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• -7 ; ; . /., 1 07,,,1,1„..6./ • t 7 . , 5 .- 1\ • 0. 1 j • • •.• Naval and IN f EWar44 *4‘ • rc,&,- 40„,„„ ' 11/,,q6c / , J n 4 # , \s"- 0 .;` 4 ‘ 4, " 404. . 44111 ,,, 1 „ ;4 .49101 t -----., 4, . , &t: cs ,4 "" 4-, ) / „.4"Pg •• • • ,T` 1. 4 1 J , 4. 4 1 & • J. IJ , , - O'S a,44e - , , . bIN , on., 4., .A A A 4IW 8 • sy morn uarter of fired pro urpished Havre, ived DU' returned est. At iered his d to find , ed-room answer ; but the hrieking Eltr !nig- CRYSTAL PALACE.--SEASON 1857-8. PROGRAMME. The Directors beg to announce that they have made the following arrangements for the ensuing sea-gm : ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA CONCERI S. . The SEASON will COMMENCE on FRIDAY, the Ist of May, with a Grand Morning Concert by the artistes of the Royal Italian Opera. These Concerts having been honoured last year by such general approbation, the Directors have en tered into arrangements with Mr. Gyc to give a similar Series of Twelve Concerts during the present season. These Concerts will be supported by the following cele brated artistes :—Madame Grisi, Mademoiselle Rosa Devries, Mademoiselle Marai, Mademoiselle Didide, Mademoiselle Parepa, and Madame Bosio ; Signor Maid, Signer Ronconi, Signor Neri-Baraldi, Signor Gard Ani, 1 4 ignor Graziani, Herr Armes, Signor Tagliafico, Monsieur Zegler, Signor . Polonini, and Signor Lablache. The Grand Orchestra of the Royal Italian Opera, with ad ditional performers, and also the celebrated Chorus, are en gaged for the whole series. The musical direction of the whole is in the hands of Mr. Costa, who will himself conduct a portion of the Concerts. With the above assemblage of artistes, it is hardly neces sary for the Directors to s tat e that th e performances will be of the highest class, and capable of very great variety. The Concerts will take place on the following Fridays, viz —May 1,8, 15, 22, and 29 ; June 5 and 26 ; July 3, 10, 17, 24, and 31. The space allotted to the Concert Roma last year (extensive Its it was) having been found inadequate to accomModate the audiences, the Directors have this season determined to give the Concerts in the Great Transept. The Two Guinea Season Tickets will also be available for these Concerts. Transferable tickets will also be issued for each Concert at 7s. 6d. each ; which tickets can be obtained at the Company's offices, or of any of the agents. In compliance with a desire which was universally expressed last season, a limited number of reserved stalls will be set apart, which may be taken for the series of 12 concerts at one guinea each stall, or at half-a-crown each for a single concert. CONCERT OF THE COLOGNE CHORAL UNION. The Directors have made arrangements with tho Cologne Choral Union (Collier Manner Gesang Verein), whose perfor mances on their former visit attracted enthusiastic admira tion, for a Concert in the Centre Transept of the Palace, on Saturday, the 6th of June. N.B.—Both Classes of Season Tickets will be available for this Concert. - LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1857. (Ne. 20,228.) [PRICE 4 1) . STAMPED 5D London and Brighton Railway Company will leave London bridge S'ation every half-hour, and during bu'y days every quarter of an hour, from 9 o'clock a.m, till dusk, returning from the Palace at the same intervals throughout the day.— (For exact times of starting, see the Railway Company's time tables.) Return fares, including admission to the Palace -Ist Class. 2cl Class. 3d Class. On Shilling Days On Half-Crown Days Children under 12 years of age, Half-price. WEST-END RAILWAY.—The opening of this line to the Wands worth Station has a'ready been attended with groat convenience to visitors to the Palace, and it is with much pleasure that the Directors anticipate the completion of the whole line to the Sloane-street Station, as well as the junction with the main line (f the South-Western Railway at the Clapham-common Station, in the coupe of the coining season. An access will thus be opened for the residents in Hyde-park, Belgravia, and Bromp ton, and the other West-End Districts, as-well as for the neighbourhoods of Richmond, Windsor, and Hampton Court, by which great economy of time will be effected, and still further convenience afforded to the public MID-KENT RAILWAY.—The portion of this line from the Sta tion of the South-Eastern Railway at London-bridge to Beck enham has been opened, and the extension to the Crystal Palace Station will be shortly completed, whereby au easy access will be afforded to the residents in the Lewisham and Blackheath districts. er aid, she, in lame ! is bed!" that the sent for arrived, y found lows on )ich had )d ; and a cord, ck. On a knife. n disor ad been ►tch and PUBLICATIOLIS. • 13ANK CF DEPOSI - T, N.. 3, PAL, bfALL EAST, LOD;DON, Esta!i, , hed A.D. 1844. Parties desirous of INIESTING MONEY arc requested to examine the plan of the Benz of Deposit. 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With Eight Illustrations by H. K. Browne. Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. 111. GRAND WATERWORKS. About room a ted, but Lrked to aps the that be 3s be re- Id hint ; im, but . alk : on ►turned. ;ion into reqnos t, than of Lcen. Of sold. 7d per 01 to O to 60 111 kinds, errtge la 3 9d pP —on the and on ae as last was onil and ill y find a grain as s to —s ; hi to 47s )a,us, 37a market, ,early, at tiCieg A, maltirg 2s, 22At , was, 401 11 kind/ priced. • Besot ss; oats .day, At The fol - e, 39 rn, 2= —North Id Fur bre awl aye sucl Leed" , South rig verY at the tire, g 9• 13, -Leeds , h deg• aintieol to-dAY , rates. W. -- 11, 2i -- eaters', to-day , 0,0001. !tbs. 2th. !tbs. !tbs. !ths. Cont . in lII' wool► Kort h ratter hopP, t iclo , leo!' abath (Ige• 1 scl.. 111 J• 31 1 . sail EF4•t th° , a tige a isfir itor, ,cl4f l oth iel‘' ,TOO The Displays of the vast System of Fountains, Cascades, and Jets d'Eaux w ill b e resume d an d continuedduring the whole season. The upper system will play daily as heretofore; and the Entire Display, embracing the Fountains of the Grand. Basins, the Water Temples, the Cascades, and the whole of the Upper Fountains, on occasions to be from time to time announced. .IV. FLOWER SHOWS. There will be Two Grand Horticultural and Floricultural Fetes dining the present season : The. First on Saturday, the 30th of May ; and The Second on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the 9th, 10th, ens! 11th September. V. POULTRY SHOWS. There Will be two Shows in the course of the coming season. The Summer Show will tal • place on the 7th, Bth, 10th, 11th, and 12th of August. The Winter Show on the 9th, 11th, 12th, and 13th of January, 1858. VI. GENERAL ARRANGEMENTS OF THE BUILDING. EXHIBITIONS OF Pic-ruais.—The Pieter() Gallery, formed during the past year in the North Wing of the Palace, has proved so successful in its capabilities for the effective dis play of paintings, that it is the intention of the Directors to hold therein, during the present season, Two Exhibitions of the Works of Living Painters of all Schools. The first of these Exhibitions will open in May, and con tinue open during the Summer. The Second will be a Winter Exhibition. Exhibitions of Phot ogra ph s w ill a l so b e held in the upper portion of the Picture Gallery from time to time during the season. Caeamtc COURT.—The Directors are desirous to take the present opportunity of expressing their acknowledgments for the kind and ready matter in which their requests for loans for the Ceramic. Court were responded to by the owners of °once ions of Porcelain and Pottery of the most rare, fragile, and valuable descriptions. It is very gratifying to the Directors to be able to say that the further aid offered them is such as will enable them to continue the Ceramic Court, for the present season, with a . number of additional specimens, exemplifying the capabilities df the art in its most elaborate branches. The Collection will be, as before, under the superintendence of Mr. Thomas Battam ' F. S.A. INDIAN COURT AND GALLERY OF ENGINEERING MODEM--In each of these departments the Directors have to acknowledge assistance of the same gratifying nature as that in the Cera mic Court. By public companies and institutions, as well as by private individuals, the Directors h ave b een entrusted with the most valuable and beautiful models, with costly carvings and works in ivory and bronze fabrics and works of art, granted with a liberality anti readiness for which they cannot sufficiently express their obligations. They have thus been Senabled materially to improve the Indian Court, and also to form a collection of models of engineering works, illus trating in a very complete manner that great branch of Bri. tish skill and enterprise, surpassing any other now accessible to the public. It ,will give th e Di rectors great pleasure to receive any further contributions with which they m a y be favoured. • Tim NAVAL Meszum.