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MOUNT CARBON CHARTERED COAL rOrICAND IRON COMPANY. Atew btin E.—The SCRIP CERTIFICATES of this COMPANY ore sameared, and due notice will be given to the Subscribers en the will be EXCHANGED for BANKERS' RECEIPTS, atthe offices of the CompatlY. By Order of the Board, W. A. WEBER, Sec. 3e, B ucklersbnry, April 15, 1853. PATRON—H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. b ee —An Optical and Musical Illustration, with Dissolving by.; of a Midsummer Night's Dream. with the Original Music Sr' "enry Bishop and others, concluding with the most interest sa! Secrenes and Songs from *Mrs. Beecher Stowe's Popular Work on Y Morning and Evening. Lectures :—By J. H. Pepper, Esq. ,a_Liall-hours with the Ancient and Modern Chemists ; by Dr. Bach iiilll?.ler, on Pneumatics, in which the Principle of the Fly's Foot and 80 ..: 4171 / 1 on the Ceiling will be explained ;:* by Mr. Crispe, on Ericc- CaloricEßgine. Um! s Lon, Is. ; Schools, and Children under Ten years of age, Half-price. 1 AtRENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS.- rom Lessee, CHARLES E. LAURENT, Oast( W-110113e, Fulham th; • OPen Every Evening. The Orchestra will perform, during N ir - Week, " The Thistle," " Shamroc ' c." " Rose," awl "Amine" Clit!tz,e',‘, 'he "Napoleon" and "Le Romanesque" GiJops, " Le e l l i Quadrille; " The Gold Hawk.' and "Juno," Polkas.— .Igi n in e aBloo , Is. Doors open at Half-past Fight ; te commence et 1.7.- -, .:...± 1 °ek, and terminate at Half-pad Eleven. ‘'TS , LU FOR COALS FOR HER ai.JEstY s A,ND , ICIOALLING YARDS, MARINE BARRACKS AND INFIRMARIES AND OFFICES IN TOWN. Department of the Storekeeper-Gencral or the Navy, r r Somerset-place, 18th Ap il, 1853. $E Commissioners for executing the Office of I reia Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Gi eat Britain and loth I V,. DO lIKREBY GIVK NOTICE, that on TUESDAY, t ap c , "'AY next, at ONE o'Clock . they will be reedy to treat with je,stu P ersons as may be willing to yontract for supplying Her Ma• k u r , Dock and Victualling Yards. Royal Marine Barracks and In aril and the Admiralty Barbour and Marine Oillecs, with COALS. Distribution of the Coa's and a Form of the Tender may be i )1 7 ,1 at the said Office. No Tender will be received after One o'Clock, te n t e ll „ e Day of Treaty, nor will any be notice , l unless the Party at- Or an Agent tor him duly authorised in writing: t a r err Tender must be addreered to the Secretary of the Admi 50* and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Coals," ' _Must also be delivend at Somerset place, accompanied by a Let - M tt tgned by two responsible persms, engaging to become hound d` dtl e „ l ue Person tendering, in the sum of 211. per 100 tons, for the "r of the Contracts. p v .„. NEW FEATURE IN LIFE ASSURANCE. 12 11 E DEPOSIT and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 18, New Bridge-street, Biackfriars, London. CAPITAL—ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS. thc„,." D IRECTORS. '' o- -The Right Hon. the Viscount Drumlanrig, M.P., P.C., It, y-Vroller of her Majesty's Household. ‘, 4l lowley Barne., Esq.,City-road, Finsbury. Oto,roel Clarke, Esq , late 17th Lancer', Junior United Service Club. g : e C °°cle, Eeq., Portland-terrace, Wandsworth, and Belvoir, St. Btr hen eraekna Jersey ll, Req.. 1, St. John's-gardens, Notting-hill, and 11, j w- square, Lincoln's-inn. ? u es, M.D., Davies-street,' Berkeley-square, and Lutterworth, Leic estershire.Ge o L Knox Esq., 15, Connaught-square, Hyde-park, and Tor Alex e, Stall ' ordsbire. b oi a d n_der Maclean; Esq„ Harrow-on-the-Hill. u- Poole, Esq., 32, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square. ~, a nt Prinsep Esq. 147, Leadenhall-street, and 8, Hyde-park -0'1;4,,e,e West. " 11r Andrew Riddell, Esq., Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. Alaj,„ e o l nlan, 21, Upper Seymour-street West, Connaught-square. .Perllng, 14, St. james's-square. ? 3 b , AUDITORS. F, Esq„ 126, Strand, Actuary and Secretary to the Medical, and General Life Ofnce. p e l e :rtnesBl E u sq i , , A i c i e c o tu u ary ntant, 3, Guildhall-chambers. to the Engineers and Masonie Life "lee, 3 4 s',•Atrand. , air eh , BANKERS. u. &r ies Price, Marryat, and Co., 3, King William-street, London. "' es Hopkinson and Co., 3, Regent-street. PHYSICIANS. Finsbury-place. • '.anlan, 21, Upper Seymour-street West, Connaught-square. • SURGEONS. A, SURGEONS. )4 44184 Chapman, Esq., 16, Lower Seymour-street, Port man - square . 1 Teevan, Esq., 44, Gloucester-place, gyde-park-garclens. CONSULTING Actium Francis G. P. Nelson, Feq., F.L.S. INSPECTOR OF AGENCIES. • F. P. F. Strousbetg, Esq. STANDING COUNSEL. •Wnliant 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 fePoslt System of Assurance. which is based upon tables calculated and is under the immediate supervision or, Francis G. P. Nelson, S., the Consulting Actuary to the Company. Comparative Tables to assure 5001 on death, by a person aged twenty neat birthday, on the ORDINARY and on the DEPOSIT system of Assurances. 