The Sun. — London, England, 1853-08-09 00:00:00

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This having been done, signal was made to "alter course and general chase to southward," in which the Agamemnon took a decided lead even of all the full-powered steamers ; she was going at the rate of 10 knots, while the full-powered paddle-frigates were only going nine and six. _ After evolution the whole fleet was ordered to chase north by east, when the Agamemnon showed a decided superiority. The fleet was then recalled from chase to form the order of sailing, prescribed, in two columns. Signal was then hoisted "Form line of battle, heads north and east." This having been accomplished to the satisfaction of the distinguished officers on board the chief flag-ship, the order was again issued to form two columns, when the ships Changed places, when the right hand column in the above detail became the left, and the left the right ; in which order they ran up to Spithead, and anchored in succession as they were placed yesterday, with the exception of the Blenheim and the Amphion ; the former of which ships broke down in her machinery, and the latter from the cause above assigned, and were ordered out of the line. All the movements of the day, which were totally out of sight of the shore, were performed without acci dent of moment ; indeed, the only casualty in getting away was a slight one that happened to the Ajax and Hogue by touching in the outward course from Spithead, which caused a small spar to be carried away. These will be found to be the principal movements performed by the fleet on review by her Majesty on Thursday. The Port-Admiral has issued the following order for the guidance of parties on Thursday : EAST INDIA HOUSE, 6th August, 1853. Tau COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST rsiDIA. COMPANY do HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, x t l i s lat the rate of Exchange at which they will receive Cash for furu i r )3 93a1 and Madras will, from the present date and until a c'uce, be 2s. lid. the Company's Rupee, and for Bills on 2s. Id. the Company's Rupee. JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. s o der 3rocire ne ' d es' CoeselOr, Flom . Ai to ns ; York; St' wYak; her, °r LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAIL WAY —TOURS to WINDERMERE an d the LAKES of /,,,, 4.lO RELAND.—Tickets, available for Fourteen Days to the se - ea, are issued at the following fares, by any through trains : First Class. Second Class. 4n n_ r don to Windermere and back £3 10 0 £2 10 0 i,'`,___ord ditto ditto —4 "abligham ditto ditto •' 13 7 order, MARK HUISII. Ge11 er ..,., Manager's Office, Euston Station, Jane 7, 1853. ......,_ ENI said he was a native of canton, and had been branded on the face in Lin's time as an opium smuggler,—unjustly he said—and, further, had been banished to Quangsi. He showed us the mark, and said he had attempted to burn it out, but made it worse. He said this movement, equally with that at Nankin, had had its rise in Quangsi, though they were not abso lutely connected ; neither did they hold the religious views of the others; they retained idols as an old custom, but did not worship them ; they recognised Tien-Tuk as their head, as they said the others did, but these last told us there had not been any such person. Tien-Tuk they said, however, was dead, and that Tae-Ping-Wancr—who is, he said, a brother-in-law of Tien - Tuk — is thephead of the movement, and they had written to offer him allegiance. On being told that we were neutral, he said, " Till we settle the empire we want nothing from you, neither port dues nor duties ; but we hope you will import rice, and we will purchase it of you." He was a quiet, self-possessed little man, and put himself in our power, without the slightest hesitation, by coming on board. I am told they attacked Amoy in hundreds of small boats that could scarcely swim on account of the number of men in them, and, though there was a Chinese admiral with a fleet, which got under weigh, it went sailing round when the insurgents were not beating gongs and firing guns, and only fired at them from a very respectable distance. .inban e n ; ;chanr 3nissels ; )'th Jl lll ' autess o f goniC Db. P l '" Sor e ! Vol!' phi* ON DISPOSING AND SEEKING PROPERTY. By ALFRED COX, Auctioneer, Bond-street, remitted for 10s. T HE Froprietor of BERROW'S WORCESTER JOURNAL (Established 1709) is prepared to CONTRACT at the lowest charges for the INSERTION of ADVERTISEMENTS in that old-established paper. Worcester, August THE INSURRECTION IN CHINA• NETHERLANDS LAND 'ENCLOSURE COMPANY. Notice is h e reby given, that a SPEC IAL GENERAL MEETING of the SHAItiEI-101.DERS will be held at the New Bath Hotel, Rotterdam, on the 15th September next, at Twelve o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of definitively approving the changes made in the' statutes, which were taken into consideratlon at the meeting of the '9th July, 1853. , In accordance with art 52 of the statutes, shar eh ti the offices of lders can ()Mtheain infumation of these mod i fi cations, on application at Company, No. 3, Adelaide-place, Lon d on -bridge. G By order of the Boar d. . FASSON, Sec. C O RNWALL RAILWAY. NOTICE OF Raid u CALL. —FIFTH CALL.-21. per 2'l. Share, making 101.1 . —Notice is h ere b y given, that the Directors o f the Cornwall o I lare a7 CotoPan hve This Day made a Call of 2/. per 2 I. andhave 'Von the y resp a ective Shareholders in the said Company, appointed such call to be paid bn the 15th day of August to either o f the undermentioned Bankers, namely : Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., Lombard-street, London. ossrs. Praed s and Co., Fleet-street, London. TeM Tweedy, Williams, end Co., Truro, Falmouth, and d,uth, Cornwall. Call —4", to pay And the se veral ch Shareh . olders in the said Company are hereby re su REPEAL OF THE ADVERTISEMENT DUTY. HE DAILY JOURNAL AND UNIVERSAL A.!. ADVERTISER. Price Twopenea. Early in October neat will be commended the publication of a new London Mornint: Newspaper, a cheap medium for advertisements for a l l classes. For prospectuses, &c., apply at No. I, Angel Court, Strand. Advertise ments inserted for Sixpence each in the Daily Journal. • Stettin ; Bro thers', )(01 3i ni ; •ne ' ' A ar ..." Jour AY ° . r A " delslJl LAURENT'S CASINO, AR GYLL ROOMS.- - (Lessee, CHARLES E. LAURENT, Onslow-ho•fse, F ulham road.) Open Every Evening. The Orch estra will perform,r uurinl the week, "The Sylvan," "Marie , " "Du blin Exhitition, Flow, of the Field," " Rosaliuda," and "La Croix de Marie," Waltzei the " Topsy," " Camerodans," "England," and " Lago Maggoire" Quadrilles ; " Etna,' and " Constance," Galops ; " Fauchette," "Frankfort," &c., &c., Polkas.— Admission, Is. Doors open at Half-past Eight o'clock ; commence at Nine, and terminate at Half-past Eleven. _._.----- Au,;List 8, 1853. NETHERLANDS OM LAND ENCLOSURE CPANY. Offices, 3, Ad e laide-place, London - bridg e. The REPORT of the DIRECTORS and ENGINEER, with the Balance-sheet, will be READY for DELIVERY to the shareholders, on rp:dicatlon at ,these offices, on and after Wednesday next, the 10th inst. Augatt 8, 1853. By order of the Directors. W. H. BOND, Secretary - b ated Truro, Bth July, 1853. ro rt n Teet'at the rate of 3% per cent. on Calls paid up will be allowed f the 0 ,4% .. date of payment. All interest will cease from the d ste o Call ueing “.. Payable on the whole amount paid up until the tlepai d c ' Pahl, and a charge of 4 per cent. will be made on the d uring the time the said Call remains in arrear. " NAVAL REVIEW NOTICE. " Sailing vessels and boats are requested not to attempt to cross the line of the ships of war about to be reviewed on the 11th inst., or on any account to pass between the columns. . _ ) ken, 1/li, polce 9, 4° G. FASSON, Sec. vV " The steamers should keep to leeward of the columns or ships in order of sailing, as the smoke might p reven t signals being quickly noticed, thereby causing accident. Masters of vessels must be aware that the evolutions of so large a number of ships of war require a considerable space ; they are, therefore, requested to steer accordingly, and not close in to interrupt the evolutions that may be ordered, as they themselves will alone be answerable should any accident occur. " THOMAS COCHRANE, Vice-Admiral, Commander-in-Chief. " Victory, in Portsmouth Harbour, Aug. 8." ,111 ,1 ' A merchant at Amoy, who speaks Chinese, and, f r om the friendly term s on w hi c h h e i s with the mandar i ns , i s Con sidered the best, authority, as sure d me th a t th e re was no chance of the place b e i ng re t a k en. We saw numbers com i ng i n f rom the country, I f anc y just joined. Numbe rs were j o i n i ng their standard. and being sworn in. The general is a grandson of the notorious chief or pirate who gave so much trouble in Formosa in the Dutch time. 3, junl33l , 29, 1/1" qitEAT WESTERN RAILWAY. Notice lit,-,,,Viereby Given, that the next HALF-YE i. It LY GENERAL to the oof the Proprietors of this Company will beheld pursuant Th o „.., Ant of Parliament, in Bristol, at the Bristol Station, on basin y, the 18th day of August next, for the general purposes of pos e 7 and that the said Meeting will be made Special for the pur trsktering and determining lindee the expediency of converting, t en of th irovisions of an Act passed in the present Session, a porn k ort gage _borrowed Capital of the Company into . Great Western and i ss __ ,tock or Irredeemable Mortgage Annuities to be created oth er _a ec en either by agreement to the holders of the Mortgages or to he i' f , thuerities of the Company, or to be issued to other persons P a Yable Mortgages or other Securities which may become due and Neld e b ‘' and also to fix and determine the amount and conditions on be ere atm -uell ,_/ I .