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WHEREAS, by a Decree of the High Court of Chancery, made in a cause " George Mullins and others against Frances Smith and another," bearing date the 10th day of December, 1859, an enquiry is directed to be made what charities were intended by the testator. Isaac Smith, late ofNo. 29,Canuon-place,Brighton,Sussex, Esquire, who died the Ist day of February, 1856, by the bequests in his will, in the words following, that is to say. " The Church Missionary Society ; the Church Pastoral Aid Society ; the Moravian Mission Society ; the British and Foreign Bible Society; the Naval and Military Bible Society; the :Royal Orthopmdic Hospital, 6, Bloom.sbury-square, London ; the Malta Protestant Colle , e • the London Tract Society ; the London City Mission Ch ar i n g-cross Hospital ; the Royal Free HospitaVGray's-inn-lane-road ; the Colonial Church Society, th e 'Society for Prolroting Christianity amongst the Jews ; the Brighton Town Mission ; the Lon don Society for P romot i ng Irish Missions ; the Female Or phan Society, Brighton ; the Indigent Blind Society, 27, Red Lion-square, Londo n • the Brighton County Hospital ; and the B righton Dispensary ;" and all such charities claiming under the above description to be entitled to the bequests, are, by their treasurers or solicitors, on or . before the 9th day of March, 1860, to come in and prove their claims at the chambers of Vice-Chancellor Sir Richard Torin Kindersley, No. 3, Stone Buildints, Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex , or in de fault thereof they will be peremptorily excluded from the be nefit of the said Decree. Tuesday, the 13th dayof March, 1860, i at one o'cl oc k i n th e a ft ernoon , a t the said chambers, is ap pointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the claims of the above charities.— Dated this 3d day of February, 1860. CHAS. PUGH, Chief Clerk. MARSON, DADLEY, and 31 ARSON, 1, Anchor terrace, Bridge- street, Southwark, Plaintiff's Solicitors. CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS, Polygraphic Hall ‘-. 1 King William-street, Strand.—Farewell Season iu Lon. don.—Every Evening at 8, and every Saturday Morning al 3 o'clock. Tickets and places may be seemed at the Hal] from 11 till 4, and at Mr. Austin's West-end:Box-office, St. James's Hall, Piccadilly.—Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. J. W. RAYNOR. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE CIRCUS, Leicester-square. 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It is a well-known fact that impure and adulterated wines are the greatest foes to health, producing acidity in the stomach, and debilitating the digestive organs, while pure Wines will accelerate the digestive powers, invigorating, strengthening . , and bracing the nervous system. Their Tonic Wine is admitted to be most essential to in- Walids, both old and young, and should never be absent from the homes of the weak and sickly. Its properties are duly lloknowledged and appreciated by the leading men of the !acuity, both at home and abroad. To prevent imposition each bottle is sealed with the name of the firm. _ _ ~........ All orders to be made payable to HENRY BURROWS. PRESENTS.- ORNAMENTAL and SCIEN TIFIC.-OENAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, and Dining-room, consisting of anew and elegant assortment of VA SES;Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Inkstands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paperweights, &0., in Italian,Alabas ter, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. 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Du Barry's Food cures effectually —Acidity, asthma bilious ness, blood to the head, bowel complaints, bronchitis, ca tarrh, colds, congestion, constipation, consumption, "ramps, cough, debility, despondency, diarrlicea, disten on, dizziness, dropsy, drowsiness, dysentery, dyspepsia tions. exhaustion, fevers, epileptic fits, flatulency, gout, ha (lndig,estion), erup bitual constipation, headache, heartburn, haemorrhoids, hys teria, impurities indigestion (dyspepsia,) irritability , irrita tion of kidneysand bladder. liver complaints, loss of memory, low spirits, nausea and sickness, nervousness, nervous fan cies, neuralgia, noises in the ear, pains between the shoul ders, palpitation, partial paralysis, phlegm, pulmonary com plaints, rheumatism, scrofula, sinking - , sleeplessness, sore throat, spasms, tightness across the chest. At about one Denny per meal, it effectually cures the above, also children's complaints, and saves fifty times its cost in medicine. It does not turn acid nor interfere with a 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 many thousand cures : Cure No. 54,816, from the Rev. James T. Campbell, Syder stone Rectory, near Fakenham, Norfolk : " In all cases of in digestion, and particularly where the liver is affected, I consider it the best of all remedies. —James T. Campbell." Cure I%To. 71, of Dyspepsia, from the Right Honourable the Lord Stuart de Decies : " I have derived considerable benefit from Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food. Stuart de Decies."—Cure No. 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness at the stomach and vomiting, have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food. Maria Jot Worthant Ling , near Diss, Nortolk."—Cure No. 52,087: Field-Marshal the Duke of Pluskow, of a gastric inflamma tion of the stomach.—Cure No. 51,614: Baron de Polentz. Prefect of Lanuenau, of many years' horrible sufferings of the serves and an obstinate constipation. Cure No. 47,121: Miss Elizabeth Jacobs of Nazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Herts, a cure of extreme nervousness indigestion, gatherings. low spirits, and nervous fancies.— Cure No. 48,314: Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Li verpool : a cure of ten years' dyspepsia, and all the horrors of nervous irritability. —Cure No. 18,216: Dr, Andrew Ure, of constipation, dyspepsia, nervous irritability.—Cure No. 34,210: Shurland, of dropsy and debility.—Cure No. 36,212 : Cap tain Allan, of epileptic fits.—Cure 42,116 ; Major Edie, of enlargement of the liver, and total prostration of strength Cure No. 3.1,418: Rev. Dr. Minster, of cramps, spasms, and daily vomitings.—Cure No. 26,418: Dr. Ilarvey, of diarrhoea and debility.—Cure No. 30,618: Dr. Wurtzer, of conaurnption.—Cure No. 32, 880 ; William Hunt , Esq. Bar rister, of paralysis.—Cure No. 46,270 : Mr. James Roberts.: timber merchant, of Frimley. Surrey, 3 0 years' diseased spitting of blood, liver derangement, partial d eafness.—Cure No. 46,814: Mr. Samuel Laxton, Lei cester, of t w o years' diarrhoea. Cure. No. 52 , 412 : , r he Dowager Countess of Castlestuart, of many years' ner- V. ) ,lts irritability, bile and indigestion , Cur e No. 54,812: Miss c Zeguers, cured of consumptio n, after her medi ..ai adviaers had abandoned all hopes o f recover y .— unre No. 180: "Twenty-five years' nervousness, con atipation, indigestion, and debility, from which I have Suffered great misery, and which no medicine could re move or relieve, have been effectually cured by Du - , rry's Food in a ve r y short time. W. B. Reeves , 181, Fleet-street, London."—No. 4,208 : " Eight years' dyspep s ia , nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms, and nausea, for effectually Which my servant had consulted the advice of many, have b een ally cured by Du Barry's health-restoring Food. I shall be hap py to answer any inquiries. Rev. John W. Flavell , R idlin gton Rectory, Norfolk." No. 32,836: "Three years' excessive nervous and general debili7ess, with pains in my neck and left arm, which rendered my life vet y miserable, has been radically 3 ,:'„ Food. Alex. Stuart,ned by Du Barry's health-restoring Archdeacon (if Ross, Skibbereen." Cure No. 3,906: Thirteen years' cough, indigestion. and gene ral debility, have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food. In Canisters : 11b. 2s. Pd., 21b, 4 Superrefined quality : 51b. 222 I _9. 