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iALBERT SMITH'S MQNT BLANC i I4I OIIT, at 8 o'clock, and Every Nt g ht (b u t S a t ur d ay ). Mb. ; Area, Area, 25. ; G a ll ery, I s . Th e MO rains Representations p{ ve ry Tuesday, Th urs d a y, and Saturday, at 3 o'clock.— 4414 Piccadilly. EAST INDLA. HOUSE, MAxen 20, 1855. 4119.01:TRT of DIRECTORS o f th e EAST 4,„„. COMPANY DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That COURT of the said Company will be held at their Pl ii , .in td enhall•street, on FRIDAY, the 30th instant, from tt L ll l the forenwin until six in the evening, for the pur a lallet, in pursuance of the following requisition, , 1 104,Vi ld ers igned Proprietors of East I n dia St oc k, r equ i re th a t libaz ot a . 4 tl4O question now before the General Court be taken Its , lq.oriltampton and Back :—First Class, 18s.; Covered 414 1 1 4 , td. t ickets to be available by any of the intervening trains. IlktrZ B y order. anager's Office, Euston Station, March, 1855. Alp pekets for Northampton at Express Fares-233., First , 4 ,;',.as 'Second Class—will also be issued on the 27th .nd 28th Ih, W e 9.15 am. Down Express Train at Euston, available ° , l either day. ether TELEGRAPH. wv /2 _ LONDON OFFICES • old Aroad-street (six doors from the Royal Evchange.) ItCn es t End -7, Charia g - cross ( oppos it e t h e s t itue. ) lite°nl municatlon by underground wires with the principa Ringdom ✓. -1:1 Twenty Words, including delivery, and address not " - Pool n —flice, 2 Exchange-buildings .... • • '2!l ter n Exchange-arcade 14at 22, English-street . r r n ~ 101, New-street h G l asgow, Office, 18, E x change-square.. •• •• s treenock, „ Cathcart-square... 4s. ed. 4 14,i _D u mfries, „ High-street . • „ 23. College-green.. Itelcut, „1, Donegal-street . . 7s. Od. I Cork, „ Pembroke•street gtleeistown, „ The Quay ....... •••••• • • • • • 7s . ed. 1 / 4 ...----- ----t iLte • EDWARD B. BRIGHT, Secretary. T POE COALS FOR THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy, 1 / 11:t .... . Somerset-place, 22d March, 1855. , i t ,l,,,,,,orarnissioners for Executing the Office of N - ,i‘ 'ltch Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain k 'lt' t 4O 'Hereby Give Notice, that on TUESDAY, the 3d ,F a it Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such t o ,_ 111 ity be willing to Contract for supplying and deli ver i ng ( , - "'illssariat Stores at Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, Lkik 1,200 tons o f SOUTH WALES COALS. Sk ttl il i the tender may be seen at the sal.' office. No tender 4 1L ti t d after two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any , I `)tri tz 4 ess the party attends, or an agent for him duly autho k Eder Must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, rtt .); the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Coals," itlktkr be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied by a b,,b 0 3 , two responsible persons, engaging to become bound V t n tendering in the sum of GOO/. for the due per.onnance CONTRACT FOR GREAT COATS. Royal Hospital, Chelsea, 22d March, 1855. ,341 , ,n1ght Honourable the Lords and others, '!..blaioners for managinz the affairs of the Royal Hospi f oo hereby give Notice, that they are ready to rec lye Viiet Lom and It t treat -p with such persons as may be willing ir ant Co A APly to the Inensioners of the said HoFpital with 4, 4 4 tek t. 'S. to be delivered on or before the 30th day of Sep 'Sr D ello therefore, who may be inclined to treat for th ed to apply at the Office of the Secretary any day beeones of ten and three o'clock, when particultrs of the -3 111„_ tequired and forms of may be obtained, wch itA .st be tilled up and delivered, ten.lers sealed, at the Board-room hi of by the par.y or parties tendering, or by some tttiralted on his or their behalf, sn Tuesday, the 10th April to ve o'clock, at which lime the Commissioners will be pre ttat`i'm the same into consideration. It is further to be Igq, s at contractor s will be required to find security for the due We' of the said contract, and that nt4ender will be received miseo;l7ollt abode mentioned. . do not pledge themselves to accept the lowest A. J. MOORHEAD. i 11 '. KAHys 1 / 4 ,rtE.op ENpa A NATOMICAL MUSEUM t:t. oven (r ' nr at 4, COY. 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I y-tu hr " Abstentia multi curantur morbi." e exposition of the principal causes (over and careless trhi',of the above harassing and distressing complaints, ?ctt 4'7 intelligible and popular exposition of how we should Ity, "-la ,( . 4 them ; to which is added, diet tables for every meal 1 11 :i t tt r . instructions for the regimen and observance of , O ut of the twenty. four. Illustrated by numerous 4 1:11/ tt. —TS AND SHADES OF MARRIED LIFE. L tl t i,":"eh that bath no wif, I hold him lost, • tik v ,, tu as,-and all desolat. He that bath no child, het; ‘` ,B l.lll and winde "—Chaucer. ` k te ''arria' , o its expectations and Necessities—Development qloas—t kzCticiionteo,A, g rarficih„- - es_zetti,Paita .41'41)411 1,43e,0r n ‘ktialtwitt 14thiti and f I d ' e Y s ' t i a c tfon i Gestation — Hereditary Defectiveness — Advantagesri tary tt in i s tn u p ita ellV e , n ai es ld rta e r n dr a l l Resemblance—Mode n i‘ f l l o n d t e e o r- f 411.5'itimacy. On Infelicitous, Infertile, and all trnas - - ' 40 e8 , --Law of Divorce, &c., &c. CLUSTITY AND ITS INFRINGEMENTS. A Lecture to Young Men. ' 41144 , 11 . '1 1 ' 4, Passions hurt the body—what improve, tz t ' dt hs as relined as Athens ever heard." 11 1" 4 * —If e's Pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The advent 't4lleZ'R tt. ~,'• Chastity -and its infringement. The casualties of , , th ati _a!td dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narrative, ti l )4o °II _ v e. Advocacy of early marriages, fee. lilktipl4cret Diseases, their tit-mann ctrent and Cure ;1 1 ,.''g t4 L4ti l'i „ OOK.—A comprehensive and populer exp . oat tion gt,y 7,ke l ,", r i, nary diseases—their nature and trea ' tment corn 'l4%mera,l7'l3' primary and secondary symptoms all for ' ms of 1 , „ ' toil gernenta, stricture and spermatorrhoza - : with 250 en % Pr escriptions. t, t1441. Itt it 5. ber,, v, l-1 1 11 , URETHRA, and RECTUM.—Comprising 11 1 t ,Nire a nte, Constipation. and Ilsemorrh9ids. •nlki.joyst,El77i OF LIFE tA lv o the 1 - 1 P T m OITE ng iIAPPY. ..„ tuc frr a L V h ir F re.l th„. od wo " ~olv3 , wor d ' s .' S. 1 14 ,1 1 t " Paternoster-row; t Mann, 39, ake C sp O ere riltill ;:or of 1 11,AtIL 3 tie b „I ) R- RICHARD CULVERWELL, ), 1 11 4 7 0 117, 30 _r. and Twenty Years Censulting, Colleague of the INl7, , N`l ll .bov . e, 10, Argyll-place, Regent-street, London. 7to tt,zna With on the above matters ' 'daily, from Ten tilt, '''' MAILV, from Senn till Adze. "J. OLTPHANT. • "E. MACNAGIITEN. 1 " RUSSELL ELLICE. " M. T. SMITH. "J. H. ASTELL. "JOHN SHEPHERD, " GEO. POLLOCK. "J. P. WiLtootnny. " F. CuRRTN. • "C. MILLS. :I ' l 4ll ldt " HENRI' . WILLOCK. 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V att bIRECTORS of the NATIONAL the and INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION invite NI: t he New System of Life Assurance exclusively adopted ,111‘Z.3ciation —viz., that of allowing interest at the rate of 4 1 annum on all premiums paid, instead of the, remote and t)! ,Roicnyu-holder adopted. w ally Id secure to himself a constantly A llnn ge ol nnual. 'come daring life, as well as the payment of Ve • Rates laietfepresentatives at his death. itsttetates Specially adapted t this System of Assurance may 844 at the Offi ce o f th e C ompany, 3, Pall-mall East, or for- ell an application. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. • 855. I N AND NORTH-WESTERN t e. , Y.—NORTIIAMPTON R CEA. SPRING MEET- ;sO,4,; 40e.etal, Train will leave the Euston-square Station on 2 oth March, at 8.0 a.m., returning from Northampton 1. - ` r4 Past six o'clo.k on the evening of Wednesday, 28th ' ‘ ) ) 1 9, 2s 0•I 34 0J ) 1 0i 8 1 ,, 13 a to 2,1 ,000° 0001 3 ; 4G , 6pe6 eeti; bloc.' 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Gil., E LEMENTS of CHEMISTRY: Theoretical and Practical. lty WILLIAM ALLEN MILLER, M D., F.R S , Professor of Chemistry, King's Col'egc, London. To be completed in Threa Parts. London: John W. Parker and Son, West 3trauel. Two Volumes, 18s., HYPATIA ; or, New Foes with an Old Face. By CHARLES KINGSLEY, Jun., Rector of Eversley. By the same Author, VILLAGE SERMONS. Cheap Edition, 2s. 6d. THE SAINT'S TRAGEDY. Cheap Edition, 2s. YEA.‘ir : a Problem. Cheaper Edition, bs. London: John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. Post Octavo, 10s. 6d., LEAVES from the NOTE BOOK of a NATU- R %MST. By N. J. BRODERIP, F.R.S. Originally pub lished in Fraser's Magazine. London : John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. The Third E.lition.