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MR. AND MRS. CHARLES MATHEWS "Al' HOME," At Her Majesty's Concert Room, liaymarket. During the Christmas HolidayS there will be a perform ance Every Evening in the Week—Monday, Tuesday, Wed nesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, at Eight, Wednes day and Saturday Mornings at Three. Private boxes, stalls, and places may be secured at the Box office, which is open daily from Ten till Five, and at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. No extra charge fur booking. Carriages to be ordered at a quarter-past Ten. p. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, 1861. N° 21,685. PRICE..... -...4d. STAMPED ....sd. PUBLICATIONS. R OYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION, 11, Regent-street, Waterloo-place. MR. MARK LEMON ABOUT LONDON. MONDAY 3.IORNING, January 6, 1862, and every suc ceeding- Mope:lay, Wednesday. and Friday, at Three o'clock; and every Saturday Evening at Eight. January Monday, 6th ; Wednesday, Bth; Friday, 10th ; Saturday, 11th, PART I. • OLD LONDON CI l'Y WITHIN THE WALLS. Illustrations :- 1. Old London B idge. 6. Cheape and the Marching 2. Old Southwark. Watch. 3. C,stle Baynard. 7. The Fire of London. 4. Paul's Walk. 8. Old Guildhall and Water 5. ornhill on May Day. Pageant.. January, Monday, 13th ; Wednesday, 15th ; I`, iday, 17th Saturday, 18th, PART IL—OLD LONDoN CITY WITHOUT THE WALLS. - Eight Illustrations. January—Monday, 20th ; Wednesday, 22d ; Friday, 24th ; Saturday, 25th, PART lII.—LONDON TO WESTMINSTER. Eight Illustrations. Stall Chairs, ss. ; Stalls, 38.; Unreserved Scats, 25., ls. ht lls can be secured at Mr. Sams', St. James-street, and Mr. MiteltelFrA, Bond-street. Each Part complete in itself. Mr. and Mrs. German Reed's entertainment as usual every Evoning (except saturday) at Eight; Thursday and Satur day Afternoons, at Three. A RGYLL it.O,MS.-GREAT SUCCESS!!- .2=l The Band and Musical arrangements under the direc tion of M. BOULCORT, Conductor and principal Cornet. In addition to the Laurent Valse, Strauss Zuadrille, and novel ties of last week, A NEW POLKA, by M. Boulcourt, the Solos performed by him and M. Greebe. Admission Is.— Xanager, M. I'. Grenet. EAST AND WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY. The COURT of DIRECTORS of the Rat and West India Dock Company HEREBY GIVE NO DICE, that a Halt-yearly Court or General Meeting of the said Company will be held, pursuant to the directions of the Act Ist and 2d Wiliam IV., cap. 52, at the Dock House, No. 8, Billiter square, on FRIDAY, the 10th day of January, 1862, at which meeting a Dividend will be declared on the Capital Stock of the Company for the half-year ending the 31st instant. By order of the Court. GEORGE COLLIN, Secretary. East and West India Dock House, Billiter-square, 27th Deo., fiat. aitit sely . UARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, No. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C. ' Established 1821. Sutiseribed Capital, Two Millions.—Paid up, One Million. DIRECTORS. HENRY VIGNE, Esq., Chairman. Sir MINTO T. FARQUHAR, Bart., M.P., Deputy Chairman Henry Ilulse Berens, Esq., John Labouchere, Esq. Charles Wm. Curtis, Esq. John Martin, Esq. Charles F. Devas, Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq. Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. James Morris, Esq. Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Henry Norman, Esq. Thomson Ilankey, Esq., M.P. Henry R. Reynolds, Esq. John Harvey, Esq. James Tulloch, Esq. John G. Hubbard, Esq., M.P. AUDITORS. Lewis Loyd, Esq. Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. Cornelius Paine, jun., Esq. Thomas Tallemach, Esq., Secretary.—Samuel Brown, Esq., Actuary. LIFE DEPARTMENT.—UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF AN ACT or PARLIAMENT, this Company now offers to new In •itrers Erarrry PER CENT. of the Profits, at Quinquennial Divisions, or a Low Rate of Premium without participation of Profits. Since the establishment of the Company in 1821, the Amount of Profits allotted to the Assured has exceeded in cash value £660,000, which represents equivalent Reversionary Bonuses of £1,058,000. After the Division of Profits at Christmas, 1859, the Life Assurances in force, with existing Bonuses thereon, amounted to upwards of £1,730,000, the Income from the Life Branch £207,000 per annum, and the Life Assurance Fund, indep , ndent of the capital, exceeded £1,618,000. LOCAL MILITIA and VOLUNTEER CORPS.—No Flbctra Premium is required for service therein. INVALID LIVES assured at corresponding Extra Pre miums. LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their vent's, if such value be not less than £5O. ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, re *dyed and registered. MEDICAL FEES paid by the Company, and no charge for Policy Stamps. Notice is hereby given, that FIRE Poll'ies which expire, at Christmas must be renewed within fifteen days at this Office, or with Mr. SAMS, No. 1, St. James's-street, corner of Fall mall ; or with the Company's Agents throughout the Kitt dom, otherwise they become void. Losses caused by Explosion of Gas are admitted by this Company. SALE OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIPS. Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy, Somerset-place, 16th Dec., 1861. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING THE OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE LAND, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on FRIDAY, the 3d January next, at Tuo o'clock, they will be ready to receive SeMed Tenders for the purchase of her Majesty's un dermentioned Ships : Where Tons. Lying. Portland 14771 Lively. IrBo 951 Spartan Pilot Exp , ess not Peterel Pandora.- 319 Crane. Arrow 477 Lynx 477 Viper 477) Where Tons. Lying. Frolic ..... M:I9) Arab. 11- ring 426 Elk. --- Kangaroo Dispatch— 483 Daphne 726 Mariner 4Bl 1 Fantome 483 Vestal 913 Cleopatra 218) 'Devonport. No Tender will be received of treaty Every Tender must be addre Admiralty, and bear iu the 1 4 • Tender tbr the purchase of H. delivered at Somerset-place. Persons wishing to view the Ships must apply to the Su perintendents of H.M. Dockyards at Devonport and Chatham for Notes of Admission for that purpose. Catalogues and conditions of sale may be had here or at the said yards. tilt r wo o'clock on the day , ssed to the Secretary of the left-band corner the words X. Ship," and must also be CONTRACT FOR BRITISH 0 K T MEIER, THICK STUFF, PLANK, AND TREENAILS. Department of the Storekeeper General of the Navy, Somerset Place, 18th Dec., 1861. FHE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED TUNG - DOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on TUESDAY, the 14th Jan. next, at Two o'Clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying 12,000 Lords of BRITISH OAK TIMBER (rough contents, but to be delivered in a rough or sided state as the said Commissioners shall direct), 1,250 Loads of BRITISH OAK TIIICKSTUFF, 400 Loads of Ditto PLAN No. 400,000 Ditto TREENAILS, to he delivered at her Majesty's several Dockyards by the llst December in each of the years 156', 1863, and 1864, at prices, including- all carriage and other expenses. A 'Fender may be made for the whole Contract, or for the qiiantities required at any one or more of the yards. but not for less than the full quantities of Timber, Thickstuff, Plank, and Treenails required for any one yard. A Form of the Tender. showing - the distribution, sidings, and dimensions of the Timber, Thickstuff, Plank, and Tree ', ails, and all other necessary particulars. may be had on ap plication to this Office by letter or otherwise. No Tender will be received after Two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the day, and I , ear in the left-hand corner the words '`Tenter for British Oak:" and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied by a letter shined by two re sponsible persons, engaging to become bound with the Per son tendering:, Tit the sum of £20,000.f0r the due performance Per of the whole Contract, or in a due proportion for apart only. DR. LA'MERT ON SELF-PRESERVATI ON. Price ls. ; post-free, 13, or sealed ends, 20 stamps, with En gravings and Cases. May be had of Mann and Co., 30, Cornhill, London, or direct from the Author. LEI,{ -PRESERVATION.