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The scheme was adopted, and on the 6th of March, 1772, a warrant was issued for the formation of a body to be called "the Soldier-Artificer Company," or "the Military CoMpany of Artificers," and the decription of its com position will show how well the designation was de served. This singular conapauy was to consist of 1 sergeant-major, 3 sergeants, 3 corporals, 1 dtummer, and 60 privates, or " worki ng men s ki led in the follow in; trades :—stonecutters, masons, miners, limeburners, *carpenters, smiths, gardeners, or wheelers ;" so that th e service was provided with a regula r b o d y of trades, and all the mechanical arts likely to he useful in military operations seemed to be brought effectually under com mand. Such was the origin of that corps which is now styled "the Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners,", - and which, from these special and circumscribed functions, has since been advanced to duties mere universal and multifarious than those of any other department of the army. w,k1iKn'W:16..1 26, 7 ,1.1VM3400,41MG00N 11.Wa1e N . 1 JUNE 2. 1855, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, Dtq lt s e , E4 n T , WESTERN COALS.—Best, 24 5. ; r,- L ean 225. per ton. The Great Western Railway Com co—ai" execute orders for Rttabon Coals, equal to the finest iP~e ( Dartli i b_ t24 s. per ton, and for excellent and economical Vron Pad_,_.unel), at 225. per ton. Cash pric,s ithin 4 miles air gm n Station. Address to the Superintendent, Great Wa Y, Paddington. A rn `". WESTERN RAILWAY. —ETON ):Lato,', ll TA..-0 0 MONDAX, June 4, 1855, Trains wil2 leave .o kiel.3o,„.er Windsor at 10.39 a m ., 11.0 a.m., 11.45 a.m., 12 5 ret n . 7„' 2 ; 0 P.m , 2.45 p.m., 4.0 p.m., 5.30 p.m., and 6.15 p.m ; I D el., - ;'„, r ora Windsor to Paddington at 5.0 p.m., 5.50 p.m., e ltre fi .7`. 9.20 pm. After the Fireworks, Special 4,4 a, Cdr Paddington at 10.30 p.m., calling at intermediate a ,;" 'or Oxford, at' 10 20 p.m., calling at Maidenhead, (I . le it ading. WESTERN RAILWAY.—ASCOT 4 4 4 — On TUESDAY and THURSO kY. June 5' and 7 , ' t rpm v e l a l run between Paddington and Wndve Omni tht;',Ori, 'rat d fixed fares, as well as a large number of Car .l/4:kho:rr de wtription, are provided to convey passengers between ::fes::: t d i o . n and the Race Course. In addition to the Book kit!. J at Paddington tickets may be procured, on and after ' 209 . 'Me, at the Company 's Offices, 27, King•street, Cheap 4141Zett'str 351, Oxford-street; 63Brdge-road, Lambeth ; till el km et (corner of Jermyn-street) Holborn , Peacock, kret Xesltrs. Tattersall's, Hyde-park-comer. of th Railway &c are given in hand-bills, which xt the ' Sia ' tions, and at the above•named N . 19,556.1 I PRICE SD. CRYSTAL PAL A CE.—The GRAND CONCERT on MONDAY NEXT, at which Mdlle. ALB- 'Nl will sing. —Se son Tickets, 1/. Is. each, are issued at Mr. Michell s Royal Library, 33,.0!d Bond-street, admitting to the above attrac tion, and also for every, fete, entertainment, and daily use, until the end of April, 1856.—Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. orderlies, as privates, 25.; total, 702. Quarters and 1-a tior s in addition, and to be very liberally pensioned or. being discharged. PUBLICATIONS. points which appear to us to require to be distinctly laid down as within the competency of the commis sioners and the particular college, acting jointly, in the manner indicated by the bill, to regulate as may appear to be expedient : GOVERNMENTS. ANOMALOUS CONDUCT OF THE GERMAN The THIRD and Fonnm VOLUMES are now realy, comprising the pe - lod from 1800 to 1810, and completing the work, of 1 1 HE DUKE of BUCKINGHAM'S MEMOIRS .111 of the COURT and CABINETS of GEORGE 111., from Oriainal Truitt ly Documents. "Tire present volumes exhibit the same features as the former por tion of the series. The general reader is entertained and the reader for historical purposes is enlightened. Of their value and importance there cannot be two opinions. Our extracts sufficiently show the high interest belonging to these volumes." Athenezum. Hurst aud Blackett, publishers, successors to Henry Colburn. THE MILITIA. The Roval Bucks Yeomanry have assembled this week at Buckingham for eight days' exercise. They were reviewed on Wednesday in Stowe-park by Major Mountjoy Martin. The German Governments appear to us, throughout the great transactions of diplomacy and of war which have for the last two years engrossed the attention of the world, to have taken a very inaccurate and incom plete view of their own interests and of their duties, to wards the other Powers of Europe. They have 'nego tiated without effect, they have partially armed them selves without an of ject, they have even signed protocols and treaties without the resolution to act up to their en gagements ; and, as we advance more and more deeply into this contest, we are reluctantly compelled to lay aside and to dismiss all faith in the assurances or the energyof those States. At the present crisis in the war, at the outset of the second caurpa,ign, and when the ope rations of the allied armies are beginning to tell with effect upon the enemy, we hold it to be not only our right butour duty to point out to the Cabinets of Vienna, and Berlin the results of their own puerile and unde cided conduce. We say of Vienna and Berlin, because, from the recent language of the Austrian Government, we infer that it must, for all practical purposes) be ranked with that of Prussia. Indeed, of the two leading German Powers,.Prussia is at least entitled 'to the mhrit nf greater consistency than her rival. , Prussia, has hot incurred the expense of raising, equipping, and main taining an army of 600,000 men which she is afraid to use. Prussia has not signed a treaty of alliance with one of the belligerents in June, and another treaty with the Western Powers in December, binding hereelf, to unite her whole efforts with those Powers until the just objects of the war are thoroughly obtained. Prussia was not present at the Conferences of Vienna, and there fore did not give her unqualified moral support to the propositions of the Western Powers. Thus far Prussia 'at least eseapes the charge of inconsistency which may be urged against Austria, and the only practical diffe rence between the two States now is, that while the Court of Berlin has long since neutralised and extin guished whatever influence it once posscssed.in Europe, that of Vienna is somewhat more slowly followi n g its example. The object of the German Courts has been—first] to prevent, and afterwards to arrest, the course of kostili• ties, and to obtain some securities from Russia against the renewal of these calamities. They have utterly failed in their attempts to accomplish these objects, in spite of every advantage of geographical position, or political in fluence, and of military power.. They have failed for want of determination to give effect to their policy, and to assume an attitude which should convince Russia they were in earnest. T'u'y had it in their power to prevent the war, by a positive declaration to the Emperor Ni cholas in Aprl, 1854, thathis refusal to submit to teiens would be regarded as a casus Belli by the whole of Eu rope.. Austria had it again in her power to compel Russia to terminate the struggle by declaring her resblu tion to go to war in April, 1855, if the Third Point of the negotiation was not fully accepted and put into exe cution. Having failed on these occasions by their own want of decision and courage, these Courts are entii.ely mistaken if they imagine that they can continue to eiter cise any influence whatever on the policy of the belli gerent Powers. They might have been powerful against Russia, but theyare powerless against us. The same) in capacity of action which has confined them within a neu trality guarded by protocols blunts the edges of their weapons, and the West has nothing to fear from their de sertion or their resentment. If they imagined that their assistance was necessary to our success, or their counsel to our policy, the events of the past week and those which are rapidly succeeding each other on the theatre of war may undeceive them. They might have shareid in the measures of the Western Powers, 'destined to restore security to the East, and to reduce the preponderance of that empire which hangs like a cloud upon their own frontiers. They might have partizipated in the arrange ments which victory will one day enable the allied Powers to dictate. Great concessions and an extreme forbearance have been resorted to for the purpose of ena bling Germany to resume her proper position in Europe. Those conciliatory measures not having been attended with success, and Germany having withheld her support when it might have been of use to us, it remains foe, the Western Powers to show the wo r ld that they can carry on the war without it. The day of negotiations is past ; the feeble artifices of irresolute Ministers are at an end. We are now entitled to use the language of Powers hav ing 200,000 effective troops in the Crimea, and, while Russia contends for her preponderance in the Eutine, the allied flotilla sweeps the coasts and harbours of the Sea of Azoff. ST. JOHN DEL REY MINING COMPANY. The Twenty-fifth ANNUAL GENERAL MEETI , O of the Proprietors of the St John Del Rey Mining Company will be held at the Company's Office; No. 8. Tokenh.ouse-yard, oa FRIDAY, the Bth d2y of lune ; at Two o'clock precisely. At this Meeting one Director, viA., R. S. Illingworth, Esq.. will go out by rotation, but is eligib:e to be re-elected. JOHN HOMIN, Secretary. 8, Tokenhoire-yard, May 25, 1855. " 1.. The revision of all college statutes, generally and in particular.. The West Yorkshire Militia, who are to embark at Liverpool in the sailing clipper Tuddr, arrived at that town yesterday, together with two field officers, six cap tains, five ladies, 87 children, and 50 soldiers' wives. The Tudor is expected to sail to-day for Gibraltar. The North Cork Rifles got a sudden' route, on Wed nesday morning, for Limerick, Leaving Buttevant Bar racks without a single company to do duty. This regi ment has given 68 volunteers to the Buffs this week in Buttevan r.. " 2. The abolition of all oaths taken to enforce their observance. 