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YORK-ROAD OFFICES, lith Oetober, 1853. leir nature. each clan _le amount of such investment, if any, on which the payment of interest is in arrears. ',ry niil ,vely of :e of 341. ) 10 . 5. 6d lore wag at faoro co ie,4a.- ,n. 135 33 s per and 10t fi ld per out good, 's rates. There qualities re liberal .s per cp'. .ry quail p.y beaus QUARTERS 40s to 41s 42s to 443 42s to 453 00s to 00s 00s to 00 3 353. sh wheat, vauce WAS pies beivi hoice, all r much Oats in . l ihtree he market. peseed, 1, " 1 inquired s. ,f 4; 4S to 46 to 5 2 42 to 41 ... —tom ad - 40 to 44 Per TO. ca taw 10 4 )s Oa 101 0 0 )s oct to Oleg os to to 00 s Ol to Oti . 70s to 0 1 00s to 0/ to 1 01 1 to Oz•• , non" firm a yesterctlY,", 1-16; [water, med a consecitteo t b, t and. Nola. 3, 62 g ; again to-tlE4' f import 3 fe e . this moro, °c, L e smut) ro il o o followingt b . 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GENTLEMEN, I have to announce that the Special General Meeting of th Pro prietors, with reference to the Dorchester and Exeter Extension Line, will be held at No. 34, York-road, Lambeth, at 12 o'clock, on Tue , alay, the 15th November. 'Under existing cirminstances in the money market, it appears to my 1 - leagues aria myself premature at the present moment to sub- Mit any scheme for raising the capital necessary for the projected line ; but prior to the date of the meeting a further communication Wel he made to yo r, and, as it is important that the sense of the Propriet o s should be represented at the meeting as fully us possible, Proxies wet be sent in sufficient time to enable them to be returned, signed, to lie used at the meeting. end I trot that you will give 3 our dispassion to attention, and then, arid in the interval, appre eCiatine your own position and that of your i iirectors, you will not ee induced by solicitations. from whatever quarter, to engage in Measures which may tend to further embarrassment. Recent events of a public netere render desirable a brief recapilu iatien of the position of the Company, and a statement of the c urse Which the Directors eon-icier the me) , one open for them to pursue. The Director: would not nave urged on the Proprietors the exten sion from Dorchester to Exeter during the present adverse state of th;, money market but for the peculiar circumstances of the case. At the epecial General electing in el ay last the report of the Di rectors concluded a full ex demotion with the following paragraphs: " The proprietors have first to determine healer the liae from Dorchester to Exeter shall be corearueted or not. " Assum inr, this to he determined in the affirmative, they have then to choose wheitii.r they will execute the line themselves, or aid other parties to do so. '' The Directers do not hesitate to recommend the former course, and that this Company shoelil themselves raise the necessary capi tal, and seek the necessary posers. fie' that purpose. " If lire Prop toms :Wept the other ciiurse, and refuse to retrieve the position of the Company by enereetie opposition to the Devon and Dorset line, and, by a Bell-considered and honest pledge, to compl te, in the event of its rejection. a proper line of ceminunica tion between Dorchester and Exeter by way of Bridport, Ax- Minster, arid I ioniton, the Directors have no hesitation in stating their delibe - ate conviction, that a vital injury 'Alit be inflicted on the interests of this Contently. " Flavin., thus explicitly and deliberately expressed their convic tions, the Directors have only further to remind the l'roprietors that the a test opportunity for action has arrived, and that the decision and the responsibility henceforth must rest with Themselves. The meeting, after discussion of the matter resolved, by an over- Whelming majority " That, in the opinion of this meeting, the interests of this Com- P i ny are de , ply concerned in procuring the rejection of the Devon sad Dorset Ra away Bill, now pending ie Parliament, and in extend ing thereafrer this Company's railway from Dorchester, by Bridport and exminster, to Exeter. "That the Directors be accordingly authorised and requested to Pledge this Company to apply to Parliament at the eerie st period, for Powers to construct such lust-mentioned line, and to put such Powers into execution, so as to give the oistrict in question the ac cormidation which such extensions will afford, with the least possible delay. "That in the opinion of the meeting, the interests of this Company - Will be best promoted by the a iquisition of such powers, and by the r aising of the necessary capital by this Compan" and not by inde pendent parties ; and the Directors are hereby authorised and re questid to take all meaeires appearibg to them expedient for the fertherance of these objects." th 14,011 the authority of these resolutions the Directors acted , gave • lee •ed pledge, and procures the rejection or the Devon and Dorset Line. The Co.iiiiiittee of the House of Commons rejected the broad gauge line eepreeeiv on this ground, as will appear item the toliowine ex tract from their Report : " Your Committee would, however, have hesitated to reject the bill before them, had it not been proved in eviderce that the Pro prietors in the Loedon and South-Western R dlway Company. at a recent pnbl!c meeting, earl authorised and requested their :erectors to pledge th it Company to apply to Perearaent at the earnest period for powers to construct an extension of their railway from Dorche, ter to Exeter ; and, had the commatee not received from the same Company, through their chairman (air. Scott, a member of this house) a clear and distinct assurance, in his evel- lice, and in a letter subsequently given in, that in the next session of Parliament that Company will introit ce and use their be-t endeavours to ob tain an act for authorising such exten-ion of their railway on the. „narrow gauge— such ex ensie n to be of an effieleat character, and to comprise a double line of way. lohnugsen obligation e s ou th-Western Railway Company cam , under the tr gallon to apply to Parliament next session, to supply to the district the accommodation of which it had been by their instru mentality deprived. Previous to the Half-yearly Meeting in August l a st, the Directors' Report informed the Proprietors that the pledge in question had been Firen—that the Devon and Dorset Line had , on the s tren g th of that Pledge, been re jetted; that meeting thereupon, with scarcely a dis sentient voice, " Resolved —That this meeting fulls , sanctions and adopts the Nedze given by the Board to bring before Parliament, in the next session, a bill for constructing: an extension of this Company's Z R ailways from Dorchester to Exeter, and for making the e o u hemp bit; and Dorchester Railway a double line throughout ; and the tith e are hereby authorised and requested to take from time to ; all such measures as may appear to them most exeedient for the Company to carry these pledges into practical effect ;" eh ". YOU adopted and ratified a second time the pledge you had authorised to be given, and incurred the strongest and most binding . 4, 0ral obligation. _ Renresentations have been made, with a view to persu a de you to reatnineliate this pie ige, on two grounds :—First, that this was a per en‘i Pledge, and not one given by the Proprietors , a nd that as a in ?oration of which the individuals are liable to change, they are tZund in autumn by their obligations in spring ; and , secondly , t t b° the assent of the shareholders was obtained under false pre `eleces or a misrepresentation of tects. : o f l• The first ground of objection, which involves the repudiation 'f e e solemn engagement, is one which cannot be admitted : no more s e m eieffin engagement can be given, than a pledge from a Corporation r arliament. in exchange for a concession, the value of which has 'seal already received. I Would ask you to reflect, for a moment, how utterly defenceless _ 0 uld be the position of the Company before Parliament, on any in sure occasion, should measures detrimental to our interests be pro posed by active and powerful enemies. A deliberate repudiation of the solemn pledge which hiss been given, would justly close the ears ?!. a Como ittee against the representations of those upon whose Promises and pledges no reliance can be placed. 11. As to the second charge, the Directors distinctly deny the assertion that there has been any concealment or misrepresentation Whatever. The material facts alleged to have been misrepresented, relate to— I. The capital of the Southampton and'Dorchester Line. 11. The earnings. 