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L? OBIN'S G: eat Attractions at the EGYPTIAN lIALL, KV N RY EVENING, at 8 (Saturday excepted) :and Wednesday and Saturday at half-past 2.—The intense excitement produced by his last sensation wonder, ens Wed "The Enchanted Christmas Tree," with its myriads of pre sents, will be continued at each Verformance until further notice. Admission, is. and 2s. Stalls, 3s. ARGYLL ROOMS..--=GREAT SUCCESS !!- The Band and Mus;(o9,l arrangements under the direc tion of M. BouLeouT, c.ibuductor and principal Cornet. In addition to the Laureld Valse, Strauss luadrille, and novel ties of lust week, A. KEW POLKA, by M. Boulcourt, the Solos performed by him and .M. Greebe. Admission 1s. — Manager, M. P. Grant. A MOST DESIRABLE BREAKFAST BEVERAGE. E P P S'' S COCO A. `(Commonly called Epps's Homoeopathic Cocoa). Thr i delicious aroma, grateful smoothness, and invigo- Mang- power of this preparation have procured its general dription as a most desirable breakfast beverage. .. • }lb., ilb., and ilb packets, at is. 6d. per lb.,by Grocers.- - TOOTHACHE. -HOWARD'S ENAMEL, for stopping decayed teeth, however large the cavity. It is used in a soft state, without pressure or pain, and hardens into a white enaiel. It remains in the tooth many years, rendering extraction unnecessary and arresting the decay. Directions for use enclosed. Sold by all chemists and medi Cine vendoi s. Price Is, rrEA.—STRACHAN aid CO.'S Strong Rough -a - "d omestic " Black at 3s. Id. per lb.-26, Cornhill, London, E.C. - T E A' — STRACHAN and CO.'S Fine " Inter mediate " Black at 3s. Bd. per lb.-263 Cornhill, Lon don, E.C. - TEA' STRACHAN and CO.'S Delicious " Drawing- Boom" Black at 4s. 2d. per lb.--? 6, Com bat, London, E.C. Dr. Hassall's Certificate of Purity, and a Price Current free on application, 26, Cornhill, London, E.C. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, for the Destitute Sick, Gray's-inn-road.—Earnest AppeaL—Owing to an unexpected delay in the payment of a considerable legacy, ton which the Cd rom itt ee re li e d, this Hospital is left without immediate funds. As the period is rapidly approaching when its resources are always severely tested, the Committee make an earnest APPEAL to the public benevolence for means to enable them to carry on the charity. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mae terman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Contts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.;Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and do. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Islisiaet and Co., Berners-street ; J. Harmed and Co, Liver pool ; and at the Hospital. STANFORD S. SMITH. See. I-1°Y414 NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK, (Incorporated by Royal Charter). - - • • - Founded in 1824.—Supported by Voluntary Contributions. PATnoNEss—ller Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. rttEslDEtir —Vice-Admiral his Grace the Duke of Rorthum berland,R.G., F.R.S. CHAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Fsq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P., Chair man of Lloyd's. DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN —Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of Lloyd's Registry of British and Foreign Shipping Society. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, during the past year, the Institution has incurred expenses amount ing to £6, 9 5S Is. in establishing Life-boat stations on dif ferent parts of the Coasts of Eng and, Ireland, and Scotland. The Institution has also expended on the repairs, stores, alterations, and inspection of its numerous Life-boats, Boat houses, and Transporting-carriag;es, £ 3,632 19s. ; and £1,550 for exercising the Crews of its Life-boats—making altogether a total of £11.441. During the past year the Life-boats of the Institution have been instrumental in rescuing the Crews of the following 'wrecked Vessels : Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose 1 Schooner Jane Reper, of Ulverstone Brig Pallas, of Shields .. • • • • • • • • 3 Ship Ann Mitchell, of Glasgow • • • •- 9 Smack John Bull, of Yarmouth .. • • •• 5 Schooner Catherine, of Newry Barque Niagara, of Shields .. 11 A Bargo of Teignmouth •• •• •• 2 lirig George and James, of London trig Zephyr, of Whitby 6 Coble Honour, of Cullercoats Schooner Eliza, of North Shidlds 7 'Barque Oberon, of Liverpool Brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth g Smack Wonder, of Tetamouth .. 2 Brig Scotia, of Sunderland .• 6 Sloop Three Brothers, of Goole .. .. 5 Sloop Charlotte, of Woodbridge .. • • • 5 Brig Ann, of Blyth •• • • • • •• 8 Sloop Hope, oflin •. .. 3 Schomer Druid ofAberystwyth .. • • • • 5 Barque Vermont, of Halifax, U.S. .. 16 Schooner William Keith, of Camarvon .. 2 Brig Flying Fish, of Whitby Smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis 3 Steam Dredge, at Newhaven .. .. • • • • 9 Schooner Admiral Hood, of Rochester .. .. 6 Schooner Susan and Isabella, of Dundee .. 5 Schooner Rose, of Lynn .. 3 Brig Prodroma, of Stockton .. 11 Brig Eliza, of Middlesborough .. • • •• 7 Brigantine Preia, of Konigsberg • • • • Brigantine Diana, of Predrikshamn .. • • 7 Brig Gloucestdr, of South Shields .. • • • • 7 Total .. .. • • ..210 For these and other Life-boat services the Institution has voted £9OB Bs. 4d. as re A ards. It has also granted rewards amounting to £203 4s. for saving 245 shipwrecked persons, by shore-boats and other means, making a total of 455 persons saved from a watery grave on the Coasts of the United Hingdom. During the present year (1861), the Life-boats of the Insti -1 ntion have also been instrumental in rescuing the Crews of the following Vessels 1, 070 y Nelly, of Seaham 1 5rigtIatine Nugget, of Bideford .. §etooner Prospect, of Berwick t.nlcop Thomas and Jane, of St. Ives A Fishing-boat of Whitburn Brig Arethusa, of Blyth Schooner Dewi Wyn, of Portmadoc Flat Cymraes, of Beaumaris Schooner William, of Morecambe .. Smack Gipsy, of Newry Schooner Margaret Anne, of Preston Brig New Draper, of Whitehaven Schooner William, of Liverpool I uggerNimrod, of Castletown Brig Providence, of Shields .. Brig Mayflower, of Newcastle Schooner Village Maid, of Fleetwood Barque Guy ma, of Glasgow .. Brig Roman Empress, of Shields .. Brig San Spirid one, of Galaxlde Schooner Voador du Vouga, of Vianna French Brig La Jenne Marie Therese Barque Perseverance, of Scarborough Schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewater Ship Danube, of Belfast Schooner Ffortensia, of Hanover • . Schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven Brig St. Michel, of Marans • Spanish Barque Primera de Torreviega (saved ves sel and one of the crew) .. Schooner Ilurrell, of Penzance (saved vessel and crew) .. 4 Brig Anne, of Plymouth (saved vessel and crew) 8 Schooner Betsy, of Sunderland (saved vessel and crew) .. Barque Frederick, of Dublin .. Barque Peace, of London Lugger Saucy Lass, of Lowestoft Schooner Fly, of Whitby (saved vessel and crew of four hands) • • • • Smack Adventure, of Harwich.. Pilot cutter Whim, of Lowestob Barque Undaunted, of Aberdeen 'Wrecked boat on Blackwater Bank, on the Irish coast. saved one man .. Schooner Skylark, of Folkestone • . Brig Lively, of Clay, Norfolk .. Barque Robert Watson, of Sunderland Schooner Auchincruive, of Grangemouth Schooner Friends, of Lynn .. Schooner Eliza Anne, of Dublin .. Brig Content, of Sunderland Smack Ellen Owen, of Cardigan .. Schooner Epimachus, of Amsterdam 6 .. 5 .. 6 .. 3 .. 4 .. 8 .. 2 .. 5 .. 1 .. G .. 5 .. 5 .. n - 4 .. 5 - 5 .. 3 .. 5 Tot al .. ..2SS The public cannot but sympathise with the vigorous efforts now being made by this Institution to save the lives of Ship wrecked Crews. Their help was never more needed thanat tile pres en t ti me , w h en , th roug h th e extraor di nary exer tions the Society has made within the past few years, it has now One Hundred and Twenty-one Life-boats under its man agement, tor the maintenance of which, in a state of thorough efficiency, a large permanent annual income is absolutely needed, if its humane mission is to be perpetuated. Donations and Annual , u` scriptions will be thankfully re ceived by Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard street; Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand; Messrs. Herries, Farquhar, and Co., 16, St. Jame i's-street. London ; by a 1 the Bankers in the United Kingdom ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Office of the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London, W.C. Payments may be made by Cheques or by - Post-office Orders (crossed), to Mess rs . W.lli s, Percival, alid 'Co., or to the Secre tary. ,4AUCE.