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Atr''' ):`/ -' 0- , - agf,.. 7 ' / - ,2_, ' /)---c .c / , ----- - 1: 7 - 1 BAILTa INTELLICE. /.... 4 ...m.m.w....1 BANK OF ENGLAND, S EPT . S. 1853. T ERNO COURT of DIRECTORS of the GO ,ua and COMPANY of th e BANK of EN GLAND Tank on -" ceder o • That a GENERAL COURT e ill be held at the ursdaY next, the 15th inst., at Twelve o'Clock precisely, General f a Dividend. This will also be one of the Quarterly C°4113 appointed by the Charter. JOHN BENTLEY, Secretary. SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM. of ie a ttendan ce, ull and lowerniebt day, W ag th IL , l a°. 030 313 without chanb",°l ex t r eme Prl' - purpoes• • at to -day is sra are witbdr3„oo ) to w ait for.. uy b a dly sPo t e ; t weekxr' uit. e/c s v ats SD ior, quite 0.5 his Morl ii°g 6ol; red, 58 ° t° , 150 ; Arnen c ` — '6,i; 225 to 23 9 ,, ; Dutch; ft", seconds, 411' fl a cslc. es ; c ows S— [ per tperth' r ea L3WbS' bab el ' G2lb rt . 3 01 288 Od to to 18s 4 ' l 5 s Od to 703 , Os 7( 1 v i ia ditto, to EJ inaP en :i arleymecoh, tour, 2s vu edit. 9. grocery 94 he sales 0,18139,,,,, 11ow 11 t 4 m % cies of brio ;otoesvl it4t d n ight w' "°l3 5 Market V ;end, Sr• e ' g, ........... ~.06 ........ 0. e....... . ........ '''' . s6 ton •.• Q 6 '•• ........ hracite• "Q ........ ........... ,0.,6 ......... .0.1; .......... ......... .......... ......... .......... n..... A - &TS. jo 3r been 94f , cen4.. W ler I' ti y w hic 32i edoT*l on ari u 5 11 _1 i n chestor4, op, Lth-EssterP j og 'urther d VI 3 at 66 3 ' :Z.I6S• ( ir h a s fu. 4l / 7 51:' Is stock: 1 . 6 on stow, ;tern o°l°l rERDA I ' •• •• " i 6 :14 •• • • . ... fl' ..... ' 1 01 . ..• :it sfelt " ' • .• PEI 6 1 , 13 irs 23 1 1 ;, 0 0 •• 5 0 "" 0 4 ° 0 •• " a v t 1 ° on sel/ !IJ t io tio ,"` sPaw" B. ro oll rebb , 94'1 titl ii viv io Tre rde° ...------" te off iti ge :nd h thd ° $ Ol l / 11 ,, 0 'Jobe of t ote P j34 .;. °11 1, e ; el of f"lc )r- 1 - - 13e' to / 7038 ifr of ;0 01 t 10 °- le eer ico" fi'o ll°re' 19 15 1.81 D4'o. 0 o°9° GUILD u st, for L et liAL ung til ts Sept. , 7, 1853.—The Committee e City s Lands will meet at Guildhall, on WED yaely, ~__"? 1 4th day of, September instant, at one o'clock pre krotemiciZinilve TENDERS for LETTING on Lease, for 21 years it" ' Aldgat " next, a HOUSE, No. 47, on the west side of Duke *lns of e•--Further particulars and plans may be seen, and wilder obtained, at the Architect's office, THOMAS SAUNDERS, ComptroUer. 111\NR OP DEPOSIT, St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar-square, London. .„I:4.9esirous of Investing Money are requested to examine the $141 4 1% ulls I nstitution, by which a high Rate of Interest may be W ith Perfect security. Interest payable in January and July. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. free on application. WANTED,for the NEW CLUB at Edinburgh , tilt ed i n episting of 770 mem b ers. a HOUSE STEWARD, experi *lth Lo m anagement. Management. Emoluments about 1301. per annum, lge and !nd Lod , ing. No Uer Table.—Alications, Prevtous services test with Upper Table.—Applications, stating reta 'l'oua services, with testimonials, to b pp e addressed to statin theg SePtelnbar' 1853 1.37" bthe instant . — New 3oth •ns tant —New Club, Edinburgh, Bth • , 4 f;„" 1" - "" v "„ A- T WESTERN RAILWAY.- - tivtiv,,,,_-HEAP SUNDAY EXCURSION TRAINS. Cire te ;w4 r. the 18th 4 eptember Trains will leave Paddington for tor castor, Stroud, Gloucester , and ' Cheltenham at 7.15 a.m., and t trnia Ba nburY Warwick, and Leamington at 7.45 a.m.; re g the "mc ,e'venin from Cheltenha'n at 6.30, Gloucethr 72. Stroud / - "ILIZin t 4,, - • . 20 , Clrenc g ester 7.3) • and frow Warwick at 6.30, '`. ll 6.40, Banbury 7.20, and Oxford 8.10. FARES THERE AND BACK. First Class. Coverad Carriages. Cirencester or 5tr0ud........ 9s. -• •• ..... • • • • ' 58. Gloucester or Chelteoham ... 10s. .......... 6s. 2rford .. ~ , • , g e , .......... 3s. 6d. fanbury :••••• • • • • • • •,, rys, .. ..... ... 4s. 6d. • . li i ,, i ' e alzington or • Warwick 10s. 6d. • • .... 6s. (long-street, Chea T n ... t gage alloys ed, 21, ~..eus, Which are not transferable, may be obtained previously at pside ; 269, Strand ; 25, Regent-street (corner 1.1,4'7n-street), and at the Paddington StAt;f , • .. z. ......:_____•4gtort Station, Sept. 8, 1853. t i r A T WESTERN .ILWAY. o - 11 tAP EXCURSION TO SOUTH 'ALES. it 7,4 GRA Y, September 19, an EXCITRf )N TRAIN will - "'"lngton at 8 o'clock a.m. for Carmarthen, calling at Chap -1.1 li ewPor 041 t. Cardiff, Brideend. Port Talbot, Neath, Swansea, tiare,ait br:vf„....eatbPernbrey and also at the following Stations on the Railway' , Resolven, Glyn Death, Hirwatn, and Aber .ll4E4l)OMM to Paddington from the above stations on WED 'l,l)ort ". the 28th September . The Public win thus have an etitie,tolitY of visiting Tintern Abbey, the River Wye, and Chepstow b t i a , s ,Zel as the Magnificent Scenery of the Vale of Neat h. s' i lrhu, -.— ``'ioti will be the last which win take place to South Wales ` 4 e Prelent season. Pares There and Back. ( l obate First Class. Closed Car. 158. 1 18. 6d. ctrlgf,„rt,,°r Cardiff 17s • • 12s. 6d es —" or • • • • ' • " 0 . 16s. 6d. Ol or s __ ort Talbot .. .. .. 2s. • • L 'anel lY or T an " • • • • „. 225. • • 17r; 6d. arraar then eolbrey .. .. .. 255. .. 20s. Od. -- nav e • • 235. •• 225. 6d. •• •• •• •• o ar . 11, Glvn- Neath,lllrwain and Aber- The;oo the Vale of breath Railway .. 258. • • 20a. Od. t•2et tr . Tickets are not transferable, and are only available for the streeq°, l Trains. Th may be previously obtained at 27, f Kr o g r.. - °PhitgleoPside; 269, St rand ; 25. Regent-street, corner o of vlirtie w : e t I and at the Paddington Station, where han dbills l 'addf i i ra • n 'ay be obtained. .:...............g_ion Station, Sept. 1, 1853. LONDON and and NORTH-WESTERN PILE FOR SEPTEMBER. LASS PASSENGERS to EDINBURGH and GLASGOW. by (Sundays dai; .• clam eaPvashisgeniue6rs3otoa iEnded) .lnbargh and Euston- only wlll be e trai n '3' except from the Esquare Station, F To London by the Train— 'r°M Glasgow ............ • • .. .. at 5 0 a.m. „To From Edinburghat 5.20 a.m. 7 1 11 b, ;,l'esiorth of Edinburgh and Glasgow, third•class passeng ers Dattimr ys 'atlniled by the night trains on Mondays, Wednesdays, and a elaeral By order, • MARIE HUISII. Manager's Office, Euston Station, August 1853. Prtm ITEW FEATURE IN LIFE ASSURAN CE. DEPOSIT and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY 18 , New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London. CAPITAL—ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUND/. 1 1 ba TRUSTEES. etcght Honourable the Lord Viscount Drumlanrig , M.P. , P.C., otiAroller a her Majesty's Flousehold. Lint price, Bart., 3, King William - stree t, London. ' General Sir W. R. Clayton. Bart, Gloucester-place, Portman 41nare, and Marden-park, Surrey. .Ci t „ DIRECTORS. c ,-. '"" l he Right lion. the Viscount Drrtmlanrig, -0, 11 s. l .P o troller of her Majesty's Household.F Finsbury. 'Riley Barnes, Esq., 11, City-road, I Q t ;''el Clarke, Esq., late 17th Lancer., Junior United Service Club. 11 - ' e Coode, Esq., Portland-terrace , Wa ndsworth, and Belvoir, St. Jersey. Craeknall, Esq., 1, St. John's-gardens, Notting-hill, and 11, sare, Lincoln's-inn. Jo nes,M D Davies-street, Berkeley-square, and Lutterworth, Lei • " 0 cestershire. _ . r ge Knox, Esq., 15, Connaught-square, Hyde-park, and Tor Aoage, Staffordshire. — "fander Maclean, Esq„ Harrow-on-the-Hill. C. ) 4 Berkeley, Gloucestershire. b.....Ortian, Esq. , ' C, s treet Portman-square. willlatn Poole. Esq., 32, Upper Seymour-street , 'Esq., 147, Leadenhall-street, and 8, Hyde-park- Placeb West. '' , „Obert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Inner Temple , Barrister - at - Law. Dr. Scanlan, 21, Upper Seymour-street West, Connaught-square. Major Sperling, 14, St. James's-square. • ------ AI7DITORS, 1 . J. Bigg, Esq„ 126, Strand, Actuary and Secretary to the Medical, ,Legal ,and General Life Office. Zt lam Jones, Esq., Accountant, theam ',Leek, Esq., 8.A., Actuary to Engineers and Masonic Life ee, 345, Strand. 8•14. Sheridan, Esq., Manager of Times Assurance Company, Lud gate-hill. ts.i c BANKERS. l arles Price, Marryat, and Co., 3, King William-street, London. • Hopkinson and Co., 3, Regent-street. br Lewi s br • . scanl jinsbnry-pl ace. 21, Upper Seymour-street West, Connaught-square. PHYSICIANS. It 4, kk,llt% Teevan, Esq., . 1. ella Palan Esq., 16, Lower SURGEONSSeymour-street, Portman - square , 44, Gloucester -place, Hyde-park-vtrdens. CONSULTING ACTUARY. Francis G. P. Nelson, Esq., F.L.S. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Hill and Mathews St. Mary-axe. RESIDENT SECRETARY. Z . . b e Charles W. Bevan, Esq. bep oio Niblic is respectfully invited to examine the principles of the b 3% Ita: t S Ystem of Assurance, which is based 'usoh tables calculated Es .. ; Is under the immediate supervision or, Francis G. P. Nelson, c o) , ' I "S.. the Consulting Actuary to the CompanY. tVreZPayative Tables to assure 5001 on death, by a person aged 0 /4 5 next on the ORDINARY and on the DEPOSIT s y stem mrances, ON THE ORDINARY SYSTEM. The sum the ordinary The sum the Life Offices would give • ordinary Life him if he were unable Offices would to pay, or if he omit. ed At the His give him for to pay his current 4 An na ,,, end of policy the surrender a nnual p remium of Pt'' ' thirty at that, or sale ,81. 15. 3d. after he has te diu m,,, B , Yearswhen age, i of his policy, 'paid into their coffers 5 01 37 e the Party In case after thirty 2491.7 s 6d., and which i 15 fifty of years'payments they have h a d the use Years old, death amounting to 1 of at comp oun I 4 4 hewillhave will be 2491.75. 6d $ in t erest , or in Paid into worth which theyhave the e vent of his death the ofilce. 'had the benefit one hour after such ... of at compound , omission o r inabilit y 0 . m - s---, \ interest. to pay. —..._.-- ------ ---------- 1.6 4.8 d little more . 2491.78.6 d. 5001. than B°l. NoTsll4o. ---.....„........ perhaps 901. •-...--..........._ ON THE DEPOSET SYSTEM. if unable to pay, or not desirous of paying or omitting topay,thePo licy would still remain of its FULL value, 522/.25.7d.ti1l death, if 20 years after, no fur ther payment beingre quired. Ifhowever the partY,from any cause, wished to cancel the Policy, he could not onlydraw out all hehas 1 0 •/ put in, viz., 2251., but 10 s pd 225 1. , 321.237 d 2871. 21. 9d. a certain bonus of 621. 