--4he Exhibition under this denomina tion in the First and Second Galleries of the North Transept, fronting the Garden, now conta i ns about 300 models of ships, boats, and vessels of all descriptions, affording an illustra tion of the progressive improvement in British naval architec ture and navigation during a period of 340 years. It also contains specimens of new inventions connected with the im provement of navigation. The Directors beg here also to acknowledge the ready and extensive assistance which they have received from shipown ers, shipbuilders, engineers, and shipping companies, in form ing this very interesting and national collection, and at the same time solicit the further aid of all parties who may have the means of extending it. WATER TOWERS.—The Great Towers are now completed, and arrangements have been made by which, for a small charge, visitors to the Palace can ascend them, and enjoy the extensive view from the balconies, where powerful telescopes are about to be placed. MAMMOTH TREE.—An object of great interest has lately been added to the contents of the Palace, which will remain on ex hibition during the whole of the coming season. The object alluded to is a portion of the trunk of the Wellingtonia Gi gantea' or Mammoth Tree, being the largest of the group of those trees discovered in California. The portion erected in the Tropical Transept, opposite the Abu Simbel figures, is no less than 103 feet in height, and 32 feet in diam e t er a t th e bag% Extinnvnve DEPARTMENT.—Amongst the branches of indus try which now find important illustration in this department may be mentioned the manufacture of gold and silver work and electro-plate, both domestic and artistic ; vulcanite and India rubber generally ; colour printing and typography ; papier Ipache, ornamental iron, fancy goods, and other pro ductions of Birmingham ; domestic furniture, church furni ture ; in stone, wood, metal, and fabric ; hardware gene rally ; and especiallly the p ro d uc ti ons of Sheffield, in the Court - filled by the manufacturers of that important centre of industry. CANADIAN COURT.—The arrangements announced' en a for mer occasion with the Government of Canada are now, the Directors are happy to report, complete. The Government of Canada have undertaken to form and maintain in the Palace a collection which shall completely set forth the condition of the manufactures and other industry and resources of that important colony. The collection will be placed in the large Court lying be tween the News Room and the Stationery Court, immediately adjoining both the Nave and Centre Transept, and at present occupied by the sculpture of the German school. RAW PRODUCE COLLECTION, AND TRADE MUSEUM.--Tho Tech nological portion of this department is rapidly approachin g. completion. It will comprise illust ra ti ons o f a l l the chief manufactures of the United Kingdom, and specimens of the products, animal, vegetable, and mineral, of Great Britain and the Colonies, as well as of other countries. It is believed that it will be open to the public in the course of the present Kummer. The department is • situated in the Second Gallery on the Garden side of the Grand Transept. MACHINERY IN Mom:QT.—The Machinery will be in action durin g the season at such times as will be announced in the detailed advertisements. The Machinery now in the depart ment comprises a complete set of Machinery for spinning, carding, warping, sizing, weaving, and all the other processes for tiler manufacture of cotton goods from the bale. to the thread, and from the thread to the finished piece ; and a great variety of other machines. AGRICULTURAL MACIIINERY.—The Department of Agricul tural Machinery and Implements has been considerably im proved during the past year. Specimens will /be found there of the portable steam engines and all the other new machines of the chief manufacturers, and purchases can be made at the !lam e prices as at the warehouses of the makers. READING RooM.—The Company's Reading and News Room is situated close to the Centre Transept, between it and the German Sculpture Court ; it contains all the morning jour nals, the weekly papers, metropolitan and provincial, and all he periodicals and magazines, In addition to this, advertisements and copies of new works, both British and foreign, are displayed immediately after publication. FANCY FAIRS,—The Directors are prepared to afford accom modation to benevolent and other societies for holding Fancy Pairs in the Palace during the season. CRICKET, ARCHERY, AND THE GROUNDS GENERALLY. —lt gives the Directors great pleasure to announce that the Cricket Ground is now complete, and that it will be thoroughly in order for the approaching summer. Great care has been taken in the formation of the ground, and they believe that it will be found fully equal in extent and excellence to any other in the neighbourhood of London. The Archery Ground will be continued, as before, in the Northern portion of the groun d s, behind the Picture Gallery Wing. VII. SEASON TICKETS. The Directors have determined upon continuing the price of Season Tickets of admission at the following rates, viz.:— I. 50.Asmi TICKETS, AVAILABLE FROM IST MAY, 1857, TO 30TH APRIL, 1858, Two GenreAsl,EAcit. These tickets will admit the holder on every oceasion be ween May 1, 1857 , an d A pr il 3 0, 1858, on which the Palace I °Pen ; the f our d ays o f t h e H an d e l Festival, viz., the 13th, II sth, 17th, an d 19th Jane only excepted. • SEASON TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM 18T MAY, 1857, TO 30TII Aram, 1858, ONE GUINEA These tickets admit the holder on all oc7casions named tb"e, excepting the Opera C oncer t s, an d th e o th er F r id ays throughout the year, and the 13th, 15th, 17th, an d 19th 411 °. being the four days of the Handel Festival. Z'The Tickets will be issued on and after the 20th inst. ; and a3' be obtained at the Crystal Palace ; at the 'Offices of the "d °M PanY, 79, Lombard-street; at the Offices of the London B r i ghton Railway Company, London-bridge,and Regent ctircus, Piccadilly ; C en t ra l H andel Festival Ticket Office, Exe er_Hall, and of the Company's agents, Remittances for Season Tickets to be by post-office orders Payable to George Grove. VIII. GREAT HANDEL FESTIVAL. nolt gives the Directors great gratification to be able to an unce that th ey h ave entered into arrangements with the inerect Harmonic Society for a Grand Series of Three Perfor Transept of Handel's O ra t or i es, to take place in the Centre -ransept of the Palace in the month of June. ;,,,„ 1:1 ,or Majesty an d H . B . H . P r i nce Albert have been graci 4N" Pleased to extend their especial patronage to the festi `"! and have expressed their intenti on o f honouring it with tei.nri(p!iesence. For further particulars see special adver uu itiRnZE.yS OF ADMISSION, RAILWAY ARRANGE 0 111,:hzti rs-s-rl°ysn, MENTS, &c. RATES OF ADMISSION.—Theso remain as before, One Shilling. Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays uo Saturdays ......................... •• ............ T he Children under 12 years of age, Half-price. l ' Palace will he opened on Mondays at 9 a.m. ; on c, Ss, Wednesdays, Thmsdays, and Fridays, at 10; es_ eu iog on the days of the Concerts by the porn ComPanT, clo "bleb days ,and on Saturdays, it will be opened at - 12 ; Bing daily about sunset. 1341"1 " ithwAY.—During tho sewn, the trains of the Excuusioxs.—Arrabgements have been made by which be nevolent societies, schools, and other large bodies may visit the Palace at the folldwing reduced fares—applying only to shilling days and third-class carriages • • For a number of excursion ists over 250 and under ls. 3d. per head, instead of ls, Gd. 500 Exceeding 500 and under 750 ls. 2d. „ „ Is. 6d. Exceeding 750 and under 10Q0 ls. Id. „ „ ls. Gd. Exceeding 1000 Children, 14.1T-prito. (sived) ARTHUR ANDERSON, Chairman. - JAMES FERGUSSON, General-Manager. KR. W. S. - WOODIN'S OLIO o f ODDITIES, with New Costumes and v .rious Novelties, l'ocal and Ch racteristic, every evening (except Saturday) at Eight A 'MORN ING. PERFOR MANC E every SA fURDAY, at Three. Private Boxes and Stalls may be secured;without extra charge, at the Box-office, volyzraphic-hall, King William -street, Charing-cross. The hall has , een entirely redecorated. ROYAL - ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAIIRENT'S C tSINO, Great Windmill-street, liaymarket.