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AST AND WEST INDIA DOCK C IMPANY. The Directors hereby Give Notice, That Unless the charges on the undermentioned goods are paid on or be fore the 10th January neat, they will be sold to defray the same : $• J. and Co.. 333 bags Rice, ex Belle of the West, Howes, from 55 Calcutta, entered 19th September, 1855. By order of the Court. GEORGE COLLIN, Secretary. East and West India Dock House, 8, Bllllter.square, December 10, 1857. THE RHINE AND GERMANY. —The ..,_, Shortest and Cheapest Route, via Rotterd am, to the Rhine Germany," i a is by THE DUTCH RHENISH RAILWAY. ri _through Trains, in conjunction with t hose of the Cologne-Minden '''Pany, start three times a day. 1 9 ,1 • ift3' pounds of Luggage allowed fre e for each pass enger. ,Urther particulars forwarded, post fre e, on app Company's lication to the Further .Many's London Agent, Mr. JOHN C. Jesisom. 61. Graceehurch street. GENERAL ANNUITY ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION. Established 1829. Accumulated funded capital, 289,5277. 1 is. 6d. Immediate, deferred, and survivorship annuities granted every Thursday by the Board of Directors. In this strictly Mutual Association Annuities of 191. each can be secured to a wife or other nominees at exceedingly moderate rates of premium, viz.:— At the age of 30, annual premium . £2 14 0 „ 40, ~ •• • •• • 3 17 0 Twelve annuities may be effected. 93, Cheapside. PHILIP CURTIS, SeCy. OFFICERS PROCEEDING TO INDIA also CIVILIANS, can effect ASSURANCES on their LIVES with the COLONIAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY on • the USUAL TERMS, the Directors having RESOLVED NOT TO INCREASE RATES at this time. • Premiums can be paid to the Company's Agents at Calcutta, Ma ' drao. or Bombay, or at any other of their Agencies in the East. The Directors also advance Loans on good security for temporary Periods. _The Colonial have Agencies in every British Colony, where Pre uuLl4lB are received, and Claims settled. WILL. THO. THO MSON, Actuary. SAMUEL R. FERGUSSoN, Resident Secretary in London. .• ........ 81, Lombard-street (E.C.) EDINBURGH (Head-aloe) .... 5, George-street. DUBLIN 65, Upper ftckvllle-street. ..... • .••• 58, St. Vincent-street. ESTABLISHED 1841. NIEDICAL, INVALID, AND GENERAL LIFE OFFICE, 25, Pall-mall, London. Empowered by special Act of Parliament. BY the Annual Report of 1853, it appeared that the number of Policies then in force was 3,434, insuring 1,337,5001., and yielding an Income of 55,2071. At the Sixteenth Annual Meeting, held on the 26th Ndvember 1 857, it was shown that on the 30th June last— The number of Policies in force was ...... ••• • •• 6,255 The amount insured was.: ...... 2,017,598/. 13s. 10d. • The annual Income was •••-• • • • .. 125,1131. 3s. Bd. Two Bonuses have been declared (in 1848 and 1853), adding nearly 2 Per cent. per annum on the average to sums assured, and by which a Policy of 1,0001. issued in 1842 on a healthy life is now increased to 1,2601. Profits divided every, five years—next division in 1858. • The Society, since its establishment, has paid claims on 781 • Policies, assuring 312,8841. Assurances are effected at home or abroad on healthy lives, at as Moderate rates as the most recent data will allow. Indian Assurances at very moderate rates, and great facilities given to assurers. Invalid lives assured on scientifically constructed tables. Policies issued free of Stamp duty, and every charge but the Pre mium. Active working Agents wanted for vacant places. Prospectuses, Forms of Propose's, and every other informa' ion, 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 SINGER, Secretary. T HE INTERNATIONAL LIFE A.SSUR INC E SOCIETY, 142, Strand, London, 4 u l Powerel by Act of Parliament, for LIFE ASSURANCE, SUR VIVORSHIPS, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &c. DIRECTORS. EDMOND SHEPPARD SYMES, M.D., Chairman. Kenworthy Browne, Esq. Henry J. Hodgson, Esq. Samuel King-Church, Esq. John Moss, Esq. John Elliotson, M.D., Cantab., John Symes , Esq. . Joseph Thompson, Esq. SECRETARY TO THE BOARD. Alexander Richardson, Esq. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. Augustus Blondel, Esq. AUDITORS. Professor Wheatstone, F.R.S., and Professor J. Radford Young. MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL. J. Motion, M.D., Cantab , F.R.S., 37, Conduit-street. ACTUARY. W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., &c. ASSISTANT ACTUARY. Barker Woolhouse, Esq. BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. SOLICITORS. Mesas. Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Roweliffe, Bedford-row. ,:rhe next Quinquennial Division of Profits will be declared in 1860. _ _ _ Policy taken out in 1838 1841 - 1845 1848 1851 I Examples of Bonus up to May, 1855 : The following are amongst the advantages offered by the Inter luttional Life Assurance Society : T he Society was established in 1535. Two-thirds of the profits are divided amongst the assured eve:7 five Years. Its subscribed capital is five hundred thousand pounds. t o lts Investments, at the date of the last annual report, amounted one hundred and seventy-one thousand pounds. Its annual income is ninety thousand pounds. 111 , e number of p o li c i es no w in tome exceed six thousand. :bout one thousand new policies are added every year. ' i nee Its commencement t h e Society has paid in claims upwards of three hundred and twenty thousand pounds. For prospectuses and every other information, apply to the Char . Man. 142 Strand. 142, Strand London EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman , , W.C. Du BARRY'S CELEBRATED INFANTS' , .__ FOOD, for DEMO ATE INFANTS, CHILDREN, and IN 2•LIDS. Superse,les the expense and dangers of wet-nursing, is ; 1 21%easily digested, and i m p ar t s m ore healthful nourishment than " I _ ll i acidity, cramps, b owe l comp l a i n ts, flatulency, cough, restless 'the g, scrofula, eruptions, are avoided by it, and perfect regularity of RYStem and sound sleep insured. Many respectable families who R ave reared a n d saved delicate Infants by this Food can be referred to, a n ,, - copy of their Testimonials may be had free on forwardin% ; 1 1 "`n:IPed and addressed enve l o p e to B a rry Da Barry and Co., ¶7, %tent-street, London Prices : —ln Canisters, is. ; 29. • and 121 b. 11.. t 219. T he large Canister will be forwarded free of Carriage on receipt of Post Office Order. ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVA INCAPACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. Il eW and improved Edition, enlarged to 196 pages, illustrated by 100 Anatomical Col9ured 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 fleets of solitary indulgence, infection, and the injurious conse quences from the use of Mercury ; vrith observations on the obliga tions of marriage, and directions for obviating certain disqualifica tions. By R. and L. PERRY and CO.. Surgeons. Cossul . .ations as usual (see page 197). Sold by J. Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, Pater noster-row; Sanger, 160. Oxford-street; and Gordon, 146, Leaden hall-street, London. The COiIDIAL I3ALM of SYRIACITM is employed in both sexes 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 debility, obstinate gleets, impotency, barrenness, and debi lities arising from venereal excesses, has been demonstrated by its unvarying success in thousands of case;. Price 11s. per bottle, or four quantities in one for 33e., which saves I I s. 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 41011 , 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 sYstem is undeniable. Price I is, and 335. per bottle, also a saving 6 ,._, P iaRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS constitute an effec- Z s ill remedy in either sex for all cases of gonorrhoea, gleet, stricture, Lases of the urinary organs. Price 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., ant I Is. Per b ßold by Daniel Church, 73, Gracechurch-street, City; Bartlett Z-I °° l'er, 43. King William-street (four doors from London Bridge) , s ; It'. Watts 17, Strand* W. Sutton and Co., 10, Bow-churchyard; • Edwards ' , 67 , St. P aul's-churchyard; ' 3. Sanger, 150, Oxford ..!reet ; Hannay and Dletrichsen. 63. Oxford - street ; Butler and ar61111 7. 4, Cheapside Me dicine vendors thro; Prout and Harsant, 229, ughoxt the United Kir.gdom. Strand ; and all NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE CoRES ( ithout Physic) of Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Constipation, Flatulency, Phlegm, all Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints, on ~.ysterist Neuralgia, Dysentry, Diarrhcea, Acidity, Palpit , __JAeartbare, Headache. Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Spasms, Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy or at sea), Sinking Fits,. Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption, also Children's Com plaints are effected by II BARRY'S delicious REVALENTA ABABICA FOOD, which restores health without purging, I nconvenience, or expense, as it saves fifty times its cost in other remedies. It is, moreover, the best food for infants and invalids generally, as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor inter feres with a soul liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner, and restores the faculty of digestion, and nervous and muscular energy to the most enfeebled. We extract a few out of the many thousand expressions of grati tude from invalids :—Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de Decies. " I have derived considerable benefit rrom Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, and consider it due to yourselves and the public to authorise th e pu b l i cation of these lines. Stuart de Decles."