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it rM eo par for also' or- RIF tsl• PURSUANT to a DECREE of the HIGH CUR ofHANCEY made in a cuse HAVVIZSLEY v. ASEPLANTO,T the C CCreditors of WILLIAM THORNE, late of Cheltenham, in the county of Gloucester, Esq., deceased (who died in the month of March, 1850), are, by their Solicitors, on or before the 10th day of May, 1852, to leave their claims of debts before JOSEPH TIUMPHRY, Esq., one of the Masters of the said Court, at his Office, in Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London, and are, on the 10th day of June. 1852, to establish such claims before the said kaster, or in default thereof such persons will be peremptorily ex cluded the benefit of the said Decree, and the General Orders of the laid Court. GRINE and SON, 23, Redford-row, Plaintiff's Solicitors. THE ROYAL BRITISH B A.N IC, on th e Scottish System (Incorporated by Charter), besides the trans action of all ordinary Banking business, grants CASH CREDITS, and allows 3 per cent. per annum on Sums of any amount deposited for Six months. HUGH INNES CAMERON, General Manager. LONDON—HEAD OFFICE, 16, Tokenhouse-yard. BRANCHES, 429, Strand ; 77, Bridge-street, Lambeth ; 97, Doswell-road, Islington. LIQUID MANURE. BURBACH, BROTHERS, and Co., GOTHA, Manufacturers of CANVASS HOSE without Seam, for Fire Engines, Pumps, Liquid Manure Tanks, &c., &c., have appointed as their Agent for all England, F. PETERSON, Water•lane, Tower- Street, London, of whom may be had every info rmation, and Speci mens of this very superior article, which is about one-third the price of any other description of Hose. Machine Bands, Saddle Girths, &c. NEWPORT, ABERGIVENNY, and HERE FORD RAILWAY. NOTICE OF CALL. Fifth Call 2/ per Share, making 121. paid. Notice is hereby given, that the Directors of the Newport, Aber gavenny, and Hereford Railway Company have this day made a CALL of 2/. per share upon the respective Shareholders in the said Company, payable on FRIDAY, the 4th day of June next, and the Shareholders are requested to pay the same accordingly to any of the undermentioned Bankers : London—Messrs. Masterman and Co., 35, Nicholas-lane, City. The Union Bank of London, 2, Princes-street, City. Hereford—The National Provincial Bank of England; any of the Country Branches of the National Provincial Bank of Englani in England or Wales. Abergavenny—Messrs. Bailey and Co. Interest at the rate of 51. per cent. per annum will be charged on all sums not paid on or before the said 4th day of Jane, 1852. By order of the Board, THOMAS PRITCHARD, Secretary. 26, Spring-gardens, London, May 6, 1852. G RAVESEND STAR PACKETS. ore Cabin Saloon. To or from Gravesend an d F lod. . . Is. 2d. Gravesend and Blackwell and Woolwich Bd. ... Os. 10d. between Gravesend an d I n t ermediate Piers.. 6d. .... Os. Bd. Nio other Packets call at the Grays, Greenhithe, and Purdeet Piers. The Packets call at the Piers as underlined (weather permitting). FROM TERRACE PIER. GRAVESEND. WEEK DAYS. euzfoa.xs. T: - 2 0 Time. it ° Z I ' i - - 5 I - Direct Trains from the Boats O mnibuses from Fenohnrch-s l orerY quarter of an hour. ►arked t 'eat Station to all parts of London FROX BRUNSWICK WHARF, the following Trains from ...._ ', BLACKWALL, on the arrival ~f the Fenchnrch•atreet Station. SUNDAYS. Wziu L L)," . 1. 0 2 xi! 2 1 = .a , • = Tinle it l i . E Time. f: g E I,' V, B lti E l '-, "g ft 8 1 A 1 l ' gl i........._ ......... ......._,_ _i -- —.-- 12% 9% __ —1 ": 11 9% .... 414 __ .... ..... .... ..... ~4 _1 _ ..._ ..... ik lsi f assages marked * are run direct. BRAT CZEi' TlTq.—Twelve Months, sc. Os. ; Six Months, a:. :tree 'month s v. Os.: to be had of the Collectors on boar , 1 " 14 ‘ tit; or Mr. Monk Terrace Pier, Gravesend. ADrll2l 1852 - • SIGNOR, VALLETTA, Professor of Italian Li terature at the Ladies' College, Bedford-square, begs to an -8 the will RE his COUSE of FOUR LECTURES 80 0 ,: P thaURGATORIOPEAT and PARADES R ° of DAN E, at Willis's ' l / I g -street, St. James's. on the following days, in May, Wr a ,,,,,. — " 3 A , T, the 12 th SATURDAY, the 1 5 th, SATURDAY, the 221, DAV, the 25th, to commence at three o'clock precisely; and Ito "° give Two Ext r a Lectures in Italian, for the amateurs of an Literature, on Wednesday, the 19th, and Saturday, the 291 h, p, com -811 ence at the s ame h ou r. I,, ect :eriPtion tickets (for two persons), ; single ticket, for One slyeei-e'may be obtained at Rolandi's Library, 20, Berners- Oxford-street ; by application to Signor Valletta, 17, Gilbert- Grosvenor-square ; and at Willis's Rooms. TOWER HA MLETS. The ELECTION WITHOUT A CONTEST. h a Political addresses and local qualifications lately set forth, t thi,: n g aroused public attention, it now becomes necessary se %to - Matter to rights, and thus stifle all acrimony which flirther discus tlvneent, i _ght engender. The Tower Hamlets have their Representa iany Years have their qualifications been admired, as many lec "a`ra they bad the spontaneous votes and interest of the eft -r4 and non-electorstherefore sustain the ditties of their versible station with renewed ardour and increasing vigour— lar..gifig themselves to confer the greatest advantages on their lati-ee co nstituency, and to extend the same benefits to the popu- V an ie*f the whole world—maintaining magnificent establishments, te and perfect in every department, each having con ,c.,ni.ent and commodious commacication, constantly providing a ZMY stock of superlative excellence, and adapted to by crY taste, cultivating th e t a l ent and sk ill d eve l o ped I;,, e very country in the univers e , remunerating the ingenuity and ~•unstry of the first artists an d th e best workmen in the world, em winYing a mighty capital for the introduction of Styles, Fashions, and New Devices for Dress, &c. ; securing comfort in warm days, !Mid defence from wet ones ; Clothing for the n o bl em an, clergyman. Iradesman, or working man, unparalleled in Spring and Summer tress ; HATS, CAPS, HOSIERY, BOOTS and 'SHOES, &c., &c., s uitable for all classes, including an endless, varied, and inimitable !lock of new fabrics in ingenious styles for Youths and Children ; Op Plying their measures with the most perfect correctness, securing ;:ything necess sry for a demonstration of patriotic feeling by their 1 1 ersally admired Ride Dress ; renderin.g the most essential ser %ace t° Emigrants by their Oatfits of surpassing suitability at a rea tillable charge—in one word, continuing to supply articles in their l a tt nt le trade better in quality theat far lower prices than can be arlY other establishment in world. E. MOSES AND BON. 84 11 P. do n city Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Minories, 83, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. Edon West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford - street, 1 , 2, HarUstreet, all communicating. 11 :Mfbrd (Yorkshire) Branch, 19, Bridge-street: Sheffield Branch, 86, Fugate* liezhant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters , Hosiers, Farrier!, Beet S hoemakers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. The Satablishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on hw — daYs, when btudn.vt is resumed till Twelve o'clock. •I,if L j , ew Book, entitl e d " Th e Lib rar y of Elegance," containing a g ra Xt of prices, and directions for self-measurement, can be had, on application, er forwarded, post-free, to any part of the h a m. t —`..Onle Almanac for the year ending 1852 can be had, gratis, Ohl 3 l3lication. -Id Pon parle Francais. I Qui at parla Italian°. Hier spricht man Deutsch. Aqua se habla Espanol. si;Oranted, several Assistants in the Ready-made D e p ar t m e n t. Ap tPersonallY from Ten to Twelve o'clock, on Tuesday and Wed "LaaY Morning, at 86, Aldgate. 'Jac..several Cashiers. Apply by letter, stating age, &c. 11111 DICAL ADVICE ON VIE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. With rr Al y ain Directions for their Prevention and Cure. 4ust published, 1 COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL. Italian. in a in French , English, German, Dutch, Spanish, and ier . Ferty . twe stamp krelope, 2s. 6d., or post-free from the Author and pi ° n S 11 I' 1 - P R E M Treat ,. SBRVA T I 0 N ; a Secret Infirmities ph ysiology of Marriage, and on the (mired at an early period of i's:f Youth and Maturity, usually ac• Mental powers, diminish awl ente'rell destroy the physical and haunt the vital energies or m an h ood ? the natural feelings, and ex the certain Prevention and successfulwith Debi b Practical Observations Nerve Local and Constitutional Weakness Treatment of us uise asea an d derangements resulting n.4:7 1,1113, Stricture, and all by Lanemand, Ricord, and other emine t udiscretion, as adopted "'ranee, With Fifty coloured Engrayirl,me m bers il lustrating of the faculty of p hysiology, and Diseases of the Repr e d a :g r e afi ng the Anatomy, their structures, uses, and functions, and the va r ious)rgens, explaining are produced in them by solitary habits, excema, and 1 iniuries that By SAMUEL LA'arERT, 34 D nfection. • ~ e,...317, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LoN 0 , '"eeter of Medicine , Matriculated Member of the Univer s i tyl) - bu rgh. Honorary Member of the London Hospital Me dical Soc iety, of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Member of the HunteirelaY.ii -- ' ed leal Society of Edinburgh, &c. , &c. te tils work contains a plain and complete description e r the . conditions and physiology of the reproductive orcans, and of their relative hil ritions in health and disease. Dr. La'Mert, who has taken the m 7 inserted medical honours, as evidenced by the diplomas and teatime. 