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N°.lB 698. LONDON, WEDNESDAY .,•
AUGUST
2_5, 1852.

PROFESSOR LIEBIG on ALLSOPP'S PALE
ALE.

From Baron Liebig to Mr. Allsopp.
" The specimens of your Pale Ale rent to me afforded me another
opportunity of confirming its valuable qualities. lam myself an ad-
mirer of this beverage, and my own experience enables me to re-
commend it, in accordance with the opinion of the most emilient
English physicians, as a very agreeable and efficient tonic, and as a
general beverage, both for the inva'id and the robust.
" JUSTUS LIEBIG.
" Giessen, May 6, 1852."

That the Public might form a correct judgment of the inten-
tion of that eminent authority, Messrs. ALLSOPP and SONS have
republished Baron LIEBIG'S Letter to Mr. ALLSOPP in extenso,
In all the London Daily Journals, as well as in other Papers, copies
of which Lettee, and of the very numerous and continually increas-
ing Professional Testimonials in favour of their PALE and BITTER
ALE, may be obtained on application at the Brewery, Burton-on-
Trent ; or at their Establishments in London, Liverpool, Manches-
ter, Dudley, Glasgow, Dublin, Birmingham, and elsewhere.
[T. No. 4.]

BARON LIEBIG'S OPINION of " PALE
ALE."
The prominence given to the name of Baron Liebig in placards and
advertisements will have created the impression that he coveted a
celebrity inconsistent with the dignity of his station in the scientific
world. Having learned that he had attained such undesirable no-
toriety, Baron Liebig has requested the publication of the following
letter, with the view of intorming, the public of the motives which
dictated his communication to Mr. Allsopp :--
" The question of adulteration by strychnine, which has been
taken up seriously in England, seemed to me of great importance,
and I thought to do some good by aiding to demonstrate the error.
If I wished to associate with any individual brewery my remarks on
the alleged adulteration of bitter beer with strychnine, it would have
been natural to have mentioned another brewery, in which alone,
and not in Mr. Allsopp's, I was engaged in investigating the Burton
mode of brewing : and it was also in that other brewery that the
Bavarian brewers acquired all the instruction they obtained at Bur-
ton. The admiration I expressed of this beverage in my letter to
Mr. Allsopp is advertised in such a manner as to lead to the inference
that my praise was exclusively confined to Mr. Allsopp's beer ; this
was not the case, my remarks referred to that class of beer.
" JUSTUS LIEBIG.
" Giessen, July 24, 1852."