— Cur:, No. 49,832. " Fifty years' indescribable agony frort dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, and sickness at the stomach and vomiting, have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food. Maria Jolly, Northam L Ig, near Dies, Norfolk."—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, 0! N acing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, llerts, a cure of extreme ner- V3zness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, an d a nervous fancies.— Cure No. 48,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, teacre, near Liver - poll : a cure of ten year's dyspepsia, and the horrors of nervous irrita bility. Cure No. 18,216. Dr. Andrew lire of constipation, dyspep sia. t.ervous irritability. Cure No. 34,210. Dr. Sherlund of dropsy and debility. Care No. 36,212. Captain Allan of epileptic fits. Cure No. 42.116 Major Edle of enlargement of the liver and total Prostration of strength. Cure No. 38,418. Rev. Dr. Minster of cramps, spasms, and daily vomiting's, Cure. No. 26,418. Dr. Har vey of diarrhoea and debility. Cure No. 39,628 Esq .Dr. of consumpthn. Cure No. 32,883. William Hunts, ; urtz b W arriste e r r , of Paralysis. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, wood merchant, of thirty years diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, Partial deafness. Cure No. 4 ',814. Mr. Samuel Lawton, Leicester, of two years' diarrhoea. Care No 52,612. The Dowager Countess of Castleatuart, of many years' nervous irritability, bile, and indi gestion. Cure No. 54,812, Miss Virginia Zeguers, cued of con sumption, after her medical advisers had abandoned all hopes of recovery. Cure No, 180. ywenty-flve years' nervousness, con stipation, indigestine, and debility, from which 7 have suffered great Misery, and whi c h no medicine could remove or relieve, have been eßff eeve ectuall I s y l cured by Du Barry's F ood i n a very short t i me. R. s, . Fle et- W. 11 street, London." No. 4,208. "Eight years' ells which' nerv se ousness had , debility, with cramps, spasms, and nausea, for myservant effectually cured b co nsulted the advi ce of many. have been y Dtt Barry happy to ans wer any ite 'a health restoring Food. ' 1 shall be rv. J ohn Flavell, Ridlington Rec with pains tory, Norfo its M No. 32,836. Thee years' excessive nervousness, y neck and left arm and general debility, which ren der.d my life very miserable, has' Alex. Barry's health restoring Food. ra dioaßY removed by Da Thirteen Archdeacon of Ress, Skibbereen." Cure No. 3,906. cough, indigestion, " Thi and general debility have been removed traira's' 'a excellent Revitlenta Arabica Food. James Porter, AYthol-ustritertrY, Perth." Important Caution against the fearful dangers of spurious Unita tation s: 'granted an The Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood tion on the 10th March, 1854, against Alfred II "'""c- I mitating "Du Barry's Rev a l en t a A ra bi ca Food." ooper Nev ille, for Suitably parsed for all climates, and with full instructi ons. In !_lkointers, llb 2s 9d ; 21b 4s 6d; 51b Ils , 121 b 225. The 121 b car nage free, on receipt of Post-office order. Barry Du Barry and t "Yore Co,, 7. 0 her Regent-street, London; Fortnum, Mason, and C o.. pur- Majesty, 182, Piccadilly ; afso at 60, Gracechurch Street ; 330, 430, and 451, Strand; 4. Cheapside ; 149, Biallopsgate. tteet; Aed 150 and °if d 1 8 4 or -Amt. Now - ready, demy Svo, price h. PUBLiSIiEIYtt HE* MAJESTY'S COMMAND. Published this day, price 2s. 6d. Now publishing, price two shillings, bound in cloth, BRAZILIAN MAILS. NEW CHRISTALkS BOOK. Linnet]lately, In small 2s , GHOST S•T ()RIES, AND PHLNTOM FANCIES. By HAIN FRISWELL. London : Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. On the 15th will be published, SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE. The SAD FORTUNES of the Rev. AMOS BARTON. MR. GILFIL'S LOVE STORY. JANET'S REPENTANCE. By GEORGE ELIOT. Originally published In " Blackwood's Magazine." In Two Volumes post Bvo., price Hs, William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. WHAT CHRISTIANITY TEACHES RESPECTING THE BODY. A Sermon preached in the Parish Church, Crathie, 11th t. ctober. 1857. By ROBERT LEE, D.D., Edinburgh. Edinburgh : Cowan and Co. London: Houlston and Wright. Glasgow T. Murray and Son. PORT OF KIIRRACHEE.—Depth of Water and Commerce, for the Oft Mal Year 1856-57, with Map of Comparative Distances. By W. P. ANDREW, Chairman of the einde and Punjaub Railways, &c., &c., &c. FEIST'S RACING RECORD. Edited by ALBER r FEIST, dltor of the Turf Department of the " Sunday Times," and Re porter of Sporting Intelligence to the London Daily Papers. - - In addition to other useful information, it will contain a complete Record of the Racing and Steeplechase season in England, Ireland, and Scotland trom the Ist of January up to the day of publication, fiersy Lots for 1853, and Nominations for all the Principal Races for next year; forming one of the most copious works of reference ever published. W. Wright, sporting printer and publisher, Fulvrood's Rents, Ho • born. London. CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS, POLYGRAPHIC HALL, King-William-street. Strand. THE ONE HUNDRED AND TUIRTY-FIRST ENTER TAINMENT. Every Evening the JULLIEN BURLESQUE, received nightly with shouts oflanghter. Doors open at half-past 7, commence at 8. Stalls, 35.; area, 2e.; amphitheatre, Is.; Private Boxes, 11. Is. Seats can be secured at Mr. Mitchell's, 33, Old Bond-street, and at the Hall. On Saturday, a Morning Entertainment, commencing at 3 PROFESSOR WILJALBA. FRIKELL. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—Every Evening at 8, and Saturday Afternoons at 3.—New and Original Entertainment of PHYSICAL and NATURAL MAGIC, without the Aid of any Apparatus. Stalls, 53.: Boxes, 35.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. ; Private Boxes, two guineas, guinea and a-half, and one guinea.—Places to be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. Policy ' Bonus in Permanen t • taken A ge . Sam a ddition Bonus in Re *action of out in Assured. to Sun Cash. karma! Pre- A, DELAIDE GALLERY, Lowther Arcade, Assured. miam. 111 Strand.—Great success of 11. Lamotte's Havelock Schottische. .—____..- --- - ---.-- and Grand Fantasia from" D Trovatore," ani the New Caledonian 1838 55 £ £s. d. £s. d . £ s. d. Quadrille by Charles Hall. Principal cornet-a-piston, M. Botilcoiirt. 48 1841 3,000 867 17 7 424 1 4 56 3 8 Open every evening at half - past 8 . Dancing commences at 9 . The 1845 5 4 , 00 0 749 4 0 32 5 16 I 32 0 4 1848 6i 9 ) Argyll Band is to be engaged for private Balls.-R. R. EIGNELL, Dia e 2 ,000 232 18 0 156 15 0 16 6 0 nag. 1851 2,000 154 2 8 103 16 5 10 15 2 -...._______ ss • 2,800 120 17 0 72 14 6 67 7 --In•---... - n. Tr i TT 7,1 CI lir, CI Til TT A r Al, r a /1 1T T r 9 -3 17. DR. KAHN'S MUSEUM AND GALLERY OF SCIENCE, 3, Tichborne street, facing the Haymarket This Institution presents entirely new features and offers unpre cedented attr.ctions. Its object will be 10 combine Natural with EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE, and to show the connectimt be tween the functions of the Unman Body and the great Forces of the Universe. Among=t the numerous novelties now added, may be named the large Oxyhydrogen Microscope, GUENAL'S AP-. PAREIL URANOGRAPIIIQUE (now first introduced). The latest improvements in Electric and other Apparatus (including BUHM KORFF'S WORLD-RENOWNED COIL), Illustrations of Micro • sconic Anatomy, Dissolving Views of Phystological Phenomena, upon a principlenever before attempted, &c. Lectures are delivered daily OR the various branches of Science, and their application to the Human Frame.the Laws of Life, and the Preservation of Health, by Dr. Kahli and Dr. Sexton. The Institution is illuminated outside with DU BO?4QUE'S M A GNIFICE NT ELECTRIC LIGHT. Open (for Gentlemen only) from 12 till 5, and from 7 till 10 o'clock. Admission to the whole Building, One Shilling. Illustrated Cata logues, Sixpence. Programmes and Lectures g ratis on application, or by post free for six stamps. FOR GENTLEMEN.—GEO. HOBSON begs to call the attention of the peblic to his NEW STOCK in AUTUMNAL GOODS, consisting of West of England Beaver and Venetian Cloths, Scotch and Heather Twist, Mixed Doeskins, Cashmere and Toilanette Waistcoatings, both of English and Coe nental manufacture, which will be found en inspection at prices most moderate for Best Goods.—GEORGE HOBSON, 57. Lombard-street. r)IGGOTT'S GALVANIC BELTS, without Acid, a medium of restoring health without the least danger to the patient. It acts upon the nervous system, and improves the circulation and digestion, and is therefore universally applicable. Mr. Piggott, the medical galvanist, may ba consulted daily, at 16, Argyll-street, the Medical Galvanic Baths, for extracting mercury, lead, zinc, or any of the mineral poisons, from the system.—Depot for the patent galvanic apparatus, &c., 523, New Oxford-street. mEASAM'S MEDICATED CREAM, a certain cure for gout, rheumatism, burns, scalds, bruises, chilblains, old wounds, ringworm, erysipelas, all kinds of eruptions of the skin, &c., Is as delicate in its use as Eau de Cologne, it not being a greasy compound. —Sold wholesale an retail at the depot, 13, Catherine street, Strand, London, in pots, with full directions, at Is. 1%d., 2s. 9d., 4s. td.; and In family jars, at its. and 225. each; and by all medicine vendors in town or country. INVESTMENTS EQUAL TO CONSOLS.- I. A FREEHOLD GROUND-RENT of 2491. Bs., secured on an estate producing 1,4001. a-year. To be sold for 5,5001. 