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'' ' • . ~, 4 • I :scterislic; every &ening (except saturday) at Eight- A AMOR- 1 - ---1-'_.:_:_- - --- --.,7c, /, . 'FA' ~., 4 : . ..,. 44 W c4).4k-11 DIEu ' ' ' '.l,'"'" ,_;----° 1;•;' '';; ; 6 ' 4, 74' ;,.: .•: , i 'Di? ' or:,* ''''' '7 - 4 ,- ? : 1 \"1"1"--111111:1; XCtIrW N discuss a practical question, names 04 4 to deal with the aSs'essment of the "P:l , ohk4i tropolts •; but, it they travelled 1 / 4 44.Wiff' l ot tion, and entered into a discussion were to deal with the poor of all would be embarking on a matter withNihiclilit would be utterly impossible for them to deal. Tho subject was beset with difficulties, and was 000 . which required full investigation. He by all means advised the meeting to confine their efforts to th a question as it affected the poor of the metropolis only. The amendment was then put and negative and the original resolution was agreed to almoA4 unanimously. The meeting was afterwards addressed by Mr. Baddeley, churchwarden of St. Gila orge's-in-the- East, Mr. Fowler, secretary to the Metropolitan Association, Mr. Crellin, member of the Board of WorkS, Mr.*Qharles, of Wapping, the Rev. Mr. Wadi, and others, and the following pe.ition to Parliament was adopted. "The petition of the undersigned showeth "That vast masses of the poor of London are either already located in the suburbs, or are being driven troll the West-end and City by various causes to t eke up their residence there. "That a very large proportion of these poor are now living in the eastern parishes of the metropolis. •"foat in consequence of this, your petitioners, tl:e ratepayers of those distressed districts, are daily becom: ing more and more impover'shed, the poor-rates baying durit g the last 20 years been doubled in amount, a:A the number of paupers having increased threefold. • " That we are now paying on the average 4.. in the pound poor•rate, while the richer and more favourably situated parishes are not paying more than one sixth of that amount. "That if the rates were equalised on one uniform a •- sessment throughout London, it would not be more th;, 13 in the pound per annum for all ; and if every descrin tion of property from which pauperism may incidentally arise were equally rated it would be considerably Kai than that amount. "Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray your hon. house to take such measures as may relieve them from a burdeatoo heavy for them to bear, and to pass an act to equalise the rats and the as-easment for the poor throughout the meVOpells." • I' A committee was then appointed wr,tue purpose of carrying out the object for which the meeting hail been convened. Mr. AYRTON, in moving a vote of thanks to tl , e chairtnauwhich was carried by acclamation—for his able advocacy, not only at that meeting, but by his letters published in the Times, of th 3 cause they all desired to see successful, took occasion to observe that the proper course to be pursued in Parliament in referenda to this subject would be, not the introduction of a bill in the tirzt instance, but a motion for the • appointment of a committee, to whom the whole question should le referred for investigation. The Rev. CHAIRMAN having acknowledged the compliment the meeting terminated. INO F EltFOlt cl ANC every.S rUlt D at Three. Private Boxes and* Stalls inay be secured, viitbout extra charge; at the ltox-office, Polyzranhic-hsll, King Willlam-street, Chxylng-oross.• .The - hall has been entirely redecorated. ~'mt , l• [PRICE 4D. STAMPED 5D . . ROYAL ARGYLL ROOMS.-LATIRENT'S C %SENO, Great Windmill-street, Paymarket.—Great sic cess of the Romanlff Waltz and the Lancers, every evening, with Linrent's Grand Orchestra of Forth of the.tirst artistes of Lo neon. Principal Cornet-a-viston, M. floulcourt. isoors open at half vast eight, con.mence at nine. The Lane rs will be danced at half.pavt ten. Admission One Shilling. 20:239.) of St. Paul's, and more than double the extreme length of the new United States straw-frigate Nia gara, about which the - Transatlantics are talking so much.. The height from the bottom of the ship to the under.+idl of the planking of the upper clr'ck is 58 feet ; the extreme t rPadth is 82 feet, or as wide as Pall-mall ; the breadth across the paddleboxss 120 feet. Alieady neatly 8,000 tons, or 60,000 superficial feet, of wrought iron have been used in the 30,000 plates of her hull. To secure these up- , wards of 3,000,000 wrought-iron rivets have been welded in. Her tonnage is within a few tons of 2p,000.. She will be prvelled by paddle engines of 1,500 horse-power,' and screw engines of 1,800 horse-power, giving a total of 3,300 horse-power, at a pressure of 251 b., though, of course, if necessary, '8 1 :e can work, to a force of upwards of 5,000 horses. :For three feet above the watermark the hull is con structed double (on the cellular principle, adopted in the top and bottem of the Britannia tubular bridge), the inner hull or skin, as it is called, being 2 feet 10 inches apart from the outer. In this space, at intervals of six feet, run longitudinal :webs of iron pltte , , which are again subdivided by transverie plates into spaces of about six feet square. • This gives an enormous addition to the strength of the whole frame. At the bottoin'the longitudinal webs are thicker, and the spaces be tween them only ab iut three feet square, in order that wlenever it is necessary to ground the vessel for any repairs she will support her own weight without stiain or injury. Her principal dimen sions, calibre of her machinery, and general acco tnodatien.s may be seen from the following Number of main tranKerse bu khead` ),..water ; rebmpartliieuts Ditto partial... ••• ••• ••• ••• 7 Longitudinal bulkheads running fore and aft at a distance of 36 feet apart for a length of 350 feet ... ••• ••• ••• ••• 2 Width of space between the two skins Of ship 2ft. 10in. Length of forecastle 140 feet. Height of ditto ••• ••• ••• ••• 8 feet. Height of saloons,on lower deck 13 ft. 8 in. PUBLICATIONS. N.VT ready, in 2 vols., 21s. bound, . RIISSI k AFTER THE WAR: The Narrative of a Visit to that Country In 1851. By SELINA ORDON GUMMING will give liii p )pular 3 1 Pictorial and Musiell KNTF.RTA INNS F.NT illustrative of his ADVENTURES in SMUT fi AFRICA every evening (except Bativda,y) at F. MORNING REPRESF NT TION on s TIJIL DAY, at 3 o'clock. The Lion hunter's Bush People will appear In their Nailva Dances. Piano, by Mr. Ilarries•Wilson. Admission, le. and 28.; Stalls, 35.-232,' Piccadilly. BUNBORT. We eergratulate Miss Buti!,nry upon having written a very en tertaining book—one that has the merit of being reafiable from the beginning to the end. The author saw all hat she could; and has described with much vivacity all that she saw. lier book is full of pleasant pictures, commencing with St. Peter•bur.t and its lions, and ending with the coronation. It will find numerous rcaders." lady Nowa. Burst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street. GENERAL. TOM THUMB'S FAREWELL LEVEES at the PRI crE OF WAT.ES BAZAAR, 20q, Re gent-street, previous to a short tour in the Provinces. and . is final departure to France, Germany, and Rus4a. This world-renowned American Man in Miniature has no changed in features or stature Since he anpe trod three times boor-. her Majes y, and exhibited to 6 00,000 of the nobility anti gentry in London 13 years ago. H.s In tellect is vastly expanded New Songs, Costumes, Dances, Statues and delightful imitations and Performances. His engagements at Richmond, Camberwell, Stoke Newington Bermondsey, Woolwich, PePtord,and elsewhere, do not interfere with his three daily per lorminces at 209, Regent-street. He rides in his miniature chariot daliY.—Admission, Is. and 2s. THE NEW NOVEL, THE ROSE OF ASHURST, By the Author of "Emilia Wyndham," &c. Is now ready at all the libraries, In 3 vols. " We have no hesitatioi in asserting that' The Rose of Ashurst' wll he mo , e plpular than either Emilia Wyndham,' or ' Two Old Men's Tales,' by the same pen. There is a simplicity and a power about this skilful picture asocial life which remit , d4 us of De Bal zac. It exhinits a deep insight into the human heart."