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The Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve in the Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the United Kingdom, free of charge. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary. R OY AL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK, (Incorporated by Royal Charter). Founded in 1 8M.—Supported by Voluntary Contributions. PATRONESS—TiIer Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. rfiESIDENT — Vire-Admiral his Grace the Duke of Northum berland, K.G., F.R.S. CnAinmAN--Thos. Baring, Fsq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P., Chair man of Lloyd's. DEPUTV-CnAtumAN —Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of Lloyd's Registry of British and Foreign Shipping Society. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, during the past year, the Institution has ineuraed expenses amount ing to LO, -58 Is. in establishing Life-boat stations on dif ferent parts of tie Coasts of Eng and, Ireland, and Scotland. The Institi:.tion has also exnended on the repairs, stores, alterations srd 'inspection o:its rumerous Life-bo ta, Boat houses and Transpo ting-carriages, £1,632 19s. ; and £1,550 for exercising the Crews of its Life-boats—making altogether • a total of £11.141. During.. the past year the Life boats of the Institution have been ir , trument..l in rescuing the Crews of the following Ivreck ed Vessels : 'Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose 1 Schooner Jane Roper. of Ulverstone Nig Males. of Shields .. .. 3 Ship Ann Mitchell. of Glasgow .. 9 Smack John flux, of Yarmouth .. 5 Fehoon - r Ca theine, of Newry 'Barque Nia - rara, of Shields 11 A Barge o_ Teignmouth .. 2 Brig Geo; ge and James, of London Bri Zenhyr, of Whitby •• .• •• 6 Coble Honour of Cullereoats •• .• •• 3 Svhooner of North Shields .. .. 7 Viarque Ob - ron, oi Liverpool 'brigantine Narcy. of Teignmouth 9 pack Wonder of Teignmouth .. • . .. 2 itrig Scotia, of Sundei l an d .6 'Sloop Three Brothers, of Goole .. 5 :Slool Charlotte, or Woodbridge .. • • .. 5 Brig Ann, of Blvth Sloop Hope, of Dublin 3 Schoonn Uti uid, CAI erystwyth .. 5 Barque Vermont, of Halifax, U.S. .. 16 Schooner William Keith, of Carnarvon .. 2 Brig Flying 114 h, of Wh,tbv 5 Smack Elizabeth Ann of Lyme Regis .. 3 steam Dredge, et Newlirven 9 Schooner Adm. - a 1 Hood, of RoeheOer .• _. 6 Schooner susan and Isabella, nt Dundee .. • • 0 Schooner Rose, of Lynn •• 3 Brig Prodroma. of Stockton 11 Brig Eliza, of Iliddlesborough Brigantine Frela, of Konigsberg .. • • .• 6 Brigantine Diana, of Fredrikshamn Brig Gloucester, of South Shields .. •• •• 7 Total .. -210 - - For these and other Life-boat services the Institution has Toted £9OB Bs. 9d. as re rat de. It has also granted rewards amounting to £203 4s. for saving "5 shipwrecked persons, by shore-boats and other means, making r total of 45 persons saved from a watery grave on the Coasts of th 6 United Kingdom. D uring the present year (1861), the Life-boats of the Insti tution b ave also been instrumental in rescuing the Crews of the fo'ilowing Vessels : Brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham •• •• •• 6 Brigentir e Nugget, of Bideford .. _ 5 Schoorer Prospect, of Berwick .. 6 Sloop Thomas end J. ne. of St. Ives A Fishing-boat o: Whitburn Brig Arethusa, of Blyth Schooner Dewi Wvn, of Portmadoo Fist CYmrpes, of BeFumaris Schoormar 'William, of Morecambe 5 Smack Gipsy of Newry Schooner Margaret Anne. of Preston . .. 4 Brig New Dreper, of Whitehaven .. 8 Schooner William. of Liverpool 5 Lugger Nimrod, of Castletown .• .. 3 Brig Providence, of Shields .. 8 Brig Mayflower, of Newcastle 8 Schooner Village Maid, of Fleetwood. .. .. 4 Barque Guyana, of Glasgow .. 19 Brig Roman Empress, of Shields .. 10 Brig San Spirid.one, o: Galaxide .. 2 Schooner N' OP dor du Vouga, of Vianna „ „ 8 French Brig La Jenne Marie Therese .. 6 Barque Perseverance, olt Scarborough _ „ 5 Schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewater Ship Danube, of Belf,st Schooner Hortensia. ci* Hanover .. • 4 Schooner Oregon, o' St mehaven .. 4 Brig St. Michel, of Marone .. • • „ 8 Sp? n sh Barque Primera de Torreviega (s aved ves sel and one of the crew) .• • • .. .. 1 Schooner Murrell, of Penzance (saved vessel and crew) .. 4 Brig Anne. of Plymouth (saved vessel and crew) 8 Schooner Betsy, of Sunderland (saved vessel and crew) .. „ Marque Frederick, of Dublin .. 1 Barque Peace, of London .. 2 Lugger Saucy Lass, of Lowestoft 11 Schooner Fly, of Whitby (saved ve, , ,sel and crew of four hands) 4 Smack Adventure, of Harwich.. ..• 10 Pilot cutter Whim, of Lowestoft Barque Undaunted, o' Aberdeen „ 11 Wrecked boat on Blackwater Bank, on the Irish coast, saved one man .. . • •• Itchooner Skylark, of Folkestone _• ▪ ; Brig Lively, Clay, Norfolk .. .„ Barque Robert Watson, of Sunderland .. • 5 Schooner Auchincruive, of Grangemouth .. 6 Schooner Friends, of Lynn • •• .. 