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41 -BERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC at 8 o'clock, andTheca Night (but Saturday). ~;rett, 28.; Gallery, Is. orning Itcpresentstious lc? Tuesday , Thursday, and Saturday, at 3 o'clock.- EYE,—This great original work .411b orong , u v!-ZLERIITS is now on view at 57, Pall-mall, u se, from 11 till 6 dally.—AdmlssiOn, One 40 AN and SOUTH AMERICAN Ih, COMPANY. 4 - z g e ,ttny GIVEN, That the HANKERS' RECEIPT:4 Zod for the NEW SHARES, on and after Mon 14tant. 1144;e.- HYDE CLARKE, Secretary. street, 16 March,l6ss. lb I t , 121 , ULIAR 81'.31 . EM Or LIFE ASSURANCE. RECTORS of tho NATIONAL th,:„,,eit and INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION invite kii tt i r ;"r 83 stem of Life Assurance exclusively adopted aii o " —, :z. that of allowing interest at the rate of 4 41 :11 on all premiums paid, instead of the remote and 4, Hof Bonuses usually adopted. r 4 4: Polley -holder will steure to himself a constantly i b .l! Income during life. as v ell as the pa'ment of the p4_is representatives at his death. tt ,Elaecially adapted ta this system of Assurance may (, 11 , e Office of the Company, 3, Pall-mall East, or for .PPlieation. i 1855. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. 6 LI FE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, London. :pp pb, a VrIT INCREASED FROM ONE-HALF TO FOUR-FIFTHS. with this Society now will PARTICIPATE TN Of the Net Profits of the Society, according to the ,tili ttifitted in the Society's Prospectus. k n lrequired by this Society for insuring Young Lives k tet ; . . Many other old-established offices, and Insurers , from all risk by an ample guarantee fund, in ad "`•vilraulated funds derived from the investments of ~1 4 4 —Paid by th e Office. lq.„ a lar be obtained at the Office in Threalneedle-street, mi 7 of the Agents of the Society. CHARLES HENRY LIDDERDALE, Actuary. ttoia t , vLITAN LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. I N No. 3, Princes•street, Rank. ith 0 1 , 1 ereby give notice to Members whose Premiums fall tir o ' 4 Pril next, that the same must be PAID within td o : that date 1, 4 S are pall Yearly, lialf-yearly, or Quarterly , on 110 41 :3", sth of April, sth of July, and sth of October, kseveral days constitutes the commencement of the Persons, therefore, desirous of entering the So en the sth of April next, should appear or lodge ~ 4 ; the office on or before that day. i k ! s t& Mutual and Gene ,- al Assurance, appropriates . the li t . u ts to the benefit of parties assuring their own lives t k r ni of life as Members of the Society. 'ling the sth of April, 1855, an abatement of 51 per declared on the Premiums of all 3lm:fibers of Five g 4 . 1 1 ,1 upwards HENRY MARSHAL, Actuary. 'kt ftak, March 5, 1855. GENERAL LIFE AND FIRE ASSURANCE . COM PANY. Established 1837. Empowered by Special Acts of Parliamedt. iv. 62, King William street, London. Capital, 1,000,0001. • /1 1 , DIIVEC - lq " ,,' Esq, William Hunter, Esq., Alderman. C tu ''''Orderrn . an, M.P. James Pilltingtorr. Esq., M.I. ! , ,C,,,. Egg. Thomas Piper, Esq. 'ki t 1 ' Thomas B. Simpson, Esq. . 4yr e .,, r, Esq. The Hight lion. Chas. I'. Villiers, '.c.hyl M. P . M.P.. It l , Edward Wilson, Esq .:. 4 15, 1) AY Fire Renewal Receipts are now ready, and kr, - ePPlication at the Head-office of the Company, or y,gants throughout the country. q t P i esion of Gas made good by the Company. , rib DEpaRTMENT FOUR-FIFTHS of the PROFITS 4,„ e ,Cornpany's Deed of Settlement, all rwed to Assurers ; kk iii 73' transacts all business relating to L'fe Assurances, I tate - , 4 ;. ie s , or Family Endowments. cn the most liberal h I' o 4 With sound principles and public security. NS Stamps on Life Assurance Policies. ir e ftuittl on personal security, and the deposit of a Life ae tr , ti eted by the borrower. it b , B, Solicitors, Auctioneers, and Surveyors, a liberal -Me. By orier of the Directors THOMAS PRICE, Secretary. FI STS' GENERAL BENEVOLENT t ,tit INSTI =ION", ' t of Decayed Artists, their Widows and Orphans. ys Instituted 1814. lot 40 Yal Charter, 1842, under the Immediate protection de r Most Excellent Majesty the QUEEN. IS Royal Highness PRINCE ALBERT, K.G. ,tha NICK PATRONS. q;" 'Juke of Hue- Right Hon. Earl de Grey, K.G. Right Hon. Earl of Ellesmere D uke of Devon- Right Hon. Lord Lyndhurst Sir John Swinburne, Bart. Joseph Neeld Esq., M.P. Jesse Watts Russell, Esq. 1/ tlke of Sather- k ihe o Marqiis o. AX,', • 'Ol . V'N'r—Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, P.R A. 14,Friends, and Subscribers are respectfully informed ,4 ,k, a , 4 tTH ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL will be °etc % asorie Hall, on SATURDAY, the 31st instant ; "Int Hon. the LORD MAYOR in the Chair. STEWARDS. k 13,1 Sheriff Mug- Carl Haag, Esq. ; 1 , Philip Hardwick, Esq., 8.A., V.P. 4, 1 4 t1 ey . William Hemsley, Esq. t 4 , t er itt Crosley. .T. 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A 1 06' Containing lectures on the most interesting branches by Dr. Ken, illustrated ; price 6d., by post 4d. L AP ESEND ST A 4ktp P 1M K E T S. k tt . ackets call at the Greenhlthe and Purflect Piers. call at the Piers as underlinad !weather permittlw 401 1 TERRACE PIER, GRAITESTIND !) H ‘ 4 II I • SUNDAYS. t E Time Vtei w trl. Fenenurch- street Station to all parts of Lonlon rk u . (4 an hour. BLACKWALL, on the arrival of the fo • Train from the Fenchurch-street Station. Days 5 1 t.). s . ,-., ..-'4' Fen church Street k. tti Fore Cabin . Saloon. O 4 t:,, 4 ,YeSend and L0nd0n .......... 101. .. Is. 21. bT t 4; ;, and Blackwell or Woolwich 9d, .. Os, 101. 1 1;tto t !.lend and Intermediate Piers.. gd. Os. Bd. Vorith:".MTS.—Twelvp Months, si. Os.; Six Months, 31. Os. ; 4 - 0 2 1. 03. ; to be had of the Collectors on board the I,' r. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend. k Ly t , "WELL ON NERVOUSNESS, DEBILITY, AND INDIGESTION. Vq l4 tY Derangements, Constipation, and Hemorrhoids, Is AT each, by post Is. 6d. TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID. "Abstentia multi curantur morbi," N,xe,) e _ l oosition of the principal causes (over and careless : , ; ,„v(ill io ur the above harang and distressing complaints, ) ct ,p ri ci l' an , l exposition of how we should h ., it . o l . them ; to win added, diet tables for every meal '414 full instruqt:ons for the rel.inen and observance of °ln of the twenty•four. Illustrated by numerous r qp., 2. 8e B T3 AND SHADES OF MARRIED LIFE. tig h ,gich that hath no wif, I hold him lost, 'l.2.llr e al, and all desolat. lie that hath no child, •••, 1 e - an and vilnde."—Chaucer. its expectations and Necessities—Development ' - -Love Matches—Precipitate, impelled, and retarded Incongruities—Mutual Unsultableness—Mental la , and Physical Defectiveness—Advantages of Inter -44`11R 1 .'27 of Gestation—Hereditary Resemblance—Mode of AluZgltirnacy. On Infelicitous, Infertile, and all Unas -"geas—Law of Divorce, &c., &c. Ott, a. ' , STITT AND ITS INFRINGEMENTS. , 1 0 4 , Itth A Lecture to Young Men. , Jt tt, r ut ,Dassions hurt the body—what improve, ,t;, haloire'l,43 as refined as Athens ever heard." , pilgrimage , ftom infancy to old age. The advent '4 4 - qes s '• Chastity and its infringement. The ea—ialties of 111 4 lati v a ild dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narrative, ,1:/t1 • Advocacy of early marriages, &c. A li s)ll , ,, , cret 4. Diseases, their Self-management and Cure. W' OOK.—A comprehensive and popular exposition _peel In diseases—their nature and treatment, com rttia,-"Y Primary and secondary symptoms, eli forms of h e kafZ ei ngnta, stricture and spermatorrhcoa; with 250 en prescriptions. ' LA p . a. • URETHRA, and RECTllM.—Comprising 4 8t Constipation. and llmmorrbolds. ENJand 7, com the ee:Erg. 'I LIFE s to MINT OF . 110W w TO BE HAPPY. tilb erw„ " " Jucunde Vivere." 2 - 3 y, Words to fair faith."—Shakespere. , Paternoster-row; Mann, 39, Cornbill ;:or of ' Dn. PIcHARD CTTLST.RWELL, Vtty to; Twenty Years Cvnsuit in; 4 ' kti gdve 4 ,bove, 10, Argyll-place, Regent-str L , 1., ti l 'eu with on the above matters daily, tnui Ten till V i r ellhlgs,frOra Nino. . ..A , •-•-•° - ;od With n goo" re. I of. ,rho to ity , a n cr prices. 7 ]arse for pigs• la . 61 to ' I to id e 1 4g9J to V) a homes d cssltleat s , . 1 1 1 5 ,,u a t fr e e :to to m °f wbegtf :urrenCY of ur q tl° a o b e b° at u °o 30. l'° farmer s al la wart tV oni lot a 1 Pe' t4il c' t du° i 0 d : Engisn.—• s Ma s Rol ou'garel, I till YlnArcicrn paw is .11 r tila rtst7ne' •Tu lb 4 40 25 10.4A11 Tw i 6 3fAr'' S Sisr 6l 16 APr il 1 DAI y 31012 " z.• 0 - 051. c . far c • 10 Mire' o' ll , i„;i 1 ; 0 0 0 art. ton! too ~ ...certal n't l vP 1:; 1 l arel) 16 it; ils the P e t the LesPatCl2 ?or. 11,0° 1' rend er. ow. eet. Windy. r ev ii. clou r— ciouals ef C 01(1 " __V e. i sil)! rer y 00P ttlea' Vi rg tile co -040. PUBLICATIONS. Just ready, in 3 cols. post Svo , WIFE'S TRIALS. T HE A NOVEL. urst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Orders received at all the Libraries. :rhe Third Elition.—Just published, price 55., by post, free, ss. 6d. ON TRUE I& FALSE SPERMA.TORRMEA, with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the Deal Fufferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. From the German of Dr. PICIC./ DUD. With an inti oluction by the Editor, containing a complete exposure of the system of terrorism and extortion pursued hy the advertising quacks of the metropolis towards those who are credulous enough to seek their aid. _ _ • " Dr. Pi eklord lionoun to English readers by his frequent practi cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he Warns us; that he has tuldressed himself to the nou-medi eel reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall iotect any >ther equall'; flagrant evil which it may be in his , ower to cor rect." —I .ondon Medical Gazette. " The tribe of Quiet Sympathisers,' tnd 1 Friends,' are mercilessly exposed; and if this book lould find iti way into the hands of those who suffer from the cora aiaint of wt ich it treats, we are Satisfied that manyhundreds would le saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of ess importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— much money.