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LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 30, 1853.

SPIRIT TABLE MOVING AND RIPPING. Bvo., 2s. 6d.
'THE ZOIST, No.
,42 is now Ready, and
contains Articles by the Itev. U. Sandby and the Rev. C. 11.
Townshead on Table Turning, and on the Departure of the Spirits
by Dr. Elliotson—an original article on the Odle Force, by Baron
Ralchenback —on the Prevention and Care of Cholera, with the Ex-
ternal Application of Metals, by Dr. Burg—on American Injustice,
by the Editors—a Remarkable Cure of Obstrintion of the Bowels,
by Mr. Tubbs of Cambridgeshire, and of other diseases—and the last
Report of the Mesmeric Infirmary.

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the week, "The Rose," " Thistle," "Shamrock" Ainnle," and
"Rigoletto" Waltzes, by H. Laurent ; the " Rosalinda" and
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THE PATENT WATERPROOF
and COMMON BRICK and TILE COMPANY. Provision-
ally Regis:ered under the 7th awl Bth Victoria. Capital 100,0001.
(a portion of which has been already subscribe% in shares of 1/.
each fully paid up. No allotment will be made of a less number
than live shares.
DIRECTOR
HUMPTiREY BROWN; Esq , Chairman.
Rowland G. Alston, Esq., Harley-street, Cavendish-squat).
James Baring, Esq., Piccadilly.
Thomas Chandler, Esq., Rotherhithe.
Richard Paddison, Esq., Lansdowne-road, Notting-hill.
Fitzroy Young, Esq., Houlton-hall, Northamptonshire.
Bankers—Royal British Bank, 16, Tokenhouse-yard.
Solicitor—Henry Empson, Esq., 61, Moorgate-street.
Broker—George E. Seymour, Esq., 38, Throgmorton-street.
Secretary—Chas. Smith Rawlings, Esq.
Offices - 84, Moorgate-street.

This Company is formed for tre purpose of carrying out Work-
man's Patent for manufaturlng waterproof, common and hollow
bricks, tiles, &c.
The general complaint of architects, surveyors, builders, and others
engaged in the erection of docks, warehouses, tunnels, and other
structures, has been that, with our progress and improvements in
scientific and other matters, nothing has been produced that will per-
manently resist the destructive influence of damp. Cements, stuccos,
and other means have been introduced, but without success. Brie ¢s
generally, from their porous nature, absorb and retain large quan-
tities of water, and become conductors of damp. The waterproof
bricks made by Mr. Workman's patent will not absorb or retain
moisture ; neither are they affected by the atmosphere, thus reme-
dying the evil complained of.
It will be seen that bricks, tiles, &c., made under this patent, being
completely waterproof, with the same adhesive qualities as the com-
mon brick, possess great advantage over all others in the construc-
tion or building of foundations, warehouses, vaults, tunnels, docks,
walls, tanks, baths, &c., and for brickwork of every description.
The peculiar character of these bricks has been proved, by the
practical tests of the gentlemen Comprising the Jury of Class 27 at
the Great Exhibition of All Nations in 1851.
The patentee has not only obtained the prize medal front the Corn-
tnissieners of the Great Exhitttion of 1851, bat he has been honoured
by the high commendation of his Royal Highness the Prince Con.
sort and his Majesty the King of the Belgians.
As the watet proof and also the common bricks will be manufac-
tured by improved machinery, the trade will be supplied at lower
prices than at present charged.
The acknowledged supe•iority of these bricks over all ethers will

insure an all bat unlimited demand, and orders are continually be!ng
received by the patentee for large quantities, both for home con-
sumption and exportation; numerous applications are likewise being
made for licenses.

The following Report of the Jury composed of the undermentioned
eminent and scientific gentlemen was submitted to her Majesty's
Commissioners for the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all
Nations, 1851 :—Benedetto Pistrucel, Royal Mint; Lord Sudeley ;
D. T. Ansted, F.R.S., Reporter; Bernaroo de Bemardis ; George
Godwin, F.R.S.; Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., F.R.S., M.P. ; Em-
manuel Pay cha ; Viscount Hericart de Thury ; F. Barker, Esq. ; J.
H. Henry, F.R.S. ; George Lowe, C.E.,

Report of the Jury submitted to her Majesty's Commisioners for the
Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, 1851.
_ . . _ .