—Just published, price be., by post, free, ss. 6d. ON TRUE di FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the Real Sufferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. From ~ he German at Dr. PICK Fotif With an Introluetion by the Editor, containing a complete exposure of the system of terrorism and extortion pursued by the advertising quacks of the metropolis towards those who are credulous enough to seek their aid. " Ur. Pickford , a known to English readers by his frequent practi- JAI contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs us, that he has addressed himself. to the non-medi- Cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall !etect any tther equally flagrant evil which it may be in his ower to cor rect,"—London Medical Gazette. " The tribe of Quiet Sympathisers,' and •Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed; and if this book could find its way into the hands of those who stiffer from the corn ,daint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would to saved moat needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of ess importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— ouch money ......This volume is well qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrlicea, and to place the treat ment upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, likely to do much good." London: H. Ralliere, 219, Regent-street. ADAM AND EVE.—This great original work by JOSEPH VAN ',EMUS is now on Tiew at 57, Pall-mall, opposite Marlborough. house, from 11 till 6 daily.—Admission, One Shilling. COHN B. GOUGH will deliver ORATIONS in EXETER HALL as follows :—(This Evening) MONDAY, the 26th March—THURSDAY, the 29th of March. 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MAPPIN'S SUPERIOR TABLE KNIVES, as made for the Crystal Palace, Sydenham ; handles cannot possibly become loose : the blades are all of the very first quality, being their own Sheffield manufacture. Buyers supplied at their London Warehouse, 37, Moorgate-street, City ; and Queen's Cutlery Works, Sheffield. PROFESSIONAL RUBBER.—Thomas Barter (12 years attendant at Mr. G. A. Walker's Medical Bath Establishment) offers his Services to invalids as Medical Runner, in cases of rheumatism, contracted joints, certain forms of paralysis, spinal affections, loss of muscular power, and any other ailment or condition of the body for which such attendance may be required. Address, 3, Upper John-street, Golden-square. Mrs. Barter attends ladies. TRIESEMAR, protected by Royal ,Letters Patent of England, and secured by the Seals of the Ecole de Pharrnacie de Paris, and the fulp• - n - ial College of Medicine, Vienna. -.•- TittEAEMAIt, No. j, s a remedy for Relaxation. Snermatorrhre.t. and Exhaustion of th, , :v.tero, whether arising from excesses, accident, or climate. To those persons who are prevented entering the married state by the conrequenccs of early errors it is invtilnxide. fittESEMAIt, No. 2, tfeetually, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely ,tmlicqtes all traces of those Disorders which Capivi and Cubebs ave so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health •, a vast portico of the r•opnlation. TRIKSEILATt, No, t, _ . the great Continental Bonen:: fortlifit dass of Disorders, which ti fortunately the English physic'an treAts with Mercury, to the in vitaide destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all the • arsaparilla in the world cannot remove. TitTE".4E - MAlt, No. 1,2, and 3, are alike devoid of taste or smell, aid of all nauseating qualities. They may lie on the toilet taltlf• vithout I he'r use beinr suspected. ..3041 in tin eases at its. each, free by post, 25. extra, divided into eparate doses, as administered by Valptau, Lallemand, Roux, te.,gre.—To he had Wholesale and Retail in London of Johnston, 68, (Mullin]; ifannav and Co.. (13. Ox , ord-street: and Sanger. 50, Ox ford-street ; It. 11. Ingham, druggist, 46, Market-street, Manchester ; 11. Bradbury, bookseller, T)eansgate, Bolton ; J. Priestly, chemist, 52, Lord-street, Liverpool; Powell, bookseller, 15, Westmoreland-street, Dublin ; Winnall, bookseller, high-street, Birmingham. THE BE S T NE WS. There is very little news from our armies abroad ; but home prospects w re never more cheering than at present. The milder season has commenced, and E. MOSES and SON'S preparations for SPRING are universally admired. E. i'liosEs and SoN's Bespoke and Ready-made Clothing De partments display every New MateriAl and Style in Spring and Summer Dress for Juveniles and Adults. 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Hier spricht man Deutsch. 1 Aqua se habla Espagnol. THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. lust published, price 25., illustrated with eaies ; free by post for 30 stamps, NERVOUS DEBILITY; Its Causes, Symptoms, and Cure.—An Essay on Sper materrhcea, with Practical Observations on a safer and more successful mode of treatment of the diseases of the Generative ~ystem obtained by the use of the Microscope in detecting and Estingashing, by urinary examination, the real cause and effect of every variety of complaint, whether arising from solitary habits, axcesses, accident, or climate, followed by practical remarks, founded on twenty years' experience in the treatment of Impuissance, Fervons Debility, Local Weakness, Spermatorrhcea, &c. To which Ire added, Commentaries on the Physiology of Marriage, with pre uuitionary hints on the evils emanating from empirical practice, and on the dangerous remedies advocated by various writers on these important disorders. By SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D. 87, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin burgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &C., &c. The essential object of this treatise 13 to point out the fearful con iequencee resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, qhich have proauced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man hood, and premature decay at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, any Aber class of disease known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is ,articularly recommended to persona entertaining secret doubts of their physical condition, and who arc conscious of having hazarded the health, happiness, and privileges to which every human being is entitled. . It is absolutely necessary thatall men should know, that there are principles of personal management which cannot be violated without incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday •of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties nay be mitigated, bow the sting of their bitterness may be removed, snd how the evil and its consequences maybe avoided, and above all, Oat there Is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional lerangoment to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. The Author has for a series of years been engaged in an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate complaints, which have unfortunately been too generally confided to the care of ignorant empirics, who inflict great injury on those who are induced to place faith in their pretensions. NERVOUS DEBILITY may be had, price 2v, of Messrs. Piper, Brothers, and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; time, 19, Leicester-square; Mann, 39, Cernhill ; (,)r free by post for thirty stamps to any address from the Author's residence, 37, Red f Ird-square. At home for col:imitation daily from Eleven till Two, and from Six till Eight. [ADVERTISEMENT].-11ollowa.y's Ointment and Pills effectually cured a dreadfully sore hand.—Mrs Lyon, of 35, Whitecross-place, Wilson-street, Finsbury -square, suffered fearfully from an abscess in the hand, which for some months was rendered perfectly useless. She had the best advice of medical men in the neighbour hood, and underwent various operations of the lancet without obtaining relief. After . this she triedinolloway's ointment and pills, which, in a brief space pf time, ef fected an excellent cure,,and now she has the free use of her hand, showing in this, as well as in many thousand others, that these invaluable remedies are pre-erainent. Sold by all medicine vendors, and at Professor Hol loway's establishments, 244, Stvand, London, and 80, NeW York; ( 7((- --•_~ .____~ .G-C. - • • • - • • • 4 itt4 t 40 0 1/4 ‘ . • • = •.=-1 1, I 4 • C 8 10f • - ( ' - 3 , 11-7 : • 7 , „0, • 6. ,•••;,\• =•-•••••-•,,,-F•vt - ,~--~.~ LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 26, 1855. as anything that is possible can be ; and, though set down as an alternative, is really out of the question. Trio second is virtually the one means ; and, therefore, the Congress having arrived .at this vital point, the Rus sian Plenipotentiaries will have to accept or refuse that which directly involves the.bumiliatio❑ of Russia. We are afraid that nothing has yet occurred which can give rise to any hope that Russia will subscribe to our ternip. The late Emperor, cou'd he have bent his will to the unplew, , ut task - , had at any rate the power t , ) make peace. The present Emperor, on the contrary, wo fear, having the will, lacks the power. Lnrd John Ru-sell, it is most probable, will be able to return England in ensue 10 days, bringing, as the Roman Ambassador of old, peace or war in the folds of his mantle. For now it is to be decided at Vienna whether ltnsia shall be bound within her own terri tories, and effectual bairi,r3 opposed to her aggresion by land or sea ; or whether the war is to proceed on a lager or more terrible scale than ever—whether, in one word, we are now to secure a permanent peace, or whe ther it has yet to be conquered. THE DISMANTLING OF SEBASTOPOL.