°ltgage Stock qr Mortga ; e Annuities respectively shall P m- - r- a nd i...., - .Air Will e o taken at one o'clock precisely. C. RUSSELL, Chairman. Th T r ,_ BAILRINGTON, Deputy-Chairman. Itad W ill _ILFer Boob will be closed on the eighth day of August keen n - ' ut° t be opened until after the said Half-Yearly General Lo.‘sononthe 18th of August. '4u, Terminus, Paddington, July 21, 1853. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-CHEAP 4 ND A y mi c l -EXPEDITIOUS EXCURSION to CgEPSTOW.—On ter cli t ,' 4 tugust 14, a Train will leave PADDINGTON at 7.30 a.m.. tse4 4 e ster and Chepstow with a branch to Cheltenham. It has stogy th.l n ged, in ord er to' give as much time as poss ible at Chep esstti this train shall run through direct, stopping only at Glou- L lth 's Of , k 1„;" w ill give parties ample time to visit the magnificent •`‘iver Ne — ..."Leril Abbey, Chepstow Castle, the beautiful scenery of th m e rete r , f ." and the Tubular Suspension bridge. The Train i w teste r a t, 7 n l C haPstow at 7 p m benChelteham at 7.30 p.m., and G ou '4s P.m. No luggage can conveyed by this train. FARES THERE AND BACK. Clio Firs t Class. Covered Carriages. Oh nh ,i elte wam er • ............ 6 os s.. 0 0 d d : r e s s O o d d . / (Id. Vie , _4 - ye. .... •• „ .......... u s. od. .. .s. _ . . o ....nlaY be obtained previously at 25, King-street, Cheapside , ohs p uu ; a 25 be of Jerrnyn-street); and at _ me n ..., , egent-street, (corner rada nz , + 6 2 , l Station. ~~Bton, August 5. g1g. 7 2 1 0, t i ly , cy June 11, 'ork, PM' st b, lat• Alio, Jul a t. 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PATRON —H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT. . ---33 Y J. H. Pepper, Esq. : On PHOT , )GRA.PHY, with Illustrations, Morning and Evenings BY Dr. Bachhoffner : On CALICO PRINTING by ,The LAND Voltaic Electricity. ;a , 4 ,exHIRE SEWING MACHINE exhibited in Use uatlY, at a narter to ,in addit to the varle ed low' IC LECTURES and EXHIBITIONS Three . O ion n TUESDAYS 4/ .,_ 441 r5, at Pour o'Clock and Every Evening (except Satur lel Tat nte, th FIRST PART of an HISTORICAL LECTURE bui_ tr ClCLAa ll4 - 11 ES," from its Source to its Estuary, by GEORGE - , Ate A E O N. , assisted by Miss Blanche Younge, with appro -01 Jen Tgs. Dv Scenery. Schools, and tl ndren ngs and Evenings. Admission, Is.; Ten Years of age Half-price. SPORTSMEN AND OTHERS. v. _ness-like ada ta • I, e t il il lp ta lt blil i na ll : G P D t 1 o R n for S t B h e displaying t may be obtained at aneh Estab went E MOSES and SON, or at PA.uns,gust,he most bUsi their West-end Co at . , ~, lisboaent. anY p i . ovio e s esi , and Trousers excelling in Style and Workmanship bateonsider Y °lfered • are presented by E. MOSES and SON. ther h ably C heater and ,Z es e , el:kw anmunt of patronage than is possessed by A s - "eaPer th es E. MOSES and SO., . 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William Smith," with the approbation of Sir Richard Torin Kindersley, Knight, the Judge to whose Court the said cense is attached, by Mr. DANIEL CRONIN, at Garraway's Coffee-house, Change-alley, Cornhill, on Thursday, the Ist day of September, 1853, at Twelve o'clock, a valuable LEASEHOLD DWELLING-HOUSE and PREMISES, situate No. 6, Margaret street, Cavendish-square, in the county of Middlesex, with a Cottage, and extensive Workshops. Yards, and Out-buildings, at the rear thereof, held for a term whereof above 4d years are unexpired, under a Lease direct from the Duke of Portland. at the low rent of 601. per annum. the premises are well adapted for the business of a general smith and gasfitter, which business has been carried on there for some years past. Printed particulars and conditions of sale may be had of Mr. George Francis Eland, Solicitor, No. 4, Trafalgar square, Charing- cross of Mr. W. 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At the several past divisions of Profits made by this Company, the Reversionvy Bonrses rOded to the Policies from One-hair the Profits amo.mted, on an average of the different ages, to about One per Cent. per Annum on the sums insured, and the total Bonuses added at the Four Septennial DIVIL'OTIS exceeded 770,000/. FOREIGN RISKS The Extra Premiums required for the East and West Indies the flritlsh Co'cnimi, and the northern parts of the United Mates of Americo have been materially reduced. IN VALID LIVES. 7er o - fs wto are not in such sound health as would erable them to insure toeir Lives at the Tabular Premiums, may have their lives insur 1 r ; Emtra Premiums. LOANS granted on 1' e Po - lcles to the extent of their values, pro vided such Policies shall have teen elected a sufficient time to have attained in each case a value not under 501. ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, received and registered. FIRE DEPARTMENT. —Insurances are effected on every de scription of property at the usual rates. ------- plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many lundreds would be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of much money ......This volume is well qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrinea, and to place the treat men(tMurp°onßTakilmorire rationali"Die ikely to do much good."—Medical Circular , No. 11. June 16, 1852. Kvo.. , n cloth, price 3s. 6d.. by post free, 45., THE CURE OF STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA, on Prim!. pies 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 proof of his views he (Mr. Courtenay) has given the history of a great many cases successfully treated, as bad as any which Mr. Syme adduced, and on which he had operated. such are cases ix., xi., xii., and xviii. No. ix, had res Sted, for a period of twelve ye?rs, the treatment by dilitation, and was finally removed In as many weeks. But cases xviii. atoms. appear, both in duration, severity, and complication of symp, of a more a- A . L d AND SURGICAL WlOtnisK, therefore,il. Just published, by U. Bailliero, 219, Regent-street, London No I. vo., in cloth, price ss. by post free, ss. 6d., fl i N TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORIMEA, N 7 with the view to the Correction of wide -spread Errors in relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the t,encrative System, 'sr Sexual Hypochondriasis. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD "Dr. Hawn! 's known to English readers by his frequent practi cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, be informs us, that be has addressed himself to the non-rnedi sal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his sower to correct •" — London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851. "We Promised in a former number that we should recur to thia wze.c, in order to exhibit its aim more clearly. The author lashes with great severity the impostors who ma a livelihood by preying on the credulity of the public. The tribe of ' Quiet Symathisers,' and 'Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed ; and if this book could find its way into the hands of those who stiffer from the com less importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— gravated character than an etailed by Mr. Syme, and yet the e p a r tm .f.s et r at T io ..i p z t a t b . y n their Course. . TreatmentnaY.pfrovstried.thetnroi____r:ertly successful." MEDICAL ADVICE ON AND MATUR THE SECRET ITY. INF IRMITIES OF YOUTH DR. SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Doctor of Medicine, and Matriculated Member of the University o Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medics Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall. London, &c., &c. m.A . y . be consulted, personally, or by letter, on the various disorders of the nervous and generative system, resulting from juvenile irregularities and excesses, which have pro &iced 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 exist ex is causes able