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m0m....... m ,. % :leafed. )leeted. acted. 3lected. acted. ,ired. •elected elected. elected. elected. elected. elected. ected. sleeted. elected. Aected. fired & :looted. [red. ectod, elected. ected. 3lected. elected. 3lected. ired. elected. elected. elected. elected. ected. elected. elected. elected. 3lected. need to stones 1. to Ss 1, each 0, 0 c;f Third. —4 oa —s Oa —s Od —s Od —s Oct d. 19 0 20 0 20 0 19 6 19 6 and sb., I . A-- tern, 3, 20 rand MONT BLAND . IS OPEN ROYAL GARDENS, CREMORINTE.—Open GOOD FRI IIAY and EASTER SUNDAY, for Promenade and Refreshments. Tattle d'ilote at 6 each day, 2s. 61. ea.h. `tried and attractive amus2ments during the Easter Holidays. REAT GLOBE, LEICESTER-SQUARE.- xX DIORAMAS of the CITIES and RIVERS of EUROPE, the ALP., MONT BLANC, the RHINE, and SWITZERLAND ; CRIMEA, &e., And of RUSSIAN' LIFE and SCENERY, at 12, 3,6, and 8. Admission to the whole building, Oue R. W. S. WOODIN'S OLIO of-ODDITIES, with New Costumes and various Novelties, Vocal and Cha racteristic, every evening ,(except Saturday) at Eight. A MORN ING 'PE RFOR MANC E every S LiTITRI) AY, at Three. Private Boxes and Stalls may be secured, without extra charge, at the Box-office, Polygraphic-hall, King William-street, Charing-cross. The hall has been ent'rely redecorated. N.B.—There will be io performance on Good Friday. ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAURENT'S CASINO, Great Windmiii-street, St. James's.—The above elegant Rooms are now open every evening for the winter season, with Laurent's celebrated Orchestra. Principal Cornet-a•eiston, M. Boulcourt. The Proprietor begs to inform the public that this fashionable place of resort has been entirely redecorated during the recess. Doors open at half-past eight, commence at nine. Admis sion One t•hilling. OYA L PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- ILIL, HENRY RUSSELL, TO-NIGHT, 'Monday, A pril6, and during the NV , ek, will give his Entertainment, " THE FAR WEST," or Every day Life in America. The second part, entitled " Negro Life " Mr. Russell will accompany himself on one of Collard and Collard's mag nificent Bi-chord Pianofortes. Dress Circle, 2s. 6d.•; Upper Boxes, Is. 6d.; Pit, is.: Gallery, 6d. Tickets and places may be secured of Mr. Massingliam, at the Box-office, from 11 to 4. Doors open at half-past 7, commence at 8. THE GREAT TOBACCO CONTROVERSY. Dr. SEXTON will LECTURE. en this important 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 completeness of whose contents have already acquired for it an European reputation, and obtained the *arm commendation of the press in this and other coun tries, is Open daily, for Gentlemen only, from 10 to 10. A new Lecture is delivered by Dr. KAHN at half-past 8 p.m. precisely. Ad mission, One Shilling. Descriptive Catalogues of the Museum, con taining Lectures as delivered by Dr. Khan, gfatis to the visitors. CRYSTAL PALACE.-GOOD FRIDAY. Programme of If usie to be performed by the Band of the Coldstreatfi Guards, under the direction of Mr. C. Godfrey. and by the Band of the Company, condacted by Mr. Maims :—Coldstream Guards Band—Overture (Esther), Ha - del ; Selections (Stabat Mate - ). Rossini ; (Elijah), Mendelssohn; (Eli), Ces.a; (Moses in Egypt), Ros sini ; ('fount Sinai), Neukomm ; (St. Paul), Mendelssohn ; Hymn of the Allied Armies, Linlev ; Spanish Chaunt. Crystal Palace Band Symphony, No. 4, Beethoven; ' , election (stabat Mater), Rossini ; Overtures; Van Br - e and Schindelmetsser Marches ; Athalia, NI en delasehn iii, Costa; Chorus of Pilgrims, Wagner; Hollelujoh Chorus, Handel ; Solos, Cornet, Sehnert, Mr. Miller ; Flute, Boehm, Mr. Svendsen. Open at one; performance at two. Admission, One J3ETTS'S PATENT BRANDY is supplied by the Trade to Private Families. in every neighbourhood, in capsuled bottles, in any quantity down to the single bottle. Excise regulat ons prevent the sale from title DI,TILLERY, 7, SMITH FIELD BARS, ST. JOHN-STREET, in any less quantity than two gallons. E CURE IN VESTMENTS.—Messrs. R. HORLEY and Co., 48, Threadneedle•street, Sworn Stock, Share, and Mining Brokers, will be happy to forward a list of carcfally selected Securities, paying good di videtrds. to those who may favour them with their business, and to advise them on the safest mode of investing their capital. Business transacted in the English Funds at 1-16th per cent., and in all Stocks, Railway and Mining Shares, on the moot reasonable terms. A. selected list of dividend-paying (from 12 to 20 per cent.) and progressive mines to be had personally or per letter. B ANKERS and MONEY DEALERS. Messrs. COLLS, LOWE, and CO. (Lets Coils, Thompson, and Harris, Established 1832), 10, St. Swithin's-lane, Lombard-street, City, and 5, Henrietta street, Covent-garden, London. APPROVED COMMERCIAL BILLS Discounted at the current rates of the day for Parties properly introduced. DEPOSITS received at interest, st seven days' notice of with drawal, and for periods to be tweed. upon. FINANCIAL AGENCY BUSINESS of every description tran sacted for Commercial Houses in the Provinces. BY Authority of the French Consul-General.—Notice is hereby given that the following SALE of PRESERVED BEEF will be the last; on account of the French Government. • ALE of FRENCH COMMISSARIAT k 7 SURPLUS STORES, consisting of PRESERVED ROILED BEEF, of English. Scotch, and Irish manufacture, in tin canisters of about 6 lb. each, and packed in wooden boxes containing 12 tins.— Mr. ALEXR. COCKE has been honoured with instructions to Sell by Auction, at the Lyndon Commercial Sale Rooms. Wincing-lane, on an early date in April next, of which due notice will be given, several parcels of the above description of Provisions, composed 01 the manu facture of the following celebrated firms, viz , Messrs. Henry Powell and Sons, London; Messrs. John M'Call and Co., London ; Messrs. John Moir and Son, Aberdeen ; Messrs. D. Hogarth and Co., Aberdeen ; and Messrs. John Gillon and Co Leith. All the boxes for sale are being opened and carefully examined for damaced canisters, the whole of which will be selected and replaced by sound ones; the fact o the beef having been originally mann- , factured in this country under strict inspection, expressly for the use of the troops In the Crimea, where it gave the highest satisfaction, added to its being perfectly free from defective tins, will give every assurance to buyers of its excellent quality and fitness either for home consumption or exportation. Packages included in the pur chase. The several parcels of beef for sale are now on view at Beal's wharf, Mill-lane, Tooley-street, where purchasers may satisfy them selves that every care is being taken in removing from the boxes all canisters unfit for use. Any further information required can be obtained at the office of Mr. Cooke, 2, Old Trinity House, Water-lane, Tower -street, where catalogues may be had six days previous to the sale, at the following places, viz.;— Commercial Sale Rooms, Mineing•lane ; Corn Exchange, Coffeehouses;Baltl67a wa nd ' s' Jerusalem also at the news rooms of the principal inland towns and outports. The sale will commence punctually at the time stated. . CANCER HOSPITAL, London and. West Brompton.—Secretary's Office, 167, Piccadilly.—This institu tion 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 lonqer period if recommended by the medical officers. The number of per sons under treatment as in or out-door patients have averaged far the last three years about 400 cases each year. Since the foury4atlon of this Hospital in 1851, 1,799 poor persons, suffering under every form of this dreadfal malady, have received the benefits of this Charity. A Weekly Board manage its affairs, and every informa tion connected with the Institution may be obtained on application to the Secretary. Contributions to enable the Committee to continue , this great work of benevolence are urgently solicited, and may be Paid to William Loxham Farrar ' Esq., the Treasurer, 66, Lincoln's inn-fields ; Messrs. Couttal anti Co., &rand ; and at the Secretary's Offices, 167, Piccadilly. By order. W. J. COCKERILL Secretary. OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. • Patron—Th Q EN.—Founded 1828. The sick poor are admitted on their own application alone; no re- A mmendation 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 a PPlication : Week ending 7th February 2,095 Ditto 14th February .. - • Ditto 21st February .... • • 2,650 Ditto 28th February Total in February .... • 9,986 of Which 3,379 were new cases, the remainder (still under treat frient) having been admitted previously. The clergy of all denominations have unlimited access to the Patient,. B . eavy expenses are inevitably incurred in affording such exten sive relief. The Committee, therefore, earnestly entreat the aid of t he public. • The management of the Hospital is in the hands of 30 Governors, Yearly elected from the general list of subscribers, at the Animal General 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 all 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, John Masterman, Esq., M.P., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co.; !Terries and Co.; Ransom P rescott, Grote, and C o . ; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Glyn and Co- ; Jones Loyd and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Denison and Co. ; Williams ; Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Ber ners-street ; Masterman and Co.; and at the Hospital. Clothing for the destitute patients will be thankfully received. By order. J. B. OWEN, M.A., Chairman. ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. New and improved Edition, enlarged to 196 pages, illustrated by 100 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel, just published, price, free by post, Is., THE SILENT FRIEND : A M e di ca l W or k on the physical exhaustion and decay of the frame, ftom the effects of solitary indulgence, infection, and the injurious conse quences from the use of Mercury ; with observations on the obliga tions of marriage, and directions for obviating certain disqualifica tions. By R. and L. Pk RRY and CO., Surgeons. Sold by J. Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row • Sanger, 160, Oxford- s t ree t ; and Gordon, 146, Leadenbali-street, London. The CORDIAL BALM of SYRIACUM is employed to renovate the impaired powers of life. Its action is purely balsamic ; its power in reinvigorating the frame in all cases of nervous and sexual de bility, obstinate gleets, impotency, barrenness, and debilities arising from :venereal excesses, hat been demonstrated by its unvarying success in thousands of cases. Price 1 1s. per bottle, or four wan. titles in one for 335., which saves Ils. The CONCENTRATED I)ETERSIVE ESSENCE, an anti-syphi litic remedy, for purifying the system, and is recommended for any of the varied forms of secondary symptoms, such as eruptions on the akin, blotches on the head and face, enlargements of the throat, tonsils, and uvula ; threatened destruction of the nose, palate, &c. Its action is purely detersive, and its beneficial influence on the system is undeniable. Price 1 Is. and 335. per bottle, also a saving of Ils. PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS constitute an effec tual remedy in all cases of gonorrhoea, gleet, stricture, and diseases of the urinary organs. Price 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d , ani I Is. per box. • Sold by Barclay and Sons, Farringd in-street ; Darby and Gosden, 140, Leadenhall-street ; W. Sutton and Co., 10, Bow-churchyard ; W. Edwards, 67, St. Paul's-churchyard ; J. Sanger, 150, Oxford atreet ; Hannay and Dietrichsen, 63. Oxford-street ; Butler and Harding, 4, Cheapside ; Prout and Harsant, 229, Strand ; and all medicine veridots throughout the United Kingdom. • THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. JUst published, price Is., post free, in an Envelope, for 13 stamps, kELF-PRESERVATION.—A Medical Treatise on the cure of Nervous and Generative Debility, resulting from vicious habits acquired daring the critical passage from youth 10 manhood, with practical observations on the Physiology of Mar riage in its social,.moral, and physical relation, and remarks on the i'onders of the Microscope in revealing the hidden mysteries "of a !ire Within life,' and it. utility in urinary examination in detecting 'the cause and effect of every variety of these complaints, with nume rous engravings and cases. BY S. LA'MERT, M.D., 37, BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON, Matriculated Member of the University of 'Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall. London, &c., &c. he essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful con sequences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, 'which have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man hood, and premature decay at all stages.of life, than, perhaps, any other class of disease known to modern patho'ogists. Its perusal is Particularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of their physical condition, end who are conscious of having hazarded the health, happiness, and privileges to which every human being is tattled It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are Principles of personal management which cannot bo violated with out:ln, griev - maides, and when 'wisdom and regret suc- Igence, how those penalties bitterness may be removed, Ly be avoided, and, above all, Pc,l infirmity or functional science cannot apply a cure. 'atemoster•row, and may be reet ; Horne, 19, Leicester ; or from the Author, Wh o nd from 5 till 8, at his rest. .ut incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret suc- ceed the heyday o siderate self-indulgence, how those penalties May be mitigat tdahenardathntortehien evil s earthe sting of their bitterness m ay b e removed, insequ,nces may be avoided, an d , above all, degree of physic +1 infirmity or functi ona l gemont to • timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. Published by ':"8 and Co., 23, Patemoster•row, and 'nay be : l ad Of Hannay and C 04 1 ,63, Oxford-street; Home, 1 9, Leiceste r - tl u are ; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street ; or from the Author, W h o daY be consulted daily, from 11 till 2, and from 5 till 8, at his rest- en ce , 37 , Bedford- square, London. The work may be had in India, of Mr. Von Litzky, Loll Bazaar ; Cal cutta --Messrs. C. and J. liorn2usjee, Apollo-street; Bombay-- Circulator Office Madras—m Mussilite Office ; Agra—Dodsworth ; C l4 OllOO, Ceylon; and of ail Boolssellers throughout the Colonial. , , ( , 20,220.) PUBLICATIONS. Now ready at all the libraries, In 3 vols., THE ROSE OF ASHURST. By the Author of " Emilia Wyndham," &c. " This story inevitably please, because a clever and right-minded woman seems to have really put her heart into the telling of i An air of enjoyment in the writing finds its way into the reading. —Examiner, `` A. very interest'ng novel, fall of high principle and generous feeling."—Meisenger. 4 Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colbnrn. ..Now ready, with Illustrations by H. S. MAxics, 109. Gd., bound, SONGS of the CAVALIERS and ROYND• HEADS, JACOBITE BALLADS, &c. By G. W. THORNBUItY, Author of" Art and Nature at Home and Abroad," &c. "Those who love picture, life, and costume in song will hire find what they love."—Athenmum. The poems show great power, command.of language, and profound thought and feeling. But more than all, they display imagl ration." —Express. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street. This day, Bvo., price 215., the Second Volume of QIR FRANCIS PALGRAVE'S - HISTORY OJ NORMANDY and of ENGLAND. The First Volume, 21s. London: John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. s. NEW WORE BY-THE AUTHOR OF " THE HEIR OF REDCEYFFE." This Day, Two Vols. foolscap Bvo , 12s. DYNEVOR TERRACE ; or, the Clue of Life, _ By the Author of" The Heir of Redelyfre." London : John W. Parker and Son, Nest Strand. ,This day, the Third Volume, with Maps, Bvo., 16a., of EIHE SPANISH CONQUEST in AMERICA, _IL and its Relation to the History of Slavery and to the Govern ment of Colonies. By ARTHUR, HELPS. Lately published, Vols. I. and H., 28s. , London.: John W. Parker asd Son, West Strand. Th:s day, with Views, Coloured Portraits, and other Illustrations, from Photographs, and a Map, 325., •FHE KINGDOM and PEOPLE of ' SIAM; with a Narrative of the Mission to that Country in 1855. By Sir JOHN BOWRLNG, F.R.S., her Majesty's Plenipotentiary in • China. London: John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. This day, complete in Three Parts, with numerous Illustrations, 2/. Gs. 6'l, ELEMENTS OF CHEMISTRY By WILLIAM ALLEN MILLER. F.R S., Professor of Chemistry, King's College, London. Part I. CHEMICAL PHYSICS. 10S. id. Part 11. INORGANIC CHEMISTRY. I6s. Part 111. ORGANIC CHEMISTRY. 20s. London : John W. Parker and 'Son, West Strand. This day, Cheap Edition, 35., THE LANCES of LYNWOOD. By the Author of "The Heir of Redelyffe." With Mosta. lions by J. B. By the same author, THE HEIR of REDCLYFFE. Cheap Edition, Gs. HEARTSEASE. Cheap Edition, 6s. THE DAISY CHAIN. Second Edition, Two Vols., 10s. 6d. THE LITTLE DUKE. Cheap Edition, h. Gd London : John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CCXIV., Will be published on Thursday nest. CONTENTS. I. Alexander the 11. The Last Census of France. 111. The Atlantic Octan. IV. Kaye's Life of Malcolm. V. Roumania. Tr. The Festal Letters of AthanstslUS. VIE Boswell and 13oswelliana. Vlir. The Dilettanti Society. IX. British Relations with China. X. The Past Session end the New Parliament. London : Longman and Co. Edinburgh : A. and C. Black. Just published, price 2d., Part U. of FEIST'S RACING RECORD, containing a complete CALENDAR of SPORT, from the Ist of January to the day of publication. Edited by ALBERT FEIST, Editor of the Turf Department of the "Sunday Times," and Reporter of Sporting Intelligence to the London daily papers, &c. Parts I. and If. may be obtained, neatly bound in cloth, price 6d. or stitched in a neat wrapper, price 4d. Printed and pub shed, on the Ist of each month, by William Wright, Sporting Printer and Yublisher, Fulwood•rents, Holborn. Just published, price 2d., or post free 3d., the 102 d Edition of THE NATURAL REGENERATOR of th e - DIGESTIVE ORGANS, the STOMACH, LAVER:NERVES, L . ' tINGS, &a., without Diedicine, Galvanism. Electricity, inconve nience, and expense, by an easy, natural, pleasant, send infallible remedy, which saves fifty times its cost in other means of cure. Supported by testimonials from the celebrated Proressoi of Che mistry, Dr. Andrew Lire ; Dr. Shorland ; Dr. Harvey; Dr. Camp bell; Dr. GattUltr; Dr. Wurzer ; Dr. Ingram; Lord Stuart de Deeies ; the Dowager Countess of Castie'S Mart ;Be ior-Gen. Thom: , King, and many other respectable persons, whose herlth has been restored by it, after all other means of core had failed. London : Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Rezent-street. . The Third Edition. Just Published, price 55., by post, free ss. 61, 40N TRUE FALSE SPERMATOR Rif UTJA , with the View of .distinguishing the Imaginary from the Reai Sufferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. Translated from the German of Dr. t'ICKFORD. "Dr. Milford 43 hnewn to Engnsh readers by tits frequent praetl eel contributions to German medical literature. This Is the Orel time, he Informs us, that ho has addressed himself to the noa-medi- Cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his powu to cor rect."