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tyl 2 ,;e-14 /, 2 .NEWSPAPER ; will not be proud to show hi.' ' 4 v, 0 ,, . b ,4 . ,, our great art of war. If the t , s. • j,...7' ) A:‘1•-‘ ', j -. know how it is that we carries •.. .47 , f- -.‘'":', r. 4 .v ii.,, -1 much vigour and success, leavi... W-...**7... - ~ •72..) ~..,. -..• . A.' -.ky ' we began, he will see that our 1. iitari•aio. , " 1 resources lie rather in the prosperityli theteoitip . .. • amfettered vood, 'lon el AXONT BLANC . IS OPEN 11_2_ / It . , 4 - tVfAn:" . Jr. "•% I^ , eM cart - 2t4 -491 * 1)(11 • 4 0 4 i,:`„sofrt'. l o grg e l 7, A joi ti PEI • tita . "7 s Hte, 4 • irkrs',lb - / 1 ••„ 1 0 - „ ) e 11 , • ' • -•• 6 6 -V ' - 01 - 14 ' ROIT,A\ , T 5 - • 14.01 .1 , \ hbo!s ?triant- dl4't l N~ W) OYAL orn COLOSSEUM. 11. - OPEN DAILY. Ming, from 12 to 5. Evening, Tto Ar- AD MISSION ONE SHILLING. lopt. W. S. WOODIN'S OLIO of ODDITIES, with New Costumes and v irious Novelties, Vocal and Cha racteristic, every evening (except Saturday) at Eight. 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HORTON'S NEW ILLUSTRA -IVI TIONS —Mr. and Mrs._ G R lAN REED will repeat "th it Entirely New Entertainm , nt at the ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUS it AT 1 ON, 14, Regent-street, EVERY EVENING (exce at turds,y), at 8. Second Morning Performance Saturday next, at Tnr , e. Admission, 2s. and Is.; Stalls; 35., may be secured at the Gallery, and at Cramer, Beale, and Co., 201, Regent-street. DR KAHN'S MUSEUM, 4, Coventry-street Leicester-square. Programme :—Lecturcs by t Kam; dally, at 3 o'clock, on highly Interesting anal instructive Tonics; and Dr. -EXION, F.R.G.S, F.E.S., as tollqws : At half-past I—The Ph , nomena, Cur °siting, and Philosophy of the Sense of Sight At -4-- he. Grest Tobacco Controversy. At half-past 7 —The Food we Eat; its Use., 'Preparation, Adulteration, and Digestion. The Museum contains 11,000 Models and Preparations, and is wholly unrivalled in the world. Open daily, for Gentlemen 4.1 v v, rrom lu till 10. Admission, One Shilling. Catalogues, containing Dr, Kahn's ' Lectures, gratis to visitors. EXHIBITION OF ART TREASTJRES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, OPEN AT MANCHESTER, MAY Prit, 1857. SEASON TICKETS, 2/. 25., may be Obtained at the Offices of the Exhibition, 100, Mosley-street, Manchester ; als in London, W. FL SMITH and SON, rB6. Strand; Mr. SAM'S, Royal Library, St. James-street; Mr•. MITCH ELL' Royal Library, New Bond-street; LEI TS & CO Royal Exchange; SMITH &CO , 157, Strand; and at BIN:1E 4 SON'S, Church-street, Liverpool. —By order. THOMAS HA ILTO N. Sect tary. Inquiries to to APARTMENTS may be made from Mr. SAMUEL ADEN, 1 3flIces of the Exhibition, 190, 14 oAley- street, Manchester. Nil ND.ET RO P 0 LITAN COUNTIES and ik GEEA.L LTFFI SOCtitTY, 27, Regent street, Waterleo-place, London. Caoltal, 100,0001. TRUSTEES. Rt. Hn. Spencer ltWalpole,M.P. I Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P. Henry Peter Fuller, Esq. E. Vansittart Neale, Esq. Life Assurance business transacted in all-its branches. N.B. The bonus declared et the last division of profits averaged n per cent, on all the premiums paid. V. FERGUSON CAMROTTX, Manager. aIIARDiAN FIRE AND LIF ASSURANCE COMPANY, No. 11, Lombard-street, London, t.C. DIRECTORS. 'FRANCIS HART DYKE, Esq., Chairman. HENRY HULSE BERENS, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. 'Sohn Dixon, Esq. John Martin, Esq., M.P. Sir W. 'M. T. Farquhar,Brt,lif.P Rowland Mitchell, Esq. 'Sir Walter It. Farquhar, Brt. .Tames Morris, Esq. 'Thomson Hankey; Esq., U.P. Henry Norman, Esq. 'John Harvey, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, Esq. 'actin G. Hubbard, Erq. Sir Godfrey J. Thomas, Bart. John Labouchere. Esq. John Thornton, Esq. John Loch, Esk. James Tulloch, Esq. ;Stewart Makin:thanks, Esq Henry Vigne, Esq. , AUDITORS. A.V..ilobarts, Esq. I Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. iTkiiks Lloyd, Jun., Esq. John Henry Smith, Esq. George Keys, Esq., Secretary. Samuel Brown, Esq., Actuary. LIFE DEPARTMENT.—Under the provisions of an Act of Par iament, this Company now offers to future insurers Four-fifths of he Profits, with Quinquennial Division, or a Low Rate of Premium without participation of Profits. The next division of Profits will be declared in June, 1860, when Participating Peticies which shall have subsisted at least one year at Christmas, 1859, will be allowed to share in the Profits. At the five divisions of Profits made by this Company, the total teverstonary Bonuses added to the Policies have exceeded 913,000 . At/he last valuation at Christmas, 1854, the Assurances In force 'amounted to upwards of 4,240,0001.; the Income from the Life Branch in 1854 was more 'ban 200,000/. ; and the Life Assurance /Fund Eindepend.nt of the •luaranteed Capital) exceeded 1,700,0001. 'FOREIGN RISKS.—Tho Extra Premiums required for the East Awl West Indies, the British Colonies, and the northern parts of the Vntted states of America, have been materially reduced. INVALID LlVES.—Persons wile are not in such sound health as 'would enable them to insure their Lives at the Tabular Premiums filly have their Lives insured at Extra Premiums. LOANS Granted on LPfts Policies to the extent of their values, pro vided such Policies shall have been effected a sufficient time to have sativied in each case a value not under 501. ASSIGNMENT'S OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, received atatit registered. VEDICAt FEES paid by the Company, and no charge will be 'made for q3licy Stamps. FIRE DEPARTMENT. Instil:Anew; are eff,cted upon every description of property, at mo 'aerate rates. g:;eSses caused by Explosion of Gas are admitted by this Company. 'CANCER HOSPITA.L, London and West Brompton.—Secretary's Office, 167, Piccadilly.—This Institu tion has been estblished ea - elusively for the treatment of the poor ..,affileted with ccancerous disea se s. Out-door patients to attend at 167, r iccadtily, on Tuesdays, at 2 o'clock. In-door patients are admitted at tea Brompten Establishment, for one month, and for a longer iced if recommended by the medical officers. The number of per 'under treatment as in or out-door patients have averaged for tilielast three years about 400 cases each rear. Since the foundation 'Of this'llospttal in 1851, 1,799 poor persons, suffering under every , I.o 4 rtii of Itlis dreadful malady,have received the benefits of this ` h aritY. A Weekly Board manage its affairs, and every informa tttion connected with the Institution may be obtained on appli ca ti on 2the secretary. Contributions t o ena bl e th e C omm itt ee t o con ti nue 'this reat work of benevolence ar e ur g en tly so li c it e d, an d may b e t -- lid to William Loxham Farrar, Esq., the Treasurer, 66, Lincoln's 4-cu-fields ; Messrs. Coutts and `Co., Strand ; and at the Secretary's Offices, IG7, Piccadilly. My order. W. J. COCKERILL Secretary. OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. Patron—The QUEEN.—Founded 1828. The sick poor are admitted on their own application alone; no re commendation is required. ()urine the past month the following number received the benefits of this Charity. either as out or in-door patients, on their personal a; plicstie 'Week ending 7th February Ditto 14th February .. Ditto :Ist February Ditto 28th February : Total in February .... • 9,986 ' 0 which 3,379 were new cases, the remainder (still under treat ment) having been admitted previously. pa T t h en e ts e . lergy of all denominations have unlimited access to the lie.lvy expenses are inevitably incurred in affording such eaten sive relief. The Committee, therefore, earnestly entreat the aid of the etitAte. Tte management of the Hospital is in the hands of 30 Governors, f e 'tilY elected from the general list of subscribers, at the Annual ifetal Meeting in January. A Board is held every Thursday, at o'clock (Rev. J. B. Owen, Chairman). to conduct the business, 7 h en - any subscriber may attend, if so disposed, the Board being at 11 tithes desirous of receiving suggestions or giving explanation. The HotTiLal is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on volun 4r3' dert ibutions and legacies, which are received by the Treasurer, it"ohn Masterman, Esq., M.P., Nicholas-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts vp n r d CO. ; Drummond and Co.; Berries and Co.; Ransom and Co. ; esOott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Glyn9and Co. ; b.,"Nts Loyd and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Denison and Co.; Williams, f c acon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Ber s-street ; Masterman and Co.; and at the Hospital. Clothing for 'the destitute patie4ts will be thankfully received. 