2s. 9d. in the bargain, which is more than one-fourth of the whole of hiepayments, or he could either draw out a part, 201. or 501., diminishing the Policy only by the assured value of the sum se drawn out at the age when withdrawn. See pagess and 7 in detailed . pamphlet, by -...._ ' F. G. P. Nelson, Esq. On e4 ,,,.._ On, t,uiParison ef these two tables ura _ e can secure the follow- Ing a4v e novel system of DEPOSIT asS e l assure paid annually, he can system. h ar,,,?tageg, via., Ist. For a less b su ab m, it will be seen that a person under the ordinary clly.'`aln in case of death t In thi s ZLne event of a desire to surre 1111 Xa tierePabY, by the above examPle which applies totalle eventh system.' araiy. In big Policy he canrac e e g i e v i z .4 inamil ne e as Much as on the ordinarY nder remains still his property, of th e '."tY or omission to pay, his policy for en sam e value as it was, though ordinary system, he e g the nothin'o.:ninber of years; whereas on the r +. increase or decreas time alt., ou n l .. ‘f , 4 tblY. Should he require - He Can et any he cease his __current payments avliew - ,, n g a fo rtnight's notice, withdraw anyar"' ")- givi - " I ‘ policy, he can do so at pleasure. with interest. After he lut a - Mount of his previous payments and le payment, three 3,es_wl, thdrawn Part one year he can, by a single a greater or even .. ....... m it up to the ita r rl ornl er any time afterwards. raise his policy . 7 _, times re gulate ht, warmer amount ; and by this system he can at all in the 12argein a.l lavings by his annual expenditure, with the fa t c b i e lit e y ame as . 1 4 b.-Z. this fund to fly to in case of necess y, . e gets inte rest C, his sth palpable advantage, however, that n su c h Z,nint of his savings. In ordinary Life Offices be can th% a r M eneY, and in case of death his family receive moredtohlit,no he etu mg, but his policy at once lapses or is cancelled the m th o g men_t Ain, to e t t to Pay his current prep lums, and, instead of having any the society, to for aid, all his hati-earned savings more fort Y. and his misfortunes serve to beneflt b t e ffe m po e ckets of his ;reaeally Such anate co-assurers. 1 414 ~,.." a B Yste4ll is too equitable and too striking to be overlooked e eht.,,,,..4.e5itT assurance is the only system of assurance which re cognised and adopted when the principles ails can be co w ._ avassed, and its palpable benefits become widely dinuseot.lt of i t c t '_' rs'reater advantages than a bank because it allows a fair i rate te l tnda s e t al i h n l case of withdrawal, and gives twice the amountitunr 111.11 c ase (4 'l' the Company to the representatives of the Depos thus combining the ADVANTAGES OF A BANK WITH THE BENEFITS OF ba c AN ASSURANCE COMPANY. ' , ate- er e ndow ment assurances the ad van t age s o f the DEPOSIT 4bv. m arsestt_ till snore striking. T4 GES OF THIS rOMPANY UNDER THE ORDINARY L' To h o . , LIFE ASSURANCE BRANCH. 0 00/, on e w ho Prefer this branch Policies are granted from 20/. to Liv es fn e° _,e,ry known principle thereof. rejeete, by e-iitiut the worst stages of disease, and such as have been etna r disease other Offices, are taken at rates equivalent to the parti- Loas from; "1 real or D ere --, and upwards granted on every kind of security, Anticitte_anal, on the most equitable terms to the borrower Iron-f orf :.r every description granted on very favourable terms. Dreu,i,„„_ I are of a Policy. —In case of inability to pay the current tne rke., the Directors will either purchase the Policy at a fair rest c orr y Tues or give a new one in lieu thereof, less 5 per cent., inte %%lob h a : 11°11,11 11z in amount to the whole of the previous payments .6,5. ~..," been made. tY'autcipre' posit ' IL 1 Pettuses with tanks in further illustration of tie De c4tio,, ... at and any ftutlik'r unOrm:,tic n uhly be obtained on appli• - ‘e the Agents its the country, or to CHARLES vf.gEvAN, Resident Secretary. l ots wanted in all Parts of the Weld No. 19,021,] LIVERPOOL TRAVELLERS and VISITORS to Liverpool will find Comfort, Economy, and Dispatch. at WHITEMAN'S BRUNSWICK HOTEL—com , ortable and well-aired beds may be depended upon—bed and breakfast, 2s. 6d.—a porter in attendance all night W. E. WHITEMAN, Proprietor. DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, consisting of more than 700 Models, Ii NOW OPEN, at the Portland Gallery, Regent-street, opposite the Polytechnic, every day except Friday, from 11 till 5, and from 7 till 10, for gentlemen only ; on Fridays, however, the Morning Exhibition for gentlemen will close at 2 o'clock, when Ladies only will be admitted until 5 o'clock. Explanations for gentlemen by Dr. Leach, and for ladies by Mrs. Leach, Admbsion—One hilling. LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL Rooms, (Lessee, Cuss. C. LAURENT, Onslow-house, Fulham•road). The above Rooms are now OPEN FOR THE SEASON, and will continue open every evening, with LAURENT'S CELEBRATED BAND. Admission, is. Doors open at halfepast 8 Dancing to commen eat 9 o'clock, a nd ter,pinate at half-past 11. R OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. PATRON —11.8. H. PRINCE ALBERT. CHANGE of the LECTURE on " THE THAMES." The SECOND PART of an HISTORICAL LECTURE onTHAMES" from its Source to its Estuary, by GEORGE BITCKLAND, Esq., assisted by Miss Blanche Younge, with NEW SONGS and NEW DIS,OLVING SCENERY, on Tuesdays and Fridays at four o'clock, and every Evening except Saturday at 1% ine. LECTURES. —By J. H. Pepper, Esq:: On PHOTOGRAPHY, with Illustrations, Mornings and Evenings By Dr. Bachhoffner : On ELECTRO-GILDING and SILVERING. The LAN'CASHFRE SEWING MACHINE exhibited in Use and explained Daily. Admission, ls.; Schools, and O pen Mornings and Evenings . Children under Ten years of age Half-price. SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. OPENING OF THE WEST END OFFICE. Messages for the Continent and for Birmingham, Dover, and Deal, are now - received at the New Office of the above Companies, Regent circus, Piccadilly. No extra charge is made for transmission. Messages of 20 words, between the West-end and City, are forwarded for One Shilling. Each additional 10 words, or fraction of 10 words, Sixpence. No charge for clattery for the First Mile. BIRMINGHAM. Messages of 20 Words, between Birmingham and London, One , hilling. Each additional 10 words or fraction of 10 words, Sixpence. Messages of 20 Words between Birmingham and Dover or Deal, Three Shillings. ossages of 20 Words between London and Dover or Deal, Two Shillings. charge for Porterage for the first mile from any of the Com panies' stations. Each mile after the first mile, Sixpence. THE CONTINENT. No Porterage charged upon Messages to the Continent—France excepted. Messages from the Continent, including France, delivered Free within a circuit of One Mile. Offices :—London: 30, Cornhill; Regent-circus, Piccadilly. Bove 7, Clarence-place. Deal : 100, Beach sir. et. Birmingham: 104, New-street. France: Paris-83, Rue de Richelieu; Calais—Rail waystation. Belgium—Brussels: Place de la Monnaie. G. L. PARROT c, Secretary. - F HE METROPOLITAN LIGHT and PA IL TENT LAMP COMPANY, established for the Manufacture of Clark's Patent. Lamps and Gas Burners. Offices, 36, Moorgate street, and 4.7, Strand. Capital 60,0001 in 60,0c0 shares of 11. each Deposit 108. par shPare. (Provisionally Registered.) ROVISIoNAL COMMITTEE. Sir Charles Nightingale, part., 8, andiester-square. W. Carpenter, Esq , 38, Arundel-street, Strand. Newton Crouch, Esq , 10, Bayswater-terrace, and 16, Chancery-lane. Toseph Mitchell, Esq., Circus place, Finsbury, Henry Motteram, Esq., Austinfriars. J. B. Muschamp, Esq , Claremont House, Kensington, 16, Ironmon ger-lane, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Soucyros.—Mr. Nickoll, 33, Essex-street, Strand. BANKERS Robarts, Curti., and Co., Li mbard-street. MANAGING DIRECTOR.—Mr. Richard Clark, 447, Strand This Company is fbrmed to carry out upon a more extensive scale the very valuable patented and other inventions connected with the production of light. Commercial undertakings are the best of any calculated to prosper, for while there is a certain restriction upon the income of railways and other speculations of the same kind, there is no bound to the extent to which commerce can be carried. The improvements introduced by the patentee in connexion with lamps and lighting in general, consist in the production of the ver tical, diamond, snarl, and other lamps of the most perfect construc tion for ihis country, surp_ssing all British and foreign manufac tures; a complete set o; lamps for India and the colonies, and patent gas bur ,, ers, which, for illuminating power, are unapproached, and exhibit principles in science never before brought into practice in the production of light ;rum coal gas. The estimated value of the articles connected with the production of light annually told in the United Kingdom, and the manufacture and sale of which will engage the attention of the Company, is about 3.000,0001. And assuming that 100,0001. only of this trade falls into the Company's hands (an Extremely low estimate), the Directors, after the most careful ca'culation, are satisfied that at least 20 per cent. per annum will be insured to the shareholders. The capital of the Company will become immediately reproductive in the extension of its manufactur: - —the present returns exceeding 20,0001. per annum; and a dividend will be payable to the share holders at the end of the first six months. The eminent success attendant upon the adoption of commercial undertakings similar to the present, such as gas companies, Price's Patent Candle Company, and others, afford a strong guarantee for the successful operation of this Company. Applications for shares in the annexed form may be made to the Provisional Committee, at the offices of the Company, 36, Moorgate street, and 447, S rand; the Solicitor, 33, Essex-street, Strand; at Messrs. Brunton and Son's, stock aid share brokers, South Gallery, Auction Mart, City; and to Messrs. Duffield end Co., Manchester ; Messrs. Flint and Co., Hull ; A.l W. Labertouche, Esq., Dublin ; Messrs. Ludlow, Brothers, Liverpool; J. Perry, Esq , Bfrmingham; and J. K. Thomas, Esq., Bristol, and of whom Prospectuses may be had. TO THE PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE METROPOLITAN LIGHT AND PATENT LAMP COMPANY. ENTLEMEN', I request you will allow me shares in the above undertaking, and I airee to accept the same, or any smaller number yon may think proper, and to sign the Deed of Settlement. I am, Gentlemen, Name in fa 11... ...... .......... Occupation.... • ............. • • Address... Reference. •• •• .... SECURITY TO EMPLOYERS. To Secretaries of Public Institutions, Clerks, Station Masters, Rail way Officials, Bankers' Clerks, Travellers, and Others. TIMES LIFE ASSURANCE and GUARAN- I E COMPANY, 32, Ludgate-hill, London. Incorporated