, might show other nations the illibe rality and folly of endeavouring to thwart the in much t erc ourse which has done sofor i a country but lately plunged in poverty andbart barbarism. .But f national jealousy and national vanity against reason and good feeling. The are French people, not content with their high position on the Continent, not recognising the truth that their des tiny, though great, is merely European, seek to follow us over thel world, and, wirhout an ()eject but the gratification of an uneasy self-esteem, to force themselves into all our concerns. France has no interestsin the Red Sea or the Indian Ocean. She As represented in Egypt only by a few adventurers, who, with a pliancy which Englishmen have et) desire to rival, ingratiate themselves with the Mahomedans, and adopt the manners, the morals, and sometimes the faith, of the race among which they live. This clique has always been animated by a bit , er jealousy of England, and. even in the midst of the Rus-ian War, when France and Eng land were in arms together, it did not care to dis semble its hostility. To the inspir.dion of these French fortune seekers is to be attributed the plan of making a canal from the Mediterranean coast to Suez—a scheme so wild and impracticable that no man can believe it to be sincerely propounded for commercial and maritime objects. Our conviction is, that if a concession were granted by the Porte the canal would not be made—that it is not in tended to be made, but that the installation of a French company, under French protection, on the route which our mails and pa'sengers follow, would be used as a means of thwarting us in all plans for perfecting the system o f t ran sit. In fact, it is merely a political sc h eme f or opera ti ng on our _line of communication s . Wh enev e r we proposed an extension of railway, cr another line of telegraph, or an improvement o f t h e por t , or th e erection of a warehouse, or any practical object, we should be met with the right s of the Lesseps Company, which we should be told was in a year or two to com mence that great workofcivilizationby which France, to whom alone belongs the initiation of ideas, was to attract . the gaze of the universe. We sincerely trust that if there are any persons who believe that an improper opposition has been made to the Suez scheme, they will be content to give the successive Governments of the country credit for understanding the question better than them selves. Enhas done everything for Egypt, and she alone g is interested in the traffic across the isthmus. If, then, the canal wore feasible, English engineers would have executed it long ago. All that can be done is stomakea railway, anellhathas hi been effected,those whoclamourf or wonder ful projects h ave been sitting idly at horns. The occupation of the rock of Perim is a question of a similar nature. English steamers, as we have said, are passing and repassiug the en trance of the Red Sea daily. No other European flag ever appears on the waters of this tropical gulf. Neither France, nor Russia, nor Austria has the slightest concern with it. It is in the exclusive occupation of England, and must in the nature of things remain so as long as England has vast pos sessions beyond it, and these other countries have none at all. Perim, which is advantageously sr :nate at a point where the navigation is difficult, has been au uninhabited rock, except at rare intervals, since the creation o f t he world ; i t was occu pi e d when Sir David Baird was about to invade Egypt from India nearly oursixty ye ars ago, and when, a few months hack,people returned they found, we a re told, the fortifications and reservoirs just as their grandfathers left them. And yet, because we form a settlement on this desert rock in a sea where no flag but our own ever comes, we must listen to an outburst of spite from the Continental press t We are to forego the possession of a spot which is found to be a convenient halting-place for our mail steamers and transports, simply out of deference to the susceptibilities of Continental poli ticians, who have not the smallest interest in those regions of the world, and who never heard the name of Perim in their lives. Perim may be necessary for the intercourse between Europe and Asia, but Perim must be left destitute because France thinks that the occupation will too much increase the influence of England on the Arabian and Abyssinian coasts. This is what the science of politics has come to among the publicists of the Second Empire. We have had enough of such trifling. Ever since the French press has been forbidden to discuss domestic subjects it has always been searching for some paltry matter of this kind, and seeking to elevate it into a great political question. The Con tinental journalists have also thought fit to insinu ate a proposition which we may as well repudiate at once —namely, that the p o li cy o f thi s coun try in Asia is to be subordinated to some general Council of European powers, and we con sequently hear of the occupation of Perim