to miseries and disappointed hopes in existence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous Debility, v arious forms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitfhl Marri ages, Impotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their nec essary that all men should know that there are endless modifications owe their almost entire origin, rinciPles of personal management which cannot be violated without p incurring grievous penalt an It is absolutely d when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be retnoved, and how the evil and its ccavequenc es may befirmity avoided, and functional e nctional all. that there is scarcely any degree of physical in or fu d eran gement to which the t imel y aid of science cannot apply a cure DOCTOR LI'MERT has for a long series of years been engaged In an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate com plaints, and s the only legally qualified Physician who, regardless the confidence, through the medium of the public press, to direct of the taunts and envy of the hypocritical and mock-modest, has had attention to these enormous evils, from which no he gr h ade of so een amply ciety is tree. In selecting this depa r tment of practice, as b rewarded by the reat success that has attended his efforts in the treatment of these cases which are too generally confided to the care of unqualified and ignorant empirics, w ho, with their pirated publications, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues se who of their patent nostrums, have inflicted serious injury on tho have been induced to place faith in their pretensionS. At home for consultation daily from El even till Two, and from Six till Eight. All letters must contain the fee of 1/., and advice and medicines can be forwarded to any initials or address. It is desirable that patients wish i ng to consult Dr. LA'MERT shoul first obtain a copy of his work on SELF •PRESERVATION. A. Medical Treatise on the Philosophy of Marriage and Nervous and Generative Debility, illustrated by fifty-colocred engravings, and des cribing in detail the various disorders resulting from secret habits and description French, sp o Spanish, ish, excesses. The perusal of this treatise will assist in t he correct and may be or had, Genn p a ri n c , e o 2 f s 6 m d e , s i s n: . English, Brothers their asDetttcehs, Italian, and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; Mann, 32, Cornhill ; Storie, Titchborne - street, Haymarket ; or free 3" post for forty-two stamps, to any addrer from the Author's real one% 37, BlaroaD•equAare LONDON. " Divide about the broad bride cake, Round about the bride's stake."—BnN Jortsozg. WEDDING BREAKFAST, BALL SUP- V PERS, and DINNERS PROVIDED ENTIRE in town or country, by Messrs. 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The first ordinary general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern; Mr. S. Laing, M.P., in the chair. The usual preliminaries having been gone through, Mr. GROVE, the secretary, read the following report : " A special meeting of the company having so recently taken place, little remains to be said at the first ordinary g eneral meeting to be held under the provisions of the deed of settlement, beyond submitting the subjoined balance sheet and statement of accounts, together with the report of the auditors, which accompanies them. With re g ard to the state of the works and the general progress of the undertaking, the directors have only to repeat their con viction that everything is progressing towards a favour able result. The whole of the south (or Norwood) end of the building has been completed, together with the iron work of the north end, as promised by Sir Joseph Paxton's report of the 2d of July last, and the only operations of any great importance remaining to be accomplished in the building are those connected with covering in the central transept, which has been already commenced, and one of the ribs fixed in its place. The directors have to conna- I i tulate the shareholders on the passing of the act for the West-end and Crystal Palace Railway, and upon the fact that the directors of that company have made such ar rangements as will insure the earliest possible opening of the line for Crystal Palace traffic. The statement of ac counts to the 7th of July last showed that the receipts amounted to' 501,5951. 12s. id., and the payments to 440,55`01.65. 9d. ; leaving a balance of 61,0451.55. 4d." The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the re port and accounts, said, as he had stated a few weeks,] ago all that was necessary with regard to the works up to that time, and, as nothing had occurred since, he had nothing to tell them. The only matter of im portance was that of fixing the first rib in the great central transept, in which there was some mechanical difficulty, but the work bad been satisfactorily com pleted. There was nothing they knew of to throw a doubt on finishing the building at the time specified. He was informed that preparations were making in va rious parts of the country to organise excursions to the Crystal Palace on its o p ening next year, e ct of and from what he had heard , t here was every prosp bril liant success —something like that which attended the Great Exhibition in 1851. Mr. Alderman WILSON complained that the state ment of accounts did not show the state of their affairs, particularly with respect to the item for land, which showed that they had paid only 48,0001. on that account. The CHAIRMAN said, the statement showed the result of the account ; the matter had id been 00/. explained t a and the former meeting. T he y had pa 160,0 land, bad sold a portion of it for 110,0001. Of the 160,0001. they had paid 100,000/. in cash, leaving 60,0001. to pay ; and of the 110,0001. for the land sold they had received 55,0001., and would receive the remainder by instal ments, so that the cost of the land to the company would be about 50,0001. Mr. Alderman WILSON contended that it was the duty of the auditors to see that a proper statement of accounts was laid before the proprietors. Mr, GEACH, M.P., said it would require a certain time before the accounts could be made up so as to show the actual expenditure under certain heads. There was every. desire on the part of the board to give in formation. They had purchased, in the first instance, 170 acres of land from Mr. Schuster for 86,612/. and 178 acres for 81,000 L ; so that the 349 acres had cost 167,7 611 . The policy of securing a s ur p lus q uantit y of land was shown by the offer Mr. Wythes had made them of 110,000/. for 140 acres, which was accepted, I the company in the possess ion of 200 acres at a m A long discuss ion ensued on the question relating to the statement of accoun ts, which resulted in an leaving the figure. carried, to the effect that the report be rde mceeivnetbeing and adopted an d circulated amon g the proprietors, ei accompanied by a detailed statement explanatory of the principal sums paid and received on account account of had been land. The CHAIRMAN stated, that the s open to the inspection of the shareholders for 14 days before the meeting, and they would be likewise open to inspection for 14 days after the meeting, in order to satisfy any shareholder on the state of the st company's affairs. (Hear, hear.) It would be amo unusual course to pubish all the details. Resolutions were passed re-electing the retiring direc tors, Messrs. Laing, Lushington, and Farquhar ; fixing the qualification of the auditors at 100 shares, and the salary at 25 guineas each ; and to allow certain persons to pay up their new shares in full, but to allow no mcre payments in advance. The proceedings concluded with a cordial vote of ;hanks to the Chairman for his conduct in the chair. GREAT MATCH BETWEEN NEWELL AND POCOCK. T 1: e great match between Robert Newell, of Battlebridge . stairs, and William Pocock, of Lambeth, is the principal theme of conversation in the aquatic circles, and so di. versified is the opinion of good judges respecting the merits of the men, that they are very shy in laying their money out. The race, which is for 1001., is to come o f to-morrow, from Putney to Mortlake, and the Cur lew steamer has been chartered to accompany the race, with the umpires on board, for the benefit of the losing ma n. She will leave London-bridge at four o'clock, call at all intermediate piers on her way up to Putney. A very fine race is anticipated. We have been favoured with the following description of Sir G. Bonham's mission to Nankin : H.M.S. HERMES, SHANGHAI, MAY 7. I have just returned from Nankin, having tak Sir George Bonham there. The Governor of this place, and other Chine se a on-- ties, having proclaimed that we_ were going to assis ham with 15 steamers, and it also appearing that the movement was religious, Sir George thought right to show that