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• ftP - . 7 '/ • .. • • THE FOREIGN LEGIION. :4C - 14 at I • 21 1 - 4 z. / , , \ I_4 4 ' IA •et t. • , O h - , . / • / • .6 D 'WIT- , ' A v xiONDAY EVENING, JUNE 16, 1855. N 0. 19,568.] LONDON, IPiucE SD. PUBLICATIONS. ONE OF THE ROOTS OF THE EVIL. the service of a party for which the nation cares nothing• That his amendment may be carried we think extremely pr)bable, for it is moderate in its terms, and affords to Government a happy relief from the menacing aspect of Mr. Layard's motion, which the Chancellor of the Ex chequer considers nothing less than a vote of censure. In fact, if Mr. Layard's speech be better than his pro position, it cannot be denied that Sir E. B. Lytton's proposition is better than his speech.— Times. NEW NOVEL BY MISS PARDOE. his day, in 3 vols. post Svo., rrilE JEALOUS WIPE. By Miss Peanon, .4 uthor of " The Life of Marie de Medicii," &c. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough-street. i - .."'-'-r's .' e t;• "e - r• - ••; 1.:1:., .- .., , ) : ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC 1 v i gt ß is Now Open Every Evening, at S &Clock, except Saturday. A Warning Repeesentessens take in.. 4 . place every Tuesday, Thursday, `" S aeuroay , at 3 o'clock.-Ztalls can be taken at the Box-office day fran Eleven till Four. -Egyptian Uall,Piccadilly. se e __ BAST INDIA HOUSE, 13TH *Term, 1855 t , Ir e i • u g E COURT or DIRECTORS of the EAST - . h.., I r •NDL.4. COMPANY DO ..TIF•REBY GIVE NOTICE, That a ieostponed until the Quarter'y L'uDriet n• of East India Steck hail appointed to be held at their ir e "al Court of the said Company, le;,,'" in Leadanhall-street, on WEDNESDAY, the 20th instant, the se w'oll oe which he had previously given notice, bringing again under iniderat 1 - 'n the proceedings relating to the 6th Madras Light .nraury. ' JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. ----e -------- . LONDON and WESTMINSTER BANK.- 6., The recmple4tar'Branch of this Bank was opened on Friday e l. at th e Teteporarse Offi ce s, No. 211, Strand. Mr. Charles Ward , . ' Co ° . e "'as for thirty ware in the bank of Messrs. S trahan, Paul, and 1 "usia been appointed the Manager. j • L otimary, June 18, 105,, J. W. GILBART, General Manager. 1 ...see_ . fle e ,. SECUR, T TY TO EMPLOYERS. z . '' 4: - ' I . E TIMES ASSURANGE COMPANIES. -- .' To Clerks and others guarantees at the lowest rates. ~, p ity Glass Assurance.--11 Windows, mirrors, Firc , insured against .. , ts,breaka•ze. NI. ..----------- ~ ........A.,;.J3'iy tduestenreipmtianonuogfeLr,if3e2,anLttlidFlee:ehsinsu.ran cos. '. , .V IT REGULATIONS for the TRANSMIS ~ k m FirON of NEWS•P CPERS axed other PERIODICAL PUBLI :- ' h as ,17 POST.-The follows'ng Circular L etter, a copy of „ " as • been forwarded to the vrint er o f each p uelication now ; • . %b e e g thrrueh the Post under the News') s perpr•Titege, is publi•hed i meral information:- General Pos.`eoflice, June 16, 1855. ! i . „Sir, la ‘el a iPublication of wh i ch you are th a printer, has hitherto . , i , .1 lio through the poet under the newspaper p ri vile g e, I am direct, d u e , ' P ostmaster-. eneral to request your at tention to the provi °S papers, Act" To am,n4 the Laws relattne i 'o the Stamp Duties 11 : 1 4 :4 7 e P ri aP od e i r ,_ s a , 1 and to u p e r n o s y w e h f i o eu r the tans vissiou bi post of now ' 1 eceived the Rep 1 2 1 *''Y 61 ' • ,•th te e --s Act every periodical publication print i d in c •nformity Llit 1t .," several retaliations therein specified, on pap sr duly stamped 0, 11... - appropriated die, and posted within 15 days I 'corn the date of le sett°, Abe , will, on. and after the day al•poll . sted for tile Act to take -0 1 3 , t entitled to the privilege of transmission awl re-transtnls - Post, between places in the United Kingdon 9, on certain 10 14 1- . - • amens; these are the following :- ri •-T be Publication must lave the title and date of publics a Idea on the top of every page ; and t i Si e ° e " ii •-It must be folded in such a manner that the twhole of the 'eltni e r ,l t annes. denoting the duty, shall be exposed to 'view, and 4. / e e , RY visible on the outside. t 1 1 , ,Taci hardly point out that, unless the publication printed by e'll'lo-ePemortical publication, in every respect eonforma We to the „th ~,, sof the Act, it will not in future be entitled to any privilege ,set t ZsPect to its transmi•sion by the post. But should yen desire l :tlreic'_Publicatton shall enjoy the Postal privilege, I am to draw your th e u o ssPecially t• the two conilitions jest named, as being those IV Peter, to be overlocked, Und to su ns est that you should advise t e o la er and readers to campy with the second, so as to avoid e s taele l ,e_llience that would otherwise result from its enforcement. r sof'e e such compliance, lam further to suggest the import f ~,, 1 3, fat ; Printing the paper, that the stamp or stamps shall inva !heseet°ll an outside page, and of adopting both these measures , 6 % . •r h ir? the new,reguletions heeorne compulsory. Cas e 's - ket"farther provides that, to entitle a publication to the tz roi lo ; Sonneetel with transmission b••yoed the United Kingdom, t ,„`lste re ) a conditions, in addition to those already noticed, shall 0 i i, q;‘,. ed. 14ZIon - r a T a he Postmaster-General must be satisfied that such pub " ke l , 4 th e newspaper , or entitled to the privilege of a newspaper, ‘ • o`e tes caning of existing Treaties and arrangements with , • IheN et Colonial Governments; and I9 4 ' ) ler -- , The Proprietor or printer must register the publication at , e • is „a. P ost -office in London. , k,'lorz.'te'Lleretore, you dc-ire that the publication, of which you are aid , shall enjoy these privileges, it is necessary that you r,) ' a wri , ten application to that effect, addressed- Ret (e .. "To the Secretary of the Post-office , , i Nel e2i V e ewspaper Register.) London , et " A; lou r ' , ea specimen copy, stamped with the appropriated die. of hoe a Pee Pileation mast farther be accompanied by the sum of bo ‘ll% lO the bewfo.r..!dmission to the register, and . this payment will en ea , if t helet fee be transmitted through the post, it should be by I oft ', ,i„"'„ t coince money order, payable to Mr. Maitland Wilson t o 'a „ I ,A Ale he Post-office. Londo•i. 1 to te ~ hei er ”of 53. must be paid, in the same manner, yearly, viz., i e ktil l :, e lll :ile: o ` i h n e 15th . dune, otherwise ' it will be understood that 1 ip• -ik t , %si c ~,. enessiou as no longer desired. and the name of the r usete t u be removed from the Register ht the close of the h et 9 'bee ° f dune Of this arrangement duo notice will be given r• /t to u. ' 04 ale, tine, "!lllitt e ,,e. or course, be understood that, even while the publica big I k z :4 , le st r on the register, the privilege of transmission abroad lig' e ',teriste, Y Coy change which shall deprive the publication of the f ,5, 'Rid e a? of a newspaper, within the meaning of the treaties, ' :ite'seboe. ST, jes e il eeir t rotester-General desires me also to explain that reale eht,.'2, he, ~ot absolutely secure any nostal privilege after the pun :ra ')Rt.. eff 'rt this country, as his Lordship has no power to require Of la p „ o ll , t ' e _ ee ,of a foreign a'coutry, or even (with a few exceptions) ,ilt e: t 4 e s l i e PnY, to treat publication as a newspeper merely be , '4 3 bits ee " to be such in this' country, although the fact of its ti e 1 Nir e - ", uPon the register will be presumptive evidence that it tl O m be so treated. -• I am, Sir, your obedient servant, cl ' el ) ••••,.,' ROWLAND HILL, Secretary. clic' li t , C OMMAND of the POSTMASTER tter ' ,kll 41: N"'"' it:u b si,' - ',' AL.-NOTICE to the P ÜBLIC and INSTRUCTIONS Tr kesele•s-,„....STERS cl`e,.;'• "LI la cRs SHMENT of the FORMER RATE of POSTAGE .! N eet for VICTORIA, PORT PHILIP, with Compulsory ; 11', 1 1,,, I' Zirl f re , ' General Post-office, June, 1855. _ ' e,' , 4 , t( e ' hi .th " r u the 20th instant, the Rates of Postage charged pre- 3 • i s. (p e et s l t October last upon letters addressed to the colony of , • ` '''‘ Philip) will again be levied. The: e rates are as fol- ' 3 ,1 sic ° ' Not exceed- Above % Above 1 oz. abets° 2 ozs l ittle ing half an cz. and not tted not and net 2 ounce in exceeding exceeding exceeding roth , e N . weight. 1 oz. 2 ozs. 3 ozs. . ,2p ..4, _.-. -.-- ---- - 113 ,; o se ha't' s ' .... Is. Od. 25. Od. 4s. Od. 6s. Od. - (30' )o,`' n ti N,...'allip.. Os. Bd. Is. 4d. 2s. Bd. 4s. Od. Oil, NA,. a , 14 1 , 1,,- ,i qke postage be paid in advance the letters cannot be for- W k,,,.. 1, 1t 0 $ E 1 1 0 „ 4 inn siseenny rate was extended to Victoria in conse- I 0, 5 ! t'efe e ees e - ' 4 nunn . nication which was understood to convey the • on" OttlettlSe f the Colonial Government; but by despatches of a ; ); fii• to t,', 1 1q 1 1 , - 4L s ears that there hoe been some misapprehensien in e eegr S'eutit jet, that not only has no such acquiescence been given. ' i s Oa 1 111, Pr. s .' l ll: 4 colonial inland postaze continues to be collected, '' fe:T c Ottoniel revenue, upon all letters sent to this cou t i u st r ry. ie etglj tre e ' r Ben an er g al ei i n s, eu th t erefore, reluctantly compelled e- / 9 pi l pt ROWLAND HILL, Secretary. , 11 0 ' St i ljt li t i to - t elic si) r- Results of the last half -century have proved beyond r ~ 0 - 0 / 17 it ( m esa. , iii.it ;41 i ' , l, 1) , ),,,,."' LANDS' MACA S S A R OIL \ Oa ‘,°: liZll 4, li,'Res il iy nourfsbins powere in the growth, restore el'''' 01 ' f les s "lerov P e e t e n u en g t r of the Human Hair, and is now universally slaw i , tk .;ir th sel to be the Cheapest, and euperfor to all other prepare- Aotop i., t 4e: Hair. It prevents it from taliinz off or turning grey, 1 '''_"„se y• A... 4 i w u eak Ham cleanses it from scurf and _dandruff, and i exee e e ce< l e s thelly seft, curly, and glossy. Its operation in eases of I 1 rreo k `Yeb ib l'eeallarly active; and in the growth of the Beard, Wh . ts- Ito A PN. 1 , 8 . and Mustachios, it is untailling in its stimulative : o a D.. 6 sfe Children it is especially recommended , as form in g l p; t0q4,,,, sautiful Head of Hair. Price 3s. 6d. and 7 . 5.; Family I r , s t() ‘ ;.. to four small) 10s. 6d. ; and double that sies, 21s. I il e g : / 8 ; tpit AtA ',': -- On the wrapp ' er of each bottle are the words, Row- 1 ~'‘'sr , 4 0 4, 11 1• Vssat On e in two lines. 1 "".. e lO ! 'Nat,' 'Rowland and Sons, 20, Ilatton-garden, London, and i r osy - , and Perfamer. [O O , ~i1,,,,v : 4 url'il'' k 4 • 17. ES END S T A qci tc Y% , 1 , ~, P eee PACKETS. lee Pace eel, s ets call at the Greenhithe and rurffeet Pie se p ee lll•-st the P'e-a as unfferlined (weather permiqinV : --41 TER - RA. ' CF, PIER, GRAVESEND \,„............._ 1 1 ell 1 / 44.14 e " l o s s es. 3.,INUAT, Os ; `it s .