The Sun. — London, England, 1855-02-17 00:00:00

IA LIFE ASSURANCE nd, „zll-I.iltkia 4 0ar 7uren-street Station to all parts ui wu,•,,. , * 1 )4 4 . 1 '2 UL A.CKWILL, on the arrival co' Oa fo - lb, , kt k ' horn the Fenehurch-scree` Station. KV: 114 Vri - 4 ' 4 1 V . . 5 --. AcwmArs. E'en- - 1 .. c. 5 t j I 4 ?, 1 .c ,s2 .hrarch s Street - g E '4” • N '• g ~., x . , N• ----. . . ...-..... _ _ ii ..... _ 11 %. I ' 4 i i i ' -- 1,, kiT k .k , k, „ 1 ,41441'4'11ei „ Fore Cabin. n'atr•ve, I, ti;vt, km ind London.. • ....... 103, .. Is. V. ;410„ 4 ,,k 0 t1ii ,i4sekwall or Woolwieh 3d, :. Os, 101 t h v, i 0, 11 .1,p.... Intermediate Piers.. Od. .. os Rd. 11 . ,ti. 0 3 . welve Months,' 5.. 04. i SIX Mouths, V. 03, ; .yr, 74. • to be had of the Collectors on . hoard the. 4 1 ~ tlite, :k• Terrace - Pier. Gravesend. ..eg . ,EI toiti4l44. . . ,•: ; h .4 rVIITIVI OF You - ra AND MATURITY \ i ‘ It t : ,i, z s., illustrated with eases ; free by post for 30 \ 4, 4 • 4 4 :41 4 ' 4 1. 11 , 4 •! .1 e 6 u;ii' t anips , DEBILITY; bi, itli - Ymptom \tool, p ran .,_ .s. and Cure..—An Essay on Sper o, sf tr ,'"cal Observations on a safer and more ‘tOk i AI D ) 7 1, 3 , ,eatment of the diseases of the Generative N ::,N,, , 1 . ttri n 'he use of the Microscope in detecting and ki 'Qty 4 l4" Co li ji r Y examination, the real cause and effect of 1 ,1 4 y.. 14 , 0, : r altit. Whether arisir g from solitary habits, k),„ 4 41 qiii74 ' e _ nnate. followed by practical remarks, founded V.; Q 0 'I t . , p •.e i i ,ll o ,' oem es in the treatment of Impuissance, kth vit tot a „, Weakness, Spermat orrhosa, &c. To which 'SDZs,..eO t V i es s on the Physiology of Marriaze, with pro -0 '`A4tl e ,roll3 r "ila emanating prom empirical practice, 'lsom, :medics advocated by various writers en 40 1 4 E Y tiA r A; ,ot k, 15 v —UEL L.VMERT, M.D. . Mr,iti ` tt ~ k. , ,i,Ntil', I le N I ''"S 4 1 LT A R 11, L 0 N.lO - ON, lt, l l i tkr l. 4 .4 ;Y:lit 4 , s , et r: ll l. intnd Member of the University of lidin re sg oh :th eear 4; , )f the Lon.dor , rltspital Medical f!lociety. V2eo , llt,i,Vect of :,‘_' Rail, Ts - r..don . -lac., &c. ti , l 4 111. 5 c, Fc fr om ..'s treatise is t.. 1 pMit oat the fearful con , ,kl% o tb ilt ilem m nertain hnbits, irragniarities, and ext.tesger, h k ly t .ll, 4 e ,i, er e tnlscry in Youit, degradation in Man ytett N o ass k n QRY at all stages of Life, than, perhaps. as h t itith i l: l ll e: t i . ..itifind e 7n, to modern pathologistx, Its perusal is tl ki i; 40441tien, and Persons entertaining secret , doubts of Dlt k h kit l , te ' , and kt who are conscious of haying bazardel 0, or , ti ) ., Privilege:Blo which every human being Is le 4 Ylfit•• te essa h t, 1, eN.,,, , : nai ,' rY thatall mom. should know, net there are ~,, kit Of i ' 3 3l pen -- T ta 7agement whte h crainet be Violated without 4 1 , t 1, , ,kitt , aprogd e _ e1 2 and when wisdom and regret succeed ; ~,,..i i , t ,,,,p an n iSelf-induA g sme,c, how these perudties 1 :1 ; tri t ay.. Q , a ,9 it, co ,_ of their bitierness rnsy be reemoved, \ ,11 : s t . ,to ve , , Y a n , 4 'equences rally be avoided, and above all, ,lit 1 1 2 f r ; 4o l th e ~Ir e , of Phys'..cal infirmity or functional t/ dti AttrAt a erie l Y aid of orience canndt apply a cure. OA '„Alt ile e t 4 t ten . t ( 7 4 0 t f hes se e ar , 11 bee's engaged in an extensive el. cute - complaints, which have ,?4.1131,t'u0 of ; L . \ " a tel'ete., 3 great in , confided to tee care of ignorant t et .,51 0 , 3. Jury 05 those who are induced to plane l '; , k i t l k , kli t.' t i ,f4,. u 2 l i,pr7 rri kt li t 'z iret‘ e4 ier ai l 'aterng:t be kad, price 2s. of Messrs. Piper, 14,0 l; , . t, saintiare; Bann, pansy. 63, Oxford-street; , e., t, I . ~ add", un , 29, Cornhill; or tree by port for .41,01 . .,i, from the &sailor's residence. 37, Bed " 11 41144e1 .412 dall "" 1 ... *Wren till TWO, and from 4• 19.466.1 PUBLICATIONS. Now ready at all the Libraries; in 3 roll., THE MOSLEM a4d the CHRISTIAN; or, Adventures in the East. By s_Ap YE pASTI A. Revised, with Ortginal Notes, by Golobel Szyrma, Editor of " neve lattons of Siberia " - tiurst and Blackett,Eablisbers, 511,3ewsori to Remy Colbarn. , 13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH-STREET. . A'NEW WORK by SAM SLICK, entitled, " NATTME and IIIIIIA.N..NATUIIE," in 2 vols., will be shortly published by Messrs. llurst awl filwAsett, successors to Mr. Colburn. Orders receiied by all booksellers. SIEGE OF• SEVASTOPOL.—Stanford's Bird's Eye View of Sevastopol. lialaklava, and the Country round, showing the very extensive and important Works recently' erected by the.Rus lens on the North side of the Harbour ; the inner Lines of Defences in Sevastopol itself;; the posittin of the Allied Armies, Defence Works, &c., Sco., is now ready. Price, in one sheet, plain, 35., case, 51. 6d.; coloured, 55., case, 75.'6d.; per post, 6d. additional. London: Edward Stanford, Wholesale and Retail 3fapseher, 6, Charing-cross; and all booksellers. STRICTURE OF THE URETHR %. Just Published, price 55. ; by post, free, Se. 6d., rr HE PATHOLOdY and- RATIONAL TREAT WENT of STRICTURE of the URETHRA; with numerous Cases illustrative of every variety of Urethral Obstruction, and their special Modes of Treatment and Cure. By F. B. COURTENAY, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. " We know of no man to whose care we could with greater confi dence entrust the - treement of a severe cage of stricture of the ure thra."—Medical Circutar. London H. Baillire, 219, Regent-street. PATRON-Wit H. PRINCE ALBErr. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITIfTTION.- Thursday Evening, the 15th inst., DRAMATIC READING by Miss GLIN.—HA M LET. I Al PORTANT LECTITRE.I. On the NEW BANK NOTE, by Dr. BACHLIOFFNEII. On the TELEPHONIC CONCERT by tovisib'e performers on four of Erant's Harps, .T. H. Pirprzit, SPLENDID OPTICAL DIORAMA of the VOYAGES of SINBAD the AMOR. VIEWS ef the WAR PERKINS'S STEAM GUN, which now Discharges 200 Balls per Minute. Saturday Evenings.—The Bards of Caledonla, by Mr. and Miss Crawford, Mr. Van Noorden, bar. Waad, and the Royal Polytechnic Band.—Dissolving ♦iew,s of America. AURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS.- --- )AY, Feb. 12th, 1855.--During the course of this week Music will be played by Laurent's Orchestra:—Over- Cortez, Spontini. Waltzes: Wellen and Wogen, Strauss ; ;t time), taancheteau ; Vermahlung's Toaste, qtrausa ; losisio ; Le Carnayal de Tenise (by desire), H. Lan iriations for all the principal per;brmers; Quadrilles: Dieze, Lamotte ; Le Collier d'Or (first time), Ben !Wanders, H. Laurent; Lucia, Tinney ; Schottische, !rst time), Renaussy ; Polkas : La Musette (first time), A Menagerie (first time), Bousquet ; The ZouaYes, H. Wellington (first time), Streather ; Gallop, Les Guides, principal Cornet-a-Piston, St. Boalcourt. All informs to music to he obtained at the music repository under t. Doors open at Eight ; commence at half-past. - ,ne :SWELL ON NERVOUSNESS, DEBILITY, AND IND.IGESTION, .ary Derangements, Constipation, and Htemorrhoids, each, by post Is. 6d. .T TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID. " A bstentia multi curantur morbi." exposition of the principal causes (over and careless of the ahove haraising' and distressing complaints, lip intelligible and popular exposition of bow we should of them ; to which is added, diet tables for every meat id Mil ins►rustions for the regimen and observance out of the twenty-four. Illustrated by numerous HT3 AND SHADES OF MARRIED LIFE. hick that bath no wif, I hold him lost, and all desolat. Hs that bath no, child, sun a)ld winde."--Chancer, arriage, its expectations ihd Necessities—Development lis—Love Matches—Precipitate, impelled, and retarde.l itsl Incongruities—Mutual Unsuitableness—Menta ty and Physical Defectiveness—Advantages of inter , !wry of Gestation—llereditary Resemblance—Mode o Legitimacy. On Infelicitous, Infertile, and all Unas atlCeS—La of Divorce, &c., &c. lIASTITY AND ITS UsTFRINGEHENTS. A Lecture to Young Men. What passions hurt, the body—what irriprova, "uthi as refined ai Athens ever heard." lie's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The adven► ►s. Chastity and its infringement. The casualties of and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, iarrative, [ve. Advocacy of early marriages, &c. :era Diseases, their Self-management and Cure. IN BOOK.—A comprehensive and popular exposition urinary diseases—their nature and treatment, com lally 'primary and secondary symptoms, all forms et ngements, stricture and spermatorrhcea ; with 210 on prescriptions. .DDER, 'URETHRA, MI RECTUL—Comprising tngements, Constipation. and Haamorrhoids. "0 1, ,. 6 acd 7, corrivsf. he to the weeding. r OYMENT OF LTFE. HOW TO BE HAPPY. " JuPunde Vivere."l " Few.-worda to fair taith.":=4;liakreS•..— 23: Patern'et row ; M+iwn: 39; DT* PE MYLVFMCVETX, ,elsor. and Twenty Years Consulting colleague of the ( the above, 10, Argyll-place, Regent-street, advised with on the above matters daily, from Ten till Ike evenings, from Seven till Nine. . ; Or-of E of the COUNTRY. — one talking of Ministe , s' ways. Eirel7 one else of the Lp days. If rulers must work, the people still press—we ‘losEs and ,• , cites famous Dress —the samples of art for the year—t:,e clothing which never elsewhere can ap.. :oats neater and cheaper by far than comfortless, coun utes are. Hats, Hosiery. Boots the strongest and be-t and gentlemen ever possessed. E. MO3ES and sox, world it is known, have a Vfliolesale Department, the shown, where captains andimerchant?, and emigrants :haslng clothing the best they can do. NOTICE.—UntiI March 1,11155, E. MOSES an 4 SON'S INtENTS will he CLOSED at EIGHT O'CLOCK EVERT mcept Saturday, when they will be *pen till 11 o'clock. .—E. MOSES and SON regret hiving' to guard ch( timposttion, havine: learriza that tile nntra(lesman-like " Being =netted. with their Establishment," or " It's tcern," has been resorted to in many instals-es.% and fer ins, they beg to state that they have JON WITH ANY OTHER HOME IN OZ. ouT OP LONDON, cept their own Establishments, as follows : ty Establishment, 1 54, 155, 155, and 157, IVIThOPICS, Si, ',agate, opposite the Church, all communicating. ;st-end Branch, 505, 507, 51/1, New sixford-Street, 1, '2 ,art-street, all communicating. 'Yorkshire) Branch, 19 and 20, Bridge-street. ranel43A, Fanzate. rholessle Branch, Melbourne, Australia. (liethlers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot avd and General Oaliltters fOr Ladies anal Gentlemen. NT.