The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-12 00:00:00

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DISPITTICI) MITE roxaczns.

" A trial of considerable Interest to Life Assurance Offices and the
public was concluded-yesterday in. the Court of Exchequer. The
Eagle Company held a policy for an assurance of 539/. In the Albion
Company as security for an advance, the payment of which policy
was now disputed by the Albion, on the ground that at the time it
was effected the fact of the assured party having been n man of in-
temperate habits was concealed from the office. *I he chief evidence
turne t upon the question as to the degree of intemperance that had
been exhibited, and the result was, that a verdict was given against
the resisting office, not only for the amount of the policy, but also for
401. interest from the date..whenjt became due. The circumstance
of the action being brought by one office against another presents a
striking illustration of the uncertainty which• may attach to all po-
licies tinder the present system, and shows that the only mode by
Which absolute security can be obtained by the public must lie in the
general adoption by, Assurance Offices of the plan of prole sting them-
selves in every case by due inquiries before the grantins-• f each po-
licy, and of afterwards assuming the full responsibility on the com-
pleteness of such Inquiries by holding themselves precluded from
raising any future .question. In the present case two offices are
found to be diametrically opposed In their opinions as to what can
properly invalidate a claim, and yet the public are expected to be
able to guare themselves =deist such zontingences. Similar cases
have occurred before, and ;eyen- if they were more rare, they would
seriously injure the progress of life assurance. The very principle
upon which the business is founded is the removal 01 uncertainty,
and whenever that principle is counteracted in the slightest degree,
the people who Would be the first to resort to its advantages are the
first to be deterred."—Times, July 11, 1850.
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THE LONDON INDISPUTABLE LIFE
_ POLICY COMPANY
• No. 72, LOMBARD-STREET, LONDON.
TRusTEES.
J. Campbell Renton, Esq., M.P. Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P.
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Richard Malins,ESq., R.C. James Fuller Madox, Esq.
William Wilberforce, Esq.
DIRECTORS.
Robert Henry Forman, Esq.
John Hamilton, Esq.
-James Fuller Madox, Esq.
, John Matthews, Esq.
C. Octavian Parnell, Esq.
AUDITORs..
George Cumming, Esq. iJ isaes Turner. Esq.
William D. Starling. Req. !David Henry Stone, Esq.
SECRETARY—David .Alison, ESQ.
BANKERS—The London and.. unty Bank
PADDINGTON LOCAL BOARD.
24, flonnaught-terrace. Edgware -road.
Rev. James Sherbold Boone, A.M , Stanhope-street, Hyde-park.

William Adams, Esq.
John Atkins, Esq. _
Henry Augustus Bevan, Esq.
J. Thompson Bramwell, Esq.
John Dangerfleid, Esq.

Captain Creed, Norfolk-crescent, Oxford-square.
Charles Pemberton, Esq., Eastbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, and Lin-
coln's Inn-fields. - . .
Thomas Jervis Autos, Esq., York-street, Portman-square.
George Y. Robson, Esq., Eastbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, and New-
square, Lincoln's Inn.

Secretary, Chas. Hogbton, Esq.
The POLICIES of this Company; being INDISPUTABLE, form
Family Provisions and Negotiable Securities, for their validity it not
dependent, as in. ite case of ordinary Policies, upon the import of
previous reports and other documents.
Owing to this important improvement in the practice of Life As-
surance, fife progress of this Company has been raiiid from the com-
mencement of its business, and is steadily advancing.
Copies of the Report of the last Annual Meeting will he forwarded,
on application, to Solicitors, to 'whom Commission is allowed.
ALEXANDER ROBERTSON. Alanager.

CATHOLIC LAW AND GENERAL
LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY,
8, NEW COVENTRY-STREET, LEICESTER-SQUARE, LONDON.
The FOURTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Proprie-
tors of this Company took place on the 25th instant, at the Head
Office; at One. o'clock precisely. The following is extracted from the
report, which is too lengthy for publication
During the past year no claims have atisen.from deaths in Englac:•.
and but two in Ireland—one for 5001. and the other for 2hol.—makiug
together 7001., which have been paid. This is far below the expected
mortality, and is especially favourable, when it is remembered how
severely the life offices generally suffered from the epidemic of last
year.
The number of lives assured between the Ist ef June, 1249, and
the 3lit of May, 1850, was more than double the number issued in
the twelve months preceding.
Proposals were made for 138 Policies, amounting to 52,9631.23. 6d.:
of these 121, comprising 106 lives, were accepted for 45,125/. Gs;
sixteen Policies lapsed, representing 6,0481., upon which 3201. 35.
was received by the Company in the shape of premiums
Since the commencement of the, Company to the let of June last,
assurances were effected
.to the extant of 110,9721. Pts 6d., pro-
ducing in annual premiums 3,7321. I Is. Gd. Of these 54 lapsed,
amounting to 23,9901.. Ns. 64., of which the annual premiums were
7411. is., leaving the yearly income on the Ist of June last equal to
2,9911. 15s. I Id.
Since last meeting loans were applied for to the extent of 17,7001.,
but 1,1831. lie. 10d. only was advanced.
The Director's were also highly gratified to report that within the
last four months they had conside::ably extended their business on
the Continent, having appointed, as Head Agent in France, Monsieur
de l'Etang, a gentleman of high standing in Paris, distinguished for
his integrity and ability in financial and in all assurance matters,
who, under the sanction and patronage of the Archbishop of Paris,
the Cardinal Archbishop of Lyons,_ and Monseigneur Parisis, Eveque
tie Langres, has already within the last three months effected a con•
siderable amount of business, not only in. Life Assurances, but in An-
nuities both Immediate and Deferred.
After various resolutions, approving of the Report, and returning
thanks to the Right Reverend Chairman, Bishop Morris, the Vice-
Chairman, Actuary, Secretary, and Medical Officers of, the establish-
ment, the meeting separated, highly gratified at.its present results
and future prospects.

WICOTTISH WIDOWS' FUND LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
Constituted by Act of Parliament.
PRESIDENT.
The Right Hon. the Earl of ROSEBERY, K.T.
NICE-PRESIDENTS.
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The Hon. Lord Moncrieff. -
Ills Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, K.G.
The Most Hon: the Marquis-of Tweeddale, Kg., and C.D.
Sir William' Gibson Craig,' Bart., of Riccarton, %I. P.
;All of whom, as well as the Directors, are, and must be Members

of the Society:)
This Society was founded A.D., 1815, upon the original basis of
he Equitable Society of London, and is the oldest Life Assurance
Institution in Scotland.
Capital accumulated -and invested, Two Millions Two Hundred
and Four Thousand Pounds.
Annual Revenue nearly Three Hundred ThonsanS Pounds.
Total amount of existing Assurances, upwards of Six Millions Six
Hundred Thousand Pounds. •
Average amount cf Assurances effected annually during the last
twelve years, upwards of Half a Million sterling.
"Probably a larger average than has yet been attained by almost
any other office, and such av affords the true test by which to prove
the estimation in which it is held by the public."
In the case of a party Insured with this .society previous to the
year' 1819 dying after payment of the Premium due In the current
year, his representatives .would receive for each 1001. insured the
sum of 3991. Os. Pd., or nearly double the amount of the original in-
surance. •
In like manner, in the case of a party insured in the year 1830,
dying after payment of the current year's premium, his representa-
tives would receice for each 100/. Insured the sum of 147/. 4e. 10d.
or a Bonus of 47 per cent.
N.B. No member is entitled to participate in the proSts of the
Society unless the Policy he of five years's standing.
The books of the Society close for the current year on 31st De-
cember, and Policies effected before that time have the advantage of
a full year's standing over those delayed beyond it.
Head Office, 5, St. Andrew, square, Edinburgh.
JOHN MACKENZIE, Manager.
LONDON OFFICE, 4, Royal Exchange-buildinzs.
HUGH IWKEAN, Agent.

