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rf" cn -// 2 ,- alf-/ -7 . ........_,........-• .. ,d be alway s agreea bl e I If, in fiire, myl4tew-And'ibeee -. )::/ k A of my broth er correspondents have Oifek•y.rezialled their ~,/ %1 destination, it will have bee u owingito . the. noir and ape. t cannot , have act e d ''. cial orders e x t racte d b y Lor k i W til l odebouse in our fav otr from Prince T o l s t o i, w h o, i n hi s to in such a cas e w ith out previous ;r r iviog an equally --, :••• i c new and special au th or i sa ti on frotnbis 'mperiallni,tater Z-.: - It•wili be very cu r i ous if one o f t h a first evicteices atthe " milder and more liberal dispositioi,• of the young auto. crat shall have been elicited on beba if of those who came to represent at his coronation, amid the wilds of central liwiril, + l, - r-ce passage of Englanst. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY._ EXCILItSIONS tl the SEA sing, commencing July 30, ending 15th o, ,tober.—Ttckets, available by any train for 28 days, pre issued to isle iet Man, Bangor. Vlanclndno, and Carnarvon, via Great Weate at a,ra 'Shrewsbury Railways, to Birkenhead and Liver. t ool, thence_ v. —Y 4ally of the steamers leaving Liverpool for the Isle of Man, or t a Bangor, Beaumarls, Llandudno, and Carnarvon, by the I rinee of Wates steamer, every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. FARES THERE AND BACK. Ist Class and 2d Class and Best Cabin. Beat Cabin. :gym London to Isle of Man.. •• £3 0 0 .. £2 5 0 Oxford to diLto ..... •• .• •.••• • • 2 5 0 .. 1 15 0 [PRICE 4D. STAMPED 5D- - _ LONDON.. EISD LY EVEtaNG, OCTOBER 9 ) 1856. London to Bangor, Beaumaris, Llan dudno, and Carnarvon ...... •• 310 0 . 2 10 0 (N o . 20,064.) Oxford to ditto ditto ditto.... 2 10 0 . 1 15 0 Passengers must return from the Isle of Man by the same Com pany's boat that they proceed there by; also from Oarnarvon. Llan dudno, Beaumaris, and Bangor, by steamers, on Mond,y, Wednes day, and Friday. They may on their return stop at Llangollen, but must complete their journey within 28 days from the date of ticket. These tickets are available by any Train, but are not transferable. G REAT WESTERN and SHREWSBURY RAILWAYS. NORTH WALE I TOURIST TICKETS available for Three Weeks from the day of issue. These tickets will be issued until the 15th October, at Paddington, Oxford, Birmingham, and Wolverhampton, to Chester and back, with permission for the passengers to stop at Shrewsbury either going or returning, to proceed either from Llangollen-road to rornwen, or from Oswestry to Welshpool by coach, the Landon passengers hav ing the option of calling at Leamington and Warwick, and returning to London either via Shrewsbury, Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester, or via Shrewsbury, Birmingham, and Oxford. Ist Class and 2d Class and Fares. Inside Coach. Outside Coach. From London and back • • £3 10s. .... £2 10s. From Oxford and back •••• •• • • 2 10s. .... 1 15s. From Birmingham and back ...... 2 Os. . 1 103. From Wolverhampton and back 1 15s. I is. These - tickets are available by any train, but are not transferable, and they do not entitle the holder to travel twice in the same direc tion over any portion of the lines of railway. Passengers can proceed into the Interior of Wales by coach from Corwen or Welshpool, by arrangement with the coach proprietors from those places. METROPOLITAN COUNTIES and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 27, Regent street, Waterloo-place, London. Capital, 100,0001. TRUSTEES. Itt.lln. Spencer 11. Walpole,M,P. I Ri c hard Spooner, Esq., M P. Ilenry Peter Fuller, Esq. E. Vansittart Neale, Fag, Life Assurance business transacted In all Its branches. N.B. The bonus declared at the last division of profits averaged 33 per cent. on all the premiums paid. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager. NATIONAL PROVIDENT INSTITUTION, 48, Graccchurch-street, London. For Mutual Assurance on Lives, Annuities, &c. Enrolled under the Acts of Parliament relating to Friendly Societies. DIRZCTORS. ChaIFUNUI—SAMULL HAYUURST LUCAS, Esq. Deputy Chatrman—ClLtatms LUSHINGTON, Esq. John Bradbury t Esq. . Robert Ingham. Esq., Mr,— Thomas Castle, Esq. I Robert Sheppard, Esq. William Miller Christy, Esq. Jonathan Thorp, Esq. John Feltham, Esq. William Tyler, Esq. I Charles Gilpin, Esq. Charles Whetham, Esq. PUTSICIANS. J. T. Conquest, M.D., F.L.S. I Thomas Hodgkin, M.D. Mamma—Messrs. Brown, Jansen, and Co. ; and Sank of England. SOLICITOR—Septimus Davidson, Esq. CONSULTING ACTUARY—CharIes Ansell, Esq., F.R.S. Abstract of the Report of the Directors for 1855 : " 1 The number of policies issued during the year .. 1,073 Assuring the sum of Annual premiums thereon Policies issued from the commencement of the institution in December, 1835 • Policies now in force .......... •••••• • ........... 13,740 Annual Income From Pre fniums(afterd educting £33,318 abatement allowed) •• • ••• ..£189,955 15 2 Ditto From Interest on • in vested capital .... . ---X239,763 13 5 Amount returned to members in abatement of premiums • • ... .. • Amount of bonuses added to sums assured.. •• .. 126,564 0 0 Amount paid in claims by death from the com mencement of the Institution Balance of receipts over the disbursements in the year .. Increasing the capital stock of the Institution to 1,211,049 17 4" At the last division of surplus profits made up to Nov. 20, 1852, the reductions varied from 6 to 89 per cent. on the original amount of premium, according to the age of the member and the time the policy had been in force; and. the bonuses ranged in like manner from 50 to 75 per cent. on the amount of premiums received during the preceding five years. The next DIVISION of SURPLUS PROFITS will be made up to the 20th November next year (1857), and persons effecting Assurances before the 20th November next will be entitled to ONE YEAR'S Paorrrs. Members whose premiums fall due on the Ist of October are re minded that they must be paid within 30 days from that date. The Directors' Report for 1855 may be obtained on application. Sept. 17, 1858. .70SZPH MARSH, Secretary. SALE BY AUCTION. FREEHOLDS-GLOUCESTERSHIRE. TO BE SOLD, .pusuant to an Order of the High Court of Chancery, made by his Honour the Master of the Rolls, in a cause of " Sparks ♦. Restal," by Auction, in 23 Lots, by Mr. Charles Farber, on the 30th and 31st OCTOBER, valuable FREEHOLD LAND and PROPERTY, situate in Oakridge, Oak ridge Lynch, Trillies, Hay sedge, Battlescombe, Watercombs, Tun- Icy, and Ficcaridge, all in the parish of Bisley, near Stroud, toge ther with the timber growing thereon. A pew in Risley Church, also Mortgage Bonds on the Tolls of Stroud and Chalford Turnpike Road, and a Freehold House, situate in Park-street, Cirencester, in the county of Gloucester. As to the BISLEY ESTATES-- At tke George Inn, liisTey,Gloucestersbire, on Thursday, 30th October, 1856, in 22 Lots. As to the FREEHOLD DWELLING HOUSE at Cirencester — At the Ram Inn, Dyer-street, Cirencester, on Friday, 31st Octo ber, 1856. in One Lot. The Sale to commence on each day at 2 for 3 o'clock in the after noon, precise time. The various properties may he viewed and particulars, with con ditions of sale, obtained 14 days before the sale, at the Ram Inn, Cirencester; the Reform Tavern, Chalford ; the George Inn, Ris ley; the Bricklayers' Arms Inn, Danen ay ; the George Inn, Stroud; the Butchers' Arms, Oakridge Lynch ; of Messrs. Chubb, Deane, and Chubb, solicitors, South-square, Gray's-inn, London ; Messrs. Trinder and Eyre, solicitors, 1, John-street, Bedford-row, London; of Messrs. Lewis, Wood, and Street, solicitors, Ra% mond buildings, Gray's-inn, London; of E. Mitchell, Esq., solicitor, Stroud; of Messrs. Millings and Co., solicitors, Cirencester; and at the auctioneers, in Warwick-court, Gray's-inn, London. CHUBB, DEANE, and CHUBB, Plaintiffs Solicitors. CONTRACTS'FOR RAISINS, TEA, TOBACCO, VINEGAR, AND -- Department of the Comptroller for Victualling, Somerset House, 6th October, 1856- THE Commissioners for Executing the Office of .1 Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain aid Ireland, do hereby give notice, that on THURSDAY, the 23d instant, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with <uch persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford the undermentioned articles, via. s JIAIgINS . • Tens. .. ••••• • .. • • 25 When to be delivered. lbs. Halt of each in three week s, and TX& .. .. ••• • • • 50,000 the remainder In three weeks Tons. i afterwards, or earlier if pre - TOBACCO ............15 (erred by the party tendering . Gallons. J VINEGAR . • • 15,000 lbs. In equal weekly deliveries be fiIiTET the 12th March, 1857. Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of any of the articles, and their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the tenders are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for Such part thereof only as they may deem lit, or for a greater quantity, or of not contracting for any, and also an unlimited power of selec tion. The Raisins, Tea, and Tobacco to be exempted from the customs' duties, find parties tendering are to state where they are respectively Samples of the Raisins (not less than 31bs ), and of the Tea (not less than 2lbs., from the bonded warehouse), must be produced by the par ties tendering. Each Tender for Tobacco must specify the several trade marks and numbers, and the countries or places of its grow h or produce, and a fresh drawn dock sample of each cask or package mast be produced by the parties tendering, and any cask or package that is found not to be of the same mark, number, or quality as the sample tendered and accepted will be rejected by the officers. The samples produced by persons whose tenders are not accepted are requested to be taken away by them immediately after the con tract has been decided. No tender will be received unless made on the printed form pro vided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on application at the said Office, or to Commander Bevis, conducting the Packet Service at Liverpool, or to the Collector of Customs at Bristol. The conditions of the revised contracts, to which particular atten tort is called, may be seen at the said office, and at Liverpool and Eristol. No tender will be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty, and it will not be required that the party tendering or an agent on his behalf should attend at the office on the day of contract, as the result of the offer received from each person will be communicated to him and his proposed sureties in writing. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words, " Tender for ," and taust also be delivered at Somerset House. 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 arid invigorating properties enables the stomach to perfectly digest the food. The daily useof this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe guard to health. Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrin, 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 sad PEREINS" are upon the label and patent cap of the bottle GREY HAIR RESTORED to its ORIGINAL COLOUR with ease, safety, and certainty, by the PATENT ( 3 -ALTANIC COMBS and BRUSHES, which are also an unfailing remedy for nervous headache and all neuralgic affections. Illus trated pamphlets," Why Hair becomes Grey, and its Remedy," gratis, or by post for four stamps. Neuralgia, and all Rheumatic affections aro perfectly eradicated by the Patent Galvanic Flesh Brushes, the most safe, , imple, and efficient galvanic instruments extant : patro nised by the faculty. Offices :—F. M. HERRING, 32, Basingliall street. Agents :—Child, South Gallery, Crystal Palace ; Savory and Moore ; Atkinson, 24, Old Bond -street ; Godfrey and Cooke, Condu't street ; Hendrie, 12, Tickborne-street ; Tvrinberrow, 2, Edwards street, Portman -square ; Saunders, 315 a, Winter, 205, and Kennedy, 166, Oxford-street ; Ross, 119, Bi shopsgate-street ; Itimmell, Gor rard-street, Soho; Worn, 17, Dawson -street, and Birch, I, Stoles- Worth-street, Dublin. Sold by all chemists and perfumers of repute. A NEW AND IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE. Patent Office Seal of Great Britain. Diplome d'Ecole do Phaacie Pharmacieu de Paris. Imperial College of Medi c i ne, Vienna. TRIESIENIAII, No. 1,2, and 3, prepared in the form of a lozenge devoid of taste or smell, and can h e carried In the w a i s t coat pocket Sold In tin cases, divided into separate doses, as administered by Valpeau, Lallemand, Itoux, Ilicord, &c., &c. I I RIESEMAR No. 1 is a Remedy for RF, LAXATION, SPERMATOREWE A, and all the distressing onsequences arising from early abuse, indiscriminate excesses, or too long residence in hot climates. It has restored bodily and sexual strength and vigour to thousands of debilitated individuals who are now In the enjoyment of health and the Functions of Manhood; and whatever may be the cause for DISQUALIFICATIONS for Si AGE, they are effectually subdued by this Wonderful Discovery. _ TRIgSEMA No. 11., effectually, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely eradicates all traces of Gonorrhoea, both in its mild and aggravated orms, Gleets, Strictures, Irritation of the Bladder, Non-retention of Urine, Pains of the Loins and Kidneys, and those disorders which Copaivi and Cubebs have so long been thought an antidote for, to the stn of the health of a vast portion of the population. TRIE ;EMAIt No. M., I • 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 eraOicate the virus of disease, and expell it with the insensible perspiration through the medium 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, tothe inevitable dostruc lion of the patient's constitution, and which all the sarsaparilla in the world cannot restore. Price 11s., or four cases in one for 335„ which saves lls., and in 51. cases, whereby there is a saving of 11. 12s. To he had wholesale and retail in Loudon, of Johnson, 68, Conlin11; Hannay and Co., 63, Ox lord-street ; Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; lt. 11. Ingham, druggist, 46, Market-street, Manchester; 11. Bradbury, bookseller, Deansgate, Bolton; J. Priestly, chemta, 51 , Lord-street, Liverpool; Powell, b3okseller, 15, Westmoreland -street , Dublin ; 11 7, nnall, bookseller, Ilfgh-street,Birwinglatun. PUBLICATIONS. Now ready, 1 vol. Bvo., 10s. 6d. bound, gilt edges, LAYS of MEMORY, SACRED and SOCIAL. By a MoTuEa and SON. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough-street. No. Ir., price 2c1., THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE. Edited by JOHN SAUNDERS and WESTLAND MARSTON. CONTENTS. Principal Engraving : The Jealous Eye. By J. C. Horsley, A.R. A A Low Afarrage : a Tale. By the Authoress of " The Head of the F am ily, ,, .. John Halifax, Gentleman," &c. Chapter I. The London of the Future. By W. Bridges Adams. A Valley in the l-yrenees. How to appreciate Pictures. Diana and Endymion—Basso Relieve. By E. Davis. English Queens in Fr. nee. By Dr. Doran. The Home, Villa, and Cottage Designs, Elevations, and Gro and Plans. By E. L. Tarbuck, Architect. No. I. • Sold by all booksellers, or No. 11. will be sent, post free, from tho office, on receipt of two postage stamps. The work will also be sup plied regularly in the same way for 3s. 3d. a Quarter in Numbers, and for 3s. in Parts. National Magazine Company (Limited), 25, Essex-street, Strand, London. The Third Edition. Just Published, price Cs., by post, free, Cs. 6d. ON TRUE az FALSE SPERMATORRH(EA, with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary' from the Real Sufferers under this disea.se, and Correcting of wide-spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD, " Dr. rickford is known to English readers by his frequent practi cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first Limo, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if ho shall 'toted any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his power to cor rect." —Lend on Medical Gazette. " The tribe of Quiet Sympathisers,' smi 'Medical Friends,' aro mercilessly exposed; and if this book could find its way into the hands of those who suffer from the com plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would be. saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of lees importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— much money.-- This volume is well Qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spersnatorrhcea, and to place the treat. ment upon a more rational and physiological basis. It 11, thorofON, likel to do much good."—Afedical Circular. London: IL Banter°, 219, Regent-street. Sand T. GILBERT, No. 4, Copthall-buildings, • back of the Bank of England, London, beg to inform the public that they allow a DISCOUNT of 2d. in the SHILLING off all Books, Magazines, Periodicals, Quarterly Reviews, Almanacks, Pocket Books, Diaries, Maps, Prints, &c. The rate of postage is 2d. for each j lb. Music supplied at a Discount of 4d. in the Is., post free, and detailed prospectuses sent post free to all applicants. N.B. All Goods warranted perfect in every respect, and precisely the same as if the full price were paid.—Copy the address. RGYLL ROOMS.-LAIIRE TNIT'S CASINO, Great Windmill-street, Haymarket.—The above clegan F ooms are now open every evening for the winter season, with Laurent's celebrated Orchestra. Principal Cornet-a-piston, M. Boulcourt. The Proprietor begs to inform the public that th s fashionable place of resort has been entirely redecorated during the recess. Doors open at half-past eight, commence at nine. Admis sion One Shilling. DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 4, Coventry-street, Lei cester-square. —Open (for Gentlemen containing upwards of one thousand mo d e l s :lY) Prom n n dprepa 10 ratlon U s, ii ill i ntrating every part of the human frame in health and disease, the race of men, &c. Lectures delivered at 12, and half-past 7, by Dr. G. SEXTON, ; 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 .;hilling. C4NTERBIJRY HALL, Westminster-road. —OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The celebrated HUNGA RIAN BAND, under the direction of Herr KALOZDY, will perform every Evening at 9 and 11 o'clock, in addition to the usual Vocal Entertainment. The following company of talented Vocalists are rermanently engaged for the performance of Selections from all the Popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Duets, &c., viz. :—Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brunel, Miss Sommers, and Miss Pearce; Sam Cowell, Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmans S. Jones, T. Farrant, W. Melling, Barker, Russell Grover, and P. Corrle ; Masters E. Con nell, Austin, and Bennett , and Mr. T. IVlpckney. Pianoforte, Mr, 1. Harroway, R.A. , harmonium, J. Caulfield, Jun. ; director, Mr. T. Caulfield. Commence at seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock. THE NATIONAL SAVINGS-BANK ASSO CIATION (Limited). 