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" The success of the Company, even in its earliest years, received the marked atten ion, and elicited the surprised comments, of writers best acquainted with the history of In surance Companies. " Fire Premiums for 1860 EQUAL the Total Fire Premiums for the SEVEN YEARS 1845 to 1851. Premiums ioi - 1860 14'.XCv ED the Entire Life Pre miums for the EIGHT . y W . A.RSendinz 1852. of Annuities in 1560 LAllaa EXCEEDS the similar receipt- for the first TEN YEARS, 1845 to 1854. "This progress, it is believed,is unsurpassed, considerino* hat It applies to each of the three branches of the business." FIRE BRANCH. "The Fire Branch has certain y shown no exhaustion dur ing the year 1860 of that impetus which had previously brought it to a position of the first magnitude among the Insurance Companies of the United Kingdom. The Fire Premiums in 1859 had advanced to the sum of £208,314 7s. 3d. In 1860 the amount of Fire Premiums has arrived at a sum of £252,977 19s. 11d., showing an increase of £34,663 I2s. Bd., ex reeding the large advance of the preceding* year, so that in two years the Fire Revenue of the Company has been en h need by the enormous sum of £66,829 17s. sd. "The Parliamentary Report of Returns of Duty paid to Government for the year 1860 exhibits the augmentation of the business In a more promine ,, t way, as it affords the rneaps of comparison with otter Companies. The Proprietors will be gratified to learn that the increase of Duty paid by the Royal in the last year is more than double that of any other Corr pang, either London or Provincial, whilst only one of those Companies even approaches to N per cent. of the ad vance of this Comp ny. Our increase actually equals 30 per rent. of the entire increase of the whole of he Metropolitan Offices combined, whilst of the Provincial Offices it forms up wards of 30 per cent. of the total advanceof the other 2S offices established out of London. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.- DONCASTER RACES.—DAY TICKETS issued from London (13.'ng's-dross), and other stations where they may usually be obtained 1, to Doncaster, on the 16th,17th,18th, 19th, and 20th, will be :ay...ilable for return on any dsy up to and including Saturday, 21st September. Fares from Lon don to Doncaster and .Back:-Ist Class, 41s. 6d. ; 2d Class, 31s. ed. SPECIAL MAINS, I'y whi able, will leave Doneaste r for p.m. on FrAlay, 20th, an d at September. ich these tickets will be avail- London (King's-cross), at 5.15 11.15 a.m. on Saturday, 21st PUBLICATIONS. One Shilling. SEAT OF WAR IN THE UNITED STATES. WYLD'S MILITARY MAP of the UNITED STATES. In sheet, ss. ; in case, Es.; on rollers, varnished, 10s. WYLD'S MAP of the UNITED STATES, OREGON, TEXAS, and CALIFORNIA. One sheet, showing the Slave sheets, W Y and Free Labour States, coloured, 3s. ; in case, 4 s. a d. WYLD'S LARGE ,£ll2 l E ll A 6d P . ;ofintheea case, £'l 6 L STATES. Four WYLD'S STATISTICAL bIAP of the UNITED STATES, showing the Free and Slave Populations, the Ex ports, Imports, &c. In sheet, Is. ; in case, 2s. STRATEGIC WAR POINTS of the UNITED STATES. In sheet, ls.; in case, 2s. James Wyld, Geographer to the Queen , 457, Strand, Char ing-cross, East. next door to the Post-office, W.C. ; and 2, Royal Exchange, E.C. LIFE BRANCH. "The Reports of the Company for several years have hid invariably to announce a corstant periodical expansion of its Life Business, the New Policies of each succeeding year show ing an advance over the one that had immediately preceded it. A similar result is shown in the year 1860, the Premiums on New Policies, after deducting Guarantees, he ng £15,097 175, Ind., wh ch is an increase on that item of £1,993175. sd. above the am , unt r , ceived for the year 1859. "But even this advance is small when compared with the sudden and remarkable momentum which has been given to this Branch of the Business in the present year (1861). "It was not until the commencement of the year that the Public seemed to have become fully acquainted with the fact th t the Royal Insurance Company had published late in the last Tear an account of the investigation into the Assets and Liabilities of its Life Department, under a novel form, and in as plain and intelligible a manner as the abstruseness of the subject admitted, together with the entire statements and valuations necessary for that purpose. " It is conjectured from the extensive Notices of this Pam phlet and its accompanying Diagrams, which have appeared in the Periodicals of the day, that it has largely attracted the 'attention of vast numbers f Persons in all parts of the United Kingdom, as well as id other parts of the World. Indeed a most satisfactory and conclusive evidence that such is the case is afforded by the fact that the sum Assured on New Policies in the six months to the 3d June of the present year is ac tually 50 per cent. in excess of the sum assured in the corres ponding months of the year 1860, although the latter amount in itself exceeded the sum assured n any like previous period of time "If this success be continued, the Royal Insurance Com pany would, with respect to the amount of its new business, be at once placed (at least with one or two exceptions) at the head of all the Insurance Companies doing business in this Country, and the anticipations of the last Report, to the effect that the details of the Lire Business then to be pub lished would form an epoch of the Establishment, will have a speedy and very happy realisation." . - - - SPECIAL ADVANTAGES OF THE LIFE BRANCH. PROFITS.—Large proportion Returned every Five Years to Policies then in existence Two ENTIRE YEARS. Expenses chiefly born by the Fire Branch, in order to Increase the Bonus t ) be Returned. LIFE BONUSES DECLARED, Two per Cent. per Annum on the Sum Assured : THE GREATEST BONUS EVER CONTINUOUSLY DECLARED BY ANY C3MPANY. SECURITY FOR BOTH FIRE AND LIFE BRANCHES CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS Sterling. Accumulated Funds in hand exceed £Bl PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary. ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Hay markt, IS NOW OPEN for the Season EVERY EVENING, e under the direction of Monsieur BOULCOURT principal Cornet-a-piston and Conductor. The music will be selected from Verdi, Meyerbeer, Rossini, Plotow, Balfe, and other eminent Composers. During the recess these well known Rooms have been entirely RE-DECORATED and I VPROvED by Messrs. H. T. Samn and assistants. The new Chandeliers by M. Benjamin. Admission, One Shilling —All the new Music to be had at the Office, No. 7. Great Windmill -street. SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE WINES. PORTS — Montero, 6s. pe r gallon, 15s. per dozen. Priorato, San Vicente. and Almanzs., 88. 6d. per gallon, 2os. per dozen. Alto Douro, 'Os. 6d. per gallon, 245. per dozen, to 19s. 6d. per gallon, 425. per dozen. Val de Ptnas, ' , os. and 245. per dozen. SH ER RlES—Cordo an, very pale soft light Wine, 6s. per gallon, 15s. per dozen. Xerezano, Bs. 6d. per gallon, 20s. per dozen. Other qualities, 245. to 48s. ~er dozen. Price per dozen includes bottles and packages. List, with full particulars, free on application. Spanish Peninsula Wine Company. 1 4, Barge-yard Chambers, Bucklersbury. TRULY EFFICACIOUS AND MILD .- Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, pre pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. ` 4 cott, will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and iver complaints, indigestion, wind, spasms, giddiness. dizziness of the eyes, &c. For habitual costiveness, as a fa mily aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent ; mild in their operation and grateful to the stomach, they create appe ite, promote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, 20, Jermyn-street, and by most druggists, in boxes, la. led., and three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine .re a square green package, with " William Lambert." engraved on the stamp. JOZEAU'S COPAFIINE, or SACCHARATED CAPSULES.