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TAPAN, CHINA, INDIA, GREAT GLOBE. It.) —DIORAMAS of JAPAN, CHINA, and INDIA.—. Admission to the whole building, One Shilling.—GßEAT GLOBE, Leicester-square. Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. LONDON CRYSTAL PALACE, REGENT CIRCUS, OXFORD-STREET and GREAT PORT LAND -STREET. This, magnificent building is NOW OPEN to the public , for the SALE of all kinds of USEFUL and FANCY ARTICLES. The Photographic Establishment, Aviary, Conservatory, General Refreshment Room, and, Ladies' Private Refresh ment Rhom, with Retiring Room attached, are replete in their +several departments. ADMISSION FREE. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.- PATRON-H.R. HIGHNESS THE PRINCE. CON SORT. NOTICE. -Arrangements having been made for the per fect safety of Visitors, this InAtitution is now RE-OPENED to the public. CHILDE'S I'IIANTASMAGORIA, the bISSOLVING VIEWS of DON QUIXOTE, HARP PER "FOR MANCE by FREDK. CHATTERTON; Esyy. and all the CHRISTMAS LECTURES and ENTERTAINMENTS. ' The FIRST DISTRIBUTION of the GIFTS for the juveniles from the WHEEL of FORTUNATUS will take Place on WEDNESDAY. the 12th inst. R. I. LONGBOTTOM, Managing Director. BARNUM'S THIRD and LAST ADDRESS on " MONEY-MAKING and HUMBUG," at ST. JAMES'S HALL, FRIDAY, Jan. 14. Owing to the great fticcess of his two previous entertainments, Mr. P. T. BAR. „,",Pictorial 3I will, in compliance with public request, repeat his Ael ',tress , with Anecdotes, Experiences, and lllustr ations. Open at 7, commence at S. Carriages for a quarter "" I (l—Stalls, 3s. ; balcony, 2s. ; body of the hall and gallery, ls. Tickets at Chappell's, Mitchell's, Cramer and Beale's, Jul lien's, Keith's, 48, Cheapside, and at the Hall. " 3 i.. Barnum is one of the most entertaining lecturers that I ,."ver addressed an audience on a theme universally Intel "enble."—lerom the Times, December 30. " Mr. Barnum last night repeated his entertainments at St. James's Hall to a very crowded audience, who entered very heartily into the mass of American jokes, which excited much aPplause. The hour named for commencing was eight o'clock, Itt, though we reached the hall at a quarter before that hour, We could nit obtain a seat where it was possible to see or hear well:"—Morning Herald, January 7. - - - "ST, JAMES'; P. T. Barnum last night re peated his entertainment with increased felicity and effect. the hall was exceedingly full, and in the most prominent positions the number of ladies present was a fact which could not fail to elicit general remark. The principal points and anecdotes were received with enthusiastic approval, and the i mPression conveyed throughout was one highly complimen tary and flattering to the talent and experience of the leo turer."—Daily Telegraph, January 7. Similar encomiums have appeared in all the daily and most of the weekly papers. Three Thousand One Hundred and Eleven Persons were present at Mr. Barnum's Second Address on the 6th January, a large portion of whom were ladies. DR• `KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 3, TICHBOUItNE-STREET (Opposite the Hay market). Open daily (for Gentlemen only) : LECTURES at Four and Eiv,ht o'clock, on important and interestinq topics in connection with ANATOMY, PHY SIOLOGY, and.PATHOLOGY (vide Prozrammes). Admission ONE SHILLING. DR. KAHN'S' NINE LECTURES ON THE PHILO SOPHY OF MARRIAGE, &c., sent post free, direct from the Author, on the receipt of twelve stamps. A RGYLL-ROOMS, Windmill-streef, Piccadilly. These popular and celebrated rooms arc open every Cuing, with R. R. Bignell's Grand Orchestra, conducted by 1, great composer, Mons. Antony Lamotte, of Paris. 1,...",der, Charles Hall. Mons. Boulcourt, the celebrated cornet ortLon player, performs nightly, with other talet . ited li n Za. Selections from Rigoletto, Trovatore, La Traviata, 31- 4 ,14 „ coots, Robert le Diable, and the new opera Martha. t ei ,' 4 7,er, Big,nell. Doors open at half-past 8, close ol,sinutes before 12. Admission, ls. to Promenade. applications for the above band for Concerts and I t 8 , tO be made to Mr. William Price, treasurer, at the _°olus. tiOWES AND CUSHING'S GREAT IA UNITED STATES CIRCUS.—A safe lace of amuse 'neut.—The ALHAMBRA PALACE, Leiceste p r-square, hay -4 been constructed as a model of architecture, no accident -used be apprehended. The Morning Performances are particularly recommended, 43 ,the Pantomime can be seen with the same effect as at night. r, LLA, the wonder of the world.—The celebrated horse, Cr uiser.” will be exhibited in his subdued state, as tamed b y Mr. Rarey.—" Black Eagle," the horse of beauty.—The educated mules, " Pete " and " Barney." The Comic Panto- P h une . , entitled THE MISER OF BAGDAD, represented in e circle at each performance. Pit, is. ' • Boxes, 2s. ; Reserved Seats, 3s • Stalls, 55.; Private 13 " es, £2. Children under Nine years of age, half-price. Gallery, 6d. Two Performances Daily at two and half-past seven p.m. INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 142, Strand, London. January 10, 1859. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, Th a t th e Half-yearly In terest on the Capital Stock of the Society, at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, to 31st December last, is now due, and in course of payment at the Society's office, between the hours of 11 and 3. EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman. 142, Strand, London, W.C. ALBERT LIFE ASSURANCE AND GUARANTEE COMPANY. 7, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the Half-yearly DIVIDEND, to the 31st ultimo, after the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, will be it‘course of payment to the Shareholders on and after - the 10th January instant. HENRY WILLIAM SMITH, Actuary and Secretary. Sth January, 1859. TAE ECONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 6, New Bridge-street, London. Established 1823. DIRECTORS. ROBERT BIDDULPH, Esq., Chairman. WILLIAM ROUTH, Esq., Deputy Chairman. Alfred Kingsford Barber, Esq. Rear-Admiral Robert Gor- Bean* Barnett, Esq. don. The Right Hon. E. Pleydell Charles Morris, Esq. x7louverie, M.P. George Kettilby Rickards, ard Charrbaton, Esq. Esq. Th w o Sir maa Edgar Eaq. Augustus Keppel Stephen • ir Alexander' Duff Gordon, son, Esq. Bart. ATID] j hh Howell, Esq, HenryM Roberts, Esq. ?Li YSlClA.N—Williarn Emanue TORS. John Gilliam Stilwell, Esq. Richard Taylor, Esq. Page, ➢I.D., Oxon, 11, Queen- street, Hay-fair. SURGEON—Benjamin Travers, Esq., F.R.C.S., N 0.49, Dover street, Piccadilly. S OLICITOR—Henry Young, Esq., 12, Essex-street, Strand. ACTUARY—James John Downes, Esq., F.R.A.S. ADVANTAGES. Mutual Assurance. The lowest rates of Premium on the Mutual System. The whole of the profits divided every Fifth Year. --11 accumulated Capitarof £1,695,000 Daring its existence the Society has paid in Ciai 1,540,000 It2versionary Bonuses have been added to Po- J l eies to th e extent of 890,000 ne last Bonus, declared in 1854, averaged £67 poptoiejorieeseni t n , fo on: e 11e 171!r and amounted ....... 7 397,000 , The A 240, 621 000 ti ne In nnual Income exceeds Pursuan ce of event of the invariable practice of this Society, in e vent of the D ea th o f th e Life Assured within the 15 days ` ,3. ace, the R enewa l P rem i um rema i n i n g unpaid, the Claim Will be admitted, subject to the payment of such Premium. The next Division of Profits will be made in 1859. Assurances effected prior to 31st December, 1859, will par tLelpate in the Division of 1861.-- Prospectuses and full particulars may be obtained on appli cation to ALEXANDER MACDONALD, Secretary. FIFTY THOUSAND CURES Rave been effected without Medicine, inconvenience or expense of Indigestion (dyspepsia), Constipation, Flatulency, Ph legm, Nervousness, Biliousness, Liver Complaints, Hysteria, Neuralgia, Sleeplessness, Acidity, Palpitation, Ileartburn, eruptions, Impurities, Irritability, Low Spirits, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Hemorrhoids, Headache, Noises in the Head and Ears, Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Spasms, Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy or at sea), Sinking Fits, Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption, also Children's Complaints, are effectually removed by DU BARRY'S delicious Health-Restoring REVALENTA. ARABICA FOOD, which saves fifty ~ t nes its cost i n o th er reme di es , and is, moreover, the best 10 0 d for infants and invalids generally, as it never turns acid bqthe weakest stomach, nor interferes with a good liberal diet, baparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner, and restores t he faculty of digestion, and nervous and muscular energy to "kLmost enfeebled. We extract a few out of the many thousand expressions of iratitude from invalids thus cured :—Cure No. 71, of dyspep ,:a: from the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de Decies—" Dro shieria' cappoquin, County Waterford.—l have derived con a drable benefit from Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food. the „ c "sider it due to yourselves and the public to authorise_ 49,80hlication of these lines. Stuart de Decies.” Cure No. Yous n :Pifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, ner ajek„ B s, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, D u Vs at the stomach, and vomiting, have been removed by arry s excellent Food. Maria Jolly, Wortham Ling, near V,188,040rf01k." Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of ‘7„ azin g_ Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Herta, of extreme ner vousness, indig-estion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fan -, 's• • Cure No. 48,314. "Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near "averpool : of ten years' dyspepsia, and all the horrors of nervous irritability. Cure No. 18,216. Dr. Andrew lire, of con !_itipation, dyspepsia, nervous irritability. Cure No. 34,210. Dr. Shorland, of dropsy and debility. Cure No. 36,212. Cap tain Allan, of epileptic fits. Cure No. 42,116. Major Edie, of liver and kidney disease, and total prostration of strength Cure No. 36,118. Rev. Dr. Minster, of cramps, spasms, and daily vomitings. Cure No. 26,418. Dr. Harvey, of diarhoea and debility. Cure No. 39,628. Dr. Wurtzer, of consumption. Cure No. 32,880. Wm. Hunt, Esq., barrister, of paralysis. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts,timber-merchant, of Frim ley, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitti ng o f bl oo d, liver de rangement, partial deafness. Cure No. 180. "Twenty-five years' nervousness, constipation, indigestion, and debility, from which I have suffered great misery, and which no me dicine could remove or relieve, have been effectually cured IT Du Barry's Food in a very short time. W. 11. Reeves,lBl, F leet -street, London." Cure So. 4,208. " Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms, and nausea, have been e ff ec t u ally cured by Du Barry's health restoring, Food. Rev. John W. Flavel l, Riddlin gton Rectory Norfolk." Cure No. 3,906. "Thirteen years'congh, indiges tion, and general debility have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food. James Porter, Athol-street, Perth." Suitably packed for all climates, and with full instructions. In canisters, 11b., 2s. 9d. ; 21b, 4s. fsi. ; 51b., lls. ; 121 b ., 22 5. Super refi ne d qua lity. lolb., 3.35. The irnb. and 121 b. canis ters are forwarded carriage free, on receipt of Post-office order. Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London ; Fort- Mason, and Co., 182, Piccadilly, and through all grocers and chemists in-town and country. Dr. PALL ACE'S PILLS and OINTMENT are prepared Upon scientific principles, without mercury, to prevent the danger and injury resulting from quack preparations ; they Purify, regulate, and strengthen the system, and cure effec tually dyspepsia (bad digestion), bile, flatulency, constipation. liver and stomach complaints and all internal disorders ; and the Ointment heals sores, wounds, ulcers, boils, burns, car buncles chaps, pimples, diseases of the scalp, &c. Both pills and ointment are carefully packed for all climates, at Is. 14d.. 2 ,5. 9d., and 4s. 6d. London agents : Hannay, 63, Oxford-st. • Sanger, 153, Oxford-street, and may be ordered through all Medicine vendors. ,DI.T BARRY'S PUL3IONIC COUGH BON BONS are a nice, safe, and effectual remedy for coughs, colds, hoarseness, asthma, and all affections of the lungs, throat, and of unrivalled excellence. In boxes-Is. 114., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d. J. Sanger, 150, Oxford -street, London, and all Chemists. DU BARRY'S ANTI-DIARRH(EAL BON BONS are a never-failing remedy for English cholera, bowel complaint, diarrhoea, dysentery, &c., &c. In boxes—ls. 14d., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d. J. Sanger, 150, Oxford-street, London, and all Chemists. ANU BARRY'S FOO INFANT, D INVALIDS, supers edes FOß the dangers S, and CHILDREN expense of \vet nursing, as infants are easily reared with it, and it is the best and most digestible Food for the delicate and invalids of ny age. In canisters, at 25., and 121 b 21s. The large cants- Lers free of carriage. Barry Du Barry, and Co., 77, Regent street, London. Avoid Pills, end all other Medicine for Indigestion (dys- PePsia). habitual Constipation, Flatulency, Acidity. Palpita t,ion of the H ear t, Torpidity of the Liver, bilious Headaches, ~ervousnes„, Biliousness, General Debility, Diarrhoea, Cough, iksthnia, Consumption. Despondency, Spleen , &c. Send 2 d. n stamps, and you will receive free by Post, a popular Tree trniler' 6 1 Pages :—" THE NATURAL REGENERATION OF DIGESTIVE ORGANS." Without pills, purgatives, 2: Medicines of any kind, and without expense, by a simple, Pleasant, and infallible means which 'saves 50 times its cost other remedies ; adapted to the general reader. London: es Eillbert,"49, Paternoster-row, and through all book. ich ft ble if iwful es hand, not dress i had ice to perly He con than were upon ,ainly e had sition atter. 7 for elieve ering amber such , jun.► y for there father and ity for co his t than entice e fine. it the i. 3sue. 11 and en- Amato Ding i t/ mect S Pri ce ' which [TWA"' Pe na tend' wily of his de Barlel hanger sea 's to 3a' is to 2=' Is to 3 3° s to 4 3° s to 46° ance of WO ove g supc l 9, , BeP' .0 trade upwalv ; tO 34 .n ti to I to 4 14 I tO steag mu 17 .11 , 6 .19 3 .20 3 ~r untcss rife of birth r, OW rimes' No. 20,766. PUBLICATIONS. MISS PARDOE'S NEW WORK. Now ready, in 2 vols., 215., bound, EPISODES OF FRENCH HISTORY. By MISS PARDOE. Author of " The Life of Marie de Medic's," " Louis XIV.," &c. Hurst and 131ackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. UNDER THE ESPECIAL PATRONAGE OF HER MAJESTY AND H.R.H. THE PRINCE CONSORT. Now ready, 28th Edition, in 1 vol., with the Arms beautifully engraved, handsomely bound, with gilt edges, 31s. 6d., LODGE'S PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE FOR 1859. CORRECTED BY THE NOBILITY. "The readiest, the most useful, and exactest of modern works on the subject,—Spectator. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. T HE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CCXXI. Will be published on Monday Next. CONTENTS. I. Help's Spanish Conquest in America. 11. Life. Assurance. 