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LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 1, ) 7. PUBLICATIONS. EAST INDIA HOUSE, 29r1t APRIL, 1857. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That a QUARTERLY GE''I:RAL COURT of the said Company will be bold at their . Horse in Leadenhall-strect, on WEDNESDAY, the 17th June next, at Eleven. o'clock in tue forenoon. JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. bausted. But a f,:w days before the venerable Duches of Glop ster was summoned from this world a ninth chiid was born to the Queen of Eng land, So that an orderly succes.ion - 0 the Briti-h throne would appeir to be among the events on which one may calculate with rea4onable certainty. It is but ju=t that we should add a few words As a tribute of respect to the memory of the late - Duchess of Glocester. Her R - iy,d Ms./mes i was never called upon to play any p7omine ,t put on the pub'ic scen-., but h-r pdvate life was mai kcd by every womsnly virtue, anti by the profu e ex. r-.• cis' of unostent,tious charAy. bile was a distin guished ornamcit of the high s-clety in which she had so long mewed, and her loss will be mostdeeidy regretted by thoPe who knew her best. ORDON CUMMING will give big p 'pular 1. - " K Pictorial and Musical kNTERTAINAKNT illustrative of his ADVENTURES in SOUTH AFRICA every ev,nlng (except Saturday) at R. k MORNING REPRESS'-NT VON on l 4 + TUB DAY, at 3 o'clock. The Lion flutter's Bush People will appear in their Native Dances. Piano, by Mr. Harries Wilson. Admission, la. atuf2s. ; Stalls, 35.-232, Piccadilly. New ready, in 2 . v0:5., 21 a. bound, RIISSI k AFTER. _ THE WAR: The Narrative of a Visit to that Country In 185 i. By SELINA BUNSCRY. " We congratulate AfiS3 runhury upon having written a vey en tertaining book—One that has the merit of being readable from he beginning to the end. Tile author saw all lint she could, and has described with mueh vivacity all that rho saw. Her book is full Ed' pleasant pictures, comineacing with : , zt. Peter,bure and its lions, and ending with the coronation. It will find numerous readers."—t)aily :News. . . EAST INDIA HOUSE, 29 . ra APRIL, 1857. 1 1 11 E COURT of DIRECTORS' of the EAST INDIA COMPANY do hereby give Notice, that the Transfer (looks of the said Company's Stock will be shpt on TID. SDAY, the 9th June, at Three o'clock, and opened again on TUESDAY, the 14th Jrtly ; and 1 hat the Warrants for the Dividends on the said Stock, payable on the 6th July, 1857, under the 11th section of the Act 3d and 4th Wm. IV , cap. 85, will be ready to be delivered on that day. JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. ENERAL TOM THUMB'S FAREWELL vc..X LEVEES at the PlagCE OF WALES .BAZ AAR, 209, Re gent-street, p-evious to a short tour in the Provinces, and tis final departure to France, Germ,ny, and Rusda. This world-renowned American Man in Miniature has no changed in features or stature since he anpe red three times before her Majes y, and exhitited to 6i 3 0,000 of the nobility and gantry in London 13 years ago. Ws in telleot is vastly expanded New Songs, Costumes, Dances, Statues and delightful Imitations and Performance , t. His engagements at Richmond, Camberwell, Stoke Newington Ilermonevy, woolwieh, Ihiltiord,and elsewhere, do not interfere with his three daily per formances at 209, Regent-street. He rides in his miniature chariot daily..—Admission, Is. and 2s. Hurst and Blatkett, rublishers, 3, Great Marlborough-Street. THE NEW NOVEL, THE ROSE -OF- ASIIURST, By the Author of "Emilia Wyndham," &c. IS now ready at al the libraries, in 2 vol.A " We have no hesitatiol in .a serting that' The Rose of Ashurst ' wll be mo , a popular than either Elmira Wyndham,' or ' Two Old Men's Tales.' by the same pen. There is a simplicity and a power about this skilful picture of social ife which r( minds us of De Bal zae. It exhibits a deep insight into the human heart."—The Hurst and Blacken, Publishers, euccessors to Henry Culburn. DDRENCHEXHIBITION. The FOURTH A NNITAL FXIIIBITIO' cf PICTUIIItS by Motle-n Artists oithn FRENCII SCHOOL will OPEN to the Public on MONDAY, the 4th of May, at the, French Gallery, 121, F:+11-Mail, opposite the Opera Colonnade. Admission, One Shilling; Catalogues, Sixpence each. Open from ten to six daily. B. FROD:gIAM, Secretary. DR. KAHN'S MUSEUM, 4, Coventry-street, Leicester-square. Programme :—Lecturcs by Or. RAMC, daily, at 3 o'clock, on highly Interesting and instructive Topics ; and Dr. SEXTON, F. 11.0.5, F.E.S.„ u follows: At half-post 1 —The Ph-nomens, Curiosities, and Philosophy of the Sense of Sight At 4- 1 he Gre tt Tobacco Controversy. At half-past 7 —The Food we kat; its Use., vreparation, Adulteration, and Digestion The Museum contains 1,000 Models and Preparations, and is wholly unrivalled in the world. Open-daily, for Gentlemen on v, 1,111 till 10. Admission. One Shilling. Catalogues, containing Dr. Kahn's Lectures, gratis to visitors. TREASURES OF ART TREASUS OF TAE UNITED KINGDOM, OPEN AT MANCHESTER, MAY 5Tu, 1857. SEASON TICKETS, 2/. 25., may ha obtained at- the Offices of the slibition, 100, MoCey-street, Manchester; abo in London, W. H. %METH and SON, 185. St:llnd; Mr. SAM'S, Royal Library, St, James-street; Mr. MITCHELVA, Roy Library, NewTtond-itreet; &CO , Royal Exchange; SMITIL& , .157, - Strand ; eld at TIME & SON'S, Church-street, Liverpool. —By order. 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Return tickets at single fares, with the addition of a small booking fee. are issued at the Paddingtm Station far slough and ' W indsor by any Train on Saturdays and Sundays, available for the Ratan' Journey by any Train up to Monday evening. LONDON and r RAIL '"A.Y.—CONTRAC' Prepared to receive Tenders for Stores, viz.:— Ito. of Contract — Brass Sheet and Tubes for motives 2. Iron TubeS 3. Copper 4 . Canvas !. Carpets and Rugs 1. Axles IF Coals u. Crucibles 1 0. Curled Hair 12 . Co'ours 12 a.nrysaltery ; 3 - Coach Trimmings it Cotton waste 15 . Rags, Ropes, &c. 6. Glass, Plate Ifs. Glass, various 17f2 Lamp Cottons 'OR TH-W EST ERN 1.4 for STOKES.—The Directors are the Supply of the underaientioued No of Contract -18. Leather. I Sa.Leather 19. Lead, White and Red I9a. Lead, Ingot, Sheet and Pipe 20. Iron, Yorkshire 20a. Iron, Staffordshire 20b. Tyre Bars 21. rrcn Castings 25. Wheels 24. Oil, Linseed 25. Oils, various, and Turpentine 26. Oil Cloth 27. Steel 28. Sprinokand Files 29. Tin Block 31. Varnishes 34. Hats 31. Caps .- . SPeciiication and Forms of Tender may be had on and a fter Mon .N',, April 20th, on application to the Secretary , E aston Station ~.ondon. Forms of Tender for each Contract are printed separately, and Parties applying should state the particular Contract or. Contracts for Which they propose to tender. Patte rns may a l so b e inspected on and after Monday, April 20 th, e a'n't Ten till Four o'clock, at the Company's Pattern Room , Easton tation, and any farther information require t may be obtained on aPPlication to the heads of the several depar,ments. Tenders may be sent in before Ten o'clock on Monday, May 4th. By order of the Directors. C11A.3. E. STEWART, Secretary. Euston Station, April, 1857. eI . ANCER HOSPITAL, London and West Brompton.