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THE NEW NOVEL, ANK AND BEAUTY; or, The Young Baronesq, Is ready this day, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. liana and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough-street. GLASGOW, DUMBARTON, AND HELENS BURGH. 6J. of ions tion & 0 I ; ;owl, ker. 1.6 J 17 0 16 6 16 6 17 0 . 17 6 t Odle. V , tom• cities r. r. 16. r. 16 co COP ,Tk.Sst ,r, 20 icedo l l icedso.l ;21 ()IMP 10 20 In rieed Ira s 1611/ 20 mo. aortal* acertoN L16:21 4 kIFM Ae It E d" n (I I t I to V (341 ore I ,n' are the ire, I York• anchor _s mi te —Llll' done , h wer! vers. 9 - 1 ' , ns . 501. —South North. tlayi i being s closed 'ions at Canal ! t i ree pet Apris. 9 urancer t, e wea l le via part , [tw. ) Ref. e wife Ell i n . last' , 0 late 1, Au' le lAte ErnilY lenrl. ifroh tgtoo, leee% , f the D ll3 O , Fil -03 0, Re- Esq., -ark• reello, rrAikt ). • F,N I 12, ty 0 f CrARDI.AN FI ASSURANCE No. I I, Lombard-street, London. DIRECTORS. .;•I'Z I)Sb y IRGYPTIAN HALL, Piccadilly.—Th© marvellous MECHANICAL FIGURES, FOURTEEN IN UMBER, life size, possessing speaking powers , t he emission of all t ae natural sounds, and the mobility of face and eyes, which created deep a sensation at the GREAT EXPOSITION IN PARIS, and tracted the marked approbation of the most august personages of :;pgiand and France, will be EXHIBITED DAILY, from II a.m. P.m. (in hourly sittings), and from 5 to 7 p.m. Detail is im "ALIVE OR NOT ALIVE," was the question asked by *1 Multiplied thousands who viewed them w . th a st onishment and iVaht during the enure duration of the Gil *ND EXPO .IT[ON PARIS. The most extraordinary exhibition in the world.— ' l ig, as.; second seats, Is.; gallery, Is. Children half-pace. kE -OPENED, with many important additions to the Scientific Department.—Dr. KHAN" begs to acquaint the Public that his celebrated MUSEUM, which has been elegantly t decorated and enriched by many interesting additional objects, 21TOW OPEN (for Gentlemen only). Amongst the ne w features 7i,`.l l lgh interest will be found a magnificent fall-length Model of a ' t_NITA, from one of the meat eminent of the ancient ma sters. at Mus( urn is open daily from IV till 10 . Lecture • are delivered tt 12, 2, 4, and half-past 7. by Dr. SErrott ; and a new and highly teresting series of Lectures is now in course of delivery by Dr. umi_ 4 N, 8 —No 4, Coventry-stre y et, Leicester-square. at half-past 8 precisel, Every Evening.—Admission, One Mi ... LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN • - RAILWAY. • DONCASTER SPRING MEETING Pirst and Recnnd Class ordinary DAY TICKETS will be issued at k Etlston Station, to Doncaster, by any Train excepting the 9.! 5 April,r en 14 0 SIDAY and TUESDAY, the 31st March and AVAILABLE, to RETITKN by the Ordinary Trains on "daY Tuesday, and Wedneslay, the 31st March and Ist and 2 4 1*11. On addition to the above, First Class Express Day Tickets will be ;red on Mondry and Tuesday, 3 1 st of .March and I st of Ap ril, b y ._"9.15 a.m. Express Trains, Available to Return by the F xpress r " 41 Y 'Praha on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the 31st March 1011 Ist and 20 April. By Order. %mend Manager's Office, Euston Station, March, 1856. LAW LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE, FLEET-STREET, LONDON, MARCO 6, 1856. I tOTICICTSI HEREBY GIVFN, That the BOOKS for the TRANS ),:TRANS- F ERof SHARES in this Society will Ir CLOSED on Thursday, the h t9 instant, and will be re-opened on Wednesday, the 2d day of ril next. The Dividends for the 'ear 1855 will be payable on i!onday, th e 7th day of April next, and on any subsequent day, " t4 l'een the hours of Ten and Three o'clock. By Order of the Directors. WILLIAM SAMUEL DOWNES, Actuary. NATIONAL PROVIDENT INSTITUTION, 48, Gracechurch-street, London. For Mutual Assurance on Lives, Annuities, /cc. Chairman—SAMUEL HAYHURST LUCAP, Esq. Deputy Chairman—CHAßLEs Lusiinscrois, Esq. Abstract of the Report of the Directors for 1855 : I. The number of policies issued during the year Assuring the sum of •• ••• #549,4 1 9 0 0 Annual premiums thereon Policies issued from the commencement of the institution in December, 1835 .. • • .......... P olicies now in force Annual Income From Pre rniums(afterdeducting.£33.34B ILbatement •allowed) • • •......Z189,955 15 2 "nth From Interest en in vested capital ... • • --------£239.763 13 5 Amount returned to members in abatement of , Premiums -"amount of bonuses added to sums assured ...... 126,564 U 0 Amount paid in claims by death from the com mencement of the Institution .. zalance of receipts over the disbursements is the year .. 4 nereasing the capital stock of the Institution to 1,2 , 1.049 17 4" K At the last division of surplus profits made up to Nov. 20, 1852, :It reductions varied from 6 to 89 per cent. on the original amount Zpremituns, according to the age of the member and the time the r i VeY had been in force ; and the bonuses ranged in like manner ms 50 to 75 per cent. on the amount of premiums received during .. 0 Preceding five years. ~a ,e rnbers whose premiums fall due on the Ist of April are re "unded that they must be paid within 30 days from that date. tjjle Directors' Report for 1855 may now be obtained on applica ;: 'Kb Mardi, 1856. JOSEPH MARSH, secretary. ... 18,567 13,740 RE AND LIFE COMPANY, FRANCIS• HART DYKE, Esq., Chairman. HENRY HULSE BERENS, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. John Dixon, Esq. 4tewart Marjorihanks, Esq Sir W. M. T. Farquhar, Bart. John Vartin, Esq., Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Brt. 'Rowland Mitchell, Esq. Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. James Morris, Esq. John Harvey, Esq. Henry Norman, Esq. Jchn G. Hubbard, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, Esq. George Johnstone, Esq. John Thornton, Esq. John Labouchere, Esq. James Tulloch. Esq. John Loch, Esq. Henry Vigne, Esq. AuDiTous. W. Roberts, Esq. i Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. Avis Lloyd.jun.. Esq. 1 John Henry Smith, Esq. George - Keys, - Esq.,"SecretarY. Samuel Brown, Esq., Actuary. hYPIA DEP ARTMF.NT.—Under the provisions of an Act of Par tlnent, this Company now offers to future insurers Four-fifths of Ze Profits, with Quinquennial Division, or a Low Rate of Premium ”'...thout participation of Profits. next division of Profits will be declared in June, 1860, when ir Participating Policies which shall have subsisted at least one year `Christmas, 1359, will be allowed to share in the Profits. 1. At the five divisions of Profits made by this Company. the total e l'erstonary Bonuses added to the Policies have exceeded 913,000 . . 4 i Christmas, 1854, the Assurances in force amounted to upwards '0,240 ' 0001.; the Income from the Life Branch in 1854 was more ~,g4 ll 200,0001. • and the Life Assurance Fund (independent of the 'illarant e e Capital) exceeded 1,700,0001. ..YOREIGN RISKS.—The Extra Premiums required for the East "I'd West Indies, the ISritish Co l onies, and the northern parts of the United states of America, have been materially reduced. INVALID LIVES.--Persons who are not in such sound health as w .., 0 2 1 1(1 enable them to insure their Lives at the Tabular Premiums , - "rhave their Lives insured at Extra Premiums. ~,;OANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their values, pro "`'ed such Policies shall have been effected a sufficient time to have Attai n . . din each case a value not under 501. ....A B SIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, received registered. .. 11 11DICAL FEES paid by the Company , and no c har g e will be "'k....die for Policy Stamps. Actlee is hereby given, that Fire Policies which expire at Lady rr•must be renewed within fifteen days at this office, or with Sir. f l !* 11 , No. 1, St. James's-street, corner of Pall-mall; or with the ,7 13• I Pany's agents throughout the kingdom, otherwise they become Lotuses caused by Explosion of Gas are admitted by this Company. ESTABLISHED 1837. TARITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. 1, Princes-street, Bank, London. I : l3 l l owered by Special Act of Parliament, 4 Viet., cap. 9. DinErrorts. kaior-General ALEXANDER, Blackheath Park, CHAIRMAN. Witham Rardgett, Esq., 149. Fenchurch-street. George Ilevington. Esq., Yeckinger Mills, Bermondsey. P . P. Cocker''', Esq., Shadwell and Twickenham. George Cohen. Esq., Shacklewell. lillls Coventry, Esq., White Ilart•court, Lombard-street. John Drewett, Esq., 50, Cornhill. Erasmus Robert Foster, Esq., I, Princes-street, Bank. T. 8. Girdler, Esq , 7, Tokenhonse-yard. IL L. Smale, Esq., Doctors' Commons. STaassonts Bellenden Ker, Esq., 8, Old-square, Lincoln's Inn. BOramorts:—Biessrs. MsLeod and Steaming, 16, London-street, Fenchurch•atreet. 1 1 atrium—Messrs. Dimsdale, Drewett, Fowlers and Barnard, s€l, Cornhill. Increasing Rates of Premium for securing Loans of Debts. half Premiums, only, required during first seven years. a ds' assured payable at Sixty or at death if occurring previously ?revision, during minority, for Orphans. BRITANNIA MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION. Empowered by her Majesty's Royal. Letters Pafent. Profits divided annually. 'Premiums computed for every three months' difference of age. flair -credit policies—the unpaid half p remiums li q uidated out 01 „ Le Profits. (PROPRIETARY.) I (MUTUAL.) Half Whole Half Quar -4 presalum premium A ge. Annual Yearly telly .4 First for Re- premium Pre- Pre. Seven malnder inium. 'llium. Years. j of Life. j 4 a. d. £ s. d. Years. Months .£ s. d. X s. d. E s. 0. 