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rt. ALBERT SIVIITFI'S MONT BLAND, including the BERNESE OBERLAND and the SIAIPLON, rilg EY ENING, and Every Evening at Eight o'Clock, (excep, RtlTuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Mornings, at Three. ' 33) (which can be taken at the box-office every day from II ; ar ea. 25 .; gallery, Is.—Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. • WILL CLOSE on SATURDAY Next.— li. SOCIETY of PAINTERS in WATER COLOURS. Th e f tiein Annual EXHIBITION at their Gallery, 5, Pall-mall East, ern Nine till Dusk.—Admittance Is. ; Catalogue 6d. JOSEPH J. JENKINS, Secretary. RATIONAL FESTIVAL, in Celebration of the UNION between ENGLAND and FRANCE.—A MEET ING of the GENERAL COMMI TTEE for conducting this Fest i val r°i be held, b y permission of the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion use, on FRIDAY NEXT, for the purpose of taking into consider -1.1b3n the most convenient period for holding the same. A full attend ance is desirable. The LORD MAYOR will take the Chair at 2 o'clock precisely. By order, GEORGE SEDGWICK, Sec. NATIONAL FESTIVAL, in Celebration of the ,UNION between ENGLAND and FRANCE.—The object of !"!1, 7 proposed Festival is to cultivate the amicable relations now ex "mg h the French nation, by inviting to this country some of the ~m ost , distinguished u .en connec t e d wi th l eg i s l a ti on , arts, s c ience, lit erature, commerce, and agriculture, and facilitate their acquaint " Pee with what is worthy of their observati , m and admiration, and t de monstrate to the world the great advantages of the alliance now a PPily subsisting between the two nations, an alliance the con "finance of which is eminently calculated to accomplish and to pro iote, In all cou n t r i es , th e permanency o f peace an d I :s consequen t ble ssings', order, prosperity, and happiness. S ubscriptions alreidy announced, 4 , 7501. 10s. The arrangements for the Festival must depend upon the amount of t he'subscriptions, which will be received by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor (the Treasurer), and by the following Bankers :—Mastcr- L a n. and Co. ; London and Westminster Bank ; Smith, Payne, and s miths; London Joint stock Bank ; Hanburys and Lloyds; Davies and C o.; Twining and Co ; Berries, Farquhar, and Co.; Scott and Co . National Royal-British Bank ; Williams, Deacon, and Co. ; and the Bank of Ireland ; also at 20, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, Where every information of the proposed Festival maybe obtained. By order, GEO. SEDUWICK, Sec. LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN and MIDLAND RAILWAY,;, NOTTINGHAM RACES, On THURSDAY and FRIDAY, 20th and 21st July. 'slued Day Tickets, and Ordinary Ist and 2d Class Day T Station e a 9th, t o NOTTINGHAM, are available for return by any train on the 20th, 2 1st, and 22d instant. The 6.15 a.m. train from Euston arrives at Nottingham at'lo.o a.m. the 9.a0 a.m. at 1.15 a.m. • By order. July 11, 18.54, ISLE OF WIGHT CHEAP EXCURSIONS.- ; S OUTH-WERTERN RAILWAY.—By the Excursion Trains t v ~T_ SUNDAY Morning at 7.45 from Waterloo Station, THROUGH s t WRN TICKETS are limed to the ISLE OF WIGHT, via , AMPTON, for COWES, or PORTSMOUTH, for RI DI.. Pare s: _ c osed Carriages, Bs. ; Seated Open Carriages, 55., which include all pier dues and s eamboat fares, but not conveyance between the railway stations and piers. The Return Tickets from f•Yde will not be available via ('owes and Southampton, nor those from Cowes via Ryde and Portsmou'h. THROUGHOUT TICKETS betwixt LONDON and RYDE, via 4tORTSMO also issuellTH, PORTSE A, and GOSPO tat RT ion, available for aces, , 3 ,' 3 1 are d daily at Waterloo S, at following 36 mil include all pier dues, omnibus and steamboat fares. lst Class, ; 2d Class, 275. Bd. Single Journey Fares-Ist Class, 20s 6d. ; 2 d Class 153. Gcl. Waterloo ARCHD. SCOTT, Traffic Manager. Station, July, 1854. CONTRACT FOR KNAPSACKS AND KNAPSACK SLINGS FOR THE ROYAL MARINES. Department of the Comptroller for Victualing and Transport Services, Somerset-place, 15th July, 1854. THE Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain athe nd Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on FRIDAY, 21st instant, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with I : l l FhPersous as may be willing to con tract for supplying and delivering Lo her Majesty's - Victualing Stores at Deptfor p d, KNAPSACKS AND KNAPSACK SLINGS, For the Use of the Royal Marines, under a Contract for 12 Months "' l ain, and afterwards until the expiration of 3 Months' warning. .. fi The conditions of the Revised Contract may be seen at the said ‘ s i ee, and Patterns of the articles at the Marine Office, New-strei t, D r ing - ardens, between the hours of 11 and 2. No lender will be re ceived after One o'clock, on the day of treaty, nor any noticed, unless made on the printed form provided for the purpose, and n hibh May be obtained on application at the said office. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, a nd bear in the left-hand corner the words Tender for Knap sacks, &c.," and must also be delivered at Somerset-place. RAMPANT HORSE FAMILY and COMMER c [XL ITOTE L.—C R ISTOP I I ER TWISS, on Retirin.; from e above Hotel, begs leave respectfully to return his most sincere t hanks for the support he has met with for the last 26 years, and to for his successor, Mr. ROBT. LOUTH, a continuance of the same favours. ROBERT LOUTH, late of the ANGEL HOTEL, Abergavenny, begs respectfully to inform the otollity, Clergy, Gentry, Agriculturists, Commercial Gentlemen, and the Citizens of Norwich, that he has taken the above Hotel, and 110 Pes by strict personal attention to obtain the honour of their Patronage and support. He proposes to give the utmost attention to the (itality of every article supplied to his customers, and no effort will be spared by him self or Mrs. Louth to promote the comfort of the guests who may stay in the Hotel. The sitting rooms and bed rooms are airy, lofty, and commodious, and the stables are not to be surpassed for room, ventilation, and c onvenience liarupaut Horse Hotel, Norwich, July, 1854. LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLE Rooms, (Lessee, CHAS. C. LAITHENT, Onslow-house, Fulham-road), The above Rooms are now OPEN FOR THE SEASON. and will continue open every evening, .with LAURENT'S C . IZ I.EBRATED BAND. Constantinople Quadrille, Sultan Polka, Mr Star Waltz, and Overland Mail Galop, by D'Albert ; also, by H. !Trent , the following Waltzes - La belle Frangalse, Leonora, Villi s and his Dinah, Admission, Is. Doors open at half-past 8. bitneing to commence at 9 o'clock, and terminate at half-past 11. PATRON-11.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT. R E -OPENING of the ROYAL POLY TECHNIC INSTITUTION, Under Entirely New Management. Mr. J. IL PEPPER, the Resident Director, begs leave to inform the Public that the Institution having undergone great Alterations and Improvements is again open to Visitors. Among the most Prominent of the New Facts in Science which will be Lectured on by Mr. Pepper, are Mons DUROSCZ'S splendid EXPERIMENTS In OPTICS with the ELECTRIC LIGHT. ..._LECTURES by Dr. BACCIMOFFNER on the Pl' URALITY of WORLDS, illustrated by ASTRONOMICAL DIAGRAMS —Courses 01 LLCTuR S are being arranged for the INDUSTRIAL CLASSES, Nidlowill be admitted on advantageous terms.—A PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY for taking PORTRAITS, and for TEACHING the ART, is l'ew open, under the direction of Mr. SCOTT. The CHEMICAL k,‘ I3O RA.TORY is open for Pupils and Analyses. The OXY-HY tiOGEN MICROSCOPE and objects will be explained. .• 'A. new Series of DISSOLVING VlEWS — after TURNER—illus trating the Scenery on the banks of the River Loire, In France. The views of else Seat of War in the BALTIC and the BLACK SEA Will also be shown. Demonstrations in Mechanics, and Explanations of Models by Mr. JOHNS, The Venti atien and the Purification and Combustion of the Gas have been perfected under Mr. LESLIE'S Pe- T EN Ts and his personal direction. A Band of Music, conducted by Mr. Wenn, of the Royal Italian ._P i eras Stalls have been erected in the Theatres which may be re in ned the whole day or evening. Admission, Is. Stalls, 2s. Schools and Children under Ten years of age half-price. 7 O pen daily from 11 till 5, and every evening except Saturday, from ~,, 10 o'clock. k-)ESTION EASILY ANSWERED.- It every question could be easily and satisfactorily answered, th e, business o f th e wor ld wou ld b e carr i e d on w ith h a lf the ordinary ;`,., ° ,,Uble and expense. Questions often require vast outlay to answer time to settle. As Russians have not satisfactorily answered questions of natioral right, they must pay dearly for the experiment. Would be difilculi to answer for the weather—Wet or D' y?—but t . i !,,,eftsY and inexpensive to prepare for it at the establishment of C ''''' CI SES and SON. A s everybody knows how far E. MOSES and '. 0 1.1 can excel all others in their line of business, and everybody else Z 1" what that line of business is, allow us for once to answer for e ,, nn • E. MOSES and SON make tho.e kinds of Dress which display the suits or 'guest order of fashion, taste, comfo , t, and eernomy—they sell, in single garments, the Attire which is approved by every one, ri suits the season in every respect. They are the Tailors of the Porting D MY Navy, and the Professions, the Manufacturers of Liveries. ress, Habits, &c. In each brauch E. NOSES and :/ 1 have the lead for Style, Elegance, Comfort, and Economy. eaY have the reatest vae'y of fashions in Jvenile Atire, and 1;7 1 " d any que g stion they n have produced the u most pop t ular and sl actory articles which were ever off. red, They are Hatters and osiesr, having th e newest f ash i ons, t h e r i chest an d mos t use f u l Igtle there is, therefo re , no ques ti on a b ou t ever y one being able to the most profitable selection at their establishment. or their Nest- end branch. They are Wholesale Merchants, Outfitters, and lo thing, Shirts, oft3Porters to all parts of the world. They have the 'argest Stock Boots and Shoes, &c.; for the Colonies or the Trade ; and the question of profits, without the possibil ty of g their be easily -ettled by Merchants, Captains, and others inspect good, which are unrivalled for superiority and Cheapness. -r 1 ...0 1 LIST S of OUTFITS for Ladies and Gentlemen, with ship. '4lj9g information, gratis on application, or post free. Atib l"l" .