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HOTELS, &-c. CHAPLIN'S liOTEL. AND SPREAD EAGLE TAVERN, 84, GRACECHITRCH-STREET, LONDON. Comfort, combined with moderate charges, will be found at this Establishment:- PRIVATE APARTMENTS FOR FAMILIES. Sitting Room, 3s. - per Day. Bed Rooms, ls. 6d. arAd 2s. per Night. A Night Porter in attendance. No INGREA Az OF CHARGES. INDIA "AND THE COLONIES pASSENGEB:B Embarking or Disembarking will find F..uperior accommodation and moderate charges at CHAPLINTJ CLARENDON HOTEL, GRAVESEND , Adjoining the Terrace Pier. A, lawn in front, extend; to the River. LONDON, 1 91 FLEET-ST REE T, near T HE , T e mple-bar. SAWYER'S FAMOUS LONDON. DINNER for THIS DAY, the 2d inet„ will consist of " POTAGES, De Huitres a la Reine—A la Jardiniere. PonsoN. Anguille etuvde—Filets de Brille fits. EN'ruEEs. Cotelettt:s de Mouton a la Saubise—Tete de Veau en Tortui Mouton bouilli—Throf roti. Pouding a IENTMEMETS. a Newmarket—D'Artois. P'tomage et Salade. TO-MORROW, the 3d inst., "THE LON DON DINNER " will consist of POTGES. Purest de Venaison a la Ch A asseur—A la Nivernaise. POISSON. Morue sauce aux finites—Merlans frits. ENTRtEs. Dmlet a la Marengo—Petits Pates de Homard. --- Bceuf boutlll-11anche de Mouton rota, ENTREMETS. Pomme aux Iliz—Beignets d'Ananas. Fromage et Salade. An extensive ?And carefully selected stock of FRENCH, RHE NISH, WOSELLE, and other WINES imported ex pressly for TPA LONDON DINNER. A fine Haunch of Venison every day at Five o'clock. All Fish in season daily. life attention of Clergymen, Officers, and Professional Gentlemen is especially drawn to the advantages offered by these elegant Saloons, which fulfil all the requirements of a Wes46-end Club of the most aristocratic and exclusive cha ractQr. L'on tronve dans la Salle de Lecture non seulement les m e'illeurs Journaux Anglais, mills aussi Journaux Allemande, Francais et Beiges. IN.B.—D tiring the Exhibition Season, THE LONDON DINN RE, will be serve d daily from 2 until 9 o'clock; and Dinners 'in the Coffee-room, ala Carte, from 1 until 10 o'clock. Open on Sundays at 4 o'clock. SAWYER, Proprietor. AMUSEMENTS. . J ANTERBUR Y HALL. STECKEL, The greatest Trapeze p er f ormer in the world. Grand Operatic Selection as usual, with lull Band and Chorus. Principal Artiste —Miss Russell. lJns:Arvrth, with the original Stump speech, " Or any other anan,' in conjunction with Eugene and Duley, forming the fa re vo gatQst, Comi c T r i o in London; and a host of other Comic ttri4Les. T H E OXF OR D, 6, OXFORD STREET. erdi's "IL CORSA RO " Every Evening, by Miss Russell, Eh 38 Towneley d' Messrs. Morley, Greene, and Albert, with Fr.ll Band and Chorus, in addition to the usual musical and Qt. her attractions. Comm —Miss Caroline Parkes, Mr. W. Randall, and those unrivalled Ethiopian comedians, Rumsey. Newcomb, Little Bob, Eugene, and Unsworth (the original "or any otherman") " The miraculous Steckel " on the Flying Trapeze. Fail, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, ls. ; Private Boxes, 10s. MR. AND MRS. CHARLES MATHEWS ROOIT, Haymarket. THIS EVENING (TUESDAY) . at 8 4 , i../1 y J. Byron, Ej3q. o.n an entirely New and Original Entertainment. written by o "MY WIFE AND I."PART I. PART 11. A RomatiCe of intense Interest, yclept THE " SENSA TION" pORK; or, The Maiden, the Maniac, and the Mid night 3i:orderers. Performed by a double Company (Two). EITTRY EVENING (except Saturday), at Eight ; SATITR DAI MORNINGS, at Three. Places may be secured at the :Box-office, from Ten till Five; at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street :at Austin's Ticket Office, St. James's Hall, and of all Booksellers. No extra charge for booking. Open at Half-past Seven. Carriages at a quarter ito Ten. W. CORBYN, Acting Manager. IIcST S. WOODIN'S CABINET of CURIO • SITIES—NewIy Polished and Re-Iined—POLY GRAPHIC HALL, King William-street, Charing-cross, Every Evening, at eight (except Saturday), with new characters, music, songs, and dances. The scenic illustrations and effects, entirely new, painted by and under the direction of Mr. William Calleott. Morning Performance, Saturday, Sept. 6, at 3. Stalls, 3s. ; area, 28.; amphitheatre, 18. Box-office open from eleven to five. r. Woodin as Mr, Sothern, the Haymarket, in his Celebrated character of "Lord Dundreary," Morning and Evening. ARGYLL ROOMS. Great Windmill-street, Ilaymarket.—GßAND CASINO FRANCAISE.— Open every Evening for Promenade and Dancing, with the celebrated Band of 50 performers. Conductor and Principal C omet-a -Piston, M. BOULCOURT.—The new Imperial Qua drille, Valse Cotillion, and L. Mosca's Peep o'DayValse will be played nightly. A new Conversation Salon has been added to the above Establishment for Reading, Coffee, and Refre s h men t s. — Admission la—Manager, Grenet. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. 'Under the Manazement of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. 'Harrison, Sole Lessees. THIS EVEN/NG, Benedict's hie - hly successful Opera, Thirlwall, Miss Susan PYn ; THE LILY OP KILLARNEY. Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss PateY, raussek, Lyall, and W. Harrison. Messrs. Santley, Geo. Perren, Conductor —Mr. A. Mellon. Doors open at half-past 7—Commence at 8. ___. rrHEATRE-ROY AL, DRuRy-LANE. Dion Boucicault, Lessee. THIS EVENING. THE YANKEE LEGACY. Followed by the first part of the Arab Entertainment at half-past 7. After Which, THE COLLEEN BAWN: Messrs. Dion Boucicault, H. Vandenhoff, F. Robinson, Searle ; Madame Celeste, Jordan, Stevens. To conclude with THE ARABS OF THE DESERT : a Troupe of the Beni-Zouz-Zouz, at 10. Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 to 5. TREAT RT',-R ON AI • HAY MARKET. Lessee. Mr. J. 13. 13uckstone. THIS EVENING. at Seven, FISH OUT OF WATER. Mr. Compton, Mr. Rogers, Miss Caroline Bill, ea. After which, at a quarter to 8, will benerformed (217th time) OUR AMERICAN COUSIN, Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck atone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. Followed by a new Spanish Ballet entitled CELOS "rf'CALIA ; or, Love and Jealousy. Senora Perea Nena, Se mor Ricardo Moragas, and the Corps de Ballet. To conclude with THE CHRISTENING. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr A. Harris. THIS EV ENING, THE RENDEZVOUS. Messrs. Higg 'treadows, &c., and Miss Maria Harris. After ~ vhich, at a quarter to Fight, KING HENRY VIII: Cardina' I Wolsey Mr. Charles Kean ; Queen Katharine, Mrs. Charle , 3 Kean. To conclude with THE TWO POLTS. Mr. Widdicomb: Commence at 7. No hall-price. OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Solo Lessee and Manager-Mr. Edmund Falconer. •!50th Night of the , •ontinnous run of "Peep o'Day." THIS EVENING, PEEP O'DAY ; or. Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy. Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville, 'and Edmund Falconer ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers. Miss Clara Weston. and Miss M. Hudson. After which, a new musical, pictorial, poetical, and ballet i nterlude, entitled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna Whitty and Miss :Lydia Thomson. Followed by a new Farce, entitled THE COLLEEN BA Ir .VN SETTLED AT LAST. Mr. Charles Selby and Miss LY dia, Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. R. Chatterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past S. to commence at '7. Box-office open daily from 11 tills. Comrofnule a 7 NEW THEATRE-R0 YAL. ADELPIII.- sole Pronristor find Manso-er. Mr. B. 'Webster. THIS EVENING, THE PRETTY HORSEBREAKER. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, MissWoolgar, Miss Kate nerly, and Mrs. H. Marston. ..Atter which, ADRIENNE LE COUVREUR : Messrs J. 31-Lacaole. Billington, D.. Fisher, Sefton, Stephenson, Ebtirne. La!!vonia Jones, Miss Lattimer, Miss K. Bland. Miss Iner, and Mrs. Billington. TXl'ecTellidP with T HE SHIT LING DAY. Messrs. J. L. , P. Bedford, Phillips, Miss Latimer, Mrs. H. Lewis. Commence at 7. ASILY'S ROYAL AMPHITHE A TRE . — oole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY. R evival of "Mazeppa." THIS EVENING will be performed MAZEPPA ; or, The Wild Horse of Tartary, with New Scenery, Dresses, and Deo,orations. rrc be followed by a brilliant routine of novel and daring Scenes in the Circle. and Gu a Tonis conclude withy Croueste a COMM P ALLET, in whi c h th e Mi sses —Raze Manager, Mr. W. Searle. will ap pear. Commence at 7. Dn. 'WATSON (OF THE LO CK HOSP ITAL) 01,, NEItvOI7S DEBILITY AND SECR E T DlSoiimva ts . ELF-TREATMENT STMPLIPTPTI A--• b the aid of the TEST-TLTBE, UTIMOITETF:Te throe an d generative s MICROSCOPE, when employed for special di agnosiili and disorders of the nervous, sexual, system all eluding spermatorrheea or seminologY , lo ss of power, niZAllur nal and diurnal wasting:Fr, and withering of the nervous tissues, &c. By Dr. WATSON, Member of the Ecole de Medicine, Rouen, National Academy of ScienCeS. 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CURTIS' MEDICAL WORK, MANHOOD: MEDICAL ESSAY ON SPERMATORRH(E NERVOUS AND GENERATIVE DEBILITY, &a list Published, the 150th thousand, with numerous plates, in a sealed envelope, price la., Sold by all Booksellers, and lent post paid, by the Author, for 12 stamps, 1,4 ANHOOD: the CAUSE and CURE of PRE f 0 MATURE DECLINE IN MAN, with Plain Directions for Perfect Restoration to Health and Vigour. By Dr. J. L. 15, Albermarle-street, Piccadilly, London. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER on the PhysiologiCal Structure and Functions of the Reproductive Organs. CRAFTER ll.—Causes of Spermatorrhcea and Impotence ; 'early 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 gonorrhoea and Syphilis. The Rook oncludes with numerous varied and interesting oases, to which is added the Author's recipe of a preventive notion. REVIEWS OP 'THIS WORK. "Curtis on Manhood.—This ik;atrUl , iTaluable work, and e'lould be in the hands of young and old Sunday Times," Xarch, 1856. "The author has conferred a great boon by publishing this tittle work, in which is described the source of those diseases Produce decline in youth or more frequently premature ' ag e. "—" Daily Telegraph," Maros, 27, I .R S A. ondon Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, Pater f noater-row; Minn. ConahilL utill°ura ' va llultation-10 to 3 and 6to A• daYB, " ~l t r 6 4- t -Th /e ( • a r e A 4111 :41- 1 0 A r , .1!.. , „firk s : r 441 • 71, /to A l TO 441 4 etV ,• ' 4 • - .-* l4l / 6 \ • - • Liw.- A , A . d o ss% -it; iii: :49 1116 4, 2 1 . , IN.. g un+ 71, ,„ 0 1ffitAtr‘ (90 40/boa. / A t~fti N R THE NAVY. 7 .W - S) ' oCii • ;4 The iron frigate Black Prince Cal 4 - Wainwright, concluded her trial of ape€ 11, a Le at : 4 ll. tat, reduce at present arranged, yesterday, at the mea mile in Stokes Bay, near Portsmouth, boiler power. Capt. Broadhead again co nducted the trial, the timing of the ship at the IL uleland noting of the machinery being superintend ed by Mr. Murdoch, Inspector of Machinery Afloat,. and Mr. Ward, assistant to the chief engineer of the dockyard; the engine-room being in charge f Mr. Tucker, the chief engineer of the ship. The first trial was made with six out of her complement of 10 boilers, being six-tenths of her power. Four• runs were made as under : Revolutions Run. Time. S p eed Steam. Vacuum. min. sec. in knots. lb. For'd. Aft. Engines. 1 4 55 12.203 193 2615 26.5 431 2 5 40 10.588 20 26.5 26.5 44 3 4 38 12.950 20 26 . 25 26 441 4 5 43 10.495 20 25.25 26 45 Mean speed of the four rune, 11.663 knots. Two runs were next made with four boilers, four tenths of the ship's power, with the following re sults : Time. Speed in Steam. Vacuum, Revolutions, Run. Min.. Sec. knots. lb. For'd. Aft. Enogfines. 1 452 12.329 201 27 27 40 2 631 9.207 201 27 27 401 Mean speed of the two runs, 10.768 knots. The Warrior, on her trial with reduced boiler power on the 26th of October, 1861, realized a mean speed,, with six boilers, of 12.089 knots, and with four boilers, of 11.040 knots. As we observed in our report of her trial at full power in 7he Sun of yes terday, if the Black Prince was trimmed to the same water that the Warrior drew ,on her trial of speed, and her propeller set exactly to the same pitch, the difference in speed between the two ves sels would be found to be slight. The Black Prince drew one inch less forward yesterday than on B,a turday. A fresh wind prevailed from the N.B. r but was off the land, and the water being in conse quence perfectly smooth, it had no prejudicial effect upon the ship; on the contrary, it was of service, as it assisted materially in keeping down the tem perature of her engine-room and stoke holes. The ship commences swinging to-day at Spithead to ascertain the deviation of her compass, under the superintendence of Mr. Evans, from the Hydro grapher's Department, preparatory to proceeding on her sea cruise. Mr. Moody, assistant-master shipwright at Ports mouth Dockyard, has received his appointment from the Admiralty as master shipwright of Dept ford-yard, vice Peake, appointed to Sheerness, The line-of-battle screw steamer Meeanee, 80, 400-horse power, 2,591 tons, attached to the first class steam reserve at Chatham, is ordered to be• brought forward for commission, with a comple ment of 650 officers and men, including Royal Marines. She is to be furnished with an arma ment of 24 32-pounders, each of 50 cwt., on her main deck ;26 8-inch 65 cwt. guns on her lower deck ; and 2 110-pounder and 8 40-pounder. Arm strong guns on her upper deck. In a detion to these she will be supplied with two 12- y ou. Armstrongs, and a few brass field-guns for boat service. According to orders received at Chatham. the Meeanee is intedded to take