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Obs erve 8, GREAT WE NDMILL - STREET, W. l iati nai the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Co r k brand e d LL Whisky." Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., NJ. T 0 „ DE AD YET. By C. Jr krruEsoN, Author of "Live It Down," ,to. PRICE .4d. STAMPED ....sd. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE, The Thames Embankment, shoot, A large portion of the earth is carted to the river from the excavations now going on for the Finsbury extension of the Metropolitan Railway from Farringdon-Street. The inner circle railway will be constructed on the inner side of the embank ment, and not within the embankment itself, which wiil have quite sufficient to early the Low Level Sewer and the subway. When completed, with the extension of New Earl-street, the Thames Em bankment will form a noble thoroughfare, not sur passed by any in Europe, having St. Paul's at one end and Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament at the other.—Obserrer. - - "Mr. Jelffreson's present novel is in every respect satis factory. We have read it through with interest, end can re• commend it to our readers. It is a pleasant, healthy bock.' —Athena um. BRISTOL AND EXETER. The directors of this company have resolved to recommend a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum on the ordinary stock, for the half year ended the 30th of June last, carrying forward a balance of £4,543. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. TuricE.—Too STRANGE NOT To BE TRUE.--Lady GEORGIANA FULLERTON'S New Novel, is :VOW READY at all Libraries, in 3 vols., post Bvo. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. ATLAS WORKS. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. VICTORIA STATION AND PIMLICO. NEW WORK BY MR. CHARLES DICKENS. In Monthly Parts, uniform with the Original Edi iota of "Pickwick," "David Copperfield," Now ready, Part IV., price Is., of , he trad e ,' her C° ll l , e 'l. r ie e o t o It u a' 5 , 1 per 5 1 ; :need./ es of last • ~0 rate'' 3 6 stole' )0 Pe r li r. off' Dui only Of trail * re. b, no 1 1 ratan 28s t° 64 2 4 s t° 24, o t - 4 11 37s t° 36A 33$ t° 14(3j 7$ F ,r 9 56 10 6/ and go q Of t° l• 10 , ind 5 0 i per P ,t,1 ,41 „swit' ros l6 ' iiter' ho rtes t" lAg d° f lII° Dg d°°' o f(t`r P f ref ~ err uxec ile' - Sila t jodoe, ,obi ° ' thill t 111 '''' ;e%lel ;a 64 ' .....___••.--# 1 F;1 -0. 0. big. atY at CONNECTING SHIP OWNERS h c ,. (Limited). rPOrat-d under , e Copanies' Act, 1802. er ''bY the liabili th ty of each shareholder is limited to the -11 ant of hi s shares. ' 4-1,., Capital £1,000,0(0, in 50(00 shares of £2O each. sit— , l per share on application, and £1 on allotment. Zerip S ePe c Wi4ri,__ ertiOcates. which can be converted into Registered es, at the option of tne holder, will be issued imme fatelv after allotment These certificates will be capable _of tra il ' uee e ,,,, , sier by delivering from hand to hand, without any ' , 3 7 for registration. Ilea l .- Nd • DIRECTORS. J. L i 'rural Currie, Bletching•ley, Surrey, Chairman.. ,Britten,r E: Shaw , Esq , Bath. Director of the Bank of Wales, Basinghall- GFet, and 3u and 31, London-wall. :,,owrd Penwick Esq., CB. late Resident Engineer G., Udras Railway, Taewuliarris, Esq., Merchant, 5, Otitlands Park, Weybridge. Nicholss-lane. , l'aek ° 2 l ,•,,Augu tus Jocelyn, late Chairman Dundalk Steam k;o1, V ,'', ‘-' ol npany. Gen,. 'Warn It Nedham, Royal Horse Artillery, Ramsgate. ...,,,,-. G ear Pocbck, Esq., Director of the Crystal Palace Geot e ,,ompany. C, o ,„,' e 'carnmell, Esq., Director of the Submarine Telegraph 4.l3any. IN — ,; BANKERS. on Bank of London, 2, Princes-street, and Branches. Clark, Esi C 0 N a S n t d - LT T IN C G &K n O n i N E E Esq., Great George street, Westminster. SOLICITORS. Ate.ars. Davies, Son, Campbell, and Reeves. M BROKERS. Messrs. Castello Brothers, Throgmorton-street. AUDITORS. liessrs. Alison and Waddell, Public Accountants, 14, Walbrook. SECRETARY (PRO TEM.) Horace Fenwick, Esq. TEMPORARY OFFICES. 01, Cornh ill — Entrance, 126, Bishopsgate-street. This n ABRIDGED B tear s `' ° n l Pany is established to PROSPECTUS own and work Connecting Vrhieh c o "'log Steam Ship s are d es i gne d on a new system, co sm nsists in constructing steamers in several distinct clrs t r, rnents for carrying large cargoes on very light f b oln:; 3 1,With great economy of power, the compartments of one gauo-e toedmit of immediate disconnection Vie re- connection - each other ; and of the transfer of , torn o—„,,Parfrnent coat iining the engine, officers and crew, eker-,` constanto compartments to anothFr, so that it c n Oveh-; running employm , nt, while the compaya- Lhe ie aci Pensiv e cargo compartments . are detained during 7 4 40 8 Mg, unloading. or sale of their cargoes. By this thr ee ' °rie engine and one crew will perform the work of l'ortie ste atners of the ordinary construction, and realise pro- It Profits. tst.embe Intended to commence business by running one ents I : c° , l n,Partment, and three sets of Carvo Compart ,'l4o/,,len will be sufficient to deliver 10,000 tons of coal "n Per month and to demonstrate the enormous ad ualid zes to h be gained by the system before proceeding to ,keu,„`e,,Proposed fleet, which will consist of Eighteen Screw ...‘4N.-o`,,rk,ornpartments, and one hundred and ninety : eight ;la cnn Partments, and will deliver over one million of wml B i„ Paris to London, and over three hundred thousand , kBtr 4-arls, annually. Ili e Mates of the cost of the proposed fleet, and details of iil4,nnUal expenditure and receipts have been prepared, nlsk it ,`? . :4 the large profit of more than 20 pier . cent., after ting,e4leas'oPle provision for insurance, depreciation, and con y„„,,• ueen "Connecting Steamer," named the Conne3tor, has ,"es as a practical model, and has made frequent so "`.,vtug run over 4,0(0 miles at sea, in all weathers, so thiD, Oetnonstration of the nautical qualities of conne9ting oey on ''as been t i sufficient to place their sea-worthiness 118., u all doubt, while the absolute experience of some years ktkabl2own that even . the ordinary screw colliietrhsseaanndtlen.ptrioie er4jeon°Poilly the carrying o c f r c e o w a a l, notv t during t heir loading,"cli s-1,4e of cargo, rep -die', &c. flkir,,e_,Colanector is at present in the Thames. where stte will ),,14,,,ternonstrate the mode of connecting and disconnecting, 15 the peculiarity of the system. Ea_prospectus with plans and drawings of vessels con tii.,""ecl on this system, as also detailed estimates showing Orobable profits together with forms of application for ti o lros can be obtained, or will be sent post free, on applica at the Offices, 61, Cornhill, entrance, Bishopsgate-street. o FORM OF APPLIC ATION FOR SHARES. To the Connecting. Shipowners (Lited). ,„Traving, paid a deposit of £1 per share ,Ire quest you to `alot to me shares of X2O each in the Connecting ;11ipowners (Limited) ; and I hereby agree to become a share , elder in that Company, subject to its rules and regulations, I lin „-,,(1 to accept such shares or any less number that may be "'lotto(' to me. __ Name in full ..................... .......... Address in full Profession, Addition, or Occupation;;..:" Date Usual Signature. THE NATAL INVESTMENT COMPANY (Limited). Incorporated under the "Companies' Act, 1862." Capital £500,0), in 10,000 shares of £su each. Cif wi First issue, 5,600 shares, b e °e h Upwards of one-half are already subscribed for. S aba . El per share on application, and £1 on allotment. '' n ent calls tot tl exceed £5 pc , * share, and at intervals I t of not less th an th ree mon th s. " not proposed to call up more than £lO per share. c y ..4.4 DIRECTORS. co. TruD St Be Ada". s q.and A. . Alams, late C. na's r -place, Gracechur W ch-street. 1 . 1 • Gresham Director Cape Town Dock and '`E"lfloany, House. Old Broad-street. i; lat e jia Director London, Buenos . Ayres, and River ' el lt-e n i n K , 7, Bishopsgate-street Within. "el G. R. Money, Director Credit Fonder of Eahire 9, herkeley-street, Berkeley-square. "utu, Bart., Carltcn Club, and Eardiston, Worcester- F -Dic er (Messrs. E. Snell and Co.), D'Urban, Natal. 1 , 1 / . . ' l s ,: a . b s tt p - r r d:- t i ci r,e '' et l . o ireCtor of the London Bank of Scotland, Wilbrook-buildings, Wal . brook. J 'alto ' 'scl• (Messrs. F. Symons and Co.), 64, Lower • it, TO - str eet. zSt, NT:pion, i Esq. (Messrs. J. R. Thomson and Co.), - c Wit go , —cuara(Messbers, ati non-'st, l , l : e l rs. Wi sou, Worcester, and Co.), 79, toi a BANKERS. Xl e ,h , A gra and Masterman's Bank, Limited, mataLL°oijaist;lane, Le.mbard-street. (ton and South African Bank. The Credit mo r b l i r je A r Nc i t A A m L it A ed GE B N o, S Lombard-street. SOLICITORS. key s ' 5 1C". Phillivit en. Evans, and Co., Nicholas-lane. ps and Son, Abchurch-lane. Pleld s iinoKERS. ll es nlort o on. and Wood, 9, Warnford-court, Throg eaarg. 