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GrENFIELD PATENT STARCH, USED IN THE ROYAL LAUNDRY, AND PRONOUNCED BY HER MAJESTY'S LAUNDRESS to be THE FINEST STARCH SHE EVER USED. Sold by all Chandlers, Grocers, &c., &c. BANK OF DEPOSIT, Established A.D. 1844. 3, PALL MALL EAST, LONDON. Parties desirous of Investing Money are requested to exa mine the Plan of The Bank of Deposit, by which a high rate Of interest may be obtained with ample security. Deposits made by Special Agreement, may be withdrawn Witho,t notioe The Interest is payable in January_and July. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. Forms for Opening Accounts sent free on application. CONTRACT FOR BRUSHES, BROOMS, HAIR PENCILS, AND TOOLS, ETC. Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy, Somerset-place, 4th Oct., 1858. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED RINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on TUESDAY, the 19th 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 several Dockyards with BRUSHES, BROOMS, HAIR ,PENCILS, and TOOLS, &c., under a Contract for twelve .months certain, and afterwards until the expiration of three months' warning. Patterns may be seen, and a form of the Tender, a sche dule of the articles, and the conditions of the Contract obtained 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 lef-hand coer the words Ten der for Brushes, Brooms, &c., t " and mu st be delivered at S omerset-place, accompanied by a Letter signed by Two responsible Persons, engaging to become bound with the Per son tendering, in the sum of £5OO, for the due perform ance of the Contract. ALBERT LIFE ASSURANCE AND GUARANTEE COMPANY. (Established 1838.) ncipal Office 11 Waterloo-place, Pall 3lall, London, S.W. City Branch, 63, Moorgate-street, E.C. DIRECTORS. 'William Beattie, Esq., M.D. George Goldsmith Kirby, evt. the Hon. S. T. Carnegie, Esq. I.ieut. ,C.B. James Nichols, Esq. CoL, James Croudace, Rear-Adm. the Right lion. t , 1 1.E.1.C.5. Lord George Paulet, C.B. owynfen Jervis, Esq. Capt. Thos. Porter, R.N. 'William King, Esq. George Raymond, Esq. Assurances, Annuities, and Endowments granted, and every other mode of provision for Families arranged. Half the Annual Premiums for the first five years may re !nain on credit for any period until death, on Payment of In terest at five per cent. per annum. Parties allowed to go to, or reside in, most parts of the World, without extra Premium. Naval and Military Lives, not in active Service, assured at the ordinary rate. Policies forfeited by non-payment of Premium, revivable at any time within Six Months, on satisfactory proof of_h ea lltb, and the payment of a trifling fine. No charge for Policy Stamps. Reversionary Interests in every description of real or per sonal propertecuri purchased. of trust. S ty toE mployers, Guarantee for Fidelity I n s it ua ti ons Forms of Proposal, with. eve r y i n f orma ti on, may be ob tained at the Office of the Co m p an y , or b y l e tt er, a dd resse d to HENRY WILLIAM SMITH, Actuary and Secretary. THE TRAVELLERS' AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY. 17 , Bank -buildings, Lothbury, and 42 and Poultry, London. With which is incorporated the business of THE ACCIDENTAL DEATH INSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1849, and Empowered by Special Act of Parliament. RUSTEES. Matthew Marsha ll , Esq., (Bank of England.) William Smee, Esq., (Bank of England). Kenyon S. Parker, Esq., Q.C. Henry Blair Mayne, Esq. c_The business of the ACCIDENTAL DEATH INSURANCE AriPANY having been purchased by the TRAVELLERS' AND -AnINE INSURANCE COMPANY, all the Policies of the late te lt°, Pany adopted under the Deed of Purchase are guaran- B i g and kept in force by the Travellers' and Marine In de e° Company, upon precisely . the same terms and con °lis under which they were originally issued. Total Policies issued 39,000 Claims paid since 1849 £71,000 Annual income from Premiums (1857) _„lnsurance e ff ected against General Accidents, Railway Ac cidents; and M arine Risks ; either Fatal, Non-fatal, or both g o e tiler ; with or w ith ou t Medical expenses extra. For posal Forms, Prospectuses, and all other information, Ply to the Manager, at the Chief Office, or to any of the °l3l l 3 any's local Agents. EDWARD- SOLLY, Manager. 7, Bank-buildings, Lothbury, London. INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE Establ ished 142, Strand, Lo n d gn , W.C., Feb. 25, 1858. 1837.—Payment of Premium within Days of S- —lt alw a y s h as been, and still is, the practice of this at to pay claims under policies of assurance, notwith oi`uulng the death o f th e assure d occurr i ng w ithin the 30 days tgrace, and b e f ore payment of the annua l prem i um , p rov ided rneut thereof be made, or notice of the death be °Mee before the expiration of such days of grace. given to For the Court of Directors, E S. SYMES, Chairman. E. II E INTERNATIONAL LIF E ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 142, Strand, London. 'll u POwered by Act of Parliament , for LIFE ASSU RANCE ci RVIVORSHIPS, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &c. DIRECTORS. ED'3TOND SHEPPARD SYMES, M.D., Chairman. ZlinKenworthel King-C y hurch. Browe,sq. Esq. Johd Henry' Moss J. H , Esq. odgson, Esq. u n E "9„,tinElliotson D Cantab., John Symes, Esq. r.R.S . , • •, I Joseph Thompson, Esq. SECRETARY TO THE BOARD. Alexander Richardson, Esq. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. Augustus Blondel, Esq. Prof AUDITORS. essor Wheatstone, F.R.S., and Professor J. Radford Young. MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL. Elliotson, 31. D., Cantab., F.R.S., 37, Conduit-street. ACTUARY. W. S. B. Viroblhouse; Esq., F:R.A.S., F.S.S., &c. ASSISTANT ACTUARY. Barker Woo Mouse, Esq. BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. Me SOLICITORS. liars. Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Roweliffe, Bedford. 'ln T May, 1E460.he next Qui EXE tnquennial Division of Profits will be declared .mples of Bonus up to May, 1855: l'ohey Bonus in Permanent taku um - additio- Cash. Bonus in Reduction - Age. As S sured. out in to Sum of Annual c Assured. Premiums. ---- -- X s s. d. X . d. 1838 65 3,000 867 17 7 428 1 4 56 3 8 1841 itu -- 48 4,000 749 4 0 325 16 0 32 0 4 9 " 5 2,000 232 18 0 156 15 0 16 6 0 185 1 6 0 2,000 154 2 8 10316 8 10 15 2 55 - 2,800 120 17 0 72 14 6 67 7 ---- tue following are amongst the advantages offered by the Tilejnatioital Life Assurance Society:— rfl u gioclety was establi hed in 1838. woo--thir ds of the profit ' s are divided amongst the assured e vel7 five yea Itt: mlb scribe rs d . capital is five hundred thousand pounds. I nvestments, at the date of the last annual report a mts to one hundred and seventy-one thousand pounds. ~ j ,s annual income is ninety thousand pounds. e number of policies now in force exceed six thousand. About one thousand new policies are added every year. " „ S ince its co mmencement the Soc i ety h as pa id in c l a i ms F o nds al three hundred and twenty thousand pounds. ainn PromPectuses Strand. and every other information, apply to the an, 142, _ EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman. 14 2, Strand, London, W.C. ON r k ,„ - -.,_HYSICAL DI, GENERATIV ACITY, AN D UALIFICATIONSIMPEDTKENTS TO MARRIAGE.E New mid improved Edition, enlarged to 196 pages, illustrated. 1 1 7 100 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel, just pub -I'hed, price, free by post, is. RE SILENT FRIEND : A Medical Work th on the physical exhaustion aud decay of the frame, from „2 effects of solitary indulgence, infection, and the injurious tlfl_lBequences from the use of Mercury : with observations on V, obligations of marriage, and directions for obviating cer ;',ll disqualifications. By R. and L. PERRY and Co., Sur- Consultations as usual (gee page 197). Sold by J. Allen, Warwick -lane Paternoster-row; Sanger, 160, Oxford street; and Gordon, 146", Leadenh all-street, - London. The CORDIAL BA LM of SYR T_ACUM is employed in both se Xes to reno va t e the impaired powers of life. Its act i on i s C r elY balsamic : it s p ower i n re i m 'igorating the frame in all t ses of nervous and. sexual debility, obstinate gleets, impo i,eney, barrenness, anddebilities arising from venereal excesses. ' .48 peen demonstrated by its unvarying sucess in thousands of Whie. Price 11s. per bottle, or four quantities in one for 335., t saves 11s. a n he CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE, an yphilitic remedy, for purifying' the system, and is recom '..ended for any of the varied forms of secondary symptoms, lard as eruptions on the skin, blotches on the head and face, en - raents of the throat, tonsils, and uvula ; threat e ened r. u estruction of the nose, palate, &c. Its action is . pure!d te atrice we, and its beneficial infiuence on the system is und eniable. iis. and 335. per bottle, also a saving of 11s. rERRY'S PURIFYING SPE,CIFIC PILLS constitute an effectual remedy in either sex for cases of gonorrhoea, gleet , Itricture, and diseases of th e ur i n .cary organs. 