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UNIVERSITY OF LONDON...— Notice is hereby given to the GRADI'AfES, that tr e AD MISSION to DEGREES will take place at Burlington House, Picca dilly, on Wednesday, May 7th, at 2 p.m. By order of the Senate, 11/ JOHN GEORGE SHAW LEFEVRE, Burlington House, April 14, 1856. ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.- The 82d ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL will take place TO MORROW, at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street; his Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON, Pre , ident, in the chair. Din ner at half-past five for six o'clock precisely. ,HonOrary medallions Will be presented after dinner. Tic'ets 11. eacb, to be had at the Roziety's office and the Freemasons' Tavern. MANCHESTER and LONDON LIFE ASSURANCE and LOIN ASSOCIATION, 77, King-street, Manchester. Assurances, Annuities, Endowments, and Loans effected on liberal terms. CHARLES HENRY MLNC,RIN, Secretary. Agents wanted. METROPOLITAN C. OUNTIES and GENERAL LIFE AS:SUR INL'E SOCIETY, 27, Regent. street, Waterloo-place, London. Capital, 100,0001. _ TRUSTEES. Hrt. Spencer ll.Walpole,M.P. Richard qpooner, M.P. I Henry Peter Fuller, Esq. - E. Vansittart Neale, Esq. Life Assurance business transac!ed in all Its branches. N.% The bonus declared at tin last division of profits averaged. 3 3 pgr cent. on all the premiums paid. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager. SCN LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, LONDON. Policies effected with this Socie*y now will PARTICIPATE IN POUR-FIFTHS, or SO per cent. of the Net Profits of the Society, according to the conditions contain , cl in the Society's Prospectus. The Premiums required by this Society for insuring Young Lives are lower than in many other 014-established offices, and Insurers are fully protected from all risk by an amply guarantee fund, in addition to the accut,nlated funds derived from the investments of Premiums. Policy stamps paid by the Office. Prospectuses may be obtained at the Office in Threadneedle-street, London, or of any of the Agents of the Society. CHARLES HENRY LIDDERDALE, Actuary. I MPERIAL HOTEL. COMPANY, TRA FALGAR-SQUARE. (Liability Limited.) Capital, 1,000,000/. ; in 100,000 Shares of 101. each. TRUSTEES. Charles Manners Lushington, Esq., M.P., 9, Mansfield-street, Portland-place. W. J. Farrer, Esq., 64, Lineoln's-inn-fields. Wilbraham Taylor, Esq., Hadley Hurst, Barnet.. PROVkIONAL COMMITTEE. • Honourable William Ashley, St. James's Palace. Charles Balfour, Esq. (Balfour and Co.), 39., St. James's street ; Cleveland-terrace, Hyde-park ; and Edinburgh. Lieut.-Colonel Barnett, 10, Wilton-crescent. Richard Blanchard, Esq., 1, Somerset•terrace, Belgrave-road, Director of the Staines anti Wokingh ,, na Railway. J. P. Bull, Esq. (Bull and Wilson), 52, St. Martin's lane ; and Arlington House. Turnbam-green. Richard Davis, Esq., 9, St. Helen's-place; and Aberdeen- place, Blackheath. George Hanbury, Esq. (Wood, Field, and Hanbury), 25, Mark-lane ; and 2, Hyde-park-square. Henry Ludlow, Esq., Oriental Club, 18, Hanover-square. William Marsden, Esq., 65, Lincoln's-inn-fields ; and Coombe Wood, Surrey. - - - G. H... 11. Oliphant. 'Esq., 1, New-court, Temple ; and Broad- field House, Hesket,darlisle. James Stuart Tulk, Esq., Leicester-square ; and Claremont Cottage, Regent's-park. Colonel George Underwood, 12, Sussex-terrace, Hyde-park, Director of the Screw Steam-Shipping Company. Major• General Watkins, East India United Service Club, 14, St. James's-square, With power to add to their number. BANKERS. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand. Barclay Bevan, Tritton, and Co., 54, Lombard-street. SOLICITORS—C. and H. Hyde, 33, Ely-place. The Imperial Hotel Company has been formed, with Limited Liability under the Act of last Session, for the purpose of building a large Hotel, on the principle of the great Hotel du Louvre, Rue Rivoli, Paris. Parliament having purchased a site for a new National Gallery at Kensington, the site and adjacent ground now oc cupied by the National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, is in every respect one of the finest and most appropriate that could be selected in London for such an Hotel. Is investments for capital, such undertakings have proved highly successful. The leading capitalists in Europe and America have united in promoting them. The Great Western Hotel in London, on the same principle, his proved to be a highly remunerative investment ; the net profits in the last division were 31 per cent. per annum, and the dividend was at the rate of 25 per cent, per annum. The Shares have about doubled in value, and, although it has not been in ope ration two years, it is too small to meet the daily applications for accommodation. The profits of the IMPERIAL HOTEL, from its superior situation and many other advantages, will be at least equal to the most lucrative undertakings of a similar nature. A Bill giving powers to the Company, with reference to the Bite in Trafalgar-square, has been read a second time in the souse of Commons. An instalment of 2/. per share is required to obtain com plete registration with limited liability; bat should that or the site not be obtained the deposit will be returned to the Shareholders, a sum not exceeding 3s. per share on ac count of expenses. Applications for Shares may be made in the annexed form, addressed to the Brokers, Messrs. Halbert, Wagg, and Co., 1, Shorter's-court, Throgmortou-street ; or Me-srs. Barnett, Ellis, and Co., 18, Finch-lane ; or to the Secretary, 4, White hall; but no Application will be considered unless a Deposit of 1/. for each Share is previously made with Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand; or Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, Tritton, and Co., Lombard-street, the Bank ers o f th e C om p an y. This Deposit will be carried to the credit of the instalment of 2/. per Share payable after allotment, and will be repaid in the event of the application not being acceded to ; and no further eall will be made until the agrcemeints for the purchase of the site have been settled. Prospectuses and Forms of Application for Shares may be obtained of the Brokers or the Secretary. 11. DAVIDSON, Secretary. Offices, 4, Whitehall. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Imperial Hotel Company. Gentlemen,—l have paid £ to your Bankers, and I re. quest you to allot me Shares of 101. each in the Capital stock of the Imperial Hotel Company ; and I hereby agree to accept the same or any less number that may be allotted to me, to pay the instalment of 21. per Share allotted, and to execute the Deed of Settlement when required to do so ; and, in the event of my failure herein, I hereby agree to forfeit the Deposit made with theßankers, and I authorise you to cancel the Allotment. Name Profession or Bussincss Address Date A PPOINTMENTS to the ROYAL ARTIL -CA. LERY, and ADMISSIONS to the PRAC TICAL CLASS of the ROYAL MILITARY AC .- 1 An Examination for Provisional Commissions in the Royal Artillery will' commence on Monday, June 30, at King's College, Strand. About 20 appointments will be made, supposing a sufficient number of compe tent persons to present themselves. The Candi dates must be between the ages of 20 and 23 years ; stud those appointed will be gazetted to lieutenancies ir i the Royal Artillery in the first instance, with tem porary rank. They will be placed for instruction, for about six months, under the director of artil lery studies at Woolwich ; and on completing their course, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of State for War, will receive permanent commissions with the date of their temporary appointment. They will receive the pay of their rank (viz., ss. 7d. per diem) from the date of their names appearing in the Gazette ; but will be required to contribute a deposit of 201. for the Purchase of books, instruments, &c. At the same time, provided a sufficient number are four,d competent, about thirty admissions will be made to the practical class of the Royal Military Academy ttt Woolwich, the candidates for which must be between the ages of 17 and 20 years. It is expected that gentle men admitted will remain under instruction for six or !dght.months, and at the end of that period will, on pass ing a satisfactory examination, receive commissions in the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers, according to their proficiency. They will be required to pay a con tribution of 621. 10s. for the time during which they re %We at the Academy. The appointments in both these classes will be deter- Mined by the result of a competitive examination. The days and subjects of examination will be as follows, viz. _Tuesiday, July I.—Pure M a th ema ti cs , 2,000 mar k s . wi3dnesday, July 2.—Mixed Mathematics, i.e., Statics, •uraamics, and Hydrostatics, 1,500 marks. 'Thursday, Jnly 3—Language, Literature, Geography, and History of Ancient Rome, 1,000 marks. Friday, July 4--Do. do. do. of Ancient Greece, 750 marks. Saturday, July s.—Do. do. do of Franco, 1,000 marks. Monday, July 7.