The Sun. — London, England, 1854-03-03 00:00:00

Larch 1 will be India via :shed the 1. —39, he York newly -3t glass, can be t ; they ,e opera ly seen ig, deer keepers, 'portant see, will and the only 3 m) miles ) miles. pocket. pow era onderful 6 miles nic Vi avented •om all ►s been, of the enables iblic si oises in assist• t-street, The d Co., n, and SOUTH HARROD'S FOOT MINING COMPANY. Offices, 19, Bocklersbury. NOTICE.-••No farther applications for shares will be received in Vat above Mine after MONDAY, the 6th inst. GEO. SEAUBY. Parser. WAR RISKS for ALL PARTS of the WORLD.—The HOME COUNTIES and GENERAL LIFE ASfiURA.NCE COMPANY, 29, New Bridge-street, Black friars, London.—This Company will ASSURE OFFICERS and others. at most moderate rates of prem!am, against WAR RISK, 'Voyaging, and Climate. By order of the Boari of Directors. A. DURNFORD, Secretary. NOTICES OF OBJECTION TO VOTERS. AU persons by whom notices of objection to voters were posted at the Money-orier Office, No 180, Strand, on the 24th August, 1853, are requested to communicate their names and addresses, with the numbers of their Notices, to M. B. Peacock, Esq., Solicitor to her Majesty's Post-office, London. TEAM TO CONSTANTINOPLE, calling at MALTA, The Cape, of Good Hope Screw Steam-ship, one of the fleet of the Cieneral Screw Steam Shipping Company, is appointed to leave the .cast India. Docks en WEDNESDAY, March 8. First-cl ass Passengers only taken, for whom every accommodation _ , • providrad. - . . Rates 'to Malta. 201.; Constantinople, 251. Cabins fully fhrnished With every requisite. Fall particulars at the Company's offices, No. 1, Adelaide-place, Lendon..bridge. N.B. —This vessel touches at Smyrna on her return. LONDON & NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY, ILEDUCTION in the CHARGE for SMALL PARCELS. The Public are requested to take notice, that on and after the 20th Pebru icy, 1854, Parcels of lib weight and under will be conveyed betwe t.n London and Liverpool, Manchester, Huddersfield, Stock- Pori, Cheater, Warrington, and Preston only, at a charge of Sixpence, lrisin4 ling delivery within the usual boundaries. And Parcels of 21b. Wei& it and under, at a charge of One Shilling. To insure the transmission of Parcels by this conveyance, they Must, be delivered to the company at one of their stations named abov , or at one of the following offices of their agents ( Messrs. florae and Chaplin), in London : —Spread Eagle, Gracechurch-st.; Bert in-with-two-Necks, Gresham-street (late Lad-lane) ; Cross Keys, We od-street, Cheapside ; Bolt-in-Tun, 64, Fleet-street ; White 80 rile, 90, Fetter-lane ; 90, The Borough, Southwark ; George and like Boar, 269, High Holborn ; Old White House Cellar, 155, Picca dilly; Golden Cross, Charing-cress ; Do., 33, Regent's-circus ' • Spread liNgle, Regent's-circus ; Griffin's Green Man and Still, 335, Oxford- The Company will not hold themselves liable for detention or loss to any parcel not delivered to them at one of their own °Dices, or to the charge of their agents. _ _ _ By order of the Directors. TLONDON and SOUTH-WESTERN RAIL WAY. ALTERATION AND ACCELERATION OF TRAINS. On and alter the Ist of March next the 11 a.m. train to Porta- Toouth will be accelerated. The 3 p in. Express Train from London will proceed to Salisbury. The train now leaving Waterloo-station at 4 p.m. for Basingstoke Will proceed to Southampton. A new Express Train will leave Southampton at 5 p.m., Salisbury at 4.20 p.m., and Portsmouth at 4.25 p.m., arriving at Waterloo at - T.15 pan. This train now leaving Sonthampton at 7 p.m., Portsmouth at 6.15 p m., Gosport at 6.25 p.m., and Salisbury at 6.10 p.m., will start from. these places 15 minutes later. A nsw train will leave Waterloo at 7.45 p.m. for Woking, calling at Intermediate stations. T tte 10.30 p.m. Hampton Court Train will leave Waterloo Station at 11.1 b p.m. Vor consequent changes see the published Time Tables of the CO mpany. _ . ARCHIBALD SCOTT, Traffic Manager. 'Waterloo Station, February, 1854. rrHE PROVIDENT 1, LIFE ASSURANC E . , A S! Prlendly Societies Act) and BE2 CLERKS' MUTUAL OCIATION (enrolled under the EVOLENT FUND. TRUSTEES. l lama Baring. Esq., M.P. W. G. Prescott, Esq. ThoensonPrankey,jan.,Esq.,M.P. I Baron L. N. de Rothschild, M.P. TIE/11=ES OF THE BENEVOLENT FUND. John Abel Smith, Esq., M.P. The association embraces life assurance on the mutual principle In all its branches, and offers to all classes of society the peculiar privilege of securing absolutely to the widow, widower, or children, the amount assured, five from probate or legacy duty, ur any other charge Prospectuses may be had at the nftlee of the Association. By order of the Board, P. H. BYRE, Secretary. 42, Moorgate-street, 28th Feb., 1854. PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of Chancery, made in a cause, THOMAS BOYS FERRIS against ELIZABETH MULLINS, the creditors of EDWARD MULLINS, formerly of Number 1, Gre it James-street, Bed ford-row, in the county of Middlesex, and late of Brunswick *Owe, Camberwell, in the county of Surrey, and of Token bouse-yard, in the City of London, and also of Castle Eve Villa, l'arkstons, in the county of Dorset, Gentleman, the testator in the pleadings in this cause named (who died in or about the month *4 December, 1853, are by their solicitors, on or before the twenty fourth day of March, 1854, to come in and prove their debts or claims at the Chambers of the Vice-Chancellor Sir John Stuart, At No. 12, Old-square, Lincoln's•inn, Middlesex, or in default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said Xlecree. Friday, the 31st day of March, 1854, at 12 o'clock at noon, at the said Chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the claims. Dated this 18th day of February, 1854. ALFRED HALL, Chief Clerk. Further information, if required, may be obtained on application to Mr. E. Benham. No. IS, Essex-street, Strand, Solicitor for the plaintiff, to whom, and also to Messrs. Bolton, Merriman, and Dun zing, of No. 25, Austin Friars, London, Solicitors for the defendant, E. Mullins, the widow and executrix of the testator, notice of the claims, When duly entered, must be &en. Office of Ordnance, 27th Feb., 1854. THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS of HER MA JESTY'S ORDNANCE de lizazar Grvx NOTICE, That they are ready to dispose of, to such persons as are willing to tender fbr the same, a quantity of old Iron Ordnance, Shot and Shells, Wrought Iron, Ike., in store at the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, which has been, divided into Lots, and may be viewed upon application to the Storekeeper at that place any day (Sunday excepted) previous to the day fixed for the delivery of the Tenders. A Catalogue of the several Lots may be obtained by persons will ing to become purchasers, at the Storekeeper's-office, Woolwich ; the Storekeeper's-office at the Tower; gild at the Secretary's-office in Pall-mall—where the Tenders for the whole, or any number of the Said Lots, are to be delivered on or before the 9th March. By Order of the Board, J. WOOD, Secretary. _DR. BRA.DTS MEDICAL REFORM BILL. Slit,—The opposition given the other night in the House of Commons by Lord Grosvenor to the Medical Bill was worthy of that nobleman, who said, that if doctors wanted to pass laws to prescribe who should prescribe in case of sickness, he should give such a mea sure his strongest opposition. This is just the sort of opposition raised by Ilygeists, and all those in favour of the medical liberty of the subject. Doctors may pass what laws they please as regards their own profession, but they should not be allowed to obtain arbi . ... trary enactments by which the medical liberty of the subject can be In anywise affected For further arguments in support of this im portant question the public is referred to Mr. John Fraser's lecture on the medical liberty of the subject, which may be obtained gratis from all Hygelan agents. We are, sir, your obedient servants, THE MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH, New-road, London. February 25, 1854. B.