" A prize medal has been awarded to Mr. J. workman • (116, p.
773) for an ingenious and apparently effectual method of rendering
common bricks perfectly waterproof, at a cost of about Gs per thou-
sand. The machine by which the process is effected is sufficient to
turn out from 30,000 to 50,000 per day, and the waterproofing takes
place either during the first process of manufacture. or after the
brick is completed. No extra cost of carriage is needed to complete
the work under any circumstances.
"It is unnecessary to point out all the advantages that would re-
sult from taking advantage of this method, but the reporter would
not omit to notice its peculiar importance in the case of cottages and
small houses, and for vaults and foundations. It is in these appli-
cations that the very great absorbency of common bricks (which will
take up, on the average, nearly a quart of water each, is so ruinous,
not only to the property exposed under their shelter, but to the
health of the inhabitants, who are often very, ill supplied with the
means of removing the evil."

It has become asubject of great national importance to procure an
ample supply of bricks to meet the continued and increasing demand.
It may be remarked that during the last season (1852) the stock
round the metropolis ran short, by several millions, of the required
supply.

It is now considered beyond a doubt that bricks manufactured by
machinery are superior in quality to those produced by labour, the
clay receiving in its transit through the die great compression,
which cannot be effected by hand.

On reference to' the report of the jury selected by her Majesty's
Commissioners at the late Exhibition it will be seen that one ma-
chine alone is capable of yielding 80,000 to 50,900 per day.
The profits which will accrue to the Shareholders from the manu-
facture of waterpi °of and common bricks arid the sale of licences will
ensure a large and increasing dividend, and, at the present price of
stock bricks, at least 60 per cent. may be safely relied upon. The
Directors therefore feel confident that they will be enabled to declare
a dividend within a few months from the commencement of opera-
tions.

The patentee has entered into a conditional contract with the Di-
rectors to dispose of the whole or his interest upon very favourable
terms, and, to mark the confidence he has in the success of the
undertaking, he desires to take one moiety of the purchase money in
shares.

The Directors have also concluded on the purchase of several plots
of ground, so that the manufacture of bricks can be commenced
forthwith; and it is their intention periodically to advertise in the
" tSu lder," and other trade journals, the price of all descriptions of
bricks and tiles manufactured by them, in order that builders may
be guided, in this especial department, by the most perfect accuracy
and economy in making their estimates for all coutiacts they under-
take.

Applications for shares to be made to the broker, or the Company's
offices, t!4, Moorgate-street, where prospectuses may be had, samples
of the waterproof brick Inspected, and erery information obtained.
June, 1853.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR Basun.

Te the Directors of the Patent Waterproof and Common Brick and

Tile Compaily.

Gentlemen,—l request you will allot to me shares of 11, each In
the above Company, and I hereby undertake to accept and pay for
the same, or any less number you may allot me, when required so
to do.
Dated this day of —, 1853.

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and Profession ...
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MEDICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF

YOUTH AND MATURITY.

DR. SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON,
Doctor of Medicine, and Matriculated Member of the University of
Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical
Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &,c., &c.
31 AY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on
the various disorders of the nervous and generative system,
resulting from juvenile irregularities and excesses, which have pro-
duced more misery In youth, degradation in manhood, and prema-
ture decay at all stages of life, than perhaps any other class of dis-
eases known to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience
in the treatment of these diseases has proved that there are in exist.
owe secret causes of self-acquired miseries and disappointed hopes in
existence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous
Debility, various forms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unft ultftil Marri-
ages, Impotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their
endless modifications owe their almost entire origin.
It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are
principles of personal management which cannot be violated without
incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed
the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties
may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be remove 1,
and how the evil and its consequenc es may be avoided, and above all,
that there is scorcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional
derangement to which the timely aid of scien socannot apply a cure.
DOCTOR LA'MERT has for a long series of years been engaged
in an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate com-
plaints, and s the only legally qualified Physician who, regardless
of the taunts and envy of the hypocritical and mock-modest, has had
the confidence, through the medium of the public press, to direct
attention to these enormous evils, from which no grade of society is
tree. In selecting this department of practice, he has been amply
rewarded by the great success that has attended his efforts in the
treatment of these cases, which are too generally confided to the
care of unqualified and ignorant empirics, who, with their pirated
publications, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues
of their patent nostrums, have inflicted serious injury on those who
have been induced to place faith in their pretensions.
At home for consultation daily from Eleven till Two, and from
Six till Eight. All letters must contain the fee of 1/., and advice and
medicines can be forwarded to any initials or address.
It 13 desirable that patients wishing to consult Dr. LA'MERT
should first obtain a copy of his work on
SELF-PRESERVATION.
A Medical Treatise on the Philosophy of Marriage and Nervous and
Generative Debility, illustrated by fifty-coloured engravings, and des-
cribing in detail the various disorders resulting from secret habits and
excesses. The perusal of this treatise will assist in the correct
description of their cases, and may be had, price 2s 6(1, in English,
French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, or German, of Messrs. Piper
Brothers and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ;
Mann, 39, Conihill ; Storie, Titchborne-street, Haymarket; or free
by post for forty-two stamps, to any addres3 from the Author's resi-
dence, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON.

IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS,
Just published, by U. BalUiere, 219, Regent-street, London
No I.
vo., in cloth. price-58. by post free, Ss. 6d.,

ON TRITE dr FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA,
with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors
in relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the
Generative System, or Sexual Hypochondriasis.
Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD

"Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practi-
cti contributions to German medical literature. This is the first
t me, he informs as, that he has addressed himself to the floe-medi-
cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if ho shall
detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his
sower to correct."—London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851.
"We promised in a former number that we should recur to this
w ir:c, in order to exhibit its aim more clearly. The author lashes
with great severity the impostors who make a livelihood by preying
on the credulity of the public. The tribe of ' Quiet Symathisers,'
and ' Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed; and if this book
could find its way into the hands of those who gaffer from th com-
plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many h mdreds would
be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of
less importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize—
much money.— —This volume is well qualified to put an end to the
empirical system of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to place the treat-
msnt upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore,
likely to do much good."—Medical Circular, June 16, 1852.

No. 11.
Svo.. In cloth, price 3s. 6d., by post free, 45.,
THE CURE OF STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA, on Princi•
plea at once Simple, Safe, and Efficient, in even its most Inveterate
and apparently Intractable Forms.

BY F. B. COURTENAY,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
"In proot of his views he (Mr. Courtenay) has given
the history of a great many cases successfully treated, as bad
as any which Mr. Syme adduced, and on which ho had operated.
Such are cases ix., xi., all., and xviii. No. ix. had restated, for a
period of twelve yews, the treatment by dilitation, and was finally
removed in as many weeks. But cases xviii. and xis. appear, both
in duration, severity, and complication of symptoms, of a more ag-
gravated character than any detailed by Mr. Syme, and yet the
treatment adopted by Mr. Courtonay proved eminently succoSsful."
—Professor Lizars on the Treatment of Stricture.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 29.
THE SPITHEAD SQUADRON.
This large force is at present under two flags. The
Duke of Wellington 131, Agamemnon 91, Blenheim 60,
Hogue 60, Ajax 58, Edinburgh 58, Odin 16, Sidon 22,
Encounter 14, and the Nerbudda 12, fly the white ensign,
the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, K.C.8.,
the Port-Admiral. The Prince Regent 90, London 90,
Imperieuse 60, Amphion 34, Highflyer 21, and the
Leopard 12, fly the blue ensign, being under the orders
of Rear-Admiral Corry. The gale mentioned yesterday
continued to-day, if possible, with increased violence,
although overhead the weather is bright and the sun
powerful. The fleet continue with their lower yards
down and the topmasts struck, which gives the ships a
very peculiar appearance.
Should the Russian-Turco affair happily blow over
we shall have a demonstration at Spithead, in the shape
of a "naval review" with the powerful steam squadrons
now at Spithead. We have no doubt that such a spec-
tacle, which has not taken place since 1814, will draw
thousands to witness it, particularly if her Majesty, with
her august visitors, should be present.
The Duke of Wellington, 131, screw, Captain Henry
Byam Martin, has now all her weights on board, with
her extra quantity of provisions, which has brought her
lower deck port-sills exactly to the distance from the
water's edge as was designed by her constructor, Mr.
Abethell—nanuely, 5 feet 10 inches. This may appear
to be rather low for bad weather, and uu fighting her
lower deck guns, but it must be taken into consideration
that she is now at the deepest, and that 1,100 men will
lighten the ship at the rate of nearly 50 tens a week.
The Oberon, 3, iron paddle-steamer, Lieut. Commander
Wise, has entirely'cleared out, and returned stores to the
dockyard. As soon as the weather moderates the
Sprightly, Master Commander Allen, will take the offi-
cers and crew belonging to the Vulture down to Ply-
mouth to rejoin their ship. They were employed to
bring the Oberon home to put her out of commission.
The American liner Northumberland arrived at Spit-
head last evening from the Thames, to embark passen-
gers and stores from this port for America., at the hands
of Lloyd's agents, Messrs. Garratt and Gibbon.
THE ACCIDENT TO CAPTAIN PATEY, OF THE AMPHION.
—On inquiry to-day at Haslar Hospital, we are happy
to report that Captain Patey, of the Amphion, still lives,
and the symptoms which have manifested themselves
since he has been brought ashore are pronounced favour-
able, but that is all. He lies in a very exhaused and
critical state. The two men who were struck down by
the fall of the same block are much injured, but are go-
ing on favourably. The bodies of Lieutenant Lambert
and Assistant-Surgeon Muirhead, of the Edinburgh, 58,
and the watermen have not yet been found.