-- This volume is well qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrhcsi ' and to place the treat meet upon a more rationhl and physiological basis. It is, therefore, likely to do much good." London: H. Balliere, 219, Regent-street. CONTRACT FOR. COALS FOR,THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy, Somerset-place, 22d March, 1855. TH HI 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 3d April next, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may he willing to Contract for stipplying and delivering into the Commi-sariat Stores at Wale Bay, Cape of Good Hope, 1,200 tons of SOUTH NYALKS COALS. - A form of the tender may be seen at the said oftice.. No tender will be recciecd alter two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party attends, or an agent for blip duly &utile- Heed in writin. Every tender mite be addressed to the Secretary of theldirdralty, end bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Coals," nd tenet also be delivered, at Snmerset-place, accompanied by a letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering in the sum of 6001. for the due performance of the contract. CONTRACT FOR ALDER WOOD. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, 16th March, 1855. OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all parsons LI cicsirous of contracting to supply 860 Cords of ALDER WOOD, that proposals In writing, addressed to the Secretary to the Board of Ordnance, sealed up and marked on the outside, " Tender for Alder Wood," will be receive] at the Office, Pali-mall, London, on or before 7th April, 1855. Persons who make tenders are desire.] not to use any form but that issued by the Board of Ordnance, which may be obtained on applb , cation, by letter, or personally. between the hours of 10 and 4, to the Secretary to the Board of Ordnance, Pail-mall, London. By order of the Board. J. WOOD, Secretary. DURSIJANT to au Order of the High Court of _111..' Chancery, made in a Cause, .7ohn Lake, Elizabeth Wilcocks, and Harriet swale, plaintiffs, Francis Appleton and Thomas Wrton, defendan's, the Creditors of Joseph Lake, late of No. 76, Hackney road, in the county of Middlesex, bake*, and afterwards of No. 11, Hemlington Cottages, Queen's-rcad, in the rarlsh of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch. in the same county, out of bwrness, who died in or about the month of April, 1851, arc, by their Solicitors: on or before the 19th day of April, 1855, to come in and prove their Debts or claims, at the Chambers of the Vice-Chancellor Kinderslev, No. 3, Stone buildings, Lincoln's-inn, %liddlesex ; or, in default thereof, they will he peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said Order. Monday, the 23d day of April, 1855, at Three o'clock in the after noon, at the said Chamber', is appointed for hearing and adjudicat ing upon the Claims. Dated this • 3th day of March, 1855. CHARLES PI3GII, Chief Clerk GEO. E. PIIILLRICK, Girdlers'-Ball, 39, Basin ghall-street, Plaintiff's Solicitor. NIAPPIN'S "SHILLING" RAZOR. Lva. Sold everywhere. Warranted good by the makers, JOSEPH MAPPIN and BROTHERS, Queen's Cutlery Works, Sheffield ; and 37, Sloorgate-street, City, London. MAPPIN'S SIIPtRIOR 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; ant Queen's Cutlery Works, Sheffield. PATRON-H.R EL PRINCE ALBERT, OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. ?. Friday, ASTRONOMY, by Dr. BACIII4OFFNER, with appro priate Music. The TYROLESE MINSTRELS Monday, Tuesday, Thursday; and Saturday Evenings. Friday Evening, Mrs. FEIBLONG, on ORAL INSTRUCTION. The ST GUN, DISSOLVING VIEWS of the WAR, DIO RAMA of STNBAD the SAILOR, COS MORAMAS, the CONCERT by INVISIBLE PERFORMERS, .and all the LECTURES, on the NEW BANK NOTE, &c., as usual. A T AURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS. - ILA MONDAY, Marcia 19th, Itss.—Daring the course of this week the following Music will be played by Laurent's Orchestra:—Over ture. Le Domino Noir, Auberf Waltzes: La Bleilaisance, Alusard ; Wellen and Wogen. Strauss ; Strauss ; Le Prophete, Afeverbeer ; Quadrilles: M. S., Bergmann; Bonjour Pierrot. Blan cheteau ; Le Comte Dry, Jullien ; the Highlanders. 11. Laurent; Schottische, Dona Maria, Toibecque; Polkas : Marionette, Pilodo; Carolina, A. Lamotte; La Musette, Matthieu ; Gallop, Dover Ex press, T. Browne. Ott Monday next, for the firt.t time in Englaad, the New Dance, La Varsoviana. Principal Cornet-A-Piston, M. Boulcourt. All information relative to music to be obtained at the music repository under the orchestra. Doors open at Eight; com mence at half-past.—Admission, One Shilling. TRIESEMAR, protected by Royal Letters Patent of England, and secured by the Seals of the Boole do Phorraacie do Paris, and the Imperial College .of Medicine, Vienna. TRIESEMAR, No. 1, is a remedy for Relaxation. Spermatorrhosa, and Exhaustion of the Syttel), whether arising from excesses, accident, or climate. To those persons who are prevented entering the married state by the consequences of early errors it is invaluable. TRIESEMAR, No. 2, effectually, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely eradicates all traces of those Disorders which Capivi and Cubebs cave so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health. If a vast portion of the population. TRI ESEM Alt, No. 8, s the great Continental Remedy for that claw of Disorders, which unfortunately the English physician treate with Mercury, to the in witabie destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all the arsaparilla in the world cannot remove. TRIESEMAR, No. 1,2, and 3, are alike devoid of taste or smell, tnd of all nauseating quaiittes. They may lie on the toilet table vithout their use beinv suspeeted. Sold in tin ca-es at lie. each, free by post, 25. extra, divided into enarato doses, as administered by Valpeau, Lllleman4, Roux, cc. , gtc.—To be had Wholesale an d Retail In London of John , t o n , CS , ernhill; Hanna, and co., 63. Deford- , treot 611111 Sanger.an, .0. OK. ' druggist, 46, Market-street, Manchester ; t er . 1 B -street r 15 Westmoreland-street, honolclsengra,ml)eanegate, Bolton ; J. Prie-ttly, chemist, 52, Lord-street, Li verPowell, booksel' , , Dublin ; Winnall, boollseller, High-street, Birmingham. COMMITTEE OF IN of Inquiry into the state of the coming Spring has decide! alai Moses and SON hare the following E. NOSES and Soa's Crer colt's are ceiebrate for their ad perior miters ils, f? , hionalde cut, excellent witmanshlp, and very TQUIRY.-1 Conimittee Array for the present season and t the Girments produced by E. l• excellences :-- transactions have secured great advantays, which will be seen in the superior quality and Ohrp• ness of their Spring and Summer reasonable prices E. MO/E3 and SON'S Cam• bridge Coats are the most gentle manly articles. The novelty of their design has met wlthuniver sal approbation. Their new Cam bridge Coat, price 215., is highly recommended. E. Mom and Sox have se- Goofs. E. MOSES and Sox as Ho siers, 'Hatters, Shirt and Un derclothinl makers, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, and Outfit ters, have the largest, newest, and best Stock in the Wholesale and In alI the other Departments of their well-known establish lecied their F, pring materials for Dresq from the best markets in the world; their ready money metti ; and all purchasers may depend upon superior articles, at very economical prim. E. MOSES and SON' are Merchant T .ilors, Clothiers, Ratters, Hosiers, Shirt Manufac turers, Bcpt and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. CAUTION.E. Moses and Son beg to state they have no connexion with any other house in or out of London, except their own Esta blishment., as follow : London City Establishment, corner of the Minorles, and Aldgate (opposite this church). London West-end Branch, New Oxford-street, corner of Hart street. Country Branches—Sheffield and Bradford, Yorkshire. • Colonial Wholesale Branch—Melbourne, Australia. The establishments a-e closed from sun et on Fridays till sunset on Saturdays, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock. IMPORTANT.—ShouId any article not give satisfaction it will be ex changed or, if preferred, the motey returned without hesitation: All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest price, from which no abatement can be made. A New Book, with lists of prices, system of self-measurement, and other information, may be had on application, or post free. An Illustrated Almanac for 1855 gratis, on application, or post free. Ici on parle Frangais. I Qui si parla Italian.Hier spricht man Deutsch. Aqua se habla Espagnol. THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. fait published, price 25., illustrated with caVes ; free by post for 30 etamps, ERVOITS DEBILI.T'Y; 1. Its Causes, : , ymptoms, and Cure.—An Essay on Sper matoracea, with Practical Observations• on a safer and more snecessful mode of treatment of the diecasca of the Generative system, obtained by the ins of the Microscope in detecting and tistinguishing, by urinary examination, the real eause and effect of every variety of complaint, whether urishig from solitary habits, :.cosies, accident, or climate. followed by practical remarks, founded Mn twenty years' experience in the treatment of Impuissance, Nervous Debility, Local Weakness, Spermatorrhoaa, &c. To which are added, Commentaries on the Physiology of Marriage, with pre eantionary hints on the evils emanating from empirical practice, end on the dangerous remedies advocated by various writers on these important disorders. By SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D. 