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. . .
RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON AND BLACKWALL.
The half-yearly meeting of this company was held
yesterday at the London Tavern ; Mr. J. N. Daniell
in the chair.
The report, an abstract of which has appeared in
The Sun, was taken as read.
Tile CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the re-
port, said the affairs of the company were in nearly
the same position as when the shareholders last met,
a short time ago. They were going on in the old
way, progressing steadily and well ; they had had an
increase of traffic and a diminution of expenditure,
and he believed that every exertion had been made
to carry out the best interests of the company. They
had hoped to have had the goods traffic on their line
at this time, but circumstances over which they had
no control had delayed the completion of the Hay-
don-square junction line, which was to have been
finished in June last. The workmen had not been
able to complete the warehouses, without which it
would have been useless to open the junction line.
They were, however, assured that the line and ware-
houses would be ready to accommodate the goods traffic
of the London and North-Western Company on the
Ist of October. He had little doubt the whole
would be ready for traffic before the end of October
next. It was hoped it would be then open, as
that was the time of year when their passenger traffic
commenced to fall off, and the goods traffic then com-
ing on would aid their dividend materially. The
dividend for the first half of the year was generally
less than for the second half, and although at the cor-
responding period of 1861 they had a dividend of 2s.
per share, that did not arise entirely from traffic, fur
3,0001. of it consisted of profit on the sale of shares.-
The dividend on the present occasion was from the
Pet earnings of the line. He had trusted that the
amount would have been further increased by the
North'.Western goods traffic, but no doubt they
Would derive some benefit from that traffic in the
current half-year ; and so soon as the terminus was
completed for the accommodation of the Eastern
Counties trains at Fenchurch. street they would re-
ceive a considerable addition to their traffic. With
regard to the Tilbury and Southend line, the Black-
wall Company were defended and guarded in every
way from loss of the Gravesend traffic. He believed
the addition to their traffic from that source would be
very great. Every exertion would be made by the
contractors to open the line to Tilbury, opposite Graves-
end, by the Ist of May next. The extension to
Southend would be opened in about twelve months
from the present time, although the time sti-
pulated was eighteen months. So that their
present prospect was very good. He might
be allowed to mention that the directors
were firmly of opinion that their line, as one of five
miles in length only, could never be a paying line in
itself, and it was for this reason that they had, with
the sanction and support of the proprietors, altered
the system of working the railway, and done other
things with a view to advance the interests of the
company and to connect the line with other railways.
Their anticipations with regard to dividends had long
been deferred, but they were now on the eve of being
realised. The exertions of the directors in promoting
the welfare of the undertaking had been as zealous as
possible, and he believed the shareholders generally
were satisfied with those exertions : but that they had
not given universal satisfaction was to be seen from a
letter which appeared in the Times of that morning,
under the signature of " A Poor Debtor."—(Laugh-
ter.) The writer of that letter impugned the conduct
of the directors, who were charged with wasting large
sums of money in the construction of a branch
to Haydon-square, and in building an extravagant
terminus at Fenchurch-street, while the shareholders
were obliged to put up with a dividend of 2s. per
share. Now he thought the shareholders would
agree with him in saying that a person writing to a
paper like the Times should, before he attempted
to censure a company, at least take the trouble of
investigating the truth of the charges he thought
proper to bring against them.—(Hear, hear.) The
writer of the letter to which he referred might be a
" poor debtor," but he was evidently much poorer in
intellect and information. The "Poor Debtor's"
charge was, that the company had agreed to spend
half-a-million of money upon the Haydon-square
branch. The fact was that the branch was to cost
76,000/., not one farthing of which would come out
of the pockets of the Black wall Comploy—(llcar)
and not only would it not cost the proprietors any-
thing, but the latter would reap a very considerable
advantage from the additional traffic it would bring on
the line when constructed.—(Hear.) With regard
to the Fenchurch-street terminus, the proprietors
were thoroughly acquainted with the fact that that
terminus was scarcely large enough for the
present traffic, and it must, of course, be satis-
factory to them to know that the enlargement
was not to be made with their money ; so that, in
short, these excrescences, which the writer in
the Times charged them with having undertaken
at an enormous expense, would not cost the
company anything, while the outlay would greatly
jacrease the passenger traffic, and consequently add
to the receipts of the railway.—(Hear.) A good in-
terest was guaranteed on the outlay at the terminus
in Fenchurch-street by the Eastern Counties COM-
saw clearly they would derive considerable
pany, and there could be no doubt that the latter
company
advantage from the extra accommodation it would
rPnthYem for their passenger traffic. He concluded
by moving the adoption of the report.
Mr. HAIG seconded the motion.
Mr. PALLISER entered into some statistics with a
view to show that the company carried passengers on
the line for less than id. each. He arrived at this
conclusion from comparing the receipts and number
of passengers carried at one period with the amount
of receipts and number carried at other periods, and
taking the difference in the receipts and in the
numbers.
The CHAIRMAN explained that the result of Mr.
Palliser's calculations were erroneous, inasmuch as
would
from
compared the gross receipts and the number of
passengers of the Dock Junction line included in the
returns with the net receipts and number of passen-
gers included in the returns at another period, in
perall passenger a ;
and,so far appear
muchwictohbehcase the receipts
lessrecthaenitts r
ey w
carrying passengers for less than id. there were none
Carried under a mere fraction less than Id. ; and that,
so far from having received less money, they had re
ceived 3,0001. more during the past half-year than at
any corresponding period. The Blackwell Railway
had boats on one side of it and omnibuses on the
other, and the directors were obliged to do the best
they could to protect the interests of the company.
The sum paid by passengers for single tickets on the
railway averaged 4.307 d. each ; for return tickets,
3.154 d. each ; and to and from the steam. boats, 3.497 d.
each ; so that the steamboat passengers paid more than
the return-tickets on the railway.
Mr. PALLISER contended that the steam-boats had
taken away their dividend.
The CHAIRMAN could not help Mr. Palliser, if he
chose to take that view of
the case, which was not the
fact.
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A PROPRIETOR said they had no right to complain,
as the traffic from the steam-boats returned more per
passenger that the return traffic on the railway.
A discussion then ensued respecting the interest
paid on the borrowed money, in the course of which
it was stated that it had been reduced from 5 per
acdenvte.rttiosel
faonrdlo4atspaenrdceniata.d, afonudndthafet
wtheinydievBli:wouaoavols:
who were willing to lend their money at 4 per cent.
for so long a period as five or seven years. They
had borrowed money from the Bank of England at 41
per cent. In answer to a question it was stated that
they estimated the Gravesend traffic at between
and 9,0001. a-year, which was not to be less when the
Tilbury line was opened from traffic.
The report was then adopted.
Mr. TITS, in reply to a question, stated that it was
not the fault of the London and North-Western nor
of any other party that the Haydon-square junction
line had net been completed. The Blackwell Com.
pany had to provide the land, a large bridge had to he
built, and the warehouses bad to be altered ; these
banlidtme to theother engineer
mattersc
orans anyoneeddela isye,ael the delaydtherew was
snaos
unavoidable.
Mr. PALLISER moved a resolution to the effect that
in future no steamboats be permittsod to collect the
fare for the Blackwell Railway ; that the Blackwell-
pier be open to all passenger-boats by the payment of
pier-dues; that the booking at Fenchurch-street for
boat and rail be discontinued, and that the boats that
make the Blackwall-pier terminus have an allowance
only upon the pier due 3.
The motion was not seconded, and therefore fell to
the ground.
A resolution approving of the dividend of 2s. a
, share for the half-year was carried, and, after a cordial
, vote of thanks to the Chairman and directors, the
meeting separated.

