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MISS PA4DO'S NEW WORK.

On the 21st instant, in 3 vol. Bvo.,"tvith Portraits, &e., 425. bound,
' THE LIFE OF

1/rARIEI I DE-. -MEDIC'S,
QUEEN F FRANCE, • •
Cons.at of Henry IV., and Regent of the Kingdom under Louis XIII.
- - • - • - By Allis PARDOE,
• ---- - - .

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TRACTS ON FINANCE• ANO TRADE.
Submitted to the consideration of the Electors of the United

Kingdom

By R. TORRfSS,IE,s4., F.R.S.

No. I. On the Equalization of :Tali-it-ion between Land and
Trade ; and, on the Maintenance of a Differential Duty in favour of
Colonial Sugar, considered asean act-ofjustice to the Planters and as
a means of suppressing Slave Cultivation.—(ln a few days.) .

Londo'n: Chapman and Hall, 193, Picc4dl4.

PATRON-H. It. H. PRINCE ALBERT.

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will be exhibited and lectured on on Monday, Wednesday, and Fri-
day, at Half-past Three, and on Tuesday and Ttnirsday -Evenings, at
Mlle.—lecture on Music, by George Buckland, Esq.., the Past and
Present Eras contrasted by Illustration, every evening, except
Saturday, at Eighto'cloek.—.l Lecture, by,J: Papperalsq., on
Glybit Witcl AppePs retht—Perper for thbPreverition-of Piracy and
Forgery by the Anastatic Process.—Lecture on the Britannia Tubu-
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Series of DissolVing Views.r-Exhibition of the Microscope.—Diver
and 'Diving Bell, &C., &c.
AA lion, is.; Schoolsand Children under Ten .years of age,
Hail-price. .

•
GENERArS'CR,EW SPEAM 002UPANY.
An experimental trip took place down the river on
Saturday for the purpose of testing the, newly-Launched
vessel the Queen of the South, belonging to this com-
pany. She ia-tt'noble ship, well built and well provided,
and the guests on ,the 7-oocasion occupied.a considerable
portion of their time. in examining her lines,.in scruti-
nizing her:Machinery, and in exploring her interior fit-
tingsfor passengers. Some of her visitors objected that
she wall-sided, ethers criticised her unusually lofty bul-
warks amidships, but all confessed- that she- was a noble
specimen of naval architecture, well calculated to excite
the utmost confidence, and in accomnodetion for passen-
gers and in her engine arrangemeuts especially worthy
of commendation. The prevision for the comfort of
passengers is especially excellent, everything being, per-
fectly plain but substantially good, and ventilation being
carried oat with a degree of success almost unprece-
dented:: At to the engines, it might be considered suffi-
buynp the
unprecedented
degree d
cient to say that they were manufactured by
111andslayeand that they combine in an
degree economy of space with efficiency of action; the
most perfect form of4narine action, that which in sine--
plicity moat nearly approaches to direct action, has been
deeelop-ed' Myths screw propeller, and the fact is at once
a valttable acquisition to mechanical science and a silent
testimony to tho importance of that new field of enter-
prise upon which the General Screw Steam Company
have entered: Two or three points with reference to
the machinery of the , Queen of the South may be
worth mentioning. In the first place, it occupies only
one-third of the space of Piddle engines. Again, a new
'construction of airpump ; has been secured which pos-
aesses many advantages. Then tho bilge pump has been
*so arranged that an attack of pirates, for example, may
be repelled with scalding water from the boilers. Lastly,
with reference to the boilers themselies, every means
for economising there has been provided; and in the
'close c-xaminition of tlietn a_safer and more legitimate
.pride may be experienced than in the United States,
!where, during the exalting moments of .a . race, the
captain often shows his sense of. pereonal security 'by
siting an the
with watertight
compartments,heeen ofth
by theSouthis
builteminent firon; w
builders the-. Messrs. Mare. She M 93.
sures 210 feet from stem to stern, 39 feet beam,
'25 feet in'deptli of hold. She is of I,Bso*tons burden,
'and is furnished with engines of 300-horse power.
The screw works sixty revolutions a minute, and the
blades of it are so arranged es to be thapwn on a lino
with the keel, and not to impede the sailing of the ship.
There is accommodation for 13U passengers, to whose
comfort the company appear to have contributed most
: liberally. Since 1846, when the General Screw Com-
pany was established, it has been gradually but surely
increasing in consequence and power. It now possesses
a splendid fleattif sixteen ships, comprising 18,000 tons;
it has a reserved fund of 12,0001., and pays annual elivi-
dende.of from_ ;5 to 8 per cent. Among the company on
the trial trip of the Queen of the South were Earl Grey,
the Earl of Verulam, Lerd Dundonald, Lord do Ros,
Lord Jocelyn, Baron Moncorvo, Prince Carini, the
Neapolitan Ambassador, Delavi Effendi, M. Mussurus,
Lord Exmouth, The Hon. F. Egerton, M. Zohrab,
the Hon. and Reverend C. Grimstone, Admiral
'the Right Hon. Sir C. Wood,
trone,el,then ,so
SicAml.
Alderman
thee.G,rine oa rng
:le
Thompson,o Sn
.a I o. rii
c,
erne, RN., Mr. Mentz, M.P.,
Sir James Dake, Lieutenant-
General
Lyall, Sa-
vx,
te ra
jn
o o
rr
Oliphant, a
te mod down to the
muds, and Wigratn. The
of
tßriggs,he
Bank
a ! thetlke sosfMr sEa. yaMogrlaauondfds,l6a. oCyuatphMtaaami rnep,
ease which astonished everybody on
was provided on the occasion having
Nora, achieving a speed,ofQlllo7•fiksnoats anbe ihrodu,rawniathtahne
luncheon which
gbeeeonddtiassptoesoedf othf
e7cwi:Dhmap,,fneyciliin provid
ty at once._. c r eadaidt a
tbhl ea tao thee.
f
tites of the guests in appreciatingb delighted
then
good
very egreeableetrip down alto River,
, no
wishes for the Queen of the South. •
u aa
ea
rne gifts
with
good
of life,
everybody took his departure hi,,e()ad