1, 4 7 inserted in the work, is the only legally qualified m e di cal man b.l b evexclusively and for many years, devoted ins studies to the went - ' He may be consulted with advan. te e , ent of these complaints. tic r ' on ,. b y all those whose constitutions may have become debilitated 1 / 4 4 -ls " ' , Wet practices acquired in youth, or by the excesses of • Year raar r s,. ii. Whereby the pleasures fag Leh" e frustrated, and existence itself rendered a term of nnceas p and regret. Gilbert, 49, Pater besterd by the Author, and m.ty be had of J. . b _ -roar . •,-. ; Starie, Titchborne-street, zeyr earh .A.Lannay, 63, Oxford-stxee . all Itreet; Mann, 23, Comhill ; ; 11 ff o 'ee by _ Gordo 146, Leade from the author's residence, . Yon for forty-two stamps, nilv or by letter, t billyi' 7 be consulted on these diaorders person-.•., -----_ "In Ten till Two, and from Six till Eight. 1) R • CIILVERWELL'S NEW WORKS. 1,4 To b /U m a bad of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster.row ; Carvalho pMce pii7 - s,„,_ . treet; Mann, 39, Carnhill ; or direct from the author Sing each; by post, is. 6d. ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. CQ "health, Recreation, and Rational Use of Time." " - '„' s : - -Early Rising—Spring and Summer Morniligg—bi 'rerao . n a s about the Environs of London—The Parks, Lanes, Trb ' d Rara High-roads, and other pleasant bles—The Sea—London at Night—Ev en ings at o ll Il ale Al TrM--The Drama—On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping, Ba thing, 48 e, Occupation, &c., &c. pl acLean Hills, s—C un try II -..-car4 TS FROM THE MOUNTAINS. Two Plart Vol. I. , TO THE LAKES ; SKETCH, OF EDINBURGH, Ste Vol. IL LAKES OF wit 'LIMEY REMINISCENCES OF DUBLIN, &e. 111. NVIIA.T TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID, A -mat three score years and ten our course may run." et ta p . p a ulr review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner th, vJo' ebilitated health and enfeebled constitution, that harasses li ng, besetwith man of pleasure, business, or study, and em -4u,„ g old age tables and rules for the diet and physical regn. " 41 of every -day life. Iv. THE PASSIONS. !` What passions hurt the body—what improve, Truths as refined as Athens ever heard." of eT *—Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age n ; The ea' Lhe passions. Chastity and its infringements. _he_ cash l usness and dissipation, with illustrations graphic, a r . and remediative. Advocacy of early marriage°. THE MARRIAGE STATE. "To be or not to be, that is the question." PI and roll -1„,. GoSsanits :—Laws and obligations of ncture, soc iety, • and sex Time ;,,s'omiregarding marriage, to be observed by either • a w e. on both sides, as to age, temperament, comp l e xion.,__ . physical toi secure healthy offspring, with a e art of rearing TB,'" ~, defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion. " s eS, are. ty R (18 , ,, . J, CIJLTERWELL, M.D. (1841) TWenty-live years Medi cal and Farreasic Referee in these 111, 7 ' ill • Reception hours daily till Mee; Dimply, Seven t - --..- WI A 47 l l•Pleee. Regent-14CW. - 3.1r.R.C.5. (18 2 7) , L.S.A. toi% 19 136 a% b PUBLICATIONS. ;.-°C,- S4nN 9 MAY 7 1852, Mr. Alderman SoLomoNs demanded a poll, upon which scrutineers were appointed, and the voting commenced forthwith, and being concluded in a very short timo, the Chairman declared the numbers to be— For the resolution... .. • Against it ... •• Majority upon the present occasion ... —8 ... 47 Mr. Wll:soNdi;pated That the standing orders had been complied with, which required the assent of four fifths of the proprietors present. The CHAIRMAN said the return of the votes would be sent to the committee, who would determine upon the point. The meeting then separated. CONVERSION of the CRYSTAL PALACE into a CRYSTAL TOWER, 1,000 FEET HIGH. It is proposed to build an enormous tower (a sort of antithesis to the tower of ancient Babylon) of the ma terials of the glass palace, preserving, as much as is con sistent with the new design, all the features of that struc ture, with a view of perpetuating the great event of the year 1851, and forming a depository of every branch of art and manufacture our own kingdom produces, as well as a choice collection of exotics from the four quarters of the globe. The material is all ready at hand, and a site near might easily be found. The building, from the peculiarity of its design, forms its own scaffold, and the ground it - would. occupy is less than one aore, and, with the prolapsed terrace round the building, altogether under four acres. This economy of ground, when com pared with the space the glass palace occupies, is an im portant consideration in such a place as London, where land is valuable. Before any remarks on the project are offered, it will be as well to give an explanation of the various means proposed to be adopted to render so vast a structure perfectly safe against the strongest hurri canes. In the. centre is a large octagon, composed of twenty-fourtrolumns, which spring from the foundation, in which they are securely imbedded to the very top of the building. Adjoining is a decagon, similarly con structed, forming the second tower in the elevation, and rising to the second gallery of 840 feet. The dodecagon tower also springs from the foundation, and is carried up to an altitude of 660 feet. We then see a square of columns measuring 120 feet on one side: this likewise rises from the foundation to where the clock is placed, and is surmounted by four turrets. which lend their aid in supporting the building., and screen in some measure from the wind those adventurous visitors who arrive at this aerial promenade. Another square of larger di mensions abuts on all these, and rises to a level of 198 feet, upon which four galleries, each 120 feet in length, are to be constructed. Similar small turrets are to be i p a l t a i c o e n d o a f t s t t h r e e n f g o t u h r i c n o r c n o e l r a s m . n l s n a a n d d d i g t o r d n e t r o s t a h i p s o a r c t o u n m u o - f the south front of the transept is added to each aide of the square, forming a cross; not only as an abutment, but with a view of perpetuating the most elegant part of the present building, and handing down to posterity the entrance through which so many thousands passed. The four halls of glass formed by this cross might be reserved for choice plants. &c., with appropriate statuary ornamenting the outside and relieving the general effect. If we suppose four of the upright columns, with four of the girders attached, and bolted to firmly-fixed cradles in the foundation, it will give a notion of a hollow cube of brick or stone of similar dimensions. Were the building constructed of such cubes, it would not be .so strong or durable as of the material so opportunely pre sented. If we imagine a give-and-take line passing through the section from the outer colonnade columns curving up through the towers towards the top of the octagon, a figure similar to the outline of the Eddystore Lighthouse will be presented to the mind. The clock is of proportional size to the tower, being 44 feet in diameter, with figures 10 feet long; its elevation about 440 feet above the terrace, and many feet above the the cross of St. Paul's; the gallery over it is somewhat lower than the Groat Pyramid of Egypt; and were St. Paul's Cathedral placed on the top of St. Peter's, there would then be room for the Nelson's Column, which would about reach the Crystal Tower's summit. The little squares in the octagon represent four carriages or ascending rooms, which are tor be continually running on, or rather up, a vertical railway, to the glazed gallery at the top of the octagon, where the visitors may observe the view around, sheltered from the wind. There is also a platform gallery on the very summit, for the more adventurous. The view from any of the galleries would be magnificent in the extreme.—Messrs. Fox and Hen derson have expressed their conviction that the project could be carried out.