'By order. 5. B. OWEN, M.A., Chairman. in NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA, NERVOUS, BILIOUS, AND LIVER COMPLAINTS, COUGH, ASTHMA, CONSUMPTION, AND DEBILITY. fltr B A Y'S INGREVALENT d A e A Ii It o .B U I S LT - CA FOOD saves fifty ES ti m es its - ~..7, 1 5 other remedies, and cores the abova complaints and their ;equences, such as hemorrhoidal affections, flatulency, disten ion, acidity, heartburn, palpitation of the heart, nervous headaches, V'steria, neuralgia, deafhess, noises in the head and ears, pains at the Pit of the stomach and between the shoulders, erysipelas, erup ' ans of the skin, impurities and poverty of the blood, scrofula, " 3 3 , . rheumatism, gout, nausea and sickness during pregnancy, ~a fte r eating, or at sea ; low spirits, spasms, epileptic fits, spleen, :eneral debility, inquietude, sleeplessness, Involuntary blushing, 1. 2 - alYsis, tremors dislike to societ, unfitness r study. loss of me- delusions, , vertigo, blood to y the head, for .exhaustion, melan ,'°l3", groundless fear, wretchedness. It is, moreover, the hest f oo d for infants and invalids generally, as it never 'bursa acid en the weakest stomach, nor interferes with a 0d liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner, .r l d restores the faculty of digestion and nervous an d muscu l ar energy ~,° th c most enfeebled. Supported by testimonials from the celebrat ,, rrefessor of Chemistry Or Andrew lire, Dr. Shorland, Or.Har- ReY Dr. Campbell, Dr. Gattiker, Dr. Wurzer, Dr. Ingram, Lord titan do Decies, the Dowager Countess of Castlestuart, and 50,050 ;, h 'r well-known individuals, whose health has been restored by ,2 1. useful and economical diet, after all other means had been t r i e d "'". vain for many years, and all hopes ofrecevery abandoned. 41141 Yois by the celebrated Professor of Chemistry Andrew Ure .51. D., F.R.S., &c., &c. " " London, 24, Bloomsbury-square. I hereby certify, that having examined Du Barry's Revalenta A'abica I On, it to be a pure 'vegetable Farina, perfectly whole easily digestible, likely to promote a healthy action of the :loinach and bowels, and thereby to counteract dyspepsia (Indiges ), constipation. and their nervous consequences. ANDREW URE, &c., Analytical Chemist:" • Ukase by the Emperor of Russia. Russian Consulate General, London, Dec. 2,1847. ‘CanSul-General has been ordered to Inform Messrs. Barry, - 4 4 . 14arry and Co., that the Revalenta Arabica they had sent to his th a iestY the Etnperor, has, by imperial permission, been forwarded to NI inister of the Imperial Palace. It itably pat:tred for all climates, and with full instructions. 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BY ;;AMIIEL LA'MERT, M.D., 37, BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON, Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Mem , er of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall London, &c., &c. 'I he essential object of this treatise is to point nut 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 ether class of dis ase known to modern pathologists Its perusal is Particularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of their phvs c 1 c ndition, end who are conscious of having hazarded the health, happiness, and privileges to which every human being is entitled. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are principles of persot.al man-gement which cannot be violated with out incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret suc ceed the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how those penalties may be mitigated, how the sting ortheir bitterness may he removed, and how the evil and its consequences maybe avoided, and, above all, that there is scarcely any degree of phy sic el infirmity or functional derangement to whirls the timely aid of science cannot arply a cure. Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick-Isne, Paternoster•row, and may be had of Mann, 39, Cornhll ; Horne, 19, Leicester-square ; Ocrdon, 146, Leadenhall-street ;or from the Author, who may be consulted daily, from 11 till 2, and from 6 till 8, at his residence, 37, Bedford square, London. The w"rk may be bad in Tndia, of Mr. Von Litzky Loll Bazaar ; Calcutta—Messrs. 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That if the defence fund so raised prove more than suffi cient for the purpose, the subscribers be consulted as to the manner in which the surplus shall be appropriated. That Mr. George Bradley, of the " Newcastle' Guardian," be requested to act as Honorary Secretary and Treasurer, and to transmit copies of these resolutions to Newspaper Proprietors generally, and to such other gentlemen as he may select. Stuat t 7iWarn , Lan• of the !adilly, a Hall, , Cork, [louse, ourable .orreys, :insale, Leeson- 1 David [reland. of Mil- bbs, of K, Esq., 8 Coun uoty of )f Lam• ing De knthony lerrion• field, in of Rad. rt-street, Dublin, :ht Hon. f West- Jarnes ae of her Stalleen, f tMount- Esq., of ttendance dness ive.,. Tiio 2d 5 on Tues tght about be quoted advance, I in retail parcels although te current ie market Dcl, 35s to last week. partieula r I shelling to 5s 6d; to 3s 4d. Od to 424 ks. 13c 5 to 11% por Is Od to 0: butchui:a s each ; ewes, oa b. 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ARMSTRONG'S PERSONAL NARRATIVE of t' e DISCOVERY of the NORTH WEST PASSAGE by HAI S INVEQTIGATOR. " Dr. Armstrong has related in a frank truthful snirit the Disco very of the North-We -t Fassage, and his countrymen will, we be lieve, be prepared to welcome the history he has here furnished of an event so picturesque and so memorab e. The strong direct inte rest of a personal experience nervades his narrative. Heis a man of special scientific acquirements, ant of the natural history of the re gions which he visited, h, may be considered as the exclusive ob server and recorder."—Herald. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Just published, in fop Sivo., price Is. 6d. sewed, r iIRIFLES, HISTORICAL AND POETICAL ; rom an Idler's Commonplace-Book. London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longman, and Roberts., BADEN , BADEN. New Edition, 1 vol. royal 8170., with Map, 12 finely-engraved Plates and numerous Illustrations, handsomely bound, price 11. 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Illus trated by numerous Cases selected from the Records of upwards of Twenty Years' extensive and successful Practice, and which embrace every variety of Urethral Contraction, together with appropriate Means of Cure. By F. B. COURTENAY, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. H. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street. "We believe Mr. Courtenay's experience in the treatment of stricture to have equalled, if it has not exceeded, that of any of his contemporaries; whilst we most certainly know of no man to whose care we would sooner intrust the treatment of a severe case of stric tare."—hiedked Circular. SALE OF FLINT-LOCK ARMS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That sealed tenders, to he addressed to the " Under Secretary of State for War, War Office, Pall-mall," and marked on the outside, "Tender for Old Stores," will be received on or before the 7th day of May next, for the following Flint-lock Arms, viz.:- 17,798 MUSQUET' of sorts. 69 CARBINES of ditto. 18 RIFLES. These arms are arranged In 18 Lots, and may be viewed on appli cation at the Storekeeper's Office, Tower, daily, between the hours of 10 and 4. Separate prices must be tendered for each Lot, and the whole will he required to he paid for and removed, at the purchaser's expense, within one week after the receipt of notice of acceptance of tender. N.B.—No tender will be taken into consideration except it be on the printed form, which may be obtained at the Storekeeper's Office, Tower. RIBERT GwYN, for Director of Contracts War Office, Fall-mall, 23d April, 1857. UONDON and NORTH-WESTERN 1..4 RAlLWAY.