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A WIDOW LADY, possessing 2. timrowzb knowledge of Domestic Mana7.ement. is mot deslrons of nn ,11 7,Agement as (7ointmnion to a Lady, or to ,uperlntend the F,mily or a Widower or Elderly Geatimun.—AtlO'ress C. G , 4, Trinity street, Illackhear Llackheatb, Ken - • • PRINCE'S CLUB.—RACQUET and TENNIS COURTS, Hans-place. Beigrave-square.— Gentlemen desirous 1 4 becoming members are requested to communicate with the stcre -1517, at the club, who will furnish every information. ONT BLANc.— LAST *WEEK. M ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC, HOLLAND, UP the and PARIS, is OPEN EVERY EVENING this week at s e'clock. Stalls (which can be taken from a plan at the box office, every day between eleven and four, without any extra charge), 3s. : ar ea. 2e. ; gallery, Is. The last Morning Representations will take Place on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, the 26th, 28th, and 30th "Al gust, at Three o'clock. ?ONT BLANC will Close for the season on Satdrday evening, 4 4. 30th.—Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. A RGYLL ROOMS.—LAIIRENPS CASINo, Rooms Great Windmill-street, Haymarket.—The above elegan '° o /I's RE-OPE '4' for the winter sesson ol MONDAY, Sept Ist. The Propri,tor begs to lidcrm the pail c t' at th s f shion. ble pace er resortha4 been redecorA' ed miler the sole direction of Mr. hull, of Great Queen-et. ect, 1. ncoln's-inn-fle'ds. 7he doors open at half- Fatt eight, commence at c.hie. Admission One Shilling. bit. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, , 4, Coventry-street, Leicester-square.—Open (for Gentlemen ably) from 10 till 10, containing upwirds ()Cone thousand models 5d Preparations, i]luet:ating every part of the human frame in health and disease, the race of men, &c. Lectures delivered at 12, 1 2 . and half-put 7, by Dr. G. SEXTON, F.R.G.S. ; and a new and ' i ghly-tnteresting series of Lectures is now In course of delivery ey Dr. KAHN, at 4 p.m. precisely. Admission, One .4hilling. CCANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road. - —OPEN I. VERY EVIiiNTING.—The celebrated THINGA ,;4N BAND, under the direction of Herr KALOZDY, will perform I"rY Evening at 9 and l I o'clock, in addition to the usual Vocal ntertainment The fo lowing company of talented Vucalists are , er nianently engaged for he perform ince of Selections from all ths ~0 1 3 u lar °per AR, Mal rigals, Choruses, Duets, &c., viz. s J. ;placid, Miss Brunel, Miss Sommers, and Miss Pearse ; Sam Cowell, r J. Caulfield, Herr F. donghmans S. Jones, T. Farrant, W. el ling, Barker, Russell Grover. and P. Corris ; Masters E. Con- Jell' Austin, and Bennett , and Mr. T. Mackney. Pianoforte. Mr. Harroway, B.A. , harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun, ; director, Mr. * C aulfield. Commence at seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, &c., twelve o'clock. ROYAL SURREY GARDE-NS.-JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. —Continuat on of the Magnificent Decorations p . r the Guards' Dinner in the Colossal Music ha ll .—ln consequence of E ne universal a• probation bestowed on the preparations for the '4'esrds' Ginner, they will remain during the week —Last Night but o of the Zouav e s. I mmense success o f th e Z )uave Q i adrille, in which r e introduced the Zouave Clarions of the let and 2d Regiments of the T 'ePerial Guard—Colossal Pictures of Constantinople and the Alps— ,nrkish Kiosk and Illuminated Terrace—Enormens Glacier and Fairy ' ,eve rns—Brilliant Pyrotechnic Display and Em'Aematical Tableau. leflonssion Is. Private boxes, to admit six persons, ii. Is.; and ' n -ets in the Music Hall and Firework Baloonv (including admission to ,;*!trdens), 24. 6d., may be secured at the Gardens, and at Julllen and 'A 214, Regent-street.-7he Direetorr have much gralidcationin t',7 4l lting that they:have arranged with Madame Albont r her last 5.,0 Concerts previous tot er departure for the Continent. They will le Place on Tuesda, -rpt. 2, and Thursday, Sept. 4. Adruis.sion nd , i kadrigal Night To y - morrow (Friday)—Madame Alboni. A Grad el,' Fate in a few days. GENERAL SCREW STEAM-SHIPPING COMP INY. k The sliarehollers are hereby informed that the Ballot upon tke kklutlon, " That this Company be dissolved," will be open TO -6°IIRO Ar (Tuesday, the 26th of August instant), and ollowi ng 6,YBrn, until further notice, from 12 to 4 o'clock, at the Offices of the y Pany, 27, Cannon-street. • 25n, By order. .T. L. O'BEIRNE, Secrctai y. August, 1955. BALM OF PROVISIONS, AT DEPTFORD. Admiralty, Somerset-place, 25th August, 1356. THE Commissioners for Executing the Office of I N Lord dogHih Admiral of the 'United Kingdom of Great Britain at k .treland Hereby Give Notice, that on TBURADAY, the llth Ist;Pternber next, at 11 oc in the Forenoon, the Captain Sneer 14ent will put up to o sale In her Majesty's Victualling Yard at °l'd several Lots of Army, Navy, and Transport Stores, con diAof salt meat, coffee, biscuit, rice, casks, staves, clothing, bed &c., &c., all lying in the sail Yard. for bed- Per wishing to view the Lots muit apply to the Superintendent c a n of admission for Oat purpose. tt r it c l a lOgues and Conditions of Sale may be had here and at the CRWEPP'S MALVERN SELTZER t ko W ATEß.—Having leased the Holy Well Spring at Malvern, WA,eci for its purity, J. S. and Co. can now produce a SELTZER rei vi ,! , R with all the Chemical and Medicinal Properties which have tu rit 'reel the Nassau Spring so celebrated. They continue mauulitc 41g SODA, MAGNESIA, an 4 PO PASS WATERS and LEMON at London, Liverpool, Bristol, and Derby. Bottle is protected by a Red Label bearing their signatures. LEA APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED. and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE ki a ?AILICE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, 14,1 1 4 5 " Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad, 11,, 'etl7 7 its tonic and Invigorating properties enables the stomach to digest the food. lkst Thed allY useof this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe -4 10 health. 1 431 1 ,,,, c1 by the proprietors, Lea and Perrin, 19, Fenchurch-street, 14,1 on, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester; also by Messrs. Barclay 4 4 „;° ,1 8, Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and reer- V, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. IN :„, -- To guard Against imitatioas, see that the names of "LEA . 4 RRINS" are upon the label and patent cap of the bottle. t\._______ 4 °,,,,,k 11 ) ON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAIL "Ix . 0 ." AT,—WARWICK RACES.—On fuerday, Wednesday, '4ll,,, 4 l rsday, 2d, 3d, and 4th September.—Day Tickets will bts. Icl '"3' all Trains from the Euston Station to Leamingtoa on the ad and 3 d, and will be available for Return by all Trains on the 2d, ncl 4th September. By Fin Station, Aug. 25, 1851. order. LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. I. ° I 7RS -TS' ISSUED UNTIL Tag 15TII 0CT013211. NORTH WALES. %op it -L.. available for TILREE WE EKti, enabling the holder to tolp, o 3 RhYI, Conway, Bangor, Caerna.'von, and Holyhead, either r returning, ..re issued at th e f o ll ow i ng f ares b y th e th roug h rl, ; The First-class Tickets' are ava labia by any train, and the by such trains as have second-eass carrines attached. 4(s lat Class. 2d Class. qtr oi ;'' d To Holyhead and back £3 10 0 .... Xi 10 0 a erbo roughl to ditto and back.... 210 0 .... 115 0 )i•T i rlitham to ditto and back 2 0 0 1 10 0 lr erhampton to ditto and back 1 15 0 1 7 0 T orte 44 L AKES OF WE iTlfOltEb kN'll tND CHI( BERL AND 1 14.., ckt ts, avail a ble f or THREE WEEKS, t o tt e a bo v e Lakes, arc 111/43',..at the foll ow i ng F ares by th e th roug h 'I ra i ns . The First- Inlinteltets are available by any train, an 1 the Second by such as have second-class carriages attached :-- let Class. 2d Class. on to Windermere and back £3 10 0 £2 10 0 i 4 rord t re r b orouh l to ditto and back 215 0 .... 2 0 0 Y o Th i initham to ditto and back 2 5 0 .... 115 0 " e rhampton ••.•• • • • • 120 TEE FAVOLMITE LANCASEIRE WATERING PLACES, T : nAM, BLACKPOOL, FLEET WOOD, Olt SO (TT If PPR T. pa to for THREE WEEKS, are issued by the ordinary ktki t er the Company. The First-Class are available by any train, e S econd by such as have second-class carriages attached. Fro Ist Class. 2d Class. ''' London ... . £3 0 0 ..•• £2 5 0 h Oxford 2 5 0 .... 1 15 0 " P eterborough 1 1, Birmingham i 1 1. 4' ) „, _ W olverhampton 3 •." the 8t tr leetwood Royal Mail Steamer sails every evening (Sunday ." g t : (1 ) for Belfasi",and Weekly Excursion Tickets are issued at 'id ba c k Packet Office for Belfast, Armagh, the Giant's Causeway, T~idick , EXCITRSIONS TO THE SEA SIDE. available tor TWENTY-EIGHT DAY , , are issued by the t r '.?; trains of the Company. The First-Class are available by , s 'atgei` t n, and th e S econ d by s u c h t ra in s as h ave secon d. c l oss car ono atta ched, to Harrowgate, Scarborough, Whitby, Filey, or he o tton. WGATE and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 435. ; . 325. 6d. °ltcripuOsßOUGH and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 515. ; w il l. Class, 355. %P/Ltrtd - QRY and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 51s. ; Se ct 355. c ,. 4 44 ; 1 ' and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 51s. ; Second ttrtVi a. otNe LINIGTON and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 515.; 1,t44 Cl aia, 355. •qt I: Tickets are not transferable, nor will they be available for 'tee turn Journey unless they have been endorsed at the Bookbet aesbseren:kertshteoj 4 5 r t , t e 0 ,Ze „,e sta x t s i e o p n t oa s t rr he ow d g ay ,te o . f a rtr t a l l i n b l e ' rty P t o a u ll rn t e h y e 4144 4 one night at York, either going or returning. h" .. IRISH TOURIST TICKETS, - " lib le for ONE MONTII, will be issued at the following prices : /o h , lt st Class. 2d Class. Londo n •. • ..... £6 10 0 .... £5 5 0 0zf0rd............ .... •5 15 0 .... 415 0 " Birmingham, Lbaniinliton, and Atid fromnt • 5 0 .... 