The Sun. — London, England, 1855-09-06 00:00:00

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' TO r ,--- ' ffp Sm,„ - -- t * :,,.., / ..'!. ' - I ' +, )'. i 'rA ' ' '47 ! ii . : ' -. ' . :; 41 / N,„ —— ''' , t*.7—ilowatr , .. 4 ,, :,, 111Syff, .“ Z -,..,,:,,.,. )R OIT ..Y`;, s. , -,- . ~ - . .:.- . • 4113 ERT SMITrI'S MONT BLANC,I t. " "lng at , TO-NIGHT, Is —.tons to 8 A oek (except Saturday). The Morning g o , k. stau te pl tee every Tuesday, Thursday, arid Saturday, ttillmerrtlar t th ean w be taken at the Box-office every day mom — e —RYAtian Hall, Piccadilly. ent will Close fur the season on Satura iy, Sep r7s.. d Per ' 2 nt o f ld too 60 , beiof lbs dolatiijf besnc,sl 1111 01 ,0 prime RAILWAY PASSENGERS' ASS The half-yearly meeting of this comr yesterday at the offices, Broad-street. The report stated that the income of thi the half-year ending June - 30,. amounts against 5,0941. at the corresponding,per The amount received was 2;680/., making, sae from last half-year, 6,454/. to the credit of revenue. The disbursements, including 9271. for advertising and 1,3611. for compensation, amounted to 4,5151., leaving a balance of 1,9391,, which, with the sum due from the railway clearing-house and agents, amounts to 2,829/.. out of which the directors recommend interest on the paid-up capital at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, free of income-tax. In addition to the above 1,3611. paid for compensation, a claim had been made on behalf of the family of an officer of the North London Railway Com pany, who was insured with the company for 1,0001., and was killed by an accident near the Caledonian-road station on the 12th of May last. He left a widow and four children, to whom the amount insured has been paid. Resolutions were passed adopting the report, declaring the dividend, and authorising the directors to extend the business of the company to the insurance of all kinds of accidents, whether railway or otherwise. "" Cou tim lNDlA HOUSE, STH 4 EPTEMEEIt, 1855. I liblA. c i P J: of DIRECTORS of the EAST AL cog PA NT DO of the HEREBY GIVE I , T , TICE, That me tiZlsenhc.str__, maid Company will be held at their l'fri-l'uora leftrteri" 7' on WEDNESDAY, the 9th April, 1856, _ trectors for sx years. b i 'fa of E ast I _Or attorney and of a declaration for enahlintr 404ZPIred ' for 1. 1 . a Stock to vote by proxy on this occasion delivery to the proprietors at the Treasury in LON DoN, THURSDAY EVENUsta, SEPTEMBER 6. 1855. N o . 19,637.1 [PRICE 4D• STAMPED SD• car ; J. E. Pollard, second master, to the Dee ; and E. T.-Ryan, acting assistant-surgeon, to the Bloodhound. Ninety gunners and drivers, with non-commissioned officers, have been sent from Sheerness garrison to Shoe buryness for heavy gun and mortar practice there. The west wing of the new Artillery barracks at Sheerness is being rapidly proceeded with by the contractor, Mr. Josiah Hall. Large quantities of hay have recently been purchased by Government agents in various parts of Somerset, and have been sent off to Bristol for shipment in the Crimea. IY, i vii" s l ad," 581 be ?pie. in Hai r e 0 ace PUBLICATIONS SPIRIT OF THE rU ELIO JoURIVALS. J. D. DICKINSON, Deputy-Secretary. MRS. TROLLOPE'S NEW NOVEL. Now , eady, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., GERTRUDE; or, FAMILY PRIDE. By Mrs. TROLLOPE. Author of " The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman," &c. Hurst ani Bla,kett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ,III4EASTTI INDIA HOUSE, STII SEPTEMBER., 1855. co 'so 1 X1)/A t .,`:„ . "'T of DIRECTORS of the EAST Ilk; km „ -- "NIPA.Ny DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That the Oppurf:Prietors of East India Stock as by the Company's 9t4 be qualified to vote at the General Elec. ion. on vl' ed th N . veetnbe r, 186 P r il 1 85, Will be ready t 9 be delivered on Wednes -55. J. D. DICKINSON, Deputy-Secrotary. and FURNES JUNCTION k oan4. , RAILWAY. - %46 b . 'ed 5 per Cent. by the Belgian Government.) 4 4 04 1 11k u , re bY given that no further application for shares in ' 0 ot,_ 412 be . received after Thursday next, the 6th inst. London Agency, 18, Cannon-street. eIIP, A :k r , T , WESTERN RAILWAY.— , ,11r,, - ,;,,,r-xotinsioN - to OXFORD, BA.NBUkY, LE 111- ' 411 , ICK, and BIRNTINGHAINI. - On SUNDAY, Sep .l,ll;:pint will leave Paddington at 7.30 a.m., returning the bu r .,7 04 1 Birmingham at 6.30, Warwick 7 Ti, Leamington i:;ll 4 ,; k °, and O x f or d a t 8 . 50 p.m. ware. —Oxford, 6s. 6.1. '1 siV l ,l 3 ', 88 and Ss. ; Leamington and Warwick, 10,. 6d. Bir mingham, 12s. and 7s. Children under 12 half %be „ Lo it I N T and NORTH-WESTERN and MID- I L 2,, 1 kIL ‘1,7 ys.—FIRST iNCASTER R CEA and Ordinary DAY TICKETS will be issued, at the ,1;5, to DONC ,S.ST ER, by any train (except the 9 15 1*44 or 2d Class) on Monday, Tuesday, Wedn slay, l'hurs liltdaY, lOth tor . 11th, 12th, 13th, and i 4th September, and to returning on any of these days. lim a By order. gees ()Mee, Euston Station, Sept. 3, 1855. %I. ESTABLISHED 1803. ~ - `t:—ONE MILLION STERLING. ~, All Paid-Up and Invested in 1506. /4u 11 E INSUR A N C E. ? .P itsnrirt,D, Esq., hi.P , F.R.9.-- , halrman. 0 7 74. a NEwsAu. Esq.—Deputy Chairman. I , lb7 a GE CARR GLYN, Esq., M.P.—Treasurer. ': LIFE : ANNUITIES: RETERSIONS. Iti Cornhill and Pall Mall, London. t ti llit t na kiNvered by Special Acts of Parliament. N I , Dir t I ll 4 ISC E S granted from Fifty to Ten Thousand . Pounds, '` u arlY favourable to the Younger and Middle periods 4 l z , ch a try ciau rie F fo ut r :a a m n T L lD l n F tie E s on Life Policies. , Medical Fees tk,t114.8 genera l l n ly su p ta d c . e transacted. "0%. ,-- Ivith Life Tables, on various plans,—may be had and of any of the A gents. \,,,,........ Y WILLIAM NEW MARC 11, Secretary. lki ~1 4 0the e , PAIMERCIAL TRAVELLERS an(? 'l,‘lty:. - --The TR•\ YELLERS' and MA , tI NE IsTsUR s NT.: °. do Poli of Insurance ainst EVF,Ity DE , CIII. - ,V Cib ENT, cies whether occurring ag whilst whilst ravelling or other- CAPITAL, 250,0007. TRUSTEES. 111 W e Tl ight llonourable Earl Fi , zwilliarn. r i lthew Marshall, Esq. (Bank of Enlaud). ginPe, Esq. (Bank of England). , Ilarles For. EXAMPLE OF RATES. ~eßlion, \st 0 --• I Sum at peath. I Weekly ‘11 , ,y, Xl,OOO I .£5 0 0 1 , 1 ufe Ittitj) i £5OO I £3 0 0 ' of Pre ' X 42 and Prospectuses, &c., may he obtained at the And 43, Poultry, London, between In and 4 o'clock. .............., FRANCIS COBIIAM, Registrar. 11 N N ATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 142, Strand, London. (Established in ISM.) tt Empowered by Act of Parliament. ktb. 11°11 1) Rs, DITOCCTOnS. 4e44 ~D EPPARD SYMES, Esq., M.D. Chairman. Ilarclay, Esq. Henry John Hodgson, Esq. 1 4 1, 4 %Iiirnett, E sq . John Moss, Esq. tilloPlg Church, Tho nag Nicoll, Esq. " %10 1 * M • D.. John Symeg, Esq. I Grattan, Joseph Thompson, Esq. Esq. F R.S. Esq. 4110? MANAGER. J. Leander Starr, Esq. AUDITORS. " l eatSlO/le, F.R.S., and Professor John Radford Yo MEDICAL EXAMINERS. ,7 011 ,37, Conduit-street. M.D., Bourdon House, Berkeley-square. Its b ACTUARY. • oolhouse, Esq , F.R.A.S., F.S.S., &C. ASSISTANT ACTUARY. Barker Woo'bouse, Esq. BANKERS. Its -48. Gly n , Mills, and co., 67, Lombard-street. k t A SOLICITORS. V,. } 44 4 - .°r3 7 , Gregory, Skirrow. and Rowcliffe, Bedford-row. ' i tily„ f° , l,ll s of proposal, prospectuses , and information gene ! the chief office, 142, Strand, or to agents. J. LEANDER STARR, Manager. , li t tfi ei ii t te, l3l3- --- f LALL Sept. 5, 1855. The Corn bk,..orthLeetting the City's Linds t w o ill meet atGu r i o l e d i h se a l ll, on ga v, to ilt Zt os i a L for Leases e S s e o p f t. a s n o t , 0. n 3 e , o'clock Broad-street ild - (t11::$: ry 110. 5 8, Cheapside, and a house, No. 26, Great Leonard itlVlculars and plans may be seen, and forms of tender \ ,........ o irchitect's Office, Guildhall, FERDINAND BRAND, Comptroller. tik t Q., N,t, SPRAT I 0 /st.—BOROUGH of the - 1 '; ri A ETS.—Notice i- Hereby Giv,n, That JOHN I k liti too b4 l ' C QUF.E l,7 , Esq Barrister-at-Law, having been ( ; t . Lord Chief Justice to Revise the I.lst of Voters for ~the Tower Ham'ets, will hold his Court for that par tlith C ourt -house, in Weliclose.square, situate within the 4Z I ZR, th„',., ° ,n MONDAY the 24th day of September instant, at kwitZe, ai 'lock in the forenoon precisely. br 2,r 6 Vic., cap. 18, the Returning officer and the several t O is Ve respective parishes within the said Borough are f t ', (4l ld the Court of the Revising Barrister, and at the , Ot e "e said Court to deliver to the Revi leg Barri , ter the (ki t .or j 3 i pade by them respectively. and also all the original kiN b Z140 0 7 ills and Obiectlons received by them, and to produce Documents, Papers, and Writings, in their posses 'o'°! Power, touching any matter rtcessary for revising thil - ,'''sts of Voters. , St day of Septeireser, 1855. k 41 ,41, HF•ctly ("HUD, Office - for the said Hormigh. nb a ; • Returning S-road, Hackney, and No. Q, St. Swithin's-lane, City. POISONING. CASE at tp 'AGTf)N.—Let doctors r. fleet that by their infernal IV e li litoot, only constantly jeopardise the lives of peoi4e, but 11,7,! , 41 ko, parties may, and most assuredly will, be led to the ~as AI M crime of poisoning. Identity of the poisons used by y IN'eil h „'alelnes with those employed In the adulteration of ‘, 1 `Gp . , 1 4 allbserlot on to the Morisonian testimonial, &c. Read I, l lt tti;,,, a nd MEDICAL REFORMER for Septintier.