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 advance the real value of property. The favourable impression this has made on our com mercial citizens fully proves that Quality and Cheapness arc the most approved principles of Business. This, very convincingly, sapports the practices of E. MOSES and SON, who commenced, and alone have carried out, the most substantial improvements in DRESS, at a reduction in prices far beyond the expectations of the ablest financier. What have E. MOSES and SON "just brought out ?" The most magnificent and GIGANTIC STOCK of SPRING and SUMMER GOODS ever exhibited—peerless illustrations of the latest improve ment's in the world's commerce, the materials being selected weth unparalleled diligence and perfe:t experience, from the newest and best samples furnished by every celebrated manufactory, British and Foreign. In this selection the success of E. MOSES and SON'S BUYERS will be found advantageous to their PATRONS and the PUBLIC in ways too numerous for detail. 'I he richest, most novel and varied—the finest and best materials—the first order of fashions —the most artistic cut—the neatest and best workmanship—is com bined with a great reduction in the prices of every description of ATTIRE, HOSIERY, HATS and CAPS, BOOTS and SHOES, &c., Ike. Inspect the endless novelties in SPRING and SUMMER VESTS and TROUSERS, the thousands of NEW STYLES and fabrics of inromoarable elegance, the SPRING and SUMMER COATS and OVERCOATS, which for style, quality, and price have no equal, and it will He" found out." that E. MQSES and sON have provided Spring and Summer Dress for all classes hi the amplest and most economical manner. EMIGRANTS to AUSTR ILI 1, or any other part of the world, may sate as much by purchasing th it Outfits and requisite Clothing at E. MOSES and SON'S as, in many instances, will pay the co't of their passage : when the superior qa,lity of the goods and the prices they are charged are compared, the saving is nearly half the amount which might have been exp-pde , i elsewhere. AtOsES and SON'S IVitOLE 4 ALE BUSTNE . sS offers the safest and most profitable investments for Capitalists and every class of Emigrants: the Gocds, Lati g a world-Wile celebrity, are • old wiilioat inconveni nee, and turn to better interest than any other descri Idler! of merchandise. The inagn tude f E. MOSES and SON'S Outfitting Business in duces ,hem to keep a separa'e Department for Emigrants; they also furnish (without any charge) full Lists of Outfits for Litchis and Gentlemen. with Shipsabing informat &c., either on application or post free, to any part of he kingdom. CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the public against imposition, haTint learned that the untradesman-like tnisehood of " lleing connected with !heir Establishm..nt," or " It's the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons, they beg to state that they have No CONNEXION WITH ANY OTHER HOUSE IN OR OUT OF LONDON, except their own Establishments, as follows : London City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Minories, 83, 34, 85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. London West-end Branch, 505, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, I, 2, 2, Tlart-street, all communicating. Bradford (York,hire) Branch, 19 nd 20, Bridge-street, Sheffield Branch, 36, Far.4ate. Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and shoe Makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. I NIPOR PANT.—Should any article not give satisfaction, It will be exchanged if desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest price, trom which no abatement can be made. The Establishmen.s are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on Saturdays, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock. A new Book, entitled " The World's Pharos," containing the Emigrant's Assistant, full list of prices, and directions tor self-mea surement, may be had on application, or post-free, to any part of the kingdom. A handsome Almanac for the year ending 1853 can be had gratis, On application. NO PILE —The Establishment will be CLOSET) the whole of SATURDAY next, but business will be resumed on Monday morn ing, as csual, at seven o'clock. - • • - -• •• Ici Pon pane Frances. then sr richt man Dent,ch, Qui si parla Italian. Aqua so habla Espanol ON TUE ORDINARY SYSTEM. " The sum the ordinary The sum the Life Offices would give ordinary L 1 1 3 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 Annual thirty at that or sale ,81. fs. 3d. after he has t Premium yearswhen age, of his policy , lpaid into their coffers to assure the party in case after thirty :2491.7s 6d., and which 5 001. is fifty of years'payments they have had the use • years old, death amounting to of at compoun I hewill have will bel 2491. 7s. 6d. interest, or in paid into worth which theyhave the event of his death 1 the office, had the benefit! one hour after such of at compound omission or inability - interest. I to pay. ' l3 $r little more • ,8.3 d 2491.75.5 d. 500/. than 80/. NOTHING. perhaps 901. i ON THE DEPOSIT SYSTEM. Ifun able to pay, or not desirous of paying or omitting topay,thePo liey would still remain of its FULL value, 522/.25.7d.ti1l death, if 20 years atter, no fur ther payment bcingre spired. Ifhowever the party, from any cause, wished to cancel the Policy, he could not onlydr ,w out all hehas put In, viz , 225/., but 0 7/.10 8 A a certain bonus of 6 21 . " 225/. 5221.287 d 2871. 23. 9d. 23. 9d. in the bargain, which is more than one•fourth of the whole of his payments, or he could either draw out a part, 201. or 50/., dimlni,hing the Policy only by the assured value of the sum so drawn out at the age when withdrawn. Sec pagess and7in detailed pamphlet, by F. G. P. Nelson, Esq. On co— ,ksliaer „uiParison of these two tables it will be seen that a person iv ‘iie novel system of DEPOSIT assurance can secure the follow : erg nnta g e a , VIE., Ist. For a less sum, paid annually, he can assure Run in case of death than under the ordinary system. thislin_the event of a desire to surrender his Policy he can receive ;,'"lPany, by the above example, which applies to all ages , as much as on the ordinary system. 