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ENCE. i May, 1854. 13th instaninstant,i :t of piracyill r Lords Com )u, for the in• the Affairs of ali already in et reported to I am further ship Leander )SBORNE. Lloyd's. ier, from Lon' Port Madoo, received or 1, for Sunder - Leith ; from Callao, us, from for London, 'rom London, atavia ; Lord for Malta; )n, from Lon• r Madeira ; A e Baltic ; her Liars Miranda 'or the White Baltic. April 9, lat. -rigged, steer' e the Bahia 0, lat. 50 N., ), lat 50 N., 01, April 16, I 1 26, lat 36 pril 27, lat. I, lat. 23 S., Irger today our market Blum. 54s OJ 50s 114 483 od p., 386 wad irs., 161 soli Ts., 269 sold Ts., 44 sold 4-12ths 8-12ths 6-12ths 8-12ths ►z 13. price 2s Od► ce is 4d up, up. Barley d down, and ) is 6d down, Inferior. 54i OJ 303 0 353 423 01 Id to 33s 6d; 1, 401bs per hel ; barley, d, Uos Od to 1 to 77s Od, d per boll; Beef, per lb, o, Gd to 8d ; Od to Os Od ; Id to Os Od ; 10d to 12d ; ir, 3s Od to ditto, 2s 6d ; turkeys, Od ; butter to 00s Od ; lesale price, 4id ; pork, )d to Os Od ; , erial stone► 1,40 s Ocl to )d to 18s Od 'B' flour, 22s :4s. lull market the closing Lancashire, 01, Crosby, ;tern, 96t ; id Lincoln, a arket, but reds, 60i 13• I change in less active Led, and in lowing are 3s, 60i 13 ; th Eastern Post-o It ce When du, in England. Each Mon. Arrived : May 29 June 4 (Uncertain ,June 6 )May I June 16 'flay 16 iTa.Th.Sat. :May 1 :Twlcodally Twicedatly May 6 June I Oath' May 16 May 20 Twicedahy May 26 May 16 June I May 2 May 1 Uncertain GO. will be Indl vie tehe , the B of the imerick, )n. Mrs. he wife . Neild, of Ken hter of 1, Esq., ord Mi- the late square, DUI\ G, io. 11 , ranty of MR. ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC, ~,,„ MR. Including the BE RNES' E OBERLAND and the SIMPLON, Saturday) EVENING, and Every Evening at Eight o'Clock, (excel' , 7 . 6 _,, t4rd aY) ; and Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Mornings, at Twu. till 4; area, 25.; gallery, Is.—Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. nib OYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDV,NTg.—Open for the Season.—TO-DAY (MONDAY), May 22, a Grand Fete and Fancy Baz Mr (represented to-morrow) In Aid of thc. St. George's Ladies' Visiting S ociet y , and to as ist the Wives and Families of the Soldiers ordered to the East. TnP band of the 2d Life ttuardi w,ll attend. The f• anoramic View of Chusan. Splendid and Extensive Menagerie. Grai.d Vocal and instrumental ,Concert : Miss Poole, Miss Ransford , a nd Mr. Manvers. The un- Tivaded band of the establishn.ent , con ucted by Mr. Godfrey. Various amusing Novelties, including the Bombardment a irew chu orks ,an, Zpiosi .n of Chinese Fire Rafts, and. b r illiant display of F by Southby.—Admission, Is. ATTRACTIVE NOVELTIES. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. PATRON PRICE ALBERT. The SEAT of WAR, showing the principal places on the DABE , KALAFAT, WI DOI ; I ITRG EVO, SEB A STOPOL, the entrance to the BLACK SEA, BATTLE of SI NOVE, and DE-TRUCTION of the TURKISH FLEET , and other scenes (kindly supplied by the proprietors of the ' Illustrated London News"), EXBILIITED in a NEW SI , RIES of lIIS,OLVING VIEWS. ISTRY of our LECTURES hy J. H. PEPP ER, Es q • on the CEIEM DAILY BRE AD, in special relation to that made by t! , e PR(),:ESS at the MARYLEMONE WORKHOUgE, daily at Two o'clock and in the Evenirto on the MANUFAuTURE and DECORATION of PAPER. LECTURE by Da. bACIIIIOFFNER on ELECTRICITY, and the ELECTRIC LW UT. Exhibition of Trestrah's Method of Raising Sunken Vessels, Ike.. &e. Open Mornings 4.1 bventno. Admission, Is.; Schools and Children under Ten years of age, Elalf-price. HOOD TESTIMONIAL in KENSALL-GREEN.— The Uncovering of this Tribute to Hood's Memory, just announced in " Eliza Cook's Journal" to take place on Tuesday neat, the 23d May (the anniversary of Rood's birth), is unavcidably Postponed. Due notice will be given. THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.- The allotment of the undermentioned Estates is fixed for the dates as follows . ST. MARGARET'S, near Richmond (Middlesex), Wednesday, June 7. OATL A ND'S GRANGE, Weybrldge (West Surrey), Wednesday, June 21. ROUND MILL PARR (second portion), Brighton, (East Sussex), Wednesday, July 12. By order of the Board, CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Secretary. 33, Norfolk-street. strand, May 17, 1854. • THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.- A REGIsTER of the RIGHTS of CHOICE for SALE is kept • at the Offices, 33, liortolk.street, strand, for public inspection. ate:• . CHARLE3 LEWIS GEIINXISEN, Secretary. • T HE PEOPLE'S PROVIDENT ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 47, CHARING Caoss. The FIRST ANNUAL 14 , ENLRA.I. MEETING will be held at the Offices of the Society, 47, Charing Cross, on TUZSDAT, the 30th inst., at 6 o'clock precisely W. AVENS, Secretary. 47, Charing Cross, May 19, 1854. STEAM TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. In compliance wat numerous applications from persons de siring to proceed to the Cape of Good Hope, the Directors of the General Screw Steam -hipping Compan% have determined to de spatch their Steam ship "CAVE OF GOOD 110 rE ' to TABLE ‘Y, on the 2trth of June next. Th • " Cape of Good Hope," H. D. BENSON. Commander, has just returned from a most successful voyage to Constantinople with passengers and general cargo, iA 70' tons burthen, and 100 hose-povv,r Built by Messrs. Mare & Co., of Elackwa,l, and an extremely fast ship. Her accommodations for Passengers are little if at all in ferior to this Company's first-class steam ships so well known on the Cape and Calcutta line. The ship Will load and sail from the East India Docks, Blacks all. Asher capacity for passengers and freight is limited, early application Should be made to the Company's Ottces, 27, Cannon-street, City. r lIHE MAIL STEAM SHIP fo r AUSTRALIA. -11- JUNE 4, 184.—The Magnificent Screw :item ship LADY JOCELY 1,800 tons, another of the fine fleet belonging to the General Screw Steam Ship dug Company, will be despatched with her Majesty's Mails for ,delaide, Port Philip, and Sydney, on the 4th June next. This truly noble ship has maintamed her high re- Pt ration for rapid sailin2 and runctuality, and as a sister ship to the Argo, which has made the quickest voyage to and from Australia of 141 Y ship up to this time. 'the Lel) , Jocelyn has been employ ed carrying the Mails to and from England and Calcutta, and after a voyage of about 27,000 miles, calling at a vett ports outward and eight homeward, has reached Plymouth two days be , ore her time, and from her super or sailinz and steaming qualities, it may be fairly assumed that she vk ill make the run to Austra is i. 61) days. Rates of Passage from 30 to 100 guineas. Full p aticulars as to Freight and Passage money at the Company's Offices, 27, Cannon-street, London. BONUS TO SHAREHOLD RS. 110 ME COUNTIES AND METROPOLITAN FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY. A Bonus of Si. 85. 4d. ner cent. has been added to the past year's Subscriptions, and in future interest at Vie rate of 51. Ss. 4d. pe , cent. Per annum wilt be given o❑ all subscriptions, with such additional bonus at the end of the year as the profits of the Society may allow Two Estates hsve been purchased for this -cciety during the past 3'e !r—that at Wood-green (chiefly allotted) has hen very satisfac tory and profitable, both to he allottees and the Society at large. The other Estate (not yet allotted) promises to be a more successful Purchase than the fit st, there being a great demand for plots upon it. It is situated in Wimbledon -park, in the midst of gentlemen's seats, and is adapts d for first-class villas. There are two special advantages in this Society, viz., members are not required to pay down any part of the price of the land prior to choosing plots. The full amount of the shares drawn in the ballot is advanced ; also that more share' are not drawn in the ballot than can be supplied with land, so that the members may have the advan tage of selling their drawn shares at a premium. A share in Lull is 3 01., with an entrance fee of Is. By crier, lIENRY KNIGHT, Secretary. 14, Chatham -place, Blackfriar TOURS IN IRELAND IN 1854, Commencing 22d May, and terminating 30th September. The Pu lic is respectfully intormed that arrangements have been again entered into by the Che-ter and Holyhead Railway Company with the principal Railway Companies in England, Scotland, and Ireland, by which First and Second Class "IRISH TOURIST TICKETS" will be issued at the following stations and prices : London (Kuston (Station), Newcastle. Dur ham, Berwick .... •• • • ..... •.•••£6 10 0 £5 5 Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hull, Bristol, Carlisle, Darlington, Scarboro' •••••• • • • • .. ..... 66 0 55 0 Worcester, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Oxford 515 0 415 0 Birmingham, Rugby, Leamington, Coventry, Lincoln Wolverhampton, Huddersfield, Leeds, Shef field. Der by Preston .• -••.•••• • • • • • •• ••• • . • .. 410 0 315 0 Manchester, Warrington, Stoke, Macclesfield 44 0 311 0 Liverpool, Chester • • These Tickets (which in no ease are transferable) will he available for ono month from the date of issue. They will enable the holder• to proaeed to Chest r, thence to Bangor, Holyhead, and Dublin (by the Express Boats only) ; from Dublin to Cork, situate on the pic turesque river Lee, and within ten miles of the celebrated harbour dockyard, and naval station f Queenstown (Cove). From Cork back to M..110w, arid thence by the Killarney Junction Railway to the far-famed lakes of Killarney. The tourist can remain as long as conveuient to himself at Chester, Bangor (for the inspection of the Britannia Tubular Bridge), Hol head (the new Refuge and Ocean steam Harbour), Dublin. Cork. and Kills ney ; the only condition being, that his return to the ate tion in En?land, or Scotland, at which he took hie ticket, twist not be later than one month from the date of tie departure therefrom. Supplemental tickets for Glengariff, Connemara, and the Giant's Causeway. Under arrangements which have been specially and exclusively entered into fo- the accommodation of English Visitors, the holder or each " Ir i s h Tourist Ticket" is entic ed (within the month it available) to have issued to him : I. At the Offices of the Dublin ani Drogheda Company, Amiens street, Dublin —Dublin to Belfast and back, for the rota to the Giant's Causeway :—First Class, 1/.65.; Second Class, 11. 