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It: ALBERT SMITH'S I.TONT BLANC 35.; rQs, YE TO - NIGHT, at 8 o'clock, and Every Night (but Saturday). Area, 2s. ;', , Gallery, Is. The Mornin3 Representations aka place every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 3 o'clock.— Egyptian Hall, Plcc dilly. 4 / 0.131 • Ar - r 4 ,41 ' I _ - • WI:- ~" • , /1: „ $ , -4 0/". . , 05. 4:2 44: 1 - v- •-• - ; ; *- • , ' 2~~ ultimate success of the undertaking. Your committee therefore beg to recommend this hon. Court to give them authority to raise the said amount from time to time as circumstances may require." UNITED ST A TES and CANADAS TRADE AGENCY. The report was sigued by 26 members of the cc =mit tee. Central Eur4ean Office at Brussels (Belgium). , Tff. C. A. MOIiAS fovnishes reliable information of the mercantile at anal%- Of American merchants. Subscribers taken at not less than 101. Reference given. - ..—__ THE ARCHITECT'S REPORT. • "Gentlemen,—Pursuant to your order that I do report to this committee an estimate of the probable amount re quired for the completion of the works at the new Cattle market, beyond the estimated sum of 278,7211., in the re-' port to the Court of Common Council on the 9th of June, 1853, I beg to state that to carry out and complete the works and arrangements at present authorised by this ma. inittee, I estimate that a further sum of about 80,0001, will be required. This is rendered necessary in consequence cf the construction of an additional sewer on the south side of the market and consequent deep drainage into- the same from the market area, in order that future arrangements may be made -for converting the manure and staling from the cattle to agricultural purposes ; the erection of a por tion of the intended meat-market ; the largely increased size of the two tavern s on the north side of the market, to contain 50 bed-rooms each, and 12 shops, with apartments attached thereto; the adoption of stone instead of cement for the external cornices and other portions of the several buildings ; and the great rise, since the date of the report, in the cost of every description of materials and labour, particularly of iron, of which a vast quantity has been used at the market in the execution of the works. I beg also to remark, that in the erection of the t averns, to contain 50 bed-rooms each, advantage has been taken of the oppor tunity thereby given for the formation of the 12 sho e s in the front portion of those buildings, with a basement be neath • and a room over each, by which I submit that a large,rental on the additional outlay for the taverns will be realized; the tenants of the public-houses haring also agreed to pay additional rental for the stabling, &c., to be erected according to their respective requirements.- " I have the honour to bs, getAlemen, " Your obedient servant, "J. B. BUNNING, Architect." N . 19,504.] LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAIL. WAY. —Easter Holidays.—DAY TICKETS, issued on Thin's °AY, the sth of April, and intervening days, will be available until Monday, the 9th of April. • order. MARK General Manger's Office, Euston -station, March, 1855. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRII, 3, 1855. r PRICE SD. PUBLICATIONS. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. of the brave —ardent in assault, dogged in sustaining attacks, patient and unmurmuring under privations. But the levity, the want of earnest purpose, in high places spoils all. We might address our rulers in the words of Cowper : Thera is a public mischief in your mirth, It plagues your. c4uutry ; folly, such as yours, Oracoit with a sword, but worthier of a fan, - . Has made what enemies could ne'er have done, Our arch of Empire, steadfast but for you, A mutilated structure, soon to foil. consequences which it has entailed upon the country, the present*Ministry refuse to learn the lesson whidh it teaches ; they are walking in the same footsteps, and we have a confident opinion that they will lead to the same end. ing alt)g,ether to 250,000 tons ' • which Mr. Lindsay ob ierves " must be admitted to be an enormous transport fleet." LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN and MID LAND RAILWAYS. —Easter Holidays. DAY TicKETs. first and second class, will be issued Porn LONDON to LINCOLN, F_ oll ingham. Newark, Fi s kerton, Thurraton, Lowdbani, Notti ng h am , Y ork, Bra ford, Leeds, Nor , nanton, Okenshaw, Doneast er, Sheffle'd, and Masborough, by the ordinary trains on Thursday, April 5, and iftntermed'ate days t o M on d a y, April 9, inclusive, and wig be a va il a ' l e n. return by the ordinary trains on any day up to and induct ng Tuesday, April 10. Express Day Tickets will also be issued on the 'am , . days, avai'able to return by expre is train. Day Tickets Well be issued from the above. stations to London. By order. E uston Station, March, 1555. MNS JEWSBURY'S NEW N')VEL, DEPARTURE OF THE BALTIC FLEET. C ONSTANCE HERBERT, Is now ready et all the Librarle% in , vols. (From the Times of this day. ) The grand principle respecting the war by which Lord Aberdeen and his oolleagues were guided was this : To trust to the success of negotiations, and in that trust to neeect adequate preparations for the war. With pitiable imbecility Lord Aberdeen boasted of having "clung to the hope of peace with desperate tenacity ;" he sue .ceeded in inspiring his colleagues with the same base less expectations, so that Lord Palmerston, at Perth, did not hesitate to proclaim his strong conviction that peace would be maintained ; and Mr. G'adstone brou g ht forward a peace b u d ge t, and absolutely contracted for the return of the few troops 'which the Duke of New castle ventured to rend as far as Malta. • The British Cabinet actually fancied that this paltry demonstration would be amply sufficient to deter the Czar from the pursuit of objects on the attainment of which his own heart and the hearts of his predecessors had been sot fes - upwards of a century ! The consequences of all this management are too deeply engraved on the minds of ' our readers to require here any description from us ; and could' we bring ourselves to believe that our present rulers had learnt wisdom from dear-bought experience, fearful and calamitous as that experience has been, at any rata the nation would have gained something, and would not be exposed to the like again. But, as we have more than onee observed, wise men profit by past errors, but fools live only to repeat them. So are we much mistaken if the event does not bear us out i, our opinion that Lord Palmerston's Adminietra lion is only repeating the very same error which has made Lord Aberdeen's Ministry a byword and a scorn' amongst the nations. The Ministers are now trusting exclusively to the success of their negotiations at Vienna, whilst they are neglecting the necessary preparations for an adequate and successful prosecution of the war. The fall of Sebastopol by bombardment and assault an event of which no one knowing anything of the actual state of affairs in the Crimea has the slightest ex pectation. It is well - ascertained, tha', however much the phi sical condition of the allied armies may have improved, however much their position may have beer, strengthend, however much their numbers may have been increased, and their means of offensive attack multiplied, in all these matters the Russians have made as great progress as the allies ; but in the tmo most impor tent the two last, they have very great'y surpassed us. If our means of attack have been doubled, their means of resistance have been made at least five times more effec tive than they were at the cernmenceinebt. Toe re,a tive strength of the beligerent parties at Sebastopol has been changed greatly to the advantage of its defenders In this state of things all hope of speedily taking the place by assault is abandoned by every reasonable man. Moreover, it is well known that if even such an attempt were to prose successful, no real step wouhl be gained, but a fearful sacrifice of human life would be incurred, and the allies would only seize an untenable position. The south side of Sebastopol cannot be held while the north, which commands it, and which bristles with its hundreds of cannon, is in the possession of the enemy. There remains, therefore, but one course ' if Sebastopol is to be subdued—it can only be done by investment, and by blockading the fortress lay sea-and land, and so starving out the garrison. Now, investment can only be accomplished by means of a campaign in the Crimea ; beating the Russian armies in the field ; fighting over again such battles as the Alma, and storming the other heights which interpose between Sebastopol and the level country about Eupatoria. For this sort of campaign we are well convinced this country is not making any adequate preparation. We, moreover, believe we should not be very far from the truth if we said that it is not making any adequate pre parations for any kind of campaign. The old system of " starving the war" prevails. Go where we will we hear nothing but well-authenticated stories of neglect orconfu sion. Converse with any military man, or the relations or friends•of any officer, and you hear the same story--"My friend," one acquaintance tells you, " who isin such and such a regiment, was to have sailed some six weeks ago ; the regiment had received its orders for embarkation ; they do not know for what cause, but they are not gone." Another _tells you, " My brother received orders to start for the Crimea two months ago ; he sailed yes terday, but in the interval between his first orders and his actual departure he received counter orders ; then fresh orders and counter orders again, and now he is gone at last ; but what can all these changes mean I" All this must, we are confident, be familiar to our readers ; but we ask can any reasonable man think that all this infirmity of purpose in our military arrangements will enable this nation successfully to cope with the might of Russia! Look at the militia—owing to Lord Palmenton's bungling, maybe to his design—little more than one-third of the force voted is embodied ; and of that force, owing to an attempt on the part of the Government to break faith, more than one-third have laid down their arms, and refused to serve any longer. - - Of the " profligate extravagance, slovenliness in the employment of vessels, and confusion and mismanage ment in their departure from and arrivals in port;" men , tion has been made by competent authority in the House of Lords, and abundant evidence has been adduced in the committee of inquiry. Mr. Lind-ay, therlore, has "no hesitation in saying that out of the 8,000,0001. which have been voted for the transport service,. 