2. A OROUND•RENT of 58/. ss. for 90 years, equally well secured. Price 1,0001. 3. An Improved well-secured RENT of 751. for 86 years. Price 1,0501. COTTAGES FOR SALE. 4. A COTTAGE RESIDENCE, held for 300 years at 3/. 35 Price 2COI. 5. A Small RESIDENCE near Kevi-gardens, held for 99 years at 5/. Price 2001. ALMSHOUSES FOR SALE. G. A well-erected ESTATE near Kew gardens, healthful and convenient for omnibus, rail, or beat. OFFICES AND RESIDENCES TO LET. 7. The OFFICES, 25, Poultry, and 13, Gresham-street. fihe RESIDENCES (under 201. rent) at Daiston, Holloway, and Kew, replete with every convenience. Apply to Palmer and Co., 13, Gresham-street, Guildhall. SOUTHAMPTON, Dn. 11. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Tyne, Captain Longden, with the usual Brazilian and River Nate mails in charge of Lieut. Bolton, arrived this afternoon, at six o'clock. The Tyne during the voyage homewards experienced moderate head winds and very fine weather. The Tyne brings specie to the amount of 8,0001., and on freight 60,000/, worth of diamonds, 192 serons of cochi neal, 100 barrels of tapioca, 100 ditto cassia, 2 cases of cigars, 1,017 chests of fruit, and 159 sundries—total, 1,570. SHIPS OBSERVED OR SPOKEN WlTlL—Abiana, with troops, in Channel. At St. Vincent, Cape do Verde Islands, the Princess Charlotte, for Kurrachee, with the 18th Royal Irish on board. ; all well ; going to Bahia for water. At Teneriffe the American ship Defiance, with railway iron on board, for Bombay, discharging her cargo, :leaky. The ship Dorohester, with iron , f or Bombay, was a b andoned 60 miles from M a d e i r a ; crew saved. The barque Abraham was wrecked in Sine s ßay, and fou r o f the crew lost ; the master an d rema i n d er of the crew were on board the Tyne. Madeira Was healthy. Passengers from England no calling at Lisbo n were t allowed to land, there being no quarantine establishment. Very strong remonstran ces ought to be made against such a state of things. The passengers from England in the Medway, principally invalids, were not allowed to land, and were carried on to Rio. The fever was abating at Lisbon. BUENOS AYRES —Business dull. No political news. There was a large fleet of Brazilian steamers assembled in River Plz'te, preparing for hostilities with Paraguay. Rio DE JANEIRO.—Cuffee inactive. Freights dull. BAHlA.—lmport' and export trade very dull. Sugar flat, and nominal at 2 dole. 459 to 2 dole. 800. Patent Ship Company commenced their works:. Government road contracts commenced. Santa Cruz Navigation Company sold to as English company. Exchange, 27id. —very flat. [ADVERTISEMENT]. —Holloway's Pills for invigorati n g the weak, and stren g thening the debilitated.—Mrs Williams, Neithrop, Banbury, was for eleven years a sufferer from bad health, loss of appetite, excessive cold, and only a partial use of the limbs, she tried a variety of remedies, and was under the care of several medical men during that period without deriving the slightest benefit—in fact, was given over as incurable—at this time she was induced to try Holloway's Pills, and after persevering with them for a short time was completely "red.—Sold by all Medicine vendors throughout the world, at P ro f essor Holloway's E3taliislnents, 244, Strand, Lond on ; and 80, Maiden-lane, Ne w York ; b y A.E Pa, Constautiuople ;A, aidioy, Smyrna ; and Muir, Malta, (N o . 20,428.) PUBLICATIONS. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., THE LADY OF By the Author of GLYNNE. " MARGARET AND HER BRIDESMAID 3." " Those who have read ' Margaret and her Bridesmaids,' wilt be prepared for the enjoyment that awaits them in another work by the same hand. ' The Lady of Glynne' is a charming story—not only clever, but good."—Literary Gazette. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colbutn. 1858. _ A LE L TTs , s A L e A R p G r E i eP6RpIeNn SforageETd or near sighteol persons, also LETTS'S DIARIES in above 100 varieties, from 6 vmme to 14 shillings each. Cellar Books, Game Books, Stable Books, etc. Bold by all Booksellers. Catalogues gratis. Letts, Son, & Co., static:o3:s and mapsellers, 8 Royal Exchange. :ENGLISH scnoor, LIFE. This day is published, Fifth Edition, Crown Bvo., cloth, price 108.6 d. TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS. By AN OLD BOY. " A book which an English father might well wish to see in the hands of his son."—Times. Cambridge : Macmillan and Co. Published this day, price 2s. Gd THE PIINJAUB RAILWAY.—A Selection from the Correspondence regardinz the Introduction of Rail- ways into the Punjanb, with Map of Scinde and the.Punjaub. By W. P. ANDREW, Chairman of the Scinde and Puujaub Railways. J /~ ~.~~ i ~ ~ l ~ >, ~ .- .~~_~~.~ `~ • • • ' :2; • . 1 14 Z• 411 11 441. 1 4. rat e 4 111; .1/ 1 .74 .` •f # P4` 4 , . I.4 AtO i - • cs • n . c w _ )3. - • 4, -,,*, t - gt, A [Ram 4D. STAMPE D 5D •] _ _ SUN OFFICE, Six u'Clock. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—(This Day.) Their lorchb!ps aesembled at three o'clock. ROYAL ASSENT. The royal assent was given to the Bank Issues In demnity Bill. Their lordships immediately afterwards adjourned till the 4th Feb. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(This Day.) The SPEAK= took the chair at a quarter to three o'clOck. NEW WRIT. On the motion of Mr. lIAYTER, a new writ was ordered for the elootion of a knight of the shire for the county of Buckingham, in the room of the Hon. Mr. Ca vendish, who had accepted the office of bailiff of the stewardship of Northfleet in the county of York. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. - -• Lord PALMERSTON moved the adjournment of the house till the 4th February next. Mr. jSPOONER took occasion to direct attention to that part of 'the Chancellor of the Exchequer's speech of lent night, in which he quoted the evidence of Mr. Twell, given before the Bank Committee. The • hon. , gentleman said that the Chancellor of the Exchequer bad eftmted that gasitientais'a 'evi:lcuce unfairly, and it had a tendency to misrepresent Mr. Tweil's opinion as to issues of notes. Ho read at great length the omitted questions and answers. Tne hon. gentleman's speech was interrupted by the presence of the deputy yeoman of the - Black Rod, who summoned the Speaker and members of the house to the House of Lords to hear the Royal assent given by comenis,ion to the Bank Issue Indernui y Bill. On tho Speaker's return, the hon. gentleman proceeded with what he termed kjustifi cation of Mr. Twells' character. CHURCH RATES. Mr. DUNCOMBE inquired if the Government in tended to introduce any measure tbis session on the sub ject of church rates. Lord PAL N 3 ERSTON hoped the Government would be able to introduce such a measure, but it must depend upon the state rand progress of public business. CORRUPT' PRACTICES ACT. In anqwer to a question on this subject Lord PALMERSTON said it was the intention of Government to introduce a measure this session on the subject of corrupt practices at elections. MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS. Mr. NE tVDEGATE called the attention of the house to the present distressed state of the operative popula tion in the manufacturing districts, and expressed a wish that Government, before separating, had adopted mea• cures for its mitigation. Sir G. GREY said that Government sympathised with the numerous operative population at present out of ereployment, owing to recent failures, but it was impossibLr for the Government to adopt special measures for local circumstances. He had every reaaou to believe that their :position would shortly be bet!er than at present. The motion for adjlurnment was then agreed to. LONDON CORPORATION REFORM. Sir G. GREY gave notice that on the 4th Fcb. he should introduce a measure for the reform of the Cor poration of the City of London. - • Mr. T. DUNCOMBE gave notice that on the 9:h March he should bring forward his motion relative to Baron Rothschild taking his seat for the City of London. CaIIRCH RATES. Sir J. TRELA\YNEY referred to the sulject of church rates, and reminded the Government that the people would not be satiafied with their continually putting off this questior. Ile called upon the noble lord to state decidedly what he intended to do with re ft.oice to this subject. NAVAL STATIONS. Lord A• CHURCHILL asked whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Government to form separate naval stations at the Australian and New Zealand Sir C. WOOD said that at prezent, to a certain ex tent, th 3 stations wire separated. No change was at present contemplated. TIIE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.. Mr. WYLD asked the First Lord of the Treasury if, pen the reassembling of Parliament, it was the intention of her Majesty's Ministers to propose any alteration in the present Government of India. Sir G. GREY said that the Government had already intimated their intention to introduce the subject on an early day. Ile could give no fnrther answer. RETURNS. Several unopposed returns were granted. EAST INDIA STEAMSHIP AUSTRIA. Colonel SYKES moved for a copy of the reports of the East India Company's surveyors upon the screw steam ship Austria, upon which she was engaged for the conveyance of troops to India ; together with the copy of the ship's register. He felt certain that when the returns were granted it would be found that the East India Company were not to blame. Sir W. FRAZER said he went aboard the Austria on her return to port. He considered her unfit ter the rervice she was employed on, and that it was nf.x; to a miracle she gut safe back. She was 2,300 tons and not properly manned. Her crew con , iited of only 18 stokers and enginemen, and 22 men, three only of whom could speak the English language. The returns were then agreed to. TRANSMISSION OF TROOPS TO INDIA. Mr. AYRTON complained that returns, moved for by him last session, relative to the transmission of troops to India had not been published. LIGHTHOUSE AT GODREVZ. Mr. A. SMITH. moved for returns of copies of com• munication between the Board of Trade and the Trinity House relative to the erection of a lighthouse at God revz, in St. Ives' Bay. Mr. LOUIE objected to it because the return asked for did not.comprehend all the papers. He would con sent to the return of the whole of the communications that had taken place. The return in an amended form was agreed to. The house then adjourned. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-.(This Day.) LONDON, Dec. 12.—Wind this day at noon, W.S.W.; moderate breeze and dull weather, with fog. SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 11.—Arrived—Tyne (s), from Brazils. PORTSMOITM, Dec. 11.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived Signet, from New Zealand. NEWPORT, Dec. 11.—Wind E.—Arrived—Eldon, from Quebec. Lurg, Dec. 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—R=ams, from Callao. HULL, Dec. 11.—Wind W.--Arrived—Lotus, from St. Michael's. QUEENSTOWN, Deo. 10.—Wind E.—Arrived--Lady Louise, from Callao. DARTMOUTH, Deo. 11.—Wind S.E.—Arrived —Bugle, from Newfoundland. YARMOUTH, Dec. 10.—Wind Jane, from Quebec. • SUNDERLAND, Deo. 10.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Nor mandie, from St. Malo. Sailed—Britannia, for Singa pore. THE REPRESENTATION OF ASIITON-UNDER-LLNE.— The Manchester Guardian says :—Mr. Booth Mason will certainly go to the poll ; but there is nothing like the Lame uniformity in the expression of belief that he will be the accepted man at its conclusion. SIMPLE DISINFECTANT.—Cut two or three good-sized onions in halves, and place them on a plate on the floor ; they absorb noxious effluvia, &c. in the sick room in an incredibly short space of time, and are greatly to be preferred to perfumery for the same purposes. They should be changed every six hours.-7'he Builder. THE SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW.--Yesterday being the last day of the show of the Smithfield Cattle Club, from early morning till ten o'clock last night crowds of visitors kept pouring through the Baker street Bazaar, and it is estimated that during the four days not less than one hundred thousand persons bad witnessed the exhibition. THE BOLTON MURDER—RESPITE OF jUDGIMENT.—On Tuesday Aaron Atelier, a besom-maker, was tried and convicted of the wilful murder of his wife, for which the sentence of death was passed upon him, and he was left for execution. An error has been discovered in the jury-panel, so the prisoner has' been respited until the next assizes, when he will be tried again. NARROW ESCAPE OF LADY SITWELL.—On Thursday, between 12 and 1 o'clock, an accident, which might have resulted in a very serious manner, occurred to Lady Sitwell. As her ladyship's carriage was turning from Waterloo-place into Pell-mall the horses euddenly took fright and started off at a very furious pace. Capt. Richard Lambert, who happened to be passing at the time, immediately rushed before the affrighted animals, and at the imminent danger of his own lite succeeded in stopping their further progress. Beyond the fright, the fair occupants sustained no injury. .MINES.—This week has been Particularly dull, the amount of bu'iness c xtremely limited, and until after Christmas it is generally thou g ht we s h a l l not have much improvement. There hav e b een a f ew buyers, especially othersevery everything but ng a a s great buyers bargain,exp ectthine for Basset, West Seton, West Caradon, Trelawny, Mar l tn e n t , h a e n s d e a to te g w et offered for shared in most cases have not been such as to tempt sellers, prices and consequently very little has been done. Copper has fallen lid. per lb., but as the stan dard declined for mealy weeks previously this may be considered more as consequent upon it than as de noting any further fall in the prico of ores. Tin is down again, and the tin mines generally must . be seriously affected is their profits. Lead does not seem to have fallen so much in proportion to other metals. LONDON, SAT URDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12, 1857. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS—DEc. 11. BANK ACTS. Motion made and quesiionP;oPost4:—" That a Select com mittee be appointed to inquire in the operation of the Bank Act of 1844 (7 and 8 Vic. c. 32), and of the Bank Acts for Ireland and Scotland of 1845 (8 and 9 Vic. c. 37 and 38) :" Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word " that" to the end of the question, in order to add the words " in the opinion of this house, no further inquiry is necessary into the operation of the Bank Act of 1844 (7 and 8 Vi 32) :" Instead thereof, get stion put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the question." The house divided—Ayei, 293; Noes, 117. 1 AYES-295. Adair, N. Fitzgerald, I. . Ogilvy, Sir J. 1 1 Akroyd, E. Fitzroy, lion. H. Osborne, R. inderson, Sir J. Foley, J. II Owen, Sir J. Antrobus, E. Foley; H. J. Paget, C. ,Itherton, W. Foljambe, W. Paget, Lord A. Ayrton, A. Forster, C. Palmerston, Viset. Bagshaw, J. Fortescae, F. Paxton, Sir J. Bagwell, John • Fortescue, C. Pease, ii. Bailey, C. . Freestun, Colonel Pechell, Sir G. Baines, Rt. Hon. M. French, Col. Perry, Sir E. Baring, H. Garnett, W. Philipps, R. Baring, Sir F. Gifford, Earl of Philips. J. 11. Baring, T. Glyn, G. L. Pilkington, J. tarnard, T. Glyn, G. Pinney, W. Bass, T. Goderich, Vie. Price, W. , Baxter, W. . Gordon, L. Pryse, E. Beale, S Greer, S. . Pritchard, J. Beamish, F. ' Gregson, S. Pugh, D. Beaumont, W. Grenfell, C. Palle , , C. Beecrott, G. Grenfell, Chas. Ramsden, Sir J. - Bethell, Sir R. Gray, Captain Raynham, Viscount Biggs, J. Grey, R, Rebow, John Black, Adam Gurdon, B. Ricardo, 0. Blackburn, Peter Cu ney, J. Richardson, J. Bonham-Carter,J. Gurney, S. Robartes, T. Botfield,B. Hadfield, G. Roebuck, J. Bouverle, Hon. E. P. Hall, Sir B. Russell, Lord J. Bouverie, Hon. l'. P. Ham Ron, R. Russell, A. nrainstoli, T. W. Banbury, Robert Russell, F. W. Briscoe, John Mulkey, T. Russell, H. l3rocklehurst, I. Rangier, Sir J. Schneider, H. Bruce, Lord E. Hardcastle, A. Scott, F., Buchanan, W. Hari?, G. Scrope, G. Buckley, Gen. Barns, J. Seymour, Danby Buller, J. W. Hatch,ll, J. S:iarto, R. Bury, Lord Ray, Lord J. Shelley, Sir J. Butter, C. Headlam, T. Sheridan, H. Butt, I. Heathcote, G. Sibthorp, Major Buxton, C. Heneage, G. Slaney, R. Buxton, Sir E.N. Herbert, H. Smith, J. B. BYng. G. • Hodgson, K. Smith, It. Caird, James Hope, A. Smith, A. Calera% J. H. Horsfall, T. B. Smith, Sir F. Campbell, H. Hotham, Lord Srnollett, A. Cardwell, E. Howard, C. Spooner, It. Castlerosse, Viscount Howard, Lord E. Stafford, Marquis Cavendish, Lord Hutt, W. Stanley, W. Cheetham, John Ingham, It. Stapleton, I. Cholmeley, Sir M. Ingram, H. Steel, J. Clay, James Jervoise, Sir J. Stephenson, R. Clifford,C. C. Johnstone, J. Hope Stuart, Lord J. Clifford, H. Keating, Sir H. S. Stuart, Colonel Clinton, Lord U. Kendall, N. Blurt, H. Clive, G. Kershaw, J. Start, C.. Cobbett, J. H. King, L. Sallivan, Michael C o drington, General King, E. - Sykes, o!. . Colebroke, Sir T. Kinglake, A. Tancred, H. Jollier, R. P. Kinglake, J. Taylor, S. C,olville, C. R. Kingscote, Capt. R. Thompson, Gen. Conyngliam, Lord F. Kinnaird, A. Thornely, T. Cowper, 'W. F. Kirk, W. Thornhill, W Cottereli, Sir 11. Knatchbull-Hugessen Tite, W. Cowan, C. Labouchere,itt.ilomll Tollemachc, Fred. Cox William Langston, J. H. Tomline, G. Craufurd, E. 11.3. Lan&ton, W. Townsend, 3. Crawford, R. Ligh, G. C. Trelawny, Sir J. Cross, It. Levine, Sir R. !turner, J. A. Cross.ey, F. Lewis, Sir G. C. Tynte, Col. • oalgiish, It. Lincoln, Earl of Vane, Lord 11. Dashwood, Sir G. H. Lindsay, W. Villiers, C. Davey, R. Locke, J.. Vivian, H. H. Ddedes, William Locke, John Walter, J. Denison, E. Lockhart, A.E. Weguelin, T. uldwyn, L. I.nwe, 11 Western, S. • Diveit, E. /Mann, J. Westhead, J. Duke, Sir J. Mackie, J. Whatman, J. Dunbar, Sir W. Mackinnon, W. A. Whitbread, S. Duncan, Viscount Mackinnon, W. A. White, J. buncombe, T. Main fearing, T. Wickham, 11. W. Dundas, F. Mangles, R. Williams, M. Dunlop, A. 111 angles, C. E. Williams, W. Dutton,R. Marjoribanks, D. Williams, Sir W East, Sir J. Marshall, W. Willyams, E. Ebrington, Viscount Martin, C. Willoughby, Sir H. Egerton, E. Martin, P. Wilson, J. Eicho, Lord Martin, J. Wingfield, R. Ellice, E. Massey, W. Wlnnington, Sir T. Ellice, E. Melgund, Viscount Wise, J. Ellis, Hon. L. Mellor, John Wood, Sir C. Elton, Sir A. Mills, Arthur Wood, W. Euston, Earl Mitchell, Thomas Wools, H Evans, T. W. Moffatt, G. Wrightson, W. Ewart, W. lioncreiff, J. Wyld, James Swart, J. Montgomery, Sir G. Wyndham. W. Fagan, W. Mowbray, J. It. Young, A. Fenwick, 11. Napier, Sir C. Fergus, J. Norreys, Sir D. TELLERS. Ferguson, Col. Norris, J. Ferguson, Sir R. North, F. Brand, H. Finlay, A. O'Brien, P. Hayter, NV: NOES-117. Adams, W. Farnham, E. Manners, Lord J. Adderley, C. Farquhar, Sir M. March, Earl of Anticsley, Captain Fitzgerall, W. R. S. Maxwell,Col. Baillie, H. Forde, Co'onel Miles, W. Ball, E. Forster, * Sir G. Miller, T. Baring, A. Frazer, Sir W. Morgan, 0.