3. The alteration of the powers of masters, fellows, and college officers, both. absolutely and relatively, inter se. NEW, REVISED, AND CLIEAPER EDITION. Now ready, in 1 vol. post Bvo., SALATHIEL, THE IMMORTAL. By the Rev. G. CROLY, LL.D. " A magnificent fiction. One of the most splendid productions among works of fiction that the age has brought f , rth." Athenaeum. Published for 11. Colburn, by his successors, 14 urst and Blackett. "4. The conversion of close fellowships into" open fellowships, as well as their commutation into scholar ships or exhibitions. It soon became clear that a class of men so servicea ble at Gibraltar would be useful in other spheres too, and a corps of Royal Military Artificers was accordingly raised in England in 1787. This corps, which was to' be 600 strong, was composed of carpenters, masons-, bricklayers, smiths, wheelers, sawyers, miners, painters, coopers, collar-makers, and a species of general rank and file te rme d comprehensively " labourers ;" an d w i t h t hi s body of men the original Soldier-Artificer Corps of Gibraltar was . incorporated ten years later. The Artifi cers, of course, took part in the employment with which all departments of the army were soon provided by the great wars of the Revolution,, and it was during their service in tile- Peninsular campaigns that they first as sumed those peculiar functions and acquired that cha racteristic 'designation by which they have been since distinguished. Their agency was principally required in siege operations, and, as these operations involved scien tific processes of sappin g and mi n i ng, the Royal M i li tary Artificers became ultimately styled the "Royal Sappers skilledfere d e w e n a t n e t th o fe designs cieonft engineer y nee o r t officers that this change took place. • After the peace the duties of the corps, which had been thus in some sense contracted, or, at any rate, rendered special, were expanded in a most; remarkable degree. As the days of war seemed to be over, and as there were no inure sieges going on, the Royal Sappers and Miners, though theoretically instructed in the use and practice of mining, sapping, &c., became employed on services so various and extraordinary that as much Work was found for the corps in peace as in war. They represented, in fact, a body of men of the most useful description. For military purposes they were soldiers, and as such were disciplined, obedient, trained to act in concert, familiar ised with the use of arms, and ready, according to the terms of their engagement, to be despatched at a mo ment's notice to any part of the world. For civil pur poses, again, they were artisans, and artisans of no com mon proficiency. They were practically conversant with the principles of mathematics, skilled in the tree of machines and instruments, and taught to extemporise resources in positions of difficulty or hazard. In short, they were so many clever, well-instructed men, made manageable ; and when, as occurred often enough, a.man of this stamp was wanted, recourse was had to one of the . Sappers and Miners. Sappers and Miners accom panied the expedition to the Euphrates, the journey into the interior of Africa, and the mission for settling Ame rican boundary questions. Sappers and Miners con ducted the Ordnance survey of the kingdom, la the course of which duty they constructed their aerial observatories like crows' nests on the summit of our loftiest cathedral towers. Sappers and Miners, again, superintended some of the principal arrangements of the Great Exhibition, and thus applied their talents to service attsr service .until they were once more summoned to their more spe cial duties before the work of Sebastopol. In making this reference to Mr. Conolly's work we have been desirous not only of introducing the reader to a subject of considerable interest at the present time, but of pointing out what very ample scope is provided in this department of the army for any volunteers whose qualifications may happen to exceed those of mere phy sical strength and capacity. Such a service as we have been describing must combine with the ordinary Allure ments of a military life unusual facilities for the display of mechanical dexterity, and much of the talent com monly discernible in the working classes of the popula tion would find, we should think, a suitable field in the corps of the Royal Sappers and Miners.—Times. _ NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. ‘‘ 5. The incorporation of bye fellowships in reduced number, as the amount of funds belonging to the foun• dation may render advisable. " 6. The regulation of tutors and lecturers by the ordinary government of the college, and as part and parcel of the collegiate system. " 7. The creation of suitable boards of election and government, where the whole body of fellows, after the changes contemplated by the bill had been made, would be too numerous for much purposes. " 8. The provision of a suitable income for masters of colleges, so as to dispense with the necessity of their holding any of the ecclesiastical preferment of the college. "9. The creation of a sufficient number of open Scholarships, and of adequate value, either by the con version of Fellowships or otherwise. The 2d Somerset Militia has got 19 recruits this week from Batb. koZAY and SOUTH-WESTERN RAlL vet ', ,, ATEULOO-13B.IDGE STATION, 31st May, 1855. 1 04 11 R EREBY GWENT, That the Polls demanded at the 1 ... b.. -.eeting held this ' day, were commenced this after ,ze continued at these offices I o morrow (FridaY), ‘osi_ AT(tEtDAY, MONDAY, and TUESDAY next, a z ttPo - u ' r e co mmencing at Ten o'clock in the morning , a n d t ecla ratio i n the afternoon of each day. 4 tl ''ADtin or the Polls will be made at an Adjourned Meeting 1 44 14., 3 , , at these Offices, at 2 p.m., on Wednesday, the 6th of Just published, fcap. Svo., price ls. 6d., by post 25., APLEA for PAINTED GLASS ; being an Inquiry into its Nature, Character, and Objects, and its Claims as an Art. The following regiments of militia will proceed during the ensuing week to the encampment at Aldershott— viz., Tower Hamlets (King's Own Light Infantry), from Hackney ; City of London, from Finsbury ; 3d Middle sex (Westminster), from Turnharn-green ; and Hants Artillery from Portsmouth. It is expected that the Ed monton Rifles will be in an efficient state as to numbers to proceed to the encampment, under the command of Viscount Enfield, about the 15th inst. The above-men tioned regiments will increase the number of the troops on the heath to about 6,500. By FRGS. W. OLIPHANT. Oxford: John Henry Parker, and 377, Strand, London. On the sth June will be published, price 3s. 6d., cloth, IMPERIAL PARIS ; including New Scenes for Old Visitors. By W. BLANC HARI JERROLD. Braibury and Evans, 11, Bouverie-street. . _ By order. L. CROMBIE, Secretary. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY BILL. l• " 10. The commutation of all claims of preference which may be thought worthy to be retained into exhi bitions. This day is published, price 4s. 6d. bound, with an illustrated cover by J. Tenniel, STORIES FROM A SCREEN. By DUDLEY COSTELLO. " Look here upon this picture—and on this I"—HAMLET. Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie -steeet. " 11. The extinction of the powers of all external electors to Fellowships and Scholarships. "12. The modification of the rules which are now ap plicable to the tenure of College emolument, the election thereto,' and the qualfications of candidates. "13. The application of a portion of the collegiate funds to the establishment of a more extended Profes soriate to the University at large. " Section 31. The three Royal Profess Irships of Di vinity, Greek, and Hebrew, are regulated at present by a statute of Trinity College, which stands in urgent need of revision. But it may be doubted how far they are professorships in the University within the meaning of the words of the section. We would suggest the expe diency of mentioning these foundations by name, to pre vent the possibility of doubt. LONDON bABOUR and the LONDOXOOR, Cy4.IENgY MAYIIE (Whicit has een sought for un,uc cessfaliy by thousands during the last two years.) 2 vols., 21s. Or, exclusive of the section relating to " Those who will not work" (watch is to some objection ble, from motives of delicacy), price 16s. ndon: George Newbold, 8, Regent-street, Westminster, and all booksallerS. b _ iii ki4 TRTD - r, i,Lklt nt N JA - „,--LA ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL 'Ab e G - tiOIsTAL ORPHAN HOME will take place at the 114 1 , ,, ILT ER, Richmond 11111, on FRIDAY, June 22, -1 41 IL , • gutless the Duke of CAMBRIDGE will preside. The Right ANNOUNCEMENT OF STEWARDS. h e R ight Hon. the Earl of Effingham. • Si ght Hon. the Earl of haftesbury. The Sight Right Hon. Lord Bernet's, Hon. Loyd Robert Grosvenor, M.P. ' The Bon. F. T. Ilereache. ' li 4 ii 'lol , J. King King, Esq., M.P. li'l.lilig y Charles J. Bevan, Esq. N i t tl , l, l % Ea ' n ' E. F. Leeks, Esq., F.S.A. 1. 1 4.be1 , t, 1 * The Rev. W. M. Lusignan, M.A. ..,.)` Josel The Rev. C. Mackenzie, M.A., ,V,N.S.,,DiI mown, M.A. Prebendary of St. Paul's. qet-hew, t Yaw, 31. A. Rev. J. W. Markwell, M.A. /I . ,, e illl; V nlita la s q,. ', J. J. Mechi, Esq. Is 4 4{ D ,' N. -.e 'an', M.A. W. Parkin, Esq. ti t li t ,:u j ag. t sq. John Parsons, Esq. llqz i l tet • Cog y , The Major Pole. ' , I, x, O. /,,,Compton Po•t, Esq. 1 ;'; 4, 'What:tend Drif- J. D. Fowles!, Esq. t l ") "tics 1/444:4°, s, Esq, Rev. A. J. Ran. W. Rogers, Esq. JO l. lt Ziki eq. C. Sawbridge, Esq. S' l lo . " t ilzo -I.4.