--Copalba and Cubeba are doubtless the best remedies, but these drugs are of a repulsive taste and odour, and occasion colicky pains, nausea, and gastric dis turbance. M. Jozeau has succeeded in rendering these valu able therapeutic agents t erfectly innocuous by increasing in his Copahine all tto curative properties. This preparation has been adopted by the Paris Academy of Medicine, after more than a thousand trials in Paris and the different Lon don hospitals, viz., St. Thomas's, Guy's, and St. Bartholo mew's, under the care of Messrs. Lloyd, Poland, and Legros Clark. —" Lancet," Nov. 6 and Dec. 10, 1857. The Copahine. which is in form of a pretty pink sugar plum, effects a cure in abnut six days, either in recent or chronic diseases. 100 capsules, 4s, 6d. ; post free, is. 2d. Post-office order required ; at J. JOZEAU'S, French Chemist, 42, Haymarket, London ; 22, Rue St. Quentin, Paris ; and all the most important Chemists. THE VIGOUR OF YOUTH RESTOR ED IN FOUR WEEKS by Dr. RICORD'S ESSENCE OF LIFE. This wonderful agent will restore manhood to the most shattered consti+ution, 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. Ricord's Essence of Life is sold in cases, with full in structions for use, at Its., or four quantities in one for 335.. and may be sent to any part of the world, carefully packed, on receipt ofremittance or post-office order payable to Prout and Co. Dr. Ricord's Sole Agent in London is Prout, Patent Medi cine Warehouse, 229, Strand (seven doors west of Temple bar). (Entered at Stationers' Hall.) DR. BRIGHT'S APHRODISION. THE PFIOSPITORISED NERVINE TONIC, The NEW CHE VICAL COMBINATION of PHOSPHA TIC SALTS, Quinine, Iron, &c., adapted for both sexes, containing all the Essential Constituents of the Blood, Brain, and Nerve Substance.—Grear philosophical and chemical research has led to the discovery of this in valu 'ble remedy in its present perfect state, agreeable to the palate, and innocent in its action -still pre serving its wonderful properties, affording immediate relief, and ermanently curing all who s u ff er f rom WASTING and WITHERING of the NE tivous and MUSCULAR TISSUES, SPER MATORRMEA, DISEASES of the KIDNEY 4, BLADDER, and all URINARY DEPOSITS, which cause incapacity and degeneracy, total and partial prostration, and every other exhaustive de rangeme..t of the system. Regenerating and Invigorating all the important elements of the human frame (when emasculated by youthful indiscretions), and enabling man at Once to ful lhis most sacred obligations. Prices—its. per bottle, or fourlls. bottles in one, 335. ; and in cases containing three 31s. bottles, .C 5, saving ZI 12s.— Parcels securely packed, free from "Oserrattno, eseut to any part of the world, on receipt of Post-office Order. Prepared and sold only at the laboratory, 44A, Nraddox streot, Regent-street, W. (opposite the side of St. George's Church), London, by RALPH BRIGHT, M.D., Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, England ; Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, &c., &c. ; author of "NERVOUS EXHAUSTION," its cause and cure, with an Essay on Seminology, showing the marvellous restorative powers of the newly-discovered and wonderful remedy known universally as the Aphrodision. "As phosphorus in a state of nature illumines the d at, ness, so the exhausted frame revive when impregnated with Its electric .1 properties." Price 2s. fid., by post, 's. 10d. abridged edition, Is., by post 14 stamps, from the residence of the author (44A. Maddox-street, where he maw be daily con sulted, trom 11 to 4, for the cure of the above diseases, to which he has, for a lengthened period, devoted his exclusive attention. - 3, GREAT MA RLBOROUGH-STREET, W., NEAIi- THE PANTHEON. R. CULVERWELL, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Licentiate of Midwifery, and Apo thecaries' Hall, London, can be consulted daily (only) as above, on all cases of Nervous Debility, Languor, Incapacity, Loss of Memory, Sterility, and all Functional Derangements nf both Sexesremanatlng from early and excessive indul c Mee Has Just published, Price i s . is sealed: by poet, is stamps No. 4 An entire new and origi n OURsELvt s W ork, entitled s yno p s is : The Physiology and Anatomy of our Generation —The Origin of Disease—Symptoms, A iso, an Exposition of. and Remedy for ,all trrnilent, and Cure. ralits and Marital Disqualifications,nary Derange- MALE. The modern treatment of Syphilis, Stricture, Bleu Gonorrhoea), Spermatorr hcea, Im p otenc y , a nd .„ 2orrhazia the Urinary Organs, with Prescriptions, 4,0.1 .- ,, seases o i FEMALE. The Physiology and Anatomy of Women—Functional Ir regularities in ealth and Sickness — C hoice in Marriage— Their - H Expectancies and Disappointments — Th.: Cause and Removal of Sterility—The Theory and Symptoms of Gesta tion—Use of the Speculum. Also, No. 1. HEALTH, HAPPINESS, and LONGEVITY ; On Debility, Nervousness, Dyspepsia, and Indigestion, No. 2. !LOVE AND MARRIAGE : Their Obligations, Happiness, and Disappointments; Love nd other Matches. Sterility Removed, and Healthy Off pring seoured. No. S. THE CASE BOOK . : 100 Cases of SPERMATORREDEA, Their Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment, Confessions ind ur. uy k,auterimations,Galyanifm, &o. &a. &c. To be had of Vann, 39, Cornhiti ; and the Authors. /Ovine to the Workina elai+seß fee Half -s-Guises. (SPECIAL NOTICE.) Dr. Culverwell is the only legally qualified medical practi tioner living of that name, and can be consulted (only ao boTe). DR. LA'MERT on NERVOUS and PHYSICAL EBILITY, resulting from pernicious habits con tracted in Youth, excesses in Manhood, or residence in Tropi cal Climates. With Cases and Engravings from Life. Licentiate of the Roya College of Physicians, Edinburgh; Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, England, Bro. The 81st Edition. CONTENTS. Section I.—The Physiology of the Generative Organs. Section li.—Puberty—Manhood—The Morale of Generative rhysioiogy Truc...a Plata° morqiitv, Section lll.—Marriage in its Social and Physical tteianons— Happy and Unhappy Unions How to secure Healthy Off- spring. Section IV.—Touthful Abuse—The Secret Cause of Nervous Debility, Impotence in Man, and Sterility in Man and Woman. Section V.—Spermatorrhma, or Chronic Impotence: its His tory, Causes, and Moral Consequences—The Sterility of Age. _ _ The objeet of this treatise is to furnish the reader with in formation of the most useful kind, and which' every man should be acquainted with, on the physiology of the repro ductive organs, and on the nature and peculiarities of those physical functions n which the satisfactory fulfilment of the Obligations of Marriacre depends. The work is not filled with mysterious and intricate theories, but is intended to elucidate the effects of imprudence, to remote unfounded a arm, and, where there is real cause for apprehension, to in dicate the course by which complete recovery can be effected, and the preservation of functional, physical, and nervous health secured. Price I s., post free for 13, or in a sealed envelope, 20 stamps, by Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or the Author, who may be consulted daily till 2, and from 6 to 8, at his residence, 37, Bedford-square. i $3 1 ;., 5 43 re c o oz 7 ti Li E. ea o v Fo I-. 5 0, :,, 5 k. . c, •-• • 62 ' t cz 6 ' PP .0 • w ::: P . 10 e 4. PP 5 % CD c.lr • . IQ it, P V .0. " ta ,—, P . .. b R. . . ,s, 5 5 t2s • o• 4, . /so .F.: to to to 0- 9c. gPr • 000 • ~ M 72 iv to ot 1,1 iii- ••,..c P V, - 0 R° 2 c.,, . 6 , 5 . ...74 '5 c., cn 1:1 •• 5 ca IsD 5 PA • o . . to MW SO. co •il i c) . Pp ::: 0P .0 iv: ::1 St?, 0 8 8" 0 ' P , ' f.' 5 3 `Z rf, F . c., . , :: .1 t 3 ... 5 03 . 5 PA •oo . . Ts to ..., I .F . - a t. t 7 5 .1." N' cp O 0 V .- 75 r ,- , 4 p Pr • v, . to ' m"- - • i 4 'l7, 1 . 4 1,, 'l: 3 co ot , v .