2s. Avail able for Seven Days 2. At the Offices of the Midland Great Western Company, Broad stone, Dublin —Dublin to Galway an I back, for the Tour to Conn - mare : —First Class, 11. 103. ; Second Class, 11. 4s. Available for Seven Days. 3. At Mr. J. Fishbourne's Offices, B ichelor's•alk Dublin ; Ra 1- way Station, Killarney; Imperial Hotel, Cork wand s Victoria Hotel, Glengariff —For the Tour between Cork and Killarney, via the Cork and Bandon Railway, the Kitnmamee Pass, and the Lakes of Gou ganebarr.i. and Inchageelagh, and vice versa, each day (Sundays ex cepted), 17e.6ii ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF MARRIAGE, AND THE SF,C.REI INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH, MANHOOD, AND OLD AGE. Just Published, 60th Edition, price 2s. 6d.. or free by post for forty two stamps, SELF-PRESERVATI ON a Popular Treatise on the Physiology and Functions of Mar riage, with its Disqualifications and Impediments, excess, traci tropical ng their Origin to the effects of so litar y habits, youthml climates, or close study ; followed by practical remarks, founded Oti twenty years' experience in the treatment of Impuissance, Nervous Debility, Local Weakness, Spermatorrhcea, and all diseases of the Urinary and Generative System. Illust r at ed by 50 coloured Engrav ings, on the Anatomy of the Reproductive Organs and their relative conditions in Health and Disease. By SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D. 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edir , burgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society Li cen tiate o f kpothecaries' Hall, London. &c., &c. The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful con sequences resulting from certain habits, irregularities and excesses, which have roduced 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 is particularly recommended to pe rsons entertaining secret doubts of their Physical condition, and who are conscious of having hazarded entitled. It happiness, and p rivileges to which every human being is It is absolutely necessary thatalt men should know, that there are Principles of Personal management which c annot be violated without Incurring grievous penalmay be mitigatedties , and when wis dom and regret succeed the heyday of ,how inconsid era t e self-indulgence, ho w these penalties and how the evil a the sting of their bittern ess may be removed, nd its con‘equenc es may be avoid ed, and above all, that there is seemly any degree derangement to which the timely aid physical infirmity or functional The Author has for a series aid of science cannot apply a cure. of Years been engaged in Practice in the treatment an extensive gene t ra t u h y ese delicate complaints, which are confided to the care of ignorant uernnfpoirtrifiesn,awtelhyo Inflict t g o r o eat in jury faith In .heir pretensions. on those who are induced to place ; Hannay, 6d, in English, PRESERVATIONSELF- may be had , price 2.. f. 63. /Lessrs. Piper, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, or Garman, Brothers and Co., 23, Paternoster-row Mann, 39, Cprnhill ; Star's, Titchborne-street, Ha marker; ; by post for forty-two stamps, to any address from the Autho ' r?s r tresi dence, 37, Bedford -square. At home for consultation daily contain the fee f from Eleve ti IL ll Two. and from Six till Eight. All letters must --------_ -------- ON THE SECRET CAU SF,S OF SELF-ACQUIRED MISERIES AND DISAPPOINTED HOPES. THE SILENT FREND. In Six Languages—F l th Edition. CONTAINING Tilt REMEDY YOB PREVENTION OF DISEASE. Illustrated by One Hundred Anctosental Coloured Engraving, and New Edition, enlarged to 200 pages, price 2s. 6d., by post, from the Establishment, 31. Ga. in stamps, FIE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on of the .system, produced by _L. the exhaustion and physical decay excessive indulgence , the consequences ot infectione,notrivr leotiaobnu,selotf mercury, with directions for the use of the pFev lowed by observations on Marriage, and the disqualincisitioßneawnhdicuh prevent it. Illustrated by 100 Coloured Engravings. PERRY and cO., Consulting Surgeons, 19, Berners-2s3t,rerYeatierOnxofsclot:etir: street, London. Published by Sherwood and Co., row, and sold by Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford -street ; don, 146, Leadenhall-street; 95, Farringdcw-street; Sutton, 10, Bow Church -yard ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; R Johnson, 68, Cornhill. PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the reproductive Organs, and is illustrated by 28 Coloured Engravings. PART 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive in dulgence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative incapacity. Illustrated by 10 Explanatory Engravings. PART 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for tl.eir treatment. This section is illustrated by 62 Coloured Engrav ings. PART IV. contains a Remedy for the Prevention of Disease by a simple application, by which the danger of infection is obviated. PART V. is devoted to the consideration of marriage and its duties. The cruses of unproductive union are also considered, and the whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into. THE CORDIAL BALK OF SYRI ACUM is exclusively employed In treating nervous and sexual debility, impotence, Sec., I is. and 38s. per bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an antl-syphilitie remedy, for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary symptons, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, lis. and 335. per bottle. Perry's Vitrifying Specific Pills, 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and 1 Is. per box, a certain remedy for gonorrhoea, gleet, stricture, and chronic inflammation of the bladder. Consultation lee, if by letter, I/. A minute detail of the case is required : age, habits, and posi • tion in society. 5/. Packets, with advice, to be had at the Establish ment only, by which the fee, 11., is saved. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, are in attendance, daily, at 19, Berners-street, Oxford-street, Lon on, from Eleven till Two, and rite to =Silt; On Sunday from 11,1 16 to Quo. MaY 1 M. DE LAMARTINE'S NEW WORK. Just ready, in 2 vols., Bvo., m EMOIRS of ILLUSTRIOUS HISTORICAL CHARACTERS. By ALPHONSE DE LIMARTIvE, Author of " History of the Girondists." Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. On Monday next will be published, in fcp. B vo , LADY liNA and her QUEENDOM ; or, Prac icAl and Rational Reform : A Utopian L. trend with a U nitarian Lesson. Gy the Author of " llome Truths for Houle Peace," &c. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. On the 31st inst. in .6mo 2s. 6d. cloth ; or 2 Parts, Is. each., SELECTIONS from the Rev. SYDNEY SINI IT WRITIN, :5 : Part I. Four Essays on Education ; The Ballot; Letter on American Debts: Part 11. Lectures on Wit and Itumour ; on the Conduct of the Understanding ; on Taste. Forming tarts GI and G 2 of the " Traveller's Library." London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman. NERVOUS AFFECTIONS. Just published, price 25., post-flee 2s. 6d., AN ESSAY on SPERATORRHSEA ; Its M Nature and Treatment, with an exposition of the Frauds that are practised by persons who advertise the speedy, safe, and effectual cure of Nervous Derangement. By a MEMBER of the ROYAL COLLEGE of PHYSICIANS, London London : Aylott and Co., 8, Paternoster-row. SOCIAL AND POLITICAL MORALITY. BY WILLIAM LOVETT. Price 4 Shil ings. VNluable Contribu tion to the Literature of Asocial and political moralit,.—Daily N ews " A work which which we consider the best manual of the sort in the English tongue."—British Banner. " We have read no work on the subject ‘ , A hick we feel more strongly disposed to recommend to our readers "—Tait's Magazine. Simplin Marshall and Co., London. - r - tu ., KIMITSTA. El T.—Alf Authentic VIEW of : KRON-;TA DT and the Surrounding Fortifications has Or s day beet, published by Paul, Dominic, Colnagoi and Co., i 3 and 14, pall- Ilan East, Publishers ,o her Majesty, from a drawing executedis nowt ten days since in the Baltic, by Mr. Dolby. Mr. Dolby engaged in the Baltic in depicting the subjects and circumstances of interest c. .nnected with toe war. Size of the drawing, 32 by 15 inches. Price 6s in double tinted lithography. CRYSTAL PALACE, 1854. TO ADVERTISERS.—ADVERTISEMENTS intended 'or insertion in he van , us llANDsooss t the Con tents of the Exhibition, must be received by M,ssrs. BRADBURY on or ano EvANs, the Publishers to the Company, 11, Bouverie-street, before the 25th of May. BRECKNELL'S SKIN SOAP.—Recommended as the best for producing a clear and heal hy skin; being th, ULD YELLOW SOAP made expressly for th, purpose of the best mete !jai.; and not scented. Sold only in Sh Bing packets ot tour rounded to lets or eight s uares. BILECENELL, I MlNH% either and SONS, Wax and Tallow Chandlers, Soap and Oil Merchants, &c., to her Majesty, Beehive, 31, Haymarket, London. Observe, each Tablet and square is stamped " Brecknell's Skin Soap. THE ACHILLES INSURANCE COMPANY. Capital, 100,000/. Every description of LIFE ASSCRANC transacted. LOANS to policy holders on liberal terms. Prospectuses oa application to chief office, 25, Cannon-st , eet, City. 11. B. TAPLIN. ESTABLIStIED 1837. BRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COM• Empowered by Special Act of Parliament, 4 Vic., Cap. 9. BRITANNIA WITTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION , Empowered by tier Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. COLONEL ROBERT ALEIA.NDEB, Blackheath -park, Chairman. Every description 3f Life Assurance business transacted, with or without Participation In Profits. E. R. FOSTER, Resident Director. ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary. 1, Princes•street, Bank, London. LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLE Rooms ; (Lessee, Cues. C. LAURENT, Onslow-house, Fu,.iam•road) —The above Rooms are now OPEN FOR THE SEASON qvg. win continue open every evening, with L &UR ES T' • I ELEBRATED BAND. Constantinople Quadrille, -I.IV an Polka, Fair Star Wa tz, and On.l Mail Galop, by D'Albert; also, by Il Lairmt , the following Waltzes La belle Frangaise, Leonora, Villi• tins and his Dinah, Admission, Is. Doors open at half-past S Dancing to commence at 9 o'clock, and ter iMate at half-past 11. - - CHOLER A!!!! ITS BEST ANTIDOTE ! 