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.; - ~~~~ ~ '_ ~`~G~~ G G REAT-W ESTERN RAILWAY.- ALTERATION of TRAINS.—On and after let JANUAItY, 1855, the 10 p.m. Train from Paddington, RPd the 10 10 p m. 172- Train from Windsor, will be discontinued. The 5.35. pan. Train from Ilungerfuld will , tart at 6.10 p.m. On SUNDAYS the 11 a in. Train from Birmingham to Wolver hampton, and the 12.30 pan. Train from Wolverhampton to Biz- Ulingliam, will be discontinued. For minor alterations, see the Train Bills of the Company. Paddington, Dec. 29, 1854. L ONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAIL WAY.—NOTICE for JANUARY, 1855. The train leaving Manchester for London at 3 40 p.m. will call at Bandforth and Wilmslow, and cease calling at Heaton Norris. The train from Liverpool at 11.15 a.m. will call at Tring and cease calling at Kilburn. The train to London leaving Aylesbury at G.n p.m. will leave at 0.45 p.m. The train leaving London at 5.45 p.m. will stop at Cheddington. Third-class passengers between London, Banbury, Oxford, Lea- Mington, and Birmingham, will be conveyed by the par iamentary train only. Between Birmingham, Liverpool, and Chester, third-class passen gers will be conveyed by the parliamentary train, and by the 6 a.m. down train from Birmingham, and by the parliamentary and 5.15 p.m. up train from Liverpool, and 6.10 p.m. trails from Chester. A revision of the fares will be made between Liverpool and Bir- Mlngham. • By order, MARK HUISH. General Manager's Office, Easton Station, Dec., 1854. N ATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY. 26, CORNHILL, Lox Pox, 23d Dec., 1154. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. That the HALF-YEARLY IN TEREST on the CAPITAL STOCK of this SOCIETY, at the rate of $ per cent. per annum, due on the 31st instant, will become payable ett the 10th January next, and proprietors may receive the same at Ws Office on that or any subsequent day, between the hours of 11 11111 d 2 o'clock. And notice is hereby further given, that the Transfer Books of the Society will close on the list inst., and open on the 11th January 1/Axt. By order of the Court of Directors. J. LEANDER SPARK, Manager. N.B.—On and after the 29th January next, the business of the Society will be carried on at their new premises, 142, Strand. THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK (Incorporated by Charter), intend opening, on MONDAY, the Ist of January next, a BRANCH at Ne. 32, Regent-Circus, Piccadilly. Though one of the principal thoroughfares of the metro polis, there has never been a Bank in Piccadilly ; and it is hoped that the intended establishment may, therefore, be a convenience t) at least such of the inhabitants of that important neighbourhood as have ' mot hitherto kept a banker. . Interest on deposits and on the fluctuating balances of current accounts are reckoned from day to day, at rates varying from one to Sour per cent. per annum. according to the amount and continuance • of the deposit or balance, and promissory notes or bdls, circular letters of credit, and drafts payable to order or bearer, which may be 'sashed in any town at home or abroad where there is a banker, are „Issued tQ illerchannt ff.nd travellers, for whom they possess some *maw ivitares eteeeeourr:letter. mud tatty: Dwelled terms of busliess will be c0mmni0,....i...) the Head Office, Tokenhouse-yard ; or at the branches, 429, Strand; 17, Bridge-road. Lambeth" 97, Goswell-road. Islington; I, Shafts..- bury-terrace, Victoria-street, Pimlico; and 60,-Stones-end, Sou*- . *ark. HUGH INNES CAMERON, General Manager. Royal British Bank, Tokenhonse-yard, Lethbury. PURSUANT to an Order of the High Court of Chancery, made in a cause, ALEXANDER FINDL kTER and OT KERS against WILLIA. ROCH F., the Creditors of Garrard ltoche, late of No. 2, Upper Wellington-street, Strand, in the county of Middlesex, Solicitor, deceased, the Intestate in the procredings of this cause named, wko died in or about the month of May, 1854, are. by their Solicitors, on or before the 18th day of January, 1855, to come in and prove their claims, at the Chambers of the Tice-Chancellor Sir John Stuart, No. 12, Old-square, Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex; or in default thereof they will be peremptorily excladed trom the benefit of the said Order. . _ . . . Wednesday, the 17th day of January, 185 i. at 12 o'clock at noon, *t the said Chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the Claims. Dated this 7th day of Dec., 1854. ALFRED HALL. Chief Clerk. H D. RUSHBITRY, Plaintiff's Solicitor, 2, Surrey-street, Strand. ORNAMENTS for the DRAWING-ROOM, LIBRARY, and DINING-ROOM, consisting of a new and - elegant assortment of Vases, Figures , Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Inkstands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper-weights, &c., in Italian Alabaster, . Marble, Marble Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. imported and Manufactured by JAMES TI NNANT (late Mawe), 149, Arand, London. Mr. TENNANT arranges elementary Collections of Shells, Minerals, and Fossils, which will greatly facilitate the interesting study of Conchology, Mineralogy, and Geology, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. EARL FITZWILLIAM'S COLLIERIES, on the South Yorkshire Railway.—SAMUEL PLTSI , OLL, of Sheffield, begs to announce that the arrangements he has been honoured to make for carrying a portion of the produce of these ex tensive Collieries, and also of the Silkstone Collieries, to London, ♦fa the London and North-Western Railway, are sufficiently ms , tared to enable hint to commence delivering from Camden and Ken sington Stations on Sew Year's Day. P.ice per Ton, within four miles of either Station :—Silkstone,* 245. Bd.; Elsecar, 235. 4d., cash (3 delivery, or on giving the order —Temporary Offices will be opened at both Stations on December 18th, for booking orders, which in the meantime Mr. Plimsoll will be glad to receive at Sheffield. * These same Coals are now being supplied by the Great Northern Railway, at 275., this Company having at present, and until Deem - bee list next, a monopoly of the supplies on the South Yorkshire Railway. AIJRENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS. ..1A During the course of this week will be played by Laurent's Orchestra:—Overture, Masaniello, Auber ; Waltzes: Termahlung's Toasts (first time), Strauss; La jardiniere, Lablt,ky : Souvenir the .Luxembourg (first time), Bousquet ; Le Carnaval de Venise (by desire), IL Laurent, with Variations for all the principal performers. Quadrilles: Le Palais de l'Alcazar, H, Lamotte ; La Guerre, Bos sio ; • Berment (first time), Ramain ; Lammermnor, Tinney. Schot tische, Moldavian (first time), Jullien. Polkas : Blumeniest (first time), Strauss; The New Annen. Strauss. Gallop, Les Guides, H. Laurent. Principal Cornet I Piston, M. Bonlcourt. All information **dative to music to be obtained at the mimic repository under the orchestra. Doors open at Eight; commence at half-past.—Admis sion, One Shilling. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. 1 • °TALL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. The following smesamc.s.ALE NOVELTIES hare been SPECIALLY PREPARED. LECTURE by J. H. PEPPrit, Esq., on Professor Wheatstorie's experiments on the TRANSMISSION of SOUND through Solid Con ductors, illustrated by a TELEPHONIC CONCERT. FIRST PAR C of ai ENTIRELY NEW and SPLENDID OPTI CAL DIORAMA, illustrating the VOYAGES of SINBAD the SAILOR, with Beautiful PHANTASMAGORIA EFFECTS, and appropriate Music arranged by Mr. Wand. • MONDAY EVENING, the Ist of January, first of a New Course of MONDAY EVENING LE"TURES to tke INDUSTRIAL CLASSES : On the CHEMISTRY of LIFE, by Dr. LETHEIT. Great Increase in the VIEWS of the WAR: the B 4,TTLE of the ALMA, SIEGE of SEBASTOPOL, the ENGLISH BATT &RIES, Bc. LECTURE on the MIMI: RIFLE, and that powerful implement of war, the STEAM GUN, projecting Sixty Balls per Minute, which hes been erected by Mr. Pamirs, and will be discharged daily and in the Zveaings. LECT ORES on ELECTRICITY by Dr. B•CENOFFNEE. Mr. CZAWFORD'II VOCAL ENTERTAINMENT of the PATRIOTIC SONGS of SCOTLAND. For the special Amusement of the Juvenile Auditory, DAVIS'S INGENIOUS M kitIONETTES will be exhibited. All the other LECTURES, EXHIBITIONS of MODELS, &c. &c. &c. Fresh decorations. Special JurenileNight on the 3d of January, and gratuitous distri button of the Ornaments of a beautiiiil Christmas Tree amongst the Young People. ,Mr. VAN NOOIDX:e8 New Musical Game, the POLY-HA.RMONI CON, explained Daily by the Inventor. TRLESEMAR, protected by Royal Letters Patent of England, and secured by the Seals of the Ecole de Pharmacia de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TRIESEVIAR, No. 1, is a remedy for Relaxation, Spermatorrho3a, and Exhaustion of th Systam. TRIESEMAR, No. 2, effectually, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely eradicates all traces of those Disorders which Capivi and Cubebs have so ion; been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health of a vast portion of the population. TRIESIIIIIAR, No. 3, _ . Is the great Continental Remedy for that class of Disorders, which unfortunately the English physician treats with Mercury, to the in evitable destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all the sarsaparilla in the world cannot remove. TRIESEMAR, No. 1, 2, and 3, are alike devoid of taste or smell, and of all nauseating qualities. They may lie on the toilet table without their use being suspected. Sold in tin cases at I Is. each, free by post, 2s. extra, divided into separate doses, as administered by Valpeau, Lallemantl, Roux, &e.—To be had Wholesale and Retail in London of Robert John ston, 6S, Cornhill; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street. GR AVESEND ST. PACKETS. No other Packets call at the Greenhtthe and Purfieet Pie Ile Packets call at the Piers as underlined (weather perint FROM TERRA.CF, PIER, GRAVESENTD. SUNDAYS. WEEK Pits. 1 4 -L c ; Terrace o r s Pier .2 a Ix 8 s Time I t r) a i 6 ,- a.! 4 Omnibuses from Fenchurch-street Station to all parts of London every quarter of an hour. XRUNSVITICK WiIA.RF, EL ACKWA.LL, on the arrival of the fo , lowly= Trains from the Fenchurch-street Station. ..