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JAW C4 le WI" larl eS 0" CRYSTAL P ALA CE.-SEASON 1857-8. PROGRAMME. The Directors beg to announce that they have made the following arrangements fsr,the ensuing season : ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA CONCERIS. The SEASON will COMMENCE on FRIDAY, the Ist of May, with a Grand' Morning Concert by the artistes of the Royal Italian Opera. These Concerts having been honoured last year by such general approbation, the 'Directors have en tered into arrangements with Mr. Gyc to give a similar Series of Twelve Concerts during the present season. These Concerts will be supported by the following cele brated artistes :—Madame Grisi, Mademoiselle Rosa Doylies, Mademoiselle Marai, Mademoiselle Didide, Mademoiselle Parepa, and Madame Bosio; Signor Mario, Signor Ronconi, Signor Neri-Baraldi, Signor Gardsni, Hgnor Graziani, Herr Formes, Signor Tagliafico, Monsieur Zegler, Siguor Polonini, and Signor Lablache. The Grand Orchestra of the Royal Italian Opera, with ad ditional performers, and also the celebrated Chorus, are en gaged for the whole t.eries. The musical direction of the whole is in the hands of Mr. Costa, who will himself conduct a portion of the Concerts. With the above assemblage of artistes, it is hardly neces sary for the Directors to state that the performances will be of the highest class, and capable of very great variety. The Concerts will take place on the following Fridays, viz : —May 1,8, 15, 22, and 29 ; June 5 and 26 ; July 3, 10, 17, 24, and 31. The space allotted to the Concert Room last year (extensive as it was) having been found inadequate to accommodate the audiences, the Directors have this season determined.to give the Concerts in the Great Transept. The Two Guinea Season Tickets will also be available for these Concerts. Transferable tickets will, also be issued for each Concert at 7s. 6d. each ; which tickets can be obtained at the Company's offices, or of any of the agents. In compliance with a desire which was universally expressed last season, a limited number of reserved stalls will be set apart, which may be taken for the series of 12 concerts at one guinea each stall, or at half-a-crown each for a single concert. • 11. CONCERT OF THE COLOGNE CHORAL UNION. The Directors have made arrangements with the Cologne Choral Union (Collier Manner Gesang Verein), whose perfor mances on their former visit attracted enthusiastic admira tion, for a Concert in the Centre Transept of the Palace, on Saturday, the 6th of June. N.B.—Both Classes of Season Tickets will be available for this Concert. - 111. GRAND WATERWORKS. • The Displays of the vast System of Fountains, Cascades, and Jets d'Eaux will be resumed and continued during the season. The upper- system will play daily as heretofore; and" the Entire Display, embracing the Fountains of the Grand Basins, the Water Temples, the Cascades, and the ►hole of the Upper Fountains, on occasions to be from timo to time announced. IV. FLOWER SHOWS. There will be Two Grand Horticultural and Floricultural Fetes dining the present season :--The First on Saturday, the 30th of May ; and The Second on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the 9th, . 10th, and 11th September. V. POULTRY SHOWS. There will be two Shows in the course of the coming season. The Summer Show will tal:o place on the 7th, Bth, 10th, Ilth, and 12th of August. The Winter Show on the 9th, . llth, 12th, and 13th of January, 1858. VI. GENERAL ARRANGEMENTS OF THE BUILDING. EXIIIBITIONS OP . PICTURES.—The Picture Gallery, formed during the past year in the North Wing of the Palace, has proved so successful in its capabilities for the effective dis- Play of paintings, that it is the intention of the Directors to hold therein during the present season, Two Exhibitions of the Works of Living Painters of all Schools. The first of these Exhibitions will open in May, and con tinue open during the Summer. ' The Second will be a Winter Exhibition. Exhibitions of Photographs will also be held in the upper Portion of the Picture Gallery from time to time during the season. CERAMIC Conar.--The Directors are desirous to take the Present opportunity of expressing their acknowledgments for the kind and ready manor in which their requests for loans for the Ceramic Court were responded to by the owners of Collec ions of Porcelain and Pottery of the most rare, fragile. and valuable descriptions. It is very gratifying to the Directors to be able to say that the further aid offered them is such as will enable them to continue the Ceramic Court, for the present season, with a number of additional specimens, exemplifying the capabilities of the art in its most elaborate branches. The Collection will be, as before, under the superintendence Of Mr. Thomas Battam, F. S.A. INDIAN COURT AND GALLERY OF ENGINEERING MODELS.--In each of these departments the Directors have to acknowledge assistance of the same gratifying nature as that in the Cera mic Court. By public companies and institutions, as well as by private individuals, the Directors have been entrusted with the most valuable and beautiful models, with costly carvings and works in ivory and bronze fabrics and works of art, granted with a liberality and. readiness for which they cannot sufficiently express their obligations. They have thus been ;enabled materially to improve the Indian Court, and also' to form a collection of models of engineering works, illus trating in a very complete manner that great branch of Bri tish skill and enterprise, surpassing any other now accessible to the public. It will give the Directors great pleasure to receive any further contributions with which they may be favoured. Tux Naval. Mum:rm.—The Exhibition under this denomina tion in the First and Second Galleries of the North Transept, fronting the Garden, now contains about 300 models of ships, boats, and vessels of all descriptions, affording an illustra tion of the progressive improvement in British naval architec ture and navigation during a period of 340 years. It also contains specimens of new inventions connected with the im provement of navigation. The Directors beg here also to acknowledge the ready and extensive assistance which they have received from shipown ers, shipbuilders, engineers, and shipping companies, in form ing this very interesting and national collection, and at the same time solicit the further aid of all parties who may have the means of extending it. Warm TOWERS.—The Great Towers are now completed, and arrangements have been made by which, for a small charge, visitors to the Palace can ascend them, and enjoy the e xtensive view from the balconies, where powerful telescopes are about to be placed. MAMM•TH TREE.—An object of great interest has lately been added to the contents of the Palace, which will remain on ex hibition during the whole of the coming season. The object alluded to is a portion of the trunk of the Wellingtonia Gi gantea' or Mammoth Tree, being the largest of the group of those trees discovered in California. The portion erected in the Tropical Transept, opposite the Abu Simbel figures, is no less than 103 feet in height, and 32 feet in diameter at the Da me. Exnunrise DEPARTMENT.—Amongst the branches of indus try which now find important illustration in this department may be mentioned the manufacture of gold and silver work and electro-plate, both domestic and artistic ; vulcanite and India rubber generally ; colour printing and typography ; Papier maclie, ornamental iron, fancy goods, and other pro ductions of Birmingham ; domestic furniture, church furni ture ; in stone, wood, metal, and fabric ; hardware gene rally ; and especially the productions of Sheffield, in the Court filled by the manufacturers of that important centre of / industry. CANADIAN COURT.—The arrangements announced on a for tiler occasion with the Government of Canada are now, the Directors are happy to report, complete. The Government of Canada have undertaken to form and maintain in the Palace a collection which shall completely set forth the condition of I the manufactures and other industry and resources of that important colony. The collection will be placed in the large Court lying be. tween the News Room and the Stationery Court, immediately adjoining both the Nave and Centre Transept, and at present occupied by the sculpture of the German schoot RAW PRODUCE COLLECTION, AND TRADE MUSEUM.