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4,„,t, TIM tBRO CANALISATION COMPANY. ~ NOTICE IS FiEREGY GIVEN, tine. the Povi,lon.d Corti -8 will be ready for delivery in Exclu,nge for the Gankets' Re eelpts on and aft er T uesday next, Bth instant, between the hours of 41 ev, n and Three o'Clock. By order. C. STE Feb,IBS3 WART, Secretary. 4, Ad am ' s Court, Old Broad-street, 3d . GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN RAILWAY, IRELAND.—NOTI:',E IA HEREBY GIVES, , t hat the next Half Yearly General Meeting of the .Irareholders of Cornpa,ny will be held, pursuant to Act of Parliament at the Crticea of the Com an r Kin ,, 's-bti - i,ge Terminus, In the City of Dub lin, at tu b 3, e our of one o'clock pm , on SATURDAY, the 19th day o: - urna..r — instant By order cf the Board, WM. TAYLOR, Secretary. r tles-bridge Terminus, Dublin, sth February, 1853. SOUTH WALES RAILWAY.-NOTICE IS v 4: HEREBY GIVEN, that the next HALF-YEARLY ORDI . WY: MEETING of the Froprietorsin this Company will be he'd, 12.11rsuant to the Act of Parliam ent , at Ilia Paddington Station of the Great Western Railway, on FRIDAY, the 25th day of February I nstant, at one o ' c l oc k p rec i se l y , for t h e e l ect i on o f F our Directors a 'id One Aulhor, in the place of the same number, who will retie by rotation, and ' for the general pnrposes of business. C. R. M. TALBOT, chairman. no Transfer Books will be closed on and after the 12th instant, and with not b e re - opene d un til a tt er th e sa id H a lf-Yearly Ordinary aleetiog on the 25th instant. By order, FRED. G. SAUNDERS, Secretary. South Wales Railway Office, 10, East bourn-ten ace, I m London, February 1, 1853. bROITWICH PATENT SALT COMPAN Y. —The Proprietors are Informed that the lIALF-YEARLY NF.ItAL MEETING of the Company will to~ held on FRIDAY, the 25 • th of February inst„ at two o'clock, at the Queen's Hotel, St. ...Aran's-le -Grand, London, opposit) the General Post.:office. By order, WILLIAM CLAY. Broltwich, Feb. 4, 1853. • 1-4 E DOUZIEME GRAND BAL PARE -,_, ANNUM, DE LA SOCIETE FRANCAISE DE BIEN. ;AISANCE, A LONDRE 4, s ous le Patrona g e de Son Excellence .._.'AinbaQseur de France, Pres ident de la Societe, aura lien, il 41 A.Now,Ft_stalTARE ROOMS, lc LUNDIGRAS, 7 FEVRIER, 1853. L'Orchestre sera dirige par Mr. Cnis. Booms, Chef d'Orchestre des Grands Bats de sa Majeste la Heine d'Anglcterre. On putt se procurer des Billets chez les principsur Libraires et Marehands de Musique de LONDREB, ET AU BUREAU DE LA SOCIETE, 10 ( .. ,A,\ , DUKE-STREET, PORTLAND -PLACE. 14s. pour lee Cavaliers, et "J. pour les Dames, y compr!s les rafraichis!emeots. NEW FEATURE IN LIFE ASSURANCE. T HE DEPOSIT and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 18, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London. CAPITAL—ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS, Tallowley Barnes, Esq., 11, City-road, Finsbury. O. Noel Clarke, Esq , late 17th Lancers, Junior United Sei vice Club. merle Coode, Esq., Portland-terrace, Wandsworth, and Belvoir, St. neller's, Jersey. Stephen Cracknall, Esq., 1, St. John's-gardens, Notting-hill, and 11, Xesv-square, Lincoln's-Inn. s . G eorge Knox, Esq., 15, Connaught-square, Hyde-park, and Tcr ;odge, Staffordshire. te L xander Maclean, Esq„ Harrow-on-the-Hill. Villiant Prinsep , N "d C. Poole, Esq., 32, Upper Seymour-street, Portman - square. Esq., 147, Leadenhall-street, and 8, Hyde-park- Place West. ij b ert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Inner Temple, Barrister - at - Law. • Scanlan, 21, Upper Seymour-street West, Connaught-square. jl 4ior Sperling, 14, St. James's-square. J. AIIDITORS. Esq„ 126, Strand, Actuary and Secretary to the Medical, wLegal, and General Life Office. Int ern Jones, Esq., Accountant, 3, Guildhall-chambers. Sir n BANKERS. Charles Price, Marryat, and Co., 3, King William-street, London: br. . PHYSICIANS. t or Finsbury-place. • ocanian, 21, Upper Seymour-street West, Connaught-square. SURGEONS. tr. T. it,Chapman, Esq., 16, Lower Seymour•street, Portman-square. Teevan, Esq., 44, Gloucester-place, Hyde-park-gardens. CONSULTING ACTUARY. Francis G. P. Nelson, E.q., F.L.S. INSPECTOR OF AGBNCIES. F. P. F. Strousberg, Esq. STANDING COUNSEL. Welllrgton Cooper, Esq., New-square, Lincoln's-inn. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Hill and Mathews St. Mary-axe. RESIDENT SECRETARY. The Charles W. Bevan, Esq. Public is respectfully invited to examine the principles of the by Rnd SYstern of Assurance. which is based urion tables calculated is under the immediate supervision or; Francis G. I'. Neison, S., the Consulting Actuary to the Company. tw. °4l Parative Tables to assure 5001 on death, by a p erson a g ed ot2Y next birth.lay, on the ORDINARY and on the DEPOSIT system —4sUrances. ON THE ORDINARY SYSTEM. The sum the ordinary The sum the Life Offices would give 'ti t ordinary Lift him if he were unable Offices would to pay, or if he omitted At the His give him for to pay his current end of policy the surrender annual premium of 1 : 1 1 2_ 11 , 1 tal thirty at that or sale - 81. Cs. 3d. after he has yeatswhen age, of his policy, paid into their coffers 54sure the party in case after thirty 2491 . 75 . 6 d., and which I . * is fifty of years'payments they have had the use • years old, death amounting .to of at compound hewill have will be, 2491.75. 6d. - interestA or in paid into worth:whichtheyhave the event of his death the office. 'had the benefit one hour after such of at compound omission or inability • interest. to pay. 20 fa , little more ri•es. 3d. 249/. 7 5 .6 d. 5001. than 801. NOTHING. perhaps 901. ON THE DEPOSLT SYSTEM. Ifunable to pay, or not desirous of paying or omitting topay,thePo- I icy would still remain of its FULL value, 522/.25.7d.ti1l death, if 20 years after, no fur ther payment beingre.. quired. If however the party, from any cause, wished to cancel the Policy, be could not onlydraw out alllich as put in, viz., 2251., hut. 20 7/.los 0(1 2251. 5221.257 d 287/. 25. 9d. a certain bonus of 62/. 2s. 9d. In the bargain, which Is more than one-fourth of the whole of his payments, or he could ettherdraw out a part, 201. or 501.. diminishing the Policy only by the assured value of the sum se drawn out at the age when withdrawn. See pagess and7in detailed pamphlet, by F. G. P. Nelson, Esq. * Thp rate:, here selected are those adopted by the English and The rates hare selected are those adopted by the English and Cambrian Office, and advertised in its distinctive features as low rates of premium . , and professedly for the lower and midd.ing classes. In most offices, particularly the older ones, such as the Scottish Equitable and the Globe, these rates would he much higher. In the former of 101. 7s" 6d., with 10 shillings per cent. entrance fee, would be the rate to insure 5001. at 20 years of age. In the latter Si. 13s 4d., to insure the same sum. The higher the rate the more in favour of the DEPOSIT System. t Money laid out at compound interest DOUBLES ITSELF every fox teen years. On comparison of these two tables it will be seen that a person tinder the novel system of DEPOSIT assurance can secure the follow ing advantages, viz., Ist. For a less sum, paid annually, he can assure a larger sum in case of death than under the ordinary system. 2ndly. In the event of a desire to surrender his Policy he can receive in this Company, by the above example, which applies to all ages, 'tnitxx times as much as on the ordinary system. 3rdly. In the event Of inability or omission to pay, his policy remains still his property, Of the same value as it was, though he cease his current payments for any number of years ; whereas on the ordinary system, he gets nothing. 4thly. Should he require to increase or decrease the amount of his policy he can do so at pleasure. He can, at any time, by giving a fortnight's notice, withdraw any part from 11. up to the vhole amount of his previous payments and with interest. After he has withdrawn part one year he can, by a single payment, three Years, or any time afterwards. raise his policy to a greater or even .is former amount ; and by this system he can at all times regulate his annual savings by his annual expenditure, with the facility in the bargain o fhaving a fund to fly to in case of necessity, the same as in a bank, with this palpable advantage, however, that be gets inte rest his money, and in case of death his family receive more than Ina amount of his savings. In ordinary Life Offices he can do no tick thing, but his policy at once lapses or is cancelled the moment teases to pay his current premiums, and, instead of having any . !land to ay to for aid, all his hard-earned savings become forfeited to the society, and his misfortunes serve to benefit the pockets of his more fortunate co-assurers. Such a system is too equitable and too striking to be overlooked !Al DEPOSIT assurance is the only system of assurance which can be u niversally recognized and adopted when the principles are impar nlY canvassed, and its palpable benefits become widely diffused. It co mers greater advantages than a bank because it allows a fair rate of i lnterest in case of withdrawal, and gives twice the amount in thp hands of the Company to the representatives of the Depositor in naltelof death, thus combining the ADVANTAGES OF A BANK WITH THE BENEFITS OF AN ASSURANCE COMPANY. In case of endowment assurances the advantages of the DEPOSIT system are still more striking. AbYANTAGES OF THIS COMPANY UNDER THE ORDINARY LIFE ASSURANCE 'BRANCH. To those who prefer this branch Policies are granted from 201. to 5 . 