—A popular Essay on !kJ Nervous and Physical Debility, resulting from injurious habits contracted in youth, or excesses in maturity, which, by rrematurely exhausting, the functions of Manhood, de stroy the happiness of Married Life or prevent the fulfil ment of engagements which constitute the most cherished objects of existence. By Dr. LAIIERT, 37, Bedford -square, London. Licentiate of the Royal College of•?uy of Edinburgh ; Member of the Royal College of rgoons of England, &c. The above work contains most useful and interesting information on the physiological changes which occur in the Reproductive System during the periods of youth, pubert y , and manhood ; and on the due attainment of that degree of functional vigour upon which the hopes of posterity depend. It .also points out how all the a ttributes of Man hood can be preserved to an advanced period of life, how they are lost, and how they can be recovered. It is free from the gross r xaggerations, alarming descriptions, and dangerous remedies so generally resorted to by persons, who, prac fitting with false medical qualifications, inflict most serious injuries, end render judicious treatment frequently abortive. The Author is the only legally qualified practitioner whose name stands on the Medical Re - biter (the only true test of medical qualifica'ion), who has been exclu sively engaged for a series of years in the treatment of the variou functional disorders of the nervous and reproductive system, which, owing to the r.rest discoveries of modern science, are renderA subservient to a rational, simple, and easy mode of treatment. A. home for consultation daily from 10 till 2, and from till ft, either personally or by letter.-37, Bedford-square. pit CULVERWELL'S LAST NEW WORK, OURSELVES. Price Is., by post Is. tti. ; of Mann, 29, Cornhill. On Sperrnatorrhcea, Syphilis, Stricture, 'hemorrhoids, Gleets. kc Marriage : Impediments removed, and Healthy Offspring secured. Dr. C. may be consulted daily till 12, at The Post-office Turkish Baths, 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand; and from 1 till 9 p.m. at 3 , Great Ma rlborou g h-street, W. TAR. CULVERWELL'S NEW POS T-OFFIOE TURKISH BATHS, 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand. 2s. till 5, and Is. 6d. from 5 till 9 : enndaya, Is. till 1. An ESSAY on TURKISH BATHING, gratis. OPINIONS or THE PRESS. " The ITse and the Abuse of the Turkish Bath.—A very useful pamphlet has been published by Dr. Culverwell, the proprietor of the Turkish Baths in the neighbourhood of the Post-office, which presents to the uninitiated a mass of inte resting information, while those who have already encouraged this new system will derive additional advantage if they observe some of the p actical regulations which the writer endeavours to enforce."—Fterald and Standard, N0v.12,1861. " The Post-office Turkish BathY, 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand. —Dr. Culverw , 11 has already established the reputation of an ab'e physician ; lie has now proved himself to be a worthy philanthropist, in as far as he has established, in the heart of the City, an institution that more nearly than any disco very of modern days, goes nearer the abolition of the practice of physic, than any proposition or invention yet established, the Turkish Bath. . . Our object being merely to direct the attention of our City readers to the fact that they possess one of the best set of baths, at 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand, which the country can produce; perfect in all its appliances, and most admirable in effect. Dr. Culverwell has fitted up his baths with a degree of elegance, luxui y, and refinement, which, considering the space at his disposal, is truly sur prising, while everything that taste or delicacy could desire has been obtained to add to the comfort and luxury of the visitor. . . We may jusily say that if a man ever ',feels himself regenerated and new made, it is on coming outiof:a 13atii."7-Era, Oct, 13, 1801. 1 \„, tt , NEW WORK BY PROFESSOR AYTOUN. This day is published, NORMAN SINCLAIR. By W. EDMOIN.IDSTOUNE AYTOUN, D.C.L. Author of " Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers ;" " Bothwell—a Poem," &c. .tc. Originally published in Blackvvood's Magazine. In Three Volumes, Post Svo., price Li Ils. 6d. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. D UBLIN UNIVER No. 310. FOR JAN CON T: 1. The Death of the Prince Consort. 2. The House by the Church yard : a Souvenir of Chapelizod. By Charles de Cresseron. Chaps. XVII., XVIII., XIX., XX., XXI., XXII. (To be continued.) 3. Courage, my Heart ! (From Heinrich Heine.) 4. Th Disrupted Republic. 5. A Chinese Case of Breach of Promise of Marriage. (Literally translated.) 6. Alexis de Tocqueville : Statesman and Patriot. 7. Soul and Deity. By Thos. Irwin. Dublin: George Herbert. THE RED BO OK FOR 1861, Just published, thoroughly revised, 55., or, with an Appendix, or Index of Names contained in the Volumes, 2s. in ad- dition, THE IiOYAL KALENI)AR and COURT and CITY REGISTER for England, Scotland, Ire land, and the Colonies, containing an improved and enlarged Peerage and Baronetage—The [louse of Commons, with the latest alterations— The Queen's Ministers—The Royal House holds Gov(rnment Departments—Ambassadors, British and Foreign—Navy and Army—Law and Civil Officers—D,cle.l - stieil Establtahnients—Cniversitted— Literary, Scientific, laid Religious F,ocieties—charitable and C ommercial Insti tutions—Magts trates, Hospitals, &c. London : R. and A. Suttaby, 2, Amen-corner, and other proprietors. This day, Crown gvo., cloth, One Shilling, COMPANY DRILL. (HANDY BOOK OF), AND PRACTICAL INSTRITCTOIt, with numerous Illustrative Diagrams. By C. H. COLLETTE, Esq., First Midd!esex Artillery Volunteers. Houlston and Wright, 65, Paternoster-row, London. 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THE FARMER'S PAPER. - THORLEY'S 1 GLEANER includes eight pages of original and care fully-selected matter in connection with Farming Operations and Agricultural Improvements. One Penny. Published every Monday in time for post.—Newgate-street, City, THE PRESENT DISTRESS IN TRADE fully explained in J. GROSSMITII'S " GOVERNMENT UPON FIRST PRINCIPLES." The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficulties eR - perienced in 1860. The Crisis is at hand. Anxiety in busi ness has now become the grim torture. Purity of motive. intelligently exercised, must animate all Governments, or all is lost, All denominations of Constitutions are carefully examined in J. Grossmith's "Government upon First Prin ciples." Kent and Co., Paternoster-row. Just published, price 25., free by post, 2s. 4d., SPERMATORRHCEA. By F. B. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.E., And formerly Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the ON Cure of Strictures of the Urethra. " The aim of the author is to present a common-sense View of the Causes, Nature, Consequences, and Treatment of this Disease, as also to free these questions from the Professional Fallacies, the Popular Delusions, and the exaggerations of Quackery by which they have hitherto been surrounded, to the destruction of the health and happiness of thousands. These objects are discussed in a common-sense and highly practical manner."—Medical Circular. London ; H. Bailliere. 219. Resent-street. POYAL FREE HOSPITAL, for the Destitute Sick, Gray's-inn-road.--Farnest Appeal.—Owing to an unexpected delay in the payment of a considerable legacy, on which the Committee relied, this Hospital is left without immediate funds. As the period is rapidly approaching when its resources are always severely tested, the Committee make an earnest APPEAL to the pubic benevolence for means to enable them to carry on the charity. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mae erman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; ITerries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, l'ayne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street ; J. Barned and Co, Liver pool; and at the Hospital. STANFORD S. SMITH, Sec. A MOST DESIRABLE BREAKFAST BEVERAGE. PPS'S COCO A. (Commonly called Epps's Homoeopathic Cocoa). The delicious aroma, grateful smoothness, and invigo rating power of this preparation have procured its general ,doption as a most desirable breakfast beverage. }lb., in., and llb packets, at is. 6d. per lb., by Grocers. ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, nd Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant assort ment t VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink stands, eautitul inlaid Tables, Paper weights, &0., in Italian, Alabas er, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine ralogist to her Wajesty, 149, Stand, W.C., Lonaon. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS, MINERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate he interesting study of MINERALOGY, CON CHOLOGY, rid GEOLOGY, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE RALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANP, at 149, Strand, W.C. TRULY EFFICACIOUS AND MILD.— Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, pre .ared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. cott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and iver complaints, indigestion, wind spasms, giddiness, izziness of the eyes, &o. For habitual costiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they ,re truly excellent; mild in their opera tion and grateful to he stomach, they create appe ite, pro mote digestion, and trengthen the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, 20, Jermyn-street, Haymarket, London, , ind by most druggists, in boxes, ls. lid., and three times the quantity in one, 25. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package, with " William Lambert," engraved on the stamp. GIVEN AWAY TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS. HENRY SMITH. M.D., of the University of Jena, has Just published, for the be=fit, of Nervous ufferers, a FREE EDITION of his valuable work, THE YA RNING VOICE TO YOUNG MEN (120 pages). A medical work on the cure of Nervous Debility, Loss of Ntemory, Dimness of Sight, Lassitude, Indigestion, Dislike o Society, Spermatorrhma, Local Weakness, Muscular Re axation, Languor, Listlessness, Depression, &a., which, if neglected, result in consumption, insanity, and premature leath ; with plain directions for perfect restoration to health 4nd vigour. The book will be sent, post free, secure from ob -ervation, to any address, on receipt of a directed envelope rnd two stamps. Address, ITENny SMITH, M.D., a, Burton- Irescent, Tavistock-square, London, W.C. THE VIGOUR OF YOUTH RESTORED IN I FOUR WEEK.S by Dr. RICORD'S ESSENCE OF FIFE. This wonderful agent will restore manhood to the most ' , battered constitution, whether arising from self-pollution, excesses, nocturnal emissions, the effects of climate, or natu ral causes. The time required to cure the most inveterate case is four weeks ; and, if used according to the printed in structions (which are very simple), failure is impossible. This life-restoring remedy should be taken by all about to marry, as its effects are permanent. It is acknowledged by the medical press to be the greatest discovery ever made. Success in every case is as certain as that water quenches thirst. Pr. Risord's Essence of Life is sold in cases, with full in structions for use, at its., or four quantities in one for 135., ind will be sent to any part of the world, carefully packed, on receipt of remittance or post-office order payable to Prout and Co., Patent Iledi •ineWarehouse, 229, Strand, London. (Entered at Stationers' Iran.) DR. CURTIS' MEDICAL WORK, MANHOOD : • MEDICAL ESSAY ON SPERMA TO IMRE X, NERVOUS AND GENERATIVE DEBILITY, &c. net Published, the 150th thousand, with numerous plates, 'n a sealed envelope, price Is., Sold by all Booksellers, and PCnt post paid, by the Author, forl2 stamps, A i m N A V u Op m D D : E t c , h i e l N C I A 3 l U N S 3 E T A a N n d ,witChUpll t a E in DofirlPeciltioEns or l'erfect Restoration to Health and Vigour. By Dr. J. L. 'owns. 15, A:bermarle-street, Piccadilly, Loudon. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER on the Physiological ,tructure and Functions of the Reproductive Organs. CITA PTII'R ll.—Causes of Spermatorrhcca and Impotence; arly Vicious Indulgences; Dangers of Neglect. CHAPTER lII.—A Review of the various DitiqUalifiCatlollls t Marriage; whether resulting from Youthful Abuse, the elites of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection. CHAPTERS IV. and V. on the modern Treatment of 3onorrhcea and Syphilis. The Book concludes with numerous varied and interesting eses, to which is added the Author's recipe of a preventive often. REVIEWS 014' THE WORK. ••Curtis on Dlanhood.—This is a truly valuable work, and hould be in the hands of young and old."—" Sunday Times," td. March, 1856. "The author has conferred a great boon by publishing this 'ttle 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, 1858. " This work, which for twenty years has stood the test of ~ rofessional criticism and empirical hostility, treats in a plain nd sympathising manner on the various disqualifications nd impediments arising from nervous excitement and de . ility ; and to invalids suffering from youthful errors and xcesses it will be found valuable and useful."—Record. London : Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, Pater noster-row; Mann. $9, Cornhill. UQUTO of Consultation-710 to 3 and 6 to 8; sundaes, 10 tip 2, PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of Chancery, made in a cause of " RUMBOLD against CAVENDISH," the Creditors of Ferdinand Baron de Del mar, late of the Avenue de Marigny, No. 13, in the City of Paris, in the Empire of France, who died on the :'7th day of November, 185., are, by their solicitors, on or before the sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, to come in and prove their Claims at the chambers of the Vice-Chancellor Kinderaley, at No. 3, Stone -buildings, Lin coln's-inn, Middlesex, or in default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said Decree. Thursday, the ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, at one o'clock in the afternoon, at the said chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the claims. Dated this first day of November, 18111. W. M. W,ILKINSON, 44, Lincoln's-inn-fields, Plaintiff's Solicitor. CHARLES PUGH, Chief Clerk. tSITY MAGAZINE.- lUARY. Price 2s. 6d. 'ENTS. S. Borrhomeo the Astrologer. A Monkish Tale. 9. Gerald 31 assey and Alex. Smith. 10. Turner's Biography. 11. The late John O'amovan, LL.D. 12. Mildrington the Barrister. A Romance of Two Syrens. Book the First. (To be continued.) 13. Peter Brown's Black Box. Win and Wear. Part First. By Jonathan F. Slingsby 14. Tannhauser and Pla giarism. 