- (From the Daily News of this day.) It was whispered on Friday —it was confidently as serted on Saturday—that the Allks'no longer intend to insist upon the dismantling of Sebastopol. It was said that Austria refused to support such a demand on the part of the Western powers ; that the English Ministers, after a brief demur, gave up the point; and that, lastly, the Emperor of the French consented to a complete eva cuation of the Crimea, Sebastopol being left standing. The credit given to these statements, by monetary po tentates, was vouched for by their large operations in the French and English Funds. For our own part, we confess that we cannot believe this n4iort, With the words used by the English Plenipotentiary at Vienna, when ho pointed to Sebastopol, last June, as a permanent me nace to Constantinople, fresh in _our memory, and with the knowledge of how much the heart of the French Emperor is set upon the capture of that fortress, and what a deep stake he has in the successful issue of the attempt. Our faith in the weakness and inconsequence of statesmen is tolerably strong, but the call to believe that the French and English Governments will leave Sebastopol standing, after all that has been said and done, tries it rather too severely. Mr. Disraeli's especial organ in the press has put forth a laboured piece of special pleading to prove that there would he no danger in sparing Sebastopol. Sufficient guarantees for the stability of the Ottoman Empire, the free navigation of the Euxine, and the peace and inde pendence of Europe, may be had, according to the Die raeli organ, without the dismantling of Sebastopol. "An armed port is in itself only defensive." "Sebas topol is menacing only when it shelters a powerful fleet." " Russia without a fleet in the Black Sea is as much deprived of aggressive power as if Sebastopol did not exist as an armed port." " Russia will limit her navy in the Black Sea to a certain number of ships, and will allow the construction of a fortress on the Asiatic shore of the Black Sea to counterbalance the fortress of Se bastopol." This is the sum and substance of what the Disraelites have to say in support of the proposal to leave Sebastopol intact in the hands of the Czar. It deserves attention as an indication of the terms upon which a Derby-Disraeli Cabinet would be ready to make peace with Russia. For no other reason do these arguments deserve a second thought. It is admitted that Sebastopol, with a powerful fleet sheltered in its recesses, would gravely menace the free navigation of the Black Sea and the se curity of Constantinople. And how long can Europe be certain that it will not shelter such a fleet whilst its crags bristle with bastions and artillery ? " Russia will limit her navy in the Black Sea." That is, Russia will yield to the pressure of the moment, and promise to do so; but she will immediately set to work to build ships in anticipation of the moment when any dissensions be tween the Western Powers may admit of her producing them in the Euxine with better prospects of success. At Nicolaieff—where the Russian men-of-war for the Euxine are built—no consuls of foreign powers are al lowed to establish themselves. Its arsenals and dock yards are closed against the inspection of strangers. A more numerous fleet than Russia has ever yet had in the Euxine may be prepared there, and not a whisper of the matter be heard in Europe. From Nicolaieff to the sea the river is tortuous in its course, and full of shallows and sand-banks ; the ships of war, when built, have to be floated down by the aid of what are called " camels." The reaches of the river are protected by forts and batteries. The new navy would be inaccessible in its dockyards, even though its - existence were discovered ; and Sebastopol —strengthened as it doubtless will be if lett in the possession of Russia— would afford the fleet a secure asylum as soon as an opportunity was obtained of get ting it safely into the waters of the Black Sea. Sebes tepid is of no use to Russia except as a ground of vant age whence she may at any moment a; , ..ssil Constantino ple ; and the obstinacy with which the Russian Govern ment clings to its possession shows that the designs of Peter and Catherine against Turkey are not yet relin quished. But the most extraordinary part of this pre cious aTurnentation relates to the "set-off " which Russia i 5 repre , ented as willing to concede to the Allies. Russia " will allow the construction of a fortress on the Asiatic shore of the Black Sea to counterbalence the fortress of Sebastopol " We have heard of this before, and we believe that Russia would re joie° to see such a fortress reared and garrisoned by the Western Powers --because it would be the first decided step towards the partition of Turkey. The trap is too obvious to de ceive any but a s!atssman of the Fakreddin school. There can be no security for the free navigation of the Black Sea, and the development of the commerce of the surrounding regions, so long as Russia is left in posses sion of the Crimea. The position of the Muscovite Go vernment in Sebastopol is exactly analogous to that of the Highland caterans of the first half of last century among the natural fastnesses around Loch Katrine. Until practicable roads were carried through that re gion —after the rebellion of '4.s—the marauders who oc cupied these strongholds were a perpetual thorn in the sides of the industrious lowlanders. They watched the moment for a successful foray, and levied black-mail with impunity, confident that even if a three greater than they could resist were brought against them they could fall back upon the inaccessible regions behind until the storm blew over. In like manner, so long as Russia can exclude foreigners from the Crimea and adjoining steppes, she can intermit the levying of black mail in the Euxine, and her forays in the lands of the Sultan when Europe rises in arms to suppress them, and resume her spolia tions when peace is restored. The fats which crown the crags and cover the windings and creeks of the harbour of Sebastopol must be dismantled, and the Crimea ren dered accessible teethe nation s o f E urope, or there w ill be no lasting security for peaceabl e tra d ers i n t h e Bl ac k . Sea. While such weighty reasons can be adduced for the dismantling of Sebastopol, as a sinc qua non of peace, we cannot believe that it is in th e contemplation of the Western Powers to desist fro m i ns i sting on that condi tion. The report that they a re so di sposed has possibly had its origin in an imperfect account of an opinion, at tributed to the Emperor of the French, that Sebastopol is too strong to be taken by assault ; and that its reduc tion must be accomplished, after the Russian armies have been driven out of the Crimea, by the more tedious process of a strict blockade. DOCTORS. upon upon the (Prom the Examinee) Fortune still PE fa N vo E u W rs S t P he A Me e ß o h te Newspaper Stamp, from which Mr. Blight, its ablest and most pertinacious spokesman, expects " vast results." The new Chancellor of the Exchequer, indeed, considers such expectations to be quite erroneous, and "does not expect that a great number of new newsp apers w ill b e established if the stamp duty should be removed ;" but roman to he neverthelesh gives way to the opinion of Mr. Bright and his friends, and consents to abolish wh a t t h ey de clare to be a tax upon knowledge. This it is to be constituted, malgro lui, physician to ap s e that rs. whichl In obedience caused to consent prompt Nsp ur e g w ent as the blistering of other men's backs that he might be saved from the bruising of his own, Sir Cornew a ll L ew i s advances to Mr. Bright's rescue. Our Chancellor of the Exchequer came into office, as we all know, fresh from the Edinburgh. Reiiew, a journal which is supposed, justly or unjustly, to possess still some influence. What use had ha made of that influence, in regard to this particular question / Why, under his editorship, the Edinburgh Review laughed at the whole thing. y es, at the fallacy involved in denouncing the newspaper stamp As a tax on knowledge, Sir Cornewall Lewis's Re v i ew ' went so far out of its usual way as even to make merry. It called the cry for repeal a Tadpole cry. Th e false reasoning of the predominating party in the committee of the house, and the onesidedness of the witnesses, were by the same grave authority exposed ; and public opinion was directed strongly against interference- with a system which had every consideration of right and good policy on its side. We are not recalling all this to charge the Chancellor of the Exchqeuer with any grievous incon sistency. The simple fact is, that having no real in terest