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SELF-PRESERVATI ON . —A Medical Treatise on the Functions and Disorder sof the Generative System, 1 1 .11c1 on the cure of N ervous and P hysical Debility, result i ng from vicious habits acquired during , . the critical passage from Youth to Manhood, with practical observations on the Phy siology of Marriage in its social, moral, and physical rela tion% To which are added remarlz3 on the wouilers of the Microscope in revealing the hidden it iysteries "of Life within 4 4 1 - l e," and its advantages in detectin; a, by urinary examine the cause and effect of every variety of these complaints, With numerous engravings and cases. BY SAMUEL LA.'MR RT, M.D., 37, BEDFORD SQUARI 4, LONDON, Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Hono rary Member of the London Hosp italMr c ical Society, Li centiate of Apothecaries' Hall, Loud() , & e , The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fear ful • consequences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, a nd which have produced more_ misery in a Youth, stage degradation in Manhood, and pre mature decay at ll cd life, than, perhaps, any other class of disease known to I lic ' d ern-patholooists. Its perusal is particularly recomme d e i d Persons entertaining secret s doubts of their physical con - L i on, and wh o are consc i ous o f h a ;ring hazarded the " le lums and privileges bto which_ every human eing titd. It ; there -8 absolutely necessary that all men should know that are principles of personal management which cannot be Ore gilded - without incurring grievous penalties, and when i nc r°ln and regret succeed the herflay of inconsiderate stlf :ti °Zen", how those penalties may be mitigated, how the t arot 'their bitterness may be removed, and how the evil th 7 audits consequences may be avoided, and, above all, that d ere i s scarcely any degree of physics 1 infirmity or functional ..''ailfmment to which the timely aid. of science cannot apply 411.111 shed by J. Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row, annr may be had of Mann, 39, Cornball ; Home, the• ; 111 ; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street ;or from Author, • n laY be consulted daily, from 1.1 till 2, and from 6 till 8, residence, 37, Bedford-squar u, London. A... The work may be had in India, of Mr. Von Litzky, Loll Calcutta—Mossrs. C. and J.. 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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS for SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9th, contains the fol lowing splendid ENGRAVINGS :—SKETCHES IN CANTON : Return of the Avengers —Appearance of a Busy Street in f),oton after a Visit from "Ye Barbarians"—A Party of Totirists crossing the Mer Glace—Ruins, of the Fallen Honsea: in Pilgrim-street, City. Inauguration of the Ceylon. Railway: Turning the First Turf—The East-end of the Banquet Bun galow—The Reredos in the Cloister of Sherborne Minster — Opening of the Landudiio Railway on the, Ist inst.—Fifteen Portraits of Members of the New East India Council—Pas- Relief, "The Song of Miriam and Moses," by Mr. Gatley, for a Mausoleum near Edinburgh—The Markore (Capra Mega ceros).—The Birthplace of Mr. Robert Stephenson, M.P., C.E. —St. Martin's Church, Birmingham—Meeting of the British Association at Leeds : the Horticultural Fete at Kirkstall Abbey—Testimonial recently presented to Major-General Hall, late of the Ist Life Guards—Music: " Joys of the Past." With the Latest Foreign and Colonial Intelligence and all the News of the Week. Price lid. ; stamped, ed.—Office, MS, Strand. Now ready, VoL. 32 of the ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, January to June, 1858, cloth gilt, 185. ; sewed, 13s. Cases for binding the above, 2s. 6d. ; portfolios, 4s ; reading cases, 2s. FEIST'S RACING ' RECORD for 1858 . Part IX., price 3d., will be published on the Ist of November. The Record, containing a complete calendar of Sport in England, Ireland, and Scotland, in 1857, and nomi nations for 1858, may be had, price two shillings. W. Wright, Fulwood's Rents, Holborn _ 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, C 4 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, andinfallible 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. Grttiker, Dr. Wurtzer, Dr. 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. PROFESSOR WILIALBA FRIKELL.- LAST WEEK BUT TWO.—TO-NIGHT.—NEW TRICKS. POLYGRAPHIC HALL, King William-street, Charing-cross.—TWO HOURS OF ILLUSIONS, previous to Professor Frikell's departure on a provincial tour. Every evening at 8 ; Saturday afternoons at 3. 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KAHN'S NINE LECTURES ON THE PHILO SOPHY OF MARRIAGE, &c., sent post free, direct from the Author, on the receipt of twelve stamps. ALHAMBRA PALACE, Leicester-square. (The best Ventilated Building id Europe.) Lessees, Messrs. Howes and Cushing. WALLETT'S GREAT EQUESTRIAN COMPANY Are still in their zenith of attraction. Senora DELAVANTI in her incredible and terrific Ascent on the Atlantic Tele graph Wire, is daily and nightly hailed with cheers ; Wal lett, the Queen's Jester ; Pastor, the Star Rider of America ; Julia Tournaire, Cook, the wonderful Delavanti Family, Herr Footit, &c., appear at each Exhibition. TWO PERFORMANCES EACH DAY, Commencing at Half-past Two and Half-past Seven o'clock, p.m. Admission—Private boxes, £1 10s. to £2los. each ; stalls, ss. ; reserved seats, ss. ; second boxes, 2s. ; pit, is. ; gallery, 6d. Box-office open from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. No fees for booking places. Children under 9, half-price. RoYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL. —Director, Mr. R DUFFELL.—FURTHER EXTEN SION OF THE SUMMER SEASON FOR ONE WEEK, —THIS EVENING • (Thursday) Concert in the Handef Orchestra, supported by Mrs. Lawrence, Mrs. P. Corri, Messrs. P. Cord, Russell Grover, C. Sloman, Elijah Taylor, and Master Haydn Corri. On the Ballet stage, Mr. G. Thompson, on the Spanish ;Franca.—Mr. James Ro binson, the Great American bare back rider, will appear in the Cirque Imperial, In conjunction with the talented CorApany of Equestrians (including Madame Blanche, the Equestrian magnet), under the direction of her Majesty's Clown, 11. CroueSte.—Splendid Illuminations.—Brilliant Py rotechnic Displays--Wonderful Tight Rope Ascent—Dancing before and after the fireworks. —Two Bands. Open EVERY EVENING, wet or dry, from Monday to Friday, at Seven ; Saturday at Three. —Various enter tainments during the Afternoon until Six, when the usual performances commence.—Admission, One Shilling; Chil dren, Sixpence. Open on Sundays at Five for Promenade ; refreshment ticket, 6d. NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE. Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Constipation, Flatulency, Phlegin, Nervousness, Biliousness, Liver Complaints, Hysteria, Neuralgia, Sleeplessness, Acidity, Palpitation, Heartburn, Eruptions, Impurities, Irritability, Low Spirits, Diarrhoea, Hemorrhoids, Ifeadache, Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Spasms, Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy or at sea), Sinking Fits, Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption, also Children's Complaints, effectually removed by DU BARRY'S delicious Health-Restoring REVALENTA 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 from 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 Digs, Norfolk." Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazi ng Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Herts, a cure of extreme ner- VOLM ess, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fan cies. Cure No. 48,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liverpool : a cure of ten years' dyspepsia, and all the horrors of patio irritability. Cure No. 18,216. Dr. Andrew lire, of con stipation, dyspepsia, nervous irritability. Cure No. 34,210. Dr. Shorland, of dropsy and debility. Cure No. 36,212. Cap tain Allan, of epileptic fits. Cure No. 46,116. Major Edie, of enlargement of the liver, and total prostration of strength. Cure No. 36,418. Rev. Dr. Minster. of cramps, spasms, and daily vomiting. Cure No. 26,418. Dr. Harvey, of diarhoea and debility. Cure No. 3 9 , 62 5. Dr. Wurtzer, of consumption. Cure No. 32,830. Wm. Hunt , Esq., barrister, of paralysis. Cure No. 46,270. Mr James Roberts, wood merchant, Fernley, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver de rangement, partial deafness. Cure No. 58,816. Mrs. lloize, aged 107 years, of dyspepsia (indigestion), debility, irritability, and nervousness, which had tormented her for 70 years. Cure No. 56,814. Mr. Samuel Laxton, 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 gumption, 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. 4,205. "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 Flavell, e.T , n T h N. be happy to I.):l.onßswlterectoavy Norfolk ' s No. 3 v 2,B3ro h, re V e years' excessive nervousnes s • with pains in my neck and left arm, and general debi lity ,' whico rendered my life very miserable, has been radically rl b Du Barry's health r estorinm Food. Alex. removc i e ,c,on of Ross, Skib bereen. Cure No. 3,963. y -15 ' cough, indiges tion, and general debility have been remove l by Du Barry's exce ll en t Revalenta Arabica Food. Jameg Porter, Athol street Perth. Important Caution against the fearful danger of spurious imitations : The Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page W d 10th - 00 granted an injunction on the March, 18.4, against Alfred TrooT;er Neville, for imitating Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food.'' S u itably packed all instructions. In all climates, and with In canisters, 11b., 2s. 9d. ; 21b., 45. 6d. ; 121 b., 22, fi n ed quality 11b., 6s. ; 21 b. , lls. ; 101 b 22s ; Super re . 335. The 10Ib. and 121 b. canis ters are forwarded carriage fisse, on re ceipt of Post-Offieo order. Du Barry and C., 77, Regent street, London ; Fortnum, Mason, Any Co., purveyors to her Majesty. 182, Piccadilly ; James Well, 4n, Sloane-street ; also at 60, Gracechurch-street ; 330, 430, and 451, Strand • 150 ' g 4, Cheapside ; and 60, Bishopsgat e•street , 6 3 , , end 198, Oxford-street. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY . EVENING, OCTOBER 7, 1858. MINERALOGY.—KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON. PROFESSOR TENNANT, F.G.S., will com mence a COURSE of LECTURES on MINERALOGY, with a view to facilitate the study of Geology, and of the ap plication of mineral substances in the Arts: The Lectures will be illustrated by an extensive Collection of Specimens, and will begin - TO-MORROW, Oct. 8, at Nine o'clock A.M. They will be continued on each succeeding WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY, at the same hour. Fee, £2 2s. R. W. JELF, D.D, Principal. BOARD AND RESIDENCE. A Superior Home is offered to a Gesitleman of steady habits, en gaged during the day, by a family residing near Regent's - l'ark. Fora . young man coming to London for.the first time this would be found a desirable residence. Terms moderate. Referenees to be exchanffed• Address, J. P., Wright's Dairy, Granby-street, Hampstead-road, N.W. GEORGE HOBSON . begs to call the attention of Gentlemen to his New Autumnal Trousers, 21s. to 255. Also his New Partridge Mixture Shooting Coats. _ . Excellence with Economy. GEORGE H Es OBS tab O li shed 7, Lombard-street. 1796. WHO WILL PAY THE CHINESE INDEMNITY ? Why, the English themselves. An export duty is to be levied, and then not even the 'East India Tea Company will be able, as they now are,- to sell 11b. of Black, Green, or Mixed Tea, at ls. 10d. .per lb., and _Coffee, in the Berry, at-13d.—Warehouse, 9, Great-St. s-chtirch yard, City. rpHoRLEY'S FOOD FOR • CATTLE -11 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." He tried all kinds of things to get the animal into condition, but in vain. lie 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 agri cultural shows at Birmingham, Cardiff, Are., 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. 'NICOLL'S NEW REGISTERED PALETOT has all those advantages which secured such general popularity to Messrs. Nicolls' original paletot, that is to say, it avoids giving to the wearer an outré appearance, so that professional men and all others can use it during morning and afternoon in or out of doors. Secondly, there is an absence of unnecessary seams, well known to secure a more graceful out line, as well as to effect a great saving in wear ; the latter advantage is considerably enhanced by the application of a peculiar and neatly stitched binding, the mode of effecting which is patented. Great exertions are being made to supply Messrs. Nicoll's agents throughout the country and •the colonies with an assortment of this new garment, simulta neously with the display in London, but it is necessary to in form the public that all Messrs. Nicoll's manufactures may be distinguished by a trade mark, consisting of a silk label attached to each specimen ; to copy this is fraud, and may be thus detected. If the garment is dark-coloured, the label has a black ground, with the firm's name and address woven by the Jacquard loom in gold-coloured silk ; if the garment is light-coloured, the label has a pale drab ground, and red silk letters. Each paletot is marked in plain figures, at a fixed moderate price, and is of the best materials. In London, the NEW REGISTERED PALETOT can alone be had of 11. J. and D. NICOLL, 114, 116, 118, 120, Regent-street, and 22, CornhilL SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HARROW RACES.--WEDNESDAY, Handicap Hurdle Race of 6 sous each, with 20 added. Over six flights of hurdles. Gentlemen riders allowed 51b. Two miles. (13 subs.) Mr. Barber's. Miss Harkaway, by Sir Tatton Sykes, 5 yrs, list 61b Capt. Connell's Little Tom, aged, lOst 91b (Mr. Edwards) 2 Mr. H. Francis's Red Star, 5 yrs, 9st 111 b (Owner) 5 . _ The betting opened at 6 to 1 on Miss Harkaway, but after a whlie Little Tom's number was put up (after it had been taken down), and 4 to 1 was laid on the mare. 'Won by three-quarters of a length. Red Star bolted at The Farm, he was quickly righted, but fell at the succeeding flight of hurdles. The Copeland Handicap of 5 sovs each, with 50 added. Winners extra. Three-quarters of a mile. 13 subs. Mr. E. Clarke's Simpleton, by Flatcatcher, 3 yrs, sst 71b (A. Edwards) 1 Mr. A. Williams's Palm Leaf, 2 yrs, 4st 41b.... (Reeves) 2 Mr. Saxon's Princess Royal, 3 yrs (in. 71b ex.), 6st 111 b (L. Snowden) 3 Betting-6 to 4 agst Simpleton, 7to 4 agst Princess Royal, 4 to 1 agst Palm Leaf. Won in a canter by a length, three lengths between the second and third. The Great Middlesex Stakes of 100 sovs, added to a Handi cap Sweepstakes of 20 sovs each, h ft, and 3 only if de clared (to go to the fund). The second to save his stake. Winners extra. Mile and a half. 27 subs., 17 of whom declared. Mr. Read's Satinstone, by Touchstone, 3 yrs, 7st 21b (L. Snowden) 1 Mr. Copeland's Pyrrhus the Second, 4 yrs, ist 61b (Plumb) 2 Mr. Parker's Martha, 3 yrs, 7st 41b (carried 7st 51b (Fordhara) 3 Betting-5 to 2on Satinstone, who won by half a length. Bad third. The Nursery Handicap of 60 sovs. Winners extra. Three quarters of a mile. 33 subs. Mr. A. Williams's Palm Leaf, by Ratan, Est 911 (inc. 51b extra) (F. Adams) 1 Mr. Johnson's Willie Wright, 7st 511 .... (L. Snowden) 2 Mr. La Mert's Lady-well, 6st 121 b (A. Edwards) 3 Betting-5 to 1 each agst Villaret and Willie Wright, 7 to 1 agst Hibernian, 8 to 1 agst Palm Leaf, 10 to 1 agst Miss Partridge. Won by a length, the second beating the third by a length and a half. Brown Holland, Miss Eleanor, and Hibernian headed the next lot. In the ex treme rear were Eltham Beaaty, Despatch colt, and Moultan gelding ; the last mentioned did not pass the post. An objection was lodged against Palm Leaf, on the ground that she had carried 51b overweight. It was after wards proved that she had walked over on the preceding day for the Handicap Plate of £4O, and received half the plate. It was therefore decided that she was entitled to carry the extra weight. If this plea, however, had been over-ruled, the fact of the jockey declaring the 51b extra would have rendered the filly properly qualified. The Harrow Handicap of 3 sovs each, with 20 added. Gen tlemen riders. One mile and a half. s:subs. Mr. Barber's Lord Nelson, by Collingwood, 4 yrs, llst 41b (Mr. Dart) 1 Mr. H. E. Johnston's Kilsby, 3 yrs, Bst 121 b (in. 51b ex.) (L. Snowden) 2 Mr. Fuller's Cantrip, 4 yrs, 9st 101 b .... (Mr. Edwards) 3 Betting-2 to lon Lord Nelson, who won by six lengths; bad third. The Stewards' Plate Handicap of 60 sous. Winners extra. One mile. Mr. E. R. Clarke's Simpleton, by Flatcatcher, 3 yrs, _6st lib (in. 51b extra (A. Ed.wards) 1 Mr. La Mert's Queen of the South, 5 yrs, Bst 51b (G. Fordham) 2 Mr. Copeland's Pyrrhus the Second, 4 yrs, 6st 61b (Byitton) 3 The following also ran :—Salonica and Rara Avis. Betting-5 to 4on Simpleton, sto 1 agst Rara Avis, 100 to 15 agst Queen of the South. Won by a neck, same dis tance between the second and third, a length between the third and fourth. Rara Avis did not pass the post. LATEST BETTING. CESAREWITCH. 