The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-06 00:00:00

Just published, price 55., by post free, ss. 6d.,.

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ON STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA :
its PATHOLOGY and RATIONAL TREATMENT. Illus-
trated by numerous Cases selected from the Records of upwards of
Twenty Years' extensive and successful PrEtedee, and which embrace
every v.Jlety of Urethral Contraction, together with appropriate
Means of Cure.

Ey F. B. COURTENAY,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
H. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street.
"We believe 11r. Couitenay's experience in the treatment of
stricture to have equalled. of it has not exceeded, that of any of his
contemporaries ; whilst we most certainly know or no man to whose
care we would sooner intrust the treatment of a severe dialliNlllll.ll
ture."—Medical Circular.

GREAT INDIAN PENINSULA RAILWAY.
Pi FTEENTH HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the Fifteenth HALF-
YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors In this Com-
pany will be held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, London,
on WEDNESDAY, the 29th day of April, 1357, at 12 o'clock at noon
precisely, for the General Business of the Company, pursuant to the

(Signed) WM. J. HAMILTON, Chairm'an.
3, New Broad-street, London, 3d April, 1857.
*,,,* The books for the registration of shares will be closed from
Thursday, the 16th, to Wednesday, the 29th April, inclusive.

LONDON, HARWICH, and CONTINENTAL
STEAM PACKET COMPANY (Limited).
LONDON to ROTTERDAM in TWELVE HOURS by the NEW
ROUTE to the Continent, forming the connecting link between the
Dutch Rhenish and the Eastern Counties Railways.
The Steamers of this Company will commence running between
HARWICH and ROTTERDAM, with passengers and goods, on
SATURDAY, April 25.
For farther particulars as to freight, Br.c., apply at the Company's
offices. 44, Moorgate-street (E.C.) ; of Oliver John Williams, Esq.,
Harwich; and of H. P. Maples, shipping agent to the Company, 4,
Arthur-street East (E.C.)

STATE FIRE INSURANCE,
No. 3, Pall-mall East, London, S.W.
Incorporated by Act of Parliament.
Capital 500,0001., with power to increase to 2,000,0001.
Every description of Fire Insurance accepted at moderate rates.
Existing Policies falling due at the last Quarter Day may be
transferred to this Company tree of charge, beyond the premium and
duty.
Claims settled with promptitude and liberality.
PETER MORRISON, Managing Director.

METROPOLITAN COUNTIES and
GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 27, Regent-
street, Waterico-place, London. Capital, 100,0001.
TRUSTEZB.
Rt. lin. Spencer IL Walpole,M.P. I Richard Spooner, Esq., M P.
Henry Peter Fuller, Esq. E. Yansittart Neale, Esq.
Life Assurance business transacted in all its branches.
N.B. The bonus declared at the last division of profits averaged
33 per cent, on all the premiums paid.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager.

r_IIIILDHALL, 21st March, 1857. The
N-14 Committee for Letting the City's Lands will meet at Guildhall
on WEDNESDAY, the Bth April next, at One o'clock precisely, to
receive Proposals for a Building Lease, or Building Leases, of a large
PLOT of GROUND, forming the site of the late Feet Prison, situate
on the East side of Farringdon-street, in the City of London; also to
receive proposals for a lease of a llouse, No. 10, Cross Lancashire-
court, New Bond•stt eet.
Plans of the property may be seen, and further particulars and
forms of tender obtained, upon application at the Architect's Office,
Guildhall.

FERDINAND BRAND, Comptroller.

AUSTRALIA.

FURTHER PARTICULARS,
The Simla arrived at Suez on the 26th, bringing
48 passengers and 85,0000 z. of gold.
Her dates are—Sydney, Feb. 11 ; Melbourne,
Feb. 15 ; King George's Sound, Feb. 22 ; the Mau-
ritius, March 1 ; and Ceylon, March 10.
JaTms U The "Black.
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B3il Marco Polo, Captain
vcci oil Llvdtpotei on Saturday;
after a passage of 76 days. She Mt Port Philip
Heads on the 17th January, in company with the

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steamship Royal Charter, which vessel she again
spoke on the 6th Feb., in lat. 57 S., 118 W. The
Marco Polo brought 94 passengers, 10,000 oz. of
gold, valued at 40,0001., and 2,500 bales of wool.
The Simla's mails were conveyed from Alexan-
dria, which they left on the 28th ult., to Malta in
the Jura, and were taken thence to Marseilles by
the Cunard steamer Cambria.
The Sussex and Thomas Ann Cole had arrived
from London, and the Exodus from Liverpool, at
Melbourne.

Pie European and Australian steamer European
arrived at Melbourne on the 10th of February, in
58 days.
The Royal Charter, which may be expected
hourly, had 122,086 ounces and 13,000 sovereigns,
of an aggregate value of 501,3441., and 1,900 bales
of wool. She has also a mail, comprising 25,720
letters and 24,700 newspapers.
The Istamboul was to sail on the 2d of March ;
the European on the 12th of MaTob,
The Oneida left King George's Sound on the 3d
of February, with 70 passengers and. 10,000 ounces
of gold. Nothing has been heard of her sine, al-
though advices from Mauritius to the Lit of March
are to baud. _ _ _

Mr. Childers, Commissioner, of Trade, was pro-
ceeding to England as Emigration Commissioner.
Trade remained good, but was somewhat stag-
nant. The amount of gold shipped this year is
nearly 1,590,000/.
Labour was scarce, in conseguenc• of the reduc-
tion of the day's work to eight hours. The banks
were buying bills at 1 per cent. prem., and selling
at 2. Flour was at 171. to 181. per ton. At Syd-
'ney wool was steady, with liberal supplies. Tallow
was in demand, but supplies were very small.
The gold dust received by the escorts in January
was 14,000 oz. against 5,500 oz. last year.
A good description of coal had been found in
considerable quantities in the Wormbete forest,
near Geelong.
A bill for taking the census of the colony of Vic-
toria was read a third time and passed in the Le-
gislative Assembly on the 15th of January, and or-
dered to be taken to the council by Mr. Aspinall.
The crops presented a very satisfactory appear-
ance, and gave promise of an abundant harvest.
The mining intelligence is generally favourable.
We read in the Australian Gazette :—" The

outward arrival of the Oneida, having his Excel
lenoy Sir H. Barkly on board, was notified to the
inhabitants of Melbourne by the discharge of artil-
lery about 10 o'clock on the evening of the 23d
December. His Excellency the Acting-Governor
and several members of the executive and legisla-
ture were at the time patronising the fete given at
Cremorne in aid of the Soldiers' Daughters Fund ;
but on the announcement of the arrival of the now
Governor they took their duparture. As soon wig
possible after arrival Sir Henry intimated his de-
sire that his entry into Melbourne should be as
quietly and as privately arranged as possible, and
accordingly the hasty preparations previously made
for his official reception were greatly curtailed. As
the anchorage in the bay was effected, the block-
ship, under the command of Lieut. Crawford, R.N.,
fired a governor's salute of seventeen guns. The
colonial government steam-sloop Victoria fired a
succession of rockets and lighted the yards of the
ship, so as to afford the pilot some assistance in
bringing the ship amongst the vessels in the bay.
Some few rockets were fired and blue lights burned
by the Morning Star, Medway, Marco Polo, and
other vessels in the port.
At an early hour on the following morning his
Excellency, accompanied' by the Acting-Governor
and Mr. Childers—the latter of whom had pro
ceeded on board the Oneida on the previous night
—disembarked at Sandridge, and was conveyed in
General M'Arthur's carriage to Toorak. An escort
of her Majesty's 40th Regiment was supposed to
have been in readiness to escort Sir Henry, but, as
with all the intended preparations, were a trifle too
late. The eye-witnesses of the landing and depar-
ture consisted of very few persons. Sir Henry's
desire for privacy and early movements, however,
sufficiently accounts for this.
This, is the first time in which news has been
received from Melbourne, in Australia, in 48 days ;
and when the electric telegraph is laid down in the
Red Sea, on the line to India, and a telegraphic
communication is thereby established with Aden, we
shall get news from Melbourne in 34 days. The Simla
left Melbourne a day after her time, and reached
King George's Sound at day before her time. She

lost a day in reaching Point de Guile, but made it
up on reaching Suez. When.the Peninsular and
Oriental Company had the contract to convey the
Australian mails via Singapore, .they were allowed
53 days for the voyage between Melbourne and
Suez, but the Simla has done it by way of Galle in
39 days. This magnificent ship is 2,450 tons and
600 horse power. She has triumphantly demon-
strated the capacity of the screw steamer for rat,
pidly crossing the Indian Ocean. The Simla will
no doubt take on the immense mail that has been
accumulated at Suez, and reach Melbourne with it
by the sth of next month. The European and
Australian Company have done this good service—
they have shown the precise kind of ship that should
Le employed to carry the Australian mails, and how
to shorten the time hitherto consumed between
England and the colonies of Australia by a fort-
night. There are a number of screw steamers now
afloat quite equal to the Simla in point of speed
and strength, and more, of course, can easily bo
built. The commander of the Simla is Captain
Cooper. His name deserves record as the pioneer
of what is to be hoped will be a new era in Austra-
lian steam navigation. The drawback to the Eu-
ropean and Australian Company's admirable per-
formance of their engagement by means of the
Simla is the non-arrival of the Oneida. She left
Melbourne 18 days before the Simla, and since she
left King George's Sound, which she did at her
proper time, sh has not been beard of. Her com-
mander, Captain Hyde, is a very able navigator,
and he had -the greatest confidence in his ship
when he left England. If she has broken down,
and is making for Mauritius, she is twenty-four
days at least, .since we have news from that
place up to the Ist ultimo. If she is making
direct for Ceylon, she is at least thirty-four
days out, the.. distance of .Ceylon from King
PeN. eing3,3oo miles. Being a-scrertv,
Ifo fiefeT,—sleltividt so helpless in the Indian Ocean
as a broken-down paddle-wheel steamer would
be. If the Oneida makes for the nearest port
belonging to England, Singapore is nearer than the
Mauritius or Point de Galle, its distance being only
2,700 miles from King George's Sound. In a few
days we shall have a fortnight's later news from
Singapore, and a week's later news from Galle, and
it is to be hoped that by that time the Oneida will
turn up somewhere. If she arrived at Suez soon
after the Simla, which is possible, there would be
no steamer at Aleiandria to bring home her mails,
as both the Etna and Jura had left that port. An
Indian mail steamer will be leaving Alexandria,
however, about this day, which could take on at
least the Marseilles portion of her mails to Malta,
and from thence it could be easily taken to Mar-
seilles.

The Sydney Morning Herald of February 10th
publishes a summary of news for the Simla. We
extract the following :
"By the Oneida mail-steamer we completed our sum-
mary of events in this colony up to the 22d of January.
Since that date we have little in the political world to
record. _ _

"The Parliament continues sitting, and but very
slowly progresses with the actual business of the colony.
"The announcement that the coins of the Sydney
Mint had been made a legal tender in Ceylon, the Man.
ritius, and Hong Kong was made to both Houses of the
Legislature, and caused considerable satisfaction, and
will, doubtless, tend to the recognition of such coin as
legal tender in the sister colonies,of Victoria and South
Australia.

" The Bill to confer a corporation on the city of Syd-
ney may now be considered as passed. The council will
consist of 16 aldermen, to be elected by ballot, and who
will choose their own mayor. The mayor wi'l receive a
salary, but will not be ex officio a police magistrate.
Although two temporary measures for the regulation of
the sale and occupation of the waste lands of the colony
have been introduced, it is not intended to take the
question of the reform of the whole system into consider-
ation during the present year.
"Although not formally passed, the Gold Dills, assi-
milating the policy for the regulation of the goldfields of
this cclony to that of Victoria, have been assented to by
both branches of the Legislature. A strong expression
of opinion has been mad in both Houses of the Legisla-
ture that the existing system for the management of im-
migration should be reformed, and that immigration
should be superintended in England by an agent or
agents appointed by the colony.
" A large number of petitions have been presented
against the continuance of railway traffic on the Sab-
bath day, but the question has not yet been definitely
brought before the Legislature.
"A Bill to increase the amount of the Civil L'st was
passed in the Legislative Assembly by a majority of 19
to 14. The Loan Bill, to meet the accumulated defi-
ciency of revenue,. to meet expenditure for past year,
was passed with little opposition.
"A number of local enactments have passed, and
will' shortly become law. They relate principally to

"The share-market has been very quiet since our last
summary, dated 'Tannery 21 ; and although a fair
amount of business has been transacted, prices have re-
mained almost without alteration. A. slight improve-
merit, has taken place in the shares of the Australian
Joint-Stock Bank, which are now worth 121. per share,
ex divideed. Sydney Fire Insurance Company's shares
have fallen slightly.
" The fo:lowing companies have held their half-yearly
meetings. We give a alio, t account of theirproceedings :
" The Commercial Bank held their half-yearly meet-
ing on the 27th of January. The report showed that
profits for tho past half-year amounted to 18,0581.25. Bd.
After paying at the rate of 15 per cent. per annum, 2371.
103. 21. was carried to the fund for the equalisation of
future dividends, which is increased to 2,3131. 7s.' 11d.
The reserve fund is 40,0001. Mr. Thomas Skinner was
elected a dii ector in the room of Mr. Parker, who re-
signed his seat at the board on taking office as Colonial
Secretary.
"The eighth half-yearly meeting of the Australian
Joint Stock Bank was held on the 27th of January.
From the report it appears that the profits for the past
half-year amounted to 15,7361. 4s. A dividend at the
rate of 10 per cent. per annum was declared, and 1,523/.
12s. sd. was carried to, the reserve fund, which now
amounts to 14,734/.125, 3d. The sum of 1,2121. lls. 7d.
was carried to the fund for the equalisation of future
dividends, whichs now increased to 5,0731. lls. 7d.
Mr. Holt was elected a director in the room of Mr.
Clark Irvine', who retired by rotation.
"The half-yearly meeting of the Australians Steam
Navigation Company was held on the 28th of January,
at the company's offices, and the report of the directors
and statement of the affairs of the company were laid
before the meeting. After con-iderable discussion and
a full explanation by the directors of the position of the
company, the report and accounts were unanimously
adopted. From these it appears that the net profit for
the half-year, after paying all repairs 'to the vessels and
other expenses of the company, including interest on the
debentures, amounted to 13,2281. 4s. 4d. ; but it was
agreed not to pay a dividend at present, but to leave the
balance standing at the credit of profit and loss account,
whlcb,. after clearing off 5,0061. 45., at the debit of that
account on the 31th of June last, amounted to 8,2231.45.,
to be retained by the board of directors as a reserve
fund. Much satisfaction was expressed at the efficient
condition of the company's fleet and the improved pro-
spect of their affairs, giving every promise of a fair divi-
dend at next half-year's meeting.
"The half-yearly meeting of the Newcastle Coal and
Copper Company also took place nn the 27th of January,
when a dividend at the rate of 10 per cant. was declared
by the directors. The affairs of this company are in a
flourishing condition. The plant and works at the mines
have been greatly improved, and a considerable portion
of the expense of doing so has been paid out of the cur-
rent profits.
" The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of the
Australian General Assurance Company was held on the
28th of January, when a dividend of 10 per cent. for the
six months was declared.

" Government Debentures have remained firm at 100,
and accrued interest added to the principal. The ten-
ders for the 200,0001. will be opened to-morrow (this
day) at noon, and purchasers are therefore chary of in-
vesting until the price at which thoy may be taken shall
be known. These debentures may be considered equiva-
lent to, interminable annuities, because the principal is
to be payable in Sydney at the option of the Govern-
ment only after 25 years. It ig, therefore, impossible to
anticipate at what rate they may be taken. We, how-
ever, do not expect to see them bring more than from
9S to 99.

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ratty. The announce rent w_
layed for a short peril.
Admirals the Hoe- R. S. Ddndas and Eden,
Captain Alexander Milne, Sir Robert Peel, Bart.,
M.P. and Mr. Bernal Osb irne, M.P., the Junior
Lords and Secretary. of the Admiralty, left town
on Saturday, to mile an official inspection at Wool-
wich Dockyard.
Capt. Mulocki of the 70th Font, proceeds to
China with the' eXpedition, as Aide-de-Camp to
Lieut.-General Ashburaham, C.B.
' ;Hon. J. R. Drummond, C. 8., has
been appointed naval a'de-de-camp to the Queen,
vice Codrington, promoted to flag rank.
We regret to hear that Vice-Admiral Sir W. H.
Dillon, K. C.H., is seriously ill.
The next vacancy among the " Active" flag offi-
cers will occasion the promotion of Capt. M'Dou-
gall, the Superintendent of Packsts at Southamp-
ton. This officer has also a good-service pension.
Next to Capt. M'Dougall Capt. Michael Qun. will
be promoted, thereby placing three good-service
pensions at the disposal of Sir C Wood—viz., thos
of Captains Lapidge, Slaughter, and Quin.
Her Majesty's iron screw steam storeship Indus-
try, Master-Commander Hodges, arrived at Wool-
wich on Saturday from Plymouth, and proceeded
to Deptford to embark stores for Rio and Ascension.
The paddlewheel steamvessel Cuckoo, tender to
the flagship Waterloo, at Sheerness, brought up a
number of supernumerary seamen to Woolwich on
Saturday for the gunboats which are being manned
at that yard.
Intelligence has been received of the arrival of
her Majesty's. steamship Simoom at lat. 0 25 N.,
long. 20 30 W., on March 3, with the head-quarters
of the 33d Regiment, Lieut.-Col Johnstone, C. B. ,
commanding, on board; all well. No casualties
since embarking at Kingstown on Feb. 4.
The Greenwich out-pension, vacant by the pro-
motion of Capt. Hillyar to flag rank, has been con-
ferred upon Capt. W. Turner.
Mr. J. Rtuden, master, R.N., who was dis-
misseclsummarily from H.M.S. Electra, and the .
service, on the arrival of that vessel from the Aus-
tralian station, at Spithead, has been restored to
his position in the Navy List upon his own repre-
sentation.
The Duke of Wellington, 131, Capt. Caldwell,
C. 8., was paid off at Portsmouth on Saturday. She
will be placed in the steam reserve until wanted.
The Nimrod 6, screw despatch gunvessel, Com.
Dew, did nit leave Portsmouth until daylight on
Saturday for China, touching at Plymouth for final
orcl era.
The William Hammond freight-ship sailed from
Portsmouth on Saturday morning for Jamaica with
a detachment of the 41st Regiment.
The Sir George Rogers freight-ship arrived at
Spithead yesterday morning from Bermuda with
returned exiles.
The Terror, 14, floating battery, steamed into
Sheerness harbour on Saturday, about 3 p.m.,
after having been cruising off the Big Nore for the
last two or three days. Captain E. P. Halsted,
Mr. J. C. Hutchings, and Mr. J. H, Langley, of
the steam reserve ; with Mr. Enwood, foreman
shipwright afloat, accompanied her on the second
trial trip, which we hear was satisfactory, and that
they got more than six knots out of her.
The Meanee, 84, is being converted into a screw
in No. 2 dry dock, Sheerness.
The Transit, 6, iron screw troop-frigate, Com-
mander E. Chambers, at Portsmouth, is receiving
an immense quantity of camp equipment and stores
of every description, besides heavy 30-inch breach-
ing guns. A number of the medical staff corps
arrived on Saturday afternoon and went on board.
A portion of the 59th and three companies of tho
90th will embarked to day, and the Transit will, in
all probability, sail to-morrow, en, route for China.
The Himalaya, 6, iron screw troop-frigate, Com-
mander Haswell (late of the Plumper), will haul
alongside the dockyard jetty as soon as the Duke
of Wellington is removed, to embark the 90th,
and also a great quantity of camp equipage and
munition.
The Drake screw gunboat, Lieut. W. Arthur,
has had sundry alterations made in her rig.
She has had a standing bo *sprit and jibboom, also
a foretopmast with a standing topsail and foreyard,
which improves her considerably. She went out of
harbour on Saturday on trial, under sail. She hag
but two mast, and if the above rig succeeds it is
supposed all the other gunboats fitting for China
will be similarly altered.
The sailing ship Cumberland, 70, fitting in No.
3 dry dock, at Sheerness, was commissioned on
Saturday by Capt. J. B. Dickson, for the flag of
Rear-Admiral of the Red, P. W. P. Wallis, to
command on the Brazilian station. Admiral Wallis
is expected to hoist his flag this day on board the.
Edinburgh, Captain E. P. Halsted, until the Cum-
berland is sufficiently fitted to receive the flag.
She will be ready to be put out of dock iu about
ten days.
The Pylades, 21, anew steam
.corvette nt Sheer-
ness, in the first-class steam reserve (now in the
fitting basin), is also ordered to be immediately
commissioned. Captain Hall. late of the Hecht
and Nemesis, is daily expected to commission her.
On the recent occasion of Miss Nightingale visit-
ing Chatham, for the purpose of inspecting the
naval and military hospitals of the garrison, that
lady instituted some inquiries relative to the work-
ing of the Chatham Garrison Compassionate Insti-
tute—a society supported entirely by the officers
and troops at Chatham, and which has been in ex-
istence a great number of years. Miss Nightin-
gale was informed that the objects of the institu-
tion were to provide a hospital for the sick women
and children of the garrison ; to supply relief to
those women whose husbands may, be in hospital ;
and also to give food, clothing, and lodging to those
destitute soldiers' wives who are constantly arriv-
ing at Chatham for the purpose of embarking with
draughts proceeding to the respective regiments of
their husbands ; in addition to which relief is admi-
nistered in a great variety of distressing cases
which may naturally be expected to occur in a gar-
rison circumstanced like that of Chatham. Before
leaving the hospitals Miss Nightingale expressed
her intention of becoming a subscriber to their
funds, and she has just forwarded to the treasurer
the handsome donation of 50 guineas.

EXPERIMENTS AT WOOLWICH.

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fne r
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Woolwich-marsh, in the presence of the Duke of
Cambridge, Lord Panmure, the Marquis of Bread-
albane, the Earl of Ashburnhnm, Rear-Admiral Sir
Maurice Berkeley, K.C.8., Vice-Admiral Sir Geo.
Sartorius, Rear-Admiral Peter Richards, Captain
Alexander Milne, Sir Baldwin Walker, Major-
General Sir H. Storks, Captain Caffin, C. 8., R.N.,
Storekeeper-General of the Ordnance ; his Excel-
lency Feruk Khan, the Persian Plenipotentiary,
his uncle, and suite ; Col. Sir H. Rawlinson, C.B. ;
Capt. Lynch and Mr. Lynch, of the East India.
Company's Navy ; Major-General Sir W. F. Wil-
liams, K.C.8., attended by his aide-de-camp and
the garrison staff, &c. The Conunamler-in-Chief,
before proceeding to the Marsh, conducted the
Lords of the Admiralty to the Royal carriage
square, in order that they might examine the equip-
ments prepared for the Chinese war. His Royal
Highness, on a former occasion, had expressed bis
eepprobation of the 3-pounder batteries, in which
with which the ammunition waggons are
their for readily concurred, and, to verify the
faci'litYetible for the easy transport of the wounded,
conve.•
the Duke desired an attendant to enter one of the
vehicles, when his Royal Highness, having wheeled
it forward some paces, again repeated to Colonel
Tulloh his admiration of its compactness
and efficiency, They thence proceeded to
the marshes in Plumstead, where, notwith-
standing the incessant fall of rain throughout the
day, the proceedings commenced, as arranged, pre-
cisely at 2 o'clock. first experiment was with
several wrought and cast-iron shot from 68-pounder
guns, fired at a wooden butt faced with sundry
sample plates of sheet-iron three-quarters of an inch
ill thickness. The guts were directed by a party
of gunners told off from the Ist Battalion of the
Royal Artillery, arid were aimed with precision.
Colonel Tulloh, Major Vandeleur, and Captain
Boxer, officers of the Royal Artillery Corps in
Woolwich Arsenal, superintended the proceedings,
which were watched by Liutenant-Colonel Picker-
ing and Captain Campbell, R.A., secretary and
assistant secretary of the select committee. The
first shots were over a flight of 1,200 yards, which
was ultimately reduced in proportions of 200 yards,
e dAtatte rale ipornoxwima si tythoefn 400
d i- ayna (rid
s theyfrom
aw art. °
rected to the scantlieg if a 36-gun frigate, erected
for the pur
pose of resting Martin's shells (con-
f 281 b. o molten iron) in the
ships of war.- The point of attack
Itefilt)aalrigy et fired
of
tge
taming
showed a perfect broadside, resembling a ship at sea,
into which a number of shells and red-hot shot were
eisutiunigc tai ocnh )
alternately projected, over various ranges varying
from 1,200 to 400 yards, giving ample time between
each discharge to observe the effect. It was remarked
that the ignition produced by the liquid iron was
considerably more speedy and effectual than byd
to
the
agency a the red-hot shot. The time require
dissolve the metal and the means now employed to
effect the purpose, are more available than those
necessary for heating shot, and the advantage was,
therefore, pronounced to be in favour of Martin'4

GREAT FIA.NDEL FESTIVAL AT THE
CRYSTAL PALACE. Under the especial
patronage of lter Majesty the QUEEN and H.R.H. PRINCE
ALBERT. Notice is given, that applications for tickets for
places, reserved and nurubered as stated, are one guinea each
for each performance, or at two guineas and a half for one
place for the series of three performances, can now be re-
ceived, and the places secured in numerical order, at the
Crystal Palace, or by letter addressed to the Secretary there ;
at the Temporary Offices of the Company, 79, Lombard-
street ; and at the Central Ticket Office, No. 2, Exeter-hall,
The seats which are at present disposable consist of four
blocks of 500 places, each in the most eligible position in the
centre of the great Transept, the front row being about 40
feet, and the back 140 feet from the conductor's seat. These
2,000 seats are all equally good, and no one place has any ad-
vantage over any other. Parties applying at present can
secure their seats being within these four blocks, but until
the arrangements are more perfectly matured it is impossible
definitely to particularise position. In allotting seats to
those who shall have applied before the 20th of April, pre-
ference must be given to those who take sets of seats for the
three performances. N.B.—No application can bo attended to
unlessaceompanied by a remittance for the price of the places
applied for. It is requested that Post-office orders be made
payable to George Grove, at the General Post-office, and that
cheques he made payable to the Company, and crossed Union
Bank of London. Subscribers for annual season tickets for
the Crystal Palace are respectfully informed that such tickets
will not be available for these performances.

The THREE PERFORMANCES are now definitively fixed
to take place as follows, viz.—MONDAY, June 15, " MES-
SIAH ; " WEDNESDAY, June 17, " JUDAS MACCA-
132EUS ; " and FRIDAY, June " ISRAEL IN EGYPT."
At these performances the orchestra will consist of nearly
2,500 performers, viz.-2,000 ellorus, and 300 stringed and a
due proportion of wind instruments, The entire musical
arrangements aro undertaken by the Sacred Harmonic Society ,
Exeter Hall. Conductor, Mr. Costa
By Order, GEORGE GROVE, Secretary.
Crystal Palace, March 21, 1857,

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
On EASTER MONDAY, will be performed
Shakespere's trA,gedy of
KING RICHARD THE SECOND.
King Richard 11., Mr. C. Kean ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean.
Preceded by A GAME OF ROMPS.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHJ.
Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster.

On EASTER MONDAY, will be performed the new and
original domestic sketch, entitled WELCOME, LITTLE
STRANGER. Mr. Wright, Mr. Paul Bedford,
Followed by THE ELVES, in which Madame Celeste will
make her first appearance
After which, A NIGHT AT NOTTING-HILL, in which
Mr. Wright and Paul Bedford will appear.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road,—
OPEN- EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
SelectiotA from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses,
Glees, Duets, &c., viz.: Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield,
Miss Brunell, Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta ; Mr. J.
Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S.
Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling. P. Corti, Senor Antonio M.
de Solla, and E. L. Hire ; Masters Austin, Bennett, and
Conn; Messrs. Sam Collins, B. Mackney, and C. J. Wilkins.
Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, juu.;
director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre•
cisely. Suppers, die., until twelve o'clock.