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that
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NOW? -That the FIERY CROSS his arrived,
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l'aPort price, ot the EAST INDIA TF:A CO
(great t. Helen's Churchyard, Bush ,psgalc-strect.

DENTAL lei O'rICE.-111r. ESKELL, Surgeon-
ibar, Dentist. of P. Grosvenor-street, tiond-street, having
b. ~,"nced or a considerable period that "he is NOT con-
kc;.,,e(l with any one of the name, and that he has NO r RE-
and does not intend cLoinx &to." berr,a respeetluifylo
t D. and as tie considorg -mu general rtll3llo are now am-
e"4, fitly wll aware of the fact,. Jr, e•-nse to make thi< or
or pro fessional statement in the pub lc papeis on and
.ter the of February next.

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glui.:l9 offer to the public this truly marvellous flu!', which
ina;luallY rest,res the human hair to its pristine hue—no
~ ter at what age. The Agna Amarella has none of tl e
rwrg°p_erties of dyes - it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the
eerirri, and when 'the hair is once restored one application
T>ettrut h will keep it in perfect colour. Price one 2 uln” per
Of the'," ill half bottles, les. 61. Testimonials fromtstes
aLent,..khest order, and from individuals of undoubted re -
U:,-eaullity.
Co. be seen on application. Messrs John
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ukteBBthe Prinoett. of Wales.

HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN,
le, Great Ormond-street, Queen-square.
Patron—Her Majesty the QUEE
4.711 e Committee have much pleasure in announcing that A.
v ERESFORD HOPE. Esq ,N M.P., has consented to resideß at the FOIURTEENTH ANIVIMSA.RY FKSTI-
AL of this Charity, on February 12, at Willis's Rooms.
FIR ST LIST OF STEWARDS.
The Most Noble the Marquis Vice-Admiral Sir Augustus
Of A bercorn Clifford. Bart.
The Right Honourable the The Rev. Sir C. Macgregor,
rhe R
Earl oigrht H Shafonourabtesbury,leK Earl SiG. Bart.
r Archibald Alison, Bart.
Amherst Admiral Sir William Bowies
'he Right Honourable Vis- Cot. Beauchamp
~,count Gort Colonel Home Pnrves, C.B.
he Rigt Rev. the Bishop of Colonl F. R. Wa do Sibthorp
Chichehst er Lieut.e-Colonel Frederick C.
Right Rev. the Bishop of Heppe'
h St. i avid's Lira-Colonel Playfair
Te ItiZht Honourable Lord Michael I. Bass. Esq., M.P.
Allen A. Bathurst, Eeq.,
1112 he Honourable Viscount Stephen Care, Esq.. M.P.
111. P•
Colonel
M.P.t e l on . Percy E. W. W. Dick, Esq.,
Albert Grant, Esq., M P.
:re Iron. and Rev. Charles K. D. Hodgson, Esq., M.P.
The Willoughby J. Dyce Nicol, EsoL,
ue Honourable Arthur Kin- Arthur .1. Otway, Ee(l., 51. P.
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•N. C. Hamilton, Bart. Charles Waring, Esq., M.P.
The
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I.„,,,iirerin,tonptlEonscis.i;n aid of the funds are earnestly solicited, and
oe thankfully received by the Treasurer, Henry Sykes
or by any of the Stewards.
waryl6, 1866. SAMUEL WHITFORD, Secretary.
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way Terminus, King's-cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
Vice-Patron—His Royal Highness the Prince of WA LES, K.G
President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH.
This Hospital, founded in The year 1828, the first to estab-
lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor without
the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders. is wholly de-
pendent for support on voluntary contributions andi :games .
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
.lestitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between
3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of
containing several hundred more beds, had the Committee
the requisite muds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mas •
Berman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.;
Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co.;• H.rries and Co. ; Ransom
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rIE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another
home to the 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer
han 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected irom
want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have
been sent away In fire years. Here are brief details of a few
of the moat recent cases:
F. v., aged 16, ts llen, mother dead, deserted by her father.
DI. A. F., aged i 3, homeles., both parents dead.
A. 8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother
S. D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead.
C. 8., aged 15, fallen, mother dead,
A, 8., aged 16, fallen, both parents dead.
H. S., aged 14, la.meless, deserted by her parents.
M. H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
C. H., aged 17, fallen, both i arents dead.
A. G., aged 18, fat en, lather dead.
K Ii„ aged 18, fallen, both parents dead,
S. B. aged 17, f.llen, both par nts dead.
M. Al W.. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
S. D., aged 15, fallen, both parents dead.

