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LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING STIN,

;FREEMASONRY.
ASYLUM FOR AGED FREEMASONS.
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HOTEL (Radley's), New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, at Seven o'clock,
on WEDNESDAY EVENING, July 8, for the transaction of general busi-
ness, receiving reports, and electing officers.
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JOHN WHITMORE, Secretary ad interim.

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very generous subscriptions and donations of themselves and friends.

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ITALIAN ALABASTER, MARBLE,
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now and elegant assortment of Vases, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks,
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collections of Minerals, Shells, and Fossils, which will greatly faci-
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from 2to 60 guineas each. He also gives Private Instruction in
Geological Mineralogy.

VIE " MORNING HERALD " on PHOTO-
GRAPHIC PORTRAITURE, April 17 and 29.—" The re-
sults of Mr. Beard's experiments are, indeed, self-evident. We ob-
served in the specimens a more minute and greater delicacy of de-
tail, and a finer breadth of light, that peculiar charm of nature, than
in any preyiously taken, while the portraits in colours no less de-
lighted than astonished us."
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Empowered by Act of Parliament.
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January, 1850, may be secured at a pfesent annual payment of one-
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sum insured will be paid less the amount ofpremiums on credit. Should
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allowed to lapse, and the Company will renounce all claim for the
half premiums which may be duo thereon , or, in the event of the
party being at that time in bad health, the policy can be kept up
by commencing to pay the full premium of the age as when first
accepted. The above plan, originating with the Company, was
found peculiarly advantageous at the last equitable division in 1840,
when it was largely adopted. and many of the policies then effected
are still in force, and latge bemuses have been added to them on the
scale of the following table ;
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5,000
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..

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SOLICITORS.

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inclusive, from Ten, ♦.m., to Four, P.N.
June 4, 1846.

THE DELIGHTFUL COOLNESS of White
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CRAVAT COLLAR, which is manufactured from a line linen of a
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On the Ist of July will be published,
DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING
MAGAZINE. No. XIX.
Contents : —HISTORY OF ST. GILES AND ST. JAMES,
Chapter XXlX—Never Fear—Modern Painters—Joe Huistley's Kit
—My Heart is like the Bee—lreland and the Irish—The Ragged
School—The East Wind at Harwich—Edmund Burke—The Semp-
stress to her Mignionette—How the Greenwoods got over their
Trouble—The Toilet Tomfooleries —More Light for All—The Ruined
City—Humility—Crinkum Crankum—Researches in Belgravia—Re-
views, &c. &c.

London : Published at the " Punch " Office, 85, Fleet-street.

On the Ist of July will be published, price 6d.4 No. VII. of the
ALMANACK OF THE MONTH,
A REVIEW
_OF EVERYTHING AND EVERYBODY.

Edited by GILBERT ABBOTT A'BECYCETP.
Among the Contents will be found—The Abuse of Party—Visits to
the Zoological Gardens, &c.—A Penny-a-liner's Phrase-book—The
Indian Dedge—The Painter and the Premier—The Talk and Calen-
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PORTRAIT OF SIGNOR LABLACHE, AS DON PASQUALE.
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price 3s. 6d..

On the Ist of July will be published, price Is., No. IV. of
UROWNT I M E S.
Illustrated by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.
Contents :—London Penetralia, No. lll.—The Cheap-Ball room,
with a Plate.—Railway Deposits.—A Plea for Advertising Vans.—
The Classics in Spectacles.—Matrimony by Advertisement. —A Mo-
dern Story of the Middle Ages.—A Ballad for Young England, &c.
London : Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars.

THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CLV.,
will be published on SATURDAT next.