-----------"-- _ WEAK. DAYS. SUNDAYS. Fen- -t .'" _2.. ; 2 - i Yen " i ' 2) k 13 1 i . I.l church - a=l 4 _ , g church ~.- L.. .c, :itrect 4 c o 4 L. ce . *s Street ,-.e; , 5 . cz i . —•- --- --•- - 10 _ _ — II -7-- 21 4 `— 4i —— 4 ; Fore Cabin saioors Ti or from G Os, Mi. ravesend and L0nd0n.......... led. lo• 21 - „ G ra vesend and Blackwell or Woolwich Setwee n Gravcsand and Intermediate Piers.. 6d. OS R$ BOAT TICKETS.—TweIve Months' 5;. Os.; Six Months, 31. Os • ; Three Moths, 21. Os.; to be had of the Collecto d rs on board t ht Pack n ets; or of Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Grssves en. Nov. 13. 1854. MATURITY THE SECR ET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND gust published, price 25., illustrated with cases; free by post for 30 stamps, NERVOUS y • Its Causes, Symptoms, and Cure.—An Essay en sper materrhcea, with Prac tical Observations on a safer and m success ful mode of treatme n t of the diseases of the Generativee Srstem, obtained by t he use of the Microscope in detecting and distinguishing, by urinary examination, the real r,ause and effect of ry ev ery variety of compla int, whether arising ►from solita h a bi ts, excesses, accident, or climate, followed by practical remarks, founded on twenty years' experience in the treatment of Impuissance, Nervous Debility, Local Weakness, Spermatorrhcea, &c. To which are added, Commentaries on the Physiology of Marriage, with pre cautionary hints on the evils emanating from empirical practice, and on the dangerous remedies advocated by various writers on these important disorders. By SAMUEL LA'3IERT. M.D. 37, EEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Dactor of Medicine, Ma t r i cu l a ted Member of the Un iversit y of Edin burgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Sco., Ste. The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful con sequences resulting from cel fain habits, irregularities, and excesses, which have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man hood, and premature decay at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, any ether class of disease known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is partictilarly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of their physical condition, and who are conscious of having hazarded the health, haPPhiesa, and privileges to which every human being is entitled, It is absolutely nece ssary thatall men should know, that there are principles of personal management which cannot be violated without incurring grievouS penalties, and when I.sdom and regret succeed the heyday of Inconsiderate self -Indulgence, how these penalties may be mitigated, hots' the sting of their bitterness may be removed, and how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and above all, that there is scareely any degree of physical infirmity or functional derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. TheAnthor has for a series of years been engaged in an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate complaints, which have unfortunately been too generally confided to the care of ignorant ernPirina, who ' Luna great injury on those who are induced t o faith in their pretensions. NERVOUS DEBILITY may Brothers, and Co., 23, Paternoster - row; be had, price 2s, of Messrs. Piper, Eiannay, 63, Oxfbrd-street ; Hne, 19, Leicester - square; mann, 39, C or nhill ; or free by post for th or irty s t a mps to any address from the Author's residence, 37, Red ford -squar e . At home for cOnsoltatiOil daily from: Eleven till Two, Biz till Bight. and from DR. CULVERWELL ON NERVOUSNESS, DEBILII AND INDIGESTION. Also, on Urinary Derangements, Constipation, and II;emoi rhoidg, Is. each. by post Is. Gd. WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID. " Abstentia multi curantur morbi." A popular exposition of the principal causes (over ar 4 careless feeding, &c.) of the above harassing and distressing ( onaplaints, with an equally intelligible and popular exposition of how we should live to get rid of them ; to which is added, diet tables for every meal in the day, and full Instructions for the regimen and ob; grvance of every hour out of tke twenty. four. Illustrated by numerous cases, &c. LIGHTS AND SHADES OF MARRIED LIFI 4. " lie which that bath no wif, I hold him lost, Helplesq, and all desolat. He that hath no child, Like sun and winde."—Chaucer. Rubjeci : Maui aze, its expectations and Necessities—DE w elopment of the Affections—Love Matches—Precipitate, impelled, ar o I retarded Unions—Marital Incrmgru ti es—Mutual Unsu itabl en es a —Mental Incompatibility and Physical Defectiveness—Advantazes of Inter marriage—Theory of Gestation —Hereditary Resemblance —Mode of determining Legitimacy. On Infelicitous, Infertile, and all Unas similable Alliances—Law of Divorce, &c., &C. CHASTITY AND ITS INFRINGEMENTS. A Lecture to Young Men. " What passions hurt the body—what improve, Truths as refined as Athens ever heard." Subject : Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The advent of the passions. Chastity and its infringement. The c *snaffles •f Licentiousness and diss!oation, with illustrations, graphic, narrative, and remediativo. Advocacy of early marriages, &c. On Secret Diseases, their Self-management and C are. The GREEN BOOK.—A comprehensive and popular expos!tion of Benito and urinary diseases—their nature and treat 7 nent, com prising especially primary and secondary symptoms, a a forms of urinary derangements, stricture and spermatorrhcoa; w ith 250 en gravings and prescriptions. The BLADDER, URETHRA, ani RECTUM.— Comprising 'rinary Derangements, Constipation, and !hemorrhoids. Vole 6 and 7, companions to the preceding. THE ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. HOW TO BE II APPT. "Jucende Vivcre." " Few words to fair faith "—Shakespsre. Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or of PP. RICHARD CULVEIIWELL, • Brother, Successor, and Twenty Years Cansulting colley go e of the late Author of the above, 10, Argyll-place, Regent-street London, who may be advised with on the above matters daily, fro m. Ten till Five, anal in the evenina's, from Seven till Nine. FOR THE CHRISTMAS HOLID AYS.- E. MORES and SOX have ready for inspection a nee r and very superior stock of Vests for Balls and Christmas parties. I hese com prise the latest introduction , English and foreign, in fabri cs of ele gant aid fashiona e l• manufacture — and they are made with the skill for which the irm of B. MCSES and Sox is everywh ere cele brated. E. MOSES and Sox have prepared a new Stock of Juveni' e Attire pretends every vat lety, ism ads trona most snitable materials, has the recemrnem (*lion of the i eat aid and finished by the most skilful and exp erienced b e i " desiejvd In the trade—it fits gracefully and easy a .a e a, I s for Christmas holidays —it comprehends lowest possibie price. charged the low holidays E. MOSES and Sox, who haver ready For the t hristmas artists aralleled variety of Overcoats, Peletots, re am , un' , for inspeetioe an and workmen . Wrappers, See , the style. workmanship, an el gene pert° 3 ral excellences are immense transactions. Reversible= , kcetl,' inimitable, fend the prices such , as are only rendered remunerative by are equally provieei with Hosiery its Branch, New Oxford-street , elegance, and cheapness. Goods, which excel in novelty, sce, For Christmas holidays E. Moses and Sores Estahlislunc nt, and during the Christen as holi days Hats and Caps, Boots ani ihoes, may Shirt, and Boot a nd Shea E. Moses and Son's Wholesale Clothing, ee most advantageously most suitable Goode departments present the largest Stock of the reasonable prices. for the export or home trade) at the most re selected of E ItIOQE9 and Box. SPE CIAL NOTlrE.—U n til Marcie 1,185 5 , E. MOSES an , I SON'S ESTABLIS HMENTS will be CLOSED at EIGHT.O 'CLOCK •EVERY EVENING, except S aturday, when they will be open till 11 o'clock. to eu erd the C AUTION. —E. MO RES and SON regret havire;- ran-like nubile against impositi on, hevine learned that the en tradesr ~ It's falsehood of " Being connected with their Establiseenen‘. f ~ ' • fe e the same concern," ha s b een resorted to in many instanees, and obvious reasons, they beg to state that they have No CaNNEXION WITH Arty OTIMIL monad IN 011 OUT 07 LOI irreD, except their own Establishments, as follows : London City Establishment, 154, 155. 158, and 157, Minot t SS, 84, 85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Ch urch. all communicating. London West-end Branch, 506, 50 7, 50*, N ew Oxford-str A A. 1,2, and 3, Hart-street, all communi ca ti ng. Bradtord (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 :ad 20. Pridg e - street. sa heilleld Branch, 35,. Fergate. Colonial Wholesale Branch, Melbourne, Aust ra li a. 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By CHARLES LEVER. ith Illustrations by Pam. London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. NEW NOVEL, THE HOUSE OF RABY ; or, Our Lady of Darkness Three Vols. post Bvo., "The authoress has displayed powers which are great enough to enable her to take a very lofty position amongst the writers of romance. . . The house of Raby' is one of the few romances of the day that will live."—Daily News. I.ondon: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. Five Vols., post Bvo., 405., THE POETICAL and DRAMATIC WORKS of Sir EDWARD BULWER LYT FON, Bart. Collected Edition, containing many Poems never before published. London : Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. T HE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE for JANUA KT, price 23. ad., contains :- 1. Janus the Double-Faced. 2. Snow-Flakes for the New Year. 3. Foreign . 1 2rime and Credulity. 4. The Dramatic Writers of Ireland.