4 Schooner Eliza Anne, of Dublin „ 5 Brig Content, of Sunderland • • 5 Smack Ellen Owen, of Cardigan 3 Schooner Epimachuß, of Amsterdam „ 5 Tot al .. • ..288 The public cannot but sympathise with the vigorous efforts now Wing made by this Institution to save the lives of Ship wrecked Crews. Their help was never more needed than at the present 'ime, when. through the extraordinary exertions The Scciety has made within the toast few years, it has now One Hundred and Twenty-one Life-boats under its man agement, or the mrintenance of which, in a state of thorough efficiency, a large permanent annual income is absolutely needed, if its humane mission is to be perpetuated. Donstions and Annual 'u scriptions will be thankfully re ceived by Messrs. Willis , Percival, and C o ., 76, Lombard street : Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand ; Itfessrs. Berries, Farquhar. cud Co., 16 St. James's-street, London ; by a 1 the Bankers fn the United Kinf,dom ; and `by the Secretary, Richard Lewis. Esq ., at the Office of tko Institution, 14, John-street, AdelphlLoudon, W.C. Payments may be made by Cheques or by Post -office Orders (crossed), to iffcars. W Ills, Percival, and Co., or to the Secre tary. DR. CURTIS' MEDICAL WORK, MANHOOD ; & NEMEDICAL ESSAY ON SPERMATORRHar RVOUS A ND GENERATIVE DEBILITY, Just Published, the 150th thousand, with numerous plates in a scaled envelope, price ls., Sold by all Booksellers, and sent poet raid, by the Author, for 12 stamps, • !,1 ANHOOD: the CAUSE and CURE of PRE MATURE DECLINE IN MAN,with Plain Directions for Perfect Restoration to Health and Vigour. By Dr. J. L. CrlaTis, 15, Albermarle-street , Piccadilly, London. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER o the . Physiological Structure and FUTIOtIOIIB of the Reprodun ctive Organs. CHAPTKR H.—Causes of Sp e rmatorrheca and Impotence; Early Vicious Indul en ces; Dangers of Neglect. CHAPTER Review of treatrious Disqualifications of Marriage; whether resulting Youthful Abuse, the Follies of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection. CHAPTERS IV. and V. on the modern Treatment of Gonorrhoea and Syphilis. The Book concludes with numerous varied andlnteresting as s , to which is added the Aut hor ' s recipe of a interesti preventive Lotion. REVIEWS OF THE WORK. "Curtis on Manhood. —This is a truly valuable work, and !mulct be in the bands o f young and old." " Sunday Times," s3cl March, 1856. this "The author has co nferred a great boon by publishing little work, in which is described the source of those diseases which produce decline in youth or more frequently premature old age"—" Daily Telegraph," March 27, 1856. " This work, which for twenty years has stood the test of professional criticism and empirical hostility, treats in aplain and sympathising manner on the various disqualifications and Impediments arising from nervous excitement and de bility ; and to invalids suffering from youthful errors and excesses it will be found valuable and useful."—Record. London : Published by J. 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We trust that this may not he the last, if he shall detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in pits pow., ko 000 r o o t_ ,, —Lo rt d d inaGaziltte " The editor has conferred a great boon on t h e su erers fro m this distressing malady by translating this little book, and by laying bare the scandaious practices of unqualified adventurers, who profess to cure a disease of which they know nothing, with no other object than to fill their own purses. The difference between true Spermatorrhcea and the various forms of disease which resemble it are accurately de scribed, and thus a safe guide is offered for the treatment of the malady."—Medical Circular. 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Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly. VEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, ac., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., to 16a. each. Postage 6d. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturor, 228,Ticcadllly. 71IE NAVY. The gunboats in the second-class reserve at Ports mouth are ordered to fit out immediately, to take the place of the boats in the first class, ordered for commission for foreign service. The Sutlej, 51, screw, the Pandora, 6, screw, and the Volcano, 6, paddle (floating factory), at Ports• mouth, arc ordered to complete their armament for immediate commission. Tho Sutiej will take on board one 100 pounder Armstrong, and six 40 poun ders as part of her armament. The Shannon, 51, screw, ready for commission at Portsmouth,w ill receive t wo 12 pounder Armstrongs, ;. erlrlitinn fn hir complemiltti' alr""rit' She is expected to be commissioned every hour. The Lyra, 7, screw, Commander Alexander, put into Portland Roads, from stress of weather, on Thursday afternoon. She left tho Cape of Good Hope on the 20th of October, St. Helena Nov. 4, and Ascension November 12. An excellent passage 'was made to lat. 45 N., long. 15 W., when a heavy gale of wind was met with from the S.W., in which she lost her quarter boats. She was off the Isle of Wight on the night of Wednesday last, but a strong N.E. gale prevented her reaching Spithead. She bore up for Portland, where she has anchored until the weather moderates sufficiently to allow her to proceed to Spithead. Admiralty orders have been received at Chatham for a trial to be made at that establishment of a new plan submitted to the Admiralty, the inven tion of Mr. Daft, for coppering iron ships by sepa rating the copper from the iron by means of vul canized indiarubber sheets, with fastenings of ebonite. A trial of the invention is to be made on the bottom of one of the iron mortar floats used as a lighter at Chatham. The Reindeer, 17, 200 horse power, building at Chatham, has had nearly the whole of the hands removed from her in order to complete the various ships fitting for commission at that port. Admi ralty orders have been received for sufficient space to be provided on board for 103 cases of powder, 140 70-pounder shells, 100 60-pounder shells, and 140 32-pounder shells, together with five boxes of the 12-pounder diaphragm shells. Her solid shot will consist of 980 32-pounders, 60 40-pounders, and 50 70-pounders. Yesterday, Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir F. W Grey, K.C.8., one of the Lords of the Admiralty, accompanied by Rear-Admiral Robinson, Controller