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AIR. ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC`, 7 including the BERN. .M.:.I)IIEI:L.AN arithe..SEupl,(l2..„. THIS EVENING, and Laren , Evcnirg at I.:ls;ht o'Cloch, !ex, Saturday) ; and Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Mornings, at Thu e. Stalls, 3s. (which can be taken at the hoe- oilier: every day from 11 11l 4 ; area, 25.; gallery, Is.—Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. LR EN T' S CASINO, ARGYLE ROOMS, (Lessee, Cites. C. LAURENT, Onelow-house, Fulham-road), —The above Rooms are now OPE.N FOR TUE SEASON. and will continue open every evening, with LAURENT'S CELEBRATED BAND. Constantinople Quadrille, sultan } ' olka, • Pair Star Waltz, and Overland Mail Galop, by D'Albert;• also, by H. Laurent, the following Waltzes —La belle Francaise, Leonora, and his Dinah. Admission, It. Doors open at half-past 8. Dancing to commence at 9 o'clock, and terldnate at half-past 11. TURKISH' EXHIBITION and MUSEUM, ST. GEORGE'S * GALLERY, Hyde-park-corner. Piccadi ly, OPEN DAILY, from Eleven till Ten, Sliturdays excepted, when it closes at Six. Aomissi. , n, 23. 6d. ; children, Is. Gd. ; Saturdays, ss. ; children, 2s. Gd. Farnly Tickets for five, 10s. Schools emitted at Half-price. Herr Kalozdy and his Band are engv3i,ed, and will pe folm Daily, In m Twelve till five. Mr. J. Osborne Williams will preside at the Grand Pianoforte during* the evening. PATRON—A.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. UNDER ENTIRELY NEW MAN GEMENT. COURSE of MONDAY LECTURES, specially adlressed to the IN DUSTRIAL CLASSEQ, to which they and their f milks will be admitted, Morning or Evening, on payment of SIXPENCE eac , *, on producing a ticket signed t•y the Foreman or Superintendent of the Worki to which they may belonz. The Ei . URTiI LECTURE of this COURSE will be delivered by Dr. BACHROFFNEIL, F.C.S., on Monday Ever' nu, September 4, on ELE .TRICITY, illustrated by brilliant experimmts. GREAT SCIETIFIC NOVELTIES. • :NATURE PRINTING, by Dr. BACHIIOFFNER ' EXIIIRITh •N of the NIODERN (Atl• El , : FIRE, and of DIT4 • 110SCQ'S ILLUM/NATED CASCADE, in addition to all the Daily . LE.ecriffs by A)fcsys. PEPPER and BACIMOFFNER OPI CAL . oNS, PHOTOGRAPHIC 'PORTRAIT GAL LERY, &c., &c., &c. A RAND of MUSIC under the direction of Mr.'NVAUD of the Royal Italian Opera. The Gas-lighting has been re-arranged by JOIIIT LESLIE, Esq. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.- The Director. are prep , red to receive TEN I ERA for LOA • s, for a period of Three Years, on the Se urity of 'he Company's De• bentures, bearing interest at the late of 4% per cent. per annum J. B. OWEN, Secretary. Ilishopsgate Station, August 3, 1854. • LONDON. and NORTH-WESTERN and IIEiTER and HMI BEAD Re ILWAYs —TOURS to NORTH WALES.—'tickets available for Fourtent Heys, Enabling the holder to stop at Int 1, C,onway, Bangor, Carnarvon and Holy head, either going or returning, are issued at the Mowing fares by Any through train to Holyhead :—London to.Holyhead and back— tat Class, 31. 10s.; 2d Class, 21. 10s. , ( By and r. MARK HIIIFIT, t. and N. W. Railway. J. 0. BINGER, C. and IC Railway. ..ustan Station. : 4 Ag.• • • .. 1 1 Vit t "IC "T L'W A T1031.--W S A 1 7 * c Y 'PL 4 EASUIIE EXCUR , IIONS D IIt.Y to three attractive" Places, WINDSOR, HAMi - TON COURT, RICHMOND, KEW, &c., Sze., at 1 ow Fares First and Set and Class Return Tickets. at Single Fares (with the addition if a stoali booking fee), are issued on Saturdays and mindaye, at Waterloo and Val shall Stations, to Winilsor and :o all stati below tVoltlng. These tickets can only he received at the st-ition fir which they are issue?, and are available for Return ty any urdi. Lary Train until the following Monday, inclusive. By order. ARCHD SCOTT, Traffic Manager. Waterloo Station, July, 1854. REAT WESTERN RAILWAY. 7k VI CHEAP EXCURSION to the WEST of ENGLAND. un THURST) Y, the 31st of August, an EX,I.JR-lON THAIN will leave PA fiDINGTON at S a.m., for PLYMoUTFT, calling at Weston Super-Mare, Itringewater, Taunton, Tiverton Road, Exete r, Stareross. Dawltsh, Telounouth, Torquay, Totneg, and King bridge, gin(' wlllreturn from Plymouth on Thlrsday, Sept. 7th, at 6.30 a.m. FARES MERE AND BACK. First Closed Clare. Carriages. Weston-Super-Mare or Bridgewater Its. .. 13s. Taunton or Tiverton Road ... 22e. .. Its. Exeter . • • • . 745. .. 16s. Starcrnss, Dawlish, or Telirntnouth.. 25.. • • 17s. Torquay or Totnes • • .....• ...... 275. • • Pis. Plymouth or Kingsbridge CHILDREN under 12 years of age, HALF-PRICE. The Excursion tickets are not transferable, and are only available for the Excursion Trains. 'I ickets may be previously obtained at 27. l E l 'lz-street, Cheapside ; 63, tcrtdge-road, Lambeth; 351, Oxford street; 269, Strand; and at the Paddington Station. Further particul n's will be given in handbills, which may be had at any of the above places. LONDON and BLACKWALL RAILWAY COMPANY. At the Half-Yearly General Meetim4 of this Company, held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, on Tuesday, the 29th day of August, 1854, CHARLES EDWARD MANGLE 4, Esq., in the Chair. It was Resolved— That the Ittports of the Directors and Auditors, together with the statement of accounts annexed thereto, be received and adopted. That in future any vacancies in the board be flied up by the proprietors at the half-yearly general meeting of this Company nest ensuing after such vacancy. That a dividend be n•.w declared, and that the same be made after the rate of three shillings and threepence a share clear of in ome tax, upon the 109,131 shares held by the members of tlik Com •any in the joint stock thereof, payable on and atter Wednesday, the t inst. That the cordial thanks of this Meeting be given to the Chairman for presirlina on the or sent occasion. GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY COMPANY of CANADA. At a Meeting of the Shareholcie;s of the Company, hid at Quebec On Thursday, the 27th July, 1851, pursuant to adverti meta, The Hon. JOHN ROSS, President, in the Chair, It was resolved — That the Report now read and the accounts submitted he con firmed and approved, and that a copy be transinittted to each share bolder of the Company. hat, for the future, the meetings co` the shareholders of the Corn- Deny in Canada shall take lace on the first Wednesday of Seim tuber in each year; the next General Meeting to take place in Quebi c on the first Wedne day of September 1.55. _ That, at the mee ti ng o f th. shareholders to be held in September, 1 855, one third of the elective Dir ctors of the Corn any shall go !int of office; one third sir 11 go cut of office at the meevng , n Sep teinber, 856 ; and one-third at the II eeting in Sepietub4r. 1857 ; tind at all su , sequen• annual meeti is of the shareholders one-thra of the Directors who have been longest in offl e , hall go out of office; every Director so retiring tohe eligible for re election. That Henry Le Slesurler, Esq., of- Quebec. be elected a Direct , r of this Company, In lien of captain Rhodes, re igned ; That Mr. Wm. Molson. Mr. Wm. Workman. and Mr A. Larocque, each of Montreal, he elected aue hors of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada. That the existing tarifa of' rates or tolls, and all those fixed and regulated by th • Board of Directors since the amatton of the companies now constituting the Maori Trunk Ra lway Company of Canada, be r stifled : and further, that this meeting emt over the Directors to alter, fix, and regulate all tolls and tariffs of rates as from time to time they shall see fit and necessary. That the Dir atiters of the Grand i•rn , k Railway Company be au thorised to iorfeit the rherer of the Quer cc Maim, nd cm p tny, in arrrar tor cal s, two months a' er m t ce of such intention stall have been pubhshed in th. "Canada Gazette'," in the " Tim- s" (London) new paper, and twice in a ne , s spa , er published in the cities of Quebec. Montreal, Kingston, and Toronto. Mr Rosa h •ving le't the chair, It was resoilad, —That the co dial thanks of the Meetlng he given to the lion. John Ross, for his con 'net in the chair, and for his ac tive exertions on 1. ehalt of the Company. . _ Hined) Quebec, July 27, 1834. By order. C. P. RONEY, Managing Director. PURSUPURSUANT to an Order of the Hi g h C our t o f ANT Chancery. made in a Cause, LINFOR againqt COOKE, the Credit rs of Christopher Flood, late of the Court House, Mary lebone lane, in the parish of St. Slat ylehone, in ths county of Middle sex. Vestry Cler k of the s 'id onrist., who died I or about the m dith of May, 1851, are, by their Solicitors, on or btfore the 20th day of October, 1854, to come in and prove th it nebts or claims, at the Chamsers of the Vice Chancellor Sir Richard Torin Kindersley, No. 15, Old-square, iddlesex ; or in default thereof, they Will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said Order. Saturday, the 4th day of November, 1854, at One o'clock in the afternoon, at the said Chsmb r., is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the Claims. bated this 18th day of July, 1854 CHARLES PUGII, Chief Clerk. THE CIIOLER A!!! Prevented by the des'ruct ion of all noxious effluvia. CREW'. DISUSFECTING FLUID, recommended by the Col lege of Phys'clans. The cheapest and Strong' et CIILPIIIDE of ZINC. Quirts, 25., Pints ' Is., lialf-pints, 6d. Sold by an Chemists, Druggists, and Shipping Agents, and at Commercial Wharf, Mile-end, London. C ILORIDE of ZNC is a cheap, powerful, and liner preparatlon.—Medical Circular. GREAT REDUCTION' IN PRICE OF SIR WM. BURNETT'S DISINFECTING FLUID. Gallons, ss. Quarts, 2s. Pints, Is. Half-pints, 6d. This Valuable DEODORISER and DISINFECTANT Instantane- Onsly destroys all ISAD SMELLS without orodoclng any itself. Its free use, as directed, PREVENTS CHOLERA and all CON TAGIOUS DISEASES. Bold by all Chemists and Druggists, and at the Onlee, 18, Cannon Street, London-bridge. N.l3.