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin burgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society. Licentiate of Apcthee Irles' Hall, London, Pee., &e. The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful con sequences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and.excesses, which have promoted more misery in Youth, degradation in Man aood, and premature decay at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, any other class of disease known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is nticularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of their physical condition, and who are conscious of having hazarded the health, happiness, and privileges to which every human being is e Allied. • _ . . It is absomtely necessary thatall men should know, that there arc principles of personal Management which cannot be violated without incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed -Vl° heyday of inconsiderate self-Indulgence, how these penalties nay be rritigated, bow the sting of tbeir bitterness may be removed, Ind how the evil end its consequences maybe avoided, and above all. Viet there is scarcely any decree of physical innriray or functional lerangeracnt to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. Theituthor has for a series of years been engaged in an ostensive ractice in the treatment of these delicate cemp!alnts, which have anfortunately 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 DE f I,ITY may _be had, mice 2', of Messrs. riper, n!) , 1L.1003v, o x A, : c . ,t rezt ; :; : ; or tree by po3t f3r fence, hi, • - o; • ii;•:1-aquarc. At home for consritaton daily from Eleven till Two, and from Six till Eight. , • 4 04 , „,....,.. • ~ y ._.. , ~,,i,7,, ' $‘ 7 , ' 4 (IUI - 34 1 , f, S, • - , -.4 , -..4..—. _ c ar. : . 1 -,-. '1 - 1 _ *, fa ii:..... • /-•,.. l' ',. v Ivr-x O l, •_.,:_ ~.- ....*cr.,,e, , , 1 .; . I\ '''!. A {- 4 , -.. ~, ( •'\ .1 . ' . 1 j 4, 3: - ' N ! • -, ! ! ! ~ ! , ! ..,...- , - '. k -6 , 1^, --.." !!!!!_-- . ', ,-,,,,.. „, 1 • --------'' _ i 1 \ * . , .1 1' . 2 - i,: .' N. O ''; ' • ' ' - .- ' '-' 6. " : - .....,.."' : 1 " ' r''' ''''-''''- .(' ' i:, ‘ ' ~ , ...' l4' 1 ' 2. . 4". . t4C4, 0 1„,, -•_ 1 4-1" - :r 1 1 :; :, ; - 441 4 .., _ ~ , . . ~ . -• • -- • + \,• l , . / r,.., . i . irrEu ~ 0 .- .14, ' ,_ ''' ,!, .. :•:r . .' ' -, • _ . 40 85 - 'l. , _ .. \-___-_:7 - . -./ - LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 23, 1855. NAWSP.APE.R STAMPS. A meeting of the Newspaper Trade was held last ever ing at St. Marlin's-hall, Mr. Wild in the chair, to con- cider the proposed measure of the Chancellor of the Exchequer with respect to the removal of the stamp from newspapers. The CHAIRMtN, in opening the proceedings!, said he eould not see in the speech of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer any good reasfps for repealing a tax which was voluntary in itself, and for which great convenience and important facilities were received in exchange. He cer- tautly did not think that this was the time to give up an amount of revenue which the Chancellor himself estimated at a quarter of a million. He, however, be- lieved that the reduction would betnuch more consider- able,' since this calculation of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer was founded upon the supposition that a large part of the revenue at present received for stamps would. remain as a postage charge. But the fact was, that if we had a cheap press, the journals would be sent to their destination by the cheapest conveyance. Now, every one knew that it would be much cheaper t 3 send them in bulk by railway rather than in singlo copies through the post. ' Nor was it probable that what the revenue lost by the removal of the stamp would be supplied by the increased amount received for the excise o❑ paper, since it must be remembered that the same parties who had agitated against the newspaper stamp had also declared that they would not be satisfied until the paper duty was repealed. There would, there fore, be no compensation on this head. Another im• portant point for them to consider was this. If parties were permitted to publish newspapers without giving security for good behaviour, journals would be started by men without means or character, who would publish ... . . libels in order to give piquancy to ticir papers and in- crease their eale And then when actions for libel were brought they would abscond and the newsvender would be left to bear the penalty of their misconduct. This was no imaginary case, as many would recollect the pro secutions which took place some years ago agaithit the Age, Satirist, and ether publications. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said in the course of his speech that no inconvenience - would arise from stamping only a portion of the impression of a newspaper and publishing the rest unstamped. And in proof of this the right hon. gentl,- man said that he had been told by the manager of Punch, and some other papers, that no practical 4ifficulty would be felt on this head. But it sh . ould be recollected the stamped portion of the impression of Punch wag published on one day, and the unstamped portion on the other ; and with resped to the other journals to which reference had been made, they were all published at the early part of the day. The case of such journals as these was not, therefore, analogous to that of newspapers published but a short time before they were required to be sent out. He believed that the greatest possible difficulty would be experienced in sending out a mixture of stamped and un stamped papers at a late hour and under great pressure in point of time. He contended that it was quite an error to regard the newspaper stamp as a tax. It was really a postal arrangement for which very adequate publi-J convenience was received in return. This, at any rate, was not the time to give up a source of revenue easily collected, and paid without reluctance on the part of the public. (Hear.) Mr. TERRY, of Hatton-garden, moved the first reso lution, "declaring that to permit newspapers to be either stamped or unstamped would be attended with great in convenience to the newsvenclers ; while the facilities which it was proposed to afford for the starting of jour nals without security would very probably subject the sane instead of the publishers of newspapers to actions and prosecutions for libel." If he understood the Chan cellor of the Exchequer's plan, papers which did not stamp any part of their impression need not be regis tered, nor need their proprietors give any securities. The result would be, that they might be started by men of straw, and the newsvenders might be prosecuted and ruined for the sale and publication of libels of which they bad never read a line. (Hear, hear.) The greatest pos sible inconvenience and difficulty would be felt in pack ing and sending out a mixture of stamped and unstamped papers. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said he had been informed by the conductors of Punch and the Illustrated News tha no difficulty would be felt on this score. The chairman bad, however, disposed of the case of Punch, and with respect to the Illustrated News, all he had to say was, that that journal bad not yet com menced to publish a double impression. The newsven ders had even now the greatest difficulty in getting the copies of this paper in time to send out, and how in finitely would the difficulty be increased under the new system ! Even that, however, did not exhibit the full difficulty of the case. Let them consider what would be the state of things when the whole of the London jour nals were permitted to do this and availed themselves of the privilege. It was ♦ery possible that if they had time to make their arrangements for packing and sorting the different editions, they might succeed in meeting the difficulty ; but it should not be forgotten that the des patch of the papers to the country was all to be done at the last moment. He believed that the practical diffinul ties of this operation' would be insuperable. Then sup pose they had several quires of unstamped papers over, what were they to do with them, since it was very likely that they would not be able to exchange them for stamped copies ; .and they would thus be left unavailable on their hands. Mr. Gladstone's scheme was in so tar preferable tbat he did propose to permit a stamped wrap per to be used. This however was no great boon, since the greatestdifficulty would be experienced in finding stamped wrappers for papers at the last moment. Another man ner in which he believed inconvenience would be felt was this. It would be almost impossible in the hurry of business to keep the stamped and the unstamped parts of the impression separate. They would constantly be getting intermingled. Then the parcels would be stopped and examined in the Post-office, and at the very least great detention would ensue in the delivery of the news papers, or the newsvendors would as likely be subjected to heavy penalties for a perfectly unintentional and un avoidable breach of the law. (Hear, hear.) He denied that this was a tax. It was a postal arrangement ; and he thought nothing could be more absurd than to sur render a large amount of revenue raised with great facility and with hardly any public inconvenience at a time when we were oppressed with war taxation. He - did not think that the repeal of the stamp duty would raise the respectability of the pre =a. He reared that it would cause it to fall to the level of the American press ; ncr was be without some apprehension that th s measure would lead to the appearance of an immoral class of publications, There were