PNGINEERS, MASONIC, and UNIVERSAL
MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
Head Office, 345, Strand, London,
(Opposite Waterloo•bridgel.
Incorporated under 4.ct of Parliament, 7 and 8 Via., cap. 110.
Policies issued free of Stamp Duty to the Assured.
A Policy once granted never disputed.
Medical Referees paid in all cases.
No Entrance-fee for admittance.
The whole of the Profits are divided amongst the Asnrel.
Assignments and Transfers of Policies Registered at the Office free
of charge. .
The Board meets every Tuesday and Friday, at Two o'clock.
Attendance at the Office daily from Ten to Four, when Assurances
may be effected.
** Persons :Sssurinz before Christmas will be entitled to partic
pate in this year's profitS,
FREDERIC LAWRANCE, Actuary and Secretary
NORWICH

UNION REVERSIONARY
INTEREST. COMPANY.
Notice is hereby givea that the`HALF,YEARLY DIVIDEND at
the rate of Four-and-a-Half pqr cent., clear of Income-tar, due 31st
October last, is NOW, in COURSE of P ,YMENT at the Office of
this Company, 23, Lineoln's Inn-fields.
HENRY NORRIS, Secretary.
N.B.—Proposals for sale of reversions, &e., may be addresse I to
the Secretary.
12th November, 1850.

. . . WILL BE OPEN,
THE GREAT EXHIBITION of thp IDLE-
NESS of NATIONS for 1851, on FRIDAY, Nov. 15, and may
be carried away for Is; plain, or :''S. coloured, from G. Mann, 39,
Cornbill, and all Booksellers and Stationers in the kingdom.
London : printed •by Thomas Dean and Son, 35, Threadneedle-

GAME ' SEASON.—CROSSE and BLACK
Wti;LL, -Purveyors. in Ordinary, by appointment to her Ma-
jesty, beg re,pectfully to inform* the nobility and eentry that they
continue to manufacture the celebrited. 50110 SAUCE, which will
he found superior fop every.description of game ; also their improved
Essence of real Oorgona Anchovies, Dinmore's Essence of Shrimps,
for boiled and fried ash, Royal Table Sauce, Sir Robert Peel's Sauce
for general purposes. Anchovy Paste. Strasburg Potted Meats, &c.
The whole of the abovo, together with their superior pickles. may be
obtained of all the principal sauce venders throughout the kingdom.
Manufactory, 2t, Soho-square,. London. Established 1106.

APPETITE • AND DIGESTION IMPROVED.
I EA. and PEItRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE
:KAI SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops,
and all Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad,
and by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach t 4,

petfeCtly digest the food.
The daily use of this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe-
gm rd to health.
Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrins, 6, Vere-street, Oxford-
Street, London, and 63, Broad-street, Worcester; also by Messrs.
Uarelay and Lonns Crosse and Blackwell, and other Oilmen
and Merchants, on ; and generally by the principal dealers in
sauce.
N.B. To guard against imitations, see that the names of " LEA
and PERRINS" aro upon the label and patent cap of the bottle.

SWANSCOMBE, KENT.
TO he LET, in this beautiful 'Village, a desirable
FAMELY RESIDENCE, In complete repair, and containing
breakfast, dining, and drawing-rooms, five bed-rooms, excellent
offices, two-stall stable and coach-house, kitchen-garden, large pad-
dock and well•stocked erdiard ; a good su2ply or excellent spring
water. _

The premises are a short distance from the Greenbithe
where boats call to and from London frequently in the day, and only
half-a-mile from the Northfleet Station.
For terms, &c.. apply to A. R. Steel, Esq., No. 1, Lincoln's Inn-
fields ; or to Mr. Frederick Goodeve, Ingress Abbey.

CANTERBURY SETTLEMENT.

For One P nny, or by pose in return for Two -Postage Stamps, a

- - -
Tract of eight pages.
BRIEF INFORMATION about the CANTER.
BURY SETTLEMENT, with some Account of the Sources
from wMcf: full Information may be derived.
Published for the Society of Canterbury Colonists, by John W.
Parker, West Strand. _

Price, One Penny.
CONTENTS:—I. The Founders of the Co'ony —2. Description of
the Country-3. The Plan of Colonisation -4. Particulars about the
Passage-5. Progress to November, 1850—G. List of the Purchasers
of Land-7. Contents of the Z;anterbury Papers-8. The Society of
Canterbury Colonists-9. The Five Classs for which the Settlement
is peculiarly adapted.
Copies of the Tract may be obtained from the Secretary of the
Society of Canterbury Colonists, No. 9, Ade'phi-terrace, London.

THE CATHOLIC QUESTiviN.
GILBER7'S Verbatim Editions of the Pope's Letter : Cardi-
nal Wiseman's Pastoral; Lord Joint Russell's_ Letter; Bishop Ulla-
thorne's two Letters to the " The Times ;" two Letters from the
G: A Denison; the "New Batch of Bishops" from the

" Weekly Dispatch ;"Letter from Benjamin Disraeli, Esq., M.P. ;
Review and Extracts from Ambrose Phillips's Letter to the Earl of
Shrewsbury ; concluded by a Elography of the Cardinal. All these
Important documents may be had in one pamphlet, at the extra-
ordinary low price of One Penny ; or Postage Free 3d. ; or, for very
extensive distribution throughout the kingdom, at 7s. per 100.
Publish••d by James Gilbert, 49, Paternoster-row. Orders re-
ceived by all Booksellers, Newsvenders, &c.

TOBE CIII.CULAII, moo.
0 Cit
Wo would remind the public that all TEA, bad or good, the
best or the most worthless, pays an uniform duty of 2s. 214 d. per lb.,
and is necessarily ,übject to equal charges for freight, .porterage,
wharfage, dock dues, Sec., consequently the commonest is much
heavier taxed. in proportion to its real or marketable value, than
either the medium or the finest class Teas. Thus, common ongou
costs in Canton only 70. to Bd. per lb., bet before it reaches the
English consumer it pays in duty and charges no less than 400 per
cent. ; the medium class Tea, which costs 12d. to 15d. per lb., aver-
ages in duty and charges not more than 200 per cent. ; whilst the
finest class Texi.._which cost in China four times the price of the
commoner, ply no more than 100—per cent. It must be apparent
that, with a fixed charge of 2s. 6d. per lb. upon all Tea, mere price
alone is no criterion of either good value or cheapness ; and we espe-
cielly direct the attention of those who are solicitous to economise
their expenditure that they voluntarily tax themselves double or
quadruple what they have any necessity fbr doing by purchasing
inferior Teas.

SIDNEY, WELLS, and MINDUELL, 8, Ludgate-hill

,
Goods sent to any part of the kingdom carriage free on parcels of
Ric value of 5/. and upwards.
Price Lists sent (post free) upon application-8, Ludgate-hill.

