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LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5, 1858.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, August 4, 1555.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That a
SPECIAL GENERAL COURT of the said COMPANY will be
held at their House in Leadenhall-street, on WEDNESDAY, the
11th instant, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of
laying before the Proprietors of East India Stock an Act of Parlia-
ment, passed on the 24 instant, entitled "An Act for the Better
Government of India" (21st and 22d Vic., nap. 100).
J. D. DICKINSON, Secretary.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, August 3, 1858.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA COUPANY DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That they
will be PREPARED, at or before 13 o'clock, on the 17th day of
August instant, to RECEIVE TENDERS for a LOAN of 23,579,000
for live years, on security of Debentures (being the residue of the
amount authorised to be raised under the provisions of the Act 21
Victoria. cap. 3), such Debentures to be of the respective amounts
of £l,OOO and £5OO, and to bear Interest at the rate of Four per
Cent. per annum, payable by Coupons attached, half-yearly, at the
Treasury of the East India Company, in London, on the Bth day of
April and the Bth day of October in each year.
The Tenders to be for sums of not less than £l,OOO, and to state
how much will be given for every £lOO of the said Loan.
So much of the amount tendered to be paid to the Company on
the 23d of August, as will leave 75 per cent. of the capital to be
paid as under, viz.:-
25 per Cent. to be paid to the Company on the 20th day of Sept., 1858.
25 Do. Do. Do. 18th day of Ozt., „
25 Do. Do. .Do. 15th day of Nov. „
from which dates the Interest of Four per Cent. per annum upon
the respective instalments will be calculated ; but parties who so
desire may pay up in full, and will bo allowed a discount at the rate
of Three per Cent. per annum upon the anticipated payments.
In cases of equality of Tenders beyond the amount required, they
will be subject to a pro rata, diminution.
Scrip receipts will be given to the parties entitled, to be delivered
up in exchange for the Debentures when prepared.
The Tenders are to be delivered in, sealed, at the Treasury in this
House, and to specify the proportions of each denomination of
Debentures required by the subscriber; a deposit of Five per Cent.
upon the amount tendered must at the same time be paid to the
Company's cashier, to be returned in the event of the Tenders not
being accepted, and parties tendering must be careful not to enclose
the deposit hi the sealed Tender.

No Tender will be received after 12 o'clock on the said 17th day of
August, nor unless upon a printed form, which may be obtained at
the Accounts Branch of the Secretary's Office, in this House, or of
the Company's Stockbroker, Mr. Henry Scott. 16, Throgmorton-
street. J. D. DICKINSON, Secretary.

NORTH RHINE COPPER MINING COM-
PANY of t,OUTII AUSTRALIA (Limited).
Capital £60,000, in 60,000 Shares of £1 each, ss. thereof to be paid
on application fur shares, and a further sum of ss. per share at the
expiration of two months from the date of allotment.
DIRECTORS.
Charles Cleve, Esq., (Crosby-square, London, late of Adelaide.)
Francis Cope, Esq. (3lessrs. Cope and Scott, London.)
George Hay Donaldson, Esq. (Messrs. Donaldson, Lambert, and
Co., London.)
Philip Levi, Esq. (Messrs. P. Levi and Co., London and Adelaide.)
William Paxton, Esq. (Linden House, Chiswick, late of Adelaide.)
COMMITTER OF MANAGEMENT IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
John Beck, Esq., Director of the Alfred Watts. Esq. J.P., Local
Burnt-Burn. Director of the Bank of Ans-
Edmund Levi, Esq. tralia.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—J. H. Clements, ESQ., F.G.S.
SOLICITORS.
London—Messrs. Pattison and Wieg, 1, Lincoln's-inn-fields, and
10, Clement's-lane, City.
Adelaide—Charles Fenn, Esq.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Hankey, Fenehurch-street.
Adelaide—South Australian Banking Company.
BROKERS.
Messrs. Cope and Scott, 7, Lothbury, City.
Royal Exchange-buildings, City
Thomas FennilEANsqA.G,
3EOffices-1, Charlotte-row, Mansion-house, London.
This Company is formed for the purpose of purchasing and work-
leg the valuable freehold mineral property known as the North
Rhine Mine, situated in the hundred of that name, near Adelaide,
South Australia.
The property comprises 366 acres, and contains one of the
richest deposits of copper ore yet discovered in this well-known
mineral district.
Upwards of 100 tons of copper ore have been raised from this
mine, and the yield of the malachite and blue carbonate has shown
upwards of 70 per cent, oxide of copper, giving an average to the
ore of 32 to 31 per cent. fine copper.
Prospectuses, with map, may be obtained on application at the
offices, or from the Brokers.