3rdly. In the event .er , JitY or omission to pay, his policy remains still his property, 4 or th 'slue value as it was, though he cease his current payments tiothi.3",hurnber of years ; whereas on the ordinary system, he gets mi iho 4thly. Should he require to increase er decrease the h is Policy, be can eo so at pleasure. He can a. , any time, sol o "s a fortnight's notice, withdraw say pa rt from 11 u p to the limit .... a mount of his previous pat ments and with Interest. After he yz ta thdrawn part one year he can, by a single payment, three Its ii7.'„_Or any ti me a ft erw a r ds. raise his policy to a greater or even bmi his an s amount ; and by this system he can at all timesregulate al . winvs by his annual expenditure, with the facility in the ,',!l of having a fund to fiy to in case of nec-ssity, the same as ..teste,, i ',_kt with this palpable advantage, however, that he gets lute wt oh : 11.8 Money, and in case of death his family receive more than !tit of his savings. In ordinary Life Offices he can do uo Ike e4 i ng, but his po icy at once lapses or is cancelled the moment Lthia , e !to Pay h s current premums, and, instead of having any The 3' to for aid, all his hail earned savings become forfeited to rtiotiZ t 3', and his misfortunes serve to benefit the pockets of his Nue unate co-assurers. dad a system is too equitable and too striking to be overlooked ,blitis.4nsrr assurance is the only system of assurance which can be e ' a llY recognised and adopted when the principles are impar t°SfersanTassed, and its palpable benefits become widely diffused. It ;, 5 f10 t ,, greater advantages than a bank because it allows a fair rate isa m i-re . st in case of withdrawal, and gives twice the amount in the %Se of the Company to the representatives of the Depositor in death, thus combining the • ADVANTAGES OF A BANK WITH THE BENEFITS OF In AN ASSURANCE COMPANY. Sy tt „".• of endo wmen t a s su rances the advantages of the DEPOSIT ertl are still more striking. JVAss. TAGES OF THIS COMPANY UNDER THE ORDINARY To LIFE ASSURANCE BRANCH. these who prefer this branch Policies are granted from 201. to 1 . 7,/,. on every known principle thereof. ,_ _es in all but the worst stages of disease, and such as have been toje, so i ,;!_teu by other Offices, are taken at rates equivalent to the pant -Cr disease. t %its from 50/. and upwards granted on every kind of security, eal n,. ' Pers3nal, on the most equitable terms to the borrower 1 Non -forfeiture at every description granted on very favourable terms. br on-forfeiture of a Pot•cy.—lii case of inability to pay the currant ihs 'rn i.. iU nHgt the Directors will citner purchase the Polley at a fair get value, or give a new one in lien thereof, less 5 per cent., inte *hiCh sPonding in amount to the whole of the previous payments have been made. n 'lstened prospectuses with tables in Anther illustration of the De s sett and any farther infordiation may be obtained on appli• on to the Agents in the country, or to CHARLES W. BEVAN, Resident Secretary. X.D.—Agents wanted in all parts of the World. ItEDICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. DR ' SAMUEL LA'SIERT, 31, BEDFORD-SQUARE, y (3. , her of the university I LONDON, b eer of Medicine, and ,Matric - dated Mem Idlnbur, Honorary Member of , the Londo London, &c., Medic MAY Licentiate of Apothecaries Hall, re Hospital Medic generative system, MAY be consulted, personally, or by , letter, on re st „, the various disorders of the nervous exoe ss an es d , genera which have pro 11,k'dieg from juvenile Irregu arities and tt ir : l , l l More misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and promo te*, ..caY at all stages of life, than perhaps any Long and practical experience is tk_mlowrr to modern pathologists. other class of dis eh- seceatment of these diseases has pr i ove a d od th d a i t m th pp er o e th a t r od e lititopexesi.ito ,'xi;_ret causes of self-acquired m Deb,Pee, traceable to certain pernicious habits, Unfruitful Marri eg4'43% various forms of Insanity, Unhappy c is io er us el habits to which Nervous cvil' IMpotency. Local and Constitt:tional Weakness , and their It is m odifications owe their almost entire origin. r ,,_ a absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are in - 47Ples of personal management which cannot be violated w:thout 11 1 , `l,ring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret po su o c o o lt e i e e d s loay' be ' e PlaY of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these a nd b mitigated, how the sting of their bitternessm that !. ) . Nv the evil and Ascot' equences may avoided,Lie . ay zol b ( e to re b m o, a e v a e ll l: le. ti ,, ere 14 *careely any degne of physical infit , mi , yr or funetional 1-.(!)l(7:,lhent to which the t; mely a;cl of science c.,nnot ari)!Y e a_c_t_lrn 14 all l oit LA'IIIERT has fir a long series of years been 11 g7_,'," . minteXtensive practice in the treatment of these delicate cLoL o f „ . and s the only legally qualified l'hyslc , an who, rt.:, ru1t .,. 7 . the`ge taunts and envy of the li, pocritical and mock-modest, hash..l . ait:"rhionee, throrrli the iriedtina of the public press, to . duec i t Ir te. 