—May 4 Do _.rltish CAle.fe of Health, New road. London, on for 111,4stage stamp ; at the Hygeist Office, 262, Strand; ant of 4 t, g qlorised agents for Mr. Morison's Vegetable Universal itikb COPAHINE, or SACCHARATED b rMa, approved of by the french College of Physicians, Cis ,4/ 4 - ,,?llinistered in the Paris and London Hospitals, and 1i . ')4` , 11i t :,, 0 3' them to he the best remedy for a certain disorder. Aj•Pri - ,L1552.) A copy will be forwarded oo appli- Per To be had of the inventor, a kii i, e4 a 4 l l4 ch AE,;F s 4 th r s er...l 6 c d h . eh; b 0 2s. Haymarket, London, and CLAlMS.—Sportsmen claim , Vs e jr tQIc a,and economy in their dress —style and superiority Ott 4 - 4, ) , ar rnents—adaptation to their pitrpos , , and .suitability k, i clsr a notrld aopear in their equipment. These claims are ,et„. TheteillY attended to at the establishments of E. Moses "O,,Y°C.e t 7gest amount of business encourages them to the q t : be most magnificent stock of Sporting dress. k,Zr3', &c., for Sportsmen, sunerior to any elsewhere. sta V , no, and cheapnesb inimitable. 4, 1. na Ilshment—Minories and Aldgate. N i .P . ll,' anon—New Oxford-street and Hart-street. ' , 4l,vplehes—Aheffield and Bradford, Yorkshire. holesale Branch)—Melbourne, Victoria. lea TH•si BERTOII JACKET FOR AUTUMN.. abttatisrtic production has realised every expectation, has Dr 'Tage unparalleled, has given universal satisfaction, b c , °a nced in now materials for autumn. s4t4! ) 11 0 , r emembered that the Kertch• Jacket is exclu-ively 14 0 . 1 °f E. Moms and Son. It can only be procured at 1.,"` t tn ' l ltg Ze, fits ; no imitation can approach the excellences d's t1•4`81101 and finish ; and at no other honse can such ela tqlitleli 14, 1 , 0 1 garments be obtained at such moderate prices. hi;bi„ r's Cape has established its high rank in public esti. Wsegance combined with its utility, its material is tho 't-,4 7 1)1.00 4 its graceful design and superior finish renGer it 2 63 . Anent for the present and approaching season. Its 0 1 1 ' c att • 11 335. 't 4 11 Nutttrimmed with silk. • i st! ons of all countries, the earliest and best selections a a plished markets and manufactories in Hosiery Goods N• ihst 4 , l 4 entlemen. t . a _ing preparations for Autumn in every description c ot . rt,,,,..??05ts and Sos's Establishment and its branches u r ' m al`nrment—Minories and Aluigate. • t. '" % I :lon—New Oxford-street and Hart-street. • (w 4 c ues —Sheffield and Bradford, Yorkshire. nlesree Branch)—Melbourne, Vi torla. • AvzsEND BrA It Nett erp PACKETS. Ckets call at the Greenhithe and Purticot Pie •is, It the Piers as underlined (weather permittiug) . " 74 TERRACE PIER. GRAVESEND \e ~- N t 4l , AUNDAI 41 14 from T.tnel /Stkiiv‘r at Ito hour Trains rf ,N 4 40 1. ' ~6~ ____ 44( 3; ° 4 11, Cir al , c FAsza. ', t ri lalq, cl Et ' Z d and a ic t ;r ox c.! 14,4 trit}; a "el London ...... 1,41 i 41.n11 IllakfKwau or Woc tll pokl ia.,..._esend and Interme, 4 .1 4 1'd th, 2,&T,9. —one oontl itb, iir s k etir, or . ondr. , and blot ' 7l 31 ,ck so." ~,burgh dArc 00 a An ......... igoberg ... 1) . ......... re 0 1 . 00 6° 11 for.• 1 ▪ 01 01 IF for. 001 , o s , 0 • "* l 4ss 6... ••••• 01 ,13 ...... 0 01 0 ig n 00 1 ' • ..... ...... 0 1 4 4°4 011 Ilr nth 1/6 1 1 0 01 0 018 , 11 0 0 7,1 f , IIS P OIP o f India '' .. ... . ...... 1 . 43 ~"" ese ,*igo l' 61 04 g9O 001 .-~~,,. . ~' .~~ ~, .~~~ .~ :~ ~ ;,~ p ,~ ~~' . ~' ~~~ _~~~' .~ " 5 01 6 ,1 1 " 1 " — B$ 1 5 dlp P i List": e 7' la ' pit fOr t • / 89 4 1,1 0 ro pe . 4, 1 n *l'l o ° l it ll°P lthop VOr tie , m onk ` t 7 I ve t , iaion'tovi s ti 1 Dog „,., oppi . i a .I ; l44°lfsls. 0 0 04°1 reir " r t e li r l iet°ll _l' thh — IS o dh 10 l o ft thO P r:g14,1. ,4 0 010 r • .• er "toona"iD Aso t prl f it• rt , v o , ~! biko' virrip tor f, e 4(11141 fO' 01' en 4, 6e,pl. b' nrl' ° ' f Or) tbs° 0 111 ' cr 0 01 btr i fin eol 1 1° 0 r t cv. 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Fore Ca • 10d. nlb Bd, . .. 6d. era. . id. to be had 0 err= Pier ATTLE of the TCEIERNAYA.—EDWARD fi: Jo STANFORD will publish on Friday next, the ith of Sq tom her, a Plan of the Positions and Ground occur led by the French, Sarlinian , , and Russians on the 16th of ugust. Sketched by Caut. WOIXELEY, 90th Roltt., and Lint. FREDERICK BRINE, R.E. Price Is.; case, 2s. 6d. ; free per post. London : Edward Stanford, 6, Charing-Cross. Jed published, price 55., by poet, free, ss. 6d., STRICTURE of the URETHRA : its Rational Treatment and Prompt Cure. By F. B. COURTEN&Y, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Englind. " We believe Mr. Coartenay's experience in the treatment of stric ture during the last twenty years has equalled, if, indeed, it has not surpassesi, that of any of his contemporaries. ft is, therefore, no matTer of sure rise that he should enjoy the reputation of being a most dexterous and skilful manipulator with urethral instruments ; and when it is remembered that the lamented Liston used to assert that the introduction of instruments through a stricture which had previously been impermeable to them, was the most difficult in the whole range of surgical operations, it must be no slight, source of gratification on Mr. ''ourtenay's part. to haVe achieved the reputation he has in this resiect ; and for our part, with the knowledge we have of his experience, we know of no man to whose care w, would with greater confidence entrust the treatment of a severe case of stricture of the urethra."—Medical Circular. London: H. Banliere, 219, Regent-street. A RGYLL ROOMS.—LA.URENTS- CASINO NOW OPEN for the winter season The foPowlue 5I sic will be performed by his celebrated Band during the week : March nux Flamheanx. Wnltz..s The . I ily of the Valley ( D'Albert), 'Zenbir Lufte (Oung'l), Fenelli (Tinney), Ethel Neweome ( I.Aurent). La gull ane (liosisio). Qua irilles— , .0 Rot du Pa-tel (Lamotte), Les ''uwenots (Laurent), Palermo (IvAl hert), Bride of IT,ammermoor (Tinnev). 11 Trovat,re ( , utton). Po'lats— Des Hulands (Lamotte), Italic (''aviolo), The illian (D' tl ben), Des deucous (Brat quet). Th. Zouaves (Laurent). Galops— The Imperial Guards ( EAU' "nt), The Heel (,;treather). Qehottliche —La Ouirlande de Fleurs (Bo3quet), La varsoyrana (Laurent) Prin eioal Cern.t a Piston, M. Boalcours.—Doors open at 8. Admission One Shilling. THE GREATEST HIT OF THE SEASON. IN HONOUR OF HER tiIA•TEiTY'3 VT , Ir TO FRANCE . CHANGE OF AMIJS,MENTg. OYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GAR z n, DENS. Thtir , da,, Sept. 5, 1555. and (tiring the Week— HUMOURS of a FRENCiI VILLAGE FAIR, and , ;rani CFI AIPNTRE, wrii ten by Mt. 'NELSON ! EE, rranecd by Mr. FLExmoar. Programm , or - Amusements :—Fren , h AMA: , a+ , (l Es ,aminet—Frefich Villa.,ers Ballet Dance by Flexmore's Troupe of Artistes Dancing on the Green French Stalls— French Goods—French A , t,n(lant in Costume -- French Vlvandiere(( French Em Sucre Venders—Frmeh Quack Doctor. Gelling his Nostrum= in C.r-ifire and Pair, attended by t'ierrot, Trumpet and Drum—Russilli Family—Slack Rope .Gipsies—Punch, &c. &c. I - ew Pic(ure..l)y BOR , I AS IT IS I—Vocal and instrumentalrorrert ! —Ext a Quadrille Band 1--The S; , anish Min ,trels !—Triumphal Arch leading to the Fair I—DA N. 'ING, after Concert in the New Salle (I , Dance, inidor the Direction of Mr. FtExmottE !—The whole to Conclude with the SIEGE And BOM- B RD NT of SEX k -4TOP im„ and rand i'yr 'technic Tableau! No extra Charge—Admittance, "NE C HILLING. The FM* to com mence etch Day at Three o'clock. ann , unc,d by discharge of cannon. Nov: Nes of every description will be introduced as they present themselves, 1r) OYAL CREMORNE.—Admiegion, One Shil -lit ling.—The !ncr •aserl attractions of These delightful Gai - dens having bee. , reco , znised by a prop •rtienat,ly nerea ed Datronage, stimulate ,. th- proprietor, if possible, to increase the splend cur of its n , ,w leading feature, the " ASV B • It NFtk It biILTT ‘RY DI •- Pt AY," and therefore every improvement suggested by the xneri ence of the p 'st, the jadgmeet of the present, or the presci nce of the future, will immediately he adonted. to ads' to its brilliancy and insure a continuance of tint su cess with which it has been , o signi ficantly marked. Nor while thus diligently carrying out a new fea ture rightly will the interest of the more matured or es he allowed to diminish -- se the Eon , strian bisplays, the Vocal and instrumental concert, the Grand Railer, the Al Fr. seo Ball. and the Illumlna , ions will he caretplly arranged and sniritedly put fc - war , l to spit the tastes and c , invenienoes all • The Ash' nrnham Park gates will l , e open daily from 3 till 7, to allow visitors rn oppartunit" of exa mining the beautiful Panoramic Atod. , of Sohasto , •ol, by Jones, and to hear from wounded Primean so:diers their experience of allied success and Russian resistance. Open on Sundays, free, by refresh ment card, 6d. Table d'Hote at 6,2 s. 6d. pOYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.-TO-NIGHT, It) Senteml er 6, and every night during 113.9 week, PRO FE-SOR ANDERSON, THE Gilt- AT WIZARD OF THE NORTH, will have he honour of presenting his new series of DE . ASS EM ENA t'AGIQUES, sr the Wonders of the Ancient Magi, anti the most rcn ,wned of Modern Magicians The Great Wiz ird will select the most recherche experiments of his various programmes—from that submitted by him to her Majesty, at Bal moral, to that which obtained the approval of the President of the United States; together with sp cial novel feats, invented expressly for the o,casion, and embraing his extraordinary and amusing Plus. trations of Spirit Rapping. The En'ertain , nent wll consist of Tw , -Ive Acts, divided into tad , parts, and arranged so that the in. terest shall dramaticall3 - accumulate to its final denotement in the twelfth act. Act lst—" he Livr. des Recueils Choises." Act 2d— " Magical Locomotion." Act 3d —" L'Ecrin de ye re." Act 4th— " The 17abalistic Counters." Act sth —" The New Bottle of Bacchus." Act 6th—" The Mysterious Parcel." Act 7th—" The Homological Evaporation." Act .