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INE ‘VSI , ApER • 4_4 . . f k •• • • • Sportinl• ir, + l 4 L 4E O • ,Pir 4114 , ;•. ••,,V2gE . .4m7.•,„ .7 *V — 7 . ,4A 1 1; 44 T - • , 4 ) • • ‘ A API" `;`,. r • - .111 4 ' ) 0 k #4 • ; '„ - ~a r Z' *: Ara ' I) .ROIT.t. , • r,t\ e . (o t4 ' 4. is . 4 05 4 1- 4- 1 . 1. ' ltt) 40,K , . ‘fic ENTS: iti 184 ANK OF DEPOSIT, No. 3. rALI..mALL rAsT, LONDON. Established A.D. 1844. Parties &sirens of INVESTING MONEY are requested to examine tiro plan of the Bonk of Deposit. Prospectuses and Forms for Opening Accounts sent free on appli cation. Leroe) 17 HORSES STRUCK OU 'l\l On the 31st ult., at 9 . a.m., Swindler and Kinabura ou of all their engagementA. On the 31st ult , at 11.40 Gitana, -out of the Gteat Ner'hern Handicap at York. Oa the Ist inst., at 4 p.m., Miovtte, out of the .Two Year 011 Stakes Lt. Epsom Spring Meeting. On the 4th inst., at 3 p.m., Gitana, out of the Cheetei Cup. On the 6th inst., at 4 p m., Maid of Athens, ontelat her engagements at Coventry. On the 6% inst., at 8 a.m., Hospitality, out of the North animal Handicap. Pretty Boy out of the Somersetshire Stakes. Miss Harkaway out of the Newmarket Handicap. PETER 3IORRISION, Managing Director. 1837 Q 1 TATE FIRE INSURANCE, No. 3, Pall-mall East, London, S.W. Incorporated by Act of Parliament. Capital 500,0001., with power to increase to 2,000,0007. Every description of Fire Insurance accepted at moderate rates. Existing Policies falling due at the trust Quarter D ,:st may be frangferred to this Company tree of charge, beyond the premium and duty. Claims settled with promptitude and 1 be•ality. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. LONDON, SArl UItDAY EVENING, APRIL, 11, 1857. iding) (N .20,222. [PRIcE 4 1) . STAMPED 5D 47 41 sds) 46 PUBLICATIONP. From the London Gazette of Last Night. AUSTRALIA. Sydney House of Assembly that the telegraph line from Sydney to Melbourne it to be proce3ded with almost immediately : " Mr. Suttor asked the hon. the Minister for Lands and NI - ilia Works what steps the Govern- Inuit intend taking relative to th• 3 construction of lines of electric telegraph to the various d st r ct s of the interior ; and when it is likely the Government will be prepared to call for tenders for the clnstruc ton of such works? NEW ROMANCE BY MR. BESTE. Just ready, in 3 vols. post Hvo.. A LCAZ A R; or, the Dark Ages. By J. R. BESTE, Esq., Author of "Modem ociety " The Wabash," &c. Hurst and Blackest, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 13 Great Marlborough-street. DARTMOUTH, FRIDAY MORNING. ,1858 , The Copeuliagen, Capt. oodfrey, 83 days from Port Philip, ariived off the port this morning, and landed her mails and pa, , sen(Yers. She has a full cargo of wool and 50,000 ounces of geld. 0 _ _ _ lire) 347 306 xim) She spoke the ship Ellenborough, 40 days from Sydney, for London. 847 %Nall 847 erbx) [834 [847 1841 Tort.) LB4l ckport.) 1845 1848 n 0,1851 1841 1851 1847 1835 13.). 1833 1817 1847 1847 'aterford. I request, than of ices. Of unsold. 3 to 73,c1; c 7 d per 9d to 00 to all kinder, 7orage 24 I 2d down )—on the and on me as last .2tbs. l2tli. 12ths. .201 s. 12tNi. 3 was only and in' ly fino at r grain 0 -8 to —0 ; Od to 47 0 Beans, 370 ►t market, heavy, sll articles 0 y, malting 22st , peas , 40' ,AllkiaL ls k's 1 beaus 11 475; os% ... 29 43 ... 25 SO ... .. 43% ... 1304 ... 130si ... s`. , ti . 52 ght ... By order.. PER OZ. £0 0 ° O 0 O 0 0 O 0 5 1" 0,/ sn a were the leder O A l—Gran I—Easter n 1011 11 -' .anchesterf r e etern °' deb, 11V k, 211 r North Midlanthli ve appe 1 q 4 d, closiD Dolan, 0 >f CanscO' Westerilot , lA —GreP r to-a¢l' ighths,/ stock, ~ awed tb. )w., and Air 10 ,A Yak efiew 'ere innw welled t ° u Don ,rt of " iors of til luaro, tll6 root, tli° of Pa 7(1, 80% e 0 S; Jat il ~ j iry Ar et 1 insbure 'star, tf ,, j' ; daughter 1. Iro4 e ratAA" ry leboo6 31 u's-vio -3 0 Adatro lon, Esq,l Dora-101” Iding t°lll SlOO 1 46 ' trot; ttic0,.,,,t1 5e co. BANKERS and MONEY DEALERS, Messrs. rous, LOWE, and CO. (Late Coils, Thompson, and Harris, Established 1832), 10, St. Swithin's-lane, Lombard-street, City, and 5, Henrietta street, Covent-garden, London. APPROVED CON NIER - JIAL BILLS Discounted at the curren rates of the day for Parties prorerly introduced. DEPOSITS received at interest, et =even days' notice of with• draws], and for periods to he agreed upon. FINANCIAL AGENCY BUSINESS of every description tran. !meted for Commercial Houses in the Provinces. ONDON, HARWICH, and CONTINENTAL a--. 4 STE Mil PACKET COMPANY (Limited). LONMON to tOTTERD Of in TWELVE HOURS by the NEW ROUTE to the Continent, forming the conneeting, link between the Dutch Rhenish and the Fast , rn Counpes Rarways. The Steamers - of this Company wih commence running between HARWICH and ROTTERDAM, with passengers and goods, on SATURDAY, April ';5. For further particulars as to freight, &c , apply at the Company's offices, 44, Moor ate-street (E.C.) ; of Oliver John Williams, Esry , Harwich • and of H. P. Maples, shipping agent to the Company, 4, Arthur•street East (E.C.) IPIO ETTS'S PATENT BRANDY is supplied by JO the Trade to Private Families, in every neighbourhood, In capsnied bottles, in any quantity down to the single bottle. Excise regulations prevent the sale from the DISTILLERY, 7. SMITH FIELD BARS, ST. JO EIN-STREET, in any less quantity than two gallons. CREAP GLOBE, LEICESTER-SQUARE DIORAMAS of the CITIE4 and Rl` ERA of EUROPE, the ALPS, MONT BLANC, the RHINE," and SWITZERLAND, CRIMEA. &c., and of RUSAI A N LIFE and SCENERY, at 12, 3,6, and 8. Admission to the whole building, One Shilling. IVEFes. W. S. WOODIN'S OLIO of ODDITIES, with New Costumes and various Novelties, Yocal and Ch , - racterlstic. every evening (except Saturday) at Eight. A MORN ING PERFORMANCE every SA.TURDAY. at Three. Private Boxes and Stalls may be secured, without extra charge, at the Rox-office, Polygraehic-hall, Ring William-street, Charing-cross. The hall has been entirely redecorated. • AItGYLL nooms.—LAURENT'S CASINO, Great Windmill-street, St. James's.— The above elegant Rooms are now open every evening for the winter Benson, with Lanrent's celebrated Orchestra. Principal Cornet-a-piston, M. lioulcourt. The Proarictor begs to Inform the public that th 4 s fashionable place of resort has been entirely redecorated during the Mem. Doors open at half-past eight, commence at nine. Admis sion One t•hilling. OYAL PRINCESS'S THE ATRE.= AA, HENRY RUSSELL, TO-NIIGFIT, Sa`nrdav, April I will eive his Entertainment, "THE FAR WEST," or Every day Life in America. The second part, entitled "Negro Life " Mr. 0 Russell will accompany himself on one of Collard and Collard's mag nificent Ili-chord Pianofortes. Dress Circle, 2s. 6d.; Upper Boxes, Is. 6d.: Pit, Is.: Gallery, 6d. Tickets and places may be secured of Mr. Massingham, at the Box-office, from 11 to 4. Doors open at half-past 7, commence at 8. THE GREAT TOBACCO CONTROVERSY. Dr. SEXTON will LECTURE en this important topic daily at 3 and half-past 7 p.m , at Dr. K AHN'S MUSEUM, No. 4, Coven try street, Leicester-square. The Museum, which now stands wholly unrivalled in the world, and the rarity and completeness of whose contents have already acquired for it an European reputation, and - obtained the warm commendation of the press in this and other coun tries, is Open daily, for Gentlemen on y, from 10 to 10. A new Lecture is delivered by Dr. !Curl.' at half-past 8 p.m. precisely. Ad mission, One =billing. Descriptive Catalogues of the Ma•sum, con taining Lectures as delivered by Dr. Khan, gratis to the visitors. 'CONTRACT FOR LIGHTERAGE IN THE RIVER THAMES. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling, Somerset-place, 9th April, 185.7. 'r rillE Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland do hereby give notice, that on TFIURSDAY, the 23d Instant, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with Quch persons As may be willing to Contract for performing, for 12 months certain, from the 25th May next, and afterwards until the expiration of 3 'Months warning, all such LIGHTER AGE, between Woolwich and Nine Elms Railway Station, above Vauxhall bridge (both inclusive) act shall from time to time be required by the Superintendent of her Majesty's Victualling Yard at Deptford. The conditions of the revised contract may be seen at the said office. No tender will be received after one o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed unless made OR the printed form provided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on application at the said office. Every tender must be addressedto the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words "Tender for Lighterage," and must also be delivered at Somerset-place. .21 20 MILNER'S HOLDFAST and FIRE RESISTING SAFES (non-conducting and vapourising), with all the improvements, under their Quadruple Patents of 1840.51-54 and 1855, including their Gunpowder Proef Solid Lock and Door (without which no Safe is secure). TIRE STRONGEST. BEST, AND CHEAPEST SAFEGUARD EXTANT. . MILNERS' PIRENIX (212') SAFE WORKS, LIVERPOOL, the* most complete and extensive in the world. Show-rooms, 6 and 8, Lord-street, Liverpool. LONDON DEPOT, 47a, MOORGATE STREET, City. Circulars tree by post. CANCER HOSPITAL, London and West Brompton.—Secretary's Office, 167, Piccadilly.