—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the Le against imposition, having learned that the untradesman-like th. e ..._" 01 of " Being connected with their Establishment," or " It's 2rious reasons, ,b-_,7,4me cement," has been resorted to in many instances, and for they beg to state that they have 4.0 CONNEXION WITII ANT OTIIEI HOUSE IN Olt OUT OF LONDON, 1 , except their own Establishments, as follows :- 85 - ":" (4 1 City Establishment, 154, 155. 156, and 157, Minories, 84, 1." 86 , Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. London West -end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,2, • ~x,and 3 , Hart-st ree t , a ll conimu i ca ti ng . "Wit°r d (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 and 20, Bridge-streets Shefli eld Branch, 36, Fargate. Coloni al_Wholesale Branch, Melbourne, Australia. thoeerchant rano:, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosters, Furriers, Boot and / 'W alt era and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. t „2 4 , PORTAN'T.—ShouId any article not give satisfaction, it will be 3la hesitationed or, if preferred, the money will be returned without All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest price, tr om which no a b atement can b e ma d e. T he p li t e urd!ys Estab lishments are closed from sunset on Fridays to sunset utt s when busi ness i s resume d till 12 o ' c l oc k. mon:, containing W Book, with illust ra ti ons , un ti t l e d" Th e E c h o o f P a bli c Opi full lists of prices, our system of self-measure malt. Btc., &c.. may be had on application, or post-free. Ici l 011 Paris Francais. Mier apricht man Deutsch. Qui si parla Itallano. Aqua sa halite Espano. T EE-,. SEC RET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. unfit published, price 25., Illustrated with cases ; free by post for 30 stamps, E RVOUS DEBILITY; , tit Its Causes, Symptoms, and Cure.—An Essay on Sper su,p°2lll,eee, with Practical Observations on a safer and more g -- ,`"all mode of treatment of the diseases of the Generative ar.„,ein. obtained by the use of the Microscope in detecting and '''nguishing, by urinary examination, the real 'muse and effect of every v excess, ariety of compl a i n t, w h e th er ar i s i ng f ro m solit ar y h a bi ts, , accident, or c li mate, followe d b y pract i ca l remarks, founded lt,"',"t, en tY Years' experience in the treatment of Impuissance, Nett Debility, Local Weakness, Spermaturrhrea M , &e. To which e . e added, Commentaries on the Physiology of arriage, with pro and hints on th e ev i ls emanating from emp i r i ca l pract i ce, thesen the d nt disorders. angerous remedies advocated by various writers on I MPerta ctor of M edicine. By SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D. b o 37, BEDFORD -SQUARE, LONDON, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin- Zirgh onusonorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, te of A.pothecaries' Hall, London, &c &e. " Theessential object eOl this treatise is to point out the fearful con 11Aucebncheas retulting.from certain habits, irregularities and excesses, hood, andve produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man other classPorierrdriasture decay at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, any particularly r ease known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is their physical condition, to persons entertaining secret doubts of the health and who are conspious of having hazarded happiness, and privileges being is entitled.eges to which every human It is absolute] principles of personal y neeeZrY thatall men should know, that there are Penalti l e a s " incurring grievous ment which cannot be violated without the heyday of inconsider,&arsul when wisdom and regret succeed May be mitigated, how the Sling of th e . r and how the evil and it s consequenc bitterness may be removed, that there is scarcely any degre e e f Physical infirmity es may be avoided, and above all, derangement to which the timel y years obf scienceeeii engaged c n n cannot o a a r p n p f 7:3 ' x ' i l at n e t ° t s t l i r i , a e , e i . Practice in the treatment of these de teats complaints, which are U nfortunately teen too generally co ed to the care of ignorant e Mpirics, who inflict great injury orinthose who are induced to place faith in their pretensions. May be had, price 2s, of Messrs. Piper, NERVOUS DEBILITY -Brothers, and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hom e s 1, Leicester-square; ups,:to any address kann, 39, Cornhill ; or free by post for thirty s ' t from the Author's residence, 37, B edford-square! ' At hotaa 44 till (QC conaultatlou claily (NM ltilenia till T R. l ll l lts Wor slid from NO. 19,285.] PUBLICATIONS. Now Ready, in Two Vols. Bvo, with Portraits, 235. bound, MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF GENERAL SIR W. NOTT, G.C.8., COMMANDER OF THE ARMY OF C &LIAR. " This work is at once a graphic picture of -Sir W. Nott's career, and a noble monument of his fame. The volumes form a valuable contribution to the biographical stores of the age. To the young sol dier in particular they will form a most valuable guide, worthy to be placed by the side of the Despatches of the great Duke of Welling ton."—Messenger. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn. Foolscap Octavo, 45., LE TELLIER'S FRENCH GRAMMAR adapted for English Teaching. By J. WATTEZ, one of the French Masters, King's College School. Second Edition, 2s Gd., COLLOQUIAL EXERCISES on FAMILIAR IDIOMS of the FRENCH LANGUAGE. By J. P. WATTEZ. London: John W. Parker and Son, West Strand, Ur der the Sanction of the Committee of Pi ivy Council on Education, WRITING MANUAL, 2s. 6d. WRITING MODELS (Elementary Set.) 2s. Gd. WRITING MODELS (Second, I hird and Fourth Sets.) Is. each, WRITIN4 BOOKS. 2s. per dozen. London : John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. EXTRAORDINARY MECHANICAL MODELS, MR. BECK, Dentist, begs to call attention to his Anatomical Models for developing the structure of Arti ficial Teeth, (true to nature and in full action for mastication and articulation), fixed from one tooth to a complete set, as exhibited at the Paris Exposition. Single Tooth, 10s. ; Set, 101. and 201. *** 47, Great Russell-street, opposite the British Museum, London. COMPULSORY VACCINATION. - READ the LETTER 4 addressed to the BRI FISH COLLEGE of HEALTH on the above important question, which may be had gratis,-or by post on forwarding a postage stamp to the BRITISH COLLEGE of HEALTH, New-road, London. DR. DE JONGH'S LIGHT DROWN COD LIVER OlL.—The most effectual remedy for CONSUMP TION, BRONCHITIS. ASTHMA, GOUT, REIEUMATISM, and all SCROFULOUS COMPLAINTS. Pure and unadulterated, contain ing all its most active and es , entlalprinciples—ellecting a cure much more rapidly than any other kind. Prescl - ibed by the most eminent medical men, and supplied to the leading hospitals of Europe. llalf pint bottles, 2s. Gd. ; pints, 4s, 9d., IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wholesale and Retail depot, ANSAR, HARFORD, and CO., 77, Strand. BARON LIEBIG on ALLSOPP'S PALE ALE.—" I am myself an admirer of this beverage, and my own experience enables me to recommend it, in accordance with the opinion of the most eminent English physicians, as a very agree able and efficient tonic, and as a general beverage, both for the invalid ana the robust.—Giessen, May 6. ALLSOPP'S PALE ALE ONLY is BOTTLED by PARKER and TWINING, Beer Merchants, 516, PALL-HALL. I HPER lAL MEASURE.— Quarts, Bs.; Pints, 55.; Half-pints (for luncheon), 3s. per dozen, Also in Casks of 16 gallons and upwards. AUTlON.—Messrs. ALLSOPP and SONS „J find it necessary to caution the Public, and especia'ly Shippers of their Ales to the C ,, lonies, aga;nst frauds committed by parties in selling spurious 1, les for those of Messrs. Allsopp and Sons mensrs. ALLSOPP and S9NS have felt comp, lied by the extent to which this disgraceful practice has been carried, to proceed in several cases by obtaining irjunctions from the Court of Chancery, and leave ultimately been driven to prosecute criminally for the com mission of this offence. They beg to c.lll attention to the Cast of the QUEEN V. GRAY and GOSLIN, In which I.6rd Camplell sentenced the parties charged to " Twelve Months' Imprisonment, with Hard Labour."—Vide " Times" and " Morning Advertiser," of the 18th May. Messrs. ALLSOPP and SONS will thank all persons having rea son to doubt the genuineness of any article sold under their name, to send them the earliest information, in order that immediate steps may be taken for prosecuting the parties. Me , srs. ALL<OPP and SONS will be happy to furnish the names of respectable houses, where a supply of their Ales may be depended on as genuine from the Brewery. Brewery, Burton-on•Trcnt. TRIESEMAR, protected by Royal Letters Patent of England, and secured by the Seals of the Ecole de Pharmacie do Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TRIESEUAR, No. Is a remedy for Relaxation, Spermatorrhcea, and Exhaustion of the System. TRIESEMAR, No. 2, effectually, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely eradicates all traces of those Disorders which Capivt and Cubebs have so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health of a vast portion of the population. TIiIESE]IAR, No. 3, le the great Continental Remedy for that class of Disorders, which unfortunately the English physician treats with Mercury, to the in evitable destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all the sarsaparilla in the world cannot remove. TRIESEMA Et, No. I, 2, and 3, are alike devoid of gate or smell, and of all nauseating qualities. They may lie on the toilet table without their use being suspected. Sold in tin cases at I Is. each, free by post, 2s. extra, divided into separate doses, as administered by Valpeau, LaDemand, Roux, &c., &c.—To be had Wholesale and Retail in London of Robert John ton, 68, Conahill ; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street. ELEGANT PERSONAL REQUI 'TES. 'ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OlL.—The suc cessful results of the half century have proved beyond ques tion, that this unique discovery possesses peculiarly nourishing powers in the growth, restoration, and improvement of the Human Hair. In the growth of the Beard. Whiskers, Eyebrows, and Mus tachios, it is unfailing in its stimulating operation. Prio.e 3s Gd., 7s , or Family Bottles (equal to four small), 10s. Gd., and double that size, 21s. ROWLAND'S ICALYDOR.