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CONTRACT for PUMPS and WATER CLOSETS. • Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy, Somerset-place, November 5, 1849. The Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral Of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland do hereby give notice that on TUESDAY, the 18th December next, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying her Majesty's several Dockyards with ' DOWNTON'S PUMPS and WATER-C LOSET S. and LI FT-P UM PS. Patterns of the Articles may be seen; and a Form of Tender, Schedule, and Conditions of the Contract obtained at the said Office. No Tender will be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed, unless the party attends, or en agent for him duly authorised in writing. . • Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admi ralty, and bear in the lert-hafid corner the words " Tender for Pumps, &c.," ant must also be delivered at Somerset-place, accom panied by a letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering in' the sum of 10011. for the due performance of the Contract. J FAST • and wEs r INDIA DOCKS. Notice is hereby given, that unless some 011 Boa's, al - 40:d Top-mast, and some Old Iron Tanks, whin have bleu left by ships in these Docks are claimed, and the charges due upon them are paid on or before the Ist of December next, they 7111 Le sold to defray the setae. By order of the Court, GEORGE COLLIN, Secretary Particulars may be seen at the Western Dock. East and West India Deck House, Eilliter•square, November 1, 1849. N ATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASS [l' RANCE SOCIETY. 26, Cornhill, London. Capital £,500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament, This - Institution ernbtaces important and substantial advantages with, respect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annutles. Policies Issued by this Society have a twofold advantaqe sio i tor the family of the Assured, and an augmentitur pecuniary available resource to himself, if needful, whilel lying. The Assured has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense, or for feiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the Premiums paid. DIVISION OF PROFITS, T 1 e continued prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors at the Annual Meeting, held on the 10th of May, 1848, to declare a sixth bonus, vay'ng from 27 to 63 per cent. on the Premiums paid en each Policy effected on the'profit scale. EXAMPLES. Perma- Sum the Annual Policy Bonus in sent lie- Assured Age. f.l Pre- taken addition Bonus in duction of may bor nMium. out in to Sum Cash. Annual row on I Assured. Premium. Policy. £ s. A. s d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 1837 276 14 3128 11 3 21 7 2 593 6 8 1838 251 18 10.115 14 8 18 12 8 543 17 9 X X P.d. 1839 226 6 0 102 15 1 16 2 9 194 810 1840 178 0 0 82 14 2 12 14 11 145 0 0 60 1600 74 3 4 1841 174 0 0 1 78 3 4. 12 .3 0 195 11 1 1842 147 4 21 65 15 10 10 2 4 346 2 3 1843 99 18 41 44 8 4 615 11 196 13 4 1844 62 6 81 27 13 4 4 4 0 '47 4 5 PUBLICATIONS. STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH • TIIP.I WEST INDIES AND THE PACIFIC. SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 30.—1 n our paper of Oct. 22 we published a statement showing the saving in distance and time that could be effected by an altera tion in the routes of the West India mail steamers to and from the Gulf of Mexico, by avoiding the port of Mobile. Such statement likewise exhibited the cause of decline in the extent of passenger traffic, and the still more prejudical effects which may be anticipated to follow a persistence in the existing plan by reason of the active competition organized by lines of Ame• rican mail steamers. These remarks embraced only the monthly Mexi can Gulf route, and did not refer to the separate monthly communication now kept up by the Royal IVestlndia mail steamers, between England, Panama, and the Pacific. The importance of the latter route demands a dis tinct notice, particularly when viewed in connexion .with the lines of American steam ships in existence and in contemplation, and also as regards the import ance, in a national point of view, of the line to and from the Isthmus of Panama, across which a vast and increasing amount of traffic must flow to and from the gold xegions of California, the west coast of America, the numerous ports in the Pacific, and probably from Australia and New Zealand. I3efore alluding more particularly to this branch of the subject it should be premised that the scheme of Communication established and kept up by the West India mail steamers is not a mere semi-monthly mail to and from the British ultra-marine possessions, but comprehends a wide-spread Atlantic communication between Europe and the French, Danish, Spanish and Dutch West India colonies, with the island of Hayti, Mexico, the Central American States of Nice raceua, Yucatan, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Columbia, and via Chagres and Panama with New Grenada, California, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Chili. The communications regularly maintained may be classed as follows : Mexico (including Vera Cruz and Tampico), Mo bile, Havannah, St. Jago de Cuba, Hayti, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Honduras, Porto Rico, San Juan, Nica ragua, Carthagena, Santa Martha, Laguayra, Cha gres, Panama, and the Pacific ports of the states of Chili, Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador. The British colonies of Jamaica, Demerara, Trinidad, Tobago, St. Vincent, Barbadoes, Grenada, St. Lucia, Dominica, Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitt's, and Tortola, the Danish islands St. Thomas and St. Croix, the French Antilles, Guadeloupe, Mar tinique, &c. , the colony of Cayenne, via D emerara , and Dutch Guiana. Neither must the regular intercolonial communica tion supplied to the West India colonies, nor in some instances, the beneficial intercourse afforded to a few of those islands with the mainland, be omitted in the estimate of the extent of this scheme. ; It will, of course, be apparent in the applicationand working details of so comprehensive and intricate a plan, that all the interests concerned cannot be equally well served, and that certain colonies and seats of trade may complain that their particular interests are only imperfectly protected. The little island of Mont serrat, for example, on a recent occasion petitioned, complaining that a direct communication was not kept up between it and the mother country. Jamaica loudly complains of the injustice of its mails having to be conveyed to Havannah, Nassau, and Bermuda, while it has been found hitherto impossible to accom modate Jamaica with an unbroken route to England, for many reasons, one of them being the comparatively isolated geographical position of the island, which lies out of the regular track of the mail to the other colonies. Whatever plan may be adopted, it is clear that some complaints will be provoked from the clashing of interests of small and relatively unimportant places, each anxious to possess the short cut to and from Great Britain. The more important ports, colonies, or states, should therefore receive the greatest amount of convenience, and the communication with such places should he facilitated to the utmost extent, while the smaller or less important places should be made subordinate