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If ° )n vii. uP 'ott Iris° ' o° ' it ifl rf i rj) 1 .6110, 1 P of ',lid'. iNt a •••••• - tk• tbe ire, 01 1100, 511° 1 i' 4 W I " rsb ire , ISt t 0 I Dom_ 1119.!.."'"-°- • °I , a Of THE NORTH of EIIROPE STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, Capital, 503,0001., in 25,000 Sh ares of 20$• each, with increase.theamount limited by the Act power or Deposit 4s. per Share, being And 8 Vict., cap. 110. • DIRBCTORS. The Earl of YARBOROUGH, Chairman. SAMUEL MORTON PETO, Esq., M.P Deputy-Chairman. Charles (}each, Esq., .M.P Di • Director of the Manchester, Sheffield _ and Lincolnshire Railway C om p any. D Waddington, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Eastern Counties nail ,- tray Company. Lord Alf red Paget, M.P., Director of the Eastern Counties Railway Company. Robert John 4ohnßagshaw, Esq., Director of the London Docks. Scott, Esq., Director of the East and West India Dock Com pany, and Chairma n o f th e E ast and West Ind i a Doc k s a nd Bir mingham.o_n Junction railway Comp any . f la ne Ellis Esq., Esq., Chairman of the Midland Railway Company. B eale, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Midland Railway °meetly a. Choy • a er Cobboll, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Eastern Union Railwayltiehard Company. aptain E s Director of the Norfolk Railway Compa n y . 'Tarry G • 8 . Andrews, of Lowestoft. ill am eorge Gordon, Esq., Chairman of the Oriental Bank , Lo ndon. Fenton, Esq., Banker, Rochdale. egnar Westenholz, Esq., Agent to the Danish Government in aende n Charles Henry John Rich, Esq., 20, Duke-street, St. James's. Messrs. a BANKERS. -.1Y11 7 Mills, and Co. ; and the Union Bank of London. SOLICITORS. Messrs. J. C. and H. Freshfield. OFFICIAL AUDITOR. J. E. Coleman, Esq, SECRETARY. Mr. John Hervey. • Offices, 84, King Willi am-street. The object of this Company is to give to the pubic, in its inter course with the North of Europe, tke full benefit of the improved sYstem of transit for mails, passengers, and goo Is , which the great sated and combined arrangement of the railway system now render practicable. An immediate exten-log of existing means of transit is necessary to meet the large and increasing importation of cattle, fruit, and all agricultural products, from the North of Europe, to supply the vat consumption of the central and manufacturing districts of England ; chile tee great and increasing export trade in manufactured goods And materials from these districts, which are sent down by railway to the coast, requires the same improved facilities for its transport Across the North Sea. To meet these demands, it is intended to combine and establish a rapid and more frequent communization between London, Manches ter, Liverpool, and all the principal parts of England, and the princi- Pa 1 ports and cities of the north of Eur o p e, b y means of ex p ress ateame , s rimming In connexion with express trains. The ports en the east coast of England, to and from which the Company's steamers will, in the first instance, arrive and depart, are • Harwich, Lowestoft, and Great Grimsby. The two former situate near the entrance of the Thames. and on the extreme eastern coast , of Great Britain, and in direct communication, by railways, with London and all the south and east parts of England, the latter more conveniently situate for Manchester, Sheffield, Liverpool, and all places in the le rth and west. Other ports of departure will be added to these as the public con venience may require. From these ports express steamers will run in combination with express trains, by which will be conveyed mails, passengers, specie, and merchandise, from London and the south-eastern parts of Eng land, and from Manchester, Liverpool, and all parts of the north aral West ot Great Britairl, Tor Rotterdath, Antwerp, Ostend, Hamburg!), Bremen, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, Copenhagen, St. Peters burgh, and all ports of the north of Europe. BY combining express trains with fact steamers, passengers will be Conveyed— FROM LONDON VIA LIARWICII. To Rotterdam in „ „ 11 hours. Antwerp tn.. .••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • 12 Ostend in . • • FROM LONDON VIA LOWESTOFT. To Toning in Christiansand in ... . Christiania........... Gottenburg in .. •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • 50 a, Copenhagen . . • FROM LONDON VIA GREAT GRIMSBY. To Hamburgh in. Copenhagen in .... • • ....... ..... 46 „ St. Petersburgh in ..... .... •• • .... . 120 „ FROM MANCHESTER VIA GREAT GRI3ISBY. To Antwerp. . . 20 hours. Rotterdam .. ••••••• • • • • • • ... • • 19 " Amsterdam •••••••••• • • • • • • • • ' . 21 „ Hamburgh .... ••• • • ......... ...... .. 30 „ Bremen . ... 34 „ Copenhagen ••• • • . ~S t. Petersburgh . . The basis of arrangements to effect these objects has been settled Zlth the rail way compan i es interested therein, and the advaatage of 1.." arrangements to merchants and travellers will be the follow- ViZ • Daily communications• z aPedition, combined with comfort, safety, and convenience. _ T he shortest se a vo y ag e possible between England and the various Places in the North of Europe. Bo oking through from all the principal towns in En g land, to all the Principal places in the North of Europe. Avel their po r t s th e Company's steam-vends will receive and an eelier Passengers, &c., in the railway stations alongside the train, z d travellers will be only one night at SCA to Hamburgh and Ostend, only to _Rotterdam, Antwerp, and amtend. , and a few hours on ala h !' rr ollgentents will be made for retu rn tickets available for a given ''e• The telegraph for the whole of ties traffic of this Company to merchants and passengers using its lines of communication will be iree of charge. 7lle actual steam traffic now existing between Lowestoft and E -Innark ields a ve r rmunerative return. The vast trade of vlnegland with Holland y and e Belgium awaits only the completion of tlausrailway to Harwich (now in progress) to follow that roate, and The sure a profitable trade. hay la rge docks of Grimsby are now opened, and arrangements e been in d • • acompanies terminating in that as well _ e a e with the railroa c a large traffic at remunera alas r r e all other ports to secure at once • d themselves that the ex tensi Le k and the Directors have satisfied _ on ef trade which mut aaecessarily follow the improved arrange ...tents apa , retur n " contemplated, will pa •ld an ample and rapidly increasing A _ on the capital erabs/ted in the undertaking , t gangeraents have also been made for im • mediately transferring these s ConiPany the whole of the steam traffic now existing between ana aaa Z Ports, and for making over to this Com p a ny the boats now ning between them, so as to enable it to commence operations ...Mediate] v It w as • • by a intended to constitute the Company in the first instance )30_ Charter of Incorporation, and application was made to the e,,: rd of Trade with tat view, but after delay of three monts, g Which the terms of a Charter were settled with that Boa te d, -- 'exPected Elton urged difficulty has arisen is consequence of interested oppo tlaterte at a critical period. Tne Directors, however, do not Cor n any doubt of obtaining a Charter in a future stage of the Tkpenrs operations. sh ar T . deposit to be paid on the allotment of shares will be 2s. per A deed e for th e r abodying such provisions as may be considered proper regulationi or the Company, and for carrying out the objects w a , the n !' be prepared with the sanction of the Directors, so soon Sharehole deztTgreementa necescary for securing the interests of the APlMlcatien completed. th e Direct ors or shares to be made in the annexe d form a ddressed Messrs. L " the Company, 8 4 , King William-street, Cit y ; or 111ol eraew-la n a e \v ' aene e , Cazenove, and P earce, Auction Mart, Bar- To th e D ire F "X OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. eters Gentl e of the North of Europe Steam Navigation Company. tindertea ln i en ' — Being desirous of becoming a subscriber in the above 20 /. each rig' request that you will allot to me -- Shares of be allottedtrei tr. , the whole of which or any less number that may qtdred me, I agree to accept, ant on demand to pay the re ef deposit of 2s. er share ; I also undertake to execute the deed ealetnent of the Caned upon Company, to be prepared by the Directors, when by advertisement In the Times newspaper ; or in the tech "L mY failing to do so for one month after the publication of Ica adv ertisement, I agree that the Shares allotted to me with the ePest tS Paid thereon, shall be forfeited to the use of the Company. I am, Gentlemen , y our obedient servant, . . Date - .... Name (in full) .... .. - Address in (full) Business or profession Whether holder of shares in any and which of the railway corn- - Panies named in the Prospectus Reference - - - - - - - ETTS'S PATENT BRANDY. The highest medical authority recommend Brandy and Water as the best customary beverage, and particularly as an efficient preventitive of Di arrhceatic Complaints at this season. They equally concur in preferring BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY as the purest and most wholesome. It is unequalled for preserving fruits, home-made Wines, &c. Sold throughout the Kingdom, by respectable dealers, in glass bottles, protected by the Patent Metallic Capsules, and at the DISTILLERY, 