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sazivt_ . 1 7 -T • • co t o att . •Ass . . . . L.A.ICVS.—TW - .11OLLINS 4. 1 , dl and LOWTHER HOTEL, GRA S HERE.—This beautiful and favourite resort of Tourists and Visitors to the Lake District is now ( I " " .0" • • . 1.4. \ 44' ' 54 ; Th• open for the accommodation of the public. 4 1 1 ki4 , {% 0 I ~1101 • Lb The above house and Establishment will be found worthy of ---") oticc, being conducted on economical principles, and in the centre , 1_ , i 4; \ N . / 4; 1 4* -^- ' , ci the Lake District ; the views from which cannot be equalled. _2> • ,10' 7 , ' ' .h e house ms be ascended through the /EU ; • ,c , !‘,7 „.4 r 74., Ron.4`!, The Mountains behind the house may —route.. Plantations belonging to the Proprietor, in about twenty minutes from whence may also be seen Nine different Lakes and I brns, as also most of the notable Mountains in the locality, with Morecombe Bay in the distance, which most of the guide books - have omitted to mention. at is ?,d. a. 8. :e~~ ~ _. ery ion ire tAll mo. 9th of hi f 9th 11st .tat 4,2 j 21 ill 19 131 ad ;mot WIDOW LADY, possessing a thorough knowledge of Domestic Management, is most desirous of an engagement as Companion to a Lady, or to superintend the Family of a Widower or Elderly Gentleman.—Address C. G., 4, Trinity str Blackheath-hill, Blackheath, Kent. mONT BLANC will CLOSE TO-MORROW NIGHT, Aug. 30th.—Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. RGYLL ROOMS.-LA lIRENT'S CASINO, Great Windmill-street, Ilaymnrk,t —The above clegan Rooms RE-OPE for the winter season o i MONDAY, Sept Ist. The Proprietor begs to infcrm the publ c that th a f shi•in.ble pace of resort has been redecora'ed under the sole direction of Air. Bull, of Great Queen-street, L ncolres-inn-tle'ds. The doors open at hall past eight, commence at nine. Admission One Shilling. FIRFIR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, . 4, Coventry-street, Leicester-square.—Open (for Gentlemen only) from 10 till 10, containing upw,rds of one thousand models and pteparations, illtisiTating every part of the human frame in health and disease, the race of men, &c. Lectures delivered at 12, 2, and half-past 7, by Dr. G. •Sisicrog, ; and a new and highly-interesting series of Lectures is now in course of delivery by Dr. KAHN, at 4 p.m. precisely. Admission, One 4hilling. ROYAL SURREY GARDENS.-JULLIEN'S CONCERTS in the Coloisal Concert Hall, THIS EV ENING (Friday, August 29).—MAnRIG NIGHT.—Last night but one of the Zouaves. —Continuat on of the Magnificent Decorations (by Mr. Palmer) for the Guards' Dinner for a few days.—Grand Selec tion, II Trovatore, received nightly with rapturous applause—Solos by Hughes, Lavigne, and Kcenig—National Song, by Mr. Tedder — Magnificent Views of Constantinople and the Alps, by Hanson— Southby's brilliant Pyrotechnic Display and Emblematical Tableau. Admission, Is. Concert at 7. Fireworks quarter before 10.—Madame Albodi for two nights, Tuesday, Sept. 2, and Thursday, Sept. 4. A grand Military Fete in a few days. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road. —OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The celebrated ELAN BAND, under the direction of Herr KALOZDY, will perform every Evening at 9 and 11 o'clock, In addition to the usual Vocal E%tertainment The following company of talented Vocalists are permanently engaged for the performance of Selections from all OF: Popular Operas. Madrigals, Choruses, Duets, &c., viz. :—Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brunel, Miss Sommers, and AI iss Pearse ; Sam Cowell, Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmans S. Jones, T. Farrant, W. Melling. Barker. Russell Grover. and P. Corrie ; Masters E. Con nell, Austin, and Bennett, and Mr. T. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. J. Harroway, R.A.. harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun. ; director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock. GENERAL SCREW STEAM-SHIPPING COMP ANY, The shareholders are hereby informed that the Ballot upon the resolution, "That this Company be dissolved," will be open TO MORROW (Tuesday, the 26th of August instant), and following days, until further notice, from 12 to 4 o'clock, at the Offices of the Company, 27, Cannon - street. By order. J. L. O'BEIRNE, Secretary. 25th August, 1856. SUN LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, LONDON. Policies effected with this Society now will PARTICIPATE TN FOUR-FIFTHS, or-80 per cent., of the Net Profits of the Society, according to the conditions contained in the Society's Prospectus. The Premiums required by this Society for insuring Young Lives are lower than in many other old-established offices, and Insurers are fully protected from all risk by an ample guarantee fund, in Addition to the accumulated funds derived from the investments of Premiums. N O . 20,029.) Policy stamps paid by the Office. Prospectuses may be obtained at the Office in Threadneedle-street, Loudon, or of any of the Agents of the Society. CHARLES HENRY LIDDERDALE, Actuary. PUBLICATIONS. Just ready, in 2 vols. post Bvo., 215., ARTHUR BRANDON. A Novel. "Cursed be the social lies that warp us from the living truth." — Ten ny son. Burst and Blaekett, Publishers, success rs to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ~ . THE EUPHRATES VALLEY RAILWAY and INDO-F:IIROCEAN TELEGR APR. —An important article under this title appears in the eeptember Number of "BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY." London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.- CHEAP EXCURSION to the WEST of ENGLAND.—On WEDNESDAY, September 10, an Excursion Train will leave Pad dington at 8 a.m., for Plymouth (offering facilities for visiting Tor bay, Brixbam, Dartmouth, and the south coast of Devon), calling at Weston-super-mare, Bridgewater, Taunton, Tiverton-road, Exeter, Creditor, Eggesford. South, Molton, Instow, Barnstaple, Bideford, Starcross, Dawlish, Teignmouth, Torquay, Totnes, and Kingsbridge road, and will return on Saturday, September 20th, front Plymouth at 6.30 a.m., Bideford at 6 a m., and from intermediate stations as per band-bills. Fares there and bans :—Weston-super-Mare and Bridge water, 20s. and 13s. ; Taunton and Tiverton-road, 225. and 15s. ; Exeter, 245. and 16x.; rirediton, Eggesford, South Molton, Irstow, Barnstaple, and Bideford, 30s. and 20s. • starcross, Dawlish, and Teignmouth, 255. and 17s. ; Torquay and Totnes, 275. and 188. ; Ringsbridge-road and Plymouth, 30s. and 20s. Children under 12 half-price. Tickets not transferable, and only available for the Ex cursion Train. MESSRS. BLACK WOOD'S NEW PUBLICATIONS. PROFESSOR AYTOUN. BOTHWELL : A Poem. One Vol. crown octavo, price 125., cloth. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. ExcußsioNto SOUTH of IRELAND and SOUTH WALES. On SATURDAY, the 30th August, an Excursion Train will ave the Paddington Station at 6.30 a m. for MILFORD HAVEN (calling at the undermentioned Stations on the South Wales Railway), and from whence passengers can proceed, via steamer, to Waterford, Limerick, and Kilkenny. The Irish passengers can have the option of returning by the 7.5 a.m. train from Milford Haven on any of the days the steamboats arrive from Ireland, within sixteen days, the boat leaving Waterford on Monday, the 15th September. being the last by which they can re turn. The South Wales Excursion Train will return on the 9th September. at 7 a.m., from Milford Haven and intermediate stations, as per hand-bibs. FARES THERE AND BACK. TO SOUTH WALES. Paddington to First Class. Co .ered Carriages. Milford Haven...... Johnston .. .35x. gds. Haverfordwest.. 3 Narbeth-road (for Tenby) 325. 225. Carmarthen L1ane11y........ • • ...... 30s. •• .. • • 20s. Swansea Neath Port Talbot Bridgend Cardiff .. . Newport • 21s. Chepstow .. 20s. . 14s. TO IRELAND. COL. HAMLEY. ADY LE-E'S WIDOWHOOD. _ILI A New . Edition, in 1 vol. crown Bvo., with Illustrat:ons, price Paddington to - - -----. - - Waterf0rd........ Limerick • . . . .. 523. 6d. Kilkenny .. .. 475.6 d. •. • • .... 348. To return from Waterford, Limerick, and Kilkenny on the 4th, Sth, 11th, and 13th September. For further particulars see time-bills. LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. TOURISTS' TICKETS, ISSUED 'UNTIL THE 15TH OCTOBER. NORTH WALES. Tickets, available for THREE WEEKS, enabling the holder to stop at Rhyl, Conway, Bangor, Caernarvon, and Holyhead, either going or returning, are leaned at the following fares by the through trains. The First-class Tickets are available by any train, and the Second by such trains as have second-class carriages attached. I st Class. 2d Class. Londoi to Holyhead and back.• £3 10 0 .... £2 10 0 Oxford Peterborough } to ditto and back 210 0 1 15 0 Birmingham to ditto and back 2 0 0 1 10 0 'Wolverhampton to ditto and back.. • • 115 0 .... 1 7 0 63. cloth. PROFESSOR WILSON. FSSAYS, CRITICAL and IMAGINATIVE. Contributed to " Blackwood's Magazine." Vol. 1., price 63., e de the cloth [PRICE 4D. STAMPED SD• REV. J. EAGLES. TII E SK ETCHER. Originally published in Blackwood's Magazine. Crown Bvo., price 10s. Gd. cloth. To vs a LAKES OF WE3T3IOREL AND AND CU 11BEEL AND. Tici cats, available for THREE WEEKS, to the above Lakes, are issu,V, at the following Fares by the through Trains. The First- Oiass Tickets are available by any train, and the Second by such trains as have second-class carriages attached :- Ist Class. 2d Class. Le ndon to Windermere and back £3 10 0 .... £2 10 0 , a:ford to ditto and back 215 0 2 0 0 P aterboroughl B lrmingham to ditto and back 2 5 0 1 15 0 y, folverhampton ........•... To Tag FAvouurs laorcisunts WATEIUNO PLACES, LYTHAM, BLACKPOOL, FLEETWOOD, Ott SOUTIIPORT. Tickets, available for THREE WEEKS, are issued by the ordinary tti Ins of the Company. The First-Class are available by any train, ax .d the Second by such as have second-class carriages attached. Ist Class. 2d Class. From London .. • • . „ Oxford „ Peterborough ...... 