4 ,.: 119 2 3 6 30 0127 314 2, 0 12 3 1922184 3127 6 1 4 4 , 0 12 4 - --- 6 `,:: 2 2 6 4 5 01 1 6 2 710 1 4 6, 1 012 !, ' a 6 8 1 613 41 _ 9 1 2 8 2i 1 4 8, 0 12 6 _----_ E. R. FOSTER, Resident Director. ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary. TFI SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. Just published. nriee Is.. illustrated with cases and numerous engravings free by post for 14 starnos. NER V S DEBILIT Y; teart. Causes, Syn pto and Care.— to Essay on Sper it rrheea, with Practical Observations on a safer and more i l l "cessful modo of dYtreatment of the diseases of the Generativi f ' r ern, obtained by the us of the Microscope in detecting ane fiery variety by urinary examination , the real cause and e ff ect of variety' of complaint, whether arising from solitary habits excesses, accident, or climate, followed by practical remarks, founder , ;twety , years' exerience in the treatment of Impuissance, union n s Debility, Loc a l Wea k ne ss, Spermatorrhaa, tee. To which ;re added, Commentaries on the Physiology of Marriage, with pre 4.itionary hints on the evils emanating from empirical prectice, i on the dangerous remedies advocated by various writers on r ' important disorders. By SAMUEL LMMERT M.D. t 87, BEDFORD-SQUA IP, LONDON, of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the Univeraity of Edin burgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society. Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., 0. The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful con luences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, ' lO l have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man 4, and premature decay at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, any °titer class of disease known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is t ,rticularly recommended to petscns entertaini n g secret doubts of t''ir physical condition, and who are conscio us of having hazarded the health, happiness, and privilegea to which every human being is entitled It is absolutely necessary that all men should know, that there are rprti . nciples of personal management which cannot be vio lated without the grievous penalties, end when wisdom and reg ret succeed 2 heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties Ztal , be mitigated, hew the sting of their bitterness may be re moved, 4 i - .'d how the evil and its consequences maybe avoided , and ab ove all, 7 i at there Is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functiona l 7 1 angement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure . 7. c Author has for a series of years been engaged In an extensive ra erlue in the treatment of those delicate complaints, which have U nfortunately been too generally confided tis the oars of ignorant !caniries, who inflict great injury on those who are induced to place faith in their pretensions. _NERVOUS DEBILITY May be had price Is. of Messrs. Sher ;coed and Co., 23, Paterticster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford - street; stomps e 9 ' Leicester•square; Mann, 39, Cornhill; or free by post for b 1 to any address from the Author's residence , 27, Bed -I.home for onsultation daily !tom eleven till two, and fr om six insight • MR. LAURENCE OLIPHANT'S NEW WORK. This day is Published, in post Bvo.. price Ins. 6d. cloth, with Map and Illustrations, from drawings taken on the spot by Omar l'acha's artist, THE TRANSCAUCASIAN CAMPAIGN of the TURKISH AR , Pf under OMAR PACHA. A Personal Narrative. By LAURENCE OLIPiI ANT, author of " Minnesota," " the Russian whores of the Black Sea," &c. _ _ _ William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. To be had of all Booksellc s. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE tor APRIL, 1856. No. CCCCLXXXVI. Trice 25.64. CONTENTS. The Laws concerning Women. War and Woodcraft. Alison's .11story of Europe. Prescott's Philip 11. The Scot /thread. The Lilian Civil Service. The Kars Blue-Book. De Bazancourt's Narrative of the Campaign. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London In a few days, in post &vo., T HE BORDER LANDS of SPAIN ; with au Account of the Republic of Andorre. _ London : Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. In a few dap•, T HE RING and VEIL. A Novel. In 3 vols. By .T kNIES AUGUSTUS ST. JOHN, Author of " Isis," " Margarpt.Rovenscroft," &c., &c. London i Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. • NEW sunw.. - On the let of.Apd;riffte - pubUshed.'price Is., the First Number of OLb TIMES ; or, the Retrospect of an Irish Artist. liy WILLIAM WILLS. With numerous Illustrations by the Author. London: Piper, Stephenson, and Spence. Dublin: W. McGee, and Co. The Third Edition. Just Published, price 59., by post, free, ss. 6d. ON TRUE st FALSE SPERMATORRIit.EA, with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the Real Sufferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. Trimslated from the German of Dr. PICRFORD. ".Dr. Fickford la known to English readers by his frequent practi• cal contributions to German medical literature. Thia is the first time, he informs as, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi eal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if ho shall letect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his p >war to cor rect."—London Medical Gazette. " The tribe of ' Quiet Sympathisers,' and ' Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed; and it this book could find its way Into the hands of those who suffer from the com plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less Importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— much m0ney...... 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 physiological basis. It is, therefore, likely to do much good." London: 11. Balllere. 219, Regent-street. NEW LABEL.—In consequence of the' variety 01 counterfeit labels of A. ROWLAND & SONS' MACAS-1A It OIL, now in circulation, and which so nearly resemble the original as frequently to deceive the unwary—they have em ployed those eminent artists Messrs Perkins, Bacon, & Co., who, at great cost, and by a peculiar process of their own, have succeeded I. producing from steel A NEW L ABEL," which cannot be forged,. It is composed of a section of an engine -turned circle, repeated one hundred and thirty times—and forms an original lace-work ground, upon which is engraved in white letters, " ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL, FOR THE GROWTH, RESTORATION, AND FOR BEAUTIFYING THE HUMAN HAIR." Under which is the Signature of the Proprietors in Red Ink '• A. - ROWLAND & SONS." Solct by them at 20. Ilatton•gaeden, London, and by Chemists and Perfumers. r HE ONLY REMEDY for SECRET POISON' “1.--Let it be declarel by the country, through Parliament. that all deadly poisons, such as strychnine, prussic acid, ar-enic, morphine, &c., &c., are antimedicinal, and therefore not to be used in medicine. (Signed) MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH COLLEGE OF HE A LTII, New-road London, for the Society of tlygeists. March, 1856. I t /ER. HOWARD, Surgeon-Dentist, 52, Fleet street, has introduced an entirely new description of ARTI WICIAL TEETH, fixed without springs, wires, or Natures. They so erfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from he original by the closest observer; they will never change colour or lecay, and will be found very superior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painful operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is zuaranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth , endered sound and useful In mastication.-52, Fleet-street. At -ome from ten till five. IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. r RIESEM.A IL—On the 29th of May, 1855, an injunction was granted by the.l4lgh Court of Chancery. and on the 11th Of June following was made perpetual against Joseph ranklin and others, to restrain them, under a penalty of ons thou sand pounds, from imitating this Siedicine, which to protected by oyal Letters Patent of Mngland, and licensed by the Seals of the geoli , do Ph truiricle de and fife troeriarcomege of MedtMne, %Fianna TRIF.SEMAIt, No. 1, is a remedy for Relaxation. goormatprrhre an , i all the distressing onsnmences arising from early abuse, &c., and its effects are effi cacious in youth, manhood, and old age; and t tnose persons who are prevented entering the married sten from the results of early errors it Is Invaluable. TRIESEM AR, No: 2; effeztually, in the short space of three days, completely and entire: , -adicates all traces of those Disorders which Capaivi and Cubebi aye no long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of th:i heait' if a vast portion of the population. TRI 'NEM AR, No, 3, Is the great Cantmental Remedy for that class of Disorders, vette unfortunately the English physician treats with Mercury, to the in -vlable destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all th , ssrsaparllla in the world cannot remove. TkIESEMAIt, Nos. 1,2, and 3, are alike devoid of taste or snier tna of all natoleating qualities. They may lie on the toilet taol , rithout their u.e beltiz suspected _ _ _ TR [ESE MAR, Nos. 1,2, and A are B , ld In tin CaAtl, price ils.,or 'our cases in one for 335., which saves I Is. ; and in 5/. eases, whereby there is a saving of I/. 