EAST INDIAN.
The half-yearly meeting of this company was held
yesterday at the offices, Old Broad-street; Mr. J.
The CHAIRMAN, in
Baxendale in the chair.
The Secretary read the report,
moving the aioption of the re-
i port, said he was not aware that he had anything to

state in addition to the report, but he would be glad
to answer any questions that might. be put with regard
to their affairs.

The motion, having been seconded, was put and car-
ried unanimously.
A PROPRIETOR wished to know in what way it was
intended to raise the new capital, and whether it was
included in their guarantee. He also wished to know
when it would be raised.
The CEIAIRMAN said he believed the agreement with
the East India Company would bring the further sum
required to complete the railway under the same
guarantee. It was not then possible to say when a
further sum would be required,
Company had at present 577,00/. in hand. He
thought they would have one or iwo ordinary meet-
ings of the company before the question would come
before them. The East India Company, having so
large a sum in hand, were not desirous of increasing
the amount. The last call, at their request, was de-
layed as long as possible. as the East India
The PROPRIETOR wished to know whether a meet-
ing would be called to consider Mr. Turnbulrs report
on the further extension of the line, when it was de-
cided on by the East India Company to carry out the
extension ?

The CllA of course, if anything should
arise requiring
sanction
of the shareholders a
TI RM A N
the said,
meeting would be called. The company could not
complete 120 miles of railway without further capital.
It was probable that a further sum might be required
250,0001., which was alluded to in the report, and
twoouclodm complete e
in
thaeddritaiiolw railway, amounting to about
n to
the present capital of
1,000,0001. The books and amounts of the company
e- proprietors. He
of the line would be
odwpi ederneneoodtp bee enxfpoteroce t the
eea ityilesaaPnreyelBi a
portion;° f th
and when it was con-
sidered that the estimated cost of the line was under
10,0001. per mile, it would not be surprising if
that sum were exceeded, and in that case they would
require above 1,200,0001., being at least 200,0001.
more than the present capital.
Mr. J. CATTLEY said, that whatever the amount
of additional capital might be, it would be allotted
rateably among the shareholders, and the directors
would endeavour to obtain the best terms they could
from the East India Company for the proprietors
when the time came for raising the additional capital.
The meeting then separated.

