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Harvey ; • Ingram ; of Castle• •expectable ;r all other respect- Du Barry's tho ReY. rrest-gates ly Louisa )r-squares v, George Caroline, wy-place, n-squarepi the late Caroline ;renadier rth-road, 2 Htl9oll, lieapside, on, Esq., T, Esq.' 'ell, aged vidow of lorrenor •ompton - ommommame... 017 NO• i ce , No. countt 'ITER M AJE S T.Y'S THEATRE. SEASON 1857. In announcing the arrangements for another season, the Ibirector of her Maje,ty's Theatre cannot but refer, with sin cere gratitude, to the success which attended his efforts, un der very trying circumstances, in the season of 1856. Dramatic Opera, which in every foreign State is fostered by Government aid, is, in this country, denied the support which is extended to other departments of art; and it is to the patronage of the upper classes, who have rallied round the establishment, that th e coun t r y owes the prosperity of a noble lyrical institution, which no unsupported -individual efforts could maintain in a manner worthy of its old renown. In acknowledging the munificent assistance which enabled him to conquer the unprecedented difficulties of last year, the Director cannot sufficiently express his grateful appreciation of the delicacy with which it was bestowed. Support was freely and nobly accorded for the sole purpose of insuring the prosp-rity of the institution, and the counsel which added to its value was never accompanied by a word to shackle the die metion or impair the authority of the direction. To this the success of the past season is greatly owing ; and from the generous confidence w.th which the subscribers have renewed their subscriptions for the present year, without awaiting the publication of the annual programme, the Director derives the assurance that he has not altogether disappointed the patrons of the theatre, and that he may rely on the continu ance of the cordial encouragement by which he has been hitherto upheld, and under which it is hoped still higher triumphs may be achieved than were immediately attainable on the restoration of the establishment. The enthusiasm which welcomed the re-opening of her Ma - lesty's Theatre was not confined to the subscribers. The hearty interest and genuine appreciation displayed by the audiences who thronged the house from the first night to the closing farewell demand the warmest thanks of the Director, which he will endeavour practically to express by renewed efforts in the service of the public. The Director is most anxious to acknowledge how much he is indebted to Maddle Piccolomini and all the artistes whose talents contributed to the success of last year, not merely 13r those efforts of genius which won the sympathy and admira • Lion of the subscribers and the public, but for that high artistic feeling and honourable fidelity which secured the audience from disappointment, and enabled the Direction to produce the entertainments promised for each evening with out a single change of performance—a fact without precedent in Operatic history. The advantages peculiar to her Majesty's Theatre—its cen tral position ' and associations now more than a century old —give to it a natural pre-eminence of which no occasional circumstances can< ever permanently deprive it. These ad ,' vantages will be turned to account by a Company combining the prestige of acknowledged genius with the attraction of new candidates for the highest rank of their profession. Those who last year won favour at the hands of strangers will re appear to claim the cordial recognition which an English audience never refuses to established favourites ; and the direction has been further strengthened by an accession of new aspirants of the highest order, whose merits are already acknowledged on the stages of Italy, and who only await the verdict of the subscribers and frequenters of her Majesty's Theatre to confirm their fame. Although, in an Establishment especially devoted to Italian Opera, the compositions of Italy will naturally predominate, the gems of other schools will not be neglected. Ballet will continue to be supported by the most famous of established Artistes and the most promising of those who are ambitious of the same distinction. It is hoped that the organisation of every department will prove completely worthy of that state of renewed prosperity to which her Majesty's Theatre has now attained. The following are the arrangements already completed : OPERA. Madame ALBONI, Mdle, MARIA SPEZIA Mdle. BAILLOU, Madame FRANCHI, Mdle. BERTI, Mdle. POMA, (Of La . Scala, Milan ; La Fenice, Venice ; San Carlos, Lisbon, &c,—her first• ap pearance), Mdle. ANGIOLA ORTOLANI (Of La Scala, Milan; L'Ori eats, Madrid, &c.—her first appearance), Mdle. TRENETA RAMOS (Of the Teatro Regio, Turin —her first appearance), AND Mdle. PICCOLOMINI. Sig. ANTONIO GIUGLINI, (Of La Scala, Milan; Carlo Felice, Genoa ; San Carlos, &e.—his first appearance), Sig. JACOPI, Sig. MERCURIALI, ' Sig. LUIGI BOTTARDI (Of the Carlo Felice, Genoa, dtc.---his first appearance), Sig. BELLETTI, Sig. BENEVENTANO, Sig. NAPOLEONE ROSSI, Big- GIOVANNI CORSI ! 6 Director of the Music and C Sous-Directeur and Maitre d Snggeritore—Si BAL (Of La Scala, Milan, and Italian Opera, Paris, &c. — his first appearance), Sig. BAILLOU, Sig. DE SOROS, Sig. GARIBOLDI, AND Sig. FILIPPO VIALETTI (Of La Scala, Milan ; La Fe nice, Venice ; L'Oriente, Madrid, 80.—his first ap pearance). - jonductor—Sig. BONETTI. lu Chant—Sig. VASCHETTI. ig. FONTANA. Mdle. CAROLINA POCCHINI (Of the Karnther Thor, Vi mina ; La Scala, Milan ; San Carlos, Naples ; Carlo Felice, Genoa, &c.—her first appearance). Mdle. MARIE TAGLIONI, Mdle. BOSCHETTI, Mdle. KATRINE, Mdle. TERESA ROLLA (Of La Fenice, Venice—her first appearance). Mdle. LUIGIA BRUNETTI (Of the Carlo Felice, Genoa— her first appearance), ,LET. Mdle. ELISA SALVIONE (Of La Scala, Milan—her first appearance), Mdle. GIUSEPPINA MORLACCHI (Of the Teatro Regio, Turin— her first appearance), Aidle, ISABELLA KAR LISKI (Of the Academie Imperiale, Paris—her first appearance), Mdle. CAROLINA PAS QUALI (Of the Imperial Theatres of Vienna and Milan her first appearance), And Madame ROSATI. M. PAUL TAGLIONI, Sig—RONZANI, M. CHARLES, M. PIERRE MASSOT (Of the Oriente, Madrid—his first appearance), Sig. FILIPO BARATTI (His first appearance), Sig. CASARE CHECCHETTI (His first appearance), Signori RAFFAELLE GAM BARDELLA. LUIGI VA RINI. LUIGI TURBINO, and PIETRO BUZZIO (of the Teatro Regio, Turin, and Carlo Felice, Genoa— their first appearance). Maitres de Ballet— M. PAUL TAGLIONI, Sig. RONZANI, and M. MASSOT. Regisseur de la Danse—M. PETIT. Master of the School of Instruction—M. MASSOT. Madlle. PICCOLOMINI Will arrive early in April, and, in addition to the characters which last season she made her own, will appear in a varied and attractive repertoire. Machle. SPEZIA Will have the honour to appear for tho First Time at the Opening of the Season in Donizetti's Opera of L FAVORITA. Immediately after Madlle. ORTOLAN' Will make her first appearance asElvira, in Bellini's Operaoi Elvira.. Arturo I PURITANI. Ma Tie. ORTOLANI. Signor GIUGLINI. Madame ALBONI Will arrive before the Ist of May, and will make her first ap. pearance this Season as Azucena, in Verdi's Opera of IL TROVATORE. The Union of Three of these distinguished Prime Donne, %due. SPEZIA, Madlle. ORTOLANI, and Madße. PIC* COLOMINI, Will be effected in Mozart's Opera of IL DON GIOVANNI, Which will be produced with the perfection of ensemble and details necessary to realise the intentions of its great author. All the great Artistes of the Establishment will join in aiding the efforts of the Director to do honour to the noble work of the Shakspeare of music. Signor GIUGLINI. This charming Tenor will have the, honour of inaugurating the opening of the Theatre, and will make his first appear am* as Fernando, in the Opera of LA FAVORITA. The distinguished