to the general scheme, and be accommo dated with the supplementary or branch lines, in conjunction with the main artery of communication. One of the greatest faults of the existing arrange ments for conveying and delivering the mails is that no through or trunk line for direct communication has been laid down and adhered to, to which all other lines of intercolonial or branch mails should be tribu tary, and therefore, while several important places have been but indifferently served, numbers have been badly accommodated, and but few pruperly attended to. These, however, it must be fully understood, are faults rather of the plan of routes than of the steamers or the company, as, with few exceptions, the %Vest India mail service has been generally per formed with the stipulated regularity, and with more than the speed and rapidity contracted for. Since the first concession of the mail contract to the West India Steam Company circumstances have arisen which attach to certain places greater importance than they at one time possessed, and which would seem to render some changes desirable, in order that the interests of the British steamers may not be per mitted to suffer, and that the new and formidable opposition of a rival Power in the steam carrying trade of the New World should not completely divert and absorb the legitimate traffic pertaining to the British steamers. There is no part of the South American continent to which these remarks apply with so much force as to the Isthmus of Panama, now becoming the great high road for traffic to and from the whole of the western coasts of both North and South America. We purpose, therefore, in the subjoined remarks, to set forth the exact position of British steam enter prise in connexion with this portion of the globe, and to exhibit some of the causes which at present pro duce the inconvenient and anomalous results that British steamers are frequently anticipated by the American rival lines, and that mails, passengers, and intelligence, reach E ng l an d v ia N ew York, from certain points of the West Indies and South America, more quickly than they can be brought by the so called steamers. Assuming that from th e I st h mus of Panama to England should be considered a main trunk line, say from Chagres to Southampton, we find the existing routes as follows : NEW WORK, by the Author of - " JANE EYRE." 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If the West India steamers were permitted to take a direct route, as follows : Chagrcs to St. Thomas's St.. Thomas's to Fayal Fayal to Southampton 1,120 2,249 1,373 The total distance from Chagres to South ampton would be, say And the distance saved thus— Chagres to Southampton via Jamaicq, Jac mel, Porto Rico, St. Thomas's, and Fayal 5,080 Chagres to Southampton via St Thomas's and Fayal ... ........ ~. 4,742 By employi ng s t eamers o f the Cunard class,33B say with a proportion of 700 to 800 horse power to a burden of 2,000 tons, capable of maintaining a mini mum average speed of 10 knots, the through voyage from Chagres to Southampton could be performed in 21 to 23 days, including the necessary stoppages for coaling at Fayal and St. Thomas's, and thus a fort night or ten days would be the real saving in time, while the New York route would be surpassed in re gard to the economy of time effected. The only alteration in the present arrangements necessary to guard against a derangement in the intercolonial service would be the necessity of having a branch steamer to bring up mails from San Juan, Nicaragua, Carthagena, Jamaica, &c., to St. Thomas's, there to meet the direct steamer from Chagres, which wc , Tild also be joined at St. Th omas ' s by the vessel from Demerara with the homeward, windward, and leeward mails, as at present. Jamaica would not be prejudiced by this arrangement, as that island would have the same accommodation as at present, while the employment of more rapid steamers would bring that place to within 17 to 19 days' voy age of England via St. Thomas, instead of 22 to 26 days, as at present. The route outward to the isthmus pursued by these steamers is still more objectionable and lengthy, and, if pricked'out on the map, will probably excite a smile ; it is as follows : Miles. 1 1 11 E EMIGRANT'S ALMANACK. Now ready, price Fourpence. The EMIGRANT'S ALMANACK contains a greater mass of useful information on the important subject of Emigration than any other publication, and every possible care has been taken to ensure its entire accuracy. It contains advice relative to the United States of America ; describes the routes to the various fields of emigration; determines the distances to each place ; the modes of conveyance; the length of time occupied in the various journeys ; expense of transit; cost of land in different parts of the world ; expense of clearing the soil; and all the °Meal information from the Commis sion of Emigration. In every page it abounds with practical-hints for the Emigrant of every degree, and altogether forms one of the most interesting and valuable books of reference ever published on the subject of Emi,ration. London : STANDARD OF FREEDOM-OFFICE, 335, Strand ; Charles Gilpin, 5, Bishopsgate Without, and all Booksellers. Southampton to Madeira 1,287 steamer stops halt a day. Madeira to Barbadoes ... 2,610 one day. Barbadoes to St. Thomas 420 quarter of a day. St. Thomas to Porto Rico 65 Porto Rico to Jacmel ... 388 one day. Jactnel to Jamaica ... 255 one day. Jamaica to Santa Martha 440 quarter of a day, S inta Martha to Carthagena 105 half a day. Carthagena to Chagres 280 Total distance 5,850 miles`from Southampton to the isthmus, occupying 35 to 36 days, when, if the principle of a through or trunk line, via St.Thomas's, were adopted, to which other lines should be qr.; butary, the distance would be 4,742 miles, occupying 22 or 23 days, thus effecting a saving in distance of 1,108 miles, and 10 or 12 days in time, which would be principally accomplished by the fewer stoppages and superior speed of steamers under the new regula tions thus assumed. To conform to this arrangement the Pacific Steam Navigation Company's ships might leave Valparaiso about eight or ten days later than at present, to be in time at Panama for the steamers leaving this side of the isthmus for England, and it may be estimated that the general mail service from all parts of the West Indies and South America would be accelerated from seven to ten days, and the courae of post shortened 14 to 20 days, thus bringing the corre spondence with all the ports embraced in the scheme into a much shorter general communication with Europe. That some arrangement, of which this is an outline, will be indispensable, if the Royal Mail Company intends to secure the traffic between England and the greater part of the New World, must be perfectly evident. The matter speaks for itself. A week's priority in mercantile correspondence is an age, during which a fortune may be made or lost, and if the present slow conveyances are continued, with their circuitous route and perpetual stoppages, the whole of the mails, passengers, and specie from the WestiCoast of America and some parts of the West Indies will be lost to the Royal Mail Company, whose ships will be almost entirely superseded by the American steamers. , In a national point of view Great Britain cannot afford that the advantages of a communication primarily opened and established by herself, and