2,000,000/. at least have been to tally lost through unnecessary delay." Leaving the country to accept the apological explana tion of Sir James Graham on this expenditure or not, as they see fit, we proceed to what Mr. Lindsay calls an illustration "in a plain way" of the "administrative' system" of the Government offices. After giving an instance in which the delay of obtaining the settlement of a 6mall account was so vexatious that he preferred losing it altogether, he proceeds with a further "illus tration," which is equally amusing and Listructive : " There was another account—he did not remember in which particular department, but he thought it was in the Admiralty—for upwards of 2,0001. The account was rendered, and for six weeks it was not passed. The loss, of. interest on 2,0301. for six weeks was a considera-' lion, so he determined one morning, instead of coming in early to business, to wait for Government hours, trza to get to the Admiralty by half-past ten. It was a fine summer morning, and after a geed deal of jostling, for no one knew him —and if they had,' perhaps they would not have eared—he got into a room in which were three desks, and at one cf the desks was a gentleman, seemingly very much a t hi s ease, for he sat on an easy chair, with his leg cocked over the arm of another easy chair, whistling to himself the tune of Peter Dick,' keeping time to it on the desk with a ruler. (Laughter.) He walked up to the gentleman and said, Can you tell me anything of this .account?' His reply was, `No ; I can't say. I don't know anything about it. It has not come to me yet.' While speaking to him, in walked another gentleman, who should have been the oc cupier of one of the empty desks, with his hat cocked on one side and agohneaded cane in his hand. (Laughter.) He did not object to gentlemen cocking their hats on ono side, or carrying gold headed canes, if they would att.ud to their business. ([fear, 'hoar.) Addressing the gen tleman who was whistlin g ' Peter Dick,' the new ar rival said, 'l'm off by the eleven o'clock boat -to Gravesend. I don't suppose I shall be back before four. You'll keep sue all right.' (Loud laughter.) The gentleman who had come in then departed, and his whistling friend then said that, perhaps, the account was in his charge. Upon that he replied, hope, then, when it reaches you you will not be going down to Graves end ;' and to that observation having received rather an impertinent answer, with which it was not necessary to trouble the house, he left the office ; but as he did so, he could not help saying to himself, I hope the time may come when I shall be able to assist in rooting out those Peter Dicks—(a laugh)—who waste so much treasure, and who have aided in bringing so much disgrace upon the country.' (Hear.) But what was the original source whence those evils had arisen ? It was the existing sys tem of patronage which created these Peter Dicks, and there wore too many of them, both high and low ; but the time had arrhred when such men must be rooted out. The country wanted, and it would insist upon having competent men employed in their places. He, as a man of business, felt no hesitation in saying that there were at the present moment many men engaged in Government offices in the receipt of salaries varying from 801. to 5001. a-year, who not only did no real service to the country, but to pay whom, without allowing them to go near the offices to which they were attached, would cause a great saving of the public money." Our own experience of the character and conduct of Government officials entirely accords with that of Mr. Lindsay. Peter Dick is a " representative man," the type of a class. Every one who has had the misfortune to have had business to transact at the public offices of the country is acquainted with Peter Dick. We per fectly ,well remember encountering such an official gentleman "one fine summer morning;" with his hat on his head, white kid gloves on his hands, and a very long official pen between his fingers, and whose ignorant incapacity could only be exceeded by his most offensive insolence. The end of our Peter Dick was, that he absconded with a large sum of the public money, and we question if the country after all did not gain by the loss. FROM THE ATHEINT.NUM.—" Constadce• Herbert is a poem in its beauty and its lofty purpose —a romance in its variety and fascina tion. The tale, 83 a tale, is deeply interesting, full of quiet pathos and a calm and bc‘auti , ul morality. It will be read with rare plettAire, and remember, d with I, ea.lthful interest." Hurst and Blackett, publishers, successors to Henry Colburn. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE for APRIL, Mk No CCCCLXXIV. Price 2s. Gd. From beginning to end the war in which we are _en gagdd has been conducted in amanner disgraceful to the English Government, and la the country which has tole rated such a Government. It was undertaken under the pretext of upholding the independence and integrity of dthe,Ottonaa,u Empire. First a few troops was sent to Malta, with many sighs and prayers that they might not need to proceed further. Then they Were sent out to Gallipoli, Scutari, &c., to protect Constantinople, as if the Russian; in po ;session of the Principalities, were irresistible, and nothing more could be looked for than to keep the capital out of their clutches. When the Turks had beaten the Russians on the Danube, our rulers took heart of grace and advanced to Varna, where our soldiers were kept dying of the rot like sheep in ill-drained pastures. Then came the start to • the Crimea, in the vain hope to take Sebastopol by surprise, and wind up the campaign With a dashing affair. And now they are at their wits'-ends : afraid to carry on the war—afraid to back out of it. They are coaxing Austria and Russia to agree to a settlement which will enable them to face the matter out with bold words in Parliament. From first to last they have not been in earnest about any thing but keeping their and providin g for as many of their kith and ki n as p oss ibl e . E ng l an d may become a laughing-stock in the eyes of the world ; what is that to them, provided quarter day find them still entitled to draw their salarie s ? Thi s com f or t a bl e prospect makes, them endure with heroic imperturbability all the snEfer ing and all the shame thai has befallen the nation. And if the nation' tolerates -them and their frivolity much longer, it will deserve the worst consequences that can come from having such a Government inflicted on it. BANK OF DEPOSIT, • No. 3, PALL MALL EAST, LONDON. Established A.D. 184-i. 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James llidvvay, Piccadilly. Also, Mr. H. L. TAYLOR—The question before the Court to-day is a serious one, and requires grave consideration. We have not yet the power to spend 350,0001., nor have we done so, bat before our works are completed we shall require all that sum. There are circumstances over which we have no control whatever, and, although we may form our estimate and opinion according to the prices of the day, 12 months afterwards will place those matters in a very different position, and such has been the case precisely with the question we are now consider. ing. One of the contractors to a very large, though not the largest amount, states that in his contract he has used 7,500,000 bricks, and that the additional price of those bricks from the time that the architect made his report in April, 1853, up to May , 1854, amounted to 2,609/. ; th e a ddi t i onal price on 6,000 yards of sand and gravel, at only is. a yard increase, makes 1.3001.; on 8,122 yards of lime make 1121. ; the additiocal price of the drain-pipas alone was 25 percent., making 1,2701.; on 1,620 squares of slates make 5601. ; increase of price on 1,100 tons of iron, 2,4751.; 1,653 loads of timber, at 1/. per load, make 1,653/. ; and in burning the clay for the purpose of a foundation for the roads and the mar ket area there were 11,000 tons of coal consumed, the increase in the price of freight at that time being very considerable, and amounting to 4,4001. There were 116 tons of lead, at an expense of 5801., and tbo in. crease in the price of labour upon 67,9001. is 6,7901. 10 per cent. on stone and freight, 2,0001. ; and various other incidental matters, which the contractor does not enumerate, amounting to 4,000/. ; and in his con tract, without the 4,400/. which he loses himself, there is a positive increase in the p.ice of materials and labour in the construction of the market of 24,000/, He also states that, in addition to the works which he has contracted for,' there are other contracts amount ing to 150,000/. Something like 50,0004 has been in curred in the expenses of the market in consequence of the large rise in the price both of materials and labour., We have been increasing the works, so that they will produce a larger revenue than was originally contem plated ; and if that is to be done I apprehend the Court will see that the money laid out will be rather an ad vantage than otherwise. (Hear.) Mr. Taylor concluded •. _ INJUSTKE of the LAW of SUCCESSION to the REAL PRO PERTY of INTEiTATES. By P. J. LOCKS KING, lf.P. Third Edition. Price 35.--6 d. Just published, New and Improved Edition, price la., TH hJ CURABILITY of CONSUMPTION ; being a Series of Papers, presenting the most prominent and important Practical Points in the Treatment of the Disease. / By FRASCES 11. R VITADGE, Fellow of the College of Physicians, late Senior Physician to the Royal tnflrraary for Diseases of the Meat, &C. Also, by the same Author, Price 10s. 6d , TREATIE on . .X;fIINIA an on I:SNE.IRES of the HEART. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. .Tu3t publlstied, price 55., by post, free, ss. 6d., STRICTURE of the URETHRA : its Rational Treatment and Prompt Cure. By F. B. COURTENAY, Member of the Royia College of surgeons of England. ISrotice.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of Fire Pre 1/11tims falling due at Lady-day will expire on the 9th of April. FIRE and LIFE AS-;ITRANCES ma) , be effected with this Cor ' feration os advaNtageons terms. „ The Assured are exempt from the liabilities of partnenhip, and va Ptont of their claims is guaranteed by a large invested capital ln Isteek. the Life Department, assurances are granted with participation `u Profits„ o”, at lower r'rerniums, without such participation. T he Reversionary BON G' hmzS on Life Policies as aveed 2 per uent. per annum on the sum assured, or 46 per cent. on the Premiums Daft •AnY sum not exceeding 10,0001. may be assured on one Life. _ an Corporation bears the cost of Policy Stamps and Medical Fees,' requires no ertrance-money. The Assured are subject to no " P.Mse but the Premium. No extra charge is made for service in the rtillitia within the United - Kingdom. LOANS are granted on Life Policies to their full vanes. __This , Corporation affords all the advantazes of modern practice, , 11 the stability of an office safely constituted under Royal Charter „ a " I Rpecial Acts of Parliament, and tested by the experience of ' e arb , a century and a half. There is but one older life office in eadsteace. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONTON. JOHN A. HIGHA.If, AEtuary and Secretary. " We believe Mr. Courientty's experience in the treatment of stric ture Burin;; the last twenty years has equal! , d, if, indeed, it has not surpassed, that of any of his contemporaries. It is, therefore, no inatrer of sm r•so that he shpull enjoy the reputation of being a most olexterons aod skilful manipulator with urethral inStruments ; and hen it is remembe ed that lie lamented Liston used to assert that the introduction of instruments through a stricture which bad previ,usly been impermeab!e to them, was the most difficult in the whole ranze of Furgical operation., it must be no slight source of ',ratification on Mr. ourtonay's part to have achieved the reputation he has in this res :ect ; and for‘our part, with the knowledge we have of his experience, we InT)w of no man to whose care we would with great er cinfidence entrust the treatment of a severe case of stricture of the urethra."—Medical ar. DROUYN DE L'HUYS'S MISSION TO VIENNA. ( From the Morning Chronicle of this day.) The British public, with that shrewd instinct which seldom errs, have come to the conclusion that M. Drouyn de l'lluys is gone to Vienna to act as a kind of prompter or fly-flapper to Lord J. Russell. Whither our excellent and sententious Plenipotentiary went away in haste with imperket instructions, and only a general impression that his presence would " set things to rights"— or whether the Viennese atmosphere and the adulation of Emper , r3 and Princes have enervated that, "pluck" which is the noble lord's boasted characteristic —the result appears to be that his proceedings hitherto have not given satisfaction either to his own compatriots or to our Allies. London: 11. Ballliere, 219, Regent-street. PATRIOTIC FUND, for the' RELIEF of the WIDOWS and ORPHANS of British Officers engaged in the War with Bus- i When Lord John Russell was nominated to this roportint mission, his political character and al ,ecedents weighed in fixing the choice. Oar na- UNDER THE FANCTION OF HER 11AJESTY. DRAWINGS by Members of the R ., yal Family. and Works of Art by Amateurs ang o:.l.ers, a - e now beinz exhibi:ed at 121, Pall-mal. Admittanea Is. Catalogue Gil. Open from 10 f , ll dusk. tional honour, it was said, would be safe in the keeping of a statesman whose speeches and political acts breathed even an exaggerated patriotism, and who had so courageously defended his present chief when assailed by a continental coaition. How ruthlessly he sacrificed him, some year:and 'a half afterwards, was, it is true,.forgotten ! Still it was stoutly maintained that Lord John Russell would prove neither "an Austrian Minister" nor "a Russian Minister," but a single minded plenipotentiary, going to Vienna rather as a 'representative of the feeling of his countrymen, and as a kind of demonstration, than as a mere nego tiator! Somehow or other these hopes hitherto have been singularly dieafopoii.ted. The noble lord is fimous for his fits and starts of patriotism and libe ralism ; for his extreme public spirit while in Opposi tion, or when in need of political capital, and his sudden collapses when the immediate necessity is over. Something of this kind seems to have happened to him on the present occaeion ; and the people are beginning to grumble. It is bad enough, they say, that our gi gantic Colonial Empire should be left without a Minis ter to guide its policy or to attend to its affairs ; but to be doubly deprived—to have this great department of State neglected, and, at the same time, to find our Ple nipotentiary contravening the Public Will and neglect ing the National Interests—is a little too bad. Men ask—What are the motives that might influence Lord John Russell at the present moment to lean to wards the accomplishment of a dishonourable, or at least an inadequate, peace ? It is certainly very remarkable that the noble lord, who had so flourished the warlike trump before his departure, should have subsided so sig nally almost immediately on his arrival at Vienna ! He certa'nly was not sent there to effect a compromise. Mischief enough had been done by the proclamatlou of our pretended military weakness, without our being committed to undignified concessions on some maudlin cry for "peace." .The suicidal exposures—exaggera tion 3, though founded on fact—of the state of our army in the Crimea might have been neutralised by contradic tions, but how get over such a confirmatory confession as the abandonment of the siege of Sebastopol ? Pleni potentiary he was, but not to misinterpret the national will or tarnish the national honour. Therefore, and deeply revolving these things, the public naturally ask, why it is that England is so badly represented at Vienna, as that the exact reverse of the wishes of all classes has found its way into diplomatic propositions made in her name? NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, I That THOMAS PgNN, of Kirton-in-Lindsey, in the. County of !Alienln, Cordwa:n , r, hath, by deed dated the 12th Jay of March, in t he Year 1855, an d ma d e b e t ween the said Thomas Penn, of tin first part, B, njaniin Cuedall, Kirton-in-Lindsey, aforesaid, Draper and Grocer, aial Redshaw Spr ng, of the same place, Ftationer, of the l'eeond art, o o and the sc era! ther persna w and se.-Is ar e hereunto subscrii , cd and set, teing respe hose lively names creditors of or sureties for the said Thomas Penn, of the third part, con% eyed and ? si gned all his real and personal estate and effects to the said Ben. ~a , ,r n I n unflall and liedshaw Spring, in trust, for the equal benefit of '" the creditors of the mid 'Thomas Penn. The said deed wee euty T e nted by the said Thomas Penn and Redshnw Spring, on the said the 13th , day of March instant, and by the said Benjamin Cundall on ' 3l ll day of March instant, such executions being respectively in the presence of, and attested by, Joseph Howlett, of lilrton a•Lindsey. aforesaid, Solicitor. March, 1855. PATRIOTIC FUND -THE FIELD OF BATTLE. 11 .HOGARTH, HAYMARKET, London, has 31. the honour to alnounce that he is, by special germissiou, prCbaring for publication a Fac•simi•e Prin., in Chromo-Lithography, by Vincent Brooks " TilE FIELD OF B ITTLE," from the Ori ginal Drawing by ft it H. the l'rhcess lt,yal, now exhibiting at 121, Pail-mall. in a'd of the •Fund for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Betish Officers engaged in the War with Russia. The entire profits of the publication wil:be devoted to the Fund. " That — the report be received, and that it be referred to the Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee to consider how the money may be raised for the purposes required." Mr. Deputy BOWER entered into various details con nected with the market, for the purpose of showing not only that it was too large for, its contemplated object, but that faith had not been kept with the corporation, by rewon of nearly double the original estimate having already been spent in the execution of the works, and concluded by roving as an amendment— " That the report be referred back to the committee, with instructions to report at what sum beyond the ori ginal estimate of 343,0001. the new market can be put in a working condition, not exceeding 10,0001." After some discussion the amendment was put and lost. Mr. Deputy DAKIN sa'd that the question before the Count was a constitutional one, and he demanded a di vision, when there appeared— For the amendment ll Against it 40 Majority against the amendment —22 Mr. Deputy DAKIN then moved as a further amend ment that the following words be added to the original motion : .PRINTZ, 1/. Is. . . . Subscribers' names receiwd by all print nrd booksellers in town and country, and by the Publisher, .1. Ilo.;•artli, Haymarket, Lon don ; Aubrey Paul, Esq., Treasurer. 217, Strand ; gr. Felix Vaughan smith, lion. Secretary, 9, Portugal-street, Grosyenor•sqaare. ORNAMENTS for the DRAWING-ROOM, LIBRARY, and DIISTEN"G-1100M, consisting* of a new and elegant a-sortment of Vases, Figures, Car Gaps, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Inkstands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper-weights, &c., in Italian Alabaster, Marbt, ' Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. Imported and manufactured by JAME 3 TENNANT (late Mawe), 149, Strand, London. Mr. TE , NNArrr arranges elementary Collections of Shells, Minerals, and Fossils, which wits greatly facilitate the interesting study of Mineralogy, Conchology, and Geology, at 2,5, 10, 50, to 100 guineas each. RATHBONE-PL ACE, OXFORD-STREET. - SHARES ithe GLOBE and ALBION INsURANCE CONl ri,t' MS.