TO PARENTS and GUARDIANS.—A portion
of the extensive Premises in Regent-street, occupied by
Messrs. NICOLL, will in future be devoted for the production of
ROTS' and YOUTHS' CLOTHING, such to exhibit unusual good
taste, style, and finish, besides having a farther recommendation in
their durability and very moderate cost.
College Caps and Gowns, with every kind of Garment calculated
for pleasure, duties, or exercise, and such as are worn by Young
Gentlemen at the Colleges and Great Puolic Schools. These are ai-
ways ready to be met with at the Warerooms of 11. J. aud D. NI-
COLL, Merchant Clothiers, Paletet Patentees, and Manufacturers of
Cloth, Regent-street (from 114 to 120 inclusive), and 22, Cornhill.
CAUTION.—Many have assumed the use of the word " PALETOT,"
but Messrs. NICOLL are the Sole Patentees of the design and ma-
terial (in Winter or,Summer Substances) employed in the manufac-
ture of this inexpensive and gentlemanly article of costume.

frpiv OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
a, Lecture on the Ballad Music of England, by Mr. George Bar-
ker, with illustrations from the most popular Composers every Even-
ing (except Saturday) at Eight o'clock.—Lecture on the Hydro-
Electric Machine, by Dr. Bachhoffner.—Lecture on Chemistry by J.
Pepper, Esq., illustrating the Ancient Fiery Ordeal and the Han
line of Red Hot Metals. —Model of Weston's Patent Nova-Motive
Railway, at work daily.—Dissolving Views illustrating some of the
Wonders of Nature, daily at Half-past Four, and in the Evenings
at a Quarter to Ten; also a Series, exhibiting Scenes in the Arctic
Regions and Ceylon, daily at One e'elock.—Divet and Diving-bell,
&c., &c.
Admission, Is.—Schools, Half-price.
Open daily from Eleven till Five o'clock, and every Evening (ex-
ept titttrrday) from Seven till Half-past Ten.

'4 RAND SALON DE D
ROYAL ADELAIDE GALLERY, STRAND.
.OPEN FOR THE SEASON.
Lessee—Mr. Thomas Bartlett Simpson, Albion Tavern, Great
Russell-street, Covent-garden
Mr. SIMPSON, anxious to have the best Band in London; has re-
tained the valuable talent of th" leading Artists engaged during the
past season at Cremorne Gardens, including the following eminent
Performers from her Majesty's Theatre, the Royal Italian Opera,
and the Philharmonic Concerts :
First Violins—Hayward, Cohen, Bue's, H. T. Seabrook, Van Hed-

deghem.
Second Violins—Pelerin, T. Jackson, Edwards, C. Griesbach.
Tenors—Sapinskt, J. Jackson.
Violoncellos—Quinton, W. F. Reed.
Contra Basses—G. Taylor, W. Trantor, Guy, Stubgen.
Flauto—J. Saynor.
Piccolo—Meyer.
Flageolet—J. Tyler.
Oboe—J. Schott.
Clarinetti—Park, G. Tyler.
Bassoon—Montara.
Cornets a-P:stons—Humfreess, Cottrell.
Horns—W. F. Youngman, W. Youngman.
Tromboni•—Webster, Guiraud.
Ophicleide—Mosca.
Bass Drum—Harrison.
Side Drum—Seymour.
VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT.
Comprising Selections from the most celebrated Composers, and
Solos by Rest-rate Artists.
Overture, " D 'min° Noir " • • . •
Solo (Flute) Mr. S. Saynor
Song. Miss Clara Stuart. " Remember when years are past away."
Comic Songs by R. Glindon.
Selection from Donizetti's " L'Elisire d'Amore."

• . Auber.

Conducted by ROSIN'.
To the votaries of Terpsichore remarks on the excellence of
Borini's Rand, after the experience of its Orchestral Triumphs at
Cremorne, would be superfluous.
Solos and Concerted Pieces will be performed during the evening.
Borini's Latest Compositions—The Adelaide Polka, Waltzes to
various popular Irish Melodies, Galop d'lndustrie, New Quadrille of
all Nations.
The Grand Salon, Refreshment, and Ante-rooms have undergone
considerable alterations and improvements.
Doors open at Halt-past Seven o'clock. Admission One Shillbur.

R. CULVERWELL'S NEW WORKS.
To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho;
.47, Fleet-street; Mann, 39, Comhill ; or direct from the author,
wice One Shilling each ; by post, Is. 6d.
ENJOYMENT OF LIFE.
"Health, Recreation, and rational Use of Time."
CouTuuTs:—Early Rising—Spring and Summer Mornings—Fir-
mrsions about the Environs of London—The Parks, Lanes, Hills
Torests, Fields, High-roads, and other pleasant places—Country
rrlps and Rambles—The Sea—London at Night—Evening, at Home
—Music—The Drama—On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping, Bathing, Air,
'est, Ease, Occupation, &c., &c.
FRAGMENTS FROM THE MOUNTAINS. Two Vols.
Vol L
A. VISIT TO THE LAKES; SKETCH,GF EDINBURGH, &c.
Vol. 11.

•
rIIE LAKES 01' KILLARNE
DUBLINY ; REMINISCENCES; Or
, &c.
WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID.
"That three score years and ten our course may run."
A pepular review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner-
Fonsly-debilitated health and enfeebled constitution, that harasses
ho young, besets the man of pleasure, business, or study, and etn
Attera old age, with tables and rules Par the diet and physical rage-
dion of every-day life.

TIE PASSIONS.
" What passions hurt the body—what improve.
Truths as refined as Athens ever heard."
RVEJVIT : pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The advent
rthe passions. Chastity and its infringements. The casualties of
ileentiouzness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narrative,
and romediative. Advocacy of early marriages.
V.

TILE MARRIAGE STATE.
" To be or not to be, that is the question."
PloostllKE:—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and re-
ligion regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and
,thoice, on both sides, as to age, temperament, complexion, and
Igurc, to secure healthy offspring, with the urt of rearing them.
Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion.
o Ices, Scc.
133, R. 3. CUI.'VERWELL, M.D. (1841). M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A.
(1524). Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee in these
mittsrs. necout4on bows daily till Ave tyeuiture.aeyen till ohm
10 Argyll-place. Regent-street

THE BLOWING UP OF THE
TURKISH THREE-DECKER.

640
70
45
75

FURTHER PARTICULARS.
CONSTAPITINOPLE, OCT. 25.—A. most dreadful ca-
tastrophe, attended with great loss of life, has just
occurred. The Neiri Shevket ship of the line, of 120
guns, bearing the fi tg of the grand admiral, was
totally destroyed by an explosion d its powder maga-
zine on the 23d inst. (is stated in The Sun' of Satur-
day). This dreadful accident occurred in the arsenal
at about ten minutes past ten A.M., and was so terri•
fic as to have been. heard at a great distance. It is
surmised by well-informed persons of the Admiralty
that it is owing to accident. Others, again, give it out
as the determined act of a sailor who was punished
for misdemeanour, and detained in the hold of the
ship. The most reasonable rumour, and on which I
place most reliance, is, that it is owing to negligence,
as several canisters of the powder conveyed to the
magazines on shore were in a bad condition, and a
quantity of this combustible was spilled. It is likely
the lower deck was net swept, and some dull mariner
emptied the contents of his pipe on the floor, when
naturally it formed a train, and running to the pow-
der magazine caused an instantaneous explosion,
which was so powerful that it divided the ship into
two parts, and blew up the upper deck, with the
vans and rigging, fully twenty-five feet in the air.
This part fell sideways into the sea, and disappeared
for a few minutes. The lower deck was then ob-
served to catch fire and burn with intense violence
for seven mtnutes, when the ship gradually sank. Im-
mediately after the explosion hundreds of kaiks and
embarkations repaired to the scene of disaster, and a
number of mutilated remains, showing but little re•
semblance to human beings, were picked up. Of the
113 taken to the temporary ambulance erected on
shore, 36 died immediately after; and most of the
poor whateverfel o w ,a''alsieuentetne
sufferers were in such a dreadful condition that no
hooapeelieutenant, was
opflitlliceedir
up
pecnoveearrlsya
drowned, fearfully burnt, and a spike through his
shoulder. He died six minutes after having been
conveyed to the ambulance. A gallant Armenian
porter had both his legs cut clean off, and still cou-
rageously dictated a letter to his mother, informing
her of his sad state.
No official list of the loss of men and officers has
yet appeared, but it is acertained beyond all doubt
that the most gallant officers of the Turkish navy have
been lost. We have to deplore the death of six cap-
, tains, who were on board the admiral's ship in con-
ference on a point of etiquette, as also of the aide-de-
' camp of the grand admiral, of 14 lieutenants who were