111. The Church Rate Question. IV. The Roman Catacombs. V. The Hudson's Bay Territory. VI. Lord Liverpool's Administration till 1822. VII. Library of the British Museum. VIII. Life and Organisation. IX. History and Prospects of Parliamentary Reform. London : Longman and Co. Edinburgh : A. and C. Black. Just published, price 28., by post free, 2s. 4d., O N. SPERMAT.ORRHCEA. By F. B. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S., and formerly Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the Cure of Stric tures of the Urethra. " The aim of the author is to present a common-sense view of the Causes, Nature, Consequences, and Treatment of this Disease, as also to free these questions from the Professional Fallacies, the Popular Delusions, and the exaggerations of Quackery by which they have hitherto been surrounded, to the destruction of the health and happiness of thousands. These objects are discussed in a common-sense and highly practical manner."—Medical Circular. London :IL BaiMere, 219, Regent-street. FEIST'S RACING RECORD for 1858, with Nominations for 1859, is now published. W. Wright, Fulwood's Rents, Holborn. London. THE OPERA COLONNADE HOTEL COMPANY (Limited). Charles-street, Haymarket (late Feuillade's), London, S.W. Capital, £25,000, in 5,000 shares of .£5 each. Deposit 10s. per Share on application, and £2 per share on allotment. The altera tions and furnishing are being proceeded with and the HO TEL will be OPENED in FEBRUARY. Applications for the REMAINING SHARES, Prospectuses, &c., may be made, for a LIMITED PERIOD, to the secretary, at the Hotel ; the solicitors, Messrs. Prichard and Collette, 57, Lincoln's-inn-iields, W.C.; to the brokers, Messrs. Samuel Hill and Son, 3, Copthall-buildings, Bank, B.C. ; or at the tem porary offices of the Company, 152, Gresham-house, Old Broad-street, E.C. T. R. COMYN, Secretary. CONTRACT FOR ELM TIMBER. Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy, Somerset-place, 31st Dec., 1858. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN' and IRELAND, DO HEREBY ' GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY, the Ist February, 1859, at Two o'clock. they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for sup plying her Majesty's Dockyards. with 4,000 Loads of ENGLISH ELM TIMBER, felled between the middle of November last and the end of February next, and to be de livered (at prices including all carriage and other expenses) by the 30th November, 1859. Tenders may be made for the supply of any one or more of the yards, or for the whole of them. A for of the tender, showing the distribution and condi tions orthe contract may be obtained at this office. No tender will be received after Two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Ten der for Elm Timber," and must be delivered at Somerset place, accompanied by a letter signed by two responsible per sons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering, in the sum of £1 per Load for the due performance of the Contract. n INOPOLION TAVERN and HOTEL. Nos. 1, and 2, Brownlow-street, High-Holborn, W.C. The Best Served Dinner in London for Is. 6d. A Succession of Joints from One till Seven o'Clock. Private'and Smoking;Rooms. TABLE D'HOTE on SUNDAYS, at 5 o'clock, 2s. each. THE WELLINGTON WELLINGTON RESTAURANT, _T. JAMES'S -STREET, AND 160, PICCADILLY. Gentlemen visiting the Metropolis will find ample accom modation for dinners at this establishment. The arrange ments are varied and perfect, and the tariff of charges is very moderate. Private rooms for large or small parties may be engaged on application to the Superintendent. By Order. JAMES GOFTON, Superintendent 27th November, 1858. IOCKS'S CELEBRATED READING SAUCE, `-.), which is so highly esteemed with Fish, Game, Steaks, Soups, Grills, GraVies, Hot and Cold Meats, and unrivalled for general use, is sold by the most respectable dealers in Fish Sauces.:—J: and C. COCKS, Reading, Sole Manufacturers. COALS. -18s. 6d. per ton, Derby Shire ; Clay Cross, 21s. ; Sllkstone, 21s. ; our Best are now 235. for cash. Care should be taken to address to T. JONES, Ma-. nager, Northern and Eastern Railway Coal-offices, 32, Great Marlborough-street, Regent-street, W. ; or, 127, Albany street, Regent's-park, N.W. FRENCH FAILURE, LYON, FRANCE. OWERBY, TATTON, AND CO., having kJ purchased for cash, at a discount of Bs. 44d, in the pound, the whole of the Rich and Distinguished Steck of SILKS, of Lyon manufacture, amounting to 1,250,000 francs, the same is now being cleared at the Customs, and will be offered for public sale on our p remises , WEDNESDAY next, 12 th January , 1859.-272 and 274, Regent-circus ; 111, 112, Oxford-street, W. a LENFIELD PATENT STARCH, v-A USED IN . THE ROYAL LAUNDRY, Arro PRONOUNCEMIT HER MAJESTY'S LAUNDRESS to be THE FINEST STARCH SHE EVER USED. Sold by all Chandlers, Grocers &c., &c. BOARD AND RESIDENCE. A Superior Home is offered to a Gentleman of steady habits, en gaged during the day, by a family residing near Regent's- Park. For a young man coming to London for the first time this would be found a desirable residence. Terms moderate. References to- be exchanged. -- Address, J. P., Wright's Dairy, Granby-street, Hampstead-road, N.W. APPETITE AND INDIGESTION IMPROVED LEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, and all Roast Meat, Gravies, leish, Game, Soup, Cur ries, and Salad, and by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach to perfectly digest the food. The daily use of this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safeguard to health. Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrins, 19, Fenchurch street, London, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester ; also ty Messrs. Barclay and Sons, Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and merchants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. N.B.—To guard against imitations, see that the names of "LEA and PERRINS " are upon the label and patent cap of the bottle. ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIO N S. GENERATIVE INCAPACITY, AND IMPEDIMENIS TO MARRIAGE. New and improved Edition, enlarged to 196 pages, illustrated by 100 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel, just pub lished. price, free by post, ls. THE SILENT FRIEND : A Medical Work on the physical exhaustion and decay of the frame, from the effects of solitary indulgence, infection, and the injurious consequences from the use of Mercury : with observations on the obligations of marriage, and directions for obviating cer tain disqualifications. By R. and L. PERRY and Co., Sur geons. Consultations as usual (see page 197). Sold by J. Allen, 20, Warldck-lane, Paternoster-row ; Sanger, 160, Oxford street; and Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street, London. The CORDIAL BALM of SYRIACUM is employed in both sexes to renovate the impaired powers of life. Its action is purely balsamic : its power in reinvigorating the frame in all cases of nervous and sexual debility, obstinate gleets, impo tency, barrenness, anddebilities arising from venereal excesses. has been demonstrated by its unvarying sucess in thousands of cases. Price lls, per bottle, or four quantities in one for 335., which saves lls. The CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE, an anti-syphilitic remedy, for purifying the system, and is recom mended for any of the varied forms of secondary symptoms, such as eruptions on the skin, blotches on the head and face, en largements of the throat, tonsils, and uvula; threatened destruction of the nose, palate, &e. Its action is purely deter sive, and its beneficial influence on the system is undeniable. Price lls. and 335. per bottle, also a saving of lls. PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS constitute an effectual remedy in either sex forall cases of gonorrhoea, gleet, stricture, and diseases of the urinary organs. Price 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d. and lls. per box. Sold by Daniel Church, 78, Graceehurdh-street, City ; Bart ley-Hooper, 43, King William-street (fourdoors from London bridge) ; G. F. Watts, 17, Strand ; W. Sutton and Co., 10, Bow churchyard ; W. Edwards, 67, St. Paul's-churchyard ; J. Sanger, 150, Oxford Street ; Hannay and Dietrichsen, 63, Oxford-street ; Butler and. Harding, 4, Cheapside ' • Prout and Harsant, 229 Strand, and all medical vendors throughout the United Kingdom THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. Just published, price is., post free, in an Envelope, for 13 stamps, Q,ELF-PRESERVATION.—A Medical Treatise on the Functions and Disorders of the Generative System, and on the cure of Nervous and Physical Debility, resulting from vicious habits acquired during the critical passage from youth to Manhood, with practical observations on the Phy siology 01 Marriage in its social, moral, and physical rela tions. To which are added remarks on the wonders of the Microscope in revealing the hidden mysteries "of Life within Life," and its advantages in detecting, by urinary examina tion, the cause and effect of every variety of these complaints, with numerous engravings and cases. BY SAMUEL LA'MERT M.D LONDON, Matriculated BEDFORD SQUARE , Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Hono rary 3/[ember of the London Hospital Medical Society, Li centiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fear ful consequences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, which have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Manhood, and premature, decay at all stages of life, than, perhaps, any other class of disease known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is particularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of their physical condi tion, and who are conscious of having hazarded the health happiness, and privileges to which every human being is en titled. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are principles of personal management which cannot be violated without incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of inconsiderate self indulgence, how those penalties may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, and how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and, above all, that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional lerangement to which the timely aid of scienee cannot apply a cure. Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row, and may be had of Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Home, 19, Leicester- I square ; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street ; or from the Author, who may be consulted daily, from 11 till 2, and from 6 till 8, at his residence, 37, Bedford-square, London. The work may be had in India, of Mr. Von Litzky, Loll Bazaar; Calcutta—Messrs. C. and J. 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' • :' ,4 • + _ _ ... / ..... . THE .FATAL A FF - R. . . . BURT\ 44 I 141 ,c_, After several private exa: , ...4tTirm5.4,,,,...._ ' / 74... sons in custody at Beverle .7, altirgedivithSpeing concerned in the murder of John Washington Jex, head•gainekeePer to Mr. Rii chard . Watt, of Bishop Burton, on the.2lst of Novi )tuber, the magistrates' of the-East Riding of Yorl :shire, at their weekly . • sitting at Beverley on Sal irday last, allowed the inquiry to proceed in court: The principal. witness was the watcher, Mark Robin 'son, who was sevettly injureelen the occasion in qua tstion, and who no w appeared in court for the first time. His head wits bound up, and he looked very thin and haggard, and had to be accommodated v rich a chair. After some preliminary evidence, he • gai, the following circumstantial account of the p. trt o the affray in which he was engaged :—" I he trd-a dog bark and hare scream. The sounds came, frOm the direction of the Brogdale PlantatiOn, and si . called the atten tion of Jex and Geddes to the nois.Y. We all heard it, and turned back, and went down the side of the Middle Galops Plantation. When wo came to the corner of the Little Galops we ' stood and looked t ne h roi e te s dg e oo e tu d tf s a, fi r, e c l o d ovme n re e t a ho i e • ne fence e t :in, tocoueyeLb_o before Little Galo ps ; n. vs G ioon a . u1: 10 over into the Brogdale seedsfield, and .we ci tught sight of three or four men in the field,.,along' the woodside. We saw another man in the ;corner -of over a low-cut hedge into the seedsfield. W 4: had m ink there would be six sr t eP. shallous ft w h teeo havep. s o t stepped t , , c i :h a l : t e r c o .... r s d (l ' 3'ire had no dogs . with ru n os i g u, I i na t du ; da w b e to a hu l et v i. ru f fettled g l e sl d for eath seven .dogs. Jex told them to call their dons in, and' tl le and they. made answer that they voilld not. Je x did. One dog came o very near to Sex, and he 'shot: pthoaenehesrasidrephleiedwotuhladt theyshoot wo t u h l e d s d h o oo gs t , him if .li it. .1 believe another barrel was fired at this tine from the poachers' side at Geddes.- A man, ii.ho was standing a little to the right of me,,threiv..a heavy stone at me, which caught me at the baek of 'the ear, and gave me a very hard blow, The blow cut me at the back of the ear, and gave me a ve.‘,:y hard blow. The stone cut me, and blood began 'to flow. • .1 afterwards found that it *wan a- stoic which gave me one of my severe wounds. Serer al stones were thrown by the poachers , Two hit ne, but did not injure me. Some of the poachers thl ni made an attempt to rush in upon Jex, and I we: it towards him to help him. They got.round Jex and me, and I received a'. very severe blow on the bat* of the head with something very heavy; it wit:: mot a stone, but I cannot say exactly what -it was. I believe eight men were then surrounding us. The blow brought medown on my knees, but .. before that I heard several blows struck, though I did not; see them. I could see the sticks coining backwards,. but not the blows. I knew they were aimed at Jex, because he was on my left hand. I then got up, but had not been long up before I was knocked down again. I think it was with a bludgeon. The second time - "I fell I remained on the ground, and the poachers beat me ; that is as far as I can recollect of the affray. I have been ill ever since, and this is the first day I have been out in. the neigh bourhood since. The last time I saw Jex he was holding up his gun with both hands to ward off a blow. The last I saw of Geddes he was about 30 yards to the right of me, and there were some,men about him. I had heard Geddes shoot a dog some where behind my back." The witness, on being: requested to look at the prisoners, did so, and pointing with hi s s ti c k to F ran kli n, sa id , " elis one I can recollect." Of M'Grath, who stood second, he said, " He is very much like one." John son was standing on the other side of Franklin, and on Robinson looking closely at him, he Said, " I think he is the man who threw the flintstone at me." He then pointed his stick at Marshall, and. said, " That is one?' The last man he noticed was Thompson, and he remarked, " I think he has the appearance of one." The witness added that there were 11 or 12 poachers present, eight of Whom sari-Minded him and Jex. Marshall and Thompson had not previously been identified. Soi4l)ther unimportant evidence was offered, after which.. one of the prisoners, named Smith, who had surrendered on bail, was discharged, and the magistrates Inti mated that bail would probably be accepte4 for Robson. The "confession" which it was.suppoSed one of the prisoners had made, amounts to nothing more than a long rambling story about hispersonal feeling, and an assertion that the min whick - filiot the under keeper Geddes went