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Lure, 981 Poet-Oin' I wparti doe in E L.../10* FeeklY 'vice ma In cnrtain th of mo. dt 1 9 t 11 tt 21 0 01 6th 16th 'ncertsiti ith of Is ..t 99th h & SIP uatt.t'sti and 16 and 2' and 19 and So wice d of mdcada o l 7,24,2 b. and 1 6 ally t ut !no ally th and 21 0 ac 29 0 16, 20 and 91 t and 16 reeklY &lan e ekl 1 c 16raot ,nthly ad 16 MMIIIMMO. , --.....-.• q., of wick' METROPOLITAN COUNTIES and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 27, Regent street, Waterloo-place, London. Co ital, 100,000/. Worms. Rt. Hn. Spencer H. Walpole,M.Y. Richard Spooner, Esq.,M P. I Henry Peter Fuller, Esq. E. Yansittart Neale, Esq. Life Assurance business transacted in all its branches. N. 13. The bonus declared at the last division of profits averaged 33 per cent. on all the premiums paid. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager. I ESTABLISHED 1837. 13 RITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COM. PANT. Empowered bySpecial Act of Parliament, 4 Viet., cap 9. BRITANNIA NIIITUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION, Empowered by Tier Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. MAJOR-GENERAL ALEXANDER, Blackheath-park, Chairman. Every description of Life Assurance business transacted, - with or without Participation in Profits. E. R. FOSTER, Resident Direc';or, ANDREW FRANCIS, secretary. 1, Princes-street, Bank, London. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.- TOURNTS' TICKETS (Great Western, Hereford, end South Wales Railways) available for Three Weeks from the day of Issue. These Tickets will be issued until the 15th October, at l'addi ngton, Oxford, or Leamington, over the Great Western Lines, via GI 'MCC,- ter. to 'loss and Hereford, and over the South Wales Line, to Wilford Haven, and back, with the liberty to stop at Ross, Hereford. Chep stow, !death, and Carmarthen. FARES. Ist Class. 24 Ctlass. From tendon and back.......... •• £3 10 .... £2 10 Leamingto.l and do •• .. 21i ..•• 2 0 •• Oxford and d 0........... 210 .... 115 Tourists' Tickets are available by any train, but are not trans ferable, and they do not entitle the holder to travel twice to the same direction over any portion of the lines of railway. CORNWALL RAILWAY.-HALF-YEA RLY ORDINARY MEETING.—NOTICE IS HEREBY (7.- - YEN, That the next Half-yearly Ordinary Meeting of the Sharehrdilers of the Cornwall Railway Company will be held at the Council C b amber, within the Town Hall, in the borough of Truro, in the coolinty of Cornwall, on FRIDAY, the 29th day of August instant, at Twelve o'clock at Noon precisely for the purpose of general business. A resolution will he submitted to the meeting above-mentin ned, to confirm the forfeiture of certain shares, and to direct the shares so forfeited to be sold or otherwise disposed of. M. WILLIAMS. Chairman. •Chail TWEEDY 'man. The Transfer Books will be closed on the , 15th Depu ins ty tant, and not reopened antil after the said Ralf-yearly Meeting. W. H. Cornwall Railway Of BOND, Secretary. Office, Truro, Ist of August, 1856. ONDON and---NORTH-WESTR.IV RAILWAY. TOURISTS' TICKETS. COMMENCING It3T Jura, AND TERMINATINQ 30211 SEPTEMBER, 1856. NORTH WALES. Tickets, available for THREE WEEKS, enabling the holder to stop at Rhyl, Conway, Bangor, Caernarvon, and Holyhead, either going or returning, sre issued at the following fares by the through trains. The First-class Tickets are available by any train, and the Second by such trains as have second-eass carriages attached. Class. London to Holyhead and back...—. ist Class. 2d 43 10 0 .... £2 10 0 Oxford Peterborough ] to ditto and back.... 210 0 .... Birmingham to ditto and back...... 2 0 0 .... Wolverhampton to ditto and back.... 1 15 0 .... 1 15 0 1 10 0 1 7 0 To THE LAKES OF WEiT WORN:LAND &ND CUMBERLAND Tickats, available for THE FiE WEEKS, to the above Lakes. are t<suett at the following Fares by the through Trains. The First class Tickets are available by any train, and the Second by such 'rains as have second-class carriages attached : Ist Class. London to Windermere an d back.. •..£3 10 0 ... 2d Class. £2 Oxford 10 0 reterboroigh l to ditto and back 215 0 .... 2 0 0 Birmingham to ditto and back .. •• 25 0 .... 115 0 Wolverhampton . . To THE FAVOURITE LANCASEILRE WATERING PLACES, LYTHAM, BLACKPOOL, FLEETWOOD, OR SOUTFIPORT. Tickets, available for THREE WEEKS, are issued by the ordinary trains of the Company. The First-Class are available by any train,, and the Second by such as have second-class carriages attaehed. Ist Class. 2d Cl ass . From London •••••• •• • • £3 0 0 .. •• £2 5 0 s. Oxford „ Peterborough 1 • 2 5 0 .... 115 0 „ Birmingham 115 0 .... 1 8 0 „ Wolverhampton j From Fleetwood Royal Mail Steamer sails every evening (Sundt tv excepted) for Belfast, and Weekly Excursion Tickets are issued at the Steam Packet Office for Belfast, Armagh, the Giant's Causew ty„ and back. EXCURSIONS TO THE SEA SIDE. ---- --- Tickets, available for TWENTY-EIGHT DAY 4, are issued by Vae Ordinary trains of the Company. The First-Class are available 'by any train, and the Second by such trains as have second-class ea r_ riages attached, to Harrowgate, Scarborough, Whitby, Flley, or Bridlington. HARROWGATE and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 4341, ; Feconi Class, 325. 6d. SCARBOROUGH and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 5 'is. ; Second Class, 355. WHITBY and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 518. ; Se cond Class, 3.55. FILEY and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 51s. ; S econd Class, 355. BRIDLINTOTON and Back, for each Passenger—First Clasr I, 515.; Second Class, 353. These Tickets are not transferable, nor will they be avalle ebbe for the Return Journey unless they have been endorsed at the B °eking office of the Station on the day of returning. Passengers to all the above places, except Harrowgate, are at liberty to break the journey by remaining one night at York, either going or returning. IRISH TOURIST TICKETS, Available for ORE MONTH, will be issued at the following /prices : Ist Class. 'ld C lass. From London .... ••• • . ...... •••.• £6 10 0 .... .01 5 0 •• •• ••••• • • • •• 5150.• • • 415 0 Birmingham, Leamington, and C0ventry.......... And from the other principal stations at proportional e fares. These tickets (which in no case are transferable) will be Available for One Month from the date of issne. They svill enabi.o the Holders to proceed to Chester, thence to Bangor, Holyhead. and Dublin. from Dublin to Cork., situate on the picturesque l'Aver Lee. and within ten miles of the celebrated Harbour, Ducky:4l , i. and Naval station of Queenstown (Cove) ; from Cork back to Mallow, and thence by the Killarney Junction Railway to the far -famed LAKES OF KILLARNEY. The Tourist can remain as long as convenient t, hi• nself at Chester, Bangor (for the inspectio i of the Britannia Tabula r Bridge), Holy head, Dublin, Cork, and Killarney ; the only condit' on being, that his return to the Station at which he tcok his ticket must be not later than One Month from the date of his depsrturo fist refrom supplemental Tickets for CONNEMARA, GLI :NGARIFFE, the GIANT'S CAIJAF,WAY, and other places of intn•rest, are issued at Reduced Fares to Visitors holding " Trish Tourist Tickets." General Manager's ()lac, Euston Station, Jana., 1856. THE INTERNATIONAL COASTING COM PANY.—UNION DU COMMERCE MA RITIME (Eu Commandite). Capital 8,000,000 francs, or £320,090, divided into Four Series of 2,000,000 francs, or £BO,OOO each, in 32,000 Shares of 150 francs, or £lO, payable to Bearer. COMMITTEE OF SUPERVISI(XI IN FRANCE. M. Prosper Cabasse, Ancien Procureur Gc-eneral, Paris. M. Estignard, Engineer, Paris. M. Lonquety, of the houso of Lonquety, freres, et Co., Ship owners, Boulogne. If. Nouton, C. Ancien Conseiller d'Etat, and Directeur au Minister° de Finances, Paris. M. Praud, Nantes, Shipowner. M. Rayet, Paris. M. Comte de Salviac de Viel-Castel, Paris. M. Hamelin, Ancien Avoue a la Cour Imporiale, Paris. M. Blanchet, Directeur de la Caisse des Usines a Gas, Paris. IN LONDON. Mr. Alderman Carter, Cornhill. Jas. Hartley, Esq., 137, L Adenhall-street, Director of the Peninsular and Oriental Company. Major Moore, 19, Portland-place, Ex-Director of the East India Company, IN SOUTHAMPTON A. Sehoales, Esq., Messr s. Dunlop . and Schoales, South anipton. J. R. Stebbing, Esq., President of Chamber of Commerce, Southampton. IN BELGIUM. M. Matthysseus, Knight of the Order of Leopold and Isabella, and Member of the Chamber of Commerce, Antwerp. M. Schull, Knight of the Order of Gustave Wasa, Swedish Vice-Consul, Judge of the Tribunal of Commerce, and Shipowner, Antwerp. M. Otto Gunther, Shipowner, Antwerp. BANKERS IN LONDON • The National Bank, 13, Old Broad-street. BANKERS IN PARIS. t. M W. Cailanan T. Cabasse and Co., Rue de la Victoire. MANAGERS IN PARIS. M. Marteau and Co., 13, Rue de la Victoiro. SOLICITORS IN ENGLAND. Messrs. Ellis and Clarke, Cowper's-court, Cornhill. STOCK BROKERS IN LONDON. r Messrs. Huggins and Rowsell, 1, Threadneedle-street. SHIP BROKERS AND AGENTS IN LONDON. Messrs. Cunard, Brett, and Austen, 150, Leadenhall-street. This Company which has been established en commandite, under the French Commercial Law, has for its o bj ec t th e supplying of Steam communication long the whole sea-board of the Continent, where trading operations are now carried en by small sailing ships, which are quite unsuited to the present necessities of commerce. Amongst the lines to which the attention of the projectors has been directed are the following : Prom Dunkerque to Havre. Newcastle to Boulogne. Liverpool to