- Baring, T. Galway, Viscount. Naas, Lord Barrow, W. Gard, It. Newdegate, C. Bathurst, A. Gladstone, W. Nisbet, Robert Beach, W. Greenali, G. " O'Denoghoe, The Bentinck, G. Greene, John Packe. C. Blakemore, T. Griffith, C. Pakenham, Colonel Boldcro, Col. 11. G. Grogan, Edward Pakington, air J. Bevil!, W. . Hamilton, G. A. Palk, L. Bowyer, G. Hamilton, J. H. Palmer, Robert Bramley-Moore, J. Heathcote, Sir gr. Paull, EL Bridges, Sir B. Henley, J. Peven.sey, Viscount Bruen, ii. Herbert, Col. Repton, G. Buller, ,ir J. HOdgson, W. ' Robertson, P. Carden, Sir it. W. Hopwood, John Scott, Major Chariesworth, J. Hudson, G. Stanley, Lord Christie, Samuel name, W. Stirling, William Clive, Hon. It. H. Ingestre, Viscount Steuart, Andrew Close Y. Johnstone, 11. B. Tollemaclie, J. Codrington, Sir C. W. Joliffe, H. Trefusis, C. Coie, IL A. Kerrison, Sir E. Vance, J.- Collins, T. King, J. Vansittart. W. Corry, H. T. L. Knatchball, W. Verner, Sir W. Crook, J. Knightley, R. Waddington, IT. Curzon, Viscount Knox, Col. B. W. Walcott, Admiral Darner, L. Laurie, J. Walpole, S. Davison, R. Lennai, Lot dH. Warren, S. Disraeli. B. Leslie, C. P. Whitmore, H. Du Cane, C. Lisburne,Earl Woodd, B. Dundas, G. Lovaine, Lord Wortley, Major Du Pre,C. Lygon, llon. F. Wyndh4m, Gellert.' Edwards, Henry Lytton, Sir G. Wynn, Colonel Egerton, Sir F. Macartney, G. TELLER& Elmley, Viscount Macaulay, K. Jolliffe, Sir W. Elphinstone, Sir J. Malin, R. Taylor, Col. From the London Gazette of Last Night. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, DEC. 8. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Hon. Spencer Cecil Bc abazon Ponsonby to be Comptroller of Account& in the'Lord Chamberlain's Department, and Extra Gantlet man Usher to Her Majesty. DOWNING STREET, DEC. 8. The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Henry Pinder, Esq., to be Police Magistrate for the District of Long Island, and George Ross, Esq., to be Police Magistrate for the District of Abaco, in the Bahama Islands - ; Thomas Owen, Esq., to be Inspector of Schools in the Island of Antigua; Robert Bradshaw, Esq., to be a Member of the Council of the Colony of Sierra Leone during the absence of the Queen's Advocate ; and Thomas Chown, Esq., to be a Member of the Legislative Council of her Majesty's Settlements in the Gambia. CR OWN-OFFICE, DEO. 10. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THU PRESENT PaRLI aIsIENT. Borough of Thetford—Alexander Hugh Baring, of Buck enham, in the county of Norfolk, Esq., in the room of the Honourable Prancis Baring, who has accepted the offica of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds. Borough of Harwich—Robert John Bagshaw, of Dover court, in the county of Essex, Esq., la the room of George Drought Warburton, Esq., deceased. DECEMBER 11. County of Kent, Eastern Division.—William Doedes, of Sandling Park, in the county of Kent, Esq., in the room of Sir Edward Cholmley Daring, Bart., who has accepted the office of Steward of Her Majesty's Manor of North stead. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, DEC 11 . r The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, enclosing copy of a French Imperial Decree, opening the Custom-house of Caen, in the department Calvados, for the importation of machinery and mechanical implements, either complete or in detached pieces, also opening the port of Caen as an entrepot for prohibited merchanlise of all kind. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, DEC. 11. The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affaiis, a copy of a Despatch from her Majesty's Consul-General at Algiers, enclosing copy of a French Imperial Decree, re pealing the Decree of the 20th September, 1856, and 2d October, 1857, prohibiting the exportation of wheat and barley from Algeria. • WAR.OFFIOE, PALL-MALL, DEC. it 4th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieut. Daniel P. Webb to be Captain ' by purchase, vi ce T. M. Cl ar k e , w h o re tires ; Cornet Edward P. Baumgarten to be Lieutenant, vice Webb; Henry E. Bridges, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vico Baumgarten. sth Dragoon Guards—William J. Scarlett, Gent. to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Balder,, promoted. 7th Dragoon Guards—Captain Newton Charles Chichester, from the 3d Light Dragoons, to bo Captain, vice Dettmar, who exchanges. let Dragoons—Lieutenant Henry F, George Coleman to Us Captain, by purchase, vice Davenport, who retires ; Cornet F. Radford to be Lieutenant, by pur- . - chase, vice Coleman. 3d Light Dragoons—Captain Montague Dattmar, from the 7th Dragoon Guards, to b 3 Captain, vice Chichester, who exchanges. 12th Light Dragoons—Cornet J. H. Randall Stoddart to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Hodgson, pro moted in th e Bth Li g ht Dragoons; Cornet Samuel Adams to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice White, promoted ; James Henry Bourdien Vaughan, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Adams. 14th Light Dragoons—Cornet Wm. H. S. Beamish to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Gordon, promoted. 16th Light Dragoons--Lieutenant James Christine Hart to be Captain, by purchase, vice Severno, who reti r es ; Cornet Arth ur J o h n Armstrong to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hart ; James Henry Corballis, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Armstrong. Ist Regiment of Foot—Alfred Moberly, Gent., to be En sign, without purchase, vice Dixon, whose appointment, as stated in the Gazette of 17th ult., has been cancelled. 6th Foot—Robert W. Macleod Fraser ; Esq., late Major, 6th Foot, having raised kbattalion!of 1,000 rank and file, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase. To be Ensigns, without purchase—Daniel Colin Campbell, Gent. ; William Neal, Gent. ; Albert Henry Harrison, Gent. 7th Foot—The promotion of Lieutenant W. M. G. Keats, from the 84th Foot, as stated in the Gazette of 6th ult., has been cancelled. ' Bth Foot—To he Lieutenants, without purehaso—Ensign wounds ; Andrew Moynih an , v i ce Willi am Robert Webb, died of Ensign Willi am Ed wa rd Whelan, vice Pogson, died of, wounds ; E ns i gn William Edgeworth, vice Whelan, whose promotion, on 23d October, 1857, has been cancelled; Ensign R. T. B. Browne, vice Corry, promoted ; Ensign Edward Tanner. To be Ensigns, without purchase—Arundel Hill Cotter, Gent., vice Moynihan ; Philip Homer Page, Gent., vice Tanner ; John George Brown, Gent.. vice Edgeworth. 9th Foot — Brevet -Colonel William Graham, from half pay Unattached, to he Captain, vice Cox, appointed to the 53d F oo t ; Li eutenan t J. B. Taylor to be Cap tain, by purchaSe, vice Graham, who retires ; Assistant- Surgeon James Crosse Johnston, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Meadows, appointed to the Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment. 10th Foot—Ensign John Ball to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Crofto n , who retires; Theophilus Scott, Gent., to be Ensign la 7 purchase, vice Ball. • 53d Foot—Lieutenants ltenry Nick to bo Captain, with out purchase, vice Stitherland, deceased ; Lieutenant James Winamore CorSold to be Captain, without pur chase, vice Buck, whose promotion on 30th October. 1857, Lai been cancelled ; Ensign Robert Holt Truell to be Lieutenant, without purchase vice Buck ; John Charles Bell, Gent t E nsign, without purchase, vice ~ 000 Truell. 71st Foot—Lieut. Charles George Wingfield has been per mitted to retire from the Service by the sale of his Com mission ; Assistant-Surgeon W. Pirtle, M.D., from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice M`Neece, ho re signs. The second Christian name of Ensign Musgrave, appointed on 17th ult., is Courtenay. 75th Foot—Lieut. W. J. J. s m ith to bo Captain, without purchase, vice Chancellor, died of his wounds; Ensign Montagne C. Morris to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Fitz Gerald. killed in action ; Ensign Henry O'Brien, from the 48th Foot, to b 3 Ensign, vice Morris. 84th Foot—Brevet-Major W. Justin MacCarthy to be Major, without purchase, vice West, retired on full pay; Lieut. Wm. M`G. ketas to--be Captain, without-pur chase, vice MacCarthy ; Ensign Robert Fraser Humph rey to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vico Saunders, killed in action ; Wm. Chas. Driberg, Gent., to be En sign, without purchase, vice Humphrey. 97th Foot—Ensign Frederick W. Parker to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Aylmer ' who retires; Henry Chew pante Crespin, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Parker. 99th Foot—Ensign George Clayton to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ely, promoted ; Charles Coates, Gent„ to be Ensign, by purchase, vica Clayton. let West India Regiment--Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class Thomas Moore Sunter, M.D., from half-pay, to be Surgeon, vice Daniell, appointed to the Staff. Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Assistant-Surgeon Robert Wyatt Meadows, from the 9th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Kingdom, promoted on the Stair. Gold Coast Artillery Corps—Charles Franois Holbert Lloyd, Gent., to b 3 Ensign, vice Thompro,_promoted.' COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT. Commissariat Clerk Charles Davis O'Connor to be a Deputy-Assistant Commissary-General. Class 'W e lli ng t on P oo l e , f ro m HOS PITA L STAFF. h a B l f t - a p fr a - yl u t r o g e b o e n S o t f a t ff h • eS uSec ond rg6 o n of the Second Class. For James Jameson, M.D., to ba Assistant-Surgeon, vice Cruice, appointed to the BGth Foot, which appeared in the Gazette of the 27th alt.,—real Jas. Jameson, to bs Assistant-Surgoon, vice Cruice, appointed to the 84th Foot. BREVET. Lieut.-Colonel Alfred H. Honford, 0.13., of the Rifle Brigade, having completed three years' service in the rank of Lieutenant• Colonel on 3th September, 1857, to be Colonel in the Army, under the Royal Warrant of 6th October, 1864. Lieutenant-Colonel Gilbert John Lane Buchanan, of the Royal Artillery, having completed three years' service in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, to be Colonel in the Army, under the Royal Warrant of 31 November, 1854. Captain and Brevet-Major Vincent Eyre, of the Bengal Artillery, to be promoted to the rank of Lieut.