—Beware of a spurious imitation. RIESEM AR, protected by Royal Letters Patent of Englan,l. and aceured by the Seals of the Ecole de Pharmacie de Paris, and the Imperial College if Medicine, Vienna. TRIE.:EIt AR, No. I, _ Is a remedy for Relaxation, Sperniatorrlue.t, and Exhaustion of the System. _______ • TRIESEMAR, No. 2, effectually, in the short space of three days, ccmpletely and entirely eradicates all traces of those Disorders which Capivi and rubebs have so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health of a vast portico of the population TRIKSEII IR, No. 3, Is the great Continental Remedy for that class of Disorders, which unfortunately the English physic•an 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. I, 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. gold in tin cases at I is. each, free by post, 2s. extra, divided into separate doses, as administered by Valpeau, Lallemand, Roux, ace., &c.—To be had Wholesale and Retail In London of Robert John ston, 68, Cornhill; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford -street; and Sanger, 180, Oxford-street. THE SECRET INFIRMITIEi OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. Just published, price 25., illustrated with cases; free by post for 30 stamps, _ NERVOUS ''DEBILITY; Its Causes, Symptoms, and Cure.—An essay on Sper rnatorrhcea, with Practical Observations on a safer and more successful mode of treatment of the diseases of the Generative System, obtained by the use of the Microscope in detecting and distinguishing, by urinary examination, the real r,atise And effect of every variety of complaint, whether arising from solitary habits, excesses, accident, or climate. followed by practical remarks, founded en twenty years' experience in the treatment of Impuissance, Nervous Debility, Local Weakness, Spermatorrimea, &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. _ lay sAMITEL LA'MERT, M.D. 87, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated !timber of the University of Rdin - burgh, Hono rary Member of the London Holflite Medics? Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, ke., te• The essential object of this treatise is to point out l the fearful con ( , tt ..F , sequences resulting fr om certain habits, irregularit ~ and excess in Ma which have p ro d uced more misery in Youth, degrailao hood, and pre mature decay at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, any other class of di sease known to modern pathologists. Its p articularl y recommend e d to persons entertaining secret perusal is doubts of their Physical condition, and who are conscious of having hazarded entitl the healthed, happiness, an d privileges to which every human being is It is absolutely necessary that 911 men should know, that there are principles of personal management which cannot be violated without incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed the may heyday of inconsiderate self-in dulgence, how th ese pena lti es be mitigated, bow the sting Of their bitterness may be removed, and how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and above all, that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply , a cure. The/Luther has fora ser!es of years been engaged in an extentive practice in the treatment of these delicate complaints, which have unfortunately been too generally confided to the care or twat emortes, who Inflict great injury on those Who are induced to place faith in their pretensions. NERVOUS DEBILITY may be had, Price 21, of Messrs. Piper, and Co., 23, Paternoster-row Hannay, 63, Oxford - street; Brothers, Leicester-square; Mann, 39, Cornhill ;or tree i l , post for Horne, 19, thirty stamps , to any address from the Author's residence, 37, Bed ford-square. At home for consultation 4117 Crow limit till Two, and from Blx till milt. D ESTRUCTIVE FlRE ,H at tirpp li nd . c 4 n i: " Gentlemen,—T have gr ea t pl easure i n adding my testimony to the valae of your Fi re p roo f F a es. ' J P u n E e g , D If4 E S4 N . • " I list Monday night my house, warehouse, and premises were unfortunately burned down; the tire raged very fearfully for about two hours, and, owing to the great scarcity of water, the tit hole of my premises and stock wi re consumed. "'le safe I purchas ,, d of you had a most severe test, In conv ener ce of a barrel or brimstone standing close to it and melting wilt 'he heat of the fire, the burning lays running all over and under the sale, whi , t great y adduct to the intensity of the heat; it remained •n that position ::bout four hours, and when with great difficulty it was cot out offthe fire and opened, I found my books and papers all uninjured. " You are at liberty to make what use you please of this Informa tion. "I am, gentlemen, yours respectfully. "- " Wk. WALKER. " Messrs. Thos. Milner and Son, +7e, Moorgate-street, London." " Agricultural Laboratory, liarpenden, July - 6, 1854 " Gentlemen,--I watt present at the late fire which destroyed the Premises of Mr. %\, alker..Harpenden, and was much surprised at the great amount of heat your safe resisted, and still more surprised (when it was made known to me that a barrel of sulphur stood near it) that it was not enti ely destroyed. " Being anxious to see if it had been attracted by the sulphur, I scraped some of the blistered iron from the inside and outside of the sate, and, from analysis, find much sulphuret, so that it nurt have been greatly acted noon by the sulphur, yet the books and papers were perfectly offinbired. • • I must in justice say that your safes are invaluable, and eery necessary for every one who has hooks :tad accounts of any value. 4 •I am, Gentlemen, yours very faithfully, F. W. SIMCOE, " Messrs. Thos. Milner and Son, 47i, Moorgate-street." 1 1 HE DRESS for the SEASON, mos t fashion a' le in style and finish, and far the the pest, either to order or ready made, is at E. ‘ , 041 , :g and SON'S, Minorte• and ALlgate, New 0,0 , m1-street and Hart•strert. The PA LETOT which tits the most comfortable and l oo k s t h e most gentlemanly, being the most n ,vel and approve I, i s th a t j ust In. vented by E MOSES and SON. This article is sure t o pr ow • onp of the first attractions of the season, as it supered. s any Palet)t which has been introduced, and 871 I be regarded 58 the great,st uxury of Attire for the ensuing Aut mn and winter. No Establish ment hui . that of E. MOSES snd SON could offer an article of uch intrinsic excellence at the price, which Is TWENTY-FIVE sflht.. LINOS. The HATS and CAPS Noblemen, Men of Busir , esg, Sportsmen, Me battles and their Children wear, are purchased at E. MOSES and stOlVs, and hive long proved the Ugh est and most Elegant, the most. serviceable, and the cheat'est. . _ _ The SlilitTS which F t with exactnecs and else, and may he had plain or richly emh-oider( d, the materials and work of warranted superiority, and prices the most economical, are at E. MOSE 4 and SON'S. The HOSIERY GOODS, elegant and useful, combining endless variety for Ladies Gentlemen, and Children, are sold at exceedingly econirmi , prices by E. MOSES and SON. 'l he OUTFITS which ev, ry Emigrant should possess, and the Military and, Naval equipments, to present regulation , . are furnished for considerably lower prices than are charged t lsewhere. Full lists of on. flts for Ladies and Genii. men, with Ship-sating information Gratis, on application to E. MOSES and SON, or sent by them to all p a rt s p.a. free. The advantages Merehants. Captains, and others, derive from out lays in the Wholesale Department, at E. MOSES and SON'S ESTA BLISHMENT are Immediate sale and large profits in any part of the world. CA.ETION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the punt c against Imposition, having learned that the untradesinan-like fal.rh od of Being couruicted with dieir Establishment," or It's the same concern," has Been resorted to in many instances, Alla for obvious reasons, they beg to state that they have No C , 4'IIiEVON WITH ANY °TITER rmIYSE lie Oa OUT or LONDON, except their own Establishments, as follows Lcridan City Establishment, 154, 155. 156, and 157, Minories, 81, 85, a n d 86, Aldgate, opposite the C3siftri7rc, hs(,,sa.llNceei,m, ni Ox un f i r e d at -s il je . et, 1,2, London h e art Street 506, and 3, Hart-street, all conimuicating. Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 and 20, Bridge-street. nefileld Branch, 36. Fargate. Colonial Wholesale Branch, Melbourne, A ustralia, Merchant Milo:a Clothiers, Hatters, Boeiera, Farriers, Boot and Shoe Makers, and General Oatfitters for Ladles and gentlemen. IMPORTANT.—ShouId any article not give satisfaction, It will he exchanged if desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest Price, troth which no abatement can be made. The Establishments are closed from sinnet on Fridays to sunset when business is resumed till 12 o'clock. with illustrations, entitled" The Echo of Public Opi nion,"g call lists of prices, our system of self-meaiure oinn e a t rn,e i l l acw r oi d c,nou. :? B, B o : :::n, may be had on application, or post-free. Qui 81 Darl a It a li an°. Anus sa l i abl e E osin*. Hier snnlcht Panie narraannDeaell'i.tach. MARGATE.—This town, which has been considered one of the most healthy towns in England stands this year pre-eminent. Notwithstandin g we have now 20,000 visitors, added to the 11,000 i n h a bit an t s , th ere has been only one funeral during the week at the parish chureb,- , -South-Easter aazdte. No. 19,322.] PUBLICATIONS. COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGA ZINE —The September Number will be ready on the 31st. Also, the September Number, price 2a. 61, of AINSWORTH'S M (GAZINE. Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. NEW EDITION of the CRYSTAL PALACE OFFICIAL GUIDE-B0• , K. By SAMUEL PHILLIPS. A new Edition, correct,' and enlarged, with new Hans of the Building ar d Grounds, and many additlnnal plans of the various Courts, is publish , d day, price one Shilling. The official nut - to-honks to all the Courts are always on sale in the Building, and at all Railway Stat ons. Bradbury and Evans, I I, Bouverle-street. NOTICE.--VISS BURNEY'S DIARY, THE CHEAP EDITION OF MADAME D'ARDLA,I" - DIARY AND LETTERS. 14 now qwmplet.l by the pnblichtion of the seventh Volume, price 3s , bound, a ,, d sub scribers are advised to corn I« to their sets a- soon as possible. Any ot the volumes ma , at preSent he had separately. Also; complete sets, in 7 vols., price 21s. Published for H. Colburn, by his successors, Hurst and Blackett. UTZ NEW VOLUME OF "THE STANDARD NOVELS AND ROMA NcEs." - This day is pubii•hed, price 21 6(1., 11 . UCY.ITAR._DINGE. P.y J FENI kiORE COOPER, Author of "The PPot,"" TLe &0., forming the new volume of the S andArd Novels.". LondAt : Ric' and Bentley, ew Burlington-street. With a Portrait of Admiral tit CHARLE4 NAPIER, K C B The SEPTEMBER NVNI BETZ, Price Halt-a•crown, of E N.T L E Y'S MISCELLANY WILL CONTAIN- Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.B. With a Portrait. War and Peace. Fpain and her Prospects. Clouds end Sunshine. By Charles Aeade, author of "Christie John-tone.' , Mr. Fixhy'a Visit to Skye. Advgi\tur,s f Benjamin Skye.. the Bagman. Crawfigd Wirsotl: ' ' • , • ' • , Passagelfin the tad Wa7" 1799 fo - 1810' • '*l43eetteiriit tendont—lhelr svist•ry,:Pastend,i 4 eascat 1. aps and Mlshap.. , of a Tour hi Europe. By Grace Gftenwood. S clety in West - 11110°n. Sty Mrs. 'Kirkland. Aspen Court, end Who Lost and Who % en it. A Tale of our own 'rime. By Shirley Brooks London : Richer,' Bentley, New Burlington-street. Just pub'ished, New and improved Edition. price Is., THE CURABILITY of CONSUMPTION ; being a Roles of Papers, presenting the most prominent and important Practical Points in the Treatment of the Disease. By FRANCIS El. RAM ADGE, M.D., Fellow of the College of Physicians, late Senior Physician to the Royal Infirmary tor Diseases of the Chest, &c. Also, by the same Author, Price 10s. O. A TREATISE on ASTHMA and on DISEASES of the HEART. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Lougmans. CON IRACT3 FOR OXEN FOR SALT BEEF FOR HER MAJESTY'S NAVY. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport Servic' s, Somerset Hou e, 28th August, 1854. THE Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord With Admiral of the Uniteu I{)ngilom of Great :ritAin and Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on MONDAY, the 2d October next, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with uch persons as may - he willing io contract for supplying sill delivering nto her Nlsjest's Victualling St res at Depttbrd, Gosport, and Ply mouth, or any one or more it those ports, all such OXE FOR SALT BEEF as shall from time to time he demanded between the 2d October next, and the 31,t \l arch next. Th. condition s of the Contract may he seen at the sa!d office, rr on arn.lic , tion to the Snperinted dents of the Victualling Yards at Dep:ford, Go•-pert. and Plrmouth No 1 ender will be received after One o'clock, on the day of treaty, nor any noticed, unless made on the printed corm pr. , vided for the purpose. but it will ry.t be necessary that the party tendering, or an scent appointed by him, should attend at this office, as the result of the offer received from each person will be communicated to him in writing. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, 4nd hear in the leit•hand corner the words " Tend.r fit Oxen," ani must also be. delivered at Somerset House, accompanied by a letter signed 1 - ,y two responsible persona, eng•tging to become bound, with the person tei.der lig. in the aunt of 500/. for the due perform. ance of the Contract for each port. CHESHIRE TO be SOLD, pursuant to an Order of the High Court of Chancery, made in a cause "KINGSFORD versus B LL," with the approbation of the V , ce-Chan, ellor Sir. John mart the Judge, to whc.e Court this cruse is attache I. on W' dneslay. 20th day of S , .pt , inti , ..r, I8;;4, at 6 o'clock to the atert,oon precisely, at Gcugh's Woodside Hotel, Pt , rkenhead. in s. yen lots, by Mr. FREDERICK ITOUGSON, the person appointed for the purpose by the sal jud e Vol able FREERtiLD PROPERTY and LAND, con sisting of fir, comn-0 ions D elling houses and two Cot ages, with Gardens attached, and several portio s ,if Lam+, ftpolicab e for build ing purp••ses, sirua e at T , anmere, near Birkenhead, and now in hr oecupatiim of Br. W Armstrong. In Land Mr. J. Turner, Mr. 11. • . Dartiy, Mr J. C. Paulii , e, Mr. James Gibbs, Mr. David ROSS. Mr Wm. Gre ory, and Mrs Glynn. Printed partictuars Hral condiCons of Sale may he had, ^tis, in Lnndt n, of Messrs Ki• gsf rd and Dorman, solicitors, Essex-street, Stand ; Me, s• s. Dean and Son, snlic bars, 23. 810 msbury• square and Messrs (',ester, Toulmin. and Chester, solicitors 11, Slat I. inn ; and in the country or Mr John P. acack, so MIMI - , Liverrool, essrs. T. v•nstnd and !Miley, solicitors, L,verpool; and of the Auc ri Birkenhead, TO be peremptorily SOL D, pursuant to an Order of the nigh Court of Chancery, made in a cause • Micklethwait v. Micklethwalt," with the approbation of the Judge to whose Cowrt the said awe is attached—by Mr. Edward Lancaster, the person ap iointed by the sail Judge, on Thursday, the 14th day of September. 1854, at Three o'clock in he afr..rneon, at the Uoyal Ho•el, in Leeds, in the county of York, in Thirteen i.ots— FREEHOLD 111FSSUAOEQ, BUD DINTI9I, and GROUND, F itu ate in , cabmite and Dock-street, Leeds ; Red Linn-square, Wake field ; and on Dewsbury Moor, in the parish of Dewsbury, in the county of York. Also, a valuable FREEMILD PAPER MILL and PAPER 9TATNERS' M A NITS'AcTOR T, situate in Docb-street, Leeds, ill late the property of Thomas Micklethwatte, Esq., deceased. Printed partkultrq, and conditions of Sale, and also plans of the property In I.i.eos,may i r had (gratis), in London, f NI, ears. Perkins and Son, solicitors, 13, Great James. st rect. Bedf, Td•row ; of Messrs. John , on, Weatherall, and Son, solicitors, 7, King's Bench-walk, Temp e ; of ,lies rs. Ridsdale and Craddock, sol!citors, 5. Gray's Inn square ; a: d of Messrs. Tlolnr, T oftus, and Yonne, solicitors, 0, New Inn, Ftrr , nd ; and, in the country, of Mr Shepherd, so 1- citor, Barnsky ; of Mcsers Richardson and I htunt, solicitors, Leeds ; .sf Messes 1. , eman at .d Clarke, solicitors, York ; of Mr. Birks. sol , clior. anrOng field near flarnsley : of Messrs Tyas and liar- Peon, soli tore.: of Mr. Edward Lancaster, Barnsley, the Auctioneer; and at the place o f S ale. , TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS.-A RETIRET CLERGYMAN having been restored to health in a few days, after many years of great nervous suffering, is anxious to make known to other, the means of cure He will, therefore, send free, nn receiving a stamped envelope, properly addressed, a copy of the pre scription need. Direct the Rev. E. 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This may have been done ; but as all neutral ves sels in port, and laden previously to this notifica tion of effective blockade, have a right to free egress with their cargoes, it is obvious such a blockade will be only a farce as regards Russian trade for this year. You will observe the number of Dutch vessels mentioned by my correspondent. I never could get in Parliament any explanation of the intima tion which, undeniably, was given to the merchants of Holland, that their commerce with Archangel should not be interfered with ; while very imper fect information of the course determined upon by the allied Governments was afforded to British merchants. _ [PRICE SD. earthworks of enormous thickness, and of the smallest elevation that would afford a range to the guns. The solid mound of the Roman re-appeared (faced sometimes with masonry to prevent an escalade), because it alone possessed the power of resisting, for any length of time, the terrible energy of the new invention. However, the Russians, having built towers of granite or some sca gliola substitute, the word went forth, and granite towers were pronounced impregnable. To doubt their strength exposed you to ridicule, to deny it to anathema. They were religiously believed in ; and if the:Czar had mounted them with catapults, it would have been pronounced "certain destruction" to approach armed only with Paixhans. However, the granite battery pretext for inaction will no longer prevail. _ Not the least gratifying part of 'tho gallant and im portant achievement at Boamrsund is, that it has been accomplished with a small loss of life. Had the short and decisive course which was there employed been adopted sooner, how many might have been saved out of the thousands of the Allied, the Turkish, and the Rus sian soldiers, who have perished by the sword, or still more miserably by disease, at Gallipoli, Varna, Silistria, and in the fatal marshes-of the Dobrudscha ? Allow me to take this opportunityof calling your attention to the concluding paragraph of the note of the Austrian Government, of the Bth inst., which you lately p u bli s h e d. Austria therein " reserves to herself f ree d e lib era ti on on the conditions she may bring forw ar d f o r the re-establishment of peace, if she s h ou ld h a pp en to be forced to take part in the war." Austria, then, as yet takes no part in th e war . The attitude she has assumed is, therefore, an armed neutrality, to become possibly an armed intervention. She thus holds, as far as her forc e may enable her to hold, the fate of the war, or th e t erms of peace, in her hands. And she proclaims