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EWSPAPER Ark -4 r . 44.11.A:tl ' ",-.. d46411' -.., f i l , f , a ~.., ri"llf'. , r 1 1 0 41 4,_98...CFX't eir: R o ll , .... ... . , • YZlkf.Pot - ...i_ ---. _ '-') ---_---: ~,,,,. %--w g-- .r. 2 , larr - s - fw' - 'llitlf.77-7-4)-iFoTT.,.. ''' EA----OF. ' . ' ' ~,,,„;,. -:( ',. I. ;.'. r ~ cii,. ~,,,,,,4,,,v0rE,, 0 ,,,,,,,,,,v,....„.„,... 14 ~ , f , L , ..-,-,op - 5 , - . ,, ~... .. ..,'"0 85'4'6\ .!., .....-/ ~....... ). - 4;„p? ._____ F PRUSIVa I THE BOSCO IS COMING TO LONDON June 1: t. !,tended nations for In tied de- /_F IVIONT BLANC IS OPEN TO-NIGHT. p OYAL COLOSSEUM. - OPEN DAILY. Morning, from 12 to 6. Evening, 7to 11. ADMISSION ONE SHILLING. Colosseum of Science and Art Company (Limited). LONDON, MuNDAY EVENING, MAY 16, 1857. NO. 20,253.) [PRICE 4u. STAMPED 51).] market cline of change. it week. ley, 46s 33 Old ; 11i/FISS P. HORTON'S NEW ILLUSTRA TIONS TO-NIGHT—Mr. and Mrs. GERMAN REED will repeat their Entirely New EnterWmnfnt, at the ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATIONS, 14, Regent-street, THIS EVEN ING, at 8. Morning Performance •on Saturday next, at Three. Admission, 2s. and Is. ; Stalls, 35.. may be secured at the Gallery, and at Cramer, Beale, and Co.'s, 201, Regent-street. PUBLICIA TIONS. CI REAP WESTERN RAILWAY.-- 74 .. WHI fSUNTIDE HOLIDAYS.—On Mondays, June Ist, Bth. and 15th, Excursion Trains will leave Paddington at 7.30 a.m. for Leamington, Warwick, Birmingham, West Bromwich, Wednesbury, Bilston, Wolverhampton, Wellington, Shrewsbury, Llangollen Road, Chester, Birkenhead, and Liverpool, returning on Monday, the Bth, 15th, and 22d, from Liverpool (Landing Stage) at 7.30 a m., and intermediate Stations as per hand bills. Fares : Leamington and Is ar wick, Pis. and Bs. ; Birmingham, 2 1 s. and 9s. 6d. ; West Promwich. Wedneshury. and Itilston. 21s. 6d. and lOs ; Wolverhampton, 225. 6d. and 10s. 6d. ; and Wellington and Shrews bury, 27:. fid. and 135.; L.angollen Road and Chester, 335. and 15s. ; Birkenhead and Liverpool, 375. and 17s Tickets not trans ferable, and only available for the Trains snectiled. ' Trains to the Manchester Exhibition of Art Treasures run from Liverpocl m.d Chester. . . AMERICA. to be kept divided, nullified, and their nationality crushed and denied in peace. If the reason be asked why Great Britain adopts a policy so retrograde— one calculated to render her so unpopular with the Chris fans of the East ?—the reason is, Austria must be propitiated. The Austrian alliance is necessary, and cannot be done without. And so the Danubian Principalities are to be given up as a holocaust to Austria now, just as Poland, even to the very men tion of her existence, was sacrificed to Austria dur ing the late hostilities. • We animadvert upon this new feature of Lord Pahnerston's policy as highly detrimental to our position and influence in the East, and at the same tune as destructive of all the hopes of Poland. The result of the present Britishpolicy at Constantinople and cm the Danube is and can be no other than to disgust France, and t force lit-r to take refuge in the arms and the alliance of Russia. If any one circanastance more than another is calculated to seal the melancholy fate of Poland, it is an alliance be tween France and Russia. This alliance England has done, and is doing, her best to promott, by the jealous and hostile spirit with which we have re jec'el, and with which we have opposed at Con stantinople even what is generous and noble in French policy. It so happened that France made generous pro mises to the Danubians—promises that wouldhave led to their union under Turkish suzerainty, and to their independence both of Russia and Austria. The English Government has deliberately preferred to break, with France on this question, and to side with Austria. The provinces are to be disunited,- and to be given back once more to the Aus trian party to misgovern. They are to be kept divided, in order that they may be the more easily absorbed and sacrificed. And, in a word, the pre sent fate of Poland awaits the Danubian Princi palities. The Danubians see this ; the French deplore this ; Lord Palmerston not merely looks on and applauds this, but he labours to bring it about. Now ready, price I s., 0 M " Old men, and beldames in the street, Do prophesy about it dangerously."—Shakspere Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough-street. LIVERPOOL, MAY 17. The Royal Mail steam-ship America has arrived with advices from Boston lo the 6th inst., and Now York by telegraph via Halifax to the 7th inst. She has brought 515,520 dollars specie on freight. On the 9th inst„ in ht. 44.50 N., long. 55.58 W., the America exchanged signals with the barque Coronet, bound west; on the 10th, in lat. 44.55 N., long. 49.58 W., signalled the British brig Thompson, bound W. ; on the 17th, at ,6 a.m., 10 miles W. of Tuskar, passed the Royal Mail steamer Arabia, hence for New York. The Philadelphia Company's screw steam-ship Kangaroo arrived at New York on the sth-inst. MR. W. S. WOODIN'S OLIO of ODDITIES, with New Costumes and v irious Novelties, 'focal and Cha racteristic, every evening (except eaturday) at Eight. A MORN ING PERFORMANCE every SATURDAY, at Three. Private Boxes and Stalls may be secured, without extra charge, at the Box-office, l'olraTaphic-hall, King William-street, Charing-cross. The hall has been entirely redecorated. T H E T. 55 6d ; 3s 4d. 1 to 44e . Best ► lls per Od to Os utchors' s each; awes. Od Pigs, lips, —s per R. ROYAL ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAIJRENT'S CASINO, Great Windmill-street, Haymarket.—Great suc cess of the Roman )ff Waltz and the Lancers, every evening, with Laurent's Grand Orchestra of Forty of the first artistes of London. Principal Cornet-a -piston, M. Boulcoart. floors oven at half pagt tight, commence at nine. The Lancers will be danced at half-put ten. Admix ion One - ciREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.- ‘..A WHITSUNTIDE llOLlDAYS.—Exeurslon to Liverpool, Birkenhead, Che- ter, Llangollen Road, Shrewsbury, Wellington, Woivei hampton, Bilston, Wednesbury, West Bromwich, !'and Bir mingham. —A Train will leave Paddington. on Saturday, May 30th, at 12.30 Noon, returning on Wednesday, June 3d, from Liverpool (Landing Stage), at 7.30 a.m., and intermediate stations as per hand bills. Fares —Birmingham, 12s. and 7s. ; West Bromwich, Wednes . . • R. KAHN'S MUSEUM, 4, Coventry-street, Leicester-square. Programme:—Lectures by Dr. KAHN. daily, at 3 o'clock. on highly interesting and instructive Topics ; and Dr. , EXTON, F.E.G.S, F.E.S , as follows : At half-past I —The Phynomena, Curiosities, and Philosophy of the Sense of Sight At 4 —The Grett Tobacco Controversy. At half-past 7 —The Food we Eat; its Use., Freparation, Adulteration, and Digestion. The Museum contains 1,000 Models and Preparatons, and is wholly Unrivalled in the world. Open daily, for Gentlemen c.nv, rrom 10 till 10. Admission, One 4hilling. Catalogues, containing Dr. Kahn's Lectures, gratis to visitors. A freshet bad flooded some pastures of Albany. A fire bad occurred at Apalachicola, which de stroyed about 2,450 bales of cotton, besides some extensive premises. The loss was e3tituated at 200,000 doll Are. A despttch from Washington of the sth say • bury. and Bilston, 125.. 6d. and 7s. 6d.; Wolverhampton, 13s. and Bs. Od. ; Shrewsbury and Wellington, 178. and 10s. ' • Llangollen road and Chester, iBs. 6d. and I Is. • Birkenhead and Liverpool, 21s. and 12s. 6d. A single package only allowed to each passenger. Tickets not transferable, and only available for the Excursion Train. I rains to the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition run both from Chester and Liverpool. with the )f which of aware rival are ANDREW CROSSE, THE ELECTRICIAN. Just published, in 1 vol. post Bvo., price 9s. 6d. cloth, MEVIORIALS, SCIENTIFIC and LITE RARY,- of ANDREW CROSSE, the ELECTRICIAN. Edited by Mrs. ANDREW CROSSE. London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. THE WELLINGTON.—The SALOON DINING-ROOMS are OPEN to Gentlemen from Six until Nine p.m. A French Dinner is served at a. minute's notice, "a la Ruse," charge, including dessert and attendance, seven shillings. ►e ma:AU- CREMORNE NOW OPEN.-0 n e Shilling.— An ine.haustible Programme of Amusement., al fresco Enter tainments. Concerts, real Sable Hat monist, New Ballet, Drawing roam Tableaux, Living Groupings, Dancing on the Crystai Platform, nosisio's Monster Band, Pyrotechnics. Illuminations. Fountains con tinually playing, Statuary, Grotto., Cossnoramic Views, Georgeous Scenic Effects. Open on Sundays for promenade by refreshment. Table d'Hote at 6 o'clock, 2a. 6d. On Friday next will be published, in fcp. Svo., 11/ 1 113SIC the VOICE of HARMONY in all V L CREATION. Selected and Arranged by MARY JANR ESTCOURT. The dinner " e:+rte" for the day may be seen in'the Entrance Hall.