111. The profit receipts. I. The capital was stated to be 752,0001. It is so. 11. The earnings were stated to be 56,1291. They are so. 111. The profit receipts were stated to be 28,064/., or 50 per cent. They are SO, The working expenses have been charged at 50 per cent., and this Was the price at which Mr. Peto offered to work the line, finding plant. materials, &c. The entirety of the Company's lines are worked at a tort of 45 per tent. If we applied the same ratio to the Dorchester line, it wou d !still leave 5 per cent, on its earnings, or 2,8001. as the sum applicable to the interest on plant. the Directors, hinvever, desirous of using nothing open to objec d not adopt this matio, but made use of the actual figures ap thee' ble to this line, as conveying the mostttotdline, accurate information in Tr C O Tission of any figure for rolling stock in the Report of 2nd tee!! Noe, is the in ccuracy on which a charge of in srepresenta t"l!! has neen attempted. Th ,t ch "me we distinctly repel ; but lest tide yainbeguity should have rested on the subject , I , as C hairman at I, i neeting of tie 19th el ay, 1853, specifically explained the facts. 1) 1 , 6 _ was open to those who have impugne d the accurac y of the Lectors, to have consulted, before do in g so, the books of the Corn be J. which are the only documents from wh i c h such a char g e cou d e stablished. have to assure you that the existing circumstances of the money Z o ar ket have created the greatest anxiety in the Board as to the safe and economical mode of fulfilling your engagement : and tions , ellestion still continues to engage their moat anxious considers- ".4. Di lle Directors court the fullest inquiry and inve sti g ation on all ; and, In conclusion, hive only to add the expression of their e be n iolt. that if, ate a well-considered plede, a Company be at „.., r tY to repudiate a r bargain. the benefit of which it has obtained, a" c.O. incur the od urn of having misled Parliament and deceivel the ," 11 7. a suicidal act will have been comm i t ted, an I an example T. Which will go far to put an end to any trust being hereafterplaced Public companies. I have the honour to remain, Your faithful and obedient servant, FRANCIS SCOTT, Chairman. THE NEW STAMP ACT. ri1T1....... E new Act for Penny Receipt Stamps is intended to facilitate the purposes of husiness. end to circu late am ongst„„ the people a legal guarantee for every purchase . This will ii .aB e no alteration to the purchasers of goods at E. Moses and " 8 , for they have a'ways been willing to refund the mone y for ev ery i article bought at their Establishment , or its Branches, should t e goods not be entirely anproved ; but it is another proof of the . "Polarity of E. MosEs and SON'S business, which provides the best articles at the lowest possible prices. and every descri p tion of Attire m ade , by them is stamped with superio r q ualit y and unparalleled 1, le. Thus have they secured tha world's confidence by the most equitable course of trade. „, B. MO SES and S O N'S arrangements for the Winter Season are ma g - Vfirent in every sense of the expression comprising novelties in 'pies and Materials which cannot be found elsewhere , the Quality, ll 'aPite.s and utdversal application of the Goods being w it hout an y ?„ eeelent, and all classes may furnish them s elve s with the best arti cles' ef Dress, Hats, Caps, Hosiery, Furs, Boots, and Shoes, &c., &c , On the Cheapest and most satisfactory conditions. „ : Merchants, Captains, Shippers, and Emigran t s ma y select such r'il S as are prepared for the season when they will arrive in the Co lonies; this adapts them for immediate sale , and the ver y low v r iees charged by E. MOSES ind 150 N render their Goods the most Profitabl e investment which can be. made. '' ull Lists of Outfits for Ladies and Gentlemen , with ship - sa ilin g 45f ormation, may be had on application, or post-paid. CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the peblie against imposition, having learned that the untradesman-like V l i l l eehood of " Being connected with their Establishment," or " It's „e same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for O u'leus reasons, they beg to state that they have ISO CONNEXION WITH ANT OTHER HOUSE IN OR OUT OF LONDON, except their own Establishments, as follows : ~ London City Establishment, 1 54 , 155, 156, a nd 157, Minories, 83, ' 4 ,85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford•street, 1, 2 and 3, Hart-street, all communicating. Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 and 20, Bridge-street. Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate. Colonial Branch, M. lbou ne, Australia. Merchant rano. a Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers , Furriers , Boot and ..°QOO Makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. IMPORTANT.--Should any article not give satisfaction, it will be " ( changed if desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned Without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lo west Price, from which no abatement can be made. The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on is aturdays, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock. A. new Book, " The Epitome of Comfort and Economy," contain ' , rig full lists of prices, our system of self-measurement, &c., &c., may be had on application, or post-free, A handsome Almanac for the year ending 1853 can be had gratis, oh application. lei l'on parle Francais. Qni si pasta Italiano. Filer grrieht man Deutsch. Anne se haloa Envied e'l SPECIAL NOTICE.—The Est ablishments will be CLOSED on Monday and Tuesday, Oct 24th and 25th, re-opening, as usual, 1 Wednesday morning, at 7 o'clock. MEDICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. R. SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Doctor of Medicine, and Matriculated Member of the University of E dinburgh, Honorary Member of the Londo n Hos p ital Medical ..Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall. London, &c., &C. iv AY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on the various disorders of the nervous and generative system, /,, ' ,.. u :L ti ng from juvenile rregu' arities and excesses, which have pro , - -vu more misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema 'sre decay at all stages of life, than perhaps any other class of dis .. ",ca known to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience the treatment of these diseases he proved that there are in exist 'nee secret causes of self-acquired miseries and disappointed hopes in !Xistence traceable to certain pernicious habits , to which Ne rvous ,) ebint, Y various torms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitftil Marri agea. Impotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness , and their endless modifications owe their almost entire'origin. It aa n solufely necessary that all men should know that there are principles of personal management which cannot be violated without ri grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed t heyday of inconsiderate self-i dulgence, how these penalties may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may he remove', t a 4 ,Z i t h t o h Lth i e evil and its con equenc es may he avoided, and above all, •c , ireely any decree of physical infirmity or functional dera ngement to which the timely a d of science cannot ft! - Ti`.y a care .. . in f s .a, o4 , ,: e 'r x o t i e t n. l l . , A e 'MF.RT has for a long series of years heen engaged to tu g and is theProancist-icleegiantlythe t-eatment of these delicate eons_ Fliysician who, re,iardless th e taunts end envy 01 the hytwritical and mock-m - dest, has had 5 confidence, through the medium of the public press to direct att ention to these . enormous evils, from which no grade of society tree. i n selector: thi . department of practice. be has been amply arded h • the great success that has attended hi ‘rfi.srts in the freatment of thes e cases, wh i ch are t oo gener ally coeded to the pDI unqualified an d i gnorant emp i r i cs , w ho, with their pirsted of lications, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues ha - , 7 Patent nostrums, hove inflicted serious injury on those who i! been induced to place faith in their pretensions. sl ial. l l , ,nme for consultation daily from Eleven till Two, and from t Eight. All letters must contain the fee of 11, and advice and It . "ines can he f orwar d e d to any in i t i als or a dd ress , desirai , le thrt patients wishing to consult Dr. T. A 'MF.IST ""eld first obtain a copy of his work on '1421:i1,1e.,1 Treatise on B t E he LF P . : P il ll os E 4l3 1:R- VATION. of Marriage and Nervous and Debtiit;,inustrftted by fifty-coloured engravings, and 4ies- ~ian detail the various disorders resulti ng iron, secret habits and • • The perusal of this treatise will ass i s t i n the cez T ect W'lig, t. ion of thei r casts , an d ma y b e had, price 21 6d, in English, Brot Spanish, Dutch, Italian, or German, of 'Messrs. Piper he It ann ' l , and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; - Cornhill ; Start% Titehborne-street. Hay mar k e t ; or free Fun , for forty.two stamps, to any address from the Author's real " Blurguiquas. loap9xl ON THE SECRET CAUSES OF SELF-ACQUIRED MISERIES AND DISAPPOINTED HOPES. THE SILENT FRIEND. 