cut or canal without any current between the two seas, and
that the project was abandoned.
" A report of my speech on that occasion will be found in
the published' Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution
of Civil Engineers,' vol. x., ep. 10-13, a honk which M.
Negrelli may find in the Public libraries of Vienna. The
circumstances of my expedition, though made without
any ostentation, are well known, both in England and in
Eupt. I am astonished, therefore, at what I must call
the audacious assurance with which M. de Negrelli in-
sinuates in his letter—first, that I have never been in the
locality at all ; then, that if I have I 'can only have seen
that part of the scheme which is near to Suez.' Our hon-
ourable friend,' he writes, pretends to have travelled
on foot the whole isthmus between the two seas; but in
Egypt, where the preparations for a journey in the Desert
always attract attention, no one has ever heard of
this journey of Mr. Stephenson.' I must be permitted to tell
M. de Negrelli that the sense of honour which prevails in
England forbids our presuming to doubt the word of a gen-
tleman without having at least some foundation- for suspi-
cion, cud that when, without foundation, he insinuates that
I could be base enough, before the institution. of which I
have been:presidenr, and, seven years after, before the Com-
mons of England,.of which I am a member, to make state-.
ments 'as deliberately false as ridiculously objectless, he is
attributing to me a course of conduct utterly unknown to
his! honourable friend.'

" It curiously enough happens that my journey over this
district in 1850 was not my only expedition to it. 'fettle
year 1851 my yacht was burnt at Cowea, having on
board all the specimens I had collected at the Bitter
Lakes, Lake Tintsah, and the elevated ridge to the north,
In the winter of 1854, being at Cairo I telt a desire to re-
place these specimen., and I started for the district under
the escort of a cavass of his Highness the Pasha of Egypt,
and accompanied as far as the Bitter Lakes by Mr. Ayrton,
an English gentleman resident at Cairo. On this occasion
I pursued the same route with little variation; renewing
my acquaintance with the physical features of the country,
and still further confirming my views as to the soundness
of M. Talabot's report. Everything that M. Tatabot gave
the key to I saw for myself, and, judgfno. for myself, with
his report and maps in band, I felt gonfirmed in the cor-
rectness of his views respecting a tifreo canal across the
Isthmus of Suez,

