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____ ~,: , 1•11111w,, ... - - ftP , `" - - _ ._.__ . • . ---- . i‘ • . . . ....----- . 6.NCA BUSSI..k. . , - :l at Lloyd ' s , . &arch - war opera - . Le vessels in . the Russian , --- ) s .. .. .• , 55 ..:,.. . -- -s b,_,,,w, -1- rtwo s trong --. ' - 7-----' _... . . tsido of one GUILDHALL, April 7, 1854.-The - Coinm ittee . • ~.,,,, ~ ....-.4,. ..-• nding there• appointed to: the Management and Contra of the Markets] , e - '': ,'4. ,, TA,. .-,.;.,. ,,„"?, : ,, ,4r.,,„ - N, ~ ."- --7-' ' ink that all ' l tiii , sqs will flare at •at-hi I en F ft! HAY, the 2lst An dl i et.. , .oe' ee re ' - - 444.,*, -- .c „ at One e'cleek pree :I - , ~ e • snel -s ' r Lettine Fie, e, 'ye- 1 • - ''d •O' is • - , , :j s g oos - se ptured, and • - • ./ .. . and if they h - suses la ai iingswee-isasSet, nest I'n .es street Further parte. I tai • -4 , , '• Vs ,- 55,5,..--t - / • , tt , ...,, . "lain may be obtained at he Comptroller's Office, Guildhall, or of - \''':::---__". ' 7 'l - - 'i..' ' ee e ~ Dl' :it they nlill • 24r- John Goldham, Co . leetor ef the Market. ° -t - -'' - j / k ‹ . _ n•Yeee hat place. CHARLES PEARSON, Comptroller pro tern. e- EPSOM GRAND STAND- ---A New Gallery ....................-.................--..-3.•............_,.....................22...., Michael's ; ha, been erected, containine reserved or numbered Seats _ -- l e ge Riuti e, 461011 c ear to Opera Stalls, or six or more seats can be e do-eel with • 3farf - vote and the back , making a private box. The new Gallery h" a P ri TNT 0 . 19.206.] LONDON , SAT'. ere , a, Grenada; aa ng d p s e e r p. b . y ra w te ee s k taircase and entrance, is covered with an awieng, and is .___. - --- - - quite sulab'e for Ladies. Perssns wishing for pleees for the -- .eror, Maul' . Lisl e , will please apply imm. diately to Mr. H. DOR NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF n TIIF, KINNEARS." en. , 'Clerk of the Course, Epsom. No. I , for . Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., Lecture accompanying GRAND DIORAMA N 0 IC E. -CONtSANTINMOOTTINLGE. ---The lon , 3 1101. G.R EAT WESTERN RAILWAY p HE_MIE MILL A.R. of CONSTAR TINOPLE is now delivered on Wedne sd ays a nd S atur- Bermud a ; A SCOTTISH STORY. days by Mr. J.. H. STOQU ELER, when the progress and localities 1, Lisb' n ' Cle EASTER `IOLIDA.YS. By the Author of" The Kinntars." Hurst and Brackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 13 of the War, will ;be more particularly explained ; and on the other men , CHEAP EXCURSIONS TO OXFORD, BANBURY, LEAMING- drys, as usual, by rar, CHARLES KENNEY. A very clear and ' Bre lb TON AND BIRMINGHAM. - Great Mariborough-street. excellent Map has been added to the illustrations.-Daily at Half- i .i. past Two and Eight. -Admission, Is. . liens Ili a folio on. cnTIRAINS will LEAVE Paddington on Sunday, A.pril 16, at 7.ea Tickets taice , n and on Monday at 645 a.m.. for the above places . . EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. DEBILITY, NERVOUSNESS, Bco. Emma for ti: • unday will be available for the return jofeneyinthgetnsamn, 7.40 o r e , g evening at 6,15 from Birmingham, 7 0 Just published, price 45., free by post, 55., moles • r re" LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLE Rooms, p i Glajiat a r b e e e l v 'err, and Oxford, at 8.15 pm. Tickets taken on e t io B ncry s fr wil oni l PHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCHES into the , 3irm ailable for the return journey the same eyeeing, a • (Lessee, CnAs. C. LAURENT, Onslow-house, Ftheam-road), 1 ., Ferrel aad Causes of Nervous Debility and Genito-Urinary Maladies, _The above Rooms are now OPEN FOR THE SEASON. ' a ' b go' eri i'e h g o h . am, 7.0 Leamington, 7.40 Banbury', and 8.13 Oxford ; or and will continue open every evening, with LAURENT'S re mrs-; Leant meowing Wedbesday morning at 6.15 from Birmingham ; Spermatorrhcea rationally considered, with unanswerable Remarks on the empirical manner these Diseases are treated ; being a Guide CELEBRATED BAND. . Two Quadrilles on subjects of Meyerbeer s ork ; S t° laton. 7.0; Banbery 7AO • and Oxford, 8. 15 . , , to Health, Long Life, and Happiness. fa Opera-L'l toile du Nord; also, by H. Lau r en t, the following Waltzes • FAREs THERE AND BACK :- 3s. 6d. • - By MEDICUS. Oxford .... ..... . 6s. Od. •••• • • • ' ••• •' • d. La belle Franewse;Leonora, Villikins and his Dinah, and L'Etoile 01 Sherwood, Piper, and Co, 83, Paternoster-row. 13 anb ury Leamington!, - to commence at 9 o'clock, and terminate at half-past 11. a WO .--- - NEW AND REVIS - eD EDITION OF MR. M'CULLOCH'S -se Bin/liner - am - ... 1 es. cd. .. • ' 7 s• • Tup- , et ACCOUNT OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. • her lost b EASTER HOLIDAYS-ATTRACTIVE NOVELTIES. 12a:'srelailusgiygagn:wa-lioewdedat.. 2Ts9lc,ksetstranatie; no2ts, ticrainng.f.esrtarenblet: and ma b e e ; Now ready, the Fourth Edition, revised, with an Appendix of Tablet!, ''' R egeut-street of jerrnYu - ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. IS p the rise r ' ststion. street) ; and at the Paddington in Two Volnenes, Bvo., price Iwo Guineas, • PATRON-H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT. I the riV ers -___ - DESCRIPTIVE and STATISTICAL The SEAT of WAR, showing the principal places on the DANUBE, ti L SHREWSBURY AND •KALAFATaNVIDDINa GIURGEVO, SEBASTOPOL, the entrance G- R EA-T WESTERN, A ACCOUNT of the BRITISH EMPI , ' E : Exhi , biting its Ex ii • tent, Physical Capacities, Population, Industry, and civil and fte - Mous Institutions. to the BLACK SEA, BATTLE of SINOPE, and DieTRUCTION i t , gineeb, BIRMINGHAM, AND SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER By J. lis WC,ULLOCH, Esq. of the TUaKISLI FLEET, and other scenes (kindly supplied by en me - A RAILWAYS. • the pr oprietors of the " Illustrated London News"), EXBIIIITED Thor, an', NOTICE TO THE FOURTH leraTtose - " Die greater number of•the in a NEW SERIES of DISeOLVING VIEWS. b ran sport of - itErm i p ° f L are n) ,, AY is S sn ' ed on Monday, 17th statements in this Edit:on hoc' been revised and made applicable to LEC,TURES by J. H. PEPPER, Esq., on the CHEMISTRY of PAPER is sr line e A • - "N . TICKET E S, AS at TE s R ing IiIe - for Wellington, Shrewsbury, Oswestry, the preaent time. It is also enriched with a series of Statistical MAKING, and l's duration with Colours, and on VOLTAIC _ oops - -,T, 1, 1 , , Y the 6.50 a.m. train,s, f war. ~, Tables carefully compiled by Mr. T. G. barbell, which comprise a EL teCTRICI fl''; and the ELECTRIC LIGHT, by Da. BACHHOFF- Joe - re gbile h•road, Wrexham, and Chester, available for the return NEIL Explanations of MODELS, MACHINERY, &c.. &c. gre M at ar m ch an . y iB i s n 4 ter .e. sting details." ;liboUrhoo" km . eY• any day during the week, by the train trom Chester, 7.10 at 8: 8 ' Tfrexham, at 7.15 a.m. ; Llangollen-road , at 8.7 ; Oswestry,Upon Moraines and Evenings. Admission, Is. ; Schools and - arid Wellington at 9.36 a.m. 2d Class. '3d Class. London: Longman , Brown, Green, and Longmans . t hildren ander•Ten years of age, Half-price. I Troon a n i a ospitile:gt,s,mtnn.lirseS,hranewt back: Ist at 9.10 a.m. , . -- i on the ha l W ln , eps svo., price los. eachseloth , 12s. roan; or 12s. 6d. calf, F GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH (used in s zd te g o llen•roa ll d n 9: at •A•, tr r.ensbury .. 255. Od. • • 18s. 01. • • Ira. Od. Cl-ass Q 6d • . • 2s. 91. .• 13s. Od. - MAUNDER ' S TREAStrRY of NATURAL ch 1 , try . „. 2s s. • e her Majesty's Laundry). and WOTHERSPOON'S Machine aira, will n .. 30s. sa. .. 22s o! .tel .. 13s. 9d. „1.3_111.. HISTORY ; or, a I'Oetn,sis DICTIONARY or ANIMATED 3r being ( ' &extern ••' ~ 335, Od. • • 245, ... 14s, 6f. NATtatE :In which the Zoological Chn•aeteristics that distinguish made CO FEC f lONERY, M ARM AL AD E, JAMS, JELLIES, &c., I ,e Tiekets, which Cheater .. •• •• ~ 335. 01. - •248. Od. .. 14s, 10d. the different Classes , Genera, and Species, are combined with a . only for the trains mentionen. (which gained the Prize Med..l of 1851), may be had of all Grocers ; C ra Wholesale of Wotherspoen. Mackay, and Co., 66, ( queen-street, j Ivan fr °- 1 t r l e h et: variety or interesting Information illustrative of the Habits, Instincts, ._heapside, London, and Robert Wotherspoon and Co., Glasgow. mk, Off 01 . aeTlare,,,not tranefere hi ein ry ..be, previously obteinet at 269, Strand; 2 3 , 4 e entestreet ( corner and general Economy of the Animal Kingdom ; with a Syllabus of C .street, Chateeide • T., and ii are avtibele .: of .t ier , mon. Practical Taxidermy, and a Glossetratti Appendix. A New Edition, ...........-esee .................................. I • - witheorreetions - -- - • I • , : ~ f wateF ll -_____ and at ' the Paddiil non-station. . ,slso, all unVorret in size, and price 105. each, ' RAILTVA Y INTELLIGENCE. -- agarVero re the 26w THE FIRST MAUNDER'S HISTORICAL eitEA-URY; MAUNDER'e BIOGRAPHICAL TRE t SURY; _______--- BLACKWALL AND TILBURY. I the Chi n and UNRIVALLED DISPLAY of 111AUNDEe'S TREASURY of Keel iWI.Et/GE ; and SCIENTIFIO and LITERARY TREASURY. . GRAVESEND, APRIL 14.-This line was opened as far 3 GRANDi riNG and. other MANTLES will take place in the Id oEty London: Longman, Brown, Green. and Lonernans. as Tilbury yesterday, and tife steam ferry-boats built for I Ins fib 1 d m i • CRYsTAL WINDOWS of the LONDON MANTLE and la IA ° ~--_---kivL MONDAY.ApriI 17, and Burin; the week, - 3 COo a PASTY, on . , , n (..... au vreck, A e"mPrising, amon set the number, stx of the most superb and costly eese, LAMBERT'S COLOURED MAPS. , tion and the Town-pier, Gravesend, by Messrs. Young, oeus chosen by her Most Gracious Majeety. C trtclanag e l -.._ • -.-------‘--__-_____________ VUROPE (40 in. by 27) showing the BALTIC, of Blackwall, conveyed passengers and goods across the - hold, a n 124 the ANUBE, and the esiATie Fem.:Tux, is. 6d, ;in case, 2s. river for the. railway. Of these boats there are three us' II E CHOLER A!!! two between the station and the Town-pier, and one name The BALTIC (40 in. by 27)• • • • - • • • • .. - - .. Is. Od. ; „ Is. 6d. the Na Prevented by the destruction of all noxious effluvia. The BALTIC (24 in. by 17)- . 84.