64., 121 b. 225., 241 b. 40s. receipt 335. The 101 b., 121 b., and 182, Piccadilly 241 b. canisters carriage free on ce e ilt of Post-office Order, by ttreet, London ; Fort- Barry Du Barry and Ce., 77, it num, Mason, and Co., Oxford-street, Abbis, 60, Graceehurch- S i trand, 4, Cheap street ; also at 63 and 1500xford Side, London : and through all grocera'a.n3?l Send a penny stamp and you will recei ve , post Invalid's Own Guide, or " N ATllit Al, s p en 4 is t ts free, the PERFECT lINALTIL" without Medicine, by a t aim t '" im sant, economical, and unfailing' means, which saves times its cost in other reme dies, restorin g perfect diges t i o n, strong strong nerves, sound lung s, refreshing sleep, and function al regularity to the most enfeebled, and removing effectually in digestion (dyspepsia), debility, nervousness, cough, asthma, incipient consumption, dropsy, constipation. flatulency, diar rhoea, dysentery, biliousness, fevers. sore throats, catarrhs, colds, noises in the ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, frililtions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn headache, despondency, cramps, arms, nausea, and sickness , sin kin g fits. bronchi tis, also Children's complaints,-5. 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" The aim of the author is to present a common-sense view of the Causes, Nature, Consequences, and Treatment of this Disease, as also to free these questions from the Professional Fallacies, the Popular Delusions, and the exaggerations of Quackery by which they have hitherto been surrounded, to the destruction of the health aid happiness of thousands. Thos objects are discussed in a common-sense and highly practical manner."—Medical Circular. London : H. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street. pOYAL- NATIONAL LIFEBOAT LA) INSTITUTION.—The Committee of this Institution earnestly APPEAL to the public for PECUNIARY ASSIST ANCE to aid them to meet the present heavy demands on the limited funds of the Society. THOMAS BARING, Chairman. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Deputy-Chairman. 14, John-street, Adelphi, W.C. Bankers—Messrs. Willis and Co. ; Coutts and Co. ; 'Terries and Co. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL for the DESTI WITH SICK and • DISEASED, tray's-inn-road. Founded 1828. At this particular season the numerous and urgent appeals which are made for admission by the most miserable and helpless of human beings, renders it imperative on the Com mittee to entreat the bounty of the affluent and humane, as the medical officers are daily compelled to treat as out patients very many distressing cases, which, under other circumstances, they would gladly admit into the wards, want of funds alone compelling the adoption of a limit to the num ber of in-patients. 10,562 afflicted persons received the benefits of this Charity either as in or out patients during the month of January. Contributions received by the Treasurer, Edwd. Mastermau, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Mess7s. 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The above are produced at the Herbary from herbs, flowers, and roots. All letters to William Grimstone, London Depot, 42, High-street, Bloomsbury; and by all respectable merchants and traders. MEDICAL FRIEND AND MARRIAGE GUIDE. TO THE NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED. —Sent free on receipt of two stamps, for postage, &c., by Dr. RAPKEY,27, Alfred-place, Bedford-square, London, W. C., " THE GUIDE TO SELF-CURE." _ _ _ " Tile first man of the day in these complaints."—Medical Review. " Those about entering the Marriage State should peruse the Author's invaluable little work, as the advice he gives on health and disease reflects much credit upon him as a sound medical philosopher."—Critic. 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CULVERWELL, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Licentiate of Midwifery, and Apo thecarlos' Hall, London, can be consulted daily (only) as above, en all cases of Nervous Debility, Languor, Incapacity, [M of Memory, Sterility, and all Functional Derangements of both Sexes, emanating from early and excessive indul gences, Has Just published, price ls. ; by post, 13 stamps,: 18 sealed, No. 4, An entire new and orig inal Work, entitled OURSELVES. Synopsis : The Physiology and Anatomy of our Generation - Tlie Origin of Disease—Sytnptonts, Treatment, and Cure. Also, an Exposition ot, and Remedy for, all Urinary Derange ments and Marital Disqualifications, MALE. The modern treatment of Syphilis, Stricture, Blennorrhagia ;Gonorrhoea), Spermatorrheca, Imptency, and all Diseases of the Urinary Organs, with Prescriptions, Sze-; FEMALE. The Physiology and Anatomy of Women- Functional IT r;trettilarities in Flealth an i Sickness—Choice in Ma rria g e — Their ll' r Expectancies and Disappointments—The Cau se and 1 of Sterility—The Theory and Symptoms of Gesta tion—Use se of the Speculum, and the securing of healthy Offspring. Also, • No. 1. HEALTH, HAPPINESS, and LONGEVITY; On 1) "IlitY, Nervousnega, Dyspepsia, and Indigestion, No. 2. LOVE AND MARRIAGE : Their Oblif,Yations, Happiness, and Disappointments ; Love and otlwr Matches. Sterility Removed, and, Healthy Off spring secured. No. S. THE CASE BOOK : 100 Cases of SPERMATORRIREA, Their Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment, Confessions; and Cure by Cauterisations, Galvanism, &c. &c. &c. To b had of Mann, 39, Cornhill ; and the Authors. Advice to the Working' Classes. fee llalf-a-Guinea. MEDICAL ADVICE. DR. LA'MERT, Register e d L.S.A., Honorary Member of the London hospital Medical Society,M.D. di the University of Erlangen, &c., may be CONSULTED on all cases of Debility, Nervousness, and en the Secret In tirmities of Youth and Maturity, from Eleven till Two, and from Six till Eight, at his residence, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON Dr. Lanlert has just published, price Sixpence, with nu merous Engravings and Cases, a New Edition or his Work, S E L F- PRE SE RVAT lON, which will be sent free, in a sealed envelope, by Mann, 39 Coruhill, London, or by the s Author, for Eight stamps. coi' EN TS . SECTION T.—The Physiology of the Generative Organs. SECTION I I.—Puberty- Manhood -The Morale of Genera lye Physiology—True and N'alse Morality. SECTION II I.—Marriage in its Moral, Social, and Physical Relations—lts Expectancies and Disappointments—Advan tages ot Physical Contrasts in securing Healthy Offspring. S F.CTION IV.—Spermatorrhma and Impotence—The causes of Sterility in both Sexes—Solt-inflicted Miseries. SEcrtax V. -The Vices of Schools—Effects of certain per nicious habits on the mental and general faculties. SECTION Vl.—Treatment of Nervous and Generative De bility—lmpotence and Sterility—Dangerous Results of various Hazardous Specifics—The Author's Principles of Treatment ; Medical, Dietetic, and General, derived from Twenty Years' successful practice , The above work is intended for the perusal of those who have in early life been induced to swerve from the strict rules of morality. In its pages facts of paramount utility are brought together, wholly divested ot the delusions and incon sistencies so largely introduced inte certain quasi medical publications given to the world gratis, under the guise of philanthropy, or as "acts of gratitude," by pretended clergy men and others, whose tamperings with the coustitut4on are Irequoutly followed by serious cousequeuees. CZ, 4 tis i k vq.s. • •-• QUI • yor 41_11111.111ki:Nb' W, 141 . RRB - N - • , ~ 7 4) lan .I„,crs - ~~~-~~ V PRICE 4 D . STAMPED, s°. only two degrees elevation the practice with this piece was beautiful. Five shots were fired with the following result : Yards Range. Deviation. 1,280 • • to the right. 1,270 4 to the left. , 1,2.57 I to the left. to the right. 