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BRIEF STATEMENT of the ELEMENTS d CREDIT of the CINCINNATI and ST. LOUIS RAILWAY• GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION. This read, from the State of Ohio to that of Missouri, unites Cincinnati and St. Louis, the two great focal cities of the West, and ltes directly across the great centre of commerce formed by the rivers Ohio, Missouri, and Platte, in their course to the Mississippi. It is also a direct extension of the ever-increasing line of traffic from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and hence will form a link, and the Most important one, in the great trunk road which, at no di3tant flay, must unite those oceans. TOE TERMINAL CITIZEI. Cincinnatti and St. Louis have risen to power, wealth, and porula tlon, with a rapidity hitherto unequdled, even in the new world. The decennial increase per cent. of Cincinnatti, for the decade end ing 1860, was no less than 150 per cent., and for St. Louis it reached 400 per cent., while the cities of New York and Philadelphia have never reached above 82 per cent., and in the decade bringing up the Population to 125,000, New York reached 30 and Philadelphia 13 per text. The present population of Cincinnatti, by census just tait en, amounts to more than 161,000 within her corporate limits, and u ises above 200,000, including the suburbs. The population of r 4. Louis is 100,000 in round numbers. No . 18,887.] FOURTH AND CHEAPER EDITION, REVISED. Now ready, in one vol., price 7s. 6d. bound, TILE MARVELS OF SCIENCE, And their TESTIMONY to HOLY WRIT. A Popular Manual of the Sciences. By S. W. FULLOM, Esq. Dedicated by permission to the King of Hanover. ------- Hurst and Rlackett, — Publishers, Successors to Henry Colburn 13, GreAt Marlborough-street. THE STATES CONNECTED. The Cincinnatti and St. Louis Railway unites the powerful free States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois—States which have grown in population and wealth with astonishing rapidity. The grain crops of which, in 1851, amounted to no less than 170,000,000 of bushels of Indian corn, and 49,000,000 bushels of wheat. The production of cattle, hogs, butter, cheese, tobacco, end seeds, is likewhe enormous. Of the above, the surplus a'one amounts to no less than 3,00e,000 of tons —an amount of tonnve greater than double that transported on all of the railways of the State of New York. The exports from Cincinnatti and St. Louis, and intermediate points, in flour, beef, whisky, salt, &c &c reached to 500,000 tons weight per annum ; an d th e w ay frei g ht along the line, moved from point to point, cannot be less. So much for domestic produce. The groceries, merchandise, and manufactures of Cincinnatti and St. Louis, distributed to various points, amounts to 110,000 tons. Hence We have no less than 4,110,000 tons of freight furnished by the sur plus produce of the four States, and by the commerce of Cincinnatti and .t. Louis, from which it is not difficult to determine about how Much will be fairly due to this railway. THE RAILWAY AND MINING CIRCULAR for this Month, Just Published, price 3d. Messrs. 'Thomas Davies and Co., 1, Finch-lane, Cornhill. TRIBI7TIRT LINES, I n the city of Cincinnati, as to a focus, converge no less than six great lines of eastern railway, via., the Cincinnatti, Dayton, and Toledo line ; the Cincinnatti; Sprindield, and Sandusky line ; the Ci ncinnatti, Columbus, Cleveland, and New York line; the Cincin nett', Zanesville, Hempfield, and Philadelphia route; the Cincin natti, Marietta, Wheeling, and Philadelphia line. All these various lines Must pour their contributions of passengers Into the Cincinnatti ~ St. Louis Road, as the most direct road leading west and south. _ e cross th e f o ll ow i ng li nes o f ra il wa y, eac h of which will contri bute f reight and passengers :—Commencing at Cincinnatti. and pro ceeding west, the Lawrenceburgh and Indianapolis, the Madiscn and I ndianapolis, the Jeffersonville and Indianapolis, New Albany a ild Salem, the Evansville and Terre Haute, and the Central Illinois. 1 , 11 St. Louis there concentrate a large number of railways from the West, among which the Pacific Railway is now rapidly construct "g, With means to build It to the western boundary of Missouri. THROITGH PASSENGERS. F These will be contributed from the following sources :—Eastern -ay s, steam-boats down and np the Ohio river to Cincinnatti, and up the Sli,si•sippi river to Cincinnatti and St. Louis, and inter- In Z liate Points. During the year 1851 mo:e than a millian andasit-g,ers were carried in steam boats to and from Cincinnatti rt. ;um, and other places in the valley of the Ohio and Mississippi. e estimate of these not less than 153,006 will be through passen gers on our road; adding one.fourth for increase, we have about "MOO through passengers. The lateral passengers are derived uorn the Illinois Central, the Evansville, the New Albany, the Jeffer • sonville, and o th er roads, and cannot fall much below 100,000 to be carri ed over two-thirds the length of the road. WAY PASSENGERS. The ratio of way passengers to density of population of surface ral lied, as determi ne d f rom t h e s t a ti s ti cs o f th e P enns yl van i a Cen tral, the Baltimore and Ohio, and the Cincinnatti and Columbus Rail- L ee ds, is found to be 0'63. The elements of the Cincinnatti and St. onis road are as follows : l'ehgth of line.... Square miles of surface drained, aboUt 30 miles wide 10,200 Population of surface, Cincinnatti and St. Louis 512,626 Density, Per square mile 50 Ratio, as above .. ••••• • • • • ••• • • • 063 PayPa.se •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• A ngera, deduced per square mile • . • • • 31 ggrtgate of way passengers 316,200 RSTIMATES OF FREIGHTS. Misso We compute that, of th e surplus pro d ucts of I n di ana, Illi no i s, an d uri, we may expect to carry one-quarter the surplus of Indiana, on e - sixth the surplus of Illinois, and one-tenth the surplus of 3lis sour( ; leaving the large amount from Oh.o to make up any ded- Ctency in the est' mates. This does not involve coal, timber, iron, and other minerals, which are also left to fill deficiencies, should any exist. We then have domestic produce—groceries and manufac tures—equal to 375,069 tons, which, for safety, are assumed to be carried only one-half the length of the road. PRIDES ASSUMED FOR FREIGHTS AND PASSENGERS. We fix, as the basis of calculation, the following prices, viz.:— Through passengers, 6 dots., or less than two cents a mile; 5 dols. per tea for through freight; and then we have the following sum mary : Passengers and Freight. Quantity. Rates. Total Receipts. Through passengers.... • • 153 ,449 Dols. Dols. .... 6.00 each. .. • • 920,691 Lateral do. Way do. Freights ........ •• • • • • • • 375,069 •• •• 2.50 per ton .. 937,678 Total annual income • - • . • • • .2,878,312 The road is under contract to be finlEhed, furnished, and equipped for nine millions of dollars, and it is quite certain that the interest and other smaller expenses, such as officers' salaries, &c., cannot swell the amount above ten millions. Thus we have on ten mil lions a gross income of 2,878,312 dots. Allowing 45 per cent. for current expenses, repairs, &c., which is above the aver..ge of our railways, Dols. We have gross receipts Expenses 45 per cent .. ..... 1,583,613 Net proceeds or nearly 16 per cent. on a cost of ten millions RESOURCES TO BUILD THE ROAD. Loan from the City of Cincinnatti, secured by Stock of Dols. the Company ..... •• • • .... •• • • • .... 600,000 Individual subscriptions in Cincinnatti .. •• .. 683,000 S ubscription of City of aurora ..... •••• • .. 50,00 ) Ditto of Citizens of Aurora .... 60; 00 t i ,t,to of Ripley County .. .. • . 5 0 ,010 at t o of Citizens of Ripley County •.• • , . .. 20,000 33 ,` 0 of Jennings' County .. 50,000 itto Ditto of Citizens of Jennings' County...... 50,0) 0 Ditto of Citizens of Jackson County.... •• .. 20,000 bttto of Davies' County •• • • .... ••.. • 3°,000 Ditt, of Citizens of Davies' County 20,000 Ditto of Knox County •• • 200,000 of Citizens of Knox C0unty........ 100,000 Stibseri„ -I'3 , Total in Ohio and Indiana. ..• • • 1,923,090 Ditto .City o 01 1 in the f St. Louis.... ,500,000 St, L ou , of Citizens of St. Louis.. • ....... .... .. 200,000 c on , s , .8 County subscriptions.. .... .. .. .. ..... ... 200,000 17T 01 Lawrence, Illinois ..... . .... .... .. .... 50,000 Ditto ltichland, Illinois.... ..... .. .. .......... 50,000 2.923,000 mount of subscriptions by individuals and corpora tions, including Cincinnatti C ontractor's stock.. • .. 2,923,0'0 2,750,000 Incr ease of first mortgage, Eastern division 5,673,000 63,000 Issue of first mortgage bonds...