-1 , 71;A AND PERRINS ►►) beg to cauticin the Public against Spurious Imitations of their world-renowed WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE. Purchasers should ASIC PGA LEA. AND PERRINS' SAUCE, Pronounced by Connoisseurs to oe "TIIF ONLY GOOD SAUCE." *V' Sold Wholesale and for Export, by the Propriet&s, Worcester; MelsrS. CROSSE and BLACKWELL, London, &c. &c., and by Grocers and Oilmen universally. TRULY EFFICACIOUS AND MILD.- Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER ?ILLS, pre cared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. t , cott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who *miler from bilious and liver complaints, indigestion, wind spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, & c. For habitual costiveness, as a faudly aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly exce ll en t ; m ild i n their opera tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appe ite, pro mote digestion, an d -trengthen the whole nervous system. Bold by W. Lambert, 20, Jermyn-street, Haymarket, London, and by most druggists, in boxes, ls. 14d., and three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package, with " William Lambert," engraved on the stamp. DR. LA'MERT ON SELF-PRESERVATION. Price ls. ; post-free, 13, En gravings and Cases. j a seled ends, 20 stamps, with Y be had of Mann and Co., 39, Cornhill, London, or direct from the Author. EL F-P RE SE RV ATI ON. —A popular Essay on Nervous and Physical Debility , resulting from injurious habits contracted in youth, or excesses in maturity, which, by prematurely exhausting the functions of Manhood, de stroy the happiness of Married Life or prevent the fulfil ment of engagements which constitute the most cherished objects of existence. By Dr. LA'MERT, 37, Bedford-square, London. Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; llember of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, &o. The above work contains most useful and interesting information on the phvsiologiFal changes which occur in the Reproductive System during the periods of youth, puberty, and manhood ; and on the due attainment of that degree of functional vigour upon which the hopes of posterity depend. It also points out how all the attributes of Man hood can be preserved to an advanced period of life, how they are lost, and how they can be recovered. It is free from the gross exaggerations, alarming descriptions, and dangerous remedies so generally resorted to by persons, who, prac tising with false medical qualifications, inflict most serious injuries, and render judicious treatment frequently abortive. The Author is the only legally qualified practitioner whose name stands on the Medical Register (the only true test of medical qualification), who has been exclu sively engaged for a series of years in the treatment of the various functional disorders of the nervous and reproductive system, which, owing to the treat discoveries of modern science, are renderA subservient to a rational, simple, and easy mode of treatment. At home for consultation daily from 10 till 2, and iron/. 6 till 8, caller perm :111y pr by Ictter,737, Beciicord:Pcluare• No. 21,690. PUI;I,, ( ;ATM • Nov ready, price 55., cloth, THE HISTORY OF SHORTHAN D WRITING. By MATTHIAS LEVY, Shorthand Writer. To which is prefixed, the System used by the Author, Truttner and Co., Paternoster-row. QATURDAY, the 4th, will be publighed the LI FIRST NUMBER for 1862 of -THE-*A.THENIEUM. Each Volume complete in.itself, with Title-page and Index. THE PRESENT DISTRESS FS TRADE fully explained in J. GEOSSMITIPS " GOVERNMENT UPON FIRST PRINCIPLES." The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficulties cs - perienced in 1860. The Crisis is at hand. Anxiety in busi ness has now become the grim torture. Purity of motive. intelligently exercised, must animate all Governments, or all is lost, All denominations of Constitutions are carefully examined in J. Grosamith's "Government upon First Prin ciples." • • - Kent and Co., Paternoster-row. The Fourth Edition, Just .Published, Bvo, in cloth, price ss. by post free, 55. 6d. ON TRUE and FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA ; with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors in relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from De bility of the Generative system, or Sexual Hypochrondriasis. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. " Dr. fickford is known - to English readers by his frequent practical contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medicalreader. We trust that this may not be the last, if he shall detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his power to correct . —London Medical Gazette. " The editor has conferred a great boon on the sufferers from this distressing malady by translating this little book, and by laying bare the scandalous practices of unqualified adventurers, who profess to cure a disease of which they know nothing, with no other object than to fill their own purses. The difference between true Spermatorrhcea and the various forms of disease which resemble it are accurately de scribed, and thus a safe guide is offered for the treatment of the malady."—Medical Circular. " We have dilated so long upon the contents of the preli minary chapter, that we have scarcely left ourselves space for any notice of the subject specially treated of by Dr. Pickford ; but the moderate price at which the 'brochure' is sold, places it within the reach of every one interested in the matter."— Dublin Medical Press. • . • London : H. Baffliere, 219, Regent-street. Now ready, price 2s. 6d., MADAME CAPLIN'S Large and Beautifully Illustrated WORK on HEALTH and BEAUTY, or Corsets and Clothing adapted to the Human Body. By the same Author, Woman and Her Wants. Price is. Dayton and Co., Holborn-hill, and from the Author 58 Berners-street, Oxicerd-street, W. MRS. DOCTOR GOSS attends and corresponds with ladies in all Female Compla'nts and functional irregularities, and in pregnancy, midwifery, and the disap pointments of marriage. References to ladies of highest distinction. See Dr. Goss's Illustrated Medical Work, " Man and Woman," price 2s. 6d., post free 31 stamps.-55, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn, London. ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, .n d Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant assort ment VA SES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink stands, heautiful inlaid Tables, Paperweights, &c., in Italian, Alabas er, Paean, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine ralogist to her ilaiesty, 149, Stand. W.C., London. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS, M INERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate he interesting study of MINERALOGY, CON CHOLOGY, Ind GEOLOGY, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. PRA 71TICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE. lIALOer Y is given by Mr. TENNAN r, at 149, Strand, W.O. RIIPTURES.-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS V - (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT Exminnow OF 1851), is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to he the most effective invention in the curative treatment of II ERN I A. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in Its effects, is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moe-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may he had,' and the truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir cumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. ed., and 31s. 6d. Postage, Is. A Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 42e. and 525. ecl. Postage, ls. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly. JEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-C a PS, fie., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, dio. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on 11Ye an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., to 16s. each. Postage 6d. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228,:Piceadilly. AN EFFECTUAL REMEDY.—LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is admitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and consumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce in curable, admirably allays the tickling which provokes f requent coughing. In approaching consumption its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for tear of suffocation, may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it. Prepared only and sold by W. Lambert, Chemist, 20, derrnyn-street, Haymarket, London, and by a'l nruggists, in bottles, 13ad., and three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular, and ask for Lambert's ksthmatic Balsam. GIVEN AWAY TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS. HENRY SMITH, M.D., of the University of Jena, has just published, for the bew i lit of Nervous ;'ufferers, a FREE EDITION of his valuable work, THE WARNING VOICE TO YOUNG MEN (120 pages). A medical work on the cure of Nervous Debility, LOSS of Memory, Dimness of Sight, Lassitude, Indigestion, Dislike 'o Society, Spermatorrhcea, Local Weakness, Muscular Re axation, Languor, Listlessness, Depression, Ric., which, if neglected, result in consumption, insanity, and premature death ; with plain directions for perfect restoration to health and vigour. The book will be sent, post free, secure from ob nervation, to any address, on receipt of a directed envelope and tN%co stamps. Address, HENRY &slim, M.D., b, Burton 3resoent, Tavistock-square, London, W.C. THE VIGOUR OF YOUTH RESTORED IN FOUR WEEKS by Dr. RICORD'S ESSENCE OF LIVE. This wonderful anent will restore manhood to the most shattered constitution, whether arising from self-pollution, excesses, nocturnal emissions, the effects of climate, or natu ral causes. The time required to cure the most inveterate case is four weeks ; and, if used according to the printed in structions (which are very simple), failure is impossible. This life-restoring remedy should be taken by all about to marry, as its effects are permanent. It is acknowledged by the medical press to be the greatest discovery ever made. Success in every case is as certain as that water quenches thirst Pr. Ricord's Essence of Life is sold in eases, with full in structions for use, at 11s., or four quantities in one for 335., end will be sent to any part of the world, carefully packed, on receipt of remittance or post-office order payable to Prout and Co., Patent Medicine Warehouse, 229, Strand, London. (Entered at Stationers' Hall.) DR. CULVERWELL'S LAST NEW WORK, ouRsELVES. Price ls., by post ls. 16. ; of Mann, 29, Cornhill. On Spermatorrlicea, Syphilis, Stricture, Haemorrhoids, Gleets, Marriage : Impediments removed, and Healthy Offspring secured. Dr. C. may be consulted daily till 12, at The Post-office Turkish Baths, 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand ; and from 1 till 9 p.m. at 3, Great Marlborough-street, W. DR. CULVERWELL'S NEW POST-OFFICE TURKISH BATHS, 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand. 2s. till 5, and Is. 6d. from 5 till 9 ; Sundays, Is. till I. An ESSAY on TURKISH BATHING, gratis. OPINIONS OF TIIE PRESS. " The Use and the Abuse of the Turkish Bath.—A very useful pamphlet has been published by Dr. Culverwell, the proprietor of the Turkish Baths in the neighbourhood of the Post-office, which presents to the uninitiated a mass of inte resting information, while those who have already encouraged this new system will derive additional advantage if they observe some of the practical regulations which the writer endeavours to enforce."—Herald and Standard, N0v.12, 1861. " The Post-office Turkish Bath 09, St. Martin's-le-Grand. —Dr. Culverwell has already established the reputation of an ab'e physician ; he has now proved himself to be a worthy philanthropist, in as far as he has established, in the heart of the City, an institution that more nearly than any disco very of modern days, goes nearer the abolition of the practice of physic, than any proposition or invention yet established, the Turkish Bath. . . Our object being merely to direct the attention of our City readers to the fact that they possess one of the best set of baths, at 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand, which the country can produce; perfect in all its appliances, and most admirable in effect. Dr. Culverwell has fitted up his baths with a degree of elegance, luxury, and refinement, which, considering the space at his disposal, is truly sur prising, while everything that taste or delicacy could desire has been obtained to add to the comfort and luxury of the visitor. . . We may justly say that if a man ever feels himself regenerated and new made, it is on coming out of a Turkish Bath."—Era, Oct. 13, 1861. DR. CURTIS' MEDICAL WORK, MANHOOD : & MEDICAL ESSAY ON SPERMATORRWE X, NERVOUS AND GENERATIVE DEBILITY, &a lust Published, the 150th thousand, with numerous plates, in a sealed envelope, price is., Sold by all Booksellers, and sent post paid, by the Author, for 12 stamps, ANHOOD: the CAUSE and CURE of PRE MATURE DECLINE IN MAN, with Plain Directions for Perfect Restoration to health and Vigour. By Dr. J. L. Corns, 15, Albernaarle-street, Piccadilly, Louder. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER on the Physiological structure and Functions of the Reproductive Organs. CHAPTeIt IL—Causes of Spermatorrhcea and Impotence; ?aril , Vicious Indulgences; Dangers of Neglect. CHAPTER lII.—A Review of the various Disqualifications 4 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 Gonorrhoea and Syphilis. The Book concludes with numerous varied and interesting sees, to which is added the Author's recipe of a preventive Lotion. REVIEWS Ol' THE WORK. "Curtis on Manhood.—This is a truly valuable work, and hould be in the hands of young and old. —" Sunday Times," nd March, 1856. "The author has conferred a great boon by publishing this tittle work, in which is described the source of those diseases which produce decline in youth or more frequently premature old age."—" Daily Telegraph," March 27, 1856. " This work, which for twenty years has stood the test of professional criticism and empirical hostility, treats in aplain and sympathising manner on the various disqualifications Ind impediments arising from liervous excitement and de !Alit? ; and to invalids suffering from youthful errors and excesses it will be found valuable and useful."—Record. - - • London : Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, Pater noster-row; Mann. 319, CornhilL JOUrli QICQUAIUMI9II-49 tio 3 and OtQ 5 sundays, e , > ) - lz. e_ , . . . " - . . ... .• . / ,-- 7 . ... • \ . ' 111 ' . 4 .. ....-,/ , 7 o / 17(_/' A/"X'. • .. . / ' 4,NIWS PAPER' - . . ... , . . . 0---.( 2 ./ . _ v - • _____ ___.,,/7... z ,-- .a.2-6_,) :4 q - '7•:? 1 C:! ..• . , .. , , ... _ , x 4 , . , .. :.- 'flittk,o .... ;si 4 geArii4. 'x r. 7 f" : : .: 1-1:17 . 7 . , 4 .., , ,th u ": $4 .‘ •.: 44 , --r - • a - 4.-iii. ( 4 4 - A , .__ e larr • ?, , 1 •„ 6 -..1 :oug . ,t • r ..,. ~; 1 .-- '\- - ~ N v ~..., , _., ; 11 . '. ....,w, t,, • ......,.//,.11 1 ,‘ _ ti,, . !.., ~,cli__-_: - ,, r 01 , 1 ,___ ,,e .: ~- ~:), .., --, - . ........ . 