15. William Henry Seward, the Federal American Minister. ,ondon : Hurst and Blackctt. THE NAVY. Rear-Admiral Robert Smart removed his flag on Saturday at Plymouth from the Revenge, 91, to the paddlewheel steam-sloop Virago, 6, Commander 11. Johnsen, and in the afternoon left the Sound for Queenstown. The Warrior, 40, iron frigate, Capt. the Hon. A. A. Cochrane, C. 8., at Portsmouth, having completed the fitment of her temporary iron tiller, it is intended to take her out of the harbour to-day or to-morrow under steam, for the purpose of testing the new til ler's powers upon the rudder. The Pandora, 5, screw, Lieut. the Hon. J. T. Fitz maurice (of the Majestic, 80, screw), sailed from Portsmouth on Saturday for Liverpool, where she will be attached` to her Majesty's snip Majestic, from which ship 40 men came to navigate her round to Liverpool. Prior to leaving Portsmouth *she took in her powder and shell. She also took on board her mooring anchors, chains, and buoy, to be laid down for her in the Mersey. This vessel also received before leaving two 25 pounder Armstrong guns, in addition to naval stoles, &c. The gun boats Amelia, Lieut. Cheyne, and Escort, Lieut. Woodman, also sailed from Portsmouth for the same destination at 8 o'clock the previous evening. The Edgar, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sydney Colpoy llacres, C. 8., second in command on the North American and West India station, is expected to sail from Spithead this morning, call ing at Lisbon. This ship was to have sailed from Spithead last Monday, but has been detained by reason of a court-martial sitting on board the Vic tory, flag ship at Portsmouth, to try one of her first class petty officers. As the charges compelled the attendance of Capt. Mends as prosecutor, and seve ral witnesses belonging to the ship, her detention was absolutely necessary to carry out the ends of justice, although it is much to bo regretted that a ship like the Edgar should be kept at Spithead for nearly a week on account of the gross miscon duct of a quartermaster. The Terrible, 21, paddle frigate, Capt. Glasse, C. 8., arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from the Mediterranean. She sailed from Malta on the 11th inst., arrived at Gibraltar on the 18th, and sailed again thence on the 22d. The Amphion, screw frigate, sailed the same day for Lisbon. Fine wea ther was experienced as far as Ushant, when strong north-east gales were met with, which continued up to the time of reaching Spithead, where she awaits orders. The Chanticleer, screw steam-sloop, Commander Stirling, has received orders to be held in readiness to proceed to the North American station. At Chatham the utmost despatch is being exhi bited in embarking the supplies of shot and shell, together with the guns, required for the various vessels fitting for commission at Chatham and Sheerness. On Saturday the War Department ten der Bomarsund was placed alongside the centre wharf, and during the day shipped 12 of the large 10-in. 95cwt. cast iron guns, together with four 100- pounder Armstrongs, carriages, sights, screws, &c., for the Galater, 26, 800-horse power, which will also receive two more Armstrongs and eight cast iron guns. The advanced gun-vessels belonging to the first-class steam reserve in the Medway, in tended for the gunboat flotilla, have also been fully equipped from the Cnatham stores, and in addition to being furnished each with a 100-pounder and 40-pounder Armstrong, together with a quantity of shot and shell, each gunboat took on board a num ber of short sea rifles and sword bayonets; as well as a supply of small arms. Transports arrive almost daily at the Ordnance-wharf from Woolwich with supplies of shot and shell, chiefly of the Armstrong kind, for distribution to the various ships. A few days since 1,400 empty 8 in. shells and 100 32- pounder hollow shot were despatched from Chat ham to Woolwich. Large supplies of tents and blankets have also been issued from the stores for the use of the troops proceeding to Canada. The screw frigate Galatea, 26, 800. horse power, having nearly completed fitting, was on Saturday towed out of Chatham harbour by the Adder and Monkey steamers, and removed to Folly Point, where she will be stationed for a short time, when, according to present arrangements, she will pro ceed to Devonport. Most of her stores aro on board, and she only awaits the appointment of her officers and crew to be ready to proceed to any part of the world. She shipped her spare fan on Friday. Admiralty instructions were on Saturday received at Chatham by Col. Rea, commandant of the division of Royal Marine Light Infantry,direct ing 50 additional men of the Royal Marines to be employed in the dockyard in assisting to complete the iron steamers Defence and Galatea. The Rattlesnake, 21, 400-horse pDwer, at Chat ham, had her topmasts on Saturday, and is rigging as rapidly as that work can be performed by the riggers of the establishment. She is to be ready for sea by the middle of January, when it is under stood she will be despatched to the West Indies, or some portion of the seaboard of America. The Royal Adelaide, 104, flagship of Rear Ad miral Sir Thomas Pasley, second in command at Devonport, will be paid off to•morrow (Tuesday) and recommissioned the following day for the flag of the commander in chief, Vice Admiral Sir Hous ton Stewart. The Impregnable, 101, Captain Vesey, at present carrying the flag of the commander in chief, is also to be paid off the same day, and recommissioned on Wednesday by Captain W. K. Hall, to take the place of the Royal Adelaide, es a training ship. Sir Thomas Pasley will hoist his flag on board the Indus, guard ship of steam ordinary, pro. tem. The ordets for the Emerald, 61, screw, Captain A. Cumming, at Plymouth, to proceed to the North American station, have been countermanded, and she is under orders to proceed to Liverpool in con voy of the Amelia and Escort, two gun boats, to be employed as tenders to the Majestic, at that port. The Emerald awaits the arrival of the gun boats from the eastward. The iron frigate Defence, 16, is to be put out of No. 3 dock, at Chatham, on Thursday next, to be masted with iron tubular masts. These aro made of the best iron and are nearly half an inch in thick ness each. Each of them has iron hooping inside, which adds materially to their strength. It is said that shot will not affect them on being struck, un less in close quarters. VALETTA, bee. 23.—The event of the week in this garrison has been the execution of the gunner John Edwards, of the 3d Brigade Royal Artillery, for having fired his carbine at Capt. Keate. At his trial by general court-martial he made no defence, gave no reason for the act, and expressed no regret at having committed it. He was about 30 years of ago, and bore an indifferent character in the corps to which he belonged. He is said to have served in the Royal Marines, but little is known of his past history. In the condemned cell he continued to main tain a dogged silence, simply replying " Yes," or "No," to the questions put to him. The execution was witnessed by the entire garrison on Friday morning last. The highest points of the walls and the tops of the houses were crowded with anxious spectators. The prisoner appeared at a few minutes before eight o'clock, his arms pinioned to his sides, and in the undress of a gunner of Artillery. After his eyes had been bandaged by the Provost-Marshal the ' firing party, consisting of 12 artillerymen, whose carbines had been previously loaded, 6 with ball and 6 with blank cartridge, advanced within 10 paces of of the prisoner, who was resting on his right knee with his face towards them. At prwoncerted sig nals they raised their carbines and discharged them at the culprit. Death seemed instantaneous, but that no doubt should exist the Provost-Marshal, accord ing to custom, discharged a pistol at the body. The whole of the troops in this command proceeded on Monday last to the Bay of Marsascirocco, for the purpose of preventing the landing of a supposed enemy. On this occasion the troops were in full marching order, and presented a splendid appear ance. Eight guns accompanied the different brigades, six 9-pounders and two 6 pounders, and were drawn by the mules of the Commissariat Train. The troops were distributed over a front of several miles. At 1 o'clock a shell was fired from the fort on the shores of the bay as a signal for the general engagement to begin. This fOrt then opened its heavy guns, which it continued to fire for an hour and a half. At half-past one the field-pieces opened a rapid fire on the advancing enemy, who were supposed to have effected a landing, while the small arms kept up a well-sustained fusillade until two o'clock, when the troops, still fighting, fell back on their supports. At •half-past two the supposed enemy were compelled to retire to their ships. ‘ A great number of car riages and pedestrians of all sorts followed the troops, giving the scene more the character of a re turnfron4he Derby than a field-day. Her Majesty's ship Marlboiough, 131, left port on Friday morning last to try her Armstrong guns, and returned on the following day. The Foxhound, 4, Commander the Hon. A. C. Hobart, goes out to-day for the same purpose. The Growler, 3, Lieut.