—Great suc cess of the Romanlfi Waltz and the Lancers, every evening, with Laurent's Grand Orchestra of Forty of the first artistes of London. Principal Cornet-a•piston, M. Boulcodrt. Doors open at half-past eight, commence at nine. The Lancers will be danced at half•pa:t ten. Admission One chilling. COLOGNE CHORALUNION.— DER; KiiLNER MANNER GESAWG VEREIN" (80 Men Voices) HANOYER-SQUARE ROOMS. Mr. MITCHELL respect fully announces, in reply to numerous and continual inquiries, it is at length arranged that the above distinguished Society will tuain visit London, and will have the honour of giving a TLI MD -MITES of CONCE TS, under the direction of Herr FRANZ WEBER, com mencing at the Hanover-square oms, on Alonday, A!ternoon. May 25, from half-past 3to 5 o'clock. It is also respectfully an nounced, that owing to the positive necessity tor their return to Cologne, on or before the Bth of June, the Concerts to be given by the Society in th s c , untry cannot possibly be prolonged beyond a fortnight. Subscriptions will be r-ceived as formerly—Reserved Seats, for Six Cone. rts, 2 guineas; Single Reserved Seats, 108. 6d. ; Unreserved Seats, 5s ; which may bo obtained at Mr. MIT CH E LL'S Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. Many of the Pieces sung by, the Society, by Silcher and other popuLir Composers, arc in course of publication. STATE FIRE INSURANCE, No. 3, Pall-mall East, London, S.W. Incorporated by Act of Parliament. Capital 5003,000 L, with power to increase to 2,000,0001. Every description of Fire Insurance accepted at moderate rates. Existing Policies falling due at the ;ast Quarter Day may be transferred to this Company tree of charge, beyond the premium and duty. Claims settled with promptitude and libe-ality. PETER MORRISON, Yanaging Director. ESTABLISHED 1814. MEDICAL, INVALID, AND GENERAL LIFE OFFICE, 25, Pall-mall, London. oweredE b s Act . At the Fifteenth Annual p ecial Meeting, of held Parliament on 27th November, 1856, it was shown that on the 31th June last The number of Policies in force was • • •• • • • • 5,738 The amount insured wa5...... ...••• .. • • 2,752,1971. 7s. 2d. The annual Income was •••• ...... 115,557/. 16s. 2d. 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Prospectuses, Forms of Proposals, and every otter informalon, may be obtained of the Secretary, at the Chief Office, or on applica tion to any of the Society's Agents in the country. C. DOUGLAS SINGFR, Secretary. ICK CLOTHS, with Poles, dic., complete, 1.111) 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 IJAMIN EDGINUTON, 2, Duke-street, South wark, opposite the Brighton Railway. .21 20 MILNER'S HOLDFAST and FIRE RESISTING SAFES (non-conducting and vapourising), with all the improvements, under their Quadruple Patents of 1840-51-54 and 1955, including their Gunpowder Proof Solid Lock and Door (without which no Safe is secure). Tire STRONGEST, BEST, AND CHEAPEST SAFEGUARD EXTANT. MILNERS' PII(ENIX (212.') SAFE WORKS, LIVERPOOL, the most complete and extensive in the world. Show-rooms, 6 and 8, Lord-street, Liverpool. LONDON DEPOT, 47A, MOORGATE STREET, OW. Circulars tree by post. CANCER HOSPITAL, London and West Brompton.—Pecretary's Office, 167, Plecadilly.—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 Estahlishment, for one month, and for a longer period if recommended by the medical officers. The number of per sons under treatment as in or out-door patients have averaged for the last three years about 400 cases each year. Since the foundation ut this nospital in 1851, 1,790 poor persons, suffering under every form, of this dre adful malady, have received the benefits of this charity. A Weekly Board manage its affairs, and every inforrna to ion connected with the Institution may be obtained on application the Secretary. Contributions to enable the Committee to continue this great work of benevolence are urgently solicited, and may be paid to William Loxham Farrar, Esq., the Treasurer, 66, Lincoln's ; Messrs. Coutt a an d Co., Strand; and at the . vecretary's • Offices, 167, Piccadilly. By ()pier. W. J. COCKERILL Secretary. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. Fatron—The QUEEN.—Fouuded 1828. The sick poor are admitted on their own application alone; no re eemmendation is required. During the past month the following number received the benefits of this Charity, either as out or in-door patients, on their personal application:— Week ending 7th February Ditto 14th February ...• • • 2,:151 Ditto 21st February .... • • 2,650 Ditto 28th February :•• otal in Feru • 9,986 if which 3,379 were n T ew cases, b the remainder (still under treat ment) having been admitted previously. The clergy of all denominations havo unlimited access to the patients. Heavy expenses are i nev it a bly i ncurre d i n a ff or di ng suc h eaten sive relief. Th e C omm i ttee, therefore, earnestly entreat the aid of the public. The management of the Hospital is in the hands of 30 Governors, yearly elected from the general list of subscribers, at the mutual 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 ail times desirous of receiving suggestions or giving explanation. The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on volun tary contribution s and legacies, which are received by the Treasurer, lohn Masterman, Esq., M.P., Nicholas-lane ; also by Messrs. 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" I hereby certify, that having examined Da Barry's Revalenta Arabica I find It to be a puro vegetable Farina, perfectly whole, some, easily di g estible, likely to promote a healthy action of the stomach and b owels, and thereby to counteract dyspepsia (Indiges Lion), constipation, and their nervous consequences. ANDREW URE, M.D., F.R.S., &c., Analytical Chemist." Ukase by the Emperor of Russia. Russian Consulate General, London, Dec. 2,1847. The Consul-General has been ordered to inform Messrs. Barry, Du Barry and Co., that the Revalenta Arabica they had sent to his Majesty the Emperor, has, by imperial permission, been forwarded t, the Minister of the Imperial Palace. Seitably par„keti for all climates, and with full instructions. in •anisters, lib. 2r; 9d; '2lb 45 60; bib its, 121 b 225; super refined qualit.Y. Ilb6s : 21b IIs; Mb 29. s ; 101 b 335. 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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That JOAN SIIIPHAM, of Gainsborough, in the county of Lincoln, Miller and Corn Factor, and WILLIAM WILKINSON, of the same place, Miller and Corn Factor (both carrying on business at Gains borough aforesaid, as millers and corn factors, under the style or firm of Shipham and Company"), have by indenture, bearing date the 15th day of April, 1857, and made between the said John Ship ham end William Wilkinson. of the fl st pert, George Mears (Gentle man), and Thomas Adwick Farmer (Iron Merchant). both of Gains borough aforesaid of the accord part, and the several other persons whose names an I seals are thereunto stnseribeit sand set, being re spectively creditors of the said John Shipham and William Wilkin son, of the third part—released and as , igned all their real and per sonal estates and -effects unto the sa'd George Mears and Thomas Adwick Farmer, in trust for the equal ben.fit of all the creditors of the said John Shipham and William Wilkinson ; and that the -aid indenture was executed by the said John Shipham, William Wilkin son, George Mears. and Thomas Adwick Farmer, on the day of the date thereof, and the execution thereof by them was attested by William Plaskitt, of Galnsborough, aforeaaid, Attorney-at•LaW Gaiasboroush, 15th April, 1857. WILL. PLASKITT, Solicitor. CONTRACT FOR WINE. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling, Somerset House, 13th April, 1857. rIIE Commissioners for Executing the Office of I -Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain ~nd Ireland do hereby give notice, that on MONDAY, rho 27th instant, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, When to be delivered. Gallons. Half in 3 weeks and the remainder WINE (White) Marsala 2,000 in 3 weeks afterwards, or earlier I fpreferred by the party tendering. Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the Wine. Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the ten ,lers are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for such part thereof only as they may deem fit, or for, a greater quantity, or of not contracting for any,, and also an unlimited power of selection. The Wine to he exempted from the customs' duties, and parties tendering are to state where it is lying. Samples of the Wine, in pints Porn each cask, must be produced by parties tendering, and not s =pies only for each import mark. The samples produced by persons whose tenders are not accepted are requested to be taken away by them immediately after the con tract has been decided. No tender will be received unless made on the printed farm pro vided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on application at the said office, or to Commander Bevis, conducting the Packet Service at Liverpool, or to the Collector of Customs at Bristol. The conditions of the revised contract, te which particular atten tion is called, may be seen at the said office, and at Liverpool and Bristol. No tender will be received after one o'clock on the day of treaty, and it will not be required that the party tendering or an agent on his behalf should attend at the office on the day of contract, al the result of the offer received from each person will be communicated to him and his prnposed sureties in writing. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words "Tender for Wine," and must also be delivered at Somerset House. ON P.HYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. New and improved Edition, enlanted to 196 pages, illustrated by 100 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel, just published, price, free by post, Is., THE SILENT FRIEND : A Medical Work on the physical exhaustion and decay of the frame, from the effects of solitary indulgence, infection, and the injurious conse quences from the use of Mercury; with observations on the obliga tions of marriage, :nut dirsctions for obviating certain disqualifica tions. By It. and L. PERRY and CO., Surgeons. Sold by J. Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row; Sanger, 160, Oxford-streeti and Gordon, 146, Leadtnhall-street, London. The CORDIAL BALM of SYRIACITM is employed to renovate the impaired powers of life. Its action Is purely balsamic ; its power In reinvigorating the frame in all cases of nervous and sexual de bility, obstinate gleets, impotency, barrenness, and debilities arising from venereal excesses, has been demonstrated by its unvarying success in thousands of cases. Price 11s. per bottle, or four quan tities in one for• 339., which saves 11s. The CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE, an anti-syphi litic remedy, for purifying the system, and is recommended for any of the varied forms of secondary symptoms, such as eruptions on the skin, blotches on the head and face, enlargements of the throat, tonsils, and uvula; threatened destruction of the nose, palate, &c. Its action is purely detersive, and its beneficial influence on the systt-m is undeniable. \ Price 11s, and 335. per bottle, also a saving ofllt'. P MGM'S PETRIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS constitute an effec t nal remedy in all cases of gonorrhoea, glen, stricture, and diseases of the urinary organs. Price 2s. 9d.. 4s. 65 , ant I Is. per box. Sold by Barclay and Pons, Farringol•nstrect ; Darby and GoSden, 140, Leadenhall-street ; W. Sutton and Co., 10, Bow-churchyard ; W. Edwards, 67, St. Paul's-churchyard; J. Sanger, 150, Oxford street ; Banns) , and Dietrichsen, 63, Oxford-street ; Butler and Harding, 4, Cheapside ; Prout and Ilarsant, 229, Strand; and all medicine vendor§ throughout the United Kingdom. TILE MANGTEST.HI3 41 T TREASUBES ExHifirrlON. (From the Mancke.iter Guardian ) As the time is now rapidly approaching for the open• . ing of the great Art Treasures Exhibition of the United Kingdom, the public naturally become desirous to know something of the proportions and general arrangements of the building —the huge casket for such va:t and priceless treasures. Without giving an history of its construction—for that we have done already some months ago—we propose to put before our readers the principal facts of interest as regards the building as it stands, and the uses to which its various parts are to he appropriated during the exhibition. The land secured for the building and its approaches comprises a plot'of 174 acres at Old Trafford, a distance of two miles from the Manchester Royal Exchange. The land is bounded on the north by the Botanic Gardens, and on the south by the Manchester South 'junction, Altrincham, and Bowdon Railway ; and it has two ap proaches from the Stretford-read, one by the Dun Edin road (entered at the toll bar, near the junction of the Stretford New-road and the Chester-road, which there converge and become the Stretford-road), and the other by a. short street from the Stretford-road, between Old Trafford House and Dun Edin. The rail way, of course, will be " the great highway" for visitors from a distance, and even from various parts of Manchester and the suburbs. In front of the building drives have been formed, and flagged footpaths laid, for the accommoda tion of the various classes of visitors. The building itself covers an area of 16,000 square yards, or three acres and 280 square yards. The building itself is in external form (disregarding some projecting buildings at each end) a parallelogram of ablut 34 squares of its width; that is, it is three and a half times as long as it is broad. The exact dimen sions of the scpiare are 656 feet in length, and 200 feet in width. But its length is increased by the two pro jecting portions of the east facade, flanking the grand entrance ; and at the other end by the farthest rooms of the water-colour gallery. Each of these end buildings adds 24 feet to the entire length of the whole, so that the extreme length from end wall to end wall is 704 feet. The east façade, in which is. the principal entrance, has been greatly altered since its original design. Ori ginally it represented three bold circular-arched roofs, connected by lower intermediate buildings, with ridge roof. The two lateral arches cover the picture galleries ; the central arch roofs over the,s6 feet central aisle of the great hall, and the two ridge roofs cover the side a' lee of the:lA But owing to a line of offic'es being ca northward' in a line with this facade, an'd the rail Nay corridor being also aaached to it in a line southward, the facade is now composed of—palace 200 feet, railway corridor 150 feet, and offices 96 feet ;. in all presenting a front 446 feet in length. • The internal form, so far as it can be seen at once, say from the centre of the transept, is that of the Latin cross, so familiar to us in some of our finest cathedral, but re versed as to the cardinal points of the extremities. In churches the upper end or summit of the cross is always to the east, and is generally enriched by the great east window of stained glare. In the Art Treasures Palace the upper end or surnrn:;; of the cross is the west end, the grand entrance being in the great east facade. The dimensions of the principal divisions of the build ing are the following:— Feet. Length of great hall . 632 Extreme width of hall lO4 Length of north and south transepts Width of transepts lO4 Length of each range of picture galleries 432 Width of each range of ditto 4B As to the heights of the various parts of the palace, they have bee❑ previously stated, as from the ground level ; but we now give them as from the floor, which is raised considerably above the ground. The centre of the great hall, from floor to the crown of the roof arch is 562 feet ; that of the transept the same ; the top of the ridge roof of the roof arch of the picture galleries is 504 feet ; and the coupled columns are 284 feet in height from the floor. One fact may be noticed as affording a key to the propor tions pervading the construction of the building. Almost every length and every width above enumeratedis some multiple of 8 feet. Thus the extreme length is 88 times 8 feet ; tha extreme breadth 25 times 8 feet ; the length of the parall-logram of the building 83 times 8 ; that of the great hall 79 times 8 ; the length of each range of picture galleries 54 times 8 ; the length of each centre picture gallery (13 and E) 18 times 8 ; of each of the other four picture galleries 15 times S. The total width of the great ball is 13 times 8 ; of its centre 7 limes 8 ; cf its sides 3 times 8 ; of the picture galleries 4 times 8 ; of the openings thereto 3 times 8 ; and so throughout— as to corridors, the water-colour galleries, offices, recep tion-room, sc, 3 times 8 giving their respective widths. EN TR AN CES AND EXIT. 3. There will be seven entrances into the building, and, when necessary, all of their; will be used as means of exit ; but one doorway will be reserved exclusively for the latter purpose. The entrances are as follow :- 1,2, 3, and 4, within the line of the great arch of the facade ; each entrance being 31. 