-th—" he Aqua-avial Paradox." Act 9th— " The Mesmeric Couch.'' Act 10 h—" Hal-an-hour with the Spirits." Act • 1 , th —" The Enchanted Chair of Comus." Act 12th—" The 913 stery of the Charmed °nest." Further particulars In Programme of the Day. Doors open each evening at Half-past Seve , • : com mence at Eight. Private Box , s, 11: lie. Gd. and 1/. Is.; to be ob tained at the Box-office, or of Messrs Sams, Mitci , ell, EbersHook ham, Bailey and Moon, Cramer and Beale, Leader and Cock. Chan &c. 'tars. 4s. Dreg. Circle, 3s. Upper Boxes, 2s. Pit, Is. Gallery, Gil. The Box-office is open daly from IG till 5, under the •direction of Mr. Chatterton Grand Fashionable Morning Perform ance on , aturAay next. Sedtember Bth, at Two o'clock ; doors open at Half-past One. IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. TRIESEMAIL—On the 29th of May, 1855, an injunction was granted by the High Court of Chancery. and on the +lth June following way m ale perpetual against Joseph ranklin arfd ethers, to restrain them, inter a penalty or one thon <and pounds, from imitating this Medicos, which is protected by Royal Letters Patent co awl securer' by the Seats of the Eim'e d' n4rmacie de Paris. and the imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TRiESEAIAR, No. 1, is . remedy for P'eta.Avot;. Exhaustio ,, of :rtem, whether arisina from excesses, accident, or climate Po those persons who are prevented enterine the married state h, - e consequences of early errors it is MP:SP:MAR, No. 2, ~ c tually, in tho sh,r space of three days, completely and enttrei! - ...dicates all traces of those Disorders which Capivi and Cnbeb, ~ ye so long been thought An antidote for, to th.- ruin of th vast portion of the popul . .tion. 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The Author has for a series of years been engaged in an extensive oractice in the treatment of these deltate complaints, which have untorttmately been too generally confided to the care of ignorant empirics, who Inflict great injury on ti,ose who are induced to place 14ith in their preten,tias. ERVOI7S DEBI. t.ITY may to had, price 2s, of Messrs. Sher woOd and Co., 23. Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; 19, Lelceste -square; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or free oy post for is stsreps to any iddress from the Author's residence. 37. Bed f 1r d-rmare. At home for consultation daily from eleven till two. and from six till eight. PRACTICAL JOKING IN THE ARMY.—At the Preston Town-ball on Tuesday la 4, three military officers, named A; G. Onslow, J. Conroy, and Elopton S. Stewart, were fined 40s. and costs, and severely reprimanded by the Bench, for smashing street-lamps by throwing ralkitS at them. The defendants, wbo, it was said, had been tip pling freely, pleaded guilty to the charge.-‘- Manchester Examiner. F IRE IN THE NEW NORTH ROAD.—Yesterday morn ing, at a few minutes before three o'clock, a fire of a very alarming and destructive character happened in the premises belonging to Mr. E. Michaels, a rag merchant and wholesale dealer in marine stores. The premises, New N orth-road, and No. 1, Terrace, New Norfolk street, the whole three buildings communicating with each other, and owing to the large stock-in-trade it was at one time`apprebended that the whole of the extensive property would have been destroyed. The firemen la •boured in the most praiseworthy manner, under the direction of. Messr4. Fogo, Bridges, Baylis, and Connor ton, and in the course of a couple of hours they got complete ',control over the destroying element, but not un til a great amount of damage was done, which is thus officially returned to Mr. Superintendent Braidwo , )d "'Nos. 53 and 54, Bing-street, New North-road, Mr.E. M7chaelS, the two shops on g ro u n d floor burned out and the contents consumed ; and No.l, Terrace, New Nor. folk-street, also belonging to Mr. Michaels, the back rooms on the ground floor burnt out, staircase and re3t of house, together with the contents, seriously damaged by fire water, &c. Cause of fire, unknoWn. The stock • in-trad find uruiture iugured in the Suiaire-d4ce." THE SPEECH OF SIR JAMES GRAHAM. ( From the Times of till's day. The common sense of mankind has aereed that there is something inevitably little anti narrow-minded in imi tations. No imitator, no follower, ever theroughly in destood his original, or was anything else than a re duced and bad copy ; and the best pupils have invariably found it necessary before long to sacrifice their love and admiration for their master to the higher instincts of in dependence and self-respect. Why Sir Robert Peel's small band cif followers have not clone this—why they make such a religion of doing what Peel did, and finding out what Peel would have done—and why, in this hope less pursuit, they put themselves into a bad position with nineteen-twentieths of their fellow-countrymen — which Peel certainly would never have done—we cannot divine. There is something morbid in the whole affair, and it is not to be explained by any common rules of action. We are not going to quarrel with the very small bit of Peeliern that Sir James Graham did the other day in the neighbourhood of Carlisle, for we hold that there ought to be a decent reserve, a cloak of charity, thrown over the transactions of a gentleman with his borough. The railway of which Sir J. Graham turned the first sod, if sod it really was, appears to lead from one sandbank on the south shore of the Solway Frith to another. Carlisle, which contains under a thousand 101. householders, has already several communications with the sea, and the railway to which Sir James has con tributed his lofty prestige purposes—at the cost, we should think, of a quarter of a million—to carry an ex isting communication almost as far down the coast as another existing one. How many coast railways Car lisle can require, how many Civita Vecchias this Rome of the Borders is likely to create with its overflowing commerce, we cannot pretend to guess ; but we are not at all surprised to hear that the existing line most threatened by the Silloth Railway fought it in committee, beat it in more than one session, and apparently has only been defeated at last through Sir James's powerful advocacy of the new line. Howevei, though the line is speculative to the last degree, a large proportion of Sir James's humbler constituents have invested their savings in it, and he seems to c insider the poverty of the share holders a set off against the badness of the speculation. We do not ourselves see the logic of thin. In other re spects the line does not stand a comparison even with the Trent Valley Railway. There, though at a very disproportionate cost, the main line of the London and North- We-tern was shortened by about tea or twelve minutes, and a direct communication gained with borne warn/eel taut towns. 'Lie benefit of Sir James's line will be, that his 525 supporters, who now go by rail to hree points of the Solway Frith, will be able to go to a f.,urth, not quite so far dawn as one, or so far up as en ether. We have attempted to calculate the profits of the new lire, but the only result we cars obtain is, that if all toe other lines are deserted, and Sir James kept the whole of his Carlisle constituents travelling up and down the Silloth Railway every day in the year, Sundays and holidays included, at ordinary fares, it would still be a losing concern. But, standing on the pedestal of this promising enter prise, Sir James is reminded of tile ouestion, `• What would have been the conduct of Sir R. Peel under exist- ing circumstances, were be now alive ?" and he answers it by enlarging on Sir Robert's predilection in favour of commerce, peace, progress, improvement, free trade, private enterprise, profitable expenditure, and, in a word, the work of citizens, as opposed to the work of politi cians.iklle rather permits the inference t i lurk than to :'eclarlr itself, but the inference is, that at this moment Sir Robert would be taking more care of the merchants' profits than the supposed honour of his country. He would be on the side of the citizen, not the politician. The contrast of these ta o things runs through Sir James's 'tree speeches. He congratulates England that her railways are made be citizens, not by politicians for what he calls political purposes ; he entaks of all pros perity as speciall® the province and achievement of citizens, and he evidently implies that, were it left to the citizens of this country, of course we should nut be at war, that being exclusively the work of politicians. There is some ingenuity in the contrast here supposed, and in the sort of foundation it has in the example of Sir Robert Peel. Unquestionably that statesman left rail ways and everything else as much as possible to the pri vate enterprise and the spontaneous progress of the people. He did his best to find out wuat the people would do, or what the people would become, and he ex pedited the process in a legislative form. But, as the enlightened British people cannot really love war, cannot like fruitless expenditure, cannot like a 6 per cent. in• come-tax, the wholesale destruction of human life, end less fighting, and abortive diplomacy, so it is assumed that Sir Robert would have found expression for these feelings in the preeervatien of an honourable peace. We do not pretend to say that we have supplied a complete train of reasoning, beginning with the Trent Valley Railway