128.; divide int., s warate doses, as adminis tered by Valpenu. Lallemantl, Roux, &c. To be had Wholesale and Rc . .ail in London of John=ton. 68 , Cornhill ; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; and Sanger. Isn, Os ford•street ; R. H. Ingham, druggist, 46, M. arket-street, Manchester ; Bradbury, bookseller, Deansgate, Bolton J. Priestly, chemist, 52, Lord-street, Liverpool; Powell, bookseller, 15, Westmoreland-street, Dnblin:; Winndll, bookseller, Rich-srreet, ,irodneham. LIST OF GOVERNORS AND DIRECTORS OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND. The following is the House List of Governors and Directors of the Bank of England fur the year ensuing, viz. : FOR GOVERNORS. Thomas Matthias Weguelio, Esq., Governor. Sheffield Neave, E , q., Deputy Governor. FOR DIRECTORS. Henry Hulso Berens, Esq. Arthur Edward Campbell, Esq. Edward Henry Chapman, Esq. Hobert \Vigram Crawford, Esq. William Cotton, Esq. James Pattison Currie, Esq. B.namy Dobree, Esq. Benjamin Buck Greene, Esq. Charles Pascoe Grenfell, Eq. Henry Hocks Gibbs, Esq. Thomson Hankey, John Oliver Hanson, Dq. John Benjamin Heath, Esq. Krkman Daniel Hodgson, Esq. Henry Lancelot Holland, Eq. John Gellibrand Hubbard, Esq. Thomas Newman Hunt, Esq. Charles Frederick Huth, Esq. James Malcolmson, Esq. James Morris, Esq. Georize Warde Norman, Esq. John Horsley Palmer, Esq. Henry James Prescott, Esq. Thomas Tooke. jun., Esq. The election for Governor and Deputy Governor will be held at the Bank on Tuesday, the Bth of April, and for Directors on Wednesday, the 9th April, from ten o'clock in the forenoon till four in the afternoon. Tn MISSING STEAMER PACIFIC.--The following is an extract from a letter just received by a clergyman in this country from a friend of his in New York, who sailed from Liverpool in the Atlantic on the 6th of Feb., 14 days after the Pacific had started from the same port : —" New York, Feb. 26, 1856. Eighteen weary disagree able stormy days brought us on Sunday morning to New York. The captain, who had crossed the Atlantic 243 times, declared he had never bad such a bad trip as this. The ship had scarcely got out of the Mersey when the headwind began increasing to a gale, against which we had to fight until we reached this shore. When two days out the fog became so thick that we could not see the length of the vessel. On the tlard day floating ice began to make its appearance, increasing to such an extent that we could only feel our way. For two days and nights we kept crawling along, the captain hoping to get out of it every moment. Fog, fog, fog ! nothing but fog and ice ! Oa the third day, at 7 o'clock in the morning, we saw a spectacle which none on hoard will ever forget ; it was, in fact, the finger of Providence, and some more deserving than I and others must have been on board. The whole veil of fog rose like a curtain, and we looked upon an ocean scene beautiful, fearful, and grand. The atmosphere as far as the eye could reach was clear ; the sun shone brightly on a continuous chain of icebergs above 100 feet high, intermingled with fields of ice. Chain after chain burst upon the sight, and the sight was awfully impres sive. In a less time than it has taken to write this the curtain descended, and all became obscurity again. The captain took the hint and turned his ship towards Eng land for the remainder of the day, and towards the south at night, not resuming his course to America until the following morning. After 18 days' passage we arrived at New York, when we learnt that the Pacific, another steamer belonging to this, which sailed 14 days before us, had not arrived, and I fear that she is lost, with all on board. Our ship behaved nobly ; nothing broken or strained. It is wonderful how man combines wood and iron to withstand the power of the waves." WEST COLLACOMBE MINE.— A general meeting of the adventurers was held on the 25th inst., J. A. Joseph, Esq., in the chair. The financial statement presented showed a balance in favour of the mine of 3941. 15s. 7d., which was passed and ordered to be printed and cit.. culated. The second ordinary meeting of this company was held in Glasgow on Wednesday—Mr. Cohn Campbell, jun., in the chair. The report of the directors stated that since the last meeting, held on the 11th September last, two calls of 21. each per share had been made ; and there was, on the 3d of January last, a sum -of 10,760/. of those calls in arrear by the ordinary shareholders, which had, however, now been reduced to a sum of about 3,0001., and the subscrip tion payable by the Edinburgh nod Glasgow Railway Company whenever the other shareholders have paid 50,0001., amounting to 32,0001., with Interest from the date of the calls upon the other shareholders. The report also stated that the contractors had commenced their works on the line at the Dalreach tunnel early in Sep tember, and were now proceeding with the works at va rious points. They bad succeeded in obtaining possession of the land almost throughout the whole line, and they had also made considerable progress in the settle. ments with proprietors and tenants. They trusted that before another half-yearly meeting takes place nearly the whole land cairns will be settled, and the works be in a state of great forwardness.. The CHAIRMAN moved the approval of the report, and requested the meeting to sanction the proceedings which were being taken to enforce payment of arrears. It was absolutely necessary that these calls should be paid up, to facilitate the arrangements with the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. He also moved-that the number of directors be reduced from nine to seven. Mr. EWING seconded the motion, which was agreed to, and the meeting separated. NORTH BRITISII. An adjourned meeting of this company was held at Edinburgh on Wednesday, to receive the report of tho- Tarinineers on the votes and proxies given in at the meet ing on the 18th, for and against the directors. Mr. Hodgson, chairman of the company, presided. The serulineers.repnrted that there bad voted for the following motion—" That the course pursued by the board of directors in regard to the money bill be ap proved, and the measure passed through Parliament without delay"—present in person and by proxy, 1,048 shareholders, representing 1,108,393/. stock, giving 11,020 votes ; and that the number of shareholders who voted for Mr. Walker's amendment, " that the conduct of the directors be not approved of, and that the money bill be restricted in amount," being 620, representing 956,090/: stock, giving 8,043 votes ; thus showing a majority of 428 persons, 122,3031. stock, and 2,792 votes for the said motion. Two of the scrutineers objected to 14 proxies being used in favour of the motion, on the ground that the parties who gave them appeared at the meeting, though they did not vote. The scrutineers for the directors contended that that objection was erro neous, and that the said proxies (representing 25,4081. stock and 185 votes) should be recorded in favour of the motion, thus making the majority 442 per sons, 147,4111. stock, and 2,917 votes. For the office of directors, the scrutineers reported that 1,005 persons had voted for Mr. Douglass, 922 for Mr. Sprot, 636 for Mr. Leishman, and 632 for Mr. Walker. The two former, who were retiring directors, were therefore re elected. The CHAIRMAN, in declaring that the resolutions of the directors had been carried, said he had no hesitation in expressing his belief of the validity of the proxies ob jected to, though that question (Id not alter the result. He had also to declare that Mesirs. Sprot and Douglass were re-elected directors. . Mr. .51 4 GeviN remarked that, though the opposition headed by Mr. Walker had not been successful, having been decided against by the preference shareholders, it had still taught a salutary lesson to the directors. He had no dread of a little wholesome agitation in railway companies, as it generally tended to improve d►vidends, and put things in a more satisfactory state. He wished to ask the chairman as to the dividend he nnticipated on the line after the money bill should have passed and their financial aff,iirs should be adjusted. He had seen it strted in a report as 1 per cent. The CHAIRMAN said, the prospective dividend he bad estimated was 1 per cent. the half-year, or two per cent. per annum. Ho had every reason to believe that this anticipated dividend would be realised. The meeting then separated. ST. ANDREW'S AND QUEBEC. _ - A. special meeting of the class A shareholders of this company was held yesterday, at the office, Parliament street, Westminster, to consider a proposition for the transfer to a company now in course of formation of the rights and privile4es now vested in the company, and to pass resolutions in connection therewith ; Mr. F. Ed wards in the chair. Mr. BYRNE, the secretary, read the report, which statel that the new company proposed to be formed would have a capital of 600.0001., in 30,000 shares of 201. each, of which only 350,0001., or 17,500 shares, would' tie disposed of at pre-eut, that being the amount required to complete the first section to Woodstock, VO miles in length. The new stock would be issued in cla , ses A, B, C, and D. Class Ato consist of 4,000 stares, entitled to a Government guarantee of 6 per cent, for 25 years, to commence immediately on the c - .mpletion of the line to Woodstock, with a bonus of 20,000 • acres of land, or 5 acres per share. Interest at 6 per cent. per annum to be allowed on the deposit and calls during construction. The Cass B to consist of 7,000 *hares, entitled to a bonus of 105,000 acres of land, or 15 acres per share, and to 5 per cent. interest On the deposits and amounts paid up during construction. The Class C to consist of 4,000 paid up shares, to be allotted to the proprietors of the 4,000 capital stock. shares in the existing company, with 60,000 acres of land, or 15 acres per share, to the holders of tile 4,000 land