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Mir THE ROODEE IRON SHIP BUILDING COMPANY, Incorporated under Limited Liability. Capital £lOO,OOO, in 10,000 Shares of £lO each. 10s. to be paid on application, £2 on allotment: and the remainder in Calls not exceeding £2 10s., at intervals of not less than three months each. DIRECTORS. Admiral Sir HENRY JOHN LEEKE, K.C.8., M.P., Chair- man. GEORGE BRAGINTON, Esq., Banker and Ship-Owner, Torrimzton, Devon, Deputy-Chairman. James Baneks, Esq., 32, Bueklersbury. Septimus Beardmore, Esq., C.E., 27, Albion-street, Hyde- Park. Nathaniel Cox, Esq., Liverpool and Chester. G. J. von Dadelszen, Esq. (von Dadelszen and North), 158, Leadenhall-street. Henry Fox, Esq., 2, Royal Exchange-buildings. MARINE ENGINEER AND DRAUGHTSMAN. Mr. E. C. Wheeler (late of ll.M.'s Dockyard, Devonport). BANKERS. Messrs. Robarts, Lubbock, and Co., Mansion House-street, I+l. C. Messrs. Herries, Farquhar, and Co., 16, St. James's-street, S.W. Bmmuns. Messrs. Crossley Brothers, 30, Cornhill, London. Messrs. Gasquoine and Chamberlaine, Liverpool. Messrs. Hoyland and Co., Manchester. SECRETARY, pro tern. Mr. H. W. Pearson. °McEs-12, Gresham House, Old Broad-street, London, E.C. The objects of the Company are -Ist. The purchase of the well-known ROODEE TRON SHIP BUILDING YARD at Chester, on the banks of the Dee. 2d. The extension of the present works on ground already secured whereby the Property may be made one of the largest establishments for Iron Ship Building in the world. The Directors have been enab'ed to secure the whole Pro perty at a valuation, the Proprietor receiving the whole of the purchase-money in shares. THE ROODEE IRON SHIP BUILDING COMPANY, Incorporated under Limited Liability. Prospectuses and Forms of Application for the remaining Shares may be obtained from the Secretary or the Brokers of the Company; but no application will be considered unless the deposit of Ten Shillings for each Share applied for shall have been previously raid. The sum will be returned, if no allotment is made to the applicant. CONTRACT FOR COALS FOR ASCENSION. Department of the Storekeeper General of the Navy, Somerset Place, 31st Oct., 1861. ITHE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO . HEREBY GIVE NOTICE. That on TUESDAY, the 12th Nov. next, at Two o'Clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and delivering into store, at Ascension, 4,000 Tons of SOUTH WALES COALS, fit for the service of her Majesty's Steam Vessels. The Conditions of the Contract and a Form of the Tender may be seen at the said Office. No Tender will be received after Two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words "Ten der for Coals for Ascension';" and must also be delivered at Somerset-place. accompanied by a letter si , ned by two re sponsible persons, engaging to 'become bound with the Per son tendering, in the sum of £2,000, for the due performance of the Contract. ARGYLL ROOMS.-GREAT SUCCESS!!- .. The Band and Musical arrangements under the direc tion of M. BOULCORT, Conductor and principal Cornet. In addition to the Laurent Valse, Strauss 2uadrille, and novel ties of last week, A NEW POLKA, by M. Boulcourt, the Solos performed by him and M. Greebe. Admission ls.-- Manager, M. P. Grenet. 8, GROSVENOR-STREET, GROSVENOR-SQUARE.- ALL CONSULTATIONS FREE. _ _ RTIFICIAL TEETH on a NEW and IM PROVED PRINCIPLE, at TEN SHILLINGS EACH TOOTH (including all charges.) 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TRULY EFFICACIOUS AND MILD.- Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, pre pared withoutany mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. Scott, will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and dyer complaints, indigestion, wind, spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &c. For habitual costiveness, as a fa mily aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their operation and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, promote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, 20, Jermyn-street, Haymarket, London, snd by most drug gists, in boxes, ls. Id., and three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package, with " William Lambert," engraved on the stamp. TOZEAU'S COPAUINE, or SACCHARATED CAPSULES.—Copaiba and Cubeba are doubtless the best remedies, but these drugs are of a repulsive taste and odour, and occasion colicky pains, nausea, and gastric dis- Ar.rbance. M. Jozeau has succeeded in rendering these valu able therapeutic agents r effect 1 y innocuous by increasing in his Copahine all t'e curative properties. This preparation has been adopted by the Paris Academy of Medicine, after more than a thousand trials in Paris and the different Lon don hospitals, viz., St. Thomas's, Guy's, and St. Bartholo mew's, under the care of Messrs. Lloyd, Poland, and Legros Clark. —" Lancet," Nov. 6 and Dec. 10, 1857. The Copahine, which is in form of a pretty pink sugar plum, effects a cure in about six days, either in recent or chronic diseases. 100 capsules, 4s. 6d. ; post free, 58. 2d. Post-office order required ; at J. JOZEAU'S, French Chemist, 42, Haymarket, London ; 22, Rue St. Quentin, Paris ; and all the most important Chemists. THE VIGOUR OF YOUTH RESTORED IN FOUR WEEKS by Dr. RICORD'S ESSENCE OF LIFE. This wonderful agent will restore manhood to the most shattered constitution, whether arising from self-pollution, excesses, nocturnal emissions, the effects of climate, or natu ral causes. The time required to cure the most inveterate case is four weeks ; and, if used according to the printed in structions (which are very simple), failure is impossible. This life-restoring remedy should be taken by all about to marry, as its effects are permanent. It is acknowledged by the medical press to be the greatest discovery ever made. Success in every case is as certain as that water quenches thirst Dr. Ricord's Essence of Life is sold in cases, with full in structions for use, at 11 s., or four quantities in one for 335., and may be sent to any part of the world, carefully packed, on receipt of remittance stamps. Sole Agents in London—Prout and Co., Patent Medicine Warehouse, 229, Strand (near Temple-bar). (Entered at Stationers' Hall.) 'FIR. BRIGHT'S APHRODISION.— The GREAT CHEMICAL COMBINATION of Phos phorus, Quinine, Iron, and other invigorating ingredients, is the never-failingßemedy for Spermatorrhcea, and all Diseases of the Reproductive System. A single course of this invalu able preparation insures health, strength, and manly vigour in every stage of life. Price, 11s. per bottle, or four lls. bottles in one, 335. ; and in cases containing three 335. bottles, for £5, at a saving of .£1 12s. DR. BRIGHT'S THREE DAYS' CURE ; the mbst speedy remedy known. The BUCHU GLOBULES, containing the Quintessence of Copaiba, Cubebs, Buchu, &c., at once cure, without the possibility of failure, Gonorrhoea, obstinate Gleet, Stricture, &c., immediately subduing all inflammatory action; encased in sugar, free from taste or smell Price lls. ; by post Its. ed. Prepared and sold at the Laboratoyy, 44A, Maddox-str ee t , Regent-street, W. (opposite the side of St. George's Church), London, where also may be had the new medieal work, en titled " Nervous Exhaustion," on Physical Disqualification and Impediments to Marriage, 275 pages. Price 2s. ed. ; by post, 2s. 10d. ; abridged edition ls., by post 14 stamps. All communications and Post-Office Orders to be addressed to Ralph Bright. The above medicines have been confided to a Registered Physician, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Eng land, who may be daily consulted from 11 to 4. C. READE'S NEW WORM—SECOND EMMA . Just out, in 4 vols., £llls. 6d., T HE CLOISTER AND THE HEAT: The Era—The characters (male) are the Hero, a P tt trgo master, a Cross-bowman, a Giant with a treble vo i !,e, a Dwarf with a bass voice, several Monks, good, bad, ar u I in different, a Medieval Beggar, a Pope, a Physician, an L !dee.