whatever in the subject, he has manifestly never thought about it seriously. He is quite as satisfied, therefore, to take his opinions in the first place from a contributor to his Review, as, in the next place, when the matter presses in that direction, from Messrs. Bright and Cobden. It is remarkable, too, that this measure, which pro poses—at any rate—a most serious interference with a large commercial interest, is taken up thus at sight not • by Sir Come wall Lewis only. Mr. Gl adstone also coin p!ained the o th er n i g ht that his introduction of the bill had not been voluntary. He, too, was a medicin meg re lui. "It was rather," he said upon this point of doc toring the newspapers, "in deference to the strong and unanimous opinion of the house that the Government gave way, and n o t b eca use they thought that the pro position was a wi se an d prudent one. But the strong opinion of the hou se was one thing, and the strong opinion of Mr. Bright another. The house had affirmed only, in view of th e confusion caused by prosecutions arising from an imperfect legal definition of a newspaper , that the existing law, being ill defined and unequal in operation, called for the early attention of Parliament. What alone the house was pledged to by its declaration, was to get rid of the difficulties and confiision in certain SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. COUNT NESSELRODE'SIRCULAR. ( Prom the Times of this day. ) The circular despatch of Count Nesselrode to the di plomatic agents of Russia abroad is the most important declaration we have yet received of the views of the Russian Cabi ne t w i t h reference to the negotiations at Vienna. for it states the policy of the new reign in rela tion to the present conjuncture of affairs. In addressing his owe subjects, the Emperor Alexander IT. lead thought fit t ) declare that he hoped to accomplish in his own person the policy of Peter, Catherine, Alexan der, and Nicholas. ; in addres.,ing tie other Courts of Europe the Emperor epeaks of nothing beyond the defence of the honour and integrity of Russia and the accempliAiment of the work of peace. He renews his declarations of fidelity to the obligations of treaties, his desire to live in good harmony a itli all the Powers, his allies and friends, Lie respect for the in violability of other States, and his firm resolution to maintain the rights and national honour of his own coun try. If this language be sincere, we find no reason to complain of it, for it is entirely at variance with the policy pursued by the late Emperor in the last two years of his reign. The war in which we are engaged was not begun in order to assail the rights or to conquer the territories of Russia. It was undertaken 'solely to en force the obligations of public law,•and to protect the territories of another Power. It is therefore not to be lost sight of that, when these obligations of public law are placed on a secure basis, and when the territories of the Ottoman empire are secured from aggression, the original and primary objects of the war are accomplished. This being the spirit which the Russian Pleni potentiaries have been instructed to display at the Conferences of Vienna, we are not surprised to learn that these meetings have thus fir proceeded smoothly and successfully. A protocol containing the arrangement proposed with reference to the Danubian 'Principalities, which forms the first point in the negotiation, has already been drawn up and signed, or at least initialled. A second arrangement on the free navigation of the Danube has also been agreed to, and may be considered to be settled in conformity with the views *f Austria and the Western Powers. It is pro bable, therefore, that the discussions which are to take place in the ensuing week will bring the Plenipotentiaries to the third and fourth points, on which the main diffi culty rests—namely, the diminution of the preponder ance of Russia in the Black Sea, together with the revi sion of the Convention of 1841, and the establishment of the rights of the Christian subjects of the Porte on a footing of freedom and equality. These are questions of incalculably greater difficulty than those which have al ready been disposed of, for they involve the existence of the maritime power of Russia in the East and:the internal condition of the Ottoman empire. The Russian Mini sters showed their tact and judgment in passing lightly over the first articles, when others of so much greater consequence lay behind ; and nothing whatever can be inferred from the progress hitherto made until the ques tions really in dispute are brought under the considera tion of the Congress. Another motive may, however, be assigned for the facility and promptitude with which the Russians have yielded on the subject of the Principalities and the navi gation of the Danube. Those are the two points which most nearly concern the interests of Austria, and, by surrendering them, Russia no doubt hopes to lessen the firmness with which Austria adheres to the collec tive determination of the Allied Powers. We cannot suppose, however, that the Cabinet of Vienna will be the dupe of so palpable an artifice, which would lead to an act of great injustice and bad faith. It may be true that these two points concern Austria more than the Western Powers, because the Danube intersects her territory, and the lower provinces surround the Austrian frontier. The abolition of .the separate treaties placing those provinces under a Russian protectorate and the opening of the mouths of the river are an immense boon to Austria. But how has she obtained it ? She has ob tained these advantages by the arms of the Western Powers, and by her own resolution to support their po licy. These two points form a portion of a joint and identical arrangement, of which one part may be more acceptable to one State and another to another, but which, in reality, owes its strength and its success to their union. It would be wholly inconsistent with the spirit of the Notes of the Bth of August and of the Treaty of the 2d of December to separate the four pro positions, which form one indivisible whole ; arid, in exchange for the support they have given to the terms mainly affecting Austria, France an England are en titled to expect from Austria the same support to all the conditions demanded of Russia. The Austrian Mi nisters in the Conference have hitherto shown a firm disposition to adhere to the cause of the Western Poweii, which is also that of peace. Austria knows that no solid peace can be restored so long as Russia retains her absolute preponderance over the Black Sea, and as long as the relations of the Christian populations of the East to their Sovereign are unsettled ; and, although her military honour is not engaged, like that of France anti England, in the attack on Sebaqopol, the rlsults of that enterprise are not less .important to the polidy of Austria than to that of the Western Powers. We are not in a condition at this moment to farm any definite or decided opinion on the momentous question which the Plenipotentiaries now as sembled at Vienna will be called upon within a few days to consider and to solve, for the facts on which their judgment must be formed are still very imperfectly known, even to the members of the Conference, and we cannot weigh without extreme hesitation and anxiety an alternative of such fatal consequence to the- public and private interests of mankind. It would he culpable to throw away en honest chance of peace upon any punc tilious or hasty motive; but it would be not less culpable to attempt to terminate then) hostilities before the end for which they were commenced is attained. We have never shared, and we do not now share, the views put forward by the more eager of our contemporaries, who seem to think the territorial dismemberment of the Rus sian empire a very simple undertaking. Before any such territorial questions arise at all, they must be preceded by actual conquest or occupation ; but, although we have invaded the Crimea, the allied armies cannot he said to hold any part of that peninsula beyond their own intrenched camps ; and before we can reasonably call on Russia to surrender a went of her dominions we must at leant have made ourselves masters of it. As matters now stand, upon the simple ground of uti Rossi detis no territorial question can be said to exist, and it forms no part of our alliances with France or Austria to attempt to make any such acquisitions at the present stage of this war. Indeed, if any conquests had been wade, we should be embarrassed how to dispose of them, and they certainly would not have fallen to this country. But, though the territorial objects which have some times been pointed out as the prizes for which we are contending would not, in our opinion, justify a prolongation of hostilities if peace can be obtained with out them, yet for this very reason we adhere the more inflexibly to those results which concern our rights and our honour. Our forces have invaded Russia, and be ' sieged Sebastopol, not so much from the necessity of de