Havre and Boulogne. Antwerp to Southampton. Antwerp by Havre to Bordeaux. And Fecamp near Havre to London. Small and inexpensive vessels with auxiliary steam-power sufficient only to give them the advantage over sailing ships in point of time and punctuality will be used, and provisional contracts have been already arranged for tho purchase of ships well adapted to the purposes of the Company. Calculations which have been made give sufficient evidence of the large field for remunerative trade which the services projected present*, and it is confidently anticipated, that for profitable working this undertaking will prove second to no asosoantile marine enterprise in existence. The statutes under which this company is formed give to the Administration the power, in addition to tho more usual business of shipowners, to open a Credit Maritime ; and from this branch of its trade; which will comprise advances by way of loan upon cargoes shipped by the company's vessels, it is believed large profits may be realised ; but this class of ope rations will not be entered upon until the capital shall have been subscribed to a sufficient extent to enable the company to undertake it effectively. The Shares are payable in five instalments of 50 francs or 21. each. The first payment of 2/. is to be made on the allot ment. A similar sum within ono month from the date of allotment, and the remaining three-fifths by instalments of 2/, per Share, at intervals of three months from the second pay ment. The three last payments will be called up by adver tisement in the public papers, both in London and Paris, and interest at the current rate of the day will be charged upon all payments in arrear. It is proposed to place the second series of 8,000 Shares in England —the first being now in course of issue in France. Applications for Shares, accompanied by a deposit of 2s, Per Share, to be made to the Bankers of the Company ; to the Agents, Messrs. Canard, Brett, and Austen, 150, Leadenhall street ; or to Messrs. Huggins and Rowsell, 1, Threadneedle stree FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Committee of Supervision in England. Gentlemen, —I enclose you receipt for , paid to pour Bankers, and I hereby request you to allot me Shares in the International Coating Company (Union du Commerce Maritime), and I herebyagree to accept such Shares, or any smaller number that may be allotted to me, and to Pay the deposit and calls thereon. Name Profession or business Address.. Date .... * The export tonnage from Bordeaux to Antwerp alone ex ceeds 1 0,000 tons annually, at an average rate of 25 to 30 f rano per ton 41 saali g ships. • PUBLICATIONS. T.t. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 4, Coventry-street, Leicester-square. —Open (for Gentlemen "' 01 Y) from 10 till 10, containing upwards of one thousand models ad preparations, illustrating every part of the human frame in calf/ i and disease, the race of men, &c. Lectures delivered at 12, id half-past 7, by Dr. G. SEXTON, F.R.G.S. ; and anew and ly-interesting series of Lectures is now in course of delivery 'Y Dr. K ALIN, at 4 p.m. precisely. Admission, One -billing. LAST WEEK BUT ONE IN LONDON. Vr . R. W. S. WOODIN'S OLIO of ODDITIES. • 7 TO-NIGHT and every evening, at 8. —The above entertain ment has received novel additions, Vocal and Visual, including a New Lo co - Joko-Motive Lyric, entitled OFF BY THE TRAIN, illustrated ;by numerous changes, facial, lingual, and cor , oreal. Mr. W. S. Woodin s Mrs. Florence, in the " Yank ee Gi r l , " w i t h the swigs of " Bobbing :around," and " Polly, won't you try me, oh !"—Polygraphic-hall. Kint William-street, 'haring-cross. R OYAL SURREY GARDENS.-JULLIEN'S CONCERTS —Madame Rudersdorff.—Programme for THIS - EVENING (Saturday) : —Overture, Zampa, Herold; Quadrille, The Horton Quadri'le, Jullien; Symphony, Andante con moti, from the Italian Symphony, Mendetssolin (as performed on the Mentletssohn nieht) ; Scotch song, John Anderson my Jo, Miss Kate Ranoe ; Valse, from Lucrezia Borgia, Jullien ; Aria, Robert, tol qua j'aime, Meyerbeer, Madame Rudersdorff; Polka. The Pelissier, D'Albert ; Duo, French horns, Kalliwoda, Herrn Stoeckel; Quadrille, &naves, Jullien. Part PI. Selection, D. Trovatere; Verdi ; Aria, Prendi per me, De Berlot, Madame Rudersdorff; Polonaise de Reception, Jullien (composed for and performed at the Court balls at Bucking. ham Palace); Fantasia, ophiclelde, from La I'rophete, Meyerbeer, Signor Co'a Sant! ; Varsovierine, The Warsaw, Jullien. A dmission Is. R OYAL SURREY GARDENS.-JULLIEN'S CONCERTS EVERY EVENING —GRAND MORNING CO NICER on cATERDAY, August 23. —lt having been represented to the Directors that a large number of influential families resident within railway distance are unable to avail themselves of the attrac tions of the Gardens, on account of the early departure of the trains, it Is respectfully announced that a GRAND MORNING CONCERT will take place on SATURDAY, August 23, in which all the most successful pieces performed since the commencement of M. Jullien's Concerts will be , ntroduced. Concert at 2 o'clock. Admission, Is. Private loxes, to admitsix persons, 1/. Is., to be had at the Gardens, and at Jullien and Co.'s, 214, Regent.street. CANTERBURY lIALL Westminster-road. —OPEN I VERY EVENING- The celebrated HUNGA RIAN BAND, under the direction of Herr KALOZDY, will rierform .very Evening at 9 and 11 o'cl oc k , in addition to the usual V oca l E ntertainment The followi ng company of talented Vocalists are nermanently engaged for 'he performance of Selections fro:n all the Popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Duets, &c., viz. :—Mis. Caulfield, Miss Brunel, Miss Sommers, and miss Pearse ; Sam Cowell, Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F. Jonglnnans S. Jones, T. Farrant, W. Yelling, Barker, Russell Grover, and P. Corrie ; Masters E. Con nell, Austin, and Bennett , and Mr. T. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. J. Harroway, R.A.. harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun. ; director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, &c , until twelve o'clock. SCHWEPP'S MALVERN SELTZER WATER.—Having leased the Holy Well Spring at Malvern, - enowned for its purity, J. S. and Co. can now produce a SELTZER WATER with all the Chemical and Medicinal Properties which have rendered the Nassau Spring so celebrated. They continue manufac uring SODA, %fAGN'ESIA, ant POTASS WATERS and LE DION- A DE, at London, Liverpool, Bristol, and Derby. Every Bottle is protected by a Red Label bearing their signatures. .)] 7o MILNERS' HOLDFAST and FIRE RESISTING S FES (non-conducting and vapourising) with all the improvements, under their Quadruple Patents of 1840-51-54 and 155, including their Gunpowder Proof Solid Lock and Door (without which no S le is secure. TEM STRONGEST, BEST, AND GUEAPEST SAFEGUARD EXTANT. MILNERS' PIRENIX (2.2 c) SAFE WORKS, LIVERPOOL, the most complete an extensive in the world. Show-rooms, 6 and 8, Lord-street. Liverpool LONDON DEPOT, 47A, MOORGATE STREET, City. Circulars tree by post. CI REY HAIR RESTORED to its OR ‘3 l l COLOUR with ease. safety. and certainty, by the PATENT GALVANIC COMBS and BRUSIIE , , watch are also an unfailing remedy for nervous headache and all neuralgic affections. illus trated pamphlets," Why Hair becomes Grey, and Its Remedy," cratis, or by post for four stamps. Neuralgia, and all Rheumatic affectl,ns are perfectly eradicated by the Patent Galvanic Flesh Brushes, the most safe, imnle, and efficient galvanic Instruments extant: patro nised by the faculty. Offices: —F. M. HERRING, 32, Basinghal• street. Agents :—Child. South Gallery, Crystal Palace ; Savory and Moore ; Atkinson. 24, Old Bond-street ; Godfrey and Collte, Conduit street ; Ilendtie, 12, Ticliborne-street ; Twinberrsiy, 2, Edwards street, Portman-square ; Saunders, 315 n, Winter. 205. and Kennedy, 166, Oxford-st reet; Ross, 119, Dishopsgate-street ; Rimmell, Ger rard-street, Soho; Worn, 17, Dawson-street, and Birch, I, M01e,,- worth-street, Dub:in. Sold by all chemists and perfumers of repute. vR. HOWARD, Surgeon-Dentist, 52, Fleet street. has introduced an entirely new description of ARTI FICIAL TEETIVIxed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so erfectly resemblb the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from he original by the closest observer; they will never change colour or decay, and will be found very superior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painful .peration, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and Is naranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth rendered sound and useful in mastication.