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PORT TENNANT PATENT STEAM FUEL and COAL COM is hereby that no Application for Shares in this Company will be received after WED NESDAY, the Bth day of February instant. By order of the Board. GEO. ANGUS, Secretary. London, 22, Moorgate-street, Feb. Ist, 1854. BRITISH INSTITUTION, Pall-m.all.—The GALLERY for the EXHIBITION and SALE of the WORKS 01 BRI FISH ARTISTS, will OPEN on MONDAY next, the Gth of February, and continue OPEN DAILY, from Ten till Five. Admis sion is. Catalogue 6d. GEORGE NICOL, Secretary. NAVIGATION G ENERAL STEAM COMPANY. Incorporated by Act of Parliament. 71, Lombard-street, London. Notice is Hereby Given. That the Half-yearly General Meeting of The Proprietors of this Company will be held at the Company's Office, 71, Lombard-street, on Tuesday. the 213th instant, at Two o'Clock pre :asely, pursuant to the Act of Parliament, to transact the usual busi ness, and to declare the dividend for the half-year ending the 31st December, 1853. MARTIN PRATT, Secretary. London, Feb. 1, 1854. PURSUANT to an Order of the High Court of Chancery, made in the matter of the es tate of JOHN TITE, late f No. 9, Homesdale, Lewisham, in the county of Kent, deceased, and in a cause •` Norris against Glodman." The creditors of the said John Tite (who died in or about the month of June, 1853), are by their solicitors, on or before the 4th day of March, 1854, to come in and prove their debts at the Chambers of Vice-Chancellor Sir Richard Torin Kindersley, No. 15, Old-square, Lincoln's-inn, in the county of Middlesex, or in default thereof they will be peremp torily excluded from the benefit of the said Order. Wednesday, the Bth 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 Ist day of February, 1854. CHAS. PUGH. Chief Clerk. WA L fERS and SON, 38, Basinghall-street. CONTRA.CT FOR RUM. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport Services, Somerset -place, 2d Feb., 1854. T" Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do Hereby Give Notice, that on THURSDAY, the 16th instant, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying' and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at DEPTFORD, When to be deliver( d. Gallons. Half in three weeks, and the re fUl& ..................50,000 mainder in three weeks after wards, or earlier if preferred by the party tendering. The Rum to be exempted from the Customs Duties. Tenders will be received from any firm for any portion of the total quantity not less than 2,000 gallons, Samples of the Rum to he sent in pints for each import mark, and the average strength of each mark ex to be stated, and not an average of different marks or strengths of several imports, and any parcel of Rum that is found not to be of the same quality, mark, or average strength, of the sample tendered and accepted will be rejected by the officers. The samples produced by persons whose tenders are not accepted are requested to be taken. away by them immediately after the con tract has been decided. The conditions of the revised contracts, to which particular atten tion is called, may be seen at the said office, at the cfflce of Com mander Bevis, at Liverpool, and of the Codector of Customs at Bris tol. No tender will be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed unless the party attends, or an agent in him, duly authorised in writing. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Rum," and must also be delivered at S nnerset•place, anl must be accom panied by a letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering in the sum of 201. per cent. on the value, for the due performance of the contracts. JAPANESE EXHIBITION. The FIRST DIRECT IMPORTATION from JAPAN is NOW OPEN for EXEIIBITION, at the Gallery of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, sa, Pall-Mall East, for a limited period, as the Society re quires the Gallery for their paintings. Admittance, 2s, mR. ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC, including the BERNESE OBERLAND and the SIMPLON, EVERY EVENING at Eight o'Clock, (except Saturday), and Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Mornings, at Two. Stalls, 35., which can be taken at the box ofllc , A every day from II to 4 ; area, 25.; gallery, is.—Mont Blanc, Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. EGYPTIAN HALL.-CONSTANTINOPLE is open TO-NIGHT at Eight, and Every Day at Half-past Two o'clock. Tho Lecture is delivered by Mr. CHARLES KENNEY, and has been written by Mr. ALBERT SMITH and Mr. SHIRLEY BROOKS. Admission, Is. ;Reserved Seats, 2s. LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLE Rooms, (Lessee, Cues. C. Lenaz/vr, Onslow-house, Fu,aam-road), The above Rooms are now OPEN FOR THE SEASON. and will continue open every evening, with LAURENT'S CELEBRATED BAND. Admission, Is. Doors open at half-past 8 Dancing to commence at 9 o'clock, and teradnate at half-past 11. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC READING AND CHESS-ROOMS, 5, CAVENDISII-sQUARE. Noblemen and Gentlemen are respectfully informed that the An nual subscription to these Rooms is reduced to Two Guineas, which includes the entrée to the Institution. R. I. LONGBOTTOM, Secretary. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. PATRON—H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT. FIRST EXHIBITION of MAGNIFIED PHOTOGRAPHIC PIC TURES, prepared by Monsieur Ferriere of Paris; also, COLOURED PIiOTOURAPHIC PICTURES, each Picture filling a Disc of One thousand superficial Feet. An ENTIRELY NEW SERIES of DISSOLVING VIEWS. LECTURES by Dr. BACFLOFFNEII on WILKINS'S NEW PATENT UNIVERSAL ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. LECTURE by J. 11. PEPPER, Esq., on SPONTANEOUS COMBUS TION, with Brilliant Experiments. Open Mornings and Evenings. Admission, Is.; Schools and Children under Ten years of age, Half-price. Annual Subscribers to the Institution are eligible to be elected Members of the Reading and Chess-Rooms, on paying an additional Guinea per Annum. HUNGARIAN PROMENADE CONCERTS. —Admission, s.—ROYAL MARIONETTE THEATRE, Adelaide-street, West Strand—Every EVENING, at Eight, by the renowned 'HUNGARIAN BAND, whose performances have created such intense interest throughout the leading European cities. The programme is varied nightly, and includes the finest compositions of ancient and modern masters, as well as Hungarian and other na tional Melodies, Mazurkas, Waltzes, Galops, and Quadrilles. Ka lozdy, Conductor. Soloists—Flngelhorn, Horanyi ; ciarlonette. M. Augarde; piano, Miss J. Warman. Vocalists The Misses Brougham.. Morning Performance, Wednesday and Saturday, at Three. PEOGRAHME FOB, THE DAY. PART I. Overture (ZamPa), Herold; Duett (Oh ! Wert thou in the Cauld Blasq), Mendelssohn, the Misses Brougham ; Solo, pianoforte (Car nival: de Venice), Miss Julia Warman ; Waltz (Eglinton), Kalozdy ; Song . (Yes, let me like a Soldier fall), H. Wallace, Mr. A. 11. Per Tear), cy ; D u o (Ernani), Verdi , solo , flu g elhosh, M. Besnak ; Song (The Kucl ten. MISS Elizabeth Brougham ; Polka (Bosphorus), Sarkezij ; Quadrille (The Wedding), Lichtenstein, PART 11. Se lection (La Sonnambula), Bellini ; Duett (La Gondola), H. Sma rt, the Misses Brougham ; Solo, pianoforte (Capriccio a la Sul* se), Miss Julia Warman ; Polka (Rocoeco), Kalozdy ; Song (Love, art I zhou waking or sleeping), Mr. A. 11. Percy ; Cavatina (Nabuco), Verd it ; Song (Light of my Soul), W. Aspell, Miss Josephine Bros igham ; Galop (Cuckoo) , arran g ed by T. Distill; Quadrille (Ma lta), Kalozdy. CUITEEN'S SPEECH. Nold;*** It was imagined by some of my subjects that it would be difficult to make up a speech at the opening of Parliament --foreign relations being in a rather sad condition, and some people havt rig made free with our home institutions ; but notwithstanding all t hese circumstances it becomes me to congratulate you on the vast amount of prosperity which is felt in all commercial circles—a prep fof which are the transactions of E. MOSES and SON ; they have been more industrious than ever in furnishing all my sub vedjects With the Best and Che a p est Dress, which has not only impro the Conti (don and comfort of my people, but is the most cogent reason for t• he peace and satisfaction which prevails throughout these great doms. Ni ghat are the intentions of the Emperor of the North it is difficult to d e termine, but the North itself is not capable of resisting the strong and fashionable Overcoats, Paletots, and Attire for all classes made by 1 MOSES and SoN, for it is the best and cheapest ever offered. It is a source of regret that many of the necessaries of life are char ged most enormous prices, but our loyal subjects, E. MOSES and Sow, have so reduced the Price of Clothing, Hosiery, Hats, Boots, and Shoes, &c., that the inconvenience of high-priced food is little felt I,y the great majority of my subjects who patronise their Este blist unents and its Branches, New Oxford- street, corner of Hart strotrt, Fargate. Sheffield, and Bradford, Yorkshire. I 'recommend to you the affairs of those in Australia, and trust you wiPl fit them with laws as E. Mons and SON Outfit them with Clothes anti every other article required for that prosperous country ; and as nit; business is attended to with the greatest industry, care, ana experience by E. MOSES and Sox, either wholesale or smaller parcels may be selected at any moment. I trust you will continue to ii nitate their business-like example, as you recollect so well their nail is, places of business, and plans of trade. C AUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the public against imposition, having learned that the untradesman-like fah; :hood of " Being connected with their Establishment," or " It's the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for obi 'ions reasons, they beg to state that they have 0 CONNEXION WITH ANT OTHER HOIISE IN OIL OUT OF LONDON, except their own Establishments, as follows : L sndon City Establishment, 154, 155. 