-Commander H. E. Crozier, returned from Sulina on the 18th inst., having been relieved there by the Cockatrice. The Aboukir, 89, Capt. Shadwell, left port for Gibraltar on the 18th inst. The Megtera, steam troopship, Commander Henderson, which had received orders to proceed home under sail, afterwards received counter-orders to remain here, to have her broken intermediate shaft patched up by the artificers of the dockyard. This accordingly having been dono, she left on Saturday last for England. She took with her the following passengers :—Mr. Eldridge and family; Captain Cardew, 23 soldiers, 6 women, and 11 children; Mrs. Pring, Mrs. Weld, and son, and invalids from Corfu. The Megmra conveyed a detachment of the 4th Regiment from Corfu to Zante, and took back to Corfu from Zante a detach ment of the 9th. The exchange of the detachment of the 9th Regt. at Cephalonia was prevented: by the accident to her shaft. Her Majesty's ships at Corfu, by last accounts, were the London, 89 ; the Victor Emmanuel, 89; and the Scylla, 22. Her Majesty's ship Neptune, Captain Hornby, arrived at Malta yesterday from Syracuse. Her Majesty's ships in pert are the Marlborough, 131 (flag ship of Vice-Admiral Sir W. F. Martin, K.C.8.) ; the Hibernia, receiving ship (flagship of Rear-Ad miral H. J. Codrington, C.B. ; the Neptune, 89; the James Watt, 89; the Medina, surveying vessel; the Firefly, ditto ; the Wanderer, 4 ; the Foxhound, 4 ; the Growler, 3 ; and the Hearty, tug. Advices from Gibraltar to the 17th instant announce the arrival of the Amphion, 36, from Sicily; the Racoon, 22, from Malta; the Alacrity, 4, from Malta ; the Liffey, 51, from Palermo; the Firebrand, 6, from Malta; the Algiers, 89, from Malta; and the Queen, 80, also from Malta. There were besides on that sta tion the Procris, 3, and the Cuckoo, 3. The Racoon continued on her way to England on the 14th inst. The Liffey was to proceed in a day or two to Hali fax, Nova Scotia. The Algiers was to remain for the present at Gibraltar, and hoist, it is said, the flag of Bear-Admiral Dacres, C.B. The Queen, it was reported, was to proceed to Bermuda." A ponderous .machiee, weiglgng nearly 20 tons, has to-day been received at Cliathita dockyard, from the eminent engineert Messrs. Westwood, Baillie, Campbell and Co. It is intended to be used for the purpose of bending the immense armour plates which arc to be used in the construction of the Achilles and the Royal Oak, and of course of other vessels of the same class which may hereafter be built at this establishment. Some idea of the enor mous strength required in this machine may be formed from the fact that the sheets of iron with which the sides of these vessels will be covered will be about four and a half inches in thickness. The fine steam transports St. Andrew, Capt. Dutton, belonging to the Montreal Mail Packet Company, and the Calcutta, No. 8, Capt. Wright, chartered for the conveyance of troops and war stores to British North America, took up berths alongside the T-pier at Woolwich, on Saturday, from Glasgow and Deptford, and were officially in spected by Major Field, Deputy-Assist Quarter master Gen. Royal Artillery. The Calcutta has been thoroughly fitted at Deptford, and both vessels afford excellent and roomy accommodation. The nominal burden of each vessel is 2,000 and 1,500 tons. The Victoria and Adelaide, vessels of a simi lar class, laden with victualling stores and munitions of war, were towed down to Greenhithe from Dept ford on Saturday to be swung, preparatory to their departure. The Calcutta, the first for sea, yesterday embarked No. 8 battery of the fourth field brigade Royal Artillery, lately arrived at Woolwich from Aldershot, consisting of Capt. H. A. Smyth, Capt. W. J. Hall ; Liouts E. H. Wickham, A. H. Maclean, and E. Clayton ; Assist.- Surg. A. S. K. Prescott ; Vet.-Surg. Meyrack, and 262 non-commissioned officers and men. The battery assembled on parade yesterday morning soon after 8 o'clock for inspec tion, and, having been addressed as to the nature of the expedition on which they were about to depart by Gen. Sir Richard Dacres, they marched on board at 9, in readiness to sail by the early tide this morn ing. Since the death of the Prince Consort the bands have ceased attending the embarkation of the troops. In addition to the above named battery of Royal Artillery, Mr. Bagnall, Mr. Greigg, and four sergeant conductors of stores, belonging to the storekeeper's department at Woolwich, and a num ber of non-commissioned officers, appointed to drill the Canadian Militia, took passage in the Calcutta. The storekeeper's department was engaged during the whole of yesterday in shipping the residue of her freight, consisting of 120 tons of Armstrong shot, the 12-pounder battery of rifled guns and their ap purtenances. There was also embarked an ample provision of warm military clothing, consisting of for each man two pairs of woollen drawers, one sheepskin overcoat, one pair of sealskin mits, one pair of Canadian boots, two pairs of worsted stockings, one sealskin cap with ear mufflers, ono chamois leather waistcoat, one comforter, one jer- Bey, and two merino under vests. • THE ARMY. Capt. C. 11. Malan, 75th Regiment, has joined the depot of that corps at Chatham garrison. No. 6 Battery, 10th Brigade, Garrison Artillery, at Woolwich, are under orders to embark at Liver pool on the: Ist pros., :in the Hibernian; Noc. 2 and 3 Batteries, 15th Brigade, Garrison Artillery, and No. 7 Battery, the last remaining at Woolwich of the 10th Brigade, are to embark on the 4th in the mail packet at Liverpool ; 118 men belonging to the Royal Artillery, under command of Major Bantrun, Capt. Addington, and Lieuts. Mansfield, Isaacson, and Elwin, leave the Granby Barracks, Devonport, this day, at 7.10 p.m., for Bristol, by South Devon Railway. It is understood that they will embark at Pembroke for Canada. The 9th company of the 32d Regiment-74 men, with their wives and families—under command of Capt. Blewett, Lieut. Thomas, and Ensign Orrage, leave the Raglan Barracks, Devonport, on Thurs day next, and, at Plymouth, take the 9.25 a.m. train for Bristol, where they will be stationed on detached duty. On the same morning Capt. Ander son's company, No. 4, being relieved by No. 9, will leave Bristol for headquarters in the Plymouth Citadel. Major Edmonson'o company, No. 7, and Major Foster's ttompany, No. 7, will change quar ters from the Citadel to the Raglan Barracks. The garrison at Sheerness is ordered to beaug mented by an addition of 200 men of the Royal Artillery, with a proportionate number of officers, who are to be despatched from the headquarters of the Third Division on Wednesday next, orders to that effect having been received at Warley, from the office of the Deputy Adjutant General, by Col. R. P. Radcliffe. The facilities for instructing the officers and men in the theoretical and practical branches connected with the Royal Artillery which exists at Sheerness, coupled with its contiguity to Shoeburyness, have induced the authorities at the Horse Guards to materially increase the number of troops at that station, and all the available barrack accommodation is fully occupied. On Saturday a detachment of 130 men of the Chatham Division of Royal Marines Light Infan try, who have been for some time past performing duty at Deptford, rejoined headquarters, to be in readiness for embarkation on board any of the ves sels now fitting for sea in which they may be re quired. Lieuts. W. J. Barker and C. S. C. Webb arrived at Chatham with the detachment. Staff-Surg. Lewin, of the 9th Depot Battalion, has succeeded Dr. Innes (who has left for Canada) in the chief medical superintendence of troops in the camp at Colchester. Staff-Assist.-Surg. Ramabot ham has been attached to the 9th Battalion, in the room of Staff-Sur, Mackinnon, who. has_ Alpo been orderedto Canada. Lieut.-Col:O'Connell has entered upon the command of the force of Royal Artillery, in the room of Lieut.