4- gtreet 'Pencer and Norton, 9 2, Throg - morton-street. a t " AUDITORS. (40 r e {:e ll u ra . U 17,Ice, Esq., 24, Old Jewry. Pert g, Esq., 26, Sussex-squarc, Hyde-park. SECRETARY. C. Grabham, Esq. 18 TEMPORARY OFFICES. P rl t i -1- ung's Arms-yard, Moorgate•street. thQ Com th e I l i eN or , l :_flY is established for the purpose of assisting in for th ritialc,, "rif of the resources of the colony of Natal and th e nssessions adjacent by affording a safe medium t4l the ia,.,`PZilt of capital in' mortgage and other securi aciv,:ncreasir-"Y augmenting . prosperity of the colony and sirces `alue of land creating a constant demand for businestch this Company proposes to supply. leri c i,„et the Company will comprise : thi g of' t a , -- = and investment in the colony, at colonial 2 " mil lair obtained upon debentures or deposits in ,„ Y ' mere 4 bl, -Inl aition development, and re-sa'e of lands, as T. er - o e ° , P u Porfun'ities offer, and affording assistance to t he he p ro ' Piers for substantial ', n.ftiotion of pub:io works, and conducting financial )t,lt'uelti Th e i r , enerally . ansaction of all kinds of agency business, and th 6 A fe I,Znt of' estates for absentees and others. Posed to call up more than £lO per share; the 11 3 1tgi 0 „" p Company will be mainly derived from the use of e e g e rst: , alned in this country by the issue of debentures. of interest in the colony ranges from 10 to 12 per eloy eavino , ed e a large margin of profit on the the)tal ern modeNl)itaf pivalent of itself to a good dividend on paid-up Ode independent of which, however, a ivances will be onditions which will secure other advantages to the .„ 4,,nY• r ust Company the re i s a wide field for the Com -014, m o Perations, and in the following statement of the sell ape of Shares existing Companies in Natal or the 1 031).,"' , Uood Hope will sh ow th e profitable nature of this mes h ard o Nam Executors eof Company. P a id up. Selling prices, ;f '!ociation for Administering £2OO 0 0 .. £ 350 0 0 r.states 1. neral Estate, tc 203 0 0 252 0 0 'll Elizabeth Guardian and It T rust cal. °lti Assurance and Trust I -ge Pr, Pany 0.1 , 4 r 'r ectors are satisfied that from the above sources a eturn on the paid-up capital of the Company is to be L . ThJI• free from any e]ement of speculat on. eti r l'z'ogreas of the colony during the last ten years has wwiatioteparkable, and there is every reason to anticipate even Oli o tP,ld advancement in future. The following statistics eed ° d greatly the resources of the co:ony have in "r'ng the period referred to : Ay Of r„ 1853 . 1863. ag o 'Znu In Cultivation 3,315 acres. 53,819 acres, bur 4, ' a ble of Land in : ... ef Pietermaritz- N rn, ................. 4s. to Is. per 303. to 355. per acre. acre. 1 , ,,;"4 81 1 °1 horned Cattle tal eel) 10 C IRB,336head. 490,165 head. eta , tit „, olony Ite N ,' valu e (‘`',,r it lxports.... £36,792 .£165,0.0 t ti T ile • 98,838 465,`)0) ••., 112,(0) oe t , 4 r l, ;* th e ..... ....... 28,648 \ mini: l '4lW a at two or three years large tracts of land have tit s has 4, Wi th sugar, coffee, cotton, Sze, and the success "IVOWth —. endect these plantations cannot fail to stimulate hi, t h e Artie?' th ese products throughout the colony. P r e 011i e " es a nd Memo ran d um o f As s ociation may be seen ht a psp e , tu of the C mpany. Cok h n ed f ri ,"„," and Forms of Application fo Shares may be ratty. the Secretary, Solicitors, or Brokers of the 1141,41, T o -,4 VESTMENT COMPANY (Limi`e4 the Di rect APPLICATION FOR SHARES. , G. ors of the Natal Investment Company (L imi t ed). 1141 e 4 r ' , Q . I A i :lc' e n 11 4 , req ue to your Bankers the sum of X , I armed c otu 8 t You to .1 ot me Shares hi the above -11110Y les 4 PanY. and I azree to accept that number of Shares, 4 t , ele k ot aumber that you may allot e, subject to the 11 4 4ber Association • 1I I reby agree to become a d t ' l e It °t t he ('Oin • an( le h riseou t t "et ° l r' ll 1"" . 0f 114 5 7 e7 3 a b u e t rs o of the Company e ' r my in re le Shares ' Allichmay e b tu e so allotted to me. Name in full ............... ......... Address in full .............. Profession or description ... Date Signature ............. 111 IE NA TAL INVESTMENT COMPANY A 01,,, (Limited). -pp-, , .11 Is n - R RE By GIvEN, that the LIST of '4Vip-TIONS for SHARES in this Company Will be e r ' o ° Nle il ..-- ; a°ll TUESDAY, the 9th instant, at 4 o clolr, for kitty . 4(1 On "W EDNESDAY, the 10th instant, for the 18 ,Cr s At C. GRABIIMI, secretary. m a - yard, MoorgAte-street, August 5, 16t4. OUR MUTUAL FRIEND, By CHARLES DICHENS. To be completed in Twenty Monthly Parts. With Illustrations by MARCUS STONE. Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. TIIE LATEST NEW NOVELS. Now ready at all Libraries, BE It TI E Blt A Y By the Author of " Sir Victor's Choice," Szc. D ANGEROUS CONNEXIONS, In Three Vols. THE MAN IN CHAINS, By the Author of " Sackville Chase," &c. London : John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street Now ready, Cheap Edition, price 25., complete, TRUNG H A N D. i 0 A Tale of Mexican Life and Adventure. By G. AIMARD, London: Ward and Lock, 15S, Fleet-street. This Day, Dedicated to Madame Celeste, price 25.. TH E WOMAN IN RED, Also, uniform w 1 h the above, price 2s. each, BEL DEMONIO. 1 THE DUKE'S MOTTO. LEAII, THE JEWISH MAIDEN. N.B.—The popular Dramas are founded upon these Novels. London: Yard and Lock, 158, Feet-street. This Day, never before Published, price is., complete, THE WOMAN OF MYSTERY, Also, uniform with the above, price Is. each, MAKE YOUR GAME. SHIP CHANDLER. ACCEPTED ADDRESSES. COMIC GRAMMAR. CAPTAIN SLYBOOTS. LADY LORME. London : Ward and Lock, 158. Fleet-street. LAST NIGHT BUT THREE. MR. W. S. WOODIN'S ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY, and BACHELOR'S BOX, an Entirely New Entertainment, at the Polygraphic Hall, King William-street. Charing-cross, EVERY EVENING, at eight (except Saturday). Stalls, and box stalls, 3s. ; area, 2s. ; amphitheatre, is. A Plan of the Stalls may be seen, and Seats secured at the Hall from eleven to five. MR. and Mrs. GERMAN REED, with Mr. JOHN PARRY, will appear in their new ANGLO EG YPTLAN ENTERTAINMENT, THE PYRAMID. To be followed by THE BARD AND HIS BIRTHDAY, a new musical tercentennial seance, by William Brough, Esq., sustained by Mr. and Mrs. German Reed; and THE SEA SIDE, or MRS. ROSELEAF OUT OF TOWN, by Mr. John Parry. Every evening (except Saturday), at 8; Thursday and Saturday mornings, at 3.—ROYAL GALLERY of IL LUSTRATION, 14, Regent-street. Unreserved seats, ls., 2s;; stalls, 35.; stall (spring) chairs, 55., can be secured in ad vance at the Gallery without fee. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road, London. GRAND OPTICAL ILLUSIONS. PRINCE BLOSSOM; OR, THE FAIRIES OF THE ➢IAGIC FOUNTAIN AND THE FOREST OF SHADOWS Prince Blossom, Miss Townley. Also, the New and successful Illusion, entitled THE TERCENTENARY ; or, a Nlki TIT WITH SHAKSPERE. Operatic Selections, Glees, &c., by the whole of the talented Artistes. Comedy by Mr. Arthur Lloyd, with his new song of " The Organ Grinder," a decided hit; Mr. W. Randall ; Miss Nelly Power, and those marvellous Gymnasts, Nes +re. TALLIOTT and BULINELLI (from the Principal Cirque, M adrid). Open every Evening. Admission—Area, Gd. ; stalls and balcony, ls. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. THOXF O R D, 6, OXFORD STREET, W. During this week will be performed, Selections from the following Operas. viz., THE 'IRO VATORE ; FAUST, by c. 11. Guonod ; UN BALLO IN MASCHERA, and LA FoRZA DEL DESTINO, by Verdi ; and THE TWO GENTLEMEN OP VERONA, by Sir 11. Bishop. Principal Artistes :—Misses Russell, Tyrrell, 11 ,, almsley, Fitz-Henry. and Barrie; Messrs. Marini, Ilu,h, Green, Marcella and Albert. Director. Mr. F. Jongtmans. Comedy by Mr. T. Macla,c.ran, W. Randall, Mdlle. Cava'ho, Miss Nelly Form', and UNSWORTE. and EUGE.NE, This Evening. Adm iss ion —Area, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, is. ANTHROPOGLOSSOS.-ST.JAMES'S II AL L, Piccadilly.—Great Success !—Ext raordin ary Excitement. - The AN THROPOGLOSSOS, Automaton Vocalist, Wonder of the World. [Registered according to Acts 1843 and 1850, 6 and 7 Vic., c. 6), 13 and 14 Vic , c. it 4, and copyright secured an t entered at Stationer's Hall.] OPEN DAILY, from 12 till 10 o'clock. The Exhibitions take place at the commer cement of each hour, viz., 12, 1,2, 3,4, 5,6, 7. 