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4- p ESTAMIANT. 9 and 10. Haymarket—The L CA FE DTNNER is now served from FOUR instead of Mid! o'clock as heretofore. The Severn Salmon Season has co 111 'nel:iced. WILLIAM JOHN ILDE, Proprietor. It 4 Pc. w. S. WOODIN'S NEW ENTERTAIN MENT, the CABINET of CURIOSITIES, POLY GRA li A LI, King Wil iam-street, Charing-cross, T ' " •NIGHT, and EVERY EVENING ( excep t S aturday), at ght. Private boxes, .E 1 is. ; Stalls and box stalls, 3s. ; ar ea, 2s. ; amphitheatre, is. A plan of the stalls may be F een, and seats secured (without extra charge), at the Box ,office,, from 10 till 4 norning Performance, Saturday, 3isy it. A RGYLL ROOMS. - GRAND MUSICAL ENTER NT, vdth the Celebr a t e d BAND, TAINM E For ty in number (established eleven years), chosen from the Philharmonic Concerts, Royal Italian Operas, and the Household Troops. Conducted by Mons. Laraotte. Cornet-a-piston, U. Boulcourt.—Dancing at Nine o'clock.—ls. admission. TR.?, NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, M T h Frolborn.—This popular and magnificently ap- P",inted Ball Room, decidedly the most fashionable and best conducted entertainment in he world. The very excellent band, under the able direction of Mr. 'aeker. is constantly introducing the choicest and latest music of the day. The Ivine supplied are of the very choicest quality. The refresh ment rooms are elegant in the extreme, and replete with every comfort. Admission throughout. ls. ROYAL NA FIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITU TION.—The AID of the public is earnestly solicited fib enable the Institution to continue the maintenance of its .08 Lifeboat Establishments in a state of efficiency. Bankers—Messrs. Willis and Co., Coutts and Co., 'Terries and Co. Secretary—fir. Richard Lewis, 14, John-street, A delphi. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL. Gray's-inn-road. Patron—Her Majesty the QU FEN. President—His Grace the Duke of Buecleuch, K.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. This Hospital relieves distress in its most helpless shape, that of disease aggravated by destitution. With more ade quate funds the Weekly Roar i could m4ke immediately avail able 500 beds for the reli e f o f th e l arge mass of suffering in this metropolis. Its present resources, supplied entirely by the Voluntary Contributions of the Public, enable it to afford, in addition to its En-pati , nts, effe-tive Medical Assistance to an average exceeding 2,000 Out-patients weekly. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mas terman, Esq., Nicholas-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co.;• Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; NisUet and Co., Berners-street ; Masterman and Co. ; and at the Hospital. J. B. OWEN, M.A„ Chairman of the Weekly Board. CONTRACT FOR. COALS FOR THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Department of the Storekeeper General of the Navy, Somerset Place, 9th May, 1861. T r HE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on TUESDAY, the 21st instant, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with Ouch Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and de livering into Store at the undermentioned places the follow ing quantities of SOUTH WALES COALS, fit for the ser►ice of her Majesty's Steam Vessels, viz. : NAVAL YARD, CAPE OF GOOD H0PE...5,000 Tons. 44 CAPE TOWN. ..2,000 " The Conditions of the Contract and a Form of the Tender may be seen at the said Office. No Tender will be received after Two o'clock on ilie day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party atteids, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the A dmiralty,and hear in the left-hand corner the words " Ten der for COALS ;" and must also be delivered at Somerset- Plaee, accompanied by a letter slotted by two responsible per sons, engaging to become bound with the Person tendering, i n the sum of .£3,500 for the due performance of the Contract. UARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, No. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C. Established 1824. DIRECTORS. 'HENRY VIGNE, Esq. Chairman. Sir MINTO T. FARQUHAR, Bart.,'M.P., Deputy Chairman Henry Hulse Berens, Esq., Stewart Marjoribanks, Esq. Charles Wm. Curtis, Esq. John Martin, Esq. Charles F. Devas, Esq • Rowland Mitchell, Esq. Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. James Morris, Esq. Sir. Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Henry Norman, Esq. Thomson ilankey, Esq., M.P. Henry R. Reynolds, Esq. John Harvey, Esq. Sir Godfrey J. Thomas, Bart. John G. Hubbard, Esq., M.P. John Thornton, Esq. John Labouchere, Esq. James Tulloch, Esq. AUDITORS. Lewis Loyd, Esq. I Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. John Henry Smith, Esq. Cornelius Payne, jun., Esq. Thomas Tallemach, Esq., Secretary.—Samuel Brown, Esq., Actuary. LIFE DEPARTMENT.—UNDER THE PROVISIONS or AN AcT or PARLIAMENT, this Company now offers to new In surers EIGHTY PER CENT. of the Profits, at Quinquennial Divisions, or a Low Rate of Premium without participation of Profits. Since the establishnlent of the Company in 1821, the Amount of Profits allotted to the Assured has exceeded in cash value £660,000, which represents equivalent Reversionary Bonuses of £1,058,000. After the Division of Profits at Christmas, 1859, the Life Assurances in force, with existinp: Bonuses thereon, amounted to upwards of £4,730,000, the Income from the Life Branch £207,000 per annum, and the Life Assurance Fund exceeded £1,618,000. LOCAL MILITIA and VOLUNTEER CORPS.—No 3Extra Premium is required for service therein. INVALID LIVES assured at corresponding Extra Pre miums. LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their Values, if such value be not less than £5O. ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, re ceived and registered. MEDICAL FEES paid by the Company, and no charge for Policy Stamps. Losses caused by Explosion of Gas are admitted by this Company. No. 8, GROSVENOR-STREET, BOND-STREET. ARTIFICIAL TEETH on a NEW an d IM -1 PROVED PRINCIPLE.—Mr. ESKELL'S PATENTED INVENTION (protected by her Majesty's Royal Seal, July, 1860), for adapting Artificial Teeth on Moveable Bases by Self-adhesion, are fixed without springs or any fastenings, Without pain or extraction, restore perfect articulation and Mastication, rendering detecti , in impossible, and last a lif - time. "An admirable contrivance for remedying the defects of nature, without requiring new sets of teeth."—Sun, July 20. "Will doubtless)). extensively patronised."—Court Cir cular. July 21. "Unrivalled for its utility and economy."— Morning Post, July 20. CON sultations free.—Terms strictly moderate. 8, Greavenor-street, Bond-street ; Old Steyne, Brighton; Bennett's-'hill, Birmingham. TRULY EFFICACIOUS AND MILD.— Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, pre pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. ''cott, will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and iver complaints, indigestion, wind, spa.ms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &c. For hibitual costiveness, as a fa mily aperient med;cine, aid as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their operation and grateful to the aomach, they create appe te, promote digestion, and atrergthen the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, and•by most druggists, in boxes, 14.14 d. and 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package, with " William Lambert, 20. Jermyn-street" engraved on the stamp. GIVEN AWAY TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS. HENRY SMITH. M.D.. of th e U n i ver sity of Jena, has just published, for the benefit of Nervous Sufferers, a FREE EDITION of his valuable work, THE WARNING VOICE TO YOUNG MEN (120 pages). A medical work on the cure of Nervous Debility, Loss of Memory, Dimness of Sight, Lassitude, Indigestion, Dislike to Society, Spermatorrhcea, Local Weakness, Muscular Re laxation, Languor, Listlessness, Depression, &c., which, if neglected, result in consumption, insanity, and premature death ; with plain directions for perfect restoration to health and vigour. The book will be sent, post free, secure from ob nervation, to any address, on receipt of a directed envelope and two stamps. Address, HENRY SMITH, M.D., 8, Burton crescent, Tavistock-square, London, W.C. D R. BRIGHT'S APHRODISION , The Phosphorised Nervin e T on i c. The Newly-Discovered and approved of CHEMICAL COMBINATION of PHOSPHATIC SALTS, Quinine, Iron, &c., innocent in its action and agreeable to the palate, for the immediate and permanent cure of Spermatorrhcea, Gleet, Stricture, and Renal Pains, Diseases of the Kidneys and Bladder, Retention and Non-retention, and consequent de posits, Generative Incapacity for We 'lock, Partial and Total Prostration, Premature Decline of Manly Power, with many other distressing symptoms, caused in early life and maturity by incontinence, and youthful disrezard to future happiness. London Agents :—Newberry, 45, St. Paul's Church-yard ; J. Sanger, 1 - 0, Oxford-street; Hannay, 6', Oxford-street; Butler. 