so esF-er tin! to L,- ~jexcn- - . - ozperity, should be diverted into another and a rival - channel, precisely at a juncture when the intercourse has become, and is likely to become, increasingly remunerative and im portant. The prosperity of the Royal Mail Steam packet Company, nay, its very existence, is bound up in this question, and it must rise or fall exactly in proportion to its efforts to retain the traffic legiti mately and properly its due. Unless some alterations are made the English steamers, compared with the American ships will, in railway parlance, be merely slow Parliamentary trains running against express mails, the former de feating their own object by continual and vexatious stoppages, the latter distancing their competitors by their extreme rapidity and celerity. That this climax is likely to result may be gathered from the immense efforts now making by the Ameri cans to increase and extend their mercantile steam marine. The building yards of New York are filled with stupendous steamers in course of construction, and already many have commenced running. The line of steamers between Panama and San Francisco has been eminently successful. The same may be said of the vessels running in conjunction with them on this side of the isthmus from Chagres to New York, the steamers Falcon, Crescent City, and Em pire City. While writing this your correspondent has before him a description of the American steam ship Ohio, the pioneer of a mail line of five gigantic ships intended to maintain a weekly communication between New York and the Isthmus of Panama, via Havannah, in direct communication with the West India steamers. The Ohio is 2,600 tons burden, and 1,000-horse power. She sailed from New York on her first voyage on the 20th of September, and returned on the 15th of October full of passengers and with a considerable amount of specie. The Georgia, a sister ship, is nearly ready for sea, and the other three are preparing. All these ships are to attain a speed of 11 knots, and will have accommoda tion for 260 passengers. The present West India steamers are beautiful models of naval architecture, and in regard do their management and sea-going qualities may be said to be unsurpassed. When they were constructed 1* 1841 and 1842 it was not considered desirable to proportion so great - an amount of horse power to tonnage as subsequent successful experiments have demonsrated to - re - both safe and prudent for Trans atlantic voyaging. The consequence is that, com pared with certain Atlantic steamers, they are some what deficient in speed, and several of them will not average more than from seven to eight knots. Recent improvements in the boilers and machinery of others, such as the Medway, the Thames, Clyde, Avon, and Severn, have augmented their speed, and these 1 vessels are capable, under favourable circumstances of making eight to ten knots per hour. Such a speed is, however, manifestly insufficient to meet the present requirements of ocean steaming when exposed to powerful competition. To effect an independent communication with Mexico and the West Indies, via Bermuda and Havannah, on the one hand, and with the West Indies and :Pacific on the other, with such rapidity as is indispensable to compete successfully with the American steamers, new ships of the class now running between Liver pool and New York should be employed, while the present vessels could be advantageously provided with employment on the intercolonial or branch ser vices, in conjunction with the main lines. This subject acquires additional importance, and the necessity of an independent trunk line to the Isthmus of Panama (to which the other lines should be feeders), and which should be carried out by steam ships of greater power, is the more apparent, when taken in connexion with the disposition of the Go vernment to extend steam communication to South Australia and New Zealand by way of Panama, in preference to the originally contemplated route via Southampton, Alexandria, and Singapore, from the latter of which places the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company proposed to extend their line to the Australian and New Zealand ports. It is understood that the Government will shortly be prepared to receive tenders for conveying these mails by either of the two routes referred to. The respective distances are estimated as nearly as possible as follows: vir of -"! N NOVEMBER 7, 1819. 7 N0.17,822.] LONDON, IyEDNESDAY )•=1 Er 4 Making a total of .., - ... ... 4,483 from England to Australia soil New Zealand. The present :voyage from. Southampton to Singa pore occupies forty-nine or fifty days, and, supposing the remainder of the distance to be performed by steamers an average minimum speed of eight . knots, th total voyage would occupy, including stoppages, say eighty to eighty- four days. The Panama route would stand thus— Mile, Southampton to Fayal Fayal to St. Thomas's ... S. 'Thomas's to Chagres Panama to Tahiti ... T.ihiti t.) Port Nicholson (New Zealand) Port Nicholson to Sydney... ... ... 2.249 ... 1,120 ... 4,430 ... 2,280 ... 1,200 Southampton to Port Nicholson and Sydney —. 12,702 The distances used as above from Panama to Australia are not calculated for the great circle, but the shortest di3tance, or the track which a steamer would probably pursue. This, however, would neces sarily be modified by the prevailing winds. From Panama to Tahiti the winds would generally be favourable—from Tahiti to Port Nicholson less so. Reversing the rule for opposite directions, different courses might be taken at various seasons. Pre suming the voyage from Southampton to the Isthmus of Panama to occupy twenty-three days, and that the distance from Panama be accomplished at an average speed of eight knots (as allowed to the steamers from Singapore), and allowing for the necessary stop pages, the voyage throughout would be performed in sixty-eight to seventy-two days, or on the voyage from England to New Zealand and Australia showing a saving of 2,186 miles in distance, and of ten to thirteen days in time. It is, of course, impossible to state with any degree of correctness which of the two routes on the whole, possesses the greatest advantages, or which will ulti ma t e l y b e pre f erred, b ut of the Pa nama plan it may be said that not only does it offer the advantage of being the shortest, straightest, and most direct track to the Australasian colonies, but also that the difficulties and dangers of the navigation are far less, when contrasted with the dangers and intricacies of the navigation from Singapore to Syd ney, northward of Australia, including the coasts of New Guinea, Borneo, Timor, and Torres Straits, which would have to be traversed by the steamers connected with the Suez scheme. Reverting to our remarks on the subject of the West India steamers, it must be borne in mind that modifications and changes in their present routes, which every day's experience is showing to be more and more necessary and desirable, can only be effected with the direct sanction of the Admiralty. It is therefore tube hoped that, ere long, the circumstances enumerated, operating so disadvantageously to the interests of the British steam-vessels, may bring about some alteration whereby the competition of rival,)ines of American steamers shall be countera c t e d,' and the traffic conducted 'through Hi Proper channel. If the Americans began too late in ocean steam