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T HE RHINE AND GERMANY. —Th e Shortest and Cheapest Route, Via Rotterdam, to the Rhine and Germany, is by THE DUTCH RHENISH RAILWAY. Through Trains, in conjunction with those of the Cologne-Minden Company, start three times a day. Fifty pounds of Luggage allowed free for each passenger. Further particulars forwarded, post free, on application to the Company's London Agent, Mr. JOHN C. JANSON, 61, Graccchurch street. FOR GENTLEMEN.—GEO. HOBSON begs to call the attention of the public to his NEW STOCK in AUTUMNAL GOODS, consisting of West of England Beaver and Venetian Cloths, Scotch and Heather Twist, Mixed Doeskins, Cashmere and Toilanette Waiqcoatinp, both of English and Conti nental manufacture, which will he found en inspection at price , most moderate for Best Goods.—GEORGE H0850N,57 Lombard-street. FFXETER HALL. —I NDIA. Rev. Mr. LLEW. THURSDAY, NOVEMMER 12.—Mr cusLL begs to announce that the Rev. J. M. HELLEw has con sented to Repeat the LECTURE upon INDIA—Past, Present, and Future, on Thursday Evening. November 12, the proceeds of which Will be handed over to the Indian Relief Fund. Admission to the Whole of the West Gallery, the Orchestra, and Under the Gallery, ONE SHILLING ; a few Reserved and Numbered Seats near the Platform, Five Shillings; Reserved Seats (not numbered), Three Shillings. Tickets may be obtained at the Office, No. 6, in Exeter Hall ; Mr. Carter's, Carlton Library, 12, Re,gent-etreet ; Fentum's Music Warehouse, 78. Strand; Keith, Prowse, and Co.'s Music Warehouse, 48, Cheapside; and at Mr. Mitchell's, Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS, POLYGRAPHIC HALL. King-William-street, Strand, every Evening the JULLIEN BURLESQUE. received nightly with shouts of laughter. Doors open at half-past 7, commence at R. Stalls, 3s. ; area, 2r, ; amphitheatre, Is.; Private Boxes, 1/. Is. Seats can be scent , d at Mr. Mitchell's, 33, Old Bond-street, anti at the Hall. On Saturday, a Morning Entertainment, commencing at 3. THE ORIGINAL BAND of the ARGYLL ROOMS, formerly conducted by the late M. Ymile Laurent, Is to be engaged for public and private Balls. Conductor, Mans. Lamorrs; principal cornet•n-piston, llotmcouar. The Band plays Rightly at the Adelaide Ga'lery, Louthcr Arcade, Strand. Dancing commences at Nine. Admission, One Shilling. R. IL BIG NELL, Manager. DELAIDE GALLERY, Adelaide-streot, West Strand.—Licensed pursuant to Act of Parliament GRAND CASINO.—The above snacious rooms, elegantly decorated with extensive alterations and improvements, opened for the Winter Season on SATURDAY, with the original Argyll Band, conducted by Mons. LAMOTTE, of Paris. Principal cornet-a-piston, Mons. Dot:mem:nix. Leader, Mr. CHAS. HALL. Admission, One Shilling. Doers open at half-past Eight. The above 11,nd is at the service of the nobility and gentry for Private Bells, &c., &c.—Aaply by LeZter to ft. R. Bignell, Argyll- Rooms, Great Windmill-street. CONTRACT FOR FILES AND STEEL. Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy, Somerset-place, 9th Nov., 1857. THE Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great 'Britain and Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY, the Ist December next, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons aunay be willing to Contract for supplyin her Majesty's Dockyards with FILES and STEEL. Patterns may be seen, and a form of the tender, schedule, and con ditions of the contract obtained at the said office. No tender will be received after Two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless th 6 party attends or an agent for Mm duly authorised in writing. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words "Tender for Files and Steel." and must be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied by a letter, signed by two responsible Persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering, in the sum of £l,OOO, for the due per formance of the contract. PROVIDENT CLEJ ASSURANCE ASSOCI .KS' MUTUAL LIFE , TlON.—Established 1843. Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq. Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. I Baron L.N.Rothschild,M.P. TarasuaEa or THE BENEVOLENT FUND. —John Abel Smith, Esq., 31. P. Accumulated fund .............. £95,000 Annual income This Association offers every advantage to all classes desirous of assuring. A Benevolent Fund is attached exclusively for clerks. WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary. 15, Moorgate-street, Nov. 1, 1857. 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At the five divisions of Profits made by this Company, the total reversionary Bonuses added to the Policies have exceeded 913,000. At the last valuation at Christmas, 1854, the Assurances in force amounted to upwards of 4,240,0001. ; the Income from the Life Branch in 1854 was more than 200,0001. ; awl the Life Assurance Fund (independent of the ~ u aranteed Capital) exceeded 1,700,0001. FOREIGN RISKS.—The Extra Premiums required for the East and West Indies, the British Colonies, and the northern parts of the United States of America, have been materially reduced. INVALID LlVES.—Persons who are not in such sound health as would enable them to insure their Lives at the Tabular Premiums may have their Lives insured at Extra Premiums. LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their values, pro vided such Policies shall have been effected a sufficient time to have attained in each case a value not under 50/. ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, received end registered. 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" The tribe of ' Quiet Sympathisers, and 'Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed; and if this book could find its way into the hands of those who suffer from the com plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— much money.... „This volume is well qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrhoia, and to place the treat ment upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, lkely to do much good."—Medical Circular. London: 11. Balliere, 219, Regent-street. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 11, 1857 TEE SEVBNTY-EIGHTH HIGHLANDERS. Scotchmen are often laughei at for the pride they take in regiments composed of their own coun trymen. And while their vanity has sometimes le I them too far, it will be denied by none that the Highland corps have splendidly sustained the mili tary renown of the land whence their racks have ever been filled. The tartan has fluttered in India, Egypt, Spain, Belgium, and the Crimea ; and wherever the men who wore it have gone they have covered themselves with glory. Our at: en-. tion has again been particularly directed to one of these gallant bands ; and, while we would with hold the laurel from none of the heroes now sus taining British rule in India, we cannot refrain from particularly noticing. the ree,iment whose name stands at the head of this article. Havelock and his Highlanders rivet the attention of all who seek in our columns the tale of that fearful strife in Hindostan, on whose results are staked the glory and permanence of our empire. We will not speak of their recent deeds ; these are in the minds of all men ; we would simply sketch their story from the time of their embodiment till the present crisis. It was the elder Pitt who first directed the valour of the Scottish Celt from making fruitless assaults on the House of Hanover, to achieving for it some of its proudest triumphs. To this fact he alluded in the House of Commons on the 14th of January, 1766 :—" I have no local attachments. .It is in different to me whether a man was rocked in his cradle on this or that side of the Tweed. I sought for merit wherever it was to be found. It is my boast that I was the first minister who looked for it and found it in the mountains of the North. I called it forth, and draw into your service a hardy and intrepid race of men. • . These men in the last war were brought to combat on your side. They served with fidelity, as they fought