8, and 9 o'clock. Admission, One Shilling. Tickets at Mr. Austin's office, St. James's Hill, 2t , , Picea d i ly, W. mAD A NIE TUSSAUD'S HISTORICAL GALLERY; established 28 years at the Bazaar, Baker-street. NEW ADDITION. A full length portrait model of DR. COUTY DE LA POMMERAIS, the Poisoner, taken from the original photograph, by Mons. Trinquart. of Paris, from life, is now added to the Chamber of Physiognomy. Admittance, Is. ; Napoleon Rooms and Chamber of Horrors, 6d. extra. Open from 11 in the morning till 10 at night. NEW PATENT CURTAIN HOOK that requires no sewing, and, if reversed, can be used for many purposes. To be had of all shops in town or country. Patentees, W. TENT and Co., 23, Birchin-lane, London, E.C. FOUR PENNY PACKETS of HARPER TWELVETREES' GLYCERINE SOAP POWDER nd half a pound of Soap will wash fifty counterpanes in six ours, and sheets, shirts, table linen, Jz,e., in half the usual time.--See Mrs. Goulder's Report, Chelsea, Laundry, S.W. Sold by grocers and druggists. Works, Bromley-by-Bow, London, E. IVIESSRS. HOWELL, JAMES, and CO., beg respectfully to inform their patron, that in conse quence of the approaching termination of the season, and the arrangements they have made for the early receipt of their Autumn novelties, they have determined to offer the Summer portion of their valuable stock at a very great diminution in price. With this intention, they have carefully revised the goods lu the various departments specially to effect such a reduction, and offer them for sa e this day (July Ist) throughout the month and during August. Messrs. Howell, James, and Co., respectfully solicit an early inspection. 5,7, 9, Regent-street, Pall Mall. EET H. IMPROVED MECHANICAL 11 DENTlSTRY.—Professional abilities and great artistic skill have been most successfullycombined in the production of ARTIFICIAL TEETH upon a new principle. The real value of the perfection of the art of Dentistry will be experi enced by all wishing to avail themselves of professional assistance by consulting Mr. ALBERT, 34, Great Russell street, Bloomsbury. whose experience has enabled him to effect such admirable, convenient contrivances by artificial means, and which are so perfectly efficient. ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, V and Dining-room, consisting of a new and eicgant assort ment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink eta nds, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, &0., in Italian, Alabas rer, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &o. Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine ralogist to her Majesty, 149, Stand, W.C., London. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS, MIERLS, RCK, an FSSILS, which will g reatl facili N tate A the inte r eating study dO of M INERALOGY, CON y CHOLOGY, and GEOLOGY, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE. RALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT. at 149. Strand, W.C. Second Edition, Corrected and Revised, post free 7d., in cloth 13d., THE TEETH s a Practical Treatise, with th e best means of restoring them when defective or lost. By A. ESKELL, - Esq., Surgeon-Dentist, 8. Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square. " it really contains all that is necessary relative to the good keeping of , he mou h and teeth, and deserves the serious consideration of all who adequately regard their health, comfort, and appearance."—The Sun, May 4, 1861. "We can commend this little brochure on a subject noon which everybody takes an interest."—Medical Circular, June 5, 1861. " We can recommend its perusal to those who wish to pre serve their teeth, and to those who know the value of them." —Daily News, June .20, 1861. London : Clements, Little Pulteney-street. OTIIING I MPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and most met ul invention of the day, AGUA AMARELL A. Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO., 3, King-court, Lombard street, London, Perfume rs t o her Majesty, respectfully offer to the public this truly marvellous fluid, which gradually restores the human hair to its pristine hue—no matter at what age. The Agua Amarella has none of the properties of dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and when the hair is once restored one application per month will keep it in perfect coiour. Price one guinea per bottle, or in half bottles,les.ti Testimonials from artistes of the highest order, and from individuals of undoubted respectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John Gesnell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal highness the Princess cf Wales. IMPORTANT INFORMATION. p R. ROBERTS' POOR MAN'S FRIEND is confidently recommended to the Public as an unfail imz remedy for wounds of every description, burns, scalds, chilblains scor b u tic eruptions, sore and inflamed ey e s, dz,e , Sold in Do t s . ls. lid. 25. I s., and 22 .5. each. Also his ' PILIIL/E ANTISCROPIIULJE, confirmed by ; years'' ex perience to be one of th e best alterative medicines eve r 1155., ladndo\v`tl. o ffered to the public. They form a mild a nd superior F am il Aperient, that may be taken at all times Is ithout continel.- nieut or ch ange o f di e t. Sold iu boxes, is. lid., 2s. Od., 45 Gd , e e sa ae le iL by the proprietor, Beach and B arnicott, litidnnrt, xnedioineVendors ill the United liiugdom and Colonies.tin London houses, and re t ail by all respectable HENRY CLAYTON and CO., Engineers and Iron Founders, on and after MONDAY. the Bth August, will transfer tlic manufacture of their Patent Brick and Tile Machines, Contractor's and constructive machinery, g, , enetally, from their old works at Upper Park-plac •, Dorset-square, to their spacious New "ATLAS" Engrineer;nc; Works, Foundry, and Offices, in the WOODFIELD-ROAD, lIARRO %V -ROA London, W. H. C. and Co. invite the attention of Brick Manufacturers to their recently patented " Pneumatic" drying process. Catalogues free by post on application. 1 4 -I URN FURE, CARPETS, BEDDING, and FLOORCLOTH, CARRIAGE-FREE to any house in the kingdom, regardless of amount or distance. First•class goods at second-class prises. Terms peculiarly liberal to Clergymen and Gentlemen. An immense stock to select from, displayed in Showrcoms occupying an acre of ground. Every article warranted. CLERGYMEN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR NISH are respectfully informed that Messrs. Cobbett and . are publishing an entirely New Edition of their un equalled ROUSE FURNISHING GUIDE, illustrated by4lo edm•^able engravings of every description of Furniture and beasteads, with prices attached. A copy sent gulf's and post-free on application. This costly work also contains complete estimates for furnishing on the following revised cale A Six-roomed Parsonage £7l 2 0 An Eight-roomed ditto A Ten-roomed ditto ........ A Twelve-roomed ditto Together with a Price List of purified Bedding, aad a mass of valnable infbrmationto all requiring househ )1d furniture, carpets, or bedding. References kindly permitted to Clergy men and gentlemen in or near Great Malvern, Southampton, Chichester, Bury, Ely, Preston, Grimsby, Pyde, Plymouth, Wells, Oxford, Brighton, Gainsborough, Margate. Kidder minster, Wellington, Croydon. Cambridge, statues, Dorking, St. Aiban's, Worcester, Ipswich, Peterborough, St. David's, Wrexham, and above 500 other places in all parts of Great linty COB BETT and CO., General House Furnishers, Deptford bridge, London. S.E. THE WELLINGTON THREE SHILLING DINNER, consisting of Soup, Fish, Made Dish, Joint, Sweet, dm, is served from 3 to 9 p.m. The SALOON DINING ROOMS on the First Floor are open for Luncheons at 1 o'clock. Dinners from the Joint, Set Dinners, and D nners from the carte, are served from 3 to 9 p.m. daily. On SUNDAYS the Dining Rooms are open from 5 to 8.30 p.m. By order of the London and Paris Hotel Co. (Limited), JOHN CATES, Manager. The Wellington—Entrance, 160, Piccadilly. Ladies' Entrance, 53, St. James's-street. PIGS ! PIGS! PIGS!-INDIAN PIG MEAL, without husks, supplied to the Royal farms, Wind sor, and in every county in England, lOs 6d per cwt. ; one cwt. equal to 1 cwt. barley or any meal. Delivered tree in Lon don. Established 1858.— THOMAS PEIRCE, Manager, 66, Lant-street, Southwark. ROUND SHOULDERS, STOOPING HABITS, and DEFORMITIES are prevented and cured by CHANDLER'S IMPROVED CHEST-EXPANDING B RACES, for bo , h sexes, of all ages. They strengthen the voice and lungs,relieye indigestion, and are especially recom mended to children for assisting the growth and producing a perfect symmetrical figure, superseding the old braces and stays.-66, Berners-street, Oxford-street, W. illustrated Pamphlets forwarded. FURNISHED HOUSES.