certain persons who were looking out for this. Did they think that halfpenny or penny papers, such as bad been announced to appear if the stamp duty were teraled, would tend to elevate the minds of the people ?, He feared not. (Hear.) Again, would mt the repeal of, the stamp duty lead to pilfering from the established papers which now spent thousands of pounds in procuring - original intelligence ? If so, - they would be no longer able to go to this heavy expense, and the result would be that we should no longer have a press of the same high character as at present, when the practical copyright protection of the stamp was with drawn. • (Hear, hear.) Mr. WALTER seconded the resolution. The trade gthhteiarndobrecri Gibson s so t n o looked upon e u a p t o n th e jealousy,eff withdraw the newspaper business f rom London to the provinces. ort be s li o e f vi . ! i g n th ß a r t i A NEWSVENDOR—They dislike the London press. It is too respectable for Manchester. Mr. HoeeoeirE opposed a resolution which appeared to put the interests of the newsvendors against that of the public. The legal liabilities under which newsven dors lay now were much greater than they would be under the bill of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He did not believe the repeal of the stamp duty would lover the character of the press, for he believed that no cheap unstamped papers would indulge in the licence of language which often characterised the Times. It was said that the effect of repealing the duty would be to throw away an immense amount of revenue. But there would be no loss if a postage charge were levied at the rate of one penny for every four ounces of printed matter. An amendment in that sense would be moved in the House of Com mons. It was said that this tax was collected with little difficulty and at small expense. But let them ask the Officers of the Inland Revenue-office whether that was the case ? It was generally admitted that it was per fectly impossible to carry out the law as it stood at pre sent. No doubt there might be some practical difficulty in dealing with a mixture of stamped and unstamped papers. But he believed that, like many other difficulties, it might be, and would be, overcome ; and at all events, it was not for them to set their own interests against those of the public. After dwelling upon the benefits which he anticipated from the diffusion of knowledge that he thought would be consequent upon the multipli cation and the cheapness of newspapers, Mr: Holyoake concluded by moving, as an amendment :—" That, iu the opinion of the meeting, it is desirable to abolish the newspaper stamp and security system, and admit all I printed matter to postage at the rate of four ounces for a penny." Mr. TRUELOVE seconded the motion. Mr. TERRY briefly replied. The question was then put-to the meeting, when the original motion was carried by a large majority of those present. Mr. TERRY then moved two other resolutions, de claring that the revenue would sustain a loss by the proposed change, because the railways would success-- fully compete with the Post-office in the conveyance of the unstamped papers ; and that it would, moreover, in reality rather restrict than increase the circulation of in telligence, since papers would no longer be circulated first in town and then in the country, and consequently their cost to the reader would not undergo the reduction consequent upon this double circulation. The resolutions were agreed to, and the proceedings then terminated. . . • . THE RErRESENTATION OF SOUTH WILTS.--A for midable opposition to Mr. Sidney Herbert is being organised in South Wilts on behalf of Lord Tlarry Thylinp,. the young broth n‘ of the yowig Marflu! (..f Lath. _Retainers have already been given to several solicitors, and the contest, when it happens, is expected to be a very severe one,—aerborne journa l, THE NEWSPAPER VAMP _BILL. (From the Morning Chronicle of this day. ) The more we consider the question of repealing the Newspaper Stamp, in the partial manner proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the more reason there is to regret the tendency of the age to listen to theorists rather than to practical men. If those who prepared the resolution agreed to by the House of Commons took the trouble to consult the persons best acquainted with the whole working of the existing system, they certainly do not seem to have profited . much by the opinions they elicited. It would have been difficult, if not impossible, to put into any one enactment regulations more calcu lated to create obstructions to trade, or snore injurious to the beet interests of the community, than those which are embodied in the bill about to be pressed on the House of Commons. The opinion of all persons connected with the produc tion and sale of newspapers presents a remarkable una nimity on this subject. If a mere trade prejudice had been manife,ted, the Chancellor of the Exchequer might have been justified in disregarding it. such, however, is not the character of the resistance offered to the pro posed change in the Newspaper Stamp law.' The ab stract question of abolition having been decided by the House of Commons, no mere outcry was raised by those who might have been supposed interested in maintaining "a monopoly." On the contrary, they waited to see what were the particular enactments proposed. When the first was abandoned, from its inherent complexity and impracticability, they gave the same patient considera tion to the second—that which the Chancellor of the Exchequer is now about. seeking to have made law of the land. Only when its working was seen to be absolutely impossible was resistance offered to it ; and even now that resistance is of the most temperate cha racter. , Thus much is in justice due to the proprietors, conductors, and vendors" of newspapers, that the public may see that they have not been actuated by any merely sordid views of their own interests. A great mistake is committed by a ,legislator when h. seeks t make or to change a hrw,Aiithcint consult. ing those who are practically acquakted with the sub- ject to which it relates. Of this we have a strong proof in the convincing arguments offered la, , Cilight against .the measure of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at the meeting of the News Trade - in St. Martin's Hall. Without disparaging Sir George Cornewall' Lewis or his advisers, we must say that more sense was there uttered on the subject than is to he found in all the arguments that were used in the House of Commons in support of the Bill. The speeches had reference, not merely t ) the practical working of the proposed change, but also to its general policy ; but al- though those who addressed the meeting were naturally more acquainted with the former than with the latter, the tone of their remarks on the abstract question evinced so superior an appreciation, as to reflect back importance on the objections which they made in their capacity of vendors of newspapers. Haste is one of the inevitable accompaniments of all newspaper work. From the original collector of news to the vendor of the printed -newspaper extreme rapidity is the law of action. Of the extraordinary energy and facility required to get a newspaper together, every pur chaser has abundant proof. Few know, however, the difficulties attending the actual p u blication, transinission, and general circulation. Upon this head the members of the news trade, -assembled last evening at St. Martin's Hall, were peculiarly qualified to speak. The Chairman, Mr. Wild, explained to the meeting and we hope his remarks will not escape the notice of the Chancellor of the Exchequer—the extreme hurry in which the opera tions of the newsvendor are carried on. The distinction made between the stamped and unstlinred papers will render the ordinary operations of the newsvendor almost impossible. At a - late hour—before post time—and un der an extreme pressure, hoW are the newsvendors to be able to examine the thousands and tens of thousands of copies that will pass through their hands, in order to se parate the stamped from the unstamped papers? Again, when the bags arrive at the Post-office, how is the same process to be renewed there ? If the reader has ever been present at St. Martin's-le-Grand about five o'clock he will be able to form some idea of the difficulties with which the Post-office authorities arm menaced by this measure. Mr. WILD also showed with great clearness that there could be.no analogy between the case of papers like the Atheneum and Punch, and that of papers like the Times or Chronicle. The stamped edition of Punch is printed one day, the unstamped another ; there is, therefore, no difficulty in regulating the proportions. But a daily newspaper -must publish its stamped and unstampecl copies continuously, within a few hours, and all on the same morning. How can the demand fur stamped, as compared with unstamped jiapers, 'be known beforehand? How is the perpetual confusion 'inseparable from such an intermingling to be avoided There are practical difficulties-which peculiarly affect the newsvendors. The public may not be aware that the practice of exchanging one paper for another prevails throughout the trade. Thus a person who has more Heralds or Posts than. be wants' fcr that day exchanges them for Chronicles or for the Times. • But under this new bill, the dif ference between stamped and unstaraped papers will practically - interfere with this usage, and by so much deter the newsmen from buying papers which they may be compelled to keep at a loss. The result of this, the practical part 'of the nßwsvendnrs' objections, is, in fact, fatal to. the operation of the measure. Such diffi- culties may bo scouted by mere theorist=, but in a busi ness where minutes are so valuable they are exactly the objections which ought not to be