invited to an examination of several pupils of the
Academy, and of 25 scholars of th, first class.
The list of casualties is supposed to be as follows :-
1 commodore (Vice-Admiral Mahinoud Paella.)
1 superior officer (Capitan Pac•-ta's aide-de. camp:
6 captains, including the commander of the Neiri
Shevket.
21 lieutenants.
30 sub-officers. _ _

25 midshipmen, including the scholars of the
Academy.
sailors and marines.
workmen sent for repairs. •
hammals, employed to raise the anchors.
sailors belonging to the other ship 3, an I in at-
tendance on their officers.
50 visitors.

14 passengers in kaiks, which sunk while passing
near the ship at the time of the explosion.
1 Italian broker.

Deducting from this total the wounded and saved,
there remain upwards of 900 lives lost. The number
of wounded has not yet been accurately ascertained,
as many accidents occurred on board of other vessels,
but they have been so far kept a secret. It is truly
fortunate that but a small quantity of powder was on
board, as, if the explosion had taken place two days
before, the disaster would have baen incalculable,
owing to the•vicinity of the dock and timber yard,,,
and to the other men-of-war, which must inevitably
have been burnt. The wreck is, rionaplete, and the
whole port is covered with fragments of masts,
bulwarks, and, timber belonging to the Neiri
Shevket. The shock was felt all over the city. In
the suburbs of Kassim Pacha, Djoubali, and Faller,
not a pane of glass was whole, and even at Para,
which is at a considerable distance, glass was
sma,hed, and the effect was similar to a shock of
earthquake. The first Minister who arrived at the
scene of desolation were Suleyman Pacha, Mehemet
Pacha, and Mehemet Ali Pacha. The first, who is
the_great_admiral, was aa, affdctecLat the occurrence,
that he swooned several tithes. It Was agreed that
Mehemet Ali Pacha, who is the Sultan's brother-in-
law, should inform his Highness of the sad disaster,
who immediately ordered a sum of 1,000/. to be dis-
tributed amongst the widows, as also that pensions
should be settled on the nearest relatives of the
deceased.

The complement of the Neiri Shevket was 740
men, and but 100 have answered the muster. The
choicest men and officers of the fleet were on board of
this ship. The officers were all well-educated men,
and to replace them will require some time.

TIM WATER SUPPLY OF LONDON.
The following interesting report has been pre-
sented to the General Board of Health, Gwydyr-
house, Whitehall, by the lion. William Napier :--
Part No. 1.
"Farnham, Surrey, Oat. 2, 1850.
"My Lords and Geutiemen,—Having had the plea-
sure of receiving in August last your instructions to visit
the gathering-grounds of the proposed water-supply to
the metropolis, in order to gauge the streams and make
a careful re-examination of • the general capabilities of
the country for the purpose intended, I have now the
honour to submit to your notice the results of my ob-
servations, with a few remarks on the different bearings
of the scheme.

"On reading the board's report presented to the
Houses of Parliament during the past session, I per-
ceived that from the very short time at the disp6sal of the
board the calculation of the quantity of water available
from the rain-fall on the district, an extent of nearly 150
square miles, was necessarily foundcd on the discharge
of the streams at their outfall.

"The board were thus also manifestly placed under
great disadvantage when endeavouring to ascertain the
character of these waters; for, as such waters inevitably
partake of the nature of the soils through which they
have passed, and as the pure sands of the district are
not only bounded by clay on the north-east, east, and
south-east, by chalk on the west, but are also inter-
sected from east to west in the south by a high range of
chalk hills, the course and outfall of these streams pre-
sent certainly a widely misleading test of the quality of
the water to be derived from pure sands.
" Considering the purity and softness of the supply to
have the first claim upon my attention, I remembered
the principle enunciated by the board, • the nearer the
source the better the quality,' and made it my first de
ject to examine the nature of the soils in which the
rainfall of the country makes its appearance after perco-
lating through the upper crust, and next, the soils
through which it passes to its outlet!.
"The water-supply of Farnham being derived from
the hill on the south side of which the village stands, I
beiit my first steps thither, not only to examine its
source, as likely to present indications for purity to be
looked for else6-here, but a'so to have a good bird's-eye ,
view of the whole area under investigation. The posi-
tion of the hill in the south-west, its elevation of nearly
700 feet above the level of the sea, and 300 feet above
the plains beneath, admirably adapted it to this pur-
pose. It was then only I discovered that the Farnham
water does not come from surface drainage, but is de-
rived from sixteen small springs, issuing at the south
side, on a contour, so to say, about fifty feet below the
highest level of the hill, From the contracted area out
of which so large a supply is gained, I was induced
to suspect that these springs are not due to the rain-
fall on the ground above them. I was further led to
this consideration by observing that, from the slope
of the ground, and from the almost impenetrable
hardness of the superficial covering cf the gravel,
the rain-fall could scarcely find its way through this
surface. A violent st irm having most opportunely
come on whilst speculating over this probability, I per-
ceived that the whole of the water apparently ran
rapidly down the hill-sides and was speedily out of sight,
leaving the sutface perfectly dry, except where irregu-
larities retained a few pools, which subs qu ant observa-
tion proved to me were exhausted by evaporation rather
than by percolation. I then examined the north side,
and found that on the same contour a still greater in-
dication of springs existed. This satisfied me that
these waters are due chit fly to rain fall elsewhere; for
a rough c.lculation of the yield of the springs much
exceeded the available rain-full on the area within the