—Pecretary's Office, 167, Piccadilly.—This Institu -1011 has been established exclusively for the treatment of the poor V i ntoted with cancerous diseases. Out-door patients to attend at 16 7, ?fachily, on Tuesdays, at 2 o'clock. In-door patients aro admitted Pe the Brompton Estagishment, for one month. and for a longer 2 1 '104 if recommended by the medical officers. The number of per sons under treatment as in or out-door patients have averaged for the last three years about 400 eases each year. Since the foun4ation of this Hospital in 1851, 1,719 poor persons, suffering under every A ". n n of this dreadful malady, have received the 134nefits of this ;',„ o a rity. A Weekly Board manage its a ff a irs, and every informa n connected with the Institution may be obtained on app lication to the Secretary. Contributions to enable the Committee to continue this great work of benevolence are urgently solicited, and may be Sold to William Loxham Farrar, Esq., the Treasurer, 66, Lincoln's- Inn ; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand; and at the Secretary's OM cos, 167, nceedlll9. By oreler. W. J. COCKERILL Secretary. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. Patron—The QUEEN.— Founded 1828. The sick poor are "'Emitted on their own application alone; no re flo-nmendation is required. D uring the past month the following number received the benefits ... "' this Charity, either as out or in-door patients, on their personal a; plicatior ; 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 'up) having been admitted previously. be lrdientif. Clergy of all denominations have unlimited access to the D eoxY expenses are inevitably incurred in affording such eaten ,h, e r elief. The Committee, therefore, earnestly entreat the aid of the public. The , management of the Hospital is in the hands of 30 Governors, Yearly elected from the general list of subscribers, at the Annual, iez,ieral Meeting in January. A Board is held every Thursday, at 4. e . lee k (Rev. J. B. Owen, Chairman). to conduct the business, '„•• a TIY subscriber may attend, if o disposed, the Board being at ell Limes desirous of receiving suggestions or giving explanation. 4 T he Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on volun ncontributions and legacies, which are received by the Treasurer, Illusterrnan, Esq., M.P., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts i n ' Ca. • Drummond and Co.; Berries and Co.; Ransom and Co. r esvott i , Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Glyn and Co. ; Deacon Loyd andßarclay and Co.; DenisonWilliams, Clothing , and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Ber "ers-street ; asterman and Co.; and at the Hospital. for the destitute patients will be thankfully received. By order. J. B. OWEN. M.A.. Chairman. TAE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF le oirrn AND MATURITY. ju3 t Published, price Is., post free, in an Envelope, for 13 stamps, SELF -PRESERVATION.-A Medical Treatise an re on the Functions and Disorders or the Generative Syste m, f ro ' on the cu of Nervous and Physiral Debility, resulting t o Ti vicious habits acquired during the critical passage from youth 14 tohood, with practical observations on the Phystology of Mar rtr In its social, moral, and physical retations. To which are added rnysatrks on the wonders of the Microscope in revealing the hidden uri n „ eri es "of Life within Life,' and it^ advantages in detecting, by c oto ',7 examination, the cause and effect of every variety of these D ' al nt% with numerous engravings and cases. BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D., 37, BEDFORD SQUARE,. 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(From the Daily News.) The death of the last of the fifteen children of George 111. carries back all minds over a large space of time, and would create a historical interest in connecfori with the cleat?' of the Duchess of Gloucester, if there had ben much less than there s of personal interest attending the character of tt e am•able princess who has just departed. Her birtl. and her tile by marri.ige, recall some associations which it may be useful t) revive, under the altered eircumatances of a new century and generation. The _ _ disc ntents which exis'ed for a tim© between the father and th© father-in-law of the dec.:rased Prin- cess produced consequences on h. r life—and that 01 most (f her family—and on mnra's and wel- fi!e; which ought riot to - be I - Orgotten in a review cif her character and position, and wh'e'l are not yet over in rtg-=rd to the existing genera'ion. George ILL married, in 1761, the Princess Char ktte of Me3kleuburg-Strelitz. He was not satis fied with pleasing himself in his own marriage, but fully expected that his brotb. , ra would please, not themselves, but him, in their marriages. They did.nOt do so ; and when he was a sober married man, with half-a-dozen children, he was excessively scandalised at t‘le discovery that the Duke of Cum berland had married • Mrs. Horton, and the Duke cf Gloucester the Countess Dowager of Waldegrave. There wt re immediate political consequences arising from the family quarrel—the Opposition finding !heir s; it and forces at once revived ; but a more permanent, and far wore serious, consequence waq, that the Royal Marriage Act was devised by the King, and carried through Parl'annent with a Ugh hand, in the midst of pilitests and remonstrances from Burk(3, Lords Camden and Rockingham, and others, and many firebodings of the mischief it would cause. Under thjs Act no descendant of Ge- , rge 11. could marry under the age of 25 with out the King's consent; nor after that ago other wisp than after applyin g to the Privy Council (in case of the Sovereign's disapprobation), and wait ing a year to s - e whether either House of PaTl;a -uaetit would address the,King against the marriage —which, in that case, could not take place. It was too lab now, htppily, b overthrow the Duke of Gloucester's marriage, which had taken place five years before. It was d , elare4l at court in the autumn of 1772, the same year tint the Royal Mar- riage Act passed. The fanaticism of the German Queen for royal quarterings, which even exceeded the passion of the King for prerogative, war ne ceFsarily mortified this time ; but both were re solved that it should- be the last. Their children should marry royalty, or not marry at all. They never doubted whether they could enforce thcir decision when once they had the law on their s:cle. Certain other, prior, and greater laws of human nature they made no account of. After the birth of two daughters, the disconnte naneed pair had a son, who remained the only one. He was born at Rome on the 15th