7, SMITHFIELD-BARS, in dozens, bottles and cases Included, at IBs. per gallon ; or in stone jars of two gallons and upwards, at lis. per gallon, pale or coloured. CREMORNE GARDENS. On the Banks of the Thames, King's-road, Chelsea. W a terside Entrance close to Battersea-bridge Pier. Fare by Steam - bolt from London - bridge or any of the inte e elate Bridges or Wharf Piers, 3d. Strangers should request to be landed at Battersea.bridge for Cremorne. Fare by Omnibus from Charing-cross, 3d.; from the City and remotest parts of the East end, 6d. Proprietor, Mr. T. B. SIMPSON. The Pyrotechnic Displays by the Chevalier Mortram. Open for the Season. TIIIS DAY ,at Seven o'clock, a Grand Balloon Ascent , by the veteran Aeronaut, Stephen Chambers, R.N., and intrepid aerial Trapeze, by Edouard Beutellier. THIS DAY and SATURDAY the Italian Brothers in their Double Trapeze Performance, at an elevation of 90 feet. TO-MORROW Mr. Macney, the Aston is hing Negro Clown. THIS DAY a ' nd SATURDAY Signor DeTalli, the celebrated Ourang-Outang Contortionist. TO-MORROW Grand Globe and Wheel A scents, by Herr Franz do Bach, on a Narrow Platform, 160 feet long. On MONDAY next, August 16, a most extraordinary Change of Performance, conducted by M. Soullier, who has engaged the ce lebra'ed Parisian Aeronaut, Poitevin. An uninterrupted succession of Entertainments from Three o'clock until near Midnight, including The Last Week but Two. Every evening, at a Quarter to Nine o'clock, in the newly-decorated Pavilion, in addition to the following attractions. Louis Soullier's Cirque Oriental, and the best Equestrians of the age. For particu ars, see Special Bills. Principal Artistes :—Messrs. M'Cullom, Albert de Bach, Franz de Bach, Jean de Bach, Devani, Macney, Victor Soullier, Kemp, Leon Soullier. Signor Vilderini ; Matilles. Clementine and Olga Soullier. The renowned Devil Rider, Herr Wehle. Admission to the Circus from the Gardens :—Promenade, Pit, and Boxes, 1 s.: Amphitheatre, 6d. Daily, this week, Great Musical, Terpsichorean, Equestrian, and Pyrotechnic Festivals, with all the immense resources of the Esta blishment. Open at Three o'clock. Admission, ls. ; Children, Half-price. On Sundays, after Four o 'clock, by Refreshment Card, price 6d. Table d'llote at Six o'clock, 2s. 6d. Private Room for Dinners and Coffee. SPORTING GENTLEMEN who .. neg lected to order their Dress opening may have forthe of the Moors on rd in th ers as e T hursday next, are respectfully recminedceudytehxaeteuntoe tllheoiursoe `" - mgdorn can so expeditiously and correctly that of E. MOSES and SON; with speed aniadteeodr.rec.‘tnaersiest,yqoufalmitay., At, comfort, elegance and economy is as i s n oc curt t atals, novelty in styles and peculiarity 1 , 0 r r e n d T e h r s e i E r n. rawlye E i nS p„,,SON'S Sporting Dress pre-eminently supe sg"u'ed Shooting Coat is a combination of artaisrtsewxcheellneneneiglaeidt i'''„' correctly, and gives perfect freedom to the d cheapest stock of i.: B Porting exercises. The largest, best, .4. B dY made Sporting Dress in the World at E. MOSES Rn - ue Most magnificent styles of Summer Dress at E. 3a nMOSES N a ' n S d . ;VP'S, and every elegancy in attire for visits to the sea-Side and EM IGRANTS. — You Places of fashionable resort. a `:,..IORANTS.—You are about to take one of the most eventful te-- '."Your history of your affairs, and though a land of boundless r,.. eal , th exists in the prospective, and you very reasonably expe ct a 'L r ecompense for your toil and self-d - enial, yet an untold solicitude ti ett4 ,„._°h Your mind, which may be immediately removed by applies ii.,.‘o E. MOSES and SON for your Outfits. They have made the Th.,7_ .‘ tradesmanlike provision for your requirements, and have ,;ea the unspeakable advantages of their ueiv ersal trade, unri- Di":ed transactions, and perfect experience, for the purpose of sup tag,,,_ You with the first and most requisite articles for your under - to t h - . 11, comprised in a suitable Outfit. This is a consideration of torte for importance, andpresents to you them eans of every com a ,-;° 8 Your voyage and the country to which you are go i ng. I t i s 11.(71 relief from all solicitude to remember that every article in E. eta S S and SON'S Outfits is of unequalled quality, perfect ~,,,_tability, and at considerably lower price than others charge for Zrior Goods. For the convenience of Emigrsaniutsagna ifiseepeajtatEesdtae: " . " 81 1ent is kept in E. MOSES and SON , h l..,.ent. ijoou Lists of Outfits and all requisite information relative raelpaptilivceautoons,aloir cot !. ve agels cost of passage, & c., may , to any part of the kingdom. klo C , ...ONNEXI ON WITH ANT MEER HOERR IN OR OUT OF LONDON, except their own Establishments, as follows : . tendo n ~, .4 8 8 - -..ty Establishment 154, 155, 156, and 1, etinori 83, , and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. 4 ° .; 11 „.._ . on West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,2, t *, " `r - street, all communicating. ''',.._tiefftradfbelrdd B(rYan"ckah,lairB6,6F) za I 1 1a 11 t Tailors, Clothiers, a ß rg rlsh . , 19, Brldge-street. Hatters Hosiers, Farriers, Boot Shoe makers, and General Outfittors for Ladles and Gentlemen. 4 7114 Xetablialimenta are closed from sunset Friday to ananit on ~„7:ll:twooYisiwrihceens, andbugined:ecistioreussa ook, entitled '° Tile r a or ed till Twelve o'clock. Library of Elegance," containing a E a oc g ona n . application, or forwardedE,elf- Post-free, to any part of the measurement, can be had, A. handsome Almanac for the year ,-. ~ 1X application. - - ' - ' 4 ".r4 1152 can be had, g't siiso Id ran pule B'rancais, Wig griat mintDeati c i a. Qui , s i Darla Itali o - I I 44450 habkErpaiOL ;~G~ ( -1 , • / 7 • '46t ,;••• , • 4 k. • ~,.„ ey„ 1 ,-/I‘l‘ , - - yfSt° fr o s- 4 ' -- '54 ;) % :k , „v. • . • ••'• ••) " r DIE ;R • , / ,„ • 41torr • /• \-‘l-°-1-IC, - • - T.: 61 y. f ",/ /./7 ITS 12, 185 2 . #'' AUG , r—a 7 nt_ o. 4 1:2 ci N 1 N°.18,687.] LONDON, TH URSDAY CONTEACTS for SALT BEEF and SALT PORK. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling, and Transport Services, Somerset-place, August 11, 1352. The Commissioners for executing the 0111 Ce of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do hereby give notice. that on THURSDAY, the 7th October next, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for supplying and delivering into her Alajeqy's Victual ling Stores at the undermentioned Ports, the following quantities of SALT MEAT, of the cure of any country, and all of the cure of the ensuing sea son, viz.: Navy Beef. Navy Pork, (Tierces. !Barrels. 'Tierces. I Barrels, Deptford - - - - Portsmouth - - Plymouth - - - - Cork - - - No. No. No. No. 2000 3450 1001 700 400 1000 200 400 400 500 100 501 150 100 100 100 Their Lordships reserving to themselves the power; when the tenders are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for such part thereof only, as they may deem fit, or for a greater quan tity, or of not contracting for any ; and also an unlimited power of selection, according to quality. ♦ separate Tender must be given for Beef and a separate Tender for Pork, and every Tender must specify where the meat is intended to be cared. Persons tendering for more than one Port must give a separate Tender for each Port, and every Tender must contain a separate price for tierces and a separate price for barrels. The Beef and Pork to be delivered into the respective stores as fellows, viz. :—One-third of each by the 3lst day of January, another third by the 15th day of March, and the remainder by the 30th day of April, 1853, or any greater portion or the whole at any earlier period if preferred by the party tendering, and to be paid for by bills payable at sight. The conditions of the revised contracts, to which particular atten tion is called, may be seen at this office, or by applying to the Agent for the Victualling at Cork, or to the Collectors of her Majesty's Cus toms at Bristol, Limerick, Belfast, Waterford, and Newry, or to the Secretary of the I'osemaster-General at I)ublin, or to 'the Com mander conducting the Packet Service at Liverpool; Or to the Re sident Agent for Transports at Leith. No Tender will be admitted for a less quantity than 300 Tierces, br for Deptford. 450 Barrels 1,0 Tierces, } or for Portsmouth. 150 Barrels 100 Tierces, or for Plymouth. 150 Barrels 50 Tierces, or for Cork. 100 Barrels _ _ No tender will be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty, and the party tendering, or an amnt for him duly authorised in writing, must atteßd at thiL office on Friday, the Bth October next, at Two o'clock, to learn the result of his Tender. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Ad miralty, and bear In the left-hand corner of the envelope the words Tender for Salt Meat," and " Comptroller for Victualling," and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, and be accompanied by a tqtter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound 'e'lth the person tendering, in a sum equal to 201. per cent, on the amount of the contract, for the due performance of the same. H E Commissioners of the Metropolis Turnpike roads north of the Thames, will hold a Special Meeting at their Office, No. '22. Whitehall-place, in the parish Saint Martin-in the-Fields, in the City of Westminster, on F ainAT, the 24th d ay o f . September next, at the hour of One o'clock the Afternoon, for the purpose of consulting whether any and which of the several Toll gates and Sile-bars now placed on and by the side of the First Dis trict of the said Metropolis Turnpike-roads north of the Thames shall be removed and placed elsewhere, or discontinued ; and whether any other Tollgates and Side-bars shall be erected on or by the sides of the roads in the said District, and in what situations the same shall be placed. By order of the Commissioners, J. L. BANTER, Chief Clerk and Secretary. Metropolis Roads Office, Whitehall-place, July 16, 1852. FAIR HEAD HARBOUR COMPANY. Shares of 1/. each, paid on Allotment. NO APPLICATIONS for SHARES can be RECEIVED after MONDAY, the 16th instant. 