—London Medical Gazette. "The tribe of Quiet Sympathisers,' and 'Medical Frisnds,' are mercilessly exposed ; and if • this bool: could find its way into the hands of those whe suffer from the com plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would ha saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of leas importance, though it is that which the quacks most rrize— much money.... - ..This volume Li well qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrhosa, and to place the treat ment upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, direly to do much good."—Medical Circular. Unndon: li. lialliere, 219, itegent-street. CONTRACT FOR TALLOW. Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy, Somerset-place, 6th April, 1857. THE Commissioners for execu ti ng th e Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland do Hereby Give Notice, that on TUESDAY, the 21st inst., at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to contract for supplying her Majesty's Dockyard at Woolwich with 20 Tons of RUSSIA WHITE or ENGLISH TALLOW. Parties tendering are to state the earliest period within which they will engage to deliver the same. A for - mof the tender may be seen at the said office. No tender will be received atter Two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, , Ind bear in the left-hand corner the words "Tender for Tallow," •end must be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied by a letter signed by a responsible person, engaging to become bound with the person tendering in the sum of 3001. for the due performance of the contract. PLAISTOW 47:VICTORIA DOCK MISSION. The prayers and offerings of Churchmen are solicited in aid of an effort to supi4ly the urgent spiritual wants of a newly popu lated district around the Victoria Docks. Within the last few years the formation of a portion of these Docks and other caus's have added a population of about 4,000 souls to the spir tual charge of the Incumbent of St. Mary's, Plaistow. A new town has been commenced on a low and marshy tract of ground ad joining the river Thames, totally undrained, and intersectel by stagnant ditches. In a few more years His probable that this district will rival Poplar, Shadwell, Ratcliffe, or St. George's in the number and habits of its population. It is proposed at once to send clergymen to labour amongst these newly-congregated masses, and to increase their staff as circum stances may render necessary. Another generation must not be left to repair the neglect of the present. The object of the appeal is not to apply a palliative of an all but hopeless evil, bat to find the means of its prevention, to preach Christ's Gospel to every man, woman, and child in the district, to endeavour to bring all within the fold of our National Church, to instruct them according to her formularies, and U preserve them in the communion of her faith and worship. Ragged schools have been tried elsewhere with success. Why not try Ragged Churches in School-rooms? We propose. therefore, in the first instance, to have SHORT SERVICES FROM THE PRATER Boax in our Schools, adapted to the capacities of the untaught poor with lectures on popular subjects, musical and other entertainments. The Lord Bish op of London has given his cordial sanction to the work, and has undertaken, at the earnest solicitation of the promot ers of the MISSIOC, to select the clergy, when funds are provided. To aid us in nur difficult task special donations are required for the necessary ontigy for Missionary Stations, Schools, &c. ; and also regular subscribers, to enable us to support an adequate staff of teachers, clerical and lay. It is intended at en early date to submit the scheme to a general meeting. Further particulars will be given by the Rev. R. W. B. Marsh, Incumbent of St. Mary's, Plaistow ; Antonio Brady, Esq., Mary land Point, Stratford, Essex, Treasurer; or the Rev. Alfred W. Mason, Stratford-green, by whom donations or subscriptions f o r five M a= will be thankfully r ece i ve d ; or at the Bank of Coutts and Co., 59, Strand; or Messrs. Dimselale and Co.. 50, Cornhill, to the ac count of the Plaistow and Victoria Dock Mission. " MOJtE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE OR CONSTIPATI ON, LIVER COMPLAINTS INDIGESTION DYSPEPSIA NERVOUS, BILIOUS, AND COUGH, ASTHMA, C ONSUMPTION, H ' /D DEBILTY. D U BARRY'S delicious EALTH-ttESTOR cost in other remedies, and cures tbe er ab en o t v i e ons ING REVALENTA AM A.BICA FOOD saves fifty times its complaints tuien and their ~eldity, heartburn, palpitation of the heart,nervous headaches, consequences, such as hemorrhoidal a. cy, disten sion, neuralgia, deafness, noises in the head and ears, pains at the pit of the stomach and between the shoulders, erysipelas, s n i y o s n t , eria, Poverty of the blood, scroti , thquietude, sleeplessness, erup tions of the skin, impurities and dropsy, rheumatism, gout, nausea and sickness during pregnancy,' after eating,. or at sea; low spirits, spasms, epileptic fltsspleen involuntary blushing, wsiike to society, unfitness for study, loss of g p a e n r a e l r y a s l i s d , me mory, delusions, vertigo, blood to the head, exhaustion, melan choly, groundless fear, wretchedness. It is, ra r o eover, the e t r b e il m i t y o r s ' best food for infants and invalids generally, as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor interferes with a good liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner, and restores the faculty of digestion and nervous and muscular energy to the most enfeebled. Supported by testimonials from the celebrat ed Professor of Chemistry Dr. Andrew Ure, Dr. Shorland, Dr .11ar vey, Dr. Campbell, Dr. Gattiker, Dr. Wurzer, Dr. Ingram, Lerd Stuart de Decins, the Dowager Countess of Castlestuart, and 50,000 other well-known individuals, whose health has been restored by this useful and economical diet, after all other means had been tried in vain for many years, and all hopes OfreCevery abandoned. Analysis by the celebrated Professor of Chemistry Andrew Ilre 1.1. D., F.R.S., &c., &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 USE, M.D., F.R.5.,.&c., Analytical Chemist." Ukase by the Emperor of Russia. Russian Consulate General, London, Dec. 2 , 1847 . The Consul• General has been ordered to inform Vessrs. Barry, Do Barry ~nd Co., that the Revalenta Arabica they had sent to his Majesty the Emperor, has, by imperial permission, been forwarded to the Minister of the Imperial Palace. • • Suitably pa:,Ked for all climates, and with full 14structions. In anisten, lib 2s ; 21b 4s 6d; slb lls , 121 b 225; super refined quality, Ilb 6s ; jb lls ; 51b 22s ; 101 b 335. The 101 b and 121 b canis rs are forty sllll carriage free, on receipt of Post-office order. Barry Da Ba nd Co.. 77, Regent-street, London; Fortnum, Mason, and Co.. purveyors to her Majesty, 182, Piccadilly, also at 60, Gracechnrch-street ; 330 and 451, Strand ; 4, Cheapside ; 68, cornbill; • 49, Bishopsgate•street ; 55, Charing-cross; Upper Bekeplueet 63 And 150, Oxford-Wed. • - s 7 - 11 1 110 . i o ritiN t . ‘ l4 . r4t , 1 1, • . n r t.- •••:- rty '?'7,•„144 , #.141111,6 9k .) 1 • • • - • • • , 3 1 ;c : k i t/ _) -1,, •- V , b. I P tt 7 l 1 1 , fi 'Yr 40,t_z .#0 , . f , • 4 • 4; Pon. `4 , A-ar - 10P IP 7't [PRIG 4 D STA MPI D 51 1 . rings or layers presented an astonishing chart of tree time. When one of these aged trees was a seedli ng , if we turn to profane history, we shall find that then,, when it was a young and tender plant, an event took place which excited as much interest as the seige of Sebastopol—the siege of Troy;, and .if we turn to Sacred history, we shall find that it began its life in the time of the Judges ; that it was quite a stripling when David and Solomon ascended the throne of Israel ; that it had rot ranch more than finished 1,000 years of its existence when our Lord came upon the earth —had - completed its second thousand years during the dark ages of the Papacy—had reached. the age of 2,600 years at the discovery of America, at The end of the 15th century ; and when the 19th century dawned, oar tree . was approaching the end of its protracted life, the same century which proved so fatal for the thrones of so many sovereigns and rulers of the old world saw t'li. monarch of the American woods fall before the ruthless axe of European aggression. Two of these long-lived tree 3; therefore ) would span the whore period of recorded time from Adam's days to the present. In 1806 Wheet,r's " Botanical Dictionary," describing the cypress, states that ono species growing in parts of North America rives in some places to the prodigious height of 70 feet and upwards, and several fathoms in "circumference. Now we find if growing of five times those dimensions.