The Sun. — London, England, 1851-06-12 00:00:00

LONDON and NORTH - WESTERN and CHESTER and HOLYHEAD RAILWAYS. The celebrated Britannia Tubular and Suspension Bridges over the Kenai Straits and North Wales, the Island of Anglesey, and I.lolYhead. Weekly Tickets at Reduced Rates. Arrangements having been made to afford parties an opportunity of visiting the above interesting objects and the magnificent scenery of North Wales, Tickets will be issued at the Euston Station, avail able for One Week from the date of issue, by any train, according to cl ass, allowing the holder to stop at Chester, or any station on the Chester and Holyhead Railway, but not.to travel twice over the same Portion of the railway in one direction. FARES. Express or Mail Train ••••.. • • £3 10 0 First-class Ordinary Trains ..•• 2 10 0 Second-class Ordinary Trains .. 2 0 0 By order, MARK HIIISH, London and North-Western Railway. J. 0. BINGE R, Chester and Holyhead Railway. Csneral Manager's-office, Euston Station, June, 1851. L ONDON AND NORTH - WESTERN RAILWAY.___ RETURN TICKETS. With a view of enabling parties visiting London during the Great Exhibition to spend their Sundays in the country, notice is hereby given, that on every SATURDAY, until further notice, TICKETS, not transferable, will be issued from the Euston -s q uare Station onl y , Y any train, and to any station at wh ich the trains stop, on the London and North-Western Railway, returnable on the following 1 1°nday, at ONE FIRE for the DOUBLE JOURNEY, according to the class of train by which the tickets may have been issued. By order, MARKIIUISII. General Manager's Office, Euston Station, May 23, 1851. CHEMIN DE FER LONDON and NORTri WESTERN (Loudres and Nord Quest.) BILLETS 'D'ALLEE et RETOUR. Afin de donner aux Toyageurs visitant Londres pendant I'Exposl- 1!on les facilites necessaires pour passer le Dimanche a la campagne, administration de la Compagnie fait savoir par le present que Jusqu'll nouvel ordre, U sera iimis tons les Samedis Ala Station d'Eus t°n-square seulement, pour tons les trains et pour tous l e s p oints do 4 route (A les trains s'arritent des billets avec lesquels on aura la facilite de revenir jusqu'au lundi suivant. Le prix do ces billets sera le memo quo pour un scul trajet et cette rdgle sera generale pour tons les trains. Par ordre, Bureau de Directeur GenCral, Euston Station, MARK MUISIL 23 Mal, 1851. L ONDON und NORTH-WESTERN EISENBAHN. 1-IIN-lIND-ZURUCK BILLETTE. Ifni den Herren Fremden, welche sich *Arend der grossen Aus atellung in London aufhalten, die Gelegenheit zu geben, den Sonn tag aura Land zubringen zu kiinnen ; wird es heimit an gezeicht logs, bis aaf weitere Ankundigung, Billette jeden Sonnabend nur bei der Euston-square Station zu erhalten sind, fur jede Abfahrt und auf jade Station auf der London und North-Western Eisenbahn, bei Welchen der Zug anhalt. Fur solche Billette wird nur einfaches Pahrgeld fur die Hin•und-zuruck-Fahrt verlangt, und die Zuruck fahrt mag mit einem zug derselben Klasse fur welche das Billet ge nenamen /rude, am forgenden Montag stattfinden. Auf verordnung der Direction, MARK }WISH. Bureau der General Direction, Euston Station, 23ten Mai, IESI. LONDON to BOULOGNE DIRECT.—RETURN TICKETS. The COMMERCIAL COMPANY'S superior Steam-ships CITY of PARIS, Captain Tune, CITY of BOULOGNE, Captain Moore, 11 leave LONDON-BRIDGE WHARF, as under, weather per rnitting, every Tuesday and Friday : City of Paris • • ....Friday, Jane 13 12 Noon. City of Boulogne Tuesday, June 17 .• • 12 Noon. City of Paris. • —Friday, June 20 • • .... 6 Morning. City of Boulogne . • Tuesday, June 24 . • .... 8 Morning. City of Paris.. •• • • Friday, Jane 27 •• • ... 12 Noon. Saloon, 123. ; Fore Cabin, Sc.; Children under 10 years, half-price. N.B. Return Tickets to or from London to Boulogne at a Fare and a half, to be obtained at the respective offices only. Passengers booked throughout from London to Paris at the Com pany's Offices, 4, Arthur-street East ; Railway Office, 44, Regent- Street ; the Universal Office, Regent-circus• B ANK of BRITISH NORTH AMERICA. Incorporated by Royal Charter. The Court •f Directors hereby give notice, that a HALF YEARLY DIVIDEND, at the rate of Five per Cent. per Annum, on the capital of the Batik, will be PAYABLE to the Proprietors of Shares registered in this country on aid after the sth day of July next, at the Office of the Corporation, 7, St. Helen's-place, Bishops late-street, between the hours of Ten and Four. No transfer can be made between the 16th instant and sth proximo, is the Books must be Closed during that period. By order of the Court, G. DE B. ATTWOOD, Secretary. No. 7, St. Helen's-place, London, June 4, 1851. FURNISHING IRONMONGERY, Fenders, and Fire-irons, Kitchen Ranges, Hall and Church Stoves, Tea- Urns and Kettles, Table Cutlery, Lamps, Baths of all kinds, ornamen tal Wire-work, Tents, Iron Bedsteads, Purdoniuns, &c., at the PANcLIBA.NON ; also the largest assortment of Papier Mache Tea trays and Dish•covers in London. Every article warranted, marked In plain figures, and delivered free of all carriage expenses, 200 miles. W. MASSEY and Co., 58, Baker-street, and 5, King-street, Port- Man-square. Furnishing lists and estimates may be had on applica tion. THE LAKE SCENERY OF ENGLAND. The Series of Twenty-flue Pictures of the "English Lake District," painted during the last three years, by J. B. PYNE, Esq., is now on View in Messrs. Graves' Gallery, 6, Pall-mall, which has been engaged for the purpose. Catalogues of admission, I s., to be obtained at the Gallery ; of the leading Printeellers ; and of Mr. Sams, St. James's-street. COLOSSAL GLOBE.—Mr. WYLD'S Large Model of the EARTH, in Leicester-square, is now OPEN to 'the public from Nine o'clock in the Morning. Admission— On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Is. On Taesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, 2s. 6d. nRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH, New road, London. MORISON'S VEGETABLE UNIVERSAL MEDICINE. None the g ermine unless t he y come direct from the College as above, with L'ae ` words, " Morison's Universal Medicines," on the Government 'tam p. See list of duly authorised agents. No chemists or drug lists Are authorised to sell Morison's Pills. Dazed this 2nd May, 1851. (Signed) MORISON and CO., Ilygeists. OYAL FANCY BAZAAR, in Aid of the L) Funds of the Hahnemann Hospital. In : the columns of the Times of last Monday, June 9, is displayed lls t of aristocratic names, headed by that of the Duchess of Kent, as the patrons of Homccopathy ! 'Without further comment we ask—What has become of that which not long ago was looked upon as legitimate medicine? What does the Royal College of Physicians, aid what do those of Oxford and Cam bridge say to this ? Are they all right? Is sued by the Members of the British College of Health, New-road Lens ion, for and on behalf of Hygeists. dt use 12, 1851: 11 - ENV WORK ON STRICTURE AND SPERMA.TORRHCEA. Just published, Svo., in cloth, price 3s. 6d., by post (free). 48., ATREATISE on the CURE of STRICTUR E L of the URETHRA; containing the True Reasons why that Dist ;ase so often assumes such an intractable character; with Rules and Instructions for the successful Treatment of every Form of Urethral Contraction, based on the results of extensive and pro long ed experience. To which Is added, Practical Observations on the 'Treatment of Spermatorrhcea by Cauterization. By F. B. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.L. " These who complain most loudly are those only who know not hew to use the common instruments. . • . . The prac tice of surgeons has been marked with all kinds of violence, and in difference about the simple cure of diseases, and a passion for operations, and all the excesses and horror of suirgery."—Joim Bell. 11. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street, London. 