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The Directors are prepared to receive applications for DE BENTURES at par, in sums of not less than £lOO, for the unappropriated portion of the £83,000 Dentures about tbe issued for the purposes of the Indus Steam Flotilla, bearing interest at 5 per cent. for five years, renewable for a second Period of five years, and payable by coupon at the Ban king house of Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, No. 1, Lombard street. The bonds will be dated on the Ist of May, 18 , 1, and will bear interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum from that date on all monies paid on or before the 30th June, 1861. The payment of the principal and interest is guaranteed by the Secretary of State for India in Council, as will appear on the face of the Bonds. The Debentures are convertible into Indus Steam Flotilla Stock at par, at the option of the holder. Forms of application may be obtained at the offices of the Company. By order of the Board, THOMAS BURNELL, Sec. Strode Railway Offices, Gresham-house, Old Broad-street, May 25, 1861. BENEDICT'S GRAND ANNUAL CONCERT , MONDAY MORNING next, 24th J une , at Two o ' clock. The lull Programme is now ready. Doors open at One o'clock. Sofa stalls, 21s. ; reserved seats, 10s. 6d. ; area, ss. allery, ; for which early appli ca ti on is solicited.-9; z Manchester-square. RESTAURANT and CAFE DE L'EUROPE, and 10, HAYMARKET, adjoining the Theatre Joints in succession, from four o'clock 2s. Od. Soup and Joint 2s. ed. Severn Salmon, or other Fish and Joint ls. Cd. The Cafe Dinner of Soup, Fish Enir4e, and Swects 3s. rd. A Haunch of Venison on Wednesdays. Suppers after the Theatres. M R. W. S. WOODIN'S NEW ENTERTAIN a- MENT, the CABINET of CURIOSITIES, POLY GRAPHIC HALL, King William-street, Charing-cross, T9-NIGHT, and EVERY EVENING (except Saturday), at Eight. Private boxes, .£1 is. ' • Stalls and box stalls, 3s. ; area, 2s. ; a m phith ea t re, l s. --A plan of the stalls may be . .cen, and seats secured (without extra charge), at the Box office, from 10 till 4 Morning Performance, Saturday, May 11. A RGYLL ROOMS. - GRAND MUSICAL ENTER TAINMENT, pith the Celebrated BAND, Forty in number (established Pleven years), chosen from the Philharmonic Concerts, Royal Italian Operas, and the Household Troops. Conducted by Lamotte. Cornet-a-piston, M. Boulcourt.—Dancing at Nine o'clock.-Is. admission. rpHE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, TriErh Holborn.--LAST TWO WEEKS OF THE SEASON.—Concert and Dancing. every evenine . , commencing at 8 o'clock.—The best Ball Boom, the finest Band, and the choicest Wines and Refreshments in London.—Admis sion, ls. _ROYAL NArIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITU TION. —The AID of the public is earnestly solicited to enable the Institution to continue the maintenance of its ..08 Lifeboat Establishments in a state of efficiency. B ankers —Messrs. Willis and Co., Coutts and Co., Herries and Co. Secretary —Mr. Richard Lewis, 14, John-street, Adelphi. G.UARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, No. 11, Lombard-street,`London, E.C. Established 1821. DIRECTORS. HENRY VIGNE, Esq., Chairman. Sir MINTO T. FARQUHAR, Bart., M.P., Deputy Chairman Benry Hulse Berens, Esq., Stewart Marjoribanks, Esq. Charles Wm. Curtis, Esq. John Martin, Esq. • Charles F. Devas, Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq. Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. James Morris, Esq. Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Henry Norman, Esq. Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. Henry R. Reynolds, Esq. John Harvey, Esq. Sir Godfrey J. Thomas, Bart. John G. Hubbard, Esq., M.P. John Thornton, Esq. John Labouchere, Esq. J ames Tulloch, Esq. AUDITORS. Lewis Loyd, Esq. Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. John Henry Smith, Esq. I Cornelius Payne, jun., Esq. Thomas Tallemach, Esq., Secretary.—Samuel Brown, Esq., Actuary. LIFE DEPA RTMENT.—UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT, this Company now offers to new In surers EIGHTY PER CENT of the Profits, at Quinquennial b ivisions s , or a Low Rate of Premium without participation of Profit Since the establishment of the Company in 1821, the Amount of Profits allotted to the Assured has exceeded in cash value £660,000, which represents equivalent Reversionary zonuses of X 1,058,000. Assurances in force, with existing Bonuses thereon, BA'acunted to upwards of .E 4,730,000, the Income from the Life nch .£207,000 per annum, and the Life Assurance Fund eeded £1,618,000. 1 : L C/CAL MILITIA and VOLUNTEER CORPS.—No xtra Premium is required for service therein. INVALID LIVES assured at corresponding Extra Pre- Valu " A es NS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their , if such value be not less than £5O. ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, re- Cetved and registered. MEDICAL FEES paid by the Company, and no charge ter P olicy Stamps. a • ses caused by Explosion of Gas are admitted by this Company. N". 21,515. PUBLICATIONS. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., ICE - BOUND. By WALTER T HORNBURY. " This remarkable book possesses a fund of real merit. It is distinguished by great vivacity of style, brilliance of colouring, and variety of incident.'' --Literary Gazette. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough -street. Just published, in Bvo., price Eighteenpence, THE VOLUNTEER in the FIELD. By Captain E. PALLISER, 81. d Regiment; and Captain NANGLE, Royal Artillery. London : Lon man, Green, Longman, and Roberts. Now ready, Vols. I. and 11., in crown Bvo., with Portraits. 125., ANECDOTE BIOGRAPHY OF ENGLISH WO KT E. Vol. I.—Stat esmen : William P HI itt, S Earl of Chatham, and Edmund Burke. Vol. Painters : William Hogarth, Sir Joshua Rey nolds, Thomas Gainsborough, Henry Fuseli, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and By JoilSTiiiiss, F.S.A. First and Second Series, 2 vols., with numerous Illustra , ions, 12s. "There is not a single page, perhaps not a single para graph, whigh it is not pleasant to read. It is a book you may open where you like with the certainty of being amused." —Saturday Review. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. T HE PRESENT DISTRESS IN TRADE fully explained in J. GROSSMITH'S " GOVERNMENT UPON FIRST PRINCIPLES." The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficulties ex perienced in 1860. The Crisis is at hand. Anxiety in bus ness has now become the grim torture. Purity of motive, intelligently exercised, must animate all Governments, or all is lost, All denominations of Constitutions are carefully examined in J. Grossmith's "Government upon First Prin ciples." Kent and Co., late Piper and Co., Paternoster-row. Just published, price 25., free by post, 2s. 4d., ON SPERMATORRHCEA. By F. B. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.E., And formerly Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the Cure of Strictures of the Urethra. " The aim of the author is to present a common-sense view of the Causes, Nature, Consequences, and Treatment of this Disease, as also to free these questions from the Professional Fallacies, the Popular Delusions, and the exaggerations of Quackery by which they have hitherto been surrounded, to the destruction of the health and happiness of thousands. These objects are discussed in a common-sense and highly practical manner."