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The Secret Committee which presides over the delibera tions has determined that the peasants should be set entirely free, and possess such landed property as falls to their lot, and that the State should indemnify- the proprietors from the public trea sury for any losses they may thus sustain. As to Poland, the committee declare that liberty can not be established in Russia without the restoration of Poland to its former independence; that it must be clear to every Russian that the subjugation of Poland can only be maintained at the sacrifice of an immense army, its blood, and a ruinous expense—in one word, by a most revolting military despoti:im and that should such a system be pursued in Poland'., and no other can be employed, it is quite incom patible with anything like freedom to which Russia. now aspires. The restoration of Poland, among the Russians, is not a matter of sentimentality, it is one of justice and sound policy, and as such a fore runner of a better future. The third question is not decided yet, there being a difference of opinion as to the extent of reforms that could be practically carried out ; but on one point_ a perfect harmony seems to prevail, that the present reigning dynasty are incapable and unfit for a constitutional govern ment. ...4d. STAMPED ....sd. by private individuals, he was of opinion tha the Government of the day should undertake such questions, and that it was its bounden duty to do so, instead of giving a mock support to individuals who could not possibly succeed. Then, as regarded church rates the same principle applied, because in point-of fact that measure was destroyed by allowing it to remain in the hands of. , private and independent members of Parliament. But if the Government treated those measures as they should have done, they would soon become law. They had shown the liveliest sympathy for vote by ballot, find other free institutions of the Italian States ; but though he admired that course of policy very much, he should like to ace the same principle extended a little more in England. For his own part he doubted whether, after all,, they were not• running here after a shadow, while a great and powerful neighbouring kingdom had not only re ceived already great aenuisitions, but would 'un doubtedly get more. Then, as to the state of things at the other bide of the Atlantic, he was afraid the line of demarcation between the contending parties was too great to give any hope of_amicable relations ever existing between them. Under these circum stances, it was the duty of the British Government to keep the strictest neutrality=and even in rela tion to the communications of Mr. Secretary Seward the conduct of her Majesty's Ministers was mild and conciliatory, which gave the people of America opportunity to boast and . bluster. The belligerent rights of the Confederate States were acknowledged both by England and France, and in consequence such was the assurnptibn of authority on the part of the Northern States with respect to - England that it was, in his opinion, no longer to be borne. They repudiated the Queen's proclamation, in the first instance, and added to the insult by that most ag gravating outrage committed on a late occasion. He hoped, however, the course taken by the Go vernment would teach the American people a wiser lesson, and that Messrs. Mason and Slidell would at once be surrendered. He was afraid, however, that that surrender would not put an end to diffi culties for the future. They had not as yet recognised the Southern States, but he would remind them that the time may come when they might refuse to trade with this country in consequence of a want of that recognition. He believed they were approaching a crisis of great and unexampled difficulty, for the supply of cotton was diminishing ; it would, week by week, grow less, and in a few months the industry of mil lions may vanish from the land. To this it may be added that the crops in America were in such a condition that no effort on the part of the planters could send a supply that would give the people in the manufacturing districts work for even half time, and he hoped the Government would remem ber that if driven into war it was owing to the haughty and overbearing arrogance of the North American people. (Cheers.) It ought to be re membered that when the South American States seceded from the Spanish Crown the Presidents of America were the first to recognise their indepen dence until the Republics of New Granada, Vene zuela, and Equador quarrelled among themselves, and then they stepped in and recognised the inde pendence of each State, because it suited the pur pose of an American Congress, and American citi zens had large pecuniary demands upon them. The same course was pursued with respect to Hungary in 1848, and how could such a Govern ment find fault with England for recognising the Confederate States of America, having a civil Go vernment of their own, and being up to this moment in almost every instance victorious in the field P (Cheers.) It must not be forgotten the terrible risks their manufacturing population were now subjected to, end he hoped therefore the whole nation would preserve the honour and dignity it, had at the cost of great suffering and sacrifice tic: quired, and not abate one jot of what was justly their right, in defending the honour of the British flag. The hon. member resumed his seat amid loud applause. Mr. BURNIE moved the usual vote of confidence in the hon. gentleman, which being seconded was unanimously carried, and the proceedings termi nated. An address to the Emperor, embodying all these points, and pourtraying the sufferings of the Rus sian people, has been drawn up and widely spread, and has received thousands of signatures. _ _ _ Such a state of things in Russia must inevitably lead to fundamental changes, and perhaps to a split If ,this .colossal but hetcrogfneous empire, and withal to the benefit of the several nations who are now groaning under the Muscovite oppression. THE SUN, LONDOPI, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, .1832. THE NAVY. The Mersey ) 40, screw, Capt. H,.Caldvvell, C. 8., according to latest advices from Bermuda,was under orders to sail for Vera Cruz, to land there a body of 500 men. Letters received at Portsmouth by the last C:pe mail from her Msjesty's sloop Espoir, Commander Douglas, dated at St. Helena, state that she was going to sail immediately for Ascension, where several vessels had been ordered to meet to enable a court-martial to be held. _ The Espoir's crew had suffered greatly from fever, as in addition to the loss of her senior lieutenant, she had at one time 35 out of her crew of 60 in hospital. The Vigilant, 6, screw, Commander' J. W. Pike, remains at Spithead, awaiting ordeisi She made her official trial of speed at the measured mile in Stokei-bay on Thursday,under the superintendence of Mr. Q. Murdoch, Inspector of Machinery Afloat, and Mr: Miller, Second Engineer of her Majesty's Dockyard. Her draught of water was 12ft aft and llft forward ; pressure of steam, 151 b ; ,vacuum, 211 b; revolutions of engines, maximum, 84 ; mean, 80; mean Speed of six runs, 9.833 knots. A complete circle was made under full steam in 5 min 39 sec. The Black Prince, 40, iron frigate, at Portsmouth, is ordered to be fitted with a spare fishhead abaft her present cathead, on nearly the same principle as that adopted in the French Imperial navy, by which means, when getting up her anchor, she will be enabled to transfer and carry it its full length abaftef its present position. The value of the-pro posed improvement will be at once understood by all who have once seen our liners and frigates under full steam, burying their bows in the immense wave they drive before them, diminishing their speed, straining them in every part, and drenching their decks with water. In the old sailing liners the anchors were well water-borne, although their eatheads were well over the bows ; but in the War rior, Black Prince, and other fine bowed craft the case is very different. The Chanticleer, 17, screw, Commander C, Stirling, lying off Osborne, is the first vessel that has been fitted at Portsmouth on this plan. A great improvement, as affecting their sailing qualities and stability, it is allowed by all competent to judge of such matters, might have been made in the forms of the hulls of both th e Black Prince and the Warrior, in giving each of them less rise of floor and 12 inches of keel. They would probably then have sailed on equal terms with such ships as the Revenge,and would certainly have rolled less than they do now in a seaway. The Prince Regent, 86, screw, in the steam 'basin at Portsmouth, got up steam yesterday to test joints, &0., on her machinery being got together by the contractors. _ _ _ The Sutlej, 51, screw,was removed from the steam basin at Portsmouth yesterday, on her completion for the pennant. The Foam, Cracker, Earnest, and Pheasant gun boats, at Portsmouth, each received their 100-poun der Armstrong, with its equipment, at Portsmouth yesterday. To complete them for sea they have now but to receive their 40-pounder Armstrongs, which they will do at sunset to-day. Yesterday the screw steam gunboats Britomart, 60 horse power, and Sandfly, 60 horse power, attached to the first