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AN IMP ORT ANT DISCUSSION.—The "Times," the "Lancet," and other leading journals have been lately canvassing the social considerations in volved in " the amount of death and disease caused by vice." Some interesting statistics are brought to bear upon the inquiry but it would greatly add to their value if they in eluded the facts respecting the origin, the ravages, and the prevention of that SPECIAL VICE. which wars more than any other against the welfare of society—destroying the happi ness and disappointing the objects of matrimony. under mining the constitutions, blasting the prospects, embittering and shortening the lives of its victims, and spreading desola tion through families. The particulars relating to thi s grea t soc i a l ev il (the besetting essential gs l nare of inexperienced youth and the curse of maturity), together with ample instructions for removing its effects, and recovering health, vigour, and all the ennobling privileges of our being. L on on h d a o s n. j p u ri st ee been ls are contained in Dr. LA'MERT'S "SELF-PRESERVATION, a Treatise on Nervous and Ph;publishedsical D b e y bilr an , nofanwdhiccho., 39. the 9 , 7 E hi ti i i i, t 1 himself ~ s p en r t . L po A, st m i rEellrrel,o3rr.lD3,.,or &c.,in haasviearlgedfoerrnn2voeyloepareste for dev 2 o o stamps either personally or by correspondence, at s entirely to this branch of practice, may behicornessuidltodenceidaily, No 37. BEDFORD-SQUARE, London. DR. CURTIS' MEDICAL WORK, MANHOOD: MEDICAL ESSAY ON SPERMATORRHCE NERVOUS AND GENERATIVE DEBILITY, Ito. 'net Published, the 150th thonsand, with numerous plates, in a sealed envelope, price ls., Sold by all Booksellers, and sent post paid, by the Anther, for 12 stamps, ANHOOD: the CAUSE and CURE of PRE- T MATURE DECLINE IN MAN, with Plain Directions for Perfect Restoration to Health and Vigour By Dr. J. L. la EMIR, 15, Albermarle-street, Piccadilly, London. CONTENTS : INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER on the Physiological Structure and Functions of the Reproductive Organs. CHAPTER ll.—Causes of Spermatorrhma and Impotenoe; :"41arly Vicious Indulgences: Dangers of Neglect. CHAPTER Review of the various Disqualifications •• . t Marriage ; whether resulting from Youthful Abuse, the Follies of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection. CHAPTERS IV. and V. on the modern Treatment of - -ionorrhma and Syphilis. The Book oneludes with numerous varied and interesting cases, to whioh is added the Author's recipe of a preventive Lotion. REVIEWS OF THE WORK. "Curtis on Manhood.—This is a truly valuable work, and should be in the hands of young and old —" Sunday Times," M la .arch, 1856. "The author has conferred a great boon by publishing this little work, in which is described the source of those diseases w,h,jun produce decline in youth or more frequently premature age."—" Daily Telegraph." Marci; 27, 1856. ..ondon : Published by .T. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, Pater a° noster-row t Mann, 2 9. Corlibi n • /Ar a Q 4 Consultation-1,0 to B and bto K t Sundays, 1 0 till 4 • 2 • • ‘‘ 4.2 7e_ s it.: E t 72 6 t y ki4Sl/414 9' 41' :C-)71 //1-2 • e ( tl ( ' 411111 H-.% 111ho' rani f ill , 111fL • Au, - 0.0 • , ••••1 , V ‘\lll27 / Y41111 0 1 •1 c :' - = „sift-4mA, Top, ' _ • 111 411110111,..... 41 . 1 un+ d , t, 1 1 1 4; , " . tv' • , „.917'. ad-lher roots were in many cases waalik& pletely out of the ground, and swept awakcYtil'Wl-- torrent, or cut into shreds by the hail. To recount all the disasters that occurred - 0 Market Lavington would fill a column of ° I LI space. Mr. Neate's cellars were full of water to the very gratings, and for hours after the rain bad ceased the barrels which They, contained might be seen floating about up to the level of the road. A strong brick wall, which formed the boundary of the farm yard, near the church, came down en masse,•and at " Northbrook" the flooring of the house oe copied by Axford, the dog-breaker, was thrust up by the water, and the dogs in the kenvels were obliged to swim to save their lives. £2 0, it is said, will not pay the damage done to A. ford's premises. In another part of the parish, fz carpenter named Rimer had nearly everything washed out of his house-, and narrowly saved the life of his pig by taking it bodily out of the stye. The disasters among the feathered tribe were innu marahle. Ducks were drowned in their favourite element ; fowls shared the same fate; and sparrow , , thrushes, and blackbirds wire picked up by hun dreds after the storm was (wee ! .knocked down by the hail, and buried beneath it. Not less than 78 sparrows were picked up dead in the church (which is at present unroofed) ; and as a proof of the de struction which was carried on among these birds, a baker in the place informed us that although_ hun dreds of them had been in the habit of con gregat ing in his yard daily when his chickens were being fed, not one was to be seen during the whole' of Tuesday, and hardly a small bird was seen i n mar _ ket Lavington up to Wednesday morning. Leaving Market Lavington we now come to West Lavington, and along the whole line of road from one village to the other nothing vas to be seen but hail, heaped here and there in enormous masses six and seven feet deep. At Cernbury mill the water rose to a great height, .and an acre of barley be longing to the miller (Mr. Burbage) was so corn pletely riddled as to be absolutely worthless. At Russell-mill (occupied by Mr. Peerless) the water rose in less than an hour six feet at the tail of the mill ; and a meadow close by, of Mr. Fowle's, was at least six feet under water; while in the house attached to the mill were two feet of water in all the lower rooms. But the amount of destruction at otter places was small in comparison to what took place on Mr. Thomas Neate's farm at West Lavington. Mr. Neate had on the side of the hill 12r acres of barley—one of the finest crops that he' has ever grown upon his farm, containing at least' five quarters to the acre, as