45 0 the other principal stations at proportionate fares. _e tickets (which in no case are transferable) will be available adoiophrni.h from the date of issJe. They will enable the Holders ,to Chester, thence to Bangor, Holyhead, and Dublin, thi„`fublin to Cora, situate on the picture4que River Lee, and i L titij o ',,lon miles of the celebrated Harbour, Dockyard, and Naval l 'tti te ",.Of Queenstown (Cove) ; from Cork back to Mallow, and 0 7 the Killarney Junction Railway to the far-famed T he LAKES OF KILLARNEY. is °r ourist can remain as long as convenient to himself at Chester, (for the inspectiol of the Britannia Tubular Bridge), Holy- Cork, and Killarney ; the only condition being, that his Ibili m oi tio the Station at which hetook his ticket must be not later r ,lto o e Month from the date of his departure therefrom. mental Ticketsfor CONNE MAR A, GLEN GARI FF E, the 4, (1 CAUSEWAY, and other places of interest, are issued at 015,—;.ral ' Fares to Visitors holding " Irish Tourist Tickets." Manager's Office, EUston Station, June, 1856: GREY HAIR RESTORED to its ORIGINAL ko r ( COLOUR with ease. safety, and certainty, by the PATENT 1, 11 'IC IC COMBS and BRUSIIE watch are als ian unfailing t1 ;44 0 133 ' for nervous headacheall neuralgic affections. "! J'lslnlihlets '‘ Wh Hair becomes Grey and its Rem edy," gratis, 'Ss post for four stamps. the Neuralgia, N euralgia, and ' all Rheumatic affecti,,ns bo a t erfect'Patent Galvanic Flesh Biushes, the sare. Le p r i a e eradicated efficient galvanic instruments extant : patro i lte ot b 7 the faculty. Offices : F. M. HERRING, 32. Itasinghail .‘eor: Aents South Gallery, Crystal Palace ; Savory and •tre,," Atkinson, 24, Old Bond-street ; Godfrey and Cooke, Conduit hee.; Ilendtie 12, Tiekborne-street ; Twinberraw, 2, Edwards l'or tman- ' square • Saunders, 315 a, Winter. 20,5, and KennedY, ftt,i,2v.xford-street ito;s 119, Bishopsgate-street ; Rimtnell, Oar- Nl•ti i " 4 "t, Soho ; ' Worn: 17, Dawson-street, and Birch, I, Moles -street, Dublin. Sold by all chemists and perfumers of repute. 4 ENv• - AND IMPORTANT DISCOVERY Di' THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE. 4 1.4 Seal of (heat Britain. Diploma d'Ecole de Pharmacia 4r nalcien de Paris. rmperial College of Medicine, Vienna. de l E4 , MAR No. 1,2, and 3, prepared in the form of a lozenge ;,01,1 th O , taste or smell, and can be carried in the waistcoat pocket tip,_tin cases, divided nto separate dos, us administered by Lallemand, Roux i , Ricord, &c., &c. es lIIESEAIAR No. 1 is a Remedy for RE jotlls s PF.RMATORRHMA, and all the distressing .° l ‘o. ll enees arising from early abuse, indiscriminate excesses, or too 'lrslioltidence in hot clixates. It has restored bodily and sexual 11 ,,cav i',` ll and vigour to thousands of ,'ebilitated individuals who are Vlat,, 4 the enjoyment of health and the Functions of Manhood; and '144" they be the cause for DISQUALIFICATIONS for are effectually subdued by this Wonderful Discovery MAß . er flee t9a TRIESEMAR No. IL, 11 Y, in the short spice of three days, completely and entirely Priti, 4 , L es all traces of Gonorrheea, both in its mild and aggravated "„ l eets, Strictures, Irritation of the Bladder, Nor-retention of alas of the Loins and Kidneys, and those disorders which .41 ti Cubebs have so long been thought an antidote for, to the We health of a vast portion of the population. a 01 TRIESEMAR t 'rns e Continesatal Remedy for Syphilis and Secondary SYlnP ,llt44.t alto canifitutcs a certain cure for S c ur v y, S cro f u la, and all 'c i ete a' l p irn Eruptions, removing and expelling in it its course ther t o al e l r c a o d r i r c ul- , 1b t0 1 , 43 0f P Cli ri sea ' se fr a om ni t e:pell a it s with ' the a ins o en ge sible perspiration tie medium of the pores of the skin and uri ne , an d is a g ph re y m w e e d i a y n I, t !) r r e a t h t : t w c i las h smoefrdel. rvi orders yo t c e h tab unfortunately eostru. wwo r th spatient's constitution, and which all the sarsaparilla in ca e l e s a . n o n r o oruers cases in one for 335, which saves Ils. and in Si. I,oetaii,Where'by there is -1 saving of it. 12s. ' To be had wh ' lesale and cur tai n London, of Johnson, 6s, Cornhill; Hannay and Co., 63, Ox 11aloatreet ; Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; It. II Ingham, druggist, 46, 1411 to7 i t i . ',. r eft, Manchester; H. Bradbury, bookseller, Deansgat , , }ot te , t , .• Priestly, chemist, 51, Lord.street, Liverpool; Powell, ' 4 lll er . 15. westmoreland-otreet, Dublin . ; W.LUlfall,_booluseller, %z e e •I'Arinipshani • SUN LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, LONDON. Policies effected with this Society now will PARTICIPATE IN FOUR-FIFT'IS, or 80 per eent., of the Net Profits of the Society, according to the conditions contained In the S )clety's Prospectus. The Premiums required by this Society for insuring Young Lives :re lower than in many other olil-estah'ishel offl3es, 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. 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. CHAItLES HENRY LIDDERDALE, Actuary. ESTABLISHED 1837. RITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COM PANT. Empowered by Special Act of Parliament, 4 Viet., cap. 2. BRITANNIA MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION, Empowered by Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. MAroa-GswEttat. ALEXANDER, Blackheath-park, Chairman. Every description of Life Assurance business transacted, with or without Participation in Profits. E. R. FOSTER, Res!lent Director. ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary. 1, Princes-street, Bank, London. (N e . 20,028) PUBLICATIONS. Tow ready at all th., libraries, in 3 v.'s.. 1/1 RS. TROLLOPE'S NEW NOVEL, FASFHOITABLE LIFE ; or, Paris aid London. "Mrs. Tro7lope selects the sea•side season to gather her old tro ,pp of readers around her. The story of Clara Holm, ood and her city fortune, of the unfortunate V.etor and th:, fortunate Henry, and ct M. Hoche's erect mining concern, will be fund neatly woven with bright thre.ids into a web of rity,tery by Mrs. Trelope in her new novel called Fashionable Life ; or, Paris and London.' The book has among its merits the invaluable one of being thorougl'y read able."—Exansiner. . _ • Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry CW.burn. EMERSON'S ENGLISH T. Comps icing Veyage to England Trawlers Lane Truth Race Character Wealth " Printed by London: George lioi NEW BOOK ON E Price is., boards, AITS. By R, arrangement with th utlelge and Co., 2, F NGLIND. W. EMERSON. The Times Ai istoeracy Literature Personal, &c. ie Author." 'arrin ;don-street. THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. No. CCLXXXV., SEPTEMBER, 1856, price 2s. 6d. CONTENTS. The United states Navy. Glencore, Chaps. XXVII., XXVIII., XXIX , and XXX. The Irish in Spain. The Darragh, Chaps. IX. and X. Sinai and Palest , ne. Cyprus, Chaps. IV., V., and VI A New Transla ion of the Bible. St a side Occupation: Nlarine A gnarls. Poetry: O'd Church Bells. By Jonathan Frske The Italian Question. Dublin: Hodges, Smith, and Co., 104, Graft m-street ; Hurst and llackett, London ; Menzies, Edinburgh ; and sold by all booksellers. F RASER'S MAGAZINE for SEPTEMBER, • 1856, price 2a. Gd., contains . Sefence by the Seaside. Sketches on the North Coast Gilflllan's Flistory of a Man. By a Naturalist. Is o. IT. — Prospects of the Indian Clvd Ser- . he Yellow..: a vice—The "Open:'' System. of Sink-and Palatier —_ Dwarfs and Giants. An Essay, Pius I.X. and Lord Palmerston. in Two Parts. Part ll. I ytoun's Sothwell. • Explanatory. Jack *epoy. Mau Vivian. France beierd and since the Re- N'aughau's Hours with the Mys- volution of 1789. tics. London : John VT. Park) I and Son, West Strand. Just published, price 10s., JOURNAL of the ROYAL AGRICULTURAL soc ETY of ENGLAND. —Vol. XVII., Part I. 1. Corn grade :-1824 1855. 2. Denison, J. Evelyn, M.P. : Agricultural Report of Paris Exhi bition. 3. Hen rep, Prof.: Introduction to Vegetable Physiol. , gy. 4. Pell, Dr.: Prize Report on Agriculture of Durham. 5. Way, Prof.: Composition of Waters of Land-Drainage, and of Rain. 6. Buckman, Prof.: British Meadow and Pasture Gras•ea. 7. Buckman, Prof.: Prize Essay on the Roots of the Wheat Plant. S. Voccker, Prof.: Composition of Farm-yard Manure, and account of the changes it underues. 9. Borstal), Thomas: Management of Dairy Cattle. IS. Liebig, Baron: On some points in Agricultural Chemistry. (1.) Hoskyns, C. Wren: On Leveling Ridge-and-Furrow Pasture Land. ) Contagious Disease among Cattle in Mecklenburg. '3.) German Wool Fairs, Midsummer. 1856. ;4.) Hamond, Anthony: On the Use of Reaping Machines. ;5.) Parrington, Thomas: On the Use of Reaping M achines. :6.) Moore, E. W.: Experiments in Cattle Feeding. John Murray, Albemarle-street. The Third Edition. Just Published, price 55., by post, free, ss. 6d. N TRUE & FA LSE SPERMATORRME A , with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the Real sufferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-sprege Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. " Dr. Picktord 's known to English readers oy his frequent pritet- J4l contributions to German medical literature. This is the first ime, he informs as, that he has addressed himself to the non-rnedi- A 1 reader. Wo trust this may not be the last, if he shall leteet an: , ether equally flagrant evil which it may be in his power to co:- rect."—London Medical Gazette. " The tribe of ' Quiet Sympathisers. end 'Medical Friends,' are mcrellessly exposed; and if this boot sonid find its way into the hands of those who suffer from the corn .rlaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds wouic 'le saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is o 'as Importance, though it is that which the quaeks most peza--- much money ......This volume is well qualified to put an end to HI• ampirical system of treating Spermatorrhosa, and to place the treat ment upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore ike'y.to do much good."—Medical Circular. London: H. Bathers, 219, Regent-street. METROPOLITAN COUNTIES and GENr LIFE A.;SURANCE SOCIETY, 27, Regent- Street, Waterleo-place, London. Canital, 100,0001. TRUSTEE 3. Spenerr H. Walpole,M.P. I Richard Spooner, Esq., M P. Henry Peter Fuller, Esq. E. Vansittart Neale, Esq. Life Assurance business transacted in all its branches. N.B. The bonus declared at the last division of profits averaged 33 pitcent on all the premiums paid. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager. NEW SYSTEM OF LIFE ASSURANCE. THE DIRECTORS of the NATIONAL ASSURANCE and INTESTMEN r ASSOCIA rioN - inN:te attention to the New System of Life Assurance exclusively adopted by this Association, viz., that of allowing Interest on all Premiums paid, instead of the remote and uncertain system of Bonuses usually adopted. By this plan the Policyholder will secure to himself a constantly increasing annual income during 11'e, as well as the payment of the sum assured to his repre4entatives at his death. Tables of Rates specially adapted to this system of Assurance may be obtained at the Office of the Company, 3, Pa I-mall East, or for warded free on application. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. THE DINNER TO THE GUARDS. The following correspondence has taken place in refer ence to this interesting event : " Horse Guards, Aug. 26, 1856. "My Lord—l have the honour to transmit a letter from the field officer in command of that brigade of the division under my orders which were present at the en tertainment which was yesterday provided by your lord ship and the other subscribers to the fund collected for this purpose, and in doing so, to request you will accept the expression of my own thanks for this most gratifying proof of the appreciation of their services.--I have the honour to be, your obedient bumble servant, " ROKEBY, M.G., " Commanding Division of Guards. "The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor." "Orderly Room, Brigade of Foot Guards, August 26, 1856. "My Lord,—l have the honour, on the part of the officers commanding the three regiments, to request that you will 3ourselt accept, and convey to the members of the committee, their best thanks fur the highly , grati' fying and liberal entertainment which was yesterday given by the inhabitants of London to the n , n-commissioned officers and soldiers of the Brigade of Guards who have recently returned from the Crimea, and by whom it was most fully appreciated.—l have the honour to be, my lord, your moat obedient humble eervat.t, " A. FOLEY, Major and Col., Grenadier Guards, Field Officer in Brigade Wait:rg. " The Right lion. the L , rd Mayor, Chairman of the Guards' Dinner Committee." " Manuion : houPe, Aug. 27, 1856. "My Lord—l have to acknowledge your lordship's very courteous communication, forwarding to me the letter of Col. Foley, expressive of the satisfaction of the fficers com warding the regiments of the Guards with the arrange ments of the committee for entertaining the medal men belonging to that distinguished portion of her Majesty's army. I am sure that not only every member of the com mittee, but every subscriber to the fund, will warmly appreciate this kind approval of their proceedings. lam happy to say that I hear but one re-echo of satisfaction and delight from all who were present at the gardens. The public generally seem to ratify all our doings, and this is a great compensation to the committee for the anxiety and responsibility incident to the arrangements of the details of a meeting so important, and at the Fame time so novel in its character. I shall have very great pleasure in placing your communication in the hands of the committee.—l have the honour to be, my lord, your lordship's most obedient servant, " DAVID SALOMON% "To Major•Geoeral Lord Rokehy." A shocking scene oecurred at the execution of two robbers named Boye and Olsen, at Assene, in the Isle of Fuen, in Denmark, on the 18th instant. Olsen made such a desperate resistance that the executioner and six men who helped him could not bring the criminal toithe block without calling the soldiers to assist them. As soon as Olsen's head was severed from his body, two young peasant girls, fifteen or seventeen years of a g ►e, rushed through the double line of armed police who guarded the scaffold, and filled the cups, wlich they catri?d, with the blood that spouted from the neck of the mutilated corpse, and instantly swallowed the hor rible draught. There is an old superstition amongst the rural population of Denmark that the blood of a be headed felon, if drunk while it is warm, is an infallible preservative agianst epilepsy and apoplexy. The girls were taken before a police commissioner, and declared that they Lai only done what they had a right to do ; they showed a paper, signed G. 01-en, is which he bad authorised them, whenever he should come to be e ecated, to drink his blood. _ . c __,--- - / ,----- - 7 . --,........ _.! 1 7 1 7 Cif ) __ , . .., •_ ~,er . y• I 'AA ~....„. alibilb. - ' A SOLDIER MURDERED Dr 03, 0 ' 7 ' •41tit ._. , „. Qin • ar _ .. -4 V- . , BM OOMBADBS. - ' ..- .- y . • . 4 1 . • ~.,.: 54 as • __. ...... .. a ;_z ........„ ~•,.... ~... .....,. . -el k . ' ' ... c Ye. •' , a \ 41,1,t. 4,„.4 •_ . , '.d I.— ,17-' , :- -- ' . - . . ~,, i 1 ......, , \rii ~ 10y 4 , -- - -4 Cr. A, • . ------- , . . 4.- v „„f4-7„t."'‘" .;:. e% , , -,,.0 s. . 411 — "PP\ - 4-- 0. w ly • ~., - „. e ....„-,.. 4 ' ~. ......,,,, (.1 7 to»t the Dovv Chronicle of yesterday.) Scarcely had this neighbourhood recovered from the excitement occasioned a few weeks since by the horrible murder of two sisters by a seldisr of the Swiss Legion, between the towns of Dover and Folks• stone, than it is again aroused into consternation by another murder, almost as horrible and cold-blooded in its details as the one we mention. In this case the shocking deed was perpetrated in the open light of day, in the view of a dozen spectators, and within a, few yards of the town, the [scene being a miadolll in front of the uoilitaty hospital at Archcliffe Fart, in which the 49th Regt is encamped. The man charged with the otlence is a price,' e in that regiment, named Thomas Mansell, and the unfortunate victim was a lance corporal in the same regiment, named A lexender M‘Bar ney. There is no question whatever as to the guilt of the accu•ed party, as the deed was committed in the pre: snce of several conneoles ; the only point that can arise being as to the motive which actuated the cemusission of the appalling crime, and the state of the prisoner's raind at the time. Toe weapon employed was one of the Eiifield rifles, whith is in use amen , the 49th, and it appears that this morning, shortly after eight o'clock, the accused cams. 0 it of the tent he occupied with his rifle in his list d aid deliberately walked up to the de cetvpd, wh , w s kneeline down at the time engaged in cleaning his regimental accoutrements, and, pisc ine his rifle against the decea-ed's lift side, shot him dead upon he pp )t, the hall entering the right side and passing out at he left. The deceased, it appears, rose u) and stag,z,rel a few yards, crying " I'm shot," I'm shot—Mar sell has shot me I" and then fall down and expired. By the promptitude of Sergeant-Major Hol den, of the 49th, who was on the spot within a minute of the dreadful occurrence, the surgeon of the 49th, Mr. H tnnay, was fetched from his tent imm eiiately, but be fore he had arrived the vital spark lied fled, and his ser vices, therefore, were of no avail. The prisoner, it would seem, scarcely attempted to escape—indeed it would have been utterly fruitless heti he endeavoured to do so —but after be tied committed the herrid deed threw down the weapon he had with the simple exclama tion " There !" and walked sway. He was, of ctu so, instantly laid hold of by a dozen hands, and by thedirece non of the colonel of the regiine-t was handed over to the civil authorities the same me. ning. Tr e only motive assigned for the act seems in itself so trivial as to induce the supposition that thei e must have been so ne other eaul for Mansell's rashness, which has not at presenttracseit ed. It is said to have arisen simply out of the loss cf a p sir of boots on the part of Mansell, the boots having disapi eared in the following manner :—Durine the time the army was in the Co inea each man Wa. provided with what is termed a " squad-bag," which was used for the reception of surplus necessaries and clothing rendered requisite by the peculiar circumstances of the campaign. Thee I age with their contents were delivered up by the soldiers oa leaving the Crimea and not returned to them again until they art ived in England, the contents of their ordinary packs being sufficient for the requirements of the voyage home ; and it appears that on Mansell's " squad-lag " being restored to him, he discovered that a pair of boots were missing. For some reason which presented itself to his imagination, but which appears to be totally wanting in confirmation, he accused M`Burney of steal ing the boots. The unfortunate deceased denied all knowledge of the robbery. Mansell, however, con tinued to bring the accusation against him, which ulti mately led to a regimental inquiry upon the subject about a month back, while the 49th were encamped at Alder shot, the result being a full acquittal of M-B irney from all imputation in connection with the loss of Mansell'e property. From that time, it is said, the two men have never spoken to each other ; and it is not believed that M‘Burney has ever offered the accused any provocation, or tnat any ill-feeling existed on his part towards him, Mansell is described as a morose, sullen man, although his appearance scarcely bears out this impression. THE MAGISTERIAL INQUIRY. At ten o'clock this morning, the prisoner, T. Mansell, was taken before the borough magistrates for examina tion. News of the tragedy had spread over the town like wildfire ; and for some time previous to the prisoner's removal to the magistrate's•office, the approach to the police-station was lined with persons anxious to catch a glimpse of the prisoner, or learn any of the circumstances connected with the crime of which he stood charged. He was conveyed from the police•station in a fly in charge of Superintendent Comm. The sergeant-major of the regiment also occupied a seat in the fly, and an escort of the 49th was in attendance. The magistrates present were the Mayor (Mr. James Worstsld), Mr. Jennings, Mr. Cooke, Mr. Sibbitt, and