13 AT T Y'S GRAND NATIONAL HIPPODROME, Kensington, is the greatest novelty in Lon don, and daily attracts crowds of admiring spectators to view the magnificent entertainments, arranged expressly for the occasion. The proprietor most respectfully submits the following arrangements for Whitsun Week, and in consequence of the immense success of the Day Performances, and in order to afford the juvenile branches an opportunity of visiting the Establishment, there will be Two Performances every day during the Whitsun Week. The Day Per formance will commence precisely at Two o'clock, Doors open at One. The Entertainments in the Evening as usual. Doors open at Five. Performance to commence precisely at Six. Private Boxes Admission to the Reserved Seats - - 35, Od. First-class do. - - - - - - 28. Od. Second de. Third do. NOTICE OF REGULATION FOR WHITSUNTIDE. As it is computed that nearly half a million of the Working Classes will arrive in the Metropolis during the early portion of next week, the greatest precautions have been taken to prevent inconve nience ; and it is presumed that the residents of the Metropolis, who can do everything when they please, will take advantage of the excursion trains and steamers, which are judiciously provided to ac commodate two hundred thousand a day. In London many of the Exhibitions will be open ; the British Museum, the National Gallery, and many other attractions will be free, and among the principal sights of London to wh ich the public are invited, the magni ficent marts of E. MOSES and SON, in the Minories and AA gate, and New Oxford-street, will attract thousands. their establishment may be seen the most extensive col leetion of fashionable costume ever got together, and among them the superb embroidered dresses intended for the Great Exhibition. These specimens are worth travelling a thousand miles to inspect, for art and science can go no further in the pro duction of embroidery. It would, indeed, be a matter of regret for a visitor to omit calling at the Monarch Mart, for it is im possible to form the least idea of its extent, or of the variety, elegance, and taste displayed in the dresses, which, in number, exceed all belief. It should be mentioned to visitors that they are invited to inspect not to buy, although the purchase of the next article of dress a visitor may require, follows some time or other, as certain as day follows night, for the articles exhibited are as good of the kind as man can produce, and the prices so mode rately low, that people must see to believe. E. MOSES and 8051 have devoted a separate Show-room for the purpose of exhibiting the embroidered robes alluded to, and they again earnestly invite an inspection. Wanted several Youths as Cashiers. Apply by letter. A. handsome Almanac, for the year 1851, can be had gratis, on application. The new edition et " Everybody's Book, containing a full report of the late important trial, may be had gratis, on application, or by letter, post free. B. MOSES and SON have no connexion with any other house or out of London, except the following : ILondon City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Minories, 83, 84, 85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,2, And 3, Hart-stree t, all communicating, Bradford "Yorkshire" Branch, 19, Bridge-street. Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate. Tailors, Clothiers, H atters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Shoe makers, and General Otfitters d for Ladies and Gentlemen The Establishments c a re clog from sunset Friday to s unset Ba. turtle'', when business is resumed till Twve o'clock. parla Italiano. Id l'on pane Francaise. si el Hier spricht man Deutsch. Aqui se habla Espanol. DR. CULVERWELL'S NEW WORKS. To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster - row ; Carvaiho; 147, Fleet-street ;• Mann, 39, Comilla ;or direct from the author, price One Shilling each ; by post, ls. 6d. ENJOYMENT OF LITE. "Health, Recreation, and rational Use of Tilne." CONTINTI:—EarIy Rising—Spring and Summer Mornings—Ex cursions about the Environs of London—The Parks, Lanes, Hilda, Forests, Fields, High-roads, and other pleasant places —Country Trips and Rambles — The S ea—London at Night —Evening., at Bathing Uome —Musio—The Dranaa—On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping, Rest, Ease, Occupation, &c., too. FRAGMENTS FROM THE MOTINTAESS. Two Vols. Vol I. A VISIT TO THE LAKES; SKETCH:OF EDINBURGH, U. VOl.ll. THE LAKES or KILLARNEY ; REMINISCENCES or DIIBLO . , &c. LEI. WHAT TO EAT, DRUM AND AVOID, That three score years and ten our course may run." A popular review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner yeesiy-debilitated health and enfeebled constitution, that harasses the young, besets the man of pleasure, business, or study, and em bitters old age, with tables and rules for the diet and physical rep stion of every -day life. IV. THE PASSIONS. . 1 What passions hurt the body—wlaat improve, Truths as refined as Athens ever heard." EhjsmoT : -Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The advent Aftlie passions. Chastity and its infringements. The casualties o. licentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, riarretVe , and renlediative. Advocacy of early marriages.; V.' THE MARRIAGE STATE. To be or not to be, that is the question." riwommin g:—Laws and obligations of n a t ure , aociety, and re mon regarding marriage, to be observed by either sox. Time and a o ir,e, on both sides, as to age, temperament, complexion, and f igure, to secure healthy offspring , with the art of rearing them. physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion. Oases, ao• • j. CITLVERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A. „ n _ Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee in these 1144•PUon howl dailY all are Millingh ttryan tilllllllli ;0 APO PietitZeki ,coroner en hold• former hamlet les from ijourtied ad te• tins of weep 10 ]arsdale - rrar imatr,,,ey. 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V, 't,ii' . , .. %.1,- V , , illraLe, .. „;, ...NP ' ' 1: 7 , ° - 1 -tv # .15' 4 65 ' 4 0,, A t ill k, r . ~. ,-. ~.4,~ ',..- ,., , d ( TrP IP /N ,4 . `.6.;.• , ---, /, ....r . •. 111 - DILL , *PaV ~ Jr • ~,.,I, * , i , :il , •- -, • * ' ..- , . •• , op t r,i. , DIE , #-J J 7 ;. i , . 4/6 mar,./.- -- - _ ze 400‹ , vice Sir P. Mason, K.C.8., to be Vice-Admiral cf th• White, vice Sir Charles Malcolm, to be Vice-Admiral of the Red. Captain Arthur Fanshawe (Oct. 17, /816), ex. Commodore and Commander-in-Chief on the coast of Africa, to be Rear-Admiral of the Blu', vice W. p. Carroll, C. 8., to be Rear-Admiral of the White, vice Phipps Hornby, C. 8., to be Rear-Admiral of the Red, Retired Captains Arthur Philip Hamilton, Daniel Lawrence, Robert Henry Rogers, and George Bent ham, by virtue of their seniority, become entitled to the rank of retired rear-admirals, but without increase of pay. Captain llouston Stewart, C.B. (1817), one of the Lords of the Admiralty, is now the senior captain on the active list. By the promotion of Rear-Admiral Fanshawe the appointment of a naval aide-de-camp to the Queen reverts to the patronage of the First Lord of the Ad miralty. r [PRICE SD. Pacific to the whole of the Australian colonies and Asia generally. Sailing ships, in returning from the Australian colonies or from the south of the Equator, world return by the westerly winds below the tropic, aid then through the Isthmus of Panama by the West India Islands, and taking the course home followed by the West India traders, thus avoid ing the Cane of Good Hope and also Cape Horn. That the opening of the Isthmus of Suez would not have tie same advantage he believed, for the reasons assigned by Mr. Stephenson, viz., the dangers of that na'row navigation of the Mediterranean, the Red Sci, and also the Indian Ocean. 'Therefore, the open route to India was preferable for commerce , as having less risk. From London to Singapore and from Singapore to Canton by the shortest possible navigable line would of course be (passing by Suez, but not by wa y o f M arse ill es or Trieste, but going through the Straits of Gibraltar to Alexandria, and by the ReC Sea), he believed 9,500 miles. That was from Lond on t o C anton. Th e neares t possible line trom London to Canton, via Panama, would be 13,700 miles on tlie globe. F r om Lo n don to Canton, via . New Fork and Or egon , cross i ng by the proposed lway, would be about 10,000 miles. The nearest possible live from New York to Canton, via Petnama, was 11,200 miles. Mr. Whit ney sa id t h at w ith re gard to his Pacific Railway, th e country for 700 or SOO miles to the westward of the line to which rail ways had yet been carried was almost level ' • but then he stated that the region which succeeded that level country was at an elevation of some 7,000 feet. Now, a rise from a level country to a height o f 6,0 00 or 7,000 feet was an elevation altogether unprecedented in railway enterprise. A rise of some hundreds of feet was a formidable obstacle to the engineer ; but to carry a railway through a wild and totally n e i n . habited country, advancing ten miles at a time, would take a very considerable number of years to complete the first 700 or 800 miles. Then , agai▪ n, with regard to the transport of goods, there was little likelihood of a transhipment, because wi▪ th the power of steam in the present day water carriage of any distance was a very small expense, and the time was certain ; therefore the prospect of commer cial remuneration in the sequel appeared to be very remote. But he thought Mr. Whitney was mistaken in saying that the voyage could be made from Oregon or - Vancouver's Island, across to Canton, with equal facility either way. The voyage could be made from the west side to America without difficulty ; but from the trade winds the voyage in the contrary di rection was attended with great difficulty. However valuable the project, therefore, might be to the United States, it could not possibly be of use to Europe and the Asiatic world. It seemed to him to be a question more relating to the United States and the Canadas than to Europe. He had made these remarks with the view of eliciting observations from other gentlemen. The Bev. C. G. NICOLAY said the point in which he differed with Mr. Whitney was as to the greater facility of constructing his proposed railway through United States territory than through British. He had no doubt if Mr. 