off accidentally., 1, PRICE 4 1 '. STAMPED, SD. I'HE NAVY. It is rumoured in naval circles that the Govern ment have it in contemplation to make a consider able augmentation in the Channel squadron by the addition of 12 sail of the line. The greatest activity .prevails in all the dockyards in hastening forward the completion of those line-of-battle ships which have been on the stocks several years, most of which are nearly completed, in order that thcy may be commissioned apdmade ready for sea. During the present year several firstclass screw steamers will be launched at • Portsmouth, Chatham, Devonport, and Pembroke, when other line-of-battle ships are. to be immediately laid down on the same slips. The screw steamer Scotia, of Greenock, of 1,020 tons, Capt. Bell, arrived at Falmouth on Saturday, in ballast, from the Havannah and Savannah. This vessel about 17 months ago took out to India the head-quarters of the 72d Highlanders, and then proceeded to China, where she embarked a cargo of coolies and took them to Cuba. Owing to the de-_ pression of freightS at Havannah,and the high port charges she could not succeed in obtaining a cargo either there or at Savannah, where she touched on her homeward voyage. Her Majesty's screw steam transport Urgent it is expected will proceed to Waterford about the 20th inst., and there embark the Tipperary Militia Artillery, for service in the different forts on the Gosport side of Portsmouth-Harbour. • . The Bloomer troopship; Captain Smith, sailed from Spithead at 11 a.m. yesterday for Bombay., and Kurrachec. Captain the Hon. J. Drummond, Aide-de-Camp , to the Queen, recently appointed Commodore and Superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard, and at pre sent on- leave of absence, yesterday visited the establishment, and conferred with the. authorities for the purpose .of making arrangements prelimi nary to his assuming office. Rear-Admiral Smart and the members composing the Dockyard Economical Committee at Woolwich yesterday assembled in the pay-office belonging to the factory and investigated the system of book keeping practised in that department. After a thorough inspection of the books and offices they expressed their approbation of the ready and effi cient method now in force for the payment of the men, as well as the . efficiency perceptible through out the offices. Her Majesty's paddlewheel sloop Alecto, Com mander J. Hunt, was yesterday morning ordered to be paid off at Woolwich on Saturday next. THE ARMY. It is arranged that the following lectures shall be given during the winter to the men quartered in the camp at Shorneliffe :—Jan. 13, " Remi niscences of Brazil," by the Rev. E. G. Parker, Chaplain to the Forces ; Jan. 20, " The Geology of our Coast," by Mr: Mackinson, of Ilvthe ; Jan. 27, "Zigzags, or -Travels in Switzerland," by the Rev. T. It. Maynard, of Dover; Feb. 3, " Eminent Me chanics," by Capt. Noble, R.E. ; Feb. 10, " The Druids," by the Rev. J. Young, Presbyterian Chap lain ; Feb. 17, " China and the Chinese," by Mr. C. W. Clift, Superintending Schoolmaster ; Feb. 24, " The Wonders of Human Folly," by Mr. Runcie man, Schoolmaster 100th Reg,t. ; March 3, "On Astronomy," by the Rev. J. D'Arcy Preston, As sistant-Chaplain ; March 10, " . Travels in Spain," by Major Ewart, R.E. ; . March 17, " Amicable Ceremonies of Various Nations," by Mr. E. G. Hildyard, Army Schoolmaster. A FIGHT BETWEEN TWO MEIIIkEIZ OF CONGRESS. The Washington correspondent of.the. New York Tribune, in a letter dated Dec. 19, says :—The ac count of the affray between Messr. English and Montgomery, given by the Was/ ington &dr, and telegraphed to the New York evening papers on Saturday, is pronounced by Montgomery incorrect and one-sided... His statement as given to me yes terday, shortly after the occurrence, is as - follows : " I have not spoken to English this session or taken any notice of him when we met, as we have occasionally. The reason is, that he made a speech to the crowd who serenaded him on the. night Of the passage of his bill, in which he said he had associ ated with me other anti-Lecompton Democrats only to find out our plans and defeat us. From that time I have looked upon him as a treacherous spy and au unfit associate for gentlemen. At noon to-day I was walking down Pennsylvania-avenue, and had joist . passed Willard's and crossed Fourteenth-street, when I savt English coming toward me, holding out his hand, saying, ' How do you do, Mr: Mont gomery ?' " I made no answer, but passed on without any sign of recognition. I had walked a few steps when I received from behind a very violent blow: on the left-side of, my head, given with such force as for, a moment to stagger and confuse me. had not the least idea who or what had struck me, but . on turning round I saw Epgligh .with a large cane which he held in both hands, and from the position in which he stood, and the direction of the blow, he must have so held it when he :struck me. He exclaimed— " G—d d—n you, I'll teach you to insult me in that way.' •" He stepped backward quickly as he spoke. . I rushed at him, and was about to close with him, when he drew a cane from a sword and