being brought before the Parisian Conference, and of collective notes being meditated on the subject. There is probably no truth in all this ; but still, the existence of the report is evidence of notions which we may a s well dissipate at once. As for Egypt and the Red Sea, the intentions of this country are soon stated. We have no wish to acquire territorial possessions in those parts, but we will not for a moment tolerate any scheme for interfering with the great system of intercommu nication which we are now buildin g up. As for any nation pretending to a superior or even an equal position with England in Egypt, it is out of the question. We have not laboured so much to give up now the fruits of our labour. Twice within the last sixty years have British arms preserved Egypt to the Porte. In the first of these conflicts a great French army and fleet, led by the first of modern generals was utterly defeated and destroyed. Forty years afterwards, when an ambitious Vice roy made war agst his Sovereign, it was again a British force that crushed his pretensions. The policy and spirit of England are whet they were in 1798 and 1840. Our own rights and the rights of the Sultan we will support, as we have done before, against either European or Egyptian ambition. So we would advise those journalists who are busying themselves about English proceedings in the Red Sea to attend to matters which more nearly con cern themselves. Perim can only possibly belong to the Sultan of Turkey or the Imaum of Muscat. If either of these potentates chooses to make a re clamation we shall know how to deal with it ; but any other State will only lose its time and temper by interfering with the question. Probably all that has been said on the matter proceeds only from the ill-humour of the Continental press, but, should any Government be so ill-advised as to give Affect to these suggestions, we trust that Lord Malmesbury will simply decline to listen to any such meddling with our national affairs.—Times. THE POSTAL SYSTEM . OF THE UNITED KINGDOM DUREN 4 THE PAST YEAR. The report of the Postmaster- General for the past year was issued yesterday morning from the govern ment printers, from which it appears how greatly the postal system has extended itself during 1857. The number of letters transmitted through the Pest Offices of the United Kingdom was 504 millions, which is au increase of 51 per cent. on the number of the previous year. In England 410 millions of lei ters passed through the Post Office, being about 5i per cent. increase on the number of 185 C. In Ireland 43 million letters passed through the Post Office, which is an increase of 24 per cent. on the number for 1856 ; and in Scotland the number was 51 millions. These figures give 21 letters to each individual of the population for the year for Eng land ; 7to each in Ireland ; and 16 to each person in Scotland. At Leeds the proportion of letters to the popula tion is as high as 24 letters to each person ' at Glasgoir and Birmingham, 27' ; at Liverpool, 29 ; in Dublin and Manchester, 30 ; in Edinburgh, 36; and in London, 43. As compared with 1856, this number shows an increase of 26,000,000 ; and as compared with the year previous to the introduction of penny postage (1839), an increase (omitting franks) of 428,000,000; making the present number of letters more than sixfold what it was in 1839. During the last five years the rate of increase in letters, as compared in each instance with the number in the preceding year, has been as follows :-1853, 81 per cent.; 1854, 8 ; 1855, 21; 1856, q ; 1857, 5t : average, nearly 6. Of the whole number of letters last year nearly a quarter were delivered in London and the suburban districts ; and counting those also which were dis patched, nearly one half passed through the London office. The number of letters given in the fore going statements include colonial and foreign letters delivered in the United Kingdom as well as inland letters. The great bulk, however, are inland ; the colonial and foreign letters forming less than one fiftieth of the whole number delivered. According to an official return in a recent number of the Journal de St. Petersbourg, giving various Russian statistics for the year 1855, the whole number of letters posted in Russia was about 16,400,000, or almost exactly the same as the number pasted in the single city of Manchester and its suburbs. The number of registered letters last year was rather more than a million and a quarter, or about one registered letter to 400 ordinary letters. The num ber of newspapers delivered in the United King dom last year, as in the previous year, was about 71,000,000, nearly three-quarters of which bore the impressed or newspaper stamp, the others having been paid by postage stamps. The proportion of colonial and foreign newspapers and books sent through the post is much greater than that of letters ; for while of letters the portion, as already stated, is less than one-fiftieth of the whole, of news papers and books it is about one-fifth. This differ ence is probably