'en to these enormous evils, from which no grade of society is 1.,,, arln selecting (hi. department of practice, he has been amply ine tr,, t " ,11 by the grt at success that has attended his efforts the care e , u., nolient of these cases, which are too generally confided to hit,,,eattiniqualified and ignorant empiries, who, with their pirated virtues et th e i r oes, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended vi 11 0 ,2% ) . Patent nostrums, have inflicted serious ii.jury on those who 4 !_een induced to 1 lace faith in their pretensions. Six ti t Arne for con ultation daily fnim Eleven till Two, and-from Itedi ,` r-ight. All letters must contain the fee of II , and advice and It T u es can be forwarded to any initials or address. aht t n: dcs.re,le tr ot obtain aat patiof his work on Ments wishing to consult Dr. LA'ERT that patients wlshtng to consult Dr. LA'MERT Obtata a copy (1 , n Ir t v, na SELF - ESERVATION". : Tr eatise on the Philosophy of Marriage, and Nervous , and ern,Z;Lve Debility, illustrated by filly coloured engravings, and i.es tx.c,,4B'n detail the various disorders resulting fro n secret habits and Lleser; 4 ,* The perusal of this treatise will assist in the correct rre l 4. o ll of their cases, and may be had, price 2s Gd, in English, I t ethm.„' Paniah, Dutch Italian or German of Jelessrs. l'iper ' , Oho, 3 9 a11 ,„(1_ 0., 23, Pat . ernoster-tlow; Hannay', market; aLPest f o ' r ',urilhill ; Stone, Titchborne-street, Hay ,or tree buCia, 37 iertY-tWO stamps, to any address from the Author's rest -, al 1410 1D-IKVAIA LONDON. IR. 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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. CIII.VERWELL, hf.D. (1841), M.R.C.R. (1827), L.S.A. (1824), Twenty•five matters. Years Medical and Forensic Referee in there Price Is. each ; by post, Is. 6d. To be bad of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet-street; Mann, 39, Cornhill ;orofM. R. Culverwell, 10, Amvii.place. Revent•street, who may be consulted daily from Ten till Five and Seven till Nine. IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS, AO published, by 11. Banner°, 219, Regent-street, London. No I. gm, in cloth, price ss. by post free, 58. 6d., ( -- )N TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORREICEA, with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors In relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of tl e lenerative System, 1r Sexual Hypochordriasis. Translated from :he (Lerman of Dr. PICKFORDp the first - racti "Dr.Tickford known to English readers by his frequent :al contributions to German m edical literatur e. This is ime, he informs us, that he has fuldressed himself to t he non- ed •ftl reader. We trust this ma y not be the last, i f he shall rr'i 'erect any other equally flagr ant evil which It may he i n hi z •ower to cornet."—Loillon Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851. We rsomised in a ternicr number that we should recur to this w )r".r. in °tile, to exhibit its aim more clowly. The author lashes with great rove. ity the impostors wl o make a livelihood by pre' log on the cic•iliiiity of the public. The tribe, of Quiet Symathisers,' and ' Molkal Friends,' are met cilessly exposed; and if this book xiuld find its wny into :tie hands of those who staffer ft m th com plaint of which it tre,ts, we are satisfied that rn•iny h indreds would ee saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less importance, thrugh it is that which ths quacks most prize— :l.lmb 11 , oney......This volume is well qualified to put an end to the ampiriCal systcrn of treating Sriermatoirhcea, and to place the treat -vrit upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, b.sly to do much good."—Medk al Circular, June 16, 1852. No. 11. . _ rye., n cloth, price 3s 6d., by post free, 45., THE CURE OF STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA, on Prim!. p'es at once Simple, Safe, and Efficient, in even Its most Inveterate and apparently Intractable Forms. BY F. B. COURTENAY, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. "In proot of his views he (Mr. Courtenay) has given the history of a great many cases successfully treated, as bad as my which Mr. Syme adduced, and on which he bad operated. -ucb are eases ix., xi., ail., and xviii. No. ix. had res sted, for a period of twelve years, the treatment by dilitation, and was finally re roved in as many weeks. But cases xviii. and six. appear, both In duraticn, severity, and complication of symptoms, of a more ag gravated character than any detailed by Mr. Syme, and yet the treatment adopted by Mr. Courtenay proved eminently successful.' . . v ; _ _ c+virhira, No. 18,900.] " THE PRESS."—Shortly will be Published the First Number of " THE PRESS;" being a Weekly Paper, intended to fill an obvious void in Journalism, and to com• bine, cm a new plan, Political, Literary, and Artistic Res ources. To be published every Saturday.—Office, 110, Strand, London, vv here all communications should be sent, addressed to the &lino. BY ORDER OF TUE LORDS COM,IISSIOSERS OF THE ADMIRALTY. This Day is Published, g% 0., 2s. W., THE NAUTICAL ALM.ANACK for 1856: To which is added Enke'sd New Method of Po limiting the Perturbations of Plane's; and Adam's New Tables of the Moon's Parallax. "The Nautical Almanac" for 1853, si, and 35, may still be ha I. John Murray, Alb( marie-street THE ERA of SATURDAY next, 23d April, wilfeontain the whole Programme of the w th C,,m ments thereon—Original Articles on Social ,übjects, Literature, and 'I heat kris —A Full end Original Account of York Spring and Mellon Races—The Winner for. Two Thousand Ouincas Stakes by " Touchstone and "Stable Mouse"—Latest vetting The Milt fur re - C - 11 — a — m - lio - n:hip - and 5001.. &c.