—Do. do. do. of Germany, 750 marks. The examination in French and German will be both 'written and viva voce. - . Tuesday, July B—English Language, Literature, Com. position, History, and Geography, 1,250 marks. Wednesday, July 9—Experimental Sciences, i.e., Che ihistry, Heat, Electricity, including Magnetism 1,00 marks. Thursday, July 10—Natural Sciences, Mineralogy, and Geology, 750 mall"- Friday, July 11—Moral and Political Sciences, 1,000 marks. Saturday, July 12—Drawing, i. e., Elementary Geo tnetrical Drawing, including the use of drawing instru ments, and either Machinery, Architectural, Engineering, or Landscape Drawing, 750 marks. - The examination will commence on each of these days at 10 o'clock in the aiming, and continue until 1 o'clock. It will re-commence at 2 o'clock, and continue until 5. No candidate will be admitted after the hour fired for the commencement of the examination. Every candidate must be examined in pure mathema tics ; and no one who does not obtain at least one.fifth of the marks allotted to that subject will be eligible for an appointment. From the other subjects of examination each candi date may select those in which he desires to be ex amined ; but no one will be allowed to count the marLs gained in any subject, unless those marks shall at least • amount to one-sixth of the total number of marks allotted to that subject. Every candidate must transmit to the War Depart ment, Pali-Mall, by the 20th June next : let. An extract from the register of his baptism, or, in default of that, a certificate verified by affilavit. 2d. A certificate of good moral character, signed by a clergyman of the parish to which he belongs, and by the tutor or bead of the school or college at which he has received his education for at least two years, or such other proof of good moral character, as will be satisfac tory to the Secretary of State. 3. A statement of the subjects of examination in which (in addition to Pure Mathematics) he may desire to be examined. All Candidates must present themselves at King's College, on Monday the 30th t - f June, at 1 o clock p.m., where they will severally be inspected by Military Sur geons, in order to ascertai n th a t they are free from any bodily defects or ailment., calculated to interfere with the performance of military duties. H. R. DREWRY. War Departraent, Pall Mall, 7th April, 1856. 2 S VAT ER A 1 . • • . . - • t-1.4 - - - - . • •••••• 1.11. j e 44, if ' 4 4 4 :: • .„--- ;_ye 44 , o ‹ . ,F i tt , • . LORD EGLINTOAPS MOTION, „ _ • •1:_.) 1— • Ace* A t - n. • At , • R. . `•• lB -• CURRENCY. —• • 0 . . *„. I e %*. - • S 3 • 4 ' co ,‘ A": Orrr ~. L 4 4. _ te .! Nr i • rt':' • rt z • • el .I , a. , . t' '4 ll4.Se/ / , 4 - t 14: 2: - • ' 4- 3)7 - • Ct 4\*%:__\ (Front the Derbyshire Courier.) Oa Monday last Lord Eglinton called the atten= tion of Government to the expediency of issuing& Royal Conimission .to inquire into the operation of the laws which regulate the Curreacy of the United Kingdom. Lord Eglinton introduced the subject in a very business-like and sensible speech, enforcing' his opinion 3 with equal moderation and ability. His reason for preferring the issuing of a. Royal Corn. mission to the appointment of a oonamittee was thus stated : " In the session of 1848, in consequence of the severe monetary crisis of the preceding year, committees were appointed of both house; of Parliament-to inquire into the causes of the distress which -bad , spread ruin all over the country. Both committees I were equally, anxious to do their duty ; but ( « lie resitit of their in-: vostigaticn was that they came to diireetfy! opposite conclusions ; .and• whilst the committee 'of this house reported strongly in favour of the abrogatioti of relaxation of tke act of 1844, the committee of the ff.c.iuse of Oom-: moss came to the conclusion that no change whatever should be made. He might also remark that; in each case, the decision was arrived at by a very narrow snajori.ty. He apprehended, therefore, that the difference in the con clusions come to by the two committees, and the natrow ness of the majoritie', constituted very fair ground:why the f-uject should be now taken up by a Royal cominia siun instead cf by a committee of this or the other Hittite of Par:iament." As to the necessity of an investigation into the working of the Bank Charter Act, his lordship said, " the system now in force had been tried and failed. The act of 1844 had not worked well. It had failed alike in preventing over-specula tion, and in showing where the danger had arisen, and under its operation there had beeni the moat serious commercial crises, and the greatest fluctua tions in the rate of interest that were ever known in this country." When Sir Robert Peel introduced the Act of. 1844, he said that " during the last 20 years, four decisive proofs, at four distinct periods, had been given; viz., iu 1825, 1832,; . 1837, and 1839, thit under the present system of Currency" (that is under his Bill of 1819) " the principle of converti bility is endangered." This was Peel's own con• demnation of his Bill. The reason he assigned for his attempt to improve the Currency Laws ira 1844 was that under the Bill of 1819 we had had the Panic of 1825, and the commercial depressions and fluctuations in the value of money which oc curred in 1832, 1837, and 1839. What then has been the result of that " perfect system," the Bank Charter Act of 1844, the production of the combined wisdom of Sir Robert Peel and Lord Overstone. Lord Eglinton answers that question. " The faults of the present Act were not mere mat ters of theory, for he had in favour of his arguments the results of several years' operation of the Act of 1844. During the last 11 years there had been no less than 40 fluctuations of interest, which bad varied from 2 to 8 and 9 per cent. ; while during the previous years there had been hardly any fluctuations at all, and these of a very trifling nature. (Hear.) He regretted to say, too, that those fluctuations, instead of being on the decrease, were on the increase ; for during the last four years there bad been no less than 18 fluctuations ; while even within the last year there had been eight. (Hear.) At the commencement of the railway mania, the rate of dis count was only 23, 3, and 3i per cent., and this low rate greatly encouraged over•speculation. The result had, of course, been a drain en the Bank for gold, and, in 1847 the amount of that metal left in the banking department was considerably under 2,000,0001. (Hear, hear.) So t reat was the pressure at that time that the rate of discount reached 8 and 9 per cent. ; and they had it in evidence from Mr. Samuel Gurney that even his solvent house had to pay 9 per cent. for an ad vance of 200,0001. Mr. Horsley Palmer told them in evidence, that had the Bank at that time end eavoured to lessen its difficulties by a sale of Consols, to the ex tent of 1,000,0001., these securities would have gone down to 601. (Herr.)" Lord Overstone sat by and heard this statement. Had he nothing to say in defence of the system which he has had the misfortune to have inflicted on this country? Had ho no pet theory to bring against Lord Eglinton's facts ? What a splendid opportunity did Lord Overstone throw away on this occasion. The question of the currency has been much dkcussed. Mercator recently thought it worth while to enlighten.the public in the columns of the Times. Could not Lord° verstone, in his place in the. House of Lords, say something for his bill ? Merca tor's theories have indeed been rather severely han dled in the public press. He was driven from one theory to another, and every succeeding letter announced some novel advantage of the bill of 1844—something which it was to do, though it had failed to do it. But could not Lord Overstone who has been all his life a man of business, controvert the plain facts of Lord Eglinton? The system has " worked well" for Lord. Overstone and many other money-dealers. The period of a low rate of interest is their seed time, that of a high rate their harvest. But the producers and the industrious classes will not always be content to have their hard earnings wrung from them periodically. Even Anglo-Saxon stolidity will, at last, perceive the folly of submitting to a panic or depression every seven or eight years to protect ut-from the evils of "inconvertibility," which the country from 1797 to 1819 has proved to be entirely imaginary and baseless. Lord Eglinton tells the merchants, manufac turers, and working classes of England what the Act of 1844 rendered necessary whenever a few millions of gold leave the country. " There was no resource but to put on the screw ; and let them see what putting on the screw was.' To the Bank it'was a measure of commercial policy ; but to the country it was a measure of ruin. (Hear.) The Governor of the Bank of England, in 1848, said—" The means of getting back the gold is by making money dear, and causing a fall generally in the price of commodities, which will bring back gold. Prices will fall in conse quence of the increased value of money. The effect, therefore, of putting on the screw was, not only to over throw houses that were tottering, but to depreciate, per haps one half or m ore , th e en ti re p ro p er ty of the coun'ry. (Hear, hear.) ' This is the system which Peel's bills established, and this is the system with which the Duke of Argyll says the present Government are not " dis satisfied,' and the evils of which they have no de sire " to remedy." We quite agree with Lord Eglinton as to the ad visability of allowing 1/. notes to be issued in Eng land. Can any 'absurdity be