CONTENTS:
I. BORNEO—EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO, &c.
. 11. SACRED POETRY—LYRA ENNOCENTIUM.
_III. BARRON on the ARCTIC VOYAGES.
IV. MILES on the HORSE'S FOOT.
V. LATIN INSCRIPTIONS.
VI. BURTON'S-MEMOIRS of DAVID HUME.
VII. GROTE'S HISTORY of GREECE.
VIII. BUNSEN on EGYPT.
IX. The WAR of the PUNJALTB.
X. PHILIMORE'S LORD LYTTELTON.
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FRASER'S MAGAZINE FOR JULY,
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2. The Two Graves.
3. John Sebastian Bach.
4. Incidents of Real Life. 1. The Image of the Norman Knight.
5. The Rise of Napoleon. By the Author of " The_Fall of Napo-
leon." No. VII. The Prussian Cempaign.
6. Major-General Brotherton and Colonel Brereton.
7. Brougham's Men of Letters and Science.
8. Of the Italian Opera. By Morgan Rattler.
9. Contemporary Orators, No. XI. Corn-law Speakers, Pro and
Con. The Duke of Buckingham, the Duke of Richmond, Lord
George Bentiuck ; the Earl of Radnor, Mr. Villiers, Mr.
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UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE,
and NAVAL and MILITARY JOURNAL, for JULY.

CONTENTS :-
1. Outlines of the Lif, of Ibrahim Pacha. By an Eye• Witness.
2. On Jobs in General. By Colonel Firebrace.
3. Marvels in Marine Natural History.
4. Early Wars with the Natchez.
5. The Sea of Trees.
6. Three Days in the Garden of Ireland. By Captain O'Connor,
Ist West India Regiment.
7. On the Artillery of the Ancients.
8. The Alarm a Frontier Story from South Africa. Written on

the Spot.
9. The Rob Roy of the West.
10. Lodging, Washing, Swimming, and Cooking in the Army. By
Lieut.-Col. Wilkie.
1. Memoirs of an Old Sailor.
[2. An Idler's Journey on Foot through France.
3. The Holy City in 1846.
4. The United States and Mexico.
5. The Royal Artillery Institution—Casemated Batteries.
6. Corporal Punishment.
7. The United Service Institution.
Stations of the Army and Navy—Promotions and Appointments
—Dispatches—General Orders—and all the Professional News
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Contents of No. VII., for JULY

The Subsoil Plough, with an Illustration—Observations on the
Motion of Plants—The Natural History of the Cereal Plants—On
the Composition of the Earth, as applied to Agriculture—Chemical
Composition of Gooseberries —Remarks on Fallow—Observations on
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GOODWOOD R A C E S.
The Ceast lines of the London and Brighton Company being
now open front Lewes to Chichester, the cheapest and most expedi-
tious route from London for Goodwood is by the Brighton line to
Drayton, near the race-course. Extra trains will leave London-
bridge on the mornings of the race days, returning to Brighton and
London after the races. Conveyance may be had from Drayton to
the race-course, on notice being given a day previously to Mr. Poun
taro, Railway-station, Brighton.

The line fiom Lewes to Hastings and St. Leonards will be open to
the public on Saturday, the 27th inst.
T. J. BUCTON, Secretary.

London Terminus, June 18, 1846

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SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Letters and papers have been received, by her Ma-
jesty's ship Fly, from Port Adelaide, up to the 21st of
January.
The Hingston, from Falmouth in October last, arrived
on the 18th of January, and the Enmore, from the
Downs in same month, arrived on the 19th of January.
From private letters we learn that the John Hayes
was to leave on the 18th of February, and was to bring
the first shipment of copper tre from the new mine dis-
covered in the Mount Barker district.

But the topic exciting the most interest in Adelaide
at the date of the Fly's departure was the return of Cap-
tain Sturt from his exploratory expedition northward.
On this subject it will, perhaps, be in the recollection of
our readers, that the gallant captain left Adelaide in
August or September, 1844, for the north, under the
expectation of discovering a vast inland sea in the inte-
rior of the Australian continent, and has, consequently,
been absent on this mission a year and a half. This
search, it seems, has been fruitless, as far as can be
gathered from his dispatches ; although he himself is of
opinion that important additions will be made by his ex-
pedition to the stores of geographical knowledge.
Extracts from Captain Sturt's dispatches are pub-
lished in the Adelaide papers, with brief editorial com-
ments, which we here subjoin:—
" RETURN OF CAPTAIN STURT AND PARTY FROM THEIR