—Should any article not give satisfaction, it will ' desired, or, lf preferred, the money will be returnv: ation. All good aro marked In plain ti urea, the lowes' Nob no abatement can bo made. Ilishments are clostcl from sunset on, Fridays to sunse' when business is resumed till 11 o'clock. ;It for Autumn and Winter. " The Commercial Cornu ining full lists of prices, our system of self-measure , :c.. m". 7 be had on applicatioa, or post-free. arl-c-Frsncais. Qni si Darla Itelteno. eht map tu.ntani , Aqua sa habla Espana. tad Almanac for 1855 eiatison application ,or Post free T TO MURDER.—The Court of Assizes of the three days ago, tried a man named Duplessis, , f age, for attempting to murder M. Cotelle, ;.xnpirial at Vouziers. On the 16th of August M. Cotelle was seated in his office, the pri ,ed with a poignard, rushed in, and crying ! canaille! I must kill you," attempted to stab Cotelle jumped up, and thrust his chair as a ;wean himself and the prisoner. But the man and struck at him with hie weapon. M. ..4r; able to parry the blow, and catching hold of his assailant by the wrists tried to hold him. The other, after a violent struggle, broke away, and stabbed him twice in the face and once in the head. M. Cotelle again seized him, and another struggle ensued ; but the man breaking -om his grasp stabbed him in the arm. At this moment an usher, attracted by M. Cotelle's cries, entered. Duplessis seized the man, and tried to stab him, but only succeeded in wounding him in the ear. The gown, how ever, which the usher wore was cut through in several places. Four other persons then arrived, and they, over poweriug the assassin, wrested his poignard from him. The man was then conveyed to a place of safety, and being searched a pistol loaded to the muzzle was found on him. He expressed great regret that he had- not succeeded in murdering M. Cotelle, and said that ho would certainly do so. As to the cause of his crime, it appeared that he entertained a bitter hatred of all judicial functionaries, in consequence of his having been condemned in 1835 to a fine of 8,000 f., for usury ; that he entertained animosity against M. Cotelle in particu lar for declining to prosecute some persons whom ke had unjustly accused. In defence of the man it was con tended that he was labouring under monomania, and various circumstances were stated tending to prove that he had long been so. But medical men declared that though, perhaps, he was not exactly sound in his mind, he could net be considered so insane as not to be respon sible for his actions. The jury acquitted him of the charge of an attempt at murder, but declared him guilty of cutting and wounding a magistrate in the discharge of his duty ; and it is said there were extenuating circum stances in the case. The Court condemned the accused to 10 years' imprisonment with hard labour, and to the surveillance of the polide for life.—Paris Paper. COMMERCE AND FINANCES OF RIISSIA.—Some elabo rate tables have just been published by the statistical department of the Beard of Trade, conveying all the latest information obtained regarding-the commerce and finances of Russia. From these it appears that in 1852 the public debt of the empire,' domestic and foreign, was 63,185,3087. In the same year the revenue from Cus toms and-Excise duties - was 4,924,6081. .As regards the general revenue, the amount is not given for a later period than 1849, when, exclusive of Poland and Fin land, it was 24,794,7351., of which 7,275,458/. was from direct taxes, 7,745,1101. from indirect taxes, and 9,774,167/. from the brandy monopoly. Under the head of shipping, the tables show that the total of ves sels entered at Russian ports in 1852 was 8,615, of an aggregate burden of 1,570,654 tons, more than half of which were to the ports in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azoff. The total clearances were 8,407 vessels, of 1,520,160 tons. Of this trade fully a fourth was carried 'on in British ships Turkish, Greek, Dutch, Swedish, Sardinian, Austrian, Prussian, and Danish coming ne x t in order. _ The most important of any single port is Odessa, where the arrivals in 1853 amounted to 589,178 tons, while the value of the cargoes shipped, and which consisted principally of grain, was 5,627,5001., or about 150 per cent. above their amount in 1851. ~.„,.._AI I -..,- 11,71 )IA. HOUSE, 14T11 Fieeriliti, 1854. ~ ..‹"A-+RT of DIRECTORS - of - the -- EAST _.. h. CORP Viv ' 4 ...• -" ~ L - 4 ,_, -, - ..P.RERY GTVE XoTICE; It t. tlit ,- - weei eret r .. , irn of Trniiiti,l Shark of Donation Baiki gfftwo ' g Brg, :•kr. 11 5 3 , L.e Gorernor-General of ludla, ,marinesftat., ,t . + ~ . dile to the officers, seamen, and of 'ate , • ~k._.eitti. t lel i P o x ; and Abet the same will he paid to the several B. 1 6 . , I `Rar....r , 01 1 tiletr application at the Military Department of %lora tbig 0° ',' ' . - " i g R 0..... 1,, tDo . ..' w as on., - , - JAMES C. MRLVILL, Secretary. prices. . 1 s e . .. 1 INTEII4 •kr b nds 0 " :441%. RN COUNTIES RAILWAY. — r* ~, a v p. N od ittors are prepared to receive 'FENDERS for I,OANS. , and p. .g „d . ~ h tt : th ree Lne. 031 , 3,._ , , intereitears, on the security of the Cottpany's Deben- , 11 44 , 441, at the rate of 4)4 per cent. per annum. J. B. OWEN, Secrete 1 ry. '‘'..........!::!ce, Bishops ga t e Station,' Feb'. 9, 1855. . • B. 16. Is , . i I ere c o n fine ; o d ~ ' co . 10110 JUG.—SAMUEL ALCOCK and nireple nts ' ••• .v. * " 11111 P ottery Burslem, Staffordshire, being desirous of ,eek. er. '''.i am the reach of all to possess . a memorial both of the if . the huY ; 0. the , ts w „,..,'_. noble and generous sympathy displayed by ;e. 1 ~,,.14, 17 ,' our truly brave soldiers, have pUbti.hed a 'lti,..:l_7itrative alike of the horrors o: war, as well as of ...en n r_leffirts to alleviate them, evidenced by the Eoyal 14. ~i fry • . 1 414, 4 uoples of this interestin; work can be had at all rbe quc". — dips o ' W4 rekouseir in the kingdom. s6d ; grll°, , i. Beans , 1 , I :IT NOTICE. seco nds, 5°° 0 1 .\ : , '. Y MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE St. lETY, A coos 0 0 " 'I. . .' Chitties. str score ; lA._ •i n cet, St. James's-square, London. lb., , `,,, -.mil._ r ited under Act of Parliament. .. o od bid, „ -- ituoi rao.B. eta containing a full statement of the Society's to 6.1 (1 ', A . or); \ 1 / 4 1 tt, t i t ' c ° ,ll Prehensive plan will appear in the " •Times" of 40s 4 ', I.e Igth inst. ant, coenpnidng assurance of healthy fitt, , , killb a iNa tnt ., ! e an a nuities on healthy -and diseased lives, endow- ough ' ...."--- "" 4 a assurance , railway passengers ' assurance, ~r score. "'Nee death . , COB' assurance. B. 13. g o, 03. -. ;,, -\, .)„. HENRY SALTER, Managing Director. JAMES PULSFORO secretary. _ • as od to ‘'-.. JP • ,ittn..:,_`.° Directors will ' be glad to co ' Secretary. 4 tyi w ow T' ,r, ." y it z!ah to be connected vith an m oitl ni ce -that they g c e a n n - to, 0 ° . ---.tornend h _ to their connections, and, feeling that, will 23s 4a to 21 t 1 . ‘, - ,en rre ..l l B ° . k . lociety spares no pains to assist its Agencies, tal, 16s l os edj ' . " cling 'vigour. Good conamenial refer?nce re- 'le stoner ri, Y ,, '. ter ~; tt oi taidi, , , ; 1,. --.-- d • 2u ..' ri , ~• c. nr. ) f 'l,llb i n ; , , Vki i „ lnn - ' 4 , p, LEEDS.—To be peremptorily .fq • bar 31r . tOnis ~ i nt to on Order of the, High Court of Chancery II': Ist &Fr ,hi.. ! , iickelthwait v Mickelthwalt," with the approba- s 9dere cbts ~; I , . 4 .14:;; H w . h . 05e Court , the -aid cause is attached, by Mr. i 1 ; , Itr ie r 4tbe " . . ,. 9 , 7 per f soa appointed by the said, Jude, o i . e. , f ',PI Y ° FEBRUARY, 1855, at Three o 'clock 'FEY,,Io ~ the , , N ea p. , ~ the Royal Hotel, in Leeds, in the county of that _, t, , . 1 / 4 Lots ~..., d 1 1 1 pro: ' ' ~, 4 , "". ages Banding!, and Ground, situate in Mabgate ;triples', o f 7, • ~,,,, NU, L eeds, in the county of• York. 60 ,1 °; b5e 4 ,A 1 •. 71" Freehold Paper Mill, and Piper Stainer's Mann- -0 litav a sat b,. . , ~,,,,,, irt, H ock -street, Leeds, all late the property of Tho- - • go, 6 !, 0 ~ P .. sAlit eni ...! , _se., deceased. rans t wit i f 7 o ; ~iiki,L "h i :fa. Perkins and of sale may be had (gratis) in . 8 .. 7.t44,.,2! . and Son, solicitors, 13, Great James- td .00 , L 1 ,141,:rr .of Meesrs. Johnson, • Weatherall, and Sons, rid, 0 10. , vt\,,,, 4o lleit' n : B ench -walk. Temple ; of Niessrs. Rithdale and ~.........!ie. , i,;1 404 :7t nn .." 1 , 5 . Gray's-inn-square;. and of Messrs. H°lme, , --- -- so g , 4 ,1 L 'if tita n,- soli , ito;s, 10, New-inn. Stand ; and in the 00 1 ' ttl t iv, 5 14 "' Sil , •Pherd solicitor Barnsley • of Messrs ie of 1. 11 . - acit o Gaunt, solicitors, ' Leeds; ' . , o' al e in :Leeman and A. 1 0 0 t 1 0f 4 .1 ' Y ork • o f m Birks -sacitor, Hemin eld near A 14 k 4: 3 "s T ' r. ' all ' k 4witi vi r a usell'' .o e.",, b., eim • Yas and Harrison, solicitors, Barnsley ;of .... ~. ~. , 0 . - sst e iv _ stej, Barnsley, the auctioneer ; and at the place 11 ..... ...' e 4 "ul f the property may be seen. v.... ~,, °I) ...... .„., ... ...... ~."„ I tiat ESTABLISHED 1837 . 11 ... ... lS i lki .... qe ... -...-LA T,TW'F. A SSITTR. A NOR COMPANY ~.......1 , .. _ A ki• , . ; , o _,_ , , DIA MOND -- ir - - 0 'lt il kl 'l lier ' ''' noCes,-street, Bank, London. Y Y JCSI .. °l l ° b Y s pecial . the following J. -- ..„•• , A 1,1,4, it; ~._ al Act of Parliament, 4 Viet., cap. 9. tura. Fernand I tar •• • ~,,• ~, r/ 1., . l'/•&X,/,,NDEIt, Blackheath Park, Csminsfasr. Cornelie (first ril .• •••••••• 1 Vin k i lates --- La Sultans Bs ........„.;# al ~ 1 6. _ ti t , or Premium for securing Loans or Debts. rent/with Tar „ ...• .....,,,0 ' ll 4 p„?. - ? I 3Y, required during first seven years. , Jerome Sol ) ,_ ~... ~ • , „0, 4 payable at Sixty or at death if occurring previously. viol ; the Hid .".•'". 0 .1 0 ,,, I,L 4, 111 11,1, t , 20 • ..., ..„..„, slik.it,lo:::ortriruLttedi:::;:irlTAL LIEF. ASSOCIATION. Matthie.o :La is •• '• ..•••:,.., /. k t ' l4 : 4t vq ed - "( 3r her Majesty's Royal Letters Pateut. • Laurent ; the I 11. Laurn ll N iel _ for every three months' difference of age. tion relative t, 't i.e..] :. . : /11 414, the orchestra. ro „ sio s , " the unpaid half premiums liquidated out of sAY ~, d 44 t t2i, kt, Admission, On cork,'" ..0...ry ,i, 4, 'N '3* - -, ---- ,eipbia ;09$1 ' li t 1 ' ) co 0 1 1 0 0 0$ li t gilt I (MUTUAL.) I)ft. CITLVE! o 6°lj A O r' I I N 1 1 ole --------- I 10° 1- i I Deis Pree n s • Also. on Urine C ,: ' , l poll° .„'' I r r ot Rleent • Half Quer- , Dolla ti ,..e ° \ ti'l • 441 oiler Age. 1 Annual Yearly terly ..-- t -... '''-'t : r HAI ill D° r ' e t . Lif e. . !premium Pre- Pre- ii , 1 mium. munn. - ~.. A popular t I t 1 3 (1,! - 1 5 ---. eeding, Ike.) i f li 1 5 a. d d.l ---- 41 118. i';tehtoarl squall ...... ~ 0 . , 1, , 1 la , i i . 