156, and 157, Wineries, 83, 84; 15, and 66, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. j,. sndon West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1, 2 and 3, Hart-street, all communicating. radford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 and 20, Bridge-street. i Sheffield Branch, 36. Fargate. lolonial Branch, Melbourne, Australia. I Terchant Tailo. s Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and sh, , e Makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. / . IiPORTANT.—ShouId any article not give satisfaction, it will be i,anged if desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned wit I] out hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest T prit tram w hich no abatement can be made. lie Establishments are closed from sunset on Fridays to sunset on • >aturdays, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock. ne w " The Epitome of Comfort and Economy," Contain ing full lists of prices, oar system of self-measurement, &c., &c., ma y be had on application, or post-free. .1- handsome Almanac for the year ending 1854 can be had, gratis on application. Qui Si pada Italian°. Ici l'on pane FrallCais. Aaua b a bla Espana Flier sr-richt man Deotach. MEDICAL ADVICE ON AND THE SECRET IN FIRMITIEii OF Y DR. SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Do ctor of Medicine, and Matriculated Member oftithneoqUnitaiivemrsietaiycoail 1 Ildinburg, Honorary Member of the London _ C P ., kc. lociety, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, & -MAY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on the various disorders of the nervous and genheireahtivheasvyestpermo., r es:lilting from juvenile irregularities and excesses, w kw:eel more misery In youth, degradation in manhood , and reina tut e decay at all stages of life, than perhaps any other classpof dis as es known to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience lin the treatmen t of these diseases has proved that there are in exist encit secret causes of self - a c q uired miseries and disappointed hopes in ,exisence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervou Debility, various forms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfr u itf u l Marti .ages, Impotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their ,endless modifications owe their almost entire origin. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are principles of personal management which cannot be violated without nvurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed We heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties TD ay be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, sa id how the evil and its consequenc es maybe avoided, and above all, a tat there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional de range ment to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. DOCTOIt LA'MEET has for a long series of years been engaged in an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate com plaints, and is the only legally qualified Physician who, regardless of the taunts and envy of the hypocritical and mock-modest, has had e,he confidence, through the medium of the public press, to direct sittention to these enormous evils, from which no grade of society is free. In selecting this department of practice, he has been amply rewarded by the great success that has attended his efforts in the treatnient of these cases, which are too generally confided to the ctre of unqualified and ignorant empirlcs, who, with their pirated p uulications, assumed fcreign names and titles, and pretended virtues el, the ir patent nostrums, have inflicted serious injury on those who have been induced to place faith in their pretensions. .t home for consultation daily from Eleven till Two, and from six till Eight. All letters must contain the fee of U., and advice and Msdi,lines can be forwarded to any initials or address. It i 3 desirable that patients wishing to consult Dr. LAIIERT hould Ilret obtain a copy of his work on SELF•PRESERVATION. Medical Treatise ,illustrated osophy of Marriage and Nervous and Generative Debility, by fifty-coloured engravings, and des cribing in detail the various disorders resulting from secret habits and excesses. The perusal of this treatise will assist in the correct description of their cases, and may be had, price 2s 6d, in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, or German, of Messrs. Piper Brothers and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Mann, 39 , cornhill ; Storie, Titchborne-street, Haymarket ; or free go 9 Wren from the Author's rest by post fir forty-two stamPs, to 11 007, Bigprosp-ovraas IMPEL, }_ C. No. 19,145.] Just published, price 45., free by post, 5s , PHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCHES into the Causes of Nervous Debility and Gentto-Urinary Maladies, 'spermatorrhma rationally considered, with unanswerable Remarks on the empirical manner these Diseases are treated; being a Guide to Health, Long Life, and Happiness. By MEDICITS. Sherwood, Piper, and Co., 83, Paternoster-row. Just Published, T HE LAWS of WAR AFFECTING COM MERCE and SHIPPING. By H. BYERLEY THOMSON, Esq., 8.A.., Barrister-at-Law. Price ls. 6d. Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill. Just published, Bvo., in cloth, price 5 5., by post fr ee 63. THE PATHOLOGY and RATIONAL TREAT MENT of STRICTURE of the URETHRA, in all its Varie ties and Complications. With Practical Observations on the Use and Abuse of Urethral Instruments. The whole illustrated by numerous cases, showing that this disease may be successfully treated by means at once simple and sate, even in its most inveterate and apparently intractable forms. By F. B. COURTEICAY, M.R.C.S.E. "We believe Mr. Courtenay's experience in the treatment of stricture during the last 20 years has equalled, if indeed it has not surpassed, that of any of his contemppraries, and we know of no man to whose care we would with greater confidence entrust the treatment of a severe case of stricture of the urethra."—Medical Circuity, July 27, 1853. H. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street. CIIRRENT HISTORY.—The DAILY PAPERS SUPPLIE D throughout the Wire west-end dis tricts, either for reading or keeping. Clubs, reading societies, and regimental messes contracted with. All the business of an adver tising agent promptly executed by HENRY WETTONE, newsman, 213, Oxford-street. pURSSELL' S. —BALL SUPPERS and WE DOING BREAKFASTS SUPPLIED in the first style; public breakfasts, dinners, and promenade suppers supplied by con tract ; a large stock of bride cakes for immediate use, from one to twenty guineas each ; a handsome cake for five gaheas, packed and sent to any part of the country if required, and warranted to keep 12 months.—Jorm E. PoassaLL, 162, Begent-street , and 20, Ludgate- MU, only. L ONDON LIFE ASSOCIATION. Instituted 1806. (Mice, 81, KING WILLIAM-STREET. PRESIDENT—CHARLES FRANKS, Esq. VICE-PRESIDENT—JOHN BENJAMIN HEATH, Esq. This Society is essentially one of Mutual Assurance, in which the Premiums of its Members are reduced after seven years. ,The rate of reduction of the Premiums for the last year was 70 per sent., leaving less than one-third of the original Premium to be paid. The Society also undertakes other descriptions of Assurance, in which the Assured do not become Members, and having ceased to allow any commission to Agents, the Society has been enabled to reduce the Premiums for this class of Assurances to the following very low rates : Annual Premiums for the Assurance of £lOO. Age £a. d. Age £a. d. Age £s. d. 20 1 13 7 35 2 7 6 50 4 1 2 25 1 17 0 40 2 15 5 55 5 1 0 30 2 1 5 45 3 6 0 60 6 5 10 The Court of Directors are authorised by the Deed of Settlement ro advance money on the security of Policies in this Association. EDWARD DOCKER, Secretary• NEW DISCOVERY IN TEETH. MR. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52, FLEET-STREET, has introduced an ENTIRELY NEW DESCRIPTION of ARTIFICIAL TEETH, fixed without springs, wires, 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 be found superior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not require the ex traction of roots, or any painful operation, and will suppart and pre serve teeth that are loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth rendered sound and useful in mas tication. 52, FLEET-STREET.