0 9 13 1. on every known principle thereof. ? Sues r in all but the worst stages of disease, and such as have been `l o tted by other Offices, are taken at rates equivalent to the parti cular disease. Loans from 501. and upwards granted on every kind of security, real or Personal, on the most equitable terms to the borrower Annuities of every description granted on very favourable terms. N on -forfeiture of a Policy —ln case of inability to pay the currant _ lle rniums, the Directors will either purchase the Policy at a fair r'oarket value, or give a new one in lieu thereof, less 5 per cent., inte ;st corresponding in amount to the whole of the previous payments bieh have been made. Detailed prospectuses with tables in farther illustration of the De nosit system, and any further information may be obtained on appli , cation to the Agents in the country, or to CHARLES W. BEVAN, Resident Secretary. N-11.—Agents wanted In all Dart , of the World I)R. 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A popular review of almost every form (cams:, and cure) of ne r ' 1 : °,01 Y - debilltatcd health an d en f ee bl ed constitution that harasses t' -'e 3 ming, besets the man of pleasure, business or study, and a In• bitters old age ; with tables and rulestor the diet and physical iegu• httion en every-day life. THE PASSIONS. What passions hurt the body—'what improve, Truths as refilled as Athens ever heard." SusrgcT : pilgrimale, from infancy to old age. Tll , l ad- Vent of the passions. Chastity and its infringement. The casualties ofl lcentloustiess and dissipation, with illustratt ns, graphic, narra tive, and remedlative. Advocacy of early marriages. V. THE MAP,RUGE STATE. To be or not to be, that Is the question." T aw.uAstmE:—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and reli gion regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and C oice, on both sides, as to ag e temperament, complexion, and flgure, tf., secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearinz them. Physical defectiveness and Its removal. Sterility audits conversion. Cases, etc. J 53 It. J. CULVERWELL, M.D. (18=i ), (1827), L.S.A. (1824), Twenty•live years Medical and Forensic Referee in these Matters. Price Is. each; by post, Is. Od. To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvamo, 147, Pl eet-street ; Mann, 39, Coruhill; or of M. R. Culverwell, M.D., 10, Argyu-place. Itegent , street, who may be consulted daily from Teiktill Five, and Seven till Nine. [PRICE SD. No . 18,838.] LEON WOOLWICH, FEB. 5, APPOINTMENTS. Now rublislied, NEW WORK BY SIR E. BULWEIt LYTTON BART. Y 0 V ART. 1,. Vißy PISISTRATITS CARTON ; OR, VARIETIES IN ENGLISH TIES. 4 vols. post Bvo., price 425. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. Second Master.—Thomas Oyler (1852), to the Duke of Wellington, 131, screw steam-ship, at Portsmouth. Assistant-Engineer.—John Bruce, to the Blenheim, 60, screw steam-guardship, at Portsmouth. Boatswain.—Thomas Turner, to the Odin, 16, paddle wheel steam-frigate, at Portsmouth. Carpenter.—William Steele, to the. Odin. The Tyne, 4, store-ship, Master Commander Peter Wellington, arrived here yesterday from Ascension and Rio, where she had been with stores, and brought home A quantity of old stores. She is expected to remain here Jr at Deptford for about six weeks, when she will again leave on similar service. The Medina, Mediterranean mail steam-pa,eket, Lieut.- Commander Louis R. Reynolds, was paid-off here to day, and several of her crew left in the afternoon, for Calitharn, to join the Imperieuse, screw steam-frigate, Captain R. B. Watson, C. 8., fitting at that port. The Megmra, steam-frigate, Commander John A. Johnson, will leave 'Woolwich on Monday, it is expected, to proceed to Cork, to embark troops at that port under orders for foreign service. The Firebrand, steam-frigate, Captain Hyde Parker, will soon be ready for sea, and a number of convicts were employed all day yesterday and to-day in 'coaling her. The destination of the Firebrand is not yet known, but TO SUCCEED IN 'BUSINESS. Just published. nrice 4s. or by p 55.. APRACTICAL TREATISE on BUSINESS ; or, How to (let ),loney; with an tnqqiry into the Chances of 3UCef.:33, a.Y:d Cam ei of Eal!tue in I;u7ineSS. 1-1 Y EDWIN T. le It E MY. . _ A more interesting or useful publication for the trading com ity it were difficult to name."—Globl Well worthy of study," —Daily News:. London: Thomas Bosworth, 215, Regent-street. CHESTERFIELD'S ADVICE TO HIS SON. New Dcfl iota, 32m0. cloth, gilt edges, price Is. G.I. ; free by post, 23. I ORD CHESTERFIELD'S ADVICE TO SON', ON MEN AN!, MANNP.ItS: To which ara added Selcatons from Colton's "Lacon, or Many Things in Few don : Tsgg and Co., 85, Queen•street, Chea.pside, R I, LAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS. The following testimonial is another proof of the great effi cacy of this medicine:— • . _ it is expected she will proceed to Portsmouth, and then to Lisbon, as four carpenters are wanted for service in the Sanspareil, 81, Captain Sidney C. Dacres, now at Lisbon, whose names are to be borne on the books of the Fisgard,.flag-ship at this port, and they are to apply on board the Firebrand. _ _ _ 157, New Bond-street, London, October 12, 1850. " Sir,—ln Acquainting you with the great benefit which I have ex perienced by taking BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS, I feel that I am but performing a duty to that portion of the public who may be similarly affected. "About twenty years since I was first attacked by rheumatic gout in my hands and feet. I had previously been subjected to every va riety of climate, having served in Canada in the 19th Dragoons, and in Spain, under Sir John Moore, in the 18th Hussars. I always pro cured the best medical aid, without obtaining any essential . relief, and my sufferings can be appreciated only by those who know some thing of this disease. Mr. Taplin, second assistant to the chief engineer at Woolwich Dockyard, went down the river to-day to wit ness the trial of two scßooner-rigged war screw steam vessels of about 300 tons each, and each mounting two 32-pounder guns CM traversing platforms, built and fitted with engines of 70-horse power each by Messrs. Bligh of Limehouse. Captain White, superintendent for the Portuguese Government, and Mr. Alfred Bligh were on board the steamers, and the result of the repeated trials was an average speed of nearly nine knots per hour, without any symptom of a warm bearing, although the engines, on the horizontal-direct action principle, made from 90 to 96 revolutions per minute. ...... , " it was daring one of those paroxysm; between twelve and thir teen years ago, that I was recommendetite try 15t 4t Aiit'S PILLS'. I lost no time in procuring_a box..antlbeloss_Lbad taken that quantity: the pain had entirely ceased, and in a few days I was in perfect health. _ . "From that moment, whenever r feel any symptoms of the dis ease approaching, I have instant recourse to this medicine, which to me is so valuable, that were it not that the days of macic have ceased, I should certainly attribute the relief I obtain to that cause. Moreover,.l rejoice to say that my health has not in any degree suf fered, but on the contrary I believe the tendency of BLAIR'S PILLS is towards its improvement. . . " I have recommended the Pills to many friends, and the result has always been of the most gratifying character. " I am, Sir, yours respectfully, "GARRET FOSTER GILL. THE SCREW PROPELLER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING HERALD. SIR, —Having observed a correspondence going on in your valuable paper during the last few days regarding the merit of placing the screw propeller outside the rud der instaad of inside, as is usually the practice, we have thought it due to those interested in this important ques tion to state that a patent was taken out for this very application of the screw by Mr. Beattie, C.E., about two years ago. We