28, Cornhill. By order of the Board. ROYAL HOTEL, LOWESTOFT. The Proprietor of this Hotel has much pleasure in informing his Friends and the Public titai, during the winter he Ins provided extensive suites of bedrooms, in addition to the wing constructed last summer; this wil prevent a recurrence of those disappointments which so frequently took place from his Ina dlity to accommodate his friends in the past year. It is his intention to persevere in that course which has already given such general satisfaction, via., to combine the best Wines, Viands, Attendance, and Cleanliness, with Moderate Charges. The Ealubritiof Lowestoft, the excellent bathing, and beauty of its neighbourhood, for riding and walking, arc too well known to require comment. S. lIOWETT has only, therefore, in conclusion, to call attent on to the easiness of access and l owness of fares from the places, a list of which is subjoined, and to express hi s h ope t h at he will continue to experience that liberal support with which ho has already been favoured. Every Wednesday and Saturday, until farther notice, Passengers may be booked as under : After- Fares to Lowestoft and back. From noon at Ist Class. Id Class. 3d Class, H. M. s. d. s. d. s. d. London Cambridge St. Ives. 2 5 Chatteris ....... ..... 233 14 0 10 0 70* Peterborough W.sbeach 3 15 March 3 40 12 0 9 0 6 0 Ely * Arriving at Lowestoft at 7 45 Tickets will be available for the return journey by the trains leav ing Lowestoft at 3 P.M. on week days, or any train on Sundays, within seven days of the date of Issue. In addition to the ordinary established trains, fast Express Trains will, on and after the Ist of August, leave Lowestoft at before 7 A.M., arriving in London at 11 o'clock ; past 4 p.n., arriving in London at 10. And from Bishopsgate Station at 5 r.m., arriving at Lowestoft at 25 min. past 9. Family Tickets are issued at the London Station by all trains to Lowestoft at about the charge of a single fare, available for the re turn journey any time within 28 days of issue. STEAM to ST. HELENA. The General Screw Stearn Shipping Com pany's Steamer PROPONTIS, Captain T. W. GLOVER, will sail from London OR the 24th, an d Plymouth on the 27th instant, for th e Cape of Good Hope, calling at St. Vincents and St. Helena. This vessel has excellent accommodation for passengers, and space for a limited quantity of goods. Application as to passage money to be made at the Company's Offices, 2, Royal Exchange-buildings; and for freight, to Messrs. Balfour, Laming, and Owen, 167, Fenchurch-dreet, City. MERCHANT'S and TRADESMAN'S MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 5, Chatham-place, Blackfrlars, London, And all the principal towns in the kingdom. TaIISTEES. Thomas How, Esq. Jeffery Smith, Esq. David Fergusson, Esq. Advantages offered by this Society Policies Indisputable, except in cases of fraud. All the Medical Fees paid by the Society. Assurances of every description effected. Non , forfelture of Policies. Assurers tenable, or who find it inconvenient to pay their Pre miums as they fall due, may have a credit on application to the Board. Loans granted on Personal and other Securities in connexion with Life Assurance. The Directors being desirous of extending the Agencies in and round the Metropolis and throughout the Provinces, are ready to re ceive applications from influential and active persons, accompanied with a reference. GEORGE THOMSON, Manager. THOS. MUSGRAVE. Secretary. O THE PHILOSOPIIY OF MARRIAGE, AND THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. WITH FIFTY COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL. In French, English, German, Dutch, Spanish, and Italian, in a Sealed Envelope, 2s. 6d., or post-free, far Forty-two Stamps, SELF-PRESERV ATION; an Analytical Investigation of the Physiology and Functions of Marriage, in all the bearings in which that important subject affects the health and happine.s of Man, with its Disqualifications and Impe diments, tracing their origin to the effects of juvenile solitary habits, youthful excess, tropical climates, or close study ; followed by prac tical remarks, founded on twenty years' eaperi..nce in the treatment of Impuissance, Nervous Debility, Local Weakness, spermatorrhcea, h ander Disease. Syphilis, and all diseases of the Urinary and Generative System. Il lustrated by 10 coloured Engravings, onte i A n n i a i to ea m if y the By SAMUEL LA'MERT. M.D., Repro ductive Organs and their relative conditions ~ e e d i r s l e t a y l of Edin Society, burgh, Honorary Membe r London, &c., &c. Hall, Licentiate of Apothecaries' M L e o m n dboenr of o t s b p e l tYl ni M v Doctor Medicine,EDFOßD-SQUARE, LONDON, Matricu o la f t t e h d e resulting from irregularities and excesses, which Youth, consequences in degradation in Man hood,have produced more misery stages of life, than, perhaps, any other class of disease known to modern The essential object of this tr eatise is to p oint out the fear ful •ts The treatment pathologists. experience gained in the most celebrated and premature decay at all adopted is found e d on 'Alert' d schools of medi c i ne b o th i n this country The results of th e k now l e d ge thus the personal supervision )f• Dr. La - himself one of the few legally qualified phy s i c i ans w h o h av e devoted their whole and un divided studies to thi s important branch of medical science. In short, acquire a d b arc here condensed under in continental Europe. every peculiarity relating to the treatment of the diseases incidental to the gene ra ti ve system, and the means of immediate relief and ultimate cure are d escr i bed in detail. The pro f ess i ona l re putation of Dr. La'Mert, who has t a k en the mos t di s ti ng uished medical and academic h onours at home and abroad, is in itself a sufficient guarantee that those who may place themselves under his care will, in every instance, meet with that delicate consideration and inviolable secrecy which are so requisite in the treatment of these cases. Published by the Author, and may be had of J. Gilbert, 49, pater noster-row ; Hannay, 63, Oxford -street ; Starie, Titchbome-street, Haymarket ; Mann, Stamp, from the till,author who may be consulted personally, or by 23, Cornhill ; or f ree b y post f or f or t y -t wo letter, s daily, from Ten Two. and from Six till Eight. R. CULVERWELL'S NEW WORKS. 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TyF m aii. ost loudly are those only who know not B. ; Its "—John Bell's Surgical llCE:rhe "Those who Member o U r co T of E mt ß hpeßl l a Z ßyin A o (Mr. Courtenay) has how to use the common instruments . The practice of sur geons has been mar'i . .ed with . all kinds of violence, an indifference about the simple cure of diseases, and a passion for operations and gaoil Observations.—" sec t ; vh the ha excessesteion historys —i, and lonf ap groreo afhonorsomfal?, his views surgery. I s r e g , e r y h . e successfully treated, as bad as any which Mr. Syme adduced, and on which he had operated. Such are cases ix., xi., xii., and xviii. No. ix. had resisted, for a period of twelve yeti's, the treatment by dilitadon, and wa s fi na ll y removed in as many weeks. But cases xviii. and xix. appear, both in duration, severity, and complication of symptoms, of a more ag gravated character than any detailed by Mr. Syme, and yet the treatment adopted by Mr. Courtenay proved eminently successful." —Professor Lizars on the Treatment of Stricture. THE SINKING OF THE DUCHESS OF KENT STEAMER. GRAVESEND, WEDNESDAY.