1,208 ditto. The 80-pounder was then tried at 10 degrees with a 101 b. charge and a 901 b. shot, but the ineffi cient wooden carriage of this piece offered such difficulties to its being well worked on the rough planks on which it stood on the sand that after four shots the attempt was given up. Even these four shots, however, show such results with such a charge and such a low degree of elevation as have not been surpassed except by the previous perform. anees of the same gun. They were as follows : Yards. Deviation. 4,411 .. 24 to the right. 4,508 .. 20 ditto. 4,400 .. 20 ditto. 4,3 9 0 30 ditto. The experiments (which were necessarily much delayed by the constant arrival of distinguished military and scientific gentlemen, to whom Mr. - Whitworth explained the chief peculiarities of the gun) then terminated, and the crowd of visitors, to the number of some 2,000, made the best of their way across the sands to Southport. The experi ments were continued to-day with the 12-pounder, though the weather was about as unfavourable for them as can well be conceived, the mist being dense and the wind high and irregular. Nevertheless the practice was very good. The 12-pounder at 5 deg. in 10 shots ranged from 2,150 -yards to 2,250 in length, with only a deviation of one, two, or three yards to the right of the true line. At 10 degrees it ranged from 3,750 to 3,850, and was almost Equally accurate to the true line of fire. The 3- pounder at the same elevation, gave beautiful prac tice, almost throwing its shot 4,000 yards, and only a few feet to the right or left of the true line. With spherical shot it was almost equally accurate, and so also was the 12-pounder. The best practice, however, was made wilh the 80-pounder at seven degrees, as follows Yards range. 3,503 3,498 3,487 3,482 Deviation in feet. .. 41 right. 6 ditto. 61 ditto. 6} ditto. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LANCASTER AND CARLISLE. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Monday at Lancaster—Mr. Hasell in the chair. The CH AI RM AN said it was owing to the exertions of the directors in developing the traffic that they had been enabled to conclude such good terms with the London and North-Western Company. A dividend at the rate of 91 per cent. per annum was declared for the half-year, and the proceedings concluded with votes of thanks to the chairman and the directors. BIRKENHEAD. The half-yearly meeting was held on Saturday at Birkenhead—Mr. E. G. Salisbury in the chair. The report stated that the capital stock entitled to dividend and in the hands of proprietors on the 31st of December last was £1,941,505 ; the loan and mortgage debt amounted to £494,972; the 4 per cent. perpetual debenture stock was £6,170; total, £2,442,648. The expenditure during the half-year had been £21,429. The gross receipts for the half-year on revenue account amounted to £74,668, which, added to £909 brought over from last account, made a total to credit of revenue of £75,577. Deducting the working expenses, £34,103; rates and taxes and passenger duty, £`2,218; interest on loans and mortgages, £11,599, there remained a net balance of 127,658, out of which the directors recommended the payment of a dividend at the rate of 2- 1 4 per cent. per annum, leaving £3,310. The directors regret to say that they have not succeeded in inducing the two corn pantee to seal the agreements for the lease of the Birkenhead undertaking. The CHAIRMAN stated that with the exception of one claim for land every liability of the company on capital account was closed. After a long discussion the motion for the adop tion of the report was carried. The dividend, at the rate of 23 per cent. per annum was then declared. The meeting was made special for the purpose of submitting the draught of the bill "for vesting the Birkenhead Railway Company in the London and North-Western and Great Western Railway Companies, and for other purposes." The resolution was adopted unanimously. MARYPORT AND CARLISLE. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Wednesday at Maryport, Mr. Senhouse in the chair. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was adopted. A dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum on the ordinary shares of the company was declared for the past half-year, and at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the preference shares. The proceedings concluded with votes of thanks to the secretary and directors for their services. SOUTH YORKSHIRE. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Friday at the London Tavern, Mr. J. W. Childers in the chair. _ _ The report, an abstract of which has appeared in Me Sun, was submitted. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, congratulated the proprietary upon the dividend having risen from 21 to 31 per cant., and he could assure them that the accounts were in nol way cooked to obtain that increase. After some discussion, the report was adopted, a dividend as recommended decla red, and a resolution , passed increasing the number of directors from eight to ten. Sir R. Walter Carden, Mr. Bentley, Mr. Stanniforth, and Mr. Lister were elected direc tors. The consolidation of 450 shares of the River Dun Company into ordinary stock, and the expen diture of £7,400 on new works and rolling stock, were sanctioned. LEEDS, BRADFORD, AND HALIFAX JUNCTION. The half-yearly meeting was held on Friday at Bradford, Mr. E. Akroyd in the chair. The report stated that £14,814 was the amount to the credit of revenue, which enabled the direc tors to declare a dividend of 21 per cent. for the last six months, leaving £527. The divi dend was a quarter per cent. less, and the amount, of capital £45,000 mo re th an at t h e correspond ing half of 1858. The total expenditure on capital account amounted to £589,946. The report was adopted, a dividend at the rate of 44 per cent. per annum was declared for the past half-year, payable on the 6th of March, and the retiring directors and auditors were re-elected. EASTERN COUNTIES. It appears that on the question of re-electing the retiring directors, and of electing two new directors and one auditor, the result of the proxies showed that £2.950,000 stock, representing 47,800 votes, were recorded in favour of the re-election of Mr. Love and Mr. Goodson, and £760,000 stock and 16,300 votes in favour of the election of Mr. D. Waddington and Mr. Gamble to the board, and also in favour of the election of Mr. Walford as auditor, showing a majority of £2,190,000 stock and 31,500 votes in favour of the re-election of Messrs. Love and Goodson. LONDON, TILBURY, AND SOU MEND. The report states that the receipts for the half year ending the 31st of December amounted to £33,283, and the expenditure to £17,266, leaving a balance of £16,016. Considerable prog ses for ress bad been made in the erection of the hou the new town at Southend. The capital a ccount showe d that £592,816 had been expended on the Southend line, and £201,288 on the Barking branch — £794,104. ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. The report of the directors states that the gua rantee secured to this company by her Majesty's Government has been found insuffieient for the pur pose of raising the amount necessary for the prose cution of this enterprise. The directors had hoped that, is the absence of better terms, a fixed mini mum revenue of £ 34,000 a- y ear, added to a condi tional guarantee of 8 p er cent. upon the new capi tal, might suffi ce for that object, especiall y so large , to ma in difficulties of the undertaking were,as the an extent, removed by the successful submergence and the working of the Atlantic cable (baring_ ekth month of Augu s ti n 18,58. In this hope, how - 4r)Wely - -) A.P 174 ,R Lave been disapp o i r le d . The absence in piikpoi meat terms of any p rov i s i in aga i nst a t,.)litzi'eti ‘ lute loss of tie in overly of the sh:.r,h 14011.11, of failure, and the continuance of the it . rhatiti income during the working of the ca e, - (t! R oved hitherto insuperable obstacle?, tk s t - - L ing sufficient subscriptions, hotwithstENZitie, great exertions that have been made for tAi • pose by the directors and officers of the company. Liverpool, Manchester, and Glasgow were succes sively visited by the chairman, who explained to large meetings of shareholders and others the posi tion and expectations of the company, and an active canvass was afterwards maintained in two of these places, and to some extent in London, but the total result in subscriptions only amounts to £72,000. The directors propo se to k e ep the c omp an y in existence, and to raise £20,000 for the purpose of restoring the cable to working arder, or to recover as much of it as possible. The directors trust that the enterprise will not be suffered to expire for want of such additional help us may be neeetsary. The capital account showed that £466,685 hid been expended. RECEPTION OF THE 78th HIGH LANDERS IN EDINBURGH. This celebrated regiment having been ordered to move from Fort George (Inverness-shire) to Edin burgh, a p ar t y o f a b out 180 men, under Lieut.-Col. Lockhart, arrived in the beginning of last week and took up their quarters in Edinburgh Castle, vacated by the West York Rifles, who are now distributed in Paisley, Avr, and other towns. The main body of the regiment, under Colonel Ewart, left F or t George at' 2 o'clock o n F r id ay morning, and, tra velling by railway, reached Edinburgh about half , past sin the afternoon. The expectation of their coming had deeply stirred the hearts of the inhabi tants, and arrangements were made to give them the warmest welcome. The city bells were rung as the signal that the regiment was expected in an hour, and the Edinburgh Rifle Volunteers, the Mid lothian Coast Artillery, and the j,eit h turned out to line the way for the -gallant Highlanders, and to give them a military salutation. All the way from the railway station at Waverley-bridge to the Castle (via Princes-street and Mound) there was an immense concourse of people of all classes in the streets, the windows and o th er f avoura bl e po i nts of view being also crowded. The darkness was rapidly falling by the time the train conveying the regiment reached the station. At the platform two bands—. those of the County Militia and the Coast Volun taers—had taken up their places to play the " Conquering Hero" and other appropriate tunes. The Lord Provost was. present, and shook hands with the Colonel, giving him welcome and con gratulation. When the regiment left the station they were at once involved in a tremendous and eager crowd, who sent up ringing cheers, while hats and handkerchiefs were enthusiastically waved from the windows commanding the scene. The Volunteers were scarcely able to stem the multitude, and their line not being very continuous the gal lant Highlanders had actually to push and elbow their way through at many points. At length the protecting lines of the Volunteers ceased altogether, and the soldiers, fatigued with their journey, could with difficulty make their way up to the Castle, owing to the pressure. The band of the regiment was quite unable to continue the strains of " Auld Langsyne," with which they had hitherto responded to the public welcome, and the " big drummer" had for some distance to hold his sonorous instrument in silence above his head till some of the ready throng gave their aid to drag it along. Even the ranks of the column were some what broken, and the gallant Highlanders could not in some cases prevent their being relieved of their rifles by tlicue who desired to do them the service of carrying thcm,while many of them found old and new friends in the crowd who eagerly sought to bear them company. It was not till half-past six o'clock, it being now quite dark, that the regiment reached the Castle into which they were followed by the last echoes of the loud huzzas that had accompanied their whole progress. It is just 20 years since the 78th were last quartered in Edinburgh Castle, and it was shortly after they left Edinburgh that they were sent out to India, whence they have now returned covered with so much glory. THE GREAT TURN-OUT OF COLLIERS :AT ST. HELENS, LANCASHIRE. ST. HELENS, FEB. 25. The strike of the colliers employed at the mince in this district is assuming a very formidable cha racter, and, from what has transpired within the last day or two, there is too much reason to fear that it is extending. Up to yesterday the number out on strike wag estimated at about 3,000 ; and last night we learn that this number was increased by between 250 and 300 men more, who, in a body, left the Ciopper's Hill Colliery, in which they had been working. We understand that the proprietors of the mine refused to give them the advance they demanded, and hence the strike. The expressed determination of the turn outs continues to be that they will not yield until they obtain an advance of 10 per cent. on their present wages, arguing that, inasmuch as the masters have raised the price of coal, they are en titled to a proportionate advance. Duiing the last few days the turn-outs in large numbers have paraded the town of St. Helens and the surrounding distrirbe, and held open-air meetings. We learn that at one of these meetings held at Haydock, near St. Helens, yesterday, the men were addressed by several delegates, who harangued them strongly in favour of "sticking out," and communicated the significant intelligence that they had every reason ' to believe that the great bulk of the colliers in the Wigan district were also about to strike. Some hundreds of the county constabulary, drafted from the Liverpool, Manchester, and other districts, have been stationed in the neighbourhood of the mines during the past week, to be ready to act in case of an outbreak, which was expected, the turn-outs having threatened intimidation to the few hands remaining at work. So far there has been no breach of the peace, but it his been found neces sary to escort the " knobstieks" to and from the mines, in order to prevent their being interfered with by the turn-outs. The greatest possible excitement prevails amongst the manufacturers and inhabitants of St. Helens and the neighbourhood, for it is now feared that the supply of coal for manufacturing purposes is almost exhausted. The St. Helens Railway Com pany have offered to run a special train to the Springs' Branch Colliery, near Wigan, in order to convey coals to St. Helens, to meet the deficiency there; but it is said that the Wigan colliers will strike next week, and, if so, the effect upon trade in the neighbourhood of St. Helens will be most disastrous, as several works are n'w unable to go on for want of coal ; and it is confidently believed that, should the strike continue even only for another week, it will be necessary to import coals into St. Helens for home consumption, as the stocks at the various mines have been reduced very low indeud. , (.4‘ pufil s • THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1860. WRONGS w - fircil CRY FOR REDRESS. Mr. Crook's bill for the Protection of Women and Children employed in Bleach Works, &c., will be proposed towards the end of March. If, be tween this and then, popular opinion is not brought to bear on this most atrocious question. it shall be no fault of ours. We purpose that this article shall appear in our columns frequently, until the bill has again been brought before the house; and we implore our brethren of the press to help the country, and especially the Legislative Body, to a right way of thinking on these horribly cruel mat ters. Our extracts are taken almost at random from Mr. Hopley's pamphlet : Samuel Price examined—" I was in the employment of Messrs. Ainsworth, near Bolton. They employ about four hundred people. It was mostly from eleven till two o'clock in tho morning before we left off. In the last year I was with them, from April, 1853, to April, 1854, we were busy, as