-Col. Gibbon, who, it is under stood, has been appointed to the command of a bri gade of Artillery in Canada. Major Westhead has left the camp at Colchester for Canada, and Major Swaffield has been attacted to the 9th Depot Battalion in his stead. TILE TROOPS FOR CANADA. The arrangements for despatching the troops selected for service in Canada have now been en tirely completed. The mail packet which is to leave Liverpool on January 4 will take the 2d and 3d batteries of the 15th Brigade of Garrison Artillery, consisting of 12 officers and 234 men, and this com pletes the list of troops forming the reinforcements. More than 10,000 men have been despatched with extraordinary celerity, and it is gratifying to know that they have left our shores under circumstances which leave no room for doubt as regards their com fort and efficiency. The extra warm clothing, which has not been procured without difficulty, is of the best quality, and perfectly suited to the sharp winter the men will have to encounter. This extra clothing has been in every case so placed in the ships as to be accessible at any moment, and will be distributed to the men on the voyage, should the weather be such as to requite the use of sealskin caps and similar articles. The number of transports wholly chartered by the Government is 13, all powerful screw steamers; and in seversl cases troops have been sent by the Cunard mail steamers to Halifax. Englishmen are not much in the habit of looking at expense when the honour of their coun try is concerned, and we state that the cost of hiring the Melbourne alone will be some £3,000, merely for the purpose of showing that the Americans will have a task before them should they endeavour to fight us while their financial affairs are in so desperate a condition. The expenses attending the transport and clothing of the Canadian rein forcements have of course been very great, but the country cares nothing in these days about such matters after the experience of the Crimean war. The men have been thoroughly well pro vided for, and that is sufficient. We stated last week that a supply of Canadian boots bad been ob tained from "an exceptional source." The 211oria iny Post of Monday announced that the French Emperor had supplied them, and we can add some particulars in corroboration. Every source of supply at home having been ransacked in vain, it was resolved to apply to the Emperor, and a message was telegraphed from the Foreign-office to Captain Claremont, our military commissioner in Paris, instructing him to make the request at head quarters. Captain Claremont was immediately re ferred to Marshal Bandon, the Minister of War, who at once sent for the officials in charge of the stores, for information. The result was that the number of pairs required (2,000) was packed and sent off within a few hours, and we can also state this act was accompanied by the assurance that they regarded with the most friendly feelings our proceedings in the affair of the Trent, and wished to render us every possible assistance in the way of providing any amount of clothing or stores re quired. We may add that the French Government has long adopted the wise course of keeping a large store of every article that might be required for service in any part of the world. The foresight which led to providing a store of articles not usually, nor indeed very likely to be required by the French army, might be advantageously copied here ; and it is to be hoped that the fact of our having been obliged to look about for Cana dian boots !, will have its effect upon those who have so persistently opposed the keeping up a store of such requisites at Pimlico. The reinforce ments that have been despatched to Canada may be estimated at 10,000 men of all ranks ; and should it be found necessary to increase the force, a second 10,000 have been selected, and aro ready to embark at a few hours' notice.— Observer. THE VOLUNTEERS. The first field-day of the brigade commanded by Lord Truro, composed of the Ist Middlesex Light horse, the 3d Middlesex Artillery, and the 4th Middlesex Volunteer Infantry, took place at Colney Hatch on Thursday last. The arrangements were well carried out. Two troops of cavalry, six bat teries of artillery, and 240 infantry marched by way of Holloway (where a special train had been pro vided for tho Artillery and Infantry) to Colney Hatch. On the arrival of the Cavalry, who were pronounced admirable both in bearing and equip ment, the manoeuvres commenced. The officers who commanded the three regiments were clearly not new to their work. The skirmishing of the 4th Middlesex Rifles was excellent, and the charges in line—first of Artillery and Infantry, and subse quently of the Cavalry, was, on the whole, sur prisingly good. The privates of the brigade were entertained at dinner by the officers, and the pro ceedings terminated to the satisfaction of all present. The 19th Surrey, with tho 21st, 23d, and a portion of the 10th Surrey Rifles, paraded at Ken nington-park on Boxing-day, and marched to Brixton Church, where they were joined by the Ist Surrey Light Horse. The whole, under the com mand of Major Roupell, M.P., then marched up Brixton-hill and through Roupell-park to the Crystal Palace, where an excellent lunch was sup plied by Mr. Strange. The Ist Middlesex Engineer Volunteers assem bled at South Kensington on Boxing-day in large numbers. Under the command of Lieutenant-Col. Macleod, of Macleod, the corps marched to the Great Western Railway terminus at Paddington, and there took the train to Ealing. Having arrived at Ealing common, and joined the lo ca l company of the Ealing corps, the battalion, six companies strong, proceeded to battalion drill, during which the chief movements in column and line were successfully performed. The butts at Ealing are now available to the corps during the whole of every Tuesday and Friday. In addition to the 9th and 10th companies of Fo resters (4th City of London) Rifle Volunteers, which consist of the members of the late rth Middlesex (Islington) Rifles, a new company has been formed, and it is in contemplation to still further augment the strength of the regiment by recruits from Isling ton and the immediate neighbourhood. Last Tuesday evening a gold ring was presented to Mrs. W. S. Taylor, of High•street, Windsor, by the members of the band of the Windsor Rifles, as a testimonial of their esteem and respect, and also as a return and acknotvledgment for the assist&nce she has given them in their practice, conducted at her residence. A prize cup, presented to the Hadleigh corps by Ensign Freeman, and won by Private Gray, has been publi c l y presented to the successful competitor. Lieutenant Robinson, who recently proceeded from Hadleigh to the Hythe School of Musketry, has returned, and is now communicating to his com rades the experience he has acquired. On Thurs day a butt was commenced for the Halesworth corps, the range having been approved by the Go vernment inspector. On Thursday the effective men of the Wisbech corps commenced shooting for a handsome silver challenge cup, presented by the ladies of neighbour hood ; but, in consequence of a thick fog prevailing, the contest could not be proceeded with. In Lincolnshire, Colour-Sergeant Brown, of the South Lincoln Militia, has been attached to the Spalding corps as drill sergeant and musketry in structor. Most of the Lincolnshire corps made suitable demonstrations on the melancholy occasion of Prince Albert's funeral. On Thursday the members of the Yarmouth Rifle Corps (which must not be confounded with the fine artillery corps tilso formedin the town) assembled to the number of 120, and marched to Hopton House, the residence of their commandant, Major Orde, by whom they were hospitably entertained. The Thetford corps will shortly compete for several prizes. The Harwich Artillery Volunteers marched from that town on Thursday to Stour-hall, Ramsey, where they were hospitably entertained by Mr. James Barker. Some animated speeches were de livered on the occasion, and the