— The Lower Dining Boom is open (as usu a) for Luncheons and Dinners.—Entrance, 53, St. James•street, or 160, Piccadilly London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. Naval and Military Intelligence. ROYAL SURREY GARDENS.— Repetition of ELISAIT..-1 he public is mast respeci fully informed that In consequence of the unprecedented dkniand 'or places, and the vast ...liner or peraols who were. unable to (+Wain admission to witness the splendid performance el ELLTITI on Jlondly last, It will be REPEATEn on MONDAY, the 25th Inst.—Admission, Is. On Wednesday, the 27th inst., in 1 vol. Svo., Her Majesty's ship Eimouth, 91, and the Colos -13119, 81, Captains H. Eyres, and H. Broadhead, arrived at Spithead on Saturday from the Tagus, lastfrOm Plymouth, to remain until after the visit of the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia. ..1S U ~..1S 0 ...16 6 6 ....IS 0 XHE FRANKS, from their. First Appearance in Llistory to the Death of Ktmc Pepin. By WALTER C. REIMS, Barrister-at-Law, Doctor in Philosophy and Master of Arts in the University of Gottingen. London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. ACTON'S ART OF MAKING BREAD. Just ready, IA a small volume. fop. Bvo., THE ENGLISH BREAD-BOOK, for Domestic Use, adapted to Families of every grade : Containing Plain Instructions and Practical Receipts for making numerous varieties of Br, ad ; with Notices of the resent Aystem of Adulteration and its Consequences, and 'of the Improved Baking Processes and Insti tutions established Abroad. By Euzs Acroer, Author of " Modern Cookery fer Private Families." .. 29 60., .. 25 $231 ROYAL SURREY' GARDENS.- JIILLIEN'S CONCERTS, and engagement of the popular Vocilist, Miss Vining.—TO-DAY (MONDAY), May 18, and during te week, a Grand Vocal and Instrumental Concert, conducted 31. Jullien: several favourite songs by Miss Vinning ; an entirely new and original modelled Picture, by Danson, entitled, "Petrie Land;" and a most brilliant Pyrotechnic Display by Snuthby. Mr. W. Cooke will introduce his talented troupe of Eqestrians and beauti ful Stud of Horses. An effective Brag' Band will perform during the afternoon; and various novel amusements are dispersed through out the ground., including the Stalactite Caverns, Dioramic Views, junegraphic Gallery, &c.—Doors open at 4. Admission One Shill g. Reserved seats, stalls, and private boxes may be secured at d Men's, Regent-street; and Keith, Prowse, and Co.'s Cheapside. minibuses in attendance at the close of the performances to all Plrts. The only authorised Programme to be had in the Guam, +ince One Penny. 11 . B.—Repetition of " ELIJAH " on Monday next. COLOGNE CHORAL -UNION.- DER K6LNER-MANNER-GESAVO-VEREIN (80 Men Voices), undek the direction of Herr FRANZ WEBER. Mr MITCHELL begs to submit the arrangements for the first Week : Monday Afternoon, May 25...... Hanover square Rooms. Tuesday „ ~ 26...... f t ft Wednesday ,• „ 27 .... • • 9 0 2 f Thursday Evening „ 28.. •• • • Exeter Hall. Friday Afternoon, ,„ 29.. • ...,Uanover Square Rooms. Saturday ft ,• 30...... 9,9, ,The Afternoon Concerts will commence at half-past Three. and „ n Evening Concert at half-past Eight.--The engagement of this dis inialled Society is positively limited to Two Weeks.—Tickets for ze whole of the above Concerts may be secured at Mr. MITCHELL'S ilVal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. RIGIC CLOTHS, with Poles, 1,-c., complete, ~_ bath N and Secondand.—A large quantity of canvas mtended for the ew Crimea has been made into Rick Cloths, to be sold 1 8 second. hand atgreatly reduced prices. A list forwarded by post. actress in full, BE NT.TAMIN ED GINGTON, 2, Duke-street, South- Wark, opposite the Brighton Railway. SECURE INVESTMENTS.—Messrs. R. HORLEY and Co., 4FI, Thruulneedle-street. Sworn Stock. Share. and Mining Brokers, will be happy to forward a list of carefully selected th e urities, paying good dl vidends, to those who may favonx them with eir business, and to advise them on the safest mode of investing their capital. Business transacted in the English Funds at I=l6th Per cent., and in all Stocks, Railway and Mining Shares, on the most reasonable terms. A selected list of dividend-paying (from 12 to 20 CrP cent.) and progressive mines to be had personally er per letter. LONDON LIFE ASSOCIATION, 81, King William-street. The Directors of this Association hereby inform the Members that v . PRDMIIIKS falling due on the let July next of those Members w ho have been assured for seven or more entire years will be RE- Ir CED at the rate of 80 per cent., leaving 20 per cent. only to be Paid. EDWARD DOCKF.R, Sec. PROVIDENT CLERKS' BENEVOLENT FUND. JOHN ABEL SMITH, Esq., M.P., Treasurer. An ELECTION of ANNUITANTS on this FUND will take place at the Offices of the. Association, 15, Moorgate-street, on THURS DAY, the 25th May Inst. The Poll will commence at One and close at Four precisely. WM THOMAS LINFORD, Secretary. METROPOLITAN COUNTIES and eet, Wate evaNERAI, LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 27, Regent place, London. Capital, 100,0001. Tararrucs. Rt.lin. Spencor H. Walpole,M.P. I Richard Spooner, Esq. ,l "• Henry Peter Fuller, Esq. I E. Vansittart Neale. Esq. Life Assurance business transacted in all its branches. N.B. The bonus declared at the last division ot profits averaged 33 per Cent. on all the premiums paid. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager. Cbeshire—Birkenhead—and Claughton. - - TO BE SOLD, pursuant to Orders of the High Court of Chancery, made in a cause " Kingsford v. Ball," With the approbadion of Vice Chancellor Sir John ctuart, the Judge tel Whose Court the said Cllll4O is attached, by Mr. FREDERIC JOHN RODGSON (the person appointed for the purpose by the said J adge), on WEDNESDAY, the 10th day of JUNE, 1857, at the konks Ferry Hotel, Birkenhead, at Two o'clock in the Afternoon, Precisely, in Eleven Lots — VALUABLE FREEHOLD L AND, laid out in Balding Plots, and 41. nling part of the well-known estate called Clanghton Iris, consist- Ing Of a Piece of But ding Land, situate on the West side of Grange ie, containing 3,0922 square yards, laid out a Seven Lots; and a Piece of Building Land, situate on the South side of Ball's-road, con -21,584 square yards, laid out in Four Lots, and now in hand. t ,rrinted particulars and conditions of sal e (together with a plan of 2f e d property ) may be had, gratis, in London, of Messrs. Kingsford :11 Dorman, solicitors, 23, Essex-street, Strand ; Messrs. Dean and 1 . 5 2. 11 , soli • hors. 23, Bloomsbury-square ; and Messrs. Chester, Tonl ?..m, and Chest er , so li c it ors, 11 , S tapl - i nn ; and in the country, of Mr. John Peacock, solicitor, Liverpool : Messrs. Town'end, Ridley, Jackson, solicitors, Liverpool and Birkenhead, Mr. William Cole, surveyor, Duncan-street, Birkenhead ; and of the Auctioneer, ALFRED HALL, Chief Clerk. KINGSFORD and DORMAN, 23, Essex-street, Straw!, Plaintiff s Solicitor. CANCER HOSPITAL, London and West ip s Bveropton.—Secretary's Office, 167, Piccadilly.—This Institn -4;2; has been established exclusively for the treatment of the poor ircted with cancerous diseases. Out-door patients to attend at 167, se4d rilY, on Tuesdays, at 2 o'clock. In-door patients are admitted Brompton Estavdishment, for one month, and for a longer so ,"° 4 if recommended by tbe medical officers. The number of per- Under treatment as in or out-door patients have averaged for 0 7, , last three years about 400 cases each year. Since the foundation f or t l l it Hospital in 1851, 1,799 poor persons, suffering under every ei," , of this dreadful malady, have received the benefits of this arity. A Weekly Board manage its affairs, and every informs toTueunnected with the Institution may be obtained on application m i ." Secretary. Contributions to enable the Committee to continue D M great work of benevolence are urgently solicited, and may be 14 ‘..uf to William Loxham Farrar, Esq., the Treasurer, 66, Lincoln's -001151s; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand ; and at the Secretary's ea; 167, Piccadilly. _ By order. W. J. COCKERILL Secretary. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Griy's-inn-road. Patron- . -The QUEEN.