—At home from Ten till Five. MORISON and HYG:EISM. From our own knowledge of patent medicines, we may safely assert that the consumption of them has increased tenfold in this coup. ry since Mr. MorPon promulgated his system. Pills, under new names, are starting day after day. Can there be a stronger proof of the truth of the Morisonian system than this fact, and like wise that the vendors, in order to popularise their pills, describe them as being of a purgative quality, and embody in their :advertisements (with which the public press is now teeming) scraps from the " Mo • risoniana !" A question then arises for the serious consideration of the public, whether the vendors strictly adhere to the Morisonian system In its integrity, and whether they are in possession of a me dicine which will effectually answer the main purse, that of cleans ing the blood ?—BRITISII COLLEGE OF HEpoALTII, New-road, London. TRIESEMAR, protected by Royal Letters Patent of England, and secured by the Seals of the Ecole de Pharmacie de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. The long continuance of most Maladies arising from impurities, while it tends to render detection more certain, and thus frequently to embitter the domestic hearth, also serves to excite 'feelings of dis appointment, and to induce lowness of spirits, and other sensations of a most painful kind. The TRI ESE MAR effectually, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely eradicates all traces of these Diseases, to whatever stage they may have advanced, p3ssess ing at the same time the manifest advantages of being utterly devoid of taste or smell, and of all nauseating qualities. It may lay on the toilet table without its us.. being suspected. Sold in tin cases at 1 Is. cacti, free by post, 2s. extra, divided into separate doses, as administered by Valpeau, Lallemaml, Roux, &e., &c. This quantity is sufficient for any case, however virulent or protracted.—To be had Wholesale and Retail at Barclay and Sons, 95, Farringdon-street ; Johnston, 68, Cornhill; Hannay and Co., Oxford-street, London. PAINS in the BACK, GRAVEL, LUMBAGO, RHEUMATISM, GOUT, INDIGESTION, FLATULENCY, NERVOUSNESS, DEBILITY, &c.—Dr. DE ROOS' COMPOUND RENAL PILLS, as their name Renal (or the Kidneys) indicates, are a most safe and efficacious remedy for the above dangerous com plaints, discharges of any kind, retention of the urine, and diseases of the kidneys, bladder, and urinary organs generally. For depression of spirits, incapacity for society, study, or business, confusion, giddi ness, drowsiness, nervousness, and insanity itself, when arising from or combined with urinary diseases, they are vequalled. Price Is. lid., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., I ls., and 335. per Box, through all Medicine Vendors, or sent (free) on receipt of the amount in postage stamps, by Dr. De Roos, 35, Ely-place, Holborn, London. At home for con sultation daily from 1 l till 4, Sunday excepted. Advice and Med i cine, .£l. GR AVESEND S TAR PACKETS. No other Packets call at the Grays, Greenhithe, and Purileet Piers. The Packets call at the Piers as underlined (weather permitting) FROM TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND. WEEK DAYS. SUNDAYS. --- ; — V •.. 4 :4 tii 4A .4 4.1 J:i 0 .c 1 5.1, Terrace E, c P- e 1 ,; : l s• Time. ti'.) ,2 1 SI $ Pier. i 8 a . ) , p., r< a 8 g E , g a '64 __ ____ __ ________ __ __ 8% .tBt4 ii% i. 9% 11% _ - 5 3% *,, 5 Saturdaysonly. 1 ------- Direct Trains from the Boats marked t Omnibuses from Fenchurch-street Station to all parts of London every quarter of an hour. BRUNSWICK WHARF, BLACK WALL, on the arrival of the fol lowing Trains from the Fenchurch-street Station. WENK DAYS. SUNDAYS. I !, : )=', . g , 0 4i , , 4 , 41 . .-. Fen- 15 i, g; .1' r Fen- 5 ti' 8 - . . a . ~7.. f church . 1- . :, o .2 , ,',5 church 8,!:t o ot . Li.) Street ' 7 4 8 = tt d 7 Street. 4 2 0 ■ 23 5 ~,,,, a '- 4 8 o c.. 4 ''' 8 z —— - —.— 14 10% 11 1214 - —.— 24 214 3 — 1 5 5 , n direct. Fore Cabin. Saloon. To or from Gravesend and London • • .... 10d. .. is. 2d. Gravesend and Blackwall or Woolwich Bd. •• Os. 10d. Between Gravesend and Intermediate Piers.. 6d. •• Os. Bd. BOAT TICKETS.—TweIve Months, 51. Os.; Six Months, 3/. Os.; Three Months, 21. Os.; to be had of the Collectors on board the Packets; or of Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend. N0v.117, 1853. Passages marked • are THIRD EDITION.—WITH ADDITIONS. Just published, Bvo., in cloth, price 55., by post free, ss. 6d. ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORREEA, with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors n relation to the Treatment and Cure of the Imputssant and Sexual Hypochondriacs, Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. 'la which is added, an E 3SAV on SEXUAL DEBILITY, by the Editor. "Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practi cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall letect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his ..Ower to correct." —London Medical Gazette. May 30, 1851. The tribe of 'Quiet Sympa thisers,' and ' Medical Friends,'are mercilessly exposed ; and if this book could and its way into the hands of those who stiffer from the com plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would tie 'aved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— much noney --This volume is well qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to placs the treat ment upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, likely to do much good."—Medical Circular, June 16, 1852. London : H. Ralliere, 219, Regent-street. ON THE SECRET CAUSES OF SELF-ACQUIREDAND DISAPPOINTED HOPES. MISERIES Languages—Ftttleth l Edition. D OF DISEASE. CONTAINING n Six TR T E H R E E aI S R I D L T E r N o T N a FRIFRIE ND PREVENTION illustrated by One Hundred Anatomical Coloured Engravings and , price 2s. 6d., by post, from the Establishment, 3a. 6d. in stamps, New Edition, enlarged to 200 p C a a ge e s s. Medical Work on produced by rTHE SILENT FRIEND, e lou ve , h o tt r y th abuse of Pre the exhaustion and physical decay of the system, excessive indulgence, the consequences of infect lotion, fol .oa3and L. disqualifications i which mercury, with ovribstehrvdaitrieetonens 2sfoiran.thiaegetr and the t t h h e e prevent it. Illustrated by 100 Coloured Engravings. B PERRY and co., Consulting Surgeons, 19, Berners-stre y et t,Loudon. Published by Sherwood and Co. 23, Gor don,Paiernosotredi- -68, Cornhill. :ow, and sold by Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; o, 146, Leadenhall-street ; 95, Farringdon-street ;W. Sutton, Io, Bow Church -yard ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ;R. Johnson, 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 effects on the system, producing mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative incapacity. Illustrated by 10 Explanator3 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 re i n f e ction is obvia a t s ed. vention of Disee by a s i m ple application, by which the danger o P f PART V. is devoted to the consideration of marriage and its duties. The causes of unproductive union are also consinto idered, and the whole subject critically and philosophically inquired . 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' , .r i o --..'5,.. • • Ar," ------ 7 - • - 14.'="-= .....__.---- -..-- ' ./N,' - ,‘ • • - -.- [PRICE SD. teotion of the Ottoman territory and flag against any aggression or act of hostility, I apprise your Excellency of it, with the view of preventing any collision which might prejudice the friendly relations existing between my Government and yours—relations which we are de sirous of preserving, and which doubtless you also wish ;o maintain, " I should be happy to learn that your Excellency, animated by the same pacific intentions, has been pleased to give to the commander of the Russian forces in the Black Sea instructions intended to prevent any event which might compromise peace." NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 2. An Admiralty order has been promulgated in this dockyard to-day to the effect that all men now earning 3s. per day and under, who cannot be placed on task and job, are to have an additional sum of N. per week, provided they properly exert themselves. The newly-raised men were exercised this morning on board the flag-ship Victory in gunnery and seamanship. They fired several rounds from the starboard battery. These men are daily drilled in the use of small arms, and exercised in reefing and furling sails. The Illustrious, 72, Capt. Harris, was brought under the shears this afternoon and had her jurymasts taken out. She will ship those of a 36-gun frigate, and com mence rigging forthwith. The Talbot, 26, was masted this morning, and a party of riggers have been set to work to jury rig her and take her round to Deptford, where she will be fitted as a storeship for the Arctic regions. The Blenheim, 60, screw guard-ship, Capt. the Hon. F. T. Pelham, is to be completed with all despatch and to make up her crew to full war complement. The Colossus, 80, has had all the copper stripped off her stern, ready for conversion to a screw-ship. She will be quickly got out of hand. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 2. Rear-Admiral the Hon. R. S. Dundas, one of the Lords of the Admiralty, with Assistant-Adjutant S. R. Wesley, Lieutenant-Colonel Royal Marines, arrived here by express train this afternoon ; they dined this evening at Pert Admiral Ommaney's, in company with General Sir Harry Smith, Commander of Forces in the western district ; Colonel Commandant Coryton, of the Royal Marines ; Captains Elliott, Ramsay, Love, Hall, Sir F. Nicholson, Kingcome, and Codrington, and all the captains in command of ships in commission. Orders were received to-day to get ready for sea, with every despatch, the ships Edinburgh, Hogue, and Magicienne. The Edinburgh will go out of harbour on Saturday. Her Majesty's surveying-vessel Saracen, 6, Master- Commander John Richards, was towed out of harbour yesterday. She is bound to China. The screw steam-ship Nile, 91, has been masted, and warped to the jetty. She is to be fitted immediately. The screw steamship Algiers, 90, was taken into dock yesterday to be coppered. The sloop Mariner, 12, has been warped to the jetty, preparatory to receiving her commission. 1 / 2 . B. Martin, C. 8., S. Lushington, D. Bethune, R. Fitzroy, and other ling and services recommend them .tion, have been altogether passed • Sir George Back is an Arctic voyager, and has served 23 years afloat. He saw some gallant service as a mid shipman, and was five years a prisoner of war. As a captain he commanded the Terror bomb, and proceeded on an Arctic expedition, but was driven back, and was miraculously preserved ; since which he has not served afloat. Captain Lapidge has served 32 years afloat, from 1803 to 1812, in gallant affairs, during the war, including the expeditions to Copenhagen and Walcheren. As a com mander, he is well known as having commanded the Ringdove, 16, on the north coast of Spain, and for his gallantry at the defence of Portugalette and the siege of Bilboa, when the Carlists were defeated. His last ser vice was in command of the Cyclops, steam-frigate. 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Id., 2s. 9d., and in family packets lie. ea3h. ***None fire genuine without the English Government Stamp fixed round the sides of each box. ing the advice of those two Powers, to whom we ought not to be attached, especially if we consider that the nature of their constitution differs from that of ours, which on the contrary, resembles that of Russia and Austria." All this, coupled with the alarming rumours put into circulation, and the visible military preparations of Russia, created some uneasiness in the British Cabinet ; but so emphatic were the assurances of the Czar that credit was given to his declarations, and Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, who at this period re turned to his post with special instructions, was charged only to mediate between the contending Powers, and to dispose the Sultan to prudent re solutions. The object, in short, was simply to satisfy what the British Government and it its Ambassador admitted to be the reasonable re quirements of Russia, without offence to the dignity of France. That there might be some difficulty was foreseen ; but M. de Lavalette had been recalled, the tone of the French Court was exceedingly temperate, and it was hoped all might be arranged. No idea was yet enter tained that Prince Menschikoff's requisitions would include any such demand as the Porte would be compelled to resist, and the Western Powers support it in resisting. There was still no European question. All the difference was between the Greek and Latin Churches—between France and Russia. At the beginning of April Lord Stratford got back to his post, and found the plot thickening. It was not that the origi t ual dispute seemed to preclude hopes of settlement, but that the " ulte rior" proposals of Prince Menschikoff were begin ning to be perceptible. Lord Stretford informs ou.i Government that he found the Turkish Minis try in a combination of " alarm, seeking for ad vice, and reluctance to tell the whole case frankly;" but it gradually appeared that the Prince had made a demand for a secret treaty, which, over and above the particular question of the Holy Places, was to define certain general relations between Russia and the Porte ; and that he had impera tively desired of the Turkish Ministers that none of these proposals might be permitted to transpire, Nevertheless, although Lord Stratford's sagacity already discerned the probable result, and though he suggested that, if the demands of the projected treaty " should, on examination, be found to carry with them that degree of influence over the Chris tian subjects of the Porte in favour of a foreign Power which might eventually prove dangerous, or seriously inconvenient, to the exercise of the Sultan's legitimate authority ;" they might be declined in favour of a less perilous arrange ment, he took up no position of antagonism against Russia. The advice which, "at their repeated solicitation," he gave the Turkish Ministers was, to keep the question of the Holy Places separate from the ulterior proposals, to avoid entering upon the latter, till the former had been ad justed, and then to consider them on their proper merits. He further " expressed his opinion that it would not be reasonable or prudent for them to disoblige the Emperor of Russia in matters which might be conceded without "any serious objection," and he offers these remarkable observa tions '•—" The personal character of the Emperor Nicholas, his obligations in common with the other great Powers of Christendom, and his frequent de clarations of respect for the independence of the Turkish empire, exclude the suspicion of any at tempt to carry his point by mere arbitrary force. He lies under the restraint of moral as well as poli tical considerations. He could not throw off the mask, and compel the Porte to accept, on no dis tinct grounds of treaty, propositions materially affecting the Sultan's relations with a large portion of his subjects, and consequently, to a certain de gree, his position in the general scale of power, without exposing himself to severe censure, and risking interests of the most important character. Were it, however, to turn out, contrary to all rea sonable calculation, that his ambassador was autho rised to proceed to extremities, the Porte would still have the resource of reserving its compliance until it had consulted with those of its allies who, together with Russia, were parties to the treaty of 1841." This, therefore, was the state of things at the commencement of April. Though Prince Men schikoff had alarmed the Porte by his demonstra tions, and though his views began to be apparent, the British Ambassador was still incredulous as to his actual purpose. Neither Lord Stratford, in deed, nor any of his colleagues, had been furnished with instructions for the contingency actually im pending ; the general negotiation was still directed to the original question of the Holy Places, and on the 22d of April the British Ambassador was en abled to report this dispute as virtually adjusted—a fact which Count Nesselrode himself, in a conver sation with our Minister at St. Petersburgh, pre sently acknowledged. Still there was, "in more respects than one, a mystery hanging over the in tentions of Russia," and well there might be ; for a few days afterwards, when the question of the Holy Places had been conclusively settled, Prince Menschikoff presented to the Turkish Government that celebrated Note which created the subsequent embroilments, and which may end in European war. To the character and circumstances of this transaction the reader shall be introduced to-mor row. In the meantime, as public curiosity will naturally be directed not only to the history of the negotiations but also to its more recent develop ments, we reprint in full some of the more remark able documents in its last phase : " No. 344. "THE EARL OF CLARENDON TO LORD COWLEY. " Foreign-office, Dec. 24, 1853. " My Lord,—Count Walewski has communicated to me the important despatch of M. Drouyn de Lhuys which forms the subject of your Lordship's despatch of the 16th inst. "That despatch has received the attentive considera tion of her Majesty's Government, whose views, as it must be superfluous for me to inform your Excellency, are in entire accordance with those of the French Govern ment upon the unjustifiable course that Russia has throughout pursued on the Eastern question, and the absolute necessity of preventing the recurrence of a disas ter such as that which has lately taken place at Sinope. " That necessity is, in fact, so evident that her Ma jesty's Government did not doubt that the combined fleets had at once been sent into the Blaok Sea, and, as your Excellency has already been made aware by my despatch of the 17th instant to Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, her Majesty's Government did not consider that any fresh instructions were called for on the occa sion, because, special instructions having already been given to protect the territory of the Sultan from attack, they must be faithfully and effectually carried out. " Despatches have since been received from Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, by which it appears that on the 4th the fleets were about to be sent into the Black Sea, either to clear Sinope of the Russians or to protect the coast of Turkey generally, and that the Russian Admiral at Sebastopol was to be apprised of the service on which they would be employed ; and, thereupon, I have con veyed to his Excellency the approval of her Majesty's Government, "In my despatch to Lord Stratford of the 20th of December, I have also stated that it was only by obtain ing a complete command of the Black Seathat the policy of the English and French Governments could be effec tually carried out, and the recurrence of disasters such as that at Sinope could be prevented. " These instructions are in accordance with the in structions that Count Walewski told me would be ad dressed to the French Ambassador at Constantinople ; but the French Government now prepose to us in addi tion that the Ottoman flag, as well as the Ottoman terri tory, should be protected by the combined fleets, and that all Russian vessels, other than merchantmen, met in the Black Sea, should be required to return to Sebas topol. 