—No. 1. 5. The Lichtensteiners ; or, Convert-Makers.—Part I. 6. Educational Experiments In Ireland. 7. An Antique Dream. 8. The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Esq. 9. llow shall we deal with the War? 10. Gossipping Recollections of the Old Crystal Palace. IL WiWer Life and S,enery. 12. Strife by the Darro. 13. The session Extraordinary. Dublin: James iNl`Glashan, 50, Upper .SackTille-street, and all booksellers. B E MI 5 C Vt - ANAT: Price Half-a-crown, or by post Three Shillings. CONTENTS Fox JANWLEY. No. CCXVII. The Spendtluifi. A Tale of the Last Century. By W. Parrison Ainswarth, Esq. Book I.—Chapters 1., 11., 111., and IV. Things in General. John Gibson Lockhart. D , m Al.mzo de Tabera. By John Oxenford. Edmund Waller. The Ecrivain Public. By Dudley Costello. Th. Last Words. By Mary C. F. Monck. Winter in the Crimea. Miss Letty Larkins's First Drive in a Hansom. War ; and the Paris Mesmerists. " only Visions " By E. P. Rowsell. New Year's Adventures ors; Box of Bonbons. By the Flanenr. Inkerman, the City of Caves. London : Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. WEDDING GLOVES. NOTICE. The' Publisher regrets that, in consequence of the haste in sup plying the large number of this Work ordered, a portion of the film tratioas in the First Edition are Incorrectly Placed. Any such copies will be exchanged for the New Edition, to be issued on Satur day next, December 30. Paternoster-row, Dec. 23, Just published, in 12mo , cloth, price 25., by post 25. 6d., THE DIAGNOSIS and TREATMENT of VE NEREAL DISEASE; by Dr. ALLEN, M.R.C.S., L.S.A., &c. London: Ifippolyte Ball'iere, 219, Regont-street, and 290, Broad way, New York. Just published, New and ImproYed Edition , price is. , THE CUR*BILITY of CONSUMPTION ; being a Series of Papers, presenting the most prominent and important Practical Points in the Treatment of the Disease. By PRANCES 11. RANI Fellow of the College of Physicians, late Senior Physician to the Royal Infirmary for Diseases of the Chest, &c. Also, by the same Author, Price 10s. Gd. A TREATISE on ASTIIIIA' and on DISEASES of the HICART. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. Q t'ACKS UNMASKED. The Third E lition.--Just published, price 55., by post, free, lb 6vl. ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORREEE A with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary frc m the Real sufferers under this disease, and C.rrecting of wide- spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. Frcar the G• trman of Dr. VICKFOIRD. With an Introduction by the Editor, cont2.ining a complete exposure of the system of terrorism and extortion pursued by the advertising quacks of the metropolis towards those wh p are credulous enough to seek their aid. " Dr. Fickfortl known to English readers by his frequent p tacti cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he Informs as, that he has addressed himself to the nett- medi cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall letec t any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his sower t o eor rect."--London Medical Gazette. " The tribe of Quiet Sympatt leers,' and ' Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed; and if this book could find its way into the hands of those who stiffer from the com plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what 'is of Ices importance, though it is that which the quacks most pr ize— much money ......This volume is well qua' fic I to put an end t o the ennirical system of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to place the ' treat ment upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, ther *fore, like'y to do much good." • London: H. Balliere, 219, Regent-street. 90 LOVERS OF F 15191.- 100 roal YARMOUTH BLOATERS for 65., package In. :laded. The above forwarded to all parts on receipt of penny postage s t: maps, rP.O. 0. (preferred) for the amount. Send plain address, ::t.unty, and nearest station.—Address, Thomas Lettis, jun., Fish-curer, Great Yarmouth. TEETH. —By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent.—Newly•invented and Patented Applicatior t of Che mically-prepared White India-rubber in the construction of _ krtlflcial Teeth, Gums, and Palates.—Mr. EPHRATA' MOSELY, Turgeon- Dentist, 61, lrosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square, Sole Inven for and Patentee.—A new, original, and invaluable invention, coral sting in the adaptation, with the most absolute perfection and su ecess, of CHEMICALLY-PREPARED WHITE INDIA-RUBBER a I a lining to the ordinary gold or bone frame. The extraordinary r esults of this application may be briefly noted in a few of their mos t promi nent features, as the following r—Ali sharp edges are avoi sled ; no springs, wires, or fastenings are required ; a greater increa led free dom of suction is supplied ; a natural elasticity hitherto wh oily un attainable: and a flt, perfected with the most unerring stem Iscy, are secured, while from the softness and flexibility of the at rent em ployed, th• greatest support is given to the adjoining tee all when loose, or rendered tender by the absorption of the gums. 's the acids of the mouth exert so agency on the chemically-prepare tI White India-rubber, and as it is a non-conductor, fluids of any tern verature may with thorough comfort be imbibed and retained in th e mouth, all unpleasantness of smell or taste being at the same tim r wholly provided against by the peculiar nature of its preparation. To be obtained only at 61, Grosvenor-street, Londons ; 22, Gay-street, Bath ; 34, Grainger .street, Newcastle-on-Tyne. —. 7/((--- s / r4e ---e---- - :(--' ----,..-------- ... - _ ..,, . . . .4. r : ~:' - ;.• , 7 - '...', -,': '. ' n , - . - • . - . .. ----- • - . - - . . • s ‘ ; / • • --- , ' .......,4 : -'-,... 0 - .. ii - '' - . Ik, ;,-)--*, , .on . ~---— - • - • : tr: , :_ . i - ; - : _ " l 4 tA1,,:., - _ . • ---- - . • !. 7. I`..i: .i -.. ~ . . 1 ' °.',; .;, '-' 7 \ '',- ‘' ''' - -- A' - 7... , 11 ; '.; .7- 4 * c ig . 'e -v;. • ; 4. 4)* , f 7:' , ~ ? 2 '; ^ .. " ' 4.. v..- - , i .-, .?•4 , "ki ~.,,, . ~ -• . ,iii#•- - : 4 1 ' --A^r-:----- - - /,f, . ~'. , - ' , pi, . "-.A.-- - -,• ‘ .... v. It / 1 1 , it . ,' . 0 111 V4,-,:,, -'. , - , e,‘"''- 1 :: z - ','. 'Tift-• - 1,16 ' , -- „ie. ' LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, 1854. CONTRACT FOR SHOES. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport Services, Somerset-place, 26 th Dece mber, 1854. THE Commissioners for Executing the O ffice of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do Hereby Give Notice, that on SATURDAY, the 13th of January, 1855, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and delivering into her Ifajesty's Victualling Stores at DEPTFORD, the undermen tioned articles, viz.:— 5,500 pairs, size No. 10] SIIOES. 5,500 „ „ No. 11 One half thereof within six weeks, and the remainder within six weeks afterwards, or earlier, if preferred by the pasties tendering. Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the Shoes. Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the ten ders are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for such part thereof only as they may deem fit. Patterr.s of the Shoes and the conditions of the Revised Contract may be seen at the said office. No tender will be received after one o'clock en the day of treaty, nor any noticed, unless made on the Printed form provided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on application at the said Office. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Shoes," and must also be delivered at Somerset-place. TO BUILDERS._SEALED TENDERS for BUILDING BARRACKS and STABLES for Royal Artillery, to be erected at Devonport ; with separate Tenders for the Asphalte Work, will be received at the Ordnance °Bice, Pall-mall, London, on or before MONDAY, the Bth January next, at Noon, addressed to the secretary to the Board of Ordnance, and endorsed " Tender for Artillery Barracks, Devonport," en the left-hand corner of the Envelope. The Royal Artillery Barracks Comprise a Building centaining six officers' quarters and servant's rooms ; a range of stables, with har ness rooms, artillery stores, ablution rooms, with internal staircases, and soldiers' rooms over the whole range; infantry stables and yard ; forage barn for hay, straw, and corn ; forge, shoeing shed, pharmacy and cooking house ; guard house and cells; orderly room and work shops ; privies, dung and ash pits ; enclosure walls, gates, side doors, roads, parades, drains. Plans, terms, and conditions, with specifications, and addenda thereto, may be seen, fortes of tender and all necessary information obtained, at the Royal . Engineer Office, Devonport, between the hears of Nine and Four o'clock, from Tuesday, 19th instant, to Alathlig.tas 116.. 4hrisupoi Jas,y Royal Engineer Office, Devonport, 13th December, 104. 16s. TROWSERS , itEDITOED TO 14s. Trowsers and Waistcpat. 