2 5 0 .... 115 0 „ Birmingham 1 Wolverhampton j FIN an Fleetwood Royal Mail Steamer sails every evening (Sunday exc e)ted) for Belfast, and Weekly Excursion Tickets are issued at the Steam Packet Ofilce for Belfast, Armagh, the Giant's Causeway, and ,ka ck. BICCURSIONS TO THE SEA SIDE. -- - Tick sbs, available for TWENTY-EIGHT DAY , , are issued by the ordinary trains of the Company. The First-Class are available by any train, and the Second by such trains as have second-class car riages att& shed. to Harrowgate, Scarborough, Whitby, Flley, or laridlington . IiARRO P. GATE and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 435. ; Second Claa ;, 325. 6d. SCARBOLI OUGR and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, bis. ; Second Class, 355• WHITBY at id Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 51s. ; Se cond Class, 355. FILET and B ack, for each Passenger—First Class, 51s. ; Second Class, 355. BRIDLINGTt IN and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 515.; Second Class, 351 These Tickets t ire not transferable, nor will they be available for the Return Jotn ey unless they have been endorsed at the Booking. office of the Sta on on the day of returning. Passengers to all the above places, ex rapt Harrowgate. are at liberty to break the journey by remaining on,. t night at York; either going or returning. IRISH TOURIST TICKETS, Available for ONE MONTH, will be issued at the following prices :- Ist Class. 2d Class. From London • „ Oxford.. .•.. • • .......... 515 0 .... 415 0 „ Birmingti Leamington, and Covent a And from the o cher principal stations at proportionate fares. These tickets (, which in no case are transferable) will be available for One Month fr am the date of issue. They will enable the Holders to proceed to Ch aster, thence to Bangor, Holyhead, and Dublin, from Dublin to , Cork, situate on the picturesque River Lee, and within ten miles •of the celebrated 'Harbour, Dockyard, and Naval Station of Queen stown (Cove) ; from Cork back to Mallow, and thence, by the Kit larney Junction Railway to the far-famed LAKES OF KILLARNEY. The Tourist cal remain as long as convenient to himself at Chester, Bangor (for the i nspection of the Britannia Tubular Bridge), Holy head, Dublin, Cc rk, and Killarney ; the only condition being, that his return to the SU ttion at which he took his ticket must be not later than One Month from the date of his departure therefrom. Supplemental Tickets for CONNEMARA. GLENGARIFFE, the GIANT'S CAVE EWAY, and other places of interest, are issued at Reduned Fares to Visitors holding " Irish Tourist Tickets." General Man al fees Office, Euston Station, June, 1856, 1 NEW AND IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE. Patent Office Seal of Great Britain. Diplome d'Ecole de Pharmacia Pharmacten de Paris. Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TRIESEMAR No. I, 2, and 3, prepared in the form of a lozenge devoid of taste or smell, and can be carried in the waistcoat pocket Fold in tin cases., divided into separate doses, as administered by Valpeau, Latter:amid, Roux, Ricord, &c., &c. TRrESEMAR No. 1 is a Remedy for RE LAXWAON, SPERMATORRIRE A, and all the distressing consequences a rising from early abuse, indiscriminate excesses, or too long realdencs in hot climates. It has restored bodily and sex ual strength and rigour to thousands of debilitated individuals who are now In the en joyment of health and the Functions of Manhood ; and whatever ins y be the cause for DISQUALIFICATIONS for MAR the 3 are effectually subduel by this Wonderful Discovery. TRIESEMAR No. 11., effectually, its the short space of three days, completely and entirely eradicates all t7aces of Gonorrhoea, both in its mild and aggravated forms Gleets, Strictures, Irritation of the Bladder. Non-retention of Urine, Pains of the Loins and Kidneys, and those disorders which Copaivi and (lobelia have so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health of a vast portion of the population. TRIESEMAR No. 111., Is the great Continental Remedy for Syphilis and Secondary Symp toms. It also constitutes a certain cure for Scurvy, Scrofula. and all Cutaneous Eruptions, removing and expelling in its course all corrup tions and impurities from the vital stream, as altogether to eradicate the virus of die ease, ani expell it with the insensible perspiration through the m ?Alum of the pores of the skin and urine, and is a never-failing remedy for that class of disorders which unfortunately the English Physician treats with Mercury, to the inevitable destruc tion of the patier.es constitution, and which all the sarsaparilla In the world cannot:restore. Price 11 s., or four cases in one for 335,, which saves 11 s., and in 51, cases, whereby there is a saving of ii. 12s. To be had whlesale and retail in Loudon, of Johnson, 68, Cornhill ; Hannay and Co., 63, 01 " ford-street ; Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; It. H. Ingham, druggist, 46, Market-street, Manchester; 11. Bradbury, bookseller, Deansgate, Bolton; J. Priestly; chemist, 51, Lord-street, Liverpool; Powell, bookseller, 15, Westmoreland-street, Dublin;; Wlnalip toobselier, ti it-street, Birmliarbam, ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIFTII SALE. CUSTOM-HOUSE, London, August, 1856. FOR SALE, by order of the Honourable .12Com missioners of her Majesty's Customs, at the Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing-lane, on TUESDAY, Sept. 2, 1856, at twelve o'clock at noon precisely, the following GOODS for the benefit of the Crown, viz :--Brandy, Rum, Geneva, and Wine, Turpentine, Timber, and Cotton WoOl. The above goods may be viewed by sample at the Queen's Ware house, Custom-house, Tharees-street ; at the London and West India Docks ; and at the Tobacco Ground, Rotherhithe ; on Monday, the lst of September, 1856, from Ten o'clock in the morning until Three o'clock in the afternoon, and on the day of sato from Ten o'clock in the adorning until Twelve o'clock at noon. Take Notice, that goods sold at this sale will not be delivered until after two clear days of the day on which they are sold, and that no lots can be paid for at the office of the Receiver-General after Two o'Clock in the afternoon. Catalogues may be had at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom-house, Thames-street, price threepence each. NORWOOD GREEN., MIDDLESEX. TO BE SOLD, by Auction, pursuant to Orders of the High Court of Chancery, in seven Lots, by Messrs. WINSTANLEY, the persons appoint , d by the Court for the purpose, at the Auction Mart, Bartholomevr-lane, in the City of London, on TUESDAY. the 21st day of October, 1856, A very eligible PREPTIOTX) and COPYITOLD ESTATE, tithe free, and (as to the greater par.) Land-tax redeemed, delightfully situate at Norwood Green, between Brent ( e'd and Southall, In the County of Middle ex, ten miles from London, and only a short dis tance from the Banwell and Southall stations on the Great Western Railway—including a Villa Residence, with Coach-house and Stabling. Kitchen Garden. and Meadow Land, containing altogether about Is acres Also, sundry Messuages and Cottages, capital Farm Buildings, &c., and several enclosures of Arable and Meadow Land, desirable Building sites, &c , tne wiro'e comprising, about 116 acres, and having a considers le frontage to the high road. May be viewed by cards, which, with particulars and conditions of sale, may be obtained of Messrs. Blake, Tylee, and Tylee, solici tors, No. 14, Essex-street, Strand ;of Messrs. Eidsdale and Crad dock, solicitors, No. 5, Gray's-inn-square; Messrs. Smedley,l Rogand ers, and jull, solicitors, No. 40 , Jermyn-street; Messrs. Gosling Girdlestone, solicitors, No. I, Gray's-inn-square ; and of Messrs. Winstanley, No. 10, Paternoster-row. Dated this 22d day of August, 1856. 'UR. HOWARD, Surgeon-Dentist, 52, Fleet -131:._ street, has introduced an entirely new description of ARTI FICIAL TEETll,tixed without springs, wires, or liga tures. They so perfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from the original by the closest observer; they will never change colour or decay, and will be found very superior to any teeth ever before This method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painful operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and mas tication. Decayed teeth rendered sound and useful in mastication.---52, Fleet-street. At home from ten till five. IF you are Bald, or your Hair is Thin, pray use IF ALEX. ROSS'S C ANTHARIDES OIL, which causes the Hair to grow on bald places, produces luxuriant Whiskers and Mous tachlos ; it has been approved of by the highest authority, and is most beneficial in all cases of thin hAir. Sold from 3s. Gd. ; for warded for stamps, sent free, twelve extra. ALEX. ROSS'S CHA RGES for Dyet ig the Hair permanently a light brown, dark brown, or black — whiskers from is., gentlemen's hair from 55., ladles' from 7s. Gd. The dye being a clear liquid it is simply necessary to damp the hair with a comb or brush, when a perfect colour is produced without injury to the skin. Sold from 3s. Gd.; sent free for 51 stamps. HAIR DESTROYER, a depilatory for remov ng effectually Superfluous Hair from the Face, Neck, Arms, and Hands, without injuring the skin. A. R. will warrant t not to injure the skin in the smallest degree, and the hair to be entirely destroyed.—Sold from 35. 6d- ; forwarded for stamps, free by post, eight extra. Alex. Ross, No. 1, Little Queen-street, High Holborn. A. KEITH JOHNSTON. THE PHYSICAL ATLAS OF NATURAL PHENOMENA. Thirty-five large and Seven small Plates, printed In Colours ; with one hundreo and forty-five purges-ef Letter press Description, and an Thirex of 16,000 References. A New Edi tion, imperial folio, half-bound in m.:rocco, price 121. Its. 6. MISS AGNES STRICKLAND. THE LIVES of the QUEENS of SCOTLAND and ENGLISH PRINCESSES connected with the ROYAL SUCCESSION. Vol. VI. (In the Press.) 