—Building News. THE .?V'EW SPEAKER. (Front-the Times.) Now that we have our new House of Commons, there comes again the question—Who is to be the new Speaker ? That question is already answered, as far as it can be .at present, by the selection of 4r. Evelyn Denison for the-Ainistorial candidate. -The result.of a. contest ought-to . betZtot only r;uccess-, ful, hot triumphant ; and therefore it. is an ob ject to. start a candidate who will command not only. a majority, but the litigest possible majority. Two other names have been suggested on the Miuiste-. rial side,—the Right Hon. M. T. Baines and the . Right. Hop. H. Fitzroy ; and we will attempt a comparison of all three. The first of these is a man. of much ability, and one who has worked hard in his time at secondary posts. His industry and his good temper, his legal knowledge and his official habits, would have been qualificationi for an office which thrsatens at first to be unusually harassing. More than a quarter of tha new House is made up of new members. Whether it be a recommenda tion or not, the country would not have lost by the choice of -Mr. Bathes either an orator or a ram of. the highest Ministerial rank. It is some time since he Made speeches or entered much into debate, and his present official position must bo referred to one of thoSe secrets of statecraft of which the public has . not the key.. Why men of large private fortune, commercial origin, more sense than genius, and more industry than figure, should be selected for the Duchy of Lancaster,--an ornamental place with more pay than work,—is a mystery wholly be yond 'our comprehension. Yet Mr. Baines, and Mr. Strutt before him, seem t o h ave been thought the very , men. for this honourable and im portant post. All that we have said hither to goes ratber for the selection of Mr. Baines ; but there were, in his . case, two obje c ti ons , both of a practical character.. In the first place, be is fifty-eight years of age, and does not carry his years well. Now, we have generally got a Itool deal of work out of our Speakers, sixteen years out of 'Manners Sutton, and eightesn years out of the now Viscount Eversley. It is an object to have long periods of office, as it tends to the con tinuity of the House. The late Speaker felt it ne cessary to retire at the age of 63, and if Mr. Baines 'had followed his example in that respect he would only give the country five years for his pension and his peerage. A stilt more serious objection was, that Mr. Baines is so shortsightsd that, even with spectacles, he can scarcely see across the House. Now a Speaker, if no tongue, ought to be all eyes. His eye is his ministerial o rgan. Ile has to catch the member's eye, and exchange electric signals of the most rapid and confidential character. Blind men can do many things; but not .when they, can neither touch nor speak. _ _ Mr. H. Fitzi•oy is younger by eight years. He is a man of good presence and lofty bearing. He has also the advantage of some preparation for the office as alairulan of Committees. No one doubted either his ability or his experience ; it was only sugges' ed that his natural warmth and quickness of .manner might unfit him for a.post which requires • imperturbable calmness. The post.itself, however, has evide;itly a large fund of tranquillity for the benefit of its occupants, and a hasty Speaker must ba so in spite of circumstances. Mr. Fitzroy may or may not succeed to the family title ; but, while some might have objected that he is therefore not the man to choose for the First Commoner in the kingdom, and others might have thought it a gain that he would possibly not entail an addition to the Peerage, it would at all events be very hard that he should be excluded both from the Com monalty and the Peerage, simply because there is a chance of his elder brother, at the age of 53, dying first without. issue. As a Liberal Conservative Mr. H. Fitzroy would have united many suffrages, and his would, we think, have been a very good appointment. The candidate on whom the choice of the Go vernment has ultimately fallen, Mr. Evelyn Deni son, has in an unusual degree all those personal advantages which we are accustomed to look for in a Speaker. - A tall, handsome man, with a good voice and manner, must be very wantint , to his natural endowments if he cannot command the at tention and respect of a body of Englith gentlemen Mr. Evelyn Denison, though connected by mar riage with the house of Portland, is a thorough re presentative of the Commons of England. His seat for the Northern Division of his county will make him acceptable to the county members. He has sufficient fortune, and is altogether what would be called a singularly unexceptionable candidate, which in these critical days is more than half the battle. In ability he is quite up to the mark= more so, indeed, than his performances in the House hitherto would appear to promise. He is willing to be put in nomination, and will have the support of the Liberal members. It is true he is not so young as would be desirable, being in his fifty-seventh year, but he has the look of health and strength ; and his long Parliamentary career, beginning w;th a severe contest for Liverpool, will be fitly concluded with a peerage. What tells more, however, than all we could say of him is that he will probably be chosen without a coritest. It is not - for us to pronounce very confidently which of these very dissimilar candidates would have proved the best qualified for the work of com bining the various elements of the new House, com manding their common respect, and moulding the whole into a legislative unity. The task will 'be one of some difficulty. There never were so many new members. The losses are those of men who have been brought into harness, who have learnt the rules of the House, and submitted to its discipline ; and the gains are problematic. The survivors •of the baffled factions may well be furious at the retrospect of their suicidal folly, for certainly, if ever men did dig a pitfall and tumble into it themselves, this feat has been suc cessfully achieved by Conservatives, Peelites, and Leaguers. The only chance for those who remain is to recruit their thinned ranks from the 150 new men, and no arts of debate, no powers of declama tion, will be spared to entrap or seduce the more hopeful novices. All this might not bring much work for the Speaker, were it not for that con tinual obstruction which in these days is the great engine of Parliamentary warfare. Everybody donionmg does his best to prevent everybody else anything, in order that no one may Thebe a a better list ofpolitical merits.r to make ge nius now years w e pick ago age is critical and obstructive.Thr ge nius of the we were pulling down institutions reforms, b ut itiOpthveoysitwioilln plans to pieces, And have theis bmuotstageaxinsceltleanllt thatrea sons, not against all that ters 'meet Parliament, and might be. When Ministers gradually unfold their o earnest no have to encounter longer in defence of . a motley . phalanx, to all possible Such re medu:s r . uruciPgetiton a cause has less to be said for it than even the frantic zeal of those who fought for their ancient strongholds in the genera tion gone by. The battle will be waged with less less principle. Thi s con fli ct with obstruc tionthat awaits Mr. E ve l yn Denison, and it will tax i lalrtb and ata Is xal all the powers we can find in one man. A perfect Speaker, as it seems, is not easily found. When shall we find a fit man for any place ? It is only 'some consolation to know that there have been the same difficulties before, and that Men have grown into their places. The office not only tries the man ;it often also makes him. We have a strong faith in the divinity that hedges round the Speaker's chair. We do not doubt that we shall see the new house yielding its wonted homage to its elected c hi e f, an d obeying the national instinct of order. Whence the genius, the vigour, and the patriotism are to come that are to guide the house and inaugurate new measures time alone can show. IRlsu ABM T. —The 4th King's Own, now stationed at Enniskillen, will shortly leave that place, in order to embirh for the Mauritna, Lient.•Colonel Williams, QOM mindirg. LONDON, II URS DA ). - ,ATEIk ,, TING, APRIL 9, 1867. ) fl RENT WESTERN RAILWAY.-LOANS NO(' cn DE BENTURES.—The Directors are prepared to receive Tenders for Loans of Money, to pay off existing Debentures, on the following terms, viz. :—At 5/. per cent , for a period of three years ; 4/. 158. per cent. for five years ; or U. 10s. per cent., for seven years. Applications to be made to the undersigned. ...., _ . CHAS. A. SA.UN DERS, Secretary, Paddington Station, 3d April, 1857. ANK OF DEPOSIT, Na. 3, PALL-MALL EAST, LONDON. Established A.D. 1844. Parties desirous of INVESTING MONEY are requested to examine the plan of the Bank of Deposit. Prospectuses and Forms for Opening Accounts sent free on appli cation. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. ANK -OF LO -N • D ON, )i Threadneedle-street, and 450, West Strand. CIRCULAR NOTES and LETTERS of CREDIT, free ofexoanse, Are issued by this Bank, payable ry its Correspondents in all the principal Cities and Towns on the Continent of Europe, in the British Colonies and Dependencies, and in Foreign Parts. DE POSIT'ACCOUNTS.—The Bank of England having raised the discount rate to XS% per cent., this Bank now allows £5 1 4 per cent. Interest on sums depasited with three days' notice of withdrawal. CURRENT ACCOUNTS are received with allowance of interest to customers, and every description of legitimate banking business undertaken. By order. • MATTHEW MARSHALL. Jnn., Manager, BENJAMIN SCOTT, Secretary. Threadneedle-street s April 6, 1857. OFFICE OF THE GAS LIMIT AND COKE CO., HOIISEFERRY-ROAD, WESTMINSTER, Sth April, 1857. N'OTICE IS HEREBY That a HALF .LI -YE ItLY GENER COURT of the proprietors of this Company will be held on FRIDAY, the Ist day of May next, at 11 o'el.ek in the forenoon, at the Company's Gas Works, Horseferry. road, Westminster. By order. C. BURLS, Secretary N.B. The chair will be taken at 12 o'clock precisely. y ONDON, HARWICH, and CONTINENTAL STEAM PACKET COMPANi" (Limited). LONDON to ROTTERDAM in TWELVE HOURS by the NEW ROUTE to the Continent, forming the connecting link between the Dutch• Rhenish and the Eastt.rn Counties Railways. The Steamers of this Company will commence running between HARWICH and ROTTERDAM, with passengers and goods, on SATURDAY, April 25. For further particulars as to freight, &c., apply at the Company's offices, 44, Moorzate-street (E.C.) ; of Oliver John Williams, Esq., Harwich ; and of H. P. Maples, shipping agent to the Company, 4, Arthur-street East (8.C.) THE NIGHTINGALE FUND.