30( 3 ) 2 2 7 ~., 1 1 4 4 2 4 0 0 1 1 2 , 3 4 'n the d g .a e y, r a i n; i ~ 4 ,/ iI 6 6 01, - Spate'i I i ' 13 s ol Oi 4: 6 2 710 1 4, 60 12 5 . ,very hour o 9 2 8 2 1 4 80 12 6 cases, &c. (1 , . ... rr` 4l ort IY) \......, r o o. i E. R. FOSTER, Resident Director. LIGF • 0.........22_,.."' or A.NDREW FRANCIS, Secretary. " He wl A , Helpl _ Li 11 . Like t 0 Qo 1 ,Nllitt rtit XTRACT FOR CASKS. Suhiee,t.: Or , f the A ffecties Isil l ; p0 1 P elt Y lotts er e '' ,,, t _o e f the Comp troller (or Victualling and I I kAI 1_ : , Mari , „ t , ~„,i,i 4 , 0 14 , 4 1: ;, 8, Somerset House, 15th Fehrnery, 1555. Incompatibilit, ' • 3°- 0 k, 5,, k4 1'',401 A ,, Toners for Executing the Office of marriage— Ile '..eterinining I .• easitb'''',...' , z , qt r ikhp,,3..:oniral of the United Kingdom of Great Rrt .s o D ove' , 0' •NZi' l aii,lbY Give Notice, t hat on 9 ITURDAY. the 24• - h "Imtlahle Alija ~• s r 4 N i ci they will be r, tady to,trest with such per - ,vo oath s NSl n to Contract, for sueplving,,and :lel i Teri ng into . CI ~.: rvO .• ° r ill 3 Stores under-Paentionesl7- t • I N Y - OP • A • 'When to be • “Wh t „ sotit t l i t i ~ , d el ti a . delivered. Trt th • or • Vl' e , ler One-third of the Subject : Lil , A.kki.A . Blcs , quantity at each of the passions S• oo t , w ik licentiousness , . _ place in one . Sout4' '' t,, 1 0 b tritt and remediati' 'lt, ',,, ord, Gosport. Plypouth. month, another 1 07 ' .. o 10 30 ,.,• No. No. third in two • ~,„;11 ' 0 6,000 6,000 months, and the On Sea tl. 1 , l• - 0 0. remainder in The GREEt 10 • three months, or of Benito and earlier it prefer- prising especii AI. 51 t 30 02 ' , hi ,. \ . red by the party urinary deran t• g ° .. '1, 4 -, , b e tendering. /ravings and „ A r 0 . ,,'; II ' p,dBlli,„ talkle r • Do—Arr - f. ' 'Nes " re5p,...." the whole or stlly portion of the Casks. The BLA.I to _ J O .. . --. of ~,,..:' Ye to themselves ..... kvtbitb:::::ll. 031itd:e.A nt, or Fzief as they—.naetin es the power, when the Ten- Urinary Dcrar A ‘ mats t , ~,, , g either for the whole, or. for such part v( oei l .: _„,' ) ,,,aY be se en st , for a 'greater quantity; or of THE: EN S'At tAYl°' , , A li b i and p h , net it t • „__, alesu s Victualling - sreeds_et I)cpt- ~ "hatOP , 3,,n,_ ".., ik‘itz k keritoo t s - e .eeet„; .. Unless made on the Prityled rofrin et-e- ' tmerw.i. l, Pro- a• 600 ' , r 0 1/' ' +et. and which may be obtained on ePPlication at 0 1:22 ~it , ti ,o , k tall er X 1 . ,„ t he :ietomune Irst , de at ilesport atni. Plymouth, mother, Succ, tate author of ft ''''',,,.. o '',:,'" t 1 ; 14. 1. 4 1 , 4 4 - .'"I8, conducting the Packet Service at Liverpool, wbe may be ac , INY",.;or , 'ith.lta Of Customs at rstistel. j,, ... 0 i° 1 " 011 '. N. 0, ` t ': of the revised contract, to which particular atten- Five, and in t) „. 1' 1 3 11 ,. ..... i 'V, ktbY be seen at the said oface, at the said Victualling tol Dot ....' fed 'lLtatkiallteerPool and Bristol No tender will be received after e s' 1 1, ° , ' , • ne . :P i t . ; r , )I NI - ‘ l, ils 'IN " 4 aY of treaty, and it will not be required that the QT A T • "'ito , ",oo , h.v 41?!_ott • _ tn agent on ' his behalf should attend at the office ).,...7 Every o ;,. Soa o ol 0 tt,,,,i7 tski'"-ct, a , the result of tb e offer received from each cold and daml tls , 3° '?oo l.' it 'l4 amh' , ' ,Ttelcated to him , in writing. . Iv , 1 14,,,, 1 -.Kb, mean for E. 51 • ik4 i ,"4addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, this time o tt vet - , , u ser •'''" corner the words "Tender for Casks," ,nd pear. Overco 13 ' 9° , 14, - re, t 4 V • Rn —illaerset-House. terfeit substitti le s. i."'%t t lis- o o whit ladies a to 40 , ~ so li rsi t , -, 1403 • . Pi' o' - "kit c l "Of t '-`., . ht r :ugh the w 00#011' 11 , i e l'sri s n idae,l l3l.o tected by Rol Letters largest that's s at d .„th „,t tee ti,,, , „ eae 4 . 'km v.' 4 / 1 , 1 secured by the Seal of the Ecole 4 , too, find parch :se t , Vi e ''' t i , tv , roP i t , pi t , nmer.al College of Medicine, Vienna. " SPECI A L S W. , l o , i f o gr si - Iss ° ' %e,, ,,. t hos e . L e tiles , 4 1tti ni ,` N aElli AR, No. 1, ESTABLISH! 0d t :, 0 ,, °- :10 0 1 ;(1 "instrrsok,-.143 f i o gie_r_tryito_r_rh_ce_! ;., a_r_id , Exhausting of tb , EVENING, e. , u-- iris ° .% tl;e vi etlc ellot w - h ; ) Are '"' c ' esses auetuem " °r emulu° CAUTION.- ..C I of 4,:tittil: . 4 „ Prevented entering the married state by public against n, Po- er ~ , .ba th ,i,.errors it is invaluable. ts. 101 ;0 4 ' i kt k)l 6 VI t t e Ilion . 41 ESEmekt„I•lo. 2, - falsehood of " ti o,intii. 40 , 1 1 / 4 , ng b ee ke t 0 , "Pace of three - days, 'completely and entirely the same cone obvious reason. ~, r„, 11 Aorti c the t ,, tll . o se Disorders .wh'eli capivi and Cnbebs f i ts'o,, - ° l "tlW - ` an antidote for, to ruin of the health No 054 N EI ' tb So°' / / ~,,,4111 , 4 1, _ e „+, ,„ L ' o b watton. • sac gliif \it /,,,,-13,1-7;:teInai`',,IKRICIIAR, No. a, Londoii Cit. ...,, ~ i dif k ibkrirttseti" r-n3li sh "einedy for that class of GisorderS, which 85 ;.a ... 2 , 1, , ° _ ° • v i, - ;; pi. - 01:1: . t R ,„,i n ,,, 0 11, n t - , t ,, Physician treats with Mercury, to the in- "" --`',', ~, f tb° 1 , / 't,',, ,t rteltkir w ori e° Patient's constitution, and which all the , and 4 ' il a o .11 0 i4 / L v hab:: , IV% 1 e klinet remove. iiradford (1 ii;liealied fir sOr ~o A / y k 1 1 ,.it4,-.c4t4 0 . ,2, and 3, are alike devoid of taste or small, ::, . . --. 3 r ow . 0 0;# A 4 tli e kit belt, _clUalitles. They may lie on the toilet taVe .., , osoniat w t lro Y .° 1 f r 014,,,••,:ittasea:el 14 4 1 i ' Ll sPected, -, erehant 7 nine) , IstVers• Airit . ,ll4l/ , -4, o I ,_ as , ci 8 . each, free by post, 2s. extra, divided lute ---;,'.; ' - 1 ; he . - -IT''fi i 14,•,0141 Ministered by Valpeau, Lallemand, Roux, j it P l elidi ~,,,likr,;:t hi..,- wholesale ...,IPORTA. ex.% hanged if 11 ti ) ',. 4 and c o , and Retail in London of Johnston, 68, witisout hesits vo x* rev , .1,,,,,,_ .. 03. Oxford-street: and Sangsr. 'do ° e ill ( ;), 4 4,ZOksell; 11 ' n, druggist, 46, Market-street, Mancli n e ' ster x ; La i // I . ft i le vell'e:l.-g.LtibeeT an' pr Tho' Eitahl 'ice, irom et; .6 th °l yoX/ r 4 gate, Bolton ;4. Prie..tly, chemist, 52, ---__ __ , b,„,,.i_et_'owell, bookseller, 15, Westmoreland - street, end ,-,0-il-i2rn in 3 P r° ,4o,l, , lffigh-street, Birmingham. em two! . 244 il - t e r / 'T 4 , 003 ,.. cont.' , $ o' f i k N, 4 'V R. mont, ti.e., -t. / lit , 440' —SEND ST A I', jet ister seri, 1 0) .41 -„,.6eket . ,, _,P, ii. C K E T S. TO , ;(I )6f , r it 3 ,',f , !il at the Greenhithe and Purfleet Piers. . • , s erk„. od sil' j ~ 1, ''ult t he Piers as underlined (weather perrnittin; 0, P PO !I:3 , 4 T ERRACE PIER, GRAVsr,Nri - / .... r......... .An Illestrato I ter ;iff 01 tI ffi u o l ''' StttiDaTS. ATTEMPT to »0 0 0 0? , k ' ,5: ' - Ardennes, 1 , eie co osofe 4 1 , 1 i „F., . o il. 0 ,---., 5 . -..,,' ~,, A . 58 years of tti i 51 0 .1 I 1 ;. I S Olc Time . b 1 i --;.... t procureur-ii z i t po aele s A y" rlO 1 t'S 4 , 4 ......,'. ' 1 s ' - „..? last when 3 _,... a. °PIO 71: 0 01 1 ' ....---.... j ----.. ' ' .-.. ' goner, arms es s o o o4l e . "; ,- S 1 1 -8% --- .----- ------ -- ." Brigand ! 1 --- 2 • + ara e d °Kg( 0 0 , X ,4 ..- -—. = - ,—,— 1 him. U. ( defence bet e s SI Of 1914 tel e f16,4 1 ' S V' l 4 t ti tlS l I s N, 01l ; o f Pr, 09 \ \A ty sh , -n church-etreet Station to all parts of London Cotelle was ,•? .4 /11 ~ is.,. "our. Ma tiesaila.n =~. _ . A ; 6 • r • • 41111111`. fl ,?• _ • ..: , ft , • A , • 14, • • ( - - , 41 if , " 33 • 31 4,- •• y, • „ • _ " s t itc to- , - Z fs „\; -, JP f: • = !if „ • str t . 4IZ • -4 , • x • - 14 ' 'lt Ay. • L t. •fte. , ' 1; 4 RCM' •4* //2 1 * /*IA' 44/. //7 LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1855. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. MR. ROEBUCK'S RESOLUTION. ( Frdm, the Times of this day.) The 'Commons of England assembled last night in their usual place of resort. Having been put off, on one pretence or soother, for about three weeks, and reading in the news papers that everything was going on from bad to worse, they were naturally impatient, and clamoured for something to be done. As the locality was not Smithfield, or Spafields, or Kennington-common, or Bonner's-fields, but in the precincts of her Majesty's Palace of Westminster, we did not hear the cries that have been rife at similar gatherings—" Where is our army ?" " Who starved the soldiers?" " How about the green coffee berries l"—" Let he go to the war himself." These meetings, once so formidable as to shake the monarchy itself, like all other ebulitions of undisciplined zeal, have long lost their terrors. Ages before the rude Saxon churls at tempted the game, many an old baud, vir pietate gravis, had twisted an infuriate mob round his fingers in old Rome, and left them with a carte blanche in his pocket for anything he might please to do. In our own country, the descendants of the stern Conqueror found out that there are many ways of managing a rabble quite as effectual, and rather less costly in money and iu blood, than hewing down the malcontents with battle-axe and falehien. On these illustrious precedents, avowed with a courage which we must all admire, that veteran councillor Viscount Palmerston attempted to pacify the insurgents last night. He could nett give them exactly what they _asked for. The fact was, they had asked for an inquiry, and ho had• refused it. In a tussle between " Yeas " and " Nays " some - body must give way, and his lordship would rather the House of Commons should go to the wall than he should. This is quite natural, and if Lord Palmerston should carry his point he will be quite as sharp a fellow as Richard IL, which perhaps, is not saying a great deal. But it will be a great deal, a very great point gained, if a stop_ can be put to this inconvenient practice of demanding . an inquiry when anything goes wrong. The truth is, we have to settle who is to govern the country—Parliament; or the forty odd noblemen and gen lcmen who have passed the keys of office from one to another for just half a century. The thing is done so much more snugly and pleasantly in a select circle of good fellows, who, like husband and wife, can manage to quarrel and agree again, that it is a thousand pities any momentary difference should be the occasion of letting in the common herd. The rude assault of the Commons has, indeed, compelled a little shift ing of the parts, and driven two statesmen to hide themselves for a while ; but the main body are staunch, and are likely to get through this and many a like commotion. The particular promise which the pressure