well as I can remember, through the spring and through the summer, for six or eight months of the year; that is, we went to work from six to half• past six, sometimes at four, and left off from ten to twelve, one or two in the morning, and sometimes after that. * * * All the people in the works averaged these number of hours—some even more." [Observe that this dreadful toil was not an occasional or exceptional fact. Girls and boys were thus working, " through the spring and through the summer, for six or eight months of the year."] " At times, if a sudden order has come, we have not been in bed more than 16 or 18 hours in the week (averaging more than 211 hours of unrest out of the 24 during seven successive days and` nights for girls and boys, some of them no more than 12 years old)." —Report of the Com missioner appointed to inquire how far it may be advisable to extend the Provisions of the Acts for the better Regu lation of Mills and Factories to Bleaching Works, pp. 10, 11, Nos. 81-84. William Johnson, finisher—" I am twenty-four years of ' age. I was eleven when I first went to work. I worked ' first for Mr. Fletcher, Leylands, ton years. At my com , mencement" (that is, when he was a child of eleven) " I i began at twelve o'clock on Sunday night, and worked till • eight on Monday night (20 hours) ; then wo started at six o'clock on Tuesday morning, and worked till 12 at night (18 hours) ; and we did that for two or three months without stopping. * * * I have been at a worse place than that for long hours since; at Mr. Whowell's, Two Brooks. * * * There were a deal of young girls, one or two under ten years of age.—lbid., p. 9, N 0.68. [To have a full perception of the severity of this toil, it should be borne in mind that a very large number of the workers in these establishments are standing and " work ing hard" (as rapidly as possible) during almost the whole of these lengthened periods. It is shown in evidence that sometimes for days in succession the girls and boys have no opportunity whatever of sitting down (save for their hastily-snatched meals during the whole of the time spent at the works.—Reports, passim.] John Hamer, finisher—" I have been 15 years in the bleaehing trade. I was employed at Messrs. Hollins', Tootle Bridge, Bolton. * * * One morning we went to work at five o'clock and worked till six the morning after" (25 hours.) " All the sets were working the same hours" (the young with the adults). * * * " I have been so tired, though I am a strong and healthy man, that I have often to sit at my bed-side when I get up of a morning, and my fingers are so stiff and sore that I cannot dress my self. If I feel thus tired, what must the young girls and boys feel ?"—lbid., p. 8, Nes. 61, 64. [The frightful state of prostration—often ending in death —to which the young girls and boys are reduced in some of these establishments will be touched on presently ] Ann Simpson (14 years old), Elizabeth Hilton (15), Sarah Higson (16)—" We came to work last Friday morn.- Ing at half-past six" (at Mr. Ridgway Bridson's Bleach -1 works, Bolton). "We worked all Friday night till half ' past five on Saturday morning" (twenty-three hours.) "We did not sleep any time in the night, except on Saturday morning at half-past five we laid down to sleep on tho hooking-box, and slept till a little after seven" (less than two hours' sleep—and with the clothes still on—after twenty-three hours' work) ; " then we went to breakfast for half-an-hour, and then came and worked till ten minutes past eleven."—lbid., p. 25, No. 236. William Crompton—" I am 17. I have been four years and a half" (that is, since he was twelve years and a half old) " in the dressing-shop. We go on till different hours, sometimes early, sometimes late. I worked once three days and three nights" (he is only one, remember, among mul titudes—children as well as adults—whe toil in the same way) ; "and not long since I began work on Friday morn ing at four and worked till five on Saturday night" (37 hours). " I mostly slept at meal times, and only stoped one hour for meals ' • the rest I ate while I was working."— Ibid., p. 26, No. 246. Surely all this is very terrible. But read on : "James Thomson (Mr. Wallace's Bleaching, Scouring, and Finishing Works for Cotton and Woollens, Burn bank, Glasgow)—" I am manager if these works, and nephew of the owner. In summer some if the hands work occasionally from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m." (18 hours) " the whole week through ; we did this last summer several times. Tree days we worked 20 hours each day. 'The ages of most of our girls is from 10 to 18." (Observe these ages—some of the girls mere children.) " The stove-rooms in which they work are in winter heated up to 100 or 110 deg. ; in summer the heat is from 120 to 130 dog." (and at times very much higher, as stated by the same witness in evidence given at a subsequent page.) " I feel, when lam Urging the females to work these long hours that I am doing what is not right, but I have been urged to do it to get a lot of goods finished. Sometimes they stay hero all night, and then we make a place for them to lie down upon in a store room upon the pieces of goods unfinished. Sometimes 14 or more girls will pass the night in this manner, after work ing 19 hours, and coming out of those hot places dripp d i norn n eteelgeiud g il.letl.: wet with perspiration, and their clothes wet through with it."—lbid., p 59, Nes. 643-645. And this in the country which is energizing through the world to put down slavery I Alexander King.—" I work at Mr. James Young and Son's bleachworks, Auldhousufield, Pollockshaws. There are about 300 hundred hands employed • of these 250 are females. When we are busy the number' is about 400. * * * Sometimes, about once a week, ono shift will be gin at 6 a.m., and go on till 6 the next morning" (24 hours). "Thus has happened once a week on an average for the last six months. The females all work in the stoves."—lbid., p. 61, Nos. 682, 683. What a spectacle—what a hideous, sickening spectacle— must 400 workers present at the close of their 24 hours' toil! " The females all work in the stoves!" Among them " will be some from 10, 11, to 13 years of age . ; the rest chiefly between that and 20 ;"—toiling, bear in mind, in a temperature, exceeding, by some 20 deg. or 30 deg., the general temperature of an Indian summer 1 Elizabeth Henderson (Mr. Clark's Bleachfield, Burnbrae, Millengood).—" We sometimes begin at one o'clock upon Monday mornings and work sometimes till nine o'clock on Monday night" (20 hours), "and sometimes even all Mon • day night, and get home at six o'clock on Tuesday morning" (29 hours from the time of commencing work).—" Home for four hours and out here again at ten o'clock, and work up to 11 and sometimes 12 o'clock that night. The next day we should come out at six and work the regular hours; f b fro e or f m o r o e nl , 2e a t thi night-work, gor one eta and may go on fel. a few days or a week, and then we w i d n o r t wk h o' e rg n ko r n gh gg t t e . d to lt be w s a o s b r u a s th;r an b d ef i o t r h e as th be e en ne g w oin y g ea o r n w th h i e s n w w ay e t h hf o or m ro u e rge a h- t up to this time (March 24)."