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~~~ - - C~ ••'' "Nr THE C./inWPO.RE -te 1 1 44k \mg ‘ 1 1 . 11 4, 74 , riAte* e 0. , •-. jttn„,,/ Captain Mowbray Thomson 4 f t ' , _ I tf. • , — - . •• SI I • , • - - • me‘to-- , = 14/7!: , „ • ;c - 41 -- fr -b \ ( 0. , . . - • efl 14, 'll4 , e : IROTT- • ' at 4 4, v . . PAPS II GREAT WESTE - RN RAILWAY. WINDSOR and back for 2s. fal., from Paddington.— Week days at 8.15 and 10.30 a.m.. returning* at 6.35 and 8.5 pm. On Sundays, from Paddington at 9 a.m., returning at P.m. Taplow and back, on Sundays, for 2s. d., from Pad dington at 9 a.m., returning; at 6.57 p.m. Henley - and back for3s., from .Paddington, at 9 a.m., returning at 8.55 p.m. • --- - THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1858. LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN. and MIDLAND RAILWAYS. DONCASTER RACES. First and Second Class Ordinary DAY TICKETS will be bailed at the Euston Station to DONCASTER by any train on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the 1 3th, 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th of September, and to be avail able for returning any day up to and including Saturday, the 18th September. By order. General 3lana7.er's Office, Euston Station, PRICE 4D . STAMPED, S D. No. 20,662. PUBLICATIONS. OUTSTANDING CLAIMS WITH BRAZIL amount of salary not exceeding six contos of reis, or £675 sterling a year, which amount shall be the same for both Governments. STEAM MAIL COMMUNICATION BE TWEEN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEA LAND. MILFORD lIAVEX. Sept. 8, 1858. Now ready, in 1 vol., with Illustrations, 10s. Gd. bound, MARY HOWITT'S NEW STORY, " TRUST AND TRIAL," Each Government shall pay to its secretary an amount of salary not exceeding three contos, or £337 10s. sterling a-year, which amount shall be the same for both Governments. THE CHANNEL ISLANDS TELEGRAPH COMPANY (LIMITED). OPENING of the LINE, September 9. Messages can now be sent by Telegraph direct to Jersey, Guernsey, and Alderney, from any of the Electric and Inter national Telegraph Company's Stations in the United kingdom. Charge for 20 words (names and addresses free) from— Weymouth '3s. Od. Liverpool ss. Bd. Southampton London &c., &c., &c. Charge for 20 words between Jersey, Guernsey, and Alder ney, One Shilling. By Order, We are able to announce that Mr. Sewell has received definite proposals from Messrs. Pearson, Coleman, and Co., shipowners at Hull, to under take our postal service. These have been submitted to the Home Government and approved. The Home Government, we learn, is prepared to enter into an absolute engagement to pay £14,000 per annum for the conveyance of mails between Australia and New Zealand, leaving £B,OOO per annum with a guaran tee of 21 per cent. on capital (equal to £2,000 a year more) to be borne by the colony. The contract to be for ten years, determinable at the expiration of seven years. Mr. Sewell has provisionally agreed, on the part of the co l on y. Th e t r ea sur y will enter into their part of the contract absolutely without reference to the Australian colonies ; and the contractors are content to rely on Mr. Sewell's provisional engagement on the part of the New Zealand Government. As regards the proposed advance of £25,000 to the contractors, the Lords Commissioners see no objection, provided the money required to be advanced be not immediately required for the purposes of the loan, and that the amount should be replaced in reasonable time from colonial funds. Lord Ashley, Mr. Clay, M.P., and Messrs. Smith Brothers and Co., bankers, at Hull, have been. named by the contractors as their re ferees, and have returned satisfactory answers as to the responsibility of the contractors. Messrs. Smith and-Co. state that the contractors have at present three, certaialy two, of the vessels required, of the stipulated tonnage and horse-power. The steam ships at present proposed are, the Lord Ashley, 440 tons ; the Lord Wor4ey, 414 tons ; with two others not named, one of 800, and the other of • 300 tons burden. The matter appears now to be -prac tically concluded. We may fairly calculate upon the vessels having left England at about the middle of last month. Mr. Sewell himself is supposed to be now on his way to the colony ; but no private letters from him, so far as we can learn, have been received in Auckland. Mr. Kirkwood, of Mel bourne, has accepted the offer made by the New Zealand Government, to employ the services of the White Swan steamer, under specified conditions, for two years ; a bonus of £6,000 per annum being allowed. The vessel was to sail from Melbourne at the latter end of last month, and may therefore be shortly expected in the Manukau harbour. Southern Cross. From the Danish. - Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, suez2ssors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough-street. The secretary on either side, when acting as Com missioner, shall receive the same amount of salary a-year as that paid to the Commissioner ; it being understood that his salary as secretary shall lapse during that time. The amount of salary to be paid to the arbitrator or umpire shall be the same, in proportion to the time he may be occupied, as the amount paid a year to a Commissioner under the convention. _ CORD ON OF DUNCAIRN. — This New Novel , in 2 Vols., small Octavo, 12s. will be ready for publica tion on the 23d inst. New Burlington-street, Sept. 10, 1858. PEIST'S RACING RECORD' for 1858. Fart VIII., price 3d., will be published on the Ist of October. The Record, containing a complete calendar of Sportin England, Ireland, and Scotland, in 1857, and nosi nations for 1858, may be had, price two shillings. W. Wright, Fulwood's Rents, Holborn. D. B. GAMBLE, Secretary. Sept. 8, 1856. Further particulars may be obtained at the Electric and International Telegraph Company's Stations in Great Britain. The salary of the clerk, if one is appointed, shall not exceed the sum of 2 contos, or £225 a-year. The whole expenses of the Commission, including contingent expenses, shall be defrayed by a rateable deduction on the amount of the sums awarded by the Commissioners, or by the arbitrator or umpire, as the case may be; provided always that such de duction shall not exceed the rate of 5 per cent. on the sums so awarded. A N K. 0 F DE •P 0 S IT. Established A.D. 18ti. 3, PALL MALL EAST, LONDON. Parties desirous of Investing. Money are requested to exa- Thine the Plan of The Bank of Deposit, by which a high rate of interest may be obtained wtli ample s?curity. The Interest is navable in January and July. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. . Forms for Opening Accounts sent free on application. NO MORE PILLS nor any other MEDICINE for Indigestion (dyspepsia), habitual Constipation, Flatu lency, Acidity, Palpitation of the Heart, Torpidity of the Liver, Bilious headache, Nervousness, Biliousness, General Dibility, Diarrhoea, Cough, Asthma, Consumption, Despondency, Spleen, &c. Send 2 penny stamps, and you will receive post free, Cr I pages, the people's edition of "PERFECT HEALTH RESTORED," without pills, purgatives, or medicines of any kind, and with out expense, by a simple, pleasant, and infallible means which saves fifty times its cost in other remedies, adapted to the general reader. Supported by testimonials from the celebrated Professor of Chemistry, Dr. Andrew Ure, Dr. Shorland, Dr. Harvey, Dr. Campbell, Dr. Gattiker, Dr. Wurtzer, 'Pr. Ingram, and many thousand other respectable persons, whose health has been re stored by it after all other means of cure had failed. London : Barry du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, and through all Booksellers in Town and Country. The deficiency , if any, shall be defrayed by the two .Goventinents. Art. Vll.—The present convention shall be rati fied by her Britannic Majesty, and by his Majesty the Emperor. of Brazil ; -and: the ratifications shall be exchanged at London- as soon as may be within six months from the date hereof. GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH, USED IN THE ROYAL LAUNDRY, AND PRONOUNCED BY lIER MAJESTY'S LAUNDRESS to be THE FINEST STARCH SITE EVER USED. Sold by all Chandlers, Grocers, &c., &c. In witness whereof the respective plenipoten tiaries have. ,signed the . same, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms. • _ GEORGE HOBSON begs to call the attention of Gentlemen to his New Autumnal Trousers,.2ls. to 255. Also his New Partridge Mixture Shooting Coats. PROFESSOR WILJALBA. FRIKELL.- This Afternoon, at Three; Evening, at Eight.— POLYGRAPHIC HALL, King William-street, Charing,- cross.—TWO HOURS OF ILLUSION.—For One Month Only, previous to Professor Frikell's departure on a provincial tour. Every evening at 8; Saturday afternoons at 3. Private boxes, one guinea ; box stalls, 55..; orchestra stalls, 3s. ; area, 2s. ; amphitheatre, Is.