of the emer gency has wrung from the Minister would seem to rest its efficacy rather on bewildering the understandings than on satisfying the passions of the Parliamentary mob. It comes under the class, " Confusion worse confounded, " Obscurum per obscurius," or to speak in mother English to a Smithfield mob, " From the frying,pan into the fire." Everybody has done wrong about the war, so Lord Palmerston pro mises to send somebody over everybody, or to help everybody, or to be instead of everybody—for the new official relation to be established is neither uniform nor clear. As far as we understand the budget of commissions described by his lordship and Lord Paumure, every British officer in the East is to find somebody else with infinite powers of inquiry, and indefinite powers of command, placed over him, or at his elbow, or behind him, to order him, or so assist him, or to report upon him, or to do all, or which he pleases. Lord Raglan is to be relieved from the details of the Quartermaster and Adjutant-General's departments by Major General Simpson, who is to act as " chief of the staff," and also to " recommend" Lord Raglan to make what changes ho may think proper in these departments. Lord Raglan, "no doubt," will submit to be advised. To make up for this slight abatement of dignity, Lord Raglan may send for as many scavengers as he pleases from Constantinople to carry away the dead corpses now lying " betwixt the wind and his nobility." While Lord Raglan is undergoing this diminutio capitis in the Crimea, where we want not a less man, but a greater, he is to be fairly cut in two at home. The Board of Ordnance is to be rent in twain, the discipline to revert to the Commander-in-Chief at the Horse Guards, and the civil part to the Secretary-at-War. We have been charged with want of delicacy to the feelings of Lord Raglan, but the worst that we have ever suggested for him was that he might be spared from a command for which his advanced years and too easy temper seemed to disqualify him. His treatment by his own friends a- d admirers is but a doubtful improvement on this. With his head in Major-General Simpson's custody, his right hand in Lord Hardinge's, and his left in Lord Panmure's, he is to be left nothing that he can fairly call his own except the superintendence of a corps of Turkish scavengers. We don't for a moment suspect Lord Palmerston of either uu- . kinduess or a jest. For some time past he has been most usefully, most honourably, and we believe, also, most agree ably employed, in scouring our sewers and putting our dead bodies out of the way. What is more natural than that ho should give Lord Raglan what may be called a turn at the shovel ? But to proceed with this process of superaddition—this new official stratum t., be deposited over every department and every functionary in the East. Three civilians are to go out to inquire into the sanitary condition of the hospitals, the camp, and the ships. Much is hoped from their scien tific labours ; but whether they are to have any power to mend what they see amiss, or whether anybody is to have the power to do so, in spite of all obstacles, on their recommen dation, we are not told. Another commission is to go out, not only to scrutinise, but also to take in hand to reform aid to re-organise the Commissariat. There certainly is work enough for such a commission, net emir in As .ch 3 , e2,WPOrd4t4.A •VPdCikat. - Ail" 4 / 011 M1Wiatl k . in . w tr attl ac tl o n n dl ttr aN t t a ntis ha o d f it gone e o zi nt with proper de partment for land transports, and a new board at the Admiralty for the management of naval transports, - are evidently required, simply' because there is no ma nagement now—that is, lie land transport at all, and a management of naval transports that is throwing away, at a moderato competition, more than 10,0001. a day in transports lying idle for want of orders. But the creation of two new departments does not prove there was no case for inquiry. The proposed civil hospital at Smyrna will be a good measure or not, according as it is conducted. We hear, indeed, that for several months every year the climate of Smyrna is deadly to Europeans, that the chief medical officer for the new hos pital is past his work, and the rest have not yet come to theirs ; but let th a t p ass . A p rom i se i s g i ven th at the whole medical department of the army shall be forthwith reformed. Some other thi ngs are th rown in. Recruits are to be admitted into the army at a greater age and for a less period of service than at present. Either as one of these reforms, or to get rid of a vote in favour of in qu i ry, L or d John Russell is to go to Vienna, calling at Paris and Berlin on his way, and as much is hoped from him as from the other commissioners sent out in all directions. Prepared for peace or war, Lord Palmerston sends out Generals, doctors, purveyors, sc avengers , wag goners, to help, advise, superintend, organise, control, or supersede,' just as may be, all o ver th e Mediterranean and the East. Never since the contents of the Ark were distribu ted over the earth has there been so great a dispersion. Lord John Russell as the -emblem of peace leads the way, and it is hoped he will return with an olive branch in his mouth. - Lord Palmerston ha; referred us to an incident in the reign of Richard 11., and we will anwer with another from the reign of Henry IV. Prince John having cajoled the Archbishop of York, Mowbray, and Hastings, into disband ing their army, by the promise of redressing their grievances forthwith arrested and did summary justice upon them. If Lord Palmerston can only cajole Mr. Roebuck and th e H ouse of Commons into giving up the committee of inquiry they ha ve demanded with such an unexampled majority, there is no se curity for any effectual inquiry ; on the contrary, all the chances are against it. In the event of peace, and still more of present success, crowning this particular expedition, though affording no guarantee against futur? , failures, we sh a ll hear the cry, " Let bygones be bygones. inquisition every. body knows that in the hour of rejoicing there is no into the past. In that case we shall be just as unprepared for future wars as we have been proved i in the present in stance. The representatives of the people, n the name of that People, demand an inquiry into a mismanagement so vast, so universal, so disastrous, so murderous, and so fatal to ou r position in the world, that not only the wellbeing, but the very being of this empire, in its present character, depends on the discovery of the truth. Where is the blame ? What or whose is the • fault ? Having thrown out one Ministry, with an unwonted effort of resolution, because it refused inquiry, the House of Commons is now met by the very culprits them selves who bad refused inquiry, and have been turned out for refusing. It is a new combination indeed ; but Lord Pal merston refused inquiry as unconstitutional ; Mr. Sidney Herbert has refused inquiry, alleging that it is the House of Commons that is really to blame, by cutting down the Army Estimates; Mr. Gladstone has refused inquiry on the ground that the army, said to be nearly destroyed, exists almost entire. Are these men so alive to the true state of affairs, so candid, so anxious for a real reform, that the House of Com mons is to eat its own words, dec'are itself in the wrong for turning out the, late Government, and trust these men to manage and reform tho army so effectually as to prevent future disasters I The House of Commons would simply make a fool of itself, and deserve any Minister our ill stars might send us, if it committed that suicidal folly. The House of Commons has staked its credit against that of the war Administration. One of them must suffer judgment. Lord Palmerston and his colleagues would evidently not take it much to heart if the House of Commons did rather expose itself. His sym pathies are stronger in favour of the governing class,—that is, the small clique of statesmen who, under ono name or an other, have done for us this half-century. Will the house, then, give its character, its honour, and its very existence, for the sake of that family feeling? No. Of the two evils it is better Government should change again, than that the Ih p te r e hh s e ao n ns t ob a u t e r i e v n e a nsinstitu tions influence thathdeohyfaa e v gaaa e ninnn b a:t e itt e oi n lnel .a uf Tyd en war wi sta c h l r o oo i nos i d ere House of Commons, rep resen ti ng th e people, should belie it tlf. e thing, however, Parliament can do,—it can change the Go sl lately. protect ly. v ernment, if necessary, again who will do the work of the people. (Front the Daily News of a is day.) The Palmerston Administration has succeeded to office un der circumstances extraordinary and unprecedented. Scarcely more than a fortnight has elapsed, and the men w h o were so lately driven from office by a crushing majority resumed their seats, last night, on the Treasury bench in the House of Com mons. Lord Palmerston, indeed, the unvanquished hero of a hundred civic fights, has at length attained the height of his ambition, and, after a life of strange vicissitude, has won the noblest prize within the grasp of a British subject. And I I yet, invested though he was with this perilous distinction, in accordance with the hopes and wishes of the nation, his reception by the representatives of that nation took place amid " solemn silence." There was no sign of that enthusiastic hope with which the advent of a new Administration is in general hailed by its friends. The House of. Commons seemed possessed with the idea that a Government whose recent history was one of failure could inspire no confidence and deserve no support, except that which may h reafter be bestowed on vigorous action. The prestige of that once - powerful Coalition is gone. The hasceasuedpoth put unhesitating faith in th e s t atesmen n two years ago as its delivere rs f rom the z w o h n o n m t r y i t looked bondage of corrupt and inefficient rulers. There was some anxiety, perhaps, to hear an explanation of the late crisis from the man who has at length become master of the situa tion, and the house was curious to learn how the " rebur nishea" Government intended to meet Mr. Roebuck's motion for the appointment of members i o serve on the commission of inquiry. But this was all. The obviousl and universal feeling was that the crisis is not yet over, and that they who shall completely extricate us from our groat difficulties were not Seated last night on the Treasury Bench. Below the gangway, on the Ministee ial side, was some ; of tint " new b'ood." an infu-don of