Basso Profondo, Signor VIALETTI, Will also make his first appearance at the opening of the Theatre. The admired Tenor, Signor BOTARDI, Will make his first appearance early in the season. Besides the principal execntants of last year, the Orchestra has been strengthened by the engagement of, amongst others, Signor PhiZE, First Violoncello of La Scala, and Signor GIRALDONI, First Contrebasso of Bergamo, La Scala, &C. The Chorus will be numerous and effective. In addition to the union of operatic talent at the opening of the season, the inauguration of the Ballet portion will be Dade by the fascinating Artiste, Madlle. POCC INI. The most successful Ballet, LA ESMERALDA, Will be revived expressly for her debut. Early in the season, Madlle. BOSCHETTI and Madlle. EA.TRINE will appear. Madlle. MARIE TAGLIONI Will arrive early in May, and will shortly afterwards appear in a New Ballot, composed expressly for her by M. Paul Taglioni. _ . Madame ROSATI Will appear in a Ballet Divertissement from Anber and Scribe's New Ballet of MARCO SPADA, Now preparing for her at the Academie Imperials, Paris, Principal Artist to the Establishment — Mr. CHARLES MARSHALL. The Costume Department under the sole direction of Mme. COPERE. Executed by M. LAUREYS and Mrs. MASTERMAN. Principal Machinist-• Mr. D. SLOMAN. Head of tho Property Department—Mr. BRADWELL The Subscription wi:l consist of Thirty Nights, and the terms will be as fol'ow : Pit Boxes .. Grand Tier Ono Pair Two Pair Pit Stalls • 150 guineas. • 200 „ 150 „ 100 „ ' LA FAVORITA. • Leonora Baldassare Signor VIALETTI. Fernando Signor GIUGLINI. To be followed (first time these 10 years) by the favourite Ballet of LA ESMERALDA. Founded on. Victor Hugo's "Notre Dame de Paris." La Esmeralda Madlle. POCCHINI. Claude Frollo Signor RONZANI. AND Pierre Gringoire M. MASSOT. The THEATRE will OPEN on TUESDAY, April 14, when Rill be presented Donizetti's Opera of All the Boxes and Stalls having been disposed of for the Subscription or Opening Night, the same Opera and Ballet will be Repeated on THURSDAY, April 16 (it being an extra night not included in the subscription). A limited number of boxes in the Half Circle. Tier have been specially reserved for the public, and may be had on ap plication at the Box-office at the Theatre Colonnade, Hay market. Price Ono Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each. The doors will open at half-past seven ; the Opera com tizengaa at eight. N O . 20,217.) ROYAL ITALIAN• OPERA, LYCEUM, SEASON .1857. Mr. GYE begs most respectfully to announce that the Royal Italian Opera will, during the Season of 1857, be given at the Theatre Royal Lyceum. The opening will take place on TUESDAY, APRIL 14th. It was the intention this year that the performance of the Opera should take place at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, chiefly with a view to afford accommodation to those large classes of the musical public who, for so long, have been the constant supporters of the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Gar den, but unforeseen circumstances have prevented this inten tion being fulfilled. Mr. GYE has in consequence again taken the Lyceum Theatre, and while he much regrets the exclu sion of a great portion of the general public from the per formances of the present season, he has at the same time the satisfaction of being able, by judicious alterations in the building, to accommodate a very considerable number of the regular Subscribers. It is also a source of gratification to know that an almost universal approval was expressed at the perfection of the per formances at the Lyceum last season, many Subscribers indeed even preferring the smaller theatre on account of the facility in seeing and hearing the entertainments, as well as for the elegance and exclusiveness of the audiences. Mr. GYE trusts, however, that for the Season 1858 he will be able to restore to the Royal Italian Opera a home equal, if not superior, to that of which it has been deprived ; in the meantime he begs most respectfully to entreat the continuance of that warm and generous support which has so long been accorded to him, and without which he would scarcely have had the fortitude to battle with the consequences of the ea:a mity of last year. It will be seen by the following outline that there has been no relaxation in the endeavour to render the arrangements of the present season as complete as possible ; that the great artistes are engaged—artistes, whether as sopranos, tenors, baritones, or bas-es; are as yet without rivals; that the cele brated Orchestra, and its most accomplished Conductor, as well as the Grand Chorus, still form part of the establishment; and, in fact, that an extraordinary combination of talent, such as has procured for the Royal Italian Opera an European reputation, is again assembled. In addition to the Operas performed last season arrange ments have been entered into with Monsieur Scribe aud Mon sieur Auber, the Author and Composer of FRA DIAVOLO - • • to adapt that beautiful Opera for the Italian Stage, and it will be produced W.th entirely New Recitatives and additional Poetry and Music, written expressly for the Royal Italian Opera. erold's Romantic Opera of ZAMPA, With new arrangements and alterations, will be performed for the First Time at the Royal Italian Opera. Cimarosa's IL MATRIMONIO SEGRETO will be revived. Also Mozart's Opera, LE NOZZE DI FIGARO. DON PASQUALE Will be performed for the renthfe of Signor LAELACHE. litereadante's Opera, IL GIURAUENTO Will be performed for the First lime at the Royal Italian Opera. Verdi's Opera, LA TRA.VIAII'A, _ _ _ Will be produced early in the season. - The principal charac- ten by Signor MARIO, Signor GRAZIANI, AND Madame BOSIO. With such a list of artistes as the following, it need scarcely be said that the castes of these operas must be powerful. The Engagements for the present Season arc— Madame GRISI and Madame BOSIO. Madame ROSA DEVRIES, Madame TAGLIAFICO, Mademoiselle MARAI, Mademoiselle DIDIEE. ALSO Mademoiselle PAREPA, From the Royal Theatre at Lisbon, her first appearance in England), AND Mademoiselle VICTOIRE BALFE, (Her first appearance on the stage). TENOR!. Signor MARIO, I Signor NERI BARALDI, Signor SOLDI, and Signor GARDONI. An engagement will be offered to Signor TAMBERLIK on his arrival from the Brazils. BASSI BARITONI. Signor RONCONI, I Signor GRAZIANI. BASSI PROFIINDI. Signor LABLACHE, I Signor POLONINI, His first appearance these Monsieur ZELGER, two years), AND Signor TA GLIAFICO, I Herr FORMES. The Orchestra and Chorus will be as last year. Director of the Music, Composer, and Conductor, Mr. COSTA. Maestro al Piano and Composer } Signor PANIpA, of the Ballet Music Chorus Master M. SMYTHSON. Prompter Sig. MONTERASI. Poet Sig. MAGGIONI. The engagements for the Ballet are : Mademoiselle CERITO. Mademoiselle DELECHAUX, (Her first appearance) AND P. Mademoiselle PLUNKETT. Mademoiselle ESPER and Mademoiselle BATTALINI. Mademoiselle LEBLOND, Mademoiselle EMMA, Mademoiselle MARIE and Mademoiselle ELISE. Maitre de Ballet Monsieur DESPLACES. Stage Manager Mr. A. HARRIS. Scenic Artiste Mr. W. BEVERLEY. Lcader of the Ballet Mr. A. MELLON. Machinist Mr. SLOMAN. The appointments by Mr. PRESCOTT. Artistes Costumiers Madame MARZIO, Monsieur GUSTAVE and Mr. COOMBS. The Subscription will be for Forty Nights, commencing On TUESDAY, APRIL 14ru. - Applications for Boxes and Stalls to be made to Mr. Parsons, at the Box-office of the Theatre inWellington-street. MADAME RISTORI.-LYCEUM THEATRE. Nl .R. th G a r he be h g a s s m e o n s t t er r e e d spe in ct t full o a y n t e o n a g n a n o,em oun e c n e t with the celebrated Italian Tragedienne, Madame RISTORI, together with her ITALIAN DRAMATIC COMPANY. Madame RISTORI will give FIFTEEN Performances in Lon don, commencing the First Week in June. Fall particulars will be duly announced. CANCER HOSPITAL, London and West Brompton.