—Fouuded 1828. The s ickte te _ Poor are admitted on their own application alone; no re -I)....tedation is required. Of phis the past month the following ngmber received the benefits ' I C harity, either as Out or In-door patients. on their personal Pphcation : Week ending 7th February 2,095 Ditto 14th February Ditto 21st February Ditto 28th February • r "vim Total in February .... • 9,986 Ale rt 3,379 were new cases, the remalader (still under treat ) having been admitted previously. pat le e ts e . le rgy of all denominations have unlimited access to the Sive ef " expenses are Inevitably incurred in affording such exten t Pub • The Committee, therefore, earnestly entreat the aid of e ,„ • Year Th , —anegement of the Hospital fs in the hands of 30 Governors w e i t o a l,..Meeting elected from the general list of subscribers, at the Annual in January. A Board is held every Thursday, at Wh en e ' (Bev. J. B. Owen, Chairman). to conduct the business, all 4 ,4/tY subscriber may attend, if so disposed, the Board being at 7 , 1; es desirous of receiving suggestions or giving explanation. tarp: P uThlial is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on volan- Jel4tributions and legacies, which are received by the Treasurer, and a . sterman, Esq., M.P., Nicholas-lane ; also by Messrs. Contts Grummond and Co.; Berries and Co.:. Ransom and Co.; .Te ne ;",: , . Grote, a n d C o . ; S m ith , P ayne , an d Co.; Glyn and Co. ; b ea , oi rYd and Co.: Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; Williams, her,. ' and Westerman Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Bet , treet ; and Co. ; end at the Hospital. Clothing for the destitute patients will be thankfully received. By order. J. B. OWEN. Af.A.. Chairman. A 14 bi - AND IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE. Pate nt ( Mice Seal of Great Britain. Phan.. . of Medicine, Vienna. TR T -- - ' , e'en de Paris. Imperial College . Diplome d'Ecole de Pba-m. acie d., , NlARprepared in the form of a ht lo p z o e c n k e e e t: .-, old of taste or smell, and can be carried in the waistco ; 3, d in tin eases, divided into separate doses, as administered by Tan, tallerna . nd, Roux, Ricord, &c., &c. RIESEMAR No. 1 is a Remedy for 11E ,,,,,,,..envt:AxATioN, SPE R MATORRHCE A, and all the distressing long residence arising from early abuse, sexual residence in hot climates. It has restered bodily and indiscriminate excesses, .._ . in thaenedhvigour tii thousands of debilitated Individuals wh leyment of health and the Function. of Manhood; and An Zatever ri,-, may be the cause for DISQUALIFICATIONS ti:::al.iyth,ey are effectually subdued by this Wonderful Discovery . TRIESEMAR No. 11., in the short space of three days, completely and entirely .. 7raslicates all traces of Gonorrhoea ton in its mild and aggravate". 17 ) : 11' ' Meets, Strictures, Irritation of the Bladder, Non-retention of c - _m_e, PailiS of the Lois and Kidneys, and those disorders whic a Paivl and Cnbebs have so long been thought an antidote for, to the rem of the health of a vast portion of the population. Is tome TBIE.;EMAR No. 111., • ta_ge gre at Continental Reined., for Syphilis and Secondary SYmP: ~ "2 • It also constitutes a cerfain cure for Scurvy, Scrofula. -,thaneoits Eruptions, removi ng and expelling in its course an corrtire• !Orts and impurities from the vital stream, as altogether to eradicate Xe virus disease, and expel it with the insensible and au perspiration t ; t " : :::::1 the medium of the pores of the skin and urine, and is a trr.failing remedy for that class of disorders which unfortunately glish Physician treats with Mercury, tothe inevitable destruc ,. of the patient's constitution. and which all the srosaparilla in re• world cannot restore. Price 115., or four cases in one tor 335., Which saves Its., and in Si. csses, whereby there is a saving of 11.125. _be had wholesale and retail in London, of Derby and Gordon, "in, Le adenhall.street; Proof, 220, Strand; Hannay and Co., 63, Ox- Vagdtu'd-street ; Sanger, ISO, Oxford •street ; Barclay and Son, 97, Far on-street ; Butler and Harding, 4, Cheapside ; Edwards, St. 'Anil) Churchyard. /IQ W ‘' ,!..,ontaining*„._ MAN FRAILTY ; a P opu l ar Medical Innprice ls., post f ree, b eaut i fully illustrated with 100 engr aving's, c the opinions of Valpeau, Lallemand, Rout, Ricord, It gives copious instructions for the perfect restoration of those i tato i also showing who are prevented by impediments from entering into the married and s Yphilis, the dreadful results from early abuse, gonorrhcea, and the benefits arising from the chemical tests and '',Z.annlialion of the spermatoza, by the author's newly-constructed 7Lernscope, with powerful lenses.—Sold by J. Allen, 20, Warwick ...sue p taar'.,, 4tern oner-row; and from aU agents for the Bale of "These- CONTRACTS FOR WHEAT, SPLIT PEAS, OATS, - AND SOAP • Department of the Comptroller for Victualling, Somerset House, 14th May, 1857. r HE Commissioners for Executing the Office of ii Lord Higr Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland do hereby give notice, that on. TISURSDAT, t he 28th instaat, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with .uch persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, the undermentoned Ar ticles, viz.:— Qrs. I When to be delivered. WHEAT SPLIT PEAS 200 and the remainder in 3 OATS Tons. .riler if preferred by thr SOAP earlier if prefer. 50 3 party tendering. Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of any of the articles. Their Lordships reserve to themselves the poiver, when the ten ders are opened, Of contracting either for the whole, or for such part thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a greater quantity, or of not contracting for any, and also an unlimited power of selection. A. proportional part of the price per bushel of Wheat will be paid for any weight exceeding 60 lbs. per bushel. Samples of the Wheat, Split Peas, and Oats (not less than 2 quarts of each), and of the soap (not less than a bar), must be produced by the parties tendering. The samples produced by persons whose tenders are not accepted are requested to be taken away by them immediately after the con tracts have been decided. , No tender will be received unless made on the printed firm pro vided for the purpose, and 'which may be obtained on application at the said office, or to Commander Bevis, conducting the Packet Service at Liverpool. or to the Collector of Customs at Bristol. The conditions of the revised contract, to which particular atten tion is called, may be seen at the said office, and at Liverpool and Bristol. No tender will be received after one o'clock on the day of treaty, and it will not be required that the party tendering or an agent on his behalf should attend at the office on the day of contract, ai the result of the offer received from each person will be communicated to him and his proposed sureties in writing. Every tender mukt be addressedto the Secretary of the Admiralty. Ind bear in the left-hand corner the words "Tender for , I 1 and must also be delivered at Somerset House. .. 13(N .. 1304 .. 52% .. 527 i lit -- rzu oz. 3 17 9 O 0 0 O 0 sfti O 0 0 O 0 0 a. —Easters 13, 1021 Aland, 8 4 nada, 161. ter, Shef 66—Lan* but after les were Low 3-16 d• 84k h am pref ., oath Staf- nd Goole, 14—Lee& 1 , ETC. eceipts. 1856 --- 6, 06 1 I ,b 9 5,, 5, 19 1 190 ;9 8 6,1 89 23,49 0 5,2 83 5,01 5.7 72 20.0 6,2 4 ! 29. 16 ' 24 9 5 87 3 22,3181 62;9 5(1 ' 1,3 1 ! 12,71 15, 19 " 63 4 9,009 80 9 78! 29, 04 1 3,11' B Princ e ' bed, tb e ,! but I 'o ; ill not,e, :it is it • rue r ri° d d r , an d, ney, 313 1 3 triuults nt, " y o ,/ icears )ton-wield warivi e/ ' Jo wi f o of of Ldence, 31. f ' t , (pp Li t (19,13 g e, t ry &ling . r o „ bn tb,3lfrf n.loces" y c le-Pl ill‘' r i a dclo o ‘' vet Lang -1,,f I C:,,Pt°iil [sliDgt°l" ;ko bauli of awker, O fi ' 7,10 • : 40 noti 4 ois 7,1 0 1,036 2,0 0 ..... 31,231 London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. ENGLISH EDITION OF FRANCOIS ARAGO'S WORKS. On Friday next will be published, in I vol. Bvo LIVES of DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIFIC MEN. By Fa. soots ARAGO, Member of the Institute. Tran slated by by the Rev. BADEN POWELL, M.A.; Admiral W. H. SMYTH, D.C.L., For. See. R.S ; and ROBERT GRANT, M.A. In the same Series, previously published, ARAGO'S POPULAR ASTRONOMY, VOl. 1., 21s. ARAGO'S METEOROLOGICAL ESSAYS, Bvo., 18s. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. THE NEW NOVEL. This day is published, in 2 Vols T HE SISTER OF ' By Mrs. CHALLICE. CHARITY. Also, just ready, HOME LIFE IN SWEDEN AND NORWAY. By Cnautts LORING Baku. Author of " Home Mein Germany." Crown Bvo. 6s. TO BE OR NOT TO BE. By HAILS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. Uniform with " Never too Late to Mend." Crown Svc). ss. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Foolscap Bvo., Fifteen Illustrations, price ss. ATRIP TO THE GERMAN SPAS and to we HY : with an Essay on the Nature and Uses of Mineral Waters, &c. 