which into the race of English statesmen would best fulfil the desires of the country, One, at least, was there who has separated himself from his late colleagues, disgusted with their want of zeal, or ambi tious of a higher position in the Government than has hitherto been assigned to him. Another, whose knowledge and wide experience had marked him out as peculiarly fitted to take part in the conduct of the war, retained his place as a leader among those young politicians whom the slightest exhibition of weakness or indecision on the part of oar present rulers, will change from luke-warm allies into formidable oppo nents. There, too, sat another, whom the temptations of office could not divert from his allegiantb to that party, whose cause, aristocrat though he be, he has hitherto steadily espoused. The truth is, that, in the opinion of such men, we are in a state- of transition. The existing Government, whose days, perhaps, are already num bered, is the last which shall base its claim to rule on lofty birth and hereditary power. England is upon the eve of au administrative revolution, and the country will pre sently be called ullon to say who and what they are whom it will choose to govern it. And we cannot doubt that, last night, the House of Commons faithfully reflected - the feeling of the entire nation, which regards the present Government as to a great extent provisional. Lord Palmerston, indeed, e xer t e d hi mse lf t o i nsp i re f or hi s colleagues that confidence which the people seems to have re posed in him alone. His speech, however, was the greatest satire that could have been delivered against the late Govern ment. The occasion was too good to be lost by Mr. Dis raeli. :It was easy for that profound master of malicious sarcasm to taunt the new Premier with the faults and short comings of his " identical predecessors" —easy to advise that the gentlemen whom a short week had converted into vigor ous promoters of a war which they had hitherto disliked should resume their offices amid "solemn silence." But certainly, had England been searched from one end to the other, it would have been absolutely impossible to find any one more Atted to meet the peculiar difficulties of his position than Lord Palmerston. With happy tact he tried to anticipate his opponents, and by one dexterous indVefrk take the game out of their handS. Who but so clever a tactician would have ventured upon a comparison between the present Government and the Monarch who slew Wat Tyler ! " What, has this great people been betrayed by its rulers I Are they who usurped dominion driven back in scorn and confusion ? We —I and my colleagues—will take your part ; we will utterly destroy the wicked men who so foully be trayed their trust." And when, after such an appeal to the generous sentiment, the new Premier sketched out a plan of reform so sweeping in its nature that it seemed to effect by one blow all that was desired, the house was bound to ac knowledge the skill of the manceuvre, although the suddenness of the conversion might excite a smile. But is not this the season of pantomimes f Why should the House of Com mons be deprived t,f its Harlequin and Pantaloon ? NAVAL AND -lIILITAIZY INTELLIGENCE. The Neptune, 120, sailing-ship, Captain Hutton, is to convey the Wiltshire Regiment of Militia to the lonian Islands, to relieve regular troops ordered to the Crimea. The Neptuno is at Spithead, having recently returned home from Malta, whither she had taken troops. The James Watt, 91, screw-ship, Capt. G. Elliott, was taken into the steam basin yesterday morning to receive repairs in her machinery. The Edinburgh, GO, screw-ship, Capt. Hewlett, hauled alongside Portsmouth dockyard yesterday, preparatory to being taken into dock. The Hogan, GO, screw-ship, has been taken out of dock. The newly commissioned 60-gun screw-ships, Pembroke and Hastings, are almost complete in the rigging depart ment, having their topgallantmasts fielded and their lower and topsail yards across. Tho first-named ship received her detachment of marines yesterday. The other ships fitting are rapidly progressing. The Tartar, 21, screw-frig::.te, sailed yesterday morning for the westward. DESPATCH FROM LORD RAGLAN. [FROM THE GAZETTE OT LAST EYENINO.] WAR-DEPARTMENT, FEB. 14. Lord Panmure has this day received a despatch, of which the following is a copy, addressed to his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, by Field-Marshal the Lord Raglan, G.C.B. Before Sebastopol, Feb. 3, 1855. My Lord Duke,—Nothing has occurred in front of the British lines since I wrote to your Grace on the 27th January. Before daylight on the morning of the let the enemy made a vigorous sortie on the most advanced works of 'the French right ; they were repulsed, after a sharp contest, in the most gallant manner, by our ally, who, however, sustained some loss. The weather, which had latterly been fine, broke yester day ; and, after a rainy evening, there was a fall of snow during the night, stud there is again a frost, with an ex ceedingly cold wind. The materials for the railway continuo to arrive, but I fear it will not bo possible for me to supply the amount of military labour which Mr. Beatty would seem to require. Nearly two hundred Croatians, who were hires at Con stantinople, have arrived, and been handed over to him, and more are expected, and, as a matter of experiment, I have obtained four hundred Tartars from Eupatoria. .. - I have, &c., (Signed) RAGLAN. His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, &c., &c. FRENCH THANKS TO ENGLISH OFFICERS. (From the London Gazette of Last Night.) The Earl of Clarendon has received a despatch from her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, dated February 4, 1855, of which the following is an extract : "I have the honour to enclose a copy of a note which I received yesterday evening from M. Drouyn de l'Huys, eulogising the services rendered by Major-General Rose and Majors Claremont and Foley, not only to the common cause in which they are engaged, but to General Canrobert personally in his communications with his own troops." (Copy.) " Monsieur l'Ambassadeur,—Deja M. le Marechal do A avait , ru dovoir, a p r es 1a bataille de - l'Alma, snare conirsitie um,. n-s mont - .1-I.laupereur tombien it *Tait au 11, lie loner de Is w..a site deArnia offiaters trR l'aree 'Britastnique attaches divots—titers an q artier clirtf-ral de Perm& kritneaise,—M. le Brigadier-General lin& RAW. M. le Major Stepford Claremont, Commis wires tie la Rein°, et M. le Major George Foley, Aide-de- Camp du Gen6ral Rose. M. le General Caurobert vient a, son tnnr de signaler en termes trop honorables a, M. le Ministre de la Guerre les services qua continuent a, rendre cos officiers, pour que nous ne eonsiderions pas eomme um* obligation de transmettre ce temoignage au Gouvernement de la Reins. M. le General Canrobert, en ecrivant, en, effet, que ces officiers se sent constamment fait rexnarques par la bravoure qu'ils ont deployee en face de Pennemi dans les deux batailles tie l'Alma et d'lnkerman, aussi_ bien que dans les operations du siege de Sebastopol, ajoute qu'il a eta conduit par le devouemeat avec lequel ils ser vant, par la parfaito intelligence qu'ils ont de tons les details de la guerre, a ne plus faire aucune distinction entre oux et les officiers de son Etat-Major, et A les em ployer absolument comme ces deniers pour les missions les plus difficiles. ne puis trop,' diyi. le General Caurobert, qui a vu M. le Brigadier-General Rose blesse a sea cotes dans la tranebee, rendre hommacre l'excel lege attitude de ces officiers, q n i soot entouresile Pastime generale dans notro armee, on ils ont glorieusement con quis droit d'etre cite. " C'est, vows n'en douterez pas, M. l'Ambassadenr, avec une vivo satisfaction que je violas prier voter Excel lence de faire savoir au Gouvernement de la Rein. a quel point notre Commandant-en -Chef apprecis les services rendns par MM. Hugh Rose, St () George Foley, soit comme milit a i res, soit COMM interme diaires des cordiales et parf a it es relations qui existent& entre les deux armee • " 'Agrees, Sza,pford Claremont, et D ROUYN DE L'HUTS. " Paris, le 3 F6vrier, 13552" RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND. The half-yearly acccounts of this company up to the 31st December last have just been made up. They show the amount expended on capital account during the six months to j have u Km Vs. 4d., leaving. added to the pre -18,916,508/. 15s. 5d., whilst the capital raised has boon, by shares, 15,156,7601. 7s. 4 d. , and debentures, 3,935 , 1191 . 3 5., to gether 19,091,v0 o utißy, been makes23l,2 00 t / h . e 1t405t.291(1., expenditurewhi e, a bala,ssce in favour of the company of 175,3701 . 14 s. 1 1d. The receipts o n the revenue account for thohalf-year have been 7 94,302/. 6s. ld., and the woiking expenses (including the working of the North-Western 47 miles) 363,994/. 9s. ld ; to which has to be added interest on debentures, sce., dividends on various stocks, the Manchester and M. tl k deficiency guaranteed ,, , , . ,i, oc of 1,4211.8. 11d., and redemption of 500/ mortgage deben tures, making a total of 554,764/ . 7s. 10d., and leaving a disposable balance of 239,627 /. iss. 3d. Of this sum, 207,3331. 18s. 7d. is to be appropriated to dividend as fol. lows : 9,129,859/. 9s. 7d. Consolidated Stock, in- £ s. d. eluding the 501. shares at 31. per cent per annum ........................................ 171,184 17 3 901,1011. 13s. 4d., being 13 s. 4 6. per share on 77,245 16/. 12s. -4d. shares (half year on 8/. 13s. 46., and 153 days 19,443 19 8 3/.), at 4/. 10s. per cent. per annum...... 978,5331. 98. Birmingham and Derby Stock, - at 2/. 7s. 6d. per cent. per annum 11,620 1 8 25,0001. Midland Preferential S tock, at 6/. per cont. per annum 750 0 0 145,000/. Erowash Valley 501. shares at 61, per cent, per annum 4 207,338 18 7 THE CONVENTION _BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE UNITED STAZeS. oinngtaie 10th (22d) S. PETERSBURG, Feb. 6.