The disbursements amounted to 172,816/., and for
the corresponding period of 1851 to 152,675/.,
showing a decrease in th expenditure of 20,1411.
The balance of revenue for the past half-year appli-
cable to dividend and interest amounts to 241,045/.
ofThe3 per directors
cent.
annum
tilBa:ft:eol due consideration,
.it is re-
fitoessiteabpileesndiinveidoule ned.
income-tat,
the rate
The
te.h question
it h. coafrriNt forward to
applied gene.
hr share deducted from
of
ndeal-
ing
needs
e ha es
taat hhd
uSnpusweatrximipdttlbe-uaunstctphc;eocousafapnntnitdBt.o,a,
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cr oomi
ymteon it ebde that
purposes the
of amountthe
Nest Riding
Union lines once projected betweene
abandonment of those portions of the
Bowling and
Leeds, Salterhebble and Huddersfield, and other por-
tions, together with the Holmfirth Branch E •
of the Huddersfield and Sheffield line, has also Extension
re-
ceived Parliamentary sanction, and the corn
thereby relieved from liabilities which itivpollnvYedis
large additional outlay of capital. Consequent upona
this abandonment,. the nominal amount of the
ex-
tension shares. is reduced to 16/. per share, and of the
West Riding Union shares to 14/. per share. The
mandamus issued by the Court. of Queen's Bench for
the formation of the remaining portion of the Man-
chester and Southport line, in which the company
is interested, having been made absolute, it
has been determined!
.however reluctantly, to
commence the preliminary proceedings con-
e
nected with the purchase of land, in the first instance,
hlevr modefor
account.
e
for the line between Wigan and Southport. The
order of the Vice-Chancellor's Court, which directed
the Great Northern Company. to account for all traffic
belonging to them which might pass over the lines of
the company, is in. force. In the matter of the
Wakefield and Is..nottingley stations, an award has
been made, which has determined the cost of the
former to be 68,354/., and of the latter to be 11,516/.
ther, 79 871/. A moiety of this amount is
or, toge • •
chargeable by agreement to th? Great Northern Rail-
way Company. The negotiations for an amalgama-
tion with the East Lancashire Company having
failed, the attention of the boards. of both companies
is being directed to the propriety of concluding a
traffic agreement, by which several of the many ad-
vantages which would have resulted from the first-
named measure may be secured at places and in dis-
tricts which are served in common by both companies.
The capital account shows that 11,855,7371. had
been received, and 11,812,222/. expended, leaving a
balance of 43,515/. The revenue account for the
half-year ending the
.30th of June shows that
432,667/. had been received, and 191,622/. expended,
including 7,944/.• rates and taxes, and 5,131/. Govern-
ment duty, leaving a balance of 241,045/. To this
sum is added 19,279/., the balance from the last ac-
count; 6951., dividends on shares in other lines ; and
3,035/., interest on. balances ; making together
264,056/. Out of this sum is deducted 66,486/., in-
tere4 on loan 9, &c.; 15,981/., Preston and Wyre ;
20,721/., North Union; 6,500/., Sheffield and Barns-
ley ; 23,821/., on 6 per cent.. stock ; 5,848/., interest
on 41 per cent. stock ;. leaving 124,691/. for general
dividend ; out of which it is proposed to divide
5,883/. at 3 per cent. per annum, and leave 8,807/.
capital
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LEEDS (NORTHERN).
on Saturday next.
From the statement of receipts and expenditure it
The directors havejust issuedthteoirtrheeposrhtaarnedhosltdaete
ment of accounts to be submittedrs
the half •year, ending
receipts under the same head of
With respect to th,e
the
directors say,—The requisite
" capital account,'
above expenditure have been
appears that the expenditure
jhhe3oonthcalpaistta,l awcacsount
181,7501.uring
exercise of the company's
the Act of 1851, sums
borrowing powers under
g been raised by loans on
e r Down
nt.topear
these loans could not be
meanspamroovui
dnetfdionrgdteof
principallyrsa4y 7nBg 0
hti h.yehtah
than
no difficulty. is now expe-
a aty fivea
debenture during the last
obtained
annumcomparatively
interest. lower eecreßnt tue
ttp,mearssi
in obtaining money on
debenture at greatly reduced rates, an important
rienced by the companyod
saving will be effected in the annual charge for in-
terest, as loans from time to time fall in, to be paid off
or renewed. Having thus been enabled to raise so
large a sum on such favourable terms, and to provide
the means of the half-yearly expenditure on capital
account, the directors have postponed making any
further calls on the company's preference shares,
the capital represented by which is still available
to a large extent. The extension line to Stock-
ton, joining there the line to Hartlepool, was
opened throughout on the 2d of June last. The
connexion is therefore completed between Leeds
and these ports, and the company is in pos-
session of 70 miles of railway. The revenue account
shows that during the last half-year the gross traffic
receipts were 18,2041., and the working expenses
14,4481.; Government duty on passengers 4811. ;
leaving 13,2751. as the net profit for the half-year._
Tne balance left of last half-year was 442/, making
the total disposable surplus 13,7171. Of this avail-
able balance the sum of 9,396/. is required to pay the
interest on loans ; and the directors recommend that
the further sum of 2,7131. be appropriated to the pay-
ment of the half-year's dividend at the rate of 6 per
cent. on the preference quarter shares, leaving a ba-
lance of 1,6071. to be carried forward to the next half-
year. The gross receipts for the half-year, ending
30th of June, exhibit an increase of 3,5471. over the
corresponding period of 1851. The report concludes
by stating that the completion of the northern exten-
sion of the line is a fact of much importance. The
first effect of the opening of the extension has, how-
ever, been to produce a very severe competition for the
traffic of the new district. On the opening of the line to
Stockton, the rates to and from nearly all points at
which this railway comes into competition with other
companies were reduced to an absurd extent by those
companies. The effect of the extremely low charges
which this company had been compelled in self-de-
fence to adopt has consequently been to prevent its
hitherto deriving those benefits which were anti-
cipated, and which are still confidently expected
to be realised, from the formation of the extension
line. The directors continue to entertain the same
confident expectations as heretofore of the value of the
undertaking. The capacious New Dock at West
Hartlepool was opened on the Ist of June last, and.
extensive powers were obtained in the last session of
Parliament for the improvement of the navigation
and dock accommodation of the river Tees, and ulti-
mately a large traffic cannot fail to be derived from
these sources. Much attention continues to be de-
voted to the cultivation of the local traffic, which ex-
hibits a satisfactory increase ; and the directors en-
tertain the hopes of being able shortly to effect a
connexion with the beds of ironstone in the Cleveland-
hills, from which a further source of profitable reve-
nue is to be anticipated.