vincel of this, I naturally concluded that, if the
nges of the district' were of like geological for-
mation,
about the probabilitysamelev
contour.ot
h„e cr
;a
illation, they would in all
in addition to the proposed l present similar ap-
pearances
confined, therefore, to the
for the streams 'of the country,° , a most desirable sourcewhich,
drainage
.the advantege
aolfd'
han
be over estimated. Theil
first
tatinage supply, co
weekt e oft researchesY
the serf through-
out the district, presentinggenerallynaur o a
lower, by a poor loam, from vast depth of
pure sands, obscured in the higher level.; by extensive
patches of gravel from 2 to 20 feet in depth; in the
Patches of peat here and there in spots of some depth
exist principally in the lower levels. On the west and
south-west, the-loam has a, subsoitof very stiff clay, ap-
parently of the London formation, which also crops out
one to three feet deep.
On the north side of Farnham hil. On the north and
north-west, io the valleys, there eXists within a small
area a considerable quantity of iron in some of the peety
bogs. All these are marked upon the plan whiela Ishall
hereafter have the honour to lay before the board, and
which I have prepared as accurately as the shortness of
:he time allowed.
The next object of my research vras the quality
and quantity of the water. The board, in their report,
have
Rowing with
quantity
nao w
velocityb ro
of two miles an hour;ubrought into London by the
feet deep,
theil o
different water companies as a stream of 9 feet wide and
3 v ivei
a supply double the actual consumption. In the course
of my exploration, I could not fail to observe that such a
volume of water of any quality spywa where to be
seen, which nt first rather clamped hopes for the
future; but I yernembered that such a body might be
made up by collecting the smallest threads of rivulets,
and went on my way. To effect this, then, was my
object. .
" A most minute inspection of the gathering grounds
has shown me that their nature exactly adapts them
for the moans of collection proposed by the board,
namely, a system of thorough drainage. A more admi-
rable plan cf gathering rain-fall could not have been
conceived; the sands, acting as a natural filter, deprive
the water on its passage to the pipes of any impurity
contracted either in the sir or in percolating through
the upper crust; as, for instance, where the water might
be discoloured by peat, experiments have proved that the
sands restore its primitive colour, and deprive it also of
the flavour imparted by the peat. The heath, whien
covers the entire area .of the gathering, grounds, also
stains the' water, but the impurity is removed by this
process of natural filtration. I would remark that the
diseolouration visible in the stream called the Blackwater
is not caused by peat, but by the heath and loose black
loamy nature of the sod through which it flows. This
I have proved by following up its various soutcee, one
of which only, at Cove, passes over peat. Samples of
springs rising in peaty bogs show no diecoloure.tion
whatever, but are as clear as water issuing from the
sands.
" Remembering Farnham-hill, I turned my attention
to look for spricgs, and, after much and close examine-
tioe came to the conclusion that the origin of many little
silver threads of water, silently stealing dowel the hill-
sides under the grass, arose also from such sources. A
diligent search showed me that the quantity of water to
be derived in this manner within the original area of
the gathering-grounds is so great, that if the neighbour-
ing ranges a mountains and hills on the south side—
namely, llindhead, lilackdown, Haecorebe•hills, Leith-
hill, &c., presented the some feature, I might probably
hope to collect a stream nine feet wide and three feet
deep, of the desired soltncee and purity.
" I am now happy to inform the board that a month's
researches icto every, hia and glen, every copse and
crevice, has produced this result. Having tested the
waters as they issue from their sources. I cari announce
that I have gnuced a sufficient number of springs arid
rivulets to enable me to form an opinion both as to
quantity and quality; the water beieg of its primitive
purity, perfect as to aeration, brilliant in colour, soft
almost as distilled water, of a grateful temperature, about

50 degreef, and almost free from all mineral, animal,
and vezotable imptegnatiou. In a future section of this
report I hope to be able to give.the hoard more extended
informttion on this point, as also with rererence to the
levels of the springs above mean tide. Thus, by gauging
and testing the streams at " their sourees, instead of in
their course and outfalls, we have the realiz ►tion of the
priLciple laid down by the bosrd; and this dhil•rence
will account for the variance of my results with the.e of
Dr: Angus Smith.
•' Table of Springs and Rivulets, showing their hardness,
daily discharge, and the number of houses each is
egnivalent to, at th.; rate of 75 onliont Tom hail...

°
Name*. Remarks.
- -G
Ilindhead and Black-
down:-
Holy-water .. 2 1,350,000 19,000 Will be led away
atone degree of
ha, cln..ss.
Ilraroshot 11 13,391,714 178,62 One and a-half
Dowit-lands •. 1 510,000 7,200 degr..es under
Headley-down .. ,1 239,731 3,197 the mill wheel;
Barford-mills 1 3,880,000 34,400 but will proba-
Devil's-jumps .. 2 360,000 15,000 bly be led away
Punchbowl .. 1 299,995 3,999 at halt a degree
Cosford-house 1 674,928 8,999 of hardness.
Gray's wood.. .. 1 84,240 1,123
Kotchet 1 32,564 434
_Five other springs . 1 127,562 1,700
Hascombe-hills : -
Sweetwater-pond .. 1 1,066,795 14,223 Wlll be taken
Bush-bridge .. 2 529.200 7.056 away at half a
Chapel-copse 2 224,617 2,955 decree of hard-
Haicombe 2 229,116 3,948 ness.
Leith-hills :-
Totsford • • .. 2 1,799,798 23,977 Will be led sway
Walton 2 890,946 11,879 at one degreeof
Rookery • • .. 2 1,436,400 19,532 hardness.
Eastliampstead Plain :-
Wishmoor • . 1 388,309 5,177
Broad-moor .. 1 176,440 2,347
Sandhurst • • .. 1 54,000 720
Ambarrow-hill .. 1 75,888 1,011
Barkhatn . 1 101.088 1,347
- Woking/3am ~1 599,914 7,99.
Bull-brook • • .. 1 113,320 - 1,437
Chobham-ridges '
Pirbright 1 810,1'00 10,800
Rail way .. 1 410,000 6,134
Cow-moor • • .. 1 90,435 1,285
Coldingley 1 758,160 10,103
Folly .. 1 256.592 3,4'19
Bagshot • • .. 1 630,000 8,400
Bristow-farm 1 14,999 199
Farnham : -
Aqueduct .. 1 45,848 584
311nley • • .. 1 134,923 1,798
Northfleet • . .. 1 6,426,000 85,t;50
Longbottom • • .. 1 31,809 425
Bramsbill .. . 1 43,372 578
EverSley 1 74,779 997
Castle-bottom .. 1 270,000 3,100
North:-
Farnham-hill .. 1 G 85,454 8,739
Total gallons .. .. 39,407,324 523,156 Total equivalent
, in houses.

" Giving altogether 39} millions of gallons, which
might be brought to London at a hardness certainly not
exceeding one degree. I can answer for at least 10 mil-
lions more under two degrees of hardness. I must re-
mark, that though these gaugings are only offend as an
approximation, I consider they will eventually prove to
be rather under than over stated.
" Farnham, Oct. 3, 1850.

" The annexed table of springs and rivulets gives their
hardness, according to Dr. Clerke's soap test, their daily
discharge, and the number of houses they are equivalent
to at 75 gallons per house; an addition of one-half the
average domestic consumption, as proved by an experi-
ment instituted in the district of Earl-street, London, on
a block of 1,200 houses of a fair average class, the gang-
ings of the sewer gave 44} gallons, and the butts and
cisterns, 511 gallons per house.
" I would remark, that where the springs flow into
ponds dammed up for the use of mills, I have taken the
samples for tests from the springs themselves, as the
evaporation alone of large surfaces of water generally
adds two and upwards degrees of hardnese, and the
waters are also exposed to deterioration in colour, and,
as I have found, in taste. For instance, at Minley Pond,
itself situated between sandhills, the spring's do not show
half a degree of hardness, the pond one and a half ; at
Sweetwater Pond the springs have half a degree of
hardness, the pond two degrees; at Bushbridge the
springs have one degree of hardness, the pond nearly six.
" I would here remark that an erroneous opinion
seems to prevail generally that large bodies, of water
should be examined for test of quality, which, in pro-
portion to their slim alone, show a scale of hardness con-
tracted in their passage through loamy or other soilr.
Hitherto the little springs rising iu pure sands, scarcely
seen under the herbage, have been almost entirely dis-
regarded, although when gathered together they form a
volume equal in extent to that collected on the lower
levels, and of a purity and softness in no case to be