—The oonvenliho: rights s ee o n f recognise as -that is, neutrals sainod war, the s i gnediJ n i United d at w.States,ashio Washington July, 1854, is now published, and runs as follows : lasZnAgrat.naLuTnahletehraigbhle tchoentfraollcotiwnigngpparrtinizpies : "a.that goods andT h That merchandisef ree shi akperofpreeert/oods— of the citizens or subjects of one of the belligerents are free from capture and confiscation in neutral ships, contrahand of war alone excepted. ps the rn "b. That neutral property on board , an feimny's ship is net subject to confiscation, if lawful l nernlxaudise. "They bind themselves to apply these ptrinciples to the trade and navigation of all states and nations who mayle willing on their parts to acknovvlet3ge and re cognise the same as lasting and unalterable. "Art. 2. The high contracting Powers reserve to themselves the coming to a nearer understa4nding as to the application and extension of the principles contained in Art. 1, but declares expressly that thisy form the basis of the principles governing their actionx in regard to the rights of neutrals in war. "Art. 3. It is agreed that all nations who may, by a formal declaration, express their readiness to acknow ledge these principles shall be at liberty to join in this treaty, and enjoy all the rights and privileges resulting from it. , _ " Art. 4. This present convention shall bto ratified by the Emperor of ali the Russias and the President of the 'United States of America and the ratificationet.exchanged at Washington within ten months from this date, cc sooner if possible. "Done at Washington in duplicate, July 22, 1864. (Signed) " E. STO,3OIC.L. " W. L. XARCX." APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenants—His Serene Highness Victor F. F. E. G. A. C. F. Prince of Hohinlohe Langenbourg to the St. Jean D'Acre ; John P. Cheyne to the Phcenix. Master George B. F. Swain, from the Leopard, to the Majestic. Surgeons—Harvey Morris, from tho Powerful to the Impregnable; Patrick Martyn, M.D., to the Powerful, vice Morris. Paymasters—William Hudson Ozzard, to the Firefly ; Robert W. Warwick, to the Merlin. Clerks in Charge—Edward S. Cooke to the Tyno store. ship ; Richard D. Hire to the Medusa. Clerks Edward 0. Hayes to the Royal George ; Charles Fisher to the Rosamond steam sloop. Clerks' Assistants—George A. Rowe to the Nile; R. R. Harriott to the Pembroke. Second-Master David Batt is promoted to be Master, and appointed to the Leopard steam-frigate. Second-Master George A. Macfarlane is promoted to be Master. Rear-Admiral Henry Eden is to be appointed one of the Lords of the Admiralty, in the room of Rear- Admiral Hon. Richard Saunders Dundas, C. 8., who is appointed to the command of the Baltic fleet. The following promotions and appointments have taken place in the Royal Marine corps, dated Feb. 13 : Captain and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Brames Nolloth, of the Portsmouth division, to be Lieutenant- Colonel, and appointed to the same division, vice Wright, dec , ased . First-Lieutenant and Quartermaster W. E. Farmar, of the Plymouth division, to be Captain, and appointed to the Portsmouth division, vies Nolloth. Second-Lieutenant J. R. Mstseall, of the Chatham divi sion, to be First-Lieutenant. ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE. At the monthly examination of officers for promotion and candidates for entry into the Royal Navy, which ter minated at the Royal Navy College, Ponsmouth, on Thurs day, the following qualified and received certificates : Mates, R.N., for Lieutenants—Messrs. H. M. N. Dyer, C. J. Bullock, E. White, W. H. Blake, J. Grant, A. J. Villiers, R. Steine, C. D. Davies, C. W. Manthorp, G. G. Wallace, G. Worefold, A. M. Norman, J. C. Wells, J. W. Simeon, W. M. Wright, J. S. Tonkin, S. Tuke, D. E. Orr, E. D. Panter, R. D. Clarke, H. G. Hale, W. W. Howell, W. G. Silverlock, F. Semple, G. A. Dough=. Second-Masters, R.N., for iMasters— W. B. Shellabear. C. E. H. Farrant, H. G. Arguimbau, J. A. Bull, and J. E. Sudamore. For Naval Cadets—W. H. Hornby, F. Edwards, G. R. Keating, H. F. Stephenson (from Mr. Eastman's establish ment, Southsea), C. E. Foot, E. L. Trafford, G. R. Baker, H. Izod, F. R. Brownlow, E. H. R. Stephen, and the Hon. C. L. Cadogan. For Masters' Assistants—R. Wellington, T. C. Layton, and F. James. For Garks' Assistants—C.. B. Siveeke, F. Bulirdore, R. Harding, 'f. E. Harper, F. T. Fitzmaurice, A. J. Myers, and W. C. T. Medder. THE TRANSPORT SERTICE. The hired stomm despatch transport Telegraph (No. 184), at Portsmouth, which we noticed on Wednesday last as another added to the many instances of mismanage ment and want of head in the transport service, bids fair to afford much more food. for complaint. She has shippedls3 cwt. 301 b. of coffee, ready roasted and ground, from the Clarence yard, also 73 casks (32 cwt. 661 b.) of coffee in the berry, roasted at the establish ment, 800 suits, and a quantity of other Govern ment supplies and stores, besides bale goods from private establishments, for the British army before Sebastopol, and she also tales out Major-General Simpson and staff and other officers and their horses to the seat of war. The naval authorities at Portsmouth, quite regardless of what the vessel has peen constructed to carry, and against the most urgent remonstrances, have loaded the vessel so deeply that the watercleeet pipes have burst, the pressure being too great upon the valves, and consequently the hold has been flooded, and it may be fairly presumed the cargo not improved, if not damaged. She is, in fact, a racekerse, and has been hired as such, but the dockyard authorities have loaded her like a waggon hack ; she has never been loaded before deeper than 9ft. 6in. under ordi nary circumstances ; the Dockyard people have loaded her to lift. Bin., and she PAM has liar water to take in. In consequence of this reckless blundering from the want of a Telegraph cannot carry male for more three days ancl half's consumption, whereas she usually stows enough for seven days. She will now have to put in at Lisbon (if she over reaches there, her cabin windows being only 30 inches from the water) for coals, and even at Fal mouth if bad weather continues. To remedy the water closets bursting, she was docked at 10 o'clock on Thursday night. This handsome skip Telegraph (which was put into the hands of the Govern; vent by the Belfast Steam Ship ping Company replete with every essantial, and even luxury, that a steam despatch yacht could need) kas been hired by the Crown for three months, at 2,5001. per mouth (or about 30,000/. per annum). Now, for another thousand or so the Government might have bought the ship and all in her. To bring the 50 starvelings of car-drivers from Liverpool to Portsmo - ath, and to take in the coffee, &c., at the above rate, coupled with the loss of a fortnight of time, comes to I,etweei t 1,500/. and 2,000/., all items con sidered ; whereas, tbco expedition to Portsmouth, with easterly gales, might have been avoided altogether, and het coffee and car-drivirrs, sound in package and robust in health, might have been at Malta, on their way to the seat of war, for about 80/. or 100/. of railway expenditure from Portsmouth. MiIJ KET NBW 8-(T 111 JS,? A? COVENT C ARDEN. Very limited supplies of fruit aud vegetables wore on offor to-day. The trade was heavy, as follows : Fli.lllT.—Pine apples, llnglish, is to 10s per lb ; apricots, Os)to Os per doz. ; hot-ho ase grapes, Gs Od to lOs 0(1 per lb ; foreign ditto, 10d to is 8d; melons, 03 Od to Os each peaches, Os Od to Os ; nartarines, Os Od to Os per dozen ; apples, 4s 6d to lOs Od. per bushel ; pears, 7s Od to lOs Od per half sieve • Orb sans plums and green gages Os to ' Os Od per punnet • ditto, (')s to Os Od, and common plums, 3s 01 to Os Od per half siev e ; cherries, Od to Os per pound ; lemons, 6d to is per doz.; oranges, 3s Od to lOs per 10); fil berts, 193 s per 100 lbs ; cobnuts, 180 s to Os ; almonds, Os to Os per lb. ; walnuts,, Od to Od per 100; figs, is Od to 2s Gd per lb. VEGETABLEb.—Savoy c: kbbages, 9d to is Gd per dozen; red di,tto. 2s to 3s Od per dozen ; French beans, Os 3.t to Os 4(1 per 100 ; brocoli,. is 3d to 2s Od per bundle ; potatoes, 90s to 120 s per ton ; vegetable marrow, Od each ; peas, Os Od to Os Od per bush... ' broad beans, 9d to is per half sieve* turnips, 4d to 8d per bunch ; carrots, 7d to 10d per bunch; cucumbers, is Od to 2s Od each; garlic, 6(1 to Oe Bcl per pcund ; spinacia, 2s 6d to 4s Od per sieve ; onions, 2s Gd to 4s Od per bush. ; Spanish ditto, is to 3s per doz. ; leeks, 3d to 5d per bunch ; shallots, 4(1 to Gcl horse-raddish, 2s Ocl. to ss. 03 per bundle ; parsley. 5(1 to 7d per bunch ; celc ry, is Od to is 9cl 1. es bunch ; endive, 2s Od to 3s per score ; beA, Os Gd to Is per doz. ; parsnips, is Od to 2s t'd per dozen ; small salad, 3d to 0(1 per punnet ; mushrooms, is 3d to is Gd per pottle ; artichokes, 4s to 6s per doz. ; cabbage lettuces, Is 6d to 2s per score ; sorrel, Gd to is per half sieve ; radishes 9d to is per dozen hands ; tomatoes, 3s Od to 4s Od per half sieve ; cbillios, is to is 6d por 100; Brussels sprouts, is Od to es 0(1 per half sieve; capsicums, is to 2s per 100. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Turkeys, 4s Gd to 8s Oil ; Geese, 5s Od to 6s Od each; Ducki, 2s 6d to 2s 9d ; tame Rabbits, Os Od to Os Od; wild do , is to is 6d each; Pigeons, 8s to 9s per doz. ; large Surrey Fowls, Os Od to Os Od ; middling, 2s Od to 3s Od ; Chickens, is 9d to 2s 3d. ; Capons, 3s 6d to 4s 6d; Hares 3s Od to 3s Gd; Grouse, 2s Od to 2s 3d each ; Partridges, is 9d to 2s Od ; Pheasants, 3s 0(1 to 3s 6d; Leveret-, 2s Od to 2s 6d each. Ostend fresh butter, lla Gd to 12s Gd, and English lls 6d to 15s Od per dozen lbs. English Eggs, 10s Od to lls Od; French ditto, is Od to 8s 01 per 120. NEWPORT. Beef from 35 2d to 4s 4d ; mutton, 35 2d to 4s 4d ; veal, 4s Od to 5s Od ; pork, 3sl)d to 4s 4d per 8145. WHITECHAPEL. Beef, 3s Od to 4s 4(1 ; mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 2d ; veal, 3s 101 to 4s 101; pork, 3s 0,1 to 4s 41 per Sibs. by the carcase. BILLINGSGATE. Turbots, 5s Od to 25s ; Brills, 3s Od to lOs each; Salmon, Os Od to Os Od per lb; Cod Fish, 3s Od. to 25s each ; Soles, 3d to 2s Od per pair; Eels, Sd to 180.1 per lb; Lobsters, 6d to 2s 6d ; Crabs, 6d to 2s 6d ; Whitings, 4s Od to 14s per doz. ; Common Oysters, 16s to 25s ; Natives, tr Os to Os per bsh; Mackerel, 40s per 100 ; Smelts, 2s Od to 3sod per doz.; Skate, 6d. to Sd per lb; Shrimps, is 6d. to 2s 6d per gallon; Bloaters, is Oil to 2s Od per doz. ; Fresh Herrings, Si O& to Os per 100. ; Scotch do., 6d; Sprats, 8s Od to Os Od per bushel ; Doreys, is Od to 7s each ; Haddocks, 4s to 12s per doz. ; Pike 641. ; Sturgeon, 6d per lb ; Prawns, 2s 6(.1 to 3s. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are froth 10d to 11d; of household ditto, 8d to 91d. per 41b loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 34d to ; 6411) to 721 1 ), to d ; 721 b to 801 b, 33d to :aid ; 8011) to 881 b, 3id to 4d ; 881 b to 961 b, 4d to 44d ; 9611) to 1041 b, 44d t o 40 . ; 101 1121 b Od to Od ; upwards, Od to Od ; Horse hides, 5s Od to Os Od; calf skins, light, 2s Od to 3i Od ; ditto, full, 5s 6d to Os Oil ; polled sheep, 5s Od to 7s Od ; Rents, 5s Od to 5s 9d ; Half-breds ' 5s Od to 5 s Od ; D owns, 4 s Od to 5s O 1; Lambs , Os Od to Os Od. HAY MARKETS. SlarrifFlELD.