—Builder. (0041110 , - . 'o* pp.' :4O rei vi k - 0 44. I,; • - 1 % cd, - , r , , - , , • nes; qv" ÷A xe v 4 4. `:1) / , 0 , s • \ 7l e: 4 6 . '''7 l ---- )1C I S "V t - - . 1: :;1`1•4 FEMALE FASHIONS FOR MAY. Before calling the attention of our readers to bonnets, which now form a prominent feature in describing " La Mode," we must notice two becoming and fashionable caps. The first, the Charlotte Corday, made of deep in dented blonde, falling over bunches of roses. The second we have been permitted to name the Psyche;.it is graceful, modest, and youthful, composed of black guipure over black lace, with a wreath of green ribbon foliage encirc ling a beautiful rose. Wo must now pass on to the bonnets. The first is a capote of buillonnes, violet tulle, with loops across each bouillione, of very narrow violet and straw-coloured rabans-passementerie (these ribbons are a great novelty, and are as delicate and light as gauze). Two rows of grey passementerie embroidered with straw are slightly quilled over the bouil lonnes of tulle—one across the crown, and another on the curtain. The inside of the front, which is wide, is trimmed with violets of three shade. Tho capote papillonnee of blonde and light gauzl rib bon. There are three rows of milieus of blonde, and consequently three bands of gauze ribbon. A broad white taffetas ribbon passes over the crown i n t h e style of a fanchon, and, forms the long broad strings. On one side the ribbon is con cealed by a taft of double narcissus and long grass; three rows of blonde and gauze ribbon fall from the back of the crown, covering the curtain. We have seen a robe of - Napoleon blue gros de Tours, with a crossed body, closed on the side with a narrow band buckled round the waist. Three large plaits from the shoulders form drapery across the chest; the body closes on the left side, where the gold buckle separai..s two toques of blue ribbon; five large bows, with gold buckles in the centre, aro placed down the skirt. This trimming down the side is qaito original. The sleeves are slashed, with a narrow wristband—a white lace pro truding through the openings. Two robes a corsage Watteau have elici: , ed much praise. The robe Watteau is quite a study of co quetry. To produce it in its primitive elegance we must go and consult the panels at Versailles, where it will be seen that the front piece of the body h very narrow; square on the shoulder, widening near the chest, and very narrow at the waist. It is trimmed with three ribbon bows for dinner dress, and bouquets of flowers for a concert or ball. 'To return to the two robes above-mentioned, one of silver grey taf fetas, with stripes of pale green satin; the other of Pre sident green. The new form of sleeve is the manche tailladee, or slashed sleeve. A small cuff fastens the five pointed angles, between each of which the white under sleeve protrudes. This has the advantage of novelty, but the open, rounded, square, or mosquetaire sleeve, with open sleeves of Brussels lace, or Valenciennes or English point, are much more elegant and preferable for sum mer toilette. The most successful novelty of the season is la mode for lace mantes. Imagine this mantis of the finest black in beautiful designs, forming a rounded scarf behind, descending only to the waist; the ends in front are sometimes long, sometimes short and narrow, and are tied in a knot at the waist, descending to the knees, or carried behind and fastened like the Dubarry mantelete. A hood is added, which forms a double pelerino over the shoulders, or a delightful coiffure =done when thrown over the head. Some are lined with thin coloured taffetas. Caps are worn very small, scarcely covering the top of the head. We have seen two extremely pretty ones; the first is of black net, with two rows of blond falling one over the other; a broad blue ribbon is tied round with long floating ends; three roses, one white and two pink, are placed under the lace on the right side, and one dark rose with long ends of blue ribbon on the other. The other cap is also of lace, of the same form; the trimming is different, being a plaid ribbon plaited en fiche, with the point falling over the knot of hair. The bouquets are composed of mixed flowers, combiing all the colours in the ribbon, and producing an ex t re mely agreeable ensemble. At Bow-street, yesterday, David and Mary Belasc, and Amelia Collins were again bro u g ht u p for final examoi nation, charged with causing the death of Robert Clarke, by knocking him down stairs at a brothel in Hart-sMtreet,B Lonridgeg o h a d - acre. The depositions having been read over, r. water, house surgeon of King's Col le g e Hospital, who h a d that made a post mortem examinatio n, g ave it as his opinio the deceased died from congestio n of the brain. On the con clusion of the case, Mr. Hall decided that each of the fem h ale prisoners might be discharge d, no proof being given tat they had acted in such a manner as to have caused fatal re sults to the deceased, all the injuries having bee d f n inflicted the by the male prisoner. Mr. Haynes, w h o a ppeareJr prisoners, said he should be prepared to give a complete answer to every portion of the charge alleged against his client. The witnesses were then bound over to give evidence at the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court against the prisoner for wilful murder. Mr. Hall hoped that the parochial authorities would institute proceedings ag house in Hart-street, w hi c h was well known to have been a mos t i n famous place for a considerable time. Mr. Mouseley a: er c: : who attended to watch the p roceedings, said he would lose no time in drawing the atten tion of the board to the circuin Ia the afternoon Mr. Bedf ord, the Westnsinster coroner, held an inquest on the body of Clarke at the Plough Teat Carey-street. After the evidence, the Coron differenceer fa oceeded between to sum up, and explained to the jury the manslaughter and murder. The jury then considered their verdict, and after the lapse of about twenty minutes, the foreman said that twelve of the jurymen had agreed, but that the remaining four held different opinions. 'I he coroner said t we l v e would be sufficient, and would a take their N erd ' ict. The foreman then said—" We h e retrn verdict of - man slaughter against David Belasco." FOREIGN CATTLE. .--- The steam-ship Att d woo , which has arrived at Blackwell from Rotterdam, has brought a cargo of Dutch cattle, consisting, with the exception of 13 oxen and coves, e ntirely of calves, and, including no less stock, than 251 of this d escription of young the production of Holland. There has been no previoas instance of so large a number of :calves having been brought on one occasion from this or any other of the continental states of Europe. [PRICE SD. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. Ths funeral service performed at the Invalides on Wednesday, the anniversary of the death of the great EMPEROR, was attended by the Chief of the Republic in a manner worth noticing, as it shows the confi dence felt by him in his popularity. LOUIS NAPOLEON drove over to the church in a little open carriage, through a large crowd of persons assembled to see him, and who cheered him heartily as he guided his pair of horses at a slow pace. After the ceremony was over, the PRINCE PRESIDENT drove in the same manner to the Luxemburgh, and back to the ElyFea. The Pays has the following on the subject of the rejection of the clause in the Convict Rehabilitation Bill by the Legislative Body, mentioned in our co lumns yesterday : Now there is no longer either a majority or a mino rity on the benches of the Palais Bourbon. The mem bers are not enrolled under any flag; they do not obey the chiefs of party; every one is free in his vote, because every one is master of his own conscience. Servitude is no longer imposed by policy. The discussions which have taken place during the last two days in the Legis lative Chamber—discussions, without passion and with out violonci,‘, going to the bottom of things, and render ing questions palpable to every mind—will do as much for the preservation of the representative regime, such as it has been founded by the new Constitution, as all the interpellations and all the convulsions of the Parliamen tary regime did for its destruction." We read in the Constitutionnel " The public revenue follows a rapid progression. The month of March had presented an increase of 5,000,000 f. as compared with the corresponding month of last year. It appears that the increase in April was still more con siderable." The Moniteur says : _ _ " The Government has come to the resolution to post pone the concession of the lines of railway from Paris to Cherbourg, and from Bordeaux to Cette. Wishing, however, at present to secure the execution of these two lines, and to commence the works, a Bill has just been sent before