'Whitney got his route that the whole of the land would be settled very shortly. But he preferred the northern route for the rail way to the southern, believing that in our territory there were greater mineral resources, and that large fields of labour would be opened up there. Doubt less a great project of that description ought to be for the benefit of the whole world ; but he could not but see that £ Mr. 'Whitney's original plan were carried out, all tle local advantage and profit would go to the United States. Captain R. L. Baynes, C.B. (1833), becomes one of the senior captains, and Captain W. IL Henderson, C.B. (1838), comes within the second senior list. ARRIVAL OF THE WEST INDIA FLAG-SHIP WEL.. LESLEY.—The Wellesley, 72, Captain George Gold. smith, with the flag o f Ad m i ral the Earl of Dun donald, G.C.B. (biue at the main), arrived at Spit head on Tuesday, from Bermuda having been re lieved by the Cumberland, 70, ' Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour. The Wellesley came in through the Needles—not a common passage for a ship of the line. The Gallant Admiral landed at Portsmouth Late in the evening. The Sprightly, steam-tender, w as placed yesterday at the disposal of the Noble and Gallant Admiral, and he landed at the dockyard about eleven o'clock, accompanied by Captain Goldsmith and his flag-lieutenaut, to pay hi s respects to the port admiral, the Hon. Sir Bladen Capel. Lord Dundonald dined at the George Hotel, Portsmouth, yesterday, and it was expected would strike his flag at sunset, the Wellesley proceeding to Sheerness, where the ship will b 3 paid off. DEPARTURE OF THE TURKISH SQUADRON. —The Turkish frigate Mirati Zafre and the Turkish brig Surai Bahl: took their departure for Constantinople yesterday, getting under weigh at Spithead at ten A.M., having hoisted English red ensigns at the fore. Both vessels saluted the garrison with twenty-one guns, which was returned by the platform battery. The wind being light from the southward, they had to beat out, but were cut of sight at five P.M. ilogue, GO, screw-ship, Captain 111•Dougal, weigheo, at one P.M. ,it Spithead yesterday, and proceeded - outside the Nab light, under steam. She then made sail feir Cork.' . is probable this ship will go to, Lisbon. Ajax, 60, screw-ship, Captain Quin, also weighed at one P.M. and steamed out ; when last seen she was Still under steam, steerin g down Channel for Cork, where she will remain, still having a reduced com plement of men. Commodore Lord John Hay returned to Devon port Dockyard, from leave, on Mond a y even i ng , an d rehoisted his flag on board the St. George on Tues day morning, and resumed his duties in the dockyex ard. CRledonia, 120, Captain Carter, is h our l y pected at Devonport, from the Mediterranean, to be paid off. PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. --The Nile, Indiaman, for Calcutta, sailed this m orn i ng. The Sir Robert Peel, American packet, arrived this morning, and will sail to-night for New York. ROYAL MARINES. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 11.—First Lieutenant C. Menzies, son of Colonel-Commandant Menzies, K.H.„ of the Portsmouth division, is appointed Superin tendent of the Company of Gentlemen Cadets on board the Excellent gunnery ship, in succession to First Lieutenant Alexander of the Royal Marine Artillery, who disembarks. First Lieutenant Driver, of the Portsmouth divi sion, proceeds in the contract mail packet of the 19th to fill the vacancy in the flag-ship Queen in the Me diterranean. WOOLWICH, JUNE 11.—The Megmra, 10, iron screw steam-frigate, left Sheerness on Saturday last, and worked very satisfactorily until Mr. Humphrys, chief engineer at Woolwich Dockyard, quitted her, after satisfying himself that the machinery was in good order, according to external appearance and working capability ; but he had not left the vessel long to return to Woolwich when her engine crank broke, and the Hecate steam-sloop, Commander Hand, was sent from Portsmouth to take the Megssra in tow and return with her to Sheerness. Colonel LLOYD said it would take 220 years to com plete this project, and we could not afford to wait so long as that. Besides, it would place the whole of our comnerce at the mercy of the United States and of our ovn North American colonies. Another ob jection was, that all our merchandise coming from the tropics, the East Indies, China, and all those parts, would have to traverse so vast an extent of country, and having arrived at New York or Nova Scotia, would have then to undergo the transit to England by a passage which was the most injurious of all to goods during three or four months in the year. Major CARMICHAEL SMYTH thought the project ought nit to be exclusively regarded as a route for commerce, but also as affording employment and facilities for the settlement of the people. It had been said it would only benefit Canada and the United States, but what was an advantage to Canada he could not but regard as equally a benefit to England. Mr. VIGNOLES thought they must be content to take the ocean as the cheapest and most economical of high ways, )ut he was not the less thankful for the magni ficent idea brought before the society that evening, which came well from the great country to which Mr. Whitney belonged. Mr. T. SAUNDERS advocated the carrying out the project through British territory for the settlement of our surplus population, and to divert the stream of emigration from the United States. Mr. A. CAMPBELL supported the same view. Sir EDWARD BELCHER, R.N., considered the pro ject untenable as a route for commerce, and thought that .f the land was settled, and gold should be found in the interior, the gold would not pay for the expense of cerriage to the coast. Nr. WHITNEY briefly replied, observing that the question had been greatly misunderstood, in the dis cussion having been turned into a capital and dividend question, with which it had nothing to do, its main objects being settlement and civilization. The cordial thanks of the society were awarded to Mr. Whitney for his interesting paper, and the meet irg separated. The Brisk steam-sloop has been jury-rigged here, and is expected to leave Woolwich to-morrow in charge of Mr. C. P. D. Bean, of the Fisgard, and a party of men, who will navigate her to Greenock,' to have her engines put in by Scott and Sinclair. The Barracouta steam-sloop, in charge of Mr. Brown, assistant-master-attendant at Devonport, is daily ex pected here. " Ways" have been sent up from Woolwich to bo attached to the Highflyer screw steam-sloop, building at Blackwall, preparatory to her being launched during , the next spring tides. Vessels in Dock—The Pluto, Rattler, and Fury steam-vessels. In the Harbour—The Fisgard ' flag-ship, Bin ck Eagle, Lightning, Monkey, Zephyr, and Furipus steam-vessels. In the Basin—The Trident, Dwarf, Antelope, Minx, Hydra, Greenock, Brisk, and Shearwa ter steam-vessels. PLYSIOUTII, WEDNESDAY:—Her Majesty's steam frigate Devastation arrived this morning from For ta mouth, having passed the Wellesley off the Needles as she came out. The Devastation takes the Dev an port hoy to Bermuda, and then proceeds to North America. The Right Hon. Lord John Hay returned on day from leave of absence, as Commodore Sup( !rift tendent of the Devonport dockyard, and on Tue sday hoisted his broad pennant on board her Majesty's al iip St. George. Her Majesty's