was proved by some which he had cut and threshed out. The crop was just Lit to harvest ; in fact, 30 acres of it were already - lying in swath ; and we speak within bounds when. we say that the damage which the hail did to this crop will not be covered for less than 000. Seventy acres of it are as cleanly threshed and washed away as it the crop had passed through a threshing machine, the ears being stripped completely off, leaving the bare straw denuded of its head. It is estimated that at least 500 quarters are lost out of the 127 acres; and the only satisfaction which Mr. Neate has is, that he is fully insured in the Farnters'- ofEce—a precaution which he was very nearly fore going at the commencement of the season, having (as he thought) paid a deal of money uselessly in previous years to secure himself against losses which did not seem likely to occur. At Mrs. Lush's house, situated at the fbot of the hill leaving West Lavington village for Tilshead, the stream made a clean breach from the back to, the front door—inundating all the lower rooms, and setting the tables, chairs, and the furniture of the drawing and dining rooms two feet deep' in water ; while the house itself had the appearance' of standing in the midst of a lake, the whole of the• open space around presenting one vast sheet of water, from Mr. W. Sainsbury's to the opposite rising ground. When we paid a visit to the scene on Tuesday hatches were being fitted to the front' - and back doors, so as to prevent the passage through the house from being converted into a water course in future, this being the second time within the last few years that Mrs. Lush has suffered from an inundation (although the first visitation bore no co parison with that which swept through her house on Tuesday morning). From this point towards Tilehead the storm pur sued its course, but on reaching Gore Cross it seems to have expended its fury, its effect upon the crops there being confined to levelling the barley with the ground, but without threshing it out, and to drench ing the crops, without cutting them to shivers. For hours, however, afterwards the country around presented a most extraordinary appearance. Not a sign of vegetation was to be seen in the fields. Instead of standing barley, which had given so rich and golden an appearance to the hill-side the evening before, nought met the eye but hail, hail, hail! burying everything beneath it ; while the allotments and gardens, the roads, and even the houses looked as if they had just emerged from a deluge. As to the poor cottagers, their oases is indeed pitiable. M a ny of them who held allot ments have lost their enti re cro p , and the mischief which has been occasioned i n their dwellings is sad indeed. Throughout the whole da y afterwards they were engaged in wheeling t he mud and filth from their rooms, and the damp ness and the smell which the inundation left behind it made them in many cases almost uninhabitab le. we e by be haillieve : the only persons e F rs o o w n l s e i a n n su d r lkedl againstr. Neate damage and they will, we have no doubt , b e liberally dealt with were, by the office with which their policies are effected. For the poor, who have ao greatly suffered—in many instances losing the whole of their crop, ea which their entire dependence was staked—we will be set on foot. have no doubt a subscription PRICE..... ...4d. STAMPED ....sd. direct from Chatham to Portsmouth for embarca tion. The company has been augmented to its full strength of 120 non-commissioned officers and men from the companies at head-quarters, Brompton. According to present arrangements, Capt. W. A. Frankland will take the command of : the 22d company on its leaving for China. TREMENDOUS SIMI. (From the Wiltshire Gazette.) Never, within the memory of man, hes such a storm been known in this neighbourhood as visited Market and West Lavington and Easterton on Tues day morning—a storm at once so overwhelming in its consequences as to find a parallel only in the disastrous Shrewton flood which took place about 23 years ago. The Shrewton flood, however, was a flood of water, occasioned by the sudden thaw of an accumulation of snow on the adjacent hills; whereas the storm of Tuesday last was not alone a flood of water or rain, but a fall of hail the like of which, we will venture to say, has never before been seen in this country. Indeed, had we not been eye-wit nesses of the fact, we could hardly have believed that in less than half an hour hailstones would have stood upon the ground seven feet deep ! Yet, so it was at Lavington on Tuesday morning, and the scene which the country presented will never be for gotten by those who witnessed it. There had been distant rumblings of thunder and occasional flashes of lightning soon after the day began to dawn, and the sky for miles around wore a heavy, leaden hue ; but men, nevertheless, ventured upon their oat-door work, little dreaming of what was about to burst upon them. About half-half 5 a roar, as of a roll of musketry, was heard, the lightning and thunder increased, and, as if the bolts of heaven had sud denly been withdrawn, there fell such a deluge of hail and rain as fairly frightened all who beheld it. In less than half an hour the whole line .of country, from Easterton on the one side to West Lavington on the other, was completely covered. Not a blade of grass, or corn, or crop of any kind was visible; the whole surface of the earth was one mass of hailstones, the houses were from two to three feet deep in water, the cellars full up to the very gratings, while the streets and roads throughout the whole length from Easterton to West Lavington were converted into a deep, roaring, rushing torrent, which carried every thing before ,it. As to the damage done to the crops by the hail, thousands of pounds will not re pay it, acres upon acres of barley being left with out a single grain on the stalk. But disastrous as the visitation was, it was extremely partial in its course and in its extent. Its violence seems to have been limited to about half a mile in