—Medical Circular. TMPORTANT TO OWNERS OF HORSES 4- After long experience, deep researches into chymistry, by the aid of costly machinery, I have discovered the means whereby oats, beans, and oilcake may be entirely dispensed with in the feeding of horses and cattle. I have now invented a compound meal, composed of locust beans, Indian corn, linseed, &c., at £l6 per ton, which is equal in value to £24 worth of oats, beans, or any other feeding material in the market. Two quarts of this compound meal, weighing 31bs., at the cost of 5d., mixed with a peck of chopped hay, is a feed for a draught horse, and superior in every respect to three quarterns of oats, costing 70. 14 barrels weigh net 1 ton 1 cwt., at his, per cwt., £l6 16s. net cash, free, delivered by my own waggons to any station in London. Nothing less than 21 cwt. sold at the manufactory, and orders must be accom panied with cheques crossed, made payable to the inventor, JOSEPH THORLEY. Steam Mills, Caledonian-road, King's-cross, April 8, 1861. Single barrels, weighing 1/ cwt., may be had for 305., at 77, Newgate-street, City, or of any of my accredited Agents in the country. 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A medical work on the cure of Nervous Debility, Loss of Memory, Dimness of Sight, Lassitude, Indigestion, Dislike 1 0 Society, Spermatorrlima, Local Weakness, Muscular Re laxation, Languor, Listlessness, Depression, &c., which, if Ilegleeted, result in consumption, insanity, and premature death ; with plain directions for perfect restoration to health a nd vigour. The book will be sent, post free, secure from ob servation, to any address, on receipt of a directed envelope and two stamps. Address, HENRY SMITH, M.D., 8, Burton crescent, Tavistock-square, London, W.C. MEDICAL CONSULTATIONS. , _Dr. LAIIERT, Licentiate of the Royal College of ysicians, Edinburgh ; Member of the Royal College of 21,rg(4ons, England, L.R.S.A., &c., may be Confidentially ;,,,):STSULTED on the Functional Derangements of the '"ervous and Reproductive System, daily at his residence, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON. Dr. La'Mert is the only qualified p rac titi oner on th e Medi cal Register who, for 20 years, has exclusively devoted his atte ntion to the treatment of those physical infirmities which Militate against the happiness of Married Life, or prevent the contraction of engagements which constitute the most cherished objects of existence. La'lllert's Treatise on "Self-preservation," published alarm, bookseller, 39, Cornhill, price is., post free for 13, cr sealed, for 20 stamps, contains much useful information I,tarding the moral, social, and physical obligations of mar -1440, with simple and efficacious instructions for tbe resto ration of health, vigour, and all the dignified prerogatives of Irtanhood, when lost or i m p a i re d by p ern i c i ous h a bit s or "c esa• The work will be found totally free from those ex pagZerated and alarming statements contained in the host of r reten ded medical publications by un qu alified persons, pro sing to treat on these important subjects. 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Dr. Ricord's Sole Agent in London is Front, Patent Medi cine Warehouse, 229, Strand (five doors west of Temple-bar). (Entered at Stationers' Hall.) 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StuartOf fifty yea coughscribable `,S' ny from nervousness, asthma, constipa -I,ou, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting, Maria Joly, Oi O f Lynn, Norfolk. Cure No. 47,121 Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, A nd nervous nervousness, indigestion * , gatherings, l ow s pi r it s, nervous fancies. Cure No. 54,816. The Rev. James T. Syderstone Rectory, n ear Fakenham Norfolk of C aron and liver complaints. C ure No. 56,8 1 4:Mr. Samnel *Mon , Leicester, of two years' diarrhoea. Cure No. 180. Mr. Iteeves, 181, Fleet-street, London, of 25 years' nervous ccnstipation, indigestion, and debility. Cure No. 4 028• ~‘"g•lit years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, with cr rri'p ,• it' as t'ls, and nausea, Rev. John , W. Piave], Ridlingtenaß4.. KNorfolk. Cure No. 3.906. Thirteen years' cough, indi stion, and general debility, James Porter, Athol-street, nea r Cure No. 58,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, i,'-ear Liverpool, of ten years' dyspepsia, and all the horrors of tb, r "us irritability. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, iciber merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased gp 3, spitting of blood, liver derangement, partial deafness. ler ,he I .Alar testimonials from 56,000 patients who can be re -lolVood is sold in canisters 11b. !es. Od., 21b, 4s. 6d., 121 b. i 241 b. 40s. ; super-refined quality, 51b. 225„ 101 b. 335. The post, 121 b., and 241 b. canisters carriage free on receipt of atr lee order by B arr y D u B a rry and Co., 77, Regent- Lunn — , •ndon ; Fortnum, Mason, and Co., 182, Piccadilly, 814 1 1 ; Abbis, 6, Gracec33o and 452 hurch-street; 4, Cheapside d ; 6 6 0 3 Oxford-st o reet , Strand ; 49 and i -- rg a te - street ; Batty, 16, Finsbury-pavement ; P. hillips tr ee 7.:'• tea dealers ; Petty Wood, and Co., King williata ' auduz, tugu LiOlburia I Rad aii-gr"V"' THORLEY'S CONDIMENTAL FOOD (mixed will crushed Oats, &c.) for My Horses.—Read Admiral Roue on the English Racehorse. 40s. per barrel, containing 448 feeds. THORLEY'S CONDIMENT for My Cows. Increasing the quantity and enriching the quality of Milk. 40s. per barrel. THORLEY'S COMPOUND for My Sh ee p. Sold in barrels, containing 445 feeds, with measure enclosed, and carriage paid to any railway station in the ingdom. THORLEY for My pigs. -I- 40s. per barrel. TORLEY'S GLEANER is Published every Monday in time for po4, and contains forty Columns of valuable information, including Mark-lane Report, Agri cultural and Sporting Intelligence up to time of going to press. Price One Penny. Order of any Newsvendor.-77, Newgate-street, City. No. 8, GROSVENOR-STREET, BOND-STREET. ARTIFICIAL TEETH on a NEW and PROVED PRINCIPLE.—Mr. ESKELL'S PATENTED INVENTION (protected by her Majesty's Royal Seal, July, 1860), for adapting Artificial Teeth on Moveable Bases by Self-adhesion, are fixed without springs or any fastenings, without pain or extraction, restore perfect articulation and mastication, rendering detection impossible, and last a life time. "An admirable contrivance for remedying the defects of nature, without requiring new sets of teeth."—Sun, July 20. " Will doubtless be extensively patronised."—Court Cir cular, July 21. "Unrivalled for its utility and economy."— Morning Post, July 20. Consultations free.—Terms strictly moderate. 8, Grosvenor-street, Bond-street ; Old Steyne, Brighton; Bennett's-hill, Birmingham DR. BRIGHT'S THREE DAYS' CURE. —The BUCHU GLOBULES, containing the Quint essence of Copaiba, Cubebs, Buchu, &c., at once cure Gonor rhoea, obstinate Gleet, Stricture, and Urethral Discharges, immediately subduing all inflammatory action; encased in sugar, thereby rendered free from taste or smell, and adapted for either sex. Price lls. ;by post 12s. 6d. Newbery, 45, St. Paul's Church-yard ; Hannay, 63, Oxford street. TRULY EFFICACIOUS AND MILD.- Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, pre pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. Scott, will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and ;iver complaints, indigestion, wind, spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &o. 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, and by most druggists, in boxes, lq. lid. and 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package, with " William Lambert, 20, Jermyn-street," engraved on the stamp. 