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IViotrsT CARBON CHARTERED COIL NOTin.e. AND IRON COMPANY. na p SCRIP CERTIFICATES of this COMPANY are Rhea wv 4 ug Prepared, and due notice will be given to the Subscribers atats _ the tame will be EXCHANQED for BANKERS' RECEIPTS, 14 a sakes of the Company. By Order of the Board, - -- W. A. HOEBER, Sec. 3e, B acklersbury, April 15, 1853. PATRON—H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. bee n " — An Optical and Musical Illustration, with . Dissolving b. erY, of a Midsu mmer Ni g ht's Dream, with the Original Music I ,f_T Henry Bishop and others, concluding with the most interest ,:cenes and Songs Provo Mrs. Beecher Stowe's Popular Wor k on .4; er Y Morning and Evening. Lectures :—By H. Pepper, Esq. boff i l ,t ho urs with the Ancient and Modern Chemists 4 by Dr. Bach- W alk -4 Zil Pneumatics, in which the Principle of the Fly's Foot and so l e " l g., on ihe Ceiling will be explained ;: by Mr. Crispe, on Brice -8 ‘-aloric Engine. , s.; Schools, and Children under Ten years of age , _ . Half-price. LA-ITRENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS.- , oact Lessee, CHARLES E. LAURENT, Onslow-house, Fulham the OPen Every Evening. The Orchestra will perform, during Weeek, " The Thistle," " Shamroc:c," " Rose," and " Amino." ci`zes, the "Napoleon" and "Le Romanesque" Galeps, " Le le.!' ' Quadrille; " The Gold HaNvk ' and " Juno," Polkas.— jP Doors open at Half-past Eight; to commence at ''clock, and terminate at Half-past Eleven. ° GN VICTUALLING FOR COALS FOR HER MAJESTY'S DOCK AND VICTUALLING YARDS, MARINE BARRACKS AND INFIRMARIES - AND OFFICES - IN TOWN. Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy, rr Somerset-place, 18th April, 1853. I LE Commissioners for executing the Office of / Lord High Admiral of the 'United Kingdom . of Great Britain and lid, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY, the let May next, at ONE o'Clc,ck, they will be ready to treat with Jest, l :', lloll 2 as may be willing to Contract for supplying Her Ma flrri,;,"ock and Victualling Yards. Royal Marine Barracks and In "les, and the Admiralty Harbour and Marine Offices, with • COALS. td stribution of the Coals and a Form of the Tender may be ` o i t l h at the said Office. No Tender will be received after One o'Clock, teneser)ay of Treaty, nor will any be notice-1 unless the Party at ik °r an Agent for him duly authorised in writing. wtvery Tender must be addremel to the Secretaof the Admi t, m m 3 ' 3 and bear in the left-hand corner the words "Tender for Coals," ?Inst also be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied by a Let ' , i vigned by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound du e t he Person tendering, in the sum of 201. per 100 tons, for the ...2erformance of the Contracts. T,..... NEW FEATURE IN LIFE ASSURANCE. 114 DEPOSIT and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 18, New Bridge-street, Blackfliars, London. CAPITAL- 7 0ms HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS. DIBECTOB.S. Z un nan o ._ The Right Hon. the Viscount Drumlanrig, M.P., P.C., i." 4 ",Ptroller of her Majesty's Household. Cie cy Barnes, Esq., 11, City-road, Finsbury. U. Clarke, Esq , late 17th Lancers, Junior United Service Club . Coode, Esq., Portland-terrace, Wandsworth, and Belvoir, 131 41D r i ti er's, Jersey, .1. 4 Cracknall, Esq.. innt John's-gardens, Notting-hill, and 11, W. z„, 4l oare, lAn coln's- lei"neh, M.D., Davies-street, Berkeley-square, and Lutterworth, estershire. Le,l ll / 4 I CI: 1 ex, Esq., 15, Connaught-square, Hyde-park, and Tor Staftordsb ire. Li"`"4l.ll der Maclean, Esq„ Harrow-on-the-Hill. 4 Poole, Esq., 32, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square. 1 ► PrLusep, Esq., 147, Leadenhall-street, and 8, Hyde-park -1),,1e West 4 1 7 6 F t. ew Riddell, Esq., Tnner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. IfiVe r an lan o , , 21, Upper Seymour-street West, Connaught-square. 'Perling, 14, St. James's-square. AUDITORS. • te g ,gg , Rage 1 2 6, Strand, Actuary and Secretary to the Medical, Piqu i .. and General Life Office. Pf; e 7, J ..„ . onee, Esq., Accountant, 3, Guildhall-chambers. ice, B q, 8.A., Actuary to the Engineers and Masonic Life 345, Strand. lir._ Ch.., BANKERS. alr;::" e8 Price, Marryat, and Co., 3, King William-street, London. Elopkinson and Co., 3, Regent-street. br. T . - PHYSICIANS. 1)1.. `'Wls, Finsbury-place. tan, 21, Upper Seymour-street West, Connaught-square. SURGEONS. kel ute TaPinan, Esq., 16, Lo -- wer Seymour-street, Portman-square. Teevan, Esq., 44, Gloucester-place, Hyde-park-gardens. CONSULTING ACTUARY. 'Francis - G. P. Nelson, EFq., F.L.S. INSPECTOR OF AGENCIES. • F. P. F. Strousbetg, Esq. STANDING COUNSEL. 'warn Wellington Cooper, Esq., New-square, Lincoln's-inn SOLICITORS. Messrs. Hill and Mathews St. Mary-axe. RESIDENT sEcarrikay. ' Charles W. Bevan, Esq. hLne public Is respectfully invited to examine the principles of the b y and is under the m u mediate supervision of, Francis G. P. Nelson, F.L S., the Consulting Actuary to the Company. t w °lll Parative Tables to assure 500 1 on death, by a person aged o f • ;MY next birthday, on the ORDINARY and on the DEPO S I T system Assurances. ON THE ORDINARY SYSTEM. The sum the ordinary The sum the Life OMees would give ordinary L , f3 him if he were unable Offices would to pay, or if he omit , ed At the His • give him for to pay his current end of policy the surrender annual premium of k'Annual thirty at that or sale 181.65. 3d. after he has Premium yearswben age, of his policy, , paid into their coffers 111 to assure the party in case after thirty 2491.75.6 d., and which 8001. is fifty of years'payments theyhave had the use years old, death amounting to of at compound heivillhave will be 2491. 7s. 6d. interest, 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. I to pay. 20 _ little more - little more 2491.75.6 d. 5001. than ant. perhaps 901. NOTHING. p.6s. 3d ji! ON THE DEPOSIT SYSTEM. Hun able to pay, or not desirous of paying or omitting topay,thePo licy would still remain of its FOIL value, 522/.28.7d.ti1l dual', if 20 years after, no fur ther payment beingre quired. Ifhowever the party, from any cause, wished to cancel the Policy, he could not • onlydraw out all hehas put in, viz., 2251., but 29 ii.los n, a certainn bonus of 621. 2251. 522/.287d 2871. 2s. 9 4 . 2s. 9d. i the bargain, which is more than one-fourth of the w h o l e ofhis payments, or he could either draw ( c n part, t r 201. th or 0 5 u 0 c / y . , only by the assured value of the sum se drawn out at the age when withdrawn. See pagess and7m detailed pamphlet, by F. G. P. Nelson, Esq. , i ~~ 0 11 ttad n ov el ef these two tables it will be seen that a person er the novel system of DEPOSIT assurance can secure the llow e viz., l et. For a less sum, paid annually, he can assure iii 4113.:1 1. Wm in case of death than nder the ordinar system. thi the event of a desire to surrender his Policy he ca y n receive ~,,,:onapany, by the above e x ample, which applies to all ages, of as much as on the ordinary system. 3rdl y..ln the event Of t, ItY or omission to pay, his policy remains still his property, fo r 4 "' seine value as it was, though he cease his current payments netin t „ 'Y number of years ; whereas on the ordinary system, he gets ittn ou '4. 4thly. Should he require to increase or decrease the by i 1 of his policy, he can do so at pleasure. He can at any time, bole s a _g a fortnight's notice, withdraw any part from 11 up to the bas ,;:,_`..ount of his previous payments and with interest. A ft er he Ye a ,'"uldrawn part one year he can, by a single payment, three its Fi Or any time afterwards. raise his pol ic y to a g reater or even Lis -111 .1er amount ; and by this system he can at all times regulate hart: l l4 ml savings by his annual expen diture, with the facility in the inn Of having a fund to fly to in case of nec essit y , the same as re st i'ank, with this palpable advantage , howe ver, that he gets lnte tha or his Money ' and in case of death h is family receive more than soe,"rueunt of his s avings. In ordinary Life O ffices be can do no, he s but his policy at once lapses or is cancelled the moment ko ci e ... a ses to pay his current premiums, and, instead of having any the to for aid, all his hard - earned savings become forfeited to to ol clety, and his msfortunes serve to benefit the pockets of his aue fortunate co-assurers. tihd system is too equitable and too striking to ue overlooked tan D EPOSIT assurance is the only system of assurance which can be tiall:rsally recognised and adopted When the principles are impar conf,; canvassed, and its palpable benefits become widely diffused. It Ori, e s greater advantages than a bmis because it allows a fair rate , 3 'l rest in case of withdrawal, and gives twice the amount in the ea se " Of the Company to the representatives of the Depositor in st d eath, thus combining the kb" A ,„, . • AGES OF A BANK WITH THE BENEFITS OF In AN ASSURANCE COMPANY. th ite '• 4o of endowment assurances the advantages of the DEPOSIT ni are still more striking. &DIA, — ,, TAGES OF THIS COMPANY UNDER THE ORDINARY th LIFE ASSURANCE BRANCH. 