12 to 1 agst Prioress (offered) 14 to 1 agst Happy Land (taken) 14 to 1 agst Malacca (taken) 100 to 6 agst Roman Candle (taken and offered) 30 to 1 agst Rocket (offered) 33 to 1 agst Julia (taken) 50 to 1 agst Hydromel (taken freely) 50 to 1 agst Janet (taken) • 50 to 1 agst Zouavo (taken) 100 to 1 agst Fadladeen (taken) 25 to 1 agst Mr. Sykes and Vandermulin (coupled) 100 to 5 agst Sampson and Ancient Briton (coupled) CAMBRIDGESHIRE 50 to 1 agst Prioress 50 to 1 agst Barbarity 50 to 1 agst Eclipse 50 to 1 agst Malacca 50 to 1 agst Rosa Bonheur. WON THE TRIAL IN A CANTER.—Youatt Wm. Gray's selection for the Cesarewitch Stakes was tried on Friday, and won by ten lengths in a trot—two others, and favourites, too, at the present time, were in the fray, but had not the ghost of a chance—this is a better thing than Sunbeam, my selection for the St. Leger. I know of several winners which will be included for 2s. 6d. and per centage. Terms to the end, 7s. 6d. Stamps taken. Lay against Underhand, he is a "market" horse. I sent Prin cess Royal, Palm Leaf, and Ardour to win. —Address, 15, Charing-cross. THE COMET was seen to great advantage last even ing. About half-past seven the star Arcturus was shining brightly through its luminous tail near the nucleus. The tail extends to a length of about 27 degrees. A scien tific correspondent at Edinburgh thus describes its appear ance on Monday night :—" Just after it had become visible to the naked eye (at ten minutes past six), the comet pre sented a very marked appearance when seen with a tele scope magnifying sixty times. The nebulous matter, which reached to a distance of about 40 sec. below the nucleus, had the form of a crescent, the darker part between the cusps giving the idea that the opaque part cast a shadow into the nebula. As the darkness of the evening came on, this seeming shadow grew narrower, but the central part remained very decidedly fainter than the edges, as if the luminosity of the comet was confined principally to the outer layers of matter." [AIiVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills.—When we con sider how uncertain are life and health, and their value is appreciated by all human beings, it is strange indeed to ob- Serve how often men neglect the means of preserving these blesoings at even the most trifling cost. They pay heavily to insure their premises from fire or their goods from acci dent on flood and field, but they often put off until it is too late the expenditure of a few shillings over a box of Hol which they might keep by them as an unfail lionwgasy'nfse&tils„ as a charm which will protect the pos sesilor against all diseases. They must certainly do gopd,' if used according o in.structions given with each box, THE 4TL4NTIC TELEGIMPH. VALENTIA, OCT. 4. • While all the rest of the world is busy with con. jectures and speculations relative to the probability of the present Atlantic cable ever becoming a prac tical means of communication between Europe and. America, at this secluded little spot, which is sup posed to be the centre_ of all information on the subject, everything remains dull and quiet enough. All the eminent electricians, who for more than a month past have been busy in performing a variety of scientific experiments with the line, have left, with the exception of Mr. Henley ; and even the few occasional strangers and tourists whom the fame of the cable brought to this, part of the world have long ceased to arrive. The stories of wonder ful phenomena observed by the- country people in connection with the first success and ultimate failure of the cable are now no longer heard, and people now think and speak of an Atlantic Tele graph as if an enterprise for its accomvlishment had never existed. : All here are now obliged to admit reluctantly that the present cable is a failure, and the faint hopes which were indulged in a short time ago, that one of the principal injuries to the cable _was near the shore and within reach, arc now aban doned. One day, to all appearances, the fault mends to a considerable extent, and during the receiving periods the ever-varying earth currents are watched, distorted, an& dissected, in the hopes of discovering something that may be construed into a signal or message from Newfoundland—but to no purpose, for even the slight and regular deflections of Professor Thomson's delicate galvanometer, _Which were at first mistaken for " reversals " from America, are now attributed to the varying nature of the faults. Though a considerable part of the injury that has occurred to the cable is due to circumstances over which human foresight could have no control—as, for-instance, the - tempestuous weather which universally prevailed during all the expedition—yet the many and disappointing failures which have occurred have brought with them valuable experience which will prevent their recurrence during the laying of any future deep-sea lines. A variety of experiments have lately been tried, both by Professor Thomson and Mr. Henley, to discover the amount of fault or bare surface of the conductor which would prevent the current passing through the line altogether, and they have come to the conclusion that several inches of total loss of insulation in one place would not interrupt the whole of the electric current at once, though the points of leakage would soon be totally oxidated away by the decomposition of the salt water in contact with them, if positive currents of electricity were used, while, if only a minute flaw existed, the use of the powerful currents of high tension electricity, such as were at first used with the cable, would very soon destroy the wire altogether at the point of resistance. The sup posed difficulty of working through the cable after it was submerged, which was so much talked about a short time ago, has turned out to be alto gether a mistake, and therefore the high tension induction coils which were made by Mr. White house were not only unnecessary, but absolutely hurtful and dangerous—unless the whole length of the line was most perfectly insulated in every inch of its vast length, which of course it is impossible to expect that anything made by human hands could be. The retarding influences of induction which were so much spoken of while the cable was lying at Keyham were probably due to the induc tive influence of one layer of the cable lying over another in the coil, for so little has it been ex perienced since the cable has been laid that Pro fessor Thomson thinks if the line was in fair condi tion it could be worked through with ease with a few battery cells of Daniel's constant battery. A great variety of interesting experiments have been performed to show the kind of electricity best suited for working through the line, both in a perfect and imperfect condition, and the results which have been arrived at are both useful and interesting. The high tension electricity from the induced coils was found to burn up and destroy a wire where a fault in the gutta pereha was made. The second experiment was made with discharges from Hen ley's magneto-electric machine. This was found to suffer a slight loss through the fault, but not to in jure the wire at the point of egress in any way as long as negative discharges only were sent through. The direct battery current, of great quantity, but low tension electricity, was found to answer best, and to cause less injury , to the cable and to suffer less loss through the fault, but some copious currents of this low tension electricity are now unable to make the cable show siiits of activity even with the most delicate arrangement of Professor Thomson's reflect ing galvanometer. Much has been said about this beautifully sensitive little instrument, yet but few know its nature or the advantages it possesses over other galvanometers in observing minute currents of electricity. It consists of a coil of very fine insu lated wire, in the interior of which is suspended a very small mirror of the finest microscope glass, to the back of which are fastened two magnetic needles not more than a quarter of an inch in length. The two needles, with the reflecting mirror they