and ending with a universal peace, even in spite of the Czar and the Sultan, but we do say that some such train of reasoning is the clue to Sir James's three harangues. We shall meet this way of speaking at once by deny ing as most untrue, and most dangerous, the supposed distinction between the citizen and the politician. It is very true that we may call a merchant a citizen, and a Minister or a diplomatist a politician, arid no doubt they have, by long habit, different ways of thinking. It is also true that Sir Robert Peel in fighting the batt'e of his life against classes, oligarchies, and minion , - lies of all sorts, did often speak as if the citizen was the proper and natural unit of society ; the politician exotic, artificial, and forced. It is true that at a time when his thoughts were concentrated on one particular measure, he committed the immense and irre parable error of repudiating, in the matter of railways, ;ill the functions of the State, except the mere task of discovering which were the !nest deserving, or the strongest, or the w , althiest, or the tno4, unscrupulous competitors. So f•r Sir Robert die sick the politician, as he thought, fir the good of the citizen in a citizen's affair; but, to do Sir Robert that justice which Sir James does not, he did not suppose the citizen to be wholly unpolitical. He never acted or spoke as if the ordinary Englishman cared only for the balance in his ledger. On the whole, Sir Robert raise d the English mati's aspirations, and enlarged the sphere of his sym pathies.i He enc waged the citizen to feel tha t he n fleenced the world, and had a inissien towards all nations. He did not degrade our politics, but he en nobled commerce. He was al ways prepar , d to recog nise the voice of the people, arid, so far from being ready to divert the public rage from national honour to private gain, and to answer our honest bidignatiOn by pointing to the blessings of peace, Sir Robert never once said " Nay" to any popular cry such as that which for many months anticipated the declaration tit war against Res sta. It was only in commercial questions that he favoured that. di , einction, unfortunate in any case, as we think, between the citizen and tee politician, which Sir James now essays to import into the question of national honour. Once for all, however, on all subjects, we deny that distinction. The good citizen is the best poli tician, and the sounl politician is the only true citizen. On every subject the State expresses, or ought to ex press, the coalition conviction of all its citizens, as far as they can be ascertained.; and all those citizens ought to do their best that the State shall truly and fully re present them, and give effect to their common wishes. THE WAR IN ASIA. (From the Times of this day.) The intelligence from Erzeroum is declared to be much less alarming, and fully confirms the opinions we have expressed as to the Asiatic struggle. According to a bulletin of the Porte, the Russians advanced on the 4th of August ag a i ns t the intrenchments of Kars, and attacked a battery. An artillery fight commenced, which lasted two hours. The Russians are stated to have lost a number of men, and to hrs.cs left 100 on the field, be. sides those they took away. Although the event may have received the usual official exaggeration, it is plain that the enemy made a demonstration against Kars which was attended with no effect, 'and that, either pur posely or from necessity, no general attack has been at tempted. Erzeroum is completely relieve& At Kerpi- Keui, a little village on the road to Kars, a combat is said to have taken place, probably between the irregular cavalry of the two armies. Atter it, though we can hardly believe in consequence of it, the Russians broke up from before Erzeroum, and retired on Kars across the Soghanli range of hills. In six weeks more the cold will be piercing over all the great Armenian plateau, and the heavy snows of another winter will begin to lie deep on the roads which wind through ravines and round the slopes of mountains in the country which is the scene of war. How far the fear of Russian conquest was justi fied we now know. The campaign may be said to be over. The generals of the. Czar must soon recall their toops to Guwri and Teflis, while their opponents will be distributed in the frontier towns from Batoum to Bayaz id. The little practical advantage which followed the Russian victories of last year is well known, and, although a large additional force has been brought across the Caucasus and along the Caspian, the present cam paign is still more barren in results _than the last. The Turkish_ com manders have this yea r a t l eas t b een w ise enough to avoid an engagement, and not even fruitless victories have ministered to the pride of the northern Emperor and his people. A war from which much was expected has produced only empty demonstrations, and is now concluded in disappointment. Its ex penses have, no doubt, been very great : admitting that provisions may be furnished by the country itself, yet men, guns, and ammunition have been brought over a thousand miles of steppe or ravine, or river or stormy inland sea, to the frontiers of the two Mahomedan em pires ; and such a war must have derb,nded all th e ob stinate hope which distinguishes the Muscovite. Opera hevtioawnewehr small, ichsli of the ouldgive them possessio n of some part, Ottoman territory, and place them in -a higher position in the event of a n attempt at pacifi cation, were their object ; yet, though they met only a disorganised army, all their attempts were vain. They have been vanquished, not by the strength of their ene mie,, but by the nature of the war itself ; and the result shows how easily a pwerful adversary may be foiled in a rugged and pathless country by an almost powerless levy, if it be only guided by prude nce . and not betrayed by the venality or rashness of its leaders. The campaigns in. Asia afford proof of the inapt nees .a. the Russians for carrying onOffensive war whpn earnestly, opposed. Most of their co ved% ipdeed, saeui to have 6 , .1 El vf the c been won, if not by trickery, at least by watching for the weakness or dissensions of their victims. Georgia, seduced into semi-dependence, was thus incorporated by an ukase, when every Err inghold had been previously garrisoned by the wary aggressors. A league with Fratice against England secured the liberty of seizing Finland ; a league with England against France tore Bessarabia from the Porte. The Czars may govern with inimitable craft the pnvinces they have gained, but, though successful, they have not been brilliant conquer ore. Putting aside the defects of the Russsan cokiier himself, his want of adventurous valour, his dislike of a campaign. beyond what ho has learnt to be the limits of the empire, and his indifference to the schemes of ag-• grandisement which agitate his master, there are physical obstacles to success in cases where the enterprise is not aided by foreign assistance or by connivance on the part of some ruling man in the state that is invaded. In the Principalities, although the war was carried on in a country of great agricultural prosperity, where provi sions and means of transport abounded, yet such were the distances to be traversed before the scene of war was reached that fatigue and want sleet thousands, and made the weakened frames of many more easy victims to the fevers and cholera which lurked in the marshes of the Danube. A threat of war from Austria extorted from the proudestof monarchs an unwilling acquiescence in conditions before contemptuously rejected. This was probably not from fear of any great disaster to the vast army which rested on his impregnable fortresses of War saw, Zeposc, and Modlin, and against which, as. the Austrian Commander-in-Chief declared, a force of double its strength could hardly hope to operate with success. It. was rather induced by a conviction that the distant peninsula on which the allies had lauded would require, if not all his men, at least all the material resources without which armies must perish. And his calculation was right. The carts which new enter Sebastopol are carts from Poland, and, though the army which occu pies the heights above the Tchernaya, and which garri sons Sebastopol, seems as yet to have been successfully fed, we know not how much exhaustion the land has suffered, nor how long it will be before that exhaustion denies all farther supply. Those who have been terri fied by the viii en of Russian conquests rapidly achieved, who tremhled for ConA-,ntinopie as they now tremble for Anatolia and its cities, fall into the error of judging warfare in a halfsavage land by the conquests of a mighty genius in the long settled and wealthy countries of Western Europe. The highlands of the Asiatic fron tier, the desert and arid plains which succeed them, are not to he s‘vept over as the armies of France marched from the Rhine to the Danube. Great wealth, great genius, vast resources, a long period of time, and, above all. the inattention of the world, are necessary for even the conquests which Russia may be believed to have rally meditated, much more for those popularly attributed to, her. _ _ _ _ But natural difficulties form ,p,nly• se khe first obstacles _ to such su':cesses as the Russialicarfatippe'ised to have anticipated. There are large EUrOt - lein armies in the east, and, though they seem diffitrult to move, a cautious general could, no doubt, have Prebodings on the sub j-‘ct of an advance from Batotmi, which would compel a retreat and the relinquishment of all that many months had gained. Nor are moral causes wanting which