4, Cheapside ; Hooper, 43, Ki , g William-street, Lon don-bridge ; Ho.' den, 78, Oracechurch-street Prout, 229, Strand, and of all Chemists throughout the world. Prices : 10s. 6d. per bo'tle, or five 10s. lid. bottles in one, £2 2s. ; and in cases containing three £2 2s. bottles £5. DR. BRIGHT'S MANUAL, with Descriptio of Cases, illustrated with Drawings from Life, &c., fie. Licentiate of the College of Physicians, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, &c., &c., shevving why the above diseases so often appear incurable, when in reality they can be effectually re moved by The most simple means. Sold by J. Allen, 20, War- Wick-lane. Price Is. ; by post,l4 stamps ; sealed, 10.10 d. Just published, price 25., 6d., by post 25. I(d., SKIN DISEASES and their REMEDIES By ROBERT J. JORDAN, M.D., Licentiate of the Royal Colleg of Physicians, Edinburgh, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, England, arc., &o. Author of " Diseases of the Skin," price Is., by post 14 stamps, with Photographic Illustrations. By the same Author, with numerous illustrations. price 3s. 6d ; by post 4s. ; abridged edition, Is.: by post, 14 stamps, sealed, 24, a new Medical Work, entitled LIFE • WORTH LIVING FOR ; treating on Man, Mind. and M a tt er , s h ow i ng h ow nervous debility and premature decline is produced by disregard of nature's laws. Contents :—General ani acquired debility, from early inexperience, productive of diseases and disarrangement of the muscular system, resulting in nervous and physical irritability, the cause of total or partial prostration. Hours of Consultation from 11 to 2, and 5 to 8 ; or by ap pointment. The above works to be had from the Author 29, George street, Hanover-square, London, W. For qualifications, see Medical Register. DR. CURTIS' MEDICAL WORK, MANHOOD : A MEDICAL ESSAY ON S PERNA TO RRHCE A, • NERVOUS AND GENERATIVE DEBILITY, &c. lust Published, the 150th thousand, with numerous plates, , in a sealed envelope , price le., Sold by all Booksellers, and sent post paid, by the Author, for 12 stamps, M M A NHOOD : th e CAUSE and CURE of PRE for f oxT MATURE D ECLINE IN MAN, with Pl a i n Di rec ti ons rerfect .11es . ot ration to H ealth and Vigour. By Dr. J. L. C, iis .--Derukarle - street. Piccadilly , L on d on. INTRODUCTO RY C ONTENTS : Structure and Functic CH APTER on the Physiological ......caansee:folhe Reproductive Organs. CHAPTER 11. a o wers of Neglect. fearly Vicious Indulgenc e , D S Persnatorrhcea and Impotence; CHAPTER 111. —A Review _ Ile various Disqualifications of Marriage ; whether rceultin Youthful Abuse, the _ e rnate, or Infection. Follies of Maturity, the learect s g of n an CHAPTERSand V. o n Ta modern Treatment of Gonorrtura and Syphilis. ng 'I he Book concludes with numerous varied and interesti _ases, to which is added the Autho r ' s recipe of a preventive Lbtion. • REVIEWS OF THE WORIL Sunday Times "Curtis on 31anhood.--This is a truly valuable work , an d should be in the hands of young and old."—a . • 23d March, 1856. ' "The author has conferred a great boon by publishing this little work, in which is described the source of those diseases which produce decline in youth or more' frequently premature old age."—" Daily Telegraph," March 27, 1856. I " This work, which for twenty years has stood the test of , professional criticism and em pi r i 2 al hostility, treat s i n aplain ,- ' and sympathi s i ng manner on, the various disqualific at i ons °ft.!' , and impediments arising from nervous excitement and de. bility ; and to i nva li ds suffering from youthful errors and exoesses livid]] be found valuable and useful."—Record. London : Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, Pater noster4ow; Mann, 29, cornhin. Hours pt Consaltation - 10 tO 8 and 6 to 8 ifittatlal - 81 1° :t 111 2! %. GREAT MARLBOROUGH-STREET. W., NEAR THE PANTHEON. DR. CULVERIVELL, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Licentiate of Nridwifery, and Apo hecaries' Hall, London, can be consulted daily (only) as Bove, on all cases of Nervous Debility, Languor, Incapacity, oss of Memory, Sterility, and all Functizmal Derangements 1 both Sexes. emanating from early and excessive indul ences Has Just published, price Is. ; by post, 18 stamps, 18 sealed, No. 4, An entire new and original Work. entitled OURSELVES. Synopsis : The Physiology and Anatomy of our Generation The Origin of Disease—Symptoms, Treatment, and Cure. 150, an Exposition of. and Remedy for, all Urinary Derange ,,ents and Marital Disqualifications. LE fne modern treatment of Syphil MA. is, Stricture, Blennorrhagia (3 onorrhcea). Spermatorrhcea, — lmpetency, and all Diseases of he Urinary Organs. with Prescriptions, iiro.; FEMALE. The Physiology and Anatomy of Women— Functional tr ,egularitles in Health and Sickness—Choice in Marriage— ' heir Expectancies and Disappointments—The Cause and 'removal of Sterility—The Theory and Symptoms of .Gesta on—Use of the Speculum. Also. No. i. HEALTH, HAPPINESS, and LONGEVITY ; On Debility, Nervousness, Dyspepsia, and Indigestion. No. 2. LOVE AND MARRIAGE : heti Obligations, Happiness, and Disappointments ; Love -Tql other Matches. Sterility Removed, and Healthy otr -rim* .enitred No. t. THli. CASE BOOR 100 Cases of SPERM ATOREFICEA, neir Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment, Confessions and Aire by Cauterisations, Galvanim, &c. dre. Are. '1 0 be had of Mann, 39, Cornhill ; and the Authors. Advice to the 'Working Classes fee Half-a-Gninea. (SPECIAL NOTICB.) Dr. covorsvon 1. the only 1. - g-olly qualified medical praoti loner living. of that name, and can be consulted (only as shove). "The temporary relief obtained by means of purgative edicines is purchased at th e high price of the aggravation lid if the perpetuating the disease." — HENßY. M.D. NO MORE PILLS OR ANY OTHER PHYSIC 'OR CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION (DYSPEPSIA), PALPI TATION, NERVOUS, BILIOUS, AND LIVER COMPLAINTS, DEBILITY, DROPSY, EPILEPSY, PARALYSIS, COUGH, ASTHMA, CONSUMPTION, BRONCHITIS, SORE THROAT, FEVERS. fIU BARRY'S delicious HEALTH RESTOR ING ARABICA FOOD, which, at a ew pence per day, saves fifty times its cost in Medicine, and tires without purgiw or any of the uncertainties, annoy nces, and ruinous expenses incurred by medicine, cod liver 11. or visits to distant climates. Certificate No. 36,418. —We find it the safest remedy, A n _ irew Ure, M.D., F.R.S. ; Dr. Harvey; Dr. Wurzer ; Dr. Sher and ; Dr. Campbell. We extract a few out of 56,000 cures: — Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies of many years , dyspepsia. Cure No. 49,832. Of fifty yea f indiscribable Agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipa tion, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting, Maria .loly, if Lynn, Norfolk. Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, patherings, low spirits, and nerves' fancies. Cure No. 54,816. The Rev. James T. Campbell, Syderstone Rectory, near Fakenham, Norfolk of ndigesti"n and :aver complaints. Cure No. 56,814. Mr. Samnel Laxton , Leicester, of two years' diarrhoea. Cure rIo. 180. Mr. W. Reeves, 181. Fleet-street, London, of 25 years' nervous ness, cc nstipation, indigestion, and debility. Cure No. 4,028: Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms, and nausea, Rev. John W. Flavel, Ridlington Rec ory. Norfolk. Cure No. 3,906. Thirteen years' cough, indi zestion, and general debility. James Porter, Athol-street, Perth. Cure No. 58,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liverpool, of ten years' dyspepsia, and all the horrors of nervous irritability. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, partial deafness. Similar testimonials from 56,000 patients who can be re ferred to. _ The Food is sold in canisters, 11b. !es. 9d., 21b, 48. 121 b. 325., 241 b. 40s. ; super-refined quality, Mb. 225„ 101 b. 335. The 101 b., 121 b., and 241 b. canisters carriage free on receipt of Post -office order by Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent- Mame* London ; Fortnum, Mason, and Co., 182, Piccadilly, tendon ; Abbis, 60, Grace: hunch-street; 4, Cheapside ; 63 and 160, Oxfbrd-street ; 330 and 452, Strand ; 19 and .60, Bis hopsgate-street ; Batty, 16, Finsbury-pavement LPhillips and co.. tea dealers ; Petty, Wood, and C O -. Vilillifm treetl-CitTs Ind1117,BIghilolbota; and 11.1 groan, N° 21,486. PUBLICATIONS. MR. THORNBURY'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., I C E- B 0 By WALTER TIT ORNBURY. N D. Author of "British Artists from Hogarth to Turner," &a. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Grea t Marlborough-street. This Day, in Demy Bvo, 165., the Second Volume of the HISTORY OF CIVILISATION IN ENGLAND. Containing tke Hictory of Civilisation in Spain and Scotland. By HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE. London : Parker, Son, and ►tourn, West Strand. CHARLES .KNIGHT'S HISTORY OF EN!-;LAND. The Seventh Volume, price 10s. d.; and Part 55, p; ice 3s. hd., will be published on the lath inst. Bradbury and Evans, 11, BoUverie-street, Fle.et-street, E.C. THE PRESENT DISTRESS IN TRADE fully explained in J. CTROSSMITH'S " GOVERNMENT UPON FIRST PRINCIPLES." The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficulties ex - perienced in IMO. The Crisis is at hand. Anxiety in bus ness has now become the grim torture. Purity of motive, Intelligently exercised, must animate all Governments, or all is lost. All denominations of Constitutions are carefully examined in J. Grossmith's "Government upon First Prin ciples." Kent and Co., late Piper and Co.. Paternoster-row. Just published. Bvo, in cloth, price 55., by post ftee, 55. 6d., (IN THE SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT of N-1 STRICTURES of the URETHRA; showing why they so often appear Incurable, when in reality they might be removed by the most simple means. By F. B. COURTENAVY, M.R.C.S.E., And formerly Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the Cure of Strictures of the Urethra. " This work 1,4 the production of a surgeon whose special attention has beon directed, through a long professional life, to the treatment of strictures of the urethra. The cases which Mr. Courteuay has given supply ample evidence of his great discriminative power in the diagnosis of the various kinds of stricture, and of the scientific principles upon which their management is founded. By his systematic management an immense mitigation of pain to the unhappy sufferers is attained, and future mischief prevented. The work we can most unreservedly and confidently recommend as a veinal), contribution, both to the general and professional reader, and ought to be found in the private study of all who are subject to stricture."—Medical Circular. London: H. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street. AN INCOME FOR A POUND !--Any person wishincr to know how it is possible to realise a large fortune with £l, can obtain tortistactory information by ad dressing a letter to E. 8., 15, Calthorpe-place, Gray's-inn road. W.C. IMPORTANT TO OWNERS OF HORSES.- After long experience, deep researches into chymistry, by the aid of costly machinery, i have discovered the means whereby oats, beans. and oilcake may be ent rely dispensed with in the feeding of horses and cattle. I have now invented a compound meal, composed of locust beans, Indian corn, linseed, &c., at £l6 per ton, which is eval in value to £24 worth of oats, beans, or any other feeding material in the market. Two quarts of this compound meal, weighing 31bs., at the cost of Id.. mixed with a peck of chopped hay, is afeed for a draught horse, and superior in every respect to three quarterns of oats, costing 74d. 14 barrels wei*•h net 1 ton 1 cwt., at 16s. per cwt., £l6 16s. net cash, free, delivered by my own waggons to any station in London. Nothing less than 21 cwt. sold at the manufactory, and orders must be accom panied with cheque. crossed, made payable to the inventor, JOSE PH THO R LEY. Steam Mills, Caledonian-road, King's-cross, April 8, 1861. Single barrels, weighing ti cwt., may be had for 305., at 77, Newgate-street, City, or of any of my accredited Agents in the country. THORLEY'S CON D IMEN TAL FOOD (mixed wi h crushed Oats, &e.) for My norses.—Read Admiral Rous on the English Racehorse. 40s. per barrel, containing 44R feeds. THORLEY'S CONDIMENT for My Cows. Increasing the quantity and enriching the quality of Milk. 40s. per barrel. THORLEt'S COMPOUND for My Sheep. Sold in barrels, containing 445 feeds, with measure nlosed, and carriage paid to any railway station in the inddom. TI MORLEY for . i s. -I- 40s. per barrel. TFIORI EY'S GLEANER is Published every Monday in tim, for po , t, and contains forty Columns f valuable information ' including Mark-lane Report, Agri nitural and Sporting intelligence up to time -of going to tress. Price One Penny. Order of any Newsvendor.-77, Newgate-street, City. DR. BUCHAN'S DOMESTIC MEDICINES, known throughout the world, for the cure of every disease. CON CENTRATED VEGETABLE ESSENCE, for nervous debility, physical disqualifications, etc. 4s. 6d., Its., or four quantifies in one, 335. VEGETABLE SKIN OINTMENT, for all skin eruptions, deep-seated ulcers, sores, boils, etc. is. lid., and 2s. 9d. PATENT SUGAR-COATED VEGETABLE PILLS, the family purgative for re , ulating the bowels, purifying the blood, removing vit , ated humours, bilious, liver, and at mach complaints, rheumatism, gout. scorbuticafiti ctions. and pains in (h. 0..- i., 1“1 28. 9d. and 11s. Physician's ad vice free on application, and s Buchan's "Guide for patients,"one stamp. Sold by Buehan a,,d Co., 2?, Newman-street, Oxford-street, London, W., and medicines forwarded on re cei ot of t ost office order. To be had of all chemists. Wholesale Agents :—BarPlay, 75, Farringdon-st. ; Newbery 1 5, St. Paul's Churchyard; J. Sanger, 110, Oxford-st. ; Han nay. s 3, Oxford-st. ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Hooper, 43, King William-st., London-bridge; Howden, 78, Gracechurch-st. ; Prout, 229, Strand, London. DR. BRIGHT'S THREE DAYS' CURE. The M DICATED SUGARED GLOBULES, con taining the Quintessence of Copaiba, Cubebs, Bustin, and other invaluable ingredients, permanently eradicating the most inveterate cases of G .norrhcea obstinate Gleet, stric ture, Urethral Discharges from whatever cause, Irritation of the Passages of the Bladder, Kidneys, Gravel, Sedimentary Deposits, Lucorhcea, &c. These Globules lubricate instan taneously the irritated mucous membrane of the urine-Pen)tal system, subduing' every inflammatory action, and checking all morbid secretion.. Possessing the further advantage of being carried an taken free from observation, detection, taste, or smell. Price 1 l s., by post 12s. 6d. LONDON AGENTS :—Newbery, 45, St. Paul's Church-yard; J. Sanger, 150, Oxford-s . r. et ; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Butler, 4, Cheapsi de ; Hooper, 43, King William-street, Lon don-bridge ; Howden, 7x, G acechurch-st: eet : Prout, 229, Strand, and of all chemists throughout the world. DR. BRIGHT'S MANUAL on SPERMATORRHCEA, and the above Diseases (Proprietor of the Aphrodision, or Phosphorised Nervine Tonic, for Spermatorrhce., Generative Debility, dm.) To be had of J. Allen. 20, Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row. Price Is. ; by post, 14 stamps ; sealed, 20 stamps. , . /--7-3 / /7 //' /- Y.-- / NEWSPAPER Kt :I -, •k., \ A% --( ' -, _ 1 4 ki V 1 - , - a T i qe3 , . r . A f 4 4 .-. ..$ , , /4 yell _ _ r . . i , , ~5. 1 .• I ' 1 114 4 ~:----:# 1 ~ 1 1 / 4 1,......,, session of Baltimore—a ereat ..: . - -. ,- --1 r: .. - -4.: --,,.• tom, • - • , . .., *,), ___.• 4 ), ' :.",./ ,ti -$),,, , chine shop, froni which the reb- .-- '1 iii, I ..: • c .,, - 01,414 A. CA, '‘.-. - '''); iiir ', l lt i'-' , 4 V ~...