15,0007 On who prefer this branch Policies are granted from 201. to every known principle thereof. rejeti's f , disease in all but the worst stages of disease, and such a s have been hY other Offices, are taken at rates equivalent to t he parti - i.o ans • re al from 501. and upwards granted on every kind of security, A nnuities of every description granted on very favourab l e t erms. %,"On-forfeltnre of a Policy.—ln case of inability to pay the curra n t rre k , alms, the Directors will either purchase the Policy at a fair 11 3ket value, or give a new one in lieu thereof , less 5 p er cent., lute l.'s; Corresponding in amount to the whole of the prev io u s p a y ments "" v all have been made. Mailed prospectuses with tables in further illustration of the De system, and any further information may be obtained on appli e-"."1 to the Agents in the country, or to CHARLES W. BEVAN, Resident Secretary. N.B.—Agents wanted in all Parts of the World, TIE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF A tEDICAL ADVICE ON - rr— . TurtiTy. Du YOUTH AND Ma h z• SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON — " c ,tor of nburgh, Honorary Medicine, and Matriculat of ed the Lon Memberdofo .thueosUpnitativemrsietarico. e _ _di Member welety, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, MAN. be consulted, personally, rei",. the various disorders of the nervousa London, &e., &e. or by letter, on and generative system, duZ," ll 3 from juvenile irregu'aritles and excesses, and prema tet;'_, more misery in youth, degradation in manhood,which have pro etts;:lcaY at all stages of life, than perhaps any other class of dis iu C b known to modern pathologists. Long t there are in exist trlee`4treatrnent of these diseases has proved tha_ and practical experience tav _ secret causes of self-acquired miseriesharitdl3l,sappointed hopes in - b to which Nervous I)b;,',l l . ee, traceable to certain pernicious ag es :"/, various forms of Insanity, _Unhappy and Unfruitful Marri thdlex.raPotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their It f — m odifications owe their almost entire origin. p r i tte absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are incu r of personal management which ca nnot be violated without the ring grievous ~,_. penalties, and when wisdo m and re g ret succeed b ley il h epiaY of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties ess may be removed, anu h:Lolitlgated, how the sting of their bit th at t -w the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and above all, der here is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional t a p went to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. Ii .. s " . TOR LA'MERT has for a long series of years beenengaged Di.,-__4! extensive practice in the treatment of _these delicate corn ,;:!1.1-s, and s the only legally qualified Fhysiclan who, regardless i, " le taunts and envy of the hypocritical and mock-modest, has had at4 c° nftdenee, through the medium of the public press,_ to direct freentir to these enormous evils, from which no gradedr society is selecting this department of practice, hehibeen amply rev In d by th e has in the ‘re etat great success that has attended tar e nt of these cases, which are too generally c s ontided to the e of u n Publin.... qualified and ignorant empirics, who, with their pirated orth:72 , ons, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues have it nostrums, have inflicted serious injury on those who A l t u t ru induced to place faith in their pretensions. Rix tilla'nte for consultation daily from Eleven till Two, and from medicines'h All letters mast contain the fee ef 1/., and advice and i t l ,can be forwarded to any initials or address. :Isho uk r...desirable that patients wishing to consult Dr. LA'MERT -`",t obtain a copy of his work on Media SELF-PRESERVATION. Ge n ,... Treatise'on the Philosophy of Marriage, and Nervous and tribG attve Debility, illustrated by fifty coloured engravings, and des ea lug in detail the various disorders resulting from secret habits and Seger' 68 „' The perusal of this treatise will assist in the correct Fr of of their cases, and may be had, price 2s 6d, in English, . 1 1l lAII' S Panlsh, Dutch, Italian, or German, of Messrs. Piper 11. 1 ,7, and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; - b y POBCP C°r ithill ; Storie, Titchborne-street, Haymarket ; or free t u t ,. . or forty-two stamps, to any address from the Author's rest -07, BILDROI,D-WJAII.E. 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On all these the tax will be raised to an even 125., and instead of losing the 10,0001. a year that he talks about under this heading, Mr. Glad stone will make money by the change, if his collec tors are not negligent. After dogs, the Chancellor of the Exchequer deals with the heraldic wares, putting the respective taxes of 2/. 12s. 9d., V. 6s. 4d., an 13s. 2d. respectively, as the rates at which the gentle vanity of or and argent, gules and azure, in all their various ingenuities of shield or ensign, quarterings and elaborations, may be alone legally " called, used or worn by any person." The long list winds up with the weightiest of its contents—land tax redemption and the stamp duties. Under the latter we have the concession to Lord Robert Grosvenor and the attorneys—a seeming rather than a real concession to life assurers—the new and good plan for using penny postage heads as the only needful and legal receipt stamps upon payment of money—and another valu able proposition that a cheque may be legally drawn at any place distant more than fifteen miles from the place where such cheque is made payable to bearer on demand, provided the cheque bears„; a penny label stamp. Heretofore such documents were illegal, unless stamped as bills ;—hereafter a man may in the country write and date cheques payable to bearer by his town banker, if he first affixes a penny Queen's-head stamp on the paper used—writing across it. Mr. Gladstone tells us he shall lose 155,0001. a year by this reform of receipt stamps. Instead of this, it would be a safe wager that he gains money, instead of losing it, by the change. The reduction of stamp tax on policies of life assurance is more nominal than real. On small policies—that is, policies up to 5001.—the charge is to be Gd. for every 501. insured. At present the lowest stamp is half-a-crown. So that if a man now insures a hundred pounds on his life he pays—say premium 31. 35., and duty 2s. 6d. ; making 3/. ss. Gd. By Mr. Gladstone's plan he pays exactly two shillings less, or 31. 3s. 6d. This is all the relief he would get, for on life policies the tax is paid only once. On the whole, however, the part of the new scheme which relates to assessed taxes, like that which deals with Customs, is good. The Chancellor of the Exchequer calculates to lose 87,000/. on ser vants, and 95,0001. on private carriages. We doubt if he will lose a single penny in the course of two years. The difficulty of the right hon. gentleman will be the Income and Property Tax. Upon that his opponents found all their hopes. (From the Morning Adver'i^er.) We yesterday stated, that the Budget of the Coalition Cabinet would be strenuously opposed in some of its more important parts. We especially mentioned two grounds on which the income tax will be assailed, and adverted to the probability of such a combination of parties being formed as would place Ministers in a minority. The information which has reached us seems also to have found its way to Downing-street ; for the Ministerial organ yesterday announces, in the plainest possible terms, that in the event of Go vernment being defeated on the Budget, a dissolu tion will immediately follow. " The rejection," says the Ministerial journal, is concluding its arti cle, "of any considerable part of the scheme will necessarily frustrate the whole. If, however, such an event should unfortunately occur, there is a Court of Appeal, and .the constituencies will not fail to understand the gratitude due to those who may stand between the country and financial pros perity." This is bold enough, certainly. A more unmis takeable menace could not be held over the heads of those members who may have resolved to act an honest and independent part in the coming divi sions on the Budget. But, as if that were not suf ficient, a meeting, we are told, of the Liberal party is to be held at Chesham-place, when the leader of the House of Commons will tell those who think proper to be present, that, in the event of the Gladstone Budget suffering in any of its more im portant parts, the inevitable result will be a disso lution of Parliament. The noble lord who is, on Saturday next, to hold this threat in terrorem over the heads of the Liberal party, has written a work on the Constitution of this country. Will his lordship