The Sun. — London, England, 1855-01-08 00:00:00

XR: ALBERT SMITH'S-- MONT BLANC tal , 3 To-NiGu T. at 8 o'clock, and Every Night (but Salurd.;y)., take s. MI ; every 2s. ; Gallery, 1,. The 31"ern'n - ; P.errc:entations Paco ' Tuesd..tv ' Thursday, and EiLlurday, at 3 o'clock.— ` s sMl nail, Piccadilly. ONT BL ANC. Ladie3 and A ttt l. l... Gentlemen who come from aril distinee out of town to Mr. mi t,,,,e efere they ,arrive, Sutra's Entertain m e n t are earnestiy requestel to secure ti'n at,every F o many persons being nimble to 'gala ad representation. a letter to the Bon. oitce, wall a few jays' notice, will secure any number of nate, " 4 any extra charge. L °lsi nON and NORTH-WESTERN RA1L ,,,,, Enston Station, 6th January, 1855.—NOTICE fkrove 4 BY GIVEN, That the 1190::S in which TRANSFERS of and SPf ARES of the Company are rcg,isteral will , be 01 ! WED IIESD AT, the 24th instant, and that all trans.,er fat or r egistration must be deposited in this office oa or before 4 Y to entitle Proprietors t.) the forllicoming D!vidend. BY order. H. BOOTH, j Secretaries. CHAS. E. STEWART, . GREAT~, 4)tt r T',,,NTINUOUS COMMUNICATION between LONDON and That i r ''''. ''la DIRKE SHE AD.- 7 NOTIcE IS HEREBY GIVEN, Dat, H ,, , zl this date passebgers may be booked between Ringtown, Clar„ and the Great Western Railway Stations nt Paddington, Ni L l RI, mingham, and Wolverhampton, by the 9.15 a m. Express 111 1 . 4 ,_ovrti from Paddington, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, W`1.01,14' IN, "ti at Tr; K „—nngstown about 6 o'clock the following morning, and I'll e , st own by the City of Dublin Company's Paeke's at 7.p.m., 4 B,o.thqse Ys Thursdays, and Saturdays. proceeding after arrival on bead t " win;" morning by the 8.30 - a.m. Express Train from Birken- Places, ttz e, l.mboat will be provided to convey Passengers and their lug liorik,re of charge, both en arrival and.departure, between the Nan, Ferry Pier at Birkenhead and the city of Dublin Company's T, .aeket. ''4°Ugli FAIIES 4Tlygg, SINGLE, RETURN. - let Class. 2d Class. Ist Class. 2,1 Class. Oxford Oxf orc i . ..ariel Kingstown 603 Od .403 Od I 90s Cd .603 031 av gb,rni and Kingstown 52s 6d 36s Od 1753 Od 523 6d days. f a , i ,r lab l: e 4 I , , r i t i l °aat or Wol- 1 available Ki t ani ntou and for 7 . ~ t, gstown ..... ;. .. 40s Od 32s Od 60a Od 45s Cd days. iii, T l 3' at the Steam-packet Office - in Dublin, or at the stations of 24 f.eat Western An rf, 1855 Railway Company. na ...,_ . ALBERT LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, A t i ec 1, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall. te lo th 2 1 lereby given, that the HALF-YEARLY DIVIDEND to Otra,"„lnst., after the rate of Seven per cent. per annum, will be in 1ah..2' 4 . Of PAYMENT to the Shareholders on and after the 11th Instant. • Still • HENRY WILLIAM SMITTI, •-...,1 ,_ 4 arT, 1855.. Actuary and Secretary UZ 41 4 TRE GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE .00 ANNUITY ASSOCIATION. (With l3, Pall-mall, Lond. Established 1845. 'welt is united the BU-iness on of the .lEgis Assurance Office, late of 41, Moorgate-street. Thts Protective Capital, 150,0001. qqt s 7oley offers the °Alen ot Mutual Assurance w;th share of Dret e ,,,! or of very moderate rates under the guarantee of a large Tbe'''ve capitsl. tta tte !,roilts ara either aid-1 to the policy, or psid CASII or go to 1 1 rs, - 4 .li n e Punual premium; while in tho non-profit branch, the low Aka i ti ,„; ° ' Fared with those of pure Mutual Offices, are equivalent t rat ed "e(Rate bonus of from 30 to 50 per cent. of the amount Ra.—Prom ;um for assuring 1,0001. at age thirty-one, ~_'",itz- , r " „„. Average Premium of Mutdal offices, 271. ss . Annual . 1 . ss. 101, equivalent to a bonus of 3131.55. 7d. ; or to a Rp 1,31 3/. 54. 7d. ktimiLaa, FEATURE.— The annuities granted by the Mitre increase 4 re d e e., ll Y on the mutual system. All expenses of the annuity deed 1 40 1 .."Yed by the association. ,k,.• detailed information will be readily furnished on application, p`,!ror otherwise, to the Secretary, at the Mitre Life Office, itei414•111111, London. l att et v e agents required in such districts as are not already repro- Jrk ti R emuneration liberal. 44 r:r. 1855. WILLIAM BRIDGES', Secretary. ITOTICE OF DIVIDEND. ) t a 4 ,• K O.F . DEPOSIT, IT / 6 ATIONAL AS3URANCE AND INVESTAIENT AS-30- N, NO. 3, PALL-MALL Etta, LONDON. Established A.D. 1844.. • 01„ Empowered by Special Act of Par:iament. e ‘UIBAI , ITS for the HALF-YEARLY INTEREST, at the Z Y P" cent. per, annum, on Deposit Accounts to 31st Decem -11,1 abl be ready for delivery on and after January the-10:h, 1855 k e aily. p,,,t eB E. PETER MORRIKONT. Mana;ing Director. oil or 03 toas of Investing Money are rennested to examine the 'eco lii „ L ne Bank of Deposit. Prospectuses and Forms for Opening •,.....213 sent free on application. • 1 4 11 J N C E'S CLU B, 14, Regent-street.— - IS IlEitolßY GlVrilsT, That the (1 - :N . ERAL *till \i„,"p' h eld on Wednesday, the 27th December, was Adjourned , 4 ,fror4 4 1 )- 7 1, 81)AY, January the 10th, next at &o'clock, in order to 'FDA CO lninittee an opportunity of completing the reorganlsa- Clui), on a permanent and secure basis. o' - ' l aMittee beg to state that this object has been accomplished, ;hat th,T r oat. satisraetory mutter with the prese»t preprf ctor, aud tOtti i rlat afilleitor has undertaken to lay before the Meeting on the i ",, e t°PL• highest legal opinion as to the non-liabUity . of If ern satts,o2 ample guarantees . that the Clab shall be carried on to "" 440 4 of the members • • By order of the Committee. !J PA HOLIDAYS. -ROYAL AanimA l ;t A rnr r lCON of SCIENCE and ART, Leicester-square.— ent a W n i u ns.—Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, with accom- Aladdh grand organ by Mr. W. T. Best, and the legend llr ar t . -- ,1, 1 DY Mr. Leicester Buckingham—Dicramic Views of t; el 'ek ' Crirnect—Luminous Fouptaln, 100 feet high— statens• Apparatus and the Subaqueous Light in the cor tratt sis ' eth Cosmoransa of St. Petersburg and . moscow, w t i r t Batt -' al the Czar Nicholas—Lectures on Electricity—Chemistry en, llltry—And the History of the Bee, for juren e s_qUring th, i s Magic in m ' r ning performances—Franklin's Arctic Voyages the evening. Doors open in the morning at evening (Saturday excepted), at 7. Admission, Is.; -43 unsler 10, Half-price. 144:13-RENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROO M.S.- LOrebesPuting the course of this week will be plsyed by Laurent's i iilion e f , —Oyerture, La Part du Diable, Auber : Waltzes : La stra 4s . , e des talons (first time), Cornet; Vermahlung's Toaste, dal Bosisio; Le Carnaval de Veni se (b y sesire), H. Laurent, variations for all the principal erformers. Quadrilles: Le 44 1e) - i fie r Alcazar, Lamotte ; La Guerre; Le Rol du , Pastel (first 'atnotte. Schottische, Mathilde, Bonisseau. Polkas : Bluinen- Ifi r tss; La Fidelite, Strsuss Warshauer, Strauss. Gallop, Les "' Laurent. principal Cornet a Piston, I. Bonlcourt. All ` relative to music to be obtai ne d a t th e mus le re p os it o ry hi,". 110 orchestra. Doors open at Eight; commence at half-past. ~.e ,cm One Shilling. WALL ,L,,, POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. T he following REMARILIBLE NOVELTIES have been Lt4 . !-,LY PREPARED. tp u nE by J. H. PEPPEIt, Esq., on Professor Wheatstone's ihents on the TRANiMISSION of SOUND through Solid Con `it,rs, i llustrated by a TELEPHONIC CONCERT. - LT41,118 PA J'f an ENTIRELY NEW-and SPLENDID OPTI- Al E'RXMA, iliu.strating the VOYAGES of SINBAD the '' i 't :l'l7k w 7 t h is ! - o ll a e rr aut n i g f u ed i b P y Tl ivi AN r TARMAGORLA EFFECTS, and . Wand. 11041130AY EVENING the nth inst., LECTURE to tho 'INDUS ; 41% ‘' L•lB ' 4 F • On PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, by TREVETIIA. LL.D., & c . 'TA Increase in . the VIEWS of the WAR : the B XTTLE of the SIEGE of SEBASTOPOL, the ENGLISH BATTERIES, Or:th; -ki ' s E, n l7 ' , on the MINIE RIFLE . , and that powerful implement of tre t EAII GUN, projecting Sixty Palls per Minute, wh•ch has aiß,' t ed by Mr. PERKINS, and will be discharged daily and in the 4%tTr 4, l lEgOit ELECTRICITY by Dr. BACHTIOFFNEII. ,", ( IS c."OltD•l3 VOCAL ENTERTAINMENT of tke PATRIOTIC kfT b tor 'IVOTLA.ND. For the special Amusement of the Juvenile ." lOUS M tRIO NETT ES will be exhited. LECT IT ' RES " , ' EXHIBITIONS of MODELS, &c. &c. bi &C. C 6), Nr,k;',o-ations. 111',' 1 Pliu b . "tutEEN's New Musical Game, the POLY.LIARMON. l eye., t:11 r Daily by the Inventor Theatre is open on Saturday , Evenings, from Half-past Rn` 4l , with Mr. Crawford's I ocal Illustrations of the -41'4 of Scotland, the American Entertainment, sual Mr. A , trtiv kl , ~, ..4 e . ~B LL ON NERVOUSNESS, DEBILITY, AND or ttri INDIGESTION. %Vr 4 ar.5 , Derangements, Constip2ticm, and Haemorrhoids, is. II A each, by post Is. (A. ." - ` l -T TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID. ~ A qe.lirlittl ar "Absteotia multi cttrantur morbi." 'ivithl , 8,, , o , rl3osition of the principsi causes (over and careless 111,„ A ttil e q ,'„ of the above harassing and distressing complaints, l in i'l, ) get r , 4 ,, z1 Y intelllo and popular ezp)sition of how we shou d ev"° day. '" of them ; to which is added, diet tables for every meal , „ . ry. h „,,. and fell instrwitiona for the rezimen and observance c‘ -s 'es, 4 v e. '''' out of the twenty. four. Illustrated by numerous 1., 2. ...,,tGrITS AND SHADES OF MARItIED LIFE. Il "7.e w hich that bath no wif, I hold him lost, ei Lit;Mess, and all desolat. He that bath no child, ,„,lattbj,„ ....Isunand vri de "-Ohs cer. "' the-: alar I • n•u and Ne , -Isitiel-Derelopment tbt A rrecti r gQ ' Its expectations , - t . ii , and retarded 1, 0b5..._,„ olls--Love Matches-Precipite..e. unr . .e _c. , . '°4l Pallbr " I ,1 1 ag -icy a n d ph Inenn-rnities-Mutual .Unsuitahleness-"Alental ylical Derectivenes3-Advantaf, , es of Inter th,.'4lltill„.ory or Gestation-Hereditary Reseniblaitee-Mode of I-41 414 - * A ~•''' tAeltiraacy On Infelicitous, 'lnfertile, and all Unas -"l4nces-„ Lev; of Divorce, &c., &c. 3. CRA.STITY AIID ITS INTRINgE.IIENTS. it Iv, , ~ Truth, .1 A Lecture to Young Men. " 2 . , Passions hurt the body—what improve, tt fl ,kieet : Lire's reiined s Athens ever to lic o a ,a rci. s " 4. The advent i in _t te o p",i ons. l i i, i a aa ri t 7 t x a g 3 ?from ii l i n l fa fr ncz . ti, tl listless and diss' Y ., and r s .