1 ! I Sir WM. BUR sETT'S DISINFECTING FLUID, 1 / 4 the original and genuine Chloride of Zinc), highly recommended by the Faculty in all cases of Cholera and Contagious Di- eases. Soil by all Chemists, Druggists, and Shipping Agents throughout the United Kingdom, and at the Office, IS, Cannon-street, London bridge. T" CHOLER All! Prevented by the destruction of all noxious effluvia. CREWS'S DISINFECTING FLUID. RECOMMENDED BY THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS. THE CHEAPEST AND STRONGEST CHLORIDE OF ZINC. Quarts, 2s. ; Pints, ls. ; Kalt-pints, Gd. Sold by all Chemists, Dr•iggists, and Shipping Agents, and at Commercial Wharf, Ntib End, London. Agents—Messrs. D ew, Heyward, and Barren, Bush. lane, Cannon-street, City. T HE JOZEAU'S COPAIIINE-MEGE, or Saccharatt, C k PSULES, approved by the French College of Physicians. successfully administered in the Pails and London Hospitals, anti acknowledged by them to be the best remedy for the cure 01 certain diseases (see " I•ancet " 6th Nov., 1852.) Price, per 100, Is. 6d.; 50, 2s. 9d.—To be had of the Inventor, Gabriel Jozeau, French Chemist, 49, Haymarket, London. whose name is printed 01, the Government stamp ; and all the principal chemists. TEETH. —By her Majesty's Royal Letters Pa' ent.—• ewly -i n vented and Patented Application i e t Che mically-prei.ared White In 'la-rubber in the construnion of Artificial Teeth. Gums, and Palates.—Mr EPIIRAINI MOSELY, Surgeon Dentist, 61, :Irosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square, Sole Inventor and l'atentee.—k new, orLfinal, and invaluable invention, cm gating in the adaptation, with the most absolute perfection and success, of C lIENIRIALLY-PREPARE I) W arm INDIA RU.'BER as a linim to the ordinary gold or bone frame The extraordinary results 01 this application may be briefly noted in a few of their most promi• rent features, as the following - all sharp edges are avoided ; no springs, wires, or fastenings are required ; a greater increased free dom of suction is supplied : a natural elasticity hitherto wholly un attainable: and a fit, perfected with the most unerr ng accuracy, are flee red, while from the smtness and flexibility of the teeth agent em. ntoyed, the greatest supp ort is given to the adjoining when loose or rendered tender by tii e absorption of the gums. The acids of the mouth exert i-co agency on the chemically-prepared Wh,ti India-rubber, and as it is a non-conductor, fluios of any temperature may with thorough comfort be imbibed and retained in the mouth, all unpleasantness of smelt or taste being at the same time wholl3 provided against by the peculiar nattire of its preparation. To be obtained only at 61, Grosvenor-street, London; 22, Gay-street, Bath ; 34, Grainger •street, Newca.tle-on-Tyne. ALLSOPP'S. ALLSO S PALE or BIT to TER ALE.— Messrs. PI? and CONS beg inform te TRADE tat they are now registering orders for the March Brewings of heir PALE s LE, in Casks of 18 Gallons and upwards, at the rtrewery, Burton-on-Trent; and at the undermentioned Branch Establishments : LONDON, at 61, King William-street, City ; LIVERPOOL, at Cook-street; MANCHESTER, at Ducie-place ; DUDLEY, at the Burnt Tree; GLASGOW, at 111, St. Vincent: street; DUBLIN. at I. Crampton-quay ; BIRM INGII AM, at Market Hall; SOUTH WALES, at 13, King-street, Bristol. Messrs. ALLSOPP and SANS take the opportunity of announcing to Private Families that their Ales. so strongly recommended by the medical profession, may be procured In Draught and Bottles Genuine from all the most respectable Licensed Victuallers, on " ALL 'OPP'S PALE A LE" being specially asked for. When in bottle, the genuineness of the label can be ascertained by having "ALLSOPP and SONS" written _ _ ___ _ _ .___ mot, ..4 77 - -7 - , ~ , / -e ,___-e-c (. THE WAR. ( Front the Examiner. ) The Czar Alexander was the founder and mainstay of the Holy Alliance. He was also the great gainer by it. That institution was a contract between the Bourbons, a c cs o b t u h r e g r h sw, ith t o r t e o n p z s o ll againster s , a t nd he R a p o m p r a e n h o e ff n s a , e o e assist ea of their respective subjects to obtain any mitigation of the bad government which it was the purpose of each to establish and carry on in his own dominions. It was a mutual assurance of one another against what they called revolution. The institution worked with apparent success for some time. Everywhere was established a system of government for the profit of the ruling few, and the interests and feelings of the many were everywhere set at nought. The Neapolitan and Spanish attempts at amelioration were successively put down ; the most dis tinguished Italians were exiled, despoiled of their pro perty, imprisoned, tortured, and put to death ; and the Czar's success against Turkey in 1829 appeared to afford the opportunity for correcting the only mis take which the leaders in the Congress of 1815 imagined they had made, in permitting a govern ment having a constitutional form to be established in France. Consequently, in 1830, Charles the Tenth proceeded to rectify this inconsistency. But he was overthrown so very suddenly, and at such a late period of the year, that the Czar's intervention before the spring was an impossibility. We learn, however, from the papers seized at Warsaw, that on the 10th of August, 1830, the day on which he rceived the news from Paris, he gave orders for everything to be got ready for a march southward in spring—but England recognising the new order of things in France without a moment's hesitation, and this encouraging the Poles to strike for their independence in the ensuing September, the Holy Alliance failed at this critical moment in yielding the fruits expected from it. The advantage which the Czar reaped from the ipsti titution of this alliance was altogether different in kind from that obtained by his copartners in it. Its military guarantee was of the utmost value to the Haps burghs, Hohenzollerns, and Bourbons, because their systems of government were not founded on the in terests or feelings of their subjects, but involved the constant violation of them ; while the Russian system is adapted to the national character and wants of the Russians, who, barbarous and oriental, neither desire nor have any idea of change in it. Thus, while the Czar's guarantee to the other members of the alliance was of great value to them, theirs was of no value whatever to him, from his not being in a condi tion to need it. This circumstance made him the real political master of the Continent up to the revolution of 1830, and has kept him the master of Germany ever since. He became a necessity. The Holy Alliance advanced the scheme which Peter the Great devised for his successors in the Czarship, more effectively than even his testament indicated. Th .t was, that his successors should bend their un ceasing efforts to foment constant divisions between the great Powers of the Continent, and then, as occasions offered, should league themselves first with one for extinguishing and absorbing a second, then with another to extinguish and absorb a third, and by this process should finally throw the whole weight of Germany, Turkey, and Russia upon France, and over whelm it. But the Czar Alexander, keeping this policy in the back-ground for the moment, inveigled the Ger man Powers and France into establishing, each in its own territory, a division between themselves and their own subjects, which rendered them quite powerless to oppose his future proceedings. We see, by Pozzo di Borgo's ex traordinary letter of the 28th November, 1828, that Charles the Tenth supported the Czar's attack on Turkey in the conviction that its success would enable him to overthrow the Frenc Chambers, and r e-establish the ancient regime ; h that Austria was so paralysed by her system in Italy, Hungary, &c., that with all her vast army she would not dare active opposition ; and that therefore the " malice" (that is the word used) of M. de Metternich might safely be despised. In short, the inaccessibility of the Russian system to overthrow for the frequent strangling of a Czar leaves the system itself untouched, perhaps strengthens it—and the danger of internal overthrow to all the other systems, made the Czar, in his position of a member of the Holy Alliance, the arbiter, indeed the Lord, of the other Sovereigns. " Remember," said Bistireus, of Miletus, to the lonian Princes assembled to decide upon the proposal of Miltiades to break down the bridge over the Danube, and, by consigning Darius and his whole army to destruction, to insure the inde pendence of lonia and Greece ; "remember that we are only enabled to maintain our positions as Princes in our respective territories, against the universal aversion of our subjects, by the Power of Persia, and that in over throwing that we shall overthrow ourselves." The re lative positions of the Czar and the Continental Princes under the Holy Alliance is precisely similar to this. We have thus indicated the political effects of the Congress of Vienna and the Holy Alliance, in order to obtain a clearer view of what our object should be in the present war. We aro spending blood and treasure to purchase peace and security for the future. Peace may now very easily be obtained, that is nominally. For the Czar counted on establishing division between France and England ; and had eithr England at first, or Louis Napoleon afterwards, listened to his insidious proposals, he would certainly be now at Constantinople. But he still further miscalculated in believing a French and English alliance unattainable. Doubly disappointed, his reaching Constantinople is now hopeless ; and his remaining in tLe Principalities , with a hostile fleet and army capable of operating on his rear, impossible. He is becoming sensible of all this, and must wish to abridge the spectacle of his humiliating impotence in the Baltic. He will do in the beginning, and at once, what he sees Vie must do in the end, and will lose no time in offering terms. This is what we have always expected, when once we should begin in earnest to test the over-esti mated power of Russia. It is also what we dread. Being convinced that the re duction of the power of Russia is an indispensable condition of the development of European civilisation and happiness, we dread any cessation of war that shall leave her with the means of influencing either Germany or France. She stands now before the bar of civilisation the triumphant perpetrator of acts which must be reversed, before the Germans, the French, and the English can find any moral anchorage for a stable peace in Europe. The successful extinction of one great member of the European body, and the successful mutilation of another are deeds that will for ever prevent any settlement of European affairs until they are annulled. Peace until lately was only the child of exhaustion, now