be kind enough to inform us, whether to attempt, by menaces of this nature, to deter members from voting in accordance with their con victions of right, be in consonance with constitu tional principles ? But we trust that no representative of the people will be diverted from his purpose by any such threats. The man who is so, will find in the end, not only that he has acted dishonestly, and sacri ficed. his independence, but that he has pursued an impolitid course. We must have a dissolution, un der any circumstances, soon. It is impossible that a second session can pass away without an appeal to the country. And those members who, under the pressure 'of Ministerial menaces, may act in op position to their convictions, will, they may rely on it, find that they will have a very unpleasant reckoning to make with their constituents when they have tore-appear on the hustings. But it is, besides, a most reprehensible thing on the part of ? Ministers to put the question thus, — Either the whole Budget, or a dissolution ? For what purpose does the House of Commons assemble and deliberate ? Is it not one of its chief functions to correct what may be erroneous in the Ministerial measures? If the Legislature is not to be at liberty to amend what it believes to be faulty in the policy of Government, without being subjected to the threat of a dissolution by its organs, it had better abdicate its functions at once. The Ministerial menace is based on the assumption that the House of Commons has nothing to do but to endorse, sanction, and give effect to the measures 'of the Cabinet. We do not so' read the constitution' of England. The people do not so comprehend it. This blind and sei vile submission to the wishes of Ministers would be quite in keeping with the state of affairs in a neighbouring country ; but it is as foreign to the views of Englishmen, as it is at vari ance with all constitutional principles. It may be right to 'remind the Coalition Cabinet 'that matters have not yet come to the same pass' in this country as they have done in France. No Louis Napoleon sits on the throne of these realms. As yet we have not seen once in the House of Commons— and trust we never shall—what we see daily in the Corps Legislatif, namely, decisions on great public questions after this fashion :—For the Government bill, 234 ; against it, 0. So long as we are blessed with representative institutions, we shall never witness such vtronderful unanimity as this. The leader of the House of Commons is the last man in that assembly who ought to lend himself to any_ attempts to tamper with the' conscientious convictions and independence of members. He has already placed himself in a position, in connection With this income tax, which, to every honourahle mind, must be deemed the reverse of enviable. Immediately after the , formation of the Aberdeen Administration, he assigned.as_the reason why there could be no Reform Bill this session, that the time which would be required 'to revise the income . tax r would be so great as to render it impossible find Ministers to do both things. And now w the income tax would consume so much ss f _ y that, though under the pretext that theorevith'sineotnnnoof of the Cabinet as to preclude the possibility ofof bringing in and carrying through . far, indeed,from no revision of the tax at all. So . Parliamentary Reform, we are in reality to have the Jong period of seven -sr its being revised, we are to . have not it on re ly ne w w i e th d for au its elements of injustice. How the present Obnoxious fcat - ur ea e rs s, but with the addition of some new noble lord will reconcile what he said in a n _ nounchw the Ministerial policy of the sessi on, re lative 'to the revision of the income tax, with what Mr. Gladstone 'proposes to do, is more than we can tell. What the country will think of the whol e tffahiers,ittahteereto c can ha b r e ac to ri d se ou i b t t in Theit properpeople terms. They will plainly an d emphatically call it a piece of downright dishonesty ---a regular political presume' objects t to the B u d ge t as a juggle. o No one we whole. :And, assuredl • never entered the mind of any me m b er of Parliamentl to propose its entire ,rejection. We can discern many excellent things more regret than ourselves i t n o i s t ee a i n ts d nonerejectionwould b hrat the is in h a measure does not ouse. But surely the approval of Bauch t necessarily require that we h What we want i s t o ft ► away the bad. Week preservsqotuhledgmp,roanvedopfnarllge. rot to destroy the Budget, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 1853. No. 18,900.] " THE PRESS."—Shortly will be Published the First Number of " THE PRESS ;" being a Weekly Paper, intended to Jill an obvious void in Journalism, .and to com bine, on a new plan, Political, Literary, and Artistic R esources. To be published every Saturday.-081ce, 110, Strand, London, where all communications should be sent, addressed to the Editor. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. MALTA, APRIL 12. Since my last nothing has transpired of any particular importance. The fleet is still in port, but the Admiral expects to receive orders by the mail, to-morrow due, to put to sea. On Saturday next, a little steam-fleet, under com mand of Captain Drummond, of the Retribution, is to put to sea, to look for a rock, supposed to exist 90 miles due east of the island. This supposed danger is a bug bear that has frightened every Commander-in -Chief who arrives here. It has been sought after time and again, dragged for, and, indeed, has occupied so much time in the search as to make it all but certain that the danger is ideal. Copeland, Graves, Brock, and Spratt, in their surveys have never been near, but have endeavoured to find it ; private expeditions with the same view have been made, but because a Greek pilot says he has, stood on it, a vast sum of money is to be expended in a search which will in all probability prove useless. BY ORDER OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF THE ADMIRALTY. This Day is Published, Bvo., 2s. 6d., THE NAUTICAL ALMANACK for 1856: I To which is added Encke's New Method of Computing the Perturbations of Planets; and Adam's New Tables of the Moon's Parallax. "The Nautical Almanac" for 1853, 54, and 55, may still be hal. John Murray, Albemarle-street. rrilE ERA of SATURDAY next, 23d- April, JL willicontain the whole Programme of the BUDGET, with Com ments thereon—Original Articles on Social subjects, Literature, and Theat• leas —A Full and Original Account of York Spring and Malton Races—The Winner for Two Thousand Guineas Stakes by •' Touchstone" and "Stable Mouse"—Latest Betting—The Fight for the Championship and 5001., &c.—Aquatics, Pedestrianism, Cricket, Hunting, t- booting, 'Wrestling, and all sporting information—All the News of the Week in a carefully condensed form The First Edition of THE ERA is published on Saturday morning at 5A M. The Second Edition at 12 o'clock, and the Town Ed Um on Sunday at 5 A.M., containing the Latest Intelliscnce on all subjects. Era Office, 3, Catherine-street, Strand. Price Sixpence, PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 20. The Conflict steam-sloop proceeded out of harbour this morning to try her engines by the measured mile in Stoke's-bay, which answered admirably. She came into harbour at noon, and to-morrow will take in coals and ballast ready for service. The Sidon steam-frigate, Captain Cann, was towed out of the basin to Spithead to-day, for the purpose, it is said, of exercising her seamen while a new shaft is being made for her. The Mercury cutter, Lieutenant Freeland, sailed last evening to resume her station, cruising about the Channel Islands. L AW. LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE, Fleet Street, near St. Dnnstan's Church. London, 12th April, 1853. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the DIVIDENDS for the year, 1853, are now Payable Daily between the hours of 10 . and 3 o'clock By order of the Directors. WILLIAM SAMUEL DOWNES, Actuary. " Divide about the broad bride cake, Round about the bride's stake."—BEN JONSON. WEDDING BREAKFAST, BALL SUP PERS, and DINNERS, provided entire, in Town or Coun try, by 'Messrs. 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Should Parliament confirm the proposition of the Minister (which is confidently anticipated), the new duties will probably be received at the Custom-house on Tuesday next, the 26th April. SIDNEY, WELLS, & CO. Tea Merchants and Dealers. No. 8, Ludgate-hill. WHAT the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE QUER has just FOUND OUT.—That the increase of the re venue in 12 months exceeds nine hundred and twenty thousands, and an advantage will be derived by the nation and individuals by a re duction of the rate of interest, which is to edvance the real Value of property. The favourable impression this has made on our com mercial citizens fully proves that Quality and Cheapness are the most approved principles of Business. This, very convincingly, s fpports the practices of E. MOSES and SON, who commenced, and alone have carried out, the most substantial improvements 4 n DRESS, at a reduction in prices far beyond the expectations of the ablest financier. what have E. MOSES and SON "just brought out ?" 