steam-sloop Triton, Lieutenal at- Commander C. J. P. Glin, employed on mail sery ice in the Mediterranean, arrived yesterday afterna an, and went up harbour, but was sent back to Them Pool, where she is now waiting orders. Her d l utes are—Port Mahon, May 29 ; Gibraltar, Jun( 1; Lisbon sth, sailed 6th. Lying at Gibraltar, her Ma jesty's ships Prince Regent, Phaeton, Aretl tusa, Dauntless, and Janus ; the French line-of-battle ship Henri IV., and a small French steamer of war. Her Majesty's ships Arrogant and Leander sailed on 'the sth on a cruise. The Triton has brought the folio w ing passengers:—Dr. Heckett, Inspector of Hos pi tals, Gibraltar, and three daughters; Miss Gc lin Smith, Lady Georgina and Lady Olivia Stratf the Rev. Mr. Mahony, Lieutenant Godfrey Col )her, 44th Regiment, on leave ; and 13 seamen and mar saes, invalids. It is understood that the Triton has on board tbe body of Lord Cottenham, brought from Italy, fc r in. terment. Corporal Wilson, Royal Artillery, and gu nner Evans, stationed at Bovisand battery, lost their li ves on Friday night last, on returning from Devonp( tin a boat, the bows of which were stove in while u II d er canvas, near White-patch, Staddon heights. NAVAL INTELLIGEN DEATH OF ADMIRAL COCHET. Admiral of the Red John Cochet has been reported as deceased at the advanced age of 81 years. This venerable officer entered the service as early as 1775, rather too early, it would appear, to qualify him for those honours and decorations which were bestowed on younger men, although he served on full pay for 29 years, most of the timo afloat during the war. The following sketch of his career is from " O'Byrn e's Biography :"-This officer entered the navy Dec. 22, 1775, as ordinary, ou board the Blonde, 32, Captain Philemon Pownall, with whom, after cruiz ing for some time on the coast of North America, he removed to the Apollo, 32, of which ship he became a midshipman in October, 1778. On the 31st of January, 1779, he assisted at the capture, off the French coast, of the 26-gun frigate L'Oiseau, which only surrendered at the close of a sanguinary action of an hour and a half ; and on June 15, 1780, be further contributed, near Ostend, to the defeat of the French ship Stanislaus, of 26 guns, whose fire killed, including Captain Pownall, six, and wounded 20, of the Apollo's people. From December follow ing, until the receipt of his first commission, August 26, 1789, Mr. Cachet was employed on the American, home, and Mediterran ean stations, in the Amphion, 32, Captain John Bazely, Charlestown, 28, Captain Edm. Griffiths, Powerful, 74, Captain Thomas Fitzherbert, and p Southamton, 32, Captain Andrew Snape Douglas. In March, 1790,:he joined the Zebra sloop, Captains lion. Robert Forbes and Wm. Brown, and in December, 1792, on his return from the Mediterranean , the Phaeton, 38, Captain Sir A. S. Douglas. After sharing in the_ capture of various vessels, among st which were e General Dumourier privateer -her prize, the _ St. L Jago,* a Spanish galleon o f immense t value-and Ls Prompte, of 28 guns, he r emoved to be Queen Char lotte, 100, bearing the fla g of Earl Howe, with whom he served in the actio n of June 1, 1794. Having ob tained the rank of commander May 27, 1795, Captain p p a c y h with , eg r u Cochet, January 4, 1796, j oined the Rattler, 16, and on the 6th of May followin g , when in come the Diamond , 39, took, off Cherbourg, Le privateer, of 10 guns and thirty-four men. On De cember 9, 1796, be was posted in the Abergavenny, of 50 guns, in which ship we find him superintending the naval arrangements at the evacuation of Port-au- Prince, St. Domingo. He was subsequently ap pointed, June 14, 1698 , to the Thunderer, 74 ; and, January 11, 1799, to the Valiant, 74. In the latter ship he returned to England with a large convoy, and was placed on half-pay, May 30, 1799. After which he officiated with great credit, especially at the battle of Maida, as principal agent for trans ports in the Mediterranean, from May 2, 1205, until June, 1810. He commanded next the Ardent, 64, at Bermuda, from March 3, 1813, until April, 1814 ; and lastly performed the duties at Halifax of resident agent for transports and prisoners of war, from the latter date until May, 1815. Admiral Ca chet, who has not been sin ce employed, became a rear - a dmiral August 12, 1819 ; a vice-admiral July 22, 1630 ; and a full admiral November 23, 1841. He married, first, May 19, 1796, Miss Charlotte Jefferys ; and secondly, July 15, 1811, Lydia, widow of Captain Long, of the 89th Regiment, which lady died Sept. 9, 1839. By the death of Admiral Cochet the following pro motions take place:- Vice-Admiral of the Red George M'Kinley (an octogenarian), to be Admiral of the Blue vice Sir Th om as Livingstone , Bart., to be Admiral of the White, vice IL R. Glynn, to be Admiral of the Red. Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir Anthony Maitland, C. 8., K.G.M.G., to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue, DREADFULNEAR B COLLIERY EXPLOSI '4 ON This neighbourhood seems to have attained a pe iin.• ful degree of notoriety by the frequency, fats a ity, and extent of its colliery explosions. In MI E rcb, 1847, the fearful explosion at the Ardsley Main ( 301- liery occurred, when about 80 persons, men and I )4 )3 13 , were suddenly launched into eternity, and ma t 49 a family rendered desolate. Scarcely had the ren t i ma brance of this been effaced f rom t h e public m i n d , , w hen in the early part of 1849 there occurred anoth sr at the Parley Main Colliery, in the immediate vicinity of the Ardsley Main. The second was as terra Sc in its force and as blighting in its desolating effects t; . ) 43 13 . t h e ! first. Upwards of 80 lives were lost by this ? and there was scarcely a family in the neighbourc or o Cher. hOOll but suffered bereavement in some respect of 14 t h e The memory of this also was becoming things that were," when suddenlythe 8 , e xplosion At a neighbour b ood was startled on Monday last by of the seen ea of colliery in the immediate vicinity Thi s explosion has pi vesp e d those alluded to above. shaft, with which they proprietors of ' th e and got a conside calble f c a o t l a l l iery to w t e h r r e e e sin te in rs g ons. new Th e a bly, had progressed _three men were pro ceeding down the carrying depth. On Monday lighted candles in th sir o lo rn us ing u tomary vocation, scarcely reached the bottom of . the hands. They tremendousa explosion ensued, wb ich s h a f t when a to the hearts of those who heard, it. struck terror The rope by which the men shad been l owere d . was outof th • 'tshoe king; A . tely drawn immediately sight presented itself. The bodies of two of the, un fortunate men were found attached t o the chab a by w hich they had been lowered, 'but they w ere bvirupd to a cinder. The body of the, third man was P o : s" sing. There can be no doubt that he had been i ,. yn by the force of the explosion fr o m the chain by which the bolttom. he was being lowered, and hail fallen to One of the unfortunate men had been .I__ pits in. the n four pr evi ous explosions whi c h h ave o 4:curred in ele the neighbourhood of late years. 'Two of wins. With explosions in th e A r d s l e y and parley d u respect to the cause of the exp l o sion, it is thought oe that the miners in sinking the. some o shaft hadld pen world p a n. fissure communicating lvith gs Through this the foul ai r w hic h had been there accu shaft, nd on ululating found a ven i thet th the lighted candles a of the coming in contact 14 workmen igiiited. T ON Ti IE MIDLAND COrNTIIs THE LATE ACCIDES Iar e rewl xrd was offered f9r the . ap, RAILWAY. —Yesterday a g the engine-dries RAILWAY. el Stretton, of Derby, of Samuel the verdict of c h ar ged on prehension Counties Railway, t titer of John Die ell, on the Midlandnay with the manslau, g bsconded immediately the coronerl., J. J Blake. Stretton a ,Lobe trying to got out 1 E _... s q'' and tasirophe, and is I:o4oVed 1 =or the VI o f t he coutrY• T The treasure of silver, &e., found on board this vessel, was conveyed to the Bank from Portsmouth in twon ty-ona waggons, anti was...estimated at a million sterling. e, ,4.• • •t„ • W).18 ) 321.] LONDON THURSDAY • „.! . 4- • / A. 7 • : JUNE 12, 1851. , , 7 CATHOLIC LAW AND GENERAL LIFE lJ ASSURANCE COMPANY, 8, NEW COVENTRY-STREET, LEICESTER-SQUARE, LONDON. The FOURTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Proprie tors of this Company took place on the 25th instant, at the Head Office, at One o'clock precisely. The following is extracted from the re .port, which is too lengthy for publication : During the past year no claims have arisen from deaths in England. and but two in Ireland—one for 5001. and the other for 2601.