Trade and Commerce. EBK be Lieut-Col, by p, v Somerville, who retires; Capt FW Gore to be Maj, by p, v Sargent-10th Foot: H M Sproule, Gent, to be Ens, by p, v Snooke, promoted11th Foot: F Watson, Gent, to be Ens, by p, v Jordan, promoted: T Auchinleck, Metropolitan Cattle Market, MONDAY.-The arrival of cattle and be Ens, by p, v Horne, promoted-17th Foot: Maj F Yard, from h-p. 32nd Foot, Gent, to be Ens, by p, v Oliver, promoted-16th Foot: W A Woodward, Gent, to sheep into the port of London from the Continent during the past week has been to be Maj, Ruttledge, who exchanges: Capt and Brev-Maj R JR O'Conor to be large. The official Custom-honse return gives an entry of 1,330 oxen, 542 calves, Maj, by p, v Yard, who retires; Lieut A H Versturme, to be Capt, by p, v Bra6,246 sheep, 193 pigs, and 3 horses, making a total of 8,314 head, against 3,391 at bazon, promoted, by p, to an Unatt Majority; Ens and Adj A Ross to have the the corresponding period of last year, and 7,474 in 1857. The supplies of all kinds rank of Lieut; Ens Hamilton Burnett to be Lieut, by p. v Versturme, J Mash, of meat to-day were good in quantity and quality, and, in consequence of the Gent, to be Ens, by p, v Wedderburn, promoted-18th Foot: WH Herbert, Gent, colder state of the weather, the state of trade was better. Accounts from Ireland to be Ens, w p, v JF O'Reilly, deceased-20th-Lieut W D Nunn to be Capt, by state that during the late drought there had been many losses in cattle dying p, v Carden, who retires; Ens R Fraser to be Lient, by p, v Nunn-22nd Foot: from want of water. The supply of beef to-day consisted of 4,140 head of beasts, A G Fraser, Gent, to be Ens, by p, v Dillon, promoted-23rd Font: which sold well at from 3s. 4d. to 4s. 8d. per stone, or 2d. advance on the superior Lacon Gent, to be Ens, by p, v Molyneux, promoted-28th: N R Slator, Gent, quality. Mutton was firm, but not higher in price than last Thursday. The to be Ens, w p. v Humtrey, prom-47th: W S Dent, Gent, to be Ens, by p, v Boyd, choicer quality of lamb went at 5s. 10d., or 2d. under last Monday's price. The promoted-55th Foot: Lient F F W T Hobbs to be Capt, by p, v England, probest quality of veal made 2d. per stone more money. Pork was cheaper, and not moted; Ens HW D Riley to be Lient, by p, v Hobbs-58th Foot: Lient W D so ready a sale. Bond to be Capt, w p, v Brev-Maj H Reynolds, deceased; Ens G Onslow to be THURSDAY.-The trade to-day was a shade better for everything than on last Lieut, w p, Bond-69th Foot: F Knight, Gent, to be Ens, by p, v Dyke, proThursday. The supplies were less, and the weather not so close and hot. The moted-79th Foot: A Hume, Gent, to be Ens, by p, v Clay, promoted-80th Foot: consequence was that the butchers purchased more freely, and firm rates pre- Maj R Hawkes to be Lieut-Col, w p, v Brev-Col G Hutchison, deceased: Capt E vailed. Hardinge to be Maj, w p, v Hawkes; Lieut George Sullivan to be Capt, w p. ▾ Hardinge; Ens D Beaumont to be Lieut, w p, v Sullivan; Ens JH Green, from 89th Foot, to be Ens, v Beaumont; PJ Cowan, Gent, to be Ens, by p, v Lee, appointed Quartermaster, Depot Battalion-87th Foot: C S Dicken, Gent, to be Ens, by p, v Throckmorton, promoted-89th Foot: C W Burton, Gent, to be Ens, w p, v Green, appointed to the 80th Foot-91st Foot: T G Elrington, Gent, to be Ens, w p, v Baillie, promoted-94th Foot: JJ Blake, Gent, to be Ens, by p, v Hall, promoted; J Browne, Gent, to be Ens, by p, v Godfrey, promoted-96th Foot: FJ Josselyn, Gent, to be Ens, by p, Aytoun, promoted; J H Strong, Gent, to be Ens, by p, v Houghton, promoted-99th Foot: Cornet G W V Cotton, from the 5th Light Dragns, to be Ens, v Sayce, promoted. Prices per Stone. At Market. Bank Stock 221-223 ... India Stock 220-222 28-31pm India Bonds dis Ditto New Loan 104-105 67 From the list of Messrs Holderness, Fowler, and Co., Stock and Share Brokers of tinued dry with a much cooler atmosphere. Our accounts received this morning SHARES OF £ 11. 6 3 Blackwall £ ... Stock Brighton ... 100 63 Stock 100 109 111 97 99 Stock Chester and Holyhead Stock Eastern Counties Stock Great Northern 100 Stock Great Southern and Western (Ireland) | 100 102 104 Stock Great Western ... 105 107 Stock 59 Lancashire and Yorkshire 60 Stock London and North Western 954 Stock London and South Western ... 100 Stock Midland ... Stock 104 Norfolk 100 60 Stock Stock Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 13# 100 31 South Eastern 73 Stock South Wales 62 Stock North Eastern, Berwick Stock 93 North Eastern, York ... 931 211 271 21 110 90 371 35 54 21 221 Oats, English Scotch . Per qr. 248 268 Peas, English 24s 285 -8-5 Tares 26s 30s Flour, English per sack 29s 46× Into London from July 21, 1859, to July 28, 1859, both inclusive. 81 32 Phoenix Do. ... 50 United General Do. ... All 19 50 All 59 Peninsular and Oriental Grand Junction Water Works Westminster Chartered Do. INSURANCES. Guardian 253 xd 72 xd 109 123 -12! 74 xd 81 -xx 83 61 100 xd 100 Globe 100 47. 5 500 Imperial Fire ... 