NAVAL IN TELLIGEN CE.
PROMOTION •
Lieutenant John Knapman (1809), has been pro-
moted to the rank of commander on the reserved
half-pay list. He entered the navy in 1801, as
midshipman, on board the Prince of Wales, 98, Capt.
William Prowse, bearing the flag of Sir Robert
C3lder, in the Channel, where, in 1802, he joined the
Sirius, 36, also commanded by Captain Prowse. In
1803 he removed to the Temeraire, 98, Captain
Eliab Harvey, and from that ship, after be had fought
at Trafalgar, he was draugbted, in March, 1806, into
the Achille, 74, Captain Richard King. On the 25th
of the following September we find him present at ,
the capture, off Rochefort, of four heavy French
frigates by a squadron under the orders of Sir
Samuel Hood. He was next, between 1827 and his
promotion to the rank of lieutenant, Sept. 14, 1819,
employed off Cape Finisterre, Cadiz, and Toulon, in
the Tonnant, 80, and Ocean, 98, flag-ships of Admi-
rals E. Harvey and Lord Collingwood. During the
remainder of the war he served on the Mediterranean
and home stations in the Nettuno (afterwards
Cretan), Favourite, Electra, and Albacore sloops, and
Cressy, 74, Captains Charles Frederick Payne,
Benjamin Clement, H. Gregory, Henry Thomas
Davies, and Charles Dashwood. Under Capt. Davies,
01, 81
fBthleA2,lbacore, Lieutenant Knapman took part, Dec.
when in company
gun sloop Borer, and paangallant action, in which that vessel,
iathndth4e-gl4n-
-12 -
off the French 40-gun • —ll
cutter
• •
frigate La Gloire, with a loss
to herself of one lieutenant killed and six or seven
g u n
schoonerand r aPi 1 i,chkelaei
tne
Coast
be
set
Guard,
men wounded. Through the influence of his late
Majesty
obtained,wNhicobv.
he retained
182 7, aan
natpi
ip nor. ent
in
18,,
1832.