shares of the land stock company, for the purchase of that portion of the railway already constructed, including rolling stock, &c., together with all their rights and privileges, but no interest to be allowed on these shares during eJmstruc- tion. The Class D shares to consist of 2,500 shares, of 201. each, to be paid over to the local government in right of their advances of 32,0001. and of advances to be made. About 3,300 acres of laud are to be reserved for those sharehekers only holding capital stock in the exiting company, the surplus land to be divided pro rota in satisfaction of interest, arid for transfer of line. The CHAIRMAN said the scheme was now before the shareholders, and the books were open to the inspection of any of them who might wish to see them. Mr. BATES, a member of the cotumiteee, explained that, after a very protract•td d:scus•ion with the oirectors on the affairs of the company, they had devised the pre sent scheme for relieving the company from its difficul ties. He believed, if carried out, that it would he found satisfactory to all parties. Looking to the traffic pros pects of the line, and the high position of the Canada Land shares in the market, he thought there was a fair prospect of success. Some of the shareholders thought the terms were too liberal to the public, but he thought it would have been unwise to offer lower terms. The terms to the existing shareholders were fa vourable., and he believed that the rights of all parties had been fairly and properly adju'ted. The division of the surplus land among the A shareholders after the other classes were sati , fied would amply recompense them for the loss of interest. Ho concluded by moving a formal resolution to the effect that the shareholders ap proved the arrangement proposed to be granted by the new company for carrying out the line to Woodstock, and authorised the directors to carry out the arrange ment. The CHAIRMAN stated that the holders of 1,700 shares out of 4,000 shares had assented to the scheme, and that the holders of 1,000 shares more would assent, making 2 7001. The holders of 50 shares only had dissented. The whole of the present A shares, 4,000 in number, with but one exception, had had 161. per share paid up. It was necessary to call up the remaining 41. per share, in order to pay off a loan. Mr. GOODCHAP and other shareholders expressed their dissent from the proposed scheme for forming the new company, as they were desirous of preserving their pre sent rights. They did not want to belong to a new com pany. The CHAIRMAN explained that, unless they completed the line to Woodstock in 1857, they would forfeit all their rights, and the money expended would be lost. About 26 mites of railway from the port of St. Andrew's were al ready finished, and 6 additional miles could soon be completed, making 32 miles, that might be soon opened for traffic. Thy cost of constructing that portion of the line bad not exceeded 3,0001. per mile, and to complete the line to Woodstock, including rolling stock, would he 350,0001. The Government had agreed to subscribe 50,0001. towards the undertaking, but had not completed their agreement. Mr. GRICATREX thought the p'an proposed was the best they could adopt, and, from information he had ob tained, he believed if the project were carried out th at they would have a very good property. The CHAIRMAN, in reply to a question, stated that Earl Fitz william had assented to be chairman of this new company, and that Lord Ashburton had also as sented to the scheme. The resolution proposed by Mr. Bates was then car ried, Mr. Goodcbap dissenting. In reply to a question, Mr. SHA.BPE stated that the bill now before Parlia ment of the " British and North American Great Rail way and Land Company " did not emanate from the St. Andrew's Company. The proceedings concluded with a vote . of thanks to the chairman. EASTERN COUNTIES. Mr. George P. Bidder, ono of the engineers for the construction of the branches of the Eastern Counties and Norfolk Railways, has communicated to the di rectors of the Norfolk line a reply to the statements of Lieutenant-Colonel Wynne, the Government In spector, touching the condition of that railway. Mr. Bidder commences by pointing out that, although Colonel Wynne has reported many bridges and via ducts in a dangerous state of decay, "yet be cannot cite one solitary case of a cc id ent. " I n reply to the colobel's inference, that wood is not a safe material for railway structures, Mr. Bidder says :—" Iron girders have occasioraly failed--brick arches have broken down i —earth embankments have settled—cuttings have Mr. Bidder proceeds further to defend the use of wood, by pointing out that it is more easy of inspection, more capable of restoration, that the time it will continue in goad repair is easily calculated, and that the known lia bility of timber to decay in a certain time causes a watchful superintendence very went for any railway. Mr. Bidder then lays down a position that "experience," and not "inspection," is the only test of the safety of the line, and he quotes two cases (the Torksey viaduct and the Westminster-road bridge of the South-Western Railway) to show that Gove4nient inspectors bad pronounced unsafe works that the after experience of working for some years had proved to be per fectly secure. " These facts and instances appear to in-' dicate that the railway departmewt of the board of Trade is in the habit of receiving from its inspectors re pious and representations calcu'atif to exo.te needless alarms ; and that it is al,io in the habit of assuming, upon those reports, a false pesition, from which, sooner or latter, it is obliged to recede.' After pointing out that the use of wood in the Eastern Counties bridges was a necessity, owing to the nature of the ground and the -wtint of fro-, stone, or brick in the neighbourhood, Mr. Bidder says " When these bridges were designed and executed it was an ticipated by the constructors that they would last from twelve to fourteen years--the usual period for the duration of timber in similar situations. It was not, however, anticipated that they would last during that period without attention and occasional repara tion. Everyone knows that where Water gets into the joints of timber decay induced ' • and that frequent examination is required to avertgite,oonsaquences. If the incipient decay of wood-worii4it!not ,stepniefl4l,lo4., comes, as it were, contagious, and the ireneral deteriora tion is propottiouably rapid. But if stopped in time, the maintenance of the fabric will be proportionately prolonged. " Now, how do those facts apply themselves to the pre sent state of bridges on your line ? The Yarmouth branch, which the ;Government inspector reports to be in the worst state, was opened in 1344, 12 years ago. During a considerable poteioe of that time, owing to the insufficiency of the rep Airs effected by a late super intendent engineer, the bridges and viaducts upon the line have been without any reparation of any sort. Yet, what have been the results ? From 1844 up to this moment the traffic of the line has been carrie t on over those timber viaducts and bridges without a single accident, and, until within the la , t twelve months, with out the slightest impediment to traffic! "These results, then, demonstrate cmclusively the applicability of timber for railway bridges, its durability to the full extent expected from it, and the safety of such works for all purposes of traffic. The assumption that bridges and viaducts of timber are unfitted for railways, and that the material is unsafe, as Lieutenant-Colonel Wynne reports, is proved by these hots to be mere as sumption, based upon no experience, and communicated without consideration. " I have already adverted to the fact that these bridges and viaducts have lasted the period they were expected to endure, and that in consequence of the insufficiency of the repairs done by a late superintendent engineer in your employment, they have fallen into a much worse state than they ought to have been permitted to have fallen into. The extensive reparations required upon bridges were fu'ly reported to the Eastern Counties Company by their present engineer, Mr. Peter Bruff, at the first meeting after his appointment, in February, 1855. From that period down to the present time, i.e., for nearly fourteen months, Mr. Bruff and his staff have b-en unceasingly engaged in the work of replration. The Government inspector after declaring, as he says, without exaggeration,' that 'in many parts the tim bers could be dug out with a spade, like garden mould,' tea you of the viaduct on which he inspected those timbers—' When I inspected it, the repairs it was undergoing wero nearly completed, and I am able to report that t►,ey are such as to fully meet the exigency of tha case, and to place the structure in perfect se curity.' " Mr. Bidd.r estimates the cost of the repairs and the Norfolk line (94 mile,) at 11,0001., "after the wear and tear of 12 years." He goes on to say :—" Had these bridges been built of brick or iron, they would have cost at leas , . 