9in. wide. Through these the general public will pass into the palace. 5. A doorway to the right of the above, to be reserved for the passage in and out of season-ticket holders. 6. The c ,rridor from the ra , lway platform ; this cor ridor is 24ft. wide, and it will be available forall classes, either entering or leaving, 7. The north transept. This wilt, of course, be for the use of ticket-holders who approach the Palace from the Botanical Gardens, or who wish, after leaving the Palace, to enter the gardens. A door to the right of the great arch (on the north or Botanical Gardens side, and corresponding with the en trance for season ticket holders on the soutb) will be for ex;tonly. The south transept will not be used as a means of en ranee or exit. THE STATE RECEPTION BOOM. This room (to the right of the grand entrance) is en tered from a passage 81t. Gin, wide to the north of the general entrance from the facade. The room is not large, being 23ft. by 21ft.; but it is to be decorated and fitted in the best possible style, Thera are two retiring rooms adjoining the reception room ; and a doorway from the la ter into the great ball. The decoration is not sufficiently advanced to allow of description. REFRESHMENT BOOMS, &C. The first-class refreshment room is near the north-west angle of the Palace, and it is approached by passing out of the north trar s-pt and along an open colonnade sur roundin,, a court 104 a. long by 100 ft. Wide. The room is 9tift:by 72fr., but at the south-east corner a space 381 t. by 24ft. is partitioned off for retiring rooms; &it The second-class refreshment room is at the south-east corner of the Palace, adjoining the main building and the railway corridor—it being entered through several doorways from the latter. The extreme dimensions are 1321 t. by 72ft., but 24ft, of the width is cut off and de voted to retiring ioonv, &c., of which the supply is abundant. A word may be said here as to the cooking arrange. ments now being completed by Mr. William Donald, the contractor for the refreshments. The kitchen ad joins, and is at the west end of the first-class refresh ment room. It is 50ft. long, and 251 t. wide. One side is occupied by the cooking range, for roasting and boil ing ; the opposite side will be devoted to the pastry de partment and general preliminaries for cooking ; and the end next the Botanical Gardens is filled by a hot and cold-water trough, above which extends a huge plate rack. There are three general ovens, each 61t. high and aft. wide ; and eight confectionery ovens, each 21t. Gin. square. AU are heated by gas; they have a number of shelves, and, as a sami h of their powers, we aro told that each of the large ovens is capable of dressing 300 fowls per hour. For boiling or steaming, there are eight of Barubcree's large steam kettles ; and we also find in this capacious yet compact and effective kitchen two steam-boilers, each of three horses' power, and a hot-water tank (circulating) of 700 gallons. Hot closets, hot plates, and the most modern and apprned c,mveni,nces are here. Mr. Donald, the contractor, Oinks he is quite within the mark when ho usldertakes to cook victuals enough to content 100,000 persons daly. Mr. Donald has not yet com pleted the laying in" et his stock of wines, ales, por ter, &c. ; but he has in his collars th e , f o ll ow i ng quanti ties :•--Champagne, 300 dozen bottles ; Moselle, 100 dozen ; French and German wines, 200 &Zen each ; various, 300 dozen. Bottles of ale and porter, 20,000 dozen ; ale, 1,000 barrels ; London porter, 900 butts. THE ORGAN. The great organ, which is being put up, has been built specially for the purpose, by Messrs. Kirtland and Jar dine, of Dickinson-street, Manchester. It has been placed at the service of the committee for the period of the exhibition. TURIN, APRIL 13. The great question at prese n t i s , su pp os i ng th e dispute between Austria and Piedmont to take a more serious turn, what will be the conduct of Eng land and France, and how can they mediate? What is the cause 'of the difference between Piedmont and Austria? Austria's sOle•comPlaint is the liberty of the Press enjoyed by Piedmont. Can Louis Napo leon,- who gags the press in France, who wished; to do so in Belgium, as was proVed by the speech of Count Walewski at the Congress of Paii,, can he take part a g ainst Austria in' s uc h 'a .qUarrel this? Apart from all diplomatic trickery, - Louis Napoleon, , even to preserve the appearance of consistency; must in the present dispute act .alonir with, and in favour of Austria. The whole quarrel, according to the Emperor of Austri v. and Count Buol, is owing to the perSonal conduct of Count Cavour, in not restricting the press in Piedmont. If Count Cavour 'attempted this, 'or even if he was suspected of trying to make any inroads upon the constitution, he 'would at'once cease to be minister. The innumerable daily papers published not onlyia Twin 4nd Genoa, hpt in all the provincial towns, prove that Count Cavour is only .the orgAn of ex pression of the unanimous feeling of the population. France, •to be • consistent, must be autinst Pied mont ; and England is bound, not only in honour , but by interest, to support in Piedmont - the same i>einciples of which every inhabitant of Great Bri tain is proud. But if Aus:;ria attacks Piedmont and France, and England do not interfere,, is Pi-d- moat able to defend herself? The Sardinian army of all arms may consist of 50,000 men, which it is possible to reinforce in less than a month to 120,000 men who have all served as soldiers. An occasional correspondent from Turiu, in_ your' columns lately stated' that when the Emperor of Austria was at Milan the feasibility of making an immediate attack upon Piedmont became a matter of serious consideration. It is very passible that the natural ill-temper of the young Emperor showed itself in such an ebullition, but this must have been speedily subdued by the cool-headed science of the officers of the staff of the Austrian army, perhaps the best educated of any in &t -rope. A glance at the map of the north of Italy shows the folly of such an attempt. Take Milan as the point from which the Austrians would pro bably concentrate to move to the attack. To their right is Switzerland, and the left of the Piedmon tese is secure. , From Arona, on Lago Maggiore, down to Genoa, is a continuous line of railway, nearly 'parallel to the frontier, though 'to a cert.:in extent distant. This railway is fed from the railways of the interior of Piedmont ; thus Alexandria, Mor tara, Novarra, are connected with all Piedmont. Mortara is a great strategic point in possession of the Piedmontese, and has now a railway to Vigevano, which actually touches on the Lombard frontier. The high roads from Milan, Pavia, Pia- . cenza, Cremona, . and Mantua, to Turin, pass through Mortara, which is in fact the strong strategic point of Piedmont. Let us assume tha there are upwards of 100,000 Austrians in the Lombardo-Venetian states. They require no'il-c-s than 50,000 men to held these states in seijection, thus leaving them 50,000 men against Piedmont. To get into Piedmont they must either cross the Ticino or the Po. If they move upon Novara, the time they would occupy on such a march ;rom the frontier would allow the Piedmonteze, 3 by the ways, to muster in great force a t Novara, from Biella and Ivrea in the north, Arena to the north east, Susa at the bottom of Mount Cenis to tbe west,' Pinerolo to the south-west, the three Ip-:; passing through Turin, thence by Vercelli to No varra. While these troops were moving, a large foice could come from Genoa to Alexandria, thence to Mortara, thus threatening the left flank of tlle Austrians, while from Mortara by railway to Vige vano their rear could be attacked. If the Austrians arrived ne it Novarra they would thus find their front, flanks, and rear threatened by a supetior force. The great point is that railways are invalu able-as a means of defence, and of compa-..tively little use to the invaders. If the Austrians make their first move towards Motara, they are in a more ticklish position, as at this point the whole force of Piedmont could be upon them in a few hours. Suppose they were at first victor ious, each step in advance towards Turin or Alexaniria would increase