'Her Majesty's Government having clearly an nounced that the recurrence of a disaster such as that at Sinope must be prevented, and that the command of the Black Sea must be secured, would have been content to leave the manner of executing those instructions to the discretion of the Admirals, but they attach so much importance not alone to the united action of the two Governments, but to the instructions addressed to their respective agents being precisely the same, that they are prepared to adopt the specific mode of action now proposed by the Government of the Emperor. " Instructions to that effect will accordingly be ad dressed to Lord Stratford. "Even if the Governments of England and France were not in honour bound to protect the Sultan, they could not, in the interest of humanity, tolerate that such scenes of horrible carnage as that of which Sinope has been the theatre, should be renewed, and for both these objects they must exercise complete command in the Black Sea ; but they will at the same time render a signal service to the Porte ; and her Majesty's Govern ment consider it indispensable that no naval operation should be undertaken by the Turkish fleet without the previous knowledge and sanction of the British and French Admirals, who cannot be made responsible for operations of which they may be kept in ignorance, or of which they may disapprove. Nor can her Majesty's Government think it just, so long as England and France are not actually at war with Russia, that the combined fleets should aid and protect the Turkish forces in acts of aggression upon the Russian territory, while the Russian fleet is prevented from repelling such attacks, or conveying the means necessary for the de fence of that territory. " Her Majesty's Government have not hesitated to adopt the course which the honou r and di gnity of this country prescribe, but at the same time they do not dis guise from themselves that it may at no distant period involve England and France in war with Russia, and they consider it equally for the honour and dignity of the two Powers not to allow the peace of Europe to be dependent upon that national spirit in Turkey, which, however admirable in itself, and however useful against the aggressor, is now evidently beyond the control of the Turkish Government. Her Majesty's Government would therefore propose to the Government of the Em peror that, in making known to the Porte the course which the two Governments are about to pursue, the English and French Ambassadors should at the same time be instructed to demand, in the event of the answer to the proposal recently sent from Vienna having been unsatisfactory, that the terms on which a treaty of peace between Russia and Turkey shall be negotiated may be left to the decision of England and France, on the dis tinct understanding that nothing shall be proposed on her part to which she has already officially objected. " I communicated this proposal on the 22d to Count Walewski, who engaged to refer it to his Government, and his Excellency has this day informed me that it has been entirely approved of by M. Drouyn de Lhuys.— I am, &c., " No. 345. " CLARENDON." "Tat EARL OF CLARENDON TO SIR G. H. SEYMOITR. " Foreign-office, Dec. 27, 1853. "Sir,—Authentic information, dated the 9th inst., from Constantinople, has reached her Majesty's Govern ment, that on the 30th ult. a Turkish squadron at anchor in the harbour of Sinope was completely destroyed by an overwhelming Russian force ; that 4,000 Turks perished ; and that the survivors, not exceeding in num ber more than 400, who have been brought away by English and French vessels, were all more or less wounded. "The feelings of horror which this dreadful carnage could not fail to create have been general throughout all ranks and classes of her Majesty's subjects in this country. " The circumstances which have attended this disas trous affair are of the greatest importance, and with respect to them it is necessary that there should be no misunderstanding between her Majesty's Government and the Cabinet of St.• Petersburgh. "The object with which the combined fleets were sent to Constantinople was not to attack Russia, but to defend Turkey ; and the English and French Ambassa dors and Admirals were informed that the fleets were not to assume an aggressive position, but that they were to protect the Turkish territory from attack. " On the 27th of October you informed Count Nessel rode of the nature of those instructions, and the service upon which her Majesty's fleet would be employed ; and her Majesty's Government hoped that that communica tion, made in no unfriendly spirit to Russia, would have sufficed to prevent an attack upon a Turkish harbour which is Turkish territory. "Had the Turkish squadron been about to make a descent upon Secoum-Kalil, as is stated in a despatch from Prince Menschikoff to Prince Gortschakoff, which there is every reason to consider authentic ; if it had been fallen in with and destroyed by the Russian fleet off the Russian coasts in Asia, her Majesty's Government, however much they might have lamented such a diastrous loss of life, would ha ve regarded it as an ordinary though unfortu nate casualty of war. But the Sultan's squadron was destroyed while at anchor in a Turkish harbour, and where, consequently, the English and French fleets, if they had been present, would have protected it, and would have repelled the attack. " The Russian Admiral, however, must have acted upon the orders of his Government, which Government was well aware of the instructions which were to guide the British and French Admirals ; and her Majesty's Government are compelled therefore to consider that it was not the Turkish squadron alone that was deliber ately attacked in the harbour of Sinope. " The events of the last six months, and the proceed ings of the English and French Governments, afford abundant proof of their desire to maintain friendly re lations with Russia, and to effect an honourable settle ment of the difference between that Power and the Porte ; but the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh has greatly erred if it has mistaken forbearance for indifference, or has calculated upon any want of firmness in carrying out a policy which those Governments have adopted with a due regard to their own and to European in terests. " Her Majesty's Government have not abandoned the hope that peace may be reestablished, for they are unwilling to believe that any insurmountable obstacle can exist to carrying out the declared objects of Russia in a manner compatible with the dignity and the independence of the Porte ; and it would, therefore, have been a matter of sincere satisfaction to her Majesty's Government that the combined fleets should have re mained at anchor in the Bosphorus while negotiations were pending. But this has been rendered impossible by the attack on the Turkish squadron at Sinope. The intentions of the English and French Governments, which were long since announced to the Porte, must be firmly and faithfully executed. For this purpose, although with no hostile design against Russia, it is essential that the combined fleets should have the com mand of the Black Sea ; and the necessary instructions have accordingly been addressed to the Ambassadors and Admirals of England and France. " In making known to Count Nesselrode that such instructions have been sent, you will govern yourself by the language of this despatch, and you will inform his Excellency that, in order to prevent the recurrence of disasters such as that at Sinope, the combined fleets will require, and, if necessary, compel, Russian ships-of-war to return to Sebastopol, or the nearest port ; and it is considered that the Turkish fleet should undertake no aggressive operations by sea so long as matters remain in their present state. " I am, &c., " CLARENDON." " No. 370. " LORD STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE TO THE EARL OF CLARENDON. (Received January 4, 1854.) " Constantinople, Dec. 17, 1853. "My Lord,—l received yesterday from Lord West morland, in pursuance of your lordship's instructions, a collective note addressed to the Porte by the represen tatives of the Four Powers at Vienna, acting together in the authorised capacity of a resuscitated conference. " The sealed letter directed to Redschid Pasha, and containinc , the note in question, reached me at the same time with . a request that I would personally present it to his Highness. accompanied by my colleagues the