Mr. Pay n. The prie mer, on being placed at the bar, exhibited a firm, cool demeanour. He is rather above the middle height, and his features express calmness, and in a cer• tain degree intelligence. On the whole, his appearance is rather prepossessing than otherwise. John Parry, a private in the 49th Regiment, was the first witness examined. He made the following state• ment :—This morning, about balf.past eight o'clock, as I was coming out of my tent, at the encampment in the field facing the Military Hospital, Dover, I saw the prisoner and Lance-corporal M‘Burney. I passed between them, and, as I was going by the prisoner, I felt my arm touched, and, on turning round, saw the prisoner with his piece placed close to Mlturney's right side. He immediately discharged the gun. I heard the report, and at the same moment heard M'Burney cry out "I'm shot, I'm shot." He cried out in this way two or three times, and the last time he cried out that Mansell had shot him. Mansell then walked away, but I followed him and took hold of him before he had got more than seven or eight yards from the spot, and he was ordered to the guard-room, to which two other soldiers took him. When M`Burney was shot he was upon his knees, but on being wounded, he got up and staggered a few paces, but immediately fell down again. I took charge of the weapon which the prisoner had used, which is an Enfield rifle, and delivered it to the superintendent of police. According to the regulations of the service the rifle should not have been loaded, as soldiers are not permitted to keep ammunition about them. When I took the rifle from the ground, the cx. ploded cap was still upon the nipple. By the Bench—l did not see the prisoner pull the trigger of his rifle ; but I heard the report, and I beard Alexander Al'Eurney cry out that he was shot. M‘Bur may had no arms about him, and was engagsd cleaning his things at the time. Tee prisoner, on being asked whether he wished to put any question to this witness, replied in the negative. Edward Brophey, another private of the 49th, ex amined—About half-past eight o'clock this morning I was at the encampment near the military hospital, and was leaving my tent, when I saw the prisoner with his Irelock in his hand. I observed him cock the piece, and saw that there was a cap upon the nipple, but I thought he was going to snap it in order to clean the piece. The deceased was then kneeling down, aboat six yards distant from the prisoner. At that instant the last witness (Parry) came out of his tent and passed between prisunei and the deceased. The prisoner then moved, and mole up quite close to the deceased, and shot him as he was still kneeling. The deceased put hie hand to his :ide, and rose up saying, " I'm shot, I'm shot," two or three times, and the last time he said " Mansell has shot me I" Mansell, who by that time ha I thrown down his musket, and had, at four or five yards from the deceasad, turned round and looked at him, and the deceased then fell. The deceased was im mediately removed to the hospital. I afterwards saw the deceased, and it appeared as if the shot had passed completely through his body, having entered at the right side and come out at the left, grazing the left elbow. The firelock produced is the same. By the Bench—When the prisoner fired at the de ceased he held the stock of the firelock upon his hip. By the prisoner—The deceased was kneeling at the time you shot him—not standing. At this stage of the proceedings the court was cleared ; and, on the readmission of the public, the Mayor in formed the prisoner that he would stand remanded until Friday. The prisoner did not seem in the least moved through out the proceedings, and duri❑g the time that the ma gistrates were consulting took a pinch of snuff with as much sang froid as his manacled ha❑ds would permit. During the exami❑ation of tha prisoner a strict search was made at the camp for the purpose of discovering the ball with which it was supposed the prisoner had taken the life of his victim, and it was ultimately found em bedded in the ground at a few yards from the spot where the deed had been perpetrated. From a careful inquiry instituted by ourselves at the camp on Wednesday, we could trace not the faintest motive other than that we have named for the terrible revenge taken by Mansell. THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT OLD. BURT-CLOSE OF THE INQUEST. OLDBURY, WEBNESDAY. The inquest on Thomas Baker, Samuel Willetts, William Simpson, and Joseph Fulwood, four of the men who were killed by the awful explosion in Lord Ward's " Ramrod Hall" colliery, near this place, on the 13th instant, was concluded last night before J. Hinchliffe, Esq., coroner for Staffordshire, and a jury composed chialy of men connected with the collieries of this ex. tensive mining district. The coroner, Mr. Hinchliffe, in summing up the evi dence, said it was the duty of Thomas Baker, the butty, to try the pit with a safety lamp every day, but this he had neglected. He (the coronet) considered that on thin occasion Baker had been guilty of the grossest and most culpable neglect, for after he had received warning from below, and had been requested to bring the safety lamp down into the pit with him, and after a lamp had a c t ua ll y been sent for, he said — " Oh , there's no sulphur," and went down into the pit with the other men, carrying with him a quantity of lighted coals, which caused the ex. plosion. Had Baker been now alive he (the coroner) should have felt it his duty to direcl; them to find a verdict of mans l a ughter against him, for bad he performed his duty the explosion would in all probability have been pre. vented. The next question to be considered was, whe ther there was any culpable negligence slacwu by stuy other person. The Government inspectors attributed the explosion to the want of a furnace at the bottom of the shaft. It was the duty of Mr. Spruce, the under ground bailiff, to see to this, and he had ordered a firs to be made, but this it appeared had b een di scon ti nue d . It would b e the duty of the jury to consider whether Mr. Spruce or any other person had been guilty of such negligence as to warrant a verdict of manslaughter against them, The jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of " Accidental death," to the surprise of those who had heard the evidence of the inspectors. It might be men tioned that the jury did not wok a single qneetion thoughout the inquiry. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 28, 1856. IRON WORKING AND TEEE APPLICATION OF FUEL The following letter has been addressed to the editor of the Times :-- Sir, —The beautifully simple process of Mr. Bessemer in freeing molten iron from extraneous matter is one of those inspirations of genius which only occur at rare intervals, aed which are still-born and forgotten, save when the inventor happens to he endowed with a more than ordinary share of perseverance and a sufficient amount of hoarded capital. Now that the process is before the public its very simplicity makes men marvel more why it was not done earlier than at the successful issue, pregnant as it is with a physical feature that will save much " sweat upon man's brow," while working changes of enozmous magnitude for his future welfare. Oar manufacturing chemistry is in arrear of our me chanism. Means for the application of power we have in abundance, but our processes fo r the d eve l o p men t o f power are still as roundabout as the ironworking which has grown up bit by bit. We dig up the coal which na ture has so abundantly stored in her huge cellars, and we use it about as scientifically as the savage who digs up roots and devours them raw, forcing his stomach to become a cook as well as a chernid.. The perceptive faculties of James Naysmith detected the absurdity of setting a number of human beings to stir up a metallic pudding in order to throw off the scum in the shape of slag or cinder. His remedy was a me chanical one—to cause the mass to boil like a pot, by forcing steam into it from below, the issue of steam be ginning before the molten mass was poured in so as to insure against the stoppage of the passages. But steam not exactly fuel, and, instead of increasing, tends to lower the temperature of the mass of iron. Mr. Bes sealer applied air, the food of fire, which permeated the mass, and, in conjunction with the carbon of the iron, intensified the heat and freed the mass from "matter out of place." It was reserved for Mr. ilgisemer Werk•out the process of turring to large practical use a phenomenon known and noticed in many ways by others destitute of the genius to turn it to account. A piece of highly heated iron, he'd in a strong blast of air, may be burnt away. Even in a still atmosphere the rapid formation of scale is evidence of combustion, and if a piece of highly-heated iron be thrown down a deep vertical shaft it will arrive at the bottom in a state of increased heat. It is merely revers ing the condition ; the iron tree els rapidly to the air in stead of the air travelling to the iron. In Mr. Bessemer's plan the air is made to travel rapidly through the iron. This improvement is analogous to the process of paper making, when it ceased to be a mere handicraft, in its ultimate results. The rags go into the paper mill at one end and corns out in miles of paper at the other—a con- tinuous stream ; and when the results of Mr. Bessemer's plans lead to their ultimate consequences something similar will ensue in iron. The ordinary process is to run the iron from the ore in the form of pigs—one heat ; then to melt it again and form it into puddle balls—two heats ; then to form it into blooms or oblong masses—three hats ; then to roll it into common bars—four heats. So far for common iron. For better iron the bars are cut into short lengths, piled on one another, and welded into a mass—five heats; then rolled into bar—six heats. And this process, ana logous to that of the baker in rolling out, and beating together, and again rolling out his dough, is somEtimes multiplied two or three times for a similar object, to make the mass homogeneous, to get rid of cinder and extraneous matter, with the difference that the flour kneader works on