50, King William-street, City, Lon don. Incorporated, pursuant to " The Joint-Stock Companies Act, 1856." Capital £lO,OOO, to be increased to £lOO,OOO. PATRONS AND HonoRARY REFEREE. Francis Bennoch, Esq., Wood-street William Miller Christy, Esq., Director London Joint Stock Bank Rev. C. C. Collins, M.A., Incumbent of St. Mary's, . ldernianbury, 46, Brook-street, Grosvenor-square Wm. Ormsby Gore, Esq., M.P., North Shropshire, 6(1, Portland-place Samuel Gurney. Esq., Lombard-street Sir G. F. Hodgkinson, Leadenhall-street Hon. Peter John Locke King, M.P., East Surrey, 88, Dover-street, Piccadilly Charles Lushington, Esq., Deputy. Chairman, National Provident Institution Samuel Morley, Esq., Wood-street H. G. Noyes, Esq , M.D., 34, Finsbury-circus Rev. J. B. Owen, M.A., Incumbent of St. John's, Bedford-row, 37, Great Ormond -street. James Peek, Esq., Ea,t c h ean Apsley Pellatt, Esq., M.P., Southwark, Holland-street Jonathan Rigg, Esq., 17, Mark-lane Buxton Shillitoe, Esq., 34, Finsbury-circus DIRECTORS. J. W. Williamson, Esq., 8, Serle-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, Chair man Mr. Deputy Bower, 106, Lower Thames-street Josiah Brown, Esq., as, Graceehurch-street, and Lower Edmonton Henry Hall Dare, Esq., 90, Ebury-street Frederic Doulton, Esq., Lambeth, and Manor-house, Dulwich-corn- mon Itev. J. B. Hawkins, 8.A., 80, King William-street, City Edward James Oliver, Esq., Newington-causeway Thomas Riddell, Esq., 40, Gibson-square, Islington Matthew F. Wagstafe, Lig., 10, Walcot-place West, Kennington road E. T. Wakefield, Esq., 8, Old-square, Lincoln's-inn Marie A. Watts, Esq., 12, Bridge-road, St. John's-wood Resident Managing Director—Rev. Joseph Beaumont Hawkins, B.A. AUDITORS. William Bagshaw, Esq. Bagshaw, and Westcott), 35, Coleman-street C. L. Lawson, Esq.. E.T.A., 14, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall William F. Pater, Esq., Mount-pleasant, Barnsbury SIIiirEYORI3. Messrs. Ilaslam and Buckland, 89, Cannon-street West, and Reading. William Rogers, Esq., 13a, Cannon-row, Westminster. SOLICITORS.— Messrs. Brady and Son, 1, Staple-inn. BANKERS.—The London Joint-Stock Bank. This Association been fTimed to consoldate and improve the Savings-Bank system ; to offer better interest than has hitherto been allowed; facilities for unllrnited deposit; means ofconvenient with drawal, and perfect security to the Depositor. The proof of the necessity which exists for this Association will be found in the fact that there are no less than 483 places, with more than 3,000 inhabitants each, in which a Savings-Bank does not exist. The system adopted by this Association has received the approval of the principal London daily and weekly papers. The Directors anticipate that the National Savings-Bank Associa tion will be able to pay its shareholders a large dividend ou all cash paid-up on shares. J. BEAUMONT HAWKINS, 8.A.. Resident Managing Director. RIENTAL INLAND STEAM COMPANY n (Limited). For establishing Steam Naviga tion on the Rivers of India. Capital 250,0001. in 25,000 Shares of 101. each, with power to increase it to 1,000,0001. —Deposit 10s. per Share. TRUSTEES. JAMES ALLAN, Esq., Managing Director of the Peniusular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. The Honourable W. WILBERFORCE BIRD, Esq., late Deputy- Governor of Bengal. Pnovisioxer. COMMITTER. The lion. W. WILBERFORCE BIRD, Esq., late Dep.-Governor of Bengal. Captain BOLD, K.T.S., Belvidere Villa, Millbrook, near Southampton. HARRYBORRADAILE, Esq., late Civil Service, Bombay. JOHN BOURNE, Esq. , , late of Messrs. John Bourne and Co. Lieut.-General JOHN BRIGGS, Madras Army, late Political Agent in Candeish, and officiating Resident at Nagpore. Colonel A. COTTON, late Chief Engineer of Madras. Capt. COTTON, R.N., Alport House, Whitechureh, Salop. Major-General DICKINSON, late Chief Engineer of Bombay. MONTAGUE GoRE, Esq., South Audley-street, Grosvenor square. Lieut.-Col. GRIMES, Hon. E.1.C.5., lately stationed at Nagpore. Capt. C. H. HunnursoN, Hon. E.1.C.5., Asst. Civ. Eng. Godavory. Col. .cTWELL LAKE, C. 8., Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, late Engineer of the Kistnah Irrigation Works. G. MAY, Esq, (Messrs. May, Mathewson, and Co.), London and Calcutta. Colonel the Hon. R. T. ROWLEY, 47, Berkeley square. (With power to add to their number.) MANAGING DIRECTOR—JOIIN BOURNE, Esq., late of Messrs. John Bourne and Co., Glasgow and Gree - iock. ENGINEER---JANES KENNEDY, Esq., late of Messrs. Bury, Curtis, and Kennedy, Liverpool. SCILICITOIL—HENRY R. HILL, Esq., 23, Throginorton-street. BANEE3B—MOSSTS, WILLIAMS, DEACON, and Co. SECRETARY—JOHN MATHEWSON, Esq. Offices, 9 Billiter-street, London. This company is established for two reasons—first, because it is wanted ; and second, because it will pay. India wants cheap means of conveyance for her produce; water conveyance is cheaper than any possible mode of conveyance by land ; and ten thousand miles of this cheap water conveyance will be afforded by the great rivers when properly navigated by steam. The last dividend of the Ganges Steam Company was 48 per cent. per annum, and the latest returns of a Navigation Com pany on the Godavery was 55 per cent. The field, however, is far too large to be adequately filled by local effort, and an English Company is necessary, which, with adequate capital, will render available the resources of European science. Prcspectuses and Forms of Application for Shares may be obtained at the offices, 9, Billiter-street, London. ROBBERY BY RAILWAY SERVANTS. —The Court of Assizes, two days ago, tried two young men, named Goubaud and Renarre, in the service of the Western Railway, for robbery. On 12th June last, one Four nier, sub-chief of a station on the St. Germain lire, took to a female named Bourgeade, receiver at one of the stations, a quantity of tickets which had already served, and requdeted her to dispose of them ; offering to leave her a part of the proceeds, on condition of the remainder being given to Gouhaud, a ticket-taker at the St. Ger main station. Mme. Bourgeade refused to have any. thing to do with the tickets, and caused a communica tion to be made to the railway authorities. Fournier, being questioned, laid that Goubaud had given him the tickets to be disposed of for their joint benefit, and that be had proposed to Mme, Bourgeade to bo their accomplice in the sale of them. He added that three years agn he and Goubaud had begun defrauding the company ; be, who was then employed at Paris, selling tickets which had already served, and which Goubaud kept back out of those he received at St. Germain. A. few days after making this confession Fournier corn. !Bitted suicide. The investigation being continued, an employe declared that Rennrre, an employe also on the line, who lived in a style beyond his means, had fre quently taken whole pocketfuls of old tickets from the heaps 010 which they were thrown to be sorted, and had then disposed of them. This, however, Renarre positively denied, and defied any proof of the facts alleged against him to be adduced. The jury in his case brought in a verdict of acquittal, but convicted Goubaud. The court imprisonment.sentenced the latter to a y ear ' s • , imprisonment. THE PROPERTY AND INCOME TAX. I Last night a preliminary meeting was held at the Lon don Coffeehouse, Ludgate-hill, with the view to form an association for obtaining a speedy reduction of the pro perty and income tax to 7d. in the pound, now that the war has ceased, and a ritore equitable adjustment of the charge upon income. The meeting was but thinly at tended, but that was probably owing to its being called a preliminary one, and convened somewhat hastily, after only one day's advertisement. Sir J. Duke, as the alder man of the ward in which it was held, had been invited to be present, but he wrote to excuse himself, on the ground of an imperative engagement in Manchester, expressing, however, at the same time, his'entire concur. rence in the object of the meeting. Mr. A. SMITH, who was called to the chair, stated, on assuming it, that he had not given much attention to the subject about to be brought before thorn. The summons to attend the meeting adverted to the property and in come tax, but he submitted that it would be more consis tent with the popular notions of taxation if they addressed themselves to the subject of the income tax only. The tax on property was based on something that looked very much like justice, fer the property of the country, of whatever denomination, ought to bear the ririncipal share of the general taxation. (Hear.) It was different with income, depending as that did generally on the labour of the hands or the head, which a man might be deprived at any moment of exerting. He cited th& statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that ho tad a surplus of 3,000,000/. in hand, as an argument foilessening the pressure of the income tax, and complained that the continuation of the double tax since. the conclusion of the peace tended to paralyse the- tlAdjs a 0.4 industiry 'of the country. Mr. HYAN moved a resolution, that an association be formed, to be called the "Property and Income-tax Association," for obtaining a speedy reduction of the tax to 7d. in the pound, and a more equitable adjust- ment of the charge upon income. He called attention to the fact that a great reduction was being made in the army, and expressed his apprehension that, in spite of that reduction, if a popular movement was not made for the diminution of the tax there would be great ex travagance in the expenditure of the public' money. He contended that it was the spirit of the act of Parliament imposing the double tax that such double tax should cease on the expiration of the next financial year after the conclusion of the war, which would be an the sth of April next, but by the insertion of the words in the act that it should "continue in force during 'the present war, and until the 6th of April next after a ratification of a definitive treaty of peace and no longer;" the result would be that the country would be liable 4, the tax