greater than that of allow a banker north of the Tweed to issue 1/. notes, and restricting an English banker from &cling so ? The experience of the Scotch and Irish proves that the issue of 1/. notes is beneficial, and that no evil whatever attends the issue. Even the assumed liability of such notes to forgery has been proved to be a groundless apprehension. "In Scotland," said his lordship, " forgery has been almost unknown for many years." We de not like " dirty" notes ; and as a minor point of currency reform we recommend that bankers should pay a certain composition on the amount of their issues, instead of having a stamp for each note, and that no note should be allowed to be re-issued. Let them be cancelled whenever they return to the bank which issues them. 1/. notes would then be quite as " agreeable," and much more convenient than sovereigns. But we remind his lordship that 1/. notes - did not protect Scotland and Ireland from the effects lof the panic of 1847. Nor will any improvement in the constitution of the Bank direction prevent panics. Bank notes of 1/. and upwards, regulated by the most skilful directors, will always be liable to be exchanged for gold, the go l d to be exported, such notes are by law exchanged for a fixed quan and the circu vv lat e ion to had fr b o e m co l n 7 t 9 ra 7 ct t e o d, l a B s n long as notes " co nvertible into every ki n d o f commod i ty, gold tity of gold. and silver included, at th e mar k e t p r i ce . With such a currency we should i ns u re an a d equa t e a mount of the circul a ti ng me di um, a steady rate of i n terest, and a f ree d om f rom panics, depressions, and monetary c r i ses . A sys t em o f thi s ki nd, wh i ch enabled the c oun t ry t o prov id e f or th e enormous ex penditure of the great war, would promote, to an ex tent which can scarcely be calculated, the prosperity and progress of the nation in time of peace. The great enemies of the English people are in ignor ance, vice, and poverty. A sound currency, which enabled us successfully - to contend against our for midable enemies abroad, would enable us to van quish these more destructive foes at home. The future of Great Britain depends, in our opi nion, more largely on the adoption of a just and wise monetary system than on any other thing whatever. All other reforms are but as dust in the • balance, while we allow the monster evil of a bad monetary system to remain in force. Of the import ance of the currency question we adopt Sir Robert Peel's estimation : " There is no contract, public or private, no engage• ment, national or individual, which is unaffected by it. The enterprises of commerce, the profits of trade, th e arrangements to be made in all the domestic relations of society, the wages of labour, the tranmetions of the highest amount, and of the lowest, the payment o f t h e national debt, the provision for the national expenditure on the one hand, and the command which the coin of the smallest denomination has over the necessaries of life on the other, are all affected by the decision to which we may come on that great question which lam about to submit to the consideration of the committee."—Speed on the Bank Charter Act, May 6, 1844. We beg leave to submit to Lord Derby and to Lord Eglinton that such a reform of the Currency as would promote the general prosperity of the people, and consolidate th e I ns tit u ti ons o f the Nation, must go far beyond an alteration of the miner details of the Act of 1844. We require for this great country, with its enormous load of Debt, and its increased and increasing population, a money independent of the precious metals. Money of the Realm. Representative Paper Money based lkiioll taw wcalth Nitious LONDON, u iA'sDAY EVENING, APRIL 15, 1856.. (N - c. 19,918) PUBLICATIONS. STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH AUS- TRALIA. Yesterday, at two o'clock, a large and influential public meeting, convened at the instance of the General Associa tion for the Australian Colonies, was held at the London Tavern, Bishopsegatestreet, to determine on the best means to be taken to insure the immediate re-establishment of our steam postal relations with Australia. The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor was called to the chair, and among the company on the platform were the Earl of Hardwieke, Lord Stanley, M.P., Mr. Tier Seymer, M.P., Mr. W. Brown, M P., M r . ohn iirGregor, H.P., Mr. R. W. Crawford; Mr. W. C. Wentworth, Mr. C. B. Newenhain, Sheriff of South Australia, Mr..De Salis, M Lee Stevens, Mr. O'Bierne, Mr Dakin, Mr. Ravenshaw, Mr. J. A. Youl, and many other gentlemen of influence and standing. The CHAIRSIAN, in opening the proceedings, expressed the pleasure he felt in seeing So . large and influential a meeting before him, because the subject on. which .they weic called together to deliberate was second to none iu importance to this country. (Cheers.) No one could have a higher opinion of the importance of the Australian colo nies to the mosher country than himself, and it had been a subject of great regret to him that so little had hitherto been done wish the view of bringing those colonies within a reasonable time of communication with the parent State. (Hear, hoar.) Most of them were aware that a ship with a large freight of gold was now considered out of time, and although, perhaps, the period of her being out might not be very great, yet 'the apprehension of persons expecting remittances by that vessel. probably drove them into the market to give a heavy premium, which, if the ship ars rived, might be said to be money unfairly taken from the colonists, or from their agents in this • country. (Hear, hear.) During the last Year pspeCiallY, when money in tLis country was very scarce, every day which a vessel bringing the mails to this country was detained at sea was an injury to the public and a -loss- to mer chants engaged in the trade with Australia. The money, therefore, that would be saved by an improved postal com munication would go a long way towards the expense of a subsidy ; and the nicotine, in coming forward to urge on the Government, both for themselves and for the colonies, to expedite the employment of a fleet of steamships to carry on the intercourse between the Australian colonies and this country, instead of sailing vessels, were doing a great public service. Ho trusted the result would be that a line of steamships would be - established to remedy the in conveniences which they had hitherto felt, and that the communication between the Australian colonies and the mother country would be further facilitated by the adop tion of some mere direct and eligible route than the pre sent. (Hear.) Ho cencluded by calling upon Mr. Went worth, an eminent colonist in New South Wales, to move the 'first resolution. Mr. WENT WORTH said he had passed the greater part of his lite in Australia, and he could conscientiously say that there was but one feeling of indignati ai and disgust in re ference to this question prevalent from one end of the Australian colonies to the other. (Cheers.) Steam com munication was officially promised to the colonies in 1816, and that promise, tardily made, was rcluetantly fulfilled in 1852—six years afterwards ; and then, instead of giving the service to one competent public company, it was split into two parts, and the one assigned to the General Screw Company, and the other to the Peninsular and Oriental Company. It was predicted from the first, both in the colonies and in this country, that the route round the Cape could not be accomplished iu any certain time by the sub sidiary screw vessels which belonged to the General Screw Company.. It was known that the vessels were too small and that the places of coaling were too far apart. Those apprehensions were verified by the result, for the average time taken by the General Screw Company's ships to per form the voyage between this country and Australia was 84 days. The contract of the Peninsular and Oriental Company was performed by subsidiary vessels, branching off from the great Indian steam line at Ceylon, and one of the stipulations in that contract was that the steamers should go at the rate of Si miles an hour; but, in point of fact, they only went 62 miles an hour. Still, how ever, they performed the voyage iu 64 days, which it took the General Screw Company 81 days to do. That state of things continued for about two years. In 1854 the General Screw Company's ships employed in the Austra lian postal service were required for the purposes of the war; it was said, also, that the other company's vessels were wanted for the same purpose, and upon that pretext the steam communication with Australia, bad as it was, was extinguished, or, rather, he should say, suspend e d, for in a Treasury minute on the subject it was expressly stated that the contract extended from 1853 to 1861, and was therefore still in force. The universal impression, however, in the colony was that these companies took the contract at too low a rate, and that they were anxious to get rid of it, and that the alleged requirements of the war were a pretext, and not a reality. He came to this coun try in one of the vessels belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Company just before the war broke out, and he knew that that ship, instead of being pressed into the ser vice of the war, was immediately sent