found there.
" The gauging of these springs having been taken at
the end of a drought of nearly five weeks, and at the
close of an average dry summer, I conceive they are to
be relied on with safety, as being at their usuel summer
ebb. Being a perfect stranger to the district. and of
course obliged to depend very much on the testimony of
the residents as to the flow of the springs, I have ad-
dressed myself to persons of all classes, gentry, farmers,
and labourers, many of whom have resided all their
lives on the same spot, and are therefore well able to
offer an opinion. I received much valuable information
from an herb doctor, who devotes his sole attention to
wounds and sores, and finds his remedies in herbs and
grasses, many of Which grow in water, by which
means he had come to the knowledee of these
springs. The unanimous opinion of all observing
persons is, that I gauged these springs at their
lowest. lam convinced that the greater mass of them
are, as at Farnham-hill, due to rain-fail elsewhere,—
probably on ranges of equal and higher levels, at a con-
siderable distance, where the nature ef the strata will
not permit of the rain-fall making its appearance again
after percolation; the water then finds its level, and an
easy channel through the sands of the gathering-
, grouads. I attribute the fact of the springs invariably
coming out under the highest and steepest batik cf the
hills to the circumstance that such is the only place
where on that contour there is not the usual dt.nsely
packed covering of gravel, through which they would
scarcely penetrate when there is an easier outlst The
steepness of the bank itself is apparently caused by the
undermining action of the springs.
My opinion of the unfailing yield of these springs is
confirmed by the peasants, who iu several instances have
of their own accord informed me that at the close cf
autumn, generally in October, when there has been no
rain in this district, the springs commence rising just
after a high wind. They offer no explanation of this
upparently extraerdivary circumstance, which to me,
however, admits of easy explanation; the high wind
being possibly a fortuitous circumstance, bat probably in-
dicating a storm of rain and wind elsewhere, where the
strata ere of the formation alluded to.
" Droughts cf much longer duration than five weeks
seldom occur, and, should they do so, the yield of the
springs is so far in excess of the present r equirements of
the metropolis, that there is little foundation for any ap-
prehension of scarcity.
" To detect the presence of these springs in cambina-
tion with other waters was in some cases very easy, as
where the residents are acquainted with them, or where
they are so large as to thrust themselves on one's view,
but often they have nearly eluded my most vigilant
scrutiny. Situated in the hollows of the hills, gene: any
collections of rainwater are to be found, girt somerim-s
by dense copses with rushes and long-tangled grass. The
marshy appearance of the ground on the lower Lade
might, by a casual observer, be taken for the sodeage of
the pond, but if a trench be dug to the outfall the run is
foetid to be constant, proving the presence of springs
flowing into or rising in the ponds them.,clvcs. 0 one
occasion, on questioning an intelligent lab turer, he re-
marked that, when bathing in Mutiny-pond, he tumid
the water at some parts much colder than others, and
was at a loss to account for the circumstance, which
clearly indicated the position of the splines, as I found
the outfall to exceed the flew into the pond.
" So secluded are some of these sources, that their ex-
istsnee, on one occasion, at Chapeheope, only became
known to a soi-disant gamekeeper (but, irons l.is appear._
ance. I fear, a poacher occasionally) by the flight of
game to drink there after dawn. This spring yields
224,697 gallons per day, equal to the supply of. 2,995
houses, and forms one of the many threads contributing
.
to the desired supply. lam further of opinion, n which
am confirmed by all the residents, that these springs will,
when opened, that is, given a free passage to the surface,
often be doubled in volume; indeed, this has, on several
occasions, been proved to be the case by paper manufac-
turers and others who have been anxious to increase their
supply; as, for instance, at Barford Mills! where some
or
some
work tor Vi
years ago the paper-mill could only
b
tour hours a day, but the springhave
tested ._en opened now
afeneels a sufficient supply for
tested these waters, and all others in the district, including
wells, and those from the suffice, at different stages, as
where joined by fresh tributaries, or entering a new soil,
from their ouifall to their sources, and the result has
been very decisive in confirming the remark made by
Professor Way,
in his able paper on' Tho Power of Soils
to absorb Ilanure,' that ordinary soils consist of three
and vegetable matter, but that
substances, sand, clay,
very generally a fourth may be added, carbonate of lime.
When these springs rise in any other than pure rands,
the water at once becomes hard to five or six degrees.
If in any case I believed a stream to have a very pure
sauce, I proceeded up its course, examining it at the
jonctiou of each tributary, and have never fatted in dis-
covering at length, and generally from the highest
source, the thread of soft and sweet water to be added
to the growing stream for water supply.
" Let me point out, for exemple—

D. grees
" The Vey, at Guildford, which has
hardness of ... 9
" At Elstead 8
Below the junction of the Bramshot river 9
" Above the junction of the FArnham
branch ... 6
" Above the junction of the Bramshot
branch • ... 14

" At Farnham ... ..• ••• •••
" But turning up the Brami;ict riv3r at
Headley Wood ••• ••• •••
"At Bramshot - .•• •••
" At Shutter Mill •••

" The above shcws What different results two per-
sons making the same investigations might arrive at.
From Headley to Bram.hot is scarcely more than two
miles ; persons unintentionally, or for want of accurate
investigation, might consider the water at Headley-
wood the sample of greatest parity to be found, and go
away with and disseminate a totally false impression. I
have reason to believe it will be generally found that the
opponents to the board's proposition have, from one
cause or the other, made this great mistake.
" The power of soils in hardening water is particularly
evident when comparing the water in a large pond to
that in a well, which becomes hard almost in proportion
to its depth. A notable instance occars at Tomlin's
Pond, a collection of rain water with a few small springs
in it, which has a hardness of only 2 degrees, whereas
a well sunk close by for the convenience of some cot-
tagers has a hardness of Si degrees. Again,
Minley Pond has a hardness of only l degrees, while
a well, sunk through the loam into the pure sand, has
3 degrees of hardness.
" The following is a list of well and surfaca waters,
with their degrees of hardness:—

" WELLS.

Degree:.
" Hartford-bridge Flats, 25 feet deep ...
" Ash-common, 80 feet deep ... 6f
" Pubright-common, 20 feet deep... ... 5
" Chobham Well .., 5
" Swirdepeottage, DisthamstPad-plain ... 5A-

ti ia, always preserving an average fleilw of
lmmer and r, over surface drainage, are twafajt! •
1. The cont.' uous flow from spriega gives water of
better quality as to aeration and temperature. •
.'ll--eAnaiLumense saving will be efl'ectAl on the item
of storage reservoirs, end, I believe, a considerable sum
in the diminished quantity of excaystian man pt age.
Assuming that the supplies from these sprig tio not
materially alter, no necessity can exist I'Jr storage reser-
voirs. A covered reservoir fur two days' supply alight
be provided at Wimbledorecommon to meet aiy exaa-
ordinary emergency; otherwise, a main wi:b a simple
waste-pipe into the Thames would suffice.
" Too much importance cannot be attached to a con-
stant flow of pure, cool, and soft water, Uroucht direct
without detention from the Hiniihrad to the at is of the
highest house in London. How Brat ful will be the
daily use of cool soft water only 24 hours Crean a natu-
ral reservcir in the depth of the earth!
" I consider I have realised, in a remarkable manner,
the board's enunciation—' the nearer the source the
purer the supply.' The whole value of the scheme ap-
pears to me to depend on the accurate following up of
this principle.
" On consideration of the original proposal, there is
only one more point I shall at present touch upon.
namely, the great and scarcely estimable benefits of
laud drainage, not only to the soil, hut to tao
tants of the district. From the rainfall, a depth IT: the
year of 22.65 inches (allowing seven to be absorbed),
there remains nearly 15 inches, or 1 529 tens of water
on every acre, impeding cultivation by diminishing the
temperature of the soil, by not allowing a proper circu-
lation of air in it, and by eausing a perpetual evapora-
tion, not only injurious to health in itself, but exces-
sively wasteful of the heat of the atmosphere, a loss
which in our damp climate is a very serious considera-
tion indeed, and it is only when the whole country shall
have been perfectly drained that this stigma of unne-
cessary and dangerous damp will be effaced from our
registers of temperature.
" Again, experience has satisfactorily shown (vide the
report on the water supply) that the low temperature of
undrained land is the chief cause of scanty and poor
crops, and inferior growth of timber. In an economical
point cf view it is most necessary, then, to remove this
noxious agency.