owing, in part, to the means by which large numbers of inland newspapers and books are distributed otherwise than through the post, not being available for newspapers and books sent here from abroad, and to the rates of postage on colonial and foreign letters being much higher, compared with newspapers, than is the case with inland letters. This great disparity in the rates of postage gives rise to much petty fraud in using foreign and colonial newspapers for letter writing. The number of letters returned to the writers last year, owing to failure in the attempts to deliver them, was about 1,700,000. Owing to the same cause about 580,000 newspapers were also undelivered, being about one in 122 of the whole number. There were about 6,000,000 of bookpackets last year. The average weight of a book packet is about 51 ounces, and the average postage about 21d. Excluding official packets, the average weight of an inland letter is rather more than a quarter of an ounce ; that of a colonial letter rather more th=in a third of an ounce ; and that of a foreign letter rather more than a quarter of an ounce. The average postage of an ordinary inland letter is about lid. The average weight of a newspaper passing through the Post-office is rather more than 2 3 / 4 ounces. During the year the number of post offices in the United Kingdom was increased by 235, making the total number at present open 11,291. Of these, 810 are head offices, and 10,291 sub post-offices. 295 road letter-boxes (some in towns and some in rural districts) were put up last year, making the whole number 703. At 1,041 places free deli veries were established for the first time last year ; and at 297 other places, including D u blin, Bristol, Bath, Oldham, the thickly inhabite d district round Manchester, Perth, and the neighbourhood of Bel fast, the free delivery was extended or otherwise improved. Measures are in progress, though they must necessarily proceed gradually, for still further improving the postal service in the suburban dis tricts. These measures include an acceleration (where this has not already been accomplished) of the general post letters arriving in London by the night mails ; the extension to all places within six or seven miles of London (isolated houses and scat tered neighbourhoods excepted) of a late evening delivery, so that letters leaving the Lond Al office about 7.30 p.m. may reach the hands of the public the same night, instead of remaining undelivered till the next morning ; a greater approach to equa lity iu the periods between the despatches from London • and, where requisite, more numerous despatches and collections, longer periods for post iiig, and an earlier morning collection. So far as its object was to expedite the interchange or cor respondence between district and district, the sys tem of postal divisions in London is still, owing to the want of offices, only in very partial operation. In some districts no suitable building, or even site, has yet been found ; and in others unforeseen ob stacles have arisen to retard the completion of the arrangements, even when considerable progress had been made. During the last year 59 additional towns were provided with day mails to or from the metropolis of one or other of the three parts of the United Kingdom, and some of them with mails in both directions. Supplementary mails, moreover, being the third dispatched from or to London in a single day, were established with Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Cambridge, Southampton, Sheffield, and other towns. The distance over which mails are now conveyed within the United Kingdom by railways, mail coaches, &c., steam packets, boats, and foot messengers, is nearly 130,000 miles per day. During the year 138 new money order offices have been opened-95 in England and Wales, 34 in Scotland, and 9in Ireland. The to tal number at present open is 2,233. Notwithstanding the de pression of trade during the year, 6,389,703 money orders were issued in the United Kingdom, for a total sum of 12,180,2731., showing an increase of 185,467 orders and 374,7111. over the previous year. The rapid increase which has taken place in this method of transmitting money may be under stood, when it is stated that in 1840 313,1241. was sent through the Post-office in 1850, and it had in creased to 8,494,498/. The following results give a curious illustration of the relative prosperity of the three kingdoms : —From England there is an evident outgoing of money orders, inasmuch as orders for 10,410,8631. were granted, and 10,281,6681. paid, leaving a dis crepancy of 129,195/. In [reland orders for 818,5371. were granted, and, 893,7891. paid, leav ing an excess paid of 75,252/. In Scotland orders for 950,8731. were granted, and 1,002,8571. paid, giving an excess of 51,985/. The rate of postage on letters conveyed by pri vate ship between this country and all parts of the world has been reduced, where it before exceeded that sum, to a uniform charge of 6d. the half-ounce. The rate of increase in the gross revenue in the two years was as follows :-1856. England, nearly 6 per cent. ; Ireland, nearly 5 per cent.; Scotland, nearly 7 per cent. ; United Kingdom, rather more than 51 per cent —1857. England, rather more than 6 per cent. ; Ireland, about 2i per cent.; Scotland, about 61 per cent.; United Kingdom, nearly 6 per cent. The increase of expenditu.re properly appertaining to the year 1857 was at, li e rate of nearly 2i per cent., as compared with § per cent, in 1856. The net revenue ; taken as the differeuc. 