we were neutral, and, by going up, ascertain their intentions relative to foreigners. On going up to Chin-kiang-foo--which was in the pos session of the insurgents—they, taking for granted the truth of these proclamations, fired onus; and we, supposing this was the cause, and being anxious to come to an un derstanding, did not return their fire. On ending 'this, they desisted, but the Imperial flotilla coming up they re-opened fire, so we passed on ; but the insurgents higher up, and on the opposite side, at Kiou-Chow, not knowing the state of affairs, also fired, but we passed this also with out firing. However, to prevent the recurrence, we seized two Chinese, and promised them some dollars to take a letter to the insurgents at Nankin ; the result justified the precaution, for on our approach they opened fire, without any injury to us, as we remained out of gunshot. On understanding from our messengers that we were neutral they flocked on board with the greatest confi dence, and continued to do so all the time we were there, evincing a curiosity quite unusual with Chinese. Some of the first that came at o nce su gg este d our coming nearer to the town, and actually fell into the capstan and clapt on the catfall to assist in the operations. After inquiry I was going to write, but the fact is they let us know immediately that they professed Christianity —Protestant Christianity—and I believe sincerely, and many of them intelligently so i nor can there be a doubt of their Protestantism , for their ex p ression is character istic ; they always said—as also the Imperialists in speak ing of them—that they were worshippers of Jean, in eon tradistinctioa to that of worshippers of Tien-ehu. -They circulate tracts, not copied from rnissto6ry,tracts, but drawn from the scriptures by themselves, and written in a far superior style of Chinese than that current or, perhaps, possible to foreigners. They are iconoclasts, and destroy every vestige of idol worship. They adopt the Ten Commandments, translated by themselves, to which they have appended annotations ; thus, they state under the seventh Commandment, that smoking opium is always associated with the sin men tioned there, and must be discontinued. They behead for smoking opium, and. bamboo for smoking tobacco. givinge They said they had the whol e of our scriptures, but we only saw Genesis. I gave the m two New Testaments in Chinese, and a naval and m ilitar y Bible. This New th was of T co e u sra e m , e in nt E th n e gl fir ish s . t occasiontiOmnet,hteherewss n ofomoyne present who could interpret it, but the chief opened it, and, after reading two or three passages, showed by his manner that he under stood what it was and valued it; and, on the interpreter returning to my cabin, I told him he was to present it to his Prince. He rose and made several bows, and otherwise expressed his thanks for the present. They are very severe for any, infraction id' morals, and separate the sexes to prevent improprieties of any kind. They hold an open court, confronting litigants—not so in the old Chinese courts—where they nearly always have re course to torture. They style the army the Holy Army," and the name of Nankin they have changed into that of the " Holy City." They style each other "brethren," and they invariably called us " foreign brethrer." I rode with an interpreter about 12 miles, and must have passed 20,000 people carrying rice, furniture, &c., and the interpreter assured me that he only heard one expression that could offend the nicest ear, whereas one can hardly move as many paces elsewhere without tearing many— indeed, I am told the very children use the grossest expres sions in their ordinary play. It was obvious to the commonest observer that they were practically a different race. They had Qitzlaff's edition of Genesis , and the person they spoke molt of was a Dr. Lohoson. This we supposed was either Dr. Hobson, of Canton, or Dr. Lobside, also a m edical missionary. The first belongs to the London mission, the other to the Rhenish mission. Perhaps the latter is the more probable, as he was attached to the same society as Gutzlaff, and is said to have itinerated in Quangsi, where the movement took its rise. On inquiring of an Imperialist belonging to the gunboats above Nankin the cause of t he outbreak, he said that a number of them were in the habit of meeting in Quangsi for the worship of Jesu , a nd that the mandarins prohibited them, stating that they allowed no societies for the propa gation of depraved doctrine ; and as they persisted in meet ing they had some of them beheaded. The remainder took up arms in their own defence, commencing with 200. They now state they have a million adherents. I have no doubt they have several hundred thouiaad at Nankin, Chin-ldang-foo, Yang-Chow, and Kwa-Chow. They had about 20,000 daily employed while we were there conveying rice into Nankin and, assuming that they had 1,C)0 full junks, many of whica we know con tained about 400 tons each, they must have 150,000 tons, all which the Imperialists have been deprived of, being Government tribute. They were organising their forces, anti we saw them erecting batteries and putting guns in Win—some of them good 24-pounders. - They seem very sanguine of success, and hold the Impe rialists very cheap. With similar arms the former would have no difficulty in going direct to Pekin in a few days— certainly in a very short time. I believe, as it is, the in ' surgents will walk out of Nankin when they please so to determine. Meanwhile the difficulties of the Imperialists are increasing, and with that their senseless policy, of squeezing the people, even their most faithful adherents, and the feeling in favour of the insurgents is daily on the increase. They often say, "We knew 'this would be the last of his race ;" and an English merchant at Shan g hai told me that a Chinaman told him, several years ago, hat this was the feeling existing in the breasts of some at that time. While some of the Imperialists are saying " t is the will of Heaven that Tae-Ping-Wano. lsucceed," others are saying, " Wait a little, and' should it it will all blow over." The insurgent said, " you will see a . heavy and decisive blows. A Chinesescontinue to strike with us, describing the insurgents, that we took up of their word. If they say they will bamboo, make your mind easy, they glue you Th 20 licks lia:kse men a 19." Now, it is most unusual for a c w h i i l u l anmotausttoopdshoowrthaatt he says or mean what he says. They are most frank in their manners • quite unlike what we are accustomed to in the Chinese ; and, but for some misunderstanding about a claim of supremacy, w hi c h they were said (I think improperly) to have understood them better, have set up, we should They are fanatical, but not to the extent at first sup posed, and I dare say , less so than we think, and little difficulty, I think , mi ght be made with less so. They believe they have a mission from Heaven to kill all the Mantchoos, and the y certainly put this in execu tion as far as they can ; and, without attempting to justify this practice, I b elieve that nothing shortof driving them out of the country can make civilisation progress ive in China. They state that their King was t nup into H eaven ref a nd there invested w ith p ower to • , but this is mixe d up with that wh ich must be figurattv and therefore that mean no more tha n is said of all Chinese Emperors, that they are empowered by . Heaven to rule. They say that their King has received revelations from time to time from God ; but it is to be observed that these are all respecting temporal things, rule of life ; they refer to things and do not refer to tile of temporal import. I am the more inclined to believe that they do not hold these extravagant notions, from their saying that their scriptures were the same as o urs, and that we brethren, &c., and from Tae-Ping-Wang were ang so distinctly com manding that his people should not use towards him even those expressions which are used in speaking of all " their “ Supreme," " High,nd former sovereig ns—such as "Father," as these belong only to God. Then he makes somewhat light of rulers in thecompar o f what the old C ovenanters and others would call " elect," and properly so, when he s a y s, the rulers are chosen re of God and are His children, but they who are good a specially so. They have no priests nor ordained teachers—holding that all believers are qualified for such purposes, yet they have people with ecclesiastical titles. Be they fanatical or. not now, ley take the Bible for their rule of life a nd circulate it ff ly, it will produce its necessary fruits and eradicate all such errors. That they value the Bible I can have no doubt. One of our men offered to buy one that was given eye of them, but he re fused to sell it ; neither would he let it out of his