of the Davy, visited Chatham dockyard for the pur pose of inspecting the progress made in the frigate Achilles, 50, building, and the iron steamer De fence, 22, Capt. Powell, C. 8., fitting in the third dock. His Lordship, accompanied by the Control ler-General, Capt. Superintendent Fanshawe, and Mr. Lang, master shipbuilder, went over the De- fence, the interior of which they minutely inspected, and on board which they were engaged for some time. In consequence of the magnitude of the work still to be accomplished on board the Defence, the period of her completion is now deferred from the 2d to the 16th January, by which date it is expected she will be able to leave the dock, although it is very doubtful whether she will be completed by the latter date. Sir F. W. Grey also inspected the Galatea, 26, the Pylades, 21—the latter in dock—and the other vessels fitting for commission, and urged their completion as rapidly as possible. Before quitting the dockyard his lordship and Admiral Robinson inspected the Achilles, which is progres sing as fast as circumstances will merit, a number of the large ribs on each side being already fixed. Sir F.W. Grey left the dockyard just before dusk, and returned to the Admiralty. The screw steam frigate Emerald, 51, Captain Arthur Cumming, continues in Plymouth Sound ready for sea. She will probably be detained un til Monday or Tuesday. The new screw steam frigate Orlando, 51, Capt. Francis Scott, C.B , having been completed for sea service, went yesterday morning from Hamoaze into Plymouth Sound. Her crew ( GOO) consists chiefly of trained men from the Impregnable, Cam- bridge, Indus, and Royal Adelaide. She has on board an Armstrong gun for the Liffey, 61, ordered from the Mediterranean to the North American ta The Orlando is supplied with prov i s i ons for t eight n. months. The following appointments were made yesterd a y at the Admiralty : station. -- - ) Chief Engineer—cF.mWber.lanSud, ttoasn a(dAditiotrnazfez service df v ro ie m e the Fisgard t o in the Vixen, Assistant-Engineers — W. R. Henry, confirmed 2d class, to the Philemel ; J. C. Saunders, to the Forte ; H. D. Gar wood, to the Leven ; A., Hindu:lush, to the - Urgent; 4, Masters' Assistants—lienrylV.Williams to the Revenge. W. E. Farrington to the Chanticleer; Edwin 0. Hallett to:the Defence; Cecil H. Franks, and George W. Ballis ton, to the Warrior. Assistant Pay master—Charles S. Patio, to the Corn wallis. Clerk—John E. Charlton, to the Hawke. Naval Cadets (norninatcd)—Mr. Richard G. Day, and Win, Stanhope Lovell. TILE ARMY . The B battery, Royal horse Artillery, in com mand of Capt. Willi ams , was y es t er d a y or d ere d t o march from Woolwich to Windsor, to be present on Monday next and fire the salute of 21 guns on the solemn occasion of the funeral of his Royal High. ness the late Prince Cocsort. Orders have been issued that no firing of guns shall take place by the military or naval authori ties at Portsmouth, under any circumstances, whether it be arrival of Royal personages, or from any other cause, however important, prior to the funeral of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort. The third battalion Military Train proceeded from the Farnborough station, Aldershot, at 7 p.m. yesterday, by special train to Liverpool, as per route for embarkation for British North America. Heavy baggage and stores were ordered to be at Liverpool by dayliglt yesterday, to be shipped on board the steampacket Asia. On Thursday the route for the second battalion of the 16th Regiment was received to march from Aldershot at 7 a.m. this day (Saturday) to Farn borough, and to proceed thence by special train at 9 a.m. to Southampton, for embarkation on board the Magdalena for British North America. The H battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery marched from Aldershot yesterday en route for Woolwich, there to remain till further orders. The whole of the Lancer brigade, consisting of the 9th, 12th, and 16th Regiments, were paraded and underwent a medical examination on Thursday as to their fitness for foreign service. The General Commanding-in-Chief has Banc• oned the formation of two new field batteries of Royal Artillery by re-forming Nos. 9 and 10 batteries of the 4th brigade into field batteries, to be called "I" and "K" respectively. "B" field battery, now at Hilsea, will march into camp at Aldershot. "A" battery, 4th brigade, is to be held in readiness to march to Aldershot as soon as " G" battery, 4th brigade, which is under orders for ser vice in British North America, leaves the camp at Aldershot for embarkation. The headquarters staff and No, 5 battery of the 10th brigade, Royal Artillery, left Woolwich last evening, at 7 o'clock, by the North London Railway, thence to the Euston-square station, for Liverpool, to embark in the mail steamer Asia for America, In addition to the detail given in 2' he k 1114 of yes terday of the officers and troops, the names of Capt. Orr and Paymaster Thompson have been added. Capt. Orr, who was lately Captain Instructor of Royal Laboratories, has received orders to instruct the men during the voyage in laboratory exercises, such as the method of preparing the new Armstrong shells and the construction of cartridges for firing, &c. No. 7 battery will embark on the 28th inst. on board the Royal mail steamer Canada, at Liver pool, for Halifax. The Royal Artillery now consists of 17 horse, garrison, and field brigades, which arc composed of 145 batteries, or subdivisions, in the following pro portions :—viz., 11 horse, "67 garrison, and 47 field batteries. The latter are equipped almost exclu sively with the 12-pounder Armstrong guns, at an average of six