breadth and two miles in length, extending diagonally from Gore-cross, along a portion of the hill and the valley of the two Lavingtons, as far as Eastcott. Beyond either of these two points we do not hear that any serious damage was sustained ; and within half a mile of it—at Candown, for instance, and on Fiddington-hill—so trifling had been the fall that wheat was being carried within a few hours after wards. At Eastcott the first scene of disaster pre sented itself, and a scene, indeed, it was—every house with its lower rooms under water, and people looking out from the upper windows of the cottages in momentary expectation of being swept away in the torrent. The water in Mr. Jacob New man's farmyard was 6 feet deep, and the barrels in his cellar floated about as though they had been in a pond. By Mr. Benjamin Hayward's, at Easterton, the water rushed along like a mill stream, carrying with it his wall, Mr. Wil liams's garden-wall, the boundary fence at Fidding ton-howe, and, in fact, everything that caw! in its way—bricks,' timber, and even the road itself, which is gorged up in many places as though it had been lifted from its foundation by som.. subterra nean force. The greatest wonder is that the cot tages were not swept away also. Their condition may be imagined, with water in them 3 feet high, and with no chance of help from anybody, for not a soul could venture from the upper stories without running the risk of being swept away. One man, who had been milking, in his endeavour to drive through the village after the storm had in some degree subsided, had his milk kettle carried out of his cart and floated rapidly away along the current, and a piece of timber 10ft. long was carried 40 yards down the middle of the road; and we heard of one cottage, situated in the lower part of Easterton, where the water rose to the ceiling in the lower room and drowned a cat ; and of another, where a little girl who was left in the room on the ground floor got upon the table to save herself, and was floated about the room upon it, saving herself eventually by clinging to the sill of the window. In Fiddington Hollow, near Dr. Hitchcock's, the water made a clean breach over the hedge, and in its rush down to the adjoining fields resembled a boiling cataract `which nothing ',Gould :withstand, But at Market Lavington matters were worse even than at Easterton. The only wonder is that the houses in the lower part of the town near the church were left standing. The escape of some of them from destruction is to be attributed to the prompt action of their occupants, who, observing that the foundations were about to give way knocked holes though the walls, and so lessened the weight of water that was rushing against them. The street from end to end was like a mighty river, and the roaring of the hail, accompanied with vivid lightning and loud peals of thunder, made the scene truly awful and filled all hearts with fear. As to the hail, never was such a sight seen before in this or any other part of the country. In one place, called " Broadwell," near to Mr. Fowle's house, it covered the entire space seven feet deep, and the rush of water from the hill at this point was tre mendous. Everything that was in the way went with it, and, as an instance of the veloeity with which it ran, we may state that eight loads of pi nt by the side of the road near Mr. Fowle's house wer e entirely carried away. Mr. Fowle was in bis fi t giving directions to his men when the stor m t r h e s burst, and ran for shelter under a skilling; be tween - b had not been there long before the wat er ro se horse off tween three and four feet in the yard t he, cut and all communication between him and th i e ,i young live but for the greatest promptitud e es ovum have live stock that were upon the premis , lost. The lower part of Mr. Foffr,l° horse was en lost. the storm tirely inundated, and such 03 08-e Water was unable to get obtained inside that Miss F water that ran through to her mother's room for the e scene at Broadwell beat the passage. But and % b l a st the cottages there stood everything else ; y feet a r o v f ell a o u u d s . a Idno sand n e through the storm •thapaerfcttewol ft a floor, and the water was np so r ! u i ri nt nates :urst not vent ure down of them no less _ hundreds of c overed the the inmates of their lives. stairs t a h t a t ele r_ t in the evening., notwithstanding wag gon 1 ° ndd, o f h a il .ay ab ut this spot d ur i ng the • places. The loss to tha dal; A heat of tho the exa etn- welther, it was four feet deep 1° crops can hardly at present be estimated. M r . F owie has ages and ores o f corn in whi c h h ardly a lea in the husk , Thi s i s t h e case with h 26 about acres o, bur ley and oats on the hill and near his house ; 3n.. so with the crops of Mr. House (of the Green Drava and Mr. Farmer. Ten acres of barley holongin, to Mr. House, estimated to contain at least toar quar ters to the acre, are so skinned that there is not one whole ear left oat of 10,000, and the entire pt)oe will now hardly yield three quarters. A piece of oats (of two or three acres) also belonging to Mr. House is reduced to mere husks; and a crop of wheat on the same farm has at least a sack and a half an acre knocked out of it. The effect of the storm upon the allotments is absolutely ruinous. We saw one or two pieces of barley on the land occupied by these small holders, containing half an acre each, in which it would be difficult to find a quarter of grain left, while the turnips, potatoes, 7HE FAVIL PONDS ON HAIIIPS7EAD HEATH. Yesterday Dr. Lankester, the Central Middlesex coroner, held en inquest at the Elephant and Castle, e t, Kentish K. ing , s-road, Camden -t own , t ou ching the death of tGeor ge ree Pritchard, aged 52, residing in Harmood maker, Town. The deceased was a piano fortein the service of Messrs. Collard and Collard, whose death may be added to the long list of casualties from the above ponds. The evidence went to show that deceased was a sober, well-conducted man in the habit of walk ing alone of an evening