50 100 Ditto Life Adit, vice J O'Neill, promoted, wp, to an Unattached company. Commissariat Department-Deputy Assistant-Commissary-General J M M Gaudet having completed the required service as Acting Assistant CommissaryGeneral on the Western Coast of Africa, to be confirmed in the rank of AssistantCommissary-General; Commissariat Clerk W H Newland having completed the required service as Acting Deputy Assistant Commissary-General on the Western Coast of Africa, to be confirmed in the rank of Deputy Assistant-CommissaryGeneral; Assistant-Commissary-General J W Woodley, upon h-p, has been allowed to retire from the Service, receiving a commutation of his commission. Hospital Staff-Surg-Maj T Hunter, M D. who retires on h-p, to have the honorery rank of Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals in accordance with the Royal Warrant of 1st October, 1858; Staff-Surg H Mapleton, MD, having completed twenty years' full-pay service, to be Surgeon-Major under the Royal Warrant of October, 1858. Chaplain's Department-The Commission of the Rev C Green, MA, as Chaplain to the Forces, of the Third Class, to bear date the 1st February 1856, instead of the 1st February, 1842, as stated in the Gazette of the 25th March, 1859; the Commission of the Rev J T Twining, DD, as Chaplain of the Third Class, to bear date the 1st April, 1856, and not the 1st April, 1842, as stated in the Gazette of the 8th March, 1859. BREVET.-Capt and Brev-Maj NO S Turner, of the RI Artillery, to be Lt-Col in the Army. The undermentioned promotions to take place consequent upon the death of Gen C Murray, Earl Cathcart, G C B, Col of 1st Dragn Guards, on 16th July, 1859:-Lieut-Gen Sir R J Harvey, C B, Col of 2nd West India Reg, to be Gen; Maj-Gen W Chamberlayne, Lieut-Col upon hp Unatt, to have the rank of Lient-Gen; Maj-Gen J Taylor, Col of 59th Foot, to be Lieut-Gen; Brev-Col R Law, of the Royal Newfoundland Companies, to be Maj-Gen; Brev-Lient-Col, J Roche, Capt, h-p Unatt, to be Col. Lieut-Col J Brind, C B, Bengal Artillery to be Colonel. To be Lieutenant-Colonels: Majors D Hodson, 3rd Madras European Reg: J L Barrow. Madras Artillery; J D Mein, Madras Artillery: G Carr, 16th Madras Native Inf; W Middleton, 17th Madras Native Inf; J L Vaughan, 21st Bengal Native Infantry; H Hammond, Bengal Artillery; L Barrow, CB, 5th Madras Cavalry; H Bruce, C B, 2nd Bombay European Light Infantry; TA Carey, 17th Bengal Native Infantry; H Le Geyt Bruce, Bengal Artillery; W T Hughes, 48th Bengal Native Infantry; C A Barwell, 71st Bengal Native Infantry; S J Browne, 46th Bengal Native Infantry; C Cureton, 38th Bengal Native Infantry; R Cadell, Madras Artillery. To be Majors: Capts FT Wroughton, 6th Bengal European Reg; F N Edmonstone, 3rd Bengal European Cavalry; C Dysart, 3rd Madras European Reg; A C Plowden, 50th Bengal Native Infantry; W Murray, 46th Madras Infantry; C H Harrison, Madras Artillery; J A Steel, 17th Bengal Native Infantry; C P Lane, 3rd Bengal European Light Cavalry; D McNeill Bengal Artillery; CW Miles, 23rd Bengal Native Infantry; M J Brander, 40th Bengal Native Infantry; RH Sankey, Madras Engineers; A Howlett, 27th Madras Native Infantry; G J Condy, 27th Madras Native Infantry; R Patton, 3rd Bengal European Reg; R Ouseley, 34th Bengal Native Infantry; L B Jones, 56th Bengal Native Infantry; H B Stevens. 41st Bengal Native Infantry; J M MacGregor, 6th Madras Cavalry; A S Smith, 24th Bengal Native Infantry; T Wheler, 1st Bengal Fusiliers: H Francis, Bengal Artillery; C Warde, 68th Bengal Native Infantry; HAY MARKET. Per load of 36 trusses: Hay, £3 0s. to £4 15s.; Clover, J F Stafford, 4th Bengal Native Infantry; E Clerk, 4th Madras Cavalry: G £4 0s. to £5 10s.; Straw, £1 6s. to £1 128. Bankruptcy Annulled.-Mary and W W Todd, Newry, county Armagh, Ireland, merchants. Bankrupts.-J Moon, West India-road, Poplar, Middlesex, optician. [R Bastard, Philpot lane.-W L Wood, Hertford, grocer. [Cutler, Bell yard, Doctor's Cliffords inn, Fleet street.-J Wohlquast, Oxford street, Middlesex, cigar dealer. commons.-J Ward, Queen street, Pimlico, Middlesex, glass dealer. [J Weymouth, W Nicholson, Lime street, London.-F Tapley, Arbor terrace, Commercial road east, Middlesex, draper. [Sole and Co., Adlermanbury, City.-W Richards, and Co, Kennington cross, Surrey.-H Hobbs and G Tilley, Cambridge street. Old of the Lansdown Arms, Islington, Middlesex, licensed victualler. [Shaen Saint Pancras road, Middlesex, brickmakers. [Plews and Co., Old Jewry chambers, City.-F Orgill, Loughborough, Leicestershire, malster. worth and Co., Nottingham.-J Harris, Highweek, Devonshire, coalmerchant. [J Stogden, Exeter. J M Pearson, Coatham, near Redcar, Yorkshire, Builder. (G and GT Allison, Darlington.-W Lancaster, Bury, Lancashire, coal merchant. R Darlington, Wigan.-CJ Goodwin, Hulme, Manchester, Lancashire, tavern keeper. [R Whall, Chesterfield. [Wads Bankrupts.-G Parslow, Old street, St Luke's, timber merchant. [Juckes, Friday, July 29. Births.-On the 22nd, at Nettleworth Hall, Nottinghamshire, the wife of Lieut.-Col. Fitz Herbert, of a daughter-On the 26th, at 52 Chester square, the crescent, the wife of Colonel Willoughby, C.B., of a daughter-On the 26th, at 21 Lowndes square, the Marchioness of Winchester, of a daughter. Marriages.-On the 27th, R. H. Ogilby, Esq., to the Hon. Olivia Kinnaird, daughter of Lord Kinnaird-On the 18th, E. D. Kortright, Esq., of Hylands, Essex, to Isabella, second daughter of the late T. F. Best, Esq.-On the 19th, D. W. Prowse, Esq., to Sarah, only daughter of the late G. Farrar, Esq., of West Royd, Sowerby-On the 26th, W. M. Sanctuary, Esq., to Mary, eldest daughter of Capt. H. Harvey, R.N. War-Office, Pallmall, July 29, 1859.