—This afternoon, at One o'clock, the jury empannelled to investigate th e death of Mr. John Sard, who lost his life by the collision between the Duchess of Kent, Ramsgate, and the Ravonabourne, Antwerp, steamers, which took place in the river, off Northfleet, on the Ist July last, and by which the former was sunk, re-assembled for the third time, at the Town hall, before Mr. Hilder, the borough coroner, further to prosecute their inquiry. An additional batch of witnesses, who were pr esen t when the accident occurred, wore examined, but their ev id e nce contained nothi ng w o r thy of being add e d to t h e sta t e ments of the casualty which have already appeared. On the conclusion of evidence, Mr. Hind, on the part of the friends of the deceased, wished, before the coroner addressed the jury, to offer an observation or two as to the property which it was stated was found on the body of Mr. Sard. He felt it his duty to correct that statement. It appeared that a day or two after the sinking of the Duchess of Sent, property which had been recovered was conveyed to the offices of the Commercial Steam Packet Company, in Fish-street-hill, and the pack ages were opened to be dried. Now, what struck him as most extraordinary on the part of the company, and which showed at least a great deal of supineness, was the fact that, amongst Mr. Sard's luggage was a small Portfolio containing an order for 501., which he (Mr. Hind) had forwarded to him, and two circular 101. notes, but the most singular part of the business was that the company kept the property for 19 days without making d9i, Salisbury street,to this tion the slightest effort to find oat Mr. Sard, although in th e cover of the portfolio , w hi c h he then p ro duced, there was legibly written the followin g , " The add ress of the t owner ,here ws o a f tsr so t nn h d i a hLe p o o on c rd l t do e e nr t -, f b o o Er o n k sgo - T -E nhd o i .h: (Mr. n ln Sard, acl showed Hind's) address, in Charterhouee-square. This, ho begged to say, eloo they, g reat supineness on the part of th e company in not taking any steps for 19 da y s to find out the friends of Mr. Sard. . Mr. Parkinson, in defenc e of the Comm ercial Steam packet Company, said they had not the slightest idea that any one was drowned , b ut, on the c ontrary, they s s e me; s 3 were ust ifi d saved; in king fithremrelytobreel,iwevoeudldthnaottaflelettte passengers into any passenger's private pocket-book. A juror remarked that the company p e rfectly well knew what had happened, and the very fact of a pers on not applying for the space of nineteen days for his lug gage ought, and no doubt did, create a suspicion in the minds of the authorities of the company that the own er was lost. Mr. Parkinson said the reason they did not make in qniries was that they were hoping every day to get up all the luggage. when they intended to advertise it alto gether. The CORONER expressed his conviction that the mat ., ter was one of immense importance to the public, a n d then proceeded to read over the evidence, commenting as he proceeded on its conflicting character. The three questions the jury had to decide were whether, in the lust place, they considered the collision was from a n accident consequent on the state of the tide, or whether there was any culpable negligence or blame attaching t o those who had the charge of the Duchess of Kent, or of those who had the command of the Ravensbourne at the time. If they were of opinion that any one was to blame they were bound to let this matter go before another tribunal. The jury, at a quarter-past five o'clock, reti re d to con. cider their verdict, and after an absence of n ear l y two hours, they returned into court. advertisingthethe negl ect of The Foreman then read the verdict of the jury as fol lows:—" That the deceased John Sard came b y hie death through an accidental collision between t h e Duchess of Kent and the Ravensbourne steamer s , off N s eparate o r thf I e et , without on th expressing elstJu theirly, 185 feelings 2."The jury Cannot in term s o f sthtreon g owners condemnation , ofth e in Duchessconseque nce Kent not t f property of the said John Sard, in their custody, they having had the means of ascer tainin g the same from found in his luggage, which was saved from papers the wreck. The professional gentle ackowledgment men attending for the Various parties having tendered thei r a to the in which he ha d conducted the coroner for the way urbanity, in vestigation, and for his courtesy an d . the pro. d important inquiry ceedings of this protracted anter minated, --- Lord Ernest Bruce had an interview with Mr. Se cretary Walpole yesterday. THE LAST OF THE ELECTION9.—The official de claration of the poll for Orkney and Zetland took place at Kirkwall yesterday week. As the election had created con siderable interest in the town there was an immense number of people congregated in front of the hustings. At one o'clock Sheriff Ayton made his appearance, accompanied by the D eputy-Sheriff, Mr. Robertson , and was received with l oud applause. H e said—Electors of Orkney and Zetland, it is my duty to declare the result of the polling on Friday and Saturday last, and I will now read to you the respective numbers polled by each candidate in the different polling district s . I n Kirkwall, for Mr. D un d a s, 71, and for M r . Inglis, g lis ' 85 . - (Cheers and hisses.) At S tromness for Mr . undas 96, an d f or Mr. Ing lis 55—(Treme ndous cheerin g) —at Ler w i c k , for Mr. Dundas 44, and for M r. In g lis 34 ; (Great applause) —at Burranoe, for Mr. In g lis 20, and for Mr. Dund as 1 6— (Cheers and hisses) — th e g ross poll in all oDnuyudoafs the four plac es amounting to 227 for Mr. D undas, and 194 for Mr. Ingli s , g i ving a major ity to Mr. Du ndas of 33 ; (Vociferous applause) —and I hereby d ec l a re Mr. Frederick Dallas to be duly e l ected and returned as a fit and proper person to represent th e united shires of Orkney and Zetland in the ensuing Pnrli ament. The' a;:i ,, nl!) l v wai; th2a ad cahuadirtinhegLtoorodk A p n la v c o e c , at t e i : e aft pro e r o w ei t o i i ch n parading tiappgb. tits priucipc Exceto of the WO. d th re e 6s u e s l ua b l y cele r m . ' he PIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNA LS ' TIMES.—The extrtets from the American jour nals which we yesterday published, and which were but samples of an extremely copious assortment, will serve to convince' every 'reader of the success with which Lord Derby's Cabinet, if really without serious intentions, has contrived to mystify the Government and people of the United States. The organs of the Ministry at home have authoritatively declared that, with respect to the north-eastern fisheries, no new claim has been advanced and no concession with drawn, and that even "the disputed interpretation of the technical terms of the treaty of 1818 remains where it was." If this be indeed the case, we can only observe that the protectors of the colonial fishsh ries are as difficult to understand as the protectors of the British farmer, and tleit the authorities and people of the Union have beeteleh into very unfortunate mis conceptions. Substantially speaking, there had been "disputed p o int" i n the convent i on o f 1818, n as we have a l rea d y explained, re l a tes to the a bu d t one that, interpretation pr o p er l y spi il,cable to the term"bay"— the Americana professing to understand by this phrase the narrow creeks and inlebs Of the coastexclusively, and the British Government maintai n i ng that large bays, such as that of Fundy, to `.he south, and that of Cha leur, to the north of New Brunswick, are compre hended no less effectually tha n th e sma ll er c oast in dentations. This is th e po i nt which, as the reader is -now aware, has been "disputed" f or mo re than thirty years. The British Go vernment never made any sur render of its views, though it conceded a certain re laxation in respect of the Bay of Fundy ; but the Americans, although, of c oarse i ncompetent to g i ve imperative effect to their own interpretation have practically acted upon it to a considerable extent. By the announcement — thet this question ".remains. , where it was' we can only understand an assertion that no step has been taken to place the subjects of either Government on a footing different from that prevailing twelve months ago. Of course t h e di spute of necessity, " remains where it was ;" that is to -say, the terms of the written convention are unchanged and the respective merits of the two interpretations unaffected. T o say t hi s is to sly nothing at all, and if the Ministerial intimation contains any meaning whatever, it must be that no measures have been taken by the British Government to make the " disputed inter pretation " more important than it has been for the last seven years. Now on the 6th of last month Mr. Webster being Secretary of State to the Govern ment of the Union, issued en official document from the Department of State at Washington, for the pur pose of communicating to the American public the new position in which the question of the fisheries was placed. In this document he stated that an "en tire change of policy " had occurred in England with reference not only to the system of bounties,but to the admission of American fishermen to grounds from which, according to strict treaty engagements, they ought to be excluded. What fishing-grounds Mr. Webster here understood is conclusively shown in the sequel of his notification. After quoting at length the operative clauses of the convention of 1818, and explaining the "disputed interpretations" , of the word " bay," he proceeds to ob serve that, in 1841, the Legislature of ' Nova Scotia submitted the case for opinion to the law officers of the Imperial Go vernment, and that their decision was against the right of the Americans to enter these large bays for the purposes of fishing, notwithstanding their central waters might be more than three miles distant from either shore. "It is this construction," continues Mr. Webster, " which the colonies have ever since desired should be enforced ; and this," he adds, " the English Government has now, it would appear, con sented to do." Without presuming to be acquainted with the true intentions of Ministers at home, we must remark that nothing can be clearer than the light in which such intentions are regarded abroad. Mr. Webster, in his proper Ministerial capacity, writing in the name of the Government, from a Government office, and basing his notification on " information of an official character received at that , department," communicates to the American public his anticipations that the " disputed interpretation" of the treaty provisions, instead of " r ema i n i ng w h e r e it was," will at length