• between the sane point and the Rosherville pier. They _ and the • CREWS'e DIeINFECTING FLUID. The SEAT OF WAR in GREECE, on the DANUBE, and in Cra is, are admirably adapted, both by build and capacity of I , y soon g ei RECOMMENDED BY THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS. CASSIA (40 in. by 27) ••• • • • . • . Do. (24 in. by 17) ••••••••••• • • • • • •• • • -•••-••••• • • • • • • • 8 d• accommodation, for passengers and goods, for crossing I THE CHEAPEST AND' STRONGEST CHLORIDE OF ZINC. London: Dobbs, Kidd and Co. ;.Edinbroa Menzies; Newcastle, o Quarts, 2s. ; Pints, Is. • Half-pints, 6d. Sold by all Chemists, Lamberts, and all bookseiters. the river in any weather, and will each convey, if re- sireggisto and Shipping 'Agents, and at Commercial Wharf, Mile -- -- -- quired, 300 of the former without inconvenience at I Bad, London. / every trip. For their tonnage, they have an unusual 7 oa Pe - NEW CRYSTAL WAREHOUSES, 61 and 62, breadth of beam, consequently great deck room, and ' EXTR kORDINARY MECHANICAL MODELS. O Savannah, St. Paul's -churchyard, and 58 and 59, Paternoster-row. commodious cabins fore and aft. Their speed is I BECK, Dentist, begs to call attention to THE LONDON MANTLE and SHAWL COMPANY beg te n on- MR.nounce to their-numerous patrons and friends the completion of teir such that they accomplish the distance between / I aril 7, I.t' fits Anatomical Models for developing the structure of Arti- premises, which will be opened on MONDAY next, April 17, on a the station at Tilbury and the Town-pier in three ' e ta' Teeth, (true to nature and in full action for mastication an d scal e o f g r a ndeur and magnificence hitherto unattempted in the corn- minutes. The great iron pontoon or barge connected , articulation), fixed them one tooth to a complete set, as exhibited at mereial world. the Paris Exposition, with the Tilbury station for the landing and embarka- THE LONDON MANTLE and SHAWL COMPANY, single Tooth, loss: Set, 101. and 201 • * as M anu f a cturers and Importers of Mantles , Si l ks , S hawls, Dresses, tion of the railway passengers and goods had been fixed I 47, Great Russell-street, opposite the Briti t h m . useum, London. and Furs. in its proper position three or four weeks since, but the . 1 OURSSELL'S BRIDE CAKES, Ito 10 Carriage entrance. 61 and 62, St. Paul's-churchyard; Wholesale intended connecting medium, the iron tunnel or viaduct, entrance, 58 and 59, Paternostererow, London. has not as yet been placed, owing to some accidental or 3 bas tind er A.. Guineas; Dessert Cakes, is, to 10s., viz., Dundee, Madeira, - other unexpected difficulty in the moving of it from the 1 Olbs,, a fla . School, and Savoy Cakes; Swiss ant French Pound Cakes, is. 6d. Aar lb. n Swiss and Italian Pastry, for evening parties, is. to 3s. per THIRD EDITION.-WITH ADDITIONS. bank where it was constructed to its point of fixture. A i cos.; 11 sorts of Almond Cakes, Ratifies, and efaccaroons, 2s. per Just published, Bvo., in cloth, price 55 ,, by post tree, ss. 6d. 1.. temporary timber bridge has, however, been constructed 1 ~,, , C H out Cakes, 3s. per lb. 7 , Mixed Cakes, Is. 6d. per lb. ; Mixed 0 N TRITE & FALSE SPERMATORRIREA, from the station platform to the pontoon, and judging ( 1 3 . 1 wts, is: .2d. per lb.; Biscuits in bags or boxes, 14 for lc, cviudedyAorrrover Captain's Brown, Digestive, Milk, Abernethy, German with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors from the passenger traffic yesterday and this day over it, 1 ndancs in relation to the Treatment and Cure of the Impuissant and Sexual from the railwayto the ferryboats, it will have to be either I s of Biscuits ; Mince Pies, 4s and 6s. per doz. ; 3-day 0 . 4 Jellies and Soups, 45 per et • Creams and Ices 6s• per qt.; made Hypochondriacs , . , , materially strengthened or the tunnel must be substituted I is fully "-- Naha , - " ' • _.„. 3 . Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. .Raised Pies, Hams, Tongues, Fowls. Caution. -John R.for it with little delay. Whether it is that this line of rail I (ling, 55 a P oisson, 162, Regent-street, and '2O, Ludgate-hill, only. T 3 which is added, an ESSAY en SEXUAL DEBILITY, by the •••••--___-_-____ Editor. from London being a novelty, or that it is a new outlet J 1 • NIARITIME PASSENGERS ASSURANCE -. Dr. Pic Ss known.to English readers by his frequent practe :al contributions to German medical literature. This is the first it had ' for visitorsfrom London to Gravesend essentiallyrequired, COMPANY. time, he informs as, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi. undoubtedly a vast number of passengers, from its i NOTICE t sal reader. 'We trust this may not be the last, if he shall levet any opening up to the writing of this notice (seven o'clock, t id to 6id f l , ~ IS REREBY GIVEN, that the Share List of this Com ;ma' will be FINALLY CLOSED on the lot MAY next after which ether equally flagrant evil which it may be in his • ower to correct." p .m ). The fares between Gravesend (including the , to 60 PSd wtte e f . , -London. Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851. The tribe of 'Quiet Sympa- o urther applications can be entertained. terry) and London are one half those of the North Kent; t dso Os - Sli appliestiens for shares received at the Chief Office before the thisersnand ' Medical Friends, merefiensly expos ;ed and if this book is th .... eould find its way into the hands of those who suffer frana the corn- and this, in these day s of economisin g all ex p enditure is on to above date will in regarded according to priority of application ; but . 31aIIIt of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hund reds would no s mall consideration even to p leasure-seekers, or to the Directors do not in any case engage to allot the full amount of shares applied for, ' ,le saved much needless suffering 01 body and mind, and what is of those who by change of scene and atmosphere hunt after ' ess importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize- health . By order of the Board, . 1 .1 8 0 5 11 4 , GF.ARY,. Res. Director. Hotels money ......This volume is well qualified to put an end to the nor improvement of health. By both railways and 1 4 , Moorgate-street, 10th April, empirical system of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to place the treat- by the steam-packet companies the number of visitors ,d , dors . • mont upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, from the metropolis to this town to-day was unusually „. Os t° likely to do much gOOd."-Medical Circular, June 16, 1852. BOJO (4 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That by In- London : 11. nalliere, 219, Regent-street. large, even for a Good Friday. The day was, in so far as business was concerned, preserved as a strict holiday. e 8 ,._ denture bearing date the twenty-first day of March, one thou edut eight hundred - and fifty-tour, Samuel Oddy, John Robinson, TRTESEMAR, protected by Royal Letters I - Edward Oldfied. William Thompson, themes Holmes, and Thomas RAILWAY CAPITAL. )3 ere Patent of England, and secured. by the Seals of the Eccae de Thorley of Salford, in l e • • the county of Lancaster, carrying on business 19 qrs , Partnership tovether as engineers and machine makers, tinier the Pharmacie de Paris, and the Imperial Oollege of Medicine, Vienna. It appears from a return just issued, that the capital _ TRiEWMAR, No. 1, loan authorised for the construction of railways in the I L 8 (vs • . l lnn of " °tidy. Robinson, and Company," bare conveyed and es- is a remedy for Relaxation, Spermatorrlacea, and Exhaustion of the United Kingdom amounted in December, 1851, to I 59 gits Blur all their real and personal estate and effects unto Philip Fryer, System. of `afford, aforesaid, iron merchant, Samuel Bowler, of nanchester, - 361,428,484/. ; the amount authorised by acts passed in .] TRIESEM.SR, No. 2, s Oct in the county of Lancaster, machine maker, James Lord, of leolton, 5 0( 1 in the same county, iron .founder, John waataser, of Manchester effectually, in the short space of three days, ccmpletely and entirely 1852 was 4,333,834/., and by increase in several re- 1 s 8 ,1 aforesaid, timber merchant, Samuel Berrist - ord, of Stockport, in the eradicates all traces of those Disorders which Capivi and ('ubebs have so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health - • ; turns, 1,792,337/. total, 367,554,6691. From this sum 9 4 thl county of Chester, iron founder, and' Abel Lees, of Barnsley, near is deducted 10,944,2131., being the amount of reductions 1 , Ashton - under - Lyre, in the county of Lancaster, roller turner. Upon of a vast portion of the population. 12ths certain trusts for the benefit of the creditors of.the said Samuel slackly, TRI s',SE MA R, No. 3, made in the above by acts passed in 1852, and by war y I.2ths John Robinson, Edward Oldfleicl, William Thompson, Thomas is the great Continental Remedy . for that class of Disorders, which rants for the abandonment of lines, &c leaving the ~ unfortunately the English physician treat' with Mercury, to the in- total at the end of December, 1852, at 356,610,4561., t . 12ths • Holmes, and Thomas Thorley, and that the said Indenture was duly evitable destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all the 12tha xecuted by the said Samuel Oddy, and William Thompson, on the twee -first day of March last, and by the said John Robinson, Ed- sarsaparilla in the world cannot remove. showing . a decrease in the amount authorised of ward Oldfleld , 'Thomas Holmes Thomas Tharley, Sanniel Bowler , TRIEaEMAR, No. 1, and 3, are alike devoid of taste Or smell, 2, 4,817,9921., as compared with the amount sanctioned up • James Lord, John Whittaker, and Samuel Berriefr,rd, on the twenty- and of all .nauseating qualities. They may lie on the toilet table i to the end of December, 1851. The amount raised by : >f whea t ' third day el' lasi without , their use being suspected. shares and loans to the end of December, 1852, was emended, Lees, On the twenty-eight day of March last, in the presence of, and is attested by William Buckley. of Ashton-under-Lyne, in the county Sold in tin cases at I Is. each, fnee by post, 2s. extra, divided into I 011t S separate doses, as administered by Valpeau, Lallemand, Roux, 264,165,680/., and up to the end of December, 1851, Ss. • ce i aneaster, solicitor, and such Indenture now lies at the Countine- Ste.,&c.-To be had Wholesale and Retail in London ofJohnston, 68, 247,766,687/., showing that the sum of 16,398,9931. was .hotiste of Messrs. Oddy, Robinson, and Company, in Salford, for 117- Cornhill ; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; and Sanger, 150, • raised for railway purposes during the year 1852. At 79e Od f ° sae ani amid execution by the said creditors. Notice is also Given. Oxford -street. I• 00' , That it is the intention of the said trustees until further notice, to ear s Oa to 47 0 „,_ 3' on the businesse of Messrs. Oddy, Robinson, and Company, for A LLSOPP ' S PALE or BITTER ALE.- power to raise 92,624 which, added to the amount the benefit of the creditors pursuant to the powers of the ssid In dei ewe. P'S.