—Places may be secured at the Polygraphic-hall, and at Mr. Mitchell's Bora' Library, 33, Old Bond-street. Done at Rio de Janeiro, the 2d day of June, in the year of our Lord 1838: ' (L.S.) P. CAMPBELL SCARLETT. (L. S.) SERGIO T..DE MACEDO. And whereas the ratifications of the said Con vention were exchanged at London on the 9th inst. ; and whereas Commissioners on the part of her Ma jesty and of the Emperor of Brazil are about to meet at Rio de Janeiro for the purpose of carrying out the stipulations of such Convention ; Notice is hereby given, that all persons, subjects of her Majesty, who may have claims to prefer upon the Government of Brazil, must, in conformity with the provisions of the said Convention, trans mit to her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, or to her Majesty's Minister at the Court of Brazil, in sufficient time to be laid be fore the Commissioners within 12 months of the day of their first meeting (of which day notice will hereafter be given), the particulars of their claims, together with the requisite evidence or information in support thereof. Foreign-office, Sept. 10. Excellence with Economy. GEORGE HOBSON, 57, Lombard-street. Established 1796. r~ll ADELAIDE GALLERY CASINO, Lowther Arcade, Strand.L-The above ROOMS are OPEN EVERY EVENING. The celebrated band of the Argyll Rooms will play, by particular desire, selections from 11 Trovatore, La Traviata, and Ripletto. Conductor, Mons. A. LAMOTTE. I'rincipal cornet-a-piston, M. iloulcourt. Leader, Mr. Charles Hall. Doors open at half-past 8, commence at 9. Admission, ls. D R. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 3, TICHBOURNE-STREET (Opposite the Hay- Open daily (for Gentlenien only). ,ECTURES by Ur. SEXTON at Four and Eight o'clock, on important and interesting topics in connection with ANA TOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, and PATHOLOGY (vide Pro grammes). market). Admission ONE SHILLING. DR. KAHN'S NINE LECTURES ON THE PHILO SOPHY OF MARRIAGE, &c., sent post free, direct from the Author, on the receipt of twelve stamps. • THE FATAL COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT STANDISH-TWO LIVES LOST. THE TRAVELLERS' AND MARINE INSURANCE CO3IPANY. 7, ]Tank-bnlidings, Lothbury, and 42 and 43, Poultry, London. With which is incorporated...the busineSs.of THE ACCIDENTAL DEATILINSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1819, and Empowered by Special Act of Parliament. TRUSTEES. Matthew Marshall, Esq., (Bank of England.) William Smec, Esq., (Bank of England). Kenyon S. Parker, Esq., Q.C. Henry Blair Mayne, Esq. The business of the ACCIDENTAL DEATH INSURANCE COMPANY having been purchased by the TRAVELLERS' AND MARINE INSURANCE COMP ANY, all the Policies of the late Company adopted under the Deed of Purchase are guaran teed and kept iu force by the Travellers' and Marine In surance Company, upon precisely the same terms and con ditiona under which they were originally issued. Total Policies issued 39,030 • Claims paid since 1849 £71,0 00 • Annual income from Premiums (1857) Insurance effected against General Accidents, Railway Ac cidents, and Marine Risks ; either Fatal,. Non-fatal, or both together ; with or exenses extra. For Proposal Forms, Prospectuses without , and Medical allother information, aPply to the Manager, at the Chief Office, or to any of the Company's local Agents. EDWARD SOLLY, Manager. a Bank-buildings, Lothbary, London. INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 142, Strand, London, W.C., Feb. 25, 1858. Established 1837.—Payment of Premium Within Days Of Grace.—lt always has been, and still is, the practice of this Society to pay claims 'under policies of assurance, notwith standing the death of the assured occuring, within the 30 days of grace, and before payment of the annual premium, provided Payment thereof be made, or notice of the death be given to the office before the expiration of such days of grace. For the Court of Directors, E. S. SYMES, Chairman. THE INTERNATIONAL LIFE - ASSURANCE SOCIETY. - 142, Strand, London. Empowered by Act of Parliament, for LIFE ASSURANCE SURVIVORSHIPS, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &c. DIRECTORS. EDMOND SHEPPARD SYMES, 31. D., Chairman, W. Kenworthy Browne, Esq. Henry J. Hodgson, Esq. Samuel King-Church, Esq. Johd '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 Blondel, Esq. AUDITORS. Professor Wheatstone, F.R.S., and Professor J. Radford Young. MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL. J. Elltotson, M.D., Cantab., F.R.S., 37, Conduit-street. ACTUARY. - W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., &C. ASSISTANT ACTUARY. Barker Woolhouse, Esq. BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Roweliffe, Bedford- The next Qui in May, 1860. Exs squennial Division of Profits will be declared ,mples of lonus up to May, 1855 : rol icy Sum Bonus in Bonus in Permanent Addition Reduction taken Age. Assured. to Sum Cash. of Annual out in Assured. Premiums. .-...._.- X Xs. d. £s. d. .-£ s. d. -1838 55 3,000 867 17 7 428 1 4 56 3 8 1841 48 4,000 749 4 0 325 16 0 32 0 4 1845 59 2,030 232 18 0 156 15 0 16 6 0 1618 60 2,000 154 2 8 103 16 8 10 15 2 1851 55 2,800 120 17 0 72 14 6 -6 7 7 - The followine• are amongst the advantages offered by the International Life Assurance Society:— The Society was established in 1838. Two-thirds of the profits are divided amongst the assured every five year.n. • Its subscribed capital is five hundred thousand pounds. Its investments, at the date of the last annual report, amounted to one hundred and seventy-one thousand pounds. Its annual income is ninety thousand pounds. The number of policies now in force exceed six thousand. About one thousand new policies are added every year. Since its commenc,?ment the Society has paid in claims Upwards of three hundred and twenty thousand pounds. For prospectuses and every other information, apply to the Chairman, 142, Strand, EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman 142, Strand, London, W.C. THE EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY, in the absence of direct information from their own Cor respondent, can only rely on that received through Russia, and will consequently continue their extraordinarily low quotat!ons of 2s. per lb., for Black, Green, or Mixed Teas, in fn.:bags ; and Coffee. in the Berry, at ltd. per lb.—Ware houses, 9, Great St. Helen's-churchyard, Bishopsgate-street. APPETITE AND INDIGESTION IMPROVED. 1 EA and PEItRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE -1-1 SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, and all Roast Meat, Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Cur ries, and Salad, and by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach to perfectly digest the food. The daily use of this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safeguard to health. Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrins, 19, Fenchurch street, London, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester ; also ty Messrs. Barclay and Sons, Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and merchants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. N.B.—To guard against imitations, see that the names of "LEA and PERRINS " are upon the label and patent cap of the bottle. NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE. Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Constipation, Flatulency, Phlegm, Nervousness, Biliousness, Liver Complaints, Hysteria, Neuralgia, Sleeplessness, Acidity, Palpitation, Heartburn, Eruptions, Impurities, Irritability, Low Spirits, Diarrhoea, Hemorrhoids, Headache, Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Spasms, Nausea, and Sickness (durin pregnancy or at sea), Sinkin?.: Fits, Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption, also Children's Complaints, effectually removed by DU v BARRY'S delicious Health-Restoring nEvALENtA. ARABICA. FOOD, which saves fifty times its cost in other remedies in illness, and is, moreover, the best food for infants and invalids generally, as it is the only food which never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor interferes with a good liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner, and restores the faculty of digestion, and nervous and muscular energy to the most enfeebled. We extract a few out of the many thousand expressions of gratitude fronr invalids :—Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de Decies—" I have derived con siderable benefit from Du Barry's..Revalenta Arabica Food, and consider it due to yourselves and the public to authorise the publication of these lines. Stuart de Decies." Cure No. 49,332. " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, ner vousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness at the stomach, and vomiting, have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food. Maria Jolly, `Northam Ling, near Diss, Norfolk." Cnre No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of -Nazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Herts, a cure of extreme ner vousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fan cies. Cure No. 48,314. INliss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near -Liverpool : a cure of ten years' dyspepsia, and all the horrors of nervous irritability. Cure No. 18,216. Dr. Andrew lire, of con - stipation, dyspepsia, nervous irritability. Cure No. 31.210. Dr. Shorland, of dropsy and debility. Cure No. 36,212. Cap tain Allan, of epileptic fits. Cure No. 45,116. 