50.000/. more than they did cost. The in terest on 50,0001., at 5 percent., is 2,5001. a year, which in 12 years would have amounted to 30,0001. Instead of 30,0001. interest, we have, alter the expiration of 12 years, to pay only 11,000/ to put the whole of the bri Iges in complete and effectual repair." _ _ • Mr. Bidder csmcludes as follows :—" In order to inquire and report satisfactorily resp..ctinor a railway, it is necessary that the inspectors should be persons of enlarged experience, accustomed not only to the constriction of railways but to their daily use. In the present, and in other cases, the reports to the Board of Trade upyn railways, their work log, and their conditiet, home been made by a oentleman who has new:- himself been engaged in the con-truction of a, single mile of railway, or of a single bridge, who practically knows nothing about either, and whose only source of practical acquaintance with the subject on which he so strongly reports, is that practice of inspection 4 , f new railways which, for all useful pur poser, every civil engineer knows to be valueless and a b sur d. When we remember that, with a host of emi nent officers of engineers employed in the Crimea, her Majesty's Government nevertheless thought it proper to entrust practical civil engineers (the priuc'pal of whom was engaged in the construction of your line) with the duty of laying down 6 miles of railway from Bal dclaya to the heights, it certainly does appear not a little anoma lous that that Government should think it proper to corn mit the inspection of the railway works of practical civil engineers to men of the v ery class to whom they could not commit their construction. If inspections and reports of this sort are persisted in, I ask, in conclusion, what I will be the consequence I At the present time, in case of ac;.,idents upon a line, the law exposes the railway com pany on whose lino it occurs to very serious liabilites and penalties. That law was adopted in the belief that it would afford the public the best security a;ainst rail way accidents. But if railway directors and managers are to be interfered with, not only when accidents occur, but when they do not occur, the result will be that rail way directors and managers will decline the responsibili ties they now undertake, and charge them upon those who assert the right to control their management. If Government will interfere, it is to Government the pub lic must look for safety, and for compensation when their safety is not secured." LOCAL SHIPPING DUES BILL. A mecting was held at Manchester, in the Mayor's Palour, Town-hall, yesterday, of the supporters of Mr. Lowe's late bill for abolishing local dues on ship ping, in order to organise at association to continue the agitation of this question, and "to obtain tho right ap propriation of the Liverpool town dues." The meeting was numerous, and exceedingly influential. Mr. Thomas Bazley, President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, presided in the absence of the Mayor, and there were present Mr. Heelis, Mayor of Salford ; Mr. Buckley, Mayor of Ashton ; Mr. J. Ker shaw, M.P., Sir J. Potter, Mr. W. Neild, Mr. W. R. Callender, Mr. I. Mackicf Mr. J. A. Turner (president of the Manchester Commercial Association), Mr. M. Ross, Mr. W. Reyner Wood, Mr. Alderman Shuttle worth, Mr. H. Ashworth, Mr. T. Fairbairn, Mr. J. E. Taylor, and Mr. Mason of Ashton. The CHAIIIIIAN, in opening the business, said the col lectors of town dues in various ports of the kingdom were determined to appropriate for private municipal purposes taxes they gathered from public sources. The Government of the country had wisely brought in a mea sure to put an end to this unjust misappropriation of funds; but be regretted that the Administration bad shown a want of administrative courage—(hear, hear) — and had withdrawn their bill. He was afraid tbere had been something like fickleness on the part of the Go vernment, and the time had now arriyed when they must themselves, in these manufacturing districts, take up the question more energetically than they had yet done. He beped the organisation now about to be called into eistence would take up the question with the earnest. ness it deserved ; and he trusted -that funds collected for public purposes would, as the result, be compelled to be applied for public convenience and in furtherance of public objects only. (Hear, hear.) Mr. W. R. WOOD said the grievance they sought to remove was a sort of relic of old times, of a state of things that was passing away, and mast yield before the know,ledge and intelligence of the day, when the misap propriation of public taxes of any kind could be endured in the open manner now practised to. Liverpool. Those who bad ascended the Rhine found its waters crowded with traffic, while the remnants of feudal times existed only on its banks in the form of picturesque ruins, and he saw no reason why the waters of the Mersey should not be as free as those of the Rhine. He did not com pare the Liverpool town dues to the scenes of war and rapine once pursued en the banks of the Rhine ; but the exaction of town dues and passing tolls were remnants of the same system, and were equally obstacles to that trade and commerce which could only flourish as it ought where there was the utmost freedom. We had been contending in the north of Europe and at the Confer. ences of Paris for the free navigation of the Danube, and he should like to know why the corporation of Liver. pool should be entitled to do on the Mersey what other countries were not allowed to do on the Danube. The jbstice of their cause must insure its success, and he would move,— " That this meeting has learnt with regret the with drawal by her Majesty's Government of the bill introduced into the House of Commons, entitled ' A Bill'for the Abo lition of Passing Tolls, and for the regulation of Local Dues on Shipping,' being fully impressed with the belief that, had Government persevered with that measure, the just principles therein embodied would have commanded the support of a majority of the House of Commons, as well as the approbation of a large class of her Majesty's subjects. That this meeting is of opinion that the injustice inflicted upon this district, as well by the exaction of the Liver pool local dues as by the purposes to which they are ap propriated, and the growing importance of the principles inTolVed in their continuance, call for a Opecial effort on the part of this district in support of her Majesty's Govern ment, in order to insure the speedy adoption by Parlia ment of a bill.for carrying into effect the recommendation of her Majesty's Shipping Dues Commission." Mr. MesoN, of Ashton, seconded the resolution, and it was agreed to. Mr. T. FAIRBAIRN moved, and Mr. J. A. TURNER se conded, the following resolution, which was supported by Mr. Hums, Mayor of Salford "That this meeting is impressed with the valuable ser vices whichthe corporation of the city of Manchester has rendered to the manufacturing district by its energetic op position to the levying of these (hies ; and, in recording its obligations to that body for the activity and ability which it has put forth on this question, that it is the duty of the whole of the manufaCturing district energetically to co-operate with the corporation of Manchester, in order to secure with as little delay as possible the abolition or due appropriation'of these unjust exactions." Mr. M. Ross F aid he could not forbear, when he heard Sir F. Thesiger's speech on the Local Dues Bill, contrasting some of its arguments• with those of Sir C. Wetherall's on the Reform Bill 25 years ago. Accord ing to bin), the fall of the vested interests of Gatton and Old Sarulit simi'd be the de itruction of the constitution ; and so, according to Sir Frederick, would be the right appropriation of the Liverpool town due. (" Hear," and laughter.): Mr. Ross said that it must not be sup posed that Liverpool gentlemen were • all so blind as to the jastice of this question, and he read the following extract of' a letter from a Liverpool merchant on the neglect of the Liverpool authorities of the'r duties and the maladministration of their funds, as an instance " That the corporation hive notappropriated thereceipts from town dues or expended them in a way to promote the facilities of shipping. That the Liverpool Town -clerk distinctly wishes it to be impressed upon the public that they are not called upon to do so. That, on the con trary, the Liverpool corporation have neglected to afford facilities for shipping, and- protection to ships, which it was their duty to provide as stated by Mr. S. Holme in the loirmetriticit , irlltrWilialrebbiCtikiiidiftrtinder barge of the corporation, is io a most disgraceful state of !ne glect, the sea penetrating into it, and the sand washed away, threatening in a short time, if not immediately at tended to, to close up the most important channel to the entrance of the river. That the corporation, who look after the weights and scales of petty hucksters, and fine scores of them weekly, provide no means for the correct measurement of goods shipped abroad, the freight of which by measure must amount to thousands of pounds weekly, and is a subject of constant fraud and deception. That traffic from the interior for goods shipped through Liverpool do not use any streets except those on the mar gin of the quays ; and, in answer to Mr: ?foretell, it may be shown that the corporation have preferred to widen purely shop streets, and have refused wbon they had the opportunity of widening those leading from the docks to the centre of the wholesale trade. That an immense amount of town dues is collected by no tariff, printed, cir culated, or known, but is left to the discretion of the clerks receiving the same, who frequently differ in their views ; apd this uncertainty of what has to be paid offers temptation to pilfering on the part of young men, chiefly apprentices, who pay those dues. That the Government Customs' officers are the chief provedores of these dues, as they refuse to pass an export entry until the payment of town dues is marked upon it. That the revenue from dock duos is amply