proceedings passed off in a very gratifying manner. About 60 gentle men have entered the revived Brentwood corps. The Hun. and Rev. H. W. Bertie has addressed a letter to Lieutenant-Colonel Davis, resigning the chaplaincies of the 3d Essex battalion and of the 2d Essex corps. He states that in the present state of public affairs he feels it his duty to identity himself altogether with the 2d, or Ilford Company, of which he is a member, and to share with its members every vicissitude which may befal them. About a fortnight ago some 48 members of the Bilston Volunteers tendered their services to Go vernment for active employment in any manner or place. The offer was forwarded through the Cap tain (Mr. J. N. Baghall) to the Lord-Lieutenant of Staffordshire (Lord Hatherton), and by his Lord ship transmitted to the Secretary for War, who, in a communication to Lord Hatherton, has replied as follows :—" I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's letter of the 12th inst., enclosing an offer of active service from the 12th Staffordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, and I have to request that you will communicate to the com manding officer my appreciation of the zeal and patriotic spirit which has prompted the members of the corps to make such an offer. I have, how ever, to request that sour Lordship will point out to him that I could only avail myself of the services of the corps, even if the country were at war, under the provisions of the Act, 44th of George 111., cap. 54. I have, &c., G. C. LEWIS." The Volunteers of Bilston have had this reply read to them on parade by their captain. THE FEDERAL ARMY. A letter from Alexandria, Virginia, dated Dec. l 13, says—There is no country existing which could have raised an army of 650,000 men in so short a time as it has been done here in America. This army is well paid, fed, and clad, and even tolerably well disciplined and drilled. I have seen regiments which might vie in this respect with any in Europe. All that could be done by money has been done, and the Americans are proud of this army, and think themselves able not only to crush the rebellion in the South, but also to fight England and whoever I should dare to attack them. Notwithstanding Bull's Run, I think the Ameri cans as brave as any other nation, and if they are a little conceited and over-confident, it is rather liked. But it is far different if the American Government are of the same opinion —as really is the case. From a Government we do not only expect courage, but prudence and knowledge also. I heard not long ago members of the Government call this American army the finest and best that ever existed, and I must admit that they believed what they said, for without this their politics would be inexplicable. All the calculations of the Government are based on one great error, and the country may have to pay dearly for it. This great error is the belief that they have an army of 650,000 men, while they have only 650,000 armed men. There is a great difference. The American army, in its present condition, is no army at all. By force of money a machine has been built and put into good working order, but there is nobody to work it. Only reckoning three officers to every 100 men, an army of 650,000 would re quire above 20,000 officers. To find such a great number of competent men would be difficult even in countries where everybody is a soldier, although sergeants and privates might be made lieutenants and captains ; in America it is quite impossible. Yet all the places are filled up here, and if I say that there are among these 20,000 officers only 1,000 nearly fit fcr their places, I make a very bold guess. Corporals and privates may do for captains and lieutenants in case of need, and the lieutenants may become colonels, but the difficulty increases the higher we go. Captains who are just able to go through the drill of their companies are very rarely fit to command divisions and larger bodies of troops, and an army of 650,000 men requires an experienced general or a born military genius. We have here mostly politicians or inexperienced captains, with the epaulets of generals, and nowhere can we dis cover up to this time even the shadow of a military genius. When pointing to the defects of this army, the Americans generally say, when they are hard put for an answer,—" Well, our consolation is that the rebels are not better off." I will admit this for the moment, and only answer that the two armies have very different tasks, which places that of the Southerners in the greatest advantage. They are on the defensive, and fight from behind their fortifications, a manner of fighting in which young soldiers are almost as good as old ones ; but the army of the Union has to attack such fortifica tions, a kind of work difficult even for the best troops in the world. I might say more about the officers of this army, which would startle Europe, but I have other means to prove that the American army is almost as useless to the Union as Hercules' club would be to a child. There is a deal of talk about the advance of the army on the Potomac, without its having the means to advance. There are not even pontoons to cross the numerous rivers, nor pioneers to clear away the obstacles ; there are not even means to convey am. munition or provisions ; and I am convinced that if the army should advance for 40 miles they would be starved to death in Virginia, where the provi sions aro already eaten up by the Secessionists. Moreover, there is not even a proper general stet] existing, the urgent necessity of which these people cannot understand. If most of the commanding generals know the army regulations they think s themselves very good leaders ; of strategy, or tac h t s t, in the proper meaning, engineering, &c" the tl Y lat of not even the least idea. Such disastersueenstly, and Edward's Ferry must occur very q i t criminal the lives of the brave volunteers w as soon as the troops stir, theosmilitary man nerknow- nothings, by the ignorance of conceited f i r : be sacrificed, nothings, he has done a great deal to bring do not know yet ; is a great general I and all think him pre Whether Generalsellt‘Cstlealtlea,n we the army to the IT'IIAT IS A " GENTLEMEN' ?" Two great errors, colouring or rather discolour ing, severally, the minds of the higher and lower classes, have sown wide dissension and wider mis fortune through the society of modern days. These errors are in our modes of interpreting the word "gentleman." Its primal, literal, and perpetual meaning is a man of pure race, well bred, in tho sense that a horse or dog is well bred. The so called higher classes, being generally of purer race than the lower, have retained the true idea, and the con victions associated witti it, but are afraid to speak it out, and equivocate about it in public ; this equi vocation mainly proceeding from their desire to con nect another meaning with it, and a false one—that of a man living in idleness on other people's labour —with which idea the term has nothing whatever to do. The lower classes, denying vigorously, and with reason, the notion that a gentleman means an idler, and rightly feeling that the more any one works the more of a gentleman he becomes, and is likely to become —have nevertheless got little of the good they otherwise might, from the truth, because with it they wanted to hold a falsehood, viz., that race was of no consequence. It being precisely of us much consequence in man as in any other animal. The nation cannot truly prosper till both these errors are finally got quit of. Gentlemen have to learn that it is no part of their duty or privilege to live on other people's toil. They have to learn that there is no degradation in the hardest manual, or the humblest servile labour when it is honest. But that there is degradation, and that deep, in extra vagance, in bribery, in indolence, in pride, in tak ing places they are not fit for, or in coining places for which there is no need. It does not disgrace a gentleman to become an errand boy, or a day la bourer, but it disgraces him to become a knave or a thief, and knavery is not the less knavery because it involves large interests, nor theft the less theft because it is countenanced by usage, or accompanied by failure in undertaken duty. It is an incompara bly less guilty form of robbery to cut a purse out of a man's pocket, than to take it out of his hand on the understanding you are to steer his ship up the Channel when you do not know the soundings. On the other hand, the lower orders, and all orders, have to learn that every vicious habit and chronic disease communicates itself by descent, and that by purity of birth the entire system of the human body and soul may be gradually elevated, or, by reckless ness of birth, degraded, until there shall be as much difference between the well-bred and the ill-bred human creature (whatever pains be taken with their education) as between a wolf-hound and the vilest mongrel cur. And the knowledge of this great fact ought to regulate the education of our youth and the entire conduct of the nation.