—Arrangem.nts for May.—Opening of the Art Treasures 1. xhthition, Man hasten--T he public are informed that on and after the Opening of the above Exhibition, the following ar rangements will take effect, and remain in operation until further notice : Branch Trains will run from London-road Station, Manchester, about every half-hour, from 10 a.m. to 3.31 p.m„ direct to the Exhi bition, in connection with the arrival trains from London, Oxford, Birmingham, Shrewsbury, Crewe, Macclesfield, and the. Sheffield Line; and Return Trains will run from the door of the Exhibition abont every half-hour, from 2 o'clo k to 6.3() p.m., to London-road -tattoo, in connection with Trains to London, Birmingham, &c. DOWN TRAINS. The 6.15 a.m. Down Train from London, and the 8.55 a.m. train in connection froth Birmingham (which will leave at 9.0 a.m.. and cease calling at Penkridkv), will be expedited to Manchester, reach ing London-road at 11.45 a.m., and the Exhibition Building at 11.50 a.m. "' An additional Local Train will leave Crewe at 10.55 a.m., calling at all stations, and arriving in Manchester at 12.30 noon. A Train will leave Liverpool daily, Sundays excepted, at 10.30 a.m., arriving at the Exhibition at 12 noon. Throuch Carriages to the Exhibition will be attached to the fol lowing Trains:—From London, 6.15 a.m., and 9.15 a.m.; from Bir mingham, 9 a.m. and 12 nuon; from Liverpool, 9.40 a.m., 10.30 a.m., and 11.45 a.m. UP TRATNA The 3 46 p.m. Train from Manchester:will be despatched at 4 p.m. from the Exhibition Building, and 4.10 p.m. from London-road, and be expedited to Crewe, and reaching Birmingham at 7 p.m., and London at 9.30 p.m. A Train will leave the F xhibition Building at 5 p.m , in connec tion with the Express from London-road Station at 5.15 p.m. 4n additional Local train will be despatch d from London-road tation at 3.30 p.m., calling at all stations, except Longsight and Levenshulme, and arriving at Crewe in time for the train reaching Birmingham at 7 and' London at 9.30 p.m. Return Trains from the Exhibition will leave the Building Liverpool at 2 p m., 5 p.m., and 6 15 p.m The following are the principal Through Communications of South, in direct connection with London-road Station, Manches and the Exhibition : ,-, :: 21 z - tl 7( t : 00 g .5Eg tta rg , 'O. y g M gO 0 t 5 ::P - A so ,Y., t. td $g 012 m a 3 ri , t.g 0 r" rV- 7 . • . . . . .1 0 2 ••• • • • ?,, :.. . . • ter :•4 z i I 1 • b ,5.4 Aslig SZ li. - . 50 • W !"'..;rPit . ..,....,. v , ocoowcso :' 0 -121;. 0000 -4,i., ,„ . Itllll ~. 30 0 I 8 0 c J, r CO 01 I t I Ci I 15. cc. OD G . : G.. 1 I tat 6 , s 000 o o . c•D .0 CO , D s: s I 5.• .o:•••••CD5 1 iiiii.-.l's":-A e.',7 4 :51 I I I•cntrkls • o Ob I iO I I II rg 'Pr cry o .36. oo - 1s b., to s OD CO cr, I 1- I I Li g VI Co 0 WW 50....08m; 50p$0 ;..0 • • Off' • C• COW 0.0.. IN I I HI 1.P5 CAo. la o I ICE cs S 5.T s 0 . c, I " "17 7 C4 7— , Ca "01 • 0 In p to A , .- I '., P b 5 . IH 1 so° .ci 0, H ;3 In addition to the above. improved communication will be effected between Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Harrogate, and Scarborough, for which see Time-bills. A new train will leave ("heater at 4.10 p.m., reaching Birmingham at 7 p.m., and London at 9.30 p m. The 9.10 a.m. train from Liverpool, and the 9.30 a.m. train from Manchester. will call at Leigh on, and cease calling at Bletolev. The 6.15 p.m. train from London will convey passengers to Oxford instead of the 3.45 p.m., arriving at Oxford at 9.30 p.m. The,7 20 a.m. train from Leamington to Coventry, and the 9.45 p.m. train from Coientry to Leamington, will be discontinued. By order, A T'K GUISH. General Manager's Office, Euston.station, April, 1857. RICK CLOTHS, with Poles, ar,c., complete, both New and Second-hand.--A large quantity of canvas intended for the Crimea has been made Into Rick Cloths, to be sold as second. hand at greatly reduced prices. A list forwarded by post. Address in full, BE VJAMI N ED , IINGTON, 2, Duke-street, South wark, opposite the Brighton Railway. SECURE IN VESTMENTS.—Messrs. R. BORLEY and Co., 45, Threadneedle-street, sworn Stock, Share, and Mining Brokers, will be happy to forward a list of carefully selected Securities, paying good di videnth, 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 Fund; at 1-16th per cent., and in all Stocks, Rail way and Mining Shares, on the most reasonable terms. A. selected list of dividend-paying (from 12 to 20 per cent.) and progressive mines to be had personally or per letter. LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY. The Managers HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That the Balance of the Dividend for the year ending 31st December viz., ss. per share, clear of income tax, as declared at the General Meeting of Share holders, helitin Paris on 25th inst., will be payable at the Offices of the Company, 454, Strand, London, and 14, Rue Vivienne, Paris, between the hours of Eleven and Three, on and after 4th May. _ _ The Share Certificates must be deposited at the Office of the Corn • patty two dear days before payment or the Dividend. The Report and Accounts for the year will be delivered to each Shareholder in the Dividend. By Order. A. G. CHURCH, Secretary. 454, Strand, 28th April, 1857. HULL REFORM. —At a Meeting of Gentlemen, associated together as a Joint Committee of Owners of Public and Private Carriages and others, held at the Craven Hotel, Strand, on WEDNESDAY, 29th April, HERBERT INGRAM, Esq., M.P., in the Chair, Moved by MATTHEW FORsTER, Esq., seconded by P. H. LE BRETON, Esq , and unanimously resolved— That this Meeting is pf opinion that all Toll Gatos and Toll Bars should be removed from withiresii miles of the metropolis. That an Acting Committee beformed for carrying oat such mea sures, and that the following gentlemen be members ofsuch Com mltee, with power to add to their number: — Matthew Forster, Esq., Bells'se, Hampstead. P. H. Le Breton, Esq., Milford House, Hampstead. J. R. D. Tyssen, Esq., Menor House, Hackney. R. Margetson, Esq., Islington. Thomas Slater, Esq., Kensington. A. Lines, Esq., Elm-tree-road, St. John's-wood. John Dangerfield, Esq., 26, traven-street, Strand. Moved by EDMUND WATKIN, Esq., M.P., seconded by Joan C 1751- BERLAND, Esq. (Camden-road-villas), and unanimously re solved, — That the public generally be appealed to to contribute funds for the support of the Association. Moved by P. H. La BRETON, Esq., seconded by W. MARRiorr, Esq., and unanimously resolved — That tke cordial thanks of the meeting be given to Herbert In gram, Esq., M.P., for his courtesy in presiding, and his warm advo cacy of the cause of Toll reform. Toil-payers are respectfully asked to assist the object of the Asso - elation by subscriptions, which will be received by the above Com mittee. B ANKERS and MONEY DEALERS. Messrs. COLLS, LOWE, and CO. (Late Coils. Thompson, and Harris, Established 1832), JO, St. Swithin's-lane, Lombard-street, City, and 5, Henrietta street, Covent-garden, London. APPROVED CO ‘IMER:I [AL BILLS Discounted at the current rates of the day for Parties properly introduced. DEPOSITS received at interest, at seven days' notice of with drawal, and for periods to be agreed upon. FINANCIAL AGENCY BUSINESS of every description tran sacted for Commercial Houses in the Provinces. lADY FRANKLIN'S FINAL SEARCH.