• 1 ..s. _ _ . joi. 7- ' t .c Is , :4 1 \I 5i ; --;, 1 ~.. a I f i pl 30 1 , • 9 el e• = ta - 8 i g t ` c e t l; 1 :....,. Zus , se es . 1 1, I" -- --- -.--....,. 1...- -- -_ - ' 2 '5 °C I; ;* 1 --.- 8% --- - - ,1 0 110 R l t '• - - to o I -*** --- - -- vN, - i -_ _ 6 _ . -- - - lk) 11*,,, i -- •- - - "INN *O, l , ‘1 rtd• r a ncharch-street Station to au parts of wade , sa 6 i 'te k ‘ti hoar, 45 30 lee, Wa Aee ,• I‘, 41 get ee ,_""'. BLACKWILL, on the arrival of the !el. se 'els from the Fenchurch-street Station. ! alre--/-i -i k , : 2 - --422 z--____ Smeners. -- - ---"- - - - - --2 .. - --W -- 10l i 3 1 I ~ , : , , ; " . : , ..: - 25 t Fen- . :., - --el e „ e to - 4 e ." =. .. 5. e i rs chnrcfr ' 2: .-- 7 -." `E fs,' !'• e 1 1 1 •- e 's s., TE Street 7 ; s• lsl p ,i, ~ ...- ~. •••• s 1 1 .... ---.. z I' '..- ••••••-. -.---... - -....-- -...... ...... .-...... eh i t ....`• - 50 3 06, - •10 - - - 2-- - - - Or 0. ; ; s' • -. --- 3 - - - er ° bob; le P el c toP ; ( 4 4%ert l - 6 r er g ll Oa lli R 1ti 147 ‘4 4 1.. * "t rid a Fore Cabin. Saloon. 5 r ‘ti ail and r, and Loxdon.. •• • . 10d. .. la. 2d. ;'did re t i tt,,l t i l i k 4 I,,,, d 'laekwall or Woolwich Bd. -- s s• 414 ' pr . ~ ... . ... . . kt l' hl 0 ..._. ... . . Bd. .. Os. 10d. 3 °.- '3 O, N OteZmnd and or Woolwich 6d. .. 03. Bd. i to „., - 410, t l , -,u Intermediate Piers.. 6d. .. Os. Bct. 7oa P° 1, '4l e e 'e e - i'llree s, t onths, Si. Os. •to be had of the Col e .•'N .c ' , chets; or cf Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier,Graves ;,Nr I.° SOlo tkis es e se e 11 30. - T BEND AND SIIEERNESu. Ire fro ° ili t ieles, 7.e 6 Town and Rosherville Pie r s , 11 . 30 and .20. 'A koreen'eu,, , 6.30 a all 4 4.30. From Southend, 8 e _ 5 .. ,l f .' M. from Sheerness, and 7 from South I N' s , • Finks. e 5O ' 't, •,'" 4 a e 2d Class and Ist Class and • Return Ticket. 1,./, , a; 44., t::. s ,_ttu ie , v , ... Fore , Cabin. Saloon. 2d. let. to tip e e l lh e r ' e ertie4 . • 2 '. W. 3s. Od. 33. 6(1. 4s. Od. s __ 4 • 2s. Od • O t t; 5 0 ' 1 31 e e :heg e end 7 • 2s. lid. 33. Od. as. 6d. 'a° S '• Or il to 4 1. I Rhee l ie , 61 2s. Od. 2s. 6d. 3s. Od. to, 0 0 .1 5. r um • :eilt s ' 9 3 ' ) It Z4! ~, i o vP IR E , . .., _ ...ilirrrEst or vnirru atom MATURITY. V , k k%- la 41151111:1"11 wYithOCTilesr free eby MAT U RITY. 4 I ° 2 5, illu str ated with \ 4 1 41 4 1 4 Nr ~ \ 414, v, t.„ urj S stamps, post for 30 -4 ell, F; DEBILITY; icith j r niltoms and Cure. — An Essay on Sper ' ttc a de practical ' Observation on a safer and more h i , 1 , ) , 1 cify ttTeatmegeent of the ths: fi Ts o e c as eo 2, ri s e :kilook:lt,,,Zeitrdeetireelinpairayinexa4n:ltileen:th-er real k,,tatt,oifn"deeteGectlegr"ainvde cause l tandsolitary effect of Adtl/244:: c'rezpeliinatt'e,s'iohiLthweerl arisin g 2 hy s p in r_cti ' c o al remarks, foundei; , ti l.„7? ll t Z i , I.,,, a rr ea c h in 4 the treitm r g a, t a :of te l . mp l ! o iss w a h n i ce, eh Itiliii,tatarles on the es' Phy Si s ' i e olo4 . of * Marriage, with pre ii.l. 14, 14krkge i . n o _ t he evils emanating' from empirical pri.etice, N,I, t ill s° `l' re ra 4 dielt advocated by various writers on J ,ai t , Deg rde3. I `"t6 1 k t g 'AhniEL LA'MERT. M.D. ‘N N'tclii7 D 0 N, ‘ NQ irary etee '4,:e trieulated Member of the University of Edict :"3: l " l4 4 i i tisetk' nlb er of the L o ndon Hospital Medical Society 44 1. 44 ''biect, e"ria a' Rail, London. W.. itc• h , ti 4 rt . of this treatise is to point out the fearful con -Itl Dr "'On' c ' t a certain h bits'You ularities, and cicoescs , t, ;% , , k4 2o: T aat t , ' ,? a d More r e 1..,,, g h it . ittjql , . ' l lse -.6 decay at yin t ~_ degradation in Man yy'll, he,,,,_ase k town . modernstages oaftLhioft,gthart perhaps, any I ists. ' Its perusal is 0: 14 :: t h 1 . egZanded to Pnsf c 1 % * ) ., - I'Die,, t s i on, and who are conscious of having hazarded secret doubts of i,'Qlt:tll l ,._ ' and Privileges to which every human being is A 10. 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Messrs. _r_ll3s : ,k, "A N teet,....._ at ernoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxicra-sheet; , 4111 e to 401;quare; Mann , 89, ki tor R od- N• or free by post for address from the Author's reslueneo, 37, 13 N. Celltr tat , ' --erl daily from Eleven till Two PAO from ,1ol e ! - 10 P. pd r ; 10 1 Ce. el°l Per „it ; ~ if °f ovg , th° eore la ta l IP" lo' oector t he fjoo; t tl3ll l I, , rD dl (0 11 1 tfr , 50. JI .001 The Third Edition.—Just published, price 55., by post, free, ss. 6d. ON TRUE &FALSE SPERMATORRIREA, with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the Real Sufferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. From 'he German of Dr. PICRFORI'. With an Introduction by the Editor, containing a complete exposure of the system of terrorism and extortion pursued by the advertising quacks of the metropolis towards those who are credulous enough to seek their aid. " ur. Pickford hi known to English readers by his frequent practi ,.l contributions to German medical literature. This is the first Ogle, he informs as, that he has addressed himself to the nos-raedi ::al reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he letect any ether equally flasrrant evil which it may be in his .over to cor rect."—London Medical Gazette. " The tribe of Quiet Sympathisers,' and 'Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed and if this book amid find its way into the hands of those who saff.r from the com 31aint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would oe 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 Spermatorrhosa, and to place the treat ment upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, likely to do much gond." London: 11. Ttsiliere. 219, Regent-street. THE THIRD ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL of the NATIONAL ORPHAN HOME will take place at the SCAR AND GARTER, Richmond Hill, on FRIDAY, June 22, when --- • - His Royal Highness the Duke of CA..BRILIGE will preside. STEWARDS. The Right Hon. the Earl of Effinebana. The Right Hon. the Earl of Shaftesbury. The Right Hon. Lord P.ernars. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of St. David's. The Right Hon. the Lord Dynevor. The Right Hon. the Lord Justice Knight Bruce. The Right Hon. Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P. The Hon. F. Tollensache. Charles Cowan, Esq., M.P. J. King King, Esq., M.P. Eingseote. Major Pole. Charles Bevan, Esq.. &c., tge , tce. _ . _ Donations and subscriptions may be paid to Henry Kingscotc, Esq., the Treasurer, to the account of the National Orphan Borne, at tte London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury ; to the Honorary Pecre tortes, the Rev. Joseph Brown, Rector of Christchurch, Blackfriars road, and the Rev. R. Whittington. Chapter House, St. Paul's Church yard ; and to any member ot the Committee. Life subscribers of 101. 10s. have two votes for each vacancy; of 5/. ss. hare one vote. Annual subscribers of One Guinea, two votes; of half a guinea, one vote. The next election will be in July. Not exceed- Above % xbove loz .those 2 ozg ing half an -•z. and not azd not and di A RGYLL ROOMS.—lmmense success of the —Dance n d ew ev d er a y nc e e v , e Ll g V . AßSOVlANA : Music by H. LAURENT. ounce in exceeding . exceeding Laceidi_ng weight. I oz 2 ozs. 3 ozs. is. Od. 2s. Od. 4s. Od. 6s. Od. Os. Bd. Is. 4d. 2s. 8d 4s. Od. I R. ANTI V.T,F,CITPTC! A T, MA OFITNE. GRAND ELECTRICAL MACHINE. Experiments at the ROYAL PANOPTICON, Leicester square, by Mr. C. F. PABTINGTON, daily at 340 and 8 20. Lecture by Dr. 11. M. NOAD, on Tuursday, 7.15. The Institution is open, Morning, !2 to 5, Evening, 7 to 10. Admission, Is.; schools and children half-price. r 0 the SHAREHOLDERS of the EASTERN UNION RAILWAY. Your Railway will pay two, or even three, pit* cent., if youwill be but true to yourselves. But Law is the ruling passion of your Board. To make work for the lawyers and great contracture, further ex ten-ions to IVoodbridge are being arranged, with, of course, prefer ence stock. The Eastern Counties alone will be benbiltted by this. Before you convent, require the Eastern Counties to add their guarantee to your debenture and preference interest. Your earnings Mr exceed these charges. but this additional guarantee will enable you to have the rate of interest much reduced. A SHAREHOLDER. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.- CHEAP EXCURSI3N to the IVES L' of ENGLAND.—On SATURDAY, June 23, an Excursion Train will leave Paddington at 8 a.m., for Plymouth, calling at Weston-super-mare, Bridgewater, Taunton, Tiverton-road; Exeter, Starcross, Dawisit, Teignmouth, Torquay, Totness, and Kingsbridge, and will return irons Plymouth en Saturday, June 30, at 6.30 a.m. FARES TTIERE AND DAM let class. Closed carriages. Weston•super-flare, or Bridgewater •• • • 2os. .. 13s. Taunton or Tiverton-road 22s. .. • 15s. Exeter .......... . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 24s. .. 16.. Starcross, Dawlish, or Telgomouth...... • Torquay or Totness ••..• • • • .• • Plymouth or Kingsbridge • 3os. .. 20s. Children under 12 yearS of age half-price. The excursion tickets are not transferable, and are only available by the Excursion Train. GUARDIAN FI ASSURANCE No. 11, Lombard- DIBECI RE AND LIFE COMPANY, -street, London. TORS. HAIL, Bart., Chairman. Esq., Deputy-Chairman. Stewart Marjoribanks, Esq. John NI - actin, Esq., M.P. Rowland Mitchell, Esq. James Morris, Esq. Henry Norman, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, Esq. John Thornton, Esq. James Tulloch, Esq. Henry Vigne, Esq. AUDITORS. Sir WALTER R. FARQI iRA.NCIS MART DYKE Henry Hulse Berens, Esq. John Dixon, Esq. Sir W. M. T. Farquhar, Bart. T. Hankey, jun., Esq., M.P. John Harvey, Esq._ John G. Hubbard, Esq. George Johnstone, Esq. John Labouchere, Esq. John Loch, Esq. • Robarts, Esq. f Heury,Sykes Thornton, Esq. Lewis Lloyd, Jun., Esq. John Henry Smith, Esq. George Keys, Esq., Secretary. Samuel Itrown, Esq., Actuary. LIFE DEPARTS ENT.—Under the provisions of an Act of Par liament, this Company now offers to future insurers Four-fifths of the Profits, with Quinquennial Division, or a Low Rate of Premium without participation of Profits. The next division of Profits will be declared in Jane, 1860, when all participating Policies which shall have subsisted at least one year at Christmas, 1859, will be allowed to share in the Profits. At the five divisions of Profits made by this Company, the total reversionary Bonuses added to the Policies have exceeded 913,0004. At Christmas last the Assuran es in force amounted t.) upwards of 4,240,0D01. ; the Income from the Life Branch in 1854 was more titan 200,0011. ; and the Life Assurance Fund (independent of the tsuarantee Capital) exceeded 1,700,0001. FOREIGN RISK s.