French Ambassador, the Internuncio, and the Prussian Envoy. " This note, suggesting the expediency of an early pa cification, and inviting the Porte to state the terms on which it is disposed to negotiate with Russia, would, I conceive, be of questionable advantage under other cir cumstances; but I do not hesitate to express my clear conviction that it could not be delivered to the Porte at this juncture without unsettling our prospects of peace, and rendering the acceptance of the projet received on the 15th by Redschid Pasha from me and my colleagues still more precarious and difficult than it is even now. Such is also the opinion of my colleagues. The terms of the note are, doubtless, most considerate and flatter ing to the Turkish Government, but they afford, at the same time, to much encouragement to the pretensions of the war party, that the communication of them could hardly fail to strengthen that interest, aad to render a successful negotiation more remote. At all events, by reserving its delivery, we retain in our hands an occasion for reopening the question of negotiation in the case of our pending proposal being declined. Such is, there fore, the course which I have determined to pursue, and I trust that it will meet with your lordship's approval. —I have, &c., "STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE." (No. 411.) "SIR G. H. SEYMOITR TO THE EARL OF CLARENDON. (Received January 20.) " St. Petersburg, Jan. 11, 1854. "Yesterday, at an early hour, Count de Reizet, the First Secretary of the French Legation, reached St. Petersburgh with the instructions for General Castel- I bajac, which we have been anxiously expecting for the last six days. " M. de Reizet had been detained on the road by the heavy snows which have fallen lately in Belgium and Germany. "In the course of the same morning I called upon General Castelbajac, who was good enough to show me the two despatches which he has received, together with a copy of the instructions sent to Admiral Hamelin. " With regard to the instruction sent to General Cas telbajac, I need only say that it is the exact counterpart of that addressed to me by your lordship in your despatch of December 27. The one might have been substituted for the other. The only differences which I could observe are, that the French Minister is desired to con cert with his English colleage before communicating to Count Nesselrode the substance of the instructions sent to the allied fleets at Constantinople ; that he is empowered either to read the despatch to his Excellency, or to state to him its substance ; and that no expression is to be found in the French despatch like that with which your lordship's despatch concludes It is considered that the Turkish fleet should undertake no a ggressive opera tions by sea, so long as matters remain in their present state.' - "As your lordship does not authorise me to read your despatch to tne Chancellor, General Castelbajac has de termined not to communicate his instruction to his Ex cellency, but merely to give its substance, and that this may be done faithfully we made notes of the points upon which particular stress is to be laid. "Before separating, General Castelbajac and myself agreed that we should, without loss of time, write seve rally to Count Nesselrode to say that, having a commu nication to make to him, we beg to be informed on what day, and at what hour, it will suit his convenience to receive us. "This I did as soon as I returned home." LETTER TO BE ADDRESSED BY THE BRITISH AND FRENCH ADMIRALS TO THE RUSSIAN ADMIRAL AT SEBASTOPOL. _ _ ___ (Translation.) "The squadron under my orders being on th e po i n t of appearing in the Black Sea, in concert with that of France, and the object of this movement being the pro- THE TURKISH BLUE-BOOKS. No. I.—THE ORIGINAL DISPUTE. By the aid of the complete documentary evidence on the Turkish question now at length presented to Parliament, we shall be enabled to place before the public a clear and connected history of all the important transactions connected with the present rupture. There is little doubt that the subject will receive ample discussion; but as Parliamentary debates are necessarily obscure to the general reader without some independent knowledge of the facts involved, we fulfil a public duty by reducing the voluminous correspondence of Ministers and diplo matists into a form more practically useful. The whole narrative will be found divisible into two distinct, though unequal, portions, defined by the period at which Prince Menschikoff made his fa mous demands upon the Porte. Up to that time the question at issue was between France and Russia exclusively; afterwards it became a contest between Russia and Europe. The first disturbance of the status quo in the East originated in a dispute between the Greek and Latin churches respecting certain prerogatives in the Holy Places. Into the particulars of this dispute it is quite unnecessary to enter, both be cause they were of little significance in themselves, and because the differences have been adjusted. We may simply observe that the Latins, repre sented by the French Ambassador at the Porte, had obtained from the Sultan certain concessions, conceived by the Greeks, who were represented by Russia, to derogate not only from their prescrip tive rights, but from privileges recently granted by special firman. The Russian and French Go vernments therefore, were to some extent em broiled—the former wishing to recover lost ground, and the latter desiring to preserve an acquisition. The attitude of the Turkish Cabinet at this con juncture was that of a Government indifferent to the subject of contest, and anxious only to satisfy two powerful rivals without offending either. Its position is clearly described by Colonel Rose, who, while in charge of British interests at Constantinople dug.ing Lord Stratford de Red cliffe's absence, observes (March 7, 1853), that " certainly the Ottoman Minister had been to blame in the matter of the Holy Places, but that he had been coerced ; that from the time M. de Lavalette (the French Ambassador) threatened to bring up a French fleet to the Dardanelles, and M. de Titoff (the Russian Minister) menaced instantly to quit Constantinople with every member of his mission, if their respective and entirely divergent demands were not complied with, the Porte had, under the pressure of that and subse quent coercions, committed a series of lamentable contradictions." As a matter of fact, and in so far as this question was concerned, Russia had un doubtedly some ground of complaint : that is to say, the Latin church had received a certain pre ference over the Greek, in contravention of pre vious understanding, but this had occurred only through the pressure applied to the Porte. As yet no European interests appeared to be involved, but in Turkey every such embroilment is dan gerous, and it deserves remark that in the very earliest communication on the subject—the very despatch with which the whole series opens—Lord Stratford, who had not then (May 20, 1850) left Constantinople, writes as follows : " General Aupick has assured me that the matter in dispute is a mere question of property, and of express treaty stipulation. But it is difficult to separate any such question from political considerations ; and a struggle of general influence, especially if Russia, as may be expected, should interfere in behalf of the Greek Church, will probably grow out of the impending discussion." Russia did interfere, and the relations between the contending Courts of St. Petersburg and Paris assumed a menacing appear. ante. At this period the policy of the British Go vernment was simply one of impartial, though vigilant, observation, nor can its views be better represented than in the subjoined despatch of Lord John Russell (at that moment Foreign Secretary) to our Ambassador at Paris :—" Your Excellency will understand, therefore —l, that into the merits a this dispute her Majesty's Government 'I will not enter ; 2, that her Majesty's Government disapprove of every threat, and still more of the actual employment of force ; and, 3, that both parties should be told that, if they are sincere in their professions of a desire to maintain the inde pendence of the Porte, they ought to abstain from the employment of any means calculated to display the weakness of the Ottoman empire. Above all, they ought to refrain from putting armies and fleets in motion for the purpose of making the tomb of Christ a cause of quarrel among Christians." At this stage of the dispute, while the French fleet was hovering about the editerranean, and the Russian battalions were mustering thickly on the confines of the Turkish Principalities, a special ambassador was despatched from St. Petersburgh to Constantinople in the person of Prince Menschi koff. There was nothing, at first sight, either unnatural or ominous in such a proceeding, for the influence of Russia at the Porte might have been thought compromised, and it was certainly desirable to bring matters to a conclusion. But the mission soon assumed a mysterious and alarming kind of character. It was conducted with circumstances of arrogance and even menace ; its object was left indefinite, its purposes seemed obscure, and misgivings were created in all quarters