— A, The Government having come to the con clusion that the fate of the crews of her Majesty's ship Erebus and Terror requires no further investigation on their part, Lady Franklin, in accordance with her sense of what is due to the lost navigators, is now fitting out an expedition at her own cost. As a preliminary measure she sought assistance from the Admiralty, by asking for the loan of the Arctic ship Resolute, which bad been restored in perfect order to our Queen by the American nation, and also for the gift (as granted in her for mer private expeditions) of such stores from her Majesty's dockyard as are available for this special service only. Compliance with these requests having been declined, Lady Franklin is now devoting her whole fortune to this final search ; and a large screw yacht (the Fox) lying at Aberdeen, has been purchased, which the distinguished Arctic officer who has accepted the command of her (Captain M'Clintock, R.N.) has pronounced to be perfectly adapted to this employ ment. Not repeating the arguments we formerly made use of to induce the Government to undertake a final and exhaustive search, we hold to the opinion that it is the duty of English men to examine that limited area whence the traces of their missing countrymen were derived, which, though it lies to the south of well-searched tracts, and has been approached by vessels that returned without loss, has never yet been ex plored. - Supported by the advice of those experienced Arctic sea men, in whom she has every reason to confide, Lady Franklin makes this last effort to clear away the mystery that shrouds the fate of her husband and his crews, and possibly to rescue from their isolated icy abode among the Esquimaux some of his younger companions, who may still be prolonging a dreary existence. On such an occasion we, whose names are hereunto sub scribed, feel confident that this our appeal will not remain un answered by the British people, who will, we doubt not, ten der to the widow of the illustrious navigator that sympathy which his fame and her devotion must call forth, and will aid her in carrying out an enterprise involving, as we believe, the honour of the nation. We earnestly, therefore, entreat our countrymen to unite with us in contributing to this noble object. (Signed) Roderick I. Murchison, Prest. RI. Geographical Society, F.R.S. ; Francis Beaufort, Rear-Admiral, F.R.S. and F.R.G.S. ; Wrottesley, Prest. Rl. Society; Edward Sa bine, Treas. RI. Society ; Robert Brown, F.R.S , V.P. L.S. ; Richard Collinson, Captain R.N., F.R.G.S.; John Barrow, F.R.S., P.R. G. S. Subscriptions already received. Sir Roderick I. Murchison, President Royal Geo graphical Society, F.R.S. £loo 0 0 Rear-Admiral Sir, Francis Beaufort, K.C.B , F. RG. S. Lord Wrottesley, President Royal Society General Sabine, Treasurer Royal Society 25 0 0 Robert Brown, V.P.G. S., F. R. S. lO 0 0 Captain C °Hinson, R.N.. C. B. ,F. R S 2O 0 0 Rear-Admiral Swinburne M. De La Roquette, V. President of the Geogra phical Society of Paris, I,ooof. Sir Thos. Dyke Acland, Bart. The Hon. Mrs, Fnirholme l5O 0 0 —Le Feuvre, Esq, 5O 0 0 for I William Tite, M.P., F.R.G.S. John Brown, F.R.G.S. W. F. Sadler, E.,q. Lady Inglis _ _ 5 5 0 10 10 0 10 0 0 John Barrow, F.R.S., F.R GS. Hon. Mountstt art Elphinstone, F.R.G.S. Joseph D. Hooker, M.D., F.R.S 5 5 0 John Arrowsmith, F.R.G.S. 5 0 0 Tho Tas Holdsworth Brooking, F.R.G.S lO 0 0 Count P. E. de Strzelecki, C.B , F.R.G.S. Colonel Sykes, M. P., F. R. S. ,F.R.G. S. E. OThorne Smith, F.R.G.S. 2 2 0 John Hicks , MR I Lord Duff. rin The Hon. Fred. Byron Capt. Washington, R.N., Hydrognipher to the Admiralty 2l 0 0 Subscriptions to be paid to Messrs. Coutts and Co, bank ers, for " Lady Franklin's Final Search Fund." FIRST LIST OF SUBSCRIPTIONS. The Times Newcastle Journal 2 0 0 Newcastle Guardian 1 1 0 Newcastle Chronicle 1 1 0 North of England Advertiser Gateshead Observer 1 1 0 Sunderland Herald Sunderland Times Hartlepool Mercury 1 1 0 York Herald Yorkshire Gazette 1 1 0 Carlisle Journal 1 1 0 Birmingham Journal Ayr Advertiser Whitehaven Journal 1 1 0 Liverpool Mercury Scotsman Norfolk Chronicle 1 1 0 Brighton Herald Oxford Journal Coventry Standard Dundee Advertiser Berwick Advertiser Scarborough Gazette 1 0 0 R. Ward Jackson, Esq., West Hartlepool 25 0 0 E. Turnbull, Esq., Hartlepool 2O 0 0 Jas. Farrer, Esq , London 5 5 0 Cuthbert Wigham, Esq., West Hartlepool 5 0 0 Messrs. John Pile and Co., ditto Mr. George Lockwood, jun., ditto 1 1 0 Mr. William Kitching, ditto Mr. Thomas Walker, ditto 1 1 0 The Rev. H. R. Ridley, ditto 1 0 0 Mr. Ralph Walker, ditto 1 0 0 Mr. Christopher Salmon, ditto 1 0 0 Mr. Cuthbert Emerson, ditto 0 10 6 Mr. John Wardle, ditto Mr. W G. J. West, ditto 0 10 6 Mr. William. Hutton, ditto Mr. Ron Oldham, ditto Mr. Charles Pace, ditto Mr. Thomas Maughata, ditto 0 10 6 Mr. W. H. Crosby, ditto 0 10 0 Mr. Benjamin Murray, ditto 0 10 0 Mr. Samuel Bastow, ditto Thos. Barras, Esq., Little Chilton H. Marshall, Esq., Durham R. Lindsay, Esq., Norwood, Surrey 1 1 0 R. C. Coulson, Esq., Low Burninghill, Durham 1 1 0 GEORGE BRADLEY, Hon. Sec. and Treasurer. " Guardian" Office, Newcastle upon-Tyne. Contributions can be forwarded to the Treasurer by cheque or post-offtco order, or through Barclay and Co.'s Bank, Lon don. THE CHESTER MEETING. Few people are surprised by the recent changes in the betting on the Derby. The running for the Two Thousand would, it was naturally expected, turn the current of epeculation, albeit it has not diverted it into widely diffused channehi. They who relied on the judgment of George-Abdale and the Yorkshiremen, and adhered steadily to the " spots," had no cause to regret the confidence which they placed in the " lame-un." Vedette, despite his limping gait, or rather what has been called his " dot-and-go-one" style of walking, seems every inch a race-horse, built all over for staying, and with a free, low, sweeping action. ,It is said that he is 7 lbs. better than Skirmisher; and if this report be true, the Days of Danebury have good grounds for maintain ing undiminished confidence in Anton. " Mr. F. Ro binson's" horseperformed in a manner which fully justified the high estimate placed in his ability. He is a nice corky goer, and will go bounding roundTattenham corner like a cricket ball. The dislike which I expressed about Loyola was telly warranted not only - by the horse's appearance, but also by his performance ; still, I shall not - be sur prised to see either him or the Beeswax colt a tremendous favourite for the Derby before the day. Sydney proved "kind," and left the post without reluctance. Still, al. though he got only an indiffe'rent fourth, his running im 'proved his tineition in the Derby betting. I must confess I am at a loss to discover consistency in the proceedings which nearly sent him out of the Two Thousand betting, and which have now made him a prominent favourite for the Derby. Sydney is a beautiful goer, with great pro pelling power, and the assertion of his admirers that he will be able to " act" with considerable effect over the Derby course may not prove an idle boast. Kent was defeated and disgraced, and we are not likely to hear of him again for some time. The incident of the week was perhaps the running of Blink Bonny for the One Thousand, and her subsequent disappearance from amongst the favourites for the Derby. If a mare ever possessed two styles of going Blink Bonny does, for she seems to have one sort of ac tion whilst at exercise, and another whilst racing. Of a morning she galloped free and well, but on Thursday afternoon she went short and stumpy. It remains to be seen whether, like Mary Copp and other mares, Blink Bonny has lost her two year old form. ‘ I confess that I am prepared to see her brought again with force into the betting. Should she be sent to Chester for the Dee, and should she win, what a commotion would be occa sioned I The quaint old rows of Chester are already echoing to the tramp of the many footed multitude, and by night fall the ancient city wilt be choke full of visitors. A programme bristling with figures is before me, and it presents a prospect of sport worthy of the palmiest and most popular days of the Rodee Revels. Despite the abuse which has been heaped upon the Handicap for the Chester Cup, and despite the limited range of specu lation, a race of extraordinary interest is likely to be afforded, whilst the minor events will attract more than a usual amount of attention. Six events are appointed for to-morrow (Tuesday), in cluding two unclosed stakes. Zaidee and Bel Esperanza are the most noteworthy nominations for the Palatine Stakes, and should the former retain her Ascot and Reading form I shalt expect her to pull through. The Ma Mie colt and Janet seem to me the most attractive names amongst the entries for the Chester field Handicap. For the Wynnstay I shall select Mys terious Jack and Sir Humphrey. The Mostyn Stakes will be carried off by either the Speedwell colt or Melita. My dip into the Chester Cup is made with consider able diffidence and caution. I shall not weary the reader with a long recapitulation of the performances of the horses likely to comprise the field, or bore them with an elaborate discussion of merits and demerits. About six-and-twenty horses will go to