—It i s i n t en d e d to close this Fund during the first week in May, and to lay a detailed Report of proceedings before the Public, when the Trustees appointed by Miss Nightingale will receive the amount subscribed as a record of " Nationsl Gratitude" and to enable her to establish an Institution for the Training, Sustenance, and Protection of Nurses and Hospital Attendants. It is, therefore, respectfully requested that all outstanding sub sc:iptions be forwarded to the Honorary Secretaries; and that local Secretaries :ti•ill be pleased to make up their accounts in order that they may be properly.acknowledged and recorded. SIDNEY HERBERT, / Honorary S. C..HALL, I Secretaries, Office of the Nightingale Fund, 5, Parliament-street, . . Westminster. ALT and: Co.'s EAST „INDIA PALE and 10 1 BURTON ALES. BREwEiY-BURTON-ON-TRENT. STORES:— , L0ND0N...... LIVERPOOL .. • ......... y -street. MANCHESTER SHEFFIELD .. 12, George-street. BIRMINGHAM - ... 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The scats which are at present disposable consist of four blocks of 500 places, each in the most eligible position in tho centre of the great Transept, the front row being about 40 feet, and the back 140 feet from the conductor's seat. These 2,000 scats are all equally good, and no one place has any ad vantage over any other. Parties applying at present can secure their seats being within these four. locks, but until the arrangements are more perfectly matured it is impossible definitely to particularise • position. In allotting seats to those who shall have applied before the 20th of April, pre ference must be given to those who take sets of seats for the three performances. N.B.—No application can be attended to unless accompanied by a remittance for ,the price of the places applied for. It is requested that Post-office orders be made payable to George Grove s at,the General Post-office, and that cheques be made payable to the Company, and crossed Union Bank of London. Subscribers for' annual season tickets for the Crystal Palace are respectfully informed that such tickets will not be available for these performances. The THREE PERFORMANCES are now definitively fixed to take place as follows, viz. —MONDAY, June 15, " MES SIAH ; " WEDNESDAY, June 17, "JUDAS MACCA 131EUS ; " and FRIDAY, June 19, " ISRAEL IN EGYPT." At these performances the orchestra will consist of nearly 2,500 performers, viz.----2,090 chorus, and 300 stringed and a due proportion of wind instruments. The entiro musical arrangements are undertaken by the Sacred Harmonic Society, Exeter Hall: Conductor, Mr. Costa. By Order. GEORGE GROVE, Secretary. Crystal Palace, March 21, 1857. Nr.-41 and Intiltary lat,:uti.;ence. The heact:quarters, staff, and A and B troops of the 3d Dragoon Guards left Chatham yesterday under the command of Col. J. Dyson, Capt. H. Marsh, and four subalterns, for Canterbury, where they will join the re maining troops of the regiment, recently arrived from Dublin. The Scorpion, 6, surveying vessel, Commander J. Par sons, arrived at Chath am f rom th e W es t I n di es on Wed nesday night, having been towed up from the Nore by the African steamer. The Scorpion, on arriving in the Medway, was inspected by Captain Lord Frederick H. Kerr, of the Waterloo, 120, who mustered the crew for the purpose of exercising them in various manoeuvres, all of which were performed in a sati-factory manner. As soon as her stores have been removed into the dockyard she will be stripped and paid off into ordinary. One of the Australian line of emigrant vessels, the Ad miral, nbw lying at Deptford, is ordered down to Wool wich to-day to ship Ordnance stores, and also to embark Captain A. J. Clarke, Lieutenant E. D. Malcolm, Lieu tenant G. D. Pritchard, and the 23d Company of tlie Royal Engineers for China. The Admiral has been especially selected for this purpose by reason of her spa cious accommoddtion and healthily arranged decks (74 feet in height), essentially requisite in the present emer gency, when the transports will be retained in the set.- _ vice as local quarters for the troops on arrival at their destination. On account of the lofty build of the middle deck, it has been found necessary to erect a range of extra beams, iu order to sling the hammocks in an avail able position. The steamship Lebanon arrived at Woolwich yesterday ,morning to embark four companies of artillery, and a provision of war stores for Canada and Halifax. In con secptence of the paucity of hands reserved in the Mili tary Store Departments of - Woolaichakreenal, according. to the limited arrangereenti provided by the estimates granted for the ensuing year, the work of shipping stores is naturally progressing slowly, notwithstanding the most active exertions even beyond office hours. Toe Violet freightship, having shipped a portion only . of her heavy cargo for China, about 800 tons, was yesterday morning haul-d off the pier to give place to the more argent necesity of lading the Lebanon and the despatch of the Engineers. Captain Leopold Grinaston Paget, with theeofficcrs and gunners composing the R field battery of instruction, re. cently formed at Aldershot, arrived last night at head quarters, Woolwich, and joined their battalion to be prepared for foreign service. The horses were disposed of among the troops and batteries serving under Colonel Warde at Aldershot. Yesterday morning a party of 20 junior officers of the Royal Artillery assembled in the mortar-ground at Woolwich, and performed a two-hours' course of 8, 10, and 13-inch mortar practice, firing over a range of 600 yards. The point to which the fire was directed was a 'flagstaff planted on the frequented part of the common. To obviate the possibility of accidents froM the near ap proach of the spectators, a range party of gunners wa! in attendance. Immediately preceding each discharge of the heavy ordnance the precautionary signal was given by a party of drummers on-duty for that purpose on the spot. - The Hastings, 60, screw blockchip, was commissioned yesterday at Portsmouth by Captain H. B. bends, late •of the Royal Albert, for Coastguard service, with a com plement of 350 men. The Assistance, iron steam troopship, got up her steam yesterday in the steam-basin at Portsmouth, to try her engines, before being reported ready for commis sion. The Erebu, 14, floating battery, was taken out of the steam-basin at Portsmouth yesterday. The Drake screw gunboat, Lieut.-Com. A r th ur , was taken into dock yesterday at Portsmouth to have a false keel fitted. Captain Powell is appointed Flag Captain to Rear- Admiral the Hon. Sir F. W. Grey, K.C.8., for the Cape and Coast of Africa command. Some important experiments with signal lights for ships in distress were exhibited at Portsmouth on Mon day and Tuesday nights, by order of the Lords of the Admiralty. They are patent detonating and luminous signal ,, , the invention of Messri. Langford and Wilder, of Birmingham. They differ from those in-use iu the fleet in the brilliancy of their light and the expense of manufacture. The'compositien in the patent is inclosed in metal tubes, whereas the comcoon light is inclosed in paper tubes. On Monday night the steam gnu-boat Stork, tender to the ExcAlent, wont to Spithead about 9 o'clock to test the new invention, under the zuperin• tendence of Capt.' the lion. F. T. Pelham, C. 8., of the Blenheim ; Capt. G. 11. Seymour, C. 8., 'of the Victory; Commander Mackenzie, and First Li eu t. L e thb r id ge, o f the Excellent ' • and Mr. Richard Ni c h o l s , o f Birming ham, on behalf of the patentees. The light showed itself soNbrilliant and diffused at the distance of five or six miles from the point of obserVation that it presented the illusion of a ship on fire, Another trial took place on the glacis of Soutbsea Castle on Tuesday night, when the great light, burnt equally effectively, but the metal tubing drops as the flame burns, and being in a mo l ten state presents a "difficulty," as it is liable to burn the deck of a ship or be Lilo nn into the inflammable rigging, and thus cause as much distress as it is intended to coo- fain succour. This, however, the experimentalists state can be prevented. Singular evidence of the use lessness ot the common signal light—the blue•light served out to the Preventive Service men for night alarms— was exhibited on the latter occasion. Captain Pel ham bade the Coast-guardsman on duty at the' South sea Castle Station strike his light, to show the dif ference between its power and those under exhibition, when the man made several attempts to comply with the order without success. The light would not display itself, the percussion was damaged, or the composilion damp, or some such cause rendered the alarm beacon totally worthless. Further experiments with the patent lights to burn respectively 2A, 5, 15, and 30 minutes, are ordered by the authorities for further testing the efficacy of the