—This Institu tion has been established exclusively for the treatment of the poor afflicted with cancerous diseases. Out-door patients to attend at 167, Piccadilly, on Tuesdays. at 2 o'clock. In-door patients are admitted at the Brompton Estahlishment, for one month, and for a longer period if recommended by the medical officers. The number of per sons under treatment as in or out-door patients have averaged for the last three years about 400 cases each rear. Since the foundation of this Hospital in 1851, 1,799 poor persons, suffering under every form of this dreadful malady, have received the benefits of this Charity. A Weekly Board manage its affairs, and every informa tion connected with the Institution may be obtained on application to the Secretary. Confributions to enable the Committee to continue this ereat work of benevolence arc urgently solicited, and may be paid to William Loaham Farrar, Eq., the Treasurer, 66, Lincoln's inn-fields ; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand ; and at the Secretary's Offices, 167, Piccadilly. W. J. COCKERILL Secretary. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. Patron—The QUEEN.—Founded 1828. The sick poor are admitted on their own application alone; no re commendation is required. During the past month the following number received the benefits of this Charity, either as out or in-door patients, on their personal tPPlication t t Week ending 7th February ...... 2,095 • Ditto 14th February • • 2,351 Ditto 21st February .... • • 2,650 Ditto 28th February ; .... 2,890 Total In February .... . 9,986 of which 3,379 were new cases, the 'remainder (still under treat ment) having been admitted previously. The clergy of all denominations have unlimited access to the Patients. Heavy expenses are inevitably incurred in affording such eaten 'dye relief. The Committee, therefore, earnestly entreat the aid of t ae public. The management of the Hospital Is in the hands of 30 Governors. Yearly elected from the general list of subscribers, at the Annual General Meeting in January. A Board is held every Thursday, at 4 o'clock (Rev. J. B. Owen, Chairman). to conduct the business, whe n any subscriber may attend, if so disposed, the Board being at all times desirous of receiving suggestions or giving explanation. The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on volun tary, contributions and legades, which are received by the Treasurer. 'On Masterman, Esq., M.P., Nicholas-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co.; Berries and Co.; Ransom and C 6. ; P rescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Denison and Co.; Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Her ners.street ; Mastcrman and Co.; and at the Hospital. Clothing for the destitute patients will he thankfully received. By order. J. B. OVEN, M.A., Chairman. ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. New and improved Edition, enlarged to 196 pages, illustrated by 100 - Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel, just published, price, free by pest, Is., THE SILENT FRIEND : A Medical Work on the physical exhaustion and decay of the frame, from the effects of solitary indulgence, infection, and the injuilous con.c quences from the use of Mercury; with observations on the obliga tions of marriage, and directions for obviating certain disqualifier - lions. By it. and L. PI. RRY and CO., Surgeons. Sold by J. Allen, 20. Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row; Sanger. 160, Oxford-street; and Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street, London. The CORDIAL BALM of SYRIACUM Is employed to renovate the impaired powers of life. Its :talon is purely balsamic ; its power in reinvigorating the frame in all cases or nervous and Foam' de bility, obstinate gleets, impotency, barrenness, and debilities arising from venereal excesses, has been demonstrated by its unvarying success in thousands of cases. Price I Is. per bottle, or four quan tities in one for 33c, which saves I Is. The CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE, an anti-syphi litic remedy, for purifying the system, and is recommended for any of the varied forms of secondary symptoms, such as eruptions on the skin, blotches on the head and face, enlargements of the throat, tonsils, and uvula; threatened destruction of the nose, palate, &c. Its action is purely detersive, and its beneficial influence on the system is undeniable. Price I Is. and 335. per bottle, also a saving of 1 Is. PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS constitute an effec tual remedy in all cases of gonorrhcea, gleet, stricture, and diseases of the urinary organs. Price 2s. 9d., 45. 6d , and I Is. per box. Sold by Barclay and Sons, Farringdon-street ; Darby and Gosden, 140, Leadenhall-street ; W. Sutton and Co., 10. Bow-churchyard ; W. Edwards, 67, St. Pant's-churchyard ; J. Sanger, 150, Oxford street ; Hannay and - Dletrichsen, 63. Oxford-street ; Butler and Harding, 4, Cheapside ; Prout and Harsant, 229, Strand ; - and all Medicine veridors throughout the United Kingdom. NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE raft CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA, NERVOUS,. BILIOUS, AND LIVER COMPLAINTS, COUGH, ASTHMA, CONSUMPTION, AND DEBILITY. U BARRY'S delicious HEALTH-RESTOR ING REVALENTA AR ABICA FOOD saves fifty times its cost in other remedies, and cures the above complaints and their consequences, such as hemorrhoidal affections, Eattdency, disten sion, Acidity, heartburn, palpitation of the heart,'nervous headaches, hysteria, neuralgia, deafness, noises in the head and ears, pains at tile Pit of the stomach and between the shouldrs, eryipelas, erup t'ons of the skin, impurities and poverty of e the bl s ood, scrofula, dr opsy, rheumatism, gout, nausea and sickness during pregnancy, alter eating, or at sea ; low spirits, spasms, epileptic fits, spleen, general debility, inquietude, sleeplessness, involuntary blushing, Paralysis, tremors, dislike to society, unfitness for study, loss of me- Mori , ' delusions, vertigo, blood to the head, exhaustion, melan- F h ° l Y, groundless fear, wretchedness. It is, moreover, the best food for infants and invalids generally, as it never t urns acid on the weakest stomach, nor interferes with a Rood liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner, rul the the faculty of digestion and nervous and muscular energy to the most enfeebled. Supported by testimonials from the celebrat ed Professor of Chemistry Dr. Andrew Ure, Dr. Sboriand, Dr .Har !,e3', Dr. Campbell, Dr. Gattiker, Dr. Wurzer, Dr. Ingram, Lord 'Stuart de Decies, the Dowager Countess of Castlestuart, and 50,000 other well-known individuals, whose health has been restored by this useful and economical diet, after all other means had been tried In vain for many years, and all hopes of recovery abandoned. Analysis by the celebrated Professor of Chemistry Andrew ITre F.R.S., &c. " London, 24, Bloomsbury-square. " I hereby certify, that having examined DO Barry's Revalenta Arabic:a I find it to bb a pure vegetable Farina, perfectly whole ',Otte, easily digestible, likely to promote a healthy action of the stomach and bowels, and thereby to counteract dyspepsia (Indiges tion), constipation, and their nervous consequences. Assnazw trax, M.D., F.R.S., &c., Analytical Cheinist." Ukase by the• Emperor of Russia. Russian Consulate General, London, Dec. 2,1847. The Consul-General has been ordered to inform Messrs. Barry, L l l l Rarry and Co., that the Revalenta Arabica they had sent to his Jesty the Emperor, has, by imperial permission, been forwarded to th i minister of the Imperial Palace., suitably packed tor all climates, and with full instructions. In canisters, llb 2 9d ; Sib 45 6d ; 51b lls , 121 b 22s ; super•reflned Quality, Ilb 6s ; lb lls ; 51h 29. s ; 10Ib 33s The 1010 and 121 b cards 'ors are forwarded carriage free, on receipt of Post-office order. Z 'an'y Du Barry an d C o .. 77, Regent-street. London; Fortnum, t ason, and Co.. purveyors to 'her Majesty, 182, Piccadilly , also at !0, Gr aceclaurch-street ; 330 and 451, Strand; 4, Cheapside; 68, cornhill; 49, Bishopsgate-street; 55, Cllaring-3'033 04, Upper U akultrett ; 63 and 150, Oxford-street. Cheap Edition, complete in S vols., with Portraits of every Queen, price 7s. 6d. each, bound, L IVES of the QUEENS of ENGLAND. By AGNES STRICKLANn. " Miss Strickland has given a most valuable contribution to the history of Enaland, and we have no hesitation in affirmin's that no one can be said to possess an accurate knowledge of the history ofthe country who has not studied this truly national work "—t - ler,id. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn. , Complete in one volume, price 4s. Gd., THE BUTTERFLIES and STOUT-BODIED MOTHS: forming the first volume of A MANUAL OF BRITISH BUTTERILIt S AND MOTHS. By H. T. STAINTON, Author of "June: a Book for the Country in , Sammer Time." London: John Van Voorst, 1, Paternoster-row, E.C. Just published, price 2d., Part II: of FEIST'S RACING RECORD, containing a complete CALENDAR of SPORT, from the Ist of January to the day of publication. Edited by ALBERT FEIST, Editor of the Turf Department of the "Sunday* Times," and Reporter of Sporting Intelligence to the London daily papers, &c. Parts 1., and Jr. may be obtained, neatly bound in cloth, price 6d., or stitched in a neat wrapper, price 4d. Printed and pubished, on the Ist of each month, by William Wright, Sporting Printer and Publisher, Fulwood-rents, Holborn. Just published, price 2d., or post free 3d., the 102 d Edition of THE NATURAL REGENERATOR of the DIGESTIVE ORGANS, the STOMACH, LIVER, NERVES, LUNGS, 3cc., with Out Medicine, Galvanism, Electricity, inconve nience, and expense, by an eas y, na t ura l, pl easan t, and infallible remedy, which saves fifty times its cost in other means of cure. Supported by testimonials from the c:-lebrated Professor of Che mistry, Dr. Andrew Tire ; Dr. Shorland ; Dr. Ifarvey; Dr. Camp nett ; Dr. Gattiker; Dr. Wurzer ; Dr. lingram ; Lord Stuart de Decles ; the Dowager Countess of Castle-Stuart; 11laior-Gen. Thomrq King, and many other respectable persons, whose health hrs been restored by it, after all other means of cure had failed. Londoil : Barry Du Barry and Co., 77. Regent-street. The Third Edition. Just Published, price 55., by post, free, ss. 6d, ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORREICEA, with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the Real Sufferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. "Dr. Pickford 'a known to English readers by his frequent practi cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs ss, that he has addressed himself to the nort-raedi :Al reader. We tmst this may not be the last, ff he shall detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in hib power to cor rect."—London Medical Gazette. "The tribe of Quiet Sympathisers,' and 'Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed ; and if this book maid find its way into the hands of those wile suffer from the cora olaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would bo saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of leas importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— much money...... This volume is well qualified to put an end to tilt empirical system of treating Spermatorrhosa, and to place the treat moot upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, ikely to do much good."—Medical Circular. London: H. Ranier°, '219. Regent-street. QECURE INVESTMENTS.—Messrs: R KJ HURLEY and Co., 45, Threadneedle-street, Sworn Stock, Share, and Mining Brokers, will be happy to forward a list of carefully selected Securities, paying good dividends, to those wisp mayfavour them with their business, and to advise them on the safest mode of inventing their capital. Business transacted in the English Funds at 1-16th per cent., and in all Stocks, Railway atld Mining Shares, on the most reasonable terms. A selected list of dividend-paying (from 12 to 20 per cent.) and progressive mines to be had personally or per letter.' lALT and Co.'s EAST INDIA PALE and k... 7 BURTON ALES. BaEwma—BURTON-ON-TRENT. STORES : L0ND0N............ LIVERPOOL .. • ......... • y -street. MANCHESTER ..... SHEFF'IE'LD . . . 12, George-street. BIRMINGHAM ... Old Court-house, High-street. BRISTOL.. .. . DUBLIN .. 11, Temple-lane. EDINBURGH .. .. Porthopetoun Warehouse. GLASGOW St. Vincent-place. These Ales, in Casks of Eighteen Gallons and upwards, and in Bottle, obtained from all respectable Bottlers. APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED. EA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE LA SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, , nd all Boast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad, and:by its tonic and Invigorating properties enables the stomach to p •rfeetly digest the food. The daily useof this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe , nard to health. Sold by the proprietors. Lea and Perrins, 19, renchnrch-street, f.ondon, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester; also by Messrs. Barclay ,nd Sons, Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and mer bents, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. N.B.—To guard against imitations, see that the names of "LEA and PF.RRfIgS" are upon the label and patent cap of the bottle. THE NIGHTINGALE FUND. —lt is intended to close this Fund during the first week in May, and to lay a detailed Report of proceedings before the Public, when the Trnstees appointed br Miss Nightingale will receive the amount subscribed PS a record of "National Gratitude" and to enable her to establish an Institution for the Training, Sustenance, and Protection of Nurses and Hospital Attendants. It is, therefore, respectfully requested that all oststAnding sub scriptions be forwarded to the Honorary Secretaries; and that local Secretaries will be pleased to make up their accounts in order that they may be properly acknowledged and recorded. SIDNEY HERBERT, t Honorary S. C. H ALL, i Secretaries. Office of the Nightingale Fund, 5, Parliament-street, Westminster. PLAISTOW d; VICTORIA DOCK MISSION. The prayers and offerings of Churchmen arc solicited in aid of an effort to supply the urgent spiritual wants of a newly popu lated district around the Victoria Docks. Within the last few years the formation of a portion of these Docks and other causes have added a population of about 4,000 souls to the spir tual charge of the Incumbent of St. Mary's, Plaistow. A new town has been commenced on a low and marshy tract of ground ad joining the river Thames, totally undrained. and intersected by stagnant ditches. In a few more years itis probable that this district will rival Poplar, Shadwell, Ratcliffe, or St. George's in the number and habith of its population. • It is proposed at once to send clergymen to labour amongst these newly-congre.gated masses, and to increase their staff as circum stance+ may render necessary. Another generation must not be left to repair the neglect of the present. The object of the appeal is not to apply a palliative of an all but hopeless evil, but to find the means of its prevention, to preach Christ's Gospel to every man, woman. and child in the district, to endeavour to bring all within the fold of our rational Church, 'to instruct them according to her formularies. and to preserve them in the communion of her faith and worship. Ragged , chools have been tried, elrewhere with success. Why not try Ragged Churches in School-rooms? We propose, therefore, in the first instance, to have SHORT SERVICES FROM THE PRATER. BO in our Schools, adapted to the capacities of the untaught/poor with lectures on popular subjects, musical and other entertainments. The Lord Bishop of London has given his cordial sanction to the work, and has undertaken, at the earnestsolicitation of the promot ers of the mission, to select the clergy, when fonds are provided. To aid us in our difficult task special don tions are required for the neeesary outlay for Missionsry Stations, Schools, Br.,c. ; and also reaular subscribers, to enable us to support an adequate staff of teachers, clerical and lay. It is in - tended at an early data to submit the scheme to a general meeting. Further particulars will be given by the Rev. R. W. B. Marsh, Incumbent of St. Mary's, Plaistow; Antonio Brady, Esq., Mary land Point, Stratford, Essex, Treasurer; or the Rev. Alfred W. Mason, Stratford-preen, by whom donations or subscriptions for five years will be thankfully received; or at the Bank of Coutt= and Co., 59, Strand ; or Messrs. Dimsdale and Co., 50, Cornblll, to the ac count o: the Plaistow and Victoria Dock Mission. By Authority of the French Consul-General.—Notice Is hereby given, that the following SALE of PRESERVED BEEF will be the last on account of the French Government. Q,ALE of FRENCH COMMISSARIAT ► ,SURPLUS STORES, consisting of PRESERVED ROILED BEEF, of English, Scotch, and Irish manufacture, in tin canisters of about 6 lb. each, and packed in wooden boxes containing 1* tins.— Mr. A LEXII. COCK E. has teen honoured with instructions to Sell by Auction, at the London Commercial Sale Rooms, sliming-lane, on an early date in April next, of which due notice will be given, several parcels of the above description of Provisions, composed 01 the manu facture of the following celebrated firms, viz , Messrs. Henry Powell and Sons, London; Messrs. John M`Call and Co., London ; Messrs. John Moir and Son, Aberdeen ; Messrs. D. Hogarth and Co, Aberdeen; and Messrs. John Oillon and Co , Leith. All the boxes for sale are being opened and carefully examined for damazed canisters, the whole of which will be sel - cted and replaced by sound ones ; the fact or the beef having been originally manu factured in this country under strict inspection, expressly for the use of the troops in the Crimea, where it gave the highest satisfaction, added to its being p er f ec tly f re e from defective tins, will give every assurance to buyers of its excellent quality and fitness either for home consumption or exportation. Packages included in the pur chase. The several parcels of beef for sale are now on view at Seal's wharf, Mill-lane, Teoley-street, where purchasers may satisfy them selves that every care is being taken in removing from the boxes all canisters unfit for use. Any further information required can be obtained at the office of Mr. Cocke, 2. Old Trinity House, Water-lane, Tower -street, where cata.lognes may be had six days previous to the sale, at thefollowing places, viz.;— • Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing•lane ; Corn F.: change, Garraway's, Coffeehouses; Baltic, and Jerusalem also at the news rooms of the principal inland towns and ontports. The sale will commence punctually at the time stated. wh A o N w E as x r E e C c U e T n l t o ly N e iN ond P e A m ß n m e d — t A o deathman n b a y m t e h d e R i Courtc b e u x o f , Assizes of the Seine for the murder, followed by robbery, of two women, one at Corbeil, in 1851, and the other re cently, in the Rue de Charenton, underwent the sentence of the law on Monday morning, at eight o'clock, on the Place de la Roquette. A. great crowd bad assembled, and a large force of military and police was stationed round the place to preserve order. The prisoner, who was perfectly resigned to his fate, acted throughout with the greatest firmness. He attended the chapel, and conversed for some time with the chaplain. Richeux, who bad hitherto refused to answer any questions re specting other crimes of which he was suspected, expressed his readiness at the last moment to submit to any inter rogatory. He wa s subjected to a short examination by the commissary of police, and replied to the ques tions with the greatest dearness. When the execrt tionera had completed the " toilette," and were binding his arms behind his back, he said that they were givin g themselves unnecessary trouble, as he would rather fly to meet death than try to avoid it. He desired that the few clothes which be left should he given to some poor prisoners. He ascended the scaffold with firmness, and in a moment all was over. • [ADVERTISEMENTd—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills invincible remedies for the cure of niters.