The Sun. — London, England, 1861-04-29 00:00:00

0. ,/, NEWSPAPER •.- I • \ Zt . A•te • 4-1 . - • • • • • AppIICATION OF ELECTRIC% t 4, \,, • • so,f/. ‘, l-, :14e11 : .4 , . ON OF GIr.:I'POWDE 7 ; s Vii. ‘ TILE EXPLOSI — n. O AVY, S t . "" . 2 .. " 7 ' ... 0TT. . Cit.) I r 1 e apprentice r have Berra he pariah 10 ie settlement ;ent out at 14 ley leave th e c haplain, la ng on. The Dpinion to milliners/ Pe have mare Lan we ha" otorions 0141 stie sereining ; of the vtor,'' khouse. .r ° upers resell ° f those vil l° the childrel 3W hollll* ving the s a genet; 33r the We ltluenee re would bad if 3 1 " them no o rs 'others WO n a refort° l ; re. I Sha ll : :!table you", at in Ore. ° their null" 3 98 parish ° are c re ef i l e poor. ," 3 an eras, wae to state th e ntrol of tb o i he woo' cted in the )3 , the Poe' workhouse! rnght to be . e gnardioa: n 1852, s it Lon this ar., it of manil a' 'After con: I and Lord rough, pro' ter that the authorit/f What the wer of dio• ion that ha They had ' s : he power e occasion 1° aissed you't ound of 0 Manll3ll4 0 o for u 0 t from W e s eleo years ag°' ll point vP ° iended ? surehal a most 0 titular Pe!' cheque all he names! ) Una of to e ouch better uditor man of 13 ,' fectly in° and ootills but a limi t .sday's ra A t ett : mlneglecli ut chaq e 3d to Oa P t 6te rates, 3, cult to gil l [ate wiaitS. ply of 10 1 - its LI the tulli 0 value. Oa ance but nglish '° 69 nch do., re D 718 ; /til er 5s to 43 0 4 to 288 ; tf*. • mug 15 1; barley Od UP .s Od dovo• , 13 6d doirP s .8 10d do vill &I to 50 6 041 i Oa to 3$ )er sack• fair sa le ' ° . 88 SCI • dt t o o 6l ea 4 . IS o f toleta,A, °* t effecivid rites. 1 1 scarce, ilii 6id to 61 ga t ° o e• [ per go oil f f ; are 11 L ree bup Z . 30 sr - of gall° da, a nt, 'lltln.o E g thr ° ` ;broat ; r at :t the pot trnent vijo n ents as eaj ° ' ' of er tsioti re j disoac e 10 3 nmo u t , era te a the s o t. into 03_,,je 0 ife 0 - f ° )nt, C „ lO g 0 !3sq., ' ro t ph0132 /5 0 0 Sat )0 ter o f t I, Wel: I, OP V. Rev' ) MI 0., og de-0 11° Ki ll ' se, Thon liig Stoker 1 Navy' of (IRYSTAL PALACE.—On Wednesday next, ,) May Ist, ISM, THE GREAT FESTIVAL PER FORMANCE of HAYDN'S CREATION. Principal Vo calists TITIENS, 'Madame RUDERSDORF}', Itr. SIMS REEVES. Mr. SANtLEY, and Herr FORMES. Conductor, Mr. COSTA. .„,_The band and chorus will consist of nearly 3,000 performers. band will comprise the usual in orchestra of „' i te,Sacred Harmonic Society, aided by numerous professors ''',„Q ,amateurs of eminence. A mateur Chorus will consist of the 1.600 voices of the London Division of the Handel Festival Choir, with addl. T w(litisfrom the professional choirs, the Cathedrals, Provincial Ittd Continental Choral Societies, &c. 011 e entire musical arrangements are undertaken by the 'teSEO HARMONIC SOCIETY. Organist, Mr. BrownStnith. h .Alle doors will be opened at Twelve and the Oratorio com rhee AT THREE o'CLocx. Admission, if by ticket pur ased on or before Monday, April 29th, ss. ; if by payment "doors on the day of Festival. 7s. 6d. Reserved stalls in the ;tea anl galleries, as at the Handel Festival, at the follow big. prices, in addition to the payment for entrance :—Area ° cits and ordinary gallery seats, is. ; front row of corner Tickets a limited issuehalt--guinea. 4 Lat the Crystal Palace; at No. 2, Exeter Hall (where .n.`" Plans of the seats may be inspected); and of the usual ents of the company. Cheques or post-office orders to be made Payable to the order of George Grove. The new season tickets which will admit on this occasion, 41 h.lect to the usual regulations, are also ready for issue. By order, GEO. GROVE, Sec. NOTICE.—The police regulations for carriages with 7isitors the above occasion, will be annortn.ed by advertisements li the morning papers of Wednesday, May 1. CRYSTAL PALACE —WEDNESDAY —The 1 ,, Exeter Hall Offices will remain Open until P o'clock p lv ,„Eg EVENING, for the issue of Admission Tickets at E S lIILLINGS each After that time the price of ad 'union on Wednesday will be Seven Shillimzs and Sixpenre. R. W. S. WOODTN'S NEW ITIES N ENTERTAIN- MET. the ABINET of CURInS, POLY - WA,APFIIe FIALL. O King Wil iam-street, Charing-cross, Eight. and EVERY EVENING (except Saturday), at 'ght. Private boxes, £1 is. ' • Stalls and box stalls, Cs. ; 'ea. 2s. ; amphitheatre, is. - A plan of the stalls may be •te.n, and sea t s secure d ( w ithout extra charge), at the Box tu,ce. from 10 till 4. Morning Performance, Saturday, "'Arch 2 . ARGYLL ROOMS - GRAND MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT, With the Celebrated BANI), Forty in number (established Veven years), chusen tvorn the Philharmonic Concerts, Royal a lian Operas, and the Household Troops. Conducted by Mons. Lamotte. Cornet-a-piston, M. Boulcourt.—Dancing it Nine o'clock.-Is. admission. THE. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY Rooms, _ Met Holborn.—This popular and magnificently ap ',Muted Ball Room, decidedly the roost fashionable and best COnducted entertainment in the world. The very excellent °and under the able direction of Mr. packer, is constantly ‘lffti t tfir-ilip chpirest and Ictlatmnaic Qt' tbe•tiaroiLinnio , lOrrita - 114,fillalfe's new opera,' Bianca; Colleen awn Viraltz, Garibaldi's Triumphal Ga lop, &c., among others, nog' nightly receive the,plaudits of ihe company. The wines auPPlied are of the very choicest quality. The refreshment Morris are elegant in the extreme, and replete with every Comfort. Admission throughout, ls. tVANS'S MUSIC and SUPPER ROOMS. — Gentlemen meet as sFual every evening. Mackney as ever—Sydney's admirable New Song—The Lee Family's egant Performances, superior to anything yet at en. Four- Part Songs, Glees, Madrigals, and Classic Vocal Music form te main element of the en , ertainment. "Play-goers sup at vans's to glees extremely well sung."—Athenaeum. OYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION.—The Committee of this Institution ...arnestly APPEAL t , .) the public for PECUNIARY ASSIST ANCE to aid them to meet the present heavy demands on the limited funds of the Society. THOMAS BARING, Chairman. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Deputy-Chairman. 14, John-street, Adelphi, Feb., 1861. hankers—Messrs. Willis and Co. ; Coutts and Co. ; Herries. ItII d Co. IMPORTANT TO OWNERS OF HORSES.- After long experience, deep researches into chymistry, by the aid of costly machinery, I have discovered the means *hereby oats, beans, and oilcake may be ent rely dispensed *ith in the feeding of horses and cattle. I have now invented !L compound meal, composed of locust beans, Indian corn, linseed, &c., at £,16 per ton, which is equal in value to £24 Worth of oats, beans, or any other fceding, material in the arket. Two quarts of this compound meal, weighing 31bs., at the cost of id.. mixed with a peck of chopped hay, is a feed f ur a draught horse, and superior in every respect to three quarterns of oats, costing 71d. 14 barrels weil•h net 1 ton 1 cwt., at 16s. per cwt., £l6 Vs. net cash, free, delivered by my waggons to any station in London. Nothing less than 41 Mt, sold at the manufactory, and orders must be accom ranted with cheque.ccrossed, made payable to the inventor, JOSE PH THORLEY. Steam Mills, Caledonian-road, Ding's-cross, April 8, 1801. Single barrels, weighing 11 cwt., may be had for 305., at 77, Netvgate-street, City, or of any of my accredited Agents in the country. THORLEY'S CONDIMENTAL FOOD (mixed wi h crushed Oats, &c.) for My Horses.—Read Admiral Rous on the English Racehorse. 40s. per barrel, containing 44R feeds. THORLEY S CONDIMENT for My Cows. Increasing the quantity and enriching the quality of Milk,4os. per barrel. TWIRLEY'S COMPOUND for Me Sheep. Sold in barrels, containing 44R feeds, with measure tlalosed, and carriage paid to any railway station is the 1H ORLEY for My Pigs. 40s. per barrel. Tnoß, EY'S GLEANER is Published every Monday in tim- for pot, and contains orty Columns of valuable i..formatioit, including Mark lane Report, Agri Cultural and Sporting Intelligence up to time of going to press. Price One Penny. Order of any Newsvendor.-77, exvgate-street, City. No. 8, GROSVENOR-STREET, BOND-STREET. .A.I2TTUTOT AT. rr - pv IT T %A' PROVED PRINCIPLE.—Mr. ESK s P ATENTED INVENTION (protected by her Majesty's Royal Seal, July, 1 8 00), for adapting Artificial Teeth on Moveable Bases by Self -adhesion, are fixed without springs or any fastenings, Without pain or extraction, restore perfect articulation and . Mastication, rendering detecti , n impossible, and last a lif - lime. ' "An admirable contr,vance for remedying the defects Of nature, without requirino- new sets of teeth." —Sun, July 20. "will doubtless by extensively patronised."