- man, a Professional Assassin, a Cure, an Italian Pa inter, Thieves, Robbers, &c. Females—The Heroine, a Flemish Painter, a Busyla( )ay, a Domestic, a Female Dandy, a Roman Matron, an It a Ilan Princess, an angelic Cripple. Among the more Dramatic Scenes are : The Lovers' M eet- Ing—The Duke's Banquet—A Mystery—A Struggle wt th a Leopard—The Hero rescued from a high Tower by mean s of an Arrow—The Bloodhound—A Man Hunt— Suffoo Lted by his Sweetheart, and saved by his Foe—A Walk from I Tol land to Venice—A desperate Fight with a She-bear —' The Crowded Gibbet—On the Rhine—ln the Rhine—The Si iege in a Bedchamber—Seven to Two—The Assassin's lii 'ing Hand pinned to the Door—The Colossal Robber spittec Lon two Swords—Mediaeval Justice—The Dead Man's Me al— Servant to a Beggar, and Master to a Count—The Rol ,er's Mill—The Fatal Bed—Strange Escape by the Sails of a Mill —The MedimvalShipwreck—Executions in Rome—The 1 4 atal Letter—The Goddess of Beauty a Boy—The Suicide T baffled by the Assassin—The Ordeal by Cold Water—The Fret Letting Friar—Meeting of the Living and the Dead—The Met limval Curse—Wife and no Wife—The Hermit's Cave—St trange Meeting of the Hermit and his Wife—The Wife's Rep ulse— Meeting of the Hermit and his Child—The Wife's Vic tory— The Plague—The Cross of Wood Ashes—The Lover's L to part no more. Trubner and Co., GO, Paternoster-row. DR. LA'MERT ON SELF-PRESERVATION. Price s. ; post-free, 13, or sealed ends, 20 stamps, with En gravings and Cases. May be had of Mann and Co., 3il, Cornhill, London, or direct from the Author. SELF - PRESERVATION.—A popular Essay, on Nervous and Physical Debility, resulting from injurious habits contracted in youth, or excesses in maturity, which, by prematurely exhausting th e f unc ti ons of Manhood, de sroy the happiness of Married Life or prevent the fulfil ment of engagements which constitute the most cherished objects of existence. By Dr. LA'MERT, 37, Bedford-square, London. Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, &c. The above work contains most useful and interesting information on the physiological changes which occur in the Reproductive System during the periods of youth, puberty, and manhood ; and on the due attainment of that degree of functional vigour upon which the hopes of posterity tlePend. It also points out how all the attributes of Man hcod can be preserved to an advanced period of life, how they are lost, and how they can be recovered. It is free from the gross exaggerations, alarming descriptions, and dangerous remedies so generally resorted to by persons, who, prac tising with false medical qualifications, inflict most serious Injuries, and render judicious treatment frequently abortive. The Author is the only legally qualified practitioner whose name stands on the Medical Register (the only true test of medical qualification), who has been exclu sively engaged for a series of years in the treatment of the various functional disorders of the nervous and reproductive system, which, owing to the great discoveries of modern science, arereoni treatment. d tin su m b t servient to a rational, simple, and easy mode At home for consultation daily from 10 till 2, and from 6 till 8, either personally or by letter. -37, Bedford-square. DR. CURTIS' MEDICAL WORK, MANHOOD: A MEDICAL ESSAY ON sp E rtMATO RRTICE A •-• NERVOUS AND GENERATIVE DEBILITY, &c. Just Published, the 150th thousand, with numerous plates, in a sealed envelope, price lc, Sold stain Basellers, and sent post paid, by the Author, for 1 2 ps, ANHOOD: the CAUSE and CURE of PRE -IY-1. MATURE DECLINE IN MAN, with Pl a i n D irections or Perfect Restoration to Health and Vigour. By Dr. J. L. CURTIS, 15, Albennarle-street, Piccadilly, London. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER 071 the Physiological Organs. CHAPTER Impotence; ns Structure and Functions o f the Re p rod uctive CHAPTER ll.—Causes o f S p ermatorr h Early Vicious Indulgences; Dangers of Negl ect. CHAPTER II I.—A Review of the various Disqualifications of Marriage ; whether rosulting, from Youthful Abuse, the Follies of Maturity, the Effects of Clim ate, o r Infection. CHAPTERS IV. and Y. on the modern Treatment of Gonorrhoea and Syphilis. The Book conclude. with numerous varied and interesting aces, to which is added th e Author's recipe of a preventive Lotion. REVIEWS 01" Tln WORK. "Curtis on 3lanhood.—This is a truly valuable work, and should be in the hands of young and old.' —" Sunday Times," 23d March, 1856. "The author has conferred a great boon by publishing this little work, in which is described the source of those diseases which produce decline in youth or more frequently premature Old age."—" Daily Telegraph," March 27, 1856. " This work, which for twenty years has stood the test of professional criticism and empirical hostility, treats in a plain and sympathising manner on the various disqualifications and impediments arising from nervous excitement and de bility ; and to invalids suffering from youthful errors and excesses it will be found valuable and useful."—Record. London : Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, Pater- noster-row; Mann. 89, Cornbill. spurs 91 C9ll4ltitilti9ll-10 to 3 and 6 to 8; StilidaYes V. 04 2 711 HE PRESENT DISTRESS IN TIC ithE fully explained in J. GROSSMITH'S " GOVERNMENT UPON FIRST PRINCIRI XS." The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficult/ es ex perienced in 1860. The Crisis is at hand. Anxiety it t busi ness has now become the grim torture. Purity of n totive. intelligently exercieed, must animate all Governments ,or all is lost, All denominations of Constitutions are ca refully examined in J. Grossmith's "Government upon Fire t Prin ciples." N°. 21,634. PUBLICATIONS. Now ready, illustrated by J. E. Millais, A.R.A., 55., bound, THE VALLEY OF A HUNDRED FIRES. By the Author of " Margaret and her Bridesmaids." Forming the New Volume of lIURS r and BLACKETT'S STANDARD LIBRARY. •• If asked to classify this work we should give it a place between • John Halifax' and ' The Caxtons.' "—Herald. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. This Day, Foolscap Bvo., price Ss., - - MARTHA BROWN, THE HEIRESS. A Tale. By the Author of "Dorothy." London : Parker, Son, and Bourn, West Strand. This Day, Post Bvo., price 10s. 6d., THE YOUNG STEPMOTHER ; OR, A CHRONICLE OF MISTAKES. By the Author of "The Heir of Redclyfre." London : Parker, Son, and Bourn, West Strand. 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Spain. V. Poets and Poetry of Young Ireland. VI. Edmund Burke—his Life and Genius. VII. Scottish Humour. VIII. Comets. IX. Mill on Representative Government. Edinburgh : T. and T. Clark ; London : Hamilton, Adams, and Co. NEW GENERAL ATLAS. DEDICATED BY SPECIAL PERMISSION TO HER MAJESTY. THE ROYAL ATLAS OF MODERN -I- GEOGRAPHY: in a Series of entirely Original and Authentic Maps. By ALEX. KEITH JOHNSTON, F.R.S.E., F.R.G.S., Author of the " Physical Atlas," etc. With a com plete Index of easy reference to each Map, comprising nearly 150,000 places contained in this Atlas. Imperial Folio, half-bound in Russia or Morocco, price £5 15s. 6d. "Of the many noble atlases prepared by Mr. Johnston acrd published by Messrs. Blackwood and Sons, this Royal Atlas will be the most useful to the public, and will deserve to he the most popular."