3laior 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 diarlioea and debility. Cure No. 39,628. Dr. Wurtzer, of consumption. Cure No. 32,830. Win. Hunt, Esq., barrister, of paralysis. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, wood merchant, Frimley, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver de rantrement, partial deafness. Cure No. 58 ISM. Mrs. Hoize, aged 107 years', of dyspepsia (indigestion), debility, irritability, and nervousness, which bad tormented her for 70 years. Cure No. 56,814. Mr. Samuel 'Axton, Leicester, of two years' diarrhoea. Cure No. 52,612. The Dowager Countess of Castle- Stuart, of many years' nervous irritability, bile, and indiges tion. Cure No. 54,812. Miss Virginia Zeguers, cured of con sumption, after her medical advisers had abandoned all hopes of recovery. Cure No. 180. "Twenty-five years' nervousness, constipation, indigestion, and debility,from which I have suf fered great misery, and which no medicine could remove or relieve, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's Food in a very short time. W. B. Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London." No. 4,208. "Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility. with cramps, spasms, and nausea, for which my servant had consulted the advice of many, have been effectually . cured by Du Barry's health-restoring Food. I shall be happy to answer any inquiries. Rev John W. Flavell, Riddlington Rectory, Norfolk." No. 32,8.36. "Three years' excessive nervousness, with pains in my neck and left arm, and general debility, wilich rendered my life very miserable, has been radically removed by Du Barry's health restoring Food. Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Ross, Skib bereen." Cure No. 3,906. "Thirteen years' cough, indiges tion, and general debility have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Revalenta Arabica Food. James Porter, Athol street Perth." Important Caution against the fearful danger of spurious imitations : The Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood granted an injunction on the 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Neville, for imitating "Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food." Suitably packed for all climates, and with all instructions. In canisters, 11b., 2s. 9(1. • 21b., 4s. 6d. ; 121 b., 225. Super re : fined quality 11b.. 6s. ; 21b., lls. ; 51b., 22s ; 101 b., 335. The 101 h. and 121 b. canisters are forwarded carriage free, on re ceipt of Post-office order. Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent . street, London ; Fortnum, Mason. and Co., purveyors to her Majesty, 182, Piccadilly ; James Well, 4n, Sloane-street ; also at 60, Gracechurch-street ; 330, 430, and 451, Strand ; 94, Cheapside ; and6o,lßishopgate•street , 63, 150; and 1681 Octord-atreet. , , 1 - 1 . . i. ' '1 '37 1 4 '. tv., 9'4.4 ' . ' . ' ' ..?.:: ' .3 , ' ..,..'f, ".•,..C.'?:711 - '.:' ,1 0 , ? . '- c lf, - ;.. , :i -'',': •.-...--,,,,.-....:-.1 ''i :r`.•~ , • .? : ~/ ALHAMBRA PALACE, Leicester-square. The best Ventilated and Coolest Building in Europe.— Lessees, Messrs. Howes and Cushing. Entire Change of Per formance. Madame DELAVANTI will make a Grand Ascent on a portion of the Atlantic Telegraph Wire to the Dome of the Alhambra Palace, being one hundred feet in height, and two hundred feet in length, a feat never attempted by any other artiste. WAL LETT 'S celebrated CIRCUS COMPANY. Extraordinary and brilliant success of the unrivalled Troupe of Equestrian and Gymnastic Artistes and splendid Stud of Horses. Two Performances daily. Midday Entertainment at half-past 2 ; Evening at 8 o'clock. Private boxes, £2 ; stalls, ss. ; reserved seats, 3s. ; boxes, 2s. ; pit, ls. ; gallery, od. Box-office open from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. No fees for booking places. Children under 9 years of age, half-price. CONTRACTS FOR HONDURAS MAHOGANY TIMBER AND MOULMEIN TEAK TIMBER. Department of the Storekeeper General of the Navy, Somerset-place, Bth Sept., 1858. IHE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD MOTT .+TIMIR AL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on TUESDAY, the 28th instant, at Two o'Clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying her Majesty's Dockyards with 11,250 loads of HONDURAS MAHOGANY TIMBER, and 7,500 loads of MOULMEIN TEAK TIMBER, to be delivered during the years 1859,1800, and 1851, according to distributions, which, with the forms of the Tenders, the conditions of the Contracts, and a specimen of the Mahogany Timber, may be seen at the said office. No tender will be received after Two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party attends, or an Agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for ," and must be delivered at Somerset place, accompanied by a Letter signed by Two responsible Persons, engaging to become bound with the Person tender ing, in the sum of 5.5000 for the due performance of each of the Contracts. GREAT BRITAIN. BARRACK CONTRACTS. WAR-OFFICE,PaII-Mall,London, S.W., 26th August, 1858. The Secretary of State for War Hereby Gives Notice, That Tenders will be received by the several Barrack Masters in Great Britain, on Dr before WEDNESDAY, the 15th Sept. next, from such persons as may be willing to enter into Contracts for the under-mentioned services for a period of Three Years, from the Ist October, 1858, to the 30th September, 1861 : Lamp-lighting ; Sweeping Chimneys by Machinery ; Straw and Ashes, and Privy Soil (where deposited with the Ashes); Emptying Privies ; and for Washing, and Repairing Bedding (except at the Barracks in London and Windsor). Printed Forms of Tenders and every requisite information may be obtained on application to the respective Barrack Masters, between the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock each day, Sun days excepted, until the date above-mentioned, after which no proposal will be received, nor will any tertderbe considered that is not made on the printed form, to be furnished by the Barrack Masters. Persons proposing to tender for any of the services above mentioned, must make the Barrack :►rasters acquainted with their names and places of abode, and furnisb any information that may be called for by them as to the eligibility of the par ties tendering to perform the Contract or Contracts, and it is to be clearly understood that the Secretary of State for War reserves to himself the power of accepting or rejecting all or any of the tenders, without assigning any reason or entering into any correspondence on the subject. THORLEY'S FOOD FOR CATTLE.- It is only a short time since this singularly efficacious article of animal diet first made its appearance ; and already its celebrity is world-wide. It has been a subject of wonder, and has puzzled many a brain to explain how this has been brought about. Yet when we are acquainted with a few facts concerning the food, our wonder will cease. A few days since, a gentleman wrote, stating that he had a horse which was a " perfect bag of bones." lie tried all kinds of things to get the animal into condition, but in vain. lle then bought some of Thorley's food ; and he says the effect was wonderful. The horse rapidly grew fat, and in the course of a few weeks had gained no less than 12 stones. Again we find at the late vrri cultural shows at Birmingham, Cardiff, Sze., the animals which carried off the highest prizes had been partly fed with Thor ley's food for cattle. Such facts speak for themselves, and we are forced to the conclusion that its celebrity arises solely from its own intrinsic merits, and the great demand for it can proceed alone from the good opinion and testimony of those who have tried it. All parties interested in horses and cattle will do well to apply to 77, Newgate-street, London, for a pamphlet which is sent post-free. ON PIIYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS. GENERATIVE INCAPACITY, AND 13IPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. New and improved Edition, enlarged to 196 paces, illustrated by 100 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel, just pub lished, price, free by post, ls. THE SILENT FRIEND : A Medical Work on the physical exhaustion and decay of the frame, from the effects of solitary indulgence, infection, and the injurious consequences from the use of Mercury : with observations on, the