-52, Fleet-street. At ')me from ten till live. A RE YOU GOING TO THE HIGHLANDS, unrivalled for scenery, famous in story and song, to visit the land of Sir Colin Campbell and the Highland Brigade ? Ifs mak , a note to call at (when in the Capital of the beautiful North) MACDOUGALL'S WAREHOUSE, High-street, Inverness. There only can the varied products of the Highlands, natural and industrial, be seen. In his extensive rooms MACDOUGALL has gathered together all the best productions of the Highland looms, in TWEEDS, TAR TANS, LINSEYS, PLAIDS, SHAWLS'. DitESSEs, the favourite HIGHLAND CLOAK, FLORA MACDONALD ditto, &c., &c., with the best Native J E WELL ERY. CAIRNGOIt Ms, PE A RLs,B:,e ; the pretty products of the Skye, Lewes, and Gairloch Looms and Knitting Needles ; the Home-mode. Undyed PLAIDS of Ord, Slither land, and Aroch ; the SNUFF-BOXES, COUPS, BICKERS of the ' Culloden Carvers, &c. Side by side with all this he has placed all the necessary clothing of every description for Deer Stalking, Grouse Shooting, and for Tourists, &c. Visitors to his rooms can at once compare the varied products of the Three Kingdoms. D. MACDOUGALL, Inverness. r rourasTs and TRAVELLERS exposod to the scorching rays of the sun, and heated particles of dust will flud ROWLANDS' KALYDOR 1 a most refreshing preparation for the Complexion, dispelling the cloud of languor and relaxation, allaying all heat and irritability, and Immediately affording the pleasing sensation attending restored elasticity and healthful state of the skin. Freckles, Tan, Spots, Pimples, Fluthes, and Discoloration fly before its application, and give place to delicate clearness with the glow of beauty and of bloom. In cases of sunburn or r hugs of Insects its virtues have long been acknowledged. Price 4s. 6d. and Bs. 6d. per bottle. ROWLANDS' MACAS;AR OIL. A delightfully fragrant and transparent preparation, and, as an invigorator and purifier, beyond all precedent. The Prices are 3s. 6d., 75., family bottles (equal to four small), 10s. 6d., and double that size, 21s. ROWLANDS' ODONTO, or Pearl Dentifrice, compounded of the rarest and most fragrant exotics. It bestows on he Teeth a pearl-like whiteness, frees them from tartar, and imparts to the gums a healthy firmness, and to the breath a grateful sweetness and purity. Priee 2s. 9d. per box. Sold by A. Rowland and Sons, 20, liatton-garden, London, and by Chemists and Perfumers. NEW AND IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE. Patent Office veal of Great Britain. Diplome d'Ecole de Pharmacia Pharmacien de Paris. Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TRIE•;E MAlt No. 1,2, and 3, prepared in the form of a lozenge devoid of taste or smell, and can be carried in the waistcoat pocket old in tin cases, divided into separate doses, as administered by Valpeau, Lallemand, Roux, Ricord, &c., & c. T RIESEMAR No. 1 is a Remedy for RE LAXATION, PERMATORRHCE A, and all the distressing consequences arising from early abuse, indiscriminate excesses, or too ong residence in hot climates. It has restored bodily and sexual Strength and vigour to thousands of debilitated individuals whu are now In the enjoyment of health and the Functions of Manhood ; and whatever may he the cause for DISQUALIFICATIONS for MAR RIAGE, they are effectually subdued by this Wonderful Discovery ! TRIESEMAR No. 11., effectually, in the short space of thrree days, completely and entirely eradicates all traces of Gonorrhoea, both in its mild and aggravated forms (Beets, Strictures, Irritation of the Bladder, Non-retention of Urine, Pains of the Loins and Kidneys, and those disorders which Copaivi and Cubebs have so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health of a vast portion or the population. TRIESEMAR No. is the great Continental Remedy for Syphilis and Secondary Sy-m all Cutaneous It als o constitutes a certain cure for Scurvy, Scrofula, and all Cutaneous Eruptions, removing and expelling in its course all corrup tions and impurities from the vital stream, as altogether to eradicate the virus of disease, and expel] it with the insensible perspiration through the medium of the pores of the skin and urine, and is a never-failing remedy for that class of di orders which unfortunately the Englidh Physician treats with Mercury, to the inevitable destruc tion of the patient's constitution, and which all the sarsaparilla in the world cannot restore. Price I Is., or four cases in one for 335„ which saves Ils., and in 57. cases, whereby there is a saving of IL. 12s. To be had wh , lesale and retail in London, of Johnson, 68, Cornhill ; Hannay and Co., 63, Ox ford-street ; Sanger, 150, O xford -street ; It. H. Ingham, druggist, 46, Bol r to k et.street, Mancheste r; H . Bradbury, bookseller, Dea nsga tr, n ; J. Priestly, chemist, 51, Lordsstreet, Liverpo o l ; P owell, bokseller, 15. westmorela nd - street, Dublin; Wnnall, bookseller, Nig b-street.Birmingha [ADVERTISEMENT.I—EtoIIoway's Ointment and Pdls Infallible Cures for Bcrofula.-111r. ~'m• Starleigh, shoe maker, of Tadcaster, was deploiably afflicted with scrofula for very many years. Every variety of medicine bad been administered in vain ; all hopes of recovery had entirely failed ; surgeons of the highest eminence had pronounced his case incurable ; in fact, be had abandoned every idea of a cure, but was persuaded to snake use of Holloway's ointment and pills, and the consequent re sult was the complete riddance of his complaint in an inconsiderably short space of time.—Sold by all medicine vendors throughout the world, at Professor Holloway's Establishments, 244, Strand, London, and 80, Maiden lane, New York ; by A. Stampa, Constantinople ; A. Guidici, Smyrna ; and E. Muir Malta. This day is P Üblished, In 3 vole 114 RS. TROLL'JPE'S NEW NOVEL, "FARTIIONABLr; LIFE ; or, Paris and London,' in 3 vols. To be had at all the libraries. Hurst and lilackett, I.'ublishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street. TtrELFTH AND CHEAPER EDITION. Now ready - , in one vol ume, with 15 illustrations, 65., bound, T HE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS, By ELIOT WARBURTON. mirable book is sing u l ar l y o "The reappearance at this moment, in a cheap form, of this a d. pportune."—John Bull. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn. LIFE ASSURANCE. pub d, Bvo., price 2s. 6cl A BSTRACTS of all the ACCOUNTS Register e d by LIFE ASSURA NCE COMPANIES in the United Kinz dora, from sth September, 1844, when the Act, 7th and Bth Vict., cap 110, was paused, to sth March, 1856 ; being an Analysis of three Returns made to the House of Commons by the Registrar of Joint stcck Companies, in the years 1849, 1852, and 1856. By ROBERT CFI IfISTIE, Esq., Managerof the Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Society, Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Thomas Constable and Co. London: Hamilton, Adams, and CO. Mr. Saunders then read the report and, The CHAIRMAN moved its adoption and reception. The Rev. Mr. NICHOLSON remarked upon what he termed the " wretched state of the goods traffic" upon the line, and expressed a hope that the traffic from the north would be materially increased. Mr. MALINS rose to move, pursuant to a notice whit h he had given, that the meeting should be adjourned till Thursday next, at London, to consider the expediency of laying down a narrow gauge from Reading to Pad dington. His reason was that the North-Western meeting was being held on the same day, and if he wanted an argument in favour of his motion, it was to be found in the scant attendance that day, there not be ing probably more than 200 shareholders present out of a proprietary of 7,000 or 8,000. He regretted to find that the prospects held out by the late chairman (Mr. Walpole) had not been realized, and, anticipating as he had done a dividend of 4 per cent., he confessed that he was much disappointed at the present discouraging state of affairs; and, after much consideration, he arrived at the conclusion either that the company paid too small a dividend now or that they had paid too much on for mer occasions. Referring to the question of the gauges, Mr. Malins contended that as the Great Western sys tem comprised a great length of narriew gauge lines— probably about 184 miles—it was of great importance to the company to lay down on a portion of the line another rail, so as to accommodate the narrow gauge traffic. (Hear, hear.) At the same time, he did not wish by any means to ab an d on t h e broad gauge ; but he thought that the break of gauge was fatal, and that means should be taken to accommodate both broad and narrow gauge traffic. The. broad gauge from the west of England would not be at all affected by what he proposed ; but at Reading the traffic from the north would be diverged on to other lines, unless the other gauge were constructed. He estimated the expense of completing this work at 100,0001., and he believed that theresult wouldfully verify his estimates. Seeing the extraordinary amount of money which had been expended on the Paddington Station, in order to afford accommodation for an immense amount of traffic, he contended that it was the duty of the di rectors to endeavour to fill that station with traffic. The expense of constructing that station would be equal to about one-third per cent. upon the whole consolidated stock of the company, and every one who knew any thing of the traffic of the country was convinced that in coal and other goods the' breadth of gauge was fatal to all competition. Advocate as he bad been for the broad gauge, be could not conceal from himself that if they laid down the narrow gauge between Reading and Lon don they would never lay down the broad gauge from Wolverhampton to Liverpool, because he believed te at Wolverhampton was their limit in that direction. Tile Worcester and Hereford line would give them a great traffic from Wales if they constructed the narrow gauge, and every one going - from Worcestershire would prefer to travel by the Great Western instead of the North• Western were it not for the break of gauge at Reading. It was cut of no disrespect to the city of Bristol that he proposed the adjournment of the meeting to London ; but the question of the gauge was one of such param met importance that he thought it deserved the consideration of a special meeting. He quite believed that the agita tion of this question must be disagreeable to those who had always adhered to the broad gauge system ; ho was quite aware of the intensity of the feeling upon this sub ject; but the arguments in favour of the addition of the narrow gauge between Reading and London appeared