—Aquatics, Prdesirlani-m, 'rick( t, Hunting, ,ho- , ting, Wrestling, and all sporting information—All the News of the Week in a carefully condensed form The First Hoition of THE ERA is published on Saturday morning at 5 ♦.M. 't he Second E Hion at 12 o'clock, and the Town Ed tion on tunday at 5 A.M., conta'nhig the Latest Intelli:ence on all subjects. Era Office, 3, Catherine•street, Strand. Price Sixpence, L AW LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE, Fleet Street, near St. Dunstan's Church. London, 12th April, 1853. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That ihe DIVIDENDS for the year, 1853, are now Payable Daily between the bouts 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 JoisoN. WEDDING BREAKFAST, BALL SUP PERS, and DINNERS, provided entire, in Town or Coun try, by Messrs. PURSSELL, Cornhill, including Wines of the most re , herche description, and use of Plate, Linen, China, Glass, and Attendance; Seats, Tables, Lights, I macing Hollands, and Instru mental. Music; Wedding and Invitation Stationary, as in Paris; Carriage', Post or otherwise ; an elegant assortment of Bride Cakes for selection ; Dessert and Evening Ices. A competent person sent to receive Orders and give Instuctions as to the Management of Entertainments. _ . ____.......___. Note.—Messrs. PURSSELL have no other Business Premises except those in Cornhill, near the Royal Exchange. ALLSOPP'S PALE ALE, in Bottle and Cask, IMPERIAL 3IEASURE only, at the following prices:— Allsopp's Pale Ale, In Imperial Quarts .. • . • • Bs. 01. per Dozen. Allsopp's Pale Ales, in Imperial Pints.. • • • • .... ss. Od. Ilsopp's Mild Ales, in Imperial Quarts .• .. • • .. Bs. Gd. Allsopp's Mild Ales, in Tmreri4l Pints.. • • • ..... 53. 6d. Allsopp's Strong (the Old Burton) Ale, in Impe rial Q arts .... • .................. -.....105. 6d. ~ Allsopp's strong (the Old Burton) Ale, In Impe rial Pints ••• • . .. • • • • Allsopp's Pale Ale, 18-gallon Casks •• • • •• • • ... ........ 30s. Allsopp's Mild Ale, 18-galm Casks •...... ..... ......• •• • • 335. Allsopp's Strong (the Old Burton) Ale), 18.galloi Casks ...... 455. All Orders must be for Cash, addressed to HARRINGTON PARKER, Beer-Merchant, 51, Pall-mall. TEA. -IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT.- Government having announced by the Chanctllor of the Ex chequer, their intention to reduce the duty upon TEA from 2s. 2 1 Ad. per pound to Is. 10d., with a further progres,ive yearly redaction until it descends to ONE SHILLING ONLY, we have much pleasure to inform our friends and the public, that the ad•antages arising from these proposed reductions will, immediately they come into opera tion, be given to our Customers, and the prices of the whole of our Teas be regulated accordingly. 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. KIDNEY, WELLi, & CO. Tea Merchants and Dealers. No. 8, Ludgate-hill. ' ' ----- . • : -- P - ' . . * _ • . . -.--z-L...-- .---• 7 - --- ~ - • • *VP - . -•••a ‘• '7 • • • .1 ... 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The shepherd, who wants a T t o :vl 2 e s r . for Thisreal work, for his dog, and so also with the dowager Lady Tom Noddy, and the spinster Miss Spinks, for their respective King Charles's, Fidos, poodles, and pugs, to say nothing of all the flack-and-tan won derful Billys, who kill their forty rats in thirty h minutes. On all these the tax will be ra i se d t o an even 125., and instead of losing the 10,000/. 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, 4 p d u . t 2 t i a n n g d t 1 1 1 3 e s. 2 d respective respectively, ta x a s t taxes so of 21. rates 9d". which the gentle vanity of or and argent, gules and azure, in all their various ingenuities of shield or ensign, at 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 assureis-4he 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 6d. 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 31. ss. 6d. 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 87,0001. 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 Advertiser.) 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, in 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 bs preF.ent, that, in the event of the Gladstone Budget suffering in any of its more im portant parts, the inevitable result will be a disso- fution of Parliament. The noble lord who is, on Saturday next, to hold this threat in terrorcin 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 impolitic 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 to re-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 servile 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 — arid 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 wonderful 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 honourable bl mind, must be deemed the reverse of A envia e. rdeen Immediately after the formation of the assigned e st n ra o ti ß oi e l f , o h r e thi Administration, which would be required to revise the . in lltlfi this s session,t reasontha. that the e t t h itm e a r: e : miwonuilsdtebrse t 0 0 0 d g o rea b t ot a h s ttiodnrgesn.der itdimnoplovsswibelefifnodr the income tax would consume so much of . e . time that, though under the pretext that Ali the revision th of. of the Cabinet as to preclude the possibility of bringing in and carrying through a measure