guns to cach battery. The strength of the corps now is 30,000 officers and men, of which number there are 1,080 officers of all grades. All are in a high state of dibcipline. THE NAVAL BESEIIVE. A numerous and highly-influential meeting of British shipmasters and owners was held yester day, at the London Tavern, for the purpose of testi fying the approval of the persons present of the re cent order issued by the Lords of the Admiralty for the organisation of the Naval Reserve. The chair was taken by Richard Green, Esq. ; and on the platform were W. S. Lindsay, Esq., M.P., Alderman Salomons, M.P., It. W. Crawford, Esq., M.P., R. D. Mangles, Esq., M.P., C. Wigram, Esq., W. Phillips, Esq., The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said that, having always taken a deep interest in the esta blishment of the Naval Reserve, he felt proud and happy to see the officers of our mercantile marine occupying their present proud position. The object for which the present meeting had been called would, he was sure, be acceptable to her Majesty in her afflic tion, for it would let her Majesty see how ready were the officers and seamen of the mercantile marine to rally round the Crown in defence of the British flag. (Loud cheers.) They had all read the rules which had just been issued, and the first observation he should make respecting them was that he should prefer to have the Naval Reserve called the Royal Naval Volunteer Force, so as to assimilate them more closely with the volunteers on shore. By the rules mercantile commanders would rank with lieutenants, and subalterns with subalterns, " with," not " after," not under. (Hear, hear.) As to rank both would be equal, but on duty somebody must be first. He for one thanked the Admiralty for placing the mer cantile marine in so honourable a position. The second clause referred to the qualification. Ship masters must have a certificate of competency from the Board of Trade, and must have commanded a ship of not less than 500 tons for not less a period than two years. Officers of such ships would have the ranks of lieutenant and sub-lieutenant of the reserve. The obnoxious point of the examination had been with drawn. The restriction of 45 years would be reduced to 35 years. The next was a very valuable clause. Masters of merchant vessels afloat, although above the age, would be enrolled as honorary members of the reserve. He was glad of this, because he did not see why a man, because he was a little old, should not have a finger in the pie. During active service pro motion would be exactly the same as it was in the Royal Navy. He now came to the uniform, which looked very fine, and no doubt would be tolerably expensive. He hoped the common sense of our mer chant captains would prevent them wearing their fine clothes too much in common. They might wear them on board their own ships, but they must wear them on duty, and so they should take care and not wear them out too soon. (Hear, hear.) He was sorry to see that the patterns were already being exhibited in the office of the Shipping Gazette. The drill would occupy 28 days each year, and having paid a visit to the drill ship he could tell his hearers that the work was more fun than anything else. He trusted that, in addition, commanders would have as much drill as possible on board their own ships, so that any ship might in time be come a little man of war. (Hear, hear.) He be> lievcd that if they did se they would very soon be able to give a good account of the Yankees. (Cheers.) The allowance to officers would be respectively 10s. and 75., which was most liberal. It was not to be looked upon as wages, but as an allowance for ne cessary expenses. He had been a'ked whether an officer of the naval reserve could bo taken from his ship at a foreign port. He believed there need be no apprehension on that head, as he felt sure the Admiralty would never be guilty of what must be looked upon as an act of piracy. The intention, he believed, was, that when all the other reserves, coast guards, dockyard riggers, and pensioners had been called in, and the country was in the extreme of danger, then the naval reserve would be called on, but not until then. And as these amounted to 26,000, there was no fear of the naval reserve being °ailed out except in time of the greatest peril. The scale of pay, pension, allowances would be pre cisely the same as in the Royal Navy. He hoped and trusted that the resolutions which would be offered would be agreed to, especially that one which thanked the Lords of the Admiralty, and especially Lord Clarence Paget, for the form in which the reserve was now organised. (Hear,hear.) He would now call on Captain. Daniells to move I the first resolution. Captain C. L. F. DANIELLS moved :—" That this meeting being convened in consequence of the pro mulgation of the regulations for dicers of the mer chant service desirous of enrolling themselves as officers for the Royal Naval Reserve, the comman ders and officers present cordially accept the same, and pledge themselves heartily to co-operate with the Government." Captain D. D. WisnART, in seconding the reso lution, reminded the meeting that it was the mer chant service which had carried the British flag all round the world. He believed that that service would receive the new orders most cordially. (Cheers.) The resolution was put and carried unanimously. Captain ALLEN Your moved, " That the com manders and officers now present desire to assure her Majesty of their attachment to her person, and their devoted loyalty to the British crown ; and that they will at all times be prepared to co-operate with her Majesty's navy whenever their services may be