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RISING WATER discovered by the FOUN-
TAIN PUMPS, which roll the water upwards, without
either friction or falteriug, therefore can never be surpassed ; conse-
quently this is the most important discovery ever made for the pre-
servation of life and property either at Sea or on Land.

ENGLAND to INDIA and AUSTRALIA
nil. INDIA and AUSTRALIA MAIL STEAM-PACKET
COMPANY, incorporated by Royal Charter, which limits the re-
sponsibility of the shareholders to the amount for which they indivi-
dually subscribe, and authorises the Company to establish comma-
nications to and and front the United Kingdom, the East Indies,
Australasia, rid New Zealand.
Capital One Million sterling.
Divided iota series of shares of 201. each.

COMMITTEE.

air George Larpent, Bart., Chairman of the London Committee of

11411 lo;Exiension of Steam Navigation to Australia.
Sir William Tenter, Bart., M.P.
Hon. Francis Scott, M.P., Agent for New Seath Wales.
Sir TM•aias L. Mitchell, Surveyor-General of New South Wales,

Lsndsn.

Lieut.-Col. Abdy, Indian Army
Thomas /Smyrna, Esq.
Captain Cogan, Indian Navy
Archibald Cuninghanaa, Esq.
Captain H. M. Denham, F.R.S.,
Royal Navy
G. H. Donaldson. Esq.
Capt. Z. J, Fayrer, Royal Navy
Captain Ford, East India Maritime
Service
Captain G. T. Gordon, Royal 'Navy
E. S. Halswell, Esq., M.A., F.R.S.
Capt. H. Hamilton, Royal Navy
Gustavus Hamilton, Esq.
James Hunter, Esq.
J. A. Jackson, Esq.
Charles Joyce, Esq.
Frederick Lambe; ss4.

J. Maclean Lee, Esq,
Captain Richard Lloyd, Indian
Navy
Milbourne Marsh, Esq.
it Montgomery Marti., Esq.
J. Monteflore, Esq.
Sir F. Waskett Myers, K.C.S.
Alexander C, Ogilvie, Esq.
Rickard Paterson, Esq.
Robert Manley Payne, Esq,
John Wilson Pillans, Esq.
G. H. Skead, Esq., Master, Royal
Navy
Colonel Torrens, F.R.S.
William Gordon Thomson, Esq.
Lient. Waghorn, F.R.A.S„ Royal
Navy
Melvil Wilson,
BANKERS—MEWL Curris and Co., Cornhill.

SOLICITORS—Messrs. Barron and Clarke, Blo•mobury-square,

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India. Australia, China, and the adjicent regions, contain a popu-
lation of more than half the number of the inhabitants of the
globe,' and teens with every product which son minister to the wants
of maa.

To carry out effectually and economically steam communication
with those countries is the object of this Company, for whose ope-
rations there is an ample and profitable Acid, especially as regards
our numerous and valuable colonies in the 'Southern Peet(lc, which
have an increasing Intercourse with India as well as with England
—aro the only portions of the British empire unconnected by steam
navigation with the parent state, and for which a charter by the
overland route has been exclusively granted to this Company.
The route sanctioued by the Lords of the Admiralty for this Com-
pany is vii. Ceylon, Singapore, and Torres iitraits, the advantages of
which are, that Sydney, the metroplitan capital of the whole of the
Australasian colonies, would be brought to a certainty within 64 or
65 days of London (frequently in 60), and within less than 30 days
of India. Th. coal stations aro convenient, excellent coal from the
pits at Newcastle, New South Wales, can be pat on board there at
7e. to 7s. 6d. per ton.

Prospectuses, with forms of application for shares, and further
information may be had on application at the offices of the Com-
pany, wiero a copy of the Beyal Charter of Incorporatioa may be
obtained.

Offices, 14, Cornhlll, London.

JOHN TATES, See.

PATENT RAMONEUR ASSOCIATI ON
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illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel.
JET PHYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE I:NCAI A.
CITY, &ND IMPEDIMENTA TO MARRI
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New Edition, Cnlaigedlel9ipftges. Just published, price 2s. Gd., or
by post, direct from the Establishment, 3s. 64. in postage stamps,
HE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on
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has recently been newly furnished and laid out expressly for a Com-
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The COMMERCIAL ROOM, one of the hugest and most elegantly
fitted in the NORTH, It Is hoped will be found complde in every
respect.
The BED-ROOMS (Sixty in number) have been furnished in a
style which must ensere the approbation of all 'visitors.
Centime!' travelling with STOCK can at all times have gliOW
ROOMS without any extra charge.
The Music Hall, Lecture Room, and Royal Hotel Assembly Itoom
are all attached, and under the same management.
The Royal Hotel Is in the most central situation in Newcastle.