-7th Regiment of Dragoon Guards: THE MONTPELIER OF ENGLAND. SOUTH-EAST COAST. PARENTS in search of health, domestic comfort and attention, and the very best intellectual culture for their Sons, will do well to place them with a University man of high standing in a charming Kentish village. A prospectus will be forwarded by return post on application to the Principal, Lyme House, Eythorne, Sandwich, Kent. FRANCAIR, Mensts J. L. Toole, C. Selby, Billington; Misses CRYSTAL Kelly and Arden. Mr Webster's Annual Benefit, Saturday, August 6th. On Monday, August 8th, revival of the Adelphi Drama of THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. Doors open at Half-past Six; commence at Seven. Boxoffice open from Ten to Five. Acting Manager, Mr W. SMITH. On SATURDAY, August 6th, the ANNUAL BENEFIT of Mr BENJAMIN WEBSTER, Proprietor and Manager, on which occasion he will appear, for that night only, in a new Drama. The other entertainments will be AN OLD OF. FENDER, and THE BABES IN THE WOOD. NEW ADELPHI THEATRE. Boxes and places may be secured, without fee, at the Boxoffice, daily, from Ten till Five. PALACE.-MR MANNS' BENEFIT. A Grand VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL Instrumentalists:-Miss Arabella Goddard, Pianoforte ; The Crystal Palace Band will be considerably augmented for A Military Band will perform in the grounds after the Open at 10, Concert at 3. Admission, Half-a-Crown; Children HE APPROACHING GREAT OYER of URNITURE.-Where to Buy, what FURNITURE.Where GUIDES, with all Explanations, and Illustrated by 300 Engravings, to be had, post free, of P. and S. BEYFUS, City Furniture Warehouses, 91, 93, and 95, City road. Goods delivered free to any part of the kingdom, and exchanged if not approved. Inspection invited. Note the £15 Rosewood or Walnut Drawing-room Suits, covered in velvet. Brussels Carpeta 2s. 31d. per yard. RESSING CASES, DRESSING BAGS, PURSES, POCKET BOOKS, and Fancy Leather Goods of every description. Joseph Rodgers and Sons' Celebrated Cutlery. Wedgwood and Son, Manufacturers, 9 Corahill, E. C. opposite the Bank of England. Illustrated Catalogues post free. MORTLOCK'S, Oxford street, near Hyde Rose, &c. at the lowest price for cash.-250 Oxford street, near MESSRS OSLER, 45 Oxford street, Lon don, W., beg to announce that their NEW GALLERY (adjoining their late premises), recently erected from the designs of Mr Owen Jones, is NOW OPEN, and will be found to contain a more extensive assortment of GLASS CHANDELIERS, Table and Ornamental Glass, &c., than their hitherto limited space has enabled them to exhibit. OPPOSITE WATERLOO BRIDGE LIM BIRD'S, 344 STRAND, W.C. MR JAMES ROBINSON, DENTIST, Bedford square, London, where he may be consulted daily from ten to four. 5 Gower street, Bedford square. TOURISTS AND TRAVELLERS of dust will find ROWLANDS' KALYDOR a most refreshing preparation for the Complexion, dispelling the The heat of Summer also frequently communicates a dryness to the Hair, and a tendency to fall off, which may be completely obviated by the use of a delightfully fragrant and transparent preparation for the Hair, OPERA, Hayre, Nada (late Feuillade's). and as an invigorator and beautifier beyond all precedent. ROWLANDS' ODONTO, or Pearl Dentifrice, a White Powder, compounded of the rarest and most fragrant BREIDENBACH'S PERFUMERY. THIS WELL-KNOWN HOTEL, in immediate proximity CONCENTRATED ESSENCE, GENUINE by Steam to India, Australia, &e. Na FerPA-The PEN price 2s. 6d. WOOD VIOLET SACHET, price 1s. 6d. Invested Capital exceeding £2,000,000 sterling. The rates are considerably below those usually charged. Thus ACCIDENTS of DAILY OCCUR- obtained possessing the manifold virtues of OLDRIDGE'S BALM of COLUMBIA. If applied to the roots and body of the hair, it imparts the most delightful coolness, with an agreeable fragrance of perfume. It also at this period of the season prevents the hair from falling off, or if already too thin or turning grey, will stop its further progress, and soon restore it again. Those who really desire to have beautiful hair, either with wave or curl, should use it daily. It is also celebrated for strengthening the hair, freeing it from scurf, and producing new hair, whiskers, and moustache. Established upwards of thirty years. No imitative wash can equal it. Price 38., 68. 6d., and 118. only.-C. and A. Oldridge, 13 Wellington street North, Strand, W. C. City. The business of the Company embraces every description SELTZER or most agreeable, effervescing, tasteless Aperient morning draught, and are acknowledged by every one who try them to be infinitely superior in every respect to any Seidlitz Powders, effervescing more briskly, are quite tasteless, are painless in operation, and effective in result. Mixed as suggested in the directions, even children take them with a relish. Sold in 2s. 6d. boxes, by Hooper, Chemist, London-bridge; also by Sanger, 150 Oxford Street, and on order by all Druggists through the London wholesale houses. TRADE B/P MARK. SUMMER DIET. BROWN AND POLSON'S PATENT CORN FLOUR. NOTICE of DIVIDEND. - BANK of MANUFACTURED SOLELY BY R. and J. SLACK. DEPOSIT (Established A.D. 1844) No. 3 Pallmall East, This is superior to any thing of the kind Genoes in October. known-Lancet. Obtain it from Family Grocers, or HAIR DYES ABOLISULEUR REGENERATOR, Chemists, who do not institute in tri op aferred to the best HAIR.