their danger. If they attempted Alex andria, they would come upon the best fortified part of Piedmont, and if they moved upon Genoa not a man of them would ever return. The Austrians in Piedmont would be under the necessity of always moving ina solid undividedbody, as the Piedmontese, with all safety, by means of the rail ways at their command, couldcrush de•achment Such in Piedmont would be the force of military against military. To the Sardinian army, however, must be added the National Guard ; and, what would be of still more detrinient to the Austrians, the intense hatred in which they are held by the p)pulation of Piedmont. Besides this, the moment an Austrian army left the Lombardo-Venetian territory to attack Piedmont, all Italy would be in a blaze, and the Austrians in Lombardy and Venice would be obliged to act as the French did in 1813 and 1814, and retire into the garrisons, thus leav ing the Italian peopl es t o fi n d their way to Pied mont, not only from Austrian Italy, but from Naples, the Papal States, Tuscpy, Modena, and Parma, who, thus getting into the rear of the Austrian army, would place it in the same diffi culty, and expose it to the same destruction, as be fell that of D u p on t i n Sp a i n . If, therefore, France and England would abandon their deceitful milk and-water diplomacy, and leave Piedmont and Austria to settle their own affairs, the cause of liberty and constitutional government would, ere long, b 3 triumphant in the Italian peninsula. THE DIRGE OF THE " DAILY MAIL." The proprietor of the Liverpool Mail has tried the ex periment of a Conservative penny Da;101 oil, and after a month's experience he has withdrawn the publication of the diurnal sheet, which he finds he could not proeuce without serious loss. In announcing the decease of the young child, the editor says—" Instead of a monster ad vertising sheet, filled to overflowing with sbiling and sixpenny advertisements, and so necessarily printed on the thinnest tea paper, and not in the best type, we wished to issue a concise and readable four-page journal printed on paper equal to first-el. - , s journals, and in legible types periodically renewed. We wished to limit the repulsive acreage of cheap advertisements by stand ing out, like them, for a fair advertising price—for our own sake, and for the take of England's Press. In a word, unless such a hazardous enter prise could be carried out respectably and creditably, and with well-merited remuneration to all parties crncerned, we would have no hand in it. Obviously such an enter prise, to be enduringly established as a succe. r • quires (much more than any Liberal newspaper) a large and liberal outlay at the first. How is that expeLditure to be reimbursed ? Will the profits on circulation reim burse any appreciable portion ? Not on our scheme of a j iurnal first-class in quality, paper, and type ; e g : Each Daily ATail coats above one halfpenny for the blank paper; the newsvenders get at least a farthing per copy, so that a very fractional part of one fsrthing per copy remains towards waste, spoil 4, ret . urns, carriage, and the innumerable expenses necessary to secure even that infinitesimal fraction. Will the homces-pathic profits on cheapest' advertisements defray it Y We trow not. The ordinary scale of advertising charges in Liverpool was previously much below that of Manchester and other great towns —was scarcely ball that of Londor—aad is no se reduced to the veriest minimum. For advertisements in a penny paper we were prepared to make farther consider able reduction ; but we were scarcely prepared for what we bad to submit to (aye, and from our own Tory frienb), either to go to press with a few or no adv ertisementq, or else to accept even Liverpool guinea' ad vertisements at 3s. each insertion, and to insert the ad vertisements of even our merchant princes' at the abs ard rate of 61.1, each. Yes; and on credit. A clerk to call about its in sertion; printers to put it into type ; a book-keeper to open a ledger account for this precious 6c1., and to make out a bill for the same; another clerk to deliver the truly little bill' to he examined; and a confidential collector, to call, and call, and call again to-morrow for these few beggarly sixpenny items ! In fact, to cut a long story short, even to make our daily paper pay its way,' leav ing profit out of the question, we should regain) from three to four times the quantum of these cheap a ivertise ments which have as yet been accorded* to iv. E ;en that small quota (one-third or one-sixth of tho le in the Liberal pheap prints) often occupied nearly half a ur relict), What could we do with a heap three cr four tunes as large ? Why, simply convert our daily organ into a moto adver tising sheet, without any legitiniate protein ion to rank as a newspaper. Clearly, then, if such a real newspaper as wo would alone be connected with, is to hove a chance of living and fl ourishing long alter we and our rea d e rs are gathered to our kindred dust, it can ad e o v bbY making a determined stand against that ' cheap f oa l: tieing mania which is working so much 11116 e established press." THE COBURG SUCCESSION.—A letter from Coburg to the .Kreuz Zeituvg says: —" According to our fu ndanaen tal law, Prince Alfred of England is destined to mucceed to the united Sovereignty of the Duchies, of Goburg. Gotha. His Royal Highness is now in Switzerland, but it appears will arrive at Go tha en the 6 th May, and after a short sojourn there wi ll come t o this pltkce, and remain at the ducal country mansion of Ros errau. H e will subsequently remove to Bonn, where his father, Prince Albeit, completed his studies." The French have discovered that there is some thing the matter both with the foundation and the roof of their social - and political edifice. A recent census has inrormed their own public, and the Euro pean world, that for the last five years French Population has been all but stationary. On the other hand, the Ehaperor and his Ministers have dis covered that a singular want of respect is shown for titles of nobility. Those who are entitled to wear will not wear them ' • and those who have no right to do so assume them ; , and thus the coronets of duke, count, and baron are traines dans la bone. Thai latter catastrophe seerriS to have aflliwel the Imperial Government much more than the first, for the Minister of Justice has been ordered to inquire into it. • Thereupen his Excellency, M. or Count Abhattucci, has published a report, and drawn up a law, which is under the consideration of the Coun cil of Stag. The Minister is quite right.. What is ati hereditery Emperor without an. hereditary and respected noblesse ? We Would, however, suggest to the Coreican Solon, M. Abbattucci, that a noblesse is a, thing that must grow rather than be made. The only way to support a noblesse, and to' make it respect ed, is to allow i t to renderi tself independent, and leave it sortie thing to do as an independent body. A. noir:?,sse like that whiCh existe.d.,hefore the,Revo enjeying privileges, and living Upon court pensions, whilst performing no duties, must corn mandthe contrary of respect. The Times, indeed, has been propounding a judg ment upon the state of France which would seem not to harmonise with this opinion. ;It attributes the decline of French spirit and population to the Revolution of 1789 ; that naughty Revolution that Swept away the noblesse, that dispossessed the clergy, that gave to the people the soil of the country which they were previously prevented from even cultivating as tenants by the dimes and the corvees, and the weight of exclusivetaxation. It is a strange thing to reproach with a want of enterprise a Re volution whose sons marched to Cadiz and to Mos cow, to the Pyramids and to Sweden, and whose grandsons were by no means inferior to us at the Malakhoff the other day. But - the population ? Well, the French area very prudent people. They haVe small trust in Provi dence; and like to confide their future to themselves. They seldom marry without good surety of liveli hood, and when events disturb human calculations, and render life a lottery, the French abstain ft Om marriage altogether. The statisticians of Paris have been taxed to account for the stationarycrisis at which the population has arrived. They have laboured to palliate and explain, but have really said nothing to the purpose. The fact is, that the French are a people who will not increase in num bers without an increase of wealth. And this re solve does them infinite honour. Now, of late years, unfortunately, there has been