-- c.:, 0 p N, F. .... m by 1- " 5 ...s 1—• E• P-7 • . . i Of . ~., On Wednesday, 18th September, the Great St. Leeer Day, and on Friday, the 20th September, the Cup Day, Cheap Ex cursion Trains will be despatched from London (King's-cross Station), at 6.0 a.m. for Doncaster, arriving at 11.0 a.m., and returning from Doncaster each day at 6.30 p.m. Fare for the Double Journey, in closed carriages, 1 s Horses may be sent on any week day by the Trains leaving King's-cross at 6.30 7.40 a.m., and 12.0 noon, or 1.45 p.m., and on Sundays at 7.30 a.m. A Special Train for the conveyance of Horses will leave Doncaster at 10.0 a.m. on Saturday, 21st, for Xing's-cross and other stations. For further Particulars see bills to be obtained at King's cross, the Receiving Offices in London, and at the stations in the country. SEYMOUR CLARKE, General Manager. — London', King's-cross Station, Sept., 1861. REAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.- -A TOURIST TICKETS, at heap Fares, available for One Calendar Month, a r e issued from Ring's-cross Station, as uuder Fares for the Double Journey. Closed Ist Class. 2d Class. Carriages s. d. s. d. s. d. To t dinburgh and back llO 6 .... 79 6 .... 40 0 To 'Hasgow and back To Stirling and back llB 6 .... 87 0 .... 44 0 To Dunkeld or Perth and 120 0 .... 90 0 .... 44 0 back To Dundee, Forfar, Brechin, Montrose, Arbroath, or 120 0 .... 90 0 46 Aberdeen and back To Scarborough,Whitby,Red car, Filey, Bridlington, or 51 0 35 0 Withernsea and back To Harrogate and back To Isle of Man and back 70 0 50 0 Passengers wishing to stay longer than one calendar month at Scarborough, Whitby, Redcar, Filey, Bridlington, With ernsea, or Harrogate, can (1.,) so on payment of a small addi tional per-tentage, For further particulars, see Programmes, to be obtained at King's-cross Station, and all the Receiving Offices in London, and at the Stations in the 'ountry. SEYMOUR CLARKE, General Manager London, King's-cross Station, Sept., 1861. (TREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. 'HEAP EXCURSION TRAINS will leave London (King's-cross Station), on SATURoAY, 21st September, re turning on Wednesday, 25th September, as under :: At 7.30 a.m. for Fares for the Double Journey. Ist Class. Clos'd Car. Peterboro' Stamford.. 14s ' Od .. 7s. Od. Grantham 15s. Od. .. 7s. 6d. opa Holh i b d l e snot 16s. Od. Bs. Od. Fares for the Double Journey. Ist Class. Clos'd Car. Boston 16s. 0d... Bs. Od. Lincoln ... 18s. Od. .. 9s. Od. Hiirncastle Louth .... Gt. Grime- 225. Od. ..11s. Od. by . a. m. for Leeds Bradford Halifax ... 20s. Od. ..10s. Od. York Hull ...... 255. Od. ..12s. 6d. At 10.20 Newark 15s. 0d... 7s. 6d. Sheffield .. 1 20s. Od. ..10s. Od. Barnsley.. Doncaster lBs. Od. .. 9s. Od. Wakefield 2os. Od. ..10s. Od. CHEAP EXCURSION TRAINS will also leave London (King's-cross Station), at 10.0 a.m , for HUDDERSFIELD, STALEY BRIDGE, OLDHAM, MANCHESTER, and LIVERPOOL. Fares for the Double Journey. First C1a55.......... 21s Closed Carriages.. 12s. 6d. On SATURDAY, 23th Septemb-r, returning only on Wed nesday, 2d October. On SATURD NY, 12th October, returning only on Wednes day, 16th October. And for the same stations—Fares for the Double Journey. First Class 37s. I Closed Carriages.... 17s. On SATURDAY, 2Qth September, returning either on Sa turday, lgth, or Wednesday, 16th October. On WEDNESDAY, 2d 4 ictober, returning either on Satur day, 12th October, or on Wednesday, 16th October. CHEAP EXCURSION TRAINS will leave LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, STALEYBRIGuE, OL DA AM, and UDDERSF ELD, for LONDON, on the 26th September, and 2d and 12th October, at similar Fares to the above. Tickets for the Trains from London may be obtained on the two previous days to the running of each train, at King's cross Station; Angel-street, St. Martin's-le Grand; 32, Regent's-c rcus ; and 264, Holborn ; and on the morning of the running of each Train at King's-crosq Station only. An early application for them is particularly requested. Further particulars given in Bills, to be obtained at King's cross, and principal stations, or at any of the Company's Re ceiving offices in London. SEYMOUR CLARKE, General Manager. London, King's-cross Station, September, 1861. DR. BUCHAN'S DOMESTIC MEDICINES. PATENT SUGAR-COATED PILLS, for purifying the blood, egulating the bowels, and removing vitiated hu mors, bi 'ions and liver complaints, rheumatism gout, scor butic affections, co tiveness. drt. These pills work their way to the very roots of each disease, cleansing in their passage , and removing every unhealthy accumulation, ti•l the hl o is purified, the whole system renovated, and all the functions ac according to nature, whilst the duties of life become a pleAsure, where before they ha t been sad and weary burdens. Do not hesitate—do not delay ! a clean stom»ch must make a clean body. A clean body will contain pure blood, when the stomach, body, and blood are pure, from regulating and cleansing the bowels, health is certain. Bein at the be ginning, waste no time; strike at the root of your ailment. Again, I say, look to your stomach. One trial of these pills will force convicti in. Sold in bottles, at is. lid., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and lls, . . Sold by Buchan and Co., 22, Newman-street, Oxford street. London, W., and to be had of all chemists in town and country, or forwarded on re eipt of stamps. Wholesale Agents :—Barclay and Son, 75, Farringdon-st. DR. CURTIS' MEDICAL WORK, MANHOOD : tdIEIIrCAL ESSAY ON S PER MATO RRHCE NERVOUS AND GENERATIVE DEBILITY, atc. ust Published, the 150th thousand, with numerous plates, in a sealed envelope, price Is., Sold by all Booksellers, and sent post paid, by the Author, for 12 stamps, ANHOOD: the CAUSE and CURE of PRE- T I MATURE DECLINE IN MAN, with Plain Directions or Perfect Restoration to Health and Vigour. By Dr. J. L. Coavis, 15, Albermarle-street, Piccadilly, London. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER on the Physiologi oat •Itructure and Functions of the Reproductive Organs. CHAPTER IL—Causes of Sperpaatorrhcea and Impotence; early Vicious Indulgences ; Dangers of Neglect. CHAPTER lII.—A Review of the various Disqualifications A Marriage; whether resulting from 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 and interesting aces, to which is added the Author's recipe of a preventive Lotion. REVIEWS OF THE WORK. shOlueurtild be a in °ll the l h a a n n h rs young a is nd a March, 1856. otkulx—vtisnundableawy Times, n 13d li;;lTehweoaruktV ,whhaischconferredis sdesried h c great described ate so boon rbyp thoseublis diseases gth se is s which produce decline in youth or more frequently premature old Etge."—"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 • bilifY ; and to invalids suffering from youthful errors and excesses it will be found valuable and useful."—Record. London : Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, Pater noster-row; Mann, 59, Cornhill. I jipliN of C o u sultatiort-10 to 3 and 0 to 8 ;fiundays,lo till 2. r HE PRESENT DISTRESS IN TRADE fully explained in J. GROSSMITH'S " GOVERNMENT UPON FIRST PRINCIPLES." The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficulties ex perieneed in 1860. The Crisis is at hand. Anxiety in bus ness has now become the grim torture. Purity of motive, intelligently exercised, must animate all Governments, or all is lost, All denominations of Constitutions are carefully examined in J. Grossmith's "Government upon First Prin ciples." Kent and Co., Paternoster-row. Just published, price 25., free by post. 28.4 d., ON SPERMATORRHCEA. By F. B. COTJRTENAY, M.R.C.S.E., And formerly Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the 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, Regent-street. Just published, 132 pages, illustrated with cases, in a neat •12m0., price ls., or post free for 18 stamps, The Third Edition of MANLY VIGOUR; the Art of Preserving, Improving, and Recovering It. With Practical Remarks on Spermatorrheea, Seminal Weakness, and Nervous Debility, Impotence. Barrenness, Sterility, and all other Disorders of the Generative Organisa tion in Males and Females. Likewise a chapter on Venereal Diseases, interspersed with clear instructions for self man 4gement and prescriptions for cure, and for ensuring the blessings o'' wedded happiness, and restoration to the privi leges of health and vigour. From this work it will be seen that none need