navigation, they have certainly made, and are making, great strides. Their efforts are not, however, to be feared, if they be met with corresponding energy and enter prise on the part of interests in this country. The royal mail steam line must, as a necessary conse quence, fall into gradual insignificance and disrepute, unless those efforts are made which the formidable opposition their ships are called upon to encounter so urgently demands. Nor can it be imagined that it will answer the purpose of the Government and the petple of this country to subsidize a line of steamers to the extent of nearly 240,0001. per annum, the utility of which has nearly ceased and is partially superseded. It is a struggle of British capital and enterprise against the energy of the Americans, and if the former be fully and fairly employed and skil fully developed in its working details, who can doubt the result in its own legitimate sphere ? Some determination will doubtless soon be taken upon this important subject by the Admiralty, and then, armed with the needful facilities, the Roya Nail Steam-packet Company (to borrow the mode of Expression from a Transatlantic contemporary) will only have "to put on the steam" to insure a successful result.—Times. . ... 7 . / . . - . I '4VI I : .:, • ~. . 1 . Lillir • - ,, ;•••,. .. ~,, . , ~,, . . „...:( :. • 3,,, ) 1 : • . . ~.. ,kw l / 41 /fp, • _ , ,!'k t; 4 -1 • it'•,' 1, - - O.-' \,;',7,•:_—•• '%-io- :, ''< `til ' 3. :Lt FL t,,, , ....• e , ..ty — , ... •-1ik ,,, , , ... - f... - ' 4 • 1 ti.. ( i. ).‘ • :(r , 1,1 ,A, ''Mz \ :'''' \% ' ,t,,,' • 1 / 4 I ' .- • 'Or., -. c i''''‘ ' 74 r - s. 9J - ~74.._. =. • , „„Ar 4- ' N.),,1' - e -, t1 7 z...zt - ". .-. ~ ,,,,r, •--1. 1 „,. Ar . 4 - c 17 ' . 4 ( le - 74, , \ , l' ~.,,, i i I t ... - 1, %<-1 , - ,' . -„ , -, 79 il °'•• %., - --- 7 '''''- • .- ' - at•- , ' •.,, 1 .... 0 :' :, :- :i1 -'''' 4 - 4 t-, ' '''': "-=; ' , :l -- 1..." I, ..r"t 4 :1 1.' " -' 4`e,"",; It' " 'l4” "' :' r .'•• - " 0 - ' ' ' T . - ,i'' --if,- - - - , ------- 1 \'''' -- . ''l/4 Nip :. - 4: 1: -5-- , , . -- ' -7, Z ---A '66, - --- ----.1.E0. 1' .. • 4' 2, i , k - - \ • ..... e,". [PRICE SD. with dispatches and specie for Hong-Kong, and she proceeded last night, calling at Devonport for super numeraries. The Fairy, royal yacht screw-tender, Master Com mander Welch, and the Elfin, steam-tender, Master Commander B a lli s t on, are ordered ' to Portsmouth, from Woolwich, to have their defects made good at the former port. Two parties of seamen riggers are ordered to navigate the Vulture steam-frigate, at Sheerness, and the Styx steam-sloop, at Woolwich. to Devonport, there to remain as advanced steam-vessels of the first division. The Contiance steam-tender, Master- Commander Martin, is ordered to convey the parties back again to Sheerness and Woolwich. The Vul ture is ordered to call at Portsmouth. The Styx will be ready to leave Portsmouth on the Bth inst. The Terrible steam-frigate is complete in her ma chinery, and will be out of the hands of the dockyard by Monday next. Her spars are to be altered as pro posed by Captain Ramsay. The Retribution steam-frigate will be out of the hands of the engineers to morrow. Three of her old boilers are to be broken up, the serviceable plates being preserved. The rigging and stores for the Dauntless, screw steam-frigate, are being prepared at Portsmouth. Captain Halsted is occasionally superintending the works. The Encounter, screw - steam-corvette, Capt. Gordon, is expected home from Lisbon on account of the acci dent to her screw shaft. It is said on her arrival that Captain Gordon and the officers and _crew will be transferred to the Termagant, now in the old basin, nearly rigged. The Stromboli, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Lord A. Beauclerk, was ordered from Devonport to the Chops of the Channel, to relieve the wind-bound, but the wind has since shifted. The Cuckoo, steam-veseA, Commander Dumaresq, will be completed at Portsmouth by to-morrow, and will proceed to her station at the Channel Islands. The Hecla, 6, steam-sloop,Commander Beauchamp, arrived at Madeira 11th October, and proceeded on the 13th for the coast of Africa. The Sphynx, 6, steam-sloop, ready for service if required, was towed up to her moorings at Ports mouth by the Echo tug. The Grappler, iron steam-vessel, at Woolwich, is to be broken up. Estimates have been called for. The Dwarf, screw-tender, Lieutenant-Commander Osborne, has returned to Queenstown from Kinsale, and remains waiting orders. Portpatrick, as a packet station, having been abolished, the Asp steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander W. W. Oke, and the Pike, steam-vessel, Lieut.- Commander A. Boyton, have arrived at Portsmouth to be paid off, a n d are both in the steam-basin, return ing stores. Theyare sister vessels; a nd were among 1114 first packet stearrierS that were built some 26 years ago: They have both done much 'work, and with , their .50 hOrse..power gach averaged about ,ei g ht or ; eight and a half k no t s per hour. They* Will be either broken up or sold. THE SIDON DOCK AT PORTSMOUTH.—When the water was let into the dock it reduced the height of the water of the steam-basin no less than eight inches. The water was pumped out of the dock on Monday, when it was found that the Sidon, when settled down on her blocks, the lower parts of the outer rim of her paddle wheels had but scant room, just clearing the stone work on each side about two inches. The dock would have been better had it had more breadth in this part; however, this difficulty can be obviated by the blocks being made higher when the next large steamer comes into it. PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—Wind, N. W.; fresh breezes, and fine clear weather. ae, PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 6.-:-The. Hate steam sloop, Commander Shad well, hauled off into the stream this afternoon, ready for the reception of Sir H. Lytton Bulwer and suite, whom she is destined to convey to America in a few days. Captain Shadwell has made the most of the room ittorded by the vessel, and will provide comfortably, if - not adequately, for the ac commodation of the diplomatic party, amounting to eleven persons. The cabins of Sir H. Lytton and Lady .Bulwer are made out of the commander's and are lined with chintz, which prevents the rough fit tings of the ship being seen, and obviates the neces sity for paint being used in decoration. The vessel has been made to carry coals for 12 days' full steam ing, which will take her well on towards Bermuda, where she is to put in to replenish. As she expects to encounter rough weather, she has changed her old for newer and stouter canvas this afternoon. The officers of the Excellent (who are draughted for the Hecate), having been bandied about so much in this kind of short notice temporary service, deserve pro motion. The Scourge steam-sloop, Commander Lord F. 11. Kerr, took the place of the Hecate alongside the jetty this day, to proceed with her fitting, about which she seems very tardy. The Contest, 12, is ordered to be rigged. It is expected a commander will be appointed to her in a day or two. The Pollock Indiaman at Spithead, for China, embarked the Bishop of Hong-Kong and suite this afternoon, and will sail with them to-morrow. Wind W. by S., fresh breezes and cloudy weather. WOOLWICH, Nov. G.