with val our, and conquered for you in every part of the world." Not till long after the era of this speech, however, did the 78th, or Ross-shire High landers came into regimental being. It was when Republican France had set the world on fire, and Britain had bared the sword to oppose her, th tt this corps was first raised. Some where about the year 1793, warrants were issued for raising fresh Highland levies. At that date Kenneth, the last Earl of Seatorth, and the grand son of an inveterate Jacebi , e, still held the ancestral estates in Rosa-shire and Lewis. He was beloved in the Mackenzie country. A Mackenzie h mself, lie bad avoided turning off his clan to make room for black-faced sheep and south country drovers. In one thing only did ho differ from his fathers-- he was a loyal subject of the new dynasty ; and when the warrants were issued, he did his utmcst for the monarch to whom he had sworn allegiance. His vast influence was speedily manifested. Two months and nine days after he was empowered, Le had raised a regiment, nine hundred and seventy of whom were Highlanders. one hundred and twen ty-nine Lowla* lers, nine English, and five Irish. The 78th were first sent to Guernsey. In 1797 they went to India, and on the 24th of September, 1803, they contributed largely to the Assay° victory, to the budding glory of Arthur Wellesley, and to the foundation of that vast dominion, which, after the lapse of half a century, they are so nobly agonising to sustain. A few years later, we find them in Italy, conspicuous at the battle of Maida, on which cccasion the French had 7,600 men, and the British only 3,819. Again, in 1811 we find them wresting Java from the Dutch, at that mo ment under the rule of Napoleon. We believe also, that they were in Brussels when the pacifict tion of Europe was achieved. They came, how ever, from India to Scotland about the year 1840, on which obcasion they figured, to the great delight of all boys young and old, with a very beautiful ele phant which always marched at their head. They re mained, nevertheless but a very short ti me a t h ome , being sent again to India, their colonel of that date happening to own land in Ceylon, which he could look after more profitably by having his regiment some where on the neighbouring continent. They have thus been absent from Britain for at least twenty years at a stretch, during which long period they have done duty in Arabia as well as Hindostan. We need not remind our readers of their brilliant services in the late war with Persia, which country they only left to meet the villains of Bengal. They have been embodied for sixty years, and we believe we are not far wrong in saying that fifty out of the sixty have been passed under the glowing skies of the East. That great injus'ice has been done this gallant regiment cannot be doubted. Their story is one of almost perpetual exile. Their time is, howei•er, coming; and when they again reach Britain, they will wear honours on their c•lours which shall se cute for them that attention which has hitherto been lavished on more favoured but not more noble battalions. " Cttidich an Rich," is their motto ; and as in times past, so will it mil be their glory to make their battle cry—" Help the King." Suc cess to them and every brave heart which at this moment is ready to bleed, a sacrifice to the glory and the integrity of that empire of which our own province forms no unimportant portico, and to which we are daily drawn more closely by fell dis- W; aster as well as glorious victory.--Toronto Globe. THE LEMAIRE TRIAL. The Court of Assizes of the Aisne was occupied on Saturday, part of Sunday, and yesterday, in receiving evidence in support of the charge of mur der brought against H. Villet and Jean Villet, and also in support of some of the charges of rob bery brought against Hugot, LAesmtaoiret,beVmilluert, and others of the prisoners. _ the ti d eler Vince had en, it was postively . s d t e a r te o d f a by man i o namedgoffered him I,ooofr. to commit it, but that he had refused ; and it was stated by other witnesses that the two Villets had been in the house of thet thaCtin de ceased just before he was found dead, and that death had been caused by violent pressure of the nose and mouth. Is.s to the robberies, they . were Marcelclave, and Dazenescourt, and the details presented no interest. alleged to have been committed at Harbounieres, The most remarkablee a f ture in the proceedings was, as oa previous days, t the cleverne s s w ith which the elder Villet tried ) explain aw a y a ll th e c i rcum stances which told against hi m ; th e ve h emence w ith which hede nounced the witnesses • and the bitter animosity be manif es t e d against 'ingot and Lemaira. On one or two occasions, he solemnly called on the court to punish the witnesses who deposed against him, because their evidence was false, and their manner of givin g it i mproper. On other occasions he made set speeches, which he evidently consi dered very telling. " Ah ! gentlemen !" said he, in one of them, " Lemaire has only made what he calls revelations against me, in order that I may have to follow him to the scaffold to which he is sure to go! He does not wish to have the shame and the sorrow of dying alone If, what I cannot be lieve, this court of jussice should condemn me on the word of such a man, I will die with honour and with glory !" And then turning to Lemaire, he continued :—" I cannot prevent you from say ing what you will, but I know why; you say it, it is to prolong the present proceedings in order that you may have a chance of escape. But I tell you that you will not again find the prison door left half open—that no more cords will be thrown over the wall to you I No ! no ! The bird is caught, and the cage is at present solid !" On another occasion he said :—" As to Hugot, he has a rage against me which is not that of a simple malefactor, but of an assassin ! He says to him self, 'Villet shall come to the scaffold with me !' and not content with that he tries to drag there my wife, my son, my daughter, everybody belong ing to me. I am astonished that you, gentlemen, do not understand that ! I murder Chretien ! why should I ? 1 did Rot want his money, and I could have made him do for me whatever I liked. Besides, I placed a cross on his grave, and it cost me 45f. ! Believe me, gentlemen, it is only the ' canaille who accuse me ! The principal witness against me is Victor Chretien, and if you only knew what a mass of vice he is ! I verily believe that for a thousand francs he would murder all the village, and that for twenty sous, ay, for a glass of brandy, he would have murdered poor Chretien, his own relative !" One of the robberies (many of them were very petty) iu which Villet was alleged to have participated was of a waistcoat, and a witness identified one produced as that stolen from him. On this Villet jumped up, and exclaimed, " That waistcoat his I Why, I can prove that it has a brother, and that they both descend from a frock- , coat which I p urc h ase d many years ago in the Pa lais Royal at Paris !" This strange way of speak ing caused a laugh, but Villet continued,—" For ma,kingsuch a statement as he has done, the wit ness deserves to be punished, and I beg of you to comes es in withthe p a a a j s colleagueßoyal from a l I froekcoat 1 purchas I punish hi m, Monsieur le President ! The waist coat, I repeat, °xi peal to my e nem i es themselves—to Boitel, my first • enemy ; to the garde-champetre, anotber ene m y ; to all of them —if they did not sea that frockeoat in my possession I It is really frightful to hear witnesses talk in such a way, and I declare again that they deFerve to be punished. From what they say the judges may form an opinion as to the falsehoods that are told here !" The trial was proceeding when the report was sent off. THS MEN OR KOTT. At the di nner o f the N on i ng t on an d Wi nd h am Agricultural Association last week, in Kent, Sir Brook Brydges, M.P., presided, and amongst the company were Earl Cowper and Mr. W. Deedes. The last named gentleman, who is