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All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest price, from which no abatement can be made. The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on Saturdays, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock. A new Book, entitled "The World's Pt• aros," containing the Emigrant's Assistant, fall list of pi ices, and directions for self•mea surement, may be had on application, or posttree, to any part of the kingdom. A handsome Almanac for the year ending 1853 can be had gratis, on application. NOTICE—The Establishment will be CLOSED the whole of SATURDAY next, but business will be resumed on Monday morn• ing, as usual, at seven o'clock. Id Pon parle Francais. flier spricht man Deutieh Qui si parla Italian. Aqua se habla Espanol CULVERWELL'S NEW • WORKS. To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row , Carvalho, V 47. Fleet-street; Mann, 39, Cornhill. Price One Shilling each; by post Is 61. ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. " Health, Recreation, and Rational Use of Time." 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The brig Wizard was placed in dock yesterday to have her defects made good. _ A court-martial assembled yesterday on board the Im pregnable, Captain Lowe, to try John Reed, able sea man, John Boate, Walter Williams, nd John Wisher, ordinary seamen, belonging to the ksnspareil, 71, Cap tain Dacres, for desertion, John Ree d on the 24th of March, and the other three on the 23d of March, 1853. The court was composed of 11 post captains, of which Amar Lowry Corry, Rear-Admiral of the Blue, was pre sident. The prisoners pleaded g uilt y to the charge, and the Court adjudged them to be respectively imprisoned in the Devon county gaol for the space of six calendar months. A letter from the Linnet, 8, Commander Henry Need, dated at sea, March 20, says':—" Last Friday week we were ordered. from Sierra Leone, by the Governor, to a place called Mondingo, distant about 30 miles, to liberate three men who had gone there to work as coopers, but had been detained by the King as slaves. We left our ship at Sierra Leone, having embarked in the boats, and proceeded, at 4 o'clock in the morning, to Mondingo, in tow of the Teazer steamer. Having arrived, we landed at eight, and a portion of us proceeded, with the com mander, to the residence of the King, which is situated in the middle of the town. On our arrival at the joss house our commander read a letter from the Governor of Sierra Leone, during which time a chief came out and made a singular noise, which we did not understand, when a great number of men appeared in front of us, under arms, ready to attack us. In consequence of what took place we returned to the boats, -and, with the Teazer, threw in some shot and shell upon the town, which appeared to have some effect. We again landed with a stronger force, and with our muskets loaded with ball cartridge, and having ascended a cliff nearly 60 feet high, proceeded on our errand, and succeeded in releas ing two of the men, and capturing a chief." A brig-rigged paddle-wheel man-of-war was observed off the Start this morning, at 2 o'clock, going down Channel under steam only, and showing a white light on her main-topgailantmast-head. A bark-rigged paddle-wheel merchant-steamer, all black, was seen at 5 o'clock this morning, three leagues south of the Bolt, going up Channel, crowded with canvas, and having the wind from N.N.W. SHEERNESS, APRIL 19. The Amphion, 34 guns, screw steam-frigate, Captain Chas.-G. E. Patey.—The crew of this frigate have been paid advance to-day, and orders have been received for her to proceed to Devonpor t, there to await further orders for her future destination. She has been in spected by Captain-Superintendent Charles Hope, Mr. Jonathan Aylen, master-attendant, and Mr. Samuel Read, master-shipwright, as to her complete fitment previous to leaving port (under Admiralty regulations). She will leave to-morrow morning. The Horatio, 24 guns, screw steam guard-ship, Capt. the Hon. S. T. Carnegie.—The sentence of the court martial, held yesterday, on Gibson, has not yet been carried into effect. It is reported that, in consequence of the defence set up by Gibson, the Admiralty will be consulted previously to his receiving his four dozen lashes.. Gibson's defence, in substance was, that on volunteering for the service at the rendezvous on Tower Hill for volunteers for the Royal Navy, he represented himself as being a sailmaker and that he had sailed as mate of a ship in the merchant-service, and there pro duced testimonials as to character from his former employers, all of which gave him a most excellent cha racter ; that he was there informed he might depend on getting a petty-officer's rating if he proved himself what his testimonials stated him to be. He, on such a pro mise, was tempted to volunteer. He joined the Horatio here, and, after doing duty as second sailmaker for some time, he waited on the first-lieutenant of the Horatio, and stated what he was promised on volunteering. He received an evasive answer, and was ordered to his duty. This continued for a further space of time, when he ascertained that another man, for whom he was doing the duty, had obtained the rating promised him when he volunteered. Upon fully ascertaining this fact, he again appealed to the first-lieutenant, and asked him the favour of being permitted to lay his case before Capt. the lion. S. T. Carnegie, in command of the Horatio, He (Gib son) stated that he received a very harsh reply from the first-lieutenant, and was threatened by him, if he did so, that he (the first-lieutenant) would do all in his power to get him three dozen lashes. This reply so thoroughly set* him against the service, that from that time he deter mined to " run," the first opportunity he had, and having done so entirely from disappointment of the pledge made to him when he volunteered, he begged to throw himself on the mercy of the Court. The master (Mr. Vincent Williams) of the Horatio pro secuted, Captain the Hon. S. T. Carnegie being a mem ber of the Court. -Captain the Hon. Montagu Stopford, of the Waterloo, presided. The Royal Albert, 120 guns, screw steam-ship, is now nearly ready . for being launched at Woolwich. Orders have . been received here to prepare for the recepti on and fitment of this ship, and all available power is to be put on to get' her iron work, masts, spars, sails, &c., ready for her immediate equipment. The Cuckoo, 2, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, in com mand, pro. tem. of Lieut. Grant (the fourth lieute nant of the WaterloO), will leave here to-morrow for the river Thames for duty—searching outward-bound ships for deserters from the navy. The Lizard, iron paddle-wheel steam-vessel, is also ordered to prepare for similar service with the Cuckoo in the river Thames. ----` " WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID, "That three score years and ten our course may run." A ,popular review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner vously-debilitated health and enfeebled constitution that harasses the young besets the man of pleasure, business or study, anem bitters old , age ; with tables and rulesfor the diet and physicals egu. lation 01 every-day life. __•__ ______• The Driver, ^ 6, paddlewheel steam-sloop, in present command of Mr. C. Fox, master, has been sending up topgallant-masts, reeving running gear, and getting ready for departure. She proceads on similar service to the Cuckoo and Lixard. Her destination will be to the different principal merchant outports. The Cyclops, 6, paddlewheel steam-frigate, in com mand, pro tem., of the first lieutenant of the Horatio. — Two-of the engineers serving on board this frigate have, in consequence of some misunderstandin g between them and the aforesaid lieutenant in command, pro tem., de manded and obtained their discharge from her Majesty's service. THE PASSIONS. " What passions hurt the body—what improve, Truths as refined as Athens ever heard." SUBJECT :—Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The ad vent of the passions. Chastity and its infringement. The casualties oflicentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narra tive, and remediative. Advocacy of early marriages. THE MARRIAGE STATE. To be or not to be, that is the question." PRooskieNE:—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and reli gion regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and choice, on both sides, as to age temperament, complexion, and figure, to secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them. Physical defectiveness and its removal. sterility and its conversion , Cases, &c. By It. J. CIILVERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A. (1824), Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee in there matters. WOOLWICH, APRIL 20. APPOINTMENTS. Clerk in Charge—Charles C. Ick, to the Columbia, steam-vessel, on the North America and the West Indies station. Masters'-Assistants —B. C. Hitchcock, to the Duke of Wellington, 131, screw steam-ship, at Portsmouth ; S. N. Browne to the Star, 8, brig, at Chatham. Rear - Admiral Houston Stewart, C. 8., will hoist his flag (blue) at the mizen on board the Fisgard, flag-ship, at Woolwich, on his appointment to be Admiral-Super intendent at Malta, vice Rear-Admiral Harvey, whose period of superintendence there has expired. 