-Mr. ANDW. HIND has to LET a Detached HOUSE at Epsom, containing 4 sitting and 5 bed rooms, with usual ()lams, large garden and paddock. Kent 5 guineas por week. Also the foPowing : Red Hill (furnished), £220 per annum ; Croydon, 2i guineas per week; Kentish Town, 2, guineas, with use of piano, &c. Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's. BUSINESSES. —Mr. ANDREW HIND has for SALE — Cornchandlers', from £5O to £l,OOO ; Green grocers', £5O to £3. , 0 ; • Coachbuilders', £5O to £7OO ; Confec tioners', Clitmists', Milliners', Stationers', from £l5 to £lOO ; Grocers', from £5O to £2,00u ; Cheesemonfr,erte, £lO to £350; Drapers'. £2OO to £5,000 ; Bakers', £75 to £lOO • Coffeehouses, £5O to £1,200; Dairies, &c., £ , 30 to £000; Oyster-rooms, Restaurants, &c., £6O lo £16.00 ); Laundries, £lO to £2ou ; Oil, Cigar, Fish, Ham, and Toy Show, £si to £300; ana numerous other in every trade. Commercial and General Agency Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's. The July List, containing 500, gratis. THE BENEFACTOR OF THE SKIN.- MOLLARD'S perfumed Toilet Sulphur Soap and Cream, highly patronised by the faculty, nobility, and gentry. Nothin , r equals the properties and qualities of the Soap No. 1 for ordinary toilet purposes, and of Nos. 2 to 5 in all cases of cutaneous affections or rheumatism. Perfumed toilet cream, cold cream, and poi:l:tat= for the hair. Ilarep, , e cream for sulphur baths, without any disagreeable odour. All these preparations may be had at the central depot, 221 A, Regent-street, London, \V, ; and at Messrs. evi - bery and Sons, Barclay and Sons. Edwards, Keating, Saner a , ,d Son„) weaunetti, and all chemists. Pamphlets and test - monials tree On a plication. Agent for Edinbargh—Mr. John 3PKay, chemist, 1 19, George-street. PRIZE MEDA L.—INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862. FRANCIS TUCKER st Co., Wax Chandlers, &c., To the Queen and the "%ince of Wales. (Established 17.'.0.) The Jurors' Report on 'Wax and Church Candles, in 1A52, testifies to he excellence of the quality of Messrs. Tuckers' manufacture. A distinguished Dignitary, in a letter addressed to Francis Tucker and Co., on the subject of WAX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS, says:— "I have found them fully equal to the recommendation which you gave them, and can sincerely, in my turn, I com mend them to the clergy for the use of the altar." Finest quality, with tatted 'Wicks, patented.. 2s. 2d. per lb. Ordinary quality .. is. Od. per lb. VEGETABLE NDLES, with a Mixture of Wax. Best quality .. Is. sd. per lb. Second quality .. Is. 3d. per lb. Third quality ls. ld. per lb. Carriage paid in London on Orders of Five Pounds in value. FRANCIS TUCKER AND CO., :8, South Molton-street, Grosvenor-square. Manufactory— Kensington (Established 1730). The largest Establishment in England for the Manufacture of Wax Candles for the use of the Altar .I z ,R. SCOTT'S BILIOUS AND LIVER PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING REMEDY.—Pre pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. Scott, of J3romley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and liver complaints, indigestion, wind, spasms, giddiness, elizziner..o of the eyes, &o. For habitual costiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street Charing-cross. London, and by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package, with " William Lambert," engraved on the tamp. OL DR ID GE'S BALM of COLUMBIA stands unrivalled as a toilet requisite. It has been established 40 years, and is the best and only certain remedy ever discovered for preserving, strengthening, beautifying, or restoring the Hair, Whiskers, or Moustaches, and pre venting them turning gray or failing off.---Sold in bottles, 3s. 6d., 65., and lls. by C. and A. OLDRIDGE, 22, Welling ton-street, Strand, W.C. ; and all chemists and perfumers. For Children's and Ladies' Hair it is most eincaclous and unrivalled. THE COMING HARVEST. thiNe o ee n u T n n ty N t O h T e T w lN h G ea ll t a:t re S p ill is itE r . e — rie O u n e, the p a l l a lu n v t i h a e l v s in oi;s r o e f . ceived great injury during the frosts of May and June. Barley is unusually good and heavy. In the clay and sand districts wheat varies a good deal, but upon the whole it is beyond all question that the wheat crop will not amount to the general average of seasons by perhaps ono or two loads per acre, but, taking last year's crop into considera tion, wheat will this season be deficient from four to five loads per acre. There is a large quantity of home-grown wheat still in the hands of farmers. Harvest has already commenced in this locality, and it will soon be general, New oats have already been shown, both good in quality and weight. The turnip crop is a failure. Many of the early-sown ones were cut off by the frost or annihilated by the drought. Potatoes ate good and sound, and likely to prove a heavier crop than the season would warrant us an ticipating. NORTH WILTS.--A correspondent, writing from Crick lade, exhibits a very gloomy picture of the harvest pros pects in his own district. He says :--" Harvest has com menced in this and the adjoining district. ',Vheat estimated as being one-fourth less than last year; barley and oats nearly an average. Beans, peas, and vetches are but little worth. The former, in many instances, are only fit for manure, being infested with the green fly, snaking them totally unfit for food. Turnips and Swedes, even where a plant was obtained, cannot move for want of moisture, and the grub is making its ravages in many parts. The pas tures aro dried up. Wo hear of many persons having com menced foddering, and water for cattle is becoming seriously short. Iho make of cheese will be smell, many p eople making only half the quantity usual at this season. We still have hope that should we get rain soon we may have plenty of autumn keep." HARVEST PROSPECTS. —The weather during the past month has continued hot and dry; only six•tenths of an inch of rain having fallen in the month in which, on the average of years, we have the greatest rainfall. Our prices have advanced about 3s per quarter on English wheat, and 2s on foreign, but this is scarcely maintain d. The imports from America, as well as the arrivals on the coast from the Black Sea, have been very heavy; shipments from the for mer also continuo large, and though more than 100 of these arrivals have been reported within the last 14 days, they have not much reduced the number of grain -laden vessels on passage from the East, being still over 500—say 100 more than a month since. The conclusion of peace between Denmark and Germany will al to re l ease a considerable quantity of wheat now stored in the Baltic, ports, much of which has been held for two or three months on English account. But, on the other hand, Egypt, which from time immemorial has been a corn exporting country, is now be coming an importing one, and seems likely to continue so whilst cotton retuaina at its prebeut price,—,Sturge's Cur cola, Aug. 5. The director's of this railway company state in their report that the station construction accounts had at length been settled, And the balance due to Mr Belk had been paid. 0 wing to the high price of money during the past half year, the directors had been unable to reissue the balance of the deben tures at a lower rate than 41- per cent. per annum. The revenue account showed a net balance of £7,935, out of which the directors recommended a dividend at the rate of 51 per cent. per annum. The capital account showed that £491,950 had been received, and £485,073 expended, leav ing a balance of £6,877. The revenue account for the half-year ending June 30 showed that £14,417 had been received, including £2,598 from the preceding account, and that £6,482 had been expended, leaving a balance as above of £7,035. EDGWARE, HIGHGATE, AND LONDON. - - The directors state in their report that the expen. ditnie upon construction account since last half. yearly meeting bad been £61,248. The bill for the Alexandra-park branch and the widening of the line had received the Royal assent. The company were authorised, in order to carry out those new works, to raise further capital to the amount of £96,000. The directors recommended that it be raised by new shares, bearing a preferential divi dend of 5 per cent. per annum. The Great Northern Railway Company had signified their readiness to subscribe £32,000, being one-third of the £96,000, and there would therefore remain a balance of £64,000, W hich it was pro posed to issue rateably among the shareholders. The Act for the Watford and Edgware Railway had been obtained in the past Session, and the line would be of great value to the Edgware Company. The capital account to the 30th of June showed that £127,615 had been expended, leaving a bal ance of £6,720. LYNN AND HUNSTANTON. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Lynn on Saturday; Mr L. Simpson in the chair. The report stated that the traffic receipts for the half-year ending Jane 30 amounted to £3,500, from which, after deducting working expenses payable to the Great Eastern Company, with interest on the debenture debt and other expenses, there remained a balance of £1,372 applicable for dividend. The directors recommend a distribution at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, leaving £173 to be carried forward to the next account. The gross traffic for the corresponding half 1863 amounted to £3,049, so that the receipts for the past half-year showed an increase of £451 The directors added that the Royal assent had been given to an Act for the construction of the West Norfolk Junction line, and that the contractor had made arrangements for the vigorous prosecution of the works. It was proposed to erect an hotel at Hunstanton. The agreement for the working of the line by the Great Eastern had received the seal of the two companies. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said the directors left it to the shareholders to determine whether the dividend should not be 4; per cent, Mr. Slum' suggested that the dividend should be at the rate of 4 per cent. This was agreed to, the report was adopted, and the proceedings closed with a vote of thanks to the directors. MID-KENT. The report of the directors of this company states the bill authorising the amalgamation of the Mid- Kent Company with the South-Eastern Company has passed both Houses of Parliament, and the arrangements for carrying its provisions into efft.ct will A d d be o completedrab: extension was p as p rac ti ca bl e . Th e opened for public traffic on the Ist of April last, and the interest on the capis tal employed in its construction became from that date payable by the South Eastern Company. The revenue account shows a disposable account of £2,615, which enables the same dividend to be paid as last half-year—TlZ., at the r a t e o f 61 per cent. per annum, leaving Ll 5 to be carried forward. The balance sheet showed that £169,938 had been expended on capital account. SOLWAY JUNCTION. The firsrordinary meetin g of this company was held on Friday, at the offices, Victoria street, Westminster; Mr. J. Dees i n the chair. Th e CHAIRMAN, in mo v i ng the adoption of the m report, congratulated the s hareholders on the pass ing of the, bill in its integrity. The great utility of the line from Annan across the Solway to Bray ton the Glasgow and South-Western Company fully admitted. The traffic in hematite ores from West Cumberland to Scotland had increased from 22,000 tons in 1857 to 150,000 in 1 863, and had tripled itself in the last three years. He showed that 200,000 tons per annum would b e carr i e l u p on t h e traffic alone encompleted and opened, and that this would yield a dividend of 5 per cent. per annum . The receipts from the usual traffic pro mised a dividend equal to any of th e West Cumber land lines, which ranged from oi to 12 per cent. per annum. _ _ The report was adapted, th, retiring directors were unanimously re - eleoted, and the proceedings terminated, The French Occupation o r Cochin China, According to the 31 °/liteur the intelligence brought to France by China is far from confirmicg the rep orts current i n ever y mail from Cochin colonial establish- P v e a r r n i s m last t intended winter, t t o h e l j e m ffe i t c t that its La Grandiere, French a m o e t n o t f t t h h e e r g e o t v o er a n v o e r r , y ite r a e r s . t A ric d t m ed i rrioiezpotion. Every n en ta e i en, i ng a b u ea th rs or w it i y tne a s n s d to e th x e te i n n d te in n g tion its of i m nfi a n i as will be seen from a rapid mention of the recent proceedings of the local administration. In F ebruary the go vernor, in order to prevent usury, which is the scourge of the East, decided on founding five Monts de Pi6te, being one for each of the provinces ceded to France. As these establishments are to lead money at 3 per cent. per month, the current rate in Cochin China must have been most exorbi tant. In April, the first careening dock, con structed in the Government arsenal at Saigon, was opened ; it is 72 metres (236 feet) lon g , and will admit, ordinary tides, vessels drawing 4.20 metres (13ft. 9in). This dock has cost 70,000 fr. But the most important event in the ratification, by the French Government, of the treaty of protectorate concluded last year by Rear-Admiral de la Gran diem with the King of Cambodia, who, when the King of Siam threatened to annex his territor3, applied to Franca for protection, and obtained it. " The fact," says the official journal, g , is the most formal contradiction that can be given to those persons who circulate alarming rumours. The Go vernment has never had the least thought of re. stricting French domination in Cochin China." The French college at Adran, confined to C a th o li c ro i s _ sionaries, is making constant progress. The adop• tion of the European alphabet has greatly facili tated primary instruction. Most of the boys now learn as much in 10 months, as the pupils under the native teachers can in ten years, A great number already read French with ease, and some of them speak it very passably. Four of the native boys al • e noW v.eting as interpreters gt MO difloont stations, The construction of the greatest of metropolitan improvements—the Thames Embankment—has at length been fairly commenced. Year after year the necessity of such a work had been pointed out, commission after commission, and committee after sommittee have sat upon, and considered, and re. ported in its favour. Martin, the painter, and Sir Frederick Trench who set up the molten image of Wellington upon the triumphal arch at Hyde-park, had called attention to the necessity and value of the work; every tourist who had seen the banks of the Seine had wondered why London should not make the banks of its noble river as ornamental as those of Paris; travellers and merchants, and trades men, who had to go from east to west in the metro polis, and who were subjected to all the annoyance and vexation of delays, in consequence of the thronged condition of the streets, wondered why the great silent highway of the Thames should not be made available as a leading thoroughfare for the metropolis. The necessity of providing for the construction of the Lew Level Sewer, with out interrupting the traffic of London for an inde. finite period, at length brought the question to an issue, and the Thames embankment is now some. thing more than a vision of the painter, or a dream of the social reformer. Long rows of piles on the north side of the river between Westminster and Blackfriars bridges, the thuds of falling weights from the pile.driving machines, and the hiss and whistle of about 30 steam engines pumping and working upon the temporary stages; the ceaseless line of carts that crawl slowly along Fleet-street and the Strand, laden with the rubbish that may now be shot into the river, bear evidence that the work is being pushed forward with rapidity. With respect to this latter portion of the works, these rubbish carts are the greatest nuisances of the day, and it is much to be desired that some wholesome police regulation could be enforced to make them " move on," or take some hours of the day when the public traffic would not be incommoded. This, however, is an improvement which is rather to be hoped for than one to be reasonably ex pected, and it is a necessary evil which we suppose must be endured while the work is in hand, for pro bably nothing short of a special Act of Parliament would put an end to the nuisance. The foundations of the river wall of the embankment are carried down to 22 feet below high water level, or 14 feet below low water. From the foundations to about six feet below low water the whole space is to be filled up with concrete. Within the embankment there is to be constructed the Low Level Sewer, and a subway for water and gas pipes and telegraph wires, access to which may be obtained at any time without breaking up the road. The Low Level Sewer, between Whitefriars-street and the Victoria street Sewer, is to be eight feet three inches in dia meter, and formed in brickwork, 134 inches thick. From the Victoria-street Sewer to Westminster. bridge the Low Level Sewer will be seven feet nine inches in the clear. At Whitefriars