—A quarter of a year of such toil as this I—lbid., p. 66, No. 783. Elizabeth Edgos —" lam 14 years of age. I have worked here" (at Mr. Seddon's, Breightmet Bleach-works) " four years. Three months since I worked" (and of course she was not working alone upon the occasion) "two nights and two days. I slept four hours the first morning, and not at thes e f reoevinse shouldl night. re freshment. n ne e nc ot hmemWee evening ne s i t , n o a p gs all the next night. I have very often worked till twelve." —lbid., p. 49, No. 491. If there be any one thing which more than another adds to the enormity of this national iniquity, it is the fact that all l t i h a e r s y e A te n r n rib s l m e i s t h h a . te , s , la s i t u s st at l u egi rd s a la y ti l on w . as 12 there is not—nor ever has been—even so much as a ' diffi culty,' worthy of the name, to prevent a stop being put to i c ahsl( n 2oaw4mni t f h oheg. rp a teoki t atumes t rmdt i es n s)ytf i .. two co oj l m, oot h glhnss a heie v oman e f fovoie w enxme o tt Ti r in, khrfi(eouetdnrwbnsgkefmienrni fingers from yiit cracks,sni l gathering s s lt i axa. hemsp * * * 1 came here nearly three years ago. Six times by the selvage, and tho other is ' " Ib'd 47 No. 457. run.nang. —t., p. • ea na t vn h n ed e ta r h yl naefeenrhaxoinaigt from being morningte' eob a iarenbn:::: Contemplate the condition of this poor child. It has been at work since it was nine years old. And it has to go on hour after hour, day after day, the akin of its instep still cracking and festering, the selvage still sawing against its gathering, running sores. Woe to the nation that shall hear such things and will not raise its voice I Amelia Weed (15 next July).—" I have been at this r e . n very bad; t b h a e d ; ey th er o y c .d lo a t y h co w m e p ar la s in th t em of work about three years. We oftenest begin at 6 or Gin the morn i ng , and oftonest leave off at 11 or 12. * * • Sometimes we do not leave off till 3 or 4 in the morning. piece, in hooking, cuts their fingers No. 158. — sore, their skins being soft. 'Whose ' finger is bleeding,' is not an uncommon expression as the blood stains the pieces; they then have to have their fin illt h t e i ra t ud v e e s ry : g re tied up."—lbiti. p. 43, No. 414. through.M y suffering‘ ; fingersrf Thinkh e ' friction of —f ilat '6r are de . o l o f dNf the et fin gore the blood stains the pieces I Sore feet, likewise, —the natural consequences of stand ingand make especially among the little girls : are very general, esp so many hours, and frequently upon . very hot floors,— " (No. 226 ) ' a time" (No. 228). "Ankle had ' the aching legs' many " My feet are almost always sore . ' Have bone was growing out" (No. 273). The skin comes off, my ankle bone has been feet ; they bleed sometimes, and . 'out" (No. 277)• —"The skin is off very often, and and they are very sore" (No. 274).—" I have often sore growing are often blood-raw"— these ? [How can we comment upon facts like N ] , the soles of my feet are blood-raw" (No. 279).—" My feet "are often blood-raw, and they pain me" ( '.i-.) "My feet blister at bottom, and are very sore.. Mother puts in summer No. 285).—" I have always sore feet . sore winter and time" (No. 533.)--"' My feet arc often that the skin some snuff to them that makes the now skin come" comes off with my stockings" ,(No. 504)•—" , summer" (No. 636).—" Feet often so sore If you could have seen my feet last night" (No. 491). " I have the skin was off my feet very badly" (No. 492). — Her feet very often had the skin off my feet" (No. 232).—"' Worked when often get raw" (No. 448).—" My feet were a lwa y s sore in summer : they were blood-raw at bottom, and my ankles are swelled with a deal of pain" (No. 463). Equally painful to contemplate is the " dead•b eaton" state of the workers : " I have scores of times seen both men and children asleep at their work. and very dangerous work too" (No. 10).—" Very often they go to sleep over their work" (No. 51).—" I have almost every day to take a board and beat it on the table to waken thorn, as they were slumbering at their work." (Observe the expression, reader—' at their work*)• " At that time they would be hooking cloth; and While they should be doing it, I see them nodding and trying to catch the hook" (No. 83).—" As to the older ones, I have often and often seen them down asleep, not being able to hold up for their work. If the manager had gone out, they would drop down in a minute in the packing-boxes and go to sleep" (No. 68).—" We have often gone to sleep on the tables, or with our heads on the wet cloth, or anywhere where we could sit still" (No. 378).—" The little ones very often fall asleep standing to their work"— [Mothers of little ones, you will not, you cannot read, and then not stir in this. You have a mission hero. Say not that you can do but little in the matter. Let but the ma ternal feeling of the country rouse itself, and not another session shall pass away without the rescue of these little ones.] — They " fall asleep standing to .their work. They fall asleep standing before their hooks. I have to keep them awake ; and my heart is so sore for theur that I cannot speak to them. I have worked at bleach-works, in the finishing-room, twenty years, and it has always been so in all the works where I have been" (No. 462).—" It falls very hard upon the weaker boys. I have often seen them sleeping on their legs, and I have done so often myself. Their whole frame suffers. I have know at least eight in the last twelve years who have fallen into consumption and died" (No. 414). This retiring fromwork to die is of coursevory common : "I have buried one little sister; my parents always thought it was from the ,long hours. She came here at ten, and was fourteen when she died, and she used to work very lung hours. She was ill" (that is, off work before she died) " ten days only (No. 223).—"1 have often been ill from working in the great heat. - My leg is now bad from it, and the doctor told me I must give up. Tho girls very often suffer from it ; go away and die from it and the long hours" (No. 646). Ten consecutive witnesses (pp. 42-44)—ten consecutive witnesses, mark you, employed at different establishments mention "many cases within their knowledge, of boys and ' young men having been ill and off Work, and who have died from the long bouts" (No. 422). Naturally, with females matters are even worse. Now, reader, it is no use mincing words. Look upon all this calmly, weigh the matter Well, and have the manly or womanly honesty to call it by its right name ; and what is it? Wholesale murder—murder for gold. The man who poisons another to escape the payment of a debt, is hung, m . The,an who stops another in the Queen's high-way and dernagas " your mosey or your life," is hung. But these, who build up princely fortunes with the bloody hands and bloody feet of helpless little ones—who wade through killing tyranny to wealth —who live upon women's and children's life's blood,—who are guilty of the death not of one only, but of scores of their fellow creatures, —these roll about in carriages ; and after founding a church er two, and a school or two, are looked upon as just, liberal, and benevolent mon ; and sit on magisterial benches ; and take their place is Parliament ; and assume an interest in the welfare of the poor ; and argue upon the rights of labour. Woe to the legislature that contains within its body the rust that must corrupt 1 Woe to the nation that hears such things and will not raise its voice ! There is nothing in this report more touching than the patient and almost despairing anxiety shown among the operatives for a protecting law : "We are all most anxiously looking for the bill" (No. 420).—" Is there eny sign of the ten-hours bill being got ten" (No. 213) ?—" Is there any chance for the bill being passed this session" (No. 240) ?—" I feel very tired many times, but I dare not stop. I would like the short-time bile' (No. 211).—" I know that all in this room are very anxious for the short-time bill" (No. 221).--" Every girl in the room would like a short-time bill, though they would earn less wages" (No. 276).—" I should like the short-time bill very much" (No. 278).—" I have talked to them many a time about the hours being shortened like the factories. They wish that time would come" (No. 462).--" We have long been waiting for the short hours" (No. 494).--" We all very much want the short-time bill" (No. 495).—" They all wished for the short-time bill very much" (No. 509). " The short-time bill will do us all good" (N0.543.)