45, George-street, Edinburgh, anl 37, Paternoster-row, London. THE NOCTES AMBROSIA.N2E. This day is published, complete, in four vols.,crown Bvo, price 245. cloth, THE NOCTES AMBROSIANIE, forming the First Volume of Professor Wilson's Works, Edite d b y Pro fessor FERRIER. " And now a word or two in conclusion about these Ambrosian Nights. It is too much to say that they are the finest dialogues that ever hays been written, except those of Plato, and with these they do not come into comparison. Plato gives us the feast of reason; North the flow of soul . . . The result is a series of dialogues, in exuberance of life delightful, in dramatic truth perfect, full of the most salient descriptions, the most searching criticism, withering satire, manly path a, and broadest humour."—Tmes. "The Noctes' are a valua'de contribution to our literature. They are the effusions of a powerful mind—wide and various in their subject, embracing the current topics of their time, and throwing no small light on its history. They give the impression, in a de gree rarely equalled, of being written out of the author's fulness, flowing spontaneously and without effort, and bringing the reader into intercourse, not with a literateur but with a man, while yet they are constructed with an admirable dramatic skill in the embo diment and discrimination of the pers ns who take part in them. 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Just Published, price -55., by post, free, ss. 6d.' ON TRUE lz FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA, with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the Real Sufferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. " Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practi sal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs as, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi :al reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall detect any Jther equally flagrant evil which it may be in his power to cor rect."—London Medical Gazette. " The tribe of ' Quiet Sympathisers,' and 'Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed; and if this book could find its way into the hands of those who suffer from the cont plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would to saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of 'ZS3 importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— much money...... This volume is well qualified to put au end to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrhoefs, and to place the treat ment upon a more rational and phydological basis. It is, therefore, ikely,to do much good."—Medical Circular. London: H. Bali:ere, 219, Regent-street. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.- , NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on MONDAY, the Ist of September, the WILTS and SOMERSET BRANCH of the Great Western Railway will be opened to Yeovil for the conveyance of Pas senzers, Parcels, Carriages, and Horses. For particulars of trains see the Company's Time Bill, to be ob tained at the Paddington station and .at the booking offices. Paddington, Aug. 28,1856. APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED. LEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, and all Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, soup, Curries, and Salad, and by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach to perfectly digest the food. The daily use of this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the boat safe guard to health. Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrins, 19, Fenchurch-street , London, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester; also by Messrs. Barclay and Sons, Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and mer chants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. N.B.—To guard against imitations, see that the names of " LEA and PERRINS" are upon the label and patent ca p o f the bottle. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 29, 1856. OVER DARIEN. ed the Indian trail, which passes over the highest ground, and traversed the only portion of the country which pre sents any engineering diffiettities, in a few,hours. From these circumstances, and from their very cursory and fugitive inspection of a country, which is one un broken forest of heavy timbar and tall brushwood, where the explorer can scarcely see ten yards ahead of hire, it was manifestly impossible for the engineers to make any search for the valley which transversely divides the Cor dillera ; consequently, they were unable to collect any data upon which to form an opinion as to the practica bility of the canal. This is tho view taken ty Baron Humboldt, who, in a letter to F. M. Kelly, E , q., of New York, dated Berlin, Jan. 27, 1856, and published in Kelly's pamphlet on the Junction of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, edited by Ch. Manby, Sec. Inst. C.E., says, "Tt was on account of his not having made so th oroug h an examination of the mountainous country between the Gulf of San Miguel and Caledonia Bay that Mr. Lionel Gisborno's plan of 1852 could not be carried out. Tho ignorance he was in as to the localities, and the absence of measurements of altitude, led to the unfortunate issue of the courageous expedition of Lieutenant Isaac Strain." Any person who has travelled much in hilly countries, especially such as are covered with brushwood, will under stand the difficulty of striking into a narrow valley. Having been lately engaged in a medical capacity with the Turkish and Tunisian troops, chiefly in Armenia, Lazis tan, and Circassia, I had several instances of this difficulty. Any one who has been at Sukhum-kale will recollect the remarkably deep valley behind the hill on which the Rua sian furt stands, separating from the mountain farther inland. The existence of th) valley would never be sus pected by any one who did not actually look clown into it from the fort ; and 1 have twice, when on the plain below, passed it by unseen, though closely searching tor it. However, under the difficult circumstances in which they were placed, it was impossible fur the engineers to make any attempt at a survey. 04 their arrival at Sucubti they found themselves in a most dangerous dilemina with the Indians, in consequence om a fare report that the Chimere had carried off Dennis ktretwo other Indian prisoners. Upon learning this I instantly proceeded to Dennis (who was, I believe, himself the author of the report), and obliged him at once to despatch a special mErssenger to con tradict it. After Mr. Gisborne's departure nothing whatever was done, except that Commander Parsons continued his survey of the harbours, which he pronounced to be adinfrably adapted for the terminus of a great ship canal ; anti although after her Majesty's ship Devastation reinforced the expedition there were upwards of 000 men in Caledonia Bay, not a man would be allowed on shore, notwithstand ing the enthusiasm of the crews to accompany me "to the other side of the land." They naturally wondered what they were sent to Darien for. Nothing having been heard of Mr. Gisborne since the 9th of February, when he wrote from the Sucubti, stating that he was in danger, and feeling very tired of the forced inaction to which I was reduced, I engaged a passage, on the 22d, in the Grenadian schooner Bolivar, to Carreto, with the intention of inducing some of the Indians there, with whom I was acquainted, to accompany me in search of the missing parties of Strain and Gisborne. Upon in forming Commander Hancock of any intention, he gave strict orders, in my hearing, that I was not to be allowed to go on board the schooner on any account. Finding that I was a prisoner on board the Espiegl e , I made my escape from her in an Indian canoe, at daylight on the 23d, and repaired on board the Scorpion. Shortly afterwards Com- Mauler Parsons received an order, of which I have a copy, from Commander Hancock, desiring him to sand me back to the Espiegle immediately ; to this he replied that as I was a civilian, he would not undertake the responsibility of sending me by force of arms. After some delay Com mandtr Hancock signalised "he may remain on board." I then, as the only representative in Caledonia Bay of the Atlantic and Pacific Junction Company, addressed a circular to Commander Hancock, Captain Jaureigui berry, and Captain Hollins, requesting them to consult together and tvke measures for sending a party from each of their vessels in search of Strain and Gisborne, anti offering every assistance in my power. Soon after I had forwarded these letters, with the full approval of Commander Parsons, to whom I had submitted them for perusal, an officer, with a boat's crew, came on board with orders to him from Commander Han cock to send me back by force of arms if I refused to go vo luntarily. As I decidedly refused to return of my own will, I was thus brought back a prisoner, previously entering a protest against this illegal arrest in the log of the Scorpion. Oh my return to the Espiegle, Cominander Hancock assailed use with the most violent and threatening language, and decided, as he was going to sail the next morning for Car thagena, to leave me until his return on an islet, near Golden Island, with Mr. Grant, the second master and two coloured servants of Gisborne wh3 did nob know how to pull an oar. However, the next morning, as I objected to being left on the islet, he sent me back to the Scorpion, first cautioning me, under penalty of martial law, not to land on the coast, nor to hold any communication with the Indians. I Dr. M`Dermott, R.N., late of the Espiegle, is now in London, and can corroborate all the above statements ; as also can Mr. Grant, Mr. Doyle, and other gentlemen who were officers of the Espiegle and Scorpion at that time, and are now in Engladd. Under these circumstances I decided upon going round to the Gulf of San Miguel and the Tuyra, by way or Pana ma, and starting from the Pacific side in search of Strain and