-The wholesome of Indian Corn, it is Arrow Root; for Breakfast boiled simply with milk: Dinner or Supper, in Puddings, warm or cold, Blancmange Cake, &o. and especially suited to the delicacy of Children and Invalids: by-Packets, 16oz. 84 :-Paisley. acting upon the bulbs of the hair, stimulates the dormant colouring fluid, causes it to ascend its tubes, and in a few weeks completely restores the hair to its original colour. No failures or disappointments.-In bottles, 7s. 6d. 12s. 6d. and 21s, each, CHARLES BOND, Perfumer, 239 Oxford street, W. WINTER'S PILUS REDIVIVUS restores the hair in cases of sudden baldness or bald patches where no visible signs of roots exist. Frequently one or more bald patches make their appearance in the hair, and if neglected spread over the head, causing entire and permanent baldness; but by the use of the above the hair is restored and becomes as strong as on any other part of the head. Discovered and made only by Wm. Winter, 205 Oxford street, near Portman square. W. Price 58. 6d.-Established 30 years. WINTER'S LIQUID HAIR DYE W. Wu's matural and permanent colours, from the lightest brown to black, without any green, purple, red, or other extraordinary tints, unpleasant odour, or the least injury to the hair or skin, leaving the hair softer and more glossy than before the dye was applied. Invented and made only by Wm. Winter, 205 Oxford street, near Portman square, London, W. in cases at 5s. 6d., 10s. 6d., and 21s.-Established 30 years. OMNIBUS.-By the invention THE OMNIBUS, Hay, all the wondenton 77A Market street, Manchester; Dublin; and 23 Ironmonger lane, London. DR. H. JAMES, the retired Physician, Consumption, Asthma, Bronchitis, Coughs, Colds, and General Debility. The remedy was discovered by him when his only child, a daughter, was given up to die. His child was cured, and is now alive and well. Desirous of benefiting his fellow creatures, he will send, post free, to those who wish it, the recipe, containing full directions for making and successfully using this remedy, on their remitting him six stamps.-Address O. P. Brown, 14 Cecil street, Strand. RUPTURES.-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS is most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. A descriptive circular may be had, and the Truss (which can- Electro- with Pattern. Pattern. Shell. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 12 Table Forks ..... 1 10 0 1 18 0 100 1 10 0 12 Table Spoons 1 10 0 118 0 R 100 1 10 0 H E 1 Mustard Spoon... 016 016 6 Egg Spoons 1 Gravy Spoon UY'S HOSPITAL.-The Medical Session Surgeons-Edward Cock, Esq.; John Hilton, Esq. F.R.S.; John Assistant Surgeons-Alfred Poland, Esq.; Cooper Forster, Esq.; Obstetric Physician-Henry Oldham, M.D. LECTURERS.-WINTER SESSION. Experimental Philosophy-Mr Durham. 1 Soup Ladle 1 Fish Knife..... 1 Butter Knife... 2 Sauce Ladles 0 10 0 0 18 6 018 6 011 0 060 046 070 050 11 5 9 14 3 3 17 56 As the limits of an advertisement will not allow of a detailed list, purchasers are requested to send for their catalogue, with drawings and prices of Electro Plate, Warranted Table Cutlery, Furnishing Ironmongery, &o. May be had gratis, or post-free. RICHARD and JOHN SLACK, 336 Strand, opposite Somerset House. Establishe Fifty years. Gentlemen desirous of becoming Students must give satisfac- Dressers, Clinical Clerks, Ward Clerks, Obstetric Residents, THE PERFECT SUBSTITUTE SILVER. The REAL NICKEL SILVER, introduced more than 20 The Omnibus, however, is not such of ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE CAPS, &c. be awarded at the close of each Summer Session, for general coach, and with what cheapness, and to how much social -For VARICOSE VEINS, and all cases of WEAKNESS and SWELLING of the LEGS, SPRAINS, &c. They are por ous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking Price, from 7s. 6d. to 16s. each; postage 6d. JOHN WHITE, MANUFACTURER, 228 PICCADILLY, LONDON ETCALFE, BINGLEY, and CO.'s New bleached Hair Brushes, Improved Flesh and Cloth Brushes, and genuine Smyrna Sponges; and every description of Brush, Comb, and Perfumery for the Toilet. The TOOTH BRUSHES search thoroughly between the divisions of the Teeth, and clean them most effectually,-the hairs never come loose. M., B., and Co. are sole makers of the Oatmeal and Camphor and Orris Root Soaps, sold in tablets (bearing their names and address) at 6d. each; of Metcalfe's celebrated Alkaline Tooth Powder, 2s, per box. Sole Establishment, 130B and 131 Oxford street, 2nd and 3rd doors west from Holles street, London. Two Gold Medals will be given by the Treasurer-One for Medicine and One for Surgery. 12 Tea Spoons.... 6 Egg Spoons, gilt King's Military 12 Dessert Spoons. 1 15 0 220 210 0 2 Sauce Ladles. 1 Gravy Spoon 2 Salt Spoons, gilt A Voluntary Examination will take place at entran ce, in Incorporated by Royal Charter. Students in the Junior department of Medicine are prepared For further information and Prospectuses, application may be made to the Dean of the Faculty; or to Dr BOND, Hon. Sec. to the Medical Faculty, Queen's College, 1 Mustard Spoon, gilt 1 Pair of SugarTongs 1 Pair of Fish Carvers 1 Butter Knife. 1 Soup Ladle.... 1 Sugar Sifter Total........ 1 4 0 026 039 1 7 6 Any article to be had singly at the same prices. An oak CUTLERY, WARRANTED. The most varied Assortment of TABLE CUTLERY in the world, all warranted, is on SALE at WILLIAM S. BURTON'S, at prices that are remunerative only because of the largeness of the sales. 