despised. The newsvendors have not lost sight of the higher but scarcely. more important considerations involved. They point out the impolicy of abandoning at such a time a tax pre-eminently voluntarily , a nd paid by the public without demur. They show that, as cheap newspapers will be sent by railways to the larger towns, the rail ways will gain at the expense of the Post-office. Noy will the loss be made up by increased paper duty-- be cause the same agitators who have got up this cry against the stamp are also pledged to abolish the Excise duty on paper. Another practical evil these shrewd and experienced observers have pointed out.: The publishers of unstamped papers being under no obligations to give securities for good conduct the p n lib ol el i l l o d protect us. papersaetmioanysbe publi s h e d. A ga i nst consequencess would themselvesa and prosecutions those by running away: and the newsvendor would then become the person liable to punislin3ent, however innocent of all knowledge of the contents of the papers be passes over his counter. This is no ininqinary evil. It actually occurred when papers like the Age and Satirist were in existence. The stamp, besides acting itself as a guarantee of respectability, does, , by the accompanying s ecur i t i es, protect the news men against such an injust'ce. Surely suggestions of this kind thus offered in the name of the, news trade would have had their weight with either the present or the late Chancellor of the Exchequer, had they conde scended to ask the opinion of practical men. The measure is one of centralisatioe. Papers published in the metropolis may go by rail to the largo town., or those published in the lar g e towns may b e di s t ri buted by hand. But the rural districts —precisely those most in want of sound political information—will be left without newspapers. At present, by the retransmission:through the post, they get these papers, as has been ably shown, at. a cost of less than one. penny. With an evening contem porary, we ask, why not leave well alone ? The public do not ask for this change, the proprietors do not ask r otlaboursan d o f d t e h g e r a adgai t- for it, and thos e w h o are responsible for the revenue must in their secret mind s see t h e extreme folly of such an ion o ttife the erseass will cri r sacrifice. The f deterioration m he tators, if it be not their object. W e mean no s l ur on the more intelligent inhabitants of the great cap i ta l of ma nufacturing industry when we recall the exclamation of one of the newsvendors present last evening. Alluding to the promoters of this movement, he cried out, " They dislike the London. press. It is too respectable for Manchester!" As regards the secret object of the agitators, we have little doubt that in this charge there is no small amount of truth. THE POLICY OF ALEXANDER 11. (Prom the Morning Advertiser of yesterday.) It is difficult for us to understand how a contemporary can pretend, " that the indications hitherto given in Russia of the policy of the new reign are nearly all of a more temperate character, and that there is a wide dif ference between the present language of the Russian Cabinet and the insane appeals addressed by Nicholas to the fanaticism of his subjects in opposition to the com bined policy of Europe." Let us look to the facts. The new reign has been inaugurated by a manifesto, in which Alexander 11. proclaims that he will con solidate his empire in the highest degree of power and glory, and that through him shall be fulfilled the designs and desires of his predecessors, Peter the Great, Catherine 11., Alexander the much beloved, and of his own august Father. This is tolerahly strong. The late ruler of Russia also acted, it is true, according to the principles laid down by his proto types in aggression ; yet he never, even in his most frantic appeals, openly confesSed himself the per petuator of conquering despotism ; he rather disclaimed ambitious views. The present Muscovite Sovereign, on the contrary, not only pursues the traditional policy, but explicitly makes a doctrine of it ; nay, he declares that he will not only work out what is known to be the patent policy of Russia, but pursue even the most bidden " designs and desires" of his models. Nor is this all. To give the manifesto still more significance, to connect it still more intimately with the views of the late Emperor, it has now been divulged in the Musco vite capital—as we see from St. Peter3burg 'letters — that the document issued after the advent of the new Czar, had been sketched out and read before the dying Autocrat, who gave it his full approbation. In these last days, too, Alexander 11., in a speech made to the so-called Senate, asserted "that for upwards of ten years he had pr . :;cipated of; and had his full share in, the acts of Govern!!:;:mt, and had been initiated into the projects of his deceased father"—an expression which seems to indicate that he does not intend to swerve from the here ditary poly of the house of P.,::1:.ri0: - F. Ei-; ;Int.:LIN to the army breathe thu same spirit ; and the famous dictum of Nicholas, "In te, _Domine, speravi, non confundar in aternum I " is quite equal led, Alla even ourpaaned, by the menacing exclamation, " Woe to the enemies of Russia 1" which is contained in Alexander the Second's order of the day to the army. Besides, some more Imperial lucubrations have since come to hand. For instance, an open letter to the Cossacks of the Don, in which the Government of St. Petersburg strives to work up tho zeal of these rude warriors, by presenting them, as a token of gratitude for their faithful and glorious services, with the Cossack uniform worn by the deceased Czar, and which " hence forth id to be preserved among the sacred treasures of the Don Cossacks, as a holy relic and an imperishable remembrance for ages to come." Through another letter Alexander 11. transmits to the Czarewitsch Crown Prince the post he himself has hitherto held, of Ataman of all the Cossack hordes ; and he takes this opportunity to vow a most romantic eternal love to the Guard regiments of the Cossacks, " with whom he has identified himself." In a docu . meat addressed to Prince Alexander Sserjewitsch (Meneehikoff), he rejoices over the " truly Russian valour with which the troops havo repulsed all- efforts of their enemies." He thanks the gallant defenders of Sebastopol for the glorious deeds, by which they have rendered illustrious for ever the war-annals of the Empire, and, repeating the doctrine of Holy R tssia, he urges- on his troops to battle by assuring them that "the late chief of the Orthodox army, who has ent-red into eternal life, looks down from Heaven' upon, and gives his benedic tion to, the perseverance and unprecedented intrepidity with which the troops sustain the struggle." . Such is the language of the Russian Government, on the temperance of which the Times has such flattering praises to bestow:, Perhaps it has not occurred to our contemporary that, in all the public manifestoes, open letters, orders of the day, &c., issued since the 2d of March, and of which there is an authentic text before us—(and there are a great many, though a part only of them have been published in this country)—not in one single instance has the word peace been pronounced ; whilst Nicholas, be it remembered, almost invariably took the precaution of hypocritically .veiling his ambi tious pretutsions by allusions to the le-establishment of peace. This is quite in,accordance with the actual state of parties at the Russian Cuurt. Only a few days ago, as we see from the Berlin papers, the Court of Frederick William was filled with sorrow at the news that the Old-Russian war•party were getting more and more paramount at St. Petersburg. The only occasion when Alexander 11. alluded publicly to efforts at pre sent making for bringing the Eastern contest to a con clusion was in an oral communication to the Diplo matic Corps assembled on the 7th of March in the Win ter Palace. The Muscovite Sovereign, on that day, arrogantly pretended that "he would give peace to Europe" if honourable conditions are offered to Russia ; but shuuld they not be so, he would rather perish than accept them. In a similar manner, Alexander 1., in 1812, replied to the offers of the French Emperor -- " Rather than accept' dishonourable conditions I will retire into the depths of Siberia !" Another remarkable feature in the declaration spoken by the present Czar on March 7, is the reference to the Holy Alliance. Though this Absolutistic Li a4ue has 14,rt*Ily been dissolved by the events of 1848, Alex anderVtaid he bad reason to hope that the principles upon which the despotic solidarity of Russia, Prussia, and Austria was founded might soon again serve as a bond between those States. This expression little indi cates that the Court of Vienna is about to cross swords with the Bashkirs. It seems rather a proof that the Muscovite Cabinet believes itself to be master of the diplomatic game which is being played in the apartments of Count Buol Schauenstein. It has been said, "there is nothing like Russian leather ;" but henceforth it may be said there is nothing like Russian " temperate" policy. Fulfilment of the designs of Peter, Catherine, Alexander, and Nicholas— ' victory to the orthodox army on the sacred soil of the Mus covite Empire—re-establishinent of the Holy Alliance : this is pretty well for a " temperate" programme ; and most unwise, most unstatesmanlike would it be in us to throw any difficulties in the way of a Sovereign who pursues so unambitious a policy. Sci thinks our Government. So are our Plenipotentiaries at Vienna instructed to think. So all temperate and moderate people must think. The fact is, since the accession of the new Czar, there exists no longer any Russian ques tion at all ! It is true, the world has in these latter times