—making together 7001., which have been paid. This is far below the expected mortality, and is especially favourable, when it is remembered how severely the life offices generally suffered from the epidemic of last year. The number of lives assured between the Ist of June, 1849, and the 31st of May, 1850, was more than double the number issued in the twelve months preceding. Proposals were made for 138 Policies, amounting to 52,9631.25. 6d.: of these 123, comprising 166 lives, were accepted for 45,1251. 6s. Sixteen Policies lapsed, representing 6,0481., upon which 3201. as. was received by the Company in the shape of premiums. Since the commencement of the Company to the lst of June last, assurances were effected to the extent of 110,9721. 12s 6d., pro ducing in annual premiums 3,7321. 1 ls. 6d. Of these 54 lapsed, amounting to 23,9901. 16s. 6d., of which the annual premiums were 7417. Is., leaving the yearly income on the I st of June last equal to 2,9911. 158. I ld. Since last meeting loans were applied for to the extent of 17,7001., but 1,1831. Its. 104. only was advanced. The Directors were also highly gratified to report that within the last four months they had considerably extended their business on the Continent, having appointed, as Head Agent in France, Monsieur de l'Etang, a gentleman of high standing in Paris, distinguished for his integrity and ability in financial and in all assurance matters, who, under the sanction and patronage of the Archbishop of Paris, the Cardinal Archbishop of Lyons, and Monseigneur Parisis, Eveque de Langres, has already within the last three months effected a con siderable amount of business, not only in Life Assurances, but in An nuities both Immediate and Deferred. After various resolutions, approving of the Report, and returning thanks to the Right Reverend Chairman, Bishop Morris, the Vice- Chairman, Actuary, Secretary, and Medical Officers of the establish ment, the meeting separated, highly gratified at its present results and future prospects. WIIITSUN HOLYDAYS. ROYAL POLYTECIINIU INSTITUTION. Rotation of the Earth, exhibited by Foucault's Experiment. —Roasting, Boiling, and Stewing, &c., by Gas, its great economy, as shown by numerous ingenious contrivances deposited by the Gas fitters Association.—Electric Eel, the only living specimen in Eu rope. —Lectures on Science with brilliant experiments.—A Lecture on the History of the Harp, by Frederick Chatterton, Esq., with Vocal Illustrations by Miss Blanche Younge, R.A. of Music.—Two Series of splendid Dissolving Views.—The Diver and Living Bell, &c. Admission, ls. ; Schools, Half-price. LAURENT'S GRAND CASINO, Licensed by Act of Parliament. A RGYLL ROOMS, GREAT WINDMILL (SoIe Lessee, Charle S s T E ß ml , ST. Laurent, a dim., 57, Brompton-square.) OPEN EVERY EVENING, With LAURENT'S UNRIVALLED BAND. Principal Cornet-a-Pistons, M. Bonlcourt. Doors oven at Half-past Eight o'clock—Dancing to commence at sine and terminate at Half-past Eleven o'clock precisely. SHIP NEWS. NOTICE TO MARINERS. RESPECTING THE NAVIGATION OF THS GULF OF FINLAND AND THAT OF RIGA. ST. PETERSDIIRGH ,APIIII. 22.—The hydrographic de partment of the Minister of Marine gives notice to ma riners that in order to facilitate the entry of vessels into the Gulf of Riga, in the Baltic, a round stone tower, with a conical roof, was built in the year 1850, on the hill called Blaubergen, situated on the coast of Cour land. This tower, from its base, is 89 English feet in height, and 27i feet above the level of the sea. It is covered with white plaster, and the roof is painted red. It is situated at 12i Italian miles, 52 deg. 30 min. S.W. of the Domesnas lighthouse; it is 57 deg. 37 min. 45 sec. north lat., and longitude 22 deg. 17 min. 29 sec. east of Greenwich. Notice is given to mariners by the same department, that in order to mark the south coast upon the approach to Cronstadt, a wooden octangular tower was built in the year 1850, on a bill called Bronna, near Oranienbaum, the height of which, including the ball which is above the roof, is 49 English feet from the ground, and 294 feet from the level of the sea. This tower is situated 59 deg. 55 min. 7 sec. N. lat., and 29 deg. 39 rain. 16 '' ec. long., Greenwich meridian. The roof and the ball are painted black, the walls white, with a black belt in the middle. Notice is also given by the aforesaid department that on account of some hydrographic works which are to bo completed d ur i ng the summer o f 1851, temporary buoys will be pla ce d at the places where the wor k is in pro gress; namely ( a ) in the skerries of Finland, near the islands of Digscher •' (b) isl a ' islands s the of middle Nargu e o n the e c G a p u e l f D o a _ gerot; and (c) i n of Finland, betw een t h e Monsund and round the island of Dago; and which, in order to be distinguished from the obrrdioonmasryabbouvoeyst„hweiir blue hav tleags. will yellow and other coloured ATTEMPTED MURDER AT WOLVERHAMPTON.-- On Tuesday a navigator, named James Sones, about thirty five iwas the chargedoeme ofCaroline withc a haveingioarrittse, the mpt pre vious vto ma ou rd s y e a o r a i a sht, female age, y of cutting her throat. Therg woman remaining in a very dangerous state , and but little hopes of being enter tained of her recovery, an application foraremand was gr anted. Her depositions have been taken i n e of the prisoner, whom she swears to as being these presence w h o committed the deed. The prisoner and hisvictig e have ra been living together for some time past at various towns in Staffordshire, but the woman deserted him about three w eeks back, and came to the above town, whither the pri soner came on Monday, and made inquiries at several places to endeavour to find her. Ia the evening he discovered her at a house of resort for persons of an abandoned I character, and called her into a yard at the back of the public-house, where, without speaking a word to her, he cut her throat from ear to ear. When taken into custody he acknowledged that he had committed the crime, and expressed a regret that he had bot also destroyed himself. STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH INDIA. The Select Committee appointed to inquire into the existing steam communications with India and China, and into the practicability of affecting any improve ment therein, and also into the best mode of estab lishing steam communications between England, India, China, Australia, New Zealand, or any of them, as well as any points upon the several routes between them, and who were empowered to report their observations, together with the minutes of evi dence taken before them from time to time to the House, have considered the matters to them referred, and have agreed to their first report, as follows : Your Committee, in considering the best mode of carrying out the inquiry submitted to them by your Honourable House, were led to believe that it would give the most general satisfaction to enter—first, upon the question of the different routes by which it has been proposed to connect, by means of steam com munication, the Australian colonies with the mother country, in order to come, at as early a period as pos sible, to some definite conclusion as to the respective merits of these lines; leaving for subsequent consi deration the other matters included in the order of re ference. _ _ _ Your Committee have adopted this course, believ ing that the information furnished by the witnesses who have appeared before them may materially facili tate the efforts of the Government i❑ making the ar rangements necessary for effecting that important communication. With this object, your Committee have examined witnesses of different views, and representing various interests. They first called 'for evidence from persons con nected with, and long resident in, the colonies of Australia, who, they have a right to believe, were acquainted with the wants and wishes of the colo nists, and others whose commercial transactions with the colonies, and whose knowledge of imperial con siderations involved in the question, rendered their opinions of value. They have likewise taken the evidence of officers in her Majesty's naval service, as well as commanders and owners of vessels in the mercantile marine, who have practical acquaintance with the navigation of the seas proposed to be traversed by the vessels of the companies tendering for the different routes. Without entering at length into scientific details as regards the comparative merits of the screw and pad dle, when applied to steamers intended for ocean voy ages, your Committee were of opinion that as two of the lines for which tenders have been sent in pro posed to effect the communication by means of auxi liary screw steamers, it was their duty to take the evidence of practical men, as to the probability that vessels so propelled would be able, under all circum stances, to perform with sufficient punctuality the services for which they were tendered. The question, it appears to your Committee, in volves the following considerations :- 1. Expedition, certainty, and extent of postal com munication. 