a cool material, and the iron-kneader on incandescent material—an essential difference to the human frame. By Mr. Bessemer's process one heat suffices. The ore is run out of the ordinary furnace, not into pigs, but into a refining-pot, analogous to the puddling hearth. There the heat is not wasted, but is increased, in the process of burning away the superfluous carbon. The process being complete, the metal is run out—malleable iron—into any form required. When set, the same heat suffices to pass it through the rolls and form it into bars, abso lutely homogeneous. The ore may enter at one end of the mill and the bars go out at the other. But now arises a new question. Rolls are cylinders of iron, with grooves cut in them forming the profile of the bar, and during its formation the bar passes through several grooves in succession till the ultimate form is at tained. In bars of comparatively small size this is easily accomplished ; but the process is a clumsy one. When the bar has passed through one pairof grooves it is caught up by men with pincers, and passed back again over the top of the rolls prior to entering a second groove, and so on. Thug two liftings of the bar are required for every passage through the rolls ; time is lost, and sometimes a second heating is required to complete the operation, by reason of the loss of heat in wasted time. In the ordinary rolls the cylinders are of considerable length to afford room for the succession of grooves. This practice necessitates a great diameter to insure strength; but if only a single groove were cut in each roll the strength would be comparatively greater. By placing a train of rolls in succession, one before the other, the in got delivered from Mr. Bessemer's refining furnace might pass on a rail to the first, pair of rolls with its original heat, and through them to the next, and so on till the bar were complete, without being touched by bands. Integral masses of metal not hitherto dreamt of may by this proce-s be rendered easy of producti as. And be it rememeered that, other things being &eal, in all me chanic sl structures diminution in the numb r of parts is a great comparative increase of strength. In wrought iron artillery, for example, the difficulty has been to obtain homogeneous aggregation of numerous pieces. The welt!. ing up of parts in the ordinary modes of making iron is juncture or contact without union, and the wrought gun of the American Commodore Stockton, which burst and killed several American notabilities, and the various ?Allures tried at Woolwich and elsewhere, are samples of failure arising from the admixture of oxygenated scale keeping parts out of union, just as the baker flours his board to keep his dough from adhering. And the success of the Mersey gun, male at great cost and with great expenditure of time, must still be regarded as empirical, till that or a similar one shall have been cat up into transverse and longitudinal slices to verify its inter nal texture. The metal known as scrap iron is filled with pores almost like some varieties of wood. Lowtnoor and Bowling iron are very homogeneous, but their great cost limits their use. Mr. Bessemer's process gives us homo geneous iron at a cost below that of common iron. A gun may now be cast in malleable iron of any conceivable or moveable weight, and may be passed through rollers, if desired to be fibrous, or may in the act of cooling be increased in density by powerful hydrostatic pressure. The manufacture of iron bars of good quality has here tofore been a compound process—production, subdivi sion, and subsequent addition in the form of welding. The question of welding may now be considered as dis pensed with in the make of bars, but it enters so largely into subsequent operations that it needs analysis. Welding consiste in a partial fusion of two surfaces of iron, which when brought into contact unite ; but to pro duce this fusi in without oxygenated scale is a problem yet to be solved, to make it a certain instead of an un certain process. The affinity of oxygen for heated iron is so great that scale forms instantaneously by contact; but if the surface of the heated iron be hermetically sealed in flame, the oxygen must perforce be consumed before it cen penetrate to the iron, and the iron will be preserved unburned, just as the wick of an ordinary tal low candle is preserved unburned by the globe of flame which surrounds it, but which instantly begins to con sume when protruded beyond the globe of flame. The economical use of crude fuel in the furnace has led to the use of crude fuel in the forge ; and, in addition to the want of mechanical convenience, admixtures of sul phur and other extraneous matter have been mischievous impediments in the process. In producing a welding heat in a forge or furnace the corners or thin parts are burnt away before the other parts are heated, and in removing from the forge or fur nace to place under the hammer the exposed parts get scaled by the oxygen of the air, even though it is sought to cover them with a glaze of silica by throwing sand on them, a deteriorating material in itself. The next manipulation of the chemist teaches us the remedy. For his experiments he discards the forge heat of solid and commonly impure fuel, and takes to flame or gaseous combustion, urged by the blowpipe. He can thus diieet his heat where he wills, and procure any in tensity he may require. That which is done on the small scale ea, be done on the large ; the great welding blowpipe would be simply inflammable gas and atmos pheric or oxygenated air under considerable pressure, issuing in jets and uniting in intense flame where the heat might be required, the jets being multiplied to any extent and covering any amount of surface. The flame •cavering the surface will prevent scaling, and, the junc tion being effected without withdrawing the flame, the union will be perfect and homogeneous. The perforrnance of this mode of welding by carrying the gas and air in flexible pipes to the spot where the work is done, instead of the work being carried to the forge, and the almost unlimited surface which may be heated simultaneously, brings within our scope opera tions not hitherto impracticablP. We may weld together the seams and other parts of our iron ships instead of iivettiug them. We may thus considerably reduce the quantity of metal, while adding to the strength of the vessel. The value of the work done by Mr. Bessemer, not for Great Britain only, but for the whole world, cann o t a t present be estimated. The cheapening of iron, as well as the improvement of its quality, will make it a sub stitute for timber and brick in buildings. But there is one other process we have yet to get at—so covering its surface as to make it practically imperishable by the agency of oxygen, hermetically sealing it with some sub stance impregnable to air and moisture. Great as is the benefaction conferred on the human race Ipy this process, there is a class of men who will be dissatisfied with it. It is the subject of a patent, and probably patents. Suppose it were not so, by what pro cess would Mr. Bessemer be compensated for his labour! The whole race of ironmasters and iron agents would the inventor of the rolling mill, and the general public laugh at him, and leave him to the condition of Cort, would rejoice in cheap iron. The manufacturer an'l iron merchant looks only to low cost price as a means of increasing the sale and profits. He did not see that the brain of the man of genius is a working element ; he cannot weigh that by the ton, and he calls it monopoly, forgetting, or possibly remembering, that his own mo nopoly lies in his large capital. But for the hoped re ward, the probability is that the inventor would not have been stimulated to exertion, and the world would have been without the invention. "nom is it that the iron trale, with a'l their appliances and means, with scarcely any need for outlay in the experiments, in their large works, have left it to Cort and Bessemer to make the great di , covertes that con,titute epochs ? Or will they 1) any one of the great things that yet remain be hind ? In truth, the inventor, like the poet, actor, mu -3; clan, painter, has a peculiar brain, as niti&l so al the man of business, only more rare in occurre.,ce. The !nail of business scoffs at him as a " schemer" while un• successful—the money teat being in his mind the only test of success—and in the event of success he is de nounced as a monopolist till the man of business gets possession of his scheme, and then it becomes a "suc cessful speculation." I am, Sir, yours faithfully, W. BRIDGES ADAMS. (From the Tl r o'verhampten Chronicle.) Mr. Bessemer's discovery of a method of making mal leable iron and "semi-steel" with Out subjecting pig iron to the process of refining and puddling, by which a large saving in fuel, and labour, and machinery will be effected, continues to excite great attention in this neighbourhood. In our last publication we give Mr. Bessemer'. account of his invention, as detailed at the meeting of the British Aesociati.m for Advancing Art and Science at Cheltenham ; and in our present paper we furnish a further account of an experimental trial which took place in London on Friday last. The opera tion was witnessed by a numerous company of gentlemen connected with the irao trade, and pronounced success ful. Two conditions, however, were wanting to that thorough fulfilment of the promises which Mr. Bes semer's inventi on holds out, which may seem to require some explanation ; and this explanation it is now our purpose to afferd. The experiment, for- several good •reasons, took place in L eidon ; but neither in London nor its neighbourhood are blast furnaces or iron mills and forges to be found. The operation, consequently, was carried into effect upon pig iron melted in a cupola, instead of melted iron flowing from a blast ' furnace ; but this in no particular favoured the experi ment, for the bulk from which the contents of Mr. Bes semer's cylinder were taken being less than that of "a charge" in a blast furnace, the heat, in all probability, was less, and the metal, consequently, not so well pre pared fer that admixture of atmospheric air by which