be brought to issue by the forcible adoption of that construction maintained by the British Government; that the "extensive business of the New England fishermen will be completely interrupted" in consequence, and that all con cerned, therefore, should "stand on their guard." Such is the impression produced on the American government by its official information, nor can we see, indeed, how even on the face of Sir John Pak ington's dispatch any different conclusion could have been formed. The circular letter of the Colonial Secretary to the Governors of our North American jest y 's Ministers a re dependencies, bearin g d ate only th e 26th of May last, plainly states that "h er Ma desirous of removing a ll grounds of comp laint on the part of the colonies in conseq uenc e of encroach ments of the fishing vessels of the United Sta tes upon those waters, fr om w hi ch they are ex cluded by the terms of the conv en ti on of 1818, an d they there fore intend to dispat c h, as soon as poss ibl e , a small naval force of steamers, or other small vessels, to enforce the observance of such convention. Now , if these resolutions were intended to apPl9l as " are now assured, t o such provisions only of the convention as " th e United States do not and never did dispute," w e are constraine d to remani, that they were som ew h at loosely exp ressed, and that our colonies h ave b een fl a tt e red, and the American people irritated with extremely littleTh sincerity of purpose or distinctness of plan. e out by the,convention, do, undoubtedly, h waters', alluded to without any limitation in the t dispatch of those from which the Americans are shut fishing -grounds of the larger bays, according to the rigorous interpretation of the treaty, and notoriously. so according to the views of those colonists, in satis faction of all of whose "complaints" the convention is now to be " enforced." For years past the colonists have been alleging ae a grievance that the Americans, contrary to the stipulations of the treaty, were per mitted to enter bays on the British coast for the pur pose of fishing, and when they are assured in an I hit shall offi cial dispatch that all their grounds of complaint I include te be removed, and a naval force is carged according y with the execution of th e l aw , this difficult for t a h n e y r conclusion than that arrived at English or American reader to come to Government, and accepted by the popula.tiodnueed the States. At the same time weerein to remark, that every day's additional consideration _ 1 that which the subject receives convinces us not only the construction of the treaty maintained by the more Bri tish Government is right in law, but that oricaenf persuaded intelligent of the American statesmen are lder it to of this fact, however opposed they ma y cns best in the suggestions of local convenience, or the tere s , ts of both countries. The Americans renounce heretofore en toy the t for " treaty ever anyliberty, e fish on or icYed or claimed, to take, dry or cur by the A ah m y . e bays, within three marine miles aily of the coasts, in creeks, or harbours" of the British possessions Now, America, not di s ti nc tl y excepted in t e rms. ac cording to the British intepretatioe, w hi c h considers a " a bay' as something different from a coast—as miles of line of se a , in fact, from which the threefrom Briti s h property are to be reckone d as elsewhere and harbours natural land —th e specification of bays, creeks, in the t rea t y was very and necessary ; but, according to th e vers i on w hich the Americans would give, th ese wor d s bebome supee ehsous t for the single word " coa s t" wou ld h ave provided for all the cases, if nothing was forbidden but What, inshore fishery within a cer t a i n distance. in short can be the meaning of the expression, " within thre e marine mil es of a bay," except that contended for by the B r i t i s h G overn ment ? A vessel forbidden to co me w i thin a marine league of Bantry Bay could certainly no t cast anc h o r in the middle of it. We observe, too, that Mr. Webster, in the only official document yet published on th e sub j ect, thou g h he will not admit that the British interpretation is con formable to the intentions of the contracting parties impossible to --a point o b v i ous l y nex t to decide— does, nevertheless, acknowledge that "It would ap pear by a strict and rigid construction of this article that fishing -vessels of the U n ited States are precluded from entering into the bays or harbours of the British provinces, except for the purposes of shelter, repairing damages, and obtaining wocd and water." Now this Is all for which we contend. With respect to the ad vantage to be taken of this construction, we trust that the Governments of the two countries may not find it difficult to come to an agreement befitting the characters of both ; but we submit to the good sense of the American public that in a case where the law, however invidiously interpreted, is nevertheless against them, they should not embitter the dispute by charging "a g gression" on those who are certainly guilty of nothing worse than abruptness, and whose precipitation may itself turn out to have been either misconceived abroad or reconsidered at home. ITER ALD,—"Aut viam invenianz, aut faciang" Was Sydney's gallant motto in the battle of life. " We will either find facts, or make them," seems to be the maxim of some our contemporaries, in their desperate st ruggle, after th a t g lory, pride, and crown of morn ing newspaper, " exclusive" information. Indeed there i , -a this advantage in th© system, that a state meat is never so certain of being i entirely and brilliantly ezolwsive lis when it is uufQtinded. The other day the public were startled by an announce ment which possessed, in an eminent degree, the merit in question. A most important treaty, of which very little, or rather no suspicion whatever was en tertained at large, had, it appears, been in existence for several months. In fact, it had been formally signed on the 20th of May, 1852, and this not by plenipotentiaries, but by three powerful Monarchs, with their own hands —the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of Ruesia, and the King of Prussia. The matter and purport of this convention concerned the most vital interests of Europe, came very home to the question of general peace or general war, affected the future tranquillity o f t h e wor ld, and altogether had an importance which it would be difficult to ex aggerate. This remarkable convention corresponded in the dignity and solemnity of its form with the magnitude of the questions which it undertook pro spectively to settle. It opened with an invocation of " the name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity, like the treaty of the 26th of September, 1815." A careful and minute digest of the engage ments to which the three Northern Powers are affirmed to have bound themselves on the present occasion, is furnished to the public by our vigilant contemporary. Now, in spite of the detailed and categorical manner in which this announcement has been made, we are obliged to say that it deserves no more credit than it has in most quarters received. Wherever the writer borrowed his facts, he seems to have taken a hint in the effective art of circumstan tiality from an admirable scene in the School for Scandal. Let us, however, examine for a moment the fers to the assumed intention of Louis Napoleon to A n d now, in brief, here is tbe gist of the provisions of this new and important convention. It re evive, if his countrymen so will it, the imperial office determinations which our contemporary avers to have been thus solemnly adopted by the three Powers :- 1. Should Prince Louis Napoleon be proclaimed merely for himself, without a view to Emperor, transmission of his power, the three powers will the interfere; but when they shall have un derstoodnot actively .t is but a temporary throne which ho 1 F ran e that i the will suffer him to sit there in has ascended, swa y alleged for this policy is that such peace. The will . change of title, and not a 'ill be but a a change w power in Prince Louis Napoleon. Here we change of ° observe that the:reason attributed,beers would mere y, ,tainly futility on the face of it. Such fallacy and certainly dlittle •ht with the three n cou ld have a weight a reason If an increase of the authority of powers i n question, Napoleon in France must at once in duce Prince Louis hostility on the part of those foreign Go open Id have failed to act on ntq they cou scarce y verume e principle when the events of the 2d of this imperativ ' h December occ urred i The authority.whic he then ac quired, great change in his and the position and power (though not in his title), met withresist ance.on no But, se c y' dl should Prince Louis Napoleon a Emperor, not merely empire so as that the be shouroclaimeld " determine " at his death, but with dyn p as tic dignity , and with a revival of the institu tion itself of th e empire France, then the three . in powers will o penly disavow that act of the French people, and will reserve to themselves the right of ul teriormeasure i n concert. Now, if the reason al leged as weighing s w ith the three powers in the fi rs t alternative, or " eventuality," be evidently un real, the reasons asc ribed to them for their proposed policy in this second contingency are absolutely far cical. The events o f the last t wo - aad-twenty