the place of the Edinburgh, 60, 200-horse power, .Capt.Schomberg , guardship at Leith. As soon as the latter has arrived at the Nore, where she is hourly expected, the officers and crew will be immediately turned over to her. The Leander, 50, 2,760 tons, 400-horse power, is ordered to be brought forward for the first division of the Chatham steam reserve, taking the place of the Severn, 51, 500-horse power, Cept. Montressor, recently commissioned for service in the East Indies and China. Orders have been received at Chatham for all vessels of the class and rating of the Columbine, 4, 150-horse power, to be furnished with four of the 8- inch 65 cwt. guns, until the 70-pounder Armstrong. naval guns are ready for delivery, none of the latter description of guns having yet been received at the Ordnance stores, Chatham. The jaseur, 5, screw gun vessel, fitting for the Chatham steam reserve, is being supplied with a pair of 80-horse power condensing engines by Messrs Laird Brothers, of Liverpool. Her armament will consist of one smooth bore 95 cwt. gun, two 29- pounder Armstrongs, and two 24-pounder howitzers,, The Eurydice corvette, of 26 guns, which lint into Falmouth on Wednesday last, was towed out of that harbour on Saturday morning, and set out for Cronstadt. This vessel bas a number of cadets on board for general instruction. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Capt. William Loring, C. 8., to be Superintendent of Pembroke dockyard; Thomas Clark, in the Cumberland, for the Cochin, Ron firmed as first-class assist.-engineer ; John L. Davis, in the Sphinx, confirmed as first-class assist:-en gineer; John Flintoff, in the Coromandel, confirmed as second-class assist.-engineer ; Peter Robertson, in the Edgar, confirmed as second class assist.- engineer; Arthur Moreton, in the Indus, confirmed as second-class assist.-engineer ; Philip Blanch, second-class assist.-engineer to the Cumberland, as supernumerary; James Stephens , act in g second class assist.-engineer to the Rosario; E. H. Brow n , I. Roar assist.- clerk to the Rattlesnake,. XL M. Macleod, clerk to the Severn, for dispos al ; to the Rattlesnake ; and George A. Michell, clerk , clerk to the St. Vincent. Mr. Christopher G. Wil/iams and Mr. F. J. L. nominated to naval Blackwood were yesterdaY cadetships. _ OE A 2 Ml'. Under the in fluence o f the hi g hl y f avoura ble wea ther which Vis preva iled for some time past, the miners of the Ryal Engineers have sa pp ers d e a mbl e progress n o the formation of the made cod batteri" saps, and other earthworks which have been pr several months in progress at the practis und of the lur gr° R oyal Engineers, adjoining the ks of the Medway, at Chatham. Yesterday the Acers and men, several hundreds of whom have (been unremittingly employed on the works for several weeks, completed the formation of three batteries, formed of earth, according to Vauban's principle. For excellence of workmanship and neat ness of finish they are superior to anything of the kind ever pr ev i ous ly constructed at Chatham. The batteries, which have been formed under the super intendence of Lieut.-Col. Lovell, C. 8., the principal field-work instructor, include an excellently con structed mortar battery, together with an elevated and also a half-sunken battery, in addition to which the sappers have also constructed a series of rectan gular magazines. A portion of the Royal Engi neers were also employed in revetting a battery entirely with sods. With the exception of the bat teries described, the whole of the field works have been levelled, and the batteries and earthworks de stroyed, in order that the officers and men may commence the formation of several new batteries and other works before the approach of winter. Major-Gen. Bloomfield, Inspector-General of the Royal Artillery, accompanied by Col. Henry, R.A., has returned from a tour of inspection of the diffe rent stations of the Royal Artillery in the Western district and in Wales. In our impression of Wednesday last for Walter H. Brimfield, promoted to first-class assist.- engineer, read Brimfield. Those immediately interested are probably aware that an effort has been made to keep their old facings for the Light Dragoon regiments lately transformed into Hussars. Up to the present they have worn them pendente lite, as we may say ; and, as in the case of the 13th, for example, the effect is exceedingly neat. We have reason to believe, how ever, that with the next issue of clothing these regimental distinctions will disappear, and on and after the let of April, 1863, all the thirteen Hussar regiments will be dressed alike in blue, without facings. In the matter of head-dress some new distinctive colours are likely to be ordered. Each are sugg ested ; but the regiment will have a different coloured jelly - bag for the busby, and a corresponding description of forage-ear. In some quarters mauve and magenta and o ther fancy colours, hither unknown to the Service, clothing department is understood to be desirous of Con fining them to geeen, red, blue, yellow, and wnite, and, if It these do not afford materials for a su dent a cod. bination of two coloursjwill be aIJOVIed• is not unlikely generally will that after a little the facings a : th aw array e re giraentS with black, undergo revision, and that eaetZ ..tt h a r v m e y it a s na co N lo of the she s m e sf4 wi re, l - 1 bright green, purples o r b kY • changed to one Ciazette. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1862. LITERATURE. A Book about Doctors. By J. Cordy Jeaffreson. Hurst and Blackett. This, the most recent issue of Messrs. Hurst and Blackett's Standard Library series, will be found, we venture to say, one of the most amusing works of the kind ever published. The subject, an ex tremely interesting one, has never before been so completely handled ; the author has had peculiar facilities for acquiring information respecting it, and the result is a volume which none, we think, will be willing to part with till they have devoured it to the end. Proceeding systematically the writer commences with a disquisition on sticks and wigs; by the former term being meant the physician's cane, now disused, though "up to very recent times no doctor of medicine presumed to pay a profes sional visit, or even to be seen in public, without this mystic wand. Long as a footman's stick, smooth and varnished,with a heavy gold knob or cross bar at the top, it was an instrument with which, down to the present century, every prudent aspirant to me dical practice was provided. The celebrated gold headed cane which Radcliffe, Mead, Askew, Pit cairn, and Baillie successively bore, is preserved in the College of Physicians, bearing the arms which those gentlemen assumed, or were entitled to. In one respect, it deviated from the physician's cane proper. It has a cross bar