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Barry Du Barry and Co.. 77, Regent-street, London; Fortnum, ' Mason, and Co.. purveyor Ito her Majesty, 182, Piccadilly, also at 00, Gracechurch-street ; 330 and 451, Strand ; 4, Cheapside OS, cornhill ; 49, Bishopsgate-strett ; 55, Charing-cross; 54, Upper akeritreet ; 68 and 150 Oxford-street.' The Malacca, 17, Captain Farquhar, has also been ordered to remain at Spithead and complete with provisions. Other ships will muster at Spit head as we have before stated, but not with the view of making any "naval demonstration." The Admi ralty yacht Osborne, Master-Com. Bower, will go to Cherbourg to bring or pilot over the Grand Duke, and her Majesty's State yacht Victoria and Albert is also ordered to be ready for service by the 20th inst. The Eurydice, 26, sailing corvette, Capt. Tarle t on, arrived at Spithead on Saturday from the West Indian station to be paid off. The Fire Queen steam yacht, Master-Commander Paul, embarked her Majesty's Privy Council from the Royal Clarence-yard, Gosport, on Saturday, and took them to Osborne. Captain G. H. Sey mour, C. B. , received their lordships on arrival, the Port Admiral being on leave. The Urgent, iron steam troop-ship, Commander I hillips, arrived at Spithead on Friday night from Plymouth, with the 54th Regiment, which disem barked at Portsmouth Dockyard on Saturday. The Volcano steam-vessel, Master-Commander Hockings (floating Smithy for the China squadron) is having her old boilers taken out and the Sala mander's put in, which will not detain her longer than a week. The Melville, 72, hospital ship, Commander Trollope, has had her copper stripped off, and is undergoing a thorough recaulking, which will de tain her several days longer in dock. The Abbe Pauvert, a French clergyman and Che valier of the Legion of Honour, has, it is said, at length solved the problem of converting English iron into steel. M. Mesnli, acting on behalf of the abbe, has made experiments in the dockyard, Wool wich, during the last week, by authority of the Go vernment and in the presence of the principal offi cers of the Engineer department and other official personages. He has succeeded in proving to their satisfaction that he can produce steel of very supe rior quality from the most ordinary cast and pud dled iron, and pieces of iron in any state, at an ex traordinary reduction in price. M. Pauvert has secured his invention by a patent from the British Government. The articles of newly invented steel tested at the dockyard were clipping tools, chisels, taps, dies, and other instruments in general use in factories. The conversion of the metal does not re quire the slightest change in the arrangements of the melting furnace, the system being composed of cbymical operations alone. A favourable report was, on Friday, forwarded to the Admiralty, in consequence of which it is expected that the steel will be employed in many of the ordinary, purposes for which iron is now used, such as piston-rode, springs, etc. Th giagara steam-vessel, belonging to the Ame rican Government, which arrived in the Thames on Wednesday last for the purpose of receiving a cable for the Transatlantic Submarine Telegraph, has left for Holyhead. It appears that the captain of the Niagara, in consequence of some mistake, considered that he was to ship the cable manufac tured at East Greenwich, but on visiting Woolwich Dockyard found that no orders had been received for mooring the vessel named. He then proceeded to the AdMiralty-office, where he received infor mation that the orders were for the Niagara to ship the cable manufactured at Holyhead, and that the Agamemnon is to receive the cable manufactured' at East Greenwich. EXPERIMENTS ON NEW DECKED COP PER PONTOONS AT CHATHAM. On Monday last, the 11th instant, Major Has sard, with a party of the Royal Engineers, em barked the 32-pounder, left on the beach at Upnor, on a raft of three piers of casks, and deposited it on the gun-wharf ; but on Tuesday, when he went to get up the second 32-pounder, sunk at Roches ter-bridge, a valuable copper buoy, imprudently left to mark_ the spot, was missing, having been stolen in the night ; and the diver, who was sent down to sling the gun, recommended that the opera. tion should be postponed till Wednesday morning, when, in a second attempt, after making numerous signals from the bottom, respecting the air-pump, he suddenly ceased to do so, and, after waiting some time, was pulled up and found dead, probably from apoplexy, as there was no water in his helmet or dress. A coroner's inquest was held on the body soon after, when, on examining Major Hassard and other witnesses, the jury returned a verdict that the deceased was accidentally drowned. On reading an account of these proceedings Sir Charles Pasley went down to Chatham by an early train, accompanied by Mr. Siebe, of 5, Denmark street, Soho, who had supplied all his diving ap paratus for the operations against the wrecks of the Royal George and Edgar, for six successive seasons, when no accident ever occurred, except when two of the military divers, Jones and Girvan, having quarrelled about a floor-timber of the for mer wreck, engaged in single combat at the bottom of Spithead, when Jones kicked out the eye of his adversary's helmet, which immediately filled with water, and he would have been drowned, if he had not been pulled up without loss of time. On their calling upon Col. Sand ham heinfo rifled them that the helmet was not one of Siebe's pattern, but supplied by another manufacturer, and was in perfect order when the accident occurred. Colour-Sergeant Bar nicoat, of the Royal Engineers, who lost his life on this melancholy occasion, was a very good diver, who had acquired his experience as a private in the operations against the Royal George and Edgar, and was private Girvan's assistant, and pulled him - up in time to save his life, at the period before alluded to. A subscription was immediately set on toot among the Queen's and Company's En gineers and others, at Brompton Barracks, Chatham' to establish his widow in business as a dressmaker, assisted by her daughter, she being re spected in the corps as much as her husband was distinguished for his services, last in the Crimea, whilst their only son, a boy, is now being educated at the Royal Hibernian Asylum, which has supplied some of the best non-commissioned officers for the survey companies of the corps. On ascertaining that the diving apparatus in which he lost h.;s life was not made by Mr. Siebe,. as they apprehended, Sir Charles Pasley took him down to the Engineers' depot, near St. Mary's Creek, and showed him his two canoes that had been fractured by the gun in its fall, but were now under repair by Sergeant Donald, carpenter, and Corporal Hawkins, coppersmith, of the Royal En gineers, to whom Sir Chartea communicated his final instructions, adopting some improvements in the mode of fixing the deck eye-bolts, suggested to him by Mr. Siebe, 'and approved by those skilful military artificers. , It is Sir Charles Pasley's intention to perform the same operation, which failed on the 11th, en Monday, the 25 r h inst., when his raft of two canoes, after taking on board at the gun-wharf, Chatham, a 32-pounder on its travelling-carriage, as before, will row from thence to Rochester, where it will be exposed to .the fury of the ebb of another spring tide, by moorings previously laid at the high-water slack, with the heads of its upper demi-canoes be tween the starlings of old Rochester-bridge, not vertically beneath the rapids which overwhelmel it on that occasion, but about 20 feet lower down. Circulars will be sent to the same officers and gen tlemen as before, and a correct account of the pro ceedings will be published next day in the same journals, the editors of which have kindly given the first unsuccessful trials of this new-decked copper pontoon a place in their columns. "It is said in responsible quarters that the .Ajlmi nistration, although not approving the supplemen tal Central American treaty as amended, and doubt ful of the power or 'propriety of withholding it, thought it but courteous to the Senate to transmit it to the British Government." So far as ascertained, not one of the members of the Cabinet regrets the rejection of the treaty. ' The Administration maintains that the British Government has failedto execute the Clayton-Bul wer treaty,-and itAirst upon its being carried out in good faith. The New York commercial .advices report 'that the prices of stocks were lower and the market dull. The rates of money, in consequence of the large amount exported, were in favour of the lenders. Exchange was firm at 1091 to 1092 on London, and at of. 182 c. to sf. 11c. on Paris. Cotton bad declined lc. United States flour was sc. to 10c. better, and Canadian firmer: Wheat was also fit mer. Provisions were steady. Iron was inactive, Scotch pig selling at 35 dols, six months. Kentucky tobacco was quoted at 16c. to 19c. Freights to Liverpool were firm at 2s. 6d. for cotton, and 6d. to 9d. for flour. To London, flour Is. To Havre, cotton lc., and flour 40c. At Havannab, on the 30th ult, exchange on London was quoted at a premium. Freights were low, and there was no improvement in rates, likely to take place soon, their being plenty of shipping in port. The sugar-market was firm, with an advancing tendency. Molasses were scarce and high in price. THE WEST INDIA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, MA.Y 17. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Orinoco, Capt. T. W. Sawyer, arrived this morning, bring ing the West India and Pacific mails, in charge of Lieut. Cashman, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her dates are : . Nassau (Babamas) April 18 Belize (Honduras) 17 G reytown Cartbagena Colon — 23 Kingston,Jamaica 27 Jacmel (Hayti) San Juan (Porto Rico) Berbice Georgetown (De merara) - 25 Tobago Grenada — 25 Port of Spain (Tri nidad) April 25 Bridgetown (Bar badoes) St. Vincent St. Lucia Martinique Guadaloupe Dominique — 28 Antigua — 28 Montserrat... --- 28 Nevis — 29 St. Kitt's St. Thomas May 1 On freight she has the following amount of valu- abler : Specie in dollars Ditto in copper coin 1,050 Ditto in gold Pearls 6,500 Platina • 8,157 Total value in dollars 5765,515 or say 153,1031. sterling ; and the cargo comprises 80 serons of cochineal, 694 serons of indigo, 14 Barons of jalap, 94 cases of cigars, 9 casks• of coffee, 105 bales of sarsaparilla, 12 packages of vanilla, 111 bales of bark, 15 packages of indiarubber, 74 serous of cocoa, and 117 packages of sundries. The •Ori noco experienced on the homeward voyage light easterly winds till the Bth May, north and north westerly till the 13th, southerly breezes till her ar rival in the Channel, and in the Channel light airs and calms. Our dates from Jamaica are to the 27th ult. in clusive, being the day on which the steamer left. There is no news of any importance whatever. The chief topic in the papers is the capture of the slave:- ship by her Majesty's brig Arab, off the coast of Cuba, of which intelligence has already been re ceived in England by way of America. The island generally was healthy. The head-quarters of the 3d West India Regiment embarked on the 22d ult. in her Majesty's transport steamer Persever ance, for Deinerara. From De Cordova's Mercantile Intelligeneer of the 25th, we learn that coffee was getting scarce and bringing 435. to 445. for ordinary. Sugar was worth 235. to 265. according to quality. The stock of corn was light, and but little doing ; 43ss per bushel had been realised for lots for some time past. Of flour some late parcels had been sold at 37s 6d. to 38s. Alewives continued at 245.. Late parcels of American butter sold at ls. Two recent cargoes of codfish had been sold at 18s. tierces, and 20s. boxts, but the last was held f)r advanced rates, Herrings were plentiful, and only commanded 245, per barrel. Hams abundant, mid little demand last sales at 9d. There were no arrivals of pork mess, of which the stock was very small, was held at 128 s. ; late sales at 11,25. for prime mess. A cargo of rice from Barbadoes at auction realised Ils. 6d. for yellow, and 13s. 6d. for white. Of pimento there was none at market. Rum was worth 3s. 5d to 3s. 6d. per gallon, proof 18. Soap was dull, with large stock in the hands of dealers. Tongues were in scanty supply ; a parcel of very superior Amen can sold at 60s. Exchanges on London :—Jamaica and Colonial Banks, 90 days, per cent. premium ; 60 days, one per cent. premium ; 30 days, v i per cent. premium ; private bills at par. On New York merchants' bills 1-1 per cent. premium. At Demerara the vacancies in the Court of Policy occasioned by the resignation of the Hons. Dr. Havey and A. D. V. Gon Netscher hall been filled up by the election of Messrs. D. Macdonald and J. E. Roney. The new Militia Bill was read a second time on the 20th ult. by a majority of one, after a vigorous and strong opposition. The Chief-Justice had moved for a return of all the male Portuguese between the ages of 16 and 50 resident in Georgetown, with the view of in troducing certain resolutions urging upon her Majesty's Government the propriety of getting the clause in the treaty between England and Portugal rescinded which exempts Portuguese from military duties in a British colony. The weather during the fortnight previous to date of advices had continued dry and warm. The young canes were thriving and there was every prospect of a fair crop. The exports during the fortnight had amounted to--sugar, 2,730 hhds., 209 tres., 242 brls., 400 bags ; rum, 1,327 puns., 351 hhds., 33 brls. ; molasses, 204 puns. ; coffee, 3 brls. ; cocoanuts, 53,432 ; timber, 12,255 cubic feet ; lancewood spars, 164 ; hides, 508 ; horns, 2,196 ; flour,. 331 brls. ; rice, 4,425 bags ; pork, 70 bib. • gin, 100 cases, 50 demijohns ; chain cable, 3; anchors, 4. Trade was still dull among the merchants. Freights scarce. At Barbadoes a new road bill, unaltered from the one recently thrown out bythe Council, wasbreught in and passed by the Assembly on the 21st ult. The health of the island continued good, and trade in some branches was brisk. There had been a great many arrivals lately, and, the market being over s•ocked with breadstuffs, inactivity and depressed prices were the result. The wind hr d been favour able for crop operations, which proceeded slowly. Some few estates, principally in St. Michael's parish, had finished, but the crop was on the whole backward, nor was it lil>ely to be equal to last year's. The export of sugar to the 27th amounted to 11,250 hhds., 584 tierces, 2,077 barrels ; Molasses, 2,181 puns., 37 hhds. , 50 brls. ; rum 31 puns. ; cotton 11 bales; aloes 18 gourds,—not more, so far as sugar is concerned, than half of the quantity shipped at the same time list year. 'Popular demonstrations were being made in Gre nada against the charcoal tax, and oth..T obnoxious measures of taxation recently initiated by the Exe cutive Council, and carried through the influence of its members in the House of Assembly. The weather was still favourable for the work of sugar manufacture throughout the island, and unabated activity prevailed on the plantations. As the sea son advanced the yield of the cane was found pro gressively to improve, and things in general bora a more encouraging aspect than for some time pre vious. Many estates would, it was anticipated, double the quantity made last year, and the quality of the sugar produced was unexceptionable. It was considered pretty certain that the total crop of the colony would exceed that of last year by at least one half. The Cocoa trade continued brisk, aud pro ducers were obtaining on the spot 50s. to 525. per cwt. About 6461 b. of nutmegs, of a superior qua- lity, had been recently shipped to Europe, and the trees were generally in a flourishing state. The market was abundantly supplied with provi'sions and general merchandise, and prices were desdend ing. Flour was tariffed at 40s. the barrel. From Port of Spain (Trinidad) our advices extend to the 23d ult. A despatch was forwarded on the 16th ult. from Governor - Reath to Archbishop Spac capietra, stating her Majesty's Government had consented to his receiving full salary from the period of his recognition, only requiring of him the taking of the oath of allegiance to the Supremo 'Head of the State. A slight shock of earthquake was felt on Sunday morning, the 19th ult., about 10 minutes to 9 o'clock. Produce was coming down largely and rapidly to the wharfs and quays, and ships were busily engaged taking in .car goes. The ye trly report of the Agent-General of Immigrants had just been published, and the condition and order of the immigrant laborer in this colony was represented in it in a very favourable aspect. From the tabular returns accompanying the report we learn that the immigrant population on Dec. 31, 1856, was ‘ 6,683, since increased by the arrivals of 849 adults and 101 children. Of the number there at the beginning of the year 3,484 coolies were under the first indenture kir five years; 334, having completed their first five years, had accepted the $5O bounty, and indented for another like period ; 596 had taken the $lO bounty and entered upon a year's indenture ; 720 had taken out certificates of industrial residence.; 657 were Chinceo and 802 children. The deaths of coolies during the year were 110, and the births 45. In 1856 the number who returned to India was 240, and the total of arrivals was 566 adults and 61 non-adults. The, Agent-General closes his report with the note that upwards of 100 of the Chinese under indenture have applied to purchase the redemption of their remaining year of industrial residence, and that there is every reason to believe that on any future importation of these people more than two-thirds of the number would pay up their indentures at the expiry of the third year. A. careful and searching examination had been made into the causes of the mortality on board this year's immigrant vessels, the results of which had not been.published ; but it was believed that they all tended to show that the mortality was mainly owing to'the state in which they were embarked, aided by the change in diet. At Martinique the sugar crop was proceeding prosperously, and high prices were still maintained. The state of health in the Windward Islands was very good. SHIPPING NEWS. Movements of her Majesty's ships :—April 16, at Greytown. the Pioneer despatch vessel. April 25, at Carthagena, the Orion, 90 (senior officer), the Basilisk, 6, and the Intrepid, despatch; off Carthagena, the Cossack, 21, these ships were awaiting the arrival of the Com mander-in-Chief. The Tartar, 21, had gone to New Orleans with Fillibusters. April 23.