of January, 1776; and all the English in Rome were preselit at his baptism, the next month. On the 25th of the following April was born the 11th chid of George Princess Mary, who was to be the wife of the little Cousin at Rome. The event was signalised by arather remarkabl- address presented (on the day of the baptism) by the Lord Mayor and Corp sr.tion of London—an address which contained a sermonon laws, liberties, and theglorious Revolu tion, which did not seem to have much to do with the infant princess, and which got a very short answer from. the King. That was the time when the Americans were preparing their Declaration of Independence, which was promulgated on the 4:h of the next July ; and when M. Necker was put at the head of French finance—a time at which King George did not want to hear anything about liberties and revolutions,- and when accordingly all manner of people were seizing every opportunity of preach ing to him about them. During the long course of years in which many of the other members of the family were involved in the penalties and perplexities of their rank, with regard to love and marriage, it was believed that the Prin ces Mary and her cousin, the Duke of Gloucester, were attached. :She was interested in his Cambridge life (his education being finished there) ; and she gloried in his receiving the General's thanks in the field, when he was fighting in Flanders, so early as 1794. He proved himself both' a gallant and able soldier, and really won his rank—which rose to that of field-marshal in 1816. When the young people were one-and-twenty the princess Charlotte was born ; and as it soon became understood that there would be no heir apparent if the Princess of Wales lived, the necessity was admitted of keeping the Duke of Gloucester single, to marry the pre sumptive heiress of the throne, in case of DO eli gible foreign prince appearing for that function. For twenty of their best years the Duke and. the Princess were kept waiting, during which interval (in the year 1805) he succeeded to his title on his father's death. Everybody liked and loved the Princess Mary, who was a pattern of duty and sweetness through all the family trials she had to witness and share in ; and the Duke, though not a man of much political ability, was in that part of his life a Whig, and on the generous and liberal side of almost every question. We are obliged to say " almost," because he supported with bis whole force the exclusion of Dissenters from the Univer sities, when he was Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, after the death of the Duke of Grafton. Oa the anti-slavery question be was as earnest in his own way as Wilberforce in his, and kind and helpful in all matters of charity that came before ltonsilly tells us a curious thing of him— that be volunteered, in a tete-a-tete with Sir S. Romilly, his declaration that Queen Caroline was innocent, and that her accusers were perjured. He latterly became a Tory ; birt, for the greater part of his life, the same genal spirit of ratify and personal unassumingness distingu'shed him and the Princess Mary. As for her, she pleased old and . young alik e . L or d Eld o n used to tell with delight a ioke of Queeu Charlotte's---about, the lad person id the world whom any one would suspect of jesting. Her Majesty used to cha'ge the Lord • Chancellor with fiirtng with her dangater Miry ; and the Chancellor iael to reply that he was not Emperor, King, or Prince, and that, moreover, he ' was married already—a reply which reminds u 3 of that reported by Charles Lamb of §ix Scotchmen, who, on somebody wishing that Burns was present, all started forward on their seats to 'declare that that was impossible, because Burns was dead. But we must suppose that Lord Edon, who realty had humour in his way, considered the above as near an approach to jocularity as could be permitted in the presence ef royalty. In 1814, when the Prince of Orange was in Eng land, and his fat er announced his approaching mairiale withalic,Princess Charlotte, Princess Mary looked bright and happy, Lerd Malinesbnry re corded in his diary what her manners were like when the charm of youth was past, and the 'charac ter of womanhood was marked. He said she "was all good humour and ple'isantness ;" adding, "her manners are perfect, and I never saw or coaveved with any princess so exactly what she ought to be." And no one living, perhaps, knew more princesses, or more .of what they really were, than the old di plomatist. The Prince. of Orange went away, and Princess Mary. droopeJ. Everybody was saying that the Duke of Gloucester must be the Princess Charlotte's bridegroom of er all. But a few months more put an end the long suspense. When the Princess Charlotte descended the great staircase at Carlton House, after the ceremony of Ler marri , iote, she was met at the foot with., open arms by the Princess Mary, whose face. is bathed. in tears. The D uke -anet.Ducblaaas of 6' l ester were :married in a few weeks—oh the 23d of Jcly, 181 g. The bride's demeanour was so interesting and affecting that it opened the sluices of .Lord Eldou's ready tears, which he declared ran down his cheeks ; but the Caief Justice, Lord Ellenboraugb, also present, niust have been in another mood. Some 'persons were talking in a corner of the crowded room ; and the Chief Justice called to them, iu the in'dst of the ceremony, "Do not make anch a noise in that corner -if you do, you shall be married yourselves." It is rather pathetic now to think of the details of that marriage—the crowded saloon—the royal mother and sisters on one. sidee the altar, and the royal bre thers on the other—the bride, though no longer young, "lot king ,very lovely," in a remarkably simple dress ; to remember how the scene was re lated at every fireside in England; and th;-ii to think that none of the family, and probably no one who was .present, survives. No application was made to Par!iament for an increase of income in this case The benevolent habits of the Duke and Duchess had taught them in a prac - ical way the value of money; and they arranged their plan of life so as to make their means suffice, and leave enough for much support -of schools, and aid to many a good cause. They lived together eighteen years—the Duke dying in November, 1834. It surprised n one that3his wife proved herseT the most assiduous and admiraLie of nurses-during her husbands de•Aine. After his death, she livetin as much retirement as her rank admitted, doing good . itch re she' could, and universally beloved. She saw the last of her immediate relatives drop from her side, and her self left the survivor of that long family t ain that used to look so royal and so graceful when return ing ;the ' , admiring: salutations of the public on the terrace at Windsor. All that kn.; series of haat t histories was closede The wretched avowed mar riages, . and the wretched, or happy, or chequered secret marriages, and the mete formal st