under 7 and 8 Victoria. cap. 110. HONORARY PRESIDENTS. CHARLE JAM ES Dar tmouth-house, Westminster, KERSHAW, Esq., M.P., Stockport. TRUSTIES. James Alexander Douglas. Esq., 11, Queen -square. Ambrose Moore, Esq., Endsleigh-street, Tavistock-square. James Nisbet, Esq., Berners-street, Oxford-street. CHAIRMAN —The Hun. Francis Villiers, Berkeley-square. DEPUTY CHAIRMAN - James Wyld, Esq., Charing-cross. " The Times " Company affords guarantee to persons requiring the same at the lowest possible rate, and divides four-fiths of the profits Thus, by applying the Justly popular principle of mutuality to public guarantee, the premiums, instead o' being a tax upon honesty, be come a means of s: mg and Investment. Rates —From 7s. 6d. u wards. No charge for stamps or extra charges. An allowance made in the guarantee premium, where a ifs assurance and guarantee ore combined. LIFE ASSURANC". Life assurance, annuities, and endowments. Payments taken d.onthly as well as marterly, & Policies indisputable, save in cases ot fraud. Arrangements can be made with this °Mee to pre vent the 1 , se of a policy where the assured is u able, from temporar% embarrassment, to keep up the paymets. n H. B. SHERIDAN, Manager. REWS'S CHLORIDE OF ZINC, C the best and Cheapest Disinfecting Fluid for the ptheurific Disin ation of Ship's Hilds, Cesspools, Drains, vy ater-closets, &c. ; fection of nick Rooms, Clothing, Linen, and for the Prevention of Contagion. Chloride of Zinc, as the hest Disinfecting and purifying agent, is now established beyond all doubt. It is perfectly harmless in its application and innoxious in itself. The high price at which it has hitherto been so'd has prevented its general use; to obviate this obstrele to its universal apr,lication as a disinfecting an with air ing agent, the present m anufacturer, who was many years W. Burnett's Company, has arranged to supply the public with concen trated Chloride of Zinc in L.s greatest purity and at the lowest price. It is sold by all Chemists and Shipping Agents in the United King dom, in Imperial Quart Bottles at 2s. 6d. each, and in larger vessels at 6s. per Gallon. Each Bottle will be accompanied with instructions for its dilution and use. Concentrated Ch!eade of Zinc in use may be diluted with 200 times its quantity of w...".er. Orders executed by the Sole Agents, Messrs. Drew, Heyward, and Barron, Bash-lane, Cannon-street. Manufactured at IL G. GRAY'S, Commercial Wharf, Mile End, London. COUGH, CONSUMPTION, SPITTING of' ' BLOOD, NIGHT SWEATS, and FEVERS.—lmmediate relief is effected by PASCOE'S CONCENTRATED COUGH and CONSUMPTION MIXTURE. in all affections of the throat, chest, lungs, Sec. in all cases of cough, hoarseness, wheezing, difficult breathing, &c., however inveterate, this highly-successful remedy will be found the only medicine upon which entire reliance can be placed. f it is also very valuable in the febrile affections of children In all BILIOUS DISORDERS, liver complaints, indigestion in all its f or ms. headaches, loss of appetite, &c., PASCOE'S INFALLIBLE GLOBULES will effect a radical cure, as proved by numberless tes timonials. Prepared only by the proprietors, Henry and Co., with out whose signature across the Government stamp none is genuine. To be obtained through Barclay, Sutton, Sanger, &c., or any re spectable medicine vendor, in bottles at ls. 1%c1., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d, each. Wholesale depot, Bohemia-place, Hackney. TAKE NOTICE ! MESSRS. R. & L. PERRY & CO. CONTINUE TO BE CONSULTED AS USUAL, AT 19, BERNERS-STREET, OXFORD -STREET, LONDON, ON THE SECRET CA DISA PPUSES O OINTED HOPES.F SELF-ACQUIRED MISERIES THE 'SILENT FRIEND. In Six Languages—Fiftieth Edition. CONTAINING THE REMEDY FOR PREVENTION OF DISEASE. Illustrated by One Hundred Anatomical Coloured Engravings and e w Edition, enlarged to 200 pages,Cases Ic price 2s. 6d., by post, from the Fstablishment, 3s. 6d. in stamps, T tEhe e S xh l a Tj us E tion T and F p it hy l s E ical decay a of the e s d y ical stem, produced d o b n excess i ve indulgence, the consequences of infection , or the abuse of 3 mercury, with directions for the use of the preventive lotion, fol lowed by observ ations on Marriage, and the disqualifications hich prevent it. Illustrated by 100 Coloured Engravings. By R. and L. PERRY and CO., Consulting Surgeons, 19, Berners-street, Oxford street, London. Published by Sherwood and Co. 23, Paternoster row, and sold by Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street; Gor 'on, 146, Leadenhall-street +4,5, Farringdon-street ; W. Sutton 10, 'low Church -yard ; Butler, Cheapside ;It Johnson, 68, Cornhill. 0 an anditreats of the anatomy and physiology of the reproductive rgPARsT, is illustrated by 28 Coloured Engravings, PART 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive in dulgence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative incapacity. Illustrated by 10 Explanator3 Engravings. • PART 111. treats of the form, and from infection, either in the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for their treatment. This section is illustrated by 62 Coloured Engrav- remedy, for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary bottle. Perry's Purifying Specific Pills, 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and Ils. per box, a certain remedy for gonorrhoea , gleet, stricture, and chronic infl amm it ion of the bladder. Consultation fee, if by letter. IL - A minute detail co the caFe is required : age, habits, and post• Lion in society. 51. nteltas, with advice, to be had at the Establish• meet only, by which the tee, 11., is saved. Messrs ferry, Surgeons, are in attendance, daily, at 19, Berners.street , Oxford-street, Lou'ings. PAter 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 con iideration of msrriage and its duties. The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and the whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into. THE CORDIAL limas OF SYMMS is exclusively employed in tree ing nervous and sexual debility, impotence, Sze., I is. and 335. per bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, symptoms, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, I Is. and 335. per an anti-syphilitic don, from Eleven Two, and Five to Eight; on Sunday 110 M tiloyon to One. N DON, MONDAY EVENING-, SEPTEMBER 12, 185 a. SHREWSBURY and BIRMINGHAM and SHREWSBURY and CHESTER RAILWAYS. The COMMITTEE of SJIAREHOLDERS have to announce that the proposal for an AMALGAMATION with the GREAT WESTERN COMMA NY will be submitted for the consideration and approval of the Shareholders of the above-mentioned Companies, at SPECIAL ME KTING , , to be holden as follows, viz.: SHREWSBURY and CHESTER—At the Royal Hotel, Chester, on TUESDAY, sept. 13, at Two o'Clock p.m. precisely. SHREWSBURY and BIRMINGHAM—At the London Tavern, Bislwpgate-street, London, on WEDNESDAY, Sept. 14, at Two o'Clock p.m. t recisely. Shareholders who have not transmitted their proxies are earnestly solicited to attend tha Meetings of their respective Companies, and to record their votes in person in favour of the proposed Amal gamation. By Order of the Committee. GEORGE WOOLCOTT, Secy. 12, Buckingham.strect, Adelphi, Sept, 1853. N.B.—No person will be entitled to vote as a proxy, unless the in stratum t at pointing such proxy has been transmitted to the Secretary of the Company not leFs than forty-eight hours before the time ap pointed for holding the Meeting at which such proxy is to be used. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, 6th Sept , 103. THE Principal Officers of her Majesty's Ordnance do hereby give notie, that they are reidy to DISPOSE OF, to such persons as arc willing to tender for 'he same, a quantity of Old Iron Ordnance, shot and Shell., Old Gun Metal, Lead, Cast and Wrought iron, in Store at the Royal At senal at Woolwich, which has been divided into lots, and may be view;:d upon application to the Sturekeeper at that place any day (Sanday excepted) previous to the day fixed for the delivery of the renders. A catalogue of the severs' lots may ba obtained by persons willing to become purchasors, at the Storekeeper's Office, Woolwich, the Principal Storekeepers Office at the Tower, and at the Secretary's Office in Pall-mall, where the Tenders for the whole or any number of the said lots are to be delivered on or before the 17th instant By order of the Board. J. WOOD, for the Secy. CONTR iCT FOR PIG IRON. Department of the Storekeeper General of the Navy, Somerset-place, September 10, 1853. THE Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain ana Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY, the 20th inst., at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying Her Majesty's Dockyards at Woolwich and Chatham with 'SOFT MELTING PIG IRON. A Distribution of the Iron and a Form of the Tender may be seen at the said Office. No Tender will be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty, nor wil t any be noticed unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " amender for Pig Iron," and must also be delivered at Somerse-p'^ce, accompanied by a Letter signed by a responsible person, engaging to become bound with the person tendering, in the sum of 1001., for the due perform ance of the Contract. IDDLESEX LUNATIC ASYLUM, at HANWELL. Persons willing to TENDER for SUPPLYING the above INSTI TUTION with Meat, Flour, Malt, Hops, Hay and Straw, Oatmeal, Peas, Butter, Cheese, or Bacon, for six calendar months, from the let of October next, or with any of the undermentioned articles for twelve calendar months from that day, viz., Groceries, Soap, 011, 01 Colours, Brooms, Brushes, Window Glass, Lead and Leaden Piping, Hosiery, Linen and Woollen Drapery, Blankets, Rugs, Straw Hats and Bonnets, Tobacco, Snuff, Cloth, Boots and Shoes, Leather, :,and Wine and SPilts for the sick. are reqcested to deliver sealed 'Ten !ere to me, by Eleven o'clock, on TUESDAY, the 20th inst., at the Sessions 1+ Dose, Clerkenwell green, and to attend there personally o that day, at Twelve o'clock. Blank forms, in which Tenders must be made, may be obtained, and the form of contract may be seen, either upon application to me at this place, or to the Storekeeper at the Asyl,m. and patterns and samples, to which the contractors will bs required strictly to conform, may be seen at the Asylum at Hanwell. The Committee of Visitors will not bind them 'selves to accept the lowest or any of the tenders. CHAItLES WRIGHT, Clerk to the Visitors. Dated this "tth SeVeanbar,lBs3. CA_WIOW:—MECii.I'S MAGIC STROP. — "gfie Real Magid Strop," " The Double Magic Strop," " The Matte &crop," are base imitations of MECIII'S MAGIC STROP. None arc genuine without Mechi's name, which imitao - s dare rot put on the spurious strop; yet, strange to say, many pe•Anners call ing themselves respectable, endeavour to palm this rubbish on the public as Mechi's genuine strop, although they possess no sharpening properties whatever, but the very reverse. The well-known Magic Paste is an invaluable auxiliary to the Strop, and its renovating properties are truly astonishing. Mechi's Razors stand pre-eminent as well as his Table Cutlery. FOR MORE THAN ONE PURPOSE, and for more than ONE SEASON.