into the opium trade with China. He was told that other vessels on the line went into the smile trade. At all events, the result was that it was decided about that time to carry on the steam communication with China twice a month, and to drop the Australian service altogether. (" Hear," and " Shame.") Since that time they had had what was called a clipper line, one of which clippers had been out 110 days ; so that, bad as the postal communication was carried on by the Peninsular and OrieritYfilffiltreriejs;ltsivas certainly better than it was under the clipper service, for those clippers had been 84i days on an average in going out, and 93i days on an average in coming home. At last the Lords of the Trea sury pricked up their ears and went to the immense labour of preparing a Treasury minute on the subject. A very general opinion prevailed that the substance of that docu ment was that the steam communication was to be imme diately resumed ; but, in point of fact, a reference had been made by it to the Australian colonies to ascertain the amount of contribution or subsidy which each colony was willing to pay for so great a benefit. (Hear, hear.) Upon that question of subsidy, though the colonists did not mean to make a stand upon it, he felt bound to make an obser vation or two. When the steam postal line was established by the Government in 1852, the whole cost of it, whatever it was, was paid out of the Imperial exchequer, in confor mity with the universal rule in respect to the postal ser vice between the colenies and the mother country, that of the East India company excepted, and he asked upon what principle of common justice or fairness could the Austra lian colonies be called on to pay one-half of the expense of the steam postal service with the parent state ; why should they be treated differently from the other colonies of the kingdom? (Hear.) Mr. Wentworth went on to contend that, though the colonies were the parties moving in this matter, it was really and truly more an Imperial question than a colonial one, and this he sought to establish by a reference to the statistics of the tonnage employed in the trade between England and Australia and of the exports and imports. He concluded by moving a resolution to the effect that, while the long-continued interruption of all postal steam intercourse with the Australian colonies had been productive of serious discontent and detriment to them, it had been in a still greater degree injurious to the commerce and finances of the United Kingdom. Mr. RavENstassw briefly seconded the resolution, which was put and carried unanimously. The Earl of HARDIVICKE, after a few preliminary re• marks, said he wo u ld t a k e up the subject at the point where Mr. Wentworth had left it, and would urge upon the meet ingitneoyt nee o . no of o a t mo t autp o nop n i ec c o a e ao rto p ei os d r nes that ts w i thghothe theto the eGI o Government to dt a i b ei c a o i n at t i s , i l et o db e n i t n s t h h e cia c e t tt e i o r s st s h len ies should be resumed by ste am - vesse l s nAvi°en employed srsnbtrmeafel°inra u atn n hs d cea e ntd r i contract, but for some reason or another they thought they had not sufficient information to enable them to re sume it with that degree of success which the Postmaster would consider necessary. Re (Lord Hardwicke) believed, however, that they had the whole of the information that was necessary for action in the matter, and the means not only of ascertaining the wishes of the colonists in reference to it, but the degree of pecuniary assistance which the colonies were able to afford towards the expense of maintaining the communication in question. That be ing so, he asked why they should not be immediately put in possession of it. He did not look at this communication alone as it would affect the intercourse between the mother country and the Australian colonies. Oa the contrary, now that they had established between various parts of the world that rapid means of intercommunication which science had facilitated, it became them to urge on the Go vernment to promote between all the colonies of the em pire that degree of frequent and affectionate intercourse between themselves and the parent State -which would bind them together in the aggregate as one united empire. The result of such a means of communication as was now sought to be established between this eountry and Aus tralia would be, as had been well said in a printed pamph let on the subject, to " facilitate the investment of capital for the gradual development of the boundless resources of Australia and New Zealand ; establish much greater con fidence in all mercantile transactions with the colony, by preventing loss from overstocked markets; obviate the in convenience arising from a scarcity in the supplies of Eu ropean merchandise • and enable th e merc h an t s hi ppers in the colony to effect: insurances on their ships and mer chandise in England." These were really the great and essential points in reference to the communication with Australia. But when he looked to Australia alone, and dealt with it as a separate colony, he must advert to its vast mercantile importance, the extent of its resources, aid the readiness of its people to co-operate with the mother country in all the commercial enterprises of the colony. He might state to the meeting, on the authority of a Parlia mentary return, that the population of the world—esti mated at millions—consumed yearly is. 2d. per head of British exports, and that the proportionate consumption by foreign countries and British colonies was estimated as follows—viz.: — FOREIGN STATES. COLONIES. Per head. Per head. Prussia £0 0 6 Canada £ll5 0 Russia France 0 1 6 Cape ofGood Hope 3 2 0 United States 0 5 8 Australia (Hear, hear.) As to the question of route, the one as far as Aden on the Red Sea had been established as a useful route ; but from that point a difference of opinion would arise, and he could net understand why in the present day, with the power of steam so thoroughly established and understood, anything but rocks and shoals, which always required a careful look-out on the part of seamen, was to prevent a direct line of communication from port to port, seeing that steam power defied winds and currents to a certain extent. The question of propelling power was left entirely to their own discretion and command, and he, as THE VOLCANIC ERUPTION IN THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.—Under date of December 28, the Rev,where they gained a difference bet ween 84 caseline was the best, espe . ada seaman, in a should say the shortest Mr. Coan writes as follows :—" Every day da r k ens days and 48 dat y s s a. That seemed to him to be an irresis tiblefavour of a direct line. There might b e argument the prospects of Hilo. The stream comes in g r eatbetween ego Garcia necessary to build the re a will bring it through the woods. It follows water lighthouse ,to establish a depot for coals , and a small channels, dries up aqueous matter, and forms fie r y co l on y t o su pply passing ships with other necessaries. He cascades of terrible su bli m ity. It heads straight down thought that might be done in time, but he should recom upon us, and nothing b u t th e h an d of Omnipotence can mend that the Mauritius be first taken, with the ultimate save our town and bay. Our expulsion seems every day view of establishing the necessary facilities he had sug morethe ships should and more a solemn re a lity. Molten fires are gleam nested at Diego Garcia , Melbourne,nn,l that and there deliver the ins, trees are falling, the jungle is consuming, rivers are King George's Sound co to colonists themselves to distribute those rolls the burning deluge—slowly, s u llenly, relentlessly, boiling and ascending in steam clouds. Onward, onward immoaagiltha t i l mails, leaving ie was h e x e p a r o . d ) o T t h e t h n o o t b ro e a o r d l c a o t o n c s l t u e d p e s d b b e y ttna ken o and with resistless force. I hope to be able to give you to establish a steam postal service snitable to the vast com a full account in time. P.S. 