for two years after the conclusion of war. (Hear.) This wak, a question seriously affecting the commerce of the coon. try, for the tax in question raised some 14,000,0001. or 15,000,0001. a-year, and a large proportion pf that sum was drawn from persons who could very ill afford it. He had no doubt that if the people would speak boldly out and say the tax should be reduced to 7d. in the pound the Chancellor of the Exchequer would concede the reduction. tHear, hear.) The motion was seconded by Mr. POTTER, who con tended that the property tax was the best we could have if it could be properly adjusted, though At present an un necessarily large amount of it went for collection. He also expressed a hope that the Government would act up to the spirit of the act of Parliament, and assent to th e reduction of the property and income tax at the conclu sion of the financial year next after the termination of the war, instead of insisting on a liberal construction of th e words employed in it to define when the reduction should take place. Mr. PEACHEY reminded the meeting that he gave evi dence before the committee of the House of Commons which sat on the subject of the property and income tax, and that the tendency of his evidence was to dispel the general delusion throughout the country that real pro perty was well assessed under the Property and Income tax Acts. The fact was that, to his knowledge, the most oppressive of the lords of the soil—those who were lords of manors—maintained their feudal rights so rigidly that many of them escaped taxation altogether. (Rear.) For instance, in the parish of Islington there were five manors, and some of them exceedingly productive, not one of the lords of which was assessed to the property tax (Hear) The fact of itself would dispel the too general delusion that at present land could not escape taxation. He could also assert as a fact that the manors held in the names of the peers and commoners wllo petitioned Pal. liament against the passing of the Copyholds Enfran chisement Bill could not be found in the assessment to the property tax. He drew a great distinction between a property and an income tax. Property was a fair sub ject of taxation, for it might be reasonably said, espe cially in a time of war, that such taxation was imposed with a view to its protection. The lords of the soil, at such a time, called on men to enlist and fight in defence of their property, and it would be well if they would al ways remember their obligations. It was wholly diffe rent with an income which depended on the sweat of the brow or the exercise of the brain, and which might cease to-morrow and leave a man's family in a state of penury. That surely was not as fit a subject for taxation as the land, which would descend to a man's heirs at his death and relieve him from all anxiety as to his family. When they taxed industry they taxed the very sources of the wealth and prosperity of the country. With those feelings, he was certainly not disposed to con cur in the proposition for reducing the tax on property. By a return moved for by the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, and going down to 1848, it appeared that, in 1814, the aggregate annual rental of the land under as sessment was 34,330,0001., and, in 1848, 42,000,0001- Again, that of messuages and houses was, in 1814, 14,895,0001., and in 1848, 38,822,0001. He contended that they could never bring the broad acres of the coon try under taxation in any other manner than by a pro perty tax. If they reduced the property tax they relieved the great landed interest, the very last entitled to any relief. The lords of the soil had for centuries held com plete dominion in one branch of the Legislature and a majority in the other; and the cons e q uence had been that they who were, under the original grants of their lands, bound to the general defence of their country, to the repair of roads, bridges, and the like, an d to p rovide means for the Government, had during a long period of time thrown off the burdens incident to the tenure of their estates and created new taxes which bore on the people. If the meeting could be the means of procuring a committee of the House of Commons to consider the whole subject of the taxation of the country they would confer a greater advantage on the people generally than by the formation of a society for the limited purpose of effecting a reduction of the property and an equalieation of the income tax. Mr. ELT supported the resolution, and in doing so stated that Sir E. Peel, when he proposed his income tax, introduced a new principle of levying it, and that was to collect it from the tenant instead of the owner, which in many instances caused a great amount of in justice and inconvenience. He trusted in any new legis lation on the subject steps would be taken to do away with that stoppage of the tax in tranvitn. Mr. FLEMING reminded the meeting that Mr. Glad stone, when Chancellor of the Exchequer, with all his desire to deal with the anomalies incident to the property alai income tax, confessed that the subject was environed with insuperable difficulty. Adverting to the discon tinuance of the double tax, he (Mr. Fleming) contended that the distinct understanding in Parliament, when the successive measures for increasing the tax were under consideration, was that it should take place at the expi ration of one financial year after tho conclusion of the war, which would be in April, 1357, and that it would be a breach of that understanding, by a strict literal ju te' pretatiou of an exprerdon in those acts of Parliament, to continue the double tax until the end of the financial year in April, 1853. The motion, which was also supported by Mr. PAYNE, was then put and carried unanimously. A subscription was entered into for defraying the ex penses connected with the formation of the association, Mr. Buott was appointed honorary secretary, and a com mittee was appointed for making the necesiary arrange ments. 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WOLVERHAMPTON, Wednesday Evening.—The last of the series of the meetings of the ironmasters of this dis trict for the current year commenced at Walsall on Tuesday; the second assembly was held here this after noon, and was very numerously attended. As may be expected, the business was remarkably flat. Orders, which bad begun to come in more freely since the pre liminary meeting, have received a sudden check, con sequent on the advance in its rate of discount by the Bank of England, peculiarly affecting as that operation does the trade of this district, which is carried on chiefly by means of four months' bills. Consumers are indis posed to buy pig iron with the money market in the state it now is, preferring instead to work up such stocks as they have on hand, lest the course of events in the next week or two should lead to any:further stringent action by the Bank. This feeling being general the sales of pig iron were nominal, and a flatter quarter-day has rarely been witnessed. The very little business transacted was in better qualities of pigs, for which there is what may be-considered a mode rate demand; for inferior and cinder pigs there is no in quiry whatever, and as the make is now much in excess of the nonsumption, it is quite certain that, unless a reac tion takes place (which is anythieg but probable) some of the furnaces must be let out, - however undesirable that proceeding may b e . Th e ver y best mine pigs have b een done at 41., which ma y b e regar ded as the top price. Be low this we h ave a var i ety of quotations ' but a good The price of coal is also a ga i nst t h e p i g most•ts, there being an make of pig ir on h as b een d one av3t. los. ad vance of ls. per ton; but stone.islower and more plenti ful; flats are about 17s. to 17a d. per ton; Poor robbins 16s. to 16s. 6d. per ton. There is the usual supply of red ore, and a small quautitifroofforthatoptonehire, which is now but very little faviured in the district. The orders for malleable iron at the principal works are about sufficient to keep them in full operation, but there are no large contracts in, and at the second-rate esta blishments they are very scantily supplied, and in pre• sent circumstances it is to be feared these are not likely to increase. From America the orders continue to be unusually small, and with the exception of some of the ports of the Mediterranean, the continental trade is any thing but brisk. At to-day's meeting there were repre sentatives present from some London, Liverpool, and Bristol firms, but on. this occasion they were merely lookers-on ; they concurred, however, in representing the shipping trade as unusually inactive. In fact, the principal demand for finished iron at this moment is for the home markets : upon it must very much depend the future state of the trade for some time at least. It is just possible that there may be more animation at the meeting at Birmingham on Thursday (this day) ; but when the assembly broke up to-day, the prevailing im pression appeared to be that the prospects of the trade are anything but satisfactory, especially as commercial disasters in the district are of too recent date to render it probable that parties are in a position to oope with any pressing monetary difficulty. Last Saturday experiments were made on Mr. Besse mer's principle at some works held under Lord Ward, near Dudley. They had been represented as favourable, but it was stated to-day that malleable iron was not pro duced. CORONER'S INQUEST.