- Messrs. S. ALLSOPP and SONS beg to inform the Tit IDE then raised, made the total 356,790,6581., being 180,2021. that they are now registering orders tor the March Brewings of in excess of their Parliamentary powers. _Da ed the eleventh day of April, ono thousand eight hundred and their PALE ALE, in Casks of 18 Gallons and upwards, at the a stY four. The total length of railway open for traffic at the end Brewery, Barton-on-Trent; and at the undermentioned Branch 0s Cd WILLIAM I3UCKLEY, Solicitor to the Trustees. Establishments:- of 1852 was 7,336 miles, of which 1,458 were single ;rint lill g LONDON, at 61, King William•street, City ; line. The length of line in course of construction was nets', '- • DY°ER'S REPOSITORY, STEPHEN ' S - LIVERPOOL, at T look- street ; 7351 miles, leaving 3,806 miles authorized, but not 503 Od t° i MANCHESTER, at Ducie-place ; 72S psi, aurae "BEN, Dublin,-Important Sale of Steeple Chase Horses, ~, re, Hacks, and Carriages.-In consequence of giving up the DUDLEY, at the Burnt Tree; GLASGOW, at 115, St. Vincent street; commenced ' on the 31st of December, 1852, making the t o tal length authorized to that date, 11,878 miles. " ua nagsment of the DublinG int n Stag Hounds, Mr. DYCER has DUBLIN, at 1. Crampton-quay ; The length of line and eranches belonging to the , received i 1. ° - i , SO ,. instructions from Captain the Hon. J. W. Rely Hutch n- BIRMINGHAM, at Market Hall ; various railways for which the powers for the compul toup and HW. Bernard, Esq., to SELL, by Auction. at his Repos:- SOUTH WALES, at 13, King•street, Bristol. , sort' purchase of land had been allowed to expire pith Out ie eo cr . till,. Pte lshen's Green, Dubin, on SATURDAY, the 22d of April, Messrs. ALLSOPP and SONS take the opportunity of announcing Cr° grOe . - Itad at 2 osasck' (sharp), the whole of their HUN TING and to Private Families that their Ales, so tronely recommended try the xer the exercise of such powers at the end of 1852 was - ''ING ESTABLesetenee.NT, consisting of the following wen - medical profession, may be procured In a Draught and Bottles Genuine 2,2481 miles, out of 3,147 miles. The amount of capital trau e r ip known HORS tto :- from all the most respectable Licensed Victuallers, on "ALL-OPP'S authorized by Parliament to be raised for the construe keep 1 "Torrent," chesnut gelding, 7 years old, by Tearaway. out of PALE ALE" being specially asked for. a 1 1 0 1 ,.. / tion of the 2,248 miles was 42,289,325/. ' , Havyksworth's darn, by FOOldinier, by Fool, grand darn by When in bottle, the genuineness of the label can be ascertained by ls chat - - • ' Swordsman, winner of the Grand Military at Leamington, is having "ALLSOPP and SONS" written across it, It qtt 6w. Grand Military Handicap at Birmingham, ca rying 12,1 _ . , . . . 91bs, and al s o o f the Corinthian Cup and Welter Stakes, at DEAFNESS, TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK. i ce s v e t • he Kildare Hunt Meeting. This horse will be sold with • . his engagements, which are the Kilrue Cup on the let May, (New and important medical discovery, just published, sent fret by - Miles - - e and the Tantivy Cup at the I lowth and Badoyle Races post for 8 p osta g e stamps.) o p ened, NAME OF RAILWAY .; Receipts. 'd "Riven," black gelding 5 years old, by Slinge, dam by Sir e Hercutes In training) . DEAFNESS, Noises in the Ear, (CURE YOUR - 1853. 1853. 1854. e SELF.) A Medical Guide for the cure of country patients, - "Beware," cherittut gelding, 7 years old, •by Sportsman , . win- BRlTisit. ---, ' per of several steeple chases. engaged in Ratheoole Stakes by a Physnian, Dr. HERBERT MANFRED, Aurist, M.R.C.S., 72, all - 4TTes d „ Dodger," ger, black gelding, weed, by Young Priam, darn by Regent street, London. This work has rescued numbers from sacra- • 3349 . - 702 834 72 Aberdeen ....... - .......... ..... £1,669 1,901 20 ; • _ Ebony, winner of SO/. at Newcastle, carryine llst 1 Ilb 0 ..- doing both purse and patience at the shrine of quackery. Testimo- 37% Belfast and Ballymena ••••-•• • • • • • • 250 260 in, , Free Trade," bay gelding, aged, by Conjuror, winner of a I - dais of most pleasing and wonderful cures maybe seen, letters being 17 ' Belfast and County D0wn........ - - , received daily from persons restored to perfect hearing after e ~ b ine 33 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 1,717 2,282 th - WS e _ steep. • elisse at Confy Castle - Bolton, Blackburn, and West York •• •• • 868 894 i; gi u " itandoltne," eheenut mare, 5 years old, by Tamworth, out deaf 20 or 30 years, others born deaf; some had also suffered from . • 4,615 5,487 e . of m . -Aria,' a promising steeple chase mare so ses in the ears, like • she scrawl of a water-min, rustling of leaves, 85% Bristol and Exeter ... 1 4 Ca1ed0n1an.......... •• • •••••• • • • • 1 12,775 15,004 ' Warrior," grey gelding, 8 years old, by Cregane, a good sin sing, cracking, and hissing, nervous deafness, discharges of mat- 189 894 Edinburgh and Glasgow •••••• • • • • • huntr and very handsome, suited fora charger or lady's ter. &c. 3,203 4,148 horse • Quarterly report of cures sent free. . 94% Chester and Holyhead. ••..••.• . • • • • • rath er - BT. Lopez,"•% Cork, Blackroek, and. Passage ••• • • • IGO 203 en" bay gelding, 7 years old, byWeleome, dam by Lion Dr. MANFRED, Member of the Edinburgh Royal College of Sur- 235 247 unction, „ tlr,,, _ I 0 . " n "orle." black gelding, 5 years old, by Sunset geons, receives patients daily, from 10 until 6, at his residence, 72, 20 Cork , and Bandon .................. 768 878 Regent-street, London (first door in Air-street), where all letters 56 Dublin and Belfast Junction - LW 1 , . Niagara," bay gelding, 7 years old, by Fusileer k ; ea must be addressed. 61% Dublin and Drogheda.. .... .• . •..• - 1, GO 1 ,,` : lianagher," roan gelding. 7 years old, by an Arab ; 125 1,252 6 Dublin and Kingstown .......• • ..... 789 830 I ' 3 ,' Paddy Carey," eh smut gelding, aged, by Paddy Carey 16% Dundee and Arbroath •• • • ..... ..... 465 602 t he Prince," brows gelding, aged, by Valent ne IN THE SECRET CAUSES OF SELF-ACQUIRED MISERIES 31 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 740 864 .-- !•'! ! l ennentra,” bay gelding, 5 years erne by Kilmoyier AND DISAPPOINTED HOPES. 19 'Dundalk and Enniskillen• •..•• • • • ... 171 211 Aii " Hilibrook." '' " William Brown," bay gelding, 4 years old, by clasher, dam THE SILENT FRIEND. 68 East Anglian.... •••.••• • • • • • ........ 753 911 K e to l' . „. _ by Byron In Six Languages-Fiftieth Edition. 81 East Lancashire •• .. „•. • • ........ 4,633 4,806 ilk ~ chestnut gelding, 7 years old, by Slasher, darn CONTAINING THE REMEDY FOR PREVENTION OF DISEASE. 312% Eastern Counties and Norfolk -- "I 18,391 21,164 1 )of Y e ' . 17 s -b y Byron ; a neat park horse, and carries a lady illustrated by One Hundred Anatomical Coloured Engravings and 95 Eastern Union• •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • The Traveller," bay mare, 7 years old, a very fast trotter Cases. 78 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee •. 2,452 3,089 k pla ce ' . 1, .. Perfectly quiet in harness , slew Edition, enlarged to 200 pages, price 2s , 6d., by post, from the 132 100 6 Exeter and Crediton.. • • ...., • • • • • • • • s ter Ds P itch," black gelding, 6 years old, These horses have been Establishment, 3s. 6d. in stamps, reSter liS ' 19 .. by Leander regularly dr Yen in ' _PRE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on 19 Furness Railway ... .............. 426 787 171 Glasgow, and South-Western.• ••• • .. 4,756 5,594 , . Toss," grey gelding, aged, by double and single bar- Tearxway ne.ss, anti are perfectly 1 the exhaustion and physical decay of the system, produced by 203% • ' excessive indulgence, the consequences of infection, or the abuse of 188 Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 4,917 5,517 Great Northern and E. L. - - 14,425 17,127 • quiet mercury, with directions for the use of the preventive lotion, ton 319% Great Western .. ••••• • • • - ........ 20,481 23,153 . .5 26 . , i lnaiblisb," bay mare, 4 years old, by MayboY . firm il `` sll ay Mere," 2 years old, by the Morning Star, dam by Sir lowed by observations on Marriage, and the disqualifications which prevent it. Illustrated by 100 Coloured Engravings. By It. and L. 25 1 4 Irish South Eastern .••••••• - • • • • • • 173 278 90 Lancaster and Carlisle ••• • - - ...... 4,603 5,802 si, a ll tiercta 22 ~ L s , .es PERRY and CO.. consulting Surgeons, 19, Berners-street, Oxford- 260 Lancashire and Yorkshire.... - ....- 18,221 18,424 ' 'o v ule'," bay gelding, by Lapwing, out of Sir John's dam, street, London. Published by Sherwood and' Co. 23, Paternoster- __ Leeds Northern .. ••..•••••• • • • • • • • • ' - - . 23 .. oP a nice lady' s h orse _ , row, and sold by Hannay, 63 , and Sa n g er, 150, Oxford-street ; Gor- 184 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.... 425 452 , . . . . . '" nY." a crea m coloured oily verY handsome and his good s o n, 146, Leadenhall-street ; 95, Farrinedosastreet ;W. Sutton, 10, 5 53% , London and North Western .•• • • .... 46,076 53,090 , , .. - .... 1,048 1,474 -- - • CARRIAGES. PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the reproductive 1731 ,{ London, Brighton, and South. Coast.. 11,493 12,963 30 e 6 e B . lg , organs and is illustrated by 28 Coloured Engravings. 253% London and South We5tern......... 11,020 13,667 eat %erotism, by Long & Sous, suited for one or two 375 526 25 i ' s. . 2 4 :cases, in perfect repair 41 Londonderry and Enniskillen .•.••••• PART 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive in diligence and their lamentable effects on the system, producing - Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, Rue. - - sefhl PR/toren b - Buchanan of Glasgow, for one or two 167% Manchester, Sheffieletand Lincolnshire 6,833 7,818 - ae• - 3 A hors es , e mental and ' bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative 417v9% Manchester and South Junction ••• • • • 568 665 li4loi hours e fP ' n e e willi s be The 4 A. eZ., o C A II , by Grady of Dawson-street PART 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in Incapacity. Illustrated by 10 Explanatory Engravings. 28 Maryport anti Carlisle ••••••• • • • • • .. 691 846 120 a , sfeueen's Pattern PHAEToN, equal to new the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for 498% Midland ••••••• • • • • • • ............ 23,013 25,633 . 52 Ma on view at Dycer's Repository, between the 126 Midland Great Western (Irish) ...... 2,490 2,933 153)4 Ybe e,. ' e ls Fouro'clock , Erni, the list, and the Horses 'me. 'ambled , on • yßeir treatment. This section is illustrated by 62 Coloured Engrav- ' 37 Monklands .... • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 929 1,220 -- N.8.-G e ' , 3' any Veterinary Surgeon previous to 5a1e.78% Newcastle and Carlisle ............ - 2,745 2,746 The Gentlewhich the danger of infection is obviated. 149 North British .... ••••• • • • .. .... - 3,560 4,351 -- •tion oisPortu n e e en from England attending this auction will have simple applies ,by PART TV. contains a Remedy for the Prevention of Disease by a - 7' . baenees of Se . fat on the set eine the Curragh April meeting, which com- PART union are also considered, and the whole North Staffordshire • • •••••••••••••• -- __ 47 North-Western • ... •• • ......... .... 