almost like a crook, whereas a physician's wand ought to have a knob at the top. This knob in chlen times was hollow, and contained a vinegarette, which the man of science always held to his nose when he approached a sick person, so that its fumes might protect him from the noxious exhalations of his patient." This stick is supposed to have been a relic of the con juring paraphernalia with which the healer, in igno rant and superstitious times, worked upon the ima gination of the credulous; and it differed in shape and significance from the pole of the barber-surgeon —the latter being adorned with stripes of blue, white, and red, as well as a gallipot and a red rag, " the blue representing the serous blood, the more brilliant colour the arterial, and the white thread being symbolic of the bandage used in tying up the arm after withdrawing the ligature. The stick itself is a sign that the operator possesses a stout staff for his patients to hold, continually tightening and re laxing their grasp during the operation=accelerat ing the flow of blood by the muscular action of the arm." The wig, also, in former times, was almost as important as the cane, and previous to Charles the Second's reign physicians were in the habit of visit ing their patients on horseback, sitting sideways on their foot-cloths like women, but the use of car riages was introduced at the Restoration. A muff was also considered essential in cold weather, that he might preserve, unimpaired, his delicacy of touch. Among the old English physicians the first of any note is Harvey, who died in 1657, and the state of medical science at his time may be judged from the receipt of his famous contemporary Mayerne, who was physician to many crowned heads, called Balsam of Bats, into which entered adders, bats, sucking-whelps, earth-worms, hog's grease, the marrow of a stag, and the thigh-bone of an ox, which was strongly recommended as an unguent for hypochondriacal persons ; whilst the principal ingredient in his gout-powder, was " raspings of a human skull un buried." Sir Thomas Browne also and his son were eminent in the seventeenth century, and the empirical Sir Kenelm Digby signalised himself by the discovery of the sympathetic powder which cured wounds in the following manner :—lf any piece of a wounded person's apparel, having on it the stain of blood that had proceeded from the wound, was dipped in water holding in solution some of this sympathetic powder, the wound of the injured person would forthwith commence a healing process, no matter how far distant the sufferer was from the scene of operation. For some years this powder was a fashionable remedy, but before Sir Kenelm's death it fell into disrepute, and the utmost his attached servant, Hartman, could say for it of his own experience was, that when dissolved in water it was a useful astringent lotion for bleeding at the nose. Of the physicians of Pope's time Garth is, perhaps, the best known. The poet dedicated his second pastoral to him whilst alive, and wrote of him when dead, "If ever there was a good Christian, without know ing himself to be so, it was Dr. Garth." His poem called " The Dispensary," written to ridicule the pretensions of the Apothecaries, was famous in its day, though now known only by name. To him, however, Dryden owed honourable interment, When the great poet died, Garth caused his body to be conveyed to the College of Physi cians, and started a public subscription to defray the expenses of the funeral. He pro nounced an oration over the deceased at the Col lege in Warwick-lane, and then accompanied it to Westminster Abbey. In the reign of Queen Anne, the great celebrity was Dr. Radcliffe. The death of that Sovereign was said to have been owing to his refusal to attend her, through his own illness, and so strong was the feeling against the doctor that a plot was laid to assassinate him, though one of the members, visited with com punction, informed him of it in the following letter Doctor,—Tho' I am no friend of yours, but, on the contrary, one that would wish your destruction in a legal way, for not preventing the death of our most excellent Queen, whom you had it in your power to save, yet I have such an aversion to the taking away men's lives un fairly, as to acquaint you that if you go to meet the gentleman you have appointed to dine with late Majesty, twelve more, wh o most c e e n r g ta a i g n e ly d b in e m tn u e rth e e n r n e s d p . r a l e y a , m v o i n th e t the at the G rey h oun d , i n C roydon, on Thursday next, You sti r out th o a f t doo r s tha t of are resolved to sac r ifi ce y ou t o the ghost of aloudhet that for blood; therefore, nei ther day, DOT any other, nor think of exchanging your pre sent abode for your home at Hammersmith, since there and everywhere else we shall be in quest of you. I am touched with remorse, and give you this notice ; but take care of yourself, lest I repent of it, and give proofs of so doing, by having it in my heart to destroy youi who am your sworn enemy.—N. G." The doctor, greatly alarmed at this epistle, kept his house, and shortly after died. He was succeeded in popularity by Dr. Mead, who obtained his position as much by flattery as by skill. " The first time Radcliffe called on Mead when in town he found his young friend reading Hippocrates. Do you read Hippocrates in Greek demanded the visitor. ' Yes,' replied Mead timidly' fearing his scholarship would offend the great man. I never read him in my life,' re sponded Radcliffe, sullenly. You, sir,' was the rejoinder, have no occasion—you are Hippocrates himself." The reward of this compliment was that Radcliffe recommended him to his patients, and he made an income of £5,000 a-year. Radcliffe's manner was by no means refined. He told William the Third, on seeing his dropsical ankles, " I would not have your Majesty's legs for your three king doms"; and he mortally offended Anne by refusing to leave his bottle to attend her, sending word that her distemper was nothing but the vapours. As regards pecuniary success, that of Sir Astley Cooper appears the greatest. The highest amount he re ceived in any one year was £21,000, but his income for many years reached £ 15 ,000, and it was largest when he lived in the city. Among notorious quacks year he received, in end of 20,000 francs, p M a e r s ms offered ffro eo t r,aoekdoeosh francsi t m h e n Ie a ai n d n . nf eu l ea n se t o s n n t id the French Govern ment e p together with an additional 10 ,000 f. to support an establishment for patients and p u pil s if h e wou ld stay in France, but he stood out for better terms, H a; p ei e li d tnovn b e y n O. ted an elixir of life, for Of English ' quacks, and the chance sl ipp ed Graham, who established, about 1780, the "Temple of Health ," in the sanctum s m an c c i t a o t r e u d na , notorious Lady f