despair, but all may look forward confidently to permane recovery. By Dr. A. F. HENE London: Published by the Author, Medical Institution, 53, Dorset-street, Manchester square, W. By post. Is., THE MEDICAL CONFIDANT on Midwifery , Pregnancy, the Disappointments in Marriage, and other ailments peculiar to Ladies. Fe male Obstruction Pills, ss. a box, post free. Address, D:. Scott, 17, Adam street, S Grand, London (since 1836). Consultations, 10 till 6. AMERICA. The subjoined additional details have been fur nished from the New York papers, which have since come to hand : NEW YORK, SEPT. 3. The New York Times of the 2d inst. gives the following account of the capture of Forts Hatteras and Clark "We published yesterday morning a brief an nouncement of the result of the expedition which lately left Fortress Monroe under the joint com mand of Gen. Butler and Commodore Stringham, and this morning we give the full particulars, as furnished by our special correspondent who accom panied the expedition. As we anticipated, its des tination wee Hatteras Inlet, which has for some time been infested by a number of pirates, who have run out and in, whenever they saw fit, with the utmost impunity. The Secessionists have also rz cently, erected there two forts, one called Fort Hat teras, and the other Fort Clark, mounting about 30 guns and occupied by some 600 or 700 men. The expedition left Fortress Monroe on Monday last, and made their rendezvous off the inlet on Tuesday afternoon, when preparation was immediately made for landing troops on Wednesday morning. The number landed was about 300 ; the gunboats, mean time, sweeping the beach with shell to prevent any interference on the part of the Secessionists. The batteries were then engaged by the Wabash, Min nesota, and the Cumberland, with the greatest effect, and during the first day were partially silenced, the troops on shore remaining in readiness to lend their aid at the proper moment. " On Thursday morning the bombardment was recommenced, the ships having taken up new posi tions, and such was the terrible effect of their fire that the Secessionist commanders were speedily driven to capitulation, when our force on shore marched into the forts and took possession. The surrender was absolute and unconditional, General Butler refusing to treat on any other terms. " Upwards of 600 prisoners were taken, including Commodore Barron, commanding the Secessionist naval forces in Virginia and North Carolina, and Assistant-Secretary of the Confederate navy, and several colonels, captains, and officers of lesser note. The Secessionist loss in killed is unknown, as they are said to have carried away a number of bodies. Two were found inside the forts. Eleven of their wounded were brought away with the other pri soners, who will soon reach this port on board the Minnesota. On our side there appears net to have been a single man killed or wounded. Three vessels were captured, one of which was loaded with cotton, ready to run the blockade, and a number of important documents were found, which will be of great service to the Government in determining who are and who have been its Enemies. On the whole, the expedition may be regarded as eminently brilliant and successful. " The facility with which the Secessionist priva teers have been enabled to overhaul and capture so many Northern vessels is explained by one of the documents captured at Hatteras. It is a copy of a letter from Robert G. Scott, late American Consul at Rio Janeiro, giving a list of all the vessels leaving or to leave that port within a month, with full description of their cargoes and destina tion. The privateers thus knew precisely when and where to look for the vessels, and six of those named in the list have been captured." A despatch dated Louisville, Kentucky, Sept. 1, says, " A special despatch to the New Orleans Delta from Richmond, the 28th, says that Jeff. Davis is c s j o oe 1 ,7. 1 a l rol e t as h : a ies t Co n gress the had eo ma mdi ao adjourned nudrnimn adjournment npte t ros o fo a cn w o on a fg i t h Congress etha is se army on the Potomac. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald states on Sept. 3, " A despatch has been received here to-day from Richmond, via Louisville, announcing the death of Jeff. Davis. This accounts for the display of flags at half-mast from the Seces sionist ramparts to-day." The New York Herald of the 3d inst. gives the following summary of the situation of affairs— " Information reached Washington yesterday afternoon which, if true, may make a considerable change in the fortunes of the Southern outbreak. News arrived by way of Louisville from Richmond states that Jefferson Davis was dead. Our latest accounts of him were to the effect that he was very ill, and that the Confederate Congress had adjourned to await his recovery. If the report of his death is correct, Mr. Stephens, the Vice-President, is now at the head of the Secessionist States, and recent accounts report him also to be sick at Manassas. It appears that the Secessionist flags within sight of the Union lines were observed to be flying at half-mast yesterday, and this would seem to confirm the rumour of Mr. Davis's death. " Skirmishes were going on all day yesterday between the Secessionists and the outposts of the Union army near Bailey's Cross Road. The Seces sionists' earthworks on Munson's•hill are completed and it is momentarily expected that they will open fire upon the camps at Bailey's Cross Road. In this event it will become necessary to silence them, and a general engagement may thus be provoked. "The State Department has received information from Mr. Adams, e British Minister Government in doesL ondon,n that ot in his opinion th con template any change of position towards this coun try, so long as t he blockade is continued. si Mr. Secretary Chase has issued an important . pu . blic in behalf of the pcipular loan, i h t e is the interest as well as the duty that the land personal values points to the fact real of every one who has money to invest to place it at hands of the Government.. He Wings of the people of these showingat il l) crisis al to thatti h n e t t o h f a t t he th lo e y t a i u l rSptiautsesmamounts to 11,000,000,000 dols., States amount to 400,000,000 dols., whereas the cost of the war, on the calculation of high military authorities, if judiciously conducted, will not be more than 250,000,000 dols, " The interest on loans at the rate authorised by Congress—namely, 7 310 per cent.—will be on loans of 50 dots, one cent. per day, on 100 dols. two cents., on 500 dols. ten cents., on 1,000 twenty cents., and on 5,000 dols. one dollar. Mr. Chase urges the speedy acceptance of this loan, and announces that books will be opened at once in the several cities and towns in the United States to re ceive subscriptions. "We have some further details of the affair at Fort Hatteras. The steamer George Peabody arrived at Fortress Mitroe yesterday with one of the prizes in tow. She\ reports that the Harriett Lane was got off the shoals on Saturday afternoon, but not without throwing her coals and her guns overboard. It is said that the guns will be re. covered. Another United States gunboat also went ashore on Smith's Island, near Cape Charles, on the Ist inst. Three propellers were at once despatched from Old Point to her assistance. " The frigate Minnesota arrived at this port yes terday with 674 of the prisoners taken at Fort Hatteras, including Commander Barron and the other officers who surrendered. "We iaave intelligence by way of Cincinatti that a collison took place at Boone Court-house, in Western Virginia, on the Ist inst., between the Union and the Secession forces, in which the latter were badly beaten, losing 30 killed, 40 prisoners, and a large number wounded. The Union troops, it is said, burned the town." The following important proclamation has been issued by Major-General Fremont : " Head-quarters of the Western Department, ' St. Louis; Aug. 31, 1861. "Circumstances, is my judgment of sufficient urgency, renders it necessary that the commanding General of this department