—The Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to llenry Caburn. DR. KAHN'S MUSEUM, . 4, Coventry-street,, Leicester-square. Programme :—Lectures by Dr. KABN, daily, a t 3 o'clock, on highly interesting and instructive Topics; and 4r. SEXTON, F.E.S as follows: At half-past 1 —The Ph- notnena, Curiosities, and Philosophy of the Sense of Sight At 4-1 he Great Tobacco Controversy. At half-past 7 —The Food we Fat; its Uses, Vreparation, Adulteration, and Digestion. The Museum contains 1,000 Models and Preparations, arid is wholly unrivalled in the world. Open daily, for Gentlemen, en'v, 1.-om till IS. Admission, One Shilling. Catalogues, containing Dr. Kahn's Lectures, gratis to visitors. E XHIBITION OF ART TREASURES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, OPEN AT MANCLIES rEn, MAY 5111, 1857. • tegAL,TICKETS,s2/. 2_3,,jaay be “btahled at the Offices of the tion, 100, NfoCey-tttreet, Manchester; also in London, W. 61111TII and SON, ISO. Strand ; Mr. KAM'S, Royal library, St. Jarties-street ; Mr. M ITC II E LL' 4, Roy Al Library, New Bond-street; LE ITS & CO , Royal Exchange; SMITII & CO , 157, Strand ; 1110 at RIME & SON'S, Church-street, Liverpool. —lty order. TllO MAS HA 1 uro N. Secretary. Inquiries as to APARTMENTS may be made from Mr. SAMUEL riAbEN, Offices of the Exhibition, 100, Mosley-street, Manchester. 12 feet. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-RETURN TICKETS between DORCHESTER and WETMOD H and PADDINGTON are available for the Return Journey up to the r °rlll, ll of the day succee ling the d a y of issue. Return Tickets tamed on Friday and Saturday between the above Stations are available by any Train up to Monday morning. The 8.10 p.m. Train from Paddincon, and the 9.55 p.m. Train from Weymouth, are considered the last trains of the day. Paddington, April 27, 1857. 70 feet. 60 feet. 1 inch. ' inch. eh, 1 _ incn. inch. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-CHEAP EXCURSION 4 to WlND4oll.—Excursion Tickets are issued at the Paddington Station for Wind or by the 10.30 a.m. and the 1.30 p.m. Trains, available for the Return Journey by the 6 40 ?..tn. and 8.30 p.m. Trains from W indsor. Fares , t h e r e and back, . 43 . 6d. Return tickets at single fares, with the addition of a small nookin g fee, are issued at the Paddington Station for :slough anti W indsor by any Train on Saturdays and Sunday., available for the Raton, Journey by any Train up to Monday evening. 74 inchcs. FAILURE OF THE RUSSIAN RAILWAY 26 tons. 14 feet. SC EIEIME. Notwithstanding the Imperial puff preliminary of the Czar and his belongings taking shares in the projected railway undertakings, and thus guaran teeing the, favour of the Court and the success of the undertaking, the subscription list which was opened on Tuesday by the Messrs. Baring has been still-born. The prejudice which was created in the very outset of this great project has increased rather than diminishel ; and the consequence is, that in the English market at lea-t it has not even the shadow of a chance of success. The reason of this hopelessness is not to be foun , l in an.y physical difficulties which were likely to b connected with the carrying out of the undertak ing. On the contrary, Russia has advantages iri this respect which are peculiar to herself. We must look elsewhere for the explanation of the re luctance of our capitalists to place their names on the subscription list. The Russian Govarnment has now to pay the penalty of its utter bad faith in the first pl tee, and. of that aspect of aggressiveness which it has con tracted-by the constant and indefatigable increase of its means of aggreision. In Russia the Empiro means war. The late Czar declared that he had had. the Moscow Railway made, not for traffic, but f his troop.. His policy survives him ; and when ever an opportunity offers, whatever railways may be constructed between now and then will be use 4 for the purposes of war, andwill be constructed with that view. N o assurances to the contrary will creak confidence in a Power which has proved itself un worthy of it. Honesty has its value in the Money market. The invasion of India, the occupation of Constantinople, are designs which Russia is known to cherish at the present moment. It is to officers despatched from her army that we are indebted for the stout resistance made to our arms in the war with Persia. This fact forms one of the most remarkable fea tures of the pertinacity with which Russia pursues her designs ; while it is also a proof that her designs on India are still ent•,rtained. In th, camp which the British expedition from Bushiro surprised j ust before the battle of Kooshab, the trace s of Russian discipline and military science were un mistakable. Anything, therefore, which is done to improve the means of communication in„ Russia wilt only strengthen the hands of aggression. In stead of being added to the resources of peace,' it will increase the resources of war, and to the un certainty of repayment. It is a just penalty of the crimes comtnirted by that unscrupulous Power ; that even if its intentions were peaceful, it ha forfeited the means of carrying them out by is bad faith—Morning Advertiser. 56 feet. SCREW ENGINES. LONDON and RAIL V AY.—CONTRAC' ~,,Prepared to receive Tenders for s.tores, vi z . : - 11 °. of Brass Sheet and Tubes for L ocomotives 2. Iron Tubes 3. Copper 4. Canvas 6 . Carpets and Rugs Z. Axles 8. Coals 9 . Crucibles 10 . Curled Hair 12 . Co'ours I . 2 a.Grysaltery 1 1 6 . Coach Trimmings 4 . Cotto n W as te IS , • Bags, Ropes, &C. 6. Glass, Plate 166 . Glass, various 'OR TH-W ESTERN 'S for STOKES. —The Directors are the Supply of the undermentioned 30 tons. 84 inches. 4 feet. No of Contract -18. Leather. lila.Leather 19. Lead, White and Bed 19a. Lead. Ingot, Sheet and Pipe 20.,1r0n, Yorkshire 2110. Iron, Staffordshire 20b. Tyre Bars 21. iron Castings 23. Wheels 24. 011, Linseed 25. Oils, various, and Turpentine 26. Oil Cloth 27. Steel 28. Springs and Flies 29. Tin Block al. Varnishes 34. Hats 3i. Caps 24 feet. 17f • Lam p Cottone B Ptelfle,a tion and Forms of Tender may be had on and after Mon day,„_ April 20th, on application to the Secretary , Eust on Station London.--. Forms of Tender for each Contract are printed separately, and t at a to tt n e . an patterns may anyalso be 1 2_ 4 .Tties applying should state the particular Contract or Contracts for "'eh they , propose to tender. rn inspected on and after Monday , April 20 th , fronttt Ten till Four o'clock, at the Company's Pattern Room, Euston further informAtton require I may be obtained on aPillication to the heads of the several departments. Tenders may be sent in before Ten o'clock on Monday, May 4th. By order of the Directors. CRA.S. E. STEWART, Secretary. Znston Station, April, 1817. CANCER HOSPITAL, London and West Brornpton.—Secretary's Office, 167, Piccadilly.—This Institu -21 has been established exclusively for the treatment of the poor M u lcted with canc e rous diseases. Out-door patients to attend at 167 , ,„'' ea , cllll 3', on Tuesdays, at 2 o'clock. In-door patients are admitte d Ze tirompton staldishment, for one month, and for a longer r: Aif recommended by the medical officers. The number of per sons under tre a t men t as in or out-door patients have averaged for O unlast three years about 400 cases each year. Since the foundation this Hospital in 1851, 1,799 poor persons, suffering under every of this dreadful malady. , have received the benefits of this aritY: A Weektrelloard manage its affairs, and every Informa tion connected with the Institution may be obtained on application to the Secretary. Contributions to enable the Committee to continue this treat work of benevolence are urgently solicited, and may be Paid to William Loxham Farrar, Esq., the Treasurer, 66, Lincoln's- Inn-flelds ; Messrs. Coutta and Co., Strand ; and at the Secretary's Oakes, 167, Piccadilly. By order. W. T. COCKERILL Secretary. OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. Patron—The QUEEN.