—The Extra Premiums required for the East and West Indies; the British Colonies, and the northern parts of the Unite! states of America, have been materially reduced. INVALID LIVES.--Persons who are not in such sound health as would enable them to insure their Lives at the Tabular Premiums, may have their Lives insured at Extra Premiums. LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their values, pro vided such Policies shall have been effected a sufficient time to have attained in each case a value not under 50/. ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, received and registered. Medical fees paid by the Company, and no charge will be made for Policy Stamps. Notice is Hereby Given, that Fire Policies which expire at Mid summer must. be renewed within fifteen days at this Office, or with Mr. Sams, No. 1, St James's-street, corner et Pali.-mall ; cr with the Company's Agents throughout the Kingdom, otherwise they become' oid. Losses caused by Ex, Ision of Gas are admitted by this Company ALLSOPP'Sb PALE ALE, in Casks or Bottles. '--HARRINGTON, PARKER, and CO., are now Delivering the MARCH BREWINGS in Casks of 18 Gallons and upwards. Also In Bottles, imperial measure. Address : --HARRINGTON, PARKER, and CO., Wine and Beer 37erchants, 5%, Pall-Mall. METROPOLITAN COMMUNICATIONS. -...::1,.- At tire last meeting of the committee on metropo litan communications, Mr. W. Jackson in the chair, Mr. LIONEL GISBORNE, C.E., said that be would con fine the water-way of the river to a width of not less than 700 feet (the length of Westminster new bridge), by means of quay walls on both shores, the present wharves to be accommodated with floating basins of , a minimum width of 100 feet. with entrances for barges. The quay wall on the Middlesex shore, from West minster to London-bridge, to be 21 feet over Trinity high water mark, avoiding the necessity of drawbridges over the entrances to the tidal basin. From Westmin ster-bridge to St. Paul's-wharf, where a new bridge was contemplated, by the Corporation of London, Mr. Gis borne proposed to have a covered esplanade for foot passengers next the river, 20 feet in width, alongside of which, for 50 feet, the ground would bo lot for bnibling t except opposite Whitehall-gardens, the Temple, &c. Parallel with the esplanade, and extending from West tninster-bridge to London-bridge, a railway to be con structed. Next the railway, a street 40 feet wide from Westminster-bridge to the proposed bridge at St. Paul's. Large cellars to be constructed under the esplanade, railway, and road. Opposite Whitehall,' the Temple-gardens, &c., as wel! as from St. Paul's bridge to London-bridge, the quay wall to be four fret above Trinity high water • and the esplanade, railway, &c., to be carried on columns not less than 25 feet apart, so as not to interfere with the view of the river. The quay wail on the Surrey side of the river to extend from Lambeth Palace to London-bridge, and for the greater part of the distance to be about 21 feet above Trinity high water. The existing wharves to be accommo dated as before mentioned. Next the river a road 70 ft. wide to be made, alongside of which the ground to be let for building purpoßes. The esplanade, with a Paxton roof of glass, would form a most delightful promenade for thousands who lived at trio great a distance to visit the parks. By his plan the navigation and scouring power of the Thames would be materially improved, and it would prevent the formation of shoals, which were con stantly making their appearance. The entire cost of the works was estimated under 1,200,000/. The annual ground rents of shops, warehouses, wharves, &Z., with the receipts derived from the railway, would amount to 103,0001. annually on an outlay of 1,900,0001. He con sidered 55,0001. per annum was available by letting river-side property, which at 30 years' purchase would amount to 1,650,0001., about the estimated cost of the whole Work. Calculating that 30,000 passengers a-day would take advahtage of the railway, at 11d. a head, or allowing ld. per head for profit, and id. for working ex penses, the yearly proceeds he estimated at 45,0001. Mr. Gisborne Went into a variety of other details as to his plan, and concluded by stating . _ that. it had Lord ! Pa'. merston's approbation; who wished to see it carried into effect. • The committee having minutely examined their plans, said they would give it their best attention. LOYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GAR DENS. THIS EVENING. Grand Modelled View of Se bastopol. An attempt will be made to convey to the public an idea of the operations of a siege, and that nothing may be wanting to give reality to the scene the proprietor his secured the services o' a con,ider.bie number of the `rounded heroes of the Crimea, and at half-past 6 this evening will be given the attack and defeat of the Rusdan ssrtie, in which upwards of tOC. soldiers, marines, artillery men, and seamen will a sts - .. Final Repulse of the Russians and Bombardment of Sebastopol, with grand Pyrotechnic Tableau, at a quarter to 10. Splendid Menagerie, E'ephant's Car, heniington's Aerial Bridge. Godfrey's unrivalled Band, and numerous other at'raction , . Admission Is., daylight attack and night bombard ment included. N B.—Corporal Bridges and Private J. Mackey, of the Coldstream Guards, both severely wounded at Ink,rman, attend every day, from 3 till dusk, to point out the various objects of interest, &c. IR WM. BURNETT'S DISINFECTING k FLUID, for destroying alt Offensive Smells and purifying Rooms, &e. Its cost is less than Gao Farthing per Gallon when diluted for use. Sold by all Chemists, and at 18, Cannon , treet, City. Gallons, be. Quarts, 2s. Pints, Is. Half-pints, 6d. TOZEAU'S COPAHINE, or SACOHARATED CP CAPSULES, approved of by the french College of Physicians, successfully administered in the Paris and London Hospitals, and acknowledged by them to he the best remedy tor a certain disorder. (See " Lancet" of Nov. 6, 1852.) A copy will be forwarded oa appli cation —Price per 100, 45.6 d. ; 50, 2s. 9d. To be had of the inventor, GABRIEL JOZEIII, French chemist, 49, Haymarket, London, and alt the principal chemists. BAILIVAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK. Miles Receipts. CONFIDENTIAL MEDICAL ADVICE on opened. NAME OF RAILWAY. 1854. 1855. the Decay of Natural Vigour , Exc essive Indul g ence, Nervous 1855. Debility, the Effects of Climate or Infection. -Messrs NEWING- ---- -...-.. TON, 24, Somerset-street, Portman-square, Consulting Surgeons, BRITISIL £ £ Matriculated Member of Guy's, the Royal College of Surgeons, and 72% Aberdeen ...... ••••- •• • • • 2,011 2,462 Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London. & c., &c , 1827. 37A Belfast and Ballymena •• •• ••• ....• i.: •••••••• 3, 82 0 °4 3 87 4 2, 82 1 7 0 184 7 Messrs. NEWINGTON'S celebrated OLD SPANISH PILLS, price 2s. 17 Belfast and County Down.• ••••• • • • •• 9d., 4s. 6d., and 1 ls. per box, perform a moat speedy cure in Scor- 32 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire bu i ic, Skin, and other pernicious diseat es, without the slightest teems- 26% Bolton, Blackburn, and West York •• •• ~, , 7e e, _ - _ - _ - _ venience to their patients or danger from exposure. Their RESTO- 103 l ei Bristol and Exeter e•..• • •• .... ••• • .. • °, , =' 5( 1 5 9 1 73 8 07 2 RATIVE CORDIAL, sold at I is. per bottle, for InVigorating the 1891 ( Ca1ed0nian............. .......... • • 11 , Nervous System, is the best medicine ever discovered. The above 9 ' 1 4 Chester and Holyhead. ••.. • • •• • • 5.3 25 82 4 5,497 217 established medicines are only to be had at their residence. 64 Cork, Blackrock, and Passage •• •••• Country patients, by forwarding' Xi, will receive advice and mcdl 20 Cork and Bandon .. • • .............. 223 185 eine, whic I will effect a cure in most cases without further charge. 56 Dublin and Belfast Junction ••••• • • • 873 1,011 Minute details of cases are necessary. One personal application is 63 Dublin and Drogheda."... ......... 1 , 352 1,387 advisable in all cases, if convenient. . 7 A Dublin and Kingstown .. •• • • ........ 969 1,052 Obaerve-24, Somerset-street, Portman.square, three doors from 16A Dundee and Arbroath .............. 546 5 6 2 Orchard-street, where the Doctor may be consulted daily, as usual, 31 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 796 911 without fee, from 9in the moraine until Bin the evening, and on 25 Dundalk and Ennisklllen.• .... •• .. .. 221 336 Sundays from 9 till 12 in the morning. Seeress , strictly observed. 63 East Anglian.... •• • • ....... . 81% East Lancashire - .......... ..... ..• 7,109 5,905 417 Eastern Counties and Norfolk .. 3 23,174 21,810 SEBASTO POLISFA L L E N. Eastern Union •••••••••• • • • • .. • • .. Such an expression escaped the lips of a gentleman rather in- 142 Edinburgh and Glasgow ............. 5,316 5,215 78 Edinburgh, Perth. and Dundee...". 2,99 5 3,272 dined to "Take time by the forelock," and anticipate probable re- 6 Exeter and Crediton •• •• - - sults. Some good arguments a re founded on analo gy , a n d those who 22 Furness Railway .. ............ 5,652 5,998 count on consequences from a comp arison of causes are sure to be .•. 1,009 1,018 183 Glasgow, and South-Western •••• • • .. right. However , we can hel p this g entleman in his anticipaffins by 283 Grea t Northern and E. L.• ••.•• •• •• 17,770 19,13 S referring to the success of E. MOSES and Sox's Business, which has 188 Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 5,277 5,951 ga ined a complete victory by the entire destruction of the fortresses of 342 Groat Western ••••••• • • • • • • • mon opoly. The forces they e m p lo y are numberless-the talent they 25 Irish South Eastern ••••••• • •• .• .• - - encou rage is collected from all parts of the world-the Goods they 90 Lancaster and Carlis1e."... Make to Order, or Off r Ready M ads, are the results of unrestricted 260 Lancashire and Yorkshire.... •• • • commerce with an nations-and every person examining their articles Leeds Northern .. ••••••..•• • • • • • • • • _ - of Dress for the Summer Season will fromep has fa len, or 161 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport... , 511 328 next to tha , every persbn is relieved the apprehension of being 553% London and North Western . ..... subject to the inconvenience of hot weather, or the expense of hea v y 51e London and Blackwell.. ••..