the Council of State having for object to open a credit of three millions on the estimates of 1852 to be divided equally between the two lines. The works which will be executed by the State by means of these credits will be eventually handed over to the companies obtain ing the concessions in part of the subvention which will have to be allowed to them." The Moniteur announces that the celebrated Pro fessors VILLEMAIN and Comm retire on the pensions to which they are entitled. France hardly possesses two men of more distinguished power in tbeir differ ent lines than these famous philosophical professors, whom the introduction of a new system sends into private life. On the subject of the attributed determination of the Emperor of RUSSIA not to take the new Four and-a-Half per Cent. Stock, we read in the Patrie : " Some speculators for a fall have endeavoured to raise a report that Russia was realising, by daily sales, the Five per Cent. Ranter which she purchased in 1847. Nothing can be more false than this statement; no sales of the kind have taken place. Besides, how could it be probable that Russia would sell, even at 100 f. stock which, with interest at 5 per cent. since the 22d of March, represented a reimbursement value of more than 100 f. 80c." The Debats says—" A letter from London of the 3d states that it appears certain that the treaty which is to be signed at the Foreign-office on the 4th or sth, between the Plenipotentiaries of England, Austria, France, Russia, and Sweden, will not only have for object to regulate a new order of succession in Den mark, but also to secure the integrity of the Danish monarchy. This important result will not, it is said, have been obtained without considerable diffi culty, and it is to that circumstance that may be at tributed the delay of the signature. The Germanic powers, particularly Prussia, are said to have sought every means to impede the conclusion of the treaty, which is only due to the firm resolution evinced by the Cabinets of St. Petersburgh and Paris, which have throughout the whole negotiations acted with the most perfect and constant accord. Lord MALMES-• BURY has, it is said, shown himself anxious to unite his efforts to those of the French and Russian Go vernments." The Public mentions a report that it is intended to raise the pay of the sub-lieutenants, lieutenants, and captains of the French army. The Austrian Lloyds contradicts a report pub lished by an English journal that the Prussian and Russian Governments had protested against the esta blishment of an Empire in France. It says— " The Journal des Debats has announced that Prince Schwarzenberg demanded of Prussia and Russia their opinion on the re-establishment of the Empire in France. These three powers are in accord, in case the form of Government should be changed in France; bnt they have not the pretension of meddling in the internal affairs of that country. The treaties of 1815 are cited. Those who pretend to know those treaties should re member that in the sitting of the 6th May, 1815, Lord Clancarty said that England had only notified the treaty of alliance of the 25:h March, under the condition that Article 8 of the said treaty should not be considered es obliging his Britannic Majesty to continuo the war with the view of imposing on France a particular form of go vcrnment. England, therefore, formally declared at that period that she would never force France to adopt one form of government in preference to another. The Courts of Prussia, Austria, and Russia have left it to be understood that on that point they are and always will be in accord with England." There is better authority for this statement respect ing England than the assertion of a Peer, viz., a formal diplomatic " Declaration." A treaty was signed at Vienna, on the 25th of March, 1815, be tween the King of GREAT BRITAIN, the Emperors of AUSTRIA and Russia, and the King of PRUSSIA, for making " a commoa effort against the power of NA POLEON BONAPARTE." But a " Declaration," added to it on the exchange of ratifications, says formally, that it is " not to be understood as binding his Bri tannic MAJESTY to prosecute the war with the view of imposing upon France any particular Govern ment." The bust of the PRESIDENT of the Republic has been put up in all the mairies of Paris. It is said to be in contemplation to erect an archie piscopal palace at Paris near the Hotel de Ville and the church of St. Gervais. The hut barracks constructed by order of General' CAVAIGNAC on the Esplanade of the Invalides, at the Pantheon, and on the Placa de l'Archeveche, are about to be demolished. The announcement in the Ilioniieur this morning, that the concession of the railways from Paris to C herbour g , and from Bordeaux to Cette, had bean adjourned, pro duced a favourable effect on the Bourse. The Four and-a-Half per Cents. opened at 99f. 650., and closed at 1001. 25c. for the end o f the month; the Three per Cents. closed at 70f. 45c.; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,1851'.; Rouen, 772f.50 0 .; avre, 290 f.; Great Northern, 5921. 50c.; Avignon, 290 f.; Vierzon, 5871. 500.; Basle, 246 f. 25c.; Bordeaux, 612 f. 50e.; Paris and Strasburg, 5651.; Tours and Nantes, 3671.50 p.; Paris and Lyons, 613 f. 75c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 6. L uxem bourg, 334 —Namur and Liege, 6—No r th ern of France, 201. 3 per Cent. Bonds (formerly Bolougne and Amiens Shares), 13S —Orleans and Bordeaux, 15%4--Pari s and Orleans, 45% — Sam bre and Meuse, s — Tours and Nantes, 11 %—Western of France, 7%. •• , • • LONDON, FRIDAY _ • . • A -- . • et N'.18,604.] NEW AND CHEAPER EDITION. Now ready, in 2 vols. post Svo., 15s. bound, JAPAN and the JAPANESE Comprising the Narrative of A THREE YEARS' CAPTIVITY IN JAPAN ; With an Account of British Commercial Intercourse with that country. By Captain GOLOWNIN. " No European has been abln, from personal observation and ex perience, to communicate a tenth part of the intelligence furnished by tish writer." British Review. Colburn and Co., Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street. To be had at all the Libraries. T HENE W NoV EL S , PUBLISHED BY COLBURN AND CO.. 13, Great Marlborough-s M tree a t. ADAM GRAEME. By the Author of " rgaret Maitland." CONFESSIONS of an ETONrAN. By Charles Rowcrofl, Esq. AURELIA ; or, a Beauty's Life in Italy. The PERILS of FASHION. DARIEN. 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The whole of the funds and property belong to, and are accumu lated for the exclusive benefit of the assured. The profits are divided annuall' among the policy-holders, and applied in reduction of the current year's premium ; thus constitut ing, in effect, an immediate cash payment to the assured. Half-credit policies are granted on terms unusually favourable to the holders, the amount for which credit is given being gradually li quidated out of the profits. Two Tables of Rates have been computed; one entitling the as sured to participate in the profits after payment of five annual pre miums ; the other considerably lower, in which the period of parti cipation is deferred two years longer ; the premium ultimately pay able by the assured is, however, precisely the same, whichever Table of Rates may in the first instance he selected. General meetings of the members are held annually, to whom full and complete statements of the affairs and funds of the Society are submitted, and by whom the division of the profits are from time to time declared. At the Annual General Meeting held on the 27th April last. a di vidend of 30 per cent, upon the current year's premium was awarded to all members who had made the requisite numuer of payments on their respective policies. By order of the Board of Directors, E. R. FOSTER, Resident Director. ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary. London, May 1, 1852. *** The "Britannia Mutual Life Association" is altogether dis tinct from, and independent of, the Proprietary Office transacting business under the name of the " Britannia Life Assurance Com pany." 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THE SILENT FRIEND. • iN SIX LANGIJAGES—FORTIETH ED/TION. , To _-.... mA ri ciA .... v o I . ,IfICA• CON rAINING TIIE REBIRDY POll P REVENTION OF DISEASE. in aetrated by Ono Hundred Anatomical Coloured Engravin IMPEDIMENTS ge. o g rI37OICAL DISQUALIFICA.TIONS airmen. me... Edition, enlarged to 196 pages, price s. d. by post, from N AV the Establishment, as. 6d. In stams. SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on rOgE PACITY, AND d physical decay of the system prod uced b ., the exhaustion an he consequences of infection, or the ab - ' nse of a vivo indulgence, t the use of the preventive loti f I'''' • tt directions for en, oh ll'"Y' wit h tious en marriage, aria the disqualifications which 10 we.i by observe ted by 100 Coloured Engravings. By It. and L. prevent it. illustra ted lf g Surgeons, 19, Berners-street, Oxford. , CO ., Sherwood in and 3, Paternoster row,'' - an" Published by Sherwood Co., e And, London. Y 83, and ganger, 150. 