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London, England, 1851-06-23 00:00:00

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N°.18,330.] LONDON, MONDAY
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JUNE 23 1851.

NEW EDITION OF TIIE LIVES OF THE QUEENS.
With the Magazines, on the 30th of June, will be commenced the
publication, in Eight Ntonthly Bvo. Volumes (comprising from 600
t. 700 pages), price 12s. each, elegantly bound, of the
LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND.
By AGNES STRICKLAND.
A. _NEW, REVISED, and GREATLY AUG‘IENTED EDITION,
EMBELLISHED IN ITH PORTRAITS OF EVERY QUEEN,
Beautifully Engraved from Authentic ources.

N.B. The First Volume will contain the Lives and Portraits of
Thirteen Queens, and a fine Portrait of the Author.
Colburn and Co., Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street.
To be had of all Booksellers.

Cheap Edition, price is. 6d., 330 pages and Woodcuts,
LIFE at the WATER CU RE ; or, a Month at
Malvern. By R. J. LANE, A.E.R.A., and Atrographer in
Ordinary to her Majesty ; and (by permission) " The Confessions of
a Water Patient," by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton.
" A highly interesting and amusing diary of household water cure
science."—Pioneer.
W. liorsell, 13, Paternoster-row, London : and all Booksellers.

squadron was renaarkably healthy. Archer, 14, screw-
sloop, Commander S,range, was off Lagos; Flying Fish,
12, Commander Patoy, was cruising off Porto Novo;
Harlequin, 12, Commander Wilmot, was cruising off
Palmas; Niger, 12, screw-sloop, Commander Heath,
was cruising off Little Papo; Prometheus stearn•aloop,
Commander Foote, had been sent from the Bights divi-
sion to Ascension for provisions; many of her crew had
been sickly.
PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—At the half-yearly exami-
nation of the mates of the Royal Navy and officers of
the Royal Marines at the Naval College on Saturday
last, Mr. James Graham Gondenougli, mate, was de-
clared to be qualified for the Lieutenant's commission
granted by the Admiralty in December, 1838, to the
most advanced student in mathematics, &c.; and Lieu-
tenant F. W. Festing, R.M., was found qualified for the
Marine Arillery Corps.
Commodore W. F. Martin, of the Lisbon Squadron,
has been honoured by the late!y vacant appointment of
naval A.D.C. to ;he Queen.
The good service pension of 300'. per annum. which
all in on the death of Admiral Sr Edward Codrineton,
eaw been conferred upon Vice-Admit al Sir Samuel Pym,
K.C. B.
A ca, tain's good service pension of 1501. per annum.
which also fell in ty the promotion cons quent up-n
death vacancies on tee fl.g-list, has been conferred upon.
Captain H. 13 Powell, 1822.
The goad service pension of 1501 per annum enjoyed
by the late Colonel M Cullum, of the Royal Merit-Tr,
aas been conferred on Colonel Samuel B. Ellis, C.B.
Rear-Admiral he Dak:. of Nei-thumb-flaw', KG,
visited the Exeellent gunnery-ship last we( k, Jana wit-
',eased shot and shell practice and the ev,lutions in sea-
manship by the crew. The noble Admiral was much
gratified with his vi-it, snd expressed to Captain
shads, C.B, his warmest appreciation of the high effi-
ciency displayed by the officers and men under his
,onimand. Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.8.,
late C.naman&r-ire-Chief on the southeast eoa't of
America station, accompanied his Grace on his visit to
iiis port.
Admiral Sir Thomas Byam Martin. G.C.8.. Admiral
of the Fleet, arrived here last night, sad (together
with General Fanshawe, who is waiting the momentarily
-xpected arrival of his sou, Commodore Fanshawe, in
her Majesty's ship Centaur, from the coast of Africa),
is sojourning at the George Hotel. Rear-Admiral Pres-
C. 8., &c., visited him to-day.
The Wellesley and Re-olute Indiamen sailed from
Spithead yesterday, the former from Madras and Cal-
cutta, and the latter for Sydney.

various sites proposed for the Exhibition, among which
may be nained Leicester-square, Somerset-house,
Trafalgar-square, the Isle of Dogs, Battersea-fields, and
Regent's park—(Laughter)—selecteci, after the most
careful consideration, a portion of Hyde-park, situate
between the Serpentine River and the Queen's drive,
and gave us possession of the ground on the 30th ot
July, when we proceeded to take the necessary levels
and surreys, and to set out with great precision the po-
sition ot the various parts of the building. The draw-
ings occupied me about eighteen hours each day for seven
weeks, and as they went from my hand Mr. Henderson
immediately prepared the ironwork and other materials
required in the construction of the building. As the
drawings proceeded the calculations of strength were
made, and as soon as a number of the important parts were
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