MR. BUCKINGHAM'S NEW WORK.
Now ready,
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DINNER to COL. MATHESON, M.P.
A brilliant festival was given at Ashburton on
Thursday night, in honour of the Liberal Member
Col. Matheson. There being no apartment in the
town large enough to contain one•tenth part of the
Mon. and Gallant Member's friends, two parties were
formed. Ab ,ut one hundred dined at the London
Inn, and near twice that number at the Golden Lion.
At the London Inn Col. Matheson presided at the
dinner,

(Jul. MATHESON, M.P., in returning thanks, said,
during the short time Parliament had been assembled
since his election, he had endeavoured faithfully and
diligently to discharge the duties he undertook. He
had been constant and regular in his attendance in
the House of Commons, endeavouring in the first
place to make himself master of those forms and
modes of proceeding which it was often very difficult
for a new Member to make himself acquainted with.
He had also given his best consideration to the
measures proposed, and supported them as his
judgment dictated. The subjects that had occupied
the attention of Parliament had- been chiefly two.
The state of Ireland was a subject, the interest of which
was not peculiarly confined to this country, but deeply
affected the empire at large. .fact, so long as Ire-
land continued in its degraded. and distressed condi-
tion, it inust be a serious- drawback on the prosperity
of the working classes of this country.—(llear, hear).
There could pot be a more important subject to oc-
cupy the attention of Parliarnent.• A great deal had
been said by persons calling.themselves: the friends'
of Irelisi?d about the necessity of introducing remedhil
measures at the; soma tin* with what'
.were
pleased to call "A Coercion Bill."—(lleitt, hear.)
All that might be true; but it struck him that the
first thing to be done was to give security to life and
property.—(Hear, hear.) In Ireland it had been
clearly traced that it was impossible to carry out im-
provements in agriculture or manufactures, or any-
thing else, so long as when any new persons were
brought to instruct the natives in any improved
process, they were viewed with such extreme hos-
tility by the old residents, that their lives became quite
insecure.—(Hear.) He looked on that as one of the
greatest drawbacks to the improvement of the
country, and the measures introduced by the Go.
vernment, to give security to life and property,
were as mild and interfered as little as possible
with the rights of any person. He did not conceive
it was possible that any well-disposed person could
feel himself subject to any hardship by them.—
(Hear, hear.) The other question which had chiefly
occupied the attention of Parliament was the state
of the country as to financial concerns. He felt it
was a very grave subject, and one which it became
him, from his previous habits of life, to approach
with very great caution ; but though it was more
becoming in him to listen and hear what other indi-
viduals who had devoted great attention to it had to
say on the subject, he found among the highest au-
thorities a great diversity of opinion, and thought he
could not do better than sanction the proposal of her
Majesty's Ministers, and refer the whole subject to a
Committee. It was true they had had a great many
inquiries, and it was likely this committee in the end
might not come forward with any specific measure ;
but a great deal of valuable information might be
brought out.—(Hear.) They had new lights on the
subject every day ; and collecting all these to-
gether they would arrive at something bene-
ficial at last. A great deal had been said
about this (Bank) Act of 1844, and many
experienced, sensible, and able men had unequivocally
condemned it. He confessed, so far as he could see,
the bias of his own mind was not against that Act. It
was true it had not been able- to protect us from a
severe pressure, almost, he believed, without parallel,
but he doubted whether under the old system, before
this law was passed, the pressure would not have been
equally severe : and from his recollection of the years
1825 and 1826, he thought if there had not been some
law to restrain the issue of bank notes, the effects of
the pressure would be felt by the humbler class of so-
ciety, much more than on the present occasion ; when
no doubt they had suffered in common with the rest
of the community, and could not have escaped. He
could only say that it was a grave and difficult
subject, which it became every man to study with a.
mind unbiassed and unprejudiced. He had not come
to any decided conclusion, except that it was the most
wise measure to have some security for the converti-
bility of the bank note: --And it struck him that secu-
rity should be in bullion—gold, as far as he could find.
They might see also in recent commercial failures that
many houses of great wealth and reputation for the con -
duct of their business had been obliged to suspend their
proceedings, because they had invested their money in
a fixed capital—land and houses which were not
readily convertible when the pressure came.—
(Hear.) Then he thought that the issue of bank notes
and the proceedings of merchants should not be based
on a fixed inconvertible capital, like land and houses.
—(Cheers.) He might be very wrong in all this, and
it might be very presu.nptuous in him to speak on
these abstruse subjects ; but as far as he could go,
these were his views, on which he should act.—
(Hear.) Another subject was brought forward a few
(lays before the prorogation of Parliament—a Bill to
relieve her Majesty's Jewish subjects from certain
disabilities which bore against them. To that Bill
he gave his support—(Cheers)—and he did not doubt
that in so doing he acted in full accordance with the
wishes and opinions of his constituents.—(Cheers.)
There was also, during the short period Parliament
sat, a Bill brought in to remove certain disabilities
' still affecting their Roman Catholic brethren. To
that he • certainly should have given a general
support : he was not present at the division by
accident ; but at the same time, there were some points
connected with that subject on which he was open to
conviction and hearing further argument—as to the
encouragement of the monastic orders in this
country.—
(Hear, hoar.) He thought it was a doubt-
ful thing.—(Hear.) They were all entitled to free-
dom of conscience, but he was doubtful as to the ex-
pediency of encouraging those bodies of men who
were set apart from the business of the world, and
lived in idleness, upon the fruits of other men's in-
dustry, he supposed—(Hear hear)—and had nothing
to do but to busy themselves in other men's affairs,
and who, in a certain Way, insinuated themselves into
the family concerns of other people, and who had
done a great deal of mischief in the world.—(" The
Jesuits.") These were the principal topics that had
occupied his attention since he had been their repre-
sentative, and he had explained the views by which
he was aetuated. He had only to repeat that he
should, to the best of his humble ability, devote him-
self to their service, and act on those principles which
he had professed when first he sought their support
and approbation—the principles of civil and religious
liberty ; through the medium of which he looked on
every subject that was brought forward.—(Great'
cheering—three hearty rounds.)
James Matheson, Esq.,
M.P.brother to the
Gallant Colonel, presided at the dinner, at the Golden
Lion.--Abridged from the Western Times.