—To benOLD, pursuant to an order of the High Court of C hancery, made in the causes " Jones v. Jones," and "Jones v. ti ; )n es," with the 4pprob Alon of the Vice-Cheacellor, - i'-ir John Stuart, b i L,..hi'lve to whose Court the said causes are attached, on TflUlt.;- . ' l , the 12th day of April, 1855, at One o'clock precisely, at the ;action Mart, Bartholomew-lane, London, by Mr. George Peckett, Person appointed by the said Judge, One-four: h Part or Share, ,e--41,,1 (by the direction of the parties entitled thereto) the remaining T hree -fourth Parts or Shares (making together the entirety) of the ,'ASEHOLD MESWAGES, Nos. t and 2. Rathbone-place, Ox- Vrt street, T ondon, (No. 1 having a frontage to Oxford•stre e t ), hel d .."' a term which will expire on the 24th day of June, 1864 , at an 1 1 ' 8 ground-rent of 281 ., and yielding together an improved rent of ; 1 : - 7 1 . Per annum. Also, 15 SHARES in the GLOBE 'ENSUE ANC , i ,_AlklY, and 2 SHARES in the ALBION LIFE OFFICE—in lot two lots. Lot ose will consist of the above-mentioned households ; Printed two of the Globe Shares: and lot three of the Alb'on Shares. ~. pnrticulars mid conditions of sale may be had (gratis), in London, of Messrs. Kingsford and Dorman, solicitors, No. 23, E•sex a., reet, Strand ; Messrs. Wilson and Jeanneret, solicit rs, No. 11, New-inn , Strand; and of Messrs. Sc di - , Tahourdin , and Sirup+, soli citor, No 11, Lineo'n's-inn-Fiel.'s ; and in the country, of Messrs Pain and Fieldin g , sol citers, Dover; Messrs. Whitlow, Ea 'ford. and ' hi tlow, soli Hors, Manchester; and . Messrs. Sutellif-, and Shaw, folk-hors, Carlisle; and also of Alta Audience ,at No. 31, South 4111Pt011-buildings, Chancery-lane, London; ant at the place of sale. - . ALFRED HALL, Chief Clerk. PROFESSIONAL RIIBBER.—Thomas Barter (12 years attendant at Mr. G. A. Walker's Medical Bath Establishment) offers his Services to invalids as Medical RunUer, in cases of rheumatism, contracted joints, certain forms of paralysis, spinal affections, logs of muscular power, and any other ailment or condition of the body for which such attendance may bo required. Address, 3, Upper John-street, Golden-square. Mrs. Barter attends ladies. Bat what Lies at the root of this evil ? Mr. Lindsay tells us " It Wa4 the existing system of patronage which created these Peter Dicks. Let the public remember that these civil servants of the public are not self-elected. It is the Heads of Departments, who, in the exercise of a system of corruption and jobbing, fill our public offices with incompetent officials. Like master like man. It is thus that incompetent and incapable Heads of De partments have filled our Government offices with incompetent and incapable clerks and secretaries. The abuses of our civil service have been less looked into than other abuses, because they have pressed less upon the great body of the public. Mercha,uts, contractors, and all men of business who have had transactions with public offices, have long groaned under the system. The mismanagement of the war has laid bare the enormous evils of the whole concern. The Right Honourable Peter Dick, with all the long line of first and second cousins, and the cousins of his political friends and partisans, must be "rooted out." • A DAM AND EVE.—This great original work by JOSEPH VAN LERIITS is now on view at 57, Pall-mall, oniosite Marlborou;h•hoase, from 11 till 6 dally.—Admission, One Shilling. " That it be an instruction to the Markets Improve ment Committee in future not to incur any further ex pense in connection with the New Cattle -market with out previously reporting to this Court and obtaining their assent thereto." Mr. Ross seconded the amendment, which was lost. Mr. Deputy DAMN again demanded a division, when there appeared— For the amendment 2l Against it 3l • Majority against the amendment —lO Mr. BLAKI then moved as a further amendment the addition of the following words to the original motion : "That it be an instruction to the committee to enter into no expenses beyond the sum of 80,0001. now granted to them." DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM RE-OPENEIIat 4, COVENTRY-4TREET, LEICESTER: SQuARE. Open (for Gentlemen only) daily from hall-past 11 till 5, and from 7 tilLlO. A NEW SERIES of LECTURES, by Dr. Re., at 12, 2. 4, and half-past 7 in the evening. Admission, is. A new eataisque, containing lectures on the most nteresting branches of Physiology by Dr. Kahn, illustrated ; price 6d., free by post 6d. extra. 11 ) 0YAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. PATRON-A.R.R. PRINIX ALBERT. --- Ol; l 2vlonday, Tuesday, and Wednesday Evening, at Eight o'Clock, LECTURE by Dr. BACHUOFFNEA on ASTRONO NY, Illustrated by a Splendid Dissolving Orrery and appropriate Vusic. TELEPHONIC CON — ERT by INVISIRLE PERFORMERS. Thursday Evening, DRAMATIC READING by Mr. Mucus LESLIE, HAMLET. LEO CURE on the NEW BANK NOTE, DISSOLVING VIEWS of the WAR, SINBAD the SAILOR, &c., &C. The English method of reform is never to redress a grievance till it has become intolerable. This is the case with our civil service. We have allowed the evil to re main in full force, till it has eventuated in a " war mis management" which has sacrificed money by the million, and human life by the thousand. Mr. Deputy LOTT seconded the amendment, which was put and lost. On a division being called for the numbers were— For the amendment 22 Against it 2B Majority against the amendment —6 The original motion was then put and carried, and the Court adjourned. COURT OF COMiIION COUNCIL. CASINO DE VENISE, W. v. Pk 'KER'S BE EFIT iSQUE, WEDNES- I) Y, April 4th, positively the Final Ball of the Season.— Gentle men's 'Ticki,t, ss. ; Ladies' d•tto, 3s. each. Yesterday a Court was held for the despatch of public business. CONTRACT FOR WINE, SOAP, AND COCOA. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling, TSomerset House, 28th March, 1855. HE Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain pd Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, th a t on TUESDAY, h e i „ t h April next, at ,pne o'clock, they will he ready to treat steth :ell Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, the Ilhd errnentioned Articles, viz.:— Gallons. When to be delivered. VVIITE S' Marsala .. L Port - .. 1.000 and the remainder in 3 Soo Tons, weeks afterwards, or Coc o 4, be earlier if preierred by the 100 ' party tendering. Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the Articles. xi heir Lordships reserve to thamselves the power. wh-n the ten tienlar.e. Opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for such part Lot contracting only as they may deem fit, or for a greater quantity, or of ",,,eontraciing for any, and a'so an unlimited power of selection. b,..-L,he wine and cocoa to be exempted from the Customs Duties, and ``Ves rendering are to state where they are respectively lying. iearnp than f the wi ), and of the cocoa (not less than 2 lbs.), must be Rode ced by the parties tendering. are samples produced by persons whose tenders are not accepted trntlested to be taken away by them immediately after the con k' have been decided. 0 tender will he received unless made on the printed form pro tZd far the Officep and which may be obtained on application at at Liverpool , er to Commander Bevis, conducting the Packet Service ~,,, v erpee I, or to the Collector of Customs at Bristol. ti„'",„ 0 conditions of the revised contracts, to which particular attest- LT. i ' st 's called, may be seen at the slid office, and at Liverpool and. tr eat t)l . No tender will be received after one o'clock op theaof ~.._ Y. and it will net be required that the party tendering, or g an '' e ?t on his b e h a lf, s h ou ld attend at the office on the day of contract, e ate 7 result of the offer received from each person will be communi to him and his proposed sureties in writing. a„, cry tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, , and' o ear in the left-hand corner the Tender for ust alsr be delivered at Somerset House. ---......_ OR AvES: PACE e ther Packets call at the . 4 ekets call at the Piers as PllO4 TERRACE P E N D ST AR CET. lre3nhith underlin lEit, GE ie and rarfleet Piers. 3d (weather permitting 'AVESEND. Pll-•-.________2M TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND. Iylm DAYS. . SUNDAYS. 4> 41 I l'el l'aet 4lv ..§ g 5 v 4 ii NI. • i 1 T. , tg Time E =' " ._ .g S 0 A 8 I :.". i 0 L. p 4 ._ ' A t '''' ------__ c r.: 8 - -- -- -- , - —s% _ _ I ..... 314 -,- ,\ 3A eV °'ll4l b P ry 15Ittrss, 48es from . Fenehureh-street Station to all parts of London ter of an hour. T r eK WIIARF, BLACKWALL, on the arrival of the 1- wing Trains from the Fenehurch-street Station. SUNDAYS. Pe n- . 4 t eh , t Fen- :;1 . 1 str, et . church ' 0 5 s) Street f; 3 -- a 11 5 '""' To or For Cabin. saiooe. Gr avesend Gravesend and L0nd0n...... 10d. .. ls. 11:ty.' r avescrid and Blackwell or Woolwish Bd. .. Os. 10 I )1,1%1 Gravesend and Intermediate Piers.. 6d. .. Os. Bd. Th r s -4 -T TICKETS.—TweIve Months, 5.. Os.; Six Months, 31. Os. 34,1? Months, 21. Os.; to be had of the Collectors on board the gz B 1 or of Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend. 'arch 31. 1855 • TAE Q "u „,., Just RET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTII AND MATURITY Ptiblish.,, sNi price 25., illustrated with cases; free by post for 36 L j stamps, RITOTJS DEBILIVY; kator r s,. C auses, Symptoms, and Cure.—An EssF on Sper auece..rzfg, with Practical Observations on a saier and more A Ystetn rnOde of treatment of the diseases of the Generative stin:,%_?l?tairted by the us e o f th e Mi crosco p e i n d e t ec ti ng and everf; l :l, illl :4, by urinary exa m inati on , the r ea l cause and effect of exce l3 , 3 '"e7 of complaint, whether a rising from solitary habits, twe4acc.dent, or climate. followed by practical rearks, founded li erro a n Years' experience in the treatment of m Impuissan . ce, krt elgOd_' Nifty, Local Weakness, Spermatorrhosa, tk . c. To which Conambutaries on the Physiology of Marriage, with pre o`t.r.9 hints on the e v il s emanat i ng f rom emp i r i ca l prac ti ce, thes rtantthe d ‘ n gerous remedies advocated by various writers on disorders. 