hand. The only specific information wq could obtain relative to the Imperialists was from the insurgents, and was to the effect that they were in considerable numbers close rip to the walls of Nankin ,• in fact, that their respective ad vanced posts were within gunshot of each other. Yet this did not seem to affect the insurgenis in the least ; for dur ing the few days we wore there they had at least 20,000 men e mployed unloading and carrying the rice into the city; many more were employed carrying guns , i s m, into position, others in erecting batteries, and others throwing; up breastworks on the opposite side of the city to the Im perialists —intending to • repel us ehould we attack them, or the Imperialist flotilla ; but there was no chance of its going higher than Chin-kiang-foo. Confidence was said to be on•the increase among the old p o pulation, and they were graually returning toe heir homes, and I fully believe this to be the case, as w e saw many carrying furniture and clothes, tec., into the city. We observed, also, that the houses of the better classes of Chi nese were sealed up by the insurgent chiefs, I fancy to pre vent their being plundered ; not Sr those of the Mantchoos, which they evidently consider fair game—the disgorge ment of unjust gain and plunder, from them or other Chi nese. Their clear principle is Ckina for the Chinese. N a reliance can be placed on t i le statements of the Im perialists, but they may be estitaated somewhat as they were in the latter part of theirs .4 . With us—in proportion ga i n ing,..n that ratio were they as they said they were losing. yesterday they posted up hets, notwithstanding that the authorities knew to the coltrary, and also that we knew full well to the contrary, that Chin•kia,ng-foo was retaken by the Imperialists on tha Friday before we passed up. We knew that it was in the hands of the insurgents 1 (and likely to co ntinue so) a urea later. It was said for some time that L descendant of the Ming dynasty (the last Chinese one) xas at the head of this I movement, but on our' asking Pam if this was so, they said not, and seemed indiffert'to the influence which they would lose by the denial, for the idea was not with- 1 out its weight among the Chinese. They say they are merely waiting a mandate from Heaven (this is the statement of a s ubordinate) to proceed to Pekin, see - ming to make quite tight of the fact that there is a Mantchoo arm y on the route. What a set of imbeciles the Imperialists are may be Othered from the fact that the general commanding the armies at Nankin was in com mand in Quangsi, and was disgraced N a not having put down the rebellion in its earlier stages, but by the succes sive degradations of his superiors has again risen to the chief command, and the Emperor has lately invested him with vice-Regal power over seven provinces ; and how anything may little dependence there is upon his achieving be gathei ed from the fact tlat he has been professedly beating the rebels and destroying them all the way up from Quangsi ; and yet with such impunity did the insurgents travel, with this conquering allay at their heels, that they brought their wives and families up with them, and have them now, with few exceptions, at Nankin. It has been are - _,ued that the insurgents must be very think ; fplrea understanduct et h country e af y r oewr knew f theyu lww ,dhpanohf lull en a , antd l weak, since they have not held any of the towns t r owna n th l ey .cap tured as they passed along—withou t well that if they took theeas reason, the intol or hialhe E enoEmpire; these pthf affection e ero i hese r ut;l h t:odhh a nhe n e ayty d ufvo s rewr , rne et sincemrrheeomeaunbnrttl regardless de h ec h e n coons Mantchoo nr m iotf. ule f r nkvd r thateele. pbr:npet e De termined a in re ed tre th at w e i de stroying his 'ships, they gained both moral and physical force • and, strange enou g h, on any ot h er supposition than P that the Imperialists are h orr id poltroonsthough these insurgents show no dispositi on t o re t urn to their own pro vince, the Imperialist Chinese army has planted itself in the rear, instead of forming, or endeavouring to do so, a junction with the Mantchoo army, to protect the approach on the capital, or to raise the siege of the Grand Canal, the investment of which is starving the capital out. It is horrible to think that they cut off 20,000 Mant choos, even to the infant at breast, but they seem hostile only to them ; but it is still more horrible to think that the Mantchoos, in two of the many provinces, cut off as many in the name of justice within the year (we know of 2,000 in six weeks)—and this in the name of justice! The former is the exception, the latter is the rule. It may prove the least sanguinary practice in the end. Like Crom well's severity at Drogheda, it has struck terror into their opponents • the Mantchoos are chopfallen and almost af ra id to approach them • they say that six of them would beat any 20 Imperialist; ; they talk of their strength, when we know a multitude of them are but boys, and of their red eyes, Vic. If they succeed—and I fancy they will, and soon—they will deliver 300 millions from the grossest of immoralities, the most grovelling of idolatries, and the most grinding of tyrannies. China will be opened to light, life, and civili sation, all which will be thrown with all their influences and importance into the Anglo-Saxon scale. If they fail, Protestant Christianity—for whether spoken of by themselves or Imperialists, they are always styled " Worshippers of Yesu, ' which is characteristic—will be proscribed,-• because they are identified by individuals among, if not by all the Imperialists, as connected with , - Protestant Christianity, but who are now too politic to proclaim it, lest it should originate a sympathy among us. A partial despotism will be re-established for a few years ; meanwhile the Jesuits will be active, working through their old ideas and form of worship,, and may establish a Romanist dynasty, that is a Court professing the Roman Catholic religion ; and if the influence of these 300 millions be thrown into the Popish scale, unless God himself work a miracle for our deliverance, good night to liberty. The French Consul at Shanghai says it is a conspiracy got up by the Protestant missionaries and Canton servants of the English houses ; and there can be no doubt but that he will make every political use to their, and to our, dis advantage if they fail. The French have long shown their hostility to the move ment, yet they professed ignorance of its plans and princi ples, stating that they had no information; but since our return they have confessed that they had men (if not mis sionaries) among them, in disguise, however; for one of the insurgents confessed to us privately that he was a Roman Catholic ; and it is clear that they must have known, for the Tontai Governor of Shanghai told me that they had killed several Roman Catholics. This might well be of converts to the Jesuits, who permitted in their con vents the worship of ancestors and also a sort of baptised I Buddhism. One of the Hong Kong papers mentioned some time since that a number of military-looking priests had landed at Canton, as he supposed, to assist the insurgents; thinking at that time that the 'movement had been originated by the Jesuits, most likely they were going to assist the Im perialists, as the French wanted us to do, and even got a requisition made upon us to do so. Thousands of the insurgents visited the Hermes, and some few—very few—spoke a little broken English, and said they had been at school in Hong Kong. One said there were those among them who could translate the English scriptures. One said, on going down among our men, that he was a Protestant ; several said they were of the same religion as them ; others, again, said that they were of the " Ten Commandment religion," the same as the schools at Hong Kong; and one said he was of the same religion as " King Victoria."