—Athenaeum, August 10, 1861. "We know no series of maps which we can more warmly recommend. 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"An almost daily reference to, and comparison of it • with others, since the publication of the first part some two y ears ago until now, enables us to say, without the slightest .1 lesl tation, that this is by far the most complete and auths entic atlas that has yet been issued."—Scotsman. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and Loncl( m. Sold by all Booksellers. Rent and Co., Paternoster-row. Just published, Bvo, in cloth, price 55., by post free ss. 6d., ON THE SUCCESSFUL TREATM F !:NT of STRICTURES of the URETHRA; showing why they so often appear Incurable, when in reality they might be removed by the most simple means. By P. B. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.E., And formerly Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirn iary for the Cure of Strictures of the Urethra. " This work is the production of a surgeon IN twee special attention has been directed, through a long pro leash* gal life, to the treatment of strictures of the urethra A. Th 3 cases which Mr. Courtenay has given supply ample exiderK of his great discriminative power in the diagnosis of the a rarious kinds of stricture, and of the scientific principle's upo , a which their management is founded. By his systemati c manacement an immense mitigation of pain to the unhar,py sub firers is attained, and future mischief prevented. The work we can most unreservedly and confidently recommend as a v uluable contribution, both to the general and professional rem ter, and ought to be found in the private study of all who are subject to stricture."—Medical Circular. London: H. BaiMere. 219, Thogent-street GENERATIVE and MUSCULAR PO AVER REGAINED by the use of PERRY'S CO] DIAL BALM of SYRIACUIif. Established nearly a centu try, and known throughout the world as THE GREATES RE GENERATOR ; a never-failing remedy for the loss o f manly power, produced by early indiscretions or any other cause. 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Synopsis : The Physiology awl Anatomy of our General:Ml —The Origin of Disease—Syr.iptoms, Treatment, and Cam Also, an Exposition of. and Remedy for, all Urinary Derange. meats and Marital Disqualifications, MALE. The modern treatment of Syphilis, Stricture, BlennOrrhagn Gonorrhoea), Spermatorrhkrea, Impotency, and all Diseases a he Urinary Organs, with Prescriptions, &c 4 _ FEMALE. The Physiolory and Anatomy of Women—Functional 7T. regularities in Health and &Walt au—Choice in Marriaf Their Expectancies and Disarpointments—Tbe Cause and Removal of Sterility—The Theory and Symptoms of Gel eta. tion—lJae of .the Speculum. Also, o. 1. HEALTH, HAPPI NESS, and LONGEVITY; On Debility, Nervons'aess, Dyspepsia, and Indigesfjoli Their Obligations, LOVE AND MARRIAGE Happiness, and Disappointmer.ts ; Loge and other Matches. Sterility Removed, and Heathy Olf s A ug secured.: No. 3. THE CASE BOOK': 100 Cases of SPERMATOKRFAEA; Their Cauaes, Symptoms, and Treatment, Confession!! end core uy c,aoterisations, Galvanism, Aro. &e. &c. To be haa of Mann, 39, Cornhill ; •and the Author? ,; A d v i ce to the Worki ng Classes fee Half-a-Guir ,a (SPECIAL NOTICE.) Dr. Culverwell is the only legally qualified medical pretni ti tionev uving et that hame,..aad can be consulted ( as 11)9Te.) C- 7 —.)---\ 6 tr 1, _ . . • _ .3 1 / A' . - , 0 4 V . e . , • - 4 . , 6,) , 7 00'`,p s • Itet.ll. ROtT. OIT • 1-„ r\k' • -- /4 4 , • 4 .... .. wa, •.- • //, THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1, 1861. IHE NAVY. The President, 51, will be undocked at Chatham at spring tide to-day, and removed to the West India Docks to be used as a training ship for the Naval Reserve. The hired shipwrights and mecha nics who were employed in fitting the President have been discharged from the dockyard, with the exception of a few of the best mechanics, who are ro tained to be employed on the Defence, iron steamer, at Chatham. The dock vacated by the President will be occupied by the screw steamer Rattlesnake, which is being fitted for the steam reserve at Chatham. Extraordinary exertions are being used at Chat ham to complete the Royal Oak, the first of the iron-plated 51-gun screw steamers building at that dockyard, and from the progress already made only a very few months will elapse before she is afloat. Yesterday the whole of the caulkers belonging to the establishment were placed on her, in addition to whom she has about 200 shipwrights at work about her. The massive beams for the bearers of the boilers were successfully got on board yester day, and already the greater number of beams for the main and lower decks have also been fixed. A very great improvement in the construction of the stern portion of the ship has been introduced by the Controller of the Navy in the abolition of the aperture between the stern and rudder-post, for elevating the screw. Instead of the open ing hitherto found on board screw steamers the Royal Oak will be furnished with a smaller circular well aperture, which will only admit of the screw being raised as high as the main deck. This alteration will add con siderably to the strength of the after portion of the frigate, and at the same time will admit of the abolition of the " yoke" to the rudder-post and the substitution of the straight tiller, this, of itself, being no slight improvement. It is intended to cover the Royal Oak with armour plates from stem to stern, making her superior in this respect to the Defence, 18, and the other iron-plated steamers, which have only their broadsides plated. This decision on the part of the Admiralty will admit of the Ehot-proof bulkheads in the fore and after por tion of the existing iron steamers being dispensed with in the Royal Oak and other ships of her class. The iron plates on the broadsides of the frigate will be of an uniform thickness of 4,1 inches, tapering to 3 inches fore and aft. The armour-plates will be carried to 4 feet below the water-line, to prevent any chance of a shot striking her in that direction, and will be laid on 12-inch teak planking. Recent advices from China announce the death of Commander John Murray Cooke, commanding Her Majesty's screw troopship Simoom, on board his vessel at Woosung on the 4th of August. The body of the deceased officer was conveyed to Shang hai and buried in the English cemetery there on the 6th of August. The officers of both services at Shanghai at the time attended the funeral as a last mark of respect to one who in life was a thorough English seaman. Commander Cooke commanded the Simoom on the 18th of December, 1856, since which time she has been incessantly employed in the transport of troops, invalids, and stores in India and China. _ _ _ _ _ _ Yesterday being the anniversary of the birth of his Royal Highness the Duke of Oporto, the Portu guese corvette Bartolemeo Dias, flagship of the Duke, in dock at Portsmouth, hoisted the Por tuguese standard at each masthead in honour of the day. At noon a Royal salute was fired from her Majesty's ship Victory, and from the gar rison batteries. The Chevalier Van Den Bergh, Portuguese Consul at the port, paid a congratula tory visit to the captain and officers on board the corvette. On Wednesday evening the officers of the