" It was, I believe, in the year following this expedition
that certain gentlemen waited on me in London, and pro-
posed to re-open the scheme for a canal across the Isthmus
of Suez. They had no new facts to offer to my considera-
tion, and in all that they stated I found nothing that
engaged any share of my confidence, or that in any way
changed My :view as to M. Talabot's report and the character
of the project. In dealing wits the multitude of schemes
from time to time submitted to me, I have uniformly de-
clined to allow my name to be associated with any plan in-
volving the subscriptions ef my fellow countrymen for which
I did not see good prospect of success. Acting on this prin-
ciple, and feeling that the Suez Canal project on such foun-
dations was not a sound undertaking, I declined to be in
any way connected with the scheme. I communicated this
resolution to the promoters civilly and courteously. I know
not why my persistence in it has given them so much of-
fence. For some years past, however, I have been pursued
by these parties, in their hired organs, with weekly attacks
on both my personal and professional character. As I have
said before, I have thought it most dignified to leave such
attacks unnoticed, knowing whence they proceeded; indeed,
they appeared beneath notice. Under no circumstances
will they ever engage my attetetion, and it is only when I
find a fernier colleague leagued with my assailants that it
appears to me to be necessary to correct hie misstatements.
"M. de Negrelli tells you in his letter, For my part, I
considered the results of the surveys (of M. Talab
favourable to the direct union of the two seas ; the fact
of their being on the same level rendering the construc-
tion of locks unnecessary.' However,' be says, I reserved
my opinion until my ideas should be confirmed, which did
not occur until ' after the month of December, 1855,'
when M. de Negrelli now declares that he pronounced
himself in favour of the direct union of the two seas by a
free canal.' M. de Negrel:i has a perfect right to his own
opinion; I only regret that he does net concede to tee
my right to mine. But, apart from matters of opinion,
cannot but obsetve that the elaborate attempt of M. de
Negrelli to fix the periods during which he reserved' and
at which be pronounced' his opinion appears remarkable.
From the termination of M. Talabot's experiments in
January, 1847, to after the mouth of DeceinlT, 1833 (i.c.,
January, 1856), nine long years, M. de Negrelli reserved
Lis opinion.' Through all these years, and even down to
the date cf his letter to you, he permitted his former col-
leagues and the world at large to believe that he concurred
in M. Talabot's report, and that, toed her with AI. Talabot
and myself, he had abandoned the project altogether. Even
when we all met in Paris in August, 1855, on the very eve
of hie pronunciamento, lie did net communicate either to
M. Talabot or to myself the doubts he entertained or the
opinions he 'reserved.' It was only after the enenth of
December, 1855,' that ideas were emit-jellied.' It was
only 'after the month of December, 1855,' I believe that the
company to which M. de Negrelli has now openly lent the
influence of his name and the weight of his authority as-
sumed a commercial shape.
" Bat M. de Negrelli, I have said, has a right to his
opinions. I only wish he would allow me the same right to
mire.

" I do not share,' he says, the opinion of my hon.
friend in England, that the canal without a current must
become a ditch where the water will be perpetually stag-
nant.' The canal can only be considered as the continua-
tion of the two seas, avlo:e waters meet in the basins.
If my hoe. friend will lock from the windows of the
building in which he has developed suds singular hydraulic
knowledge, be will see that the reflex of the Thames as far
as Windsor is caused by the rising of the tide and the agi-
tation communicated to the river. Notwithstanding that
Windsor is many leagues from the sea, the influence of the
tide of the interior waters is regularly felt. In the same
manner the Mediterranean and the Red Sea will agitate the
Suez Canal. The waters will rise and fall; in one word,
they will take part in WI the .movetuents of the sea.'
" If' toy lion. iend' will steed oo the walls of the city
from which he has developed such singular hydraulic know-
ledge,' he will see in the tideless stream below him nothing
of the character he describes es occurring in the
Thames, which will probably account for his statements,
which are, indeed, as wide of the mark as possible; because
to euppsse for a moment that there is any analogy between
the Suez Canal, 300 feet wide at its mouth, in an almost
tideless sea, and a river like the Thames, no less than six
miles broad at the Nore, with a rise of tidal water of from
]6 to 20 feet, is really, to use a favourite phrase,of de
Neerelli, merely to 'pretend' to a knowledge of hydraulics.
"And if my hon. friend' is wrong in this analogy, he is
equally unfortunate in his special illustration. If, without
a shadow of foundation, M. de Negrelli questions my ever
having been at Suez, it is not without foundation that I
shall question his ever having been at Windsor. Or if ever,
as his language appears to suggest, lie has ti evened up the
river Thames past the windows of the building in which I
developed such singular hydraulic knowledge,' to vi-it the
Royal castle at Windsor, from whence he saw the reflux of
the Thames, the rise of the tide, and the agitation comtnu-
'sleeted by the river,' he must forgive me for suggesting
that the vision must have been under circumstances most
dazzling to his clear perception ; for, while it is quite true,
as M. de Negrelli says, that Windsor is many leagues from
the sea,' it is equally certain that the influence of the tide
there is' not regularly felt,' inasmuch as it is arrested by
Teddington lock. Moreover, I must inform M. de Negreili
that Windsor is 26 miles above the reach of the Thames,
and that at no period of the history of the river, even before
the construction of the locks, was the tide known to reach
within .22 miles of that town. In the same manner, there-
fore, as the tideagitates the waters at Windsor, M. de Ne-
grelli pronounces that the Mediterranean and the Red Sea
will agitate the Suez Canal.' On this point Ido share the
opinion of my lion. friend in Austria.'
'‘ But on the graver question that the waters of the canal
will rise and fall, that they will take part in all the move-
ments of the seas,' I do not share his opinions.' Supposing
that there was an action of the water the extent of two feet
in the Mediterranean, and cf six feet in the Red Sea, which
is supposing. an extreme case, what effect would such action
have on a canal nearly 80 miles in length, with the inter-
vention of the extensive basin of the Bitter Lakes? The
matter is easily to be settled by calculation ; and I leave it
to my bon. and ingenious friend to amuse himself with in his
leisure hours.