—Founded 1828. The sick poor are admitted on their own application alone; no re •attimendation is required. During the past month the fallowing 'number received the benefits of this Charity, either as out or in-door patients, on their personal auPlication : Week ending 7th February ...... 2,095 Ditto 14th February ...• 2,351 Ditto II st February .... .. 2,650 Ditto 28th February .... 2,890 of Total in February • 9,988 which 3,379 were new cases, the remainder (still under treat ment)having been admitted previously. Pa ,, ie " le clergy of all denominations have unlimited access to the ts. shHeavy expenses are Inevitably incurred in affording such eaten .. reli e f . The Committee, t h ere f ore , earnes tly entreat the aid of the Public. „, The management of the Hospital is in the hands of 30 Governo rs, e arlY elected from the general list of subscribers, at the Annual eneral Meeting in January. A Board is held every Thursday, at w hen (subscriber JB. Owen, Chairman). to conduct the business, the Board being at .. any may attend - , if so disposed, an times desirous of receiving suggestions or giving explanation. t The Hospital is not endowed. but is wholly dependent on volun " Contributions and legacies, which are rece ived b y the Treasurer, aahti Masterman, Esq., M.P., Nicholas-lane ; al so b y Messrs. Coutts IrCo.; Drummond and Co • Herries and Co.; Ransom and Co.; eseott Grote, and Co. ; Smith, " Payne, and Co.; Glyn and Co. ; ~ ,o n es Loyd and Co.: Barclay and Co.; Denison and Co.; Wil li a ms, D eacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Her ners.street ; Mesterman and Co.; and at the Hospital. Clothing for the destitute patients will be thankfully received. By order. J. B. OWEN, M.A., Chairman. METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENT AND THAMES EMBANKMPNT. At &meeting of the Society of Arts on Wednesday, Rev. Dr. Booth, F.R.S. in the chair, Mr. Francis Bennosh read a paper on this subject, in which, after stating that in 1857 we have ten times the number of vehicles travel. ling the streets that we had in 1801, he observed that the removal of Middle-row and Temple-bar was nece:- eery as a preliminary measure, and that it was indispei sably necessary to secure at least three great thorougl.- fares east and west. To meet this necessity we have oit the north a direct line from Charing-cross to London• bridge, by way of the Strand, Fleet-street, Ltelgatt hill, t. Paul's, and Cannon-street. The centre lire should be the continuation of Cheapside, north Paternotiter-row, over Farringdon-street, by a via- duct bearing slightly to the south of Line An's-inn fields, and so on to meet the improvements is the west on a line with Piccadilly. The northern line should be New Oxford-street, a part of Holborn, diverging at the top of the hill, and by a viaduct crossing Victoria-sties: to Smithfield, passing in fr..nt of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, through Bartholomew'e-close, across Alders gate-street on the level, and so in a line with and into London-wall, joining the Pavement for Hoxton traffic, Bishopsgate street for Hackney or Shoreditch traffic, and proceeding down to the river side, by way < f Houndsditch, the Minories and Tower-hill, crossing the river by a steam ferry. On the south side the new street resolved upon by the Metropolitan Board of Works would be of immense convenience, although he thought the line cho,en by Mr. Pennethorne infinitely preferable. To relieve London-bridge of much of its heaviest traffic, steam ferries should be ester. blished at all conveuient points on the river below Lon don-bridge. Southwark-bridge should be made free of toll, and Queen-street, between Cannon-street and Cheat - side, made of a width equal to thet between Csnnoi , teire.t and Thames-street. St. Paul's-bridge, which he stemested formerly, would, next to London-bridge, hav e the largest traffic across the river. Temple-bridge wont I introduce a most important feature in the re-arrang... went. It would open up to the river the whole district of Lincoln's-inn-fields, besides other advantages. Water. 100 bridge should be made free of toil, and Hungerford widened and strengthened to bear carriage traffic. But, after all, the most important step would be the embank ment of the river Thames. The plan proposed combint a prom enade ' a carriage way, and a railway, and he wt a of opinion th at the entire work might be Executed with put costing the metropolis or the country a farthing. The revenue from the railway, eta the frontage obtained from the river, would not only compensate all persona having claims, but pay a handsome dividend to the pro- TIC SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. Just Published, price Is., post free, in an Envelope, for 13 stamps, SELF -PRESERVATION.—A Medical Treatise on the Functions and Disorders of the G enerative S y stem, an., " on the cure of Nervous and Phys i ' al Debilit y , resulting f 2l l l vicious habits acquired daring the critical passage from youth M anhood, with practical observations on the Ph y siolo gy of M ar '"ae in its social, moral, and physical relations. To which are added olarks on the wonders of the Microscope in revealing the hidden 7 1 3 4!teries „of Lif e w ithin Life,' and it^ advantages in detecting , by " 41 7 examination, the cause and effect of every variety of these complaint., with numerous engravings and cases. BY SAMUEL LA'MEIIT, 31. D 37, BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDOk, katrieulated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary I ; l einber of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of A pothecaries' Hall. London, &c., &c. 1 he essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful ma- Zinences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, n leh hare produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Msn -12,43d, andremature decay at all stages of life, than, perhaps, any !tiler class of dis ase known to modem pathologists. Its perusal is I '°U e ularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of Phys cal c: nditin, and who aril conscious of having hazarded e health hanniness o and privileges to which every human being is eattu e4. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are n „", n , c iPles of personal management which cannot be violated with ,,-"" incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret Ric lir the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how those penalties may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, IT' new the evil and its consequEnces maybe avoided, and, above all, 4 et ttlere is scarcely any th degree of physicAl infirmity or functional " ,, a ngement to which e timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. Published by J. Allen, 20, Warsvick-I , nc, Patemoster•row, and r l 3 : be had of Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Home, 19, Leicester-square `", don, 146, Leadenhall-street :or from the Author, who may be rsulted daily, , from 11 till 2, and from 6 till 8, at his residence , 37, ed_ford• square London. .fhe work may be had in Tndia, of Mr. Von Litzky, Loll Baz a ar ; ;. ,- " r ict itts—Messrs. C. and J. 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It is. morver, the food for infants and invalid s generally, as eo it never `"fts acid on th e wea k es t s t omac h, nor interferes with a :° o d liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for luach and dinner, Z. ll restores the faculty of digestion ad nervous and muscular energy „,,Lile most enfeebled. Supported by testamonials from the celebrat '. Professor of Chemistry Dr Andrew Ure, Dr. Shorland, .Ilar !,tY + Dr. Campb e ll, Dr. Gattiker, Dr. Wnrzer, Dr. 