87, ity SAMUEL LA'IIERT. M.D. 6 D ov , 01! EDFORD-SQUA RE, LONDON, of L skiNiedictne of tatriculaed Memliar of the Unirer,?lty of Ee.dig.ri u. , Ffonerary mber the London Hospital Mod:cal So i ty, gut]ea t oth Hall, London. &c., &n. tent,: asset:oat k excesses, ~„ , o, ,lect of this treatise is to point out the fearful eon- B ich - "mting from certain habits, irre,gularttlee, and . -aye prounced more misery in Youth, degradation In Man - class „,, , Jn, and premature decay at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, any " I. ,..•u t tT class of disease known to modern pathologists, Itg permbin of , Vl,rircal,arlY r ecommended to persons entertaining secret doubts 1 t te , PuYsical condition, and who are conscious of having hazarded . uealth and privile et° which every human being is e• titl ed , happiness, ge „jt ti abao lutely necessary thatalt men should kno w , that there aka 'ln c h, Ine,ige3 Of personal management which cannot be violated without t= i , rug grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed . e n ' a ,,,, ;', ° YdaY of inconsiderate self-in Bence how these penalties and h a M itigated, how the sting of their hitteraess may bi removed, t i ,„?,t 7 Vete evil and its consequences maybe avoided, anii above all, ~,,,,-nunre ir. scare,ely any defree of physical infirmity or functional •-•,-",f.r.igenient to which tho timely aid of scienca cannot apply a cure. p'rann..Antbor has for a series of years been engaged in an extensive In the treat - ne t of these delicate cam , r id which have It'll'n'tvlat ' -n e been too generally confided to the care of ignorant : tnPir ies. who i = faith In their nflet great injury on those who are induced to pace lizitvouspretensiong. . Brothers Rorne DEBILITY may be had, price 2 4 , of Masora:- Piper, eteester-sqnare; hlrty star er Co.' 23, P aternoster-row; Hannay, 63, O xford -street ; Mann, 3P, Cornhill; or . free by post for °r ‘nauare, Pa to any address from the Author's res - a lance, irr, Bed- R At lio n , oi , a for 00,,„„,,,,,,_ —l4 '''' ----"'''''''' daily from Eleven_t i ll Two and f rom Eight. 3~ : '' '~' %~`~~~ .. LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS.- Great success of the ne v dance, La Varsoviana. Music by , 1. Laurent. Danced every evening.—During the ,;ourse of this week the tiglowing Music will he played by Laurent's Orchestra :—Over ore, Der Freyschutz ; Waltzes: La Blenfaisance, Musard ; Wellen and liVogen, Strauss; Douce Harmonic (Ist time), Missler ; Le Pro photo, Meverbeer ; Quadrilles : Vivo l'Emperenr, Bergman ; Bonjour Pierrot, Blancheteau •Le Jul( de Venise (Ist time ), Bonneterre ; the Ilighlanders, H. lurent ; schottische, Dona Maria, Tolbecque ; Polkas : Une Fleur d'Automne (Ist time), Pilede ; Marionette, Pilodo ; Caroitna, A. Latuotte ; La Musette, Matthlea ; Gallop, Dover Ex press, T. Browne. Principal Cornet-a-Piston, M. Boulcourt. All information relative to music to be obtained at the music repository under the orchestra. Doors open at Eight ; commence at half-past.— Admission, One Shilling. NOTICE, —E. MOSEi and SON'S ESTABLISHMENTS will be CLOSED THIS DAY 2nd TO-MORROW, April 3 and 4, reopening en rimrs(lay morning at 7 o'clock. HOLIDAYS of EASTER.— In olden times th , se Holidays were observed by national gauics and festivities, denoting the commencement of Spring and Summer. By E. MOSES and SON they are demonstrations of claims to universal commercial supremacy ; for the Spring Styles and Fashions they th- n exhibit are the novel pro 'actions of every country and clime—the skilful inventions of the most talented artists and workmen in the world. Before Easter inspect E, MOSES and SON'S Juvenile limes, the largest stock of the best Dmis Department offers the it'd most fashionable articles for greatest attractions, more novelty, greater variety, and more reA- Ladies, Gentlemen, and Children. E. Moses and SON'S Hat and - sonahle pri es than at any other house. Cap Department is furnished with every new introduction which E. 3foms and Son's Spring the 'most accomplished artists and Summer Styles in Attire for have designed. all classes may n-w be possessed E. MOSES and Sox's Hosiery on conditions the most catisfic- Goods are the most elegant and tory. Goods, su erior in quality, useful articles for Spring and Sum the highest rank in fashion, at mer. Ladles, Gentlemen, and very economi^al prices. Families will find superior quality E, Moses and SON'S Boots and and cheapness combined. E. MOSES and SON are Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Shirt Manufac mrers, Bo)t and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and lentlemen. CAUTION.—E. Moses and SON beg to state they have no connexion with any other house in or oat of London, except their own Esta blishment, a‘ follow : London City Establishment, corner of the. Minories, and Aldgate (opposite the church). London West-end Branch, New Oxford-street, corner of Hart street. Country Branchcs—Sheffield and Bradford, Yorkshire. Colonial Wholesale Branch—Melbourne, Australia. The establhitments sue closed from sun et on Fridays till sunset on Saturdays, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock. IMPORTANT. —ShouId any article not give satisfactl•an it will be ex changed or, if preferred, the morey returned without hesitation: All goods are marked in slain figures, the lowest price, from which no abatement can be made. A New hook, with lists of prices, system of self-measurement, and other in`ormation, may be had on application, or post free. An Illustrated Almanac for 1855 gratis, on application, or post free. - - rat on pule Francais. 4 1 Qui si parla Italian.Hier spricht nian Deutsch. 1 Aqua se habla Espagnol. DR. CULVERWELL ON NERVOUSNESS, DEBILITY, AND INDIGESTION. - - Mao, on Urinary Derangements, Constipation, and llmmorrholds, Is. each, by post Is. 6d. WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID. " Abstentia multi curantur morbi." A popular exposition of the principal causes (over and careless feeding, &c.) of the above harassing and distressing complaints, with an equally intelligible and popular exposition of how we should live to get rid of them ; to which is added, diet tables for every meal in the day, and fall instructions for the regimen and observance of every hot* oat of the twentyfour. Illustrated by numerous cases, &C. 2. LIGHTS AND SHADES OF MARRIED LIFE. " He which that hath no wlf, I hold him lost, Helpless, and all desolat. He that bath no child, Like sun and winde."—Chancer. Subject : Marriage, its expectations and Necessities—Development of the Affections—Love Matches—Precipitate, impelled, and retarded Unions—Marital Incongruities—Mutual Unsuitableness—Mental Incompatibility and Physical Defectiveness —Advantages of Inter marriage—Theory of Gestation—Hereditary Resemblance—Mode of determining Legitimacy. On Infelicitous, Infertile, and all Unas iimilable Alliances—Low of Divorce, &c., &c. 3. CHASTITY AND ITS INFRINGEMENTS. A Lecture to Young Men. - " What passions hurt the body—what improve, Truths as refined as Athens ever heard." Subject : Life's pilerimage, from infancy to old age. The advent of the passions. Chastity and its infringement. Th 3 casualties of licentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narrative, and remediative. Advocacy of early marriages, &C. 4. On Secret Diseases, their Self -management and Cure. The GREEN BOOK.-4 comprehensive and popular expos( tioi of genito and urinary diseases—their nature ant treatment, corn• prising especially primary and secoulary symptoms, all forms o urinary derangements, stricture and spermatorrhcea ; with 250 en gravings and prescriptions. The BLADDER, URETHRA, and RECTUM.. --Comprising Urinary Derangements, Constipation, and Hmmorrholds. Vols. 6 and 7, companions to the preceding. THE ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. HOW TO BE HAPPY. " Jucunde Vivere." "Few wordi to fair faith."—Shakeipere. Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row; Mann, 39, Cornhill; or of DP. RICHARD CULVERWELL, Brother, Successor, and Twenty Years C',trisulting Colleague of the late Author of the above, 10, Argyll-place, Regent-street, London. who may be advised with on the above matters daily, from Ten till Five, and in the ()mins, from BOTOII till IS iDet This afternoon the shores of the Solent will witness one of those spectacles in which England is once mere at home. A portion of the fleet, consisting of more than thirty vessels of war, and including a dozen sail of the Ike, will start to occupy the Baltic, to blockade every inlet and port of the Czar, and if possible find some vulnerable point of his triple granite and iron. At any time the sight of so many huge machines, sent out with the message to kill and destroy, may well subdue the most frivolous. Even a naval review, with its mi mic thunders, and its programme of triumphs, becomes a scene of horror exactly in proportion as we realise its true import. What we may see to-day, however, is ambitiously and industriously grander, sterner, grimmer, more real, and more deadly, than any like spectacle on on these or any seas. The Baltic fleet of this year is in all respects much stronger than the last ; it has more steam power, more guns, a new class of gun-boats and floating batteries, adapted for creeks and shoals, and, what more than anything marks a resolution to do something—a new commander. Sir Charles Napier has ceased to command the Baltic fleet, not from any deficiency in skill, in courage, or temper, but simply because he did less than the British people expected to see done. We have ourselves been ever ready to do justice to his actual achievements, which are net to be denied or depreciated ; but, when we send out the finest fleet in the world, we naturally expect it to do more