—The Enterprise, Captain Sir James Clarke Ross, and the Investigator, Captain E. J. Bird, having arrived in the river from the North Pole, the Monkey and Adder steam vessels went down the river to-day to tow them up to Woolwich, and they are expected to arrive at this port to morrow. The expedition, which went in search of Sir John Franklin and the officers and crews of the Erebus and Terror, has brought no accounts of these enterprising navigators; but all hope of their ulti mate return should not he given up, as several of the whalers were near the latitude and longitude of the spot where Sir James Clarke Ross wintered, without being able to find the exact place where the vessels were located. It is possible that, as the Esquitnaux were correct in stating that two vessels were seen on one side of Prince Regent's Inlet, that there might be two on the other side, as it appears the Enterprise and Investigator wintered at Port Leopold, at the entrance of Prince Regent's Inlet. Captain Sir James Ross will, however, be better able to judge as to the statements of the natives, when he learns the particulars communicated to the captains of the whalers. The Fairy, Commander Crispin, and the Elfin, Master-Commander Balliston, left Woolwich at 9 30 A.M. to-day for Portsmouth. COURTS-MARTIAL AT NOTTINGHAiIL NOTTING HA M, TUESDAY EVENING.—This morning, between eleven and twelve o'clock, the first_of three general eourts.martial upon privates of the 3d Dra goon Guards, for the purpose of trying Knox, But • terworth, and Ball, the major offenders during the recent insubordination, commenced sitting in the messroom at the barracks. The interest excited by the proceedings was very great, and the room was crowded. Amongst those present were Lieutenant- Colonel Arthur, Mr. Thomas Carver, mayor, and several of the principal inhabitants of the town. The court itself presented a very imposing appearance, and was thus constituted :—President—Colonel C. G. J. Arbuthnot, Commander of the Midland districts; members—Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. J. Yorke Scarlett, sth Dragoon Guards; Major Henry Renny, 81st Foot; Captain George Lloyd Robson, sth Dra goon Guards ; Captain James Cunningham, (4th Dragoon Guards; . Captain Sir George Curzon Bisshop, 12th Foot; Captain F. L. Dashwood, 16th Lancers; Captain William de Cardonnel Elmsall, Ist Royal Dragoons; Lieutenant George Campbell, Ist Royal Dragoons ; Lieutenant-Colonel John Patton, 12th Foot ; Captain Francis R. Forster, 4th Dragoon Guards; Captain Thomas Pattle, 16th Lancers ; Captain J. Arthur Gildea, 81st Foot; Captain Thomas D. Perry, 81st . Foot; Captain Herbert Morgan, Ist Royal Dragoon Guards; Lieutenant Michael M'Creagh, 4th Dragoon Guards ; Acting Deputy Judge-Advocate, Captain J. Francis Kempt, 12th Foot. The Court having been sworn previous to hearing evidence, The PRESIDENT rose and said —"Perceiving that several reporters are here present, I particularly re quest that none of the evidence about to be produced may be published until such evidence has been offi cially approved." Private Robert Knox was the only prisoner tried to-day. Ile was charged with absenting himself from barracks without leave on the 14th of October, and not returning until the 15th ; and, further, with raising his hand, in which was a large stone, agai ns t Sergeant-Moor Davis, and uttering in a menacing manner, "Do, you -, or words to that effeet. Mr. Bowley appeared for the prisoner, but was prevented both from examining the witnesses and addressing the Court. The President and the Acting Deputy Judge-Advocate informed him that the only as,iistance he would be allowed to render would be to suggest questions t o b e pu t b y t h e pr i soner hi msel f , or write them on paper, and hand them to the Presi dent of the court. The latter expedient was adopted, and about five written questions were handed for ward, but three of which were allowed to be put ; and then Mr. Bowley, in evident disgust, exclaimed that it appeared he could be of no service to the ac cused, and therefore he should not attempt to put another question. 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It was a glorious day, And one of proud disp'ay : Hearts were light —scenes were bright, On the day of Thames's Show. Now launched upon the river, The royal bark appears; While smiling thousands give her A welcome in their cheers. For le, in that fair bark, The royal guests they mark : Hearts were light—scenes were bright, On the day of Thames's Show. The sight was one of b'eauty, In which E. M. and Son Proved they had done their duty, As they have ever done. Crowds elegantly dressed, In countless numbers pressed, To survey, objects gay, On the day of Thames's Show. The day in triumph closes, And what remains for us, But to aid the Mart of Moses. Whose dress attracted thus ? This Mart in si4ht appears, Let's hail it with our cheers Much was done, by M. arid Son, On the day of Thames's Show. OF PRICES. READY MADE. 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They are not merela . pa•up ;jets, but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are they the nere ephemeral scribblings of the hour, but the study of the author's ife who owes his present existence, health, and position to this ob -Jetvance of the MAXIM he would inculcate—to do unto others as he. wotae he done unto—to live atter nature's laws—and to keep always on the "sunny side of the way." The above works may be bad of iherwood, 23, Paternoster-now ; Carvr.lho, 141, Fleet-street • Mann, 39, Corniill ; Spokes, 5, Holborn hill ; or direct (by post or other. wise) sons the author kwao may be conferred with personally, mornings -tad .TAnt.TIV , I. la. A nryll-nln kil.a.r.Tit , ntrftet an. Booksellers. THIRTY-FIRST EDITION. Illustrated by 26 Anatomical ocuourea Engravings on Steel. /N PHYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPA CITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. geya Edition, enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 2s. 6d., or by nost, direct from the Establishment, 3s. 6d. in postage stamps, ririllE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on the infirmities and decay of the generative system, from ex :o,:sive indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury, vitb remarks on Marriage, and the moans of obviating certain tits iiialilcations. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By R. and PERRY and CO., Consulting Surgeons, 19, Berners-street, Oz ord-street, London. Published by the Authors : sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; itrzle,23, T•ittchborne-street, Haymarket; and Gordon, 146, Leaden -10 M-street. PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive 3rgatu, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings. 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BALM ov SYRIACIIM is ex.clusi;";iy employed in treat iig nervous and sexual debility, impotence, ac., lie. and 339. per b - ittle. The Concentrated Deters' Essence, an anti-syphilitic romedy, for purifying the blood r. oases. ofinfection, secondary r7mp toms, eruptions, and the abuse ef rr".. - cury, I le. and 335. per bottle. Perry's Purifying Specific `4,. 9,1., 4s. (id., and I is. per box, s A.A. le remedy for Frouorrl.cca, f;eet. stricture, and chronic infl amnia bon of the bladder. ....onsrlcation fee, if by letter, 11. A minute 'etall of the case is 'aqui- : age, habits, and position in society. I. Packets ' with advice, to be bad at the Establishm e nt on ly, b y - bleb the re0,"1., is saved. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, are in atten n , e• at 19, Bereet,etreet, Oxford-street, London, tram - 17 , p enn to (lee Yen till T sr.. Fly MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED I THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOV. 3, 1849. T. 7 ,nidenaic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... * 214 Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 37 tubercular Diseases 162 )iseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... 93 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 28 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ... -- Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... Diseases of the Kidney a, &e. ••• Childbirth, Diseas e s o f t h e Uterus, 8 ... Diseases of the J o i nts , B ones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &e. Malformations... ''• ••' Premature Birth .• Atrophy ••• ••• ..„ ••• Old Age ••• Sudden ... Violence, Privation, Cold, or Intemperance Causes not specified DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... 120 ... 48 ... 20 Population Enumerated, 1841 Vi v e 4 Distr:ctg... 301,189 North DiAricts.. 376,568 Central Listricts 374,199 East Districts ... 393,067 South Districts.. 503,346 Average weekly Deaths Deaths, 1844-8 in the Five Autumns. Week. • • 164 ••• 117 .. 207 ••• 167 ••• 208 ••• 151 ••• 259 ••• 1.10 324 ... 222 ••• Totals— ..... 1,943,369 1,162 Males Fern ales ... 404 ... 433 BIRTHS IN TIIE WEEK. Males ... ... Females ... ... ~. Total ... —.1,416 *ln this number are included 11 cases of death by Cholera, 41 1?y Scarlatina, 37 by Typhus Fever, and 31 by Diarrhoea. EDINDURGI I AND BATLIGATE RAILWAY.—This line was minutely inspected by the Governmeint inspector, Captain Wynne, on Friday lest. HOMEWARD. Miles. Steamer stops Chagres to Carthagena 2BO 1 day. Carthagena to Kingston (Jamaica) 470 2 i days. Jamaica to Jacm e l (H ayt i) 255 day. Jacmel to San Juan (Porto Rico) 388 + day. Porto Rico to St. Thomas St. Thomas's to Fayal ~. Fayal to Southampton 1,373 Total distance, Isthmus to Southampton 5,080 —oc cupying 32 to 35 days, including the stoppages above referred to. One glance at this statement of the indirect route, and frequent stoppages of the Royal mail steamers, will fully account for the reason why American steamers taking a direct route, as follows, are enabled to anticipate them : Days. Chagres to Jamaica 3 Juni:dea to Now York New York to Livi.rpool Add for detention at Jamaica 1 Average detention at New York, by reason of intermediate arrivals Total, Chagres to Liverpool via New York 26 or a saving in time of from 7 to 10 days. It cannot therefore be astonishing that the New York route is preferred. What passenger would not wish to shorten his sea voyage a week or ten days ? Will the great bulk of the mercantile interest direct correspondence to be sent by the lengthened route, when their communications through other channels will reach their destination upwards of a week in ad vance of the British steamers ? and will not the valu able freights of gold and silver, cochineal, &c., soon follow in the track of the mails and passengers to New York, as being the safest and quickest mode of transmission to England. The West India steamers leave Chargres with an average freight of 1,000,000 of 'dollars (frequently more) for England. This amount may be expected shortly to be very much augmented by the supplies of gold from the Californian mines, and no doubt each monthly steamer will soon he enabled to embark from 1,000,000 to 4,000,000 of dollars in specie and bullion for delivery at the Bank of England. Can it be ex pected, therefore, that the merchants owning such valuable remittances will permit their treasure to be shipped by the W es t India steamers, which, with these large sums on board, stay idling by the way a day at Carthagena ; two, three, and sometimes four days at Jamaica; a quarter of a day at Hayti and Porto Rico; two days at St. Thomas's, and so on, when the insur ance risk is greatly increased ? And is it not natur,,l to expect that the New York route, so much shorter and more rapid, will completely supersede the present West India plan of intercourse with the isthmus, un less an alteration be speedily and effectually applied? A remedy may be devised whereby the whole of these evils might be removed, and the traffic now almost entirely lost to or leaving the West India steamers completely restored. Such a desirable con summation can only be brought about by,--first, a change of route with fewer stoppages 3 second, the ISTHMUS Of SUEZ ItOUTEg Miles. Southampton to Gibraltar ... 1,150 Gibraltar to Malta ••• „ ... 1,032 Malta to Alexandria ~. 856 Alexandria to Aden ... 1,600 Aden to Ceylon ••• ..• ... 2,150 Ceylon to Penang ..• .. 1,200 Penang to Singapore ... 500 Singapore to Batavia ... 600 Batavia to Torres Straits 2,400 Torres Straits to Sydney ••• 1,800 Total—Southampton to Sydney ... 13,288 To which add— Sidney to Fort Nicholson (lbw ilkalind) 1,2)00 NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Rear-Admiral Sir David Dunn, Kt., K.C.11., pro moted by the death of Sir J. B. Pechell, has been in the service forty-nine and a half years, twenty-six of which he has served afloat. According to O'Byrne's Naval Biography, he entered the navy 30th April, 1800, as first-class volunteer in the Jason, 36, and was wraeked. as midshipman, off the coast of France, and taken prisoner, 21st July, 1801. In August of the same year, having been liberated, he rejoined Captain Yorke in the Canada, 74, 11th May, 1802, was appointed to the Donegal, 74, and during the four following years assisted at the capture, in 1804, of the Spanish 44 .gun frigate Amphitrite, and of a ship with a cargo on board worth 200,0001. He partici pated in the capture of El Rayo, of 100 guns, one of the ships defeated at Trafalgar, and by Sir John Duckworth's action off St. Domingo, became acting lieutenant Ist September, 1807, and was confirmed, 12th July, 1808. Subsequently to the surrender of the islands of Ischia and Procida, Mr. Dunn (who, during his attachment to the Warrior, was also employed in command of a gun boat at the defence of Sicily, and the re duction of Zante and Cephalonia), removed, as first lieutenant, in October, 1810, to the Amphion, 32, Captain William Mate. While in that frigate he was severely wounded in the memorable action off Lissa, 13th March, 1811, when a British squadron, carrying in the whole 156 guns and 879 men, com pletely routed, after a battle of six hours, and a loss to the Amphion of 15 killed and 47 wounded, a Franco-Venetian armament, whose force amounted to 214 guns and 2,655 men. Being rewarded for his most " zealous, brave, and intelligent" conduct on the occasion with a commander's commission, dated back to the day of the action, Captain Dunn, on the 24th November in the same year assumed the acting captaincy of the Bacchante, 38, which he retained until appointed, 21st March, 1812, to the Mermaid, 32, armee en flute. Continuing in the Mediterranean and Adriatic, he particularly distinguished himself, in October and December, 1813, by his assiduity at the siege of Trieste. As a post-captain, to which rank he was elevated June 7, 1814, Captain Dunn's appointments appears to have been-6th January and 28th November, 1824, to the Jupiter, 60, and Semarang, 28, employed on the Halifax and Cape of Good Hope stations ; 2d April, 1831, to the Curacoa, 26, which he paid off, from the East In dies in the summer of 1835 ; and, 2d April, 1840, to the Vanguard, 80, successively stationed in the Mediterranean and off Lisbon. Sir David Dunn received the honour of knighthood, 12th August, 1835, and was nominated a K.C.H. Ist Jan., 1837. THE MEDITERRANEAN FLEET.