sufficient to provide for the required facili ties and accommodation of commerce. That the arrange ments for paying dues at Liverpool is lumbering, cumber some, and unnecessarily expensive. There is a receiver of town dues, with a staff of clerks, who must be furnished with a copy of each entry on which is marked the town dries paid. There is also a receiver of dock dues, with a staff of clerks, which must also be furnished with a copy of the entry in the same manner. The most simple import or export entry has thus to be taken to four persons for the local rates alone. That the en tries for payment of dues for a whole cargo, inwards or outwards, might be passed in 10 minutes, and two clerks would thus be able to do all the work con nected with the receipt of duos in a twentieth part of the time at present occupied. But at present, if theio are 50 different interests on board a ship, they require 50 different entries for town dues and 50 more for dook dues. For merly the shipbroker passed all these in one entry, and charged each shipper his proportion when rendering the freight bill. Every shipper or merchant, in his entries, wishes to use terms as used in the Customs, dock, or town dues tariffs (for all three are distinct and different) ; but, in the Customs bill of entry for yesterday, taking one day of small average business, I find, in oue day alone, the following goods entered, for which there is no charge at • tachod in the published tariff of town dues, excluding what may come under the general term of 'dry goods. Some of these articles may appear of small consequence, i but are really not so. For instance, of nitrate of soda 1,203 bags are entered; and of bicarbonate of soda, 220 'kegs. Furniture, nitrate of soda, tin ore, Tonqnin beans, tapioca, is'nglass, jalap, bleaching powder, muriates, prus siatos, hats, lead shot, kegs of nails, twine, paintings, ma chinery, saddlery, plated wars, • hollow ware, tin ware, hardware, guns, hair seating, chains, gas fittings, anvils, vices, blus', iuk, bicarbonate of soda, apothecaries' ware, copper rollers, copper bottoms, fishing materials, printers' and dyers' materials, varnish, fuze, flocks, vermillion, seeds, anchors, earubooses, lead pipe, windlasses." He proposed—. " That an association, to be called ' An Association to obtain tho right Appropriation of the Liverpool Town Dues,' be now formed,. for Fite purposes mentioned in the prece,ling resolnti6_l4,nd tiza_tAbe_Anpport of the leading MiiiiractiirereKdd - tne*Riiiits this district, by stibseri. tion and otherwise, be solicited. That Mr. at. Henry be appointed president. Messrs. R. N. Philips, Thomas Raz ley, J. A. Turner, J. C. Harter, and Henry Houldswort he the vice.prosidents; Mr. John Platt, the treasurer; and that the following gentlemen form the committee of council o f the association, out of which 15 members shall be nomi nated by the president, to be called the executive commit tee, for the purpose of conducting the business of the asso ciation." (Here follow 82 nrmes of influential gentlemen of the town and district.) Mr. HENRY AINSWORTH seconded the resolution, and contended that if Charles 11. had a right to deal with these dues her Majesty Queen Victoria had an equal right ; hut they were, in fact, opposed to the spirit of the times, as weli as of the constitution, by which taxation and representation went together, and no part of the com munity could have a right to levy taxes upon another, and apply them to other purposes than those for which they were raised. Mr. HERON, Town-clerk of Manchester, in an able speech, exposed the fallacious arguments and dishonest st stements of Sir Frederick Thesiger in this sulj.-.ct in the Hou4e of Crmmons, and by which the house was led to believe that Liverpool gave 374,0001. for this right of levying town dues, while, in reality, that payment was for 1,300 manors, of which Liverpool was one, the value of Liverpool being fixed soon afterwards by its resale fiir 7001. In the same dexterous way it was made to appear that Bristol was in the Fame position ; hut, in fact, Bristol had voluntarily reduced the 5,0001., dues raised in this way by 2,000/. per annum, while she had got PArliamentary powers, and had taxed her inhabitants to the amount - of 10,0001. for the benefit of shipping. (Qcar.) But what had Liverpool done ! They spent the whole 150,000/. per annum raised as town dues upon the town, and not on the docks, and raised besides 400,0001. a-year for the purpose of providing fur the accommodation of shipping. (Haar.) The resolution was carried, and the meeting separated, after a vote of thanks to the chairman. TUB FRENCH. TROOPS IN THE CRIMEA. The Assemblee National of Tuesday contains the following article on the condition of the French army in the Crimea, which will be read with inte rest after the remarks made on the same subject by the Moniteur : " The article of the Times, which the Monitcur, has answered, did not escape our attention. The Times is not the only English journal whose correspondents have painted in the most gloomy colours the situa tion of our troops in the Crimea. Without being entirely void of foundation, as we see by the reply of the official journal, these accounts are evidently exaggerated. We had no wish to reproduce them, although we alluded to them on one or two occasions, in expressing our wishes for a speedy peace. But, allowing for exaggeration, it is certain that our army has been cruelly tried this winter, notwithstanding the soli citude of which it has been the object. Sickness has been more frequent, more malignant than last year, and everything proves that in the hospitals the deaths have been much more numerous. The Moniteur accounts fcr this by the unhealthy situation of our present encamp ment. To this cause must be added the inclemency of the season, which, in the Crimea, has been of the worst na ture. Finally, if in the past year the fatigues and dangers of the siege were added to the rigours of winter, our sol diers found in those very perils au excitement which is wanting to-day. The slightest event of the struggle in which they were engaged resounded over the entire world. Every arrival conveyed to them proofs of sympathy and admiration. The grandeur of the task in which they were engaged, amidst so many difficulties, and under the eyes of attentive Europe, doubled their strength and energy. For three months past, matters have changed, and it is not towards the Crimea that the eyes of ail are east. This new situation has naturally had its influence on the sanitary condition of the army. , But if public attention is withdrawn from the theatre of I war, and has taken another direction, Fr ante has not forgotten those of her children who are detained by the requirements of politics on the shores of the Bosphorus or the plains of the Crimea. The cruel trials of this ex ceptional winter have been supported by them with a courage, a constancy above all praise. Never have . the sentiments of duty, discipline, the true military been carried to a further extent. In the struggle which they sustain to-day against sickness, our soldiers are not less admirable than at the assault, or on the field of battle ; and the country will make no distinction be tween those who served it with equal devotion and heroism in circumstances so different. The Moniteur informs us that their condition has improved. We re joice sincerely at this, but we await still better news, for we believe that it will soon be possible to terminate those sufferings. Peace will give the signal of return to our brave soldiers, and the month will not conclude, it we believe in our hopes, without the telegraph convey ing to them orders to leave those inhospitable shores, where the dead destroy the living. The day is not far distant when France will prove to the eoldiers of the Crimea that she has not forgotten them." CRYSTAL PALACE—SHILLING DAY, March 27.—Ad missions on payment, 2,29 P ; ditto by season ticketp, 416 ; total visitors, 2,715. When the present war shall meet with its legiti ma to hiAorian, among other of its inscrutable and una :countable freaks and bye passages - will be f owl d the episode of Anapa. Let not our readers start. way from an unusual name, or imagine that we int end to treat them with some dull criticism and civilian's disquisition upon an obscure and un interesting passage in the war. In the name of Anapa there is, in fact, involved the history of the Circamsiatns, and the part they have taken, or should I, ave taken iu this campaign against Russia. though mightier interests may for a time have absorbed public attention, yet, when these are pi ‘s,sed, and it has become possible to take a calmer review of the war and its events, the question will recur, how is it that so little has been thought of the Circassians ? Why have a people occupyin g a most important frontier and boldly withstano ing for years the aggregate powers of Russia, been never brought into play, and ap parently never sob much as regarded by the allies or their rulers ? Our correspondent's highly-interesting and im portant letter from Anapa, which appeared in our columns of Wednesday ast, will explain this strange anomaly. It will show both the causes of the apparent inactivity of the Circassians, their little prominence in the war, and the real authors of that inactivity. It will clear the character of a brave and hardy race from the imputations which have gathered round it. And when the Duke of Newcastle again takes his seat in the House of Lords, his grace, who Las been visiting Anapa, and hrs male himself familiar with 'the events to which wo refer, will doubtless take