—Sailed from Port. Royal, Jamaica, the Termagant, 24, Commander Kel lock, C. 8., for Carthagena ; and the troopship Perse verance, 6, Commander M'Donald, for the Windward Islands. Arrived at Port Royal on the 23d the Arab, 12, Commander Pelisser, from a cruise ; 24th, the A rcher, 15, from Greytown, and was to sail on the 27th for England ; 27th, the Victor despatch vessel, April 27.—The Brilliant, 22, and the Atalanta, 16, left Bar bedew, on a cruise. April 29.—The Perseverance troopship passed Martinique, steering south-east. Stations of the Royal Mail Company's steamships : The Clyde, Captain Heenan, at St, Thomas's from Ja maica; the Conway, Captain Lewis, at St. Thomas's, from the Windward Islands; Dee, Captain Woolcott, on the Spanish Main route • the Derwent, Captain Reeks, at Barbadoes ; the Eagle, Captain Hole, at Ja maica ; the Solent, Captain Baynton, on the Gulf of Mexico route ; the Thames, Capt. Woolford, at St. Thomas's, from the Spanish Main ; the Trent, Capt. Lends, at Sr. Thomas's, awaiting the arrival of her main shaft ; the Wye, Capt. Gillies, at St. Thomas's, to sail for England in two or three days. On May 15, in lat. 47 deg. 39 min., long. 12 deg. 23 min., the Orinoco passed the American ship Glance, steering westward ; on the 16th, in lat. 49 deg. 34 min., long. 6 deg. 17 min., passed the English brigantine Sarah King, and a number of other vessels. • The brig Sarah Birkett, of Whitehaven, Capt. Saw ley, was wrecked on her voyage from Cayenne to Deme rara for a cargo of timber. She sprang a leak daring a heavy.gale.anci stranded on the coast near the Coren tyne, where she was abandoned. The master and crew took to the boats andgendeavoured to reach Surinam, but were unable to do so, and after drifting about for several days they one morning discovered a vessel in sight, and on getting near it found that it was the brig which they had deserted. They went, on board and got a further supply of provisions, and returning to the boat they made for Barbie!, which after some difficulty they..succeeded in reaching. They were unable to save anything, and were in a destitute condition when they landed at New Amsterdam." . THE PACIFIC. SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 17. Bp the Orinoco steamer, which arrived this morn ing from the West Indies, we are in posession of files of Panama papers to the 23d ult. The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamer New Gra nada, from. Callao, April 12, arrived at Panama on the 21st, with 63 passengers, and 261,984 dollars in specie, for England. Dates from Chili are to March 31. The trial of the political prisoners 'in Santiago was not over. Onlthe 30th the Fiscal demanded that sentence of death be passed on Garfias, Larrain, and Merino. The public were still kept in the dark relative to this affair, and it was not generally believed that any public conspiracy existed. Her Britannic Majesty's frigate President sailed on the 28th for England, via Rio Janeiro, for which place she took 300,000 dollars in specie. During the fortnight ending March 31 the mar ket had been animated, sales having been made for the Northern and Southern markets, and for Boli via' but the scarcity of specie still affected the mar ket. In cottons English gray shirtings and Ameri can goods were scarce, woollens dull, linens in de mand. Silks—stocks full and prices steady. Metals —Swedish steel scarce, and in demand ; English iron, full stooks ; tin plates, no stocks in first hands. Liquors, stock regular and sales moderate. Coals offered at $ll afloat, but no sales. Chili Produce—Copper in bars, $23 to $24 per quintal. Hides, $l9 per quintal, and in demand. The steamship John L. Stephens, from San Fran cisco, April 6, arrived at Panama on the 19th, but her news has been anticipated via New York. THE MEETING OF 2HE FRIENDS OF POLAYD. (From the Daily News.) The annual meeting of the friends of Poland took place on Saturday. There was a respectable muster of noble names. The Marquis Town , hencl was in the chair • Lord Harrington, Lord Kin naird, Lord Raynham, and Mr. Fox Strangways, came forward with the expression of most noble and generous sentiments. But there was little room for congratulation, and what was uttered in the way of encouragement and hope was, we regret to say, of a very shadowy nature. A great European war has just taken place ; it has called forth the energies, has taken a large' pull out of the pockets of the English people, and has been brought to what is called a satisfactory close. The belligerents in that war were Russia on the one side, France and Englandcon the other. And yet the latter Powers, neither by effort in war nor by voice in council, evinced even a consciousness that there was or had been such a country as Poland. The cause of this flagrant dereliction lay no doubt in the belief, which seemed to actuate the Cabinets of England and of France, that their countries, however first-rate, were unable to contend effectu ally with Russia, unle&s Austria at least, if not Prussia also, should lend Their aid. And as Austria is one of the arch-robbers, who not only partitioned Poland in the last centurv, but who swallowed up Cracow in this, against the express stipulations of treaties, the word Poland could not be mentioned without instant offence aid alarm to Austrian ears. The noble marquis who prt tsided at the meeting of the Polish Association, as well as Mr. Fox Strangways, seemed to consider the rescue of the Molds-Wallachians front Russia, and the present inquiry going on with respect :to their future con dition and establishment, as sir camatances favour able to the Polish cause. And ivo doubt they were right in declaring the affinity the at exists between all the, oppressed races of the 1. 'ast of Europe, of which oue cannot assert or develop its nationality without aiding and encouraging th s other. But with respect to Moldo-Wall.achia, we regret that we 'cannot share in the generco as hopes of Mr. Fox Strangways. For the truth is 1, that the Bri tish Government have now adopt( d towards the Principalities the same policy whit d, led to their neutralisation while the war lasted. These Princi palities could have furnished a galls at and efficient army during the war, as the Poles co uld have done, if allowed to organise from the f irs t. But no ; Austria must not be affronted or off , i ndmd. And so the Moldo-Wallachs were kept disiu :med throughout the war. In like manner the Ble i4O-Waliaohe are We ask the Poles whether they have anything to hope from the liberalism of a Minister who has in his hand at this moment the union and the restoration of the Rouman race, and who merely makes use of the power and the oppor tunity to hand back five millions of men to their oppressors. Turkey, it is well known, can exercise no immediate sway in the Prin cipalities. Treaties forbid her troops to enter them, and without troops how are they to be quieted when every promise is broken to them, and every one of their desires is rejected ? The reign of the Bib(seos and of the Stourdzas will recom mence, and must be followed by disturbances and insurrections. Native troops there are none. Con sequently, order—as it is called—must be pre served, as at Warsaw, by Russian or by Austrian soldiers ; for neither France nor England can send regiments so far. This will be the result of a two years' war and of a hundred millions of expendi ture. We undertook that war to rescue the Prin cipalities from Russia, and we eud it by virtually giving them to her. THE PRICE OF PICTUP►ES. The collection of pictures by old masters and English artists, the property of the late Mr. David M'lnto,h, was disposed of on Saturday, by Messrs. Christie and Manson, at their great rocm in King street, St. James's-square. The sale excitel great interest. We subjoin the principal lots : H. John Martin —"Belshazzar's Feast." 136 guineas. 14. W. Collins, R.A.—" A seashore," with a fisher boy holding nets by a pole on his shoulder, followed by a dog ; boats are seen drawn up at the base of the cliffs, near a wooden jetty beyond. A brillian evening sun sheds a golden line of brilliant light across the sea, to wards the foreground. This important *work was pur chased by Mr. M'lntosh in 1827 for 300 guineas. It now produced 435 guineas. 35. J. Van der Heyden—" A View in a Dutch Town,"•with picturesque buildings on the bank of a canal planted with trees ; a boat emerging from a draw bridge, figures on the quays and on the bridge, and others bathing in the canal, beautifully introduced by Adrian Van de Velde. A. splendid picture of this rare master. 460 guineas. 