—The Tech nological portion of this department is rapidly approaching completion. It will comprise illustrations of all the chief Manufactures of the United Kingdom, and specimens of the products, animal, vegetable, and mineral, of Great Britain and the Colonies, as well as of other countries. It is believed that it will be open to the public in the course of the present summer. The department is situated in the Second Gallery on the Garden side of the Grand Transept. MACHINERY IN MOTION.—Tho Machinery will be in action durin g the season at such times as will be announced in the detailed advertisements. The Machinery now in the depart ment comprises a complete set of machinery for spinning, Carding, warping, sizing, weaving, and all the other processes for the manufacture of 'cotton goods from the bale to the thread, and from the thread to the finished piece ; and a great variety of other machines. AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY. —The Department of Agricul tural Machinery and Implements has been considerably im proved during the past year. Specimens will (be found there of the portable steam engines and all the other new machines of the chief manufacturers, and purchases can be made at the same prices as at the warehouses of the makers. READING Rom—The Company's Reading and News Room is situated close to the Centre Transept, between it and the German Sculpture Court ; it contains all the morning jour nals, the weekly papers, metropolitan and provincial, and all he periodicals and magazines. In addition to this, advertisements and copies of new works, both British and foreign, are displayed immediately after publication. FANCY FAIRS.—The Directors are prepared to afford accom ' modation to benevolent and other societies for holding Fancy Pairs in the Palace during the season. CRICKET, ARCHERY, AND THE GROUNDS GENERALLY.—It gives the Directors great pleasure to announce that the Cricket . Ground is now complete, and that it will be thoroughly in order for the approaching summer. Great care has been taken in the formation of the ground, and they believe that it will be found fully equal in extent and excellence to any other in the neighbourhood of Loudon. The Archery Ground will be continued, as before, in the Northern portion of the grounds, b e hi n d the Picture Gallery Wing. VII. SEASON . The Directors have determined upon continuing the price of Season Tickets of admission at the following rates, viz.:— I• BRAWN TICKETS, AVAILABLE FROM 18T MAY, 1857, TO 30Tn APRIL, 1858, Two GUINEAS . ,,EACII, tThese tickets will admit the holder on every occasion be ecen May 1, 1857 , an d A pr il 30 , 1858 , on wh i ch the Pa l ace then ; the fou r days of the Handel Festival, viz., the 13th, 15, 17th, and 19th June only excepted. 11. SEASON TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM IST MAY, 1857, TO 30TII APRIL, 1858, ONE GUINEA EACIIL th T hese tickets ad m it the holder on all oMasions named roe, excepting the Op era C oncer t s, an d the other Fridays ahroughout the year, and th e 13th, 15th, 17th , an d 19th June, being the four days , of the Handel Festival. The Tickets will be issued on and after the 20th inst. ; and b day be obt a i ned at the Crystal Palace ; at the 'Offices of the "'pally, 79, Lombard-street ; at the Offices of the London TBrighton R a il way C ompany, London-bridge,and Regent 'lr Ha c os, Piccadilly ; Central Handel Festival Ticket Office, Exe cll, and of the Company's agents. Remittance s for Season Tickets to be by post-office orders payable to George Grove. VIII. GREAT HANDEL FESTIVAL, It gives the Directors great gratifi ca ti on t o b e a bl e t o an c.'"nee that th ey h ave entered into arrangements with the Sacred Harmonic Society for a Grand Series of Three Perfor• a uecs of Handers Oratorios, t o t a k e p l ace i n the Centre Transept of the Palace in the month of June. Her Majesty and H.R.H. Prince Albert have been graci , IY pleased to extend their especial patronage to the festi -4,_ and have expressed their intention of honeuring it with . • ell presence For further particulars sec special adver tisement. • Ix ' RATES OF ADMISSION, RAILWAY ARRANGE MENTS, dcc. ~„; 431 ° 1 :VARY RATES OF ADMISSIOL—These remain as before, :—On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, ursdays and Fridays ue gaturdays Half-a-Crown. u ' esdays,Children under 12 years of age, Half-price. Palace will be opened on Mondays Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, at 10 ; ex.. e ePting on the days of the Con cer t s by the Opera Company, on which days, Ind on Saturd a y s , it will be opened at 12 ; closing daily about suns e t. aton/. ON RAILWAY,--.During the seam% the trains of the coded by n s good, leotland, day was a wheat, ver, full 'ats were ,r. Bar• ran ca on Id vane°, Change- ) 58 fid ; o 3s 4d. Id to 381 s. Bost o lOs per Od to Os mtchors' s each. wee, lid • PigM, lips, -- 0 I per lb. k for an mpletely rates fir me con previons g Mann - Hid of, at in short Of nun 9 • IS 0 - 18 0 ▪ 17 ▪ 16 6 6 17 9 0 0 17 6 17 1 1 16 6 ‘ 16 " ,16 9 18 0 , • 21 - 29 60 .. 25 76 • 130 , 4 .. 13(N • f)V6 ▪ 52% .. ht -- ME 01. :3 17 9 0 0 0 0 5 0 % 0 0 5 174 EK. celpts• • 97i 5.9 79 21.9 43 6,7 92 20 73 2' 5 5 2f 9 21.193 (N c. 20,228.) London and Brighton Railway Company will leave London bridge S , ation every half-hour, and during bu.y days every quarter of an hour, from 9 o'clock a.m. till dusk, returning from the Palace at the same intervals throughout the day. (For exact times of starting, see the Railway Company's time tables.) Return fares, including admission to the Palace -Ist Class. 2d Class. 3d Class. On Shilling Days On Half-Crown Days Children under 12 years of age, Half-price. WEST-END RAILWAY; —The opening of this line to the Wands worth Station has aiready been attsuded with greatconvenience to visitors to the Palace, and it is with much pleasure that the Directors anticipate the completion of the whole line to the Sloane-strect Station, as well as the junction with the main line of the South-Western Railway at the Clapham-common Station, in the course of the coming season. An access will thus be opened for the residents in Hyde-park, Belgravia, and Bromp ton, and the other West-End Districts, as well as for the neighbourhoods of Richmond, Windsor, and Hampton Court, by which great economy of time will be effected, and still further convenience afforded to the public. MID-KENT RAILWAL—The portion of this line from the Sta tion of the South-E +stern Railway at London-bridge to Beck enham has been opened, and the extension to the Crystal Palace Station will be shortly completed, whereby an easy access will be afforded tothe residents in the Lewisham and Blackheath districts. EXCURSIONS. —Arrangements have been made by which be nevolent societies, schools, and other large bodies may visit the Palace at the following reduced fares—applying only to shilling days and third-class carriages : For a number of excursion ists over. 250 and under ls. 3d. per head, instead of ls 500 Exceeding 500 and under 75015. 2d. Exceeding 750audunder 10001 s. ld. P) ls. 6(1, Is. GI, If V/ Exceeding 1000 - Oct Children, Half-price. (Signed) ARTHUR. ANDERSON, Chairman. JAMES FERGUSSON, General Manager. 6'l PP ft {VFW. W. S. WOODIN'S OLIO of ODDITIES, I,YJIL with New Costumes and y alms Novelties, Focal and Ch racteristic. every evening (except Saturday) at Eight. A MORN- ING, l'E It FOB At ANC E every SA r Ult DAY, at Three. Private Boxes and Stalls may be secured, without extra charge, at the Rox-office, rolyevaphic-hall, King William-street, Charing-cross. The hall has cen entirely redecorated. 10YAL ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAURENT'S CASINO, Great Windmill -street, Ilaymarket.