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OLITION OF TIT been sequence of many thousands CRYSTAL PALAC of persons in the U E. n — ite l d li unable to obtain a copy of the donDI D EM OLITION printedsin colours, and presented by the Chart, the Weekly in the months o January and February last, a Dispatch, to their subscribers and upon, io to take place on Sunday, proprietorsthe public, Inhibition has undergone a careful the number of persons re-issue has been determined inan account revision,the 16th os shows () A w l May. The simpleC h art, diagrams that visited the Exhibition daily, the amount o of money taken andyai Commissioners; dimensions m er e s; feet. In at the various entrances, the quan)mtitoylisefiornefreshments con foitfl:fptahlaeoleto order that every individual ' in the country possesst this statistical reflex of curious and interesting results, the demolition of the building, and to serve as a memento o m m e ark soutrath'?de ;ortihgeirtil of its existence, the Chart will be delivered gratis to every subscriber and purchaser of the Dispatch on the day stated ' . The Dispatch is published at four o'clock every Saturday morning, in time for the first railway trains leavin bg London, and for the morning mails. Early orders should e given to all newsvenders in town or country; or to Mr. R. J. Wood, No. 139, Fleet-street. Tha t news agents will have a copy of the Chart with every Disph of May 16th. RAILWAY --INTELLIGENCE. SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. A : special. meeting:of- this = company took Ace yeiter day of thgaridge-hcsyn Hotel; Mr. James Macgregor in the obair.[ The meeting - Ina - called - for the purpose of ing the draft of a Bill, - by which it i s intended: to merge the undertaking of the R ea di ng, Guildfor d and Rei- gate Railway Company.-in the und erta ki ng of the South- Eastern Railway Compa n y, a n d to dissolve the f ormer comproap , The becretary having rea d t h e notice convening the meeting. .• — r • consider- The paid the , Bill which wasi:to come undeP thie'coesideration- of the meeting had passed the House of Commonsoind had been read a first time in the Lords. There had been no alteration in ''the prin ciple of the Bill; but the 41,000 L per annum, payable under the existing lease, was by this Bill divided into annuities, payable to, those .who hold the stock of the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Company. The ob ject of thoßill was to amalgamate the two companies, in order to uvoikthe vxpense'of a separate manage 7 ment, and the subject had been before , the pro prietors since thfie7 He (Mr. ,• Mae gregor) was, aware that the impression upon the minds of some of the proprietors was that the pass' ins of , this would Increase the liabilities of the ScnithEasterti COmpany, but he would inform them that the leaselwas equally valid without this Act of Par lianient.,. At the - present titue the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate line was an incomplete and mutilated under taking, and the views'ofthe proprietors since 1846 had been that by means of this line the narrow.gauge lines in the smith would adquire - ineans of communication with the narrow-gauge lines in the north ; and it was a pledge to Parliament; on the part of the Great Western, in 1846, that they would continue the narrow eauge from Oxford to Reading, and-Basingatokey w hi e M u i d h i ve . 'tniairtlfdraidilig, Guildford, and Rei gate, a very valu able property. The subject had been so frequently dis cususneaccst'sherthecticog. of this comp any, that he thought it neeay, to d more on the present occasion than propose that the,Bil/benpproved. the inquired whether, un d er the standing - . ination having company, been second e d b y the deputy cohrdMar. o tTl f t: W t o h fi e tLh li se) o lc use of Lords, it was not necessary that the Bill should be approved by four-fifths of the pro prietors Present? He (Mr. Wilson) apprehended that on an occasion like this the vote was irrespective of the amount of stock held by each individual. M r . Wil son appealed to the solicitor on' this point. - T h e g S u o il L i r e ci t r e n c l o i : m id m n i o tt d e o e u , batndtlinaot t th th e e n u u u m na b b e e r r o o f f v p o e te r s . would sons present. Mr. WILSON begged to (Mfer from the legal gentle man on that point. He (lir. Wilson) protested against bt.ing forced into an alliance with another company, which was completely foreign to the undertaking for which they, as South-Eastern proprietors, had subscribed their capital. They had subscribed for a railway from London to Dover, and he contended they had no right to ba burdeupd with a line which entailed upon them a loss . of 30,0001. .year.--(llear, hear.) A n d even though he'slii,ulcl stand alone he would oppose such a measure. The CHAIRMAN said the Hon. Proprietor had left o ut of t of sight the fact that an -agreement for the lease lf line was entered into in 1846, before the line was made, " and upon the faith of that agreement the capitalofthe was Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Companysub scribed; and he (the Chairman) would leave it to the gentlemen to say whether in 1852 they would r epu di ate an agreeMent entered into in 1846. As to the legality of the agreement there had been ample time and ,o - ppor - • Waits for testing it;,,but upon that point he would say . there was not the slightest doubt. Mr. M`LAREN also opposed the Bill, and complained that throughout the whole transaction the South-Eastern proprietors had beenskept in the dark. There had, he said, been nu feWer than three separate arrangements, all differing from each other. The chairman had stated that the first agreement was in 1846, but that was only for leasing the eight miles of line from Read ing to Dorking, ,with, the option of leaving the rest , of the undertakimg. .Ott- the 17th March, 1847, a fresh contract, it ...apoeared, was - entered into, by which they were to pay 51 per cent:upon ncapital f 600,0001.; and by the third a rrangement t h e 600,0001 . capit a l wa s increased to 800,0004, 200,0004 being at 41- per cent., and 600,0004 'at 51 per cent., making: the ave rage upon the whole. Boo 000 1 51 per cent. He (Mr &Kaaren) Weider uael4take to say thatwas man present w ' . there not a h0 . .4"33, mot 'lathe dark as to the real na ture of the Agreements.: At _the last meeting of this company a fourth alteration was made in the arrange ment; they were now to have a rider over their prefer ence shares , g - and it was to be put into the form of anlan nuity to ride over every othe r - responsibility of the com pany, bondholders, and all. For his own part he had never seen any agreement, nor had he ever been in formed, as a propriet6r, of th e equivalents th ey were to receive for the paymentof that amount of interest on the 800,000/. of ,the capital of the and Reigate Company, sufficient reasons ,Why they should be li eved he had shown .He Reading, Guildford, Mr. RICH (a director) wou ld put not support the Bill. w h e the; if the Reading ; G.-ii put it to those present had been as profitable an arrangementildford, and Reigate lease tunately, preyed ' unprofitable, as it had, unfor tunately, of any objections to the '1 they would ever have HA did not look upon it as ease or amalgamation? loss, but simply as a (Flew_ a question of profit and was binding upore,them or n ot, whether the , agreement 'refuse .to -- ratify _tot, and whether, as honest men, they would upon the ground that i t r atifY an agreement solely Was , an unprofitable e unpro arrange ment. Mr. Aneeteet censidered himself an honest man, but from the way its which the agreetnent had been forced upon them, he did riot consider himself bound by it either morally or legally:—(l4„..) Mr. Reca—The alterations which the Hon. Preprietor p a d ad i n the arrangement to ' alluded were merely mo difications, and each su enes r a tified by the South-Easter n modification had been himself, he would be the last pr oprietors. prietors. As regarded person to depart from an agreement once made.- e Mr. NPLAREN ”id the principle l a id down by the H ha e Hon. Director might e xcellent i n hi s own private transactions, but, acting a 3 a wa t r rustee, he (Mr. &Kaaren) felt that the proprietors ed e a greement improperly not bound to fulfil an ent er Mr. Alderman Seaomores h into.