division of the steam reserve in the Medway, went alongside the Ordnance wharf at Chatham for the purpose of taking on board their Armstrong guns. The Britomart was furnished with one 100 pounder Armstrong, one 40-pounder Arm strong, and two 24 pounder brass howitzers; and the Sandfly with one 100-pounder Armstrong, and one 32-pounder cast iron smooth bore gun. Each gunboat also shipped a large quantity of Armstrong shot and shell, together with a miscellaneous assort ment of stores,. They are both equipped for sea, and will proceed, it is understood, to one of the Irish ports. Although there is a large amount of work re quiring to be executed in the Resistance, 18, iron steamer, at Chatham, before she is fully for sea, that vessel is, nevertheless, in a much forwarder state than the sister ship Defence was when docked in the same dock at Chatham. Most of the heavy portion of the work on board the Resistance is com pleted, and the attention of the workmen employed on her will be turned to completing and arranging her magazines for the heavy stores ,of gunpowder and shell she will carry, besides the other internal fitments. Her pumps are all fixed. With extra exertions she could be ready to be undocked in about a month or six weeks' time. The following vessels have been chartered by the Government for the conveyance of stores to India and the colonies :—The Rockliffe, 680 tons, for Ma dras; the Onward, 571 tons, for Calcutta; the Un rivalled, 812 tons, for Bombay ; the Veronica, 322 tons, for Hong Kong ; the William, 703 tons, the David Malcolm, 590 tons, and the Alert, 212 tons, for St. Helena; and the Caroline Elizabeth,. 505 tons, for the Cape of Good Hope. The follow ing ships have been chartered by the Emigration Commissioners for the conveyance of emigrants to the colonies :—The Abyssinian, 1,072 tons, for Sydney ; the Mary Harrison, 781 tons, for Fre mantle; and the Nipisiquit, 340 tons, for Natal. Lieut. Gillies, and Lieut. Brother, 7 sergeants, and 110,gunners, intended for duty in Halifax garrison. They were escorted to the wharf by the regimental band, the music, ordered to cease playing after the death of his Royal . Highness the Prince Consort, having been permitted to perform as usual. The passage of the troops through the town was hailed, as on the former occasions, by the cheers and accla mations of the people, and the conduct of the troops was remarkably good. The statement contained in some of the morning, and copied into the evening 'papers of Thursday, of the departure of Royal Ar tillery from Woolwich for America, was incorrect, a detachmenthaving left for Tilbury Fort only. A quorum of three field-officers, consisting of Lieut.-Col. W. P. Radcliffe, 2d battaliA 20th Regiment, president, Lieut.-Col. Dickson, 16th Lancers, and Lieut.-Col. Furness, Royal Artillery, assembled at :the Victoria Library, Aldershot, on Thursday, for the purpose of drawing up a report upon the condition and working of the library, for the information' of his Royal Highness the General Commanding-ia-Chief. The deaths of the following military officers have been officially reported at the War-office since the Ist of December :—Field Marshal his Royal Highness Francis AlbertAugnstus Chas. Emanuel, the Prince Consort, Duke of Saxony, Prince of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, K.G., K.T,, K.P., G.C.8., and G.C.M.G., Col. of the Grenadier Guards, Col; in-Chief of the Rifle Brigade, Governor and Con stable of Windsor Castle, and 'Col. and Capt.-Gen. of the Hon. AefiLlery Company of- Lendow Gens . Sir E. Bowater, K C.H., CiA. 49th Regiment, and A. Armstrong, late Royal Irish Artillery; Lieut.- Gene. tie Hon. J. Finch, C. 8., 24th Regiment, and D. Daly ; Lieut.-Cols. R;Daly, 3d Buffs; J, Ward, 'f3lst Regiment; W. Ready and H. North, 14th Regiment ; Captains W. C. Grant, 2d Dragoon Guards, 'and T. M- Mottley, Royal Artillery ; Lieuts. R. B. Stone, Royal Artillery, W. F, A. E. Presgrave, 17th Regiment, E. Penfold, 12th Dra goons; H. A. Mosse, 94th Regiment; W. V. Riet, Cape Corps, J. Grant and F. W. Vieth ; Ensign C. J. Wix ; 11th Regiment ; Paymaster R. W. Kyffin, 12th Regiment ; Commissary-General W. Fielder, C.B. ; Deputy Commissary-General T. Stickney ; Inspector-General of Hospitals W. Daw son, M.D. ; Surgeon W. M'Andrew, M.D., 57th Regiment; Deputy-Assistant Superintendent of Stores A. G. Crawford; Solicitor, W. G. Carter, Coldstream Guards. MR. BEE CROFT, M.P., ON FEMALE EDUCA.TION. At the annual soiree of the Wodehouse Me• chanics' Institute, Leeds, held during the present week, under the presidency of the Mayor J. Kitson Esq., Mr. BEECROFT, M.P., one of the members for the borough, spoke on the value of female education. The hon. member, who was received with applause, said—The idea of education, when we come to ana- e ly x s i e st i i t n , g as e s c u o m no e m s I think, that, in the y or o p f re t s h u rw o o se r s ld , , some things there are which have not perfection impressed upon them primarily, or at once, but which are made to depend for the attainment of their perfection upon the gradual application of human instrumentality. We observe in this respect great diversity in the opera tions of nature. Some of the laws which the Supreme Being has impressed upon the universe are wholly and entirely beyond the power, the direc tion, the influence, the will of man. Certain laws —such, for instance, as those which regulate the motion of the heavenly bodies, and determine the time of the seasons—are what wo may call absolute laws. Like gravitation, or pulsation, they are, so ar as man is concerned, perfect involuntary—being in no wise dependent upon man for their origin, their scope, their continuance, or any circumstances what- ever. In reference to law* like these the idea of gaining or education has no place. We do not in form our hearts how to beat. We do not instruct matter to gravitate. The times and seasons are not trained by us to observe their appointed round. Nor do we educate the planets to move in their respec tive orbits. Here the law, which is Divine, is from the first complete and perfect, lacking nothing, and leaving nothing for man to supplement. Other l a ws, however, there are, which in the very order of God's providence, are, to a considerable extent, brought within - the reach of human influence, and subject to modification at the guiding or disposing hand of man. Of these the law of growth, or the law of development is one. En the growth of fruits, vegetables, and cereals, man has to perform an assisting process—he trains them. This regulative training, when ap• plied to the law of the growth or development of the human being, constitutes, in fact, education. For, in truth, education is nothing more or less than this, the right training of the human species in its growth or development as a compound being, con sisting of body, mind, and spirit. Education is the proper training of the growing human intellect. Education is the proper training of the growing human affections. Education is the proper training of the development of our spiritual nature. Thus in man, at his birth, no part of his complex being is perfect; but everything requires to be educated —his physical being, his mental being, his moral being, his soul. And thus also is it of necessity a providential dispensation that each generation is the trainer or educator of that which succeeds it. But now, sir, I must observe, that as education is the proper lalso of the whole being of the individual , so a proper training of the infant, of the o training i s it the child, of the adult. Education is the proper train ing of the rich ; and it is the proper training of the poor. Education is the proper training of the man ; and to come to the sentiment entrusted to me, it is the proper training of the woman. (Hear, hear.) Female education, like any other form of class edu cation, has some special characteristic features of its own, and one which it possesses in common with the other divisions of education. If it is not the education of the dominant sex; if it is not the educa tion of the sex out of which the members of our learned professions are taken ; if it is not the educa tionwhich supplies our ministers, our statesmen, our judges, our magistrates, our clergy ; if it is an edu cation which looks rather to private life than to public