of Parliamentary Reform, we are in reality to have no revision of the tax at all. So far, indeed, from its being revised, we are to have it renewed for the long period of seven years, not only with all its present obnoxious features, but with the addition of some new elements of injust:ece.saidHoii7 the noble lord will reconcile what an nouncing the Ministe r i a l po li cy of t relative to the revi s i on o f the incomeliteaxg,esswith what Mr. Gladstone proposes t o d o, i s more than we can tell. What the country will think of the o whole affair, th ere can be ndoubt. i The n i properpe op l e will not h es it a t e to characterise it terms. They will plainly and emphatically call it a piece of downright dishonesty —a regular political 'uggle. No one, we presume, objects to the Budget as a whole. And, assuredly, it never entered the mind of any member of Parliament to propose its entire rejection. We can discern many excellent things in it, and none would more regret than ourselves to see its rejection by the house. But surely the approval of much that is in a measure does not necessarily require that we should approve of all. What we want' is to preserve the good, and purge away the bad. We peek not to destroy the Budget, -z ---z._ but to improve it. Our object is to make it such a measure as will command the approval of the country. Mr. Gladstone has done a great injustice to a large class of the community the least able to bear it, in perpetuating the existing equality between precarious and fixed 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 tithe—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 uow 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 hon. 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. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 1853. 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 cast of the island. This supposed danger• is a bug bear that has•hightened 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 - yiew_have been made, but because a Greek pilot says he has stood on it, a vast suni of money is to be expended in a search which will in all probability prove useless. 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. - PLYMOUTH, Arm, 20. Her Majesty's screw steam-block-ship Sanspareil, Cap tain S. Dacres, left the Sound yesterday afternoon for a cruise in the Channel, to try her machinery. 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, and John Wisher, ordinary seamen, belonging to the Sanspareil, 71, Cap tain Dacres, for desertion, John Reed 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 guilty 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 Tenzer, 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-topgailan tm ast- 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 Devonport, 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 (underadmirdity,iFulations), 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 prothised 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 Hon. 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 reception 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 lieutenant 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. 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 proceeds 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 misunderstanding between them and the aforesaid lieutenant in command, pro tem., de manded and obtained their discharge from her Majesty's service. 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. Commodore Henry Eden, Superintendent at Woolwich Dockyard, will hoist his pendant on board the Black Eagle, steam vessel, temporarily, until Rear-Admiral Stewart leaves for Malta. 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 he the consequence of futile orders, delay, or indifference. In the first place, their lordships, and especially Rear- Admiral Berkeley, would do well to pay a little atten tion to the following from our Portsmouth correspon dent :-- "PORTSMOUTH, Wednesday. " Sidon, 22, Captain Ceorge Goldsmith, went out of harbour this morning, in tow of the Echo, steam-tug, and brought up at Spithead. Report s are very rife that she was taken to Spithead to prevent her men deserting. We are painfully aware of facts, that, unless a statement bo 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 emergeniy. "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 for get 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 treated with derision. We re gret to state that there are many sea lo.wyery pouring subtle poison into the too open ears of the British sailor. We pray of them to be wise in time: - We have opportu nities enough of going among* 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 will burst out in a flame that will not easily be quenched. We speak advisably, but we speak in truthfulness for ' our emmtres sake.' " Now, the.Sidgea is contmariti 6 / I +y 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 pithead, where all leave is stopped. Secondly, we may give their lordships an extract 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 awarded the punishment 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 Qaeen, April 13,1853. " Having seen some good remarks in your paper, 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 ono 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, and witnessed many curious sights, and the cruelties which Englishmen are trying to abolish, but these kind-hearted people should look into the dark corners •f the navy, even in the ships lying at the home ports. It was not long since a marine named received 48 lashes, and after punishment was placed on the poop of a three-decker from half-past seven ii the morning until sun set, for stealing two table spoons full of sugar under his charge while sentry. Ido not mean to say that he did not deserve punishment for the theft, small as was the value, certainly not a halfpenny, but where is the slaveholder 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 weathered Cape Horn or the Cape of Good Hope if he has not felt the southerly wind in the bread-bags. Next comes one pound, as they call it, of beef. I call it bones ; for first comes the captain's steward—he wants a nice bit ; then comes the ward room, then the gun-room ; after these the warrants, and a number of other ' one man's messes ;' after all poor Jack, like the dogs, comes in for the bones. Perhaps 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 hips' company paid a penny a day each for flour. ..T.aaak.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 grievances we want remedied. Then, again, sir, in making 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 the 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 are treated worsa than the dogs that drag the hawker's cart 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 ship 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 must 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 British seaman. It is also from the Plymouth Mail : " 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 terribly mistaken. We have had promises enough already; not 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 t o b ea t th e R uss i a ns back into the Black Sea ; and he may call in vain, for the seaman have gone to raise an empi re o f th e i r own ' in the South. Surely, sir, we are children of another empire ; we cannot have part in the British empire. Only look at the articles of war ! For every off ence th e sa il or may be g uilty of the punishment is de a th or some thi ng wors e ; and the last sweeping article gi ves th e cap t a i n th e power to torture us as he pleases, so lon g as it i s th e l aw an d cus t o m in such cases used at sea. What will Sir James Graham ssy 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 open court-martial rooms to the reporters of the press, so that the public may see how their servants are treated. Sir, we can do all this, and wo can show 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." 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 gooda w n e d llasof treatment, htihlleingyks and pence ; and the ne w the value of lib er t y as 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, Corn mander Von Donop, now at Portsmouth, the crew of which, we hear, have signed a "round robi n " demand ing their pay and having reference to their stoppage of leave both in Australia and in England.—M orn i ng Herald. NAVAL COURTS-MARTIAL. —INCONSISTENCY OF NAVAL LAW.—Two courts-martial have been held this week on men for desertion. ' At Sheerness, one of the sailmakers' crew of the Horatio, named Gibson, was tried for de. sertion, was found guilty, and was sentenced to receive four dozen lashes,. 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, Rothers, 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' tn prison Inca. —lfera!d. [ADVERTISEMENT.] noiloway'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. Signed—Mary Wood."—Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor Iloilo waio gstablitaliments 241, Strand, London, THE BUDGET. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. (Front the Morning Herald.) The burst bubble is the Budget of All the Talents ; and it is a monstrous compound 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 condem 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, ?totem voles s, 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 1001. 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 hale sibovswater 1 And, again, the tax is to be extended to Ireland. Why is all this to be done ? Why are the deli berate convictions of the 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 Machiavellian 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 subject 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. (Dail✓ 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 year ; whilst in the list 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 aro 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 lie is to pay Is. additional license duty. Thus the chandler's shop in a back street in Whitechapel or Bow may have to pay ono 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 151. 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 duty 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 mean 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 1/. 