—An Oriental Bo tanical Preparation of unfailing efficacy in thoroughly puri fying the skin from all pimples, spots, redness. Fre skies. Tan, and disco!orations, in producing a healthy freshness and transparency of complexion, and a softness and delicacy of the hands and arms. Price 4s. 6d. and Bs. 6d. per battle. ROWLAND'S ODONTO, or PEARL DENTI FRICE, a white Powder, Prepared from Oriental H'rbs with unusual care, and of inestimable value in preserving and beautify ing the Teeth. strengthening the Gums. and in giving sweetness and perfume to the breath. Price 2s. 9d. per box. Beware of Spurious Imitations ! The only genuine of eac h b ear the name of " itowland's " preceding that of the article on the wrapper or label. Sold by A. RowLANb &SoN s 2 a o n , d H p a e t r t f o u n me G rs a . rden, London, and by Chemists GR AVESEND STAR PACKETS. No other Packets call at the Oreenhithe, and Purfleet Piers. NOTICE. —D tY TICKETS are batted upon the Gravesend Star Packet=, available for return by them or by the Lonion and Tilbury Railway; the Return Tickets by the Rai.Way will also be available for return by the Star Packets. The Packets call at the Piers as underlined (weather permi FROM TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND. Terrace Fier Direct Trains from t Omnibuses from Fe very quarter of an ho BRUNSWICK W [IAA lowing Train, WEEK DAYS. the Boats marked f enchurch-street Station to all parts of London BF, BLA.CKWALL, on the arrival of the lol ls from the Fenchurch-street Station. WEEK DAYS. SUNDAYS. a.. ,11 t 5 Fen- 5 15 1 - 2 " 4 6 g. '-;‘' Fen- f , , :P. 1,) '4 - A ,t) ~ church .. T - "a' -, 1 ~., church t. 5 ~, - a Street 4 8 0 e> Street A 8 t 1-4 '" 7 8 _ _ _ . _ .-- . _. . lob— 9% 814. ioii — — 11 y, loyi 12 4 11 21,4 —1% 4 1S 2 1 4 +5)4 3% , 6% 5 • 6 1 /, Passages marked * are direct. Fore Cabin. Saloon. To or from Gravesend and L0nd0n.......... 10d. .. Is. 2d. „ Gravesend and Blackwall or Woolwich Bd. .. Os. 10d. Between Gravesend and Intermediate Piers.. 6d. .. Os. Bd. BOAT TICKETS.—TweIve Months, 5.. 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. Fast and superior Packets to be Let for Excursions. Apply to Mr. W. Morgan, Agent, Star Company, Star Office, Fenchurch strcet Terminus, Blackwall Railway. July 1. Ixs• . SERIOUS COLLISION AND LOSS OF LIFE. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.—The Royal Mail steam-ship Canada, Captain Stone, from Boston, brought informa tion of the loss of two first-class Liverpool ships— the Trade Wind, of New York, from Mobile to Liverpool, and the Olympus, from Liverpool to Boston—with a loss of 24 lives. No further particulars were received ; but the arrival of the American ship Empire, from New York this morning, has placed us in possession of a more detailed account of the unfortunate disaster. Captain Zeraga reports having, on the Ist inst., in lat. 42 N., long. 58 W. fallen in with the foremast of the Trade Wind, with one man upon it, who had been in that position for six days, and all he had for nutriment during that period was a small piece of tobacco. Capt. Zeraga immediately lowered the boat, which being manned, put off to the wreck, when the man swam off to her. He reported that the unfortunate ships came in collision at 10.30 p.m. on the 24th June, and that both vessels had finally disappeared on the 25th, at 7 a.m. He states that the first and second mates, with about twenty hands and all the passengers of the Trade - Wind, got into the long-boat. The captain and several of the crew of the Trade Wind were picked off pieces of the wreck during the same evening by a barque bound to the eastward. Two men took refuge on the foremast with the man saved, but they died before relief came, of exhaustion. The rescued man does not know how many parties were saved from the Olympus, but immediately after the collision the captain and crew jumped on bolrd the Trade Wind. In a short time afterwards the captain and four men endeavoured to return to their ship in the Trade Wind's jolly boat, but the Olympus sank before they reached her. These are all the particulars at present known, but in all probability the arrival of the Atlantic from New York, due on Wednesday, will place full information in our hands. The Olympus sailed from this port on the 23d May for Boston, with a general cargo, 24 passen gers, and 20 seamen, under the command of Captain Wallace. The Trade Wind, Captain Smith, cleared from Mobile on the sth June with a number of passen gers and 4,857 bales of cotton on freight, < / y ,y, ,/z" -- ' . . 41111116- k. . . . , , ii; ' 1 ,...i , ; ' :,;., , • -4. ''.' . 7 1. ~ II i ..., • -. .., '/ . ... 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" ~,...1- 6 1 - ..,. -., ~.., *-,..-.: ...:,' • ..--- - 1 / 4 ~ ..7 4,0; 0 4t ' 3 l; k ' ..A, •-•-..:4zraat'l LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, J ULY 18, 1854. AUSTRALIA. to mark its attainment by a demonstration that might have awakened ill-feeling in what is now the minority of the population. The Swan River, or Western Australia, is now the only part of the continent to which transpor tation is continued. " The Turon Golden Ridge Quartz-crushing Company held its adjourned half-yearly meeting on the 23th April, under new and peculiar difficulties. A dispute as to tenancy has occurred between the owner of the premises the company ocoupy as offices and the Sydney Build ing Society, which sublet them to the Turon Golden Ridge Quartz Company. The landlord has locked up the iooms and looked out the company. Half-a-dozen actions and cross-actions have been commenced in the Supreme Court, and, till they are decided, the company is deprived of its books, share-list, accounts, and papers. Under these circumstances, the directors could only pre sent a supplementary report, which, in itself, was not very promising. The first opinion taken of the speci mens of the , quartz ft:om the ridge was unfavourable, and the directors; therefore, doubted the expediency of spending any more of the company's capital. But an other professional gentleman, by whom they were as sayed, having reported that they are likely to produce an average of 31 oz, to the ton of quartz, the directors asked the authority of the shareholders to purchase one of Berdan's crushing and amalgamating machines, by which it is believed the ridge may be worked at a profit. The shareholders present were disposed to accede to the proposal, but as no ballot could be taken without the share-list, and that could not be obtained, the meeting was adjourned till June, when it is hoped the actions at law will have been settled ; the company itself has no thing to do with them. " The Roman Catholic Archbishop of New South Wales, in consequence of letters received by the over land mail, left by the Chusan on her return for Malta and Rome. It is supposed his Grace has been called to the centre of Catholic unity,' to answer or explain certain charges made against him there respecting his administration of the affairs of his diocese. A few days after his departure a public meeting of the Catholic in habitants of Sydney was held in the cathedral, at which some of these charges were described and disproved by the Archbishop's friends, Mr. Justice Therry, who pre sided, and the Attorney-General. Reports, it appears, have reached high places at Rome, and received credence there, that Dr. Pold;ng has shown a reluctance to re ceive Irish secular priests into the diocese, and that the `mission' is, consequently, in a state of spiritual destitu tion ; also, that he has supported institutions not con tributive to the true and best interests of religion. The worst part of the case is, that some person unknown has been base enough to break open the Archbishop's desk and steal various letters and papers, of which garbled extracts and copies have, it is alleged, been forwarded to Rome. To this fact Mr. Justice Therry referred in a tone of t s rong indignation. He said the mere entertaining of charges, without disclosing the names of the witnesses supporting them, was revolting to every man's sense of natural justice.' But he might have added, for the instruction of his audience, that it is a very usual Roman and Italian practice. The Attorney-General spoke quite as strongly, regretting that the informer and purloiner of n e d to e n t h h i s e h il a ne Holy ys See for wasappro secutiondapert adopted d w f a h o s y r n t f o h e t l e o k n n n y o i .ewe known meeting, t p i l taioc praying the Father of the Faithful to decline the acceptance of the Archbishop's resignation, should it be tendered, in consequence of these accusations, as it is supposed it will be. " the o practising in London and. Devon port, in consequence of I T ie h e e ne j e ud e g f e A s lrc f j t a h m e ee S H up u r s e h m a e nd C , o n ur s t el h ie a i v te e r s , u f s e p rm en e d r e ly d action, Husband v. Gilchrist,' recen tly tried h some circumstances that app e ared in evidence er. e in an Gilchrist had arrested the plaintiff in England, had fol lowed him to the colony, and sued him for debt ; the plaintiff brought a counter-action for false imprisonment in England, and got only a farthing damages. "At the halt -yearly meeting of the Bank of New South Wales, the report stated the sum of 66,497/. 17s. was available for division. A dividend of 10 per cent. was declared, amounting to 40,0001., the sum of 20,0001. was added to the reserve fund, and 6,497/. 