obligations of marriage, and directions for obviating cer tain disqualifications. By R. and L. PERRY and Co., Sur geons. Consultations as usual (see page 107). Sold by J. Allen, 20, W a rwick-lane, Paternoster-row ; Sanr.rer, 160, Oxford street ; and Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street,'London. The CORDIAL BALM of SYRIACUM is employed in both sexes to renovate the impaired powers of life. Its action is purely balsamic: its power in reinvigorating . , the frame in all cases of nervous and sexual debility, obstinate gleets, impo tency, barrenness, anddebilities arising from venereal excesses, has been demonstrated by its unvarying sucess in thousands of cases. I'rice 11s. per bottle, or four quantities in one for 335., which saves lls. The CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE, an anti-syphilitic remedy, for purifying the system, and is recom mended for any of the varied forms of secondary symptoms, such as eruptions on the skin, blotches on the head and face, en largements of the throat, tonsils, and uvula; threatened destruction of the nose, palate, &c. Its action is purely deter sive, and its beneficial influence on the system is undeniable. Price lls. and :13s. per bottle, also a savinn . of lls. PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS constitute an effectnal remedy in either sex for all cases of gonorrhoea, gleet, stricture, and diseases of the urinary organs. Price 2s. 9d., 4s. (id.. and lls. per box. Sold by Daniel Church, 78, Gracechurch-street, City ; Bart ley-Hooper, 43, King William-street (four do s o -c r l s m fr rc om London bridge); j on- . bridge); G. F. Watts, 17, St rand ; W. Sutton and Co., 10, Bow churchyard ; W. Edwards , 117, St. Paul' hy Sanger, 150, O x ford Street ; Hannay and Dietrichsen, 63, Oxford-street; Butler and Harding, 4, Cheapside ; Prout and Harsant, 229 Strand, and all medical vendors throughout the United Kingdom THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. Just published, price ls., post free, in an Envelope, for 13 stamps. SELF -PRESERVATION.—A Medical Treatise on The Functions and Disorders of the Generative System, and on the cure of Nervous and Physical Debility, resulting from vicious habits acquired during the critical pa ssage from youth to Manhood, with practical observations ou the Pity siolop.-,y of Marriage in its social, moral, and phy sical rela tions. To which are added remarks on the wonders of the Microscope in revealing the hidden mysteries "of Life within Life," and its advantages in detecting, by urinary examina tion, the cause and effect of every variety of these complaints, with numerous engravings and cases BY SAMUEL LA.'MERT, M.D., 37, BEDFORD SQUARE. LONDON, Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Hono rary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Li centiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fear ful consequences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, which have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Manhood, and premature decay at all stages of life, than, perhaps, any other class of disease known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is particularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of their physical condi tion, and who are conscious of having hazarded the health, happiness, and privileges to which every human being is, en titled. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are principles of personal management which cannot be violated without incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of inconsiderate self indulgence, how those penalties may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, and how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and, above all, that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row, and may be had of Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Horne, 19, Leicester square ; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street ; or from the Author, who may be consulted daily, from 11 till 2, and from 6 till 8, at his residence, 37, Bedford-sqaare, London. The work may be had in India, of Mr. Von Litzky, L o ll Bazaar ; Calcutta—Messrs. C. and J. Hormnsjee, Apollo-street ; Bombay—Circulator Office ; Madras—Mofussilite Office, Agra ; Dodsworth, Colombo, Ceylon ; and all Booksellers through l out thg Woke. The Gazette of last night publishes the following Convention between England and the Brazils : Art. I.—The high contracting parties agree that all claims on the part of corporations, companies, or ?rivate individuals, subjects of her Britannic Majesty, upon the Government of his Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, and all claims on the part of corporations, companies, or private individuals , subjects of his Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, upon the Government of her Britannic Majesty, which may have been presented to either Government for its interposition with the other since the date of the Declaration of Independence of 'the Brazilian Empire, and which yet remain unsettled., or are considered to be still unsettled, by either of the two Governments, as well as any other such claims which may be presented within the time specified in Article 3 hereinafter, shall be referred to two Commissioners, to be appointed in the following manner ; that is to say: one Commissioner shall be named by her Britannic Majesty, and one by his Majesty the Emperor of Brazil. Her Britannic Majesty and his Majesty the Em peror of Brazil respectively shall appoint a secre tary to the Commission, who shall be empowered to act as Commissioner in case of the temporary incapacity or absence of the Commissioner of his Government, and also in case of the death, definite absence, or incapacity of the said Commissioner, or in the event of his omitting or ceasing to act as such, until the appointment of, and assumption of his duties by, another Commissioner _ in the place or Stead of the said Commissioner. In the case of the death, or definite absence, or incapacity of the Commissioner on either side, or in the event of the Commissioner on either side omit ting or ceasing to act as such, her Britannic Ma jesty, or his Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, re spectively, shall forthwith name another person to act as Commissioner, in the place or stead of the Comraissioner originally named. In case of the secretary on either side being ap pointed permanently Commissioner, her Britannic Majesty or his Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, re spectively, shall forthwith name another person to be secretary in the place or stead of the secretary originally named. The Commissioners shall meet at Rio de Janeiro at the earliest convenient period after they shall have been named, and shall, before proceeding to any business, make and subscribe a solemn decla ration that they will impartially and carefully examine and. decide, to the best of their judgment, and according to justice and equity, without fear, favour, or affection to their own country, upon all such claims as shall be laid before them on the part of the Government of her Britannic Majesty and his Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, respectively ; and such declaration shall be entered on the record of their proceedings. The secretary on either side, when called upon to act as Commissioner for the first time, and before proceeding to act as such, shall make and subscribe a similar declaration, which shall be entered in like manner as aforesaid. The Commissioners shall, before proceeding to any other business, name a third person to act as an arbitrator or umpire, in any cases or cases on which they may themselves differ in opinion. If they shall not be able to agree upon the selec tion of such a person the Commissioners on either side shall name a person ; and in each and every case in which the Commissioners may differ in opinion as to the decision which they ought to give, it shall be determined by lot which of the two persons so named shall be arbitrator or umpire in that particular case. The person so to be chosen to be arbitrator or umpire shall, before proceeding to act as such in any case, make and subscribe a solemn declaration, in a form similar to that which shall have already been made and subscribed by the Commissioners, which declaration shall be entered on the record of their proceedings. In the event of the death, absence, or incapacity of such person, or of his omitting, or declining, or ceasing to act as such arbitrator or umpire, another and different person shall be named as aforesaid to act as such arbitrator or umpire in the place or stead of the person so originally named as afore said, and shall make and subscribe such declara tion as aforesaid. _ _ Art. ll.