required to man the national defences, or uphold the honour of the British flag." He believed that the mercantile marine would never be found wanting when their country required their services. As a proof of that he need only refer to the Russian war, when they co operated so efficiently with the royal navy, and transported not only our own troops, but the French, Italian, and Turkish armies to the scene of action. (Hear, hear.) They all knew how the work was done, not a soldier, he believed, hav ing been lost at sea, although hundreds of transport officers and men left their bones on the shores of the Bosphorus. (Cheers.) Since then their services had been equally valuable in India and China, and if they should be called on again they would be equally efficient. The mercantile officers would, he be lieved, be ready to serve with and under the officers of the royal navy. (After.) Well, a mercantile commander might have to serve under the junior lieutenant of a line-of-battle ship. (Hear, hear, and no, no.) He believed he would have to ask him for a boat if he wanted to go on shore. (Hear.) He thought, however, that on the whole the proposi tions were exceedingly fair; the mercantile officers were not compelled to join, and if they did join they could not object to be under the same rules as naval officers. Captain Wilkes had been asked, " Would ho have boarded a British man-of-war in the same way as he boarded the Trent ?" and he replied, " Certainly not." This showed how wise had been the policy of the Government in abolishing all dis tinctions between the flags. (Cheers.) He hoped that every merchant captain would qualify himself for these appointments, and that those whose private engagements permitted would at once volunteer for active service. This would give an excellent example to our merchant seamen, who who were the best in the world, notwithstanding all that had been said of them. (Loud cheers.) He believed that those fine follows who followed their commanders from ship to ship and from voyage to voyage:would be glad to assist them in manning the national ships. (Renewed cheers.) He begged now to move the resolution, a task which he ac cepted as a very great honour. Captain P. MASTERS seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. Mr. It. W. CRAWFORD, M.P., moved," That the thanks of this meeting be tendered to the Lords of the Admiralty for the opportunity they have now given the officers of the mercantile marine to co operate with the royal navy, and sn e e s e n ia p i p 4 o l it he - are due to Lord Clarencn has always given to the officers of the merchant vice. - no said that although not connected with etif shinninehe wished to show his sympathy with the prehenctuevenienr. iney owed much to Mr. Lind say and to their Chairman, Mr. Green, for 'the pro portions which the movement had attained. They owed a great deal also to Lord Clarence Paget and to the Lords of the Admiralty, who he wes glad to see so well appreciated the value of merchant sea men. He thought he saw in the present movement the germ of a most important modification in the naval service of the country, and a more general employment of the mercantile marine than at pre sent. It was impossible that a service which in cluded so much skill, ability, and courage, should not be equally distinguished in warfare. He for one, therefore, hailed the present movement with the greatest possible satisfaction, and should give it his most strenuous support both in Parliament and out of it. Mr. PHILLIPS seconded the motion, observing that one advantage of the movement would be to abolish the infamous press gang for ever, One vo lunteer was worth two pressed men, and therefore he hoped that the movement would go on until they had volunteers enough to meet all the enemies of their country—and to beattliem too. (Loud cheers.) The motion was put and carried with one dis sentient. A Mr. EVANS got upon the platform, and wished to deliver his views respecting the Navigation Laws, but was speedily put down by the meeting. Capt. MANGLES, M.P., moved, " That this meet- ing is unwilling to separate without tendering to her Majesty the expression of its sincere condolence on her Majesty's recent t heavy bereavement, toge ther with the hope that it may please Almighty God to assuage her grief and long to spare her Ma jesty and her Rpyal house to direct the affairs of this great country, and to reign over a loyal, con tented, and devoted people." There was, he said, some sorrow too deep for words, and therefore he should content himself by simply moving the re solution. The motion was seconded by the Rev. Mr. JAY, and carried unanimously. Mr. C. H. WIGRAM moved that the foregoing re solutions be forwarded to the Lords of the Admi ralty. He wished, as the chairman had alluded to the uniform, to call attention to the fact that the inscription on the button was in the old English character. Now, he believed that the old English character was the finest in the world, and had sus tained our naval reputation when we had no regu lar royal navy. What they had done before they could do again, and they would, he was sure, be to the navy what the volunteers were to the army. Captain WILSON seconded the motion. Mr. CAMPBELL, while supporting all the resolu tions, objected to the limitation to captains of 500 ton ships. What was to be done with captains of 300 and 400 ton ships—were they to serve as com mon Jack Tars ? He thought that this was a ques tion that ought to be looked into. Mr. LINDSAY, M.P., admitted that there was con siderable force in Mr. Campbell's observations, but it would be admitted that a beginning must be made somewhere. At first the thing was limited