- When I went into the city to see the chiefs we were guided by a very nice boy of about 16, who, it appeared, had run away from his father. He spoke good Mandarine, and gave us tolerable information on some points. The earnestness with which he enjoined the avoidance of certain vices, and the adherence to the Ten Commandments was amusing, stating that they knew they would not win the empire unless they kept them, and interlarding this with petitions for a double sword. He told us that Tae-Ping-Wang had 36 wives • the Princes 12,43, 6,4, &c.; but that polygamy was not al lowed among the people generally. But, on being asked whether they were small feeted, he said they were all large, as they came up from Quangsi. This satisfies me that he could not have been well informed, as I think it was im possible that they could have brought up so many from Quangsi, and that it is very questionable whether they allow polygamy to any. However, it may be so, as they seem to have had much more knowledge of the Old than the New Testament. We took them by surprise in our visit, and, as some of their chiefs were absent, they had to be sent for. After detaining us a little, one of them came in and apologised for the delay, assuring us that this was the cause, and in treating us not to suppose that any slight was intended. However, when they did come we did not get on, from some difficulty or fancied difficulty- -I fully believe the latter—about etiquette; and therefore we were obliged to leave, in the opinion that it was a fancied difficulty, and that they did not claim supremacy. I think lam borne out by their wanting us to stop, dine, and sleep, and see Tae-Ping-Wang in the morning. This was 5.30 p.m., and, as we had six miles to return, we knew they would be anxious about us on board ;so we left abruptly. They, 1 however, came out among the crowd to see us away, wish ing us to wait for chaises or better horses, and would not hear of any of us walking, as one or two wished to do. Quantities crowded round, but all were civil and good humoured. . An Imperialist told us that he had heard it stated as a reason for the movement, that " Huen-su-chuen, or the Tae- Ping-Wang, had passed the first examination for literary honours, but that, on appearing a second time, though a very clever man and fully entitled to his next step, the examiner, from some improper motive, would not give it him ; and he said it might be that he was discontented at this treatment, and so stirred up a rebellion against authoiity." On our repassing Chin-kiang-foo they fired on us, and in consequence of our returning it the general came down with a letter of apology, and sent it off. A Maoutsee, one of the aborigines that have never been conquered, and who live in the mountainous districts of Quangsi, came off for the answer. This man stated that his people had had the s criptures for 200 years, and on questioning him, through an interpreter, stated that these Scriptures had come down from Heaven about 2,000 years before, and were the same as those the remainder of the insurgents had ; that they had been taken to Pekin about 1,000 years ago ; and that it was thence his people got a copy, which they had multi plied. They were most hostile to the Mantchoos for their continuous persecutions. I fancy they have settled the vexed question as to the proper rendering of God into Chinese. I fancy, they say I am Shangto, and thou shalt have none other eikons but me." I have no doubt they will also show us that the Chinese translators have used other improper expressions, and have so been misunderstood, because the teachers that such translators have to assist are seldom Christians, and are therefore nearly unacquainted with religious nomenclature. A literary Chinese thinks very little of a man that uses a common-place style either in writing or speaking. The quiet self-possession and confidence of the leaders we came in contact with was quite nu-Chinese. When it was told them a second time that we should in future re turn their fire, they seemed to think that we wished to frighten them, and said, " Well, do as you please ; we are not afraid." Another time they said, If you are come to assist us, we shall be glad ; but do as you please ; we are independent of your assistance ; only, if you are going to join the Mantchoos, be good enough to let us know." And when told if they came to Shanghai and attacked any of our people there, they would be treated as the Mant choos were in '42, they said, " But why should we fire upon you ; we are brethren, and worship the same God?" Their policy is only to be known by first knowing their religion ; and this, because of imperfectly understanding their language, wo are not clear about. On the inter preter's first visit he endeavoured to explain to ono of the princes the power and resources of England ; he said, "We don't want to know that; we want to know your religion." SHANGHAI, MAY 16. A Dr. Taylor, who went up in a boat with a view to obtain an interview with the insurgents, returned, having only got to Silver Island, but there ho found a large num ber of Buddhist priests, who most gladly accepted copies of the scriptures, and took others with a promise of for warding them to the insurgents, who were only two miles higher up. He stated that the Imperial flotilla had been up part of the way again, but, finding it so much stronger, did not wish to go further. The captains stated that it wanted power and shot, and was of no use ; that, as a last hope, they bad determined upon a joint attack of the army and flotilla, for which purpose they had dressed 600 Canton Broves in a uniform as nearly like the English as they could make it ; but I am very much mistaken if they will do even Patrocles' work with Achilles' armour. The Tontai at Shanghai who has been the most active — I cannot say stout-hearted, for he is afraid of being saluted even when ho visits a ship—is so doubtful of the result that he has ordered the last vessel ho bought not to go further than Kiang-Sying, not within 30 miles of Chin- Kiang-foo. The feeling in favour of the ins ur g ents is daily on the increase, and the Mantchoos are senselessl y. acceleratin g this, wh i 1 for e th theye insurgents,r pl u n d o n e ri t n h g e their n i tr a a d ry he , raernetsvreiryghpt particu left, lar to pay for e verything, and, if they borrow, to find bonds. Pekin is in a dreadful state, in consequence of the Go vernment issuing paper money to meet their difficulties. The 'bankers are also leaving and hiding their money, lest they should be obliged to accept it. Four families have been directed to make up nearly 2,000,000 taels (about 7s. 6d. each)—that of Keying and others, who have been Prime Ministers. The late Viceroy who was killed at Nankin had been ordered up to be beheaded ; his family have been degardecl and his property confiscated, all which is producing such an effect that I fancy the mandarins are th believe, svae b eg inning to think of passing over to the insurgents their lives. The Tontai of Shanghai, who has b een th e mos t active against the rebels, is suspected, an d I even under arrest. _ ..,...._ HONG BONG, MAN 28. We arrived at Amoy on the 23d, and found it in the hands of a band of insurgents, and learnt that they had taken several places here without much difficulty ; that in a space of 40 miles they had met with 30,000 adherents, and that there was no chance of the Imperialists being able to raise a sufficient force to overthrow them. Their conduct had been marked with the greatest mode ration, having repressed all crime with a strong hand, decapitating summarily for grave offences. They gave English merchants guards to protect their lives and property. We saw one of the chiefs, a small, but intelligent man. He said he was nephew t o one of the most respectable Chinese residents at Singapore, where he also had been. He On inquiry here I find that the " Lobosen" spoken of with such respect is the Rev. Mr. Roberts at Canton, and he states that the " Tae-Ping Wang," ("Prince of Uni versal Peace") was a student of his, and applied for bap tism some years since. Lye, who was the chief with whom we were most in correspondence, was amember of the Bap tist mission at Canton, used to preach at Hong Kong, and was a teacher to Mr. Roberts. He told me that he was personally acquainted with " Lobosen," and be was de scribed to me at Hong Kong by one of the clergymen of this mission. There could be little doubt of his identity, as his surname agreed and he had a double chin, with a somewhat remarkable scar on it. I enclose a remarkable statement, drawn from informa. tion of the above-mentioned Mr. Roberts, but which was more fully stated in the New York Recorder of the 9th of February, 1853, which goes far to justify nay conclusions, that our interpreters have not understood some of the writings of the insurgents, and charge them with very grave extravagances, when he merely means to say he had dreams or visions, and not, as they state, " revelations ;" yet it is by no means strange that among half-educate people there should be some extravagance, and they must be a remarkable people that there is so little error and so much truth. I have just learnt that an order was sent to Foo Chow for reinforcements to bo sent thenceto join the Imperial army. There are said to be 60,000 troops there, composed of Chi nese and Mantchoos. The Mantchoo general said the Chi nese should go, and the Chinese said the Mantchoos ought to go. The result of the conflict of opinion has been that no reinforcement went. The missionaries who came from there lately state that they had spoken to many influential people, and that they all said, when they could do so privately, that they and the people