17s. was car ried forward for the equalisation of future dividends. The notes in circulation amount to 577,4791. ; the de posits on the 31st of March were 2,064,2041. The re port adds that the business of the bank has steadily in creased ; it has established a branch at Kyneton, in the immediate neighbourhood of the Victoria gold fields, and a new agency at Sandhurst, the township of the Bendigo diggings. ' grasp of a country and so complete a control Over all its interests. The paltry terms that must be employed in describing or discussing the system of tenure in Aus tralia have in some degree averted attention from its magnitude and power. Under the almost ignominious name of 'Squatter,' by which is generally understood the miserable encroacher on the skirts of a common, or the small settler of Western America, it is difficult to figure the holder of hundreds of square miles of territory, and a member of the numerically small IsJily that keeps in its hands, for pasturage only, an area containing 26,000 square miles more than the surface of Eng land, Wales, and Scotland, together. The present number of Squatters in the province of Victoria is stated to be 666 ; in 1849 the collective body, then pro bably rather less in number, held among them 73,360,000 acres ! Again; the lands in their occupation are, even in official despatches and orders, very impro perly called waste,' which means rejected and in ferior, and creates an impression that they are valueless; that impression the Squatters themselves have not dis couraged ; but it is notorious the stations include mil lions of acres as good as any land in the colony. When the cattle of a run are to be sold (the-lease of the station going with the stock) the land is described by the lessees as of the highest quality ; rich alluvial tracts, fertile plains, green savannahs, and thousands of acres of the most luxuriant grass, are heard of in districts supposed to produce only a scorched and scanty herbage, of which it requires five acres for the existence of a sheep. The colony requires exploring in the pastoral region as well as in the perfectly unknown interior, for the very nature of the soil in the intermediate' and unsettled' dis tricts, is still a subject of controversy. To the public, as it contains the unwelcome purchasers of freeholds, the organs of the Squatters describe the soil as arid and unblest, on which any attempt to settle would be lunacy; yet every station has its cultivation paddock,' often more than one, producing good crops ; and to most of the houses a garden is attached, '• well stocked with fruit trees,' and frequently with vines.' The gardens of the Squatters in the hitherto unknown district of the Murray were, when discovered by Captain Catlett's expedition up the river, described as sections of Paradise, teeming with an abundance of produce that the inhabitants of the two capitals, with all their wealth, only see in their dreams. It may be supposed that these gardens and paddocks are not only the spots among thousands of acres capable of cultivation, yet in the official and legal language of the colony, all the surface is alike waste.' Even the Go vernment, which has its own surveyors and district land a i y, commissione rs , appeared to have accepted the Squatters ' crossedet were a alarmed soil growing e g s rich lestich up lowlands'the t t z r head-quarterso new ov Fitzroy, that th e l an d i s useless for any purpose save pas turage ; and th ere i s a kind of fear of a better opinion of C. the m g ofe governor K e i r n s g h 's e - u p l l d ain i s m , bi a b f e te -t r ee a states in his work, Our Antipodes,' that, when ac companying his t Colonel e r is 1 846, Mundythey heavy rain, and it was easy t o see t h at t h e S quatters high an idea of the natural wealth of the soil, and thus form too low an estimate of the risks and difficulties of their position, with reference to his future legislation.' " This, it is noted, was before they obtained the addi tional privileges as to tenure, Ste., they enjoy under the present regulations, on which they have founded the still greater claims that have had to be checked by the Duke of Newcastle's late despatch. In short, it may be re marked, that the character and capability of the soil of the colony vary exactly according to the position of the Squatters in relation to it. When they are seeking licenses, leases, and privileges from the Government, the land is perfectly useless to any one else. When fairly in their hands, it is necessary to deter purchasers and prevent being inconvenienced by reserves ; ' the land is then worthless,' and will not pay for cultiva tion. When retiring from business and selling their lease, the soil is surprisingly good and productive, as above stated. If they could have changed their tenure to fee-simple, there cannot be the smallest doubt Aus tralia would have been held up as one of the finest agri cultural countries in the world. At present, its general character is the reverse ; but it is bettor than its repu tation, and in this respect neither from the Sqnatters nor from the Government has it had fair play. "The latest items of intelligence from the gold fields are not very important. The gross produce, as proved by the export returns, keeps up to the average, though particular localities rise and fall in popularity with re markable rapidity. Of many new ' diggings opened since the beginning of the year none have yet developed themselves into rivals of the largest and oldest—Balla rat and Mount Alexander. One of the richest of the new spots has been the valley of the Buckland River, but it was so unhealthy that many persons abandoned it when doing a good stroke' in the diggers' phrase, glad to escape with their lives. The mortality from dysen tery and a fatal kind of low fever has been frightful. The river flows through a deep ravine, in which, as the high mountain walls on each side excluded the wind,the air was stagnant and, from the scorching sun during the day, intensely hot. At night the temperature rapidly fell to a piercing cold, so that the inhabitants of this unhappy val ley were always either in an oven or an icehouse. As the holes were in the bed of the river, the miners generally worked to their waists in water. Constitutions that had borne the hardships of other fields without injury broke down here, and hundreds have perished, dying unat tended and unknown. The little levels between the streams and the base of the mountain wall, for ten miles along the valley, are so thickly studded with graves, that the river appears to run through a churchyard. It was known the field was unhealthy,' but those tempted to it by the reported heavy finds' could only estimate- the excessively fatal nature of the place on settling in it. One new corner having counted eleven corpses carried past his tent during the dinner-hour of his first working day thought even gold might be bought too dearly, and left the place instantly. Many abandoned it after a somewhat longer trial, but the greater number remained in defiance of disease, and took their chance,' with what result the numerous graves of the valley testify. In addition to the peculiar fever (of a typhoid character, the doctors say) the miners suffered severely from eye blight, and were at all times half devoured by myriads of flies. The general bad diet, and the want of vege tables, were among the causes of sickness that could not be removed. Garden produce of any kind commanded enormous prices —onions were Os. a-pound, and cabbages were cut up and sold in portions, by weight ; from half a-crown to 4s. per lb. were freely paid for them. Physic, or what passes for it, rose even in a greater ratio to its cost than food ; Holloway's pills ' were vended at is. each, or a guinea per box. Where there are no coroners or juries the degree in which medicine hay contributed to mortality will never be ascertained. But it is well known that medical impostors abound and flourish on all the gold fields, and - on the Buckland River, one particu larly fatal practitioner has been named, who, among other less prominent exploits, killed off a working party of nine, by mistaking their symptoms. By the last accounts the place is described as nearly worked out ; those who had the courage to stay, and the luck to survive, are said to have done very well. Forest Creek is recovering something of its old celebrity, the population having re turned from some of the late rushes to spots that have proved disappointments. Ballarat and Bendigo are in full activity ; but heavy rains rendering the roads impas sable, carriage of stores is rising to the rate of last winter; on the first-named field horse stealing is practised to a most inconvenient extent ; drays, too, are so fre quently stolen, that the owners, as a means of security, commonly take off one wheel and hide it when they lay up for the night. At Kingower, a nugget of 220 ounces has been raised. Another of 182 ounces from Ballarat has been purchased by a Sydney dealer. On the Turon field no improvement is reported ; population does not seek it, and the returns are comparatively small. On the Lower Turon, a sharing party is being formed to work the Baldhill Quartz Vein ; this plan of partnership appears to be extending. The local reports state that 'the party has the advantage of being disencumbered of a large retinue of salaried offiers, whose credulous employ ers felicitate themselves on having secured the services of those who disburse their money on a magnificent scale, leaving results to Providence.' At Tainbaroora, above 1,000 diggers are at work with varied success. Many could do well who neglect their work from drunkenness. This curse of the gold fields, and indeed of the colony generally, is steadily increasing, and it is feared the wealth of the mines will leave fewer perma nent results behind it than the hopeful anticipated. The question causes much discussion, but the evil appears to be beyond the reach of legislation. " The quantity of gold brought down to Sydney by the escort from the let of January to March 31st was 53,920 ounces. The return shows a large decrease compared with the same quarter of 1853. "By a recent experimen • t a greater difference has been found in the value of various samples of the gold at Victoria than is generally supposed to exist. Six samples tested at the Melbourne Assay - office v aried from 3/. 13s. sd. to 4/. 4s. 7d. per ounce, a difference of lls. 2d. Some of these samples, however, were snsall, . not above 1 ounce in weight, while another weighed 35 ounces. The average value of the six samples is given at 4/. Is. per ounce—considerably above the standard price. " The Council of Victoria was prorogued after a busy session on the 12th of April. In the address with which robe ' he dismissed the members from their labours , Mr. La T formally announced that the Home Gove rnment ac cepted his resignation, and that his successor,T Sir C. d Time s peech Hotham, was on his way to the colo n y . passes over the Constitution Bill wit h a me re allusion, but the other chief measures of the session referred ar e to at considerable length. The act for the management of the gold fields is stated to have completely se cured the its operation results it was intended to obtain , . underas s tlie number of gold there has been a large increase n licenses issued. The General Education Bill having passed its last stage in the Council by a majority of one y o her excited a very vote only, and having in Governor did not feel justified in I strong opposition, the it, d the act has fallen to the ' • •.