PLYMOUTH, JUNE 29.
The Valorous, steam-frigate, Captain Buckle, arrived
last evening from Queenstown, having left on Monday
afternoon.
The Cambrian, frigate, 40, is ordered to be fitted for
commission at this port.
The Algiers, screw steam-blockship, 90, is intended
to be launched on Tuesday, the 19th of July.
A screw steam-blockship of 100 guns, to be named
the Conqueror, is ordered to be laid down in No. 5 slip.
She will be a sister ship to the St. Jean d'Acre, recently
launched from this arsenal.

:PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-JUNE 29.

( From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of
Commons. )
Wexford Junction Railway Bill—Order, That the Report
on the Wexford Junction Railway Bill do lie upon the
table, read :—Motion made, and Question put, That
the said order be discharged." The House divided :
Ayes 49, Noes 94.

MINORITY—AYES, 49.
Alexander, J. Greene, J. O'Brien, P.
Bland, L. Beard, J. I. O'Flaherty, A.
Browne, V. 1 Higgins, George Percy, J. William
Butt, I. Jackson, William Pollard-Urquhart, W.
Clinton, Lord C. P. Jolliffe, Sir W. G. H. Pugh, D.
Davison, R. Kendall, Nicholas Russell. F. W.
Dunne, Col. Keogh, William Scully, V.
Fagan, W. Kershaw,.James Smith, Wm. M.
Fell den, M. Lemon, Sir C. Thompson, George
Ferguson, Joseph Liddell, H. G. Tyler, Sir G.
Fitzgerald, J. D. Locke, J. Warner, E.
Fox, It. M
.31 acartney, G. Whalley, G.
French, Fitzstephen M'Cann, James Wynne, W.
Fuller, Augustus E. Macgregor, James
Gallwey, Sir W. P. Maguire, J.
Geach, Charles Moore, Ross S.
Goddard, Ambrose L. Napier, J.
Greenall, Gilbert Oakes, J. H. P.

TELLERS

Grogan, E.
Sullivan, M.

MAJORITY—NOES, 94,
Acland, Sir T. Gladstone, Captain Ricardo, 0.
Anderson, Sir James Granby, Marquis of Robartes, T. J. A.
Ball, Edward Greene, T. Rolt, P.
Barnes, T. Gwyu, Howel Russell, F. C.
Barrington, Viscount Harcourt, Col. Sawle, C. B. G.
Barrow, Wm. 11. Ilastie, Alexander Scholefield, W.
Bass, M. T. Hawkins, W. W. Scobell, Captain
Bell, James Heyworth, Lawrence Scott, Francis
Blair, Colonel Hutchins, E. Seymour, Lord
Bonham-Carter, John Keating, R. Shafto, R. D.
Bouverie, E. Kingscote, R. N. F. SmoHeti, A.
Brand, 11. Knatchbull, Win. F. Somerset, Captain
Brotherton„T. Knight, F. W. Sotheron, T. U.
Buck, Lewis W. Laffan, R. M. Strickland, Sir G.
Buller, Sir J. Y. Lascelles, E. Thornely, T.
Butt, Geo. Medd Laslett, William Tolleinache, John
Cardwell, Hon. E. Lockhart, A. E. Villiers, Rt. Iln. C.
Cavendish, C. C. Lovable, Lord Vivian, J. 11.
Charteris, F. Mackie. J. Vivian, 11. H.
Cobbold, J. C. M'Taggart, Sir J. Wall, Charles Baring
Codrington, Sir W. Massey, W. Walinsley, Sir J.
Collin, W. Maxwell, James P. Whitbread, S.
Coles, Henry B. Milligan, Robert Wilkinson, W. A.
Cowan, Charles Mills, T. Williams, W.
Crook, J. Michell, W. Wilson, James
Davie, Sir 11. Monck, Lord Wood, B.
Davies, D. Mowbray, J. Wrightson, W.
Dent, J. Mu'grave, Earl Wyndham, William
Duckworth, SirJ. Patten, J.
Duncan' 0. Pellatt, A
Forbes, W. Portman, W.
Freestun, Colonel Price, W.P.
Gaskcli, James M. Prime, It