free." t. either side, that empire. These sa,eries i proud triumph for Austrian diplomacy. The very existence of the Austrian e • in the hands been wise ; but she e e of the Allies a few month our Thi negotiations s ltreal and ago. We made great empire was sacrifices to preserve, and shield from danger on have pears as yet far from satisfactory, and ill accords with the boasts an d the predictions, pro mises, uttered in Parliament. to be, sir, your obedient servant, Portumna, August 26. CLAZTRICARDv. • We arrived off the bar of the Archangel or Dwina River, with the three ships on the 26th June, having boarded an immense quantity of vessels, principally Dutch, on our way down the White Sea. Within 36 hours of our anchoring it came on to blow very heavily from the N.W., which is a fair wind for vessels bound in. They come in in shoals—not less than from 300 to 350 vessels, of which the majority were Dutch, having passed us between the 26th June and 3d July, when the wind charmed. During this period it blew so hard a gale that cur boats were occasionally prevented from board ing, and, as it was, they were knocked to pieces almost, and all to no purpose—for the vessels were all, with the exception of one Yankee, in ballast—and as we have l o u rd a e a r s t i n e i o p t a t t o ien bl o o f ck a ade, we could not in blockade, manyefttheerer them had with them. adebtained numerous freights, and the astonishment of the Yankee t w o & p s r g r e e e e a e t d when he All en these was toldthat craft ar he wase now at at perfect Archangel, e r fec the first rush has evidently subsided, though whenever we can see, which is not very often the case, others are seen running down. Without a blockade of Archangel our presence in this sea is next to useless. The quantity of grain, meal, flour, Ste., which will be exported thence this year will be positively enormous, and a stoppage of it would be felt in the heart of the empire. You can have no idea of the extent of this traffic. No one who has not wit nessed its effects. From far and near, within a circuit of 400 miles of Archangel, the produce of the country is heat in ; and as the craft which embark it bring, remit tances, either in bills or specie, to pay for it, jut fancy what a blow would be struck at Russian commerce by a strict blockade, and what a quantity of money would be removed from circulation. We have taken one schooner and about half a dozen luggers since our arrival, and another schooner (empty) parted from her anchors, and drove over the bar in the height cf the gale, after we had put a couple of 321 b. shot through her, got a boat's grew 4.,n board, who luckily escaped to a neutral vessel just as she went a,lrift. Perhaps you are nut aware of another arrangement which has been entered into between the Swedish and our Government. It is that the Russian luggers trading between Archangel and the coast of Norwegian Finmark are not to be mo lested, because upon them the inhabitants of that deso late region depend entirely for supplies of food. Now, this is humane, and would be proper were it not so liable to abuse. We fell in with a fleet of three, the other day, one and all consigned to our consul at Ham merfest, who, with the consular agents sst Vardo, Huns, and Vatose, seem to have the whole of that trade in their hands ; and the schooner of 120 tons which we took was provided with a sort of pass from the Norwe gian consul at Archangel. You may depend upon it that the only effect of the war in this quarter has been prejudicial to ourselves, by placing the entire trade in the hands of the Danes, Dutch, and Hanoverians ; and I fervently hope that, should the war last over the year, as seems tnost likely, you and your party will force our Government to adopt a different line of conduct. For this year the mischief is done. The very moment that the gale broke, which was on the ?,d July, we went to work to try and get the steamers over the bar of the Dwina, inside which lay a 16-gun Russian brig, two steamers, two schooners, and 19 gun boats,• each mounting two long 36-pounders, and pulling 40 sweeps. We sounded the only two channels whiolt we now used, but found only from 14 to 14,E feet in the deepest. This occupied us all the 4th and sth of July, and then as Miranda, the vessel of the lightest draught among us, was drawing 14 feet 11 inches, we found that for the present the job was impracticable. On the night of the 6th the Brisk took the Eurydice and the prize schooner in tow, and brought the m up h ere to an anchor age about 70 miles from the Dwina, admirably situated for blockading, as all vessels bound to Archangel make Cross Island to ascertain their position. We anchored here on the 7th, and next morning the Eurydice sent two of her boats ashore, on the main land to water. That afternoon it came on to blow a ga i n f rom the northward ; the boats tried to get, off. One of them just pitche d sufficiently close to the stern of the Brisk for her to vee r 'a small gig with a line to her, by which she hauled her up ; but God knows what has become of her. The last seen of her was the next morning, at 4 a.m. when she was trying t o b ea t up a l ong shore. The schooner and one of the boats were sent to her assistance, but one of those cursed fogs came on, and since Sunday, the 9th, we have only bad half-an-hour during which ene could see the ship's length, and during which the schooner and boat earne.in, having been twenty miles to leeward without seeing anything of the missing phinace. They had two days' provisions with them —but after that If it were not for this most unhappy affair, things would be going pretty straight with us, for we have picked up a collier which was sent to us from England, and are consequently reassured about not getting out of coals. * * * At a place called Linslie, half way to Archangel, stands the strong fort of Na,vjerin, mount. ing 80 guns of heavy metal, and only one vessel could approach at a time ; beyond that, at Solombot, whe re the dockyard is, they have thrown up strong batteries, and again at Archangel itself. The garrison consists of 6,000 men, and they have the means of turning out as many gun-boats as they please. As far as we can learn there is no vessel of any size on the stocks at present, and no vessels of war have left the river this year. We had a little firing on the 4th of July. the enemy having brought some horse artillery guns to bear on our boats, which were sounding. No damage was done b y them, although their practice was good, and firi ng markably quick. Th e y h ave a telegraph on th e house abreast our anchorage, off the bar, and would per. sist in working it on the day we tried to get in, until the Miranda, which was the closest in, put a 32-pound shot t oe h nu r tr o i ruegl meny on h t a h r e e apfirlrets pretty aty f leaohote s i nc e ra,l at h y a dis tance leay.in gh of 2,700 yards, although c, they Downs. have been The weather is terribly aga i nst us ; what with gales of wind, thick fogs, and strong currentr, we have enough to do to take care of ourselves. PROPORTION OF DE&P AND DUMB PERSONS IN DIE. PERENT COITNTRIES. dumb in a comparison of the propor tyisionis of deaf doeffearlicdoudntries l o a f I B r u e t a Z i e,l i r th om tha wh t ic w h ilich aeou 'p ra r ra informati i o n n l 7 being Lu x emlbourg_n_be . obtained, we learn that the Proportion Tuscany, Bavaria, 1,593, is than that of the Duchies of Belgium,tem baarngd, Holland, anthe i n ki nugd,hiocmhsthoef average is 1 in 2,209 ;•an less than in Sardinia, Nor way, and parts of Switzerland, where the averag'f is 1 in 642. In some of the Swiss canton's the ratio is as high as 1 in 206—i. e.. above seven times as great as in Ire land.— Medical Times and Gazette. SHIPMENT OF MUNITIONS OF WAR TO INDIA.—The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury 'have caused the Commissioners of Customs to be.acquainted that, in compliance with their recommendtion, their Lordships are pleased to anthoriie the Board to "allow the shipment of munitions of war, &c., by•the East India Company, without the necessity of an order in Council being obtained in each case, in the same manner as with regard to the shipment to her Majesty's forces in the w A ci eT. A East, under Treasury order of April last, and without bond being required from the Company. c oN vicTiON UNDER THE Cum:.raNsGehßaorygsed' Mitigate.a hthinislierdt: the Blanchester City Police- cour t Johnny, the house of isne,ceapeiri tt n i a e m b e o d y J u o t h ) n to Ch sw or e l e to p n a , sweepere ll p a r l o l, te a: M b r. Slack, grocer, in Long inspector appointed by the Chimney Von Society. saw the boy enter the house about five o'clock on Wednesday morning last; and Mr. Slack's boueekeeper said she saw ,th b o y a convction a in u t al ltes * e tl cases Thus the di ffi culty of provin g th e ' go " the chimney. Wh i i m ch po so s. frequently renders Sible,_ wag; in thi s i mam was fined 71, ""Feollies,-.40 i the 4efendant 9 L //~ / l/ Off Cross Island, in the White Sea, July, 1854.> I must apologise to you for . 