".Having giien the results of my observations in de-
tail, it may be now proper that I should state my opi-
nion of their variance as compared with the conclusions
enumerated in the report, which difference I attribute
to the limited investigation of the subject.
" Generally, in all points as applied to the quality of
wa'er, its advantages in economy, its beneficid influence
on health, &c., my experb-tuee not only distinctly con-
firms the views of the board, tut has elicited further

illustrations, in respt et to which I hope shortly to have
toe honour of addressing them. This information I have
collected from persons of el classes, medical men, manu-
ftwurers, farmers, tradesmen, peasants, &c., all of
whom, in their different spheres, hive given me valuable
evidence on the subject in question.
" The results of my experience are as follows:

" I. With respect to the quantity and quality of water
to be derived from the gathering gronn6, in whatever
method of collection.—

" The report gives 28,000 000 of and under three de-
gren of hardness.
" My results give 40,000,000 of and under one de-
gree, and 10,000,000 of and under two degrees of
hardness.

"'this improved quality is gained by my development
of the principle of taking- the water from its source
(that is, where it issues from pure sands), and leading
it away before it can be affected by contact with soils.

I beg to express my conviction that the rurity wilt
depend entirely on the careful execution of the work; it
would give, to reczpitulate its qualities, 40,000,000 of
water—

"Of rrimitive purity;
" Perfect as to aeratir ;
" Of a grateful temperature, about 50 dcgreee;
"Brilliant in colour;
" Soft almost is distilled water,
" And almost free from all roino.4l, and vege-
table impregcmion, sudicing, for the supply, ut the esii-
m,ste of 75 prr bou..e, of 523,126 houses,
The 10,000,600 of mud under 2 degrees of berdness
are deriv,...blo from sourc, S rising in sands not. quit, pule.
By the direct means of collection from sprirge,

„.
iuste.,d c,f the extensive syst,rn cf Is4nd drailutge, origi-
: ally cf,ll:emplated, wry contidErahle saving (.f cx; case
would b effected.

" 1. Io the lea.; quantity of pipage rF crire.l, akd, con-
scquently, cf lab ur exp, ncted.
‘• 2. Ou Cie item of the large extent of storage re-
servoirs, originally required to provide for summer
months, periods of drought, and which, by my plan,
would btu necessary.
3. On the reduced claims for compensation, especially
as no breadth of land would be rrquired to be taken up.
In fact, after collection, on descending into the lower
levels, the mains would Lad along and just outside the
lines of railway. A mere underground right of way--
a pipe-laying casement—would be r. quired.
" A resume of the above then gives, in favour of the
plan proposed,—
"I. Greater c,,rtainty supply.
" 11. Superior quality.
"111. Greater abundance.
"IV. Greater speed of execution of work and appli-
cation for service.

" V. Greater economy.
"Should the future exigencies of the metropolis rcquire
an increased supply, it may still be derived not only
from land drainage of rain-fall on the pure sands be-
neath the level of the sources now proposed, but also to a
great extent above them.
" In conclusion, I would remark that it might be con-
sidered desirable to allow the towns of Guildford, Rich-
mond,,&a., and the different villages en the line of
water supply to London, to partake of the advantages
proposed for that city. The first of these suffers severely
from hard and expensive water. Of course they would
have t pay their proportion (, f the rate to be levied to
meet the expense of the works, which I hope shortly to
be able to show a ill not, for an increased, continuous,
pure supply of soft water, at high pressure, exceed a
fraction of the SUM now levied by the water companies
for an impure, hard, and defective one.
" I have the honour to be, my Lords and Gentlemen,
" Yours obediently,
"WILLIAM NAPIER.

" The Gcteral Board of Health,
G wyd3 r-house, Whitehall."

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, Nov. 11.
Her Majesty, with his Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales, drove out th;s morning in a puny phaetJa
in Windsor Park. Colonel Buckley, Equerry in
Waiting, attended on horseback.
The younger members of the Royal Family took
their accustomed walking and pony exercises.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out
shooting this morning, attended by Colonel the ;on.
Charles Grey, Major-General Bowles, and Lieut.-
Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester,
attended by her Lady in Waiting, and the Gentleman
in Waiting on hergßoyal Highness (Lieut.-Cc lonel
the Hon. A. Liddell), is expected to arrive itt the
Castle to-day, on a visit to the Queen.
The Lord Chancellor and Lady Truro are also ex-
pected to arrive this evening on a visit to her Ma-
jesty and the Prince.

The Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
will include her Royal Highness the Lbuchess of Kent,
her Royal Highness the Duchesr., of Gloucester,
Lord Chancellor and Lady Tv..uro, Lady A ttgwts
Bruce, the Lady in Waiting ttf the Duchess of G-leu-
cester,Baroness.de Speth, and, Lieut.-Colonel the Hon.
A Liddell.

The Quen will hold v. Privy Council to:inorrow
(Wedne,day), at Windsr,r Castle.
A Cabinet Council 'way' held yesterday afternoon
at the Foreign-office. The Alioisters present were—
Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Alinto, Sir
George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey,
the Cnance'dor of the Exch,quer, Sir Francis Baring,
Sir John Hobhouse, the Eprl of Carlisle, the Right
lion. H. Labouchere, the Marquis of Clanricarde,
and the Right Hon. Fox .M:aule.
The Council sat three hi lurs and a-half.
The Lord Chancellor left town after the Cabinet.
Council for Windsor. Castle, 6n a visit to her Majesty.
A. deputation of the Committee of the Inventors'
Patent Reform League hsd an interview with Sir
George Grey yesterday, al. the Home-office. The
deputation consisted of Mr. F. W. Csmpin, Mr. V.
Price, Mr. G. Shepherd, Mr. Waller, Mr. Townley,
Mr. Mahin, and Mr. Ellis.