COURT CIRCULAR.
SaTtuhreclaCr inftehreniodoan Parti7YßaCielritifighilamat Palace. threeo'clock
attended by his Royal Hig,liness Prince Albert, the
Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal, the Secretaries of
State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the
Admiralty, the President of- the. Board of Control, the
President of the Board of Trade, the nktnaster-General,
the Chief Commissioner-of Public Works and Buildings,
the Lord Steward, the Lord-Chamberlain, the Master of
the Horse, and the Groom of the Stole to Pritce Albert.
Her Majesty having- been pleased' to appoint the Right
Hon. John Earl of Cawdor to be lord-Lieutenant of the
county of Carmarthen, his Lordship took the customary
oaths. The Right Hon. Lord Nees, Chief Secretary
for Ireland, was,' by command of the Queen, sworn
of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and
took his place at the board.- The Queen wsi pleased
to appoint Alban Lewis Gwynne, of Monsohty,
Esq., to be. Sheriff of the county of Cardigan, in the,
room of John Inglis Jones, of Derry Ormond, Esq.
The Hon. William Bathurst was Clerk of the Privy
Council in Waiting. Her Majesty gave audieeces to
Mr. Secretary Walpole; the' Right Ron. J. C. Herries,
the Lord President, Sir John Pakiugton, the Lord
Chamberlain. and Lord John Manners. The Queen was
attended by Viscount Combermere, Gold Stick in Wait-
ing; the tfreasairer of the Household, the VlCe.Chana-
berlain. Lord Polwarth, Lord in Waiting; and the Hon.
W. S. Knox, Groom'in Waiting.
Tho Duke and Duchess de Nemours visited the Queen
on Saturday, at Buckingham Palace. Their Royal High-
nesses also visited her. Royal .Highness the Duchess of
Kent at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's. •
Prinee`Alhert rode out on horseback on Saturday, at-
tended by Lieutenant-Colonel-Hon. A. Gordon.
The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Prince of
Wales and Prince Alfred, took a drive on Saturday
afternoon in an open carriage and four. Lord Charles
Fitzroy and Lieatenant-Colonel Hon. A. Gordon at-
tended on horseback.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
attended -by the Viscountess Jocelyn, the Hon. Matilda
Paget, Lord Polwarth, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Hon. A. Gordon, honoured the Princess's
Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday morn-
ing in the garden, of Buckingham Palace, and the Royal
Family took their usual exercise.
Her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Royal High-
nesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, at•
tended divine service-in the private chapel of Bucking-
ham Palace yeeterday. The Ladies and Gentlemen in
waiting. and the domestic household, were also present.
The Hon. and Rev.-Gerald Wellesley officiated.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent went to
Esher on Saturday, and visited the -Duchess d'Orleane.
lorAofCtahbeinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon
aßtigit:lahlteenDFouonirt.eo
jig.nw•officei".tDowning- street. The Ministers
present were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Lonsdale,
th© Marquis of Salisbury, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the
Earl of Malmesbury, Sir John P. t the Ch 1
The Cont:l2"'sahtc
of.
Wellingtone-h our and a half.
qouneri he Duke ofa Nlnogrtru'mbrlenaducteh;
Hight Hon. *CH-ealeerytleth:BnaEndakr
jr,loordf fl
Johnee dwi eke , th
Manners.e
3v'iecbete*rcia:Yreiandthbey
was preached by the Rey. E . Wesley, and the sermon
St; James's. The ser-
tChheafteevßitaalt,tended the early service

