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London, England, 1853-03-22 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING-, MARCH 22, 1853.

ANTWERP and ROTTERDAM RAILWAY
COMPANY.—NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, That interest Itt the
raft; of 5 per cent. per annum for the hialf-year ending 31st 4arch,
1853, will be PAYABLE on the SHARES of this Company oo and
after the 4th April next 7----
The Certificates must be left at the Offices of the Company in
Brussels or in London, five days previous to the delivery Of the
interest warrants.

By order of the Board.
W. MACKENZIE SHAW, Sec,
16, Canon-street, London, March 3, 1853.

Tin OYAL SWEDISH 'RAILWAY COMPANY.
AA) INTEREST GUARANTEED BY THE STATE.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, That the FIRS P
INTEREST, at the rate of Four per Cent. per annum, clue oh the
27th April next, will be PAYABLE on and after the Ist of Slay fol-
lo wing. •
Interest warrants payable in London will be delivered at thal date
on presentation of the scrip at the office of the Company.
By order of the Board of Directors,
• EDW. C. NICHOLLS, Secretary.
London, 28, Poultry, March 18, 1853.

THE TIMES FIRE AND
INSURANCE COMPANY,
32, LUDGATE HILL,
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, That INTEREST on the Subscribed
Capital of this Company, at the rate of b per Cent. per annum, will
be payable to the proprietors en and after the 31st day of March
instant, between the hoars of eleven and three o'clock.
H. B. SHERIDAN, Manager.
32, Ludgato-hill, March 2lst, 1853.

' PROPERTY

Defective and Unmarketable Titles Assured—Redemption of Mort-
gages and Loans—Leaseholds made equal to Freeholds for the
pu, pose of Mortgage or Sale—Enfranchisement of Copyholds—
Guarantee of Mortgages.
OLICITORS will find the above form of
1.7 ASSURANCE of great utility to them in facilitating the trans-
fer of Property.
These extensions to Property of the principles of Life Assurance
have been already extensively adopted by the Profession.
In addition to the above, the LAW PROPERTY INSURANCE
SOCIETY effects every kind of Life Assurances and Annuities, and
grants Annuities to Professional Men in cash of permanent disability
by sickness or other causes from following professional pursuits.
For particulars and prosoectuses, apply at the Offices of the So-
ciety, 30, Essex-street, Strand, London ; or by letter to
WILLIAM NEISON, Secretary and Actuary,
30, Essex-street, Strand, London.
AGENTS WANTED.

THE INDISPUTABLE LIFE POLICY
COMPANY.
No. 72, Lombard-street and 24, Connaught-terrace.
TBUSTZES.
Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P.
J. Campbell Renton, Esq., M.P. James Fuller Madox, Esq.
Richard Malins, Esq., Q.C., M.P. I William Wilberforce, Esq.
The POLICIES are INDISPUTABLE, in terms of the Deed of
Settlement of the Company, duly registered, and are thus rendered
CERTAIN FAMILY PROVISIONS, and NEGOTIABLE- DOCU-
MENTS OF SECURITY.

This Company has introduced, as more peculiarly applicable to the
Middle and Industrious Classes, a plan of SELF-PROTECTING IN-
SURANCE, whereby in one Policy for one rate of Premium, are
combined an Insurance of a Sum payable either at death or on at-
taining a specified age, and a pension or annuity alter that age; and
giving the full benefit of all Premiums that have been paid, although
the payments should at any time be discontinued.
ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, Manager.

all parts of London

he arrival of the fol-
;et Station.

" Divide about the broad bride cake—
Round aboUt the bride's stake."—BEN. JONSON.
PARTIES requiring WEDDING BREAK-
FASTS or DINXERS may save much trouble and expense by
applying to Messrs. PURSSELL, who undertakes to supply the entire
entertainment, including Wines and the [lire of Plate, Linen, Glass,
and attendance. A competent person sent with bills of fare and
estimates; or for making general arrangements. Dancing Hollands
laid, and upholsterers sent to remove furniture. Rout furniture of
every descriptions for hire, ball rooms lighted, first-class musicians
provided.—Messrs. PURSSR LL, (only).

BRITISH COLLEGE of HEALTH
Hamilton-Place, New-road, London.
The principles of the HYGEIAN or MORISONLAN SYSTEM
are contained in the following propositions:—
I. The vital principle is In the blood.
2. Everything in the body is derived from the blood.
• 3. All constitutions are radically the same.
4. All diseases arise from impurity of the blood, or, in other words,
from acrimonious humours lodged in the body.
5. Pain and, disease have the same origin, and may therefore be
considered synonymous.
6. From the intimate connexion subsisting between mind and
body, the health of the one must conduce to the serenity of the other,
7.
•Proper purgation by-vegetables is the only effectual mode of
eradicating disease.
15. The discovery of a -vegetable compound, capable of being di-
gested, and mixing with the blood,
so as to impart to It that energy
requisite for ridding the body of all impurities, was a desideratum.
16. This discovery was made by JAMES MORISON, the Hygeist,
in the composition of the VEGETABLE UNIVERSAL MEDICINE
(Morison's Pills), of the British College of Health, Hamilton-place,
New-road, London. ,