1244 Ween [Vizioi 4D. S rAmpin 5 .] the gross revenue and ex!ruditure properly apper taining to the year, is as follows 1856 , 1,194,3981.; 1857,1,322,237 1 . Increale, 127,8491. This increase is at the rate of rather more than 10 per cent., m compared with 7 per cent. in 1856. DEATH OF LIEUTENANT OEPP. (Front the Essex Herald.) We deeply regret to find that Lieut. Gepp, of the 66th GoOkhas, son of T. M. Gepp, Esq., of Chelmsford, has died of the wound he' received while behaving so gallantly in the action with the Indian rebels from Bareilly. The letters below de scribe the sad result, and at the same time show how completely his kind heart and gentlemanly manners had,won the affectionate esteem of his brother officers, while his bravery as a soldier in the fight called forth the admiration of his comman der, who had marked him out for that special de coration awarded only to the most nobly daring. A feeling of deep sympathy with the family of the deceased we are sure will pervade the town. The following is a copy of the letter which Mr. Gepp releived on Saturday last from Col. M'Catve and, commanding officer of the 66th Goorkhas:— " Camp, Huldwanee, ne r Nynee Tal, .February 17, 1857. " My dear Sir,—lt is with sincere and deep re gret I have to announce to you the death of your son Thomas Sydney Gepp, who died on the 12th inst. from tire-effects of wounds received in action on the 10th, two days previous, at the battle of Churpoorab, sixteen miles from this place. His gallantry was most conspicuous, avid the admiration of all his brother officers ; had be lived I should undoubtedly have recommended him for the Vic toria Cross. Before he fell he cut down three men at the enemy's guns, and was instrumental in cap turing three pieces of artillery. He was much and dii=ervedly beloved by every onei...-7:i4raatnaut to his profession. His remains are interred in the burial ground at Nynee Tal, and it is the intention of the officers to erect a monument over them, and they are also desirous of placing a tablet to his me mory in his pari , h church, which, I conclude, is at Chelmsford. It will be consolatory to you to learn that he suffered but little pain. One wound was a sabre cut across the lett arm, and the second, which proved fatal, was a ball entering the left side im mediately under the heart, and passing through the liver, was extracted on the right side, having lodged immediately under the skin. The operation gave him relief for the time, but the injury to the liver was so great as to render recovery impossible. I have kept his watch, chain, and ring, Bible and Prayer-book, together with some of his hair, to be sent to you. You will no doubt see in the papers an account of the action fought under my command and honourable mention made of your gallant son. The enclosed letter arrived half an hour after he expired—l therefore return it. You have, my dear sir, much to be thankful for, that your poor son died a soldier's death and was not brutally mur dered, as many of our poor countrymen and women and children have been. I have to deplore the loss of many near and dear relations, particularly a be loved son and daughter, in the horrible massacre at Cawnpore, July last, "Once more expressing my heartfelt sympathy to yourself and family on the loss of so promising a son, believe me, my dear sir, yours very truly, " F. K. ArCAUSLAND, "Colonel 66th Ghoorkas and Keenau force. "7. M. Gepp, Esq." _ _ Mr. Duffiel;;Solicitor, of this town, has also re ceieved a letter from Lieut. F S. Briud, who served in the same regiment with Lieut. Gepp, in which he gives further details of his gallant comrade's death and funeral. The following are extracts " Poor dear Gepp's loss has turned our glorious victory into almost a defeat. He was hacking away into one of these blackguards, who in his last agonies gave him a blow with his tulwar ou the arm, which knocked him down, and whileon theground a brute shot him through the liver ; his first wound kept him alive, as it prevented internal bleeding. He was carried off the field amid many a vow of ven geance. One sepoy, Davy Singh, opened his merzai and shirt, and stopped the bleeding for a time with his own hand; he won't go unrewarded. Poor Gepp said on the field he was dying, and asked Miles to write to his friends who live in ChAmsford. 