about Hampstead Heath and the chain of ponds extending at short intervals from Hampstead to Highgate. On Tues day evening, at 7 o'clock, be left the factory near the nine inoß oa o c u kli n ,v d e. House, Kentish Town, and was not again On Wednesday morning, White cross-street, arrived at the ponds to " fish," when clumps known of cla y a as y a t the a ?diddle substance Ponder w a t , o w f h t i h e h e his attention was directed to some boys throwing he eonwas startled t o fi n d , on c l ose exam i na ti on , to be d the back of the head of a man's body, just at the surface of the water, A boy gave him the drags, and the body was got out. The depth of water at that spot was only two feet. The body was firmly fixed in the clay by the knees and elbows. Hather ton was of opinion that if deceased got into the water voluntarily he must have gone in from the opposite side from there, where in some parts the pond was 12 feet deep away from the land, acces sible by means of planks. He could easily have walked in and dragged the body out on the shallow side, only that the clay was deep and dangerous there. He was in the habit of fishing at the ponds, and had very often seen deceased wandering about there, and had talked with him about fishing. The testimony of other witnesses showed that deceased was afflicted with a wife bed-ridden, speechless, and idiotic, but he seemed to be fond of her and to bear this severe family affliction with great fortitude. Upon his person a county court summons was totond, but it seemed to have nothing to do with the ~.Ise. and there was no evidence to show where he wn from 7 o'clock on Tuesday evening, when he lea his work, until the dead body was discovered. 1 7,e iesident medical officer, Mr. Saul, of St. Pan el as NV otrkhouse, deposed that the body was broug ht there, 4nd that death was caused from drown in g . He auded also, that circumstances led him to be lieve that the drowning must have taken p lace in deep water. fur T t h he e r C l o ig ro h n t e w r Coroner, oinnl dsumming obtained u P ment, and he thought there was no evidence to sup. port a verdict of suicide or accidental death ; there fore he recommended an open verdict. open verdict of f oun d The jury returned an did from not , . drowned. aennthaidn'ikottarnny- THE SUN, LONDON, SAIURDAY, EVENPIG, SEPTEMBER 6, 1862. THE DISTRESS IN LANCASHIRE. Mr. George Dixon and Mr. 3". Skirrow Wright, the gen tlemen forming the deputation sent from Birmingham to inquire into the distress prevailing in the cotton manufac turing districts, have sent in their report. After pointing out the fearful amount of suffering which exists, the report proceeds :—" On tho difficult questions—Are the wealthy people of Lancashire giving as liberally as they ought to do ? and how far is it necessary to supplement their contribu tions ? your deputations have to report that they suggested to the central committee that publicity should be given to the subscriptions of those gentlemen who- were known to have made large fortunes in the distressed districts, in order that people at a distance might be able to judge therefrom as to the amount they ought themselves to give. Liverpool has already raised over £30,000, and should the distress continue there seems but little doubt that this sum will be more than doubled. In Manchester, in addition to the sub- scriptions to the general fund, amounting to £25,000, LlO,OOO has already been given to the Provident Society, in sums that your deputation believe have not been published, and . . probably an equal amount has been distributed by benevo lent societies connected with places of worship. The Mayor of Manchester wished it to be distinctly understood that the city would contribute a far larger sum to the general relief fund than would be granted by the executive commit tee to the local relief board. Several cases were mentioned to your deputation of millowners who were nobly fulfilling the duties imposed on them by the present crisis, and no complaint against the manufacturers was made by the various parties whom your deputation interrogated in Stockport. How far this wealthy body is doing all that it is called upon to do, your deputation could not of course cor rectly judge during a visit of only two days' duration; but it must be remembered that their contributions will fre quently be made in a manner which no subscription list can publish, and that they themselves will suffer greatly by the stoppage of their trade, the lying idle and deterioration of their capital, and the constantly increasing poor rates. Hard hearted selfish men exist no doubt in Lancashire as in other places, but three cases are cited to show how carefully con demnation should be passed on wealthy men because they appear to be giving less than their supposed riches would warrant. The Mayor of Blackburn told your deputation that one person, worth nominally £20,000 in house property, was receiving scarcely any income at all from his rents. A large millowner has lent to his workmen about £3,000, to enable them to tide over the evil hour, and out of this more than £l,OOO will certainly never be returned. The lord of ;he manor has put his name down on the public subscrip- tion list for £lOO, but has actually spent more than £l,OOO in unproductive labour, for the sole purpose of giving relief without the usual evils of almsgiving. Such cases as these are not recorded in the public papers. The necessity for the largest possible amount of extraneous assistance being rendered is evident from the two following facts. It can- not ba escimated that the total diminution of wages in the distressed districts will be less than £150,000 per week dur ing the winter months, and although it may not be neces sary to supply the whole of this deficiency, still it must be admitted that an average of 2s. per head per week is the smallest amount of relief that ought to be given to operatives who have been accustomed to, and whose physical constitu titutions require, a high class of food. Estimating the number of unemployed at from 300,000 