225. ; Coat. Waistcoat, and ?row cars, 475. ; made to order irons Scotch Tweeds, all Wool, and thorouihly ; shrank. by B. BENJAMIN, Merchant Tailor, 74, Regent-street. perfect lit guaranteed. PATENT FURNACES, AND THE LAW OF PATENTS. (Front the Mining Journal.) Ire the matter of Letters Patent granted to Mr. John Lee Stevens, for improvements in furnaces, grates, &c., proceedings have been recently taken against a person who had previously been in the patentee's employment, Which have elicited the needless and vexatious sacrifice of time, labour, and expense to which plaintiffs may be pat by unscrupulous defendants under the new law ; and to which we call the attention of our readers, to prepare them for another crusade against the legal fictions that still remain in our statue books relative to Letters Patent. It appears that, notwithstanding the ingenuity of the defendant, and his acquired knowledge of the patentee's specifications and practical application of the system founded thereon, the colourable evasions of the former, being mere additions to, undoubtedly, the simplest and most successful means in existence for the prevention of smoke and economy of fuel, were too palpable, and the evidence against him too conclusive, to allow the re motest chance to his defence. Still the so-called Patent Law Amendment Act admitted of his throwing difficul ties in the way of justice, which, to an inexperienced, hesitating, or unprovided patentee, might have been in surtnountable ; and, in which case, the wantonness of a dishonest man, the wickedness of an ungrateful servant, and the recklessness of an impoverished schemer, might have made the- existing law a triumphant instrument in the perpetration of the grossest fraud. Under the new law, it. appears, the defendant's pleas and objections amounted to the extraordinary number of forty-three ! , They included everything that could be brought to bear upon the subject of furnace and other grates, however inapplicable to the case at issue. .They declared that the patentee was not the first inventor ; that the invention was not properly described ; that it was not , any, manner of manufacture ; that it was not a new manufacture ; that the invention was not new when patenteed ; that it was . not specified in time ; and 'that it ' was not sufficiently speci fied. Then the defence went on to declare that the invention had been previously published, during a period ranging from about 1814 to 1853, inclusive, in the Journal of Arts, &c., the Repertory of Arts, &c., the Repertory, of Patent Inventions, &e n and in the Combustion of Coal, by Mr. C. W. Williams. Further, that the invention., had been previously closeribed in the specifications of numerous patentees, including those of William Johnson, Josiah Parkes, John Wakai.ld, Samuel Hall, W. F. Eggleston, George Holmes, William Bedington, &c. And lastly, that the invention had been absolutely in use at enumerated places in town and country ; the particulars of which we omit, out of consideration to the highly respectable firms mentioned, to prevent fur ther inconvenience to them in gratification of useless curiosity in addition to the trouble already given and the annoyance to them by such unauthorised references. As, however, the last category comes fairly under the denomination of ascertainable facts, it may be satisfac tory to our readers to learn that, at some considerable cost of labour and expense, their real value, which as re garded the purpose of the defence was positively nil, could he more easily learnt than the vague assumptions (equally worthless when examined) to be gleaned from scientific works some of which have long been out of print, and from specifications, the enrolment of which began in 1818 and only terminated with 1852. All this toil and expenditure of money had necessarily to be made, in order that no allegation on the part of the defence should be overlooked. To that extent it will, no doubt, be valuable to the patentee, since the result has been entirely in his favour. And the process has obtained for him those statutory certificates from the Lord Chief Baron which clothe any one, the novelty of whose invention, and whose rights as a patentee, have thus been established at law, with great ulterior advantages, The verdict, therefore, against the defendant, who may not be able to defray the damages and costs, will not be altogether barren, as the power of prompt proceedings in Chancery, or of the enforcement of onerously increased damages and costs against defendants at law, must be of considerable im portance in respect of an invention so universally adapt able as that of Mr. John Lee Stevens'. And our,little narrative of the facts may not be without service to pa tentees who are determined to protect their property ; nor, on the other hand, in the way of caution to parties who do not give themselves the trouble to ascertain the responsibility of those who offer to subdue their smoke, and economise their fuel. As a matter of course, the patentee, should such an occasion arise, will prefer re spectable firms as defendants to quondam servants ; and the speediest and most stringent means of enforcing his rights. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The Royal George, 120, screw, Captain Codrington, C. 8., is lying at the Fair -way moorings, Sheerness. The last ammunition was discharged on Thursday. She will go into the basin next spring tides ; in the mean time, all will be done to lighten her as much as possible. The crew are going on leave shortly. The Cressy, 81, screw, Captain Warren, is in No. 1 dry-dock, Sheerness. The whole of the crew were paid (keeping two months' in hand) on Thursday, and proceeded on leave till the 15th proximo, with the ex ception of 42 of the first-class boys, who went yester day. The crews drafted from ships coming home from foreign stations have long-leave of 60 days. Cressy's sides are being caulked and her machinery will undergo a thorough overhaul. The Majestic, 11, screw, Captain Hope, C. 8., is in No. 3 dry-dock, Sheerness. Her crew have all been drafted in the Minotaur hulk, lying in the stream. They go on leave the beginning of next week it is ex pected, for which the " tars" are most anxious. The Monarch, 84, Captain Patty, Devonport.—The foremast of the Monarch has been taken out and taken to the dockyard for survey ; the mizenmast is also to be taken oit. ,The dockyard to-day. Sh e may Captain Warden, will b e out of fo thess ib l hands , remain i fi fn o p , i no screwrtths e m sea basin f ar a f ew d ays, from the o want of a berthing hulk. The Euryalus, 61, screw, Captain Ramsay, was taken into No. 1 deck at Devonport on Th urs d ay. The Melampus, frigate, fitting .wu t as a troop-ship, Is still in the basin at Sheernees, h er l ower masts are stepped, but just new few hands w or ki ng at her. The Amphion, 34, screw, Captain A. C. Key, is still over on the west shore at the moorings, Sheerness. She 1 4., 0 .,,,,, 94 . 4 ,4,41 sx ,to mirk,* • „ alre Sig meinteeng, butia ci. -,. -'—. ' ' iior e "tr has, we believe , not yet receivek any being defective; the opinion gains gran t . a . , eern definite orders ; and on board, that ultimately she. win b t , (* u re a to Woolwich. The Penelope, 22, paddle, Captain Caffi a , Thi s vessel will pay down as soonas they can arra s th e mo d e o f payment ; the men will have 60 d a y s ' leave, with per mission to volunteer into any of h er Majesty ' s ships at the expiration of their leave. We are happy to say that the crew of the Penelope have subscribed a day's pay towards the " Patriotic Puad," which has amounted to something over 281. yesßirteeh frota Woolwich. 9 arrived in Sheerness at 2a t abort P erl o e2 rt w. s i m o Copau.Pmtht, Yesterday and called i n h ere t o t a k e a h T r e b h i o e s u bound Ers S any " liberty man" that wanted a passage. She re mained at No p.m. The Pylades, 21, screw corvett e is still under the sheers in tke basin at Sheerness. She has taken in all the machinery and both boilers, which came down in the Beaver ; one boiler is in the hold, being stowed away ; the other on deck. The Malacca, 17, screw, Capt. Ilillyer , was completed at Devonport on Wednesday; she went out of harbour; and sailed direct on Thursday morning, with a heavy mail, for the Black Sea. The Geyser, 6, paddle, Cozarsander Roderick D•w, was towed down to Portsmouth Harbour, yesterday, by the Echo, steam•tug, and swung, to ascertain the devia tion of her compass, The Cuckoo, 3, paddle, Lieut. Commander Augustus Murray, which left Sheerness yesterday morning for Plymouth, takes with her a number of supernumeraries, there to be distributed as required by the service. She has undergone many improvements since she came home from Bumarsund, and steamed well out of the harbour. The Oberon, 3, iron paddle, at Portsmouth, lit fires yesterday morning and got up steaao. She worked her paddles in the steam-basin dock for eome bean to prove boilers and machinery. ARTILLERY PRACTICE. The artillery at Shoeburyness practised the whole of yesterday morning, at the long gun exercise, of which we have ample proof here, in consequence of the loud reports felt every two or three minutes, not withstanding► Shoeburyneds is'over on the Essex coast, and distant many naileefrom Sheerness. men being sent home. The corps musters at present, after allowing for deductions, about 550 ; but since the visit of Captain Bourke on Monday about 140 men have volunteered into the regular service, and of these it is expected that a considerable number will ultimately pass. The Lord-Lieutenant, who is Colonel of the regiment, has handsomely given a Lieutenant's commission to Ser jeant-Major Macdonald, who has also been appointed Quartermaster. BLYTH'S NOVEL STEAMERS ON THE DANUBE. Under a charter granted by the Austrian Government, the exclusive privilege of the regular traffic of the Danube is conferred upon an Association established under the title of the "Imperial .and Royal Steam Danube Navigation Company," which now possesses upon that great stream and its tributaries, the Theiss and Saavo, a fleet of eighty-eight steamers, with an aggre gate of ten thousand horse power. These vessels, averaging two hundred feet in length, are built for speed, fitted with the utmost elegance, and every re quirement for the comfort and luxu r y o f their passengers. At certain seasons, however, the traffic is interrupted, sometimes for several weeks, by a bed of rock, known as the " Iron Gate of the Danube," near OrsOya, a fron tier town of Little Wallachia, about 40 miles east of Moldova, on the borders of Hungary. This rock barrier has hitherto rendered it necessary to land the passengers and convey them in rude waggons, over most execrable roads, to re-embark where the river again becomes navi gable. The company, however, has now surmouted this inconvenience, having just added to its fleet a steamer that can pass the Iron Gate in all states of the river, her draft, with passengers and -fuel, being only twelve and a half inches / This vessel—which has been constructed by Messrs. J. and A. Blyth, the eminent