colonel of the Kent Rifles, alluded in his speech to the importance Public life of a militi a force observing am a f ra id to say ho w man y observing :—" One of the first acts of my years ago, b u t I k now more than forty—was to cons n:ct myself with this constitutional force of the kingdom. I believed at the time I did so, and I have thought ever since in continuing my position, that I w a s adopti ng a course i n s t r i c t accor d ance with the const it ut i on of the country ; and I was desirous of k eep i ng up all the institutions of the country whi c h are worth preserving. I n so long a period of time I have seen the ups and downs of a military life, as far as the yeomanry is concerned ; I have known it in the highest state of prosperity and in a state of depression. lam quite aware that I stand on delicate ground in alluding to this mat ter in this neighbourhood ; but this much I can say without fear of offeadirig the feelings of any man connected with the corps, that the loss of one of the best of the officer:4, and the almost entire loss of one of the best of my troops, was the source of the greatest unhappiness to me in connec tion with the subject that I ever felt Nov with regard to the future. At this moment the regular force of the kingdom is required in a manner al most unprecedented to be sent out of the country upon foreign and important service ; the militia has therefore been called out, and rightly so, that it may stand in the room of that regular force. In a country like England, with such immense depen dencies and colonies, there must always be the fear of a sudden outbreak among 301119 of them; and it would be the worst of policy and wisdom for the land to be left without proper defence when any emergency arises. Well, then, if the regular force has properly been sent out of the country, and if the militia has properly been called upon to supply their place, I say, and I have the authority of the majority of my brother officers' agreement with me, the yeomanry ought not to be behindhand— all should come forward for the purpose of be tring a part in the force. I know that lam speaking the sentiments of my brother officers, of the non-com missioned officers, and privates, when I say that we should hail the completion of the ranks to the proper strength with the greatest delight ; and we are only waiting to put tho shilling into the hand of any wilhug man. Thus much for the yeo manry." Wirh regard to India and the atrocities Perpetrated by the mutineers, Mr. Deedes said— "l do not ask—God forbid I should—for indiscri minate vengeance, or vengeance at all. That is a word that should never come from the mouth of a Christian . ; but I do ask for retributive justice—l do ask that no consideration shall bo shown to men who, by their cruelties, have placed themselves be yond the pale of mercy. They have no right te ex pect it, after what they have done. They have cast the die, and must abide the consequences. lam sure the noble address of General Wilson to the soldiers before Delhi would come home to them all; and let me say that I have a deep interest in the matter, for a son of mine has been serving there for four months. (Loud applause.) I well know the interest with which he would read that address ; but I do not believe that a thought ever en tered the heart of any of them to take ven geance upon helpless women and children, because those fiends in human shape had wreaked their vengeance in such a manner (Applause.) The se are not the sentiments that actuate the hearts of a British soldier ; and I am confident that, when full details arrive of the assault at Delhi, it will be found that nothing has been committed of which we need be ashamed, except that which can never be avoided, when we take into consideration the weakuets of human nature under certain ciroutn. stances. I have heard with deep regret—though I do not believe it—that a civil servant has been sent to supersede one of the military (fficers engaged in active warfare ; and it is further stated that he has ordered the release of a number of prisoners. Ido not believe it ; but if it is so, then the sooner such a state of things is put an end to the better. No- thing can possibly p . rosper if, at such a crisis as the present, there is to be a conflict between the civil and powers." _ _ At the Ashford Agricultural Society's meeting, a day or two afterwards, Sir .Norton Knatchbull pre sided. Mr. Deedes and Mr. Hugessen M.P., ware anion.. the company. Th e Ch a i rman , i n p ro p os i ng " the Army and Navy," said, Three yen's ago, when I filled this seat, we were at war with Russia. We is•eted from that war, if not with glory, yet, with the help of our b rave a lli es , w ith v i c t or y. Not long a ft er t h e restoration of peace there came from the E as t sounds of wailing and woe—cries of men murdered, of women ruthlessly Tio!ated, of children tortured, with horrors too terrible to re late. Gentlemen, such doings as these demand a stern retaliation. (Loud cheers.) . By this Ido not mean vengeance. (Hear. hear.) My friend on the left (Mr. Deedes) has a child. iu India ; I have a child in India ; you, if you are men, if you are Englishmen, if you are Christian men, you all have children in India. (Prolonged cheering.) We desire to execute justice upon the guilty. The Apostle says, " Vengeance is mine, I will repay, mall the Lord ;" but in what may be called the same chapter he goes on to say that man has the right to wield the sword of justice. (Cheers.) Let, then, no man presume to step between the British soldier and that justico, in the name of which he will strike home to avenge an insulted country. (Loud cheers.) ST.A T.B OF TEA i)E. MANCHESTER, Nov. 10. The market continues inactive. Spinners are free sellers, but have great difficulty in finding cus tomers, no reasonable concession in price being sufficient to induce business. The same descrip tion of the market applies to cloths, but in all branches of trade business is in some measure checked by the caution necessary to determine to whom credit can be safely extended. Only one failure, and that not worth naming, has been men tioned this morning, and the losses sustained here by the large failures recently announced in London, Glasgow, and elsewhere are mostly by houses, it is reps , rted, to whom they will occasion little more than temporary inconvenience. The curtailment of production by a resort to short time is spoken of as extending in all directions, and the long period of full work the operatives have had will enable them better to bear it than in some past times. It is only when mills are closed altogether that any thing like considerable suffering is felt. Cases of thiskind, unfortunately, are very numerous, though bearing but a small proportion to those in which short time has been adopted A proposition made at Glasgow that a deputation should go to London to induce a suspension of cash payments by the bank met with no countenance hero from either of the commercial chambers, and t e l egra phic news from Glasgow this af ternoon th a t two obeaks alarmfrom a vierebeingrli upon there has occa sioned no belief that they will be able to meet the difficulty. Messrs. M‘Nair, Greenhow and Irving report "Not in this year , certainly, nor oi having g se ; been u and in regard to prices, which were i n all cases lo wer, they cann o t, f rom preceded it, has the i ntense d epression which charac terised surpassed. which be during g r kept st u di ous l y a l oo f from operating, not withstandin g the increased desire of Bapn e the p ob er transactionsre marketrandomanufacturerst reported b fa n of to-daymuyyrs in buyers m enth h to v ,n either goo d s or yarns, ali can a their nominal charact er, he ren dered accurately." LEEDS, Nov. 10. No improvement is n ot ed in the cloth-halls this morning. A very limited amount of business has been done. There is a disposition on all sides to contract operations until the present moneary and commercial crisis is passed. HUDDERSFIELD, Nov. 10. The market remains in the same quiet state as last week. Great caution is displayed by pur chasers, and little is changing bands, either in the plain or fancy trade. At the same time prices do not decline seriously, and hopes of better markets at an early period are sanguinely entertained.. Wools manifest a tendency to decline, especially Scotch wools. THE ART TREASURES EXHIBITION CLOCK.