or to political life, it is nevertheless an edu cation which has to ao with a most important class of the community, with those upon whom we are dependent for the supply of our domestic necessities and our home comforts; with those who in our family circle are our pleasant companions, our loving friends, our help-meets, our ministering angels; with those who are the bearers of the rising gene ration, and who, more than any others, by their sweet influence on the infant and the child, deter mine the future of the man. Under circumstances like these the education of woman cannot be other wise than a matter of paramount importance; and I wish we might venture to assume that this educa tion was perfectly satisfactory, both as to the direc tion which it takes, and the degree to which it pro ceeds. (Hear.) But recent investigations have, I fear, proved (see the report of the Education Com missioners) that the popular education of girls (as well as boys) is defective—being ambitious and superficial rather than useful and solid. As an ex treme illustration of this, I suppose, one school is cited in which it appeared that almost every girl had a crinoline, but hardly any girl possessed a pocket-handkerchief. (Applause and laughter.) If popular female education so missed the mark in other respects, what a burlesque it would be ! Hap pily this is not the case ; but still there are some errors to be deplored, and some mistakes to be rec tified ; and we need more than ever to work by this rule, that education, in so far as it is common to all ranks, should be useful and solid ; and that where it is special for any rank, it should be appropriate to that rank. I am not quite sure that the physical edu cation of woman is appreciated or attended to as it ought to be. Health, and exercise as a means to health, are too much ignored, es pecially amongst the higher classes. In our more elevated women, delicacy and refinement are great charms; but delicacy and refinement are pushed too far when obtained at the sacrifice of the bone, muscle, sinew, nerves, and all that goes to constitute the physical conformation of the motherhood of young England. (Hear, hear.) lam not proposing the fast young lady as a model, to her sex ; nor do I suggest that our maidens, like our yang men, should play at cricket, or take an oar, orfollow the hounds. But I do venture to think that in every bodily exercise which consists with feminine pr:lpriety, there is that which ministers to their own comfort and hap piness, and which conduces to the wellbeing and elevation of posterity. As to that part of female education which consists in the cultivation of the mind, there are I think three things requiring spe cial consideration. 1. The subjects of education. These should in general be useful rather than am- bitious. To read well, to write fairly, to have a sufficient acquaintance with accounts, to have some knowledge of the earth on which we dwell, and of the inhabitants thereof—this I suppose ought to be the minimum of any one's education. , 2. The next point to be attended to is , the kind of education. This ought to be solid, rather than superficial. Whatever is done, let it to well done. Depth is better than extent. 3.' The last point I shall notice is the extent of education. This of course depends upon the rank, condition, and future prospects of the woman. Education must be special as well as general, must fit the woman to do her duty in that psrticuJar state of to which God's prOvidenee calls her. (Hear.) This at once defines the extent of education. To the female children of the working classes, the ability to cut out, to sew, to make clothes, to cook, to bake, to wash, is of far greater importance than any skill of fancy work, in crochet, in embroidery. For the industrious classes, we want a special industrious education. Then, again, as to those who are to become wives and mothers, not under "limited liability," but at any rate with limited means, what education so important as that which teaches them the value of money, how to make much of a little, how to rear children, how to guide a household ? Accomplish ments are not to be excluded from the idea of female education. They are to be excluded, indeed, from the education of those females who have time and opportunity only for what is useful. In all other cases they are admissible, except that education ust not consist of ornament and accomplishments only. Neither must these be put first; they must be preceded by, and built upon, the solid super structure of useful education, I see no reason why men should be jealous 'of clever women. If God bestows upon a woman great intellectual power and. free leisure to cultivate it, there is plainly a call to the work. Nor need we assign any limit to the mental culture in this case, which we should not assign to the intellectual culture of a man similarly placed. (Hear, hear.) The degradation of woman is the degradation of man ; her elevation is his ele vhtion. Educate woman, and you secure the intel lectual progress of posterity, and the true aggran disement of your country. MR, AIRTON, 111. P., AND HIS CON- STITUENTS. Mr. Ayrton met a numerous meeting of his con stituents last night at the Beaumont Institution, Mile-end-road, to explain to them the course he pursued during the last session, and give his opinions on the present momentous crisis. Shortly after half-past seven o'clock the chair was taken by Robert Charles, Esq., who thanked the meeting for he honour conferred on him, and introduced their worthy member, who was anxious to explain to them to his views on the political topics of the day. Mr. AYRTON then came forward and was very warmly received. After alluding to his efforts to promote their local prosperity, and assuring them of his anxiety to continue doing so, he complained hat the constitution of the Metropolitan Board of Works was not such as gave a fair representation ,o the ratepayers of the metropolis. It was also a great cause of just complaint that the city of London should enjoy the immunities it possessed for centu ries. The coal tax, for instance, was an intolerable burden, They would be surprised when he told them what went on in Parliament during the last session with respect to taxation. It appeared, by a com mittee of which he was a member, that though the city of London up to the year 1750 received only about £l,lOO a year for doing certain duties, yet in he year before the committee sat that sum increased _ _ o £76,000 a year, and there was besides a sum o £276,000 which ought to have been placed in the hands of proper representatives, instead of allowing it to remain where it stood. The fact was that the taxes on the people were such that he knew no how long they would bear them. (Cheers.) He alluded next to the manifest injustice done to jurors in keeping them dangling about the courts from day to day, at great expense and inconvenience, and expressed it as his opinion that they ought to have one central court in some convenient part of the metropolis, where all parties could be accommo dated. He believed that that was the great object of the present Lord Chancellor, and he was glad to say it was a subject of his most particular attention. With respect to the question of the Poor-law Re moval, they had a measure introduced last session which he regretted to say was not one of which he could approve. They had many measures brought forward on this topic for many years, and yet, notwithstanding all the experience acquired, and the inquiries entered into, the bill of last session was really of a most imperfect description. He felt it his duty to express his indignation on the short-comings of that measure, and hoped that, in the end, the interests of millions would prepon derate over those of a few thousands of great power and influence. Then, with respect to the Post-office Savings Banks, he was one of the first to suggest the principle ; but although he thought the savings of the people were secure in these establishments, he did not think it wise that the Crown should undertake such duties, but that the people should be incited to help themselves, rather than have these extraordinary aids afforded them. (Hear.) There were other questions to which he paid great attention, such as the improvement in the law of bankruptcy, although he could not