16ddressiug you without istitievfirst- obtained , your-lionekgieti - to do loci `-beit there is such thorough truth in yOur late remarks on the"--7''''7;i4'" way in whichthe war is being condu c t e d in this qu a rt er that I cannot resist the temptation of telling you hovf exactly the state of the case tallies with your description of it. LONDON, WEPNESDA Y THE WAR NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY. The Malacca, 14, screw-sloop, has arrived at Spithead. Her engines have broken down in coming from Sheerness. The Rhadamanthus paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Master Commander John Belem, is now ready for sea, and only awaits the Diligence store-ship, being loaded with the ma chinery of the Falcon screw steam-sloop, to tow the Dili gence to Portsmouth. Two of the crew of the Rhada 'nautilus got into trouble on Saturday last, through some quarrel with their sweethearts, as during the misunder standing one of them struck a police-constable, for which he was fined 51. by the presiding magistrate, on Momiay, and the ocher 11. for being riotous and treat'ng a disturb ance. On the rest of the crew of the steam store-ship being made acquainted with the sentence on their mess mates, forty-six of the crew voluntarily subscribed a suffi cient sum to pay the fines, and prevent their messmates being sent to prison. The magistrate considerately reduced the fine of 5/. to T. The Vivid, Master Commander Allen, went out of Portsmouth Harbour yesterday afternoon, and down to Cowes. THE COLOSSUS. The Colossus, 80, strew, Captain Spencer Robinson, was swung yesterday at Portsmouth, hulk and all, by Mr. Peter Wellington, attached to the Victory, to ascertain the deviation of her compass. The Colossus has completed outside painting, and looks a picture. She has only to re ceive her 70 days' consumption of bread, when she will be ready to leave the harbour. After she has received her powder and shells at Spithead, her lower port sills will be about six feet six from the water's edge. The Colossus is now wishing to complete her complem e nt with A.B.s only, •having refused many ordinaries. Barring her orlop-deck model fighting ship; and as handsome a vessel •zus evor,eiA upiei:#4o moreover, is' perfect; and coDamands te attention 'ot APPOINTMENTS. Captain William Moorsom (1851), to command the Fire. brand paddle-wheel steam-frigate, vita Captain Hyde Packer, killed at the mouth of the Salina, the appointment of Captain Houston Stewart to the Firebrand having been only made pro tem. by the vice-admiral in command of the British fleet in the Black Sea. Commander Thomas Cochrane (18M), from the Coast Guard, to the Mariner, 12, sloop, at Devonport. PROMOTION. Assistant-Surgeon William B. Why (1846), serving in the Royal Hospital, Plymouth, is promoted to be surgeon. THE GUN-BOATS. Rear-Admiral Berkeley, First Naval Lord of the Admi ralty, accompanied by Sir Baldwin Walker, Surveyor of the Navy, and Mr. Watts, one of the assistant surveyors, arrived at Messrs. Penn's factory, Deptford, yesterday afternoon, at about three o'clock, where they were joined by Captain George Bohun Martin, C. 8., superintendent of Deptford yard ; two or three officers of the Ordnance, Mr. Millard, foreman of the carriage department at the Woolwich Arsenal; Mr. Pitcher, shipbuilder; and Mr. Matthews, of the firm of Messrs. Penn. They imme diately proceeded to inspect the new gun-boat launched from Mr. Pitcher's yard on Saturday last, and to deter mine the position of the guns. The party remained up wards of au hour on board, when it was arranged that her armament should consist of two 8-inch guns placed amid ships, and to bo available fore and aft. Tho Viper, screw steam despatch gun-boat, Lieutenant- Commander Lodder, when brought down from Blackwall to Woolwich on Monday, was too late to be taken into the basin, but she was taken in to-day, in order to be made ready for sea as soon as possible. :MPROVEMENTS AT THE ROYAL ARSENAL AT WOOLWICH. In the month of March last the demand for the munitions of war for her Majesty's sea and land forces became so great that although the workmen in the laboratory department were employed from five o'clock in the morning until 11 at night, and many of them for the whole night during two nights in the week, and often on Sunday, it was found that they could not accomplish the orders given to them to execute within the required time. On the appointment of Captain Boxer, an artillery officer of great scientific acquirements, who had devoted much of his time to prac tical experiments connected with artillery, and invented the Boxer tubes now in general use in the rocket service, to be fire-master in the laboratory department, he turned his attention to the introduction of machinery as a means of performing much of the work that was at that time exe cuted by skilful mechanics with great exertion of mind, and muscle, and bone, and, although overtasked in every way, unable to accomplish all that required consequent on the declaration of war with Russia. Captain Boxer having matured his plans to a certain extent, with the concurrence of the Master-General and the Board of Ordnance, pro ceeded to Manchester and placed himself in communication with some of the most eminent machine makers in that large manufacturing town, and ordered machinery to be constructed according to his views of what was requisite and most eligible for executing the work of the fire depart. mont over which he had the control in the laboratory at Woolwich, and he has now had the satisfaction during the last two months of witnessing the machinery put up in a temporary building appropriated for the purpose until the new fireproof and extensive range of buildings are ready for their reception ; executing every order with prompti and despatch by the simple aid of unskilled labourers, or boys, with no mechanical knowleelge, who can now pro duce, in many cases, five times the quantity of work in a day that had hitherto been accomplished by the most skil ful artisans by manual labour only, and thereby saving hundreds of pounds of value of money per week, at the same time that all the work is executed with a correct ness which it was never possible to obtain by the most capable workmen by mere manual labour and dependence upon the eye for justifying the various parts intended to be joined or worked into each other. The whole of the new machinery is set in motion by a steam engine, and the whole conducted in a highly creditable manner for the benefit of the services. ROYAL MARINES. The Royal Marines are assuredly to have a new dress, and we beg to suggest that nothing could be so appropriate as blue. We have heard that the colour of their dress is to be green. We hope not. Why not make the whole of the marines one body of " marine artillery" at once? Ar e they not deserving of this—and what could be more appro priate either in dress or name ? We would like also that the pipeclay belts be abolished, and black leather belts sub stituted, being a less likely mark for an enemy. Whilst on this subject, why should not our loyal " jollies" be per mitted to cultivate the " moustache ?" The men desire it : and now it has been introduced into the army, surely the like advantage should be given to the marines and navy. ARRIVALS, dm, AT MALTA. MALTA, AUGUST 22. The following troop and store-ships have touched at this island for water : On the 14th the French steam-frigate Ajacio, from Toulon, with 11 sailors for the fleet- On the 17th, the Oronoque frigate, from Toulon, with 120 troops and 145 sailors. On the 18th, the C.Affarelli frigate, from Toulon, with 100 sailors, 1 officer, and 2 artillerymen. Besides the above a great many s mall transports, with men and horses, have touched here. Among the English may be noted as having arrived-- On the 12th, the Trent steamer, from Barcelona, with 298 mules. On the 15th, the Sea Nymph, and On the 17th, the Industry, both with stores and provi sions for the troops at Varna. On the 18th inst. the Medway steamer, from Wool wich, with 211 men of the Royal Artillery, 30 horses, 5 artificers, and the following officers :—Major Freese, com manding ; Lieutenants Guille, Keen, Torriano, and Broughton; Staff-Sergeant W. Haughton, in charge; and Messrs. Doherty and Gilbery, of the commissariat. The Medway made a prosperous voyage until she passed Gibraltar, when Asiatic chrle-a broke out, caused by the immoderate quantities of fruit in which .the troops and crew indulged, and accelerated, perhaps, by the vessel being overcrowded. On her passage from Gibraltar six soldiers and two of the crow died ; on the 19th two more died in the Lazaretto here, and on the 20th another death and three new cases occurred. To-day there are two deaths and eight new attacks. Captain Boynton was at tacked, but after an interview with Dr. Stewart,• of the Naval Hospital, returned to his ship and put to sea at 7 30 p.m. of the 20th. Among men anti officers loft behind are about 160, but beyond the eases above reported their state of health is now improving. The coalheavers employed on board, after slight suffering, are doing well. On the 20th, arrived the English screw•stesmer, No. 121, Cottingham,having on board Captain Weatherhead, of the 05th Regiment; Lieutenants Neville and England ; Assistant-Surgeons Bayfield, Hamilton, Wolsely, and Carter; of these two are for the stair, and two to join the 20th Regiment. On the 20th the Progress came in laden with hay and oats for Varna. The captain, on hearing that cholora pre vailed, hoisted the quarantine flag, and refused communi cation with the island. When about to proceed on his voyage, 17 of the crew refused to weigh the anchor and struck work. They were taken before the magistrate, and, having been offered the choice of going on board or accept ing the consequences of a refusal, declined the former and seemed to prefer the latter► lour, marked ne the ring. EVENING, AUGUST 00, 1854. leaders, were awarded 10 weeks ; th' remaining 12 eight weeks' imprisonment. One, being sick, was discharged, and sent to the hospital for cure. On the 21st, the Australian screw steam transport, No. 120, came in with 270 rank and file of the Royal Artillery, and 10 horses from Woolwich. The following officers were on board :—Majors Trying and Young; Lieut enants Penn, Andrews, Maclachlan, Cockerill, Simpson, and Mackenzie ; Assistant-Surgeon W. R. Cockerill, and Mr. J. Johnstone. -- - The Ripon, Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer, having on board his Highness the young Elhamee Pasha and suite, arrived on the 14th with the bulk of the