—The Commissioners shall then forth with proceed to the investigation of the claims which shall be presented to their notice. They shall investigate and decide upon such claims in such order and in such manner as they may think proper, but upon such evidence or in formation only as shall be furnished by or on be half of the respective Governments. They shall be bound to receive and peruse all written or printed documents or statements which may be presented to them by or on behalf of the respective Governments, in support of or in answer to any claim, and to hear, if required, one pesson on each side on behalf of each Government, as counsel or agent for such Government, on each and every separate claim. Should they fail to agree in opinion upon any in dividual claim they shall call to their assistance the arbitrator or umpire whom they have agreed to name, or who may be determined by lot, as the case may be ; and such arbitrator or umpire, after hav ing examined the evidence adduced for and against the claim, and after having heard, if required, one person on each side as aforesaid, and consulted with the Commissioners, shall decide thereupon finally, and without appeal. The decision of the Commissioners and of the ar bitrator or umpire, shall be given upon each claim in writing, and shall be signed by them respec- tively. It shall be competent for each Government to name one person to attend the Commission as agent on its behalf, to present and support claims, and to answer claims made upon it, and to represent it generally in all matters connected with the inves tigation and decision thereof. Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and his Majesty the Emperor of Brazil hereby solemnly and sincerely engage to consider the decision of the Commissioners, or of the arbi trator or umpire, as the case may be, as absolutely final and conclusive upon each claim decided upon by them or him respectively, and to give full effect to such decisions without any objection, evasion, or delay whatsoever. Art. lll.—Every claim shall be presented to the Commission with 12 months from the day of its first meeting, unless in any case where reasons for delay shall be established to the satisfaction of the Commission, or of the arbitrator or umpire in the event of the Commissioners differing in opinion thereupon ; and then and in any such case the period for presenting the claim may be extended to any time not exceeding six months longer. Ihe Commissioners shall be bound under this Convention to hold for the consideration of the claims at least eight sittings in each month, from the date of their first sitting until the completion of their labours. The Commissioners shall be bound to examine and decide upon every claim within two years from the day of their first meeting, unless, on account of some unforeseen and unavoidable sus pension of the sittings, the two Governments may mutually agree to extend the time. The arbitrator or umpire shall be bound to come to a final decision on the claim within 15 days from the time of such claim being submitted to his con sideration, unless the Commissioners consider a more extended period absolutely necessary. It shall be competent for the Commissioners, or for the arbitrator or umpire if they differ, to decide in each case whether any claim has or has not been duly made, preferred, or laid before the Commis sion, either wholly or to any and what extent, according to the true intent and meaning of this Convention. Art. IV.—All sums of money which may be awarded by the Commission, or by the arbitrator or umpire, on account of any claim, shall be paid by the one Government to the other, as the case may be, within 12 months after the date of the de cision, withoutinterest, and without any deduction save as specified in Article 5 hereinafter. Art. V.—The high contracting parties engage to consider the result of the proceedings of this Commission as a full, perfect, and final settlement of every claim upon either Government, arising out of any transaction of a date prior to the ex change of the ratifications of the present Conven tion ; and further engage that every such claim, whether or not the same may have been presented to the notice of, made, preferred, or laid before the said commission, shall, from and after the conclu sion of the proceedings of t he said commission, be considered and treated as finally settled, barred, and thenceforth inadmissible. Art. VI. The Commissioners and the arbitrator or umpire, with the assistance of the secretaries, shall keep an accurate record and correct minutes or notes of all their proceedings, with the dates thereof, and shall appoint and employ a clerk, if necessary, to assist them in the transaction of the business which may come before them. Each Government shall - pay its Commimioner an THE NAVY. The Archer, 13, screw sloop, Capt. J. Sanderson, at Portsmouth, will, it is reported, sail for Vancou ver's Island when her repairs are completed. The Valorous, 16, paddlewheel, Capt. W. C. Old ham, sails from Portsmouth to-day for Plymouth. The Racer, 11, screw sloop, Commander Hon. T. Pakenhain, sailed from Spithead yesterday for Ply mouth with supernumeraries. The Cygnet, 8, sloop, was towed round from Portsmouth into Chichester harbour yesterday, by the Comet, for Coastguard service. In consequence of orders received yesterday from the company, the steamship Bilboa, Capt Kava naugh, has been hauled hack from the stream in Iramoaze to the wharf at Keyham, and is now re ceiving the thick cable originally designed for the shore end of the Atlantic Telegraph at Valentia. The Erebus, 16,' floating battery, is to take.in three guns, and is to be laid up off the Excellent, in Portsmouth Harbour, to try if shot fired from her will cause her to shake or roll. Her funnel had to be taken out to make room for the admission of the guns. An Admiralty order arrived yesterday morning at Chatham, directing the following promotions to be made in the corps of Royal Marine Light In fantry :—Colonel J. T. Brown to be major-general ; Colonel A. B. Strausham, second commandant at Woolwich, to be commandant ; Colonel F. A. Campbell, to be second commandant at Woolwich ; Major J. 0. Travers, now serving in China, to be lieutenant-colonel ; First Lieutenant R. T. Ansell, to be captain. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty:—Lieut. C. It. F. Boxer, to the Cumberland ; Lieut. C. P. Boger, additional, to the Cumberland; H. B. Hunt, master, additional, to the Hannibal, for the Falcon; and Dr. G. Moore, additional surgeon, to the Cresar. THE ARMY. The following promotions, dated the Bth inst., have taken place under the provisions of her Ma jesty's order in Council of Sept. 13, 1854, conse quent on the death of General T. A. Parke, C. 8., on the field establishment of General officers of the Royal Marines ' viz., Lieut.-General J. R. Coryton to be General ; Major-General J. I. Willes to be Lieut.-General, vice Coryton, promoted ; Colonel- Commandant J. T. Brown to be Major-General, vice Willes, promoted; Colonel Second-Com mandant A. B. Stransham, Woolwich division, to be Colonel-Commandant, and appointed to the same division, vice Brown, promoted ; Lieut.- Colonel and Brevet-Colonel F. A. Campbell, of the Portsmouth division, to be Colonel Second-Com mandant, and appointed to the Woolwich division, vice Stransham, promoted; Capt. and ,Brevet-Major J. 0. Travers, of the Portsmouth division (at pre sent on staff duty in China), to be Lieutenant-Col., and appointed to the same division, vice Campbell, promoted ; First-Lieut. R. T. Ansell, of the Artil lery companies, to be Captain, and appointed to the Portsmouth division, vice Travers, promoted •, Second-Lieut. A. W. D. Smith, of the Woolwich division (on foreign service), to be First-Lieutenant, and appointed to the Portsmouth division, vice Ansell, promoted. Yesterday a Chelsea Board assembled at Chatham, under the presidency of Dr. J. R. Taylor, C. 8., for the purpose of medically inspecting the sick and wounded troops who have recently arrived from India, when all those who were found unfit for fur ther service were ordered to be discharged. Dr. Le Febure, Director-General of Military Hos pitals in Belgium, has visited Chatham to inspect the army hospitals at that garrison. In com pany with the principal officers connected with the medical staff at Chatham, Dr. Le Febure visited the Garrison Hospital, near Chatham Barracks, and was conducted over the whole of that establish ment, every part connected with which he care fully inspected. The Garrison Hospital is one of the least bad of the military hospitals of Chatham. The G battery of Artillery, consisting of five officers, 159 men, 103 ho rses , s i x guns , an d 11 car riages, under the command of Captain Du Plat, arrived at Ipswich Barracks on Thursday. Since the departure of the 15th Hussars the barracks have been thoroughly repaired and cleaned. Owing to the painting not being sufficiently advanced, about half the men are under canvass in the barrack-yard. Colonel Charles H. Spence, of the 60th Rifles, died on Wednesday last, after above 30 years' ser vice in that distinguished corps. He entered the army in 1825, and had seen active service in India. He served with the Ist battalion of the 60th Rifles during the second siege operations at Mooltan, including the siege and storm of the town and capture of the citadel of Mooltan ; was present afterwards at the battle of Goojerat, and the pur suit of the Sikh army under Rajah Shere Singh, until its final surrender at Rawul Pindee ; the oc cupation of Attock and Peshawur, and the expul sion of the Affghan force, under Dost Mahomed, f beyond the Khyber Pass, for which he rece i ve d a medal and clasps. His commissions were dated as follows : Second-Lieutenant, April 20, 1825 ; Lieutenant, Sept. 2 8 , 1826 ; Ca ptain , May 24,1841; Major, Oct. 20, 1848; Lieut.