'ngram, Lerd ,„''!!,art de Decie s , th e D owager C oun t ess o f C ast l es t uar t, an d 50,000 `..;:ir well-known tbdividual§, whose health has been restored by ,1 1 useful and economical diet, after all other means had been tried In. v ain for many yea rs , an d a ll h opes o f recevery abantoned. 441 911 is by the celebrated Professor of Chemistry Andrew tire F.R.S., &c., &c. k-etors. The proposed embankment commences at Westminster-bridge arid terminates at the proposed St. Paul's-bridge. A railway starts from the Po. t. office, being in continuation of the Fleet Palley rail way from King's-cross • it follows the road on the embankment along the river, enters a tunnel at Whitehall, and proveds. westwards to Richmond and Brentford. The gardens of Whitehall and the Temple are to be enlarges, while new gardens are to appear in front of Somerset House. Every street coming down to the river is to be improved, and a greater amount of wharf accommodation secured than now exists. The railway starting from the Post•offl se has a branch uniting it with the South Western on the one hand, while on the other it is connected with the South Eastern. He thought this entire scheme for Thames Embankment, Railway Junction, and a high level bridge at St. Paul's, could be completed in five years. On the lowest level facing the river, it is prop:* ed to place the wharves and other matters connected e .le trade ; on a higher level, out receding considerably, is a promenade for pedestrians ; next comes tliei space over which, on iron columns, the railway is to be laid down • nex t comes the read% ay f o r carriages, 40 feet wide, and 'then another footway or promenade in front of the houses that may be erected ; the entire width for foot passengera, car riage-way, and railway being 100 feet. Another line might run along the side of the new road, from St. Paul's to the Elephant and Castle, and branching off to the left, give railway convenience to the immense omni bus population of Camberwell, Kennington, Brixton, Clapham. and Streatham, uniting with the Cry: , al Palace Railway to the west-end. It is further proposed t o unite the Thames Embankment Railway with the the chairman took part. , io a E i n l d w e w n ay i s n u . e c d h , a i d n w w ic h k i , ch Dr. Letheby, Messrs. C. 8., and Hayward, and. sßloAahcnkdiww.sacalulrseßs 24 Bloomsbury-suare " I hereby certify, that havi ng London examined , Da Barry's Re q valenta a'abica I find it to be a pure vegetable Farina, perfectly whole- Beane, easily digestible, likely t o promote a healthy action of the stomach and bowels, and thereby to counteract dyspepsia (Incites -11°B), constipation, and their nervous consequences. ANDREW URE, M.D., F.k.S., &c., Analytical Chemist," Ukase by the Emperor of Russia. Russian Consulate General, London, Dec. 2, 1847. Du T he Consul-Oeneral has been ordered to i n f orm Messrs. Barry, and Co., that the Revalenta Arablea they had sent to his Majesty the Emperor, has, by imperial permission, been forwarded to the Minister of the Imperial Palace. Suitably pariced for all climates, and with full instructions. In canisters, Ilb is 9d ; 21b 4s 6u ; 51b lls , 121 b 22s ; super refined Ilb 6s : 21b 11 s ; Sib 29.8 ; 101 b 335. The 1014 and 12Ib canis tßey ers are forwarded carriage free, on receipt of Post-offlce order. Du Barry and Co.. 77, Regent-greet. London; Fortnum, Mason, and Co., purveyors to her Majesty, 182, Piccadilly also at CO, Grac echurch.street ; 330 and 4)1, Strand; 4, Cheapside ; 68, Corn; 49, Bishopsgate-street ; 55, Charing-cross; 54, 'Upper aker-street ; 63 and 150 ,Oxford-street. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING ; MAY .1, • • • EAST IN DIA 'HO USE , 29T u APRIL, 1857. TIHE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That it QUARTERLY GE , IEIIAL COURT of the said Company will be held at Their !louse in Leadenhall-strect, on WEDNESDAY, the 17 th June next, at Eleven o'clock in the foreinon. JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. EAST INDIA HOUSE, 29Ta Aram, 1857. "HE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST c TNT DIA COMPANY do hereby give Notice, that the Transfer Rooks of the said Company's Stock will be shut. on TM. SDAY, the 9th June, at Three o'clock, and opened again on TUESDAY, the 14th July ; and 1 ha rtl - re Warrants for the Dividends on the said Stock, payable on the 6th July, 1557, under the 11th section of the Act 31 ased 4th Wm. IV , cap. t 45, will be ready to be delivered on that day. JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. • fiiRENCH FXI lI X EHIBITION. - Th 9 FOURTH M ANNUAL RITION of PICTURES byern Artists of the FRENCH. SCHOOL, will OPEN to the Public on MONDAY, the 4th of May, at the French Gallery, 121, opposite the Otera Colonnade. Admission, One Shilling; Catalogues, Sixpence each. Open from ten to six daily FRODSHAM, Secretary.' AIET ROPO LITAN COUNTIES and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 27, Regent street, Waterlco-place, London. Capital, 100,0001. • • TausTrus. : at. tin. Spencer It. Walpole,3l.P. Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P. Henry Peter Fuller, Esq. lE. Vaniittart Neale, Esq. Life Assurance business transacted In all Its branches. N.B. The bonus declared vt the last division of profits averaged 33 per cent. on all the premiums raid. F. FERGITSO.T'CAMROTTX, Manager. 10NDON GENERAL OMNIBUS 4 COMPANIY. The Manalters HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That the Balance of the Dividend for the year ending, lst..Dccetnher r4z., ss. per share, c'ear of income tax, as declared at the lieheral Meeting of Share. hollers, held in Paris on 25th inst.. will be payable at the - Offices of the Company, 454; Strand, Loudon, and 14, Rue Vivienne, Paris, between the hours of Eleven and Three, en and after 4th May. - Tne Share Certificates must be deposited at the Office of the Com.• party two c'ear days before payment of the Dividend. The Report and Accounts for the year will be delivered to each Shareholder in the Dividend. By Order. A. G. CHURCH, Secretary. 454, Strand, 28th April, 1857. 'II I HE SALOON DINING-ROOM of the I. WELLINGTON, having a separate Entrance at 53, St. Jatnes• street, will be OPEN to Gentlemen for the SEASON ONLY, on and after SATURDAY, 2d Slay, between Six and Elevpn The Dinner for the Day will be served at a minute's notice, be twe, n six and nine o'clock, at a charge of seven shillings. This in cludes dessert and attendance. All the French Dibhes will be dressed by a Chef of great celebrity, who has brought over the necessary aQslatants with him from Paris. English Joints will be comprised in the Rill of Fare, and the result is a dinner of extraordinary merit, In ad litiou to the present List of Wines used at the Wellington, there is a special List, offering a small selection of the most curious and extraordinary Wines, as regards quality, age, and condition, which will be greatly appreciated by the connoisseur. SOUND AND WHITE TEETH ate not only indispensably requisite to a pleasing exterior in both sexes, but they are peculiarly appreciated through life, as highly conducive to health and longevity. Among the various preparations offered for the teeth ROWLAND'S ODONTO, or Pearl Dentifrice, stands unrivalled. Prepared from Oriental Herbs, with unusual care, transmitted to this country at great ex pense, this unique compound will be found to eradicate all tartar and concretions, and impart a pearl-like whiteness to the enamelled surface, remove spots of Incipient decay, render the gums firm and r d, fix the teeth firmly in their sockets, and from its aromatic in fhpnce impart sweetness and pur ty to the breath. Price 2s. 9d per box. Carrrox.