marine engineers, of Limehouse London, who have laitsilrbsilwlattssilbsktAnsonss4l is ill34lllnralliens of Aisis-natnre icor farm service where shallow draft is a 160 feet - in length, and 20 feet beam ; has oxcell.ent accommodation for passengers, and has only nominally 40-horse power, or 1-horse power to 8 tons measurement. Her extremely light draft, com bined with strength and speed, has been obtained by some peculiarities in the construction and arrangement of the vessel and her Machinery. For instance, the hull is composed of four longitudinal and six transverse divi sions, arranged in the form of A compound truss ; and, with the bottom and sides of the vessel, forming 15 water-tight compartments. The boiler occupies the centre of the vessel,. and is suspended by attachments to the vertical ribs, so as to diffuse the weight over the whole surface of the bottom of the steamer. There are two pairs of paddle-wheels, very small and light, constructed with revolving floats, and each pair driven by a distinct pair of engines, the forward wheels making 87, and the after Oa revolutions per minute. This duplicate arrange ment of the paddle-wheels is entirely new, and is in tended to diffuse the weight as well as the force of the machinery taxer a larger extent of the surface of the boat than usual, and to meet the difficulty of obtaining suffi cient propelling surface, with 12 inches immersion, with out immoderate width of float. The engines, which are very light and compact, arc an adaptation of the light screw engines of these well-known constructors to pad dle-wheel propulsion. The Tachtalia (so the vessel is called), en her trial trip, under the superintendence of Captain Maejon, at tained a speed of 111 1 miles, against the current ; and from the novelties in her construction and appearance, and the important improvement in the navigation of the Danube which she is destined to effect, she is an object of much interest on that river. A still greater signi ficance is attached to her, and to the principle her example is certain to achieve in the sy-tem of steam transit on this great riverine artery of Austria, when we contemplate the peculiar position of that empire in the present European struggle, and reflect what may be the consequences, whether to her own disaffected depen dencies, or to the Allies, or to Russia, from the facili ties these engineers have now placed at her disposal for pouring troops into the provinces on the Lower Danube, without the delay which previously intervened at the Iron Gate. This famous pass may be said to be the very key to the strategetic position it will probably be moat im . portant for Austria to secure in the approaching crisis in her fate and the fate of civilisation in that part of the -world ; for it is literally the "Gate" between Servia and Wallachia on either side the river, is the focus of the Sclavonio populations it is so much her interest to con -1 ciliate or control, and may be said almost to com mand Widdin, so valuable to the Turks. It is some what remarkable that the last ship launched by Messrs. Blyth should also have approached its destination at a most critical moment in the fortunes of the Government it was built for. The noble war-steamer, the Tacuari, any out ItulricAriattz}.-raz You! Arrive at r4/11- guay, having on board the late ambassador to England and France, Brigadier General F. Solano Lopez, son of the President, shortly after his father, having quar relled with the United States diplomatic authorities at Asuncion, had ordered to be closed against all foreign vessels of war ; the Brazilian Government also being simultaneously intent in demanding reparation from President Lopez for some slight offered their Chargt d'Affaires, and having resolved to send war-steamers to Asuncion to exact satisfaction. The presence of such a vessel as the Tacuari at such a conjuncture would doubtless produce a most marked change in the relative bearing of the disputants, especially when it would be come known that she was to be followed by a fleet of six or eight steamers of a like kind from the same yard on the Thames, General Lopez having left orders for their construction before his departure, and seen their machinery far advanced towards completion. POSTAL TREATY BETWEEN ENGLAND AND FRANCE. (From the London Gazette of last Evening.) Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his Majesty the dinperor of the French, alike animated by the desire of improving, by means of a new Convention the Postal Service between the two countries, have named as their plenipotentiaries for that purpose ; that is to say : Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable Henry Richard Charles, Lord Cowley a Peer of the United King dom, a Member of Her Majesty's Privy Council, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Her Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the Emperor of the French ; His Majesty the Enaperor of the French, M. Edward Dronyn de Lhuys, his Minister and Secretary of State of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Vice-President of the Senate, Great Cross of the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour, &c., &c. ; Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and duo form, have agreed upon the following articles : ARTICLE I. The postage to be collected in France and Algeria upon paid letters addressed to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, as well as upon unpaid letters origi nating in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire land, shall be as follows :- 1. For every paid letter, forty centimes per Eleven grammes and a half, or fraction of seven grammes and a half. 2. And for every unpaid letter, eighty centimes per seven grammes and a half, or fraction of seven grammes and a half. Reciprocally, the postage to be collected in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland upon paid letters addressed to France and Algeria, as well as upon unpaid letters originating in Francis and Algeria, shall be as fol lows : 1. For every paid letter, four pence per quarter of an ounce British, or fraction of a quarter of an ounce British. 2. And for every unpaid letter, eight pence per quarter of an ounce British, or fraction of a quarter of an ounce British. ARTICLE IL The rate at which the Post-uffice of France shall account to the British Post-office for paid letters addressed to Greit Britain, forwarded by the French exchanging offices to the British exchanging offices, as well as for unpaid letters or:• ginating in Great Britain, forwarded by the British ex changing offices to the French exchanging offices, shall be as follows :- 1. For paid letters addressed to Great Britain, the sum of sixty centimes per thirty grammes, net weight ; 2. And for unpaid letters originating in Great Britain, the sum of one franc twenty centimes per ounce British, net weight. Reciprocally, the rate at which the British Post-office shall, on its side, account to the Post-office of France for paid letters addressed to France and Algeria, forwarded by the British exchanging Offices to the French exchang ing offices, as well as for unpaid letters originating in France and Algeria, forwarded by the French exchanging Offices to the British exchanging Offices, shall be as fol. lows :- 1. For paid letters addressed to France and Algeria, the sum of one franc per ounce British, net weight ; 2. And for unpaid lette rs ori g inatin g in France an,. Al ge ria, the sum of two francs per thirty grammes, net weight. THE TROOPS AND TRANSPORTS. The Imperatrice, steam transport, being now ready to receive her allotment of reinforcements for the Crimea, the following ditaehronta will embark this morning from Portsmouth Dockyare, and proceed in her to the seat of war : Grenadier Guards—Lieutenant Coulson. Coldstream Guards--Lieutenant-Colonel Stepney, in command. ist Foot--Ist Battsapn-,tosigns_Brock suct Crfumil, 2 sergeants, and 100 men. 4th Foot—Ensign Williamson, 1 sergeant, and 65 men. 7th Foot—Ensign Robinson, 1 sergeant, and 75 men. 20th Foot—Major Crawley and Lieutenants Warren and Dickens, 1 sergeant and 3) men. 23d Foot—Captain Crofts, Lieutenant Mostyn, 2 sergeants, and 100 men. _ . 28th Foot—Ensign Menzies, 1 sergeant, and 65 men. 44th Foot-1 sergeant, and 50 men. 46th Foot.—Lieutenant Connell, 1 sergeant, and 25 men. 77th Foot—Lieutenant Richards, 5 sergeants, and 247 men. 95th Foot.—Lieutenants Taylor and Robinson, 1 ser geant, and 39 men. Medical Staff. — Assistant-Surgeons Halesbury and Lynch. The Imperatrice has the appearance of a splendid vessel, and is admirably fitted for the conveyance of troops. The Baniana, steam transport, 1,529 tons, No. 160, will, about the middle of the ensuing week, receive on board at Liverpool the 82d Regiment, for conveyance to Corfu ; 33 officers, 630 men, 40 women, and 119 chil dren, will be the number embarked. On her arrival at Corfu the Ist battalion of the 71st Regiment will ship in this vessel for conveyance to tba Crimea. The Clyde, screw-steamer, 1,168 tons, No. 145, which was to have conveyed troops and stores to the Crimea, has been appropriated by the Lords of the Admiralty for the conveyance of stores only, there being an urgent requirement for the shipment of coffee and a quantity of naval medical stores, now lying at Portsmouth. She is to fill up with provisions. The Marley Hill, screw steam transport, 508 tons, has been appropriated for the conveyance of huts and warm clothing to the Crimea, and has received orders to proceed immediately from the river to Portsmouth, to receive the same. The Prompt, screw steam transport, No. 168, 417 tout, will receive immediately a cargo of warm cloth ing, powder, and other ordnance stores, at Woolwich, for conveyanc e to the East. The Kangaroo, steam transport, No. 170, 465 tons, has been appropriated by the Admiralty for the con veyance of ordnance stores from Deptford and Wool wich, part of which will consist of 300 tons of warm clothing, beddi ng , & c. The Eagle, screw steamer, 480 tons, has