• 1 assent to it, an giving as question religious feeling appears as ground. b On this .tl •s new country a:s the old. strong and implacable in "The Governor warmly approves several me asures that have just been passed—among them an act l ega li s i ng d another to gi ve liabilities, an partnerships with limited protection to the originator s of ne w inventions in arts a nd manufactures ; but be administers t o th e C ouncil a kind of rebuke for having introduced into the act directed against offenders illegally at large provision s th a t h a d by already been disallowed the Imperial Government as an infringement on the prerogative of the Crown. The By the arrival of the Royal Mail steam-ship Mag dalena at Southampton we have dates from Syd ney to the 11th, and from Melbourne the sth, of May. This news is considerably later than that hitherto received, and is most important as being brought by the first steam-ship that has yet crossed the Pacific Ocean. The steamer Golden Age, Captain Porter, ar rived at Panama on the 19th, also from Australia, vid Tahiti, in 38 days. She brought 200 passengers, $200,000 in specie, and about $lOO,OOO in the hands of passengers. Among her passengers are Mr. J. C. Lb, Trobe, late Lieutenant-Governor, from Mel bourne, and Mr. Hargreaves, the discoverer of Australian gold. The General Screw Company's steam-ship Crcesus reached Sydney from Southampton on the 19th of April. The following is from a letter just received : " SYDNEY, MAY 10. "To an American company will belong the credit of making the first attempt to open the direct communica tion between the Australian colonies and Europe by the Pacific Ocean and Panama. The large and powerful steamer, the Golden Age, sails hence to-day for the Isthmus, and, if she catches either of the West Indian Steamers, it is possible this packet will be one of the first letters delivered in Great Britain within GO days of its date from the antipodes. The Golden Age takes above 100 passengers for Europe, a greater number than was expected on what can only be considered an experimental voyage. Among them is Mr. La Trobe, the late Gover nor of Victoria. " If, as we believe here, from the tenour of the last intelligence, England is now engaged in the operations of a great war, with France as an ally, we must expect our distant politics to be thrown into the shadelay events so much more exciting. Our gold mines, however, and their prospects must still command some degree of atten tion ; they are our permanent security from oblivion. "The most important public event, since the departure of the last mail, is another strong and overwhelming demonstration on the part of the citizens of Sydney against the New Constitution Bill. It has been again condemned and rejected by the most numerous and influ ential community in the colony—the electors of the capital. When Mr. Wentworth sailed for England, at the end of March, he of course resigned his seat for the city ; as the Council was not sitting, his resignation was forvrird ed to the Governor-General, then on his northern tour. This caused some delay before the Speaker could issue a new writ ; but the election for the vacancy wes finally fixed for the Ist of May. It was for some time doubt ful whether there would be any contest at all, but at last it became a very sharp one, not only between the Con servative interest, including the party of the Government and the Constitution Act, as it stands, and the Opposi tion, now in so small a minority in the Council, though every day growing in power out of doors—but between two candidates identified with the journals that are the organs of these parties---Mr. Charles Kemp, late pro prietor of the Sydney Herald, and Mr. Parkes, proprie tor and editor of the Sydney Empire. Mr. Kemp has just retired from business and been made a magistrate ; he stood on what may be called the old interests of the colony, official and social, the herald being, by many years, the longest established paper in the country. In politics it professes neutrality, or independence of party, but it was a strong supporter o f Mr. Wentworth and the Constitution Act in every particular except the un lucky proposal of a peerage ; it has also been the con stant advocate of the Squatting interest, the only insti tution, if it may be called so, with respect to which a profession of ' Conservatism' is intelligible in this colony. In religious questions the Herald supports no particular sect, and from its standing it has a very large commercial connexion. It is necessary to describe its position, because it has been so mixed up with the recent contest. The Empire has only been established three or four years ; it has endeavoured in that time to stir up the somewhat sluggish disposition of the colonists, and rouse them to a sense of the necessity of improvement and pro gress, more self-exertion, and less dependence on the Go vernment for everything. It contends for a totally dif ferent distribution of the franchise ; that the capital, which contains one-third of the population of the province and the greater portion of its wealth and intelligence, may no longer be paralyzed in the Legislature by three or four districts containing scarcely a human habita "Tlie quantity of gold exported from Sydney to Great Britain during the first quarter of the present year was 82,6340 z. 10dwt., which, at an average of 3/. 19s. per ounce, gives a value of 326,4061. ss. 6d. In the same period produce was exported to the value of 812,0631. The chief exports of produce to Great Britain were wool, 6,121,6441 b., valued at 397,7551. . ; oil, 202 casks, 11,3601. ; and tallow, 531 tons 13 cwt., valued at 16,4851. To Victoria the largest items in the list are bottled beer and drapery. "The Duke of Newcastle's despatch, containing, it is to be hoped, the fi n al i n t er p re t a ti on th e Home Govern ment puts on the orders of 1847 on the occupation of the Crown lands, and giving_ the-substance of the regu lations to which the holders of-leases and grazing licenses will in future have to submit, has naturally excited con siderable disCussion in the colony. All classes, except the squatters, are satisfied with them, and th e disposi tion they indicate ; oven the interest most immediately affected by the terms laid down has received them with more resignation than it would have displayed a very few years ago. The change in the social condition of the colony since 1851 has convinced even the most ob stinate that the time has arrived when some modifica tion of the present system of managing the public lands must be made. In this province (New South Wales) the squatting interest has not attempted even to remon strate collectively against the arguments and conclusions of the Duke of Newcastle. In Victoria a meeting of the great leaseholders has been held, at Melbourne, at which it was resolved to endeavour to obtain a compro mise between what they assert are their rights and the terms of the Crown. They admit that in the ' altered position of the country caused by the discovery of gold,' the right of pre-emption could not be exercised to the extent contemplated by the former orders, 'nor could the country be kept locked up for so long a period. with outrehaadseilym; must at perhaps, last that dependthey on n per c e i veNvllethetr their Government probable i n j ury to - other interests.' They offer, therefore, to abandon the r i g h t of pre-empt i on, th e more right to is or is not di s p ose d to sell ; and the Government insists it has on this p o i nt a full discretion. They protest against the interp re t a ti on given in the despatch of the words of the old or d ers in Council ; on which they con tend the leases there promised are to commence from the date when they are actually made out. The Duke of Newcastle insists that when a license is changed into a lease the latter must date retrospectively, and include all the period of the actual occupation that has elapsed under the original license. On this point, too, the pub lic opinion of th e co l ony is decidedly with the Colonial office. The leas e g i ves no adva ntag e that was not enjoyed under the li cense, and the squatter has not suf fered the slightest wrong : but it wou ld be blind policy, indeed, on the part o f th e Governmen t, to convert what was understood by a ll parties to be j a holding for 14 years, into an actual occupation of 20 , by dating it from ters a gift of seven years' occupancy 1854 instead of 1848. It would be making the squat original compact. They may Protest against the inter pretation if they please—it is the most harmless form of sition but they will • oppo certainly have to ccet it. On the disputed right of the Crown to make ' res erves' of land for various public over and above the Purposes, they also offer to concede something, but it is on the condition of receiv ing compensation, a formidable word, which will re quire to be carefully considered or half the money paid naY scarcely su ffi c e to buy miles o f sur f ace. I n the off fr their free h o square ld s i words of the resolution of the Vict or i a meet i ng, ' t h ey concede to the Governor the right o f making reserves for other purposes than those conte mp l ate d i n t h e 9th section of the orders in Council, upo n compensat i on be ing granted for the actual loss sustained by the occu pant.' And, again, ' the equitable leases being taken to run from the Ist of January, 1 852, it is also proposed that where one-fourth cf a run is included in a reserve, it should be optional with the occupant to give up the entire license and claim compensation for the whole. The compensation proposed is the difference in value be tween stock sold with and without a run, for the num ber of sheep or cattle which the land included in such reserve would carry.' This will not be clearly under stood, perhaps, but in substance it means, if the whole run will carry (or feed) 20,000 sheep, and a fourth of it is reserved or resumed by the Government, the difference between the price of 5,000 sheep sold with a transfer of the lease, and the price they would fetch without it, is to be the amount of compensation. With the lease they are of course more valuable than without it. If, as the chief advocate of the grazing lords, the Syd ney Herald, admits, the squatting i nterest has re ceived a blow that will make i t re e l, ' the said interest takes the blow very quietly. If its leases are to date 1848, it leaves nearly seven ye ars of the term still un expired, and seven years of present prices m ay well be a consolation. The runs in the more remote dis-, tricts are tolerably safe from the invasion of purchasers, for a much longer period, and those more liable to be broken in upon by reserves, venture to put in a claim to compensation. The Government having let the squat ters large tracts of land at nominal rents, cannot regain possession without blying them out at their own terms. The danger of creating