‘ 1+ 'e+T-sef.at.pra' `, *err, d ! „„__ ars.,,on, with • ilim,ra.l,,n , , ~ -, he vas n.larirtai narrative, Advocacy afire. Advocacy of early marriages, &c. 1 1 , 1,, 0 a Secret Disoeses their ,', lf anageroept and Cure. I, t ' t te;Pto4aEE"g 8 . 00 1.—A . comprehensive '-m an - 41 opular exposition thi n . nd Urinary diseases—their nature ant treatment, COm; bZ,eaPectally primary and secondary symptoms, all forms o bel-ii,f,..derangernents, stricture and speimatorrhcea; with 250 en 's', and prescriptions. The a ,.. 5. Uri . L ADDER, URETHRA, and RECToll...—comprising —l.r Der angements, Constipation, and Hemorrhoids. TAE z ;0 1 1s ol t I nd ,1 7 1: cart r o . 7.ll F ilis t;i pr the eceding. OW TO BE lIAPrx• "'Yaounde Vivere." Sher v "Pew words to fair faith."—Shaireere. woed, 23, Paternoster-raw; 1 1 Tanti, 39, Cornhill ; or of I t, rf,t, DP. Pre'FlArtD CULVERWEr,r,, ( s t - "er, Stre,, ' - ' Years Gsnsolting Colleaf,rne of the \v , a . 4 4 ,0 -osor, and T wenty . lo ne 01.. “! rof the above. 10, Argyll-place, iregent-rtreet, London, i ve, ~4 , ,3 , trr. advised with on the above matters daily, from Ten till - "a in the evenings, fiom Seven till Nine. 04A:RNIENTS which fit gracefully, ar t e he ar o t v i E st ß i: ~uki, e allY cut, and made in a super or manner are ff a by E. .3i S —o3p: P Att•roTs ,CAPES, TALMAS, &c ., 8.:e., o ere A,l"f Many novelties in .T . veniles and s' - ' 4l lt 3 C -1 II I'S Season, and arc suitable Attire for a Ir e Mvuterials a etvles are pre- Vv- , tt ng 'th th... ge ntiensen may be fully equippedAfosr: n a d nd far S t o h s e ' i s r retilt.,,' ° cit. and elegant Dress suitable tor home wear, .. . As o:,„Reheol duties. i'',,clutreintters for Ladies - and Gentlemen E. ,. llTosrs and , Sox have ..." .111 ' e - ,,,l l4 lversal celebrity for the suitahnitT h aTd rna c;i . .. ,, t 1,,,,. antl merchants, caPtalm: e‘ m lP a ' re " th o e f 441 e DeiZ2tageous selection from the nn a rn n e d ns o e ' st e o r ek in their Whole ,. tit.p,l7"alcat. _, 4 rt _.B ri ' • - 7' P 3l' ' -- 1 - .4 kl ' R OTIPE Until 'NfarA 1,1355, E. MPSE: 3 coI EV SO E N E T t:xt .N . o, - zi NIS will be CLO.3ED . at w EI II G , 1 3 ,e T o O pe 'e n L t O ili a i I 0, to,,,,, blo g i u ,, in r it clock. ek tpr . except Saturday, when th-y - .. ~,... to „ tar , the r'tibli e a I°'T '" — E. KOSES and '7ONT regret h r • l- ' n - trricle ' smin-;lke imposition, haVair learned that t : h 4 - ', 1 .L..... n t , ,, or " It's t he a!,.; " I:lEing oopleeted with their t.5tair...n 1 i...... , ati043, anti t . 4 , 7, the conceta-,"- has been resorted to hi many 1 . -t 40. e reaions, they bag to state that they have , 4'll 'Z'ObT WITO 451 r o - raartrloliBZ IN 03 OUT or LobiDolf. % ~T .,- .oo , ,a n i e F i : .;, e..l cya z : Et a , t ret t l ia ! i 7 on i n iv no pl '.i:tt a , b 3 l . i sl h s l s l l. e il i s t so , , r , . :u f a o ll l os l 7 s :s;f 7 t ri.,„„r: e a , 84, opposite the Church. all t , orninirnicat:ii ::34, 1, 2' i 1 West -end street 50.3, 507, 513. - .L.L , w Omford - st-. L hr-;141.02, 'Tart-street, sll corninun"catinz. t• ( Yorkstf- ) p-- eb, 19 and 20 Bridge-street. 'nr,leetll7,Eialidl'itlancll, 'Z'.G4I, li .- r7g ri ate . . '. ler, b. ' aolcoale Branch, likilbourue, Anitrzlit. and 1111 00 NI ak"'„t,Ta!lP-T, Clothla,c, ll,tters, ric=r•ors, Fn-rler'' coot _ 15 1 , 0 4 --3, %11(1 C..in eral.Catfitters for Ladiao and Gentlemen. , 'xchangl:73-iii:LT-Sheuld aniarticle not givo saU. - fa i c , Ll , o , n, i r t e w ir h u l he Witho ut 4s-ca,t (iies.reft, or, If preferred the mon* , pries,ro t , ' a , lo n. • A'l !meth are marked in plain sril w- raz u .the lowest Th o ~,,., r , cli no aliverr.ent can be mzda. cii. 34t,7(1.a.1.1b-nent-i are closed from aurae: on Fridays to sunset A , 12 _ , ,,, Y , 3, when businessdi returned till 11 e'c10ck...... , 2- , __Q ., tt for Atitninn and Winter. " Toe Counneival Co . rntl e- - risent k7on-"ning n.ili lists of prices, our syste, - 7. tl solf.ui eit..ur i e i re' e . , natY ba liad on applicatioa, or tupelo. ii....c.a Psaric than qui si paria ItntirnO. A , ~,nr D' ht man rientseb --44 uja.nr4ted_Alizianac for 185 E grati A e. T otTapp sj d l ic a a b il la on E , osPraplic4free- ZKMS. .11KET—J 0 , z y I OATS. 6d 1 313 0 1 ld 293 a! Od 1 2 5s Oa Bt, 410 qrs.' 5 51 . qrs., 4 81 qrs., 87 V., L QUARTVi• r 11 . .14 1 21 . " RR - FIT —JO urrent. Od.. .. 0d..... 0.1 ...... N. 5. -Oats, 00s m 4 1 , )d to 25s 6 ar i , Lbs per haEle ' ; wheat, roc rhite, 70s Od Ll to 20s Ocl veal, ditto,i, per lb, is vt'; t r stone, 5s 9 4, 1 ,p tor, per ib, ) ens, par pale# 6d ; ducks' , d to 4s , 6d to 3s pit r cwt, ,t: eggs2lso , w h %tdi l ; ;b loaf, large, „n s ;e, per inVerl our corn +3 l ' currencies ofl cheaper tOi but higher Pf 2(1 ditto, 5 61 .. Pd to 163 Oak 5. tid to 17 3 iatt corn, 42i OILS. .11 the Gelle r " spatee.) From lit I rort Giver Po o l ".., ILlverPool Soutban3PNl, fitoe Southater Dover ...!L Pirnoo“ _.! Dover .• .f o „ , B.stith.unP l 1 , Dover ioutharnp!ri,, s ou th.lin., 4 ' War! ;tie P°'"l Isoaha.o°l Iti*attalaP• DJver ii4oaLharaP"",, ...•' Dover , to ,P 3.Jut4aoP • :4outbalo l,4"' : Lon4or , • • • I,.oitii;axP' D0ver.....:.. • •„: PlyinAttl •:, I)occr • • ver .• •• Rolf SoutbaolP1::„ 1 Liverpo ol • Dover tli tooP 1 sou woo Dover ••: 4 0 , 1, thsouthar'rt• • • IYariou3P.... n. DOYe r 'l 2 to o l n•lSo utha r .. t o, A o uths S r t.l ••1 11 n,l)ol sr e , ••• , Ll Dof.„„aptopf this* risoutiAlatT'.° KR BOMB SATVOD-- sulte of Vrei 'vereasfs. lowly. unsettled. ine. ooudy loady. ine. toady. bendy. ine. lowly. 'ine. ggy — o sl . 0 , ggy- 11 ine. ine. inn. inn. ine. ine. ino. toady. ice. ain. I oudy. Lao. oudy. 3ry fine, ondy. mottled owly. ly line. Pills All profess o r bui d * in Stabb s ted vritb g o ti l ye 3l.l4 oe' long P er l , l B ll at lot.: # O l lieariaoj , and, , W ,, ° 0 41 :d 80 0 ,." 'e ' thnni!. ,r if g, 244, P S j ork. ~.. ..... i r Pil l ix-par.-, ?,rs. 3 of Wigli 11112104 40 r ',P i : P, yoUnffie apel an • o t ' Catholio t , B4 , j Dlarke, Ea fr Armg, E9 q , 2%1017_25>i Ig her /;;# Sir MO t e aeb°l°Ll )012 nt of ro" 71. ove d Edin bui.gbi [up,Do pf oo',o l ; 72. in to. ~~:~ ....., - - . , # .f . i ! r- , ' - 1 4 a - 7k 4- - - S 4 M- - • , : ' : cr . : ;....,°:113."',. '. .. 1 -. ' ' ' ; ~,,_ O . I Y ' '.ifk , ? , a, .4:,..) , Vi t ' ,--., • . - , s\ . ~ - --*--_- '------ I';'' ' , v :?......,, H t. „... 7' ' 4-- . ; ,, i ‘ c,c,, ,.1; .i i? ... if , c,,, iri . r.: , ~...T . 1..!. 5v ,...,,,.., :, -; ),....44..15_ T .„, • . 4, , 1v , 14.; ' , ,', RO:T. ‘' ' G....' o, l \- \' ,/,:;4 -2 Ax - : 'l . '" ' -'— , A ' rf. AA . "' —...'4-'-` ~A: LONDON,.INIONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1855. ADMIRALTY DESPATORES. THE DESTRUCTION OF THE PIRATICAL SETTLEMENT IN THE CHINESE SEA.B. The following despatches have been received at the Admiralty from Rear-Admiral Sir James Stir ling, commander-in-chief cn the EaSi; Indian and China station, reporting operations of boats of Spartan, under Lieutenant - Palliser, of that ship,' in pursuit of pirates":--- • SIR JAMES STIRLING TO THE LORDS OF THE ADMIRALTY. (Received Jan. 6, 1855.) "Winchester, at Hong• Kong, Nov. 8, 1854. " Sir,—l have the honour to transmit herewith, for the information of my Lords Commissioners of the Ad-, miralty, the copy of a letter I have received from Capt. Sir William Hoste, Bart., of her Algjesty's ship Spartan, dated the 20th ult., with its. inclosures, reporting the operations of a detachment of seamen and marines in the boats of that ship, under the orders of Lieutenant Wray Palliser, which their lordships will perceive hap- pily resulted in the recovery of a French lady, who had been seized by the pirates, and part of the cargo of a vessel they had plundered, as well as in the destruction of three forts, mounting 17 guns, the piratical settle ment, and 20 piratical kinks, without the loss of a single man. "I have on two former occasions (letters Nos. 48 and 53) expressod my opinion of this Tpfficer's conduct on similar services,- and now again feel it my duty to draw their lordships' attention to the judgment, gallantry, and discretion evinced hy_Lieutenant Wray Palliser on the present occasion, and to the important assistance ren dered to him -by -Lieutenant Anqiirrell, R.N., Ltetti' Stokes, 1t.1N1., Mr. Oliver, mate, Mr. Rogers, second master, and the other officers, seamen, and marines ern ployel under him.—l have, &e., (Signed) "JAMES STIRLING, "Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief." (Inclosnre in No. 74.) CAPTAIN HOSTS TO REAR-ADMIRAL SIR JAMES STIRLING. 'Her Majesty's Whip Spgrtan, Hong Kong, Oct. 20, 1854. _ _ _ " Sir,--My letter of the 17th instant will have in formed you of the return of the Lady Mary Wood, and the unsuccessful result tif her cruise as far as the rescue of the French lady taken by pirates from the barque caldera was concerned. In consequence of a requisition from the Vice-Consul of France (loclosure No. 1), that I would permit another force to proceed in the steamer Ann, .for a further search, I again despatched 85 sea men and marines, as detailed in Inclosure No. 3, under the command of Lieutenant Palliser, with orders to search for the French subject abovementioned, and to .effectually destroy the piratical settlement in the island of Symong. '.'The force returned this day, having been most suc cessful. The French lady has been recovered, and the piratical forts and settlements of Cop-choo-mee, from which our boats were fired upon on the 15th inst„ com pletely destroyed. I herewith inclose Lieutenant Pal liser's report, Inclosure No. 2. ' 4 .