been char tared by th e Ad m i ralty for the conveyance to Scutari of army medical stores, and was yesterday ordered into the London Docks to receive them. The Stag, 678 tons, appropriated by Government for the conveyance of 225 male convicts from this country to Western Australia, will leave Deptford in a few days to receive them on board at Woolwich, Portsmouth, Portland, and Plymouth, respectively. A pensioner guard will accompany her. She will also carry four warders and their families, and 49 tons of ordnance stores to that place. The Foyle, iron chartered screw-steamer, having com pleted with 104 wooden huts for the Crimea, hauled off at Port , onouth, yesterday evening, and sails to-day for the Crimea. She also takes a few bales of woollen goods. The Clyde, iron chartered screw-steamer, will have completed the stowa,geof an immense quantity of woollen goods, boots and shoes, gauntlets, &c., and with a de , tachtnent o f 200 trocpd and about 20 horses, she will be enabled to leave Portsmouth for the Crimea to-morrow morning. The Zilla and hie, t r ansport, sailed from Devonport, with stores for the Black Sea, on Wednesday. The Oscar, screw-transport 153, Captain Thatcher, from London for 'Balaklava, requiring to fill up her coals, put into Falmouth yesterday. The Libertas, transport 95, has arrived in the river. DEATH OF GENERAL ARNOLD. Lieutenant-General Arnold, K.C., died at his residence in Onslov-square on Wednesday. The follow ing is a summary ,f his services : —At the blockade and surrender of Malts, in 1800 ; through the whole of the campaign in Egyvt in 1801, including the attack and surrender of Aboukir Fort and Castle, the battle of Alexandria, and he afterwards accompanied the division of the army which expelled the French from Grand Cairo, and took possessim of that city ; he was also present at the surrender of Alexandria to the British troops; served several y ears i n the West Indies, and was at the last a tt ac k an d qurren d er of the colonies of D e m era ra, Essequibo, B er bi ce, an d Surinam, at which latter he was severely woun d e d in successfully leading the storming party against the redoubt Frederici and Fort Leyden. He was several times handsomely mentioned in the public despatches for his conduct at Surinam, and was on that oc cas i on p res ented by the committee Of the Patriotic Fund with a sword of the value of 1001. He has since served several years in Bermuda and North America. He had also the honour of being appointed an aide-de-camp to King William IV., on his Majesty's accession to the throne. He entered the corps of Royal Engineers in 1798, and served 56 years. SPORTING INTBLLIGBNCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER —FRIDAY. There was a moderate attendance at the rooms to-day and a marked improvement in business. Since our last quotations, St. Hubert, Lord of the Isles, Grxculus Esuriens, and De force for Clare have been in strong tue Derby. The following were the latest prices MANCHESTER STERPLECHASH. 4to 1 agst Rosa (taken) CHESTER CUP. 59 to 1 agst notheram (taken) 50 to 1 agst Neville (taken) 50 to 1 agst The Reiver (offered) 66 to 1 agst Arthur Wellesley (taken) 500 to 5 agst Llanforda (taken) 1000 to 1 agst Dr. O'Toole (taken) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 4to 1 agst St. Hubert (taken) sto 1 agst any other (offered) DEEM 11 to 1 agst Grxculus Esurions 11 to 1 agst De Clare to 25/. each 11 to 1 agst St. Hubert 11 to 1 agst Lord of the Isles (offered) 15 to 1 agst Rifleman (offered) 22 to 1 agst Cruiser (taken and offered) 25 to 1 agst Dirk Hatteraick (taken) 25 to 1 agst Polydore (taken) MANCHESTER STEEPLECHASES, JON. 1. Acceptances for the Manchester Steeplechase, a Free Handicap of 5 sovs. each, with 45 added. Winners 71b extra. The second to save his stake. About three miles and a half. Ago st lb Nom de Guerre... a 10 4 Rosa Age et lb Ivanhoe (h b) a 9 4 Garland. a 9 3 Royal Blue (h b) a 9 3 Enchantress: 5 9 2 a 10 4 Columbine n 10 0 Jemmy the Black 6 9 10 Gradeley Lass 6 9 4 Acceptances for the Stretford Steeplechase, a Free Handicap of 3 sons. each, with 25 added. Optional selling allowances. About three miles and a half. Age st lb Age st lb Augean Falcon WHITEWALL STABLES.—This celebrated training esta blishment has contributed 251. 2s. in aii of the Patriotic Fund, Mr. John Scott heading the list with a donation of 101. RUSSIAN PRODUCE AT MEMILL.—The Journal de St. Petersbourg parades the fo llowin g account of Russian THE MILITIA. trade in North G er many :—Since th e se tti ng in of The South Devol Militia has contributed 150 men to winter, the quantity o f R uss i an produce i mpor t e d i n to the regiments of tie line, and now consists of 29 offi- Memel has been much l a rger than at th e b eg i nn i ng of cers and 532 non-ommissioned officers and rank and spr i ng . The streets and sq uares of that town are en- file. Duri ng the past week the re g iment contributed cumbered with Russian sledges and wagzfrus. Hemp, li,/. 108. sd. towards the Patriotic Fund. tallow, wheat, linseed, and copper a " receivea u j th e On Wednesday tie men of the West Essex Militia mus , merchants on their own —,,,,,-.,-- • . , a s transit agents. t ere d at head-quarters, Chelmsford, for permanent duty. And ppletnent of the corps is, including permanent On the other hand. YL" . , j : LIISSIa coffee, sugar, tin, cotton goods, s t a ff, 907; of these upwards 'of 600 responded to the ~.,qs are arriving,. and landing for The lom transmit- ' very large supplies of olive oil, of summons. . ' e rd e t a l li i r s used in Russia during Lent. Im- On Thursday the Lit Devon Regiment of Militia as ww:-.1, ~ grea, on its own account to Russia. , . quantities of salt are also exported from Memel for embodinu m t. at Exeter were considerably lessened in Conlecllnce' 01 it large number of the married ARTICLE 111. The payment on account of the sea conveyance of letters contained in the mails which the respective offices of ex change transmit to each other by means of merchant•ships plying in the Channel shall be equally divided between. the British Post-office and the Post-office of France. These payments shall by made to the commanders or owners of the said vessels at the rate of one penny, or ten centimes per letter. ARTICLE IV. The conditions under Witich newspapers, gazettes, peri odical works, stitched books, pamphlets, sheets of musi c , catalogues, prospectuses, announcements and notices of various kinds, whether printed or lithographed, forwarded from one of the two countries addressed to the other, are to be exchanged, shall be regulated hereafter by a special Convention which shall be based upon the principle of compulsory prepayment to destination, and of the removal of every duty or tax which would otherwise be payable by the persons to whom newspapers and the other printed papers enumerated above are addressed. ARTICLE V. The present Convention, which shall be considered as additional to the Convention of the 3d of April, 1843, shall bo ratified ; the ratifications shall bo exchanged at Paris as soon as possible ; and it shall be put into execu tion on the Ist January, 1855. _ In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention, and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms. Done in duplicate at Paris, the twelfth day of Decem ber, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. (L. S.) COWLEY. (L.S.) DROUYN DE LIILTS. [PRICE SD. VIE NEW FRENCH LOAN. The Erlish nation has purchased at no small cost its knowledge of the theory of borrowing ; but, however I clearly enightened economists may appreciat e the re sults of our dearly-bought experience, Governments which regains loans must sometimes make concessions to popula- opinion. More than half a contuty heel passed sine Fox agreed with Pitt that it was expe dient, when money was raised for the purposes of war, to inmr an additional liability for the sake of creating a Sinking Fund. The same course is adopted in the Bill which has been unanimously voted by the French Legislative Body. The dotation of the Caisse d' Anortissement is to be increased by the sum of 1 per cent. on the nominal capital of the Rented which are about to be issued. It has long been admitted by financiers that it is an error, in theory, to I/increase a debt with the view of ultimately diminishing it ; but it may nevertheless be prudent in a debtor to . consult the testes or prejudices of his creditor. The small eapitalists of France, although frugal and cautious, have not yet tounded the depths of political economy ; and they will probably corns forward with their hoards. the more readily, when they are asked to furnish the meat's, not mly of carrying on the war, but of paying off at some future period the very loan to. which they vill now be contributing. The success of last year's experiment has induced the Emperor) and his advisers to repeat the appeal to the country. at large, in 'reference to negotiating a loan with the' great money dealers of Paris ; and it is hoped that) the large sun of twenty millions sterling may bel procured from the savings of farmers, shopkeepers, and' manufacturers. The character of the French Govern ment for integrity in financial dealings has always stood+ deservedly high ; but the present dynasty seems to have acquired, in an unprecedented degree, the confidence of; the general community. The subscription may be ex pected to cover the greater part, if not the whole, of the, required amount. The Government, of course, reserves. to itself the power of fillitsilAsy Vother methods any de ficiency which may be found to exist; but the bill is identical in principle Noah the measure of the previous' session. The rate of interest of the new stock, and thel general terms of the loan, Will be arranged between the lenders and the Treasury. The Minister of Finance prudently widens, to the utmost of his ability, the: market in which he proposes to deal ; and, should a loan ever become necessary in England, our own Government may, perhaps, derive some useful lessons from the ex ample of France. Mr. Gladstone has already, in some minor operations, tried the experiment of offering vestmeats to private individuals without the interven tion of great contractors ; nor is there any reason why the State should be left at the mercy of half-a-dozen capitalists, when railway or dock companies issue deben tures to the amount of millions at the ordinary rate of interest..