Ate mar riages, which took place in consequence of the Princ , si Charlotte's decease, were .alike dissolved by death. What a .world of misery could th'i sur vivor haye told of, arising from the laWamade in comeatability between royalty and the natural provi , iion for the domestic affeetiona Tice elabo rateend publio prep..ration required by VI e Mar riage Act in left own care, by which her marriage was made an act of the s!a•e, was painful enough ; but her lot, with its-one steady affection, long in suspense and late gratified, was a happy one in camparisen, perhaps, With that of any other mein -ber of the family ; and many a painful meditation must she have had on that.piece of enforced seer - lation of her father's early and headstrong yews. Those varloes love stories are bidden now in the grave 2 • and she who was the depositary of so many them has followed them thither. There, then, let them rc t. But the lesson they yield should not be neglected. There was a strong. hope that when .our young Queen Victozis, who was at fulldiber%y, as Sove reign,,, to please het self in marriage, had m id) her choise, this wretcl - ia and demoralising Marriage Act, always reprobated by the wisest and Lest men of the time, would be repeale 1. There were then none left of the last generation who could be pointed at, or in any way affected, by such a iepcal ; and -it was thought that it would ba wise to do the thing before there was a new generation to introclucedifficul'y into the case. The opportunity has almost been allowed to slip from ut. The royal children have ceased to be children, at least the elder ones. Meantime, there as .we all kn .w, a wrong and growing popular distrust, in our own country and in others, of she close dynastic connexions which are Multiplying by means of tho perpetual intermarriages of a very few families. The political difficulties recently, an I indeed constantly, experienced from the complica tion of family interests, involving almost every throne in Europe, are a mattar of universal feeling and conversation. Thera is no chance for the phy- Bice! and intsllectual welfare of coming generations when marriages take place among blood rely ions ; and there is no chance for reothlity and happiness when, under legal or st tte compulsion, young peo- . ple love in one direction and marry in another. No evils that could possibly .arise from mar, isges out of the royal pate can for a moment compare with the inevitable results of a royal m triage law like ours, perpetuated through other generations than the unhappy one that is gone. -Royalty will have quite difficulties enough t 3 contnd with, all through Earope, in coming times, wltlrtut the perils consequent oa this law. Its operations will expose all the intermarriedroy d families in Europe to criticism and ultimate rejection by peoples who will not be governed by a coterie tat :3ersons diseased in body through narrow intermarriage, enfeebled in mind,—strong only in their prejudices, and large only in their self-esteem and in their requirements. There is yet time to save the thrones of Earope— or at least the royal palaces of England—from the consequences of a collision between the great na tural laws ordained by Providence, and the narrow and mischievous artificial .law ordained by a wilful King of England. The King,is in his grave, and the.last of his children is now gone to join him there. Let the time be lsid hold of to bury his evil. work in the tomb which is now to be sealed over him and his for ever ; and the act will be gratefully acknowledged by a long line of fu ture ptinces and princesses, who will be spared the bitter suffering of those who have gone before. It can never be, as was said by wise men 89 years ago, that royal . personages Who are declared of age at 18 will have no wilt of their own, in such a natter as marriage, at five-and-twenty. Marriage is too solemn and sacred a matter to be so treated as a piece of state politics ; and the ordinance which is holy in' the freedom of priva'e life may be trusted with the domestic welfare of .prince and peasant alike. ( From the Times. ) • The last of the childron of George 111. has de- I parted this life. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Glocester, expired yesterday morning at the age of 81. She was born on the 25th of April, 1776, and consequently had long passel the ordinary limit of human life. It is impossible not ti feel that the extinction by the death of this Royal lady of a family placed in so eminent a station is a note• worthy event. There were thirteen chddren born from the marriage of Geor.ze 111. with Queen Char lotte—George Prince of Wales,. afterwards Ge irgo IV. ; Frederick, Duke of York •, William, Dukeof Clarence, afterwards William IV. ; Edward, Duke of Kent ; Ernest, Duke of Cumberand, afterwards King of Hanover : Augustus, Duke of Sussex : and Adolphus, Mike of Cambridge. Of the six daughters three died unmarried, and three were married. The names in the order of birth Stand thus :—The Prince=s Royal; Charlotte Augusta, who was married to the King Of Wurtemberg ; the Princess Augusta, who died unmarried ; the Prin cess Elizabeth, who was married to the Prince of Hesse , Homburg ; the Princess Mary, the lady jest dead, who was married to her cousin the Duke of Gloeester ; and, finally, the Princesses Sophia. and Amelia, both of whom died unmarried. With Bo copious a race there was little danger of a disputed succession or of a vacant throne. It ig'singular, however, how few in .nuniber are the representatives of this numerous' family in the pre sent generati ,, n. Queen Vicloria, the King of Hanover, and the three chirclren-Of the late Duke of Cambridge are, we believe. now the only sur vivors, and the .Princess Charlotte, daughter of George IV., is the only one who has passed away. There is, however, happily but' able chance that the Royal Family of Angland will be ppeoclily ex- - Shortly after c:glit o'clock yesterday mornin her Majesty's Lord Chamberlain arrived at Glou cester House, *hen orders were issued to her Ma jesty's upboNterers, Messrs. Banting and Son, of St. ' James's-street, Piccadilly, f r the nec ssary arrangements for her Royal _Highness's funeral. In accordance with the desire of the late Duchess, the-funeral proceedings will be .conducted in a eoni 7 paratively private manner, with the exception of the presence of a detachment of the Life Guards to escort the funeral cortege to the terminus of the Great Western Railway, Paddington. Nothing beyond the ord.ina7 display observable .at the funeral of a private individual will take 'place. Orders were received yesterday morning at Windsor for the opening of the royal mausoleum in St. George's Chapel. The remains of the illus . - trio - us deceased will be placed by the side of her _ royal husband. THE " GRSAT EASTERN." An old proverb says that " there is nothing new under the sun." With regard to travel abroad, and its ordinary sigh's, this may be