DEVO ITR
TEIE
UTTCAINDTI" W We are glad to
GOVERNMENT
rOPRTossTOAFLp CI,
yoitmu
find that one of the first suggestions by Mr. Mare, one
Plymouth in Par-
and in which
ftrtnresests had been
loifelutheencr
akei candidates te s
greatfor the
importancereprese nttuattliboomencsaeol
by the tmolivn council,
tp proof
been that
takenthe u p
there
hitherto
and we hope soon. to hear that these import'
ansegsloeracteed
placed io the same position as other large cities antriAtoleaa are
the kingdom with regard to postal communication. towns in
.s
the utmost importance to the interests of the boroughs 01
Plymouth' and Devonport, that these, like the Government
ports of Deptford, Woolwich, Chatham, Sheerness, Ports-
mouth, Queenstown, - Pembroke ~.and the Packet stations
of Dover, Holyhead, Liverpool, and Southampton, should
have a day mail, and we trust ere long to be able to an-
nounce that the Poet-office authoritio have done this act
of justice.

OVERLAND MAIL

INDIA AND CHINA.
We have received .by our semi-monthly dispatch
from Marseilles out letters in anticipation of the
overland mail which left Bombay on the 17th ult.
Oar'coireepondent's letter of that date is as follows :
" The first/shiplead of the force destined for the inva-
sion of Burmah arrived cif, the Rangoon river on the
g
morning of the 31st el March, and the remaining
steambrs and troops from Benal- and Madras were
hourly expected., The campaign was to open fordally
on tha sth of April,' and it was expected that Rangoon
would be attacked about the 10th.
" The Burmese preparations for war are described as
being on a much more extended seals than in 1823; the
people pretend to be very anxious for a trial of strength,
and evidently attribute Lerd Dalhousie's anxiety for
peace and our delay in commencing operations to ,
timidity. * When Colonel Bogle, the Commissioner at
Moulmein, in delivering a copy of the, Governor-Gene-
rare ultimatum to the Burmese Commissioners of Marta-
bau, assured them that though prepared for war, Lord
Dalhousie was most anxious for peace, and expatiated on
the calamities which a war would bring on Bermes;
they:replied, that if the English were prepared for war,
so were they; and as to what had, been said regarding
consequences, it was notorious throughout ,all Asia that
the English were the greatest biaggarts 11 the world.
They have since sent word to Colonel Bole that if he
does not attack them on the Ist of Apti e (the day at
1
which the period for negotiation expired), they would
cross the river and ittlf4al'is"VP, *Go of. Rah-
`eislies nt 'ii.7_,lnes .e.,,e • e C-''
ii re loseet,
entreating that he will come up with his fOrce to-Ran-
goon and fight it out without any more delay, as they are
quite tired of seeing his ships lying at anchor outside
doing nothing.
" Admiral Austin, with the Hastings, 72, and her
Majesty's steamer Rattler, were to join the force off
Rangoon by the 3d or 4th of April. Tho lion. East
India Company's steam-frigate Semiramis was expected
(from China) about the same time, and the Nurbudda
and Mahanuddy had been ordered from the floogbly
and Akyab for river service. When all these have joined
the naval force in the Rangoon waters will consist (ex-
clusive of transports) of a line-of-battle:ship, a 42-gun
frigate, and brig of war, with 17 steamers, mostly vessels
of van also.
"Next mail will without doubt take home tidings of
the fall of Rangoon and Martaban, bat there is much
difference of opinion as to what farther progress can be
made before the setting-in of the monsoon at the begin-
ning of Msy. The catneaign has commenced nearly a
month later than the Glivernor-General originally de-
signed. and it is now-evidently too late in the season, and
cur delays have given the Burmese too much time for i
organizing resistance, to allow of operations sufficiently
extended and decisive to terminate the war taking place
before the monsoon. Tho present force is, therefore,
only a pioneer one, and all it can do is to push on as
fast as possible, and to establish its monsoon quarters as
far up the river as is compatible with the maintenance
of its communications, until the return of the campaign-
ing season and the arrival of reinforcements.
• " The experience of the last war proved 'that the cli-
mate of Rangoon will not admit of troops being quar-
tered there with impunity during the rainy season, bat
it was also found that as the river was ascended the ma-
laria of the lower country gradually ceased. It is,
therefore, thought probable that the monsoon quarters
of General Godwin's force will be fixed either at Done-
bew or at Prome ; the former, the site of Sir Wil-
loughby Cotton's repulse on the Bth of March, 1824, is
About 100 miles'above Rangoon ; and the latter, Sir A.
Campbell's monsoon quarters in the second year of the
last Burmese war, and reckoned the key to Ava, is
about double that distance.
" The troops employed in the last Burmese war
amounted to about 12,000 men. General Godwin has
as yet only about half that number, and it is doubted
whether, after making- provision for the safety of his
communications', his disposable force will be sufficent to
allow of his maintaing himself during the rains and until
the arrival of reinforcements in so advanced a position as
Prome. But it is remarked, on the other hand, that the
force with which Sir A. Campbell actually advanced at
Ava did not exceed that under General Godwin's orders;
the other troops engaged in the last war being employed
in maintaining Sir A. Campbell's communications, and
in other duties, which the naval force at present avail-
able is of itself per!ectly competent to perform. Our
steam force in the last Burmese war consisted only of
the little Diana; on the present occasion we shall have
17 steamers, and the depth of the Irrawady is such 93 to
admit of the largest steam- frigate ascending considerably
above Protne.