-1 41‘, • l* - 14, ' 4 - _ , ........ - i; - 2,,1N ‘1\1 , • . ... , • .. .... , or ac. , , ~..4%- , 11. ~.:;------- , -k,5..46, 4 ' O . D . p , CT, ' ‘-iji ,i7A 40 '•• ~ (Iv' ”, -. • 1 Ce- "" -e:,'"S" , .- sl j with food, cannon, and shells—is i :ispsabSb c .. ----- -__.-- ~2 , 4 0 a, . \ .if : .. ~ „,,..,..., , i4c itt „ ~,,,, - „;•rie,t.•• , . - 'Ron , . ,','' . V , - ,4, '•`:"--." ' P' 'q , itn+ . ..... setglutim attachmentents' fore the aggressive move is made in front. The President has called for 75,000 more troops, making in all 150,000 already called for. General Wool Wool says they can have three times that number if thoy want them. In addition to the New York troops already sent, there are now formed in the city of New York 13 regiments of 1,000 men each. Some of these are encamped at Fort Schyuler, some at Staten Island, some at the Battery, some in the little park in front of the City Hall, and some at the Central Park, and, waiting for their arms and equipments, which the Union Defence Committee are furnishing as fast as possible. Beanies these, Br e iti h s a h ve re a g ls im o e G n e t r . ma T n he r six other volunteer regiments are being organised, and have already reached a greater or less state of forwardness. tthheism exican morning, a O nwd f a regimentst rg h : e oadn ii o w in camp one is a Highland regiment, entirely made up of Scots regiment,ot hre thenews on ec s cor o mt f it S sa e ni o nd t s e . d bTyh Washington-squaree aynw officer fi re drillingerw who oa ssell s . vopmeadses passed W fi a ' li f a o n r s r o eg ld i i m er e s n h a ev nd are a . a French , natu ralised citizens to the Stars and S • • • tripes is quite as strong as that of the native-born population. Of the regiments that went yesterday onein particular deserves notice—the Firemen's ZOn aVeS•f—a regi ment made up of picked firemen of New York, and for muscular development and athletic training and all the elements of a good soldier, unsurpassed in any service. Every man is a trained athlete, and of tried courage. The other firemen of the town turned out to escort them to the steamer, and if it were not that you must be already tired of the ac count of similar displays I .hould like to dwell upon this, which in numbers and brilliancy of colour ex ceeded the previous , ones. From the interior of the State of New York we learn that the rural po pulation isalso in motion, forming a camp at Elmira, but I am not able to state the number of troops with precision. The Ohio troops are forming at Colum bus under charge of General McLelland, a graduate of West Point, in whose skill and military science General Scott 'places the highest confidence. The Ohio quota is already full, and more rejected than were accepted. I have nothing new from the In diana and Illinois troops since my last letter. A new call has bon made upon Pennsylvania, and within forty days she will have 50,000 men in the field well armed and well equipped. General Pat terson has charge of these troops and of the organi zation of that large department. He is working vigorously and effectively as General Wool is here. His men will be armed with the best weapons that the Government has at its command—many regi ments with the Min'e and Enfield rifles, and will be the first to move forward, under his directions, in the southern march. PRIC E 4D STAMPED, SD. Yprk, and 2,155,000 dols. are furnished by the city of New York. The popular organisation under which this great amount of nioney has been raised and the extraor dinary movements for the defence of the country have been made deserves special notice. In vigour and effectiveness it has rarely been equalled, and never, I venture to say, surpassed. It is a fort night to-day since the President's proclamation de claring a state of war, and calling upon the goverl. nors of the various States to furnish their quotas of militia, was made public. Two more days were consumed in making the distribution of the forces among the various States, then came the Balti more riots, and for five days more the people were cut off from all communication with their Govern . ment. And yet, in spite of these obstacles, with out taking into account what New Jersey, Penn sylvania, and the West have done, betweeen 10,000 and 11,000 men have gone forth from the city of New York, fully armed and equipped and ready for service more than half of them men who were not enlisted ten days ago, and all of them men who two weeks since were pursuing their various peaceful avocations. The men who have found their way to Washington have done so under difficulties which might well have tried more expe rienced troops. One regiment had to fight its way through a Baltimore mob. The famous 7th Regiment-of New York (made up of rank and file of the sons of gentlemen) marched from Annapolis to Washington, laying the railway track which had been - torn up by the Secessionists, while the regi ment of Lowell Machinists and Mechanics repaired the locomotives and reconstructed the bridges. Be sides doing this, Fort Munroe has been reinforced, an agent has been sent to Europe with a large credit to buy arms,, a steam navy has been improvised out of the port of New York for the blockade, and a transport service has been created for the Govern ment. Money has been raised faster than it was needed and beyond present wants, and abundant means have been secured for future necessities ; and the Government at Washington has begun to appre ciate the patriotism and unanimity of the people, and leads, at last, in the vigorous measures which have been inat4urated. The executive force which could accomplish such gigantic results is this : When the first blow was struck the citizens of New York, acting through the Chamber of Commerce, appointed a Union Defence Committee, consisting of leading merchants and bankers of all parties. The city, in its corporate capacity, recognised the movement by placing at the disposal of the com mittee 1,000,000 dols. 3,000,000 dols. voted by the State authorities are also to be disbursed under its superintendence, and large private subscriptions, already amounting to over 200,000 dols., are put into its bands as fast as received. These subscrip tions come in in sums varying from 5 dols. to 20,000 dols. The Government of the United States co operates entirely with this committee, its army and navy officers being in the closest and most confi dential relations with it, so that both the Govern ment and the Union Defence Committee are cogni sant of all disbursements and the application of them. Thus, the Government is able, in the hour when it most needs such help, to secure the best practical business executive talent in the country, which, combined with and directed by the science of the army and navy officers, insures energetic action and economical and judicious expenditure. Without such a committee 1 believe that the Government would have been paralysed—at the best, it would have taken it a long while, in the Secession atmo sphere of Washington, to reach its present state of healthy vigour. This committee is at present occu pied in sending forward the 75,000 troops ordered .o march from New York city, and in concentra ring here uch other troops as the Governtw:ut may )rder here. 