Gisborne. I, therefore, by the personal solicitation of Commander Parsons, obtained. a passage in the Cyane, and sailed in her on the23th, arriving at Aspinwall, Navy Bay, ou the 23th. There, finding that I had incurred im minent risk of a "lynching," on account of the then indus triously-reported lossof SLiaiu's party, and being cautioned by some friends not to proceed to Panama, I onlyremained until the 3d March, when, having learned of Mr. Gisborne's safe arrival on the Savana, I sailed in the North Star for New York. Such was the manner in which the attempt to investigate the grand question of inter•oceanio navigation was carried out, and such the way in which I was rewarded for my five years' laborious, perilous, and ruinously-axponsive efforts in tho promotion of the grandest project of the age. I will only say, in my own vindication, that, whilst in stead of an impartial exploration of the country, valuable time was lost in the attempts made by some to find a route in a line different from that laid down by me, and thus to appropriate to themselves the results of my labours; and whilst my statements were set down, without examination, as exaggerated, I was, by actual force, prevented from availing myself of any opportunity of demonstrating their accuracy. pense with the assistance they could have given him, that he started upon an expedition into a wilderness, without furnishing himself with any of the necessary preliminary information ; and, moreover, that he was commissioned by his Government to perform a difficult and dangerous ser vice, strictly within the limits of his professional duty and on American soil, nud that in accepting such commission, he was in no way influenced by any-statements of mine, I cannot adroit the justice of the censures that have been heaped on me for the sufferings of his party. I own lam surprised to pad that Lieut. Strain, whoae party were discove'red thirty miles to the east of the canal route, and•who admits he never had any idea of his whereabouts has published a map of the route, with a section of the Isthmus ! TO THE EDITOR OF THE SIIN. SlR,—The war being now happily concluded, I think this a favourable opportunity again to bring forward the sub ject of the Darien Ship Canal, and to state the grounds upon which I feel justified in calling upon the Govern ments and capitalists of England, France, and the United States to cause a detailed survey to he made: of the narrow isthmus between Caledonia Bay and the Gulf of San Mi guel. It will be therefore necessary to give a brief account of the late deplorably mismanaged Darien expedition, which I accompanied, although permitted by those who had actually undertaken it at my instigation to have neither position nor authority in its conduct. From this it will be seen that, instead of a single well-arranged expe dition, there were three unconnected explorations in dif- ferent directions, none of them brought to a conclusion, and two of them conducted without the use of compasses. Towards the close of 1853 it was arranged between the Governments of Great Britain, France, and the United States, that a man of war, and a staff of engineers from each nation, should be despatched to the Atlantic coast of the Isthmus of Darien, to assist the engineers of the At lantic and Pacific Junclion Company of London in making a survey of the tract of country between Caledonian Bay and the Gulf of San Miguel. I. GISBORNE'S EXPLORATION. Accordingly her Majesty's ship Espiegle, 12 gun-brig, Commander Hancock, sailed from Jamaica on Jan. 17th, 1851, conveying Mr. Gisborne, the company's engineer, who commanded the expedition; Lieut. St. John, R.E., And myself, and anchored in Caledonia Bay on the 21st of Janut,ry. The French war steamer Chimere (avis), Captain Jaureiguiberry, and her Majesty's surveying ship, Scor pion, 6, Commander Parsons, arrived the following day. Messrs. Fordo, Bennett, Devenish, Armstrong, and Bond, _ _ engineers of the Atlantic and Pacific Junction Company, had previously sailed froth St. Thomas to Aspinwall, Navy Bay, whence they proceeded to Panama, the Gulf of San Miguel, and the Savana. that river, at its junction with the Lara, Mr. Bennett established a station, whence he surveyed the country as far as the Chuquanapua. • On rounding Isla dol Oro, or Golden Island, which forms the north-west entrance to Caledonia Bay, I, at least, was not surprised to see the United States sloo - p of war Cy' ane, 26, Captain Hollins, lying at anchorin the channel of Sas sardi ; for a long delay had occurred at Taniaica, which I had predicted, would result in the American engineer pro ceeding on his own account, without taking . cognisance of - the fact that the English and French engineers were on their way to join him. Such we found to be the case, Cap- ,ain Hollius informing us that Lieutenant Strain, of the United States' navy, had landed three days before our ar rival, withoutleaving any message for Mr. Gisborne, or say ing what course he intended to pursue. To this separate. . action must be attributed the dreadful sufferings of lieu tenant Strain's party, who wandered along rivers' banks ror 67 days, viz., from Jan. 19 to March 26 (subsisting for the most time on the acid nuts of the trupa palm), and were at last tracked out and rescued from their perilous position by the boats of H.M.S. Virago, which were de spatched from the Savana in search of them. Immediately after our arrival, Dennis of Sassardi, Pat terson of Carti, a young man named Robinson, who styled himself Secretary of State to Caloga, the old chief at Rio Diablo, in San Bias Bay, and some other Indians from Carreto, &c., came on board, and, after a short " pow wow," gave their consent to our landing and surveying the country. On the 24th of January we landed on the west side of the Point of San Fnigencio, where Captain Hollins had al- ready caused a well to be dug. The party consisted of Mr. Gisborne, Lieutenant St. John, Lieutenant Preston, and twelve sailors cf the Espiegle ; Captain Jaureiguiberry, Lieutenant de Vaisseau Oron, and twelve of the crew of the Chimera; Dr. Edwards, assistant-surgeon of the Es piegle; Col. Codazzi, engineer of the New Granada Go vernment, and myself. A short path through the bush be hind the point brought us to the sand-beach of Caledonia Bay ; after walking along which for a mile we arrived at the mouth of the Aglaseniqua, over which the surf breaks ; and half a mile further to the south-east, at the mouth of the Aglatumati, or Caledonia River, where there are five abandoned huts and a few canoes. In both these rivers there is always excellent water. From this point the en gineer, instead of taking, as I had always advised, a com pass course through the bush, notching the trees with a machete as he wont, first to the westward, into the pass through the Cordillera, and then south, guided the party up the river to its junction with a large tributary from the east, where we found two abandoned huts in a cacao plan tation, at which we stopped that night. The next day, e t follow ang e u d p f t o h r e e t r i v o e n r wading , in Januaryits bed 2 t s o , o v n o t i the l g d e t n o we passed a small stream joining it from the west, very shallow at its mouth, but deeper above it ; and just above this, the large village of Agla, consisting of about twenty huts, which were abandoned. About two miles higher up, we came to two huts and several canoes. In those huts everything was carefully packed up, as if for removal, and the still warm ember.; of the fires showed that the occu pants had fled in haste upon learning that we were coming up the river. In one of the huts I saw three fowling pieces, a double-barrelled gun, and a rifle, bat coald find no arrows ; and I recognised a camphor-wood trunk, that I had made a present of to Juan Seva, of Caledonia River, in 1852. It was impossible to tell whether this abandonment of their settlements by the Indiana was merely owing to their shyness of white men, or was an evidence of hostility. Higher up the river had many rapids, and was obstructed with boulders of rock, with very deep water between them. Having ascended it until it became evideat that we were too far to the east ward, and on too high ground, we built a rancho or shed of troolie palm leaves, and encamped on the east bank, about ten miles 8.5. E., from Caledonia Bay, as I estimated. On the 26th, Col. Codazzi and Mr. Gisborne, leaving the main body at the camp, conducted a party of five, whom Mr. Gisborne most reluctantly allowed me to accompany, across the Coidillera, there about 900 feet high, to a river at its Pacific foot, called the Chueti, which is a tributary of the Chuquanaqua, eastward of the Sa cubti. This river, Col. Codazzi, though he had a Spanish map from the archives of Bogota, mistook for a branch of the Caledonia, forgetting the fact that we had crossed the Cordillera. That night we encamped on the Chueti, and the following morning returned across the mountain to the camp. The same night Mr. Gisborne and Capt. Jaureigui berry returned to the ships with some sailors for the pur pose of seeking an Indian guide. Having failed to en• gage a guide, Mr. Gisborne sent us upwards of a hun dred Grenadian soldiers and convicts who had lately arrived from Carthagena. He directed us to move lower down the river, and returned on the Ist of February, when we moved still lower down to the above-men tioned branch on the west bank. Here we encamped a night in a plantation of cacao trees (Thedbroma cacao), opposite the village of Agla. On the 3d of February we followed up the stream to the foot of the hill, which forms the dividing ridge between the Aglaseniqua (which runs parallel to and about a mile west of the lower course of the Caledonia), and the Sucubti, a branch of the Chuqua naqua. This bill, called by the Indians Agla, is, conse quently, the watershed between the Atlantic and Pacific, and between it and the immediately adjacent ridge, which runs north-west from it in a