a vested interest has never been more strikingly demonstrated than in Australia. The practice of grazing cattle on the uncultivated lands of the colony, at first actually illegal, and only winked at from necessity, was next permitted from year to year by annual license ; then came the more formal occupa tion for a term of years ; now seven years in addition are demanded, and the Crown cannot recover the land it has leased at absurdly low rents, without combatting ! a claim to compensation for quitting possession that, in most cases, will quite equal toe whole amount of rent ever received from it. The political power of the inte rest may be estimated by the fact that 11 members of the Victoria Legislature are among the squatters w h o have signed th e resolutions of the meeting. Either con vinced or intimidated by the influx of population, they now offer a kind of compromise; but formerly they would have paralysed local Government rather than yield a single point. They are strong still ; there is no in stance in history of one class obtaining such a complete tion, or as many nominees of the Crown, who cannot be said to represent anything. It is one of the chief objections to the constitution itself, that it leaves the anomalies of the electoral system only slightly modified ; the principle is unchanged. The Empire opposes the Squatting interest, because, by the land regulations it necessitates, it prevents the development of agriculture and a more equal distribution of the population, while it has virtually got possession of nearly all the political power of the colony. If these details seem too local in their bearing, it must be remembered that on them turned an election decisive of th e o pi n i on o f th e co l on i s t s on an important measure now probably before the Im perial Parliament. Mr. Kemp was the first in the field, on a requisition signed by 400 electors ; it was not till a week before the election that Mr. Parkes was brought forward. The nomination was held on the Ist of May ; Mr. Kemp was proposed by Mr. Mort, the leading auctioneer, and sec inded by Mr. Mackellar. Mr. Parkes by Mr. Campbell, a wealthy merchant ; seconded by Mr. Montefiore. The show of hands was in his favour, and on the poll, taken the following day, he was returned by a majority of 648 votes, the numbers being —for Mr. Parkes, 1,427 ; for Mr. Kemp, 779. At no former election have so many electors ever been polled by one candidate, and Mr. Parkes received about 100 more votes than any member yet returned to the Gigolo nial Legislature. The election was conducted in the most orderly manner, and, though the crowd at the nomination and the declaration of the poll was unusually numerous, there was no display of bad temper or ill feeling on either side. The result is the strongest pro test against the new constitution yet made ; on every opportunity offered, in every way, by petition, by public meeting, and by their votes, the inhabitants of the metro polis, the only large constituency in the country, have expressed their condemnation of the act framed by the Council, and the electoral system it includes. Some days before the Sydney election another strong opponent of the bill, Mr. Lang, bad been returned for a county in the Northern District. " The Lvislative Council was to have been opened yesterday ; but as the Governor-General has not yet returned from his cruise, though hourly expected, it merely met from its prorogation, and adjourned. ‘w‘ A South retu wrnoafletshefeerxplenBsll4lt,uraes o e f st t im he atd Geoveerenam voted, proves Ne proves that the Executive has been either too frugal in framing the estimates, or that the Council unusually generous in voting more in almost every case than Nas required. For the whole service of the year the G v e a v n e r excessn me n t of f s k 2 e 7 d , 4 5 0 61, 73 F 1/ 0 . r; thethe Counc . voted 590,1351., an supplementary ic 1853 the Government asked 49, 84 7 1 ., and th e Council voted 82,5031., being a surplus of 32, 656 /. Th e aggre gate amount estimated was 612,578 1 . ; the am ount service o f voted was 672,6381., an excess of 60,0601. The revenue returns for the quarter ending the 31st of March are favourable. On the total receipts of the Treasury the increase above the corresponding quarter of 1853 is 87 per cent. The amount of the increase from every source is 126,3251. The increase from Customs duties is 26,7421., or 3.1 per cent. ; tea, sugar, and coffee are the only articles on which there has been a decrease. The importations of ardent spirits still furnish the largest portion of the revenue ; in the last quarter duty was paid on 255,510 gallons, giving a gallon per head for the consumption of every man, woman, and child in the colony ; it exceeds the quantity imported in the cor responding quarter of last year by 62,982 gallons ; to thisduring 0 nn, m g u t ti s l t al et bodqqr drinks al d krr de slt te have d i t. ayfvo 4,B erh l a l vi 4 gallons ngbee distilled in the o been taken takeeeetefheced apetioi e . r e a T e e ef d u 2 t 6 i , e 5 5 6 0 5 n 1. in toxicatingeee yielded o n s l m the quarter above the return of the first quarter of last year ; while the duties on tea and coffee show a decrease SUNDAYS. :tang} _ in the same period of 1,633/. The revenue from gold licenses, royalty and escort fees, shows a falling off of 10,5321. ; to the end of March, 1853, it• was 17,0181. ; for the first quarter of the present year it is only 6,4861. In the territorial revenue there is, on all the principal e pB i uo n ro c cl r h. e ,a a ssaeen. ofa Td advance de land mf sales, o7u677t eB including the Gl de positsaos.tci heads,uai. quarter for to ltahr l2 vernment has recently sold some spots of ground in the c ity of Sydney which fetched very high prices. " The value of the exports from New South Wales during 1853 was 4,523,346/. ; far the greaterportion ofthis amount is, of course, to Great Britain and British colonies. The ex ports to the United Kingdom are valued at 2,980,763 t. ; to British colonies, 1 ,245,947/. The United States figure for a very small amount, only 3,0281. On the total value for the year there is a decrease of more than 80,0001. "In the same period this province has imported Bri tish manufactures to the amount of 4,679,435/., and goods from all countries, Great Britain included, to the value of 6,342,7571.; this is above 4,500,0001. more than the consumption of 1852—a rapid rise in one year. "The Chamber of Commerce has agreed to present a memorial to the Governor, representing the necessity of the Government, both here and at home, taking some measures for the greater security of Sydney, and the de. fence of the trade of the colony against any possible at tack. It suggests that a volunteer force of 1,000 men should be armed; that the naval force-- 7 -a very inefficient one—now on the station should be retained, and increas ed by a screw line-of-battle ship and two steam-frigates from England. " An order of Council of the 29th December last bay ing finally declared that no more convicts are to be sent to Van Diemen's Land or Norfolk Island, the Anti Transportation League of all the Colonies has been for mally dissolved by order of the executive committee. It has been inactive for a considerable period, the step now taken by the Home Government having been long ex pected. It was resolved,however, to keep the body to gether till transportation to either of the settled colonies of Australia should have been officially declared at an end. The committee had intended to celebrate the dis solution of the League by a grand banquet at Sydney, but the idea was some time since abandoned. The great object had been fully gained, and it was thought useless ~~~~ ~ ~ ~~~ ~ ~- . [PRICE SD. colonial executive had proposed a measure in which this difficulty had been avoided, and the Council had carried against it the amendment which made the bill on this point as objectionable to the Crown lawyers as the for mer one. Mr. La Trobe has therefore referred it home— most likely to meet the same fate. The financial condi tion of the colony is treated very carefully is the ad dress, for it appears rather anomalous ; with an enor mous revenue the province is running somewhat reck lessly into debt, is increasing taxation, raising its tariff, and even repudiating some of its implied engagements, on the simple plea that it has not the means of fulfilling them. No less than 1,300,0001. has been voted for pub lic works in the estimates of the present year, over and above the provision for the ordinary expenditure, though that alone is described as large and liberal.' Taking the revenue at 3,000,0001. sterling, nearly half that sum i 4 proposed to be spent on undertakings, some of which are more magnificent than useful, and others that, how ever useful, might be deferred. This seems to have been the opinion of Mr. La Trote himself, for he takes care to state that the votes were inserted in the estimates mainly at the instance and recommendation of the Council.' The Executive is now evidently desirous of fixing the responsibility of this more than regal extrava gance on the representatives of the people. But the real check came from that region of reality, the money. market. As soon as the Government found it would be necessary to borrow a round million, it discovered that many of the items of expenditure could be dispensed with, and they have been, in effect, cancelled accord ingly. The Governor says, 'it will be found inexpedient, if not impossible, to attempt the completion of the whole of the undertakings projected, at the present time,' on account of the 'scarcity of labour' as well as there not being required ; thus the 'real' excess of the expenditure over the total revenue fcr the year—an excess that is still to be provided for by extraordinary means,' i. e., a loan—' will fall very greatly short of the sum now con templated.' As the necessity of the suspended works and the price of labour could have been calculated long before the estimates were framed, voting hundreds of thousands for schemes now found impossible to execute was a great errer. The general state of the colony is described in the address as highly prosperous ; the yield and export of gold continue steady, while the returns of the export of wool from the port of Melbourne shows a considerable increase, instead of the decrease that was predicted as a consequence of the discovery of the pre cious metal. The other measures have only a local interest. " The decrease in the revenue of the province alluded to above is 102,0001. on the first quarter of 1354, as compared with the