to captains of ships trading to India, and that had been conceded. Captains of 400 ton ships would, of course, be most eligible, but those of the larger vessels had greater experience, and should be the first enrolled. It wee impossible to frame any plan that would meet the views of all men, but he must say that he thought the x ales, es at present modified, were a great concession. The motion was carried unanimously. Letters were read from Bristol, Cork, and Hull approving of the order, after which Mr. T. HANKEY, in moving a vote of thanks to the chairman, testified to the skill and energy of the captains of the smaller vessels, especially in the West India service. He thought it would be most grateful to the Queen to learn that all classes in the merchant service were so eager to enter her Ma jesty's service. (Hear, hear.) He quite agreed ENGLAND AND AMERICA. Let those wh o b e li eve that man has the power to shape for hi mse lf hi s own destiny, and that what we will firmly we may ge nera ll y , b y patience and perseverance, bring to good effect, consider care fully the relations which have existed for the last fifty years between Great Britain and her revolted American colonies. When the peace was signed which put a close to the war of independence, glorious, as was believed, for the Colonies, and disastrous, as was believed,for the mother country, George 111. announced to the American Minister, with much dignity end good sense, that as he had been the last to recognise the independence of the Colonies, so he would also be the last to interfere with it when established. This undertaking has been loyally observed by the Government of Great Britain up to the present day. There is no trace of any attempt to avail ourselves of the weakness into which the first Confederation fell till replaced by the present, or rather late form of Government, in order to recover 'the large possessions we had lost. We made peace in 1815, just es the war was beginning to test to the very utmost the sta bility of the Union, only too happy to escape from a conflict which had been wantonly forced upon us, in- order to gratify a spirit-of popfilar- ani mosity, after the orders in Council in which the quarrel originated had been withdrawn. From that time forth we had but one wish with regard to America,—the wish to live in peace and amity with the descendants of our former Colonies. That purpose we have succeeded in accomplishing lip to the present moment; and at last we have been forced, in the purest spirit of self-defence, to take a step which leaves the issue of peace and war entirely in the power of the Union. Like Lord Clive, when he remembered the temptations of his Indian career, we are absolutely astonished at our own moderation. How the fiery and indomitable race which has so often poured out its blood on every sea and every shore for the slightest causes can be so changed as to bear what we have recently borne is indeed a marvel, and ought to redeem the modern Englishman in the eyes of Mr. Cobden and Mr. Bright from some of those charges of a quarrel some and bloodthirsty disposition which he is re peatedly obliged to endure. First, there was the Canadian rebellion of 1837. The movement was of the very slightest nature, and nothing could be more trifling than the resistance offered before the mutineers disbanded, never to meet again, and sought refuge in the American ter ritory. The American authorities refused to give up Mackenzie and his associates on our demand, on the ground that, although they had been guilty of robbery and murder, their offences were merely po litical. At the same time the Government of the State of New York threw open its arsenals to a portion of its own population calling themselves ti sympathisers," in order that the arms which they contained might be used for the invasion and, if possible, for the subjugation of a friendly Govern ment. For this outrage, deliberately planned and openly committed, no reparation was ever made. The Government disowned the acts of the State of New York, and the State of New York disclaimed all responsibility for the proceedings of its own mob, so that the English territory was invaded by men armed through the connivance of the State and the authority of its Government, and yet nobody ac cepted any responsibility for their acts. The Ashburton Treaty dianincri tl same conciliatory and pacific demeanour on the other. Infinite was the abuse poured on our de voted heads, and violent the encroachments on the tcrritor3 which was at that very moment the object or mspute. Once more we bow-cd in meek humility to the tempest, and, inst::ad of standing on rights , which it W2S only too easy to support by unan swerable argument, we selected from ourselves a nobleman well known for his American connexions and feelings, and sure, if it were possible, to avert a coming quarrel by the most ample and unreserved concessions. Our envoy justified the confidence we reposed in him. The case of America was much assisted by the intentional suppression, on the part of "the Godlike" Webster, of certain mars which appeared to give us the victory by proving the truth and justice of our demand. We gave them the things that we never took; we surrendered, for the s7ke of peace, the territory in dispute; and, rather than incur any risk, we threw in the upper part of Lake Champlain and the commanding position of Rouse's Point, not above forty miles distant from the great city of Montreal. The parent bowed down before her offspring, and endeavoured to conciliate their unjust anger and their insatiable greedi ness. In Oregon we for a while stood on the defensive, and threatened to maintain our rights