TELLERS.

West, Frederick IL
llanmer, Sir J.

BONDING WAREHOUES AT LEIPSIC.—A late ordon-
nance of the Saxon Government has established bonding
warehouses at Leipsic on the model of those existing at
London. The dock-warrant will enable the owners or
consignees to obtain allowances on the goods, and for
any delay under ten days no charge svill be made beyond
the mere duty levied to pay for the watchmen.

SPIRIT O THE PUBLIC'

TRNALS.

RELATIONS OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT
WITH THE NATIVE STATES OF INDIA.
(Front the Tinto.)
It will be remembered by such of our readers as
have directed their attention to the relations of
the British Government with the Native states of
India, that in the year 1851 the arrears of debt
which had accumulated upon the Nizam's Govern-
ment, more especially for the payment of its
military contingent, were so considerable that it
was necessary to take prompt and decided measures
for the recovery of this large sum. An assignment
of territory was demanded for a period of three
years, and districts had already been marked out,
the revenue of which would; it was thought, suffice
to clear off this deficiency. The Nizam and his
Ministers were, however, extremely 'averse to this
expedient, for a surrender of territory is the last
condition to which a native Government will sub-
mit. General Fraser himself, then British resident
at Hyderabad, appears to have doubted the policy
of acquiring piecemeal, or for a limited period, a
territory which was likely to fall altogether and
permanently into our hands. Moreover, it was
evident that if the Nizam was unable to meet the
cost of the contingent out of his territorial re-
venues when they were undiminished, he would
be still less able to pay his army when one of the
most productive districts had been taken from him.
For these reasons We British Government con,-
tented itself -at till; time with the efforts made to
pay off in cash the most pressing portion of the
debt. A considerable instalment was raised, partly
by further advances from native bankers, and
partly by money from the Nizam's private trea-
sury. But it was obvious that this was a temporary
expedient, destined to ward off the day,of reckon-
ing for a short time only, and before long the
financial and military affairs of the Nizam's do-
minions must be placed upon a different footing.
That time has now, it seems, arrived. Colonel
Low has succeeded. General Fraser for a time, in
the Residency of Hyderabad, and the claims which
were partially disposed of in 1851 are now revived
in a more peremptory form. - The Nizam and his
Ministers have this time no option but to yield
assent, for they have exhausted their resources,
the debt is as large as ever, and they have no
means of paying the troops which are necessary for
the collection of the revenue, and the safety of the
territory. Early in the month of May the Resi-
dent was instructed to demand of the Nizam an
immediate settlement. The Nizam attempted to
make another appeal for delay to the Governor-
General, but in vain ; and though some discussion
ensued between Colonel Low and Sooraj-001-Moolk,
the Nizam's minister, there is reason to believe
that an agreement has been signed which goes
somewhat beyond the plan proposed in 1851. At
that time the measure contemplated was a lease of
territory representing 36 lass of revenue for three
years in order to clear off the debt then due from
the Nizam to the British Government. The
remedy now to be applied is of a more lasting
character. The districts assigned are to be ad-
ministered in the name of the Nizam by the British
Government, which is to pay the contingent out of
this revenue, and to release the Nizam from the
principal and interest in the debt. The advantage
of this plan must, of course, be determined by the
value of the districts chosen, and by their ca, pacity
for internal improvement. The present amount of
the debt is above 60 lacs of rupees, and the annual
cost of the contingent is from 30 to 34 lacs ; but
some reduction may probably be effected in the
strength. of the force and in the expenses of
the staff. The districts ought, therefore, to be
sufficiently productive to cover this outlay, and also
to provide for the gradual extinction of the existing
debt. We are not at present in possession of the
exact amount at which they are valued, but we be-
lieve they comprise one of the most fertile portions
of the dominions of the Nizam, on the banks of the
Krishna, where cotton has been successfully culti-
vated.
It is possible that if the Nizam's Government is
relieved by this arrangement from the heaviest and
most regular charge upon its resources—that,
namely, for the payment of the.contingent,..which-
thkrßritish Government was `always compelled, foi"
the safety of the country, to enforce—it may be able
to recover its solvency towards its other creditors.
But since the British Government has found itself