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 THE TREATMENT OF OUR SEAMEN Once more we feel compelled to call the attention of on the home station. If we have pressed our warnings the Admiralty to the state of affairs on board of our ships on their lordships in somewhat stronger language than we have been accustomed to use, it is because we feel assured that there is not only danger in delaying to man our navy, but th ere i s grea t er d anger i n th e continuance of a system which tends to degrade and disgust the petty officers of the fleet, and in postponing the redress of those grievan ces among our seamen w hi c h every day's experience renders more unbearable. That there is an eager dispositio n t o " run " f rom the Royal P en d ant, t h e Admiralty have been duly informed by Sir Thomas Cochrane,l the Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, and he has also given their lordships the result of his personal examination of some of the " common seamen" of the Prince Regent at hi s o ffi ce ; b ut the facts are palpably seen in the unprecedented n um b er o f courts-mart i al on prisoners charged with desertion, and despite of Sir James Graham's ." secret and confid ent i al " letters to the ports, officials the some means the "truth will a e n e d t,,, all ae l d ns t a h t e tein , r p e t a s se t gag n o why,, b will, newspaper. the pblic shall not be kept At a ll even ts we or determinedother, get in ignorance of the real state of thin gs i n our dock yards and on board our men of war. We d e fy a ll Si r James Grahath's efforts to suppress the facts. - W e f e el get o that we are rendering the best service to the country by I. warning the Admiralty of the breakers ahead, of the un- liemselves 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 211. 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 it. Is., instead of 1/. Bs. 9d., because not exceeding thirteen hands. Ponies not exceeding twelve hands pay no tax ; 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. Gd. 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 extra taxation for em ploying several servants, or keeping several horses and carriages. For men-servants, in any number, 11. ls. each is to be paid by the employer if over 21 years of age, and 10s. 6d. if under 21. For horses 11. Is. each, whatever the number, and 10s. Gd. for ponies. Four-wheeled carriages, drawn by two horses,. X. 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 diffeienee between carriages drawn by one and two horges. It will lead to constant evasions and disputes, and be unfair to residents in hilly counties CHARGE OF ATTEMPT TO MURDER. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY. A young man of respectable exterior, named Vivian O'Keefe, was charged with having attempted to murder a girl named Jane Riley, on the 13th of March last, 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 pen e trat e m y s h ou ld er . 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 scre t amed 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. He 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 xt present lodged in the muscles of the back near the spine. He believed the prosecutrix to be at present out of danger. Mr. Snowball, solicitor, appeared for the prisoner, and urged that there could not be a committal under the act of Parliament, 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 mimkte,s' 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, an I connected with the press there. The magistrates declined to accept his bail, and ordered the prisoner to find bail himself in 100/. and two sureties resident in Liverpool in 50/. each. lIE.ILTII OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. ( Front 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 33 . 3 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 la :t 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 58. Bronchitis, though much abated, is still marked by a severity not usual at this season ; it was fatal in 128 cases, while the corrected average of corresponding weeks does not exceed 84. Phtlusis destroyed 165 persons. Pneumonia has de clined to 89, which is also, however, greater than is usual in this month. Mr. Burnett, registrar of the Piumstead sub-district (Lewisham), says :—" The deaths in the quarter in my sub-district are rather above the average. Malignant scarletina has prevailed to a considerable extent in one part of it. The houses are new, and mostly inhabited by respectable mechanics ; the locality i 4 open and airy, but I believe there is no drainage ; whether this fact has anything to do with the disease I cannot tell." Mr. belehatn, 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), wo 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 THE METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FRO/TALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL len Zymotic Diseases P • 219 Diseases of Uncertain Seat Tubercular Diseases Diseases of the Brain. Nerves, and Senses 135 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of 51 Respiration ............................................... Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs Diseases o f Di g e o s f t ot the e . . K . . . i d . . lye . yc . . so . l . ds t . , . e . ... . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus S te . Diseases of the Joints, Bones, Diseasesofpßt Privation, Birth ah S t k iao i n n nd , , &c . . . Malformations .................... Violence, l:3'SPrematureul dd AtrophydAeAge le.. Debility and Intemperance Causes not specified4o 4 10 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES . Population Deaths in cone- Enumerated. sponding week 11. of . West Districts 3 1852 ... North Districts 490,396 Central Districts 393,256 East Districts 485,522 220 South Districts .... 1,243 Dena e in the W 181 256 221 262 323 Totals Males Females 2,30,230 1,092 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK Females Total 1,243 686 557 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 Gd. per day ;'and a Mutual Benefit Society having been formed, the meeting sepa rated,