—. • • • • •• • • ' 5,736,000 2,750,000 8,486,000 TIME FOR OPENING OF TIRE ROAD. As every mile of the Eastern division is sublet, and the work has b een progressing for nearly a year , t he grading, bridging, and ma "LrY is in a state of fora artin ess , such that there is no doubt but he contractors will be able to comply with the requirements of the eontract. Two divisions are to be opened on the Ist of January, 1854, The Eastern division, by intersecting the Louisville and In dinapol,s road, gives an admirable railway connection between the cities of Cincinnatti and Lonisville, and will yield a very large in come at once. The Western division, from St Louis to the Illinois C en tral Railway, will, in like manner, be open on th e I s t o f J anuary, 1854, and will yield large receipts. The remaining portions of the lines are contracted to be opened on the let of July, 1854 ; floods and epidemics alone to exempt the contractors from these requirements. SECURITY OF THE LOAN AND CONVERTIBILITY OF THE BONDS. The Bonds now offered are secured by a first and perfect mort gage on all the property, buildings, machinery, lands, and franchises of the Eastern Division, extending from Cincinnati 190 miles to Vincennes, on the Wabash river. The corporation derives its powers from acts of incorporation from the States of Ohio and In diana. The entire issue by this division, secured as above, is two Millions and fifty thousand dollars. The Bonds are for 1,000 dols. each, redeemable in 1872, in the City of New York, with interest coupons at 7 per ceat. per annum, payable Ist Jan. and Ist July, in New York. The holders of the Bonds may convert them into stock at par any time previous to the ist of Jan., 1857, some three years atter the date on which the entire road is contracted to be opened. It is proper to add, that the loan to this company of 600,000 dole , from the city of Cincinnatti, has already been sold in the United States at 102 ; and the county bonds, as well as 750,000 dots. second mortgage bonds, if issued, are contracted to be hypothecated with a `e-BPonsible house at Cincinnatti for an advance of N per cent. The l i e sourees of the Company are, therefore, ample, and nothing in all Milan probability can delay the completion of the work. Per a full demonstration of all the positions herein taken, refer ence is made to the printed reports, maps, and other documents, at the counting-house of Messrs. George Peabody and Co., Waniford caUrt. 0. M. MITCHEL, Chief Consulting Engineer and Commissioner. The 2 ,050,000 dollars bonds, referred to above, are offered to the Public at 92)4 (at which price the investment will pay nearly 7 per ce nt. per annum), or 2081. 2s. 6d. for each bond of 1,000 dols., with • ouPorts bearing interest from let July nest. A deposit of 201. en each bond of 1,008 dots . will be required upon allotment, of which due notice will be given, and this amount will be credited with 4 Per cent. interest, as part payment on the bonds last delivered. Onei.hair the bonds to be paid for on delivery on Tuesday, 3d May, and the other half on the Ist September next. Four per cent, in terest will be - allowed to parties who may wish to take all their bonds on or after the 3d May, but prior to Ist July. The coupons 1 01 F 35 dole., if presented to the undersignel a few weeks before due, will be cashed at their fair value at the time. Application for the bonds may be made to Messrs. Capel, Norbury, Trotter, and Co., Throgmorton-street ; or Lewis H. Halsewood Esq., Angel-court. GEORGE PEABODY mid CO. RO P ATRON—H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT. 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The hat and cap section is replenished with every new style, and the best goods are charged very low prices. The hosiery branch displays articles of incomparable elegance suitable for ladies, gentlemen, and children, the quality and price of each article showing how far the establishments of E. MOSES and SON excel all others. Emigrants are provided with their outfits, or any part of them, at Wholesale prices, by E. MOSES and SON. Persons aboat to embark for Australia may gain a large per cent age on small investments made in clothing manufactured by E. MOSES and SON. All classes of passengers are furnished with the requisite goods and clothing for any voyage or climate, and the price of superior articles is much lower at E. MOSES and SON, than at any other house. Complete suits of outfits for ladies and gentlemen, and shipsailing i nformation may be had on application, or post free to any part of the CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the Public against impoon, having learned that the untradesma-like falsehood of "Being g connected with their Establishment," or ' " It's the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for ob vious reasons, they beg to state that they have No CONNEXION WITH ANY OTHER HOUSE IN OR OUT OF LONDON, except their own Establishments, as fellows : London City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Minories, 83, 84 . 8 5, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. Loildon West-end Branch, 506,507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,2, 3, Dart-street, an communicating. Bradto.rd (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 nd 20, Bridge-street. Sheffield Branch, 36, Far, ate. Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, Batters, Hosiers, Fur r i ers , B oo t an d Shoe M a k ers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. IMPORTANT —Should any article not give satisfaction, it will ho exchanged if desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned without hesitation. 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SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Doctor of Medicine, and Matriculated Member of the Universi y of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital 'ladle L Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall,ondon, &c., &c. m_AY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on the various disorders of the nervous and generative system, resulting from juvenile irregu'arities and excesses, which have pro duced more misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema ture decay at all stages of life, than perhaps any other class of dis eases known to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience in the treatment of these diseases has proved that there are in exig ence secret causes of self-acquired miseries and disappointed hopes in existence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous Debility, various forms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfrultfill Marri ages, Impotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their endless modifications owe their almost entire origin. 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MOLLER, Secretary. RAILWAY, R OYAL DANISH (FIRST SECTION.) Tonning and Hasum to Flensburg and Rendsburg (sixty-nine English miles.) Capital 540,000/., in 27,000 Shares, of 201. each. Deposit 31. per Share. TRUSTEES. The Right Honourable the Earl of Yarborough. George Carr Glyn, Esq., M.P. Lelia Louis Ricardo, Esq., M.P. DIRECTORS. John Anderson, Esq. Captain W. S. Andrews. Edward Cropper, Esq. John Ellis, Esq. Charles Ge ach, Esq., M.P. George Grenfell Glyn, Esq. (Five Danish Directors to be added.) BANKERS—Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. ENGINEER— George Parker Bidder, Esq. SECRETARY—Mr. Carl Severin Moller. OFFICES-84, King William-street. BROKERS—Messrs. Laurence. Cazenove, and Pearce, Auction Mart, Bartholomew•lane. A concession has been obtained by Messrs. Peto, Betts, and Brassey, from the King of Denmark, for the construction of a system of railways to be called the Royal Danish Railway, which shall gradually be extended through the whole of the peninsula, affording, with the lines already completed in Holstein, a continuous rail way communication from Hamburg to Frederikshaven, opposite to Gothen burg, whence a line Is in course of construction to Stockholm. he terms of the concession are peculiarly favourable, the line being secured in perpetuity, with a guarantee against competition ior a period of a hundred years. The first section, consisting of a line from Tonning, on the Eyder, to Husum and Flensburg•, and extending southwards to Rendsburg, has been already surveyed by Robert Stephenson, Esq., M.P., and George P. Bidder, Esq., and contracted for by Messrs. Peto, Betts, and Bras sey, and the works are in course of construction. The extent of the line, with its branches, will be 69 English miles ; and the cost, includ ing all stations, -land, and rolling stock, will not exceed 7,5001. per mile. The line will be completed within 15 months from this time. It has been thought desirable to complete, with as little delay as possible, this important link in the chain of Danish railways, as it will, in conjunction with the Nor th of Europe Steam Navigation Com pany, at once esi ablish a communication with the Baltic by the shortest possible transit. I•assengers will be able to go from London and the principal ports ofs iTo ncluding ciitilozTeotnhnnei overland landahnoduF journey (on the Baltic), in 30 to 