'rids was a bad sign, and after living 48 hours, be breathed his last in the hospital at Huldwanee. After he reached camp he rallied, and we hoped to have had him among us once more, but it was God's will that the finest soldier and best officer nf the 661 h should be taken from this scene of strife and woe, to a land where no sorrow or pain is known. Lee, the doctor who attended him night and day, thinks he might have got over it if it bad not been for the nature of the matchlock bullet ; it was iron, and all jagged, and as he had an enlargement of the liver, there was no chance of his recovery. Miles has written, but in case his letter in these troublous times should miscarry, the Duffields, who may, perhaps, know his parents, can give this little ac count of his untimely end. He died as a soldier should, and it may perhaps be a source of consola tion to his bereaved family to know that he died nobly doing his duty ; his gallantry was conspicu ous, and mentioned in th 3 camp-orders of the day. His men will not forget him soon. 1 was put on the sick list after the fight, as I cannot bear a boot on my foot, and wishing to come up to Nynee Tal, I had the mournful pleasure of following to the grave the body of my best friend in the regiment, and than whom a nobler soldier never stepped. fi T r a i l ng ch p u a rard r ch ty y . . A. F pa i r tz ty ger o a f ld m e commanded of He was buried yesterday (Sunday), in the Nynee the 66 h, and Ist Extra Goorkhas, carr i e d hi m t o hi s l as t resting-place. Mr. Price read the funeral ser vice. Nearly all the station attended in deep mourning. Gepp had won the deep regard and esteem of many here. It was a mournful sightlmanyia stout heart, Goorkha and European, who would not flinch from a cannon's mouth, wept like a child. Nearly all the party were in tears, and the old native officer could hardly speak ; Fitzgerald had great difficulty in giving the last salute—the three volleys in the air. A monument is to be erected in the churchyard, as a testimony of the affection of his brother officers." T FIE TRAGEDY AT LERWICK. This shocking tragedy is as yet unexplained. No rnot , ve can be discovered. Mr. Williamson, the mur derer and suicide, was a respectable merchant; he ap peared to have a warm affection for his family, and his affairs do not show any embarrassment. Some of the local papers publish terther details :—His first victim was his wife. He had apparentiy struck her a Liarlui blow with the cleaver on the head ; with the razor he is flicted a frightful cut upon her throat. He went through the same horrifying process in the case of the daughter, as she still lay asleep. He next rushed up stairs to the apartment occupied by the three childrer. The elder boy was seized, numerous and serious cuts were inflic ed upon his bead either with the hatchet edge of the cleaver, or with the raz it blade, and with the latter instrument a fearful wound was made upon his throat; but before the consummation of his intended fate he managed to release himself from hie father's hands and made his escape downstairs. Upon the youngest of the three—the eleeping infant—the same elaborate attack was made as in the case of the first two and stronger victims. With its head smashed, and almost severed as it was from the body, its death must have been instantaneous. The terminating scene of the sickening tragedy was carried out in the other room on the same floor on which these transactions took place. To this room the second son, John, had made his escape in his n ght-dress. He could scarcely, however, have done more than reach the apartment when hie father, f Alowing is hot pursuit, overtook him, and seizing him as he vainly attempted to elude his hold by leaping into an unoccupied bA, dragged him out by his superior strength, one or more stunning blows on the skull soon served to make him resistless, and by a sleep raz cut in the throat he was the next instant deprived of life as speedily as the innocents who preceded him. Dropping the mutilated corpse at his feet, the infatuated man nett addressed himself to the deliberate destruction of . his own life. Throwing himself on his back on the tnidd . l e of the floor of the same room in which he s too a d,n placed his neck against the leg of the table, t t i llj , and, pre venting any chance of the wound being ?af t ,. apart drawing towards him a chair which stood . Wel' supports, merit, he passed his arm round one of its band as of the thereby insuring equal steadiness of fit t ba w as enabled to neck. By this finesse of arrang carry out his horrible design isted, inflict a wound upon sv i tehmfeatal precision. With open from ear to ear, his strength did he, thus as i s aid his throat that the neck r.szonrlgenetrated to the very bone, He and the blade of the instant—a ghastly In r :snts imbrued in his own and his He must have died with his hands and -ar sses of hie murdered wife's hair victims the instruments of death victims' blood, e b n is d fi t a re gers, still clinging Of the five victims of his demoniacal fury by his si d "" - vo r—his eldest boy—has been carefully the oleurvi. tended E l ace his escape, and, by the aid of the surgeon, h i s dang erous wounds are slo w l y healing. He is not yet , h o wever, altogether out of da nger, and it is doubtful if I he will