direction parallel to the shore of the channel of the Sassardi, is the valley which I have always directed attention to, as affording the greatest facilities for a ship canal communication. This valley is most distinctly marked in Commander Par sons' Survey of Caledonia Harbour and Port Escocos. Mr. Gisborne, with the French and Grenadian party, guided by Colonel Codazzi, went considerably in advance, the sailors from the Espiegle, whom I was directed to ac• company, following the notches they made on the trees. These, which I had some difficulty in making out in so dense a forest, led us up the hill by a sudden and steep ascent to its summit, which was very narrow, and along the summit for about a mile, in the course of which we passed three considerable depressions. From the high est point we had a glimpse, through the trees, of Caledonia Bay, and we passed the Indian trail, which leads down the Pacific side of the hill to the Sucubti, and which Colonel Codazzi ought to have struck into. However, the notches made by Mr. Gisborne's party, instead of following that direction, led us, to my great surprise, down the same (north) side that we had ascended to a small river at its foot, where we overtook Colonel Codazzi. This river I immediately recognised as the Aglaseniqua. On informing Colonel Codazzi of this, and that we were still on the At lantic aide of the Cordillera, he became enraged, said it was the Forti (which with another stream forms the Sucubti), and added that I knew nothing of the country. Although I showed him that the course of the river was to the north, as he could see by his own compass, he still proceeded deign its bed (which was very rocky, and in many places so deep that we were obliged to cut our way through the bush on the banks), under the impression that he was guiding us down the Sucubiti to the Pacific ! It was not until we arrived within two miles of the Atlan tic, and until the sailors had reported that they heard the surf of the sea, that he discovered his mistake—if mistake it was—for it appeared to me that there was more of de sign than stupidity in this very experienced bushranger leading us back to the point we started from ; the mouth of the Aglaseniqua being only half a mile distant from the mouth of the Caledonia. It being late in the evening when Col. Codazzi, after summing up all the aompass bearings of the river we had waded down, and the dis tances which he had measured, came to the conclusion that we were only two miles from the Atlantic, and the w av e in e g nea le m e p en ed . , marching, heavily laden, and the following w sin h c o e le da p y a l r i t g Y ht, h morn ing, February the 4th, having waded down the Agla seniqua, mostly up to our waists in water, to the sea, we returned to the ships, to the disappointment of all. In the whole course of this beautiful river, horn its source to its mouth, we could find no trace of an Indian : it is totally uninhabited. At its month are the cocoa-ant trees, planted by the Spaniards, who occupied the fort of Carolina from 1785 to 1790. On my arrival on board I demanded of Mr. Gisborne and Commander Hancock permission to guide the party, which being refused, I requested a party of three seamen, with whom I volunteered to cross over to the Pacific and return. Commander Hancock, in reply, most decidedly refused to let me take a man ashore, stating that " his instruct;ons were to protect a survey, and not to send out exploring parties." In conclusion, he desired me to go alone. I was, consequently, about to start the following morning, when I was prevailed upon by the officers of the g i piegle to decline the service; they represented to me that my going alone was quite unnecessary, as there were then 800 men in harbour doing nothing, and that it could only result in the sacrifice of my life, as the Indians had spies out along the line; a fact proved by the murder, a month previously, of Prevost 's four men. On the 7th of February, Mr. Gisborne, Lieutenant St. John, Serjeant Bell, and a Venezuelan servant of Colonel Codazzi started for the Sucubti and Savana, with a guide and Robinson the Indian, who, for the sum of six hundred dollars, went as security for their lives. This Robinson, who acted for the chief of San Blas, has just returned from the United States, where he had lived for some years His father, who died in 1853, is mentioned in page 71 of my book. This party,which I was not allowed to accompany, arrived at Mr. Bennett's station on the Savana on the morning of the 11th February, having been detained a whole day at Sucubti village, waiting for a. guide to con duct them thence to the path cut, six weeks before, by Commander Prevost, from the Savana to the Chuquana qua, at a point opposite the mouth of Morti, the next river westward of the Sucubti. Thus they crossed the isthmus in three days' walk. In crossing the Cordillera to Sucubti, this party follow. 3. PREVOST'S EXPLORATION. The exploration from the Pacific aide had no connection whatever either with the expedition under Mr. Gisborne or that under Lieut. Strain, awl requires separate notice. Cominander Provost, of her Majesty's steamer Virago, sailed from Panama on Dec. 16, 185 and arrived in the Savana river on the following day. On the 18th he.pro ceeded up the river with a party of 15, includin g Messrs. Kennish and Nelson, " volunteers , " interested in the rival route via the Atrato, and passing the Lama mouth, the site of Fuerte del Principe, and the mouth of La Villa, he built a rancho a little above the latter. From thence he advanced in a N.N.E. direction, cutting apath as he went. After IL days' journey, in which he had proceeded 22 miles over a level country, crossed by a single ridge from 50 to 60 feet in height, he arrived at the bank of the Chnquanaqua, opposite the month of Mosti. Here, the provisions being much reduced, he sent four men back to the ship, left four at the rancho (No. 10), and proceeded across the river, on his course, with the remaining seven. In the first day's march, on the Atlantic side of the Chu quanaqua, he reached a hill 80, and another 120 feet high. From a tree on the summit of the latter, his native guide, Maria, reported a distant view of the Atlantic to the N. W., and mountains to the N. and N.E. Instead of al tering his course to the N.W. he proceeded in the N.N.E. direction, ascended the Cordillera to - an elevation of 800 feet, and then descended it to a river running lute the At lantic, most probably the Aglaseniqua. His provisions being then nearly exhausted, ho returned to the Chuqua anaqua, though being within a few miles of the Atlantic, and reaching rancho No. 10 on the third day from the date of his leaving the four men there, was horrified to find the bodies of three of them laid across the path. They were shot, stabbed, and had their throats cut. According to the opinion of Dr. Ross, they had been forty-eight hours dead. This dreadful event naturally exciting alarm for their own safety, they returned in haste to the Savana, traversing the country from the Chuquanaquato that river in 18 hours. Commander Prevost then returned on board and sailed for Callao on the 7th of January, 18;4. The Virago returned from Peru, subsequently under Comman der Marshal, who fortunately despatched a boat's crew to the rescue of Strain's party. During the whole of his journey Prevost met neither Indian nor habitation ; but, before he detached the four unfortunate men he saw the traces of Indians, and heard a chopping in the bush, and some shots fired. It is deeply to be regretted that he had not sent his native guide, who was an Indian, long domesticated with Granatlians, to ask the consent of the Indians to his entering their territory, and to announce to them the nation he belonged to. Upon my examining the Indians in Caledonia Bty and Sassardi upon the subject of the murders, they stated that the In dians thought the men were Spaniards, seeing they had arms in their possession, and that if they bad known they were Englishmen they would not have harmed thorn. They said that the fourth man was also killed, and that if his body was not to be seen it must have been carried off by a tiger. The Indians of Sueubti arrested the murderers afterwards, and offered to send them to Panama for trial. It has been said that I represented thelndians as friendly: I have said that they are friendly to the English, " out do not allow them to land on the coast."* 1 have always stated that it would be absolutely necessary to get their consent before landing any party on their territory, and it never was anticipated by Mr. Gisborno or the company that any officer would have landed from the Pacific side. It will be seen by the dates that Commander Prevost started on his exploration 35 days, and sailed off again 14 days, before the arrival of the Espiegle ; whereas no vessel was expected ou the Pacific until after the arrival of the expedition on the Atlantic Pid o. 4. RESULTS. Notwithstanding the expedition thus failed, from want of concert between the leaders and their inaction and in capacity, to make &survey from sea to sea, and has thereby left the practicability of the canal still "au open question," it is consolatory to know that the practical results of the several unconnected explorations, so far as any reliable and accurately ascertained data have been obtained, are satisfactory. They are 1. That the harbours of Port Escoces, Caledonia Bay, and the Channel of Sassardi, extending continuously along the Atlantic coast of the Isthmus of Darien for eleven nau tical miles, present, from their depth of water, freedom from shoals, and great security, safe anchorage in all weathers, and that each is admirably adapted for the ter minus of a great ship canal, as proved by the " Survey of Caledonia Harbour and Port Escoces," by Commander Parsons, of her Majesty's ship Scorpion, published by the Hydrographic office in 1854. Captain Hollins, of the Cyane, has al-o spoken highly of their capabilities. The existence of those noble harbours, which had never been entered by British, French, or American men of war before the arrival of the late expedition, was almost unknown to 'navigators until I directed attention to their merits. 