34 , ar i n n e c y lu l d 7 n r g ail t w a y ocerland journey by railway; And to Hamburgh in 36 hours, including the overland journey by railway. Tonning, a port on the Ryder, possessing all the advantages of depth of water, and being 60 miles nearer the sea than Hamburg, will thus become the principle western port—the Liverpool, as it were, of Denmark—while the advantages of Flensburg, as an entreptit on the shores of the Baltic, cannot be overrated. Situated in the bight of a deep gulf running 20 miles inland, completely land locked, so that ships of the greatest draught of water may lie in safety, having no rise and fall of tide, and therefore requiring no docks for the load ing and unloading of cargoes, the natural advantages of Flensburg render it second to no port in the world for commercial purposes. Already there is a considerable foreign trade, upwards of twenty large vessels clearing annually for the West Indies ; but when the overland route is established, and to a saving of more than 500 miles of dangerous and, in winter, impracticable navigation by the Heaw and Cattegat, is added the economy in the charges (the Sound dues alone being equal, on fine goods, to the whole expense of the transit by the railway), it is clear that a very large portion of the trade of the Baltic will be poured through this channel. Some idea of the enormous trade of these countries may be formed from the fact that upwards of fourteen thousand vessels pass the Sound annually. Their cargoes, independently of those that pass in ballast, may be roughly estimated at one million five hundred thou sand tons. The Sound dues levied thereupon at atoll varying from one to one-and a-quarter per cent., produce a revenue of one hun dred and fifty thousand pounds ; we may therefore safely calculate the value of the same at fifteen millions sterling. For the purpose of calculating the probable return on the outlay in constructing the railway, a careful estimate has been made of the amount and description of goods, both import ..nd export, that may be expected to pass over the line, and the aggregate amount has been ascertained to be little less than 200,000 tons. This is exclusive of passengers, and of the large additional traffic that cannot fail to be created by the establishment of th s safe and economical mode of transit. The local traffic alone, as given in Government returns of to Is receivsd on the ordinary road, amounts at the present tints to 35,000/. a year; and assuming the usual increa e through the im proved facilities, that is to say, doubling it, we have a gross annu .1 etum of 72,000/. ; so that making the largest a lowance for working expenses, this branch of income alone will suffice to pay an interest of 6 per cent. on the entire capita. [The Kid and Altona of which this is a continuation, earned last year, on a cost of near 9,7001. per mile, upwards of 7 per cent ] It is confi 'eatly expected that the revenue from all sources will ensure a return of 10 to 12 per cent. upon the outlay, but, to reduce it to a certainty, the contractors, Messrs. Peto, Betts, and Brassey, engage to take a lease of the line for fourteen years from the open ing for traffic, paying the shareholders a minimum rent of 6 per cent., and dividing equally with them the profits beyond that amount, allowing during the construction an interest of 5 per cent. upon the deposit and subsequent instalments; the lease to be ter minable at the expiration of five or ten years, by the Directors, on giving twelve months' previous notice. As a substantial security for the fulfilment of these engagements by the contractors, a sum of 100, 1 00/ will be invested in the names of the trustees, in Consols, or in such manner, and in such secur. ties, as they shall deem advisable. The payment of the capital will be required at the following periods, viz.:— 31. per share on the allotment. 31. let July, 1853. 31. Ist October, „ 31. Ist Tanuary, 1851. 31. Ist July, ~ 5/. Ist October „ Shareholders will be allowed to pay up the amount of thar shares between the calls, uuder discount of.their respective maturities, at 5 per cent. . . . • • --, - ks , ..„ ,• ....--. , ... # . , ..,„:„.., • .. ~.. , .....„. . . a , ,---- • ~,,,,,,,,. ef.........,- .. . _ ._ _ ~,•.. -,-;,,,-,„ ~,,,. -..2.p. , • .Kft->:.,,.. „..4.4\ze..1 U;•yi,\:! .,01 7 - ,. .. 4 ; • , . , , , ( 411 4 1 ..L ' ~.:,,,0.,8,, .411 . ). 11 1 6 ,, , N111 70,4 .4,.. , 0 ... .- - - - ..• . in France Lobe preseqt at the prerenta , AI ---- . ,-.? - - ::----- '.- '- : cr-- -: - 9 , ,, --t:4-* - ---k . " f t 7 L';' ';7 i' l ' '' .. ~,,)-' .1 . : .it was not intended to give such an in ction, / -,- f \ - :':-- -- 7 1 ':'" , - " / SS . NAt_r 11 W.; it 'S' ' :, ~_ , , 1 '.::, ‘ l j '- ° --Is7' 4-b..4 A. V i i . IA \ , 44 P , .. (r e , ": . .., ,,, , ‘ ''''''•!"= ,- ' ttii ..„7 ,, t.. . • - 1 ~.k : • \!, 4; + , 4 4 7 454 .. . , , I' ~ .1. .0 , ~.,, ' ai-c -?-- . ' „-e.,-.. ,- -%,..,.. 1 ! , _ Mt. \"' - . : . , - ,.„ ,.„ . to i ° •Zt , 3 .. TZ Nl,l , . ', + . 1 41:44...1 ,' . - .. ' / ' ---. ." - ...V...",' '4l b; ' 1)1 13- ' ' . 1 5 , I ' ~,, , Jl 4 ~ - , ", e t D li istOilk-'"‘ IEA plied. and acco, Ley the ambassador was not present. As far as he (L 21., Clarendon) had heard, that declaration of opinion had produced a good impression in France. If he had been asked whether he thought that such a declaration. should have been carried further, he should have saidno. It simplyreferred to the good understanding—the cordial understanding—between the two countries, about which there could be no doubt, and as he believed there was no doubt on the part of the French people as to the feelings of the English nation towards them, such an allusion was correct. He concurred in thinking it inexpedient that this declaration should be considered a national declara tion, but could not recognise the parallel of his noble andlearned friend between the present deputation and that which proceeded to Franch in 1848. (Hear, hear.) The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH thought that this was a matter of considerable importance. He quite agreed with all that had fallen from the noble and learned lord except the complimentary terms in which he had spoken of these individuals. For himself, he looked upon the transaction with no feelings but those of disgust ; and as they had from the very highest autho rity that these persons had been guilty of a grave offence, he hoped that if they came before the noble and learned lord in his judicial capacity, his sentence would be divested of all complimentary terms. The Earl of MALMESBURY said, he could not allow the present conversation to close without offering one remark on what had fallen from the noble and learned lord. The noble and learned lord, although he professed not to consider these gentlemen as actuated by any but the most patriotic motives, had yet hinted at others. _ Lord CAMPBELL—I said such might be the case if [PRICE SD. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY.) THE CITY ADDRESS TO THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON. Lord CAMPBELL then rose to put a question to the noble lord th e S ecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, of which he had given him notice, and which had reference to a subject of great national importance. He alluded to the declaration or address which the newspapers stated had recently been presented to his Imperial Majesty Napoleon 111., in the name of the English nation." Now, in putting his question, he had no intention to throw blame on the individuals who had presented this address. He had the pleasure of knowing some of them, and he believed them all to be highly respectable, and actuated, no doubt, by patriotic and disinterested mo tives. But if, in presenting the address to which he re ferred, they had acted without the authority of the Home Government, he apprehended they had been guilty of an offence against the law of the land—at all events of an offence against the law of nations. It is an established rule, he believed, that the intercourse which took place between independent nations could only be transacted through the medium of ambassadors or ministers sent from the respective courts of those nations—such a rule having been established in order to the preservation of international tranquillity. The rule would be found laid down by all writers on this important subject, but he would only trouble their lordships with an extract from Vattel, who was supported by Puffendorff and all his illustrious predecessors. Vattel remarked : this proceeding were made a precedent': The Earl of MALMESBURY (in continuation) had of course intended to refer to the remarks of the noble and learned lord with respect to the funds. It was im possible to misunderstand the meaning of such observa tions. (Hear, hear.) I h f e th d i a s Lord CAMPBELL said he had acquitted the deputa tiont of all improper motives, and had simply pointed out n a g ff e a r i o r f