TEETH.-By her Majesty's
Royal Letters
Patent.—Newly-invented and Patented Application of Che-
mically-prepared White India-rubber in the constru?.tion of Artificial
---t
Teeth, Gams, and Palates.2dr. tpHRAnd MOSELT, Surgeon-
Dentist, 61, Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square, Sole Inventor and
Patentee.--A. new, or !inal„ attui
.nValuable invention, consisting in
the adaptation, w most absolute perfection and success, of
OIIEMICALLY- arm-
..44•:Tt BBER as a lining
to.the ordinary g• • • frame. The extradrdinary results of
this application ; • . /*lefty. uoted *in a few of their most promi-
nent features, as • e following :—,ku sharp edges are avoided ; no
springs, wires, or fastenings are required a greater increased free-
dom of suction Is supplied ; a natural elasticity hitherto wholly an.:
attainable; and a flt, perfected with theAunerrins accuracy, are
secured, while froni the softness and 4-eirbUity of the agent em-
ployed, the greatest support is given to the adjointag teeth when
loose, or rendered tender by the absorption of the gams. The acids
of the mouth exert BO agency on the chemically-prepared White
India-rubber, and as it is a non-conductor, fluids of any temperature
may with thorough comfort be imbibed and retained in the mouth,
all unpleasantness of smell or taste being at the same time wholly
provided against by the peculiar nature of its preparation.
To be obtained only at 61, Grosvenor-street, London;
22, Gay-street, Bath ;
34, Grainger-street, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

THE EASTERN QUESTION.

(From the Times. )
The perplexity thrown over the present state of
affairs in the East by the confused and exaggerated
statements of several foreign journals is now partly
dispelled ; and when the occurrences which have
actually taken place are reduced to their real di-
mensions they will be found to have lost much of
the imposing and alarming character ascribed to
them. It appears to be true that some days after
Prince Menschikoff had his audience of the Grand
Vizier, Colonel Rose, the British Charge d'Affaires
at Constantinople, thought fit, either upon the so-
licitation of the Turkish Government, or of his own
mere motion, to send a steamer to Malta with a
request addressed to Admiral' Dundas, that he
would bring her Majesty's fleet in the Mediter-
ranean to Besika-bay, or some point near the
mouth of the Dardanelles. We use the term " re-
quest," because we believe that Colonel Rose had
not, and could not suppOse that he had, the power
to order the Admiral to take so momentous a step ;
and although the present emergency had been fore-
seen for several weeks, and indeed a similar one
had recently occurred at the time of Count Lein-
ingen's mission, no such power had been sent out
to him. It is due to the French Charge d'Affaires
at Constantinople to state that, on being consulted
by his colleague, he did not concur in the measure
proposed by Colonel Rose._ That measure was, in
fact, as we think, a great error of judgment, and
it demonstrates more strongly than anything that
has yet occurred that Lord Stratford's long delay
in proceeding to his post is very highly reprehen-
- -
Fortunately, upon the arrival of the Wasp
steamer at Malta with this request from Colonel
Rose, Admiral Dund&s was of 'opinion that his in-
structions did not enaTiole him to comply with it un-
der the circumstances alleged to have occurred.
The fleet, therefore, remains in harbour, and there
is no reason to suppose that the decision taken by,
Admiral Dundas has been disapproved by her Ma-
jesty's Government. It may also be hoped that
before any mord' such communications can be
dispatched by the Charge d'Affaires Lord Stratford
will have reached Constantinople with full know-
ledge of the . views of the British Government. It
certainly does little credit to the foresight of Cabi-
nets that at the moment of the arrival of Prince
Menschikoff, with a degree of pomp and solemnity
which no Russian Ambassador had displayed since
Potemkin, the three Courts of England, Austria,
and France should be represented by simple Charges
d'Affaires, whose personal abilities are not above
their professional rank.
Upon the receipt of the intelligence that Colonel
Rcise had sent for the British fleet, the French
Government appear to have taken an instantaneous
resolutiim to send their fleet to the Greek waters,
without waiting to be informed or deigning to in-
quire what had been the result of Colonel Rose's
application. The decision might, however, be
the effect of the dispatches received in Paris
from their own Chargé d'Affaires, or of the re-
presentations made by the Turkish Ambassador.
Probably it will turn out that the French squad-
ron will remain for a time at Athens or Smyrna to
watch the course of events. But although we
regret the haughty and, exclusive tone which the
Russian Envoy Extraordinary has been suffered
to assume at Constantinople, and it is impossible
for the great Powers to recognise in Russia any
claim whatsoever to dispose arbitrarily and at her
own pleasure of the fate of an Empire whose ex-
istence has so long, been the peril and the problem
of Europe, we are by no means satisfied that the
views of the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh extend as
far, at this moment, as some of our contemporaries
suppose. If they did, it is not the presence of
half a dozen French line-of-battle ships off the
Dardanelles that would stop the course of events.
In discussing this subject, however, on which
several of the principal English journals appear
to labour under extraordinary misconceptions
both of fact and principle, it must be borne
in mind that the prime aggressor of whom
Turkey has reason to complain is France ; and it
may be demonstrated that, without the extraor-
dinary concessions exacted by M. de Lavalette
last autumn, the cause which has led to this for-
midable Russian embassy would not have existed.
That cause is not the attack on Montenegro, as
one journal supposes; or a modification of the
Treaty of Adrianople, as another conjectures. It
is the necessity which the Emperor of Russia
professes to feel for the maintenance of the rights
of the Eastern Church, which everywhere involve
his authority. We have not forgotten that in the
latter part of last summer, when Louis Napoleon
was making his selection of Imperial titles, that of
" Protector of the Holy Shrines" was credibly
assigned to him. It was obvious that neither Tur-
key nor Russia would ever acknowledge such a pre-
tension, but M. de Lavalette was instructed and
authorised to use every means known to diplomacy
to strengthen the influence of France in the Holy
Land, especially by extending the rights and juris-
diction of the Latin conicents. A firman was granted,
revoked, and granted again to these Franks, and the
persecution which the Divan had to endure on this
subject was one of the chief causes that led to the
fall of Redschid and the dissolution of the Adminis-
tration of Ali Pasha. Russia declared that she