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PART I. trests of the anatomy and physiology of the represtuctive srcans, and is illustrated by 28 Coloured Enstravings. PART It. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive in -I,lluteingetanleea' g at s ui generative ndantd, billy weakness 011 the system, oroductrig incapacity. Illustrated by 10 Explanato e rl ci t t : e n ' g r r e a T v it i ' ll PART 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in the primary or secondary form, and costalns explicit directions ter their treatment. This section is illustrated by 62 Coloured Engrav ings. PART IV. contains a Remedy for the Prevention of Disease by a simple application, by which the danger of infection is obviated. PART V. is devoted to the consideration of marriage and its duties. The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and the whole sn'sject critically and philosophically inquired into. 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" Sir,—ln considerati-n of the great benefit I have derived from taking Frampton's Pill of Health, I feel it a duty that I owe to you and the public to send you the following statement. For upwards of ❑ine years I have experienced the efficacy of this excellent medicine had long previously been afflicted with headache and indigestion, but a friend having induced me to make a trial of Frampton's Pills, [ now Inform you that a few doses gave me great relief; and during this long period of time I have taken them in preference to any other rnefficinc ; and I have the happiness of saying that I never had a setter state of health, which I attribute to Frampton's Pills. I beg farther to add, that this medicine is in general use by my family, and we know of nothing to equal it. "I am, Sir, yours respectfully, THOMAS PROVINCE. "To Mr. T. 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LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1853. THE EASTERN QUESTION. (From the Morning Chronicle.) The demonstration in favour of Turkey, which took place a day or two since in Finsbury, will probably not exercise any decisive influence on the course of events. Mr. Duncombe appeared to have scarcely made up his mind as to the side which he should adopt, and the names of Bronterre O'Brien and Julian Harney are not generally considered to possess great political weight. A Mr. Shaen, who entertains " the greatest respect for Mr. Cobden," politely criticised a recent speech of his hero, by declaring that the two first arguments which it contained were a tub for a whale. " Mr. Cobden's third argument," he added, " was the argument of a coward, his fourth that of a hypocrite, and his fifth that of a demon." We must leave the cow ardly and hypocritical demon to defend his own views against the admirer who entertains for Min so deep a respect. The only person present at the meeting, who appeared to know anything of the subject under discussion, was Mr. Urquhart, who in Finsbury is a mere visitor and amateur. To the utter astonishment of his auditors, the great champion of the East came forward to protest against that interference which he has so often denounced English Governments for hesitating to undertake. Let Turkey, said Mr. Urquhart, fight her own battles, without the restraints and limitations imposed on her by the coun sels of Western allies. The Turkish Ministers apparently entertain different views of their own duties and interests ; but Mr. Urquhart is one of those politicians who understand all affairs bet ter than those whom they principally concern. It is not amiss, however, that an enthusiast should call public attention, even by his extravagances, to the virtues and to the strength which yet remain to the vilified and persecuted Ottoman. There is honesty, and there is a basis of truth, in Mr. Urqu hart's wildest exaggerations ; and a sound popular feeling accepts his conclusions without any curious inquiry into his facts. It is a remarkable proof of the soundness of po pular instinct, that the desperate efforts which have been made to excite a religious prejudice, favour able to Russia, have universally failed. On ordi nary occasions, an appeal to the supposed interests of Christianity are at once met with general and credulous enthusiasm ; yet neither journalists nor peace orators have been able to persuade the coun try that the Emperor of Russia seized two conveni ently adjacent provinces for the purpose of spread ing among benighted regions the neglected truths of the Gospel. The Northrn Autocrat has, in truth, followed with singular accuracy the example of an ancient despot, who coveted a little Wallachia, in the form of a vineyard, hard by the walls of Jezreel. Some difficulties occurred in the accomplishment of the older monarch's wish, but they were re moved by agents and advisers worthy of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg. Certain false witnesses were procured, and when the owner of the vineyard was set on high before the public, who were to de cide on his,fate, those men of Renal declared, with unscrupulous volubility, that Naboth had blas phemed God and the King. Accordingly, the infidel victim was stoned, the aggressor occupied the territory which ho desired, but history does not inform us that the affair ended either to the advantage of Ahab or to the credit of his perjured partizans. The covetous neighbour, who desires the Turkish vineyard, has numerous false witnesses at his com mand, who day after day repeat, with wearisome iteration, the statement that the Mahometan Go vernment blasphemes the religion and political order of Europe • yet a well-founded impression prevails, that Turkish profanity and misrule might pass unpunished, if the Sultan had nothing to lose, and the Christian champion nothing to gain. The Israeli tish King at least abstained from taunting his victim with weakness, and from declaring that he who could not protect his possessions, fairly deserved to lose them. For this new rule of law, we are indebted to authorities who, nevertheless, called the Hungarians rebels when they had driven the Austrian armies beyond their frontiers. When the Turks are contrasted with the races which they govern, it must be remembered that the ques tion is not between the Mussulman and the Rayah, but between the Sultan and the Czar. It is perfectly well known to the officious advo cates of the Greek population, that the Court of St. Petersburg has repeatedly declared its determina tion that no great Christian State shall be allowed to exist between the Danube and the Mediterra nean. It was, perhaps, unnecessary to guard against a danger altogether remote and problema tical; but it is certain that the same jealousy which discountenances the modern liberality of the Otto man would equally disapprove of any permanent combination among the Christians of Turkey. The Greeks themselves form an inconsiderable minority of the whole population, which they sometimes affect to represent. The Sclavonic inhabitants of South-Eastern Europe are more numerous, more united, and more warlike ; and, with few excel). tions, they prefer the Sovereignty of the Porte to the crushing Northern despotism which is their only possible alternative. Many of the races which occupy the valley of the Danube have experienced the rule of more than one superior. Servia and Croatia, although inhabited by kindred families of men, have passed backwards and forwards between Christian and Mahometan Sovereigns, and they are still divided, like the Hungary of former times, between Turkey and Austria. Yet neither the national tradions nor the feelings of the people, in the present day, recognise any abstract prefe rence for the Kaiser of Vienna over the Padishah of Constantinople. In practice, it is found that the Ottoman is more liberal, more careless, and less suspicious of provincial independence than the more refined monarchs of Christendom. If it were assumed that the establishment of a Christian