3, GREAT MARLBOROUGH-STREET, W., NEAR THE PANTHEON. DCULVERWELL, Member of the Royal I- , College of Surgeons, Licentiate of Midwifery, and Apo heearigs' Hall, London, can be consulted daily (only) as 'bove, on all cases of Nervous Debility, Languor, Incapacity, Loss of Memory, Sterility, and all Functional Derangements of both Sexes,-emanating from early and excessive :indul enoes' Has Just published, price le. ;- by post, 1$ stamps; 18 sealed, No. 4, An entire new and original Work, entitled OURSELVES. Synopsis : The „1" hysiology and Anatomy of our Generation --The Origin of Disease—Symptoms, Treatment, and Cure. Also, an Exposition of. and Remedy for, all Urinary Derange ments and Marital Disqualifications, MALE. The modern treatment of Syphilis, Stricture, Blennorrhagia Gonorrhcea), Spermatorrhcea, Impotency, and all Diseases of the Urinary Organs, with Prescriptions, &o.d FEMALE. The Physiology and Anatomy of Women—Functional Ir regularities in Health and Sickness—Choice in Marriage— Their Expectancies and Disappointments—The Cause and itemoval of Sterility —The Theory and Symptoms of Gesta tion—Use of the Speculum. Also. HEA , LTH No. 1. HAPPINESS, and LONGEVITY; On Debility, Nervousness, Dyspepsia, and Indigestion, No. 2. Their Obligatione?llVEa pp AND iness, KA and ßß D lA isa G pp E ointments ; Love ;print secured.nd other M. Sterility Removed, and Healthy °S atches No. s. THE CASE BOOK': 100 Cases of SPERMATORRMEA, Their Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment, Confessions and Cure by Cauterisations, Galvanism, Are. acc. To be had of Mann, 89, Cornhill ; and the Authors. Advice to the Workine Classes fee Half-e,-Guinea: (SPECIAL NOTICE.) Dr. Culverwell is the only legally qualified medical practi tioner living of that name, and can be consulted (only as above). DR. CURTIS' MEDICAL WORK, MANHOOD: MEDICAL ESSAY ON SPERMA TORRIicE NERVOUS AND GENERATIVE DEBILITY, s m . r"" Just Published, the 150th thousand, with numerous plates, in a sealed envelope, price ls. , Sold by all Booksell ers , and sent post paid, by the Author, for 1 2 stamps, , /.1 ANHOOD: the CAUSE and CURE of PRE MATURE DECLINE IN MAN, with Plain Directions for Perfect Restoration to Health and Vigour. By Dr. J. L. CURTIS, 15, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, London. CONTENTS: IN"RODUCTORY CHAPTER on the Physiological Structure and Functiens of the Reproductive Organs. CHAPTER ll.—Causes of Spermatorrhcea and Impotence; Early Vicious Indulgences; Dangers of Neglect. CHAPTER lII.—A Review of the various Disqualifications of Marriage; whether resulting from Youthful Abuse, the Follies of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection. CHAPTERS IV. and V. on the modern Treatment of Gonorrhcea and Syphilis. The Book concludes with numerous varied and interesting cases, to which is added the Author's recipe of a preventive Lotion. _ _ PRICE 4D . STAMPED, SD. was mediator between rich and poor, who was the confidant and adviser of every house, was a part indeed of every family ; that link i n the social chain has long been snapped —was indeed broken the moment Anglicanism introduced two religions, and nonconformity fifty. Now, even the congregational tie of families is wearing out, and also th e congre gational oversight and discipline. Church members know nothing of each other when out of their p ews. If we were asked, "Who is my neighbour ?" what could we answer ? When we are asked, " Where is thy brother ?" do we not retort, "Am I my brother's keeper ?" The estrangement of classes is the penalty we pay for the multitudinous life of our overgrown kingdom. We know nothing of, care nothing for, each other. We are a fortuitons con course of atoms. Even the ancient friendships of families of the same class are all worn out. Those kindly and familiar intimacies which rendered the members of contiguous households faithful, loving and devoted to each other's happiness, have disap peared. Steam, rail, emigration, commerce, colonisa tion, official duty, facilities of travel, break up neigh bourhoods before friendship can take root. Even the railway that facilitates • communication encou rages dispersion, induces even isolation. Men rush to some congested centre to gather money, and bear it back to their homes and families in the fastnesses of the country. Society is a Babel, and life a con fused dream. For the local poor we have a Union workhouse, for orphan children we have Ragged Schools, for neglected and vicious offspring of vicious parents we have Reformatories, into which, even, none can enter until they have qualified by crime. In Judea th e p eo pl e were di v id e d i n t o t r ib es o f kindred. In Sparta the commonwealth at large provided for and took possession of all the-children of the State. In Athens each citizen was familiarly known to every other. In Rome the same super vision existed during the era of the Republic. We have no similar mechanism whatever. Long ago, in England, a masterless slave was hanged as dangerous to society. Now, we allow the dissolute to rove about without visible means, and have ceased to commit them as rogues and vagabonds. We are beginning to see that this system will no longer do, and these " Waust improvements Maum," as Cobbett called the " progress of the age," are anything but changes for the better. Laissez-faire, a sound principle in political, is fallacious when applied to social economics. To leave children, the ignorant or the depraved, alone, is simply to hand them over to the Devil. We have too long con demned ourselves to imprisonment in an enchanted castle of formulas. We are like the cock in the centre of a mere linear circle of chalk, which is incarcerated by the simple fancy that he cannot fly over it. The " liberty of the subject is a dogma that has taken such fist hold of us that we mistake it for the polemical doctrine of the freedom of the I will; and decline to arm society with any effec tive preventive or radically anticipatory remedial power over vice and crime. All our social econo mics are upon an imperial scale, centralising and massing what should be disintegrated and paro cbialised. When Mrs. Warren was complimented on the lyrics illustrative of her husband's blacking, she explained, " We keeps a poet as does them there things." We do not personally reform our neigh bourhood ; we pay somebody else to do it. There is no bond between ourselves and our poorer neigh bours, but a town missionary, a Bible reader, the relieving officer, or the constable. Our charity is vicarious, and our sympathy by deputy. If Lazarus at our gate be starving, there is the union ; if sick, the hospital ; if his children be city Arabs qualifying for the gallows, there is the ragged school, if they can be weared into it before they can effect a stampede ; if he be frail under the solici tations of temptation there is policeman A, through whom, for the first time, we make his acquaintance, committing him for a month, harrying his nest, rifling his home, stamping the whole family with infamy, and making him for ever a broken man a social Ishmaelite. It is at least a sign that may warrant hopefulness, that society begins to open its eyes to the magni tude of the evil to be redressed. One principle at all events now commands general acknowledgment —that prevention is better than cure—that the cure but aggravates the evil—that the real way to improve the world is not to frighten men from getting worse but to train them up to be better— not to hope to arrest iniquity by compulsion, but rather to encourage virtue by persuasion, sympathy and example ; and it will be worth while at greater length to examine the method by which our social reformers set about the business of impressing their their " New Views of Society" upon the