` I had given to Lieutenant Palliser directions to de stroy the town of Coulan should he obtain certain infor mation of the inhabitants being concerned in the plunder of the Celdera. On his entering the bay the boats were fired upon by 20 large junks, and several batteries of heavy guns. Lieutenant Palliser, seeing that any attack with the free he had would be useless, most judiciously retired. There can be no doubt that Coulan i's the stronghold of a large piratical fleet that has infested this neighbourhood, and committed great depredations for 'the - last seven months. No ship thrown on the coast or passing its vicinity is safe. They detach small parties to plunder in this neighbourhood, who carry their booty to Coulan, where they consider themselves impregnable. I am•of opinion that no boats could successfully cope with -thorn ; but it appears, from the soundings taken, that a steamer might be got within range, and a large force landing at the same time might effectually destroy the place. • "Lieutenant Palliser speaks in high terms of the con duct of the officers under him. The conduct of the men, rho worked for 12 hours under a burning sun, was most exemplary, and though exposed to great tOiptatiOn in the shape of liquor, no case of drunkenness occurred. I cannot conclude without bringing ti your excellency's notice the judgment and gallantry of Lieutenant 'rani , ser, by whose judicious arrangements the object of these two expeditions has been most satisfactorily attained. This is the fifth oceb.sien within four months in which Mr. Palliser has been employed successfully in.command of boats of this ship against pirates. And when it is taken into consideration that on the two latter occasions the steamers were unable, from their draft, to come within nine miles of the shore ; that Lieutenant Palliser was left entirely to his resources, opposed to a very supe rior force ; that he captured three forte mounting 17 gins, and completely . destroyed n 'large piratical settle- Meet, I hope I shall not be considered nresumptuoue in requesting your excellency will •be pleased to bring his conduct to the favourable notice of my Lords Commie sioners of the Admiralty.—l have, &c., - - (Signod) "W. IlosTE, Captain." (Sub-Inelostire No. 1.) 41.7.'1.0RGE L. HAKSELL TO CAPTAIN WILLIAM HOSTE. ." Vice Consulate of France, Hong Kong, Oct. 16, 1854. • _ " Sir,—The Lady Mary Wood leaving been obliged to return to this place this morning without having sue eeeded in rescuing the French lady, passenger on board the barque Caldera, seized by the pirates to the south of Macao, I would ask if you could allow another force from your vessel to go down to the resort of those pirates in a steamer that the agents of the insurance companies (interested in the cargo of the barque) are to Fend down to-morrow morning for the purpose of saving what cargo they can, that is now lying in the houses on shore at that 'place, to renew the search after this un fortunate person. lam desirous of leaving no means untried to rescue this lady, and I shall feel much obliged if you can accede to my request.—l have, &c., (Signed) "GEO. L. HAKSELLi " Vice-Consul for France." NAVAL AND MILETAKY INTELLIGENCE. . The. Royal George, screw, three.decker, Captain Cod. rin,o;ton, C.D., is in the Sheerness basin. Her crew were paid, and went on leave on Saturday for a month, with the exception cf tho boys, who are to go this day. Her poop is nearly taken off ; her topmasts are housed, but yards across, and all the guns out; notwithstanding, however, she draws more than 22 feet. We hear the whole extent that this vessel will be cut down will be confined to the poop. The upper deck guns will be clone away with, and two Lancaster guns will supply their place. The St. Jean d'Acre, said to be the finest and fleetest vessel in the British navy, arrived in Queenstown on having sailed from Plymouth She has already two general officers Thursday, less oh, a board, t o2a 3 rld ao c l nu o dr c s k i , s to take away 750 men to the Crimea. She carries besides a number of horses and a large quantity of stores. rae river steamers were busy the whole of Friday conveying the troops on board, and she was hourly expected to proceed on her destination. The Caesar, 91, screw, Captain Robb, having had her defects made good, was put out of dock at Devonport, on Friday. The Monarch, 84, Captain G. E. Patey, which was towed out of Devonport Harbour on Thursday, was paid wages on Saturday, and was expected to sail yes terday for the Pacific. The Majestic, 81, screw, Captain Hope, C. 8., is in No. 3 Dry Dock, Sheerness. Her topgallant masts are housed, and all the riz, , ;ing rattled down and set up, &c. Previous to her men goinfron leave' she will tie all istanntoy with Royal yards acrogp. Thy crew are absent fur 18 days. Tney are repairing the defects in the after part of her, but she will not be out of the engineer's hands, we hear, for another month. The Cressy, 81, screw, Captain Warren, is still in No. 1 Dry Dock, Sheerness, with her topmasts struck and yards down. Her crew return from their leave on the 14th, by which time she will be ready to haul out, if not before. She is coppared three feet higher than before, and many of hor defects made good. The crew of tue Arethusa, 50, Captain Symonds, will be paid wages to-morrow, and the ship placed in ordi nary. _ . The Melamp's, frigate, now fitting out in Sheerness basin for a store or troop-ship, progresses fast; her top gallanttnasts aro on end, and the rigging is being rattled down. The Lizard, 3, paddle, Lieut. Commander Christopher, is still in the harbour at Sheerness, waiting Admiralty orders. The Janus, 5, paddle, Lieut. Commander Kane, is in Sheerness Harbour, waiting Admiralty orders. The Amphio,n, 34, screw-frigate, Captain Key, is still under the sheers in Sheerness basin. The crew are all drafted to th e Ny m ph hulk. Th ey expect to go on leave the beginni n g o f next week. Th ere are on l y one serjeant, one corporal, and six marines now on board taking care of her. The lower deck and hatchway are broken up, prepartitory to taking nut the boilers and other parts of the machinery. Her guns are all on board. The screw steam-Corvette Cossack, 20, Captain Fan shawe, went out of harbour on Saturday, and anchored in Plymouth Sound, where she took on board shot and shell. The Bonetta, 3, Lieut. C. Wake, which arrived at Sheerness from Portsmouth last Friday evening, was towed up to Chatham on Saturday, where she arrived at two p.m. She left Rio de Janeiro on the 9th of Novem ber bust. All hands well onboard, and a first-rate crew she has, having been four years out. The crew appear most able and willing to continno 'their services to the country. All they want is a good leave of absence, and when this has expired to be allowed to .volunteer for any ship they choose in her Majesty's service, which favour, no doubt, will be allowed them. The Lucifer, paddle, left Portsmouth on Saturday, for Pe rn bro k o. Sprightly, tender, Master Commander Allen, returned to Portsmouth, from Devonport, on Saturday. The Fire Queen, tender, Master Commander F. W. Paul, went down to Osborne on Saturday evening with despatches to. her Majesty. APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenant Charles H. Smith (1854) has been ap pointed to the Caesar, 91, screw steam-ship at Devonport ; Master William H. Sharp (1854), to the Pylades, 20, screw steam corvette at Sheerness. Riley ; Quartermaster Nicolane, with 170 rank and file. " The Ripon reports the loss by fire of the English transport No. 119, the Hainsyke, at Constantinople ; she was scuttled, and no lives lost. No particulars have reached here. " The Talavera, No. 98, has also arrived from the Levant with GO naval invalids and the following officers : Commander Lloyd ' • Drs. Evans, Bailie, and Gooch, R.N. ; Lieutenants O'Brien and Harcourt, 30th Regi ment ; Assistant-Surgeon Sylvester, and 148 rank and file of the different regiments. " The Vulcan steam-frigate; which put into Malta short of coal, left for Marseilles on the 29th. " Yesterday her Majesty's steam-frigate Sampson left port for Portsmouth. She had on board several invalids. Among the passengers embarked was Dr. F. Crispi, a refugee and an advocate. He had edited a paper here with the knowledge of the Government, but as he had produced from the Opinione de Turino, a proclamation of Mazzini, and had translated into Italian two letters signed A Traveller in Italy,' from the Times, he has been expelled from Malta and sent to England !" The steam-ship Alma arrived at eight a.m. on the 24th of December at Malta, after a fine run of five days and 15 hours from Gibraltar. The weather was very rough and stormy. MILITARY. It is reported that Major-General Philip S. Stanhope (Grenadier Guards) is appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth garrison and Commander-in-Chief of the South-west District. Cplonel T. Bloomfield, Royal Horse Artillery; is ap- pointed Superintendent of Drills, in the room of Colonel Willes, who has proceeded to Gibraltar to take the com mand of the Royal Artillery at that station. A new description of rifle, called the " Pritchett," is in course of manufacture at the Government works, Enfield. To•tlay a draught of the 933 Highlanders is to leaie Dundee, and a draught of the 42d leaves Stirling, en route for the Crimea. They each consist of 1 officer and 70 men. In Mullingar the utmost activity prevails in the re cruiting department, as there are stationed there depots of the 14th, 62c1, and 90th Regiments. On Wednesday orders were received for the removal for embarkation of 112 privates, with the proper number of officers and non-commissioned officers of the 14th. A larger num ber than required offered their cervices ' which renders it possible