the post, a crowd of competitors large enough, it must be confessed, to.ren der success more a matter of chance than ability. Lea mington and Mincepie have retained their relative posi tions with wonderful steadiness in the betting, and their respective parties seem equally sanguine of success. For Leamington, however, I have no decided partiality. I am sceptical about his staying powers, but I must nevertheless confess that his light weight is sufficient to render him formidable. Of the two favourites, however, I have no hesitation in select ing Mincepie. Dulcamara has been again brought with some force into the betting, and he will be a most dangerous antagonist. Before the Epsom Spring Meet_ ing he was most highly tried, and I am, therefore, in duced to regard his running for the Melrop as a mistake. William Day, when in earnest, is not the man to be opposed, and I am informed that he is as confident about winning the Cup with Dulcamara as he was last year with One Act. Gemma di Vergy is over-weighted, and his recent running with Lord Nelson has almost induced me to believe he cannot stay. Of the other three-yrs-olds, Turbit is most to my fancy, and I shall be much disappointed if he do not beat the highly vaunted Riseber, and, in fact, every animal of his year except Dulcamara. Every turfite would be delighted to witness the triumph of Lord Exeter's colours on the Roodee. Van Dunck is. likely to prove another Mortimer to Mr. T. Parr. The horse is turned loose, and I shall not be against him. He certainly has not yet accomplished anything that would entitle him to take more than a leather-flapping .degree. But the same was said with justice of Malacca, Mortimer, Weathergage, and others with which Mr. T. Parr has astonished the sporting world. Pole-Star and Pretty Boy are the only top weights to my fancy. The horses which I shall select against the field are MINCE PIE, DULCABIARA, and TUREIT. Some uncertainty exists at present relative to the nu merical strength of the field for the Dee Stakes. In certain quarters it is even hinted that Blink Bonny may be brought out for it, and that ehe may re-establish the reputation which she knocked down at Newmarket. Tournament is also amongst the nominations, and great would be the interest excited if he were to enter the lists. At present, however, I am inclined to look to Loyola and Commotion for the winner. For the Mar quis of Westminster's Plate, I shall "stand" Mary, Alembic, and Wardermarske. To Friday's racing, I shall not at present refer. A FRESH MAN. May 4. TATTERSALL'S-SATURDAY . CHESTER CUP. 6to 1 agst Leamington (take 100 to 15) 9to 1 aget Dulcamara (taken) 12 to 1 agst Mincepie (taken and offered) 100 to 8 agst Riceber (offered) 15 to 1 agst Van Dunck (taken) 100 to 6 agst Gemma di Vergy (taken) 100 to 6 agst Turbit (taken) 22 to 1 agst Bay Hilton (taken and offered) 25 to 1 agst Zig Zag (taken) 33 to 1 agst Janet (offered) 33 to 1 aget Pantomime (taken) 40 to 1 agst Early Bird (taken) DERBY. 6to 1 agst Skirmisher (taken and offered) 10 to 1 agst Anton (taken) 100 to 1 agst M.D. (taken and offered) 15 to 1 agat Sydney (taken) 15 to 1 apt Lady Hawthorn (taken) 20 to 1 agst Loyola (taken) 20 to 1 agst Adamas (taken) 25 to 1 apt Tournament (taken) 30 to 1 agst Commotion (taken) 1000 to 30 agst Magnifier (taken) 33 to 1 agst Rink Bonny (offered) 1000 to 20 agst Wardermarske (taken) 3000 to 20 agat Special License (taken) LATEST BETTING. The only noteworthy change in the latest betting at the West•end was the advancement of Magnifier to 1,000 to 40, taken. HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGE. MENTS. Rngerthorpe and Enchanter are struck out of the Chester Cup, and Adamas out of the Chester Cup and Dee Stakes. RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS. For the accommodation of metropolitan visitors on the " Cup-day," day tickets, at ordinary fares, will be issued by the 6.15 a.m. train from Euston square, arriving at Chester at about 11.30 a.m., and available for return either by the 5.20 p.m. or the 11.14 p.m. train. Accounts from Constantinople to the 24th, received by way of Trieste, speak of great preparations making by the Circassians for inroads into the districts held by the Russians. As the new Parliament draws near, a good deal of interest is felt as to the number of election peti tions to be presented, and the interest is increased by the fact that it will be the first time the new act against bribery, &c., which was paused in 1854, will be tested. On Thursday, the 7th inst., the Queen's Speech will be delivered, and the session e ommence. All election petitions must be pre sented within 14 days, but the committees will not proceed to investigate the allegations of bribery, &c., until about the middle of June. By the new act (17 and 18 Vie., c. 102), if bribery is proved; the member returned is disqualified to sit in the existing Parliament, and may be sued for penalties —lOOl. for each offence. The rule as to the pre sentation of petitions within 14 days is by an order of the late Parliament. Either a candidate or voter may present a petition against a sitting mem ber. A recognisance with sureties is to be entered into to pay all costs, or 1,0001. may be paid into the Bank of England. Counsel may appear for either party, and the committee proceed with the list of personS bribed. Hitherto there has been no opportunity to test the operation of the New Bri bery Act, as the last general election was in 1852. The sections seem to be worded with a good deal of care, but it remains to be seen whether they wiil reach the several cases about to be presented to the select conlinitteg; The Speaker will nomi:- nate ‘.‘ The General Election Committees," and the select committees„,will be named and proceed to try the several matters brought before them. The select committees have power to examine witneQses and to require the production of documents. The expense of election petitions must be very great, and some time must elapse before the select com mittees can report their decision to the house. It is said that Mr. Phinn, the barrister, will resume his parliamentary business before the select com mittees. The fees are considerable, and very large sums were made by barristers practising be fore election committees. " INI I ELLECTUAI " QUALIFICATION FOR THE FRANCHISE. In a remark which we made this day last week we have been strangely misunderstood, and the subject is quite important enough to invite a cor rection of the error. Speaking of the extension of the suffrage to be provided in any new Reform Bill, we argued that the qualifications of an elector might be looked for in the information as well as the property which he possessed, and, as an expression of the idea, we suggested that a voter, on presenting himself the polling booths, might be asked to testify to his own education by writing his name. This suggestion was described by Mr. Watkin, in his speech at Yarmouth the other day, as a proposition for giving a vote to every man who could write—something very diffe rent indeed from our true meaning. Our proposal would simply have excluded from the exercise of the electoral franchise persons wholly uneducated, whatever might be their other qualifications. The idea, in fact, was very analagous to that of the provision which requires that a voter, whatever may be his possessions, shall be of full age before voting. Certain property conveys a recognised qualification, but to this qualification must be added presumptive evidence of the discre tion or intelligence of the individual. Although, however, our suggestion, as we observed at the time, was offered upon its own merits, and tended, indeed, to the encouragement of education as well as the elevation of the suffrage, we are confident in our opinion that for the principle of our argu ment—that is to say, fot the assignment of the franchise to intellectual as well as pecuniary qualifi cations, there is good warrent to be found both in precedent and reason. We think, indeed, we nay advance a step higher, and ask what is in particular nature of the qualification which lie s at the bottom of all instinctive assumptions in any contro ersy about the distribution of political powtr ? What do we say when we argue that certain persons or classes are not to be trusted with the suffrage ? What