-.--The Ganges, 84, Captain H. Smyth, C. 8., now in Plymouth Sound, has been ordered to the Mediterranean, to join the fleet under Vice- Admiral" Sir William Parker, G.C.8., not, we are sorry to find, to increase the fleet, but to relieve a ship of larger force, the Prince Regent, 92, Captain W. F. Martin ; so that in fact the force will be reduced rather than increased, for an 84-gun ship of 750 officers and men will take the place of a 92- gun ship of 820 officers and men—reducing the force thereby 8 guns and 70 men. We then have in the Mediterranean just half as many ships of the line as the French have—less than one-half the number of line-of-battle ships that were under the command of Sir R. Stopford in the Mediterranean in 1840. The Prince Regent, 92, Captain W. F. Martin, is ordered from the Mediterranean to Lisbon, where Captain Martin will hoist a commodore's broad pendant, and take the sailing and screw vessels there under his command for the purposes of exercise. The Hogue, 60, screw two-decker, Captain Mac dougall, is ordered from Queenstown, on a cruise so far as Lisbon. The Indefatigable, 50, at Devonport, it is under stood will hoist the pendant in a day or two, and be fitted out with a complement of 500 officers and men. Several officers have been named from time to time as likely to command this huge frigate— Captains Rowley, Lord G. Paulet, Kingcome, Elliot, Loch, and Smart, and indeed it has been stated that one or two of the above officers have already chosen their first lieutenants, &c.; but we are inclined to believe that the last named—the one least expected to obtain the command, but not the less smart as on officer and a sailor, will be the fortunate captain of the Indefatigable. Commander Frederick Patten (1837) is again to be employed afloat, and is to command the Hound, 8, at Devonport, for service on the coast of Africa. Surgeons—Dr. James Allan (1842) has been ap pointed superintendent of the Bangalore, convict ship ; Samuel Donelly (1842), from the flag-ship at Woolwich, to the St. Vincent, convict-ship. The Leander, 50, Captain Dacres, has hauled into the stream at Portsmouth, and her compasses were to be swung yesterday, by Mr. Thompson, the master of the Victory. She is a noble-looking frigate, and carries heavy armament well. We hear she is to be fitted with a long pivot gun aft. She is ordered to be paid advance, and to be ready to sail for dispatches to Lisbon. The Serpent, 12, sloop, Commanderßarker, that sailed on Sunday from Portsm o uth, for Singapore, put back to St. Helen's roads on Monday night, in con sequence of the strong westerly winds. The Myrtle, steamer, was sent down to her yesterday morning, P ene njunction, at present say much more esp g s very interesting ca ; but it may be - obaerved that - yome unaccounta le means, a por. tion of the incidenti — previously recognised as attend ing Butterworth's offence are now imputed to Knox. It was at him that Sergeant Major Davis struck with his sword, as he says, in self-defence, at the time Knox made use of the menacing expression previously mentioned; the sergeant major's sword was broken across the prisoner's face. So says to-day's version of the affair. It is scarcely probable that these general courts martial will be over before Thursday at the earliest, and then, shortly afterwards, will be received the orders of the Com mander-in -Chief, both upon the prisoners now undergoing their trial, and those who hive previously been arraigned before the district courts. Then, as speedily as possible, a digest of the whole of the evidence will he laid befbre the public. SUPPLY OF WATER TO THE ME ntopoLis. The vestry of the parish of Kensington held a meeting to consider this subject on the 24th of August last. A committee was appointed to make further inquiry, and report the result to a subsequent meet ing, which accordingly took place on the 23d of September, when the following petition to the Com mons House of Parliament, stating the diesatisfaction of the parishioners with the present supply of water, as regards its quantity, its quality, and its price, was unanimously agreed to : " To the Honourable the Ci mmons of the United kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Par liament assembled. " The humble petition of the ratepayers of the parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington, in the county of Middlesex, in vestry assembled; " Sheweth, " That the river Thames is the recipient of the vast sewerage of London, of other districts, and of an enor mous quantity of other putrid and noxious matter there. from, detrimental to animal life. " That domestis contrivances of modern invention have, during late years, become generally used; and their use has very recently, as far as practicable, been, and is being, enforced by the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers, by which domestic instruments, and a largely increased number of conduits, the river Thames is moro generally polluted than in previous times. " That although the effects of such diffused pollution, by a population exceeding two millions in number, can not, or may not, be specifically demonstrated, it requires lno great effort of the imagination to conceive, from ana logous c ases upon a smaller scale, that the exhalations from such a polluted stream, as well as the fluid itself in its state of condensation, must be extensively pernicious. " That the water supplied by the metropolitan water companies from that river is from those parts of it which are subject to the above contaminating influences—that the ceaseless movement of steam-boats on the river. during the day time, keeps the polluting matter in a state of continual diffusion and dispersion to the extent of the tidal course, which appears, from evidence received by the Commissioners hereinafter mentioned, to extend westerly beyond Kew; and that the water is moreover afterwards subjected in domestic cisterns to comparative stagnation before it can be used for domestic purposes, and that such comparatively stagnant condition is fur ther prejudicial, and increases its injurious properties. " That evidence was given to a Committee of your Honourable House in the year 1828, that the then supl of water was from a part of the River Thames which. was so contaminated, and that such water was injurious to public health. " That it appears from the report of the same Honour able Committee, dated 19th of July, 1828, that the Committee were unanimously of opinion that the supply of water should .be frem purer sources than from those parts of the Thames from which the metropolitan water companies then supplied the public with water. " That your petitioners believe the present sources of supply of water from the Thames are contaminated by the causes aforesaid. " That in verification of the foregoing allegations, your petitioners crave leave to refer your Honourable House to the report dated the 21st day of April, 1828, of Peter M. Roget, Doctor of Medicine, and William Thomas Braude and Thomas Telford, Esqs., the Com missioners appointed by his late Majesty King George