APPOINTMENTS.
Captain Francis
the Royal tornfdaecrTy,fiWomoloch.
slwi
Scott (1841), to study steam at
Wilson (1843), to study
steLamieuattentahoetfsa—ctGoreyo,rlgVeooTlw.
MorrelliciL (1851), to the
fitting at isegefsnheisps,
;P Chas.ortsm OG. 111'Gregor
Daring,oB46), 12,
the VictorytoMasters—J. W. Lowe (1851), to theu Portsmouth.
Daring;
William Ellis (1842), to the Sidon, reservedDs steam_
frigate, Portsmouth ; Frederick F. F. Taylor (1846),tea
to the Farinus reserved steam-frigate, Portsmouth.
Surgeon—Nicholas Littleton (1851), to the Bittern,
12, fitting at Sheerness.
Paymasters—Charles G. Burney (1850), to the
Bittern; Francis Cole (1846), to the Calypso, 18,
West Indies, vice G. L. Herbert.
Assistant-Surgeon—G. B. Newton, to the Bittern.
Clerk—Charles J. Warner (1851), to the Bittern.
Master's Assistant—J. B. Haines, to the Daring.
Boatswain—Fred. M. Johnson, to the Daring.
Carpenter—John Williams, to the Daring.
We understand that the Rosamond, 6, steam-
sloop, in the West Indies, has been ordered home
immediately, in consequence of the great amount of
sickness amongst her crew. This vessel, as the
Eclair, is known as the " and as the Rosa-
mond, when at the Cape she was so sickly that she
was ordered to the Mediterranean station, and now
in the West Indies the same fatality attaches to her :
there must, therefore, be some radical defect in her
construction, as we insisted when she returned home
as the Eclair, with scarcely an officer or man alive
in her. It is right to remember, also, that the In-
flexible steam-sloop, just returned, from the West
Indies, was as sickly as the Rosamond when on the
' same station.

We corrected the statement of a morning contem
porary a few days since, to the effect that the
French had nothing in the shape of a screw-ship that
" could stand up against our Arrogant and Aga-
memnon? We showed that the French had as
powerful a screw-frigate as the Arrogant, and that they
had a 90 gun screw-ship, the Charlemagne, in com-
mission in the Mediterranean, whilst our Agamemnon
had not her machinery fitted. Since then letters
from Toulon announce that the Napoleon, ship of the
line, fitted with the screw, left that port, and pro-
ceeded to sea to try her sailing powers. She returned
in the night. The Napoleon sailed at the rate of 12
knots an hour. A letter from Rochefort, of the 14th
inst., states that the ship of the line Ulm, of 100 guns,
now on the stocks in that port, is to be fitted up as a
screw-steamer.--Herald.
Captain Scott, of the Neptune, 120 flag-ship, at
Portsmouth, has returned to his duties, after a months'
leave of absence.
Her Majesty's steam-vessel Cherokee, of 750 tons
and 206 horse-power, recent solefte the breaking
up of the naval establishment on the Canadian lakes,
has been resold at Boston, United States, and bas
realized a net profit to the speculator of 8,000 dolls.
The Cherokee, we believe, was built at Kingstown.
PORTSMOUTH, TUESDLT.--The Sprightly steam-
vessel, Mr. George Allen, Acting-Master, command:
ing, embarked Viscount Hardinge, Master-General
of the Ordnance , Lieutenant-General Sir John Bur-
goyne, Inspector-General of Fortifications; Sir
Charles Fox, C.E.; Colonel Sir Frederick Smith,
M.P., commanding the R
oyal Engineers in this gar-
rison, and other Ordnance officers, this morning at
seven o'clock, and left with them on an official visit of
inspection to the Channel Islands.
Jones is under orders for the
steam- frigate, Captain L. T.
The Sampson, 6,
Mediterranean, sailing
to-morrow.
The royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain Lord
A. Fitzelarence, G.C.H., and the Fairy steam-tender,
went down to Cowes this morning to be in attendance
on her Majesty.
Commander Le Febvre,
sailed this evening for the Channel Islands, to resume
The Dasher steam-vessel,
her station for the protection of the Fisheries.
The Collingwood, 80, is ordered to
brought down
from the ordinary and docked on th3oth for
refit, ready for commission.
rigged, fitted, and ready to leave the dock on the 28th The Termagant, 24, new screw-frigate, will be
inst., when she will leave for Pembroke with the.
masts and yards of the Grainpus, 50 gun frigate, for
jury-rigging the great steam- ship Windsor Castle,
140, for navigation to this port.
A plan has been recently submitted to Government
and private shipbuilders by Mr. . Armen, of
deaux, and Mr. J. J. Brunet, of the canal ironworks,
Limehouse, with the view of obviating the objections
which at present exist against iron vessels. Mr.
Armen proposes to remove these objections by build-
ing vessels of the most approved modern lines for
speed, the outer frames and planking to be,of timber,
much thinner and lighter than vessels built entirely
of timber; and, within the outer frame, building one
entirely of iron, also proportionately lighter than if
the entire ship were built of iron. The French
Government have ordered the building of a corvette
at Rochfort, to be named La Megere, auxiliary
with
opfla tahe appears well
country, but
engines of 220 horse power, the specimens Mr.
Ar-
man built for the mercantile service of France having
greatt h
e satisfaction.
mercantile s e
rThevi
service
e
gn
adaptedil.e for
it is not probable the Admiralty will order
to be built where iron plating is any vessel
used, as the
from it would be most destructive to the splinters
struck by 32-pounder shot, unless crews when
show, by experiment, that his iron • Mr. Armen can
is protected.