—" I have seen the girls, when they have been taking a piece from the pulling-up machine fall asleep ; o no o f th em w a s not ten years of age. The child looked as pale as a piece of cloth. I have seen men take this child in their arms and say they wished they could see it in London in this state ; —that is, so livid and wan fromwork. I mean that if they could see such things in London, they would know that there was a want of a bill" (No. 68). Think of all this, ye apathetic legislators. And think of this livid and wan child, ye cruel men of mammon. Her little hands can ply her task no more. " The spoil is in your houses." . . . For twenty years have these poor operatives, "by meetings, by associations, by petitions to both houses," been endeavouring to rouse attention to all this awful tyranny, and for twenty years has their cry none up in vain 1-11epley's " Letter to the Men and Women of the United Kingdom." Mr. Crook's Bill wit be brought forward for a second reading towards the latter end of March. THE COMMERCIAL TREATY WIIII FRANCE. We received yesterday a Parliamentary paper entitled "Return to an Address from the House of Lords," dated February 16, 1860, for copies or extracts of any correspondence (in addition to any already presented to Parliament), which may have taken place between her Majesty's Government and her Majesty's Plenipotentiaries in Paris respecting the negotiation of the Treaty of Commerce with France. The return is of the briefest kind, consisting only of four pages. There are one or two formal notes, acknowleding receipt of communications. Besides these, the important despatches are four in number. Lord J. Russell writes to Earl Cowley and Mr. Cobden, under date January 26, 1860, and receives their answer, under date January 28. Lord J. Rus sell in the first despatch named calls the attention of the English Plenipotentiaries to seven points of detail, and receives their answer in the secontl, after their meeting with the French plenipotentiaries to discuss the matters to which Lord John had in vited their attention. In the first place, under article 2 of the Treaty, Lord John wishes that the terms " British coal" and " British coke" should be substituted for " Eng lish coal" and " English coke." Alterations allowed. 2. Lord John, under the head of the same article lad asked that the words "shall not exceed the lowest rates which is now paid by Belgian coal" should be substituted for " shall not exceed that which is now paid by Belgian coal." The English Government had contemplated that the general standard four years hence should be the lowest rate now leviable on Belgian coal, wherever or however imported into France. The French Pleni potentiaries decline to accede to this proposition in terms, with the remark that in the French tariff there is no mention whatever of Belgian or English coal. France, for the purposes of coal importa tion, is divided into three zones, and coal, without reference to its origin, is subjected to a higher or lower rate of duty, acc.)rdingly as it is im ported into one or other of these zones. The existing rates are 3 fumes, 11 francs, 1 franc, exclu sive of the 2 decimes war tax, still in force. The Plenipotentiaries of the two countries finally agreed to drop all mention of Belgian coal, and to name 1,1 francs as the maximum rate to which foreign coal will be subjected, four years hence, on its in troduction into France. The third point refers to the additional 10 per cent. which, according to article 4, is to be paid to the French Custom-house over and above the de clared value of goods claimed in consequence of presumed short declaration of value. Lord J. Russell remarks that the practice of the English Custom-house has been to pay only 5 per cent. in excess under the circumstances named, and proposes this modification to the French Government. They accept with thanks. The fourth point is more im portant ; it refers to article G and to the wine duties. Lord John suggests that, as the proportion of duty payable on French wines has been very closely cal culated according to the duties now payable on English distilled spirits, an express provision should be inserted in the Treaty, with reference to the two higher classes of French wines, that if henceforward the British Government find it ex- pedient, for purposes of finance, to increase the duty on British distilled spirits—now fixed at Bs. a gal lon—they may augment the duty on that class of French p'oduce now charged with 2s. a gallon in the proportion of 21d. a gallon for every ls. increase in the duty payable on English distilled spirits, and of lid. a gallon on the wines charged ls. 6d. for every additional Is. of duty allowed. Three verbal errors are then pointed out, and rectified by permission. Article 10 had reserved to each Government the power of levying "landing or harbour dues, in order to pay the expenses of all necessary establishments at the port of importation." For the word " harbour" the word " shipping" is substituted ; and " the port of importation" now stands " port of importation or exportation." In article 16 an error of translation from French into English is rectified. As both versions now stand, it is declared that "merchandise of British manufacture and production shall not pay more than the maximum of 25 per cent." Finally, under article 19, the words " to all other nations" are substituted fork' to other nations." In the two concluding despatches of the corre spondence Lord J. Russell and Earl Cowley re spectively announce to each other, under date re spectively of Feb. 2 and Feb. 4, that ratifications have been formally exchanged between the two Governments on the parts of the Queen of England and the Emperor of the French. MR. WIIITIVOR7IPS RIFLED CANNON. FROM TILL CORILESPONDENT 01' TILE TIMES. SOUTHPORT, TIIURSDAY. The experiments with these rifled ordnanc.,‘ were resumed here tluring yesterday and to-day, in the presence of what might almost be called a great concourse of gentlemen, when the out-of-the-way and rather desolate nature of the spot is taken into consideration. Lieut.-General Pennefather, Major- General Anstruther, Major-General Watkins, and a number of other military officers came down from London to witness the trials, and there were also present a considerable number of machinists and scientific gentlemen from London, Liverpool, and Manchester, and, in3eed, from all parts of the kingdom, anxious to witness the successful working of a gun the gradual progress of which towards completion has been so attentively watched for months past. Officers specially sent by the French, Austrian, and Swedish Governments were also pre sent, with some American engineers, Admiral Gren fell, of the Brazilian navy, Capt. Mends and the officers of the Hastings, and others. A general hone was entertained that the large 80-pounder would have been tested on a stand which would admit of the piece being elevated to such a degree as would show its utmost powers oC range. Unfortunately, however, the carriage for this gun, which is being constructed at Manchester, could not be brought upon the ground, so the trials yesterday were with guns of the same calibre as formerly, though not elevated to obtain more length of flight with the projectiles. Long-range shooting, in fact, was out of the question, as the tides, being high during the greater part of the day, re duce the extent of available range ground to some 7,000 yards, so that even had the carriage for the 80-pounder been ready it would have been dif ficult to register any distance beyond that we have mentioned. One of the chief causes of the delay, also, arose from the fact that Mr. Whitworth is entirely occupied in getting ready for his approach. ing trials at Sheerness against the iron cased float ing batteries. At previous trials last year he in every case sent his shot as easily through the sides of these vessels as if they had only been made of the usual strength of oak. But it is supposed now that the wrought•iron armour-plates for the frigates are forged of greater strength than heretofore, in asmuch as Sir W. Armstrong with his 70-pounder failed to make any serious impression on them, and the solid old bore 68-pounder at. 200 yards effected very little, unless several struck the same place, when the plate broke, though it let nothing through. Against these plates Mr. Whitworth uses a perfectly flat-headed projectile—as flat at the top as the crown of a hat, which instantly wakes its way through the armour, when, as mechanics will easily understand, the sharpest pointed shot would fail. 