'Washington, they consider, as already safe beyond a question. But if their advice is fol lowed, the Government will not rest content with the saPety of the capital. Baltimore must be made safe route to lirashington. The railway through Maryland must be made a military route carefully guarded- Harper's Ferry must be reoccup'ed, and so must the Norfolk Navy-yard. They are prepared to aid the Government to the extent of all the wealth in New York in securing these results. They have already made every practicable provision to insure a close blockade of Southern ports, and to overhaul and catch privateers wherever sailing. They have also found time to initiate the organisation of simi lar bodies in other States, cities, towns, and villages, and they contemplate that there shall be established such committees in every municipal organisation in the Free States, however small or humble, to act in concert with the central organisation, and in cor respondence with the Government through the Governors of the several States. New York, from its position and wealth, must remain throughout the war the centre of all Executive action; bat with such an organisation that may be made in 10 days' time, how will the efficiency of its action be in ci eased ! Its effect is already felt in the hesitation of Maryland and the alarm of Kentucky and Vir ginia. What it will be when the energy of a united people, indignant at a succession of insults and injuries that have been-borne in quiet for years, shall strike as one man through such au arm can scarcely be imagined. It is sad to contemplate the inevitable fate of the Border States, if they con tinue to defy the Government. Maryland already falters. Her Legislature votes not to secede, but to refer the question to the people, and private letters from Baltimore assure us that Baltimore shall be hereafter kept quiet. Virginia has elected to cast her fate with the Confederate States. She has seceded and joined that Confederacy, subject to approval by the people at an election to be held on the 23d of May, under the guns of Jefferson Davis's troops, and meanwhile she enters into an alliance offensive and defensive with them, inviting their aid in her defence ; but, alarmed at the strength of the Government, her Governor dismisses the local militia to their homes, and says that be has no design of attacking the Washington Government. I suspect he would be very glad to get a declaration to the same effect from the Washington Govern ment. In Tennessee Mr. Bell, who has hitherto been a sort of halfand-haif -Union man, countenances resistance. In Kentucky the Governor has con voked the Legislature to act in the emergency. Those States have now to elect which side they will take, for, in the present temper of the North, the Administration will not be able to take any halfway measures, even if they wish to, which has ceased to be the case. The Administration is at last united in its deter mination to prosecute the war vigorously. I have it from the highest authority that they will " lead the people." All ideas of reconstruction on the one side, or concession on the other, are thrown to the aweliGolreau:iaonn wind ; and, unless the rebels are prepared at the expiration of the 20 days given in the President's proclamation (they expire the sth of May) to yie ld, they will be made to do so if there are men, mo ney and patriotism enough left in the Uni t on e t_ ce will them. I am desired to assure you tha t p seized by money, and vessels of (he Uni ted .Stets of the sove not be made short of the restoration the rebels, and the re-esta blish ment n reignty of the United State s over gton, 2,000 called out thus far, Of the troops that 1 3 . 1 14 1 7. y ash _ e are at An -18,000 are already An napolis, 3,000 are on their way d b3eo,oofoorttirfioeodps and d held Washington, a s a Of these, Annapolis, 4, 000 land from renn s Y iv" 1 Hi and 2 , 00 0, who left here yesterday, are at sea. Thus before the of evening be day after to-morrow General Scott will have town, and the 5,000 will be stationed at Annapolis, which % t o t a f t t r coseu fortresses, t s e as by y s, line of road between there and Washington occupied by troops. Com munication is then to be opened through Baltimore at all hazards. The Government believes that it can be done peaceably ; but if it cannot b e done in that way, it will be done in the other, es Po" , is pearly to l' hole between b°Hvettr:v Ha vre- de - Gra ce What the South are doing to meet these gigantic preparations for offensive war your Special Corre spondent can tell you better than I. We hear rumours that Southern troops are marching on Richmond in large numbers, but no one here has accurate information. It is believed here, how ever, that the Secession epidemic does not rage in Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana with as much virulence as it did three months since while in North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and perhaps Missouri, the disease has just assumed the violent epidemic form. It is believed that the violent rc medics already applied have cured Maryland, and it is hoped that neither Kentucky nor Missouri will yield to it. If they do, it will only make the task of the Government-a more difficult one; it will not make it change its settled policy. There are many incidents connected with the marching of the troops and their reception in Wash ington t hat I should be glad to notice did time per mit. You will find most of them detailed in the New York papers of yesterday and to-day. I have preferred to use tha space you gave me in detailing as I have hitherto done, the more important mat ters that have pissed under my own eye or come within my own knowledge. OUBLE MURDER AND dUICIDES. GATESHEAD, MAY 13. Two very fearful tragedies have occurred in the neighbourhood of this town. On Saturday after noon a pitman, named Stoker, occupying a cottage in a small hamlet, named Galloping-green, upon the High Fell, left home to make his marketing, leavi .g his wife and infant in the house, and his other elder children playing about the door. Upon returning home between four and five in the after• neon he found the two eldest of the children at the cottage door, crying, and the door locked inside. They told him that shortly after he left their mother called the third child into the house, and put down the window-blind and locked the door, and that she would not let them in. Stoker called his wife, but got no answer. He then got a wooden pane open, through which he put his eldest child, who immediately upon getting into the room began to scream, exclaiming that her mother and the two children were lying upon the hed all covered with blood. Stoker immediately forced open the door, and on rushing to the bedside he found the two little children dead, their throats being cut, and their wretched mother with her throat cut, and ap parently dying. The neighbourhood was imme diately alarmed, and surgeons were sent for. When they reached the cottage and examined them, they • stated that the children had been dead some time, and that their mother could not live long. The wound in her throat was sewed up, andshe lingered until last night. Before dying she was able to state to her husband that she was out of her head when she cut the children's throats, and that she cut her own throat two hours afterwards. It seems she had been in a low state of mind since the birth of her youngest child who was seven months old, and that her husband had been unwell and unable to f ,flow his employment during the past fortnight. The deceased woman bore an excellent character. A most painful feeling has been caused in the town of Newcastle by the fearful death of Mr . Matthew Rayne Wheat le y , iron merc hant , New castle. On Saturday mornin g , about a deceasedquarter of H e wo rth walked on th in e t N o o t r lr E t a u s n te n r e n l the train leaving Ne wcas tl e a t th at came up and ran o ver hi m . H e observed by som e plat e l a y ers h h ßpu a o naa d u sdilt r e b wr f t e o ae e t y r niow'villagee Sunderland hl oe cnkpreviously on the line, but being taken for Mr. Swinburne, one of the inspectors, no notice was taken of him at the time. In the interim a train passed from Sunder land, but being on the opposite side of the line, did not touch the deceased. Not seeing the person rise, however, some of the workmen were induced to go forward, and by their assistance Mr. Wheatley was removed from the awful position in which he was placed. With every possible haste he was conveyed to Newcastle, and on his arrival at the Central Station he was recognised by the station-master, Mr. Reid. He was immediately removed to the Infirmary; where Sir John Fife was in attendance; hut such was the frightful nature of the injuries he was perform any operation. Both legs were lacerated t erly acted n his own sjron had received, that it was deemed unnec fc e eo s w s n a dti r vi y afletiiiy t de o fromwo wounds top to t n o the bottom, head. and there e t h r wereis distressing alsoa the unfortunate deceased lin h g avi er:d f t o i r l mo l de °circle of friends. held in great respect by a o'clock yhiosu ng mt suffering.ha e n , s a beingm e m arf. only e w.n r i n yh o e o 3a n ot ,lyewey:rswenasfdatiegateh:natparanerind ahuitle2 wi busine" matthew Wheatley, iron aHe ccount n w recently est as agent for his uncle, M T he father of the deceased, merchant, Manor Chnar.e.in Yorkshire, was speedily who h unt, t Richnio6 a , deeply affected by the melan on the scene, and w- e time back it- - For some believed choly event. deceased had been in a desponding state that the he cause of the sad of mind ; but t occurrence, con- Mob various rumours are in circulation, cornng w satisfactorily be elucidated by the coroner's can only t Which will likely be held inques t, to-day. 