° °d, Esq .ki,S,P m.A. • J. Scratchley, Esq. J G. Sheppard. Esq. R '' ,' 4 11 oi s q ' • The Rev. Stewart Smythe, M.A. I titt'; A l, 4 gust b a e g r fi t(4l ' The Rev. T. Spyers, D.D. ,)•,tv . ,_• C p - ,;•..01v, M.A. The Rev. H. I. theySmonds, LL.D., t ' , ..k . • tho . • ''uNgll, M.A. • Chaplain to Forces. N t Nh.. Ma' I CtilL M.A., J. D. Tronghton, Esq. 1 1. ) 11 to' r t, Es Samuel Walker. Esq. I,' J. wil `• li. 1 4 •La „ Ihe K. R. Whittington, M.A. i, 4 e , e, t 1„ ;Alan, B.A. William Woods, Esq. l' l ' l l t 4 e 1 441 itt ' ;,, .I ' ' ' -.44 Y of earnestly appeal for help, that they may admit, if 10 , . the orphans left at this time by the war and pesti 11 %, 4 ki ' 4 1 tatio,, t hOiltry i must for for the St ewarlships (the number of which will tel- 'ecr, t , b Made before the 9th of Ham-common addressed to the „4 1 14,,.' It i i r les, National Orphan Dome,, or to 14 - ti, b y uittington. A.A., Chapter House, St Paul's I tn il r '' ' : ll ' every infonnat•on lespecting the Institution 4 14; o,, t ' it - th,'lli ack w f e . ll as by the Rev. Joseph Brown, Rector of st e. a le „.„. nars-i oad . " 41 give :, Wo life votes at all elections ; dye guineas Just published, New and Improved Edit ion, p rice ls„- THE CURABILITY of CONSUMPTION ; being a Series of Papers, presenting the most prominent and important Practical Points in the Treatment of the Disease. By FRANCIS H. RAMADGE, Fellow of the College of Physicians, late Senior Physician to the Royal Infirmary for Diseases of the Chest, &c. Also, by the same Author, Price 10s. 6d., A TREATISE on ASTHMA and on DISEASES of the HEART. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Lougmans. "A similar sugg - estion may be made regarding the office of Christian advocate, which does not appear to us to come with the meaning of any of the words employed in the section. A change in this office was specially noticed in our report as expedient to he made. "These observations on the Cambridge University Bill we respectfully submit to your Lordship's judgment, being much impressed with the importance of the ques• tion, and being at she sane time convinced that the pro visions of the bill as it now stands are not only not ade quate to supply the chief wants which are experienced, but will, in their leading features, tend to perpetuate the principal defects of the existing system. "We have, &c., " GEORGE PEACOCK. " JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL. " JOHN ROMILLY. " ADAM SEDGWICK. " W. H. BATESON (late Secretary). " The Right Hon. the Lord Chancellor, &c." Just published, price 55., by post, free, ss. 6d., STRICTURE of the URETHRA : its Rational Treatment and Prompt Cure. By F. B. COI7RTENAY, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. " We believe Mr. Courtenay's experience in the treatment of stric ture dming the last twenty years has equalled, if, indeed, it has not surpasseel, that of any of his contemporaries. It is, therefore, no matter of But prise that he should enjoy the reputation of being a most dexterous and skilful manipu ator with urethral instruments ; and when it is remembered that the lamented Liston used to assert that the introduction of Instruments through a stricture which bad previously been impermeab e to them, was the most difficult in the whole ranee 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 res , ect ; and I'd our part, with the knowledge we have of his experience, we know of no man to whose care we would with greater confidence entrust the treatment of a severe case of stricture of the nrethra."—Medical Circu'ar. London: H. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. ARGYLL ROOMS.—lmmense success of the new dance, L 4 VARSOVIANA : Music by H. LAURENT. —Danced every evening. OXFORD, JUNE 1. The following amendments were proposed yesterday in Congregation upon the Craven Statute : By Mr. Conington, of University 1. To reduce the number of scholarships to six, tenable each for six years. 2. To abolish all preference for persons of the kin or name of the founder. MR. AGUILAR respectfully announces that he will give a M XTINF.E MUSICALE at Willis's Rooms.. THURSDAY, June 14, under distinguished patronage, and assisted by , cllle. Anna Rockholts Talront, Nime. Ferrari, Mr. Mirandi, Signor Ferrari, Signor Nabatti, Herr Ernst. Signor Plait', Mr. R. S. Pra , ten, and Ur. F. Mori —Reserved seats, 155. ; tickets, 10s. 6d.. to be had of Mr. Aguilar, 68, Upper Norton-street; and at all the wincipal music publishers. 3. To require of candidates that they should have passed one of the final examination schools. Mr. By Palmer, of Balliol— To substitute for the proposed board of electors a board consisting of the Professor of Greek, the Professor of Latin, and one Master of Arts nom i na t e d by th e Vi ce - Chancellor. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT MESSRS. PENN AND SONS', THE GOVERNMENT EYGINEERS. fIOOYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. R IIL The LECTURES and EXHIBITIONS, as delivered before her Most Gracious Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Patron of the Institution, will ne continued, consisting of the TELE PHONIC CONCERT, DISSOLVING VIE WS of 4 INBAD the SAILOR, DU BOSCQ's ILLUMINATED CASCADE, the DIORAMA. dins rating the Voyage across the Atlantic, and the Cities in the United states. LECTURES on MUSIC, by Gautoz BIICKLAND, Esq., with Vocal Illustrations. By Mr. Tweed, of Exeter 1. To retain two scholarships for the kin of the foun der. 2. To make non-residence vacate the scholarships. 3. To provide that in case of the non-appearance of any qualified candidate of the founder's kin, the scholar ships be thrown open to undergraduates of limited means. DISSOLVIN , 4 VIEWS of the WAR, &c. On Monday, the 4th inst., and Thursday, the 7th inst., at Eight o'clock, LECTURES by Mrs. CLARA Luces BALFOUR on " The POETS of the PEOPLE, their Lives and Writings," with Illustra tive Readings. IMPORTANT TO LADIES.-OLDRIDGE'S B ,LM of COLUMBIA possesses this distinelive feature: it will not soil the most delicate bonnet, which resders this well known preps - ation or the hair invaluable. In botiles, with full instructions for use. 3s. 6d., 65,, lls. Wholesale and retail 13, Wei - lington-sirwit North, Strand. In the same Congregation the Statute requiring that no elections, except those of Members of Parliament, shall take place unless in full term, was submitted and approved. The University sermons on Sunday next will be preached in the morning by the Senior Proctor at New College, and in the afternoon by the Ven. Archdeacon Garbett, at St. Mary's. The latter will preach the an nual sermon on church extension in the colonies. ASCOT RACES.—JOSEPIL THUMWOOD, tlontractor to the Great W stern Railway for Carriages. :-ost Horses. Flies, &c.. at Windsor station, begs to inform the nom lity and G,ntry that he has provided a large SUPPLY of superior CARIU.A.OEs and , iOIt4ES. to be in attendance on the arrival of the various trains on the race days but to prevent disappointment, he respectfully requests that an early application may be made. — Orders should be addr , s.ed to Joseph Thumwood, Great Western Qtation Windsor, wh'ch will be also forwarded to him by the Su perintendent ot the Paddington Station, from whom every informa Von n ay be obtained. The charges will be as follow: Carr. and Single. Carr and Pair. Tuesday. June 5 .... £2 2 0 Wednesday, June 6 .... 1 0 2 2 0 Thursday, Jive 7 •• • . 3 3 0 5 5 0 Friday, June 8 .... I 1 0 22 0 Carriage and Pair for four days.. £lO 10 0 RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT WESTERN AND BRENTFORD. A meeting of the inhabitants of Brentford was held on Tuesday to consider the propriety of supporting the above undertaking ; Mr. J. Montgomery in the chair. Mr. H. G. DAY, one of the directors, having explained the advantages of the proposed line and docks to the town of Brentford, and also to the Great Western Rail way Company, resolutions were passed in favour of the project, and the meeting separated. SIC 6 k „, LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY , , - - ir BRIDGE-STREET, BLACKFRIARS. e 'llipo we Est a blished 1823. It rIPB . b red by Act of Parliament, 3 William IV. Alt -) -411 , ?tr iD , DIRECTORS. ,stql '„ '1 4 ./CK STEPHENSON, Esq., Chairman. it t ' , lt "":.'sr om • 'LPH, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. 1 1 14 ) Ott 11;,. Barber Esq. I Sir Alex. Duff Gordon, Bart. 11` I.‘, l " 4 eCe l aY Es 'a Flt S Captain Robert Gordon, RN. .lt i i k i a4 - O.eit , sq,' "" • • . Archibald Hastie, Esq., M.P. ' l cYdell Bouverie, 1 Charles Morris, Esq. kih Edgar 1., - William Routh, Esq. k vibi c , ' —sq, 4'4,.% b har ri AUDITORS. 1;',1ti, 14 4 1 4 t0n, Esq. I John Howell, Esq. 4 4 - ',„ --- 4,,r:. Esq. I John William Stillwell, Esq. ' ' 4 4%Z,, A. Paris, M.D., Cantab., Hon. D.C.L. Oxon. W.tit:,, t of the Royal College of Physicians. 4,- 7 1 ‘-Benjamin Travers, Esq., F.R.S. ~,,, Ic iti erroa—Henry Young, Esq. e 'l . ..kones John Downes, Esq., F.R.A.S. Zob kl 4 ltT— Alex. M,cdonald, Esq. 4,,,,n lia lin tEN•p v - I,ESTER.. LOCAL BOARD. -41 b -e rtll ' ' 4 DIRECTORS. 4 *0re, % 4 , 1d PI r li an, E „ ° C7.l3swOßTsf, Esq.. Chairman. -- -, ar r 4 ,.,'1ii, .‘" ' !William Shnrter Stet, Esq. \c,,osq. Q. I Robert Stuart, Esq. tr l ll 44, Is' ilr'9l/cITACZTOTI7.aeLi :Carb.,n:es:beol Watts,; E ye s ; ll ,. Esq. ardsley, M.D. I ' y ip ) ' Z O at' b. ta gea , s B „, I3 RGEori-J. A. Ransome, Esq. Ni h p g .- 1 4 ,. b‘ ruered by tilts Society 4 si4 Dr ,74,,,""iined with Security, and Lower Rates of Premiums h kit,„%l, a h ", Other office, which entitle the assured to participate Vioei - considerably lower than those of any other Mutual 4 „, ati llo t gty . 1t: 4 41 I,' l 'd 4 i :the PROFITS are divided every fifth year among fi c4 al t ki ' lij i l e Bonus is added, after the payment of the Fifth ‘l4fspker,. to every Policy effected on the participating Scale, ki l l DZ Of a q ':hereon prior to the next division of profits. . Si -41 cee'' 0001 . was added to Polives at the last division, l' l l lik, r en average BONUS of 671. per cent. on the Premiums 4 2,! A, e fPor ,04, t eu rati ictes in force nearly 7,000. kill ' „ql4, l •Der e , e Pund amounts to 1,402,5221. Income upwards N:DeC ts ci t ,_ 4 rcrP " , ura • -Ps. Policy Stamps, nor for Service in the Yeomanry or ni, ~ 4 es a , ( -- 4124 Particulars may be obtained on application to ALEXANDER MACDONALD, Secretary. ~..,._.............. It 11 -___. 