ren der the hope of permanent conquest, or even temporary occupation, one hardly to be cherished ,by the Czar. Whatever the state of the Ottoman doulinions, whatev, r the character of the Turk himself, it cannot be doubted that the Asiatic empire has in these4atter days been united and centralised. In the remembrance of men not old the Sultan was little more than the suzerain of a hand of half-independent Pashas, who always disre garded their master's authority when they were strong enough to withstand it. It was through such magnates as these, and through the proud and headstrong chiefs of the soil, that Russian influence worked. But Mahmoud destroyed the feudal proprietors, and a rebellious gover nor is a being of the past. Where is the Pasha of Erzeroum, wielding almost a monarch's authority, who could sell the Sultan's cause ? Where is the Georgian dynasty which reigned in Bagdad? Even the wild tribes are quiet. Kurdistan may be safely traversed, except when some adventurer raises his standard for the sake of plunder. Rocks and deserts, the presence of allies, the strong authority of the Sovereign, all join with the weakness of the enemy's armies and the distance of his supplies to ward off danger from the land which has been the subject of so wide and groundless a panic. We cannot but repeat our regret that Omer Pasha has been taken from the field of his late useful, though less brilliant !about , , to be sent on such a mission as has been recently announced. We only hope that the spring will see his return to the Crimea, and his co-ope ration in the movements which will be necessary against the Russian=, even though the town of Sebastopol he taken. His absence from his army has been immedi ately followed by confusion and uncertainty, and those who know anything of native Turkish Pashas will dread to see a force in movement under one of them. We trust that the cessation of alarm will restore to the allies one of they most distinguished generals. Their are dangers and hardships enough in the present war without a submission to imaginary terrors. CARRIAGE-WAY THROUGH ST. JAMES'S. PARK. • - - • ( Prom the Daily News of this day.) The slave whose office it was to remind .the. Roman General amidst his triumphs that he was still a mortal, was a wise institution. And indeed, if, as we hear, there be 4ny plan for the destruction of St. James's park in serious contemplation, it seems that even a mob compelling member for Marylebone may, in the satur nalia of official success, require to be reminded that, although he has assumed the purple of Privy Council lor, and taken his seat in the Cabinet, he does not there fore become irresponsible or immortal. Sudden elevation produces strange effects, and without question the rise of Sir Benjamin Hall—the plausible and the patriotic— has been singularly rapid. It is scarcely a year since Lord Palmerston, then 'Horne Secretary, smarting under a defeat inflicted upon him by Sir Benjamin, with a dexterous malice which anticipated failure in office and some loss of popularity, thshst the victorious member into the office of Minister (if Public Health, at the very time when the fearful ravages of the cholera rendered such an office most undesirable. But the sturdy and ambitious baronet was not dismayed, for he accepted the office, and applied himself so vigorously to its duties, that he hal lately been rewarded with a seat in the Cabinet veld the Chief Commissioner ship of the Board of Works. Installed in office, he inaugurated his reign by directing the band to play on the Sunday in Kensington Gardens,. and, in his eagerness to enjoy the beaming faces of a delighted constituency, he repaired in person to the spot, and even had men posted at the gates in order to note the numbers of those who came to enjoy the musi cal feast. What Minister could be more thoughtful of the public wants ? Certainly none, h as shown such bold ness in his endeavours to satisfy them. But suddenly a change came over the spirit of his ad ministration. We are assured—and, unless certain enormous poles placed at ominous distances are capable of another interpretation, we are inclined to believe the story—that a scheme is in contemplation for making a carriage-way through tie very centre of St. James's park, from Marlborough-house to the Birdcage-walk. The object, we are told, of this gothic improvement is to satisfy the demands of those who live on the other side, in the neighbourhood of Westminster and Pirilieo, and, at the same time, to avoid the necessity of Allowing all sorts of carriagesto use the drives already constructed roand St. James's-park ; fot it is obvious enough that if these drives were opened to the public no new road would be required. But these drives, it seems, are sa cred. They may be desecrated by plebeian feet, but none by the horses and carriages cr those who, for va rious reasons, are refused the entrée. So that to main tain a foolish distinction, as mysterious and as hopelessly inexplicable as the distinctions observed at some petty German Courts, the most beautiful portion of St. James's-park is to be replaced by a turnpike road, and the Park itself, small as it is,. must be cut in half. If there is one spot more delightful than another, it is the gardens of St. James's. From the very centre of the roar of London you pass into the delights of rural quiet—noble trees, green sward, and shady walks. Here the jaded Londoner, freed from the distracting cares of business, delights to recruit his exhausted energies, or, abandoning himself to reverie, to lose and neglect the creeping hours of time. To deprive the rich man of such a retreat is cruel .enough ; but surely there is no one who of an evening has watched the toil-worn arti zans, with their hard-worked wives and pallid children, pouring in troops through every gate to enjoy an hour of noisy pastime, who would willingly curtail, by a single toot, the space dedicated to their recreation. The delightful gardens now threatened with destruc tion are about an eighth of the size of of the spacious Hyde-park. Surely the loud -tongued pertinacity with which the 'oilers in carriages and the denizens of Rot ten-row urged the Goverronent to-adhere to their pro mise, and to insist on - the removal of the Crystal Palace, has not yet been forgotten. The luxurious patriots of that day acted, or professed to act, frorn,no selfish mo tives. They rose on behalf of the lungs of London. The strip of land between Rotten-row and the great thoroughfare to Kensington was, they cried, the first step towards the building up of the parks ; nor should any exception be made now on behalf of a Crystal Pa lace, one of the wonders of the world. The struggle was successful, and we rejoice that it was so. But what amount of damage to the public would the Crystal Palace have inflicted had it remained where it rose, com pared with the annoyance and disfigurement of a turn pike road through the centre of the gardens of St. James's ? It has, indeed, been boldly insinuated that the Court is the author of this design, net unworthy of the Van dale. The thing is incredible. , These very gardens of St. James's were, if we remember rightly, arranged as se now see them by his late Majesty King George the Fourth. They are one of the few, the very few, things which serve, however s li g htl y , to reliev e the sad selfish ness and profligapy which marked the career of that miaerable mac. Lis not possible t b h y at h t o h t a h t in ß g oy so al m la u d c y h , a thoughtful a w a ho a s n e clairacteritdlfferencies dtois.tihnegruseisifhed and re gard for her, subjects, will show.herself less alive than any_of her Royal predecessors-44n Charles 11. and George 'IV. --to the time-hallowed: efijo3iments of her poorest subjects. Nor, indeed, will we permit • Quoins to ( 19 _4t t4t3 O . `cot as is Wormed of the monstrous design, she will instantly interfere to stop its further progress. No. To suppose the Court even cogrii-ant of such a design is a groundless calumny. But whilst we acquit the Court, what shall we say of the right hon. the member for Marylebone ? for he is the resrn sible Minister. Is it, as we have conjectured, that his sudden rise has confused his wits ? Is it that the habit of thought engendered by a too zealous contemplation of sewers and main-pipes has obliterated from his mind the distinction between a cesspool and an ornamental piece of water, a garden and a dung heap '? Or does he expect, because a step in office and the blessings con ferred by a Sunday band will enable him to act as he pleases—does the right hon. baronet suppose that his shrewd fellow-citizens will submit to be played out of St." James's-park, as the Russian garrison, after they capitulated, were played out of Bomarsund ? Or, act ing on the mistaken supposition that a calumnious rumour is correct, and that the Court is seriously deter mined to keep the drive in St. James's-park private. is it possible that this incorruptible, but withal ambitious Minister has determined to humour the Court by a com promise—a compromise, forsooth, by which not only the drives round the Park will be kept private, but by which the Park itself will be utterly destroyed ? Let not Sir Benjamin suppose that courtierahip so indiscreet as this will advanoe him one step towards that coronet which has so long glittered before his restless imagina tion. Naval and Military Intelligence. The Sanspareil, 70 guns, screw steam4ip, Captain Woodford, J. Williams, arrived at the Great Nore yes terday at 9 a.m. frem the Baltic. She left Elsinore on the 31st ult. She brings back the 16 sea-service mor tars shipped here, and remains in harbour waiting orders