to 500,000, the BUM required weekly will before Christmas exceed the ordinary poor rates by over £30,000. One Manchester gentleman, who has had considerable means of inquiry esti mates that when the distress reaches its height it will cost £lOO,OOO per week to keep the unemployed from starvation. Can the rest of England require that the whole of this burthen should be borne by the distressed districts themselves, whose resources are affected by the very calamity they are called upon to relieve ? And even supposing that, when the full extent of the calamity has overshadowed the land, there shall be foimd some amongst those who have grown rich by the labour of the cotton ope- ratives who neglect their duty—shall such uncharitable conduct on their part be the model by which more remote members of the same community are to mould their actions, when 400,000 uncomplaining fellow-countrymen are suffer ing the last extremities of cold, hunger, and sickness, the misery of hearts that cannot help those they love, and the growth of evils which idleness and pauperism inevitably bring—and all this in order that England may pursue what she considers the path of duty. The second fact is one well deserving of great attention. The oreration of Mr. Villiers's Relief Act will do but little to mitigate the severity of the pressure of the rates upon the class immediately above that of the operatives, inasmuch as no one parish can claim assistance from the other parishes of the union until 3s. in the pound has been spent on the pcot ; nor can the borrow ing power be exercised until an amount equivalent to 3s. in i,he pound on the assessment of the whole amount has been collected in addition to the borough and other rates; and lastly, the country cannot be called upon to contribute to the relief of any particular union until ss. in the pound has been actually spent upon the poor of that union. A very high authority estimates that in many cases it will be neces sary to levy 6s. in the pound before 3s. can be collected ; and the same authority admits that these clauses so far neutralise the action of Mr. Villiers's bill that most proba bly the borrowing power will rarely, and the county rate in aid elause never be put in force. It may appear to some that 3s. or even 6s. in the pound is not a large sum to be spent on the poor, but the real question is the proportion that the future rates will bear to those of former years. The Mayor of Stockport gave your deputation to under stand that hitherto there has not been more than about 6d. in the pound spent on the poor, consequently, they will, in that township, have to spend an average of four or five times as much as usual, before being able to obtain assist ance from the remaining parishes of the union ; and this average increase of four or five times means an increase of eight to ten times in the case of those ratepayers who continue solvent through the whole of the crisis. There is no reason to suppose otherwise than that the ma- jority of the other districts are in the same position. The justice of throwing the burden of the heavy rates on such a restricted area may well be doubted ; but, apart from this question it cannot be difficult to see that the guardians will find it impossible to provide more than the barest neces saries required by the law ; and there is evidence to show that the operatives physically as well as morally deteriorate under the poor law regime. Can the remotest districts of England refrain from giving largely when these patient, noble fellow-countrymen are pining away on paupers fare. mustt of be the Hitherto their sufferings have been silently borne ; but there is a point at which patience ceases to be possible, and the intelligence as well as the benevolence of the country tio disgracedwlioTleheciff3 case ot at point were allowed even to be report, which recommends that the contalbu rrofoliSgtohetktoporptaisss s t p h e r c o i v a g ll h y th re e f m err an ed . tacohPPeaurstadrejledthe:ral Relief Committee, •d s upwihm will with w with an, ex pression of hope th a t t h e inhabitants of Bi i n eo o n t s a i c d t er as onl if y th t e h y ei d r o o n w bt n ed un th que charity that generosity which is called for by a cal am it y of unpa ralleled magnitude, and which is last growin g t oo great for thmeeetpionwgetroorfailosecaal Birminghamresources fna iis to to t o be meet. A. public held on Tues day next. The Mansion-house committee held their usual weekly meeting yesterday, whe n the Lord Ma y or presided for the first time since his return to his offi cial duties. The other members of the commi ttee p resent were Mr. S. Dilberoghee and Mr. Howe, and Mr. Gibbs, the secretary. It is to be regretted that from the communi cations received from all parts of the manufacturing dis tricts there appears to be no doubt the distress among the cotton operatives is augmenting daily, and indeed almost hourly ; and there were a number of applications for grants from the funds at the disposal of this committee. A great many suggestions are made as to the mode of increasing the funds, and among them there has been one within the last day or two from a respectable tradesman, proposing to have a box at his place of business for the reception of small sums, and suggesting that if this proceeding were to be carried out generally in the metropolis, a very consider able sum might be obtained. The committee have not felt themselves justified in authorising the carrying out of this Plan, but in this particular case they have notified that they see 'no objection to the proceeding, and that they may be ready to accept any money that may be so obtained. The total amount of money received by the Mansion house committee up to last night was £45,142 17s. 5d., and the amount that had been distributed to differeni districts is £ 23 )753 35., so that a balance of £21,000 still remain in their hands. the son of resp ec tab le attended the Ecole Ch o r Tying . D--, 11 years of age, A boy named Andrew disap peared under the circumstances :—The boy g people, has recently . etienne in the rue des Recollects, following 1--Hollowma tilt ed at not getting a prize at the dis tribution all his home, parents could treated e 0 u a I p d p apparently t ly e andi great n t e ri p b . u w t i as H on ed d o i e e ah n tar p s t e h l sincet it, :, We e refused to eat any dinner, beennetr out of any one who knows console him was in vain ut of doors without his committed suicide. anal on leaving the table him, and it is believed he has ye id ukri relaxedail t.ehro Ointment.