onewhich o f the ti] e most prominent. THE MALIGNANT DISORDER AMONG SHEEP. (From the Times.) Nothing can more forcibly illustrate the immense diffi culty there is on some special occasions in getting up the required full bucket of truth from its accustomed deep well than this lamentable outbreak among the large flocks of Wiltshire. Occasionally the force in lifting is impeded by the repulsiveness of direct self-interest ; at others by even the more overbearing influence of prejudice. Apart froth the malady among the lower animals, humanity in the im mediate vicinity of the great flocks is severely afflicted with tetanus, and the locked jaw has been in no small degree accelerated by the correspondence and editorial comments in the Times, An active inquirer on the spot is at once ticketed as a " Government inquirer." Stich an one ap peared—and not for the first time—on the affected ground in Wiltshire this week, and, though strengthened in his researches by introductory letters from three of the acting magistrates of the county, found himself fettered, as it were, in almost every step he took in his laudable course—not in every step, however, for there were laudable and highly honourable exceptions, though few and remarkably far be tween. And here let us pause to do justice to Mr. Farry, of Allington, the main sufferer, as a flockmaster, up to the present moment. A more liberal-minded and thoroughly outspoken gentleman does not exist; he may immediately and prospectively be a great loser by the exposure of the calamity which has to so great an extent befallen his cele brated flock, but he is too high •minded to make a complaint on that head ; it is his freely-expressed opinion that the bond of secrecy was so broken at once and so early, in order that the required remedy—if there were any in existence better than the one he had so promptly and so judiciously adopted—should be promptly announced. It was well that the limes, contemporaneously with a localjournal published at no great distance from the spot where the taint first ma nifested itself, spoke out in terms free from ambiguity, lead ing to demonstrations by intelligent correspondents, whose words have pierced every nook and corner of Wilts, Hants, Dorset, Somerset, Sussex, where the chief flockmasters of the kingdom reside; it was well in many respects, private as well as'public, in a cautionary as well as remedial sense. The knowledge of a disorder is more than half its cure. The correspondence in the Times is likely, at any rate, to point out the exact nature of the malady, while secrecy would only have led to mystification, and that outrageous degree of quackery to which our rural population are to so lament able an extent exposed and defrauded, Well, as we have already intimated, the ?tines, although not in any direct manner, having suggested the idea of a Government inspection, the idea was at once established that a Government inspector had been sent down to Wilt shire ; so that in the present week there has been a kind of stumbliegblock to personal inquiries by strangers. In the long circuitous course of 58 mires the writer came across but four flockmasters who were disposed to be thoroughly communicative on the subject, the remainder complaining that " the press had spoilt the markets." The shepherds were scarcely so much tongnetied, excepting in three in stances, as though they were guided by superior orders. From this clam of persons —none of them of a very high order in an intellectual sense—we gathered in one instance that three sheep had "sickened," been killed, and buried, and nothing heard for the last three weeks of anything like a malady. Another had lost eight sheep, but it was all owing to " watery turnips," adding, " all owing to want of sunshine when the second leaves were topping." A third would have it that the comet was at fault, for " in the year," as he said, " I got married there was a comet, and the sheep rotted off by dozens; it is years agone. My father had the principal management then ; he had lived as a boy with Squire Miles, and I know that we killed and buried them as fast as they got bad—directly, Sir, and sent none to market that year. It was a terrible time. We used a power o' brimstone, I know; but it set 'un mad, and so there was nothing for it but to kill 'un. Our neighbour there— you see the house up along—lost 80 odd sheep ; but we have been quiet since, till now." He asked, in a singularly inquisitive vein—" Do e'e think, Sir, the new sort o' guano has to do with it ?" "Do you," I said, " hold to that opinion ?" He replied, " Well, I am not sure of that ; but I must say, for luck in rearing, I dearly like a small hard turnip before a lumpy soft one." Five miles from this an aged shepherd candidly admitted that he believed " we should hear something bad in a week or so;'' adding knowingly, " I dare say you will hear of something down below," pointing to a homestead on the hill, upon the slope on the upper side of the valley. And we did hear something. The letter we presented, directed to a flockmaster by Major —, was at once opened by a middle-aged lady, who said that her husband had gone to for advice, but she could not see what the Major had to do with their flock ; he had better look after his own, if what she had heard on Sunday were true. If the magi strates were going to interfere, they might as well turn their attention to the flock, where the smallpox, since Satur day, had killed 40 ewes. The next course was to the spot indicated; but there " mum" was the order of the day, and facts were as difficult to get at as nuggets of gold on Salis bury Plain. In sorrow it must be admitted that the scourge has ex tended to several more flocks, and especially to those in the district of Devizes—expanding now over an area of several miles, and in detached spots. The .Devizes Gazette records an alarming circumstance, in these terms : " It has come to our knowledge that 200 lambs were sold by a farmer in the neighbourhood (Mr. Neate, of Alloan nings) at Marlborough Fair last Friday, which were ascer tained on the following day to have had the smallpox among them for a fortnight previously, some of them, when examined, having pustules fully formed on parts of their body where the disease is most easily discernible. That Mr. Neate was aware of the fact when he sent the lambs to Marlborough we cannot for a moment suppose. Indeed, had he been so, he would not only have rendered himself liable to a heavy penalty for exposing them for sale in any market, fair, or open or public place, but for even driving them along the turnpike road. But he does not appear to have been aware that his flock had been impregnated with the disease until the day after the fair, when on examining the sheep and lambs which were upon his farm many of them were found to have the pox fully developed over