The new home the I 'ommiitee wish to form would be for
young girls, almost children, from the age of 6 to 15, who
have been led astray from the path of virtue.
ontributiona will be received gratefully by the Secretary,
'lr. Daniel Cooper, 5, Queen •street.Cheapaide; or by Messrs
Barclay and Cc., Lombard-street.

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vended in her name have the Royal Arabian signet attached
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daily.—Agents required in town and country.

MR. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52,
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as not to be distinguished from the originals by the closest
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be found superior to any teeth ever before used. This
method does not require tue extraction of roots, or any pain-
ful operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are
loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and mastica-
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in mastication.

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SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS.

ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library,
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Alabaster, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, 4,0,
Imported and manufactured by JAMBS TENNANT, gine,
ralogist to her Majesty, 149, ;:t: and, W.C., London.
Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS,
Ji INERALS, and FOSSILS, to illustrate the new edition
of Lyell's Elements of Geology ; they will greatly facilitate
the interesting study of AIINNIZALOGY and GEOLOGY,
and can be had at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 500 guineas each.

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DR. SCOTT'S LIVER AND BILIOUS
PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING REMEDY.—Pre-
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kott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who
uffer from bilious and liver nomplaints, hidigesecn, wind,
•pasms, giddiness, lizzinebs of the eyes, dro. For habitual
ostiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier
,t the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera-
tion and grnteful to he stomach, they create eppe its, pro-
mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system.
cold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross.
London, and by most druggists, in boxee.ls. lid., and three
timer) the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr.
Scott's Bilious and Liver rills. The genuine are a square
greenp paotage. with " William Lambert," engraved on the
stam.

The New Parliament.

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Nearly seven years having elapsed since a new
Parliament was convened in the Palace of West-
minster, ordinary men may be excused for not re-
membering precisely the mode of procedure on such
occasions before the new house settles down into
working order, interesting though it always is at
the time, and perhaps never more so than it will
probably be on the forthcoming ceremony. One has
only vague recollections of the tedious process,
lasting sometimes through a whole week, day after
day, of swearing in the members in batches at
the table, and of the house eventually proceed-
ing to business ; but old members will not have for-
gotten the formalities which invariably precede this
ceremony, and it may be a service to new ones to
describe them. On the meeting of the last new Par-
liament, in the summer of 1859, the process of swear-
ing occupied four clear days, the House sitting from
2 o'clock till 4 each day, and part of a fifth. The
House assembled for the first time on Tuesday, the
31st of May, and the sitting was chiefly occupied
in the election of a Speaker. It met again on Wed-
nesday, June 1, and so on from day to day, Satur-
day excepted, for the purpose of swearing members,
and ultimately proceeded to business on Tuesday,
the 7th of June, when the Queen opened Parliament
in person. On that day the House met at 1 o'clock
as usual, and members continued to take the oaths
down to the very moment of their being summoned
to attend her Majesty in the House of Lords. At
the opening of the previous Parliament, which took
place on the 30th of April, 1857, five whole days and
part of a sixth were spent in administering the oaths
to members, exclusive of that on which the Speaker
was elected, the House finally entering en the busi-
ness before it on Thursday, the 7th of May, when
Parliament was opened by Commission.
Assuming the precedents of former Parliaments to
be followed, when the new House first meets on
Thursday, the Ist of February, the members will be
first summoned to the bar of the House of Lords to