Government in Turkey was a fit subject for the consideration of statesmen, we might fairly inquire what ought to be the conduct of England and France in the present emergency. The Em- P peror of Russia has advanced his frontier from the Pruth to the Danube, certainly not for the purpose of establishing or extending any empire but his own. The alternative offered to the Porte, of a Protecto rate to be granted to the invader, would only serve to extend his power, and to destroy by anticipation the independence of the population of the future Christian Empire. It is not by teaching the Greeks and the Sclaves to appeal to the Emperor that their national spirit will be encouraged ; and if, accord ing to Mr. Cobden's suggestion, England were to support the demand of an aggressor strong in his military preparations, the object which is hypocri tically proposed would become more remote than ever. In short, England and France must deal with the Turkey which they find existing—there is no other Power to support or to betray. The French Emperor may wish that the Sultan were a good Roman Catholic, and the English Cabinet would be delighted to find his subjects in communion with. the Reformed Church ; but as there is no such So vereign or people, both Governments must protect or abandon the Mahometan victim of aggression nominally carried on for the honour of the Greek Cross. It will not have escaped the attention of thoughtful politicians that the firm and generous policy adopted by the English Ministry may here after determine the fate of our Indian Empire, if Russia should ever carry out her long-projected scheme of grappling with England for the dominion g he in lndi the a S n ul pop tan torhreetvieoprne r n o o p fci het ; and th e y wou ld not f a il t o reverencing of the East. The Mahometans, who form the most u t l h a e ti i o .e n p , r a e r se e nt all a_ ItS di viliva s nr t el i ni n koe g efe u sl ish between the persecutors of their breth ren, and those who hold that wrong and violence are to be checked irrespectively of the professions of the aggressor or of the faith of the victim. As far as it is possible to judge at present, the resolutions which have been formed are as safe and prudent as they are undeniably bold and just. (From . the Times.) The summons addressed to Prince Gortschakoff; by Omar Pasha reduces the practical part of the Turkish question to the evacuation of the Danubian Principalities. It was by the occupation of this territory that Russia communicated a formidable and injurious character to her demands upon the Porte. Had she confined her proceedings on behalf of the Christians to requisitions, whether sincere or otherwise, for rights of protectorship, and had she left the decision upon this point in the hands of the Divan, it would have been scarcely possible either for Turkey to complain or Europe to inter fere ; but, by marching an army across her own frontiers, and occupying certain provinces as a guarantee for the concessions required, she com mitted an act of aggression upon a foreign State, and gave plain proofs that political, if not territorial amyrandisement, was the true object of her demands. If the Czar can claim to be invested with the Sul tan's prerogatives, or, in default th ereo f , to pos sess himself of the Sultan's territory, it is clear that be needs no further facilities for the absorption of of the Ottoman empire iu his own. Nevertheless, the invasion of the principalities is not an act pre ciaely analogous to the invasion of Turkey Proper, and that its import may be correctly understood, we subjoin a brief exposition of the facts involved in the proceeding. The territories of the old Byzantine monarchy, which the Turks appropriated, had been bounded on the north by the Danube, but, as the power of the Ottoman Sovereigns increased, they carried their conquests beyond this frontier, and established themselves for a considerable period even in the capital of Hungary. Among the States in these parts which they reduced to obedience were two principalities of some antiquity, termed Wal lachia and Moldavia, governed by rulers of their own, and comprising very nearly the same dis tricts which they include at the present day. These were brought by the great Solyman into a species of subjection to the Ottoman Crown. That the conquest was in itself incomplete is not very probable, considering the strength of the Turks at that period ; but, for some reason or other, the provinces in question were never actually incorporated in the Ottoman empire, but were left under their own princes, with a reservation only of sovereignty and tribute to the Sublime Porte. The other conquests of the Sultan to the north of the Danube were all ultimately lost, but the Da nubian Principalities, as they were now denominat ed, remained under these relations with the Turkish monarchy until its fortunates began to be affected by the ascendancy of Russia. Peter th e G re at was contented with obtaining the support or connivance of their Princes in his contests with the Sultan ; but, as the ambition of the Czar expanded, it became a leading object of Russian policy to detach these semi independent States from the Turkish dominion altogether, and to transfer to St. Petersburg, by gradual encroachments, the allegiance due to Con stantinople. These designs were aided by a con currence of favourable circumstances. As the Ottoman power declined, the independence of Wal lachia and Moldavia became somewhat more sub stantial, and, as their population was exclusively Christian, the pretext of a protectorate was brought plausibly into requisition. The Russian Govern ment affected, therefore, to defend, against the Porte, the rights and immunities constitutionally reserved to the Principalities, and so successfully were her operations conducted that, in the end, the authority of the Sultan was practically divided for the benefit of the Czar. Every victorious war was made to contribute its impulse to this con summation. As long ago as 1792 it was stipu lated and agreed that the governors, or, as they are styled Hospodars of the Danubian Princi palities, should neither be appointed nor removed without license obtained from the Russian Court, and so rapidly since that time has the work of en croachment proceeded that the Sultan now stands debarred by his own surrenders from most of the privileges of a supreme Lord. The " sovereignty" of the provinces, it is true, still nominally pertains to him, but no Turk can settle in them, nor can any Turkish troops be quartered there, except under specified circumstances, insomuch that, if at this very moment the Czar were to re tire from the Principalities, the Sultan could not march into them except at the cost of another breach of treaty and another embroilment. We have before remarked that within the last 30 years the good offices of Great Britain were employed at the instance of Russia to procure the evacuation of these very provinces by the Turks. As yet, however, the Danubian Principalities are not Russian. The Court of St. Petersburg has hitherto contented itself with simply detaching them from their old allegiance without openly claiming any sovereignty of its own. It has pre tended merely to secure their " independence," but the reader will easily discern to what this state of transition is destined to lead. Meantime, the provinces in question have been incessantly turned to the purposes of Russian aggression, exactly as they are at this day. On the first difference with Turkey Russia " marches an army into the Princi- palities," a proceeding which, while it insensibly promotes the great object of the Czars, is attended with fewer inconveniences than an actual invasion of Turkey. In the first place, as the Principali ties have been dexterously brought to a position resembling independence, it can be argued, as was done on the present occasion, that the occupa tion does not necessarily constitute a cause of war, while, at the same time, the coercion put upon the Porte remains undiminished, for the jealousies of the Turkish Government have naturally increased in proportion as its authority has been under mined. In the next place, the occupation not only lays the Porte under material pressure, as alarming her for her remaining prerogatives, but familiarises the population of the provinces with Russian troops, habituates these troops and their generals to the country, and enables Russia, in short, to perform to admiration that process which is often made to precede actual deglutition. Lastly, the invasion of the Principalities can be effected with out any military difficulties, and, practically