as to her future movements. The Basilisk, 6 guns, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Com mander Robert Jenner, arrived at Sheerness yesterday with the mortar-vessels Pickle, Rsi'breast, Growler, and Mastiff, which she has towed from Elsinore. The fol lowing Royal Marine Artillery officers have taken pas sage home here in the Basilisk :—Capt. Lawrence, Lieu tenants Horsey, Ansell, Wriford, and Searle. The Basilisk has captured and destroyed 30 Russian mer chant vessels laden with grain and salt. In addition to the above, two vessels were destroyed by her after cap ture in the Gulf of Riga, laden with fire billet wood for burning in the tot;' steamers at Riga, which vessels are attached to the Russian gun-boats. The Basilisk, in company with the Desperate, exchanged shots with the Russian batteries at Riga, and with the Russian gun boats, all of which kept under the protection of the bat teries, and never once attempted to come nut. Their range its certainly quite equal to our own. The Basilisk tired a 681 b. shot from her 95 cwt. gun, at an elevation of 16 degrees!. The range obtained was over 3,000 yards, and the shot fell some distance within the Russian bat tery. The Russians bad six gun-boats ; each of them were attended by a tug steam-vessel. The demonstra tion was made by the Basilisk and Desperate to ascer tein the true position of the enemy's batteries and range. The Russians had laid down buoys at the extreme range of their heaviest suns, and apparently withheld their fire, in the expect Orion that the Basilisk and Desperate would pass within these buoys. This, however, the comman der of each ssel judiciously declined doing, having pro cured the desired information. Tin mortars on board the Pickle, Mastiff, and Grow ler burst during the bombardment of Sweaborg. The tree former vessels were fitted on the old principle ; the latter, the Growler, was fitted with the swinging sea service mortar designed by Captain Julius Robert=, of the Royal Marine Artillery. No less than 355 rounds were fired from the Growler's mortar—considerably moils than were fired by any other mortar-vessel. Dur ing this firing, until the last round, there was no serious derangement ; but at the 355th round the mortar was split from end to end in a perpendicular lined with the touchhole. The heavy cheek framing protected the men working the mortar, not one of whom was hurt. At. the time of the bursting they were firing at the rate of from 7to 10 rounds per hour. The time was about nine p.m., when the firing had slackenei for the night. The mortar is to remain in its present position for the inspection of a scientific committee of officers, who are to report thereon to the Lords of the Admiralty. The mortar-vessels hereafter named, arrived at Sheer ness as follows, unassisted by steam :—The Carron, at 3.30 a.m. ; the Rocket, at 4 a.m., and the Grappler, at 6.15 a.rn. yesterday, the Desperate clearing them past the Scaw ; they have all experienced very heavy wea ther, across the North Sea, as also in the Baltic. The Siren, 16-gun-sloop, fitting in the basin at Sheer ness, has taken in her provisions ; she is taking in her armament, shot, &c , and will shortly be ready to leave the basis. The Urgent iron screw steam store-ship, Commander Phillips, at Sheerness, is having the patent felt stripped off her boilers, pipes, tubes, &c., and Sir Wm. Burnett's solution is to be put on instead. The transport No. 22, George Hawkins, arrived at Sheerness yesterday afternoon from the River Thames, to take on board stores, pabkages, parcels, and de spatches for the Baltic fleet. The Wildfire steam-vessel, Master-Commander Brock man, left Sheerness yesterday afternoon, and proceeded to the Nor , to accompany the Sanspareil into harbour. The Castor, 36-sun frigate, remains at Blackstakes, waiting orders. Her crew are to be paid advance pre vious to her departure from Sheerness for the Cape of Good Hope. Her Majesty's steam yacht Fairy, Captain the Hon. Joseph Denman, embarked the Queen and Court at Cowes yesterday morning about 11 o'clock, and conveyed them to Gosport, en mule to London. The usual digni taries of the port and garrison were in attendance at the Royal Carence-yard. The fleet and garrison at Ports mouth salute -1 , and the Royal train left the port at 10 minutes past 12. After disembarking the Court the Fairy was taken into dock to have her bottom cleaned. A. rumour is very current that a new Fairy is about to he built ; but, as we never heard of any fault being found with the present one, we doubt the accuracy of such a report. The Vin'oria and Albert Roy al steam yacht, Capt. the Hon. J. Denman, left Cowes and returned to Portsmouth harbour on Tuesday evening. She will not be again used this season. The Wye steam-vessel, whose distilling capabilities we so amply reported on Mond iv, was yestenlay inspected by Vice-Admiral Sir Themes Cochrane. K.C.8., at Spit head, prior to her deparnre for the Black Sea. Mr. Davies, it N., Masser-Attendant of tha Royal Clarence yard. aceompanied the Comnander-in-Chief ta explain the internal economy of the vevel, with which Sir Taernaa wa. , much pleased. The Wye takes out all the parcels in store at. Portsmouth dockyard up to yesterday for the Black Sea fleet and army in the Crimea. The Persev..rance steam troop-ship, Cs pt. Harris, left Spt.head on Tuesday afternoon for the East. The Fox, old 42-cue fricate, late the flagship of Rear- Admiral Lambert in the Burmese war, is ordered to lie placed in dock at Portsmouth this day to undergo con version to a screw vessel, to serve as a transport fir " particular service." Vice-Admiral. Sir Thomas Cochrane, K.C.8., Cern mander-in-Cliief at Portsmouth, was to leave that port last night or this morning in his yacht the Fanny, ac camnanied by the brigs SeaLtrk and Rolla for the Chan nel Islands, to make his annual inspection. Miring his absence Rear-Admiral Martin, superintendent of the dockyard, shifts his flag from the St. Vincant into the Victory, and commands in chiefpro tens. The Lively, navy lighter, Mr. Jones, master, sailed from Portsmouth yesterday afternoon from Pembroke with riggers, masts, and jury rigging to rig the Repulse, 90 gun ship, and navigate her to Portsmouth. The Talbot, for some months past lying off the dock yard at Woolwich, is to be moored off the Arsenal to serve as a store-ship for powder. The Earl of Durham, screw-transport went down to Woolwich, from London, yesterday, and has taken her position off the Ata=enal, to embark stores for Balaklava. The Prince Arthur and the Melbourne are being laden at Deptford for the same destination. TheJobn Masterman and the Germania sailed on Tues. day from Woolwich for the Black Sea, calling at North fleet, for the adjustment of their compasses. The Cam ' perdown, being of much heavier tonnage, has gone to Purfleet to receive her complement of heavy materiel. These three vessels have taken a considerable number of huts and winter clothing. The Hamburg having cleared the greater portion of her Baltic stares, is shipping 1,200 tons of powder and an additional 50 tons of shot. She is likewise to make up her cargo in huts and warm clothing. The Hamburg has been specially appropriated for this purpose in consequence of her speed. The numerous barges which lie about the arsenal wharves at Woolwich to convey the transport cargoes have now assumed the appearance of a floating timber yard, and every exertion seems to lie made to provide the troops in the Crimea with an abundance of hut ac commodation for the winter's campaign. The lauPders (Messrs. Kirk and Parry) have been instructed to engage 1 . 20 additional workmen for the more speedy perform anee of their contract. Yesterday morning the officers of the ordnance at the Tower were engaged in shipping for the use of the army in the Crimea various articles of clothing as well as iron bedsteads and blankets. The detachment of marines paid off at Woolwich from the Vixen—consisting of 1 sergeant, 1 corporal, 1 horn bardier, and 16 privates—have proceeded to the Ports mouth barracks, to which division they belong. Same very interesting practice took place on Tuesday in the presence of the Commander-in-Chief Vice-Admiral the Hon. W. Gordon, Colonel-Commandant P. V. Eng land, and several distinguished officers and scientific gen tlemen. Trial was made of Boxer's patent Shrapnel shells, with his improved patent friction fuses, adapted for the 8 inch hollow shot guns, and one of the seaward batteries was made use of. The target was fixed at 1,200 yards, and the practice was under the direction of Acting-Adjutant W. H. R. Simpson, recently returned trona the trenches, and Lieutenant arey, who is under orders for the Crimea. Each shell contained 400 bullets of the common musket size. The guns were elevated at a little more than 3 degrees, and each shell fell close to the target either bursting a few yards above it or imme diately before immersion. The contents spread over a space of at least 100 yards. The friction fuses did not miss in any one instance. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty W. Lowy, mo t o r, to tiao Ataclezak . During the past week a detachment of the 13th Light Dragoons, consisting of 51 non-commissioned officers and privates, under the command cf Lieutenant M'Neal, left Dorchester for Liverpool, to embark for the East. Major the Hon. W. Evans Freke has returned from the Crimea, and is now on a visit to the Hon. and Rev. Charles Bernard, at K.lbrogan, county of Cork. Draughts of the following regiments are expected in Cork from Limerick, to arrive within a few days :-17th, 9th, and 39th. The followihg officers accompany the draughts :-17th—Lieut. Travers, Ensigns Houghton, Presgrave, and Maycock. 