—(Hear, hear.) Guildford ate , and Reig). defe(cd airman of the Reading , sued in this matter.' It was t r ue,a he said ed th e course h e h a d pur- that the Read ing, Guildford, and Reigate, an independent undertakina- Railway was projected as gerded al a part of th e s, ath. bot it had always been re directors of the Sonth.B ute -Eastern scheme, and three was thisetie They had Parliamentary, aa a rn . bad sat at the board. per cent., but there n for a guarrntee of 4i from which the embareasme extraordinary agreement in sisted upon as a prima r y .eonci n.t Mainly arose. It was first be opened from Readittion that the line should they could open thwmore p ro j l g . to Guildford before Reigate to Dorking.; I t had been portion, viz., from his own diplomsey or wisdom he insinuated that, by ting 5 1 per cent. for his com p any; had succeeded in get- Salomons) had no more to do :.anY; but he (Alderman ' that room. A very old propri e tor, that than any one in in the South-Eastern; now dece as ed ltnr, and a large holder him self made that arrangerneat with (Mr. Maubert), he (Alderman Salomons) knerreuthe South-Eastern, and eame to the meetin t which it °tiling about it until he Upon that being thenc e se he,eanewdas brought forward. ings of his proprietors, who a wed three or four meet to conclude the . bargain n - 5 gPeedi? naturally anxious ho (Alderman Salmons) lac eT as possible; bat as chairman and director, at ' th a his seat, both holders rather than sanction what- feet of the share undue precipitancy in making a might be considered (Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentlezosperity bargain,— remark—With regard to the line n then proceeded to gen tlemen present that if the South-teit; he could tell to part with the Reading, Guildford, tern had chosen he could have sold it twice over between Reigate line and they would find notice of a Bi ll fc h , 1846 and 1848, constructed theSeuth-Western. It was thro powers to buy line within twenty or thirty hat:ad cheaply and when a railway communication e, miles of London; Dover to Oxford, and from Dover rign o t omplete from Birmingham; •they might reasonably through to large quantities of goods and merchandis e that booked - through far shipment at , Folkestonee would be . . . . , • but • was, they were sitting in pugment up on a e as it n incomplete concern. The Hon. Gentleman contended that the agreem ent between the two compani es was one of ee honest, open, and straightforward character. It be borne in mind that the Reading, Guildford, and was to gate Company 'handed over to the South -Ea stern Rei 100,000i in herd cash, Whilst the cost of constructingastern line was not more than . about 700,000/,; and ho w the they separate that 100,000/. from their own cash would event of their repudiating this agreement, t o do inh.the which, he contended, would be worse than Mississippi iv repudia tion, and he (Alderman-Salomoas) should be surprised r if any gentleman could J 9 found to do it.-(near.) Mr. GEORGE SMITH opposed the Bill. Mr. HEATH had no intention to repudiate any agree_ ment legally entered into;' but if they gave their , , a lac tion to this Bill it would put an end for ever to the question of Mee validity of the agreement itself, w hi ch he contendethhad never been decided upon by any com petent tribunal. It would appear from the statement of the chairman that`the agreement for the lease was en tered into before the line was even begun to be made. The 50th section of the Act g ave authority to lease to the South-Eastern--the fair-meaning of which he took to be, when the line riai made. There was no railway to lease four or five years ago. The CHAIRMAN leaving replied, he proceeded to put the resolution apprOving of the Bill, when Mr. DIPLAREN moved, as an amendment, that the meeting should be adjourned for three months, which was seconded by Mr. JosrAn WIL SON. Amidst some confusion a show of hands was taken upon the amendment, which the, Chairman decl are d to be lost. Upon putting the 'original resolution, the Chairman stated that, ho - ' ht be determined by show welter l , tlial g a of a a ands, poll would be tietmnded. The CHAIRMAN declared the S how of bands to be in favour , of th e ,resolution, number b a t- that decision was some f what noisily disputed b y st ' of shareholders wh o were opposed to the Bill. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the Votes and Proceedznys of the House of Commons.) THURSDAY, MAY 6. MILITIA BILL. (IN THE COMMITTEE.) Clause Three (Provisions requiring Property Qualifications repealed, save as to Majors and higher Ranks) :—Amend ment proposed, in page 2, lines 19 and 20, to leave out the words " Property Qualification in the case of persons to be appointed :" Question put," That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Clause." The Committee divided . MAJORITY—AYES, 165. ' • • Arbuthnott, Hon. H. Farnham, E. 3lullings, J. R. Archdali, Captain Fellowes, E. Mundy, William Arkwright, G. Ferguson, Sir R. Mare, Colonel Bailey, Crawshay Filmer, Sir E. Naas, Lord Baillie, H. J. Floyer, John Napier, Joseph Baldock, E. H. Forbes, Wm. Neeld, John . Bankes, G. Forester, G. C. Neeld, Joseph Barrington, Lord Fox, S. L. Newdegate, C. N. Barron, Sir H. French, F. Newport, Visct. Barrow, W. H. Galway, Viseount Noel, G. J. Bennet, Philip Gilpin, Colonel O'Brien, Sir Lucius Beresford, William Gooch, Sir,E. S. Oswald, Alexander Bernard, Vbcount Gore, W. R. 0. Owen, Sir John Boldero, H. G. Grace, 0. D. J. Packe, C. W. Booker, T. W. Granger, T. C. Pakington, Sir John. Bowles, Admiral Grattan, Henry Palmerston, Viscount Bramston, T. W. Grogan, Edward Pennant, Colonel Bremridge, Richard Guernsey, Lord; Plowden, W. H. Bridges, Sir B. Gwyn, Howel Po Melville_-~" -8ru0k.e...10,a;: - , . - _- , Ralftfrd, Strii."' "'- , ' owlett, Lord W. Brooke, Sir A. Hall, Colonel Pusey, P. Bruce, C. L. Hamilton, Geo. A. Repton, G. W. Buck, L. W. Hamilton, Lord C. Scott, Francis Buller, Sir J. Y. Hardinge, C. S. Sibthorp, Colonel Bunbury, William Heald, James Smyth, John George Burghley, Lord Heard, J. I. Sinollett, A. Carew, W. H. Polo Henley, J. W. Spooner, Richard Cayley, E. S. Herries, J. C. Stafford, Augustus Chandos, Marquis of Hildyard, T. B. T. Sturt, Henry G. Charteris. Francis Hotham, Lord Thesiger, Sir F. Chatterton, Colonel Jennyn, Earl Thompson, Aid. Chichester, Lord J. Jocelyn, Visc..ount Tollemache, F. J. ' Child, Smith Johnstone, James Tollemache, John Christopher. R. ' Joilitie, Sir W. R. Trollope, Sir J. Christy, Samuel Jones, Captain Tyler, Sir G. Clerk Sir G. Kelly, Sir F. Tyrell, Sir J. T. Clive, Henry B. Kerrison, Sir E. Verner, Sir W. Cobbold, J. C. Knox, W. S. Vesey, Hon. T. Corry, H. Langton, W. H. Villiers, Viscount Cotton, W. H. Lennox, Lord A. Vivian, J. E. Cubitt, Alderman Lennox, Lord H. G. Vyse, H. R. H. Davies, D. A. S. L Leslie,Wa.ddington, H. S. Disraeli, B. ockhart, A. E. Wall, C. B. Dod, J. W. Lon g , W. Walpole, S. H ' Sir J. Walter, John Waish, Sir J. B. Drummond, Dr Henry D ru mmond, Home Mahon , O' Gorman Wellesley , Lord C. umlanrig Viscount AlLy,Tgoang,gGarten, Duncombe, A. Mandeville, Viscount Whiteside, James Duncombe, 0. Manners, Lord C. Williams, T. P. Duncombe, W. E. Manners, Lord G. Willoughby, Sir H. Dunne, Colonel Manners, Lord J. Wynn, H. W. Du Pre, C. G. March, Earl of Yorke, E. T. Egerton, Sir P. Maunsell, T. P. : Young, Sir John Emlyn, Viscount Maxwell, J. P. rEraxas. Estcourt, J. B. B. Miles, William Bateson, T. Evelyn, Willisun J. Morgan, 0. Mackenzie, W. F. MINORITY-NOES, 82. - Armstrong, IL B. Hardcastle, J. A. Peel, Frederick Bullies, M. T. Harris, Richard Pilkington, James Alexander A. Bass, M. I'. Hastie, Alexander Pinney, William Bell, Jacob Hatchell, John Rice, E. R. Scobell, Captain Birch, Sir T. I l I H I n i e e u r t v r y L e y , 0 , r a L o a i r d . Headlam, Thomas Romilly, Colonel :w ith ey , , R C . o v lo . nel Brown, W. Banbury, E. H. Hindley, C. Sullivan, Michael Brown, Brockman,li. E . D. Carter, Samuel llobhouse, T. B. Strickland, Sir G. Clay, James Hodges, T. T. Strait, E. Clay, Sir W. Howard, Lord E. Stewart, Admiral Cobden, Richard Humphery, Ald. Stuart, Lord D. Cockburn, Sir A. Hutchins, E. J. ' Thompson, Colonel Colebrooke, Sir T. Hatt, William Llanangg4Po.nj, J. H. Thompson, George Colvile, C. R. Kershaw, Jame!, Thornely, Thomas Cowan,„Charle s Villiers, vivian J. Cha m rles Crowder, It. B. Davie, Sir H. Laslett, William Wakley, T. D'Eyncourt, C. T. Lennard, T. B. Willyams, H. Duncan, Lord M'Cullagh, W. T. Williams, W. Ellis, John Marshall, W. Wilson, Matthew Elliot, J. E. Matheson, Colonel Wood, Sir W. P. Evans, J. Melgund, Viscount Wyld, dames Ewart, William Milligan, Robert Fox, W. J. Mitchell, T. A. TELLERS. Gibson, T. M. ' Morris, David Hume, Joseph Greene, John Mowatt, Francis Brlght,John Grosvenor, Lord R. Pechell, Sir Q. • ~ , . . . Clause Seven (Number of Militia to be raised) :—Proposed' after the words" keep up," to insert the words " any number not exceeding eighty thousand :"—Question put, " That those words be there inserted." The Committee divided : MAJORITY—AYES, 237. Euston, Earl Matheson, Colonel Farnham, E. B. Maunsell, T. P. Farrer,.James "Maxwell, Hon. J. P. Fellowes, E. Meux, Sir