—ATTIRE to MEASURE or READY MADE, which may be obtained at the Establishment of E. MOSEY and Son. or at its West-end Branch, New Oxforthstreet, exhibits an admirable suitability to the season, and is prepared ex pressly for Excursionists, Men of Business, and all others—for Adults, Juveniles, and Children. The materials are the greatest novelties which have been pro duced, and the styles and workmanship of the most distinguished order, but the prices charged are very considerably lower than at any other house. Uniforms Military and Naval, Liveries and Official Costumes, are made according to present regulations, and every description of Dress is provided in the most artistic finish, at the lowest possible charges. Hats, Caps, and Hosiery for Ladies and Gentlemen are presented by E. MosEs and Soli in every variety, combining the Elegancies and Novelties of all countries, the recherché samples of British and Foreign manufacture. In every Article, superior quality, and ex tremely economical prices are recommendations of the highest order. The newest samples of Autumnal Materials and fashions are to be inspected at E. MosEs and Sow's. Shippers to the " Gold Lands," or any other part of the world, will find at the Wholesale Department of E. MOSES and Sow's Establish ment the largest stock of the most suitable and therefore the most saleable goods, the great advantages in price render the articles a greater source of profit than any other class of exports. Full lists of Outfits for Ladies and Gentlemen, with ship sailing information, may be had on application, or post free to any part of the kingdom. CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the public against imposition, having learned that the untradesman-like falsehood of " Being connected with their Establishment," or " It's the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons, they beg to state that they have NO CONNEXION WITH ANT OTHER HOUSE IN OR OUT OF LONDON, except their own Establishments, as follows : London City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157. Minories, 83, 44,85, 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, Melbou ne, Australia. Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. IMPORTANT.—ShouId any article not give satisfaction, it willbe exchanged if desired, or, if preferred, tha money will be returned without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lo west price. trom which no abatement can be made. The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on Saturdays, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock. A new Book, "The Herald of the Seasons," containing fall lists of prices, our system of self-measurement, facts relative to Australia, advice to emigrants, &c., may be had on application, or post-free to any part of the kingdom. A handsome Almanac for the year ending 1853 can be had gratis, an application. lei Fon parle Francais. Hier srricht man Del-P.41 Qui el parla Italian. Auua se habit , Raman! BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS. The following testimonial is another proof of the great effi cacy of this medicine :- 157, New Bond-street, London, October 12, 1850. " Sir,—ln acquainting you with the great benefit which I have ex• perienced by taking BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS, I feel that I am but performing a duty to that portion of the public who may be similarly affected. " About twenty years since I was first attacked by rheumatic gout al my hands and feet. I had previously been subjected to every va iety of climate, having served in Canada in the 19th Dragoons, and in Spain, under Sir John Moore. in the 18th Hussars. I always pro • -tired the best medical aid, without obtaining any essential rel'ef, and my sufferings can be appreciated only by those who know some thing of this disease. " It was during one of those paroxysms, between twelve and thir teen years ago, that I was recommended to try BLAIR'S PILLS. I lost no time in procuring a box, and before I had taken that quantity he pain had entirely ceased, and in a few days I was in perfect health. " From that moment, whenever I feel any symptoms of the dis ease approaching, It have instant recourse to this medicine, which to tne is so valuableat were it not that the days of magic hay,. eased, I should certainly attribute the relief I obtain to that cause. Moreover, I rejoice to say that my health has not in any degree suf iered. but on the contrary I believe the tendency of BLAIR'S PILLS s towards its improvement. " I have recommended the Pills to many friends, and the result has always been of the most gratifying character. " I am, Sir, yours respectfully, " GARRET FOSTER GILL. "To Mr. Prout, 229, Strand." For every description of Gout and Rheumatism, Sciatica, Tic-dolo• reux, &c., &c., BLAIit'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS are a sovereign remedy, contain neither mercury, opium, or any other dangerous drug, require no care whatever in their use, and ter ra pidity of care and complete safety have not their equal in the world. Sold by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London ; and all respectable Medicine Vendors. Price 28. 9d. per box. Askfor BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS, and observe that " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," is impressed upon the Government Staten. QIJRGEON HENRY HAMILTON, Twenty eight years in London practice, will REMOVE any CASE of a PRIVATE NATURE before charge be made for medicine. In all female complaints requiring practical professional skill, Surgeon Hamilton will guarantee a successful issue, or no expense will be incurred by the patient. Medicine can be sent to any part of the realm, securely packed, on receipt of particulars. Ladies and gen tlemen consulting by leder must enclose the usual fee, when they will be treated with by return of post. Hours for personal visits from Ten till Four, and from Six till Nine daily.—Address, No. 3, King William-street, Strand, London. Medicine to country pa tients, 11. MEDICAL AD YOUTH AND MATURCE ON THE SECRET ITY INFIRMITEES OF Y. 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 Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Sre., &c. MAY 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 !need more misery in you th, de g radation 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 encework oyvn-coAlToclOredif secret causes of self -acquired miseries and disappointed hopes in existence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous Debility, various forms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitful Mani age3, Impotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their endless modifications owe their almost entire origin. orthltoiisplaosbsooflupteerslyonnealcemssaaryosstehmatenaut wmheicnhsoshohuoldotk:sovwiotlhaitetdthweirtehoaoret reurhreinygdagryieovfolsopoensniadletiressioansdeiflhnednoiwgiroom, how w d th re es gr e et p s o u n c a c h e i e e d s may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be remover, and how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and above all, that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure DOCTOR LA'MERT has for a long series of years been engaged in ohaf thvaneebierexeptnaetninesiidivtueneoedpiitnatlohceiatintptitclesaep:seaheitnmaiial,the treatment of these delicate com plaints, and is the only legally qualified Physician who, regardless of the taunts and envy of the hypocritical and mock-modest, has had the confidence, through the medium of the public press, to direct attention to these enormous evils, from which no grade of society is tree. In selecting thi4 department of practice, he has been amply rewarded by the great 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, who, with their pirated publications, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues i fl h ic th te e d ir se p r re iou te s s i s i i ) o ju h r s y . on those who six A n t ti h mil o E m dieg e shirt fo .a r A: consultation e d thi a n ily from Eleven till Two, and from cownistahiinngthteofeceonosfuilit., Dr.and DadA;lsiceEann: medicines can be forwarded to any initials or address. should first obtain a copy of his us nt t s A Medical Treatise on the Philosophy of Marriage and Nervous and Generative Debility, 111 8 n E st L r r ate r d R b E y 8 fi Elt ft engravings, and des cribing in detail the various disorders resulting from secret abits and ,xcesses. The perusal of this treatise will assist in the correct lesisiotion of their cares, and may be had, price 2s 6d, in En2lish r Tench, Spaniqt, Dutch, tiall,::., or German, of Measrs Pipe! mothers and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay , 63, Oxford Me Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Storie, Titchborne-str eet, Haymarket; * s or free by post for forty-two stamps, to any addrer ltora the Author's resi• MG% V, BBDroap-Kcaar,, Lowroorr. THE EASTERN QUESTION. Yesterday the Sunday Tines published the offi cial reply of the Earl of Clarendok to the circular note of Count Nesselrode. Through what channel that journal has obtained this important document which all the persuasion of both Houses of Parlia ment could not induce the Ministers to make public we are unable to say, but there can be no doubt as to its authenticity. The dispatch in question is addressed by the Earl of Clarendon to Sir G. H. Seymour, her Majesty's Ambassador at St. Petersburgh, and as follows : " THE EARL OF CLARENDON TO SIR G. H. BETWD UL "Foreign Office, July 16, 1853. " Sir—The Baron Brunow has communicated to me the circular dispatch addressed by the Count de Nessel rode to the legations of Russia, bearing date the 20th June (2d July), 1853. " It would give me much pain to express to you the astonishment and regret with which the Government of her Majesty has seen the declaration contained in that dispatch, that it was in consequence of the refusal of England-and France to yield to the recommendation of the lin3sian Government, and in consequence of the entry of their fleets into the waters of Turkey, that the occupation of the