38. Jan Steen—" The Milkman," a peasant in a gray dress and blue cap is pouring milk into a basin, which a woman is stooping down to hold ; a woman is counting money at his side ; a boy with pitcher on the right ; a boy is blowing a horn at he door of a house, near which a child is standing. A beautiful landscape background, seen through an archway. An example of the highest quality. The engraved picture. 240 guineas. 40. J. Ruysdael—A woody landscape, with a pool of water in front ; a loty sandbank on the left, sur mounted by a cottage ; a pe.ssant on a road in the dis tance ; a horseman watering his horse in the pond in front ; a gentleman standing near him on the bank. Painted in a rich silvery tone. A picture of the highest quality. 154 guineas. 43. J. Ruysdael.—A landscape, with a fine group of trees on the bank of a river, one of the trees leaning over the river, in which it is reflected ; a man in a boat, near a rustic cottage, on the right bunk, and cottages on a road to the left ; a gleam of light is cast from a clear sky on the lake with a beautifully natural effect. A small picture of the highest quality. 121 guineas. 45. P. Potter.—A. small landscape, with a wild boar lurking in his lair among luxuriant herbage and flowers, near the feet of a tree ; on a risin g ground are a stag and a doe, standing in relief against the sky. A very in teresting work of this rare master. 155 guineas. 47. J. Ruysdael.—A. grand landscape, with a group of noble trees on a verdant mound above a sandy bank ; a pcasantdriving sheep near a pool of water ; the white stem of adecayed tree lying among rich herbage in the foregrourd. This fine composition is brilliantly illumi nated from a clear warm sky. From the collection of M. Perris. 200 guineas. 56. J. Ruysdael. —A grand landscape, with cows and sheep grazing at the edge of a stream, on the bank of which art noble trees, the stems reflected in the clear water ; tio distance is bounded by woody hills, at the base of vhich a churchtower and cottages are seen ; a peasant read a dog at the foot of a tree in the centre. The subject is partially illumined by an afternoon sun. This notth work is from the collection of Madame Cat talin, of Faris. 510 guineas. 5 8 . J. Iynants.—A grand landscape, with peasants driving castle, sheep, and goats down a road emerging from a yew], a noble group of trees and felled timber in the centre, and a rich open country leading to a clear distance. The figures in this important work are by A. Van de Velde. 175 guineas. 62. J. Rays lael.—A grand woody landscape with a river falling in two cascades divided by rocks ; peasants and cattle ci•ossing a long wooden bridge towards a castle in the back-ground, near which sheep are grazing, a group of noble trees on the bank, and rich herbage in foreground on the right, the whole illumined by a warm evening sun. A composition of the highest importance and quality. 330 guineas. 63. A. Van der Neer.—A Winter Scene, daylight ; a frozen river with a church and cottages on the banks, numerous figures skating, and a lady in a sledge drawn by a gray horse ; a group of figures playing kelt; and a lady and gentleman with a dog on a wooden bridge in the foreground. A very perfect specimen of the master. 210 guineas. 61. D. Teniere.—" The Prodigal Son," being a por trait of the artist, in a crimson dress, seated at a repast with his wife, in a white dress, whose hand he is holding and a lady in a black dress with her back to the specta tor ; a page is p wring wine into a glass which the artist holds in his hand ; two musicians, playing on the violin and flute, are iu attendance in the background, and a woman bringing in a dish ; distant figures seen through an open door beyond. A work of the most brilliant qua- Ity,one of the finest in the collection, painted on copper. Keenly contested ; 810 guineas. 66. J. Ostade.—An upright landscape, with a ker meese in a. Dutch village ; numerous figures beforde booths, over which are seen the to p s of cottagesannd. trees ; a peasant watering a bore!, in the for?g rou This capital work of the rare ma ster, coloured with glow ing effect, was purchased from a person of high rank in Paris. 250 guineas. 67. M. llobberna.—A. grand woody landscape, .with a picturesque cot'age among trees, felled timber lying on the ground, a cavalier in a red dress on a grase, on a winding road ; a peasant with a dog seated s hor e side . of a read leading to the left, on which are two figures in thedistance. A brilliantafteraoon sun illumines this . noble compositiOn. Very strongly c d onti t s a t r e la d h . lalh,dos7coapgeir with 68. gran . 68. N. Berghero.—A ruins of Roman buildings, and a viaduct, on which are two women spreading linen to dry ; in the centre of the i s a lady mounted on a bay horse, other foreground mounted figures and cavaliers standing at the aide, a man blioeing an ass in front, wit two ,feedspeasant oats, and sheep ;on the left a peasant h with a horse ng, and a party of five figures regaling beneath an awning suspended from a ruined building ; a peasant smoking and several other figure', on the right ; a beautiful land scape seen beyond, through an open archway. A very important composition of this rare master of the best period. Signed. Brought to England by Sir William Ilamilton. 382 guineas. 69. Claude.—" slount Parnassus ;" a grand classical landscape, with the muses and Minerva armed, in a woody glen ; the circular temple of Apollo decorated with columns and statues on the Mount above, sur rounded by lofty and beautiful trees. 100 guineas. 70. Bonvincino.—"The Adoration of the Magi ;" who are kneeling before the infant in the lap of the Tirgin ; she is seated with St. Joseph at ber side, near some ruined buildings among trees ; numerous figures seen in the background. A grand gallel7 picture. 160 guineas. The whole, consisting of 63 pictures, seven water colour drawings, and two gems sent by a friend of Mr. Ill'lntoib, realised the large sum of 8,2001. 6a. 6d. 7 ,aseellr' Tee •e,". x:A.4I-,1- tkkl. %., ........ ,44 7 •:-Ai, ~ : 7.- • The-following is the text of be #ll,. p' '' ~;, : :41, i:„ :. r., : : which lately closed the session of ~ .i . e, ,, -paSslin-,.-:.-;: s a, \' '44 ': , AL-s_' '' ' .- Chambers : . " Illustrious, Noble, and Honoured Gentletnaf thl. S Two Chambers of the Diets —During the session which has just terminated, your attention has been absorbed by the examination of numerous and important bills, and a great m- --i: have been brought to a satis factory c,._ two chambers of the Parlia ment have coneente, h, a modification of the constitu tion, which gives to the Government a greater liberty f r deciding on the period for the convocation of the re presentatives of the country. The law relative to ecclesiastical establishments, schools, and charitable foundations, regulates the interests connected with them in a suitable manner. The law which regularises the relatioue b: ft wean the nobles and the peasants with re gard to the letting of property completes the legislation previously in.force on that subject, and puts an end to a very embaera,sing legal uncertainty. The measure which had for object to .implify the tax on rural proper ties has a practical significancy not less important. The bill interdicting unlawful credit being given to minors will, it is hoped, put an end to the ruinous conse quences of usury. Other questions which have been solved have bad for effect either to amend or com plete existing laws, or to regulate points of legisla tion which have been doubtful The Government of his Majesty feels great satisfaction in having been able during the session to submit to the chamber different treaties made by the state, which satisfy wishes that had been expressed, and which treaties the two chambers have readily adopted. By the convention con cluded with the Crown of Danmark on March 14 last, the Sound dues are definitively abolished, and the navi gation and commerce of the Baltic will thereby receive a considerable development. The treaties entered into with Russia relative to railways have secured the esta blishment of a communication, by a double line of rails, between Prussia and the neighbouring state on the east. That communication opens to our commerce, on a lerger scale than hitherto, the immense extent of the Russian empire. The monetary treaty, concluded on the Jan. 24 last, between the States of the German Customs Union and the Austrian Government, constitutes a real pro greihi towards a German monetary unity, and regulates the important interests connected therewith. Tn. 1,,, ,, , which prohibits payments in foreign bank notes has been voted. We may hope that the necessity which dictated that measure will be felt elsewhere, and give rise to a satisfactory understanding for regulating the issue of these representative securities. Although the Govern- • meet of the King has, in this vote and in a nuinber of others met with the eager support of the national repre sentatives, it has, on several important bills, been