speaking, without opposition. To invade Turkey Proper Russia would have to cross the Danube — always an arduous operation —or to effect a land ing at some point of the Black Sea coast, and in either of these cases she would be brought into inevitable collision with the Ottoman forces. But by simply occupying Wallachia and Moldavia she confines her expedition to an unresisted march, encounters no enemy, and can reckon upon retir ing without damage when her desires have been satisfied for the time. The reader will have no difficulty in understand ing how, under such circumstances, the Russians have repeatedly invaded the Danubian Princi palities. They have been in and out of them, in fact, for the last 50 years. As long ago as 1806 they were there, and found means to prolong their occupation in spite of opposition. They were upon the point of entering in 1821 ; they actually entered in 1828 ; and in 1848 they entered again. It was on the last occasion that a special treaty was signed between Russia and the Porte, stipulating the particular circumstances under which either Power might occupy the provinces in question for the future, and it is this treaty which the Czar has now violated. The objects of Russia have been the same throughout. Excepting in 1848, when she interfered with undoubted sincerity to crush a democratic rising, she has always designed to coerce Turkey, and to prepare the Principalities of the Danube more and more effectually for absorption into the empire of the Czars. Hitherto, however, she has been always ultimately dislodged, and we trust that a like result may be effected now. LIFE ASSURANCE. The following is the report of the select committee appointed to take into consideration the subject of As surance Associations. Your committee have considered the subject referred to them, and have examined the Registrar and Assist ant-Registrar of Joint-Stock Companies : the Registrar of Friendly Societies ; Mr. Finlaison, the late actuary to the Commissioners of the National Debt ; Dr. Farr, at the head of the statistical department of the Registrar- General's Office ; and many of the most eminent actua ries connected with insurance offices of every class. 2. So far as regards the Joint-Stock Companies Act of 1844, your committee have confined their inquiry chiefly to that portion of it which affects insurance com panies, and more particularly the business of life insu rances. From the evidence of the Registrar and Assist ant-Registrar of Joint-Stock Companies it appears that the law as it now stands, is extremely defective, and that the provisions of the Act of 1844 are very imperfectly carried out ; many of which they have no power to en force if not complied with. 3. With regard to provisional registration, it appears hat the law, as it now stands, does not afford the security which was contemplated by the Act of 1844 ; inasmuch as the representations made by the pro spectuses and advertisements issued by new companies often vary very materially from the objects for which they have been provisionally registered ; and there appears to be no means at present to prevent de ception and misrepresentation being practised on the public in this way. Nor are the regulations required in order to obtain complete registration more perfect for that purpose. It is required by the law that the deed of settlement should be signed by shareholders equal to one-fourth in number, and representing one-fourth of the proposed capital of such companies ; but it appears from the evidence of Mr. Whitmarsh that this provision has been extensively abused by means of false and fraudulent signatures, and has thus proved to be a very insufficient security for the objects contem plated. It appears, also, that it has been frequently evaded by companies commencing business with a very small capital, and immediately upon obtaining complete registration, greatly increasing its amount, which they are enabled to do without further recourse to the office of the Registrar. These observations, however, apply to joint stock companies generally. 4. After joint stock companies are completely regis tered, one of the chief securities contemplated by the act of 1844 for the safety of the public is the duty im posed upon them to return annual balance-sheets repre senting the state of their affairs to the Registrar's-office, where they are open to public inspection. But from the fact that that act prescribed no form, and furnished the Registrar with no power to enforce a compliance with the spirit, or even with the letter of the law, it appears that this provision has been very imperfectly complied within many cases, and in others altogether [neglected ; so that it cannot be said that it has afforded, in a ma jority of cases, either the information or the security which was intended. Much doubt, indeed, has been expressed by some witnesses whether the publication of accounts in their present form has not rather tended to mislead than to inform the public, in which view your committee are inclined to acquiesce ; and if the system of publishing accounts is in future to be persevered in, your committee express a decided opinion that the law must define more clearly what it requires ; and that a greater power should be given to enforce whatever pro visions are thought necessary for the purpose. 5. There is 'one subject which has formed so promi nent a feature during your committee's inquiry, and which has partly arisen from the act of 1844, that they cannot pass it over without some remark, viz., the diffe rences of opinions and views entertained by the two great classes of offices, the one including those esta blished since the passing of the act of 1844, and com pletely registered under that act, and the other those established prior to that date, and not so registered. Your committee have arrived at the conclusion that in many ways that distinction has operated prejudicially, and that it would be eminently to the advantages of the offices themselves, as well as to the public at large, if all insurance companies could be brought under one law, leaving each company to recommend itself to the public upon its own merits. 6. With regard to the general condition of existing companies, so far as any evidence has been laid before your committee, they feel it their duty to report, that it is more satisfactory than they had been led to believe before they entered upon their inquiry. No doubt in stances of great abuses and flagrant frauds have been disclosed by the witnesses examined, but in general these consisted of an open violation of all law, more akin to swindling than to regular trade, and such as it would be difficult for any Legislature to prevent, so long as private persons exercise so little precaution in the conduct of their own affairs. But while the com mittee are enabled to speak in these satisfactory terms of existing offices, so far as the evidence has gone, their attention has been called to the great facilities which exist under the present state of the law, for in surance companies, in common with others, being brought into existence with no re isonable prospect of, or guarantee for success, and not unfrequently without any bona fide intention of transacting business. It appears by a return made to your commmittee from the office of the Registrar, that since the passing •f the act in 1844, no fewer than 311 insurance com panies of various kinds have been provisionally registered, of which only 140 were completely registered, and of which only 96 continue to exist at this time. And while your committee have reason to believe that some of the companies which have ceased to exist during that period, have been absorbed in other companies by whom their business has been taken over, yet at the same time they have no doubt that considerable traffic has been carried on in the mere creation of companies which never had any real prospect of a bona fide existence. 7. So far, then, as regards the present state of the law, as established by the act of 1844, it appears to be a very general, if not a universal opinion, that it requires some amendment, and in which your committee fully concur. They are deeply impressed with the opinion, that as the law now stands, it does either too much or too little ; too much, inasmuch as any legislative enact ments professing to protect the public in such matters, have a certain tendency to weaken and impair that indi vidual vigilance which would be more surely exercised, if no such attempt was made ; and too little, inasmuch as the securities which the law provides are ill calculatel to effect the object at which they aim. On the part of all the witnesses examined, your committee found a laudable desire to improve the existing state of the law, differing, no doubt widely, in their views, as to the best mode of accomplishing that object. On the part of the old offices of extensive business, the witnesses who more particularly represented them, expressed their desire to be placed under one general rule, to make such annual returns, and to afford such other tests as could be given without an undue interference with their business, for the purpose of securing one safe and e afforded uniform system,forthe re spectability by which a reasonable secu rit y may b and solvency of insurance companies. 