corvette were entertained at the Consulate. The Bartolemeo Dias will be undocked to-day, her Majesty's ship Hero, 90, Captain Ryder, taking her place. The paddlewheel steam-sloop Geyser, 6, Com mander Jackson, from Greenock, Liverpool, and Falmouth, with condemned stores from the Majes tic, 80, and supernumeraries, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Wednesday evening. The stores were sent into Hamoaze yesterday morning by the steam-tug Confiance, which also conveyed the supernumeraries to the flag-ship Impregnable, and returned with others to the Geyser, which left Ply mouth in the afternoon. Sails are bent on board the screw steamship Cen turion, 80, Capt. Rogers, C. 8., at Plymouth, and every effort is being made to prepare her for foreign service. Rear-Admiral Superintendent Sir Thomas S. Pasley, struck his flag on Wednesday on board the guardship of sailing ordinary Wellington, 72, in Hamoaze, for 14 days' absence. Yesterday the Warrior and the Revenge (the latter leading) steamed out of Portland harbour at 1 p.m. It is reported that they are going to cruise for about a fortnight on the coast of Ireland, having Bearhaven under their lee as a harbour of refuge. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Commander Loftus C. H. Robin son, to the Ajax, additional for service in the Coast guard; Commander S. S. Skipwith to the Blen heim, for service in th© Coastguard ; Commander William (S. Burr to the Phaeton ; Commander Edwin J. Pollard to the Simoom ; Lieut. A.W. W. Onslow, Lieut. C. A. F. Paget, and Lieut. Henry S. Kerr to the Phaeton ; Lieut. Charles Hill to the Orpheus, additional for disposal on the Australian station; Lieut. William Jekyll to the Orpheus; George Gilpin, master, to the Phaeton ; I. Richards, master additional to the Indus for the Petrel ; Arthur G. C. Tait, sub-lieut., to the Revenge ; C. T. Chute, sub-lieutenant to the Donegal ; Thomas 11. and A. L. Clarkson, sub-lieutenants to the Phaeton ; the Rev. James H. Lang, chaplain to the Wellesley the Rev. D. J. Boutflower, chaplain and naval in structor to the Arrogant ; S. Stephens, chief engi neer to the Orpheus ; J. 11. Adams, engineer to the Orpheus ; G. M. Dooley, acting engineer to the Asia for the Jasper ; Thomas Ball, first-class assistant engineer to the Indus, for charge of the machinery of the Delight; J. H. Vickery, first-class assist.-en gineer to the Orpheus ; Andrew 'Watt, first-class assist—engineer to the Cumberland, for the Griper; Thomas F. P. Shelley, second-class assist.- engineer, confirmed in the Neptune ; W. Adamson, second class assist.-engineer to the Orpheus ; E. J. Miller, acting second-class assist.-engineer to the Orpheus; James Warren, acting second-class assist.-engineer to the Indus, for hospital treatment; John J. Tozer, master's assist. to the Orpheus; W. F. Alexander, pay master to the Phaeton ; Beresford Scott, paymaster to the Queen ; John H. T. Alston, assist.-paymaster, to the Phaeton ; J. R. A. Wood Tayler, clerk, to the Aboukir ; James E. Stanton, clerk, to the Phaeton ; and James Bowles, assist.-clerk, to the :Phaeton. College, will comprise the following portions of military history, &c., viz. : —Campaigns of the Duke of Wellington in 1812, 1813, and 1814 ; cam paigns of the Emperor Napoleon in 1812, 1813, and 1814; the military topography of Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, and Russia. In studying the above campaigns candidates are recommended to avail themselves of every information that can be obtained of the objects, as well as of the details of the operations from published orders, letters, and despatches, in addition to the ordinary histories The following notification has been issued in re ference to the Commissariat Corps " The next examination of cfficers of the army who are candidates for the Commissariat will take place at Chelsea on the 14th of December next. " All officers whose applications to be transferred to the Commissariat have already been approved will attend on that occasion, and any other officers who may desire to bo exit mined will forward their applications at once for considera tion, as prescribed by General Order No. 754, dated June 15, 1860. " By command, "JAMES YORKE SCARLETT, Acljt.-Gen." Advices received at the headquarters of the Royal Engineer establishment, Chatham, from St. Helena, state that the 32d company of Royal Engineers, under the command of Capt. D. A. Frazer, is em. ployed in the repair of the existing fortifications, as well as in the erection of additional de fences for the better protection of that island. A portion of the Royal Engineers are also engaged in the erection of a range of huts for the married non commissioned officers and men. The 32d company will be stationed at St. Helena for several years, during the whole of which titite the sappers and miners will be employed - on the fortifiVons. The 34th (Capt. Gordon's) coMAY of Royal Engineers, which has been placed under orders to embark for Bermuda to relieve the 26th company, has been completed to its full strength of 100 men of all ranks from the depot companies at head quarters. The detachments selected from the depot companies at Brompton Barracks to join the 7th company, at Halifax, will also embark with the 34th company. The 7th company is greatly. in want of masons, bricklayers, and carpenters, to assist in carrying out the Government works in pro gress in Nova Scotia, and the men who proceed from have been selected f C r h o m a t h t a h m o s e t to r j a o d i e n that h c e o comp have eyo pany, which goes to Bermuda under the command of Lieut. R. H. Vetch, will leave Chatham and embark at Ports mouth next week. Yesterday Major-Gen. H. Eyre, commanding the Chatham district, inspected the sth, 17th, and 34th companies of Royal Engineers, together with the reinforcements for the 7th company at Halifax. The companies, eacli numbering about 100 men of all ranks, were paraded in marching order on the general parade ground at Brompton Barracks to await the arrival of Major-Gen. Eyre, who was ac companied by Col. H. D. Harness, C. 8., Director of the Royal Engineer establishment, Lieut.-Col. Gorgon, and Major Congreve. After making an in dividual inspection of each company, Major-Gen. Eyre examined the kits, clothing, and accoutrements of the men. The 17th company arrived at Brompton a few days since from Malta, after an absence of 11 years; and the sth company from Woolwich, where it has been doing duty nearly six years. Yesterday a further discharge of 60 non-com missioned officers and men of various regiments took place from the invalid establisheut, St. Mary's Barracks, Chatham, the whole of that number hav ing been found unfit for further service. THE EARL OF SHREWSBURY AND SI.R J. .P.AKI.NGTON 47 WORCESTER.' WORCESTER, THURSDAY. The annual dinner of the Worcester Conservative Association was held hero last night Between 600 and 700 persons dined together at the Shirehall, under the presidency of Sir E. A. H. Lechmere, Bart. Among the guests at the principal table were the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, Viscount Elmley, M.P.; Right Hon. Sir J. Pakington, Bart., M.P.; Hon.,F. Lygon, M.P., Sir H. Lambert, &c. After the customary loyal toasts, " The House of Lords" having been proposed by Captain Candler, The Earl of SHREWSBURY and TALBOT respon ded. The House of Lords, he said, was an institu tion highly valued, and if he might be allowed to say so, deservedly esteemed by the nation. It had often been said by noisy Democrats and clamorous Republicans