2. That the Gulf of San Miguel, on the Pacific side, is only excelled on the West Coast of North and South Ame rica, by the port of San Francisco, as will appear on re ference to Captain Kellett's Chart. 3. That the "Dar ion Harbour," as they have recently named the magnificent estuary formed by the confluence of .the Savana, and Tuyra, previous to their opening into the Gulf of San Miguel, by the mouths of Boca Chica and Boca Grande, is perfectly land locked, has great depth of water, and perfectly safe entrances, as verified by Captain Kennish and Mr. Nelson, C.E., who accothpanied Com mauler Prevost, and took soundings. 4. That the Savana river is navigable for several miles above its mouth, which is free from bars, and has nine fathoms of water at low tide, as results from the observa tions of Messrs. Bennett, Devenish, Armstrong, and Bond, who found my soundings to be correct. 5. That ) from the Savana to the, Chuquanaqua, the ground is low, with the exception of a single ridge of from 50 feet to 60 feet elevation, as stated in the " Official Re port of Commander Prevost of H.M.S. Virago," tend be fore the Royal Geographical Society of London, April 24, 1854. 6. That, according to the same report, beyond the Chuquanaqua there is one hill 80, and another 120 feet high, and that from the summit of the latter the Atlantic was seen, be a ring N.W. ; so, that in a N.W. direction be tween that hill and the Atlantic there is no elevation of importance, but on the contrary a depression occurs in the line of the Cordillera. A N.W. line, drawn from that hill to the Atlantic, would terminate in the channel of Sassardi, a little west of Sassardi village. This corresponds precisely with the statement I bave made iu page 73 of the " Isthmus of Darien"—viz., that "A little west of Sassardi, there is a deep valley in the Cordillera of the coast." 7. That, according to the medical reports of Dr. M'Dermott, of the Espiegle, and Dr. Brownlow, of the Cyane, Caledonia Bay is healthier than any station in Central America, no sickness having occurred in any of the ships or amongst any of the parties on shore. 8. That no hostility need be apprehended from the In dians if their consent to land on the Isthmus be obtained, as proved by Lieutenant Strain traversing in perfect safety the whole country of the Chucunas, the most populous and hostile tribe of Darien Indians. I am confident that the result of a survey would prove that, as I stated six years ago, there is a valley in the Cor dillera, between the headwaters of the Aglaseniqua and Sucubti, through which it will be quite feasible to cut a canal, and I am firmly convinced that a careful survey of the four or five miles which separate those rivers is all that is necessary to establish the practicability of the canal, and decide a question so important to the commerce of the world. I remain, sir, your most obedient servant, EDWARD CULLEN. 11, Royal Exchange, Aug. 22. * "Isthmus of Darien Ship Canal," p. CG. COMPENSATIONS TO RAILWAY TRAVELLERS.—The fo lowing item occurs in the half.yearly accounts of the Eastern Counties Railway Company :—"To compensa tions for injuries to passengers, and costs incident thereto, 7,9221. 10s. 43." Pretty well for six months. BRITISH ARCH2EOLOGIOAL ASSOCIATION. --BRIM. WATER, Aug. 28.—The congress returned last evening from their excursion at a much earlier hour than the pre vious day. They were thus enabled to dine at the Royal Clarence and then to meet in the Town hall, where a paper was read by Mr. V. Irving on the Cisbbury group of camps, in Sussex. This morning the association started for Clevedon, to which a branch line of the Bris tol and Exeter Railway bas been opened. The objects of interest inspected were Walton Castle and Church, and other churches of more or less architectural beauty. The Cadbury Camp and Cleveland Court were also ex amined. With this day the Britigawater meetings will be brought to a close. To-morrow the association pro ceed to Bath, where there will be a reception at the Royal Literary Institution and an inspection of the many attractions of the neighbourhood. The closing meeting will be held at Bath on Saturday. 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From thence they proceeded to Aspinwall and New York, where they published prema ture and unfounded reports of the loss of Strain's party, and exaggerated statements of the impracticability of the canal. After this separation Strain's party consequently consisted of 22 men. On the third day, after having been two days seeking a passage from the Caledonia, they re turned to its west branch, ascended the hill (Agla) and, crossing it, arrived on the fourth day on the Sacubti. On the fifth day they found three Indian huts on the Sucubti just abandoned and on fire. The sixth day they arrived at the village of Sucubti, where they found the remains of seven canoes, which had just been destroyed, for they heard the se ends of the axe as they were approaching. The same day they reached the Chuquanaqua, and met five armed Indians, who came up and shook hands with Strain. "Two of them;one of whom spoke Spanish and the other English, he recognised as having been on board the Cyane shortly after her arrival in Caledonia harbour. The leader informed Strain that he was on the Chuquanaqua instead of the Savana, but offered to guide him to tho latter. In answer to a question respecting the distance, he replied that he could reach it in th ree days." On the eighth day the guide told Strain "that he had taken ari interest in him when they met on board the Cyane, and did not wish him to follow the Chuquanaqua, which was a very long route to the Pacific. He still declared that they would reach the Savana in a day and a half, and the harbour in Darien in two days and a half; but Strain could not induce him to give the name of the river on the banks of which they then wer e." Had he taken a copy of nay map with him he would have learned that he was then on the Artuganti or La Paz river, within three miles of the head of the Lara, and 12 miles off Mr. Bennett's station, at the junction of that river with the Savana. He would also have found that the Indians were guiding him faithfully and in the most direct line. That same day, not being able to keep up with the pace of the Indians, he lost sight of them; and " after waiting some time to see if they would return," he com mitted the disastrous error of returning to the Chuquana qua, influenced by an unfounded suspicion of the treachery of the Indians. Here again, had he ever seen my map, he would have comprehended at a glance, from the exceed. ingly tortuous and sinuous course of the Chuquanaqua, how gloomy was'the prospect of reaching the Tuyra and Pacific by following down its banks, dnniainnt h cal e dPvitaanicoef, Chuquanaq ua and Tuyra. From the 28th owfiJthanthuarerye ntfoththeestlr3onthgeoaft,Fleabftruthareynathiae endeavourChuquanaqua. visa, a latter . Darien,sit ua t e d a littl e a b ov e party followed the c ourt e of and d e vothriat:ae:e to d hr t noaaflyGa pushS erna t r en a eao i thence he expected to be able to send them provisions and assistance. On the 9th of March Strain and his comrades reached Yavisa, where they were carefully attended to by the Jefa Politico and the Alcalde. He then proceeded to the Tuyra and Savana, and reached Bennett's station on the 13th. On the 18th Mr. Bennett and Strain, with the boats of the Virago passed Yavisa i on their way up the Chuquanaqua, and on the 26 :h of March Strain's men were found on the banks of that river in a deplorable condition from famine. Altogether five of the party died from starva tion and hardship. The remainder of this gallant, but mis guided band, reached New York in the Cyane. Mr. Headley, the writer in " Harper's Magazine," as serts that Strain was misled by Gisborne's map and mine. Now in Gisborne's map there is a redline drawn in a S.W. direction from Caledonia Bay to the Gulf of San Miguel ; and in both maps there is a S.W. line marked line of pro posed canal drawn from Caledonia, Bay to - the junction of the Lara with the Savana—tho point which Mr. Bennett afterwards selected for his station. If he had followed the course laid down in those maps, he would have reached the Savana and the Gulf of Sau Miguel in four or five days of much less painful travelling than he encountered along the Chuquanaqua. The fact is he never saw any of those maps. If ho had ever looked at a map of Darien, or read anything about it, he would not have brought down the great number of jack asses and mules, with which be encumbered .the decks of the Cyane, under the impression that there was a road, and that he could ride across the Isthmus I Mr. Headley also states that I "utterly ignored the Sucubti." On the contrary, not only i s that river most legibly marked on my map, but a great amount of information regarding it is given in various passages in nay book. I therefore, in letters to the _Yew York Courier and Inquirer, refuted his assertions, and called upon him to retract them. On the whole, considering that Lieut. Strain deliberately chose to act independently of the English and French engineers, who has been led to expect his ,co•operation, and to die- DECENCY :IN DRESS, Why will our countrymen persist in making " Guys" of themselves whenever they turn their wandering steps out of the limits of their own country? There is a decency in the dress of Englishmen in England which we are in the habit of holding up in favourable contrast with the sartorial efforts of foreign artists. The English woman of the middle classes leaves, no doubt, much to be desired as far as dress is concerned in comparison with her French sisters. Her gowns are ill made, and worse put on. She has most