725 806 se• °f . May - h• The Irish Metropolitan Steeple Chases on the The causes of unproductive p .00,.. .. Society ; and also the Grand Annual Cattle-show of the Dublin subject c V.is devoted to the consideration of marriage and Its duties. ___. critically and philosophically inquired into. 50 Scottish Central .• - ............ I/ v ' 32 Scottish Midland .. - - O 0 . -__________ In treating nervous and sexual debility,impotence, I Is. and 335. e &c., 2ete Shrewsbury and Birmingham ...... 787 8.00 e 4 i 5 A S - an anti-syphilitie THE CORDIAL BALM OF SYRIA:CUM is exclusively employed 47 Shrewsbury and Chester 1,839 1,946 0' " ; . I ledvent wiahes ('‘)';' ...1 . /1„,„...,_ , TER HOLID AYS. rernedy, for purifying the blood in cases per bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, Shropshire - - .............. 672 611 of infection, secondary 29 Union •••••• • • • • " a 1/12,056 2,164 •aet .os eau luso e;•seseurns or war, g ene " ex p ectations of a terrible struggle, symptone ,eruptions,rrifyiandngthe abuse Of mercury, I Is. and me. per ha South Dev0n........ ~. „ .......... English gallantry, French promptitude, and The bottle. P Specific Pills, 2s. 9d., 45. 6d., and 115 . 288% South Eastern ......................, 13,737 16.047 162% South Wales -- - ............... 2,830 4,534 pro vpm„ _. , all persoes interested in the peace of Europe; the per box, a . , enrius et od_c" e annerce, the blessings of freedom. and the glory of chronic inflammation of the bladder. Consultation fee, if by letter, err e Y er s tain remedy for gonorrhoea, sleet, 77 Reath York., • Donca.ster, and • Goole ... 1,409 1,662 . ties; but the is required • age habits, and post artte,__ u, trre this year united with the Easter holidays. Many it. A minute detail ot the case . , 40 Taff Vale ..........., , 2 817 3 477 .. e ose sees of eeee-sit and convenience being ch d 51. Packets, with advice, to be had at the Establish- 26 Ulster. • ........ ••••• • " " •• ' 1,405 a•all ° ant h ave ~ Y arge very high prices, lion in society. , "Veil the ardour of all participators in Easter festivi- talent only. by which thefee,it., saved. stricture, and is Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, 68 Waterford and Limerick ............ 428 601 nur the _ e trim, 584 619 alt ) newe s - hart success of E• M 04E4 a d suaN i n pr o vin_ a re in attendance, daily, et 19, Berners-street, Oxford-street, • 1:sm• 25 West Cornwall ...... .............. Arlo-, is e t styles of attire for all cheeses at the meat economics' don, from Eleven 12 Whitehaven Junction ... i,682 York and Newcastle, and Berwick & 7 he e', / ,.. ue greatest victory ever known in the history of trade. Eleven to One. Stock a'" amazivarietytheir tin Two, and Five .to Dein; on Sunday from • oelt ; e., se ng is associated in S ring an • Summer York and North Midland & Leeds 24,157 2 6 , 985 1 5 8 7 3 4 D Ly u o te n h s R an h d en m is ed h l i O t • R e •L n 6 .7 . a . n .. :: :::: ..... 5 9.2332 8,135912 th e every department novelty, style, and fashion aprear in ON TRE PHITsOSOPHY OF MARR I AGE. AND THE SECRET • Peter frms. The juvenile attire which_E. MOWS ate: rOtlg h I , SO N have ses linitete. S saiii, th Prepared or Easter displays the most extraordinary bust- INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH, MANHOOD, AND OLD AGE. rust published, 60th Edition, price 2s. 6d.. or free by post for forty x• i'• i ~-,,,,t te, io e most magnificent variety of new materials, endless ' Nteesltyle, and such economy in price as no other house can two stamps, Montereetu rind Troyes ... ,b . . Leon elegai ' g and trousers made be , B. MOWS and ?ON are the QELF-PRESERVATI ON a 6 6 3 3 Namur and Lieg ...........„ :2 . 2: •••• ".• 1,440 2,088 ----a' . variety, fitt o i t n a e d artistic productions ever exhibited, displaying more k.. 7 Popular Treatise on the Physiology and Function . .. . 'o f 1441 ' 443% •Northern of France ...... „ „...... e 5,402 29,888 siderably 1 g withand Impediments, tracing their 57 7 Orleans and Centrals ~ more eerreett ass and comfort, and c arged con- riage, with its Disqualification , ' Patis and Rouen. ............... .. 7,708 7,8 10 children , ower prices. ..... 25 1 : 0 49 50 1 3 1 1:4 4 0 4 9 9 Paris and Lyons .... ..... „.. „ ~.. 14,652 15,720 O rd ' „ s attir h than are usually e demanded. •In ladies' and origin to the effects -of solitary bahlts, youthml excess, tropical 'ia tS a , d c e ' 'stet? of every elegant aid useful description, in climates, or close study ; followed by practical remarks, founded on 240 s 84 ivie ll; MO E 8 nips, Boots and Shoes, Bse , the Establishment.; oE. twenty yearn' en p ss i ene „ i n the treatment or impuissance , N ervous 392 Paris'and Strasburgh .....„ ,„ and SON er17,504 21,800 e ISO, an d aeon _ only. , , , -e Perfectly unr i va lled for fashion, excellence, DehlittY , Local Weakness, enermatorrhcia and all diseases of the 5 9 Rouen and H.seirre.. , „ .* .., 3,193 3,447 Urinary and Generative System. Illustrated by 60 coloured Engrave- 101 Western of France ••• • • 4,081 5,058 Most of the above few days. They will Of these 41 We have 3 analysing the lowing ships E ---- _ A STER HOLIDAYS. T uitio n , linaours of war, getters' expectations of a terrible struegle, terv e : es erness English gallantry, French promptitude, and the pr o , -- .wishes of all uersons interested in the peace of Europe; the eiet trity o r _ Menerce the blessings of freedom, and the glorY of arti e ltr ul, ~ re this ye i ar united with the Easter holidays. Many rn , l es of itece-sity and convenience being charged very high prices, t hat % daMpe4 the ardour of all participators in Easter festivi. in but Ih p4th --e triunspha.it successSON in provid -e bewest stsies (.4* attire for all classes at the meat economics' , p . ,, e 's , Is the &'rekte,t victory ever known in the history i of trade. st"oec.tri.ositnemazing variety is a ssociated st i y n e t , he a i n r d S g f r a h ehio a n n It ' p S near m ln r the rar,st i,e,,very department novelty, 1 le attire which_ E. 1... MOSES and S ° l ` l hay vier forms. The juvenile ost extraordinary bust- 1 D e e Prepared for Easter displays them . nets sitid th variety of new materials, endless n ev It e most magnificent e. es in style in price as no other house can hriltate. N,,,, , and such economy mo - eEt4 and ?ON are the eets and trousers made by E. -, Most elegant exhibited, displaying more variety, and artistic productions ever fitting with more s and comfort, and c erect con siderably lower e. P..ces than are usually demanded • In ladies' and V3,itltdren's attire, h tiers. onrevreery elegant rt,d useful description, in Bats a. d C aps, Boots and Shoes Sr.o the Establishm nt ell e ea, ES and soy ' • ' f fashion, exc enc , are perfectly unnvalled or and economy. -,-,E. MOSE 9 shirt, and Boot and ' and SON'S uneouallei wholesale clothing, men' _ n Shoe department tresen s the greatest advantages w" 1 of the chants, captains, and emigrants. The superior charact -r best 1 s, :,,nd the e xtraordinary low prices charged, render them the srgAestments which can be made. n TFILTRSI;\"II,°."°E• The establishments will be CLOSED o_ , as usual, g and FRID kY, April 13th and 14th, RE-OPENIN U CAUTI°O°N SATURDAY EVENING, at 7 o'clock. public against-74.. MOIES and ,40N regret having to guard 'the impeesitt an D . - -like falvehood of o B eth ,ht learned that the untradesma the same coneern, ,,S' h eo ,, nnected with their Establishment," o r n It's obvious reasons, th e ' s been resorted to in many instances. and for Y beg to state that they No Connexion WITH ANY °THEP have LONDON, except their o E, ,a. HOUSE IN OR OUT OF LO London City Eetablishmen' t ahlishmeats, as follows :- 85; and 86, Aldgate,oPPoaite t t be ls4 D' 155. tits, as 157, Minories, 84 London West -end Branch, 50r,,C urch, all communicating. - and 3, Hart-street, all comm 507, 508 , New Oxford-street, 1, 2, Bradtord (Yorkshire) Branch, ?Meeting. Sheffield Branch, 36. trargate. 19 and 20, Bridge-streets Colonial Branch, Melbourne, Australia. rant 'Nilo., Clothi ers, Batters, Rosters, alters, and General Oatfitters for ttidie Furriers, Boot and BITANT.—ShouId a n y article n s and Gentlemen. Ted if desired, or, if preferred, Itt.t, give satisfaction, it will be hesitation. All good s are markeden l money will be returned from which no abatem en t can be mad: latall " r "' the lowest • i Establishments are closed from sunset on turdays, when business is resumed till 12 ' Fridays to sunset lew Book, with illustrations, entitled.. Th:Ecr . Public Opi ' contami.a; full lista of prices, our sysiem of of V Bte., &c., may be had on application, or 00.t.freseelf-measure- tndsorne Almanac for the year ending 1854 can be .gratis, . !cation, had, • l „roll Parle Francais. Ater irriCht 01411 Deutsch. ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF MARRIAGE, AND THE SECRE T INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH, MANHOOD, AND OLD AGE. Just Published, 60th Edition, price 2s. 6d.. or free by post for forty two stamps, SELF-PRESERV ATI ON a Popular Treatise on the Physiology and Functions of Mar riage, with it= Disqualifications and Impellments, tracing their origin to the effects of solitary habits, youthml excess, tropical climates, or close study ; followed by practical remarks, founded on twenty years' experience in the treatment or Impuissa nce, Nervous Debility, Local Weakness, Fpermatorrheea, and all diseases of the Urinary and Generative System. Illustrated by coloured Engrav ings, on the Anatomy of the Reproductive Organs and their relative conditions in Health and Disease. Dv SAMUEL LAnTERT. M.D. 