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Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD Once more we feel compelled to call the attention of "Dr. Pickford Is known to English readers by his frequent ti the Admiralty to the state of affairs on board of our ships .:al contributions to German medical literature. This prac - is the first on the home station. If have pressed our warnings we ime, he informs us, that he has athwessed himself ' to th ?al reader. We trust this may not be the last, eifn°ha-medi" on their lordships in somewhat stronger language than `etect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be he shall his we have been accustomed to use, it is because we feel, over to correct." —London Medical Gazette, May 3,, "We eternised in a former number that we should recur' t 1851. assured that there • is not only danger in delaying to man warn, in order to exhibit its aim more clearly. The author lashesothis our navy, but there is greater danger in the continuance with great severity the impostors who make a livelihood by preying of a system which tends to degrade and disgust the petty on the credy'ity of the public. The tribe of ' Quiet siyinathisr ', officers of the fleet,:, and in postponing the redress of . and ' Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed; arid if this book could find its way into t h e hands of those who seller from th corn- those grievances among our seamen which every day'S plaint of which it tre ats, we are satisfied that many h indreds would experience renders more unbearable. That there is an be caved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of eager disposition to " run" from the Royal Pendant, the less importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— Admiralty have been duly • informed by Sir Thomas uch money.— .. This volume is well qualified to put an end to the s u m ' empirical system of treating Suermatorrheea, and to place the treat- Cochrane,f the Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, and -wit upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefor ° ,he has also given their lordships the result of his personq srfrely to do much good."—Medical Circular, June 16, 1852. eiami n • ation of some of the " common seamen" of the No. 11. , Prince rco...n cloth, price 3s. 6d., by post free, 45,, i Regent at his office ; but the facts are palpably seen in the unprecedented THE CURE OF STRICTURE OF THE 'URHRA, Inveterate rat once Siple, Safe, and Efficient, in e ven its me at prisoners charged with desertion, and &suite of Sir James p.e. Graham's and apparently Intractable Forms. "secret BY F. B. COURTENAY,andaII his attempts and confidential" letters to the ports, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. ~ to gag officials, the "truth will out," and • t of his views be (Mr. Courtenay) has given the reason "In proowhy" will, by some itneans the history of a great many cases successfully treated, as bad or other, get into the he had determinednewspaper. At all events as any which Mr. Syme adduced, and on which . operated. we are that the and xvin. No. ix. had res sted, fora l i, .g..public shall Lich are cases ix., IL, I'L• 1 orance of the real period of twelve years, the treatment by dilitation, and was finally 4 " state of things in our dock ar a and on board re never! in as many weeks. But cases xviii. and xis. appear, both y , our men of war. We defy all Sir in duration, severity, and complication of symptoms, of a more ag-• James Grahams efforts to suppress the facts. We feel gravated character than any detailed by Mr. Syme, and yet fly. - ,;that we are rendering the best se • rtenay proved eminently successful. f service to the country by treatment adopted by Mr. Cou warning the Admiralty of the breakers ahead,of ... —Professor Lizars on the Treatment of Stricture. the un- easy feeling that prevails throughout the fleet, and the causes which have engendered, and is still producing, the worst effects, and which, if not allayed, will denude the fleet of our best seamen, and drive from England thousands of her most loyal and devoted subjects. We have done our duty, and upon Sir James Graham and his colleagues be the consequence of futile ordt, delay, or indifference. • • • In the first place, their lordship s , an d es p ec i y Rear- Admiral Berkeley, would do well to pay a little atten tion to the following front our Portsmouth correspon dent : ‘ l " Sidon, 22, Captain Ceorge R TS Goldsmith,f HO UT , w Wednesday. eut o ut of harbour this morning, in tow of the Echo, steam-tug, and brought up at Spithead. Reports are very rife that she was taken to Spithead to prevent her men deserting. We are painfully aware of facts, that, unless a statement be speedily published - to assure the able seamen of better pay and better treatment, we shall not have a ship fit for active service in case of emergency. "Are the Lords of the Admiralty blind, or are they in ignorance of the volcano' that may burst forth, when too late to stay the fearful consequences ? Do they ferget the mutiny at the Nore I We tell their lordships, that what may be accepted now as a boon, and an act of justice to A. B.'s, will before long be tr ea t e d w ith d er i s i on . W e re gret to state that there are many sea lawyers pouring subtle poison into the too open ears of the British sailor. We pray of them to be wise in time. We haveopportu nities enough of going amongst the men at their rendez vous ; we make it our business to do so ; we hear their just complaints, and we know the fire that is smouldering -rill burst out in a flame that will not easily be quenched. .7e speak advisably, but we speak in truthfulness for our country's sake. " Now, the Sidon is commanded by one of the best officers in the service, and we believe the men on board receive the very best treatment, and yet she cannot be trusted nearer the shore than Spithead, where all leave is stopped. Secondly, we may give their lordships an extipt from a letter, written by a seaman of her Majesty's ship Queen, 116, in Plymouth Sound—one of a class that a certain Lord of,the Admiralty.most humanely awtinied the puniihment of four dozen lashes for writing-a letter to a newspaper—" If he could only catch him." The letter is published in the Plymouth, Mail : "Foretop, her Majesty's ship Queen, April 13,1853. " Having teen some go&I remarks in your pape'r, I have taken the liberty of giving you a bit of a yarn from the foretop of the Queen, the finest ship in the navy, or in the world. It appears that the Lords of the Admiralty have at last come to the conclusion, that if we are to heave a-head in manning the navy, they must increase the pay; but Jack does not altogether look at money, but the treat ment. Here we have been guarding Plymouth Breakwater for the last ten months, just in sight of our own chimneys, where those live whom we hold most dear in this world ; yet, with the exception of about once a month, a look at them has had to satisfy us. Why, Mr. Editor, I have a wife and two children, and have not been ashore often enough for either of the young ones to know their own father. But in addition to this, we have not been allowed during the whole winter to take our clothes ashore for our wives to wash for us ' but have been compelled to wash them ourselves with the ice on the water. Now this is simply because it suits one man's will ; to what an extent this is carried may be seen from the fact—l myself witnessed it—that a man, and a good man too, was punished severely, because he put his dirty shirt over the clean one to take it ashore to be washed. His good-conduct badge was taken from him, though he had to work hard and keep himself from disgrace for five years to obtain it. The writer of this has been to New Orleans, and has been frequently . in actions with slavers, a id witnessed many curious sights, and the cruelties which Englishmen are trying to abolish, but these th kind-heartede navy,even peoplen thsheosuhildps lyingook into at t h t e h the d m a re r ei corner sports.vet 8I o was not long since a marine nam ed t lashes, hre ed e a e n k d e r after m p h u e n f i s - h p m e s e t n e t e wasy en iY ace e d m on e r t n h i e p n g o u o u p t l o e f u n a . set, for stealing two' table spoons full of sugar under his charge while sentry. Ido not mean to say that he did not