its high state of incandescence is acquired. The second condition attaching to the experiment that could not he fulfilled was the conversion of the contents of the cylin der into bar iron. No attempt to do this could be made in consequence of none of the machinery for the purpose having been erected in connedtion with establishments for melting iron in the metropolis or its neighbourhood ; but the fact that malleable iron, fibrous iron, has been made by Mr. Bessemer's process, is, we understand, placed beyond doubt by the exhibition of bars that are the result of the process. Thus the process would seem complete, and the evidence of its completion before our eyes. Still the discovery is so simple, yet so great and unexpected, and the results so extensive and important, that some amount of doubt as to its immediate per fection may be excusably entertained. There is not, so far as we can understand, any chemical difficulty whatever in the way of the invention. On the con trary, through its chemical action—that is, by the infusion of compressed atmospheric air into Vie mass of melted iron in the cylinder—it works out the chemical change effected by puddling, and at the :mine time toppled that mechanical motion in the ma , s which the puddler with his long iron bar can only with great labour effect. The liquid iron owing to the intense heat gained literally bails, bubbles, and the scum is cast off; taken from the cylinder in this state it is " semi-steel : " alowed to remain a little longer, it becomes, as thickened liquids after the evaporation of portions of their aqueous contents often do, of a pasty and stringy character—of that consistence that gives the fibre to the iron. How this is effected is not quite clear. We know the modus operandi, but the can e of the change is beyond our view. In the case of Mr. Besse mer's iron it seems to be effected by intense heat ; in the present practice the heat is less, and the exposure to the influence of atmospheric air, modified cr changed by its progress through the puddling furnace, would appear to be greater ; for the surface of iron presented to atmo aphelia influence in Mr. Bessemer's cylinder cannot be more than the superficies of its circumference. Hence, in the two operations there is an important difference. Whether that difference eads in precisely the same re sult, so far as obtaining malleable iron is concerned, is a circumstance which only practice can substantiate. Mr. Bessemer, in the present position of his discovery, and the comparatively imperfect state in which it has been submitted to the public, must expect to encounter many doubts—doubts that only its general adoption can solve. As may be guessed from our preceding re-* marks, some of these hay. already appeared, and have received a most satisfactory and conclusive answer. Another of these doubts is the character of the pig iron which has been the subject of experiment. A writer, who adopts the signature of "Ironmaster," wishes "to know what the quality of pig was that he used in his experiments ; whether it was cold air, hot air, mine, cin der, or any of these mixed," as a k n o w l e d g e of this is necessary to render the comparative loss by puddling and " boiling" accurately known—and, ofcourse, to some ex tent, the value of the invention. We have ourselves, from good authority, heard of Shropshire pig iron of such excellent quality that, upon being heated in a black smith's forge and hammered, it was, without puddling or any other process, converted into excellent malleable iron. We cannot here enter into any description of the qualities that constitute good iron further than to state thatvite ductility and capability of extension, either by elongation or in breadth, or by both, with its anti laminating nature, are the constituent merits of high class iron. It is, of course, too soon to ask that Mr. Bessemer should present us with sp ec i mens of i ron o f the high quality we have indicated. All that the terms of his invention allo U 9 to require is that malleable iron, produced from pig iron without puddling, should be shown. And this is, indeed, a high require ment. One of the principal, and mo s t expens i ve , an d most laborious, processes in iron making will be super seded. This is gained if Mr. Bessemer's invention should produce only a low class of fibrous iron. Improvements would naturally follow ; and the cost of iron being re duced, its wonderful adaptability to the requirements and the accommodations of life would be rendered more and more evident as human ingenuity, ever progressing, devised. It has not been our purpose, as the reader will per ceive, to dwell upon the more immediate and pecu• niary results of Mr. Bessemer's invention. We wish to indicate its bearings, nct merely with regard to its local or national, but its social results. We take it fir granted that the cost of the production of iron will be materially diminished, and the consequent ap y g e r t ea u t i er Pe m rc a e n iv u *i fact t u a r k e e , place;p i ari c e herhence t a t o g r m e a a t ny d p e u na r p a o n s d e , s a and greater employment. No useful invention has ever diminished employment: A change of the mode of employment has become necessary ; but the more re ,dily that change has been accepted the greater has boen the well-doing of the individuals concerned. In the present case, so hard and so life-destroying is the puddler 's labour that we believe there does not exist any serious objection to its relinquishment on the part of very many concerned. Loss of human life, they wisely think—and their own lives are the lives con cerned—would be exhausted. Experiments to test the invention will, we hear, soon take place. It will be advisable that th e y s h ou ld be as numerous and as much diversified as circumstances will permit. The invention is so important that no con ceivable tests ought to be omitted, for by its capability of standing these tests its value must be ascertained. These tests, so far as we can judge, are likely to be rigorous, yet mir, and, we may add, conducted with every wish to find them successful. The theory of the invention, 8) far as we can ascertain, is believed to be perfect ; in its practice, beyond the experimental range of Mr. Bessemer, some difficulties are assumed, but they are not considered to be insurmountable ; an d w hi le the testing spirit is awakened, that of inquiry cannot slumber—they must work together ; and we believe we can say that experiments upon a scale calculated to show whether the invention is one of limited or of universal applicability will soon be undertaken. In a few weeks we shall, upon safe ground, be able to speak v e this we one of the greatest inventions of the day and rif the we might say upon the supposition that it p rocee d s no further than its " semi steel" process. F or our selves, we do not quit it here, for we have faith ; we believe that the contemplated experiments will ;y statements of the inventor. _ _ We have yet a word to say. It is that th e informa tion of the invention has not been received with dissatis• faction by the working classes in this neighbourhood. flow should we speak o: think of a private gentleman who had a charity to (lispense and bargained to ekei out his butler's and porter's wages by abstractions of two pences and threepence° in the shillmg ? But it must, I conceive, be still less known that the acts of Parliament establishing these deductions from pensions and salaries on the civil list exempt all per sions less than 1001. a year, and all of the nature of charitable donations, whatever the amount ; and yet it is the incredible fact that these exemptions have not only not been attended to, but that the smallest charities have keen subjected to the heaviest fines. When, upon the appeal of 16 bankers, merchants, and members of Parliament, Mr. Pitt relieved the distress of Henry Curt by a pension of 2001. a year, iu 1704, five years after the nwional benefactor had been pillaged by that Minister's bosom friend, this bounty, both in the petition and in the grant, was especially characterised as a charity, yet the disobedient and inexorable official sponge wiped away 401. yearly. On his premature decease, in 1800, a pension of 125/. was continued to Elizabeth Cert, his widow, on the report of the ControllEr of the Navy (air Andrew Hammond) that herself and orphan family were truly objects for national relief. This, surely, was a charity ; yet 1001. only was paid to her. Dying in 1816, two pensions of 251. Os. each were accorded to two unmarried daughters, and then, as if %i)lation were the very rule of office, these pensions, which possessed the double claim to exemption of both conditions, being both charities and less than 100/. a year, were taxed with increased deductions ; 19/. per annum only has been paid on each. The charity rol of the Bridal' empire has taken public credit for 12/. 