stroying that place, as from a conviction that the destruc tion of Sebastopol would most effectually conduce to the future peace of the East. If the results of the last cam paign have fallen short of our just expectations, the greater is our motive to persevere, until we have restored our military renown arid our political influence to the highest point at which they can be placed, for it is more consistent with the true interests of this country to pro long the war at all hazards, and ley far greater sacrifices than we have yet male, than to submit to a peace pur chased by the smallest diminution of our national cha racter. The British empire, extending over millions of human beings in every part of the globe, is supported not so much by the actual force we maintain on any given point, as by the knowledge and belief that the resources and the will of the people of England are equal to any emergency. That is the principle for which our forefathers struggled and died in perils and against difficulties immeasurably greater than any which are now before us. That principle it devolves upon us to defend. With it we are invincible—without it we should be on the brink of disgrace and decay. We can take shelter under no compromise with the enemy, and, though we are ready to grant a peace on the terms al ready agreed to, perhaps the highest interests of the nation will be more effectually promoted by the vigor ous prosecution of the war. THE VIENNA CONGRESS. ( From the Morning Post of title day.) It is generally understood that the Congress of Vienna is now approaching a most critical point of the negotia tions, and therefore of its existence. We pointed out some days ago that, in considering the Four Points aeriatina, the Congress might either enter upon the consideration, and complete the deter mination, of one point after another, or before entering into details it might pass general resolutions in suc cession upon each point, leaving details for future ela boration. We believe that the latter of these courses has been adopted. Indeed, had the Congress, for instance, en tered fully on the first point, involving a revision of many treaties, and the framing of a new Constitution for the Danubian Principalities, a month or six weeks might have been lost in the necessary labours and discussions, and we should have presented the strange spectacle of parties arranging details before being agreed upon gene ral principles. We think we are not wrong in supposing the Congress to have given a general assent to the propositions founded upon t'le first Two Points ; but here we must warn our readers not to think that therefore these points are settled. It is all very well for the Plenipotentiaries to azree that the Moldo-Wallachian provinces shall receive a new protectorate and a new constitution, and that the navi gation of the Danube shall be free and shall be overlooked by authorities not exclusively Russian ; but when these matters come to bo carried out in detail, then it is that difficulties will arise. In fact, on such points as these, the difficulty lies almost solely in the detail. The Third Point is different ; about it there is no de tail. It points to one great fact—the limitation of Rus sian preponderance in the Black Sea. To this end there . are but two means--one, the establishment in the Black Sea of French and English fleets and stations equivalent to those of Russia ; the other, the reduction of the Rue ( Sian power, The •An o Brat of theso runa sole acts of Parliament, which, by their blundering, had un settled some portions of the press. But this would not satisfy Mr. Bright. His support was to be obtained by no thing short of tumbling over the whole existing system. Newspaper proprietors were to be involved in all kinds of confusion and difficulty, they were to have acts of Parliament arranging the matter even more intricate than those complained of, and nothing was to be done that was not done in such a way as to reduce the dß_ ciency, if not the profits, of the leading established news_ paper'. This was the price of Mr. Bright's support, and it is to be paid accordingly. It must surely be re_ gardod us a public benefit, when it is thus at any cost to be secured. But, by way of re-assurance against being thus flung as sops into the jaws of any Cerberus, any Vireo gentle men of Maiichestr representing the people of England, we are told that other advantages are in preparation for us ; we are to be made sound and whole ; ve are to be saved from a great many matters of complaint. "I for one," says Mr. Gladstone, "a n determined to do all in my power completely to set free thq press." The " burdens on the press" are to be removed by the State doctors. The press all the while is in the posi tion of M. Pourceaugnac, who stoutly declares to the whole army of phySicians that he wants no physic. " What do you want of me ?" he asks—"To cure you," answer his kind friends ; " to cure you, according to the order that has beengiven us."—" Cure me ! but, gentle men, I am not ailing."—" Bad sign," say his tormen tors, " when a patient see sent pas son snal."—" I tell you," cries the victim, " that I am in most excellent condition."—" We know better than you what your condition is," say these inexorable:sons of Galen. "We are physicians, who can see down to the bottom of your constitution." One is obliged to have recourse to the most extrava gant absurdities of MoHere fora parallel to the pro posed interference with the constitution of the news paper press. Morally, the only "revolution" possible —if we look at the argument of the revolutionists—is the creation of a mass of indifferent literature at the expense of that which is good ; the establishment of petty local newspapers ; and an obstruction to the working of the most essential element in the useful ness of the existing system, a wide diffusion and free interchange of opinion between town and town, pro vince and province. Commercially the only revolution possible will be the mulcting in some sense of every prosperous newspaper establishment, which now sup ports what with truth is called " law and order," for the sake of justice—in order to beget a large swarm of unprosperous establishments set on foot by the lowest class of speculators, who will be willing to support what any Minister for the time being may call " law and order," for the sake of hire. We may, or may not be lieve in the possibility of such a result following the pro posed changes, but if, as their warmest supporters say, there are indeed to be " vast results," this will be their character. The whole measure, in short, is full of injustice and confusion. The only decent thing to b• said of it is that there are tot komines tot sententice as to the effect it will have. The press, it is said, does not know its own busi ness, and has unnecessary fears; yet, among those who affect to understand the management of its business, 'there is not the least particle of agree ment. One promoter of the new act looks for a revolution, and another for no consequence whatever, from the measure which they equally support. None of the doctors can foretel what result will be obtained by the remedies they are going to administer. The pub lic is to be amused with a case of legislation in the dark, of which it can only be affirmed that when we open our eyes we shall see what we shall see. And all this for nothing more imperative than the removal of a technical difficulty which had annoyed the lawyers of the Crown. The bear strikes to remove the fly, and the skull is broken on which the fly had settled. THE NEWSPAPER STAMP. (Frain the Daily News of this day.) One would suppose, from the language of our contem poraries of the London daily press, that a fierce perse cution was about to be directed against them. All, without exception, Free Traders and Anti-Free Traders, concur in opposing the Newspaper Stamp Bill ; and yet if this bill becomes law, its immediate effect upon all existing newspapers cannot be otherwise than highly beneficial. Its secondary effect, by facilitating the pub lication of cheap newspapers, and thus calling into existence commercial rivals, is little to be dreaded. Should, however, their cheaper rivals have any deteriorating influence en the commercial prospects of existing newspapers, no free-trader has any right to ob ject to the bill on that ground. The principle upon which the Chancellor of the Exchequer has acted in framing the bill is precisely that which ought to he adopted, viz. :—That news is not in itself a proper sub jeot for taxation ; but that there is no reason for di turbing the present pTstal scale for the conveyance of newspap,-rs. Stamping, therefore, is to bo no longer compulsory. Any one is to be at liberty to publish a newspaper untaxed, unregistered, and altogether un fettered. If, however, the present po:ital facilities are desired, they may be obtained on the same conditions as at present, viz., registration, and the giving of securi tis, &c.