—Court Cir cular, July 21. "Unrivalled for its utility and economy."— Morning Post, July 20. Cop sultations free.—Terms strictly moderate. 8, Grosvenor-street, Bond-street ; Old Steyne, Brighton; Bennett's-hill, Birmingham. TEETH -1860—Post free, three stamps. A TREATISE EXPLAITTNG Messrs. GABRIEL'S IMPROVEMENTS in ARTIFICIAL TEETH and FLEXIBLE CORALITE GUMS, whereby one set will wear longer than three ordinary ones, and being fitted without springs, wires, or metals, and without any operation, prove a valuable desideratum to all who have occasion for the den tist's services. None but pure first class materials and .Workmanship employed, while the expense is even less than half' the ordinary cost. To be obtained only of Messrs. Gabriel, dentists to the Prince Dottajana, established 1815, see diploma, No. 110, Regent-street, W., (next Mechi's) and 33, and 34, Ludgate-hill, City. "The advantages obtainable by Gabriel's system render it pre-eminently superior, and the nearest approach to perfe f > tion yet attained.' '—Observer. " Gabriel's treatise should be read by all who value health; their system will save much money and more annoyance."— korninz Herald. 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Sold by Buchan and Co., 22, Newman-street, Oxford-street, London, W., and medicines forwarded on re ceipt of rost office order. To be had of all chemists. Wholesale Agents :—Barclay, 75, Farringdon-st. ; Newbery 15 , St. Paul's Churchyard ; J. Sanger, 17,0, Oxford-st. ; Han nty 65, Oxford-st. ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Hooper, 43, King William-st., London-bridge ; Bowden, 78, Gracechurch-st. ; ?rout, 229, Strand, London. THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MANHOOD. Just published, the Twenty-fifth Thousand, SELF-TREATAIENT SIMPLIFIED. Spermatorrhom or local weakness, nocturnal emissions, .'eneral and nervous debility, premature decay of the system, impotency, and impediments to marriage, atc., cured by LOCAL MEANS, without poisonous drugs or other ques tionable so-ca led remedies, which have hitherto proved abortive, although eenerally used by the English faculty. The important fact that the many alarming' omplaints, originating in imprudence and excess, may be easily removed without medicine is clearly demonstrated, and the entirely ne v and highly successful treatment, as adopted. fully given, by means of which every one is enabled to c:'re himself pri vately and at the least possible cost. S nt to any address post tree on receipt of six stamps by Dr. Watson, U.S., F. R.A.S. ; Member of the Medical Society, Rouen ; National Academy of Sciences, Paris ; Fellow of the Imperial Institute of France, ate &c., 27, Alfr■d-place, Redford-square, London. Consultations dally on all tho-e ailments peculiar to youth. manhood, and old acre, which tend to embitter and shorten life. Persons unable to visit town May have a printed fprm of questions to fill up, which will supersede, in the majority of cases, a personal interview. Prepaid letters promptly answered. Si GREAT MARLBOROUGH -S PANTHEON. TREET, W., NEAR DR. 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The Physiology and Anatomy of Women—Functional Ir regularities in Health and Sickness—Choice in Marriage — Their Expectancies and Disappointments—The Cause and P:emoval 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 Indigestiot Nei. 2. Obligations, Happiness, and Disappointments; end other Matches. Sterility Removed, and Healthy 'Pring secured. No. E. THE CASE BOOK : 100 Cases of SPEIIMATORRIIiEA, Their Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment, Confessions and Cure by Cauterisations, Galvaniim, Ste. &c. &o. o hao4i m a nn, 39, rornhill and th e Authors. ...dviec to N't or',Oup Clas.es tee Half-a-Guinea. (SPECIAL NOTICE.) Dr. Culverwell is the only legally qualified medical practi tioner of tlig name, and Can be coeulto (only as %boys). N° 21,472. PUBLICATIONS. NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF "ALICE WENT WORT El." 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It fully de- London : Longman, Gree scribes the life led by therein deer-hunters, and the dairy fo k at 'he sceters (chalet.) on the high mcuntains ; and also gives notices of the habits of the reindeer, and accounts of the author's adventures in stalking them on the Fields. 1, Longman, and Roberts. THE NEW SEA STORY. This day is published, in 2 vols., VONV F D, THE DANE cou•T OF ELsINORE. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. NEW WORK BY THE REV. DR. CUMMING. Immediately, price Halt-a-Crown, POPULAR ANSWERS TO ESSAYS AND REVIEWS. places. By the -Bein*lL Rev. *- Dr. CUMMING. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THE HON. MRS. YELVERTON. Next week, price Half-a-Crown, neatly, bound, MARTYRS TO CIRCUMSTANCE, By the lion. MRS. YELVERTON. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SEAMAN. This day, a Popular Edition, with Four Plans, and a Portrat on Steel, price ss. (500 pages), LORD DUNDONALD'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. A Library Edition may also be had in two handsome volumes, Bvo., price 235. London : Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. The MAY NUMBER, Containing Mr. Ainsworth's "CONSTABLE OF THE TOWER," with an Illustration by John Gilbert, is now ready. Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly-. COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE The MAY Number is NOW READY. Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. Post Bvo., 7s. Cd., aRyLL GRANGE. By the Author oi "Headlong Hall." Reprinted from Fraser's Maga, London : Parker, Son, and Bourn, West Strand. Octavo, 6s. 6d., T • • HE PILGRIM : a Dialogue on the Life and Actions of King Henry the Eighth. By WILLIAM THOMAS, Clerk of the Council to Edward VI. Edited, with Notes, from the Archives at Paris and Brussels, by J. A. FROUDE. London : Parker, Son; and Bourn, West Strand. THE RE-ISSUE OF PUNCH. THE DOUBLE VOLUME FOR 184 2 , handsomely bound in cloth, gilt edges, price 10s. 6d., and THE THIRD VOLUME, in boards, price 55., are both rublished this day. Orders received by all Booksellers. London : Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie-street ; and Punch Office, 85,.Fleet-street. I '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 perienced 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., late Piper and Co.. Paternoster-row. Just published, price 25., free by post. 2s. 4d., SPERMATORRHCEA. By F. B. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.E., Id formerly Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the Cure of Strictures of the Urethra. ON " The aim of the author is to present a common-sense view Consequences, ana 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 : IL Bailliere, 219, Regent-street. AN INCOME FOR A POUND !—Any person wishing* to know how it is possible to realise a large fortune with £l, can obtain satisfactory information by ad dressing a letter to E. 8., 15, Calthorpe-place, Gray's-inn road. W.C. EPPS'S COCOA. The delicious aroma, grateful smoothness, and invigo rating power of this preparation have procured its general adoption as A HOST DESIRABLE BREAKFAST BEVERAGE. 'old in }lb., Vb., and 11h packets, at is. 6d. per lb., by Grocer! Each packet is labelled. JAMES EPPS, Homoeopathic Chemist, LONDON. GIVEN AWAY TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS. HENRY SMITH, M.D., of the University of Jena, has just published, for the benefit of Nervous Sufferers, a FREE EDITION of his valuable work, THE WARNING VOICE TO YOUNG MEN (120 pages). A medical work on the cure of Nervous Debility, Loss of Memory, Dimness of Sight, Lassitude, Indigestion, Dislike to Society, Spermatorrhtra, Local Weakness, Muscular Re laxation, Languor, Listlessness, Depression, &c., which, if neglected, result in consumption, insanity, and premature death ; with W.ain directions for perfect restoration to health and vigour. The book will be sent, post free, secure from ob servatiou, to any address, on receipt of a directed envelope end two stamps. Address, HENRY Smrrnr, M.D., 8, Burton crescent, Tavistock-square, London, W.C. DR. CURTIS' MEDICAL WORK, MANHOOD: • NIEDICAL ESSAY ON SPERMATORRHCE A, NERVOUS AND GENERATIVE DEBILITY, &c. ust Published, the 150th thousand, with numerous plates, in a sealed envelope, price ls., Sold by all Booksellers, and gent post paid, by the Author, for 1 2 stamps, ANHOOD: the CAUSE and CURE of PRE MATURE DECLINE IN MAN, with Plain Directions for Perfect Restoration to Health and Vigour. By Dr. J. L. CURTIS, 15, Albermarle-street, Piccadilly, London. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER on the Physiological , tructure and Fonctiens of the Reproductive Organs. i'IIAPTER, IL—Causes of Spermatorrhcea and Impotence; arly 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 ases, to which ii; added the Author's recipe of a preventive Lotion. REVIEWS OF THE WORK. 'Curtis on Nianhood.—This is a truly valuable work, and tmid, be in the hands of young and old."—" Sunday Times," 3d IS% arch, 1656. "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, 1656. " This work, which for twenty years has stood the test of professional criticism and empiri •al hostility, treats in aplain and sympathising manner on the various disqualifications and impediments arising from nervous excitement and de- bility ; and to invalids suffering from youthful errors and excesses it wil be found valuable and useful."—Record. London : Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, Pater noster-row; M %YID. A 9, Cornhiii. Hours of Consultation - 10 to 3 and 6to R ; Sundays. 10 till 2. • The temporary relict obtained by !mans of purgative edicines is purchased at the high price of the aggravation iid d the perpetuating the disease."—llErinv, M.D. NO MORE PILLS OR ANY OTHER PHYSIC OR CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION (DYSPEPSIA), PALPI TATION, NERVOUS, BILIOUS, AND LIVER COMPLAINTS, DEBILITY, DROPSY, EPILEPSY, PARALYSIS, COUGH, ASTHMA, CONSUMPTION, BRONCHITIS, SORE THROAT, FEVERS. DU BARRY ' S delici ous HEALTH RESTOR ING REVALENTA ARABICA FOOD, which, at a ew pence per day, saves fifty times its cost in Medicine, and urea without purginc , or any of the uncertainties, annoy nces, and ruinous expenses incurred by medicine, cod liver il, or visits to distant climates. Certificate No. 36,418.—We find it the safest remedy, An irew Ure, M.D., F.R.S. • Dr. Harvey; Dr. Wurzer ; Dr. Sher and ; Dr. Campbell. We extract a . few out of 5(1,000 cures:— Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies of many years' dyspepsia. Cure No. 49,832. Of fifty yea f indiscribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipa tion, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting, Maria Joly, of Lynn, Norfolk. Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indig,estion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. Cure No. 54,816. The Rev. James T. Campbell, Syderstone Rectory, near Fakenham, Norfolk of ndigestkm and liver complaints. Cure No. 56,814. Mr. Samuel Lax'ion , Leicester, of two years' diarrhoea. Cure Ro. 180. Mr. W. Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London, of 25 years' nervous ness, et nstipatlon, indigestion, and debility. Cure No. 4,028: Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility with cramps, qpasms, and nausea, Re v . J o h n W. Flavel, Ridlington Rec tory, Norfolk. Cure No. 3,906. Thirteen years' cough, indi restion, and general debility, James Porter, Athol-street , Per th. Cure No. 58,314. Miss. Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, • ear Liverpool, of ten years' dyspepsia, and all the horrors of ery oils irritability. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber Lungs, spitting.n of blood, live r d erangemen t , p ar ti a l deafness. simna nials from 56,000 pat i ents w h o can be r. (erred Frim ley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased m r e t r e c s h t a u nt o , (erred to. The Food is sold in canisters, Ilb. ers. 9d., 21b, 4s. 6d., 121 b. t2s„ 211 b. 40s. ; super-refined quality, 51b. 225„ 101 b. 3 3 5. T he 101 b, 121 b., and 241 b. canisters c arriage free on r ecei p t of p ost-o ffice order by Barry Du Barry and Co, 77, Regent str .ef • ,ndon ; Fortnum , Ma s on, and Co., 182, Piccadilly , L o ndon ; Abbis , 60, Graoc:Fhureh_-stree •t, ch e apside ;63 an d 150, Oxford - street ; 330 and 452, Strand ; 49 and 60, Bishopsgate-street ; Batty, 16, Finsbury -pavement ; Phillips street, city , and Is7,Pigh.Liolborg; And 1111 own; and Co.. tea dea lers ; Petty, Wood, and Co., Bing zine. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY TILE PAPER DUTY CONSIDERED. From a fifth letter by Mr. Bolin, the bookseller and pub lisher, who has just issued .a second edition of his letters on the paper duty. After the concession made to the Ministry, last August, of the penny Customs on paper, and the recent declaration of Lord Palmerston that there would be no remission of taxes this session, the public, and especially those imme diately concerned, aro taken by surprise at the renewtd attempt to abolish the paper Excise. The budget, too, is this time so ingeniously compacted that the Lords" are all but divested of the power of interposing a rescue ; it must, therefore, remain entirely with the Commons to save or fling away what, if left alone, would speedily produce an annual revenue of two millions ; awl which, once abandoned, can never be recovered. But it seems that politics, not policy, are to govern ; and as our leaders all but hold office at the nod of a selfish band of demagogues, they have no choice but to obey. A majo rity which should relieve our Chancellor of the Exchequer from these dangerous friends would, no doubt, be a great boon to him, although he is not in a condition to proclaim the fact. That a determined struggle is to be made to obtain a vic tTy this time is seen in all the preparations. The paper makers having already been crippled by the abolition of the penny Customs duty, in subserviency to the French treaty, have little left to fight for ; and their agents, the wholesale stationers, havi , • g been gagged by a promise of drawback on all their stock (which will amount to at least a quarter of a million sterling), have no longer any serious stake at issue. It is now therefore left with the general public to consider how far they will be sold in this fashion, and sur render for ever the easiest and least felt of all taxes at the cost of maintaining others, such as the income tax and the tekiffstiorflatietclobiehnre really Oppressive, and being mere war imposts, are now unconstitutional. Having indulged in this exordium, I will now recapitu late what has passed since my last letter (Aug. 4tb), and therewith close, I hope, all I have to say on the subject of paper duties. I will premise by stating that everything affirmed or predicted in my former letters has thus far been verified. I had said (Feb. 27th) that the paper duty amounted to twelve hundred thousand per annum, and even this was publicly contradicted as an over statement, but when the returns were published in March, 1860, the amount for 1859 was f )und to be £1,429,490 19s. Bd., and for 1860 it no doubt exceeds a million and a half, although squeezed down to £1,300,000 in the present budget figures, by a full deduction for drawbacks and the expenses of col lecting. And I will here incidentally take leava to ob serve that, as these drawbacks and expenses are, on the one hand, promotives of export trade, and on the other sources of home employment, they are, instead of an ex pense, an indirect revenue, and ought not to be incautiously abandoned. I have constantly said that the removal of the paper duties would not cheapen literature of any kind to the pub lic, and we have already had an instalment of the proof. The penny Customs duty, for example, has now been sur rendered more than six months, and several newspapers obtain their supplies from France, Belgium, or Germany, but the public have received no beneficial return, although the abrogation of this tax has been very prejudicial to the manufacturing interests of the country as well as a material loss to file revenue. And it is an unmistakable fallacy to suppose that the public will receive any more benefit by the repeal of the three-halfpenny Excise ; for if paper should lower for a time in consequence of the immediate effect of the drawback allowance on stock, and the first effect of foreign competition, the profit will go to the whole sale consumers, whether publishers or packers, Manchester warehousemen or grocers, and rot a fraction of it to the actual consumer. In the small majority of 33 gained in a full house (Aug. 7) for the repeal of the customs duty, many were influenced by what they considered a high-principal view of responsi bilities to Mr. Cobden's French treaty ; others by the fear of a general elect ion, which was threatened ; and some by a mis conception of the importance of the Customs duty, in rely ing too