—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. lioulcourt. Poors open al halt -east eight, commence at nine. The Lane :rs will be danced at half-pa,t ten. Admis4on One billing. TBE GREAT TOBACCO CONTROVERSY. Dr. SEXTON will LECTURE en this iinno;tant topic daily at 3 and half-past 7 p.m , at Dr. KAHN'S MUSEUM, No. 4, Coven try street. Leicester-square. The Museum, which now stands wholly unrivalled in the world, and the rarity and completrnesi of whose contents have already acquired for it an European reputation, and obtained the warm commendationof the press in t' is and other coun tries, is Open daily, for Gentlemen on y, 'rem Hi to 10. A new Lecture is delve-ed by Dr. KAuss at half-past 8 p.m. precisely. Ad mission, One shilling. Descriptive Catalogues of the Mu=eum, con taining Lectures as delivered by Dr. Khan, gratis to the visitors. (IOLOGNE CHORAL UNION.- DER' NOLNER MANNER GESANG VEREIN (80 Metz Voices) HANOVER•SQUARE ROOMS. Mr; MITCHELL respect fully announces, in reply to numerous and continual inquiries, it is at length arranged that the above distinguished Society will swain visit London. and will have the honour of giving a THIRD -4ERIES of CONCE (TS, under the direction of Herr FRANZ WEBER, com mencing at the Hanover-square Rcoms, on Monday, Afternoon, May 25, from half-past 3to 5 o'clock.• It is also respectfully an nounced, that owing to the positive necessity, for their return to Cologne, on or before the Bth of June, the Concerts to be giien by the Society in th s country cannot possibly be prolonged beyond a fortnight. Subscription . will be received as formerly—Reserved Seats, for Six Conct rts, 2 guineas; Single Reserved Seats, I Os. 6d. ; Unreserved Feats. hs ; which may be obtained at Mr. MIT CHELL' S Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. _ _ Many of the Pleces sung by' the Society, by Siloher and other populAr Composers, arc in coarse of publication. STATE FIRE' INSURANCE, No. 3, Pall-mall East, London, S.W. Incorporated by Act of Parliament. Capital 500,0001., with power to increase to 2,000,0001. Every description of Fire Insurance accepted at moderate rates. Existing Policies falling due at the last Quarter Day may be transferred to this Company tree of charge, boyond the premium and duty. Claims settled with promptitude and liberality. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. ESTABLISHED 1814. MEDICAL, INVALID, AND GENERAL LIFE OFFICE, 25, Pall-mall, London. Empowered by special Act of Parliament. At the Fifteenth Annual Meeting. held on 27th November, 1856, It was shown that on the 31th June last The number of Policies in force was The amount insured was •• 2,752,197/. 7s. 2d. The annual Income was ••• • • • Two Bonuses have been declared (in 1848 and 1853), adding nearly 2 per cent, per annum on the average to sums assured, and by whir.h a Policy of 1,0001. issuedln 1842 on a healthy life is now ilium e Its 1,2601. Since the last Division of Profits in 1853 the accumu'ated fun have increased by more than 105,0001., offering considerable advan Cages to present assurers. Profits divided every five years—next division in 185 S. Tie Society,since its establishment, has paid claims on 651 Policies, assuring 251,008/. Assurances are effected at home or abroad on healthy lives, at as moderate rates as the must recent data will allow. Indian Assurances at very moderate rates, and great facilities given to asSurers. Invalid lives assured on scientifically constructed tables. Policies issued free of Stamp duty, and every other charge bat the Premiums. Agents wanted for vacant places. _ Prospectuses, Forms of Proposals, and every other informagon, may be obtained of the Secretary, at the Chief Office, or on applica tion to any of the Society's Agents in the country. C. DOITGLAS SINGER, Secretary. 1111? ICK CLOTHS, with Poles, ch., complete, lA, both New and Second-hand.—A large quantity of canvas intended for the Crimea has been made into Rick Cloths, to be sold as second•hand at greatly reduced prices. A list forwarded by post. Address in full, BE vJAMIN EIIfIINGTON, 2, Duke-street, South wark, opposite the Brighton Railway. 21 20 MILNER'S HOLDFAST and FIRE RESISTING SAFES (non-conducting and vapourising), with all' the imorovemen's, under their Quadruple Patents of 180.51-54 and 1465, including their Gunpowder Prdef Solid Lock and Door (without which no Safe is secure). THE STRONGEST, BEST, AND CHEAPEST SAFEGUARD EXTANT. MILNERS' PIICENIX (212.) SAFE WORKS, LIVERPOOL, the most complete and extensive in the world. Show-rooms, 6 and 8, Lard-street, Liverpool. LONDON DEPOT, 47A, MOORGATE STREET, City. Circulars tree by post. CANCER HOSPITAL, London and West Brompton.—flecretary's Office, 167, Piccadilly.—This Institu ion has been established exclusively for the treatment of the poor afflicted with cancerous diseases. Out-door patients to attend at 167, Piccadilly, on Tuesdays, at 2 o'clock. In-door patients are admitted at the Brompton Establishment, for one month, and for a longer period if reconamended by the medical officers. The number of per -on, under treatment as in or out-door patients have averaged for the last three years about 400 cases each rear. Since the foundation of this Hospital in 1851, 1,799 poor persons, suffering under every form of this dreadful malady; have received the benefits of this Charity. A Weekly Board manage its affairs, and every informa lion connected with the Institution may be obtained on application to the Secretary. Contributions to enable the Committee to continue ttis great work of benevolence are urgently solicited, and may be paid to William Loxham Farrar, Esq., the Treasurer, 66, Lincoln's nn-flelds ; Messrs. Coutta and Co., trand ; and at the Secretary's Offices, 167, Piccadilly. By onler. W. J. COCKERILL Secretary. OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Grayi-inn-road. Patron—The QUEEN.—Pouuded 1828. It, The sick poor are admitted on their own application alone; no re eommendation is required. _ _ During the past month the following number received the benefits of this Charity, either as out or in-door patients, on their personal application:— Week ending 7th February 2,005 Ditto 14th Februaly ..•• • • 2,351 Ditto 2lst February . Ditto 28th February :.• Total in February •• .. • 9,946 of which 3,379 were new cases, the remainsler (still under treat ment) having* been admitted previously. The clergy of all denominations have unlimited access to the patients. _ Heavy expenses are Inevitably incurred in affording such eaten sive relief. The Committee, therefore, earnestly entreat the aid of the public. The management of the Hospital is in the hands of 30 Oovernors, yearly elected from the general list of subscribers, at the Annual tieneral Meeting in January. A Board is held every Thursday, at 4 o'clock (Rev. J. B. Owen, Chairman), to conduct the business, when any subscriber may attend, if so disposed, the Board being at ill times desirous of receiving suggestions or giving explanation. The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on volun tary contributions and legacies, which are received by the Treasurer, 'obn Aiasterman, Esq., M.P., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co.; Berries and Co.; Ransom and Co.; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Olyn and Co. ; tones Loyd and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Denison and Co.; Williams, Deacon, and Co. ; orcrend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Ber ners-street ; Masterman and Co. • and at the Hospital. Clothing for the d estitute patients will be thankfully received. liv order. J. B. OWEN. M.A., Chairman. FOR CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION NO MORE PILLS NO R ANY OTHER MEDICINE . LIVER COMPLAINTS, COUGH, ar ; B D:SPEPSIA, NERVOUS, BILIOUS, AND ING REVALEKTA D U BARRY'S delicious A, CONSUMPTION, AND DEBILITY. c A u l t r e th lCA FOOD saves fifty times its HEALTH-RESTOR cost in other remedies, and consequences, such as hemorrhoidal e a a tr b e o et v i e on c s r it ip a l t a ,, l i i e t y a , nd dis t t h e e n if pl,tanteloisnes f th the heart, nervous headaches, afPnnaedlssbetweenptohvoesrthoulders, erysipelas, impuritieseruP nauasna and sicrtn the head and ears, pains at s ht l i3l o es n tp , eirit e ao l d c i n t t y he , ue b ras e to a l g r im t a b ,a u cd r he n a , of the blood, scrofula, a ti ro on o s sy of r the eu 21 skin , shi,g o u , after eating, or at sea ; low spirits,• pastin ess during pregnancy, general debility, inquietude, s