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I find some consolation for the disappointment of not arriving in time to witness the attack upon Fort Sumter in describing the condition of the work soon after Major Anderson surrendered it. Already I have upon my table a pamphlet entitled " The Battle of Fort. Sumter and First Victory of the Southern Troops," &c., several poems, and a variety of iersicules, songs, and rhetorical exercitations upon this event, which, however important as a political demonstration, is of small value in a mili tary sense, except in so far as the bloodless occupa tion of a position commanding Charleston harbour is concerned. It may tend to prevent any false impressions founded on imperfect information to state a few facts connected with the fire in the work and its effects, which will interest at least some military readers. In the first place, it may be well to admit that the military preparations and positions of the South Carolinians were more formidable than one was prepared to expect on the part of so small a State, without any considerable internal organisation or resources. This comparative efficiency was due mainly to General Beauregard and his assistant engineer, Major Whiting, who are both professional engineer officers of the United States army, and who had capacity and influence enough to direct the energies of the undisciplined masses in the proper direction, instead of allowing them to rush on their fate in the perilous essay of an escalade, as they intended. The State of South Carolina had for a long time past been accumulating arms and munitions of war, and it may be said that ever since the nullification contest she had per mitted herself to dwell on the idea of ultimate se cession, to be effected by force if necessary. When General Beauregard and Major Whiting came here the works intended to resist the fleet and to crush the fort were in a very imperfect state. Major An derson and his officers had a true professional con tempt for the batteries of the civilians and militia men, which was in some measure justifiable. One morning, however, as they took their survey of their enemy's labours for the previous night, they perceived a change had come over the design of their works. That " some one who knows his business is over there" was evident. Their strange relation ship with those who were preparing to destroy them if possible, however, prevented their recourse to the obvious means which were then in abundance in their hands to avert the coming danger. Had i Major Anderson maintained a well-regulated fire on the enemy the moment they began to throw up their batteries and prepare Fort Moultrie against. him, he could have made their progress very slow and exceedingly laborious, and have marked it at every step with blood. His command over the ground was very decided, but he had, it is to be supposed, no authority to defend himself in the only way in which it could be done. " Too late," —that fatal phrase,—was the echo to every order which came from the seat of government at Washington. Meantime the South Carolinians worked at their batteries, and were soon able to obtain cover on the soft sandy plains on which they were planting their guns and mortars. They practised their men at the guns, stacked shot and shell, and furnished their magazines, and drilled their raw levies with impunity within 1,400 yards of the fort. We all know what im punity is worth in offensive demonstrations. It is a powerful agent sometimes in creating enthusiasm. Every day more volunteers flocked to the various companies, or created new associations of armed men, and the heterogeneous and motley mass began to assume some resemblance to an army, however irregular. At the present moment Charleston is like a place in the neighbourhood of \ a temp where military and volunteer tailors are at work trying experiments in uniforms, and sending in their animated models for inspection. There is an end less variety—often of ugliness—•in dress and equip ment and nomenclature among these companies. The head-dress is generally, however, a smart cap like the French kepi ; the tunic is of different cuts, colours, facings, and materials,—green with gray and yellow, gray with orange and black and white, blue with white and yellow facings, roan, brown, burnt sienna, and olive,—jackets, frocks, tunics, blouses, cloth, linen, tweed, flannel. The officers are generally in blue frocks and brass buttons, with red sashes, the rank being indicated by gold lace parallelograms on the shoulder straps, which are like those in use in the Russian army. The arms of the men seem tolerably well kept and in gootl order. Many, however, stitl shoulder " White Bess"—the smooth-bore musket with unbrowned barrel. The following is an official return, which I am enabled to present to you through the courtesy of the authorities, showing the actual number of men under arms yesterday in and around Charles ton :-- Morris Island-17th Regiment, 700 men; let Regiment, 950 men ; 2d Regiment, 975 men ; total, 2,625 men. Sullivan's Island-sth Regiment, 1,075 men; detachment of Bth Regiment, 250 men; detachment of 6th Regiment, 200 men ; cavalry and others, 225 men ; total, 1,750. Stone and other points, 70 men; Charleston, 1,900 men; Columbia, 1,950 men. Men. Morris Island Sullivan's Island Steno and other points 750 5,125 Columbia • 1,950 Charleston 8,975 In field at the time of report ..... .. 3,027 Total the Th va e r r i e o g u i s menta companies mentio nedraised h i e n r e d i a ff r eercomposedlocalities with different names, but the State regulars are in expectation that they will soon 13 , e made portions of the regular army of the Confederate States which is in course of formation. There are, I believe, only 55.000 registered voters in South Carolina. The number of men furnished by them is a fair indica tion of the zeal for the cause which animates the population. The phys , que of the troops is undeni ably good. Now and then undersized, weakly men may be met with, but the great majority of the com panies consist of rank and file exceeding the average stature of Europeans, and very well built and mus cular. The men run very large down here. Nothing, indeed, can be more obvious when one looks at the full-grown, healthy, handsome race which develops itself in the streets, in the bar-rooms, and in the hotel halls, than the error of the argument, which is mainly used by the Carolinians themselves, that - white men cannot thrive in their State. In limb, figure, height, weight, they are equal to any people I have ever seen, and their features are very regu lar and pronounced. Th-y are, indeed, as unlike the ideal American of our caricaturists and our stage as is the nzilor of the Porte St. Martin to the English gentleman. Some of this superiority is due to the fact that the bulk of the white population here are in all but name aristocrats, or rather oli garchs. The State is but a gigantic Sparta, in which the helotry are marked by an indelible difference of colour and race from the masters. The white popu lationeulturawl h is ic v h er i y s n sm ot a l l a l n a d n a d n v d er s y la i v n e s h i o g i n d i i f cant alhrie tmoatsht masters joy h e y n j s i o e y s l e very excellenceadvantage o l a w p h e i e c p h l e c a a n n d c otno ducethe cultivation of the graces and accomplishments of life, even though they are rather disposed to neglect purely intellectual enjoyments and tastes. Many of those who serve in the ranks are men worth from i 5,0 O wereo oat least so I w as t o ld— an d men out to me who wer e said t o b e t pointed lo,oO O a Y a fads e h r i with unlimited Ch ampagne, most grate ful French orna dt eh se a rid sandhills dierly view to their p erm anent rather than occasional cadency, purchases for the raeu of his fc.euerc complete equipment of Enfield rifles. How