that the House of Lords was of no use. True, they were not at liberty to tax the people, but they were in their places to protect their rights and to preserve the institutions of the country, and he would remind them that the Barons of England were the first to grant liberties to the people. Him self boasting of no powers of oratory, he thought the House of Lords might safely challenge the House of Commons for talent in debate. They had their Lyndhurst, their Derby, their Ellenborough, and many other persons as orators ; and he thought he might assert that these had in no way forfeited its acquired reputation, either for talent or integ rity. (Hear, hear.) Their privileges had not been given to them for their own personal benefit, bit for the sake of maintaining those institutions which their forefathers had handed down to them. Refer ence had been made by previous speakers to the un happy contention that was going on on the other side of the Atlantic. (Hear, hear.) In America, they saw Democracy on its trial; and they saw how it had failed. (Hear, hear.) He was afraid the result would show that the separation of the two great sections of that country was inevitable, and those who lived long enough would, in his opinion, see an aristocracy established in America; he would not say an aristocracy of dukes and earls, but an aristocracy of some sort or h was the necessity of having a middleter so democracy and despotism. ostagterea betweent (Hear, hear.) With regard to the present Govern ment, he said they had kept themselves in power by advocating one set of principles and practising another. Lord Palmerston had been connected with every party that had been in office in his time, and he likened him to a successful political Blondin—(laughter)—who, from his political tight rope, looked down from the grandest heights, only caring to keep himself where he was. T. G. CURTLER, Esq., proposed " The House of Commons," coupling with the toast the name of Sir John Pekin gton. The Right Hon. Sir J. S. PAKINGTON replied in an able speech, observing that he was not sure that there was not an actual majority of Conservatives in the house at the present time, and this was the great difficulty of the present moment. They had many men in the House of Commons who were so bound by party ties and party connections that they had not the moral courage to give expression to their Conservative principles, by which in reality they were influenced. (Hear, hear.) They (the Conservative party) had been asked—Why did they complain of the present state of affairs. Had they not a Conservative statesman for Prime Minister ? In his (Sir J. Pakington's) opinion this was a very damaging thing to trust to. Lord Palmerston, they knew, had been long connected with Tory Govern ments and was the possessor of Tory principles, and he believed he had not forgotten the lessons which, during that period, he had imbibed, or the principles which during that period he professed ; but he would not now trust to Lord Palmerston's Conservative opinions, and for this excellent and simple reason, that Lord Palmerston could not trust to his own Conservative opinions. (Hear, hear.) If they would look to the history of the last two sessions of Par liament they would find ample confirmation of this opinion. He would ask them to carry their memo ries back no further than the year 1860, and to the Reform Bill, to which Lord Palmerston was a re luctant party, very likely, but still he was a party n e i n d s s if y if h h a lac wanted a the e i n d fi na nces o a u s p l y r oof dealt ° o t Ew o ni i tg t h , l.a a n n d d ( Hw t e o ear t re h , a mh t eoa b sr u t. d )r g e c e Ak t e I the damaging state of loiitical parties in, England at this moment he would refer to the notorious manner in which, rather than face the shame of breaking up a coalition recently formed, statesmen were compelled to give their approval to measures in public which it was no secret that they in pri- vate entirely disapproved of. (Hear, and cheers.) And what had they seen in the session of Parlia- ment recently closed ? They had seen a very similar proceeding enacted. They had again seen the finances of England ruinously and recklessly dealt with, and he was sorry to say that they had seen a statesman of high private character coming down to the House of Commons week after week, speaking against measures which his more demo- cratic friends and allies had introduced, and then walking into the lobby and voting for the very.pro positions which he had condemned. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) This was a very dangerous state of things when men of' Conservative feelings w ere so _ _ bound and fettered by party connection With men of different opinions from themselves that they were no longer able to maintain that high character for honesty, consistency, public principle which ought ,o be the leading characteristic of the British states man. (Loud cheers.) He (Sir John Pakington) wanted to see this state of things put an end to. (Hear, hear.) It was unwholesome, unsafe, and he wished to see a restoration of that honest line of principle from which they would be able to know when they saw on which side a gentleman ranked himself, what were really the feelings and principles by which he guided his political action. Alluding next to the war in America, the hon. baronet asked what were they fight ing for There was one great principle which they might have had in antagonism. The North might have said, " You Southern people are the owners of slaves, and we do battle with you to put an end to slavery." (Cheers.) But they had not said so ; they could not say so, for though the Northerners did not hold slaves they had sanc tioned slavery; and they were not waging this horrible war in order to put an end to the evils of slavery. (Hear.) His belief was that, from Presi dent Lincoln downwards, there was not a man in America would venture to tell them that he really thought it possible that by the force of circum stances the North could hope to compel the South to again join them in constituting the United States. It was altogether hopeless, and it was shocking to see a war waged with so little cause, for it was his sincere belief that the real instigation for this terrible war was the shame they felt that the world should witness the disruption of. that great experiment. (Hear, hear.) He earnestly asked—and he was sure every man present there that day would join in the wish—that that 'war might be speedily put an end to. (Hear, hear:) He could not refrain from expressing a wish that the great Powers of Europe,would remonstrate against its continuance. He thought the Emperor of Russia had afforded a good example to Europe by 'the course which he had taken. They all knew that America w,as very sensitive to European opinion, and he (Sir J. Pakington) could not help thinking that if the Powers of Europe were, without at tempting actual interference, to offer their remon strances to America, they might have a beneficial effect. (Hear hear.) He must confess that he was disappointed at the language held by Earl Russell on this subject at the recent meeting at Newcastle. He did not blame the policy which the Govern ment had adopted with regard to America. He thought they were right in adopting the principle of neutrality, but he did 'wish that Earl Russell had availed himself of the opportunity, at Newcastle, of expressing himself in somewhat warmer and more decided language as to the views of England with regard to this