• • .. 1,852 1,6 i 7 w ar taxes. The new operations of the forces in the command of 174 L on don, Brighton, and South Coast 267 London and South Western - 17,020 terials and Styles, more Skill in 60 Londonderry and Enniskillen a c re ap d e is - pl a aye n d o. in 507 610 E. T Rl h o e sxs productions. Every wish of velty made only by E. MOSES and Cut and Make than any other _ Sox-elegant in appearance- - - 171 A Manchester, Sheilleld, and Lincolned re 11,850 8,464 victorious overrain, sun, or dust their frien ds, patrons, and the Emperor's at d S O N 9% Manchester and South Junction -a woollen material, thoro ug hly public will be realised by the 23 Maryport and Carlisle .. •• • ... ..... • 1,004 953 stock of Clothin g, H a t s, waterproof, folds in a very Smell new Ho- 493% Midland ..... 126% Midland Great Western (Irish) space, and may be carried w ith- si er J y uvenile Clot ins f or M idsum out any inconvenience. Price- . Boots ande hoes, See . . 31 Monklands •• • • • • • • • ... • • • • • • • • .. • • - - faction in style and manafacture, Main, 265.; richly trimmed with mar Vacations-the acme or per silk. 335. 78% Newcastle and Carlisle."... " e... •• - - 149 North British • • The Midsummer Stock is now unprecedented magnitude of - North Staffordshire • • ...... •••• •• • • - - ready for inspection. It.furnishes Stock, unparalleled advantages 46% North-Western .....• • • the most convincing proofs of in price. 82% Scottish Central •• • • .......... • 2,984 3,434 every facility being possessed by The Largest Wholesale Cloth- 32 Scottish Midland •••• •• •• • •• .. •• • • E. MOSES and Sox is distin- ing, Boot, Shoe, and Shirt depart- 29% Shrewsbury and Birmingham •• guished by more variety in Ma- meat in the World. 48 Shrewsbury and Chester 239 South Eastern- •• •• •• •• E. MOSES and SON are 30 Shropshire Union .... • • ........•• .. 831 878 Merchant Tailors, Clothiers , flatters. Hosiers, S hirt Manufac- 9 7A Sleuth Dev0n........ . ..... • - 2,463 turers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and . • .... 19.181 18,434 1,7 - 35129 4 1;82 0 5 3 107 8 Gentlemen. 162% South Wales ............:. 38 Taff Vale 697287752 Waterfordy,.oroost r South icea Y no ordrnks Newcastle, ne , awdlicis Don ca ster, u.i36 Ulster eri c k a . n . d .. Goole .. .. .• .. 1,854 I , 605 CAirriox.-E. Mons and Sox beg to state they have no connexion with any other house in or out of London, except their oWn Esta" blishments, as follow :- London City Establishment, corner of the MinOries, and Aldgate 12 Whitehaven Juneti t io . e n:l a .i . i (opposite London the yv e s e t h . e u n r church). B ) . Branch, New Oxford-street, corner of - , • •••••• : IB . e . r . tvi - ch .. ° gr . Hart street.67o 692 340 342 Country Branches - Sheffield and B York and North Midland iSe L ee ds - - Colonial Wholesale Branch-Melbourne,radford, Yorkshire. The establishments are closed from s unset Australia. FOREIGN. Saturdays, when business is resumed sunset on unset on Fridays till S 671 4 Dutch Rhenish .......... ••.•• • • , .• 1,320 1,818 till 12 o'clock. ' INIPORTINT.-Should any article not 262 Lyons and Mediterranean ....... - give sati s f action it will be ex- - changed or, if preferred, the money retur ned 63 Monterean and Troyes .. • - wt All •••••••• ..- ---. goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest thout hesitation. - 63 Namur and Liege - abatement can be made. price, from which no 415 Northern of France - ; -•. ..... . 33,527 29,129 . A New Book, with lists of prices, system of 697 Orleans and Central* ............. . _ and other information, may be had on application, self-measurement , 240 Paris and Lyons .....„.........• _ An Illustrated Almanac for 1855;gratis, on appica ogi n ost free.• - 82 Paris and Rouen. .• _ ... ...• „...... ..... _ i Ici on parle Francais. 1 Qui Si parla Italian*. ,or post free 392 Paris and Strasburgh • ......• •• e. . --- Ilierspricht man Dent/MIL 1 59 Roden and 11. tyre - ........ •• •• . . - Aqua se hank Espaguol. 157 . Weiternof Franco .' - ..•.... .-- Now ready at all the Booksellers, OHEAP EDITION of PEPYS' DIARY and I,_,J CORRESPONDENCE. Comprising all the recent additional Notes and Emendations, printed uniformly with the last edition of Evelyn's Diary, in 4 vols. post Bvo., with Portraits, &c., price only 6s. each, bound. Published for H. Colburn, by his succcssors, Hurst and Blackett. GUILDHALL, 11th June, 1855.—The Com mittee for Letting the City's L tads will meet at uildha'd, on IVr.DNESDA.Y, the 11th June, instant, at One o'clock precisely, to receive Proposals for Leases of a Mouse. No. 3, ou the east side of Broad-s , reet Buildings; a House, No. 23. on the south side of New Broad-street ; a House, No. 2, on the north side of South-place ; Four Houses, Nos. 58, 59, 60, and 61, on the south side of Banner square; and a How, No. 7, on the west side of Milton-street, Fins bury. Further particulars and plans may be seen, and forms of tender obtained, at the Architect's Office, Guildhall. FERDINAND BRAND, Comptroller. The Administrative Reform AsSociation wisely holds that the country can afford to pension off incapacity and to pay the full price for capacity, but that it is not rich enough to afford to pay for what it does not get in re turn, and so to lose both the money and the service re quired. The true economy is to have nothing that is not wanted, but to have everything that is wanted good of its kind, and at the f'tir price. The most thriftless of errors is to-mistake low price for cheapness. Cheapnees is a compound of quality and price, but as price is too often looked to in tha figure only, without reference to the worth of the thing to be had in exchange, the Spaniards have a proverbial saying, that cheap things are dear. The tendency for many years past has been to make the public service rather a low-priced than a cheap service, and paradoxical as it may appear, the conse quence has necessarily been to throw it very much into the hands of the aristoeracy, and the affluent classes. A young man cannot enter the army without some means besides his scanty pay. Arid few are the youths who enter the civil service upon clerkships of 901. a year without some kind of essistance from their families, or independent resources, immediate or in prospect. There may be exceptions here and there, but they are painful examples, and to ,make the matter worse, the persons who have to live solely on such insuf ficient pittances often owe their appointments to merit (being either friendless er of poor friends destitute of interest or influence), and are wholly deviged to the duties for which they are so poorly requited. This small class of public servants work for the reason assigned for the growth of trees, because they have nothing else ,to do. Their narrow means deny them 'any, indulgences, any pursuits that might draw them from Lheir occupa tion. But we repeat, they are but a feweeand their lot does no honour to-the service, and would dieter all in the same circumstances from entering it who could find bread elsewhere. And it is notorious that private companies pay better than Government, taking care: to get better served for the better pay. Yet we may be told that the pay of the English service in all branches is higher than any other nation, and at the opposite ex treme of the scale is Russia, with salaries and wages hardly more than nominal, but what is the consequence ? Universal peculation. The emp oyed pay themselves by hook or by crook. And this is a result which is un avoidable in some shape or other in cases of bad pay. Corruption is unknown here, but if a public servant is csnscions that the appointed price of his day's work is short of its fair value, he will contrive to adjust his work to its pay, as he despairs of getting his pay al - to his work. And this is a consequence which in our system cannot be grappled with. It is easy to say the superintendent should • correct it, as the officer in the army or navy takes his measures against skulking, or any misperformance of duty. But in the army anal navy there are two motive powers, rewards and punish. meats, while in the civil service there are no rewards, and but one punishment, dismissal. As recourse to this extreme expedient is necessarily rare, there is no way of dealing with short-comings detrimental to the service, init. not amounting to a neglect of duty for which it would be warrantable to take away a man's bread. As coercion cannot be applied, as there arc no blackholes, or drill, or cats in public offices,. the next expedient is the creation of some motive to exertion. Zeal cannot exist in the breastwof men who have neither reason to be satisfied with their present condition, nor to look for anything better in the future ; and who know that whether they do well, or ill, or indifferently, their treatment is precisely the same, or that if there be any difference it is merely this, that more work is thrown upon them in proportion to their proofs of efficiency. As welhave before stated, if the establishments of our great departments were taken by contract, the first step of the contractor would be to reduce the number, cutting off the inefficient, lopping away the dead wood as it were; and his next proceeding would be to put the situations of those retained on a fair footing of emolument, and to hold out the prospect of advancement to those who showed themselves worthy of it. In the present system no deviation can be made from dreary sleepy routine without the consent of the Treasury ; but bow can the Treasury, without the attribute of' omniscience, be a judge of the deserts of persons in the different public de partments, some of them having very special functions, and, moreover, the tendency of the Treasury is naturally to look jealously at the claims for money, having at best only very hazily in its view the =responding claims of merit. We are very glad to see, by the report of the last meeting of the Administrative Reform Association, that Mr. Layard hits the right nail on the head in noting one of the radical faults in the system of the civil service, and condemning the keeping of so many steeds upon mighty scanty provendpr " ot;e of the first objects of the society ought to be to assist in getting effective men placed in every branch of the civil service. At present, he believed that the num berof civilw were i servants d . employedhey oughtw t t o o o b e large, paia and many of them liberally, and he believed that it was a great mistake to press too much for a reduction of salaries, because the enormous salaries of great men were left untouched while the small salaries of the really hard-working and deserving men were cut down. (Hear, hear.) At present there were about 60,000 persons connected with the civil service, and the appointments of these men were influenced more or less by political motives. A sort of current of elec tricity ran between Mr. Hayter and the representatives of various constituencies. The Secretary to the Trea sury bad only to touch the electric wire, and it ran through the whole of the country. That, however, was a system which must be put a stop to ; and in consider ing what means ought to be adopted to put a stop to it, he came to what he conceived to be one of the chief ob jects of the meeting. He bad been told that he had made a great mistake in the terms of the motion which he was about to bring before the House of Commons, and that instead of having said, The house views with deep concern the state of the nation,' he ought to have said, The nation views with deep concern the state of the house.' (Laughter and cheers.) Upon the whole, he believed that such a motion would have better, ex pressed the feeling of the country, for the people of the country were beginning to lose faith iu the [louse of Commons." The public would be rather surprised if it saw the small number of salaries of 1,0001. a-year in , the Civil Service compared with the number of the same amount in the Law and the Church. And we do not refer to the professional incomes in the law, but, to the salaries of appointments. 