their bodies. He then did the only thing he could do to retrieve the mischief he had caused. He set off imme apwdlidtfliaoyubrotfoauthetLte:mamooun.bourne, whither the lambs had been driven by their purchaser, Mr. Louseley, and had them back to Allcannings, returning Mr. Louseley the money he had ascertained othert until the far a ta rrhersheep si all vea2l w o ()wo o l hlmia d 2r h .bms avrhe. a NesteLi been owbueeist hin w e y e td l l hhrei ; ava ide b n u a i ro i ff t l. chased at the fair, and had p r r e o m ba s b in ly ed wi ot t t h he them m e ing news that they had. whi hone xamination proved to be too true. smallpox,Neste has, we hear, since had the greater Part of his flock inocu latedt by Professor Simonds, who appears, unfortunately, to have as much work upon his hands in this way as he can i w s e n ll o a t t t t h en e d on to ly ; itself since our last." h flock,i t 11 we e disease aretY has rho mY ' show n otheriflnocNkeiantew's There are, we are happy to say, favourable reports of Mr. Parry's flock. Of these 448 ewes that were inoculated, 400 have passed through the disease, and are considered free from all further danger. His whole loss is reckoned at 65 per cent. Mr. Harding, of Elchilhampton has, up to the present time, lost none of his ewes ; and the 20 which has been attacked, and were inoculated, are getting gra dually better. THE PHILOSOPHY OF FIRE. _ The Medical Times and Gazette says :—We are accus tomed to think of fire in a house as a thing that slowly spreads, and allows time for consideration and escape. The report of the inquest which Dr. Lankester held on Mr. Barrett and two of his children, who died in that lament able fire in Great Cumberland-street, will show how very erroneous this idea is. Mr. Barrett walked down stairs and opened the front door, without knowing that the house was on fire ; he returned to alarm and save his family, and perished before he could reach the front door a second time. If we want to see how the thing is done on the large scale, we need only watch it on the smaller. Hold a bit of paper or wood over a lamp. It warms, blackens, char s , g i ves out gasses, becomes red hot; then seems t the heato be sm ou ld er i ng quietly; when, all of a sudden, be sufficient to u n it e th e gases w i th the at mospheric Oxygen, a faint explosion occurs, and there is flame. Fireman Browne, at the inquest, deposed, that " In his opinion gas had nothing to do with the origin of the n fire," If he m ean t th e gas which is made by roastig coal in the retorts of the Chartered Company, and which is brought to us in p of ipea, he was probably right. an d, in this case, as there has been a smell of fire in h B u t wherever ther e i s flame there must be gas some sort; ehouse, the gas that caug ht . fire and formed th e flame that burst up and filled th e whole body of Mr. Barrett's cutting off the escape from e ver y room, the and smothering none b 1-, instant the unfor unfort un ate man a n d hi s d aughter in the hall was produced, probably, by th e s l ow d i stillation o some woodwork—of the pantry_ floor —or o f some b eam ioe charred by the smouldering soot of a foul chimney. Smell of fire translated into scientific English means just this— certain gases, compounds of hYdrogen and carbon, given off by wood or other organic matter when roasted and ready to explode into flame, aa soon as th e heat is enough. The contents of the camphine cans may be added to the explosive material. Every fire may be divided into two stages :-Ist. A period of roasting, smoulder ing, evolution of gas, just as explosive as coal gas, and, perhaps, slow red heat of roasted material. 2. The leaping up of the gas into flame. When this has taken place escape is hopeless. The heat of the flame is so great. It blisters and scorches with the least touch, and where it plays stea dily it sets on fire in good earnest. a constant supply of which, £l,OOO, paid in ad vance, was demanded, and more than one nobleman was weak enough to give it. Later still, St. John Long, twice tried and once convicted of man slaughter, became the rage, and his success con tinued undiminished up to his death, at the age of 37, when his aristocratic devotees erected a sumptuous monument to his memory in Kensal green Cemetery. Then Mr. Jeaffreson tells us about the quarrels and the lives of physicians, and winds up with a description of the country medical man as he flourished some years ago. Indeed, every chapter will be found interesting in its way, and we confidently expect that this work, which con tains innumerable anecdotes and good stories, will prove one of the most popular of the series. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES, (Front the Atheneum.) There is no longer any doubt; public report has been confirmed; and a Princess of Denmark will be, if the'course of negotiation run smoothly, Prin cess of Wales. The Royal marriage is to be cele brated early in the ensuing spring, and the young bride, we trust, will be seen— " on a day, When her looks out-flourish May, And her dressing shall outbrave All the pride the fields then have." The new home will be established in Marlborough House; we could have wished a better bower for the young couple, bat workmen are already repair ing the ancient edifice, and Gen. Knollys is at this moment, we believe, Comptroller of their Royal Highnesses' Household. The office is hardly one for a warrior to hold, even in the house where the greatest of warriors once dwelt in honour; but if it be satisfactorily performed, a future day may see that such service has won back what centuries of litigation failed to do, the Earldom of Banbury to the Knollyses. The most gallant feat ever accomplished by James the First of England (when he was King of Scot land) was in crossing the stormiest of seas in the stormiest of seasons, and marrying his bride, in a hurricane on the coast of Norway. From that lady, Anne of Denmark, our present Royal family derive a portion of good old Danish blood. The union of George of Denmark with the Princess (afterwards Queen) Anne produced but a sickly child or two, heirs who came not to their inheritance. Five hundred years have elapsed since England be held the first marriage of a Prince of Wales. Indeed, there have only been four such marriages in England and one abroad. The preliminaries of marriage have often been made, but these were in such cases carried out after the Prince's accession to the throne. The first marriage to which we allude was that in 1361 of Edward the Black Prince with the " Fair Countess"—the buxom, warm-hearted, regal Joan of Kent. That was a rare love-match, albeit the bride groom was over '3O years of age, and his brilliant English wife was the young widow of a former hus band. But there was " heart" in the whole matter. England had known of no such hero as Edward, from