31-inch ivory-handled table knives, with high shoulders, 12s. 6d. per dozen; desserts to match, 10s.; if to balance, 6d. per dozen extra; carvers, 4s. 3d. per pair; larger sizes, from 20s. to 27s. 6d. per dozen; extra fine ivory, 33s.; if with silver ferrules, 40s. to 50s.; white bone table knives, 6s. per dozen; desserts, 5s.; carvers, 28. 3d. per pair; black horn table knives, 7s. 4d. per dozen; desserts, 6s.; carvers, 2s. 6d. ; black wood handled table knives and forks, 6s. per dozen; table steels, from 1s, each. The largest stock in existence of plated dessert knives and forks, in cases and otherwise, and of the new plated fish carvers. FURNISHING IRONMONGERY CATALOGUE may be had gratis, and free by post. It contains upwards of 400 Illustrations of his illimited Stock of Electro and Sheffield Plate, Nickel Silver, and Britannia Metal goods, Dish Covers and Hot Water Dishes, Stoves, Fenders, Marble Chimneypieces, Kitchen Ranges, Lamps, Gaseliers, Tea Uras and Kettles, Tea Trays, Clocks, Table Cutlery, Baths and Toilet Ware, Turnery, Iron and Brass Bedsteads, Bedding, Bed Hangings, &c. with Lists of Prices, and Plans of the Sixteen large Show Rooms, at 39 Oxford street, W.; 1, 14, 2, and 3 Newman street; and 4, 5, Established 1820. and 6 Perry's place, London. A New and Revised Edition, containing instructions on Routes, Hotels, Restaurateurs, Public Conveyances, Police Regulations, Tables of French Money and Measures, a short History of Paris, its Government, Public Buildings, Ecclesias tical Edifices, Curiosities, Places of Public Amusement, Environs of Paris, &c., &c., with Plans of Paris, its Environs, and a Frontispiece. Price 3s. 6d. "This is better than Galignani's well known Guide, because it is handier and cheaper, without sacrificing anything that can be of use to the traveller."-Critic. "A workmanlike affair."-Spectator. CHANNEL ISLANDS. A New Guide to Jersey, Guernsey, Sark, Herm, Jethou, and Alderney, with Notes on their History, Geology, Climate, Agriculture, Laws, &c., by F. F. DALLY, Esq., of Guernsey, with a General Map. Price 3s. 6d. This is the best guide we have seen."-Spectator. "A good guide for visitors."-Guernsey Comet. CATHEDRALS OF ENGLAND AND WALES. A Guide to the Cathedrals of England and Wales, with their History, Architecture, and Traditions; Notices of their eminent Ecclesiastics, and the Monuments of their Illustrious Dead; and short Notes of the Objects of Interest in each Cathedral City. By Rev. MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A. Price 29. Od. A cheap and portable Cathedral Guide; terse, clear, and faithful: based on good and recent authorities."-Athenæum. "A comprehensive and handy little manual, and one which was much wanted."-English Churchman. "Singularly free from errors."-Guardian. Preparing for Publication, uniform with the above, THE SOUTH COAST OF From the Reculvers to the Land's End, including all the infor- London: Edward Stanford, 6 Charing cross, S.W. SECOND-HAND HARMONIUM S. CRAMER, BEALE, and CO. Have a stock of various descriptions. 201 Regent street. AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT, AND OF ITS SYSTEMATIC PERSECUTIONS BLACKWOOD'S OF PROTESTANTS. MAGAZINE, for AUGUST 1859. No. DXXVI, Price 2s. 6d. London Exhibitions-Conflict of the Schools. The Master of Sinclair's Narrative of the '15. The Peace-What is it? [Next week. ORDEAL OF RICHARD FEVERELL: A HISTORY OF FATHER AND SON. In 3 vols. MR WALTER WHITE'S NEW BOOK OF HOME TRAVEL. NORTHUMBERLAND AND THE BORDER. MISCELLANY. Price HALF-A-CROWN. CONTENTS FOR AUGUST. No. CCLXXII. I. Abroad and at Home. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Recently published- INLAND REVENUE. Third Report of H.M. Commissioners on Inland Revenue. 70pp. royal 8vo. Price 5d. CUSTOMS. Third Report of Commissioners of H.M. Customs on the Customs. 92pp. royal 8vo. Price 6d. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. Fourth Report of H.M. Commissioners, containing Correspondence and Statistics relative to the Examination for Civil Service in India and Home Service, with Lithographic Specimens of Handwriting, &c., &c. 400pp. royal 8vo. Price 38. II. The Bar and the Bush; or, Coming Home for a Wife. of Council on Education for 1858-9, containing Report of By Ouida. In Five Chapters. III. 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If the works at Portland be as urgently requisite as relative purity of constituencies, candidates, or parties. represented for the national safety, is it wise to postpone Suppose in our criminal courts the same beautiful confusion If might give a short hint to an impartial writer It would be to tell him his fate their completion for twenty years because before the expira- to prevail which reigns in election committees, suppose If he resolved to venture upon the dangerous precipice of telling unbiassed truth tion of that period some new means of attack or defence there was no such thing as any fixed principle of applying tells the crimes of great men they fall upon him with the iron hands of the may be discovered. If we have an enemy near, waiting for law, or construing statutes, that there were no precedents, law; if he tells them of virtues, when they have any, then the mob attacks him an opportunity of attacking us, will he not pick his quarrel nor any common body of rules and authorities to regulate and then he may go on fearless; and this is the course I take myself.-D FOR with us before we are prepared with our tardy defences. the sentences of the judges,-nay more, that the moral The Times truly remarks that science is changing, and character of actions themselves was unsettled, that the same asks on what principle we are to fortify; we are for- act might be criminal at Leeds and innocent in Lontifying on a principle good or bad (more likely to be bad don; suppose, moreover, that the courts themselves, besido The Times objects to Mr Horsman's proposal to devote a than good), but not completing our fortifications such as being constituted without the slightest regard to the compefund specially to the immediate completion of the national they may be, and while they are unfinished, we might be tency of the judges, were as fluctuating as their proceedings, defences, that it would encourage extravagance and jobbery. better without them if there be really any danger of wanting the composition of the bench never the same in two cases, It seems to us that it would have a contrary effect, and that -who would undertake to draw any conclusion as to the No doubt many useless works have been undertaken, but distribution of public morality from the judicial statistics of the present system is peculiarly favourable to the two vices that error would not in our opinion have been committed to a system such as this? And yet the comparison does not against which our contemporary would guard. In public anything like the same extent if Mr Horsman's project of in the least exaggerate the absurdities, uncertainties, inconas well as in private life the most successful temptation to paying for works in full and for immediate execution had gruities, and iniquities inherent in the machinery of elec imprudence is the offer of payment by instalments. A been acted upon, for the largeness of demands provokes tion committees. There cannot be a better summary or high price is asked for an article; "I cannot afford it," is the scrutiny into the value or necessity of the thing proposed. exposure of them than we find in the following extract from reply."Oh, you need not pay for it all at once," is the A considerable part of the expenditure for the navy is for a recent article in the Daily News. cunning rejoinder; "you shall settle the matter by small large docks for the huge ships which have lately been the "instalments, which will come easy." This is the most fashion, and by the time these works are finished it will be beaten path of extravagance, and people out of number have found that small vessels with speed and a heavy armament found in it their first stage on the road to ruin. are more effective than line-of-battle ships. All naval authorities agree upon this point, but, nevertheless, vast basins are in process of construction, and ships of the first class still on the stocks. If Parliament had been asked to pay down at once the sums necessary for the completion of the works at Dover, Alderney, and several other places, the plans would have been examined with a care bearing some proportion to the weight of the demand for them, and pretty confident we are that the two named would have been rejected. But there is not the same critical spirit and jealousy when the cost spread over years is of no startling amount in the current votes. And the objection to this system goes beyond that of a wasteful expenditure for unnecessary works. When defences are really wanting it postpones the completion of them to a distant period, leaving the country meanwhile exposed to danger in the event of war. Mr Horsman makes this startling statement upon official authority: THE AUSTRIAN MYSTERY. place in certain Committee Rooms of the House of Commons, of the We are once more reminded, by the proceedings that have taken strange anomaly of our system of trying controverted elections. If redress for wrong and vindication of right, then assuredly none was the first requisite of public justice be the dispensation of equal ever more wanting in the primary condition of justice. Not only is there no certainty that the same measure of equity will be dealt out under similar circumstances to any two individuals, but there is not so much as the semblance of reason for expecting that it will. Nobody expects it; nobody pretends to expect it; nobody would be believed if he said he expected it .Neither the composition of the tribunal, nor the mode in which its functions are administered, is calculated to encourage any illusion of the kind. If the same judges tried succes It has been broadly, and as we think very unfairly insinu-sive suits for the recovery of seats in Parliament, though their proated, that at the Villafranca interview the French Emperor ceedings were ever so untechnical and informal, there would to a tricked the Austrian Emperor into the belief that his natural greater or less extent grow up a set of traditions, by observing and allies, the neutral Powers, contemplated worse terms for comparing which some reasonable surmise might be formed of the him than France was disposed to exact. fate of a given case, because some standard, however imperfect, that Napoleon III showed despatches to this effect, which absolute and irresponsible. Scope for evasion