-Colonel in the Army. • Second Lieutenant George Grant Gordon, of the Bengal Artillery, doing duty at the East India Company's Depot, at Warley (vice Arbuckle, resigned), to hate the local rank of Lieutenant while so employed. ADMIRALTY, DEC. 8. In pursuance of her Majesty's pleasure, Admiral of the Red Sir Charles Ogle, Bait., has this day been promoted to be Admiral of the Fleet; and, in consequence thereof, the following promotions, also dated this day, have taken place : Admiral of the White the Right Hon. Thomas, Earl of Dundouald, G.C.8., to be Admiral of the Red. Admiral of the Blue Sir Thomas J. Cochrane, K.C.8., to be Admiral of the White. Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir James W. D. Dundas, G.C.8., to be Admiral of the Blue. Vice-Adruiralof tho White Sir Augustus William James Clifford, Bart„ C. 8., to be Vice-Admiral of tho Red. Vice-Admiral of tho Blue Francis Erskine Loch to be Vice-Admiral of the White. Rear-Admiral Sir George Tyler, Knt., K.H., on the Reserved List, to be a Vice-Admiral on the Reserved List. Rear-Admiral of the Red Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.B , to be Vice-Admiral of th© Blue. Rear-Admiral of the White George 'William Conway Courtenay to be Rear-Admiral of the Rod. Rear-Admiral of the Blue Henry Wolsey Bayfleld to be Rear-Admiral of the White. Captain William Ramsay, as., to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS LIEUTENANT. lit Devon Regiment of Militia -.-John Reed Bowling to be Ensign. 2d Devon Regiment of Militia—Arthur Leroux Whipple to be Ensign, vice Whitlocko, resigned. Devon Militia Artillery—Charles Blandford Crosse to be Second Lieutenant. Royal Wiltshire Militia—Musgrave Wroughton Ander son, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Pocock, promoted. Leicestershire Militia—Henry Moody, Gent., to be Lieutenant; Arthur Dixon Rawlins, Gant., to be Ensign. Ist Regiment of Derbyshire Militia—ad= William Thomas Locke, Gent., to ba Captain, vice Milnes, re signed. BANKRUPTS. Thomas Tyrrell, factor, Tunbridge; Kent, to surrender Dec. 2, at eleven, and Jan: 21, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. George Hamit, machine maker, Haidenham, Cambridge. shire, Jan. 6, at t we l va, and Jan. 19, a t half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. • George Cavern, grocer, Sheffield, Jan. 2, and 30 , at ten, at the Council Hall, Shefield. George Morton, farmer Hope, Derbyshire, Jan. 2 , and 30, at ton, at th e Council Hall Sheffield. Thomas Wolf, corn chandler, Wellington-street, Wool wich, Dec. 23, at eleven, and Jan. 27, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Wm. Baker and Lucy S. Baker, milliners, Church street, Camberwell, Dec. 23, at twelve, and Jan. 27, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Thos. M. Pritchard and Thos. Higginson, rice mer chants, Liverpool, Doc. 29, at eleven, and Jan. 19, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Thos. E. Pickford, commission a gent, Manchester, Dec. 23 and Jan. 25, a t t welve, at t h e Manchester District Court. Edward Horton, grocer, Well-street, South Hackney , Dec. 22 and Jan. 19 , ut half-past 2, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Charles Middleton, builder, Uppor North-street, Poplar, Dec. 22 and Jan. 19, at 1, at the C o urt of Bankruptcy. Thomas Robinson, ironmonger, Manchester, Dec. 21 and Jan. 20, at twelve, a t th e Manc hester District Court. Samuel Rhodes and John Armstrong, cotton manufac turers, Tintwistle, county of Ch es t er , Dec. 23 and J an . 18, at twelve, at the M anc h ester D i s t r i c t Court. James Law, sh oema k er, Halifax, Dec. 31 and Jan. 29, at eleven, at the L ee d s Di str i ct C our t. David Roberts, spi nner, H a lif ax , Dec. 31 and Jan. 22, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Edward Jonas, timber merchant, Welshfrankton, Dec. 24, and Jan. 16, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Rupert Allport, butcher, StafforJ, Dec. 23, and Jan. 13, at half past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. John Vigrass, timber merchant, Walsall, Staffordshire, Dec. 23 and Jan. 13, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Elizabeth Swiunertou, victualler, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, Dec. 24 and Jan. 16, at half-put eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. James Stark, grocer, Pollockshaws. John Dott, joiner, Kingu ss i e . Robert Stewart and Sou, merchants, Glasgow. - William Bennet, flasher, Perth. James Watson, painter, Glasgow. Wm. Boyack, flaispinner, Dundee. Alexander Leask, merchant, Dundee. Dancan Weier, and Co., merchants, Greenock. Bachap Yuil, and Co., calico-printers, Springbank Printworks, Neilston. James penald and Sons, flaxspinners and manufacturera, Dundee. BANK OF : An Account, pursuant to the Act the Week ending ou Wednesday, issue DIP ENGLAND. t 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for , the 9th day of December, 1857. PAUTBLENT. Notes issued ........ 21,043,255 N.B. Of which two millions are issued un der the authority of the letter from the First Lord of the Trea sury and the Chancel lor of the Exchequer. £24,043,255 Government debt.... 11,015,100 Other securities ...• 5,459,900 Gold coin and bullion 7,563,255 Slyer bullion ........ -- £21,043,256 M. If A.ItSUILL, Chief Cashier. 1857._ Dated the 10th day of Dieembei BANKING DI Proprietors' capital 14,553,000 Rest.... ......... • • 3,403 MS Public deposito (in cluding Et chequer, Commissio ers of National Debt, Say- Inge Banks, and Dividmd Accounts) 6,548,062 Other depaslts •• • . . 14,440,724 Seven Day and other Bills ...... 811,222 ,!RPARTIIENT. Government securities - (incladg.DeadWeight annuity) ~•• OtherSecuritiee.....• 30,111,185 N°t " ..... • • • • • Gold ant Silver Coin 501,234 £39,946,926 £39,916,926 f• MSRSHALL, Chief Cashier. 07. Dated the 10th day of Dec., 185 AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from the returns made in th e wee k e nding Dec. 8, 1857, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid cr payable thereonron the importation thereof into Great Britain s. d. From the British Possessions in America 26 31 Muscovado, the produce of the Average of the above descriptions. MIDLAND RAILIVAT.--MT. Ellis and Mr. Beale, M.P.) have resigned their offices as chairman and deputy chair man of this company, and are succeeded by Mr. Paget and Mr. Hutchinson. —dionthester Goardian. MAAKET NEWS.—',Tbiz Day.) - COVENT GARDEN. Tho supplies generally were tolerably good, and the de mand ruled steay, as follows : FRUIT. Pineapples, per lb. 4s 63 to 68 Colonial do., ea. Os Od to Os Od Grapes; per lb 3s 6d to 8s Foreign do Os Od to Os Od Melons, each 2s Od to 4s Od Peaches, p. doz Os to 03 Od Nectarines, do. ...Os to Os Od Apples, p. h. sv. ls Od to 2s 6d Pears, per doz —is to 4s od_ _ Orange's, p©r 100....4s to lOs Lemons, p. doz. is Od to 280 d Apricots,p. doz. 080 d to Os Od Cherries, per lb. Os to Oa Od Filberts,per 103 lb 30s to 35s Cobs., p. 100 lbs. Os to Oa Almonds, p. lb. NOd to 10d Walnuts, per 1001 s to 3s Od Figs, per doz Os to Os Od Strawberries, per pottle Gooseberries, per half sieve ....Os Od to Os Od Currants, p. h. sv. Os 01 to Os Plums, per do. 03 otl to OS Od Greengages, per h. sv.o3 to Os Raspberries, p.potl. Od to Od VEGETABLEb. Greens, p. doz. bun. 2a to 3s Od Shallots, per lb.. Ga to 8(1 Cabbages, do. is Gd to 2s Od Horsoraddish, p. b. 1s6(1 to 4s Savoy do., p. do. Os Od to Os Gd Parsley, per do. 2cl to 4(1 Cauliflowers, do.lsOd to 3s Od Celery, per do is Od to is 6cl Brocoli, p. bun. Os Gd to ls Od Beet, per doz. is Od to 24 Od Potatoes, per ton 80a to 140 s Parsnips, per do. Os to Os Od New do., per cwt. 0a0&1° Os' Small salad, p. pun. 2(1 to 3d Peas, per h siev Os Od to Os Od Mushrooms, p. ptl.ls6clto2s Od Turnips, per bunch 2d to 4d Artichokes, each 6d to 8d Carrots, per bunch... 4d to 6d Lettuces, per scr. 1s 61 to 2s Cucumbers, each 9d to is Od Endive, per doz. is to is Gd Garlic, per lb 61 to Os 8d Radishes, p.d.bun. is to 2sod Sorrel, per sieve Od to Os Tomatoes, per hsv.3s to 4s 0(1 Spinach, p. d0...1s Od to 2s 6,1 Walnuts per 100 ...0d to Od' Brussels sprouts, per Chillies, per 100 Os Od to Os Od half do 23 6(1 to 3s Od Capsicums, per 100 Os Od to Os Onions, p. bush Os Od to Oa Od Rhubarb, p. bun. Od to Od Now do., per bunch Od to Od Asparagus, per 100 8s to 10s French beans, per Seakail,perpun.2a - 11111 f-slave ..