bear, not weighing more than two grains, are suspended by a single fibre of silk. When the in strument is in use a ray of light is thrown upon the mirror, and is reflected upon an index board. The very faintest currents of electricity are measured by these means, for the very faintest deflection of the needles, caused by an almost imperceptible current of electricity passing through the coil, of course is very perceptible upon the index board by the motion of the reflected spot of light. Mr. Henley has also a needle galvanometer here, most beauti fully sensitive, and he is now constructing one which will be sensibly affected by the small quantity of electricity developed by the motion of the muscles of the body. Mr. Henley's magnetic machine, as pre viously stated, is now regularly used every day, both in sending " reversal" signals, and sometimes even words. It is impossible to say definitely that they are received at the other • end ; yet from what is known of the nature and action of those magneto electric currents on overground lines there can be little doubt, if they do not pass the fault in the cable, no electric current ever will. Indeed, rumours have already reached this place, but for their au thenticity it is impossible to vouch, that intelli gence has been received from Newfoundland of the receipt there of several of the words and mes sages sent to Henley's magnetic machine. Even supposing this to be the case, and. that on sonic of Mr. Henley's instruments being sent out :to New foundland a regular communication is re-esta blished, it would be wise of the shareholders and those connected with the company not to be too sanguine of the permanent success of the present wire. A fault which, though slight at first, has been gradually but surely increasing, cannot but be in the end fatal ; for though for a time instruments of sufficient power to send, and deli cacy to receive messages through the cable, in its increasing state of imperfection, may be found, yet at length it must reach a condition with which the most refined mechanical skill cannot cope. That the wire is exposed to a considerable extent in at least two places is well ascertained, and where a metallic surface through which currents of positive electricity are passing is exposed to water, oxidation takes place by the electrolytic decomposition of the water, and thus the wire must soon be eaten away. This may be in a great measure avoided by transmitting all signals with negative currents, which would prevent the direct oxidation of the wire by electro lysis, but at the same time, according to the experi ments which have been made here both by Pro fessor Thomsom and Mr. Henley, an exposed wire is not entirely free from a species of decomposition even - when negative currents alone arc transmitted through it. It soon became encrusted with a light coloured substance, the precise nature of which is not quite ascertained as yet, but is supposed to be a combination of chloride of copper with some of the organic compounds contained in the gutta percha. So no matter what may be the result of the pre concerted experiments at both termini of the wire, one thing cannot be doubted, viz., that before per manent, certain, and rapid telegraphic communica tion can be secured between Europe and America, another cable must be laid. That this present or any other Atlantic Telegraph Company can be ex pected to advance the money for, and go to the trouble of laying another cable without some further encouragement from both the English and American Governments, it is not reasonable to suppose. About half a million has already been expended in merely purchasing experience of the kind of cable most suitable for submersion in the Atlantic, and. in the way it should be laid. This enormous outlay on the guaranteed Government subsidy is counted as nothing. The private enterprise of the promoters' and share holders of this undertaking has already done a great deal, and it may truly be said that the Go vernment have not neglected to bear a share in the undertaking on behalf of the public, as far as dock yard facilities and the loan of shils could go ; but considering the great national importance of the scheme and, and the many disappointments which thai shareholders have had to encounter , the time lia4 now come for both theTnglish and AmeriFon Governments to place their guaranteed subsidy upon a different and more encouraging basis. A fixed annual sum, no matter how large, secured to the company contingent on the success of their scheme, will never induce shareholders to advance in au undertaking in which they may spend mil lions before it is finally accomplished. But if say 5 per cent. were guaranteed by the two Gavern ments upon the total capital expended in complet ing a permanently successful and efficient telegra phic line between England and America until the company should be paving dividends to that amount, no one can doubt the Atlantic telegraph would soon be efficiently working. The apparent distance of the fault from the shore does not vary in the least degree. This would certainly tend to show that the break really is between 250 and 300 statute' miles from the shore, or nearly the same as the distance estimated by the resistance. It seems almost miraculous to people not conversant with electrical science that the position of a leakage in a submarine cable can be measured with comparative accuracy by experiments performed at either end of its length ; .but in reality the process is very simple. The resistance which each mile of cable offers to a given electric current is accurately known, there fore the resistance which the cable offers to a known ' current would give the number of miles that the fault is distant along the cable, supposing that the fault is of sufficient size to offer no resistance itself to the escape of the whole current. It is, therefore, evident that where the nature and size of a fault is not ascertained, its distance from any given point cagnot be made known with any certainty by- this method of measuring: ; for should the loss of insulation be small, and in itself offer great resistance to the passage of the current, this cannot be taken into account ; but the resistance must be measured as miles of distance from the fault to the point of observation. It is the knoWledge of the uncertainty of this method of measuring- the position of a fault tinder certain cir cumstances which encouraged the idea so long be lieved by many, that the injury to the cable was within a moderate distance of the shore. Thus, for the present, the cable must be considered a failure, at least as regards its paying and working proper ties ; nevertheless, in spite of all obstacles, the at tempt has demonstrated the ease, and indeed almost 1 certainty, with which under ordinarily favourable circumstances a submarine cable across the Atlantic can always be laid, and all the theories of the cross currents which were to break the cable, the floats which were necessary to buoy it up, and, above all, the idea that it could never sink to the bottom, are sett rest for ever. The cable has been laid, and has been worked through ; and really when we look for one moment at what that coil has had to under go, from the day the first mile of it was made up to the present time, it seems nothing less than marvel lous how it, has been submerged, and still more astounding that any signals ever came through it. The plan upon which the Crystal Palace is built was first drawn out upon a sheet of blotting-paper by Sir J. Paxton, while travelling to town in a railway carriage with Robert Stephenson. In like manner the first rough idea of the Atlantic Tele graph, and the kind of cable which would be neces sary to carry it into effect, was discussed for the first time one night as Mr. Brunel, Mr. Glass, Mr. Canning, and, we think, Sir C. Bright, were travel ling together from Milford to London. It was then agreed that strength, flexibility, and lightness were indispensable mechanical conditions in any rope to be submerged in the Atlantic, and one covered with thin steel wires, it was thought, would best suit the requirements of the case. Some time after this, when our capitalists were willing to sub scribe the money, upon the representations of Sir C. Bright, Mr. Mr. Brett, and Mr. White house, the plan gradually assumed a tangible shape and then some samples of steel rope were made by Glass and Elliot. These were, of course, beautiful specimens of manufacturing skill, very light, and as flexible as cord, and at the same time would bear a strain equal to ten tons. The expense, however, of