implicitly upon certain allegations in the summing up. And here it may be observed, that between the open ing and closing of the debate the house was comparatively empty, and therefore many of the members did not hear all the arguments and refutations, or more of them would pro bably have voted against the repeal. Lord Palmerston as serted, up in evidence seemingly furnished ty official re clans, that the " paper manufacturers of England, while labouring under all the difficulties as to obtain ng the raw material, aro able to compete successfully and advantage ously in foreign markets with the manufacturers of the very country in which it is said that the great advantage of pro hibiting the export of the raw material exists." This telling argument took the louse by surprise, and had a palpable effect, but the converts made by it were not aware, and there was nobody at hand to tell them, that a great pro portion of the paper which created an apparent preponder ance in our favour was really French, or other foreign make merely bonded in our warehouses for the convenience of being shipped in English bottoms to parts of the world where the consigners could not send direct. We can scarcely sell a ream of printing paper in competition with foreign manufacturers, where we have not some accidenttl advan tage. Since the abolition of the so-called protective duty, and the prospect of a repeal of the Excise duty, the French have by an official circular advised the small paper-makers of Brittany, Auvergne, and other places, to surrender their little rural mills and homesteads and join in the establish ment of factories on a large scale, observing that machinery and co-operation must now supersede detached labour, to have any chance of competing effectively with the manu facturing forces of England. They suggest the employ ment of women and children more extensively, and include, according to their established habits, Sunday labour. So much for rural mills and the advantages of this movement to society anywhere. I have endeavoured to confine myself to the few matters which have not been considered in my four previous letters. If I were to answer all the childish and shallow arguments raised by the advocates for the abolition of this important revenue, I should fill a volume. What is thought to be one of the most formidable, that of not distinguishing between felt and paper, and the like nonsense, is really unworthy of our age. Let the Government put the r ight man in the right place, and they will find no such difficul , y. Lot us hope that our rulers will be induced to change their present detetmination, and give us instead of the paper excise the extra sd. off the tea duties, which is about the equiva lent, and will make 6d. or 7d. to the consuLsaer ; or another id. or even 2d. off the income tax, bearing in mind that the penny now proposed to be taken off was one that, according to their own showing, ought never to have been put on. The first remission will make them very popular with the poor, the second even more popular with the middle classes. lIENRY G. BORN. POSTSCRIPT. While these pages were in the press I was present at the debates on the Budget, and will take leave to add a few jot.. tings in reference to what occurred in respect to the paper duty. Mr. Black, the Edinburgh publisher, who was ori ginally to have seconded Mr. Puller's motion against the repeal of the Customs duty on paper, but suddenly ratted, made some assertions so contrary to the notions of his pro f,,ggienal brethren that I feel it my duty to answer them. He said that, " supposing the amount of tax upon tue pap., used for a book was Is., the manufacturer charged interest upon that Is., the wholesale dealer did the same, and also the retailer, and the publisher, who reckoned three years as a moderate period for disposing of an edition ; so that by the time the book reached the hand of the reader, the ls. tax became 25." This is utterly fallacious. The manufacturer generally makes his paper to order, or takes care to sell it as soon as it is made, and the duty is not chargeable till it is sent out of the mill, and even after that he has a reasonable credit. The wholesale stationer then steps in to supply that part of the capital in cash; and charges only the same profit on it as on the paper itself, which rarely, if ever, exceeds 10 per cent. ; consequently the shilling becomes only four teenpence to the consumer, and not two shillings. Cheap literature and publications which concern the million never require three years for a return of duty, seldom three months, and often not three days, therefore Mr. Black's calculation of compound interest, which is part of his argu ment against "taxes on knowledge," goes for nothing. He takes for the basis of his calculation a book which weighs 81bs., no doubt having in mind his " Encyclopredia Britan nica," the heaviest book of the present age ; but as the volumes of this are published at 245. each, and the set costs £25 45., ho cannot fairly instance this formidable work as one which concerns the great mass of the people. lam certain he would not publish it for any less were paper ever so cheap, nor would it help his sale if he did. Then Mr. Black says, that "in wrapping paper, which costs about 245. per cwt., 14s. was for duty, and that amount was paid by the persons who bought the articles which were wrapped in the paper, or the small tradesmen who :old them. There,are here as many mistakes as lines. Wrapping paper of the lowest quality is sold at about 365. per cwt., and not 245., and the better qua lities are somewhat higher, as any stationer will tell him. But whatever the cost to the small tradesman he does not lose it, as he always weighs it to his customer at consider ably more than it cost him. Besides which he may buy, as Mr. Black knows, almost any quantity of printed paper, the result of unsuccessful publications, at 3d...0r 4d. per lb., and wrapping paper can never be had cheaper ; the people, therefore, who are likely to gain by cheap wrapping paper are not the small dealers, but the great trading houses, such as Morrisons, Leafs, Swan and Edgars, the Manchester, Sheffield, and Birmingham factors, &c. One more obser vation and I have done with Mr. Black. He says that the paper tax.does not yield more than £1,200,000, after deauct ipg the cost of collection, awl *face of pis lvtder's wn figures, who, with the same reason for understating them, admits £1,300,000. There is no question but that the yield exceeds either of the figures, and if left to its own progress svonld long since have been considerably greater. I have taken the trouble to unravel Mr. Black's statements, because the uninitiatad seem to look upon them as authorities, but none are more flimsy. If he and his party would apply the same ingennity to explaining the war taxes on tea, sugar, malt, and haps, they would open the eyes of the people. to what they aro unjustly suffering. Mr. Milner Gibson, whtlas made the repeal of the paper duty his stalking horse for the last seven years and more, and seems resolved to carry his point, tolens volens, insisted that it is " oppressive to trade and commerce," and this in the face of every proof to the contrary. With like evidence he told us that "exports and shipping are recovering from their decline," glthough at thispoment foreign trade is as bad as it can be, and ships to America are being freighted with chalk for want of cargeeS. Then he prognosticated to have paper mills all over the country,, some as adjuncts to the farm-yard; whereas all who know anything of the sub ject, know that. farm-yard refuse would not make paper, and that all the little mills now existing will be swept away and absorbOd by leviathan establishments: Then he harped on the old story . that the dnties stood in the way of cheap literature, although the protioters of it, and I am not one of the least, have generally insisted that it does not. The taxes 'paid - cheap literature, independent of the news papers and periodicals are infinitesimal, and would be pro nounced much ado about nothing if the public knew the exact figures. Out of half a million that Government be stows in aid of education, not £20,000 is spent in bboks, and therefore not £-1,000 on the paper duties. And ordinary school books bear no greater proportion to the general out lay for literature ; the rich ar.sl the middle el?sses pay the tax without perceiving it in the slightest degree. The Stew newspaper has told us for thh s Jast six months that we are paying nearly '.Es,oooper diem " Taxes on Knowledge," and