that many of the married men, who have lengthened service, will be allowed to remain at home for the recruiting and drilling departments. The en rolling for the militia proceeded with vigour. THE PRINCESS ROYAL. The crew of the screw steam-ship Princess Royal, 91, Captain Lord C. Paget, is to be paid wages to-day, prior to leaving for the Black Sea on the same or following day. She will embark for service in the Crimea the following officers and men, who arri -ed at ,Plymouth on Saturday morning :—Major-Gene hones and his two aides-de-camp, Lieutenant-Colonels Cowell and Jame son ; also the First Company of Royal Sappers and Miners, consisting of 100 ran': and file, under the com mand of Capt. J. F. M. Browne, and Lieutenants Bel son, Carter, and De Courcy Scott, of tl:e Royal Engi neers, together with one sergeant and 46 private 3 of the ambulance corps from Chatham. She will embark at Queenstown 28 officers and draughts of men for the regiments serving ia the Crimea, together with 30 tons of camp equipage and baggage for conveyance to Balaklava, THE GUN-BOATS. The Pincher, one of the new light draught gun-boats, having had her engines put on board at Deptford, was brought down to Woolwich dockyard on Saturday to have her guns mounted and be completed for sea. Seve ral of the other gun-boats building , at Northfleet are in an advanced state. They are all ordered to be ready previous to the ice breaking up in the Baltic in the spring of the present year. MAIL FOR TURKEY. This evening a mail for the British army in Turkey, the Crimea, and tho fleet in the Black Sea will be made up and forwarded via larseilles. Letters will be charged 3d the quarter ounce, newspapers 2d each. The postage must be paid in advance. THE TRANSPORT SERVICE. Black Boy, hired screw-transport, 173, which arrived in Southampton on Thursday, for the purpose of taking on board a portion of the hilts awaiting shipment far the Crimea, leaves for her destination to-day. Besides which the Black Boy has on board a large number of packages for officers and others engaged in the Crimea. The Saladin, hired sailing -transport, for the convey ance of French huts, went into the river from South ampton yesterday morning. She departs for the Black Sea, accompanied by the paddle-wheel steamer William M'Cormick. The C.)riolanus, hired sailing-transport, also engaged by the French Government for the conveyance of huts for their troops in the East, is being rapidly loaded. She will, no doubt, get away from Southampton early in the week. The Swiftsure, which has also been hired for a similar purpose, wiil be the next ship to take her departure from Southampton. In consequence of the non-arrival of huts sufficiently fast to supply both ships, _this ves sel will not be loaded until the Coriolanns has taken on board her complement. The Talavera., sailing-transport, 916 tons, has left the Black Sea for Malta, from whence she will convey , home about 250 invalids, and on completion of her voy age be dismissed the service. Yesterdaythe Prince of Wales transport left Gravesend with a portion of the second division of the " navvies" for Balaklava. On the previous evening the Hesperus, with another of the - sa►ne party, took her departure for the same destination. The brie Albian is now monndin g provi4ona at the Royal William Victualling-yard, Stonehouse, consisting of bread, beef, .and pork, in barrels, &e., for the eastward. The transport Princo Albert, taken up for the convey. anee of troop to the West IndieA, anchored at Spithead on Saturday evening. She is to convey a detachment of the 36th to Jamaica. The Himalaya, Commander Priest, arrived in dock at Southampton, on Saturday morning, from Portsmouth. She will remain in the tidal basin until Tuesday, when a graving dock will be at leisure to receive her. In this dock she will receive a thorough cleansing, and will no doubt return to Spithead to await future orders. RUSSIAN PRIZES. On Saturday advises were received from Malta dated December 23. On that day the Fairy yacht, laden with stores sent out by the Crimean Army Fund for gratui tous distribution among the troops, sailed also for Balaklava, as also the following transports, carrying re inforcements, stores, warm clothing, winter-huts, and stoves—namely, the Rajah, the Empress, the Candia, the Edwin Fox, the Army and Navy, and the Alster. The African mail steam-ship Retriever, lying off Mill bay-pier, was to take her mails on board yesterday after noon at 2 and was expected to sail i mme diately afterwards. ---- CaPtAin — Edwin C. T. D'Eyncourt, of the Desperate, will commission the new screw steam -corvette Pylades at Sheerness, immediately that the crews of the Despe rate have stripped her and returned her stores. The Desperate is to be appropriated, pro tern., as a hulk for the crew of the Pylades. ARRIVALS, &c., AT MALTA.' A. letter from Malta, dated on the 31st of December, says :—" There is but little to communicate by the un- expected departure of the steamer Ripon for Mar seilles, which vessel arrived here yesterday from Con stantinople with invalids for England direct. On her arrival, however, her destination was of a sudden changed, the troops disembarked, and the ship was ordered to proceed to Marseilles for the conveyance of French troops. "On board the Ripon was the body of the late. General Adams, which was disembarked. " Her passen,,,yers were—Colonel Maitland, the Earl of Cardigan, Colonel Bradford, 'Major M'Mahon, Cap tains Wright, M'Dougall, Ellice, Croft, Warren, Leiken burg, and Robertson • Lieutenants Bu n d, R.N., an d Lewprise ; Dr. Blakeley ; Ensigns Anderson and (Sub-Inclosure No. 2.) LIEUTENANT PALLISER TO CAPTAIN SIR W. HOST; BART. " Her Majesty's Ship Spartan, Hong Kong, Oct. 26, 1354. " Sir,—According to your directions, I proceeded, at 7 a.m, on the 17th inst., with 85 seamen and marines of this ship, in this barge, pinnace, and jolly-boat, to the steamer Ann. On the evening of the same day we an chored near the wreck of the Caldera. The next morn ing I observed some suspicious•looking junks to wind ward ; we immediately went in chase with the barge, pinnace, and ji , lly-boat. On our approach they mmte for the shore, threw their guns overboard, the crew suc ceeding in escaping before we could come up with them, ►eaving their vessels aground. WEF.Z Days. SOADAYS. 44 F t Fen- 3 71 14 :.I.nreh 5 3 3c,, 4 F; 'thumb 5 V . , 0 Str,ot ". - A Street ". S o 11 214 OA • - Fore Cabin. Satoon. 'o or froni Gravesend and 103- .. Is. .2zl. Gravesend and Blaakwall or Woolvvisb Bd. .. Os. MI • ietween Gravesend and Intermed!ate Piers.. O. .. Os. Rd. • POAT TICKETA.—TweIve I`,lonths. 5:.0.;.; SIR Months, 31. Os. ; rhree Months, 2 7 . Os. ; to bo had of the Collectors on board tb.c 'ackets; or of :dr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend. - Nov. 13, 1854. ME SECRET INFIRM:I - 11E1i OF YOUTH NB MATURITY. I,st published, prleo 25., illustrated with caves; flue by post for 30 stamps, JERVOUS DEBILITY; 1 1. Its Causes, Symptoms. and Cure.—An Essay on Sper raterrhcea, with Practical Observations on a safer and more :uccessful mode M treatment of the diseases of the Generative yste:n, obtained by the use of the Microscope in detecting and :7stiazuishing, by urinary examination, the real , Atasc and effect of very variety of complaint, whether arising from solitary habits, xecsies, cceldent, or climate, followed by practical remarks, founds , ' r. twenty years' experience in the treatment of Impuissance gervons Debility, Local weakness. Spermator:hcza, &c. To %villa addeJ, Commbniaries on the Physiology of Marriage, with pre !autionary hints on the evils emanating from empirical practice. Ind on the eingerous remcdios advocated by various 'writers on sec tillpOrtali disorders. t.A.5.1117131:4 5/, 11 P. nF n n-51 rzu Sre 14 T. 02? D. Q IT, - , . - " I atn happy to inform you that the first junk I boarded had on board the French lady whom we have been in search of, also a Chinese merchant who was taken in the Caidera. I immediately sent them to the Ann in the jolly-boat, burnt the junk, and consequently two others. " We then pulled up to the villages of Cou-ehoe-mee, and landed, having previously burst some Sarapnell shell over the town. We carried down to the boats all tbe cargo that was not damaged that we could find— viz., 43 bags of sugar and 40 chests of tea ; and burnt two separate villages. While employed embarking the cargo we discovered another village, in an adjacent val ley, guarded by a battery, with men standing at the guns I immediately collected our men and went to the attack. Not knowing the road we had to firce our way through a thick jungle till we came in face of a battery, which opened fire on U 3 with four guns and five wall pieces at about 80 yards. At the saute time we received . a shower of rocks and stones from a height that com manded the path, which knocked down several men. wr. 41," ry, log and wounding several, and the rest fled into the Dletor rf rowli;.,ine, Matriculated !,Limber m the University of Edit, ?ategh. Konarary Vcenter of the London liospitai Medical Society War:tate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, pc„ Sze. T;le easontial object of this treatise is to podia out the fearful eon. ialuenees resulting from certain habits, Irregularities, and excesses, whish have prommed more mlsory to Youth, degradation in Man :nod, and premature decay at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, any 3ther cuss of disease known to inndern Patholoalsts. It, perusal is, iartieularly recommended to perimis entertaining secret doubts 01 their physical condition, and who de en clone of havreig Itazardeo • e beal - th, happiness, and privileges to which every human being i a.ititic•-l. s it 13 absolutely nvessary thatch men thoold know, that there arc ,elneiples of personal managemeat which cannot be violated without Incur:Ma grievcias penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed , to heyday cf inconsiderate self-Indulgence, how there pepaitiee 'nay be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed. Ind how the evil and Its consequemees may be avoided, and above all, there is sit:7.l2:ly any decree of physica' Intim - My or functimiai im.angement to which the limey aid of scionco cannot apply a cure rheAuthor hal for a series of years been engaged um an extensive ,ffftetlee in the treatment of these delicate complaints, which havt unfortunately teen too generally confided to the mtre. of ignorant empirics, who Inflict groat injury or those who ure induced to place iith in their pretensions. NERVOUS DEBILITY may be had, price 2s, of Measra. Piper, Brothers, and Co., 23, Pateraoster-row; Hannay, €3, Orford-street ; ITorne, 19, Leicester-square; Mann, 39, Cornbill ; or free by post fm thirty stamps to any address from the Author's residence, 37, Bed rerd-winve• At home for consultation daily from Eleven till Two, and from till Fight. jangle, where many were shot. We then burnt the vil !age, which contained many houses, principally built of .brick. Four of the guns and two of the wall-pieces we carried off, the rest we destroyed ; and after having -burnt 17 boats on the beach we returned to the Ann at 7.30 p. to " Early the next morning we left the Ann, in the beats, and pulled into Coulan Bay. Immediately on rounding the point we were fired upon from several batteries, situ ated In different parts of the bay; also from 20 large junks hauled up broadside on to the beach, mounting heavy guns, from whi c h they fired upon us with very fair pre , eision, at a distance of 1000 yards. Near these large junks there was a battery, from which they fired some shell that burst short. After having satisfied myself as to the force and position of this strong place, I retired behind the point, as I considered that from the very strong position taken by the pirates any attempt that I could have made with the force at my disposal to attack the place would be useless. I therefore returned to the Ann, .and arrived in this harbour at 8.30 a,m. this day. "I take this opportunity of expressing to Lieutenant A. Morrell my thanks for his able advice and assistance I throughout the expedition. To Lieut. Stokes, who corn manded the marines, and assisted me greatly, my thanks are also duo. I have great pleasure in informing you of the exemplary conduct of the men throughout ; I h ere . DOVER, Jan. 7.—His Royal Highness Prince Lucien Bonaparte arrived here this afternoon, from Calais , . by. with enclose a plan (by Mr. Henry D. Sarratt), second the South-Eastern and Continental Steam-packet Corn - i master) of the Bay of. Ceillan, which appears to be the pany's boat. On landing his Royal Highness was re -1 stronghold of the pirate ' s,and I am happy to stat e n o ceived by Mr. Latham, French •Consul, by whom the casualties ooeurred.—l have, &e. Prince was co n duct e d to Birmingham's Royal Ship , • (Signed) " W. PALLISER, Hotel, where he partook of - dinner. His Royal High , - " Senior Lieutenant, Harl.S. Spartan." ness left Dover for London by the express .train at 7.30 p.m. . G UNPOWDER EXPLOSION AND EXTRA.ORDINA.IIY ESCAPE.) —LowrcK.—Oa Wednesday, the 3d instant, an accident occurred at a - coalpit which is being sunk near Kimmer ston by Mr. Salsbury,lof Barmoor.. A barrel containing 251 b. of gunpowder had been inadvertently left in the. smithy, which is attached to the works, and while one of the work Men was employed in sharpening some took a spark from the heated iron ignited the gunpowder. A tremend'ius explosion followed, which carried off elf roof, and otherwise greatly damaged the building, al though the man, who was at work within two yarch from where the gunpowder lay, only received a few slight burns. This person (Gleergo Halliday) some years ago was shut up in a neighb3uring coalpit for two day; and a night, under peculiarly trying cireurnstances.--, 'Berwick flrarder. (Sab-Inclosure No. 3.) "DETAIL OF FORCE BELONGING TO HER MAJESTY'S SHIP SPARTAN, EMPLOYED IN THE DESTRUCTION OF A PIRA. FORT AND SETTLEMENT ON THE ISLAND OF COO UHOO-MEE, OCT. 18, 1854. LIEUTENANT PALLISER IN COMMAND. "Barge, .12-pounder howitzer, Lieut. Palliser. " Pinnace, 12-pounder howitzer, Lieut. Morr e ll. "Jolly-boat, Mr. Sarratt, second master. " 55 seamen, small-arm men ; Lieut. Stokes, t wo cor porals, and 18 privates Royal arines. (Signed) " W. TIME, Captain." In consideration of the gallant conduct, as well as judgment displayed by Lieut.. Palliser on the above ocev sion, the Lords of the Admiralty have promoted that officer to the rank of commander. MILITIA. The Duke of Richmond, Lord-Lieutenant of Sussex, has notified that the Artillery Militia of that county are to be immediately embodied for coast service. The Ist, or South Durham Militia, assembled at Barnard Castle, their head•quarters, on Friday, the 22d ult., for permanent duty. The Royal North Glocester Regiment, under the com mand of Colonel Kingscote, assembled for permanent service at Cirencester Oil the 26th ult. Tile enrolment of the Edinburgh County Militia, con sisting of G5O officers and men, has now been completed, and it is expected to be called out early in the spring. Orders have been issued for the immediate embodi ment of the 3d Middlesex Militia. Ninety privateß, belonging to the North Notts Militia, were sworn in a 3 volunteers into regiments of the line, on Friday, after being addressed by the inspecting officer. The South Lincoln Colonel Sibtliorp, Colonel, now on permanent duty at Chichester, enrolled between GO and 70 fine young men as recruits during the pat week. The West Suffolk corns of Militia, under the com mand of Earl Jermyn, M.P. for that borough, have as• sembled at Bury St. Edmund's for active service. The West Norfolk regiment of Militia has assensblcd at Norwich for permanent duty. PREPARATIONS FOR THE ATTACK. The Constitutionnel publishes a letter of the 23d ult., from the army before Sebastopol. The writer is an officer, lately sent out. He says : "We embarked on the Ist, and made the passage in splendid weather, arriving in the Crimea on the 13th. Our division is not yet all come together, and in conse. quence we have not been assigned any particular part of the service. We are neither at the siege of Sebastopol nor with the army of observation ; we form part of the army of reserve, and are far from the operations which menace the other troops. We are half a league from Sebastopol, which I hay_g_nrt yet4een near, from being continually Occupied, - - NotWitliStanding'our distance, however, it is not to be supposed that we shall not be called on tee take part, like the others, in active proceed ings • thus, two nights back, on the occasion of the St. Nicholas, the Russian national fete, a sortie was appre hended during the night, and we were ordered to bold ourselves in readiness to fall in, but nothing occurred. The weather is not cold, but the humidity is ex. ceedingly great ; there is much fog and wind, and the rain has been continual since our landing. The first alight that we passed at bivouac, so much rain fell that an in undation resulted, which caused us to change our place. As to our living, is excellent. The Government makes immense sacrifices for us ; the officers and soldiers re ceive bread, biscuit, fresh beef, bacon, coffee, sugar, and brandy. In addition, the Emperor has sent out all kinds of preserves, which can be purchased at Paris prices. There are meats of the first quality, as well as boxes of fish, butter, cheese, and all kinds of wine, even to Champagne and Madeira. The siege is continued with the same ardour and intelligence, and the town is gradually approached nearer and nearer. In France astonishment is felt at the length of time employed in taking this place, but no one can imagine the difficulty of this immense undertaking. It could have been taken long before, if the leaders could have made up their minds to sacrifice thousands of men in the assault, but such was not the idea which prevailed, humanity dic tating, without doubt, another mode of action, which shows forth only the more a prudent and able com mander. Hitherto our losses have been almost insigni ficant, and it many be even said that many of them are occasioned by the negligence of our soldiers, and by the imprudence of the guards of the trenches, either in quit tin r , the posts assigned them, or falling asleep by night in the' trenches, which protect them against the fire of the enemy." MOV.EMENTS AT ST. PETERSBURG. The Cons;itutionnel publishes the following letter from St. Petersburg, dated the 28th ult. f‘ Now that the two grand dukes have returned from the Crimea, the Cesarewitch Alexander and Prince Pashidwitsels are expected. The journey of this latter is caused by military and political reasons. In his quality of Commander-in-Chief of all the active army, his opinion is of paramount authority on all matters re lating to the army under his orders. He recommends officers to the command of corps and for other employ ments. It is he who got Prince Gortschakoff appointed, first to the command of the army of the Danube, .and then to that of the army of the south. It is he who had Osten Sacken named to the 4th corps d'armdd, Read to the 3d, Rudiger to the command in Poland, and lately Berg to the command in Finland. Above all, he has to render an account of all the measures taken . for the defence of the empire in the west and south-west. The following is the way in which the frontier provinces are provided with troops. In the provinces of the Battle are the Grenadiers of the Guard and of the reserve, in addition to the garrisons in the towns on the coast ; in Poland and Lithuania, there are the let corps d'arin4e having its bead-quarters at Radom, garri sons at Zamnie, Ivangorod, and Nowogeorgiewek, two divisions of grenadlei . L., divisions of the guard_, two brigades of cavalry and two of tfie artillery of