8. In approaching the question of what alterations in the present state of the law your committee are prepared to they feel that it is one w hi c h i s sur roundedgreat difficulties. The two di s ti nc t princi ples recommend, by in respect to subjects of this nature, viz., that of interference by the Government for the protection of the public, and that of no interference whatever, have been very fully and ably discussed by the witnesses exa mined by your committee. On the one hand, even ad mitting the general wisdom of the principle of the non interference on the part of the Government in matters of trade, it has been contended that the question of life insurance differs so materially in its general charac acter from ordinary trading transactions, that it may fairly be considered as an exception to that rule. This exceptional treatment has been justified and supported, on the ground that the obligations undertaken by such associations, have reference to a very remote and uncer tain period ; that the object which persons have in view in effecting insurances upon their lives is generally of an important and solemn character, viz., the provision for widows and orphans after the death of their natu ral protectors; that, unlike any ordinary transac tion of trade, a contract once entered into cannot be discharged or abandoned, if doubts of the sta bility of an office should arise, without a great esacri fice of premiums paid in past years, and the l of effecting new policies in other offi ces : oi n f the ae rates of premium, owing to the greaterfeti nc aegrtainty which neccreased sured ; and that in the present statieedog as to the real arises from the imperfect k"vi erso ns are thus placed condition of assurance o ffices, in the anxious and premiums unhaPPY 'dilemma of being corn. frora year t o i pelled to perievers in paying THE ARMY. KILKENNY.—Major-General M'Donald is still engaged in his half-yearly tour of inspection. On Wednesday last he inspected, at Carrick-en-Suir, Captain Percy's company of the 9th Regiment ; on Thursday, at Clon mel, the 9th Regiment, under command of Lieut.-Colonel Barton, and Captain Campbell's troop of the sth Dra goon Guards ; on Friday, at Templemore, the 14th de pot, under command of Captain Rock, and the 55th de pot, under Major Daubeny, C.B. ; on Saturday, at Maryborough, Captain Rynd's company of the 62d Regiment, under command of Lieut. Gwynne. The gallant general returned to Kilcreene on Saturday even ing, and yesterday proceeded to Waterford to inspect the 40th depot and the troop of Dragoon Guards there quartered. _ On Monday Captain Disbrowe's company of the 62d Regiment marched from Kilkenny for Duncannon Fort, for Minie rifle practice, relieving there Captain Tyler's company of the same regiment. This is the third com pany of the 62d which has commenced practice with the Minie rifle. CORK.—A draft of the 92d Highlanders, under com mand of Lieut. Wm. David Inverarity, has arrived here from Galway, to await a transport for conveyance to join head-quarters at Gibraltar. The 92d embarked from this port for Corfu 3d March, 1851. A draft of the 55th, from the depot, stationed at Ne nagh, has also arrived to await conveyance to join ser vice companies at Gibraltar. The 55th embarked for that station 25th February, 1851. ALLEGED HOMICIDE BY A SOLDIER.--OR Monday morning the buffoon of a penny theatre, at present pitched on the Parade in Limerick, and whose name was Henry Rowan, was found dead in his bed, at his lodgings in Walkin-street. The man had gone through his usual performances at the theatre on the previous night with out making any complaint, but he had been suffering much for the last three weeks from the effects of a blow received in a row in a public-house at New Ross, alleged to have been inflicted by the belt of a soldier of the 62d Reg,iment, named Reilly, then on detachment in Ross. It is supposed that Rowan's skull had been fractured by the blow. [ADVERTISEMENT.]-A LIEUTENANT OF DRAGOONS CURED OF RHEUMATISM BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.—This officer, who is in the Dutch army, states that Holloway's Pills and Ointment have cured him of rheumatism, which appeared to be incurable, as neither sea-bathing, vapour-baths, nor preparations vaunted as sure remedies, did him any good, and the treatment of the doctor, after several months' trial, was without suc cess. At this juncture ho commenced taking these Pills, and ruhting the Ointment into the complaining parts twice a day, which effectually cured him in the course of six weeks. The truth of this statement can be vouched for by Mr. J. B. Stratman, of Bois-le-Due.---Sold by all drug gists; and at Professor Holloway's establishment, 244, Strand, London, r PRICE SD. year, with some suspicion and doubt as to the ultimate advantage of doing so, or of incurring the serious loss which, under the most favourable circumstances, must attend the abandonment or sale of a policy. On these considerations, as a special case, it has been contended by different witnesses of great experience, that inter ference on the part of the Government is not only jus tifiable, but a matter of high duty, for the protection and information of the public. 9. On the other hand, it has been contended, with equal ability, that insurance business forms no exception to ordinary trade in these respects ; that the acts which have already been passed with a view of controlling the operations of insurance societies have been rather hurt ful than beneficial for the very objects they bad in view ; that an apparent compliance with the provisions of an Act of Parliament and a certificate of complete registra tion, while they have proved entirely ineffectual for their professed objects, and no rtal security for the public, have afforded facilities, under the sanction of Parliamentary authority, embodied in regulations ad ministered by a public department, for the formation of companies and the perpetration of frauds which could not otherwise have been accomplished. And it bas been further contended that it is impossible to make such re gulations, consistent with the free development of pri vate enterpri se , w hi ch, so far as the public is concerned, will not prove more prejudicial by lulling private prudence and vigilance, than beneficial in respect to any increased security which they can confer. 10. Much difference of opinion has been expressed by the different witnesses favourable to the former of the two principles alluded to, as to the extent to which Government interference should take place. Some have contended not only for an enactment which should more strictly regulate the circumstances under which insurance companies can be formed, but also for the appointment of government actuaries, under a department of the state who should have a direct supervision of the proceedings of all insurance companies ; while the generality of wit nesses favourable to some regulations have confined themselves to much narrower limits, and have contended eonlyw companies,f o r such precautions and as should as should fromtime n a fair amount of i n f orma ti on w ith res p ec t to the condi tion of such comp an i es , re l y i ng upon th e goo d f a ith o f test o directors and actuaries f or th e accuracy o f th e i n f orma . the h t e b one time afford of tion furnished. 11. In venturing to express the views which your committee have been led to entertain as to the course which Parliament should pursue in future in regard to the subject of life assurances, they will divide their re marks into five heads— 1. As to the mode in which it is desirable to deal with the present Joint LStock Companies' Act, so far as re lates to insurance companies. 2. As to the registrar's office, duties, and powers. 3. As to the registration of existing offices. 4. As to precautions which it seems desirable to take in order to test the bona fides of new associations, and entitle them to complete registration. 