2. Expedition, accommodation, and economy, in the conveyance of passengers. 3. Facility, accommodation, and cheapness, with reference to the peculiar kind of merchandise passing between England and Australia. 4. That the line or lines selected should be as free as possible from those political objections which ne cessarily attach to a line dependent on other countries for its communications. There are three routes proposed by which this com munication may be established :- 1. The Panama route—a line of auxiliary screw steamers by the Pacific Steam Packet Company, in connexion with the West India Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, from a channel port to Chagres, or Navy Bay, in the Gulf of Mexico, across the Isthmus of Panama, by means of a railway—as described to be in process of construction by an American company , —and thence from Panama, via Tahiti and New Zea land to Sydney. 2. The Cape route—a line of auxiliary screw steamers from a channel port round the Cape of Good Hope, either by an extension of the existing line to the Cape, or a separate line throughout, not touch ing, on the outward passage, at that colony, but call ing off Port Philip, making Sydney the terminus, and from the former port it is contemplated to run branch steamers to swan River, Van Diemen's Land, and New Zealand. 3. The Indian Route—A line following the pre• sent overland mail route, from a channel port via Alexandria, Suez, Aden, to Point de Galle :—From Point de Galle there are three proposed modes of reaching Australia : Ist. From Point de Galle to Singapore, and then via Torres Straits to Sydney. 2d. From Point de Galle direct to the west coast of Australia, reaching Sydney via S wan River and Port Phillip. 3d. From Point de Galle to Singapore, and then via the Straits of Sunda, Batavia, Swan River, and Ade laide, to Sydney. It is in evidence before your Committee that the average number of days now occupied in the voyage from England to Sydney by the Cape of Good Hope is 119, and from Sydney to England 138 ; and upon this basis the course of post between England and Australia may be stated at present at not less than 257 days, or eight months. The Pacific Steam Packet Company proposed to perform the distance from England to Sydney, by the Panama line, in screw-steamers of 1,000 tons, and 200 horse power, in 62 days and some hours, at an average rate of 9 knots the hour ; and allowing, as they propose, eight days at Sydney for the reply to letters, the current of post would be reduced to 133 days. The General Screw Steam Navigation Company proposed to perform the service from England to Sydney, by the Cape route, in auxiliary screw steamers of 1,400 or 1,700 tons, with 250 or 300. horse power, at an average rate of 8f knots the hour ; they engaged to perform the outward passage in 64 days, and the homeward in 68 ; and allowing, as they propose, three days for the reply to letters, the course of post by this line would be reduced to 135 days. The projected Eastern Steam Navigation Company, proposed to perform the service via Trieste and Sin gapore in 53 days, in paddle steamers of 1, 200 tons burden, with 400 horse power, and allowing three days for the reply to letters at Sydney, it would re duce the course of post to 109 days. The Peninsular and Oriental Company stated their readiness to undertake the service via Marseilles, Alexandria, and Singapore, but without mentioning the class of vessels they propose to employ. The service, as in the offer of the former company, to be performed at the rate of 10i knots the hour; the out ward passage to be made in 52 days, and the home ward in 55 ; allowing, according to their proposal, five days for the reply to letters, the current of post would be reduced to 112 days. It is proper to remark, in reference to the expecta tions held out by the two last companies, as to the time in which this communication may be maintained, that in order to effect the object proposed, the speed must be greatly increased beyond the rates stipulated for in the existing contract with the Peninsular and Oriental Company. In reference to the nautical questions which came before your Committee, and upon which they called for the opinions of practical seamen, they were anxious to elicit facts relative to the navigation of Torres Straits, the navigation of the Australian coast in the region of Cape Leeuwiu, and the practicability of performing with regularity the homeward voyage from Sydney to the Cape of Good Hope in vessels to which the auxiliary screw propeller is proposed to be applied. As regards the first of these, your Committee have bad in evidence from several eminent naval officers, who are practically conversant with th e n a v igation of Torres Straits and the nei g hbouri ng seas , th a t dangers and difficulties abound ; Ana although the admirable surveys of the scie n tifi c officers, employed under the direction of the Admiralty, have done much to render that passage less hazardous than formerly, your Committee, nevertheless, do not feel justified in recommending it as a regular route for steam-vessels carrying mails, passengers, and cargo, running day and night, and bound under heavy penalties to per form the service in a given time. With reference to the navigation of the seas in the vicinity of Cape Leeuwm, it does not appear to your Committee, from the evidence laid before them, that the difficulties, owing to the severe gales said to pre vail for many months of the year in that region, are more severe than those encountered about the same latitudes in other parts of the world, or that they are such as a well- found steam-vessel of adequate tonnage and power may not successfully contend against. This observation applies more especially to the return voyage from Sydney via Cape Leuwin ; the practicability of which, at certain periods of the year, with adequate regularity, some of the witnesses have questioned. With reference to the application of the screw pro peller to steamers intended for ocean voyages, there seems to be a general opinion that either as an auxi liary or principal motive power, it has been emi nently successful ; and that when used as an auxi liary, it is s i ngu l a rly we ll a d a pted for vessels com bining vo ingt y h a e g c es arriage of mails, passengers and cargo on on ; while at the same time it is the most economical mode in which steam may be applied to effect a rapid communication. From the evidence taken before your Committee, it appears that the screw itself, and the machinery connected with it, are in a state of continued improve ment. The discussions which took place in the Australian colonies on steam communication with England seem to have had reference to the question generally rather than to the advantages of any one line as compared with another. The votes of certain sums of money by the legislative councils at Sydney and Adelaide seem to have been influenced, in a great measure, by local considerations. At Sydney more especially, where the sum of 6,0001. was voted by the Legislative Council for the Torres Straits Passage, it was admitted by one of the witnesses that the object of that vote was to secure to Sydney the terminus of the mail line. The questions of the navigation of Torres Straits and the passage by Cape Leeuwin, of the return voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, and of the employ ment of screw steamers, being settled, the considera tion of the relative merits of the three routes is very much simplified, and may be viewed with advantage, in reference to the four fundamental conditions laid down in the commencement of this report. 