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Forwarded for stamps, free by post, eight extra. at once that they would stand aloof in reference to this matter, the spirit and private enterprise of the people of this country and of the colony would long ago have esta• blished a line of steam communication,for themselves. Mr. RIDGWAY suggested that, now that a treaty of peace had been concluded, it would be well.for the toverumont to send some of the steam-ships of the navy to try and de termine the best and shortest route to Australia. He hoped, at all events, that Lard Hardwicke's idea of pass ing by the door of South Atstralia . would not be carried into effect. The resolution was then put, and, like its predecessor, carried unttniicoußly. Lord S 1 A L M.P., who was recci t vecl with loud cheers, T;)hi, been e t e i n lat la t i h d ! h in et o e s r tAri h t e er re ift e l e f t a i c n t g s a re t l s e e ti fit n g . stoaitallitte appearedquestion had cimt length and with sufficient clearness; and he should therefore trouble them with only' few; wards on the gene ral subject. He would say,. in the first place, the', uncon nected as he was personally either with the colonies or with commerce, nothing would have induced him to appear in this matter, except the conviction, which had been reluct antly forced upon his mind by' the Circumstances of the else, that there had boon, toe say the least of it, culpable carelessness on the part of those in power in a matter deeply affecting the interests of an important portion of the empire. (Cheers.) With the delay of six years, between 181 'i and 1S5"1, ho had nothing now to do. Neither could ho, in fair ness, find fault wi!h the Government of the day for having in the first instance adopted the lino by way of the Cape, for it was the line in favour of which e committee of the House of Commons reported. Indeed, he - was Perhaps an interested party in that matter, for he was a lnember of that committee, who took pains to oollece Whatever evidence was accessible to them, and who entered upon the inquiry with a sincere desire to do impartially that which they thought best for the interest of the country and the colonists. But tlesy were mostly landsmen, anti had no practical experience to guide them. They could therefece ourY go on uncertain and doubtful information ; and, in eioinVesitd fect, the-lies which was now proposed, and which seemed to have been generally adopted a ndapproved by practical men, was not bo f 're the commit tee at all. They had before that committee three lines, one of them being by Panama, which was rejected almost unanimously. The lines moat debated were the one by way of the Cepe, and that to Ceylon by tee Red Sea. He remembered well that the question was fully and care fully considered ; and he thought the argument which at that time most prevail° was that by the lino by the Cape passengers and goods might go from E 'gland to Aus tralia without trans-shipment. Tue complaints now made by the colonists and by people at home were three-fold— first,of,nits):ehtt,:cuciotrotnr:dnn leet( t hy: ,cil h ia,y:t a pdisio t rshetinb t tahee h ytewae e d.tnnabeons fi enc t ., colarto;e:sgtdpiigi.eeteet when sei e stTen o hwi m eia: et taneyishi beet s i waeia n ensii i cation between the colony and the mothercountry was superseled without necessity; restoration rtl conditionofiiaa first etsi taken n ant twh(ol necessity,u: at r inh e uats proposal,hst l o uev ras and unusual, and, r nldwn com munication oh n ti inhie ( ns-ti and South American lines were maintained during the whole.pressure of the war. Whether they considered the amount of traffic or the amount of personal intercourse, the line to Australia equalled, and perhaps outweighed, in importance not only one of those three, bat, perhap , , all the three pot together; for our exports to China, with its 300,0)0,000 of population, were just 1.16 th of those to Aus tralia, with its 700.000 people. He would only ask who ther, if preparations had boon commencqd earlier, the whole of the routes would not have been supplied without inter ruption. He would not ask how many steamers were lying idle in the harbours of Balaklava and Constantinople when the suppression of this postal communication with Aus tralia took place. ( A laugh.) At that time, the Duke of Newcastle—and he wished to speak of him with all cour tesy as a gentleman eminently fitted for private life— (a laugh)—was in office; and it was rather remarkable that at that time, when every order that emanated from that department of the public service went to the wrong person or tho wrong place, and when every act was either left un done, or, if done, was done six months after it was di rected to be put in force—(a laugh)—the one act that was well and effectually done was that of stopping the Australian postal service. (Hear, hear.) They next complained that, that communication having been in terrupted, no pains were taken to restore it. In a moment of emergency the Government might require the services of every steamvessel on which they could lay their hands ; but tho war, though it lasted two years, might have lasted ten, and durine its continuance no single step was taken ,for replacing that which in a moment of temporary exi gency they had taken away—(hoar, hear)—a fact which could only be explained by a reference to that inveterate habit of politicians of the old school of giving a dispropor tionate share of attention to questions affecting foreign Courts or questions of diplomacy, and overlooking the more important interests of the British colonies. (Hear, hear.) The third complaint was that in this case alone the colonies of Australia had been required to pay a share of the expense of this communication. He was not going to pledge himself to any opinion with reference to the question of subsidy. He would only observe that, if Eug laud and Australia obtained a mutual benefit in this mat ter, it was only fair that the colonies should pay their share of the expense ; but it was remarkable that such a rule should have been adopted in this solitary instance, espe cially after the colonies had actually offered 70,0001. for the purpose of maintaining this communication, He thought if the object of not losing time had been duly ap preciated it would have. been no difficult matter for the Government to say they' Would aceelitathat offer, add an equal sum to It, and make a provisional arrangement now and a permanent one hereafter. (Cheers.) But there was no doubt that in the management of the Colonial De- pertinent the Government of the day—and he did not speak of any Government in particular—had been too much in the habit of acting towards the colonists as though they were negotiating with a hostile people, instead of dealing with them as friends and fellow countrymen, whose interests were indissolubly bound up with our own. (Cheers.) One word as to Australia itself. Seventy years ago that vast continent was hardly laid down on any existing map. It was now the recipient of one-eighth of our commerce, the hope of our labouring population, who have but small prospects of advance ment or amelioration at home, and the residence of nearly 1,000,000 of industrious citizens. (Hear ) It was no figure of speech to say that the future of England in a great degree eepended on her colonies. We had, as they all knew, many difficulties to impede our national pro gress. We had our hereditary pauperism and our heredi tary debt, and we had to maintain at vast cost large mi litary and naval armaments. He imagined that every thoughtful statesman must feel that, vast as were our re sources and gigantic as were the energyof the English race, still that in the race of industrial competition with other and younger nations we were fearfully overweighted. (Hear.) Let them take a simple statistical fact. The po pulation of this country doubled itself in half a-century ; population of the Anglo-Saxon colonies, as a general rule, doubled itself only in 23 years; and ho believed it was a wise expectation—looking forward a century from this time—to say that one of the greatest sources of our na tional strength and our national glory would then lie in our connexion with the independent States of America, Australia, and Canada. (Cheers.) It was therefore our duty and our interest to keep with them. The principle of self-government was not much a fashion at the present period of the world ; but self-government had been the wholesome characteristic of the English race ; and they might depend upon it that every English colonist who lo cated himself in any of our distant dependencies, and every acre of land that he reclaimed from the wilderness and the waste, would he a guarantee to Europe for the recognition of that principle and for the ultimate triumph throughout the whole of the British dominions of free speech, free thought, and free action. (Cheers.) The noble lord then moved a resolution to the effect that it appeared to that meeting that, provided the usual postal speed of 10 knots, or nautical miles, an hour could be obtained, the transit •I letters between London and Melbourne might be easily effected in 44 days. The resolution was seconded by Mr. H. GORDON. t S r a T I E i a7aNnSd wassai d w h e e l lh acquaintad just c or w i t t o h t t h h i s e f c e o e u l e t g r y e r. f e r f o M t m t E e cl Australia, on this question. Ho wished to say that he did not believe it possib l e to get to Austr alia in 44 da y s, nor did the colonists themselves desire to see such a coo - summation. They had but one simple request to make in this matter, and that was to have no more experiments in reference to it. (Cheers.) They were sick of delay and had plenty of money to pay for steam of route he contended that Die g o Garcia was a terra incog psvioecrsket aotelfecceohtmatmnegucene;ei tcchaetediyoent t t a o n t d t e h m e y a t a asked he t a lmperial t G t e o n . nita to the British sailor, and they would lose one ship out of four if they sent them by that route. (Hear, hear.) After a few words from Mr. DAKIN and a gentleman in the body of the meeting, whose name did not transpire, the resolution was modified and passed, with scarcely a dissentient, in this form : ' d e meeting Australia that the he per of letters . formed at an average rate of not less than 10 knots an hour ; and that this should b e effected by the most eligible That it between a route and in the shortest po ssible time." ppeare E d e t z o la t n h Oa the motion of Mr. It. W. CRAWFORD, seconded by behalf of the meeting , an d founded on the p recedin g ro se - Sir M. FARQUIIAR, petiti ons signed by the chai rman on lutions, were agreed to be presented to both Houses of Parliament ; and a deput ation was appointed to wait on the Government and press the sub j ect on their i mmediate consideration. The meeting was also addre ssed b y Mr. W . Malin, Mr. Do Salle, Mr. L. Stevens , an d other gentlemen. On the motion of Sir W. M 'Anniun a vot e of thanks tenderedwas the proceedings by acclamation terminated.to the Lord Mayor ; and withthat POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION -HOUSE.