to him to be so unanswerable, that he trusted they would recommend themselves to the best attention of the directors. He trusted that the chairman would at once consent to the adjournment of the meeting, be. cause, if he did not, he (Mr. Maims) would have no dif ficulty in getting up a requisition for a special meeting on the subject. He believed that, by the adoption of proper measures, the Great Western might become a 6 per cent, paying line, Mr. BROIVN said there wee now a glimpse of pros perity before the company, and be thought they would be very wrong if in their impatience they were to disturb arrangements which had been years in perfecting. He suggested that the resolution should be so modified as to invite the directors to take the question of the gauges into their most mature consideration. Mr. NORRIS opposed the motion,-and protested both against the adjournment of the meeting and the adoption of any resolution which would tend to augment the capital of the company, lie believed that Mr. Malins' estimate of 100,0001. for laying down the narrow guage was wholly inadequate, and he asserted, without fear of contradiction, that if the directors entertained the pro ject at any cost, they would be entertaining something which was calculated to cure an evil 'which did not ex ist. He decied that there was any inconvenience expe rienced on the Great Western Railway from the break of gauge, and he contended that if the ghost were laid at Reading, it would rise again at Didcot, and that any supposed inconvenience which existed now at Reading would he found in full force at Didcot. Moreover, faith with their allies required that the line should continue to be worked on the same principle as it was at present. As for the motion for the adjournment of the meeting to London, he believed th a t the act of incorporation re quired hat the meeting should be held alternately in London and in Bristol, and that when a meeting was adjourned it should be adjourned to the same place. Mr. MILES, M.P., complained that the report was un satisfactory, and that it contained no item of mercantile intelligence. It indulged entirely in hope, and although the Kennet and Avon Canal had been in their possession since 1851, it appeared to be only now discovered that it was a losing concern. To remedy this state of things he would infuse a snore mercantile element into the direc tion, and although he did not believe that business could be satisfactorily transacted in a large public meeting, he suggested that five of the present directors should retire, and that the company should elect five in their place. He concluded by moving an amendment to the effect that a committee of proprietors should be appointed to confer with the directors for the purpose of cre ating five vacancies at the boa r d, an d recommending five others in places ; and that after the transac tion of the current business of the meeting it should bele 'eourned till the 11th of September, in order te receive the report and recommendations of the com mittee. He trusted that this would meet Mr. Malins' views, and that he would not, therefore, press his amend ment. Mr. MALINS consented to Withdraw his amendment. ; and Mr. MILES thereupon intimated that he had no objec tion to the reception of the report, and that he would move his amendment as a substantive resolution. The motion moved by the Chairman for the adoption An analysis of the accounts and of the report has already been published. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, claimed the indulgence of the meeting upon his first appearance in the chair, an 3 paid a tribute of respect to the memory of Mr. Russell, the former chairman. He added that some objection had been taken to their meeting upon the same day as the London and North-Western ; but be feared that this was an inconvenience which could only be obviated by arrangement with the chairmen of all the companies that had termini in the metropolis. It had been suggested that there should be a number of indi viduals representing 501 worth of shares in the company appointed to advise the directors in all matters of im portance, but he was bound to say that that would be establishing a kind of intperiunt in imp erio, to which the directors never could submit. (Hear) All that the board had to say was expressel clearly in the report, and he would not, therefore, trespass longer on the time of the meeting than to congratulate the shareholders on a slight increase in the dividend, and on the fact that the company had not prosecuted any bills in Parliament during the last session. He now called upon the secre tary to read the report. Major COURT, however, intervened, and complained of a breach of the privileges of the shareholders, in that he bad not been allowed to inspect the register of pro prietors. This was a right inherent in the shareholders, I conferred upon them by the 63d section of the Com panies' Clauses Consolidation Act, and lie urged, as a ground of objection to the course of proceedings, that he had not had the opportunity of inspecting the register. How, he asked, could the shareholders exercise that c,n trot which they ought to have over the affairs of the company if they were denied access to the register ? Fie moved the following resolution ;-- "That this meeting, viewing it to be essential for the due exercise of the powers vested in the shareholders of this company that they have free acce=s, at all reason able hours, to the register of holders of consolidated stock, as it is enacted in the 63d section of the act of Victoria, chap. 16, called the "Companies' Clauses Con solidation Act' that they shall have ; resolved that the obstruction in the exercise of such privilege, as brought underthe notice of this meeting by Major Henry Court, Fel., a shareholder of this company, appears to this meeting to have proceeded from an injudicious determi nation of the directors and the secretary of the com pany, and is injurious to the rights and interests of the shareholders." Mr. PARTRIDGE seconded the motion. The CHAIRMAN read the 149th section of the Act of Incorporation, which Major Court contended applied only to consolidated stock, and was not applicable to this case. The motion was, he thought, somewhat out of order ; but, following the precedent set in another place, it was, on the ground of privilege, prob a bly ad missable. Mr. SAUNDERS (the secretary) explained that, as the company had been incorporated previously to 1845, it had its own rules and enactments independently of the Gene ral Railway Clauses Act, and that it was entirely go verned by its own act. Any shareholder could ascer tain from the register the name of every proprietor ; but the amount of their holdings was not communicated. After a brief discussion, Major Court's motion was carried by a considerable majority amid very general applause. Mr. WALPOLE, on the part of the board, assented to this proposition, and it was unanimously agreed to, the gentlemen named being Mr. W. Miles, Mr. R. Bayly, Mr. R. Withers, and the Right Hon. J. Parker. On the motion of Mr. BAKER, A vote of thanks was carried with acclamation to the chairman and the board of directors, and the proceedings terminated. GREAT NORTHERN. The report of the directors of this company states that the total amount of capital expended to the 30th of June last was 11,168,9381., including 107,4181. ex pended during the half-year. The amount of securities and cash held by the company on the 30th of June was 262,2621., and preference capital', not called up, is 400.0001. The gross receipts in the last half-year amounted to 567,8391., being an increase of 59,083/, over those of the corresponding period e f 1855. The grois expenditure for the half-year amounted to 302,5891. or 24,7861:ab0ve that ending June, 1855. / The balance of receipts beyond expenses amounted to' 265,2501., be ing 34,297/. more than at the corresponding period of 1855. To that sum is added 8,5121., rent of Royston and Hitchin, and balance from last accounts, making a total of 273,7621., which, after payment of rents, fixed charges, interest of loans, and preference dividends, amounting to 189,459/., there remains 84,3031., which will afford a dividend at the rate of 31 per cent. per an num, or of 11. 15s. per cent. for the half-year on the ori ginal stock, and of 31. 