'• It appears to be the general opinion in India that
the moral effect of the defear6f the Burmese in the last
war would have been infinitely greater and more last-
ing had Sir A. Campbell occupied their capital before
making peace, instead of turning back when within four
marches of it, and the Indian Government is strongly
urged not to commit a similar mistake on the present
occasion.
" The present war may be more or less protracted,
but the result is certain; we shall compel the Burmese
to sue for peace, and we shall then demand the expenses
of the war; they will be unable to 'pay us in money, and
we shall pay ourselves by annexing the delta of the Ir-
remedy, with more or less of the back country, accord-
ing to circumstances.
" Government are evidently making preparations for
the probable contingency e
0- .11 large force being 'required
Her Majesty's 29th Regi-
ment and 2i European Fusiliers, with the 25th and 68th
Bergal Native Infantry (both general service corps), arc
on their way to Calcutta, to be in readiness if required;
and 750 bullocks have been purchased for the carriage
of ammunition, now in course of preparation. An in Burmah after the rains.
ad-
ditional Madras regiment (the sth) is also under imme-
diate orders for Burrnah, to take the
place of the muti-
nous Bengal 3Stb.

whose contribution to the 1.3 of
i I," Bon.V;ay is the only one
7th of March, hutthe Madr
or
is much blamed • by the Indiita.n
has not -dissappointed the mese expeditionary force
The Bombay steam squadron the three presidencies
Govereor•Gerierars plans,
arrived at Madras on the
embark till the 30th and mas troops ware not ready to
army are within in
The Governor-General
availed himself, when the n
a sudden blow, of the "sit existed for striking
A correspondent press, for not having
available for embarkation of Bombay army; the most readily
barked-on board then quadrclo '"t9
of the Bombay
point of ceaharkation, and -II five days' march of the
eluding two Europea re i 6,000 Bombay troops, in-
India. Two brigades
landed at. Rangoon by the purpose,
"so
others available for the par might have been ern-
II of war steamers, and in
could°
"that this is not a mere suOth or 12th of March, and
fact pf the inciedibly shortp
p
as, to have been
osition is guranteed by the
troop were shipped oft' ern time in which 10,000 Bombay
in Sinde in 1846.
Englishman writes on the subject,
of the Calcutta
Bombay to Sir C. Napier
" ' Rad the Governor-GeneralJeat.3 fall°w3'---
ago. With a fine fleet, of steamers expeditionary force to proceed
sent to Bombay for an
Hove that place would have beeni' to Rangoon, I verily be-
in our possession long
brigades, including two VI
*others frould the
uroaniers
(only five days distant from in harbour, and. two
tFiean regiments at Poonah
plane of embarkation),
the Bombay Government
!timer t.abs.n in. Had
fabartntiigiihst aft
frigates and 6,000 gallant and triehdasveeld
gowaron
soldiers
sd
atthßeisre
orth beener the order had reached
done, no doubt could
. being practicable before have existed of a successful blow
Bombay garrison
thebee n
embarkeddreaded rains.
with
Poonah, the steamers
might have gone direct to la
—Ulm
have struck such a blow as 6,00:b in _ ten days, and
steamers can. They would have troops 'and 81X war-
walls of Rangoon whilst the Bar a thundered down the
eyes.' mese were rubbing their
" ihe defection of the Bengal 3
cause of a very,
,gratifying demonstrationBth has been the
and soldierlike feelings of one of the trre of the loyalty
giments. ' The native officers of
the 3d ,Seikh
Seikh re-
went in a body yesterday evening to eikh Infantry
their omen:landing-officer, Captain lepton, and the quarters of
having heard that a regiment had refused said that
ed to
sea to Burmah, and that Government proceed by
troops, they had come to offer their serviceser° in want of
or anywhere else; and when Captain Ile to go there,
went into the lines, all the men turned ro'leel afterwards'