—and to any extent demanded. In short, the whole or part of any issue may pass through the post on the same terms as at present.. Unstamped copies (by sec. xi ) are to be charged letter rates of postage. This charge, we think, must have been accidentally imposed, and we hope the section will be amended. Unstamped Periodicals ought to pass at book-postage rates. The bill proposes no other alterations in the law than the above. Can the existing newspapers complain of the immediate effect of these enactments ? In no wise. But they may complain, and the Times does so, of omissions. That journal says that whereas it has frequently to pay three halfpence per copy, it ought only to pay one penny, as there should be no restriction on the size ofa newspaper. It complains that other newspapers being smaller go through the post for one penny ; that, therefore, the law is to remain unchanged in this respect simply for the purpose of injuring the Times, and that the reason why the Yates is so chosen for extra taxation is because it administers to the public good. " Why," says the big journal, "why, in the name of justice, should we be visited with a penalty for administering to the public good without in jury to any one, though at some cost to ourselves ?" Now it strikes us that the reason why the Times ought to pay more for being carried through the post is because it is heavier and larger. As it is, the Post-office gains little by newspapers ; and were its charges diminished, it would positively lose. With much more justice might we say, " Why should our little evenkg edition, the Ex iwess, pay as much for postage as the big papers ?" The Times, out of pure benevolence, sometimes gives the public eight additional pages. Unfortunately, in this heavily-taxed country, the benevolent man who spends 2001. in goods for the poor pays twice as much to the Government as he whe only gives away 1001.'8 worth. It is the penalty of greatness. Our contemporary must pay it as such. By the bye, in the Times of Thursday we find the following :—" What compels us to require more than a certain number of inches ? The pressure of intelligence and the number of our advertisements, the former cause being the principal." On the same day the Times consisted of 72 columns, of which 26 contained news and comments on it, while 46 were made up of advertisement. Each of the other papers, the Dail?) News among them, had 36 columns of news and com ments. The arguments of the Times are simply and ludicrously absurd, and the tone of its articles on this subject is childish. With regard to the 1001. which the Times occasionally loses on its daily issue, we would remark that the proprietors are very foolish to incur such a loss, unless they find that the loss of 1001. twice a week may he regarded as an outlay by which they insure a proportionate gain on each of the four other days. Professor Holloway says that he finds his profits always increase in a greater proportion than the sums he lays out in advertising. So much for the immediate effect of the bill on the existing news papers. As to its remote effect in calling into existence cheap rivals ; to that, whether injurious or not, we will submit we hope with a good grace. • Profoundly convinced as we are of the soundness of the free-trade doctrines, we dare not, whatever course self-interest may suggest, op. pose any measure which removes artificial causes of monopoly. Superiority may and must cause monopoly • monopoly never creates superiority. In the cheap dif fusion of news and information the public are concerned more than ourselves. They have decided that it will be for their benefit ; we agree with them in this opinion. It is unfortunate that the chief organs through which their wishes . can become known are precisely those to which this public benefit may be supposed to be injuri ous—viz., the existing newspapers. We hope, and we think, that we should support, as we always have done, the removal of the newspaper stamp, even if we felt that it would work some injury to ourselves. But we do not feel so. We have not space at present to give our rea sons ; but, as the Daily News has been a cheap daily stamped London newspaper, and as it is but a young and very successful paper established at. considerable cost, and as we have at present a cheap evening edition, it is, perhaps, not going too far to say that our infor mation must be considerable on this subject, and to claim the merit of disinterestedness. Whatever experience any stamped newspaper-Lcheap, dear, big, or little—has, that also have we : whatever any stamped newspaper will suffer from the passing of this bill into law, that also shall we suffer. To establish a journal like the Lon don morning newspapers requires many things besides capital sufficient fur the Stampoaffice and securities for good conduct ; such papers must always be few. Smaller, cheaper, or merely local papers can never be come the rivals of our London contemporsries. Nor can we see how the non-necessity of stamping such news-. papers as do not pass through the post, :led the conse quent creation of cheap local newspapers, will lower the tone of the press generally. Such papers can only hope to drive the London papers cut of their locality by being themselves as good as possible ; and the present illegal unstamped press can only hope to prevent the' establish ment of new cheap papers by the same means. Before concluding these remarks, we must say one word as to the only ground upon which the present bill may ,with some apparent justice, and on which it pro bably will, be opposed. We refer to its fiscal bearings. It is said that of the 400,0001. now arising from news paper stamps, only 150,000/. will be received, and that the revenue, now so little able to bear any diminution, will 'Ada a loss of 50,0001. We believe this fear to be e66e- - r PRICE SD. quite unfounded. It is highly probable that at least one-half of the copies of the present newspapers will con tinue to be stamped, and in the course of a year new papers will go far to make up the deficiency in - stamps alone: But in addition to this, the receipts from the paper duty will be so considerably increased that the revenue arising from newspapers may be positively in crea.e.i. As to the assertion that the promoters of an unstatnped press will attempt the repeal of the paper duty, and thus cut off that means of keeping the revenue up, we n:ay defer the consideration of that measure until it is proposed. (Prom . the Sunday Timeo If the Chancellor of the Exchequer should persevere in pressing on his Newspaper Stamp Duty Bill, lie will entitle himself to the singular merit of having sacrificed 250,000/. or 300,0001. a year, at a time when the re sources of taxation ara being strained to the utter,nost ; and that, too, by an operation about which the pub lic is utterly indifferent, an 1 to which all whom it affects are strongly opposed. It is not from fear of any , anticipated competition, consequent upon the aboli tion of the compulsory stamp, that newspaper proprietors are averse to the change, for it is manifest that the diffe rence of a penny in the cost of publication, which will extend to them, as well as to any new proprietors that may start up, cannot place them at a disadvantage in the race of competition. That is not the ground of our dislike to the measure, therefore. In a pecuniary sense the present newspapers will not lose ; but the incbnve vience, and trouble, and con f us i on that w ill b e p ro d uce d, not only in the newspaper offices, but throughout the trade, are beyond all calculation. The newsvendors, who met on Thursday evening in St. Martin's-hall,. showed clearly enough to what an extent, and how pre judicially, they will be affected by the measure. The proprietor of the Sussex Herald has put the measure in a light which may interest newspaper purchasers more than anything we can say of newspaper vendors : "It may be said that the circulation of the Sussex Express depends solely upon the post for the transmission of its copies. Now, all this valuable business of trans mission is accomplished by the post, by the means of the newspaper paying for stamps, to the amount of only 181. 6s. 4d., whereas, with the greatest ingenuity and strictest economy, if I were compelled to distribute my journal by other means, I could net do it, and ensure expedition, at a less sum than 521. 18s. 4d., so that my subscribers gain by the newspaper stamp, 321. 19s. weekly, or 1,7991. 