Henry Filmer, Sir E. Miles, P. W. Fitzpatrick, J. W. l'Blcs. W. Floyer, John Moody, C. A. Forbes, William Morgan, 0. Fordyce. A. D. Mailings, J. R. Forester, G. C. Mundy, William Fox, S. W. L. Mure, Colonel Freestun, Colonel Naas, Lprd Gallwey, Sir W. P. Napier,' Joseph G a l wa y, Viscount Neeld, Joseph- Gaskell, J. M. Newdegate, X. Gilpin; Colone l Newport, Viscount • . Gooch, s. S. Noel, Gerald J. Gould, Wyndham O'Brien, Sir Lucius Gore, W. B. 0. , Oswald, Alexander • ooulburn, licnrY packe, C. W. Granby, Marcinii of Pakington , Sir J. Palmer, Robert a G r r e e e e i i n : . l/ / , ' b, G o . ni ss Palmer, Roundell Palmerston, Vie. Pennant, Colonel Perfect, Robert Guernsey, Grey,G ro g a Gwyn,nS i Hovel r E , dw. Lord a r dward . Plowden, W. H. Hale, R. B. Portal, Melville Raiford, Sir Henry Pusey, Philip Hall, Colonel Repton, G. W. Rushout, Captain Halsey, T. P. H a milton, G. A. Sanders, George Hamilton, Lord C. Seamenrancis , Henry Ker Harcourt, G. G. , C. S. S e ymour, Lord Hatched,Ha John Sibthorp, Colonel Hayter, W. G. • Blaney, B. A. Heald, James smyth, J. G. Smollett, Henley, J. W. A. Herbert, L H o e r i d iry l. A. sStafrPooonredr: Augustus Hildyard, R. C. Stanley, Edward Hildyard, T. B. Stanton, W. H. Hill, Lord E. Staunton, Sir G. Hollond, Robert Stuart, Lord J. Hope, Henry T. Stuart, 11. Hope, Sir J. Stuart, J. Hotharn, Lord Sturt, 11. G. Howard, CW. G. Sullivan, Michael Howard, Sir R. Tennent, Sir J. Hudson, G. Thesiger. Sir F. Inglis, Sir It. Thompson, Alderman Jermyn, Earl Tollemache, John Jocelyn, Viscount Townley, R. G. Johnstone, Sir J. Trollope, Sir J. Johnstone, James Tyler, Sir G. Joillffe, Sir W. G. Tyrell, Sir J. Jones, Captain Verner, Sir W. Knox, W. S. Vesey, Thomas Knox, Colonel Villiers, Viscount Langton, W. H. Villiers, F. W. Laseelles, E Vyse, R. H. Legh, G. C. Waddington, David Lemon, Sir C. Waddington, IL S. Lennard, T. B. Walpole, Spencer Lennox, Lord A. Walsh, Sir J. B. , Lennox. Lord H. G. Wegg-Prosser, F. Leslie, C. P. Welby, G E. Lewis, G. C. Wellesley, Lord C. Long, W. Westhead, J. B. Lowther, Colonel Whiteside, James Lowther, Henry Wigram, Loftus Lygon, General Williams, T. P. Mahon, O'Gorman Worcester, MarquiS Mandeville, Vis. Wrightson, W. B. Manners, Lord C. Wynn, H. W. ]Banners, Lord G. Yorke, E. T. Manners, Lord J. TELLES& March, Earl of Mackenzie, W. F. Martin, C. W. Bateson, Thomas Adderley, C. B. Anson, Viscount krehdall, Captain A rkvrright, George Bagge, William Bailey, Crawahay Bailey, Joseph Baillie, H. J. Baird James Baldock, E. H. Baukes, G. Barrington, ViSeotUlt Barron, Sir H. Barrow, W. H. Benbow, John Bennet, Philip Bentitiek 4 Lord 31. Benesford, William Bernard,.Viscunt: Blair,, Stephen Blandford; MarcjuiS Bolden), George B. Bonham-Carter, J. Rooker, T. W. Booth Sir R. G. Bowles, Admiral Bramston, T. W. rirernridge, Richard Bridges, Sir B. Brisco, M. Brocklehurst, John Brooke, Sir A.B. Bruce, C. L. C. Sir Y. Bunbury, W. Burghley, Lord Burrell, Sir C. Butler, P. S. Cabbell, B. B. Campbell, Sir A. Carew, W. P. Cayley, Edward S. Chandos, Marquis Chatterton, Colonel Chichester, Lord J. Child, Smith Christopher, R. Christy, Samuel Clerk, Sir-G. Clive, 11. B. Clive, R. IL Cobbold, Cochrane, A. D. Cocks, T. S. Codrington, Sir W. Coke, Hon. E. K. Collins, Thomas Colvile, C. R. C onolly, Thomas Corry, Henry Cotton, W. IL Cowper, W.F. Davies, D. A. Denison, Edmund Disraeli. B. Dod, J. W. Dodd, O. Drumlanrig, Vie. Drummond, Home Duncombe, A. Duncembe, 0. Duncorabe, W. E. Dunne, Colonel Du Pre, C. G. Ebrington, Lord Edwards, Henry Egerton, Sir P. Egerton, W. T. Emlyn. Viscount Estcourt, J. B. 13. . J 3.; N 1 the SPAIN. Our accounts from Mad rid are o f th e Ist inst. A Cabinet Council having been held in the QUEEN'S apartments at Aranjuez, on the 30th, rumours were current of fundamental changes being in contem plation by the Government, but nothing certain was known. MADRID BOLSA, MAY I.—Three per Cents 4313- .1 • Exchange on London, 50 65. GERMANY. By letters received from the north of Germany we learn that the differences between the Duke of AUGUSTENBURG and the Danish Government, in which the Cabinet of Berlin acted as mediator, have been settled. The Prince has accepted the offer of the Danish Government of an indemnity of 2,025,000 thalers for his property situated in the duchies, in order to avoid the necessity of proceeding judicially against him. The Duke has, consequently, no fur ther connexion with Schleswig or Holstein. ITALV. The Queen Dowager of SARDINIA bay, according to the Risorgimento, already expended upwards of 10,000 f. for the relief of the sufferers from the late explosion at Turin. In its sitting of the Ist the Senate of Piedmont passed the Bill for the execution of a railway from SAvigliano to Cuneo. Tne Count DE CHAMBORD left Venice on the 27th ult. for Gritz, to attend a funeral service on alp un niversary of the death of King CHARLES X. From Goiitz the Prince was to Tracetd to Frohsdorff. THE LATE ACCIDENT AT ALDERT•GATE.--Y. esterof day Mr. Ledford, coroner for Westminster, and a j ury of at respectable. inhabitants of St. George's parish, asse mbled .. on N n , the private residence of Captain George Howard o vY_ ,: f 5, phesham-street, Belgrave-square, for fibs p d n e r a P ti r " of Or glaring into the circumstances attending commander in laudo George Sutton Gunning Sutton, a Gunn i ng , wh . o the Royal navy, and brother of Sir Robert died from the effect of iniuries sustainedh case have sp a fall from his by horse on Saturday last. T peared in our journal. AftheFeafacytsatenatuai.vestigatton, the Jury found a verdict a - Accidental 7 COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of publio business. After the auditor"' accounts of the Great Central Gas Consumers' Company had been presented, The Court proceeded to tho election of an Under- Marshal of the city cf Londou. whLa Mr. Edward W. Btoxn was chosen by a very large majority. , - THE FLEET VALLEY IMPROi'EMENT. Deputy BEDFORD wished to ask the Chairman of the Fieet Valley Improvement Committee whether he in tended shortly to bring up a report as to the progress of the proposition with refcreaLe to the Fiect Valley im provement? Deputy HARRISON replied, that as soon as the com mittee had received answers from the railway companies it WAS their intention forthwith to report to the Court. The matter then dropped. After considerable discussion of no public interest the Court adjourned. RAGGED SCHOOLS AS THEY WERE AND AS THEY ARE _ . _ I found my firstß7lgged Scriool, in an obscure place called West-street, Saffron-hill, pitifully straggling for life, under every disadvantage. It had no means, it had no suitable rooms, it derived no power or pro tection from being recognised by any authority, it attracted within its wretched walls .a flue' tuating swarm of faces —young i ,, years, but,,younth ful in nothing else—that scowled Hope' out of countenance. It was held in a low -roofed den, in a sick ening atmosphere. in the midst of taint and dirt, and pestilence; with all the deadly sins let loose, howling and shrieking at the doors. Zeal did not supply the place of method and training ; the teachers knew little of their office ; the pupils, with an evil sharpness, found them out, got the better of them, de rided them, made blasphemous answers to scrip tural questions, sang, fought, danced, robbed each other; seemed possessed by legions of devils. The place was stormed and carried, ever and ever again; the lights were blown out, the books strewn in the gutters, and the female scholars carried' off triumphantly to their old wickedness. ''With no strength in it but its purpose, the school stood it all out and made its way. Some two years since, I found it, one of many such, in a large convenient loft, in this transition part of Farringdon-street--quiet and orderly, full, lighted with gas, well white washed, numerously attended, and thoroughly esta blished I went the other night to make another visit to it. I found the school in .the same place, still advancing. It was now an industrial school too; and besides the men and boys who were learning —some, aptly enough; some, with painful difficulty ; some, sluggishly and wearily; some, not at all—to read and write and cipher; there were two groups, ono of shoemakers, and one (in a gallery) of tailors, working with great industry and sa tisfaction. Each was taught and superintended by a regular workman engaged for the purpose, who delivered ' out the necessary means and implements. All were em ployed in mending, either their own dilapidated clothes or shoes, or the dilapidated clothes or shoes of some of the other pupils. They were of all ages, from young boys to old mer. They were quiet, and intent upon their work. Some of them were almost as unused to it as I should have shown myself to be if I had tried my hand, but all were deeply interested and profoundly anxious to do it somehow or other. They presented every remarkable instance of the general desire there is, after all, even in the vagabond breast, to know something useful. One shock-headed man when he had mended his own scrap of a coat, drew it on with such an air of satisfaction, and put himself to so much inconvenience to look at the elbow he had darned, that I thought a new coat (and the mind could not imagine a period when that coat of his was'new I) would not have,pleased him better.