unable to obtain the constitutional assent of the Diet. The serious examination which was given in the Chamber of Deputies to the bill relative to the civil right of divorce, has proved that a deep conviction was felt of the neces sity of a reform in that matter. Nevertheless no definitive decision has yet been come to on the subject. The same may be said of several other important measures of a financial character. The budget of the current year has been voted without modification, after a serious die- • cussion, and the Diet has given its approbation to the economical system of expenses adopted by the Ad ministration. The propositions relative to the appli cation of the residue of the extraordinary credit of thirty millions of thalers, previously granted, have received your full approbation, and your assent has also been given to the bill relative to the tax on joint-stock companies, and to that which grants additional guaran tees to treasury bonds and loan securities. On the other hand, no understanding has been come to on the subject of the bills for the establishment of a general tax on • houses, for the re-establishment of the previous duty on salt, and for the modification of the law on patent es (licence to trade). The Government of his Majesty pre sented these bills because, whilst respecting the objec tion's made against the possibility of demanding more from taxation, it does not consider those objections suf ficiently important to relieve it from the obligation of proposing new resources for the pressing wants of the state, the existing resources not being, in its opinion, either sufficient or likely to become so. The duration of service of the permanent army of militia, fixed at three years by the law of the 3d of September, 1814, has again been recognised by the two chambers of the Diet as useful and necessary. The Government would con sider that it failed in its responsibility towards the inn try if it were to lay down an exception to this legal obli gation. It regrets, however, that, in presence of the ex isting dearness of living, it has not obtained, in the measure it hoped for, the co-operation of the Diet in giving proper salaries to the inferior employes of the ad ministration. Lastly, his Majesty's Government ex presses the conviction that it remains faithful to the souvenirs of her national history, and to the traditional character of the Prussian administration, by continuing to unite to prudent economy the constant solicitude with which it watches over the progress of the prosperity of the country. By order of his Majesty the King, I de clare the session of the two Chambers of the Diet closed." TRANSPORTATION TO WESTERN AIISTRALIA.—The in telligence of the agitation which had been going on in England with respect to the ticket-of-leave question, and the report of the committee of the House of Lords on transportation had been received with great satisfaction by the colonists of Western Australia, who were sanguine that it would lead to their receiving a regular supply of convicts, whose labour is much needed in the colony. There would be no objection to receive a considerable number of convicts on the part of the inhabitants for some time to come ; but we must distinctly warn the home authorities that the people of Western Australia are only willing to receive convicts of a useful and better clasp, and ' that a continuance in the practice of only sending out the worst criminals and desperadoes will infallibly close the last outlet which this country now possesses for transportation.—Australian and New Zed,- and Gazette; FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE IN SOMERS TOWN.—Yester day morning that portion of Somers-town celebrated as one of the Sunday markets, was the scene of much ex citement, which was occasioned by a man throwing over one of his neighbours a large quantity of vitriol, thereby causing, serious. if not fatal, injuries. Shortly after ten o'clock two boys were seen fighting in Cherub-way, when the father of one of them (Thos. Robinson, a man about 50) attempted to separate them. He had no sooner interfered, then Brett, who resides immediately opposite, savagely rushed forth, can in hand, and threw the contents, about a quart of vitriol, over Robinson. Brett was immediately assailed by the crowd, who ex hibited every intention of dealing summarily with him. The timely arrival of police-constable 365 fortunately prevented this, and the cowardly assailant was conveyed to the station-house. Ho did not deny the charge, but said exultingly, "I am glad of it, I hope be is dead." The injured man was conveyed in a cab to the Univer sity College Hospital by police-officer 198. Upon in inquiry at the hospital last night, it wss found that but little hope was entertained of the ultimate recovery of the injured man. ARTISTS' BENEVOLENT FUND.—On Saturday evening the 30th anniversary festival of this admirable fund took place at the Freemasons' Tavern. Sir P. Peel presided, and there were also present amongst the guests Sir Charles Eastlake, F.R.A. ; Sir W. Ross, R. A. ; D. Roberts, R.A. ; E. M. Ward, R.A. ; J. T. Willmore, A.R.A. ; 3. R. Foley, A.R.A. ; Mr. J. Dickenson, F.R.S , with other artists and admirers of art. The usual complimentary toasts having been given with much spirit, and duly honoured, the chairman gave the toast of the evening, and, referring to the greatly in creased patronage which the public of late had bestowed upon works of art, stated that at the private view of the two Water Colour Societies purchases were eagerly made among the works exhibited to the amount of 3,0001., and at the private exhibition of the Royal Academy to the extent of 9,0001. He fully believed that the total amount of purchases effected daring the present season at the various exhibitions would not fallshort of 30,0001. This was a most gratifying proof of the estimation which the public had of the artist's labours. Still it was in cumbent upon them to provide among themselves a fund which should be available for them in the event of those sudden visitations and misfortunes which fell upon artists, as upon other men, often when in the height of their prosperity. The toast Was drunk with enthusiasm, and a substantial proof of its cordial recept ion was found in the subscriptions announced during tlee course of the evening, which amonted to 5001. This was a larger sum than had been subscribed at any previous anniversary, and included the IBth donation from her Majesty of 1001. Other toasts complimentary to the officers of the fund and the Royal Academy were drunk with great appla u s e during the evening. The dinner was served in the usual excellent style of the Freemasons' Tavern ; and Mr. Banks, jun., was an effective toast ma-ter. fAvvintrisgbraNT.]—SlGllT AND HEARING.—SrmActEs.—. POWERFUL TELESCOPES.—OPERA, RACE, AND PERSPECTIVA G LAssE s.—Mcs!rs. S. and B. Solomons, opticians, 39, Albe. ,„„,,i,...trect, Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York Rote' w.— By her :Majesty's Royal Letters P a t en t f or va l ua bl e a nd extraordinary improvements in the most powerful and bril. hant TAescopes, Camp, Racecourse, Opera, and Perspective Glasses to know the distances. These telescopes losse.s such extraordinary power that some, three and a-half inches * with au extra eye-pece will show : distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and tie double stars ; with the same telescope can be seen a poi son countenanze three-and-a-half miles die. taut awl an object from 16 to 20 miles. Eor the wahtcoat pocket, au I are of larger, and all sizes, with increasing powers accordingly. The Royal Exhibition, 1851.—A vale. able T cwly-invente I very small powerful Waistcoat Pocket Glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seem and known one and a half mile distant. They answer every purpose on the race-course, and at the Opera Houses. Country scenery, and ships are clearly seen at 1 to 14 miles. They are invaluable for shooting , doer-stalking, yachting. to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, end tom fists. Opera. Camp, Perspective, and Racecourse Glasses, with wonderful powers. —lnvaluable preserving Spectacle Lenses of the grea t es t transparent power. The great a dvanta g e derived. from this invention is, that vision impaired becomes pre carved and strengthened, and very aged persons are enabled. to employ their sight at the most minute ctenpation— ean see with these lenses of a much less Magnitying power —and they do not require the frequent changes to the d anger ous effects- of further powerful assistance. Persona can be suited at the most r emote . part of the world by send ing one of the glasses out of their spectacles in a letter, and. stating the distance from the eye they can read small print with it, and those who h a ve not made use of I p ectaeles by stating ' their age. 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