certainly desery not a halfpenny,epunishmentforth et h h u ef t t w , s h m er al e l a ie s w th a e s e t i h e e veh v e a l l d u e e r , who would inflict such a punishment for such a crime? Much has been said of Stapleton's case ; but this poor devil had no friend, and therefore was compelled to grin and bear the double pumishment. Is this the way to man the navy ? Again, look at our pound of bread and our beef. Ask any man who has weatheTed Cape Horn or the Cape of Good Hope if he has not felt the eees t southerlycbh;oemnafee tsse.warrants,rt haeitlewr wind in the bread-bags. Next comes one pound, as they call it, thel lhoeet wantshdi geo ,gun-room bones ro n con e ooe s mm ; niceels forhaiinnt after s; fif for rtshte thentes comes hss steward—he j ro a of a o c n bm k f lb. then e k r e l o e f t Perhaps and - their lordships think because they see the amount of our savings, that our provisions are sufficient. But, if so, they are mistaken. The savings are easily accounted for. Now, I served last on the South American station, where the ships' , company paid a penny a day each for flour. Look at our breakfast, and recollect the sailor has to work eight hours out of the night, as well as the day. After these eight hours' work, he gets one pint of cocoa and the small pound of biscuit, which in -a hot climate you may blow from you like chaff before the wind. These are the L,,levances we want remedied. Then, again, sir, injnaking appointments, the Admiralty should look well into the logs of the ships in which captains held their last appoint ments, and keep such officers in employ as can rule without so much arbitrary punishment, and send upon half-pay those who are afloat, who are known as tyrants. All Ole sailors want, is to be treated like men. Then they will do their work as such, and stand to the flag to the last ; but while they aro treated worse than the dogs that drag the hawker's ea' Z. from village to village, how can the Admiralty expect any other than so many deser tions? Captain Griffiths says, that irons should only be used on the man who is riotous from drunkenness ; but we all know that they are used in some ships for the most frivolous offences. A man named was put in irons be cause he had a cap on instead of a hat while washing decks. These are the acts of tyranny we have to complain of. Here is the Queen, a very fine sbip 4 no doubt, ordered to complete her complement to 970, and in three weeks we have entered three able seamen, and a few grave-diggers and navvies, and to catch these a lieutenant, the master-at arms, and a boatswain's mate have been living ashore for three weeks.- Now, this is the way to spend John Bull's money. " I hope, sir, you will make the best of this yarn, as you see I am no scholar to write for newspapers, but I will let you into more secrets next week, and tell you how the navy is to be manned. I have been 10 years in the service, but once I get my discharge again, I mast go where thou sands of sterling fellows have gone before me, where I can get better treatment." Thirdly. Here is another warning, not only to the Admiralty, but to Mr. Cardwell, who is about to peril the best defence of the country by abrogating the " manning clause" in our navigation laws which pro tects the labour of the Bi :fish seaman. It is also from the Plymouth, Mail : THE BUDGET. " It appears that commissions are to be open to common seamen, and that men are to be entered for ten years ; there is likewise something about 6d. a day half-pay, but how.this• is to be given, or for what purpose, I cannot tell. But this I can tell, that if Sir James Graham thinks he is going- to gull us with such copper-gilt promises he is mistaken. We have had promises enough already; Tof all the Board of Admiralty will be able to make us swallow another. We may yet see that gentleman, or those whom he may appoint, beating the streets for the seaman he so despises to beat the Russians back into the Black Sea; and he may call in vain, for the seam an have gone to raise an empire of their own in the South. Surely, sir, we are children of another empire ; we Cannot have a part 'in the British empire. Only look at the articles of war ! For eveiT offenc e th e sa il or ma y be gu ilty of the punishment is death o r something worse ; an d the last sweeping article gives th e ca pt a i n th e p o wer to torture us as he pleases, so long as it is the law and custom in such cases used at sea. What will Sir James Graham say if the seamen appoint a committee of their own, and revise the whole system of naval law, knocking a few of the sudden deaths out of the articles of war, and by adding a few more that will force them to op3n corn-martial rooms to the reporter s of the press, so that the publi c ma y see h o w their ser vants are treated. Sir, we can do all this, and we can sho w the First Lord of the Admiralty how to put it all into opera tion in a week. We are quite willing to fight our country's battles for a fair remuneration and just treatment ; we get neither, and you may depend that we will not submit to treatment worse than the American slave. Uncle Tom's Cabin' would be thrown into the shade if the 'trials and punishments on board of one of her Majesty's ships were sent to the press ; but who cares for us, we are children of another clime." SPIRIT OF. THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. (From the Morning Herald.) The burst bubble is the Budget Of All the Talents ; and it is a monstrous compeund of im pudence, conceit, financial fallacy, and ignorance of the sense and spirit of, the country. If ever the sense and spirit of the country unequivocally and deliberately condemned any measure, and the spirit of the country determined that its coadem nation should be carried into effect, it is that which taxes equally the fixed and precarious income. Forsooth ! at the bidding of Mr. Gladstone, the nation is, nolens volens, to continue with the mill stone round its neck for ten years longer, at least ; and that same Mr. Gladstone is the disciple of him, who in originally proposing this iniquitous tax, told us that it was only temporary, but secretly assured his correspondent at Elbing that it was meant to be permanent ! The sophistical tortuosities of Mr. Gladstone, however, will not avail him. The victims of Schedules D will not groan on for ten years longer under a yoke their fathers were unable to bear. But not only, is this to be endured, but its bless ings are to be extended to - those who continue to earn -only 100/. a year ! Here is a vast class of persons suddenly subjected to the yoke of cruel and unjust taxation, when they are notoriously wearing out their lives in the effort merely to keep their heads above water ! And, again, the tax is to be extended to Ireland. Why is all nis to be done ? Why are the deli berate convictions of Vie nation to be coolly set at defiance ? We believe in our consciences that Mr. Gladstone is firmly bent on making the income tax permanent, if it were in his power, just as his Manhialawllia.n master was before him ; and that, were such an absurdity possible as that he should be Finance. Minister at the end of ten years, he would again , in a five hours' speech, demonstrate, after his fashion of demonstration, that the tax had effected so much good that he would advise the country to make it permanent ! The whole budget is based upon thimble-rigging and spoliation. It is a series of compromises and competing imposi tions and relaxations of taxes, for the purpose of neutralising opposition and buying support. But of all the audacious manoeuvres with this object, commend us to the barefaced removal of the supplemental stamp on newspapers —as one of our Tuesday's contemporaries properly designated it—" a huge gift to the Times !" Mr. Cobden saw this at a glance, and sarcastically asked Mr. Glad stone, who gave no answer, whether " he was not aware that the Times was the only paper that issued supplements filled with advertisements ?" And see the result ! The Times comes out as a thick-and-thin supporter of the budget which gives the lie to the arguings and statements of the Times itself for the last seven years as to the injustice of taxing fixed and precarious incomes. And this buying and selling of political support is a sample of the public morality by which the Government— now doomed—is actuated. We shall of course return to this subjeot till the Ministry and their budget have followed the twin fates of rejection and expulsion ; but in the mean time once again repeat, that this enormous experi ment on the forbearance of the country will insure consequences not at present dreamed of by its glib and unctuous performer. (Daily News.) On the general wisdom of Mr. Gladstone's Cus tom scheme there can scarcely be two opinions. Ours has already been given. To lead off the statement, we have an alphabetical list of 116 arti cles now charged with duty, and hereafter proposed to be admitted free. This rescue of more than a hundred things from the claws of the