—Secretary's Office, 167, Piccadilly.—This Institu ion has been established exclusively for the treatment of the poor afflicted with cancerous diseases. Out-door patients to attend at 167, Piccadilly, on Tuesdays, at 2 o'clock. In-door patients are admitted at the Brompton Establishment, for one month, and for a longer period if recommended by the medical officers. The number of per wins under treatment as in or out-door patients have averaged for the last three years about 400 cases each year. 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We give a short account of their proceedings : "The Commercial Bank hold their half-yearly meet ing on the 27th of January. The report showed that profits for the past half-year amounted to 18,058/. 2s. Bd. After paying at the rate of 15 per cent, per annum, 2371. 103. 21. was carried to the fund for the equalisation of future dividends, which is increased to 2,3131. 7s. 11d. The reserve fund is 40,0001. Mr. Thomas Skinner was elected a director in the room of Mr. Parker, who re signed his :at at the board on taking office as Colonial Secretary. " The eighth half-yearly meeting of the Australian Joint Stock Bank was held on the 27th of January. From the report it appears that the profits for the past half-year amounted to 15,7361. 4s. A dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum was declared, and 1,5231. 12s. sd. was carried to the reserve fund, which now amounts to 14,7341.125. ad.. The sum of 1,2121. lls. 7d. was carried to the fuu4 for the equalisation of future dividends, which is now increased to 5,0731. lls. 7d. Mr. Holt was elected' a director in the room of Mr. Clark Irvine, who retired by rotation. "The half-yearly meeting of the Australians Steam Navigation Company was held on the 28th of January, at the company's offices, and the report of the directors and statement of the affairs of the company were laid before the meeting. After considerable discussion and a full explanation by the directors of the position of the company, the report and accounts were unanimously adopted. Fr , m these it appears that the net profit for the half-year, after paying all repairs to the vessels and other exoenses of the company, including interest on the debentures, amounted to 13,228/. 44. 4d. ; but it was agreed not to'pay a dividend at present, but to leave the balance t tanding at the credit of profit and loss account, wh:cb, after elearinz off r.,006/. 45., at the debit of that account on the 30th of June last, amounted to 8,2231.45., to be retained by the board of directors as a reserve fund. Much satisfaction was expressed at the efficient condition of the company's fleet and the improved pro sp2ct of their affairs, giving every promise of a fair divi dend at next half-year's meeting. " The half-yearly meeting of the Newcastle Coal and Copper C impany also took place on the 27th of January, when a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. was declared by the directors. The affairs of this company are in a flourishing condition. The plant and works at the mines have been greatly improved, and a considerable portion of the expense of doing so has been paid out of the cur rent, profit?. _ _ "The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of the Australian General Assurance Company was held on the 28th of January, when a dividend of 10 per cent, for the six months was declared. " Government Debentures have remained firm at 100; and accrued interest added to the principal. The ten ders for the 200,0001. will be opened to-morrow (this day) at noon, and purchasers are therefore chary of in vesting until the price at which they may be taken shall be known. These debentures may be considered equiva lent to interminable annuities, because the principal is to be payable in Sydney at the option of the Govern ment only after 25 years. It is, therefore, impossible to anticipate at what rate they may be taken. We, how ever, do not expect to see them bring more than from 98 to 99. " THE GOLD ESCORTS. "The quantity of gold dust received by the escorts from our gold fields during the month of January has been 14,087 oz. 19 dwt. 12 gr. ; during the correspond ing month of 1856, 5,578 oz. 18 dwt, 11 gr. This shows an increase of 8 509 oz. 1 dwt. 1 gr. ; or more than 150 per cent, on the receipts of gold dust for the month of January. The following are the amounts delivered by each escort 1856. 1857. oz. dwt, gr. oz. dwt. gr. Western Southern 774 19 16 ... 1,297 18 9 Northern — ... 4,361 12 21. 5,578 18 11 ... 14,087 12.12 " The Western and Southern escorts delivered during the first week of February 1,745 oz. 9dwt. 9 gr. of gold dust, making the total quantity received by escort from the gold fields during the present year amount to 17,8330 z. Bdwt. 21gr. " In addition to tliis quantity S42oz. were received by post during the month of January. " CUSTOMS. " The amount of revenue collected by the Customs for the port of Sydney during the month of January was 44,87/. 193. sd. ; for the same month of 1856, 31,502 f. 14s. 2d. ; this, therefore, shows an increase of 13,3551. 53. 3d. on the revenue received during the mouth of January." MELBOURNE. From the Melbourne Age of the 13th of February we extract the following : " Feb. 12.—The entries of gold for export amount only to 31oz 151wt.,—viz., loz, 5d wt. for Sydney, 2oz. sdwt. for Otago, and 28oz. sdwt. for London. The following list of gold shipped per Morning Star has been handed to us by the agents :—Uhion Bank, 13,000 z. ; Victoria ditto, 13,6730 z. ; New Sloth Wales, ditto, 5,10G, , z ; Australasia ditto, 10,000 oz. ; Banks Brothers and Henderson, 611 oz, ; Kington and Co., 4,213 , z ; sundry parties, 5990 z. ; Oriental Bank, 1,1450 z. ; total, 18,3800 z. _ _ " The mail for Melbourne, per European, reached the General Post-office at 80 30 p.m., on the evening of the 10th inst., and consisted of 10 bags, containing 33,700 letters, of which 1,262 were registered, and 75 b4g , ,with 41,200 newspapers. The contents of the above mail, together with those of the Black Swan, from Tasmania, and about 50 inland mails, made a total of 37,000 letters (1,500 registered) and 45,000 newspapers. Toe letters by the above were prepared and a delivery effected by 11 30 a.m. on the following morning, the number taken out by letter-carriers at the time being upwards of 12,000, or about one-third, while the remaining two' thirds were nearly equally divided between the general delivery at the office and the despatch to the country districts. THE MAILS. SOUTH LUIPTON, April 4.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Colombo, Capt. J. S. Field, left to-day for Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandria with the India and China mails, up wards of 100 passengers, and a full cargo, including 2,926 boxes of specie and valuables for the follow ing places, viz.:— Silver. Gold. Jewellery. Bombay £250,378 10 0 ... ... £306 10 0 Ceylon Madras ... 11,614 0 0 ... 4,998 ... 913 9 0 Calcutta Penang 12,109 7 6 ... ... ... 285 0 0 Singapore 31,516 13 4 ... . ... ... 44 5 0 Hong Kong 121,217 4 2 ... Canton - 6,297 0 0 ... ... Shanghai.... 161,709 0 0 ... ... 161 0 0 £780,636 15 0 £7,998 £2,441 14 0 Total value of specie and jewellery for India and China, 791,1261. 9s. Tho Alhambra leaves this port on Tuesday the 7th inst., with the mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar ; and the next 'nails from those ports will be brought by the Tagus, due here on the 14th inst. The Indus, with tue heavy portion of the India and China mails, is not expected before Tuesday or Wednes day. The Royal Mail Company's steamer Teviot, Capt. Moir, leaves on the 9th with the Brazilian and giver Plate mails, and the Parana on the 17th with the mails for the West Indies. Thee .homeward steamers, with the Brazilian and West India mails, are the Medway, due on the 14th from the Brazils, and the Atrato, due on the 16th from the West India Islands. The United States mail steamer Fulton, Capt. Wotton, leav e s here on Wed day next for New York. The Belgian Royal mail steamer Leopold 1., Capt. Michel, and the United States mail steamer Hermann, Capt. Hi gg i ns, which arrived off Cowes from New York on Friday night, proceeded on t heir res p ective vo y a g e s imme diately after landing passengers, &e., for Southamp ton, the former for Antwerp and the Antwerp and the latter for Bremen. The Leopold is advertised to leave Southampton for New York on the 21st, and the Hermann on the 22d inst. ELECTION OF INCUMBENT OF ST. JAMES, CLERKEN wELL.