9th—Lieuts. Taylor, Cum ming, Elmhirst, and Grubbe. 39th—Major Herbert, Lieuts. Daunt and Arbuckle. A Kilkenny paper states that Col. Wemyss has re ceived orders to proceed forthwith to Limerick, and re sume the command of the Kilkenny Fusiliers. On Monday a party of the 16th Lancers, consisting of two offioers, a sergeant-major, two sergeants, and 42 men, with 57 horses, arrived at Kilkenny, en route from Cahir to Dublin. The officers were Capt. Barclay com manding, and Lieut. Stewart. MILITIA. The Royal Elthorne Light Infantry has just received orders to move from Uxbridge to the camp at Alder shott. Thii is about the strongest militia regiment in the service, it numbers upwards of 1,060 men, and is quite complete in officers. After its arrival at the camp the men who have volunteered for foreign service will be sworn in, awl receive the additional bounty of 2/. each. This regiment is to remain only a few weeks in camp, as eight companies of 100 each are to proceed to the lonian Islands as soon as vessels can be got ready to take them there. _ _ _ The 2d Somerset Militia were to leave Cork at 9 o'clock on Tut allay morning for the Curragh, having received a sudden order to proceed immediately. In consequence, however, of 10 of them being attacked with smallpox ' the orfer was countermanded at 4 o'clock p.m., when the baggage had been packed and the entire regiment was ready for immediate departure. The 2d Somerset accordingly remain in Cork garrison ; but three companies (Noe. 4,5, and 6) have been removed to Cat and Elizabeth Forte, under Captains Strode, Houlditch, Lieutenants De la Hooke, and Hetherington, with As sistant-Surgeon Johnson. . _ _ On Monday the County of Dublin Regiment of Mili tia arrived by special train at the Kilkenny railway ter minus, on its way from the Curragh to Waterford, where it relieves the 3d West York Militia. The regiment was met aryl greeted on the platform by Maj , r.General Eden, Lieut.-Colonel Irvin, Assistant Quartermaster- General, Major Ic:ismyth, Assistant Adjutant-General, and the officers of the Carlow Rifles and 69th depot. BAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE. LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE. The half-yearly meeting of this company took place yesterday at Manchester ; Mr. Wickham, M.P., pre sided. The meeting was also made special, for the pur pose of approving the lease of the Rochdale Canal, and to convert a portion of the debt into irredeemable an- nuities. An abstract of the report and accounts has already appeared. The resolution adopting the report was carried unani mously, as WHO declaring a dividend after the rate of 4 per cent. per annum on the ordinary stock of the com pany, and in proportion on the other stock, in addition to the guaranteed rates. The ;pedal meeting was then held, and the CHAIRMAN moved a resolution approving of the lease of the Rochdale Canal, along with the other companies previously named, for 21 years, which was carried unanimously. The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. THAMES HAVEN. The adjourned meeting of this company was held yes terday at the London Tavern; Mr. Lowden in the chair. The CHAIRMAN stated that complaints had been made by the shareholders at the last meeting that they had not received their Tilbury stock in exchange for their shares. The Thames Haven line was ready for traffic in February and March last, and it was agreed that in ore month after that event they were to receive the Tilbury . stock, hut sonic delay took place in consequence of the Tilbury line not being ready, and there were difficulties in the way of a settlement. Then, with regard to the land, there was a clause in the agreement between them and the Tilbury Company to the effect that the latter should have the option of purcha'ing it at not lees than 100/. per acre, the amount to be agreed upon by the two companies. The Tilbury Company, however, had declined to purchase it, because they had no power to use it. The directors bad been incessantly engaged with the Tilbury Company for . soesie der, and the result was that they had succeeded in obtaining a promise that the Thames Haven shareholders should have their Tilbury stock early next week, and that matter would he settled satisfactorily. With' regard to the land at Thames Haven, it was ly position and nature only fit for the formation of a duck. He was glad that some of the shareholders who thought otherwise had taken the opportunity of going down by railway to look at it, and they found that one-half of it consisted of mat s'i and bog. Unless the company were prepared to drain it and protect it from the tile, it would be impos Bible to sAI it in small lots, as stipe'ated in the amend- ment propose; at the meeting on Wednesday last. He then read a letter he had received from an eminent land valuer, to the effect that the land in its present state could not be d . vided into small lots. It was boundeci on one side by a sea wail 1,705 yards in length, a por tion ef which was washed away last winter. The land was good for dock purposes, and no other, as the exca vation would be useful in raising the surrounding land to the proper level. He (the chairman) felt convinced that if the mover of the amendment had seen the pro perty he would not have moved that it be sold in lots. It we s peculiarly well situated for a dock, as at low eater there were 21 feet in depth for vessels, so that they could go in and out at all times of the tide. The Tilbury Company had every disposition to assist them, hut they had rot the power. All that the directors of the Thames Haven Company required was, that the share holders should subscribe ss. per share to pay the expenses of obtaining an act for the extension of time, and to enable the company to carry out the original design of making a dock or to dispose of the property to other par ties who would do so. The directors would guarantee that not more than 3s. per share should be expended in case they did not obtain the act. They would not re quire any more money until the act was obtained, which would probably be in August, 1856. The total suns required to make the dock would be 31. per share, on 12,000 shares, and the borrowing powers to the ex tent of 8,000/. That was all they could call up, and it was probable that other parties would find the money, but it was absolutely requisite that the Thames Haven Company should apply to Parliament for the power, as no other company could do so with equal facility. Some of the shareholders who had visited the land on Saturday last expressed their approval of the plan pro posed by the directors. Mr. CHAPMAN, the solicitor, explained that the risk would not exceed be. per share e and those who did not like the undertaking, could sell their interest to those who had no objection to carry it out. The cost of con veying the land in small lots would be nearly as much as the purchase money, and there might be some diffi culty with the title. The CHAIRMAN stated that the whole of the directors would resign their seats, and that new directors would come in from the Tilbury Company, with the exception of one or two Thames Haven directors, who would re main. He then said they would proceed with the ballot on the amendment that had been moved at the last meet ing to the effect that the land be sold in lots ; the re commendation of the directors being to apply the land for the purposes of a dock and harbour. On the votes being taken, there appeared 143 against the amendment and in favour of the dock, and 83 in favour of the amendment and against the dock. The number of shares in favour of making the dock was 3,202, and against it, 1,280 —majority, 1,922 slaves. Formal resolutions were then passed authorising the directors to apply to Parliament for the revival of the former powers of the company, and to place its hares;ital. on a proper footing ; approving the call of Sc. per r and authorising a reduction in the num ber of director and the reconstitution of the board. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the plc ceedinga. EAST OF FIFE• The report of the directors of this cornpany states that the act incorporating the company received the Royal assent on te 23c1 of July last. They recommei,d m ight be opened for traffic Early the works forth e construction of the railway should be prosecuted without less of time, so that, it possible, the proposed line of railway Early in the ensuing year. It having been considerei. t: . 7nt Elito ' advisable that Os terminus of the railway at Kilconguhar should be changed• the directors recommend that the deviated line be terminated near Broomlees Tile Work on the south-wes meansf the turnpike ros.l_ , Balehristie. By of the deviation be saved in the expenditure. -')A , $)5 l . would MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN. Th e gross receipts from traffic on this line, for the half-year ending the 30th of June last, amount to 67,2.66/., and the expenditure to 38,3881. ; leaving a balance cf 28,878/. The receipts on the Albion° and Galway lino amount to 12,600/., and the expenses to L3UiL) I QaTiDg a balaLCO I UZI divideed at, the • RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.