—The clock that did duty at the Palace at Old Trafford, and upon the face of wlrch Mr. Deane ingeniously substituted "Art Treasures" for the usual numerals, has been, we to possess it, as a meme n to of the Exhibition, and of her v le e a r r y n, fr e e o g l u d e t n o t Miss vieit strongly s.Burdett Couttg, who desired CRYSTAL PALASE.—One Shilling Day, Tuesday, Nov. 10.—Admissions on payment, 694; do. by season ticketr, 139 ; total yisitoro, 833. IMPORTANT MEDICAL WORK GRATIS. —On nervous debility, and diseases of a sec: et nature, dim roes of sight, shortness of breath, loss of manly vigour, and all im pediments of marriage, 'herring the surest means of recovering per feet health. Enclose two stamps to prepay postage, and address Dr. W. B. MAR'TON, 47, BERNERS-STREET, Orord-street, Lon don, who may be consulted daily, with assured confidence of suc cess. APPETITE IND DIGESTION IMPROVED. fEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, nd all Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad, and by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach to p , rfectly digest the food. ... _ The da ily useof this aronistic and delicious Sauce is the best safe. card to health. Sold by the toroprietors, Lea and Perrine, 19, Fenchurch-street, Condon, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester; also by Messrs. Barclay ind Sons, Messrs Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and mei'. lhants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. N.ll.—To guard against imitatiors, see that the names of "LEA and PERRINS" are upon the label and patent cap of the bottle. TO THE NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED. CHAR[ ES WATSON, M.D. (Physician to the Bedford Dis pensary), 27, Alfred-Place. Bedford-square, London, continues to issue, on receipt of six stamps. " THE GUIDE TO SELF-CURE." Medical Correspondence conducted. "The first man of the day in these complaints."—Medical Re view, July, 1856. " Thet;mc Guide to those who desire a speedy and private cure.' —University Magazine. " The • NEW AMERICIN DISCOVERY' showing the abstirdityof the English mode of treating such complaints, will prove a blessing to the afflicted, who may safely and easily regain pristine health by adopting the means presented."—Evening Star. DU BARRY'S CELEBRATED INFANTS' FOOD, for DELIC N.TE INFANTS, CHILDREN, and IN IA LIDS. Supersedes the expense and dangers of wet-nursing, is more easily digested, and imparts more healthful nourishment than ilk ; acidity, cramps, bowel complaints, flatulency, cough, restless ness, scrofula, eruptions, are avoided by it, and perfect regularity of the system and soundsleep m tured. Many respectable families who have reared and saved delicate Infants by this Feod can be referred to, and a copy of their Testimonials may be had free on forwarding I stamped and addressed envelope to Barry Du Barry and Co., 17, Regent-street, London. Prices : —ln Canisters, Is.; 25.; and 121 b. at 21s. Tho large Canister will be forwarded free of carriage on receipt of Post Office Order. ROYAL FRE l HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. —The AID of the benevolent is earnestly college& John Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lace, is Treasurer, by whom donations will be thankfUlly received : also by the following bankers: - Mews. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co.; Berries and Co, ; Ransom and Co.; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smyth. Payne, and Co.; Glyn and Co.; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co ; Williams, Deacon, and CO. ; Overend. Gurney, and CO. ; Mas tennan and Co.; by Mes•rs. Nisbet and Co., Berners-street ; and at the Hospital from Ten till Five. By order, S. S. SMITH, Secretary. OYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSIITUTION.—The Committee of this Institut'on would earnestly call the attention of the public to the great and extra ordinary exertions which the Society is now making to supply ex posed points on the coast with efficient lPe-boats, and which will involve an expenditure of more than £3,000: they therefore earnestly APPEAL to the benevolent for ASSISTANCE to enable them to c ntinue, with unabated vigour, their hitherto successful exertions in the cause of humanity. THOMAS RARING, Chairman. Oct. 27, 1857. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Depuey-Chairman. '1 he Committee gratefully acknowledge the following additional contributions : The Misses Frends.don. £5O 0 0 James Taylor, Esq., a £l 1 0 S. Poyntz, EN., 2nd don. 50 0 Admiral Sir Eaton Tra- Lady Jones Parry, don. 50 0 vers, annual Sir John Maxwell, Bart., a 5 0 0 Lord Shelborne, don 2O 0 0 Donations and au' scriptlons will Willis, Percival, and Co ;Coutts am metropolitan and country bankers ; at the oflice of the lust tution, 14, be thankfully received by Messrs. ,d Co.; Berries and Co. ; by all the ; and by Richard Lewis, Secretary, John•street, Adelphi. NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE 'LITRES (n ithout Physic) of Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Constipation, Flatulent y, Phlegm, all Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints, Hysteria, Neuralgia, Dysentry, Diarrhoea, Acidity, Palpitation, Heartbara, Headache, Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Spasms, , Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy or at sea), Sinking Fits, Cough, Aathina, Bronchitis, Consumption, also Children's Com plaints ate effected by 1) II BARRY'S delicious REVALENTA AL &RICA. FOOD, which restores health without purging, Inconvenience, or ekpense, as it saves fifty times its cost in other remedies. it is, moreover, the best food for infants and invalids generally, as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor inter feres with a good liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner, and restores the faculty of digestion, and nervous and muscular energy to the most enfeebled. We extract a few out of the many thousand expressions of grati tude from invalids :—Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hole. the Lord Stuart de Decies. " I have derived considerable benefit from Du ilarry's Revalenta Arabica Food, and consider it due to yourselves and the public te, authorise the publication of these lines. Stuart de Deck's." -- Curz, No. 49,832. " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, and sickness at the stomach and vomiting, have beets removed by Da Barry's excellent Food. Maria Jolly, Wortham Ling, near Diss, Norfolk." —Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, os Nazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Ilerts, a cure of extreme ner vousness, indigestion, gatheringe, low spirits, and nervous fancies.— Cure No. 48,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liver pool : a cure o; ten yeat's dyspepsia, and the horrors of nervous irrita bility. Cure No. 18.216. Dr. Andrew tire of constipation. dyspep sia, nervous lrritabFity. Cure No. 31,210. Dr. Shorland of dropsy and debility. Curt No. 36,212. Captain Allan of epileptic fits. Cure No. 42.116 Major Edte of enlargement of the liver and total prostration of strength. Cure No. 36,418, Rev. Dr. Minster of cramps, spasms, and daily vomitings, Cure. No. 26,418. Dr. Har vey of diarrhoea and debility. Cure No. 39,628, Dr. Wurtzer of consumption. Cure No. 32,883. William Hunts, Esq., barrister, of paralysis. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, wood merchant, or thirty years diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, partial deafness. Cure No. 4 ;,814. Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester, of two years' diarrhoea. Cure No. 52,612. The Dowager Countess of Castlestuart, of many years' nervous irritability, bile, and indi gestion. Cure No. 54,812. Miss Virginia Zeguers, cured of con sumption, after her medical advisers had abandoned all hopes of recovery. Cure No, 180. Twenty-five years' nervousness, con stipation, indigestion, and debility, from which I have suffered great misery, and which no medicine could remove or relieve, have been effectually - cured by Du Barry's Food in a very short time. W. R. Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London." No. 4,208. "Eight years' dis pepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms, and nausea, for which my servant had consulted the advice of many, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's health restoring Food. I shall be happy to answer any inquiries. Rev. John Flavell, Ridlington Rec tory, Norfolk." No. 32,836. "Three years' excessive nervousness, with pains in my neck and left arm, and generaldebility, which ren dered my life very miserable, has been radically removed by Du Barry's health restoring Food. Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Ross, Skibbereen." Cure No. 3,906. " Thirteen years' cough, indigestion, and general debility have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Revalenta Arabica Food. James Porter, Athol-street, Perth." Important Caution against the fearful dangers of spurious imita tation The Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood granted an injunc tion on the 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Neville, for imitating "Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food." canSinsittgyipibac2Xs Od ; edfor all climates, and with f a ll i ns t ruct i ons. I n 21b 4s 6d ; hlb Its, 121 b 225, The 121 b car riage free, on receipt of Post-office order. Barry Du Barry and Co.. 77, Regent-street, London; Fortnum, Mason, and Co.. pur- S v t e r y e o c r t s ; to hero andi Majesty , 182, I,str Piccadilly and ;4, c h ; e a a l p so m d a e t 60, 10 , G B r is a c h e o c p h s u g r a c t h e 430 M, street, and 150, and 158. Oxford -street. meFsara.BE.p—. 113'hide3coci: Liverpool, yesterday was at Lo'nly important failure announced , the firm being that of and k Co., with houses Glasgow and New Y They have been broughtalsat down by the absence of remittances , and their liabilities are estimated at about 30h4001. At the last balance of has as.surplus of 150,000/ , and, their books in May they will being i able to pay in full ' e a n n i ci ai n to them. The although their property they feel confident not only Co., also in the but that a considerable sum. failure of Messrs. Henry Datil!), accompaniedTs with an American trade at Liverpool, took o r n he s e on Monday. prevent ells. Sunday next ea c h copMyAPOfOFTITmIIK uPisCrliAJT.cky, willGlt ATbies. elaborate coloured Map of the Punjaub.— e n r t e b d e appointment consequent upon the enormousof the Disrarcii, persons desirous of possessing the saIeDISPATCH CoLocase ATLAS are informed that, should the news out of print with which any particular map basbeen presented, such map may always be obtained with the paper for the currant or any future week. Either of the DISPATCh ATLAS MAPS will be forwarded gratis, with the paper. The price of the DISPATCH is, unstamp ed, sd. ; stamped (to go free by post), 6d. The Friday Evening Edition may be received in all parts of the kingdom, on Saturday morning —Orders re ceived by all News Agents, asd at the office, 139, Fleet street. News Agents throughout the kingdom aro re quested to forward their names and addresses, when speci mens of the Splendid Double Map (Coloured) of Asia will be forwarded. Portfolios are now ready, price 3e. Gcl,, 4t. and upwards. , BEALTII OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. (From the Report of the Registrar-General. ) The returns now exhibit that increase in the mor tality which usually begins in the 11th month of the year. In the present instance the increase is con siderable, the deaths registered in London, which in the two preceding weeks were 988 and 1,047, having risen in the week that ended last Saturday (Nov. 7) to 1,166. In the 10 years 1847-56 the average number of deaths in the weeks corresponding with last week was 1,039. But population has increased, and the same rate of mortality would have pro duced last week 1,143 deaths. The actual number is slightly in excess of the estimated number—a re sult which is not so favourable as those that have been recently obtained. The births returned in the same week exceed the deaths by 516. In comparing the deaths now returned with those of the former week, and distributing the ages at deaths in five vicenniads, it will appear that the in crease above mentioned occurred in every period except that which extends from 40 to 60 years. Among persons 60 years and upwards the deaths in crewed from 181 to 259. From diseases of the respiratory organs (exclusive of hoopinc, cough and phthisis) the number of persons who died at all ages in the previous week was 190 ; last week it was 261. Influenza showed itself, and, though only four cases are referred to it in the tables, part of the increase found under some other complaint is probably due to its influence. The deaths from diseases of the digestive organs rose from 55 to 79. Under other heads the fluctuations are unimportant. Three children and two adults (the latter in the Small-pox Hospital) died of small pox. Twenty-three children died of mea'les ; and five of these died in the sub-district of Whitecross street. In that sub-district 9 out of the 18 deaths returned wera from measles, scarlatina, and fever. Diarrhoea continues to decline, and the deaths from it last week were only 27. Thero were two deaths from cholera ; a widow, aged 66 years, died on the 4th of Nov., at 117, Gravel-lan-, Aldgtti., of "cholera, typhoid fever (3 days) ;" and a man, aged 38 years, died on the tith of Nov., at 2, G ou l ston-street, nitnhapel, of " cholera, after 14 hours' illness." It deserves to be noticed that four children died from want of breastmilk in St. George's Workhouse, Little Chelsea,—three on the INt inst., one on the 2d. Three of these infants were foundlings. The total number of deaths from want of brc!astinilk or inanition in London was 13. Six nonagenarians died in the week ; the oldest of these was a widow, aged 96 years, who died at 7, Little D,nmark street, St. Giles ; she received the Queen's Bounty, and in part supported herself, till within a year of her death, by needlework. Last week the births of 859 boys and 823 girls, —in all 1,682 children,—wore registered in Lon don. In the 10 corresponding weeks of the years 1847-56 the average number was 1,537. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.748 in. The mean reading ou Saturday was 30.072 in. The mean temperature of the week was 531 deg., which is 7.9 deg. above the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily temperature was considerably above the average throughout the week, and on Tuesday the excess was so much as 12.7 degree:! , . The highest reading of the thermometer in the shade occurred on Tuesday, and was 641 dog. ; the lowest was 43'9 deg. on the previous day. The mean daily range of the week was 10.1 deg. The greatest range occurred on Monday and was 15.8 deg. The mean clew point temperature was 52.1 deg., and the difference between this and the mean air temperature was only 1.7 deg. The temperature of the water of the Thames ranged from 50.2 deg. to 54.7 deg. At the beginning of the week the wind was in the south-east ; on the last four days it blew generally from the north-east. Rain fell to the amount of 0.49 in., nearly all of which fell on Wednesday. MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOV. 7. Zymotic Diseases Diseases of Uncertain Seat Tubercular Diseases Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 46 Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of Respiration 261 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and ''oluscles ...... Diseases of the Skin, &c. Malformations .. - Premature Birth and Debility 34 Atrophy Old Age :sudden 9 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 3l Causes not specified 79 DEATHS I'EOM ALL CAUSES Population Deaths in corre- Deaths Enumerated. sponding week in the Issl. of 1856. Week. West Districts North Districts 490,396 Central Districts 393,256 East Districts 485,522 South Districts 616,635 ...... 