an opportu nity of enlightening the .nation as to the true state of the case. If our readers will take the trouble of examining the relative positions of Kertch and Anapa, and the surrounding districts, they will at once perceive the commanding awl important situation of the latter, and its paramount value as the key of Cir cassia. A very little pains would have converted it into an impregnable stronghold. Built upon a rock, possessing the greatest advantages by sea and land, Anapa is not only important as a military position, but as a rallying point for the Circassians. A few hundreds of Europeans fairly supplied with ammunition might hold it out against any large force which Russia could bring against it ; because their strength would be continually augmented by a population whom years of hostility have made the uncompromising enemy of Russia. It will be seen, indeed, by our correspondent's letter that Sefer Pacha, the old Circassian chief, with two field-pieces only, did offer to raise a body of men, and hold Anapa against the Russians, if he only I received sufficient encouragement from head-quar ters at Sebastopol. He did, in fact, hold it without that encouragement ; nay more, in spite of the very heavy discouragement with which he, like many other bravo men, have been visited during the war, whenever they dared suggest operations which did not emanate from one particular class of heads or find favour within the limited capabilities of certain privileged cliques. As a military posi tion Anapa is of no less value than Kars ; in re ference to the immediate population by which they are surrounded, the former outdoes the latter; just as much as the good-will of a hardy race like the Circassiana is more valuable, as it is more trust worthy, than any professions of aid from the races which surround many of the Asiatic fortresses. But just as bravo General Williams was left with out support at Kars—was rewarded with an indif ference proportioned to his sacrifices and exertions —just so was it at Anapa. The old Circassian chief was abandoned to his fate—ho, too, was left to make the best of his two rusty guns, and perish or not. The Circassians have met, on the side of the allies, with a total and contemptuous indifference; their applications were disregarded ; their advances repulsed ; " important despatches, reports, and petitions" of - the utmost urgency wore left with out an answer. And as if these instances of cal lousness had not been enough, with a total want of right feeling towards Sefer Paella, who had always distinguished himself for his loyalty to the cause of Constantinople and the allies, without his concurrence, and iu direct opposition to the wishes of his people, a resolution was taken by the allies to blow up the fortress. On the 10th of October a French officer arrived in a steamer with orders to carry out these intentions. The narrative shall be givezt in the words — of - the original corral:tannins: tion "You may imagine the figure presented by the French captain of engineers when he received this order. M. Caste is an excellent young man, who has all the jollity and all the ir,Lnkness of a French soldier. That which he had promised and that which he was obliged to do contradict each other-so-point blank that he knew not how to communica ' is to Sefer Pacha the order which he had just received, He thought tbat his best plan would be to avoid 'meeting with the old man, and it was only at the last moment that he caused him to be told of what he was ordered to do on the following day, Oct. 28, viz —to set tire to the mines, and embark immedi- ately after fur Sebastopol. That he might execute the order of his superiors without any obstacle on the part of the Circassians, lie invited Sefer Pacha to a , sist in his operations. Sefer Pacha was at that time obliged to keep his bed on account of severe indispo.ition. When the melancholy news was communicated to him, a bitter smile gave an indefinable expression to his countenance, and his reply wag, 'Marshal Pelissier has all piwer in bis !lauds ; why, then, did he res irt to falsehood, and make rue psss at the close of my days fora air n,tuon,; my countrymen ! Let my chief of the staff do what is n cessary, A 9 to me, in spite of my sickness, I desire net to be present when you are destroying my patrimony. I wish to retire among my countrymen, and when the destroyers shall have de parted let me know it.' The old man, bore down by chagrin and disease, then mounted on horseback, and went hence at three o'clock to a village where he was born, while the colonels of the staff posted themselves with the troops of the garrison and the two cannon to restrain the Circassians, who were disposed to at!ack the French. Happily the strength of the place resisted the efforts made for its destruction by the engineers, and Anapa still remains little damaged—a memo rial of grief and neglect to the Circassians—a con venient fortress for the occupation of the Russians, when the declaration of peace shall have given them an opportunity of repairing their losses and retriev ing their errors. But we wait for the return of the Duke of New castle to substantiate those statements—refute them he cannot. MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES Yesterday a special met ting of the magistracy of Mid dlesex was held at the Session•houtie in Clerkenwell— first, to take into consideration the report of the Com mittee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell, and the plans for certain proposed alterations at that institution, involving an expenditure of 67,3001. ; and, secondly, to take into consideration the like report from the Coltiey Hatch Asylum, and the plans of certain proposed alterations for the enlargement of that esta blishment. Mr. Pownall presided. The report from the asylum at Hanwell stated that. throughout the year ending January last, the general health of the patients of both sexes had been and con tinued to be, remarkably good, and that, though the mortality was greater than in 1854, there had not been the slighted cause for anxiety. The number of patients admitted during the year was 151—males, 73 ; females, 78 ;—discharged cured, 16 males, 21 females ; deaths, males 65, females 45. One male patient was killed by another, and one female patient committed suicide by hanging herself. Appended to the.report were plans of the proposed alterations of the asylum. Sir A. Y. SPEARMAN, Bart., said the plans which were submitted to the Court with the report bad received the most ample and careful consideration of the committee of the asylum, of which he had the honour to tr-t, chairman ; they bad been referred to a sub-committee for further examination; and, finally, the general committee adopted the plans of Mr. Harris, the architect, as most calculated to carry out the object of the committee. Those Plans were now submitted to the Court for its decision a . w T e n t e h r a e t was a present re s great ent demand of asylums aunds the county, for w a f s u f r a th r e r preferableand accommodationthe enlargementto e the h erection t of the i pthaeuprlunatics of an additional one ; for it was most object'on on the country should be studded over with such insti tutions. . _ Mr. ARMSTRONG seconded the motion. The expen diture proposed was not lavish, but involved a very important principle of economy, because they were i❑ dilemma, unless they adopted these alterations they would have no alternative but to provide a third a,sylunt , —Agreed to. 111;*. COTTRELL, with r e f erence to t h e C o l n ey Hatch report, said, Educe the last Court-day, the Commissioners in Lunacy had visited the asylum, and had made an entry in the visiting-book in which they expressed an opinion that the committee had not taken advantage of all the space at present available in the asylum for the reception of patier,t , ;. A report had been subsequently ' received from the Commissioners on the same subject, and therefore to give the committee an opportunity of examining whether there was anything in the suggestions of the Commissioners worth adcpting, ho proposed that the consideration of the Colney Hatch Asylum report be referred until the next Court-day. This was adopted, awl a motion with respect to cer tain alterations at the Westminster House of Correction, at an outlay of 11,0001., was also postponed, and the Court then adjourned. Pi6l . a .4, PER . • N• MR. BROOKE'S FAREIKELL BtiVEPTT4 e it (From tite Melbounze Age) • The hundred and twenty-third and final night of Mr. Brooke's performing in this city was signal ised by the assemblage of one of the most crowded and entl es of the season. The aspect of Corpin's Olympic on Saturday evening • . was such as to convey to the actor, who then took his farewell benefit, an assure.nce that his popu larity had sustained no diminution - , that he pos sessed numerous and warm admirers among all classes of the community, and that he would he followed, on his retirement from the stage of th • Olympic, by the respect and regrets of the play going public of Melbourne. And deservedly so ; for his professional visit to this colony has been productive of enjoyment to tens of thousands, and his prospective departure will deprive the Australian theatre of one of its brightest orna ments. His talent, aided by the enterprise of the manager, and supported by se accomplished an artiste as Miss Cathcart, and by actors awl actresses of such ability as are comprised in the Olympia company, has enabled the Australian public to witness representations of the Shaksperian drama in a style of completeness that has elevated the theatres of the metropolis of Victoria to a level with those of the capital of Great Britain. The grey discrowned Lear, the melancholy and philosophic Dane, the impetuous and unscrupu lous Richard, the fate-impelled Macbeth, tbe hard, remorseless Shyleck, noble Othello, boisterous Faulconbridge ; [Richelieu, Evelyn, and Claude Melnotte ; tha Cor s i can B rot h ers ; Vi rg i n i us, Master Walter, and Juli an St. Pi erre; Petrre'do, Beverly. and lago ; Capt a i n Murphy Msgeire, Felix G'Callagban, and the Irish Attorney ; Mat thew Elmure and Rory 0•M-re ;—what a diversity of character is here, and what a masterly apprecia tion, not merely of the broader features but of the minor idiosyncrasies of etch, has Mr. Brooke dis played in his impersonations of the whole. While he has torcos 1 almost every cote in the gamut of the ras sions, h's good toste and sound judgment have pre vented him from exaggerating vehemence of . angn 4go into bombast, cr degrading humour into buffoonery. 