long the zeal - and resources orthese gentlemen 'will last it may not be easy to say. At present they will prove forthidable to any enemy, except a regular army on the plain and in the open, but they are not provided with field artillery, or• with adequate cavalry, and they are not accustomed to act in concert and in large bodies. Yesterday morning I waited on Gen. I3eaure gard, who is commanding the forces of South Caro lina. Hifi aides de-can p, Mr. Manning, Mr. Ches nut, Mr. Porcher Miles, and Colonel Lucas accom panied me. Of these the former has been Governor of his State ; the next has been a senator, and the third a member of Congress. They are all volunteers and are gentlemen of position in the State, and the fact that they are not only content but gratified to act as aides to the professionalsoldier is the best proof of the - reality of the spirit which animates the class they represent. Mr. Lucas is a gentleman of the State, who is acting as aide-de camp to Governor Pickens. Passing through, the dense crowd which, talking, smoking, and reading newspapers, fills the large hall of Mills's house, we emerge on the dirty street, sufficiently broad, and lined with trees protected .by wooden sheathings at the base. The houses, not very lofty, are clean and spaaious, and provided with verandahs facing the south as far as possible. The trees give the streets the air of a boulevard, and the town has somehow or other a reminiscence of the Hague about it which - I cannot explain or account for satisfactorily. The head-quarters artt l in a large, airy public building, once devoted to an" nsiriliee conevaitifs operatiozid or to the accommodation of the public fire coin panies. There was no guard at the door; officers and privates were passing to' and fro in the hall, part of which was cut off by canvas screens, so as to form rooms for the departments of the Horse Guards of South Carolina. Into one of these we turned, and found the desks occupied by officers in uniform, writ ing despatches and copying documents with all the abandon which distil] guishes the true soldier when he can get at printed forms and Government stationery. In another moment we were ushered into a smaller room and presented to the General, who was seated at his desk. Any one accustomed to soldiers can readily detect the "real article" from the counter feit, and when General Beauregard stood up to wel come us it was patent he was a man capable of greater things than taking Sumter. He is a squarely built, lean man, of about 40 years of age, with broad sh e older legs e made to fit" a h or S e, o f m iddl e i g head is cover e d w ith thi c k h a i r , height, and and his cropped close, and showing the bumps which are reflective and combative, with a true Gallic air at the back of the skull ; the forehead broad and well developed, projects somewhat over the keen, eager c d h a e r e k k e by ones, n s e ; s h a e . wfsecleltsihsapveedry thin, with very high nose, slightly acquiline, and a large, rigid, sharply -cut mouth, set above a full fighting chin. In the event of any important operations taking place, the name of this officer will I feel assured, he heard often enough to be my ex cuse for this little sketch of his outward man. He was good enough to detail his chief engineer officer to go with me over the works, and I found in. Major Whiting a most able guide and agreeable pampa nion. It is scarcely worth while to waste time in describing the pesition of Charleston. It lies as low as Venice, the look of which it rather affects from a distance, with long sandy islands stretching out as arms to close up the approaches, and lagunes cutting into the marshy shores. On a sandy island and spit on the left hand shore stands Fort Moul trie. On the southern side, on another sandy island, are the lines of the batteries which, probably, were most dangerous, from their proximity and position, to the unprotected face of Sumter. The fort itself is built in the tideway, en a rocky point, which has been increased by artificial deposits of granite chips. Embarked, with a few additions to our original party, on board a small steamer called the Lady Davis, we first proceeded to Morns Island, about 3t miles from Charleston. Our steamer was filled with commissariat stores for the troops, of whom 4,000 were said to be encamped among the sandhills. Any one who has ever been at Southport, or has seen the dune's about Dunkirk or Calais, will have a good idea of the place. Our landing was opposed by a guard of stout Volunteers with crossed firelocks ; but they were satisfied by the General's authority, and we proceeded, ankle deepp in the s o ft w hi te sand, to v i s i t the b atter i es weich pl a y e d on the landward face of Sumter. They are m a d e o f sandbags for the most part, well the t h e good emb t r r a a s v u e r r e s s e s, being and well ied protected in faced with palmetto logs, which do not splinter when struck by shot. It did not, however, require much investigation to show that these works would be greatly injured by a fire of vertical and hori zontal shell from the fort, and that the distance of their armament would render it difficult to breach the solid walls which were opposed to them at up wards of 1,200 yards away. However, there were two powerful mortar batteries, which could have done great damage if they were well served, and have made the terreplein and parade of the fort a complete " shell trap" unless the mortars were injured. The civilians and militiamen set greater store on the Iron Battery at Cummiss-point, which le the part of the island nearest to the fort, b u t the fire of heavy guns would have soon destroy e d their confidence. It cons i sts o f yellow pine l ogs rod, of the same material, slopes from the top of Placed as vertical uprights. The the uprights to the sand facing the enemy—over it are dovetailed bars of railroad iron, of the T pat tern, from top to bottom, all riveted down in the most secure manner. On the front the railroad iron roof and incline present an angle of about 30 degrees. They are three portholes with iron shut ters. When opened by the action of a lever the muzzles of the columbiads fill up the space com pletely. The columbiad guns with which this battery is equipped bear on the south wall of Sumter at_ an angle. The inclined side of the battery has been struck by six shot, the effect of two of which is enough to demonstrate that the fire of the guns en barbette would have been destructive. The columbiad is a kind of Dahl gren—that is, a piece of ordnance very thick in the breech, and _lightened off gradually from the trunnions to the muzzle. The platforms were rather light, but the carriages were solid and well made, and the elevating screws or hitches of the guns were in good order. The mortars are of various calibres and descriptions, mostly 8-inch and 10-inch; and it is said there were 17 of them in position and working against the fort and that 35 guns wore from time to time directed against it. Shot and shell appeared to be abundant enough. The works are all small detached batteries, with sandbag merlons, and open at the gorge, and they extend for four miles along the shore of the island. The camps are pitched most regularly between the shapes and sizes, in the ggledy, here and there in knots and groups in a way that would drive an p Champagne proach e s YglePnieral mad. Bones of beef sandhills—tents fashion ca ll e d quartermaster - general a l I r t e t e d:h m S l hi gg le d y-pi ggledy, and wine bottles, ob structed, which were of a nature to Sutherland and Sir John M'Neill most a a in ed i c t m D u r t t. t h o e n a , bitterly, and to suggest the reflection that the army which so utterly neglected sanitary regulations could not long exist as soon as the sun gained full power. They say, however, the men are not sickly, and that these sandhills are most healthy spots about Charleston. The men were occupied as sol diers generally are when they have nothing to do— lounging or lying on the straw and plank carpets, smoking, reading, sleeping. The owners of the tents give them various names, of which " The Tigers' Lair," " The Eagles' Mars' Delight" a re f a i r s p ec i me n s , an d L N i e o s n t, s , , De n " "The these are done in black on the white calico. In one -which we visited the