PERILOUS EXPEDITION.
" Dispatches have been reed-fed from Captain Sturt,
stating the probable arrival o: himself and party at
Moorundee this day (Jan. 17th, Mr. Brown, the bearer
of the packet, having left theta at Lake Victoria, and
himself arriving at Mr. Natim's station on the 12th
instant. The letter from Captain Sturt is dated 21st of
December last. On the prep,eding day he had reached
IhetDarling, after a most perilous journey from the
depot, a distance of 270 miles. He effected his retreat
with great difficulty, the first water being 115 miles from
the depOt. He was absolutely forced to make the at-
tempt, for the only other alternative was to remain
and rot at the old post' rhe heat was perfectly
horrible, and had they not been providentially visited
with a change of wind, and a shower of rain, which
cooled the air and ground, they would have perished.
They did not, as it turned out, lose even a sheep. After
this account of the retreat, Captain Sturt proceeds to de-
tail the transactions from the time when he was last
heard of. It may be remembered, that it was his inten-
tion to proceed to the north-west, in the hope of finding
an inland sea. He says
" I went from the old depot to Lake Torrens,
hoping to find a country affording a practicable route
to the north, but was disappointed. I returned to the
depOt to make a more extensive excursion to the north-
west. On the 14th of August I left the camp with Mr.
Brown and three men, taking fifteen weeks' provisions,
but after penetrating to lat. 24 deg. 30 min. and lon.
138 deg., I was obliged to return from the failure both
of water and grass. Dr. Brown also suffered greatly
from scurvy, but was too high-minded to complain. He
is indeed an inestimable young man, and has been as a
brother to me.

" We passed over a country of alternate sand-hill and
flats, until I struck upon a creek, beyond which the
country was more open, and more subject to floods ; we
crossed over extensive plains, subject to deep inundations,
but toon again got on sand hills. From them we de-
scended to a stony plain of boundless extent, on which
the horses left no track, and where no object was visible
on the horizon from which to take bearings. Crossing
these, we descended to flats, like a ploughed field, on
which water had subsided, stretching to the north-east
and south-west farther than the range of vision, and with-
out a blade of vegetation. From this we again ascended
sand ridges of most formidable description, and found
the country to the west so bad, where we attempted
to penetrate in that direction, and surface water so
scarce, that we were obliged to turn to the north at fifty
miles, with only two small puddles to depend on. I struck
a creek which I traced up sixty miles, when I got on a
country of salt formation, covered with samphire and
other salsolacious productions, with numbers of dry beds
of lagoons, as white as snow with salt. Passing this,
we once more found ourselves among sand ridges, per-
fectly insurmountable, so close that the base of one
touched the base of another—the whole country sand.
The sand-hills were of a fiery red, and they ran, for
miles and miles, in parallel rows, with points
like the vanishing points of an avenue. But there was
neither grass nor water to be found, and after trying all
points of the compass I gave it up, and returned to the
depot, after an absence of seven weeks and a ride of
924 miles.