5. As to the securities which can be afforded to the public by the publication of periodical accounts. 12. Your committee will now proceed to remark on each of these points separately. 1. Your committee are of opinion that the business of assurance companies differs so much from ordinary business, that it will be advisable to repeal all the pro visions of the Joint Stock Companies' Act so far as they relate to assurance societies, and to deal with them in a separate act. 2. Your committee have already adverted to the in sufficient power which the existing act confers upon the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies to give effect to the provisions of the law. Your committee are of opinion that whatever duties may be entrusted to that officer under any act to be passed, it is essential that adequate powers should be provided to enable him, either by himself, or through one of the departments of the state, to enforce any regulations that Parliament may think it wise to enact. Experience has proved that without such powers, regulations become a dead letter, and are only calculated to mislead by the apparent sanc tion which they give to proceedings not in reality con trolled by them. 3. Your committee, in a former part of this report, have alluded to the inconvenience which has arisen from the fact that a portion of the existing assurance offices are completely registered under the Act of 1844, and a portion not so registered. The effect of this dis tinction has been to lead to controversies between the "old offices " (established prior to 1844), and the "new offices " established since the passing of the act of that year) ; which have been prejudicial to the interests of the public. Your committee are therefore of opinion that it would be highly advantageous to all parties if all companies, both those existing and those that may in future be formed, could be placed under one general system of registration. In accomplishing this your com mittee would recommend that the requirements for re gistration as regards existing companies, should be as simple as possible, but that whatever periodical returns may be deemed necessary, should be the same as regards all companies whatever. With regard to mutual assurance companies, where the claims of the assured are confined to the funds of the society, and where no personal liability attaches, your commit tee are of opinion that the requirement of the law that the members of such societies should be registered, is of no real utility to the public or the assured, while it is both expensive and troublesome ; and that all the ob jects of the law would be answered by a registration of the directors and other officers of such societies. 4. Your committee feel that perhaps the most impor tant part of their inquiry is that which refers to the one hand, your committee feel that the ground precautions regardto w the hieh should forreatioh of new hereafter wo a o f m te p r adopted with enies.oothe hitherto occupied by these useful institutions has been comparatively limited, and that their applica tion is capable of a great extension, not only in the higher and middle classes of society, but also among the humbler classes, to whom it has recently been very I considerably applied ; and that it is therefore very im portant that no check or impediment should be sipndlaetchieandt: in the way of the further extension of this enterprise, s not abspoulubtlieclyitneiseddfeuslirfoarbltehteoseincuterrpityosoef stulicehpuebbleil On the other hand, the committee are of opinion that in the of fitletl the ei s v t eoaf reasonablet h e guarantee themselves, as t a t s h w e e b l o i naa: o tentions of the promoters of such companies. To this extent only the committee are of opinion that any inter ference at this stage is desirable. With this view, in addition to such regulations as may be considered need ful for the purposes of registration, the committee are of opinion that no new company should be admitted to complete registration until a capital shall have been sub cribed, and actually paid up, of at least 10,000/., and which shall be invested in the public funds, under such regulations as parliament may deem fit to enact ; to be considered in the double light of a test of bona fide in tentions on the part of the promoters, and of a security for the liabilities of the company at its early stage of existence. 5. No part of the subject submitted to your commit tee has received more attention than that of the publica tion of periodical accounts. Hitherto those accounts, as published, have been of a most unsatisfactory charac ter. Your committee have carefully considered whether 1 it would be practicable to prescribe such a form o f ac count as would accomplish the objects of the Legisla• ture ; but after the most careful consideration, they led to the conclusion that no fixed form could he s applicable to all cases, which would not be Poed madet much evasion, or which would practically a fford any x real security. e Your committee, therefore, would recommend shall be imperative upon each company to ma c k e e aincofimve artleliistn shallefcosl andmv showaaltui theor same ; f 0(aI..1, a nd use of their plete investigation into its affairs deeds of settle ment, on years, as is usually proscribed by t h eir ment, and at such timesosioeiPrr:misscakarnsdidbeaertdfiho'd liabilities, whichaha bl iui a complete valuation their assets to mee t tion accounts, w hich may be pro prietors, shareholder s , or members shall be hat registered in the office of the re g i strar ' in each ; and t intermediate year between such p er i odical balance s heets or valuations, there shall also be re gistered a state ment authenticated infor •') men t co information on the follow ing particulars : The on polici a es mo . unt of receipts during the y ear f or premiums The amount of expenses during the year. The number and amount of new policies issued. The total number and amount of liabilities on all cur rent policies. The total amount of premiums receivable on the same. The whole amount of capital, distinguishing the man. ncr in which invested. HOW much in cash. The table of mortality and the rate of interest used in calculating the premiums. 13. The evidence which your committee has obtained leads them to believe that some such general statement would be of much greater utility in enabling the public to come to a correct judgment as to the condition of an office, than any form of account that could be adopted. In addition to the above, in the case of proprietary com panies, the amount of subscribed capital should be stated, and also the amount actually paid up, and how invested. 14. It has been brought to the attention of your com mittee that the business of assurance offices is becoming every year of a more varied character. 15. This your committee regard as the necessary result of the advancement of the science on which it is based ; but there is a class of business which some offices have undertaken, viz., that of receiving deposits of money at interest, which appears to your committee totally incon sistent with the business of life assurance. 16. Your committee will conclude their report by calling attention to a part of the evidence which advo cates the formation of an incorporated society of actu aries, with a view to the advancement of that important science, and also with a view to issue diplomas or certi ficates to persons qualified to practise as actuaries. If any effort should be made to induce Parliament to grant such an incorporation, the committee are of opinion that it will be worthy of consideration, but that further in vestigation would be needful before such measures should be adopted, as considerable difference of opinion prevails on the subject among actuaries themselves. August 16, 1853. SICKNESS, MORTALITY, ctc., IN THE ARMY. _ A blue book, containing important and curious infor mation respecting the condition of the British soldier has just been published. It has been compiled by Lieut. Colonel Tulloch, Military Superintendent of Pensioners, and DivOraham Balfour, M.D., and it is intended to form a corttinuation of four volumes on the same subject, veltich were issued between 1838 and 1841. The periods embraced by it are the 10 years subsequent to 1837. The present report commences by alluding to the im provements which have been made during that time. The good conduct warrant was introduced in 1837, by which a progressive increase of pay was made dependent on the absence of any serious crime or irregularity for a period of two years. Notwithstanding the strictness of the regulations, the augmentation had been received by 14,000 soldiers out of 33,000, who