legislative and executive functions of the country. THE SUN, LONDON, MOBiDAY EVENING, JUNE 17, 1861. ARMSTRONG v. IRON PLATES. A writer in a contemporary says :—Only a few days ago, in company with a naval officer of distinc tion, I examined the iron plates on the Ceres hulk, upon which experiments had lately been tried. I was not prepared to find my expectations of the in vulnerability of iron-clad ships so miserably disap pointed. The starboard side of this strong ship had riveted to it plates of almost every description as yet invented, varying in thickness from four to six inches, and every one of them had been riddled and rent, and literally smashed to atoms in some places, by the experimental projectiles. Not only were the plates penetrated, but the sides of the ship were torn and crushed, the very beams in frag ments, and the iron knees and fastenings blown away, broken, and crumpled up. Inside and out the ship was so frighfully a wreck, that there could be little doubt that rolling in any sea there would be difficulty in keeping her afloat. One of the plates, if I may so call it, was formed of closely packed layers of chain to the thickness of 12 inches. Through this the shot had passed as through so many twigs. Yesterday I witnessed the practice from the Ex- cellent, and, immediately afterwards, the experi mental firing of the gunboat on plates more recently sent in and affixed to the port side of the hulk. The gun used was a new Armstrong 200-pounder, and the rang; I believe, from 200 to 400 yards. I had an opportunity after the practice of inspecting the result on the side of the ship and between her decks,. and I am compelled to dismiss, utterly, the confi dence I had previously in the invulnerability, or even comparative resistance, of iron-plated ships. Not only does the projectile penetrate the iron, punching it out, or grinding it up, but the concus sion on the timber within is so great that the de struction to the ship's sides, her planking, ribs, beams, and iron work, is threefold that which would be made by any ordinary round shot in the unprotected timber. The long plate, by Messrs. Beales, had 10 shots more or less effective—some breaking the plate, some penetrating clean through, and others tearing away with them large fragments. Both plates had their bolts started, and projected loosely, and of one plate the two ends were curled up from the ship's side several inches, and the centre driven in. The wreck within, as by former trials on the other side, was fearful ; the portions of timber so riven and shattered appeared to be perfectly sound. After what I have seen I can no longer believe that existing ships covered with iron plates will provide any addition of strength to oar navy. To be safe from the destructive effect of such ordnance as that which modern invention will everywhere supply, a ship must be able by her superiority in speed to maintain her own distance, and to choose her own range. Anywhere within 600 yards she will fight an uncoated enemy with guns of equal or greater destructive power at a decided disadvan tage, for the effect of her iron plating will be similar to that which, in close action, is caused by the re duction of the charge. The crash within will be more destructive than on the timber of her oppo nent, through which her shot will pass with small and comparatively clear perforation. I do not think we must indulge any hope that the ships which the Admiralty are appropriating for plate armour will be able to maintain their distance with the sailing of the ships of other Powers. Their speed in their present condition has not been ex cessive, and when the weight of the iron casing► is to be carried under disturbed conditions of water line and draught, there must be a serious sacrifice of the present rate of sailing, and, what is also of consequence, of facility of movement. Ships built and designed expressly for the iron coating may hereafter offer different results ; but, after what I have seen as the effect of the twenty rounds on the Ceres yesterday, I am reluctantly one of those who do not believe that any amount of substance, or any perfection of texture in iron, will be able to resist the ordnance which modern science is daily producing. Mathematical principles in the angles or sections which these plates may be made to offer may obtain modifications of the de structive force of the projectile, but the sides of your ships must then also be constructed on totally different lines and curves to those which are as yet recognised in naval architecture. NAVAL BESERYE. Capt. Stuart, RN., in a letter to a contemporary, says :—" My apology for requesting a space in your columns for this article is that I know it will reach influentials as well as professionals, and may serve a really valuable undertaking. " What I have to advance is the result of long servitude afloat, improved upon by ten years' ser vice, in which I am still employed, under the Board of Trade, each mixing me up a great deal with offi cers of the mercantile marine, who number at pre sent in the foreign going trade' about 22,000 skilled seamen—that is to say, they have received ! certificates of competency' ,after an examination in seamanship and navigation, strictly scientific and matter of fact. The above number does not include officers who took out ' certificates of past services' nor those on home trade.' The latter have only to undergo examination confined to a knowledge of tides, lights, coasting difficulties, the lead, seaman ship, &c. _ _ _ "'That such a body of men, experienced is the management of shipping and sailors, should be omitted in any system of national defence, would argue a great want of foresight and common sense in ruling powers. Their professional character and well-known loyalty point out what value a State ought to set upon their ce-operation, especially in times of emergency. " In the first place, they are all able seamen, qua lified navigators, and many of them possessing extra certificates,' which can only be obtained by undergoing an examination in the philosophic (I may say) branches of the profession, such as the ' law of storms,' great circle sailing,' &c. " In the next place, they are all well read, well educated, and gentlemanly men, fit to associate, as they always do, where their duties admit, with the highest members of society, found, at all events, in the nautical and commercial world. " Now, these facts being admitted, I will take it for granted that they are known, or ought to be known, by naval officers, and to Lord Ilardwicke. His Lordship has to bear in mind that the 270,00.0 seamen commanded by the officers of the mercantile marine are to be wooed into harmony with our naval institutions. I therefore respectfully submit that the best way of d o ing it effectually is to begin at the proper point, with the shipowner and his prin cipal officers. Does his Lordship know that up to the present moment only 5,000 out of the 270,000 registered able seamen of our country have enrolled themselves, within 18 months since it began, in the " reserve ?" Does his Lordship feel that some sort of a naval " reserve" should be created and kept growing into efficiency, and by what better mode can it be carried out than by identifying the em ployers and rulers of seamen with the movement ? " We Laubt throw overboard all private or class feeling in. dealing with what concerns the public good. I therefore assume that officers of the navy will readily prepare themselves to harmonise cor dially with officers brought from merchant ships to co-operate in any system tending to strengthen our naval forces. " I do not see that either the active, reserved, or retired list of naval officers have so many to spare for training or commanding merchant seamen as would justify an exclusion of volunteers ; more over, I consider th a t, even if w e had, it has nothing to do with the gran d sc h eme o f establishing a re serve among our 270,000 registered seamen. As to jealousies a r i s i ng f ro m any amalgamation of the two services being prejudicial to either, let us fo r a moment take a view of what such frailty 18* Do w e not see i t b etween men of war and their crews lyin g side by side, often animating each other v ery seriously both in exercising and trying rate of s a ili ng ? We see it between the Guards, Cavalry, and Infantry ; between the Militia and Volunteers. Wo man is said to be a sad victim to its influence. Man is not altogether free from its baneful effects. 