his youth up, since the days of King Arthur, and all the realm of beauty, it is said, would have been hard put to it to produce altogether such a peerless lady as Joan; a little too sharp, perhaps, with her wit, which sometimes made good Queen Phillipa look serious. But England loved the pair, and the pair loved one another. What joyous house they kept— not in Pall-mall ! but in their princely mansion between Crooked-lane end and Fish-street hill ! What gay and rather costly doings—for Toan, it must be said, was a lady who loved such doings— went on at their palace at Berkhampstead ! what ridings, and joustings, and laughing, and love mak ing, about that smaller bower they built at Prince's Risborough ! The moat near the little Buckingham shire church there marks one part of the site where dwelt together in love and mirthfulness the first of our married Princes and Princesses of Wales. The next case of marriage was, according to some, a love-match too, but according to others, and far more probably, a match of convenience, namely, that of the fugitive Prince of Wales, Edward, son of Henry the Sixth, with that wealthiest and most hapless of co-heiresses, Lady Anne Neville, daughter of Warwick, the Kingmaker. The wedding was celebrated at Amboise, in France, with great out ward show of rejoicing, in which England here took no part. A few months later, in 1471, the Prince of Wales came hither to win back a crown for his father and a home for his wife ; but the young hus band, not yet 19, fell at Tewkesbury, and the young Duke of Gloucester, then of the same age, subse quently took the widow unto himself, and proved not so indifferent a husband as romance and his tory would have us believe. The next bridegroom-prince was younger still than the last. Arthur, son of Henry VII., was but 15 years of age when, in 1501, he married that viva cious Katharine of Arragon, who had been six months on her journey between the Alhambra and St. Paul's. All London was in wild hilarity at this Spanish match ; the city, drinking, dancing, and dressed in its best, celebrated it by night and by day ; the Court kept up the wedding festival for a whole brilliant, weary, and dissipated fortnight; while the Church seemed to have tumbled from pro priety in the excess of its orthodox jollification. Had this newly-married Prince and Princess of Wales quietly gone down to young Arthur's moated manor at White Waltham, good might have come of it. They repaired however to Ludlow Castle, and there the solemn young bridegroom—what with study, and state solemnities and tiring ceremo nials, and Katharine, who was imposing, exacting, super-vivacious, able to dance down a dozen of such gallants as her husband, and always oppres sive—fairly died of it all in five months, as might well have been expected. The Dowager Princess was betrothed to Arthur's brother Henry, in 1504, when the latter was Princess of Wales ; but as they were not married till after Henry's accession to the throne, in 1509, we pass on to the next espousals of an heir appa rent ; and this did not occur till the Star of Bruns wick was well above the horizon. There were love passages enough and to spare between those periods. Prince Henry, that popular and ill-fated son of James 1., paid homage, after a fashion, to more than one English beauty in and about the Court. In the midst of such pleasant pas time, which was very readily afforded him, and when he was about 18, negotiations were com menced in reference to a marriage between him and " Madame Clementine of France," a princess whose first-named dowry was doubled in order to tempt rather the Prince's father than the l'rince, who in this matter exhibited that quality of rea diness which indicates more of indifference or simple obedience than a loving willingness. What ever it may have been, naught came of it. He was not to occupy the old house at Ham with a bride. Death stepped in, and as the Royal body was borne to Westminster, the old shook their heads at the calamity, and the young mourned—some as if a . brother had departed, others as if the very pink of heroic lovers had disappeared for ever from t he Court of Beauty. tic name, was Prince of Wales, he made that r e who Again, when Charles, afterwards the firt: a f ri tbe the la I I journey to Spain, to gain a glance of ao coy ly was named for his bride, and who %vas. g ay to her however, Was in private. This designed ma o t . e l ; vales, heootaing cloistered up but that Charles found h i e not completed.; but the Prince of senrietta Ma r i a of Wales King, found that consolatio.ottra cted him when on France, whose beauty had h a en next , Prince of an embassy of love to t dOO paid homage to beauty The love who came to by scandal, the t we will not are so " embroidere-' _ For a disinherited Prince, Charles treat of them. rha ps, the merriest, as well as the Stuart was. Pe Alt hough not married While he bore the poorest. title of Prince, one serious attempt, at least, was Passages of PRICE_ .......4d. STAMPED ....sd. made by his mother, in exile, to bring him within the register of Benedicks. What opportu nities were rendered him to make his way into the heart of the' Grande Mademoiselle," and how little he availed himself of them! What a subject for an artist is that incident of Henrietta Maria deck ing out this Grande Mademoiselle for a ball, while Charles held the light, and in this office of page was instructed to move, now here, now there, to judge of the effect of a shoulder ribbon —of the play of a diamond necklace—of the fall of the hair —of the adjustment of the dress—of the pose of the whole figure—and of the flash of those lustrous eyes. For Charles they sparkled in vain. Even had he not yet grown audacious, he lacked the power of speaking French fluently, and the lively princess was unacquainted with English. "Ah !" said the lady, after a tete-a-tete, during which they sat and looked at each other, "if he could but have spoken, Heaven only knows what might not have hap pened !" Charles, however, did not speak, and the Grande Mademoiselle failed to become Princess of Wales. And then follows Brunswick ; the first Prince of Wales of which house—he who was afterwards George the Second—was married to the clever Caroline Wilhelmina, at the age of 22, and long before he was raised to that title. When created Prince of Wales, he had already a bevy of little heirs and heiresses about him ; and during the time he enjoyed the title, it was the delight of himself and wife to be in a condition of the most irritating antagonism against the sire regnant. Frederick, the eldest son of George the Second, did not appear in England till after his father's ac cession, and his own creation as Prince of Wales. We believe there is truth in the old story that the Duchess of Marlborough had very nearly succeeded in inducing him to marry