-LAMENTABLE CASE. Yesterday evening an inquest was held at the Vine pub lic-house, in Broad-street, Ratcliff, on the body of the late Mr. Jas. H. Hopkinson, chemist and druggist, aged 29. The inquiry excited an unusual degree of interest among the inhabitants of Ratcliff. The deceased had been in business as a chemist and druggist for about six months only, at No. 85, Broad-street, next door to the Vine. He entered upon business with the best prospects, and was possessed of considerable poperty. He soon com menced drinking to excess ; the evil habit increased upon him, and for some time previous to his being seized with the serious illness which caused his death, he was almost continually intoxicated. His wife, a young, well-educated and attractive female, to whom he had been married 12 months, was more frevently in the shop dispensing drugs and compounding medicines than her husband. About three weeks since she swallowed a large quantity of tine ture of opium, of the properties of which she was igno rant, and which she obtained in her husband's shop. Sho took enough to kill 10 persons, and only for the purpose, as she expressed, of frightening her husband. The most strenuous exertions and skill of Mr. A. Carson, a surgeon, of Cock-hill, Ratcliff, and Mr. Burch, the resident medi cal officer of the London Hospital, alone saved her. Mr. Burch had no hopes of saving the unhappy woman when she was first brought in, but after a fortnight's treat ment he pronounced her out of danger, and sent her to the Thames police-court, where she expressed the utmost repentance for the rash and wicked act she had com mitted. Mr. Yardley took occasion to admonish Mr. Hopkinson, who was then verging on delirium tremens, in severe terms, for allowing bin wife to dispense drugs and poisons, while he was indulging in habits of intoxi cation, and said he was a most unfit man to carry on the business of a chemist aud druggist. Mrs. Hopkinson was allowed to depart with her husband. On the same even ing Mr. and Mrs. Hopkinson proceeded to the West-end to transact business with their attorney, and receive some money of him. They then repaired to a respectable coffee house at Charing cross to partake of tea, and while he was putting a cup of tea to his lips and conversing with his wife, he ruptured a blood-vessel and vomited forth a quantity of blood. Mrs. Hopkinson immediately sent for a surgeon to attend upon her husband. Seine temporary remedies were applied, and he was sent home in a cab. On reaching Broad-street, Mr. Carson, the deceased's neighbour and friend, was hastily summoned, and discovered the unfortunate man supported in the arms of his wife on a bed, partially undressed, and bringing up an immense quantity of blood from the left lung. Mr. Carson prepared a dose of medicine from the bottles in the deceased's shop, and administered it to him, and since then bad been in constant attendance upon him day and night, with short intervals of rest, and had also called in two of the most eminent of the faculty to assist him. A severe attack of delirium tremens followed, and after that the deceased became perfectly sensible and collected, so much so, that he sent for his lawyer to make his will, bequeathing everything he pos sessed to his dear Uzzy, as he called his wife. Mr. Car son asssted the deceased in affixing his signature to his will. On Monday the deceased was attacked with bleed ing at the nose, and that was the immediate cause of death. He expired the same night. Mr. Carson had no doubt that Mr. Hopkinson had indulged in the vice of intemperance to a fearful extent, and that was the pri mary cause of the rupture of a blood-vessel. The loss of blood caused delirium tremens. Mr. Carson also stated that Mrs. Hopkinson was a most excellent and affec tionate wife ; that she employed the best nurses, and spared no expense during the illness of her husband. He never saw more kindness and attention towards an in valid husband than was exhibited by Mrs. Hopkinson. He also seemed greatly attached to her, and said he would leave all to his dear wife. Mr. Mathias, a bookseller, and other jurors said they knew that Mrs. Hopkinson was a kind and affectionate wife, and had been unremitting in her attentions to her husband. They also expressed a high opinion of the zeal and energy displayed by Mr. Carson when the wife took a large dose of poison, and again when her husband was brought home on the night of Monday, the 25th ult. The Coroner remarked on the peculiar and lamentable nature of the case. The fatal illness of the husband had followed close on the appearance of Mrs. Hopkinson at the Thames police-court, and it was greatly to be la mented that poisons could be so easily obtained. There was no doubt the death of the unfortunate deceased was caused by the loss of blood, and the jury would have no hesitation in saying that he died from natural causes. A verdict to that effect was immediately returned by the jury. lIOBRIBLE ATROCITY—A CHILD DEVOURER fir A lta. A VESBU RY, WILTS, Wednesday.—Considerabl e exc it e . meet prevails in this place and the surroundin g ne i g h - le atrocity—noPresel'ttie' owing t o th e di scovery of a no less than a m o th er throw leg _borninfant into a pig -stye t o b e d evoured b uu i r b ! s i et o r o hn d oer a wr t ii b the y Mr. Pope, of this , o i f t was suspected that by 'pigs, in order to conceal her shame. pecoeeken to on the subject. From what has transpired, it appears that for some time past a-young girl,. named . Wise, from Compton BAB - place. 's S eil She strenuously wh aass enceinte,bLately,een flri living from n n gdh i e len d rs ha t t e h hp that such vas a s er u rav O sni h was the case, but her statement was not believed,. although she was not fur ther questioned at the time.. On Sunday last she ap peared to be suffering . fr . om illness, and was again inter rogated as to her condition, and advised to tell the truth, in order that arrangements for her confinement might be made ; but she still denied the accusation. Some hours afterwards, however, she was found l y i ng on the floor, apparentlyin a fainting state, and she was then openly accused of having given birth to a child, but she persisted in her denial. Mr. Fitzgerald, the nearest surgeon, was summoned as soon as possible, and up on his arrivalhe at once stated that she had given birth to a child, but she once more denied the fact. M r . Fi tzgerald, how -1 ever, being satisfied, directed that search should be made for the infant. As far as the house was concerned b e i n g rapidly devoured by a f a t t i ng p i g the search was unsuccessful ; but at a b out 20 yards from the house, in a pig - stye , a hue healthy ma l e child was dis covered difficulty torn off b y t h e hungryfficulty th e mangled rema i ns animal, - and it d , large pieces friesh was wihtahvi could be recovered front the stye. Th e mother bad previ ously been removed , and placed und er proper attent i on, she being in a most shocking state. Sh e was not informe d of the discovery of the body until yesterday, when she appeared in a most dreadful state of mind. She ad mitted that the child was here, and st a t e d th at t h e f a th er was employed at the Swindon rail way station. Th e particulars of the horrible atrocity rapidl y sprea d , an d many people have visited the spot where the body was found, in order to gratify their morbid curiosity. AS soon as Wise is sufficiently recovered to b e remove d the whole affair will undergo investigation, THE GERMAN LEGION. (From the Dublin, Evening Mail.) Who shall deny that "it is a good thing to have a friend at Court t The officers and soldiers of the British German Legion, we are sure, will be the last to con trovert that sound axiom ; for the contrast of their sunny prospects with the unfriended and outcast condi tion of the poor Italian Legionaries, discharged from the same service, cannot fail to bring its value home to their business and their bosoms. They have read in the public, journals how the discharged soldiers of the Italian baud have been laid hold upon, wherever Aus trian malevolence could set its vindictive claws upon them, and handed over to the tender mercies of a court martial, for having presumed to serve the Queen of Eng land in the late war, and they should bless their stars that a like fate does not await themselves. For, assur edly, had our Teutonic auxiliaries been sent adrift in the same manner, they would have received similar treat men in Faderland. Whether they bent their steps to wards Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony; Baden, or Hanover it self, cool quarters and a hard dungeon floor would have been their welcome home in all those regions. But their services have been so sumptuously appreciated, that the most meritorious and the most favoured veterans of our own native troops will have cause to lament, to their dying hour, that they were not born in Germany. An asylum has been secured for them' at the public expense far surpassing in liberality and provident care all that was ever before done for any British colonists. German auxiliaries—officers and men—if they elect to become settlers at the Cape in preference to the articles of capitulation under which they entered her Majesty'S service, are to enjoy their fell pay and allowance up to the day of embarkation for their new homes. - A free passage will, of course, be given them, with a mess for the officers and plentiful food for the men during the voyage. They will take with them their arm s ,. aocou traatente, uniforms,and camp equipage, together with a canvas suit to be worn on board ship. That. camp equi page, be it remembered, was originally supplied to them free of charge, while the British regiments were obliged to pay dearly for every article they were furnished withal ; and the untoward occurrences at Nenagh makes it