—Throat at,ircroinitaptliaoinn ofts cheat rubbing this oint ment f f E e A c D t Affections.--All n 53 1 1 . i l i S A lnse l T eeva: t heb h 3lrod e Tu varieties 1) external ailments) a nd tmen :st and supporting By this . simple mmmtheae aen y nts b: ts rwde r iinp e eg a eht d tah i h l d y e brai a yya n ,u d usplui e ee ff n ic ath t tl i eee v d e n: l destruction th en ey ts h w av ill e have v f o rt h t the windpipe, quinsy, and all glandular yheriermperdogry for rsarrested,ananddtheex caused repaired. Holloway's ointment all internal most trust arid may be safely and effectually employed without . regarding season, sex, age, or coneti tte 9very case highly extolled for its ready cures of spasmorn• it is • le con chronic hoarseness, and all disagreeable thee coughs, egos from , the throat and nose. COMPARATIVE MILITARY STRENGTH OF THE UNION AND !HE .REBELLION. (From the New York Evening Post.) That state of things cannot be called very unfortunate in which the circumstances which appear adverse are such as to give ground of hope. There are certain criticisms on the conduct of the present war which, severe as they are, we should hope are true. Let them only be just, let them only be fair, and we should welcome them, because they show that we have in our hands great advantages over the in surgents which, the moment we use them, will grind the rebellion into dust. Our arms have not made the progress we Expected. Why is it so ? By the recent reverses before Richmond, following the whole luckless campaign of the army of the Potomac, and some unfavourable and disappointing incidents of the war on the southern coastand on the Mississippi, the public mind has been brought down from a state of almost exul tation to a state, we will not say of despondency, but of great depression. When is the fault? Has this happened because our armies were not large enough, because our navy was not powerful enough to make any impression, or be cause our soldiers and sailors have not fought bravely ? If it were so, if either of these alternatives were true, there would be reason indeed for despondency. If we confess that the rebels have excelled us in the vastness and completeness of their preparations—in the perfection of their means of offence—in the order, discipline, and numbers of their army —and in the spirit, bravery, and endurance of their mea,we must then admit that the future shows by no means an en couraging prospect. In that case the deficiency to which our want of success is imputed would be somewhat difficult to repair. But if the fault lie with those who have had the direction of our armies, the prospect brightens at once. If the rebels have escaped subjugation thus far by favour of the superior dexterity, activity, audacity, and presence of mind possessed by those who directed their campaigns, and the ill-luck of our own commanders, the remedy is easy. The same energy and the same readiness in resources employed on our side, with the superior means at our command, would instantly turn the scale in our favour. The unlucky commander should be laid aside. No matter what plausible excuses may be made for his failures, the general who is always in bad luck should be made to yield to him who is always suc cessful, and the tide of fortune will turn. We propose to show, by computations arithmetically exact, that the rebels now in arms are inferior to us in num bers, and to place before our readers a statement which will demonstrate that we ought by this time to have put them down effectually ; and we do this by way of making it clear that, if we take the proper course, there is no ground of despondency for the future, The total population of the slave States is 12,260,298 Deduct slaves ~ free coloured 4,218,316 Making free whites 8,041,983 Of these 12,260,298 there are in Delaware, Maryland; Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee, of loyal or neutral free white inhabitants—say, 3,526,629. Deduct these, and we have left, of disloyal persons, or persons in disloyal States, 4,512,354. Here we have the entire population on which the rebels must rely to recruit the gmylan aggregate of but little over four millions and a half of white inhabitants. The voters, or males of 21 years and over, in this population, are one in six, or To which add youths likely to enlist or subject to - . draft Making the total number of white males 902,559 This, our readers will perceive, is two or three hundred thousand less than the number of men called for by our Government at different times, including the recent requi sitions. Of these 902,559, cer tainly not more th an o n e -half, and probably not more than one-third, have been forced under arms. But say one-half Add Volunteers from Kentucky and other States not out of the Union, probably .. Total prom these deduct killed, wounded, prisoners, absent, unfit for duty, 1 in 4 (the number in an army is nearly lin 2), say . 