101. per cent. for the half year on the B stock, leaving a bale ee of 1551, to be ,ar del to the next account. The directors are desirous of being in a position to convert the mortg,ge debt of the 0)m -pany into "Great Northern Rai way Debenture Stock," at a fixed and perpetual irredeemable yearly dividend or interest at not exceeding the rata of 41. per every 1001. thereof, as authorised by the act of 1853. To enable them to carry out such a measure, the 1941 sec tion of that act requires the previous consent of three fifths of the shareholders present in person, or by proxy, at any general meeting of the company, convened with die notice of that object. The directors, therefore, give this notice of their intention to propose a resolution at the half-yearly general meeting to be held on the 233 August inst., authorising such a conversion of any po tion or the whole amount ef the exist:ng morieeage debt company, f rom t i me to time, and upon such terms as shasthe directors may consider advisable. The mortgage debt being in amount about 3,250,0001., and the average rate of interest per annum now paid being about 4i per cent., the conversion of the whole into a debenture stock at 31 per cent, would effect a direct saving or gain t, the company of abou; 30,000/. a-year; Da : account, the business and ac ceun , and avoid a d w v o ct u id ld g a r l e o great expense for stamps, &c., in renewing the inortgaqe deeds of the company. At the general mee•- ing in February last the chairman announced that the active cempeetion at very low fares, by the London and North Western, the Midland, and the Manchester, Sheffield, :led Lincolnshire Railway Companies, against the Great Northern Company, was to be immediately discontinued, under an agreement by the four coin. panies to refer to the arbitration of the Right lion. W. E. C-lad,tone, and to be Noun by his decision as to tile division of the traffic of the several districts to which the trains of the four companies have access. Great delay subsequently took place before the paints to be sub mitted for arbitration could be agreed upon ; and the deed of submission, as Settled by counsel, was corn plezed ready for Mr. Gladstone at the beginning only of the present month. In the compan's workshops, built at New England, above a mile from the city of Peter borough, there are now employed mechanics and la bourers to the number of 459 ; and horn the isolated p ost non of the locality, and distance from the city, it has been necessary. to erect, for the accommodation of the men and their families, a considerable number of cot tages and shops to be let for the gale of provisions —but there is still wanting a schoolroom for above 200 child ren. The directors, therefore, ask authority to erect a schoolroom, which can be done for 7001. The report of the auditors, Messrs. J Chapman and J. Cattley, states that the accounts and books in every department continue to be so sari-feeterily kept that they have simply to expre , s ,their entire approval of thew, and to present the accounts to the shereholders with the usual certificate of their correctness. The capital accouct shows that 11,431,2001. had been received, and 11,168,9381. expended, leaving a baled-ice of 262,262/. The revenue account for the half-year endin the 30th P 3 er locomotivecent power was a t the leaving a bal of. June amou n t e d to 567,8391., and the expenses to 236052:2558091/.., Theor 53 cost -28 ( rate of 8 - 136. per train mile, and the receipts and re newals to 2 . 21 d. per train mile. The assets of the com pany are estimated at 696,5241, and the liabilities at 139,4791, leaving a balance of 557,045/. SOUTH WALES. The statement of receipts and payments of this com pany shows that 4,221,891/. had been received to the 30th of June on capital account, including 1,167,8171. on debentures, and that 4,231,6151. had been expended, leaving a balance of 9,724/. against the company. The revenue account for the half-year ending the 30th of June shows th a t 150 , 7711 . b a d b een received, and 86,901/. expend e d, or 57.63 p er ce nt., leaving a balance of 63,8701. T o thi s sum i s a dd e d 11,04 11. from the for mer account, 2,306/. F ores t o f Dea n arrears of tolls, 1,193/, divide n d on V a l e o f N ea th s h ares, 401. regis tration fees, 4201. ren t o f cot t ages , 5 , 0 00/ earnings of South Wales W aggon Company, and 19,25 0/. fixed rent from Great Western—total, 103,9221. From this is de ducted 5921. for rents, 25,9081. interest on debentures and land purchases, and 15,9131. assumed amount due to the Great Western Railway Company under the agree ment of 1851-_-together 42,4141., and leaving a dis posable balance of 61,5071. The dividend on the guaranteed stock and shares amounts to 1 3,298( . , and that proposed to be declared at the rate of 3, per cent. per annum on the consoliriated stock and ordinary shares of the company to 42,8821.—together 56 ,180/., leaving a balance over of 5,3261. for the next account. LONDONDERRY AND ENNISKILLEN. The report of the directors of this company state that the traffic for the half-year ending the 30th of June last amounted to 16,1051., an average of 6191. per week, and for the corresponding period of 1855 to 14,3561., ave raging 5521. per week, showing an increase of 671. per week or 12 per cent. The working expenses for the pas , half-year amounted to 8,9701., against 1 0,7531. for the corresponding period of 1855, showing a decrease of 1,7831., or 681. per week. The improvement in the net receipts amounts to 3,532/. as compared with the corre spending period of 1855. The interest upon the Go vernment loan and debenture debt has, as usual, 'been fully charged. The interest on the outstanding liabilities has also been charged. After making provision for these items there remains a disposable Waned of 9,01501. OND RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT WESTERN. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yes terday at the Bristol station ; Lord Barrington in the chair. I'if tie report was then agreed to unanimously, as was the text resolution, authori-ing a dividend at the rate of 2 2 1 pr cent. per annum on the half year. M'. lkließs then proposed the resolution, and Mr. WITHERS seconded it, remarking upon the absence of corrtnereial men from the direction, and recommend• ed theappointment of sub-committees who should have the sipervision of all matters connected with the rail way. If this were done he believed that the turning point it their fortunes might be realised. The bonded debt of the Great Western Company amounted to 10,000,0001., upon four-fifths of which the interest of 5 per cent, was paid, while only 1-11th of the bonded debt of the North-Western and 1-12th of the debt of the Mid land pail that large interest. Pie trusted that the shareholders would " qu it t h emselves like men, " and that they would agree to the resolution which had been submitten. (Hear, hear.) The Cils.rultax regretted as much as any one the ab lance of commercial men from the board, but he said that there was % great difficulty in obtaining the services of such persons. The fact was that men of business had their own affairs to attend to, and the board, therefore, were not able to secure the assistance of the most avail able men. Ile did not believe that sub-committees would conduct t'oe business of the company better than it was at present, and he saw a great difficulty in the way of appointing the gentiemen who should act upon the committee. Mr. WITHEts here handed in a list of names. The CHAIRMAN inquired whether any of the gentle men proposed were holders otNorth-Western stock ? Mr: PaukEa . (who was included in the list) stated that he was a holder of North-Western stock, but not nearly to the extent to which he was interested in the Great Western Company, Independently, 'however, of every consideration of that nature, it was his intention to support the motion, Mr. BAYLEY, who was also named on the committee, said that his interest in the Great Western Railway was much greater than that which he held in the North- Western. Mr. BAKER stated that the reason which had indu ted him to resign his seat at the board was that he had found himself unable to carry out a system of reform in the management of the company which he had long ohs richer]. He thought that the board was defective in its character, inasmuch as it was rather more deliberative than executive ; and although he would do nothing to revolutionise the constitution of the company, he did trot approve of throwing the whole responsibility of the management of the finances of that immense under taking upon one person. Mr. VVA.LroLE, M.P., said that, although the resolu• tion proposed by Mr. Miles was not unreasonable, as nothing proposed by him was likely to be, he thought that, in its present form, it ought not to be persisted in. Focinstance, it recommended the appointment of a num ber of gentlemen as a committee, of whose names no notice had been given ; and hence there was no guaran tee that the gentlemen appointed would fully represent the fselings of the proprietary at large. He suggested that, instead of Mr. Miles's resolution, something to the following effect should be agreed to :-- "That Mr. W. Miles be requested to consult with the di rectors as to whether any, and, ifany, what alterations may be desirable in the present constitution of the board ; and to propose the names of any persons eligible as directors, with powers tool!! a special general meeting, if neces eery, to decide upon any such alterations in the direction as they may think needful." Mr. MILES did not like to take the responsibilty upon himself of dealing with the directors, but if three other gentlemen were associated with him he had no objec tion. (,••••, ‘ ,5) If f!' • • „. 1114, t 0.11 I • p••• IN , )' fitr: r I, . s,\ I ) • „ „ • 4 I ~‘ ,sr/ - • t'k EY" I ' . ' --- --••■fh,, ; ••'. • ." ,7 " . i•.',1411% z 1 • ''''' 'Z.