unnecessary to point out how much more considerately these foreigners have been used in the article of " uni form" than the unfortunate sans culotte poor relations of Tipperary. Oh, surely it is a very fine thing to be a cousin German I Arrived in South Africa, these interesting emigrants will not be turned out upon the shore, like English or Irish free settlers, to forage for themselves, but rations for one year, or, at their option, a commuted allowance in money, will be served out, and from the day of their setting foot on the dry land, pay at the following rates per day will be granted them for three years : Pay of colour serjeant Serjeant .,.... Os. 11d. Corporal Private Moreover, that they may have a full and immediate enjoyment of the provisions generously granted by the bounty of the State, an outfit of 51. per man is to be lent them, for the purchase of cooking utensils and tools. This advance they may repay during the second and third years of service. And although at first, for the want of ready-made houses, they must be content to abide i❑ their tents, yet they will soon be in a condition to change that Government canvas to winnowing sheets and rick covers ; for a farther allowance of 201. to Each non-com missioned officer, and of 181. to each private, will be dis bursed for the building of &cottage, which cottage, along with the allotment of land on which it stands, bhall be held rent free for seven years—should the tenant prove conformable all the while, and not fraternise with the Kafirs. After that probation it shall be "his and his heirs' for ever." Nothing more is required of them, in order to become owners in fee simple of houses and lands, than that fora certain period they shall follow a peace ful and industrious course of life, endeavouring to avoid those violent and dishonest practices by which alone they have distinguished themselves since they took up arms in the service of the British Crown. Nor is this all. The wives and children of married soldiers, whether now resident in theßritish dominions or in Germany, shall be carried out and rationed, every frau and every fraulein of them, at the cost and charges of the British exchequer. Nay, to the unmarried soldier is allowed the privilege of sending to Germany for "the girl he left behind him," and if she is willing to go "the same indulgence will be extended" in the way of a free passage and rations, and right of inheritance to her likewise, and to her future children, as to existing wives and to their families. Commissioned officers, who may feel disposed to ac company the men, will be provided for after the manner detailed above, but of course on a higher scale—half-pay being insured to them for three years after landing in the colony, and tree grants of land of the value of 3001., 2001., and 1001, being offered to the field-officers, cap tains, and subalterns, according to their several ranks. Building allowances will also be made to them in nearly the same proportions; 2001. being awarded to the supe rior officers, 1501. to the captain, and 1001. to the sub. Their families likewise, with a female servant to each, if required, will be conveyed to the settlement " free of expense for passage or provisions." E.,' not all things show, as we have said, what a mighty fine thing it is to have a friend at Court. Tho last review of the German Legion took place at Wivenhoe on Wednesday week, when their commander, Baron Von Stutterheim, pronounced an eloquent vale dictory address. The baron's name is an odd one for an orator, nevertheless he "did not hesitate" to utter these words :—" I consider it my duty to thank you for the good behaviour you have exhibited from the first moment of your arrival in this country down to the present time. I thank you again from my heart for your good con duot, which has proved that yon are an honour to your Fatherland I" This, it must be confessed, is a very bold style of ora tory, unequalled, perhaps, on English ground since the immortal Kirk took leave of his "Lambs." The rat tling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence would be hard pressed to go beyond-it. The reader will not be surprised to learn that soldiers of such admirable repute are in high request all over the continent, and that King Bomba especially has already bid so high as 50 dollars a piece to induce them to enter his service. The fine spirit they displayed in attacking the gallant 41st, after its return from the Crimea, has no doubt inspired his Sulphuric Majesty with a lively con fidence in the zeal with which they would use their arms against any other subject of Queen Victoria. " At present (says a London paper) it is by no means certain that any considerable number of them will accept the terms, however liberal these may be, offered by the Government to enable them to settle in British Kat% fraria. It is rumoured that the agents of the King of Naples, with a view to coming events, are already offer ing the men a bounty of 40 dollars a piece as an induce ment to enter his service. It is said, with perhaps more certainty, that the Dutch are also holding out to them a premium of Si. to emigrate to their colony of Batavia, to recruit their military forces, now comparatively weak, from deaths and other casualties. France, too, and the Argentine Republic, it is suspected, have each an eye on these soldiers of fortune, who are now, on the first flush of peace, b e ing disba n d e d by the English Government. In addition to all this, some of the revolutionary class of political refugees, both in this country and on the conti nent, counting on the men of the Legion being useful at some time in carrying out their designs, are striving to dissuade them from leaving Europe, alleging that the British Government are only sending them out to the Cape as food for Kafirs." ROBBERIES BY FRENCH SOLDIERS. The French law punishes with excessive severity any soldier who may commit a robbery, however petty, in a house in which be is billeted. On Tuesday the military tribunal tried a soldier of the 61st Regiment, named Renard, fur having taken a pair of embroidered slippers from a public-house in the Department of the Yonne, to which he was assigned in the course of a march with a small detachment. The man did not deny having taken the slippers ; indeed they were found on his feet by the innkeeper, who on missing them rode after him ; but he said that finding them placed by his bedside on getting up in the morning, he bad supposed that the hostess, on whom he flattered himself he had made a favourable im pression, had presented them to him, and that at all events he had taken them as a simple souvenir without the slightest intention of stealing them. The tribunal told the man that he had rendered himself liable to ten years' hard labour in irons, but that, taking an indulgent view of the case, it would only sentence him to five years' imprisonment. The military tribunal of Paris on Tuesday tried a soldier of the Army Works Corps, named Gatherot, for robbery. He formed part of a detachment stationed in Fort Va lerien, and on the 12th August last he went with three comrades to a wine shop at Suresnes. There the four men drank eight quarts of white wine, and whoa they came to pay the score Gatherot avowed that he had only lf. 15c. A little after, however, he took his three comrades to a cafe in the village, and to their surptit.e treated them liberally. After they had left the wine shop, the landlord discovered that three pieces of 51. and about sf. in small coin had been stolen from his till, and he communicated his loss to a corporal who hap pened to come in. The corporal went after the four men, and finding that Gatherot had treated the others at the cafe, he asked him where had got the money ; be answered that a friend, named Etienne, of Paris, had lent him a piece of 201. It was, however, stated teat it was not with a piece of gold that he had paid in the cafe, and on searching him the corporal foiled that he had on him two pieces of 51. and some small coin, which, with what be had paid, made up about 20f. The cor poral insisted that be should take him to the M. Etienne referred to, in order that that person might declare whether or not he had made any loan of 20f. ; but, on arriving in Paris, Gatherot requested the corporal to go alone to Etienne, whilst he waited for him at a cafe. The corporal went to Etienne, who told him that he had not lent the prisoner any money for a long time ; and on returning to the cafe the corporal found that Gatherot had left for Rouen. The man was subsequently arrested in that city, and he confessed that he bad robbed the Keeper of the wine shop, but promised to repay what he stole—a promised which he afterwards kept. The Court • sentenced him to a year's imprisonment. TURKISH NOTE ON TIIE ISLES OF TEE DANUBE. The Nord, of Brussels, publishes the following new diplomatic document from the pen of Fer a d Pacha, Minister of the Foreign Affairs of the Sub lime Porte. The note is addressed to the minis ters of the Sultan at the courts of the Great Powers, arid is dated August 8: Sir,--At the Congress of Paris, when the works to be executed at the mouth.of the Danube were under discus sion, the Ottoman plenipotentiaries stated that the Sub lime Porte would willingly make the advances demanded for those works. This declaration is registered in the Protocol of the 27th March, No. 10 ; and immediately after the exchange of the ratifications of the Treaty of Paris, the Imperial government hastened to carry it into execution by sending a dredging machine to the Saliva mouth, and a steamboat to assist in clearing the chan nel, and I by establishing a lighthouse for the security of