1. As ,!regards expedition, certainty, and extent of postal communication. Although it does not appear from the evidence that any one of these lines has any advantage over the others in these respects, of so decided a character as lead the Committee to recommend it solely on that ground, the Committee are led to believe that the direct line from Point de Galle, via Singapore to Swan River, would be the most expeditious that could be es tablished ; and of the three lines for which tenders have been sent in, that from Point de Galle vial Singa pore, Batavia, and Cape Leeuwin, promises a greater security far rapid and certain postal communication with England than either the route by Panama or the Cape of Good Hope; this, however, must depend, as has already been remared, upon the speed being greatly increased beyond that stipulated for in the existing contract from England to Singapore, and it is hardly necessary to observe that no such increase could be effected without a corresponding augmentation of ex penditure. In regard to the Panama route, your Committee believe that its promoters have not overstated the punctuality or facility with which they would he enabled to maintain a postal communication within the period they offer for the service. In respect to the Cape line, it seems not impossible that there may be a degree of uncertainty at first, ex tending to six or seven days in the arrival of the homeward mails from Sydney. This uncertainty would arise from the navigation of the Indian Seas westward. At the same time, it is to be remem bered that the experiment of navigating that ocean in a well-found screw steamer has not yet been tried ; while from the evidence received from masters of sailing ships, who have made the passage at all sea sons of the year, it appears that there can be little doubt of the steamers proposed for this service main taining their engagements. 2. As regards expedition, accommodation, and eco nomy in the conveyance of passengers. It will no doubt be admitted that expedition fur passenger purposes is of not so great importance as where postal arrangements are alone to be considered ; but at the same time, as has already been shown, any one of these lines offers nearly equal adranetages in this respect. In point of accommodation, the Panama Line pro mises a tranquil and regular passage across the Pacific Ocean, the trade winds securing regularity, both on the outward and homeward route. The inconve nience to which the passenger would be subject being the transit across the Isthmus of Panama, including the trouble and difficulty attendant on the tr anship ment of heavy baggage in a tropical climate, at cer tain periods of the year of a most unhealthy character, though not wholly removed, will be materially dimi nished when the railway, which your Committee have every reason to believe is in the course of construction between Navy Bay and Panama, shall be coatpleted. By this line it is contemplated to carry first-class and intermediate passengers, at the cost of 1051. for the first class and 601. for the intermediate. The Cape line offers to the passenger the advantage of the only direct communication between England and the colonies of Australia, without any change of vessel, through a climate comparatively free from the tropical heats of the other two routes. It is true that by this line, at certain periods of the year, some inconvenience may be experienced from the severe weather common to the latitudes to be traversed, but there is no reason to believe that this inconvenience will be as great as that tce which passengers by the North American steamers aro liable in the winter months. By this time the company state their ability to carry first-class, intermediate, and steerage p assen gers, at the same rates as those charged by :sailing vessels, namely, 701. first-class outwards, and 801. homeward ; 301. second-class outward, and 35/. home ward ; and 12/. steerage passengers; the latter being the charge at which emigrants 'are at present con veyed from England to Australia. By the Indian line, the communication in ay be more rapid than by either of the two other routes ; but the inconvenience of three transhipments, and of the tropical heats, continued during a much longer period than by the Cape route, together with the probability of crowded vessels, at certain seasons of the year, along those portions of the line traversed by the India and China passengers, render it, as an Australian route, the least preferable, in point of comfort. If any inference can be drawn from the charges now made for the conveyance of first-class pa ssen gers as far as Singapore, to which class this ee rvice would be confined, and likewise from the evidence which has been given on the part of the Ee 'stern Steam Navigation Company, your Committ e e are led to believe they would be considerably higher than by either of the two other lines; indeed, it has been admitted by witnesses —even those most favourable to this route for postal purpose. —that few persons would be able to avail themselves .of the more rapid communication it would afford be tween England and Australia, it being certain that th e ma jority would prefer the longer voyage in sailinh ves sels to incurring the cost which a passage line would require. b' r this 3. Facility, accommodation, and cheapness in re ference to the peculiar kind of merchandise ps ssing between England and Sydney. It has been stated by the promoters of the Panama line that they calculate on little, if any, merchandise being conveyed by this route. It appears to your Committee that the increasing traffic across the Pa cific, between California and New Zealand, co. mists of articles not likely to be conveyed by these stets mers, whilst the present cost for transit of merche ndise acro ss the Isthmus of Panama would preclude the transmission of any but the most valuable articl The Cape line, your Committee are led to b elieve from the evidence they have received, is pees liarly adapted to the carriage of merchandise of such a de scription as would bear a higher rate of freight in consideration of a proportionate increase of speed. The size of the vessels and their constructi , 5 n will enable them to dev ote a considerable portion if their tonnage to this object. _ The inconvenience arising from tranships sent on the Panama route, which renders it inapplic tble to the conveyance of merchandise, extends to a far g reater degree to that by Singapore. I n d ee d it h as been readily admitte d, b y the promoters of tha t line, l that no goods are exp ected to be conveyed 1 y the steamers between England and Australia. The trade between India and Australia can not be said at present to be of an y ver y great extent ;; and a lthough with China an d the Indi an Archipelago there is a considerable a nd increasing traffic ii n teas, sugars, and other merchandise, it does not a :sem to your Committee that the transport of such in erchan dise would be aided very materially by means 'of steam communication, or that it would bear the cost of tran shipment at Singapore. 4. That the line or lines selected should be. as free as possible from those political objections w hi c h no. ces sarily attach to a line d e p endent on other c ountries for its communications. The only line before your Committee wh of ly free from these objections, and entirely under the control of the Government, is that via the Cape of Good Hope, the safety o f w hi c h depends ex c l us i ve l y upont h e m a ritime superiority of the empire ; whilst th€ route across the Isthmus of Panama, and the routes through the heart of Europe and Egypt, must always be liable to the interruption consequent upon a breach of friendly relations with foreign powers. As regards the expense to the public neceeeary for the maintenance of these several lined, it appears to your Committee, on reference to the tenders and to the evidence, that the Panama route would require for its establishment to Sydney alone a grant of 50,000/. in addition to that already paid for that por tion of the line conducted by the Royal Ma'il Steam Packet Company. To effect the extension of the Cape route, including the cost for intercolc vial com munication, about 39,0001. would be required, in ad dition to the sum already granted to the General Screw Company for the present line as far as the Cape of Good Hope ; whilst from the proposals made for establishing a line from Singapore to Sydney it would appear that the public would be called upon to contribute a sum of not less than 60,000/. for full p )wer paddle steamers. It is possible that this line might be carried out at less cost were the auxiliary screw propeller to be sub stituted for the full power paddle; but in such an arrangement the main argument in favour of this line would be weakened, as it