corresponding quarter of 1853. Of that sum, 99,0001. has been lost by the reduction of the gold license fees. This may be recovered on the year, as the territorial or land revenue shows a healthy ten dency to increase, proving that more capital is being an vested in freeholds ; but the increase of revenue from the import duties that continued throughout nearly the whole of 1853 has perhaps nearly reached its limit. In that year the revenue of Victoria was rising at the rate of nearly 2,000,0001. per annum. Judging by the quarter just elapsed, the increase of 1854 will not ex ceed the rate of 272,0001. per annum, unless English and American speculation again pours in goods in un limited quantities. Mr. La Trobe thinks the present rate of imports excessive,' and 'caused to a great extent by an imperfect knowledge of the commercial arrange. ments of the colony' (commercial requirements is the term intended). Quicker communication between Eu rope and the colony will, his Excellency supposes, rec tify the miscalculations that have been made of its power of consumption. There is no danger of the revenue being permanently diminished so long as gold is raised, and the diggers consume at the present rate ; but it was impossible it could continue to increase to the amount of a million and a half a-year. This enormous rise in 1853 probably dazzled the Council, and produced the kind of intoxication in which it voted money more lavishly than the Government wished, and contemplated gigantic works with a contempt of expense almost worthy of a Louis XI V. The design for the new Houses of Assem bly was put in during the competition, with an estimate of the cost ; it amounted only to 2,000,0001. sterling, for a community that does not number 300,000 souls 1 This plan was certainly rejected ; but the mere proposal of anything so monstrous shows the spirit that was abroad. Other works, as they were urgently wanted, would have equally involved a waste of means. As the construction of magnificent houses of Parliament may well be post poned till the population becomes something greater than can be represented by a pretty compact parish vestry, so it would be a scandalous extravagance to sink indefinite thousands in building a viceregal palace, when the first half-dozen governors will probably be very well satisfied with an elegant mansion as a residence. For the next ten years, at least, the expenditure of the colony should be strictly limited to works of necessity, the construction of roads, bridges, and drains, and secur ing the city a good supply of water. The tendency to begin at the wrong end, and waste the public resources on what is showy and splendid, while the capital itself is neither drained nor lighted, and there are not 100 miles of sound road in the colony, ought to be checked by every influence that can be brought to bear against it. " As in private, the man of extravagant habits often descends to what approaches the shabby ' Victoria' being with all its wealth a borrower, thinks itself forced to re pudiate some of its implied engagements. It is rumoured certain benevolent institutions have received notice that the usual allowance from the Treasury must be with held ; and it is quite certain that the Council annulled the labours of the committee appointed on the motion for granting a reward of 10,0001. to Mr. Hargreaves, as the discoverer of gold in the colony, by which discovery Victoria has profited the most. At the time the com mittee was appointed the Council did not wish to be behind that of the sister province in justice or generosity. When the report, which was in favour of a grant of 5,0001., was brought up, and it was moved that it be received, count out' was managed, and the question shelved for the session at least. It bad then been dis covered that the Government had already undertaken too much, and had no money to spare for such purposes. The question, however, is to be brought forward again next session. It is to be hoped the reported resolution as to the benevolent societies is unfounded, or will be reconsidered. The new taxes imposed have not been happily devised; with the large revenues of Victoria, they ought not to have been required. The Squatter members of the Council, who voted the expenditure freely enough, did not consent so easily to the increased rate on their cattle ; they cut down the amount proposed by the Government nearly one-half, and shortened the period over which it was to extend. The postage of letters is increased, and a postage is also to be levied on the local newspapers. Neither of these sources of revenue will be very productive ; they are both retro grade in policy, and an unfavourable contrast to the practice of the other provinces. "Some important alterations were made in the Victoria Constitution Bill after the report was brought up. The qualification for a member of the Upper House, or Legislative Council, was reduced from 10,0001. to 5,0001. freehold, or 5001. a-year. They are now to be 30 in number, elected by six constituencies, called electoral provinces ; they are to go out by rotation, 10 every two years. The electors for the Upper House are to be freeholders of 1,0001. or 1001. a-year, and the graduates of any university, qualified surgeons, physi cians, lawyers, clergymen, and officers of the army and navy. The Legislative Assembly or Lower House is to consist of 60 members, with a qualification of 2,0001.; to be elected for five years, subject to dissolution by the governor. The electors are 501. freeholders, 101. leaseholders, or persons receiving a salary of 1001 a year. The electoral districts are to be 37 in number. A civil list is reserved for the payment of salaries and pensions to actual and retiring officers of the Govern ment. Seven of the high officers of the executive are made liable to removal, and are provided with pensions in that event. An annual sum of 50,0001. is reserved for the encouragement of public worship. " By the distribution of the representatives over the electoral districts, it is calculated the predominance of the squatting interest in the house will be shaken ; it is stated it will not be able to command the return of mo re than 11 members out of the 60 . From a little incide n t that occurred in one of the last discussions, howeve r, it is probable the character of som e of the proposed dis tricts was not clearly unders tood. Mr. Goodman pointed out to the committ e e that if the Murray boroughs were left as they . stood would be an intel ligent in the electoral schedule, the principal const i tuento ligent aboriginal,' corm n Bogalong Jack.' B ni oY known by the name of eechw rth was therefore added to the Murray boroughs, to furnish a few additional electors, and lessen the undue borough influence of Bogalong Jack, the intelligent aboriginal, who has been swamped by a schedule as unceremoniously as if he had been merely a British peer. "The New Customs Bill for Victoria provides for the collection of duties on goods imported by land from the province of New South Wales, at Albury, and also on the South Australian frontier. In course of time the Australian provinces will have to form a kind of Zollverein, or commercial federation. Unfortunately, the richest province, Victoria, is, by mismanagement, the most in want of money, having contrived, on an enormous revenue, to run in debt, and is setting the bad example of raising its tariff and imposing new taxes, some of them of doubtful advantage. Victoria and New South Wales now confront each other on the Murray, at Albury, in the persons of their Custom-house fune tionarie.,,, like France and Germany on the bridge by Strasburg ; and in time, with the help of official zeal, the right of search will be as great a nuisance there as every where else. " The reports from the surveying party at Port Curtis state that the blacks have lately been very troublesome at the new settlement, and aro daily be coming more aggressive. Three of the native police. sent out to make a marked tree line, have been attacked and severely wounded. " The General Screw Company's stesmer Crcesus is laid up in Port Jackson, undergoing some repairs. She will be ready for sea in three weeks. "The South Australian journals announce that the Governor-General of New South Wales has consented to reserve from any pastoral lease all the land on the north bank of the river Murray, for a depth of two miles from the stream, from Albury to the South Austral ian frontiers, a distance of about 500 miles. The north s ho re of the Murray is, for that distance, within the te rrit ory E C G 7 Z W d brei SOttill Wei: Tlli iathaiti Meek ii ii Oil province of Victoria, and, a similar reserve having bees already made for that province, the land on both sides of the river is thus thrown open to agricultural settlers ' from Albury to Goolwa, ; the present laldecs - of ire.storali liceu es, however, are to be allowed free riiht of keel" to the river side. The land will be pUt up for salts AS soon as the necessary surveys can be made. lill the • Murray was opened to navigation by steam the :district ' was exclusively occupied for cattle runs, under tba.;i --- ,sa licenses ; a tract of land four miles in width and t length is now to be thrown into the market,id the facilities the river furnishes for communication with the coast will soon render the allotments valuable.. ' ' " The last lettings of the Burra-Burra Coppex 4 E "S 4 had been more favourable than any since t he sus , . • • of the works by the rush of labour to alicog o id i . 4 "The publidlantSales for the firstrittnertee . of - 1854 show an increase of purchases to the aisionnt*Koom above the return for the coiTespondingrquer*ags. " Complaints are still made of the soaroitinn bent' - thousands of agricultural labourers and ',mums : , .._. find employment at high wages ; a thousando 7 oW named class, it is said, could be employed let 4_____ _ -.. wo .. ' quarry of copper,' the Burra-Bbrra . iit ti ln .n ei ow algd in e o; • \ m l l " A delaide Times says, every colon's , _, inquiring where su ffi cient labour to' stitiply MS teokT sities is to come froM.' "A bill had been brought into the Ocetecil of Tat Diemen's Land to extend the electoral- districts luid,in crease the number of representatives. The -papers MA: gest thiit the Constitution Act should be suspeOde4 lor a , .some time, that it m i g ht b e ascer t a ined how th ou' • Victoria and New South %Vales would work. "The revenue of the colony for the first quartet of 1854 shows a surplus over the expenditure of 85,40 g, 11s. Bd. The total of the receipts is 257.8721. Us. 6&S , against an annual expenditure of 191,443/. 