imperfect theories upon the important matter of wearing her shawl. She will persist in adopting some tawdry dab of velvet in summer, and winter beholds her flaunting about in satin. She delights in bad contrasts of colours, and the more of these she can bring into imperfect combination the better satisfied with herself she appears to be. English men, however, have a right to say of themselves that in their own country they are the must de cently attired men in Europe. We do not swathe our legs in checked trowsers of such brilliant hue that the very horses would. shy at us as they prance past. We do not bedevil our waists with puckers and gathers, nor impart a pear-like tone to our ex ternal man. We do not usually wear flaunting waistcoats, uor do we lace ourselves up like an Aus trian dandy. We do not stalk about the streets in dramatic cloaks, like lost heirs about to reveal themselves to their disconsolate parents. Travel, in short, where you will about the streets of Lon den, and, with the exception of a sparse sprinkling of young attorneys' clerks, who are the favourite clients of our Jewish tailors, or of . ...tising ecclesias tics, who - from High Cgurch motives take to long greatcoats and waistcoats of many buttons, there is really very little to offend the eye. Why, then, as soon as our countrymen have put a few miles of salt water between themselves and the country which for so many years has seen them decently clothed, do they wander into so many extrava gances of costume It is not very strange that foreigners should take up unfavourable ideas of the taste and habits of Englishmen, when they see our representatives surpassing their own enormities, or sauntering about the pavement of their capitals in costumes which they would never dare to wear in Regent street or Pall-mall. We read in a letter, published the other day, from our Parisian correspondent, that at the present moment Englishmen abound in the capital of France, " recognisable, as usual, by their eccentricities of costume and manner, which many of them seem to think it not only justifiable but proper to adopt as soon as they step off English ground, even though the capital they repair to be quite as civilised as the one they quit, and as little accustomed to pheno menal shooting-coats, distorted wide-awakes, and low-crowned nautical' straws' with oilskin covers." If our wandering countrymen have no respect for themselves, at least let them not bring ridicule on the nation to which they belong by so total a dis regard of the decencies of life. It matters, of course, very little that some individual Jones, Brown, or Robinson should make a monkey of himself. Tuat is his own concern, and doubtless he best knows his own position in creation. The case, however, is different when all, or nearly all, the representatives of our country who honour the continent of Europe with their presence commence their travels by throwing off that regard for the pro;.-rieties of life which they would strictly observe at home.—Times. BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS. (Front the Times' City Article.) A return has just been issued by the Board of Trade of the declared values of British and Irish produce and manufactures exported from the United Kingdom in the year 1855, specifying the amount to each country and colony. From this document the following list has been compiled, showing the order in which the various communities of the world rank es our customers. The total is 95,688,085/ , against 97,298,900/. in 1854 and 93,933,781/. in 1853. Owing to the revulsion from over-speculation in the Australian and Canadian trades, the proportion taken by our own possessions, amounting in the two preceed;ng years to about a third of the whole, presents a falling off of 7,000,0001., alth.ough India, which, from the prosperity consequent on the demand for substitutes for Russian produce and the out lay fur rail wa3s, exhibited in 1854 an increase of 1,800,0001., figures again for an increase of 900,000/. With regard to foreign countries, the effects of the chronic pressure which has continued to prevail in the New York money market have again been shown in a diminution of our exports to the United States. In 1854 there was a decrease of 2,248,0581., and a for eer falling off of 4,092,2331. is now observable. The amount to Germany has been swollen by the overland trade to Russia, the augmentation being 1,222,7761. France exhibits the extraordinary increase of 2,837,3681. —equal to 90 per cent.—a result due partly to the pur chase of war materials in this country, and par ly to modifications in her tariff. To Turkey, as might have been expected, our exports have more than doubled. Russia is of course entirely out of the list, but the con signments to Balaklava and other ports in our own pos session amounted to nearly half a million. Among the countries which show an improvement are Sweden and Norway, Brazil, and New Granada, the difference in each of these cases being large. The trade with Syria and Palestine in consequence of the war has experi enced a great development. The exports direct to the Danubian Principalities, which declined from 170,5101. in 1853 to 16,4021. in 1854, stand in the present return at 45,3371. Belgium, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and China, are all on the favourable side. Spain shows a falli , g off. The River Plate trade expe rienced a heavy reaction, Buenos Ayres and Uruguay both presenting a great decline. Portugal and Denmark have been stationary :- 1. British possessions : East Indies £10,927,694 Australia •.. •.• 6,278,966 British America ... 2,885,331 West Indies ... 1,979,956 Gibraltar 829,354 South Africa ... 791,313 Malta ... 625,823 Ports of occupation in the Crimea 493,398 Channel Islands 468,078 Hong Kong 389,265 Sierra Leone, &c. 306,091 Mauritius 303,173 lonian Islands ••• 211,886 Other possessions 62,544 £26,552,875 2. United States; including California ... 17,313,086 3. Germany :: Hanseatic Towns ... 8,35 1 1,228 Prussia "• 1,100,021 ••• Hanover •.. 337,354 ... ---- 9,787,600 4. France ... ... ... 6,012,65 8 5. Turkey ~. ... ... 5,639,898 6. Holland •.• ... 4,558,210 7. Brazil ... ... ... 3,312,728 8. Italy : Naples and Sicily ... 921,220 Sardinia ... 853,216 ... Lombardy, &c. ... 717,713 Tuscany ... ... 620,397 Papal territories ... 147,0 i 3 ---- 3,260,169 9. Belgium ... ... ..: ..: ... 1,707,693 10. Portugal, including £124,922 to the Azores and Madeira .„ ..,, ... 1,475,713 11. Egypt 1,454,371 12. Chili 1,330,355 13. Peru 1,283,166 14. Spain, including £110,015 to the Canary _ Islands ... ••• •• • 15. Cuba ••• ••• ••• 16. Sweden and Norway ... 17. Syria and Palestine ... ••• 18. China ••• ••• •• • 19. Western Coast of Africa 20. Denmark ... .• • ••• 21. Buenos Ayres ... 22. New Granada ••• ••• •.. 23. Mexico ... 24. St. Thomas ... 25. Java 26. Philippine Islands 27. Venezuela 28. Uruguay 29. Greece 30. Hayti 31. Morocco 32. Wallachia and Moldavia 33. French Senegambia •• • • • 34. Other countries ... ••• •• 1,268,815 1,059,606 1,032,784 946,601 888,679 839,831 759,658 742,4 588,935 585,898 562,789 529,815 393,037 378,491 291,938 222,460 11;0,128 138,697 45,837 11,270 542,322 £95,688,085 STATE OP TRADE. MANCHESTER, AUG. 29. The continued wet weather acts depressingly on the market, and there is but a limited business in cloth, especially for fabrics suitable for Tndia and China, which are consequently rather easier to buy. Printers and some other kinds are steadier in price, and a demand springs up from day to day sufficient to keep stocks moderate. In yarns there is some demand for Germany, the Medi terranean, and Russia, as well as from manufacturer=, and prices are supported, but the trade is far from brisk, NOTTINGHAM, THURSDAY. The lace trade is qui , et, plain goods being most in de mand, with a scarcity in supply. For cotton quiltings there still continues a good inquiry. In other descrip tions of goods there is not much doing. The unsettled state of the weather I las some influence, and there is little doubt that with a good harvest we should have a very brisk trade. In. hosiery there is a good average business doing for t'ae season, with satisfactory pm snects. Workmen are, well employed at good wages. Yarns and silks firm. ~~ e 546'-- NEWSPAPER c -ss 71k - LA 'I7B 4 1114 1 : i. :re <1: k, \4, 4 /WAY LReiribA' 4 =4 , - _ The German Legion is to be disbanded. Ma w's'sr -: they connect this force with the general system tta a foreign enlistment, will receive the announcement with a satisfaction which more mature reflection will perhaps much modify. We, in common with the whole of our contemporaries throughout the kin t edom, were forward to denounce the foreign enlistment scheme atits' very outset. The lamentable blunders and ramffs of which it has been such a fertile source, have not much tended to mitigate the aversion which we then exp..