should assume the ad ministrative powers of the State. "Its disorganised condition, the helplessness of the civil authority, the total insecurity of life, and the devastation of property by bands of murderers and marauders, who infest nearly every county in the State, and avail themselves of the public mis fortunes, and the vicinity of a hostile force to gratify private and neighbonrhood vengeance, and who find an enemy wherever they find plunder, finally de• mand the severest measures to repress the daily increasing crimes and outrages Which are driving off the inhabitants and ruining the State. In this condition the public safety and the success of our arms require unity of purpose, without let or hin drance, to the prompt administration of public affairs. " In order, therefore, to suppress disorder—to maintain, as far as practicable, the public peace, and to give security and protection to the pers o n s and property of loyal citizens, I do hereby extend and declare established martial law throughout the State of Missouri. " The lines of the army of occupation in this State are for the present declared to extend to Leaven worth by way of the posts of Jefferson City, Rolla, and Tronton, to Cape Giraudean on the Mississippi river. " All persons who shall be taken with arms in their hands, within these lines, shall be tried by court martial, and if found guilty will be shot. The property, real and personal, of w all persons in the State of Missouri, who shall take up arms against the United States, or who shall be directly proven to have taken an active part with their enemies in the field, is declared to be confiscated to the public use, and their slaves, if any they have, are hereby declared free men. "All persons who shall be proven to have de stroyed, after the publication of this order, railroad trucks, bridges, or telegraph, shall suffer the ex treme penalty of the law. "All persons engaged in treasonable correspon dence, in giving or procuring aid to the enemies of the United States, in disturbing the public tran quillity, by creating or circulating false reports or incendiary documents, are in their own interest warned that they are exposing themselves. " All persons who have been led astray from their allegiance are required to return to their homes forthwith. Any such absence without sufficient cause will be held to be presumptive evidence against them. "The object of this Declaration is to place in the hands of the military authorities the power to give instantaneous effect to existing laws, and to suppl 3 such deficiencies as the conditions of war demands. But it was not intended to suspend the ordinary tribunals of the country, where the law will be ad ministered by the civil officers in the usual manner, and with their accustomed authority, while the same can be peaceably exercised. " The Commanding General will labour vigilantly for the public welfare, and in his efforts for their safety he hopes to obtain not only the acquiescence, but the active support of the people of the country. " J. C. FREMONT, Major-General Commanding." AUSTRALIA. A letter from Melbour pe, dated July 26, says : The English mail, with dates to the 20th of May, arrived on the 13th inst., with the intelli gence that hostilities had commenced in America. The Queen's proclamation has been published by authority here, and I believe not prematurely, as it is understood that a" citizen" of the Southern States had arrived here with letters of marque in his pocket, intending to fit out a privateer or pri vateers. In my last letter I mentioned that the Heales Ministry had been defeated by a large majority, on a vote of no confidence ; that he had declined to re sign, and had advised the Governor to dissolve the Assembly; and that the Governor had readily em braced his advice. This step his Excellency will no doubt be able to justify, on the ground of the dis organised state of the Assembly. The dissolution has accordingly taken place, and the elections will all come off between the 29th of July, the earliest nomination day, and the 19th of August, the latest pohir g-day. The writs are made returnable on the 29th of August. This early day has been brought about by a sort of constitutional compulsion, accom panied by a scene between the Governor and the Assembly. One or two of the Ministry are noto riously deficient in the statesmanlike qualification of reticence. They have among them men so weak of thought who mutter their affairs, and one of this kind let out that they would not disso.ve for some months. What was to be done to force an early dissolution ? There was some talk of refusing sup plies unless the Executive would make an explicit declaration that they would dissolve before a time to be named. Another plan was to limit the sup plies to a specified number of months. But they had already been voted in committee and the reso lutions had been reported to the house, so that there was some probability that the Ministry might act on the reported resolutions if the Commissioners of Audits should raise no objection—as was done in England in 1832, when Parliament was dissolved on the loss of the first Reform Bill, and as was acted of .here to a limited extent on a similar occa sion in 1858. Finally, the constitutional expedients resorted to was the introductiou of the following clause in the Appropriation Act for the service of the present year : " N o moneys appropriated by the Act for the service of this present year shall be issued or applied out of the con solidated revenue after the last day of August, 1861, unless Parliament shall be then sitting ; and any person who, in violation of this enactment, shall countersign any instru ment or make any order for the issue or application of any such moneys, or honour or pay any check or draught out of the pu. , lic accounts, shall forfeit and pay the sum of £l,OOO, with full costs of suit to any person who shall sue for the same, and shall be for ever after incapable of holding office in the public service of this colony," His Excellency was ill-advised enough to step out of his path to get rid of this clause. There is a clause in the Constitution Acts which authorises the Governor— ,' To transmit by message to the Council or Assembly for their consideration any amendment which he shall desire to be made in any Bill presented to him for her Majesty's assent, and all such amendments shall be taken into con sideration in such convenient manner as shall by the rules and orders aforesaid (i.e., the standing orders) be in that behalf provided." Of this clause the Governor availed himself, though very irregularly, before the bill was pre sented to him for her Majesty's assent, and on the 2d of July the Speaker intimated that he had re ceived a message from his Excellency with regard to the Appropriation Bill, recommending the As sembly to reconsider the bill and strike out the third clause. Mr. Heales, the Chief Secretary, moved accordingly that the clause be struck out. A very spirited debate ensued, which will hereafter form a chapter in the constitutional history of the colony. An amendment was moved by Mr. Michie, as follows : " That this House declines to accede to the proposal con tained in the message of his Excellency the Governor, be cause it is contrary to the spirit of the Constitution that either the Council or the Governor should propose any alte ration in the Appropriation Bill." This distinct assertion of a constitutional right was carried against Ministers by a majority of 36 to 17, the minority consisting of the seven Mini sters and ten of their supporters, three of their usual adherents having crossed the House and voted against them. On the following day the Legislature was pro rogued, and the Governor in his speech animad verted in strong terms on the above clause. He said— '• I am bound, as Queen's representative, to protest against the limitation you have imposed on the issues of the supplies after the close of next month, unless Parliament be then sitting. Conditions of this sort are totally at variance with the usage of the mother country, since the true prin