'The same comparison might, be pur sued with the same result with regard to the Bank, the India House, and the great compauiea, all of which eschew a penny-wise and pound-foolish parAimony, and pay well for-efficient services and probity. The slop sys tem illustrates the opposite fault, bad wages for bid work to produce a bad article.—Examiner. • This day is published, iu 1 thick post Bro. vol., pp. 892, price 18s , cloth. BLACKSTONE'S C OMMENTARIES ; systematically abridged and adapted to the existing state of the Law and Constitution, with great additions ; together with an Introduction. Questions for Examination, and a very copious Index. By SAMUEL. WARREN, of the Inner Temple, Esq , D.C.L., Recorder of Hull. and one of her Malesty's Conceal. William v Maxwell , Bell•yard, London ; William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh; Bodges and Smith, Dublin ; and to be had of all booksellers In town aticicountry. KERTCII, AItABAT, CAFFA.-WYLD'S MAP of the country between Anapa and Caffa, with the Straits of Kertch, and the attack on Yenikale by the Allied Troops. One sheet. 20 Gd ; in case, 4s. ; on Rollers. 7s. 6d. James Wyld, Geographer to the Queen, Charing-cross East, next doer to the Post Office; and 2, Royal . Exchan,ge. ,Q EA of AZOV.—WYLD'S MAP and CHART 1.7 of the Sea of A zov and surrounding Shores, with a Plan of Taganrog and the Shores of the Crimea, including the town of Marioupol, Yenitchi, Taganrog, Gheisk, with depths of water, &c., &c. One sheet, 2s ;in case, 4s. ;on roller, 6s. James Wyld, Geographer 'o the Queer, Charing-cross East, next door to the Post Office ; and 2, Royal Exchange. KERTCH, CRIMEA, SEA OF AZOV._ wYLIVS MAP of the CRIMEA and SEVASTOPOL. with the Fortified Towns, Forts and Roads; including a Map of the Coun tries around the Black SCA, with an enlarged Ilan of the Town and Harbour of Sevastopol, its Approaches, Fortifications, and Batteries. One sheet, 35.; in case, 55.; on rollers, 7s. 6d. • • James Wyld, Geographer to the Queen, Charing-cross East, next door to the Post-office, and 2, Royal Exchange. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. For One Night only, TUESD >Y. the 19th Instant, at Eight o'c'ock. A Grand MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT will be given by Mr. GEORGE 1317C1Cf.AND, asslined by the following eminent artists; Messrs. T. YOUNG, MONTEM SMITE!, HENRY !AUCKLAND. and I:LORGE LAKE, consisting of Selections from the Glees and Songs or the late Sir Henry Bishop, and other Composers. CRENIORNE GARDENS.—Open daily at Three.—Admission One Shilling.—unparalleled Programme of Amusements : 1 — Wonderful Performing Elephants —Marriott's Observatory Hive of Bees, in beautiful working order—New Panto mimic Ballet—Concert by the celebrated Pyrenees Singers—Astound ing displays of Horse uanship by the star riders of the day—Tight he— hope Dancing Signor Boslsio's celebrated Band—La Per Napoli, tho Venetian Hercules —The Storming of Sebastopol - Zoological group of Performing Animals—Dancing al Fresco—magni ficent Pyrotechnic Dis4lay—Band a 11 Ivillitfdre—Novel ant Illuminatioss —Model of Trafalgar—Highly Trained Dogs—Maclate y, the inimitable Negro Delineator —Bowling Saloon—Rifle Gallery— Polygraphic Views—lntricate 51sze:—Oriental Cirque—Hernandez daily; and every po.sib , e variety of entertainment. Open on Sunday free, by refreshment card. Table d'Hote at Six. NOW OR NEVER. Sa bursts the Austrian bubble—ending as we have all along foretold. And very fitly does it end with the dis persion. of the other bubble it sprang from—the persua sion that England and France of themselves were not strong enough to bring Russia to reason. On this the Aberdeen policy entirely turned. A belief that German co-operation was indispensable to success, and not any frith ita the justice 'of the war, sustained it; and its principal representatives have signalised their continued belief in the necessity of such help by declaring, as soon as it became hopeless, for an abandonment of the war. Now there is nothing so certain au that the present war should not only not be prosecuted, but should never have been entered upon, if that reasoning were correct. If England and France were so weak against Russia that the only hope of humbling the Czar lay in alliance with Austria, the existing condition of the latter empi re should also have made it plain that Russia had but to concede those points that immediately interested her in any material sense, to withdraw her at once frotn such a leagae. And this is what with perfect success the Czar. has done. He gave up the Danube and the Principali ties, and forthwith Austria sheathed the sword. Worse dangers lie at a little distance, but what is nearest touches us most. Little does it matter to Austria, neighboured by Hungary and Italy, that the Czar should still menace Constantinople and Asia Minor, the eastern portion of the Mediterranean, or the whole East itself. But the result of such a war policy on the part of France and England, carried so far and then abandoned, would have been a practical guarantee to Russia against future hostile demonstration. Alter such an effort to re cede with all the objects of the war unaccomplished would have confessed them simply unattainable. The Black Sea from that hour might be treated as a Russian pond, and Turkey and Persia as mere annexes to be swallowed up as Russia advanced. No truth can be plainer than that if RussiaasTishteehvaetrtino be resisted, ever to be enclosed within normal limits, it is to he done now. Concluding the war as Count B ou l and Mr. Gladstone proposed to conclude it at Vi enna , would have barred all reasonable chance of any f u t ure effort whic h ars France et and (however England great are the no w necessity) engaged. com bination of circumstances, position of countries, pecu liar character of sovereigns, which have brought about the Anglo-French alliance, may not again occur for cen turies. If so rare a result be not seized and applied to the great purpose for which it might seem to have been providentially designed, then England will have lost her opportunity and abdicated her supremacy. She will hereafter have to contend for Asia, and for her exist ence in Asia against Russia, and the very gravit of that struggle w ill l eave her powerless against other ; and nearer dangers. _ _ _ For Ei:w r i nd it is a qi e tion, then, of now or never. It is not less indispensable for our own security than for the independence of Europe to convince Russia that she is not invulnerable, and that on her own coasts she can be overmatched and conquered. Already the work is well in hand. Austria, it is true, that faithful ally -to-a. certain-extent, by kindly reducing its army and pro claiming its neutrality, allows our enemy to send every disposable man against us. But we are masters of her old communication by the Sea of Azoff ; we shall soon be able to disturb, if not entirely cut off, her communi cation by Perekop ; and with 200,000 of the allied forces in the Crimea, she will be utterly unable to feed (even if she can get out of hospital) tho numbers ne cessary to oppose them. Alrtady we 11470 To. covered the superiority in the field which we incontest ably proved at the Alma and at Inkerman. In.short, all present opportunities are with the allies, and a fairer chance of conquest was never offered to brave men than the Crimea now presents. Since It is inconsistent with Russian greatness to limit the number of its ships, let the answer be to deprive, it of the power of keeping ships at all. Let the Crimea be taken and retained. The French at Sebastopol, we in the peninsula of Kertch, the old Taitar princes reigning in their old capital of Bakshi-Serai, will sufficiehtly declare to the world which is finally to predominate, the civilisation of the west or the barbarism of the east. In thus proposing to contract the territories of Rus sia no question of honour or dishonour to her is in volved. Fairly might such language be employed in dealing with an ancient power that had long attained its natural limits, and to some degree rendered even its outlying provinces its own by centuries of care and assimilation. But the regions which form the south ern portion of the Russian empire are but the fruits of yesterday's rapine. In some instances they outstep auy natural frontier to which the most gigantic empire might lay claim. There was not a Government in Europe which did not feel, as Lord Aberdeen has for cibly expressed, that the new territories and advantages grasped so late as 1829 were incompatible with the in dependence of Turkey and the peace of the world. We could not then recur to war to remedy the crying evil, but now, when war has been forced upon us by further encroachments, shall we not set right in 1855 that which was so universally declared to be wrong and a peril to Europe in 1829 ? We have insisted upon the necessity of annulling treaties, and why not annul, also, if we are able, the territorial demarcation of those treaties ? The best guarantee against renewed aggres sion is to wrest from Russia those countries which she invariably