hear the Commission read. On presenting themselves
there they will hear from the lips of the Lord Chancel-
lor a statement to the effect that as soon as the mem-
bers of both Houses shall have been sworn, the causes
of Parliament being called together will be declared
to them, and that they should first of all repair to
their own Chamber, and there proceci to their ap-
pointment of some proper person to be their Speaker.
The Commons will then withdraw for that purpose,
and the House of Lords will be adjourned during
pleasure, but only to unrobe. On that House having
resumed, the Lord Chancellor will first take and
subscribe the oath singly, at the table. According
to Mr. Erskine May, the great authority in these
matters, the Clerk of the Crown then delivers a cer-
tificate of the return of the 1G representative Peers
of Scotland, and Garter King of Arms the roll of
the Lords Temporal ; after which the Lords who are
present take and subscribe the oaths required by
law. A Peer of the Blood Royal takes the oath
singly, like the Lord Chancellor. At this time also
Peers are introduced who have received writs of
summons, or who have been newly created by letters
patent, and they present their writs orpatents to the
Lord Chancellor, kneeling on one knee. They are
introduced in their robes, between two other Peers
of their own dignity, also in their robes, and are
preceded by the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod,
by Garter King of Arms, aad by the Earl Marshal
and Lord Chamberlain, though it is not absolutely
necessary that the last two officers should be pre-
sent. Being thus introduced, Peers are conducted
to their seats according to their dignity. A Bishop
is introduced by two other Bishops and conducted
to his scat among the Spiritual Lords, but without
the formalities observed in the case of the Temporal
Peers. The Representative Bishops of Ireland are
not introduced by other Bishops, but take the
oaths, subscribe the roll, and proceed to their seats
without any particular ceremony.
While these stately formalities are being observed
in the Upper House, the members of the Lower
House will be engaged in electing their Speaker—a
ceremony which in some respects is conducted after
a somewhat quaint fashion. For example, when a
member rises to nominate a Speaker, the Clerk at
the Table, to whom he has to address himself by
name, is expected to " stand up, point to him, and
then sit down." This formality was solemnly ob-
served by Sir Denis Le Marchant, the Clerk, when
in April, 1857, Lord Harry Vane rose in his place
to propose Mr. Denison to be Speaker, and again
in May, 1859, when Colonel Wilson Patten did the
like. The motion having been seconded, if
no other member than one be proposed as Speaker,
the member so nominated is called by the House to
the chair without any question being put. He
then stands up in his place, and, expressing his sense
of the honour intended to be conferred upon him,
submits himself to the House. The House a second
time unanimously calls him to the chair, upon which
his proposer and seconder " take him out of his
place" and conduct him to the chair. Arrived
there, " he stands on the upper step," and express-
ing his sense of the high honour the House has been
pleased to confer upon him, takes his seat. The
Mace, which up to this time has been under the
table, is then laid upon the table, where it always
remains during the sitting of the House, with the
Speaker in the chair. The Speaker elect is then
congratulated by some leading member, and the
House adjourns. In 1859 both Lord Palmerston
and the then Chancellor of the Exchequer offered
their congratulations to the Speaker elect. Lord
Palmerston had done the same in 1857 with Mr.
Walpole, the latter speaking in the unintentional
absence of Mr. Disraeli, arising from a misunder-
standing as to the hour of meeting of the House.
When the House assembles on the day following the
election, the Speaker, on the message of " Black
Rod," and accompanied by the members in attend-
ance, presents himself at the Bar of the House of
Lords and "submits himself, with all humility, to
her Majesty's gracious approbation." On return-
ing from the Lords, the Speaker reports to the
House his approval by the Sovereign, and puts
them in mind that their first duty is to take and
subscribe the oaths required by law. Then he him-
self first, alone, " standing upon the upper step of
the chair," takes and subscribes the oath accord-

ingly, the other members present following. The
manner of taking the oaths is prescribed by the
statutes, 30th of Charles 11., statute 2 ; the 13th of
William 111., cap. 6, and the Ist of George 1.,
statute 2, cap. 13. It is there enacted that " no
member of the House of Peers shall vote or make
his proxy in the House of Peers, or sit there

We gather from the German papers the following
notices of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein,
the future husband of Princess Helena :—According
to the Gotha Almanac, the highest authority on such
matters, Prince Christian was born on the 22d of
January, 1831; so that, during his stay at Osborne,
he has just celebrated his 35th birthday. He is the
second son of the Duke Christian of Schleswig-
Holstein, who is still alive, but who has resigned in
favour of his eldest son, Duke Frederick. His early
years were spent at the Castle of Augusten-
burg, in the island of Alsen, where his father pos-
sessed large estates, celebrated both for the fertility
of their soil and the beauty of their scenery. No
cloud, at that time, seemed tethreaten the happiness
of the Ducal family, and under Dr. Steffens, now
professor at the University at Basle, Prince Christian,
with his brothers and sisters, received a careful
education. Danish was spoken in the Duke's family
almost as much as German, and the Young Prince
soon acquired a mastery not only of those two
languages, but likewise of French and English.
Political events, which from the year 1840 began to
assume great importance in Schleswig-Holstein,
were not allowed to interfere with the studies of the
young Princes, although they had to accompany
their father to Schleswig whenever the meetings of
the Estates required the presence of the Duke. In
1848, however, the quiet family circle of Augusten-
burg was broken up. Prince Christian, though
only 17 years of age, followed the example of his
elder brother, and served as a cavalry officer in the
campaigns of 1848, 1849, and 1850. In 1852, when
the Schleswig-Holstein army was dissolved by
Austria and Prussia, Prince Christian had to share
the exile of his family. Together with his elder
brother he went, in 1852, to the University of
Bonn, where he attended chiefly the lectures of
Dahlmann and Moritz Arndt. It was here that
Prince Christian met the young Prince of Prussia,
who has ever since remained his faithful friend.
After leaving the University, the two Princes of
Schleswig-Holstein travelled for a time in France
and Italy. At Rome, in particular, they made a
protracted stay, and devoted themselves to a
study of Roman antiquities, under the intelligent
guidance of Dr. Karl Lorentzew, the learned editor
of " Vitruvius." After their return to Germany
Prince Christian decided on entering the Prussian
army. He first joined a regiment of Cuirassiers, and
afterwards the Uhlan regiment of the Guards. Like
his father, whose stud was one of the most famous
in Germany, Prince Christian soon became one of
the leading members of the Jockey Club for North-
ern Germany. He even contributed to a sporting—
or, as the Germans call it., a hippological --journal,
which was published under the title of The Spur. In
1864 he again saw active service, and took part in
the occupation of the island of Alsen by the Prus-
sians. When Count Bismark, after defending at
the Conference of London the rights of Duke Fre-
derick, concluded the treaty of Vienna, and dis-
closed the ulterior objects of Prussia—or, at all
events, of his own policy—with regard to the Elbe
Duchies, Prince Christian, although more of an
officer than a politician, felt it due to his brother to
resign active service. He remained, however, a
Prussian officer till the conduct of Gen. Manteuffel,
the Prussian Governor of Schleswig, towards his
elder brother, and the approval of that conduct by
the organs of Count Bismark, left him no choice but
to send in his definite resignation. He is therefore
no longer in the Prussian service, and, to judge from
the remarks of certain official papers, his marriage
with an English Princess is anything but welcome to
those at present in authority at Berlin.

TheLambeth Guardians and the Casual Poor.

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The arrangements for the casual poor at Lambeth
are as shamefully inefficient as before the recent ex-
posure. We will go further, and say that the dis-
graceful condition of the sleeping places provided
for such male casuals as cannot be accommodated
in the regular ward is as foul a blot upon parochial
management as has yet been hit. For the revela-
tions of the amateur casual are supposed to have
put the Lambeth guardians on their mettle—
an influential ',local meeting has been held at
which the hasty judgments of the public have been
deprecated—the rector of the parish has vouched
for the admirable character of the arrangements
made—the Poor-law Board has given the full
weight of its official authority to the enforcement
of alterations—and most of us have fondly supposed
that the horrors described and hinted at as taking
place in the shed were no longer possible. Instead of
this, the chances of their existence have been ag-
gravated a thousandfold by the measure put forward
and accepted as a reform. The shed, with all its
drawbacks, was a palace compared to the rooms
which now supplement the casual ward. The vari-
ous gentlemen who visit Lambeth Workhouse at
this time, and who inscribe in its visitors' book
their commendations of the comforts it provides for
casuals, should extend their researches to the lodg-
ing-houses just chartered by the guardians. The
beautifully ordered " show " ward—•the swept and
empty shed—the clean and burnished baths—the
cocoa matting, to preserve the bather's feet from
contact with the stairs—the cheerful fire, kept up
all night the bright but carefully mode-
rated gas—the perfect ventilation—the sym-
metrical order of the barrack beds—the ample
supply of pure drinking water—the clean, well-aired
blue night-gown provided for each sleeper—combine
to make the recognised accommodation at Lambeth,
for both male and female casuals, resemble that of
some favoured boarding school, where the mistress
is kind-hearted and the master liberal. It is more
luxurious than any of the refuges. It would com-
pare advantageously—and this is a bold word--with
the most exquisite of model prisons. Who can won-
der, therefore, that guardians and their friends are
indignant at the allegations made against an estab-
lishment where the comforts are so obvious, and the
kind care taken of vagrants so palpable and marked?
On going over this male casual ward for the fourth

time last Wednesday night, its superiority to some
others seemed as great as ever; and it was not
until the filthy horrors of the sleeping places not
ordinarily seen by visitors were realised that the
description of the shed scenes came home with re-
newed force.

Some quarter of a mile from the workhouse, and
near the river-side, is the lodging-house to which
all male casuals are now sent who apply for shelter
after the casual ward is full. At half-past ten on
the night in question in one of its upper rooms, a
cramped little place, in which perhaps half a dozen
small bedsteads might be packed, more than twice
that number of men and youths lay huddled on
the floor. They were all perfectly naked, and had
clustered together for the sake of animal heat, just
as sleeping swine are seen together. They rested
upon what seemed to be hay mattresses, but which
were ranged close together, without any division, so
that they made practically one huge floor-bed for
each side of the room. The naked sleepers had rugs
for covering, and on an adventurous visitor turning
down one of these. the brawny figures of three mus-
cular tramps—bare as when they came into the
world—were seen to be entwined together, an in-
distinguishable mass of naked flesh. Youths lay in
the arms of men, men were enfolded in each other's

The word of promise has been kept to the Poor-
law Board while its spirit has been shamefully
broken, and at the very moment guardians wEre
declaiming against unjust aspersions, and a clergy-
man denouncing " sentimental sympathy," naked
paupers were being packed away in a fashion im-
possible in the worst of gaols, and offering an in-
vitation and an encouragement to physical and
moral disease.—Daily News.

Trial of a Portuguese War Steamer.

His Portuguese Majesty's screw corvette Duke de
Palmella, 13 guns, 150-horse power, nominal, Capt.
D. S. Rodrigues, made her trial trip yesterday off
the Maplin Sands, in a very successful and satisfac-
tory manner. The Duke de Palmella is an un-
armoured wooden built corvette, of 850 tons, and
her engines, of 150, nominal, horse power, are but
small in proportion to the vessels tonnage. Never-
theless, a mean speed of within a fraction of ten
knots was attained, the working of the machinery
throughout the daybeing as near perfection as could
well be desired. The vessel was built at the Royal
dockyard, Lisbon, and after her launch was sent to
England, jury rigged, to receive her machinery from
the contractors, Messrs. Ravenhill, Hodgson, and
Co., and to be fitted in all the internal arrangements
of her hull, and with rigging by Messrs. J. and W.
Dudgeon, shipbuilders and engineers, of Millwall
and Fenchurch-street. Both contracts appear to
have been fulfilled in the most faithful manner, both
machinery and general fittings throughout being
fully equal to the best specimens of the kind on
board any of the ships of her Majesty's navy. The
vessel is ship rigged, and bears a bold seaworthy
appearance on the water, especially so for a vessel
of her small tonnage. She is 160 ft. in length be-
tween perpendiculars, with 36ft. extreme breadth.
Her armament consists of 12 light 32-pounder guns,
mounted on near chock carriages on the broadside,
with one 56-pounder rifled Blakely gun mounted
on a pivot carriage on the forecastle. She has also
one 9-pounder Blakely rifle, with its limber and
ammunition carriage, as a fieldpiece. The ship's
machinery consists of a pair of horizontal engines,
with double piston rods and return connecting rods,
similar in their general arrangements to the engines
supplied by this firm to the British Board of
Admiralty. The cylinders are 39 inches, in
diameter with a stroke of two feet. The slide valves
are, as usual, placed vertically on the outside of the
cylinders and work direct by the link motion. The
connecting rods are each 4ft. Gin, in length, being
41 times the length of the crank. The feed and bilge
pumps are of brass fitted with indiarubber valves,
and are worked direct from the crossheads. Ra-
volving expansion valves are fitted so as to cut off
the steam at points varying from one-tenth to five-
tenths of the stroke. The boilers are two in number,
and are fitted with brass tubes placed athwartships
at the back of the furnaces, being thus arranged to
keep the higher parts of the boilers below the load
waterline of the ship. The propeller is two-bladed,
and brass. It has two movable blades, its present
pitch being 12ft. Gin., and its diameter 10ft. Gin.
The ship, when she started from Tilbury yesterday
morning on her trial, was complete in all her stores
and seagoing trim, her mean draught of water being
12ft. Mr. John Dudgeon represented on board the
Messrs. J. W. Dudgeon as the fitters of the ship,
and Messrs. Hodgson and Rusby the Messrs. Raven-
hill and Co., the makers of the engines. The ship
left at 30 minutes past noon on the last of the ebb
tide' the wind being light from N.W., and the water,
from the time of the ship's departure until her re-
turn, quite smooth. In running past the Lower
Hope measured mile marks the ship was found to be
going 9.473 knots, with the revolutions of the en-
gines as yet very much under their estimated maxi-
mum number, the machinery working with the
greatest smoothness, and the vibration felt at the
bow and the stern of the ship being unusually slight
for a wooden vessel. In one hour and six minutes
from leaving Tilbury the Chapmal Light was passed,
and in one hour and 30 minutes Southend pier—a
distance of 20 miles from Tilbury—was also passed.
The revolutions of the efig,ines were now ranging
between 99 and 100, and on the ship reaching the
Maplin Sands, at about 2:30 p.m., she was at once
placed on the measured mile there, and two runs
taken—one with and one against the tide. In
the first run down, against the young flood tide,
the time occupied in running over the mile
was 6min. 48sec., which gave the ship a speed of
8.823 knots, the revolutions of the engines being 99,
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In the second run, with the tide, the time was 6nun.
25sec.,'giving the ship a speed of 11.077 knots, the
steam pressure, as before, 211 b.,
241 in. The mean of both runs gave the trial speed
of the ship as 9.950 knots per hour. Considering
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The Duke de Terceira, a vessel of somewhat larger
tonnage than the Duke de Palmella, is launched
from the naval yard at Lisbon, and will shortly
leave for England to be fitted with machinery and
all her hull fittings. A frigate, the Dom Pedro V.,
a vessel built on the lines of our own friaate the
Galatea, is also nearly ready for launching, and will
also be sent to England for her fitment and ma-
chinery. This latter vessel, although an unarmed
frigate, will form a most important addition to the
royal navy of Portugal. The senior Lieutenant of
the Duke of Palmella, M. J. Carvalho, served as
Lieutenant in the English royal navy for two years
on board her Majesty's ships Conqueror and
Galatea.

LADTERTISENIENT.I- Holloway's Pills. Trustworthy
Treatment.—Few persons, whatever their grade, will ven-
ture to deny that the hearty pauper enjoys life more than
the sickly peer ; yet good health is rarely adequately
esteemed until it becomes defective, when no price would
be grudged for its re-establishment. No great pecuniary
sacrifice, however, need be undergone in attaining this ob-
ject if Holloway's pills be resorted to ; they will check the
course of threatening mischief, remove the most formidable
symptoms of disorders, improve the appetite, renovate the
digestion, cleanse the liver, stimulate the kidneys, and re-
gulate the bowels.

IL y__ ,y, .ayor _win Yates) read
a formal letter from Mr. Hill, announcing his re-
signation of the Recordership. The following is
rn f..xtract :—" Since the year 1839, when our Court
iof quarter Sessions came into existence, such has
been the manufacturing and commercial activity of
Birmingham that the number of its inhabitants was
' doubled, and now more than half the population of
Warwickshire is gathered under your jurisdiction.
Thitfenormous increase, unparalleled, I believe, in
any preceding period of no greater length, has aug-
mented the duties of all classes, but more especially
of those whose social position calls upon them to
take a leading part in whatever regards the govern.
ment and welfare of the town, or its dignity as the
midland capital of the realm. You, sir, your pre-
decessor and your fellow labourers in the public
cause have not been wanting in the fulfilment of
your arduous duties. Many elaborate works for
sanitary improvement, many a valuable institution
for the cure or alleviation of bodily and mental
ailments, for the instruction of the young, for the
conservation in after life and the further develop-
ment of acquisitions made in youth, and for other
laudable purposes, have had their origin since that
epoch. Nor has the pressing need been overlooked
for extending the facilities for Divine worship, so as
to make them commensurate with the enlarged num-
bers of the people. Whether or not this great ob-
ject has been as yet fully accomplished is a question
into which I feel I ought not to enter. Aided and
encouraged by the munificence of two distinguished
neighbours, by whom the happiness of all who arc
less fortunately placed in the social scale than
themselves has ever been earnestly sought, you
have made provision for exercise in the open air
and for harmless recreation of the multitudes who
crowd your work Shops in their long hours of
labour. The absence of such provision pressed hard
in former days on all ranks and ages, especially on
the rising generation, and' was a source of deep re-
gret to many besides myself. But I never hoped to
witness exertions so zealous and so successful as you
have made towards supplying the want to which I
refer. Were this a fitting opportunity I could dwell
with much pleasure to myself upon the response
which these efforts of the wealthier classes have
called forth from that far more numerous body for
whose benefit they were mainly intended. I have
observed from time to time with cordial satisfaction
the contributions made from their little stores by
artisans and their families to your hospitals and to
other similar charities, and this growing desire
among the least affluent to take their share (and,
perhaps, somewhat beyond their share), in the duties
of benevolence, is all the more surely pregnant with
good as it is not confined to any one in town, but
seems to be gradually pervading the whole nation.
My attention, you will readily believe, has been espe-
cially attracted to your endeavours for the preven-
tion of crime and for obtaining changes in the treat-
ment of criminals, so as to bring it into accordance
with the enlightened spirit of our age. Birmingham
has established and continues to support ragged and
industrial schools and reformatories, together with
an excellent association for affording assistance to
prisoners on their discharge from gaol. And long
before the obligation for treating even the youngest
of our criminals on reformatory principles was gene-
rally recognised in practice, or even admitted in
theory, Birmingham set au example of Christian
brotherhood such as I cannot reflect upon without
pride and gratitude. How often have I been relieved
from the pain of visiting the child with a sentence ap-
propriate only to the man by the willingness—nay,
eagerness, of the injured party to receive back into his
service,, and not seldom into his family, the juvenile
offender who had made a sad return for prior kind-
neas ; but who, nevertheless, the benevolent master
believed—and oftentimes with truth—might yet be
reclaimed by assiduous and affectionate supervision!
You have also erected, at no small pecuniary cost, a
prison, which, if it leave something to be desired,
has accomplished much in promoting the health of
the imitates and in securing them from further de-
terioration in morals by separating them from their
fellows, and by supplying them with instruction and
employment. Add to this, you have taken upon
yourselves the burden of maintaining a large body
of police, and have wisely evinced your readiness to
extend this force so often as it shall be proved that
such extension is necessary to the due protection of
the borough. It would be easy to multiply instances
manifesting a similar devotion to the interests of
Birmingham, but I should be at a loss to justify
myself for such a trespass on your time. I cannot,
however, forbear to express my gratification at the
assured prospect that you will shortly enjoy the ad-
vantage to be derived from the trial in your courts
of all causes arising in the borough, both civil and
criminal. The necessity for carrying parties and
witnesses to a distance from their homes often
amounts to a denial of justice. Even ih civil ac-
tions this defect is barely tolerable, but in criminal
proceedings the evil is so great that I dare not trust
myself to characterise it as it deserves. In my own
experience I have known that the mere accident of
the scene of an imputed crime being in a country
town, whereby the trial of the accused took place
on the same spot, has furnished opportunity for the
establishment of innocence under circumstances
wherein if the trial had been held affar off, so that
witnesses could not have been summoned during the
progress of the case and immediately on the disco-
very that their evidence had become material, con-
viction and death must have inevitably followed."