-Colonel, 0ct.26, 1853. The steam transport City of Manchester, with the 2d battalion of :the 12th Regt., from the Cape of Good Hope, arrived at Fort George, Inverness, on Friday morning. Three sergeants and three corporals of the Royal Marine Light Infantry, in command of an officer of the Plymouth division, yesterday left Woolwich for Knaresborough to receive recruits for the Wool wich division. *The detachment of one sergeant and eight privates of Royal Marines recently embarked on board the Argus with the intention of proceed ing as settlers to Vancouver's or Quadra Island have been landed at Portsmouth to await some other ship. THE MILITIA. The Pembrokeshire Militia Rifles have received notice to assemble on the 30th of this month for three weeks' training. The Montgomeryshire Rifles assemble at Welsh pool for 21 days' training on Wednesday, the 15th instant. The Anglesea Light Infantry meet at Beaumaris on the 13th inst. for the usual three weeks' drill. The Cardiganshire Militia are summoned to meet on the 6th of next month. The Denbighshire Rifles commence their three weeks' training at Wrexham on the 15th inst. This corps is up to its full complement. The adjourned inquest on the body of John Turner, a collier, who died on the 29 th ult. from injuries received in an explosion of fire-damp on the 20th ult., was held at Standish on Wednesday afternoon, before Mr. Myres, coroner. The inquiry also included the death of a youth named John Hall, who was burned at the same time, and who died on Saturday. The explosion occurred in the Tunnel Pit, Standish, the property of Mr. Taylor. Mr. Cedric Bromley, surgeon, Wigan, who attended both the deceased until their deaths, said they were much burnt on the upper part of their bodies down to the waist. Turner told him, in a conversation he had with him, that the fireman had said he had not examined the place on the morning of the explosion. Robert Fairhurst, the fireman, hav;fl been cau tioned by the coroner, made the following voluntary statement :—When Turner came up to the top of the " spuney" I was busy with, a shunt, and he asked me if I had been in his place. I said, "No ; I shall not be many minutes with this shunt, and then I will go with you." I did not knoW that Turner had gone, but in less than two minutes -I heard an explosion. I went to Turner's place, and found that he and his drawer (John Hall) had been burned. When I found him, I asked-him if I did not tell him that I had not been in his place. He said I did ; and I asked him what his reason for going was. He said he thought it would be the same as usual. He said he had done but little the day before, and he wanted to mend it that day. It would be about half-past five o'clock in the morn ing when the explosion happened. I go at four, and give th 6 men liberty to follow to the top of the spuney. I should meet the men at the spuney at five o'clock. I consider that the shunt was required for the nece working of the pit, and that it should first s b s e ir ione before the examination. I had examined all the places but three, which lie on one side. It might have taken me about a quarter of an hour to have examined those places. One person had gone to work in one of those places before the deceased. I had allowed him to go without telling him that it had not been examined. He had gone with a covered lamp. The explosion threw down the brattice. I did not consider it a likely place for fire-damp. The place has always been examined before, either by me or the man under me. I don't know whether the boy, Hall, was with him when I told Turner that the place had not been examined. I now think it would have been better that the place should have been examined before I had gone to the shunt. Elizabeth Hall, spinster, said the deceased, John Hall, was her brother. He was 14 years of age. After he was burned he ran home. Wm. Ashcroft, collier, Standish, said he worked at the Tunnel Pit. He was in the pit at the time of the explosion, and passed Fairhurst, the fireman, in going to his place. Did not see any signals of any kind that morning. Fairhurst was busy when he passed him. When there was any danger Fair hurst always sat at the top of the brow, and told the men. He was in the place where he generally sat that morning, but said nothing to witness when he went past him. If Fairhurst was not at the place the men stopped until he came and told them to go to work. Witness continued—l saw Turner shortly after the explosion. I took him up to the pit eye. James Holland was at work beyond Tur ner's place when I got there. I had been into my own place before the explosion occurred, and had gone out to pull my clothes off. I had a lighted open candle with me. I passed Turner at the pit eye that morning, and went on to my work. Tur ner afterwards passed me. Fairhurst was then laying rails. Turner never told me that there was fire in the place. Fairhurst must have seen me pass him. Turner had his candle lighted when he passed me to go to his work. His drawer was with him. After the explosion Fairhurst was at the place I had first seen him when I went for him. Fairhurst had a lamp, but the top was off. I never saw a cap or a hood on my light. Props and all materials arc supplied when they are wanted. John Critchley, collier, corroborated Fairhurst's statement, and added that no signals of any kind were used in the pit, except when there was danger. James Lawton, miner—l work at the Bradley Colliery. I saw Fairhurst on the 20th of August last, and had a conversation with him about the explosion at the deceased's house. He said it was a bad job, and he said to the deceased, " It would have been a lucky concern if I had gone into thy place this morning, but I had so much running about to that place that I knew had sulphur in, that I put trust to thy place, thinking it would have been as it had aforetime, and I skipped it that morning, and have skipped it before, thinking that it had nothing in." The deceased then said, " Thou spoke like a man this morning." Fairhurst said he would never tell a man again that he had been in a place when he had not. George Forster, manager of the mine, said it was Fairhurst's duty to examine every part of the pit, either by himself or his man, before the colliers went to work. Witness had no doubt that Fair hurst had a copy of the regulations. He had no right to do any kind of work in the pit before he examined it, unless it was something unavoidable. Witness did not think the shunting was required before the examination. Witness did not require the use of signals except in cases of danger. The jury then retired, and after a long consulta tion returned a verdict of accidental death, with a request that the coroner would reprimand and caution Fairhurst, the fireman, for allowing Turner and his drawer to enter the working before he had examined it. The Coroner complied with this request, and also advised the manager to order the putting up of signal boards at the different workings, to denote which were safe and which dangerous. The inquiry lasted six hours.-llfanchester Guar dian. [ADVERTISEIrENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills and Oint ment for :the cure of rheumatism are far superior to all other remedies.