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Doctor of Medicine. Matriculated Member of the University of Edin , burgh, Ronorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, * The receipts include the traffic on the Orleans and Central, Orl eans and' Bordeaux, and Tours and Nantes. vici° °‘ or for , 3 42d ridovt fAcentlate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., Ac. The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful con sequences resulting from certain habits, irregularities and excesses, w hich have , produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man hood, and premature decay at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, any other class of disease known to modern pathologists. Its peruse lie particularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of the i r physical condition , and who are conscious of having hazarded the health, h a ppiness, and privileges to which every human being is o absolutely necessary p thatall men should know, that there are pers onal management which cannot be violated without penalties,. and when wisdom and regret succeed principles nit teitiedspsbo grievous tnconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties incurringie . hoydfty may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, and how the evil and itScon‘equenc es may be avoided, and above all, that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. The Author has for a series of years been engaged in an extensive treatment hese delicate complaints, which are practice in the I tutfortunately teen .too orallygeu confided to the care of ignorant I empirics, who Wild , great injury on those who art induced to place faith in ',heir pretensions. SELF-PRESERVATION may be had, price 2s 6d, in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, or German, of Messrs. Piper, Brothers and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; Mann, 39, C3rrthill ; Starie. Titchborne-rstreet, Ha the ymarket ; or free by post for forty-two stamps, to any addess from Author's resi dence, 37, Bedford-square. At home for consultation daily from Eleven Two, and from Six tin Eight. AU lettere must ccetain the fee of 11. Portland Meander .............. Fox Calliope Lily Star Royalist.... d d or, Qui st parla Italian. Aqua ae hapla Evano. / 7 ---- / - 7-e--- V -Z7 • ✓ / z • .4 6 t gr atith6.. - • , ▪ • • - • ‘. , , )1 1 .; 11 I, •) • 1 • ‘, t • • H t sj - z ; ‘N, • e• • - • " l c/ I l'=t' ra'' : - =4 4s -. 'e' t'. ? .. s‘:• 4 •t; - • • nu ,_,,„..t e • Vb b • - ' ' O, +0 - Ar a 13i, -I- 0 15 D ' , , tatv Tit 4 01 T / L N:: • LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 15, 1854. THE WAR. THE BALTIC The fleet that left the Downs for the Baltic, on the 15th 'of March, was composed of 18 ships, of 1,048 guns, 10,170 men, and 7,870-horse power. The reinforcements that have been despatched since that date to join the powerful force amount to so large a rtuiliber that it will be interesting to the public to rekd 'Ole following cor rected list of the increased and increasing fleet. It is as follows, under the orders of the undermentioned flag officers : Commander-in-Chief—Vice-AdMiral Sir Charles Na pier, K.C.8., flag in the Duke of Wellington: Second in Command—Rear-AdMiral Corry, flag in the Neptune. Third in Command—Rear-Admi l ralPlumridge, flag in the Leopard. Fourth in Command —Rear-Admiral Chads, C. 8., flag in the Edinburgh. Captain of the Fleet—Commodore Michael Seymour, broad pendant in the Duke of Wellington. SHIPS OF •THE 1414 E. • . - Screws. Gns. Men h. p, t t Commanders. —.....— Duke of Wellington :131 1100 780, apt. G. T. Gordon. Royal George ' 'l2l 990 400, Capt. Hon. H. Kep t apt. Codrington, C.E. • 1 pel, C.B. St. Jean d'Acre lOl 900 6001 Princess Royal ...., ' •91 850 400 1 Capt. Lord C. Paget. Caesar James Watt Cressy , BO 750 400; pt. Warren. Blenheim Hogue 6O 600 450 . W. Ramsay. Ajax • - 6 O 6O 600 450 t. Warden. Edinburgh . apt. Hewlett (flag). Sailing. Neptune l2O 970 ... Capt. Hutton (flag). Prince Regent Monarch B4 750 ... Capt. Erskine. Boscawen Cumberland FRIGATES, SLOOPS, &C. Screw-frigates, &c. Gns. Men h. p. Commanders. _---- -- Imperiense 5l 530 360 Capt. Watson, C.B. Euryalus Arrogant Amphion Tribune Dauntless Conflict Desperate Archer Cruiser Paddle-frigates, Sloops, &c. Leopard ~. Valorous l6 220 4001 Capt. Buckle. Odin Magicienne l6 220 400 Capt. T. Fisher. Dragon Bulldog Vulture Hecla Gorgon Rosamond 6 160 280 Com. Wodehouse. Driver 6 160 280 Com. Hon. A. Cochrane. Basilisk Lightning Alban 4 52 100 Com. Otter. ships will be off to the Baltic in a l all be ready as soon as they are fully Manned. The St. George, 121, Captain Eyres, C.E., is in the Downs. Fearless, steam-tender, arrived from the river on Thursday, with men and stores for the St. George, and put them on board. The lighter, Manceuvrer, was alongside her delivering water. Nile, we hear by electric telegraph from Plymouth, will be paid advance wages, and will leave that port to day for Spithead. Majestic would be ready in three or four days, if she had got her seamen. She is badly off for blue jackets. Penelope is ready at Portsmouth as soon as the dock yard people and engineers will report her. The Stromboli, it will be seen, came home from Brazils yesterday, and her good ship's company are all ready and willing to start off to-day for the Baltic. Add, therefore, this list to the former, and we may put down the available force at present as — Ships. Guns. m om I h. p., 51 2,155 I 21,953 I 17,208 ,• ships, 19 are liners. ret another addition to take into account in Baltic or home force. We have also the foi st the ports, fitting : command of the French fleet in the Black Sea, in order that, inasmuch as the expeditionary force is to be com manded by a French general, senior to Lord Raglan, our great national arm of defence may have a chief at the head of our fleet senior to the commander in chief of the naval force of our gallant allies. Whilst every one in the Black Sea fleet will most sincerely regret the supercession of Admiral Hamelin, who has worked so harmoniously with the British ad mirals, and has kept up a cordiality between the officers of the fleets that has been productive of the best possible results, the noble and delicate compliment paid to Admiral Dundas will be appreciated by every officer in the united service of Great Britain. It is rumoured that Admiral Hamelin is likely to be dispatched to the Baltic as commander in chief of the French naval force in• that quarter. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The Peninsular and Oriental ,Company's steam-ship Euxine, Captain E. Cooper, left Southampton yesterday (Friday) for Portsmouth. to embark 20 officers, 70 men, 20 horses, and 450 tons of Government stores, for con ve Jaime to Constantinople. Owing to the large number of steamers engaged in the transport service, the Southampton Docks now pre sent a very deserted appearance. Yesterday morning but four steamers remained in the dock basin—viz., the Solent, Ripon, Iberia, and Madrid, all of comparatively small size. The following is a list of the steamers be longing to the great steam navigation companies con nected with Southampton which are at present employed of Governmentservice :—Peninsular and Oriental Com pany—Himalaya, 3,650 tons ; Indus, 1,800 tons ; Euxine, 1,200 tons;„ Vectis, 1,000 tons ; Valetta, 1,000 ' tons ali; 600 tonal: Manilla, 700 tons. West India MailCompany—Orinoco, 2,750 tons ; Trent and Med way, 1,800 tons each. General Screw Steam Shipping Company—Golden Fleece, 2,500 tons; Jason, 2,500 tons ; Cape of Good Hope, 800 tons. Australasian Pacific Mail Company—Kangaroo and Emeu, 1,650 tons each—giving a total of fifteen ships, of an aggregate tonnage of 25,400. Besides these, the General Screw Company have placed at the dis posal of the Government their screw steam-ship Prince, launched at Blackwell on Wednesday last, of 2,700 tons burden, and the Hydaspes and Har binger, so soon as these vessels (now considerably over due) shall arrive respectively from India and Australia. The Peninsular and Oriental Company have also offered the Simla and Candia, two magnificent screw steam ships, of 2,600 and 2,250 tons burden, and which are now nearly ready for sea. It is expected that in a few weeks' time the transport of troops to the East will be completed for the present, and that the majority of the steam transport ships above enumerated, being no longer required, will be released by the Government, with the exception of a few required for carrying stores and pro visions. The ordinary mail-packet service and general business of the port of Southampton will then resume its accustomed course, and will be likely to suffer no further irregularity during the current year. We are again requested to state that Capt. Ommanney has not command of any squadron for the Baltic, nor has he any orders to go there. The cutter Fanny, Second Master Scarlett, which was despatched from Portsmouth on the 4th inst., in charge of Lieutenant Grierson, of the flagship, to cruise off Beechy Head, on the look-out for " strange sail," re turned to port yesterday morning. She has been knock ing about off her rendezvous since the 4th, and has boarded many vessels, but found nothing to t justify their detention. She reports the prevalence of strong gales the whole time. The horse-transportship Echunga, Captain Grey, was towed to Plymouth Dockyard on Thursday, to be fitted with stalls for 60 horses. Two flat-bottomed boats, 27 feet long, for landing troops, have been put on board. The screw steam-transport Albatross arrived at Ply mouth on Thursday morning from Liverpool, and went into Hamoaze to prepare for the reception of cavalry. The steam-vessel Avon sailed for Portsmouth on Thursday from Plymouth. A Brixham trawl sloop (Matthews) reports a sailing frigate off the Bolt at Plymouth, tacking to the south ward, about 3 o'clock yesterday morning—wind easterly. She was under all head sail, three royals, topgallant sails, and topsails. Her courses wer e hauled up. She bore a white ensign at her peakend, and was supposed to be the Portland from South America. We learn by electric telegraph from Plymouth that the Mary Anne, horse-transport, arrived at that port from Liverpool yesterday. The orders for loading with provisions the iron screw steamer Albatross, at Plymouth, have been counter manded by telegraph. Captain C. J. Longmore's troops, Bth Hussars, which left Exeter at 11 o'clock on Thursday morning, slept at Ashburton on Thursday night, and arrived at Devon port yesterday. To-day they will embark in the Echunga, for service in the East. The other three troops are expected on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thurs day next. Colonel Browne retires from the command of the Ist battalion Ist Royals, stationed in Plymouth citadel, and is succeeded by Major Bell, of the 2d battalion, who is expected immediately. The Ist battalion will probably embark at Plymouth on Tuesday or Wednesday in the Andes steam-ship, bound for the Mediterranean. Her Majesty's troop screw steam-ship Simoom, 15, from Malta, was reported entering Plymouth Sound at 7 p.m. yesterday. Her Majesty's mail-packet service between Dover and Calais and Ostend being let to a private company for a term of four years, the Admiralty packets have, since the Ist of April, ceased to run on that station, and the Vivid, Commander Smithett, after conveying his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and General Lord Raglan and staff to Calais, arrived at WoolWich to be paid off and refitted for general service in the Royal Navy. Captain Smithett intends retiring into private life, after 40 years of arduous duties, which he has suc cessfully performed, and will carry with him the satis faction expressed by their lordships at the great zeal and attention he has always shown in the performance