THE ACTOR AND THE CRITIC.—Mr. Barry, the
present manager of the Park Theatre, New York, when
quite a young wan, was an actor at the Dublin Theatre.
One night, I,l4being in the bill, he took a seat in a pri-
vate box for the purpose of witnessing the performance
of Othello. Shortly after the rising of the curtain h
stranger entered the box and took a seat by his side, and
both gentlemen sat out the whole performance. The next
morning Mr. Barry had the satisfaction of reading a long
critique in one of the newspapers on the performance of
Othello, in which he (Barry) was set down as the lago
of the nighOsnd most decidedly damned. The writer
declared hienenception of the character ridiculous in the
extreme, and his delineation as "most villanous." Poor
Barry was of course astonished—he was enraged—and
immediately applied at the office of the paper for the
name of the writer. The critic was pointed out to him,
and, lo and behold! it was no other than the very man
who sat by his side in the private box on the previous
night. This circumstance was, of course, mentioned,
and the " gentleman of the press" admitted that he had
made a slight mistake—adding,
--wever, in a rich
matter of no consequence at all,
brogue, "Faith! it's a
at all, Mr. Barry; for what I wrote last night about the
gentleman who did play lago is exactly what I should
say about you if you had played the part." Barry
thought this a "foregone conclusion" with a vengeance;
but the critic would give him no further satisfaction.—
New York Tribune.
ZOOLOGICAL RECREATIONS* By W. J. Broderip,
Esq., F.R.S., &c., 1 vol.—The new number of the Quar-
teriy Review contains an elaborate article, in which we are
glad to seer dace justice done to the merits of this charming
volume. " Mr. Broderip (says the .Review), favourably
known in the literature of his own profession, and very ge-
nerally esteemed us an upright, intelligent and humane ma-
' these essays were sketched as a re-
gistrate, tells 11.1 that
lief from more severe studies and daties,' and that their
present appearance is due to Prefessor Owen, to whom the
work is dedicated, and to other scientific friends, ' who
urged their republication, under the impression that
they might form a hand book which might cherish or
awaken a love for natural history.' We believe we do
not exaggerate in' saying that since the publication of
Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne, and of the
Introduction to Entomology, by Kirby and Spence, no
work in our language is better calculated to fulfil the
aim of its author than the Zoological RecreatiTis. Mr.
Broderip's volume has taught or agreeably reminded us
of many zoological' facts and generalizations of much
interest ; and being simply written, enlivened by the
stories of a rich and varied eruditiaie, and pervaded with
gleams of humour, we feel assured that it will prove to
, old and young readers a source of real recreation,'—
, Quarterly Review.