generally, were only waiting an opportunity to go over, and that when the insurgents appeared they Would declare for them. Many Chinese here state that they have been informed by letters from Pekin that even there the insurgents have adherents ready to join them on their ap proach. MAY 30. It is reported that 100,000 insurgents are marching on Canton. This is most probable, as they said they would some time since. lam credibly informed that the Nankin insurgents have received money from time to time from Canton, and the rising was the result of the fall of Nankin. The Governor-General has of late been committing some atrocities in Quangsi, and that may have precipitated matters ; if so, they will be made to pay dearly for it un less they take themselves off without much opposition. Some there will be, who, from pure motives, will say this movement will be put down and that the professions of religion are hypocritical. Others will say the same from interested motives. lam as sure as I can be of any thing still uncertain, that there is a living principle among them that cannot be extinguished, and persecution will but serve to light up that bright " light in China that can never be put out." Except in the destruction of the Mantchoos their conduct seems to have been marked by wonderful moderation for a revolutionary movement ; and can it be wondered at that mcn, just emancipated and raised to moral status—which, it is true, that Christianity only could effect—with a rapidity that left no time to learn that " not by might, nor by power, but by the spirit of the Lord," in such a state of things as they were subject to, and under which their people are groaning and grovelling, should suppose that it was the will of Heaven—a holy work, by any means, to throw off this incubus, and say to 300 millions—Be free, be good, be great ! 1 only hope you may be interested in this movement as I have been ; then you will be able to overlook the faults of this, and excuse the length. I write to save post. We are to start-to-day for Shanghai if this news from Canton does not stop us. THE REVIEW OF THE FLEET. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 8. Rear-Admiral Corry struck his flax , on board the Prince Regent, 90, at a quarter past' 8 o'clock this morning, and hoisted it on board the Agamemnon, screw, 91. The steamers of the fleet had steam up by 8 o'clock, and by half-past the Prince Regent was taken in tow by the Valorous to the Knab Light, where she anchored, and was shortly followed by the London, in tow of the Vulture. Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane hoisted his flag on board the Duke of Wellington at 10.40, and shortly afterwards the fleet weighed and steamed out to the south-east, where they ranged in line, broadside on, apparently as if trying the intended pro ceedings for the review. At the moment of dispatching this they appear through the haze (which is very thick) to be returning to Spithead. The Queen, 116, Prince Regent, 90, London, 90, Magicienne, 16, Valorous, 16, Tribune, 30, and Vulture, 6, appear to have taken up their anchorage off the Knab Light. The Terrible, 21, paddle-frigate, arrived this afternoon to join the others, and saluted the Port Admiral. Roar-Admiral Berkeley returned from Chichester las evening, and took up his quarters with Captain Chads at the Royal Naval College, and continued the arrange ments for the review to-day with the senior officer. It is considered somewhat remiss, that, considering the Admiral of the Fleet of Great Britain (Admiral Sir Thomas Byam Martin, G.C.8., Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom) is sojourning at this port, the compli ment of commissioning him to hoist his flag (union at the main) and take the command-in-chief on Thursday next, has not been paid him. The gallant officer's energies are quite equal to the task, and, being at the head of the entire navy, his selection for such an office for the day would have been most apropos, and highly appreciated by the service. The Bulldog and Gorgon steamsloops will bo commissioned by Cap tain Chads of the Excellent and Captain Shepherd of the Victory, to carry some hundreds of the Legis lature and the Government friends on the occa sion of the review ; and the Stromboli will also be commissioned by Commander Sir Wm. Wiseman, Bart., for similar service. A steam-vessel is also placed at the disposal of the Imperial Royal Family of Russia, now sojourning in this country. One part of the grand spectacle of Thursday will be, we believe, an attack on one or more of the great line-of-battle ships by the gun boats of the fleet. The First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir James Graham, M.P., arrived on Saturday evening at Southampton, and embarked in the Fire Queen for Cowes, whence he proceeded yesterday to Portsmouth, and consulted the Port-Admiral. He returned to Cowes, and left Southampton by the first express train for London this morning, accompanied by Lady Graham and a small party of friends. The Admiralty have issued tickets of invitation to 2,000 of their friends, and first-class accommodation hav ing been required for them, and the South-Western Rail way Company not being willing to provide it at the ex pense of the public convenience, the company has had to provide first-class carriages to meet the engagement by borrowing from another company. The South-Western Railway Company also will start steam-boats from Southampton for the accommodation of hasftbeen public. The Peninsular and Oriental Company will also appear afloat by tinon a e br o i r li i i n an or t e p o a f rt t y h . eir T n he obl Tag noble steamers, eaeenee p se lected to accommodate the general officers and others from the Camp at Chobham to the number of one or two hundreds, who may be off duty that day, with two mili tarye l bands. Viscount Hardinge, G.C.8., Commander-in- Chief the Army, will b e the guest. of Major-G enera l Simpson, ChGieefnra o the Gov ernor of Portsmouth, on the occasion, and will have suitable accommodation afloat provided for and party ; as a l so w il l Baron Raglan, steer himself, staff, dem neirr aalltyofbtahregeOrwdinll beanc e The in charge of Lieutenant Mason, of the Victory, the senior lieutenant of the fleet. REHEARSAL OF THE REVIEW. The fleet has returned, and we have gleaned the fol lowing particulars of its proceedings : This morning the captains of the fleet were signalled to repair on board the Duke of Wellington, to meet the Commander-in-Chief, Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Coch rane, and receive instruction for the day's movements. Sir Thomas was attended by Rear-Admiral Berkeley, Rear-Admiral Corry, Captain Sir Baldwin Walke r. Lord Lev en (Lieutenant R. N.) was present as a visitor. Having recei ve d th e order of the d ay , th e captains tie 1 li re turned to their ship s , w hi c h h a d s t ea m up, and got under z eigh in the following order, forming columns Oa' Ed B in ta b r u b r o g a h r : i i L m i pr n : .-- ieu D se u , ke Ahi of Wellington, Highflyer, lington, Blen,...he.i.mn: and Leopard. Tribune, Desperate, Sidon, Encounter, The sailing ships Prince Regent id London were d were met Port Line.—Agamemnon, Ho g ue, Ajax, Arrogant, enne. These latter then h a : towedwhen halfou t wayby the eu Valorousthy the and anchored. The Amp lon was not keep her station, l and wards returned to St Helen's. from Falmouth and joined Queen, in tow of the lkfagic ll went ' round to St. Helen's and Vulture, an company, to return into port. The w stern of the weather Inei w n h so slow that she could The Terrible then arrived but was signalled fleet then She after wards to shift to the then changed their asoclecmfis THE CAB QUESTION. ( From the Morning Chronicle.) We can now approach the discussion of the cab ques tion in a more dispassionate tone than was possible ten days ago. Indignation is impatient of argument ; and neither we nor our readers were then in a position to take a very cool or deliberate view of our future rela tions with the proprietors of hackney carriages. All that we cared to know was, that a substantial abatement of the alleged rigour of the recent act had been offered to the cab trade before the strike—that the owners and drivers struck in spite of this concession, making other and preposterous demands, which they did not get — and that they returned to work exactly as they had quitted it, without succeeding in their preposterous de mands. What they struck for, but did not get, was the appeal, and a shilling instead of sixpence for the shortest hiring. What they had been offered by way of abate ment of the act is now embodied in clauses 13 and 14 of the Hackney Carriage Duties Bill, which, having passed through committee, now awaits a final discussion in the House of Commons. We have all along contended that the entire abolition of back fares