Principalities had taken place. " The passages of the dispatch containing that extra ordinary assertion are the following : " In placing this ultimatum before the Porte, we had more particularly informed the cabinets of the great powers of our intentions. We had especially a ppealed to France and Great Britain not to complicate, by th eir attitude, the difficulties of the situation • n ot to take measures too hastily, that, on the one hand, might have the effect of encouraging opposition on the part o f the Porte, and, on the other, might engage more de e p l y than had hitherto been the case the honour and the dig nity of the Emperor. " On the other side, the two maritime powers have not thought it their duty to yield to the consideration which we have recommended to their serious attention. Taking before us the initiative, they have judged it in dispensable to precede immediately, by an effective mea sure, those measures which we only announced as purely eventual, since we made the carrying of them into offect depend on the final resolutions of the Porte, and because at the very moment when I write, the execution thereof has not yet begun. They immediately sent their fleets into the waters of Constantinople. They already occupy the seas and ports of the Ottoman dominion at the gates of the Dardanelles. By, that advanced attitude the two powers have placed us under the weight of a threatening demonstration, which, as we had predicted to them, may add to the crisis new complications. ` In presence of the refusal of the Porte, supported by the manifestations of France and England, it becomes more than ever impossible for us to modify the resolu tions that the Emperor has made dependent on them. In consequence, his Imperial Majesty has sent to the corps of our troops stationed at this moment in Bessa rabia the order to pass the frontier, and to occupy the Principalities. " I may observe, in the first place, with reference to the first of these passages, that the dispatch of Count de Nesselrode, addressed under date of the first of June to the Baron Brunow, had not been brought to the knowledge of the Government of her Majesty before the Bth of June, and, consequently, the orders forwarded a week previously to Admiral Dundas to repair to the environs of the Dardanelles had not been issued, as pre tended in the circular of Count de Nesselrode, after the considerations were made known to the British Govern ment. Bat had it even been different, and had the orders not been issued, it was still impossible for the Government of her Majesty to think that the menace to occupy the Principalities would not be carried into effect in consequence of the adherence on the part of the Porte to the rejection' of those clauses which a few days before it had rejected without hesitation. of her ' C o m n s a e q j e u s t e y n t c l y o , u l o d n n t o h t e b B u t t h c o o f n J s i u d n e r e , the the o G c c o u v p e a r t n i me n o no t f the Principalities as inevitable, and they think that the cabinet of St. Petersburg will not now pretend that the note of Count de Nesselrode to Redschid Pacha con tained merely a simple menace, which it was never seri ously proposed to carry into effect. It is a fact, more over, that the note of Count de Nesselrode of the date of the 31st May, containing the communication of the hostile intentions of Russia, would suffice of itself to authorise the Government of her Majesty to take mea sures for the protection of Turkey. " I will endeavour now to establish at what period and on what motives the British fleet was sent into the waters of Turkey. The Prince Menschikoff, acting, as we must believe, by order of his government, has declared in his note of the sth May, of which a copy was received in London on the 18th of the same month, that all fur- ther delay to adopt his propositions relative to the Greek Church would be considered by him only `as a want of respect towards his government, which would impose on him the most painful obligations.' "And accordingly, in his note of tha.llth May, of which a copy was received in London on the 30th of the same month, the Prince Menschikoff said, that in case of an unsatisfactory decision by the Porte, If the principles which formed the basis (of the articles under discussion) are rejected—if by a systematic opposition the Sublime Porte persists in withholding itself from an intimate and direct understanding, he must consider his mission as terminated, inter rupt his relations with the cabinet of his Majesty the Sultan, and cast upon the responsibility of his ministers all the consequences which may result therefrom.' And, in fine, in his note dated the 15th of May, received in London on the Ist of June, Princ e Menschikoff con cludes with these words It remains for the sagacity of your highness to weigh the incalculable consequences and the great calamities which may result, and which will fall with all their weight on the responsibility of the ministers of his Majesty the Sultan. - " On one hand, these reiterated menaces towards a power whose independence Russia herself had declared her determination to maintain—these menaces, say we, addressed with the intention of sustaining the demands so little conformable to the assurances Government of her Majesty ; an d, the Ove n to the given hand, the great armaments, military an d naval, which during months were carried forward on the very frontiers of Tnrkey, left no longer any doubt in the minds of the Government of her Majesty upon the imminent danger in which the Sultan was upon the point of being placed. They deeply regretted that th at danger re sulted from the acts of the Russian Government, which was a con tracting party to the treaty of 1841 ; but as the Govern ment of her Majesty entertains now as firmly as in 1841 the principles laid down in that treaty, and as they think that the maintenance of the peace of Europe is engaged in the conservation of the Ottoman empire, they have felt that it was time for them to be ready (in the interest of peace itself) to protect the Sultan. On learning, then, the sudden departure of Prince Menschikoff , the y took the determination to place the British fleet, which at that time had not quitted Malta, at the disposition of her Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople. "On the Ist of June the Government addressed to Lord Stratford de Redcliffe a dispatch authorising him, upon certain specified occurrences, to send for the fleet, which, in such case, would sail for whatever place might be indicated for it. On the 2d of June they forwarded to Admiral Dundas instructions that ho should repair immediately to the neighbourhood of the Dardanelles, and place himself in communication with her Majesty's ambassador. "The evening before we received a copy of the note of Prince Menschikoff, dated the 18th of May, in which he announced that his mission had terminated, and that the refusal of the guarantee demanded would hence forth impose on the Imperial Government the necessity of finding it in her own proper force.' " On the 2d of June I brought to the knowledge of Baron Brunow the measure taken by her Majesty's Go vernment. That measure could not have been commu nicated by him at St. Potersburgh before the 7th or the Bth, and, consequently, it could not have the least in fluence on the decision taken by the Russian Govern ment ; whilst the note by which Count Nesselrode an nounced to Redschid Pacha that ` within some weeks his troops would receive the order to pass the frontier of the empire,' was dated the 31st May, and his dispatch to Baron Brunow, in which he said that, if the Porte did not sign Prince Menschikoff's note within a week, counting from the reception of his note by Redschid Pacha, the Emperor would give orders to his troops to occupy the Principalities,' bore the date of the let of June. '`lt results, evidently, from that which p rece d es, that the British fleet has not been sent into the waters of Turkey out of disregard of the consider ations submitted to h er Majesty's Government by the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh, and th a t th e de cision to occupy the Principalities had been taken by the Russian Government on the eve of the depar ture from London of the instructions directed to Vis count Stratford de Redcliffe. And that decision, we say, had been taken because the Russian Government could not seriously, even for a moment, entertain the hope to see the Porte give its adhesion to the clauses, without variation,' (les clauses sans variante), which respect for its proper di g nit y and the interest of its security had, a very fe w da y s before, imposed o n it th e obligation to decline. Nevertheless, Count Nesselrode asserts, in his circular dispatch of July 2, that the presence of the English and French fleets in the Bay of Besika has, above all, provoked and entirely justified the occupation of the Principalities ; he pretends that these fleets are almost in view of the capital--that they are hardly 200 miles distant, and that the maritime oc cupation by these fleets of the ports and waters of the Turkish dominion, could only be counterbalanced by a military occupation on the part of Russia. " But her Majesty's Government must protest against that assertion in the most forcible terms ; they deny the existence of any similitude between the position of the united fleets in Besika Bay and that of the Russian armies in the Principalities. The fleets have the same right to anchor at Besika as they have to moor in every other port in the Mediterranean. By their presehce in these waters no treaty is transgressed, no territory is viointe,d, no principle of the. law of nations is disre garded ; the indep3ndence of the Ottoman Empire is not menaced by it, and, assuredly, it ought not to be a motive of offence to Burma. On the contrary, the occupation of the Principalities by Russia con stitutes a violation of the territory of the Sultan, and of the special treaty concerning that part of his dominions; ; it constitutes an infraction of the principles of the law of nations, and an act of direct hostility against the Sultan, to which he would have the right to respond by a declaration of war and a requisition to the allied squadrons to advance to Constantinople for her defence. That occupation constitutes, in fine, an act so dangerous, considered as a precedent, and an act so violent on the part of a. powerful state against another whose very feebleness o ught to be its protection, that it has exerted through out all Europe sentiments of alarm and reprobation. To admit that there exists any resemblance, or that there could be established with reason any