everybocly.seems to have felt what delightful taxes they must be to yield so much without the least perceptible pres • sure. The whole pretence, as Judge lialiburton very pro perly described it, is the "veriest cant that ever was heard of," and to this opinion 1 heartily subscribe. The argument which seemed chiefly to weigh with mem bers who began to see through the fallacies which theyhad before allowed to pass unexamined, iliks that Mr. Disraeli, when Chancellor of the Exchequer, had given an abstract promise to abolish the paper duty at some convenient period. But those who read the declaration out of which he was rather incautiously worried by the pressure of a member of" the Association," and now of the present Government, will find that it is much less of a pledge than that given for the abolition of the income tax and the war duty on tea, which at any rate ought to go first. H. G. B. ENGLA I'D All) ITALY; The following is the letter of Lord John Russell to Sir James Hudson, which elicited the important despatch of Count Cavour Foreign-office, Jan. 21. " Sir,—l have not taken any official notice of the decrees you sent me, annexing, not to Sardinia, but to the Italian State, Naples, Sicily, Umbria, and the Marches. In fact, the votes by universal suf frage which have taken place in those kingdoms and provinces appear to her Majesty's Government to have little validity. These votes are nothing more than a formality following upon acts of popu lar insurrection, or successful invasion, or upon treaties, and do not in themselves imply any inde pendent exercise of the will of the nation in whose name they are given. Should, however, the deli berate act or the representatives of the several Italian States who are to meet on the 18th of February constitute those States into one State, in the form of a constitutional monarchy, a new ques tion will arise. When the formation of this State shall be announced to her Majesty, it is to be hoped that the Government of the King will be ready to show that the new monarchy has been erected in pursuance of the deliberate wishes of the people of Italy ; and that it has all the attributes of a Government prepared to maintain order within and the relations of peace and amity without. The obligations of the various States of Europe towards each other ; the validity of the treaties which fix the territorial circumscription of each State; and the duty.of acting in a friendly manner towards all its neighbours with whom it is not at war,—these are the general ties which bind the nations of Europe together, 4 and which prevent the suspicion, distrust, and discord that might otherwise deprive peace of all that makes it happy and secure. It is not without a purpose that I have made these gene ral observations. My despatch of the 31st of August last need not here be repeated, but the sentiments there expressed continue to animate her Majesty's Government. After the troubles of the last few years, Europe has a right to expect that the Italian kingdom shall not be a new source of dissen sion' and alarm. You may read this despatch to Count Cavour, and if he wishes you may give hem a copy of it. "I am, &c. " J. RUSSELL." RAILWAY INIELLIGENCE. The railway proceedings of the week have no comprised many home undertakings, but there have been one or two important colonial meetings. The report of the Finn Valley line (Ireland) states that the undertaking, 14 miles-in length, can be com pleted for a total cost of £43,112, or £3,080 per mile, while the average cost of Irish railways has been £6,600 per mile. Assuming the traffic to be only half the average amount per week received on all the Irish lines, the directors calculate on a net profit of 11 per cent., the Dundalk and Enniskillen Company being expected to undertake the working of it at a charge of 35 per cent. The shareholders of the Peebles have agreed to the proposed divi dend of 4 per cent. per annum. The least to the Noah British came into effect on the Ist of Feb ruary, and that company have accordingly taken possession of the live. The Exeter and Exmouth Railway will be opened on the, Ist of May. A meeting of the Metropolitan has been held to con sider some bills now before Parliament, when some explanations were afforded as to the progress of the undertaking. It appears that the line from Farring don-street to the Great Western at Paddington will be op ened for traffic next spring. The new line to 'the Great Northern will not be ready by that time. A proposed extension from Smithfield to Finsbury circus was approved. At the Great Indian Penin sula meeting it was stated that a further portion of 53-1, miles of the company's line wis opened in January, making a total of 3501 miles now being worked. There is now with the exception of a break of nine miles at the Thull Ghat, a continuous line of 107 miles from Bombay in the direction of the important cotton-fields of Berar. The general traffic of the railway shows a marked improvement. The net profit has been £35,536, being an increase over the corresponding period of 1859 of £2,234. The Bore Ghat works are making rapid progress. At the Great Southern of India it was also mentioned that the construction of the line is proceeding satis factorily. It is expected that the cost will be about £7,000 per mile. The line is expo cted to be imme diately and extensively useful. The first section from Negapatam to. Trivalore is now about being opened for traffic. Favourable advices have been ie:eivcd with regard to the progress of the Punjab Railway. The Scinde was ready on the let inst. for opening throughout. The directors of the East In dian state that the line to Rajmahal was opened on the 15th of October, and that the progress made in the North-Western Provinces justifies the expecta tion that the railway will be completed to Agra early in 1862, and to Delhi by the end of the year. The report 'of the Buffalo and Lake Huron an nounces that thereceipts in th e h a lf- year en ding in January were £36,596, and the expenses £27,296, leaving a balance of £9,300, against £6,081 in Jan., v h e e e nr Gl Grandhhr e ea as managers nrwua `Western anb ekereosnfoolf. Canada, tsa C hpn a eea n cdt a t w d v, Canada. 1860. The through business of all kinds, as com pared with 1859, has fallen off owing, it is alleged, policy fe o o tt w w f h e t ee y e; A e tm n n a- - meeting of the Belgian Eastern Junction, it was t at p o e g a r into n rt e eh i d e e eni s p a eo n nl d ti stated that:the receipts h ave b een £14,995 and the expenditure £15,459. An increase has taken place in the former under the head of goods. An adjournment was ordered to enable the directors to re port upon som e nego ti a ti ons p ow b e i n g • carried on with the Government. At the Royal Swedish meeting it was mentioned that, notwith standing the wet summer and severe winter, the traffic of the past year has increased 11 per cent. The working expenses have been considerably augmented by the baaness of the weather. Every charge, however, has been met out of revenue. In the first quarter of the present year the traffic has increased 50 per cent. A sum of £3OO was voted to the directors who have given their services gratui tously for the past five years. With regard to the London and North-Western line and its connexion to the Colne Valley, a correspondence has been pub lished between Mr. H. R. Price and Admiral Moor som, the chairman of the North-Western , whence it is to be inferred that certain recent statements of the North-Western Company, that they had no intention to support the Colne line, were in some degree disingenuous. EVENING, APRIL 29, 1861. 2'HE NAVY. NEV I SHIPS ORDERED TO BE BUILT AT CHATHAM. —Five screw steamships are ordered to be built in Chatham Dockyard, in addition to those-now on the slips building—viz., Pactolas, 22, corvette; Diligence, 17 Boadicea, 51 ; Salamis, 4 ; and Al batross, 4. Those now on the stocks are—Royal Oak, 91; Bulwark, 91; Belvidere, 51 ; Menai, 21; and Reindeer, 17. Great progress has been made in the completion of the screw corvette Rattlesnake, 22 guns, pre parieg for launching at Chatham dockyard. The Rattlesnake is to be furnished with a pair of en gines, each of 200-horse power, by Messrs. Raven bill and Co., and a portion of the machinery con nected with the working of the screw has already been delivered at the dockyard, and is being put on board by the engineers employed by the contractors. The shaft for working the screw is a fine piece of metal, weighing 6 tons 12 cwt., and the weight of the " brush" for the sternpost 1 ton 13 cwt. She is a handsome ship, and her dimensions are-225 feet in length between her perpendiculars, 40 feet 8 inches extreme breadth, and 23 feet 11 inches depth in hold. She is 1623 . 