—lt is impossible to read the accounts of the medical meetines Which are now held without coming to the conclusion that the real thing which the doctors desire is to circumscribe the medical liberty of the subject, however they may affect the contrary in the House of Commons. Once let the wedge he driven mid it is impossible to say Where it will stop. NEW DISCOVERY IN TEETH. MR. HONilikb, - gtiidEoll - lISEICTIST, 52, FLEET-STREET, has introduced an ENTIRELY NEW DESCRIPTION of ARTIFICIAL TEETH, fixed without springs, wirm, or ligatures. They so perfectly resemble the natural teeth, as not to be distinguished from the originals by the closest observer ; they will never change colour or decay, and will he found superior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not require the ex traction of roots, or any painful operation, and will supp)rt and pre- Serve teeth that are loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth rendered sound and agent' in mas tication. 52, FLEET-STREET.—At home from Ten till Five. GR AVESEND STAR PACKETS. 1.4) other Packets call at the Grays, Greenhithe, and Purfieet Piers. The Packets call at the Piers as underlined (weather permitting ) FROM TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND. WVE•K OATS. SUNDAYS. Terrace Pier. Time. No. 19,169.] Embellished wit h Portraits of the Queen of Bohemia and Mary Tudor. N OTICE. -LIVES of the PRINCESSES of NGLAND By Mrs. EVERETT GREEN. The fifth volume of this Interesting hiiterical work, comprising the Memoirs of Mary Tudor*, Third Daughter of Henry VII., and Eliza beth, Queen of Bohemia, Eldest Daughter of James L, is now ready, price 10s. 6d. bound. Published fur Henry Colburn, by his successors, Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. PROFESSOR JOHNSTON'B CII EMIST It Y OF COMMON LIFE, No. IV., price 10d., contains, THE BEVERAGES WE INKUSE. The previons Numbers contain, 1. The Air we Breathe, and The Water we Drink. 6d. 2. The soil we Cultivate, and The Plant we Rear. 6d. 3. The Bread we Eat, and The Beef we Cook. Bd. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. Sold by ah Booksellers. Next week will be published, HISTORY of the FRENCH PROTESTANT REFUGEES, from the REVOCATION of the EDICT of NAA TES. By CHARLES WEISS, Professor of History in the Lyeee Baouaparte._ Translated, with the assistance of the Author, by FREDISICE HARDMAN. In demy octavo, price 14s. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. Just published, in post Bvo., price ss. 6d., ADEFENCE of the " ECLIPSE of FAITH." By its Author: Being a Rejoinder to Professor Newman's " Reply." London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. Third Edition, enlarged, price Is., free by post for 18 stamps, 'THE DpSTRUCTIVE ART OF HEAL ING," or Facts for Families. By Dr. DICKSON. Oco. Boutledge and Co., 2, Farringdon-street. Also, by Dr. DICKSON, "FALLACIES OF THE FACULTY," with the Chrono-therma System of Medicine. Price 2s. 6d. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., Stationers'-court. THE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH of JAMES 21011'80N, the Hygeist, which all s •archers after health are recommended to peruse, may be had at the British College of Health, New-road, London, by post, on enclosing a penny stamp; or from any of the duly authorised agents throughout the country. THIRD EDITION.—WITH ADDITIONS. Just published, Bvo., in cloth, price 55., by post tree, 53. 6d. ON TRUE ds FALSE SPEASIIITORAHCEA, with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors In relation to the Treatment and Cure of the Impuissant and Sexual Hypochondriacs, APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED. LEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, and Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game. Soup, Curries, and Salad, and by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach to perfectly digest the food. The daily useof this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe guard to health. Sold by the proprietors. Lea and Perrins, 19, Fenchurch-street, London, and 68. Broad-street, Worcester; also by .Nie.ssrs. Barclay and Sons, Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and raer chants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. N.B.—To guard against imitations, see that the names of " LEA and PERRINS" are upon the label and patent cap of the bottle. NOTES of a PARLIAMENTARY SPEECH. Teach Russians good manners—protect Turkey—reform the representation- extend the franchise —appeal to public op nion and plain facts, stating the elevating influence and sure protection afforded to all classes by the attire manutactured by E. MO-ES and SON—the benefits derived from purchasing at their establishments, the best means of retrenchment and economy which the wisdom of the Senate could recommend. Are large and liberal measures or small and antiquated plans of businePs best calculated to promote the welfare of the kingdoms? Penny postage has increased the revenue by an amazing increase of business, and E. Moses and Sox, by cheapening attire, have ren dered it at the same time more fashionable, more comfortable, and more easily accessible to individuals and families. * * * First, to advance new measures suited to the progress of the times - to bring out the talent, genius, and skill of all countries for the accom modation of the English public, should be the object of such politi cians as would rte to distinction. As E. Moses and Sox have al ways the earliest samples of new productions in every material and every style of dress for the coming seasons, this spring it is certain they will excel the magnificence of the last, from a surprising degree f success which has att,nded their enterprising efforts. _ _ To manage the coloalw and to make them profits' le has perplexed the talent of this honourable house. The satisfaction in Australia and all other parts of the world with the business of E. Moses and Sox is highly encouraging, and their clothing, boots, and shoes, hosiery, Sec., is producing a greater amount of profits to merchants and ship pers than any kind of merchandise whatever. Emigrants, ladies, gentlemen, and families are outfitted in the most economical manner, and full lists of outfits, with ship-sailing infor mation, may be had on application, or post free. CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard !the public against imposition,having learned that the untradesman-like falsehood of " Being connected with their Establishment," or " It's the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons, they beg to state that they have . - NO CONNEXION WITH ANY OTHEIL HOME IN OIL OUT OF LONDON, except their own Establishments, as follows : London City Establishment, 154, 155. 156, and 157, Minories, 83, 44,85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. London West-end Branch, 506,507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,2, and 3, Flart-street, all communicating. Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 and 28, Bridge-street. Sheffield Branch. 36, Fargate. Colonial Branch, Melbourne, Australia. Merchant Tailo;:r4 Clothiers, Flatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Shoe Makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. IMPORTANT.—ShouId any article not give satisfaction, it will be exchanged if desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest price, from which no abatement can be made. The Establishments are closed from sunset on Fridays to sunset on Saturdays, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock. A new Book, " The Epitome of Comfort and Economy," contain ing full lists of prices, our system of self-measurement, Ste., &c., may be had on application, or post-free. A handsome Almanac for the year ending 1854 can be had. gratis on application. 