at once. Besides the affair of the Holy Places, " reparation" was mentioned as due to the Russian Government for the breach of faith committed towards the Greeks ; and " security" was talked of for the future. However, in due course, Prince Menschikoff arrived at the Turkish capital, and on the 2d of March last paid his official visit to the Grand Vizier, but omitted, in a most pointed manner, to offer the same compliment to Fuad Effendi, the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Nothing as yet had transpired of his ultimate de signs, but the misgivings of the Sultan seem to have been instinctive, and as early as the 6th March Colonel Rose was informed that " his Highness entertained strong apprehensions that the mission of Prince Menschikoff, far from being of a concilia tory character, as pretended, was, on the contrary, intended to involve the Porte in serious difficulties, and that the Emperor's object appeared to be to trample under foot the rights of the Porte and the dignity and independence of the Sovereign." It was at this period, and under these circumstances, that Colonel Rose sent those requisitions to Admi ral Dundas to bring up his fleet, which, with the full approval of our Government, the Admiral declined to obey. In the policy thus pursued, Lord Stratford himself concurred, for we find him afterwards (April 6) reporting from Constantinople, " I took occasion to explain the grounds on which it had be deemed advisable, under present circum stances, to keep her Majesty's squadron at Malta ; and the Grand Vizier had every appearance of un derstanding that the interests of the Porte had been more judiciously consulted by its detention than by its appearance in the waters of the Archipelago." Count Nesselrode himself had early remarked to our Minister at St. Petersburg that there was " ne cessarily some vagueness" in Prince Menschikoff's orders, and this vagueness became more andmore remarkable as his mission took effect. At the end of March the Grand Vizier told Colonel Rose, " His policy is most confused. At one time he would attract us to Russia by mild ness, spreading abroad the report that the inten tions of his Government are pacific. At another lie seeks to gain us over by pointing out the disad vantages and inutility of our reliance upon Eng land. and France, and how wrong we are in follow- THE BALTIC FLEET. Electric telegraph orders have been received here for the screw ships Hogue, 60, Captain Ramsay, and Edin burgh, 58, Captain Hewlett, to proceed eastward. The Hogue is fully manned ; but the Edinburgh, with a nominal crew of 444, has not so many on buard by 100. These ships, together with the Blenheim, 60, screw, Captain the ion. F. Pelham, fully manned at Ports mouth, are to complete their crews and be ready for active service. They are the best ships we have for Baltic service. ADMIRALTY SURVEY OF THE BALTIC. We understand that the Admiralty have appointed Mr. Peter Wellington, Master RN., to commission the Hecla, 6, paddle steam-sloop, and, with half a dozen other masters of the Royal Navy and a competent com plement, to proceed to the Baltic, to make careful sur veys and soundings of the approaches. THE BLACK SBA. One of the ship's company of the Sanspareil, 70, Cap tain Sidney C. Dacres, writes under date Jan. 14 : " Sinop° is a beautiful bay, where several hundred sail of the line might ride with safe anchorage, but badly fortified. The beach is strewed with wrecks and dead bodies, the dogs tearing them to pieces. The Turkish town is quite in ruins, having been set fire to by the Russians. The day after our arrival the inhabitants sent us three days fresh provisions. On the following morning the signal was made to the Agamemnon, Sans pareil, and Terrible, and line-of-battle ships Charle magne, Mogador, and two others of the French, to con voy five Turkish steamers with troops, stores, and pro visions to Trebizond and Batourn. There is no sign as yet of the enemy ; they had left two days before our arrival and intelligence was given to Admiral Lyons that,4410,41 7 sian squadron of 10 sail was blockading Batount The inhabitants of Trebizond were overjoyed to see us ; they made us a present of mutton and vegetables enough to last three days. The Admiral made a signal to load the guns with shot, as we fully expected the enemy was close at hand. We weighed anchor the same evening, and proceeded t• land the troops and stores. When we reached there no Russians were to be found ; they were safely moored beneath the guns of Sebastopol. They heard the combined fleets were in the Black Sea, and did not like our company. The Black Sea has ceased to be a Russian lake ; we can range it from one end to the other at our leisure. We are in number 33 sail, 18 of which are ships of the line, the remainder frigates and steamers—enough, I should fancy, to sweep the world before it. I do not think the Britannia will be much longer in commission. The admiral will leave the sta tion in the spring, as he is appointed First Naval Lord of the Admiralty." WOOLWICH, FEB. 2. APPOINTMENTS. Commander Augustus S. Booth (1848), to the Nile, 91, screw steam-ship, of 500-horse power, to prepare her for immediate commission at Devonport. Lieutenant Henry Crofton (1842), from the Coast Guard to the Caesar, 90, at Portsmouth. The Cyclops, steam-frigate, Master-Commander Ro berts, immediately after she took on board the baggage of the detachments of artillery, who were previously em barked, left Woolwich in the afternoon of yesterday to convey them to their destinations in the Mediterranean, whore the companies they are to join are at present sta tioned. The Phoenix, screw steam-sloop, on being taken into dock to be examined, was found to have about 20 feet of her false keel carried away, but in every other re spect she appears to be uninjured by her last year's voyage to the Mediterranean. _ _ _ The Hannibal, 90, screw steam-ship, launched at Deptford on Tuesday last, is ordered to have her engines put on board by the engineers of the fvctory at Wool wich Dockyard, and it is officially stated to the authori ties here fhat she is to be made ready for sea in every respect at this port. The Medea, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Commander Augustus Phillitnore, was taken out of the basin into the stream to-day, and having had her defects made good, is now ready for sea. NAVAL RESOURCES. Great stress has been laid upon the advantages Russia would gain by delay, but a short retrospective and pros pective view of what was done last year, and will be done this year, in commissioning for active service line of-battle screw steam-ships, must satisfy the public that the advantages of delay in entering upon war are nearly ten to one in favour of Great Britain. The present Russian fleets have been the work of years, while during the past year Great Britain has completed and commis sioned the following powerful screw steam-ships Duke of Wellington, 131, in February, 1853 ; the St. Jean d'Acre, 101, in May, 1853 ; the Royal George, 120, in October, 1853 ; the Princess Royal, 91, in Oct. 1853 ; and the Cressy, 80, in December, 1853. In the present year, although one month has only just expired, three line-of-battle screw steam-ships have been com missioned—the James Watt, 90, in January, 1854 ; the Cesar, 90, in January, 1854 ; and the Nile, 90, on February, 2, 1854 ; and within a few more months the . following, now nearly ready, will be commissioned, f required :—The Royal Albert, 131, to be launched in April next ; the Marlborough, 131 ; the Hannibal, 90, launched at Deptford ; the Orion, 90, ready for launch. ing at Chatham ; the Algiers, 90, at Devonport ; the Majestic, 80, fitting at Sh eerness ; and the Irresistible, 80, in an advanced state at Chatham. In January, 1853, the Agamemnon , 91 ; the Sanspareil, 70 ; and the Imperieuse, 50, were the only large screw steam ships in commission , as the blockships for guarding th e nav al ports and the other description of screw steam frigates, i have not been included in the above detail of the naval resources of the country. The spirit aroused amongst the fishermenoownetlel' and north of Scotland , than whom a more hardy, p en during race of m en does aot exist, and the brave hardy seamen of the coasts of En g la nd g to serve in the Roy al Navy, affords ample evidence that no diffi culty will be experienced in man n i ng the ships of the Royal Navy when their services are required. INCREASE OF THE NAVY. Another screw lino-of-battle ship was ordered to be commissioned yesterday —namely, the Nile, 91, just converted and fitted with 400 horse power machinery at Devonpurt. The Nile is one of the three splendid 90- gun ships designed by Sir R. Seppings before he left the office of Surveyor of the Navy, 20 years since, but only one of" those th ree s hi ps were allowed to b e commis sioned until lately. The Rodney, the first of the class, is well known as the finest and most powerful two-decker in the navy. The London is now in her first term of service, but the Nile has never yet hoisted the pendant. Of this splendid class of 91-gun screw ships we have now five in co mm i ss i on --- n amely, Agamemnon, Princess Royal, Cmsar, James Watt, and Nile. We have also one of 81 guns, the Cressy. THE GOOD-SERVICE PENSIONS. The three captains good-service pensions, vacant by the three last flag promotions, have been conferred on Capt. Joseph Nias, C.B. (1835) ; Capt. Sir George Back, F.R.S. (1835) ; Capt. W. F. Lapidge (1837). In selecting those officers, Captai ns L or d C o lchester, Charles Hope (superintendent of Sheerness dockyard), m:=w UNIV.S.RSITY INTELLIGENCE. . . The Professo r o f Chemistry, Dr. OXFORD Daubeny, , FEB 2 will give his lectures duri ng thi s term every Wednesday and Friday, at 8 p.m., and not on the Tuesday and Saturday evenings as announced. Tuesday, the 7th inst., is fixed as the day on which the Convocation for electing the burgess will be held. The proceedings will begin at two o'clock. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. RAILWAY AND OTHER BILLS ON STANDING ORDERS. Yesterday the following railway bills passed through the standing orders of the House of Commons :—North Yorkshire and Cleveland, Stockton and Darlington, Lancashire and Yorkshire, East Lancashire and Man chester, and Southport, South Staffordshire, Great Western, Shrewsbury and Birmingham and Shrewsbury and Chester railway companies amalgamation. CONWAY AND LLANRWST RAILWAY.— It was stated that this undertaking was abandoned. The standing orders were " not" complied with in certain points in the case of the South-Eastern (Lewis. ham to Bromley)and Shrewsbury and Chester (explana tion and amendment). The carriage of the following miscellaneous measures was declared complete : Commissioners of Sewers for Levels of Havering and Dagenham, Harrow Water works (for incorporation of existing company, rates and supply) Glasgow Bridges, Glasgow Corporation Water works, Brighton and Hove General Gas Company, 'Thames Improvement, and Chesterfield Market. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAlLWAY.—Traffie return for the week ending Jan. 29, 1854 V,729 4 61 Corresponding week last year 2,561 9 2 WATERFORD AND KILKENNY RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the week ending Jan. 29 (29 miles) £l6O 15 9 Corresponding week last year (13 WINE DUTIES REDUCTION. A meeting of the general committee favourable to this object was held on Wednesday at Fendall's Hotel, Palace. yard. Mr. Benjamin Oliveira, M.P., occupied the chair. The hon. gentleman stated that on the sth of last April he brought under the consideration of the House of Commons his motion for a reduction of the wine duties. The support he received was considerable ; but taking into account the recent formation of the Govern ment, and the pledges given to the country that a sys tem of unrestricted freedom would be adopted, he con sented to withdraw the motion. The measures pro pounded by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the great reductions of duty effected by him, justified him in the course he pursued. He gave notice that he would early in this session bring the subject forward. He con vened a meeting of his Parliamentary friends and sup porters at Fendall's Hotel on the 10th of August last, when certain resolutions were passed, by which this committee was formed, and through whose agency he had been enabled to continue important investigations and to obtain extended support during the recess. It was for the purpose of developing the general outline of his proceedings, and to arrange a future course of action, that hesitatlseonvened this special meeting of the general committee. On the 10th of August last they numbered on this committee 90 names of influence ; amongst them a large number of members of the House of Commons. On this Ist of February, after an interval of six months, the number of the general committee was increased to more than 700—amongst them 100 members of the House of Commons, and the rest comprising several presidents of chambers of commerce, mayors of cor porations, and other public functionaries, commercial firms of eminence, &c. He had devoted his time since they last met to inquiries bearing upon the revenue to be derived from imports of wines with a low duty, the disposition entertained in foreign countries to reciprocate by lowering duties upon British goods, the moral and social influence of wines as general beve rages, and the benefits likely to flow to collateral branches of English trade by the adoption of the is. duty. He might state what the general conclusions were to which his investigations had led him. First, as to revenue, he was confirmed in his previous convictions that, with a duty of ls, per imperial gallon, in a very few years, they might reasonably expect a revenue of between 2,000,0001. and 3,000,0001., with a progressive increase. As to reciprocity, the general tendency of all foreign Governments was towards a relaxation of high import duties. France had given proofs of that policy, and several of the ministers of the Emperor had assured him of their intention to persevere. Upon moral and social grounds, he had had occasion to remark how very rare the vice of drunkenness was in countries where wine was consumed ; and in the absence of that vice was also a very small amount of those crimes, immoralities, and profligate habits which the use of ardent spirits at home had recently forced upon public attention. With re spect to other branches of industry, he had no doubt that with tenfold our present supply of wine, the ship ping interest, coopers, iron-hoop makers, and other trades would be benefited. With increased demand, in creased production will be stimulated in the countries where wines are grown. Power of production is with out limit—France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Sicily, Greece. Our limited demand of artificial wines from some of these countries was scarcely felt. He had come to the conclusion that the fairest mode of dealing with this question was by a vigorous, prompt, and early discussion of it. With this view he had given notice of motion for Tuesday, the 14th inst., that lie might not be presumed, in the most distant manner, to embarrass the Government. A resolution was then proposed, and carried unani mously—`" That, in the opinion of this committee, the present session appears favourable for the reduction of the wine duties, and that measures be adopted to press the settlement of the same upon her Majesty's govern ment." Thanks were then voted to the chairman, and the meeting separated. LAUNCH OF THE SIMLA.—GLASGOW, Monday.—The fleet of the Peninsular and Oriental Company received a magnificent addition to-day in the launch of the iron screw s' earner Simla, from the building -yard of Messrs. Tod and Macgregor, Partick, who have constructed for the same company most of their finest steamers in cluding the Bengal, Ganges, Cadiz, &c. The launchtook place at 2 o'clock, u n d er th e most favourable cir cumstances, although, f rom t h e strong gale which was blowing, taken in connexion with the narrowness of the Clyde at this point, it was at one time feared that the operation might be attended with some risk. The Simla is one of the largest steamers that have hitherto been built in Scotland ; and nautical men may judge of her proportions by the following details :—Keel and fore rake, 330 feet 4 inches; breadth of beam, 39 feet 2 inches ; depth moulded, 29 feet ; and height from main to spar deck, 8 feet 6 inches. She has two steeple en gines of the aggregate power of 642 horses ; the cylinders are 90 inches in diameter, with a stroke of 6 feet 6 inches. The diameter of the screw propeller is 18 feet with a pitch of 21 feet 6 inches. The tonnage, by the old measurement, is 2,508 tons, and by the new mea surement 2,563 tons, The lines of the Simla are consi dered to be beautifully drawn, and it is expected that she will attain a speed even in excess of that of the Ben gal and other crack ships of the company. Her main saloon is of the most spacious character, extending fully 100 feet in length, and the general furnishings will-be of a commodious and tasteful kind. As a proof of the rapi dity with which these immense ships are now turned out we may state that the keel of the Simla was only laid on the 10th of May, 1853, and, as her engines are already prepared in the engineering establishment of Messrs. Tod and Macgregor, it is expected that she will be ready for sea in two months from this date. The Simla will be commanded by Captain Brooke, one of the most experienced commanders in the service of the Peninsular and Oriental Company. ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.-- About two o'clock on Tuesday morning an accident occurred to a train laden with potatoes, from York to London, near Corbey, by the breaking of an axletree of a North British waggon, which was in the fore part of the train. The coupling-chain broke and several waggons were broken, and the potatoes strewed about the rails. The up line was blocked up for several hours and the trains had to be worked on the down line. This is the eighth accident which has happened on this line of railway by the breaking of axletrees. The company are about making a new kind of axletree, hollow in the centre, with a view to avert these casualties. BRISTOL LUNATIC ASYLUM.—Lord Palmerston has ordered the a uthorities of Bristol to build a new lunatic asy l um , instead of the present, which is inadequate. The estimated cost is 45,000/.—Medical Circular. ~~ y I tr, L , S "id