it is be coming the moral want of humanity ; but we can never possess that feeling of confidence which is prerequisite for its attainment, as long as we witness that brutal and treacherous triumph of might over right which the pre sent condition of Poland and Finland offers to the bewil dered belief in Divine justice. There may be English statesmen disposed eagerly to snap at the Czar's offers, and there may be a cessation of war for the moment, but in the present stage of the European mind nothing can be permanent but what is just, and a cessation of war before justice is satisfied will only lead to a con tinual and miserable struggle, which must terminate a few years hence either in the triumph of Rus sian barbarism and the retrogradation of civilisation throughout Europe, or in a renewal of that war which we have now begun, and which we shall have been un wise enough not to bring to such a close as justice and policy alike dictated. This it is fully in our power (we speak of France and England conjunctively) now to compass. This, therefore, ought to be our object. No peace, until Russia, reduced to her natural limits, shall be left without the power of influencing Euro pean affairs. We have shown how erroneous is the estimate which has been formed of the power of Russia, nor would the delusion ever have arisen but for the circumstance to which we have just pointed attention, and of which it was not an unnatural result. For the mass in every country saw their rulers admitting by sub serviency and flattery their own relative weakness, and looking to Russia with hope and fear, as if she were absolutely strong. This arose from their being univer sally at variance with their subjects, and thus sensible of their domestic weakness, while the Czar alone, govern ing in harmony with the feelings of the barbarians over whom he rules, was strong at home. The elements of her real strength for aggressive purposes might have been inferred by reflecting on her miserable diffi culties in 1828 and 1829 against Turkey ; by her positive defeats in 1831, by the Poles, whom she only conquered by the actual military interference of the Prussian army on the left bank of the Vistula ; and by what she is now labouring in vain to do against the Turks. If the war continues a very few months more, the nullity of Russian power and the reality of its weakness will be fully established ; and the Czar, disap pointed in the division between France and England on which he counted, finding Austria inclining against him, seeing himself deprived of these artificial supports and reduced to his own intrinsic resources, will hasten by offering concessions to prevent that exposure of his real weakness now so near at hand. The plausible ground on which lie will place himself is already indi cated ; and unfortunate predilections for a quasi-return to the " Settlement" of 1815 will favour his attempt, and tend to defraud civilisation and humanity of the prospects opening before them. But nothing now can be a "settlement" of Europe which is riot bottomed on concession to the acknowledged wants and inte rests of mankind in the various territories into which Europe is divided. The partitioning out of Europe among a score of regal families, and adjusting the shares allotted to each, never could, and never can be a settle ment ; and were it not the misfortune of mankind to confound ability with wisdom, they would have derided the arrangements of Vienna in the beginning, not withstanding the men who combined their powers to produce them. However able, they were anything but wise or long-sighted. While we write we see news alleged to be authentic, and which affords a remarkable fact in confirmation of the view we take of the Holy Alliance. Austria has suddenly relaxed her tyranny in Hungary and elsewhere. If this be cohfirmed, we shall take for granted that she means to take part with the allies at last. Deciding to oppose the Czar, she loses his external guarantee, and feels immediately and instinctively that she can provide a substitute in good government alone. EVENTS of a RACE.—An ANTICIPATION of the DERBY DAY —Custom has inured thousands who do net call themselves sportsmen to visit Epsom on the Derby Day ; a vast sum will be staked on the race ; but immense numbers will take a trip to the I 'owns to see the company and enjoy the pleasures of a country excursion. The events of such a day are ions talked of, and everybody knows how everybody else were dres-ed. For a number of MOSES and soN have made the most extensive arrange ments years E. to supply all classes with the most suitable Attire for On. Derby Day, and have fully entered into the contest of fu nishing every article better and cheaper than any other house in the world. Daily events show that they always win the race in the most triumpliaot manner, and have prepared everyone to anticipate all the novelties and comtor sof Attire for every season and occasion. In anticipa tion of lb Derby D i n. as a season of plea ore, every person, sports man or not, shoo d nspect the splendid stock of Dress prepared by E. Moses and eon; it will resist sun and dust, look elegant and feel comfortable, and may be obtained at their City Establishment, or their West-end Branch, for considerably less money than might be paid elsewhere. The Hat, Cap, Hosiery, and Boot and Shoe Departments are the recedtacles of a Magnificent Stock, all new, illustrating the skill of all countries, and the experience and enterprise of E. Moses and Son in th - ir selection. The Wholesale Department contains the largest and most select stock of Clothing, B'ots and Shoes, Shirts, Sze. for the home or ex port trade, and furnishes advantages in quality and price entirely unprecedented. Outfits for all classes of Emigrants, Ladies and e. Gentle Men, lists of which may. be had on application or p gu ard the post f Mala ng to CAUTION. —E. MOSES a nd SON regret ,üblic against imposition, hxvins learned that the untradesman -like falsehood of " Being connected with their Establishment," or " It's ho same concern," has been resorted to in many instanees, and for ,bvious reasons, they beg to state that they have No CONNEXION WITH ANY OTHER HOUSE IN OR OUT OF LONDON, except their own Establishments, as follows : inories, 8 4 London City Establishment , 154, 155. 156, and 157, IVI 85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. London West-end Branch, 506,507, 508, New Oxford-Street, 1,2, and 3, Hart-street, all communicating. Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 and 20, Bridge-street. Sheffield Branch, 36, 6argate. Colonial Branch, Melbou , ne, Australia. Merchant rano.= Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Shoe Makers, and General Oatfltters for Ladies and Gentlemen. IMPoRTA.NT.—ShouId any article not give satisfaction, its will be exchangedwithout if desired, or, if preferred, tha money will be turned n u e t w he ßa s y la , tlon. All goods are marked in figures, the lowest pri Th e, e tr E ono which no abatement. can be made. A co s :tal i :7g when business is resumed till 12 o'clock. Establishments l a is re ts cl o o t sed i from sunset on Fridays to sunset on Saturd s..o.B, lt ee ,. kl w m i m th aayn ill ah u ce s i t o. r r a t t h io e n py i r , : e a n rs titled " The Echo of Public Opi nion,"meAethalrucle ending g s system et aent had, b s e e l f - gratis had on application, or post-free. n application. lon l'on parle Francais. tiler +r rich' mall Deutsch. Qui si parla Italian°. Anua se habla It',van°. SOHO. —Yesterday Messrs.tpoerFf : le oe i : e n ,t ' s tl. da y MESSRS.(S u ni3dEav INGTON'S ORGAN FACTORY, a fire broke out in Y a l b a e f i t i e d rnoon, shortly after one k , ---E, Soho square, occupied by building in Rose-yard, Roqe builders, Mr. Littleton, Messrs. B wholesaleev i n g n t i o l n a a n n d d m i u n s e ic f p re r m inte c r r , o a w n n d . organ Hopkinson and Purvis, minutes and nngd after . stret others hete e o alarml o ilr t wasnen . sounded,tl u the Brigade o f ae e w t Crown street attended, followed by that of the g from Wells -street, Holborn, Chandos-street, h K Golden-square, that of the West of England office, he and another from Watling-street, bringing with t Braidwood, the superintendent ; Mr. Staples, tl;f l\ O i r r e . - man of the C district ; Mr. Connorton, the' principal officer of the We st of England Insurance Company Messrs. Fleming a nd Girand, engineers of thelirfl ;a Brigade. \ The firemen kept p ouring torrents of water u fire, but nearly two hours elapsed before the col:: on tion could be extinguished. As to its origin no info the tion could be obtained. F o rtunately, Messrs , Bev r ini. a ton are insured in the County Fire•offico, NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. It is now officially known here that Vice-Admiral of the Blue the Hon. William Gordon, February 11, 1854, supersedes the present gallant Vice-Admiral at Sheer ness, whose time expires next month, and that Captain Cospatrick B. Hamilton, November 9, 1847, takes the command as Flag Captain to the Waterloo, 121 ; Mr. Thomas Grant, December 19, 1807, takes the office of secretary to the new-coming Admiral. Orders have arrived at Sheerness for the Resistance, 10, troop-ship, Master-Commander Manser Bradshaw, to wait the arrival of a spare screw propeller and gear, to be taken out for the use of the St. Jean d'Acre, 101, Captain the Hon. Henry Keppel, now in the Baltic. The following officers are ordered to take 'a passage in . this ship :—Mr. Henry Treleaven, first-class engineer, to . join the Nile, 91 ; Mr. Robert Harvey, first-class engi neer, to join the Penelope, 16 ; Mr, Charles Grey Gib son, third-class engineer, to join the Dragon, 6 ; Mr. John Spinks, third-class engineer, to join the Bulldog, A draught of fine nsyoungFriday d thea men e ß n a l (ordinary Baltic, e,evening,f r m generaln chargese a seamen) n) service far rivedSheernessahneielois:oi,recently passed for Second-Master, t6 petty a in g ndaofficerA. th ll r e l loaPßm the Fisgard, 42, at Woolwich, for a i in the fleet. The Hannibal, 90, screw steam-ship, at Chatham, Captain the Hon. Frederick W. Grey, will be ready for being put out of dry docks next spring tides. She will then be towed down to Folley Point, there to receive her armament, &c., after which she will be brought down to Blackstakes to take in ammunition, shell, rockets, &c., and she will there have her compasses adjusted prepa ratory to her departure. The Stromboli, Commander Robert Hall, will drop down from her moorings, opposite the dockyard, Wool wich, to the Royal Arsenal at 6 a.m. this