confirmed the assurances of their " ancients." ' and
loudly
majority of the regiment are Sikhs, the res;„..' The great
and Ilindoos: L ilaussulmans
" The news from the north-west frontier is et ~,,,.;
factory :—` Sir Colin Campbell's force returned 21,- --s—
-shawur, -on the 27th ult., having rile. to apparentlyße'.
reduced
the enemy lo.subjection, and compelled him
payment of a fine and tribute. The account to promise
tack made on the force and the fighting, with 0f an at-.
on both sides, has proved wholly unfounded; stezere loss
hostages for their good conduct in future. News they gave
gave
terday received,- ho sever, leads to.the.aPPrehen' Yes-
the force will require again to go out into the dial" that
stricts to
prevent the marauders plundering the villages ages under
their protection.'
"The Bombay Rallwayis making rapid pro
the locomotive, though it has now been
working
and
months, continues to attract as numerous 'crowds ingtwo,
natives as ever. One line of rails will
be laid as fir 'as Tat:Malt before iiie
monsoon, and
the surveys in the interim are making p
progress. The Thull Ghaut, or the Great- Nroar-thid
Eastern line of • traffic, sad the Bhore Ghaut, --
South-Eastern ' have been both surveyed. There
e the
little doubt that' the former route will be selected,ris
for the railway, as being by much the moat insportat
regards existing traffic, and generally in a commercial
as
point of view. The Trull Ghaut will admit ofanascent
of 1 in -38, without ohjectionable curves or heavy woks.
(This is less than the LiolLY incline on the Birmingnal
? -
and Gloucester, which is lin 33.) The Shore (A
ascent would be rather easier, but the Bhore Ghtfut:„lld
Poohah route, thogh it would join Bombay with --
the
Principal milbsry•station of the Presidency, could never
aeadvocated on commercial grounds.
_ "The Bombay papers state that the rumour that Lord
Falkland had received a blot to resign the Bombay
Go-
vernment is • confirmed by private letters that arrived
bye_ the last mail. Lord Falkland is at -present at
Man h_ wway lblesh
war, and is understood to be suff g eriu from
ea"°4 of the chest, which renders
speedy re.

turn to Eagland :deairabla on medical grounds. The
Baroda scandals Continue to occupy much attention in
the other Presidencies as well as in Bombay.
"Trade has been very dull at Bombay during the last
fortnight."-Times.

(From the Overland Bombay Times of April 17.)
SUMMARY.

We men'ioned in our last the Calcutta sqlsdron and
force destined for Rangoon had quitted the Hooghly on
the 25• h; the Madras portion of the force, on board the
Bombay filet, on the 28th and 29th; they did not in
reality leave till the 27th and 31st respectively. The
Madras. embarkation appears •to have been a matter of
unusual interest; it was the largest force that had ever
left the presidency at one time. Operations commenced
on the 24th; unfortunately the weather at this time was
unpropitious, the atmosphere all'over India having been
in a state of general disturbance for the last ten days of
March. On the 31. t, the troops were assembled on the
beach at daybreak; 137 boats, ready to receive them, lay
just within the reach of the surf, at that time very high,
in positions marked by numeral signals corresponding
to those of the respective steamers. Uuder a heavy swell
and strong current 4,000 men were transferred in less
than two hours' time from dry land to the decks of
the steamers in the open roadstead, more than a mile
away, without a -single accident of note. The surf in
many instances biolre over the boats, wetting the clothes
and bedding of .the soldiers, yet not a murmur was ut-
tered. Oae boat was swamped—her people were picked
up by a catamaran and brought on shore, and au hour
after wards—the .sepoys' clothes, arms, and accoutrements
wetted as thoroughly as immersion could wet them—
were again merr;ly on their way out to sea. The Ma-
dras fleet was expected to reach 4b9ut the sth or 6th
April --The CaIe:ALL
_tquaarorLdiatt,4weel_y --quitted