SEABORNE MAILS.
Eignifles that tho mails are sent from the General Post-063°
by the night—and bi by the morning—dispatch.)

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London: Patch.d'

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due.

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Belgium .. .. •• N'DeilYnt.th•; month IZathampt. ;
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Buenos Ayres • • ' • M otbs;l7tb of r°„-n-th Plymouth..
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2d of the 123,2n04,,,, ;Dover ..
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Constantinople* •• '. ilf 2cl 8; 1..71-, & yri.'Southampt.
Central America
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Channel Isles •• • m2d 116 -.-, . Dover ..
Twice esa " •
Chili•• • • ' :: MIL •-• 17th 27th of mo Dover • .
France •• .• If ;;,,,,day & Friday London ..
Greece*__.." ". .• „,,.'• wednes. & Satan London ..
nambudr6u.• " •• rg 17th of the mouth Southampt.
golla.n •s. N Twice daily .. .. I Holyhead..
Tiondure, " .. 51 -
Irc...tand •• tharop.) g 20th of the month Southampt.
India( via #o:rs, fil,) lc A thBr. 24 th af month Dover ..
rodfa(via;‘! nf. Hope N 15th of month , Plymouth..
India. via'' - . N 15th of month Plymouth .. '
!ties • • • • , 1
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gediterrat
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..
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southerrPl) (via
14 ed 1 t er nalo
.. .. N tith&24th of month Dover ... !
glget,7eeellies).. .. .. M2d of the month.. Southampt. Sept. 1
, Sept. 2
Maieira • • • • .. 11,9 th of the month Southampt. Sept. 16
f 1th,17 th,l9th,S7th 1
hinita* .. .. Dover Aug. 28
( 1 & 30th of month
Naples* .. .. .. N ,sth 15th 25th of mo Dover ~
Papal Staten' .. .. N 'stlllstll2sth of mo , Dover .. Sept. 2
Peninsula .. .. .. N 7th 17th 27th ef mo, South ampt. , Sept. 6
Peru • • .. .. .. AI 2d & 17th of mnthlSouthampt,
Tuscany* .. .. .. N sth 15th 25th of mo Dover .. ,Sept. 2
West Indies .. .. 31 17th of the month SouthaMpt. 'Sept. 1
West Indies (except
Havanna & Nassau) Al 2d of the month .. Southampt.
'a The malls to those countries thus Marked (5) are conveyed by
French Dacket via Marseilles. 'Sept. 1

(Nov. 30
Ang. 26
Aug. 28
Daily

Sept. 16
Sept. 16
Sept. 1
Aug. 26
Aug. 26
Aug. 30
Sept. 1
T11.89A
Sept. 1
Twicedaily
Aug. 30
Triet. Sat.
Mex. That
,ISept. 16
Twieedally
Aug. 28

Aug. 2i
lAug.

THE BALEARIC ISLANDS.—The Madrid journals of
k quadron cruising off the Balearic Islands .
the 18th state that the Spanish Government has decided on
reinforcing the
It will be conaposed of eight vessels, mounting together 201
guns. They are now lying in the Bay of Rosas, and the
I crews are daily exercised ill firing and other manoeuvres-