the navigation. The commencement of carrying out these preparatory improvements, which ought to be fol lowed by such as may be deemed necessary by the European commission, was at the same time a formal taking possession of the mouths and islands of the Danube, which fell back to it of right. The Sublime Porte never had, and cannot have, doubts as to its rights, or the intentions of its allies, in respect to the islands of the 'Danube and their direct ownership. If the question is now reverted to, it is to render it more clear, and to scatter the slightest doubt that may remain on the point. The stipulations of the Treaty of Paris fix new fron tiers between the Ottoman empire and Russia on the Bessarabian side. One part of that province is restored to Turkey and annexed to Moldavia. . But the islands of the Danube cannot belong to that class, but must fall under a special and separate rule. -The territory that obe annexed to Moldavia is a portion of Bessarabia that was formerly part of the Mol davian principality, and was ceded to Russia by the Treaty of BuCharest in 1812. The islands of the Danube, which never formed part of Bessarabia, were placed under the regime by which they were ruled, prior to the late war, by the Treaty of Adrianople, in 1829, and that regime differed essentially from the Rassian administration of the other bank of the river. That treaty even bound Russia not to raise any fortification, and to build no other than quarantine estab lishments. Thus the islands at the mouth of the Danube never formed part of Moldavia, and the period of their cession demonstrates that they were not ceded to Russia with Bessarabia as a part of that province. A part of Bessarabia returns to Turkey, and it is to be annexed to Moldavia in virtue of the stipulations of the Treaty of Paris, whilst the return of these islands to their former state of things issues from another principle. The cancelling of the Treaty of Adrianople, putting an end to the domination of Russia, restores them to their ancient possessor. The same principle that cancels the neutrality of the right bank of the St. Creorge's Channel restores these islands to Turkey, from which they had been detached. The treaty of the 30th March speaks only of that part of Bessarabia which is ceded by Russia. Art. 20 fixes the new frontier between the Ottoman empireand Russia. Art.2l says that "the territory ceded by Russia shal be annexed to the principality of Moldavia, for the suze rainty of the Sublime Porte. The inhabitants of that territory shall enjoy the rights and privileges assured to the Principalities, and they shall be allowed for three years to change their domicile elsewhere with the power of freely disposing of their property." The spirit of this last article makes it easy to compre hend that the annexation to Moldavia of the territory ceded by Russia applies only to Bessarabia, and not to the islands in the embouchure ; for, speaking of the in habitants of the ceded territory, the treaty evidently ex cludes the inhabited islands from the circle of territory that is to be annexed to Moldavia. If the contracting Powers desired to give the islands to the Moldavian principality, the treaty should have so expressed it in an express clause. The declaration of our plenipotentiaries at the Paris Conference, embodied in the protocol without any obser vation on the part of the Congress, confirms the return of the mouths of the Danube to the direct ownership of Turkey. It promises the discharge of a duty in return fora right recovered. The - condition in which the islands at the mouth now are the spirit of the treaty itself, and this de c laration of taking possession—a declaration accepted by the con gress—will be evidence of the intentions of our allies as to the future condition of the mouths of the Danube. In stipulating for the restitution of Bessarabia to Mol davia,, they undoubtedly had no intention of wronging Turkey by depriving her of what rightfully returned to her, to unite it to a province having no claim to it. Our august allies must have recollected the blood shed at Oltenitza, Kalafat, and Silistria. The object aimed at by Europe in stipulating for the restitution of the mouths of the Danube was the freedom of that river. It is plainly evident that the best means of attaining that object is to place thetn-again in tlaa hands of the legitimate proprietor. As we have said above, the Sublime Porte, never hav ing conceived any doubt as to its right or the intentions of its allies, took possession of the Delta of the Danube by beginning to carry out improyetnents. It exerciNes that right by discharging its duty for the interest of the whole world. You are desired, sir, to offer these reflections and ex planations to the court to which you are accredited, by affording a perusal of this despatch. THE RUSIAN POST-OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH. Various persons (says a correspondent from Moscow) have shown me letters just delivered to them which had manifestly been opened before their delivery and after their postage. There was one such I saw on Friday, addressed to an Englishman in the same hotel with me ; it had been fastened first by the gum of the adhesive envelope, and secondly by wax. To open the gum or a wafer, without tearing the paper, nothing but humidity is necessary, and for wax heat ; but for both together both moisture and heat are required, and required simul taneously. Steam affords the only adequate process. The letter in question had evidently been subjected thus to the action of a powerful jet of hot vapour, all about the juncture of the envelope. This had been done with defiant carelessness, for the whole of the part I have mentioned was still damp, distende I, creased, and limp with the process ; while instead of the seal which the addresses expected, there was a rude blotch of wax, stamped crosswise with the back of a knife, as it seemed. In general, the seal is copied before the steam is applied; the letter is placed, face downwards, on a block of soft lead, into which the impression is struck by one smart blow of a broad steel hammer, made for the purpose. But in the case to which I allude, no such pains had been taken. All persons, besides, tell me that nothing can be more wayward than the delivery of letters and papers sent to them from their countries ; a portion is all they ever see. But you may say this is only ex perience at second hand, what is your own ? Well, on Friday there came to me a letter from home, calling itself the eleventh which the same writer had despatched to me, and it was only the fourth which I had received from that writer. At Moscow, when you prepay a letter, they give you a receipt for the money you disburse ; at St. Petersburg, never. It will have some relation to this subject to mention what occurred to me with respect to a telegraphic message which I wanted to send, just be fore leaving Moscow. The telegraph office for foreign and distant places is in the Kremlin, under the palace ; that for St. Petersburg is at the railway station. After the rain-pelted festivities of the 20th at Hadinka, I proceeded to the Kremlin with a certain message which I wished to send you. This was on Saturday evening. The clerk, after a moment's consulation with another person, told me that they had upwards of a hundred despatches, and could not undertake to send my message that day. Could I return to-morrow ? To-morrow I was going to St. Petersburg. He advised me to apply at the office there. On my arrival at St. Petersburg I proceeded with my message to the telegraph office, in Galernoi. The clerk read it, carefully counting the words, which, including the address, were 89 in number. He then read the rues sage a second time, looking up here and there at me with an uneasy and even startled expression. After this he said quietly, "Thirty-five silver roubles." "And when will the message be delivered in London ?" asked I, baking out the money. "Ah ! that I cannot say, "How! cannot say? But yet you can take the 35 silver roubles. I suppose you know for what they are paid ?" He immedie ately began to expatiate on the number of despatch es they had to forward, and said, with a confused look, that, if I would pay for the message and leave it, he had no doubt that, in a day or two, it would be expedited. I begged him to tell me frankly *Mather there was any thing in the message itself which would prevent it being sent. Ho answered, "No ; oh no ;" but with such a guilty look, that I repeated my question more earnestly, promising that, if I requested them to forward it at all, I wou ld mysdlf erase anything that might be disliked. Upon this he took the slip of paper into an inner room, and when lie reappeared he told me the chief would speak to me. About two minutes elapsed, when this functionary came, holding my- message. He was ex ceedingly civil. He pointed out two passages, and said it would be better if I erased them. "These things will be known in the end," he remarked, "but to mention them now would cloud over a joyous mo ment." Now here is my message, word for word as I wrote it :—" St. Petersburg, September 22.