uses as instruments of aggression—her .2,10-At d'aktvrcs prepared for making sorties as well against the Welt. as against the South. We can only do it by defeating Russia. No doubt of it. Bat without defeating Russia we cannot defend Turkey or Asia. Success in this war is matter of vital moment to England and to France , for if they fail of it they sink to weakness in the east of Europe ; but failure to Russia implies no corresponding humiliation. The dishonour to her is in , the attempted aggression, not in being beaten back from it. The check we would now administer may even prove to be a 'wholesome ooe, for she is little likely to enter upon any'true path of civil improvement or internal pros perity until she is compelled to admit that her empire is large enough, and must, like that of other powers, be held to have reached its normal limits. The events of the war bring such questions near. The last advantages gained before that portion of Sebastopol in which the arsenal is situated are almost decisive. Not only has the Mamelon with upwards of sixty guns, commanding all the defences, been car ried, bat other batteries which touch the waters of Careening Bayihave been also taken. These command the northern entrance to Sebastopol which crosses those waters, and the necessity of closing which we pointed out last week. The great mistake committed by General Can robed is now become plain enough. Bp confining his operations to the town, he permitted the Russians to concentrate• almost all their force within its walls, and hence -their obstinate resistance. On the other hand General Felissier has t ken up a position beyond the Tchernaya, menscss Inkerman and Baksh!-Serai. and compels the Russian General to keep an army in the field to oppose him. From what was le::rned in the late reconnaissance he is reported to have not less that 100,000 men among those hills. And thus, without counting mote frightful reductions by typhus fever in the hospitals, the garrison of Sebastopol has been of late so much thinned as to bring the French and Eoglish, in their attacks on the Mamelon and the Quarries, face to face with no more than a fair proportion of enemies. 0., The occupation of Kertch makes another draught on the Russian forces, and now that Anapa is evacuated the allied troops can march westward to attack Arabat by land as well as sea, and perhaps take possession of Kaffa. From Kaffa to Simpheropol is a distance of hardly 70 miles by a good road north of the mountains, and pre senting few natural impediments to the advance of an army. The troops of General Brown oan be increased in any proportion within a very few hours, and whether they march upon Simpheropol, or merely threaten it,the Russians must keep a very considerable force in that po sition. All these are advantages quite as great as the destruction of magazines and the interrurion of supplies. The allied commanders can now prevent the enemy from concentrating an overwhelming force in any one posi tion, whether within the town, at Inkerman, or in the east of the Crimea. This gives them choice and oppor tunities of attack, which hitherto they did mot enjoy, and the decisive moment is very probably near at hand. —Examiner. ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM. Mr. Layard's well wishers, and they are many, have had on former occasions to regret that, with a good cause and excellent intentions, he has not escaped in the treatment of the subjects he has undertaken faults which a larger experience of English, and certainly Parlia mentary warfare, would have led him to avoid. Feeling strongly, and giving every one else credit for feelings as strong and as honest as his own, he has too readily letft an ear to vague and unsupported statements, and made himself the organ in the House of Commons of men con tent to shoot their arrows under his shield. It was therefore with great gratification that werea,d his speech of Friday night, in which we trace a sincere desire to amend these faults, which detract so seriously from his usefulness. His tone was moderate and , frank, his ad mission of former errors ample and candid, and his invi tation to the angry colonels by whom he is confronted to argue the case with him with good humour and tole• ranee was irresistibly fair and conciliating. He evidently spoke under considerable restraint, and it is only just to him to say that, while he did not shrink, when the course of his argument required it, from alluding to the cases of individuals, these allusions were marked by an evident wish to avoid giving personal offence or inflicting un necessary pain. It has the misfortune of Mr. Layard, as it was of his predecessors the week before last, that the pro gress of events, nouring along as they have done lately with unexampled rapidity, has outstripped that state of the public mind which gave rise to his motion. Such part of that motion as admitted of proof we consider that he is entitled to the credit of having fully proved. He un dertook to show that merit and efficiency have been sacrifieed in public appointments to party and family in fluences and to a blind adherence to routine, and that undertaking, as it appears to us, so far as relates to the army and the diplomatic service, he fully and completely redeemed. We must, of course, wait to hear what answer can be made on behalf of the former of these ser vices by the numerous members of it who occupy seats in the House of Commons, but we ehall be very, much sur prised if anything they can urge shall furnish an answer to the plain and straightforward charges preferred against the system of military promotion. If there were no other fault in it, its enormous and unfathomable complexity, the existence of privileged corps, and the power of dis pensing with rules, which are cobwebs to those who possess interest, and bars of iron to those who do not, all render accuracy of attack very difficult, but com pleteness of defence absolutely impossible. Equally successful was Mr. Layard in pointing out the flagrant abtees of the diplomatic service, which really seems to be a complete preserve for aristocratic patronage, i❑ . which men are promoted without merit and slighted without fault, where sinecure stations are kept up obvi ously for the benefit of ill health or incapacity, and where enormous funds are wasted in exchange for the smallest possible amount of labour and efficiency. We would pa, . titularly call attention to the case of those unfortunate young men who have been decoyed from Oxford and Cambridge into the diplomatic service, have made them selves admirable Oriental linguists, have been consigned to poverty and neglect, and never even allowed the rank of attache ; and we trust that, whatever be the result of the debate in other respects, it will, at any rate, call the attention of Lord Clarendon to the case of these mnstiiiefortnnate and Untied gen tlemen. The recent blue-book furnished Mr. Layard 'with abundant evidence of the state of the civil service ; so that, upon the whole, having succeeded in most con clusively proving his case, had his resolution stopped there every honest man in the house would have been bound to support it. But unfortunately the connection between the speech and the resolution there terminates. The speech points out the measures that it will be neces sary to take with a view to remedying these defects ; but the motion.begins by expressing deep end increasing concern at the state of the nation, and ends by an appre hension of discredit to the national character, and of grave disasters to come. These words were very suit able when the motion was first made, but have now, in great measure, lost their force. The mood of the nation has changed from despondency to hope—from the fear of coming disasters to the confident expectation of future triumphs. The despondency has passed away, but the necessity for reform remains. It is in the speech, therefore, and not in the motion, we are to look for the sound logical conclusion from the proposition Mr. Layard has established, and that motion no longer expresses the feeling of the House of Commons or the country. The speech of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton was, as he seems to have felt himself, .in striking contrast with his amendment. The queetion which he addressed himself to discuss was not really raised by his motion. His speech, in great part, was taken up with endeavouring to account for a fact sufficiently obvious—the rise of the feeling in favour of Administrative Reform. This inves tigation, about the result of which we are not aware that there exists any difference of opinion, formed an admir able text for a bitter party attack, but had nothing to do with the proposition it introduced. It seems that parties are as little capable of learning by expe rience as individuals, and that the spirit of political ani mosity once let loose cannot be restrained even by feel ings of self-interest. It is only ten days since the Con servative party had ample proof that, by narrowing down great questions to the limits of a squabble between placemen in act and placemen in expectancy, they would fail to conciliate the feelings of the public, and were sere to defeat and overreach themselves. What Mr. Disraeli did on the war Sir E. B. Lytton has done on Adminis trative Reform ; he has narrowed down a great question to petty dimensions, and tried to impress the sympathy for a cause for which the nation cares a great deal into ALBANY FONBLANQUE. Albany Fonblanque is one of the most distinguished writers of our time. He is one of the few men who have shown that they possessed the originality of thought requisite to form a peculiar and distinctive style, with the flexibility of attention and sympathy indispensable for the useful treatment of every-day affairs. Unrivalled in the power of epigram, his mind seems instinctively to seek out the portion of every subject which, practi cally, most needs to be lighted up by sparkling anecdote or humour. And yet a sense of grave responsibility is ever present to him ; and his varied faculties of illustra tion and sarcasm are habitually held subordinate to the fixed and earnest purpose of a man who loves the truth, and who through life has ever been as ready to do battle for it when unpopular as in the noontide of success and recognition. In a word, Mr. Fonblanque is a man of genuine worth as well as of genuine wit. He has been the consistent and courageous advocate of nearly every great measure of popular good for which a serious struggle has been waged in this country during the last thirty years ; and the chief cause why it is not easy