—William Augustus Fitzwii liam, who was charged with having in the house of Mr. Sucker, of Mitre-square, Ald,gate, desperately assaulted one of the servants of the establishment, upon the at tempt to plunder the.house, was brought up for final examination. The prosecutor, who had been desperately wounded in the head, appeared to dive evidence. Richard Martin said—l am, servant to ,Mr. Seeker. 01 Sunday night, the 6th inst., I was in We countinw house on the, firs 4 floor at the back of the house. I wal minding the house while time manager and his wife and servant went to church, about half-past 6 o'clock, leav ing me alone in the house. I closed the front door after them. The back door was left open. It leads to an enclosed yard. I then'vvent into the counting-house, 'and was reading there, I think, about an hour. I then went into the front room, which is over the ground floor, where there was a fire, and was, reading, for about five Minutes, and then put down the book. I lay down on the sofa and dozed about five minutes, and then opened my eyes and saw the prisoner in the room, stand ,ing opposite to me, looking at the candlestick on the I sideboard. I rose up and said " Hallett?" believing it Was a Man belonging to the house: The prisoner then rushed towards me with the candlestick in his hand and struck at my head with all his might with the candlestick. I held my hand up to protect my head, and received the blow on the palm of my hand, and my arm dropped powerless from the effect of the blow. He .then struck me , over the head, and my eyes seemed to . strike fire, and all in the room seemed to v round with me, and tha blood flowed into ny eyes from the weand.in my head, so that coltld 'hardly see anything. If then stepped a pace' or two back towards the fireplace to'get the poker, and the prisoner stepped rather away from me, and wade another desperate blow at my head with the candlestick. He hit me two or three times more over my head, and the candlestick flew out of his hand and rolled under the table. He then turned round and ran out of the room. I threw up the window, and, seeing a little boy passing, I told him to go and call the police. I was then all over blood, and the boy went on looking at me, as if in terror. I was calling out " Murder !" and "Police!" while the prisoner was striking me. The prisoner did not speak a word. While I was calling at the window several per sons Came to the door. I told them there were thieves in the house, and that I would go down and let;them in. The prisoner is quite a stranger to me. I let the people in. The prisoner—Are you sure that I am the man who struck you ? Witness—Quite positive that you are, The prisoner —What ! In the dark ? Witness—lt was not dark. To the Lord Mayor—l have regained the use of my arm, which was paralysed by the first blow. I have been under the hands of the surgeon since. Cross-examined by the prisoner —I do not know where the prisoner made his entrance to the room in which I ww,—whether he came in at the window, or at the door, or through skeleton keys, or how. The Prisoner—lt is useless for me to say anything. I say that I did not strike the man ; but it is all useless. My fate is sealed, and therefore I wish your lordship to bring the thing to a conclusion. I was not within a hundred yards of the house. The man is misled by the police. Ido assure your lordship that I never saw the man who accuses me till I saw him this day in the chair in which he sits. The Lord Mayor—Have you, prisoner, any question to ask the witness ? The Prisoner—Not at all, my lord ; but I trust that he will recover, fur my sake. The Lord Mayor (to Martin)—Are you quite sure that the prisoner is the man of whom you have spoken Witness—l am quite sure. A policeman (of the metropolitan force) said—l was present when the prisoner, whose real name is William Burgon, was convicted at the Clerkenwell Sessions of having stolen a chest of tea, and sentenced to transpor tation for seven years, and upon that occasion he so desperately assaulted a policeman that the officer was unable to perform any more duty, and has been pen sioned off. The depositions were then ordered to be made out, and the prisoner was ordered to be committed for trial. WORSHIP-STREET.---- IVnt. Anderson was charged with being concerned, with four others who have escaped apprehension, in assaults and highway robberies. A young gentleman named Mace stated that while passing through Shoreditcb, in company of a friend, between 11 and 12 on the preceding evening, the prisoner and four other fellows advanced towards him, and the former, without the slightest provocation . on his part, ran willingly against him, exclaiming " Which way are you going I" Witness tried to get clear of them without observatiogi, but that did not snit the purpose of the pri soner, who immediately struck him such a terrible blow on the head with his fist that he dropped to the ground perfectly senseless. How long he remained so he did not know ; but on coming to himself be found that be had been robbed of his hat, walking-stick, handkerchief, and all the money he had in his pocket. John Melbuish, friend of the prosecutor, described the attack in the same terms, but could not 83,y which of the men robbed the last witness, the attack, robbery, and escape of the men scarcely occupying a minute. Prisoner said—l did hit him, it's true, but not till he had struck me, and did not rob him at all. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Well, it appears to me very much like a purposed assault with intent to rob, and if you was known I would send you for trial. A sergeant of the N division—Why, your worship, there is another person present on other business who has just recognised the prisoner as having robbed and violently assaulted him the same evening. This prosecutor, Henry George, then stood forward, and stated that while passing through the Hackney-road at 10 o'clock he noticed that he was being dodged by five men, including the prisoner, whose dress he parti cularly marked, and who followed him till he reached Pownall-road, when he heard a quick step behind him, and was immediately seized by the throat by the priso ner. He plaled his hand on his waistcoat to save his watch, upon which the four other men came up, and while two struck him violently upon the head and chest two others held his legs, dragged him along for several yards, and then flung him down so heavily that he lost his senses, and on recovering them he found himself in the arms of a woman, and that his guardchain had been broken off and stolen. The prisoner declared that he was not out of Shore ditch the whole evening ; but Mr. D'Eyncourt intimated his intention to send him for trial on both charges, and committed him for the completion of the evidence. SOUTHWARK.—Richard Pitts, an elderly man, was brought before 11r. A'Beckett, charged with com mitting a most murderous assault oa Catherine Pitts, his wife. The complainant, whose head was bandaged up, and who appeared to be in such a weak state from the inju ries inflicted on her that it was with some difficulty she gave the following evidence, stated that she had been married to the prisoner nearly 20 years, and had three children to support by her own labour, as she was com pelled to live apart from him, owing to his grossly M using her. On Saturday night last, about 9 o'clock, he came to the house where she was living with her children, fin Market-street, and as soon as she opened the door he made use of an oath and knocked her down. After that he strack her over the head with his walking stick until she became insensible. She was positive that bad not assistance arrived ho would have murdered her. Mr. A'Beckett asked her whether she had ever charged him before for assaulting her ? She replied that she had, and once ho was committed to prison, but she forgot how long. She was now in such a weak state from his violence on Saturday that she could hardly stand. Mr. A.'Beckett said it was quite clear from the evi dence that he had committed a murderous assault on his wife, and there was nothing to justify such brutal conduct. He had been once punished for assault upon her, and he should not be doing his duty unless he in flicted the full penalty allowed by act of Parliament. He should therefore sentence him to six months' hard labour in Wandsworth House of Correction. The prisoner was then removed by the gaoler; and locked up in one of the cells at the rear of the court. Shortly afterwards Downes, the gaoler, had same sus picion of the prisoner, which induced him to go to the cell, when he saw him in the act of cutting his throat with a small clasp-knife. Downes, with the utmost alacrity, rushed into the cell, and fortunately wrenched the knife from his grasp before he was able to accom plish his object. However, the wound was so severe that a medical man was called in to attend to him. Mr. A'Beckett, on hearing the facts from Downes, ordered the prisoner's immediate committal to prison, so that he might be prevented from repeating the at tempt. On the door of a certain parish church not a hundred miles from Wycombe was recently affixed the following notice :—" The churchwardens will hold their quarterly meetings onoa in six weeks instead of half-yearly as for merly." [ADVERTISEMENT.]