12 yearly which it did not pay, and the sign manual of its Sovereign stood before the world for 40 years at.a discount of nior than 25 per cent. It is difficult to trace the commencement or the final erect'on of these illegalities. Necessitous recipients needing these small sums were probat ly in no position to mak. complaint, even had they known their griev a ice. The expensive re nedy provired in the respec tive acts—petition to the Barons of the Exchequer— was likkly to swallow up the who'e instead of a part of the pensions ; it might be natural to fear that a pension granted during pleasure could he cancelled by dis pleasure, and thus the poor, who could least afford the imposition, were only too glai to take what they could get out of a gift. From documents attached to the re• port of a select committee on pension; 1808 (reprinted 1838), it appears that the clumsy device far filtering sub rosa certain charges of deduction out of other charges had led to infinite troubles and irregularities. Inter alia it is reported that numerous officers who were in a position to help themselves had habitually paid to them selves their pensions or salaries in full for so long a period that their utter ruin would have been the con sequence of the Exchequer surcharging them with de ductions legally due. The great fishes having broken through the net of law, the small fry of poor pensioners were, I presume, illegally grilled to make good the de ficiency. What the powerful rich would not pay the defenceless poor, the Corts, among the rest, ix ere made to pay. This narrative offers but a mean and disparaging pic• tore of the almoners of the British empire up to the ac cession of William IV. At that time a nominal change WAS made to remove the scandal and inconvenience of such complicated intricacy, but a relation of the step•l taken to render illegal deductions permanent in the face of new acts of Parliament declaring their abolition, and which are still more inconceivable than the previous ir regularity, would double the length of this already too long letter. Should you consider its details of sufficient importance to warrant their insertion, connected as they are with the most enduring scientific and com mercial facts in the world's history, I shall then presume to trouble you with the conclusion of the story. I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, Albany-street, Aug. 25. DAVID MUSEUM THE CASE OF HENRI ? CORPS DAUGIITER. The f, Ilowing letter has been addressed to the editor of the Times:— Sir,—lf the reque-t of a further brief !pace in your columns is not an encroachment on the kindness which inserted my late letter, I am anxious to state a few par titulars which, besides their connecti , n with the c l a i ms of the individual sufferers in the Curt tragedy, ha v e a considerable public interest. It is, perhaps, little known to those it most con cerns—the recipients of small pensions—that out of the pittance ordered in their original warrants 7. per cent, has been commonly abstracted to aid in paying the interest of several millions borrowed t> discharge the private debts of George I. and George 11. A further benevolence of 5 per cent. was claimed for Westminster land tax, th o u g h it is difficult to the inventor of the rolling-mill, and the general public to discern the connection between this impoEt and a grant of charity to deserving persons in some distant part of the kingdom. Under the shadowy title of Exchequer fees further exhaustion of 7. ",;o 12 per cent, depletes the Crown gift 20 to 25 per cent. alogether below the nomi nal bounty—sure.y a strange series of arrangements for distributing the charities of a great nation, especially the last, which introduced a poor pensioner on the official scene as a prise or booty to gladden the MS angustm of, we must presume, the under-paid servants of the State. BRADFORD MUSICAL FESTIVAL. This festival began on Tuesday morning, and its com mencement augurs a result so successful as to render Bradford the permanent seat of one of the greatest pro vincial music meetings of England. Like those of Bir mingham and Norwich it is to be triennial ; and this year it emulates the magnitude and importance of the greatest of them all, the Birmingham Festival itself. The arrangements are on a scale worthy of the wealthy and prosperous town where it is held, and their taste and judgment are implied in the fact that they were com mitted to the hands of Mr. Costa. The total number of performers, including the solo singers, the chorus, and the instrumental orchestra, is above three hundred and seventy. The principal vo calists are Madame Clara Novelle, Madame Weiss, Mrs. Sunderland, Miss ItLiner, Miss Sherrington, and Mdlle. Piecolomini, soprani; MadaineViardot, afadame Alboni, and Miss Fanny Huddart, contralti ; Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. Montem Smith, and Herr Reichardt, tenors ; Mr. Weiss, Herr Ferules, Mr. Winn, and Signors Belletti and Beneventano, basses. In this enumeration we miss some names—especially that of Miss Dolby—generally regarded as indispensable on such occasions ; but the list is a strong one, and sufficient for excellent oratorio performances as well as miscellaneous concerts. The instrumental band is 103 strong, with Messrs. Sainton l and !), in rrti jhn ß i egy land, ago aab r otuot e as wp2nars,oe,t excellence, hardly T cisel Iprincipalpernocevey provinci al ofi aaci h violins.;o considerable ut sh ng he chorus, singing. no gb. ev vil l ag e a p gne There ec um teiid in Yorkshire, that has not its choral society, by whom, and without any extraneous aid, the sacred works of the great wasters are habitually performed in a manner which gives a stranger no small astonishment. This Bradford Chorus, consequently, is of admirable quality ; but yet, though every voice is efficient, the aggregate is scarcely strong enough to contend with the immense power of instrumental sound. At the Bir mingham Festival of last year the chorus and or chestra were admirably balanced ; and there, while the instruments were of the same strength as at Bradford, the chorus was stronger by nearly a hundred voices. The undue preponderance of the instruments over the voices is a prevailing fault in choral performances, and we have often pointed it out as occurring at Exeter Hall. It enfeebles the chorus without adding to the real strength of the orchestra, thus creating an impression of weakness rather than of power. The opening performance on Tuesday morning con sisted of Mendelssohn's claef-d'oeuvre, " Elijah," a work which, like "The Messiah," is now considered de rigueur at every great festival or music meeting. Indeed, " Elijah" has taken a hold of the tastes and affections of the English public almost as strong as that possessed by " The Messiah " itself. It may be said of alendelssohn, as of Handel, that if Germany was the land of his birth, England is the land of his adoption. After the lapse of a century Handel is less known in his native country than he was in ours even in his own day ; and, after the lapse of another century, the same thing will not im probably be the case with Mendelssohn. This perform ance was excellent, and worthy of the occasion. The character of the Prophet was sustained by Mr. Weiss, to whose merits we have often paid our just tribute of praise. In loftiness of tone, impressive grandeur of elo cution, and vocal power, he is not surpassed (if, indeed, he has ever been equalled), by any one who has ever essayed this arduous part. If, in the principal soprano part, Clara Novello has been excelled by any one, it has only been by Jenny Lind, and even this may be made a question. In the great air, " Heat. ye, Israel," Madame Novello, in grandeur of conception and ar tistic execution, has certainly left every other compe titor far behind. Mr. Sims Reeves sang with his usual success. His two beautiful airs, "If with all your hearts," and "Then shall the righteous shine forth," produced a great impression. The latter was re-de• manded, but Mr. Reeves did not repeat it. The fine trio for soprani, " Lift thine eyes to the nyluntaine," sung by Madame Novelle, Madame Weiss,and Madame Viardot, was, on being re-demanded, given a second time. The choruses were sung with true Yo,kshire precision, and their effect was magnificent. There were nearly two thousand persons present, ant the receipts are estimated at about 1,0001. The performance of yesterday morning consisted of Mr. Costa's new oratorio, "Eli." To-day "The Mes siah" is to be performed ; and to-morrow morning there will be a variety of sacred pieces, including the 103 d Psalm set by Mr. Jackson (a provincial composer of considerable merit), Mendelssohn's 114th Psalm, and a selection from Mr. Henry Leslie's 1" Immanuel." A miscellaneous concert tomorrow evening will terminate the festival. DISTRESSING CASE. Yesterday Mr. William Carter, the coroner for East Surrey, proceeded with an inquiry at the Britannia Ta virn, Wandsworth-road, relative to the death of George Hawthorn Vincent, aged 42, a coach trimmer, of No. 10, John-street, near the above-named 'house. The evidence of the widow and other witnesses showed that on Tuesday morning laet, about 5 o'clock, the de ceased gat cut of bed to make some cocoa for his wife, who had only been confined a few days. He was then in a very distressed state of mind, as there was no food in the house for thelchildren (four in numbs , r), and he said he would go :led try to get some ruone . v to buy bread. About five minutes afterwards a man named Morgan called for a debt that wa, due him, :ad Searched the bed room to find the deceased, but not doing so, said he should imprison him (deceased) when he caught him. It was believed at that time that the unfortunate man had left the house, but his .son, a bout seven years of age, on going into the yard, saw hi in in the water butt. An alarm was raised, and a man a amed Badcock found deceased's head downwards in the butt, the water just coming up to the shoulders. Ho was apparently star . ing on the right foot, and the toe of the left just toucla d the ground. He was at once taker out, but was dead. The water butt was about thre a feet high, but the water was only two feet deep. The deceased bad been unable to obtain any employment, a. nd had walked about for days at a time without tasting food. In his pocket e a found a lawyer's letter, tbreate Ding him with legal pro ceedings if be did nut at once pay a bill amounting to 41. 18s. 2s. On Saturday lash he borrowed a shilling oi a friend, which he spent to buy a little food for his wife : but with the exception of some i nieces of meat and part of a loaf, which the whole family partook of on Sunday there was no food iu the house up to the morning of the. deceased's committing suicide. I. \. verdict of "Tempo rary insanity" was returned in this ,zase. [PRICE 4D. STAMPED bD- THE WO :111W FLOGGING IN MARY LE BONE WORKHOUSE. CONCL . 