comparison whatever between the position of the English and French fleets without the Dardanelles, and that of the Russian armies within the Principalities, is evidently impossible. " It is with profound regret that her Majesty's Go vernment sees itself in the necessity of expressing their opinions with respeTt to the recent invasion of the 'Turkish territory ; but they think that in abstaining from doing so they wo,eld have been wanting in their duty, and would render more difficult, in future, their intervention for the defen, ev and maintenance of treaties, ;which constitute the inter national law of Europe, and the only effectual guarantoes of the general peace and of the rights of nations. "The sufferings that the occupation of the Princi palities must occasion to the iithabitants will be doubt less alleviated by the Russian Government taking upon 'itself all the weights of that occupation. Having so many times and at such length d'iscassed the demands addressed by Russia to the Sublime Porte it does not appear to me necessary to dwell vpon the other passages in Count de Nesselrode's cirou.lar dispatch, ;which, indeed, contains no new fact or argument in favour of his demands. I must, however, aztpress the conviction of her Majesty's Government that tho cabinet of St. Petersburgh is altogether in error in amerting .that the Porte is little disposed to satisfy the just de mands of Russia, or that it seeks to evade the engage meats made with her. If that imputation were tnie, her Majesty's Government would not have failed to ewe all the influence they possess to induce the Porte to re cognise its engagements suitably. But the Government has no more knowledge of such violation of the engage ments in question on the part of Turkey than they have of those numerous arbitrary acts of the Ottoman Govern ment by which, as it is pretended, the rights of the Greek Church have been violated, and which have me naced even to overturn the order of things sanctioned d b by m t i a m n ed,s in d f s a o v o p u r r e c b i o f u h s e to o c t u h . r e e o u r g t h i u o n d i s o t x s C i n h u t r h c e h E . a R s t u , s t s h i a e strict status quo, and the maintenance of the privileges which they have enjoyed under the protection of their Sovereign. But Count Nesselrode dispenses entirely ap e ri m vi a l n eg n e e s r h t a h v a e t b s e tat en us im q p u a o i h re a d s w beenit h thedisturbed—how explanation —what complaints have been made—what wrongs have remained unredressed. Her Majesty's Government has the knowledge of but one offence committed by the those o w s h e Turkish Government against Russia, and that offence has been repaired to its satisfaction, with the consent of Prince Mensehikoff, at the same time that the last firman by which the Sultan confirms the privileges and immunities of the Greek Church was received with great gratitude by the Patriarch of Constantinople. Where, then, are the reasons which, as the Count de Nesselrode asserts, will justify in the eyes of impartial Europe the position taken at this moment by Russia ? " Count Nesselrode adds that Russia, thanks to its geographical situation, and to its treaties, possesses vir tually the right to protect the Greek Church in the East. If it is so, and if that right, (whatever may be its nature e ist p e u n r c t e e o t r u it v new ew ali e d n i ga ty g in em d i o sn u t b s t . by l s f tr t i h vi e ng an t u o i ent rights constrain and extent) is not interrupted, it is Russia that puts its existence exist, and if they are respected by Turkey, Russia has no motive for complaint against Turkey. But if Russia seeks to give a greater extension to its rights, then Tur key, on its side, has the right to examine closely the nature of the new demands, and to refuse such of them as are incompatible with its independence and its dig nity. " Her Majesty's Government receives with sincere satisfaction the new assurances that the policy of his Imperial Majesty, as well as tile interest of Russia, re quires the' maintenance of the or der of things existing in the East ; and as the interests of Turkey render it ne cessaryherMajesty'sforittoGobbvseerrnvme ietsntefiangtatgeerments themselvestow ard t s h at Russia, Rus sia will not wish (by endeavouring in actual circum stances to insist upon demands that the Porte ought not to admit) to prolong a crisis which may render ine vitable consequences that Europe has so great an interest in avoiding. " You are authorised to read this dispatch to Count Nesselrode, and even to give a copy thereof to his excel lency. " I am, &c., (Signed) " CLA.RENDON." I PRICE SD• .NJ VAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 11. The Edinburgh, 58, Captain Hewlett, screw gunnery. ship, returned to Spithead from her cruise last night, and is reported to have answered very satisfactorily. The Bulldog, 6, paddle-frigate, was commissioned pro tem., on Friday morning by Lieutenant George H. Clarke, First of the Blenheim, as the depot ship of the steam reserve squadron at the port. Forty seamen and marines of the Blenheim remain behind to bring forward the Dauntless (screw), 24, and Dragon (paddle), 6, steam-frigates, for eommi , sion. Her Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert was hauled under the shears yesterday morning, and had her masts taken out, preparatory to being lengthened— a transformation which will cost as much, we suspect, as would furnish her Majesty with a new yacht. The Plumper, 9, screw corvette, Commander Whar ton, was inspected at Spithead yesterday by Vice-Ad miral Sir Thomas Cochrane, the Commander-in-Chief, after which she took in her powder, shell, &c., and is now ready for service. The Vulcan, screw troop-steamer, Commander Von Donop, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from Woolwich, to embark draughts of the 10th, 36th, 39th, and 59th Regiments, which the Sprightly steam-tender took out to her. She sailed this evening. The artificers of this dockyard were given the half holyday to-day which they usually receive on the day of muster by the Lords of the Admiralty. The Contest, 12, Commander the Hon. J. W. S. Spencer, was paid off in this harbour yesterday. The Antelope, 3, dispatch -packet, Lieutenant-Com mander Young, was inspected Sir Thomas Cochrane on Friday evening, and yesterday morning she went to Spithead. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 10. The Lords of the Admiralty are expected at Moors head's Royal Hotel, on Tuesday and Wednesday, when they will commence their annual inspection of the dock yard, the new steamyard at Keyham, the Royal William Victualling-yard, and the other public naval establish ments. On Wednesday they dine with Port Admiral Sir John Ommanney, and on Friday their Lordships patronize a ball at St. George's-hall, Stonehouse, in aid of the funds of the Royal British Female Orphan Asylum. Her Majesty's ship Harlequin, 12, Commander Arthur p. S. Willmott, which left Ascension the 24th of July, arrived here yesterday morning. In consequence of this lung passage—seven weeks—her crew for the last fortnight have been put on short allowance of water. The Harlequin left Plymouth in December, 1850, and has been ever since actively employed in the suppres sion of the slave trade on the coast of Africa. Her boats have been engaged in many river expeditions, but she has made no captures since she has been in commission. Commander Willmott has, however, been a very suc cessful mediator in making treaties of peace among con flicting African tribes, and he and his crew have con ducted themselves very meritoriously in fixing a new false keel to the Teazer, 2, screw tender to the Commo dore, which got ashore near Sierra Leone. It was con sidered necessary by the carpenters of the Penelope to send the Teazer home, but Commander Wilmot, by main force, hauled her up 90 feet, high and dry, upon the beach, and completely repaired her. This extraor dinary effort, in such an unhealthy climate, has had its effects on the brig's crew, who, though not now ill of the fever, are suffering from weakness, especially their chief. The master, Mr. Earl, died in the spring of the year, when on detached service in the Volcano, 5, Commander Robert Coote, and Mr. Harris, acting master of the Waterwitch, 8, Commander Alan A. Gardiner, is now doing duty on board the Waterwitch. Lieutenant Commander W. R. A. Pearse, of the Athol, 4, storeship, having become sick, the First Lieuteiant of the Waterwitch took charge of the Athol, and the Second Lieutenant of the Harlequin went first of the Waterwitch. Mr. T, B. Mitchell, acting mate of the Spy, Lieutenant-Commander H. B.Beresferd, is now acting lieutenant of the Harlequin. There have been no promotions in the brig during her absence, Commodore Bruce, in the Penelope, with the Crane, 6, Commander Thomas Miller, and the Myrmidon steamer, Lieutenant-Commander W. K. Jolliffe, was off the mouth of the Congo on the 6th of July. The Philomel, 8, Commander Skene, was towed out of harbour this morning by the Confiance steam-vessel, and took her powder in, preparatory to sailing for the coast of Africa. Those officers and seamen of the Ajax, 58, screw steam-ship, Captain M. Quin, who have been three years in commission were paid off yesterday, and she was re commissioned to-day by Captain Frederick Warden. The apprentices' brig Nautilus, 6, tender to the Im pregnable, Lieutenant-Commander Samuel B. Dolling, came into harbour yesterday to refit. The crew of the Ddalus, 20, Captain Wellesley, sent down lower yards and topmasts on Thursday, and unmasted her to-day. She will be paid off on Tuesday. The brigs Scorpion and Mariner are ordered to be commissioned at the port. WOOLWICH, SEPT. 10. APPOINTMENTS. Secretary's Clerk.