'Tis a frailty of human nature that we blush to ackno w l e d ge, and which wisdom should instruct usin disregarding. " I sincerely hope that th e D u k e of Somerset and Lord C. Paget will be ch eere d on in this matchless and patriotic measure, which, with the barrack system for seamen, will immortalise their adminis tration." PAUPERISM.—The poor-law returns continue to contrast unfavourably with those of last year. In the last week of April the number of paupers relieved in England and IValcs (except a small fraction not under the new poor law) was 836,035, and in the previous year only 806,232, an increase of 3.69 per cent. The increase was greatest in the north midland and west midland counties and in London, but it was considerable also in Yorkshire and in Wales, less in the eastern counties and in Lancashire and Cheshire, least of all in the south-western, the south-midland, and the extreme northern counties. In the more fortunate south easter 4 district the valance W"li g htl yen the ether °icle' TILE DUTY ON RAGS. PARIS, SATURDAY. The resumed debate in the Legislative Body on the vote for the Department of Agriculture, Com merce, and Public Works was opened by M. Kolb- Bernard, who read a speech in which he recalled to the memory of the Government their promise to abide faithfully by the traditional policy of France, firmly protective and prudently progressive. He complained that the commercial treaty with Eng land had not been preceded by an inquiry. The Superior Council appointed by Imperial decree of the 11th April, 1860, limited themselves to receiv ing declarations and obtaining answers to questions, without arriving at any practical deductions, though it was imagined they would have fixed the princi ples for the conversion of ad valorem into specific duties, and it:was to be regretted that so illusory a character should have been given to an institution which the country regarded as a tutelary one. The speaker took exception to the treaty having been negotiated without consulting the Chamber, and to the substitution of an export duty on rags of 12f. the 100 kilogrammes (not quite £5 per ton) for absolute prohibition. The recent Belgium treaty upsets and aggravates many points in the one con cluded with England. It reduces the duty on linens 28 per cent., on cotton twist 40 per cent., and on spun wool by the same amount. In Burgundy and the Upper Marne a great number of iron furnaces are blown out ; prices have fallen lower than were previously known—so low that English iron, with the exception of pig-iron, cannot come in ; and M. Kolb-Bernard concluded by expressing a hope that France would follow the example of England, and confide the protection of her interests, not to Am bassadors and Ministers, but to a simple citizen like Mr. Cobden, sprung from trade and commerce, and supported by chambers of cqmmerce. M. Baroche differed from the preceding speaker as to the value of deliberations previous to the con clusion of treaties of commerce. lie held them to be completely beyond the range of possibility and utility. He could understand that there should be, as in England and Belgium, after the conclusion of a commercial treaty, a legislative deliberation to give approval to what had been concluded. He could understand that the Constitutions of certain countries admitted discussions on the ratifi 2ation of treaties, but he could not understand what were those discussions which M. Kolb-Bernard contended should precede the negotiation of commercial trea ties. The Superior Council that had been referred to was competent and impartial, and it was not needful that a Superior Council of Commerce should be exclu sively composed of commercial men ; for however great might be their loyalty, probity, and eminence, personal interest will exercise its influence. It does not follow that merchants and manufacturers should be systematically excluded ; but the Council should not be composed of them wholly, or for the major part ; and it bad not been consulted upon the treaty previously to the signatures being affixed. In mat ters of this kind there are two dangers to be avoided. If the parties whose trades are affected arc consulted, great excitement ensues. Some demand that the conditions should be most liberal ; others that liberty should be bestowed on their neighbours' trades, but not on their own. A second danger is, that during the period of indecision or transition speculations are organised which produce results baneful to trade, and particularly to consumers ; or else a state of stagnation is produced, and labourers are thrown out of employment. M. Baroche next gave a de tailed explanation of the treaty, and excused the imposition of differential duties in favour of Bel gian linens, because to subject them to the same tariff as English linens would be to charge them with a heavier duty than they paid under the treaty of 1854, which allowed Belgians to import 2,000 tons at 28 and 70 francs duty, according to quality. Nevertheless they were never able to im port more than half the quantity allowed. It is too early to indulge in prophecies, for the major part of the English treaty will not come into force till next October. The lamentations of the iron trade have been heard often enough. Wheu it was pro posed to fix the duties at 70f. and 25f. the ton for wrought and pig iron, it was repeatedly said, and with violence, that France would be invaded by English iron, and her metallurgical establishments destroyed. Seven months have elapsed since Eng lish iron has been admitted under the treaty, and the excess of these importations, as compared with the importations _under the old system, has been 140 tons of bar iron ! It is as if prohibition still ex isted. Of pig-iron the importations have been 30,923 tons, against 850,000 tons manufactured in France. The proportion of English pig-iron im ported is, therefore, infinitesimal. The trades of Mulhausen and Roubaix are prosperous ; large or ders have been given, the workmen are not idle and their wages have been augmented, although they have to compete with 60,000 Belgian workpeople, it never having yet been proposed to prohibit foreign workmen. The Count de Flavigny believed modifica tions of tariffs mi g ht b e effected by treaties, legis lative interventio n was necessary to remove prohi bitions on export a ti ons. Government, t that y i ft courseho they took on several occasions, appeared to have thought so themselves. When the bill for removing the prohibition on the exportation of drills was presented to the Chamber some excitement was created, because many of the members knew that the French paper trade had for years past made c w v a is s is i . n Ga osvteartnemoefntgrpeartopsousffeedriaung great efforts: to s upport foreign competition, and - e — x a p l o rn