10l Pon pane le Francais. Qt i si parla Italian. Eder orricht man Deutsch. Anna BO habla Espano ON THE SECRET CAUSES OF SELF-ACQUIRED MISERIES AND DISAPPOINTED HOPES. CONTAlNlOnNGeTHinsunitarEeTTnarthOß PREVENTION OF DISEASE. In SixTHE SILENT FRIEND. Languages—Fiftieth Edition. Illustrated b y age : p ic r a i l ce C 2 o s lo 6 ure a , d by En p gr os a t ving arom s :d e New Edition, enlarged to 200 A p Cases. T HE StLENT FRIEND, Establishment, Zs. fid in st a mps : . the exhaustion and physical decay of th a M edical ani Work on excessive indulgence, the consequences of infecetisoyns,thomr mercury, with directions for the use of the reventivethleoti produced on,abusefol lowedby observations on Marriage, and the i d t li. and L. prevent it. Illustrated by 100 Coloured Engr avin g s, ford-street • Gor don, and CO., Consulting Surgeons, 19, Berners , 2 -s 3 l : ll re y e, Oxford- NV. Sutton, ' 10 Cornhill. , Oxford street, ta,nLod cold by yab n l n is a ll y e , d 63 br a S n l d ier s w ang ood er, a l n s d o. C o o . . Paternoster row,don, 146, Leadenhall-street ; 95, Farringdom-street ; Bow Chnrch-yard ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; R Johnson, 68 , PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the reproductive organs, and is illustrated by 28 Coloured Engravings. PART 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive in dulgence, and their lamentable e ffects on the s ys te m , producing mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative incapacity. Illustrated by 10 Explanatory Engravings. PART 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for their treatment. This section Is illustrated by 62 Coloured Engrav ings. PART IV. contains a Remedy for the Prevention of Disease by a simple application, by which the danger of infection is obviated. PART V. 13 devoted to the consideration of marriage and its duties. The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and the whole subject critically and philosophically inquired intu. THE CORDIAL BAL If OF SYRIAC UM is exclusively employed In treating nervous and sexual debility, impotence, &c., 1l s. and 335. per bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilitie remedy, for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary symptons, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, 1 Is. and 335. per bottle. Perry's Purifying Specific Pills, 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and 1 ls. per box, a certain remedy for gonorrhoea, gleet, stricture, and chronic inflammation of the bladder. Consultation fee, if by letter, 11. A minute detail of the ease is required : awe, habits, and posi on in 30e , a17. ,7 . l'sel , .. , ts. N.,::: - : e,;,i , :e, to te 4, , -..1 r,t tile' E•tabibili. ment only, by which the fee, it., is saved. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, are in attendance, daily, at 19, Beruers-street, Oxford-street, Lon don. from Eleven till Two, and Five to Eight; Oh Banda/ from Lima to One. . - „---' zz i_ < ,,./ . 2" zi-; ),, //, -. - -11 -K , , ,_, Z 4- 7 - / -----) ''',-- 7" 1 - - -- - /!f„,,,, /e, , . . , / , , ..... - _Z i - /' /1 • ~ • ~....i r .„„,.;. ~,,rp. 4 b - 11 , 1 1. viy.. 7 7 54 1,. : . , ......„ • PREPARATT - c ..... it a.... > , ,5". ' . 1 '0! ; : *_.-v 9 wit -, ,, . , ~,. .: ' ~,, - t0... 1 r o .4 4 ri b . , •,- 41' 1' V 1".." tAC‘ ' 4).- 17 1-' 4., . . I . „. ... Na. -.., ' Ir. 4 1,' d -..,ze ~ , 0.r4 . ,.. , ) , , , ,, ' s •-. .? • ~► , 0 , ,Y , ..., l b ' 4 " 7 " ,. ' i , -WI At , VH . V.S..' '-.4. _ N ill et, t.... 0 1- 74'' ' 4lllllol llll kkt s 4 + 4lk i Iktil ,'-':''' 1:•' r ' \ . ~ - . , ' 43.. egic , --:-. 4,-. \'., ~,,,. - -------\ -.• .... -r. lic \ ( ...._............ " - --, ,,, e,, c ,....., .. . `': ~.. • -. Vie^ ~. :.'..,... fa, . i s, N, : int r, 2 1, ,, ,U...4 11 p) , 11in,10 „ ,,1 ;j:: , 13 . 1 40; ~ . ~ ....01, , . .3 .: - , : 0 : alma searamm... I.lllmilm 11111MM01M1N1F55116.... - __------ ••••• 1- [PRICE SD. 5,0001. ; West of England, 13,0001. ; General, 5,000/. ; North British, 5,000/.—total, 73,0001. ; leaving a net loss of probably 20,000/. to Messrs. Ryland. The building is insured in the Sun and West of England ; the Sun taking at least 4,0001. of the total amount. Hammond, Turner, and Co. are insured for 6,0001. Their stock was valued at 9,500/., and as there wilt be no salvage, it follows that there will be a loss to the firm of about 3,5001. Messrs. Thomas Pearson and Son's are insured in •the Sun for 8001. ; Royal Ex change, 1,2001. ; West of England, 2,0001. Their stock was valued at 6,0001., and there is reason for thinking that the salvage will not amount to more than 1,000/. Mr. Thos. West—insured for 3,0001. in the San ; 3,0001. in the Royal Exchange ; Scottish Union, 3,000/. ; and Liverpool Royal Insurance, 3,000/.—will be insured fully, his loss being mainly from cloths damaged by water to the extent of 3,0001. There are various other parties who will sustain loss, but they are amply insured. The cost to the insurance-offices it will be seen is very considerable. The origin of the fire is as investigating it, and it is not unlikelyyetamystery,buttheagentsofthevarious officeP are that it will I p e r s o sn ve es t s. o have originated in something worse than care- INTEIr PREPARATIONS FOR WA , ' SPAPtii, .s:il74F.ir.„„, PORTSMOUTH, MAR W.k.'.:0 4 ''PAY Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Napier and Rear- . ink.tri.o . r ', :\?: Corry were telegraphed up to the Admiralty ye' eAffiiy-t; 1.:4 ‘ 14 7-,,%;;-' ' Fie ) and have not yet returned. Rear-Admiral f fra - ' I P"p practising the fleet morning and afternoon in gunkl.;lll-N; and the the firing is magnificent. A continual cannon la - is going on from morning till night, and Spithead pre sents a picture which few artists could do justice to. The victualling is going on most actively. The present exigency is likely to lead to some essential reforms in naval customs ; for instance, to-day the steam-frigates Arrogant and Valorous came into harbour with their powder in, to get a supply of coals. It has hitherto been the rule for ships to unload their powder at Spithead prior to coming into harbour, the hoy containing their powder coming into harbour too ; they went to Spithead again, and the hey went after them, and, when their fires were put out in the furnaces, the ammunition was re-shipped. Here was both loss of power, loss of fuel, and loss of time. The Vulcan and Simoom, laden with troops, were detained several hours at Spithead by the practice of this old regulation. They steamed to Spit head, then had to put out all their fires and blow off steam, then take in the powder and shell, re-light their fires and get steam up again before they could proceed. Other navies do not perpetrate these absurdities, and we hope they will be abolished in the British. The ships at Spithead are all manned, we be lieve, and one or two have more than their complement. The Prince Regent, 90, Captain Hutton, Rear-Admiral Corry's flag-ship, is one of the most perfect men-of-war in the navy. Her lower deck tier are entirely 68- pounders. Admiral Corry has not the least wish to ex change her for any other ship. A court-martial will be held on board the Victory, on Saturday, to try a marine belonging to the St. Jean d'Acre for striking his su perior non - commissioned officer of the same ship. It is thought probable that Captain Hay, of the Victory (at present flag -captain to Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, K..C.8.) or Captain Mansel will be Sir Charles Napier's flag -captain. The Dauntless, 33, screw-frigate, returned from bar cruise to-day, and joined the ileet: The Orestes, coat hulk, is towed from stifFt - 6 - Eiii to Pai—P,their bunkers. The Caesar, 91, Captain Roi*-Ibipped her crew last evening and her engines on trial in the Steam Basiu worked well. She will try them at Stokes's Bay to-morrow. The Odin, 16, Captain Francis Scott, is going into the Steam Ba sin to repair defects. It is rumoured that Commodore Martin, of the Duke of Wellington, screw, 131, will hoist a first-class corn modore's pendant on board the Leopard, 18, paddle, Captain George Giffard, and proceed with a division of steam frigates and sloops to the north, in a few days. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 2. Her Majesty's frigate Pique, 40, Captain Sir F. Nicol son, was towed from the Hanioazo into the Sound yes terday by the Jasper and the Confiance. The defects of the Duke of Wellington, 131, Commo dore H. B. Martin, will probably be made good in the Sound. The equipment of the James Watt, 91, Captain G. Elliott, is progressing rapidly. Steam was got up in her on Wednesday. The crew of the Nile, 91, crossed topsail yards yester day. Her officers and men have given each a day's pay to the widow of coast-guardman, Macguire, killed by the falling of a block from this mizentop on Monday. Colour-sergeant A. J. Stuart, one corporal, and eight privates of the first battalion let Royals arrived this afternoon and took possession of the Citadel Barracks preparatory to the arrival of the whole battalion, whi3h leaves Newport, Monmouthshire, under command of Major A. B. Montgomery, on Friday morning, and tra velling by the Bristol and Exeter and South Devon Railway will reach Plymouth in the evening. This battalion was six years in Gibraltar, three in the West Indies, and four in British North America, leaving Hali fax in 1851. By volunteers from the second battalion of the depot of the 31st Regiment, &c., they are now 1,000 strong, and expect to embark at Plymouth for the Mediterranean about the 12th of March. N, MARCH 2. Dublin and Kingstown presented, DUßLl yesterday a scene of extraordinary animation and excitement, on the occa sion of the departure for the seat of war of the 33d (Wel lington's) Regiment, the second corps drawn from Ire land towards the British contingent. At 8 o'clock in the morning, the seven companies destined for embarka tion were inspected on the esplanade in front of the Royal barracks ; and, notwithstanding the early hour fixed for their march, immense crowds assembled at va rious parts of the route to see them off, and, in many places, the windows and balconies were filled with ladies and gentlemen, who evinced a laudable desire to wit ness and take part in the interesting spectacle—the latter by cheering, the former by waving their handker chiefs in token of approbation and encouragement. At a quarter before 9 o'clock the troops formed into four deep, and the word of command being given, commenced their march towards Westland-row rail way station, headed by Lieutenant-Colonel F. A. Blake, and preceded by their own band and those of the 21st and 91st Regiments, who turned out in true esprit de corps, to bid adieu to their brother soldiers of the 33d, in right military fashion. As the men left their quarters, they were followed by thousands eager to have a good view of them in the streets, and assist those who thronged the latter in cheering them on their march along the quays, across Essex bridge, through tarliament-street, Dame-street, College green, Grafton-street, Nassau-street, Leinster-street, and Park-street, into Westland-row, which they reached at half-past 9 o'clock, amid the acclamations of the mul titudes who assembled there to welcome their arrival. At the railway stations the best possible arrangements were made for their reception by the authorities of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway. Very little time was lost in placing the troops in the carriages provided for their transport, and at a quarter past 10 o'clock the first division left the station in a special train, which arrived at Kingstown at a few minutes before 11 ; and in less than an hour more they were rejoined by the re mainder of their comrades. The officers and men, with out exception, seemed in excellent health and spirits, and those who saw them off were naturally much gratified by their splendid and eoldierlike appearance. The Emeu, in which these fine fellows have embarked, is a magnificent iron-built screw-steamer, much larger than the Cambria, and containing ample accommodation for the number of troops now on board. The immense saloon has been cleared of its ordinary furniture and fitted up for the use of the 33d Regiment, of which no fewer than 750 men are housed on board without crowd ing or difficulty. The officers will mess in the ladies' sitting-room, where ample space for their number is afforded. Every soldier of the 33d has been furnished with the llinie rifie. The Emeu remained at Kingstown all night, and will proceed on her voyage this morning. SHEERNESS, MARCH 2. Captain Edmund M. Lyons (4th October, 1849), ap pointed to the Miranda, 14 guns, screw steam-sloop, has taken up his commission and joined. Lieutenant J. F. C. Mackenzie (26th June, 1846), lately serving in the St. George, 121 guns, guard-ship of ordinary at Devon port, took up his commission as First Lieutenant, and joined this sloop yesterday; also Lieutenant Cecil Buckley. Great activity prevails in getting her ready to join the Baltic fleet as early as practicable. Commander George Wodehouse (30th July, 1844), has taken up his commission, and joined the Rosamond, six guns, paddle-wheel steam-sloop. Lieutenant W. B. A. F. Paterson took up his commission and joined this sloop yesterday. Commander the Hon. Arthur A. Cochrane (12th April, 1851), has taken up his commission and joined the Driver, six guns, paddle-wheel steam-sloop. Caulkers have been sent on board to caulk decks and waterways, &c., of the Waterloo, 120 guns, Capt. Lord Frederick Kerr, flag-ship to Vice-Admiral the Hon. Josceline Percy, Commander-in-Chief, and she is to get ready for immediately taking her departure from here if required. She now musters nearly 800 men and officers, including supernumeraries. The Majestic, 80 guns, new screw steam-ship, C a p. tain James Hope, C. 8., has this day been put of dry dock for the purpose of being masted, butw.,iltloabgeaicnobrne. taken into dry dock for her screw, gear, stc pleted; her engines will in a few days be ready for trial. An additional number of shipwrights have been pat on the Ganges, 84 guns, in order to complete her re pairs, the dock in which she is being required for imme diate use. An order has been received from the Admiralty to ex pedite the fitment of the Monarch, 84 guns, Captain John E. Erskine (June 28, 1838), with all possible despatch. The Cressy, 80 guns, new screw steam-ship, Captain Richard L. Warren, was put out of the fitting basin yesterday and towed to Black Stakes, to take in ammu nition, shell, Etc., and other stores, preparatory to her leaving here for the Downs. 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CHEAP EDITION OF MADAME D'ARBLAY'S DIARY.— The first volume is just published of the New and Cheap Edition of Miss Burney's celebrated "Diary and Corres pondence." It is to be completed in seven monthly volumes, with portraits, &c., price only 3s. each, bound, and will doubtless have a very large sale. This book, in deed, is of universal interest and inestimable value as an authentic and permanent record of what everybody desires to know—namely, the personal characters, manners, habits of thinking, and modes of life of the great and famous of a recently-passed age. At an early period of her life, the celebrated author of " Evelina" adopted the resolution of keeping a regular " Diary" of her thoughts, feelings, and observations relative to everything and every body with whom she came in contact. 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THE STEAMER GOLDEN AGE.