allowed itself to be subject to a most passionate, anti-Russian fever—but the crisis is now over, the draughts of onr diplomatists at the Peace Congress are certain to remove the last symptoms, and only most in veterate Russophobes can any longer refuse to swallow the marvellous antidote offered, under the modest name of the Four Points. As, however, there might here and there be still ex tant among the public some groundless aversion to these Four Points, our contemporary has, in his Tuesday's im pression, published an explanation and direction for the use of that famous medicine, and we will not neglect to give our readers the full benefit •f it, by republishing the hints and remarks the Times has on this subject. In respect to the first point—the protectorate over the Danubian Principalities—we are informed that the "ex clusive" protectorate exercised by Russia will cease, and that the only question is, " how the suzerain rights of the Porte can best be secured without infringing on the independence of the Christian authorities, which alone can administer these countries." From this it is quite clear that the Czar, in future, will have a co-equal right of interference with the affairs of Moldo-Wallachia, and that the question is not to drive out Russia, but to su persede the Ottoman t-iovernment, which is declared to have no right of administering two provinces of its own I But to take thee administration of Moldo-Wallachia only from the hands of the Porte would scarcely be worth while ; better, to swallow up at once European Turkey whole. :" Indeed, the farther," says our con temporary, "the Plenipotentiaries of Europe proceed in their discussion.the more forcibly will they perceive that the "whole system of the Ottoman Empire, in dealing with it's .dependencies and its Christian sub jects; Tuna past -under their revision." Of course, the innocent reader will ask himself, in great astonishment, whether this is the- settlement of conditions and restriotions to be put upon the Russian aggressor. The answer, however, is ready at hand. "It will pro bably be found before long," says our oracle, " that in these negotiations tfie• Turkish obstacles are not the least difficult to be surmounted, and that, before we can reckon on any of the political results we had hoped to obtain from this war, we have as much to require from our ally as from our adversary." In a word, not only the Government of Moldo-Wallachia, but of twelve millions of Turkish subjects, is to be wrested from the hands of the Sultan. After having settled thus two knotty point 3, our con temporary approaches the navigation of the Danube. But, as there can be no idea of giving back the Danubian Delta and Bessarabia to Turkey, in order to secure the free navigation of the river, the only solu tion of this point being a verbal promise of the Rus sian Government, our contemperaly does not stop long at this affair ; and at once turns to what is be- 1 lieved to be the real difficulty, viz., the freedom of the Black Sea. Here, however, there is no diffi culty, after all ! Nebo,ly thought of abolishing the Convention of the Straits, which gives to Russia security from attacks upon her Pontic possessions ! Nobody, also, thought of demanding that Russia should raise the fortifications of her Crimean stronghold ! "The real aggressive power," we are told, " lay not so much in the fortifications of Sebastopol," as in the fleet sheltered by that harbour. The reduction of the Russian fleet, there fore, can only form the subject of discussions and de mand, and upon that point the Plenipotentiaries are prepared to take their stand. By a most wonderful process all questions concern ing Russia have thus been simplified and reduced to a single head—the Muscovite fleet In the Euxine. Arrived at this port, our contemporary, however, abruptly leaves his readers ; and therefore we, on our part, take up the work in order to complete the feel ing of public sati.faation. The Russian fleet in the Black Sea—mark this !—once consisted of fourteen ships of the line. But when the Allied squadrons ap proached the harbour of Sebastopol, Prince Menschikoff caused six of them to be sunk at the entrance of the port—eight ships then remained ! Some time after it was found that the entrance had not been sufficiently blocked up, and the Muscovite "Admiral" accordingly despatched another ship under water—reducing the whole number to seven. Now, the number to which the fleet of the Czar ought to be reduced, according to the pro jects of the Vienna diplomatists is, if the correspondents of our contemporary be well informed, six ships of the line ! The whole Eastern and Russian question then re solves itself into the problem, " What shall we do with the one supernumerary ship Of the line at Sebastopol ?" This problem may cause some discussion ; it is, however, to be hoped that our diplomatists will find means to get over the difficulty. As a contribution to its solution, we venture to suggest that Alexander 11. may be re quested to do an act of magnanimity, and graciously to allow that this ship of the line may serve to carry the flag of the English Admiral who will re-transport our army to receive on its return, if not the laurel wreaths of victory, the palm leaves, at least, from the happy hands of Messrs. Cobden and Bright, just in the same manner as if our soldiers had succeeded in storming the great stronghold of the Northern Autocrat. Thus, peace will be concluded, Turkey be reformed, and Eng land become ripe to undergo the mode of treatment most in accordance with the designs of Peter, Catherine, Alexander, and Nicholas. NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE RAILWAT.—The annual meeting of this company was held in the Board Room of the Directors, at the Central Station, Newcastle-upon- Tyne, on Tuesday; W. Woods, Esq., chairman of the di rectors; presided. The chairman read the report of the di • rectors, an abstract of which has already been published. He remarked that there had been a considerable increase during the past year in the cost of coke, the amount being 2,3001. in excess of the former year. The income, however, was so satisfactory that the directors had felt themselves justified in adding considerably to the reserve fund, and paying for a new locomotive out of revenue, a charge whi,li has usually been placed to the account of collyrr.ti.lated the ,ilareholders an tl , f,sat:- • , y. Mr. P. G. Ei moved that the report be adopted. Mr. Matthew Bcll seconded the motion, which was carried unaDimously. The retiring director§ were re-elected, TEE NATIONAL FAST. (From th 6 Times of this day.) We have had oer Fast. It was rather against the grain, but we thought it right, and we did it, as we do many things for which we have not exactly a taste, though we have the religion or the good sense to submit to them. We did not fast after the manner of antiquity, from all food, in sackcloth and ashes, but on salt fish and egg sauce, or on cold or boiled mutton, in our best coats and clean linen, abstaining from our houses of business, and, as the sky so willed it, from our ordinary walks or rides. It was a dull day and a long day. It hung heavily on hand, and had not even the quality of making one ready for bed. Those of us who went to church, ° and for the present purpose we will assume that we all did, heard a considerable variety of doctrine ; some preachers being of opinion that war is a good thing, some treating it as an unmitigated evil ; and some, on the latter supposition, tracing it to one national sin, and some 0 another. Such was John Bull's Fast, dull at all events, and a thing one is glad to have got over—just as people are glad to get Lent over, though Lent or no Lent is all the Fame to them. At all events, we congratulate ourselves that there is no hypocrisy here, no taking out abstinence in murder, no present denial with a view to future indul gence. The author of " Eothen" says that in a state of protracted bodily inanition the mind is liable to criminal imaginations of a monstrous character, and that more crimes of an abnormal and hideous type are committed during the fasts of the Greek Church than at any other period. Well, we have nothing of that sort in this country. But, stop, candid reader ; just reflect for a moment. There may be hollowness, insincerity, and weakness of purpose in the hest Saxony cloth and the finest Irish linen as well as in sackcloth and ashes—on roast beef as well as on an empty stomach. After all, the result is the test of a Fast. If we continue in the sins which have humbled and chastised us, we have done our modest Parliamentary fast to very little purpose, and are as great hypocrites as the rude Illusceriteepea , sant, who fasts all Lent and is dead drunk by 3 o'clock on the afternoon of Easter-Shy. And 044, we are sorry to say, is our case. We very much doubt whether the Feet has made any difference in the ways of office. Job bery is still triumphant —nay, we are assured that at this moment worse jobs are going on than any in the course of the whole war, which appears to be a good deal to say. At this moment the nation may be excused if it does not attempt the reconstruction of an existing army. It so happens, however, that we aro making a new one—not a new one for ourselves, but a sort of model army for our ally—the Turk. We are about to teach Turkey how to set about making a real army. Now, how is this done, now that we have huaibled our selves and -repented of jobbery and other sins? A letter with a well-knowu signature opens the vestiou. A body of twenty thousand Turks is to be formed and maintained, fed, clothed, and armed, at the ex pense of this country. There can be no objection to this, excepting that in the event of failure we shall cut a very sorry figure by the side of Omar Pasha, of the Danube, and now of Eupatoria. We undertake to officer and train