'Nh A -V E th,t4? A k kets call at ' , ii:,,,11 et the Piet '' us t TERRA/ NDS T A . E T S. ireenhlthe and Purfleet Plers. underlined (weather permittinv CER, GRAVESEND, the rs as P: t `eB Deis. 4 11 :$ 1 1 1 , 1: 4 ,t , il t e ,''' 4 r t tt i h, !Li Sumnst's .... .r... if , . c' I h l', _., 1 3 T.. z -'-.... 5 Time a* E .1 '5 , , .., 4 47. - 2 ' 1 .V 4.1 ... - 8 . - g 0 t-- , "-- ,▪ , .... --- 12% . -..— 6 ~..........._ _ 41 r 41. '1)41 r Of 6,l church-street Station to au parts o i uoiid rCg , 411 hoar. kti" Tr a i * BLACKAL, on the arrival of the I t t t!ftoti th e FenWchuLrch-strect Station 43, . 1:? 79. • ,____ SUNDAYS. :i Ai A. 5 , . . 4 : ; s r, '' z c Fen- :-.., , .si al 1' .2 t; ‘.; 4 t ; E 2 church 'S : I - .' 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Ist. end Sheerness„ 2 IL nq a . Gd. 3s. Od. 3s. 6d. 4s. lid. itiu" 4 ' l Aou fh 2s. Od. 2s. Gd. 33. Od. 3s. 6d 4 .. 1 g hee _.." erd i 4 '47 4 4 1 44 gli t e lless • Is. 61. 2s. Od. 2s. 6d. 3s. Od 185 5. etness i o4tp.n "1)41 -11tiiiii------------ ITY. , il kied, kie _ _ ITIEd OF YOUTH AND ettztrUft 3 k „ . 2.., illustrated with cases; free by post for • \i. ktt. / tf, Nit stamps, 'oll, t a OTj s DEBILITY: 1 1 , N,,a, 'N 'i, Sym . Ole ' 4 l W ith -- P'nrns, and Cure.—An Essay on Sper• hi, h„rnocte Practical Observations on a safer and mor, Vie h r:tai,, a of treatrnent of the diseas - zs of the Generativ• N tl tta ' l kri o 4l 4 4, bi, , I ,Z ti - le use of the Microscope in detecting any' 1F,b,, (4 , k.,,..,``Y of ,„:farY examination, the real cause and effect of 'IN N -" Plaint. delet,- whether arising from solitary habits, ka t ol ta ~, 3 , eit : climate. followed by practical remarks, toundet , / klit k idfli L -nni t r: ,exPerience in the treatment of Impuissance i t ! t o:11 4 f f.:° 41 4 , tfocal Weakness, 9per ' matorrheea, &c. To which tir l r t 3 a ; hiiitis'at2ntaries on the ' Physiology of Marriage, with pre illia6tri;elroa t he... evils emanating from empirical pr t i o, c 3 tic o e n , Ift , A rt a at di sor a d ' er r s elnedies advocated by various II ~ Ry um , hNi 1,. ••••• T) „„ lIEL LA'mEHT, M.D. 14, rigldi t i n : ~,0 RDSQIJ A R E, LON D 0 . NI , L'll744,,,anoritr:fialatrienlated Member University or Ede •'il,' t 9 f Acrenaber of the London laspital Medical Soeietv Wh it TI N ti al . ocalies' Hall, London te., &c. ; i „ l kilkl s h 1 1%,: 4 1.11t?„ b i t et of this treatise is to Point ont the fearful con. k i N t , 44 - a Droln-s frorn certain habits, irregularitiel, and excesses, M I , cl 4 Pren),:ae more misery in Youth, degradation in Man- It. i nli„ . : of di Ire more at all stag es of Life.than, perhaps, an) i:ll,:hP:s7,:eacr,B:,,,:etikonnown to mod ern pathologists. 'llo,llt,'eal e — untended to persons entertairfng secret doubts of Its perusal is it t i: Dphiess who are con - scions ef having hazarde d abg, ) , and privileges to which every human being is ~,,tltei, are h ak ti. "` Der"so"nwieslary thatall men should know, that there ..tyN t i,lqV oiu , a Management which cannot be violated without iviti 'lt 4 , Y of i Penalties, ard when wisdom and regret SUCCC . OII . S! „,,, ihg.a. tcoosiderate self-indulgence, how these pena l ": Nith.2.ll, evil bow the sting of their bitterness may be removed, ll 1,4748,'47.1:t,nd 11'3 c onsequences may be avoided, and abov t e a na , g lith a tto cI Y any der of h steal in fi rmity or func io ttre l 4 h. Wi nch the , pyl l 4 cs y oi , tiroe.y aid of science cannot apply 1. Ile t r a s eries of years been eng 'tly , ea nnent of these delicate complaints, which have , 1 1 ,,, .eer i ~„ aged in an ex a ten c sive . th.," o ing,,,."'o generally confided to the care of ignorant ''''' D '''' g r eat injury on those vil - o are induced P • 'If:N (4 N Laptensione. i' knd e ' III LITY May be had, price 2s of Messrs. Piper, ,31 Lei c '''' 23, PP ternoster-row; II annay, 63, Oxford-streei ; , 4.--, c aster , ,t hp . De to 'Rquare; Mann, 39, Cornhill ;or free by Estellfo 1%1" any address from the Author's residence. air B ed-1 a ' for • fat, ecalSUltat!On daily from Eleven fill _Two_ and from t i ot t E t , -„' tho, - tr , kl • t ASCOT RACES.—The PROPRIETORS of the PADDI ETO N CONVP:YANCN ASSOC lA. • lON beg to inform the Public that they have arranged for a plentiful su ply of well-appointed O iINIBUtES. to work from the Windsor Station of the Great western Railway on all the four race days, which will ne convenientlyplaced in the Station-yard at Winds it on the arrival of the several trains Each omnibus will be conspicuously numbered, so that p irties mac readily recognise is the aiternoon the vehicle that conveyed them in tie mornin.r. Fares from Windsor to the Course and Back: Tuesday, lune 5 ss. Od. I Thursday, June 7 --Ss. Od. Wednesday, June 6 ...... 4 s. 0 1. Friday, June 8 ..45. Od. N.B —Tickets, with the number of the omnibuses on them, will be delivered to each passenger on paying his fare. These tickets will also e marked "Irpide " - and "Outside :" and passengers tak ing outside tickets cannot be allowed to change to the inside, nor in-ide passengers to the outside, unless by mutual consent. Both inside and outside tickets are the same price. CONTRACT FOR IHDES IN THE HAIR. Department of the Storekeeper General of the Navy, Somerset-place, 31st May, 1855. THE Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain Ind Ireland, do Hereby Give Notice, that on TUESDAY, the 19th June next. at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such ner sons as may be willing to Contract for supplying her Majesty's several Dockyards with DRIED HIDES IN THE HAIR. A sample of the Hides and a form of the tender may be seen at the said office. No tender , ill be received after two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed, unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty. tod bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Hides," and must also be delivered at S ,, merset-place. accompanied by a etter signed by twe responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering in the sum of 5001. for the due performance of the contract. fpRIESEMAR, protected by Royal Letter Patent of England, and secured by the Seals of the Ecole harmacie de Paris, and the Imperial, College of Medicine, Vienna. TRIESEMAR, No. 1, 4, remedy for Relaxation. Rpermatorrhrea. and Exhaustion of to -tern, whether arising from excesses, accident, or climate. To those persons who are prevented entering the married state bj e consequences of early errors it is invaluable. TRIESEMAR, No. 2, • 'ectually, in the short space of three days, completely and entire* • dicates all traces of those Disorders which Capivi and Cubebt ,ve sn long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the heart' ,f a vast portion of the population. TRIESEMAR, No. 3, the great Continental Remedy for that class of Disorders, whist intbrtunately the English physician treats with Mercury, to the in tvitable destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all th, arsaparilla in the world cannot remove. TRIESEMAR, No. I, 2, and 3, are alike devoid of taste or smell. ,nd of all nauseating qualities. They may lie on the toilet ta'i' l without-their use being suspected. ' sold in tin cases at I is. each, free by post, 2s. extra, divided int.. ,eparate doses, as administered by Valpeau, Lallemand, Roux c., Btc.—To be had Wholesale and Retail in London of John iton, 68, oornhill; Hannay and Co., 63. Oxford-street: and Sanger. 50, Ox ,ord-street ; R. H. Ingham, druggist, 46, Market-street, Manchester ; IL Bradbury, bookseller, Dean.gate, Bolton ; J. Priestly, chemist, 5?, ford-street, Liverpool; Powell, bookseller, 15, Westmoreland-street , tublin ; Winnall. bookseller, High-street, Birmingham EVENTS OF THE TIME S.- The royal distribution of medals to men who have won fame by toll and bravery -who have shown themselves superior to enter mises or danger —the excitement of the Derby Day, which has drawn thousands to witness a victory in the rare, have been more than usually demonstrative of the universality of E. Moses and CON'S business. On these occasions their talents and facilities have been displayed; the military and naval costumes they manufacture, and the splendiit styles they have intrcduced, have been thus efore the bar of p' b is opinion, and well are E. Moses and Sorg satisfied with the result, but they are determined to give fuller orders expressi to their magnificent commercial capabilities in the following Summer Dress in the most Juvenile Attire in innumerable novel materials and styles ; the novel designs—comfort, elegance, productions of the hi g hest order durability, and cheapness being of talent applied to at'ire for all visible in every fom. cusses, and charged more econo mical prices than on any previ- Chil iren's Dress, and every de ow, season. sciiption of elegant and u cful The Emperor's Cape, made underclothing, at remarkably only by E. Moses and Sou, a economic prices. novel and thoroughly waterproof Hat s and Caps, Boots and material—folds in very sma 1 Shoes, &c., in more ample space, is gentlemanly in appear- and stylish arrangement han at ance, and ch arge d ( p l a i n ) 265. ; any other house in the world. trimmed with silk, 335. E. MOSES and SON are Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Shirt Manufac turers, Boat and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and. Gentlemen. CannoN.—E. MOSES and Sox beg to state they habe no connexion with any other house in or out of London, ex cept their own Esta blishments, as follow : _ opLpoonsditoentChiteyeEhsutrachhls.hment, corner of the Minories , an d Aldgate London West-end Branch, New Oxford-street, corner of Lista street. Country Branches—Sheffleld and Bradford, Yorkshire. Colonial Wholesale Bra nch — Melbourne, Australia. The establishments of e closed from sunset on Fridays till sunset on Saturdays, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock. ImPoirrerrr.