• . :;:0 ''', + .., v - z 4 vliich is sufficient to give 2s. GI. a share on the original pr,ferenc.: shares, being at the rate of 2 per cent. p=r ant. urn. 1855. (Prom Correspondent of the Morning Post.) ST. PETERSBURG, AUGUST 6. Lord Palmerston will be surprised to learn that the isvostchiks (the droshky-drivdrs, Correspond ing to our " cabbies") chide their horses by shout - ing his name ; and, when the animals are very re fractory, subdue them by threatening that the 879 noble lord is coming immediately. On relating 2,841 this curious fact, I was t o ld b y persons fresh from 7,221 the interior that th e same i s now the case all over 12,811 Russia, from St. Petersburg to the Don Cossacks, 6,624 and from Lake Ladoga to the Caspian Sea. 206 1,1 13 I think I mention e d y es t er d ay that M. de Morny 07 1,585 had arrived too late to see the remarkable naval dis c , 637309 play which a fe whours before bad covered the whole 956 space of the waters through which he steamed from 308 921 the shore of Finland to the groves of Peterhoff and 6,061 the golden spires of the Sergian Monastery. He will 24,129 5,844 have noticed—or rath er th ose w h o accompany him 7,144 and remember the past will have noticed —the 822 immense changes about Cronstadt—th e a l teration 22,813 ,124 or interchange of so me o f th e po i nts relied on 7,255 for defence, and the multiplication of battery 30,427 - piled. upon battery. These are Todtleben's mo -6 784 difications and additions. Cronstadt always had 22,530 the name of being a very strong place ; and 87,188 when Seb as t opo l was b eing f inished in 1852 22,004 , 6 88 (as much fi n i s h e d, t h at i s, as the allies found it 18, 0 • 0 at the time of their descent, and•before they finished 615 it in another sense), it was universally agreed that 8 -503 it could never, at most, be made more than the 837 Liu second sea-coast fortress of the empire. Well, 2121'911 Cronstadt, strong formerly, has, like Sweabor g , been strengthened since ; and yet it is astonishing how much less those think of -it who know it best, 5 300 -who reside in Russia, who resided here during the 7,585 1,0 81 war, than do people at a distance. lam assured that when Sir Charles Napier came out to the Baltic in 1854 St. Petersburg proceeded at once to pack up its things. 661 Many and many an incident h as b een told me 24,160 which graphically illustrates what were the real cir -5,914 cumstances behind the threshold, while Russia, :2.11g24 with a:ve r y gran d a i r, no doubt, still stood erect 1,365 and unflinching before the porch, "and on j her 1,019 brow sat horror plumed." The greater her merit 341 for the brave appearance so sternly maintained as long as it was possible to maintain it. I I could detail some of the little facts which have been thus already recounted to me ; but this might produce disagreeable consequences to individuals. General Wilson, the Scotch engineer, who has 41,845 been long so muc h respected in the'Russian army, completed, on the Ist of August, his half -century of milita r y serv i ce under the double-headed eagle. Like several other members of the service who .are of British extraction, he obtained leave, or, rather, stipulated that he should never fight against the land to which his forefathers belonged. When the fifty years of his life iu the ranks had been fulfilled last Friday, he had his jubilee ; and Alexandroffsky, a 'village about ten or twelve miles from St. Petersburg, was a scene of boisterous merry-making. The place ran with "vodka" and other intoxicating drinks. There was a general f es ti va l , w hi ch ended with fireworks, music, and a village dance somewhat like a French ducasse.- The next day the Emperor sent the old soldier a splendid cross in diamonds, with the high est order to which he was eligible. As the time. draws on excitement visibly in creases ; and, every train for Moscow carries im mense consignments of carriages, furniture, hordes, and valuables. Yesterday evening some of the im perial carriages, which had not yet been sent 011, were displayed in the Zachery Oulitsa. It is impos sible to imagine anything much more gorgeoes ; ' and yet these are not the finest. Mere clumsy cost liness is easily attained where enough _money is spent. But to make the cost transfigure itself into artistic beauty, to make every so-called ornament ornamental, to secure grace and majesty in the general effect—this requires more than money. It is more than that well-known species of glare which —in a lower sphere and on a similar scale—tha vulgar, ignorant, purse-proud upstart can produce in his equipages. But, on the present occasion, while the best mechanical talent has been employed in the construction of the various articles needed for the monster and unheard-of display to come off at Moscow from the 23d of this mouth to the 7th of next September, an analogous quality of high artistic ability has been put in requisition for the decoration of these accessories. For example, the carriages of the Czar and his Court will form but one minute ingredient in'the pageant—a single fea ture hardly to be mentioned separately, unless, as I now mention them, to convey by illustration to those who will not witness them some idea of the actual spectacle. The carriages for the Czar, the Czarina, and their immediate personal Court alone were to have been 32 in number, although it is now said that five of them will be finished too late for the appointed time. They had not all to be built. About two-thirds of them are new ; the rest had only to be repaired, rogilt, and new fashioned ; yet the expense of the double order amounted to 275,000 silver roubles, or about 47,0001. sterling —say 1,5001. a-piece. Even that large sum would have been quite inade quate to produce the marvellous splendour and beauty which have been attained, only that but little in proportion was required be done to some 20 of these State coaches. Together, they will ex hibit a marked general harmony of style, with great, freedom of pattern and variety of detail. Our tasteless Lord Mayor's coach and Sheriffs' carriages say little for the gracefulness of fancy or airiness of conception which preside over the most national and ancient kind of solemn public pageant among us. They are contrivances to prove what an amount Of ugliness can be produced by means of wealth, injudiciously lavished for that purpose. These Russian Court equipages for the coronation of Alexander the Second are designed on a different principle, and finished in a different method. The unsparing cost is really the leastpart of them, in the vulgar and ordinary sense, although it may be con sidered as not only having procured the matter, but the manner—not only the brute materials and their construction, but the style of that construc tion. This, however, is rather a direction of the expenditure than an increase of expense. It is but giving to art the same wages which might other wise have been given to a most uncouth and un learned sort of skill. As works of art those car riages really are precious as are the materials which abound in their decoration ; each of the 'ex quisite little palaces on wheels, as it now stands, ono complete work, is worth fifty times the value of those very materials themselves materium superavit opus, An equally beautiful effect could, doubtless, have been attained in many distinct national styles of carriage-building, or rather—for the word is forced upon me by the astonishing success of the result—of carriage architecture. But the peculiarity of the effect would not have been secured without the strict adherence oLserved to the Russian style—refined, indeed, into charming proportions, which must be seen to be felt, yet perfectly genuine and national Asiatic in the collective character, European in the finish. It is as if Xerxes or Darius bad employed the artists of ancient Greece to execute for him, not in the character of their own country, but of his, yet not in the style or ability of his country, but of theirs —and with full play for in dividual genius in the details—some of his chief ap pliances of pomp, and show, and majesty. Nor is it, in fact, under Russian auspices, although it is in the Russian pattern, that these and other pre parations have been made for what is intended to be rendered the grandest public solemnity that ever took place in this gorgeous and display loving empire. Frobelius, a German, received the order, and an Englishman, Mr: Bannister, is the maker of the carriages. For all their Oriental em bellishments a multitude of artists have been ern ployed. The very wheels are a curiosity of work manship. They are inlaid and enauielled ; and the spokes do not radiate straight from the centre, but, regular in a kind of fantastic irregularity, answer their own caprices in opposing curves, which com pose a strange fantastic tracery, and produce the effect of a flamboyant window, all alive with lines, characters, and colours, which, as they flash over the ground, are shot into each other, and form a rich woof of ever-fleeting and ever-returning tints and gleams. The panels are not painted, but they aro.paintings, rather. Paintings of high excellence and value are let into the golden and jewelled walls, as it were ; of a miniature boudoir—paintings inside, and paintings outside. All that does not tell a story to the eye, or trace a poem to the imagination, seems of solid gold. This material appears as the very groundwork, whi c h makes room and gives place only that it - may receive and, frame some beautiful scene or striking group, whose value is of a different kind and of a higher order than that of the precious metals. The harness, housings, and trappings blaze with gold. The stud AUGUST 7. Lord Granville's equipages, which arri ve d nearly a fortnight since in the Cressy, with part of.his fol lowing, were despatched forthwith to Moscow, the carriages matted and carefully covered up. The British Ambassador has won beforehand the good will of the Russian commercial world by a very simple measure. His carriages and horses, though English, are to a pp ear i n Russian style, harness, and equipment. All these accessories, therefore, were ordered in Russia. Both the compliment and the profit are acceptable. The ambassador, who was telegraphed as ap proaching on the day of the naval review, was wrongly reported in St. Petersburg to be Lord Granville. It was M. de Morny, who came Through Germany, and took boat at Lubeck. The tribute of respect which the French Envoy paid to the Em press-Mother—for the sake of visiting whom as he passed he himself announced that he had selected the route by which he came—is deeply felt, and much praised