no increase of wealth. There ha-, been an infinity of speculation, a brisk movement of money out of the pockets of all into,the pocket of the State. But of real trade, productiveindustry, there bas been little; whilst of that frugalif.T and economy which were always the great so - arces of French accuinulation, there is infinitely less than ever. M. Proudhon has just published a book, in which he sets down speculation as a source of riches. And, as a proof of bis assertion, be instances a log or a piece of fancy rosewood. The purchaser bas acquired it at a small price, but as soon a 3 he begins to saw, plane, and polish it, he discovers that the wood is worth not only infinitely more than he paid for it, but more than be lapped or imagined. Here, says M. Proudhon, is an increase of national wealth. If so, Law's scheme was a mighty source of national wealth. And M. De Morny or M. Mires are monthly adding incalculable riches to the natural ones of France. •We can see no analogy between the rosewood which is rendered, more valuable by the 1-kbour which converts it into useful or agreeable articles, and the sum of money which is made to multiply itself (in appearance) by being made the excuse for innume rable "promises to pay." We differ altogether from- M. Proudh )n ; and, instead of thinking France the richer for the fancy.prices of all things, we deem that she has been spending far more than her capital in enterprises which, however useful mary of them may finally be, hare still interfered with Vie employment o f cap it a l in industrial and in commercial enterprise, and subjected her to liabili- Ves which she may find it difficult to meet. The Times, we think, need not go back so far as to throw upon the Revolution of 1789 any present lack of enterprise in France. The economical and political cecamstances of the time are quite suffi cient to account for this, without borrowing a leaf from the Legitimist's book of horrors, and casting the blame of all evil upon Revolution. The material prosperity of a country and the de velopment of its wealth are seldom the, results of con- tinuous progress. They rather advance by bounds, or rise by steps. The Revolution of 1789 gave an im pulse to the prosperity of France by throwing the land open to her industryand her population. But all that could be done by the industry of a peasant popu lation has been done. Another step is now wanting —another stride must now be made ; and that is, the application of capital and skill to land. It would require far more than the limits of an article to describe the impediments which obstruct or re tard this in France. But there is nothing, in the state or division of property in France to prevent its inhabitants from doing what the Belgians have done, and of making the soil a speculation (not in M. Proudhon's sense), a foundation for the outlay of capital and for the employment of skill, instead of being a mere area for men to live, like savages, upon the roots or the crop that nature sends them. It was a fortunate circumstance for England that, when the time came for seriously applying capital to the land, she was shut out from the continent, and from foreign speculation, and from a world of distraction, so as to be able to turn to account the high prices of provisions which ranged 'through so many years, and which gave an ample return for the capital and skill then lavished upon her soil." France has now bad the advantage, if she had known how to use it, V several years ofi high prices ; but they have not produced the outlay of an addi tional. million of francs to the land. On the con trary, loans and speculation have drawn forth the little money that used to collect in the rural dis tricts, and, of that money, what was not spent in the Crimea has been spent in . the towns. The rural population of France has - ollowed the rural capital as it migrated, just as sheep follow the shepherd. No other explanation is needed of the deplacement of population demonstrated in the recent French census. The Imperial Government does not seem alive to either the cause or the remedy of the evil. It en courages loans for making Russian railroads. It approves and sets in execution project upon project for fructifying the barren soils of the Landes or St. Sologne. But when the best tracts of the country produce no morethan they did in the last century— from the n ant of either skill or capital applied to them—of what use is it to sink millions in inferior soils ? It is not the breadth of land that is wanting in France ; it is the intelligent cultivation of that which has been for ages alternating between the fallow and Ills plough. But the small and peasant proprietor is in the way, it is urged. And this small proprietor is the result of the law partitioning pro perty. Let the work be begun of applying skill and capital to land ' • and the large returns will soon make it the interest of the small proprietor to let or sell. He cannot long resist the overflow of capi tal upon the land. His existence is an excuse for indolence, not a real impediment to progress. If the French Government would give an onward impulse t, population, remove the limit and pu a4ndprecatiostricn tion to it, it must be, we r e p eat, by the of capital and skill to agriculture. And if the Em peror wants to found a noblesse, let him leave some local authority and dignity in the provinces other than the Prefect and the officials Wh o are subject to him. - In order to have farmers ; a country must have l a ndlords—landlords who reside on their pro rerty and have a legitimate influence in their dis trict. The country may be said to have no politi cal, it is existence in France • inhabited exclusively by functionaries and peasants. And all the inde pendence of the latter, without intelligence, has not been able to preserve a political freedom.— Daily 11 en's. IMPROVIIIHNT OF THE PORT OF BRRST.—The Men iteur de /a Plotte st a t es t h at M . V orr i er, eng i neer, charged with the work of clearing away the Rose Rock, which obstructs the entrance of a part of the harbour of Brest, called the Penfield, made an experiment a few days ago, which was perfectly successful. One of the con victs, covered with a diving dress, descended to the rock at half tide, and deposited a box full of gunpowder, to which were fitted two gutta-percha tubes, also simi larly filled. As soon as the man had cone up a light was applied to the tubes, and shortly after a loud crack ing noise was heard, and a large column of water, with fragments of stone and a quantity of sand and mud, wore thrown up to the height of 20 feet. The commotion was so great that the Bastion de Is Rose, which stands near, trembled to its foundation. The mass thus monad has been considerable. The sailing transport 1 11 , 16 . kr Arsenal has shipped three conkete sties of Artillery,, a large quantity of reserve sares, -lin d t} greater portion of the baggage belonging,4o the troops orc'ered to take passage on board thit vessei for China. The shipment of :the baggage will be completed to day, and the troops Will embark from the pier at 2 o'clock p.m. They, consist of two • full cinnpanies of the 13th battalion Royal Artillery —namely, Captain Longden and Captain Middle ton's companies. Lieutenant-Colonel W. T. Crp.w. ford, 13th battalion, who is appointed to the chief command of the Royal Artillery in China,. takes passage in the Mooresfort, with Commissary-Ge neral Young, C. 8., and Dr. Pickett, of the trans port department. The Royal Marine Artillery being below its re quired establishment, an order has been issued from the Admiralty for volunteering to be opened from the Royal Marine Light Infantry companies. he qualifications of volunteers are that they be not less than 5 feet 8 inches in height, of good con duct, and general intelligence. O n the orcler:beiqg announce lat Chatham yesterday, 40 men belong ing to that division immediately volunteered, and as soon as they have been approved by the Admi ralty they will he handed- over to Captain W. p. Draffen, Marine Artillery, who has been sent from Portsmouth to take the command of the voluateer s . The new heavy-class steam-frigate Diadem, 32, is nearly ready for trial of her machinery; she got up steam in her boilers on Thursday in the basin at Portsmouth. The Blenheim' 60 depot Sip of the.steam reserve in Portsmouth harbour, Capt. the Hon. F. T. P ham, C. 8., has moved from 'her moorings at the north ,patt of the dockyard to Gosport side, .Out of the way of the run of the slip from which the Royal Sovereign screw three-decker is to ba_launebed this day