—The words "Rowland's Odouto" are on the Label, and " A. Rowland and sons, 29, I: atton-garden," engraved on the Go vernment Stamp affixed on each box. Sold by them and by Chemists and Perfumers. THE LATE DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER, (From the Daily News.) The death of the last of the fifteen children o George 111. carries back all minds over a large space of time, and would create a historical interest in connection with the death of the Duchess of Gloucester, if there had been much less than there s of personal interest attending the character of tt e amiable princess who has just departed. Her birtl. and her title by marriage, recall some associations which it may be useful to revive, under the altered circumstances of a new century and generation. The discontents which existed for a time between the father and the father-in-law of the deceased Prin cess produced consequences on her life—and that of most of her family—and on public morals and wel fare, which ought not to be forgotten in a review of her character and position; and which are not yet over in regard to the existing generation. George 111. married, in 1761, the Princess Char lotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. He was not satis fied with pleasing himself in his own marriage, but fully expected that his brothers would please, not thremselves, herb him, in -tireir marriages. - sigry did not do so ; and when he was a sober married man, with half-a-dozen children, be was excessively scandalised at the discovery that the Duke of Cum berland had married Mrs. Horton, and the Duke (f Gloucester the Countess Dowager of Waldegrave. There were immediate political consequences arising from the family quarrel—the Opposition finding their spirits and forces at once revived ; but a more permanent, and far more serious, consequence was, that the Royal Marriage Act was devised by the Kung, and carried through Parliament with a high hand, in the midst of protests and remonstrances from Burke, Lords Camden and Rockingham, and others, and many forebodings of the mischief it would cause. Under this Act no descendant of George 11. could marry under the age of 25 with out ,the King's consent ; nor after that age other wise than after applying to the Privy Council (in case of the Sovereign's disapprobation), and wait ing a year to rise whether either House of Parlia ment would address the King against the marriage —which, in that case, could not take place. It was too late now, happily, to overthrow the Duke of Gloucester's marriage, which had taken place five years before. It was declared at court in the autumn of 1772, the same year that the Royal Mar riage Act passed. The fanaticism of the German Queen for royal quarterings, which even exceeded the passion of the King for prerogative, was, ne cessarily mortified this time ; but both were re solved that it should be the last. Their children should marry royalty, or not marry at all. They never doubted whether they could enforce their decision when once they had the law on their side. Certain other, prior, and greater laws of human nature they made no account of. After the birth of two daughters, the discounte nanced pair had a son, who remained the only one. He was born at Rime on the 15th of January, 1776; and all the English in Rome were present at his baptism, the next month. On the 25th of the following April was born the 11th child of George lll.—the Princess Mary, who was to be the wife of the little Cousin at Rome. The event was signalised by anther remarkable address presented (on the day of the baptism) by the Lord Mayor and Corporation of London—an address which contained a sermon on laws, liberties, and the glorious Revolu tion, which did not seem to have much to do with the infant princess, and which got a very short answer from the King. That was the time when the Americans were preparing their Declaration of Independence, which was promulgated on the 4th of the next July ; and when M. Necker was put at the head of French finance—a time at which King George did not want to hear anything about liberties and revolutions, and when accordingly all manner of people were seizing every opportunity of preach- I ing to him about them. During the long course of years in which many of the other members of the family were involved in the penalties and perplexities of their rank, with regard to love and marriage, it was believed that the Prin cess Mary and her cousin, the Duke of Gloucester, were attached. She was interested in his Cambridge life (his education being finished there) ; and she gloried in his receiving the General's thaks in the field, when he was fighting in Flanders, so early as 1794. He proved himself both a gallant and able soldier, and really won his rank—whichrose to that of field marshal in 1816. When the young people were one-and-twenty the princess Charlotte was born ; and as it soon became understood that there would be no heir apparent if the Princess of Wales lived, the necessity was admitted of keeping the Duke of Gloucester single, to marry the pre sumptive heiress of the throne, in case of no eli gible foreign prince appearing for that function. For twenty of their best years the Duke and the Princess were kept waiting, during which interval (in the year 1805) ho succeeded to his title on his father's death. Everybody liked and loved the Princess Mary, who was a pattern of duty and sweetness through all the family trials she had to witness and share in ; and the Duke, though not a man of much political ability, was in that part of his life a Whig, and on the generous and liberal side of almost every -question. We are obliged to say "almost," because he supported with his whole force the exclusion of Dissenters from the Univer sities, when he was Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, after the death of the Duke of Grafton. On the anti-slavery question be was as earnest in his own way as Wilberforce in his, and kind and helpful in all matters of charity that came before him. Romilly tells us a curious thing of him— that he volunteered, in a tete-l.tete with Sir S. Romilly, his declaration that Queen Caroline was innocent, and that her accusers were perjured. He latterly became a Tory ; but, for the greater part of his life, the same genial spirit of liberality and personal unassumingness distinguished him and the Princess Mary. As for her, she pleased old and young alike. Lord Eldon used to tell with delight a joke of Queeh Charlotte's—about the last . , person in -the world whom any one would suspect of jesting. Her Majesty used to charge the Lord Chancellor witleffirting with her daughter Miry ; and the Chincellor used to reply that he was not Emperor, King, or Prince,_ arid that, moreover, he was married' already—a reply which reminds us of that reported by Charles Lamb of six Scotchmen, who, on somebody wishing that Burns was present, all started fOrward on their seats to declare that that was impossible,. because Burns was dead. But we mast suppose that Lord E'don, who really bad huneet&in. his way, considered the above as near an approach to jocularity as could be permitted in the presence of royalty. In 1 . 814, when the Prince of Orange was in Eng land, and his fat , er announced his approaching marria_ e with the Princess Charlatte, Princess Mary looked bright • and happy,' Lord Malmesbury se oorded in his diary whet her manners were like when the charm of youth was past, and the charac ter of womanhood was marked. e said she. "was all gool humour and pleisautness ;" addine, " her Manners are perfect, and' never saw or. coeversed with any princess so exactly what she otrglit to be." And no one livitig, perhaps, knew more princesses, or more of what they really were, than the old di 'plematist. The Prince of Orange went away, and PrinceSs Mary- drooped. Everybody was saying that the Duke of Gloucester must be the Princess Charlotte's bridegroom after all. But a few months more put an end the long suspense. When the Princess Charlotte descended the great staircase at Cannon Housa, after the ceremony of her marriage, she was met at the foot, with open arms by the Prim:o4w - Mary, -whose face mil/4h ei in Leer" The Duke and Duchess of,G-loucester were married in a few weeks —en the'234 of Jcly, 1816. The bride's demeanour was so interesting and affecting that it opened the sluices of Lord Eldou's ready tears, which he declared ran down