—Deux cent mille paysans dinerent ensemble, sainedi, pres Hadinka, is neuf heuses, aux frais de l'Empereur. A midi, qnatre cent tale curieux s'y rassemblerent pour voir un festin gulls ne savient pas etre deja fini. II tombait des torrents de pluie. Deux personnes furent ecrasees. Le banquet donne par l'Empereur aux ambassadeurs eut lieu le 18 au Kremlin. Le 16 l'lmperatrice-mere rtcut tine legere blessure aceiden teele. Les departs commeneent." The two passage ' which I was to omit were those where I state d that two persons had been crushed (I fear the recent version of thirty is the truth), and where I mentioned _the Empress Mother's " slight accidental woun d ," cow. If storylffor oefuNeVhhipoahssli.ggaeeveasytohuesien thaelyetute.erulfdr.oem.upMprotssa• awaited have or mangle a message for which they h ad pocketed neatly I six pounds sterling, what fate not too much truth t o long letters containing a great deal THE MONETARY CRISIS. (Front the Times City Art&le.) The character of the accounts front Paris has not been improved by the report of the Finance Minis ter, the prohibition of all discussions c a the crisis, or the police regulation forbidding mone.7-changers to offer a premium for silver. The opin.'on still is that there is no danger of a collapse, except as a consequence o f th e bli n d apprehensions of the People ; but it is believed that the measures adopted are calculated to increase rather than to allay these apprehensions. It is said, moreover, that some of the leading persons connected with the Bank of Frauc3 have already expressed an opinion as to the expediency of suspendi ng s p ec i e p a y men t s , an d that it is mainly in deference t o th e v i ews o f th e Em peror that it is not more strongly urged. In these circumstances it is impossible to regard such a con tingency as undeservin g of consideration, and hence anxious inquiries a re suggested as to what would be its effects on this side. A suspension of specie payments, especially when brought about by an internal panic, does not neces sarily involve any great disturbance or disaster. When people are rushing for gold merely for hoarding commerce suffers no injury by their not being able to get it. If there is no serious foreign drain remaining to be met, and if the rate of discount is sufficiently high to promote - economy and check speculation, so as to prevent an adverse balance arising with other countries, everything, after the first shock from the announcement had passed, might go on almost precisely as before- The note circulation would maintain its par value, the panic would gradually subside, and a rtaittup tion would be found practicable. Bat an appre hension may be entertained that it is not in this way, after the note circulation in France had beta declared inconvertible, matters would be allowed to work round to a healthy point. The cry for a suspension is chiefly that commerce may be relieved —a phrase familiar to all speculators, whether in France, England, or America, and which simply means that an increased issue of currency should be authorised suoh as would produce a great rise in prices, and enable them to realise without loss the depreciated securities with which they find them selves burdened. The probability exists, therefore, that the Bank of France would forthwith receive directions from the Government to relax its mea sures of severity, to make ample advances on stocks and shares, and also to deal liberally with com mercial paper. In this way animation would again be restored to the Bourse, speculators, such as the Credit Mobilier, would no longer seek to postpone or cancel their foreign commitments, and mer chants would renew their orders for the importation of produce. The advantages of the measure would be universally extolled, and, as the interests of all financiers of the prominent school require that a rise in prices should go on for ever, there would never come a time at which, in the view of these parties, the circulation should cease to expand. Supposing them to maintain their ascendancy, a contraction would be out of the question, and would be denounced as a malevolent blow against the prosperity of the nation. Meanwhile the high prices would be attracting all kinds of goods and securities to the French market, a heavy and con stantly increasing debt would become due to foreign ers, and, as foreigners would not accept payment in French bank notes, but would require gold or its lequivalent, gold would come into great demand as an article of merchandise, and would rise to a pre mium in proportion to its scarcity. That is to say, the exportable produce and manufactures of France being insufficient to pay for the goods imported, and a balance of debt remaining to be discharged, she would have to obtain specie for the purpose, and, as her only means of obtaining it would be by her promissory paper, an extra price w.-mild be charged for the gold in proportion to the distrust with which those promises were regarded. Hence, with all the abundance of circulation, the country would never become richer. If a 100 f, note would not purchase more than 50f. of gold, and the Go vernment, with a view to relieve the people, were immediately to double the existing issues, the dis covery would then be made that it *would purchase only 25f. of gold, or a still smaller sum, in propor tion as faith might be destroyed by their increasing recklessness. The national credit would be entirely extinguished, and at the same time, as all the Government employes, the public creditors, pro prietors of lands or houses let on lease, and an nuitants of every kind, would 13.313 ai - only in tbia paper, the question of their starvation would depend simply on the point to which the deprecia tion might be limited. Ultimately the mass of circulation might be such as to preclude all idea of its honest redemption, and a return to a convertible currency would be- practicable only by a compro mise, iii which the note holders would sacrifice 70, 80, or such other percentage of their nominal claims as the state of the bullion market might render necessary. This is the inevitable end of a forced paper cir culation, running the course contemplated for it by those who believe it to be in the power of a State to afford at all times a sufficient supply for the wants of the people. It has been witnessed in Russia, in America, and a number of other coun tries, and there is nothing new to be learnt with regard to it. It will bo said that there is no pro bability it would ever be carried to such a point by the French Government ; but this reduces the question merely to a matter of degree. Just :n proportion as they yield to the clamour for such an extended issue of paper as shall re-animate the Bourse will he the difficulty of returning to their former position. All the contracts in the shape of loans or otherwise made during the period of suspension must be on condition that they shall ultimately be fulfilled in specie, and when the time for this sacrifice arrives there will be a popular sense of grievance similar to that manifested in England in 1819, bitter recollections of which are cherished iu some minds even to this day. On the other band, if the suspension of specie payments is followed by no increase of the paper circulation or reduction of the rates of discount, there will be every reason to expect that the prudence thus enforced will soon bring the balance of trade in favour of France, so that she will have to receive specie, instead of its being withdrawn from her. In that case the note circulation, being not more than sufficient at existing prices for the legitimate pur poses of trade, would be prevented from falling to a permanent discount, and a gradual and safe re sumption might be effected by the Bank in the first instance voluntarily giving change for their notes on application, but without holding themselves bound to do so, and ultimately, when this had fa miliarised the people with the idea of convertibility as ,an ordinary condition, by the removal of the decree for its suspension. The considerations thus presented will enable all persons to estimate the results to be expected in this country from the measure, according to the manner in which it may bo carried out. Supposing prudent counsels to prevail, the only consequence of the change will be that the artificial purchases of gold which the Bank of France are now driven to make in London will cease, and that our discount-market will return to an easier position according to the progress towards a general revival of confidence on the Continent. Assuming, on the contrary, an, inflation in P ar i s f rom i ncrease d p a p er i ss ues, will be drained thence to this and other countries, and great buoyancy of trade, coupled with an 11- creasing abundance of money, must be anticip ated here—results, however, that would appear ably poor in face of the evils to be sustained from miser the ultimate injury which the credit and, commerce tainties that would be consequent up on of France must undergo and the po liti . c . a . t uneer- enx time,in: ge du si G snh a de r d n i i t e Gam i er , , as wa saeuvaxi evident It s r, WILFUL ee, e positionFl R E-li A i n I S society,l N A M s a os i fi r z i jeesduol yf w; ah m : t a u n t, e o fiu f , :e a w r f a :3 : - d,e)s ago tried by the Court of Assizes arson. On the night of the Bth discovered in the house of a farmer named Dussaux, at hßonnet,isf,tnlybut wereitwaahsseabsent a promptlythe from the manner in which a quantity of small wood was scattered about that the fire had been wilfully caused. Seppicion fell on the woman Gamier, who, with h er h ue . ban•J, lived next doo r, and she after a while confessed latter was unable to pay the that it was she who had caused the fire. The house, it ec x house; but being this d had been the property of her husband, who appLare , purchase money at the stipulated period, and - so, the assuranceher husband, she bad determined to burn the place down in order to de. sold it to p o t n is t s h a fraud the company. She added that she had previously made two attempts to set fire to the house, and gave a dcacriptien of the manner in which she had done so. 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