week. Mr. Grant, the Controller-General of Victualling, visited Portsmouth yesterday, and transacted busi ness connected with his department. The ward-room officers of H.M.S. Excellent gave a complimentary dinner on board on Thursday, in honour of Mr. Charles Stark, on his retiring from the position of mathematical instructor, after period of 25 years' service on board that ship, dur ing which time he has instructed nearly 400 officers in the mathematical branch of the gunnery ceurse. His total service in the navy amounts to a period of 39 years. The Scorpion, 6, Master-Commander J. Parsons, which was paid off at Chatham yesterday, has been in commission neariy fain- years, having sailed from Plymouth in 1853. During the whole of that period she has been stationed iu the West Indies, where she was employed as surveying vessel,.prin cipally off the northern coast of South America, Carthagena, Bay, St. Lu:ie,' St. Thomas's, S anta Cruz, Cuba, and Bermuda. While surveying off the northern coast-of Cuba the Scorpion discovered a large Spanish vessel of 1,000 tons, called the Pri mers de Catuluna, on shore on a reef; and w total wreck. The vessel was bound from Barcelona for New Orleans ; and the Scorpion, after great diffi culty succeeded in rescuing the whole of the pas sengers and crew and landing them at Havannah. On arriving at Bermuda Commander J. Parsons left the vessel for the purpose of continuing his surveying duties, when the command of the ship devolved on the master, Mr. J. P. Dillon, The Scorpion left at Bermuda the Nile, 91, screw steamer, Captain G. R. Mundy. During the time she has been in commission the crew were generally healthy, and only one death occurred on board. On the occasion of the crew being paid of yesterday, the Lords of the Admiralty awarded a good service medal, with a gratuity of 151. to Richard Coutts, ship's cook, for long service and meritorious conduct ; a gratuity of. 71. was also awarded by the Admiralty to John Richards for godd conduct. The Scorpion will be placed in ordi nary at Chatham. The freight ship Admiral, under orders to embark the 23d company of Royal. Engineers, bas bee - n de layed at Deptford to complete her fitment. Sh e i s ordered to embark 200 tons of engineers' tools :,t Woolwich, and 17 passenger, exclusively of the 'company of Sappers. Mr. J. R. Fittock, R.N., late on special service at Deptford, having .heen. gazetted to the post of Agent of Transport Ship ping in China, will also embark on board the Ad miral. The accommodation of the vessel is on a well-arranged and superior scale ; and the middle deck, appropriated for the troops, is arranged with the various appurtenances which may serve to ren der the floating quarters comfortable and healthy. The gunboat Minx, Lieut.-Commander Roe, whose arrival at Woolwich was delayed in Margate Roads from the disabled state of her machinery, was yesterday morning brought up to London by a merchant vessel, and was immediately ordered to 'bout ship under canvass, and proceed down the river on the trial of her sailing qualities. She was subsequently ordered to be admitted into basin to return dockyard stores and prepare for the payment of her crew, to be discharged. Th e Mi nx i s not to be dismantled for the present, but to remain stand ing. The four gunboats remaining in Woolwich inner basin—namely, the Quail, Ripple, Porpoise, and Clinker—are ordered to be cleared out of the basin and removed to Chatham, as well as the mor tar floats Nos. 115, 120, 130, 135, and 136, which are also to be despatched to Chatham. Her M - jesty's steamer Monkey, Master-Commander Syn dercombe, was yesterday morning hauled under the sheers in Woolwich basin to be fitted with anew boiler. THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. The Agamemnon, which has been devoted to the peaceful service of laying down a part of the Atlan tic submarine telegraph cable, is now undergoing the necessary alterations at Portsmouth. Her ar mament of 90 guns is being removed, the hold cleared, and her stowage room increased. She is to be fitted with frigate's masts instead of her present rig of a line-of battle ship. It will be remembered that this is the famous Agamemnon, the flagship which took up such a daring and perilous positi rig,ht in front of the united fleet before Sebastopol, and earned such glory-for her commander. On the other side of the Atlantic the Niagara is also under going preparations for the same object. She is the largest screw-propeller in the world, not even ex cepting the famous Himalaya. Her length is 345 feet, beam 55 feet, and burthen 5,000 tons. The Niagara is one of that fleet of swift and heavily metalled ships whose qualities have recently been subjected to so searching an investigation. There are already 1,100 miles of the Atlantic cable com pleted, and upwards of 2,000 miles of the gu:.ta percha wire has passed through the machines of the Gate Percha Company. The total length of the seep-sea portion of the cable will be 2,500 miles. To this at each end will be attached the shore portions, each about 30;miles long, and consisting of a very strong and heavy cable calculated to resist a vessel's anchor or any casualty. PEMBROKE DOCKYARD. —The greatest activitypre vails at this establishment, and no relaxation is visible in the construction of the ships on the slips. A magnificent ship-of-the-line, the Howe, pierced for 121 guns, is making rapid progress. She will be upwards of 4,000 tons burthen and 1,000-horse power, and is to be the largest ship of her rating in the navy. Another of the new class 91's, the Re venge, will so on be ready forlaun ,chii,ll also ordered. g. She i s o f 800-h orse power, and will rank with theAgaMe Agamem non, James Watt, and other first-rate models: She will be succeeded by the Defiance, Th e Windsor Castle is to be cut i u t wo and length ened,ered after which she will make a good man-of-war. Her present rating is 116 gun s , but this will not be continued. She will require, however,kwith our Lew considerable alterations before s h e can take l. classfirst-rates. Th era are 4 first-class na e frigatesbuild t build ing, viz., Immortalite, Melpomne Orlando—all pi erce d f or 50 Runs, besides Aurora; h and e wual pivot gun. The two first named were sailing ships, but have been cut in two and considirably lengthened, and instead of 60, as originally intended, they will carry 50 heavy guns. The Aurora is entirely new, and will have engines nominally of 40:-horse power .The Orlando is one of the new monster frigates iatended to match the large - Vessels of this class built by the Americans. She will be .p5O feet in her full length, and about 3,700' toms • burthen, and armed with 51. .guns of large calibre. Great exertions are used to push her on to'compie tion. The smaller vessels are the Greyhound, 17, screw-sloop, of about 900 tons, and the Garnet, 8, about 600 tons. The whole of the above ships will be fitted with the screw propeller, and in armament. form a squadron of line-of-battle sh i ps , frigates, and sloops, of great size and weight of m The greatest care and attention have been exhi bited in the modelling and construction of Vie liew* ships, whilst those vessels which have been adapted Id the screw show a marked superiority over - the old description of vessel now s o rapidly being be uisbed, by the introduction of better ships, from theij3ritish navy Majesty's screw-ship y. of the line BER,attrpA Nile, 91, Car., R. 'Mundy, arrived at Bermuda f ro m the Weft 'lndies on the 20th of February, having exneriented severe gales in the Gulf of Florida and the coast of North America. The' Nile has received orders to proceed forthwith to 'E tag. l a nd, and will sail about the 11th of March, if re fitted by that time. The Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's have presented the Rev. Lawford W. T. Dale, 8.A., curate of St. Pan cras ion of one of the canons), to the vicarage of Chis wick. THE GREAT TOBACCO CONTROVERSY. Dr. SEXI ON will LECTURE en this important topic daily at 3 and half-past 7 p.m.; at Dr. K MIN'S MUREUM, No. 4, Coven try street, Leicester-aquare. The Museum, which now stands wholly unrivalled in the world, and the rarity and complettnese of whose contents have already acquired for it an European reputation, and •stained the warm commendationot the pressin tnis and other coun tries, is Open daily,. for Gentlemen on 3, , rom 10 lo 10. A new Lecture is delvered by ilr. KAHN at half-past 8 p.m. precisely. Ad mission, One -billing. Descriptive Catalogues of the Museum, con taining Lectures as delivered by Dr. Khan, gratis to the visitors.