40-94 tons burden. As soon as the Rattlesnake is launched the Salamis will be laid down.. Her length is to be 220. feet. The temporary covering erected over the line-of battle steamer Bombay, in the fourth dock at Chat ham, has been removed, preparatory to that vessel being floated out , of dock. It is understood that the Bombay will be the last of the sailing ships which will undergo " conversion " to a screw steamer, the Lords of the Admiralty baying decided on not altering any other sailing vessels to screws. The Cressy, hired transport, was towed into Portsmouth harbour on Saturday and berthed along side the dockyard, where the detachment of the 2d Battalion Ist Royals, under the command of Col. Urquhart, disembarked from her. The detachment were paraded in the dockyard, and afterwards marched to the railway station, whence they pro ceeded by special train to Manchester, to join the head-quarters of the regiment. The Sampson, 6, paddle, Capt. G. S. Hand, C. 8., steamed into Portsmouth harbour from Spithead on Saturday afternoon and berthed alongside the dock yard, to dismantle and return stores prior to being put out of commission. The Cruiser, 17, screw, Commander Bythesea, V.C., had her masts taken out by the dockyard sheers at Portsmouth on Saturday. She will be paid off to-day. The Inflexible, 6, paddle, Commander Brooker, was paid off at Portsmouth on Saturday, and after wards hauled off from alongside the dockyard to a berth in the harbour. The Victory, flagship of Vice-Admiral H. W. Bruce, Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, has been moved from her position on the Portsmouth side of the harbour to the moorings lately occupied by the Asia on the Gosport side, to afford sufficient space for all-sized men-of--war to go directly alongside the extensive jetty nearly completed, and which will be of essential service in coaling or storing. Two of our longest frigates or line-ot-battle ships can lie there at the same time. The Jasper, 1 screw gunvessel, Lieut.-Commander W. H. Pym, steamed into Portsmouth harbour from Spithead on Saturday. The Flying Fish, 6, screw gunvessel, Commander C. W. Hope, steamed out of Portsmouth harbour on Saturday, and joined Rear-Admiral J. E. Erskine's division of the Channel fleet, at anchor at Spithead. The Dancan, 101, screw, was taken out of the steam basin at Portsmouth on Saturday, and berthed alongside the Camperdown, coal depot, in the har bour, in readiness for her screw trials. trier Majesty's screw steam stood Rapid went down the river on Saturday from Woolwich on the engineers' first trial, and returned to Woolwich to be completed for service. Her engines, by Messrs. Scott and Co., of Greenock, are of 150 nominal and 650 indicated horse-power. The trial was highly satisfactory, the engines performing 100 revolutions per minute, and with a pressu‘p of 221 b of steam, and giving the vessol a speed of 11 knots per hour. Her Majesty's paddlewheel steamer Dee, having undergone some repairs in her machinery, has recommenced shipping, in Woolwich basin, a cargo of cylinders shafts, and other heavy portions of machinery, for the Black Prince, at Glasgow. In consequence of the Ithadamanthus and the Dee being engaged in the above-named service, the industry, under orders to be paid off at Woolwich, has been hauled under the sheers and commenced taking in a cargo of steam gear, intended for the steam frigates Octavio and Glasgow, at Portsmouth. A hundred and twenty Ist and 2d class lads were on Saturday despatched from the flagship Fisgard, at Woolwich, to Portsmouth, for distribution in the fleet, and a similar number will leave Woolwich to-morrow for the same service. _ _ The newly-converted screw steam storeship Wye, eommissioned by Master Commander Roberts, has been hauled out of basin at Woolwich, and received her crew and stores on Saturday from the Hebe re ceiving hulk. She will forthwith be laden with naval stores and provisions from the victualling yard at Deptford for Rio and Ascension. The magazines of the screw steam frigate Con stance, 51, at Devonport, are to be fitted on a plan suggested by Captain Arthur W. Jerningham, of the gunnery ship Cambridge, in Hamoaze. The transports York, Bosphorus, Alfred, Indomi table, and Mars, with- troops from China, are ex pected to touch at Plymouth. The following appointments were made on Satur day at the Admiralty :—Alfred Whitehouse, pay master, to the Colossus; Thomas Hockings, pay master, to the Donegal ; and David Acheson, clerk, to the Diadem. Mr. W. Mitchell, acting foreman at Devonport, has been appointed to be acting foreman at Pem broke, vice Saunders, promoted to assistant (acting) to the master shipwright of Portsmouth Dockyard. THE ARMY. , On Friday afternoon his Royal Highness the Commander-in. Chief unexpectedly paid a visit to. Harwich for the purpose of inspecting the fortifi cations on that part of the eastern coast, which, it is understood, will shortly be considerably strengthened. The first intimation of the visit was received in the course of the morning, when the Black Eagle, Admiralty steamer, came into har bour for the purpose of conveying his Royal High ness to the opposite coast. By a rather singular coincidence the Hon. Col. Gordon, C. 8., commandant of the Colchester camp, and Col. Gibbons, R.A., Commandant of Royal Artillery for the eastern district, had arranged to visit Harwich on Friday morning for the purpose of witnessing the practice with shot and shell by the Ist Essex Volunteer Artillery Corps, and neither of them were aware of the Duke of Cambridge being in the train till their arrival at the Manningtree station, where the Commander-in-Chief left the main line for Har wich. They were met at the railway station at that port by Col. Haddon at the head of the Royal Engineers, and also by Capt. Clarke, R.E., Capt. Fisher, of the Pembroke, and the officers of the Black Eagle ; and the Commander-in-Chief im mediately embarked on board the Black Eagle, and proceeded to Walton-le-Felixstow, on the Suf folk side of the harbour, where he minutely in spected the fortification, which has recently been strengthened by the arrival of two 24 pounder guns from Colchester camp, which will be placed in posi tion for the use of a Suffolk Artillery Corps. From Watton he proceeded to Shotley, and thence to Landguard Fort. On his return he inspected the circular redoubt, on which the Volunteers, under the command of Majorßowness, were at the time assembled, and in the presence of his Royal High ness and the other officers the men of the corps practised with 32-pound round shot and eight-inch shells, which were thrown with such extraordinary preefsion that the signal flag was three times shot through. His Royal Highness was pleased to con vey to the officers of the corps his approval of the efficient state of the men, and of the precision and accuracy of firing, which could scarcely be exceeded by the most experienced Artillery corps in the Bri tish army. He returned to London by the 515 p.m. train from Harwich. There was a large con course of spectators. A circular has been issued from the War Depart ment, revising the whole of the existing arrange ments for the painting and repair of the gun car riages, waggons, and carte belonging to the Royal Artillery and Military Train, as well as for the painting and lacquering the various descriptions of ordnance and carriages in position, together with the platforms, shot, shell, and shot furnaces in charge of the Royal Artillery. Gun-carriages, waggons, and carts of the Royal Artillery and Military Train are each to receive annually one coat of paint. Guns in garrison and fortress are to be painted every two years; shot, Sze., the same. There are now upwards of 200 invalid soldiers in the Military Hospital at Great Yarmouth. A large proportion of the men served in India and the re cent war with China. Lieut.-Col.S. D. Broughton,of the Ist Brigade Gar rison Artillery (now stationed at Gibraltar), whose term of three months lease of absence from duty will PRICE 4D . STAMPED, SD. expire to-morrow, having declined to submit his cow of the decision of a court-martial, as proposed by the General commanding at head-quarters, has accepted the alternative of retiring on half-pay, and Captain and Brevet Lieut.