invention. The extensive improvements which are being carried out at Cheatham dockyard, and which are progressing rapidly, will have the effect of making that establishment ono of the most commodious in the kingdom. In addi tion to the re-c metruction and extension of No. 2 Flip, which has been lengthened 160 feet, making its total length 360 feet ; No. 7, granite slip, on which the large frigate Mersey is being built, has also been lengthe ne d 60 feet. The whole of these works, together with the erection of a large police-station, will involve an outlay of 59,0001. The galvanised corrugated iron roof over No. 7 slip, erected by itlessrs. Grutsell, has also to bole❑gth- (Hied upwards of 60 feet, at ati expense of neatly 3,0001. Several hundred convicts are also employed in the ex tension and improvement of the dockyard, the estimated surn for convict labour alone for the current year being 160,0001. The gunboat Algerine, in Woolwich dockyard, com pletely fitted out for the China expedition, is now ready for sea, and will proceed to Greenhithe to-day to be swung for adjustment. The following appointments were made at the Admi- ralty yesterday afternoon : • Lieutenants—Walter H. Grubbe, to the Cormorant; A. M. Norman, to the Cordelia. Master--Thomas C. Tilley to the Cordelia. Clerk —W. H. Haswell to the Hastings. Assistant-Surgeon—lt. M'Donald to the Industry. Assistant. Paymasters—John B. Swan to the Castor ; Wm. T. Dixon, to ditto; Charles Fielon, to the Blen heim ; Charles Shapcote, to the Ajax. Naval Instructor—Charles Archdeacon to the Cum berland. Chaplains—Rev. W. Holman to the Hastings ; Rev. John Oliver to the Cumberland. SERIOUS ACOIDENr TO BEE MAJESTY'S TROOP-SHIP TRANSIT. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 8. The Transit, troop-ship,' Commander E. Cham bers, which left this port yesterday afternoon for Hong Kong, with about 800 officers and men of the 59th and 90th Regiments, most unexpectedly re turned this morning with signals of distress flying, almost to the effect that she was in a sinking state. She left Spithead at about 4 o'clock yesterday, and encountered a dense fog as she approached the Needles, scarcely half of her own length being dis cernible ahead. The lead seems to have been kept going, and 10 fathoms were sounded, when the fog cleared off, and a ship was found to be on the Transit's starboard bow. The latter stood on a little further, when seven fathoms were sounded, and another vessel was sighted, and, in order not to give her a foul berth, the Transit still went on, and at length anchored in five fathoms—the officers of the ship congratulating thouselves on having so good a position. It was near Hurst Castle, on her ascertain Some coast-guard officersascertain her name, an the d L p y il m ot i a ng w to e n nt s o h ff or t e o . and told the commander that she was in a capital position. All then went on Well, and the troops turned in and made themselves comfortable. At ienrgi it was discovered the fast, and that there t d h a a y t l daylight, hip p w w e a y s e r, twaking his m w o r a n t was already 5 feet of water in her hold. The; anchor was weighed, and on its being sighted it was found to come up with half the stock gone, thus making it apparent that, on the young flood setting in, the ship had been driven on her anch or , an d h a d a hole knocked in her bottom. The water by this time had rapidly gained, nine feet being reported. The donkey engine was set to work, and manne d by the troops and the crew. The commander then put the ship 'about, and brought her back to Spithead. In coming up, his signals being se en , the officers of the steam factory went out in a steam tug, and she was ordered into harbour. On coming in she was placed alongside the Bellerophon hulk, and the troops disembarked. Five ebgines are to work all night in pumping her, so as to k ee p h er a fl oa t till to-morrow, when she will be docked, artisans being employed all night on the Furious to get that ves sel out of dock, THE GIANT TREES OF CAL IFORN lA. In various parts of the world where the primeval forest still prevails, we come across gigantic trees from time to time, and we desire to put on record some of these nota bilities. Mention was made a year or two ago of a gigan tic totara tree, 37 feet in circumference, which had been discovered in the Canterbury settlement, in cutting a bridle track to Akaroa ;, and a vessel' recently brought home some splendid pine spars from Ne - s Zealand, 100 feet !Ong 'ln Tasmania there is a mammoth eucalyptus, or gum tree, standing at the foot of Mount Wellington, near •Hobarton. It is 84 feet circumference at the base, giving a diameter of about 28 feet. A fire Ens burned a room in it 10 feet by 9, and about 12 feet high, in which 15 people might easily sit down. Its height has been esti mated at 330 feet ; but a huiricane recently broke off a large portion of the top branches. In shape the tree is very like the Eddystone Lighthouse—large at the base and gradually tapering upwards - to the first branch, which is supposed to be 200 feet from the ground. The Colo nial Government parted with nroprietorship of it to, the -present owner, Mr. G. Hul, J.P., of Tolosa, by a grant deed, in 1820 for 2,560 acres of land, for his services as an officer in the Peninsular war. It is estimated that this tree, if cut down and,sawn into planks, would rea lise, at 15s. 100 feet, 3251. But these are pigmies compared to the forest monarchs which grow on the slopes of the Sierra Nevada, in Cali fornia, about 0,000 feet above the level of the sea. These California monsters are of the same genus, though, per haps, not of the exact species, of the ancient cedars of Lebanon. The California grove is in about the same lati tude, the same altitude (4,500 feet) above the sea, and has the same climate as those Mighty forests of the mountains of Lebanon from which King Hiram supplied the timber for buirding Solomon's Tsn3ple.• Qf ,those Lehanon forests ottly—worne half dc2 n' now resbain i near' the summit . tf that lofty range.; while in California we have a grave of the most magnificent ape-' timens, coeval with Solonion and David. - There they have stood, and ba,Ve continued to grow while kingdoms, empires, and dynasties have risen and disappeared ; and there they stand, the living, patria . reh's of 3,000 years ! To these venerable giants, upon a basis of 73 years, the - discovery of Amerlea was but an affair of yesterday, and the birth of our Saviour an incident of some 40 years ago! _1 _ • Drs, Kellogg and Behr, of San Francisco, have named t the Washington cypress (tap:odium gismnteurra.) This world-renowned monarch of the American forest is evi dently of cypress lineage; a species of taxo . dium of Don. In its early growth it has the foliage of the common red wood,-or tizodium sempervirens; but as it advances in age the foliage-is metamorphosed into triangular scale-like, leaves, attached by a bread base, with an imbricated arrangement, similar to many species of the cypress and juniper.. Teie towering world-renowned monarch of the Arne .rican foreFt attains to the height of 322 feet, and up wards of 29 feet in diameter, perfectly symmetrical in all its proportions. By botanists plants were frequently named afttr great men. Wo had Weterleo reads; Wa ter-Joie bridges, Wellington barracks, and Wellington boots, still no plant was called after the Duke. It was about tl:e time that the Duke was taken from us, and the whole country was lamenting his loss, that Mr. Lohb discovered this gigantic tree, and sent ,a specimen of it to Professor Lindley, who found it to be a new genus, and wh - i, 4 prefacing the expression with some very grandi loquent larguage, said, Let it be called • Treliingtonice gigantea." The wood of these trees is as light and buoyant as cork, .and has the colour of cedar, but without its odour. The colour of the bark is a-rich cinnamon brown, sbreddy fibrous, 1 to 1i feet in thickness,, not unlike that of some of the varieties of the e Scetch pine ; but their colour is varied by a sprinkling of rich golden-coloured lichen, which graves naturally on the trunk, and, what is vnarkable, the same species of lichen is common on the trunks of pines in Swit zerlan.J. The heart wood is coppery red and fuetrous ; grain straight and easy splitting ; lasting, but soft. About two or three years ago a Mr. Lobb was sent out by Mr. Veitch, of Exeter and London—one of the moat enterprising nurserymen in the world—for the pur pose of exploring the vegetable treasures of North Ame rica, Mr. Lobb proceeded to the highest range of mountains in California, in which the name of Sierra Nevada, or " snowy mountains," has been given, and when he had attained a height of 3,600 or 4 000 feet, ho found himself in a forest of beautiful firs ; he still ascended, and when ho attained the height of 5,069 feet, there suddenly burst upon his , sight the most magnificent trees ever beheld by man. He was completely lost in admiration of their magnificence and wonder r.t their stupendoue - size ; he was even more asteniShed than Bruce when, he first saw the sand-pillars moving in the d-sisert. These trees were of enormous magnitude, many of them towered up towards 'the skies some 300 -or 400 feet high ; some of them were 30 feet in diameter, and from their trunks planks might be cut of such a large size that one of them would floor a good-eizad assembly room. These trees have all baen named by some appropriate and romantic name, a few of which it may nut be unin teresting to describe. The " Miler's Cabin" is 80 ft. in circumference, and nearly 300 ft. high; it is open