" I believe that I have now replied to everything requir-
ing an answer in M. de Negrelli's letter. I regret that,
after leaning M. Talabot and myself to imagine, for s 3 long a
period, that he concurred in the conclusion at which we ar-
rived, after the investigation of
wtiohnavtoe • pronounced ' a contrary view. 181t47
me, however, to reflect that in the interval our opinions
Ehoeros
eh osualtdi
snfaoc
have been confirmed by the investigations of highly scientific
and experienced individuals. Among other important in-
quiries on the subject, I would refer to a docernent issued by
the Itydrographic-office of the Admiralty, under the autho-
rity of Capt. Spratt, R.N., aCopanioonf
iolf.tdheeLClerselseeir),osfrethae_
Bath and a Fellow of the Royal Society, who in 1857 made
made an inquiry into the soundness
soninge and argUtnents on the practicability of the Suez
Canal.'
"This eminently scientific officer has arrived at the eon=
elusion; after 2O tears' hydrographle experience of the Medi-
terranean, and tittei' the late O'aborate surveys and charts of
the Admiralty, showing the wave motion tied the currents,
that the establishment of a canal dependent upon or SetOn-
dory to the practicability of making and maintaining a deep
entrance to it from the tideless Mediterranean,' is not
feasible, It is riecessary aedjusts' he concludes, ' to the
.commercial interest desirirg to embark In the project of M.
Lesseps to know these iropertant facts ere they risk their
millions in the undertaking, instead or discovering them only
when swamped itt the sands they will have to contend with,
and then to discover also, when too late to amend it, that
Alexander the Great was wiser than M. Lesseps admits when
he listened to the local opinion regarding the influence of
the Nile upon the harbour if formed to the eastward of it.'
"The opinions expressed by Captain Spratt serve, to
some extent, to counterbalance and to console me under the
defection of M. de Negrelli. I only regret that my former
colleague should not have been permitted to join his new
friends without contributing to an ettack;upon myself.
must frankly gliy, that such an attack from his pen appears
to me to be especially ungenerous, unfair, and unprovoked.
What word of unkindness has passed my lips with respect
to M. de Negrilli? When did I attribute to biro false pre-
tences and absurd scientific ignorance? So little cause, in-
deed, had M. de Negrilli for assailing me, that I entertain a
belief, almost amounting to conviction, that he never can
himself have penned the seurrileus letter of which I com-
plain, but that it was the work of some others, who obtained
to it his signature, given without due conefderatien.
"In conclusion, Sir, I will only say that I have—indeed,
I can have—no hortility to a maritime canal through the
Isthmus of Suez. If I could regard such a canal as com-
mercially advantageous, I have already shown that I should
be the first to give the advantage of my time, my money,
and my expsriencr. It was because after elaborate invcsli-
ga,ion, and in coejsacti,n with such men as M. Talabot, I
arrived at a clear conclusion that the project was not one
which deserved serious attention, that I refused to give it
support. I should be delighted to see a channel like the Dar-
denelles on the Bosphorus penetrating the isthmus that
divides the Red Sea from the Meditteranetin ; but I know
that such a channel is impracticable,—that nothing can be
efncted, even by the most unlimited expenditure of time and
life and money, beyond the formation of a stagnant ditch be-
tween two almost tideless seas, unapproachable by large
ships under any circumstances, and only capable of being
used by small vessels when the prevalent winds permit their
exit and their entrance. I believe that the project will prove
abortive in itself and ruinous to its constructers; and enter-
taining that view, I will no longer permit it to be said that
by abstaining ftona exprosing myself fully on tits subject