by the sword. But this position we soon saw fit to abandon, and America once more triumphed through our extraordinary desire for conciliation. We were treated with much rudeness on the ques tion as to the fisheries of Nova Scotia, but the most sensible wound to our self-love was reserved for a question on which England thinks she can hardly pour forth too much blood or incur too many sacn flees. The so-called right of search for slaves had been exercised for many years by England without even the pretence of any serious abuse. But New York became a favourite depot for this infamous traffic, and the United States were suddenly seized with the burning desire to protect the honour of their flag from the visitation of English ships of war. That flag was notoriously prostituted to con ceal slave-trading operations by Brazilian and Spanish vessels. But the United States insisted that, whatever might be the guilt which that flag concealed, that wickedness should be shrouded in the most perfect impunity. They deemed it more honourable that their flag should be a protection for kidnapping and murder than that it should be stopped on the high seas by Great Britain in pur suance of a mission of the most disinterested and exalted philanthropy. The Law of Nations was against us, and we had no choice but to yield, and thus give another and more convincing proof of our determination to abandon the most cherished objects of our policy rather than give the United States an opportunity to fasten a quarrel upon us. Then came the affair of the enlistment. In the very heat of the Crimean War our Minister had what, considering the results it brought about, we are bound to call the indiscretion, of seeking to enlist in Canada a few recruits for our army, re duced to scanty numbers by cold and famine, from among the German population of the United States. That America does not estimate this crime as one of very great magnitude is abundantly proved by her own conduct in filling up her armies with the peo ple of every country, and seeming content to rely for her defence on the population of any territory except her own. It was the time of a keen Presi dential election ; political capital was wanted, and our Minister was ignominiously expelled for this alleged offence ; and now, for all these outrages and insults, supported with such exemplary meekness and tameness, what is our reward ? We are se lected es the objects of an insult so strange and so groundless that all Europe, wont, as it is, to catch greedily at anything which may seem to compro mise our naval superiority, cries shame upon the outrage, and c.grees that it is ono to which oven we, well used as we have been to every specie s of insult, cannot possibly submit. It is not, perhaps, to be wondered at, when we consider our former forbear ance, when we consider that at this moment we are actually Jung effect to a paper blockade, main tained by a contemptibly naval Power, rather than give the slightest excuse for a quarrel, that thou rwhom we thus earnestly seek to eL lieve it impossible that this last of sL should have an effect which all that we have suffered before has failed to produce. But it is even so. We lare convinced at last that there is little dignity or wisdom in submitting any longer to treatment. which, on the part of the United States, has become habitual and traditional. Peace can never be pre served in this way. Such conduct, like all other over-indulgence, only tends to make us contemptible in the eyes of those on whom it is practised, and we shall probably be driven to give the most terrible proofs of our strength because we have hitherto used it with a degree of moderation which has caused America to doubt its existence.—Times. - - T.HB 0 CEA AT 111.11 t SERVICE. --- SOUTHAMPTON, Friday. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam , ship Indus, Captain J. Weeks, sailed hence to day with the Mediterranean, Calcutta, China, Mauritius, Australian, and New Zealand mails. Just as the Indus was leaving a telegram was received at the Admiralty-office to detain her for the arrival of a tug from Portsmouth, with naval stores to be shipped on board this vessel. Captain Patey, the Admiral Superintendent, ordered her to proceed down the river to meet th e t ug , so as to avoid unnecessary delay. Th e t ug was met off Calsbot Castle, and she went alongside the Indus, into which some 4,000 bl an k ets, and large quant i t i es o f fl anne l and peajackets, were shipped, supposed to be for the fleet ordered from the Mediterranean to the northern coast of America, and the Indus proceeded on her voyage immediately. The Indus takes out 73 first and 25 second class passengers, among whom aro Ensign Daly, for Gibraltar; Ensign Healy, Mr. J. P. Clements, R.N., and Rev. H. Smytton, for Malta; Rev. J. J. Harrison, for Ceylon ; Captain D. Scott, Lieutenant -Colonel Temple, Dr. I. C. Barton, and Captain and Mrs. Johnson, for Madras; Colonel and Mrs. Scudamroe, Lieutenant Woodcock, Captain Fortescue, Lieutenant E. G. Clark, Colonel H. F. Dunsford, Surgeon Hardinge, ft.