could not submit to changes thus introduced into
the existing state of things, which were so humili-
ating to the Greeks and favourable to the Roman'

Catholics. A negotiation was proposed at St.
Petersburgh, but the instructions of M. de Castel-

bajac, the'French Minister, were not of a nature
to facilitate a settlement. The French Govern-

went seemed to have made itself, on this question,
the very tool of the ultra-Catholic party, doubtless
for political objects of its own ; and at the point
the question has now reached she must eithersur-

render the preferential rights she has extorted frota
the Porte, or defend them by other means. Such

is strictly the history of this Complicated affair, and
it is certain that Russia has taken no active part in
it until she found it politic to defend her supremacy
in the Greek Church from the direct attacks of the
late French Ambassador.
But what have we to do in such an affair ? Will
any one contend that this country is to pay the
penalty of M. de Lavalette's folly ? That we are to

interpose, for the purpose of strengthening the in-
fluence of France in the East, as the protectress of
the Latin Churches Y Or that we have the defence

of the Roman Catholic clergy so much at heart that
we are to uphold their claims of precedency over
Greek Popes ? Such notions will not support a
moment's investigation, and, accordingly, the mo-
tives and origin of this dispute have been dressed
up in every way but the true one to engage English
sympathies on behalf of French interests in the Le-
vant. The French are no doubt in an awkward po-
sition there, but it is the result of their own policy,

and the first blows struck in the last few months at

the independence of the Porte came from Paris,
and were destined to gratify the vanity of Louis
Napoleon. It is, therefore, a mockery to suppose
that this country can be made the catspaw of the
French Government, by lending itself to the sup-
port of demands which ought never to have been
made, and which might be employed at no distant
period to warrant a French occupation of Egypt. I
It is true that this unhappy and scandalous
transaction, disclosing as it does the impotence of
Turkey and the divisions of Christendom around
the very sepulchre of Christ, may also serve as the
pretext and the occasion to execute other and more
deeply laid schemes of policy. That was a conse-
quence which the French Government ought to
have foreseen when it thrust the Sultan into so
embarrassing a position. But we must deal with
those dangers as they arise, and though we hold
that it is at present our duty and our interest to
stand aloof, we shall never cease to contend that
the true policy of this country is to restore the
concert of all the great Powers in the affairs of the
East, and by our example of moderation to pre-
serve peace, and to check that cupidity which may
threaten at any moment to tear the Turkish Empire
with violence asunder.

THE JEWELLER'S SHOP ROBBERY IN MANCHESTER.
—On Saturday the two prisoners, Mayne•and Robinson,
who had been remanded on a charge of being concerned
in the plunder of Mr. Howard's jewellery-shop, Market-
street, in this town, between one and two o'clock p.m.,
on the 7th inst., were brought up for further examina-
tion. Chief Superintendent Beswick conducted the pro-
secution ' • and Mr. Rigg appeared for one of the pri-
soners. William Priestley, a letter carrier, and Miss
Wilks, a young lady, identified Robinson as the person
who was engaged driving the public away from Mr.
Howard's door at the time the robbery was being perpe-
trated by his confederates inside ; and Thomas Conroy
proved having seen both prisoners together . several
times during the day of the robbery, and particularly
at the outside of Mr. Howard's shop. Mr. Beswick
applied for a further remand, in order to procure addi-
tional evidence ; and they were accordingly remanded
until next Saturday. _ _ _

SHIPS' STORES.:—The Board of Customs have approved
of a new fora of bond to be entered into on the removal
of warehoused goods from one port to another for imme-
diate and direct shipment as stores, which is to 1 e
adopted in future at the several ports in the United
Kingdom.