-Col. H. F. Strange, C. 8., has been promoted to substantive rank on his removal. TREMENDOUS FIRE AT OLD BRODIPTON. The most extensive fire that has occurred near the fashionable district now termed Belgravia hap pened yesterday morning, in the premises belong ing to Messrs. J, and C. W. Todd, builders and sawmill proprietors, carrying on business at Milner- , street, Old Brompton. The premises were of con siderable extent, the sawmills being nearly 80 feet in width, and over these was a range of workshops; they formed two stories in height, and were filled with goods of a most expensive character, including work for large buildings, some of which was finished, and some partially so. The fire was discovered by a police-officer of the B division, by noticing smoke issuing from the will nearest the engine-house. He at once gave an t alarm and sent bff for the engines. In the course of a few minutes the escapes attended. as well as the engines of the Chelsea parish brigade, under Engineer Pigott, formerly of the London establish ment; and the engines of the brigade from Horse ferry-road, King-street, Golden-square. Chandos street, Baker-street, Farringdon-street. Waterloo road, Watling-street, and nearly a dozen others. ar rived in a remarkably brief peread considering the distance they had to travel. These machines were under the superintendence of Mr. Braidwood, Mr. Staples (the foreman of the C district), and engi neers Helps, Hamlin, Flynn, Paul Jerrard, Wilkin son and others. Before an engine, however, had time to reach the scene of conflagration a• pitiable sight presented itself, for men and wornera were run fling about, bearing in their arms their children, the whole, with two or three exceptions, being in their night clothes ; and unfortunately for them, but fortunately as far as the fire was concerned, a most abundant supply of the Chelsea Company's water was procured, which caused the poor creatures to have to wade ankle deep through it until some of the neighbours could be aroused to afford them shelter. Fortunately, owing to the supply of water, not a moment was lost in setting the engines into full play, but by that time a range of workshops, independent of the sawmills and the timber-yard, nearly 200 feet long, filled with lofty stacks of deals and other timbers, presented a sheet of flame, and it would be no exaggeration to say that a larger or fiercer body of fire has not been seen in the same locality for many years. The mills and timber-yard with the stores ran between Princes-street and Halsey-street, and the flames commenced attacking with full vigour the houses in each street, and large pieces of wood in a thorough state of ignition rose some hundred feet d t ihnag houses,te r positions,tthee into the air, and being drifted by the high wind which prevailed at the time, fell upon the tops of houses a long distance off, firing almost simultane ously upwards of a dozen houses in the streets before alluded to ; and the occupiers of many of a greater distance, in order to save their premises, were com pelled to pour buckets of water upon their habita tions to keep them from becoming ignited. Under the superintendence of Mr. Braidwood and the other officials present : the engines were placed butse t s o o workgr egreat t from wa s the the round the immense area of fire, and were at once force most water man engines had been used for a very brief period the stand-pipes of the machines were placed in the plugs, and sufficient water was obtained, that with out manual labour, although the flames were rising probably 200 feet over the surrounding pipes were enabled to throw some tons weight of the antagonistic element upon the conflagration, equal in quantity, according to what one of the fire men stated, to what could have been discharged by the improved new steam land-engine. Notwith standing the work of devastation continued, and although St. Paul's, the Monument on Fish-street hill, the Houses of Parliament, Lambeth Palace, Chelsea Hospital, and other buildings in the metropolis, were brought out in bold relief, the sight failed in drawing—which is seldom the case at a London fire—more than probably a couple of hundred spectators to the spot : conse quently the police, who were under I‘l r. Superin tendent Gibbs, had for once a very light duty to perform, and the firemen were not at all incon venienced by a crowd. By three o'clock the con flagration might be said to have been at its height, and as the timbers fell in the yard, all placed under wooden sheds, they made a noise like the discharge of a volley of musketry or cannon, and the crackling noise occasioned by the splitting asunder of the windows of 12 or 14 houses added greatly to the terror existing amongst the neigh bours, not only of Princes-street, Halsey-street, and- Milner-street, bat of several streets a long dis tance off. The firemen, although exposed to the greatest danger, kept to their posts, but several hours elapsed before the least impression could be made upon the violence of the fire, and it was at least three hours , before it showed any signs of succumbing beneath the great body of water thrown upon it, and not before the sawmills and workshops of Messrs. Todd, together with two-thirds of the timber-yard, nearly 200 feet in length, were destroyed. The total loss must amount to several thousand pounds sterling. BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS'. The Board of Trade returns for March show the full rebound that was anticipated from the depres sion of the preceding two months. The declared value of our exportations presents an increase of £557,360, or more than 51 per cent., compared with the large total of the corresponding period of last year, the augmentation being caused by a revival of activity in the chief branches of manufacture — cottons, linens, woollens, and silks. Metals alone appear prominently on the unfavourable side. The exports during the first quarter of the year were £27,669,249, against £30,461,097, showing a decrease of £2,812,658, or 91 per cent. The changes have been as follows : Increase. Decrease. £1,021,796 2,348,222 January .. February .. March £557,360 .. Compared with 1859, there _is a falling off of £2,851,545, or 9t, per cent. With regard to imported commodities, grain con tinues to constitute the leading feature. The arrivals of wheat and flour represented a value of about £2,350,000, against about £300,000 in March, 1860. In the consumption of other articles there hag been a general and considerable falling off, sufficient to indicate the effect produced by the disorganisation of trade through the attempts of the operatives in various parts of the kingdom to strike for impossible wages, the constant receipt of bad accounts from America, the fear of a Continental war to oecur in April, and the perplexities consequent upon the needless advance of the Bank rate of discount to 8 per cent. THE LATE BURGLARY AND ATTEMPTED MUR DER AT ISLINGTON.—On Saturday afternoon, upon in quiries being made at the Royal Free Hospital, it was stated by Mr. John Daniel Hill, the resident house surgeon, that Mary Ann Redkison is still improving in health, although not yet free from danger. The wounds are pro gressing satisfactorily, and her general condition is favour able. 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Very natural was it, then, to • ascertain whether this be tun— . ,anie - account in the' engineering, both civil and military. Thus, to effect the dislodgment of masses agency ofro ck practiceby could gun powder explosions, charges of gunpowder for cen turies past have been buried within the mass and ignited ; but long before any electrical resources were sought for this purpose the ignition had been accomplished by a slowly burning train. Subse quent to the discovery of electricity this agent has been pressed into service, and by the aid of very rough electrical expedients engineers have long been able to ignite one gunpowder charge at a time. but the desideratum remained of igniting many gunpowder charges simultaneously. Such was the problem to which Professor Wheatstone and Mr. Abel recently turned their attention, and in which they have been successful. Here it must be premised that electricity may be obtained from many sources, and, according to the source obtained so does its property vary. It may be obtained from the friction of glass, for example, as in the common electrical tnacnine ; and, were it not for the difficulties and uncertainties attendant upon the working of this arrangement, perhaps it might have best answered the purpose intended of it. When, however, the point is borne in mind that an electrical machine will barely act, or not act at all, in a damp atmosphere,of