in front about 17 it. The "Three Sisters" are a group evidently grown from the Fame root, - about 300 tt. high and 02 in circumference. They are perfect and the moat beautiful ones in the while group. The "Pioneer's Cabin" is 150 ft. high ; where the top is broken off it has a small opening through it. The " Old Bachelor" is quite a forlorn-looking gentle man, having many rents in his back, and the rougheet looking bark in the whole group, and is 300 ft. high, and 60 ft. in circumference, Tho Ifilabaud and Wife" are about 250 ft. high, and each 60 ft. in circum ference. They seem very affectiouate, leaning towards each abet: at the top, The "Family Group" consiets of .26 trees, the father, mother, and 24 chil lien. The father, from appearance, was blown down many years ago. This tree measures 110 feet in circumference, and the supposed height while standing was 453 feet ; the remaining leagth, where it was broken off by fa!ling against another tree, is 300 feet. It is hollow the ent re length, and hap enough to ride into on horseback. Nearly half the trunk is embedded in the ground, and measures 22 feet in diameter above the surface. Tee " Hermit" stands by itself, and is 320 feet high, and 75 feet in circumference, exceedingly straight and symme trical- The " Pennsylvania," so called byntwo young ladies of Philadelphia, is 24 feet in diameter, and 315 feet high. The " North Carolina" is 21 feet across the base and 310 feet high. The " Green Mountain State" is 22 feet'in diameter and 350 feet high. The " Mother and Son" are together 93 feet in circumference ; the Mother is 325 feet high, and the Son 300 feet. Toe "Siamese Twins and their Guardian." The Twins have one trunk, but their bodies are separate at a height of 40 feet. They are 300 feet high. The " Guardian" iitandl by their side. and is 80 feet in circumference and 325 feet high. The " Old . Maid" Stands single in her grief ; her head, unlike any other trunk in the grove, is entirely bare, and slightly bowing. Her height is 360 feet and the circumference 60 feet. The "Adis and Mary" are named after two young ladieii who made the first buggy drive to the grove. The trees are nearly 300 feet high and 65 in circumference, and are very handsome. The " Horseback Ride" is an old fallen hollow trunk of 250 feet in length ; it is separated into two parts. The space ridden through is 75 feet, and is 12 feet in diameter in the clear. " Uncle Tom's Cabin" 'is about 300 feet high and 90 feet in' circumference. The cabin has a narrow entrance and two and a half feet in width, and will seat twenty-five persons ; it is ten feet high. The "Bride of the Forest" is not the largest tree, but is noted for having the smoothest bark of any in the grove. It is 280 feet high, and 70 feet in circumference. The "Beauty of the Forest" is 65 feet in circumference and 300 feet high • it is very straight an d s l en d er , and nearly free of ? limbs ; the top is surmounted with a beautiful and regular green cap. The altitude of the grove is 2,400 feet above Murphy's camp. In one instance, with great exertions, one of these 'trees was felled—not by axes though ; it could not he done by them ; it was effected partly by boring the trunk with augurs, and the wind coining to the assistance of the parties, blew it down, and such was its great weight that a complete trench was made in the ground-; and up the hollow trunk of this tree so fallen a Mr. Lupham, a proprietor in that dbitrict, rode nearly 100 yards on horseback. The trunks of some of these trees are nearly as large as the tubes of the Britannia-bridge over the Menai Straits, or the Conway tubular bridge ; and our railway contractors might plant the Wellingtonia gigan tea by the side of any rivers they wished to span with a bridge, then cut them down and let them fall across the stream ; they would carry the heaviest train that could be drawn ; but still there is one objection—they would have to wait about 3,000 years before they grew to a sufficient size, and railway companies would scarcely wait so long. An enterprising American has been endeavouring to give us some idea of the enormous size of these trees, having stripped off the layers of the bark of one, whi c h he has built up in a circular form, just as it came from the tree, forming a tolerably-sized apartment. And the seedlings which have been reared from the cones show us the character of the growth and foliage. These trees when of 1,000 years' growth are not old—they are mere boys—old boys perhaps, to our senses, but still boys. They belong to a family the most useful of all forest trees. Deals and pine furnish the timber principally used in domestic architecture, and though our wooden walls are built of oak they cannot be navigated without masts or sticks, as the sailors call them, and what magnificent sticks might be cut from someof these trees, which would only be fit for masts for the immense steam vessel build ing on the banks of the Thames, and which is expected to be launched this year. Unless some of these gigantic forest monarchs are sought out, we know not where ntic masts for this leviathan a r t.e to come from. Milton, in his " Paradise Lost," speaks of , a tree used by Satan R 9 a lance : " To equal which The tallest pine hewn on Norwegian shares To be the mast of some great amroiral Were but a wand." This may be fitly represented' by the trunk of one 0, these giant cypresses. The concentric rings or layers deposited by the cap furnish a good chronicle of the age o f many trees, and, applying this test to the trees, it appears that they aye age from MOO to 4,000 years of age. These concentric FRIGATES v. THREE-DECKERS. A correspondent, writing to the Times, says : —ln your leading article of the 4th on the subject of screw line-of battle ships you observe that the Americans, " instead of providing themselves with a line of three deckers, have built a few frigates - of extraordinary armament and great swiftness, and if a vessel like the Niagara should really bo found to answer it is expected that she will keep out of reach of a line-of-battle ship and hammer at her from a safe distance with her ptodigious guns." I be lieve, however, that these magnificent American frigates have not yet reached the speed under steam of our own line-of-battle ships. In a very detailed account of the Merrimac which appeared in your columns tt hen that ship was at Southampton, her speed under steam alone was (I believe, for I quote from memory only) stated to he not more than seven knots • while our own Agamemnon, a 91, the first line-of-battle ship built entirely for a screw, attained a maximum speed of 11 knots ; and the French Napoleon, also a line-of-battle ship, reached the extraordinary speed of 14 knots; though in this latter vessel it was at an enormous cost of coal, and by the sacrifice of a large amount of stowage, in consequence of the great size of her engines and boilers. Before, therefore, a frigate can keep out of range of a line-of-battle ship she must have a still higher rate of speed, which has riot yet been accomplished. Moreover, the heavy (Tuns of the Merrimac are all made for hollow shot and shell only, and cannot fire solid shot at all. Now the range of guns firing hollow shot is lees than that of solid shot guns, and at long ranges they are far less accurate in aim. lam not able to say what the extreme range of the new American guns is, but I doubt whether it is greater than that of the 95 cwt. solid 68. pounders, one 'of which, as a pivot gtin, each of our line-of-battle ships is armed with on the upper deck, while I am confident they are not so true in their range. In answer to the above another correspondent writes : Sir, —Observing in your columns a letter signed "P.," which displays considerable ignorance of the subject, upon which he writes, I take the liberty of correcting some of his misstatements, which, if allowed to go un contradicted, will tend to mislead the public mind. He is quite correct in stating that the Merrimac is Alt; to steam only seven knots, but she does this on a comparatively slight consumption of coal, and with en gines intended and used merely as auxiliaries, she being full-ship rigged and heavily sparred, even for a sailing ship of her class, and having proved herself a good sailor under canvass alone. The Niagara is of a totally different class of vessel, everything (Afety alone excepted) being sacrificed to speed, her builder guaranteeing her to perform 14 knots under steam power alone, and her armament being com paratively light. The armament of the Merrimac in time of peace con sists of 40 guns, throwing hollow shot or sh e ll o f th e weight of 1,3801 b. to the broadside. She is, however, pierced for, and in time of war would carry 60 guns, when the weight of her broadside would be 2,0301 b. ; but if solid shot were used, .which both ship and guns are quite equal to, the weight of her broadside would be 2,4201 b., or somewhat more than the Duke of Welling ton throws from double the number of guns. 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K 2 ;l • 72 ~`= ~i 'G_-~ 6' THE YEW ORGANISATT , RUSSIAN ARN INLE W S PAPE R „ BE A well-known military anther h • ;:"'.?- recurs in military matters so inevit, • "' of uniforms on the commencement of o Yileigrlg and the re-organisation of the army at the end of long war." The correctness of thn remark has lately been evidenced in Russia. Almost immediately after the death of the Em peror Nicholas there ensued, although in the mid dle of a war, a thorough change in the Russian uni forms. 