— ..Ruskin. RAILWAY INTE LLIGE2V CE. LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER. The works on the metropolitan extension lines of this company have progressed with extraordinary rapidity since they were commenced by Mr. C. Watson, for Messrs. Febo and Betts, in the month of February last. The West-end Extension line is to join the main line of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway at Beckenham, to pass under the Sydenham-hill near the Crystal Palace by a tunnel, thence to Dulwich and Battersea, where it terminates by a junction with the Pimlico Railway, leading to the Victoria Station. The intended City Extension branches off from the West-end Extension line at a point near Dulwich, passing through Camberwell to Blackfriars. The works on the West-end Extension are of consider able magnitude, ana consist of 41 miles of cut tings and embankment, 1 mile of tunnel, and 4,262, feet of viaduct, m king together 6i miles. The City Ex tension line is to consist of one mile of cuttings and em bankments, 31 miles of viaduct, a bridge over the Thames, crossing close to Blackfriars-bridge, making together about 41 miles of line; a goods station by the water side, and a passenger station at each side of the river. On the West end Extension the works are in a more advanced state 1 than those on the City Extension. Near the point of junc .7 tion at Battersea about 60 acres of land hive been secured, upon part of which coke sheds and a semicircular building for housing twenty-one locomotive engines, with repairing shops at the rear, have been completed on a most convenient and economical plan. Extensive ranges of substantial buildings are in course of construction, in which suitable machinery will be fixed for manufac -1 turing engines and other rolling stock for the railway on a similar plan in every respect to that adopted at the Wolverton establishment of the London and North Western Railway Company. Some of those buildings are in a forward state, and with the present rate of progress the whole will be completed in the course of a few months. With a view to accommodate the goods traffic a temporary goods station has been erected here convenient to the main line. Permanent rails have been laid from the main line to the locomotive houses, the coke and coal sheds and goods station, and will be extended to the other buildings as the works progress. A portion of the main line from its junction with the Pimlico line has been laid out fur about one-third of a mile to the point where the viaduct commenced. The t g w r eater ss n t h p a o t r t p i o o n i n t o f a n t d h e brickwork the intond intended has been station at Dulwich ande the whole of this work is expected to be completed, and the iron girders erected over the roads, streets, and highways which the line crosses in about ten weeks. The brickwork of this portion comprises a viaduct of 17 arches adjoining the Wandsworth-road, a viaduct crossing the Clapham and Bedford roads about 1,000 feet in length, and a viaduct at the Manor-rise on the Brixton-road of 1,600 feet in length, making together 3,110 feet of viaduct, These viaducts for the greater portion of their length are constructed on a circu lar plan, and have been very substantially and beautifully executed. The uniformity in the colour of the bricks, and the workman-like manner in which they are put together, form a striking contrast to the ordinary works for a similar purpose. Of the works on the City Extension line, which branches from the 'West-end Extension line at the Dulwich junction, there is now completed upwards of a mile and a quarter of viaduct along the back of the gardens and houses in the Camberwell and Walworth-roads. About half the length of this viaduct has been ballasted, and the permanent way is being laid down. This viaduct is advancing at the rate of 60 feet in length daily, and is expected to be com pleted to a point near the Elephant and Castle by August next. The brickwork on this extension is also of the same excellent quality as that of the West-end line. The works for the main line beyond Dulwich towards Beckenham junction are in course of construction. The chief work on this section is a tunnel upwards of a mile and a quarter iu length, passing, as before stated, under the Sydenham Hill and the lirighton railways. Seven shafts have been sunk from the top of the hill into the tunnel, and the excavation is carried on to the full size in both directions from each shaft, making 14 faces to work upon, and thus facilitat . ing the progress very materially. About one-fourth of the tunnel has thus been completed, and the average progress of the tunnel is at the rate of 250 feet per month. So soon as a short length of the tunnel has been ex cavated to the full size the bricklayers are set to work, and that portion so excavated is completed before any fur ther advance in the excavation at that point is made. Tho operation is then repeated, and the brickwork is completed for a further length. The thickness of the brickwork varies from 10 to 14 half- brick, according to circumstances ; the bricks are of th e h ardest kind, manufactured on the spot in great quantities by means of powerful machinery. All of the bricks used are very hard and compact, and some of them made by one machine in particular are beautifully form r e c d c; colour. the clay I e t x often cav at e happens very solid, presenting a polished surface of an a a p n p d e nb brought 0 u that t The improvements into it again in the shape of solid bricks. have, it appears, been and experience of the past 20 course of tunnel i a iscarriedexcellent yearsaterials and facilitating the brought to bear in providtihn greater than was anticipated. in ou t t h o e f t c h o i e u , the result has been much 2 000 men and 250 horses an present about , progress s u s p o o f n t h ol e There are at egsemmetropolitan extensions, and e w w or o k rk s s o .n ' -" Mi ss Bertie Cator , daughte r of Admiral Cator, h a s colleAecl de t she has a dhetocothste—alt7ioGn-oalfLiafeboat after the Crown Princ ess of Pr ssia. lifeboat., lns t N i % t ' i h l t i i c o h n a . l i t t i n Ns s t C a t er wishes the lifeboat to be c a ll e d th e Pr incess Royal, [ A DVE RTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Pills and Ointment.— i : n ,:oids, Fever, Influenza. — The uncertain weather is now producing these complaints, which demand immediate at tention, or serious consequences may ensue. As curative agents nothing equals Holloway's remedies. The ointment should be well rubbed, twice a day, on the back and chest at the same time that the pills are taken internally. These diseases weekly endanger the lives of thousands who would have been speedily restored to health by these grand pre servatives, which must in every case do good and never harm. They purify the blood and arrest fever. The pal pitation of the heart, shortness of breath, and e oppression, are at once rem ove d . T he feeble' and ex E h il ati e sthd of teztfie.s. to the virtues of Hollo way's proparatiowt ~: