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London, England, 1857-05-27 00:00:00

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CIANCER HOSPITAL, London and West
Brompton.—Pecretary's Office, 167, Piccadilly.—This Institu-
ion has been established exclusively for the treatment of the poor
afflicted with cancerous diseases. Out-door patients to attend at 167,
Piccadilly, on Tuesdays, at 2 o'clock. In-door patients are admitted
at the Brompton Establishment, for one month,
and for a longer
period If recommended by the medical officers. The number of per-
sons under treatment as in or out-door patients have averaged for
the last throe years about 400 cases each year. Since the foundation
of this Hospital in 1851, 1,799 poor persons, suffering
under every
form of this dreadful malady, have received the benefits of this
Charity. A Weekly Board manage its affairs, and every informa-
tion connected with the Institution may be obtained on application
to the Secretary. Contributions to enable the Committee to continue
this crest work of benevolence are urgently solicited, and may be
paid to William Loxham Farrar, Es-..
4 , the Treasurer, 66, Lincoln's-
inn-fields ; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand ; and at the Secretary's
Offices, 167, Piccadilly.

By order.

W.J. COCIERILL Secretary.

OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road.
Patron—The QUEEN.—Founded 1828.
The sick poor are admitted on their own application alone; no re-
commendation is required.
flaring the past month the following number received the benefits
of this Charity, either as out or in-door patients. on their personal
application:—
Week ending 7th February 2,095
Ditto 14th February • • 2,351
Dittc 31st February .. .• • • 2,650
Ditto 28th February ; 2,890

Total in February • • • • • 9,986
of which 3,379 were new cases, the remainder (still under treat-
ment) having been admitted previously.
The clergy of all denominations have unlimited access to the
patients.
Heavy expenses are inevitably incurred in affording such exten,
sive relief. The Committee, therefore, earnestly entreat the aid of
he public.
The management of the Hospital is in the hands of 30 Governors,
yearly elected from the general list of subscribers, at the Annual
General Meeting in January. A Board isazeld every Thursday, a.
4 o'clock (Bev. J. B. Owen, Chairman), to conduct the business,
when any subscriber may attend, if so disposed, the Board being at
'II times desirous of receiving suggestions or giving explanation.
The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent On volun-
tary contributions and legacies, which are received by the Treasurer,
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GREAT-WESTERN RAILWAY.-NOTICE.
On MONDAY, June Ist, the Branch Line between TIYY-
FORD and HENLEY will be Opened for Public Traille.—For par-
ticulars of Trains, &c., see the Company's time bills.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
RETURN TICKETS to all Stations taken ou SATURDAY,
May 30th, and intermediate days, will be availa'Jle up to and in-
cluding Tuesday, June 2d.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-
WHITSUNTIDE ROLlDAYS.—Excursion to Liverpool,
Birkenhead, Chester, Llangollen Road, Shrewsbury, Wellington,
'Wolverhampton, Bilston, Wednesbury, West, Bromwich, !and Bir-
mingham. —A Train will leave Paddington, on Saturday, May 30th,
at 12.30 Noon, returning on Wednesday, June 2d, from Liverpool
(Landing stage), at 7.30 a.m., and intermediate stations as per hand-
bills. Fares —Birmingham, 12s. and 7s. ; West Bromwich, Wednes-
bury, and Bilston, Its. 6d. and 7s: ed. ; Wolverhampton, 13s. and
Ss. Od. • Shrewsbury and Wellington, I7s and 10s. • Llangollen-
road and Chester, 18s. 6d. and I Is. ; Birkenhead and Liverpool, 21s.
and 12s. 6d. A single package only allowed to each passenger.
Tickets not transferable, and only available for, the Excursion Train.
Trains to the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition run both from
Chester and Liverpool.

THE OTTOMAN RAILWAY from SMYRNA
to

Capital 1,200,00Q/t

Divided int* 60,000 Shares of 201., or 2,500 piastres each.
♦ minimum dividend of 61. per cent. per annum guaranteed
by the Sublime Porte.

Deposit 11. per sharp. Calls of not more than 2'. each, at
intervals of not less than three months. No liability what-
ever incurred beyond the amount actually paid on deposit
and on galls as made.
Shares to bearer.

DIRECTORS.
CHAIRMAN.—Sir MACDONALD STEPHENSON, 115, Glou-
cester-terrace, Hyde-park.
DEPUTT-CHAIRMAN.—Captain DANIEL WARREN, 17, Por-
chester-terrace North, Hyde-park.
Philip B. Blyth, Esq , 53. Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square.
William Gordon Thompson, 'Esq., 83, Gloucester-terrace,
-Eryde.Trark;,
Eric Carrington Smith, Esq., 1, Lombard-street.
Maj or-General Tremenhere, t 33, Somerset-street, Portman-
square.
SOLICITORS,--Messrs.-Risen, Son, and Antoti.
ENGINEER.—George Meredith, Esq., .M.I.C.E.
BANKERS IN Lol4DON.—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths,
Lombard-street.
BANKERS IN TURKEY.--Messrs. Hanson and Co., Smyrna
and Constantinople.
SECRETARY. —J. L. Elkin, Esq,
SHAREBROSIERS.—Messrs. Mullens, Marshall, and Daniell,
3, Lombard-street.
OFFICIAL Aunrroa--Hem7 Lloyd Morgan, Esq.
Offices-38, Cannon-street, E.C.

PROSPECTUS.
This Railway, about 70 miles in length, will connect
Smyrna, the most important seaport in the Levant, with
Guzel Hissar or Aidin the great entrepot of the internal trade
of Asia Minor. It will bring the two places within three
hours of each other, instead of four days as at present.
Smyrna contains a population of 160,000, possesses one of
the finest harbours in the world, and takes the highest rank
among the trading ports of the Mediterranean.
The aggregate value of her imports and exports in 1856,
taken from the most reliable sources of information, amounted
to 5,000,0001. sterling, and the tonnage inwards and out-
wards to 869,380 tons.
The extraordinary fertility and resources of Asia Minor
maintain Smyrna in her position as a trading emporium, not-
withstanding all the disadvantages she has had to contend
with from the total absence of even the most ordinary roads,
and which has from time immemorial rendered imperative
the exclusive use of camels and. mules. When the goods are
packed at Aidin, the deterioration now caused, particularly
in delicate products, by the frequent lading and unlading
consequent upon the nightly rest of the camels, will be
avoided. The loss of damage arising from the death of
animals and from numerous other casualties, which frequently
occur during the conveyance from Aidin to the port of ship-
ment, Smyrna, will all be obviated by the proposed Railway.
The physical features of the neighbourhood of Smyrna,
which is surrounded by mountains, force the traffic along two
principal routes—one to the north, skirting the sea coast,
and leading, by a circuitous path, to Magnesia and Cassaba,
and from thence to the northern and north-eastern parts of
Asia Minor—the second to the south-east, opening upon the
celebrated province of Aidin. The varied elevations of this
part of the country, the genial temperature of the climate,
and the alluvial nature of the soil, enable it to grow produce
of all kinds from the rarest to the coarsest qualities. Tobacco,
the fig, the vine, the olive, the poppy, the cotton plant and
mulbery tree are indigenous products, whilst wheat, maize,
barley, beans, flax, hemp, and a variety of pulse and oleagin-
ous seeds are raised in large quantities. Valonia, yellow-
berries, wool, goat's hair, dyestuffs, drugs, skins, honey,
wax, dro., likewise abound.
Guzel Hisser, more commonly called Aidin, is a thriving
city, having about 60,000 inhabitants, and is the point of
concourse for persons from all parts of the interior, who re-
sort to that market for the disposal of produce in small par-
cels to the resident dealers trading with Smyrna, and for the
purchase of foreign goods.
According to a low average of the various estimates made
by a Special Commissioner sent out for the purpose, whose
report has been confirmed by all the principal resident mer-
chants of Smyrna, the goods traffic from Aidin to Smyrna
employs 10,000 camels and 500 mules, at the cost of over
400,0007. per annum. Independent of the 10,000 camels
which are constantly employed to carry the traffic between
Smyrna and Aidin, there are at least 20,000 employed on va-
rious routes in conveying produce from the interior to the sea.
When this Railway is completed tp Aidin the traffic conveyed
by at least 10,000 of these 20,000 camels will Nome to the line,
thus at once considerably increasing the existing amount of
traffic k.bween the two places.
It is evident, from the above data, that the present goods
traffic will give a dividend of 12 per cent, per annum, after
deducting one-half of the receipts for working expenses, and
the division of profits with Government over 7 per cent.
With regard to passenger traffic, no accurate estimate can
be at present formed. Looking, however, to the result of the
•pening of the Railways in Egypt and India, and to the ab-
sence of any passport system, a large revenue is certain to
be derived from this source,
The Turkish Government guarantees a minimum dividend
of 6 per cent, per annum on the expenditure not exceeding
1,200,0001., and contractors of eminence and responsibility
have offered to undertake the construction of the Railway
with ample rolling stock within this amount ; but the pre-
sent extraordinary traffic along the route it will traverse, un-
equalled by that of any railway ever offered to the public, is
the best guarantee of its success.
The Turkish Government, by the terms of the concession,
reserve 15,000 shares, or 300,0001., for local subcription.
The applications for these shares, headed by his Imperial Ma-
jesty the Sultan, the Grand Vizier, and several influential
capitalists of Constantinople, have considerably exceeded this
amount.
The concession, which has been granted and confirmed by
au Imperiaal firman, accords the most valuable privileges.
The following is an outline of the principal clauses ;-
1. It is perpetual, subject to the right of purchase by the
Ottoman Government upon agreed and equitable terms at the
end of 50, 75, 95, and every subsequent 20 years.
2. A guarantee of dividend of 6 per cent. per annum as
above mentioned for 50 years. The line to be opened in sec-
tions, and the guarantee to come into operation as each sec-
tion is opened. The profits over 7 per cent, to be divided
with Government.
3. All Government land and materials to be taken and
made use of by the Company gratuitously.
4. All the materials for constructing, working, and renew-
ing the Railway to be imported duty free.
5. The power of working all coal mines within 30 miles of
any part of the line, on payment of a fixed royalty.
6. The privilege of erecting warehouses with a Custom-
house attached on the Company's premisec at Smyrna.
7. The engagement of Government not to grant a conces-
sion to any competing line.
8. The unrestricted power of management.
The Directors having a due regard to the present unfavour-
able time for launching a new undertaking, have deferred,
and Would still defer, bringing forward the enterprise were it
not that the conditions of the Imperial firman limit the date
at which operations must be commenced. They have, how-
ever, determined that the first section of the line only shall
receive their immediate attention, so as to obviate the neces-
sity of making heavy calls during the existing stringency of
the money market.
The Concessionaries who have deposited at their own risk
the caution money, amounting to 24,0007., and who have also
defrayed all the exp-nses since the first negotiations were
opened with the Porte, including the cost of detailed plans,
sections, and surveys, engineering, travelling, and other ex-
penses, have agree to accept for their interest in the conces-
sion, and for all preliminary expenses, 33 per cent, upon the
capital, which they will take in shares or otherwise as may be
deemed most advisable for the interests of the Company; and
they have also, to show their confidence in the undertaking,
subscribed to the capital of the Company to the extent of
90,0001. in addition.
The first and most important section of 46 miles from
Smyrna, which it is calculated will yield a most satisfactory
return upon the outlay, may be opened in time to bring down
the produce of the harvest of 1858.
Carefully prepared plans, sections, and estimates of the cost
of the line, show that the capital on which the guarantee is
given is sufficient for its entire construction, the supply of
rolling stock, and the erection of stations, warehouses, and
water-side premises.
Interest at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum will be allowed
on payments either for, or in anticipation of, calls during the
construction of the line. Provision for this item of expenditure
has been made in estimating the required capital at 1,200,0007.
upon which the guarantee of the Turkish Government has
been secured,
Applications for shares, with the bankers' receipt for the
deposit, to be addressed to Messrs. Mullens and Co., 3,
Lombard-street ; or to the Secretary of the Company, 38,
Cannon-street, City, where forms can be obtained.

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Naval and Military inteiligetvx.

The Royal Commission for inquiring into pur=
chase in the army met yesterday at No. 1, White-
hall-yard. The Duke of Somerset presided. The
other commissioners present were—the Right Hon.
S. Herbert, Lord Stanley, Gen. Sir De Lacy Evans,
Gen. Sir H. Bentinck, the Right Hon. E. Ellice,
Gen. Wynyard, and Mr. G. Carr Glynn. HiS
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge attended
before the commission.

Admiral Sir G. Seymour, K C. 8., Commander-
in-Chief at Portsmouth, was expected to return
from leave yesterday evening before sunset ; and,
having in the interim been promoted from Vice-
Admiral of the Red to be Admiral of the Blue
Squadron of her Majesty's Fleet, to hoist that flag
on board the Victory, where it would be duly
saluted by the second in command (Rear-Admiral
Martin), and all the ships on the station (except
those under the " ordinary" flag) would change
their ensigns and pendants from red to blue ac-
cordingly.

The Admiralty State yacht Osborne, Master-
Commander Bower, K. C. H., steamed out of Ports-
mouth harbour yesterday, at 1 15 p.m., for Cher-
bourg, to receive his Imperial Highness the Grand
Duke Constantine of Russia, and bring him to Os-
borne, where he is expected,to arrive about 3 p.m.
on Friday next.
The Hastings, 60, screw blockship, Captain G.
8.-Mands,-C.8.; K: L. Ir.; got up steam on Moti-
day evening alongside the dockyard at Portsmouth
to test her engines. She will drop out td Spithead
it is expected, to-morrow.
The Melville, 72, hospital ship, Commander
Trollope, will leave the dock to day at Portsmouth
and probably drop out to Spithead to-morrow.
The Princess Charlotte three-decker barrack ship,
Captain King, C. 8., will not be out of the dock-
yard hands at Portsmouth until the 20th proximo.
The Volcano steam factory vessel, for China,
Master-Commander Hockley, went out of harbour
and anchored at Spithead. yesterday.
The merchant steam freight ship Cleopatra has
been taken up by the Admiralty fol. the convey-
ance of a part of the 23d Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from Portsmouth to China.

The Mauritius steam freight ship has been taken
up to ,convey a portion of the
.93d. Highlanders
from Portsmouth to China; the remainder of the
regiment go out in her Majesty's ship Belleisle, 72,
now at Plymouth.
A letter from her Majesty's screw sloop Cruizer,
Commander C. Fellowes, on her passage from Eng-
land to China, dated "At Sea, March 23, 1857, in
lat. 18 56 S., long. 103 28 E" gives the following :
" We have made a long and tedious passage of
it. On the 20th of this month we shall have been
six months from Falmouth ! We are now 700 miles
from the Straits of Sunda, and we hope to be at
Singapore in another week. At present we are
rattling along at 11 and 12 knots, with a strong
trade wind (S.E.) Coming out we touched at Tene-
rife, sighted Pernambuco, and were thus detained
five weeks at Rio, repairing the damages which we
sustained from a collision outside there a few hours
before we reached that port. On the 18th of Jan.
we reached the Cape, gunboats in company ; we
towed them nearly the whole way from England.
On the 23d, having refitted and provisioned, we
again made a start, but a very unfortunate one, as
we lost sight of two of the gunboats a few hours
after we had left. We then proceeded to the ren-
dezvous in the hopes of picking them up, but after
a week's knocking about we were still doomed to
disappointment. A fortnight ago, finding our re-
mainiug gunboat a great drawback to our progress,
we parted company with her also. They are all
very fine seaboats, and have had ample means of
proving it."
"Singapore, Sunday, April s.—We reached this
yesterday, and have orders to go to Hong Kong
without delay."
The Agamemnon arrived at Sheerness yesterday
at 3.30 p.m., and proceeded to Saltpan-reach. She
steamed round from the river Thames, and came
into harbour over a strong ebb tide in first-rate
style.

TR ANSPORT ATION AND PRISO-17 DIS-

CIPLINE.

The third adjourned meeting was held at the
Mansion-house at 1 o'clock yesterday, the Lord
Mayor presiding. The attendance, although a little
more numerous than at the last sitting, filled only
a small portion of the Egyptian Hall and the dis-
cussion, although perhaps somewhat less desultory
than that which occurred on the 18th inst., entirely
lacked the interest derivable from a succession of

new speakers.
Mr. GREER; M. P. , again gave in his adhesion to
Mr. C. Pearson's plan of prison discipline, while .'
Mr. LAMAITRE propounded a scheme of his own,
by which the profits of the convict's labour should
be divided into throe equal portions, the first of
which should go to support the gaol in which he is
confined, the second be applied to his own suste-
nance, and the third be given as a restitution to the
victims of his fraud or theft. To check the gigantic

railway and banking defalcations, by which so many
unhappy shareholders have recently suffered, Mr.
Lemaitre also suggested the establishment of a
board of public censors with power to make delin-
quent managers and directors disgorge their ill-
gotten wealth. The counter-project was at first
treated by the chairman and the meeting as being
rather a supplement than a rival of Mr. Pearson's
plan ; but it was ultimately got rid of by a promise
that it should be considered in committee. _

Mr: W. K. BALL, vtCoTatelY7eturned from a
sojourn of 17 years in the colonies, gave it as his
decided opinion, that so great is the demand for
labour in New South Wales its inhabitants would
gladly receive a large number of our convicts after
they had undergone a proper probationary training.
Sir. T. TANCRED reiterated his vieWS respecting
the separation of reformation from punishment,
and accused Mr. Pearson of omitting the punitive
element from his prison system. The hon. baronet
also remarked, that having a plan of his own on
this subject, he and Mr. Pearson might be regarded
as "two of a trade," but he did not go on to quote
that part of the proverb which defines the relations
usually subsisting between persons so situated. The
speaker was proceeding to enforce the principle
that as a preliminary to the process of his own
reclamation the offender should undergo a definite
punishment pronounced by the sentence of a judge
when the impatience of the meeting compelled him
to desist.
After a few words from Mr. Row;

Mr. C. PEARSON rose to reply, promising to con
fine himself within the limits of one hour. He
sketched the details and estimates incident to his
scheme as submitted to the committee of the House
of Commons six or seven years ago. Plans and
specifications of his proposed prisons had, he said,
been laid before that committee by Mr. Stephens,
the eminent architect, and endorsed by Mr. Tite,
M.P. He computed that the total cost of erecting,
by free labour, a prison for 1,000 prisoners, accord-
ing to his system, including land purchase, build-
ings and enclosing wall, would not exceed
80,0001., or 801. per prisoner : whereas the cost of
Pentonville Prison was 1701. per prisoner ; that
of Reading gaol, 2001. per prisoner ; Milbank,
5121. per prisoner : and York Prison even as high
as 1,2001. per prisoner. Col. Jebb, Inspector-Gene-
ral of Prisons, had admitted the accuracy of this
calculation, while Col. Chesterton, who had been
governor of Coldbath-fields Prison for 25 years,
also bore strong testimony to the merits of the
scheme. Moreover, one of the first contractors of
the day was prepared, on his own responsibility, to
buy the laud, construct the wall and building, and
also to manage the prison, subject to Government
discipline, on condition that he received 61. per
annum for each of the prisoners, in addition to the
profits accruing from their labour. Mr. Pearson
estimated the annual charge of food and clothing
for 1,000 prisoners at 9,5501., while a further sum
of 4,000/. would provide for the salaries of 100
officers to watch over them. The earnings of
1,000 prisoners would average about 16,0001.
per annum. Having dilated upon the salutary
influence of labour sentences in making con-
victs the voluntary instruments of their own
maintenance, reformation, and release, and avowed
his belief that our various colonies would actually
cor.npete with each other for a class of can-
gt ants who had undergone such an ordeal, Mr.
rearson concluded by moving a resolution affirm-
iaig that the Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment should be empowered to substitute, in
certain cases, a proportionate number of hours of
work, instead of fixed periods of imprisonment and
transportation.
This and other propositions embodying.- Mr.
Pearson's views were unanimously adopted, and a
commitee appointed to take measures for subject-
ing them to the test of experiment.
A vote of thanks to the Lord Mayor ultimately
brought these protracted deliberations to a OA%