-1-r2eod to 36 ocl Turnip greens; per Leeks, per do - 2d to 3d, bush Oa Od to Os Od NEWGATIC AND LEADENHALL. _ Turkeys, 4s Od to 9s Od ; Poults, 5s 0,1 to 78 0.1; Geese, 4s Od to 7s Od each ; Goslings, 4s Od to 7s 0,1 ; Duck lings, 2s to 3s Od ; tame rabbits, la Od to is 9d each ; wild do., 8d to is 03 ; Pigeons, Cd to 10d each ; large Surrey Fowls, 5s to 83; barn-door d0.,2a 6d to 530 d ; Chick ens, 3s 01 to Oi por couple; Capons, Os Od to Os; Hares, 2s 01 to 340 d ; Grouse, 2s Od to 3s Od each • Pheasants, 23 6,.1 to 3s Od ; Partridges, is Od to is 9,1; Voodcocks, 211 Od to 3s Od •, Snipes, 8d to is; Tetil, Os 7d to Oa 10d; Wild - Ducks, is 9d to 2s Od; Widgeons, Us 9d to is Od; Plovers, 6d to 038 d each ; Guinea Fowls, Os Od to Os ; Roasting pigs, 5s Od to 8s 03 each. Ostend fresh butter, —s to —s Od ; English do., is 2d to is 4d per lb. ; English eggs, 13s Od to 15s 01; French do., 10s to 12s 01 per 120; Leverots, 2s Od to 330 d each. NEWPORT. Beef, from 2s 101 to 4s 2d ; mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; lamb, 03 Od to Os 01; veal, 3s 2d to 4s 6d; pork,, 3s 8d to 53 2d per Blbs., by the carcase. WHITECHAPEL. • Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s 2d • mutton, :is 4d to 4s 6d; lamb, Oa Od to Oa Od ; veal, 36 2d to 4s 41; pork, 3s 8d to 5s 2d per Blbs, by the carcase. BILLINGSGATE. Turbots, 2s 01. - to 15s • Brills, is 01 to 5s each ; Salmon, Oa 0,1 to Os Od per lb ; Cod Fish, 2s 01 to 10s each ; Soles, Od to 0.401 per pair ; Trout, Os 01 to 01 per lb ; Lobsters, 61 to 2s 6d; Crabs, 6d to 2s 61; Whitings, 2s Od to 103 per doz. ; Common Oysters, 15s to 203 ' • Natives, —s to s , is per fish. ; Iliackerel, 4(s to Os per 100; Smelts, is Od to 2s Od per doz.; Skate, Cd to 01 per lb; Shrimps, 0301 to Os 01 per gallon ; Bloaters, 4s 01 to Es Od per 100 ; Fresh Herriugs, 4s 01 to Os per 100; Scotch do., 01; Sprats, 8s 0 1 to Os 01 per bushel; Dorcys, 2s Od . to 7s each ; Haddocks, 43 to 12 s poi doz.; Pike, 61 ; Sturgeon, 61 per lb ; Prawns, 5a Od to 7s; Mullets, 0F361 to is 61 each; Plaice, 41 to is each; Halibut, 61 per lb ; Flouuders, is 01 to is 6d per doz. ; salt flsb, 01 per lb ; Eels, 8d to is ; Carp, is to 5s ; Tench, is to 5s per brace; Gurnets, 41 to Is. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis aro from 7d to 83 ; of household ditto, 54d to Gld per 4 lb loaf. HIDES AND SKINS Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 341 to 3id ; 641 b to 721 b, 3il to —1 ; 721 b to 801 b, 3d to 41; 801 b to 88th, 4d to 4/d ; 881 b to 9616, 4id t 0441 ; 961 b to 1041 b, 4?d to 411; 1041 b to 1121 b, 4il to 4/d ; upwards, —d to —d ; horse hides, -s 91 to 04 10d ; Calf skins, light, 3s 6d to ha Od ; ditto full, 7s 01 to Os 01 ; Polled Sheep, 5s 01 to Gs 01 ; Dents, 4s 01 to 4s 9d; Half-breds, 4s Od to 4s 9d; DOWOP, 3s 21 to 3s 9d ; Lambs Os to Os 01 ; Shearlings, Os 01 to Os 01. HAY MARKETS. SMITFIFIELD.—Meadow hay, 21 103 to 41 Os; clover, 31 104 to 51 Os; and straw, 115 s to 11 10s per load, A moderate supply, and a slow trade. CIIIIBERLA.ND. —Meadow hay, 21 101 to 41 Os; clover, 31 10s to tel 04 ; and straw, 11 6s to 11 10s per load. Trade rather dull, at late rates. WHITECIIAPEL.—MeIifIow hay, 21 8s to 4► O 3 ; clover, 3/ 83 to 5/ Os ; and straw, 1/ 43 to ll 9a por load. Both hay and straw moved off slowly, at our quotations. COAL MARKET.—DEo. 11. Prices of Coals per ton ai the close of the market Wallsond, So. d. s. Bruldlo W. Hartley l5 3 Bobside's Hartley 15 6 Hastings Hartley 15 3 Walker Primrose l3 C West Hartley . 15 3 Longridge's Wst Hartley 15 6 Morpoth West Hartley 13 6 Wylain NowtonMain. l4 0 raufiold Moor l3 6 s d Nixon's Duffryn. 2l 6 Parton ... 16 6 Riddell l6 :3 Framwellgato l7 3 gden Main l7 9 lussell's Hutton 18 0 Fletton Lyons Main l6 6 Hartlepool Hotton lB 0 ktewart's 19 0 South Helton 8 9 'Rees l9 0 tieugh Hall 17 3 , 58 ; sold, 52. Wallsencl, lze. Gosforth l6 3; Ships at market COMMERCIAL FAILURES. The notes of the Worcester Bank, conducted under the partnership of Messrs. Farley, Lavender, 0 ;con, and Gutcb, were refused payment yesterday by their London agents. The firm has been in existence about 63 years, and possessed a fix-xl issue of 15,4631. It is not expected that the liabilities will be large, the ope rations of the bank having latterly been restricted. The suspension of Messrs. Heine, Semen, and Ca., a firm largely engaged in business with the Continent, was announced to-day, and occasioned much reg ret. The connections of the house are of a very infuen• Cal description; and although their liabilities are large, being estimated at fram 500,0001. to 700,0001., it is confidently anticipated that every engagement will, at an early period, be fully liquidate.l. The suspension of Messrs. Th, H. Elmenhorst and Co., a German house, also having extensive engage meuti, has taken place. It is thought that the assets wi yield a fair dividend. I, has likewise been announced that Messrs. Wier holt, Wehner, and Co., connected with Calcutta and Australia, have suspended. Their liabilities are presumed to be very heavy. The other failed firms reported yesterday afternoon, include those of Messrs. Ward and Co., Smithfield, bankers, and Messrs. Montoya, largely engaged in the New Granadian trade. FATAL ACCIDENT TO CAPTAIN WATLINS.—PLTMOUTR, Friday.—Yesterday morning, as the Northampton militia were travelling to this garrison, from Oxford, per South Devon Railway, between Totntrs and Kings bridge-road station. Captain C Watkins, of that regiment, was killed by his placing his head out of the window of one the carriages when passing a wall, with whioh it came in contact. An inquest will be held on the body this day. . CHRISTMAS HOLIDATS.—From the the provincial journals received yesterday it appears that the chief tradesmen in same of the moat important towns in Eng land have resolved to keep their shops closed from the evening of the 24th inst. to the morning of the 28th, THE OUTWARD OVERLAND MAIM—DOVER, Friday.— The overland mails for India and China, consisting of 144 boxes, arrived here last night at 11.15, were shipped on board the mail packet Ondine at the Admiralty pier by 11.44, and at 11.48 the mail started for Calais. It was a falling tide, and every minute saved was of the utmost importance, to avoid the necessity and great delay of landieg the mails in small boats. It was only by selecting the packet of the lightest draft that the object was accomplished, for although she could not reach Calais until within half an hour of low water, the Ondine took the mails over the bar and landed them at the pier —thence they were conveyed to the railway in good time, and forwarded to Paris en route without delay. THE WILL FORGERY AT PRESTON.—Preston, Friday. —The inquest on the body of Edward Turner, reed maker, aged 72 years, was held this afternoon. There were no appearances of poison in the body at the post mortem ei9.mination. The jury returned a verdict of "death from natural causes." [ADVERTISEMENTj—Du Barry's delicious Revalenta Arabica Food invariably restores health, without medicine, inconve nience, or expense, as it saves fifty times its cost in other remedies, and removes indigestion (dyspepsia), flatulency, constipation, nervous, bilious, and liver com plaints, cough, asthma, consumption, and debility. 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A\04...,,k, (Fro ' ~: .7,, , ;,',,? The shareholders of t"% , ... . ..iii.', ~, be sure, they cannot he . 1'i.,7 - . it . - it .. , :fi fr -- 41. e . em ° . barked in a struggle wit '3 l 734:grisikearAg. ' .. a tcfiorte: tous power in nature--th Vli# ifiePtirerch . - y must carry out. It is another . .. of theist - e. of Sdhastopol. But the siege of Sebastopol ire ifil has itot, ifier all, the naked dignity of a war with simple tonnage—that paimors i dial and ancient power whicli'exiSted before the Cyclops, before the Pelasgi, before the very giants who hurled ?ellen and Ossa at the Gods. And in proportion to the dignity . of the contest is the patience which it demands. - There are those shareholders of the Leviathan standing round in solemn silence, witnessing an awful • silent contest they feel the consciousness of tremendous fences at work, of pressure and weight in dreadful antagonism like two strong opposing wills, of a mighty contest of, which they see the outside in the shape of timbers, hyd,raulie engines, rains, and cradles, but which is itself aslidden and invisible as the action of the magnet or the jouruse of the electric messenger. There they are, standing tonna and watching for the visible effects of this invisible Strug gle ; hours and hours and days and days roll on, andsmalf indeed and gradual is the fruit. The Leviathan is ei true water, but u t t o y s o h u e has instance of the p rover b that " You may bring a horse —at t tbu lea w st ate can't make effectually drank,"resisted. There she lies on the very bank of the noble river that is to convey her to the ocean, but she will not as yet wet her lips. For hours and hours it is pressure —pressure-- pressure, and sometimes she does riot mem) a bit, then with a sullen noise she slips a foot, her caprices alarm the engineers, and a slip of several feet seems to threaten a second deluge. Nobody can understand her ways. Theis all is still again and motionless ; the cylinders beret, the timbers crack, and she will not stir an inch. . . We are now in the middle of this contest, and, grand as it is, the-shareholders of the Leviathan must sometimes revert in thought to the disagreeable subject of its enor mous cost. This straggle of hydraulic power with the Leviathan has already cost 70,000/ , and nobody .knows how much more it will cost. We cannot . understand how, with the full data before it, the number of tens to be moved, the angle of the incline, and an ascertained rate Of friction, dynamic science could not have calculated before hand with substantial certainty and accuracy the amount of force which would be required to move the Leviathan. As it is, there has net .been an approximation to a correct estimate of it,—the force has been doubled since the com menceinent of the process, additions being made from time • to time simply as the course of the experiment and as the motionless condition of the hulk made it necessary, and lot at all apparently upon any basis of previous calculation. There have been endless speculations as to how -Stone henge was erected, a 3 to how the Cyclopean buildings in Bceatia, Argolis, and elsewhere were enacted; but no theory, and hardly any legend, about Cyclops and races of giants, and their application of rude enorm o us strengtlito the uplifting of huge stones, ever raised -a more awkward picture .of vie consili expers than this experiment upon