3s. 10d. ' "At the last sitting of the Supreme Court at Hobert Town there were no prisoners for trial. It is the brat ' maiden session' ever held in the oolimy; " On the 22d of March Robert Town was visited with another inundation, the second within a short porind, by which immense datuage was done to houses and buildings. Three men were drowned, two of them con- ' victs. The loss of property by the two floods is vavi• ously estimated at from 50,0001. to - 120,0001. The order in Council of the 29th December, 185 S, re• pealing the former order of the 4th of September, 1848, continuing V an Di emen ' s Land and Norfolk Island as - penal settlements, when New South Wales and Victoria ceased to be so, had been received in the colony, to the great satisfaction of the inhabitants. " Business has not been so much stimulated by the warlike intelligence from Europe as anticipated. • Stocks are very large, and though the holders retain them a little more firmly, there is not likely to be any great rise in prices frqm anything but actual consump tion. The bank has raised the rate of discount to 6 per cent. The insurance offices are demanding war risks for England. "Tile price of gold in Sydney, on the 4th of May, was 3/. 17s. 6d. to 3/. 18s. per oz. The stock of gold in the city was small." TRADE REPORT. A larger business has been transscted in our import markets during the last few weeks. Wesubjoiu the ruling prices of a few prominent articles of British importation. Brandy—Firm at u s., with a disposition on the part of speculators to purchase. Rum —During the last week some heavy transactions have been entered into. West Indian, ss. :to 55. ed. Geneva in Cases —Firm at 19s. Gd. Wines—Stocks in general are heavy. Draught Ale—ln great demand at 11/. per hogshead. Bottled Ale—Not much inquired for; Bptes's held at u s per dozen. Oilmen's Stores—Though some large sales hay's.' been recently effected, the demand continues good at A • fair advance on invoice prices. Drapery—ln consequence of excessive importation's, and the compulsion to sell, which in some cases exists on account of advances made on the English side, many• classez of goods are largely accumulating on the hands of vendors, and the market has an overdone pressure. Still descriptions in season are realising 30 per cent. on invoice. Ironmongery —Importers are obtaining 30 per cent. on useful assortments. Saddlery—Advance about 30 per cent. Boots and Shoes—Heavy winter goods bay° been doing well. In some cases 50 per cent. on irrvoice has been obtained. Furniture —Tile market is full, and large quantities continue to arrive. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS AT SYNET. March 20th, the Crescent City., D from Liverpool ; 21(1,, the Speedy, from London ; the Bland, from London ; 27t \, the Annie Armstrong, from Liverpool; 28th, the Queen 01.• England, from London; 31st, the Ann, from Lo n d o n. April 2d, th e Abb ey l an d s, from London ; the Tamar from Lond on ; th e P e lh am, from London ; the Ozark; Ross, from Hamburg; the Eena, from London; the Scotia, from Plymouth; 16th, the Daniel Wheeler, from London ; 17th, the Harlequin, Dutch bark, from London ; 18th, the Wilhelmina Lucia, Dutch ship, from London : the Amato!, Dutch ship, from London ; 19th, the General Screw Com pany's steamer Creesus, from Southampton, Cape of Good Hope, and Melbourne ; 24th, Her Majesty's ship Fantome, 10, Lieutenant Fitzroy, Commander, from Wellington ; 25th, the Vernon, from Dundee ; 27th, the Catherine Ja mieson, from FalmOuth ; 27th, the Cyclone, from London ; 28th, the Proserpine, from Bristol ; 29th, the Kathay, American ship, from the Downs ; 30th, the Coringa, bark, , from Lii , erpool. May lat, the Collaroy steamer, from Liverpool ; sthi:the Lady Hodgkinson, from the Downs ; Bth, the Black River packet, from London. . . DEPARTURES. March 19th, Her Majesty's ship Torch, for a oraim ; 20th, the Royal Stuart, for London ; 21st, the Samuel En derley, for London; the Adelaide, Australian Royal Mail Company's steam er , f or Launceston, for repairs; the Lord of the Isles, for London. April lst: the Leonidas, for London ; 20th, the Nile, for London ; 29th, the Gladiator, for London; 30th, We Eclair, for Havre. AUSTRIAN DELAY AND P.RUSSIAN DUPLICITY. Whatever may be the motives which appear to have sus pended the direct action of the Austrian Government and the , German Powers at the very moment when it was confidently supposed that General Coronini's division was about to enter the Principalities, the first and most important consideration for ourselves and for the world is that the operatious of the Turkish army, backed by the forces and the generals of France and Eugland, are not in the slightest degree de pendent on the intrigues of Berlin or the hesitations of is not to be envied in the discharge of the duties he will have to perform. But the Cabinet of Berlin still hopes to play the aame of Russia in Germany, and it is zealously seconded by ; several of the petty Courts. From what is passing before our eyes, it is not toomuch to assert that if the policy of Germany had depended on the secondary Sovereigns of that country, and if Austria had not advocated a more independent line of conduct, the whole German nation would have been sold to Russia iu this contest. It is felt throughout Germany that the Emperor Francis Joseph is the only Prince who has shows sense and spirit at this crisis, and that he has been thwarted by every influence which could be employed to warp his judg ment and to shake his courage. We can conceive no event so fatal to the interests of Germany and of Europe, no reso.lu sion so disastrous, no treachery so suicidal, as a decision . ou the part of the Austrian Government to recede from . th engagements it .. has contracted on on T r e e n se i m .d o e m ed en t t h o e us w q a u r e w stoje d with the belligerent cease to be a struggle for the existence of the OttothanEm• pine ; it would ere long shake eve r y St a t e i n Europes to its foundations, and the Emperor of Russia would succeed' u shifting the perils to which he is now exposed to his u accom plices and his victims. anu lt y i tihnetrotot,haeltphioiungehipatlhi Principalities es .d and in the proviuees of Gallicia, the Bukowina, expectedhasbeenad of nearly 250,000 men on the Austrian _frTraasylvania, has retarded, nc o e n tp frontier. A pre us se trian nae advanced position, strong advanced Mountains, which exercised a very important and salutt .. y a ng effect on the war. It is the presence of those troops in a fortified by the range of the Carpa of R„ s , ! ;,„ a ed Generals to ret a i n a ll the finest troops o compels the Emperor fthe Russian• army in the kingd om of 'd to operate at all Po land, in Podolia, and in Moldavia, in so much that only . ", part of the 3d and 4th corps can be said under Prince Gortschakolif in Wallachia. The last accourr#l state that ho has not at this moment more than 60,000 men,. and very probably this estimate is correct, for each of these two corps is supposed to be reduced to about half that num ber. With this force, already much discouraged, weakened, and shaken, the Russian commander may have to fight battle ; but the reason that he cannot look for any effi cient reinforcements is that the bulk of the Russian army is kept in check by the formidable array . upon the Aus trian frontier, and this obstacle can only be removed by an assurance that Austria accepts the humiliating and insecure position in which the policy of Russia would place her. Until Austria enters the Principalities not only as the declared ally of the Sultan, but as one of the declared antagonists of Russia, we have no desire to see her move at all. A neutral occupa tion would only be a general embarrassment, and must give. rise to distrust and animosity on both sides. In the mew • time, the course of events has become so rapid, and thus. fyi so successful, that the decision of the Austrian Goverrunentill losing the important influence it seemed likely to exercise's', few weeks ago over the results of the campaign. In the prey sent state of this campaign, with Omer Pasha advancing on Bucharest and the allied armies ou the Danube, it is a mere puerility to address another ultimatum to Russia demanding the evacuation of the Principalities in a month, for in less than that time the fate of the invading army ought to be decided ; and, although the weight of the fora* and influence of Austria in the war must still be oon siderable, every day that she loses in giving effect to the Convention of the 14th of June transfers to the Western Powers a large share of the power she might exercise in tne eastern provinces of Europe. We have reason to believe that the Russian an n oyer_ communicated to the Ministers o f . F rance an d El t lr n a i v" pa Wednesday and Thursday iu l as t wee k, w ith n that Austri a could the military move. that the Conference would be su mmone d to deliberate on it (in pursuance of a former ag r e eme nt), but not affect to exercise any i n flu en ce over ' ixent, to the effect , ne ments of the belligerents. The official organ 1 iinper fect y satisfies the di. of the Austrian Government contained a similar announcement, that, although the Russian answer , yet this must of of the • Western Power.. means of the Court of Vienna, afuedripseareegearded by Prussia alone as the basis of a negotiation course depend on the decisio se n and it would be the height of That undoubtedly is thteheca German Courts, who hav e as p responsibility of the war, to suppose that they can ' degree or by any m eans d eter r _ e( iiesu no m ne p o ti f o t n h, i n n riatyor yet incur the allied Governments of England and France from th e course pursue. It rests with th e C abiuet of they are resolved to .‘ in the glory and the less to o advan tage Vienna more or to shorten the war or to prolong it—to strike of this alliance— ' h shall at once restore the Imperial army to its _ a blow which ancient renown, •or to'humble it by a useless demonstration. But, although the German Gov ernments may regulate their own conduct, and may sacrifibe even their national indepen dence to their jealousy of each other and their servility to a foreign Power, their policy, be it weak or resolute, false or sincere, will neither obstruct nor control us. We are read/ t o advance with them in the only course which can speedily terminate this war, but their hesitation will not induce either England or France to relax their exertions or to retra" their steps.—Times. )ar, ely on, rer. ng, ttf . , ; 41s :et. ised ou• In I Time 7% 8% 11%