t eeptes : sess, ; epileptic tits, spleen, paralysis, trem , rs, dislike to society, unfitness involuntary blushing, me mory, delusions, vertigo, blood to the head, e r study. loss of choly,groles fear, wretchedness. It is, melan best food for Infants and invalids generalf moreover, the turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor itt y t . er as it never 400 d liberal diet, but Lamar* a healthy relish for lunch fes with a ad dinner, Ind restores the faculty of diges tion and nerv ous and muscul ar t o the most enfeebled. Supported by test imonials front the cr e nergy ed Professor of Chemistry Or An drew Ure, D r. ShGriaad, ivbrat vey, Dr. Campbell, Dr. Gattiker, Dr. Wurzer, Dr. ingram, • III„ar- Stuart de Decies, the Dowager Counte ss of Castl estuart, and 50,04 other well-known individuals, whose health hal been restored by this useful and economical diet, after all other means hall been tried in vain for many years, and all hopes of recovery abandoned. Analysis by the celebrated Professor of Chemistry Andrew lire M.D., F.R.S., Esc., &C. " London, 24, Bloomsbury-square. " I hereby certify, that having examined Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica I find it to be a pure vegetable Farina, perfectly whole. some, easily digestible, likely to promote a healthy action of the stomach and bowels, and thereby to counteract dyspepsia (Indiges. tion), constipation, and their nervous consequences. ANDREW Ulm, M.D., P.R.: ~ &c., Analytical Chemist." Ukase by the Emperor of Russia. Russian Consulate General, London, Dec. 2,1847. The Consul-General has been ordered to inform Messrs. Barry, Du Barry and Co., that the Revalenta Arabica they bad sent to his Majesty the'Emperor, has, by imperial permission, been forwarded to the Minister of the Imperial Palace. Suitably packed for all climates, and with full instructions. In anisters, ilb 2s 91; 21b 4s 6d; 51b Its, 121 b 225; super relined quality. ilb 68 ; 21b Ils ; 51b Vs ; 101 b 335. The 101 b and 121 b cards `ors are forwarded carriage free, on receipt of Post-offlce order Barry Du Barry and Co.. 77, Regent-street, London; Fortnum, Mason, , and Co.. purveyors to her Maj es ty, 182, Pi cca dill y , a l s o at CO; (, racethnrch-gtreet ; 330 and 451, Strand ;.' 4, Cheapside ; 68, c ornhill ; 49, I.llshopsgate-street ; 55, Charing-Cross ;E54, Upper Baker-street ; 63 and 150, Oaford-street. - - 1-1 C st : 11111 , ..' •-. • r , Mg' A • o(6' - ‘\, v'th! vOmg • 1 ~\ • ZM = • - , - iv' Art ,07 Q II 4 '" 4 ' 7 4 - C7 ,• / 14. I A , cw- t. t "r*lrr=- 1 - ,1 „ • 4 - A A r p . 11,.0 • , ) RoiT.A\-• • , et > ~~~~ ~' 2 [PRICE 4 1 ). STAMPED 5D FRENCH ./V OBLESSE AND POPULATION, The French have discovered that there is some ' thing the matter both with the foundation and the roof of their social and political edifice. A recent census has incormed. their - own public, and the Euro pein world, . that for the last # five years French popultation has been all but stationary. On the . other'hand, the Emperor and his Ministers have dis covered that a singular want of respect is shown for titles of nobility. Those who are entitled to wear. will not wear them ;! and those who have no right to do so assume them ; and thus the . coronets of duke, count, and baron are trainee dans la boue. This latter catas , rophe seems to have Mille' ed the Imperial:Government much more than the first, for the Minister of Justice has been ordered to inquire . into it. Thereupon his Excellency, M. or Count Abbattucci,. has published a report - , and drawn up alaw, which is under the consideration of the Coun cil of State. The Minister is quite right. What,is an hereditary Emperor without an hereditary and respected . itoblesse ? We would, however, su.vest to the Corsican Solon, M. Abbattucci, tha a noblesse is a thing that must grow rather th an b e ma d e . Th e oury wiy, to supp o rt a noblesse, and to make it respected, is to allow it torenderitself independent, and leave it something to do as an independent body. A noblesse like that which existed before the Revo lution, enjoying privileges, and living - u . k . on court pensions, whilst performing no'ditties,lnat com mand the contrary of respect. The Times, indeed, has been propounding a judg ment upon the state of France which would seem not to harmonise with this opinion. It attributes the decline of French spirit and population to the Revolution of 1789 ; that naughty Revolution that swept awaythe noblesse, that dispossessed the clergy, that gave to the people the soil of the country which they were previously prevented from even cultivating as tenants by the dimes and the correes, and the weight of exclusive taxation. It is a strange thing to reproach with a want of enterprise a Re volution whose sons marched to Cadiz and to Mos cow, to the Pyramids and to Sweden, and whose grandsons were by no means inf er io r t o us at the Malakhoff the other day. But the population ? Well, the French area very prudent people. They have small trust in Provi dence, and like to confide their future to themselves. They seldom marry without good surety of liveli hood, and when events disturb human calculations, and render life a lottery, the French abstain from marriage altogether. The statisticians of Paris have been taxed to account for the stationary crisis at which the population has arrived. They haYe laboured to palliate and explain, but have really said nothing to the purpose. The fact is, that the French are a people who will not increase in num bers without an increase of wealth. And this re solve does them infinite honour. Now, of late years, unfortunately, there has been no increase of wealth. There bas been an infinity of speculation, a brisk movement of money out of the pockets of all int ) the pocket of the State. But of real trade, productive industry, there has been little; whilst of that frugality and econothy which were always the great sources of French accumulation, there is infinitely less than ever. M. Proudhon has just published a book, in which he sets down speculation as a source of riches. And, as a proof of his assertion, be instances a log or a piece of fancy rosewood. The purchaser has acquired it at a sma'l price, but as soon as he begins to saw, plane, and polish it, he discovers that the wood is worth not only infinitely more than he paid for it, but more than be hoped or imagined. Here, says M. Proudhon, is an increase of national wealth. If so, Law's scheme was a mighty source of national wealth. And M. De Morny or M. Mires are monthly adding incalculable riches to the natural ones of France. We can see no analogy between the rosewood which is rendered more valuable by the 14bour which converts it into useful or agreeable articles, and the sum of,money which is made to multiply itself (in appearance) by being made the excuse for innume• rablo " promises to pay." We differ altogether front M. Proudhon ; and, ip.stead of thinking France the richer for the fancy prices of all things, we deem that she has been spending far more than her capital in enterprises which, however useful many of them may finally be, have still interfered with the employment of capital in industrial and in commercial enterprise, and subjected her to liabili- Ves which she may find it difficult to meet. The Times, we think, need not go back so far as to throw upon the Revolution of 1789 any present lack of enterprise in France. The economical and political circumstances of the time are quite suffi cient to account for this, without borrowing a leaf frdm the Legitimises book of horrors, and casting the blame of all evil upon Revolution. The material prosperity of a country and the de velopment of its wealth are seldom the results of con tinuous progress. They rather advance by bounds, or rise by steps. The Revolution of 1789 gave an im pulse to the prosperity of France by throwing the land open to her industry and her population. But all that could be done by the industry of a peasant popu lation has been done. Another step is now wanting —another stride must now be made ; and that is, the application of capital and skill to land. It would require far more than the limits of an article to describe the impediments which obstruct or re tard this