ciples of constitutional government were settled at the Revo lution nearly two centuries ago. In looking to the assurances you have received on the point in question, both from myself and my advisers, no political necessity can be pleaded for the introduction here of so absolute, yet dangerous an expe dient. Mindful of the shock to the financial credit of the country--of the injury to its public establishments, and of the whispered distress among the labouring Classes, which the rejection of the Appropriation Act would entail, I have refrained from complying with an alternative which the strict line of duty would have justified ; but I confidently trust that the good sense of this community will not suffer such an attempt to coerce the Executive to be drawn into a precedent, for disastrous as its future would have been, as already pointed out, its success ultimately would prove not more fatal to the prerogative of the Crown than the liberties of the people. Upon the conclusion of this sentence loud cries of "No ! no !" proceeded from two or three members of the Assembly at the bar of the Legislative Coun cil. If they had cried "Privilege ! privilege !" his excellency would have been more forcibly reminded that he was overstepping his constitutional func tions. A very strong feeling of indignation was ma nifest among the members of the Assembly, more than is indicated by the words " No, no." There was a good deal of excitement among them, and this was more especially among those highest in social position. On their return to their own Chamber, where the printed copies of the speech were distri buted, it was openly torn by one excited member and trampled under foot, and I have not the least doubt that the Governor's conduct will be brought before the new Assembly early next session. And who will venture to say that his Excellency's conduct has not been injudicious and unconstitu tional ? The message of the 2d July was a mistake. It can only be constitutionally communicated on a bill being' presented to the Governor for her Ma jesty's assent." But the Appropriation Bill is only presented by the Speaker on the last day of the session, and was not, in fact, presented, until July 3d. His Excellency could not be ignorant of this, because he has been twice advised to resort to the expedient to amend errors in bills presented to him, and once a suggestion by the Legislative Council to get a line in the Appropriation Act of 1858 amended by a similar expedient was rejected on the express grounds that the clause in the Constitution Act did not apply. His Excellency cannot well have for gotten this, as it was on the occasion of his being kept waiting for seven hours while the constitu tional point was under discussion. Moreover, at the commencement of the speech is a most offensive and unconstitutional expression, He speaks of the vote of no confidence as " the recent action taken by a majority of the Legislative Assembly having rendered an appeal to the country desirable as the only constitutional course available," &c. What right has a Governor to speak of a vote of the House as the action of the majority ? What ought be to know of majorities or minorities ? A vote of the House carried by a majority of one is as much the vote of the house as one carried by 77 out of the 78 members. Then it was a wanton and unnecessary misrepresentation to say that an appeal to the coun- try was the " only" course. There was obviously another course—the resignation of the Ministry. There had been a debate in which the dissolution had been condemned and the alternative was sug gested a dozen times, and a day or two afterwards the Governor coolly tells the Assembly that disso lution was the only course. The speech no doubt was prepared for the Governor by his advisers ; but he was not compelled to take their advice, and had he declined to do so they could still have resigned. His Excellency has certainly given to the present Ministry a more cordial support than he has afforded to any previous Ministry, though it is the least competent and the least respectable of any which we have as yet had. It has yielded to the clamours of a section of the community in favour of selection before survey. It has availed itself of a question able interpretation of the Land Sales Act to grant occupation licenses without any reasonable prospect of being able to collect the rents from the occu pants. It has given force and effect to what was a very weak cry for protective duties. Individual members of the Ministry have repeatedly encou raged the most vulgar prejudice against the re spectable classes of the community by sneering at the " kid glove" and " broadcloth" aristocracy. The financial policy, or rather no policy of the Ministry, including originally a tax on imported food, is a failure, and is likely to impair the credit of the colony at home and abroad. If the dissolu tion should convert their minority into a majority, nothing but the peculiar vitality of a new country will save the financial condition of the country from paralysis. What may be the result of the elections cannot be foreseen. The protection doc trines of the Ministry alone ought to destroy them ; but it is by no means certain that it will do so. The result will depend in a great measure upon the hold which the folly of protection has obtained on the minds of the constituencies. Since the prorogation the Ministry have lost their ablest colleague, the Attorney-General. When their financial scheme was brought before the House and ignominiously rejected Mr. Ireland was not in the Assembly, and he appears to have given it a tacit assent. When the Speech was under consideration he required that certain passages favourable to protection should be omitted, and it is understood that he succeeded by a threat of re signation. Since then he has become entitled to a pension, but to give effect to his right regulations are necessary to be framed by the Governor in Council. Mr. Heales is opposed to these Ministe rial pensions, and declined to make the necessary regulations. Mr. Ireland resigns on the ground of his differences with his colleagues on the protec tion qirstion. Of course, their view of the case is that he resigns on the pension question. On this question he has right on his side, and it is simply an act of repudiation not to recognise it ; and there is something of cowardice too. They feared that promulgation of any regulations at this moment would tell against them on the hustings. At the present juncture they are unable to secure an At torney-General, and as Mr. Ireland must hold office till his successor is appointed, it seems not unlikely that he must be chained to the dead carcass of the Ministry until they meet the Assembly. Serious disturbances have taken place in New South Wales between the Europeans and Chinese at a place called Lambing-flat, not far from Yas—a township on the direct road between this colony and Sydney. Months ag o th e E uropeans evinced a determination to expel the Chinese from that locality. The Government of New South Wales sent up some troops, and the Chief Secretary, Mr. Cowper, visited the place. He made some speeches, attended a complimentary dinner, and fancied he had settled the question, The troops were then withdrawn, and when he returned to Sydney he talked largely of maintaining the authority of the law. The turbulent Europeans of Lambing flat now called him traitor and affected to believe that he had pledged himself to their anti-Chinese views, and they recommenced their attacks on the Chinese. The fact is that Mr. Cowper temporised, and then fancied that he had mesmerized the rowdies" of Lambing-flat, whereas the latter as sumed that he was entirely with them. At length in the early part of this month some of the ring leaders were arrested by the police, a rescue was attempted, during which shots were exchanged, and four or five of the Europeans were killed and a great many wounded. Three of the police were also wounded. The Europeans then assembled in large numbers, and the police, who acted with no less forbearance than courage, were compelled