293 Totals Males Females 594 _ BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males Females.. 859 823 Total . _..1,683 THE BRITISH MUSEUM. An additional source of pleasure and instruction has recently been laid open to the public by the authorities of the British Museum. Visitors n ow find themselves at liberty to pass from the entrance ball into the Granville Library, an d onwards through the manuscript department into the King's Library, on leaving which they find open to them a staircase, hitherto closed, by which they can pass up immedi ately to th e gallon es of natural history. But the pur pose of this newly-conceded privilege has not been to lay open these noble rooms, containing the best portions of our national library, merely for the con venience of the public. Throughout the entire length of these rooms are arranged table cases, on which are set out such choice and curious speci mens of block-books, manuscripts, and examp!c3 of typographical art as have been thought moat cal culated to instruct and interest the visitor. Against each work thus exhibited is placed a short account, describing the point of interest for which it has been selected. In the Granville Library, the first of these rooms entered from the hall, are laid out the most remarkable specimens of block-books, i.e., books printed from carved blocks of wood on one side of the leaf only, which are thought to be Vie work of the card-makers in the 15th century, and executed in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, before and during the practice of the art with moveable metal types. From the Granville Library the visitor passes into the manuscript department, where be will find exhibited a selection of manuscripts remarkable either for their antiquity, their beauty, or some touching point of interest—of which, to quote an example, we mention the autograph will of Mary Queen of Scots. In passing up the King's Library from the Manu script Room, the visitor will find laid out in the six table cases which occupy the length of the library to his left a range of open volumes, expressly selected to show the entire history of printing from its earliest period downwards. In the six table cases on the opposite side of the King's Library ho will find ex hibited choice specimens of sumptuous printing, of book illumination, of beautiful illustrations to books, of remarkable examples of costly and elegant binding, curiosities, and autographs. These rooms are to continue open to visitors ou the usual days of admission to the Museum. COMMERCIAL MATTERS IN NEW YORK.—The private letters from New York by the Asia are all of a better tone than the newspaper accounts. Owing to the influx of specie the banks were believed to con template resumption at a very early date. Annexed is an extract from a letter from one of the soundest and least sanguine merchants in the country :—" The specie now on the way will not make much, as sterling is very scarce, and no good hills can be had under 105 to 106, and I expect next week they wiil be 108 Specie is worth only about 4 per cent, premium. I am happy to say, with the exception of the dry goods interest, there is a better feeling in all branches of trade. The wholesale grocers are doing more business, and the banks discount more freely, but, as a matter of course, are very careful what paper they take. If nothing very bad comes from England I think the worst is over. Should we receive within the next month half a million sterling in gold from Europe we shall have to ship it back again in January." ~~~ - - 2 -- 0 '-?_---B' [PRiot 4D. STAMPED 5T).] THE PASSPORT SYSTEM. (Prom the Times.) Our contemporary the Constitutionnel has ac tually expressed its willingness to accept a "serious discussion" on the Passport system. We sincerely trust this offer implies some resolution to place the system on its own merits, and to leave it to stand or fall by the conclusions arrived at. With the hope of such a result we return to the subject even in the midst of more momentous'airl engrossing topics, for although, as our contemporary very truly remarks, the vexation of English travellers is not quite so important a matter as the Indian mutinies, it is . wcrth a little trouble to convict a system which does more to embarrass the inter course of two great and friendly countries than any other incident affecting the communicas ions between them. M. Cauvain, who undertakes the defence of the Passport system, and who characterises cur objec tions to it as "calumnies" against the customs of a foreign State, is not content with affirming that the system, after all, really prevails in England as well as in France, but roundly declares that, in more respects than one, it operates as a positive protection to peop!e on their travels. The former of these assertions will astonish most of our readers, whether British or foreign, and especially when we observe that M. Cauvain's authority for his state ment is drawn exclusively from our own columns. A..few days ago a correspondent called our atten tion to thefact that, acco' ding tocertain regulations, a stranger arriving at Folkestone was bettnd under a penalty of 40s. to present himself at an. office in the Custom-house, produce his passport, and receive a certificate of his arrival. How far these regulations are enforcel we do net pretend to know, but this much we venture to say, that no foreigner travelling in England would ever think of asserting on his return that he had experLnced the• least delay, extortion, or annoyance in respect of , his passport from the first moment of his visit to J the last. We put the case in this broad.light to bring tee question at once to issue ; but; assuming even that the rule referred to is rigidly executed, what possible analogy, we ask, can be established between such a provision and the elaborate system of passports prevailing on the cont . nent 7 In Eng land, at the most, a foreigner (not an Englishman) may be required, on entering an office which be must needs visit under any circumstances, to regis tr his name. There ends the whole regulaiiun. Thera is no system about the procetdiug, no machi nery for conducting it, and, above all, no penalty , worth mentioning for leaving things undone alto gether. The traveller cannot be detained, at the one single point of 'deteution, more than a minute or two, and, if he objects even to this delay, he may snap his fingers and go off straight with no other liability thqu a fine of a couple of sovereigns. With this arrangement let M. Cauvain com pare the "manners and customs" which he stands up to defend. A system of the most extensive and complex description, embracing every depart ment, every prefecture, every town, and every port, is maintained at a large cost, and with an enormous staff of officers, for the simple purpose of tracking like a thief every person who stirs from hie ho — me. Not only English - men, but French men too, on their own native soil, are compelled, before they can travel a dozen miles, to procure per mission to do so by personal application, and to carry about with them, and produce upon every de mand, an official warrant entitling them to be where they are. This warrant must be inspected, exa mined, revised, exchanged, and passed through every conceivable process of verification and regis tration, with a perpetual infliction of small expense and an interminable tax upon patience. To crown all, supposing that through ignorance the ceremony, or any incident of it, Ins been omitted, or imper fectly transacted, or the warrant itself by any acci dent lost or mislaid, the consequences become equi valent to those of actual felony for the time being. An unfortunate traveller with no passport or au formal one i 3 impounded forthwith, is