—At the close of the second day'spoll the numbers stood as follow :—For Mr. Maguire, 888 ; Mr. Ball, 7 ; and Mr. Herbert, 1. PRESTON AND WYRE SHARES.—RESOLUTION OF CO3l - OF STOCK EXCHANGE.—The original 251. Shares, and the Halves A, Consolidated Half B, and 6th Shares, to be taken and delivered indiscriminately—whole shares for the corresponding fractions, and the fractions for whole shares. WIFE POISONING AT CHORLEY.—On Friday, Edward Hardman, a shoemaker, of Chordley, Lancashire, was committed to Lancashire Gaol on a charge of wilful mur der. Hardman's wife died early in March, and was buried in Brindle parish church ; but as some suspicions existed as to the cause of her death, the body was exhumed on the2oth ult., and the stomach and other ♦iscera were examined by an analytical chemist, who found arsenic and antimony in them. In order that the heart and lungs might be also examined the inquest was adjourned till Friday, when the gentleman who had made the exa ruination expressed his opinion that the woman's death had resulted from poison. _, -- - ~,z-e.. 2_ e.',/' < . i; X ::7 -- "' to •# _ - vedA . e.E,•_ -) -4 . ..,x., .. ..... i ) ----- 4 he United Fervic . c /3-11,,,, s i'l*P lit lita. k , & ,!7" . ,_- ' ~ pig Majesty's pr-sent in' e , .t;ou to ,trOtogi.,,-0 i,- :;,,,,..z toria Cross in p-rzon. to tito=e apno; rittttete'livsi4- - the decoration, of wt:ich due noti3e wilrisa gia , be . the authorities at the War Dertrtment and Admi ralty. The announcement will necessarily be (1.1- layecl for a short period. Admirals the Hon. R. S. Dancla.s and Eden, Captain Alexander Milne, Sir Robert Peel, Bart , M.P., and Mr. Bernal Olyune, M.P., the Junior Lords and Secretary of the Admiralty, left town on Saturday, to make an official inspection at Wool wich Dockyard. Ca.pt. Mulock, of the 70th Foot, proceeds to China with the expedition, as Aide-de-Camp to Lieut.-General Ashburqbarn, C.B. Capt. the Hon. J. R. Drummond, C. 8., has been appointed naval a'de-de-camp to the Queen, vice Codrin2ton, promoted to flag rank. W e regret to hear that Vice-Admiral Sir W. H. Dillon, K. C.FI., is seriously ill. The next vacancy among the " Active" flag offi cers will occasion the promotion of Capt. M'Dou gall, the Superintendent of Packets at Southamp ton. This officer has also a good-service pension. Next to Capt. M'Dougall Capt. Michael Quin will be promoted, thereby placing three good-service pensions at the disposal of Sirt Wood—viz., thos of Captains Lapidge, Slaughter, and Quin. Her Majesty's iron screw steam storesbip Indus try, Master-Commander Hodges, arrived at Wool wich on Saturday from Plymouth, and proceeded to Deptford to embark stores for Rio and Ascension. The paddlewheel steamvessel Cuckoo, tender to the flagship Waterloo, at Sheerness, brought up a number of supernumerary seamen to Woolwich on Saturday for the gunboats which are being manned at that yard. Intelligence has been received of the arrival of her Majesty's steamship Simoom at lat. 0 25 N., long. 20 30 W., on March 3, with the head-quarters of the 33d Regiment, Lieut.-Col Johnstone, C. 8., commanding, on board; all well. No casualties since embarking at Kingstown on Feb. 4. Tho Greenwich out-pension, vacant by the pro motion of Capt. Hillyar to flag rank, has been con ferred upon Capt. W. Turner. Mr. J. Rusden ' master, R.N., who was dis missed summarily from HM.S. Electra, and the service, on the arrival of that vessel from the Aus tralian station, at Spithead, has been restored to his position in the Navy List upon his own repre sentation. The Duke of Wellington, 131, Capt. Caldwell, C. 8., wag paid off at Portsmouth on Saturday. Silo will be placed in the steam res,rve until wanted. Thy Nimrod 6, screw despatch gunvessel, Corn. Dew, did nit leave Portsmouth until daylight on Saturday for China, touching at Plymouth for final orders,. The William Hammond freight-ship sailed from Portsmouth on Saturday morning for Jamaica with a detachment of the 41st Regiment. _ The Sir George Rogers freight-ship arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from Bermuda with returned exiles. _ . The Terror, 14, floating battery, steamed into Sheerness harb - iur on Saturday, about 3 p.m., after having been cruising off the Big Nore for the last two or three days. Captain E. P. Halsted, Mr. J. C. Hutchings, and Mr. J. H. Langley, of the steam reserve ; with Mr. Enwood, foreman shipwright afloat, accompanied her on the second trial trip, which we hear was satisfactory, and that they got more than six knots out of her. The Meanee, 84, is being converted into a screw in No. 2 dry dock, Sheerness. The Transit, 6, iron screw trop-frigate, Com mander E. Chambers, at Portsmouth, is receiving an immense quantity of camp equipment and stores of every description, besides heavy 10-inch breach ing guns. A number of the nledical staff corps arrived on Saturday afternoon and went on board. A portion of the 59th and three companies of the 90th will embarked to day, and the Transit will, in all probability, sail to-morrow, en route for China. The Himalaya, 6, iron screw troop-frigate, Com mander Haswell (late of the Plumper), will haul alongside the dockyard jetty as soon .as the. Duke of Wellington is removed, to embark the 90th, and also a great quantity of camp equipage and munition. The Drake screw gunboat, Lieut. W. Arthur, has had sundry alterations made in her rig. She has had a standing bo *sprit and jibboom, also a foretopmast with a standing topsail and foreyard, which improves her considerably. She went out of harbour on Saturday on trial, under sail. She has but two mast, and if the above rig succeeds it is supposed all the other gunboats fitting for China will be similarly altered. The sailing ship Cumberland, 70, atting in Nc. 3 dry dock, at Sheerness, was commissioned on Saturday by Capt. J. B. Dickson, for the flag of Rear-Admiral of the Rea, P. W. P. Wallis, to command on the Brazilian station. Admiral Wallis is expected to hoist his flag this day on board the Edinburgh, Captain E. P. Halsted, until the Cum berland is sufficiently, fitted to receive the flag. She will be ready to be put out of dock iu about ten days. The Pylades, 21, screw steam corvette at Sheer ness, in the first-class steam reserve (now in the fitting basin), is also ordered to be immediately commissioned. Captain Hall, late of the Heels and Nemesis, is daily expected to commission her. On the recent occasion of Miss Nightingale visit ing Cha him, for the purpose of inspecting the naval and military hospitals of the garrison, that lady instituted some inquiries relative to the work ing of the Chatham Gariisou Compassionate Insti tute—a society supported entirely by the officers and troops at Chatham, and which has been in ex istence a great number of years. Miss Nightin gale was informed that the objects of the institu tion were to provide a hospital for the sick women and children of the garrison ; to supply relief to those women whose husbands may be in hospital ; and also to give food, clothing, and lodging to those destitute soldiers' wives who are constantly arriv ing at Chatham for the purpose of embarking with draughts proceeding to the respective regiments of their husbands ; in addition to which relief is admi nistered in a great variety of distressing cases which may naturally be expected to occur in a gar rison circumstanced like that of Chatham. Before leaving the hospitals Miss Nightingale expressed her intention of becoming a subscriber to their funds, and she has just forwarded to the treasurer the handsome donation of 50 guineas. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 6, 1857. I/IONT BLANC IS O PEN TO-NIGHT. RO YAL GARDENS, WREMORNE. —Op en (100 D FRIDAY and EASTER SUNDAY, for Promenade and Refreshments. Table (Mote at 6 each day, 2s. 6d. each. Varied and attractive amusements during the Easter 'Holidays. ORDON CUMMING, the LION HUNTER, Tf will give his popular ENTERTAINMENT, every evening during Passion Week ('ridgy and Saturday excepted) at 8. A MORNING REPRESENTATION on SATURDAY, at 3 o'clock.- 232, Piccadilly. . • W. S. WOODIN'S OLIO of ODDITIES, a_ with New Costumes and v irious Novelties, Vocal and Cha racteristic, every, evening (except Saturday) at Eight. A MORN ING PE RFOR M . ANC E every SA. CURD AY, at Three. Private Boxes and Stalls may be secured, without extra charge, at the Box-office, Polyaraphic-11111, King William-street, Charing-cross. The hall has teen entirely redecorated. ARGYLL ROOMS.-LA I JRENT'S CASINO, Great Windmin-atreet, -St. James's.— The above elegant Rooms arc now open every evening for the winter season, with Lturent's celebrated Orchestra. Principal Cornet-a-piston, M. lioulcourt. The Proprietor begs to inform the public that this fashionable place of resort has been entirely redecorated during the recess. Doors open at half-past eight, commence at nine. Admis sion One t•hilling. OYAL PRINCESS'S THE ATRE.- RAU HENRY RUSSELL, TO-NIGHT, Monday, April 6, and during the week, will wive his Entertainment, "TAE FAR WEST," or Every day Life in America. The second part, entitled " Negro Life." Mr. Russell will accompany himself on one of Collard and Collard's mag nificent lii-chord Pianofortes. Dress Circle, 2s. 6d.; Upper Boxes, Is, 6d.; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d.• 'Pickets and places may be secured of Mr. Mascingham, at the Box-office, from 11 to 4. Doors open at half-past 7, commence at 8. THE GREAT TOBACCO CONTROVERSY. Dr. SEXTON will LECTURE an this important topic daily at 3 and half-past 7 p.m , at Dr. KAHN'S MUSEUM, No. 4, Coven try street, Leicester-square. The Museum, which now stands wholly unrivalled in the world, and the rarity and completeness of whose contents have already acquired for it an European reputation, and obtained the warm commendation of the press in this and other coun tries, is Open daily, for Gentlemen only, trorn 10 to 10. A new Lecture is deivered by Dr. Kum at half-past 8 p.m. precisely. Ad mission, One 4 hilllng. Descriptive Catalogues of the Museum, con taining Lectures as delivered by Dr. Khan, gratis to the visitors. KY E CURE IN VESTMENTS.—Messrs. R. HO[SLEF and Co., 45, Threadneedle-street, Sworn Stock, Share, and Mining Brokers,will be happy to forward a list of carefully selected Securities, paying good dividends, to those who may favour them with their business, and to advise them on the safest mode of investing their capital. Business transacted in the English Funds at 1-16th per cent., and in all Stocks, Railway and Mining Shares, on'the most reasonable terms. A selected list of dividend-paying (from 12 to 20 per cent.) and progressive =lnes to be had personally or per letter. BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY has ever since its introduction to the public been recognised, both by scientific men and the trade, as the best article ever manufactured in this c mntry. Its claims to such pre-eminence are based upon its unri valled • purity, and its closer assimilation than any other to the flavour of the finest Champagne Brandy. There has been no Brandy made from wine in France, either in the present year or in the preceding one. Owing to the successive failures of their vintages, the French wine grower gets a higher price for his wine, cinsumed as such, than he can realise by its being distilled into Brandy; and forasmuch as the foreign Brandy of recent impor tations is but the product of British grain and beetroot spirits, the prestige hitherto exclusively enjoyed by French Brandy as having been distills t from a particular French wine no longer exists, and is no longer worthily assignable to it now that it is bunglingly made from other materials. The supply of wine for distillation into Brandy having failed, the French distiller is constrained to recur to a manu facture in• which he needs the quarter of a century's experience which has been exercised upon that of BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY, to render his article respectably competitive, and he has not had it. Under these circumstances the Messrs. Betts challenge that their PATENT BRANDY is superior to any now made abroad. It is to the interest, of the public and the Messrs. Betts that these facts should be widely spread, for recent importations are of a quality so inferior as to di grace the name they bear, and are twice the price of BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY, which is supplied by the trade, in capsuled bottles, to private families in any quan tity, down to the single bottle. Excise regulations prevent its sale rom the Distillery, 7, Smithfield-bars, St. John-street, in any less quantity than two gallons. By Authority of the French Consul-Genersl.—Notice is hereby given, that the following SALE of P RESERVED BEEF will be the last on account of the French Government. GALE of FRENCH COMMISSARIAT SURPLUS STORES, consisting of PRESERVED BOILED BEEF. of English. Scotch, and Irish manufacture, in tin canisters of about 6 lb. each, and packed in wooden boxes containing 12 tins.— Mr. ALEXR. COCK E has been honoured with instructions to Sell by Auction, at the Lyndon ComMercial Sale Rooms, Mincing-lane, on an early date in April next, of which due notice will be given, several parcels of the above descripton of Provisions, composed of the manu facture of the following celebrated firms, viz.,— • Messrs. Henry Powell and Sons, London ; Messrs. John M'Call and Co., London; , Messrs. John Moir and Son, Aberdeen ; Messrs. D. llogarth and Co., Aberdeen ;_and - Messrs. John Dillon and Co , Leith. All the boxes for sale are being opened and carefully examined for damaged canisters, the whole of which will be selected and replaced by sound ones; the fact of the beef having hem originally manu factured in this country under strict inspection, expressly for the use of the troops in the Crimea, where it gave the highest satisfaction, added to its being perfectly free from defective tins, will give every assurance to buyers of its excellent quality and fitness either for home - consumption or exportation. Packages included in the pur chase. The several parcels of beef for sale are now on view at Beal's wharf. Mill-lane, Teoley-street, where purchasers may satisfy them selves that every care is being taken in removing from the boxes all canisters unfit for use. Any further information required can be obtained at the office of Mr. Cocke, 2, Old Trinity House, Water-lane, Tower-street. where catalogues may be had six days previous to the sale, at the lollowing place., viz.;— Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing-lane; Corn Exchange, filarraway's, Baltic, and Coffeehouses; Jerusalem also at the news rooms of the peincinal inland towns and outports. The sale will commence punctually at the time stated. PLAISTOW &VICTORIA DOCK MISSION. The prayers and offerings of Churchmen are solicited in aid of an effort to supply the urgent spiritual wants of a newly popu lated district around the Victoria Docks. Within the last few years the formation Of a portion of these Docks and other causes have added a population of about 4,000 souls to the spir tual charge of the Incumbent of St. Mary's, Plaistow. A new town