the invert of the sewer will be six feet three inches below what is termed ordnance datum, or 20 feet three inches below low water; the fall in the sewer will be at the rate of one in 2,640, or two feet per mile. The subway to be formed above the sewer, but with an interval of 4 feet between the bottom of the crown of the sewer, will be 9 feet in width, and 7 feet 6 inches in height, bringing the crown of the subwayto a trifle more than 2 feet below the level of the roadway, the surface of the embankment being 4ft. above high water. The floor of the subterranean way, through which the gas and the water and the electric fluid are to be conducted, will be gravelled, and will be 51t. 6in. below high water, so that ample room will be afforded for the workmen to walk through it, and to execute the necessary repairs. The river wall of the embankment is to be faced with granite from 2ft. below low water, and at high water mark there will be some bold mouldings of granite, and the parapet will be formed as en open balustrade at the parts where there are steamboat piers and landing stages. A solid mooring bar of iron will be laid along the whole length of the embankment, and to it will be attached 58 mooring rings, held in lions mouths, and to which barges, steamers, and river craft may be made fast. The dredging of the river, on the line of the river wall of the embankment, and sinking the foundations, are works of a very formid able character. The line of the face of the em bankment is formed in the first instance with sufficient accuracy for the construction of the coffer dam. The curve of the line of embankment is about 9,000 feet radius, and it is formed by offsets from lines taken from a pole set up about midway between two of the bridges to two other points on the bridges; these form an angle, and from its sides the effects are taken at every length of 50 feet, which determine the curve of the river front of the embankment. In one portion of the work, Mr Kitson, the contractor, adopts the old form of cofferdam for getting to the foundations, while in the section of Mr Furness caissons are em■ ployed. These caissons have an elliptical shape on plan, are 12ft. 6in. by 7ft. outside measurement, and have a groove 6in. in width and depth at each end. This groove, along with a similar one in the butted end of the next caisson, is to receive the timber pile which forms one of the guides to the descent of the caissons, as well as a joint, water• tight with packing. Each caisson is built in divi- sions of 4ft. 6in. in height, which aro of wrought and rivetted boilerplate iron where to be below the bed of the river, and there left in, and of cast-iron where above and intended merely to serve the pur __ pose of the cofferdam. There is a " cutting edge" at the bottom of the pile or stack; but the other joints of the caisson are formed with angle-iron, or flanges; so that the divisions can be screwed toge ther inside, and, with a packing of felt and tar to o h the joint, can be made water - tight. The thickness o is f t 5 11 e m i etal i b s y - 3 i n i c n h c , h ! s t hs b ; y t d h s the of aanngleinircohn. Th ese caissons are raised by the steam cra ne . an d dropped into the intended posit i on w o e n ig t h h t e ; r a iv n e d r b th ed is , being guided by the pile s . Thewehndh sinkspilei slightly driven tl y i b s e t l o o w t h t e h e m b u o d t t o o r m so o i f i t b h y e c i a t i s s s o o own , which pile is kept driven in advance of the sinking, so a s to form a perfect guide. The caissons are then weighted at the top and inside on the flanges by numerous blocks of iron, each of which fits the curve of the ellipse. The materials of the strata, when not too hard, are scooped out of the inside of the caisson by the eJnamon contrivance called the bag and spoon, which is used by ballast heavers. It is simply a bag made of strong leather, and attached to a scooping edge and a strong framework of iron. This spoon is drawn along by a chain, and guided by a strong pole, placed as the handle of the spoon. A modification of the usual form of bucket has been made by Mr Slater, one of the assistants of Mr Farness. This bucket has a species of false bottom, which is moved as the bucket is delivering its con. tents,whereby there is no sticking, and no duty cf the machino lost. This improved machine also in cludes an arrangement for lengthening, telescope fashion, the stretch between the centres cf revo lution, or points of filling and delivery of the buckets. The dredging contrivance scoops up . _ the gravel or other material from the middle of the elliptical space; the material from the sides keeps falling in, and the weight causes the caisson to sink. Any fresh lengths of the caisson are built on to make up the weight required. As soon as the clay is entered, or even when the mud has been passed through, the caisson can be pumped dry. By a simple contrivance, weight can be taken off at the moment when the caisson shall have sunk to the proper depth, The labour of putting together and sinking one of these caissons, it has been found, occupies a week. Of the area between the embank medt and the river side a large portion is still under water at every tide, but this area is daily becoming less by the hundreds of cartloads of earth which are tipped into the river upon this enormous rubbish - - SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIIE " SATURDAY REVIEW " ON MR. GLADSTONE IN THE RECENT SESSION.--Whether the Iliad is made up of a series of detached lays devoted to the deeds of particu!ar heroes, or whether it is an epic whole composed of successive and connected actions is a problem which has engaged the atten. tion, among many other critics, of the classical Chancellor of the Exchequer. But Mr. Gladstone's Homeric studies must have brought before him the fact that many books of the Iliad have long gone by titles connected with the specific deeds of Greek and Trojan. We have the aristeia of Diome, the aristeia of Ajax, the aristeia of Hector or of Achilles. The late Session of Parliament may well be styled the aristeia of Gladstone. He is the central figure of this single senatorial episode. The only difference between tiae epic and actual hero is that, in Homer, the particular man of war, throughout one book at least, always has the best of it. Mr. Glad stone's acts of valour have, however, had but a chequered succe-s. We must score up to him the divided honours of a good innings and a bad one. There is his Budget and his Annuity Bill on the one side, his Suffrage Extension speech and his Sheridan duel on the other. In his triumphs, he could not escape the fate of offending almost every body ; and in his worst failures, he never omitted to display his innate powers. To be sure, the late session has not exhibited Mr. Gladstone in the posi tion which he occupied last year, when, "for this night only" the leader of the House, he contrived, on the occasion of the memorable debate on the pur chase of the Exhibition buildings, to lash the Com mons into a tempest and fury of open rebellion by his bad management of a bad cause. But it may be questioned whether the imputations, or at least sus picions, of bad faith to his colleagues which have grown up in connexion with the last session have not more seriously damaged his political etanding than any solitary, however egregious, error in taste and official discretion could have done. To be only an imitator of the worst parts of Lord Russell's career is a Parliamentary disqualification for the highest office, more grave than personal petulance and a constitutional tendency to do and say even the best things in the worst temper and manner. When a statesman, in the very noon of his powers, both riEes higher and sinks lower than ever, what forecast of his future are we to make ? It may be doubted whether Mr. Gladstone ever displayed so much oratorical skill and versatility as in his speech on Mr. Disraeli's motion ; while, on the other hand, unless it had been his wish to show his powers of sinking, and his ingenuity in contriving ugly holes for the express purpose of falling into ttiein, it is hard to conceive such an exhibition of gratuitous folly as his insults to Mr Sheridan. Per. haps the radical vice of Mr Gladstone's mind is his love of large and exhaustive theories. No states man of commanding influence in these latter days has been a doctrinaire. His political father—Peel —was not the least of a theorist. Ho always lived from hand to mouth. Lord Palmereton's career has illustrated the same inglorious but most practical rule of political life. Not that Mr Gladstone is, in fact, a bit more consistent than his