the Fourth, to inquire into the state of the supply of the water to the metropolis, arid the evidence therein referred to; and also to the medical certificates of the then per nicious nature of the water, contained in the memoir of Mr. J. Weight, set forth in the appendix to that report, and to the said report dated the 19th of July, 1828. " That as the insalubrity and impurity of the water derived from the London district of the Thanes results, according to medical evidence, in part from corrupting matter in solution—that such a pernicious condition has not been, nor can it be removed, by the process of filtra tion.referred to in the evidence annexejsi, tQ th%report of tire - Committee . of the Right Honourable the House, of Lords in the year 1840, or by any filtration or other merely clarifying operation. Your petitioners submit that the medical evidence set forth in the appendix to such last-mentioned report, is confirmatory of the pre vious medical evidence of the injurious tendency of the water from the London district of the Thames. " That the Thames water from the present sources of supply has, since the year 1840, become and still is more extensively corrupted, and is increasing in corruption, partly from the increased population of the metropolis —partly from the large increase in the number of steam boats traflicing upon it by machinery, se peculiarly calculated to keep noxious matter in diffusion, and from other causes. " That the supply even of such water to the poor of this parish, is insufficient for the purposes of suitable cleanliness; and as to such of the poor as cannot afford to pay to the extent d.manded, it is not supplied at all. " That the charges made by the metropolitan watts companies against consumers for their scanty and inter mittent supply, very much exceeds the sum which your petitioners co nce i ve nee d b e expended for a contin - uous and abundant supply to all classes of purer water. " That it appears from the Parliamentary report, dated the 19th of July, 1828, and as the fact still is, that the present metropolitan Water Companies are under no sufficient restraint or control in respect of the rates charged by them against consumers. " That the monopoly which the said companies (draw ing supply from the 'Thames) have acquired, is so sus tained as to forbid the hope of obtaining, by private exertion, a supply of water from them from a purer or sufficiently distant source, and in a sufficiently increased quantity, or other desired arrangements. " That your petitioners look only with hopeful. ness to Parliament for relief from these great publics grievances, and that such relief has been frequently prayed for from and including the year 1821. " That your petitioners beg leave to refer your Honourable House to the report of a Committee of your Honour able House, dated the 29th day of June, 1821, and to the second report of the Commissioners for inquiring into the state of large towns and populous districts, dated the 3d d a y o f F e b ruar y , 1845 , as evi dence of the just and conclusiv e groun d s o f muc h of the above complaint. "'That two schemes have been lately proposed for a continuous supply of purer water to the parish of Ken sington and other districts—the one of furnishing water from the Henley Reach of the Thames—the other suggests a supply by Artesian operations in and near London. " That a committee appointed by a 'vestry of the, parish for that purpos', took the two schemes into con sideration, and they resolved that Government, only, could effectually prosecute the requisite inquiries into their comparative merits, and whether a better scheme might not be adopted ; but the said committee were unanimously of opinion that no scheme should be sane tioned•which will rivet the parish to a new company, or to the operations of any private association whatever, unaffected by Governmt nt or popular control. " That the vestry to whom a report to the above effect was made, approved of such resolution, and a vestry sub sequently assembled, duly convened by notice in the usual manner, have unanimously agreed to this petition, in testimony whereof the chairman hag, at the requefit of such vestry, affixed his signature hereto. " Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your Honourable House will tuko into consideration the grievances above set forth, and devise such ample and equitable measures for your petitioners' relief, as shall lead to a sufficient supply of good water, at a moderate charge, to the parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington, for domestic use, subjected to such control and manage ment as the wisdom of Parliament may determine. And your petitioners will ever pray." The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Victoria, with Mrs. Smith and his chaplain, and a suite of six clerical gentlemen for the new see of Victoria, embarked on board the Sir George Pollock, Indiaman, Captain T. If. Withers, yesterday morning, and sailed direct for Hong. Kong in the afternoon. ARRIVAL OF THE BISHOP OF RUPERT'S LAND AT HUDSON'S BAY.—By the arrival of the ship Prince Ru pert, Captain D. J. Herd, in the London Docks, we are informed that Dr. Anderson, Bishop of Rupert's Land, arrived out safe at York Factory, Hudson's Bay, on the 4th of August last, when the worthy prelate, together with his chaplain, the Rev. Robert Hunt, and Mrs. Hunt, Dr. W. Cowan, Mr. and Mrs. Chapman, Mrs. J. Anderson, Mrs. Chraston, and other passengers, before separating, presented a testimonial to the captain of the Prince Rupert, expressing to him an d to the o ffi cers and surgeon of the ship, their most cordial thanks for the uniform attention to their comfort and happiness p during a voyage of much pleasure and en j oyment. P EDESTRIAN MATCH.--A walking•match o f 2 miles, tor 501. a side, came off yesterday, at Hatfield Peverel, between Smith of Ipswich, and Westall of LAidon, two men of note in the annals of pedestrianism. As it was expected to prove one of the fastest events on record it excited considerable interest both in " town and country." It was stated in the articles that the parties were to start at twelve o'clock, but owing to a delay in the choice of umpires, the match did not com mence till half-past one. Smith, who is a native of Ipswich, appeared 35 yesrs of age, standing five feet seven, and light built; his walking was much admired. Westall, whose age i. 26, is rather taller than his com petitor, shows more muscle, is altogether a finer man, his and is about five feet eleven. At starting Smith t oo k a slight lead, and with little variation kept in advance until the eleventh mile. The first seven miles were per formed in three minutes under the hour. At the twelfth mile Smith showed evident symptoms of distress, but in some measure recovered; in turning from the thirteenth he was from 30 to 40 yards behind; about the fifteenth mile he complained of a pain in his side, and gave up the match. His opponent, quietly putting on his coat ar.d lighting a cigar, finished the distance at his leisure. It is calculated there were about 2,000 persons present, amongst whom were a great number from London and Ipswich, including several parties well isnewni n sporting world.—Essex /Jerald, R. !9s Ws 515 Ws ,111- !lilt at but ape de- Is— mth cwt, leaf ssed ,eM, sol., idon No. D. 1 1 3 /s ;eds, East Pre- re— ern, as 7- one an ,ers ,t to was on Y of not, B.S. dge, her, , of ~ of obn v of and