—Mr. Talbot, druggist, 93, St. James's street, Liverpool, states in a letter to Professor Holloway, that he is requested by Mr. Jamieson, of No. 23, Norfolk street, to inform that for many years he had been afflicted with asthma and rheumatism, and could obtain no relief from the many remedies he tried, until he commenced Holloway's Ointment and Pills. These invaluable medi cines speedily cured him, and he wishes these particulars to be made public for the benefit of others. Plain directions for the use of these medicines are affixed to each box or _pot r no further advice is needed by the patient. _ The splendid capabilities of Milford Haven have long been recognised. Nelson expressed in words his admiration of it; but more than a century- before Nelson, Penn, by the use he made of it, had borne still more unequivocal testimony to its merits. But commerce will not be allured to any place mere l y because it affords safe riding for ships. Until our railway system was developed, Milford Haven, though an admirable harbour, was remote from any of those busy centres of industry and accumu lated property which attracts merchants. Hence it came that the Mersey, with all the difficulties and dangers which its flat, wind-swept shores and innumerable shoals presented, became a thronged resort of traffic, while Milford Ha ven remained almost as unvisited as in the days of the Ap Griffiths and Llewellyns. The deficiencies of the Mersey as a port were disre garded on account of its prolimity to the great pro ducing counties of Lancashire, Cheshire, Stafford shire, and Yorkshire. But now that railways have already brought Milford Haven, or are rapidly bringing it,into close proximity with the metro polis and with the manufacturing districts, sailors and shipowners arc awakening to its capabilities of a harbour. This explains the demonstration at Pembroke Dock, which it was yesterday our pleas ing task to chronicle. We do not expect—and still less do we wish—that Milford Haven should rise on the ruins of any of our established ports, or prevent the development of the trade of others. Southamp ton Water and the Mersey will keep their ground ; Galway. or Valentia, or both, will become the great stations for the receipt and despatch of mails and passengers between England and North America, and the export and import harbours for the trade between Ireland and the New World. But Milforl - Haven will rise to an equality with the best of these places. There is ample room for them all ; the fresh start in the development of our island re sources .which is being made under the auspices of steam locomotives and the electric telegraph, will render all these maritime stations no more than sufficient for the giant growth of English commerce. It is a great recommendation of Milford Haven that it opens on the broad Atlantic. It offers a refuge to seamen, to reach which they need not embay themselves in any narrow straits or channels. Its entry is boldly defined, and free from hidden perils ; while within there is ample room for whole navies of ships of the largest draught, with ample shelter from every wind that can blow. The Mersey and the Clyde, from their immediate proximity to regions of busy and productive industry, will con tinue to attract as many vessels as ever ; for mer chants have a well-grounded aversion to frequent repetition of the act of breaking bulk, and seek therefore to ship their goods as near as possible to the place where they are produced. But an im mense trade will' be attracted to Milford Haven, now that carriage thither from the manufacturing districts has become safe, speedy, and economical, and that the mineral wealth of South Wales is being so extensively explode. • Milford Haven will assume the rank, as a trading port, which Bristol once held. Its commerce will bear the same ratio to the aggregate commerce of England in the nine teenth century that the commerce of Bristol did to the aggregate commerce of England in earlier ages. And there are certain local traffics which advantage of position • will inevitably attract to Milford Haven. It will contest with Southampton Water the character of the natural place of deposit for the commodities which are shipped to or landed frown an impl7tant portion of our Colonies. The shipping of the West India Colonies will naturally make for it ; it will attract the trade of the Cape Colony and Western Africa ; and all that important portion of the passenger and goods traffic of our Southern Colonies which takes the Panama route—thatis, the bulk of the trade of New Zealand, Tasmania, New South Wales, and the district around Moreton Bay—will also resort to it. To our growing commerce with the Brazils Mil ford Haven offers an equally eligible emporium ; but our anticipations of the future for this harbour are more disposed to rest on its possible and pro bable colonial connexions. E n g land is essentially a colonising country. She, of all modern States, has alone succeeded in establishing free filial com munities, whereas the others have only been able to create dependencies. England laid the founda tions of the Great Western Republic ; and though the United States—as we say of sons and daughters who have set up establishments of their own apart from the paternal home—are now foris : familiated, the great Canadian, West Indian, and Australian groups, and the infant empire of South Africa, still remain connected with us by the closest family ties. We need only turn to the statistical tables of the Board of Trade to be convinced that our com merce with the United States and our Colonies is by far the most important part of our aggregate commerce. Being carried on with communities which have hived off the parent stock of Britain, and which retain British tastes and habits, our productions suit them better than any other people. Possessing ample vacant lands their num bers increase more rapidly than those of old coun tries. Every way they are the most sure and profitable customers we can have. The mercantile relations between Colonies and Mother-Countries are unsusceptible of destruction or even diminution from political enmities or alienation. Notwith standing the enmity engendered by the unfortunate circumstances under which the United States broke loose from us, the growth of the commercial inter course between the two countries never knew pause or intermission. And Mauritius, which has been incorporated into the British Empire for half a cen tury, continues to this day to have more intimate commercial relations with the Garonne than with the Thames. Add to these considerations, that colo nisation calls those more lucrative and more certain markets into existence, adds them to those which our merchants continue to frequent to as great an extent as they could have done though we had been destitute of colonies. And, perhaps, the mere aug mentation of the national wealth which England derives from her colonies is the least benefit she owes them. Our narrow island, but for the colonies, would soon have become over-populated. The colo nies not only find subsistence and profitable employ ment for those who would have been doomed to idleness and poverty at home ; their deman a. for our productions enables a more numerous population to reside in comfort within the island than could other wise have done so. They have saved us to a great extent—if more adequately turned to account they might save us to a still greater extent—from the demoralising influence of a surplus and pauper po pulation. It is an instinctive sense, rather than a definite conception of these benefits, that has made and kept England a colonising country. Her efforts in colonisation are, it is true, intermitting, but they are incessantly renewed after brief intervals of repose. From 1830 till within the last year or two the heart of England N. vas keenly bent upon colonising enterprise. Within that period the progress of the British North American Provinces, of the Cape Colony, of Tasmania and New South Wales, has received a new impetus, while Victoria, New Zealand, Southern and. Western Australia, have been called into existence. The brief succease of interest in colonial undertakings cannot last long. And it is not the least of many favourable omens for the future of Milford Haven that some enterprising men have associated themselves with a view to render it the recognised starting-point of emigrants for New Zealand, Eastern Australia, a nd the new colony of British Columbia.—DaiTy News. Mr. Robson, after having concluded, with Mr. W. .8. Emden, a most prosperous season at the Olympia Theatre, is at present in Edinburgh, but his numerous admirers here w ill not at present s ee him on-the stage, as he is travelling with his family to recruit his energies after the arduous London season.—Scotsman. 