ourselves built a steamer on the principle, and we are glad to say fully bear out all that your correspondents appear to prognosticate respect ing it, for she has been constantly running between this port and the Mediterranean since she was built (now about eighteen months) with the most perfect suc cess ; and we are so satisfied with its efficiency, and the great improvement there is over the old plan, that we have had it put into two other steamers, in one of which, the Osmanli, built at Dumbarton about six years ago, it has given an addition to her speed of fully two knots per hour, as tested on her voyage to the Mediterranean. The other (Rattler) is only just now being completed, and is to be put on the Portugal line from Liverpool, add we have no doubt will prove herself equal to the others. The great speed of the Frankfort, joined to the fact of the remarkable absence from all vibration, has caused her to command a preference from passengers everywhere. There is no doubt as to the great value of the improvement. —We are Sir, your most obedient servants, To Mr. Prout, 229, Strand." For every description of' Gout and Rheumatism, Sciatica, Tic-dolo reux, &c., &c., BLAItt'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS are a sovereign remedy, contain neither mercury, opium, or any other dangerous drug, require no care whatever In their use, and tor ra pidity of care and complete safety have not their equal in the world. Sold by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London ; and all respectable Medicine Vendors. Price 28. 9d. per box. Ask for BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS, and observe that " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," is impressed upon the Government Stamp. VIANNA, 'TONES, AND CHAPPLII. Liverpool, Feb. 4, 1851. ROYAL MARINES, SHEERNESS.-The second lieuten ant of Marines, of the Waterloo, 120, flag-ship, some short time since had a court of inquiry held, at his own request, to investigate a circumstance which, if proved, would most seriously affect his character as an officer and a gentleman. The said lieutenant recently applied to the Admiralty to know the decision'of the court, and on Friday last, the 28th ult.,' an order arrived here for the commander-in-chief to try him by a court-martial, on Thursday, the 3d inst. On the intelligence being communicated to him, he immediately resigned his com mission which has been accepted at head-quarters. No court-martial will, therefore, take place, he having left the ship.—Portsmouth Times. NEW ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS. Commander Inglefield, who commanded the Isabel, screw steam-vessel, last year, during her enterprising search up Smith's Sound, where he discovered a great expanse of open water, received a..letter, on Thursday morning last, appointing him to the command of the Phcenix, screw steam-sloop, at Deptford, which we stated last year had been taken up from Woolwich to that dockyard to be prepared for a voyage to the Arctic re gions. The Phcenix, screw steam-sloop, was built at Chatham in 1832, of 809 tons burthen, from a design by Sir R. Seppings, and she was amongst the earliest Go vernment steamers fitted with a screw propeller and oscil lating engines, by John Penn and Son, of 260 horse-power. She can stow 210 tons of coals, and has good accommo dation on board for the comfort of the crew, with ample room for a large supply of stores. When brought down to Woolwich in the course of next week, she will have her boilers (now at this yard) put on board, and be made ready to leave in the first week of May next for the Arctic regions. It is not yet decided upon, but it is fully expected that the Lady Franklin sailing vessel, for merly purchased by Government for Captain Penny's expedition, and now at Chatham will accompany the Phcenix as a store ship, and be also well supplied with coals for the use of the Phcenix, and the vessels of Cap tain Sir Edward Belcher's expedition. The intention of sending out Commander Inglefield's expedition is, in the first instance, to proceed to Beechy Island with a fresh supply of provisions and other stores, which will be turned over to the North Star, Commander Pullen, ex pected to be found stationed there as a rendezvous for the vessels of Sir Edward Belcher's expedition. The Phcenix having accomplished that part of the object in sending her during the present year to the Arctic regions, will then be under a kind of discretionary power at the command of Commander Inglefield, to proceed to Smith's and Jones's Sound, and follow up the discoveries he made in the former, in 1852, leaving the Lady Franklin, sailing-tender to the Phoenix, at the Carey Islands, or other eligible winter harbour at the part of Baffin's Bay, at the mouth of Smith's Sound, as a rendezvous for the officers and the crew of the Phcenix to fall back upon in the event of any unforeseen accident to the steam-sloop. Lady Franklin, the devoted wife of Sir John Franklin, still entertains the fond hope that her long-absent hus band will again be restored to her, and her whole ener• gies at the present time are directed to the sending out the Isabel, screw steam-vessel of 16 nominal horse-power, but, being on the high-pressure principle, capable of working to a much higher power. • Mr. Kennedy, who commanded the Prince Albert in her recent voyage to the Arctic regions, visited the Isabel, at Woolwich, on Thursday last, and made a minute inspection of her, as, if it is finally decided that she will proceed to Behring Straits, he will have the command, and be accompanied by Mons. Bellot, the Frenchman who was with him during the last voyage, and has again volunteered his services most generously and gratuitously in any further service Mr. Kennedy may enter upon, in compliance with the wishes of Lady Franklin in search of Sir John Franklin. Mr. Bardin, who accompanied Commander Inglefield last year in the Isabel, as angineer of that vessel, has also offered his services to proceed in her with Mr. Kennedy. Mr. Bardin kept a diary of the voyage in the Isabel with Commander Inglefield, and his account is the most satisfactory refutation of the story of Adam Beck, with reference to the murder of Sir John Franklin and his crews, that has yet been given to the public. The following is an extract from the diary :—" Sunday— It came on to blow very fresh, when we stood off from the land, and reached in towards the afternoon, when the wind abated, and we rounded Cape Dudley Digges. While running along the land observed some natives on a glazier, which Sir John Ross has ren dered celebrated by a descripti on of it in his first voyage. At six p.m. ordered to get steam up whilst Commander went on shore with Mr. Abernethy and boat's crew, where they met eleven natives, four men, four women, and three children, and had a conversation with them through Mr. Abernethy, who told them of the statement Adam Beck had made, that Sir John Franklin, with his officers and crews of the . Erebus and T e rror, had been murdered b y the Escimmaux. When the steam was up, run in shore to pick up the boat. One of the females made a plan of the coast on the land for Mr. Abernethy. The females appear to be generally of a more intellectual standard than the . men. Pas se d one or two patches on the cliffs, but did not observe in any place the least discolourment of the snow. W e now enjoy the blessing .of uninterrupted light, as the sun did not set to-day until half-past 10 p.m., spirits and roseii swh above the horizon again at 1.30 a.m. Those jovial are wont in England to communicate to all the inhabi tants in their loc,?lity , that it is not thei r i n t ent i on to go home " till morning, ' would here hav e a very good apo logyo for not g oin g home at all, as it would be a difficult matter t 3 determine when it was night. 4‘ M o nday—This day ou r search commenced ,in earnest. At 4 a.m. made Wolstenholm Island, when th e commander drew my att en ti on to the inaccuracy ' of the chart, as laid down by Mr. Saunders, Master of the North Star, who has laid down Wolstenholm Island as entirely blockin g ou t f rom view the Saunders' forms lsland, whereas it can b e seen most distinctly, a prominent obj ec t , f rom its formation and b being totall totally quite dis tinct from th a t o f Wolstenholm Island. The other clearly show s it s vo l can i c origin, as in fact so does the whole of th e soun d , particularly Mount Dundas. At the south-east end of it we ran along the east side of the bay, looking at every part of it in a most searching man ner, nothing like a cairn being visible in any p art of it. The whole of the above part of the Sound con sists of bold perpendicular cliffs, except towards .th.e south end, where the land gradually slopes unti_ltlirt ' reaches a very fine sandy beach, where the . North ouSn'd • wintered. After having carefully viewed i . t % to r we bore away for the scene of Adam Beck s s ment, / G - • . / 1 114 .., . ' ~ -.