the steel wire, the very limited supply of it that could be obtained at one time, put steel-covered ropes out of the question. Various other specimens of wire-covered rope were then made by the same firm, and a variety of experiments tried to ascertain the kind of rope which would be cheapest and at the same time best adapted, as regards strength and lightness, for the purpose. At length one specimen was made which was supposed to contain all the essential qualities, and which, though made of the best charcoal iron, only cost £lOO a mile. The breaking strain of this cable was 81 cwt., but it was found by using charcoal iron of an inferior quality the rope could be made at £9O a mile, and economy carried the day, and this rope was decided upon. This alteration in the quality of the iron, though only a saving of £lO per mile, reduced the breaking strain of the cable to 62 cwt. All the risks to which the success of this hazardous under taking was exposed commenced with the manufac ture of this rope. The Gutta Percha Company, as all who have to do with submarine lines know to their cost, have a complete monopoly of the manu facture, and rule all matters connected with their patent for insulating wires with absolute law. None could be present, on the part of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, to see that the same was pro perly insulated, and no doubt whatever exists but that in too many places the insulation was most defective. Many of these defects, no doubt, arose from the bad method of covering the wire with its gutta percha covering which the company them selves use, and much from the negligence of the men. In saying this, however, we by no means wish to blame the individuals of the company, who were heart and soul in favour of the telegraph ; but they, like others, had to trust to their workmen, who, in hurryingover more than 3,000 miles of wire, left but too many places poorly covered. On the very place where the splice was made, in the centre of the Atlantic, an air bubble, almost the size of a coffee-bean, had to be cut out. How many hundreds of similar places might there have been that were never seen. The defective centering of the copper conductor in its gutta percha covering was also, no doubt, a source of ,many serious faults, for the reason that the gutta percha, being very thin in some parts, allows the powerful electric currents from the induction coils to pierce it and touch the outside wires. Once this fault, which is techni cally called " blowing a hole," in a cable takes place, such a loss of the signalling current ensues that the cable is rendered useless, or a great aug mentation of b a tt ery power i s renderedC necessary ; and when this last remedy is resorted to the hole becomes larger and larger until the water, getting freely to the wire, oxidates it away in a very short time.. Such accidents have frequently occurred in the cables between England and the Hague, and there is not the least doubt that there are many scores of such faults along the Atlantic wire. However the continued rips and little injuries to which the coils were exposed only commenced after the manufacture was complete. The rope was coiled and uncoiled repeatedly in the hold of the Agamemnon, and during the first expedition of 1857 it was exposed to such heat as with the super incumbent pressure of the whole mass must have still more distorted the centering of the conductor in its gutta percha insulating medium. It was again uncoiled _at Keyham, in consequence of the eagerness of the American officers to be " quit of England." The Niagara's portion of the cable was filmg out in heaps with such reckless haste that half of it was not passed through the tar tanks. The rust consequently began to work its way through the small wires, and whole miles of the cable were thus rendered useless and had to be cut away. During the winter it remained at Keyham, we believe it was not once properly tested under water. And for the experiments necessary to render the working through it easy such a constant succes sion of powerful coil currents were always passing as must have infallibly discovered and penetrated any badly insulated spot of the copper conductor. It was again on board the Niagara and Agamemnon in the beginning of the present year, and subse quently during the first memorable cruise, tossed for many days and nights in two vessels labouring heavily in one of the most terrific storms that ever swept across the Atlantic. After this it was again brought back to Queenstown, and again sent across the ocean in the almost hopeless chance of laying the cable with the reduced quantity and almost disabled ships. As we have said, taking all these things into consideration, it is a wonder how the cable could have been laid at all in one piece, and no one had certainly any right to expect that it would ever be a working cable. A good deal of attention has lately been turned to the question of rope-covered wire, and there is now no doubt but that all future attempts to connect Europe with America will be made with cables so constructed. At the same time it will not be strands of hemp loosely thrown round the guttapercha covered wires that will make a serviceable cable, but rope yarns bound in with the same fineness as the wires are now twisted by the " closing machine." In fact, rope covered wire would have to be made by Glass and Elliot of Newall just in the same manner, and on the same plan, as the w.re-covered cables are now made by those firms. Already we believe a splen did specimen of a rope-covered wire, almost buoy ant in water, eminently strolls ; and &kale as ccrd, is now in process of manufacture by Messrs. Glass and Elliot, but more than this it is not desirable to mention at present. There is one difficulty which many suppose will influence the success of the deep-sea cables in no slight degree—namely, the pressure to which all cables must be subjected at great depths. Some people are sufficiently ill-informed todeny that there is any pressure exerted by the water of the ocean at the bottom at all. Such absurd blunders only arise from ignorance of the difference between density and weight. It does not follow that because water is almost incompressible, that it weighs nothing, no more than it follows that because a block of granite is not elastic it does not press upon the spot on which it rests. The pressure of the water at the bottom of the Atlantic averages about two tons and a half to the square inch. It is a simple matter of calculation to ascertain the fact. At such a pres sure as this wrought brass can be saturated with water like a sponge, and a block of it so saturated requires days for it to ooze out again: It is true that brass is a very porous substance, but were the very best cast iron hydraulic machines to be subjected to such a pressure as two or three tons to the inch, the water would be forced through them like dew. A gutta percha covered wire has been subjected to such a pressure under water for an hour or so, and its electrical condition was found rather improved. However, to render this experi ment complete, the pressure should have been con tinued for a much longer period, for it may still happen, though it is certainly unlikely, that a long continued pressure of the water might penetrate the gutta percha in places where air bubbles ex isted, and thus give rise to faults. This idea is sup ported by the knowledge of the fact that under con siderable pressure gutta percha is reduced to half its bulk. Thus when a cable is submerged to a great depth, the coil of hemp and gutta percha becomes smaller, leaving the spiral iron wires by which it is surrounded slack. Should the cable in this condi •tion happen to rest across a chasm however small, the outside wires would have to elongate consider ably before any strain can come on them ; the coil in the meantime being subjected to tension, the insulating medium is likely to be cracked and de stroyed, and a raw wire left exposed to the salt water. This fact is directly against the use of gutta percha s as an insulating medium in deep-sea cables. India rubber is quite incompressible and imper vious to . water at any pressure, but it is not quite so good an insulator as gutta percha. It may be worth the consideration of those interested in the manufacture of insulated wire to try if a mixture of the two substances might not be to some degree free from the defects of either separately. The in dia rubber might impart to the gutta percha some of its incompressibility and elasticity, while the gutta percha might make the indiarubber a better insulator. The expense of insulating wire by these means would not be great, if, indeed, it would be as costly as using gutta percha alone. Thus it may be seen that, if the present cable should ultimately prove a failure, the experience which has been ac quired with it will certainly ensure the success of all future deep-sea lines.