do we recommend as the. ne:iessary prepara tion for the extension of political rights to greater numbers of the commt nay ? Does any man, Whig or Tory, Conservative or Radical, say that such and such classes hay( not got money enough to be made electors, or that men must somehow or other be rendered more generally opulent before they ein be admitt,d to the polling booths Nothing of the kind. When we talk about raising the great body of the nation to a certain standard of political ability, we never imply that people are all merely to have their pockets filled ; we mean, that they should be so educated as to comprehend the obligations of citizenship, whe ther they be rich or poor, and one of the chief arguments for national education in some quarters has been the necessity of thus paving the way for a greater community of electoral rights. As far, therefore, as the principle goes, we are entitled to regard it as commending itself to us almost involuntarily by its intrinsic and self-evi dent propriety. As to precedent, we can produce also that peculiar requisite in most impressive and unexceptionable shape. Two of our most emi nent constituencies are founded upon intellectual qualifications only. In the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge no property qualification whatever is required, the right of voting being conferred purely and simply by that evidence of education which is conveyed by the possession of a certain degree. We shall be told, of course, that the operation of the principle in this case affords very little guidance, inasmuch as the intellectual element of qualification is overpowered in practice by the property qualifications which a large majo rity of University graduates possess at the same time. But this was not the case when the fran chise was first conferred ; it is an accident result ing from social changes, and, moreover, something l of a similar result might not improbably attend the principle in itsfurther extension. Why should it be ptesumed that an educated man must be a needy man, even though his education may not have been certified by the academical stamp. ? It is at this point, perhaps, that some persons may take up their ground of opposition, and argue that if qualifications derived from education would be accompanied, as would doubtless happen in many cases, by qualifications derived from pio perty, it must plainly be superfluous to pro vide for the recognition of the former apart from the latter. Why should we make a specific assignment of the franchise to captains, barristers, physicians, or schoolmasters, when nine-tenths of such persons are sure to possess the right of voting already on some other grounds? Admit that a man entrusted with the education of some 50 or 100 embryo voters ought to be a voter himself, is it not certain that be would be so in virtue of his house if not of his land—of his taxes if not of his rent-roll ? We reply that such electors are valu able enough to call for the admission of even the small proportion who may be excluded ; and further, that this proportion may not be quite so small as is imagined. No doubt, the residence of many of them would be such as to carry a qualification with it, but the town. or village in which they reside may not return members to Parliament, or they may live in lodgings or chambers. They may be contributing a small share to the revenue of the country, but only indirectly, instead of directly. They may enable half-a-dozen householders to pay their rates, and yet not be ratepayers themselves. A very good test at this point would be the assess ment to the Income Tax, and we remember the criterion was suggested in past discussions. Beyond all question, the contribution of 101. to the ser vice of the State in this form ought to convey as strong a presumption of electoral competence as the payment of any other imposts ; but we de cline very decidedly to take up this particular posi tion. We earnestly hope to see the income tax and all its machinery abolished by the time a new Reform Bill comes well into operation ; nor are we at all inclined to purchase the convenience of the test at the cost of the duty. Returning, however, to the principle under consi deration, we must express our belief that it would operate to the public advantage in a variety of ways. It would remove the dissatisfaction natural to men with such qualifications if unenfranchised, and it would bring a new and very serviceable element into representation. Persons in the position we have been describing—that is to say, men with considerably more than average educa tion, with incomes in many cases of respectable amount, and yet without the privilege of giving a vote, must not only possess, by the very nature of the case, many of the qualifications desirable in an elector, bnt must also be exempt from some of the undesirable liabilities to which some electors are. exposed. It would be hard to reach them as a body by any other means than those of argument, and in all likelihood they would vote upon their separate convictions, without even the influence of political contagion. These we think would be strong recommendations ; and, if such a recognition of purely personal qualifications should communicate a stimulus to the great work of national education, few, we pre sume, would consider the result as otherwise than beneficial. There is no fear, unfortunately, that the applicants for the franchise on the score of superior education will present themselves in any ovarwbelming numbers ; and as the extension of the suffrage implies in its very terms a large aug mentation of the electoral body, we should rejoice at the admission of an element which certainly cannot preponderate, but which can hardly operate other wise than for good. —Times. A SNAKE IN THE GRASS. When the season is over your true earnest sports man has little else to do but to fight his battles over again. Squire meets squire—squire agricul tural, squire commercial, squire official, squire legal, squire clerical, for there are squires of all sorts—and, when the ladies have left the room, by the warmth of an April fire they talk over their covers, their preserves, their stables, their kennels, their armouries, and all the sweet auxiliaries and furniture of sport. On these occasions bosoms are unlocked, and the observations and meditations of half a year reveal themselves. The favourite hun ter's forelegs and his rider's weight are candidly considered ; "You won't ride that brown mare another season ;" such a pointer is getting idle, and such 'a grey-hound cunning ; such a gun kicks, or hangs , fire, or is too heavy, or won't carry far enough for this country, where the birds are very wild. " What shot do you use for grouse ?" What do you find the best wadding?" What do you give your keepers ?" "Do you ever give your hunters carrots ?" Then come in shoot ing jackets, and boots, and pouches for all sorts of purposes. Then the best breakfast to hunt upon or to walk 20 miles upon, or to set one's self up with when rather " done up." The subject , has endless ramifications, and in an age of improve ment, with such a succession of new minds brought to bear upon it, is on every point inexhaustible. The curate sits by, munching the brandy cherries, or yielding his inner soul to the contemplation of a gay new altarcloth, a rare encaustic tile, or a quaint " poppy head." For hours and hours, evening after evening, this is country life in Eng land ; and for this the merchant pines to leave his counting-house, the lawyer his desk, the official his post, and every man his work, whatever it may be. There is a good' deal to be said for it, andinot much against it. At all events, it is a common ob ject, a pursuit, a war against a common foe, not one of ourselves. It is not everybody who cares for the subject ; but the question concerns those who do care for it, not those who do not. Perhaps they prefer human game ; the pursuit is more in teresting, perhaps, but not so harmless or sociable. It certainly is a matter for congratulation that when the brother Nimrods are discussing these grave affairs, the intended prey are silly brutes or worth less vermin. The guns are not to be pointed at our neighbours' windows ; the shot is not for their bodies. The rival sportsmen are fellow sportsmen also, and the