day, and take on board a large supply of shot and shell for conveyance to Malta and the fleet in the Black Sea. The Severn, 50, buildine . at Chatham, has had her keel and cutwater coppered, and will soon be ready for launching. The Rhadamanthus, paddle-wheel steam store-ship, Master-Commander John Belem, has taken on board a portion of the machinery of the Royal Albert, 131, screw steam-ship, and will be ready to convey it to Sheerness about Thursday next, that it may be fitted at that port. Volunteers continue to be received at Liverpool for the Royal Navy, her Majesty's steamer Prometheus being still anchored in the Mersey. On Thursday night a party of 22 seamen volunteers was forwarded to London. The port of Dartmouth was visited last week by three gentlemen from the Ordnance Department —a lieutenant of the Royal Engineers, and a captain and lieutenant of the Royal Artillery—for the purpose of inspecting the castle and forts at the entrance of the harbour. After completing their tour of inspection, they decided on removing the guns there, and replacing them with much heavier metal, so as to put the harbour in a complete and efficient state of defence. Nos. 89 and 92 hired transports went down the river from Deptford on Friday, and did not stop at Woolwich, but held on for one of the western ports, where they are to take on board horses and troops for the seat of war in the East. The Tynemouth, hired transport steamer, still remains at Woolwich, and it is expect ed will embark: the pen sioners who have volunteered for service in the ambu lance corps or as hospital nurses in the East. One colour-sergeant and 20 privates of the Woolwich division of Royal Marines have been placed under orders to hold themselves in readiness to embark at Woolwich dockyard for service in the Hornet, 17, screw steam sloop, commissioned at that port by Commander F. A. Campbell. A letter has been received from the captain of the Hi malaya, stating that he will leave Southampton to-day, and arrive in Cork to-morrow. The new pier at Queens town has been fixed on for the embarkation of the horses. A temporary platform will be run out to the ship, which must lie at some distance, as she draws 19 feet of water. The horses will thus be enabled to walk on board. On Saturday the 97th Regiment of Foot left the Sheet street Barracks, Windsor, for Southampton, on their way to the seat of war in the East. They were headed by the fine band of the Royal Horse Guards (Blue), and were loudly cheered on their way to the Great Western station by the crowds of people who lined the streets. On their arrival at the railway station they were received by a crowd of people, including almost all the Eton boys, and most of the tradesmen and professional gentlemen of the two towns. Each of the long trains left the station amid the most enthusiastic cheers of the spectators, re echoed by the 97th, the Blues' band playing the national anthem with great eff:Tt on the platform. Soon after the departure of the 97th about 460 rank and file of the 46th arrived, under the command of Col. Garrott, from Wee don, and took possession of the barracks, which they now bold jointly with the depot companies of the former regiment. The 97th embarked from Southampton Docks by the Royal mail steam-ship Orinoco, Capt. A. Wilson. The men arrived in two special trains from Windsor at 1.30 p.m., and marched into the docks in companies. In less than two hours the whole of the regiment had been safely put on board, with but one slight casualty to one of the men, who slipped upon a piece of orange peel and cut his forehead in falling. The regiment seemed in ex cellent health and spirits, and when the Orinoco hauled out of dock, with the band playing, the soldiers replied to the cheering of the spectators on shore by a military chant in unison with the music, and with repeated rounds of hearty shouts. The regiment consists of 1,000 rank and file and 40 officers, and is accompanied by 20 women and 16 horses, the latter being placed in stalls ces the spar sleek. Besides the baggage and military equipage attached to the 97th, the Orinoco takes out 1,040 barrels of ammunition and 60 tons of Government stores and provisions. The whole of the provisions and supplies for the military by the Orinoco, Hydaspes, Himalaya, and other steamers, have been shipped at Southampton by Mr. George Drysdale, the Govern ment emigration agent. They were contracted for by Messrs. Linklater, Green, and Co., of London. The Orinoco anchored in Southampton water during Satur day night to permit the men to settle comfortably and quietly into their quarters before going to sea. At daylight yesterday the Orinoco weighed anchor and sailed for her destination. It is rumoured that the 97th will form a portion of the small army of occupation un derstood to be preparing by the British and French Governments for service in Greece. Orders to this effect will, it is expected, reach the Orinoco at Malta. The arrangements for the comfort of the troops on board the Orinoco are of the same excellent character which have distinguished the ship during her two toprevious voyages to the Mediterranean, and seemed give un qualified satisfaction. Among the passengers which proceeded from South ampton on Saturday by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Colombo for Malta, were several commissariat officers. The Colombo also took ot o b ut l t s b o e quantitytori tons of o Governmentf fodder forstores th the and o r p s r e o s v i g s iooinn; u and ay large Himalaya to be transferred at Malta. A second detachment of the Ist Royal Dragoons, con sisting of about 120 men and the same complement of horses, arrived at Liverpool on Saturday morning from Manchester, via Prescot, and were immediately em campbell. Adjutant- Winkle for Malta, their ultimate destination being barked on board the transport ships Arabthiaeadnedtaßchipmveannt Turkey. The officers accompanying were Major Wardlow, Captain Lieutenant Webster, Lieutenant Charlton, Cornet Har topp, and Veterinary-Surgeon Poett. A third detach ment of the same regiment, under the command of Cap tain Stocks, is expected in Liverpool on Monday or Tuesday, to embark on board the Coronella ; and the remainder of the regiment will leave as soon as the means of transport are provided. The 42d Royal Highlanders, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Cameron, e mbarked on Saturday afternoon, at 4 o'clock, from the jetty at Portsmouth dockyard on board the screw mail steam-ship Hydaspes, for conveyance to Turkey. They marched from their quarters in Anglesey Barracks, Portsea, played out by the bands of the 34th Regiment, and let battalion Rifle Brigade, to the tunes of "Auld lang syne," " Cheer, boys, cheer," &c., amid the loyal acclamations and greetings of the inhabitants who thronged the line of march. The troops remained in harbour all night. That day four of the crew of the Hydaspes were taken before the Portsmouth magistrates, charged by their com mander, Mr. Baker, with refusing to obey orders. The mutineers admitted their offence, and said they would sail in the vessel with any other commander, although they had sailed with Mr. Baker before. The Mayor characterised their insubordinate conduct as most disgraceful to British seamen, especially at this momen tous juncture, when their services were specially required to aid in the conveyance of troops with l speed to the seat of war. The prisoners, whose names were respec tively Ferguson, Monckton, Gardener, and Thomas, were each sentenced to imprisonment for 30 days aod to be kept to hard labour. Captain Baker said he would consent to take two (Ferguson and Monckton), but with the others he would prefer the law should take its course, as they would infect a whole ship's company. The latter, accordingly, were consigned to gaol, and the former w ere sent on board the Hydaspes in charge of the police. The Hydaspes sailed at 6 o'clock yesterday morning for Constantinople. A small detachment of the 11th Hussars embarked on board the Panola transport at Kingstown on Friday morning. They left Portobello Barracks at 8 o'clock, and marched direct for Kingstown, accompanied by a ' s Ointment and Pills, __— large number of soldi ers from other re g iments, and a [ArivEnnsEmEssr.]-- -Holloway croud of civilians, who loudly cheered th em as they infallible remedies for bad legs.— Mr. Henry Morgan, of passed along. The embarkation w as e ff ec t e d un d er th e the Commercial-road, Newport, suffered for nine years direction of the Adjutant-General, Lieutenant-Colonel with bad legs, which were covered with wounds. He Clarke. The transport will be towed out of harbour had advice from several of the London hospitals, a n d this day. consulted some of the local medical gentlemen, but he A company of the 27th Regiment arr i ve d i n Dublin failed to derive any benefit ; A i t n t f i a li c s t, e u r l is ti is m h a e tel d y, his case on Friday to join the head- quarters of the regiment, was given up as hopeless.determined which is under orders for foreign s-ervice. to try Holloway' ointment and cri s is e quickly The 18th Regiment of Foot, recently re turned from caused the wounds to heal, and he completely regained the East Indies to Chatham, are actively engaged in his health in less than three months, to the astonishment making up their companies front the d e pot, a nd it is ex- and delight of the whole of his acquaintances and friends. petted they will shortly proceed to the northern district. —Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's The Sappers and Miners a the East India Company's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. Few, if any, of the features connected with the enter. prise at Sydenham, which on the 10th of June will in. vite the attention of the public, will be more attractive, or excite nr,re admiration among the great masses of the visitors, than the terraces, grounds, and park attached to the palace. Sir Joseph Paxton, ably assisted by Mr. Milner, has been eminently successful in this depart ment ; disavowing the path of tame servility and time honoured obedience to the old rules of landscape garden ing, he has, in laying out the grounds at Sydenham, shown not only how readily he can take advantage of the natural undulations of the surface to produce the pleasing and picturesque effects of an English landscape, but also with what ease he can produce all the magni ficence of a terraced and the choicest examples of an Italian style. The series of terraces now completed, and which were constructed under the superintendence of Mr. Allen Vickers, are