the Leviathan. The engines for producing motion have been scientific, but the use of them has been as rash awl uncalculating as if we had been depending on primitive and uninstructed nature. There have been omissions which it is difficult to account for;—the necessity even o f pro viding a fulcrum from wich the rams might act was not foreseen; and when that defect was supplied, and the ship began to move, the ramie which ought tb: have moved with it, Were stationary, and obliged to act upon the ship by long beanie, which were constantly breaking, and Which were always used with a sacrifice of power. Even shareholders' money was never more oonspicuously wasted than in this blind, uncalculating struggle with this enor mous hulk. The question has been very naturally asked, " Why was not the Leviathan built, to begin with, in a dry dock of her own, which would upon the water being let iu have itself floated her without further trouble into the Thames ?" Had the expenses of this ultra-scientific machinery for motion been at all foreseen such a plan must have struck any one as far the cheaper on). But,'at . any rale why build her so far from the river, and interpose quite mine. cessarily so great a distance between her and the water that was to receive her? This was a great oversight, if anything like the present costliness of the process was anticipated, for which we find every foot of motion costs nearly a thousand pounds, we may well begin to grumble at every extra foot which is gratuitous and unneces- Aary. The whole experiment, indeed, bears the look of the grossest miscalculation, as if the obvious and com paratively cheap expedient of a dry dock had been put aside, and even distance from the river thought of no con sequence, on the strength of some great forthcoming ex ploit of mechanical power, which exploit, when the time comes, whclly fails. The engineer would seem purposely to have loft difficulties in order that he might show the -easy triumph which he could achieve over them, but when it comes to the trial the difficulties have triumphed a good deal more than the engineer. Science has seldom; indeed, looked less like It raelf, and more like rude, awkward, pr.- newval nature, than iu this unfortunate experiment, which will, before it is over, make the cost of the launch an ut terly unheard-of proportion of the cost of the whole ship. HORRIBLE MURDER AAD SUICIDE. This morning an inquest was held at the Wheateheaf Tavern, Thornton-hea-h, before the coroner for Surrey, Mr. Carttar, on the bodies of Mrs. Mary Smithers, ahoy of independent property, and her two sons, William, aged 33, and Charles, aged 18. The death of Mrs. Smithers and her youngest son, Charles, had been caused by poison, ad ministered by Williaro;who afterwards committed suicide by the same means. _ The facts of the melancholy and distressing affair wore as follows :—For some years past the deceased lady and her two sons occupied the house 49, Thornton-heath, and the family were remarkable for the love and affection which seemed to subsist between them. William Holton, the elder son, has been a clerk in the Bank of England, and Charles has been engaged in the factory of Mr. Burnett, engiueer, at Deptford. William had boon remark able for his steadiness and general deportment, until very recently, when, unfortunately, a total change came over him, and recently he had been known to drink bratly to excess. This change, there can be no doubt, has been oc casioned by his becoming a speculator on 'Change, and the ill-luck which attended those speculations. His losses were considerablo, and from some papers found it appeared that assignments were prepared for the disposal of some life policies, and also a bill far five bundled pounds for acceptances. It had been his (William's) custom to sleep down stairs, but for some cause or other, ha for several nights preceding the unfortunate ocourr" cc, slept with his b ro th er on th e fi rst floor—a proceeding ob jected to by his moth er , w h o i ns i s t e d on his resting in his own bed. On Wednesday night the unfortunate lady called out to her younger son; and asked " if William had gone to his own room ?" and the answer, though not true, was in the affirmative. Nothing, however, occurred orb that night to excite suspicion or alarm ' • the mother an d brothers went to bed as usual, and on the following morn ing, about seven o'clock, the female servant, having waited some time beyond the usual period at which the family came to breakfast, went to the bedroom of Charles, and listened for a moment or so, but hearing no noise, she pushed the door open, and the first thingiwhich caught her view was the face of her young master, with a dark froth about the mouth and nostrils. The sight so alarmed her that she returned from 'the room, and at once ran to the house next door for assistance. Returning with the servant mail, they entered the bedroom, where they found both the brothers perfectly lifeless, and a phial and a wire-glass on the foot of the bed. The servant of Mrs. Smithers sum moned resolution and proceeded to her mistress's bed-room on the same floor, and on entering it she found the unfor tunate lady quite dead. She lay on the bed with her head resting on her right hand, the bed perfectly unruffled. It also appeared from the evidence that Mrs. Smithers had been ailing for some days, and that her son William had been in the habit of giving her the medicine prescribe el for her illness, and by this means had been enabled to give her the fatal dose which must in a moment have termin ated her existence, and that tho fatal drug must have been poured into the mcuth of the youth Charles while he lay on his back, and that the sudden shock to the circula tion had caused the froth about the mouth and nostrils. The quantity of Prussic acid taken by the unfortunate murderer himself was so groat that his death was imme diate. The inquiry had not terminated when our reporter eft. THE 52d REGIMEIVT. The following letter describes one of the achieve ments of this celebrated corps, which is still adding to the laurels gained in every battlefield of Europe fresh renown in India : " Camp, before Delhi, Aug. 26, 1857. "Yon will probably have heard of our encounter with the 46th Native Infantry and a wing of the 9th light Cavalry. They mutinied at Sealkote, sacked the place, murdering several persons, male and female. • We there lost all our property, private as well as mess--iti fact, everything. When we marched from Sealkete we were ordered to move as light as possible, and the bulk of our property was placed in a building assigned by the Bri gadier, and under a guard of the 46th Native Infantry (a fair ease for compensation, you will say), but when these fellows mutinied we were at Umritsir, and upon hearing which, and that everything bad gone, we started to out them off. We left Umritsir at half-past 8 p.m , and reached Goordespore,- 42 miles, at 4 next day. There we heard of our friends, some 15 miles off, on the other side of .the Ravee river, the ford over which was 10 miles from Goordespore. They crossed this ford early the next mcirning, and we marched at 10 to meet them. They had heard of our approach, and we found theta drawn up in line, both ranks kneeling, and the cavalry threatening both our flanks. Our numbers were only about 280 of the 52d, about 120 newly-raised Sikhs, and 9 guns ; they had about 800 infantry and 300 cavalry. On our drawing up in line about 250 yards from them they opened a fusillade, and in about 5 minutes we had about 40 casualties in the force. However, the moment we began to return the compliment with grape and Enfield rifles they made preparations for a bolt. Several o f their cavalry came right in among us, cutting d own f,infwewhekenoirturnpise m i ne.skirmish i ng i m n g e ged oa some o f our flankh g a u w n on theirve e r r s ~ 8 right ti i W y O d l a i nspd subdivisional ns Theya o o f n l d o e k r u i , r l w l a e le n d e b rf d et eh s ai o tyn desperate beh aved l lr y w d s e w r e en li t l the an f nr e d l l line.o ws t ha Thet t h l o e f y t w sub ere division were all killed in covering the retreat of their main body. A good many of them were drowned in their hurry to recross the river ; many threw away their arms and clothes, and ' bolted into th e villages • but were next day and shot. Ab out 200 of themall b brought uponht in the an island, where they had a large gun. I crossed about a mile below them two days after at daylight, and de stroyed them, all. They fought their gun to the last moment, but their shooting was not good. Seven of theca were killed at the gun ; one ef,:them in the act if ramming another dose of grape. Crosse 's company h a d the honou r o f t a ki ng t h e gun. Altogether, what with the long march and the utter destruction of r the two regiments, I believe we are entitle t d to some c ed t-42 day, and after our and B wou t n o de th d o , miles in 48 hours, —is 10 miles back to our camp, -62 wnen the heat of the sun is con sidered. —is wonderful work, . miles to Goordespore, 10 miles next n My casualties in the two fights only amounted having marched This example co nsidered elecll killed, a on the 13th lust, ntioy io the Punjaub we were ordered down here (Delhi),in and arrived 700 miles in the hottest season of the y t ) one inane year. I forgot to mention that on the day of the first fight about 20 of rny mon were struck down by the sun, but only three of them died. We have now marched in less than four years upwards of 3,000 miles,—unparalleldd, I believe, 1 in this or any other army in the world and still the dis cipline is, I am truly g l a d t o sa y , ai pre-eminent as Ever.';