war. He had heard it said that they ought not to judge of American institutions by the fact of this civil war—that civil war might occur in any country, and that this was not to be consi dered as any result of democratic principle. But his answer to this was, that the institutions of America had broken down before that war had begun. Let them ask any intelligent American citizen what were his views on the subject. Had democracy succeeded ? Had extreme democracy contributed to promote the happiness of mankind P What had been the work of American institutions ? Had the administration of justice been pure P Had the Government been free from corruption Was liberty of person secure for the minority ? Ask in telligent American citizens, and they would tell them that which was within his (Sir John's) knowledge, and which they had told again and again to Englishmen in America and at home. " Take warning from this country" they had said : " beware of what you are doing in England. Beware how you copy that democracy which unhappily we have adopted." (Cheers.) Did not these facts speak to them in terms which they as intelligent citi zens of a great State were not at liberty to disre gard ? Did it not say to them in words as plain as the handwriting on the wall— " Happy Eng land; cherish the institutions you have; support your monarchy ; guard your pure religion ; main tain your liberties." These were what he held to be the true principles of Conservatism. These were the prineiples which he believed they all enter tained. These were the principles on which they wished to act. Not insensible to the necessity of progress ; not insensible to the necessity of improve ment, but determined to guard those blessings which they enjoyed under the constitution under which they lived. (Cheers.) Those were the prin ciples of that Conservative party with which, throughout his public life, he had acted. The Earl of SHREWSBURY and TALBOT, in pro posing " Prosperity to the Worcester Conserva- tive Association," said there had been for some years there he might say four political parties in the State Whigs, Radicals, Conservatives, and lastly Peelites, a section of traitorous Conser vatives which had now almost become absorbed by the others, and which, since the death of Lord Herbert and Sir James Graham,might be said almost to have become extinct. He regretted that when the question of free trade was settled, the Peelite section had not returned to the Conservative ranks. On the contrary, however, they had for the most part allied themselves to a party that was diame trically opposed in principles to those which they had themselves all their lives professed. His lordship, in conclusion, urged the Conservatives of the country to combined efforts. Sir E. A. U. LECHMERE, Bart., responded to the toast, and spoke hopefully of the prospects of the Conservative party in Worcester. The CHAIRMAN afterwards gave the health of the proposed Conservative candidate for Worcester, Mr. R. W. Johnson, who he said was in every re spect a fit and proper person to represent that city in Parliament. (Cheers.) Mr. SouNsort,in reply, stated that he had received a requisition signed by 800 electors of Worcester, and that he accepted the invitation to come forward as a candidate to represent that city on Conser vative principles. (Loud cheers.) He had gone through the register of electors, and had found that in addition to the 800 who had signed the requisition, there were 600 more on the register who had not signed it, but who had always sup ported a Conservative candidate. (Cheers.) As to his political principles he might strictly say that on all the subjects on which Sir S. Pakington had spoken so eloquently, his opinions were identical with those of the right hon. baronet. (Cheers.) He called on the Conservatives of Worcester not to relax in their efforts. Some few local toasts followed. :THE QUEEN'S WESTMINSTER RIFLE VOLUN TEERS.—The 11th (Covent-garden) Company will assemble on Tuesday, the sth of November next, at Wormwood Scrubbs, to compete for the following prizes, viz. : Five handsome and valuable cups, a London Armoury rifle, a double-barrelled sporting gun, &c., being the gifts of Capt Carseaden, the Misses Finch, and several ladies and gentle won residing in the parish. THE ABII2I, The Adjutant-Gen., Sir James Yorke Scarlett, w ha id, s , c sh e o d mt d he r eeds minor doubts the b d ntosr o e n appearing n c esn to to the army at home anelde a d br c o i a rc d tr memorandum exist as to the manner in of s uch record non-commissioned s h officers owd b e sh ould be recorded , o r whether any Ckehip:t,,fhidirs eßetosytahlatilinigfuhntuerses one the uniform method be adopted, General Commanding-in and Ldl offences b e recorded in the company d ! faulter book, from which such only as are brought to trial , should be trans f erre d to the regimental defaulter book,, The Secretary of State for War has, on the re comme o d a tion of his Royal H ighness the General Clll ni;aile' ling•in-Chief, consented to g ran t to sol diersacting in place of non-commissioned, officers attac ' bed to the riding establishment at Maidstone, to? be trained as riding masters, an allowance making up their pay to that of the non commissioned °Slicers whose duties they perform. A general order 1138 been issued, wherein officers of the army are infornled that the examination in July, 102 1 of candidates for Acluabsio to the Staff PRICE. 4d. STAMPED sd. JAPAN AND THE JAPANESE. 'TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—The annexed extract of a private letter, re cfived by the last China mail, may be interesting to many of your readers. The writer, from his official position, had many opportunities of gaining reliable information not attainable by an ordinary traveller.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, Oct. 31. H. R. At Sea, between Shanghai and Hongkong, Sept. 8. I left Hongkong on the 17th July in the ' A week's light winds brought us to the beautiful island of Formosa and into the harbour of Keelung, on the nsrth•east coast. Here we anchored for a day, and spent a few hours very agreeably in - _ rambling over the mountains and visiting the coal mines in the neighbourhood. These we found to be worked in a very rude way, without machinery or any of the appliances of modern science. Wherever coal is seen cropping out on the side of the moun tain a small gallery is run in, so that nothing but surface coal has yet been obtained. This is light and not fitted for steam, but there can be little doubt that deeper sinking would furnish a better quality. However, this could not be done without capital, and I doubt whether the Chinese Govern- ment would allow an English company to work the mines. From Formosa we made a stretch across to Japan, rullning through the beautiful archipelago formed by the Leo-choo islands and Cecilia group. Eight days brought us to the entrance of the Gulf of Jeddo. At Jeddo i spent three *Muff' between. the Legal tion in the city and Yokohama, the commercial port open to foreigners, distant from Jeddo about 18 miles lower down the gulf ; here I was put up by the representative of the great firm of --- and Co., one of the first and richest firms in the world, so I had an opportunity of hearing both the diplo• matic and commercial sides of the question. Here I had the misfortune to get a violent attack of sore throat and fever, which confined me to bed. Fortunately, however, about a week afterwards the French steam transport Confucius came in from Shanghai, and