constituted a substantial grievance. It was a hardship to hire a cab, say at Cumberland gate, at any hour of the night, for a six miles fare into the country. To the reasonableness of the relaxation of the law, as at first propounded by Mr. Fitzroy, giving a shilling a mile for every m il e b eyond the first four, we assented, though aware that it was a double boon to the cabman, as curtailing the distance and in troducing shilling fares. But we were soon convinced that the clause giving this shilling a mile for every mile after the first four beyond Charing•cross or Temple bar, is an injustice. London is far too large for a single centre. We neither have, nor ought to have, a milliarium aureum. The old heart of London was the Standard at Cornhill ; but this is extinct. If any place can claim to be the central sun of the Lon don nebula, it is the Post-office. But for locomotive __---.. - purposes, the metropolis ought to be divided into sepa rate departments. Bow is as much within the Lon don limits as Brompton ; uni so is Upper Holloway. The streets teem with population the whole way. A complete London native may find himself in want of a cab eastward or northward when he is already four miles from Temple-bar. We see no reason why there should not be many starting points from which the compulsory four miles may be taken— e. g., the Angel at Islington —Shoreditch Church—Aldgate Pump— London-bridge—Hyde-park Corner—all the railway sta tions—King's-cross—and the like. It is the vice of the Legislature to regard the Houses.of Parliament as the centre, material as well as political, of the British uni , verse ; and to fix upon either Temple-bar—or, still worse, as was at first proposed, Charing-cross—is a boon to the aristocratic West, at the expense of the poorer and more populous East of London. As to the other clause, which, when more than two persons are con veyed in a cab, gives sixpence for every passenger above two, whilst the existing act gives only a single sixpence for any number of passengers above two—the objection to it is, that it is perfectly superfluous, and only entails inconvenience on the hirer, without any gain to the driver. For example, if it is required to take a family party of five to a theatre within a mile, it will be actually cheaper to hire three cabs than one. Three cabs will cost eighteen-pence--a single cab will cost two shillings. Again, two cabs, for four persons, will cost one shilling —one cab, for four persons, will cost eighteen-pence. Perhaps Mr. Fitzroy has an eye to the pictorial effect of processions. A family party, settled in a succession of cabs, will give some grand combinations and novel street attractions ; and an ordinary Bloomsbury soiree will afford occupation and amusement to a string of a hundred vehicles. The change has surely only its own cumbrousness to recommend it. From much that we hear, we can only look forward to a single solid remedy for the present, and perhaps unavoidable, defects of any legislative measure. The cab trade still sulkily obstructs, to say the least, the new act. Their clamours for the appeal are deep, if not loud, and another srtike is by no means impossible. But mat ters have come to that pitch that the very slightest re laxation in this direction is impossible. Summary juris diction before the police-courts has secured the decency of the drivers. This single provision is vital. London may at last take its drives in security—the moral tyranny is at an end, and for ever. If, however, the cab and omnibus trade will not submit to this most excellent provision, we must find those who will. Yet we must remark that, in the countless difficulties about the number of per sons to be carried, the fares, and so forth, an entirely free trade alone will adjust all hitches. We see enough of acts of Parliament, present and prospective to feel convinced that no measure can be devised which shall secure entire fairness, and prevent all in equalities. Nothing but free trade will do it. We see no reason why there should not be on the stands cabs of various qUalities and prices. We should hail shilling-a mile vehicles complacently as we should welcome four pence-a-mile cabs—the one class would be found to answer just as well as the other. And if the present cab-owners will not accept a monopoly, with its neces sary accompaniment of restrictions, they may depend upon it that the public will be benefited by the total abolition of the monopoly. Meanwhile, a stimulant may be usefully administered to the parties entrusted with the publication of the lists of fares. The public are very reasonably com plaining of the tardy and inefficient way in which the provisions of the new Act are carried out. The fares are not measured. The regulation requiring the fares, and the number of persons carried, to be painted inside and outside the carriage, is not complied with. Adequate supervision as to the character of horses and vehicles is not exercised. That the act has already done so much in civilising Cabby, only proves its latent capabilities for achieving further good. The good temper and public spirit with which the inhabit an t s o f the metropolis met the inconveniences and losses of the late unprincipled strike, require an ex erc i se o f corresponding energy on the part of official s . A n d , till the book offares makes its appearance, half the benefits of the improved system are in complete abeyance. WESTMINSTER -BRIDGE.—Yesterday the new act, passed on Thursday, to transfer Westminster-bridge and the estates to the Commissioners of Public Works and Pub lic Buildings, and to enable the commissioners to re move the present bridge - and to build a new bridge on or near the same site, was printed. All former acts are repealed, and the Commissioners of Public Works are constituted a corporation, for the purposes of this act, and the former corporation is dissolved. The rent-roll of the houses belonging to the bridge amount to 7,406/. ls. 6d. a year. General powers are given to the newly appointed commissioners of the bridge, and they are authorised to construct a new bridge with proper ap proaches, according to the plan deposited in their office, which plan may be inspected on the payment o f I There are several clauses to provide against dam Until the new bridge, and penalties may be enforced the new bridge is completed and thrown c o o p m ento uni t ni public, the commissioners are to keep up a Com tion between the Middlesex and Surrey pensation is to be given to the (ffiicreortus offices. As soon as by reason of the abolition i of their t s h h e o r o e l s d . bridge, convenient, the old bridge s to be taken down, and the materials sold. THE NEW ACT, on SAVINOsSe .BoAnNsene, gs banks an rutn tues. Yesterday the new act justp,l d cslieate and amend the nu itics was printed. I laws, and t ) grant additional A nn uities, through the medium tiios to onso nal facilities in r elation to the purchase of Government mee i to make other provisions in re spect thereof. of savings banks, Someand portions of the acts relati ng t o such matters are to be repealed on the 10th of October ; and from that day the National Debt Commissioners ma y receive money from depositors, &c., f or the pur chase of Government Annuities, on sirgle or joint con tinuance of two lives, to any amount n o t l ess th an 4/ . . ncr more than 301., for the benefit of any one person, and to receive payment for Immediate Life Anntries in one s um, or for Deferred Life Annuities, either in ene sum or in annual sums, payable for fixed periods. No such annuities are to be granted to or for the benefit of any person under the age of ten years. THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE THAMES.—As Mr. Pea cock the late holder of the champion sculls, is not in a condition to row, there will be no race on Wednesday for the championship, Mr. James Payne becoming the holder. FULHAM REGATTA.—The Fulham regatta was rowed yesterday, but was chequered by a variety of misadven tures, none of which, however, were of a serious nature. After rowing three heats John Phelps was declared the winner, Kelly being second. I ,Ct itA ND,, REVIEW of the FLEET at SPlT tzwat.ll- bY lIER MAJESTY, on THURSDAY, the I Ith , •flith is 44.124 DII vo; BRIGHTON, ar d SOUGH COAST RAILWAY Aesd a3 ,:eave the London Bridge Terminus for Portsmouth, OR Wed. tip: t ?) 3 ,4, and 5.10 p.m. r 2 ,4 111, o ri la ,,,‘,xPress Train will leave Loudon Bridge for Ports -41h - " llts daY at Six o'clock, returning from Ports at 6 . 2 0, and Prig Fit CI R ARES FOR DOUBLE JOURNEY 3is. 6 F d. Second Class, 235. Bd. Third Class, 15s. .nd Th. ~, s-aass Passengers must return at 7.20 p.m., only. en s ail ru e tet11:13; the w iMilßehuayt.iiii•ec4trnited Steam Packet Companies have announ ced teacners in readiness to convey persons desirous Loix, Term; FREDERICK SLIGHT, Secretary. Bth August.