has been commenced on a low and marshy tract of ground ad joining the river Thames, totally undrained, and intersected by stagnant ditches. In a few more years itis probable that this district will rival Poplar, Shadwell, Ratcliffe, or St. George's in the number and habits of its population. It is proposed at once to send clergymen to labour amongst these newly-congregated manes, and to increase their staff as circum stances may render necessary. Another generation must not be left to repair the neglect of the present. The object of the appeal is not to apply a palliative of an all but hopeless evil, but to find the means of its prevention, to preach Christ's Gospel to every man, woman, and child in the district, to endeavour to bring all within the fold of our National Church, to instruct them according to her formularies, and to preserve them in the communion of her faith and worship. Ragged Schools have been tried elsewhere with success. Why not try Ragged Churches in School-rooms? We propose, therefore, in the first instance, to have SHORT SERVICES FROM THE PRANER. Bola in our Schools, adapted to the capacities of the untaught poor with lectures on popular subjects, musical and other entertainments. The Lord Bishop of London has given his cordial sanction to the work, and has undertaken, at the earnest solicitation of the promot ers of the mission, to select the clergy, when funds are provided. To aid us in our difficult task special don diens are required for the necessary outlay for Missionary Stations, Schools, &c. ; and also regular subscribers, to enable us to support an adequate staff of teachers, clerical and lay. It is intended at an early date to submit the scheme to a general meeting. Further particulars will be given by the Rev. R. W. B. Marsh, Incumbent of St. Mary's, Plaistow; Antonio Brady, Esq., Mary land Point, Stratford, Essex, Treasurer; or the Rev. Alfred W. Mason, Stratford-green, by whom donations or subscriptions for five years will be thankfully received; or at the Bank of Coutts and Co., 59, Strand ; or Messrs. Dimstiale and Co.. 50. Cornhill, to the ac count of the Plaistow and Victoria Dock Mission. 11) OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. Patron—The OllEEN.—Founded 1828. The sick poor are admitted on their own application alone; no re commendation is required. During the past month the following number received the benefits .tf this Charity, either as out or in-door patients, on their personal application : Week ending 7th February ...... 2,09 5 Ditto 14th February 2,351 Ditto 21st February 2,650 Ditto 28th February : 2,890 Total in February .... . 9,986 of which 3,379 were new cases, the remainder (still under treat ment) having been admitted previously. The clergy or all denominations have unlimited access to the , patients. Ile.wy expenses are inevitably incurred in affording such exten sive relief. 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 'I ,t of Subscribers, at the Annual general Meeting in January. A Board is held every Thursday, at 4 o'clock (Rev. J. B. Owen, Chairman). to conduct the business, when any subscriber may attend, if so disposed, the Board being at Ili times desirous of receiving suggestions or giving explanation. The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on volun tary contributions and legacies, which are received by the Treasurer, John Masterman, Esq., M.P., Nicholas-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts end Co. ; Drummond and Co.; Berries and Co.; Ransom and Co. ; rescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Glyn and Co. ; Tones Loyd and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Denison and Co. ; Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Ber ners-street ; Masterman and Co.; and at the Hospital. Clothing for the destitute patients will be thankfully received. By order. J. B. OWEN, MA., Chairman. A NEW AND IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE SCIENCE PUBLICATIOi;E. SECOND EDITION, WITH. ADDITIONS. Now ready, in 1 vol., with Illustrations, ins. 6d., bound, pHEN AND PENCIL PICTURES. By TIIO OAS HOOD. "By his poetry and his prose Thomas Tiood-thellbcond distinctly announces himself to be his father's son."—Athenxtun. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, GreatMariborough-street. lost a day in reaching Point de Gallo, but made it up on reaching Suez. When the PeninsUlar and Oriental Company had the contract to convey the Australian mails via. Singapore, they were allowed 53 days for the voyage between Melbourne and Suez, but the Simla has done it by way 0f . (3-alle in 39 days. This magnificent ship is .2,450 toms and 600 h orse power. - She has triumphantly demon strated the capacity of the screw steamer for ra pidly crossing the Indian Ocean. ' The Sinala will no doubt take on the immense mail that has been accumulated - at Suez, and reach Melbourne with it by ;the . sth of next mouth. The European and Australian Company have done this ;nod service— they have shown the precise kind of ship that should' be employed to carry the Australian mails, and how ;to shorten the time hitherto consumed between England and the colonies of Australia by a fort night. There are a number of screw steamers now afloat quite equal to the Simla in point of speed and strength, and more, of course, can easily be built. The commander of the Simla is Captain Cooper. His name deserves record as the pioneer of what is to be hoped will be a new era in Austra lian steam navigation. The drawback to the Eu ropean and Australian Company's admirable per formance of their .engagement by means of the Simla is the non-arrival of the Oneida. She left Melbourne 18 days before tho Simla, and since she left . King , peorge'S Sound;- which she did at, her proper time, she has not been heard of. Her com mander, Captain Hyde, is a very able navigator, and he had the greatest confidence in his ship when he left England. If she has brcaen down, and is making for Mauritius, she is t'senty-four days at least, since we have news from that place up to the Ist ultimo. If she is making direct for Ceylon, she is at least -thirty-four days out, the distance of Ceylon from King George's Sound being 3,300 miles. Being a screw, however, she is not so helpless in the Indian Ocean as a broken-down paddle-wheel stearaer would be. If the Oneida makes for the nearest port belonging to England, Singapore is nearar than the Mauritius or Point de Galle, its distance being only 2,700 miles from King,George's Sound. In a few days we shall have a fortnight's later news from Singapore, and a week's later news from and it is to - be hoped that by that time the Oneida will turn up somewhere. If she arrived at Suez soon after the Simla, which is possible, there would be no steamer at Alexandria to bring home her mails, as both the Etna and Jura had left that port. An Indian mail steamer wilt be leaving Alexandria, however, about this day, which could take on at least the Marseilles portion of her mails to Malta; and from thence it could be easily taken to Mar seilles. The Sydney Morning Herald of February 10th publishes a summary of news for the Simla. We extract the following : "By the Oneida mail-steamer we completed our sum mary of events in this colony up to the 22d of January. Since that date we have little in the political world to record. _ . " The Parliament continues sitting, and but very slowly progresses with the actual business of the colony. "The announcement that the coins of the Sydney Mint had been made a legal tender in Ceylon, the Mati• ritius, and Hong Kong was made to both Houses of the Legislature, and caused considerable satisfaction, and will, doubtless, tend to the recognition of such coin as legal tender in the sister colonies of Victoria and South Australia. "The Bill to confer a corporation on the city of Syd ney may now be considered as passed. The council will