to retreat to Yass. The New South Wales Government has since sent up 125 soldiers, and the Governor has proclaimed martial law—a favourite expedient with colonial governors. On the Bth inst. the Northern Railway was opened to W oo d en d, a di s t ance o f 44 or 45 miles from Melbourne, leaving only 30 to Castleman. It is remarkably well constructed, and the remainder of the line is making steady progress towards com pletion. The Ballarat line from Geelong can be ready by the end of the year if the rails and chairs all arrive from England. We have now 118 miles in operation, of which five short lines, measuring 24 miles, are the work of joint-stock companies. Some of _these, however, are not in a very flourishing financial condition, and their stocks are low in price. Even the Hobson's Bay Railway,' which has hitherto paid well, is depressed by the low condition of the others. Its shares, which once reached £lOO, and stood for a long time at £7O and above, are now at £42. This is caused in part by their disputes as to the right of the Government to compel them to bridge over any road or street which the Government may choose to make, and partly to the impression that they will shortly be compelled to renew their roll ing stock. The other shares are very low, simply because they do not pay, and are not likely to pay. The Registrar General has published an abstract of the population as exhibited by tt'e late Census. The total exhibited shows an increase from 410,766 in 1857, to 540,322 in 1861. The excess of males is still great, the numbers being 328,651 males and 211,651 females. But the proportional disparity has been somewhat lessened by the fact that the in crease shows rather more females than males, the numbers being 64,317 males and 65,239 females. During the six months ending June 30 the colony has only gained 245 by the balance of arrivals over departures, the numbers being as follows—arrivals 11,502, departures 11,257. In spite of the disturbed state of New Zealand, that colony continues to gain monthly from us in the interchange of people. During the last three months 111 persons arrived from that colony, while 276 departed thither, and the recent discovery of a rich goldfield in the Otago provinces will probably attract many of our miners, who are generally of restless habits and rather disposed to new rushes. During the last three months the production of gold has fallen off nearly 100,000 oz. The total quantity received by escort up to the end of last week is 1,015,585 oz., against 1,122,079 oz. last year to the same date. Only three gold ships have sailed since my last—namely, the Swiftsure, with 51,217 oz., the James Wilson, with 19,058 oz., and the Lincolnshire, with 51,778 oz.—all for London. About 16,400 oz. have been shipped to the East— Hongkong and Calcutta. The condition of the revenue and of trade are both unsatisfactory. There is a deficiency on the last quarter's revenue as compared with last year's, of /77,571 ; and on the year ending the 30th of June of £228,381. The imports and exports arc nearly balanced, the value of the latter being £6,535,322, and of the former £6,530,183, but intelligence has been received by the Benares that shipments from England to Aus tralia were increasing, and this has for the time completely paralysed trade. Some considerable failures have taken place, but I believe their liabili ties are almost wholly local. They are as follows : —W. H. Nicholson—liabilities, £30,000, assets, £5,000 ; Goodman Teale—liabilities, £13,500, assets, £4,570; Bergin Brothers—liabilities about £45,000, •assets about £8,600, In most cases the liabilities are diminished by large securities, as it seems to be the almost invariable practice here for traders to hold out as long as they have any securities upon which they can raise money. An alteration has been made in the time for the sailing of the mail ships which will enable me to forward the morning papers. .NEW ZEALAND. A letter from Melbourne, dated July 25, says : I have very little to communicate in the way of news from New Zealand, but I fear that, such as it is, that news foreshadows matter of painful interest in future. Since the termination of hostilities at Taranaki, in March last, there has been no renewal of actual strife, but so far as can be collected from the position which the Governor has assumed, and the demeanour of the Waikatoes, there seems to be every prospect of renewed hostilities on a much broader basis in the early spring. In my last I mentioned the terms of the commu nication which the Governor had made to the Waikatoes. He had required of them :-1. That they should abandon their pretensions to set up any authority in derogation of that of the Queen. 2. That they should restore property which the Waikato contingent, as I suppose we may call it, had taken at Taranaki. 3. That they should pay for property which could not be specifically restored. The Waikatoes, guided by Tamihana, the King-maker, answer evasively, and as a matter of fact take no step towards yielding to the Governor's demand. I have over and over again expressed my conviction that this stupid King movement might have been nipped in the bud, and even turned to useful account, had Governor Browne made himself better ac quainted with Maori habits and feelings than he appears to have done. Not a shadow of doubt exists in the minds of intelligent Europeans that this King movement might have been guided and controlled. But the Governor has been completely in the hands of the Ministry and the Native Department, and several of both bodies had an interest, direct or in direct, in bringing the Taranaki dispute to a war like issue. Even in this the Governor, guided by his War Ministry, made a mistake. A war might have been provoked on an issue which would have appeared more just to European eyes. Instead of this, it was precipitated upon an issue which was manifestly unjust, and which the Governor in his treaty with the hostile tribes has been compelled to abandon, by yielding a new inquiry as t o th e w h ole merits of the original dispute—i. c., as to the tenable ness of Wirimu Kingi's claims to his Inane or tribal right. This word " inane" simply means authority. It is also used to denote influence, and since the na tives have been more in communication with Euro peans it has been used as the equivalent of ideas to which it could not have been originally applied. I have often heard it used to denote something like the Queen's sovereignty, or at least her lawful authority, in the same sense as we use the phrase, " the authority of the Crown," or the " Queen's authority," that is not the whole sovereignty, but the Royal authority in a particular point, Of late years it has been applied by the natives to express the authority which the chief exercises over land, and thus what the Europeans call the tribal right the natives call mane. The word now figures as re presenting an idea worthy of being fought for, I dare say it may seem strange to many of your readers that I should waste many lines in fixing the meaning of a word in the language o f "savages.. but the idea is one of great intensity in the Affieor mind, and the word by which that idea heed t c : be expressed, though only recently so aP be- comes of great importance. It was mum over the land which was f&Fai Taranaki. It will be the Potatau's niana, generally, Last yea r th e R ev . M r . B u ddl e , th e Chief of the Wesleyan Mi ss i on , wro t e a pam phl e t on the Ring question. It i s a ver y accura t e recor d o f the facts and histo r y o f t h e movement, and h i s conc l us i o n was—lea ve t he matter alone, and it will die a, which is likely to be fought for in Waikatoo. natural death. If the country had remained tran quil, and the Governor had made a slight show of establishing order among the natives,l think it quite possible that Mr. Buddle's theory might have been verified and justified. But the King movement has not died out, and is not likely to die out, for the Governor has neglected it until it has grown bey yond his control, and I fear that w ar i s now in evitable, settlers, am