coincide with the divergency in the law between the rich and the poor—or rather between the man who owed large debts, as compared with the poor man who owed but a few shillings. That anomaly he promised to have remedied as soon as it was possible. Then with respect to the question of edu cation, he was entirely for a voluntary system, in dependently of the state, on the principle put for ward by Adam Smith as regarded commerce, so that the people may be taught in the end that the instruction of the minds of their children was as necessary as sustenance for their bodies. To the last education minute he entirely subscribed, though he denounced the conditions with which its promoters clogged its working, believing as he did that it was not a sound principle to give a million of money to a committee of the Privy Council, but that it should be placed entirely under the control of Parliament, and Parliament alone. (Hear.) With respect to free trade, it meant an anxious competition to pro mote the welfare of the people, and not an encou ragement to combinations to put down the working classes. He was a supporter of the former, and would on all occasions endeavour to do so to the utmost of his power- As to India, he had been in that country, and felt it to be his bounden duty to take part in the legislation respecting it. Some of his views and suggestions were adopted by the Go vernment, but he could assure them there was no ground whatever for the reports spread in the Tower Hamlets that one of their members was to be pro vided for. (A laugh.) With respect to a reform bill, they all knew the history of that question ; and although he supported measures brought for ward THE ARMY Y. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge is recovering from an attack of gout. Yesterday, al though his Royal Highness was much better, he wcs unable to attend at the Horse Guards. On Wednesday morning one of the Citizens' River Steamers Company's steamers conveyed from Cork to Queenstown No. 8 battery of the Royal Artillery, numbering 250 men and 7 office - zs. Among the Later were Capts. Morris and Shackely, Lieuts. Jago, Budgeon, and Younger, and Dr. Stacker, Veterinary-Surg. They embarked at Queenstown on board the Mauritius transport, en unto to Canada. The headquarters of the 69th, which arrived on Saturday from the Curragh,under the command of Col. Schovel,will proceed to Canada by the same vessel. Several officers and 200 non • commissioned officers and privates of the 15th Regiment left the King's bridge terminus, Dublin, last week, by special train for Cork, whence they were to proceed to Queens town and embark on board the transport Adelaide for Canada. The main body of the 15th Regiment were to proceed to Cork, on Thursday, by train for the purposes of embarkation. Orders have been received that all the troops leaving Ireland for Canada are to embark at Queenstown. Col. R. P. Haynes, Bth Regiment, has been ap pointed Brigadier- General to the 3d Infantry Brigade, vice Brigadier-General D. Russell, pro ceeded to British North America. Coutrary to the usual practice at this season of the year, no cessation whatever has taken place in the field-work operations of the Royal and Indian Engineers at Chatham, the whole of the officers and men who can be spared from their other duties being daily employed on the Royal Enginners' practising ground in the various operations eon= nected with the formation of earthworks and the construction of saps, parallels, galleries, and batte ries, in order that the men may be fully competent to take field whenever despatched from England for foreign service. By the end of next week 200 men will have completed their different courses of in struction, and be in readiness for embarkation for wherever their services may be required. The subjoined detail of officers, non-commissioned officers, and gunners of the Royal Artillery assem bled last night on parade at Woolwich, and left at 7 o'clock per special train for Liverpool to embark in the Cunard steamship Arabia for North America. The force comprised three brigades of garrison artillery, consisting of Col. Graydon, Major Hope, Capt. C. E. Sterling, Capt. F. N. Cromartie, Lieuts. R. J. Millet, H. W. Rooke, W. J. Scott, F. W. Carey, and W. R. Molesworth, 14 sergeants, and 220 rank and file, and Major Child, Capt. Brown, AMERICAN COTTON. , It must be confessed that our anticipated cotton famine has hitherto resembled one of those evils which diminish as they approach, and which are found more manageable in proportion as they are more closely grappled with. Such, at any rate, would be the natural conclusion on a retrospect of 1861. We have got through half the winter without more distress than has often been created by commercial impru dence, and it is even doubted whether the actual suspension of manufacturing industry is not due in a greater degree to a slackness of demand following on over-production than to a lack of material created by the American blockade. These deductions require, it is true, some qualification, but at present the aspect of the cotton market is very remarka ble indeed, and the statistics of the trade show us distinctly that no great pressure can have hitherto been felt. The price of American cotton at this moment is about 50 per cent. higher than it was at this time last year. Tha` is the while amount of the difference established by events which were expected to deprive us of our supplies altogether. The rise is not much greater than the rise in the price of meat. Beef and mutton are half as dear again as they were a year or two ago, and yet the consumption appears to be main tained. If we look more closely loth° figures of the Liverpool reports, we shall discover still further reason to be surprised. Taking the year 1861 as a whole, and comparing it with the year 1860, we find that we got nearly as much cotton from America in one period as in the other. Theyear 1860 brought us 3,151,563 bales ; the year just past—a year of civil war, commercial convulsion, and maritime blockade—brought us 2,791,892 bales ; and, as we began last year with a some what larger stock on hand, the aggregate supplies of the two periods really show but little difference. What seems still more curious is, that it. December, 1861, the stocks of cotton of all descriptions were actually greater than in De cember, 1860, so that upon a general survey it would ap • pear as if the interruption of the American trade had pro duced no effect at all. This conclusion, however, requires, as we have said,some modification. The truth is, the cotton year does not begin with January or end with December. The supplies re ceived from America in 1861 represented the drop of 1860, and that crop had been pretty well transmitted to us before the blockade of the Southern ports was established. 'The crop of 1861 would only be on its passage to us at this time, and would be gradually reaching us, if things had remained as usual. These are the supplies which' we shall miss as _ _ the present year rolls on, and the loss of which we must endeavour to compensate by imports from other countries. For instance, at this time last year 170,000 bales of Ame rican cotton were known to be at sea, on their way to our shores, whereas at the present moment there is, not a single bale expected. On the other hand, we know that 88,000 bales have been shipped frcm India for us, and will phortly arrive, whereas at the beginning of 1861 only 65,00 were coming ; this does not redress the balance. The actual steekof American cotton at the pr esent time is not half what: it was 12 months ago, and it is not likely to be replenished, except by the termination of the blockade. Here, therefore, the pinch will be felt ; but, though it may increase somewhat in severity, it is not probable that it will be so severe as was anticipated. But there is one feature of the cotton market which will certainly appear surprising. We are now actually supply ing the Northern States of America with American-grown cotton. The manufacturers of Lowell are in want of the raw material for their mills, and they can procure it only at Liverpool. The Americans of the Federal States have themselves blockaded the ports of the South, and they find that their attempts to establish a privileged emporium at at Port Royal, and drawn the cotton crop