am tacitly allowing capitalists to throw away their money on
what my knowledge assures me to be an unwise and wire-
rnunerati ve speculation.
" I have the honour to be,
" Your most obenient servant,

"ROBERT STEVENSON•
" 24, Great Geerge•street, Westminster, July, 18,58."

INDIAN JUNCTION' TELEGRAPH

COMPANY.

The following letter furnishes some details cf file negotia-
tions which have been carried on during the vast two years
by the Indian Junction Telegraph Company, under encou-
ragement from the British Government, ter the construc-
tion of a line via the Tigris and the Persian Gulf, and which
have been allowed to result in disappointment and loss. It
appears an expectation is now entertained that the company
will he empowered by the present Cabinet to lay the cable
from Kur. achee to Bussorah, while the Turks are making
the land and river line from Constantinople to Buisorah, and
that means may even yet be adopted to hasten the latter
portion of the work by British co-operation :
" European and Indian Junction Telegraph Company,
London, August 3, 1858.
"Sir,—As your remarks in the City Article of yesterday
might give the impression that it was proposed to abandon
the route by Asiatic Turkey and the Persian Gulf for placing
India and England in telegraphic communication, I beg that
you will do me the favour of giving insertion to the accom-
panying letter, which I addressed to the present Govern-
ment, having, at the same time, good reason to believe that
it would be well received. To this letter I have received no
answer, the proposal contained in it being still, I believe,
under consideration and reference. The Treasury minute
On my letter, and the answer of the India Board thereto
(declining on behalf of the East India Company to lay the
ea.klm, will show the extent of the official action on this most
itnpottant matter, as published in a recent blue-book.
I quite agree with you that my shareholders have been
apparently egregiously trifled with by Government, but that
ceases to be surprising when the magnitude of the public
interests at stake failed to induce the prompt and energetic
prosecution of a work costing a trifle not worth weighing in
the balance for a moment against what one single vibration
of its silent tongue' might have saved during the stirring
events of the past year.
"I am bound, however, to state that I received in my
lengthened negotiations with the late Government c'irdial
co-operation from the Treasury (vide minute No. 113, an-
nexed), and that I experienced on all occasions the greatest
personal courtesy from Lord Clarendon.
" Lord Stratford de Redcliffe wrote to me to say that he
was prepared to lend our agent at Constantinople the weight
of the embassy in his negotiations with the Porte, which he
nobly exerted, and yet an influence adverse to the interests
of this country was suffered to prevail ; but I am not with-
out hopes that an arrangement may still be effected with the
Turkish Government satisfactory to all parties, and I may
add that the character of the present President of the India
Board leads me to hope for an early decision on the Persian
Gulf portion of the route.
"I have the honour to be, Sir,
"Your most obedient servant,
" W. P. ANDREW."