THE LCourier, 209 tons register, Captain Price, b3longing
Do N. ----P LYtOrilf, Thursday.--The brig
to .Newport, South Wales, left P•uneran, in Spain, with a
cargo of ore, Dec. 30. On Wednesday, .Tan. 10, she was
crossing the Bay of Biscay, at 2 p.m., when in about lat.
4G 44 N., and long 8 15 W., there was a gale from south-
west nearly, if anything it may havo been a little Moro
with her head north-east, when a large and very
southerly. The Courier was running under closd-r3efed
topsails,
long ship-riggedsteamer was observed ahead. It was blow-
ing vory hard, with a sea running high. The brig had
approached so near before the steamer was observed that
the mate called out suddenly to the steersman to port the
helm, and the Courier had to bear up to keep clear, and
passed about a quarter of a mile astern of the stranger.
The steamer (supposed now to be the London) was then
under close-reefed maintopsail only, with her head about
west north-west. There was no indication of steam. Her
foretopgallant mast was hanging with the gear on the
starboard side, and the jibboom, with its gear, was hang-
ing to the bowsprit. Her main and mizen masts were all
right, but the topsail yards were in confusion, ono peaking
one way and one the other. There was no flag of distress
flying, but the ship appeared to behave very badly at sea,
and the crew of the Courier conjectured that she was in
distress. It was so hazy that her name could not be dis-
cerned, neither could any of the crew or passengers be
seen. Tho steamer continued in sight while daylight
lasted. The Courier kept on her course under the same
canvas until 4 p.m., when she was hove to in consequence
of the increase of the gale, which on Wednesday night be-
came a hurricane, the wind varying from S.S.W. to S.W. ;
it kept shifting two or three points, but never got to the
northward of west. On Thursday and Thursday night
there was no change. On Friday, the 12th, at 8 a.m., the
brig was under her foretopsail and the clew of her
; at 11 n.m., the wind haying moderated, sail was
made. She arrived here on Thursday, the 25th, to dis-
charge her cargo.

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