here by the Russians. One lady of great rank—a Russian Russian —remarked that she thought far more of that mode of arriving in Russia than if he. had come by sea in the finest line-of battle ship. M. de Morny is already a very great favourite. One obvious moans of winning the Rim sian heart has certainly not been neglected by him. Coronations of Russian emperors do not occur every day ; and when they occur it is not always under circumstances when they can be made the solemni sation of the world's peace and of a general recon 'ciliation. Such -times and occasions justify and render becoming the most profuse expenditure of money. M. de Morny's mode of living touches the very chord which most readily vibratos in Russia into good-Will and admiration. One little fact will show the scale on which his establishment is con ducted. Every morning regularly 100 bottles of Medoc are delivered at his door for the use of his do mestic servants till next morning. Among the vulgar in Russia thenumber of a great personage's domestic servants is, in the higher and more princely sphere of life, all through the year, that gauge of his sacial pretensions which the fur in, the collar o f hi s s h oo b a constitutes in a more humble station during the winter months. Lord Granville is therefore quite right.to attach importance to his being attended by a hundred valets d pied at the coronation. The Russians cannot conceive what ambassadors come here for, if, not to spend plenty of money —and then to have considerably less than the full benefit of it. Everybody, from the isvostchik who drives you to the landlord who lets you his house, Cheats everybody else in a good-humoured spirit. If the impostor is defeated' by - you, he roSpeCts_your acuteness as haVing beaten him ; but it, is all a sort of game—better'luck next time. If his im position passes good, he still i:e.spectsupp., ae being able to stand-it. None are deSfs'ed'btittlioi4 who have nothing to _be cheated , out'., The:French Ambassador is revered, venerated at this moment in St. Petershurg ; and if a story which I have just heard be true, as I believe it to be, Lord Granville (who, by the wa y, h as j ust arrived at Cronstadt) will be held in equal veneration at Moscow. The statement is this : he has, of course, taken a house at Moscow, but he has taken it only for a month, the requisite period. There is not very much difference in the accommodations of the respective houses (except that Lord Gran ville'S has no suitable ball-room) ; and what do you suppose each pays ? Lard Granville pays 40,000 silver roubles ; Prince Dolgorouki 8,000 ; the one 7,000/., the other 1,2001. The expenses at Moscow will indeed be what the French call fabulous-- that is, too real and too enormous. - ITGITsT 3, The population o f Si. Petersburg starts as if it were receiving a succession of shocks from some invisible galvanic battery. Its crowds collect and break again in the squares like quicksilver in a plate, and most persons look ai if they constantly expected some spectacle or some event. Earl and Countess Granville, Sir Robert Peel, and a num ber of English ladies and gentlemen, have just landed on the English quay in the midst of a star ing mass of Russians. Lord Ward was late in getting into the boat at Cronstadt. Over the heads of the general crowd on the quay have been tower ing, for 24 loiurs some liveried Anakim, in the shape of Engllsh footmen, who must have slept there, I think. Yesterday evening I happened to pass, and they were there; late hat night they were still restlessly parading as , if they expected • the boat from Cronstadt, where it was known that his Excellency bad arrived in the afternoon. Again this mornin g I saw the same g i gant i c brigade of ambassadorial footmen. About 30 yards below the little steamer, which had brought the English Am bassador over the bar of the river, lay an Imperial steam-pacht, all dressed in flags in his honour. Several carriages, amongst which was one with four horses, the leaders half a length in the traces be yond the wheelers, and altogether caparisoned in the national style, were in attendance. When Earl and Countess Granville, having got into the car riage 'with four horses, had been whirled off to Demauth's, a carriage and pair drew up before the little landing pavilion or ,hut, and some of the others mounted this vehicle ; while a third car riage, and then some droskies conveyed away th e rest. A Yankee i n th e crowd (there are Yankees in every large crowd all over the world, where any thing is to be seen) remarked through his nose, " That second best chap, I reckon, is Peel ; the rest is fuss and feathers.' Lord Granville made a remarkably slow passage, having been 11 days at sea. At the entrance of the Great Belt, the St. Jean d'Acre lost her little steamer in a gale of wind, and was obliged to slacken speed till her companion rejoined her. This is the namealay of the Empress, the birth day of her son, and the anniversary 'of the battle of Kuruk-Dere, between the Russians and Selina Pasha—a victory of the former on the frontiers of Georgia in 1854. There is accordingly a great dinner at Peterholf, and the dinner will be followed by a grand Court ball in that beautiful, but com paratively diminutive, palace. AUGUST 9 9 A.M. A notice ha s a p peare d i n the Russian papers that, after the 15th of August (old style) no more passports will be granted to Moscow. Tee cholera always prevails more or less in St. Petersburg during the summer, and this year is no exception to the general rule. But the mor tality due to that epidemic is very slight —not more than 40 a week on the whole town's popula tion. Such, at least, is the impression left by the returns of one of the papers published here in the Russian tongue—the Vedonzoste Gorodskoe PO litzie —an authority, however, which would not exag gerate the evil. Mr. Joseph West, the accomplished artist, who has been engaged to furnish the Crystal Palace with a history of painting, consisting of specimens copied by him from all the great masters, eras, and styles, beginning at Cimabue, and coming down to the present time—has been here, copying the great -works of the H erm il .age Palace, for the last -seven weeks. M. d e M orny came upon him there on Tuesday, just as he was completilg his im portant task. It i s c h ie fl y t h e R em b ran d ts which 'ho has undertaken in the Hermitage. IRELAND. DUB Lf.;)T, FRIDAY MORNING. TILE CORN TRADE. .t. . .., This morning accounts from Cork state that the arrival of new oats and here at that mar k et are of The prices obtained were very high ,o y -..---• extraordinary amount and quality f or the time of einekday an ex ce ll ent sample of here, the qnanti:l t , b e i ng e i g ht b arrels, fetched 13a. per barrel (16 the , e i ar , w . er „ on o ; It was grown i n the west of this county. , An other lot, of not so goo d qual i ty, sold for 17s. 4d. per barrel—this lot came from near Bandon. There were 82 barrels of new oats sent to market yesterday, which "id at prices varying from 13s. 9d. to 16s. per barrel. Three barrels of fine white oats, grown in the north of the county, brought 163. per barrel. There was a beau tiful sampk, sold yesterday of dun oats, grown near Bsndon,. w hi c h fetched 14s. 9d. per barrel of 14 - Stone. The larinera from all parts of. the county speak most encouragingly of the state of the crops ; the late rain is stated to have served the grain materially. On Satur day therliwas a fine sample of Biack Tariarian oafs, the lot containing 32 barrels, which fetched 13a. 10d., quite an extraordinary price ; it was grown in the north of the county." . , ' • DEATH OV-A2 R - Catki7 CATHOLIC BISHOP. s Another mit re h as b een p l ace d a t th e disposal of the Holy See,by the demise of the Right Rev. •Dr. Murphy, Titular Bishop of. Ferns, who expired, after a slaort illness, on Wednesday last. Over fatigue and the great heat of the weather are said, td have. been the immediate cause of death. The' deceased was consecrated bishop in March, 1850. ,~ ~v ~.anl r^-'~-v.- NAME OF RAILWAY, Miles o)ened, 1856. Belfast and Ballymena •• .• • • ...• Belfast and County D0wn..........., Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 3,026 Bolton, Blackburn,and West York .... Bristol and Exeter • 7.936 Ca1ed0nian............. .• •• • ....... 13 , 5 25 Chester and Holyhead 7,255 Cork, Blackrock, and Passage 380 Cork and Bandon 192 Dublin and Bel tast J unction 1, 1115 Dublin and Drogheda.... 1,678 Dublin and Kingstown 1,271 Dundee and Arbroath 614 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 1 ,149 Dundalk and Euni5ki11eh............ 406 East 1,084 East Lancashire • • ........ .......... 6,917 Eastern Counties and N0rf 0 1k...... Eastern Union • • • 2 3.726 Edinburgh and Glasgow 6,123 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee...—. 7,495 Exeter and Credit0n................ Farness Railway ... 1,274 Glasgow, and South-Western.... .. • • 6 . 83 4 Great Northern... ..... ....... ~ 24,162 Great Southern and Western(lreland3 6,407 Great Western .........• • • 30,859 Irish South Eastern .• • • •• •• Lancaster and Carlisle..." • • • ....... Lancashire and Y0rk5hire............ Leeds Northern ..• •• • .• Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.... London and North Western 70,339 London and 1,779 London, Brighton, and South Coast.. 20,902 London and South We5tern......... 21,585 Londonderry and Enniskillen 721 Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. Manchester, Shoilleld,and Lincolnshire 9,843 Manchester and South Junction 841 Maryport and Carlisle 1,203 Midland - ........ • • 32,946 Midland Great Western (Irish) ...... 