this army. How do we begin ? We give the command to General Vivian, whe, it is said, is without any actual war experience, and whose only service has been as Adjutant-General of the only Indian army which has seen no service. This is to meet the cry for Indian officers, and it does meet that cry, for we are not likely to hear it again. We then invite the services of Indian officers by a public notification, and have seen a list of some hundred names. Among others that respond to this timely appeal is Brigadier Mayne. He is a man, if net of European, of Asiatic reputation. There is no one in all India more thoroughly up to the enlistment and management of irregular horse. Such a man, two centuries ago, tied by no allegiance, would have carved out a kingdom for himself and founded an Indian dy nasty. Wherever he might happen to be employed, if within reach of India, he would find his Indian friends flocking to his standard. Well, he applies at the Horse Guards, and finds that he would have over his head Colonel Shirley, who has never commanded anything else than a British Dragoon fresh from his barrack-yard. Why, even in India, with the light native cavalry before everybody's eyes, it is quite a speciality to be able to manage them, and if one English officer can, another can not. At all events, nobody is supposed capable of com manding them till he is tried. In this instance we have a wholly untried man—a man whose experience is con fined to a force of the most contrary possible character, and who has never taken that force into action—se lected to command an unknown force in an unknown country under unknown circumstances ; and when an other man, to whom all these things are known, who knows fighting, who knows the nature of the irregular cavalry of the East, and has obtained the greatest reputation therein, asks to be employed, he finds he is to be under a man whose inexperience must inevitably neutralize all his own expe . rienee. Yet, all this is known to the authorities. Brigadier IVlayne's services are history ; Colonel Shirley's are comprised in the following line in the Army List :—" Arthur Shirley, Lieutenant-Colonel 'Unattached. Ensign, 1830 ; Lieute nant, 1833 ; Captain, 1836 ; Major, 1846 ; Lieutenant- Colonel, 1847 ; Colonel, 1854. Placed on half-pay 1851." This was enough to damp the ardour of Brigadier Mayne. Another Indian officer, successively on the staff of Lord Hardinge and Lord Dalhousie, happening to be here on sick leave, puts down his name and attends at the Horse Guards. He finds that he would have to serve under two officers whose connexion with the Indian army was brought to an end by sentence of court-martial for conduct unworthy of officers and gentlemen. Now, General Vivian and Lord Panmure may or may not think these the sort of men to form, to discipline, to Europeanise, a Turkish army. They may or may not think it an object to exalt the morality of the Turk, and to give him English gentlemen for his officers. We really cannot answer for them, after what has reached us of the formation of this new corps. But what we ask is, " Where is the promised reform?" Where is the working of our new Government ? What is to come from the Fast, and how are we to expect the blessings of Heaven if we begin by setting aside not only the mandates of Heaven, the instincts of virtue, and the suggestions of Common sense, but the findings of our own courts martial and the public opinion of our armies ? To all appearance, we are going on as we began. Heaven will never help those who will not help themselves. What is it, indeed, that we want ? Do we want to assist the Turks and humble the Russians ? To all appearance, nothing of the kind. We only want so make places for General This, Colonel That, and Major So-and-So. That is all, and to this paramount object Turk and Eng lishman are alike to be sacrificed, with just a chance of our doing some little harm by the way to the Russians. OUR INCURABLES AGAIN. Our yesteriay's notice of the Herbert A'Court job burst like a Sebastopol shell in the camp of the British aristocracy. Thu storming of the fortress of our home adversaries will, we well know, require long-continued and patient siege. We stick t 3 our guns, of the public press. Our notice of the twin job, viz., the provision for life of a brother-in-law, and a nomination substitute for the close borough of Wilton, has produced a prema ture labour in the following leading article of the Globe of last night : " Mr. C. H. Wyndham A'Court, M.P. for Wilton, has been appointed Special Commissioner of Income Tax. A. vacan cy occurred some months since in the office, of Com missioner of Inland Revenue, by the death of Mr. Rush worth, which was not filled up ; but from the increasing business convected with the Income Tax department, it became clear that some addition should be made to the su perior staff of the office. Instead, however, of appointing a new commissioner of Inland Revenue, the Government have only filled up a Special Commissionership of Income Tax, vacant for some time, the salary of which is but half that of the former office. By this arrangement it is ex pected that the efficiency of the department will be made equal to the increase of business, while the saving of 0001. a year to the public will be effected." Thus it appears that Mr. A'Court is appointed, not to an Irish Income Tax vacant place, but as a " Special Commissioner" of the Inland Revenue Board. We do not comment on the legerdemain assertion of our minis terial contemporary, that there is a saving to the public by this indefensible appointment. Nor do we care to account for the fact that the " vacancy occurred some months since." We leave the Government to explain the reason for the delay in filling up so " special " a vacancy. Nor is any " saving of 6001. to the public," i n this opportune sacrifice to a retir ing section of the late Cabinet, explainable by us or by the Globe. The best economy o f the public ser vice is the selection of tried and deserving public servants for our administrative depart me n ts. The jobbing of these offices, a's the spoils of the aristocracy, has been the bane of Great Britain and Ireland. True and sufficiently paid administrator s constitute an economy far m ore prac ticable than the pretended reduction in the number and salaries of the public servants. We repeat, what claim or right had a three-year old member of Parliament, brother-in-law of Mr. Sidney Herbert, to any such re sponsible and well-paid office as Mr. A'Court has hap pily obtained ? How many meritorious clerks are there in the public offices—broken-hearted for want of recog nition of 20 or 30 years' public service—far better quali fied for and deserving of this " special" commissionership of income tax t Nay, how many officers at home inva lided from the Crimea, and who have escaped its dan gers I Does any reader doubt that the present objec tionable and scandalous appointment is a job—" a pre ference"—in favour of Mr. Herbert's relative, the mem ber for his rotten borough of Wilton ; or that the pre. ferment is not connected with the desirable nomination of some substitute representative of that wretched provin cial constituency of Wilton ? The Globe does nut grapple with our expose of the system. Th e ar i stocracy, b y per sistencein this system of patronage and bait of the House of . Commons, will soon overth row i tse lf , if our l or d s an d ladies, and the salons, cannot be convinced that they are playing in such times a suicidal game. No house was made last night, therefore no new writ could bo moved for Wilton. W e trust, however, if to-day such a motion mad.: by ,the Seeeeterv-or the Trcaeury, Some o-peeeiclit , akit, and wilt, 1. peviously to auy eider ioi tie writ, exact as explana tion from Ministers of the precise circumstances which have occasioned the vacancy in the representation, and on Whoa respoasibUity the appointment hal) ?.??I_l4_f! ( / Moreover, as pending th e war w e are n o t lik e l y to gar ' of any new Ministerial bill for the amendment of the representative system ; and as we may have to put up with " bit-bv-bit " reform, why sheoe'd not Sir Joshua Walmsley, Sir John Shelley (if thete be a member for Westminster with the olden spirit), or John Bright, when the Wilton writ is moved, move an amendment that no writ shall be issued fur such a mockery of repre sentation. Wilton has not now, we are informed, two hundred electors. Any new member will only be the "double" of Mr. Sidney Herbert. The Reform Act of 1832 never intended a single member of the House of Commons to have the privilege of two votes in Parlia ment. Mr. Herbert may not now nominate Mr. G. Hope. He may substitute some young university scion of an opulent family, in lieu of the Puseyite man originally in his eye—some juvenile successful orator of a university debating society, who may, perchance, recruit the shat tered forces of the aristocracy. But who can doubt, whoever Mr. Herbert nominates, that the successor of Mr. A'Court will be equally a courtier to his: patron, and will be always in or out of the house and lobby with Mr. Sidney Herbert ? However this might be, would it not be a " constitutiona?" act in the House of Commons to refuse or suspend a writ for Wilton, on the indisput able ground that an "election" by its miserable consti tuency is a " mummery," a mockery, and a delusion ? Mr. Herbert was himself a member of the late Cabinet which last year, placing his own pocket borough in a new schedule A, proposed to disfranchise Wilton. Pat the right honourable member to the test of bis new libe ral principles. Surely some true and liberal repesenta tive member of the Commons will apply the touch stone and begin the siege of close boroughs and abomin able jobs. Let - the really liberal party raise a:discussion on the new writ for every rotten borough conaemned by the late ministry, and we shall soon have a new Reform Act and fewer jobs.