his cheeks ; but the-Cliief Justice, Lord Elleuboreugh, also present, must have been in another mood. Some persons were talking in a corner of the crowded room ; and the Chief Justice called to them, iu the meist of the ceremony, "Do not make such a noise in that corner —if you do, you shall Le married yourselves." It is rather pathetic now to think of the details of that marriage—the crowded saloon—the royal .mother and sisters on one side the altar, and the royal bro thers on the other—the bride, though no longer young, "lot:king very lovely," in a remarkably simple dress ; to remember how the scene was re lated at every , fireside in England ; and then to think that none of the family, and probably no one who was present, survives. No application was made to Parliament for an increase of income in this case. The benevolent habits of the Duke' and Duchess had taught them in a pracrical way the value of money ; and they arranged their plan of life so as to make their means suffice, and leave enough for much support of schools, and aid to many a good cause. They lived together eighteen years—the Duke dying in November, 1834. It surprised no one thatihis wife proved herself the Most assiduous and admirable of nurses during her husbands decline. After his death, she live -t in as much retirement as her rank admitted, doing good where she could, and universally beloved. She saw the last of her immediate relatives drop from her side, and her self left the survivor of that long family train that used to look so royal and so graceful when return ing the admiring salutations of the public on the terrace at Windsor. All that long series of heart histories was closed. The wretched avowed mar riages, and the wretched, or happy,. or chequered secret marriages, and the mere formal state mar riages, which took place in 'consequence of the Princess Charlotte's decease, were alike dissolved by death. What a world of misery could this sur vivor have told of, arising from the jaw-made in compatability between royalty and the natural provision for the domestic affection!. The elabo rate and public preparation required by the Mar riage Act in her own case, by which her marriage was made an act of the state, was painful enough ; but her lot, with its one steady affection, long in suspense and late gratified, was a happy one in comparison, perhaps, with that of any other mem ber of the family ; and many a painful meditation must she have had that piece of enforced legie lation of her father's early and headstrong years. Those various love stories are hidden now in the •aye ; and she who was the depositary of so many em a eviedalemettnner.TrTfrere,ellien, let them rest. But the leison they yield should not be neglected. There was a strong hope that when our young Queen Victoria, who was at full liberty, as Sove reign, to please herself in marriage, had made her choice, this . wretched and demoralising Marriage Act, always reprobated by the wisest and best men of the time, would be repealed. There were then none left of the last generation who could be pointed at, or in any way affected, by such a repeal ; and it was thought that it would be wise to do the thing before there was a new generation to introduce difficulty into the case. The opportunity has almost been allowed to slip from U 3. The royal children have ceased to be children, at least the elder ones. Meantime, there . is, as we all know, a wrong and growing popular distrust, in our own country and in others, of the close dynastic connexions which are multiplying by means of the perpetual intermarriages of a very few families. The political difficulties recently, and indeed constantly, experienced from the complica tion of family interests, involving almost every throne in Europe, are a matter of universal feeling and conversation. There is no chance for the phy sical and intellectual welfare of coming generations when marriages take place among blood rely ions ; and there is no chance for morality and happiness when, under legal or state coidpulsion, young peo ple love in one direction and marry in another. No evils that could possibly arise from marriages out of the royal pale can for a moment compare with the inevitable results of a royal marriage law like ours, perpetuated through other generations than the unhappy one that is gone. Royalty will have quite difficulties enough to contend with, all through Europe, in coining times, without the perils consequent on this law. Its operations will expose all the intermarried royal families in Europe to criticism and ultimate rejection by peoples who will not be governed by a coterie of persons diseased in body through narrow intermarriage, enfeebled in mind, —strong only in their, prejudices, and large only in their self-esteem and in their requirements. There is yet time to save the thrones of Europe— or at least the royal palaces. of England—from the consequences of a collision between the great na tural laws ordained by Providence, and the narrow and mischievous artificial law ordained by a wilful King of England. The King is in his grave, and the last of his children is now gone to join him there. Let the time be laid hold of to bury his evil work in the tomb which is now to be sealed over him and his for ever ; and the act will be gratefully acknowledged by a long line of fu ture princes and princesses, who will be spared the bitter suffering of those who have gone before. It can never be, as was said by wise men 80 years ago, that royal personages who are declared of age at 18 will have no will of their own, in such a matter as marriage, at five-and-twenty. Marriage is too solemn and sacred a matter to be so treated as a piece of state politics ; and the ordinance which is holy in the freedom of private life may be trusted with the domestic welfare of prince and peasant alike. ( From the Times. ) Tho last of the childron of George 111. has de parted this life. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Glocester, expired yesterday morning at the age of 81. She was born on the 25th of April, 1776, and consequently had long passed the ordinary limit of human life. It is impossible not to feel that the extinction by the death of this Royal lady of a family placed iu so eminent a station is a note. worthy event. There were thirteen children born from the marriage of Geor,ze 111. with Queen Char lotte—George Prince of Wales, afterwards George IV. ; Frederick, Duke of York •, William, Dukeof Clarence, afterwards William IV. ; Edward, Duke 'of Kent • Ernest, Duke of Cumboland, afterwards King of Hanover : Augustus, Duke of Sussex : and Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge. Of the six daughters three died unmarried, and three were married. The names in the order of birth stand thus :—The Princes Royal, Charlotte Augusta, who was married to the King of Wurtemberg ; the Princess Augusta, who died unmarried ; the Prin cess Elizabeth, who was married to the Prince of Heve Homburg ; the Princess Mary, the lady just dead, who was married to her cousin the Duke of Gloeester ; and, finally, the Princesseg Sophia and Amelia, both of whom died unmarried. With so copious a race there was little danger of a disputed succession or of a vacant throne. It is singular, however, how few in number are the representatives of this numerous family in the pre sent generati , n. Queen Victoria, the King of Hanover, and the three children of the late Duke of Cambridge are, we believe. now the only sur vivors, and the Princess Charlotte, daughter of George IV., is the only one who has passed away. L There is, however, happily but little chance that the Royal Family of England will be speedily ex . balloted. But :a few days before the venerable Duchess of Gloc , ster was summoned fr iil.l this world a ninth child., was born to the Qicen :of En - land, so that an orderly successi , n 'the 13Liti-h throne would appear to ba -among the events on which one 'may calculate with rea4onable certainty. It is:but just that we.shoul , l add a few words ;is a tribute - of - respect to the :memory of the late Duches4 of Glonester. • Her' R iyal niglines4 was never called upon to play any p!omineA p'ut on the pub'ie seen., but h9r private life was naltked by every wommly virtue, awl by the - profu:e exer cise of unostentatious charity. bile was a distin -1 guishel ornament of the high s , ciety in wlll,lh sl!e had so long moved, and her loss will be most deeply regretted by: those who knew her beet. /. Shortly after eight o'clock yeiterclay morning . her Majesty's Lord Chamberlain atr.ved at Glou- . cester House, when orders were issued to her Ma jesty's upholsterers, Messrs. Ranting and Son, ef. St. James's-street, Piccadilly, f. r the nec ssary arrangements for her Royal Highness's funeral. In accordance with the desire of the IV e Duchess,. the funeral proceedings will be conducted in a com paratively private manner, with' the exception of the presence of a detachment of the Life Guards to escort the funeral cortege to the' terminus_ of the Great Western Railway, Paddington. Nothing beyond the ordinary display observable at the funeral of a pr/ate individual will take place.. Orders were received yesterday morning at Windsor for the opening of the royal mausoleum in St. George's Chapel. The remains of the illiis itiOttB deceased will be placed by the side,,,of.her. royal husbind. THE ." GREAT EASTERN." • An old proverb says that " n there is othing new under the sun." With regard to travel abroad, and its ordinary sigh's, this may be true. Everybody knows all about the Crimea. Constantinople, and the gaudy wretchedness of the East, is as hackneyed as Cneapside. Mont Blanc is as well known as Primrose-hill. The Pyramids exhibit huge posters about " Warren's Jet." Ararat, with its unbroken solitude of ages, has been invaded ; and even the grim ,icy caverns of the Arctic regions withhold no secrets. The last of the exclusive places is about. to be opened to us ; and what between correspon dents, amateurs,, and artists, Hong Kong will soon be as familiar as the Isle of ogs, and the mystery, of the internal domestic economy of the Celestial! Empire a thing of no account. What remains to be seen ? Where is a man to g ) for a new sensation or a novel sight? We think eve can say. On either side of the river, in the midst of those dreary regions known as East Greenwich and Millwall, where the atmosphere is tarry, and every thing seems slimy and amphibiou., where it is hard to say whether the land has been rescued from the water or the water encroached upon the land; where the shops sell anchors ship's cables, how itzers, hemp, hammocks, bricl other nautical ree mains, or at most only rise to the eleaancies of tarpauling suits, limp sou'-westers, and such like weatherbeaten fuxuries,—two gigantic schemes are in progress, which, if not entire novelties, are at least as near approaches to it as this generation is ever likely to witness. That at East Greenwich is the manufacture of the great Atlantic 'Submarine Telegraph ; at Millwall lies Scott Russell's leviathan ship the Great Eastern. At the former place the visitor (if not also a shareholder) can realise the great idea. There in a comparatively small compass, cell over coil, till the eye is pained and dazzled in attempts to follow it, lies the monstrous cable, like the endle-s snake of the Scandinavian mythology, which was said to encircle the world. But with the Great Eastern steamship the case is different. It is difficult, if not entirely impossible, for the mind to appreciate and, realise its immense hulk at once', The visitor catches no glimpse of it till he enters Scott Russell's yard, when, though the ship is still at a considerable distance, it seems suddenly to shut him in—a mountein of metal across his patli—while all around are scattered ponderous m asses of girder 4, funnels, bulkheads, boilers, and machinery, like tU debris of some colossal iron world. So. vast is thi bulk of the huge ark that from no one point, save at the river's side, cm the eye take in its whole proportions, and even then its immensity is so great in - 'comparisou with all the notions previously cog ceiyecl of monster ships that it seems to elude cont. prehension and weigh upon the mind—'a kind If iron nightmare—a phenomenon, hard and unrealis able. It is useless looking at it, so you try by details to. bring the mind to an approXiination of its size, wander about the yard in search of familiar objects which may restore to their equilibtiun your dis ordered ideas of proportion. On the ground lie= something like a field of red iron with a kind 'of hedge of the same material all round it, and tin this you walk until you find it to be the lAA and small eat of the bulkheads or water-tight . compat trneuce, and which in the course of a day or so will be lifteicl bodily 100 feet into the air, and placed in the stern of the ship. Again disturbed in your tansies, you seek refuge iu the contemplation of a labyrinth of • spokes and stays, a semi-circle of iron like the sup ports of a building—wider across than King Wil liam-street, larger than the circus at A , tley's, arid which instinct soon tells you can b 3 nothing less than part of one of the great ship's paddle-wheee. By this time, half used teethe Brobdignagian world around, the visitor can coolly walk down a couple of long iron tunnel's, which in lightnes., cheerfel ness, and general population, remind him forcibly of the Burlington-arcade. He knows these are two out of five of the ship's chimneys, but is reconciled t' the fact and feels that on the whole they are quite what he expected. So with a row of red build ings which 'at first look like houses and seem tile iron suburbs of the vast edifice which towers aboVe them. These are the boilets, though the wildest ideas as to their use seems to pervade the mass io visitors who peep in at the manholes. They are evidently looked upon (especially by the ladies) as mere iron technicalities quite dist net from the ship, though useful in some remote and unexplained de gree—probably as models, or as adjuncts to the captain's toilete. Each of these boilers, however, weighs 45 tons, and is intended to work at a pre 4- sure of 251 h. to the square inch. Some have already been tested with the hydraulic pump, weth a force of upwards of 601 b. per square inch, and proved 'so solid and faultless in their construction that a pres sure of 1001 b. might have been applied with safety. The sight of such objects as these around gra dually restores the visitor's mind, and predis poses him for appreciating bulk at least. He somehow expects to 'find everything large and in keeping with the " monster of the deep," and turns with disappoint ment from the aspect of tall factories awl large trees which aredwarfed to things of paltry insignificance. In this frame of mind, if he were to'cl that the steam-cradle, which high over all in a massive framework of oaken beams lifts up the boilers awl other sundries was fixed there for the purpose of hoisting in the fillip's telescope, he would take the information as a matter of course, and be in ,no way surprised or moved by the announcement. But we mu.t go to the ship itself, though none are in a burry at first to mount its lofty sides. BUM near it is a tall framework, or rather a wooden tower, by means of which, after toiling up a flight of 04 steps, the deck is gained at last. Here, no matter how much the previous sights may have prepared the ideas, the ship viewed from the deck as one great whole, or rather as much of the great whole as can be seen, for all cannot, is quite be yond. the grasp of ordinary comprehensions to rea lise. In fact it is like anything , but the deck of a ship, though nothing but the deck' of the ship is like it.. Some of our readers very probably have been on the roof of the Crystal Palace or Great Exhibi tion while building. Let them recal either of thci.!e scenes—the webs of scaffolding, the groups of forges, the cradles and winches, the girders, pillars, and plates, the