—Daily News. MESSRS. COLLIER AND WHITE AT PLYMOuTH. Messrs. Collier and White, members for Ply mouth, addressed their constituents at the Mechanics' Institute in that town on Tuesday evening. The chair was taken by Mr. S. Rowse. The meeting was very noisy, and it was evident that the popularity of Mr. Collier had declined in consequence of his vote on the Conspiracy Bill. Mr. White's reception was most enthusiastic. Mr. COLLIER having testified to the valuable services of his colleague in the House, proceeded to address himself to the main subject of disagree ment between himself and his constituents—viz., his vote for the introduction of the Conspiracy Bill, and explained that his reason for voting for that measure was a conscientious belief that the law, as it unequally affected foreigners and British subjects, required alteration. He could see no reason why foreigners accused of plotting murder, whether of a peasant or a crowned head, should not be equally amenable to the laws of this country as any natural born subject. Referring to the fall of the late Administration, he expressed his belief that had Lord Palmerston adhered to and evinced a desire to carry out the liberal principles be professed his party would still have been in power ; but he had not shown himself prepared to advocate those measures of reform which the country demanded ; and any measure of reform would be incomplete that did not provide for the protection of the voter by the introduction of the ballot. On this subject he (Mr. Collier) felt no hesitation in clearly expressing his opinion that a Reform Bill to be effi cient must give the franchise to the intelligent working classes. Every man above 21 who occu pied either part or whole of a house as a residence, and who had not been convicted of any crime, was entitled to a vote and to have it— (cheers) —and he would be glad to see in Parlia ment some of the intelligent representatives of the working classes. These were the opinions he had always asserted, and if they had been acted upon by Lord Palmerston that nobleman would still have been at the head of affairs. Having glanced at other causes for dissatisfaction with the late Admi nistration, and traced its acts down to its defeat on Milner Gibson's motion of censure for not replying to the Walewski despatch, Mr. Collier said it was his intention to have supported Mr. Wyse's motion on the Cabinet appointments ; and the Uovernment must have gone out upon that, even if they had not been defeated on the other motion. He had been elected to support Lord Palmerston's Govern ment ; but, as a member of the great Liberal party, finding Lord Palmerston indisposed to carry out those measures which were necessary, and that he was not disposed to take the position of leader of that party, he had felt it his duty to oppose the noble lord. The lion. member, after elaborately defending his vote on the Conspiracy Bill, pro ceeded to review the business of the past session. He rejoiced at the abolition of the property qualifi cation for members as opening the door for the ad mission of intelligent representatives of the work ing classes, but he regretted that this beneficial measure had been in some degree neutralised. by the adoption of the Corrupt Practices Bill, which made it legal to pay the expense of voters to the place of polling. That bill ought to have been entitled a " Measure for the Encouragement of Bribery," and he pledged himself, if no other member did so, to introduce a motion for its repeal. (Applause.) He did not go to the extent the Chartists did in advo cating the payment of members, but he thought that would be far less absurd than making mem bers pay for their seats, and instanced the enor mous sums lavished in the metropolitan and some other large boroughs. One good thing the Parlia ment had done had been to emancipate the Jews, or, rather, the strong force of public opinion had extorted a concession from the House of Lords which virtually admitted the Jews to a participa tion in the civil privileges enjoyed by their Chris tian fellow-subjects. The Lords saw the ridiculous position in which they were placed by the motion of Mr. Duncombe, and the sense of ridicule accom plished what even a sense of justice might have failed to exact. He much regretted that they had not acted in the same spirit of concession with regard to the church rates, and eulogised the ser vices of Sir J. Trelawny in relation to this ques tion. He should oppose any compromise on this subject ; the only mode of settling the matter was to do away with it altogether. (Cheers.) He much regretted the course adopted by Lords Palmerston and Russell, and hoped they would be induced to change their opinions on this question. The House of Lords had stood out against the abolition of church rates, but it depended on the public how long they would continue _ to do so ; for, depend upon it, if th e people insisted on their rights the House of Lords would giv e way to their just demands. If they wished to preserve their existence the House of Lords would do well not to place themselves in a position an tagonistic to the will of the people. The lion. member next. adverted to the application of the .principle of limited liability to joint-stock banks, to the registration of partnerships, and to the equali sation of the poor-rates. Passing on to the con sideration of the India Bill, he thought it an improvement on the former state of things, although not the best measure which could have been adopted. The transfer of the supreme power from a company which had long mismanaged the affairs of our vast Indian possessions to the Queen was necessary, and he had. therefore supported the bill, although it NW:. defective. Mr. Collier glanced at the state of the army, and could not conceive anything wi bad as the administration of that branch of Ow service. He referred to the tlNclosnres at Weedon, and ex pressed his opinion that it was high time to inter fere and. put an end to a Kystem so thoroughly disgraceful. (Cheers.) Speaking of the present Government, Mr. Collier said it was not his inten tion. to give any factious opposition to the adminis tration of Lord Derby. He looked at measures rather than at men,. and provided he found_the In.'6e4t GoNerntueut adopting liberal and progres- NEV. SPAPER p.! sive measures, these measures wo ' §7, support. (Hear, hear.) He had no tt . 7,Cr„; petual change, and believed it ob delayed theprogress of putli ip Governments an excuse for clour nothiniti Ha was • far from saying that -he believed it was A immaterial who held the reins of office ; but, as .he thought it more important that we should have measures of reform than to consider whether this person or that person _ governed for the time being, he should suspend ' his judgment with respect to the ads' of the Derby Administration; and when the contemplated Reform Bill was brought fox NN d he-would - givcrit - his best attention, and, if satisfied with it, it should • receive his support. lie should have had more confidence in them if they had spoken out plainly and said, " We have been wrong all our lives ; we see the error of our wives and will now amend." If they would say plainly, "We do not think reform wanted, but we know it is necessary to be reformers to keep our places, and. we will reform," he would say to them, " Keep your places ;" but he objected to words being used in a non-natural sense, and to attempts to make people believe that Conservatism meant Radicalism or Liberalism. (Hear and cheers.) All he could say was, that his hopes from the Con servatives were founded chiefly upon their incon sistencies ; but he was prepared to give a fair hearing to their measures, and should be glad to hope and believe that they would bring forward a Reform Bill of which he could approve ; but to be satisfactory it must protect the voter, considerably extend the suffrage, and provide for a modification of the electoral districts, and unless the Govern ment were prepared to introduce a measure of that sort they could not stand ; for it was, after all, not Lord Derby or my Lord Palmerston, but the people who governed the country. Public opinion was- the breath of the body politic; and if public opinion was sound no Minister could ruin the country, or, if rotten, no