4s. annually, and also the advantage of re-transmitting their papers to their distant friends, without further charge, an advantage of incalculable bene fit, and used to an enormous extent. In fact, I have little doubt that after the 4,000 copies of my journal have been read by the subscribers, 3,500 of them are re-transmitted by post to distant countries; and if the cost is estimated to each reader, I have no hesitation in saying that it is far less than id. eacb, much below the cheapest paper in America, taking quantity and quality into consi deration." (Front the Weekly Dispatc,h.). If we were to regard merely"our Own individual incon venience and profit we might accept as some advantage the small difference made by Sir G. C. Lewis in Mr. Gladstone's Newspaper Stamp Bill. We are more and more fortified in the conviction that the entire movement is a combination of knavery and dupery,'and that an ig norance more presumptuous than ordinary patronises the change. Are the people, those who can judge (and we give the utmost latitude to the qualification), dissatisfied with the press as it is They have confessedly the best in the world. No other gives information so speedily or' so completely. No other gives half the encouragement to talent for the specific pur pose of judging aright and enforcing judgmen ably. If there be as able writers connected with some of the French and one or two of the German papers, they write for their party, not for the press itself or on behalf of the public. Compare the best papers sold in Eng land, price and all, with any and all others, and they are the cheapest. Do the advocates of change say that they can do something better ? No ; they only pretend to establish low-priced journals, depending for all that is good in them upon piracy. 'Suppose, for instance, in the matter of news, that England had none but half: penny or penny newspapers. The news, collected now in a complete form, would not and could not be gathered, even in an imperfect one, for days and weeks after the present ordinary course of publicity. We repeat, then, that now every one may read for his penny, in the fullest measure and with the shortest interval from the occur rence, all that can be known and itarrated ; and that i a " cheap" press were utterly to supplant a fairly priced one, the reader must wait a long and uncertain time for the most imperfect, partial, and shallow report. We will say nothing of the leading articles which, in imi tation of Mr. Toots, John Bright declares to be, of "no consequence, thank you," but which he isfascinated to read through in spite of hituseZ; we are quite -sure that any fall- ing off in their staple would be the most serious detriment British liieratureand politics c,iuld sustain. Where there is little or nothing to amend and every thingtuspoil, wecannot but indulge an irrepressible contempt fur the rashness that pr evokes, and the cuwar,lice that acquiesces in, alteration, or for that still lower and mere baneful mean ness that would fain sap the power of too etf,ctual a ceir , or. We cannot, however, suppose that the fiscal aspect of the question will es ca p e accura t e cr it c i sm i n these times. We cannot imagine that John Bright's ar gument, that because the House of C ommons i s vo ti ng away millions nightly, therefore it ought to give up half or quarter millions of means, can appeal to any brains unaffected with sheer lunacy. Is John Bright himself in the habit of purposely cutting down his profits to meet incliased expenses ? If a workman asked for higher wages on that principle, is he prepared immediately to assent, as feeling the logic irresistible We are told, however, that there are considerations beyond those of revenue, that the diffusion of knowledge must not be stopped for want of money, that when the improvement of the uneducated people, their elevation in the scale of humanity, is in question, pounds, shillings, and pence are mere dross. We have shown that the people will not be bettered ; but let that pass. We will give the Chan cellor of the Exchequer the full use of the appeal, which, as the Edinburgh, Review philosopher, he is naturally so prone to parade. But we c3nfess that we do like con sistency in morals—that we cannot put faith in any morals thst are not consistent, but rather class them as expedient hypocrisy and Pharisaical humbug. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE A Malta correspondent, in his letter of the 17th inet., says : " The Osiris (French) due two days ago, oily arrived to day from Alexandria ; and the Austrian boat, also three days overdue, has arrived. " The screw steam-ship Teneriffe has arrived from Alexandria. By her it is known that a large portion of the cavalry bad reached that port from Cairo, but the transports to take them away had not arrived. "Major-General Ashburnham, en r•ute to Italy, has arrived by the French steamer from Alexandria. "Two transport-steamers, the Etna and the Baltic, have arrived this morning. "By the Etna, No. 186, arrived Lieutenant-Colonel Needham, R.A., Captain G. 11. Vesey, J. E. Thriag, Lieutenant F. G. Ravenhill, Lieutenant - M. Tweedle, Surgeon J. Bent, Veterinary-Surgeon Rawlings, 181 men, 191 horses, and a battery. Eleven horses died on the passage. Commander Bathurst is the Admiralty agent on board. "By the Baltic, No. 192, bound for Smyrna, Mrs. Macdonell, Messrs. Macdonell, Read, Warwick, Davies, J. Wilkinson, Wright, C. Wilkinson, Knapp, Bennett, Eden, Livecay, Phibeox, Little, Davies, Hertschel, Sal mon, and Blow have arrived. " The French mail-steamer from the Levant has ar rived, having been detained by very heavy weather and want of coals at Zante, Navarino, and Milo, at which places she put in. "About 230 French soldiers and 36 officers have arrived. " The French steamer touched at Zante. Some of the French officers who have arrived to-day wish to make known the high sense they entertain of the very warm reception given them by the British officers in garrison there, and the great hospitality they exhibited. It is their wish to express publicly the grateful remem brance of their welcome, and their hopes one day of re quiting it. "The only English officer who has arrived on his route home is Lieutenant Barwell, of the 50th Regi ment. The Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel Upton, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, Colonel Irving, Royal Artillery, Captain Rogers, of her Majesty's ship Albion, and Dr. Smith, Lady Emily Stuart Wortley, and the Hon. Mr. Rolle are among the passengers arrived by the Car mel." A. letter from Balaklava, dated the 9th of March, states that there were then in harbour the Leander, Diamond, Wasp, Vesuvius, Caradoc, and Beagle. - Rear- Admiral Stewart bad arrived on that day in the Beagle gun-boat. Lieutenant Richards, R,.31., bad been sent to Therapia Hospital for medical t r eatment. Lieut. Casey, R.M., had been sent on board,a transport for medical treatment. At Eupatoria—Her Majesty s ships Cameos, Dauntless, Valorou , , Furious, Curlew, Viper ' and Industry. The fleet at Portsmouth yesterday consisted of the Duke of Wellington l3l Retributioz Neptune St. George l2O Odin Royal George Caesar Nile • 91 Ariel • 26 •• • 16' 16 • 16 Eirnouth 91 Vulturo James 11 att Careutta 91 84 Bulldog Dragon Cressy Majestic • .... Yser 81 Driver. Hogue Ajax Blenheim I ...... 60 Gorgon Edinburgh ....... 58 Lightning Pembroke ............... Kt 'Pater Hastings ...... . .......... .. - 60 Ruby The Hastings, 60, Captain Caffin, got up her steam again on Saturday, and proceeded out of harbour to test her engines, returning after the trial. The Pembroke, 60, Captain Seymour, also get up steam for a similar test, but did not go out. The Hogue, 60, Captain Rata- K J Awned out of harbours and loisted thy nut, which bas been supplied with an enormous quantity of Cow" greve rockets for boat service, and shot, shell, and pow der, at the discretion of each Captain, and not regulated by any bef ore regu l a t e d " esta blishment." Saturasy, the 7th proximo, is the day rumoured as that of the die. parture of this fleet for the Baltic. The Driver, fr„; steam-sloop, left Spithead on Friday night with super— numeraries for the squadron in the Downs, and returned to Spithead yesterday. The Alps steam-transport, Captain Moodie, did not proceed to Chatham on Saturday, as ordered, but limit& her invalids at Portsmouth dockyard, and they left at two o'clock in the afternoon for the invalid depot at. Chatham. Several of the worst cases were detained in. Portsmouth garrison hospital. Such was the expedition used by the agent at Lloyd's in clearing this ship that at five o'clock on Saturday evening she was on her Wait() Liverpool. _ We learn liy electric telegraph from Plymouth that her Majesty's screw steam-ship Colossus, 80, Captain Robert S. Robinson, and the screw steam-sloop Harrier, 17, Commander Storey, left Plymouth Sound yesterday forenoon for Spithead. His Prussian MajeSty'S frigate Thetis, Captain Sundewall, sailed from Plymouth Sound yesterday morning for Dantzic. - The Cossack, 2LI guns, straw steam-corvette, on Satur day, sailed from Sheerness direct for Elsinore, and will receive further orders there. The Amphion, 34 guns, screw steam-frigate, complet e d the aljustment of her compasses on Saturday, and at 3 p.m. proceeded to the Great Nore. She leaves for the Baltic to-clay. The Esk, 26 guns, screw steam-corvette, will by to morro :v have ha I the damage suet tined by collision re paired, and will immediately proceed fur the Baltic. The Pylades, 20 guns, screw bteam-corvette, will leave Sheerness in a few days direct for the Baltic. On Saturday she completed taking in ammunition, shells, rockets, &c. The aussell, 60 guns, screw steam-ship, has corn. menced taking her guns on board, and is progressing favourably with her