true. Everybedy knows all about the C. imea. Constantinople, and the gaudyevretchelness of the East, is as hackneyed as- Otteapside. Most Blanc is as well known as Primrose-hill. The Pyramids exhibit huge posters about " Warren's Jet." Ararat, w:th its unbroken solitude of ages, has been invaded ; and even the grim icy caverns of the Arctic regions withhold no secrets. The last of the exclusive places is about to be opened to us ; and what between correspon dents, amat .urs, and artists, Hong Kong will soon be as familiar as the Isle of Dogs, and the mystery of the internal domestic economy of the Celestial Empire a thing of no account. What remains to be seen ? Where is a man to go for a new sensaton or a novel sight? We think we can say. On either side of the river, in the midst of these dreary regions known as East Greenwich and Millwall, where the atmosphere is tarry, and every thing seems slimy and amphibious, where it is bard to say whether the land has been recc'ied from the water or t'n water encroached upon the land, where the shops sell anchors, ship's cables, how itzers, hemp, hammocks, and other rantical re maius, or at most only rise • to the elegancies cf tarpauliog suits, limp sou' westers, and such lice weather beat en fuxuries,—two gigantic .schemes are in progress, which, if not entre novelt'es, are at hetet as near approaches to it as this geom ration is ever likely to witness. That at East Greenwich is the manufacture of the great At'auCc Submarine Telegraph ; at bill lwall lies Scott Russell's leviathan Ship the Great Eastern. At the former place the visitor (if not also a shareholder) can realise the great idea. There in a comparatively small compass, cAI over c-Ul, till the eye is pained and dazzled in attempts ter follow it, lies the monstrous cable, like the endle s sn tke of the Scandinavian mythology, which was said to. encircle the world. But with the Great Eafeern steamship the case is different. It is difficult, if not entirely impossible, for the mind to appreciate and realise its immense hulk at once. The visitor notches no glimpse of it till he enters Scott Russell's yard, when, though the ship is still at a considerable distance, it seems suddenly t ) shut him in—a mount sin of metal across his ; ath—while all around are scattered ponderous mosses of giriers, fuant ls, bulkhead=, bodere and machinery, like the debris of some colossal iron world. So vast is the bulk of the huge:/ark that from no one point, save at the riser's side, cin the eye take iu its whole proportions, and even then its immensity is so great in comparison with all the notions previously con ceived of monster ships that it seems to elude cern prehunsion and weigh upon Ile mind—a kind of iron nightmare—a phenomi.non, hard_ and unrealis able. It is useless looking at it, so you try by details to bring the mind to an approximation of i's wander about the yard in search of familiar objects which may restore to,their inn your dis ordered ideas of proportion. On the ground Icm something like a field of red' iron with a kind of hedge of the same meterial all round it, and on this you walk unto you find it t ) lnthe last and. smal est of the bulkheads or water-tight compa'tneuts, and which in the course of a day or so will be lifted bodily 100 feet into the air, and placed in the stern of the ship. Again disturbed in your fancies, yon seek refuge iu the contemplation of a labyrinth of Bp ,kes and' stays, a semi-circle of iron like the sup ports of a building—wider across than King Wil liam-street, larger than the circus at Amtiey's, and which 'instinct soon tells you con be nothing less than part of one of the great ship's paddle-wheels. By this time, half used to the Br obdignagian word around, the visitor can coolly walk down a couple of long iron tunnels, which iu lightnese cheerful ness, and general population, remind him forcibly of the Burlington-arcade. He knows these are two out of five of the ship's chimneys, but is reconciled t r the fact and foals that on the whole they are quite what he expected. So' with a row of red build ings which at first look like houses and seem the iron suburbs of the vast edifice which towers above them. These are the boilers, though the wildemt ideas as to their use seems to pervade the mass o visitors who peep in at the manholes. They are evidently looked upon (especially by the ladies) as mere iron technicalities quite dist:nct from the ship, though useful in some remote and unexplained de gree=probably as mode's, or as adjuucts t ) the captain's toilet-. Each of these boilers, however, weighs 45 tons, and is intended to work at a pre :- sure of 251 b. to the square inch. • Some have alfearly been tested with the hydraulic pump, w:th a force of upwards of 601 b. per square inch, and proved so soiid and faultless in their construction that a pres sure of 100 lb. might have been applied with safety. The sight of such objects as these around gra dually restores_ the visitor's mind, and predis poses him for appreciating bulk ,at least. He somehow expects to find everything large and in keeping with the "monster of the deep," and turns with disappoint ment from the aspect of tall fact3ries and large trees which aredwarfed to things of paltry insignificance. In this frame of mind, if he ware to'd that the steam-cradle, which high over a'l in a massive framework of oaken beams lifts up the boilers and other sundries was fixed there for the purpose of hoisting in the ship's teleocepe, he would take the information as a matter of course, and be in no way surprised or moved by the announcement. But we mu-t go to the ship itself, though none are in a hurry at first to mount its lofty sides. Built near it is a tall framework, or rather a wooden tower, by means of which, after toiling up a flight of 94 steps, the deck is gained at last. Here, no matter how much the previous sights may 'have prepared.the ideas, the ship viewed from the deck as one greatwhole, or rather as much of the great whole as can be seen, fer all cannot, is quite be yond the grasp of ordinary comprehensions to rea lise. In fact it is like anything but the deck of a ship, though nothing but the deck of the ship is like it. Some of our readers very probably have been on the roof of the Crystal Palace or G. eat Exhibi tion while building. Let them recal either of those scenes=-the webs of scaffolding, the groups of forges, the cradles and winches, the girdrs, pillars, and plates, the white-heat rivets, the punching machines, the monstrous screws, and above all the bellowing din of by no means distant thunder, and they can form some idea, though but a faint one, of the deck of the Great Eastern. It is very difficult for any amount of description to 'convey an adequate 'lotion of a vessel which is 18,000 tons larger than the largest shipin the world. It may, perhaps, be gained by tbe visitor who walks teethe edge of thei vessel, looketup and down the Thames, surveys the domes of Greenwich