of precedents and the It is pretended would thereby be applicable to the consistency of judges, however alarmed Francis Joseph, making it appear that his open drawing of nice distinctions there would still be; but there would at enemy was after all his best friend, and that it was the safest all events be some test of right to invoke in the memory of the The first work he found was that of Devonport. The cost of these fortifications was estimated at 457,5007.; and the sum voted this course to accept his conditions. Now, how is this to be tribunal, and there would be its sense of shame. But one set of men cannot be reminded with the same cogency of another set of men's year was 86,000. This was one of the most necessary and urgent reconciled with the Austrian Emperor's own statement decisions; and whatever indecency there may be there can be no works that had been undertaken, but according to the present rate of that he entered into direct negotiations with the French shame in the disregard of them. Election Committees have literally payment it would take four years to complete it. The next place Emperor, expressly because the terms proposed by bis nothing in common one with another. The members who constitute was Dover. The estimated cost of the fortifications here was No. 1 are actually made ineligible to try No. 2 or No. 3. In the 311,000l. There had been already voted 138,0007., and the vote this natural allies were harder than those to be had from his enemy? course of a heavy session the chairman of one committee may possibly year was 26,000. To complete these fortifications would take a Here was a foregone conclusion. Napoleon may or may be called upon to preside over the deliberations of another; but this period of seven years. Alderney was next on the list. The esti- not have done something to strengthen the conviction in his is the exception, not the rule; and with regard to the other members, mated cost was 200,000l.; last year 15,000%. was voted, leaving Imperial brother's mind, but certainly it did not originate not each committee of five holds itself free, and in point of fact is so, nothing of the sort can ever possibly occur. The practical result is, 185,000%. still to be granted. To complete these works would take with any communication made by him. no less than twelve years. Then there was Pembroke, with the sea Whence came it, to decide for itself according to its specific dulness or acuteness, defences of Milford Haven. The estimated sum for the works was then? Prussia denies that it was her doing, so do Eng-fairness or factiousness, private leaning or public spirit, the sort of 190,000. There had been voted 25,000% this year; 165,000l. still land and Russia. Is Francis Joseph a dreamer, or a remained to be voted, and it would take six or seven years to com- diviner? plete the works. Portsmouth works were estimated at 300,000%.; evidence it will receive, the mode in which it will receive it, the legal presumptions to be deduced therefrom, and, in a word, what is right and what is wrong in the matter it is empannelled to try. Assuredly the like of this never was tolerated in any free and civilised country since the world was made, except our own. this year 65,000l. was voted, and it would take three-and-a-half Of course we are bound to believe that he is truthful, but years to finish the undertaking. The Hilsea Lines were estimated he stands in the awkward predicament of making a charge at 135,000l. A sum of 65,000l. had been voted this year, and three- which is denied by all the Powers implicated. It is for and-a-half years would be required to complete the works. The him, for the sake of his own character, to clear up this mys- parties upon the judgments of such courts as these To found any inference as to the relative purity of Southsea line was put down at 30,000l. in a supplementary esti- tery, and declare from what document or diplomatic com- is the height of absurdity. Mr Roebuck exults in the mate; 3,000%. had been voted, and it would take nine years to complete the works. The Stokes Bay line was estimated in a supple- munication he learnt that his natural allies contemplated decisions adverse to the Liberals, never pausing to reflect mentary estimate at 20,000. They had voted 7,0007., and it would worse terms for him than could be obtained from the that the results would have been exactly opposite, had take six years more to finish the undertaking. But the most extra- French Emperor; and this fact, be it observed, was in his the views of the Ashburton Committee been acted on. ordinary case was that of Portland. They all remembered how the possession before the Villafranca negotiation, to which, in- We cannot let that remarkable case pass without a few Secretary for War spoke of the importance of Portland. His statement regarding it was that it was one of the finest harbours in deed, it directly led. the world, but that it was utterly defenceless; that if an enemy were to take possession of the island we should have great difficulty in dislodging him,-that the works required could be executed very economically, but that when completed the defences would be so strong as to make it impossible that Portland should ever fall into observations. The Conservatives may well retain their seats, if a candidate may owe his return to such deeds as were done at Ashburton, and