r ° t st dut a y t of a 120 f. the 1,000 kilogrammes. The commission proposed, and the Council of State accepted, an augmentation of the export duty to 1801. the 1,000 kilogrammes ; but it was not sanctioned by law, and the treaty with Belgium reveals the fact that Government, after conceding the higher duty to the Chamber, subsequently reduced it to the origi nal and lower amount. The speaker allowed it to be inferred that Government had been wanting in regard for the Chamber, and said that, if the reports of debates in the English Parliament were to be credited, Mr. Cobden had said—what Count de Flavigny believed to be an error or misunderstand ing—that while the Government were negotiating with the Chamber, and had consented to the duty of 180 f., they had promised him to reduce this duty to 120 f., and had declared to him that they would introduce it into the Belgian treaty, in order that England might profit by it. He consequently deemed an explanation necessary, in order that no doubt might rest upon the loyalty of the French Govern ment. M. Baroche replied that in the treaty of the 23d Jan., 1860, there was no question of rags; there was no question of them at any period of the negotia tions. When the treaty was submitted to the Eng lish Parliament, the question of rags, or r a th er th a t was raised on th a t occas i on, and procede) the F renc h Govern mentaoaf p a a f p a e v r o an n r i d a r r i b s 0 , n took one engagement alone towards Mr. Cob den, or rather towards the English Government, and that was to present a bill to the Legislative Body. The bill was presented. At that time Belgium and the Zollverein prohibited the exportation of rags. Under these circumstances for France to have taken the initiative in permitting the exportation of rags would have been somewhat chivalrous with out compensation, and going beyond what liberal ism in Custom-house matters could require. When it was proposed to arrive at the lowest export duty on rags six years hence Government thought it better to do so immediately. The crisis in the paper trade had nothing to do with rags, for their price had not risen since the conclusion of the treaty. Its true cause was over - production last year and the state of the American market. M. Paul Dupont said that the over-production of last year was an evil that would soon disappear ; but England and Belgium would carry off French drills, France produced more rags than any other country, and he greatly feared that England, with her superior capital, would buy up and monopolise French rags. Already manufacturers are closing their works, for the trade will not be able to sustain the struggle. He was satisfied to hear M. Baroche declare that, previous to the Belgian treaty, no engagement had been entered into on the subject; but then there was a very singular incorrectness in Mr. Cobden's language to the English Parliament when he said, in answer to the accusation of having neglected the paper interest in his treaty, that he had a promise of the French Government on the subject in his pocket. _ _ M. Baroche said Mr. Cobden had Hot said so ; he did not say that he had an engagement of the French Government when the treaty was concluded. The speaker did not give the lie to Mr. Cobden, but said he had not pronounced the words reported. M. Dupont quoted our report, translated into the Moniteur Industriel, of Mr. Cobden's speech, in which Mr. Cobden said the French Government had taken special precautions that no misunderstanding should exist upon the question of rags, and that with his entire consent they had retained the ques tion in their hands. M. Baroche replied that the passage stated the French Government to have retained the question because they would not discuss it beforehand, but he did not explain or attempt to reconcile this state ment—that the question was kept in hand—with his previous statement that there had been no ques tion of rags during the negotiation and conclusion of the treaty, and that it was not until after the ques tion was raised in the English Parliament, upon the approval of the treaty, that the French Government took an engagement towards *the English Govern ment to submit the question to the Legislative Body. After a discussion of various matters, principally of local interest, the Chamber adjourned. OUR IIODE.RN SOCIAL ECONOMY. The present has been called the Age of Great Cities. The title is a great mistake. Babylon, Nineveh, Carthage, Damascus, Rome, were as vast as the most populous of our time, and were much more emphatically the centre figures of history, inasmuch as they formed States in themselves, communities from whom all power and government radiated to the outlying provinces, colonies, and subjugated territories of their respective citizens. We should rather call this the Age of Great King doms. It is emphatically the era of territorial absorption. Theitendency is to'consolidate regions into one great political whole. The Gothic system has been worn out. Feudal superiority, with tribu tary Princedoms, has given place to the sway of a single Monarch, before whom all the rest are equal. Principalities, feudatory States, have been super seded by vast nationalities, empires measured by many geographical degrees. The Grand Duke of Muscovy has crawled up to the Czar of Russia— the House of Hapsburg has gone on to the Empire of Germany—Burgundy, Lorraine, Normandy, Provence, and many other Sovereignties, but make up one huge France ; within twelve months a dozen independent Monarchies go to constitute but one Italy ; and these kingdoms of ours, with enormous outlying dependencies, go now to be the aggregate of one vast British Empire. But Vienna is no more Germany than Paris is France, or Rome Italy. Petersburg and London are only units in many communities, each of which has its own influence upon the whole. The American system is an experiment of this sort on the vastest scale. The statesmen of the model republic aim at nothing less than the ulti mate expulsion of every rival Power from their whole continent. They claim the New World all to themselves. They will be bounded only by the oceans of the torrid and the temperate zones. Nothing less than all that lies between the Atlantic and the Pacific will satisfy the cupidity of their ambition. "We are thirty-one millions ; by the end of the century we will be a hundred millions— who can then say to us, What doest thou ?' " Made up of the adventurous spirit, the restless dis content, the fugitive rascaldom of all nations, a scratch pack of the contributions of every people from Norway to China, the last refuge of the human race, already it is only by diplomatic poltroonery, and submission disguised under the euphuism of moderation, that the rest of the world can keep at peace with her. Even now she is not only ready but eager to take offence at us. The quarrels of spouses are made up by mutual hatred to some com mon enemy. What would become of the rest of the world if there were a hundred millions of republi cans united under the star-spangled banner ? Con tinual war alone could cement the heterogeneous elements of so prodigious a compound ; and we can not avoid the conclusion that the existence of such a Power would be a curse to the human race. Practically we have abandoned that system of absorption. Each of our colonies is independent of the mother country—is a law unto itself—has a Legislature of its own—is tributary in nothing to Imperial objects. Even from India we draw no revenue, the whole taxation contributed by the peo ple being spent in and on the country. The pro blem is solving itself on the other side of the Atlantic. The