of his duties. The Mangerton, No. 17 horse transport-ship, with a portion of Captain Anderson's small arm ammunition brigade, will be taken out of the basin to-day, and towed down the river on her way to the Mediterranean. The Hannibal, 91, screw steam-ship, Captain the Hon. Frederick William Grey, when she went down the river on Tuesday tried her speed by the log, and made 81 knots, which was considered satisfactory, as she had never been taken into dock to have the supports for her launching taken off. It was intended to try her speed at the measured distance between the Nore and Mouse Lights on Wednesday, but the loss of her anchor, which was occasioned by the drawing out of the ring which should have held the chain cable, caused the trial to be postponed. The Zspbyr steam-vessel went down the river on Thursday with spare anchors and chains to Northfleet, preparatory to the launch of one of the fine steamers of war built by Mr. Pitcher for the Russian Government, but now completing for the service of the Government of this country. The launch will take place to-day (Sa turday), and the crew of the Fisgard will take charge of the steamer when launched. The British Government has ordered the vessels to be made ready for launching, and on their being completed according to contract with the Russian agents will hand over the remaining one third of the price to Mr. Pitcher, and will settle with Russia at some future period for the amount already paid to Mr. Pitcher on account for the vessels. • The following letter from a gentleman on board the Peninsular and Oriental Company's ship Himalaya, dated Malta, the 9th inst., conveys some interesting in formation relative to the removal of troops from` that island to the seat of war in the East. "As we now know our destination, I write you, though most hurriedly, by the Vectis, which ship arrived this morning from Alexandria, a nd proceeds to Marseilles directly. We leave on Tuesday, the 11th, for Gallipoli, perhaps Varna, with the following troops : Officers. Men. Women. Horses. 33d. Regiment 33 907 9 4 41st Regiment 27 888 8 4 Brigade and Staff 3 3 0 2 Gun 'Men h. p. Commanders. Waterloo Royal William sailing 120 970 Capt. Kingcome St. Vincent Hannibal screw 91 850 450 Capt.Hn.F.W.Grey Algiers Wellington Wyvill Eurydice Gl a diator paddle 6 200 430 Capt. Broke Harpy - - 631 5645 1630 We gave the progress of these ships last week ; but we may repeat them on this occasion to complete our lists. Waterloo, Royal William, St. Vincent, and Wel lington are respectively flag-ships at Sheerness, Devon port, Portsmouth, and Sheerness (two at Sheerness), and are gradually getting ready for use, as other and more urgent works that have engaged the attention of the dockyard force are completed. They have also a nucleus of marines and seamen, and whilst they are fit ting are looked upon as feeders to the more advanced ships. The Hannibal, 91, has been taken to Chatham, from Woolwich. She has got her masts and bowsprit in, and has been taken into dock to be rigged and fitted for sea, and to complete her crew of 850 men. Algiers has been commissioned at Devonport for Commodore Talbot, who is daily expected from the Cape, in the Meander, 44, with 360 men. By the time she arrives she will also have picked up some marines and seamen, and then, with the Meander's com pliment turned over to her, she will be almost complete for fighting an action. Eurydice, Gladiator, and Harpy have been commis sioned at Portsmouth within the last ten days, and the commander of each ship is trying his utmost to get fitted out and manned quickly. Including the whole of the above ships in our lists, it will be found that there are no less than 60 ships of all classes and sizes, mo unting 2,786 guns, with steam power equal to 18,838 horses, and when fully manned, the aggregate number of officers, seamen, marines, and boys will be no less than 27,598. Half of this force of 60 vessels comprises line-cf-battle ships, and of the 25 liners no less than fifteen have screw machinery. In addition to the Meander, as we have already stated, many ships may be expected from foreign stations daily, I They include : 63 1,798 17 10 Total 1,878 Crew, may l5O 2,028 "It will take us about 60 hours to go up, and by oar re turn I fancy all the forces will have gone forward. This place is in a most busy state, and it is only to be regretted that the sudden removal of the troops was not anticipated, for instead of our losing 30 days by going to Alexandria we could have gone up to Constantinople with 2,000 troops each time—say five times. Everything that can sail, Or steam, or be towed, is put in requisition. Tho Indus will be towed by the Cambria, the Apollo by the Sultan, on her arrival. The Vesuvius went away two days since in tow of the Cyclops ; she had to discharge 1, 000 t on s of cargo, and relay all the troop-decks, which, of course, caused delay. The greatest energy and activity prevail throughout every establishment. Our passengers , of c o urse, are a good deal inconvenienced by their sudden ejection from tho Himalaya, but seem to look upon their troubles with the eyes of patriots and sufferers in a good and just cause." Guns. Men. ILLEGAL CONVEYANCIE OF LETTERS.--A notice has just been issued from the General Post -office against the illegal conveyance of letters. Private friends or special messengers may convey letters. Commissions, affidavits, writs, and processes from courts of justice, need not pass through the post ; nor letters sent abroad in a pri vate vessel ; nor those concerning and accom p an ying goods by common carriers. With the abo ve exce ptions, c ommon carriers, owners, drivers, and guards of stage coaches, owners, commanders, seamen, and passengers • of ships, are expressly forbidden to carry l e tt ers . The C entaur penalty for acting illegally in this matter is 51. a letter, vi xen G 160 Brazils. , . • and 1001. per week for whoever makes a practice of it. Trident DESERTION OP MEN FROM THE TRANSPORTS AT Brisk (screw) DEPTFORD.—Much inconvenience has been felt among Hermes 6 120 E as t I n dies. the fleet of transports lying at Deptford, by an exten- Salamander 6 135 East Indies. sive desertion of men into the navy. Boats from the The above ships will give us 2,000 well-trained and several navalrendezvous in the river are nightly cruising efficient seamen and marines, which would go far to man round the ships, inducing the men to leave. The Born- all the 60 ships that we have enumerated for the Baltic bay has lost 20 seamen, the Dunbar 15, the Caduceus fleet. 16, and the Pride of the Ocean 15, in this way. We understand that Mr. Dunbar, the owner of some of the ships, is taking steps to obtain redress from the Govern ment.—Shippiv and Mercantile actotte. Pacific. Cape. East Indies. Australia. East Indies. Brazils. East Indies. ARRIVAL OF HER MAJESTY'S STEAM SHIP STROMBOLI FROM THE SOUTH-EAST COAST OF AMERlCA.—Strom boll, 6, paddle, Commander Robertoodoffic ers H all, al a i rr a iv a edat Portsmouth yesterday, with g first rate ship's company of 160 well-disciplined men. She left Rio de Janeiro on the evening of the 12th of March, arrived at Bahia on the 16th, left at ten p.m. on the 18th, arrived at St. Vincent's at three p.m. on the 31st. Sailed at nine p.m. on the Ist of April, ar rived at Madeira on the morning of the 7th, and sailed at ten p.m. of the same day. Centaur arrived at Bahia on the 27th, was coaling, and intended to leave for Spithead on the 19th. Left Trident at Bahia, Rifleman and Madagascar at Rio. Found lying at Madeira the United States ship Constitution. Brought home on promotion Lieutenant E. S. O'Meara, late mate of Stromboli. Ber Majesty's ship St ar , h av i ng b een patched up, was to sail for England on the 16th of April. The slave-trade has been knocked completely on the head. Bonetta was cruising off St. Catherine's ; passed Sharpshooter on Sunday, the 19th ; experienced a strong north=east trade after crooning the equator, EAMER: ,Guns. Men. THE BLACK SEA FLEET. We announced yesterday that it was intended to ap point Admiral Bruat to succeed Admiral .Hanielin in the f;/ [pßicE SD. which lasted three days ; 29 days under steam, ave raging 8 knots an hour ; took on board at Bahia 130 tons of coal ; at St. Vincent's, 212 tons ; at Madeira, SI tons ; left in the ship on her arrival at Spithead about 80 tons ; all well ; everybody happy, and pre pared for any service. LAUNCH OF THE SCREW-SLOOP HORNET. The launch of the Hornet, 16 guns, screw-sloop, took place on Thursday afternoon, at Deptford Dockyard, i n the presence of fewer spectators than we ever remember to have seen present on such an occasion.. No booths were erected, but the admirable band of the yard was in attendance as usual, and played several popular airs with their accustomed good taste and ability. The christening was performed by the second daughter of Captain G.)B. Martin, C. 8., the gallant superintendent. and about half-past two the dog-shores were knocked away, and the fussy little master shipwright was re lieved cf the extreme anxiety which such events gene rally cause him by the good little ship taking herself off in the basin. She is a handsome-looking ship, like her sister the Cruizer, now in the Baltic, and which has already established an excellent character, and i said to have been designed by Mr. Eyde, one of the assist ant surveyors of the navy, and was built, or nearly so, under the directions of the late master shipwright, Mr. C. Willcox. Her dimensions are as follows :--- Ft. ln. Length from the fore part of figure-head to the aft side of taffrail lB4 0 Length between the perpendiculars Length of the keel for tonnage 240 7 Breadth, extreme 31 I g3l l Breadth for tonnage 31 0 Breadth moulded 4 17 Depth in hold 75 5 2 74-94 Burden in tons, old measurement Burden in tons, new measurement Burden in tons, engine -room 193.923 Register tonnage She is to be sent to Woolwich to be commissioned as soon as possible, her machinery being already provided. The Curlew, screw, being one of a new class likely to be of great seruice at the present time, building at Deptford Yard, is to be proceeded with as fast as pos sible. The artizans are to work extra hours upon her. OFFICIAL REPORT ON THE MINIE RIFLE. The following is the official report of Major Nor cott, of the Rifle Brigade, upon the Minie rifle : Sir—ln accordance with instructions which I had yes terday the honour to receive (personally) from the General Commanding-in-Chief, I proceed to report upon certain points connected with the Minie rifle in possession of the 2d battalion Rifle Brigade. I understood his lordship to ask my opinion with regard to the following points, viz., as to Ist, Its saf ' freedo - from accident. ASt , Oty any ,octom - 2dly, Its capability as compared with the old Brunswick rifle. 