3,235 Newcastle and Car1i51e.............. North British ••• • • ..... North Staffordshire North-Western 4cottish Central Scottish Midland Shrewsbury and Birmingham • Shrewsbury and Chester Shropshire Union South Devon . • • South Eastern South Wales South York., Doncaster, and Goole Waterford ' , Ad Limerick ............ West Cornwall ...• • • ..... ....... Whitehaven Junction York and Newcastle, and Berwick & Ymk and North Midland & Leeds., BAITIMI. 115 37X 17 1,130 26% 117 191% 944 6% 20 7% 16% 31 G 7% 93 417 tin% 283 203% 388 251,E 90 28614 -161 637 183% 267 173% 9% 28 498% 12514 52 873 32 291 A 57% 289 27% 12 682 6,919 25,733 5,865 '1,509 1,216 •••••• • • •. I 893 •• •• •• •• •• 3,361 • 25,251 7,110 2,587 4,187 .514 FOXEIG N. Dutch Rhenish .. •.......•••• .• •• Lyons and Mediterranean .......... Montereau and Troyes ...• ......•• Namur and Liege •• ........ •• •• Northern of France ..... Orleans and Central .... Paris and Lyons .. •• •• • • ...• Paris and Rouen. .• •••••• •• •... Paris and Strasburgh .......... Rouen and Havre.... •• Western of France.... .••••••••• 1 40,100 Naval and Military Intelligence. ADMIRALTY, AUGUST 15, PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. Assistant• Paymaster G. R. Gliddon to the Tortoise. Assistant. Surgeon M. P. S. Ward to the Portsmouth Marines. Assistant• Clerk H. P. Houghton to the Edinburgh. CH AI,UG. 15. The following officers belonging A THA to the provisional battalion have completed their course of musketry in struction, under Capt. W. Nott, 83d R.giment, and Lieut. A. M'Leod, 78th Highlanders. the instructors of musketry at this garrison, viz.:—Lieut. H. S. Stubb, 321 Regiment ; Ensign R. Parsons, 35th Royal Sussex Regiment; Ensign H. 0. Bateman, 431 Light Infantry ; Enswnl. Apjohn, 45. h Regiment, Ensign F. Schlotel, 81st Loyal Lincoln Volunteers, and Ensign H. T. W. 0. Kenny, 84:11 Regiment. First-class Surgeon W. Denny was this day relieved from duty at the General HoTital, Fort Pitt, and or dered to proceed forthwith to London: The whole of the corps of Royal Sappers and Miners, together with the troops belonging to the East India 1 Company's service, are making extensive preparations for the grind review and siege operations, which are to take place by the Royal Engineers befora his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Commander-in-Chief. His Royal Highness has not yet fixed what day he will visit this garrison to witness the operations. The troops belonging to the provisional battalion are to assist in the cparations. The following important circular, which effects consi derable changes in the practice of billeting and removing► troops, has been forwarded to the clininaudant ef this garrison from the lior,e Guard , , by order of the Secro• tary of State for War : "T,he Secretary of State for War having had under consideration the prop')sal that in all cases in wbicb troops are moved long distances by railways, and are not billeted on the way from one station to another, the full marching allowance should be granted, instead of the allowance of 101.; due under the Mutiny Act, to the innkeepers when troops are billeted, I have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of his Royal Highness the General Commander-in• Chief that with the view of expediting the movement of troops, and at the same time of avoiding the inconveniences and irre gularities arising from large bodies of troops being bil leted for a night in Fopulous places, Lord Panmure is prepared to sanction a charge of the full marching al lowance for the soldier, provided the distance travelled in one day and night shall exceed 100 mileS, or the journey be carried into a late hour of the night, and that the troops shall not be billeted at any place on the journey, whereby the allowance of 10d. for the hot Meal will become due to the innkeeper. "The Quartermaster-General." "B. HAWES. METROPOLITAN BOARD OP WORKS. Yesterday the ordinary weekly meeting of the board was held in the Council Chamber, Guildhall. The greater part of the day was occupied with the hearing of appeals from parties againt the decision of the various district board refusing to award them any, or sufficient, compensation for loss of office under the Metropolis Local Management Act. In the course of the proceed ings a leapr was read from the Treasury, in which it was stated thal; their lordships had in some instances re scinded, and in others confirmed, the decision of the board in respect to the compensation appeals from district boards. The communication went on to say that their lordships "considered the claims of the several parties on the principles by' which they would he governed if compensation were to be granted from the public reve nues, having regard to the nature of the duties on which they were respectively employed, and distinguishing those cases in which the parties were withdrawn from the pursuit of their profession from others in which the employment was not of a professional character." Mr. DIFJPANGEA called Attention to the fact that the js board could not well he charged with extravagance, for the amount awarded by the board had been in many cases much less than that fixed by the Lords of the Treasury. The letter was then ordered to be entered on the mi nutes. On the recommendation of the finance committee, the board ordered the construction of 2,000 feet of sewer for the diversion of the Barnfield sewer in the isle of Dogs, on payment by the Ironmongers' Company of the sum of I,GOO/., being two-thirds of the estimated cost of such work. The remainin g business, whi c h cons i s t e d ma i n l y o f re commendationsfrom the superintending architects and engineer's departments, was then transacted, and the board adjourned. SEDUCTION AND ATTEMPTED MURDER. The Court of Assizes of the Bouches du Rhone, in its last sitting, tried a young woman named Sihilot for an attempt at murder. The prisoner, who is of consider able personal attractions, and of extremely modest bear ing, is the 'daughter of a farmer of Males, near Aix. About two years ago an intimacy sprang up between her and a young farmer of the same village, named Boissy, and it ripened into affection. Boissy promised her marriage, and on the strength of the promise succeeded in seducing her. After a while she gave birth to a child, and then Boissy abandoned her. In June last he resolved to marry another young woman, and this plunged the accus e d i n t o despair. On the 25th of tkat month she dressed herself in her brother's clothes, and went to Boissy whilst he wai working in a field. lie did not at first recognise her, and all at once she rushed on him and stabbed him four times in the bead, breast, and arms. Ile knocked her down, and gave her into custody. The accused, who wept bitterly, told the tale of her seduction and abandonment, and said that she had gone to the field armed with a poignard, not to stab the man, but to threaten him, in the event of his refusing to make her reparation by mar riage ; that an altercation arose, and that she, in a moment of distraction, had stabbed him once, and once only, with the weapon ; that a struggle bad then ensued between them, in which the man, in trying to wrest 'the weapon from her, had received the three other stabs. In giving his evidence, Boissy displayed such a bad feeling to the 'poor girl, and so coarsely ac cused her of having been intimate with other men —an accusation for which it was stated there was not the slightest foundation—that he was regarded with disgust by a crowded auditory%; and as his evidence in many respects was in flat contradiction to that which he bad given before the examining magistrate ; the Coed ordered him to be arrested as a perjurer. The jury acquitted the accused. On leaving the dock she flung herself into the arms of her parents, and her fellow.villagere congratu- . Wed has CORONATION OF THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. %- ~~ of blood horses w en Car riage4;"us they are ;hicles. .'erhaps, howeve7 taste of the new ice and will excite m ore interest than these. I wentowe he same coach sin which the E m p ress Elizabeth to her coronation 115 years ago. It is restored to the state in which it bore into Moscow, in the ytarl74l, the Imperial daughtet of Pater 11. ; and certainly a good deal of curiosity has been elicited. by this old relic, w hi c h is now to carry the prat Em press in th e forthcoming procession. I have b een rather minute in describing these / carria inussge ß F, because such matters are ' of real'lmport ance ia. us —lf ever a people Were awed and impressed by ceremonial and by splendour, it is the .Russian. You cannot conceive i n L ondon with what int e r es t they watch the arrival, and compare the state of the various ambaSsadors ; and, by- the bye, the St. Jean d'Acre, with Lord Granville (long expected), has been telegraphed while I write, as off Bornholm. '74 , 414, • d ' eq 6 . _ll c, q Fein 4 ti) utt RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK. Bee& 1856. S This day (August 16th), will be published, No. I. of THE FREE PRDS S. The object of the FREE PRESS will be to draw the atten- Von of Englishmen to the Laws of England, which theyshave for go:teu ; and to the management of their affairs, which they have neglected. It will lay before the public State Papers not otherwise to be had, except in expensive Libraries, and will condense into a readable space the History of Modern Transactions which lies hidden under the diffuse and tedious pages of Blue Books. Price One Penny. Published every Saturday morning, at 147, Fleet-strpet. th. th. the. the. the. 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