hospitable inmates were busily engaged inbrewing claret cup, and Bordeaux, :.19m , s ugar, *) cad Champagne, aud, oakap were in abundance, and at the end of the tent was a bar, where anything else in reason could be had for the asking, though water was not so plentiful. At one of the batteries the great object of attraction was a gun made on Captain Blakeley's principle, by Messrs. Fawcett, Preston, and Co., of Liver pool, which was only put in battery the day before the fire opened, and the effect of which on the masonry is said to have been very power- . ful. It is a 12-pounder—the same which was tried last year, I think—and bears a brass plate with the inscription, "Presented to South Carolina by one of her citizens." It is remarkable enough that the vessel which carried it lay in the midst of the United States war vessels at the mouth of the harbour. ,Having satisfied our curiosity as well as time and a sandstorm permitted, we got into a row boat and proceeded to Sumter. At a distance the fort bears some resemblance to Fort Paul at Sebastopol. It is a truncated pentagon, with three faces armed—that which is towards Morris Island being consideted safe from attack, as the work was only intended to resist an approach from the sea. It is said to have cost altogether more than £200,000 sterling. The lails are of solid brick and concrete masonry, built ose to the edge of the water, 60 feet high, and trom'B to 12 feet in thickness, and carry three tiers of guns on the north, east, and west exterior sides. Its weakest point is on the south side, where the masonry is not protected by any flank fire to sweep the wharf. The work is designed for an armament of 140 pieces of ordnance of all calibres. TWo tiers are .uarrilo - iiiliprtiotrasemates, and ta; third or upper tier is en barbette ; the lower tier is intended for 42-pounder paiXhan guns ; the second tier for 8 and 10 inch columbiads, for throwing solid or hollow shot, and the upper tier for mortars and guns. Bat only 75 are now mounted. Eleven pitixhan guns are among that number, nine of them com 7 'matiding Fort Moultrie. Some of the columbiads are not mounted. Four of the 32-pounder barbette guns are on pivot carriages, and others have a sweep' of 180 degrees. The walls are pierced everywhere for musketry. The magazine contains several hundred barrels of gunpowder, and a supply of shot, powder, and shells. The garrison was amply sup plied with water from artificial wells. . The war garrison of the fort ought to be at least 600 men, but only 79 were within its walls, with the labourers —lO9, all told—at the time of the attack. The walls of the fort are dented on all sides by shot marks, but in no instance was any approach made to a breach, and the greatest damage, at one of the angles on the south face, did not extend more than two feet into the masonry, which is of very fine brick. The parapet is, of course, damaged, but the casemate embrasures are uninjured. On landing at the wharf we perceived that thegranite copings bad suffered more than the brickwork, and that the stone had split up and splintered where it wasstruck. The ingenuity of the defenders was evi dent even here. They had no morter with which to fasten up the stone slabs they had adopted asblinds to the windows of the unprotected south side, but Major Anderson, or his subordinate, Captain Foster, had closed the slabs in with lead, which be procured from some water piping, and had rendered them proof against escalade, which he was prepared also to resent by extensive mines laid under the wharf and landing-place, to be fired by friction tubes and lines laid inside the work. He had also prepared a number of shells for the same purpose, to act as hand grenades, with friction tubes and lanyards, when hurled down from the parapet on , his assailants. The entrance to the fort was blocked up' by masses of masonry, which had been thrown down from the walls of the burnt barracks and officers' quarters along the south side. A number of men were engaged in digging up the mines at the wharf, and others were busied in completing the ruin of the tottering walls, which were still so . hot that it was necessary to keep a hose of water playing on part of the brickwork. To an uninitiated eye it would seem as if the fort was untenable, but, in reality, in spite of the destruction done to it, a stout garrison, pro- , perly supplied, would have been in no danger from anything, except the explosion of the magazine, of which the copper door was jammed by the heat at the time of the surrender. Exclusive of the burning of the quarters and the intense heat, there was no reason for a properly-handled and sufficient force to surrender the place. It is needless to say Major Anderson had neither the one nor the other. He was in all respects most miserably equipped. His guns were without screws, scales, or tangents, so that his elevations were managed by rude wedges of deal, and his scales marked in chalk on the breech of the guns, and his distances and beatings scratched in the same way on the side of the embrasures. He had not a single fuse for his shells, and he tried in vain to improvise them by filling pieces of bored out pine with caked gunpowder. His cartridges were out, and he was compelled to detail some of his few men to make them out of shirts, stockings, and jackets. He had not a single mortar, and he was compelled to the desperate expedient of plant ing long guns in the ground at an angle of 45 de grees, for which he could find no shell, as he had no fuses which could be fired with safety. He had no sheers to mount his guns, and chance alone enabled him to do so by dr.fting some large logs down with the tide against Sumter. Finally, he had not even one engine to put out a fire in quar ters. I walked carefully over the parade and could detect the marks of only seven shells in the ground, but Major Whiting told me the orders were to burst the shells over the parapet so as to frustrate any attempt to work the barbette guns. Two of these were injured by shot, and one was overturned, apparently by its own recoil, but there was no in jury done inside any of the casemates to the guns or works. The shell splinters had all disappeared. carried off, lam told, as " trophies." Had Major Anderson been properly provided, so that he could have at once sent bis men to the guns, opened fire from those in barbette, thrown shell and hot shot, kept relays to all his casemates, and put out fires as they arose from red-hot shot or shell, he must. I have no earthly doubt, have driven the troops off Morris Island, burnt out Fort Moultrie, and silenced the enemy's fire. His loss might have been consi derable, that of the Confederates must have bees very great. As it was, not a life was lost by actual fire on either side. A week hence and it will be impossible for a fleet to do anything, except cover the descent of an army here, and they must lie off, at the least, four miles from the nearest available beach. (Front another Correspondent.) NEW YORK, APRIL 30. The President, by proclamation dated the 27th, orders a blockade of the ports of Virginia and North Corolina, in addition to that already directed of the ports of the other seceding States. For foreigners this extension of the blockade is cf little conse quence, as the trade of Virginia and North Caro lina is almost entirely domestic. The newspaper despatches from Washington say that these blockades will be resisted by foreign Governments, as ordered without notice. I cannot believe that such will, be the case, for no European Govern ment, unless false to European instincts, can array itself actively upon the side of African slavery in this contest. The Herald of the day before yesterday gives a list of the various sums that have been contributed in the North for public uses in the war, without including, however, the large private donations given for the benefit of favourite regiments, or to equip or aid some particular recruits. I enclose a copy of this statement. Its magnitude may well surprise any one who thought that there was a diversity of opinion at the North which would show itsetlf as soon as hostilities should break out. The total amount of unconditional g ifts, accrklibg to the llerald, is 11,239,000 dols., of which 3,000,000 dola.nre contributed by th e stat e of New