— Dickens's Household Words. PHOTOGRAPHIC AND BINOCULAR PORTRAITS. A very curious discovery, which it is important that the public should know, respecting the binocular da guerreotype portraits, which have now become so po pular, has been recently made by Sir David Brewster. The harsh and disagreeable expression which characterises all sun pictures, but especially the bi nocular ones when united by the stereoscope, has been ascribed to the imperfection of the lenses employed, the instability of the sitter, and the necessary constraint of feature and of limb under which he sub mits to the operation. But whatever may be the in fluence of these causes, there is another which neit' er the artist nor the sitter can control. Even if the lens is absolutely perfect, the sitter motionless, and the expression of his features such as should be per petuated, the portrait is a monstrous representation of humanity, which no eye, and no pair of eyes, ever saw or can see. This character of photographic portraits arises solely from the size of the lets, and as every photographer strives to procure large lenses, for which ho pays a high price, his very attempt to improve his art leads him to produce portraits deviating more and more from pictorial truth. The cause of this is easily apprehended. A perfect portrait is that which an artist paints with one eye, or from a single point of sight; but a portrait taken by a lens in a camera is a combina tion of a great number of portraits taken from a great number of points of sight on the margin and throughout the area of the lens. Tho consequence of this is that the whole figure and every individual feature is a com bination of lines or points in different positions, and of lights and shadows of different magnitudes and intensities. If the commonest eye, therefore, can see vary distinctly, as it does, the great difference between two portraits, the one taken by the left and the other by the right eye—which are only 2i inches distant— how enormous must be the difference•between portraits taken at different points of the margin of a lens four, five, or six inches in diameter! The perfection of the photographic art, therefore—but particularly of that new department of it which consists in taking binocular portraits, which the stereoscope combines and exhibits in relief—depends upon the discovery of a process so sensitive that portraits can be taken by lenses as near as possible to the size of the pupil of the eye. COMPETITION. After all, it must be admitted that Competition has already done the civilized world great service, and ac complished more towards diffusing the benefits of in dustrial enterprise, than any single agency that could be named. Competition has led to most of the splendid mechanical inventions and improvements of the age. It has stimulated the shipbuilder, the merchant, the manufacturer, the machinist, the tradesman, the shop keeper. In all departments of productive industry it has been the moving power. It has developed the re sources of this and of other countries—the resources of the soil, and the character and qualities of the men who dwell upon it. It seerns to be absolutely necessary for the purpose of stimulating the growth and culture of every iedividuil. It is de e p l y rooted in man, leading sympathies, and - or him ever to seek after and endea'vour to realise some thing better and higher than he has yet attained. Of Co - operate with course, man is much more than a competing being. That unfettered is only one of his c haracteristics,.. and not the highest noblest. He has sensibilities, %spirt ., t to be, bene tions, which draw him on to unite end others in works for the common good.ou7hi with each other But under individualism, there may, and there fie,ent co-operation for the general h ap unite to labour, to produce, and to shareplues's. Men may the fruits of corporate industry. cumstance3, there will be the instinct any cir the opportunities for Competition"ulet of Competition, with necessary evil, there will be ~ and, .though mixed results of Competition.—Eliza the ultimate beneficial —,........_ --a Cook ' s Journal. CONSUMPTION OF CON.E ON RAILWAYS.—The in creased consumption of coke, a n d consequently of coal, from which i t is made, since the introduction of the railway sys tem, is truly remarkable, and still is not to be wondered at when we take into consideration the thousands of miles of iron way which girdle the land, the hundreds of locomotives continually roaring and belching ferth steam, and the number of passengers and quantity of merchandise daily collveyed hundreds of miles to their destination. From a circulartrade recently received, we find that in one house alone t in e New castle-on-Tyne, that of Messrs. Straker and Love, has more than doubled in the past three years ; d 8 of 40,000/. nightly pay-bills, wages, &c., amount to upwar ds carriage of per annum, and they pay in railway coke, upwards of 60,0001. a year. T h eir _ dthey expect to raise upwards of 200,000 tons per annum, theirh trade od tn and from their collieries this year about an _s l. oo, These coals are principally from the J 6 an district of Durham, are Bitch burn Collieries, in the Auckland coal, and the coke pro ducedceoopoe tons of coals. known generally as a productive gas power, leaving no from sulphur, and of. highevaporative boiler tubes remaining unin jured.—Mining Journal. PRESERVATION OF THE CRYPT OF GERRA.RIA HA LL. —At the last meeting of the British Archaeological Associa tion, a communication was read from Mr. J. W. Butter worth, urging the society to transmit a remonstrance to the City authorities against the demolition of the ancient and beautiful crypt of Gerrard's Hall. The chairman, Mr. T. J. Pettigrew, said that, ardent as was the desire manifested by the members of the association on the subject, he feared the preservation of the crypt was impossible ; the City architect, and surveyor, had exerted all their skill, but without effect, to prevent its downfall. He understood that in conse quence of the site of the crypt being some feet above the level of the neighbouring ground, its removal became neces sary, in order to carry out the City alterations and improve ments. Therefore, he entertained no hope that any remon strance now would stay the hand of destruction. Mr. C. Egan said that, in London, a city celebrated fot able archi tects and talented engineers, surely some scientific spirit would be found capable of devising a mode whereby the line of street might be deflected, and consonantly too, with im provement, from the route originally planned. Assuredly the enlightened citizens of London would not suffer the per petration of an act so Vandalish as that contemplated. Ho therefore hoped that Mr. Butterworth's suggestion would be ia as'hic h M A f ter f t r. adopted, being satisfied tha t if the City authorities could only be induced to re-consider the matte r, the y would fi nd atlniatatnLime eantegdineaenrdingiudteiffiresetuinltgiesowisecraession, no tinsupersble. White, Mr. Planche, Mr. Deave,bury, and Dr. W. W. Petti grew, took part, it was u ltimat, , la e i s propo h sed by Mr. t o - an, and seconded by 11Ir. Lawrence H ; ., - wo , rt , m.p._ -, " Tbat the council of the British A r chaeolog ic al kssociation be requested to take such steps as they may deem desirable, for thcciarprrieed servatian ,intact of the ancient crypt of Gerrard's Hall." Holloway's Ointment and The !notion, having been put by the Chairman, w as unanimously . Teuhriesdol'eßeeh,ewur Rheumatism in t b h y e Dutch army , cureduhnatveedas sure as himneither sea of [ADVERTISEMENT.] —A Lioutenant of D ragoons piPills.— This s. .... , states that Hollovrayat rheumatism, which ap -11:oeiarl Irseda preparationsn t cl o Obein incurable , tmevnat bathing, d id h ivmapo anyur ',galls: was without success. At th is and the treatment of the do six weeks. The truth re med i es, tor, after several months' trial, parts twice a day, which effectually these pills, and rubbing ls juncture he commenced taking by Mr. J. B. Stratman,oof the ointment into the complaining' f this Eti a isa e statement Duc. effectually cured him in the course of — e lol b ; b v y ou a e ll be D d eu f g or . Drug gists, and at Professor Holl Loudon. oway' s Establishment, 244, Strand, . , . g ores o ver a so' awe. )flee' pre• B. iced► r 1116 L ai of 043 A 0+ . & to ll :94 of for v; 16 rd