white-heat rivets, the punching machines, the monstrous screws, and above all the bellowing din of by no means distant thunder, and they can form some idea, though but a faint one, of the deck of the Great Eastern. • It is very difficult for any amount of description to conveyan adequate notion of a. vessel which is 18,000 tons larger than the largest ship in the world. It may, perhaps, be gained by the visitor who evalks, to the edge of the vessel, looks up and down the Thames,, surveys the domes of Greenwich Hospital, has a bird's,eye view on to the docks of large West Indiamen, and wonders at the diminutive proportions of the old 3-decker used as the Seamen's Hospital. Or, better still, if he turns his glass from the riier and peers cautiously over the edge of the space where the upper and lower saloons for the cabin passengers by the Great Eastern are to be constructed. It seems like looking from a housetop into some ordi nary metropolitan square, or the court of an exten sive French hotel, at the bottom of which even the noise of the workmen is subdued, for they are 60 feet beneath the spectator. In s pite, however, of these aids to appreciation of its size, one must resort to'figures at last in order to understand the monster fully. Her length, then, between the perpendicu lars is 680 feet ; length on the upper deck, 692 feet ht .—within 28 feet of double t h e len g th o f th e heig Bulkheads Iron deck Number of saloons Height of saloons on upper deck Number of ditto ". Length of upper siloons Ditto lower •., Thickness of iron plates in keel Ditto inner and outer skins PADDLE ENGINES. Number of cylinders ... Diameter of ditto • Weight of ditto (each) Length of strokb Number of boilers Furnaces for ditto ... Diameter of paddlewheels Number of cylinders Weight of ditto (each) Diameter of ditto Length of stroke Number of boilers Furnaces for ditto Diameter of screw Number of blades to ditto Length of screw shaft Weight of ditto (about) Weight of ship engines, &c., as at its launch -12,000 tons. Immersion of this weight ... 15 fk. 6 in. Ordinary light draught ••• ••• ••• 20 feet. Probable maximum immersion when fully laden 30 feet. Quantity of coal which can be carried for voyages 11,379 tons. In addition to these facts we may mention that she will have six masts and ten anchors. All the former will be of hollow wrought iron, except the last or mizen mast, on which, at a heightl of 84 feet from the deck, will be placed the compass. The masts will spread together no less than 6,500 yards of canvass, thou;b, having no bowsprit, she, of course, can carry no spritsail. Three of the masts will .be square-rigged with iron spars, except the upper topsail-yards. The rigging will be of wire, and the large shrouds of this material will be eight and a half inches in circumference. She will carry 20 large boats on deck ; some of them are new pa tents, on most ingenious principle., to which we shall refer hereefter. In addition to these she will also carry, suspended aft of her paddle-boxes, two small screw steamers 100 feet long each and of be tween 60 and 70 tons burthen. These will, of course, be ra7ved and lowered by small auxiliary en gines, several of which will Ve fixed on beard for working pumps, hoisting sails, weighing anchor, elec. Botlethe little screws will be kept in all re speets perfectly equipped for sea and used for em barking and landing the passengers with all their luggage, arc., alongside the wharf or pier, which ever it may happen to be. This will be onerous service, for the Great Eastern is fitted to accom modate 800 first-class passengers, 2,ooosecond-class, and 1,200 third-class,—in all 4,000 passengers ; or, carry,it ' e it is said, mpl oeidio,o intransport the men. s of troops, will b she read ecany for launching early in Augast next, and be able to take her first trial trip to America and hack about tee middle of that month. She is expected to re alise a speed of at least 20 miles an hour, or to accomplish the voyage from England to Australia (between which countries she is to run) in 30 days. Reckoning the cost at so much per ton it is said to be one of the cheapest vessels yet constructed. The arrangetneete for the launching—or perhaps we should rather say for her being lowered gradually down an inclined plane into the river—are quite as extraordinary and as noteworthy as the vessel it self. At present we cannot enter into the details of the plan, which has been entirely devised by the eminent engineer to whom the whole merit of ori ginating the first great idea of the vessel is due— Mr. Brunel. We may mention, however, that the launch will be by no means a slapdash affeir into the " native element," but a tedious operation which will probably occupy two or three days. On these points, however, and on some others of equal interest, we shall give our readers fuller informa tion as the great ship, progresses towards comple tion. 150 feet. 60 tons. EQUALISATION OF THE POOR-RATES, A public m•:etingof theratepayers of St. George's in-the-East and the adjoining parishes was he'd on Wednesday at the George Tavern, Commercial old, to consider the propriety of petitioning Par liament for an- equalisation of the poor-rates throughout tha metropolis. The Rev. G. H. M‘GILL, having taken the chair, observed that the subject which the meeting was invited to consider was one that deeply concerns both the ratepayer and the pauper. The inequality , in the pressure of the poor-rates on different dis ticts of the metropolis was a grievance that called loudly fur redress. When the Bishop of London and Mr. Gladstone sometime since visited the easterly part of the Metropolis, they expressed it as Vieir opinion that the residents of the West-end of London ought to contribute towards supporting the poor. of the East-end, in order to relieve the unequal pressure to which the inhabitants of that portion of the metropolis wore subjected. Every ratepayer of the district would at once acquiesce iu that opinion. He himself had paid as much as in the poimd for poor-rates, and it was fal lacious to louk for any diminution of this legal im post by means of charitable contributions. The only practicable mode of lightening the burden was to equalise the tax throughout all the parishes of the metropolis. As this was a quistion wholly unconnected with political, or religious views, he hoped to have the support of men of all parties in his efforts to carry out the object he was anxious to attain. lie had invited Mr. Hanbury, the newly-elected member for the county, to preside on the present occasion, but that gentleman was of opinion that some one locally connected with the district should discharge that duty ; but both advised that that gentleman and Lord Grosvenor had promised to give their most cordial support to the movement i t i o ley pass a bill to p in a t a h j e am Hz t s s e h o o f ul C d o b m e m p o e n ti s t l o a n n e d d afford the relief desired. into a statistical de tail, with a view to show the Mr. W. GILBERoTf, to.hfolCpeorisior-OrgattOellinaftthere e da nte e r r i e n n g t " That this m eetin g is of opinion that the p oor-rate greatpa resolutionparishes i e n s e oqi:u thei ty n actropoli4, moved the following assessment in every parish in London ought to be equal. Mr. WILLIAMS seconded the resolution. Mr. G. L. HUTCHINSON said be had been endea vouring ever since 1829 to impress upon the public the necessity of this measure, and the only objec tion hd bad to the resolution was that it confined its operation to London only. The poor belonged to the country at large, and not merely to London. w li o e rd therefore moved e sh ou l a d s haen omitted,amendment t t h h e a w t o t r h d s e " England and Wales" be inserted in the resolu tion ; which was seconded by Mr. Taylor. Mr. BROOKS said, he was altogether opposed to the present movement, believing, as he did, that by degrees the whole parochial system of the coun try would be destroyed by it. 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