years, combined with the first- dof mentione article tis very us no other word . tie reasons in a treaty," perm it . is derived from the Thefirst question are two. andfrom the renunciation made treaties of 1815 throne of France, for himself and by Napoleon of the . or ever. Both the treaties all his representatives f orte bar (the f ormer any, and the renunciation q save the Bourbons , the latter in an addi tional manner, any member of the Bonaparte family in particular) from ever wearing :the this " "binds the new treaty French crown. And yet Louis Napoleon recognise the three powers to as Emperor in case he be so proclaimed merely for insists life. Thus, this treaty at once on Napoleon's renunciation as a bar which forbids any Bonaparte from wearing the French crown; and the same treaty provides that a Bonaparte shall, nevertheless, be allowed to wear it, and thus not only to nullify the renunciation, but, by a mighty precedent, to make it far easier for those who come after him to treat it also as null. _Lithe rule is not binding now, will it be come more binding after it has been broken ? The second of the two reasons is, the sacredness of the hereditary principle. The point is thus urged : " The basis of the European order is hereditary right. By hereditary right the Bourbons are kings of France. The present head of the house of Bourbon is the Count de Chambord." Was ever ar gument so felicitously timed, so gracefully remembered ? " Present head." It seems he is now the head of that house; and we presume he was not its head while the Orleani3t dynasty reigned. The three powers, we are to believe, quite overlooked this fact while they had Louis Philippe's envoys recognised at their Courts; and it was only as soon as Louis Philippe had faded like a dissolving view into the " Mr. Smith" who fled to our shores in 1848, that they suddenly recollected that he was not the rightful head of the Bourbons. But even then, when a Republic, ignoring all hereditary right, whether of emperor or king, whether in elder branch or in younger, threatened the real tranquillity of Europe, we heard of no such treaty in favour of the Count de Chambord. The recognition of Louis Philippe and the recognition of the French Re public were both departures quite as violent from the rule of forcing the principle of hereditary right upon other countries, as will be the recog nition of Louis Napoleon's life-empire from the rule of holding the "renunciation" of the late Emperor to be in every possible event an insuper able bar against the instalment of a Bonaparte on the throne. For our parts, we believe that while he • reditary right is a happy principle for a people to adopt, there are also other principles absolutely neces sary to the peace of the world and to the tranquil advancement of civilization—principles which, if our fathers had adopted, we, their descendants, should not now have to say, as we can say with truth, " Oceans of blood and countless treasure have been expended, fearful evils have been suffered and in flicted, and the end of all is not attained; the priceless cost has been paid, but the purchase has not been secured." To say that a principle is valuable is one thing ; it is quite another thing to say that we ought to force every valuable principle on reluctant neigh bours at the point of the sword. For us, there are no parties in France; there is but France herself. And he who makes her prosperous, and who soonest and best secures her tranquillity, deserves well of his country and of mankind. CHRONICLE.—Having examined the various taxes which are imposed on landed property, we must not forget that, in almost all other countries, the " untaxed foreigner," employed in the production of corn and cattle, pays much larger contributions to the revenue of the State than are exacted of the English landowner. The French Land-tax alone far exceeds in amount all the imposts which can in any way be represented as exclusive burdens on the soil of England. The proportion of revenue which is levied from real property is necessarily greater in countries less advanced than our own in civilisation and commerce. Where imports are scanty and manufactures non-existing, the land necessarily bears the charges of national administration and defence. Mr. Disraeli will hardly be so ill-advised as to rest his case on a comparison which Mr. Cobden and his friends have so often threatened to institute. The whole inquiry is, in truth, irrelevant except for purposes of controversial hostility. It is for English financiers to adjust taxation to the circum. stances of their own country, without regard to the political or economical considerations which may influence foreign Governments. They may be well assured that no existing or probable burden on land will affect in any degree the cost of domestic produc tion. Even if it were true that real property is more heavily taxed iniEngland than:on the Continent, it would by no means follow that the landowner is entitled to compensation or relief, nor, on the other hand, would the far heavier burdens imposed on his foreign com petitor afford an answ er t o a we ll - f oun d e d complaint on his part of any substantial grievance. His advocates are bard pushed for a pretence of injustice, but when they can bring forward any plau sible claim they will, no doubt, be entitled to a bear ing. They will, however, act prudently as regards the interest of their clients, in abstaining from a rem: duction of two of their habitual common-places beet-root and the tobacco grievances. hai p pg l; said that the English farmer is prohibited fro,m__„,fir ducing that thin and tasteless imitation flourishes used which, in many parts of the continent, fl d c'ruestriotion is der protective duties. But the meet o f o we duty altogether imaginary. On pay mel ! t °orted from the which is levied on genuine sugar imported t o produce colonies, English industry is at may be considered beet-root sugar as dear and bad as ted with the desirable. The only abs ence griev of protection for beet-root question is the facture. The prohibition an inferior article of A In is enforced, by a law of home-grown tobaccot:o centuries old. But it which is now nearlY 0 revenue of 4,000,000/, is must be recollected that_ less than 1,200 per cent, on raised by a tax of 13° an d if a countervailing Ex . all imported tobacco; [PRICE SD. dee duty were imposed on the home-grown plant, I not a 1 eaf would ever be produced in England. The I absolut a prohibition is, in fact, cheaper and more effectu el than would be the imposition of an equiva lent dpty ; and the wildest Protectionist will hardly advocate, the encouragement of native produce by the maintenance of the existing impost on the foreign ar ticle ale ne. The loss of the whole or the greater part of 'the tobacco duties would be a heavy price to pay for fostering a branch of cultivation which is ea turally unsuited to our soil and climate. The fact that the present Chancellor of the Exchequer has adopt ?d the beet-root and tobacco cries forms a strik ing i llustration of the feebleness of the cause for which. he deems such arguments available. The most plausible demand pat forward on behalf of the landed interest concerns the large revenue derived from the Excise duty on malt ; y e t it i s remafe able that the landowners themselves have never been unaniincus in the wish to deprive the State of one of its most valuable resources. A d uty which produces upwards of 5,000,0001. annually cannot easily be replaced by any impost which will not occasion serious discontent. Nor are either the farmer s or the landlords ignorant that the malt -tax really falls on the consumer ; while the barley grower only R tiller& from the limitation of his market, occa nmecl by the artificial increase ,in the price of malt. l 'alr. J' onas, indeed, stated before the Committee of the Ho use of Lords that the Malt-tax, by enhancing the cost of th e b eer consumed by his labourers, increased his expenses Gd. an acre. But this, as Lord Mont eagle truly observes in his report, " cannot . be called a ape cial burden on real roperty, unless it be con tende d that the London coalheaver and worker_ pork* Jia , ,Ah e .. =iota " - t - Its . much a consumer _e! An Acute - - Mail a Protectionist or ;: ar b m u s e l: r ne - fac ' l e a v !xl ereth er. ou i g i h of lie"l3 . e ' whichgenerally comprehends economical question s bear on his private transatetions. Mr. Jonas evidently understands that his int. crest in the Malt-tax is that of a consumer, not of a producer ; and it is and from . a similar perception of the, true bearing of the question that the party who advocate the system of revenue by indirect dutie a have never serious t li n e a g ttacked the Malt-tax, although they have added impost Th to their list of grievances peculiar to the land. e ffe real commodities opponentsia of the malt duty, and of taxesaodni Budget speech,rent quarter. general, must be looked for in Mr. Disraeli, in his successful l drew vi a fanciful distinction between Customs dutie on foreign productions, and Excise revenue which forms eed a burden on native industry. Sounder economists watch both classes of taxes with equal interest in the hope of reducing the burden on consumers with out dangerously tampering with the finances of the State. The Melt-tax will, like the rest, be entitled to conside ration in its turn, as an impost which may probably be found to be of an elastic nature. Tea, wine, and