--4111/71 ing Chronicle. THE COMMERCE OF RUSSIA. Attention has recently very justly been paid to the increase in the commerce of Russia by the Prus-ian frontier since the sea was closed against it. It is evident that if th:s state of things were to continue, it would be necessary to take measures to render more efficacious and more certain the effects of the blockade, which it is the right and duty of the belligerents to establish in order to attain the object of the war. The roads leading to Tilsit, :Memel, and lilcenigsberg are at this moment encumb , !red with it,terminable convoys, and the streets and squares of those towns are filled with Russian caravans, which, after a few days, ieturn with m.Tchatrdise fur Russia. Hemp, fl.ix, tallow, grain, ai d copper constitute principally what the Russians bring, Land they take hack coffee, sugar, cotton, various cloths, pewter, and, in particular, wine and olive oli. The trade is salt has also taken a verf considerable de velopment, and the importali m of that article is estimated at not less than a million quintals, and the price of it is at present tripled in the mar ket at Riga. In a single day, at the be trinieg of this mouth, at Tilsitt, as many as 300 Russian vehicles, which had passed the night on the other side of the river, owing to the want of room, were counted. Part of these convoys are at present proceeding towards Koenigsberg, but the greater part go towards Memel. The number of arri vals by water was not less considerable, but the frost, which had suddenly sot in, had interrupted all expeditions by rivers. From Memel to Kovno, on the two principal water-courses, there are more than 300 different sorts of vessels, all with freights, caught in the ice, and the parties interested in them run the greatest risks for their merchandise. The temperature, however, which has recently - eaugerl It to be honored that it bs , the rivers by Teat number of men, and the adop- will be pot:agape ausLim - v , ...- th• , t of a • employmen. ion of minute precautions ; but much risk will have to be ran, and there will be inevitable loss. There are at least 130 rafts of building timber, loaded with corn which have been caught in the ice. Great part of the corn has been got off in good time, but the wood must take its chance. A. great number of the rafts have indeed gone to pieces, and the wood has been caught here and there in the ice. The different local reports, in making special mention of the extreme activity displayed in the Prussian Custom-houses for the expedition of so much merchandise, state that the Customs' officers refuse to allow to pass for introduction into Russia lead, whether in pigs or is other forms, be cause they consider it was materiel. Nevethelers, even if it were clearly proved that the contraband of war is severely prohibited on that frontier, it would nct be less urgent to pay attention to a situation which, by being prolonged, would produce the most serious in convenience to the Western Powers, and to ascertain what are the means of remedying it. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK. Miles • opened. NAME OF RAILWAY. 1854. BalTlBll. Aberdeen .. ~...... Newcastle and Carlisle.. •• ........ North British •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• North Staciordshire •• •• •• •• •• •• •• North-Western • • ........ •• Scottish Central ..•••• •• •• •• •• Scottish Millard •• •• :• •• •• Belfast ant Ballymena •• •• •• •• •• •• •• Belfast and County Down.• . ........ Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Bolton, Blackburn, and West York • • • • Bristol and Exe.er •• .......... • •• •• Caledonian...... .. •. . .. • ••• • • • Edinburgh and Glasgort .•• •• •• •• •• •' Chester ant Uolyhead••• •••• •• •• •• Cork, Blackrock, and r 93330 •• •• •• Cork and Bandon •• •• •._.. •• •• •• .• nbl:7:ndlleifas - t Junction Dublin and Droghoda• ••• .. ••••••••• Dublin and Kingstown • Dundee and Arbroath • • ...... • • .. • • Dundee, Perth. and Aberdeen Junction Dundalk ana Enniskillen .• .. • ....... East • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . East Lancashire •• • .• . • • • • • •• • • • Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. •• Eastern Un!0n•........••. • • .• • , • • j burg n, Perth ar d Dundee ••• • • • Exeter and Credlton.. • • .... • • • • • • • • Furness Railway .. • ••••••• • •• • • • • Glasgow, and South-Western.... • • •• Great Northern and E. L. • • • • • •• " Great Southern and Western (Ireland) Great Western •• •• • • •• • . Irish South Eastern • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• Lancaster and C arlisle • • • • • • •• • • • • • • Lancashire and Yorkshire..• • • ... Leeds Northern .. • • • • • • • Liverpool, Crosby, and Sontliport— • • London and North Wcstera ... • ..... London and 81ackwa11............ andou, Brich.on, and South Coast.. London and Smith Westerti......... Londonderry and Enniskillen ........ Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. Manchester, SliedlehLand Lincolnshire Manchester and South Junction Maryport and Carlisle .. • • Midland •.... ...... • • ............ Midland Groat Western (Irish) ...... Monkl ands • • • • • • • • • - Shrewsbury and Birmingham Shrewsbury and Chester • • •••• .• Shropthire Union •• •• •• •• •••• • • • • • South Devon • • ...... •••• • • • •• • • Sout 1 Etctern •• • • • • • ...... • •• • • • • South Wales ...• ..•• .. South York., Doncaster, and Goole . Tatf Vale ..........•• •• • Waterford and Limerick ........... West Cornwall ..•• •• • .. -... —......_.. Whitchaven Junction ............... York and Newcastle, and Berwick & York and North Midland & Leeds FOREIGN. Dutch Rhenish •• •• •• •• •• •••• Lyons and Mediterranean .......... Montereau and Troyes •• ............ Namur and Liege .. •............... Northern of France Orleans and Central* .. Paris and Lyons Paris and Rouen..• ................ Paris and Strasburgh .............. Rouen and Havre •• .. Western of France ...... • • •• ..•• •• • • Receipts. 1853. 5,313 19,276 The receipts include the traffic on the Orleans and Central, Or leans and Bordeaux, and Tours and Nantes lines. COURSE OF EXCH risterdf.m.• .• • • ...... 11 15X Ditto, three months .. 11 1734 Rotterdam • • .......... 11 17X Atitwerp .. • • • • •....... 25 30 B,mssels .... • • 25 30 11. tmtntrgh ...... •• •• 13_5% Pa ris . ...... .•• • • 25 5 Ditto, three months .. 25 30 Marseilles ..... 25 30 ricurdeaux ...• ..•• F r ankfort-on Maine •• .• 117% Berlin ...... •• •.• .. 12 42 Vl. Tr rate 12 45 Pe tersburg .• ...... 35 Mr vlrid .•....• • • ...... 50% Ca 2ia .. • • .• •• ..... 50% Ba rcelona ..•• •• •• •• •• - Se\;111e•.•••• •••••••••-- :ANGE.—THIS DAY. Gibraltar ..... Leghorn .. • • •• ... 30 52% ' Genoa ....... 25 55 ...... • • Naples • ..... 43% Palermo ...... 130 yQ Messina ... . 130% Lisbon ...... •• 53% Oporto .. •• • • • 53% Rio Janeiro .• • .... Buenos Ayres ...... New York, 60 days' sight Philadelphia • PRICES OF BULLICN, PER oz. Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Mexican Dollars 0 0 0 I trAw Dollars. • . • .. 0 0 0 Silver In bars • .... 0 5 1% MR. EDWARD OLIVER S AFFAIRS.—At the Liverpool BAnkruptcy Court, yesterday, Mr. Edward Oliver was de Oared a bankrupt, at the suit of a creditor at New ca. ftle•cn•Tyne. 204 117 1294 142 94N _64 /11,c 417 fiN 174 267 1711 9 7 ,4 28 498 X 12G% sr 78% 149 46 8214 32 291 i 57 3 4 2;9 1G2% 574 262 POLITICAL .RTIMOURS. It is scarcely, perhaps, worth while to allude to the rumours which yesterday evening were prevr.lent, that a [partial modification of the Ministry was about to take place by the retirement of the Duke of Newcastle and Mr. Sidney Herbert, and the substitution of Earl Grey I and Lord - Pan mure ! ! We need scarcely say that the country would gain nothing by the exchange, and it might, perhaps, have suggested a doubt of the accuracy of their information M the rumourmongers had remem bered that the office of Secretary-at-War, being, in truth, the finance minister of the army, is one which a necimsary etiquette invariably assigns to a member of the House of Commons. Rumours, however, like these are, let us say, but one form of the natural impatience which is felt at the con tinued and apparently hopeless mismanagement of the War-office. It is impossible to convey any adequate idea of the number of complaints, every day increasing, which are uttered against the hauteur, the incapacity, and the blundering of the Duke of Newcastle. He is the very evil genius of British war. Wherever his in fluence extends confusion and mismanagement appear as a necessary consequence to prevail. There is not a clerk in his office who, if he could speak his mind, would not tell you that the wonder is that any Ministry alive to their responsibility could tolerate the Duke of New castle in his present position for one week. It is, in a word, the universal feeli ng that he ought to be removed, nu which gives rise to these merous rumours, which, we presume, will one day or ether turn out to be true. But let us say, also, that if we trace the statement of the Duke of Newcastle's removal to the very general be lief that is entertained of his incapacity, we can also trace in the substituted names the influence of a feeling which is actively and powerfully at work. We have more thaw me pointed out that in th e distribution of - the Coalition offices every department practically influ encing the conduct of the war has been studiously and designedly conferred upen a creature or partis an of Lor d Aberdeen. From all these departments the Whigs have been most religiously excluded , and are so up to this hour. We believe they will be so as