in the best Italian style, and may, for extent and magnificence, successfully vie with any that exist in the present day, or which were pro bably ever constructed. The building communicates with the upper of these terraces by means of bold and magnificent ' flights of granite steps, one at each transept, and one at the end of each wing. The front of the terrace is extended by ten bas tions, occurring at intervals of 96 feet, the length of the terrace being 1,608 feet. There is a walk along this terrace of the breadth of 48 feet. The pillars which divide the balustrades of the terrace into compartments of 24 feet are surmounted by statues and tazzas. A double flight of granite steps, 96 feet in width, ornamented at each side with a pair of colossal sphinxes, leads up to the great central transept. At the north and south transepts and wings, the flight of steps is 48 feet in width, and upon each side is placed a single sphinx. The ground immediately in front of the build ing is formed into a grassy slope, rising from the walk up to the building. The lower terrace is 344 feet wide, exclusive of the bastions ; it extends along the whole frontage of the building, and is continued for a distance of 72 feet round each wing, the entire length being 1,896 feet, or the third of a mile and 46 yards. In the front of this terrace are four bastions, and the balus trades are ornamented in the same manner as those of the upper terrace, with statues and tazzas. This terrace communicates with the upper one by a central double flight of steps 96 feet in width, and two others 48 feet wide at the ends. A large portion of the front of the terrace is formed of masonry, divided into compartments 24 feet wide, in each of which are three alcoves, the basins of which will be kept constantly supplied with water from dolphins' heads placed in the upper part of the alcove. The water flowing over these basins is re ceived in a general reservoir which extends the whole distance between the bastions. Descending a third flight of granite steps, the visitor reaches the level, from which the surface falls gradually away, on each side of the central walk, with the natural landscape and surface formation of the grounds. From the foot of the steps to the base line of the building the entire fall is 42 feet 6 inches. In front of the central transept, at a distance of about 300 feet from the last flight of steps, is a large circular basin 200 feet in diame ter, surrounded by a gravel walk and balustrades orna mented with statues and tazzas. A short distance from this basin are the water temples, one of which is placed upon each side of the walk. These temples or towns are octagonal in shape, and constructed of hollow iron columns and girders, something similar to those used in the Palace. The water is forced up the columns on to the roof, whence it will flaw through a longitudinal slit in a pipe, in the form of a graceful and transparent crystal curtain. Surrounded by these watery draperies, there is to be placed in the centre a charming group of the "Three Graces." On the top of each of the towers is to be placed a " Mercury." The water flowing from each of these towers fails into a con tinuous step-like cascade, which runs on each side of the central walk a distance of 550 feet. At the foot of the cascades are two immense basins, stretching away for nearly 800 feet upon each side.. The basins immediately in front of the cascades, and which receive the water from them, are 120 feet broad ; and the largest basins are circular in form, and of a diameter of not less than 360 feet. That there are no fountains playing in these basins will be a matter of great regret, as it will be impossible, without them, to judge cor rectly of the appearance which the grounds and ar rangement of the basins would present if supplied with its grand system of fountains. For some of the basins the designs for the fountains are not even yet decided upon, and the difficulty of obtaining good and suitable designs for the fountains has been not the least of the many obstacles interposed in the way of the completion of the works. As the fountains are not prepared to play, it is immaterial that the means are not provided for supplying them with water. Two tall towers, more than 200 feet in height, were constructed, one at each end of the building, upon the top of which each was placed a tank capable of containing about 800 tons of water. The water flowing from these lofty re servoirs would have given to the fountains in the lower part of the ground a jet of water nearly 200 feet in height. The mode in which these towers was constructed was considered, however, by Mr. Brunel and other engineers consulted on the subject, as one which would not safely stand against the vast amount of vibration which must necessarily take place from pumping the water up to the top, and the rapid descent of the fluid on its way to the basins. Some plans were proposed for giving additional strength and security to the towers, but as the carrying of them out would involve an immense outlay, which would be attended with uncertain results, it was considered ad visable at once to pull them down and re-construct new ones of still larger dimensions, and of a more substantial and secure character. The old towers having been taken down, the new ones are now in course of erection, nearly upon the site of the former ones. The new ones will be 250 feet in height ; they will be twelve-sided figures, of a uniform diameter of 40 feet, and the tanks on the top will be made to hold 1,200 tons of water. A perpendicular brick chimney shaft from the engine house will run up the centre, and the towers will be constructed of iron columns, and gliders on the same principle as that adopted in the building itself. Although these alterations will involve an additional outlay of 30,0001., yet an increase of 30 feet in the height of the water thrown by the largest fountains will be obtained, and the time during which they will be able to play will be extended by nearly 20 minutes beyond that which would have been possible with the towers first constructed. The water for the supply of these basins is obtained from an Artesian well which is situated about 100 yards from the lower end of the cascades, which has been sunk to a depth of nearly 500 feet, and the process of boring is still continued. An engine-house is constructed close by the side of the well, which is fitted with four fine steam-engines. Two of these engines, of 20 horse power each, are employed for lifting the water out of the well, and two others, of 30 horse power, are required to force the water so raised a distance of about 500 yards, into a large irregularly-shaped basin of 2i acres in area. Near this basin, which is called the intermediate one, are four large and powerful engines of 40 horse power, which force the water up to the large reservoir at the north end of the building, near the Queen's entrance. This reser voir is about 370 feet square, 12 feet deep, and contains 17 millions of gallons of water. The water has not yet done its work, and two more engines built close to the wings of the building, are required to drive the water from this last reservoir up to the tanks on the top of the wings, and those which will ultimately be placed on the top of the lofty water towers. When at full work, there will therefore be required the employment of ten steam engines of an aggregate of 320 horse power. The grounds beyond the large basins, with the excep tion of the geological lake and islands, are as yet in a state of chaos and some months will necessarily elapse before Sir Joseph Paxton will be able fully to illustrate his botanical system. Although the whole of the ground works will not be brought to a conclusion by the 10th of June, they will still be in such a state of forwardness as to afford the means of pleasing and healthful recrea tion to the visitor. ~~~~ ~~ ~. ~`~- • ' - • • ; ~••• e. 1 .1. • • -- • . • • • • „ 4 k . cctr •i f , . ~♦ ' • . 0 A „ • • -- • ! :_it4 51-ffil %. •, , • • 4 . # _ 7‘ % , tgt I . I IE • E x k,. * li tt k 44, —t - . 1 "0'' IL I. ° t - ` . / 1 / .7,: 4 `±*;ier, t. „ " 7.•.?1 , 00 ;, - .., , •,". 4 ; "/<'' ' /N:t`4. • CONDITIONS OF PEACE, service who had completed their course of instruction on the lines at Chatham left for Warley barracks, their head-quarters, on the 15th inst., and 43 young men have arrived from Warley barracks to go through a course of instruction in constructing fortifications and raising fieldworks. A new experiment is now being tried by Colonel Jones, of the Royal Engineer establishment, with a view of using rockets as a means of defending field works. An experienced non-commissioned officer of the Royal Artillery is in attendance daily on the Chatham lines to fire them, and render any informatiOn that may be re quired. Four different modes have been tried, and, owing to the satisfactory - results, it is understood their adoption will be recommended. The size use' is 3- pounders, and it is believed they will be more effective than infantry in clearing ditches of an enemy when fired from loopholes and other available places. THE FRENCH REINFORCEMENTS.—Two 60-gun frigates have arrived in the Downs from Brest, on their way to join their admiral in the Baltic. The Similante arrived on Saturday at 5 a.m., and the Vengeance at 6 p.m. The Similante fired a Royal salute in honour of her Majesty's birthday. The French flag was subsequently saluted by her Majesty's vessels. MIR OFFICERS OF THE LOST JASPER.—The officers of the lost Jasper returned thanks to Almighty God yes terday, on board the flag-ship Victory, at Portsmouth, for their safe deliverance from the late catastrophe. The court-martial will be held to-morrow. We are pleased to learn that the Sun Fire office, with their accustomed liberality, have offered (and suggested that other offices should do the same) to make some contribution towards the crew of the lost Jasper. THE CRYSTAL PALACE. 'G~-u C~ HER MAJESTY'S BIRTIIDAY, • ~~ ~.~~ 4 THE DRAWING-ROOM. The Queen held a Drawing-room on Saturday in St. James's Palace, in celebration of her Majesty's birthday. The reception included the Royal family, the whole of the diplomatic corps, and a very numerous circle of the nobility and gentry, numbering about fourteen hundred. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, arrived from Bucking ham Palace soon after two o'clock, escorted by a party of Life Guards, and were received by the Lord Cham berlain, the Lord Steward, the Master of the Horse, and the Groom of the Stole to his Royal Highness. The Duchess of Kent (attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Lord James Murray) and the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary (attended by Lady Georgians, Bathurst, Major Baron Knesebeck, and Major Home Purves) attended the Drawing-room, and were received by the Vice-Chamberlain. Vee Rapider Wudair, Rajah of Coorg, Prince Gholam Mahumed, and Prince Feroze Shah, attended the re ception, and were habited in magnificent Eastern costumes. Lord Cranworth, Lord Chancellor, came in state, wearing his gold robe, attended by his secretaries, and preceded by the Deputy Serjeant at Arms, Mr. Good body, bearing the gold mace, and by the purse-bearer. The other Equity judge present, the Vice-Chancellor Sir John Stuart, also wore his gold robe. The chief judges of the courts of Common Law, viz., Lord Campbell, the Lord Chief Justice of England ; Sir John Jervis, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Sir Frederick Pollock, the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer,. wore their gold collars of S. S. in honour of the day. The Right Hon. Charles Shaw Lefevre, Speaker of the House of Commons, arrived in state, wearing his gold robe, and attended by Lord Charles Russell, Ser jeant at Arms ; Rev. Thomas Gamier, chaplain to the House of Commons, and Mr. Lefroy, his Secretary. The day being observed as a collar day, the Knight's Companions of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, of the Most Ancient Order of the Thistle, and of the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick, and ie Knights Grand Crosses of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, wore the collars of their respective orders. Her Majesty's Guard of the Hon. Corps of Gentle men-at-Arms was on duty in the state saloons, under the command of the Lieutenant. The sub-officers, Lieutenant-Colonel Nevill and Major Cooke, were on duty with the corps. The Queen's royal body-guard of the Yeomen of the Guard were under the command of Sir John Kincaid, the Exon in Waiting. A guard of honour of the Life Guards, with the band of the regiment in state uniforms, was on duty in the large quadrangle of the palace. Before the drawing-room, the Archbishop of Canter bury, the Archbishop of Armagh, the Bishops of Win chester, Ripon, Gloucester and Bristol, Oxford (Lord High Almoner), 'Worcester, Chester (Clerk of the Closet), St. David's, Peterborough, Hereford, Sodor and Man (Lord Auckland), Bangor, Lichfield, Cashel, Chichester, Llandaff, Down and Connor, St. Asaph, Cork, Ossory and Ferns, Lincoln, and Adelaide, were introduced to the Queen in the Royal Closet, when the Archbishop of Canterbury delivered an address of congratulation to her Majesty, on the auspicious return of her natal day. The prelates having retired, the Queen and Prince Albert entered the Throne-room, accompanied by the Princess Royal, the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess Mary. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were attended by the Duchess of Sutherland, Mistress of the Robes : the Viscountess Jocelyn (in waiting), the Duchess of Wellington, the Viscountess Canning, the Countess of Desart, the Marchioness of Ely, and the Duchess of Atholl, Ladies of the Bedchamber ; the Hon. Caroline Cavendish (in waiting). the Hon. Flora Macdonald (in waiting), the Hon. Reanor Stanley, the Hon. Matilda Paget, the Hon. Lucy Kerr, the Hon. Mary Seymour, the Hon. Beatrice Byng, and the Hon. Mary Bulteel, Maids of Honour ; Lady Charlotte Copley, Lady Caroline Barrington, Lady Theresa Digby, the Hon. Mrs. G. E. Anson, and the Hon. Mrs. George Camp bell, Women of the Bedchamber ; Earl Spencer, K.G., Lord Steward; the Marquis of Breadalbane, K.T., Lord Chamberlain ; the Duke of Wellington, Master of the Horse ; the Marquis of Abercorn, K.G., Groom of the Stole to his Royal Highness ; the Earl of Mulgrave, Treasurer of the Household ; Lord Ernest Bruce, Vice Chamberlain ; Viscount Drundanrig, Comptroller of the Household ; Lord Rivers, Lord in Waiting ; Viscount Torrington, Lord in Waiting to his Royal Highness ; Colonel the Hon. Charles Phipps, C. 13., Keeper of her Majesty's Privy Purse ; Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, Private Secretary to his Royal Highness ; Sir Frederic Stovin, Groom in Waiting ; Colonel Wylde, Grcom in Waiting to his Royal Highness ; Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting ; Captain Du Plat, Equerry in Waiting to his Roya Highness ; and Messrs. George G. Cameron and H. Farquharson, Pages of Honour in Waiting. The following Ministers of State and members of the Cabinet were present, and occupied their usual stations near the Sovereign, viz., Lord Cranworth, the Lord Chan cellor ; Earl Granville, the Lord President ; the Earl of Aberden, K.T., First Lord of the Treasury ; Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8., Secretary of State for the Home Department ; the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; the Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies ; Sir James Graham, the First Lord of the Admiralty ; Sir Charles Wood, the President of the Board of Control ; and the Right Hon. Sidney Her bert, Secretary-at-War. The Queen wore a train of white silk richly brocaded with a running pattern of flowers in gold and cerise: The train was trimmed with gold blonde. The petticoat was of white tulle, over white satin, ornamented with bunches of white roses, green leaves, and lilies of the valley. Her Majesty wore on her head a diadem of diamonds. The Duchess of Kent wore a train of white poplin, spangled with gold (British manufacture), trimmed with tulle and gauze ribands of white and gold. The stomacher ornamented with diamonds. The petticoat was white satin trimmed with gold and white blonde and tulle. Her royal highness's head-dress was a tur ban of gold blonde, ornamented with ostrich feathers and diamonds, The Duchess of Cambridge wore a train of grey satin, trimmed with white Brussels lace. The,stomacher orna mented with sapphires and diamonds. The petticoat was of grey satin, with an overskirt cf white Brussels lace, and was trimmed with marabout feathers and silver blonde. Her royal highness's head-dress was formed of a tiara of diamonds and feathers. The necklace was diamonds. The Princess Mary of Cambridge wore a train of pink glach silk lined with white satin, and trimmed with white lace and white bugles. The stomacher ornamented with emeralds and diamonds. The petticoat was pink crape over pink satin, and was trimmed with rosebuds of the same colour. The Princess's head-dress was a tiara forming a series of stars composed alternately of diamonds and rubies and diamonds. The necklace was of pearls. The officers of the Royal Household appeared in the full dress household uniform, and the Ministers of the Crown wore the full dress official costume. The Foreign Ministers, conducted by the Master of the Ceremonies, were introduced, when Captain Charles Newte, sth Austrian Dragoons, was presented to the Queen by his Excellency the Count Collodero. MINISTERIAL BANQUETS. . The Earl of Aberdeen, First Lord of the Treasury, gave a state dinner to a party of peers, in honour of her Majesty's birthday, at Argyll House. The no blemen present were the Dukes of Buccle uch, Leeds, and Argyll; the Marquis of Westminster ; the Earls of Burling ton, Carnarvon, Camperdown, Chichester, Clanwilliam, Ellesmere, Fitzhardinge, Kintor e, Shaftesbury, Zetland, Airlie, Albemarle, Clare, Gosford, liaddington, Gram ville, and Ducie ; Viscount Canning; Lords Heytesbury, Hatherton, Overstone, War d, Monteagle, and Beau mont ; Mr. Clinton Dawk ins and Mr. Cole (private secretaries). The Marquis of Breadalbane, K.T., Lord Chamber lain of the Queen's Household, gave a state dinner in celebration of the day, at his residence in Park-lane, to the following distinguished circle :—The Vice-Chamber lain, Lord Ernest Bruce, the Captain of the Gentlemen at-Arms, Lord Foley, Earl Somers, the Earl of Listowel, Lord De Tabley, Lord Byron, Lieut.-General Sir Fre derick Stovin, Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Alex. Nelson Hood, Major-General Berkeley Drummond, Lieut.- General Sir Edward Bowater, Captain the Hon. Mor timer Sackville West, Hon. Frederick Byng, Colonel Sir Frederic Smith, Sir William Martins, Mr. Thomas R a msden, Mr. Arthur Blackwood, Captain Green, Mr. Alfred Montgomery, Mr. Wilbraham Taylor, Lieut.- Colonel Henry S. Stephens, Sir Alexander Campbell, Bart., Mr. Norman Macdonald, Hon. Col. Upton, Field Officer in Waiting, the Duke of Roxburghe, James Clark, Bart., Major. General Sir George Bowles, Sir David Brewster, the Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wel lesley, and Sir Roderick Murchison. The Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, gave a state dinnia: to celebrate the day at his residence in Portman-squa:re, to the following gentlemen connected with his grace's departments : The Commander-in-Chief, the Military Secretary, the Secretary at War, the Dep u ty Secretary, the Adjutant- General, the Quartermaster-General, the Private Secre tary, the Lieut.-General of the Ordnance, the Principal Storekeeper of the Ordnance, the Clerk of the Ordnance, the Inspector General of Fortifications, the Judge-Ad vocate General, the Secretary to the Lieut.-General of the Ordnance, Mr. Under Secretary Peel, Mr. Under Secretary Merivale, Mr. Assistant Under Secr etar y Elliott, Lieutenant-Colonel Mundy, Assistant Under Secretary for War, Mr. Commissioner Murdoch, Com missioner Sir F. Rogers, Governor Sir Geo. Grey (Nov Zealand,) Lieutenant-Governor Mr. D. .Daly, the Right Rev. the Bishops of Adelaide, New Zealand, Graham's Town, and Sierra Leone, the "Very Rev. VT - A• News man, Dean of Cape Town, the Honourablle and Rev. Douglas, Cape Town, the Chief Just ice of St. Helena, the Chief Justice of Victoria, the Chief Justice of the Gold Coast, the lion. the Master of the Rolls, Nova ls Scotia, Mr. • k iidA A. W. Det Bala; of NewfoNadi land, Mr. JUstice Surtees, Mauritius,Nata the Coleilia't Secretary of New South Wales. -`--. Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8., Socretery of State for the Home Department, give a state dinner in honour of the day, at his residence in Carltbn-gardens to the fol lowing judicial and state functionaries :—The Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice of England, the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Lord Chief Jus tice of the Court of Common Pleas; the Lord Cl i def Baron of the Exchequer, the Vice-Chanbellor -Itindetrs ley, the Vice-Chancellor Stuart, the Right Hon. Sir John Dodson, Dean of the Arches Court • the Right Hon. Stephen Lushington, the Judge of the Admiralty Court ; the Right Hon. Sir John Young,. Chief Secre-' tary for Ireland ; the Hon. Justice Coleridge, the Hon. Baron Alderson, the Hon. Justice Creswell, the Hon. Justice Erle, the Hon. Baron Platt, the Hon. Baron Martin, the Hon. Justice Crompton, the Hon, Justice Crowder, the Lord Mayor, the Lord Advocate of Scot land, the Solicitor-General for Ireland, Mr. Sheriff Wire, Mr. Sheriff Wallis ' Sir James Duke, Mr. Masterman, Baron Rothschild, the President of the Poor Law Board, Mr. H. Waddington, Mr. R. *),V. Grey, and Mr. Clifford. The Earl Spencer, K.G., Lord Steward of Her Ma , jesty's Household, gave a state dinner on Saturday evening, at Spencer House, in celebration of her Ma jesty's birthday. The company consisted of the Earl of Mulaave and Viscount Drumlanrig, Treasurer and Comptroller of the Household ; Lieutenant-Colonel Biddulph, Master of the Household, and Mr. Thomas Shiffner, Paymaster ; the Marquis of Ormonde, K.P., Lord Camoys, Lord Rivers, and Lord Waterpark, Lords in Waiting ; Mr. Ormsby Gore, and Mr. Frede rick Cavendish, Grooms in Waiting ; Captain Courts ney Boyle, R.N., Sir Noel Harris, Colonel Diggle, and Commander Bedford, Gentlemen Ushers ; the lion. Spencer Lyttleton, Marshal of the Ceremonies ; the 1 Marquis Camden,• K.G., the Earl Waldegrave, Lora Frederick Gordon Hallyburton, Lord George Quin, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, Lord Lilford, Lord de .Mauley, the Hon. Charles Compton Cavendish, Captain the Hon. Joseph Denman, R.N., Captain of the Queen's Yacht, Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour, K.C.8., Rear-Admiral Fremantle, Captain Cavendish Boyle, and Alr. Edward Browell, Secretary to the Board of Green Cloth. Sir Charles Wood, President of the Board of Control for the Affairs of India, also gave a state dinner in honour of the anniversary, at his residence in Chesham place. The company consisted of the Hon. John Elliott, M.P., the Hon. R. Cavendish, Sir William Clay, M.P., Major Oliphiant, Mr. Macnaughten, Major-General Sir George Pollocik, Sir Thomas Redington, Sir Henry Hillock, Sir F. Currie, General Hunter, Captain Shep herd, Mr. Ross Mangles, M.P., Colonel Malcolm, Mr. Prinsep, Mr. Willoughby, Sir James Melville, Mr. Lowe, M.P., Colonel Sim, Colonel Roberts, Mr. Baring, Colonel Abbott, Colonel Melville, Captain Wingate, and Mr. Charles Mills. . .... . _ . _ The Attorney-Gemsral, Sir A. Cockburn, gave a grand dinner on Saturday, in celebration of her Majesty's birthday, to the Queen's counsel and leading members of the bar, at the Album, Aldersgate-street, ihe exterior of which was brilliantly illuminated in honour of the oc casion. Covers were la id for 70, and amon g t he com pany were—The Solicitor-General,M.P., the Right lion. S. H. Walpole, M.P.., Sir F. Thesiger, M..P., Sir F. Kelly, M.P., Right Hon. J. Napier, M.P., Mr. W. J. Alexander, Mr. J. E. Anderson, Mr. B. Andrews, Mr. W. Atherton, M.P. , H. Bliss, Mr. J. Camp bell, Mr. C. P. Cooper, Mr. A. Hayward, Mr. .M. Chambers, M.P., Mr. R. D. Craig, Mr.W. Elnisley, Mr. C. Hoggins, Mr. R. Ingham, Mr. E. James, Mr. Edward James, Mr. C. J. Knowles, Mr. J. H. Roe, Mr. R. Malins, M.P., Mr. J. Mellor, Mr. R. Palmer, M.P., Mr. N. Pashley, Mr. J. B. Parry, Mr. J. G. Philli more, M.P., Mr. M. Prendergast, Mr. W. C. Rowe, Mr. F. W. Slade, Mr. M. Smith, Mr. J. G. Teed, Mr. S. Temple, Mr. C. Temple, Mr. Samuel Warren, Mr. C. H. Whitehurst, Mr. G. Willmore, Mr. F. Whit marsh, Sergeant Channel, Sergeant Goulburn, Sergeant Murphy, Sergeant Shee, Sergeant Wilkins, Mr. W. Clarkson, Mr. W. H. Bodkin, Mr. W. N. Welsby, Mr. T. 11. Terrell, Mr. J. Wilde, Mr. G. Pigott, Mr. J. Wickens, Mr. W. H. Willes, Mr. J. P. Fearon, Mr. J. Timm, Mr. S. Gardiner, Mr. E. L. Pemberton, Mr. F. J. Hamel, Mr. J. Whiteside , M.P., Mr. I. Butt, M.P., Mr. V. Scully, M.P., Mr. George, Mr. L. Bland. Her Majesty's Guard of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms had a full dress dinner on Saturday in celebra tion of the day. THE ILLUMINATIONS. The illuminations on Saturday night in honour of her Majesty's birthday were on a scale of great richness and magnificence, as the occasion never fails to draw forth renewed manifestations of loyalty to our beloved Soya reign. The devices were varied and extensive, and bOMO of them of great beauty. THE PROPOSED STATUE TO PRINCE ALBERT. The following correspondence has been sent us for publication : " May 3, 1854. Sir,—ln pursuance of the accompanying resolution, I have the honour to transmit, for the information of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, a list of the subscribers, with the amount of subscriptions. No appeal has yet been made to the general public, who have so materially benefitted by the Great Exhibition, and who will, it is ' believed, contribute, according to their means, when a definite plan be adopted for the attainment of the object. "I have the honour to be, Sir, " Your obedient servant, " THOMAS CHALLIS. "To Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey. " ' Resolved,—That previous to making an organised appeal to the country, it is the duty of this committee to submit to his Royal Highness Prince Albert a report of its proceedings up to the present time. They would, therefore, respectfully solicit the honour and advantage of his Royal Highness's counsel as to the best mode of transmitting to posterity a memorial of that great na tional event, the Exhibition of 1851, with which the name of his Royal Highness must ever be associated.' " " Buckingham Palace, May 6. " Sir,— I have had the honour of receiving, and of submitting to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the re solution adopted by the committee of subscribers to a ' Memorial of the Great Exhibition,' which was enclosed in your letter of the 3d inst., and in which his Royal Highness's counsel is solicited `as to the best mode of transmitting to posterity a memorial of that great event.' " In the very natural desire to record the success of that great national undertaking, which has reflected so much credit on the enterprise and perseverance of the people of this country, his Royal Highness most cor dially concurs. The same desire necessarily forced itself upon the Royal Commissioners, when they had to con sider the best mode of applying the surplus which, on finally closing the accounts of the Exhibition, remained in their hands. " They agreed that its most appropriate memorial would be found in the attempt to perpetuate some of the advantages which that undertaking had been intended to produce, viz., the fostering and p romotin g of general education in the arts and sciences as applied to produc tive industry—and his Royal Highness would refer you to the published report of the Royal Commissioners on the disposal of that surplus for a detailed explanation of his own personal opinion and that of the Royal Com missioners as to the best mode of effecting this object. " It seems to his Royal Highness that the wishes of those who have subscribed to the proposed memorial would be most satisfactorily met by the adoption of some plan which, while it harmonised with the objects recom mended by the Royal Commissioners in their report, should still preserve a distinctive character, and should be calculated to mark the specific nature of the purpose which the subscribers to this memorial have had in view. ' "In the uncertainty his Royal Highness must neces sarily be under with respect to the wishes and feelings of the subscribers, he would not wish to give more than a very vague idea of the manner in which he thinks this purpose may be best effected. It might probably be done by the endowment of one or more professorships ; by the institution of periodical exhibitions ; by the pur chase of fine works of art for the national museums ,• or by the endowment of prizes for specific objects. But that which strikes his Royal Highness at this moment as the simplest and most effectual method would be to found scholarships as prizes for proficiency in certain branches of study connected with art and science. These might be travelling scholarships, and if the sum sub scribed should amount to 10,0001., the interest would be sufficient to found four, or one for each of the four great classes into which the Exhibition was divided, while by this means also the connection between our efforts in art and science and those of other nations would be main' tair , r ,r d The competition for such prizes, as being immedi• ately connected with the objects of the Great Exhibition, might, if so wished, be cond uc t e d under the auspices of the Royal Commissioner s , who might meet publicly each year, on the anniversary of the opening of the Exhibi tion, to announce the successful competitors, when the reports of the preceding year, which the scholars sh ould be instructed t o f urn i s h, might , also be read, and their publication for general use afterwards undertaken b 7 the commissioners. this sag " His Royal Highness merely throws out gestion as an illustrative of his idea of the m nef w i h n o w rt h h i i c iy h the memory of the Exhibition would be matured plan perpetuated, and does not give it as but whi c s l l l io h u e l should propo ses this, or foainytshiemail(alorpptiixo:, he would have much pleasure in further subject with them. The only wish lie can may of t he committee; their vitae, carry out such a plan may be adopted by tiie t l . n sfl, eraen discussing have i s t t h h a e t scribers, as well as most beneficia l it was a so ono their object in the manner most sa l i t . o . so.tioereyotuontrtlyieg sub scribers, al Highness would .. hhiechwioliusldßb,e,yglad to find,that be enabled rally , t\var towards which the honour to be, sir, your very ~ ,C. GREY. himself to have the pleasure of ocboendtireinbtutstmrgv.,—Al: have "To Thomas Challis, Esq., 31. P." ---- DEATH OF LIEUTENANT W. IT. This distinguished young officer, who H c O orumanaed the seco nd cutter in the remarkable vo y a g e of the boats of her Majesty's ship Plover, from Icy-cape to the Mao kenzie, in search of Sir John Franklin, died at Broi rpto• on Friday morning last. His premature death w. Is oc• casioned by disease of the lungs, brought on by co-otant exposure and severe hardships and sufferings, Lio' xteriant Hooper, having, on one occasion, been lost for tbrixo days in a snowstorm, and passed two lonely winter" away from his ship in log huts, with a few of I xis boat • II crew, near the northern shores of America, liTi) sg chi4.l. upon offal fish. May 2 May 6 May 1 bray 2 May 2 May I rune 1