Minister could save it. With respec to all the cardinal measures of Liberalism, he and his hon. colleague were agreed, and he had no doubt they would always continue to act in unison. He might add, that he believed a better member they could not have ; he had honestly earned his popularity. Mr. WHITE next addressed the meeting at some length, chiefly on abstract questions of political eco nomy. He spoke with some warmth upon the Con spiracy Bill, which he denounced as a measure that would have tended to jeopardise our independence. He rejoiced in the opposition which he had given to that measure, and if he had done nothing more he should be proud of having opposed its introduc tion. He expressed in general terms his dissatis faction with the Government of Lord Palmerston ; and condemned the exclusive character of the noble lord's administration. The hon. member spoke of his vote on the Havelock memorial, his exposure of the niggardly course proposed to be adopted, and of the prominence he had suddenly attained through the columns of the Times and other journals. He alluded also to the reckless expenditure of public money in grants for unnecessary purposes, and ex pressed his belief that we should not obtain any economy of expenditure until we had a reformed Parliament. A permanent financial committee should be appointed, to whom should be referred all questions of expenditure. The committee should have power to command the attendance of heads of each department ; and no money should be voted unless certified to be necessary for the public ser vice. With regard to the Reform Bill, his name was associated with the Reform committee, and their object would be to carry out the programme adopted as far as possible; they would get all they could and as much more as possible. Votes of confidence were, after some manifesta tion of feeling on the part of a few present, passci in favour of both members. SIR J. PAKINGTON ON EDUCATION. WORCESTER, WEDNESDAY. The First Lord of the Admiralty attended a dinner held here yesterday evening to celebrate the estab lishment of the Worcestershire Union of Mechanics' Institutes, which had been set on foot a few months ago by his son, Mr. J. S. Pakington. In the course of the after dinner proceedings, The CHAIRMAN (Mr. Pakington) proposed the health of the " Members for the County and Borough of Worcestershire," which was acknowledged by Sir J. PAKINGTON, who took the opportunity of expressing his concurrence in the objects of these unions, by which, he said, they arrived at unifor mity of action, and they also afforded a stimulus to emulation. Seventeen mechanics' and literary in stitutes around Worcester had joined the Worces tershire Union—the objects of which, as expressed by the rules, were as follows :-1. Mutual inter course and improvement. 2. Concentrated infor mation on the progress and requirements of each institute. 3. Encouragement and increase of even ing classes by examinations and prizes, or other means. 4. The engagement of lecturers, gratuitous and professional. 5. The promotion of a good system for circulating books or otherwise improving local libraries. 6. The acquirement and diffusion of information upon matters relating to mechanics' institutes in general. H e particulary approved of rule 3, having for its object the encouragement of evening classes. He regarded these institutes for the working classes much in the same light as he considered the universities in higher life—viz., as a means of carrying the knowledge already pos sessed. by the students further than it had reached, and preparing them for undertaking higher and more honourable, as well as more useful positions in the particular condition of life for which they were destined. He hoped that those who had established this union of institutes would persist in the good work which they had begun. It was a work of great importance, and one which deserved and would rece i ve th e gratitude of the public. The necessity- for the general extension of knowledge among the people was now generally admitted •, the only question was as to the means. Every reflecting mind would acknowledge that it could not be the will of God that man should be allowed to live in ignorance of things past and to come, things human and divine, great and small, on the earth or in the heavens, or that the noble gifts given to mini should be left uncultivated, any more than it could be the will of the Almighty that the soil of the earth should remain barren and un- tilled. (Hear, hear.) It was our duty as citizens, as philanthropists, and as politicians, to promote education and the general diffusion of knowledge, and no man would now in this free country dis courage the objects which these institutions had in view. (Hear.) He himself had no fear of the result of extending knowledge, and without pre tending just now to expound any scheim of politi cal reform, he would say that one of our first duties was to see that those who had to exercise civil rights were made by education fit and competent to discharge them. (Hear, hear.) It had been said that " a little knowledge is a dangerous thing." He was not afraid of knowledge, but he was afraid of ignorance with its headstrong passions and pre judices, and it was their duty as good citizens to extend as far as they could the spread of know ledge, and to put an end to ignorance. Sir John, in conclusion, again recommended the promoters of the Worcestershire Union of Mechanics' Institutes to persevere in their laudable design. Mr. SLANEY, M.P., also expressed his approval of the object, and observed that the great difficulty in the way of national education was thevi , ant it of unanimity as to the best means of carryingout. SERIOUS ACCIDENTS.—On T a T sh he oc unf kin or g . ac u ga e et s de d d7 a o y a.n d n Crossing t a un cci a d t e e n s t ufr oc e c rer ed was to ex J c o e s e e d p in h g D ly il i m nto ot xi , the Seven Dials was knocked down by a cab, the wheel passing over his body, and inflicting most extensive injuries. He was conveyed to Charing-cross Hospital by the police of the 1 division, where Mr. Skegg, the . house surgeon, assisted by the staff of that valuable institution, rendered every assistance that medical skill could suggest, but he remains in a very dangerous state.---A frightful accident by fire happened to a child named Harriet Rowe, aged 4 years, the daughter of very respectable parents, residing in Titchfield-street, Soho. During the brief absence of its parent, she approached the fire too closely, and fell in, when her clothing became ignited. Her screams brought assist ance, when the flames were extinguished, and she was con veyed to Charing -cross Hospital, but remains in a precarious state.—Thomas Acaster, aged 17 years of age, working on board the Waterford steam-boat, was trought to Guy's Hospital, suffering from severe injuries. The unfortunate youth was at work in the cook-house, when he slipped and pulled over him a kettle of bailing water off the fire, scald mg himself in a dreadful manner. He remains in Peters ham Ward progressing favourably. FATAL GUN ACCIDENT.—On Monday morning a fatal gun accident, by which Mr. Douglas \\, ard, a medical student, met his death, happened at Castle Bromwich. Mr. Ward's mother lives at '..hat village, and deceased, with a party, among whom. vas another young gentleman named Chattock, went out tp shoot rabbits. They were on their return home, and - .When near Mr. Newton's lodge gates Mr. Chattock Ad his gun forward for the puipose of wiping the k.Jir as rain had fallen during the morning. From scam cause or other the gun, which had been unfor tunate)." deft charged, went oft; and' the whole of the con tent lodged in poor Ward's back, as he WtiS standing.: 13J -Lie in advance. lie fell, and the serious n ature of l in wound at once appeared from the fact that a. largehole ad been made in Ins coat, and blood w as runn ing therefrom profusely. A door was at once obtained, on which the un fortunate Young man was removed to Mr. Powell's, of the Bradford 'Arms Inn, ono of whose sons was Also of the party. Medical assistance was at once sought, and INIr. Ward himself requested that Mr. Clarkson, of Birmingham, should be sent for. The messen g er, on arrivin g at Bir mingham, found that Mr . Clarkson was from home, and so procured the services of Mr. Crompton of Temple-r ow . That gentleman at o nce p roceeded to Castle Bromwich, and did everything which skill could suggest, but in vain, for Mr. Ward died about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. 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