competition is not suicidal. The great sportsmen of Europe have had a glorious season, a regular battue in the Crimea, capital duck-shooting in the Black Sea, and some rather mild sport in the Baltic. The return of gold is considerable, and the improvements in guns, shot, and all the personal as well as the ma terial accessories of the amusement immense. We have finished for the present ; indeed, the preserves are almost bare, and horses, dogs, and all, fairly done up. So now is the time for that aftersport we have attempted to describe. The Grand Duke Constantine is come to visit his sporting neigh bours-, Napoleon and Victoria. He seems to be making rather a long stay with the former, the latter not being quite ready for him just now. They are doing their very best to amuse him across the Channel, and have carefully hunted up the precedents of Peter the Great's visit to Paris Mi me liately after the accession of the house of Hano ver to this throne, and of Paul's a few years before the French Revolution. The Grand Chamberlain, the masters of the ceremonies, admirals, field marshals, prefects, authorities, and constituted bodies of all kinds, are doing their best to show off France—her splendour, her power, her gaiety, her politeness. Public entries, receptions, balls, operas, reviews, hunts, and everything that princes are eupposed to delight in, are prepared with a zeal that to France is so usual and characteristic as to require no explanation and admit of no comment. But the Grand Duke is a man of business—" a keen sportsman," and " business before pleasure if you please." His soul is in the arsenals and dock yards. Your real sporting neighbour has never done with your horses, your dogs, and your guns, and the Grand Duke returned again and again to the foundries and workshops. On a second visit to the dockyard of Toulon, after examining the new gunboats and a model frigate, he broke out, " I am impatient to have done with these official receptions in order that we may more carefully examine together your ships and your dockyards." The floating batteries he examined with intense curio sity. To the conductors he imparted his confidential opinion that they would be a failure against any heavier ordnance or a closer fire than that at Kinburn ; and, hearing that some under equip ment were intended for China, he pleasantly ob served, "So you are going to take the chesnuts out of the fire there too." But nothing came amiss to his useful and vigilant curiosity. Water-tanks, sail-stores, oil-stores, small armouries, iron and copper works—everything that contributes to per fection in the sport—he went through and inspected with a yard measure in hand. As he always re duced the French measures to ours, it is evident that the British Navy has been the earliest and the most favoured object of his official studies. The Grand Duke is quite a model for tourists. This is turning travel to account. When his grandfather, his father, and his uncles came to this country they also brought with them engineers and savans, and took home all sorts of peaceful inventions. But the Grund Duke, as we have said, is a man of business, and he returns to the example of the founder of his empire, who wielded not only a yard measure, but an adze, in our dockyards. As a nation of keen sportsmen, of people who must have an object, and who adapt the means to the end, we cannot but respect the Grand Duke's way of seeing " foreign parts." We cannot help sympathising with him in his pursuits ; nor, it appears, can the French. He has won his way to their hearts. Indeed, it is quite delightful to see the flags of all nations blended, national airs alternated, captured cannon, balls, and other trophies, magnanimously hidden, to be uncovered, and all sorts of recollections of certain recent occurrences fondly brought up, while Russia, France, and England, soon to be added to the group, are examining one another's weapons with scientific, and affectionate interest, and inter; changing hints, or " wrinkles," as sportsmen now call them, for future use. Is not this the lion and the ox, the wolf and the lamb, lying down toge gether ? But an odd thought strikes one. Where is the game for this sport ? What's the " country," brother sportsmen, that you seem so busily and amicably polishing your weapons and taking sweet counsel for ? For the noblest possible prey—for oue of themselves. Two are to chase, hunt down, shoot, snare, or to destroy the third ; and which the sportsmen, which the game, time alone can show. This consideration imparts a particular interest to the Grand Duke's approaching visit to this coun try. When a brother sportsman examines your fowlingpieces, your dogs, or your ffshing tackle, you may or may not feel anxious to hear that he has bagged more birds or lauded more fish than you have. In this case the object is to bag you, and, of course, you are interested. You are the ve r min , and your guest has a fancy for your meat, your fur, or merely your brush to present to his lady, or sweep the dust from his ancestral hall. So he wishes to study your ways, your haunts, your track, where you burrow, when you come out to feed, how you run, how you double, how y ou de fend yourself if you can , the thickness of your fur or your feathers, and what shot will do for you. Small shot, 18-pounders, for example, will glance off your feathers, and the Grand Duke finds he must have heavier metal to do the work. But, like all sportsmen, he is quite fair, and teaches while he learns. He lets us know the thickness of his own fur, and the wei g ht o f m etal he can stand w ith impunity. Nevertheless, this is no visit of ceremony or pleasur e , an d the High Admiral of the Russian fleet, the sternest of the Russian Princes, is no mere " fine, frank-hearted sailor," but a man who goes about a yard wand, and makes three vi sits to a gunboat or dockyard. " A chiel's amang you takin' notes," and if he does not publish them, which will not answer his purpose, he will put them to a better use. _ _ However, as far as wo are concerned, the Grand Duke Constantine is most heartily welcome to see everything that is to be seen in this country. He will not see so splendid a capital as our neigh bours have to show ; he will not have such fates in his honour, and possibly not be assisted with quite so much alacrity in his.naval measurements ; but there is not an invention of peace that England —in their perfect freedom, ana enterprise—than in any aggressive or defensive or -, . - 9 1- int.. He will see that we are Ballyi a mili tary Power because we seek peace rather than war, while the weakness of bis country has lain in its aggressive spirit and expressly military organisa tion. We are amused with the Grand Duke's visit to the Dockyards and the Court of France. Of course, we aware that Russia would rather have Prance for an ally than a foe, and that on the most common ,grounds of policy France will do her best "to be civil" to her Imperial visitor. Indeed, we take it all as a matter of course. We feel, however, that what we have to show Russia is neither naval establishments nor Royal magnificence. We neither dread Russia as a foe, nor particularly desire her as an ally ; but we do most earnestly desire to see her entering cordially and unreservedly into the race of civilisation. We wish to interchange with her not the ideas and the materials of only military success, but of peaceful progress. In this sense Russia will find England much more of a sister and an ally than even France, which is still swathed and cradled by a jealous and prohibitory system. We want in Russia neither a foe nor an ally, but sim ply a neighbour ; and if Russia desires to be worth more fifty years hence, as either foe or ally, she will do well to accept this advice.—Times. THE VALUE OF THEATRICAL PROPERTY. A correspondent addresses to us the following complaint ;—A few days since, at the Auction Mart, Mr. Robins disposed of a 5001. renter's share in Drury-lane Theatre, paying au annual dividend, with a marketable free admission, transferable yearly, which produced 46/, 65., and fifteen 1001. proprietary shares, with a free life 'admission pro duced 341. 