ever sufficiently recover his natural strength. Toe bodies of the oth ers , w i t h that of the deceased I-I-kr:- self, were not inte rre d unt il Tuesday, and a more mourn ' • fra cortege WM never seen in the streets of Lerwick. LO or - 7,1 • .Ilowing letter is from Lieut: ±C '. r . R . N., Admiralty Agent : " am sorry to acquaint you ? VI t pis of the Peninsular and Oriental steam packet AVM, . on the evening of the 16th inst., on Ceylon, nine miles To the north of Trincomalee, near Pigeon Island. " The Ava left Calcutta on the 10th for Madras, on our route to Suez, having orders to take in at Mad ras some treasure ou Government account, to be landed at Tiiecomillee. We arrived at Madras on the 14th at 3.30 p.m. ; and left on the 15th at 4 p.m., for Trincomalee ; 16th, at 4 p.m.onede the land (Ceylon) on the starboard bow. At 7.30 saw a steady light, supposed to be Trincomalee. At the helm was starboarded, with orders to keep eseints off the land. When the land - it was then put hard a engines ; but before she lost her way after turning astern she struck and bilged upon a rock on the starboard side. The engine room was immediately full of water, and the fires put out. The Admiralty agent went into the mail room, but was obliged to return, finding it rapidly filling, and in less than ten iminutes the deck above the mail room was covered with water, leaving no chance of recovering the mails except with the aid of divers. Smooth water, - and the ship breaking up forward. The weather at this time, light bee( z-s and cloudy, with much "F: swell, the ship striking heavily abaft the fun- .:" nel. The crew were ordered to clear away boats to laud the passengers, which was quickly done without any accident. An officer was put in charge of each boat, and all the ladies and children, and then the gentlemen, were embarked, with orders to lie by the ship until daylight. As soon as the boats had shoved off we commenced getting the treasure on deck (having on board 500 boxes each s eiCining 5,000 rupees). At 11.30 the mainmast we , . t just below the top, taking with it the mizen topmast. " 17th.—Weather the same. At daylight found there was too much surf on the beach to attempt landing the passengers, therefore despatched the ladies and children to Trincomalee, where they all arrived safe. As soon as the surf moderated the remainder of the gentlemen were put on a rock near the ship, so that the use of the boats would be available for saving the mails ankletreasure. At 10.30 observed the ship had ceeeee-J ee ir e eebe star b card side Porn the gunwale to the water's edge. The people were immediately ordered up from the afeer hold and commenced landing the treasure, the ship working and complaining very much, there being considerable swell on, but the weather fine. At 1.30 p.rr. the ship broke in two with a loud noise, just before the starboard gangway and abaft the funnel on the port side. Some time before she parted the boxes, 200 in number, had been removed for safety further forward, but breaking diagonally some fell into the opening, leaving 154, which were safely landed. " 18th.—Weather the same. At daylight visited the wreck. Found the afterpart about 20 feet astern of from where she parted and the remain der of the mainmast quite gone, a quantity of cargo and baggage working out through the open ing and floating towards the shore. A party of the Ceylon Rifles and a body of police sent from Trincomalee to protect the property ; the wreck was visited several times during the day, but nothing further is likely to be saved until the forepart breaks up. We have tents pitched on a sandy beach abreast of the wreck. Dutiug the day it is very hot, but rather cold at night. We are all well, although almost every article of bed ding and wearing apparel has been lost. A great part of the crew have been sent to Trincomalee, but the captain and most of the officers, with myself, remain here, and purpose doing so while any hopes remain of saving the mails or other property. `; When the ship struck, and during the time when there was any personal danger, the captain's orders were given with that coolness, and so well carried out by the officers, as to give coufidenca and insure safety ; also the chief and second engi neers, with the whole of their department, be haved most admirably. Any personal exertion on my part was quite unnecessary, but any suggestion of mine was immediately attended to. " 19th and 20th.—Weather the same. "21st (Sunday).