consist of 16 aldermen, to be elected by ballot, and who will choose their own mayor. The mayor will receive a salary, but will not be ex officio a police magistrate. Although two temporary measures for the regulation of the sale and occupation of the waste lands of the colony have been introduced, it is not intended to take the question of the reform of the whole system into consider ation during the present year. " Although not formally passed, the Gold Bills, assi milating the policy for the regulation of the goldfields of this cclony to that of Victoria, have been assented to by both branches of the Legislature. A strong expression of opinion has been made in both Houses of the Legisla ture that the existing system for the management of im migration should be reformed, and that immigration should 'be superidendeet; in England by an agent or agents appointed by the colony. " A large number of petitions have been presented against the continuance of railway traffic on the Sab bath day, but the question has not yet been definitely brought before the Legislature. " A Bill to increase the amount of the Civil L'st was passed in the Legislative Assembly by a majority of 19 to 14. The Loan Bill, to meet the accumulated defi ciency of revenue to meet expendituro for past year, was passed with little opposition. "A number of local enactments have passed, and will shortly become law. They relate principally to amendments in our' commer c i a l co d e . "The idea, long entertained, that the climate and soil of New South Wales %ere only one degree better than those of the regions of the sun, which have been proverbial for sultriness and aridity, has been for a con siderable period exploded. It remained, however, to the present season to prove that not only is the climate of Australia temperate, and its soil fertile, but that here also we have the cloud, and the mist and the shower, which are so effective in calling forth the rich spirit of fragrancy, and diffusing fertility throughout the land. " The three months which have just expired, and which are usually known as the warmest months in this climate,' have been marked by a degree of moisture such as Las seldom favoured the colony Nor have the bene ficent rains been confined, as they sometimes are; to a particular locality. From the west, the south, and the north the intelligence is fraught ti, ith accounts of the swelling - of rivers, the overflowing of creeke, and the fertilising of entire districts. "The result of this state of things is that the present is literally a golden season for the farmer. If this class of the colonists have any cause to complain, it is that their crops are too abundant—that the greatness of the production has had the effect of limiting the demand. In some parts of the colony the price of wheat, accord ing to our latest intelligence, is unquestionably below the remunerating standard. The prices paid in some locali ties are so low that, were not all experience opposed to the principle of protection, the advocates for a protective duty in favour of the farmer would be likely to receive many converts to their ranks. In one district we have wheat quoted at 4s. per bushel ; in another at 6s. These are discouraging prices when we consider that two years ago wheat was purchased at many mills in the interior at 20s. ; and low as is the present price of grain a further reduction is anticipated. "It is encouraging to perceive that the result of the abundance which has characterised the present season has been to show the settlers and the public generally the urgent necessity which exists for that ready communica tion between the metropolis and the distant interior which railways can alone supply. One or two more such agricultural seasons and the demand for railway com munication would be loud and long—from one extreme of the colony to the other. The pressure for an improved system of communication is already, indeed, beginning to make itself felt. The communication established by the successful navigation of the Murray has effectively directed the attention of the colonists to the value of the hitherto neglected rivers of the country. Already the Murrurnbidgee has been surveyed, preparatory to the ascent of steamers during the approaching season. This stream, we are told, has five feet of water in the shal lowest part during the dry portion of the year. Then the Edward River is to be made one of the highways of com merce. A meeting, numerously and influentially at tended, has been held, at which it was resolved to memo rialise the Government for a sum of money sufficient to clear this stream of obstructions with the view to its navigation by steamboats. " Everything tends to show that the colony is begin ning to assume the character of a great agricultural country. One fact, however, which has been established by the remarkable diversity in the seasons is that in this colony the farmer must not look to the produce of his farm merely as a means of subsistence. To be successful the agriculturist must be sufficiently independent to be capable of occasionally hoarding the produce of one year for the market of the next. If he does not act thus, it is quite evident that he will not be true to himself. Indeed, the interests of the country, not less than toe individual, demand the exercise of some management of this sort. If the farmer sell his wheat one year for 4s. a-bushel, and the next year, when the price is 20s. has none to sell, it is evident that agriculture would soon come to a standstill. " Another fact which is now clearly demonstrated is that New South Wales must eventually become an ex porter of grain. If, with our defective internal commu nication, the competition of the gold fields, and various other drawbacks, we can already produce a shwerabun dance of bread-stuffs, what may we not do when we have railways intersecting every agricultural district in the colony, and when our population is doubled ? When that period arrives, the colony, aided by such seasons as the present, will become a vast granary, as remarkable for her golden grain as she already is for her golden fleece. Nor will a market ever be wanting—whether a cluster of European colonies such as the French se ttlement at New Caledonia, stretching across the greit Pacific, or new Sydneys studding the yet untrodden shores of New Holland ; whichever of these may happen to call for our extra produce, the demand will infallibly. be , created. But far beyond even this vista does the unad s eye see those who will yet look to New Holland as their hope against want. Already does China , our near neighbour, begin to feel the pressure of superabundant population. Who will say that in 50 years she may not strip her heathen temples to purchase for her swarming millions the harvest of the Murray and the Murr um bid gee ? The races of India, too — ln dia, which lies at our door —may not always be content to subsist on r i ce an d such meagre diet, if indeed their overwrought soil will continue to supply an abundance even of their present dietary commodities. Here is another market which OF MEDICINE. 