'The palukaftan (a tunic such as our own military now wears, in imitation of the Prussian waffenrock) was introduced ; - the helmet was for the most part got rid of; the uniforms of the officers . was simplified, almost to unbecomingness, by the abolition of epaulettes and of sashes and tassels, besides a variety of other changes made. It was no secret that the present Emperor, even during his father's lifetime, had, as Grand Duke, devoted a considerable amount of attention to the subject of uniforms. An album containing drawings of uniforms for each separate arm of the service was spoken of as being in existence, and as having been from time to time shown to foreign officers who happened to be at St. Petersburg. That even the Emperor Nicholas himself had at one time the in tention of introducing the plascht sc h, or R uss i an paletot, after the . cut o the French caban, as a sort of half-cloak or surtout, may be inferred from a well-known statuette which represents the Emperor in this costume. In his lifetime, however, the in troduction of the tunic probably was prevented by financial considerations, inasmuch as in a matter cf nearly a million of uniforms it would have re quired several millions of ells of cloth. With the accession of the Emperor 11., however, this reason seems to have lost its force ; orders were given for tht introduction of the polukaftan througbont the army, and those orders were executed even without waiting for the return of peace. And thus the Russian army presents at present a totally different appear ance from what it did during the late-war. More im pm taut than this mere alteration of ex ternals is the very thorough change in the orraniqt tkm of the whole army, which, by the breaking -up of the special or separate Dragoon corps and the at tachment of its component regimeuts to the light divisions of the various armee corps, has resumed almost the same form of constitution as it possessed at the death of Alexander 1., with this difference, however, that at that time there still existed regiments of mounted Jagers, which have since then been entirely done away with in the Russian army. The alterations that have been effected in the Russian army are of two kinds—first, those which have simply abolished organisations introduced by the Emperor Nicholas ; and secondly, those which were called for by the progress of experience and development of science in modern warfare, two classes that may be characterised respe c ti ve ly as repeal and reform. To the latter class belongs the great increase and improved distribution of the Rifles (sharpshooters) ; to the first the reduction, we may almost say the abolition, of the "Reserve Cavalry Corps." This body, in its present form, consists only of the eight regiments of the Cuiras siers of the Line, with the Mounted Artillery and the Mounted Pioneers, which remain attached to them ; but up to the commencement of the late war the entire "Reserve Cavalry Corps" consisted of— 1. A Light Division of the Reserve Cavalry, con sisting of two regiments of Lancers, two of Hussars, and three of Dragoons. 2. Two Divisions of Cuirassiers, consisting of eight regiments. 3. One Division of Lancers, consisting of four regiments. 4. Two Divisions of Dragoons, consisting of eight regiments. A ninth regiment of Dragoons was then and is st'll ststioned in the Caucasus. To the above were attached 12 mounted batteries composed of three divisions of mounted art Eery. Of this Reserve Cavalry Corps, consisting, as it formerly did, of 27 regiments, there remain, as mentioned above, only eight regiments of Cuiras siers, with four batteries and a division of Mounted Pioneers. Under the Emperor Nicholas this corps of cavalry was cantoned to the south of Moscow in Orel, Wassnessemor, Tschugujeff, &0., and was an object of special interest and admiration to the military world. The rsrand field days and manoeuvres which it performed in 1837 revealed a splendid and unique creation—one that seems to be possible only in Russia. What on that occasion more particularly rivetted the attention was the special, or separate, Dragoon Corps, consisting of eight regiments, of 12 squadrons each ; in this creation of the Emperor Nicholas strategists believed they detected an in tention on his part to introduce on to the battle field in any future war a new, or, at any rate, a fresh application of an old elem,ent. The original destination of dragoons to serve both as cavalry and infantry, or, in other words, to be a mounted infantry, was intended by him to be revived in this special corps of Dragoons. The regiments that composed it—the regiments of the Dragoons of the Guard and of the Mounted Grenadiers of the Guard —were so organised that on dismounting they each of them formed a complete battili ,, n (or, as we say, regiment) of infantry. Of the 12 squadrons that composed a regiment 10 were distinguished from rile rest as "active," one as reserve, and one as supplementary. Among the 10 "active" squadron's there were two of pikemen, that always remained mounted, and thus the eight regiments of Dragoons in their partially dismounted orga nisation formed eight bat aliens (regiments) of infantry, of eight companies each, together with 16 squadrons of mounted pikemen. By a further sub division of every squadron into elismounters and horse-holders tbeee eight battalions were always provided with eight detachments of troops, that remained mounted and held the horses of those that dismounted ; and to the whole body was at tached a battery of flying artillery. The armament of the dragoons consisted of an infantry musket with a bayonet and a cavalry sabre • and side by side with the trumpeters the re marched also a pro per complement of drummers, so that the 'dra goons, once dismounted, could operate in every way like infantry. • Everything that the most care ful drilling and training could effect had been at tained by this corps of dragoons, and there were fair grounds f r expecting very remarkable results from the application of such an unusual force— which could not do otherwise than take the enemy by surprise. Nevertheless, throughout the whole of the cam.- paign in Hungary in 1849, this corps of dragoons was in no way employed by the Emperor, although there were not wanting opportunities of putting this hobby force that he bad cherished and culti vated for 15 years to the test of the batde-field ; nor even when the Russian forces entered Moldavia, in .1853 were there any of these dragoons among them. It was not till the Oriental war had attained its subsequent large dimensions that the corps of dragoons was called out for active service, and that, too, not excepting the 11th and 12th squadrons (reserve and supplementary) of every regiment. But even on this occasion it was 'not called out to act as an entire body, but was split up into parts. The 4th and Bth Regiments (New Russia and Twer) were detached from the corps, and despatched to the theatre of war in Lesser Asia, for the purpose of re inforcing the only regiment of regular cavalry (the 9th Dragoons) that was attached to the separate Caucasian troops; and of the six regiments that re mained behind for the protection of the coasts of the Black Sea and the Crimea none of them came into contact with the enemy. The question, there fore, of whether the peculiar hybrid organigation of this corps of Dragoons would have ever realised the expectations 'entertained of it must now for ever re main unanswered by any practical test, inasmuch em a spmo Reservene e n n t i t o r n e e g c c l u na a v b ea o nl r v tys e , Ch h oa a rv s pe b s b e : n ne du broken up, its nine component regiments have been sepa as in the recent orga nisa ti on of the army this peen liruapat,recdi t o s f r r p n o s i m ne as t c h w o been converted into 18 regiments, which have been formed, again into nine brigades. Of these nine brigades the seven first have been attached to the six:VT/nee corps, and Grenadier corps. The two last (Regiments 15 to 18) have been attached to the separate Caucasian corps, in which each of the divisions has been reinforced by a dragoon regi ment. There always were attached to every armee corps a brigade of lancers, and another of hussars, forming the light division of the cavalry ; and now, also, in consequence of the late changes, a brigade of dragoons has been added. The original organi sation of the special dragoon corps is thus entirely at an end. It remains to be seen whether, in the new attachment of its brigades to the different armee corps, it is intended that it shall merge alto-. gether in the light cavalry, or retain its original hybrid constitution as mounted infantry. ROYAL COLLEGE or SUEGICONS.—The folio wing gen tlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations for the diploma, were admitted,members of the College at the meeting of the Court of Examiners -en the 3d inst. , : —Messrs. A. Carter, St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica r It. Cockerton, Girton, Cambridgeshire; J.. •Wilson, Whitby, Yorkshire; J. Neal, Birmin g h am; T. H aw ki ns , Spaldwick, Huntingdonshire; IL 0. Thomas, Seacotnbe, Cheshire Glasgow ; G. D. Ker. man,hes ; W. Litster, Brid g t on, Liverpool ; H. ~. C. Peppin , Martock, Somerset; J. L. Thomas, carmarthen ; H. P. Blackmore, Selig- C bury; L. Harris, Broadhempstone, Tones, Devon ; and J. J. Foxwell, Bristol. At the same meetirg of the Court Mr. W. J. Baird, of her Majesty's ship Wellesley, passed his examination for naval surgeon. ,' This gentle. man had previously been admitted a member of the Edinburgh C o ll ege of S urg e ons, hi s di p l oma bearing date' April 10,1852. , . ET. )ear. and 1-reat 38i rand