fellows or predecessors. N o man i n English political life can be consistent. But the point in which Mr Gladstone differs from other statesmen is, that, whatever his immediate line may be, it must always be justified by the largest, broad est, grandest general principles. Now the world hates universal propositions. Mr Gladstone could not recommend a bill about beating carpets without bringing it under a major premiss announcing some principle of e:ernel and immutable morality. Whether he really believes that everything must be ultimately redeced to a primordial law of the ma. erocosm, or whether it is only for the luxury of curvetting on the high intellectual horse, is unim portant except to those who like to study personal character ; but this habit of mind is a very unfortu nate one for its possessor. A bill empowering Government to grant small annuities might, by a commonplace person, be recommended for its very commonplace merits; but people are not only alarmed, but feel insulted, when it is preached that the whole duty of man consists in saving, that every previous ',attempt at economy has only been encou raged by thieves and robbers, and that—while Mr Sheridan, in particular, is little better than Judas —the only hope for the future destiny of mankind is to be found in a certain office in the Old Jewry. When it turned out, as it did, that the devil was not half so black as he was painted—if indeed, there was any devil in the business—the angel in troduced by Mr Gladstone met with cold welcome, and people began to doubt whether the coming spirit was bringing wreaths from heaven at all. THE "SPECTATOR " UPON THE POST-MORTEM ON DENMARK.—" The late King !" said Philip of Orleans, Regent of France,who could not endure to hear of death, to a Secretary who talked of a deceased King of Spain, " what d o y ou mean b y the late King ? " "Mais, Monseigneu r ," answere d ' the startled and pliant Secretary, "it is but a titl e they take." It is a novel role for Liberal journals to play, but the English press has all this week been acting, with less wit and less provocation, the part of the Regent's Secretary. They will not call Den mark dead,—the phrase is far too uncourtly, she is but "reduced," or to be very frank, "despoiled" of part of her territories. The nationality subsists ; the fleet remains ; the Danes can trade, and marry, and eat ; and even if Denmark has ceased to be of any consequence in the world, why, says the Times ?the happiness of nations does not depend on their importance; it is indeed often in an adverse ratio to their magnitude in their neighbours' eyes and their own." The motive of all this courtliness is plain enough. The English public does not like to remember that the power it was bound to protect has been slain under its eyes, and in the teeth of its protest, feels as it hears of the last sad ceremonies a pang which might, if the details were brought too clearly forward, change into a spasm of indignation against the advisers who have misled it. A veil therefore is stretched over the transaction, and all its little horrors con cealed. That was not (the death rattle in the patient's throat, only a stifled groan; the surgeons are using the knife, but it is not a post-mortem they are making, they only prepare for healthful ampu tation ; the patient will be greatly relieved by the loss of his legs and arm. It is pleasant no doubt to sorrowing friends to hear those smooth excuses,and their utterance is considered by many as morally justifiable, but the fact remains none the less that the life has fled, the European power called Den mark is extinct. M. de Quaade, on the Ist August, agreed at Vienna to the arrangement described by us last week, the cession of Holstein, Lanenburg, and Schleswig, with their islands, and the Danish monarchy consequently ceased to exist. There may remain for a time a little State called by the old name, and the tradition of independence may linger round it, like the smell of an eaten dinner round the table, but the reality has departed. The " Denmark" which remains is politically only a corpse, bearing still the old semblance of manhood, but utterly powerless, either for good or evil. It is a State consisting of two small islands, neither of them so large as Lincoln. shire, half a dozen islets, the largest less than Brecknock, and a peninsula little bigger than Munster, a scattered territory in all not quite half the size of Scotland, almost as bleak, much worse cultivated, and without an approach to its rich mineral wealth. The population bears about the same proportion, being 1,400,000, or rather more than a third of that of Scotland, singularly divided in all but feeling, and tainted already alike in This little and Zealand with the Germanic element. little people, just the half of the Swiss in number, resides in a country of which three-fourths ie a flat plain utterly indefensible, and the rema i nder islands defensible only by a fleet, which Denmark has no means to maintain. The Danes, we are told,. , may still have an army and a fleet, for Op eold.ors ve r y rs of the Duchies were disaffected, and their sa few, and if Schleswig and Holstein C ,n llin h a lf the ships, as they do, some more can be built in the Clyde. Is Irelan d, then, a drawback to our military strength ? Denmark may have soldiers, it is true, for she m ay drill her whole populati on , a s Switzerland does ; but for an army and a fleet it is a revenue which ia needed. And where is revenue to be obtained ? No statesmeu, sav e th e English, French, and Dutch, here ever succeeded in levying taxes to the extent of more than thirty shillings a h ea d, and that high average would leave Denmark rif -4 ; with a revenue of L 2,100,000. . , reach even that, for ono of the m a- 4ttr which the country has to strugt ;le ea 4,0 emigration, which year by year eruptie eds of their most energetic childret 1, and -which any heavy taxation would be certain ,to increase. Out of this sum she will have to pay the inte rest on a debt of £10,000,000, leaving her Lees than £1,300,000 for court, army, navy' , colonies, and in ternal administration. We may imagine in these days of ironclads the sort of fleet 3 he would be able to maintain out of the balance remaining. But Denmark, argue the men, who in weariness of the temporary paralysis of Great Bt itain are think ing that they approve of Mr. Cot' ) den'a opinions, may live witho u t fl ee t an d army. ;She may, bat it will be a life without a future, for she is not, be it remembered, under the Eteeopean guerantee- In deed if she were it would he a orthlese, for the Five Powers were solemnly pledged to mai utales the in tegrity and independence of Denmark, amt broke the pledge because it was icconveniont. The Ger man stream flaws ceaselessly :into Jtraland, the traders in Zealand are German, the enure is purely German, and once the Duthie,} a.ee gotee the rest of the monercity can be absorbed w heuevter a Prus sion Pro nter desires to etave off an unnl ?Leant in tern :i S eitzeriand exists avitte t• , , , parato without either fleet or army, but that there even steel bolts "at a pound a piece" aryl wasted on mountain sides. Denmork may avoid incessant compulsion by entering the Confedert tion, but then she becomes a Scandinavian pros ince. ; or by accepting a Russian Protectorate, but then she becomes a Russian satrapv—in any case, even the mostlfavouranle, " there is an end of an au W sang," as good Lord Belhaven said, Denmai it as a member of the European family is dead, and the only subject for speculation is the manner and time of her burial. In other words, England rather than risk her corn merciat prosperity, or risk a cessation of harmony t etween. the Court and the people, has suffered afr se Pro testant maritime State to be swept from t he map by a great despotic semi -Catholic Power. There are but two more such States in the world., Hol. land and Sweden, and either may now be attacked on the same pretexts, and with the same certainty of success. That policy may be wise, it is 'waste of time to argue in England when all the. political leaders are on one side, but at least let um acknow ledge to ourselves and the world its visibi I 3 results. THE " EXAMINER" ON A QUESTIONAR. LE CON VICTION.—We have always contended for tt to severe punishment of outrages against women, bu, I; in pro- • portion of the severity of punishment slz ould be the care and circumspection in coming to the con clusion of guilt. The charge of Miss Moody is fresh in public recollection. She accused a middlia-aged man, named Nash, of having indecently assaulted her in a carriage of the South-Western Con tpany, and she risked her life to escape from the man's. advances, real or imagined, for she got out npt to al.