—Meadow hay, 21 169 to 41 14s Od ; clover ditto, 313 e to 5115 s ' • and straw, 1/ 3s to 11 lOs per load. A limited supply and a fair demand. CIIMBEIILAND.—Meadow hay, 21 178 to 41 15s ; clover ditto, 3/ Os to 5/ 129 ; and straw, 114 e to V 12s per load. Trade steady, at fall prices. WHITECIIAPEL.—Meadow hay, 2115 s to 4? 15s; clover ditto, 31 53 to 61 Oa; and straw, 11 3s to 1/ lOs per load. A fair supply and a steady trade. rPRICE SD. RECOVERY OF WASTE PLACES. (From the Atkenceum. ) A Committee of gentlemen connected with Blooms bury Chapel has, for several years, been at work in St. Giles's, with a view to remedy some of the evils existing in certain of its districts. A sys tem of house-to-house visitation has been prose cuted with energy and perseverance ; habits of per sonal cleanliness have been recommended ; and urgent destitution has been relieved. Parents have been directed to the schools most suitable for their children ; and many, both children and adults, have been aided in their desire to abandon vicious habits. Measures have also been adopted to substitute wholesome for immoral reading ; and with a view still further to awaken the people of this district to a sense of their position, an unsectarian religious instructor bas been provided. The Temperance Hall, King-street, Seven Dials, has been partly rented for meeting purposes—and these efforts have been so far appreciated that the Committee have long desired to extend their operations. Their great want has been a suitable building in which, and from which, plans of usefulness might be carried out. This difficulty, however, is now overcome. The Swiss Protestant Church, situated in the Five Dials, having been vacated, has been taken, and adapted, at a cost of 1601., as the Bloomsbury Mission Hall. On Tuesday evening last it was opened to the people,—the lowest class lseing specially invited. The meeting was convened fer 8 o'cl oc k, and the Hall was crowded in every part. Mr. S. M. Peto presided, and, together with the Rev.W. Brock, of Bloomsbury Chapel, explained the origin and pregnsss of the work in which the committee are engaged, and cordially invited the people to make free use of the building in which they were assembled, assuring them that at all suitable times it would be open to them free of cost. Addresses were delivered byother mensbars of the committee, and it was announced that adult writing classes would be immediately commenced, and the free library extended. Arrangements have also be en made for the delivery of interesting lectures, some vrith dissolving views. It was further stated, that, as circumstances suggested, other measures of usefulness would be adopted. A resolution expressive of the feeling of the meeting was submitted by Dr. Snitch. Mr. Peto, in acknowledging a vote of thanks, said, that he had never yet delivered a lecture, but being at present released from Parliamentary duties.lhe was tempted to do so, and his first should be given in that to the people of St. Giles's. C TRF. PFRATHER, THE PARKS, &c. The appearance of the Thames yesterday was singu lar. Not a steamboat could be seen pas,ing up or down. Up to yesterday the North Woolwich Railway had been enabled to convey their passengers from Shoreditch to North. Woolwich, and pass them over to the Kentish shore by means of steamboats. Yesterday morning, how ever, put an end to the previous facilities, for, on the passengers getting to the North Woolwich station, it was found impracticable for the small steamboats to cross to the , opposite side. Between Greenwich and Woolwich a great accumula tion oi! ice has been frozen together, m such bodies that it is n e:ct to en impossibility for any small craft to cross the water. At :Putney, Wandsworth, and even lower down the river, no sort of ve,:sels can venture out. Several skaters amused themselves upon the ice at Kingston yesterday, as did. also many hundreds at Teddington and Barnes. The thermometer at the Royal Humane Society's Re ceiving .louse in Hyde-park during the night of Thurs day i.►d lewd 20 deg., being 12 deg. below freezing point. Yesturt:ay morning it way at 9 o'clock 20 deg. and at noon .t. 1 ,6 deg., but at 5 o'clock in the evening it stood at 24 deg.., being 8 deg. below freezing, and towards th - • evem it commenced rapidly to descend, indicating the conti Lit tance of the present severe weather. The barometer yesterday indexed 29 . 93 deg., being 25-100.1.1 s above what it was the preceding day. Tb.e wind in the morning was east by south, which changed in the evening; t. south-east by east. The:barometer at 5 p.m. showed an inclination of going down, so that a further fall of snow may be expected. The ice on the iierpentine was 7i inches thick, and the slid ers and skaters during the day was about 20,000. At a le to hour on Thursday night a singular performance took p%ace. A great numberof gentlemen, not wishing to mingle with the crowd, proceeded in a body to tine Ser pentine after the regular skating hours had finished, and, each with a lighted torch in hand and a policeman's lamp- buckled in front, amused themselves on the ice until nearly midnight. Mr. Superintendent on b( informed of what was doing on the river, pro ceed‘ to the spot, but fortunately no accident took place.. 20,,000 persons, including nearly 250 women, ventured on th ie ice in St. James's Park. o f (ftnJ•ridge, the Princess Mary of Carob ridge, and a gut Ally -r,t,tetc y w ere on the banks of Kensington-gardens witnessing the evo lettoni 1 of the skaters during the day. The Long-water had sliders and skaters. The Round pond : I .iad 1,500 skaters and sliders, but no accident of any in( anent occurred. The Regent's-park had about 15,00 Q sliders sad skaters on the frozen waters. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BE TTING AT MANCHESTER.-YESTERDAT. On 'Wednesday St. Hubert, who had been very quiet in the betting for some days, was fairly installed first fa vourit• e for the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes. For the Grea% Northern Handicap - V . :nodal was a better favourite than con Tuesday, 100 to 8 being the highest offer against him. Yesterday sto 2 was the best Price obtainable ;t either St. Hubert or Lord of the Isles for the Two Thous and Guineas. Metropolitan—Thar-Rains seemed to be retrograding, there beingno takers of 4to 1. Steelyard was hacked to a " pony"at 25 to 1. 500 to 30 was laid once again.pt Miss Mowbray for the Liverpool Steeple Chase. 400 he) 50 was taken about St. Hubert for the Derby, and 35'to 1, to 251., about Wild Dayrell. To-day the Trout, for tits' Liverpool Steeple Chase, was backed at 11 to 2. Miss .15 10 wbray was supported at 100 to 6, and even 5001. was la id between Dalkeith and Needwood., For the Metro politan, Pharealus receded to 9 to 2, offered. Great Northern—Vandal had friends at 12 to 1, while there - were no tatters of 15 to 1 about Lord Palmerston. 100 to 6 was taken several times about The Yore. Two. Thousand Guineas Stakes, 55 to 20 would have been takcii freely about St. Hubert ; 3to 1 was currently offei .eel against Lord of the Isles; 4 to 1 was taken to a few pow • ide about Scott's lot, and after wards offered. The Ches ter Or p is nearly a dead letter at present; S to 1 would have: 'been taken freely about St. Hubert for the Derby ; Rill en lan has sprung in the market since Tuesday, 100 to 9 is sing the highest oiler against him to-day. Latest qut•ta tions LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 11 to 2 agst The Trout (taken) 10 to 1 agst Bastion (offered) 100 to 6 agst Miss Mowbray (takes) 100 to 6 agst Dalkeith (nominal) 100 to 6 agst Need wocd (nominal) GREAT METROPOLITAN. 9 to 2 asst Pharsalus (offered) GREAT NORTHERN. 12 to 1 agit Vandal (taken) 15 to 1 agit Lally Palmerston (offered) - ,aoo to 6 aget the Yore (taken freely) THE TWO THOUSAND. sto 2 agst St. Hubert (take 55 to 20) 3 to 1 agst Lord of the Isles (offered) 4to 1 agst Scott's lot (taken and offered) CHESTER CIIP„ 20 to 1 agst Andover (wanted) 20 to 1 agst Rotherham (offered) 4 100 to 3 agst Arthur Wellesley (taken) 45 to 1 agst Honeysuckle (taken) • 60 to 1 agst Pharsalus (taken) 100 to 1 agst Star of Surrey (taken) DERBY. 15 to 2 agst St. Hubert (to.ke'B to 1 f.) 10 to 1 agst Lord of the Isles (taken) 100 to 9 agst Rifleman (take, 100 to 8 f.) D 13! CBY RACES. —ln coneequence of the continued sever i ty of the weather, these races, which were ap point A 'd to take place on Thursday next, the 22d inst., are p i ,stpoued until furt"er notice. W )LVERIIAMPTON STEEPLECHASES. — These °basest are agaiu postponed. Weather permitting, they will tak e Pla C on Monday, the 26th inst. MINING INTELLIGENCE. (From the Mini, , g Journal of this day.) few sellers of the heavy priced shares this week h a , 'e caused this description of stock to he rather more de; is esAd, but there has been a large amount of busi nes a doing in other shares, and the market is well sui ntorted. Butlers and Bassets are offered without fit ding buyers, thus making good our remarks a few w( tells ago, as to the desirability of sub-dividing them into I,t )24 shares. United from 1801. to 220. ; Trelawny, 32/. to 341 ; West Basset, 281. to 301. ; North Basset, 17 10e. to 131.; North Trelawny sought after, at 5/. 11 Is. to 61.; in Sortridge Consols, a large amount of busi nt iss has been done, but the market not quite so firm as st week, at 21. 17s. Gd. to 3/. The Gold Mining Share Market continues neglected, )t a single transaction having taken place yesterday. In Iron Coal Companies, during the week, there has b• ten but little alteration. The Miscellaneous Share Market at the commence ent of the week exhibited considerable firmness. Yes terday prices were weaker. CIVIL SERVIOE.—EarI Granville (Lord President of tl ,e Council) has re•appointed Mr. Charles Boothby, of tb ,e Council office, to be his lordship's private secretary. -Mr. T. B. Lang has been appointed controller of the L (land office, Post-office, Edinburgh, vice Moule, super snuated at 4071. per annum.