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Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organ ,
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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
MALTA, AUGUST 28.—The French steamer Hellespont,
Rostand Company, will leave this evening, and this al-
lows me to supply a few items of news that have reached
since my last dispatch.
Her Majesty's steamer Merlin, to be employed on the
Marseilles or Alexandria line, as occasion may require,
arrived here on the 25th inst.
The Volcano steamer left this port last evening for
Athens, where she will, dit on, relieve the Meteor
steamer.
The American steam-frigate Princeton arrived here
on the 26th inst. She brings dates from Naples 21st ;
Palermo 23d; and Messina 25th inst.
The Hibernia, flag of Sir William Parker, and Queen,
110, were lying off Naples when the Princeton left.
The Vengeance had got under weigh the same morning
for Castella-Mare, where the remainder of the squadron
was at anchor.
All was quiet at Palermo. The French squadron
under command of Rear-Admiral Trehouard, and con-
sisting of five line-of-battle ships, arrived on the 22d in-
stant, accompanied by a largo steam frigate, Le Jupiter,
74, was at Ischia waiting the orders of Admiral Baudin,
who is fast recovering from his indisposition, and en
abled to walk,
Her Majesty's steamer Porcupine left Palermo for
Naples on the 23d. The Odin steam-frigate remained at
the former port.
Her Majesty's frigate Thetis is lying at Leghorn.
Her Majesty's steamer Bulldog is lying at Civita
Vecchia.
Cardinal Ferretti, whose arrival here was formerly men-
tioned, has returned to Rome. The movements of this
dignitary are somewhat mysterious. His departure was
as little expected as his arrival, and the cause of his visit
kept profoundly secret.
PORTSMOUTIL—The Hecate steam-vessel, Commander
William Moorman, arrived in Cowes Roads on Tuesday
night, at seven o'clock, and cast anchor, the thick
weather then prevailing preventing her proceeding to
Portsmouth, which anchorage she did not make until
six o'clock yesterday morning, where she remained some
time under the quarantine flag. She sailed from Malta
on the 15th ultimo for Leghorn, where she embarked
the Prince and Princess of Parma, their infant family
and retinue, and arrived with them at Gibraltar on the
26th of August, where they were most hospitably enter-
tained by the Governor (Sir Thomas Wilson) until the
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sent out his tender with his flag-lieutenant to wait upon
the illustrious voyaffers, and offer them the hospitality
of the Admiralty-house, which, however, their Serene
Highnesses gratefully declined, being desirous of ar-
riving speedily in London, for which destination they
started by the express train from Gosport. By the ar-
rival of the Hecate wo hear of the melancholy death of
Count do Dagenfield, a naval cadet of the Howe, 120
guns, Captain Sir James Sterling, Knt., which occurred
on the passage out of that ship on the 3d of July. The
young officer was going aloft into the mizQn-top, when he
fell down the futtock shrouds on to the rail of the poop,
and was instantaneously killed.
Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker's squadron was off
Naples when the Hecate left the station. Lieutenant
the Hon. J. R. M. Byng had joined the Hecate, ex-
changing with Lieutenant Hamilton, of that ship; and
Lieutenant Mildmay of the Thetis frigate, had joined
the Hecate, vice Beddingfieid, dismissed therefrom by
sentence of court-martial. Her Majesty's steam-sloop
Polyphemus, Commander M'Cleverty, and the French
steamers of war, Eclaireur and Rubis, were in Gibraltar
Bay when the Hecate came out. The Merlin steam-
packet arrived at Malta on the 25th ultimo, as the
Hecate heard at Cowes, Lieutenant-Colonel M'Adam,
late Major in command of the Royal Marines serving on
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Portsmouth Division, have come home passengers in
the Hecate, and about fifty invalids from the squadron.
The Hecate is ordered to be refitted, and sent out again.
Dr. Verling, surgeon of the Vengeance, 84 guns, at
Naples, was about invaliding home, and would leave
three days after the Hecate, for England.
Her Majesty's steam-vessel Vesuvius, Commander
Austen, R.N., arrived also yesterday morning off Ports-
mouth, from the West India station. She sailed from

Bermuda early in August, and made the tour of the
Prince's Island to see proper protection afforded to the
Newfoundland fisheries. She arrived at Halifax, Nova
Scotia, on the 13th of August, and found up the basin
there the flag-ship Wellesley, 74, Vice-Admiral Thomas
Earl of Dundonald, G.C.8., &c., Commander-in-Chief
of the squadron; together with the steam-sloop Scourge,
6, Commander Wingrave. The Wellesley has been
aground in the basin. The Vesuvius having received the
dispatches from the Admiral, sailed from Halifax on the
13th for St. John's, Newfoundland, where she arrived
on the 17th, and left with a mail on the 24th for Eng-
land. The packets so_recently arrived have anticipated
the news bronght by the Vesuvius. Captain Smith, of
her Majesty's 38th Regiment, and Captain Cochrane, of
the 7th, came home as passengers in the Vesuvius,which
is ordered to Woolwich to be put out of commission.