" The men were all knocked up, and the horses per-
fectly leg weary; but I was dissatisfied with this journey,
and there was little time for hesitation. Therefore,
after giving the animals six clays' rest, I left the camp
with Mr. Stewart, leaving Mr. Brown in charge of the
camp, whose readiness to do anything I wished lightened
my labours. I took two meas. and nine "woke provisriong,
my objects being to try to enter the tropics, to- ascertain
if there was any water between me and the north coast,
or if the desert extends to the very tropics. I went due
north, and struck a most splendid creek at 123 miles
from the depot. Here I had a thunder storm that
lasted half an hour, and left some surface water, de-
pndent on which, I crossed it, and ran out 170 miles
without finding a single channel for conveyance of
water. I dug five wells, but had little hope of benefiting
from them. I was at length brought up by astony desert,
that stretched before us in absolute boundlessness.
Where there were sand-hills in it before, the sand-hills
were now covered with stone, similar to the plain itself.
I was in the centre of a dark and adamantine sea, with-
out an object by which to steer my course. I was 41
miles advanced in this gloomy region, and 52 from
water. My horses had already been one day without
water, and I could not hope to reach the other water
under a day and a half, including part of the night;
yet I hesitated to turn back. It was an irresistible
influence that drove me back, certainly contrary to my
own inclinations. I was well nigh too late. I lost
three horses, but that was of no consequence on such an
occasion. I got back to the creek, after having reached
latitude 25 deg. 45 min., and longitude 139 deg. 13 min.
" From the creek on which I was, I bad seen high
and broken ranges to the north-east, and I now deter-
mined on examining them and the creek. I therefore
went up the latter 120 miles, but I found that it was
leading me away from the ranges, and I ultimately got
to its termination, or rather head, in some extensive
plains. The creek was as large as the Darling, and was
flanked by a box-tree forest, in grassy land, to a con-
siderable distance from its banks. Here I fell in with
a numerous population, passing three or four small tribes
every day ; but the news of our kind treatment of them
had spread through the country, and they evinced no
alarm, but did all they could to serve us.
" On the 3d October I was at the head of the creek,
and all at once found myself in presence of about 270 or
280 natives, encamped on a rising piece of ground, under
a large sand hill I had descended. On seeing us they
set up a great shout ; but when I rode slowly down the
hill, there was a dead silence ; then I dismounted, and
giving my horse to one of the men, walked over to the
natives, who received me very kindly, brought me
troughs of water and baked seeds, and invited me to
sleep at one of their fires
; but observing a small clump
of trees about fifty yards away from the native camp,
I told them that I would sleep there, to which they
gave a ready assent, and carried over fire-wood for
our use,
which was very scarce. These people were the
finest I have seen in Australia. Many stood six, several
more than six feet high. They were well made, and
had not the pot bellies of the natives in general. They
were frank and merry people, and told me all they could.
They assured me there was no water to the east or
north, and were quite distressed when I persisted next
day in going to the eastward. The women were engaged
to a late hour in bruising seed for [cakes, and the noise
they made was like the working of looms in a manufac-
turing town. At ten, all was hushed, and, for the re-
mainder of the night, no one would have known that
there were so many human beings near.
" From this point I turned westward, and turning
up a branch creek, went towards the ranges ; but 1 got
into a terrible country, and found the effects of refrac-
tion had deceived me with regard to the ranges, and
that they were nothing but masses of sand or rock,
three to five hundred feet high. I saw that I was get-
ting near the scene of the greatest turmoil, where the
water passed over this dreary waste, and left the shivered
fragments of mountains behind it. Here again water
and grass failed me, and I was forced to abandon this
trying task on the 9th of November, being unable to
contend against the season and country. I had done all
that I could do, and had again run the risk of being alto-
gether cut off • indeed, so near was it, that I drained the
last drop of mud—for it was not water—out of a pool that
four weeks before was 150 yards broad, and 200 to 300
long. I lost two horses, and regretted them very much.
I reached the depot (which Mr. Brown bad been obliged
to move during my absence, in consequence of the pu-
tridity of the water) on the 17th, having ridden 843 miles
in five weeks, less three days.
. .

" I had been exposed for twelve weeks to an exces-
sive heat, had had insufficient food, had drunk loath-
some water, and at length my iron constitution, under
disappointment, anxiety, and weakness, gave way. The
day I made the camp I was eighteen hours on horse-
back ; and when 1 dismounted the spasmodic action of
the muscles of my thighs was so violent as almost to
throw me forward. I had, in truth, ridden all day in
great pain. The next day the scurvy, latent in me for
eleven months, seized me. The muscles of my thighs
contracted, and I was laid prostrate on my mattrass. I
am still unable to walk or stand, but I am otherwise
well in health ; and I hope, that with all the good
things my friends have sent me, I will get round.'
"Another gentleman, says the South Australian
Register, from which the above is extracted, has fa-
voured us with the following note from the Gallant
Captain, which forms an appropriate pendant to the
foregoing communication:—

;The Ana Branch of the Darling, sth Jan., 1846.
" I have, as you will hear, done nothing but toil
through a desert that I believe is unequalled in the
world. My investigations, however, were geographical,
not with any direct view of finding good land, and as
far as the geography of the interior goes, I think there
will not be much difficulty, from the data I shall be en-
abled to furnish, to make a pretty good guess as to what
the greater portion of it is. All I can say is, that this
has been one of the most difficult and anxious tasks that
could have fallen to the lot of any man.
" For myself, thank God, lam getting better. Six