than shut in a third-rate naval power, and assist "an army to destroy an unfinished fort. Tile new com mander, Admiral Dundas, has before him the services of Admiral Napier, and, whatever his instructions, if any, no doubt he knows that he has to do more than Admiral Napier. If he does not accomplish more, he will certainly find himself next November under ()niers to lower his flag, with email prospect of ever boisting.it again. Suchleethoeeetission of the „fleet the Queen sends this day on its fatal errand. It is to at tempt more, to run more risk, to follow further and clover, to care rather less for losing ships and men, and rather more for inflicting losses and disgraces on the enemy. In a word, the force is stronger and the duty more terrible than last year; and if the scene to-day should attract a smaller crowd of gazers than last year, they will doubtless see - it less as a holiday spectacle, and more as an operation of war. • We certainly hal wished that after hat year's experi ence we should have less of such floating castles as the Duke of Wellington and the Royal George, and rather more of the gun-boats and other small craft, on which we must mainly rely in our offensive operations. For f a-ty years we have been introducing a new power into naval warfare, and by its aid, together with continual improve ments in gunnery, we have brought the old man-of-war to a perfection that Nelson never imagined. We have given it twice the size, twice the weight of metal, and infinitely more manageableness and security, Could wo suppose one of Nelson's fleets developed by a law of its own, to grow, to become more active, powerful, and docile ; to arrive at a sort of intelligence, volition, and harmonious action, till it could defy the storm and beast the current, bent and resolved on its way, faithful to its mission, and not to be denied by any vulgar element, there we have the fleet that this day leaves our shores. Yet in this pride and might seems to consist - the very weakness of our naval under takings. The British man-of-war has been developed rather by an internal law than by any law of adap tation, It is, indeed, the grandest work of human hands, but it does not answer its purpose, if it has • not actually outgrown it. Without inquiry, and as a matter of course, we have been making our ships larger and larger, when inquiry might have suggested that they should be smaller and smaller. Were it, indeed, the waves alone we had to deal with, could we fight out every quarrel on the wide ocean, had we always to chase huge fleets from one hemisphere to another, and fight over again for ever, as in the old mythology, every bat tle ever fought with American frigate or Spanish three decker, there is no doubt as to the excellence of the type we seem to have adopted. But the actual state of things is far otherwise. Like some strong impetuous animal, we seem to miss our object by running ahead of it. We have to deal with shallow waters and granite walls, and find ourselves too gigantic for the petty warfare, and, giants though we are, we are so far baffled. No doubt we have improved on last year ; but, unless there is a large supply of the smaller craft, adapted for the shallow waters of the Baltic, we shall only reiterate an inglorious campaign with even less glory than before. For anything we know, the departure of the Baltic fleet may be an annual ceremony for many a year to come. Up to this time everything indicates a very pro tracted war. At the chief point of collision there is on both sides an indefinite power of reinforcements and sup plies, and we go on pouring in men and material for ever without decisive issue. But, if our army is thwarted by earthworks, our navy is not less at fault with granite, and, whether by sea or by land, the same endless warfare is before us, till genius or accident shall suggest some so lution. Therefore it is that we still urge the necessity of adapting our means of warfare to the nature of the war. Great men have always been remarkable for adapting the means to the end. To do so politically argues a singleness and straightness of aim, a disregard of minor objects, and a contempt of mere material, never found in the common order of minds, howeyer accom plished. No doubt, it does cost a painful effort to con demn a majestic structure to vulgar uses, to break to pieces We work of one's own industry and skill, to ac knowledge a life half wasted, and a thousand oppor tunities thrown away ; but, if experience should estab lish that our magnificent ships are little better than use less lumber, or, at best, huge storeships, floating bar racks, and naval depots, we hope and trust that no false thrift or professional pride will interfere to save them from their proper fate. Let them be kept in their plaCe, but let us not multiply them, or attempt to use them, simply because we have them, where they do not answer the purpose. The First Lord of the Admiralty has not given us any very recent account of the peculiar prepa rations made fir the Baltic warfare. If they are on a scale for the occasion, and if from under the shadow of our huge three-deckers fleets of gun-boats and batteries we finourtd, as theare r ß z t ly ic, to w s e t l a l rateadlid penetrate a dozen boats here, and ha lf-a-dozen there, are all the that may still be in time for t his season, and ma y pro public have heard of, it is not amiss to urge preparations bably be wanted the next. LORD RAGLAN'S DESPATCHES. (Front the Daily News of this day.) The nonchalance of Lord Raglan's despatches is, we will be bound to say, unprecedented in the annals of war. He not long ago began one of them by telling the Minister of War he ha 1 " really nothing to report." And in that of the 20th of March, wliich we publish to day, he says of the affa ir of the 17th, between the Rus sians and French—" Considerable loss must have been sustained by our Allies, I fear, as well as by the enemy." Three days after the action took place, Lord Raglan can only fear that our Allies had suffered considerable loss : it would have been too much trouble to ascertain whether they had or not. Ministers complain that the newspapers publish letters calculated to produce mis chievous impressions on the public mind. Can anything produce a more mischievous impression than .the lackadaisical communications of the Commander-in- Chief. Good-natured souls, who are reluctant to find fault with any one, especially with any one in place, try to extenuate the faults of Lord Raglan's correspondence by alleging that, along with the slip-shod epistles which appear in the Gazette, he must transmit others which enter more into detail, but which Ministers deem it inexpedient to pub lish. If Ministers deem it inexpedient to publish the whole of Lord Raglan's correspondence—if they select for publication certain portions that may safely be in trusted to the profane vulgar—then surely, were it only to save Lord Raglan's character, they ought to select portions which can better bear the light. It is not the curtness of the letters, or their awkward phraseology, that is complained of. A man may be a good general and a desperately bad writer. If Lord Raglan would do, the public would forgive his being unable to tell what he had done. It is the heartlessness which his poco curante epistles appear to indicate that excites indigna nation. There is scarcely a family circle in England—. from the peer's to the pauper's—but bas to bewail a member reft from it by the scandalous mismangement in the Crimea ; and yet Lord Raglan writes as if he had not mte compunctious visiting—as if this soul were as serene and untroubled as it might be had he no more serious oversight to reproaoh himself with than a revoke at whist. True, he has plenty to keep him in countenance. All the directors of the war.--himself included—act 23 he writes. Dr. Andrew Smith confesses, with edifying im perturbability, that his signature is affixed to documents of the contents of which he had no knowledge. Dr. Menzies cannot tell whether he was under Dr. Cumming or Dr. Cumming under him. Mr. Ward, purveyor, is found to be inefficient from age ; but the old dotard grumbled at being sent back to England, and Lord Raglan, "good-naturedly," allowed him to remain. How that word "good-nature" is misused ! It might be " good-natured" in so far as Mr. Ward was concerned, but was it good-natured to our gallant soldiers, who were dying of inanition in the trenches, or tossing in feverish agony on their pallets in ie hospital I And without condescending to notice the crowd of minor pococuranti, is there not our Premier himself ? Lord Palmerston is astonished that there should be ex citement and indignation in the country. "Have we," ho asks, " been worsted in battle ?" No ; but, far worse than that, our army for months was dying off piecemeal, in face of an enemy who only assailed it to be repulsed with disgrace. Our resources are infinitely greater than those of the foe—our men are braver than his ; and yet at one time our army was visibly wasting away through the mismanagement tof our rulers and commanders. This is a deeper disgrace than losing many battles ; but Lord Palmerston feels it not--he jokes at the expense of those who feel it. • It is this frivolity of our rulers, and of those whom they employ, that is the most galling part of what we have at pr..sent to endure. The nation is high of hsart and earnest of purpose ; its meanF. , are great, and it is willing to exhaust them all for the attainment of the great object it has in view; our soldiers are the bravest It is singular that the public discontent at the attitude assumed by the British r epresentative at Vienna should have followed so closely on the detec tion of certain political and Parliamentary intrigues here in London. A man w h o h as p asse d his life in the House of Commons always lives there in the spirit, even if be be away in the body. Lord John Russell, too, has for some time past seen the Leadership of the Whig party slipping from his grasp—nay, the very party itself was not long since in danger of dwindling away—of being absorbed. Lord