" European and Indian Junction Telegraph Company,
Gresham-house, Old Broad-street, Londoat, April 19.
" Sir,—Feeling assured that her Majesty's Government
participates in the anxiety felt by the public to have India
and England placed in telegraphic cemmuuication at the
earliest passible period, I have the honour to request that
you will be good enough to bring to the notice of the Earl
of Malrnesbury the following particulars, with the docu-
ments noted in the niarain relative thereto.
" 2. As chairman of the only company incorporated by
Act of Parliament with a subscribed capital for connecting
England and India by a line of telegraph through Asiatic
Turkey, I have to state that as the Turkish Government have
determined to construct a line of telegraph from Constanti-
nople to Biassorah, at the head of the Persian Gulf, and have
already, as I am informed, despatched the whole of the ne-
cessary materials to Asiatic Turkey, the company I represent
would be prepared, on cer air terms and conditions, to com-
plete the telegraphic system to India within one year from
the execution of a contract with Government, by con-
structing. and laying down a submarine cable between Bus-
sorah and Kurrachee, the port of the Indus which either is
at this moment or is about to be in telegraphic communica-
tion with all parts of India.
" 3. With reference to the lengthened correspondence I
have had with the late Government on the subject of tele-
graphic communication with India, I may briefly state, for.
the information of Lord Malmesbury, that tie pieject uf
this company for connecting the tel, graphs of Europe with
committeetVbwp tie
i helei
tuns
Mediterranean
eicioeethudeoe
art. rtr
talAmi nnSmeaodet
f.arai
preliminary
Government
oaif
ap-
proved by the late Government and by his Excellency
:let sciat jelet
nifnn‘pcw:r.
ea.
company
which e examinedentonLileoi
takenitrtdiei
eredi2sbidyna Stanleypt Excellency
January, 1837, a copy of which is annexed, a large expendi-
ture was incurred by despatching officers and telegraphic
btebn‘o,yredHdrtncaohadruernreesree:ntaoißetgnfraregtcdaedone,cifaodmitnietffewi
nti,neehihree pfreormsi atllll eGstlilzews
aosf
stores to the Turkish territory, and the line might now have
been in working order had not some extraordinary and un-
expected influence prevented the formal granting of a con-
c,-ssion which had been promised to the company by the late
Grand Vizier Redschid Pasha, and had been unanimously
recommended to the Turkish Government by the Council of
Tanzinsat.

" 4. It will be observed that the effect of the prelimi-
nary agreement entered into in January, 1857, was that the
Government was only to pay for work performed, while the
entire risk was thrown on those who found the capital and
skill to execute the work. I think it rigist at once to bring
this prominently forward, as in the event of the proposal I
have submitted being entertained, it appears but reasonable
to expect:that Government should accept some portion of
the risk (which the highest scientific authorities assure me
is little more than nominal) with those who will place in
their hands a political instrument of inestimable value. In
other respects the previous agreement above ref!rred to
might be accepted as a basis for the execution of the con-
tract.

- - -
" 5. According to the rough estimate of those eminent
and successful telegraph cable contractors, Messrs. R.
Newall and Ca., in their letter to me, dated 16th inst., a
copy of which is annexed, the entire cost would amount to
400,000/. This sum may appear large, but the details I
have reason to believe will be nea►ly as follows :
Cable, 1,500 miles at 1381. per mile
Four steamers and coals for nine months 125,000
Insurance
Contractor's profit and risk laying down 48,000

£400,000
" The item of 125,0001. might be saved by Government
providing suitable vessels and coals.
" 6. In conclusion I hate testate the desire of the direc-
tors that, in the event of an arrangement being entered into
between the Government and the company, the management
should be aided and controlled by the presence of an ex
officio director at the board, and that the cable should be
both constructed and laid down under the supervision of
any officer her Majesty's Government might be pleased to
appoint.
" ' I have the honour to he, Sir,
" ' Your most obedient bumble servant,
" W. P. ANDREW, Chairman.
" W. R. Seymour V. Fitzgerald, Esq.,
M.P., &e., Foreign-office.' "