equipment. The Volage, 22 guns, is fitting in dock at Sheerness for an extensive floating magazine for powder, with shell and rocket-rooms, for the nse of the Baltic fleet. Great activity prevails at Sheerness to get the Ho ratio completed and ready for sea. The Melampus, 42, frigate, Commander John Borlase, heavily laden with stores for the seat of war, having been reported ready for sea, Captain E. A. Wylde, with a de tachment of 2 serjaants, 2 corporals, and 47 privates Of the Chatham division, and 1 serjeant, 1 corporal, and 48 privates of the oolwich division of Royal Ma rines, embarked on board the frigate at Woolwich dock yard on Saturday. The Meander, 44, Captain Thomas Baillie, from Lisbon arrived in Plymouth Sound on Saturday evening. The screw steam-ship Colossus, SO, Captain R. S. Robinson, and the steam-sloop Rosamond, 8, Com mander S. Crofton, steamed from Hamoaze into Ply mouth Sound on Friday, and took is their powder and shell .. The paddle-wheel steam gun-boats Weser, Lieutenant Commander Commerell ; and the Recruit, Lieutenant- Commander George F. Day, at Plymouth, received their ammunition on Friday. The steam-vessel Rhadamanthus, 4, Commander John Belam, arrived at Plymouth on Friday, from Woolwich, with machinery and boilers for the Conqueror steam ship. The Rhadamanthus was placed in Keyham Docks the same day, to have her boilers taken out. The Prussian ship Mercure, Captain Stenoross, from Dantzic, with timber, went alongside the Devoiport dockyard on Friday. A mail will be made up this evening for the army in the Crimea and the Land Transport Corps, the troops, in the Pirmus (Greece), and Malta, for the Hospitals at Scutari, and the Black Sea fleet and -transport vessel, to be forwarded via Marseilles, whew: e it will be carried on by French mail packet. The postage, 3d. the quarter ounce, must be paid in advance. APPOINTMENTS. Commander James P. Thurburn to the Madagascar ; Lieutenant Augustus F. J. Bullock, from the Calcutta, to the Colossus, for service in the Dapper. Master Thomas Bowen, to the Colossus. Mates—Henry G. Hale, from the Colossus, to the As jestie ; Edward D. Panter, from the Basilisk, to the Duke of Wellington, for service in the Lightning steam tender, to the flag-ship for the Baltic. Midshipman the Hon. F. G. Crofton, from the Nep tune, to the Pembroke. The Sir Robert Peel, American line of packet ship, arrived at Portsmouth on Saturday from London, and sailed for New York. The Hurkuru and Arthur the Great have been taken up by the Government to carry troops and stores to the Cape of Good Hope. - In consequence of the increased duty at the Royal William Victualling-yard, Plymouth, a store receiver is require , !, and Mr. Wilkinson, from Deptford, has been appointed to the office. Tenders have been accepted. from Mr. Oldham for a supply of a quantity of hay at 60e. per ton. The brig War Cloud, bound to the Crimea, is shipping bread, beef, and rum at the Victualling-yard, after which she will load with shot and shell at the De vonport dockyard. Mr. George Phipps, master of the yacht Medina, be longing to the Turkish Consul at Plymouth, received on Saturday, on boar..l that vessel, a purse of five sovereigns and a handsome watch, suitably inscribed, being the proceeds of a subscription from some of the inhabitants, to denots their a lmiratiou of his gallant conduct when he rescued two of the boatmen belonging to the Custom house gig, which eras swit-nped in a squall on the 21st inct. It is the intention of the G)vernment to erect new fait fieations, and t..) strengthen and put into a state of defence the existing forts, towers, and bAteries on the ca , tern coast of the kingdom, and on the cmsts of Kent, Sussex, and 'Hampshire, for which purpose the line of coast will - be surveyed- by competent, offi cers of the It Engineers ;via royal Navy, as sisted by the c , rps of Sappers and Miner •, with a vie to have Vie contemplated forts constructed on the most, commanding points. The w.rks will be done, by contract; and it is stated that the batteries, when completed, are to be garrisoned by the Coast Ve lunteeru, enrolled Chelsea pensioners, acid Militia regi ments, the men belonging to which will be instructed in the great gun exercise. In order to guard against any surprise by an enemy, a cordon of telegraphs, on a similar system to that adopted by Captain (now Admiral) Sir H. Pigot, K C. 8., when in command of the Coast Blockade, is to be established. The first detachment of cavalry to embark for the Crimea will number 600 men and 1,150 horses. The total rank and file now proceeding from the depots of the three.regiments of the Guards and 40 battalions of the line, to form the provisional depot to the army in the Crimea at Malta, will number 5,504. The Earl of Cardigan arrived in Exeter on Friday last for the purpose of inspecting the 15th Hussars and 11th Hussars, stationed at the St. David's and Topsham Bar racks in that city. His lordship was received by the commanding officers. The 11th Hussars were first drawn up. About 25 recruits have been obtained for the 11th. The 15th Hussars, who when they left India were - 500 strong, do not now number more than 300 ; but recruit ing is going on steadily. The noble earl was engaged for a' onsiderable period in the inspection of the various troops, who were exercised in the large area in front of the St. David's Barracks, in which a large number of persOns was assembled. Sutgeon H. Hadley, M.D., from the 99th Foot, has been nppointed.a Staff Surgeon of the first class, vice Mara'3all, deceased. In consequence of the new knapsack being smaller than the old one, the following articles only will in future be carried on the march—viz., one pair of cloth or summer trousers, one shirt, one pair of aocks, one pair of- boots, .one forage cap, one pair of mitts, -one brush, one email book; one tin of blacking, one towel, and one hold-all complete. The greatcoats are to be folded and strapped on tl;e outside of the knapsack, instead of being folded and worn on the top. The straps proceeding from the centre, instead of the sides of the pack, allow of greater freedem to the arms. MILITIA. The Hampshire Artillery Militia stationed in the gar rison at Woolwich, assembled on the Artillery parade ground on Saturday to allow the men to volunteer, when 13 stepped forward for the Royal Artillery. The Oxford Militia have volunteered for service in any of the colonies. The recruiting to complete the Royal Glamorgan Militia Regiment is going on rapidly. During the past week 27 volunteers have been enrolled, and the present strength of the corps is 1 colonel, 1 lieutenant-colonel, 1 major, 7 captains, 12 subalterns, 26 sergeants, 1$ cor porals, 10 buglers, and 479 privates, exclusive of all. sentees. Recruits for the 3d West York Militia, now ofmii jta sta tioned at Ricbmond Barracks, Dublin, come in freely, upwards of 70 having joined the head-suarters of the regiment since the beginning of this month. u she r e s n d r t a e yd eldest th the e son, North D° w E a agprelruri Marchioness Vane,c Regiment h iisonessof London derryo of eOn i Tp e r h he Lieutenant-Colo nel, with colours. - They assembled on the parade-ground oofocatshioen, plat form in the city of Durham, and after Archdeacon Thorp non --nlLsiioenuetdenaontatfeorlsrel dLporrdivatVeganoef bad mar c r h e i a o d ne t s h s e a seZ n ee ced pre t p o are t d he for fro t n h te of interest that think of this regim ent; t ofo li ffirr ;N er o sa r 'u th dn D ons u a lliam Militia,— At all t imes an it with feel ings by my which owes its origin to my beloved husband, is com mandedwhich I have been b born and bred. But at this moment, when all hearts are throbbing with son, and raised in the county in the deepest anxiety, when sorrow has found its way to every hearth, from the palace of the nobly to the cabin of the peasant ; when the wail of our suffering army reaches us across thou sands of miles of land and sea ; when God, who reads the sealed volume of futurity, alone can tell what Enz.. land is de tni_d to accomplish, or doomed to endure, it is with a spirit of prayerful hope and anxious trust that the widow of a brave old soldier comes to present you with your colours. May they ever accompany you t o ~ honour and glory ; and wheth e r you stay be desti ne d t o follow them in distant lands, or to defend your homes 6 and your country, the same brave spirit will. I k now , alai-Irate your !hurts, and opportunity al one i s wantin g 6 to na:the - every one of you emulate th e h ero i c constancy G and the high courage of the heroes of the Alma, Bala -666 nthiaedneraecseuiviteadbitehreecpelylo.ursTihreemmehnerwlaedreysathitep.rii klava, and Inkerman." Ensigns B ow li ng and Trotter 4 tamed with in the New Marke t. 3 3 T' -9,1-own.-- • aEr E a r l enter -4 Vaneter. _be coal-owners at Wigan have determined on giving notice to their colliers, there is reason to believe, of a reduction of wages, in consequence of the decreased demand for coal, amounting to 10 per cent., and a re duction of employment to 4 days per week. 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