Palmerston was assuredly quizzed by the l a t e Si r R o b er t P ee l when he twitted him with being a " pure 011 Whig! " We strongly suspect that Lord John Russell looks upon his newly reconciled colleague as little better than an interloper and usurper. What, then, can be more natural than that the noble lord, while "walking arm in arm with Prince Gorts c h a k o ff on the glacis," or assisting with becoming gravity at that solemnly fircical Conference Board at Vienna, should have one eye on Dciwn ing-street, or St. James's-square, or Grosvenor-gate, or the SpeF.ker's chair? Now, he might think to himself, is the chance of restoration for the " great Whig party," o r never . A menace d Coalition, on a cry for " Peace," might destroy so tempt in g an opportunity ! H eavy taxes, stagnation of trade, a more than Pilule war, are strong arguments for peace , in the long run, with a commercial people, who had been taught to believe in a political millennium and universal free trado. What more natural than that Lord John Russell— w h o , o f course, gets the English papers, and is keenly ali ve t o what is going on at home—should detect . the g row i ng consp i racy aga inst resuscitated Wht?;gisirt ? It is no t diffi cu lt to suppose him cursing in his heart that war policy which might provoke a coalition, with an adverse vote in the House of Com mons, which would push aside once more the revived Whig party, and bar himself from the renewed leader ship of the House of Commons, the expected reward of his magnanimous consent to serve under Lord Pal merston ! If, however, Lord John Russell be disposed to huddle up a peace as quickly as possible—whether for such reasons as these, or for others leis personal and more patriotic—all men concerned are not of his mind. It is not very flattering to the pride of this country the pod tion in which England stands towares France. In an ill starred bottle-holding r , H e littl e anticipated the day when he red would—whether Lord " bottle-holder" himself I W e can i mag i ne th e E m p eror -st momen t , _ether he liked it or no—have a Palmerston babbled of " judi wh Napoleon mingling a little malice with his public spirit in performing this function. It is bad enough that the military renown of England should pale beside that of governmental genius of the Chosen, should have raised hi s corm- T try e erity and glory. But to think that our " Palmerston, our man of " vigour"par excel lence—he whose very name al one was t o se t t l e t h e East ern question—to think that he, t oo , s h ou ld s h r i n k an d France,Cr h t f o o theanheight h a t of th r peopleo become dwarfed in the proportions of his fame by this monopolising Monarch —this inscrutable man of glowing words and sterling deeds, who not only excels the talk ing statesman in eloquence, but caps his eloquence by action ! Three years ago, who would have dared to prophesy that the reputation of Lord Palmerston would so soon have yielded place to the superior energy and rectitude of the personage, to whom then to have ex tended his patronage was deemed almost a magnani mous condescension ? Yet such is unhappily the case at the present day. The people of England have now so much more confidence in Napoleon the Third than they have in the statesman whom they chose as a dicta tor, that when the Tories wish to embroil matters and create confusion for factious purposes, they only think it worth their while to throw out insinuations against the former, passing over the latter as if he were insig nificant ! Monsieur Drouyn de Muys did not come here to amuse himself, or to talk diplomatic platitudes with the Ministerial trio who were sp ec i a ll y selected from the Cabinet to treat with him. The Emperor of the French never wastes time or opportunity. Sending his Foreign Minister here, before despatching him to Vienna to spur the flagging energy of the British Plenipotentiary, was a strong measure, but, if all reports be-true, not more strong than necessary. This much is clear—th a t s i nce the French Statesman's visit a more decided tone is per ceptible in high quarters. It has oven transpired that his mission has so far been successful, that the peaceful aspirations of Lord John Russell have been officially frustrated, and that our " man of v i gour " h as assented to an ultimatum which Russia, in her arrogance, is likely to reject with disdain. THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR. ( From the Morning Herald of yesterday. ) • Everything which is now passing serves to coniince us that Lord Palmerston is faithfully carrying out his pledge to Sir James Graham, that he would continue t) persevere in the policy of Lord Aberdeen. Not with otfinding thy failure of that policy, An d th e dimotreuo Then, again, look at the Ordnance. A ball of pecu liar construction, calculated to be to the Artillery what the Minid rifle is to the soldiers, is discovered, and proved, by experiments on their own ground, to be what it pretends to be. How does that board, which num bers amongst its members the Papist Mr. Monsell— how, we ask, floes that board deal with this invaluable invention ? Why, instead of appropriating it with eagerness it discourages the inventor, and rejects his offers. Then again we would ask—when were the ten ders for the ambulance conveyances sent in ? Was it not at least seven months ago ? When was the contract signed —was it not little more than seven days ago ? The Times politely invites Lord Raglan and General Canro bert to commence active operations in the field, and , urges them not to delay them till the Russian reinforce ments arrive. We do not pretend to affirm what means the French general may have for conducting such opera tions, but this we know, that if he attempt them he must attempt them alone ; for as was the case at Varna, so is now the ease at Sebastopol- -our army has not the means of moving It is indeed worse off now in those matters than it was then. "It was not,".as Lord Panmuee told the House of Lords on the 23d of February, " till it was a certained, beyond the possibilityof doubt, that the army would have to winter in the Crimea," that any steps were taken by Lord Aberdeen's Government to pro vide for that contingency. And now we suppose that no steps will he taken to reduce Sebastopol, in the only way it can now be reduced, until " it is ascertained, be yond the possibility of doubt," that the Russians will alt have peace on any t eine. Thus, ample time will be afforded to the Russians to make every elevated spot of ground a fortress, and every height an entrenched camp, within 50 miles of Sebastopol. The truth, we believe to be, that at this very moment, the Ministry have asked the welfare of the country on the success of the negotiations at Vienna. ' All their actions indicate it but too plainly. Their preparations are not such as if they real), clatemplated the continuance of the war. The budget is postponed till after Easter. The holidays are nearly double their usual length. It seems evident that they hope by the time of their ending that the main difficulties at Vienna will be got over, and that they will be able to meet Parliament with a positive assurance of peace ; meanwhile, should rumours of thalr probable concessions creep out, they are saved from inconvenient questions as well as from inconvenient motions. We expect at their hands an insecure and inglorious peace. No ;we are wrong ;we honestly confess we do not expect peace ; but we shall be agreeable surprised if it turn out that they have not sought to obtain it by offering unsafe and dishonourable terms ; and whatever reliance we may have on the loyetut6 of the French Emperor, still ho can hardly be expected to stand out singly against the urgent pressing , of his ally to concede. His intended visit to this coun try is curiously timed. Is it not meant to occupy the public mind, and to withdraw its attention from too close an analysis of the accepted terms of peace, which the Ministers dread will not satisfy the reasonable ex pectations of the nation. Wo shrewdly suspect that we have here penetrated the secret views of our readers. Will they be able to carry them out ! We much doubt it —we incline to think that the more they concede to Russia at Vienna, the more evidently they expose their ow n wan t o f confi dence in their strength, the less likely will the Russian plenipotentiaries be to accept their terms. We do not believe that the spirit of Nicholas is extinguished in Muscovite councils. The more humble, therefore, we are in our conduct and language at Vienna, the more inclined will Russia be to fulfil her designs, and carry out successfully that policy which the Sovereigns of the House of Romanoff have never ceased to pursue, and have accumulated the most gigantic preparations to realise. If Russia be resolved at all events to carry on the war, then no terms, however degrading, w hi c h can b e offerei to her, will be of any avail. But if, on the other hand, she be really desirous of peace, then will she accept such terms as can be conceded with honour and safety, provided they are firmly maintained. But if the Allies betray any undue desire to terminate the contest by unexpected and unworthy concessions, then will such timid policy only serve as a temptation to Russia to persevere, to shuffle out of what she may have already conceded, and at last to insist on such terms as even our Ministers will not dare to concede. If, unhappily, these views should turn out to be too correct, then will these Ministers repeat the very same blunder whereby they first involved us in war. Want of firmness in the original negotiations drifted us into war, and it is much to be feared that want of firmness may now be equally the cause of its prolongation. Thus f will the truth of the proverb have a fresh ls live but exemplifica tion, " wise men profit by their errors, but fo ols to repeat them." . THE CIVIL SERVANTS OF THE PUBLIC. ( From the Derbyshire CoOier. ) Mr. Lindsay, the member for Tynemouth, is well known as an enterprising and successful man of busi ness. As any man is worth listening to when e speaks