—Edward Faulkner (1847), to the Impregnable, 104, flagship of Admiral Sir J. A. Om ' manney, K.C.8., at Devonport. Clerk. —Richard F. Wily (1852), to the St. Jean d'Acre, 101, screw steam-ship, at Devonport. Byron Stratford, H. F. Alldricks, John Rivers, and F. A. Miles, have been appointed clerks'-assistants. Lieutenant John Trevenan (1850), recently serving in the Vulcan, has received his appointment to serve in the sloop Arab, 12, at Chatham. The Rifleman, 8, screw steam gun-vessel, is getting rapidly on with her refitting, and will be out of the hands of the dockyard and ready for commission in about a month from this time. . The Violet, iron padle-wheel Dover mail steam packet, of 120-horse power, Lieutenant Commander Henry P. Jones, arrived here on Friday afternoon from Dover, to have some repairs effected. The crew re turned on the following day by railway to Dover. MALTA, SEPT. 2. Advioes from Besika Bay to the 25th of August state that there was a decided improvement in the health of the crews of the British squadron. The Bellerophon, Captain Lord G. Paulet, however, had an unusual num ber of sick on board, and continued at, Tenedos. The Sampson, 6, paddle-frigate, Captain Jones, was at Imbros. The Firebrand, G,' paddle-frigate, Captain Parker, which was relieved at Constantinople by the Inflexible, ti, paddle-sloop, Commander Popplevrell, had been dis patched from Besika to visit Smyrna, Beyrout, Jaffa, and Alexandria, and to rejoin the fleet by the end of September. The Modeste, 14, Commander Lord W. Compton, left Malta on the 25th of August, for Naples and Leghorn. The Wasp, which arrived from Corfu on the 27th, with the lonian and Greek mails, left with the return mails on the 29th. The directors of this company have issued a report on the proceedings in Chancery instituted by Mr. Geach, Mr. Scott, and others against them, to be considered at the special meeting of proprietors, called by requisition, at Shrewsbury, on Wedneylay, the 21st in s t., Th e y s t a t e that the proprietors rre already sufficiently acquainted with the charges brought against the directors by the parties so deeply implicated in London and North- Western interference with the affairs and independent management of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Com pany ; that these parties have thought it not unbecom ing to transmit, not only to the Shrewsbury and Bir mingham shareholders, but to those of the Shrewsbury and Chester Company, copies of the bill filed by them, in Chancery—a bill which the proprietors are called upon to sanction and prosecute, notwithstanding the refusal of the Vice-Chancellor (Sir W. P. Wood) to make any order on the subjects embraced in it ; not one of the numerous assertions affecting the honour and integrity of the board having been sustained. The directors re commend an appeal to the Board of Trade, as likely to reach the truth more directly and speedily than any other arbitration ; Mr. Scott, for reasons only known to himself, objected to any reference, save to himself and the three gentlemen who were aiting with him as accusers, counsel, jury, and judges. The Vice-Chan cellor fully concurred with the directors in the pro priety of calling in the Board of Trade, and unequivo cally gave his opinion that it remained with the plaintiffs to show why that course had not been adopted. The report concludes by stating that a proxy paper is enclosed, having for its object the immediate and definitive settlement of the question whether pay ment of Mr. Scott's expenses shall be ordered by this company or left for liquidation by the London and North-Western Company, the real promoters of the suit. The directors might well have called for a stronger con demnation of the interference and oppression to which the company has been subjected; but, believing that the future interests of the proprietors will be best consulted by a quiet yet resolute disapproval of these proceedings, a simple negative to the demands of the requisitionists is considered sufficient for the emergency, leaving it open at the forthcoming election, in accordance with the suggestion of the Vice-Chancellor, for any shareholder to " state what his view is of what has been disclosed on the affidavits and statements which have been made in this case." THE ARMY. THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE LIEUTENANT GENERAL SIR CHARLES NAPIER, G.C.B. The following very gratifying Memo. was issued in garrison orders on Saturday by Colonel Menzies, com mandant of Royal Marines : " Royal Marine Barracks, Sept. 10, 1853. " The late Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Napier's family request the Commandant to make known to the officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates of the Royal Marines, who attended the funeral, the grateful sense entertained by them for that tribute of respect ; and to observe that he served in action with the Royal Marines, and always spoke of their courage, their dis cipline, and many honourable forbearance at times of difficulty and moments of temptation, with the warmest admiration ; and to Lieut.-General Sir Wm. Napier, K.C.8., and all his family, t'tie attendance of the Royal Marines was a grateful spectacle." GARRISON ORDER. The garrison chapel will be hung with black, and all officers with crape round their arms, as a tribute of re spect for the deceased Sir Charles Napier. The Com mandant of the garrison (Colonel Menzies, K.H., of the Royal Marines) desires to give publicity to the following letter which he has had the honour of receiving from Lieutenant-General Sir Napier, brother to the late distinguished Lieutenant-General Sir Chas. Napier, G.C.B, whose funeral took place on Thursday last : " Oatlands, Sept. 8, 1853. " Sir,—Allow me to offe r to yourself and staff the grateful tribute of the late ti , ir Charles Napier's family, and to express a hope that you will make known to the officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers, who attended his funeral, what I in vain attampted to give expression to at the time. I meant to say that a great and good soldier was in his grave : a man who had from his earliest youth be en a soldier, loving them, serving with them, fighting and bleeding with them (for the poor shattered body before them had seven deep wounds) ; but neither wounds, nor suffering, nor danger quelled his spirit ; that was not in man's power, Death only could do it ? That in his old age he commanded armies, and led them always to victory. Neither in youth, nor in manhood, nor in his aged years, did he ever cease to love and cherish and confide in soldiers ; and never had he reason to repent, for never did they fail him or any general who confided in them. " And now they thronged around his grave to do honour to the dead man who, when living, they had, by their courage, devotion, and discipline, raised to re nown. "He could not thank them, but I, who knew his in most feelings, did so in his name, and beg of them to pray for him, and I will pray for them. " Sir, these are sincere feelings, and I pray of you and all under your command to accept the expressions of them. (Signed) " W. NAPIER, Lieut.-General. "To Colonel Menzies, K.H., Royal Marines, commanding the S.W. districts." The following has been issued in general orders to the army in the East Indies : GENERAL ORDER BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE COMMANDER, IN-CHIEF. " Head-quarters, Bangalore, July 12, 1853. "No. 47.-1. The Commander-in-Chief is pleased to direct that the following shall be entered as Paragraph 191, Section XI., page 99, of the General Regulations. Books to be corrected accordingly : " 191.--Ins'ances having occurred in which offen ders, when under trial by courts-martial, or examination before the commanding officers, have become excited, and have so far forgotten themselves, and the respect due to their superiors, as to throw their caps at the court, or party engaged in the investigation, and thereby involved themselves in one of the most serious offences a soldier can be guilty of ; it is directed, with a view to prevent as far as possible the recurrence of such crimes, that henceforth, whenever soldiers are brought to trial by courts-martial, or, as culprits, before their superior officers for examination, they shall in all cases be de prived of their caps and such other articles as may be calculated to be used as missiles, in order that they may have neither the temptation nor the opportunity of com mitting such outrages." "2. The attention " of all p a rties concerned is called to the above regulation. Five large-class ships, namely the Queen, Have r i ng , Gramble, H o ugoumont and the Minden, have sa il e d from Gravesend direct for the Cape of Good Hope, the vessels having been inspected by the commandant of th e garrison at Chatham. The above ships ale to re ce i ve on board at the Cape t he following troops for India :—The head-quarters of the 12th Lancers, the 43d Regiment, and the 74th Foot ; the total number of troops for em barkation being about 1,400 men. The Queen is to take on board 300 ; Havering, 232 ; Gramble, 184 ; Hou goumont, 342 ; and Minden, 282 men. LONGEVITY.—A lady is now living, or was two months ago, in Williamsburg, State of South Carolina, by the name of Singleton, who is known to be in the one hun dred and thirty-first year of her age ! Her mental facul ties are still unimpaired, and she retains all her senses except that of sight, of which she was deprived at the adyauced age of 99 years by an attack of measles. NEW CLIPPER FOR THE AUSTRALIAN TRADE. A splendid new iron first-class sailing vessel is build ing, and now nearly completed, at the Bank Quay Foundry, Warrington, which has been an object of attention and curiosity to travellers for some months past. Following the course of the river, Warrington is not less than 30 miles from Liverpool ; and thousands of people travelling by the London and North-Western Railway through the town, and seeing a huge ship of 2,500 tons burthen on the stocks, without perceiving the water near, have naturally asked " how and where is it to be launched ?" Many of these persons in the ab sence of any certain knowledge have speculated on the subject, and supposed that it was a vessel fitting together in parts, as iron houses and churches are for the colonies to be taken to pieces again, and removed in a more con venient form. The fact is, however, that the river Mersey flows past the foundry, and though insignificant in width, something like the Thames at Henley, it has tides which give a considerable depth of water. The vessel is building at a bend of the river, so that she will be launched not across but up the river, in a straight reach of the stream, up which she may run half a mile if necessary, with ample depth and space. The present vessel, named the Tayleur, after the head of the firm who builds her, is to be built, completed, and delivered in Liverpool within six months from the laying dawn of her keel, and the company have orders for other large vessels to take her place on the stocks a soon as she is launched. She is built for Messrs. Charles Moore and Co. of Liverpool, and is of exceedingly handsome model. Her proportions are : 2,500 tons (new measurement) ; length of keel and fore rake, 225 feet ; rake of stern -post 5 feet ; beam, 39 feet ; depth of hold (from under kid° of the deck to top of the flooring), 28 f ee t ; sheer, 2 feet 6 inches. She h as three decks, with cam boose on the upper deck, and saloon, with cabins and berths for captain and principal officers. Sheis double rivetted throughout, and w