3s. 6d. ; so that theatrical property which originally cost 2,0001. sold in the public market for 801. Os. Gd., being but a fraction over 4 per cent. of the original cost. This great depreciation in value may be attributed to some circumstances attending the property, for it seems to be its fate, whenever it has become valuable and paying, always to have some obstacle thrown in the way on the part of the committee, or committees we should say, for, with a rental of 4,000/., there are five sub committees, then a general committee, then a secretary, then a property master, then an archi tect, then a party to take charge of the music—all these have the management of the theatre. When Mr. Macready was lessee he was obliged to give up the theatre through the caprice of those concerned ; then Mr. Boon, then Mr. Gye, and latterly, through some differences of the renters and Mr. Gye, the proprietors, renters, and .public have been deprived of a splendid treat in Italian opera. We have had wild beasts on the stage, and her Majesty has at tended the feeding. We have had every kind of enter tainment, and a first-rate American company have offered to take the theatre for equestrian perform ances. They have been several times at the thea tre, and done no harm. The theatre is let for promenade concerts by the sanction of the commit tee, and horsemanship is considered not to be an art and amusement for the public. Great, very great dissatisfaction is expressed by the renters at these delays in letting. By the theatre being open they receive Si. extra over 200 nights ; indeed it will be found that they receive 6001. for extra rent over and above 4,0001. paid by Mr. Smith, and would not have received one penny but for these extra nights ; yet the committee, who are merely trustees for this body of gentlemen, do all they can to prevent money coming into the house, and keep the theatre closed, which is do ing more damage than all the promenade con certs and horsemanship possibly could do. The proprietors, who have the power, must alter this, or else they will find no lessee who will undertake to pay 4,0001. a year for the theatre which is subject to the control of persons whose interests seem op posed to tire bowifide owners of the property. MEXICAN BONDHOLDERS. The following is from the Committee of Mexican. Bondholders : "The committee have advices from Mr. Whitehead, dated Mexico, the 2d ult. The notification of the de, tree of the 23d Jan. had not reached all the Custom houses yet, having been transmitted through the Board of Public Credit, which had caused delay ; but in Ma zatlan the agents of the bondholders had received in pur suance of its provisions $7,098 in cash, and $926.77 in bills. The amount of encumbrances created by the Go vernment' on the in-coming duties had not yet been ascertained. The new constitution had been published. Omitting to enact the supremacy of the Catholic reli gion—incapacitating corporate bodies, consequently the clergy, from holding real property—and subjecting the clergy to the ordinary tribunals, while declining to make these latter instrumental in enforcing the observance of monastic vows—the archbishop set the example of de nouncing it from the pulpit, which has been generally followed, and has induced many of the civil servants to refuse to take the oath to it. These have been promptly dismissed, which seems to have created a cer tain degree of dissatisfaction and uneasiness in the public mind. The news of the rejection of the treaty with the United States had caused great and general consterna tion, as the late civil broils had so completely exhausted the pecuniary means of the Government. The only remittance by this packet for the dividend fund is $4,598.18 from Mr. Whitehead." The subjoined is from Colonel Facio, the Mexi can financial agent : " Mexican Debt.—By the steamer Magdalena, just arrived. $4,598.18 have been received from Vera Cruz, and $10,542 have arrived at the same time at Liverpool from Mazatlan by the merchant ship Androklos. Be sides the abovementioned small remittances, 61,7911. 12s. 10d. are already deposited in the Bank of Eng land." THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS. News of the safety of the Australian steamer Oneida, was telegraphed to all parts of the country on Saturday, and must have delighted many families. How low the chances of her safety had been rated may be judged from the fact that 32 per cent. has been underwritten for her gold. Nearly three weeks ago it was suggested that the Oneida had broken down, and that she had returned to Australia after the Simla had left there. This turns out to have been the case. It was necessary to suppose that the Oneida had gone some distance on her voyage, because the Simla did not leave Australia until nearly three weeks after her. Many commanders, if placed in the situation of Captain Hyde, of the Oneida, when his ship broke down, would have attempted to run in the direction of the prevailing winds in the lati tude in which he was, and tried to make Mauritius. In so doing he might have been becalmed, and all on board have been starved. It must have been a daring and splendid act of seamanship to take such a miserable sailer as the crippled Oneida back to Australia in the teeth of a head wind. The Oneida was taken on to Sydney, as the only place where it was likely she could get repaired, and probably she will be able to leave Australia, in her turn, this month with the mail, and reach Suez about the 22d of June. The European reached Suez three days before her time, and has thus beaten the Simla in speed. In going out to Australia, she was only three days longer on the voyage, and burnt 1,5001. worth of coal less than the Simla. The Euro pean's mails have been detained at Alexandria, owing to the Etna steamer not arriving out there in time to take them on to Malta. As the mail steamers on the Australian side can evidently do their work within the contract time, a delay would be avoided at Alexandria by having an extra steamer there, and not depending on the outward mail steamer. The Etna will be due at the port of Southampton about next Friday ; she has a very heavy mail. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, ExETER•HALL.—Men. delssohn's Elijah will be performed on Wednesday evening next, May 6, for the last time this season. Principal vocalists, Madame Rudersdorff, Miss Dolby, Mrs. Lockey, Mr. Sims Reeves, and Mr. Weiss. The Pope having ordered a monument to be erected to the memory of Torquato Tasso, the necessary works are to commence immediately. On Tuesday — Mademdtselle Piccolomini appears at her Majesty's Theatre, in the character of Lucia in " Lucia di Lammermoor." ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S-IN-ROAD. - The number patients relieved at this hospital during the week ending April 25, 1854, is 2204, of which 567 were new case.. COLLISION AT SEA.—The fine American ship Andrew Foster, which sailed from New York for Liverpool on the Ist ult., and the Tuscarora, hence for Philadelphia, came in collision on the 28th ult. between Holyhead and Tuskar, when the Andrew Foster sank. The crew and passengers, captain's wife and two children, took to the boats, and were picked up by the schooner Little Fred, from Rio Grande for Liverpool, and were subsequently transferred to the steam tug Sea King, which brought them to the latter port. The following account of the collision is addressed to the superintendent of the Mer chants' Exchange by Captain Dunleary, master of the ship Tuscarora :—" It becomes my painful duty to in form you of the collision of the ship Tuscarora, bound for Philade'phia, and the ship Andrew Foster, from New York, bound for Liverpool. The disaster occurred on Tuesday night, April the 28tb, at 1.50 p.m., between Bardsey and Tuskar. Wind S.S.E. and steering to the southward and westward, saw a light ahead, ported the helm, kept off to the westward, when soon atter were struck on our bow port bow, the Andrew Foster strik ing us with her starboard bow, crushing our bows and tearing away our cathead, breaking beams and tearing deck up and cutwater, and lost anchor with 45 fathoms chain. Hailed the ship and requested them to lie by us. They also requested the same by us. Showed our torch lights, and lantern in the rigging. Saw their blue lights and rockets until 1.30 a.m., when we supposed she pro ceeded up Channel. We found the damage too great to continue our voyage, and returned to port." rket. to.