would then become impossible to obtain with any certainty that punc tuality and rapidity necessary to insure the perfect combination at Singapore, and render it complete, as a postal line. In referring to the tenders which have been sent in by the various parties who have proposed to undertake these lines, your Committee have regarded them merely as means of pointing out with distinctness what might be effected upon each route ; they consi der that it is a question for the decision of Govern ment, whether, after the evidence which has been taken, it would not be advisable, and a fairer course to the public, to call for fresh tenders for the line which may be selected. In the selection of a line to recommend to the at tention of the Government, your Committee consider that there are objects essential to the welfare of the colonies quite as important as those political conside rations wnich, in other cases (such as India), render a rapidity of postal communication the paramount object. Your Committee believe that, with a view to the welfare of the colonies, the pre-eminence of any one of the requisites which they have laid down is, on the whole, less important than a due combination of all. They do not consider themselves bound to give the preference to a route merely on account of its :ur nishing the most rapid means of postal communica tion; they believe, from the evidence they have re ceived, that there are other great interests involved in this question, affecting not less deeply the develop ment of the rising colonies of Australia, and the 'inte rests of the empire generally. Your Committee, after maturely weighing the merits of the lines they have had before them, together with the objections which, in the course of thb in quiry, have been urged against each, have come to the conclusion that the line proposed to be extended from the Cape of Good Hope to Sydney is the one which combines these advantages to the greatest extent, at the smallest cost to the public. They do not con sider that the gain of six days, which it has been stated in evidence would be obtained by a direct line, not touching at the Cape on the outward passaw, is of sufficient importance to justify them in recommend ing its present establishment ; and they believe that the service might be performed in vessels of such a size as would meet the wants of both the Cape of Good Hope and the Australian colonies. Looking at the prospect of remuneration which this line holds out to its promoters, and likewise at the great changes rapidly taking place in the require ments and commercial communications of those dis tant parts of the world, your Committee would re commend that whatever arrangements may be en tered into, should be for as short a period as may be consistent with the adequate performance of the service. In arriving at these conclusions, your Committee are not blind to the merits of the Panama line; they believe that it would afford a regular and sufficiently rapid postal communication, securing to the passenger a voyage comparatively free from storms, and at the same time it would bring the rising colony of New Zealand into the main line of communication. . . ledthe t m o obr believe i r e a v p e i rapid he post alline c Neither have they over l oo k e d tilTiMl;rtance of o o ia mm th u e nic s a t t r io a.i n ts wh o i f ch s t i h ng ey ap a or r e e would afford ; nor the advantage to the Australian co lonies of opening between Sydney or Adelaide steam communication with the Indian Archipelago. • They consider, however, that it has been satisfac torily proved that, by the Caps, postal service with England may be conducted with sufficient regularity and rapidity to meet the present requirements of the colonies ; that it would bring into direct communica tion with each other the principal colonies of Aus tralia; that it would furnish the most economical, and at the same time the least inconvenient means of transit to passengers, including even the labouring classes ; that it would offer facilities for the transmission of merchandise at a moderate cost, without the inconve nience of transhipment; and that it would establish a line of communication, independent of other na tions, between the mother country and her distant colonies, which might, in the case of any sudden emergency, be useful in keeping open the commu nication between England and her empire in the East. Your Committee consider that it is uncecessary to enter into details as to the best mode of giving to the different colonies comprised in the Australian group the full advantages of such communication ; the evi dence which they lay before the house will enable those to whom the arrangements may be entrusted to weigh fairly the respective interests of each ; and in such arrangements your Committee consider that those of New Zealand should certainly not be ne glected. In reference to the establishment of steam commu nication between Singapore and Australia, your Com mittee are prepared to view it as distinct from the question of direct communication with England, having reference to India and the trade of those seas ; and whilst they fully admit the importance of that line, and believe that ere long the increasing requirements of Australia will demand its establishment, they are firm in the opinion that if one line alone is to receive the assistance of the Government, it is not at present of sufficient consideration to entitle it to be selected as the sole communication between England and Australia. Your Committee hope that each colony will contri bute to give full effect to the establishment of the in tercolonial steam communication necessary to perfect these arrangements. 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IS OF YOUTH 'HE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC RAILWAY On Monday evening Mr. Ass Whitney read a mos interesting paper on his gigantic railway scheme be fore the members of the Royal Geographical Society. at King's College. In addition to the ordinary mem bers of the society, there was a full attendance of scientific and professional visitors, both British and foreign, who paid the utmost attention to Mr. 'Whit ney's paper. The lecturer embraced the details of the great scheme for connecting the shores of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, which has been already before the public. At the conclusion of the reading a very animated discussion ensued, which may be summed up in the following manner : Mr. R. STEPHENSON, C.E. stated his opinion that the only difficulty, as regarded a long railway, was a commercial one. He had no means of offering an opinion as to the facilities for the execution-of Mr. Whitney's project; but be would take it that what Mr. Whitney himself stated on that point was cor rect, and that the plains abounded with timber and every requisite for constructing the line from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Ye: the commercial ques tion outweighed almost everything which Mr. Whit ney had adduced as to the distances ; for, as regarded navigation, it all depended on the amount of money , charged for conveying goods from one place to an other, rather than on the numb er of miles. This was plain from the case of the line by the Isthmus of Suez, as compared with that via the Cape of Good Hope to India, owing to the difficulties of navigation in the Mediterranean. The effect was, that the freights of goods from Liverpool to Alexandria ex ceeded those from Liverpool to Bombay round the Cape of Good Hope. The construction of a railway to save time, for mails and passengers, was a feasible project, and deserving of the attention of England; but with regard to the opening of a canal, supposing the facilities to be so great, and that, in fact, the money question was as much sunk as Mr. Whitney supposed it to be sunk as regarded his project, he (Mr. Stephenson) believed that if a canal were made, the commerce between England and India would not then go by the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. Captain FITZROY, 8,.N., said his humble opinion as a seaman was, that in the case of the route by Pana ma being opened, the commerce with Asia would, as a matter of course, take that line, for the simple reason that it was the easiest line of navigation with all parts of the world. The commerce of Europe and of the greater part of the North America would find favourable winds to carry it to the Isth mus, and also to carry it on its route across the ith of I jar/ 8 by A, 0 Pr e " after Of J. 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