—Should any article not give satisfaction it will be ex changed or, if preferred, the money returned without hesitfftlon. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest price, from which no abatement can be made. A New Book, with lists of prices, system of self-measurement, and other information, may be had on application, or post free. An Illustrated Almanac for 1855 gratis, on application, or pest free Id on pule Francais. Qui si parla Itailano. Hier sinichttnau Deutsch. I Aqua 30 habla Espagnol. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw steam. ship Simla, transport No. 11 8 , Captain T. S. Russell, will embark at Southampton this day the A troop of Royal Artillery for conveyance to the Crimea, consist inganTil h 3 e s s o i m m l a e n , willu n a nd l e s r o t c h o e n c v o e y m comma n o Lieute nantf Cap o ta f i 3 n o P o h h i o lp r o se tt s . Colonel Gough, 33d Foot ; Captain Pocock, 30th ditto; Captain Sergeant, 95th Regiment ; Assistant- Commissary-General Midwood, and the Rev. H. M. Wheeler, chaplain ; the Rev. Mr. Corke, officiating chaplain ; and the Rev. 11. Robinson, assistant ditto, besides six hospital orderlies, will he passengers to Con stantinople. Ten privates of the Royal Marines, volun teers as hospital orderlies to the Black Sea, are also to leave in the Simla. The whole of the ordnance appoint ments arrived at Southampton yesterday, and were ship ped. The Simla takes her departure to-morrow (Sunday). The Bacchante, steam-transport No. 12, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday morning and steamed into ha r- The following is a copy of &letter from the ity of Cambridge, addressed, mbridge University to the Lord Chan hour from the East. She left Constantinople o n the 9th of Royal May. On the 10th she saw the stea m- t rans p ort No. 186 C ommisstoners for Inquiry ilito the Univer - ("Etna) steering up tee Dardane l les ; on t he 11th, saw :eller; on the Subject of the C a as amended in the comm itt ee , d a ted M a y, ° B r h t e in saw po th rn e P sa a iTi s n a g g - 6 t - r ; an o s n p ' u t r h ts e Nl2otlis., off Bill, 'e ( CaN LYy 9An ß . : gea ss 7 e og f p l), 41 (Kent), 223 (Hollander steamer), and 1855 :- 251 (so reported, but there is no such number in the "My Lord,-We, the undersigned members of the transport list as yet) ; on the same day she saw the late Commission for Inquiring into the State of the General Screw Steam-Shipping Company's steamer University of Cambridge, beg respectfully to convey to Emu, towing a ship. The Bacchante arrived at Malta, your lordship the following observations on the amended May 14. On the 15th, the Great Britain arrived, towed bill for the good government and extension of that into Malta harbour the transports Saldanha and Blun- University. Our remarks will have reference to the dell ; left. Malta on the 16th and arrived at Gibraltar on several sections of the bill as they now stand seriatim. the 23d, heard there that the Medway steam-transport "Section 5. We greatly regret to find that the duty had passed through, and had lost 65 horses ; the Lance,- of the new Council of the Senate is defined to be the con shire Witch, with cavalry and horses, arrived at Gibral- sideration and preparation of Graces. Its functions, far on the 24th, on which d a y the B acc h a nte left ; s a w therefore, will be legislative only. It will have no power a transport (No. 46), steering eastward ;on the 29th of administration. It will be known to the Senate only spoke her Majesty's steam-frigate Odin, towing th r ee m.'r- by the Graces which it may propose. It will nut be the tar-boats ;on the 30th saw the steam s transport No. 103 body whom the Vice-Chancellor would naturally consult teerine 'south west, Tae following passengers arrived in cases of difficulty or emergency. It will not have a at Portsmouth in the Bacchante :-Captain Marsh, R.N., single power or privilege which is now exercised by the Capt. Burnett, R.N., Mr. Prichard, R N., E n sign Gill- Heads of Colleges. This latter body will still retain the more, of the 40th ; Mr. G. A. Bates and Mr. John S. power of nominating to the Vice-Chancellorship and the Lynch, Engineers ; Mr. R. Waterstone, Messrs. Wm. other statutable offices of the University. They will Rice, John Bellman, Henry Denman ; and Mesdames , he the assessors and administrative councillors of the Lynch and two children, Fitzpatrick, and Margaret Vice-Chancellor and the authorised interperters of doubt- Shaugness. After landing them she left for Deptford. ful statutes. In short, the Heads of Colleges will con- The screw steam transport Australian (No. 120), Capt. tinue to possess, under the present bill, all those powers Mason, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from the and privileges which, under the statutes of Queen Eliza- East. She left Scutari on the 12th of May ; Malta, the beth, have enabled them to become the actual governors 18th ; and Gibraltar, the 24th. On the 25th, in lat. of the University. 36.30 N., long 7.50 W., she spoke the American ship "And here we cannot but observe that the provisions John Briant ; on the 28th, in lat. 45.20 N., long. 8.30 of the measure of last session for the good government W., passed a large steamer, supposed to be the Orinoco. of the University of Oxford were entirely different in The Australian has brought 164 military invalids, and this respect. There the Heads of Houses had by a thefollowingcabin passengers :-Lieut.-Col. Haygartb, of distinct statutable enactment to that effect long been th e S c ot s F us ilier Guards ; Battalion Surgeon Bostock, the irresponsible governors of the university, yet we find M.D., of ditto; Capt. Simpson, R.A.; Assistant-Surgeon all their powers at once transferred to a new council, Lynch, of the 7th Hussars; Lieuts. Savery, Ives, and liberally constituted and freely elected. If such a mea- Rason, R.N., on promotion from her Majesty's ships sure is proper and expedient at Oxford, why is it not Princess Royal, Agamemnon, and Leopard ; _jetzt. equally so at Cambridge? Why should we erect a new Lambert, 41st Regiment, in charge of the invalids ; Council of the Senate, and still leave the old government Messrs. Newsome and Morris, Engineers (the former standing by its side ? Why should we leave two bodies .ittached to the Royal Sappers and Miners and the lat- in the University with corporate rights and distinct ter to the navy) ; Messrs. Hooper and Brookin, Gun powers of government, thus sowing the seeds of intrigue ners, R.N. ; Mr. and Mrs. Mason, and upwards of 150 and divided councils ? invalids from Kululee, Scutari, and Malta, comprising "We earnestly hope to see this section of the bill so 10 of the Royal Artillery, film- of the Grenadier Guards, modified as to vest in the new Council of the Senate, not one of the Coldstream Guards, five of the Scots Fusilier only the powers of the Caput, but also all those powers, Guards, two of the Ist Foot, eight of the 4th, two of the privileges, and functions which are now possessed or 7th, two of the 9th, three of the 14th, three of the 17th, exercised by the heads of colleges in their collective ca three of the 18th, four of the 19th, six of the 20th, five pacity, by virtue of any statute of the University. of the 21st, one of the 23d, five of the 28th, six of the " Sections 6to 17.-The amendments which have 30th, four of the 33d, 11 of the 38th, two of the 41st, been introduced into these clauses, though they provide three of the 44th, five of the 46th, seven of the 47th, for the enfranchisement of all the present members of one of the 49th, five of the 50th, four of the 55th, two the Senate resident in the University, leave no of the 57th, two of the 62d, one of the 63d, two of the room for the introduction of those persons who may 68th, three of the 77th, three of the 88th, three of the 89th, hereafter graduate at the private Halls to be erected five of the 90th, five of the 95th, six of the Ist Battalion under the provisions of the bill. Moreover, 'that system 'if the Rifle Brigade, two of the 2d ditto, one of the 11th of what has been called sectional election, which was Hussars, 12 seamen and marines. Thirteen of the worst deliberately rejected by Parliament last ,aession in legis cases, who were unable to help themselves, and in a very lating for Oxford, is retained here in an pe,ravated form. ickly state, were removed to the General Military "For Oxford it was proposed that the Council should Hospital at Portsea. The rest disembarked to temporary he elected by three separate bodies-=the Howls, the quarters in barracks until removed to invalid depots. Professors, and the remaining Members of Congregation. Major-General Breton, Assistant-Quartermaster-General But Parliament determined that there shoilkpl be only Dalgetty, and Lieutenant Parks, R.N. superintended one electoral body for all parts of the CouncilllF At Cam their disembarkation. They came home in medical bridge, under the present bill, we shall not only have charge of Dr. Hutchinson. The Australian left Eng- the electoral body divided into 19 parts- •e., the 17 land in August last with siege guns, ammunition, &c. Colleges, the Professors, and the Heads, but we shall She towed the re:ere° p ow d er v es sels from Varna to have this additional inconvenience, when the turn of a Balaklava, since which time she has been employed con- College to nominate , arrives-it will 'be limited in its veying sick and wounded from the Crimea to Conbt r in- choice to either a non-regent or &regent, according as it tinole. ma:-stand first or second on the cycle. And when it is The Royal yacht Fairy, Master Commander Welch, remembered how strongly the inducements to nominate had her masts taken out yesterday preparatory to going one of their own members operate in our Colleges at into dock this morning at Portsmouth to undergo a few Cambridge, and how