-ff-Surgeon Laing, Captain Knatchbull, Ensign Creagb, and Rev. G. C. Reynell, for Calcutta ; Commander J. Moresby, R.N., :and Dr. Tate, R.A., for Hongkong, &c. Among the passengers (68) via Marseilles are Dr. 11. Miller, for Ceylon ; Major A. L. Peel, Lieu- tenant C. C. Kens, Captain T. Graham, Lieu tenant W. Jackson, Major and Mrs. Agg, for Cal cutta, &c., Captain and Mrs. Pedder, for Calcutta, join at Malta. The freight of the Indus includes 160 boxes of specie, jewellery, &c., value £46,618 11s 6d—viz., for Alexandria—sovereigns, £l,OOO. For Ceylon—sovereigns, £2,000 ; watches, £4O. For Madras—gold coin, £8,308 ; bar silver, £9,500 ; gold thread, watches, &c,, £1,280. For Calcutta— jewellery, watches, &e., £656 17s 6d. For Singa pore—X4lB ss; gold thread, watches, &c., £195. For Hongkong—dollars, £13,461. For Foochowfoo —dollars, £678. For Shanghai—bar silver, £3,936 9s ; dollars, £B,Oll ; jewellery, &c., £175. For Hobson's Bay—gold coin, £2OB lOs ; silver coin, 63 6d; jewellery, watches, &c., £317 3s. For Mel bourne—medals, &c., £453. For Sydney—jewel lery, £9BO. The Tagus, Captain W. B. Hall, is due this day with the mails from Lisbon, Oporto, and Vigo; the Bavaria, Captain Meier, on Thursday next, with mails of the 14th inst. from New York ; the Ellora, Captain N. Roskell, on Friday, but expected a day or two earlier, with the Bombay mails; and the Shannon, Captain Abbott, on the 29th instant, with the West India, Pacific, and Mexican mails. The Bremen, Captain Wes sels, will sail hence on Wednesday, with mails for New York; the Tagus, Captain Hall, and the Delta, Captain Y. S. Field, on Friday, the former taking the Peninsular and the latter the Bombay mails. ?BENCE POSTAGE. The question which naturally occurs to every ono conversant with the subject is this,—Why should we pay Bd. for a half ounce letter from Dover to Calais, a distance of only 24 miles, when we can send a letter of the same weight from London to New Zealand, a distance of more than 16,000 miles, for 6d. P And not only in this latter case do we send specimens of the rates of charges for a half ounce letter:—From London to New Zealand, 16,100 mile, only Gd.; ditto to Sydney, 15,000 miles, 6d.; ditto to Calcutta, 14 000 miles, Gd. ; ditto to St. Helena, Cape Town, Quebec, Alexandria, the West Indies, &e. But here we have a set-eff. For a half ounce letter from Dover to Calais, 24 miles, Bd. ; ditto, from Inverness to Jersey, 610 miles, id. But Jersey to the nearest town on the French coast, only a few miles further on, Sd. Now, does not this look like levying, black mail on her Majesty's lieges P We are told that "Sales popnli sui..rcula est lex. Do we find this cac here P Other instances could be easily quoted, but the above will suffice to show the existing incongruities of the present system. The fact that a profit of £56,000 per annum is made on this route clearly shows that the public are taxed to the extent of £50,000 more than is actually nects sary to defray the expenses of transit. Why should not the Post-office authorities be content with mode ration, and not insist on making a clear profit of one half the sum, say £28,000 ? Surely the public, for whose benefit alone the Post.office exists, would be thus more equitably treated. It may be objected by the Post-office authorities that since they lose £466,000 on various ',other naval lines they require the above £56,000 to attempt tz) make both ends meet But why not let every case rest on its own merits, and a fair charge be made when fair value is given, which, judging from the above comparative rate of charges, cannot he said to be done in the present case? When it is remem bered that the reduction of the postage in this coun try from 9d. to id. bas created an increase in the number of letters annually passing through the Post-office of nearly 500 millions, is it not natural to expect that a similar reduction in the postage be tween England and France would largely increase the international correspondence ? The arguments brought forward in support of the reduction in 1839-40 are quite applicable to the present case. — Leeds Mercury. SUBSTITUTES FOB COTTON. One of the effects of the sudden stoppage of the cotton supply on the breaking out of the war in America has been to call attention to the substitutes which might be found for that precious substance. The question is an old one. In the beginning of this century the Emperor Napoleon decreed a reward of one million of francs for the discovery of a me thod by which flax might be spun as fine as cotton ; and Philippe de Girard (of Vaucluse) solved the problem, and would have received the promised ie ' ward but for the sudden fall of the Imperial Govern ment. The Restoration off ere d Gi rard the pitiful sum of B,ooof. by way of a loan on his ntn but he preferred leaving Francocarrying ,inven tionihis'etio n with him to Austria, whence he proceeded to Poland, and there established a spinning mill, around which ti, small village soon sprung up, now called Girardow. A few years ago the present Emperor granted the family of Girard an indemnity of 200,000 f. by way of reparation. Meanwhile other inventors had come forward—Tissot and Montague in 1819, Laforest in 182,7, TL .te in 1829, and M. Edmond Bertin in the present year. The method of the latter does away with the steeping of flax, end this, as well as all the other fibrous plants, , may be stripped by his machine in a superior way, by which the length of the fibre is preserved, and an extraordinary degree of smoothness and supple ness is insured. Another invention of the same 1 kind has sprung up in Amei ica, and the inventor, Chevalier Claussen, has imported it into France. He strips the fibrous plants by a chemical process and repeated maceration, by, which he rids the fibre of the gluten and other adhesive substances it contains. The produce of these opera tions he calls_" fibrilia," and it is described to be a substance as closely resembling cotton as can well he imagined. Spun with wool it produces stuffs of a very superior quality ; and alone, it appears to be stronger than cotton. 'Whether this substance. which in fact is nothing more than the fibre reduced to its simplest exprutsion, will acquire a puma ll out position in the market, time alone eau show. ... a t 2 J - ‘ '.l : ,4 ! I