free to admit t h at if t h e reignty of the Queen, that 2 nanu must be put down at all hazards. ('' and, although I dread the consequeneen the\ manyit country oe f Potatau is to be set up against th e t,ove. I fear the Secretary of State has come to this conclusion a little prematurely. If instead of send ing out a new General a new Governor had been sent out, there would have been great hope of a sort of a diplomatic conquest of the natives. But Gover nor Browne's declaration that he was acting with the direct authority of the Queen, coupled with the announcement brought with the last mall, that " Colonel Gore Browne had been reappointed Gover nor-in-Chief of New Zealand," seems to show that the Imperial Government had finally determined to bring the matter to an issue and suppress the King movement. And yet it is not absolutely too late to strip this King movement of its obnoxious' features and establish peace with the natives. There are sor circumstances favourable to this result, I have shown in former letters that the New Zealand question could not be presented to the English reader as one in w_hictl, the Euro peans were on one side and the natives on the other. The War Ministry was defeated on the' hustings expressly on the war question, though generally supported by the Nelson and Canter bury people, who could view the war from a distance with whole skins. Nearly all the settlers of the province o f W e lli ngton, w h o had long l i ved in amity with the natives, disapproved the war. That province has always numbered a larger propor tion of high-minded gentlemen of good family than. any of these southern colonies, and many of the humbler class of settlers had been connected as tenants or farm-servants with the fathers of the first colonists. It was by the influence of the Wel lington members that the War Ministry was re duced to a minority at the recent election, and it was by the same influence that the Stafford Ministry has just been defeated on a vote of no confidence— common enough here, but the first on record inNew Zealand. Now, no confidence in the Stafford Mini stry means disapproval of the war policy of the Governor. The acknowledged leader of the anti- Ministerial party is Featherston, the superintendent of the province of Wellington. He is a man of con siderable ability, of masculine energy, and, above all, an educated gentleman. In Downing-streLt he probably stands ranked only as a turbulent opponent of the Government. The other circumstance favourable to settlement, even at this 11th hour, if New Zealand had a Go. vernor so disposed, is that the northern natives, the Nga-pui, are said to have joined the Government against the Waikatoes. If so it will certainly stagger the confidence of the latter. These Nga-pui were the first to obtain fire-arms under C. Honghi, or Shungi, as the Europeans called him. They attacked the Waikatoes, slaughtered vast numbers, ate not a few, and carried away many as slaves. Their chief Nene, commonly called Taurati Waka (which means Thomas Walker), did good service in the war of 1845, and now enjoys a pension of £lOO a year. The only other matters of fact which have reached me relate to General Cameron's position. He has about 7,000 men under his command. The Wellington settlers have applied for some military protection ; the answer is. that " the outsettlers must protect themselves. Capt. Seymour, naval commodore of the station, tells them that he will not again take his ship into Wellington. Why? Because fifteen of his men got on shore, and, cap tipated either by the charms of the Maori women or the attractions of the long-shore grog shops, omitted to return. The General cannot commence military operations until the spring, and it is said, has intimated, that he must have 10,000 troops in all. Thus, no events of importance will occur with the General's assent till September or October. But he may be forced into action with out his own consent. The military will be em ployed in pushing roads towards the Waikato country. If the Waikatoes are in earnest, and are not restrained by our Trinobantes, the Nga-pui, they will certainly not leave the road parties un molested. One curious feature in the state of New Zealand is that in spite of this war the colony seems . to be flourishing better than any one of these colonies. For some years gold in moderato quantities has been obtained in the province of Nelson, and last year it was found in the interior of the province of Otago, but it was found in the high land, and the winter there is so severe and the snow so deep that, like the Snowy River, it could not be worked during the winter months. Lately, however, gold has been found much more abundantly at a place called Takaka, on the coast of the province of Otago, and some experienced miners from Victoria had obtained a large remune ration for their labours. In spite of the war the balance of migrators is always against Victoria and in favour cf New Zealand, and Ihave no doubt that many of our diggers will be attracted by the recent reports, which appear to be authentic. JULY 26. The mail from New Zealand usually arrives here too closely upon the departure of the mail for England to enable me to avail myself of the news to any considerable extent. As, however, our mail is open until this morning I am enabled to add a few particulars. The War Ministry was beaten on the vote of no confidence by a majority of one only. But Mr. Fox, who is an ally of Dr. Feather stone, bad been sent for, and was endeavouring to form a Ministry. If Mr. Fox succeeds it was antici pated that would have great influence on the na tives, and that they would then repose more con fidence in the counsels of the Governor. The Governor had sent a message to the Assem- bly, informing them that unless they would vote a large sum of money towards th 6 expenses of the war he would not instruct General Cameron to com mence hostilities against the 'Waikatoes. This seems to be a strange proceeding. H e fi rs t th rea t ens the Waikatoes by making the three requisitions above-mentioned, and thereby seems to commit him self to a war policy ; he then threatens the Assembly that unless they provide means he will not carry his threat of coercion into execution. The Waika toes have required time to consider the Governor's notice to them, and the Message seems to show that they will have ample time, without any special con cession in that behalf. This seems once more to open the door to accommodation. DROWNING AT ALDERSUOTT.—WhiIe the British Association is ringing with praises of Lord Herbert for his efforts to lessen the rate of the mortality in the army, and just as two coroners' juries have sent railway officials for trial for manslaughter, a correspondent draws our attention to what appears 0 be very like a deliberate waste of human life at our great camp. "At Aldershott," he says, 6 , there is a certain pontoon bridge across the canal. It is swimg at night, but it is so well done that at the end of the bridge there is nothing to prevent a man walking across it into the water. Just before the 2d Life Guards left Aidershott last month they lost their armourer. He was drowned about 12 o'clock at night. He came to th e bridge, thinking i t was all right, walked across into the water, and was drowned. This makes the fiftieth man that has been drowned off the pontoon. Over and over again the coroner he.s recommended some safeguard." But for our knowledgva of our corres pondent's perfect trustworthiness we confess we should not possibly cre dit this. Fifty soldiers drowned for Ps w ant of th e s i m le t precau tion r We kno w not who i s respc )nsible, but we trust cainT ) i s respons ibl e t o b e t hat this mention of m t i h g em t att ay ca. us e th e attent i on o f th o se to whom every person in d i rec t e d to stop this frightful wast e kof human life. The a n g e a x i t n c s o t r s o o n m e r b s j duy as those ju s t ry h return as ugly a verdict gri" en in the cafe of the rail way companies. —Army Ics NCIVJ Gazette, end F A hg Ea _ ts] 0 c m •!-A. ,„ s, ti L - I O 0 0 • tV P• 0 w H 5 • ri