Custom house officer will cost only 52,5941. a y ear whilst in the Est we have a number of articles the free import of which will be highly beneficial in vari- ous ways. After Customs we have its brother impost the Excise, under which is given in formal shape the change to be affected in licenses. These changes will affect all dealers in coffee, tobacco, and snuff— in other words, all grocers, chandlers'-shop-keepers and cigar shops. The new duties are to be levied upon the principle of letting off the humble shop keeper more lightly than his wealthier rival. Hereafter a 101. housekeeper is to have a licence to sell coffee, tea, cocoa, chocolate, and pepper, for 11s. 6d. a year, but for every pound additional rent he is to pay Is. additional license duty. Thus the chandler's shop in a back street in Whitechapel or Bow may have to pay one, pound a year for license to sell tea in pennyworths, whilst the great dealers in King "William-street or the Strand pay ing their 2001. or 3001. a year rent, will have to pay 101. or 15/. a year for leave to carry on their larger and more lucrative trades. The same prin ciple of heavier license fee for larger trades is ap plied to dealers in ...tobacco, manufacturers of to bacco maltsters, brewers, and soapmakers—for whilst the dutey is taken off soap the Makers of that help to cleanliness are to take out licenses as here- tofOre. The post-horse, servant, and carriage taxes come next. When the horse and carriage duties were imposed the whole fast communication of the country was conducted by stage coaches and post horses. At the same period it was part of the essential state of every nobleman and landed squire to drive at least four horses with outriders. In towns every family that kept a carriage had at least two horses. A few years ago, any attempt at a close carriage drawn by one horse was looked upon as something lamentably mein and contemptible. To drive up to a house of fashion in a hackney coach was an insult. What a change has occurred. The railways have abolished posting On the main lines of road. For instance, on the Midland race courses, where, twenty years ago, scores of car riages with four horses in hand, or with postilions in private liveries, were to be seen, now only one or two specimens of bygone equipage recal what used to be the custom in such matters. The vices of the present system, with which Mr. Gladstone proposes to deal, are two-fold. First, the taxes are cumulative ; and, secondly, they are defeated at every turn by exemptions. The cumu lative scale was originally adopted on the principle of a sumptuary law. It was thought fair to the poor to tax carriages used by the rich, for the pub lic did not then understand that such taxes, after all, fall chiefly on the class from whom men servants are selected-by whom carriages are built-and horses are bred, and fed, and shod. Ac cording to the present system, the more carriages a man keeps the higher the tax he pays on each, thus rising, by regular steps, from 11. 4s. for one ser vant, to 31.165. for each of twelve servants. From 61. for one four-wheeled carriage, to 91. Is. 6d. for each of nine carriages. And from 11. Bs. for one horse, to 31. Os. 9d. each for those who indulge themselves in nine. The result of this taxation, on the principle of confiscation, is seen in the de cline of the number of tax-payers for private car riages. In carriages, the latest and most flagrant exemption is in favour of every two-wheeled vehicle which does not originally cost more than 21/. On this exemption the revenue is daily defrauded by men in all ranks of society. The plan of cheating the tax-gatherer is simple enough. The Hon. Tom Noddy pays 201. for the trap and 201. more for the whip.- Every country coachmaker can give a long string of such cases. Turning from two wheels to four wheels, we there find that the' Legislature found some virtue in Wheels-less than thirty inches in height, drawn by ponies under thirteen hands high. The result is, that in all directions we meet with elegant untaxed George the Fourth phaetons escaping duty, drawn by a useless class of animal, which no farmer can afford to breed, or to use when blemished. The tax on horses has also its string of exemptions. Fifteen per cent. of the number of horses paying are rated at 11. is., instead of 11. Bs. . 9d., because not exceeding thirteen hands. Ponies not exceeding twelve hands pay no fax ; and, harnessed to low _carriages, afford exemptions to persons well able to pay. A butcher pays 10s. 6d. only for a second horse ; but the country surgeon, who has at least quite as much need of a second horse, is not exempt. Draught horses used in trade, and mules, pay 10s. 6d. each, but horses used for Agri - culture, amounting to upwards of 300,000, pay nothing. The Chancellor of the Exchequer commences well by simplifying all these taxes, abolishing a mass- of exemptions, and doing away with the sys tem of punishing a man by ext ra taxation forem ploying several servants , o r kee p in g several horses and carriages. For men - s ervants, in any number, if 1/. is. each is to be pa id b y t h e employer over 21 years of age, and 10s. 6d. if under 21. For horses 11. ls. each, whatever the number, and 10s. 6d. for ponies. Four-wheeled carriages, drawn by two horses, 31. 10s. ; with one horse, 21. 10s. Two-wheeled carriages, 15s. Horses used in trade-in carrier's carts, &c.-as at pre sent, 10s. 6d. each. It is scarcely wise to make the difference between carriages drawn by one and two horses. It will lead to constant evasions and disputes ; and be unfair to residents in hilly counties We repeat our Portsmouth correspondent's warning to "be wise in time." There are now no "Fielden's gangs" in the navy. -" Gaol birds" are scarce. Our fleet is manned with intelligent seamen, and it is not an unusual sight now to witness on the lower deck of a man-of-war a profusion of newspapers and magazines. The seamen of the present day have some idea of comfort and good treatment, they know the value of liberty as well as of pounds, shil!ings and pence ; and the Admi ralty may depend upon it that if something be not speedily done they will have every ship , in the fleet fol lowing the example of her Majesty's ship Vulcan, Com mander Von Damp; now at Portsmouth, the crew of which, we hear; have signed a " round robin" demand ing their pay and having reference to their s t o p page o f leave both in Australia and in England.—Morning Herald. NAVAL COURTS-MARTIAL.—INCON SI STENCY OF NAVAL LAw.—Two courts-martial have been held this week on' men for desertion. At Sheerness, one of the sailmakers" crew of the Hon io, -named Gibson, was tried for de-' sertion, was found guilty, and was sentenced to receive four dozen the highest amount of corporal pun ishment that can be inflicted, and to be mulcted of all his wages. At Devonport, on the following day, four deserters from the Sanspareil, named Williams, Reid, Bothers, and Bolt, were tried by Captains Seymour, Nias, Mitchell, Lowe, Hutton, Ramsay, and King, and were all found guilty, and each was sentenced to six months' imprisonment.—iferad. [A DVERTI SEMENT.] Holloway's Pills a Wonderful Remedy for Bile, Jaundice, and Liver Complaints.— Extract of a letter from Mrs. Mary Wood to Mr. Jen kins, chemist, Christchurch, dated September 13, 1852 : —"Sir,—l suffered for seven months from a liver com plaint, jaundice, and a severe bilious attack. During the whole of this time I was under medical treatment, but experienced no relief whatever. I was at length recommended to try Holloway's Pills, which I did ; and am happy to say that this invaluable medicine, in the course of a very short period, has effected a perfect cure, and restored me to health, so that I can with confidence recommend it to others so affected. signedor Hollo _mary Wood."—Sold by all Druggists, and at Profess way's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. A ),/ but to improve, Our object le a mkt it KA a measure as ' ill command the approval of the country. Mr. Gladstone has done a great injustice to "a large class of the comnnmity the least able to bear-- it, in perpetuating the existing equality between precarious and *Td incomes. But that will only be one of the objections which will be urged against the income-tax as it is now to be proposed to the house. The very long term to which he proposes extending it, is one to which the country has an insuperable objection. When in 1842 the obnoxious impost was first proposed, we were told that it was only intended to last for three years. Under one pretext or other it has been renewed time after time—sometimes only a year at once—until the present hour. And now Mr. Gladstone comes for ward and proposes to renew it for another term of seven years,—so that we are not only to have the tax for certain during that long period, but to have it in its present unjust and unequal form. Besides, even were the country, in the excess of its patience and generosity, to acquiesce in the renewal of the tax, as it now stands, for a term of seven years, what guarantee, what security have we that the tax will then cease ? None whatever. It is just as likely that the Chancellor of the Exchequer of 1860, will be as fertile in finding reasons for the renewal of the income tax then as the Right Hon. Gentleman who now fills that office. We do, therefore, trust that the independent members of the House of Commons will resolutely resist the proposal of Mr. Gladstone to renew the tax for so long a period as seven years. The right lion. gentleman carries his boldness a trifle too far when he makes such a proposition to the house. If the house assent to it, they will act in defiance of the wishes and betray the interests of their con stituents. But we hope better things. We are confident the event will show that there is enough of honesty, of consistency, and of independence in the present house to defeat any motion for a seven years' renewal of the tax, and that an amendment in favour of a two, or, at most, a three years' re newal, will be carried, OP ATTEMPT TO MURDER. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY. A young man of respectable exterior, named Vivian O'Keefe, was charged with havi ng attempted to murder a girl named Jane Riley, on the 13th of March kat, by discharging the contents of a loaded gun at her, in a shooting gallery in Williamson-square, near the Theatre Royal. The hearing of the case had been deferred in consequence of the inability of the prosecutrix to give evidence, owing to the precarious state in which she has been since the occurrence. _ _ The prosecutrix, having been assisted into court, gave the following evidence. She said—About 12 o'clock on the morning of the 13th March I went into a shooting gallery in Murray-street, Williamson-square. I wanted to see the master. As I went in I saw the prisoner standing on the steps. I heard him say to a friend, "I will have another shot, and then I will go home." He then followed me into the gallery. I went into a small room, called the snug, to see if the landlord was in. Whilst I was there the prisoner came in and asked me to come to him. I did not speak to him. He then smiled and took up a gun, and said he would shoot me. I thought he was joking, and said, " Oh, don't." I then turned my back, and had hardly done so when the gun went off, and I felt a ball penetrate my shoulder. I believe I was afterwards taken to the Infirmary. The prisoner ap peared rather tipsy. Mary Ann M'Laren, wife of the man who keeps the shooting-gallery, corroborated the prosecutrix's evidence, and added that she saw the prisoner present the gun at the prosecutrix, and heard him say to her, "I'll shoot you." After saying so the prisoner pulled up the ham mer of the gun, and fired at her. Prosecutrix screamed out, saying she was shot, and blood began to flow from her shoulder. Witness then said to prisoner, "You have shot the woman, and I'm ruined." He said no thing, but smiled, and left the place. A police-officer deposed to taking the prisoner into custody at his lodgings in Islington -terrace the next morning. Hu denied all knowledge of the transaction, and said he did not remember having been in a shooting gallery the evening before. The surgeon to the Royal Infirmary deposed to re ceiving the prosecutrix into the infirmary, as a patient, on the morning of the 13th of March. On examining her he found she had been shot in the shoulder. The charge had entered the upper part of the shoulder, and passed into the spine. Had attended upon her since, and had not been able to extract the ball, but had traced it about four inches, and believed that it was at present lodged in the muscles of the back near the spine. He believed the prosecutrix to be at present out of danger. Air. Snowball, solicitor, appeared for the prisoner, and urged that there could not be a committal under the act of 7arlia,ment, as murder was not intended. The magistrate's clerk said that under the section of the act it would undoubtedly have been murder had the prosecutrix died ; and after a few minutes' conversation the presiding magistrate said it was a very serious charge, and he felt bound to send it before a jury. The prisoner was then committed to take his trial at the assizes. Bail having been applied .for, the prisoner's father came forward and said, that he was a housekeeper re siding in Dublin, and connected with the press there. The magistrates declined to accept his bail, and ordered the prisoner to find bail himself in 1001. and two sureties resident in Liverpool in 501. each. HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. (From the Registrar-General's Report.) A declining rate of mortality affords evidence of a gradual improvement in the public health. Since the weekly mortality rose to its maximum at the end of March, the number of deaths fell, in the first week of April, to 1,340 ; and in that which ended last Saturday to 1,243. Since the week ending March 26th, in which it was 331 deg., the mean temperature has risen to 44 . 4 deg. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1843-52, the average number of deaths was 972; which, if raised in proportion to increase of population, gives a mortality for last week of 1,069. The return of last week, there fore, shows an excess of 174 above the estimated amount. The two complaints of an epidemic character, which from their fatal effects appear to prevail most at present are typhus and hooping-cough, the former having de stroyed 65 lives, the latter 53. Bronchitis, though much abated, is still marked by a sever it y not: usual at this season; it was fatal in 12$ cases, while the corrected average of corresponding Weeks does not exceed 84., Phthisis destroyed 165 pe rsons . P neumon i a h as de clined to 89, which is also, however, greater than is usual in this month. Air. Burnett, registrar of the Plumstead sub-district (Lewisham), says :—" The deaths in the quarter in my sub-district are rather above the average. lgalignant scarletina has prevailed to a considerable extent in one. part of it. The houses are new, and mostly Adjabited by respectable mechanics ; the locality is open and airy, but I believe there is no drainage ; whether this fact has anything to - do with the disease I cannot tell." Mr. Belcham, registrar of Lewisham village (sub: district, says :--" The return for the March quarter exceeds that of the corresponding quarter of last year. There has been a great deal of mortality among old peo ple. lam happy to state that considering the, season, and the large amount of low dwellings without drainage that exist (in fact many unfit for habitation), we have had but few cases of typhus, and those, in almost every instance, have arisen from a family having come into this district suffering from typhus at the time." Last week the births of 853 boys and 826 girls, in all 1,679 children, were registered in London. In the eight corresponding weeks of the years 1845-52, the - average number was 1,407. MORTALITY IN TIIE METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES _ IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, Amu. 16. Zymotic Diseases ... 219 Diseases of. Uncertain Seat Tubercular Diseases Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 135 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 5l Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of 251 Respiration Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs 69 of Digeston Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. Childbirth, Diseases of the Uter us &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones , a nd Muscles 1 4 0 Diseases of the Skin , & c. Malformations CausesSOPulr AtrophydcSudden Violence,m(Alea ngtel: not e . : .: specifiedßirth. Privation .. :r.a.: n di . Cold. ... Debility. ... l . . I. . i . . '..... an. ..: : . :. : d. .1 1 .11 . . 1 11 . 1.. t: e . . . 1 1 I . 1 : .pi ... e:rA . ..1 . 1n .. ....;1 **** .. ** ........ 5441350 .................... 37 ............. 28 . .......m• • DEATHS PROM ALL CAUSES Population Deaths in corre- Death"! Enumerated, sponding week in the len. of 1852. West Districts ...... 376,427 ...... 203 181 North Districts ...... 490,396 Central Districts„ ... 393,256 ...... 205 East Districts ....... 485,522 South Districts ...... 616.635 ----- Totals ......... 2,362,236 1,092 Males..... Females . 1,243 686 557 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males Females.. Total . 853 826 ..1,679 MEETING OF THE COTTON PORTERS IN LIVERPOOL. — On Tuesday night, a very large meeting of the cotton porters of Liverpool was held in the Circus-street, As. sembly Rooms of that town, to devise the best means of obtaining an advance of wages. The rate at present paid to this class of operatives is 3s. 6d. per day, but the work not being constant, the average earnings the whole year round is considerably under a guinea Per man. A resolution was passed, calling on the employers to advance the rate of wages 6d. per day ; and a Mutual Benefit SocietY having been formed, the m eetin g sePa• I rated.. -