Hospi t al , has a bird's,eye view on to the decks of large West Indiamen, and wonders at the diminutive proportions of the old 3-decker used as. the Seamen's Hospital. Or, better still, if he turns his glass from the rive r and peers cautiously over the edge of the space where the upper and lower saloons for the cabin passengers by: the Great Eastern are to be coustructed. It seems like looking from a housetop into some ordi nary metropolitan square, or the court of an exten sive French hotel, at the bottom of which even the noise of the workmen is subdued, for they are 60 feet beneath - the spectator. lii spite, however, of these aids to appreciatien of its size, one must resort to figures at last in order to understand the monster fully. Her length, then, between the perpendicu 'Ars is 680 feet ; length on the upper deck, 692 feet ...within 28 feet of double the length of the. height of St. Paul's, and more than double tln extreme length of the new United Stat ,, s screw-frigate Nia gara, about which the Transatlantics are talking so much. The height from the bottom of the ship to the underside of the planking of the upper d-cls is 58 fee', ; the extreme I rPadth is 82 feet, or as wide as Pall-mall • the breadth across the paddleboxss 120 feet.. Already nearly 8,000 tons, or 60,000 sup-rfiCial feet, of wrought iron have been used in the 30,000 plates of her hull. To secure these up warda of 3,000,000 wrought-iron rivets have been welded in. Her tonnage is within a few tons of 23,000. She will be pr 'pelted by paddle engines-of 1,500 horse-power, and screw. engines - of 1,800 horse : power, giving a total of 3,300 horse-power, at a prespre of 251 b., though, of course, if necessary, she can work to a force of upwards 4:15,000 horses. For three fte, above the watermark the hu'l is coo, struoted double (on the cellular principle, adopted in the tov and hottern of the Britannia tubular bridge), the inner hull or skin, as. it is calle i, being 2 feet 10 inches apart from the outer. In this space, at intervals of six feet, run longitudinal webs of iron plate=, which are again subdivided by transver-e plates - into spaces of about six feet Square. This gives an enormous addition to the strength of the whole frame. At the bottom the longitudinal webs are thicker, and the spaces be tween them only ab rut three feet square, in order that wl enever it is necessary to ground the vessel for any repairs she will support her own weigl.t without s•ra'n or injury. Her principal dimen sions, calibre of her machinery, and general acco modation.s may be seen from the following : Nurnbcrofraaintransverse bu'lcheads or water tight' comparthients ... - ~ ... I'-' Ditto partial... 7 L ong it u dinal bulkheads running fore and aft at a distance of 36 feet apart for a length of 350 feet ... ••• 2 Width of space between the two skins of ship 2ft. 10in. Length .of forecastle ... 149 feet. Height of ditto ' 8 feet. Height of saloons on lower deck ... 13 ft. 8 in. Number of saloons ... Height of saloons on upper deck 12 feet Number of ditto ••• ••I Length of upper wil)ons Ditto lovier Thickness of iron plates in keel Ditto inner and outer skins Bulkhead's Iron deck 70 feet; • 60 feet. 1 iuch. inch. inch. inch. PADDLE ENGINES. Number of cylinders ... Diameter of ditto ... Weight of ditto (each) Length of stroke ... Number of boilers ... Furnaces for ditto ... Diameter of paddlewheels 74 incbcE. 26 tons. 14 feet. 56 feet, SCREW FLCGINES. Number of cylinders ... Weight of ditto (each) Diameter of ditto Length of stroke . Number of boilers Furnaces for ditto ... Diameter of screw Number of bads to ditto Length of screw shaft Weight of ditto (about) ... Weight of ship engines, dec., as at its launch -12,000 tons. 15 ft. 6 in 20 -foot. 30 tons. 84 inches. 4 feet. 24 feet. 4 150 feet. 60 tour. ing turnersion of this weight Ordinary light draught ... .• ••• Probable maximum immersion when fully 30 feet. laden Quantity of coal which can be carried for voyages, • ... 11,379 tons. In addition t) these facts we may mention that she will have sir masts and ten anchors. All the former will be of hollow wrought iron, except the list or mizen mist, on which, at a height of 84 feet from the deck, will be placed the cempass. The masts will spread together no less than 6,500 yards of canvass, though, having no bowsprit, she, of Course, Cfql. carry no spritsail. Titres of the masts will be square-rigged with iron spars, except the upper topsail-yards. The rigging will be of wire, and the large shrouls -of this material will be eight and a half inches in circumferenne. She will carry 20 large boats on deck ; some of them are 113 W pa tents, on meet ingenious principle., to which we shall referlere ifter. In addition to these she will alF.o carry, suspended aft of her paddle-boxes, two small screw steamers 100 feet long each and of b:- tweeu 61) and 70 tons burthen. These will, of course, be raieed and lowere I by small auxiliary en glees, Fever d of which - will Fe fixed on beard for working pumps, hoisting sail., weighing anchor, &e. Both the little screws will be kept in all re spects perfeely equipped for sea and used for em barking and landing the passengers with all their luggage, &e., alongside the wharf or pier, which ever it may happen to be. This will be oeereis service, for Vie Great Eastern is fiVed to accom modate 800 first-class passengers, 2,000 econel-class, and 1,200 thini-class,—in all 4,000 passengers ; or, •if employ , d in the t: anspoi t of troops, ,he can carry, it is said, 10,000 men. She will be ready for launching early in August next, and be able to take her first trial trip to America aed Lack about the middle of that month. She is directed to re al:se a sped of,at least 2) miles en h ,ur, or to accomplish the voyage from England. to Australia (between which countries she is to run) in 30 days. Reckoning the cost at so much per ton it said to be one of this eheap7st vessels yet constructed. The arrangemeets for the lannebing:--or perhaps we should rather say for her being lowered gricluelly down an inclined plane into the river—are quite as extraor,iinary and as netewor , hy as the vessel it self. At present we cannot enter into the details of the plan, which has been entirely devised by the eminent engineer to whom the whole me] it of ori ginating the first great idea of the vessel is due— Mr. Brandi. We may mention, however, that the launch will' be by no means a slapdash affair into the " native element," but a to lions operation which will probably occupy two or three days. On these ponts, however, and ou some others of equal iuttrest, we shall give our readers fuller inferma tion as the great ship progresses towards comple tion. EQUALISATION OF THE POOR-RATES. Apublicm'&ingof therat,Tayors of St. George's iti-th:!