in France. But there is nothing in the state or division of property'in France to prevent its inhabitants from doing what the Belgians have done, and of making the soil a speculation (not in M. Proudhon's sense), a foundation for the outlay of capital and for the employment of skill, instead of being a mere area for men to live, like savageS, upon the roots or the crop that nature sends them. It was a fortunate circumstance for England that, when the time came for seriously applying capital to the land, she was shut out from the continent, and from foreign speculation, and from a world of distraction, so as to be able to turn to account the high prices of provisions which ranged through so many years, and which gave an ample return for the capital and skill then lavished upon her soil. France has now had the advantage, if she had known how to use it, of several years of high prices ; but they have not 'produced the outlay of an addi tional million of francs to the land. On the con trary, loans and speculation have drawn forth the little money that used to collect in the rural dis tricts and, of that money, what was not spent in the dis tricts, has been spent in the towns. The rural population of France has followed the rural capital as it migrated, just as sheep follow the shepherd. No other explanation is needed of the deplacement of population demonstrated in the recent French census. The Imperial Government does not seem alive to either the cause or the remedy of the evil. It en courages loans for making Russian railroads. It approves and sets in execution project upon project for fructifying the barren soils of the Landes or St. Sologne. But when the best tracts of the country produce no more than they did in the last century— from the m ant of either skill or capital applied to them—of what use is it to sink millions in inferior soils It is not the breadth of land.that is wanting in France ; it is the intelligent cultivation of that which has been for ages alternating between the fallow and th-t plough. But the small and peas int proprietor is in the way, it is urged. And this small proprietor is the result of the law partitioning pro perty. Let the Work be begun of applying skill and capital to land ; and the large returns will soon make it the interest of the small proprietor to let or sell. He cannot long resist the overflow of capi tal upon the land. His existence is an excuse for indolence, 'not a real impediment to progress. If the French Government would give au onward itupole to population, remove the limit and restric ton to it, it must be, we repeat, by the applic a ti on of capital and skill to agriculture. And if the Em peror wants to found a noblesse, let him leave some local authority and dignity in the provinces other than the Prefect and the officials who are subject to him. In order to have farmers, a country must have landlords —landlords who resido on their pro perty and have a legitimate influence in their-dis trict. The cou ntr y may be said t o h ave no politi cal existence in France ; it is inhabited exclusively by functionaries and peasants. And all the inde pendence of the latter, without intelligence, has not been able to preserve a political freedom.— Daily Acigs. IMPROVEMENT OF 'ERIC PORT OF BBEST.—The Meniteur de la Roue states that M. 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Oxford-street; Butler and [larding, 4, Cheapside ; Preut and Harsant, 229, Strand ; and all medicine vendors throughout the United Kingdom. PIEDMONT. TURIN, APRIL 1.3. The great question at present is, supposin g the dispute between A us t r i a an d Pi e d mon t to take a more serious turn, what will be the conduct of Eng land and France and how can they mediate ? What is the cause of th e difference b3tween. Piedmont and Austria ? Austria's sole complaint is the liberty of the Press enjoyed by Piedmont. Can' Louis Napo leon, who gags the press in France, who wished to do so in Belgium, as was _proved by the speech of Count Walewski at the Congress of Paris, cm lie take part against Austria in s uc h a quarrel ati this? Apart from all tl iplomatio trickery, Louis Napoleon, even to preserve the appearance of cobs'stenay, must in the present disiuite act alan;.r with and in favour of Austrii. The whole quarrel, awarding to •the Emperor of Austrit and Count Buol, is owing to the personal conduct of Count Cavour in not restricting the pres in Piedmont. If,Count Cavour attempted thiS, or even if he was suspected of trying,to make any ioroatls upon the constitution, he would at once cease to be,,minister. The innumerable daily papers published not only in Turin and Genoa, but in all the provincial towns, .p . r0v,e1.44, Count -Cavour is only the org,n of ex pression of the unanimous feeling of the poput-it France, to be consistent, must be against Pied mont.; and England is bound, not only in honour but by interest, to support in Piedmont the .same principles of which every inhabitant- of Great Bri tain is prowl. But if Austria attacks Piedmont and France, and England do not interfere, is Pied mont able to defend herself? _ The Sardinian army of all arms may consist of 50,000 men, which it is possible to reinforce in less than a month ti 120,000 men who have all served as soldiers. An occasional correspondent from Turin, in your columns lately stated that when the Emperor of Austria was at Milan the feasibility of making au immediate attack upon Piedmont became a matter of serious consideration. It is very possible that the natural ill-temper of the young Emperor showed itself in such an ebullition, but this must have been speedily subdued by the cool-headed science of the officers of the staff of the Austrian army, perhaps the best educated of any in Eu rope. A glance at the map of the north of Italy shows the folly of such an attempt. Take Milan as the point from which the Austrians would pro bably concentrate to move to the attack. To their right is Switzerland, and the left of the Piedmon tese is secure. From Arona, on Lago Maggiore, down to Genoa, is a continuous line of railway, nearly parallel to the frontier, though t. a certain extent distant. This railway is fed from the railways of the interior of Piedmont ; thus Alexandria, Mor tara, Novarra, are connected with all Piedmont. Mortara is a great strategic point in possession of the Piedmontese, and it has now a rail way to Vigevano, which actually touches on the Lombard. frontier. The high roads from Milan, Pavia, Pia cenza, Cremona, and Mantua, to Turin, pass through Mortara, which is in fact the strongest strategic point of Piedmont. Let us assume that there are upwards of 100,000 Austrians in the Lomhardo-Venetian states. They require not less than 50,000 men to hold these slates in su:ljection, thus leaving them 50,000 men against Piedmont. To get into Piedmont they must either cross the Ticino or the Po. If they move upon Novara, the time they would occupy on such a march from the frontier would allow the Piedmontese, by the rail ways, to muster in great force at Nsavara, from. Biella and Ivrea in the north, Arona to the north east, Sus% at the bottom of Mount Canis, to the west, Pinerolo to the south-west, the three last passing through Turin, thence by Vercelli to No vena.' While these troops were moving, a large force could come from- Genoa to Alexandria, thence to Mortara, thus threatening the left flank of the Austrians, while from Mortara by railway to Vige vano their rear could be attacked. If the Austrians arrived near Novarra they would thus find their front, flanks, and rear threatened by a superior force. The great point is that railways are invalu able as a means of defence, and of comparatively • little use to the invaders. If the Austrians make their first move towards Motara, they are in a still more ticklish position, as at this point the whole force of Piedmont could be upon them in a few hours. Suppose they were at first victorious, each step in advance towards Turin or Alexandria would increase their danger. If they attempted Alex andria, they would come upon the best fortified part of Piedmont, and if they moved upon Genoa not a man of them would ever return. The Austrians in Piedmont would be under the necessity of always moving