long as they con sent to occupy their present position of subservience to the views and policy of Lord Aberdeen. It must not be supposed that this exclusion of the Whig party from these offices is viewed with perfect complacency by that party, either within the Cabinet or without it. What passes within the Cabinet can only be conjectured by dim and probably uncertain indications. Still it is not very unsafe to affirm that this extraordinary distribution of offices is the subject, even among Ministers, of both jealousy and suspicion. The 1 .12 e Whig party not in ofEle do not hesitate very freely to express their opinion both upon the character and the motives of that exclusion. We, who in a party sense may perhaps be considered impartial between the rival sections, have already ex pressed our sense of the arrangement by which Lord Aberdeen has contrived to monopolise these Offices, and centre in the hands of his personal adherents all praotical control over the operations of the war. When the rumour of yesterday pointed to Whigs as likely to be appointed to the places made vacant by the expel- Rion of the Peelites, it only gave expression to the senti ment of the Whig party that some each change ought to be made. The occasion, however, recalls our attention to the fact, that after a fortnight's sitting •f the House of Commons, Lord Aberdeen and his little knot of un principled adherents still hold in their hand the entire control of the movements of the war. The result of their management is unhappily too noto rious. Truth, however, obliges us to add, that it is just what might have been expected. No posi tion that we can remember at all resembles that of the personal coterie who have managed to fill up one half of the Cabinet offices, and in that half to seize on every one of those connected with the management of the war. Followers they have none. To say that they have no weight in the country would be untrue ; but unquestion ably they have nerve which Could entitle them to meet on equal terms with the great Whig party led by Lord John Russell. Their pP.ition may be briefly summed up in this, that they have neither principles ner party. They look with veneration to the memory of Peel as that of the man who taught them how t,) surrender the one and be tray the other ; and in this superstitious veneration for this ma , 3ter and this lesson they find a substitute for the ordinary ties that unite Dien in political pursuits. I) priced, however, of the power which belongs only to I oliticians. who car, command a following in A VISIT TO THE BULLDOG. 1854 1,470 224 2,230 4,445 11,253 4,571 4,425 121 220 1,367 688 S9B 5 223 21,003 2,775 599 5,156 23,569 6,159 29,332 G 3,311 1,114 12,045 14,741 9,741 677 740 29,025 2,716 3,152 4,G83 773 2,259 bOl, 2,111 90G 2,044 15.549 &,Gt.ll 3,513 1,153 8,400 1,903 30,536 34,166 7,802 3,418 the country, they are driven to maintain an equivo• ' cal poiiiion Ly expedients to, which their necessity ob iges Clem to resort. There is no party so small that they will not court it. There is no measure so opposed to all their declared political opinions that they may not find reasons to adopt it. To-day they are ready to fawn 1 upon the Popish brigade ; to-morrow to flatter the !Court. And over all their inconsistencies they have hitherto managed, with consummate skill, to throw a i-veil, by the artifice, now almost worn out, of saying they did everything for the sake of free trade ! ! To this little faction, w e once more r i ng i n th e ears Of !the English people, the whole management of the war is confided. Into every one of tha war department of ad. ministration Lord Aberdeen has thrust a personal de. pendent of hie own. Lord John Russell, as a matter of personal dignity, ought never to have submittted to this. Re received but a poor atonement for the slight when is personal vanity was gratified by his nomination to be resident of the Connell. But the time is gone by when ...n be treated as a matter of personal f ee li ng . W e p t, have had experiences enough of the evils of making the adherents of Lord Aberdeen the exclusive managers of the war. Whether or not it be consistent with the honour or the dignity of the Whig party it is not for us to say. Events, however, justify us in declaring that it has not turned out to be either for the honour or safety of England. We should indeed be sorry to see this exclusion broken down by the introduction of such a man as Lord Grey. But to the fact of the exclusion it is right once more to direct the attention of the country. Lord Aberdeen has contrived to retain in the hands of his own adherents every official department directly controlling the admini. tration of the war. The result ii that the war has been carried on—England has felt to her very heart's core How. —Morning Herald. This fine six-gun steamer, which bore the flag of Sir , Charles Napier at Bomarsund, is now lying at North Shields, and has been inspected by thousands of visitors from the shore. On Monday last the crowds which put off to her were immense, and nothing could exceed the civility with which all were received on board. Go to what part of the vessel you bad a mind, the blue jackets or the marines were all attention when information was sought by young or old ; and one corporal of marines, in particular, rather took our attention from the complete indifference with which he and his men treated a smok ing plum padding on their table, compared with replying to the scores of queries put to them about the Miele rides piled at their backs. The pudding seemed to Le regarded as nothing compared with the proper enlighten ment of civilians upon the "grooving of the barrel," ard the peculiar advantages which the simple contriv ance for " sighting" afforded to the mai ksman. " Bless you," said the c orporal, '° we can pick off a m an at a thousand yards' distance with this quite wed, when the o ld rifle wouldn't look at 'im !" The shrill whistle of the boatswain's mate produced silence for a moment, and a serjeant of marines prepared to take the i synee of "those who are going shore." A goad y number were pencilled down, and the serjeant took upon himself to Le the friendly adviser of some of the choicer spirits, apt. cially warning two young fellows against mistaking " the bridge" (at Newcastle) for the " Bulldog," as they had apparently done upon a recent occasion. The fiddler shortly afterwards began ,to labour in his vocation, and a dance of a vigorous although no t o f a very neatly pos tured description followed. We took advantage of the hub bub to learn from' one of the men how the tare accounted for the comparative failure of the Baltic expedition, and pitched by chance upon a sensible Aberdonian. Speaking of the capture of Bomarsund, he said the most of the Ru,sian prisoners taken off by the boats of their ship were tipsy, and numbers of them threw their caps into the water after they had pushed off. Although the British icolours were fixed in the stern of the boats, the Musco vites did not seem to recognise the nationality of their captors, and by their repeated inquiries of " Franke I" " Franke ?" evinced their anxiety to learn if they were in the hands of the French. On being told that they were in the custody of the English, they seemed more at ewe, avid the others pulled out their snuff-boxes to treat our lads to a pinch. Regarding the popularity ef Sir Charles in the ships generally, the Scot could give us no precise information, but as far as their ship's coin pany was concerned, be said they would have done any thing to serve the good old man. The circum stance of all others, however, which had fixed itself most indelibly upon tho mind of our friend, in connection with Sir Charles's stay in the Bulldog, was that he bad requested the captain on one occasion to treat all hands to an extra glass of grog, and for this liberality the Admiral had been unanimously voted "one of the best old chaps alive " by every single Bulldog in the ship. Being curious to hear what might be the opini on of the A.B.'s on the Cronstadt business, we remarked that folks at home were greatly disappointed with the proceedings of the fleet up there. " Well," was the answer, "us in the light ships Were within range of the forts, but they didn't let us do anything. Char lie and wrote home to L o wo u ldrd A be rhdaeveen taken h t e h e wouldplace, manage it with the loss of half the fleet ; but somehow or other he never got an answer, and the thing was humbugged." Poor Lord Aberdeen ! everybody must have a kick at him in some shape, because he wasn't swift to shed blood ; but with an approving conscience he can afford to buir it all in meekness. After discussing Cronstadt, our friend edged over to a formidable 84-pounder, and did his best to instruct us in the rudiments of scientific gunnery, but with what amount of success it would be very mor tifying in us to confess. However, we left the tidy craft rather wiser than we stepped on board, convinced that, like Sam Slick, we bad added a wrinkle to our horn, and were up to a thing cr two in the fire-eating \line which before bad only been guessed at through the medium of a very remote agency. The Bulldog is to remain in the Tyne for a couple of months, and efforts aro being made to add to her complement of hands. A number have joined her already, and, so far as we could see , they will have no cause to regret the step, for pains seems to be taken on board to fender all her crew at once comfortable and contented.—Sunderland Herald. ANTRIM ELECTION.—Captain Pakenham has been elected for the seat vacant by the death of his gallant brother in the Crimea. The proceedings at the eleotion were pro forma, no opposition being apprehended or offered. L X 1,67 - s 825 205 2,005 4,939 9,647 4,624 4,236 126 182 1,190 630 411 709 691 4,825 21,818 2,342 578 4,950 18,544 5,699 25,353 5,381 17,862 260 55,643 1,077 10,899 9,415 429 7,841 644 27,291 2,536 2,720 4,793 649 1,929 641 1,7133 759 1,605 14,145 4,174 2,616 1,324 7,948 1,553 25,510 29,234 7,662 3,744