-..". 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Mr. Abernethy was particularly useful, from his great inti macy with the habits of the Esquimaux. We .also looked into several graves, and pulled down a large heap of stones, which was saturated with oil and blub ber. We had a hard job pulling it to pieces, but foutod nothing in it, alter the most careful digging, but bone.q of different animals, and certainly not the least trace of' anything to lead us to suppose that ever . Sir John Franklin had been there. The result of our labours was a source of great satisfaction, as it set at rest all doubts respecting Adam Beck's statement, as no greater pains could ever be takenthan was done by Commander Inglefield on the above occasion. Mr. Abernethy has shown the greatest zeal in the work, as he was pre tent when Adam Beck made the statement to Si: JOl.-n Ross, and heard him say there was a large cairn .erected* under which the bones of the murdered crew were buried. This having been stronly urged by Beck, made us more determined, consequently the shovels and pickaxes were set to work most unsparingly, and the work did not cease until after we had got below the strata of bones, and come to the hard frost-bound earth—then, and not till then, did Mr. Abernethy cease his labours, being then fully convinced that no reliance could be placed on Adam's statement. Beck also stated that the chain cables of the vessel had been buried betweeri the settle ment and an island laying off it, whereas there is not an island within seven miles of it. There is a narrow strip of land running out from it, being the only thing bearing the least resemblance to anything like an island, but the strip is on the north, and Mount Dundas on the south side of the bay, at the bottom of which near a beach the huts were situated." ERICSSON'S CALORIC ENGINE.-MR. CRISPES LECTURE AT IHE POLYTECHNIC INSTITU TION. On Saturday, Mr. Crisps delivered a lecture at the Royal Polytechnic Institution, Regent-street, on heated air as a motive power, now- a subject' of great public . • interest, as being likely to super 4 9 . .theArse of steam as a means of propulsion. The announcement in the printed programme was that Mr. Crispe would give a lecture on Thicsson's caloric engine, illustrated by mo dels and diagrams ; but the discourse delivered by that gentleman seemed intended to question the originality of Captain Ericsson's invention, whilst he explained and illustrated it. The lecturer began by observing that heated air, as a motive power, was now a subject which was justly attracting the attention of the engineering world. The immense benefits we had derived from the use of steam had led us almost to look upon it with a degree of reverence, and to anticipate its loss as a mo tive power, of which there was now a probability, with a certain amount of regret. He referred, of course, to Ericsson's caloric engine, which was now likely to supersede the motive power we have employed for years. With the view, then, of enabling the au dience, not wholly a scientific one, the better to under stand his explanation of the engine in question, the lecturer proceeded to prove by a series of experiments, familiar enough but not the less beautiful and interesting, the power which the agency of heat has in expanding bodies such as iron, water, and air. This principle, he said, lay at the very root of Captain Ericsson's inven tion, for the caloric entirely depended for its action on the expansibility of air by means of the application of heat. The first person who attempted to apply this par ticular agent of heated air economically was Sir George Cayley, the president of the Royal Polytechnic Institu tion. So far back as 181.7 that gentleman 'made the matter public in a paper in Nicholson's Journal; though he had contrived an apparatus some years previously for proving the applicability of the principle in question. Mr. Crispe here referred to a diagram exhibiting the properties of Sir George Cayley's invention, the chief of which was a piston moving up and down a cylinder by the alternate action of heated and cooled air applied to it. In 1817 (thelecturer continued) Mr. James Stirling, of Glasgow, contrived an air engine somewhat different from that of Sir George Cayley, Stirling's engine, like that of Ericsson'sddepended on the well-known principle in pneumatics already referred to —that air has its bulk or pressure increased when its temperature is raised, and diminished when its tempera ture is lowered. Iu the engine of Stirling, of which a model was shown, two strong air-tight vessels were con nected with the opposite ends of a cylinder, in which a piston worked in the usual manner. About four-fifths of thpinterior space in these vessels was occupied by two similar air-tight vessels or' phingers, suspended to the opposite extremities of a• beam, and capable of being al ternately moved up and down to the extent of the re maining fifth. By the motion of these interior vessels, which were filled with non-conducting substances, the air to be operated upon was moved from one end of the exterior vessels to the other, and as one end was kept at a high temperature, and the other as cold as possible, when the air was brought to the hot end it became heated and had its pressure increased, and when brought to the cold its heat and pressure diminished. As the interior vessels necessarily moved in opposite directions, it fol lowed that the pressure of the enclosed air in the one vessel was increased, while that of the other was dimi nished. A difference of pressure was thus produced upon the opposite sides 91 thg, piston, which was thereby made to move from the one end of te cylinder to the other, and by continually reversing the motion of the suspended bodies or plungers, the greater pressure was successively thrown upon a different side, and a reci procating 'motion of the piston kept up. The piston was connected with a fly-wheel in any of the usual modes, and the plungers, by whose motion the air was heated and cooled, were moved in the same manner and nearly at the same relative time with the valves of a steam-engine. Stirling, when exhibiting his machine before the Institution of Civil Engineers in June, 1845, aptly called it a differential engine, because the power was produced by the difference of pressure arising from the alternatives of temperature. It had been asked (proceeded Mr. Crispe), how in Ericsson's engine the air was heated and cooled sufficiently fast, for every time the engine made a stroke the air which produced the motion was heated and cooled ? He would explain that. Some years after Stirling invented his air machine, he (Stirling) added to it a supplemental contrivance, ich he called a regenerator, as a means of saving the heat employed in working the engine and enabling it repeat edly to expand the air before it was finally wasted or Lost. By the regenerator, when it was necessary to cool the air, after it had been brought to its greatest heat, it was not at once brought into contact with the coldest parts of the vessels ; that would indeed effectually cool it ; but the heat, when thus extracted, would be entirely lost, because it would never again be taken up by a body warmer than itself. Instead of that, therefore, the air, by means of the regenerator, was made to pass from the hot to the cold end of the air vessel, through a multitude of narrow passages composed of layers of wire gauze, whose temperature was at first nearly as great as that of the hot air, but gradually de. dined till it became nearly as low as the coldest part of the air vessel. As every body by contact will give out heat to one that is colder than itself, the heated air when it entered the narrow passages of the regenerator gave out a portion of its heat even to the hottest part of these passages, and continued in its progress to give out more and more as the temperature of th ;passage was dimin ished, till at last, when it was ready to escape into the cold part of the vessel, there was only a small portion of the heat to be extracted in order to bring it to the lowest temperature required. The regenerator, Mr. Crispe contends, is a sine qua non with Ericsson's caloric en gine, for, without the regenerator,i wouldwhic unques tionably a beautiful contrivance,l was be go odfornaor h th t i n e of g economy; and with fuel the might r egene b r a e t carried.o r they T knew he not lecturer, f with the assistance of a diagram, gave a description of the merits of Ercisson's engine. It consisted of a large working cylinder, with a furnace beneath for 1 the purpose of heating the air. Above was placed a supply cylinder or air-pump, for the supply of the working cylinder, and in connection with the latter was the regenerator of which he had been speaking. The alternative heating and cooling of the air in the working cylinder gave a continually rising and falling action to a plunger or piston inside the cylinder, which in its turn communicated the power of propulsion to the vessel. There were, however, defects in Ericsson's engine. It was said in its favour that there was an immense advantage in getting rid of the boilers incident to a ship propelled by steam ; but it ought also to be stated that Captain Ericsson, in lieu of the boilers, triad introduced fourwoarkinfdenegtteca in coo y r li p nders, e ac h c f th em 14 f e et in diameter, and four supply cylinders, each of than diameter.nstantiy goingkl ere o w n. as Th also en s: g be rea tw t ee d n ea r of and wear 12 fromwas armeositnteimnspeoshseaible p heat at r wh e ic r h ly th t e o air was te wo t r h k e ed ma , it chinery. So far, however, the contrivance was perfectly successful. The lecturer, in conclusion, stated that Captain Ericsson is a Swede by birth ; that he was born in 1803 ; that he had been at work at his air engine some thirty years, a model of which he came over to England t o work in' 1828 ; that he was the inventor of the steam fire-engine ; that he competed for the prize given for the best locomotive engine on the Manchester \ and Liverpool Railway, previous to the opening of that line ; and that the caloric engine was the latest con' trivance he had brought before the world. The lecture throughout was listened to with consider: able interest, and portions of it elicited marks of a PP r° bation. 0 THE MADIAI AND THE ENGLISH GOVERNXENT. The General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland have lost no opportunity of bringing the case of the per secuted Christians in Tuscany under the n otice of her Majesty's Government. Repeated memorials have been sent on the subject, to the latest of which the fol;owing answer from the Earl of Aberdee I has b een received : " London, Jan. 23, 1853 . Sir, — have had the honou r of receiving the memorial of the Committee on Popery, appointed by the General Assembly of the Free Churai of Scotland, settin , forth the case of the Madiai hus band and wife, who have been imprisoned by the Tuscan Government for no other apparent offence than that of reading the Scriptures. I beg to inform you, in answer, that representations have been repeatedly addressed to the Government of the Grand Duke on behalf of these Tuscan subjects, and that a strong remonstrance was very recently made through her Majesty's Minister at Florence. I have only to add that her Majesty's Go vernment will lose no opportunity of protesting aggisist an act so much at variance with the civilisation of modern times, and will use all justifiable means to 1)XO cure the the heli honourberationof these servant, ABEBD two unfortunate. persons. I have ...• to be, sir, your obedient imnalar, . Rev. Dr. Tweedie." " Familiar to their mouths as household words." . - This sentiment Shakespere might have applied in various ways. When we think of Law-making, Stock transferring, or mon Y -changing. Parliament, Exchange, or Bank, becomes "familiar to our mouths as household words." On the same pramiple, when attire of any description is wanted, the name of E. MOSES and SON, drops from our lips "familiar as household words ; " and to every one their establishments are well known for the Manufacture of Clothing in the most accom?lishe 1, styles com bined with Taste arid Art, or Ready-mode Gocds the best, the Most fashionable, and the cheapest. Millions arc now " familiar" with the fact that E. MOSES and SON occcupy the first and to emost po • sition in the city and provinces —as Merchant-tailors, Hosiers. flatter, Furriers, r o ot and Shoe-makers, ,aii , l outfitteis for Ladies and Gentlemen to all parts of the world, ant it Is now necessary for all classes to become " familiar" with the variety and seasonableness of their present stock, in which warmth, comfort, novelty, style, and economy is d splayed in t housands of new designs in Dress for Ladies,: Gentlemen. or Children. To specify the number of imps ivements introduced by E. MOSES and SON, is beyond he range. of possibil. ty, but inspection of their n •velties in Overcoats, l'aletots,.&c , and dress for all classes and professions, will afford the greatest pleasure. E. M.)•.ES and SON'S Juvenile Clothing, Sporting Dress. Clothing for A rtizans and Mechanics, is charged as praviously -the lowest prices. The hat and Cap, Hosiery, Fur and Shawl departments con tinue attractive by. matchless exhibitions of taste, splendour, and the EMIGIZATION. The difference of opinion former;y existing in reference to Emigra tion is TIONY comp l e telT removed. NO one doubts the expediency and advantages of Emigration, but the expence is tho principal cor.stcle ratioa with everyonegontemplating a change of country and pursuits. It is scarcely credible how small an amount wilt procure an Outfit at E. MOSES and SONF , ; it is also impossible for any class of Emi grants to obtain the Articles they will require, so good or so cheap as they are offered at the Outfitting • Establishment of E. MaiES and SON. The ,Ittention•which every .Emigrant requires is provided for by a separate department , being kept for iattfittimr. The Goods and Clothing specially required by Emi;r. , nis ore offered at wholesale prices, and are aeknowleiged by thousands of Emigrants to be every way superior to any which can be had elsewhere. Ship-sailing Infonnation and full Lists of Outfits for Ladies and Gentlemen may be had on application, or post-free to any part of the Kingdom. -.• CAUTION.—E. MOSES end SON regret having V) guard the public against imposition, having learned that .the untradesman-like falsehood of " Being connected with • heir Esta'dislnnent," or " It's the same concern," has been resorted to in m-my instances, and fol' obvious 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 : London City Establishment, 154, 155, ISO, and 157, Minories, 83, 84, 85, and 88, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all .commun London West-end Branch, 501, 507, 508, New Oifo;d , strect, I, 2, 3, Dart-street, all communicating. 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SlR,—Your remarks on the Income Tax, both to day and at various times, deserve some thanks from the public. Deservedly you praise Mr. Farr. He has done much for the common-sense view of the question. He has gone a good length—a good deal further than most of his brother accountants ; but, sir, will you allow me to say he does not go far enough. I don't, I can assure you, mean any kind of pun. lam not writing to Diogenes. He does not go far enough ; and, as you permit, I have reason to believe, freedom of discusion, I have no doubt you will allow me to tell you why I think he does not go far enough. In to-day's letter, Mr. Farr estimates the proper capitalisation of income from professions at 13 years' purchase. In his last letter before this (an admirable letter as to the principle of the thing), he valued them, and showed they co uld not, on an average, be worth 7 years' purchase. Don't, I beg it of you, blame me, or call me the Quixote of the party, if I venture to say I can prove that a professional income is, in real verity, worth no years' purchase at all. lam not going to assert this only—l moan to prove it; that is, so far as our limited experience of such matters gives us the power. Let it be practically tried, and it would prove itself. Mr. Farr estimates professional income at 7 years' purchase ; but his assumptions for this pur pose are all arbitrary ; vary them the least, and the 7 years may become 6,5, 2,1, 0. If it was possible to farm the Barrister business (excuse the oddity of the idea, it is not my fault, but forced on me), would it not have been done ? The reason it is not done is, that it would not pay at any price. Indeed, I grant, if it was possible in the limits of humanity ;that you could train up a Thesiger or a Cockburn in a state of slavery, and by (forgive the idea, it is not mine) applying the lash of the negro to his shoulders, then you might farm the business, and every other business too ; you might farm the Bishops, and even the Premiership. But when you really cannot, why should you suppose —why should Mr. Farr suppose—we can ? Well, then, you ask me, aro you prepared to say the whole class of Barristers—many most wealthy men, with enormous incomes—are to escape, are to pay nothing for the protection and many privi leges they enjoy ? Are medical men, our Coopers, and all the rest of them, to pay nothing ? Should