to designate the value of the services he has rendered to the public lies in the versatility of the talents that have been in turn devoted to every object on the attainment of which the people have sgt theifhearts. •••,, 4 And this is the man whose appointment — to an office of 8001. a year our administrative doctrinaires of the Gladstone and Trevelyan school would single out as an instance of what needs reformation in our civil service "The abilities of Mr. Fonblnnque," said Sir S. North cote in Friday night's debate, "I do not deny ; but being a total stranger to the department into which he was imported in 1847, his nomination may be taken as an example of the thoroughly vicious' system on which our public offices are constituted." Had a dictum so ineffably presumptuous and absurd fallen from other lips in any other place we should not have deemed it de serving of notice. Bat, apart from the circumstances to which we are about to refer, we perceive without wonder but not without regret, that the folly and injustice of the sentiments thus expressed, met with as much of an approvin g response when uttered as th e a tt enua t e d con dition othe house during the hon. baronet's speech could well afford. The instincts of resentment and aver sion towards one who, as a literary tribune of the people, has often lashed the short-comings of oligarchy, both in office and in Parliament, may possibly be thought only natural. But we venture to suggest to the gentlemen who joined by their cheers in the attack thus made upon the rightful claims of men of letters to a share in the A dministration, that it would be more prudent in them to adhere to the pretence of fair play, and not needlessly to exasperate those feelings of hostility that are daily growing up between Parliament and the press. Is it not enough that these hereditary monopolists of power, and dignity, and pay should have systematically ignored, with few and rare exceptions, the civil existence of the class who more than any other in the community govern opinion and influence public affairs ? Or is it because, as a class, men of letters have never asserted in this country the full measure of their political rights, that whipaters of quality and Treasury hacks and the whole rank and file of jobbery think they may with impunity raise a shout when wanton insult is offered to a man who has contributed more in his time to the instruction and improvement of governors as well as governed than their whole tribe put together? It is highly to the credit of Mr. Labouchere, by whom the appointment in.ques tion was made, that he should not only defend it as spe cifically unobjectionable, but that he should have ern• phatically declared the satisfaction he continued to feel at having had it in his power to recognise the claims of one so distinguished as a writer. But it may be. per hap, as well to state shortly the true history of this curiously misrepresented case. The statistical department of the Board of Trade was originally formed under the direction of Mr. Deacon Hume, and placed under the superintendence of the late Mr. Porter. Sir S. Northcote is lavish of his praise of the constitution and the working of the department so formed ; but he forgets, in his eagerness, to render the civil service a close and exclusive profession, to state that Mr. Porter - was himself originally engaged in mer cantile pursuits, and that he Ntas taken from them to aid in the conduct of an executive department. But this, it will perhaps be said, was done by the Whigs. There is another curious incident in the History of the Board of Trade under Peelite management, which it is still more edifying to find that the hon, baronet•has for gotten. From being private secretary to Mr. Gladstone he was himself promoted to be assistant-secretary in the Board of Trade, an office which began and ended with him, for upon hii retirement it was found to be super fluous, and was consequently abolished. Wo do not assert that during his sojourn in the department Sir S. Northcote may not have contrived to find useful and honourable occupation ; but we submit that under the circumstances, ho is about the last man who ought to raise a cry of prejudice against what he is pleased to term " strangers" being imported into a particular branch of the service. We are far from wishing to undervalue the results of Mr. Porter's labours as a statistician. Nor do we think it necessary to argue that other and higher posts might have been more appropri ately offered to a man of the diversified experience and information -of Mr. Fonblanque. But common justice requires, as the question ha 4 been raised, that a judg ment should be expressed upon the comparative merits of the official works formerly published by the Board of Trade and those of more recent date. There is not, we be lieve, a man who has had frequent occasion to consult, for purposes of study, the undigested compilations of ten years ago. relative to trade and navigation, and the ad mirable digests lately issued by the statistical depart ment, who will hesitate as to which deserve the prefer ence. Mr. Fonblimque would be the last man, we are satisfied, who would seek to appropriate the undivided credit of the works last mentioned, mus.th of which is unquestionably due to Mr. Valpy and other gentlemen who act under him. But when invidious comparisons are rashly and recklessly instituted the public will in sist on seeing both sides, and happily, in this instance, the individual availed is not likely to be injured by full inquiry. We frankly own, indeed, that Mr. Fonblanque is open to two great charges. He is not'connected with the aristocracy, and he has often let the world hear him laugh at the pedantry and pretensions of Puseyite and I'eehte politicians. In mitigation of the former offence we have nothing to say. We bare no doubt that had he been a man of family, like the Hon. Francis Lawler for example, he would have been deemed qualified by right divine for any executive office in the State ; he might have been able to point to nothing previously done worth mentioning as a warrant of his capacity or as a claim of merit ; but if his father had been a peer, or if he himself happened to be member for a rotten borough, he might readily have secured at six and twenty something very different in rank and profit from the post which is now grudged to him. As to the latter crime, that of exercis ing the right of private judgment in a public way, and of chastising the follies and errors of public men, in the best English, with the keenest wit, we confess our in ability to say more within the bounds of temper and for bearance than we have already done.—Laily News. INFLUX OF GOLD. The influx of gold at the present time is remarkable and important. By the return made by the Bank for the week ending June 2, it appears that the bullion in both departments had increased, during the week, by no less a sum than 724,321/., and that the total stock amounted to 17,789,1021. Since then the amount of specie bronht in from the West Indies, New York, and Australia has been very considerable. 923,000/. was announced, at the end of last week—of which about 200,000/. was gold from Au,. tralia, and the remainder silver. On Monday, 335,000/. in gold arrived by the Baltic from New York. The exports, meanwhile, are reported as under 200,000/. The active circulation of bank notes was by the last return under 20 millions, but the amount of unemployed notes had mounted up to 11,342,970/. This influx of bullion, which at present merely makes itself apparent in the Bank returns, will before long exercise a practical effect on the trade and commerce of the country. People are not to imagine that if gold flows into the country one week we are to see an increaied state of prosperity the next. This is as unreasonable as to expect that the me dicine which a physician prescribes shall produce a bene ficial effect before it be well swallowed. But should the influx of bullion continue, or should even the amount already received be retained in the bank coffers, there can be little doubt as to the result. The commercial state of the country will improve. In spite of war, heavy , taxes, and high prices, the beneficial effects of an ade quate and abundant circulating medium, which the gold will enable the bank to provide for the country, will speedily become apparent. There can, we think, be little reason to doubt that the immense quantities of gold discovered in California and Australia, and now poured with unceasing prodi gality into the system of the wl.ole commercial world, are producing a silent but mighty and irresistible revo. lution in the prices of commodities. To England, as the emporium of the world, a large portion of this gold would necessarily find its way. And little advantage, except the cheapening'of toys and orna ments, would this rich and powerful country derive from this beautiful yellow metal, were not its abundance a counteraction to the pernicious and ruinous system of currency which our law-makers in their ignorance have imposed on the nation. We hail the discoveries of Californi a an d Australia as deposing gold from that high place in which it was placed as a tyrant over p ro ductive industry b y unwise Legislation.—Derbys hire Courier. A monument is about to b__ e erected in honour of Colonel Blair, the late member for Ayrshire, who fell on the bloody field of Inkerman. The monument is to be built on the hill above Straiton, in the form of a lofty obelisk, of granite, which will be seen for mile. around. More than six months since Parliament was called together hurriedly, for the purpose of authorising the embodiment of a Foreign Legion, and whatever be the merits or demerits of the sohemethe existing, Government was empowered to carry it out, We are free to acknow ledge that language was used by our legislators which went forth from their places in parliament to travel over the world, of such a nature as to disgust foreigners with the service offered to them, and deter them from joining our ranks. Notwithstanding this, satisfactory proofs exist that all difficulties might have been overcome by the exercise of moderate abilities, aided by persevering in dustry, and tempered by ordinary judgment. Turn where we will, this is seen to be a self-evident fact, but we will content ourselves with but one instance. Months since we pointed out how a powerful and efficient body might have been raised among the Swiss Cantons, when great numbers of Switzerland's hardy sons were most anxiously desirous to form themselves into a Swiss con tingent in aid of that which they believed a just and holy cause, and when the offices of our foreign consuls u t obe received by iri es asto tb e c Eng land. iinngclthis information b e i ng laid before Government, as we know that it was, the French authorities followed out the scheme with rapid an d full success. It was then pointed out that from the peculi ar taon and agents a g followedeTwon ts were obn yt months subsequ e nt with a s asking to nature of the Swiss laws on this subject enlistment could not take pl ace f or an y f ore i gn power save th e I ta li an m besieged men only states on Swiss territory. To send recruiting officers cantonal and federal laws, and the French, more practi cal than ourselves, consulted the wishes of the men to hopeteloh i ee n neaAe t vdt o sinefus e wt c hoa o ews unt r y would then be merely an insult to both be raised by establishing a cordon of recruiting districts ps in in t a he to return to this subject we will leave r the c oun try. short phsthoo f oc rrrwootaenni efficient si t dpn i h e igaa frontiers while odfros w .af f h shut i e l ittT e muochr e t eo h p: ms e rda y opneda n erdunei produce practicaloo Bp amm r h a auegi mode largeani e to d reax asitpabhe:dndenfdms body of ro par- tially b to y of need. Now it is well known and will be admitted by every person at all conversant with Switzerland and the Swiss, that there are no men who can be relied on with more confidence in the hour of need for their valour, powers of endurance, and fidelity. The Swiss peasant is of necessity a soldier. There, ee being 3a2Alancl ing army in Switz er l an d, every rains trained' gal, es forced to pass a certain period of every year under can vas in the camp ; they are not only drilled, but trained soldiers, and the importance of this latter point will be appreciated by all our readers, for the men are fitted for the endurance of the difficulties and toils of a cam paign, both by the early training of laborious agri cultural pursuitP, in a land where the earth yields nothing save by the toil of the husbandman, and by the later training of military education taught them in the field itself. More than this —as a marksman the Swiss peasant is unrivalled. Hie ear liest desire ieeito Possess a rifle, and when by the labour of his hands he has laid by wherewithal to buy one, he passes his holidays in pe . facting himself in its use. Not a village but has its rifle club, and prizes fur perfection in riffs practice are given in each, while the same competition is encouraged by the cantonal clubs, and to crown all, annually, the Federal Rifle Meetings bring together the youth of the whale land to contend for its much envied prizes. Thus, in fact, do they be come a nation of soldiers, not only in name and training, but in heart and soul. More than all this, they are men of education. Ignorance with them is a crime, aad treated as such ; the consequ ince of which is, that there is perhaps not any country in Europe which can boast such useful and general education among its people. Such are the men who asked to be permitted to share in our arduous task ; but procrastination has in this, as in almost every other instance, allowed others to take precedence of us, and, if we may credit a recent paragraph, the bungling measures we have at length attempted have all but defeated our object. We allude to the reported imprisonment of an English recruiting agent in Switzerland. Instead of entering the cantons in scornful and open defiance of the law of the land, why did not our agents fix the head quarters of their recruiting districts on the frontiers of Savoy, where would ' , eve flocked the inhabitants of the cantons of Genev.e• Vaud, and Fribourg ; and on the frontiers of F rance , to w hi ch the German cantons would have sent their quota of mountaineers ? Instead of presenting the spectacle of another British agent arrested for the flagrant violation of Swiss federal laws, thousands would have flocked to our appeal. We are assured that the object may even still be gained, and that, though it will be now more difficult, a Swisi legion may yet be raised equal, if not superior, to any existing troops, at an economical rate, and almost instantly available. Why should this not be carried out ? We have at the head of our War Department a man well versed in military matters, said to be full of zeal and energy. The occasion certainly requires all his ability, all his zeal, all his energy. We write these things not in a spirit of rebuke, but with an anxious desire to see that war which has been declared over and over again a righteous one vigorously prosecuted and speedily brought to a happy issue. We cannot blind ourselves to the fact that, the same procrastination, the same mis management, which we here deplore, has had the same fetal effect in America and in Germany ; while we have heard with deep regret that the Turkish contingent, though de boasting in a t f h a e l 1 s n i o n m ew pl s em of en wa t o r f4 o ffi ktretiem eers, is miser ablyorre spontlent of Daily News. CRUEL AND COWARDLY CONDUCT. At the Worship•street police- cour t R o b ert Franey, a tall, burly-looki ng fellow, of savage aspect, was charged before Mr. Hammill with having brutally maltreated and seriously injured his wife, who was in an advanced state of pregnancy. The complainant, a delicate-looking young woman, whose appearance excited a general feeling of painful commiseration, was in such a dreadful state of sufferirg and exhaustion, that the officers brought her into court on a chair, in which she was allowed to be seated during her examination. Her face was shockingly swollen and disfigure % both her eyes blackened, and her lower jaw apparently fractured, or injured to such an extent that she was scarcely able to articulate. After con siderable ilitliculty it was elicited from her that she was within six weeks of her confinement, and had only been married about eight months to the prisoner, who had subjected her to a constant course of ill-treat ment during the whole of that period. On the night of Wednesday last the prisoner returned home partially it toxica.ted, and while they were seated at supper he sud denly started up, and without the slightest provocation struck her a terrible blow in the face, which knocked her out of her chair. As soon as she had recovered her. self she endeavoured to escape froth the room, but was intercepted by the prisoner, who da ,, hed ler down upon the floor, and, throwing himself upon her, grape I her tightly by the throat, and held her down with such tenacity that she was alrenst strangled. On hearine the uproar, her sister hastened down from an ui p room to her assistance, but the moment she made her appear ance the prisoner commenced a ferocious attack upon her, and drove her out of the apartment. In a few mi nutes, however, her sister returned with a policeman, but notwithstanding his brutal violence towards her witness declined to give her husband into custody, and the instant the officer had left the place, the prisoner re paid her generous forbearance by a dastardly renewal of his brutality, in the course of which he blackened her eves, as they now appeared, and so seriously injured her jaw -bone that she had been ever since unable to take the slightest sustenance. She was ultimately rescued and assisted to bed by some of her neighbours, under whose advice she afterwards obtained a warrant for his appr,hension. The poor woman, who had manifestly delivered her evidence under a continuous effort to save herself from fainting, immediately upon its conclusion fell back in strong convulsions, of such an alarming cha racter that the magistrate at once ordered a cab to be procured, in which she was conveyed to the workhouse infii 'nary. The complainant's sister, a respectable-looking young person, gave corroborative evidence, and added that she greatly apprehended that the injuries which the unfortu nate woman had sustained would result in premature labour, or be attended with consequences of a still more serious description. Mr. Hammill forcibly animadverted upo* the cruel and cowardly conduct of the prisoner, and ordered him to be remanded to await the result of his unnatural vio• knee. The section of the Railway from Dijon to Besancon lying between the former place and Dole was inaugurated on the 11th. Loss OF TIIRIE DYES Br DROWNING.—On Satur day last Mr. W. Baker held an inquest at the George, Theday last Ratcliff-highway, on the body of Ch ar l es Henry Hearty, oDnoeirkhsur s. un fortunate boy never rose to the su r f ace till b rought up pe rie! l the ove r board London flr4omyetahrse brig in who or, f by the draw , . The jury, in returning a verdict of acci dental death, remarked that the water in the London Docks was of so poisonous a nature that any one falling in bad no chance of-life. An inquest wai held at the same place on the body of James Campbell, aged 17, who fell overboard from the ship Marmaret, on Wednesday last, also in the Londo n Docks. Verdict accidental n death. A third inquest was held at the Prince of Wales Tavern, Bonner's-road, Victoria-park,,n the b o d y of Joseph James Evans,- ag e d 12. Tdeceased left school on park to ob drowned,athe, but A.unvfoerratuientaotefl_ayeegiodtenotuatl death Thursday, and pr ocee d ed to a pond at the entrance of Vdeipcttho,riaan was returned. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS IN Yosssarsa. Within Within the last few weeks agricultural prospeqs have completely The completely changed in the neighbourhood of Yo rk .p. urions protracted dry and cold weather, although to wheat, bad occasioned an almost unpara e l n h le o l t ed l of food for stock, and its value was a t n hings is entirely of rain. Now, however, the state of we have had a high Spring Corn, too, was very backward and mach d u much in need depressed. rnity reversed. Within the last ten rain, in fact forcing weather . o f remarkably strong and description. Wheat is looking e give promise of most degree of temperature and frequ d o Y ; t a h n e d m co o p s i t ou b s e f u a e l fi ls ci o a l healthy ; barley, oats, and to be very short in th e straw, are shooting which shoo lately ting u pp rapidly.rom i se d abundant crops ; beaus e an sw d The white turnip seed has which are ready the up well , as also swedes, some of p in fine condition. Meadows and improvement, and will yield a Potatoes have com ra id and orchards look very fruit good fali of J most recent fairs in this part of the country fruit ful. At the pastures been got have into ha_ti made aefdoserosoil Gardens and sheep in proportion. head, the price of beasts . has avancedThferohmarsvse.sttoprloOssp.epoetar are new most cheering,