—Henry ,T ee „ of Church-gate, Stockport, was grievously afflicted for three years with an ulcerated cheek, the face being fear. fully swollen, accompanied with deafness on the one side and general debility. He obtained the first medical advice in the neighbourhood without obtaining the slight est relief, when be was induced to give these remedies a trial, and after applying the ointment for a short time, and taking the pills, the complaint entirely disappeared, without leaving a trace behind.—Sold by all medicine vendors throughout the world ; at Professor Holloway's Establishments, 244, Strand, London, and 80, Maiden lane, New York ; by A. Stamps, Constantinople; A. Guidicy, Smyrna; and E, Muir, Malta. DOWNING-STREET, APRIL 8. By virtue of an Act, No. 31, of the Governor and Legislative Council of the Colony of South Australia, dated the 18th of June, 1856, Charles Cooper, Esq., the Senior Judge of the Supreme Court of that Colony, has been created Chief Justice of that Court. WAR-OFFICE, APRIL 10. 11th Regiment of Light Dragoons:—Lieutenant Robert O'Brien Jameson to be Captain, by purchase, vice Foster, - who retires; Cornet Daniel Shaw Stewart t• be Lieute nant, 'by purchase, vice Jameson ; Paget Peploe Mosley, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Stewart. 17th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Arthur Bur aand to be Captain, by purchase, vice Watson, who retires ; Cornet and Adjutant James Duncan to have the rank of Lieute nant; Cornet Walter Raymond Nolan to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Burnand ; Arthur Gooch, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Nolan: Military Train—TO be Paymasters : Paymaster Thomas Calderhead.Browne, from the late Land Transport Corps; Paymaster Maxwell Reeve, from the late Land Trans port Corps. Royal Artillery —Second Captain George Henry John Alex. Fraser on - the Supernumerary List, to be Captain. Brevet-Major France James Soady to be Captain, vice Calder, deceased ; Lieut. John Andrew Price to be Se cond Captain, vice Brevet-Major Soady. The undermentioned Lieutenants, with Temporary Rank, to be Lieutenants with Permanant Rank, viz. : Lieut. Francis Sadleir Stoney ; Lieut. George O'Connor. To be Quartermasters—Second Captain Andrew Henry, from. Half-pay of the late Land Transport Corps, vice Steele, retired upon half-pay ; Quartermaster-Serjeant William Armstrong, vice White, retired upon half-pay; Serjeant-Major William Cairns, vice Nicoll, retired upon half-pay ; Serjeant-Major John Morris, vice Eager, retired upon half-pay; Staff-Serjeant John Williams, vice Dun bar, retired upon half-pay. Ist or,Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieut. and Captain and Brevet Lieut.-Colonel G. W. Alexander Higginson to be Captain and Lieut.-Colonel, by purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel Edward Goulbourn, wtm retires; sign and Lieut. Clifton Gaseoigne to be Lient. and Captain, by purchase, vice John Davie F. Davie, who retires; En sign and Lieut. Wm. Philip, Earl of Sefton, to be Lieut. and Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel Higginson; Charles Berners Jarrett, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant by purchase, vice Gascoilne. 2d Regiment of Foot—Quartermaster-Sergeant William Mackie to be Quartermaster, vice Mansfield, who retires upon half-pay. 9th Foot—Cairtain Arthur Oswald Richards, from half pay 9th Foot, to bo Captain, vice Lousada, who exchanges; Captain John Holmes Houston Gammen, from half-pay 9th Foot, to be Captain, vice Hon. W. L. Talbot, who exchanges. 14th Foot—Lieut. Dawson Stockley Warren to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice Segrave, who retires. 21st Foot—Capt. Roger Killeen, from half-pay 21st Foot, to be Captain, vice King, deceased. 25th Foot—Lieut. William Robert Goodall to be Capt., by purchase, vice Ogilvy, who retires ; Ensign E. H. Lay aril to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Goodall. 33d Foot—Ensign F. C. M. Glasgow, from the 72d Foot, to be Ensign, vice H. F. Campbell, who exchanges. 41st Foot—Lieut. Walter Johnson has been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his commission. 44th Foot—Lieut. Alexander W. Cobham to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice Greene, who retires • Ensign Thos. Gash to he Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Cobham ; Henry Wm. Heave, Gcnt.;to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Gash. 72d Foot—Ensign H. F. Campbell, from 33d Foot, to ba Ensi g n, vice Glasgow, who exchanges. 91st Foot—Lieut. Thomas Erskine Arthur Hall to be In structor of Musketry. 97th Foot—Robert Gray, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Annesley, promoted. 98th Foot--Capt.. Robert Reid, from half-pay Unat tached, to be Captain, vice H. W. Goodwyn, who ex changes. Rifle Brigade—Lieut. Stewart Smyth Windham to be Instructor of Musketry, vice Capt. Bowles, who resigns that appointment. 3d West India Regiment—Lieut. Thomas McCurdy to be Captain, without purchase, vice Macdonald, appointed to the Military Train. Cape Mounted Riflemen—Lieut. James F. Boyes to be Captain, without purchase, vice Salis, promoted in the Military Train. DEPOT BATTALION.—The Commission of Paymaster Alexis Corcoran, appointed 10th March, 1857, has been antedated to 7th Nov., 1856. UNATTACHED.—Lieut. Robert Reid, from the 98th Foot, to be Captain, without purchase. PURVEYOR'S DEPARTMENT:—Gregsou Bridgett, Gent., to be Purveyor to the Forces. BREVET. Lient.-Col. William Turnbull Renwick, of the koyal Engineers, having completed three years' actual service in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, to be Colonel in the Army, under the Royal Warrant of 3d Nov., 1851. The undermentioned Quarl;ermasters, retired upon half pay, to have the honorary rank of Captain, under the Royal Warrant 17th December, 1855:—James Nicoll, half-pay Royal Artillery ; Robert Eager, half-pay Royal Artillery; Alexander Steele, half-pay Royal Artillery; James White, half-pay Royal Artillery ; Charles Dunbar, half-pay Royal Artillery; John Mansfield, half-pay 2d Foot. The undermentioned. Cadet of tho East India'Company's Service to have the local and temporary rank of Ensign, during the period of his being placed under the command of Colonel Sandham, of the Royal Engineers, at Chatham, for Field Instructions in the art of Sapping and Mining : —William Merriman, Gent. MEMORANDUM.—The following Corps, viz. :—Tho Bri tish German Legion, the British Swiss Legion, and the British Italian Legion, have ceased to exist, their services being no longer required. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS. Denbighshire Yeomanry Cavalry— John Nauney, Esq., to be Captain, vice Newcome, resigned. Royal North Lincoln Militia—Ensign Robert Henry Owston to be Lieutenant, vice Mitchell, resigncd. Ist or Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia—Lieu tenant George Crozier Cole to be Captain, vice Philips, resigned. _ _ _ . Fifeshire Militia Artillery—Second Lieutenant George James Williams to be First Lieutenant, vice Thomas Wm. Webb, resigned ; Second Lieutenant Thomas Jarvis to be First Lieutenant, vice Thomas Wm. Disney, resigned. The Royal Ayrshire Rifles—Lieutenant William Archi bald Hamilton to be Captain, vice Ferrers, deceased. BANKRUPTS. Thomas Pepper, wheelwright, Mountfield, Sussex, to surrender, April 23 and May 22, at on; at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall street ; J. and S. Langham, Bartlett's-buildings, Holborn. John Ernmerson, licensed victualler; High-street, Pop lsr, April 23, at one, and May 22 at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basiughall street ; Lawrence, Plews, and Boyer, Old Jewry-chambers. Thomas Moslin, builder, Cobourg-place, Old Kent-road, April 16, at eleven, and May 14, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-build ings ; Depree and Austen, Lawrence-lane, Cheapside. . Philemon Guy, builder. St. James's-road, Holloway, April 23, at twelve, and May 25, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicolson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Paterson and Longman, Old Broad street. Bartholomew Ward, stationer, High-street, Southwark, April 24, at eleven, and May 25, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Marsden, Sise-lane. Sam Holden Splatt, sailmaker, Liverpool, April 30 and May 21, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Tur ner, official assignee. Liverpool; Cobb, Liverpool. Thomas Rowe and John Walter Trenery, ironmongers, Lincoln, April 29, and May 27, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court. Carrick, official assignee, Hull ; Reece, Birmingham ; Bond and Barwick, Leeds. William Threlfall, iron merchant, Preston, April 21. and May 12, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester; Catterall, jan., Preston. Alfred Charles Wood, linen draper, Pershore, Worces tershire, April 24, and May 15, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Helme and Walcot, Worcester, and Knight, Birmingham. Robert Alexander, furniture dealer, Crawford-street, Camberwell, April 21, at half-past two, and May 26, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lce, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Child and Son, Cannon-street. Thomas Lewis, draper, Nantwieb, Cheshire, April 24 and May 15, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Tur ner, official assignee, Liverpool ; Sale, Worthington, and Shipman, Manchester; Evans aad San, Liverpool. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Mrs. Hannah Scott, publican, Edinburgh. Robert Garvin, merchant, Kinross. John Hendrie, horse dealer, Glasgow. James Hislop, baker and grocer, Hawiek. M‘Bride and Company, power-loom cloth manufactur ers and cotton spinners, Albyu Works, Glasgow. BANK OF An Account pursuant to the Act the Week ending on fiaturda: ENGLAND. 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for y, the 4th day of April, 1857. Government debt.... 11,015,100 Other securities...—. 3,459,00 Gold coin and bullion 8,570,180 Silver bu11i0n........ £23,045,18 K. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. ;rAATMENT. Gweernmentsecnrittes (includg.Dead Weight Annuity).......... 11,645 974 Other securities...... 21 649,787 Notes .............. 3,507,475 Gold and silver coin .. 773,540 ISSUE DEP. Notes Issued ..... . • 23,045,180 423,045,180 Dated the 9th day of April. 18; BANKING DE Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000 Rest ................ 3,842,182 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav ing's Banks, and Dividend Accounts) 9,019,533 Other deposits ......, 9,419,012 3(ven Day and other 8i115........ 743,049 £37,576,776 437,576,776 M. MARSHALL, Chief enabler. Dated the 9th day of Aptil, 1857. AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from the returns made in the week ending April 7, 1857, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon, on. the importation thereof into Great Britain : s, d. From the British Possessions in America 39 5 Muscovado, tho produce of the Mauritius.... Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies 3O 54 Average of the above descriptions. THE LIINDHILL COLLIERY EXPLOSION.—The adjourn ed inquest was resumed yesterday, at the Brampton Bull's Head, before Mr. Badger, the coroner. Several additional vvitnesses had been examined, and the Court Was sitting at the time our parcel left, From the files of newspapers brought to England by the Jura we extract the following '(From the Melbourne Argus of Feb._l4.) • The corn crops being now secured in all but the very late districts, the demand for farm servants is not so urgent as it has been ; still there is work to be had by all who really seek it. The farmers and settlers all want more hands to carry out improve ments and extend their operations, and are willing to engage as many as they can get at the Ordinary rate of wages,. which men would not accept during the time of shearing and harvest. While the busy season lat 4, wages for short terms of engagement rise so much above the usual rate, that all other works on. stations . and farms. are at a standstill. Now that the work whieh•adinits of no delay is over and employment at these extra rates is no longer is be had, masters are . anxious 'to engage men for lorigzr periods at the standard wages, and resume their suspended improvements ; but so long as the restless characters who always take advantage of the unsettl• d state of affairs during the spring and sum mer months to indulge their rambling propensities, and at the same time reap a harvest for themselves, have money in their pockets, they are net inclined to settle down to work fore which.. they will receive a - Smaller remuneration. Ferahis reason the labour market is rather unsettled at this season, and will remain so fora, few weeks. On the gold fields the diggers and quar: z miners are gradually becoming more settled and more systematic in their mode of working. The consequence is that those who have not sufficient funds to enable them to work on their own account more readily find employment, and on some of the diggings at a very high rate of wages. On the Ovens golSfield, where the American sys tem has been adopted, and the work is -mostly done by men in large parties, the regular wage for an ordinary labouring man is twenty shillings a day. On the other gold fields the parties engaged in washing the alluvial soil are generally smaller and mostly composed of men working in partnership, so there is not so much demand for labourers for that purpose ; but there are very many quartz reefs now worked on all the diggings, which afford plenty of employment both to• labourers and me chanics. A great deal of machinery is constantly sent up from Melbourne, for which the necessary buildings have to be erected. Very much capital is also expended in improving the inland towns, in which large hotels,' theatres, concert-rooms, and substantial shops an 1 dwelling-houses have re placed the calico and canvas covered erections of the early days of gold-digging. Besides the amount of work afforded by private enterprise, there are all the public works of the colony, such as roads and bridges, public buildings, ; and in addition to those already in progress, the main lines of railway to the interior will soon be commenced on a scale commensurate with what we may expect our requirements to be a few years hence. These railways alone will afford employ ment to a great number of men for a longer time than we Can look forward to ; and every new line will open up and give increased value to a fresh track of agricultural land ; so that notwithstanding the alarmist views of many persons in the old coun try, who do not understand high wages, and who believe that they must ruin either individuals or communities, who are obliged for long to pay them, we belieVe that we may safely promise their 'con tinuance here, and that without the slightest danger of our being ruined. The expense of living is now very moderate, and the labour of every working man, unless sadly misdirected, adds con siderably to our wealth ; so that we really cannot sea from what quarter ruin is to assail us. The export of gold from Victoria during the year 1856 amounted to one hundred and twenty five tons. The vessels which have, sailed to foreign ports with shipments of gold during the current year are given below. January 1. Orwell 6. Good Hopo 7. Auqtral (Geel ong-)... London 13. Copenhagen • London 13. White Star 15. Marco Polo 15. Telegraph Bombay ... ..... 976 15. Royal Charter .. 22. Canton 27. Oneida 2T. Podesta 'Hong Kong ... 7,215 27. Thames(Geelong) London February 1. Anglesey 3. South Carolina...... Liverpool 3. Sydenham . . London 3. Star of the East ... Bombay 1,591 9. James Paton Hong Kong ... 7,210 12. Morning Star Bristol ......... 48,380 12. Seringapatam A proposition has been put forth by Dr. Lang for the establishment of an independent territory, to comprise the extensive tract of country lying be tween the Murray and the Murrumbidgee, to the north of our own colony, and, at present, including in that of New South Wales. The district referred to contains an area of 30,000 square miles. It is peculiarly favoured in respect to the possession of two noble rivers, equally valuable for the purposes of navigation and irrigation, and of a Vast breadth of alluvial land bordering the rivers ; while, in other districts, the soil is said to be favourable for pastoral purposes. Dr. Lang suggests the Tumut river as the eastern boundary of the proposed ter ritory, but the Border Post (a paper published at Albury) contends for a coast line about 100 miles in length, extending between Cape Howe and Point Dromedary, and including the settlements of Eden and Twofold Bay, as the more natural boundary ; while Albury is indicated as the future capital of the new province. In reply to some objections which have been urged against the proposition on the ground of its prematurity, and of the, inability of the population to support a Government. Dr. Lang observes : " As the separation of Port Philip was not granted till ten years from the time when it was first asked for, and as the separation of Moreton Bay has only been conceded after it had been expressly provided for by Act of Parliament six years before, it surely cannot be too soon to agitate for the separation of the territory intervening between the Murray and I the Murrumbidgee. As to the ability of these new colonieS (in esse and posse) to support a Govern ment, it has been ascertained that the export from the Moreton Bay country, even without gold, ex ceeds 30/. for every man, woman, and child in the district ; and it is estimated that New South Wales draws about 600,0001. per annum from stock exported to the southward, chiefly, of course, to Victoria. , Now the greater portion of this stock comes from