of what he understands, so even were Lind hay a authority than he undoubtedly is on the subject of ships and shipping, his opinion on the administrative system of the Transport Service would be deserving of the best atten tion of Parliament and the country. He calculates that the aggregate tonnage of steamers engaged by Go vernment for the transport service amounts to 150,000 torte, and that of sailing Teasels to 100,009 tons, amount. _ VISIT OF THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH. The LORD MAYOR on taking the chair said,—Before the business of the day commences, I feel it my duty in compliment to this CJurt to state that I have bad se veral applications made to me by members for permission to place notices on the paper of business relative to the approaching visit of the Emperor of the French to this country. I thought it unwise that such notices should appear at present, more especially as I am to have com. munication to-day With the authorities, after which it will be necessary to consider the prudence and desirable. ness of their being put on the paper or not. (Hear, hear.) Having had several notices of motion handed to mo by members of the Court, I thought it right to men tion the subject—a subject of the deepest interest—re lating as it does to the visit to this country of the ruler of a ,great and powerful people —our brave and gallant rags. (Cheers.) THE FAST DAY, On the motion of Alderman KENNEDY it was agreed, —"That the thanks of this Court are due to the Right Rev, the Bishop of London for the sermon he delivered to this Court in St. Paul's Cathedral on Wednesday, the 21st ult., and o that his lordship (the Lord Mayor) be re quested to have the same printed." CITY OF LONDON CEMETERY. Deputy PBACOCK, chairman of the Commission of Sewers, moved the Court,—" To authorise and direct the Commissioners of Sewers of the city of London, as Cie Burial Board of the ,said city, to defray out of the consolidated rate, or moneys to be charged on such rate, a sum not exceeding 25,0001., in addition to the sum of 50,0001. agreed to by this Court on the 13th of October, 1853, to defray all the expenses necessary for providing and laying out the said cemetery and building the ne cessary chapels therein, and the other expenses connected therewith." Agreed to. THE NEW METROPOLITAN CATTLE-MARKET. Mr. H. L. TAYLOR (the chairman of the Markets Im provement Committee) brought up the followingreport:— " We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, of your Markets Improvement Committee, to whom it hrs been referred to carry into execution the act of the 14th and 15th Vic., cap. 61, for establishing a new metropolitan cattle-market, and also eur reports from time to time pre sented with plans and estimates of works, and for raising the necessary funds, do certify that we have proceeded therein, and having made the necessary arrangements for the due performance of the laborious and extensive under taking which this corporation has engaged to effect, we have carefully watched the progress of the works in course of execution, under the more immediate superintendence and direction of the city architect. " It will be obvious that in an affair of such magnitude as the formation of a cattle-market for the supply of this vast metropolis, with the necessary conveniences in connec tion with it, many unforseen circumstances would probably arise in the progress of the undertaking which would sug gest extension of the original design, both for increasing the accommodation and for securing future revenue. The chief obstacle with which your committee have had to contend has been the almost unprecedented rise in the price of both labour and materials since the commencement. l o e f se hathtenfromworks , 2 ars t rise which 30 perwhich moean. y t t be fairly reckon ed at no have ' ‘ T i h n eZ e t e e d n S h i Oa have 00 been e t e h n e arrangeme nts formation t h e the mmissioners of consequent on the requirement by y d i t n o . w hi f ch d e e i e r p cu d m ra st in an ag ce et s o M th e e t n ro o p r o th li - s ea S st e , w i of a caroase or meat-mar tended, the erection of a portion e o a u r k t h e t . should e e e s h o e ,. i d g r i a n i e n i e l e n r s s te t a h l at of ti t i h e e na . due considerati on of by the Governme market, which hanytinagetbheoernitsieueg,geefstteerdto your committee erect, the construction of shops q carry on the the Act of Parliament, your conamit o te ir e e f d el t t n itadvisable to business of the market, the enlargement of the taverrenasdfiolyr the further accommodation of persons attending the mar tfooratnhnexed, ket, and stabling, at the request of the tenants. " The particulars of the foregoing will be more possible the probable amount hereto which your committee directed h m to make market apmosoeu notf and explain ed by the report hgici : vsoo t uo h lti e d W a ab r hse. c rouired to perfect the of a s money i e o r n t a e iyn which Unequalled iu this or any assured will be, when your committee feel from the report that the architect estimates oth “ er li c a o p u p n e tr a y rs . completing th e wor k s at the sum of 80,0001., i t n h the expenseaddition t o of theamount already authorised by this hon. Court, and your committee therefore apply for the neces sary powers to raise these additional funds. In so doing, factory t o b e i nfo your committe e f ee l that the Court will deem it very satis hls_ source, informed th a t a cons id era bl e port i on of th e ground purcha se d has not yet been app ro p r i a t e d, an d f rom urce, used as a lairage or otherwise, your committee t f .uity expect to realise a l arge amoun t o f i ncome b y adapt ' Illg it to Ouch purpopes am will pa4tozially conduce to the TilE WEATHER IN THE. BALTIC. GOTHENBURG, March 24.—Frost set in again the nom nencement of this week, and the frost has varied from 2 deg. to 4 deg., and even as low as 8 deg. Several vessels were seen off Nidingen, within these few days, the water being open, but full of drift ice. The harbours on the coast are all frozen up. LYBEKIHL, March 22.—The outer coast is free of ice to-day as far as the entrance to the harbour, and the ice in the Fiord is getting very weak. WPIIBERG, March 22.—There is open water to-day as far as the forfre , w, and vessels can get in here, but only with an east wind. STOCKHOLM, March 23.—The cold has idreased since the 2Otb, with wind at N., and some snow. Yesterday morning the thermometer stood at 101 degs, below 0. ; last evening 8 degs. ; this morning, 71 deg., and p.m., 51 deg., cold. The ice on the Ma'ale and in the Schee ren is still very strong, and there are at present no hopes of a speedy opening of the navigation. MEMEL, March 27.—Weather fine. Wind light at W.N.IV., 4 degs. to 5 degs. frost at night ; 1.7 feet Eng lish on the bar. 28th. Weather fine. Wind light at S.E., and calm. DIRSCHAU, March 28.—The ice broke up last night ; water rising. On the banks of Dirschau there are ice• bergs 30 feet high. _ __ SiVINEMUNDE: March 28.--The prevalence of north east winds has filled the whole of the bay off this har bour with ice, and the port, for the present, is unap- proachable for vessels inward bound. The ice on the river, as far as Stettin, is still firm, but the Oder above Stettin is open and navigable. ELSINORE, March 27.—N0 material alteration in the state of the ice in the Sound or neighbourhood has taken place since the 24th March. Herz, March 26.—With the exception of some re mains of icebergs the coast is free, and only in the Muld ber Bay is there any ice. The state of the ice in the Fjord is unaltered. WYCK ON Foils, March 29.—The fairway towards the small-deep was to-day free of ice as far as was visible, but on the shallows and the opposite coast northwards there is a great deal of ice. HEWN, March 27.—The harbour and fairway have, been cleared of ice for some days. MR. ALLCROFTS CONeffla. _ at a th b i a s nq s u ea e s t on osf e c o us ne to e na rt, Mr. Allcroft gave a concert, or, as he called it, cc a, grand musical festival," at the Lyceum Theatre. It Last night, according to his was, as usual, a "monster" vocal—and instrumental music, more 0 abundant than recherche. Th e programme contained some sixty pieces ; the performers were th e ' an d among most eminent names now in London , with a host of others, some of whom we never heard of before. Th e pieces were i n genera l of a popul ar and familiar kin d , capable of being per formed without any trouble calcu lated to plea se a of prep ara ti on , and miscellaneouscalm audience. The f great a. vourite, as usual on such occasio ns , was M r . Si ms Reeves, whose pretty :Jane " _ballads, "Th e Pil gr i m o f L ove, " "M y en thusiasm. 1 _ &c., were r ece i ve d w i t h obstreperous Next to him, Madame Anna Thillon bad the warmest receptionparticularly' ballad, so long a standingreception,dish in her "pussy-cat " at Jullien's concerts. Madame Clara Novello, among other things, sang a new MS. song, " The Viva • '' ndiere by Mr. Frank Mori, a very pretty thing, which she gave with great spirit and effect. Miss Rebecca Isaacs—always a favourite— sang several ballads delightfully • but "Let the bright Seraphim" i s o u t of h er wa y. Anew duet, "Come, let us away," by Mr. Edward Loder, an elegant composi tion, was gracefully sung by the Misses Brougham, two very agreeable and rising young singers. Ilerr Formes sang the air, "Pour fair son souvenir," from the Etoile du Nord, in a manner which showed that he will give it great effect when he comes to sing it on the boards of the Royal Italian Opera ; but, like all the music of this opera, it is essentially dramatic, and not fitted for a con cert. A number of instrumental solos were performed by Ernst, Richardson, Lazarus, Mdlle. Louise Chris tine, Case, Distin, and others, all of a showy and popu lar character. It is almost unnecessary to add—for it is always the case at these concerts of Mr. Alleroft's— that every part of the theatre was crowded ; and very deservedly, for there are no concerts at which so great a variety of good music can be heard on such easy terms.