118 hss been thoroughly succe sful, too, in broadly a nd tinctly defining thikindividuality of every character be assumed. Other actors of eminence may have possessed voices of greater flex'bility and compass ; but few ba e managed them with greater 'skill, and with a happier subordination of tone to the vocal characteristics which presumably belong to the part sustained, than Mr. Brooke has done. • Na one character that he has sustained has rerninged us of another. Each occupies a separate niche or isolated pedestal. Nor, while availing IninSelf of the traditi',ns of the stage, in regard to the " business" of the piece, and of thes3 graces of elocution, " points," gestures, at titude, and by-play, of which the usage has been conse crated by illustrious pr cedent, has Mr. Brooke failed to subject each character he has impersonated to a care ful and intelligent !study ; and, often detecting tweet beauties which have escaped the attention of his prede. cessone he has given us Dee' readinge and stamped both his action and elocution with the charms of originality. And this is high praise to any actor : rem , mb line; that tte Saksperian drama, mere especially, has le en the study of so many men of genius on the stage, as I of such numberless analytical critics in the aloi-et. The play selected by Mr. Brooke for his farewell be nefit was " Love's Sacrifice," which is not so grew, a favourite with a Melbourne audience as with play-goers in England : the actor's choice, however, was a wise one, for there are few characters which admit of the ex hibition of more powerful and varied emotions, or in which he more strongly excites and sustains the sympa thy and attention of the spectators. A detailed not ce of the performance would simply b 3 one continuous eulogy; and two lengthy for the space at our dis posal. and for the reader's - patience. In Miss Cathcart, the loving and self-sacrificing daughter found a representative, capable of breathing life into the somewhat chilly character pourtrayed by the dramatist, and of heightening the beauty of the poet's verse, by the grace of the actress's elocution and the charm of her manner. Mr. R. Younge's Lafont was perfect. We saw some of the specta tors setting their teeth at him, and heard others muttering their detestation of him. What higher compliment could be offered to him ? Mr. Brooke's first appearance on the scene ex cited a hurricane of applause: - .Yociferous mani festations of delight called him before the curtain at the end of the third and fourth acts, and the plaudits which accompanied the fall of the green baize, at the termination of the drama, swelled into a storm of approbation, when be once more appeared, and led Miss Cathcart forward to share in the ovation. As soon as the tumult had sub sided, Mr. Brooke advanced to the footlights and took his farewell of the Olympic audience in the following words : LADIES AND GENTLEMEN—The unwelcome hour has at length arrived that must separate us. In the ordi , nary course of toy professional avocations, in visiting a town for six or twelve nights, the task of saying "Fare well" is at all times a painful one. What my feelings are upon the present occasion may easily be imsgin-d when I reflect (with pride and satisfaction) that I have been honoured with your patronage and euthus;aetic eTeriValiSin 114:123 n ights. (Cheers.) Thfscircuraetance will, I make nu doubt, cause much surprise and !peen latioa in the mother country, and tend to advance this colony not only in the gaud opinion of " the abstract and brief chroniclers of the time," hut that of the whole community. (Renewed cheers.) This success I must attribute to your love of the legitimate drama ; to the spirit and enterprise of the manager in the production of it ; and to the talent which I have been surrounded; for never during my career have I witnessed the pro ductions of Suakepeare placed upon the atagein such rapid succession, and in so perfect a manner. (Great applause.) It is a matter of regret that on the eve of riy departure I should have been made the subject of a gross attack from a soc'ety, the professieeal prin ciple of which is "The Support of the Legitimate Drama.." That attack I now declare (as an act of duty to myself) to be as false as cowardly, and as oowardly as unjust. (Cheers) But, as Shakspt re Say S- "We live in the world's wile month, Live scaudaliz'd aud foully pokua of." "Who steals my purse, steals trash; 'tie something, nothing, 'Twas mine, 'tie his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name, Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed." (Cheers.) I will, if you please, avail myself of this opportunity of acknowledging the courtesy and attention of the gentle men connected with the press during my enga7ement. To the indefatigable stage manager, Mr. R. Youoge, I am indebted for much valuable assistance, and can- not too highly commend his exertions in the drama's cause, which have been most ably aided by the pencil of that talent artist, Mr. William Pitt ; and my thanks are also due to the ladies and gentlemen who have so successfully co-operated with me. Ladies and gentle- men, I will trespass no innger on your kindness, but say in the language of the imm ,, rtal bard— -" Should we be taking . leave As long a term as we have yet to live, The loathness to depaz t would grow;" , " Our separation so abides and flies That though residing bore goest yet with me, And 1 hence flying still remain with thee." And now, in the sincere hope that increasing prosperity may attend the city of Melbourne, and wishing yon collectively and individually health and happiness, I mos t respectfully, and with every feeling of gratitude say--" Farewell." We could have wished that Mr. Brooke had not fallen into the error of implicating a large body of gentlemen in a censure passed upon an individual writer of an injudicous piece of doggrel. The pro duction animadverted upon was not calculated to injure a reputation so firmly established as that of the tragedian ; and we are of opinion that the more dignified course to have adopted would have been au abstinence from anything like an ebullition of angry feeling. We did not approve of either the animus or the style of the doggrel ; we equally dis approve of the animus and the style of the re- joinder. At the conclusion of his adiirests, a shower of bouquets fell at the feet of Mr. Brooke, and a wreath of laurel was flung from the box occupied by Miss Hayes and a play of friends,—.a graceful tribute from the bright star of the lyric to that of the legitimate drama. Coppin's Spider Dance next sent the house into convulsions of laughter, and his speech at the con clusion, with its allusions to the "iron-pot," " stew-pot," an d t h e " head cook of t h e establish ment," were greeted with bursts of applause and merriment. --- The rattlin g farce of the "Garrick Fever" ter minated th e even ing's entertainment, and sent everybody home in good humour. FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE LONDON DOCKS.—On Wed nesday afternoon, shortly after 1 o'clock, an accident of a most frightful character occurred at the London Docks to afrespectable female named Maria Shand, aged 26 years. The deceased, with a young female (Agnes Forman), and her brother, Captain D. Forman, and several intimate friends, proceeded to the London Docks to view the interior of the establishment, and subse quently they were invited to the fourth floor of No. 10 warehouse, to witness the process of working the hydrau lic machine used for the purpose of raising heavy weights, which pass through several traps or openings in the flooring. The deceased and her female companion sud denly belt the gentlemen, and walked to the aperture, when they leaned over a low rail to look down at the machinery at the basement, where the labourers were employed, when the " lift" descended with terrible vio lence and crushed the head of the deceased in such a fearful manner, that she expired in three minutes after wards. The deceased's head was nearly separated from the body, which presented a melancholy spectacle. The deceased was removed by the dock officers and the poll(' to the parochial undertaker's (Nlr. Scotcher) to await au inquest. The deceased's companion, who was much in jured, was removed to the London Hospital, where Mr. Ross, the house surgeon, rendered every a ssistance, but very little hopes are entertained of her recovery. The nfortunate deceased was to have been marred this Cl/17. MANCHESTER and LONDON LIFE ASSURANCE and 'LOIN ASSOCIATION. 77, King-street, Manchester. . Assurances, Annuities, Endowments, and Loans effected on liberal CHARLES HENRY MINCHIN, Secretary. Agents wanted.