% ssed against the plan. The fines and imprlsonniente or .our consuls in Prussia and America ; the undignified tuTn out of Mr. Cratnpton ; the budgets of elaborated in solence which Mr. Marcy crammed Late) our reluctan t stomachs ; even the mutiny of the Cana -lieu and Ame rican vagrants at Plymouth, must all be regarded as the natural though bitter fruits of the unea ts-iot . e step adopted by the Ministry. Rut there ia a wide kid Atreece between a British-German Legion such as the Present or such as that which fought for us so gallantly Orough the Peninsular war, and a wholesale ician fur comicljng the honour of England into the hands of reckless .g ad c+ aracterless foreigners of all countries. The Germ eel • Legion of this day has been rather a pet with the Go vernment. To perfect its formation at the commenced ment neither pains nor expense was spared. - Germany for a time was overrun with our well-paid crimps, who, in spite of penalties, carried on a brisk contraband trade in soldiers, who could tell to a tbaler the value of a deserter from the Prussian Infantry or Hanoverian Dragoons—who laid themselves out to catch a Nassau rifleman or a Dutch cuirassier, but who turned a deaf ear to the clamorous advances of the riff raff "line" of Belgium. A bounty snore than four times greater than that given to English recruits was eagerly paid, and eagerly taken too. In vain were the conti nental detectives on the alert to check the plan. In vain did' petty states, whose standing armies consisted of 30 troopers, and to whom, there. , fore, the defection of five or six was a matter fraught with danger to their " principalities " fulminate dire threats against the agents and their abettors. All their efforts were fruitless. The high bounty and the warm chivilious feeling in favour of the war which the Western powers were waging for the freedom of the East, proved inducements too strung for the Germans, and the ranks of the legion were rapidlysfilledswith best men of the confederate contingents. In the choice of superior officers, for once, the " authorities" did not err. They perchance felt that their plan 'was too un popular in itse f, and too easily injured, to be rashly abandoned to the care of men whose only merit lay in the merits .of their relatives. General Stutterheim, an officer of rank and experience, was chosen to the command. Colonel Woldridge, one of the best pupils of Sir De Lacy Evans, was nominated his second, and both ;were assisted by a staff of Englishmen whose long ser vices in India and the Cape marked them out as officers fit for trust and promotion.. Under such men the Ger man Legion progressed fast' and well ; in a few months after its commencement 4,069 picked and highly-trained soldiers were started to the East, Nevertheless the scheme continued far from popular, and Gen. Stutterheim, who remitted behind with the main body at Shorncliffe, had to meet a formidable foe viz , the prejudice and aversion of a high-spirited people, who at many periods has scarcely tolerate I their own regiments, ard to whom the vary name of a foreign legion has always been peculiarly odious. Unfortunatetly the catchpenny "headings" of the provincial journals added fuel to the flame. Le, a drunken German soldier ! and the country papers instantly dilated on "the licentiousness of hire ling mercenaries," their fights and squabbles were "mw- der, us assaul s, ' and a chance theft became a " daring felony." The very conduct of the Italian troops and Poli,h Jews—the insubordination of the Am erican scum at Plymouth—even the recent mnrder by tine wretched Laden at Dover—were all totted up as against foreign troops, and therefore considered to tell with equal strength against the unfortunate German Legion. If this feeling was strong with civilians it was naturally ten times more so among our own troops. Unfortunately at Aldershot the national and professional jealousy showed itself in an un-English manner, and a large number of Irish and Scotch men were not ashamed to overpower and cruelly maltreat a mere handful of the Germans. The conduct of the latter on the military in quiry which ensued did more to propitiate the public than mentbs of good conduct might have done. They unanimously declined to give evidence against those who had injured them, even though .there was much reason to believe the attack was the result of a well-organised plan. Since that time the men have been at Colchester, and have there, be yond all doubt, gained the affection and respect of the inhabitant. Their drill has been incessant, and, as the review on Tuesday showed, they are now equal to the best regiments in our service. Those who visit this camp and behold a splendid body of men contented, and already half naturalised, will return with the impression that perhaps the money on the German Legion has not been entirely thrown away. They must therefore be surprised, and may even be sorry, to learn that the troops which have cost so large a sum, to perfect whom the exertions of our best officers have been inces sant for neafy two' years, and who now form a corps d'armie equal to any in Europe, are to be disbanded and scattered to the winds. If the regiments were not worth raising why are they here at as ? If, as we be lieve, they are fine and serviceable troops, why disband them when their maintenance as regiments in our dis tant colonies might in time repay what we have spent to levy them Is it wise in otr Governmert to parade their reckless expenditure before the eyes of an ovi r taxed people ? Let them not, however, by an untimely parsimony, now add injustice to their folly. If they must abandon and break up the legion, let them give the men fair terms ; and recollect; that the poor privates, by the very act of espousing our cause, condemned them selves to perpetual exile from the-jr eative land, Our reputation for economy in time of war has lon„e since gone. Let not our name fur good faith and fair dealing go atter it.—Morning Herald. BRADFORD MUSICAL FESTIVAL. The miscellaneous concert of Tuesday evening was not nearly so well attended as the sacred performance of that marring, and there was a similar shortcoming on Wed nesday m3rning, notwithstanding the curiosity excited by the announcement of Costa's •‘ Eli," performed for the first time in Yorkshire. This unfavourable effect was partly caused by the bad weather, but partly also by the scale of prices of admission, which is complained of as being injudiciously high, and beyond the means of tradespeople and inhabitants of the town, who otherwise would have c mtributed to the support of the festival. The performance of Tuesday evening, though contain ing little to excite the biases concert-goers of the metro , ! polis was excellent, and well calculated for the gratifica tion of a tasteful and intelligent provincial audience. The first part of the concert began with Moiart's Symphony in G Minor, admirably played and heartily applauded. Miss Sherrington sang, as usual, a French song, Halevy's "Bocages dpais," which she executed brilliantly. We have repeatedly had occasion to notice this clever young lady's love of display and predilection for the French school. Alboni's "Una voce poco hackneyed to it is, isoaived fresh charms from her in imitable vocalisation ; and Clara Novelle) put forth all her powers in \Veber's famous song from " Oberan," "Ocean, thou mighty monster." A. most brilliant per. formance of the overture to the " Gazza Ladra" closed the first part. The second was occupied by a new can tata, entitled "Robin Hood," composed by Mr. J. L. Hatton. It consists of some passages in the life of the outlaw of Sherwood thrown bat° a dramatic form, the personages being Robin Hood, Maid Marian, Little John, and the Bishop. The music, exceedingly well sung by Sims Reeves, Miss Milner, Mr. Winn, and Mr. Weiss, is very animated, with that agreeable old English flavour which is found in some of Mr. Hatton's admir able ballads. It was completely successful. The third part—for there were three, and the concert was conse quently too long--includedCimarosa's famous trio in the " Matrimonio Segreto," sung in perfection by Madame Clara Novelle), Madame Weiss, and Madame Viardot ; the finale to the "Scnnambula," sung with remarkable brilliancy by Madame Viardot ; the Tyrolieone from "Betty," "In questo semplice," which Alboni has made her own by her incomparable execution ; the fine old madrigal, " Down in a flowery vale ;" and Cherubinea splendid overture to " Anacreon," which terminated the concert. Costa's " Eli" was performed almost as magnificently as on the occasion of its first production at Birmingham this . time 12 months. The principal solo parts were sins tamed by Madame Clara Novello, Madame Viardot, Mr. SiLIS Reeves, Herr Formes, Mr. Weiss, and Mr. WI,- tern Smith. Reeves, as usual, roused the enthusiasm of the audience by the wonderful energy of the- Philistine war-song, which was vehemently encored. The.beautt ful uhaccompanied quartet, sung by Madame Novello, Madame Viardot, Mr. Reeves, and Hcrr Formes, was also re-demanded and repeated. The whole perfomano e was most Effective, and at its conclusion the composer was greeted with reiterated bursts of applause. There was no concert on Wednesday evening. as terday morning the oratorio was "The . Messiah, and the expected appearance of Piccolomini th e evenin g was exciting great curiosity. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TY COAMERCIAL BANS. ---...-- This bank discontinued its cash payments on Wednes day, an event not at al l unlooked for after the recent disclonure of its unfortunate transactions with the Sad. leirs. Since the closing of the bank, Mr. Walker, the managing director, has issued the following circular : " NOTICE TO DEPOSITORS. "Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Aug. 27. Sir, —It appears by the books of the Newcastle Com; merc'al Bank that the company are indebted to you as a customer. I regret to be obliged to claim your in dulgence on behalf of the shareholders and myself, and to ask you to stay the pressure of your demand for a short time, to enable the directors to collect the money duo to the company. You ate doubtless aware that upwards of 50,0001., belonging to ,the company, have been fradulently misapplied by a For' tion of the late London board of directors. The asset 0 of the company are, however, sufficient to meet an de mands against us, and in a short time th e amount due to you will be paid, with 5 per cent. interest the from this date to the day of payment. The a mount owing by company to the public is under 24,0001. Our sLarc• holders are upwards of a hundred in number, and many of these are individuals possessed of c onsiderable means. The fortune of each shareholde r is available for the cre ditors of the bank until every debt is discharged.— I am, &c. gi wi s i. WALICIII, Managing Director." , ~- for any i be, per :llmb aping 1 tho - lark, fo of Jas• ;tons aare, itor, mgo, rood, &O S, uare, Esq•, Tite, tiara, el er• !West biro , bj or Esq., 3g,e 3 EA., •Lill, ____.......... NON No. Linty • I I