—Daily News. /-!~~a~ I - PRICE SD. `i THE GERMAN BOSPITAL AT DA 7,STON. Yesterday was commemorated, by a splendid banquet at the London Tavern, the 10th anniversary festival of that excellent institution, the German Hospital of Dal ston—an institution which was originally founded for the, cure of natives of Germany, but the benefits of which are now extended to English patients resident in the district. The German Hospital was favoured, from the first, with the patronage of the Queen, and the pre sence yesterday of a Prince of the blood—renowned for his recent gallant achievements in arms, lent an unusual lustre to the festival. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived at the tavern at about a quarter to 7 o'clock, attended by Baron Knesebeck, and was es corted to the presidential chair by the committee. His Royal Highness was supported by the Hanoverian AM. ba ssad or, Count Kielmansegge, the - Prussian Ambassa dor, COnnt Berevitorff, Baron Knesebeck, the Be,. Archdeacon Robinson (Vaster of the Temple,) Hebeler, the Prussian Consul-General, 111 r. IL Huth, Dr. Tiarks, Dr. Wahne, and Mr. W. H. Mu;leus. The general company included a large party of English and foreign friends of the hospital. On rising to propose the first toast, his Royal Highness was received with a general and spontaneous burst of cheering, which pre vented his Royal Highness from proceeding for some moments. The healths of her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the Royal family were then proposed in due course, and duly honoured. The toast of The Sovereign Princes of Europe who patronised the • hospital" was responded to by Count Kielmansegge, who, in so doing, paid a marked compliment to his Royal Highness, and observed that the people of Germany would he proud to recognise in the president of their English hospital so valiant a warrior, and so worthy a descendant of the renowned " Henry the Lion." His Royal Highness then pr posed the toast of the evening, "Prosperity to the German Hospital," in a speech full of earnestness and deep sympathy. His Royal Highness mainly rested his advocacy on the statistics of the hospital, an abstract of which will be found below. His Royal High ness said, it was unnecessary to say much in support of these figures; they spoke for themselves. He felt much indebted to those of his countrymen who had this day attended to support him, bet in so doing they were only supporting their own poor and afflicted people, many of whom, albeit English, were allowed to enjoy the ines timable benefits of the German Hospital. His Royal Highness suggested the growing necessity for an enlarge ment of the hospital, or rather the rebuilding of a new hospital on a more convenient site, and concluded by congratulating the company on the generally satisfactory state of the institution. The report of 1854 shows that the debt of 1,2001. has been reduced to 900/. ; that during the past year 868 in-patients were admitted, and 7,882 out-patients treated, besides 625 dental cases— making a grand total of 5,066 in-patients and 40,897 out patients relieved since the opening of the hospital in 1845. The next toast was "The Health of his Royal Highness the President," proposed by Mr. R. Twining. This was the signal for a second outbreak of loyal feel ing towards his Royal Highness, who was evidently much affected by this affectionate reception, for " kind' would be too cold a word to express its nature. His Royal Highness, in returning thanks, said how much he had been gratified at his reception by all classes of his fellow-citizens since his return. He had endeavoured to discharge the duties which devolved upon him, and, be ing now, under peculiar circumstances, obliged to return home, it was his great desire to do his duty just as efficiently in a civil capacity. He was convinced that one of the greater characteristics of England was her charity, and the greater her charity, the greater the esteem in which she would be held by the world. The toast of " the Army and Navy" was proposed by Mr. Walne (amid a very disorderly interruption from the lower tables), and drunk with the greatest enthu siasm. The usual toasts in honour of the vice-presidents, the treasurer, the auditors, and the medical officers of the hospital, were afterwards proposed from the chair, and drunk with all the honours. The list of subscrip tions collected during the evening amounted to the mu niqcent sum of 2,0001., including donations of 501. from Prince Albert, 501. from the King of Hanover, 201. from his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, 1001. from the King of Prussia, 251. from Messrs , . Rothschild (in addition to many former donations), and 101. 10s. from Mr. Hubbard, the Governor of the Bank of Eng land. The dinner was in Mr. Bathe's very best style, and all the arrangements were first-rate. A band of music played during the banquet, and in the course of the evening there was a very superior selection of in strumental music. M. Benedict, Herr Ernst, Miss Jenny Bauer, Mademoiselle Cornet, and Herr Ganz rendered their services gratuitously. The vocalists re gularly engaged were—Miss Messent, Miss L. Stuart, Mr. G. Tedder, and Mr. H. Braham. Mr. Harker was toastmaster, and his office was no sinecure. THE .HIGHLAND SOCIETY OF LONDON. The annual gathering of the members of this society, for the purpose of commemorating the battle of Alex andria, was held last evening at Freemasons' Hall. 'The avowed objects of this society (which was established in 1778 and incorporated in 1815) are for preserving the martial spirit, dress, music, and language ; the remains of Celtic literature and antiquities of the ancient Cale donians ; encouraging a kindly feeling between High landers in all parts of the world, and in other respects promoting the general welfare of the northern parts of the kingdom. The members sat down to an excellent dinner, which was pre-sided over by Sir Charles Forbes, Bart., who was supported by General Sir John Wilson, Sir John Milley thiv!e ; Dr. Chisholm, of the Royal Artillery Medical ~tzfl; and abut 5O other gentlemen. Mr. Crawford gave his valuable services, and sang several solos. Miss St. Armand presided at the pianoforte, and Miss Ro bettion Stage, a young lady from Edinburgh, made her first appearance as a vocalist. The usual preliminary toasts having been drunk and most loyally responded to, The CHAIRMAN next proposed to the company the toast of "The memory of Abercrombie, and the heroes who fell with him in Egypt," to be drunk in solemn silence. This was the anniversary of the Highland So ciety, which, in 'spite of all difficulties and opposition, and in spite of attempts to cry down the utility of the Highland Society, had risen above it all. (Cheers.) It had continued to prosper and steadily to do good. The present toast was especially directed to the heroes who fell in Egypt. It was a melancholy occasion, but at the same time it was one of pride, which brought back to their recollection the gallant heroes who perished at that glorious fight. The CHAIRMAN proposed the health of Lord Saltoun, the president of the society, and then proceeded to give "The Army and Navy," a toast which was received with rapturous applause. He alluded to the gallant conduct of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, who had endeared himself to every soldier by the hearty good feeling he had evinced towards them, (Loud cheers.) Of the army and navy it was impossible to speak too highly. On a late occasion—and when he said that they all knew what he meant—they all, must admire as he did, the b ravery, t h e gallantry, the indo mitable courage--the insuperable courage which had, by the will of God, signalised the efforts .of the army and navy. He said by the will of God, because within the last few monthe, indeed at their last anniversary, they had seven gallant officers of the army present, four of whom had been killed, and one who was wounded had afterwards died of his wounds, making five out of seven who had perished in the cause of their country. (Hear.) This he considered to be an illustration of what the Bri tish army was. The British army had evinced a spirit of endurance which was known only to that army. (Cheers.) For himself as a Briton—as a son of Britain —he felt it to be a pride to have such an army and navy. He drank the health of the British army, including English, Scotch, and Irish, God bless them, and bring them back to receive that tribute of affectionate admira tion which the country was ready to bestow on them. Sir JOHN MILLET DOYLE returned thanks for the army, and, alluding to his own career, stated that in early lite he belonged to the 92d Gordon Highlanders. He wore the petticoats in the 92d in Egypt. He had derived many useful lessons from his Scottish superiors. Pradence was not a distinguishing characteristic of an Irishman, but ingratitude was not a crime which at tached to the Irish character. (Loud cheers.) Captain JAY, R.N., returned thanks o n b ehalf of the Navy. several lany S 3 . 0 t t h e e h r so to n mand played some on the " Bl ue B e ll s of gasstswiftohllogwreeadt. e fr M e r c . t C a r n a d w f Miss r ss ea n gA. variations in a very credita ble m a n ner. Miss Robertson S S e ta o,tl e aiid4 made her debut with the song of " What's a' the steer, kimmer." The young lady, who has a good mezzo soprano voice, wae loudly encored. Sir JOHN MILLET DOYLE gave the health of Sir Colin C a mpbell and the - Highland Brigade. The toast was drun'; in a man , er o ly to b e i mag i ne d by Highlanders. A 4lanee by two «d th young«.r sons of Sir Charles Forbes was admirably executed, with all the national enthusiasm which characterises their respected father; and the evening concluded with the usual Sottish fes tivities, . . _ - . - - ocil• f D _ .:,~`