—According to the last advices from the Cape of Good Hope, it appears that the American Australian steamer Golden Age reached that place after an unprecedented passage, her running d tn et n a n in ni e l d py at ni t ? h r e n Cam someddaayyss,hbeutwt time having b een 26 d ays and a half. She would be e w en as thexe pe c c a t p ed e a n n o d t Melbourne, in which case her passage to Australia will have been effected, as regards running time, in a little over 48 days. It will be remembered that the Post- Office authorities refused to pay this vessel any extra sum tal'irz ar 1 tl'at a f,-7 alai- . ; :.fter7vard 6 , 7 despatched, with a bonus of 1,0001:, the sailing-ship Matilda Wattenbach, which was ultimately driven die masted into Lisbon. as if the previous cause of disqualification had not hap pened. "4. That the constituency for all elections in common hall shall include the lilverymen, and also all those who are above proposed to be. entitled to vote at the wardmoto elections. " 5. That the time for holding elections should be short ened, and that there should be one day for the nomination and election in the Co rumen Hall, and one other day for the nomination and election in the respective wardmotes ; and that in the event of a poll being demanded the poll shall be taken and cone/ uded on the day following the nomination. " 6. That the Lord .Mayor shall be chosen from those aldermen who have served the office of sheriff. " 7. That the electiort of the Lord Mayor by the consti tuency in Common Hall s hall be absolute. " 8. That the election o f aldermen by the wards should be without any veto. " 9. That the election of aldermen should be for life. " 10. That the common councilmen should be annually elected in the several waramotes. " 11. That the number .of common councilmen be con stituted as at present. " 12. That if any per, holding the office of alderman or common councilman ;for the city . of London shall declare himself or shall be decla red bankrupt or insolvent, or shall apply to take or shall tal re the benefit of any act for the relief of insolvent debtor s, or shall make any composition with his creditors, or she 11 altogether absent himself from his duty more than six: calendar months consecutively (unless prevented by illm ts s or any other reasonable cause), or shall be convicted of fraud or of any crime, then, and in every such case, such person shall thereupon immediately become disqualified and. shall cease to hold the office of alderman or common councilman, as the case may be, and the office shall become vacant. But any person becoming disqualified and ceasing to hold such office by reason of having made any composition with his creditors shall, on payment of his debts in fu:11, be capable (if otherwise quali fied) of being re-elected to such office, provided always that any act done by any such alderman or common councilman so becoming disqualified as aforesaid previously to his office becoming vacant, shall have the same force and validity as if such alderman or common councilman ha.d not been so disqualified. "13. That the Court of Lord Mayor and Aldermen shall be continued as a separate court only for purposes connected with the admistration of „justice, police, gaols, and mainte nance of any court of law . or equity, now by charter or otherwise, under their leparate jurisdiction. That the Court of Lord Mayor and Aldermen shall have no separate power or authority to ors w upon or order any payment out of the City cash, and' that for all municipal legislation and other purposes comb ected with the City affairs, the same may be henceforth 'managed and transacted under and by the authority of 1. he Lord Mayor, aldermen, and commons iu Common Conn cil assembled. "14. That all acts whatsoever authorised or required to be done by the Common Con ncil, and a 1 ,questions of ad journment or others that ma)' come beforeZsuch ,council, may be done and decided by tlie , marorityof the members of the council who shall be prep:sent at any. meeting, the whole number present at such meeting not being less than. one fifth part of the number of the whole council, and at' all such meetings the Lord Mayor, if present, shall pre side ; and in the absence of the Lord Mayor, such alder man, or in the absence of all the aldermen such councillor as the members of the council then present shall choose to be the chairman of that meeting, shall preside, and the chairman shall have a second or casting vote in all cases of equality of votes. "15. That the chamberlain shall be elected by the Court of Common Council. " 16. That in any alteration of the existing wards, it is desirable to adhere as much as possible to the present limits to unite the smaller and divide the larger wards, so as to make them more equal in the number of occupiers and amount of rateable property. " 17. That all extra-parochial places within tho limits of the city should be included in the city of London for all municipal purposes. " 18. That the bye-laws of the 15th April, 1606, and the 4th July, 1712, restraining persons not free of the city from carrying on trade therein be repealed. " 19. That the street tolls should be abolished. " 20. That the powers of the s everal city courts should be consolidated and amended, that - there should be only two such courts for the trial and h,9aring of civil causes within the city, namely, the mayor's'aourt and the sheriff's court, as regulated by the small debts act. 0 II ra " b A i l e l c o o t r t w h . i ch p w a t e e a submit t ‘d o j do t aH h judgment ofw.o d o g c e , n Ct February, i.of Chairman." a r n i t l h B i as s n4 h .. - Resolved,—That this court cloth agree with the com cmleitrtek d o i n transmitt h their r report, t o p , ya thereofnd it to i sor t pointed to inquire into the state of the Corporation of London. Motion—To agree to suggestion No. 9. Amendment—To strike out the words "for life," and insert " once in every seven years." dheere;:lomthmaitssitohneerstorp. The court divided: For the affirmative, 30 ; for the negative, 49. Motion—" To agree to suggestion" No. 11. Amendment—" To limit the number to 160." - - - The court divided : For the affirmative, 15 ; for the negative, 37. SIXTEEN COTTAGES DESTROYED BY FIRE AT BLACKWALL. Last night, about half-past eight o'clock, an electric telegraph message was forwarded to the London fire engine stations, that au extensive fire had taken place near Messrs. Mare's steam-ship and engineering works at Blackwall, in the North Woolwich-road. The mo ment the news arrived, engines of the brigade from Wellelose-square, Schoolhouse-lane, Jeffrey-square, and Farringdon-street, started towards the spot, followed by that of the West of England office. It is to be re gretted that as the engines were proceeding along the Commercial-road, two unfortunate accidents occurred, and within a few yards of each other. One took place in this way. Mr. Jones, the engineer of the West of England engine, in order to ascertain the exact locality of the fire, made an attempt to get off the engine before it was fully stopped, and being unable to obtain his footing, he fell under the hinder most wheel, which passed completely over his thigh. The horses dragging the heavy machine were stopped as soon as possible, when it was found that Jones was so much injured as to be unable to proceed any further. The Victoria Dock Company, in order to provide lodgings for a number of their workmen and their families, had erected a series of double and single cottages in the marshes adjoining the brick field, be tween Messrs. Mare's works and the North Woolwich road. Each building were formed of bricks, timber lined inside, and thatched roof, and consisted of from two to four rooms in each structure. Last night, it appears, a girl living in one of the cottages struck a lucifer match in order to light a candle, when, by some unforeseen accident, the window curtain became ignited, and before she had time to extinguish the fire it travelled to the roof, set the thatch in a blaze, and the wind blowing stifly at the time the flames were drifted to the cottages right and left of the one in which the misfortune commenced, so that in a space of time comparatively brief the destructive element had seized upon six double cottages and four single ones. The scene at that time became quite dis tressing, as many of the poor occupiers had their chil dren sleeping in the humble habitations, and in order to rescue them the most strenuous exertions were required. One poor woman, to save an infant, was obliged to get through the window, whilst the fire dropped from the roof upon the cot in which the child was sleeping. The poor creatures next made an attempt to remove their humble furniture to a distant place for protection, in which endeavour to some extent they were successful, but the majority of the occupants have lost all they pos sessed ; for by the tune the London engines could reach the scene, the fire had done tremendous havoc, and with the exception of about a. dozen cottages on the same estate, the others, numbering in all 16, were burnt out. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN MANCHESTER. A fire, more destructive in its consequences than any which.has occurred in Manchester for many years, took place on Wednesday night in that city. The invoice and order clerks in the employ of Messrs. Rylands and Son, general warehousemen and shippers, were just about to leave the warehouse in High-street, about ten minutes past ten o'clock, when one of the men who had to watch during the night, smelt fire, and seeing smoke proceeding up a flight of stairs which led into a cellar containing grey calicoes, he went to ascertain the cause, but was driven back. One of the clerks also went down, and saw fire upon the coun ter, as he thought, glimmering among a very dense body of smoke, which nearly suffocated him. Attempts were made to quench it with water, but the smoke over powered the men, and they left the place in trepidation, merely seizing some few odd books that were scattered about. Mr. Rose, the conductor of the Manchester fire brigade, received intelligence of the fire from the police man on the beat at twelve minutes past ten, and being on the spot in nine minutes he found flames issuing from the cellar of the warehouse, and evidently proceeding from a very large body below. He had at first great hopes of extinguishing the fire, but it all at once sprung into great activity, having reached a gas meter, from which a flame 2 feet in diameter and 6 or 7 feet long projected the mo ment the soldering had been melted. The building itself was, perhaps, the most extensive in Manchester. The fire raged fieraely, and soon mastered the efforts of the firemen, although they played most gallantly from high pressure main jets, which discharge about a ton of water per minute, and before one o'clock in the morning it had destroyed the whole of the building to a very small portion, bringing down much of the walls. The wind blew from the east, carrying the sparks and live embers across the streets. Bread-street being so narrow, as the fire advanced along the blazing building the firemen had no space to work, and were compelled to retire, and the flames soon caught the windows of a large warehouse on the opposite side of the street occupied by Hammond, Turner, and Co., and set it on fire. The men strove hard in this new difficulty, but the narrowness of the street baffled all their efforts, and the fire completely gutted the building, passing through into Bridgewater-place, another street a considerable distance from the original scene of conflagration. It was eventually stopped by the in tervention of some strong party walls in the buildings, but not until after two o'clock in the morning. The loss caused by the destruction is immense. Messrs. Ryland had a stock of at least 100,0001. worth of goods in their warehouse, and all is destroyed with the excep tion of the salvage, which may amount to 10,000/. They are insured in the Alliance for 5,000/. ; Anchor, 2,000/.. Atlas, 5,000/. ; County, 5,000/. ; Equitable, 3,000/. Guardian, 5,000/. ; London, 5,000/. ; Monarch, 5,000/. Phoenix, 10,0001. ; Star (taken by Manchester office)' PROGRAMME FM THIS DAY. Introductlon (Robert) ; Overture (Martha) ; Cavatina (Erntuti) ; Waltz (Landvsfarden): Quadrille (Wedding) ; Polka (Rococo) ; Gahm (Cuckoo) ; Mazurka (Herolque) ; March (Hongrois) ; Duetts, "Love's Approach," " fell, Sisters, Tell," " Love In thine eyes ;" ' Bonnie Dundee," " I'll speak of thee." POSTPONEMENT OF THE REFORM BILL (From the Times.) Preoccupied as the public mind is with the pride, pomp, and circumstance of war, domestic politics, how ever important, have slipped almost entirely out of sight. At a most inopportune moment, when nothing was further from the public mind than boroughs and electoral districts, enfranchisements, disfranchisements, majorities and minorities, when physical force is alto gether in the ascendant, and the distribution of moral and intellectual forces has no enchantment for the public mind, Ministers, true to their promise, but not to party interests, introduced their Reform Bill. It would be unjust to say that that measure was received with either disappointment or disapprobation ; on the con trary, it has met with all the support that the public mind has been able to spare time to give it, and those who love it least have been forced to confess that it is able, honest, and comprehensive. There lacked nothing to make the Reform Bill of 1854 as great a suc cess in its way as the measure of 1831, except the absende of competing topics, and the undivided at tention of the public. But, unhappily, as we think, for the people of this country, these elements of suc cess have in this instance been wanting. While Lord John Russell was talking of Arundel and Harwich, people were thinking of Giurgevo and Kalafat, and the rights of minorities are swallowed up in the contemplation of the wrongs of Turkey. It would be ridiculous to contend that, with whatever calm approbation the measure may have been received, it has excited any sensible degree of popular enthusiasm, or roused those passions which carried through the mea of 1832 on the shoulders of the people. In 1831 people supported the Reform Bill as a means, and the only means, for attaining the end of good Government. In 1854 that end has been, in a great measure , a tt a i ne d, and the last session of Parliament is remarkable for having been the most laborious and the most „useful that has ever been known in our annals. People may ac quiesce in the abstract justice of the Ministerial propo sitions ; but there wants that keen sense of injury and desire of redress which alone can stimulate great masses of men to take a lively interest in abstract political dis quisition. It is of no use considering now whether these might or might not have been foreseen and avoided. The bill has been introduced, and the result ought to surprise no one who has studied the public opinion of England, and is aware how impossible it is to concen trate that opinion on more than one subject at a time, and how useless to argue against impulses which are as inscrutable and uncontrollable as the flux and reflux of the ocean. Neither will it, we should suppose, sur prise any one to learn that, in the present state of public feeling, and with the prospect of a motion to postpone the bill for the present session, Ministers should have determined to put off the second reading, at any rate, till after Easter. They have been faithful to their engagement, and have laid on the table of the house a measure honest, well considered, and comprehensive, dealin g with our electoral system as a w h o l e , carry i ng a searching and pervading analysis into every part, fearlessly correcting abuses without reference to party, respecting the rights of all, and humoring the passions and selfishness of none. Such a measure must, from its universality and fairness, make many enemies, and, until it became the law of the land, materially weaken the Government by whom it is proposed. In the first place, there is the large number of members who view the measure by which the Government seeks to cut short the existence of the present Parliament as a direct attack upon a position which has cost them much trouble and expense to gain, and who are disposed to regard this and every other measure of the Government with no favourable eyes. Then there is the phalanx of county members, reasonably enough terrified at the threat of a real, instead of a sham representation, and of the wel come presence of a ten-pound constituency. Then there are the representatives of boroughs wholly or partially disfranchised, who believe themselves bound by honour to their constituents to resist a measure which, how ever beneficial to the public, encounters them in the shape of political