yet the persons doing them THE ELECTION COMMITTEES. are not to be held his agents. The ill-luck of the unseated The decisions in a majority of the cases which have Liberals is clear at all events, in not having had either the the hands of an enemy. Now, everybody knew that that was a very already been heard being adverse to the Liberal party, Mr same judges to try their cases that Mr Astell had, or if not fair statement, but what must be the feeling of the Minister who made that statement when he reflected that, according to the rate of Roebuck, with his characteristic ingenuousness, appeals to the same inen, at least the same principles. If Mr Whitthe vote taken this year, twenty-one years would be required to com- the result as an irrefragable evidence of the superior purity way and Mr Tozer were not Mr Astell's agents, it ought in plete the works at Portland? of his new friends; nor does he scruple to pronounce it future to be laid down that to prove one man agent for The Times very reasonably thinks it possible to expend proved that at this moment the majority on the Govern- another, the written instrument should be produced formally five millions of the public money, through the agency of our ment side of the House was obtained by corrupt practices. creating the agency. If ever there was an agency to be present military departments, without deriving any tangible He would remind the House that some time ago the country was inferred from the services rendered, and all the circumadvantage; but why is this argument employed against Mr told that great corruption had been practised by gentlemen on that stances of the case, it was the agency which the Ashburton Horsman's proposal, to which it certainly does not apply (the Opposition) side of the House. He was sorry to say that late Committee held not to be proved. Are we to believe with more than to the present system. There is no correction result of that, however, was apparently that noble lords and right hon. discoveries had shown that the corruption was on the other side. The Lord Robert Cecil, simplest of men, that people go down A useless work once commenced is never aban-gentlemen were now sitting upon that (the Government) side of the from London, with bags of gold, to every contested election, doned, the bad reasoning being that if given up all the House, for pretty nearly the majority which placed them there had and bribe from one end of county or borough to the other, money will have been thrown away. Never is the thrifty been disfranchised on account of bribery. without the knowledge or suspicion of the very can of errors. 66 maxim acted on by the State that the first loss is the best. Sir George Grey answered with the obvious remark that didates who win through their instrumentality? The hatchet is always thrown after the hammer. As Mr the consistent virtuous member for Sheffield "was rather only see what was proved in the Ashburton case as Gladstone observes with reference to another but kinared" premature in attributing perfect innocence to the Opposi- to the proceedings of Mr Tozer, who, forsooth, was not an question, "the course hitherto pursued was to ask for small" tion, when only a few petitions had as yet undergone in-agent for the sitting member. The election mainly turned sums of money, and when these were voted the House felt "vestigation;" but independently of this plain view of the on the vote of a Mr Leeman, against whom there was a war"that it had nothing left but to proceed and vote large case, which could not but occur to a mind of any candour, rant out for 1251. The debt was paid to enable him to go sums of money." the facts could only support the conclusion which Mr Roe- to the poll in safety. Who paid it? Mr Tozer. For Another argument of the Times against Mr Horsman's buck draws from them, upon the supposition that the judg. whom did Leeman vote? For Mr Astell. Yet it was proposal is that the arts of arms are changing, and that ments of election committees were not only free from the ruled that in paying the 125l. to enable Leeman to vote works adapted to present circumstances may be rendered imputation of partiality, but regulated by uniform rules of for Astell, Tozer was not Astell's agent! Here is the useless by new discoveries and inventions. This objection law and justice. As these tribunals are actually consti- evidence of the Sheriff's officer. also is as applicable to the defences of Dover, Portland, and tuted, wanting as they conspicuously are in every quality The next day I planted several of my men around the polling Alderney, paid for by driblets of instalments, as to the necessary to give weight to judicial decisions, even were all booth. I afterwards saw Whitway, who told me that if Leeman same works completed with all expedition. These works the pending petitions disposed of, and the decisions in every to the polling booth, who asked me what was the amount of Leeman's polled I should have my money. I then saw Mr Henry Tozer close are laid down upon fixed plans, which cannot be altered case at this moment before us, it would be absolutely im- debt. I told him, and he said, "If you will let Leeman poll you and adjusted to changes in the art of war. possible to found upon them any fair conclusion as to the shall have your money." He then asked me to take his check. After LATEST EDITION. |