M. Belcour, the French Minister, knowing how anxious I was to get to Shanghai, placed her at my disposal. As sh© went through the inland sea and remained a few days at Nagasaki, I saw a great deal, and reached Shanghai on the 2d inst., in time for the mail steamer for Hongkong. Altogether I had a most charming and interesting trip. With Japan lam in raptures. It certainly surpasses in beauty and interest any country I have ever seen. The climate is . very fine. I was there during the hottest three weeks of the year, and the thermometer at noon 'probably ranged about 85 deg., but it is not the same enervating heat felt in the south' of China. I used to walk about Yokohama, shopping, all day, under ttn umbrella, without either discomfort or bad' effects. I fully expect that in a few years Yokohama will become a sea-bathinivrefuge. and sanitarium, to which the Europeans of the south of China will resort during the hot months of June, July, August, and September. The soil about Jeddo is very rich, and appears suited to every kind of crop. I used to take long rides every afternoon into the country round . both Jeddo and Yokohama, and I never shall forget the loveliness of the scenes we passed through., The cultivation is most luxuriant and finished—not a weed or a stone to be seen. The fields are not large, but every available square yard is utilized and pro ducing an endless variety of crops—rye, rice, barley, Indian corn, Guinea corn, millet, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, melons, cucumbers, pumpkins, guimgaw or egg plant, French beans, Lima beans, carrots, and many other vegetables which I cannot now recollect. Interspersed with these crops are young plantations of cedar, fir, larch, juniper, and bamboo, which gave the whole face of the country the appearance of an enormous nursery garden. The Japanese are excellent foresters, and prune, manure, and thin their plantations in the same way as other crops. The bamboo plantations are lovely, more like young Areca palms, having no branches, but single, bare stems, with a tuft of the softest feathery-looking leaves at the top, so that they reminded me of the palm groves of Penang, except that more neatness and care was shown about them. Indeed, neatness, order, and cleanliness were the characteristics observable in everything Japanese. The hedge-rows were clipped, the roads were clean and good, the cottages of the labourers all along the roadsides neatness itself. The country about Jeddo is very undulating, which adds much to the beauty of the scenery. Indeed, altogether the rich and varied colouring of the dif ferent crops, mingled with the masses of woodland here and there, give a mixture of bright colouring with deep shadow which forms a picture such as I imagine cannot be found anywhere in the world out of Japan. Through such scenes you can ride for miles in any direction you may select, along lanes, with the trees meeting overhead and giving shade and coolness to the path. The creepers and wild flowers along the banks and the almost nude figures we constantly met alone prevented imagining one self in some of the green lanes and bridle-paths of Old England. The people—that is, the lower orders—are much to be liked. They are good-humoured, gentle, and polished in their manners, and far superior to the Chinese in almost every respect. They have not that ridiculous conceit which is the great bar to all improvement in China, but are highly inquisitive and most anxious to acquire information, and ready to profit by and adopt all new inventions. When you enter a shop, or a peasant's house in the coun try, after giving you a seat and offering tea, the in mates proceed deliberately to examine you all over —take off your sun spectacles, ask the name, make a note of it, look at your boots, hat, gloves, &c., examine the material of which your clothes are made, and, if you send an article of European manu facture to be repaired, they are sure to take a copy of it, or send you back a copy, keeping the original themselves as a copy. They can copy a Colt's revolver or Chubb's lock so that you would not detect it from the original. A gentleman sent a despatch-box to a Japanese cabinetmaker to be repaired ; it had a Chubb's patent lock on it. After the box had been some time back his attention was accidently drawn to the lock; he examined it, and found a facsimile of the old lock had been put in, the man having retained the old lock as a pattern. The women also occupy a far higher position than they do in China they are better educated. It is an exception to,find a Japanese woman of the lower orders who cannot both read and write. In China the women are kept in strict seclusion, never leaving the precincts of their houses. In Japan woman mixes in public in all the occupations as well as the amusements of daily life. She is the partner and companion of man ; not as in China, the mere slave to his passions. The first thing that strikes a foreigner on landing in Japan is the almost total absence of dress or clothing in both sexes. The men wear nothing but a narrow loin cloth, and the women one robe only, open from the top to the bottom, and tied round the waist ; when the day becomes hot, or when working in the fields, the upper half of the gown is slipped over the shoulders, and they are naked to the waist. The very young women are good-looking and well made, but they lose their looks at a very early age from early marriage, immoderate use of the warm bath, and long nursing. They nurse their children often for six years, generally for five; the consequence is that at 25 they are old women, and an old woman without raiment is not a picturesque object. They are the cleanest people in the world —bathe daily, frequently twice or thrice. Indeed, the bath is to them what the cafe is to the French —a place where they meet, chat, joke, and listen to the gossip of the place. Every village has its public bath, and in the towns every street two or three. • j_4211,45 for a bath is 3 cash, or one•tenth of a penny sterling. For this any amount of hot and cold water is procurable and a convenient place to splash about in. Nowonder, then, the poor frequent the place instead of attempting the performance in their own neat little cottages. Riding along the lanes at 5 o'clock of an after noon, the commonest sight is to sec in front of the cottages (in the country where there are no public baths) a whole family, often three. genera tions of both sexes, all quite nude, sitting in their flat sponging trays splashing away. If foreigners are new in those parts the whole party will proba bly spring up and rush to the road side for a nearer view, but otherwise they continue their occupation, evidently without the slightest sense of impropriety or feeling of shame. Dress after all is merely a conventional arrangement; brought up from child hood with the eye familiarised to nudity, the same ideas and feelings it communicates to us are un known to them. It is odd how soon the European eye becomes accustomed to it; it is only strange to new comers. Bishop Smith says the Japanese are the most licentious people in the world ; perhaps they may be so, but every one I spoke to agreed that we have no evidence upon which to make such an assertion, and I very much question if they are not really less so than any other known Pagan community. Polygamy is allowed and concubinage legalised. Their moral code appears to be very much that of the Old Testament. The married men keep concubines, or if not rich enough for that, frequent