APPOINTMENT.
Surgeon—T. B. H. Thompson, to be superintendent
of the Blenheim convict-ship.
PLYMOITTM, SEPT. s.—Her Majesty's brigantine Spy,
3, sailed on Sunday, the 3d instant, with dispatches for
the coast of Africa. _

Her Majesty's steam-vessel Myrtle arrived yesterday
from the Isle of Wight.

Her Majesty's b—rig Ferret, 8, Commander George
Sprigg, scaled her guns yesterday morning in the Sound
and came into harbour to be.paid off.
Her Majesty's troop-ship Belleisle, 24, Captain John
KingcOme, will be paid off on Thursday, the 7th inst.
All the extra men employed as labourers in the
Royal William Victualling-yard will be discharged
from that establishment towards the close of the present
month.

Woovericu, SEPT. 6.—The Earl of Auckland, G.C.8.,
Rear-Admiral Dundas, C. 8., and Captain Alexander
Milne, Lords of the Admiralty, landed from the Royal
yacht yesterday afternoon in the Admiralty barge ; the
Monkey steam-vessel only accompanied the Royal
squadron to the eastern extremity of Woolwich, having
turned when opposite the Royal Arsenal. Their Lord-
ships, on landing, acconipanied by. Mr. Lang, master
shipwright, and Mr. Chalfield, assistant to the master
shipwright, went on board the Arrogant, 46-gun frigate,
in dock, to have the contemplated alterations pointed
out, which are considered requisite to be effected at her
stern, to adapt her for the auxiliary screw-propeller.
Their Lordships, on leaving the Arrogant, went to visit
the Sharpshooter steam-vessel, also ordered to have a
sharper stern, to adapt her for a screw-propeller, and
then left the dockyard, at the west-gate, for town.
The Niger steam-sloop, and the Plumper, the Minx,
and the Dover steam vessels, have all had their steam
up to-day in the river, to ascertain the working of their
engines, previous to going down the river to-morrow to
have their respective capabilities tried in the presence of
the Lords of the Admiralty.

MEXICAN BONDHOLDERS.
An important meeting of the holders of Mexican
stock was held yesterday at the London Tavern, having
been convened by the committee of Spanish American
bondholders, for the purpose of considering the expe-
diency of sending a representative of the committee to
Mexico, to act in conjunction with Messrs. Manning and
Mackintosh, in pressing the claims of the bondholders on
the Mexican Government. The meeting was fully at-
tended. Mr. G. R. Robinson, M.P., was in the chair.
After the secretary, Mr. Godfrey, had read the adver-
tisement calling the meeting,
The CHAIRMAN rose and said that the committee bad
thought it expedient to assemble the bondholders in con-
sequence of Mr. William Parish Robertson having made
a proposition to them which was considered to be of
importance. Mr. Robertson was a member of the
committee, and had offered to proceed to Mexico, and
to assist the agents in enforcing the claims of the
English creditors upon the Government. The chair-
man then read Mr. Robertson's letter, in which that
gentleman merely asks for the payment of his expenses,
estimated at 5001., but states that, for the interest
of the bondholders, it might be advisable to place, in
addition, some further amount at his (Mr. Robert-
son's) disposal, and the compensation for his exertions
should be left to the bondholders, dependent entirely
upon their success and issue. The chairman then went
on to state that it hadbeen thought proper to consult
the feeling of the present agents, Messrs. Manning and
Mackintosh, and it had been ascertained from a partner
of the house, who was in England that it would not be
disagreeable. There had been certainly a little differ-
ence of opinion in the committee as to the expediency
of sending out a special representative, but the majority
were in favour of such a course. Although the meeting
was called specially to consider the propriety of accept-
idg Mr. Robertson's proposition, it was also assembled
under very peculiar circumstances, *seeing the altered
state of things in Ilexico, arising from the conclusion
of the war. It might naturally be supposed that as the
war was concluded something would have been done for
the bondholders, especially as the indemnity of
15,000,000 dollars had been partly received. It was
thought that this payment would give them a still
stronger claim on. the Mexican Government, and yet
the Mexican Consul had stated that there was no inten-