forbidden to pursue his journey no mattti what may be the urgency of the case, and may be very thankful if the . surveillance under which he is placed falls something shod of positive imprisonment: 'So much for the "complete analogy" subsisting be tween English and continental institutions iu this respect. _ SI. Cauvain, however, takes higher ground then the mere to q argument when he asserts of the Passports system that it is a real comfort and conve nience to traveller:4. Did he ever find a traveller who thought so ? Certainly, if F, euchmen choose to put themselves through th-se " simple formali ties,"-it is not for us to cavil at their fancy ; bat, as we presumed to know something of English opinion, our contemporary will perhaps accept our word for the fact, that we are utterly insensible to the benefit designed, and wish for nothing more heartily than that the whole system should be exploded to-morrow. If there be any advantages attending it we surrender them all without a moment's hesitation. An Englishman is perfectly satisfied of his own " identity" without getting it " established" by a certifinte of police ; he can find the way to his own Ambassador without the sanction of a constable, and provide himself with money for his journey apart from the kind offices of either mayor or gendarmes. In so far as the system is kept up for our benefit we can confidently assure M. Cauvain that the labour is utterly thrown away, and that it may be abolished this very instant not only without remonstrance on our part, but with the greatest possible satisfaction to all classes in the habit of visiting their continental neighbours. The matter is really not quite so trivial as it appears. To be sure, the extortions of the system are on a petty scale and the annoyances not often of a very afflicting kind, but they are sufficient altogether to keep some persons away from France who would very gladly go there, and, what is of far more consequence, the perpetual irritation, though alight perhaps in itself, inevitably operates to the prejudice of the views with which an Euglishmau might otherwise return from a country in many respects better managed than Lis own. Perhaps the people of other nations do not suffer quite so much as we do, but there is nothing so disagreeable to an Englishman as small interruptions for small demands. It is as much as ever we can do to en dure a turnpike; in fact, in London we have abolished Viem, and in Wales they pulled them down. A man spending a thousand a-year without stint will go half-a-mile round to avoid a bridge where he would be stopped for a halfpenny. We do not like to be interfered with at all ; still less do we like to be guaged and measured like a bale of goods, stamped with a brand, and then put in circulation, to be tested and branded over again at the next police-offic(.. We do this kind of thing in our prisons, because there is no avoiding it, but when we visit a foreign country prepare to admire it and to enjoy ourselves, we do not like to be handled as if we were in a convict settlement.' If all this were necessary either from geographi cal configuration, or frontier difficulties, or any other incident of continental position, we could only submit with the best grace possible ; but we main tain that it is nct so, and we appeal to every day's experience in proof of our words. There is not a police-officer on the continent who would place a moment's reliance on the passport system as an effective instrument of detection or security. A. conspirator denounced by half-a-dozen Govern ments, and hunted by as many police agents, can notoriously travel through territory after territory without experiencing the least interruption. Per sons really exposed to suspicion are never at fault. They know well enough every form and feature of the requisitions established, and are only too ready to comply with them in the minutest particular as the price of escape. To them. the Passport system is really a protection, for;ifprovides them with what they would otherwise lack—a certificate of charac ter ; nor does it signify a sou whether this charac ter i 3 true or false so long as it is "regular." The . true operation of the Passport system consists iu the easy rehabilitation of rogues. When characters are sold by the franc on Government guarantee, any man with silver in hipocket can in a moment become as respectable as his neighbour. A piece of s t am p e d paper covers all, and t he end of the whole machinery is 3, moral masquerade, in which domi noes are provided at two shillings each and the dis guise made current by authority. PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is about 7 per mille premium, and the short exchange on London is 25.32} per 1/. steeling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10id. per ounce for standard gold it appears that gold is about 1-10th per cent, dearer in Pares than in London. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 424 per mark, and the short exchange on London is 13.4 k per 1/. sterling. Standard gold at the English Mint price is therefore nearly 1-10th per cent dearer iu London than in Hamburg. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is variously quoted at from par up to 106 per cent., the latter being for first-the m paper only. There is, consequently, at pre sent no advantage in sending gold from this country, as compared with drawing bills from Americo. 7/. P. A NEWS. ee - -Sse- eaa7 THE .YELP BRIDGE Al' CH er e _ The cempletion of a bridge is a.notch in er 3 lender of our metropolitan existence. How near things are dated from before the building of me • London-bridge-what a t r i umphant Hejira'we'sha have when we can date from the utter destrueth of that hideous obstacle, Westminster-bridge Chelsea, which has been agitating for its boroug has at least its bridge-a step towards it, pedla r , about which it can talk and date as much a s pleases. It is worth talking and boasting ot ; to for Chelsea-bridge when finished, as it will b e ne: spring, will be beyond all doubt the ham - leo/m e structure of its kind in the metropolis. It is long time since its erection was resolved on. TI. new park at Battersea had been receiving its fu ineed of Government support for some years, ac the scheme was therefore in the last stage of officii abeyance, and likely to become extinct at any no ment, when it was resolved to erect a new bridge t communicate with the new park, and afford th public an accommodation which had long 1.3:e wanted at that part of the river. Mr. Page, tl government engineer, was accordingly instru c ted t prepare drawing s and plans for a wooden suspensio bridge with brick towers, which he made and But initted to the consideration of the MetropOlita Improvement Commissioners. Afterwards, th:r were designs prepared for a bridge of 7 arches face with stone, and for one in cast iron of 5 archer; but, ultimately, an iron suspension - bridg was agreed to, and the designs for th present structure det erm i ne d on. e thinkanon will be inclined to cavil at the choice of the commi, aioners. The new bridge is not only spacious an( ample in its accommodation for traffic, but in design . the most elegant, in general effect the most lighte ns , ornamental, of all the bridges, whether snspeudod o. otherwise, yet erected across the Thames. It is the kind of bridge, in fact, that seems to require. bright summer skies and fertile landscapes to do juetice to its graceful outlines. More than enough hate beet , erected to enable the visitor to judge of - the genera' tone of the design ; but we need.. scarcely point out that the lightest and most decorative portions wir; be the last affixed, and that the beautiful lantern and minarets Which will'eurmount botti a:ewers-am add so mueli to the general effect are still treLlei erected. The design of th e very novel. allWea towers:of cast iron columnar franiin.g support the chains and arches, or rather opeuiugs. These towers are cased in elaborate ornamental castings of open .lattice work, like the casements of Eastern houses, and