w m: r k e in p g as t s h e e d p e r v es e e r n i t n tr s a u n e sa ne ct e i , on et a h n er exa de m pu p t l a e : n a ce e n t d w ted le it a t h rn ha o e t t e M an e B A t b L r uo M r yui MALMESBURY non-official o Y n ( (in continuation)Herchannel, nean re. was a) Hnde lordobedc addressi objects. not should in tendgh to throw out any insinuation against those who had thelearned eother doubted its necessity ; but, as it had been presented, he was glad to be able to bear personal testimony to the signed hoah T ve hee Earl E p t the declaration proceeded em o effect it had produced in France. He was accidentally in Paris when the address was presented, and persons had expressed to him the great pleasure which such a de claration of opinion had produced. There was not the most distant idea in France of such an address being considered derogatory by the English people. Some persons might think so in this country, but, in justice to the Emperor and his ministers, he must say, that on their parts, there was not the most remote sign of such a feeling. They felt gratification at what they considered to be a sign that the population of this country, and especially of this great city, were anxious to continue our peaceful relations with France. Ido not (continued the noble earl) defend the act ; but I say, as it has been committed—and in these days people are not to be ruled arbitrarily, and will act for themselves and speak for themselves- —I can hardly congratulate the house upon the noble and learned lord having brought the subject forward, because no harm, but rather good, has resulted from it, and I do not see that any harm or dan ger could have resulted from this rash, though success. ful, proceeding. (Hear.) The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH presumed then that the noble earl would have sanctioned the proceedings had he remained in office ? " Nations are to treat and hold intercourse with one an other, and, bound by reciprocal obligation, to consent to such communication. But nations and sovereigns do not treat together immediately. The only expedient for nations and sovereigns is to communicate and treat with each other by the agency of procurators or mandatories, of delegates charged with their commands, and vested with their powers —that is to say, public ministers. The minister is, in some sort, a representative of a foreign power, a person charged with the commands of that power, and delegated to manage its affairs." Without quoting the opinions of other jurists on the subject, he would simply refer to what took place in 1791, when it was stated that a deputation was sent from this country to the Empress of Russia. At that period one party in this country thought we were ag grieved by the proceedings of the Russian Government, while another were of opinion that the English Govern ment were to blame. The party in favour of Russia sent a deputation to St. Petersburgh in the person of Mr. Adair. Upon this proceeding Mr. Burke passed the following severe comment : " This proceeding of Mr. Fox does not (as I conceive) amount to absolute high treason ; Russia, though on bad terms, not having been then declaredly at war with this kingdom. But such a proceeding is, in law, not very re mote from that offence, and is undoubtedly a most uncon stitutional act, and a high treasonable misdemeanour. The legitimate and sure mode of communication between this nation and foreign powers is rendered uncertain, precari ous, and treacherous, by being divided into two channels, by which means the foreign powers can never be assured of the real authority or validity of any public transaction. This proceeding has given a strong countenance, and an en couraging example to the doctrines and practices of the Revolution and Constitutional Societies, and of other mis chievous societies of that description, who, without any legal authority, are in the habit of proposing, and to the best of their power of forming, leagues and alliances with France." The Earl of MALMESBURY—On the contrary. particularly said that if I had been in the place of th noble earl opposite (Clarendon), I should have given the same advice which the noble earl gave, and have care fully refrained from approving the proceeding. (Hear.) The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH apologised, as not having heard the observation. Now he (Lord Campbell) apprehended that the principles . thus laid down by Burke were inconsistent with the transaction now under discussion. He apprehended that unless this deputation to the Emperor of France were authorised by the British Government to proceed in that capacity, they had acted iu violation of the law, although unconsciously so, As to the declaration itself, it was perfectly harmless. In many of the sentiments contained in s it he concurred. But inasmuch as such declaration was not the result of any public meeting of her Majesty's subjects, or in conformity with any ad dress agreed to at a public meeting, he could not recog nise its legality. The document in question contained nothing more than a simple declaration of a desire that the relations of amity and peace between the two na tions should be kept up. In his opinion at no former period had there been a greater desire on the part of all classes in this country to maintain those relations of peace and amity with France. (` Hear, hear," from the Earl of Malmesbury.) Such was not the case in 1791, when the then Government took up one line of policy and the opposition another. (Hear, hear.) To, revert, however, to the declaration under discussion, he be lieved it to be a clear violation of the law. This country knew nothing of the document until the curtain was withdrawn, 'and Napoleon the Third was discovered, surrounded by his ministers and approached by the English deputation. He (Lord Campbell) did not know whether the English ambassador was pre sent on the occasion, or whether his sanction was asked to the transaction. Was he (Lord Campbell) to suppose that Sir James Duke was sent over to super sede Lord Cowley, and that he went over to France invested with the authority of an ambassador extraordi nary or a minister plenipotentiary ? The form of lan guage employed by Sir James Duke to the Emperor would have been all very well had the subject in hand been the cession of a railway or a canal ; but such lan guage on a subject relating to our internal relations ought only to have proceeded from the lips of an accre dited minister of the Crown. Sir James Duke said " Sire,—We have the honour to appear before your Ma jesty for the purpose of presenting to your Majesty and to the French nation a declaration from the commercial com munity of the metropolis of the British empire. " We have only to add the expression of our conviction that this document conveys at the same time a faithful re presentation of the feelings of the people of England at large." The LORD CHANCELLOR said he hoped that his noble and learned friend the Lord Chief Justice did not mean it to go forth upon his high authority that such a proceeding was necessarily illegal. (Hear.) The prece dent might possibly lead to consequences it would be difficult to deal with, and perhaps to illegal consequences; but it would be extremely dangerous to lay it down as a principle that every such proceeding was necessary ille gal. (Hear.) It had been the most common thing in the world that addresses should be presented to foreign Sovereigns—perhaps merely as matters of courtesy ; but still all such addresses would be illegal if the noble and learned lord was correct. He could not but recollect that when he was in the south of France last autumn, he saw several members of their lordships' and oftthe other house of Parliament npon a deputation to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, to induce him to interfere in respect to certain of his subjects. It might be that this was illegal ; but, although agreeing with his nhble and learned that these proceedings were much to be deprecated, a n d were ca l cu l a t e d t o l ea d to great I difficulties, he hoped that it would not be understood that they were necessarily illegal, or subjecting the parties to a criminal prosecution. Lord CAMPBELL said he did not mean that such proceedings were illegal in that sense, so that the parties could be indicted and arraigned. He did not say that this could be the case unless there were some malus animus. But he maintained that such proceedings were illegal in this sense, that the law did not sanction them, and that a member. of Parliament might be impeached for such conduct. The deputation to the Grand Duke of Tuscany was to influence him to releare persons im prisoned for religious opinions, and no doubt that was not illegal, for it was not really international. But that which related to peace and war between the two countries was national, and any English subject inter fering on such a subject, and pretending to represent the British nation to any foreign power, did what was undoubtedly illegal. VACCINATION EXTENSION BILL. - - - --- Lord LYTTLETON moved the second reading of Le bill. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH observed that the bill imposed penalties upon neglect to vaccinate, but extended no new facilities. Lord LYTTLETON was not aware that any were wanted ; if they were he would be happy to introduce them. The bill was read a second time. ELECTION INQUIRIES. The Earl of ABERDEEN said, that on Monday, upon the evidence of the Canterbury election com mittee, he should move that an address to the Crown be presented. Their Lor d ships then adjourned. They express a fervent— " Hope that under your reign France and England may be always united," &c. Of this declaration the Emperor, in his reply said : "It confirms in me the confidence with which the good sense of the English has always inspired me." He then expresses some alarm as to what was done last year, adding : " But the good sense of a great people cannot be long deceived, and the step which you now take is a striking, proof of this. " Like you I desire peace ; and, to make it sure, I wish, like you, to draw closer the bonds which unite our two countries." These (continued the noble and learned lord) were most gratifying sentiments, .but, nevertheless, wholly irregu lar, if uttered without th e au th or it y o f the home govern ment. He was not disposed to blame the parties, who, no doubt, were ignorant that they were acting wrongly. But consider the danger to which the country might be exposed by allowing this proceeding to become a prece dent. Suppose for instance, th ere were a party in this country who, disapproving of the policy of the French government, agreed to a declaration, and presented an address, praying that such policy should be changed. Suppose, instead of the person addressed being Napoleon 111., it was a red republican government. There might, according to the example now set, be a deputation of Socialists, Chartists, or United Irishmen, to such a go vernment, asking for fraternisation. His noble friend (Lord Clarendon) had once presided over the sister island, and could not fail to remember the alarm which day by day was felt by reason of these deputations, particularly by the deputation which went to France headed by Smith O'Brien. Surely that was considered an alarming circum stance by the English Government, but how could the one proceeding be justified and not the other ? He be lieved the gentlemen in the present case to have acted with good motives, and to have erred from inadvertence. They were no doubt anxious to express their desire that the two countries should be drawn closer together in the bonds of peace and amity ; but different objects might have been entertained. It might have been desired to raise the funds by such a proceeding, or to depress them. But without further observation he would proceed to ask the question of which he had given notice, simply as suring his noble friend that he desired to give offence in no quarter, and that if he thought his question would even infinitesimally disturb the good feeling which sub sisted between the two countries he would not put it. But, considering the high office which he (Lord Camp bell) held in the country, and that in that respect he was a guardian over its laws, he begged to be permitted to ask his noble friend whether the deputation of merchants who were stated to have recently proceeded to France with an address were sanctioned in what they did by her Majesty's Ministers ? Lord CLARENDON (who, with the other noble lords who joined in this conversation, was imperfectly heard) said, he could not help thinking that his noble and learned friend had attached to his question more importance than it deserved. Certainly, when the noble and learned lord had the goodness to give him notice of this question, he (Lord Clarendon) had not expected he would have come prepared with high legal and parlia mentary authorities in support of his position, or that he would have gone back to transactions which had oc curred 60 years ago. Still less had he expected that his noble and learned friend, holding the high official posi tion he did, would have declared upon such evidence that certain merchanti and citizens of London, in the transaction referred to, had committed a violation of the law. (Hear, hear.) It appeared to him (the Earl of Clarendon) that a great part of his noble assumin g , as learned s friend's statement res t e d upon a fallacy, his noble and learned friend did, that the deputation ap peared as speaking in the name of the nation. Such was not the case ; and it appeared to him (the Earl of Claren don) that they did nothing more than present a qddres y from certai n merchants and others of the city of London. In reply t o hi s noble and learned friend's two questions. he would first of all acquaint him that Lord Cowley had not in any way been superseded—(a laugh)—and that the sanction of the British Government to the deputation had neither being given nor asked. Two or three days before the deputation.proceeded to France a gentleman from the City called upon him and showed him the ad dress. That address appeared to him to be perfectly un objectionable. It was merely a record of opinion in fa vour of the maintenance of peace, and knowing the feel ings of the people of this country towards France, he could see no possible objection to the document. The gentleman to whom he referred then told him that this declaration was to be presented to the Emperor. In it he could not see anything which could be said to bear a national character. The gentleman then asked him whe ther there WOl any objection to instruct our ambas- HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YESTERDAY.) NATIONAL EDUCATION. Lord J. RUSSELL—I have now, in pnrsance of the no tice I have given, to state generally the intentions of the government with regard to the important subject of edu cation ; and in so doing I certainly shall not think it neces sary to ask for the attention of the house, because lam sure that, however inadequately I may perform the duty which I am called on to undertake, the subject is one of so much importance, and affects so deeply the religion, tho morality, and the future well being of the country, that this house will readily give their attention to any state ments which may be made, and to any propositions that may be brought forward by the Government upon a sub ject of this nature. (Hear, hear.) I will begin by stating what has been the course with respect to the education of the poorer classes of this country from the commencement of the establishment of public day-schools. These day schools were generally commenced soon after the beginning of the present century. At that time two persons who had both given very great attention to the subject of educa tion, and who are both deserving of commemoration for their intelligence, and the laudable efforts they made in that cause—l mean Joseph Lancaster and Dr. Bell—were instrumental in introducing a large establishment of day schools for the education of the poorer classer in this coun try. Both of them proceeded on the system of having monitors in the schools—chosen from among the boys at tending those schools by whom lessons should be given to the children who were not sufficiently advanced to obtain the entire attention of the masters. It was believed, and it was certainly a matter of fact, that by this means a larger number of children would be educated cheaply th an could have been done by the method of having a great number of schools each with separate masters. But no doubt that system was exceedingly defective, because it only used the instrumentality of persons who themselves d eed i intelli gent l earning, m i w peculiar a n p e t r i t e t h u e l d it e r t f l a e o p r i a d te dv a a a ciing, and who could not give noi of h e ainstructionhear.) There an w n h er o t h h ad at persons ru n de voted upona to topi t c h e . ob ha j e e: r t , was . a difference doing. (Hear, were capable of most exc i t ing nature in which were adopted the systems pursuant to the advice of these two gentlemen. The system of Joseph Lancaster was ad opted by a society called the B r iti s h an d F ore i gn S c h oo l Society, established in 1805, which proceeded on the prin ciple of teaching the Bible to all the children in the school. That was a distinguishing feature of the system, and the Ring, George 111., gave his immediate and liberal patron age to the plan. Many persons who were anxious for the promotion of education—among others my father, the late Duke of Bedford—combined for the purpose of placing themselves at the head of institutions of this kind, and Lord Brougham, Sir S. Romilly, and many others aided them with their abilities and zeal. At the same time, while these schools were thus promoted, there arose an objection on the part of the established church, that though the Bible was taught, there was no instruction given in the formularies of the church of England, and accordingly at a later period-1811, I . think—a society called the National Society was formed, in order to give instruction not onlyin the Bible, but in the catechism, and at the same time with a rule that the children attending their schools should at tend the established church on Sundays. Seeing these differences, there was immediately a hot contest with re spect to the principles on which the schools should be con ducted. I will not now enter into the merits of that con troversy further than to say, that to this day we feel the effects of it, and that while it must be admitted that these societies have contributed in a very large d egr ee to the education of the people, the feelings produced b y the difficultcon tests of those days have made it , if not impossible, Ito unite the poorer c lasses lasses in one general system of education. On the one hand, the National Society, connected with the LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 1853. ,COUNT CAR BON CHARTERED COAL and IRON COMPANY. NOTICE.