tobacco may, no doubt, be rendered cheaper without eventual loss to the Exchequer ; and there is no reason why the duty of 21s. Bid. per quarter on malt should for ever form the fiscal addition to the price of so useful a commodity as beer. But it is for the benefit of labourers and coalheavers, and not in the problema tical hope of adding to the rent of gravelly soils, that the question must be practically considered. In the meantime, if barley-growers think, as they justly may, that they are not remotely interested in the cheapness of -beer, they may profitably direct their energies to the reduction of a heavier impost than that which the Exciseman levies on malt. We have repeatedly called attention to the un scrupulous exactions of the brewers who mono polise the beer trade of London. In the days of protective duties, and even in seasons of actual scarcity, the retail price of porter was 4d. per pot, and it was understood that the partners in the great brewing firms were in the enjoyment of at least reasonable profits on their capital. The price of barley has of late years sunk one-half, the cost of hops has been materially reduced, wages and all other collateral expenses have been diminished—but the working man still pays 4d. per pot for his porter. It is evident that there is something wrong in the law which renders such a monopoly possible. What that wrong is, and how it is to be remedied, may be a question not easily solved; but it is one which the grower of the main staple of the beer manufacture, is, ''beyond all others, interested in answering. The root of the difficulty may be indicated in the simple remark that in the case of beer, as in that of other fermented liquors, the principle of Free trade has not fair play. For purposes, not of revenue nor of Protection, but of police and public morality, the sale of intoxicating liquors is regulated and restricted. The field is not perfectly open, and the natural results of a partial monopoly follow from a limited competition, which renders combination practicable. Until an attempt shall have been made to remedy the evil, it is not necessary to admit that there is any inseparable connexion between a judicious regulation of public-houses and the ac quisition of . exorbitant profits by the brewer. To this point the Chancellor of the Exchequer may, per haps, direct his attention with advantage. If it be his noble ambition to realise the vision of Jack Cade, by giving the consumer ten hoops to his three-hooped pot, let him do so without ruining the revenue by the repeal of the Malt-tax. The community is con cerned in the maintenance of the public credit; but it has no interest in the enormous dividends which are derived by private firms from the sale, at a price fixed in the days of Protection, of an article the ma nufacture of which legislative changes have made comparatively cheap. The consumers, and, to a certain extent, the pro ducers, of beer, are taxed i n at least three ways—via., through the malt duty, the hop duty, and the licensing system, to which the bre wers owe that mono p ol y which they so grossly abuse. Of the malt-tax and of the brewers' profits we have already spoken, and we will not at present disc uss the protection which is afforded to malt against the competition of sugar and molasses. The hop duty necessarily eugments the price of malt liquors to the purchaser, but it may be doubted whether it erects the value of land, even in the districts of Kent, Sussex, and Herefordshire, where hops are ordinarily grown. One half of the duty is paid after credit has been given for six months, and the remainder at the expiration of a year from 1 the gathering of the crop—an anomalous regulation, by which, in effect, the State advances a portion of the capital engaged in the most speculative of all agricultural undertakings. The loss of this undue and questionable advantage would probably be the principal result of a repeal of the duty, so far as th e owners and occupiers of hop grounds are concerned. The Customs duty on foreign hops would, of co urse, b e re moved at the same time; and it is doubtful whether a free competition with Belgium and Germany would allow the English producer to extend his culti vat i on. The whole area of soil at present devoted to the production of hops is about 50,000 acres. The repeal of the tax has not been regarded with mu c h favour by the land owners since Mr. Cobd en has spoken and voted in favour of its abolition. It is a curious illustration of the levity with which popular doctrines are sometimes repeated, that some professed supporters of free trade have not hesitated to propose that the Customs duty on hops should be retained, notwith standing the removal of the impost levied by the Ex cise on domestic produce. It would be diff i cult for the most ind us t r i ous collector of grievances to dis cover any special burden on land, in addition to those which we h ave already discussed. The draft Beet however, to whi c h we h ave so o f ten referred, reminds us that the mo d e o f assessing the Income -to on It piers of land h as g i ven r i se to abundant cla m t ° . fann ers might have been thought that ten s° t o coin atitled were, of all classes, the least e _ e d for plain of direct taxation. Horses d u ty, agricul while the tural purposes are exempt ferocasirr ier pay assessed butcher, the baker, and the i n their respective taxes on those which ' they r . e . 4 ,1 50 levied in a manner trades. The Property:7, t h a n to any other per more favourable to the farm er All tenants of less than son engaged in bul i e ne e s zen spt from the impost, unless 3001. a year rental are of income. An enormous they posseo oth t er e u all h occupiers in the kingdom are thus majority of wi he i n terference of the tax-collector, _wwhic c l a ss avoids that vexatious inquisition while the relieved frl ole h causes so much discontent among i n t o profito rers and tradesmen. Ireland, again, th e raanufaer t o f agricultural grievan ces , i s a lt oge th er great eo tse f rai n the Income-tax. Tenant-farmers have little reason to demand a revision of the m o d e o f as „owet, D for i ts results would pr o b a bly b e any thi ng but satisfactory to them. The arbitrary valuation of the farmer's profits at one-half of his rental must, on an average, be highly favourable to his interests. No residentin the country can believe that a tenant of 3001. a year ordinarily spends so small an income as 1501. It is true that a still more disadvantageous result might appear on the face of the occupier's books, for farmers have liberal notions on certain subjects. In some districts the mistress of the establishment claims the poultry for pin money, without acknowledging any liability to account for the grain w hi c h they con sume ; and in the same manner the farmer, before he begins to calculate his profits, assumes that himself, his family, and his horses are provided with shelter and with food. The annuitant in lodgings may pay as much out of pocket as his substantial neighbour at the farm, whose plentiful housekeeping be envies. Yet, when the one pays 41. 103. to the State out of his annual 1501., while the other, at a rent of 2901., is -~ - ~ ' , / E- • ' exempt from Income-tax, it is certainly not the occu pier of the land who has a right to complain cf ine quality. Farmers, however, were never Filent suf34-: ers, and their complaints are rendered mere audible by the cireunietance that they possess votes. For r-1 veral years thei r professed advocates in Parliameritt remonstrated again s t th e h ards hi p o f pay i ng a tax :a . an assumed income perhaps in an exceptio year no profits whatever n atever might have been realised. \L : : : In vain it was urged that She complainants would unhesitatingly reject a proposal for placing them on the same footing with ordinary traders. An average, it was suggested, implied the possibility of defect as well as of excess, since a centre of oscillation must lie b e t ween two extremes. Nevertheless, it was re peated a ga i n and again that the advantage which a fortunate farmer might gain from the mode of as sessment was no compensation for the losses sus tained by a less prosperous neighbour • and a year or two of low pr i ces naturally obliterated the recollec tion of a time when the tax was probably paid on a mere moiety of the profits. The coincidence of agri cultural distress with Ministerial difficulties at last overcame the reasonable objections of financiers ; and in 1851 Sir Charles Wood consented to give the farmer an appeal against the assessment founded on the rectal. At present, therefore, capital is invested in agriculture under the most advan tageous ccndltions, SO far as fiscal burdens are con cerned. However great EGfly be the profits of a suc cessful year, the occupier is only required to pay Income-tax on half his rental. It, on the other hand, his gains fall below the assumed value, he is allowed a deduction for • the deficiency. The exemption of farmhouses from taxation, and of agricultural produce from the duly on fire-insurencee, is not a more dis tinct benefit to farmers, as compared with other classes than is the present system of levying the Properl tax. It is true that rents are still rated equally with every other species of income ; but even landowners cannot pretend that the most secure of all kinds of property ought to be exempted from ordinary bur dens. As usual, however, they complained in the name of