3dly, The loading. If any difficulty had been found, and if so, how remedied ; and 4thly, The comparative practice between the Minie and Brunswick rifle. His lordship was further pleased to direct that I should endeavour to classify the average practice of the battalion. I had answered these queries and other matters, and was about to cransmit by rail, when your letter, dated the 19th inst., arrived, more particularly detailin g L or d H ar dinge's wishes. I proceed at once to recapitulate, under guidance of this letter, replying as I have lmbered. 1. SAFETY, &c.—The Minie Rifle has been found per fectly safe, nor can I trace a single accident which has occurred since the arm has been in our possession. We have had autumn and spring target practice since April, 1852, up to the present month, and tested it well with blank ammunition at Chobham. 2. COMPARATIVE CAPACITY.—The capacity of the Minie over the Brunswick rifle, after 200 yards, is vast. The ad vantage of seeing the object fired at, as in the Minie, is too evident. _ I have heard it argued that the old Brunswick rifle, sighted like the Minie, would produce the same results. This is a fallacy. The Brunswick, sighted like the Minie, would doubtless gain the advantage of "sighti n g" distant objects, and so might a pistol. The great advantage the Minie offers is the increased range and accuracy of the ball's sight. There is a windage overcome in the Minie (by the ball's expansion), which neither the construction of barrel or ball would allow of in the Brunswick rifle. The groove and belted ball strove against gravity at the expense of range ; both retarded the flight of the ball, whilst the latter offered a surface (too often made jagged or uneven by the force required to drive it home) on which the wind exer cised an influence increasing with distance and requiring great allowance at 200 yards when the breeze was strong. The Millie ball opposes a cone to the action of the air, and being propelled by a greater and more equal force, travels without offering any hold for the wind beyond its common construction, the best I believe for the object desired. 3. OF LOADING.—We have never found any difficulty in loading the Minie. In the old Brunswick rifle the bat talion used tallow (or fat) grease to facilitate the passage of the ball. This necessity is obviated in the ammunition of the Minie. In the construction of the cartridge, the part which contains the ball is dipped into, and well saturated with, melted tallow. I can only conceive any difficulty in loading to proceed from the want of a proper knowledge and ordinary attention in practice. The cartridge bitten, and the powder shook into the bar rel, should then be reversed, and the ball placed in the muzzle just so far as will admit of the papor (now above the ball) being twisted or broken off, which is done in a second. The pressure of the little finger, could it be con tinued, would drive the ball home, and this is as easy after 20 as after 5 rounds. 4.—COMPAR&TIVE PRACTICE.—In the return given below, showing the comparative practice made with the Minix and Brunswick rifle, I have taken a company's tar get-practice roll, which is that of the battalion on a similar scale, the practice of the companies averaging. I need hardly draw your attention to the remarkable superiority of the Minie in this return. You will observe that at 300 yards (and you must bear in mind that every man in the battalion is forced to fire half his shots "off the shoulder"), 33 men out of 59 men put seven out of ten shots each into the target, whilst the Brunswick rifle shows only six men out of 70 ! who, at 150 to 200 yards, put in more than half their shots, this excess on the half even being below that mad• by the Minie. Again, at 400 yards, you will observe the marked supe riority of the Minis practice. I cannot leave this return without, however, particularly pointing out the remark able superiority of the practice of those men who, not attaining excellence, appear to be far from contemptible shots. Of 59 men at 300 yards with the Minie there are only 12 who put in less 4- . 6-14, or near a half, and at 400 yards only 32 out of 74 who put in less than near one-half of their shots. The practice of the Brunswick rifle at but 150 to 500 yards shows 50 men out of 70 who put in less than one-half of their shots. Nor should it be forgotten that the practice of the Brunswick was with au arm we had long possessed ; the Minie, as you are aware, is com paratively newly in our hands. Classification of a company's practice from 200 to GOO yards with the Minie rifle for the season : ..-1.... . , Sheifiel Colonic 1 r; ° ' Merchi 1 12 Bhoo in INIPOI tY of 'r:.l, exch ang , ! without t P ri ce, e in Th E on `Aatnr A' ne,a Won:. , ,', ~,, , went,& • • ..k A han ° ll aPpli, ,' ,• .: li 1 Ille ~ . ”...._ --...... ~- L , ho d, ;vie° l ' la te l of atl .s ~r The above may under the orders of the Baltic. All, 1 and they are very I flag. It will be see; be considered as the force directly E Sir Charles Napier, and actually in )erhaps, with the exception of two, near the flutter of the vice-admiral's a thatthe total of the above force is— I No. Guns. Men. h.p. I Ships of the line... 1 16 1379 I 12,502 5,380 Frigates,sloops,&c. 24 I 408 5,619 8,572 Totals ... I 40 I 1787 18,121 13,952 But we have also the following, fully manned, and engaged in various duties connected with the Baltic fleet : Gun Men h.p Commanders. Horatio screw 22 277 250 Corn. Jenner. Miranda screw 15 175 250 Captain Lyons. Janus paddle 2 55 240 Lieut. Kane. Prometheus 5 100 200 Commander Rice. Tartarus paddle 4 60 136 Lieut. Risk. Medea paddle 6 135 350 Com. Phillimore. Horatio is at Hull, Miranda is fitting at Sheerness, and is expected to be ready to' proceed to the Baltic about the 20th inst. Janus is already cruising, and ac companied the Cumberland last *eek en route; Tartarus is refitting at Sheerness ; and Medea and Prometheus are collecting men; add these, 04 the force will be in creased to Ships. Guns. Alen. h. p. r f _ 46 I 1841 _ _ __ 18,923 _ 15,378 Moreover, we have the followilig powerful squadron now ready for reinforcing the Baltic fleet : Gun Men h. p. Commanders. 1 St. George !sailing 121 970 Capt. Eyres, C.B. Nile ( screw 90 850 500 i Comdre.Martin,C.B. I Maje,tie !screw 80 750 400' I Capt. Hope, C.B. Penelope paddle 18 300 650 Capt. Caffin. Stromboli 'paddle 6 160 280ICom. Hall. Good. Fair. Indifferent. 17 40 16 6 Put in from 45 Put in from 30 Under 30 out Under to 56 shots to 40 out of of 90. 20. out of 90. 90. 170 400 160 60 1790 If I make myself understood in the above form there will appear to have been out of 790 men of the battalion whose firing it records in the lower line, 170 Marksmen for particular service. 400 Good service. 160 Of indifferent attainment. 60 Of no attainment at all. The two first numbers give 570 men out of 790, capable of a most destructive fire from 200 to 600 yards. Nor are those of indifferent attainment to be looked on as in a settled state. There are many young soldiers amongst those, and men whom practice will yet instruct. You will permit me also again to impress on you, that the half of the above firing is " off hand." I now come to certain questions, which, though I answered his lordship person ally, he desired me to record in my report. The Minis ball is 10 to the pound ; the charge of the Minie is 21s drs. The musket ball is 16 to the pound ; the charge of the musket is 41 drs. I will now take your letter of the 19th inst. The weight of the Brunswick rifle ... i'lb. The weight of the M .... ini° (1851) 7oz. 1 0 5dr. rifle brought The sword and scabbard of the Bruns.wl— P ck the combined weapons to 111 b. 12oz. 15dr . . The bayonet and scabbard of the Mime b r ing these COM. bined to 101 b. 11 oz. 12dr. The weight, you willperceive, is with the old rifle, but was fully compensated for by the hardiness of the arm the havey heard it ' re peatedusefulness of the swor d n (b t e h y e on b d an a d d . efe l nsi e 'weapon) and its formidable nature by the old Peninsula again and again, had oked th • dinners t3faCe" and men, that often theytheir b efore other divisions had well g ot the " p ot on." The sword was most useful in cutting and chopping wood. His lordship has begged me to be most free and unreserved in offering my o pinions. It is with this invitation that I beg to bring to the notice of the Gen era l C ommanding-in-Ch i e f th e great advantage that would accrue to all corps, but most particularly to an advanced one, or one whose province it is to be in readiness as soon as possible, if one file of each section carried bill-hooks, in a leather cas e, slung at the side or thrust beneath the pack straps. I attach the greatest importance to this provision, could it be effected. Great saving of fatigue and a help to the celerity of cooking, a most desirable point where time and the necessity of feeding men under any circumstances exist. RELATIVE SKILL.—Your letter expresses further his lordship's desire to be informed of the relative skill of the best shots in the regiment when firin, with the Minie and Brunswick rifle. I have done this in " Company's Coin parative Practice"' under margin note of 4thly. I proceed however, to give the number of hits and misses of a good though not the best, shots in the company from whose rod I have made my other returns : Rounds. Distance. Hits. 10 30 30.) 20 ... ..... 400 10 20 Alisses. Eight men out of 80 men did equal to this, and two men better, putting in 56 shots. The best Brunswick rifle shot in this company put 42 out of GO shots in at 203 yards, but this was only one man. The greatest number in, after this, is 31; and here again this approach to any comparison with the best shot is only by one man. The average of the rest is 20 out of 60. To recapitulate the average of the Minie is, at from 200 to 600 yards out of 79 men, 17 men above half 40 near half in target. 16 one-third (near) 6 under 20 rounds Raw= Or I,96l)lllQ.—The Xinie le loaded WA 01119 -tom-~~ more easily but more rapidly than the Brunswick rifle; and doubtless particularly so at night. I have known a solitary instance or two where the ball has required consi derable force (from the cartridge having been carelessly_ handled) to drive it home, but I never saw it jammed. If the ball, which should be placed about half its length in the muzzle, is pushed in too far, the cartridge paper will not break off, as it should do, clean from the ball, and grains of powder, if any remain in the paper, are liable to get between the ball and the barrel, but certainly not be tween the paper and the ball. The cone of the ball is fitted tightly into the bottom of that portion of the cart ridge which contains the powder, in it cup, strongly formed and lined with paper, by which the ball and powder are perfectly and securely separated. With regard to the comparative accuracy and range of the Minie rifle, I b give the particulars of a trial beg to which took place at hitstable, between two Horse Ar tillery six-pounders and a Minie rifle by Mr. Yonge, Rifle Brigade, a fair and good, though by no means a practised shot. Two six-pounders fired 10 rounds between them, at a barrel floating in the water, and calculated at 600 yards. A SIX -POUNDER FIRES FIVE SHOT TO A MINIE'S THREg AND A HALF THE ROUND.