—At a Meeting of the Directors, held March 29, Sir ROBERT PRICE, Bart, M.P., in the Chair, PrJf. D. T. ANSTED, F.R.S., &c., was unanimously ELECTED CONSULTING ENGINEER to the Company, and has signified his acceptance of said office. By order of the Board, 30, Bucklersbury, March 31. W. A. lIOEBER, Sec. 1 / 10UNT CARBON CHARTERED COAL and IRON COMPANY. 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CoNTENTs :—Early Rising—Spring and Summer Mornings—Ex cursims about the Environs of London—The Parks, Lanes, Hills Forests, Fields, High-roads, and other pleasant places - Country Trips and Rambles—The Sea —London at Night—Evenings at Home Music—The Drama—On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping, Bathing, Air, Rest, Ease, Occupation, &c., &c. THE INDISPUTABLE LIFE POLICY COMPANY. No. 72, Lombard-street and 24, Connaught-terrace. TRUSTEES. Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P. S. Campbell Renton, Esq., M.P. James Fuller Madox, I Richard Matins, Esq., Q.C., M.P. William Wilberforce, Esq. The POLICIES are INDI4PUTABLE, in terms of the Deed of Settlement of the Company, duly registered, and are thus rendered CERTAIN FAMILY PROVISIONS, and NEGOTIABLE DOCU MENTS OF SECURITY. This Company has introduced, as more peculiarly appllcal - de to the Middle and Industrious Classes, a plan of SELF- PROT EC Pisa IN SURANCE, whereby in one Policy for one rate of Premium, are combined an Insurance of a Sum payable either at &Mil or on at taining a specified age, and a pension or annuity alter th.it age ; and giving the full benefit of all Premiums that have been paid, although the payments should at any time be discontinued. ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, Manwer. UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, Established by Act of Parliament in 1834. 8, Waterloo Place, Pall Mail, London. • The ditaßive features of the Company embrace, amongst others: Tables of Premiums formed on the lowest scale compatible with security, and constructed to meet the various wants of assurers, and every risk to which protection by assurance can be extended. One-half the Life Premium for the first Five years may remain on eredit. Loans granted on approved Personal Security. Assured not restricted in their limits of travel, as in most other Companies, but may proceed from one part of Europe to another in decked vessels, without License, and to British North America, and many parts of the United States, without extra premium, by merely giving the ordinary notice to the Office in London of the intended visit. Whole-world Policies granted at slightly increased rates of Premium, thus rendering a Policy in money tractions a real security. Prospectuses, and every information, may be o'l eation to the Resident Director. N, other Packets The Packets cal: FROI Terrace) Pier. 734 •tBM 91A 1134 1* .334 WEk.IC E E N PACKETS, _:~ m appi call at the Grays, Greenhithe, and Purfteet I at the Piers as underlined (weather pernaittl II TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND. Time. SUNDAYS. Direct Trains from the Boats m, Omnibuses from Fenchurch-stn every gum ter of an hour. BRUNSWICK WHARF, BLAC lowing Trains from the talked t .eet Station to all parts of London :WALL, on t enchurch-stri the arrival of the fol -eat Station. WEEK DAYS. : SUNDAYS. ___ _ o 5 .4 o 51 -a " ' xi . 4. . .. 4 ~i ,c; . 4 6" a „; = Time. 3t E : g .1 l .-- .> Time. 'al g ji fi ___ _________ _____ _ ____ ____ 914 — 9% — 1 11 12U 214 —' — 2% 4U •5 4 *5 . Passages warkei * are run direct. - - Fore Cabin. To or from Gravesend and London.• •• ••.. •• 10d. Gravesend and Blackwell or Woolwich Bd. Between Gravesend and Intermediate Piers.. 6d. Saloon. Is. 2cl. Os. 10d. Os. Bd. BOAT TICKETS.—TweIve Months, 5.. 0, ; Six Months, 3/. Os.; Three Months, 2'. Os.; to be had of the Collectors on board the Packets; or of Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend. Fast and Commodious Packets to Let for Excursions. For Terms, apply to Mr. W. Morgan, Agent, St it Office, Fenchurch-street Ter minus, iliackwall Railway. March 25, 1853. THE CITY ADDRESS TO LOUIS NAPOLEON. ( From the Times.) The Lord Chief Justice of England is not much accus tomed to turn his attention to foreign affairs, but he is as good a judge as any man of what is due to the public feeling and the political usages of this country, and with out all the formalities of a trial he has passed a severe but just sentence and reproof on the persons who have lately made themselves conspicuous by volunteering a declaration of peace and amity to the head of the French nation. Between the derision attached to Sir , James Duke's self-constituted embassy and the "unqualified disgust" which Lord Ellenborough thinks the whole proceeding calculated to excite, this deputation has un dergone every variety of ridicule and censure. But Lord Campbell goes further. He pronounces the act of pre senting political addresses to foreign Sovereigns by pri vate British subjects, professing to bear a public charac ter abroad, to be positively illegal, and he pointed out last night in the itouse of tord; with great force the ob vious inconvenience and impropriety of thus usurping the functions of the constituted authorities of the realm and the legal representative of the Crown. There can be no doubt that all acts of a public character abroad, which are done by individuals whose real position and powers foreign States have no means of ascer taining, are liable to great abuse. The authority of this deputation was entirely usurped. They were ambassadors without credentials and • repre sentatives without constituents, for even the persons who had been duped into signing the declaration were left entirely in the dark as to the ulterior scheme of presenting that document to Louis Napoleon at the Tuileries. The Secretary of Sta-e for Foreign Affairs had certainly found nothing to condemn in the declara tion when it was shown to him, for, as we observed the other day, the language employed by its authors was such that there is scarcely a man in England who might not have adopted it. But, when Lord Clarendon was asked to instruct her Majesty's ambassador in Paris to give the sanction of his presence to the deputation, this request was most properly refused. The whole proceed ing had, to use the mildest term, an unauthorised char acter, and it is open to all the suspicions and remarks which are naturally excited by the conduct of men who intrude themselves into matters with which they are very imperfectly acquainted. Mr. Smith O'Brien's trea sonable excursion to the Hotel de Ville in 1848 with the green flag of Erin was certainly not a precedent to be followed. And the mission of Lord Roden and Lord Cavan to Tuscany last autumn, though it had nothing of apolitical character, being altogether suggested by religious motives, might so far have served as a lesson that the Grand Duke of Tuscany refused to accept any address or remonstrance, conveyed to a foreign court by such means. But, whether the object of these demonstrations be factious or meritorious, the principle is equally mischievous, since they all assume to carry with them the weight of the public opinion of England by means over which the British public have no control. Lord Malmesbury, of course, approves the thing. He was naturally in Paris, and probably at the Tuileries, to welcome the deputation, and to note with satisfaction that there are a dozen Englishmen as obsequious as himself to this new Power. But, if Lord Malmesbury had inquired a little further, he would probably have been able to trace the original conception of this declaration to the French Government • vs • itself. Several months ago it was undoubtedly men tioned as a desirable measure by a well-known member of the present Administration of the Empire, and various means were taken by the persons