the guard, the artillery and cavalry of the let corps, of which two divisions are near Kamienitz and Kijaw. The last siamed town is the centre fur the:position of the reserve. From Kaniienetz to Kischenew, Odessa, and Real ex tend the remainder of the 3d corps, under the orders of Gortschakoff; the corps of the cavalry reserve, Cossacks and garrison troops, as far as Kherson and the Taurida. The second line of this defensive position is formed by the army of reserve, which has its head-quarters, under the orders of Techeodajaw, at Moscow itself. Such are the piincipal points of the position which Russia has selected for displaying her armies in the face of Europe, a position which, notwithstanding its great extent from St. Petersburg to Odessa, appears to many persons in this country so exceedingly strong that they would look on the acceptance of the four conditions as an act of shameful condescendence towards the Western Powers. M. Brok, our Minister of Finance, provides perfectly for all our wants of money. In order to insure to the Russian merchants a sort of monopoly in the commerce of tea with China, he has had the ingenious idea of levy ing a duty, double that paid by the native merchants, on all teas imported from the frontiers of Siberia and Orenburg by the other merchants of Asia. This measure will have the inevitable consequence of leading to the naturalisation of the Asiatic traders as Russian subjects, or at least their inscription in the corporations of the empire, whence it follows that the new measure has, at the same time, a political bearing by bringing the non Russian merchant under a sort of dependence with respect to our government, as in order to save his commercial existence he will be obliged to pay what is called the corporation-tax. The day before yesterday, a young man was so imprudent as to allow his tongue to run on, somewhat too freely, which act brought him into trouble. He had remarked that the four points sent from Vienna were somewhat too highly salted, and that Austria seemed to have thrown into them same of the products of her salt-works of Wielicka, in order to cell them as dearly as possible. But, added he, no one will believe that the Czar will yield as long as he has a conscript left. These short observations were made last Thursday in a society of intimate friends at Strelna. The next day, the young man received frcan the government a passport to proceed to his property at Saratoff, with these words Count S--off will .be pleased, like a good patriot, to explore his property and see if he can find any sslt there, and free Russia from the necessity of obtaining her salt from other , , countries," No. 19,431,.1 P BLICATIONS. INTERESTING PRESENT. CHEAP EDITION of the CRESCENT and the CRO'S. By ELIOT W a It BURTON. Now ready, in 1 vol ; with 15 illustrations, Gs , bound. "A hock calculated to prove more practically useful was never penned than Tha Crescent and the Cross.' "—Sun. Published for H. Colburn, by Ills successors, Hurst and Blackett. NEW EDITION OF MR...RO3ERS'S E As Kys, Just published, in 3 vols. rep. Bvo., price 21s. VSSAYS, Selected from Contributions to. the Edinburgh Review. By lIENRY ROGERS. 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This is the first time, he informs as, that he has addressed himself to the noa-medi :al reader. We trust this - may not be the last. If be shall !cant any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his .ower to cor rect."—Lon don Medical Gazette. "The tribe of Qaiet Sympathisers,' and 'Medical Friends,' aro mercilessly exposed; and if this book could flud its way into the hands of those who suffer from the com plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied the, many hundreds would In saved much needless suffering of body and , mind, and what is of teas Importance, though it is that which the quacks te oat prize— much money...... This volume is well que'fie,d to put an end to the e - noirlcal system of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to plact the treat meat upon a more rational and physiological basis. It N, therefore, Lik&y to do much good." London: 11. Rapiers, 219, Regent-street. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, 2D JANUARY, 1855. THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS of HER MA JESTY'S ORDNANCE Do HEREBY Giv.E NoTroc, that they are ready to dispose of to such persons as are cx Ming to tender for the same; a quantity of Metal Borings, in store at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, which have been divided into lois, ,nd may be viewed upon ap,licatioa to the Storelceevr,at that pace, any day (3and.‘y excepted) previous to the day flxad for the delivery of the tenders. _ _. . _ _ Catalogues of the several lots may be obtained by perons willing to become purchasers at the Storekeeper's °Mc!, Woolwich, the Storekt spar's !-nice at the Tower, and at the Secretary's Oftlce In Pall-mall, where the tenders for thew , ole or any number of the said lets are to be delivered on or before Tuesday, the I tnth of January. By order of the Board, J. WOOD, Secretary. COIiTRACT FOE LEMON JUICE. Department of the Comptroller for Tietualling and Tran;port Services, Somerset-House, sth January, 1855 . THECommissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do Hereby Give Notice, that on W ED g EiD A Y, the 17th instant, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to Contract for Emptying and delivering Into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at DEPTFORD, When to be delivered. Gallons. Half in 3 weeks, and the remainder in LEMON JIIICE.• • 2,000 3 weeks afterwards, or earlier If pre ferred by the party tendering. Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the Juice. Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the Ten ders are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for such part thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a greater quantity, or of not contracting flr any. 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ES, approved of by the French College of Physicians, successfully adadnist,red in the Paris and London hospitals, and acknowledged by them to be the best remedy for the cure of certain diseases (see " Lancet" of Nov. 6, 1852) —Price per 100 45. 6d. ; 50 2s. 9d. To be had of the inventor, G XBREEL JOZEA.I.I, French chemist, 49, Haymarket, London, whose name is printed on is on the Government stamp, and of the principal chemists. GR AVESEND ST PACKETS. No other Packets call at the Greenhithe and rnrfleet Pie The Packets can at the Piers as unlerlined (weather permit FROAS TERRACE PIER, auA.VESW,VI) SUNDAYS WEER DAYS, r 'trace Pier w • Y., m G U y t A N 4 p 4 g ~.~_ _,_ i` i~. Time t 1, 3 P. 4 O Omnibuses from I'am:well-street Station to all parts of Lonioii .very quarter of an hour. ARUNSWICK WQARF, BLACKWALL, on the arrival of the fo lowing Trains from the Fenehnrch-street Station - _ •. ' s r* ,P Z /Y e // , I • • - • . sf-4 I C . : • 1, oe 6g, r PRICE SD. ARRIVAL OF THE CANDIA. SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw steamer Candia, Captain Field, ar rived here to-day. Her dates are —Balaklava, Dec. 15 ; Constantinople, 24 ; Malta, 27 ; Gibraltar, Jan. 2. She brought home 229 passengers, chiefly invalided officers and soldiers from Scutari Hospital, who had been wounded at Alma, Balaklava, or Inkerman. The officers were Captain Hume, Lieutenant Barnston, 55th Regi ment ; Captain Thompson, 10th Hussars ; Lieutenant Newenharn, 63d Regiment ; Dr. Wilson, 7th Hussars ; Captain Kennedy, 77th Regiment ; Lieutenant Clarke, 20th Fusiliers ; Captain Bamford, 63d Regiment ; Lieu tenant Greenwood, 33d Regiment ; Lieutenant Irvine, Lieutenant Shealfield, 44th Regiment ; Dr. Reade, Major-Yates. Captain Tryon, 7th Fusiliers, and 192 non.commissioned officers and soldiers belonging to the 13th, 17th, 21st, 23d, 28th, 30th, 33th, 39th, 62d, 63d, 89th, and 95th Regiments. There were alio as passen gers seven Sisters of Mercy and two nurses from Scu tari Hospital, and Mrs. Reade and family, the widow and children of Dr. Reade, who died in the East. Two of the private soldiers died on the voyage ; one died yesterday, and was buried at sea this morning. Twenty five of the soldiers were lying very ill on board, partly from their wounds and partly from dysentery, caused by the change of climate in coming home. The whole of the officers and soldiers who came home in the Candia from Scutari were either so ill or so much maimed that active duty was in their case for a long period out of the question. The Candia came alongside the Southampton dock quay between 11 and 12 this . mornlng, and the pas sertgets-c3nlci-rasily walk ashore. As soon as she came alongside, a place on the dock quay was immediately railed off to prevent the publi c f rom i ncommo di ng th e passengers, and dock policemen guarded the spot ap propriated to them. Messrs. Hedger and Levy, the dock authorities, with a large staff of dock porters, immedi ately went on board the Candia, with authority from Colonel Barlow, the chairman of the Southampton Dock Company, to pass the baggage of the wounded officers and soldiers through the docks " as quickly as possible and without charge. Mr. Sparrow, the collector of customs ; Mr. Clarke, landing waiter ; Mr. Obree, the superin tendent of the tide surveying department ; Messrs. Skinner and Vaughn, tide surveyors, with a staff of tide waiters, were also on board, prepared to pass the baggage of the officers who were about to proceed to hotels in the town. Captain Cragie, the Admiralty superintendent, and Captain Lacy, the head of the Southampton enrolled pensioners, were also in imme diate attendance to arrange the best method of disposing of the soldiers to put them to the least inconvenience. Drs. Maul and Mackey, two resident surgeons, went on board to volunteer their assistance. None of the wounded officers or soldiers on board the Candia