—Civil Service Gal te. ?X‘' • DESTRUCTION OF THE ,STEAM SHIP MAURITIUS. [A summary of the fAlowlng, received by electric tile. graph, appeared in the whole of our iuipre6sion of yes. terday.] SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY. One of the most fearful conflagrations connected with the shipping interest at this port which has ever been known at Southampton occurred at the docks this morning, causing the total destruction of the fine steam ship Mauritius, belonging to the General Screw Steam shipping Company. This vessel, which was built by Messrs. Mare and Co., of Blackwall, for the purpose of assisting the company in carrying on their mail con tract with England and the East Indies, via the Cape, was launched in 1852, since which time she has made two successful voyages to Calcutta and back, the latter voyage being completed in August of last year. Since that time the Mauritius has been in the service of Government, and employed in the con veyance of troops, &c., to and from the Black Sea. She was of 1,850 tons burden and 300-horse power, and cost about 70,0001. On the return of the Mauritius from the Crimea she arrived at this port, and has during the last few days been lying in the new graving-dock, under going some necessary repairs previously to her return to the duties of the transport service. About 5 o'clock this morning several persons con nected with the docks were aroused by the alarm of " Fire !" and Mr. Hedger, superintendent to the Dock Company, and Mr. Levy, together with other officials, were immediately upon the spot. In conjunction with these gentlemen we noticed several officers connected with the Royal Mail and Peninsular and Oriental Com panies' service, and also a strong body of men, under the charge of the second officer of the United States mail steam-ship Hermann, now lying at this port, who had been ordered to render assistance by Capt. Higgins, com mander of that vessel. When first seen, the fire appeared to have gained only a slight hold upon the ship, but the time naturally occupied in the preparation of fire-engines, together with the difficulty experienced in procuring water, owing to the tide being at its lowest ebb, permitted the fire to extend itself considerably. A short time after the alarm had been made known, a strong detachment of Sappers and Miners from the barracks, with their engines, were speedily on the spot ; but the fearful ra pidity with which the devouring element extended itself damped the hopes of all in the possibility of saving the vessel. In short, no sooner had the fire made sufficient progress to be thoroughly visible than it burst out into one immense mass, almost instantly extending itself over three-parts of the devoted vessel. However, every exer tion was made by those in attendance, but unfortunately with so beneficial result, for the Mauritius now lies in the new graving-dock totally destroyed, and, beyond the iron with which she was built, the whole of which has twisted into athousand different shapes, and her bowsprit, jibboom, and cutwater, not a vestige of this once noble ship remains. It was stated that a considerable quan tity of gunpowder remained on board, and this rendered the danger of assistance imminent to many persons who were otherwise willing to have volunteered their services. But had such not been the case with such rapidity did the flames travel throughout the vessel, that hardly any time was left after the arrival of a suffi cient number of persons to save anything of material value. It is fortunate that, although a large quan tity of the officers' kit, together with the plate, &c., of the ship has been totally destroyed, the ship's papers were removed on shore yesterday and there by saved. For about three heurs the fire raged furiously, and a strong breeze springing up from the eastward considerably assisted the progress of the names. About 8 o'clock the mizen and main masts fell over the port side with a tremendous crash, and were shortly afterwards followed by the foremast, the whole forming a tangled and burning heap of spars and cordage. Fortunately, no damage either to the docks or the mass of people assembled occurred. For some considerable time great fear was exhibited i❑ reference to the powder magazine, and many persons left the docks or retired to some distant part. The water had reached a sufficient height to lead many to presume that the portion of the ship containing the ammunition a as entirely inundated, and that any danger from the explosion of gunpowder was rendered thereby utterly futile ; but about half-past ten o'clock a terrific explosion took place, and large fragments cf the burn ing wreck were scattered in all directions, fortonstely without doing any injury. Some fear existed in conse quence of there being several pieces of loose timber and a huge quantity of shavings lying on the dock quay, some of which took fire, but was speedily extinguished, As is usual in similar cases great difficulty exists in tracing the origin of the fire, and every exertion is being made by those in authority to satisfy themselves on this point. From the particulars we have gleaned it ap pears that during the whole of last night some men were engaged in repairing the boilers of the ship, and were provided with two fires as necessary to the carrying on of their work, and, beyond a small stove in the forecastle, there was every reason to believe no light of any kind existed on board. About half past four o'clock, while proceeding with his work, one of the men had reason to suspect the ship was on fire, and, on reaching the upper deck, perceived through the bull's-eyes, which are used for admitting light to the main deck, a large quantity of flame. An alarm was at once given, and, although eight or nine seamen were on board, together with the ship-keeper, hardly a drop of water could be procured, and in a very short time all hands left the ship. One of the officers of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Tagus, lying in the docks. as scan as he hecame ecouainted with the fact, went on board the Mauritius, and, seeing the danger of the fire spreading, although it was only slight at the time requested that a b ou t a d ozen b uc k ets o f water should be brought him, as he thought he could then ex tinguish the flames ; but this was refused hint with a grin and the question, " Who is to pay the men for fetching the water 1" Captain Eugledue, superintendent of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, and Captain Vincent, of the Royal Mail Company, were in the docks shortly after the commencement of the fire, and immediately made such arrangements as to insure the safety of those vessels be longing to each company which are new hi port. The Orinoco was instantly shifted from her close vicinity to the scene of the conflagration, and other ships were without delay moved to a safe distance. A very strong opinion exists among many persons in this port that the destruction of the Mauritius was more the result of design than accident. This opinion has justly been excited from 'Deny circumstances. It will be re membered that, at the commencement of the week, a charge was instituted by the company against several seamen connected with this ship for having broken faith with the company, by non-fulfilment of the articles they had signed previously to her departure for the Black Sea, by deserting on her arrival at Portsmouth. This, it is presumed, has greatly incensed the men against the company, and we have been told that one of the crew was hoard to express his intention yesterday of putting the " ship in flames." Independently of the severe loss occasioned to the General Screw Company by the destruction of this splen did ship, the inconvenience to the Government will be considerable, as the Mauritius was to have been ready in eight or 10 days to embark 1,200 men for the seat of war in the East. In the present posture of affairs the services of such a ship can ill be spared by the country. We have been unable to obtain any re liable information as to whether the disaster is fully covered by insurance, but it is believed that only a small policy had been effected on the vessel. Captain Stewart, the commander of the Mauritius (1 ite of the Golden Fleece), has lost all his nautical instruments and effects, and the officers saved nothing, the whole of their ward robes having been consumed. Captain Stewart took out the first detachment of troops to the East at the com mencement of the war, and has done great service with the Golden Fleece during the past year. After success fully braving the dangers of capture, shot, and weather in the Black Sea, ho expresses great disgust at having the ship under his command ignobly burnt in a dry dock at home. DISASTROCS FIRE IN SOUTHWARK. A fire, involving immense destruction of property, broke out last night, about half-past ten o'clock, on the premises of Messrs. Thomas Rout ledge and Company, proprietors of the steam saw-mills, in Holland-street, Blackfriars-road. Very shortly after the outbreak, the fire extended to the flour mills belonging to Messrs. Waters and Steel, and thence to the premises of Mr. James Dickenson, bottle merchant, and Mr. Scott, linseed cake manu facturer. The flames next communicated with the extensive range of premises occupied by Messrs. George and John Rennie, the eminent engineers, which, with all their valuable plant, are immolated in one common rain. The metropolis was brilliantly illuminated by the re flexion of the flames for many hours. We regret to add that the catastrophe has been at tended with loss of life. Mr. Thos. Jackson, a fine young man, only 25 years of age, stepson of Mr. Braid wood, superintendent of the fire brigade, and himself holding the position of one of the surveyors of the Sun Fire-office, while actively engaged assisting the firemen in Messrs. Waters and Steel's yard was buried beneath a stack of burning timber, which fell over from the ad joining premises shortly before midnight. The body, burnt to a cinder, was only recovered at three o'clock this morning. Mr. Jackson had only been 18 months married, and was universally respected by all whoknew him. Mr. Henderson, foreman of the Southwark division of the brigade, sustained a severe accident while actively engaged in the performance of his onerous duties. Thirteen horses were rescued with great difficulty from the stables attached to the flour mills. Almost all the brigade engines inf London were called into use, as well as the steam-float engine from South wark-bridge. The West of England engine, and that bf Messrs. Hodges, the distillers, were also actively -en gaged. It is feared that the loss of property will amount to at least 150,0001. The scene presented by the fire from the bridges and across the river was of the grandest possible description. The floating masses of ice, illuminated by the glare of the flames, had a most extraordinary effect, and for a long period, while the fire was at its height, a snow storm added to the picturesque grandeur of the spec tacle. The police, under Mr. Superintendent Haynes, were of the greatest possible service in keeping the crowd out of danger. The body of Mr. Jackson was conveyed in a Ellen to the workhouse.