might have laid claim to it ; and it was thus apparent that a powerful motive to good conduit which did not previouslyexist had been held out by this change. Barrack libraries, which in 1847 con tained 80,000 volumes, had been established; and ball and racket courts had been erected in most of the bar racks with a view to wean men from the habit of spend ing their time in the canteens. Greater attention had also been paid to the ventilation and the general sani tary arrangements of their dwellings. In 1843 savings' banks were established, and by 1847 upwards of 50,000/. had been deposited—an amount which had since been doubled. The changes which had taken place with re spect to free discharges and limited enlistment would also be found to have a very important bearing upon the morale of the army, and would lead to the exclusion of all that class who from intemperance and misconduct were constant subjects of punishment or hospital treat ment. The average number of admissions to the hospital in a the Dragoons and Dragoon Guards throughout the kingdom during the ten years had been 96.1 per thousand per annum, During the preceding 7i years the proportion was 92'9 per thousand ; but the apparent increase was probably due to the greater care which had been taken to obtain correct returns. At all events, the ratio of death had been rather smaller. In the former period the rate was 14 per thousand, or deducting 1.2 for the deaths from cho lera, which did not prevail between 1837 and 1847, the corrected average would be 12.8. The rate during the ten years in question was 12.4. The deaths from other causes than disease were 1.2 per thousand—curiously enough the exact proportion in the former period. The total mortality bad therefore been 13.6 per thousand of the mean strength, or 1.7 per thousand more than is usual amongst a town population at the same period of life ; "no very great difference certainly, but still suffi cient to show that, even in time of peace, the profession of a soldier is not conducive to health. The rate of mor tality of the whole cavalry corps serving in Great Britain had been 13.5 per thousand ; but that in Ireland had been only 12.6 ; "being a difference in favour of the latter, but too small in amount to warrant any conclusions as to the superior salubrity of that country." There had been a considerable increase in the diseases resulting from im morality. During the six years previous to 1837, the average number of admissions to the hospital had been 181 per year per thousand ; whereas during the ten years under notice, the proportion had risen to 206 per thousand. In the foot regiments the returns exhibited yet more disgraceful results—the numbers having been 206 and 277. The number in the Foot Guards had been 250 ; the number in the Household Cavalry not being reported. The total mortality of the Infantry regiments hal been 17.9 or 4.3 per thousand greater than the Cavalry; a similar excess being invariably noticed, not only at all our home and colonial stations, but in the French and other foreign armies. (The deterioration of health, pro duced by previous service abroad, did not lead to more than one death in a thousand. The mortality of the Foot Guards was actually so high as 20.4. This was attributed in great part to the improper barrack accom modation inasmuch as other regiments in London had suffered still more. The number of men ad mitted into hospital for all diseases, per thousand per year, was—at the Tower, 855 ; Portman Bar racks, 867 ; 'Wellington Barracks, 949 ; St. George's Barracks, 788 ; the detached barracks, 788 ; Windsor, 957 ; and Winchester, 855. The ratio in the regi ments of the line stationed at the Tower was, how ever as high 1,095. Fevers and pulmonary diseases had been peculiarly prevalent at the Tower—the proportion of men who had died from the former cause having been at the Tower as high as 4.1 ; at the Portman Barracks, 2.2 ; Wellington do., 2.6 ; St. George's, 1.2 ; detached barracks, 1.8 ; 'Windsor, 2.8 ; and Winchester, 1.9. Recent alterations had been made in the Tower, Hyde park, Kensington, and Portman Barracks, which, it was hoped, would produce a marked improvement in the health of the troops. The number of deaths in the Household Cavalry had been only 11.1 ; but these corps possessed many advantages over every other in the ser vice, and there were greater facilities of discharging men who were guilty of irregular conduct, or who deve loped traces of constitutional disease. The total number of men who had suffered corporal pu nishment during the ten years had been—Dragoons and Dragoon Guards, 183; Foot Guards, 40 ; Infantry of the line, 768 ; showing the following ratios per thousand per year : Dragoons and Dragoon Guards, 3.4 ; Foot Guards, 1 ; Infantry of the line, 4.8. The gradual re duction had been very striki ng . The proportion per thousand sen t enced to corporal unishment in 1839 was 10.2 ; 1840, 8.3 ; •1841, 7.4 : 1842, 7.3 ; 1843, 5.6 1844, 5.5 ; 1845, 5.5 ; 1846:4.1. In 1832 the maxi mum of lashes inflicted was 800 ; in 1833, 500 ; 1834, 600 ; 1835, 500 ; 1836, 400 ; 1837, 200. After 1836 no higher number could be awarded, even by a general court-martial, than 200 ; while a district court-martial was limited to 150, and a regimental one to 100. Since 1847 the maximum has been restricted to 50 lashes. In 1839, 104.1 of every thousand men were tried by court martial, and 2.3 sentenced to transportation ; in 1846, the ratio tried was 72.8, and the number sentenced to transportation only 0.9. According to an official return it appeared that in 1835 the number of men tried by court martial in the French army was only h 18 per thousand. In that year the proportion in t e English army was 9.0. It appeared, however, vvas that not drunkenness, whether habitual or occasional, ose-third must be deducted from the English o _ _ leave liable to - be tried by courts-martial in France fore any comparison can be made. thTehattywo armiesnl as the relative proportion French ofcr.me armyin a comparatively 18 to 60 ; but in the committed by the class of con , so that small proportion was trials be compulsory, and who, being o f the people o , vf w oi e ut r hn. scripts whose servicet the general to those who enlisted 1/0- superior in respectho were of less settled and less pruden selected by lot luntarily, and w Indeed, of the an t d ota o l n n ly um l b 2 er b o y f crimes, the e onnos itsfewercr p. y the habits. from nf h was eneralma ss perdthmoeunsa, thousa nd were authorscomm.„i“tteedb t t a h r a i n lY s e 6nUst ? " continue +), British army, a The "being composed entirely f Bl ue -book, d , 0 men volun listed, an wno are Usually more thoughtless t than the en . I and i m pruden g era mass of the community, co mparison as regards crime the must be made with the same class in the French arrny ; in virli . h ic case the re sults would approximate as nearly as 56 to 60 ;and the slight excess of crime still • apparent in the British army is no more than m a , . j be readily accounted for by the circumstance, that as th fe be most fre nces have their • e greater p ro p or ti on o f t h e of be origin in drunk enness, t h ey are lik e l y to unfortunately quent among a northern race, who are, rone oat vice.: Finally, ratios , th e that of in different armies, as far a s they could be ascertained, were as follows : Prussian army, 13 .1 ; United States (Northern division), 18.8 ; French, 19 ; Indian (exclusive of men killed in action), 18 ; United Kingdom, 15.75. THE HORSE TRIOS. -- Notwithstanding the almost weekly exposure in the public journals of the " Horse Trick," there are still persons left who suffer themselve to be operated upon. A case of this sort occurred at the fair here on Tuesday last, in the person of Mr. Rogers, farmer, of Burnt-wood. On that gen tleman going into the fair he was attracted by a group of men standing round. One of them said he would give 301. for it. Of course the owner wanted the mare, and ultimately getting to high words, said the other party should not have it at any price. The person who pretended to be in want of the horse walked up to Mr. Rogers, and in a low tone said, "You appear to be a judge of a horse, sir, and I should like that very much, but you hear he won't sell it me ; I should be very glad if you would try to buy it for me. Mr. Rogers, desirous of doing his fellow man a goo d turn, cons ented to his wishes, and striking the bargain at 301 . , he went off to the bank and drew the required sum, handed it over, and got possession of the horse, which was not worth 30s. He then discovered that he was duped, for his " fiend" had fied.--Leds 'Wagoner,