tion to apply any portion of the American indem,
ni6y to the payment of the arrears of dividend ;
in ! fact, that the bondholders had no claim on
any portion of it. When the committee received this
ex raordinary communication, they thought it important
immediately to notice • it. Senor Mora states that
" here is no right to demand, nor is it convenient to
gr t, the application of •the said sums to the payment
of he _dividends, and to the amortization of the public
de . Not the first, because it was a clause and special
colition of the last convention, agreed to by the bond-
hol ers, .to _renounce the mortgaged territory which
previously existed for the payment of its creditors ; nor
the 'second, because the possibility of payment arises
fron't the very existence of the Government and its
solidity, and neither the one nor the other could be
rationally expected from an exhausted treasury, in-
capithle of maintaining in .it the vital principle and the
conditions of its existence. Moreover, the means of
payment and the guaranteerei the same exist, and are
stipulated for in the bonds issued, and amongst them
mention is not made, nor could be made, of an indem-
nification which did not and was not likely to exist.
Thus, according to M. Mora's code of morality, the
suffering bondholders who have been deprived of their
just blaims for years past, have no right to any por-
tion lof the indemnity, which of course was not
specially mentioned in the conditions of the last
conversion, simply because prior to the American war
it could not have been thought of. He (the Chairman)
could not have believed that any gentleman in the posi•
tion of M. Mora would have put forth such a monstrous
doctrine. He was totally wrong in asserting that the
bondholders had relinquished their claims on the terri-
tory of the Republic; for so careful had the committee
ever been in this respect not to compromise the position
of the creditors, that they never abandoned the claim
originally given upon the whole revenue and resources of
the Mexican nation. It was not enough for the Mexican
Government to apportion the Customs dues, the tobacco
revenue, the charges upon the export of silver, &c., for
these Were only accepted in the hope of the remittances
being (regularly :made, and not to the exclusion of the
claim kipon the entire revenues of the country. Ile (the
Chairman) did not mean to question the policy of
Mexico purchasing peace at the expense of territory! but
supposing New Mexico and California had been retained,
the bohdholders would assuredly have had a claim upon
the territory. It might as well have been said by the Go-
vernment, had the whole of Mexico been disposed of,
"We Won't pay a shilling." The committee had not
been idle. As far back as the 7th •of April last, it
had called the attention of Messrs. Manning and
Macki Cosh to the probability of peace, and to the neces-
sityl of coking after the claims of the bondholders, and
in the llowing terms:—"ln regard to the important
subject' m which the committee pressed in their last let-
ter,--via., a share in the indemnity to be paid by the
United States to Mexico, they have no doubt you will
keep in,view, and bring clearly before the Government
the undoubted right of the bondholders to participate in
the amount of that indemnity, as holding a species of
mortgage on the territory of the Republic. Any portion
of that territory surrendered to a third party for a vain-
able consideration carries with it necessarily the obliga-
tion to chmpensate the mortgagee, 1. e. (in this case) the
British icreditor. The committee trust that, indepen-
dently of other grounds on y might claim a
considerable sum of money out of the 15,000,000 dolls.
to be paid by the United States, the Mexican
Govern-
ment
will acknowledge the substantial equity of this
claim. Qn these and all other points relating to the
bondholders' interests, the committee rely with confidence
on your doing all in your power on their behalf." Again,
in July, they urged the same points, in a still more direct
and speeial manner, observing that :—...0 Intelligence
having new been received here of the final ratification of
the treaty between Mexico and the United States, the
committee cannot omit taking the opportunity of '
again
pressing on you their earnest hope, that the arrange
meats pointed out in their last letters will be made .
by
the Mexigan Government without delay, The
committee
doubt nott that, before this letter reaches you
have communicated with the Government on this you will
subject.
The bondholders confidently look to your valuable co-
operation in, enforcing on the Mexican Government the
performance of the obligations entered into by them at
the settlement of the debt, in June, 18-16• It is quite
true, that the war
which has intervened must have de-
prived the Republic of a considerable Portion of its re-
venue; but this, it is to be presumed, will be fully com-
pensated by the indemnity money payable under the
treaty of peace. The internal resources of the country
do not appear to have been impaired by the war. It
seems, on the contraay, that the coinage of the prin-
cipal mints in the interior has experienced a consider-
able increase. The custom-honses of Vera Cruz
and Tampico being nor, in pursuance of the
treaty, restored to the Mexican authorities,
the committee expect that immediate measures will be
taken for resuming the monthly remittances of the ass
siemed portion of the duties. He (the Chairman) read
those letters, to show that the committee was doing its
duty, notwithstanding the anonymous letters received,
but he made great allowance for the privations and even
distress occasioned to many parties by the suspension of
the dividends. Messrs. Manning and Mackintosh had
written to the committee in reply, to the effect that they
had received most positive assurances that the Mexican
Government were at the conclusion of the war disposed
to take into consideration the just claims of the bond-
holders, and the committee were in consequence led to