American statesmen dream of uni versal empire, and awaken to Secession. The natural history of society unfolds laws which are offended by this vertex theory of empire —this attempt to . make of Govern m e n t a mae l s t rom whirlpool, tnat can suck into its current every ele ment of this world. The republic is falling to pieces by the very magnitude and antagonism of its proportions. As some monstrous planet, in its cen trifugal momentum, throws off huge fragments, which, by the impetus of their speed,direction, and attraction, revolve of themselves and become worlds of their own, so, if the politicians of the New World could only be brought to think it, there is material for a dozen great empires in the territory and population, over the division of which only into two they grieve with such frantic rage. They would see that even already their community was becom ing too unwieldy for efficient government, and too diverse and antithetical in circumstances, sympa thies, and ways of life to be homogeneous or to be capable of harmonious action. This tendency to centralise and absorb many regions, sometimes diverse tribes, into one great kingdom, if it have its advantages and conveniences, also has its evils and its Ferils. Under such a dis pensation the individual goes for nothing; humanity therefore goes for nothing. Society becomes unman ageable; incapable of being really governed. The significancy of a human soul with its hopes, and fears, and rights, becomes faint and impalpable. Individuality is lost, absorbed in the monstrous aggregation. Life becomes of little account even to the liver. The Chinese, the Hindoos, the Japanese, are so accustomed to regard man by millions, that the fate of one, of a thousand, is of no more account than the myriads of animalculie we inhale at every . breath. The sympathies arc hardened by the vast ness of multitudinous life, just as the financial millionaire thinks nothing of throwing away sove reigns. The feudal chief of the scanty tribe knew every member of it ; was akin to every unit of the whole. Clansmen were the relatives of the head of them ; fought for him ; were fed by him. When the common people were serfs, e ach family owned was claimed by its proprietor. In the mountainous districts of India to this day communities are divided into villages each with its officers, its castes, its known members, mutually responsible to the King or Rajah for the whole. Alfred divided his people into hundreds, each unit familiar to every member of the century, none of whom would be owned by, or could enter unobserved,any other of the hundreds. In the middle ages, every handicraft had its guild and its officers, its apprentices, its widows, and decayed members—a real brotherhood and fraternity which took a corporate cognisance of every family. An army without regiments is but a horde—a regi ment without officers is a rabble and incoherent mob—what is society, so huge and multitudinous that no man knows or cares anything about his neighbour ? Vet that is clearly the tendency and effect of this comparatively modern system of aggre gating and absorbing many independent communi ties into one vast state. 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"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 -9IM noster-row ; Mann, 29, Cornhill. " " W M 44 4 19 4 - 10 to 3 and 6 tco 8 Supdays, W il l 2 CIIIN A. A private letter from China, dated " Off the Peiho, April 16," says :—The Scout arrived here to-day at 4 p.m., with Admiral Hope, K.C.8., and Mr. Consul Parkes, C. 8., on board. Admiral Hope and Mr. Parkes leave for Pekin tomorrow, the latter to relieve Mr. Wade. The Scout left Shanghae on the Bth, and Woosangon the 10th, called at Chefoo on the 13th, where were the Odin and gunboat Woodcock. She stayed there for the admiral to inspect Chefoo to ascertain the best site for a naval depot. She left on the 15th, and arrived here to-day. The Odin was ordered to Hope Sound, about 60 miles from Chefoo. At the latter place there was a demand for cheap foreign goods, and every prospect of a brisk trade springing up. The great bane to healthy commerce, however, makes its influence felt here, as in almost every other district in China. " The rebels" has become the watchword of capitalists. The Ruan rebels have formed a coalition with and sworn allegiance to the Taeping insurgents, and have advanced as far as Tse-nang-peo, a large and rich town, lying at a right angle between Pekin and Chefoo, and about equidistant from these places. Their probable worst intention is to work their way northward to Tien-tsin, and from thence to Pekin. Failing in that, they may file off to the westward, on Chefoo. The recent expedition up the Yang tse-Kiang has brought the subject of the rebellion very prominently before the commercial and religious public. The river all the way up to Yok chou, through a distance from Shanghae by the water's course of 700 miles, is described as most magnificent ; the scenery in many places grand beyond description ; the soil surpassingly rich ; cities, and towns, and villages thick on every side ; but wherever the rebels have come all are in a ruinous condition. When the visitors arrived at Hankow, they to their great delight found there a scene of activity and mercantile prosperity which eqoally:surprised and delighted them ; but ere they were ready to return, and in the space of only three days, the city became a solitude—houses closed, streets deserted, people running with their valuables hastily collected to the boats. A panic had seized them. " The rebels were coming," having taken Hunchow, a walled city on the right hand of the river, about 45 miles distant. Scores of places are mentioned where the interests of com merce might be very satisfactorily served but for this scourge of the country. The Snake, gunboat, was left at Hunchow, the Havoc at Kinkiang, the Centaur at Nankin, and the Banterer at Chinkiang. The Coromandel, Cowper, Atalante, and Bouncer returned to Shanghae: METROPOLIS LOCAL MANAGEMENT BILLS. er encumbering the votes about thirty times, .hese bills to amend the existing act and to appor tion some old debts are once more postponed until " next week" for second reading. This is mere child's play, for these bills consist of upwards of 100 clauses, some of them in a very imperfect state, and about which representations from time to time have been made for their amendment. The board, how ever, seem " resolved" not to amend. It would, therefore, evidently be better to withdraw the bills for this year ; have them revised at leisure, and put it into a more practical shape ; and then get the Government to take them up next year as publicbt bills, which they are in fact. There is no doubt that legislation on the subject is urgently wanted, ait but not in an inchoate shape. If it is to e should be as nearly perfect as it can be suited to the wants of the public, and n t o morernbadegthaannd i t s h wanted. n d t o e d in . t hßeu report e t p h o e r t boardad adopted p should ted s n los y pretend,t h a a s t " having regard to the advanced sion, and the present positiolst m ; ta steps in regard to not prepared to recommend _ r e i od l oft shey aerse _The committee of the boardpr proposed saendd membersm Parliament who have charge eo.Lewis discussion in emntnittee: on Friday last, to u f r o g r e th u e p of these bills hadend m a n e n o f t a I interv o i n ew hi w m it t h o tSaikreGthe matterL • buuptatnhdeygicvaenantayhope that the Government will divulge their intentions at present, or gi ve up any valuable Government timefor the Passing of im perfect bills. The utmost to be expected would be to forward the bill No. 2, as to the debts of the late ofthe Commission, parainshd remesthowvaertdhsatthdei justflicu l s t e y tt o l u e ! settle ment wt n h t ee wayr o s f these matters, which were disarranged by the passing of the Metropolis Local Mans Act.