368,460 Deduct absentees fit for duty Leaving a total active force, for all purposes, of possibly We have in this statement allowed more largely for the resources of the rebels in proportion to the population than we should have allowed for our own in a like estimate. That the number here given is greater than the reality we have, as we stated on the 6th of August, unquestionable testimony, which we are not allowed to disclose. We then gave as a fact, of which we were not permitted to doubt, that the effec tive force of the rebels has never, at any time since the be ginning of the war, exceeded 350,000 men. Death, sick ness, wounds, and other causes must have reduced it far below that amount, and he would be a bold man who, pos sessed of all the information which it is possible to obtain in these latitudes, should take upon himself to affirm that the rebels have more than 250,000 effective men under arms.; i There are to-day of Union men in the field not a man less than 375,000 men, with not fewer absentees fit for duty than 65,000. This is no random estimate, but as exact a state ment as can well be given. In this force we do not include a single soldier of the regiments stationed at forts and camps north of Maryland and the Ohio, nor of new levies. This will give us an active force of 375,0 0 0 men, and a possible force of 440,000. To this should be added our navy, which will counterbalance more than 100,000 men of the rebel effective troops. A mighty force this—formidable, almost irresistible, if ably and skilfully wielded, without any addition of numbers. Can any man doubt that, by the aid of these troops and all that originally made a part of the loyal armies, if directed in their first vigour and ardour against the enemy, with the requisite enterprise and rapidity of movement, we might before this have annihilated the rebellion ? Can it be doubted that with half the number of additional troops recently called for we might overrun the rebel provinces and crush the life out of the Confederate government? By rapidity of movement the rebels have effected all that they have yet been able to do in keeping the rebellion alive. They ha'e acted on a maxim somewhat like the mercantile one, that the nimble sixpence is better than the slow shilling. An army of a hundred thousand, manoeuvred with skilful celerity, may effect more than twice the num ber under a sluggish number. I HE NAVY. The paddlewheel steam yacht Osborne, Master Commander Bower, took up her berth yesterday at the Royal Arsenal Pier, Woolwicb, in readiness to receive his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales for his voyage to the continent. The marked partially manifested by his Royal Highness for the Osborne has caused her to be called the Prince of Wales's Yacht, and, from the important alterations and im provements which she is about to undergo, it is stated to be the intention of the Prince to retain her permanently for his own use. The design of building a new yacht has in consequence been totally abandoned ; and the Osborne, it is said, will shortly be docked at Portsmouth, and stripped, in order to her being lengthened 50 ft, at her bow and stern, so as to give her a greater amount of cabin accom modation and additional berths for the officers and crew. This will considerably augment her rate of speed, and will afford the necessary capabilities for stowage room, coals, &c. Information was yesterday received at Woolwich announcing the intention of their lordships to issue an order for the abolition of the full-dress uniform at present worn by officers of the navy, and to sub stitute in its stead a neat tunic, which is pronounced to be a most satisfactory improvement and an eco nomy to the wearer, as instead of three coats, which present constitute a portion of an officer's necessary kit—namely, the full dress, only worn at Court, the undress, rarely worn on duty, and the frock or great coat in daily use, one coat will suffice, the difference between dress and undress being the epaulettes only, which it is stated are to be retained. It is sug gested that, to complete the comfort and advantage to the wearer, a light and handsome headdress might be adopted in place of the unsightly and awkward cocked kat. The Lords of the Admiralty have entered into an agreement with the borough authorities at Cha tham for taking a piece of the vacant land at the angle of the road leading from the dockyard to Brompton, the site being required for the erection of a police barracks to accommodate the married men belonging to the Metropolitan Police who now do duty at Chatham dockyard. The plans for the proposed building have been prepared by Mr. Rivers, under the direction of Colonel Greene, and have received the final approval of their lordships. Upwards of 300 tons of the forged 42-inch armour plates for casing the sides of the iron-clad frigate Royal Oak, 50, have been received at Chatham during the past few weeks from the Thames Iron works, the Parkgate Foundry, and the other firms under contract to supply the Admiralty. The whole of these have been tested under the direction of the leading officials of the establishment, and each sub mitted to the annealing process in the factory erected for that purpose, in order to render the iron as tough as it is possible to make it. Although the operation of plating the Royal Oak has been suspended for the last fortnight, to enable the ne cessary arrangements to be made for her launch, the preparation of the plates is still carried on in the factory, where upwards of 100 of the large slabs of iron are now accumulated. Each plate before being affixed to the frigate's side costs, on the lowest esti mate, £2OO, the contract price at which they are supplied to the Admiralty being £37 per ton. The plates average a weight of 80cwt. each, which will give an original cost of £l4B, added to which there are the charges for annealing, bending, planing, bor ing, and otherwise preparing them, to accomplish which the most costly machinery has to be employed. The War Department transport Bomarsund was placed alongside the Ordnance-wharf at Chatham yesterday, and commenced shipping a quantity of the cast-iron 10-inch and 68-pound - or guns for the Pembroke, 60, 200-horse power, Capt. Fisher. • The appointment of Mr. S. Parsons, from Devon port dockyard, to be master-ropemaker at Chatham dockyard, vice Mr. J. T. Taylor, superannuated, was announced at Chatham yesterday. Mr. G. Cole gate, foreman of joiners at Sheerness dockyard, has been promoted to be foreman at Chatham, succeed ing Mr. R. Edgecombe, who has been superannuated after upwards of 40 years' service. Mr. Taylor, the late master-ropemaker at Chatham, retires on a pension of £204 per annum. The paddle-wheel steam-sloop Geyser, 6, Capt. Colin Campbell, returned to Plymouth Sound on Wednesday evening, after accompanying to the westward of St. Anthony's the coal and bread depot Vindictive. The Geyser is now in position at the east end of the breakwater for shot practice. The paddlewheel steam-frigate Leopard, 18, is now in the North basin at Keyham steamyard, Plymouth, fitting for the first division of the Steam Reserve. The paddlewheel surveying-steamer Porcupine, 3, from Queenstown, arrived on Thursday evening at Plymouth. The lighter Falmouth, J. Carrich, master, which left Plymouth on Wednesday, for Pembroke, having reached as far as the Lizard, carried away the jaws of her gaff, and was compelled to put back to the Sound. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. M. L. Dunlop, to the Narcissus, additional, for disposal ; Lieut. W. M. Moger, to the Forte, additional, for disposal ; Lieut. W. Binnington, to the Bacchante, additional, for disposal; Lieut. W. H. Hall, to the Nile, addi tional, for disposal; E. B. Wallace and R. C. Massie, naval cadets, to the Edgar ; A. Thomas, master's-assist., to the Rattlesnake ; W. H. Purvis, second master, to the Severn; R. Jackson, second master, to the Rattlesnake ; J. G. Liddell, second master, to the Liffey ; and W. S. Crealock, pay master, to the Virago. 711 E ARMY. A notification has been received at Chatham garrison by Major-General Eyre, announcing that the screw steamer Himalaya, which left England on the 28th ult., will embark the 7th company of Royal Engineers at Halifax, Nova Scotia, for England, their period of colonial service having expired. According to orders received at the garri son yesterday, the Himalaya will proceed direct to Gravesend, where the 7th company will land, and proceed direct to head-quarters, Chatham. The Ist battalion 24th Regiment, Lieut.-Col. Wodehouse, is expected to arrive at Aldershott from Portsmouth, on Thursday next. C and G batteries Royal Horse Artillery will arrive at Alder shott from Dublin, the former on the Bth, and the latter on the 15th inst. I battery, Royal Horse Artillery, Capt. Saunders, will march from Alder shott on Monday en route to Bristol, for embarcation to Dublin on the following Friday. The Ist battalion Coldstream Guards, Lieut.-Col. Steele, C. 8., left their encampment on Cove Common on Thursday , and Friday for Windsor by march route ; four offi cers and 130 men on Thursday, and head-quarters and remainder of the battalion yesterday, a small detachment of about 25 men, in charge of baggage, &c., also proceeding by rail on Friday. The 37th Regiment, which has since its arrival in Aldershott been under canvass on Cove-common, struck its encampment on Thursday and marched into G and H lines, South Camp, ♦acated by til t ! Ist battalion Bth (King's). The 37th is now at tacked to the Ist brigade. The 13th Hussahre West moved from huts on the North Camp Cavalry Barracks, vacated by the 16nttho tLancers. " A" Battery Royal Horse Artillery left Lancers on Tucs on Monday for Dublin ; the 16th y L e a rri C iey ; ldershott Norwich, the I s p t s h . day, for Preston, Sheffield, and _ or day e , I Lancers on the following h Ist battalion Bth wish, and Northampton; sh t eifie id, Bradford, an d which has (King's) on Tuesday, for Weedon. Engineers, The 22d company d of er n:Y al to proceed to China, to been placed unde h r e o e r emp co mpanies shout returning to relieve one of t. daily expectation of receiviNg its England, is in d 1 route from the 11°r se Guards, when it will - will proceed DESPERATE CONFLICT BETWEEN A .MAN AND A DOG. uanhd jovial A few evenings ago a number of young men of a to Cork, a lic class in life a little above the labourer, were enjoy ing th emse l ves i n one o f th e s h a d y b owers a t tac h e d house fellows n the t s h o e u y t h w - e e a r s e t , e f r o n r suburbs e e o r f was not goin g round in the ordinary quiet "pew ter," but in gallons and half-gallons.• Finding, after partaking of a considerable quantity of it that it did not cause that amount of hilarity amongst them generally consequent upon a liberal imbibi tion, they set themselves to discover a pleasure of a more exciting character. That chosen was wa gering, and although many offers were made and accepted by several, yet there was one which none of them seemed inclined to take a venture at, and that extraordinary one was a wager of five half gallons of " Sir John's" that no man there would fight the watch-dog belonging to the public-house with no means of defence or attack but his hands. Knowing the fierceness of the dog when aroused, no one liked to accept the offer. However, after some time, one young man who fills a situation under a public company trading from this city accepted the wager, and all preparations having been made, the dog was called out. The man began the " sport" by tantalising him, and the animal gradually grow ing maddened under the irritation, sprang at his assailant and seized him by the left hand. A struggle that is described as really fearful to wit ness then ensued. The dog is large and powerful, and the young man is of a robust frame and deter mined disposition. Finding his left hand almost altogether in the animal's mouth, he caught him by the throat to try and make him loosen his grip, but in this he failed, for the dog only tightened his teeth on the hand until it was almost bitten through. He then released his grip, and attacked the man about the legs, on one side of which he inflicted a deep and severe wound. The man caught the dog by both hands round the throat to try to strangle him, but the dog by sheer strength forced him upon the ground and com menced biting him about the hands in a fearful manner. The spectators seeing that the " game" had proceeded far enough, and that there was danger of the man being killed, rescued him from the infuriated animal. He had in the encounter received about 17 wounds, one of which is of a dan gerous character, while . the dog came off almost unsoathed.—Cork Const i tution. rf Er )y Is 1.0 r. e. e.