to a market under the Federal flag, have altogether failed. So, from,sheer inability to obtain supplies elsewhere, they have come to England, and we last week exported to the United. States upwards of 3,000 bales of cotton which the United States had previously exported to us, Besides this, we sent them nearly 1,000 bales of East India cotton, and it is on these stocks that they must henceforth. draw. It is curious to speculate on the paradoxical results which such events involve. We have endured the loss of American cotton with less pressure hitherto than anybody could have expected. We may say, indeed, that the ultimate conse quence of the interruption will be to place our cotton sup plies on a better and less precarious footing than before; but what may be the consequences to the Americans them selves ? The Southern States would lose their monopoly and the chief source of their wealth ; the Northern States, until they make peace with the rebels, would be deprived of all supplies from that quarter, and, if they were now to resolve on going to war with us, would cut themselves off from the only market where cotton could be obtained. In stead of Liverpool depending on America, it is America which depends on Liverpool, and it is Americans, and not Englishthen, who ought to dread a war which will deprive their manufacturers of raw material, These very people who have placed an interdict on the exports from cotton fields are now compelled to resort for the cotton to the markets which their own proceedings were designed to starve, and if they now quarrel vt ith England they will find that we can actually inflict upon them the very scarcity which they always believed they could inflict upon us. The fact is, there are monopolies of consumption as well as of production, and we enjoyed the former while the Ame ricans possessed the latter. England was the market for cotton if America was the field, and it seems easier to change the field than to change the market. No sooner does the production of America cease than the cultivation of cotton is eagerly taken up by other countries, but Liver pool is still the market for all. Whatever cotton is grown finds its way to Liverpool, and it is to Liverpool that all cotton buyers must come. It is we who hold the keys of the market, and command the supply. The Americana themselves can do nothing without us. We can paralyse their manufactures and destroy their home trade. If they now force a quarrel upon us, they will lose not only our manufactured goods, but the power of manufacturing such goods fer themselves. Our mills will go on working at least as briskly as they do at present, probably more so, but the American mills would come to a stop. We should get alI the cotton procurable from the Southern States in addition to what we now get from other quarters, but the Northers Americans would get none at all. It appears too as if these unexpected conditions of the cotton -market were likely to be, if not permanent, at any rate of some duration. There is little prospect of a renewal of the American monopoly. The Southern planters decided some time ago that if the cotton crop of last year could not be sent to market they would not raise another in the ensu ing season, but would devote their attention to breadstffs and other articles of food. The exigencies of the war, in deed, would render such a course absolutely inevitable, for the Confederate States must feed themselves, The cessa tion of the blockade and the revival of the trade with Eng land would, indeed, modify these conditions; but there still remains the question of slavery, and the Northerners ap pear to entertain the doctrine of abolition exactly as their chances of success diminish. If the Southern Confederacy were recognised by the European Powers, we might expect, from all we have seen, that emancipation would be pr 9• claimed at once. Altogether there se ems very little likel ( ;- hood of any speedy or effectual re-establishment of thnrs can otrapoi y e of the South, and the suspens ion of this he will be equivalent to its decay. Before the p r ecover themselves the market wi ll be in the hands of rivals who will be difficult to dislodg e, and, though there will be ample room for competition, there will be little further chance for monopoly.—Timcs•____ Mr. Samuel Harper, many years a member of the Committee of Lloydrs, as well as of the Committee of Lloyd's Registry Society , has a ccepted the post of su p er i n tendent of the underwriting business of the Univer sa l Marine In- Burma, cowparl y, and was elected a director yesterday. POLAND. WARSAW, DEC. 24. The official organ has, no doubt by order of the Government, denied the condemnation of the priests and other persons to exile i❑ Russia or to the mines in Siberia. Nothing can be easier than to give to this denial the most positive contradiction, for here are the names of some of the unfortunate victims — The Rev. Mr. Smolinski and the Rev. Mr. Pierer have been sent to Perm ; the Rev. Mr. Wiszniew- ski and theßev. Mr.lllleezek to Kostrom ; the Reve. Teskao, Sigismond, and Borowski to Wiatka ; the Rev. Mr. Kryniski to Kason ; the Key. Mr. Zak°. zewski to Takonlok ; the Rev. Mr. Rzewnski, to Vologoda ; the Rev. Mr. Tastriembski to Volomi dir. The destination of the Rev. Mr. Kurzacow ski is not known yet, and that of many other ecele- siastics. Of the workmen and artisans a great number have also been despatched to the same quarter—indeed, the official journal has printed a list of them ; and it is hardly necessary to repro duce it in this short correspondence. Twelve stu dents from the Academy here, and ten other young gentlemen from Kalisch, among whom are Xavier, Wolowski, Brukowski, Chlehowski, Skorabiski, &c., have also been sent off to those pleasant regions ; and in spite of this clearance the prisons are swarm ing with fresh candidates. The most arbitrary mode of pouncing upon people is adopted. Thus, Mr. Baumann, a merchant, was mistaken for his clerk, arrested, and kept in prison, nobody knows why. His wife, having solicited his release, was told that until the clerk be produced, her husband must be detained. At Kolo Colonel \Vigmor had ordered the president of the town to be incorporated in the Russian army, and his head entirely shaved. The family lodged a complaint against so tyrannical a proceeding with Mr. Krusenstern,Under Secretary of State in the Ministry of the Interior, who re- plied, that in times of war, military men are not called upon to account to the civil authorities for the measures they may think fit to adopt. Mr. Krusenstern (who I believe is a German) is the same gentleman that issued a circular enjoining his agents to arrest all suspected persons and to carry them to the nearest prison or fortress. Mr. Hube, who replaced the Marquis Wielopolski, as director in the ministry of Public Worship, has entered upon a regular war w ith the clergy. See in g the impossibility of inducing the priests to open the churches by persuas ion, he compelled the monks who profess the Greco-Latin creed to open their churches, in whic h he obtained help from the bishop, who was fright ened at the loss of the pro perty the Church possesse s, and which was to be confiscated. This threat, however, did net , succeed with the Roman Catholic p r iesthood, who remain unm o v eable in their det e o fficial rmination declaration that they not to open the churches without an will not be profaned. Pressed by Mr. Hube, they replied that the decision must come from the Archdeacon Bie.lobrziski, the administrator of the io ecnes on ed t Warsaw,o death,who,as you know, having b is still lingering in the diocese of condemned citadel of Warsaw. As if not satisfied with this sort of campaign, the Government is about to levy 20,000 recruits for the Russian army. This is a pretty fine specimen of the boasted benevolence and good disposition of the Czar towards the Poles ; and it is surprising how the European public are credulous in believing that an autocrat could wield his sceptre otherwise than by exercising it in the most tyrannical manner. This opinion is not exaggerated ; it is shared by even all the enlightened and intelligent part of the Russian people, who themselves are beginning to call for a different treatment. In proof of this, I may cite a 'wide-spread conspiracy in Russia, whose _