India mail, and on the same day the Valetta, from Marseilles. On getting ready for sea, it was discovered that something was wrong with the machinery of the Ripon, when the Valetta was ordered to proceed with her to Alexand, ia, and in case of need to take her in tow. On her return to Malta she will be overhauled and repaired, which may probably detain her in port for two or three days. On her outward voyage nothing wrong was de tected; she made it in her usual time, and it was not till she was preparing to continue her course tel Alexandria that the defect was made manifest. The cholera, although it hAs not made the rapid advance which in other countries has proved so destructive, nevertheless causes some disquietude. Cases are con stantly• reported as having appeared, and those in different parts of the city and casals. In the Ospicio and Hospital of Incurables it has been more serious in its results than in other places, necessi tating the separation by removal of the inhabitants of those asylums. Government has felt the necessity of adopting precautionary measures, has called into active employ the sanitary committee, and has .added to the number of the medical staff for assistance to those who may be unfortunately attacked. One measure of extreme usefuln9ss has been adopted, viz., the converting into a temporary hospital the Castellania, a beautiful and large building, till lately used as the court•houpe and police , OFFICIAL DESPATCHES FROM SIR CHARLES NAPIER. [FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETT74.I ADMIRALTY, AUG. 28. Despatches, of which the followin are copies or extracts, have been received from Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's ships and vessels in the Baltic : No. 380. Bulldog, off Bomarsund, August 19, 185 4. SIR,—I beg to inclose a letter from Rear -Admiral Plumridge, who was stationed, with the Ued a and the French steamer Cocyte (commanded by Lieutenant de Vaisseau A. Georgette du Buisson,) on the north side of Bomarsund. 2. I had intended to have brought this squadron through the Presto Channel to have shelled the north side of Bomarsund, but when the breaching batteries were placed he could not take that station without endang-ering the men in the French batteries; he, therefore, very wisely took up a position so that he had the Presto Tower and Bomarsund in a line, and did good service against the Presto Tower, which I afterwards examined. He was rather too close, being within range of the enemy's fire, and received some damage, but no one was hurt. 3. The ..hips I stationed to the southward were out of range of the enemy's guns, and received no damage ; but the shot and shells from the 10-inch guns, together with the firo from the four French mortars, which never missed, and the excellent fi re f rom Capt a i n P e lh am ' s b attery, to gether with the preparations the enemy saw in progress, I presume expedited the surrender. 4. Had the enemy held out till the following morning; when the breaching battery, judiciously placed by the French Engineer (General Niel) withing 400 yards of the rear of the fort, and the ships the French and English Admirals intended to place in their flank, the fortress would have been reduced to ashes. F. I have the honour of enclosing lists of the whole British Fnrco landed, and a casualties, together with a list of prisoners and g uns captured, b e i ng no l ess t h an 112 mounted, 3 mortars: T field pieces, and 79 not mounted. 6. The Commissioners are now taking an account of the stores, and they are preparing plans not only of the bat teries in existence but of those in progress, which I shall send home as soon as possible. 7. This has been a most arduous and laborious service, and I have great reason to be satisfied with the great ex ertions of all the officers, seamen, and marines, and their orderly conduct. 8. General Jones speaks in the highest terms of the con duct of Colonel Graham and his marines. The firing of the seame❑ and marines and marine artillery, under Capt. Ramsay, was most precise ; he - himself was slightly wounded. 9. The shells thrown by the ships were most destruc tive, and had the fortress resisted till the following dap when all was ready on shore, they would have been irre sistible.—l have, &e., CHAS. NAPizn. Vice-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief. The Secretary of the Admiralty. No. 10. RESPECTING OPERATIONS AT 130MARSIIND. Her Majesty's ship Blenheim, Bomarsund, August 17, 1854. Sir,—lt is with great pleasure that I have to report to you, for the information of the Commander-in-Chief, the exceeding good conduct and gallantry displayed by the officers and men under my command ou shore at Blenheim Battery, during the attack on Bomarsund on the 15th and 16th inst., when under a very heavy fire of shell and shot during the greater part of this period. All deserve the highest praise, and I name in the mar gin* the two officers and captain of gun. I have, &c., FREDK. Rear-Admir a l H enry D. Chads, C.B. Captain.. Edh, off Bomarsund, . , 1854. Submitted for inbu rg the consideration of the Aug Comm lg ander-in- Chief. H. D. Vice-Admiral Si r CharS, les Napi e CH AD r, K.C.13 Bear Admiral. L, t Bd, Aug. 17 1854. Sir,— Observingeo o p n ard the 16th omarsun inst. tho Presto , Tower's fire was harassing the constructors of General Jones' bat tery, I moved (in obedience to your orders) the Leopard, Hecht, and French steamer Cocyto into a delightful seques tered position, screened from observation by the trees on the neck of land to the eastward of the tower, having the great Bomarsund Fort and it in ono, so that our over shot and shell should fall to th e lot of Bomarsund. The simultaneous opening fire from the three broadsides was the first intimation the tower inmates had of on movements, and I hart the satisfaction of seeing (at times from aloft) the steadiness and precision with which the shot and shell wore delivered from each vessel. I only re gret that the trees alluded to obscured us all from your view, as I feel almost assured this bit of service would have been deemed worthy of better notice than it becomes me to give at so sho r t a di stance from your flag. It is, how ever, Sir, my most gratifying duty to state, on behalf of the whole of the officers and ships' companies, that I en tertain the most lively admiration of their exertions, as H du al ß l u at i i s k s l o G n,o a f r h d i , m s a l n m + 1 perial Lieutenant la J. well as of the exemplary animation ex hibited by Captains I have, & c , e G I c e o o r e g y e t t e t . e HANw av PLUMRIDGE, es ( t l y e , s V s a t i e s a s m e a . ll v e A s 8 . it ear - A (i Miral of the White. Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, Commander-in-Chief, & c . & c. Am K. 0.8 • In Camp, Bomarsund, Aland Islands, August 18, 1854. Sra,—l have the honour to acquaint you that in com pli•nee with your directions, I lauded at Bomarsund on the Bth instant, in command of a battalion of Royal Marines, and placed myself under the orders of Brigadier- General Jones, R.E., the general ofticar commanding the brigade. The brigadier-general, havin g by a brigade order of yesterday's date, thanked th e officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the Royal Marines under my command fur their good conduct during the period they have been employed ou shore, as also for the cheerful and willing manner in which they have performed the various labo rious duties they were called upon to perform, and which has contributed so greatly to the suneessful results which have been obtained, I have only to bear my testimony to their ted zeal and steadiness in the perf ormance of every duty allot them. The artillery companies of the corps under the direction of Captain Ramsay, R.N., with Lieutenants AlawbeY, Poore, and Hewett, &ALA., performed their part well. The exactness and precision of their fire from the battery reflected great credit on the officers i n command of the several guns. The divisional companies were repeatedly exposed to a heavy fire of round and grape as well as from the Minie rifle. The casualties have been few, for which we have to be thankful to a Divine Providence. I beg to bring to your favourable notice the zeal and energetic conduct of the two ollicers appointed by brigade orders of the 9th instant, to perform the duties of field officers, viz.:—Major olloth and C a pt ain Horiot, lt.M., of my brigade, Major Captain W. C. p. Elliott, whose exertions in support of my orders call forth my warmest thanks. I beg also to assure you that the captains of companies, subalterns, non-commissioned officers and men, did their; duties in a manner highly satisfactory to in c . Lieutenant Fraser, R.M., acted as the adjutant, and Lieutenant Lennox as my orderly officer, and I have great pleasure in bringing them both under your favourable con sideration as deserving odic • ers together with Assistant- Surgeon Daniel John Duigan, and the other medical offi cers employed under my orders, who evinced the greatest willingness and promptitude in the execution of their duties.—l have, &c., ance I have received from my naval aide-de-camp the Honourable Ernest Cochrane, who has been most zealous and active in the discharge of the duties required of him, many of which have, in consequence of Lieut. Cowell's absence, from his wounds, partaken more of the military character. Mr. Cochrane is a young officer of groat intelligence, and I beg leave to recommend him most strongly to your favourable notice, and to express a hope, should a force be a.ain employed on shore, that I may have the benefit of his assistance.—l have, &c., HARRY L. JONES, Brigadier-General. Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, &c., &e., &c. No. 396. Bulldog, off Bomarsund, Aug. 22, 1854. Sir,—l beg to transmit their Lord hips the enclosed. letter I have received from General Baraguay expressing his satisfaction at the zealous manner in which Commander the Hon. Arthur Cochrane performed his duties during the time he was attached to the General's Staff. Commander Cochrane was in the batteries throughout the operations of the siege of Bomarsund, and General Baraguay d'Hilliers has spoken to me in the highest terms of his conduct.—l have, &c., CHARLES NAPIER, Vice-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief. The Secretary of the Admiralty. Bomarsuml, le 20 A.oia, 1854. - . Monsieur l'Amiral,—Pendant les operations militaires dont l'lsle d'Aland vient d'etre le theatre, vous avez eu la bonte de detacher pros de moi pour faciliter les relations (le l'armee Francaise, avec la marine Anglaise, Monsieur le Commandant Cochrane dont j'ai eu beaucoup a me loner. Je suis tres-heureux, Monsieur l'Amiral d'avoir temoigner du zele de Monsieur le Commandant Cochrane et de le recommander a votre bienveillance.—Recevez, etc., (Signe) BARAGIJAY D'HILLIERS, Le General-en-Chef. A Monsieur le Vice-Amiral Napier, Commandant l'Escadre Anglaise de la Baltique. No, 380. Brigade Orders. Camp, Bomarsund, August 17, 1854. The Brigadier-General - cannot allow the force which he has had the honoqr to command, ,during the operations - against the fovtil of Bassi d,,, l i ckamprtkerkwithout_re questink the officers, seamen; mars, and privates of the Royal Sappers and Miners and 'Royal Marines, to accept his thanks for their good conduct during the period they have been employed on shore, as also for the cheerful and willing manner in which they performed the very la,barions duties which they were called upon to perform, and which has contributed so greatly to the successful results which have been obtained. The excellence and precision of the firo from the two batteries was the admiration of every one who witnessed it, and reflects great credit upon the officers in command of the several guns. Captain Ramsay, R.N., and Colonel Graham, Royal Marines, are requested to accept the Brigadier-General's thanks for the very able assistance they have afforded him during the period he has had the honour to have them under his command. (Signed) H. Sr. GEORGE ORD, Major of Brigade. A return of the killed and wounded iu the forces under the command of Brigadier-General Jones, between the ith and 18th of August, 1851, at Bomarsund, Aland Islands. KILLED. The Hon. 0. Wrottealey ; Henry Collins, private Rail., Duke of Wellington. WOUNDED DANGEROUSLY. Thomas Baughan, private R.M., her Majesty's ship Blenheim, ankle joint, by a fragment of a shell ; since amputated. WOUNDED SEVERELY. William Mitchell, A. 8., her Majesty's ship Blenheim, by splinters of iron. SLIGHTLY WOUNDED. William Bridle, gunner's mate, her Majesty's ship Hogue, by splinters of iron. SLIGHT CONTUSIONS. Captain WilliaTUßamsay, her Majesty's ship Hague; Lieutenant G. F. Burgess, R.N., her Majesty's ship Edin burgh. BURNT. John McGugan, A. 8., her Majesty's ship Hogue, in the foot; John MeGriffin, A. 8., her Majesty's ship Hogue, foot. A. R. BRADFORD, Surgeon of her Majesty's ship Hogue, and Medical Officer in charge of the above force. Approved, W. RAMSAY, Captain. No. 381. Bulldog, off Bomarsund, Ang. 19. Sir,—l have received their lordships' letter of the 7th inst., approving of all my proceedings and their satisfac tion at Admiral Plumridge's activity and judiciousness. 2. I owe much to Admiral Plumridge for the manner he placed his squadron to prevent reinforcements being thrown in ; and I am informed two Russian Admirals were sent .among the islands to see if it were possible to pass the blockading squadron, and returned in despair. Rear-Admiral Plumridge, as second in command, I have removed into the Neptune ; Rear-Admiral Martin will hoist his flag on board the Leopard, and take charge of the Gulf of Bothnia, during the rest of the season, which will not be long.—l have, &c. dfIAS. NAPIER, • Vice-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief. The Secretary of the Admiralty. No. 397. Bulldog, Led Sund, Aug. 22, 1854. Sir,—l aria happy to inform their Lordships, that Rear- Admiral Chads has conducted three of his line-of-battle ships in perfect safety through all the intricate navigation of the channels from Bomarsund to this anchorage.—l have, &c., CHAS. NAPIER, Vice-Admiral and Commander•in-Chief. The Secretary of the Admiralty. Return of Russian Prisoners embarked in the undermentioned Ships. Hannibal—Officers 9, privates 304. wives of officers 1, wives of men 7, children 2 ; total, 323. Algiers—Officers 8, privates 409, wives of officers 2, wives of men 1; total, 420. Royal William—Officers IG, privates 731, wives of officers 1, wives of men 8, children 8 ; total, 764. Termagant—Officers 3, privates 199, wives of officers 3, children 1, servants 1; total, 207. St. Vincent—Officers 15, privates 499, wives of men 5, children 2 ; total, 521. Grand total, 2,235. (Signed) F. W. GREY, Commodore. GR,YIA ITE BATTERIES. (From the Examiner.) At the moment when some of our contemporaries were reprobating in language most severe and unmea sured the indiscretion of those who advocated in Parlia- , ment or the press a rather more vigorous action on the , part of our fleets in the Black Sea and the Baltic, and at the tune we were told, on the authority of an admiral who had seen Cronstadt from the top of a lighthouse, that " the batteries were of solid granite, to attack which would be certain destruction, on the authority of S:r Charles Napier," we ventured to remark : " Cronstadt is no doubt as strong as it can be made, but if it has any extraordinary look of solidity, such as to strike an observer of cannon-shot range at the top of a tower, it is to he suspected that such a show is false, that it is postichc, that the place is padded out, that it is an impostor of a fortress, or in one word, Russian, which expresses every mystification." Well, as far as Cronstadt is concerned, the accuracy of our guess remains to be verified. But we have had a specimen of Russian fortification at Bomarsuud. The batteries there were also pronounced to be granite, and we were told to prepare for a siege of seine duration, because the ground is extremely unfavourable for dig ging trenches and approaches ; and of course the line of-battle-ships, though carrying guns of larger range than the fortress, were not to be risked against the granite batteries. So the siege is commenced by laud, and in clue form. But how unlike is the attack to that upon Silistria! The form is very soon neglected—the French speedily grow tired of being methodical, and do the work allotted to them by assault—the English meanwhile have dragged six 32-pounders by main force over rocks and ploughed fields, without making a single zig-zag to a point whence the guns can be directed at pleasure against the towers or the principal fortification. Captain Pelham takes a line of his own, and places a ten-inch gun in a wholly irregular, but very annoying position. There is a moment when Sir Charles Napier has made up his mind to rush to certain destruction, but he is restrained, and the fleet merely throw a shot and shell every five minutes, by way of diversion for the Russians. Now mark the consequences, as related in a private letter published by the Standard. It is Captain Pelham's fire. Three or four shots set the great stones visibly chattering as I could mark by a pocket telescope ; one block then fell out, then another, then a third, fourth, &c., and these were followed by an avalanche of loose rubbish, just as you see macadamising stones pour out from the end of a cart when the back-board is removed. Next as to the face of the fort exposed to the distant fire of the ships, not one of which appears to have been damaged. The large blocks of granite that formed the face of the fort, and which in appearance offered an immense resist ance, fell out in masses, and the rubble with which the wall was filled in, tumbled out in heaps. The Edinburgh. the Ajax, and the steamers fired at long range on the Bo marsund fortress, while at the same time the Leopard at tacked the fort of Presto, on the other side the narrow channel. At 12-30 a flag of truce was held out at an em brasure at Bomarannd, towards the fleet ; a boat, with an officer, was sent on shore, and at about half-past twelve the governor surrendered. Now, supposing that Fort Menschikeff had been ex posed for a forenoon, not to a shot and shell every five minutes, but to the sustained fire from the broadsides of five or six line-of-battle ships, is there not a strong pro- Lability that the solid granite would have been " ma . cadatnisecl" into the loose blocks of rubble to which the Bomarsund forts were reduced by the employment of a twentieth part of the means supposed ? Possibly Fort Menschikoff might have surrend ered as nimbly es Fort Presto himself. Th e construction of granite towers is in fact a retu rn could r it was speedily per ceived no io er nger be relied up on. p fect as they were to a wholly obsolete met hod of for tification. When ar in their infancy, produced a speedy revolution i n th e * Fras. A. Close, lieutenant; Leveson Wildman act'ne cons t r uction of fortified places. Th e l o ft y t owers and b T a h l e e st "ginstwh t r e n stone superseded crwa cakl l cracks of s by w artillery,aimperfect mat©; John Farrell, chief boat's mate and captain of high walls of the c gun. 1 &Ale disappeared, to be repla ce d by F. GRAHAM, Colonel, Royal Marines, A.D.c in command of Bri ga d e i n Camp ' . Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Napier. K.C.B , Commander-in-Chief. Head-Quarters, Bomarsund, August 19, 1854. Sir, —I beg leave to enclose a copy of a Brigade Order which I directed to be issued previous to the seamen and marines, who have been employed on shore, returning to their respective ships, and it affords me great satisfaction to state that the discipline observed merits my warmest appro bation ' • nist a single complaint has bean addre sse d t o me on the part of the inhabitants against any individual of the force employed on shore under my orders. I beg leave to bring to your notice the valuable assist- (From the Times.) A. great question of modern warfare was opened with the commencement of the present hostilities. The arts of offence and defence had both experienced what were considered very signal improvements. On the one hand, ships were not only moved by steam, but were so moved, through the employment of the screw, without exposure of their machinery to hostile shot. In addition to this, the power of marine batteries had been prodigiously augmented, and it might be said without exaggeration cth3anteeanttrhatrieoen-dneockleerssotfhathnethpe dayweight t ht rate in the time of Nelson and Jervis. Our steamers, too, carried pivot guns of a range and calibre unknown before, so that, alt oge th er , we seemed to dispose of a of her was, from broadside , the s full three times as formidable as a vessel of the same force almost irresistibl e . On the other hand, a system of fortification had been adopted by Russia, which, if not absolutely nova?, was at any rate carried to an ex :traordinarf degree of perfection. Its character involved some return Ale ttfiNteenf more ancient' times. Re-, 'Hand° was again placed On the height and 'solidity of -stone, walls and bastions ; foundations of living rock were surmounted by enormous blocks of granite. and tier over tier of heavy artillery menaced instant de struction from behind the impregnable rampart of stone. Now, which of these two systems was to prevail—the new walls or the new shot—the defence or the attack— the floating battery or the granite fort ? The result in volved the solution of two distinct questions ; first, whether fortifications of this description were destruc tible at all; and next, whether, if they were destructible, a ship could withstand the fire of their guns long enough to destroy them with her own. Without venturing to say that these points have been yet decided, we do think that evidence of a character at least partially conclusive has been furnished by the re cent capture of the Russian forts at Bomarsund. The offensive and defensive systems were here fairly pitted g mlt a nt hhel g eive a ade i naßfi, bsr s uni t uesetasp e aca sioaoratilcnu. nearly :et G2l r o rhisoyo_ t oepno h vepns e eecgt r romriaui . fintudipeisdloi ß o.epoianir o seect m Fss.dfoo a eouw r lbrlrlT s veaso u teehs%ih n :ii.eeaeos d ipv.ae:av w eosielw a ,trelba s yaxsecbs a tetku,eln f tian o wtlns r ddiepoi t veit i orfi fi eseihedne e carr.o d cidi ibrhnp p ai asi a lalgssl c fef_r e ftoutooh. rhrim o retsne., f these stroughold.s in size only, and constructed in all re spectsn ftct, the works were some of the most recent erected by and two smaller ones, mounting iu the whole, we be resources of the combined fleets in the Baltic, but the communications of our own correspondent they are cir cumstantially(arti.lery), with three mortars and three field pieces, and 600 Riflemen ; 2d, 100 British sailors and 60 Marine Artillerymen, with three 32-pounders, four 121 b, howit zers, and aided by 200 marines, employed in skirmish ing; 3d, 20 British sailors, with one 10-inch gun in bat tery by itself. This was the sum total of the land force engaged. Of the ships we are told that the steamer:, fire,' none but their pivot guns (two to each), with the exception of the Edinburgh and Ajax, which brought four upper deck guns to bear. No broadside batteries were brought to bear at all. Now, what was the result of this experiment ? What the peiformance of these comparatively few guns against the granite wails of 13oniarsund ? Why, that the ramparts of rucks were knocked to atoms, and the impregnable fortress, with it, garrison of 2,300 men, taken at the cost of only 22 lives to the allied forces ? The description of the aspect presented by the forts after the capitulation is instructive in the extreme. In the second round tower, says our correspondent, " the breach made by Captain Ramsay's battery (that . of the three 32-pounders), firing at 800 yards, across an inlet, was something terrific. The whole west side had literally fallen away, and eight men abreast could have entered thereby. This breach was effected in nine hours." Of the great fort itself we are told that, " Un der the walls of this huge fortification the ground was completely bestrewn . with 841 b. shot, broken shells, grape, and canister, intermixed with enormous sheefi of iron that had been dislodged from the roof, and the granite walls had been broken away in thousands of places." The Governor of the fort himself declared that the 10-inch gun (Captain Pelham's) and the 321 b. battery (Captain Ramsay's) had, rendered his chanco of holding out longer quite hopeless. Here, therefore, is a strong fort of the new character absolutely battered to pieces by some score of guns or so, and the power of shot against stone so pinitly exemplified that it seems difficult to raise any further question upon the point. If ships themselves can but resist the fire of the shore bat teries they can soon demolish them, however strongly constructed. On this second point, however, evidence still remains to be supplied. • The fighting at Lomarsund was all on our own side, nor bad the Russians much to do except to stand and be beaten. The steamers, with their heavy pivot guns, anchored out of range of the fort, besides which the fire of the French Riflemen was so deadly, and so well sustained that the Russians could hardly work their artillery. Such a shower of bullets, it is said, was poured into the embrasures that 10 or 15 minutes frequently elapsed after a discharge before the ' enemy could stand to their guns to load again, Our list of casualties indeed, is sufficient in itself to show that we could not have been exposed to any heavy cannonade, and that the trial was more of giving than taking. We are still, therefore, left in doubt as to the relative means of offence possessed by heavy ships and granite batteries, but there are two or three considerations which seemed to tell against the latter. Assuming that a discharge from 200 or 300 embrasures must be tremendous, yet the smoke arising from such a fire must be almost enough to smother the gunners in their casemates, not to men tion the effects of the return broadsides against the walls. In such a smoke all aim must be lost, and, as ships are moveable objects, the offensive power of the batteries must be almost destroyed for the time, whereas it seems now clear that an hour or two's firing would give all the superiority to the assailants. If a fort like that at Bomarsund-was so knocked about by four guns in battery and the pivot guns of a few steamers, what m.ust be the effect of a dozen concentrated broadsides from twenty huge ships of the line ? It almost stands to reason that the granite, however solid, would be shattered to pieces. To take a fair example, let us suppose that half-a-dozen three-deckers, including the Duke of Wel:ington, had been laid alongside the great fort at Bomarsund, so that the batteries on both sides were within range of each other. Would the 100 guns of the fort have demolished the ships before the 300 guns of the ships had beaten the fort about the ears of its garrison ? We confess we can hardly think so. We are not complaining that this course should not have been adopted. Undoubtedly the best system of action was that which would [leave least to chance and involve least peril of life. If other forts can be taken in like manner by a couple of sailors' batteries and a battalion of riflemen, by all means let such satis factory practice be continued ; but in cases where such tactics are less feasible, and wooden walls must needs be set against stone walls, we think our apprehensions re specting the invincible strength of granite may be con siderably modified by the recollections of Bomarsund. AQUATICS. THAMES UNITY BOAT CLUB. The Thames Unity Boat Club rowed a very excellent four-oared race yesterday, for pieces of plate given by the club to its wagering members. Red.............. . ............................................... 1 Messrs. Hearne. I Messrs. Mills. Richardson. 1 Fraser. Fox, steerer. Yellow Messrs. Blenckho. Duckett. Andrews, steerer. I Messrs. Mill s . Pail. Blue Messrs. Newnham. I Messrs. Howland Rae. Clayton. Smith, steerer. The distance was from Putney to Barnes. They all got away evenly together and at a fine pace, red taking the lead, closely followed by yellow up to Hammersmith Bridge, where red increased their lead, ultimately win. ning by nearly four lengths. Towards the last blue seemed to abandon all notion of success, and eased. CAUTION TO PUBLICANS AND TRADESSEEN.-A cor revondent writes, " that a gang of sharpers, four in number, have lately adopted the plan of procuring situations as barmen and waitresses for a number of their confederates, who, as soon as they are installed, commence their plundering operations. The leaders of the gang make a daily round, calling in at the housos where their confederates are placed, and ordering a glass of ale or spirits, for which they tender a small coin in payment, but receive change as for halta-crown. The syst em i s sa id to be extended to grocers ' and o theri tradesmen's shops." The Committee of the Liverpool Exchange News room, acting upon a memorial of the shareholders, have p.m e given notice that on an d after the 2nd p ro ximo Exchang e N ews - room w ill b e c l ose d a t 5 except on on Satur day, the n ews p a p e r s b e i ng remove d a t 4 p . m- , xce h the occasion of a foreign arrival, when the room will' be. kept open until 8 p.m. 1