—OnIy to be known to be valued.—Dr. Roberts's celebrated ointment, called the " Poor Man's Friend," is confidently recommended to the public as an un failing remedy for wounds of every description, a certain cure of ulcerated sore legs if of twenty years' standing , cu ts, burns, scalds, bruises, chilblains, scorbutic eruptions, and pimples in the face, sore and inflamed eyes, sore heads, can cerous humours, ezc., and is a specific for those afflicting eruptions that sometimes follow vaccination. Sold in pots, at ls. 11d. and 2s. 9d. each.—Also his "Pilules Antiscro phulw," confirmed by more than forty years' experience to be, without exception, one of the best alterative medicines ever compounded for purifying the blood and assisting nature in all her operations ; hence they are useful in scrofula, scorbutic complaints, glandular swellings, particularly those of the neck, dic. They form a mild and superior family aperient that may be taken at all times without confinement or change of diet. Sold in boxes, at ls. 11d., 2s. 9(1., 4s. 6d., lls , and 225. each.—Sold wholesale by the proprietors, Beach and Barnicott, at their dispensary, Bridport; by the London houses ; retail by all respectable medicine vendors in the United Kingdom. Observe.—No medicine sold under the above names can possibly be genuine, unless " Beach and Barnicott, late Dr. Roberts, Bridport," is enginve d an d I printed on the stamp afitied to each bog. IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. TRIESEMAR.—On the 29th of May, 1855, an injunction was granted by the High Court of Chancery, and on the I 1 th of June following was made perpetual, against Joseph cranklin and others, to restrain them, under a penalty of one thou 'end pounds, from imitating this Medicine, which is protected by Royal Letters Patent of England, and secured by the Seals of the Ecole do Pharmacie de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TRIESEMAR, No. 1, 13 a remedy for RelazatiOn,§lTercnat ' orrhosa, and all the distressing consequences arising from early abuse, &c., and its effects are effi cacious in youth, manhood, and old age; and tc those persons who are prevented entering the married state from the results of early errors it is invaluable. _ . TRIESEMAR, No. 2, eTeAually, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely a •adicates all traces of those Disorders which Capaivi and Cubebs , ve so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health of a vast portion of the population. TRIESEMAR, No: 3, is the great Continental Remedy for that cisss of Disorders, whici' unfortunately the English physician treats with Mercury, to the in. evitable destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all the sarsaparilla in the world cannot remove. TRIESEMAR, Ncs. 1,2, and 3, are alike devoid of taste or smell, en lof all nauseating qualities. They may lie on the toilet table without their use being suspected TRIESE MAR, Nos. 1,2, and 3 are slid in tin cases, price 11s., or there is a saving of li. 125.; thyme. ssparate doses, as adminis ter cases in one for 335., which sa ws us. ; and in M. cases, whereby ed by Valpeau, Lallemand, Rosy, & &c. To be had Wholesale and Rmail in London of Johnstol, 68, R. li. Ingham, druggist, 46, Ni arket-street, Manchester ; - ornhill; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; and hanger. 15), Ox , bookseller, Deansgate, Bolton; J. Priestly, chemist, :2, 15 , Westmoreland -street, bookseller,elllitgbhoo.sktsreelelteir,Biminghani. f' l ir . d p -s r t a r d e b e ury t ; D Ln a r b d i - in str ; ee w t 1n sllLiverpool; Pw SHARE 31ASgBlis. o.sGh, 8$ i—South r LIVERPOOL, APRIL 14. eat Northern, Swim EXCHANGE.—The market has been brisk today, and prices are advanced. Lancas hire an d Yorkshire, 89f g A 89—London and Nort h-We stern, 101i—Mid lEtansdtse'r n 7, 5 22 1 5 2 4 2 4 , c 2 . - 513 I at i k — b u N r n ° , r t 1611 Br 234. MANCHESTER, Amu, 14. STOOK EXOHANGE.—Th e re has been a qui e t b us i ness to dav, and the prices were rather weaker at the clos e . midl 2 .lll 2 a — t e e e s d t s e . r,s9Sp_and, 75h — West Riding, Is. 61. d. effield, and Li ea 2 j —Dovers, i —Lancashire Assurance, 1-16 pm. BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 14. STOOK EXOFIANGE.—This market was doing albrisk business to-day, and prices were firm. Great Westerns were done at 64i—London and North-Westerns, 104 — London and North Western Eighths, lls. 3d. dis.—South Staffords, 3 dis.— Birmingham and Staffordshire Gas 251. shares, 50. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway ' s Pills a Medicine of extraordinary properties for the cure of Coughs, Colds, and Asthma.—These pills are famed in every clime as the best remedy ever known for the cure of coughe, colds, asthma, and affections of the chest ; a dose or two gives immediate relief, and a continuance of them for a short time effects a perfect cure by giving a freedom to the respiratory organs ; therefore, let those who are suffer ing from asthma, tightness of breath, or similar corn plaints, have recourse at once to these invaluable pills. —Sold by all medicine vendors throughout the world ; at Professor Holloway's Establishments, 244, Strand, London, and 80, Maiden-lane, New York ; by A. Stampa, Constantinople; A. Gulley, Smyrna; and ' E. Muir, Malta. rPRICSE 4D. STAMPED SD• .Nasia,' and Military Intellig9nce. The Imperatriz, transport, No. 150, arrived at Sheer ness on Sunday at 8.20 a.m., from the Thames. She steamed up alongside the Russian prison ship Devon shire, LietiteC.ant Commander Lloyd, and received all the Russian prisoners of war, and also the merchant sea men of differs nt northern nations who had been dettened for breaking the blockade. The Im - peratriz left again at 10.20 a.m, the same day for a Russian port in the Baltic,.suppot ed to be Libau. The Adder „steam-vessel,- Second Master Commander W. Munc'eitu, pissed Sheerness at 10,i35.a.m. on Sunday with a new despatch gun-boa*, tEe Alacrity, in ;;ow, from the Thaoses, to be immediately fitted at Chatham. The Sampson, 6 guns, paddlewheel steam-frigate, Cap tain G. S. Hind, arrived at Sheerness on Sunday, and authored at the Little Neve at 1.2.45.43. m., frota the tic. She left Kiel on Friday last,. and had w fine run home. She came into fiabour to coal and water at 4 25 p.m. on the same day.' She :is 'under sailing orders to proceed to Portsmouth and to tow, with her mortar-ves sels to join the squadron. Orders have been received at Sheirness garrison to prepare to receive three more companies of Royal. Artil lery for field battery exercise. They are daily expected. The surgery at Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham, is to un dergo some extensive alterations and improvements, in order to afford superior accommodation to the large number of medical officers stationed at that establish inent. The building hitherto used as a dissecting-room is to be converted into a surgery, and a large and corn inodiceis building, in a line with the library and museum, is in course of erection for the purposes of anatomical tturfy. • Thle Lorderof the Adiniraltif-lsaiimrdecided thg the- Marine Barracks at Obatbanx &hartbeliinsidecablYl,ll - so as to render them capable of affording accom modation for an additional number of officers and men belonging to that branch of the service, the necessary alterations are to be at once commenced. An order was received in Limerick on Saturday, from the Horse Guards, for draughts from the 9tb, 17th, and 39th Regiments to be held in readiness for immediate embarkation for Malta, there to join their service com panieß, and proceed direct to Upper Canada. The de. pot of the .9th Regiment will furnish 100 rank and file, with one ensign, for this service, and their departure is daily expected. The draughts of the 17th and 39th are also to be 100. Sporting Intelligence. NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING.—MONDAY. The Craven Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 50 added, for three-yr-olds and upwards ; the winner to be sold for 600 sovs., if demanded, &c., unless exemption from being sold was claimed at the time of entrance ; horses so exempt to carry 91b extra. A.F., one mile, 2 fur.- . . longs, 73 yards. 4 subs. Mr. J. Dawson's Napoleon the Third, by lago, 3 yrs, Est 61b. (Bray) 1 Mr. T. Parr's Fisherman, 3 yrs, 7st llb (including 91b extra) Captain Lane's Tug o' War, 3 yrs, Est 61b (Fordham) 3 Mr. Saxon's Mary, 3 yrs, Bst 41b (J. Forster) 4 BtCing-6 to 4on Fisherman, 2to 1 agst Tug - o' War, 4to 1 agst Mary (offered), 9 to 1 agst Napoleon the Third (offered). Won cleverly by a head ; three lengths between the second and third, and four lengths between the third and fourth. The Bennington Stakes of 50 BOYS, each, h ft, for three yr olds ; colte, 85t 7113 ; and fillies, Bst 21b. Certain allowances. D.M. 7 furlongs 201 yards. 14 subs. Duke of Bedford's Tyra, by Tadmor, Bst 41b...