the Murrumbidgee country." The " theatrical world" of Melbourne has been barren of incidents since the date of our last sum mary. The season at the Theatre Royal terminated on the 31st ult., when the manager, Mr. George Coppin, took his benefit, as Sir Peter Teazle, in the " School for Scandal." • There was a very large attendance ; and in a valedictory speech, retrospec tive of the business of the season, Mr. Coppin stated that he had lost 4,0001. in his endeavour to make the Italian opera a colonial institution, but that he had retrieved his losses by the gains accruing from the performance of the regular drama. Mr. Brooke, with Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Heir, are still playing successfully in Sydney ; and Madame Anna Bishop appears to have fairly turned the heads of the people in Tasmania. Miska Hauser has returned to Melbourne from Adelaide, and pur poses to give some farewell concerts in this city, and will immediately afterwards take his departure for Europe,,visiting Vienna, eat route for London ; whero wo shall be.very 'much mistaken if he does not excite a sensation second only to that occasioned by the extraordinary powera of Paganini. The bill for abolishing the property qualification of Members of the Legislative Assembly has passed through that chamber, flilcl been read a oecond time in the council. On the 12th of It ebrualy a debate of groat im portance took place iri the Legislature of Victoria on a bill which then passed through committee—a bill to provide for the establishment of an emigration department in England to manage the funds pro vided by the colony for emigration purposes—funds which have hitherto been administered by the com missioners appointed in England. (From the Melbourne Weekly News of Feb. 13.) The New South Wales Government seem to un dervalue the importance of electric telegraph com munication with the interior of that country, or perhaps, and indeed probably, there are no inland 'owns sufficiently energetic and important to war rant the Executive in expending the public re• venues in works not likely to prove productive. We are glad to find by the following conversation oh the fitthject, which recently. took Ow in the " Mr.. Hay said that he .might state -that the Government did not intend to take any steps to wards introducing lines of electric telegraph into any other districts of the colony, except into those towards the southward, so as to form a telegraphiJ communication with Victoria, and to meet the line now forming there. The Governmfmt would aloo be prepared to call for tenders very shOrtly after the vote for the purpose should be pas§ed by the House." The following accounts of reported mineral dis coveries are from the Adelaide Weekly Despatch of Feb. 7 : GOLD AT LAST. Two men, just in from the country, called upon Mr. Tinline, at the Bank of South Australia, late. on Thursday, and deposited with him about four .teen and a half ounces, which, after much search, they had obtained in some of our quartz ranges. The men's account of the matter is, that in sinking on the ranges, they came upon a load of reddish, brown quartz, evidently of a gold bearing charac ter, and that they had, in one day, r used ten buckets full of stuff out of the hole, and by the aid of logs of trees and hammers 'had crushed it, and obtained that quantity of gold from it. Mr. Tinline brought round this gold to our office, about half past ten o'clock in the evening, in a basin ' with a solution of sulphuric acid, for our inspection. It is of a thready and foliated character, just like what would be crushed from quartz. The men's state ment was, in all respects, a straightforward and apparently truthful one. They believe the gold fields to extend over a range of half-a-mile in width by thirty miles in length. Mr. Tinline fully believes the gold left in his charge to b 3 South Australian gold, and he is confirmed ir. this opinion by Mr. Mackinnon, of the Argus, who is now on a visit from Melbourne, and who was present when the men brought it. Mr. Mackinnon had never seen gold of that description obtained from any of the Victorian gold fields, but its quattzose matrix exactly corresponds with that - found at Bendigo. From an examination of the hills, beyond Brown hill Creek, Mr. Mackinnon, moreover, islof opinion that gold will eventually be found there. The men report themselves to have lodged their claim with the Government for the gold discovery reward, but until that is acknowledged they will of course say nothing about the locality. Prom all we have heard and seen, we believe a paying gold field has at length been discoVered ; but a day or two at farthest wall decide the matter. NORTHERN COPPER DISCOVERIES. For some weeks past a rumour has been current in Adelaide of a further discovery of copper to the northward. This rumour has now settled down into a fixed reality... Mr. Bull arrived on Monday evening from the seat of the reported discovery, which has already been surveyed, and taken on a mining lease, and he has furnished us with particulars, o which we proceed to give a digest. The situation of the mine is east of Mount Stuart, and bearing 100 miles N.N.E. of Port Augusta, the road to which is easy of access, and well supplied - with water from springs at intervals of ten or 15 miles the whole of the way. The samples from the mine, exhibited to us by Mr. Bull, are of malachite and silver grey ore of the richest description. Mr. Bull reports his hav ing traced the lode at surface for 50 fathoms, bear ing a continuous course of ore the whole of the way, and on his breaking the group on the course of the lode southward 50 fathoms further on, he found - the same rich character of ore existing. But what is more remarkable than the whole of the foregoing, is the cropping out of the ore on the surface at the base of one of the adjoining hills. A large basin is formed there comprising several acres, say ten or twelve. Over the whole extent of this, nodules of copper ore are extensively dispersed and lie scattered among the debris. This can hardly exist without large and important underground workings. This discovery, we learn, was made by Mr. Bull's eldest son, who, in conjunction with his father and Mr. Whitington, has secured the mineral lease of the property referred to above. Large samples of ore are, we understand, on the road down with the cart, and will be exhibited on arrival. (Front the Sydney Morning Herald of Feb. 10.) It is a common opinion abroad that it is very difficult to purchase land in the Australian colonies. A certain portion of the Australian press has done its best and worst to propagate that absurdity. It has h en asserted over and over again that all lands available for cultivation are " locked up" by leases, to a tribe of grasping monopolists called " squat ters," who make no use of theni save to raise those useless commodities, wool, tallow, and meat. There can be little doubt but that the constant declama tion against our land system has deterred immigra tion here to a considerable extent, and that it con tinues to do so. Apart altogether from the Govern ment lands—the extent of land for disposal being almost illimitable—there is always a large quantity for sale by private individuals, so large indeed and. at such moderate prices that it is not easy to believe in the alleged pressing demand for it, The Herald of 31st of J anuary last, for instance, shows that there is no lack of sellers. It an nounced for sale by auction and by private bar gain, sixty-six different lots of land, varying in size from three acres up to 14,000, the whole amount ) ing to upwards of 33,000 acres, some of it, the greater part iudeed, ready for occupation, with the clearings, fences, and houses. This quantity does not include several farms where area is not men tioned, nor any of several hundred city; town, and suburban building allotments. For lease there are 12,683 acres, in lots varying from 6 acres to 10,C00. Wth these public advertisennnti before us there can be no great difficulty in obtaining land, unless people want it for nothing, which is too often the case with those whose delight it seems to be to revile our land regulations. It the whole truth were known, it would be found that it is as easy to get land, to • settle, and, to live on it, in Australia as in any other part of the world. In the Herald just referred to there are a few adver tisements of squattages. There are 11,000 sheep in two lots to be sold without stations. There are 155,350 sheep and 5,850 cattle to be sold with sta tions in six different lots. The quantity of stock and stations at present on sale is, about the usual amount: There is often much more in the market, seldom less. Judging from the number of sellers and the quantity of stock, it is evident that there are plenty of opportunities of buying out the so called monopolists, upon advantageous terms. THE PASSRNGER TRAFFIC FROM AUS TRALIA TO ENGLAND. (From the Sydney Morning Herald of Feb. 10.) A finer vessel than the Simla never graced the harbour of Port Jackson, yet she will take her de parture to-morrow with a mere handful of passen gers. The Oneida was no better patronised: She left Melbourne with 65 passengers and 10,000 ounces of gold. This was the total Australian freightage, unless some solitary passenger was picked up during the coaling at King George's Sound. Of this number only 43 were booked to Southampton, or Malta, the remainder stopping short at intermediate stations. Sixty-five passen