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Important caution against the fearful danger of spurious imitations : The Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood granted an injunction on the 10th March, 1854, ag_ainst Alfred Hooper Nevin for imitating " Du Barry's gevalenta Arabica Food. • Captain Mowbray Thomson, has addressed the following let Justice to the dead compels give place in your valuabl e journal ttOV6--4 contradiction of the account of the Cawnpore massacre transferred to yom- columns on the 3d inst. from those of the Indian Empire, and alleged to be the statement of Mrs. Murr a y, t h e wife of Sergeant-Major Murray. It is not f or me to con jecture by what means this poor woman has been induced to give utterance to such a ver sion of our troubles at Cawnpore as she has done, but I feel bound to correct her narrative, and I feel sure that my brother officer, Lieut. Delafosse, who is in this country, will be able to substantiate the allegations I now mike. After a truthful reference to the general uneasi ness pervading the native mind which preceded the outbreak, Mrs. Murray states that General Wheeler ordered a parade, and read a general order discon• tinning the old musket, and directing the use of the Enfield rifle for the future. She says, "The Sepoys refused to use the new guns. Parade was again ordered with no better re- Esilintfield&c.rifle Now, in sir, c a y l n affirm untilthat I t s h e m r e e aw of s f tnhoet Ist n t Madras Fusileers joined us two days before the out break, and these were the only men in Cawnpore armed with that weapon. I have no knowledge of General 'Wheeler of the havil the imprisonment by dar who reported the disaffection of the native made to troops. I believe it is as unt rue as the foregoing of the Enfield rifles. Nana Sahib's ;s visit Cawnpore, which is next referred to, was the request of the resident magistrate, and such was the confidence placed in this infernal traitor that the whole of the treasure—upwards of £loo,ooo_ was placed under his protection. The Nana was not at Bithoor, but in Cawnpore, when the 2d Cavalry mutinied, and he gave up the treasure to the rebels. This was the first manifestation of hostility on his part. A day or two before it was actually projected to send some of our ladies to Bithoor, that they might be lodged in safety ! All the European resi dents of Cawnpore, except the officers of the 53d N. 1., were in the entrenched buildings several days before the actual outburst. Here, again, Mrs. Mu ,— ;s made to represent the facts erroneously. Is it some name.:_. - es-yrnident of the Indian. Em pire, or Mrs. Murray—whoge . kiioWiedge artil f ery is so profound as to lead to the conclusion that shells did no harm, because they were only filled with powder ! These shells cut off numbers of our poor comrades; though Mrs. Murray is made 'to say that very few, were killed in the entrenchments, and only one or two by shells. So far is this from being the case that we lest 250 men in the entrench ment in 22 days, and a large number of these were - killed by shells ; certainly as many as a dozen on one fatal day that I remember. Not one of our killed was sewn in a bag (as it is stated) previously to interment ; we had neither materials nor time for such labour. At nightfall each day the slain were - buried as decently as cir cumstances would permit. Alas! it was little more we could do than place them under ground. The statement that little children were, sent to draw water is an invention ; this task was always performed by volunteers, and some of our privates of the European regiments made a trade of it, charging so much per bucket. The sally said to have been contrived by consul tation among the troops was an orderly assault upon the batteries of the besiegers, headed by Captain Moore, 32d Foot, with the full consent of General Wheeler. No retreat was sounded, and they re turned in due order when their work was done, and not before. It was as cool a thing as was ever seen in war, deserving of very different comment from that in the narrative in the Indian Empire. "Not more than 30 soldiers were killed in the garrison," says Mrs. Murray. The whole of the artillerymen at the station, 59 in number, were killed at their guns, except four or five, who survived till the em barkation. Our force of European troops at the time of the outbreak consisted of 59 artillerymen, 75 of the 32d Regt. (invalids), 15 of the Ist Madras Fusileers, and about 50 of the 84th Foot—about 200 in all. lam sure that 100 of these fell during the siege. Mrs. Murray is represented as saying that, to the best of her knowledge there were lots of provisions _ in the garrison, and insinuates that Gen. Wheeler might have held out a fortnight longer. Yet I know that two persons died of starvation ; a horse was greedily devoured, and some of my men were glad to feed upon a dog Our daily supply of provisions for 22 days consisted of half a pint of pea soup and two or three chupatties (or cakes made of flour), these last being together about the , size of an Abernethy biscuit. Upon this diet, which was served to all without distinction— officers and privates, civilians and soldiers—tha garrison was reduced to a company of spectres long before the period .of capitulation, and when this took place there were only four days' rations, at the above rate of supply, in stock. I do not believe that General Wheeler manifested the slightest desire to capitulate. I know that he opposed it heartily, and only succumbed upon the strong representations of the second in com mand, an officer exemplary for his courage—the very life sinews of our beleaguered band, but wholly inexperienced in native character. The younger officers were at the time advocates for resistance to the last ; but, looking back calmly upon all the perils of these never-to-be-forgotten days, and considering that which I am sure mainly in fluenced the decision—viz., the horrible exposure of multitudes of women and children—l much doubt whether the slightest censure should rest upon either of my senior officers for the steps taken. They were all brave men, and I should be most unworthy of the preservation so wonderfully extended to me if I did not retrieve their memory from undeserved reproach. During tire whole period of our straits in the entrenchment there was not one instance of dejection through cowardice. The very children seemed inspired with heroic patience, and our women behaved with a fortitude that only Englishwomen could have shown. There are other statements equally erroneous in this most injurious publication, 'Which, compara tively harmless in the pages of the Indian Empire* has acquired world-wide celebrity by transfer. I cannot prolong my refutation, lest it should be excluded from your columns. I hope ere long, in an account of my escapes and experiences at Cawnpore, to be able to set at rest all doubts that may have been raised touching the honour of my much-lamented companions, and to assure survivors in England that their grief need not be e mbittered by the suspicion of incompetency or ill-conduct on the part of any engaged in a scene that will not soon cease to be talked and thought of in our fatherland. FAILLYG-IN OF A RAILWAY TU117.17,L. A painful sensation has been created throughout the hamlet of Hampstead by the giving way of a considerable portion of the brickwork of the tunnel in course of construction between Pond-street, south end, Hampstead, and the western portion of the Finchley-road, in connection with the Hampstead Junction Railway. Up to last Sunday week the works, under the direction of Mr. Berkeley, the engineer of the com pany, and the contractors, Messrs. Oliver, Kent, and Barton, progressed satisfactorily, and there was every reason to expect that the works would have been completed by Christmas, and that the entire line would be opened for traffic as originally calcu lated in May next. On Sunday week, however, on the relief going on duty there was unmistakeable evidence that something was wrong, a great portion of the brick workN having given way between os. 3 and 4 shafts. The men, perceiving the dangerous position of the works, communicated immediately with the superintendent of the contract, and, additional aid being obtained, every effort was made to stay the impending danger, but notwithstanding the strenu ous and indefatigable exertions of between 40 and 50 men who laboured incessantly for hours at the imminent danger of their lives, 18 lengths or 198 feet of heavy brick work fell in, and it was with difficulty that many of the workmen made their escape. The entire length of the tunnel is about three quarters of a mile, and the accident occurred about midway. Yesterday a thorough investigation of the ruins and the immediate locality was made under the direction of Mr. Berkeley. It appears that the brickwork was fo un d t o b e inadequate to support the superincumbent weight. The position of the tunnel where the accident occurred was immedi ately under the Conduit-field, in which there is a spring or quicksand. Itamediately above the first portion of the tunnel that fell a steam engine was at work, which was used to empty the two shafts and supply them with material. The ground for some distance above the fallen tunnel was cracked, and the heavy machinery had sunk several feet. From yesterday's investigation it is clear that the damage done is far more extensive than was at first anticipated, and it is now determined that this por tion of the work will have to 'he re-let. It is feared that, in consequence of this serious mishap, the public will be deprived of the advan ta..es offered by the promised opening of the line in May next ; in addition to which the company will be sufferers to the extent of some thousands o f pounds. Although, in all probability, a por ti on o f the line will be opened in May, y et it is more than probable that the completion of it will be delayed for more than six months,