unlikely it is in many cases that repairs and a thorough re-embellishment. The Falcon, the College, when its turn arrives, should have at hand 14-, screw-sloop, Commander Pullen, was ordered to leave the most suitable candidate, it cannot but be admitted Spithead last evening for Sheerness with supernume- that the mode of election is singularly ill-adapted for raries for the blockships at the Nore, and others for s e curing the services of the most distinguished or the passage to join the Baltic fleet. The Imperieuse, most efficient members of the University. We would 51, Captain R. B. Watson, was not docked until yes- respectfully ask, why are the resident members of Cam terday, owing to the foul weather. The Seamark, bridge to be deprived of the privilege's of free election naval instruction brig, Lieut. Lowther, returned to Ports- which are conceded at Oxford ? Why embarrass the con mouth yesterday morning from a cruise in the Channel. -titution of the Council of the Senate With the obsolete By letters from Bombay Dockyard, dated the 30th of and inconvenient mediaeval distinction of regents April, we learn that an important and powerful eap e di- an d no n -regents ? Why not resort to a Congregation, as tion was ready for the word to proceed to the Persian at Oxford, instead of a mode of appointment by Colleges, Gulf and commence the offensive against the Shah of s i ngu l a rly complicated and inconvenient, a Bich will not that territory. "We have now," says our letter, " ready only exclude very frequently men of eminence from the to embark 15,000 men, and only wait for the word Council, but will make it the representative of the narrow ' Go.' There are eight heavily-armed steam-ships, six interests of the Colleges rather than of the Univers smaller ones,lo river boats well armed, and 12 gun-boats. sity, thus tending to perpetuate one of the worst evils This fleet will be commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir H. o f our s y s t em ? We feel satisfied that there are few per- Leeke, Commander-in• Chief of the Indian Navy, who sons really acquainted with the University, and not in te will hoist his flag in' the steam-frigate Assaye, which rested in the maintenance of 'the privileges of the Heads mounts two 84-pounders on pivots, and ten 68's." of Coll:ges, who will not be ready to admit that themode The Geyser, 6, paddle-wheel steam-stoop, Commander of appointment to Council at Oxford is greatly superior in R. Drew, reported yesterday from Woolwich, is from the simplicity, and in the prospect which it holds out of hat- Baltic. She left Elsinore on the 23d ult., with eight monious and efficient action, to that which is proposed prizes in charge, towing six of them. She passed the by the bill for Cambridge. Scaw on the 27th ;on the 28th, during a heavy gale, five "But it is said that Cambridge differs from Oxford in of them parted their ,tow -ropes, the other was cast off, having two large Colleges with a predominating influ about half sea over, it blowing at the time a heavy gale ence, and that with the Oxford system of election the from east-south-east. The Geyser has brought home the smaller societies would be in danger 'of being excluded crews of the late brigs Commodore, of Montrose, and the from their fair share in the representation. This objec- Ophelia Mary, of South Shields, except the masters, tion, it may be re lied could only find place in the event who remain by the wrecks. The Commodore was of the non-residents as well as the residents being in wrecked on the Lessee Island, and the Ophelia Mary on eluded in the electoral body. No such objection could the coast of Sweden. Both crews, 16 in number, were apply to a Congregation constituted on the model of landed at Sheerness on Thursday aft ernoon. that of Oxford ; for the united number of residents be- The following officers have taken up their commissions longing to Trinity and St. John's forais but a small frac aod joined the, Glutton floating battery at Sheerness :- lion of the whole body of resident members of the First Lieutenant Richard Dawkins, Lieut. Nares, Mr. Senate. We believe the whole number of resident mern- Richards, master, and Mr. W. C. P. Grant , P a y master- hers of the Senate is now about 250. Of this number A court-martial assembled on board the Waterloo, at not more than 60 altogether belong to Trinity and St. Sheerness, yesterday, to try Mr. William Lane, a first- John's. class assistant-engineer, supernumerary on board the "It may further be observed that the word 'resident' Hastings, for desertion. There were other charges in the seventh clause will require a definition either in against him, but he was tried on the one charge named. the bill itself, as was done for Oxford, or by a by-law of Di addition to the officers who sat on the former court- the University. We shall thus have in effect all the martial to try Lieut. Packwood, were Capt. James J. machinery requisite for the construction of a Congrega- Stopford, of the Calcutta, and Captain Arthur Cum- tion, am dno additional c han g e will be imported jut° the ming, of the Glutton. The charge of desertion was fully academical system beyond that which is already contem proved,' and the prisoner was sentenced to six months' plated by the bill, in order to give effect to our recom imnrkonment in Maidstone Gaol. mendations. Orders have been forwarded to the detachment of the " Sections 27and 28.-Although theiUniversity is em 94th Foot, doing duty at Aldershott Camp, for the men powered, and in the event of the University failing to do to be held in readiness to join the head-quarters of the so, the commissioners are required, to make statutes for regiment at Portsmouth, previous to its embarkation at the regulation of private halls, no power or direction Gibraltar. It was expected that the head-quarters at is , given by the bill for the repeal or revision of the uni- Windsor and the detachment at the Tower would have versity statutes now in force. The University of Oxford proceeded to Portsmouth yesterday ; the departure, had only two permanent statutes ; one constituting the however, has been postponed ; and at a late hour yes- hebdomadal board, which was repealed by the act of terday evening no order for the march was received at last session • the other constituting the cycle of procto rs , the Tower. It is considered probable that the regiment which is still in force. All other matters are within the will not embark before Thursday, the 14th in-t. competency of Convocation to regulate at pleasure. At The new large screw steamer Oneida will leave Green- Cambridge the case is widely different. The cumbrous, wich to-day for Liverpool, with the following officers on and in many respects obsolete, code of Queen Elizabeth board :-Lieut.-Colonel Stratton, of the 77th Foot ; is still in existence, and no power is given by the bill to Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. H. Hancock, 97th ; Lieutenants enable the university or the commissioners to revise or M'Donald, Makinson, Durand, Allen, M'Nore, Crauford, to repeal it. It is well known that considerable progress Cleather,, M'Murdo, Bryan (Royal Artillery) ; Mr. Les- has been • made by the university itself in the labour of lie and Ensigns Campbell, Allayne, and Hankys; Major amending its statutes, and it is expected that before long Weylen, of the Turkish Irregular Cavalry; Captain For- a petition, which has only been delayed on account of rest ; Drs. Scott, Morton, and Ford, will also proceed ti impending bill in Parliament, wj l l be presented to by the Oneida. the Queen, for the Royal sanction to a new code of uni- On Wednesday the depot of the 3d Buffs arrived in versity statutes. The executive Government would Cork from Buttevant, en route for Winchester, num- probably refer such a new code of statutes to the com boring about 300 rank and file, under command of Major finis Toners appointed by the bill, for their, opinion and Green, with the following officers :-Capt. Cole, Capt. approval ; and yet they will have no power whatever to Kains, Lieut. Coussrnaker, Depot Adjutant ; Lieut. deal with the question. Pope, Depot Paymaster, Lieut. Henry, Lieut. Suttie, "If a Council of the Senate were statisfactorily consti- Ensign Breedon, and Assistant-Surgeon Day. A strong tutted, it would probably be found suffiyient to define by draught of the Buffs is to embark from Cork for the the bill the order of the proctors' cycle; and to leave all Crimea in the course of a few days. other matters to be regulated by bye-laws of the uni- On Sunday 13 invalids from the 41st, 63d, 30th, 77th, versity, as occasion' may require, from time to time, and 88th regiments, arrived in Cork per the London subordinate to the provisions of the bill. )te Act o n c boat, from Chatham. The appearance of these men, "Section 29. The preamble of this se Lion is bo rrowe d , heroes of Alma and Inkerman , was deplorable, some with slight alteration., from the 28th section of h having lost legs and arms. They have been discharged for the Government of the University of Oxford As t h it on a pension of Is. a-day, with travelling money to now stands, it becomes the basis of all the powers ( enable them to proceed home. ferred upon the colleges and the commissioners oin tl It is in contempl a tio n to establish a "Medical Staff for the regulation of a great numbeit of veryimportant Corps," to be made up of volunteers from the regular details, which are not afterwards enumeratedi n e army or from men lately discharged, to consist' of nine enacting parts of the bill. Bearing in mind the import companies, and to be composed of-Purveyors' Dep4rt' ante of avoidin g frequent appeals to our co ur t s of law ment, 1 steward, as sergeant-major ; assistant - in matte rs re ga rding the exercise of special powers, we stewards, as sergeants ; 6 issuers, as privates; cannot do otherwise than express a wish that the Se 2 washermen, as corporals ; 1 c ook, as sergeant ; ral points which require the revision of the colleges aVned -3 assistant - conks , as privates. Surgeons' Depart- the commissioners may be more distinctly defined, lest ment -1 warclinaster, as colour sergeant ; 8 as- there, should be any miscarriage on putting the powers s istant-wardmasters, as corporals ; 2 barbers, as privates; ipf the act into operation. As nothing can be done in 50 orderlies, as privates ; t o t a l, 7 3. Th e co rps will thus these respects under the bill, except with a certain con consist s.f 9 stewar Is, as sergeant-major, pay ss: a-day ; cureenc'e of the colleges and the commissioners we ap -9 wardmasters, as colour -sergeants, 49.; 36 assistant- prebend that no objection can be made to a detailed stewards, as sergeants, and 9 cooks, as sergeants, 3s. 6d.; j enumeration of the subjects in which a chan ge ma y be 90 assistant-wardmasters, as corporals, 2s, 6d. ; 549 I either necessary or desirable. The following are the KILLARNEY JUNCTION. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held in Dublin on Thursday ; Alderman Roe in the chair. The directors' report ' stated that, by economy and management, and the' increase of traffic during the last year, the loss of 2,0191. in the revenue account for the winter half-year; ending April, 1854, had been reduced in the corresponding half of the present year to the small sum of 155/. 10s. 2d., and the clear gain on foot of the revenue account for the year ending April, 1855, after payment of all outgoings for management, and interest on Government loan and debentures, amounted to 7931. The Great Southern and Western Company had agreed to reduce the annual charge for working the line to 5,0001. They had also reduced by 5001. their charge under this head for the last year. Under these circum stances the directors expressed their sanguine expecta tions that the proprietors would, for the future, be fairly remunerated for the capital invested in the line. The report and statement of accounts were adopted without any discusFion, and after a brief conversation the proceedings terminated. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK. IT/IlVil Receipts. pened, NAME OF RAILWAY. 1855. 1854. 1855. ------. - --- BRITISH. £ £ M4Aberdeen .. •• ...... ..• •• ••• •••• • •••• 1,953 2,350 37 % Belfast and Ballymena •••••••• • • • • •• 865 819 17 Belfast and County Down- •.• •••• • .• - - 32 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 2192 2,237 264 Bolton, Blackburn, and West York - - - - 103 4 Bristol and Exeter •• •.•• 189 % Ca1ed0nian............. ............ 11,776 1 1,781 944 Chester and Holyhead...-. ..... •• • • 4,648 4,753 GU Cork, Blackrock, and Passage' ••• • •• 252 189 20 Cork and Bandon .................. 259 244 56 Dublin and Belfast J unc tio n 63 Dublin and Drogheda...-. ......... 1,27 , 1 , 406 7 % Dublin and Kingst own ••••••- •• •• •• 9 21 951 16% Dundee and Arbroath -••••-• • •• •• 547 6i5 31 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 933 956 25 Dundalk and Enniskillen- .. • • •• . • •• 149 287 68 East Anglian.... • ... .• •• • • • • • • •• • • •• 848 915 814 East Lancashire .................... 5,204 5,739 417 Eastern Counties and Norfolk '• • • 20,137 24,029 Eastern Union - ...............“. 3 142 Edinburgh and Glasgo w ............. . 5,820 5,281 l s 78 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee."... 3,219 3,270 6 Exeter and Crediton.. •..... •••• • • • • - - 22 Furness Railway ... .... ••••• • • • • • - - 183 Glasgow, and South-Western.• ...... 5,546 . 5,200 283 Great Northern and E. L.......“ .. 17,027 19,86 i 188 Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 5,366 6,177 342 Great Western .. • ................. 23,180 27,987 25 Irish South Eastern • . • • .. . • - - .. - - - 9 0 Lancaster and Carlisle...-. ........ 6,029 5,803 260 Lancashire and Yorkshire, ......• 19,336 20,181 - Leeds Northern .. • • .. - . • • • ........ 164 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.• • . 401 246 5534 London and North Western ... -.• • • 55, 88 59,743 5% London and 81ackwa11.........• •• • . 1,539 1,525 174 London, Brighton, and South Coast.. 12,198 18,864 267 London and South Western... .. .• •• 13,763 16,492 60 Londonderry and Enniskillen ........ 507 630 - Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. - - 171% Manchester, Sheffield, tind Lincolnshire 7,628 9,815 94 Manchester and South Junction ...... 719 723 28 51aryport and Carlisle ............ „ 733 803 498% Midland ..... .. ...... 23,132 26,208 1264 Midland Great West ern (Irish) ..... 2,736 2,868 3 7 Monklands .... - ........ ~.......,, _ - 784 Newcastle and Carlisle.. ........... _ - 149 North British .... •• • • ............ 4,688 5,376 - North Staffordshire -•• • .... - - __ _ 464 North-Western ........ „„. .. _ 1,021 1,008 824 Scottish Central .....• 32 Scottish Midland ................ • : 352 937 294 Shrewsbury and Birmingham ...... 962 1,351 48 Shrewsbury and Ch ester 30 Shropshire Uni on .................. 707 760 57% cio ut b Devon ........ . .............. 2,216 2,326 249 Suitt, Easterrt.• .......... 16,034 17.247 1624 South Wales _ ......... :: :::: :: :: 5,375 5, 925 97 South York., Doncaster, and Goole .• 1,813 1,927 38 Taff Vale .......................... 3,039 4,052 36 Ulster. 1,325 1,213 77 Waterford and Limerick ........ •• • _ • CO3 25 West Cornwall .• •• •• ..- ••••• • • 687 303 284 12 Whitehaven Junction . - •• •• • • •• • • •• 6 82 York and Newcastle, and Berwick & York and North Midland & Leeds.. - - FOREIGN. 1 236 31'7 57 t Dutch Rhenish - ...... ••..••• • •• •• 1 • , _ 262 Lyons and Mediterranean •• •• •••• • • __, - _ 63 Montereau and Troyes ••• • •• - _ _ 63 Namur and Liege •• • • •• - _ 445 Northern of France • ... ••• • - - 697 Orleans and Central* .. • • • • •• • • _ - "240 Paris and Lyons ........- - ...• 82 Paris and Rouen. .. _... •...-•• • • •• - _ - - 392 Paris and Strasburgh ••..•••• •• •• • • _ - 59 Rouen and Havre .... ..... .• ••• • • _ - 157 Westernof France •-•••..• Miles opened. 1855. THE LUNATIC ASYLUMS (IRELAND) BILL, minutes of evidence taken before the Select Cur on the Lunatic Asylums (Ireland) Bill were pi ye3terday. The bill has been reported to the hot sundry amendments of detail, which gave 601 divisions in the committee. The mmittee üblished use with to three The storm of war which has long hung lowering over the southern coast of Russia has now burst in all its fury upon the empire. The affrighted craft which had sought refuge within the straits of Yenikale, and the steamers of-war employed by the enemy in maintaining his 'com munications with the opposite coast, have within four days of the seizure of Kertch perished by the hands of the Russians, or fallen a prize to the allied fleets. . Im mense stores of grain, of cattle, and 100 guns have been taken or destroyed. About 24 vessels of the allied fleet are of sufficiently small draught to navigate these water?, and this flotilla has instantly swept all resistance before it. The fort of Arabat, commanding the southern ex tremity of the tongue of land along which one 'of the post roads passes into the peninsula, has been shelled and blown up, The town of Berdiansk, one of the best ports on the north coast of the Sea of Azoff, burned its omuarga shipszi ne s ; a s n u d d s w c u e t s t ! h e a l l i t w s i t s h t e o a u m t e d r i s tm o o n u i t iy h e r o a t p s i p u r o p a o c s h s e o s - f sion of these waters, forming an integral portion of the Russian territories, during the continuance of the war. The possession of the north eastern co as t o f th e Crimea enables the allies to cut off the supplies, and even to menace the retreat of the enemy, while the increased force of the allied armies enables them to assume a more threatening attitude in his front. On the same day that the forces occupied Kertch a French corps d'armee crossed the Tchernaya and encamped at Tchorgouni, on the right bank of that stream, and there is rea son to believe that the Turkish army at Eupatoria has received reinforcements, which will speedily enable Omer Pasha to advance. The general plan of operations is still disguised in secrecy, and as our observations are transmitted daily to St. Petersburg in four or five hours, we shall not attempt to fathom it. But it is no secret that the Allied commanders are now in possession of forces which must be greatly superior to those of the enemy, and of a position which enables them to use those `forces with the utmost facility. These preparations were made while Prince Gortschakoff was exhausting the Conference of Vienna by the prolixity of his speeches and the subtlety of his objections, and the diplomatic scruples of that Envoy will cost his Sovereign and his country millions of treasure and thousands of lives. Such we believe to be at this time the prospects of the War. A career of success seems opening before us, which we trust our officers, both by sea and land, will energetically pursue to its furthest consequences, with out fear of being impeded by any further negotiations during the course of the campaign. Any attempt of the German Powers to renew these discussions at the pre sent time deserves only to be regarded as an attempt to mike a diversion in favour of the enemy. The basis on which the negotiations were opened in April is no longer applicable to the present state of affairs. Russia has had numerous and ampl e o p portun i t i es of averting the calamities and reverses which seem destined to befall her, but she has deliberately rejected them, because, in the ignorance and presumption which have marked her conduct throughout this quarrel, she had miscalculated the power really arrayed against her. Austria and Prussia have had similar opportunities of arresting the effusion of blood, but they have failed as me diators because they had failed as Allies, and they have seen nothi ng i n t hi s b road European ques tion but their own petty advantage. War, by its stern reality, reduces these illusions and artifices to their proper value. The principle of military honour, which is 'in the eyes of Mr. Gladstone of such small account, is in reality the ultimate test to which these contests of mankind must be submitted, for the battles of the world are its lessons, its judgments, and the sanc tion of its laws. Every success of our arms is a step to the restoration of order and of peace, on condition that we never recede, but advance fearlessly to the end of our efforts and the triumph of our cause.