obliged to interfere thus far to obtain a security
for the payment of its own arrears, it is morally
bound to take care that the claims of other parties
to whom the Nizam is equally indebted, should not
be prejudiced because the Governor-General of
India has helped himself to what other creditors are
not strong enough to obtain. In one case especially,
which we examined in detail some time ago, British
Indian subjects have been forcibly dispossessed of
lands which they held under the Nizam's Govern-
ment, as a security for large advances made to the
British contingent. These parties have as yet ap-
pealed in vain for redress to the Governor-General,
to the Court of Directors, and to the Board of Con-
trol. Sir C. Wood refuses to disturb the acknowledg-
ed injustice which the joint powers of Leadenhall-
street have committed. Yet at this very time he is
sanctioning the appropriation of territories in pay-
ment of debts due to the British Government ; and
these territories, as there is strong reason to believe,
will include the very district already mortgaged to
British subjects, and afterwards wrested from them
by the Nizam. So that the Nizam would be
allowed to pay two distinct debts with one district,
and the revenue which the Government is to receive
for State purposes is already charged with an
equitable claim of private creditors. It has all
along been admitted, that if the Nizam's Govern-
ment were overthrown and his dominions annexed
to British India, the East India Company would
become liable for the just debts of a power
it had superseded. We have no doubt that
this more decided course of proceeding would be
a great boon to the natives of the country, and
would be far more consistent with justice and
good policy than the attempt to bolster up, against
ourselves and our own subjects, one of the last
and worst of native Governments. At this very
time several combats have taken place in outlying
parts of the Nizam's dominions between Arabs and
Rohillas, in which many lives have been lost.
Having the undoubted power to put an end to
these evils and abuses, we make ourselves, in great
part, responsible for their continuance by neglecting
to stop them. But the injustice is still greater
if the British Government steps in to settle the
question just so far as its own immediate claims
are concerned, provides for them out of the finest
parts of the country, and leave all the other
claimants to their fate. If the matter has gone
thus far, and we are to impose a new treaty
on the Nizam, it is difficult to conceive what
prevents us from doing what is right altogether,
and putting an end to the mischievous and oppres-
sive pretence of an independent State which is
kept up in the Nizam's dominions. The scanty
resources of that Prince have been squandered
during the last few years in bringing together irre-
gular bands of Arabs, Sikhs, Piudarees, and native
soldiery, to the number of 6,000 men, on whom
the Government affects to rely, in preference to
the force provided by treaty and disciplined by
British officers. These troops are the terror of the
country, and they may even prove, at some future
period, the centre of a serious disturbance. It is
to be hoped, therefore, that the arrangements now
in progress will include these several matters,
which are likely to give rise to discussion hereafter,
and that the independent power which the Nizam
may retain will not be such as to enable him to
defraud his creditors or to plunder his subjects,
who must, after all, look to the British Govern-
ment for protection and redress.

THE EASTERN QUESTION.
(From the Morning Herald. )

The intelligence from the East adds, in truth,
little or nothing to that which we already know,
or anticipated with such certainty as now to create
no surprise.
On the 16th of this month the Porte formally
and finally rejected the ultimatum of Russia. The
note containing the rejection was expected to reach
Prince Menschikoff on the 19th, at Odessa.
Europe will now await with anxiety the next step
of the Russian Government, consequent upon that
rejection. The combined fleets of the French and
English had arrived at Besika Bay, and the news
of their arrival had created the most intense en-
thusiasm among the Turks, whose preparations for
a defensive war were vigorously proceeding.
Beyond the very slight addition to the intelli-
gence already conveyed by electric telegraph which
this information conveys, we as yet know nothing
more than has been several days since communi-
cated to the public.
Neither does the intelligence that can be gleaned
from the capitals of Europe throw more light upon
the probable result of the events which, after the
lapse of 300 years, have once more centred the
interest of Christendom upon Constantinople. We
have already stated our impression that the refusal
of the ultimatum would be followed by a Russian
occupation of the Danubian principalities; and for