gers for a splendid vessel Qf over 2,000 tons ! Why, the crew alone would muster double that number. The passage -money received would not pay for the coals, to say nothing of stores, wages, expenses of wear and tear, or interest on cost of the vesseL It is quite clear that this cannot pay. Not even the postal subsidy, heavy as it is, will compensate for such a loss. The scanty patronage given hitherEo to the ves sels of the European and Australian Mail Company does not arise from the fact that there is but little passenger traf f ic between the mother country and these colonies. There is a very large passenger traffic, both outwards and ho mewards. - A glance at 'the shipping columns of the colonial journals will show this in a moment, but the passengers choose other vessels, and other routes, less comEnodlos, but more economical. It is the high rate oef that sage, money charged for the overland v g t h ;r y e t bulk makes travellingby it impossible for of passengers. The voyage to England by way of C a l' Horn is that way once has any especial de:4r repeat the not a pleasant one. Nobody who . e ha t s o jo e y ,e d to one just quit experiment. The first part of ltlhevoyage is cold, miserable, and cheerless, especially tine , the warm and sunny plains of Australia. Any other way home would be preferred. by a returning %colonist if equally economical, But all the oailiug ships, and latterly all the screw steamships, go home by the Horn, becl,m - e the winds are usually favour able. The great balk of the passengers, therefore, go - that way. The over:and route offers the advantages of a speedy trip, and the maximum of comfort pos sible on:shipboard, but the price charged is such as to prevent, all but a few from availing th..mselves of these advanta g es. The company charge 200 1 . for a best cabin, and 1451. for a share of one. To a colo nist returning to England with his family this makes a serious sum, arid is about double what he will have to give in a sailing vessel.' If the richer classes fight shy of such heavy charges ; the less wealthy are, of cour:e unable to meet them. Those who may be in possession of moderate incomes, but who, finding that they can leave their affairs in safe hands, wish to pay a visit' to the mother country, cannot of course entertain the idea of travelling . home by a route the. expenses of which, for the whole family, would go far to swamp a year's in come at starting. It is a popular notion in Eng land that those who return from Australia ate only the lucky rich, who have made large fortunes. But this is quite a delusion. So showthat it is so, it.will be-quite enough to instance two of the re . - c ant departures. The Royal Charter took home two hundred and thirty-three passengers—not all rich, for fifty-eight went in the second cabin, and one hundred and forty-three in the third cabin. The Anglesey, a favourite Blackwall liner, took away from Melbourne.one hundred and eighty-five passengerA, of which only nineteen were in the cabin, the rest being all steerage passengerS. It is pain, therefore, that there is a large passenger traffic from Australia to England, of that class to whom a few pounds is an object, and who will sub mit to inconvenience and loss of time in order to effect a small saving. 'II it is worth while at all to employ ships of two thousand tons burden to rim between Sydney and Suez, it is,worth while to try And fill them—to get the maximum utility out of them—to adapt them so exactly to the requirements of the trade that they should be well freighted each trip to and fro. There is no reason whrit should not be so. The expense of maintaining a fleet of large steamships is no doubt great, but yet wherever there is enough to give them full employment, large vessels can be worked. at a proportionately less expense than smaller ones. And there is a passenger trade be tween England and Aitstralia quite large enough - - to give ample employment to the vessels of the European and Australian Mail Company, if the trade could only be attracted to, them. And if th , .sa vessels were regularly filled, the line would pay handsomely, heavy as its necessary expenses are. It may, perhaps, be said that this is a matter which concerns the Company much more than it concerns the colonist. Bat it is not so ; it equally concerns both. It is to the advantage of Australia that the Company should find their undertaking profitable. If the Company should prove a failure, die mail service will be aga'n deranged, and enterprige in this direction dis couniged. In all trades—the carrying trade as well as others—it is the best when those who serve as well as those who are served mutually reap ad vantage. There can be no such thing in commerce as a continuous one-sided benefit. A country is never so badly served as when those who trade with it find the business .a dangerous or unprofitable speculation—never so well served as when those who are engaged in the task find it to be their in terest to pay attention to it. For the sake of Australia, therefore, we are anxious to see the Mail Company prosperous. Its conductors are said to be shrewd men of business. They must quickly see how the matter stands, and we can hardly doubt that they will see the expediency of such a prompt and, thorough revision of their present tariff as will give the control of the passenger and gold carrying trade, instead of, as at present, excluding them from it. The completion of the Cairo and Suez Railroad is a matter of great importance in reference to their future arrangements, and it is their interest to urge forward the work as fast as possible. With that finished, the overland route might, in the absence of any service by way of Panama, almost monopolise the trade so tar as passengers and. light freight are concerned. ALLEGED POISONING AT• WOOLTrIcir. Much excitement prevailed iu Woolwich on Thursday, and the police-court was crowded, in consequence of a report that one of the artillerymen was to be brought up on a charge of having admi nistered poison to a girl named Ellen Smith. A little after 4 o'clock, George Heatherley, aged 32, a gunner and driver in the Royal Artillery, was placed at the bar before Mr. Traill, on sus picion of administering poison in some beer to a girl of the town, named Ellen Smith, Ellen Malloes deposed that she was an unfortu nate girl, and that last Sunday fortnight she was in company with Smith and the prisoner at the Alma beer-house. Tl'e two appeared as if they wera quarrelling. They talked. about poisoning ; pri -soner said he had put many a brighter girl than her under the turf; and said he could put it in an orange or a cake. He did not appear much in liquor, but he had been drinking. She did not see him give her anything ; since then (on last Tuesday week) she became ill. On the day before Smith was taken ill prisoner and the girl were both in the same room together. R. D. Walker, M.D., said he was called in last Monday to attend Ellen Smith. He found her in a very low state. It was named to him that poison had been administered to her, and she 'was labouring under symptoms of having taken poison, She bad a tingling of the skin, or itching, and vomited, and now remained in the ,same state. He thought it would be important to take the girl's evidence, as he considered her life in danger. She was fast sinking. His worship having disposed of the other re maining cases, adjourned to the residence of the girl, accompanied by the medical gentleman, the clerk of the court, the reporter, two or three officials, and the prisoner, who was placed at the bottom of the bed. The woman appeared in an emaciated and ex hausted state, and immediately upon catching sight of the prisiuer she called out loudly, pointing, " That's the young man." As soon as her excite ment was over she said her name was Mura Bassam, and that she was married. Upon being asked her husband'oname she became so visibly affected that no answer could be got from her. After a time she resumed that she knew the prisoner well ; she had seen him in the London Hospital, in the Mile-end road, four years and a-half ago. She had met him at the Alma beer-house several times. They were there one night when Ellen Malloes was there, and bad some words. It was last Sunday fortnight. He was in liquor. I said to him, "Be quiet, or I shall say things you do not like to hear." He said, " I'll cook your goose before another week." He 'said he would knock my brains out. He asked me to drink out of his pot, which I did ; and the next night after that I saw him put something into a pot of ale down stairs. That was the Monday night. I drank some of it, and so did he. Here the wit ness became confused and exhausted. She after wards said she did not know there was anything in the ale. She said she afterwards found had effects from taking it on Thursday week, but did not know the cause. At this point she evidently became un conscious, and apparently swooned away. The magistrate finding that there was no coher ence in her answers, and that she now became per fectly insensible, some stimulant was administered, but she did not revive. The doctor gave it as his opinion that she was getting from bad to worse. As the examination could not be continued, the pri soner was taken back to the court, and remanded till to-day, to await the issue of the woman's illness. On leaving the house it was asserted by some person present that the prisoner and the victim tan and were in [Anvinerissmorr. } _ T h e salutary effect of Du Barry's deli cious Revalenta Arabica Food in removing Indigestion (Dys pepsia), Flatulency, Constipatlon,Nervous, Bilious, and Liver complaints, Cough, Asthma, Consumption, and. Debility with out Medicine, admirably is displayed by the following letters: ,' Ridlingto n Rectory, Norfolk, June 10, 1850. No. 4,208. Eight nervousness, debility with cramps, _ J ears , d y s p epsia , spasms, health -restoring naea, have been ectually removed by Du Barry 's Food. Is hall be happy to answer an y i n quiries. Rev. J. W. FLAVELL," " Bury, Lancashire, Aug.' ir, 1851. 