in a solid undivided body, as the Piedmontese, with all safety, by means of the railways at their command, couldcrush de t achment4. Such in Piedmont would be the force of military against military. To the Sardinian army, however, must be added the National Guard ; and, what would be of still more detriment . to the Austrians, the intense hatred in which they are held by the population of Piedmont. Besides this, the moment an Austrian army left the Lombardo-Venetian territory, to attack Piedmont, all Ital would be in a blaze, and the Austrians in Lombardy and Venice would be obliged to act as the French did in 1813 and 1814, and retire into the garrisons, thus leav ing the Italian peoples to find their way to Pied mont, not only from. Austrian. Italy, but from Naples, the Papal States, Tuscany, Modena, and Parma, who, thus getting into tsle rear of the Austrian army, would place it in the same diffi culty, and expose it to the same destruction, as be fell that of Dupont in Spain. If, therefore, France and England would abandon their deceitful milk and-water diplomacy, and leave Piedmont and Austria to settle their own affairs, the cause of liberty and constitutional government Would, ere long, be triumphant in the Italian peninsula. THE DIRGE OF THE " DAILY MAIL." The proprietor of the Liverpool Mail has tried the ex periment of a Conservative pennyDaily.llail, and after a month's experience he has withdrawn the publication of the diurnal sheet, which he finds he could •not produce without serious loss. In announcing the decease of the young child, the editor says—'' Instead of a monster ad vertising sheet, filled to overflowing with sbiLing and sixpenny advertisements, and so necessarily printed on the thinnest tea paper, and not in the best type, we wished to issue a concise and readable four-page journal printed on paper equal to first-class journals, and in legible types periodically renewed. We wished to limit the repulsive acreage of cheap adverti-ernents by stand ing out, like them, for a fair advertising price—for our own sake, and for the sake of England's Press. la a word, unless such a hazardous enter prise could be carried out respectably and creditably, and with well-merited remuneration to all parties cmcerned, we would have no hand in it. Obviously such an enter prise, to be enduringly established as ' a success,' re quires (much more than any Liberal newspaper) a large and liberal outlay at the first. how is that experditure to be reimbursed ? Will the profits on circulation reim burse any appreciable portion ? Not on our scheme of a journal first-class in quality, paper, and type ; e g : Each Daily Vail costs above one halfpenny fur the blink paper ; the newevenders get at least a farthing per copy, so that a very fractional part of one farthing per copy remains towards waste, spoils, returns, carriage, and the innumerable expenses necessary to secure even that infinitesimal fraction. Will the honice )prathic profits on cheapest' advertisements defray it ? We trow not. Tue ordinary scale of advertising charges in Liverpool was previously much below that of Manchester and other great towns—was scarcely half that of Lendor —and is now reduced to the veriest minimum. For adv, rtieeinents in a penny paper we were prepared to make farther consider able reduction ; but we were scarcely prepared for what we had to submit to (aye, and from our own Tory friends), either to go to press with a few ca. ne advertisements, or else to accept even Liverpool 'guinea' advertisements at 3s, each insertion, and to insert the advertisements of even our merchant princes' at the absurd late of 6d. each. Yes ; and on credit. A clerk to call about its in sertion; printers to put it into type ; a book-keeper to open a ledger account for this precious and to make out a bill for the same; another clerk to deliver the truly ' little bill' to be examined; and a confidential collector, t t call, and cal, and call again to-morrow for these few beggarly sixpenny items ! In fact, to cut a long story short, even to make our daily paper pay its way,' leav ing profit out of the question, wo should require from three to four times the quantum of these cheap advertise ments which have as yet bean accorded to u• , . Even that small quota (one-third or one-sixth of those in the Liberal cheap prints) often occupied nearly half our sonce. What could we do with a heap three or four times as large ? Why, simply convert our daily organ into a mere adver tising sheet, without any legitimate pretension to rank as a newspaper. Clearly, then, if such a real newspaper as we would alone be connected with, is to have a chance of living and flourishing long after we and our r eaders are gathered to o ur kindr e d d us t, it can orily , y making a determined stand against that ' tieing mania which is working so much Pm echref to the established press." g cheap adver tising THE COBURG SUCCESSION.—A. letter from Coburg to the Kreuz Zeitany says: —"According to our fundamen tal law, Prince Alfred of England is destined to' succ ee d to the united Sovereignty of the Duchies in of Cobu rg - Gotha, His Royal Highness is now Switzerland, but it appears will arrive at Gotha on the Gth May, and aft,r a short sojourn there will come to this place, :,nd remain at the ducal country mansion of R , :senau. Ho will subsequently remove to 80111), 'where hia father Prince Albert, completed his studies.", - THE MANCHESTER _AitT TREASURES EXHIBITION. (From the Manchester Guardian ) As the time is now rapidly approaching for the open. ing of the great Art Treasures Exhibition of the United Kingdom, the public naturally become desirous to know something of the proportions and general arrangements of the building —the huge casket for such vast and priceless treasures. Without giving an history of its construction—for that we have done alreadysome months ago—we propose to put before our readers the principal facts of interest as regards the building as it stands, and the uses to Which its various parts are to be appropriated 'during the exhibition. Tbs:land secured for the building and its approaches comprises a plot of 174 acres at Old Trafford, a distance of two miles from the Manchester Royal Exchange. The land is bounded on the north by the Botanic Gardens, and on the south by the Manchester South Junction, Altrincham, and Bowdon Railway ; and it has two ap proaches from the Stretford-read, one by the Dun Edin road (entered at the toil bar, near the junction of the Stretf,rd New-road and the Chester•road, which there converge and 'become the Stretford-road), and the other by a short street from the Stretford-road, between Oid Trafford House and Dan Edin. Tue railway, of course, will be "the great highway" for visitors from a distance, and even from various parts of Manchester and the' suburbs. In front of the building drives have been formed, and flagged footpaths laid, for the accommoda tion of the various classes of visitors. The building itself covers an area of 16,000 square yards, or three acres and 280 square yards. The building itself is in external form (disregarding some projecting buildings at each end) a parallelogram of ab3ut 31 squares of its width ; that is, it is three and a half times as long as it is broad. The exact dimen sions of the square are 656 feet ih length, and 200 feet in width. But its length is increased by the two pro jecting portions of the east façade, flanking the grand entrance ; and at the other end by the farthest rooms of the water-colour gallery. Each of these end buildings adds 24 feet to the entire length of the whole, so that the extreme length from end wall to end wall is 704 feet. The east facade, in which is the principal entrance, has been greatly altered since its original design. Ori ginally it represented three bold circular-arched roofs, connected by lower intermediate buildings, with ridge roof. The two lateral arches cover the picture galleries ; the central arch roofs over the 56 feet central aisle of the great ball, and the two ridge roofs cover the side aisles of ihe hall. But owing to a line of offices being carved northward in a line with this facade, and the railway corridor being also attached to it in a line southward, the facade is now composed of—palace 200 feet, railway corridor 150 feet, and offices 96 feet; in all presenting a front 446 feet in length. The internal form, so far as it can be seen at once, say from the centre of the transept, is that of the Latin cross, so familiar to ns in some of our finest cathedral, but re versed as to the cardinal points of the extremities. In churches the upper end or summit of the cross is always to the east, and is generally enriched by the great east window of stained glaQs. In the Art Treasures Palace the upper end or summit of the cross is the west end, the'grand entrance being in the great east facade. The dimensions of the principal divisions of the build ing are the following:— Feet. Length of great hall . 