ill b e the strongest-built craft afloat, being divided i n t o fi ve water-tight compartments, each fitted with pu mps. The total quantity of iron ' about her is calculated at about 780 tons. She has an enormous box keelson, running fore and aft, 2 feet 6 inches by 2 feet, which will carry 25 tons of water, with pump at one end to render it available for use, whilst in the meantime it will serve as ballast. The beams are of great strength, and at intervals only 12 inches apart, the beams to the lower deck being 9 inches deep and half inch thick ; of main deck, 8 inches by half inch ; and of upper and spar deck, 7 inches by 7-16ths. The height between decks is 6 feet 6 inches on first and second decks, leaving 15 feet for hold, with stancheons running perpendicularly through her, 3 feet 6 inches apart, and of 3i inches in diameter. There are con venient openings in the sides for taking in cargo, and the 'tween decks are well fitted with skylights and ven tilators, the securing to passengers as much light and air as possible having apparently been a matter of great care with the designer of the ship. The lower mast ,, , 94 feet long, are of iron, with transverse plates inside, running from top to bottom, and the top-gallant fore castle is plated with iron up to the top. The accommo dation for the seamen in the forecastle is to be of a very superior and unusual character. Altogether, she is said to be the largest iron merchant vessel ever built, giving accommodation for about 680 passengers besides cargo, SCOTTISH CENTRAL. The report of the directors of this company to be sub mitted to the shareholders states that the expenditure of 10,722/. on capital account has been incurred chiefly in liquidation of outstanding lancrclaims and for plant which was sanctioned at previous meetings. The bill for converting the debenture and mortgage debt into stock obtained the Royal assent on the 14th of June last. The loans falling due at Martinmas, on most of which 5 per cent. is payable, have been either re newed or replaced at 31 per cent. An agreement has been made with the Electric Telegraph Company for extending their communication to Perth, so as to put this line in connexion with their system in Great Britain. The Telegraph Company are to furnish the requisite apparatus, and also to provide clerks to work the telegraph at Perth, Stirling, and Greenhill Junction, for an annual payment of 41. per mile per annum. The receipts during the past half-year ending the 31st of July, as compared with the corresponding period of last year, show an increase in respect of passengers and mails of matters 1, 585/ . , in of i r respect ectof snakingthe goods to total 2,l increase6ol. , and 3,7 miscellaneous 64l The working expenses exhibit an excess over the correspond ing period of 1852 of 8061. The receipts for the half year ending the 31st of January, 1852, amoun t e d to 47,3321., an the expenses to 21,4131. ; ending the 31st of July, 1852, to 47,6681., and the expenses to 21,3131. ; ending the 31st of January, 1853, to 54,5111., and the expenses to 20,659/. ; and for the half-year ending 31st of July, 1853, the receipts amounted to 51,432/., and the expenses to 22,7101. ; the percentage of expenses on receipts being respectively 45, 44, 38, and 44 per cent. The balance from the last account amounted to 10,1681., and the balance of net revenue, after deducting working expenses and preference shares amounted to 17,3631., making a total of 25,5311. Out of this sum the directors recommend that a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. (20, 4001.) on the consolidated stockbe declared payable on the 26th inst., leaving 7,1311. for the next account. The in terest on the preference stock amounts to 4s. 11d. per share. The receipts for the year ending the 31st of July amounted, exclusive of the Tay ferries, to 105,9441., and the expenses and preference charges to 66,8841., leaving 39,0601. The dividend declared in January last amounted to 20,4001., the dividend now recommended amounts to 20,400/., together 40,8001., and showing that, in order to pay a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, 1,7401. is required to be taken from the reserve fund. Seeing the prospects of an increase of traffic, the direc tors feel they would not be doing justice to the property were they to recommend a less rate of dividend. The capital account shows that 1,656,8311. had been received, and 1,678,6271. expended, leaving a balance of 21,7961. against the company. The loan account shows that 417,3221. had been borrowed, of which 32,5001. was borrowed at 5 per cent., 3,8301. at 41 per cent., 221,2221. at 4 per cent., 10,0001. at 31 per cent., and 149,770/. at 34 per cent. The locomotive expenses of engines and carriages for passenger trains amounted to 10'61d. per mile per train, and for goods trains to 9'o7d. The con sumption of coke for passenger trains averaged 141 b. 140 z., and for goods trains 22,k1b., the average being 181 b. lloz. per mile per train. The number of carriages in the passenger trains was 6 . 1, and of waggons in goods ) trains 18 . 9. The revenue account showed that 51,9551. had been received during the half year, and 22,7101. ex pended, leaving a balance of 29,245/. ; out of which 11,0591. is deducted for interest on bonds, 300/. for Par liamentary expenses, and 5231. out of debt on Tay ferries, leaving a balance of 17,403/. GREAT NORTH OF SCOTLAND. The report of the directors of this company states, tha they have called 'an extraardinary meeting of the share holders for the 7th of October, to bring under their notice the arrears of calls which exist on certain of the original or postponed shares of the company. Calls to the amount of 4/. per share had been responded to by the holders of 15,440 postponed shares, of which 14,376 were trans ferred to persons who have not since paid the remaining calls, and who, it is believed, have no means of doing so. Persons who have come forward with offers to purchase these 14,376 shares at a discount not exceeding 30s. per share, and have proposed at once to pay up the remain ing calls by anticipation. The directors recommend the shareholders to confirm the forfeiture of these shares, and that they be allotted to the proprietors of shares whose calls are not in arrear, in the proportion of one for feited share to every two shares held by the proprietors, For each forfeited postponed share of 101. the purchase price is to be Si., of which 41. is in anticipation of calls, and to be in full of the price of each of the shares. The purchasers are to be entitled to interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the 4/. paid in anticipation of calls, such interest to date from the payment of the pur chase price, and to continue until the line is open for traffic from Kittybrewster, near Aberdeen, to Huntly ' when the forfeited shares will rank along with th e ot h er postponed shares. Such of the forfeited shares as may not be taken up by the shareholders are to be sold or disposed of at the discretion of the directors, at a dis count to the railway company not exceeding 30s. per share. The works on the line are being proceeded with, and it is confidently believed that the 40 miles com mencing near Aberdeen will be open for traffic by Mid summer, 1854. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN AND SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER In reply to a correspondence with Sir AV. Johnston, who states it had been circulat ed in Edinburgh that the directors of the London and North-Western never had made any serious offer for this line, Mr. Stewart, the secretary of the former company, states that the views of his directors have not undergone any change ; that they are prepared to adhere to and carry out thei r en gagements to the full with . the Shrewsbury and Ch es t er, and that they will unite in the introduction, i n th e en suing session, of a bill to confirm the arrangement b which the Shrewsbury and Chester is to be secured a dr vidend of 41 per cent. OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVER HAMPTON. The inhabitants of Chipping Norton are making a movement for a branch line from their town to this line. CHARD. Active steps are being taken to carry the act of the last session for the construction of this lino into effect. Two previous acts were passed, authorising the forma tion of the Chard Railway, one in 1846 and another in 1847, and the bill recently enacted revives and amends the powers of the former acts, and authorises the exten sion of the railway to Taunton. It is expected that the important district through which the Chard Railway is to pass will furnish a remunerative return. The works between Chard and Taunton will shortly commence, and the company are pledged to complete the line in three years, or forfeit 1,8751. to the consolidated fund. THE HEAD SCHOOLMASTER IN PORTSMOUTH DOCK YARD.—Mr. Rawson, the head master of the school for Royal Naval Shipwright Apprentices, in Portsmouth dockyard, who has been appointed the successor of Dr. Woolley in directing the mathematical stmlies of the school of mathematics and naval construction, is well known in Manchester by his mathematical attainments. He is entirely a self-taught man, and worked in a coalpit, as a common collier, till he was nearly 30 years of age. He subsequently gave instructions in mathema tics in Manchester ; taught himself French, in order to be able to read "Le Mecanique Celeste" of Laplace, the works of Lagrange, Poisson, and other French as tronomers and ma th e maticians ; i and at the same ti me extended his own origi nal inquiries nto the higher and more abstruse regions of mathematical science. In January, 1845, he was elected an honorary memb er o f the Manchester L iterar y and Philosophical Society - w h os e memoirs he enriched by several elaborate mathe: matical papers. Mr. Rawson left Manchester a few years ago, to take charge of the school for royal nava l shipwright apprentices in Portsmouth dockyard, from w hich position lie has been advan ced to the higher post a y g . ll, Guardian, says,- just .wvacatedslLrribry c t h o e N ß v c v r . _D rT. ohe i‘ o , e l le n a bout 20 years ago, a man named Connors was trans ported from the neighbourhood of Borrisoleigh, ii for at tacking the house of a man in Alonc le yf . a „. After some sub sequently obtained his liberty. Ho became'e man, and time, Connors became a " ticket-of fi;ro;eeyr.in L th a e st eo vc lo e n ek y : aand sister o accumulated a largeanextensivef sum of money. poorge and woman re spling near Borrisoleigh, received f ' th ‘ e ar unex pected sum of SOO/. from the executors of her brother. of ••• ..... th Lh .•