--Went off with the captain and some divers, hut they would not undertake any work while the water inside the wreck was surging so much." LOSS OF THE _ROSED.ALE, LONDON AND NEWCASTLE STEAMER. Yesterday the following report was received at Lloyd's relative to the total loss of the Rosedale, screw-steamer, from Loudon to Newcasile, on the moaning of the Ist inst., on the Long Scaur Rocks, near Hartlepool. The report is written by Captain G. ,Wood, the master of the Rosedale, who attested to the truth of it before the Admiralty Receiver of Droits at that port : " We left London on the 30th ult., wiud S.W., weather moderate, and at 7 p.m. of the 31st was off Whitby. In the meanwhile the wind had changed to the N.E„ blowing hard, with a heavy sea running. W e s t eame d as far as S un d er l an d , when finding from the strong wind and heavy sea that the ship could not weather Souter Point we bore away frem Hartlepool, considerinc, it prefer able, as a place of shelter, than Sunderland. At 8.13 a.m. of the Ist inst. we rounded Hartlepool Hough, and steamed for the Hartlepool (old) har bour. Between the outer buoys and the channel two pilots boarded the steamer, and took charge. They directed her to be backed out, saying she was not exactly straight for the channel, which orders were carried out. She was, in consequence, backed into the heavy sea. The wind was blowing a gale on the startoard bow, which prevented her coming to, and she drove away into the middle of the bay, where the port anchor was let go. While the ship was driving out, the pilots waved to two steam tugs, which were coming out of the East Hartle pool channel. On their coming close within hail, I asked the captain of one of them what he would charge for assisting the steamer into the harbour. The answer was, lie would make no bargain. In consequence we hove up the anchor, and attempted to steam into a more sheltered place, but she only .drove further up. We again let go the anchor, and endeavoured, with the aid of steaming, to prevent it from dragging. Tito steamer was then about two cables' length of the Long Scaur Rock astern of us. In about an hour and a half after , wards felt the vessel strike the ground. We then let go the second anchor ; in doing so, the first mate met with a serious accident. The cable get ting entangled, he, in attempting to clear it, got his arms jammed in the hawsehole, and before he could be extricated we had to heave the chain back. The arm was broken, and he was otherwise much hurt. Iu about a quarter of an hour afterwards the ship struck again and again, when some part of the machinery gave way, and at the same time the vessel broke away from her cables and drove ou the rocks above alluded to. It was now about a quarter past 11 o'clock a.m., the gale was blow ing furious, and the only chance left was to drive the ship far on the rocks, for a heavy sea was mak ing a complete breach over her, and the crew were in great danger. To effect this, had the jib hoisted. While in this condition, the lifeboat belonging to West Hartlepool, which had put off to our rescue, succeeded in taking all hands off the ship and lauded them safe ashore, but the men lost every thing they possessed, for the vessel shortly after wards went to pieces and became a total wreck. The ship was insured." la I can again THE NATIVE INDIAN ARMY.—We neverewe cannot son have a military force in India in fioud r e,which we cannot bring ours elves wt to t i at : tont which ddidocli t sit tr r si : coo s ou t : : d of o eteach escort r enemies to fear. The e xtent li .p o l u in r e' of vjh th il e e troops were in former days a mple) ed p . t dutiesh every was rigidnessi th ar.da r i: e rne .i i e yp i ions forms required for a r , • egeguular duties where self reliance prompt n3;t anant d nb l da i g ni h dnt t bdihane e esp n ttco l neri r eg r , a ction, are so much more ins rnaiiatyie.s of the line, which not unfre- The duties of defending our our enemies, and of maintaining q tr u o e n n t t ie lY re A . ": . fn a c ppre ssing or detecting crime among the order an“ v ;„1, more connexion with each other than this, people bath cases physical force must be resorted to ; in t hat in b° boa cases men must have arms committed to their hands wir e authority to use them. Yet for all the great per poses of external d-fence half th e army un t i l r ow enter tAined by us would have sufficed, had the deficiency bees wade up by police. For this last branch of service the native must always be fallen back upon. He may be made much more ugiful even than the European, and quite u safe. The sepoy mutiny could never have ripened into insurrection but for the acquaintance of the various corps with each other, the community of their discipline and the frequency with which they bad served together. A. police corps is necessarily a local and an isolated thing. Were the Ghaut Rangers to fly to arms, there is no reason whatever why any of the adjoining local ' corps should sympathise, co-operate with, or join them —very many reasons why it should be the opposite. The knowledge of the fact is quite sufficient to prevent a rising. Were it otherwise, we should just have lost the services of a single insubordinate body, which would be at once exterminated, and there an eod. With sufficient abundance of police corps there seems no difficulty of our keeping India in perpetuity with an army exclu sively English, or of maintaining English troops in raea _ ! sonable good health, fit at all times for service, _ e and d without any inordinate amount of casualties, ever/ w ml4l througklut the country,—Buie's Vreeland rSkindwa. .1 • 4 •••-•-)