632 Extreme width of boll lO4 Length of north and south transepts .., 2OO Width of transepts lO4 ... _ Length of each range of picture galleries.. 432 Width of each range of ditto As to the heights of the various parts of the palace, they have been previously stated, as from the ground level ; but we now give them as from the floor, which is raised considerably above the ground. The centre of the great hall, from floor to the crown of the roof arch is 564 feet ; that of the transept the same ; the top of the ridge roof of the roof arch of the picture galleries is 504 feet ; and the coupled columns are 284 feet in height from the floor. One fact may be noticed as affording akey to the propor tions pervading the construction of the building. Almost every length and every width above enc►nerated',is some multiple of 8 feet. Thus the extreme length is 88 times 8 feet ; the extreme breadth 25 times 8 feet ; the length of the parall-logram of the building 82 times 8 ; that of the great hall 79 times 8 ; the length of each range of picture galleries 54 times 8 ; the length of each centre picture gallery (B and E) 18 times 8 ; of each of the other four picture galleries 15 times 8. The total width of the great hall is 13 times 8 ; of its centre 7 times 8 ; cf its sides 3 times 8 ; of the picture galleries 4 times 8 ; of the openings thereto 3 tunes 8 ; and so throughout— ss to corridors, the water-colour galleries, offices, recep tion-row, &c, 3 times 8 giving their respective widths. ENTRANCES AND EXITS. There will baseven entrances into the building, and, when necessary, all of them, will be used as means of exit ; but one doorway will be reserved exclusively for the latter purpose. The entrances are as follow : 1,2, 3, and 4, within the lino of the great arch of the façade ; each entrance being 3't. 9in. wide. Through these the general public will pass into the palace. 5. A doorway to the right of the above, to be re3erved for the passage in and out of season-ticket holders. 6. The corridor from the ra'lway platform ; this cor ridor is 24ft. wide, and it will be available for all classes, either entering or having. 7. The north transept. This will, of course, be for the use of ticket-holders who approach the, Palace from the Botanical Gardens, or who wish, after• leaving the Palace, tq enter the gardens. _ A door to the right of the great arch (on the north or Botanical Gardens side, and corresponding with the en trance for season•ticket holders on the south) will be for exit only. The south transept will not be used as a means of en trance or exit. THE STATE RECEPTION ROOM. This room (to the right of the grand entrance) is en tered from a passage 81c. bin, wide to the north of the general entrance from the factde. The room is not large, being 23ft. by 21ft.; bet it is to be decorated and fitted in the heat possible style. There are two retiring rooms adjoining the reception room ; and a doorway from the la . ter into the great ball, The decoration is not sufficiently advanced to allow of description. iTIMEHNIENT ROOMS, &O. The first-class refreshment room is near the north-west angle of the Palace, and it is approached by passing out of the north trans-pt and along an open colonnade sur rounding a court 104 ft, long by 100%. wide. The.room is 96ft. by 72ft., but at the south-east corner a space 3Sft. by 241 t. is partitioned off for retiring rooms, &CI The second-class refreshment room is at the sou th- eal t corner of the Palace, adjoining the main building and the railway corridor—it being entered through several doorways from the latter. The extreme dimensions are 132 ft. by 72ft., but 24ft. of the width is cut off and de voted to retiring loom 3, &c., of which the supply is abundant. A word may be said here as to the cooking arrange ments new being completed by Mr. William Donald, the contractor for the refreshments. The kitchen ad joins, aod is at the west end of the first-class refresh ment room. It is 50ft. long, and 25ft. wide. One side is occupied by the cooking range, for roasting and boil ing ; the opposite side will be devoted to the pastry de partment and general preliminaries for cooking ; and the end next the Botanical Gardens is filled by a hot and cold water trough, above which extends a huge plate rack. There are three general ovens, each Oft, high and 31t wide ; and eight confectionery evens, each 2ft. Gin. rgeare. Ad are heated by gas ; they have a number of shelves, and, as a sample of their p ower ', we are t o ld that each of the large ovens is capable of dressing 300 fowls per hour. For boiling or steaming, there are eight of Bamberee's large steam.kettles ; and we also find in this capacious yet compact and effective kitchen two steam-boilers, each of three herpes' power, and a hot-water tank (circulating) of 700 gallons. Hot cosets, hot plates, and the most modern and approved conveniencfs are here. Mr. Donald, the contractor, thinks he ins quite within the mark when he tr , dertakes to cook victuals enough to content 100,000 persons ttaily. Mr. Donald has not yet com pleted the "laying in" of his stock of wines, ales, por ter, &c. ; but he has in his cellars the following quanti ties :•—Champagne, 300 dozen bottles ; Moselle, 100 dozen ; French and German wines, 200 dozen each ; various, 300 dozen. Bottles of ale and porter, 20,000 dozen ; ale, 1,000 barrels ; London porter, 900 butts. THE ORGAN, The great organ, which is being put up, has been built specially for the purpose, by 'Messrs. Kirtland and Jar dine, of Dit kinson-street, Manchester. It has been placed at the service of the committee for the period of the exhibition. • I'sTIOA"'SPAP Ell --- 7 7----- , 4 ,6„ - - 7...,_ , A ;1; • ! i : .., ~, • -,,,...- . . --. : ;;,..,- „ Cf:_ ip, A . ..., - --_ , - yk , - '''''..- ' '''' '' '. '.W ' • 4 1' t.t.r‘c. • - Vfrt' . ,4, T,VA -...) • - !pi ,;',Mbr:,'''',;,-.N';;z." ; :i.".... y.• ~-,—,././ a7al and Military intllliz 2":1 p elage_ ,,,,. ..,. • . / .4 V - I . The sailing transport Mooresfos - at otavich Arsenal has shipped three core , te 'te'afterms of Artillery, a large quantity of reserve stores, and the greater portion of the baggage belonging to the . troops ordered to take passage on board that Vessel for China. The shipment of the baggage will be completed to day, and the troops will embark from the pier at - 2 o'clock p.m. They consist of two full companies of the 13th battalion Royal Artillery —namely, Captain Longden and Captain Middle ton's companies. Lieutenant-Colonel W. T. Craw . ford, 13th battalion, who is appointed to the chief comman.d`of the Royal Artillery in China, takes passage in the MooresEnrt, with Cominissari-Ge npral Young, C. 8., and Dr. Pickett, of the trans port department.. • 1 The Royal Marine Artillery being below its re qUired esta,blishm-nt, an order hai been isitted from the Admiralty for volunteering to he opened from the Royal Marine Light Infintry companies. ihe qualifications of volunteers are that they be not lesS than 5 feet 8 inches in height, of good don . duct; and general intelligence. . On the order being announce" at Chatham yes'erday, 40 men belong ing. to that division immediatly volunteered, •and as soon as they have been approved by the Adnii ra.lty they will be handed over to Captain W. P. Draffen, Marine Artillery, who has ben sent frten Portsmouth to take the command of the voingteera. The new heavy-class stemn-frigate Diadem, 32, is nearly ready for trial of her machinery: she got up steam in her boilers on Thursday