The Master-General of the Ordnance had an inter-
view with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his official
residence in Downing.street.
Dispatches from tne Governors of the West India
Colonies, and also from the! Governors of the North
American provinces, were received yesterday at the

The Observer, price sixl:ence, of Nov. 10, con-
tains Lord Mayor's Procession by land and water ; also the
Banquet at Guildhall, Speeches, :Bill of Fare, &c., 5 cols.
National Resistance to Papal Akgression, as shown in Lord
John Russell's Letter - Public Mee! irgs—Dr. Cmming's
Lecture—Bishop of Bath and Wells' Address—Bishop of
Exeter's Reply—Celebration of Gun[owder Plot Discovery—
Incidents, Aneck,:es, ctlier Examination for the
Strand Robbery—Holford Burglary—The Fritnlev Murder
—Discharge of Mr. Sirrell, tae refiner—Original Articles
on the state of Germany, and rumoured hostilities—The
Pope's Bull—New Play of the " Templar," at Princess's
Theatre.—Parochial and Vearr Meetings of St. James's—
Pancras Paving Board—Alaryiebone Vestry and Address to
the Queen---Islington Refol Assoencion, &c. A Monday
afternoon edition of the Obsc7 m?r, containing the markets
and the latest intelligence, is regularly published at four
o'clock.
The Manchester Guardian states that on Friday
night an ironmonger's shop in that town bad a mold.
destructionramark-
abliearegsecappeyrfurotemehnic,ealled a by "
wheel,
, a
xplosi:ocuntofo„ho i,e'reNkeoti kisn.
A
diametqr, had become ignited, and bad burnt entirely away.
el,
It had been placed upright bQtween two shelves. and Its
position was such that it could not turn round which was
a
moat fortunate, for it was sur-oundeci by a
large collection
of ockets and other fireworks, and had close to it, in a
drMver, 60Ibs. of gunpowder 1 All the parts of the wheel
successively er;ploded, sending forth a profusion of sparks,
but the whole died out without setting fire to any of the
dangerous cianbustinles lying around.
The Cheviots and other high grounds in the: mrtii
and nort,ti•west have this week been capped with. snow.
During several nights sharp frosts have prevailad tl irough-
on: the district, and the uortnern lights have ocy
been visible.

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NEW NOVEL BY MISS KAVANAGH.
In 3 vols, post Bro.,
NOTICE!-NATHALIE,
A TALE,
Ey PIMA KAVANAGH,
Author of " Woman in France," " Madeline," &c.,
IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

NEW NOVEL, by the Author of " EMILIA WYNDHAM."
Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 2 vole.,
E " " E A RNOL D,
By the Author of
" EMILIA WYNDHAM," " THE WILMINGTONS," &c.,
" We cordially recommend this admirable and beautiful story to
our readers. It is a healthy moral tale—truthftil and practical—told
in a most charming manner. In it we find all the graces which so
eminently adorn and recommend the author's preceding efforts.
There is the same kind' spirit animating every illustration, the same
benevolent purpose, the same truthfulness of delineation." —Weekly
Chronicle. -
Henry Colburn, Pablishe4lll3; Great Marlborough-street.

Ziow ready at i the Librartez, in 2 viols., post
08vo.,

A NOVEL.
"The author, we are convinced. is young, otherwise we could
hardly see displayed such fresh and enthusiastic sympathy in be-
half or his heroes and heroines. He is a ririter of genius, inspired
by a high standard of morality and religion, an 4 by a laudable love
cf the purest sort of fame. We gather this from the glowing lan-
guage in which he expresses his feelings, sentiments, and opinions
on the subjects just mentioned. There are several chapters, in
which links of the story are dropped, containing most eloquent essays

matters that are the prima imobilla of the actions which chn-
raeterisenature's nobility. The writer evidently belongs, though he
has marked per se peculiarities, to the school of the Disraelis, Man-
nerses, and Smythes."—Observer.

"` .ilwood' is no ordinary work ; it contains passages of exceed-
ing beauty, and is written in pure and forcible language, with great
good taste and power. It is one of the most interesting and en
gaging novels which the present season has produced. Of the cha-
racter of Amelia Ross we have already spoken, and the extract we
have given above is the surest voucher of the truth of what we have
said. The other ladies who play conspicuous parts in the tale are
Florence Howard, an intellectual beauty; Jessie Gcrdon, a wild and
impulsive genius, passionately fond of music and poetry; and Julia
Maitland, the noblest and best of them all."—Morning Post.

Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton,
THIS EVENING,

Will be performed an entirely new Comedy called VIE BUS
BAND OF MY HEAR'f. The Viscount de Belletulippe, Mr. C
Selby ; Brioche, Mr. Buckstone ; Eugenie, Mrs. Fitzwilliam.
To be followed by THE IRISH DIAMOND.
After which MY FRIEND IN THE STRAPS.
To conclude with MRS. WHITE. Peter White, Mr. 11. Bedford.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII.
Under the direction of Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed a Terpeichorlan Burlesque called ESMERALDA.
Characters by Messars. 0. Smith, Wright, P. Bedford ; Madame
Celeste, Miss Woolgar, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam.
After which a new Farce called TILE SCHOOL FOR TIGERS •
or, The Shilling Hop. Captain Kiteflyer, Mr. Boyce ; Major Stiff,
Mr. Worrell; Mr. Panels, Mr. Wright; Alexander Panels, Miss
Chaplin.

After which, MY PRECIOUS BETSY. Principal Characters by
Mess,r. W7",e11*.., Tedford, Worrell; and Miss Harding,
To conclude with THE MAIMIED BACHELOR.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEA'GRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of 3lr. C. Keilla and Mr. Keeley.
TIIIS EVENING,

Will be performed an entirely new Play called THE TEMPLAR.
To be followed by a new Farce, called PLATONIC ATTAt2H-
31ENT8, in which Mr. Keeley, Mr. A. Wigan, and Mrs. Keeley will
appear.

After which SENT TO THE TOWER.
Private Boxes, &c., to be had of all the Booksel:ers, and of Mr.
Massingham ; of whom also places may be taken at the Box-office,
Oxford-street, from Eleven till Four o'clock.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
THIS EVENING,
" Will. be performed PHILIP OF FRANCE AND MARIE
DE MERANIE. Characters by Messrs. G. V. Brooke, H. Farren,
Norton, W. Farren, jun., Johnstone, G. Cooke, Diddear ; Miss Helen
Faucit, and Mrs. L. alurray.
To be followed by A BACHELOR'S VOW.
After which ALLOW ME TO AI'OLOGISE.

ROYAL. LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Management of Madame Vestris. •
Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed MY HEART'S IDOL ; or, A Desperate Remedy,
in which Messrs. C. Mathews, O. Vining, Bellingham ; Madame Ves-
tris, Miss Kenworthy, and Miss I. Dickenson will appear.
After which SE 4tVE HIM RIGHP.
To conclude with THE ROMANCE OF THE ROSE.

AsTLIZY's ROYAL. AMPRITUEATIT.L.
Under th,) Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness
Prince Albert.
Proprietor ann idana;Nr, Mr. W. Batty.
THIS EVENING,
Tim Entertainments wi!l commence with a new and original
Spectacle, entitled TILE ENCHANTED PALFREY ; or, The War-
rior of ties Crescent.

o :.3ucc,,datt by an inlinita!)le Display of Batty's Feats 4.f
qultation in the Cirque Olympique, by the male and female Eques-
trians of the Establishment
To conclude with the F.irce of THE BENEVOLENT TAR.
Box-ollice open from Eleven till 'Four.
Stage Manager, Mr. T. Thompson.

ifiGti WATEit Al LONDON 13111DG*3.
Tara Dirr Morning 1 min. after 7 'Evening 34 niln. After 7
To-Ifonzow—Jforuing 14 min. after Si Evening 55 min. after 8

THE WEATBER.—Sux OFFICE, NOVEMBER 12.
THERMOIVIETER, IN THE SHADY..
53—highest sines noon yesterday.
43-loweA this morning and daring the night.
53—this day, at noon.
BAROMETER, 29.05.
WIND N.—tine sunshiny weather.