brothels ; but the women are faithful to the mar riage vow, as also are the concubines to their lords, and the Japanese gave me the idea of being far less sensual than the Turks, Indians, or Chinese ; at all events, I know you can go through the country and visit the towns, and see a certain amount of the everyday inner life of the people, and not be shocked by anything one hundredth part as bad as the streets of London or Paris at night, or the saloons of the theatres. The truth is, it is absurd to judge the Japanese by our standard; but I question even whether we, with our casinos and CrGmornes "pretty horse-breakers," and the, revelations of Sir C. Cresswell's court, Can fling a stone at the morality of Japan. Like everything else out in these parts, if viewed according to European notions or stan dards, the Japanese appear a strange mixture of civilisation and barbarism. They unite love and respect for women, and a consideiable amount of high chivalrous feeling, and respect for the marriage vow with legalised prostitution, and what with us in the matter of dress would be considered public inde cency. The Bishop's book, therefore, must be read,' and his wholesale condemnation of the Japanese, ac copted with caution. He appears to have looked upon everything Japanese as the London cabman did upon China. One of our missionaries recently in London was riding on the outside of a cab, and told the driver that he had been in China. Cabby was much interested. and promptly, asked, ' Are they a civilised-like peolile about there, sir ? Do • they take. their gin of a morning ?' I did:intend to have given you a short account of the institutions of the country, our political posi , tion, and the glorious scenery of the Inland sea,-thc Servonada, and the city of Nagasaki, but I will keep these for another letter by another mail. opFNING OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE LIBRARY BY TBE RUM OF WALES. On the arrival of the Prince, the Royal standard was hoisted on the staff over the turret of the. Library. - . _ The following is a copy of the address presented yesterday by the Treasurer and 13enchersi of the Middle Temple to the Prince of Wales, on the oeca- sion of his oPening the new library, and his Royal Highness's answer thereto : " M ay it please your Royal Highness,—We, the treasurer and masters of the bench, barristers, and other members of the Society of the Middle Temple, gladly avail ourselves of this opportunity to express our warmest thanks for the honour conferred on this society, by your royal highness having graciously consented to become one of our members, and to preside at the opening of the new library. " This ceremony cannot fail to interest all who duly ap preciate the importance of the study of judicial science and the diffusion of a knowledge of the laws which govern alike all ranks and orders of society, and who deem that the main tenance Ofthe learning of the bar—no less than the .preser vation of its independence—is essential to the efficient administration of justice and the protection of the liberty of the subject. "The library in which we are assembled, built for the purpose of providing the members of this Inn with improved . opportunities of study; may be regarded as an earnest that the masters of the bench take a deep interest in the exer tions of the students, and are anxious to encourage a spirit of generous rivalry for the honours which have been set apart as rewards of merit. "It is not, we trust, presumptuous to hope that amongst those who may pursue their studies in this room many will be found not unworthy successors of those great lawyers and statesmen whose names are enrolled on the books of our society, and many of which grace these walls. " We recognise in the honour which your royal highness has this day conferred upon us a manifestation of the re spect for the laws for which your royal house has ever been distinguished, and never more so than during the happy reign of her most gracious Majesty—a reign specially marked by many important improvements in our laws, and we feel assured that the enrolment of your royal highness as one of our body will animate us all with fresh zeal ever to uphold the dignity of the profession, and to maintain the high character of our ancient society." The Prince of WALES, having taken the address from the hands of the treasurer, replied as follows with much distinction and emphasis : " 0 entlemen,—l thank you most cordially for this address, and for the gratifying terms in which you refer to my presence hero to-day. " I have gladly accepted your invitation, and esteem it a high privilege to be enrolled on your list of benchers, and permitted to inaugrate the opening of this beautiful library, so worthy of your ancient and renowned society. "Although but very imperfectly acquainted with the noble science to the study of which this edifice is more especially devoted, I am deeply sensible of its vast interest and importance, and I value as they deserve the learning and integrity for which the bench and bar of this country are so justly celebrated. "Your Inn has contributed many to the long array of illustrious names which adorn our legal annals; and while heartily congratulating you on the completion of this great work, I venture to express a fervent hope that the students within its walls may largely profit by the advantages so wisely and liberally provided for them, and successfully emulate the fame of their eminent predecessors." • This appropriate address was received with loud applause, which his Royal Highness repeatedly acknowledged by bowing. At the dejeuner, which took place on his Royal Highness leaving the church, after grace had been• sung by 'the choir, The TREASURER rose and proposed "The Queen," but, in accordance with the custom of the society, without making a speech. The toast was drunk with enthusiasm, and 'was followed by " God Save the Queen," sung by the choir. The next toast was The Prince Consort," w hich was also warmly responded to: The TREASURER then proposed " The Health of the Prince of Wales," a toast which was drunk with great and prolonged applause. The Prince of WALES then rose and said—Gen- - tlemen, I Wish your profession every prosperity, and I beg to propose " Donaus." The usual practice is to give a .toast without any comment, and these few words were the signal for loud applause, in the midst of which his royal highness resumed his seat. The band then struck up, much to the amuse ment of some of the conxT c any, " There's nae luck aboot the house." This terminated the proceedings; and the trea surer, accompanied by the Prince, the benchers, and the principal rtests of, the evening, retired, passing down the opposite side of the hall to that by which they entered. The Prince of Wales left the Temple soon after five o'clock. At six there was a cooversazione in the New :Library, which was so largely attended that it was difficult to move about to inspect the various interesting works of science, art, and manu factures which were exhibited on the different tables. _ _ _ Among the distinguished visitors present we noticed t he Lord Chancello r, L o r d Cly d e and the Duke of Cambri d g e. Lord Brougham arrived toe late to witness the ceremony of opening the library, but he immedi ately proceeded to the church during the service. H e re , eeived an ovat i on from the legal fraternity, W h o lined the wa.y, and who seemed delighted to see th e voter= M eal ex - Lord Chan cellor so O restored t o I , where he remained th,