surmounted with the pointed minarets and lanterns we have already mentioned, and Which give to the whole an inexpressively light and grace ful effect. The cornice of the towers, the parapet, ot the bridge, and the light rail which divides the footpath from the road, are all of the same pleasing ornamental kind, and in keeping with the main features of the design. At each e end of ,the bridge, however, are two octagon structures, on which (probably because of their intended use, fur they are. meant for toll-houses) none look with favour, mid' which in reality jar rather with the rest cf the struc ture. In spite of terra-cotta pitmacles and little . spires, they persist in retaining the strongest re • sewb!ance to pepper-castors of mediaeval feint. So much fee. the genet al aspect of the bridge; for its podtion we need only say that it stretche, from the Middlesex side tromthe centre of that debateat le land where Chelsea ends and Pimlico begins to Bat tersea on the Surrey side, where it overlook the near park on the right, and the ground where the Crystal Palace Company are making believe to buitd a " west end" station on the left. Between the raver walls at Trinity high-water line the total length of the bridge is 704 ft. of which :be centre arch or opening is 333 ft., and the t wo s id e open i ngs 1 6 6 i ft. each. The width of the bridge for traffic is 47 ft. -that is, a carriage way of 32 ft. and two footways of 7 ft 6 in. each. The piers upon which the t ewers are built and suspension chains hung are each 88 ft. in length and 19m width, and terminate in curved cutwaters 7 ft. din. above the leiel of 'high-water mark. The foundations of these piers are precisely similar to those which are at present being formed for the arches of new Westmiuster-bridge, and dis pense entirely with massive and costly piers of masonry and also with coffer dams. They consist of timber piles of unusual size, driven deep into the London clay far below the bed of the river at inter vals of 3 ft. over the entire area of the piers, and cut off at low water level. The external surface of the piers is formed by cast iron main piles of 12 in. diameter and 27 ft. long, driven 20 ft. below low water rcark, and between these east iron Plete.s are driven so as to protect on all sides the bearing piles by a metallic casing. The space tluis enclosed is then dredged to the hard stratum of gravel above • the clay, filled in with solid concrete, and the whole secured by wrought iron tie bars. On the hearing pile is a flooring of solid st ihe bedded on the col:- erste ; all the caisson above low water is lined wail brickwork, and 'he cutwaters at each end where ex posed to constant shocks from drifting vessels are built cf solid brickwork. The cast iron columnar to ',ors which rise on these pierS to support the chains are strongly braced b he vertically and hori zontally. Their present height is about 60 ft. from high-water mark, though when entirely finished with lanterns and pinnacles they will rise to at least 100 ft. These towers exclusive of the ornamental casing, - weigh 250 tons, anti they have from the weight of the bridge itself a pressure of 1i tons, and when loaded a pressure of 3a tons per square inch. Only two suspension chains are used, each of which from mooring to mooring is 920 ft. long and weigbs about 350 tons. These chides are technically di vided into three portions-viz., the mooring Guaira or the pat ts at each end which are buried in solid masonry ; the back chains, or lengths which stretch from the ground to •the towers ; and the main chains, which cross the centre from tower to tower. The chain is made in long links, and each li n k i s form el of 7 and 8 bars alternately. The bars are 16 ft. and 16 ft. 9 in. long, 8 in. deep, and neatly au inch in thickness. Each of these bars :Was tested before ii was allowed to be fixed to the enormous pre , Asure of 13k tons the square inch, or upwards of ofl.oo tons the bar, and no bar was used the per manent extension of which exceeded'i.4ooth of an inch to the foot. There are 56 links of 6,7, and 8 bars each employed in the mooring -chains at Chel sea ; 96 links of 7 and 8 bars each in the back chains, and 92 links of 7 and 8 bare etch' in the main chains, giving 244 links of 1,936 bars iu all. The sectional area of the chains at the centre of the bridge is 212 square in., which gradually in creases in proportion t o th e strain towards the towers, where it is 223, The suspension rods pass ing from the chains to the roadway of the bridges are 2 in. in diameter and placed 8 -ft. apart. They have a joint at each extretnity, the upper one allow ing a motion parallel with the chains and the lower a transverse motion. At the centre opening of the bridge the roadway is 24 ft. 6 in. above high water mark, and above low water 41 ft. The whole road way has a rise of 18 in. from the land moorings to the centre. Two wrought iron longitudinal lattice girders extend the entire length of the bridge, and are secured to the suspension rods to which the transverse girders supporting the carriage way aro also bolted. These girders are 87 in number. They are formed of boiler-plate strengthened with angle iron, and are 32 ft. long by 2 ft. 8 in. deep, and weigh 32 cwt. each. Between these girders pass wrought iron bearings, to which are bolted plates of iron of the same material which forms the road way. Ou the upper surface these plates are covered with bitumen, over which are laid compressed slabs of asphalte and cork cuttings. Tbis forms the bed for a wood pavement of blocks of ship oak, tell This, aat:ooclot:a according the present o r a l) ; which are again coated over with asphalte and the paved surface of the road completed. This pavement is probably the lightest and most durable • that has ever yet been used for such a purpose. The footways are formed of the same wood pave ment set in bitumen ; and next to the footways on each side of the bridge a tramway has been laid on oak beams covered with plate iron for such heavy traffic as may use the bridge. Such is a brief general outline of the proportions of the new bridge at Chelsea, all the details of which have been admirably carried out by the contractors, Messrs. Young and Co. Ina brief period it will be opened for traffic. In point of usefulness and ac commodation few of our metropolitan bridges are otebnhesde ro h :onib a aa a rrbdi adrmif.gdoei only grte superior to it ; in architectural beauty it will, be • yond all doubt, rank first. Yet the whole cost of h 2r d e e : i d .s n e w c 2 g n o s i t t i s o h t d H o o moment u f . u r t Li n h o of h f m is o b n r surface.eddg is quite a marvel of cheapness, as our readers may see. tr F ea o t r ise in ot b nc ri e d was 542,15 U, or at the rate of 111. 6s. the square footof surface. Southwark-bridge cost 384,000 t., or 11/. ss. 10d. the superficial foot ; Brackfriars co , t only 3/. 15s. 6d. the foot, or 157,000/. in all • Wa terloo, the lar ges t b y nearly 8,000 superficial feet, cost 579,9151., or 101. the foot ; Hungerford, 4/. 16s. 6d. the foot, or 98,760/. • Westminster, 71. 168. the superfi c i a l f oot, or 382,040 a; Vauxhall-bridge, neatly the most unsightly obstruction on the river, actually cost 91. 16s. the square foot of surface, or 300,000/., while Chelsea, as we have said, only cost 2/. 2s. sd. New Westminster -bridge, taken at the sum named in Sir Wm. Meleewolth's report-viz., 235,0001.-will cost 2/. 80. 6d. per superficial f oo t, It will be seen from this that , notwithstanding the ornamental character of Chelsea - bridge, and the high quality of its icon, it is, as compared w ith t h e other bridges, infinitely more cost and area of eco nomical. Thus compared with London and South es.; compared with W a t er l oo as 21. 3s. to ; c ompared wark bridges its cost per foot superficial is as 2/. 3-s. to Vauxhall as 2/. 3s. t o 9/. la s . ; s h o wing beyond a doubt th e great extent of bridge ll. with Vaux ece enneodation of a highly ornamental character w hich may under difficult circumstances be-econo mically obtained. - P E ' ON S ,x X