'With the present 80 pounder it is said the thickest plates of the Warrior will be pierced with as much ease as ever, even if backed up with the 22 inches of teak behind. The three guns used in these trials were placed on the same part of the beach as on previous occa• sions, the crowd of visitors finding their way there in and on conveyances of all kinds, so that the bleak shore presented an appearance which on any other part of the coast would have festive and ani m ated. Even to these barren wills of Southport it mparted almost a lively air, and took the chill, so o speak, off the dreary mounds of sands, which ook as if they had been shipwrecked there and cast away. The day was an unusually fine one, though, from the very uncertain state of the wind, about the worst for accurate firing. The puffs of air were from all points, and at the end of the range quite contrary to the direction of the wind at the spot where the gun was fired. The experiments commenced with the 3-pounder, at a low degree of elevation. As usual, it was loaded and fired by one of Mr. Whitworth's people, and the ease and rapidity with which it was managed excited the utmost astonishment among the gentlemen present. That which, next to the gun itself, seemul to be most admired, was the tin cartridge-case for the powder. This case is of hexagonal form and about seven inches long, with a very fine hole at the back, through which the flash of the friction tube ignites the powder. At the end which meets the shot is a small lump of grease, which, being melted by the explosion, lubricates the barrel from end to end. The im portance of this tin cartridge is, that while it per mits the use of a lubricating material for the rest of the barrel to be used, it quite does away with any necessity for sponging out the breech, which at the end of a hard day's firing remains as clean and bright as if the gun had never been used at all. In fact, the tin case takes the whole impurity of the powder remaining in the barrel till it is withdrawn for the next charge. Any one who has seen the careful spunging or rather washing out which the Armstrong gun requtres, and the time which after each discharge is consumed in this operation, will at once see the value of the tin case for the car tridge. As rewards facilities for transport, free dom from the chances of accidental ignition, and safety from damp, its superiority to the flannel cartridge is, of course, obvious. Another point which seemed to please equally the military men and engineers on the ground was the extreme sim plicity of the breech-loading arrangement, and the fact of the double-threaded screw which closes it being outside the gun instead of inside the chamber. as is the case with the Armstrong. It is this sim plicity of mechanism which enables one ordinary workman to load and fire the piece with such ease, and it is to the fact of the screw being outside in stead of in a chamber specially made for it that the Whitworth is fitted for firing either round shot or conical shot of any length whatever. When the carriage for the 80-pounder is ready, Mr. Whitworth intends firing a 2001 b. shot from it at 35 degrees elevation. One of the objec- tions formerly urged against Mr. Whitworth's rapid pitch of rifling was the resistance it occa sioned to the passage of the shot, and the conse- i quent danger of bursting the gun. In theory this objection appears to be well-founded ; practically we find that with a piece of string passed through one of Mr. Whitworth's projectiles, a sharp move ment of the hand is sufficient to draw it rapidly out from the breech to the muzzle, In the Armstrong the resistance caused by the 40 sharp grooves cutting into the double rings of lead is, on the contrary, immense, and to this is due the immense recoil of the gun each time—a recoil nearly three times greater than we find in Whitworth's. • The first nine shots with the three-rounder at three degrees were fired in about six minutes, with the following results : Yards Range. Deviation from true line. 1,607 yard to the right. 1,593 Line. 1,589 .. Line. 1,588 1 yard to the right. 1,577 I ditto. 1,575 ditto. 1,573 .. • . ditto. 1,568 .. .. 2 ditto. 1,552 .. I ditto. The practice with the three-pounder at 20 degrees (each time with 71 ounces of powder) was not so astonishing with the first five shots as on former oc casions, in consequence of a signalman having mis taken the direction in which the first shot fell. The range and deviation in yards were as follows : Yards Range. Deviation. 6,918 .. 26 to the left. 6 ,7 49 .. 27 ditto. 6,602 54 ditto. 6 , 556 35 ditto. 6,511 .. 6,561 .. 6,316 .. 6,469 .. 6,319 .. .. 34 ditto. .. 20 ditto. .. 20 ditto. .. 11 ditto. .. 12 ditto. The 12. pounder gave a fair average result at 5 degrees elevation—all the shots, 10 in number, struck at from 2,290 to 2,350 yards range, and all at about 21 yards to the right of tho true line, At WILLS AND BEQUESTS. Lord Holland's will, which from particular causes has been much delayed, and which has ex cited the interest of the public, was proved in Lon don, in the principal registry of the Court of Pro bate, on February 20. It was executed by his lot dship the day before his death ; the greater part was written by his medical attendant, and finished by the British Consul at Naples, who is one of the witnesses thereto, his lordship having resided in that city for some time. The will runs thus :—He ' leaves everything " to the will" of Lady H olland. To his Royal Highness the Duke d'Aumale he beqeaths a portrait of Prince Talleyrand ; to his Imperial highness Prince Jerome Bonaparte he bequeaths the portrait of the Emperor Napoleon by Gerard ; to his friend Mr. Edward Cheney he bequeaths his Italian paintings, which he hopes will be worthy of his acceptance; to Mr. M. S. David son,fear; £5OO ; to Mrs. S mith, of Barfoot, £lOO ; and he bequeaths the f ollowing annuities :—To Mr. t J o oh h n is L v a a t l h et ani il l o l i o s m a ..eydeiaeral; taottheinsdbaunttl,er £5O to his cook £6O a-year ;to his head gardener £4O a-year ; and one half-year's wages to all his ser vants respectively ; andappoints Lady Holland, the Earl of She lburne, and Mr. Mad g wic k Spicer —The late e D a vidson, of Spr in g g ardens, his executors. Th e persona lty was sworn under i 50,000 Dr. Todd, eminent alike both as a died suddenly onysician and ph for medical literary attainments , I He had ma d e hi s w i l l on t h e October, January. lBs 1856. It is exc ee di ng l y b r i e f, an d t l h 3 e th 3o o t f h O o c f tob the most intelligible language is employed in its framing ; but it was not executed till the following year (on the 27th of December, 1857), when it was attested by W. Connor , M .D., and H. Cooper Todd. It is merely a fam ily disposition ; and the per sonalty, which was sworn under £14,000, is held in trust f or the wi dow d children The ur ing her life, and at her decease is t o b e eq ua ll y divided ampng his four executors are the widow of the de ceased ; the Rev. James H thorn Todd, D.D., Tr • nity College, Dublin, his broth er; Hen thorn and Mr. Robert Cheere.—lllustrated Lomdon News. The Queen has been pleased to nomins.te the Rev. Dr. Vaughan, late Head Master of Harrow So hool, to the Bishopric of Rochester, in the room of the Right Rev. Dr. Murray, deceased. , epi mesa, itnees ;o th. 1, filo f the Fohn lace, of a igle, actor r of yth, il'u, try, tell, hby L