-oserver. g Aft - - _~ AMERICA. 1 kins, which left New York on the sth inst., arrived ! ' in the Mersey at 7 20 this morning. The New York Herald of the sth inst. thus de ; scribes the situation of affairs " The contemplated advance of the Federal troops ; over the Potomac towards Fairfax did not take place yesterday in consequence of information re ceived by General Scott that a large body of rebels, reported to number several thousand, were at Cen treville, about ten miles from Alexandria, and all • the troops were therefore retained at their posts in anticipation of an attack. They bivouacked on the field on Monday night, sleeping on their arms, ready for action in case of a surprise. Nothing im portant occurred, however, except a few stragglinog. shots on the outposts. " We learn from Fortress Monroe that intelli gence reached General Butler yesterday that a scout ing party o f Colonel Allen ' s Troy Regiment had been taken prisoners by a body of 500 rebels at Fox Hill, near Hampton, on the previous day, but Gen. Butler doubted the report, from the fact that the country in that direction had been thoroughly re connoitred, and the presence of no such force of rebels could be discovered. However, the General immediately ordered Colonel Duryee's Zouaves to if such disaster h a d occurred. pursue the rebels, and recaptu re the party of Col. Al,l,ens'lsavmees continued n to arrive i n considerable num bers, at Gen. Butler's camp , and are put t o work in the trenches. They are said to compr e h en d the position of affairs very clearly , and report th a t th e i r masters are very much alarmed, and are flying from their homes every day. " Information reaches us from Harper's Ferry that the rebels contemplate an evacuation of that post, and it is certain that the residents there are abandoning it in large numbers and retir ing to Winchester. From the reliable intelligence we have from Harrisburg yesterday of the ad vance of United States' troops in the direction of - Harper's Ferry, and the immense force surrounding that point, and completely hemming in the garri son, as well as from the fact that smallpox and diarrhoea are raging among the trooops, it is not at all improbable that the rumours of evacuation may prove true. " Upwards of 5,000 Federal troops arrived at Chambersburg yesterday, and in less than 24 hours there will be fully 30,000 men at that point menacing the ferry. It is said that the condition of the planters in Virginia is most deplorable. They are beginning to discover that they have been duped by their Secession friends from the South, and they are sending their slaves off to prevent a general stampede. " ‘ Parties of Virginians are flying to Williams port, Maryland, to avoid being impressed into the rebel army, leaving their families and property behind them. The greatest excitement and indig nation against the Virginian Secessionists exists in that quarter, and the people are preparing for a border fight. " From Cairo we learn that intelligence was re ceived there of the presence of a force of 5,000 rebels at Union City, Tennessee, where General Beauregard was expected to arrive on Sunday last. 10,000 rebels were reported to be located at diffe rent points between Memphis and Cairo, no doubt with the intention of advancing towards the latter point and attacking the Federal troops there. " The steam frigate Susquehanna, the first of the recalled Mediterranean squadron, arrived off Sandy Hook last evening from Cadiz. She has been ordered to proceed at once to Boston. There is little doubt that her destination is the Charlestown Navy-yard, where she will be refitted for the Southern blockade. " The Herald of the 4th inst. states that move ments of a decisive character are on foot which point to the immediate advance of Federal troops into the interior of Virginia within the present week. The occupation of Fairfax will be the first measure. Several regiments in Washington and its vicinity received marching orders on the 3d to cross the Potomac, and take the place of those ad vancing upon Fairfax. " Information has reached General M'Dowell that the rebel troops at Fairfax are under orders to offer no resistance to the Federal army, but to fall back on Manassas Junction, which it is evident the rebels are making strenuous efforts to defend. The place is of great importance to both parties. " The arrival of the Ist (Maine) Regiment and the 79th (New York) Highland Regiment at Wash ington, on the 3d, makes the number of troops at the capital and its vicinity amount to 50,000 men. " Intelligence has been received from Cincinnati of an engagement between the Federal troops sta tioned at Grafton, Virginia, and the rebels. " Two columns of General M'Clelland's command, consisting of the Ist Virginia Volunteers, under Colonel Kelly, and the Indiana Volunteers, under Colonel Crittenden, marched, o n th e night of the 3d inst., 20 miles forward as far the town of Phi lippa, and surprised a corps of 2,000 rebels. A fight ensued, in which the rebels were routed, and 15 of their number killed and several captured. Many of the Federal troops were slightly wounded. No official account of the affair has yet been received. "The fight at Acquia Creek during the 31st ult. and Ist inst. proves to have been quite a brisk. affair. It appears that the fight, which was tem porarily abandoned for want of ammunition on board the United States' vessels on the 3d, was re sumed at 11,30 a.m. on the Ist of June, and continued until half-past 4 that afternoon with out intermission. Captain Ward, of the Freeborn, reports that upwards of 1,000 shots were fired by the rebel batteries, and that at least 100 struck on or close around his ship, some of them damaging her hull so that she leaked considerably, and some hitting her wheel-house and shaft. The Pawnee, too, was frequently struck, damaging both hull and rigging. No one was killed ou board the vessels, but the firing from the batteries showed that the guns were ably handled. " A brisk little affair occurred at Williamsport on the Ist inst. The rebels attempted to seize a ferry boat lying opposite that point. The Federal troops opened fire upon them. The skirmish lasted for an hour, and the rebels were compelled to desist, after having three or four of their party wounded." The New Orleans Picayune of the 31st of May states that the Brooklyn has captured the barque H. J. Spearing, from Rio Janeiro for New Orleans, with 120,000 dols. worth of coffee. it was sent to Key West. The lifontgomery Post, of the 31st, says that a portion of the Confederate troops have been ordered away from Pensacola, and that little appre hension of fighting exists there at present. The Northern Light had arrived at New York with 373,201 dols. in treasure. A despatch from Washington, dated the 3d inst., announces that the Kentucky Brigade, encamped near Cincinnati, has received marching orders for Louisville, and adds :—" This is highly important, as the advance of Federal troops upon Kentucky soil will bring the loyalty of that State to a test." Advices from Havannah were to the 22d of May. Business was very dull. United States vessels were at a discount in the freight market. The Spanish troops were beginning to return from San Domingo. Exchange on London, 4 to p r e en . Senator Douglas expired at Chicago at on the morning of the 3d inst. 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