-Eist and thy adjoining parishes was he'd on Wednesday at the George Tavera, Colunr..rcial ioscl, to consider the propriety of petit'oaing P.r liament for an equalisation of the poor-rates throughout tha metropolis. The Rev. G. H. M'GILL, having taken the chair, observed tha ,- , the subject which the meeting was invited to cons'der was one that deeply concerne I both the r itepayer and the pauper. The inequality in the pressure of the poor-rates on different dis -Hots of the metropolis was a grievance that called 1 puily for redress. When the Bishop of London and Mr. Gladstone sometime since visited the easterly part of the metropolis, they expressed it as their opinion that the iesideuts of the West-end of London ought to contribute towards supporting the poor of the East-end, in order to relieve the unequal pressure to which the iuhabitsnts of that portion of the metropolis were subjected. Every ratepayer of the district would at once acquiesce iu that opinion. He himself had paid as much as 5.. in the poand for poor-rates, and it was fal lacious to look for any diminution of this legal im post by means of charitable contribution. The only practicable mode of lightening the burden was t) equali.e the tax throughout all the parishes of the metropolis. As this was a question who ll y unconnected with political or religious views, he hoped to have the support of men of all parties in his efforts to carry out the object he was anxious to attain. He Lad invited Mr. Hisnbury, the newly-electel member for the county, to preside on the present occasion, but that gentleman was of opinion that some one locally connected with the district should discharge that duly ; but both that gentleman and Lord Grosvenor had promised to give their most cordial s upport to the movement in the House of Commons, and they advised that Parliam-nt should be petitioned to pass a bill to afford the relief desired. Mr. W. GILBERT, of Kensington, aft :r entering into a statistical detail, with a view to show the great inequality of the poor-rate in the different parishes of the metropoli4, moved the following resolution : " Tbat this meeting is of opinion that the poor-rate assessment in every parish in London ought to be equal." Mr. WintrA.ms seconded the resolution. Mr. G. L. HUTCHINSON said he had been endea vouring ever since 1829 to impress upon the public the necess;ty of this measure, and the only objec tion he Lad to the resolution was that it confined its operation to London only. The poor belonged to the country at large, and not merely to London. He therefore moved as an amendment that the word "London" should he omitted, and the words " England and Wales" be inserted in the resolu-. tion ; which was seconded by Mr. Taylor. Mr. I.lnooKs said, he was altogether oppoged to the present movement, believing, as he did, that by de 2rees the whole parochial system of the coun try b 3 deAloyeti by it. They would corn tiler= by union r Aing, then pr.eckcd to district ratiz,g, th n to metr , )polibn rat ng. and ii pally they would arrive at natroual rating, which would be nothing less than centralisation and coercion. Mr. A. S. AYRTON, M.P., rose for the purpose of tendering a piece of advice, They had met to '. ''' "-••^1 -4LUt i. en,.... , _::;?",....''' ~...Z.-• ,1*.,,t,, discuss a practical vestion, name kii::, '. : ~- , t 4 f---. 41 to e1..,..al with the ass ssm.nt of the,` *,- - ;nlieit tropolis ; but, it they travellecl-bVtoq.#l4-#4e_4s tion, and entered int.) a discussion eft. - ...ylY;c. were to deal with the poor of all Eland, e would be embarking on a matter with whf it 6. would be utterly impossible for them to deal. The subject was beset with difficulties, and was ono which required full investigation. He by all means ij . advised the meeting to confine their effents to the question as it affected the poor of the metropolis only. The amendment was then put and negative!, - and the original resolution was agreed to almost _ unanimously. The meeting was afterwards addressed by Mr. Baddeley, church warden cf St. Ge orge's-in-the- EaA, Mr. Fowler, secretary to the Metropolitan Association, Mr. Crellin, member of the Board of Worlt. Mr. Charles, of Wapping, the Rev. Mr. . • M'Call, and others; and the forosing re itien to Parliament was adopted. "The petitiOn of the undersigned showeth : "That vast masses of the poor of London are either already located in the suburbs, or are being driven from _ the West-end and City by various causes to take up their residence. there. . • "That a very large proportion of these poor are now living in the eastern parishes cf the metropolis. '' Teat in consequence of this, your petitioners, the ratepayers of those distressed districts, are daily becom ing more and more impover'shed, the poor-rates having duri, g the last 20 years been doubled in amount, and . the number of paupers having increased threefold. "That we are now paying on the average 4,. in the pound poor-rate, while the richer and more favourably situated parishes are not paying more than one sixth of that amount. "That if the riles were equalised on one uniform as sessment throughout London, it would not be more than is in the pound per annum for all ; and if every deFcrip tion of property from which pauperism may incidentally arise were equally rated it would be considerably less than that -amoUnt. "Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray your hon. house to take such inea,ures as may relieve them from a burden too heavy I r them to bear, and to pa 33 an act to equal .se the rate and the as.erisment for the poor throughout-the metropolis." A committee was then appointed for the purpose of carrying out the object for which the meeting had been convened. • • . •. Mr.'AYRTON, in moving - a vote of thanks to the chairman—which was ctrried by acclamation—for his ab.!e advocacy, not only at that meeting, but by his let:era publishei in the Times, of the cause . they all ,desirpd t.) see suczesiful, took occasion to observe that Vle proper course to' be pursued in Parlfame.,t teferenc? t ,- ) this suhject would be, not the in:roduAioxi of a bill i i the first instance, but a mot:on for the aprointment of a commi - te-, to whom the ~:-hole question shou'd. referred for investigttion. • - The Hey. CHAIRMAN having acknowledged the compliment the meeting teruaintted. FAILURE OF THE RUSSIAN RAII4WAY SC HISME. Not withslanding the Imperial puff prel:minary of the Czar and his beloagings taking shares in the projected railway undert tkings, aed thus guaran teeing the favour of the Court and the success of the undertaking, the subscription list which was opened on Tuesday by the Messrs. Barinr , has been _ sell-born. TO prejudice which * WAS created in the very outset of this great projeA has increased rather than diminishel ; and the e u4 sequence is, that in the English market at leaEt it has not even the shadow of a chance of Str!C23s. The reason of th:s'boxi.lessness is not to be found in any physcal difficulties which were likely to b 3 counec'ed with the carrying out of the undertak ing. On the contrary, R tsS'a has advantages in this respect which are peculiar t 3 herself. We must look e!swhere for the explanafon of• the re-: luctance of our ct.:.