" ' No. 113—Treasury Minute, dated September 9, 1857.
" Write to Mr. Hammond, with copies of this correspon-
dence, for the information of Lord Clarendon, and state that
it is the opinion of this hoard that, whether the proposed
line of telegrsph may ultimately succeed or not, it mould be
most unsatisfactory if an object in which the British Govern-
ment has exhibited so strong an interest should be allowed
to all to the ground by the refusal of a Council of Ministers
of the Porte to confirm the decision of the Tanzimat, and
that through the exertions of a party supposed to be inimi-
cal to British interes.s and to be in favour of the commercial
rivalry of the French. State that my lords feel, after the
encouragement they have given to the company seeking this
concession, that every means which Lord Clarendon thinks
right to use should be put in motion to induce the Ministers
of the Porte to adept the usual course in this case of con-
firming the decision of the Tanzimat.
"`lnform Mr. Andrew that my lords have communicated
their views to Lord Clarendon upon this subject.' "

DESTRUCTION OF THE BOURSE AT

ANTWERP BY FIRE.

The Independence Beige of Tuesday evening contains
the following letter from Autwerp, dated Menday morning,
2.30 a.m.:—

" At the moment I write an immense disaster is occurring
in our city, The Bourse of Antwerp, that place to which
so many glorious souvenirs are attached, and which by its
late improvement, its fairy-like covering, had become the
admiration of all foreigners, is nothing more than a heap of
rubbish and smouldering ashes. The glass roof fell with a
frightful crash, and the enormous pieces of the metal frame-
work broke like glass on falling to the ground. Every part
of the building, in fact, is destroyed, and it was with great
difilcul7 that the neighbouring houses could be preserved.
The civil and military authorities, the troops, the firemen,
every one indeed did their duty, but nothing could be done
as to the Bourse, which will be burnt to the last fragment
of wood.
4, The fire appears to have arisen in an upper room, on the
side of the Court Rue des Claires. It was there, at least,
that the flames were first seen, and in half an hour the place
was enveloped in fire. The Bourse contained the chamber
if commerce, the tribunal, and the record office, the syndi-
cal chamber of the stockbrokers; the syndical chamber of
the Antwerp brokers; and the telegraph bureaux. Nothing,
absolutely nothing, is saved. All the archives of these vari-
ous bodies are lost. * * * I have just returned from the
scene of the disaster, and in spite of the united efforts of a
crowd of workmen and the engines the fire continues. The
jestPlae Place caught
ceilings which surmounted the arches of the interior gal-
leriesglVhlte rh fire,
as fallen.",
side o
of the
part of the turret on the

The Right Hon. Frederick and Mrs. Peel left
town, yesterday, on a tour in Germany.
M.P., and Lady Theresa Lewis and Miss Lister left Kent
House, on Tuesday, for their seat, I larpton Court, Radnor-
The Right Hon. Sir George Cornewall Lewis,
shire.
SPECTACLES.—SIGIIT AND HEARING—DEAFNESS.
—NEW DISCOVERY.—At Messrs. S. and B. Solornons', op-
ticianseerve:
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extraordinarily powerful, small, newly-invented instrument
for deafness, entirely different from all others, to surpass any-
thing of the kind that has been, or probably ever can be, pro-
iboetmeia.r—leisht;eg, Piccadilly.-01,-
ganic
Vibrator, an
ibrator,
duced. It rests within the ears without projecting; and, being
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of the same colour as the skin, is not perceptible. It enables
deaf persons to enjoy general conversation, to hear dis-
tinctly at church and at public assemblies; the unpleasant
sensation of singing noises in the ears is entirely removed,
and it afibrds all the assistance that possibly could be de-
sired. Invaluable newly-invented spectacles; immediately
they are placed before extremely imperfect vision the must
aged detective sight is brought to its youthful, natural,
and original state. Also, the most powerful and brilliant
patent telescopes, camp, perspective, opera, and race-course
glasses, possessing such extraordinary power that some 3}
inches, with an extra eye-piece, will show distinctly Jupiter's
moms, sattan's tin, and the double ottus.