—Times. THE ROYAL SAPPERS AND MINERS. Among the various improvements in military orga nisation which recent experience has suggested, one of the most considerable seems likely to consist in the in troduction of non-military or semi-military 4evies into the system of the army. A remarkable example of what can be accomplished by such agencies has been shown in the rapid construction of the Balaklava Railway by skilled workmen despatched for the purpose, andit has reasonably presumed that if the fighting men of an army could be relieved from extraordinary labour in the way of digging trenches, or construction of field works gene rally, not only would they be maintained in far greater efficiency for the shock of battle, or any other special duties of soldiers, but the works in question would themselves be more rapidly and dexterously executed by the skilled labour thus applied to them. Without enter ing, however, at present upon the general question, we may observe that there exists at this moment a depart ment of the regular army constituted especially for the execution of all skilled mechanical works which the course of military operations may demand. Perhaps it is not commonly understood that the men of a certain corps, although soldiers in designation, discipline, and cos tume, are nevertheless essentially workmen, and skilled workmen too ;. they were originally raised as workmen, and for some time past actually styled so, and that they still represent a department of which the special func tion is skilled labour. This corps is now known as the Royal Sappers and Miners, and a history of u a i r t t e h r E in a j s u t e s r ' been published by Mr. Conolly, one o f its q sergeants, which throws considerable light on a very in teresting subject. It was shortly before a siege as memorable in its Way as that of Sebastopol promises to be that the co rps in T question received its ori g i na l formation. he repairs and improvements in the fortifications of Gibraltar bad, up to the period of which we speak, a b.een executed b y me chanics hired fro m E ng l and or v parts of the con tinent, who were u n d er no regularroTpsermanent engage ment, and on whom accordingly no reliance (mulct be placed for that s p ec i es of fidelity and steadiness whiiih such a service demanded, Under these circumstances _ Yesterday morning, between the hours of twelve and one o'clock, considerable consternation was caused in the neighbourhood of Greenwich and Deptford, owing to the outbreak of a most extensive fire in the well-kn Own pre mises belonging to Messrs. J. Penn and Sons, Govern.. meat engineers, &c., situate at .Deptford-pier, near Greenwich. The building in which the fire was first perceived was of considerable extent, and was used as the painters' shops, in which property of great value was deposited. From the last-named compartment the flames seized hold of the spacious floors containing models valued at some thousand pounds, termed the pattern stores. Owing to the magnitude of the premises and the vast extent of goods deposited therein, the flames speedily assumed a most fearful aspect, and rose so high as to illuminate the east and south end of the metropo lis. Owing to the bend in the river many of the fire men imagined that the conflagration was raging on the Surrey side of the water, whilst others came to the conclusion that i a seat was at Rockwall, consequently not fewer than eleven of the Brigade engines, includ ing the steam-float and the lower float, as well as that of the West of England Fire.engine, started towards the spot from London, Mr. Superintendent Braidwood having the command of the first-named force, and Mr. Connorton the charge of the West of• England body of firemen. Upon gaining the scene of the disaster, which was ultimately learned from a mounted police express, the firemen found that two private engines had previously arrived, as well as two from her Majesty's dockyard at Deptford, and lengths of hose having been attached to the supply-cocks of the reservoirs, some thousand tons weight of water were thrown upon the conflagration ; but in spite thereof and the exertions of all present, in cluding upwards of 40 firemen, the flames could not be entirely extinguished until nearly five o'clock in the morning, and not until the painters' shops and all they contained were destroyed, the pattern stores of the first floor burned out, and about half of the roof burned off. The lower floors and the valuable stock in trade are also severely damaged by water, and so are the carpenters' workshops by fire, &c. The loss, which is very heavy, will fall upon the Sun, Phoenix, and Kent Fire-offices. A very searching inquiry was made during the day by the principals of the firm to ascertain if possible how the misfortune occurred, but nothing satisfactory could be obtained ; but the prevailing opinion is that it arose from the spontaneous ignition of some oily wipings. The business which the firm has on hand for the Government, it should be stated, will not be in the least degree inter rupted, as that was carried on in the other factory at Greenwich, the premises in which the fire broke out being used only as the boiler-makers, coppersmiths, painters, and carpenters' shops. The police and inhabi tants rendered essential service to the firemen in extin guishing the conflagration, and had it not been for their exertions a far more serious amount of property must have been destroyed. THE REPRESENTATION OF MALDON. Mr. Mechi has issued the following address to the electors of the borough of Malden : "Gentlemen,—l aspire to the honour of representing you in Parhament whenever a vacancy occurs: I do not ask this as a favour, because I consider the obliga tion in such cases mutual. Living, as I do, amongst you, you are well acquainted with my general conduct, character, and opinions. In politics I have always been a consistent Liberal, having invariably, as a citizen of London, voted for liberal candidates. My natural in clination is for improvement, whether general or poli tical, and we know that all things require looking after to repair the damage caused by time, corruption, or decay. Our glorious constitutionlforms no exception to this general rule. In religion lam a steady Church man, with a large measure of toleration for those who conscientiously differ from our formularies. I can never forget that much of dissent was caused by the once lax and venal condition of our state church. Hap pily those days of pluralities and neglect have passed away. lam decidedly in favour of educating the mil lion. As a mere matter of business, knowledge is power as ignorance is weakness. You know my practice in this matter. lam an advocate for cheap, quick, and honest law, and will support any measure that will con dense and simplify our statutes. I have a great horror of the Court of Chancery. In a lsusinest.-country lik e ours it never can be necessary to occupy a numb er of years in the investigation of facts that wo u ld b e ascertainable in a few days, weeks, or months, by an ordinary tribunal of diligent and intelligent men-. I am a man of peace and conciliati on, but when our honour, dignity, or welfare is a,ttacked• directly h e do in business, or through our allies, let us castigate our enemies m en . fully and effectively. I like no ahsalwf measures —they w th ar e rig we place., I have - fi ß n r d i t itshh the right L e t uresadno forin a tr r y e u to n taken a deep interest in the improvement of our Na. eeding our industrious millions, and and employing alt holder, I have practised what I hough but a small land tions with my tenants. Wh. preached in my transac wish you clearly to tlst soliciting your votes I understand th • ' unshackled by , at Ido so Individually, any perso nal elusion, I willlmake no rial ( r political alliance. In con shall exercise my judg m ent pledges, but if you elect me, I man, according to gment as an honest and independ entmy country.,, c i rcumstance,, for the benefit . of I have the honour to be, gentlemen, faiths fully yours, " J. J. rilicomi. " 3 .iptree-hall, li.elvedon, Essex, May 26, 1855." A CASE OF POISONING AT CIIATHABL — On Wednes day morning intelligence reached the barracks that PriYate W. Walsh, 45th Regiment, was in a dying state at a small i nn c alled the George. A party from the appea r, ta k en back on a stretcher had been w i t h him garrison was immediately despatched ; on reaching the inn the deceased was sitting between two young Women o d f u t r h in e g t t o h w e n, ni w g h h o t. , it would ouwasld to the garrison hospital, where he expired in the course of the day. The only word that he was understood to utter was a poison, poison. A coroner's inquest is to be held, when_further light may be thrown upon the subject. A draft of the 45th left on Wednesslay morn. lug, in which Webb was to have been included. 15Y ''''i• CROMBIE, Secretary. ':l IC --- 1 - ---- L . ,liAc ~.c.tli f, ,,AOt q RAILWAY. ni,'''''igh,;,. a rld PARCELS.— By order of the Postmaster-Gene t, N ed - ,tail Trains, on a nd after the Ist June next, are to be ) 0Y ih s t ° Scotland and all parts of the North of England, i ll trai ns it ? oil „ ctill leave Euston-square Station at 8 and 8.45 Sta% ' lty a l e a ll r i g t:te n th n e k d n ispatc t h an of these trains, it will be desirable earlier hour. It is therefore t No v u' tb r7l l . l' i a ,. el 'ages: bo a it ' e e s s , lid lu.-.te articles should be delivered or "" agents' oCfices hot la er than 14.1f -past six,' end t 'kali i ' ' tle. Darcel rret later Man 7.15 p.m. - ---- " , al3t, By order. MARK HUISH. "lager's Office, Euston Station, 11)4z,........tth May, 1855.