•pitalists to place their names on the subscription list. The Russian Government has now to pay the penalty of its utter bad faith in the first place, and of that aspect of aggressiveness which it has con tracted by the con 4 int and indefatigable increase of its means of aggression. In Russia the Empire means war. The late Czar declared that he had had the Moscow Railway made, not for traffic, but for his troop , . His ,prikicy survives him ; and when ever an oppoitunity'offe,rs, whatever ;always may be constructed bAweeu now and than will be used for the purposes of war, and will be constructed with that view. No assurances to the, contrary will crea'e confidence in a Power which has proved itself un worthy of it. Honesty has its value in the Money market. The invasion of India, the occupation of Con-tantinople are designs which Buss'a is known to clicrish at the present in , .m -nt, It is to officers despatched. from her army that we are indebted f r the stout resistance made to our arms in the war with Persia. _ _ _ This fact forms one of the most remarkable fea t'', es of the peitinacity with which Russia pursues her designs ; white it is also a proof that her designs on India are still ent•rtiinel. In the camp which the -Brit iih expedition from B sh; re surprised j ust before the batty-of Konahab, the traces of Russian discipline and military science ware un mi-takable. Anything, therefore, which is done to improve the meets of communication in Russia wilt only Wrengthen the hands of aggression. In stead of being added to the resources of peace, it wit increase the resources of war, and to the un certa'nty of repayment. It is a just penalty of the crimes com►niited by that unscrupulous Power; that even if its intentions were peaceful, it has firfeited the means of carrying then out by its bad faith, —Morning Advertiser. METROPOLIT,A.N . IMPROVESIENT AND THAMES EMBANKARNT. At a meeting of the S of Arts on Wednesday, Rev. Dc. Booth, F.R.S. in the chair, Mr. Francis Bennlah read a paper on this suljeet, in which, after stating that in 1857 we have ten times the number of vehicles travel ling the streets that we had in 1801, he observed that the removal of Mi Idle-row and Temple-bar was neces sary as a, preliminary measure, and that it was indispen sably necessary to secure at least three great thorough fare. east and west. To meet this necessity we have on the north a direc' line friar Charing-cross to L. nd bridge, by way of the Strand, Fleet-street, Luigate hill, St. Paul's, and Cannor-street. The centre line should be the continuation of Cheapside, north of Paternoster-row, over FArringdoc-s'reet, by a via duct bearing slightly to the south of Line :fn's-inn- fields, and so on to meet the improvements is the west on a line with Piccadilly. The northern line should be New Oxford-street, a part of Holborn, diverging at the top of the hill, and by a viaduct crossing Victoria-street to Smithfield, passing in fr nt of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, through Birtholornew's-close, across Alders gate-street on the level, and so in a line with and into London-wall, joining the Pavement for Hoxton traffic, Bishopsgate street for Hackney or Shoreditch trafFo, and proceeding down to the river side, by way of Houndaditeb, the Minories and Tower-hill, crossing the river by a steam ferry. Oa the south side the new street rest iced upon by the Metropolitan Board of Works would be of immense convenience, although he thought the line oho en by Mr. Pennethorne infinitely preferable. To relieve London-bridge of much .of its heaviest traffic, steam ferries should be esta blished at all convenient points on the river below Lon don-bridge. Southwark-bridge should be made free of toll, and Queen-street, between Cannon-street and Cheap side, made of a width equal to that between C t and Thames-street. St. Paul's-bridge, which he su4gested formerly, would, next to London-bridge, have the largest traffic across the river. Temple-bridge would introduce a most important feature in the re-arrange. merit. It would open up to the river the whole district of Lincoln's-inn-fields, besides other advantages. Water loo.bridge should be made free of toil, and Hungerford widened and strengthened to bear carriage traffic. But, after all, the most important step would be the embank ment of the river Thames. The plan proposed combines a promenade, a carriage way, and a railway, and he was of opinion that the entire work might be executed with out costing the metrop, Us or the country a farthing. The revenue from the railway, aid the frontage obtained from the river, would not only compensate all persons having claims, but pay a handsome dividend to the pro keltors. The proposed embankment commences 'at Westminster-bridge meld terminates at the proposed St. Paul's -bridge. A railway starts from the Post office, being in continuation of the Fleet Valley rail way from King's-crest; it follows the road on the embankment along the river, enters a tunnel at Whitehall, and proceeds westwards to Richmond and Brentford. The gardens of Whitehal and the Temple are to he enlarged, while new gardens are to appear in front of Somerset House. Every street corning down to the river is to be improved, and a greater amount of wharf accommodation secured than now exists. The railway starting from the Post-office has a branch uniting it with the South Western on the one hand, while on the other it is connected with the South Eastern. He thought this entire scheme for Thames Embankment, Railway Junction, and a high level bridge at St. Paul's, could be completed in five years. On the lowest level facieg the river, it is proposed to place the wharves and other matters connected wilt trade ; on a higher level, out receding considerably, is a promenade for pedestrians ; next comes the space over which, on iron columns, the railway -is to be laid, down ; next comes the roadway for carriages, '4O feet wide, and then another footway or promenade in front of the houses that may be erected ; the entire width for foot passengers, car riage-way, and railway being 100 feet. Another -line might run along the side of the new road, from St. Paul's to the Elephant and Castle, and branching off to the ldt, give railway convenience to the immense omni bus population of Camberwell, Kennington, Brixton, Clapham, and Sireathain, uniting witte the Crystal Palace Railway t. , ) the weet-end. It is further 131.6p:rand t o unite the Thames Embankment Railway with the Black wall Railway. A discussion ensued,, in which Dr. Letheby, Messrs. John Ware, Edwin Chadwick, 0.8., and Hayward, and the chairman took part, NEW NOVEL BY HARRY LORREQUER. Thii Pay, In 3 vols. post Svo., T HE FORTUNES OF GLENCORE. By Critear.us LEvza, Chapman 3,t0 Hali, li)3, Piccadilly. few iniet, -IG-- Wes )Ji ,cher th of flyer, over, Pine hart, iTol r the 5r for [rS. C «~;,.~