you think me, sir, the Quixote of the party if I said' I &IN - think -they - shOuld. on anything - but capital. If they can take their business, whatever it is, into the market, and sell it for so much, then I say let them. pay on what they could sell it for. If they have money saved, let them pay on it. I am singular, perhaps, in saying this is the only fair principle ; but I conscientiously, after long and wide study of the question, believe it is, and will eventually be found so. Are these men, with their 20,0001. a-year, to escape, then, all payments, while a fundholder, with only 1501. a-year, pay s on it ? Escape, no ; I didn't say so. If they are not taxed directly, they are indirectly. The in come from any profession, by those very gentle men's admission, is regulated, in its total amount, by the incomes derived from other sources. Re duce those incomes which in reality stand between Government and professional incomes, and you re duce indirectly all professional, or what we may call secondary, incomes. If the capitalist has his income reduced by taxation, he finds he can't pay his surgeon or his lawyer so much. His surgeon or his lawyer, in fact, don't require so much. What an infinite intricacy would such a principle (if our wise men could only be brought to consider it) save us from. Intricacy in taxation is a national evil. I did'nt intend to be so long, but a subject grows on one. Your obedient servant, Feb. 3, 1853. FARTHER. P.S.—lf any one questions this, I am ready to meet him in your columns, soti permittenti. If he questions it elsewhere, ten to one I don't happen to see it. THE ARMY. THE HOUSEHOLD BRIGADE OF GUARDS. EXCHANGE OF QUARTERS ON THE 2d op MARCH. ' Grenadier Guards, Ist battalion, from Wellington Barracks to Chichester ; 2d battalion, from St. George's Barracks to Wellington Barracks ; 3d battalion, from Windsor to Portman-street Barracks. • Coldstream Guards, Ist battalion, from Portman street, to St. John's Wood Barracks ; 2d battalion, from the Tower to St. George's Barracks. • Scots Fusilier Guards, Ist battalion, from St. John's Wood to Windsor ; 2d battalion, from Chichester to the Tower. • QUEEN'S REGIMENTS IN INDlA.—There is a talk of the reduction of the number of subalterns with the dif ferent regiments in India, and an increase to the number of companies with each corps, so as to give an additional number of captains. This, if true, may be regarded as one of the results of Lord Hardinge's India experience. His lordship doubtless perceived where the real weak ness of the reffiments lay, and he now meditates an ef fectual remedy. , The court Of inquiry into the recent proceedings of officers of the 52d Regiment in connection with Captain Ross, of that corps, closed its sittino.s on Saturday last, having extended over a fortnight? It re-assembled, however, on Monday, but wa s on l y occup i e d f or an hour. Saunders' News Letter of Monday, in noticing this affair, remarks that Captain Ross was only moved to adopt the extreme course through the strongrepresen tations of his relatives. Major-General Wetherall, C.B. and K.H., the deputy adjutant-general, has, we regret to hear, from a severe attack of bronchitis, been absent for some days from his official duties at the Horse Guards. We mentioned a few months sins, deortion of the hospital serjeant, 6fith, from this garrison, alnl that he was seen disguised in plain clothes, wearing green spec tacles, proceeding in an omnibus to Canterbury. As he was known to havntaken some 101. or 15/, with him, it was supposed he had gone to America, as no traces of his whereabouts could be obtained until this week, when a report was received at head-quarters of the Hospital Serjeant Walsh having given himself up as a deserter in London, and on Thursday he was escorted as a prisoner to the Heights Barracks, to await his trial by general court-martial.—Dover Chronicle. The freight-ship Progress, having on board the head- ' quarters and three companies of the second battalion of the let (or Royal) Regiment of Foot, sailed from Cork harbour, on the 3d instant, for Corfu. The following are the numbers embarked in the above vessel, and the names of the officers :—Numbers-1 field officer, 2 cap tains, 5 subalterns, 4 staff, 19 sergeants. 8 drummers, and 330 rank and file, with 29 women and 31 children. Names of officers—Major R. Going, commanding ; Captains E. A. G. Muller (brevet -major) and T. M. Byrne ; Lieutenants G. Taaffe, G. Rowland, and B. H. E. Muller ; Ensigns R. G. Brady and R. L. Wil liams ; Paymaster W. J. Bampfield, Lieutenant and Adjutant H. W. Turner; Quartermaster J. Swaine. and Surgeon G. G. Robertson, M.D. The freight-ship Poictiers, having on board the three remaining com panies of the 2d battalion Ist (or Royal) Regiment of Foot, sailed from Cork harbour on the same day for Corfu. The following are the numbers embarked in this vessel, and the names of the officers :--Numbers--4 captains, 7 subalterns, 1 staff, 12 sergeants, 3 drummers, and 230 rank and file, with 22 women and 22 chil dren. Names of officers—Captains B. Daveney (brevet lieutenant-colonel), F. G. Urquhart (brevet major), H. R. Marindin, and F. L. Whitmore ; Lieutenants S. Vansittart, W. J. Gillum, W. F. Scott, H. F. Bythesea, and E. T. H. L. McGuire ; Ensigns M. A. H. Legge, and W. S. Cookworthy, and Assistant Surgeon T. K. Birnie. - Lieut. Colonel Bell has not embarked with the battalion, having re ceived a summons from the Speaker of the House of Commons directing him to remain behind for the pur pose of giving evidence before a'select committee of the house, respecting the late Cork city election. The fol lowing officers are attached to the depot companies of this battalion now stationed at Fermoy—viz. Major T. Graham, commanding; Captain J. P. Gore, J. E. Sharp, A. Anderson, and C. M. Davenport ; Lieutenant S. G. A. Thursby, J. A. G. Campbell. (acting paymaster), Theo. McKenna (acting adjutant), and H. P. V. Villiers; Ensigns E. A. Stuart, P. J. Gregory, P. G. Coney, A. W. Low, and Assistant Surgeon R. B. Smyth, M.D. Captain Anderson and Ensign Stuart are detatched to Carlisle fort, Cork harbour. Colour-serjeant Michael Hayes has been appointed serjeant-major to the depot companies, and Regimental-quartermaster Serj. James B. Murray remains with those companies, instead of embarking with the battalion. mander Alfred Ballister, accompanied the Fairy, and will continue to do so duri.rg the trial of experiments. Victoria and Albert, Royal: yacht, Captain W. Crispin, will be brought down from her moorings on Monday, and will be, docked, preparatory to her outfit in the coming season. Ora dit, the large war steamers, consisting of Arro gant, 46, Sidon, 22, Odin, 16, Leopard, 16, and Furious, 16, with two or three others, will go on an experimental cruise. _ _ . Prince Regent, 90 (flag, Rear Admiral Corry), Cap tain Hutton, will haul into dock on Thursday to clean and examine her copper, FEB. 6 Sprightly, steam-tender to Victory, Master Com mander Allen, left this port this morning, having re ceived orders to convey the poor boys that returned from the Brazils in the Tyro, store-ship, and who were treated so disgustingly by the Brazilian Government.. Most - of the lads belong to Liverpool, to which port the Sprightly has gone. Asia, 84, shipped her rudder on Saturday, 'and will come out of dock on Friday next. Cassoon has been repaired, her leak stopped, and will haul to her place at the north dock, on Tuesday. SHEERNESS, FEB. 3. The Agamemnon ' 91, screw steam-ship, of 500- horse p owe r, Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, slipped her moor ings in harbour here at 7 a.m. to-day, and proceeded on her trial trip (drawing 24 feet 3 inches aft, and 22 feet forward) down as far as the Mouse light vessel in the West Swin, a distance (from her moorings) of 11 nauti cal miles. She ran six trips between the Nore light -vessel and the Mouse light vessel—a distance of 71 miles —during which time she was compelled to ease her engines and go at half speed, in consequence of her pas sing so many vessels in her direct course. she anchored at the Nore at 1.30 p.m. On each trip she went round in very little more than her own length, leaving a perfect arc of a circle with her displacement of water around her. She steers remarkably easy. She has to receive about 52 tons of powder and shell on board, which will be stowed in the fore magazine and shell-rooms. Her trial has been most satisfactory as to her speed and stability of machinery. Not the slightest derangement took place in her machinery during the whole time of her being underway, except in consequence of a quantity of small coals collecting at the bottom of the coal bunker delivery shoots, produced by breaking in stowing the bunkers, the result of which was the small run through the bars, filling the ashpits, thereby reducing the draught , and a sufficient quantity of steam could not be obtained at all times to keep her up to her speed, and under these circumstances the following statement will show what she has done : Revolutions Nautical Geographical Per minute. miles. miles. ▪ 60 ... 9.82 ... 11 . 29 601 ... 9'97 ... 11•47 • 581 ... 9'74 ... 11 . 20 •• • 601 10•20 ... 11 . 73 60 ... 11 . 00 ... 12.65 • • • 60 ... 9•40 ... 10 . 81 • • • Making an average rate, in nautical miles, of 10.02, and in geographical miles of 1P52, by Massey's Patent Log. Her maximum rate, by the common log, was at the rate of 10.2 nautical and 1113 geographical miles, and minimum 9 . 8 nautical and 11 . 27 geographical miles. The nautical mile being 6,075 feet and the geographical 5,280 feet, will give a difference of 795 feet—conse quently, 10 nautical miles will give 11'5 geographical miles. _ Trial. No. 1. No. 2. No. 3. No. 4. No. 5. No. 6. On referring to French " Encyclopedie Moderne" of De M. Leon Renier, dated October '52, vol. xxiv., p. 234, in the copy of a letter written by Charles Renier, it is staled most clearly—writing of the Napoleon's speed—that she reached to 10 knots under steam alone, and with canvas 134 knots. The force of wind during the trial of the Agamemnon was from five to six, fresh and strong breezes from the south-east, and steering her course down toward the Mouse, brought it broad on her starboard bow and abaft the bep.zn on her run towards the Nore. There has not been any trial of her under canvas. She has most cer tainly this day proved her steaming qualities, under the disadvantages before stated, to be superior to any man of-viar steamer yet produced by any nation ; and well may the sons of Albion feel proud in having such a steam-ship of war as the Agamemnon. The Agamemnon was visited at the Nore, after her trial trip, by Commo dore the Hon. Montagu Stopford, of the Waterloo, and Captain the Hon. S. Carnegie, of the Horatio, 24, screw steam guard-ship, both of whom highly compli mented the gallant commander of the Agamemnon, Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, on the result of his trial trip in this splendid ship of war.—Times. Mr. Thomas Crafter, Queen's pilot at Chatham, acted from the harbour to the Nore, and Mr. John Small Q .tueen's pilot, of London, acted during her experimental trip between the Nore and Mouse. Her chief ongineer, Mr. Alexander Leys, superintended In the engine-room. She appeared to be perfectly under his control at a mo ment's notice, and we feel quite justified in saying such a ship deserves such an engineer ; he was most ably as sisted by his junior engineers during the trial. The Agamemnon remains at the Nore, and will take her powder and shell on board to-morrow. The Castor, 36, Commodore Christopher Wyvill, anchored at the Nore to-day from the Cape of Good Hope, on her way to Chatham to be paid off, and saluted the Admiral's flag. Commodore the Hon. Montagu Stopford proceeded down to her in the Wildfire steam tender, attended by Mr. Artliur Price, secretary to the Commander-in-Chief. The ship's company were inspected and put through their various evolutions, after which they comn'tenced target practice, and so precise was their firing that the ship's launch could not have escaped scarcely a shot or shell fired. The African steam-tug afterwards towed the Castor into harbour, and she is now brought up off Blackstakes. She will to-morrow discharge her powder and shell, and forthwith proceed on to Chatham in tow of the African and Lizard steam-vessels. The Tyne store-ship, Master Commander Peter We' ington, - last from. Portsmouth, arrived at the Great Nore to-day and anchored, and shortly after her arrival the Cuckoo steam-vessel was sent out from here and has towed the Tyne up to Woolwich. The Rattlesnake, Commander Henry Trollope, has this day taken on board her guns, and her crew have been paid six months in advance. FEB. 5. The Espiegle, 12, Commander Geor g e Hancock, was taken into dry dock yesterday. Mr. T. S. Vinall, clerk (late clerk in charge of the Bonetta), has this day taken up his commission. The Agamemnon, 91, screw s team-ship, Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, remains at the Nore. The Monarch, 84, guard-ship of ordinary, Captain Charles Hope.—Commander Josiah Thompson, June 28, 1838, is expected here daily to take up his commis sion to this ship, vice Commander Henry Pryce, who is now away volunteering for seamen. The Rattlesnake, Commander Henry Trollope, in con sequence of a change of stores and provisions taking place, will not be ready to leave here until Tuesday or Wednesday next. She takes a complete supply for three years, exclusive of additioiial comforts, namely -17,0001b5. of D. Hogarth and Co.'s preserved meats, &c. ; 15,0001b5. of preserved vegetables, _2,ooolbs. of pickles, 3,0001b5. of cranberries, I,ooolbs. of jullienore, and a large supply of other antiscorbutics. There is also a large quantity of live stock, poultry, &c., here, and shipped on board to-day for the ship's use. Mr. Bourchier (acting master) passed his examination for master to-day on board the Waterloo, 120, flag ship. _ _ _ The Cyclops, 6, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, Master B. Renaud in charge, remains in the basin, waiting for the masts and spars of the Tribune, now at Woolwich. The Commander-in-Chief, Vice-Admiral the Hon. Josceline Percy, returned from leave yesterday, upon which the Commodore's flag at the main was superseded by the Admiral's being hoisted at the fore. Captain the Hon. Montagu Stopford yesterday mus tered the crews of the following ships :—Horatio, Amphion, Barracouta, and Rattlesnake. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 5 Argus, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Purvis, which sailed from this port yesterday for Queenstown, is expected to return here in a few days for orders. Vengeance, 84, Captain Lord E. Russell, is to be paid down on Tuesday next, when her crew will be granted 14 days leave of absence. Rhadamanthus, steamer, Master Commander Belam, which arrived here on Thursday evening, with a screw for the Edinburgh, and paddle-box boats for the Valorous, steam-frigate, and other stores, proceeds for Pembroke with jury gear for the James Watt new screw steam-ship, which is to be navigated to this port as soon as launched. An accident occurred in our harbour on Friday after noon. Whilst the boat of the Cambridge, 78, with four men in her, on duty in the harbour, was sailing just above Torpoint, a sudden gust of wind took her, and the boat filled. Three were saved, but ono seaman of the ordinary, named Clatworthy, was drowned. His body was recovered, being found entangled in the boat. The smack Ocean, which went on the breakwater, as reported on Friday is a total wreck. CHATHAM, FEB. 5, Castor, 36, Commodore WyvTll:Ca;le into harbour this day, to be paid off. Imperieuse, 50, Captain Watson, C. 8., is being fitted with Grant's distilling galley. She is proceeding with her internal fitting, and being rigged in dock, and will be completed on the 21st of next month. Royal George. 120, fitting for a screw, is fast progres sing, and will be finished in April next. It is in contemplation by the Admiralty to send con victs to be employed in the dockyard again. DEPTFORD, FEB. _5 The artificers employed in the conversion of the Han- nibal, 90, screw-ship, building at Deptford, are as nu merous and as busy as bees, and great progress is being made on this noble ship, which will be ready for launch ing about the beginning of June next. The first payment of the allotments by the storekeeper of the dockyard since its transfer from the storekeeper of the victualling yard was made on Saturday last. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. THE PAYMASTERS AND THE DOOKYAFS.—Sir .James Graham can deal out justice or reinedy4uses as well as any one if he chooses; as the following will prove :—The civil service, or more particularly that branch of it con sisting of the clerks of the dockyard, will learn with much satisfaction, that the unjust practice just intro duced by a former Board of Admiralty of allowing cap tain superintendents to select paymasters to be their secretaries, to the prejudice of the above-mentioned offi cials, who are in every respect better qualified to dis charge the duties of such an office, is to be discontinued. The paymasters will henceforth be confined to their legi timate sphere of duties—the Royal Naval Service. It is hoped now the first lord will go a step further, and send back the royal military engineer officers in civil situations in the dockyards to their military duties in their own corps. They are not only unfit for the duties for which they were never intended, but they are altoge ther out of place, and bar the advancement of expe rienced practical officers of the civil dockyard depart ment.