had lost any limb, but all suffered from gun-shot wounds ; some were limping with sticks, others were on crutches' numbers had their arms and hands in slings, some were crawling, others lying about the deck—all betraying that peculiar appearance wising from illness caused by pain and hardships. But for the looks of suffering in the poor fellows' countenances, no one could have helped laughing at their costumes. Some wore red coats, some green, others blue, many grey great coats ; some had foraging-caps, others fezzes on their heads. There were mixed together foot and horse soldiers, light and heavy dragoons, riflemen and Highlanders—Alma, Balaklava, and Inkerman men ; many of them were youths with scarcely any hair on their chins, but whose fighting days were all over. Directly the Candia, was alorig‘ide the baggage of the officers was looked at on the dock by the customs officials, and the officers were enabled in half an hour afterwards to get to their hotels. A staff of landing waiters was ordered on duty as soon as possible to prevent any delay in the despatch r f the sol diers directly the necessary arrangements could be made to convey them from Southampton. Shortly after the I arrival of the C,lndia, the Admiralty ordered her to pro coed to Portsmouth. The tide, however, was too low, and she will leave Southampton the first thing to-mor. I row morning. Three or four thousand people assem bled in the docks to see the poor wounded men, who excited the greatest interest in the spectators. Some amusement was caused in the docks by a horse, draw ing a cart laden with five casks of porter, coming up close to the ship. It appears that Messrs. J. and G. Cooksey, merchants, of 'Southampton, with great kind ness and consideration, sent the porter as a present to the invalided soldiers as soon as they heard of their arrival. As the soldiers were from various regiments, many inquiries were made of them by the people of Southampton as to absent friends at Scutari and in the Crimea. It was truly pitiable to see how ill some of the poor soldiers were, stalwart men, whose voices had become childishly treble through pain and feebleness. Comrades were sitting beside and tending upon those who were very ill. There were female nurses also, and the medical attendance on tbeea. appeared to be good.. Great anxiety was manifested by the people of South ampton to get hold of relics of the terrible struggle in the Crimea, which were brought borne in the Candia. The wounded men spoke in the highest terms of the treat ment they received at Scutari. Captain Stratton was in command of the sick and invalided. The Sisters of mercy who came home in the Candia were English women, but were dressed after the fashion of nuns. The Candia left Toulon with 1,200 French troops when she was hiredb e y m at Balaklava. It was arran ged about six weeks si n ce, and landed them the French Go. vernment that if she could be at all dispensed with in the Black Sea, after she had landed the French troops, she should return to Southampton to resume the mail service. The Ripon and Etneu are on their way to this country with invalids from Scutari. SIR CHARLES NAPIER AND THE GOTBRNMEN T. It appears almost impossible (says the Hampshire Telegraph) any longer to conceal the fact, that consider able misunderstanding has arisen between the Govern ment on the one hand and Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Napier on the other, in reference to the character and results of the operations in the Baltic. It is no secret that Sir Charles does not consider full justice has been done him by some members of the Government, in reference to the amount of discretion he was empowered to exercise, and the withholding of permission to undertake certain enterprises when they were proposed to him. The vari ous speeches made at the Reform dinner, in Parliament, and at other places, left no question but that the Baltic fleet was expected by ministers to perform greater ex ploits than they have performed, whilst it is also petty well known that Sir Charles Napier himself shared if ho did not excite these anticipations. The determined skulking of the Russian fleet in harbour of itself was sufficient to prevent their realisation, whilst the unex pected strength of the Russian fortifications, and the dif ficulties of navigation in the waters of the Baltic, also further prevented the achievement of any brilliant ope ration& We are not, however, disposed to join in any indiscriminate grumbling at the results of the Baltic camp sign, for after all they have been by no means in significant; whilst they have been obtained with compa ratively little loss of either life or treasure. With regard to the chief operation in the Baltic—the destruction of Bomarsund—complaints have been made that it was not effected by an attack by the great fleet under the Admiral's orders and the•landing of the strong force of marines belonging to the English acrd French squadrons. Some persons have even gone so far as to assert that this was actually owing to the want of enterprise on the part of the admirals, and that Sir Charles himself was the person. who applied to the Go vernments of England and France for a military force to effect the' capture of a rapidly-risieg Sebastopol of the Baltic. But, if we are correctly informed, it was Sir Charles Napier who pointed out the necessity of the capture and destruction of Bomarsund, owing to its menacing position as regarded Northern Europe ' • and also declared his readiness to carry his proposal into effect with the fleet and marines alone. The soundness of thr Charles's ,advice was, we understand, acquiesced in, but he was directed not to undertake the siege until the arrival of a French military force. This, it is said, caused as much annoyance to the gallant admiral as to any other officer or man in the fleet, as he believed the trouble and expense of sending a military force for such a purpose to be unnecessary. Again, we are informed that Sir Charles Napier applied for, and was refused, permission .to attack and destroy Abo, Hang°, and Revel. _ _ With regard to the expectations that were formed of an attack on Sweaborg, it appeared that a council of war was held on the subject, and that among others who gave their opinion, the French officer of eng i neers , Ge neral Neal, expressed his belief that it could be reduced in four days. Other views as to th e ti me th e o p era ti on general unanimity of opinion toer'll a s practicability. One captain being would entertained require aas to of the navy offered to lead his fine screw two-decker into the harbour and run stem on to a Russian three decker moored with her broadside commanding the har bourchannel, by w hi c h h e d ec l are d h e wou ld s i n k Vie Russian although he might get his own ship much damaged. A. distinguished flag officer, however, gave it as his opinion that the place was next to impregnable so far as a naval attack alone was concerned, the destruc tion of a greater part of the fleet being inevitable. Weight being attached to this opinion, the attack was decided not to be made. . 7~----~ THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PRO CLAIMED IN ENGLAND. Yesterday was read in the churches and chapels in cluded within the Roman Catholic arch-diocese of West minster, a pastoral letter from Cardinal Wiseman, dated at Rome, and promulgating the doctrine of the immacu late conception as an article of filth. The message is addressed thus :—" Nicholas; by the divine mercy of the holy Roman Church, of the title of St. Pudentiana, Cardinal Priest and Archbishop of Westminster, to our dearly beloved brethren and chil dren in Christ, the clergy secular and regular, and th• faithful of the said diocese. Health and benediction in the Lord." The Cardinal first enters into the external circum stances under which the dogma has been established. He describes the meeting at Rome of bishops from all parts of the earth, and then speaks of the interior de liberations, lie says : " It was impossible to behold many of these prelates without emotion, many venerable for their age and the long and faithful services they had rendered the church, some reward for their persecution and sufferings—even to exile—which they have heroically endured for Christ's truth ; not a few whose countenances presented to the beholder the type of holiness which shines in their lives so as to bo like breathing pictures of eminent saints, but present evidences of the Church's mark of sanctity ; and others whose noble features and bearing, on whose mild and amiable countenances presented varied forms of the episcopal character. Such was the truly grand assembly of bishops amidst which we found ourselves standing, to our own e difi cat i on , i ns t ruct i on, an d humiliation. On four different days did this truly ecclesiastical assembly meet, under the presidency of three cardinals distin guished for piety, theological learning , and experience, Brunelli, and Santuc c i, and attended upon by a choice assembly of divines, secular and regular. The bull prepared for its last revision bad been communi cated to them, and every portion of it frankly and acutely discussed. Here was indeed seen the importance or rather the necessity of a common ecclesiastical lan gunge as the organ of religious unity. The bishops as sembled in Roma represented 14 different languages, as used by them in their communications with their own flocks ; yet here a corismw,tongue united them,- snd,„_ x .