in the Null). at Portsmouth. Tile Blenheim GO depot slip of the steam reserve in -Portinaouth harbour, Capt. the Hon. F. T. Pei- ham, CB., li Ls moved from her moorings at the north part of the dockyard to Gosport side, • out of the way of the run of the slip from which the Royal Sovereign screw three-decker is to be launched this day wet'k. Mr. Grant, the Controller-General of Victualling, visited Portsmouth yesterday, and transacted busi ness connected with his department. The ward-room officers .of H.M.S. Excellent gave a complimentary dinner on board on Thursday, in honour of Mr. Charles Stark, on his retiring from the position of mathematical instructor, after a period of 25 years' service on boa r d that ship, dur ing which time be has instructed nearly 400 officers in the mathematical branch of the gunnery course. His total service in the navy amounts to a period of 39 years. _ _ _ The Scorpion, 6, Master-Commander J. Parsons, which was paid off at Chatham yesterday, has been in commission nearly four years, having sailed from Plymouth in 1853. During the whole of that period she has been stationed in the West. Indies, where she was employed as surveying vessel, prin cipally off the northern coast of South America, Carthagena Bay, St. Lucie, St. Thomas's, Sant a Cruz, Cuba, and Bermuda. hile surveying off the northern coast of Cuba the Scorpion discovered a large Spanish v. ssel of 1,000 tons, called the Pri mera de Catuluna, on shore on a reef, and a total wreck. The vessel was bound from Barcelona for New Orleans ; and the Scorpion, after great diffi culty succeeded in rescuing the whole of the pas sengers and crew and landing them at Havannab. On arriving at Bermuda Commander J. Parsons left the vessel for the purpose of continuing his surveying duties, when the command of the ship devolved on the master, Mr. J. P. Dillon. nib Scorpion left at Bermuda the Nile, 91, screw steamer, Captain G. R. Mundy. During the time she has been in commission the crew were generally healthy, and only one death occurred on board. On the occasion of the crew being pad of yesterday, the Lords of the Admiralty awarded a good service medal, with a gratuity of 15/. to Richard Coutts, ship's cook, for long service and meritorious conduct ; a gratuity of 7/. was al4o awarded by the Admiralty to John Richards for good conduct. The Scorpion will be placed in ordi nary at Chatham. The freight ship Admiral, under orders to embark the 23d company of Royal Engineers, bas been de layed at Deptford to complete her fitment. She is ordered to embark 200 tons of engineers' tools at Woolwich, and 17 passengers, exclusively of the company of Sappers. Mr. J. R. Fittock, R.N., late on special service at Deptford, having been gazetted to the post of Agent of Transport Ship ping in China, will also embark on board the A dmiral. The accommodation of the vessel i s on a well-arranged and superior scale ; and the middle deck, appropriated for the troops, is arranged with the various appurtenances which may serve to ren der the floating quarters comfortable and healthy. The gunboat Min; Lieut.-Commander Roe, whose arrival at Woolwich was delayed in Margate Roads from the disabled state of her machinery, was yesterday morning brought up to London by a merchant vessel, and was immediately ordered 'o 'bout ship under canvass, and proceed down the river on the trial of her sailing qualities. , She was subsequently ordered to be admitted into basin to return dockyard stores and prepare for the payment of her crew, to be discharged. Th e Mi nx i s not t o be dismantled for the present, but to remain stand ing. The four gunboats remaining in Woolwich inner basin—namely, the Quail, Ripple, Porpoise, and Clinker—are ordered to be cleared out of Vie basin and removed to Chatham, as well as the mor tar floats Nos. 115, 120, 130, 135, .and 136, which are also to be despatched to Chatham.- Her Mt jesty's steamer Monkey, Master-Commander Syn dercombo, was yesterday morning hauled under Vie sheers in Woolwich basin to be fitted with a new boiler. THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. The Agamemnon, which has been devoted to the peaceful service of laying down a part of the Atlan tic submarine telegraph cable, is now undergoing the necessary alterations at Portsmouth. Her ar mament of 90 guns is being removed, the bold cleared, and her stowage room increased. She is to be fitted with frigate's masts instead of her present rig of a line-of battle ship. It will be remember. d that this is the famous Agamemnon, the flagship which took up such a daring and perilous pesiti.‘n right in front of the united fleet before Sebastopol, and earned such glory for her commander.- On the other side of the Atlantic the Niagara is also under going preparations for the same object. She is the largest screw-propeller in the world, not even ex cepting the famous Himalaya. Her length is 345 feet, beam 55 feet, and burthen 5,000 tons. Tne Niagara is one of that fleet of swift and heavily metalled ships whose qualities have recently been subjected to so searching an investigation. There are already 1,100 miles of the Atlantic cable co►n pleted, and upwards of 2,000 miles of the gutta pereha wire has passed through the machines of the Cotta Percha Company. The total length of the deep-sea portiou of the cable will be 2,500 miles. To this at each end will be a.tached the shore portions, each about 30.;miles long, and consisting of a very strong and heavy cable calculated to resist &vessel's _anchor or any casualty. PEMBROKE DOCKYARD.—The greatest activitypre vails at this establishment, and no relaxation is visible in the construction of the ships on the slips. A magnificent ship-of-the-line, the Howe, pierced for 121 guns, is making rapid progress. She will be upwards of 4,000 tons burthen and 1,000-horse power, and is to be the largest ship of her rating i n the navy. Another of the new class 91's, the Re. venge, will soon be ready for launching. She i s of 800-horse rower, and will rank with the Agamem non James Watt, and other first - rate models. Sh e will be succeeded by the Defiance, 91, also _orderer). Th e Windsor Castle is to be cut in two and length ened, after which she will make a good man-of-war. Her but this will no t b e . will is 6r eleqlauni take however,rank with consideratenew our alterationsn er tinted . present bSehfoe before ratin g she classfirst-rates. There are 4 first-class f r igates build ing, viz., Immortalite, Melpomene, besides Aurora,th e usual bud. Orlando—all pie rce d f or 50 gun s, pivot-gun. Th e t wo first named were sailing ships, but have been cut in two and considerably lengthened, and instead of 60, as originally intended, they will carry 50 heavy guns. The Aurora is entirely new, and will have engines nominally of 40:-horse power .The Orlando is one of the new monster frigates intended to match the large vomits of this class built by the Americans. She will be 350 feet in her full length, and about 3,700 tone burthen, and armed with 51. guns of large calibre. Great exertions are used to push her on to comple tion. The smaller vessels are the Greyhound, 17, screw-sloop, of about 900 tons, and the Garnet, 8, about 600 tons. The whole of the above ships will be fitted with the screw propeller, and in themselves form a squadron of line-of-battle ships, frigates, and sloops, of great size and weight of armament. The greatest care and attention have been exhi bited in the modelling and construction of the new ships, whilst those vessels which have been adapted now so o s o f rapidly better shipsfrom being ha to the screw show a marked su p erior ity over the old description of nished, by the the British navy . c ro 3s d e u l e BEnattreA.—ller Majesty's screw-ship of the line N Capt. R. Mundy, arr i ve d a t B ermu d a from ile, the' West Indies on th e 20th o f F e b ruar y, experienced sev e re ga l e s i n th e Gulf of having g a and the coast of North America. The Nile as la h received orders to proceod forthwith to Eng. n d, and will sail about the 11th of March, if re ' fitted by that time. The Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's have presented the Rev. Lawford W. T. 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