their tenants as long as it was possible to dis cover the shadow of a grievance. The Stamp duties have been reduced and simplified since the inquiry which was instit uted by the House of Lords; but the heaviest burdens on la u d e d p ro p e rty are still to be found in the taxes imposed by the State and by , the. : law, on all transfers of -. real property. Lord lelatiteagle; in his draft- report, justly points' "to thus - " . class of grievances as the most intolerable—and, at the same time, the most easily removable—to which landowners are subject. The common remark that the price of land on the Continent bears a higher pro portion to its annual value than in England, is in itself by no means conclusive. In France and on the Rhine, there is much competion for small freehold and little for farms. Moreover, capital has in Eng land a hundred channels of investment, while in poorer countries it is habitually laid cut in the pur chase of land. There are many other reasons which show that a sound economical condition by no means implies a maximum is the number of years' purchase given for land ; but it is nevertheless true that the cost of conveyances, both direct and incidental, forms a large deduction from the value of every estate in the country. A commencement has been made in Equity Reform, but it may be doubted whether the benefit will reach the land. Until a comprehensive and simple system of registration is established, titles will be u ncerta i n, and their' investigation will be costly. The well-founded popular belief that land owners are generally in dfeb cielling email portions of t, is in n o s mall degree land. Th e Governraej o founded on the difficult seriously with thi s difficulty will shall fi rs t gra pple which establish claims to the gratitude o f t h e landed interest, of a very dif ferent kind from th ose which canbe based on idle declamation against non-existent burdens • • I' ',THE HARPY STEAMER. We have a few words to say about the performances oF another Admiralty steamer—the Harpy—which has just accomplished the passage home from Rio in 110 days. Our old friend the Megxra—we have m a d e pleasure in observing—is beiee prepared for fresh triumphs by the hand of the dockyard people at Sheer ness. They are caulking end paying her decks with ,Ti ffrey'e marine glee. They are making alterations in her internal fitments, and placing a coat of prep are d mineral pitch upon her bottom. Despite of all these im portant changes Englacd, we are told, is justified in ex pecting that within the three weeks the Megasra will be afloat again. Meanwhile, the reputation of the Admi ralty has been ably sustained. Uno avulso non deficit alter. While the Megeara has been in dock, the Harpy has been staggering about the Atlantic for the last three months at the most imminent danger to the lives of all on board. In the case of this ship it may be said--- and with reason—that wo have no right to expect any such rapid passage as is habitually made by the Bri.zil line of mercantile steamers. She was sent home, in point of fact, on account of the dangerous state of her boilers, and so it was necessary to navigate her at a re duced pressure. Allowance, however, has its limits— and whether those limits have in this instance been ex ceeded must be judged from the following facts. The time bill of the Megara since her departure from Rio stands as follows :—Rio on the 18th of April, Bahia on the sth of May, Pernambuco on the 15th, andiFayal on the 23d of July, off Plymouth on Friday last, and ar rived at Portsmouth on Saturday night. The Harpy left Pernambuco with 150 tons of coal on board—as much or more than she could stow. Her decks were choked up with the coal in order to supply the shortcomings of the stowage below. With this supply she steamed steadily away for the depot at St. Vincent's, and was within a comparatively short distance when it was found that the supply of coal was exhausted. A desperate effort must be made to keep the boilers going. Everything was thrown into the fire—coal sacks, mesa tables, old junk, the cabin doors, everything, in short, that was not absolutely necessary to keep the vessel above water. All efforts, however, were in vain, the in terior of the Harpy presented a mere tabula rasa; there was nothing more to throw on the fires, which very naturally went out. Under these disagreeable circum stances the officer in command of the ship, Commander Williams, who appears to have discharged his duty with great energy and discretion, came to the resolution of bearing up for the Western Islands. In order to give them a chance of reaching this haven alive it was neces sary to put the crew on a reduced scale of provisions and water. They apperr to have suffered very considerably from actual hardships, and still more from the terrible apprehensions of the fate that in all probability awaited them. At last they made Fayal, the very day they were reduced to only one day's further provision of water. The commander had directed his men to catch the condensed steam and add it to their slender supplies in the tanks, or they would not have reached Fayal without enduring the sufferings inseparable from actual privation. The passage from Pernambuco to Fayal had occupied even in the British navy an officer could be found to com mand and . a crew to work such a craft across the havewi Atlautic. The conduct of the commander, no doubt, that of the men, appears to have be a e n i d 'a neither home we bove all praise. The ship in which they were wou ld ring steam nor sail, and yet they in Balety to Portsmouth harbour. nont from the account we have received, to givepeople were reduced in some idea of the shifts to which the Harpy's p wnen they came to try order to keep the steam going. ~ The Harpy wasn't built sailing it was just as bad. r_ :W v c: e p d e have e b endeavoured, y° ? b- for ss r serves — i i n ' g ' i .' f ' a A ships oeuaraellails ' b : a o et n not t n h ve e en w rryt i h l wild can lin assumption l Well—could she steam, even r d? The reply we get is, that d that she had fuel on sake had h b u e d a r be a eu l2 r l e b .. . Bb steamt h eil pressure, arpy elb., but 0 a t this modified degree of pres sure to ea , a l w ays" giving way," and required hivc cre a fo o r rig s i a n f a e l t l y y, s m e a u d k e patch there, in order to keep now a ile w rs ven now a patch berehat she ever reached the shores of them "ealerieents to be little short of a miracle. tainurse, sure the boilers we.- Great Britain the question arises in the first place, Now, of co on 0 leaving Rio in such a condition as to was the h shi `dispatch across the Atlantic at all? The kist i j o Y,. r esulting from the state of facts before us is in :vi",;;,-le,r that it was unsafe in the highest degree to t the l iv es of the brave commander a nd crew a the ma steam-ship the boilers in which had been nr rpY t° a • - •se a or to a sailing ship which would not sail. The Harpy appears to have combined the absence, we condemned, crave pardon for the Hibernicism, of both qualifications. Bat as it appears to our uninformed minds, although it might have been an unsafe thing that the Harpy should be sent to her machinery, it would not have involved any very great amount of danger to have sent the necessary machinery to the Harpy. To be sure, we are not the Lords of the Admiralty, or great people at the dockyards, or anything of that sort; but we have in the course of oar little experience heard of simple minded merchants sending the requisite machinery for steam-ships across the waters of the Atlantic. Of course it was a question of expense in the second place—for the first question was one of humanity and prudence. Was it worth while to incur such an expense at all? If this question was decided in the affirmative, it was certainly best to get the necessary work executed at as cheap a rate as possible. What would have been the cost of freight on one side; and what the cost, on the other hand, of maintaining the Harpy's months and a half staggering about the ocean o n f the most imminent peril of their lives? A comparisont again, two charges cannot surely be very difficu l t . consideration suppose it had been decided on mature people for three overhauled and her Harpy:home, that she might be as her boilers had that it was the most economical course to send the , boilers refitted in England; surely, ee give the gallant officer the rules of common prudence home in his ship been condemned, it would have to b n but consistent with give way. in command means of sail i ng whenever the boilers e sh d o : n o the half-amused indignation watches the proceedings of with ig which anything en s i t - it would be the account of the hie Admiralty Bo c a r isting among the mercantile steam glorious rivalry A c E oti ng ld lisn l re _ I be many a long day ere such a companies. It Plata i s sent to sea from any dockyard in ship as La . That the same num b er of this journal these kingdom ee a o rded the retu rn of the Harpy an d the s hould havera Plata !—Times. fi rs t trip 0 - f - L Several men employed in the goods yard of the Rouen Railway, at the Batignolles, hired a boat on Friday evening at Asnieres fora row. When in the centre of the river, five of the determined to bathe, and immediately after two of the number disappeared. One was got up by his companions, and recovered but the other was drowned. ,Paris Paper. ; Ic , ; o q .. r wi f e of Pg- Js ll , B 010" _ p ark► doore' illitittl 1