° ledge which runs along the side of the train, and would probably have fallen and been killed bu t-for the brave exertions of a passenger, Mr. Stoke e, of Coventry street, who supported her when 'she had lost the power of making any effort for her self-preservation. A woman would never b ave put herself in this terrible position of peril with out cause, real or fanciful, and there could not h e a doubt about Miss Moody's impression that she was in danger of insult or worse; but the question was whether that impression was warranted by Diets, or whether it was merely fanciful. The affair hap pened in the middle of the day in a train stor ping frequently. The circumstances of alarm are thus stated by the prosecutrix : " The defendant then questioned her as to how old ,she was, but she did not answer the inquiry. The defendtint then laid himself full length on the seat opposite to her, and there remained staring her full in the face. The prose cutrix then stated that she began to feel nervous and rose from her seat to open the window of the carriage with a view to get out, the train at that moment having scarcely. got into motion. The defendant said, "do not get out," an,' she closed the door and resumed her eeat. The defendamit wanted to close the window, but she objected, and stood up to prevent his doing so. While she was making the attempt to open the window she felt the defendant's band upc n her shoulder. She moved, as if annoyed, and immediate! v after wards she felt his arm round her waist. She moved again, and he then put his arm quite round her waist, an d then she felt her dress quietly raised in front. She then turned round, and, taking up her parasol and bag, opel led the carriage door and got out upon the ledge that tuns from one carriage to another. It is remarkable that in such a moment of terror Miss Moody thought more of her parasol and bag than of her own personal safety. Sho carefully secured those a rticles before she risked her life for her honour. The profit •ass of nervous alarm is clearly traceable in the above evic fence. Nash, probably a rude man, stared his fellow-passenger in the face, which made her feel nervous, and she roseto leave the carriage, which he, possibly repenting of his bad srt en ters, begged her not to do. There was next a little struggle about the window, and it is very conceivable that the la, an, seeing that she wanted the window open because of .ter fear of him, might have prevented her opening it withe ut any bad design, and merely not to let her have her wayt'n her suspicions of him. As for laying the hand on th shoulder and the waist, there are classes with whom these acts are not considered as necessarily liberties, and though Miss Moody was not one of these free-and-easy classes the man Nash might be. she therefore may have thought much of what he, of coarse habits, thought little. But the next is the material point. ?'liss Moody felt her dress quietly raised, but what was there to connect Nash with the motion of the dress ? Absolutely nothing. 'Who travels by rail or omnibus without seeing crinolines lifted without hands ? It is a dress of self-exposure. Any unequal pressure deranges it, and in Miss Moody's struggle for the window she may un consciously have given the motion to her dress which she, with a foregone conclusion in mind, attributed to Nash. She was in the state of excitement in which there is little attention to cause and effect. For having put the girl in that fright Nash deserved some punishment, but hardly the sentence dealt out to him, ruinous to a man in his condition. And whatever view may be taken of the case, the verdict is absurd and unjust; for it convicts the man of a common assault, and not of the indecent attempt charged in the first count of the indictment. Now clearly if there was no in decent assault the man was guiltless altogether. There was indecent assault, or no assault whatever. To what insig nificance, indeed, is the case reduced if stripped of all the alleged circumstances of indecency. Let the crinoline be underanged, and the facts of the common assault would be laying a hand on the shoulder and waist—assaults com mitted in every ball-room. The acts were freedoms unper missible, undoubtedly, but the jury did not regard them as indecent liberties; and considered merely as freedoms, and vulgar freedoms, they did not amount to assault in any sense of the word. But for this Nash is sentenced to im prisonment with hard labour for nine months I If the man was guilty of the indecency charged, ho deserved four times that measure of punishment; but if all that part of the charge against him was false or fanciful, a ninth part of the punishment assigned would be sufficient for an offence more of bad manners than =rills. The truth seems to be that the Court was perplexed, and made one of the bad compro mises frequent in doubtful cases. The jury could not find grounds for conviction on the serious charge, nor were they disposed to acquit altogether; so, as they could not find indecency, they found assault in acts not of the character of assault rather than let the prisoner escape altogether. This is not justice, and we think the case deserves the at tention of the Home Office. THE LONDON REVIEW ON INlExteo.—The Emperor and Einpress of Mexico have entered their capital, and have met with a right imperial welcome. Whatever may be the origin of the new throne, there seems every reason to believe that it offers to the country the prospect of a stable and regular Government. All classes of the people seem rally.• ing around it; and, although the authority of the new monarch is now actually established in large portions of his dominions, there is no doubt that he will be as readily welcomed there, as he has been elsewhere, as soon as the marauding bands of Juarez are dispersed. Such, indeed, is the confidence of the Emperor Maximilian and his Minis ters in their ability to accomplish the speedy pacification of the country, that the last of the French troops are on the point of leaving. Under these circumstances our acknow ledgment of the new empire ought not to be long delayed. We have none but the best wishers for its prosperity; since anything which tends to develope the recources and in, crease the commerce of Mexico must redound to our ad, vantage. It has long been clear that the Mexicans w ere wholly unfit for republican institutions. We have acknow ledged President after Presiden t, onl y to see th e conqueror of to-day become the conq ueror of to-morro w. Pro:Ably few of the military chiefs,wha have successively seiz e d th e reigns of government during the last few ye ars, exercised anything like substant ial authority over a more extens i ve tract of country than now owns the sw ay of the Emperor 'le'sbtere chance is certainlyno one in arm s aga i ns t him success, I\wliathximthielitialnig.h t THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN IN BRITAIN.—A new measurement of Ben Meedhui and the other moun tains of the Cairngorm group, has just been made by the Royal Engineers presently engaged upon that part of the Ordnance Survey of Scotland. Bon Macdhui, which was formerly supposed to be 4,390 feet in height, is now sot down at nearly ICO feet less than that—viz., 4,296. Some years since. Ben Macdhui was supposed to be 17 feet higher than Ben Nevis, the height of which was then pat down at 4,373. Ben Macdhui was therefcre at that time authorita tively stated to be the highest mountain in Britain. Since then, however, the tables have taken a turn, and Bin Nevis would now appear to be by far the highest of the two. The Ordnance survey of Ben Nevis, so far as we are aware, has not yet been made, but taking its height at the old rneasurc rient of 4,373 feet, and Ben Macdhui at its newly arm,. tained height—viz., 4,296 feet, Ben Nevis appears by Lis calculation to be 77 feet higher than the highest of the Grampian range. The difference is still greater in favour of Ben Nevis .f we accept its height as being 4,40 G, as marked in a map lately published by Messrs Chambers in Milner's "Gallery of Geography. Braersich is set down in the now survey at 4,218. Cairtoul, which Was formerly believed to be 4,245 feet in height, is now taken down five feet, and made 4,240. The height vt Beu:thourd is fixed at 3,923 feet.--.E7ain Courant. T HE MARLBOROUGH CLUB COMPANY tLimitedl, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that this Club will be opened for the reception of its Members on FRIDAY, the 12th day of August. S. O. RATTENBURY, Hon. Secretary. Registered Office of the Company, 6, John-street, Bedford row, W.C.