—The Minie rifle fired in the same time (one minute and twenty seconds) three rounds, and was again loaded when time " was up," which the guns were not. The guns did not strike the barrel at all, some shots being good, others very w id e , even to falling 200 yards short. The Minie struck the barrel once, placed its other two shots within two feet on each side 'of the barrel, and the fourth shot discharged, though not counted in the trial, struck the barrel. All this from the shoulder. I have now, I believe, replied to all the questions his lordship pressed on me, and have only to notice the two last points in your letter. Firstly— DETERTOBATION.—Froui first firing the ammunition in our pouches and replacing with the new issue, I am only enabled to speak of ammunition that has been in the pouch for about a year. 1 have examined it carefully ; there is not the slightest deterioration, the powder, perfect to a grain, stands the test of rubbing on white paper without staining it (which, were it in the slightest degree injured, would have a very different showing), whilst the folds of paper which envelope or closely enfold the ball, are as moist with the tallow as the day on which it was sent out. GREASE.—You will see by the foregoing that the neces sity for this is obviated in forming the Minie cartridge. I have yet to give the weight of 60 rounds of Minie ball• cartridge, and 60 rounds of spherical. lbs. oz. drs. Minie, 60 rounds 6 15 0 Musket, 60 rounds I have the honour to be, &c., W. NOECOTT, ajor, Rifle Brigade. SECOND BATTALION RIFLE BRIGADE.—Return showing the practice made with the Minie and Brunswick rifles ; 10 rounds per man, half of which was fired from the shoulder. MINIE AT 300 YARDS.—Number of men who put in— Over half, averaging 7 each, 33 ; under half but over three, averaging 4 6-14ths each, 14; under three, averaging 2t each, 12. Total, 59. MINIE AT 400 YARDS.—Number of men who put in— Over half, averaging 6 7-15ths each, 15; under half, but over three, averaging 4 19-27ths each, 27; under three, a veraging 2i each, 32. Total, 74. BRUNSWICK AT FROM 15) to 200 YARDS.--Number of men who put in—Over half , averaging 6 1-10th each, 6; under half, but over three, averaging 4 5-14ths email, 14; under three, averaging 2 17-50ths each. Total, 70. Un-ited Serriee Magazine. THE BRITISH MUSEUM. It probably occurs to few of the visitors to the Britisk Museum to inquire what that establishment really is. We do not mean as to its material form and aspect, which is patent enough—cold, classical, huge, and not very significant—but as to the soul which animates the vast mass, and which, infused as it were throughout the whole, constitutes its vital and active principle. People occasionally hear of this or that treasure or rare volume being offered to the Museum, or being purchased by the Museum ; hut as for any distinct idea of what the entity so designated really is, few persons, perhaps, care to know much more than that the stony allegorical ladies and gentlemen, standing out against the blue paint over the portico, are not the Museum. Yet it is not the less a fact that the British Museum has an executive, and that it is administered on similar principles to those which have been so eminently successful in the parallel institution of the National Gallery. The Museum and the Gallery are each governed by a body of amateur and unpaid trustees. To institute a directory of this sort used to be a favourite device of John Bull. Like many rich and clever people, the country was afraid of being taken in. Loth to believe that a paid servant would do other than make a job of his place, it never entered into our heads that we should ruin our housekeeping, and, indeed, get no service at all, if we trusted only to ama teur butlers and dilettante footmen. We could not con ceive it possible that a salaried director of pictures and fine arts, or the salaried curator of a museum, would acton any higher principle towards his employers than that of purchasing with a view to a private per tentage. We sup posed if we put these great national establishments under the control of the great officers of State—men above sus picion, and above temptation—we should be sure to get the thing well done. They, we argued, will only have an eye to the common good—under their administration, peculation, jobbing, favouritism, will be impossible. We shall have our institutions managed on the loftiest prin ciples of public virtue, disinterested patriotism, pure zeal and integrity ; and, above all, ws shall get the work done for nothing. And so the British Museum was inaugurated ; and its government was committed to a body of forty-eight noblemen and gentlemen, nearly one-half of whom were selected on the eminently judicious ground that they were, beyond a doubt, the busiest men in England. The problem being, to give a public institution an effec tive executive, we pitched, first of all, ou the following twenty-three persons, as being peculiarly possessed of the requisite leisure for their duties— as men of lettered ease, whose thoughts and time could be exclu sively spent in devising rules for the management, and superintending the purchases, of an establishment so multifarious that it is itself an encyclopaedia : Archbishop of Oanterhury Lord Steward Lord Chancellor Lord Chamberlain President of Council Three Secretaries of State First Lord of Treasury Bishop of Loudon Lord Privy Seal Attorney-General Chancellor of the Exchequer Solicitor-General Chief Justice of Queen's And Presidents of the Revel Bench Society, College of Phy- Master of tho Bolls sicians, Society of Anti. Chief Justice of Common queries, and Royal Aca. Pleas dewy. First Lord of A.duliralty And her Majesty was to appoint a twenty-fourth trustee, but this nomination trusteeship is, and long has been, vacant. Here is one-half of the executive. Nine other trustees represent special benefactors—founders' kin trustees—on the principle, we suppose, that a taste in art must necessarily descend like a physical conformation, and that the Towneleys and Elgins of all time must as infallibly develop a taste for old broken statues as certain families propagate a squint or red hair. These 33 offi cial and family trustees complete the mystic number of 48 by electing 15 other members ; the individuals at pre sent being : Earl of Aberdeen Duke of Sutherland Duke of Rutland Sir R. I ng li s _ Marquis of Lansdowne Mr. IL Hallam Mr. W. R. Hamilton Mr. Macaulay Dean of Westminster Dean of St. Paul's Sir D. Duudas Sir P. Egerton Mr. Goulburn Lord Seymour Sir Roderick Murchison. It would be difficult to imagine a body more happily constructed for failure than an executive thus constituted. It is simply impossible that it should ever w or k. N or does its practice differ from its theory—the planet, when found, verifies the calculations made about it. As to the official gentlemen, we can only say that, if their other and high e r f unc ti ons . they did attend to the British Museum, they would Just t t think w o fullYf neglect an Archbishop Of Canterbury pottering for hours over a Roman pot—of a Lord Cha nce ll or qu itti ng his court an d woolsack to discuss the propriety of pur 2:ingrare lot of Pacctim—or the Chancellor of th e a c s heguer abandoning his bills for'bullce—or the Presi dent of the College of Physicians neglecting his patients for the charms of a Dinornis. It i s no t teo much to say that, of the official and family trustees, not one ever does, can, or should bestow one hour per annum on the Museum. But the 33 officials have doubtless selected 11 ad mirable coadjutors. Here we shall have the cream of the cream—the very highest representatives of English literature, art, and taste, and science. Even if this could be said of all the fifteen elected notables—which we are far from saying—this is the very reason which ought to disqualify them for this particular office. They, too, are busy men—official men —active men—reen with their own pursuits, callings, duties, and tastes, which do not leave them a moment's leisure. They are either statesmen or placemen—men of official rank, commis sioners, or writers and authors by profession, engaged with learned societies or with engrossing pursuits. Look over the list, and it will be found that, from one cause or other, out of the fifteen working trustees, not more than five at the outside can ever be depended upon for a leisure hour from one year's end to another. Those five are, let us suppose, Mr. Hamilton, Sir D. Dundas, Sir R. Inglis, the Duke of Sutherland, and Lord Seymour. But the duke is a confirmed invalid ; so we are reduced to four. And of these four, what with religious so cieties and other avocations, the time of the veteran Sir R. Inglis—especially with the representation of the University ou his hands—has been pretty well filled. Sir D. Dundas has only recently been relieved from an arduous official post. Consequentl7, it comes to pass that the whole practical government of the British Museum centres in two individuals—Mr. Hamilton and Lord Seymour. Mr. Hamilton has A taste—that for Greek antiquities. Lord Seymour is a very excellent man of business ; but we aro not aware that he possesses that encyclopedic range of scientific, artistic, and anti quarian lore which his gigantic task requires. We have now answered the question, what is the British Museum ? And the public, who want their at tention drawn to this preliminary and elementary in quiry, may fora time be left to ponder upon the chances of a great national institution being fairly dealt with, which, for all practical purposes, is under the manage ' meat of Lord Seymour and Mr. W. It. Hamilton. Of course, if their colleagues have attend e d , an d d o atten d , to the duties of their office, we shall, before we say any thing further on the management of the Museum, be glad to publish the minutes of the meetings and attend ances of the trustees —say, during the last twelve months.—lllorning Chronicle. OPENING OF THE NEW STREET TO ST. PAUL'S.—In order to expedite the opening of this important thorough. fare, the men engaged in the construction of the sewer between Old Change and the Cathedral-yard were kept employed throughout the whole of yesterday. From the great elevation of the ground at this point, the sewer has to be sunk an immense depth—it is said 70 feet from the surface. The Ist of May is now t3pokeu of as the time of the opening. Bad. i Total.