course theprecautions are many that would have to betaken for employ ment of such electricity out of doors. With all its disadvantages, however, frictional electricity has done some good engineering service. In 1831 Mr. Moses Shaw, of New York, ignit e d b y t hi s electri city fuses containing a mixture of gunpow d er an d fulminate of silver. thereby dislodging l arge masses of rock ; but he states that lie was un a bl e to ope rate during the greater part of the year because of bad . weather. More favourable results Were ob tained by Professor Warretitrap, of Brunawiek, and • Gatzmann, of Freiburg, in 1812 and 1843. Employ ing fuses which contained a mixture of sulphide of antimony and chlorate of potash, and special con trivances for insuring a more perfect insulation, they succeeded in exploding from 8 to 10 mines simultaneously, through 78.5 metres. Notwith standing their precautions, the evil effects of humidity compelled them to discontinue the expe riments. Still more successful results were ob tained, in 1845, by Mr. Charles Winter. By means of a fuse, containing a • preparation of phosphcrus, he inflamed powder through the telegraphic line between Vienna and Hotzendorff—a distance of 4,906 metres. In point of fact the results were s tconsidered it a s r a y t i a s factory t ee authorities o i ug h na a t o o p w t n a r g r a f r n i t e t t i h o e n a A I u or machine electricity as the agent for effecting mili tary explosions. They employ a portable electrical machine—tho electricity being excited by two glass plates, one foot in diameter and four lines of thick ness, in conjunction with a Leyden jar, having an external coating of 276 square inches. These seve ral parts are enclosed in a case, the interior of which is kept dry and heated by means of a small portable stove, so arranged that the products of combustion do not enter the case. The conductors are copper wire covered with gutta percha. Thus guarded, and in very scientific hands, the efficiency of the Austrian apparatus is perfect. On several occa sions no less than 50 mines have been simultaneously exploded by it. Thirty-six discharges have even been simultaneously exploded by it under water in. the Danube, the charges having remained sub merged 20 hours previous to the operation. Nevertheless, machine electricity was deemed to be attended with such great drawbacks by military engineers in the British service, that a substitute was sought, and, to a certain extent, found, in the ordinary voltaic battery. This apparatus, how ever, left much to be desired ; hence the recent in vestigations of Professor Wheatstone and Mr. Abel. They first tried the hydro-electric machine of Sir William Armstrong—the sort of apparatus that was for many years exhibited at the Polytechnic Insti tution. Notwithstanding the stupendous effects produced by this apparatus in the lecture-room, it did not answer well in the field. They next tried electricity from a galvanic battery, intensified by transmission through a Kulitnkorff's coil, borrow ing the idea from the Spanish colonel, Verdu ; but even this arrangement did not quite answer the expectations the experimenters had been led to form of it. Finally. their investigations led them to a trial 'of electricity developed from magnets; and this, all things considered, was found to be the most. satisfactory of the whole series, so that in future we suppose this form of electricity will be employed in the British military service. Having decided on the best source and character of the electricity, the operators had next to determine what was the best sort of fuse. The fuse employed by Colonel Verdu, and introduced by him into the Spanish engineering service, is the discovery of an Englishman, Mr. Statham, and is commonly desig nated here and elsewhere as the Statham fuse." ' It may be said to consist of a broken circuit, inter vening between the ends of two copper wires enve loped in gutta percha, the intervening space being filled with sulphate of copper. It is ver y delicate'', but Messrs. Wheatstone and Abel required a fuse of still greater delicacy, and in the end discovered it. The Abel fuse may be shortly stated to be a Statham fuse,wherein subphosphide of copper takes the place of sulphide of copper, and apparently leaves nothing to be desired. It is pretty certain in its action, easily prepared, and age does not seem to affect R I all valuable requisitions in a military point of vie w. THE RECONCILIATION OF THE GRIEFS. Letters from Turin state that prior to the recon ciliation of Garibaldi with Cavour and Cialdini, the King sent for them all three to his study, where they met Generals Fanti, Lamarmora, Durando, Cozens, and Bixio. M. Itattazzi, though indisposed, was also at this important meeting. It is presum able that the statements made by the King respect ing a general armament were considered satisfactory by Garibaldi's generals, for Bixio left the same evening for Mondavi, and Sirtori for Fori, in both of which places there aro depots of volunteers. A despatch from. Naples of the 27th says—The news from Turin announcing the reconciliation of Garibaldi with Count Cavour and General Cialdini has produced an excellent impression. _ No further demonstrations were expected to take place. The functions of Commander-in-Chief of the National Guard have been suppressed. Signor D'Afflicto has been appointed Governor of the pro vinces of Naples. CENSUS RETURNS IN SCOTLAND. We ohm ve that the registrars in a number of placeß throughout the country have already made up their returns. The returns of the eight principal towns, however, have not yet been completed, ',MA taw vxceptmn 111 xYletmv% and Perth ; and of the other six, Edinburgh is the only one where even an approximation'as to the actual numbers has been made. We subjoin a number of the returns :—ln Edinburgh it is computed that the population now numbers 168,000, being an increase of about 7,000 upon the lost census. The population of Leith is set down at 33,375, being an increase of 2,456 over the census of 1851. In Greenock the population has been ascertained to amount to 42,704, being an increase of 5,263. The population of Perth is 25,248, being an increase of 1,413. In Dumfries the 53 to popula being an increase of 1 , 241 . In the parish of , 3 litilolgilinisthl2e'r3OlLs been an increase in the population of 1,549. The population of Ba th g ate has increased from 4 9,000, in conseq uence of the well-known mineral works now carried on there. The parish of Brechin has a population ( f 8,811, being an increase of 399. In Forfar the population a decrease of 16 7. In the parish of Kirrie linsuleth9e, bein g popu population is 7,358, being a decrease of 254. In Monifieth the populati o n is 5,049, being an increase of 782. Bervie—Population 1,561, being an increase of 102. For doun—Population 2,297, being a decrease of 89. Marykirk —Population 2,068, being a decrease of 164. Kirkaldy—.. Supposed increase of 550. Burntisland—Population 3,631, being an increase of 500. Kinross—Population 2,643, rbeeiinsg;.adecrease increase of being a decrease of 5 7 9 , attributed to a stagnation in the woollen trade. Kintore — Population 2 , 466 , being an in crease of 554. Kilmarnock—Population 23,551, being n increase of 2,268. Kilmaurs—Population 3,526, being increase of 382. Moffat—Population 2,234, L . bein g crease of 70. The neighbouring parishes also show b aa de crease. cr . East the Ke burgh l burligi o f N ov de i —Po p N L ul at i a o n n a ,rik,23t there of 362. In h 157, and in the village of New Lanark a d In Arbroath there is an increase of 606 • a, ecrease of 400. increase of 601. Jedburgh—Population ' u l ,in Brechin au crease of 186. Crieff— Population 1,470, being being a de of 25. Banff—Population 3,700, b • , being a decrease Fro serburgh—Population 4,50 I, b being an increase of 98. Huntly—Populatiou 4,329, beincr cm t'r an increase of 51. —Population 1,103, being an increase of 258. Forres an tntness. increase of 37.—Eflitanirgh THE NEW NOVEL BY SIR ARCHIBALD A L ISO may NEPHEW, "FORG IVENE:S."-Sir Arehibald, o4 . 6ll .1, for " feel proud of his nephew's talent For giveness" has pathos, power, and desorit al, cer t a i n ly not if any, of our living novelists "'tether Scotehman to excel. "Forgiveness" will rBisetion. the highest rank as a writer of returnfic from the War office states that in the 1 / t r ifi e s (pattern, 1853),, made by turned out 99,443 mus k machinery c o mpiete, 6 l 66. [ for the year w efff 421 2 [ t e hat the expenditure of Atte factory 12ths 12ths 12ths 12the 12th 5 qrs 9 qv 6 qrs 4 qrs