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Stuart de Decies; the Dowager Countess of Castle stuart ; Major-Gen. Thomas King, and many other respectable ipersons, whose health has been restored by it, after all other meatus of cure had failed. For further particulars respect ing this invaluable food our readers are referreditoDu Barry's Ativertisemel4 in, anotker pArt of thio paper, ODIERIK RACES.—We hear teat there is every pros. pact of this mee ti ng b e i ng ra i se d t o a standard second to none of its class on the "home circuit." The comaiittee, backed by their worthy chairman (J. Esq.), are endeavouring to increase their funds by stirring up the inhabitants to increase their subscriptions, and lend their aid to'further an object which must obviously tend to promote the prosperity of the town, which is so easily approached by railway ; whilst the course is very pret tily situated, and the turf remarkably - well adapted for racing`Ptirposes ; so that we have every reason to sup pose the eff , rts ,if the-c,itrimiitee will be crowned with the success which they deserve. WOUCESTER RACE MEETINGS.—Mr. Wm. Webb has accepted the office of Clerk of the Course, in the pl'ace of the late Mr. Tolley, but on the condition only that the office shall be honorary. Mr. Webb has for many years performed the duties of this office, and has been mainly instrumental in bringing up the Worcester Meetings to their present successful pitch ; but his pre.. sent disinterestedness fairly traneceLds anytning that could have been expected, even from him, especially when it is considered that with him the office will only be honorary, in respect that he will receive no salary. The subscription to the Goodwood Cup, to which there are at present 25 names down, closes on Tuesday next. The horses are not to be named until the Tues day after Epsom. We regret to state, that Mr. Stephen Walker, well known on the turf as the owner of Winkfield and °vier hoses, died suddenly. on Thursday night, at his house, High-street, Marylebone. CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND WRESTLING,. .The great annual wrealing meeting of the na tives of-Cumberland and Westmoreland resident in London took place yesterday, and at: racter an assemblage of three or four thousand persons. The weather was exceedingly fine, which, with the anticipation of pod sport consequent upon there being some very good men in London, may accoi tnt for the largeness of the assemblage, which consider ably exceeded that of former years. For some s ea sous past these sports have been celebrated at Ho rn sey-wood House, but the committee, from a variety of causes, changed the scene of actin this year to Mr. Baum's, the White Lion, Victoria-park stati )n, Hackney-wick, where a large party of police, under the direction of Superintendent T. Beckerson, wore in attendance to preserve order. Those acquainted with this style of wrestling are doubtless aware that it is divested of all brutality—the men wrestling in, their stockings—and the results are consequently attendant upon the amount of science' displayed by the several competitors. So innocent and harmless is the wrestling considered, that many of the fair sex, female relatives of members, were present in the reserved seats, which had been fitted up for lie occasion, there being Reside the general public a great number of gentlemen from the different counties. The prizes were divided into two classes—a silver watch and three snuff-bores, for the four first in succession, under 11st, and a corresponding num ber of prizes for those between 11 and 16 stone. Besides these, as an introduction to the sport wal a foot-race, with nine competitors, for a trifling prize, in which the following were engaged—T. Mien, S. Frankland, R. Rudd, G. Brown, J. Andrews, J. Fothergal, J. Duckworth, M. Johnson, and J. Illingsworth. The race was won, after three heats, by S. Frankland. The wrestling commenced with the light weights, and was contested with the following results : J. Adcock threw W. Thompson ; B. Brownthrow B. Williams ; J. Smith threw Barrow ; J. Hilton threw T. Lomas : W. Jenkinson threw J. Hillings. worth ; J. Johnson threw J. Gilchrist ; W. Banks threw C. Atkinson ; J. Custley threw T. Benson ; J. Lancaster threw J. Scott; J. Thompson threw G. Casson ; W. Bannister threw H. Fearon; E. Stanley threw G. Brown ; J. Bowman threw J. Tharbarn ; E. Charlton threw I. Duckworth ; T. Mien threw D. Dickson ; J. Little threw M. Jackson ; J. Gibson threw J. Thurlwall ; A. Scott threw T. Smart ; W. Scott threw J. Stamper ; T. Webster threw D. Wilson ; J. Brown threw R. Atkinson ; G. Gib son threw J. Roberts ; S. Thompson threw J. Brough ; P. Barnes threw T. Bentham. ; J. M'Gowan threw J. Rawlingshaw ; W. Rigg throw J. Martingdale ; G. Parke threw J. Bishop. SECOND ROUND. —J . Little threw W. Walker, odd man ; T. Charlton threw James M‘Gowan ; J. Smith threw J. Gibson ; A. Scott threw W. Jen kinson ; W. Banks throw J. Hilton ; J. Bowman. threw S. Webster ; J. Thompson threw W. Rigg ; P. Barnes threw T. Adcock ; G. Gibson threw W. Bannister ; E. Stanley threw J. Johnson ; T. Mien threw W. Scott ; J. Lancaster threw B. Brown ; J. Thompson threw J. Custley ; J. Brown threw G. Parkes. THIRD ROUND.—W. Banks threw T. Mien ; J. Bowman threw E. Stanley ; Lancaster threw P. Barnes ; J. Thompson threw A. Scott ; J. Smith threw James Brown ; J. Thompson threw E. Charlton ; G. Gibson threw J. Li.tle. FOURTH ROUND. -W. Banks threw J. Bowman; J. Thompson threwJ. Smith ; J. Thompson throw G. Gibson. FIFTH ROUND.—Banks threw J. Lancaster, old. man ; J. Thompson threw J. Thompson. FINAL FALLS. FIRST FALL. —J. Thompson threw Banks. SECOND FALL.—J. Thompson threw Banks. The winner is a corporal of the Guards. Toflin, the great favourite, withdrew through accident. HEAVY WEIGHTS. FritsT ROUND.—A. Aytcn threw J. Thompson ; J. Smith threw P. Barnes ; R. Atkinson threw G. Castles ; J. Wheatley threw J. Lancaster ; R. Rendham threw T. Mien ; G. Brunskell beat R. Welshams ; G. Nanson threw T. Adcock ; J. Atkinson threw(J. M‘Gowan ; J., Thompson threw D. Wilson ; F. Rendham threw D. Dickson ; J. Brown threw T. Wilson ; G. Brown threw G. Parkes ; B. Brown threw J. Tharman ; E. Charlton. threw R. Barrow ; H. Howe threw W. Walker; W. Jenkinson threw J. Gilchrist ; J. Hil ling•sworth threw J. Roberts; W. Scott threw C. Hanley ; Miles Jackson threw W. Brough ; R. Broateb threw J. Bowman ; W. Banks threw W. Bannister ; J. Routledge threw W. Gilchrist ; J. Scott threw A. Scott. ' SECOND ROUND. —J. Rudham threw J..Hollings worth, J. Scott threw El. Charlton, J. Smith threw H. Howe, J. Brown threw G. Gibson, W. Banks threw M. Jackson, G. Brunskill threw R. Renham, J. Routledge threw A. Naylow, J. Thompson threw B. Brown, J. Anson threw W. Scott, T. Atkinson threw R. Brookes. THIRD ROUND.—J. Scott threw Wheatley, Jos. Thompson threw James Brown, John B-nham. threw W. Jenkinson, W. Banks threw T. Atkin son, J. Smith threw G. Brimskill. FOURTH ROUND. —John Smith threw J. Manson, Scott threw Banks, Wheatley threw Rudham. FIFTH ROUND. _Thompson threw Scott, Smith threw Wheatley. FINAL FALLS. —First Time : Smith threw Thornp. son. Second Time: Smith threw Thompson. Both were obtained with much less play than usual Messrs. Westmorland and Tippin were the um pires, and Mr. Margetson, so many years th e valu able hon. secretary of the society, the referee. AQUATICS. PAIR-OARED TRADESMEN'S RACE. The members of the Temple Alliance Amateur Aquatic Ckub opened the stison with a pair -oared race, with coxswains, for three signet rings for the first boat, yesterday. The course was from the Crab Tree to the Queen's Head at Mortlake, and at about three o'clock the crews started, and came - in as follows : Blue . (Messrs. J. Smith, T. Mann, and J. Best, coxswain) Orange (Messrs. W. Branscombe, W.Bowen, and J. Edgerton, coxswain) 0 Pink (Messrs. J. Tennant, E. Houghton, and E Davis, coxswain) The match was rowed iu wherries. The Etart was very even, and the men were together for a few strokes. Blue then began to lead, Orange and Pink bringing up the rear, oar and oar. Orange then gradually neared Blue, and became level with them at Hammersmith. Blue, however, soon left them again, and were a length ahead at Chiswick Eyot. Pink then became two lengths astern, and Blue having increas ed their lead t o another length, they continued so to the finish,coming in as above. ASSOCIATION OF. MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH. --. A meeting of t h is association was held on Wednesday last at the Board of Health ; Mr. Simon in the chair. A. re pot t on gas from the Trades Nuisances Committee was read by Dr. Ballard, and ordered to be printed. Some suggestions relative to cow-yards were also read by Dr. Brlstowe, and Dr. Aldis brought forward the order of Mr. Paynter upon a cow nuisance at Pimlico, resulting in a decision that cow-yards should form the Subject k A future report from the same committee.