her granddaughter, Lady Diana Spenser, who, indeed, would have made as peerless a princess as any more noble sister born in the purple. Fate and political considerations, how -1 ever, would have it otherwise ; and in 1736, when the Prince of Wales was in his 29th year, a treaty was concluded which gave him for a wife the Prin cess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. Nearly two centu ries and a half had elapsed since a Prince and Prin cess of Wales had come from the altar to be greeted by the people in England. The ceremony, accord ingly, raised as much excitement in London as that of Arthur and Katharine,—but with a difference. The Royal Chapel at St. James's is but a rabbit hutch compared with what old St. Paul's was ; but though the stage was limited, the spectacle was grand enough, in its way. The stately and grace ful dress of the Tudor time had indeed gone out of fashion, and a now attire was in vogue; that of the lady had a certain dignity, but a man in the full Court dress of George the Second was monkeyfied. The Prince of Wales, perhaps, bore it as easily as any man of his day, and the Princess, save that she was overwhelmed with excess of it, became her dress, even in the opinion of the sternest critics in that delicate matter. There was a banquet of course, but the most splendid part of the day's ceremony was the bidding "good night," at the end of it, to the wedded pair, in their sleeping-room. There were assembled a very mob, from King and Queen down ward to pages of the chamber, of the most gorgeously and extravagantly-dressed lords and ladies, and aristocratic swains and nymphs, that ever met to wish happiness to a bride and bridegroom. The former sat upon her throne-like couch, half-hidden in clouds of muslin and of lace ; while the Prince of Wales, in a dressing-gown of stiff costly brocade, slipped from group to group, and fantastically answered the greetings which saluted him by the way. And therewith the day came to an end. After altogether another fashion were the next Prince and Princess of Wales made man and wife. The eldest son of George the Third, born in 1762, was as precocious as Prince Henry. At eighteen he was transmitting ridiculous love-letters to Pen dita Robinson. At three-and-twenty he turned from the feet of Mrs. Crouch to pay homage at those of Mrs. Fitzherbert, a lady hard upon thirty years of age, and already the widow of two hus bands. Of this lady, after a sort of wooing which savours of the extravaganza, he became the third husband—joined to her in holy matrimony, con trary to profane act of Parliament, by a venturous Protestant clergyman, in the Catholic lady's back drawing-room ! How this rash couple looked at the time, and the very ring with which they were wedded, may now be seen in the Loan Exhibition at South Kensington. But here was a pseudo-Princess of Wales who was not wanted; and ten years later another was found for the Prince, who was far less worthy, and perhaps far more cruelly wronged. When Caroline of Brunswick and her future husband met at the altar, they had not seen one another before that day. The princely bridegroom was not sober, and the bride, despite all counsel from Mr. Harris and the ladies, was not particularly clean. They went " home" to wrangle—hatred dwelt where love should have abided, and the domestic drama which opened so gloomily, darkened as it proceeded, and closed with a touch of deepest tragedy. There is this remarkable in the marriage of the heir appa rent of George the Third, that he is the only one who, marrying when Prince of Wales, subsequently ascended the Throne. I a the House of Brunswick may this happier course, thus commenced, be henceforth the rule. The coming match has happy auspices. The Princess Alexandra, daughter of Prince Christian of Denmark, in addition to external and intellectual qualities, has earned golden opinions at home, as a "good daughter," and the Prince of Wales, especially in circumstances of late of some di ffi culty, has showy ) himself a cheerfully dutiful son. His training, !I: I Edward, t i b :ord in our and his experiences have been such as none olrri o wn Royal Royal predecessors ever enjoyed, and he is: ce of to have profited by both. He is the first Wales born at Windsor since the birth F i be other Edward who, as the third 'of the name,ol-any King glory of England in war higher / bed) who had previously drawn th; country's cause. May the later c o ons in peace ; in due time, make her more F ~ ,d , b_ y following setting an example to all Elloc, paternal home; that which he received in lii° very ir Dane --for whom and hand-in-hand with theefer_ English household there is already laid ue v ,ffeetion— go on through a rich tribute of respec t nu red, and beloved s the love a long life, happy, hf:t as ever were rendered to and the honour 101';dant happiness as it is good mortals, with as . °_, l for mortals to eOSI joSIDENCE AND CITY LIFE. —There SUBUTI B Iime when these unequal commercial relation must com e ; when even in L ondon them agnitude of ships w i Yprove inconvenient t o its mha . bitants beyond thoPl ace oo • when central property will exceed in price the ' et i taBil"sy arrived,tee endu r o lien ' ants, and when suburban property will be found reat — otan t and too doubtful to obtain tenants who can pay too hu i be n u f rs a bu c ab t : r , that sbyasnt e t v h iml i : s aasr crisis esi .. d e uce has , in many instances, reached its culminating point. f l a a l k n ts tl ll o P f th o t il h at e it s ; above ; when we couple with these faults the fact de scribedj When 2% , o we practically that diseases are nearly as rife in suburban parts as they are in the crowded parts of cities, and more rife than in Open central situations—that the death-rate is higher, in fact, in Kentish Town than in the rectory district of Mary lebone ;—if we have not exhausted the chapter of faults,we have by exclusion thrown out any merits belonging to suburban residences, which might at first sight seem pre sentable. The simple truth told, in short, all the advan tages that could be claimed for suburban residence, in way f cleanliness,f trees space, light, comfort, companion ship as they are and music of the sky, are annihi latedproduced by the extension of the project. For your suburban resi dence of to - day, is city adde d to i ci ty next year, and as th e mathematicians profoundly tell us, o " things which ar e do uble of the same are equa l to o ne an other."--Social Science Review. A bashful swain of 27, named Tribe', has just committed suicide at Payre (Vienne) from the appi.chen. mon that his 6 6 ladye love" might reject IVA addresses., .11 ed tine 't of orbs ry-- 'me the iame, er ies suc:- med .etty wer. 40s 448 448 42s nowt s for ,s to ,and it, at. corn two i per , a. i 9 9 i 3 i 3 9 00, are the ach 000 Br-• the, On ort vas 1