--Traffic re turn for the week ending Sept. 2,1855 223,166 11 4 Corresponding week last year. 22,489 13 0 Correspondingw e GR e k ET ending NORTHERN Auwge.ek26iasl itA tm ILWAY. year —Traffic return for the,69953069l CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the week ending Sept. 2, 1855 £6,753 11 2 Corresponding week last year 6,215 2 3 Increase in 1855 £533 8 11 RAILTrAY LEGISLATION. Thero was an engraving to be seen about the shop windows a few years ago of no peculiar merit in the execution, but which often arrested the attention of the passers-by from its subject, and the thoroughly comical way in which that subject was treated. It represented a convivial party after the completion of a banquet at Greenwich or Blackwall—it matters not where just at the moment the obsequious waiter had brought in the "little bill," and the president had announced the amount to his compotators. " Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your fl as h es o f mer- riment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ?" One guest is rubbing the coin in his waistcoat pocket between . hiefingers ' • another is wondering how he shall e x pl a i n matters at home ; a third has thrown himself back in his chair, and is evidently deep in mental arithmetic. Underneath is printed the appropriate inscription— " Men laKli and revel till the feast is o'er ; Then comes the reckoning—and they laugh no more." We have often thought that the British public might very fairly represent that hypped society of jovial fel lows, while Mr. Hadfield might stand demurely by as the waiter of the engraving. His " little bill " for rail way legislation ss indeed enough to chill the ardour of the most sanguine speculator. At the first hasty glance we find that we have spent a trifling sum of 20,000,0001. upon barristers, attorneys, Parliamentary agents, wit nesses, treating, surveyors, fees, and so forth. The in terest upon 20,000,0001., calculated at 3 per cent., would in itself act as a balm upon many a railway bruise. But in speaking of 20,000,0001. as the loss we have only begun to touch upon the real mischief. Are we guilty cf exaggeration when we say that the greater propor tion of this money has been spent in promoting measures the most ingeniously calculatel for reducing the dividends of all holders of railway stock t During the two or three years when the Capel-court fever was at its height the most earnest endeavours were made to procure the sanction of Parliament for two, three, or more competing lines, 'A here the nature of the traffic and the exigencies of the district would have required but a single one. Extensions were eagerly sought for even by those who most heartily disapproved the policy, because others would have preoccupied the ground and involved the legitimate tenants in a network of involvements. It is the old story, however Professor Lindley and the botanists may stare at our illustration, that the branches have killed the trunks. The kindly sap was exhausted, and the taproot withering away under ground, while our iron horticulturists were, by an in genious inversion of a natural law, grafting branch after branch, and twig after twig, upon an over-burdened stem. The consequences too many of our readers must be in a condition to appreciate. They are summed up in the unpleasant formula, 2 per cent., 1 per cent., or ro dividend at all, and further calls. Over and over ..gain we foretold this inevitable result when railway tfairs occupied es large a share of public attention as is now given to the war with Russia. We have had to run the gauntlet of public opinion—we have incurred the displeasure of the bench, and smarted in purse and in feeling for our honest endeavours to lay the truth before our countrymen—and here is the result. Per haps the stern realities of a diminished income may serve in some measure to convince the most incredulous of our readers that when we were so deeply in earnest we were not wholly in the wrong. For the moment, however, let us rather consider what has been spent upon legal, engineering, and Parliament ary expenses, and how it has been spent, than the ter rible but indirect consequences of the expenditure. It appears that 160 railway companies in the United Kingdom have furnished returns, and that the amount actually disbursed by them under the enumerated beads amounts to just 14,086,1101., or 83,000/. each. Then _ _ there are 45 companies which rage not furnished re- turns at all, and the expenditure of each of these com panies is set by the reporter at the modest average of 30,0001. each, or their total expenditure at 1,350,0001. Let us add the two sums together, and we shall have as the result of our addition 15,436,1101. for 205 existing railways. To this must be added at the least 5,000,0001. more to represent the fruitless expen diture of companies which failed in obtaining the sanction of Parliament to their various schemes. As a grand total, we thus arrive at something mire than 20,000,0001. as the sum expended by this nation upon the polemics of railways. A certain deduction should, of course, be made for such ration of the en gineering work as was really calculated to promote the interest of the shareholders and the service of the public; but this deduction, on the most liberal estimate, will int serve to weaken the force of the argument. When we look back upon the season of the railway mania, and remember what engineering was in those dap, when all that was requisite was to satisfy the "standing orders," we cannot make a very high estimate of its value. The well ordered and intelligent labours of a Stephenson or a Brunel of course deserved their reward; but what of those young gentlemen who were transformed for the nonce into civil engineers, in lull employment at five guineas a-dav, and travelling expenses pail ? Lads who scarcely knew the difference between a theodolite and a gridiron were disseminated through the country, to the rote dis comfiture of the country gentlemen, in whose nostrils they stank even as poachers. To them the whole pro ceeding was a regular "lark." It was, no doubt, a comical enough affair to stir up the Protectionist squires at the dead of night, and force them to defend the invio lability of their paternal acres at the pitchfork's point, but we have paid dear for the joke. But what can be said to the enormous fees bestowed upon counsel for addressing the Parliamentary committees ? Never since hor , ehair and bombazine were worn by mortal man was such enormous pay bestowed for such inadequate service. Any first-class auctioneer could have done the work with the most perfect facility ; the late Mr. George Robins would undoubtedly have shone as a star of the first magnitude ; and yet how enormous was the remuneration I One gentleman retires with a princely fortune acquired by timely vociferation during a couple of sessions ; a dozen others realise sums upon which they might have retired had they been so inclined. Learned gentlemen, of whom their very tailors despaired, paid their debts in full. They were paid for Their pre sence, and paid for their absence ; paid for their speech, and paid for their silence ; in short, when the madness was at its height, a barrister was in the lucky position of a cabman on a rainy night, who can scarce escape the anxious bail of a customer's damp despair. From the committee room let us pass to the taverns. Not a step could he taken in promoting a bill but the parties to it must be drenched with cold punch and cham pagne. Whitebait dinners and broiled bone suppers were the order of the day and night. The ml !the irth was at its highest, and the pace maddening, when,,il thatas was left. a re action set in. The bubbles burst , and painted with of those glorious glebes which E lo p e her gayest colours was a little--a very b‘ad . tion had paid 20,00 0 , 0001 . sterling . The past is the past. IN : aare not of those who thi n k that time is well spent in idle There is little—dirty soar and water. But for this soap and wa y ter the British nap regret. of our former errors ; the question is,have we yet en teredwiser co urse I No doubt, as ruin has m a d e eagerness for Parliamentary s t r if e has itself upon fel a the diminished. The machinery for mischief, ho wever, remains u nchanged, although it may n ow only be worked at half or quarter speed. Railway compan i es tio na admitted the itte d Legislature. a ll men wholt has have l o long a since practical are still forced into Parliamentary contests against their will, 111-considered and thriftless projects still receive with Parliamentary committees railway matters their decisions are vague and itnhet universallyh dealings s e an c extreme. r fr e o s m pon t s h i e hil l i a ty bo o r f io d u e s al a i n n d g the Lower House especially—excuse themselves n unsatisfactory ra i w a mem bers—ofy with thankless employment. The is cast upon younger men quite unfitted for the thes enormous interests task. The worst is, that if anything should occur to bring on another fit of the railway fever, we can only meet it as it was met before. Cannot the parties most deeply interested suggest some remedy for so serious an evil 9.—Times. The last letters from Varna are of the 21st. Abdi Pasha is there, mustering the 15, 000 Turkish soldiers who are about to leave for Anatolia. — Times. :c1 \ THE FORT OF THE HOLY CROSS.--The Fronde) , Blatt learns from Odessa, Aug. '22, that General Luders has just returned from a visit of inspection to Nicolaieff and Cherson. The health of the troops is improving, "hut cholera and typhus still carry off thousands of men." General Todtleben's wound, which was near the ankle, bad nearly healed, but he went out to inspect the works too soon, and is again confined to his bed. In order to keep the General perfectly quiet, Prince Gortschakoff has sent him to Simpheropol. Todtleben's last "crea tion" in the Sarabelniaia is the " Fort of the Holy Cross," which is armed with gips of•the• very largest calibre. This fort is said to command al! the works of the bialaklactff• g -1"""