- proved that they belonged toll° church which belongs indeed to the whole earth, but is still of one lip and one speech. All was now ready, and the great day ap proached—a day for ever memorable in the Church's annals, the day in which the great prerogative of holi ness ever conferred on creatures exemption from the stain of original sin was to be seen dogmatically de clared, as it had been firmly to belong to the purest of beings after Him who chose and fitted her to be His mother. The cardinal, anticipating criticism, is careful and says :—" You will of course understand, dearly beloved in Christ, that the Church pretends to new revelations, but claims the unfailing assistance of the Holy Spirit to guide her into all truth, and the teaching in her of her divine Founder to the consummation of the world, and, there fore, the perfect as3urance that whatever she is found to be at any time universally teaching, and what the Vicar of Jesus Christ pronounces to be her doctrine, has been that of the Catholic Church from the beg inning, and consequently a portion of th a t d epos it o f faith, and a part of the revealed truth, which was entrusted to her by the Author and Finisher of her faith. It was not, therefore, to pronounce to the world any new discovery, nor to demonstrate by arguments a particular theory, that this venerable assembly was convened in the mag nificent basilica of St. Peter, on the memorable Bth of Dec., just elapsed. It was as successor to him over whcsa ashes and under the shadow of whose chair he stands to pronounce a decree of unfailing certainty, that the immunity of the ever blessed Virgin, Mo ther of of God, the eternal Word incarnate and the spot legos lamb, had been a doctrine revealed from the be ginning, anti if hitherto only received in implicit faith, hencforth, by virtue of his decree, to he believed by all with explicit faith, that is, as a distinct and separate dogma, no longer involved in the general belief of what the church teac`lep." A remiarkabla portion of the Cardinal's pastoral taken up with a graphic description of the scenic fea tures of the cereincnial when the doctrine was declared by the Sovereign Pontiff. The procession (be says) presented one of the noblest ecclethstical spectacles ever witnessed, even in St. Peter's. One hundred and fifty-two bishops in silver capes, and white mitres, and 51 mitred cardinals in the embroidered vestments of their respective orders al, bishops, priests, and deacons, immediately preceded the Hay Father. He next describes the heavenly music, but what fol lowed, he tells the faithful, was yet more sublime. "Standing at his throne the Holy Father commenced the reading of the solemn decree by which, as superior pastor and visible head of the universal church, as suc cessor of the apostles St. Peter and St. Paul, and as vicar of Jesus Christ on earth, he authoritatively and dogmatically pronounced that the immunity from original sin, or, in other words, the immaculate concep tion of the ever blessed Virgin Mary, the mother of God, is a revealed doctrine of the catholic church. He bad not, however, proceeded far, before his tears and sobs interrupted his speech, and it was only by an effort which evidently cost him great exertion, that he could make his words struggle through the tide of his emotions, and rise audible above the flood of his overpowering feelings. He succeeded, indeed, so that we had the- bebppiaess of 'hearing. *very word and syllable of his most memorable decree ; but that flood of tender devotion drew after itself cor responding sentiments from the souls of others, so that scarcely a dry eye was to be seen amongst those who witnessed this touching scene. The cannon's voice gave the signal of the happy accomplishment of so many fer vent desires to the whole city, and the prolonged peals of gladness from the olden towers of Basilicas, and the belfries of modern churche3, represented the acclama tion of the earlier and later periods of unchangeable catholicity. The Cardinal Dean returned before the throne to return thanks, and accompanied by the proper official personages, to request that the official deed should be drawn up of the prooeedings, and the bull issued containing the decree just pronounced. The mass then continued, and at the Te Deum, which closed it, the people joined in with the same overwhelming melody. as they had introduced into the invocation of the Holy Ghost." After describing some subsequent ceremonies, the Cardinal returns to the doctrine, and exclaims : " Rejoice, then, dearly beloved, again we say rejoice. Rejoice in the Lord, who has so graciously bestowed on his church so signal a blessing, whereby the piety of her children has been wonderfully excited, and their love for their Mother in heaven greatly increased. Rejoice that to her fresh glory has been given, and a new crown, the brightest that she can wear, that we may hope for new favours and more abundant graces from her affectionate and powerful intercession. Rejoice, that through this glorious event the unity of the church, the peace and love that reigns among its pastors, their docility to their head, their attachment to the see of Peter, and the piety and learning of so many of them, have been most eon solingiy exhibited. And though absent in body, yet in spirit present with you, we rejoice w4h you, and pray to God that frJra this spiritual joy he will raise more solid graces—fruits of the blessing which the Holy Father, through our hands, sends down upon us. (Signed) " N. Card. WI3EMAN." PBOTOGRAPJ3IC SOCIETY. On Thursday evening a meeting of the members o the Photographic Society—an association for promoting and improving the art of photography—was held at the institution in Regeut-street ; Sir William Newton in the chair. The meeting was numerously attended, and in cluded many distinguished individuals who practise the art as amateurs. Some routine matt*rs having been disposed of, The CHAIRMAN announced the most interesting busi ness of the evening, viz.: the reading, of a paper by Mr. Mayan on "-the Albumen Process on Glass." After - a hi ief ,introduction, Mr. blur ALL detailed at coniderable length his plan for producing pictures on al bumenised glass. In the course of the lecture, Mr. Mayan made a varkty of experiments, and exhibited a combination of chemical arrangement and chemical manipulation that excited considerable interest. Fur thermore its practical utility was illustrated by the de veloping of some exquisite pictures taken in the camera a few hours previously. A singular amount of detail can be attained by the process made public that evening. may be judged wh en it is I k t n s owntimt tlie whole f ca C ey haring-cross and surrounding minuteness and del o i buildings may be distinctly and clearly pictured on a surface two inches square. Albumen views for the Ste reoscope will make far more interesting pictures than photographic amateurs have hitherto been able to pro. duce. A. vote of thanks to Mr. Mayan, for his liberality In publishing his procev, closed the proceedings. The Rival mail steam-ship Lightning, Captain Anthony Enright, sailed from the Mersey on Saturday morning for Melbourne, with 370 passengers, 1,000 tons of cargo, and 261 sacks, or GO tons, of letters and news papers on board. The next Royal mail ship to Austra lia will be the celebrated " Black Ball" clipper Boome rang, on the sth of February. The Ocean Chief, Capt. T. J. Tobin, will sail this day with 840 "bounty" emi• grants, for Hobart Town, and the Commodore Perry, Captain Mander, to-morrow, with 800 "bounty" and German emigrants for Launceston and Sydney. Both these vessels belong to the Black Ball line. ' " THE QUEEN V. NEWTON."—An application was made to Lord Campbell, on. Thursday evening, on the part of the two defendants in this case convicted of an assault on Mr. Ker, for leave to amend the record, with the view of bringing a writ of error, so that the de fendants might be admitted to bail. Notice of motion had been served on the other side, and the point to be raised was, that the place where tie assault was com— mitted was at Beulah-spa, in the 'parish of Lambeth, and consequently it was not within the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court. Lord Campbell refused the application ; the objection should have been made on the trial. The defendants aro confined in Horsemonger lane gaol, undergoing the judgme n t o f th e C our t . GUN ACCIDENT. —A most distressing aceident occurred a few days since to Mr. J. Tramper, of the Lawn, Gros mont, M o nmouthshire. It appears that with some friends be had been out cock shooting. The-day was frosty and the ground slippery ; in creasing a small b roo k, at the bottom of a dingle, Mr. Tramper fell, his MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT. —Under this important gun slipped from his hand, and in the shock exploded, Act, passed during the late session of Parliament, it has carrying away the whole of the back part of the right been found necessary to constitute a new office in the hand from the knuckles to the wrist. It was- provt-' Custom-bouse, but under the control of the Board, called dential that he was not shot dead on the spot, for the the Department of the Surveyor-General for Tonnage, charge tore away the edge of his shooting-jacket, and upon whcm, assisted by a competent staff, will devolve carried off a portion of his whiskers. A 3 it was, the the duty of accurately ascertaining the exact tonnage of injury was serious enough, for the shattered hand had every vessel belonging to, or trading with, this country. Ito be amputated. The operation was skilfully per- United Gazette. formed, and Mr. Tramper is proceeding favourably. Other facts will doubtless sjiortly transpire in refer ence to the past Baltic campaign, as the matter will be brought before Parliament on its meeting. Sir Charles Napier, viewing the order to strike his flagasdenoting disapproval of his conduct, has demanded a court-martial, for the purpose of its being thoroughly sifted ' • but we much doubt whether this demand will be acceded. to. In all probability it will be refused on the ground that as Sir Charles has received no censure, direct or implied, from the Admiralty, in reference to his performances in the Baltic, there is no charge against him to investigate. lowly loud Loudy , loudy. [oudy. till. cgY• ___ Ir 3. Win \