—Herald. The Hercules emigrant patients at Haulbowline are going on very favourably. Four are already discharged, cured of the small-pox ; but about one or two there are some doubts of recovery. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 6. The Duke of Wellington, screw three-decker, 13 Captain H. B. Martin, C. 8., is progressing rapidly with her external outfit. She sent here tops over the mast heads yesterday ; a portion of her fore and mizen shrouds are also over, and ready for turning in ; her topmasts are on board, and ready for swaying aloft as soon as the caps are on the mast-heads, which are now already in the tops. A detachment of 200 marines has been draughted—consisting of 1 captain, 3 subalterns, 4 ser geants, 2 corporals, ,3 fifers, and 154 pr i va t es o f di visional companies ; and 1 subaltern, 1 sergeant, 1 cor poral, and 30 gunners of the artillery companies. The Rodney, 92, Captain Charles Graham, C. 8., is " reported " ready for sea on Tuesday next; but up to this moment the crew have not been paid the wages due to them. We believe that no blame attaches to the Ac countant-General for the delay in transmitting the pay books to this port for payment • in fact, we hear, upon inquiry, that the clerks in this office are employed every night until 12 o'clock in meeting the pressure of labour occasioned by the recent call for an addition of 5,000 men to the navy, 3,000 of whom we are gratified in enabled in being enabled to announce have already been entered, and the enployment of so many ships upon the home station for the purposes of national de fence. The Medea, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Commander Bailey, will be paid in advance on Wednesday next. The articles of war were read to the ship's company of the flag-ship Victory, on the quarterdeck, this day, after church service, by Captain Shepherd. They were lis tened to with deep attention, especially by the naval apprentices. Something generally follows this ceremony. The following young gentlemen from Mr. Vickery's establishment, Southsea, passed last week the required examination at the Royal Naval College for cadets in the Royal Marine corps :—Mr. Robert A. Brutton, Mr. Charles F. Coppin, and Mr. G., Munro. The forty boys brought to this port by the Tyne store ship, Master-Commander Wellington, from Brazil (into the naval service of which company they had been en tered at Liverpool, but from which they were taken away by the British Government on account of the im proper treatment to which they were subjected), were ordered yesterday afternoon, per electric telegraph, to embark from the Victory flag-ship on board her Ma jesty's steam-tender Sprightly, Master-Commander George Allen, for conveyance to Liverpool. The Sprightly left for the latter port this morning. The steam-sloop Hecla, (paddle) has b een r i gged and prepared for recommission.M irgg Thomas o in m as Portsmouth Downs,bo Do ats c w ky al ad, hasn;R•N.' and late mas t e been committed to Winchester gaol to awa it hi s trial for stealing a pocket-handkerchief from the shop of Mr. Wilson, out fitter, of Gosport. A rumour is current that six more steam-frigates are about to be commissioned. Fury, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Commander Ed ward Tatham, went out of harbour at 8.30 a.m., and brought up at Spithead. She is quite ready for service, is in most perfect condition, and awaits orders. Fairy, steam-yacht, ten der to the Victoria and Al bert, Master Commander David N. Welch, went out of harbour at one p.m., to test her speed at the measured mile at Stoke's Bay. This was done that the patentee of the patent propeller may see her exact performance under the old fan. We shall be rejoiced to see the slightest improvement by the introduction of Griffith's patent, for the Fairy, fairy-like, seemed to glide through the water like magic. We noticed a very large screw steamer steaming through Spithead with the Peninsula and Oriental Company's flag at the fore. The Fairy came up with her after rounding the Spit Buoy, and passed her before they got to the Kicker Point. The Fairy's speed gave the highest satisfaction, several of our most scientific officers were on board, amongst whom we noticed Capt. W. H. Henderson, 0.13., of the Blen heim, 58, screw-guard-ship; Capt. Charles Graham, C. 8., of the Rodney, 92 ; Capt. Edward Goldsmith, of the Sidon, 22, paddle-wheel steam-frigate ; Mr. Murray, chief engineer of her Majesty's dockyard; the patentees, & c , The Fairy will go on the gridiron on Monday, and on Tuesday she will commence a series of experiments, under the direction of Capt. W. Crispin, of her Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert. Elfin, paddle-wheel itemalaclit tender ) Master Com- PROGRESS OF THE CHRONO-THERMAL SYS TEM OF MEDICINE. From time to time the discovery of principles in the healing art revolutionise empirical practice, and substi tute an enlightened system of therapeutics for the blind unreason of traditional routine. Among these discove ries, or rather these applications of principles as old as truth itself, we may now rest on Chrono-Thermalism, of which Dr. Dickson, of Bolton-street, the author of " Fallacies of the Faculty," may fairly claim the sole discovery, and also, single-handed, the championship through evil and good report. Occasionally we have noticed in the papers and periodicals which have reached us from the Western World tokens of the great progress of the Chrono- Thermal theory in that young and rapidly rising country, where the prestige of old custom, and the obstructiveness of ancient corporate institutions are less potent to stifle, less able to repress, and more ready to receive new lights in science and practical medicine than the parent state, where vested interests, combining with the prejudices of education, often obstruct and retard for awhile the coming good. At any rate, we must confess that in the younger coun try the precept " Try all things, hold fast that which is good," has a fairer facility of application than amid an cient universities, and settled practices handed down from darker ages, and reverenced oft for their antiquity long after their other merits have become obsolete. Among the more recent medical arrivals which have reached us from the United States, is a communication announcing the fact of the institution of a College of Chrono-Thermal Medicine, in the city of Philadelphia. The college is organised, and the first session is proposed for the month of February, the month in which we write. The "Faculty" comprises the names of some of the most distinguished medical men in America. A graceful compliment has been paid to the propounder and advocate of Chrono-Thermism, by placing the col lege destined to extend the triumph of this important system under the sanction of Dr. Dickson. His name heads, the syllabus of professors as Emeritus Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine, thus bearing honourable testimony to their acceptance of Chrono- Thermalism as the basis of their practice. As a proof of the rapid progress which Dr. Dickson's system of treatment—which has been so remarkably successful in England—is making in the United States, it may be mentioned, that twelve months ago, the medical gentle men who practised it on the other side of the Atlantic scarcely numbered a baker's dozen. " Now," says a distinguished medical professor in Philadelphia, "in the face of a storm of professional reproach and persecution, our great and harmonious system numbers upwards of 400 practitioners." This spontaneous tribute must be highly gratifying to Dr. Dickson, who, amid much lukewarm obstruction and more active opposition, has long and strenuously ad vocated views which professional pride and interest have prevented n f r o o f n , l , r p e e c n e n i s i n m g t e h d a i c t ai free College acceptance ofp h Philadelphia" which t elp h i he a, happily predicates.—Morning Advertiser. Mr. Charles Dickens wishes us to contradict the para graph (quoted f rom the Derby Reporter), relating how 3001. had been presented to Inspector Field, late of the detective force. Mr. Dickens says—" The statement is unimportant to me, but as it might cast a slur on the conduct of a most excellent officer in the discharge of his duty, I beg you to do him the justice of contradicting it, on my assurance that it is one of the most extravagant inventions I have ever seen in my life, without a scrap of truth for its foundation." 9. ~i . foUr [2lb, 131 b. laps, Tipp• 8 0 3 4 5 0 0 001 4 8 00 so ld sold Ito . 0 ssg so " To ' O a ' 6 ,5 ° ' ill wtt' er ISi ; ra (° ,oit' °