employed to get up the declaration in order to avoid that publicity which would at once have defeated the scheme. We do not cast any aspersion beyond that of levity and careless ness on the persons who were led to sign this docu ment without knowing what use was to be made of it. But, although many respectable names are to be met with in the list, it is not to be denied that the chief movers in this business are gentlemen verylargelyinterosted in French railroads and other undertakings known on the Bourse of Paris ' • and, in spite of Lord Campbell's inge nuous disavowal of such an intention, It is equally clear that this demonstration was calculated to affect the price of certain securities, and especially to obtain for its au thors a share of those favours to capitalists in which the French Government is extremely munificent. Suppose Mr. Hudson, at the height of his ephemeral glory, to have united political power with his railway royalty, and we might have seen deputations of the same disinte rested character flocking from all parts of Europe. But, if they had come, we know what we should have thought of them ; and, to do the continental nations justice in this matter, the traders of the city of London have set them an example of servile obsequiousness .not at all likely to be followed. It has sometimes been said by those who would depre ciate the character and spirit of a great commercial coun try, that mercantile pursuits have a tendency to lower the tone of public feeling and morality, to smother independence, and even to sacrifice freedom to the acquisition of wealth. We certainly do not entertain so low an opinion of the principles and conduct of our own countrymen, and we are confident that the pro portion of those who would sacrifice the self-respect of Englishmen for such objects is as small as it is con temptible. Dut to that small minority we must impute the scheme which has given rise to these obsevations, and it is to be hoped that the censure passed on them, both in the House of Lords and by the chief organs of public opinion, will not be without eff e ct. Th e y are t o ld by the Lord ief Justice that they have done that which is illegal, by arrogating to themselves the right of ad dressing a foreign ruler in the name of the people of England ; and it is certain they have exercised that right without discrimination and without dignity. If it goes forth to the world without contradiction that any num ber of citizens of London may frame addresses to foreign States, without even the check of publicity, and that Sir James Duke and Mr. Powles are, with such credentials as these, to exhibit themselves at courts and banquets as emissaries of this nation, or even of this metropolis, our relations with the continent will become. , absolutely bur lesque, and the Ward of Portsoken will supersede the Court of St. James. The international communications of States and countries can only be safely and prudently carried on through the legitimate channel. No other is entitled to credit beyond the four seas ; and if the people of England were to desire other Ministers or statesmen to represent them in their relations with foreign countries they would probably not select these gentlemen, who have turned their Easter holidays to account with more amusement and advantage to themselves than credit to their country. DAMAGE BY STORM.—The West of England was visit ed on Thursday night last with a tremendous storm; several places suffered considerably from its violence. The wind for some time blew a perfect hurricane s and the rain fell in torrents. . At Dorchester a large brick building, used at the railway station as an engine-house, was entirely destroyed, burying the engines in the ruins, and causing considerable damage. Fortunately, how ever, there was no person in the building at the time of the accident. At Starcross, a station on the South Devon Railway, and about eight miles from Exeter, a truck was set in motion by the force of the wind, and carried on in the same way to Exeter, where its arrival was anticipated by a telegraphic message. The mail train, which was due about the same time, was detained in consequence about half an hour, and the mails were taken on by a special train from Exeter. EMIGRATION FROM IRELAND.—It appears from the country papers that the emigration mania continues un abated, more especially in the west, where whole dis tricts are turning out. A letter from Galway, published in the Telegraph, states that the city of Galway, and the towns throughout the west, were filled with lame and impotent creatures, who had not the means to join in the exodus. A letter from Gort states that one long street there, formerly inhabited by thriving tradesmen and ar tisans, is now " like a high road between walls, not a person to be found in the tottering and tenantless houses —all dead, or in America." The same letter states that the " farmers who remain find the greatest difficulty in procuring hands." MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT TO A ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST.—The Rev. Michael Conway, Roman Catholic curate of Cahirconlish, encountered a terrible death on Thursday night, near that village, where he fell, it is supposed, upon the spikes ora, gate, and was impaled by the neck, until the police patrol came up and extricated him, but the immortal spirit had been forced from its earthly tenement before their arrival at the fatal spot. The account in town is that the rev. gentleman was suddenly called out on a very urgent sick message,.and, in his anxiety to respond to the summons, neglected ordinary precaution, striving in a dark stormy night to make his way to the bedside of a dying parishioner by the shortest route, and against all obstacles. With this view, struggling to surmount an iron gate, he sunk exhausted upon the spikes, and there expired..--Limerick Chronicle. DEATH OF THE SULTAN OF BORNEO.—The China Mail, of Feb. 10, states, on the authority of its Labuan cor• respondent, that the Sultan of Borneo, who bad been ailing for a length of time, has at length paid the debt of nature, and is succeeded by Pangeran Moumein, who had long acted as prime minister. The legitimate heir is thus put aside ; but as Moumein is very popular, it is most probable that peace will be mainfaincd in Brunai during his lifetime. FATAL LOBS OF THE SCHOONER LIBERATOR.—MILFORD, APRIL 2.—The schooner Liberator, Miller, of Arklow, from Neath, for Liverpool, on the Ist instant put into this harbour, with loss of mainboom. It blowing a gale frsin E.S.E., she was obliged to come to an anchor under Great Castle Head, and had to let go two bower anchors ; broke both chains ; the wind changed suddenly to V.S. W., with a very heavy sea ; let go a third anchor ; still driving fast towards the rocks, let go a fourth anchor, broke both cables again, and drove on shore in spite of all exertions. A sea came over the quarter, and washed the mate overboard, and h e was drowned, whilst in th e ac t o f preparing to swim ashore with a rope to save the crew. He was a fine young man, 28 years of age, a son of the captain . The re ma i n d er of the crew clung to th e r i gg i ng until the tide fell, and got safe on shore without assistance. The vessel remained entire until the next tide, and then broke up and became a total wreck. The cargo, being iron, will be all saved. The vessel belonged to the captain, who has also sus tained the loss of 70/,, whioh was on board, the whole of the property he was possessed of. LOANS GRANTED. LONDON EXCHANGE ADVANCE FUND ; 2, Adelphi-terrace, Strand, faeing the river; City Branch, 3 ®ld Broad-street, City. The Right Hon. Lord ERSKTNE, Chairman. Loans advanced, in sums of 101. and upwards, granted on a joint promissory note, repayable by easy Instalments, or on the deposit of deeds or other available securities. isills of exchange cashed at moderate rates of interest. Forms of application may be obtained at the Offices, or on forward ing 12 postage stamps. WM. BROOKS, Secret sry. AUDITORS. . J. Mg, Esq„ 126, Strand, Actuary and Secretary to the Medical, Legal, and General Life Office. William Jones, Esq., Accountant, 3, Guildhall-chambers. A. Peck, Esq., 8.A., Actuary to the Engineers and Mason'c Life Office, 345, Strand. BANKERS. Rir Charles Price, Marryat, and Co., 3, King William-street, London Messrs. Hopkinson and Co., 3, Regent-street. PHYSICIANS. Dr. Lewis, Finsbury-place. Dr. Scanlan, 21, Upper Seymour-street West, Connaught-square SURGEONS. IT. T. Chapman, Esq., 16, Lower Seymour•street, Portman-square. Michael Teevan, Esq., 44, Gloucester-place, Hyde-park-gardens. CONSULTING ACTUARY. Francis G. P. Nelson, E , q., F.L.S. INSPECTOR OF AGENCIES. F. P. F. Strousbeto, Esq. STANDING COUNSEL. William Wellington Cooper, Esq., New-square, Lincoln's-inn. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Hill and Mathews St. Mary-axe. RESIDENT SECRETARY. Charles W. Bevan, Esq. The public Is respectfully invited to examine the principles of the Deposit System of Assurance, which is based upon tables calculated by, and is under the immediate supervision of, Francis G. P. Nelson, Esq., F.L S., the Consulting Actuary to the Company. Comparative Tables to assure 5001 on death, by a person aged twenty next birthday, on the ORDINARY and on the mown' system of Assurances. ON THE ORDINARY SYSTEM. (Life sum the ordinary The sum the ILife Offices would give ordinary V 63 , 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 Annual thirty at that or sale 81.65. 3d. after he has oremium yearswhen l age, of his policy, paid into their coffers *o assure the party in case after thirty 249/.75.6d., and which 5001. is fifty of years'payments they have had the use ILA years old, death amounting to of at compoun I yf hewill have will be 2491.75. 6d. interest, or in paid into Iworth which theyhave the event of his death the office. lad the benefit one hour after such be of at compound omission or inability interest. to pay. little more _0.;1.65. 3d. 249/. 75.6 d 5001. than 80/. NOTHING. perhaps 90/. I ON THE DEI'OSET SYSTEM. IN ASSURANCE COMPANY. In case of endowment assurances the advantages of the DEPOSIT system are still more striking. ADVAITAGES OF THIS COMPANY UNDER THE ORDINARY LIFE ASSURANCE BRANCH. To those who prefer this branch Policies are granted from 201. to 5,0001. on every known principle _thereof. Lives in_all-but the worst stages of disease, and such as have been rejected 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. Non-forfeiture of a Policy.—ln case of inability to pay the currant premiums, the Directors will either purchase the Policy at a fair market value, or give a new one in lieu thereof, less 5 per cent., inte rest corresponding in amount to the whole of the previous payments which have been made. Detailed prospectuses with tables in further illustration of the De posit 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.B.—Agents wanted in all parts of the World, FRAGMENTS FROM TAE FOUNTAINS. Two Vols. Tol. I. VISIT 10 THE LAKES; SKETCH OF EDINBURGH, &c. Vol, 11. THE LAKES OF DUBLIN, KILLARNEY; REMINISCENCES OF 111. Om 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, and tm l•itters old age; with tables and rulesfor the diet and physical regu• lation of every-day life. -• IV. THE PASSIONS. " What passions hurt the body—what improve, Trut)s 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 illustrati, us, graphic, narra tive, and remediative. Advocacy of early marriages. THE MARRIAGE STATE. To be or not to be, that is the question." FROGRAMME :—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, fic.c. By R. J. CULVERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A. (1824), Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee in there matters. . Price Is. each; by post, Is. 6d. To be bad of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row; Carvalt.o, 147, Fleet-street; Mann, 39, Corr.hill; or of M. R. Culverwell, 10, Argyll-place, Regent -street, who may 4e consultedj daily from Ten till Five, and . Seven till Nine. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. ADMIRALTY.--All the members of the board are now at their posts at Whitehall. The First Lord, Sir James Graham, resumes his levees of naval officers on Saturday week next, the 16th instant, and Rear-Admiral the Ron. M. F. F. Berkeley, C. 8., will receive officers on Tues day, the 19th, and 26th instant. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 4. We understand it is now intended to send the whole of the crew of the Agamemnon to Haslar Hospital. They are to return to the ship as they recover. Fifty were sent on Sunday, and fifty others at 2 p.m. to-day. Rear-Admiral M. F. F. Berkeley, C. 8., M.P., Second Sea Lord of the Admiralty, and Captain Milne, Fifth Lord, arrived in this dockyard this morning on a semi official tour of inspection. After transacting business at the office of the Rear-Admiral Superintendent they proceeded to the office of the Port-Admiral ; on leaving , which Rear-Admiral Berkeley went on board the Aga memnon, and Captain Milne ' accompanied by Rear-Ad miral Fanshawe, inspected the screw steam-frigate Highflyer, 21, in the angle dock. They were afterwards joined by Rear-Admiral Berkeley and inspected the screw three-decker Duke of Wellington, &c. They left the dockyard shortly before 2 o'clock. The Isabel screw steamer, Commander Inglefield, going out to Behring's Straits on a voyage in pursuit of the missing Arctic expeditions, arrived in this harbour this morning in tow of the African steam-tug from Wool wich, where her outfit has been so ill executed that she has to have her upper works caulked in this port. The usual monthly muster of the officers and men be longing to the " ordinary" was made to-day on board the Neptune, 120, by Captain Scott, for the Admiral- Superintendent. The petition of the shipwrights of this dockyard, for warded to the Lords of the Admiralty some months since, praying for an increase of wages in accordance with the increased value of labour and the increased price of provisions, coupled with the fact that in some mercantile dockyards nearly double the amount of wages was given to shipwrights to what they received in Go vernment establishments, has at length received an answer, which has been this day conveyed to the men in the following circular from the Admiral- Superinten dent : " Portsmouth Dockyard, April 4. "In pursuance of the directions of the Lords Commis sioners of the Admiralty, I have to acquaint the ship wrights, caulkers, and joiners employed in this dockyard, who have prayed for an increase of pay, that their Lord ships have had the petition under consideration and cannot entertain their request. "ARTHUR FANSHAWE, Superintendent." The Persian, 12, Commander T. Mitchell, whose ar rival from the West Indies we reported yesterday, sent in her invalids by the Echo tug this morning. The Per sian experienced bad weather on her passage home, being compelled to batten down nearly the whole way. Mr. G. B. Virim, midshipman, ca me h ome passenger in her. The Cumberland, 72, Vice-Admiral Sir G. Seymour, K.C.8., was at Bermuda on the 13th ult.--all well. The Vestal, 26, Capt. C. B. Hamilton, arrived at Bermuda, from Havannah, on the 10th ult., when Lieu tenant H. J. Grant, second of the Vestal, exchanged with the Hon. A. Hay, and took the command of the Scorpion, which was to sail for England in a few days. The Vestal sailed again on the 12th ult., for Havannah. The Duke of Wellington, 131, screw steam-ship, has her ordnance stores being prepared for putting on board. This will be done this week, the following being the offi cial statement of her armament : Lower deck Guns. Cwt. 110 8 inch 65 26 32 pounders Middle deck Upper deck J 6 8 inch 65 30 32 pounders 56 , Main deck 3B 32 pounders 42 {2O 32 pounders 25 168 pounder 95 , Length. . 9ft. Oin. . 9ft. Oin. . 9ft. Oin. . 9ft. 6in. . Bft. Oin. .. 6ft. Oin. ▪ pivot. SHEERNESS, APRIL 4. The Waterloo, 120 guns, Capt. the lion. Montagu Stopford.—Three courts-martial were held on board this ship on the 2d inst to try three seamen for desertion— one from the Imperieuse, 60-gun screw steam-frigate, and two from the Horatio, screw steam guard-ship. The charge was fully proved in each case, and the Court sentenced the seaman who deserted from the Imperieuse to be imprisoned for three months, and then t o b e sen t on board one of her Majesty' s ships to complete the term for which he originally entered the service. The sentences of the Court on the seamen deserting from the Horatio were, one to receive four dozen, the other two dozen lashes, and then be dismissed her Maj es t y ' s ser vice. Captain R. B. Watso n, C. 8., in command of the Horatio, prosecuted. The Imperieuse, 60 guns, screw steam-frigate, came down from Salt-pan Reach on the 2d inst., and has taken up the moorings formerly occupied by the London. After her compasses have been adjusted, she will be inspe c t e d by Vice-Admiral the Hon. Josceline Percy previous to her departure. Captain Watson has been very much dis appointed in volunteers coming forward ; the Imperieuse is nearly 200 seamen short of her complement at present. [n consequence of the s qually weather, her topgallant masts have been sent down, and topsailyards lowered upon the ;taps. . WOOLWICH, APRIL 4. APPOINTMENTS. Captain John C. Fitzgerald (1841), to command the Winchester, 50, flag-ship of R e ar - Admiral Sir Fleet wood B. R. Pellew, C. 8., Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies station, vice Loch, deceased. Acting Chief Engineer Charles K. Renwick is con firmed to the rank of Chief Engineer in the Phcenix steam-sloop for service in an expedition to the Arctic Regions. Second Class Assistant -Engineer Stephen A. Harris to the Phcenix. Third Class Assistant-Engineer William Owen to the Phcenix. Second Class'Assistant-Engineer William Saunders to the Highflyer steam-sloop at Portsmouth.