(Pettit) 1 Lord W. Powlett's Druid, Bst 41b (S. Rogers) 2 Lord Orford's filly, by The Libel, out of Mangosteen, 7st 131 b Betting —Even on Mangosteen filly, 2 to 1 agst each of the others. Won by a neck ; two lengths between the second and The Forty-second Riddlesworth Stakes (reduced to a match), of 200 sous. each, h ft, for three-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bit 41b. Certain allowances. Ab. M. 7 furlongs 212 yards. Mr. Barnes' Anemone, by Tadmore, Bst llb (Flatman) 1 Mr. Coombe's Armiger, 3st 71b (Bartholomew) 2 Betting-5 to 4 on Anemone, who won by a head. Sweepstakes of 50 Bolts each, for three•yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 31b ; certain allowances. Ab. M. 7 furlongs, 212 yards. 5 subs. Lord W. Powlett's colt by Bolit.gbroke, out of Fern hill's dam, Bst 41b (S. Rogers) 1 Sir R. Pigott's brother to Folly o' the Day, Bst 71b (Flatman) 2 Duke of Bedford's Bezonian, Bst 41b (Pettit) 3 Mr. Coombe's Looey, Bst (Bartholomew) 4 Betting—Even on Bolingbroke colt, 5 to 2 agst Looey, 6 to 1 agst Bezonian. Won by two lengths ; half a length between the second and third ; Looey was beaten off. Hand c i i c e a r p mo P n i t at c e ou of rs s e o . l. l : in fo i r le t , h 6 re f e u - l y l r o - n o g ld s, s s a s nd ya u r p d w s. ards. Captain Christie's Lawn, by Accident, 3 yrs, sst 11Ib (Fordharn) 1 Mr. T. Parr's Sauceboir, 4 yrs, Bst 121 b (Wells) 2 Mr. Barber's Sir Rowland Trenchard, aged, 755 6b (J. Forster) 3 Mr. Dixon's Adamant, 3 yrs, Set 71b (J. Rogers) 4 Betting-6 to 4 each ag-t Lawn and Sancebox. Won by half a length ; three-quarters of a length be tween the second and third ; bad fourth. The Heath presented a somewhat blank appearance, the attendance of professional and gentleman turfites being decided below the average opening day's muster. The weather was gloomy, but not unfavourable to the enjoyment of the sport. The racing was marked by no incident of prospective importance. BETTING UP TO SIX O'CLOCK. BURWELL STAKES. Even on Cannobie (taken) 4to 1 agst Cock of the North (taken) THE TWO THOUSAND. 6to 4 agst Yellow Jack (taken) 5 to 1 agst Porto Rico (taken) sto 1 agst Flyby• Night (offered) 10 to 1 agst Bird-in-Hand (taken) CHESTER CUP. Bto 1 agst Hospitality (taker) THE DERBY. 7to 2 agst Wentworth (taken) sto 1 agst Cannobie (taken and offered) Offers to bet a thousand even on Rogerthorpe or Porto Rico agst Fly-by-Night. NEWMARKET RACES-THIS DAY. The first race is set for half-past one o'clock ; the Burwell Stakes at three. 'HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THIMR ENGAGEMENTS. BURWELL STAKES.—Pugnator, Ireland's Eye, ClO tilde, Slander colt, Diego, Bishop of Osnaburg, Eulo gist, La Victime, Little David, Capucine, Secret, Swindler, Russian, Catspaw, Teddy, Sultan, and Fanny Grey. NEWMARKET HANDlCAP.—Buckingham and Roscom mon are struck out. [aIERTISIMENT.]—It would be to some extent a neglect of the (hay which we owe to our readers, if we failed to allude to the unprecedented mass of evidence that has reached us, in proof of the remedial efficacy of " Du Barry's fievalenta Arabica Food," in many disorders which, whilst most pain. f 1 and distressing in their symptoms, have, at the same time, through their obstinacy and continuity, been inaccessible to medical skill. We have looked over some of the lists of heartfelt testimony to the beneficial effects of this food, in various and complicated stages of disorders, including dy spepsia (indigestion), constipation, functional irregularity, obstructions, acidity, cramps, spasms, fits, heartburn, diarrhoea, nervousness, affections of the liver and kidneys, flatulency, distention, palpitation of the heart, nervous head ache, deafness, noises in the head and cars, giddiness, pains betwisn the shoulders and in almost every part of the body, chronic inflammation and ulceration of the stomach, eruptions of the skin, scurvy, fever, scrofula, im purities, poverty of blood, consumption (if not beyond human aid), dropsy, rheumatism, gout, influenza, grippe, nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, after eating, or at sex, low spirits, spleen, general debility, paralysis, cough, asthma , tightness across the chest, phlegm, inquietude, slenplessnesa, involuntary blushing, tremors, dislike to society, unfitness for study, delusions, loss of memory, vertigo, bloo d to the head, exhaustion, melancholy, groundless fe ar, indecision, wretchedness, thoughts of self-destruction, dc. One or two ex amples from the Fifty Thousand Testimonies received by Messrs. Du Barry may be iuterestieg and useful, Cure No. 75, of Dyspepsia.—From the Right Hon. Lord Stuart de Decies —" I have derived much benefit from Du Barry's Food, —Stuart do Decies, D r oulaua' C appoquin, County o f W ater- Cord." Core No. 49,8 32 . —"Fifty years' inde scr ib a b le agony from dyspepsia, nervousn ess, cough, constip a ti on , fla tulency, tulency, spasms, sickness at the stomach, and vomiting, have been removed byDu Barry's excellent food. Maria Jolly, Wor- tham Ling, near Digs, Norfolk." " Miss Eliza. Jacobs, of Naz- iri ,, 6 N y iesrags ,WaStham-cross, Herts: a cure of extreme nervous ness, i n digestion, gatherings, lo w sp i r i ts, and nervous fancies. " C ur e No. 45, 314 ; — " Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liverpool : a cure of 10 years' dyspepsia, and all the horrors o f ne rvous irritability." C ure No, 3,906.—" Thirteen years' cough, indigestion, and general debility have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Revalenta Arabica Food.—James Porter, Athol-street, Perth," But to pursue these testimo nials would be an endless task. Upon Fifty Thousand au thenticated certificates we have the " great" and auspicious fact that, for the first time in the history of pathology, an agent has been idiscovered which completely effects all that had hitherto been fruitlessly attempted by all the nauseous preparations of the laboratory. Not merely in its remedial, but in its preservative capacity, as a protector, as well as a restorer of health, its efficacy is attested by the grateful evi. dence of these who have had experience in propria persona. The circumstances brought to light in connection with its use as food for infants, show that whilst it prolongs the lives of thousands of adults, it is calculated to cause many to reach maturity who would otherwise perish in early childhood. Altogether, we confess to the pleasing conviction that the extended use, amongst all classes, of Du Barry's Food, must produce a marked change for the better in the average value of life, and in the sanitary statistics of our era. In canisters, Sibs, lls.; 1211a5., 225. The . 121bs. carriage free, on receipt of post-office order. Barry du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London ; Fortnum ' Mason, and Co., Purveyors to her Majesty, Piccadilly; also at 60, Grace church-street; 333 and 451, Strand; 4, Cheapside ; 68, Caruhill ; 49, Bishopsgato-street ; 55, Charing-cross; 54, Vppor Baker-nreet; 03 and 100, Coxfoil-f4st os London : Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Con hill, CONVOCATION. " THE GUARDIAN " of to-morrow (Wednesday) will contain a full report of tho meeting of Convocation. PutlishPd every Wednesday, price 7d. stamped, 6d. unstamped, at the office, 3, Burleigh-street t Strand, and may be had of all news agents. The Third Edition. Just Published, price 55., by post, free, ss. 61. N TRUE & FA LSE SPERIVLATORRIRE A , with the View of distinguishing the Imnginary from the Real Sufferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. ‘93r. Pickford is known to English readers by bisfieTnent practi aal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs as, that he has addressed himself to the nos-medi sal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall rietect any >tiler cot ally flagrant evil which It may be in his p)wer to cor rect."—L3ndon Medical Gazette. " The tribe of ' Quiet Sympathisers,' and Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed; and if this book mid find its way into the hands of those who suffer from the com plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is 01 less importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— much money ......This volume is well qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrhosa, and to place the treat ment upon a more rational and ohvsiolozintl basis. It is, therefore, likely to do much good."—Medical Circular. London: H. Baittere. 21b, Regent-street. THE LONDON and EASTERN BANKING CORPORATlON.—Established January 1, 1851. head Ofllce-27, Cannon-street, City. Hyde-park Branch-136, Westbourne-terrace. The Hon. JOHN CADWALADER ERSKINE, Chairman, JOHN CARNAC MORRIS, Esq., F,4 S., Deputy-Chairman. CURRENT ACCOUNTS are opened In the usual manner with approved parties, two per cent. interest being allowed on the minimum monthly balance. CALL ACCOUNTA.—For sums deposited at ten days call five per cent. interest is allowed ; this rate is regulated by the discount rate of the Bank. of, Zwzland. DEPOSIT..LCCOUNTS.—The field for employment of money afford Why lite Branches of this Bank in India enables the Corporation to allow on deposits far lengthened fixed periods very favourable rates of Interest. Deposits are received for the stated periods of one. three, or five years certain at five per cent. per annum, paid half yearly. For these deposits receipts are givat, made transferable if desired. JOHN EDWARD STEPHENS, Manager. lar ad t3t ier