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The Committee for Letting the City's Lands will meet at Guildhall on WEDNESDAY, the Bth April next, at One o'clock precisely, to receive Proposals. for a Building Lease, or Building Leases, of a large PLOT of GROUND, forming the site of the late Feet Prison, situate on the East side of Farringdon-street, in the City of London; also to receive proposals for a lease of a House, No. 10, Cross Lancashire court, New Bond•street. Plans of the property may be seen, and further particulars and forms of tender obtained, upon application at the Architect's Office, Guildhall. - . FERDINAND BRAND, Comptroller. AUSTRALIA. - FURTHER PARTICULARS. The Simla arrived at Suez on the 20th, bringing 48 passengers and 85,0000 z. of gold. Her dates are—Sydney, Feb. 11 ; Melbourne, Feb. 15 ; King George's Sound, Feb. 22 ; the Mau ritius, March 1 ; and Ceylon, March 10. The " Black Ball" ship Marco Polo, Captain James Clarke, arrived off Liverpool on Saturday, after a passage of 76 days. She left Port Philip Heads on the 17th January, in company with the steamship Royal Charter, which vessel she again spoke on the 6th Feb., in lat. 57 S., 118 W. The Marco Polo brought 94 passengers, 10,000 oz. of gold, valued at 40,0001., and 2,500 bales of wool. The Simla's mails were conveyed from Alexan dria, which they left on the 28th ult. to Malta in the Jura, and were taken thence to Marseilles by the Cunard steamer Cambria. The Sussex and Thomas Ann Cole bad arrived from. London, and the Exodus from Liverpool, at Melbourne. The European and Australian steamer European arrived at Melbourne on the 10th of February, in 58 days. The Royal Charter, which may be expected hourly, had 122,086 ounces and 13,000 sovereigns, of an aggregate value of 501,3441., and 1,900 bales of wool. She has also a mail, comprising 25,720 letters and 24,700 newspapers. The Istamboul was to sail on the 2d of March ; the European on the 12th of March. The Oneida left King George's Sound on the 3d of February, with 70 passengers and 10,000 ounces of gold. Nothing has been heard of her since, al though advices from Mauritius to the Ist of March are to hand. Mr. Childers, Commissioner of Trade, was pro ceeding to England as Emigration Commissioner. Trade remained good, but was somewhat stag nant. The amount of gold shipped this year is nearly 1,590,000/. Labour was scarce, in consequence of the reduc tion of the day's work to eight hours. The banks were buying bills at 1 per cent. prem., and selling at 2. Flour was at 171. to 18/. per ton. At Syd-' ney wool was steady, with liberal supplies. Tallow was in demand, but supplies were very small. The gold dust received by the escorts in January was 14,000 oz. against 5,500 oz. last year. A good description of coal had been found in considerable quantities in the Wormbete forest, near Geelong. A bill for taking the census of the colony of Vic toria was read a third time and passed in the Le gislative Assembly on the 15th of January, and or dered to be taken to the council by Mr. Aspinall. The crops presented a very satisfactory appear ance, and gave promise of an abundant harvest. The mining intelligence is generally favourable. We read in the Australian Gazette :—" The outward, arrival of the Oneida, having his Excel lency Sir H. Barkly on board, was notified to the inhabitants of Melbourne by the discharge of artil lery about 10 o'clock on the evening of the 23d December. His Excellency the Acting-Governor and several members of the executive and legisla ture were at the time patronising the fete given at Cremorne in aid of the Soldiers' Daughters' Fund ; but on the announcement of the arrival of the new Governor they took their departure. As soon as possible after arrival Sir Henry intimated his de sire that his entry into Melbourne should be as quietly and as privately arranged as possible, and accordingly the hasty preparations previously made for his official reception were greatly curtailed. 'As the anchorage in the bay was effected, the block ship, under the command of Lieut.. Crawford,. R.N., fired a governor's salute of seventeen guns. The colonial government steam-sloop Victoria fired a succession of rockets and lighted the yards of the ship, so as to afford the pilot some assistance in bringing the ship amongst the vessels in the bay. Some few rockets were fired and bile lights burned by the Morning Star, Medway, Narco Polo, and other vessels in the port. At an early hour on the follow.ng morning his Excellency, accompanied by the Acting-Governor and Mr. Childers—the latter of whom had pro ceeded on board the Oneida on the previous night —disembarked at Sandridge, and vas conveyed in General M'Arthur's carriage to Tocrak. An escort of her Majesty's 40th Regiment was supposed to have been in readiness to escort Sir Henry, but, as with all the intended preparations, were a trifle too late. The eye-witnesses of the landing and depar ture consisted of very few persona. Sir Henry's desire for privacy and early movements, however, sufficiently accent. is for this. This is the first time. in whim news has been received from Melbourne, in Australia, in 48 days ; and when the electric telegraph is laid down in the Red Sea, on tke line to India, and a telegraphic communication is thereby established with Aden, we shall get news from Melbourne in 34days, The Simla left Melbourne a day after her time, and reached King George's Sound a day before her time. She EXPERIMENTS AT WOOLWICH. Some experiments on an extensive and inter esting scale were performed on Saturday at Woolwich-marsh, in the presence of the Duke of Cambridge, Lord Panmure, the Marquis of Bread albane, the Earl of Ashburnham, Rear-Admiral Sir Maurice Berkeley, K.C.8., Vice-Admiral Sir Geo. Sartorius, Rear-Admiral Peter Richards, Captain Alexander Milne, Sir Baldwin Walker, Major- General Sir H. Storks, Captain Caffin, C. 8., R.N., Storekeeper-General of the Ordnance ; his Excel lency Feruk Khan, the Persian Plenipotentiary, his uncle, and suite ; Col. Sir H. Rawlinson, C.B. ; Capt. Lynch and Mr. Lynch, of the East India Company's Navy ; Major-General Sir W. F. Wil liams, K.C.8., attended by his aide-de-camp and the garrison staff, &c. The C om mander-in-Chief, before proceeding to the Marsh, conducted the Lords of the Admiralty to the Royal carriage square, in order that they might examine the equip ments prepared for the Chinese war. His Royal Highness, on a former occasion, had expressed his approbation of the 3-pounder batteries, in which their lordships readily concurred, and, to verify the facility with which the ammunition waggons are conver tible for the easy transport o f th e w ounded, the Doke desired an attendant to enter one of the Highness, having wheeled paces, again repeated to Colonel admiration of 't Ti v t e o li l i o vehicles, forwardes, hi s some when his Royal its compactness and efficiency. They thence proceeded to the marshes in Plumstead, where, notwith standing the incessant fall of rain throughout the day, the proceedings commenced, as arranged, pre cisely at 2 o'clock. The first experiment was with several wrought and cast-iron shot from 68-pounder guns, fired at a wooden butt faced with sundry sample plates of sheet-iron three-quarters of an inch in thickness. The guts were directed by a party ot gunners told off from the let Battalion of the Royal Artillery, and were aimed with precision. Colonel Tulloh, Major Vandeleur, and Captain Boxer, officers of the Royal Artillery Corps in Woolwich Arsenal, superintended the proceedings, which were watched by Liutenant.Colonel Picker ing and Captain Campbell, R.A., secretary and assistant secretary of the select committee. The first shots were over a flight of 1,200 yards, which was ultimately reduced in proportions of 200 yards, and they were finally fired at a proximity of 400 yards from the target. Attention was then di rfoecrtetdhetoptuhrepsoc:en scantling Martin's shells (con taining a charge of 'g te c s l tin a g 36-gun frigate, erected 281 b. o molten iron) in the destruction ot ships of war. The point of attack showed a perfect broadside, resembling a ship at sea, into which a number of shells and red-hot shot were alternately projected, over various ranges varying from 1,200 to 400 yards, giving ample time between each discharge to observe the effect. It was remarked that the ignition produced by the liquid iron was considerably more speedy and effectual than by the agency of the red-hot shot. The time required to dissolve the metal and the means now employed to effect the purpose, are more available than those necessary for heating shot, and the advantage wag * therefore, pronounced to be in favour of Mettle's shell