annihilation. Then there are the metropolitan representatives, angry because Go vernment is so unreasonable as to think that Lam beth and Marylebone contribute at least their quota to the expenditure of public time without arming them with fresh means of annoyance ; and, last of all, comes the opposition which Government had least right to expect, and which the country will do well to take note of—the opposition of such reformers as Mr. Bright, who view reform exclusively from the Manches ter point of view, and, finding nothing which promises them any very decided political triumph, convert the virtues of the measure into vices, and repudiate it be cause it does not subserve their selfishness or pander to their ambition. Rather than allow the minority of Manchester to be represented—rather than save them from hunting about in Worcestershire and Staffordshire for exponents of their opinions —rather than admit within the pale of the constitution persons who, how -1 ever wealthy, numerous, and respectable, have the mis fortune to differ from him, Mr. Bright will give a new lease to nomination and corruption, will withhold from the 101. county householders their franchise, and set all our hopes of reform on the uncertain hazard of futurity. In such a state of the public mind and of the House of Commons, it would be sheer folly to press on a mea sure the fate of which every one must see to be already certain. The very fairness and comprehensiveness of the bill has united against it men who never united before, and drawn Tory and Radical into an ill-omened alliance. These men are eager and earnest, for they fight for what they believe, in their narrow and short-sighted view of expediency, to be the interests of their cliques and parties. On the other hand are ranged those who have no party object to gain, but whose sole end has been the more faithful and honest representation of the people. With the assistance of the people the contest cannot be doubt ful for a moment ; without it, no one acquainted with the constitution of the House of Commons can hesitate as to the certainty of defeat. It is one of the effects of the more popular character impressed on the House of Commons that public opinion is omnipotent within its walls, but the same constitution has also made the house unwilling to move in matters of great national concern without the expression of that public opinion. It is pos sible that the precedent of 1832 has been too literally followed, and that measures which, when combined iis one bill, can only be carried by a burst of popular en thusiasm against the interested opposition they provoke, might, if embodied in several measures, have triumphed by force of reason and justice over divided opponents. But this has not been done. Reform has been intro duced in a shape in which nothing but popular enthu siasm could carry it, and that enthusiasm has not been roused. Between the present time and the period to which the measure is deferred the people of England will have the opportunity, if they have the inclination, to address their minds to the question, which now really rests with them. If they wish to rescue our representa tion from the scandal of nominated and corrupted boroughs, if they wish to deliver the counties from the degrading servitude in which they are held, if they wish to extend the franchise while they preserve the constitu tion, and show respect for labour without endangering property, they have nothing to do but to intimate their will, and the House of Commons, now so indifferent, will hasten to execute it. THE CORPORATION OF LONDON. REPORT OF THE CORPORATION TO THE CORPORATION INQUIRY COMMISSIONERS. The following report,. which w as agree d to b y t h e Court of Common Council, with suggestions for the con sideration of the Court, with the vi ew o f su b m i tt i ng them to the commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of the corporation, was on Monday handed in to the commissioners in Abingdon street. "To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Councilmen of the city of London, in Corn mon Council assembled. " We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, your com mittee of the whole Court of Common Council, to whom, on 9th day of February, it was referred to take the neces sary steps for carrying into effect the resolution of this honourable court in preparing and submitting for the con sideration of the commissioners suggestion s for the amend ment of the constitution of the corporation, and to report such suggestions for the approval of this court, do certify that we met on several days, and from time to time, to consider as well the provisions of the bill laid before Par liament in 1852, as also resolutions of the reform committee embodied in their report of June last, and likewise sundry suggestions by members of this court ; and having fully deliberated upon the same, we report to this court the fol lowing suggestions to be recommended to her Majesty's commissioners as consented to by this court. " 1. That the Election Acts 9f 11 Geo. 1., cap. 18 (ex cept the 17th and 18th sections), and the 2 and 13 Vic., cap. 94, be repealed. 2. That every male person of full ago, and not subject to any legal incapacity, who shall have occupied within the city of London, or the liberties thereof, for a period of a year and a day next previous to the Ist day of September in any year, either solely or jointly with any other person or persons, any house, warehouse, counting-house, office, chambers for business, or shop, and shall in the case of a sole occupation be rated to the police rate, in respect of such premises, in his own name, in or to an amount of not less than ten pounds per annum, or in the case of a joint occupation be rated in the several names of the occupiers on or to an amount which when divided by the number of occupiers shall give a sum of not less than 10/, per annum for each and every such occupier, shall, whilst continuing to occupy the same, be entitled to vote in any elec;,ion for alderman or common councilman, or ward officer of the ward in which such premises shall be situate, witi. provi sions as to the nature of the premises, the title t.) them, and the preparation of the lists of voters. "3. That every person entitled to vote as aforesaid, and who shall not have declared himself or have been declared to be bankrupt or insolvent, and shall not have taken or applied to take the benefit of any act for the relief of in solvent debtors, and shah not have made any composition with his creditors, shall be capable of being elected a com mon councilman for the ward in which the premises occu pied by him are situated ; or an alderman for any ward, or a sheriff of the city of London, any law, ctstom, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding. Provided always that if any person who may have declared himself or been declared to be bankrupt or insolvent, or may hove taken or applied to talc° the h--, e ft of any let for the relief of insolvent debtors, or rn y have made any composi,ion with his creditors, shall afterwards pay all his debts in full, such person shall be capable of being elected an alderman or a flora, or a common councilman, in the same planner COURT CIRCULAR. The Earl of Aberdeen had an audience of the Queen yesterday at Buckingham Palace. Prince Albert, attended by Captain the Honourable Dudley de Ros, visited the exhibition of the Ph3tographic Society, in Suf f olk -street. His Royal Highness afterwards rode on horseback. The Princess Royal and Princess Alice took a drive in an open carriage and four. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Hanoverian Minister (Count Kielmansegge), the Marquis of Breads,lbane Lady Fanny Howard, B aroness d e Sp e tb, the Earl and Lady ;,Constance Grosvenor, Sir G. Couper, Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Woodford, Baron Knesbeck, and Lord William Paulet, had the honour of dining with the Queen. The band of the Royal Horse Guards attended in the Palace during dinner, and played the following selection : Overture, " Brides of Venice" Fantasie Militaire Mereadante. Waltz, " Nymph of the Wave" War March of the Guards Selection, " Figaro" Galop, " Etna" D'Albert. The Hon. Matilda Paget and the Hon. Mary Seymour have succeeded the Hon. Eleanor Stanley and the Hon. Beatrice Byng, as the maids of honour in waiting to her Majesty. Mr. John Wood, chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing street. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. RETIREMENT OF REAR-ADMIRAL SIR F. BEAUFORT, K.C.B. We have to announce the retirement from his post of hydrographer to the Admiralty of Rear-Admiral Sir F. Beaufort, K.C.8., after a period of service, in which all his great faculties have been kept exercised to the ut most stretch, almost unprecedented. When it is known that he entered the navy in 1787, it will be readily con cluded that the gallant Admiral has reached that age when men fall into "the sere and yellow leaf." But not so with Sir Francis, for up to the present moment his great powers of mind and body are very little impaired, but still he has wisely given way to one of his pupils, who, younger in years, brings at the same time with him to the vacated office the great experience he has ac quired under so distinguished a director for a quarter of a century. Like most of the talented marine surveyors of the Royal service, Sir F. Beaufort ran a most gallant career during the war. He was in the Aquilon, 32, on the "glorious Ist of June," and while attached to the Phae ton, 38, commanded in succession by the latter officer and Captain James Nicoll Morris, was present in Corn wallis's celebrated retre a t, June 17, 1795 ; assisted, in the course of the same year, in driving on shore on Ile de R 6, and destroying L'Echou4, of 28 guns ; took part in the capture, March 10, 1796, of La Bonne Citoyenne, of 20 guns ; fought in a partial action, March 23, 1798, with the French 36-gun frigate L a Charente ; was in strumental, September 8 following, to the capture of La Flore, 36 ; and witnessed the taking, on various occa sions, of nine privateers and other armed vessels. On October 20, 1800, Lieut.-Beaufort, who had been pro moted to that rank May 10, 1796, and was now first of the Phaeton, performed an exploit of great spirit and gallantry, in boarding with the barge and two cutters under his orders, and capturing, after an obstinate resist ance, the Spanish polacre-rigged ship San Josef, carrying 14 brass guns, 34 seamen, and 22 soldiers, moored under the protection of five guns on the fortress of Fuengirola, near Malaga, and flanked by a French privateer. For his zeal, judgment, and determined bravery in this very dashing affair, in which the enemy had 19 men wounded, and the British one man killed and four wounded, Lieutenant Beaufort, who, forming one of the latter, had received a wound in the head and several slugs through his left arm and body, was, on the 10th of the following month, deservedly rewarded with a com mander's commission ; but for his severe sufferings was only awarded a pension of 451. 12s. 6d. During two years he was actively engaged in a survey of the coast of Karamania, in Asia Minor—an employment he was obliged to relinquish, in consequence of a desperate and nearly fatal gun-shot wound he received from the hands of a fanatical Turk, June 20, 1812. Captain Beaufort, who had previously contributed to the extirpation of a band of pirates from the southern part of the Morea, then returned home with convoy, and on Oct. 29 in the same year was paid off. His acceptance of flag rank took place Oct. 1, 1846. After 19 years active service afloat, chiefly during the war, he became hydrographer to the Admiralty in 1832, and from that period the country has had the great ad vantage of his devoted service in almost every depart ment of marine science, but especially with regard to our harbour s, shores, and rivers. Sir Francis carries with him into retirement the respect and esteem, and indeed, we may add, the affection of the officials of all grades at Whitehall. To his old colleagues of his own and other departments he is endeared by having, in con junction with them, worked out many an important measure, and overcome many a crooked and almost in surmountable difficulty.—Morning Herald. WOOLWICH, MARCH 2. APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenant William Wood (1845), to the St. George, 21, at Devonport. _ Clerk-in-Charge.—Edward S. Cooke (1849), recently serving in the Torch steam-vessel, serving as tender to the Herald surveying vessel, in the South Seas, to the Lightning steam-vessel, commissioned by Capt. Sulivan ; Edward Faulkner (1847), Secretary's Clerk on board the Impregnable, flag-ship, at Devonport, to the Janus, commissioned at Woolwich, by Lieutenant-Commander Colin C. A. Kane. Chaplains and Naval Instructors.—The Rev. George A. M. Litle, M.A. (1843), to the Monarch, 84, at Sheer ness ; the Rev. John M. Edward, 8.A., chaplain of 1825 and naval instructor of 1844, to the Conway, 26, fitting at Portsmouth for service as flag-ship at Cork. Clerks.—Adderley W. Chimmo (1848), from the Ma gicienne, 16, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, at Devonport, to the Royal George, 121, screw steam-ship at Devon port ; John Seldon (1848), from the Vulture paddle. wheel steam-frigate, at Devonport, to the Ajax, 58, screw steam-ship, at Cork ; Thomas C. H. Shears (1849), from the Amphion, 34, screw steam-frigate, to the Pro metheus paddle-wheel steam-sloop, at Devonport ; F. J. Lory (1852), from the Ajax, screw steam-ship, at Cork, to the Conway, 26, at Portsmouth, fitting for the Cork station. Clerks' Assistants.—H. P. Creak, to the James Watt, 91, screw steam-ship, at Devonport ; A. P. Cox, to the Magicienne, 16, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, at Devonport ; E. S. M. Power, to the Vulture, paddle wheel steam-frigate, at Devonport ; William Ward, to the Amphion, 34, screw steam-frigate ; James N. Robinson, to the Princess Royal, 91, screw steam-ship, at Portsmouth. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. Mate Eugene G. F. G. Visconti (1851), serving in the Amphion, 34, screw steam-frigate, is promoted to be Lieutenant, and appointed Lieutenant to the Pro metheus steam-sloop, at Devonport. Mate William S. Brown (1851), serving in the Cum berland, 70, flag-ship, on the North America and West Indies station, is promoted to be Lieutenant. Mate James B. Telfer (1851), serving in the Blen heim, 60, screw steam-ship, is promoted to be Lieute nant, and appointed Lieutenant to the Neptune, 120, at Portsmouth. Mate Richard S. Bateman (1851), serving in the Hydra, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, is promoted to be Lieutenant. Mate John B. Michell (1851), serving in the Princess Royal, 91, screw steam-ship at Portsmouth, is promoted to be Lieutenant, and appointed to the Gorgon paddle wheel steam-sloop at Portsmouth. Mate Charles G. Nelson (1851), serving in the In flexible steam-frigate in the Black Sea, and John Ken nedy E. Baird, serving i n t h e Sybille, 40, to be Lieutenants. Mate Frank Stanley (1852), from the Penelope, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, flag-ship on the west coast of Africa station, to the Archer, 14, screw corvette, at Woolwich. Wynne A. Banks, William Frederick Allen, and Russell Coombe, to be naval cadets. BOOKSELLERS' PROVIDENT INSTITUTION. - From the auditors' report, it appears that the amount of subscrip tions and donations during 1853 was 4521. 10s. 3d. ; cash drawn from general fund and interest, 4051. 14s. 11d. ; balance from previous year, 531. 7s. Bd. ; total receipts, 9111. 12s. 10d. The expenditure for the same period, in relief to distressed members of the trade, 6201. ; sundry expenses for printing, collectors' salary, and other chrges, 821. 16s. 10d. ; total, 702/. 16s. 10d., leaving a balance in the hands of the treasurer of 2081.165. 'The total amount of cash invested in the hands of the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt is ANA ss. 10d. 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