'SION OF VIE INQITIRY. Yesterday the poor law invfstigation as to the alleged flogging of ti.e females in Marylebone Workhouse was iesulued before REr. R. B. Cane, the ins?eetor. A lar !. e number of the directors and guardians, and the accuie , l parties, were again pre-ea. Chas. Wetherington was fiat morn. He said, lam 19 years of age, and an inmate of Nl , rylebone Work house. I nON Mary Ann Sullivan. On the 22d July, about one in the afternoon, I heard a scream, and on go lug into the yard to see what it was, I saw Mr. Ryan and Green Licking up two girl Sullivan and Reynolds, in the cells. Their shoes were taken from them. Mr. Ryan went to the carpenter, and spoke to him, and the car perit-ar then went and nailed sr me wood over the grating whin`► lets Vie air into the cell in which Reynolds was placed. ALoot 8 o'clock that night I was in the yard again, and saw Ryan and Brown go and unlock the cells. Sullivan came out into the yard, and just as Reynolds came out o! the cell-door Brown struck her with his hand on the shoulder. Sullivan then ran back to Brown, and he caught ho'd of her by the hair of her head, and dragged her by itinto the cell, which Reynolds had just le t. A little while after I saw Ryan and Green bring another girl, na-ne I Howard, take her shoes off, and lock her up. AbOut a quarter-past 10 the same night I was in my ward 4nd heard some one unlocking a gate. I went out a n d saw Ryan go to the cells and tell Howard and Sullivan to Come out. They asked for water, and said as they had been there all day without anything, they migl.t at well be there all night. Ou this Ruth went to tl,e middle of the i and and whistled, and then Brown and Green came to the cells and pulled them oat. Brown Lad hold of Sullivan and Green of froward. They went up the yard, and I then saw Brown lift Sul livan comple;elyloff the ground by the hair of her head with both hands, and carry her in that way for some yards. They then took the girls into the passage, and I afterwards heard great screaming. By members of the Board—l considered the conduct of the porters v,ry cruel, but I did not give evidence before the board of guardians because I was not called. By Brown--I twill swear I saw you lift Sullivan off the ground by . the hair of her head with both your hands. I did not see anyone strike Sullivan. She was taken to the passage, and I then heard a lashing of canes, and screams. I know they were canes, because I saw them in the hands of Brown and Green. Mr. Ryan, I think, had a whip in his hands. I have been in Maidstone Gaol for three months. I have been in prison three times—once for assaulting Mr. Tubbs, the relieving officer, and twice for felony. Michael Hickey and John Butler, two other inmates of the same ward, gave similar testimony. Hickey ad mitted that he had been in gaol for bad conduct. Mr. William Boyd Musket examined—l am house surgeon of Mars lebone Workhouse, and know Mary Ann Sullivan, an inmate. On Wednesday, the 23d July, she aske I use to look at her back. I found she had weals on her back and 'shoulders. She had also a mark down her right jaw, frdm which there was oozing of blood. I made memorand4 of the cases at the time. I have them in my band. There was also some extravasation of blood, about the sirs of a crown piece, on the left shoulder, and a bruise with suffused discolouration on the inside of the right arm. She attributed these marks to her having been flogged about 1f or 16 hours previ ously. The marks on her back and shoulders were con sistent with that statement. I did not observe that the marks on her back had been bleeding. My opinion as to the blows, judging the marks is that they must have been of a severe charact er . I cannot say that such blows were inflicted with the stays on. I know Eliza beth Edmonds. I saw her on the same morning. r i Her back. was n muc h th e same con diti on as Sul livan's. I s a w h er b ac k aga i n on t h e 28 t h, an d t h e marks bad the nearly disappeared. I know Sophia Howard. I was sent to see her on the same Wed nesday morning. She was in bed, and said she was ill, when Sullivan and Edmonds told me she had been also , flogged. She was shy in allowing me to examine her, bat I looked at her back a n d f oun d mar k s s i m il ar to those on Sullivan and Edmonds. I examined her again on the 2Sth, and found the marks presented a greenish dis colouration. Howard had also some severe marks over the forehead and nose, having the appearance of burns. They were such marks as would be inflicted with a cane or whip. I think they may have been produced with the same instrument as the marks on the back. The blows producing such marks as were on Howard's back must have been of a severe character. She complained of pain over the stomach from having been knelt on, and as she had some amount of constitutional disturb ance I prescribed medicine for her. That might have been produced independently of the flogging. She was under my care two or three days, but I cannot say if she kept her bed all that time. By Dr. Gourley— I should thi n k th e marks more likely to be male by a cane than anything else. The witness having been cross-examined by the por ters, Brown and Green, The Inspector said he would now hear any witnesses Mr. Ryan or Brown or Green thought proper to produce. Henry Balch, who was called by the muter, was then sworn. He said—l am superintend en t o f th e kitchen. On the 22d of July I heard Burchall, Edmonds, and the girls making use of gross and violent language against the master, wholly unfit to repeat. They were conspiring to lay violent hands on the master, and do him injury, and I felt it my duty to report it to him. The Rev. Peter Moody, the chaplain, was also called by the master to prove the character o f the girls. Ed monds he knew as a girl of very bad character, but she had conducted herself well under proper restraint. Her general character is as bad as it could possibly be. He was not particularly acquaicted with Sullivan's charac ter, and of Howard he knew nothing. Had been obliged to stop the service in chapel to send Edmonds out. Burchal.'s character was equally bad. Wm. Henry Collins was called by Brown. He said-- lam an inmate. I had charge of the gate leading to the yard. About half-past 9on the night of the 22d July I let the master and Mr. Brown and Mr. Green through the gate. I saw Sullivan taken out of the first cell. When she got out she laid hold of Mr. Brown. I never saw Mr. Brown lift her up by the hair of the head, and carry her any distance. Had he done so while they were in the inner yard I must have seen it. Green declined calling any witnesses. Tile Poor-law Inspector said if either Mr. Ryan or Mr. Green or Brown wished to make any voluntary statements, either on oath or otherwise, they could now do so. Tine master wished to make his statements on oath, and Green and Brown were requested to withdraw while he did so. Mr. Richard Ryan was then sworn. He said—l am master of Marylobono Workhouse. It is quite clear from the evidenee that Sullivan, Edmonds, and Howard, have been caned under circumstances of great provoca tion, but I gave no orders to the parties to use a cane, and I never attempted to use a cane or whip myself. That is ail I have to say. Char es fir own made his statement also upon oath. He Laid—l was late nigot porter in Marylebone Work house. For several days previous to the 22d July there had been an unusual amount of riotous and disorderly conduct going on between the girls who had been exa mined and several others. In order to suppress this conduct Mr. Ryan, on the 13th July, sent me notice that it was necessary for me to do duty in the women's yard from 2in the afternoon till 6. This was extra to my 12 hours' duty at night. While I was on this duty as many as 16 or 26 punishments by confinement in the cells took p 1 ice. On the evening of the 22d July I was called upon by the master four times to render him as sistance. On the third time I told him I thought it was necessary to have the assistance of Green, as the girls :,eemed to be getting ma=ters over us, and that it was necessary to have something with us for our protection, as the way in which I had been beaten and kicked she wed that some prompt measures were required to put a stop to it. The blows given to Edmonds were given during the time she was assaulting me. Sullivan was not struck by me at all. That is all I have to say. Matthew Green was also sworn. He said—l sin day porter at Marylebone Workhouse. On Tuesday, the 22nd July, about a quarter past 9, Mr. Ryan came to my room and stated he wished me to come and get 10 en tlo t e w w it o h m h et i i ll s andor 12 B girls e in a n t d h e a t y o a e r d d t in o t g h o e te passage bed. I nearw hall. I heard Mr. Ryan request the girls many times to go to bed, and three or four voices reply that they would not. In about 10 minutes they all jumped up, some running one way and some the other. Mr. Ryan then called me and Brown. They went after Edmonds and Burchall, and I across the yard to the passage where were English, Lynch and some other girls. I caught hold of English quietly and told her to go to bed. She crouched down in the corner, and Brown and Ed monds came into the passage. Brown said, "Now, Echnondt,, go to bed," when she squared like a man and struck him three or four times in the breast. After a scuffle she went to bed, and I took English upstairs. After half-past ten, Mr. Ryan again came and asked me to go with him to let Sullivan and Howard out of the black-hole. Mr. Ryan called on Sullivan and Howard to come out of the cells several times. They refused, and swore and made use of filthy language. Air. Ryan then called me and Brown. I took Burchall by the wrist to the Passage leading from the men's yard to the chapel-yard. She screamed " Murder," and threw her self down, and used fiithy words. She kicked me so vio lently that I had three distinct scars on my left leg. Mrs. Parker came up and took her away. I may say that for several days previously the house bad been iu continuous uproar, caused up the girls, and I believe Burchall and Edmonds were the ringleaders of the whole affair. I have nothing more to say, but in consequence of the terrible and disagreeable duty which has occurred here, and is likely to arise hereafter, I have resigned my situation. Mr. Cane here said, so far as he was concerned, the proceedings were now concluded, and he had to thank the directors and guardians for the use of the Board room, and for the facility they had afforded in ascertain ing the truth. This protracted inquiry then terminated. M. Vallette has appealed against the judgment sen• tencing him to restore to the Princes of Orleans three volumes of autograph and unprinted manuscripts be onging to the late Xing Louis Philippe, PAPER. s ~~ ~'~ .4._`y P' ' 4 t i 1 %, . :it -4 . .. , t r . ~.' ,S'