presented it at me. As I had no weapon of any kink I stepped off the side walk and picked-up a piece of brick, which I threw at him, hitting him on the leg. He kept retreating, and before I could find another missile, he had got to such a distance that it was useless to pursue him." Two persons, Win.. Couch and Daniel Cox, wit nessed the affitir. I have seen a statenient,made and. signed by Couch, which confirms Montgomery's statement in every particular. Couch sap. . • " Mr. English spoke, saying, How are you, Mr. Montgomery P' Montgomery neither 4oke nor paid any attention to this salutation, but passed on down the avenue. Mr. English stepped after him. a few steps, and struck him from behind with his cane a very heavy - blow-on the side of the head. Montgomery turned on him. . English stepped back and drew his sword cane, as though about to stab Montgomery with it. Montgomery stepped back into the avenue, and caught up a piece of brick. English was running when Montgomery threw the brick and hit him on the heel or lower part of the leg. Montgomery went back for another stone, and English ran rapidly away .up -Four , teenth-street. When Montgomery came back, Eng lish had run a half-square, and was beyond his reach. 'We were the only persons close by. We saw and heard all that passed. Montgomery did not speak until after he was struck.". Daniel Cox fully con olparates Couch's statement, but says I shall add that Mr. Montgomery was unarmed, and that Mr. English held a cane in both hands, and struck with great force." Thomas Reed . Keever, a hackman and grocer, who was standing on the opposite corner and saw the later part of the affray, corroborates those.wit nesses. Montgomery went immediately to a magistrate, and made a charge of assault against English, who has been held to bail. Montgomery's face was badly bruised by the blow, which caused blood to flow profusely. He has kept- his room since, and is attended by a physician. Had the cane struck an inch or two higher, so as to hit his temple instead of his cheek, he would most probably have been killed. GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.— The Government emigrant ship Golconda, 1,124 tons, Capt. George Kcxr, which sailed from Liverpool on the 3d of July, in charge of Surgeon Superintendent John Carleton Bury, with 42 mar ried couples, 149 single men, 90 single women, '2l boys be tween the ages of 1 and 12, 24 girls between the same ages, 4 male infants and 6 femal e , ma ki ng a total of 378 souls, e qual to 3451 1 - statute adults, arrived at Sydney, New South Wales, on the 21st October. Four deaths (adults) and four births occurred during the voyage. Her Majesty's Emi gration Commissioners have g iven notice of their intention to receive tenders next Thursday, the 13th inst., for a ship to proceed to Table Bay, Cape of Good Ho?e, to be ready for the reception of passengers on such day as the Commis sioners may appoint between the 10th and yth February. [ADVERTISE BENT.]—Holloway's Pills.-These Pills aro more efficacious in strengthening •'a debilitated consti tution than any other medicine in the world, Persons of a nervous habit of body, and all Who are suffering from weak digestive organs, or whose health has become Ile ranged by bilious affections, disordered _stomach, or liver complaints, should lois no time in kiviitg these) adMf34ble pills a fair trial. Coughs, colds, asthma, or shortness, 01 breath, are also within the range of the sanative poweri of this very remarkable medicine. The cures effected by these pe pil r l m s a a n7nt n . ot T s h u e i r fi ar c e ia a l s mild may . NI given With.conlidence to delicate females and yours rliltdemaspothrteirj,arbentefficocenictosplentse, aannad. children. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY. EVENING, JANUARY 1.1, 1859. THE USURPATION OF TITLES IN FRANCE. The following is a translation of the report to the Emperor Napoleon, on the re-establishment of penalties against the , usurpation of titles and dis- tinctions : Sire,—ln re-establishing penal regulations against those who usurp titles and assume without ,right distinctions of honour, the law of May 28, 1858,has restored to titles legitimately acquired their real importance and thearelaims upon the respect of the public. In a country and under a rule, where the hum blest citizen, by-his personal merit, can attain the highest positions, the law ought openly to protect whatever represents the reward of merit and the honour of families. True and intelligent equality , consists, not in proscribing distinctiOns, but in per mitting them to be accessible fol. :all that rise by courage, dignity of conduct, or brilliancy • of service. The new law ought to be carried into strict but enlightened execution. Your Majesty has desired to put an end to abuses, to reach fraud and charlatanisin, to bring bark order into the civil state, to- restore in short to public dis tinctions the character and repute that only pertain to truth. But yon had no desire to interfere with acquired rights or to disturb legitimate possessions which only ask for the means of causing tlieniselves to be acknowledged and regulated; The questions connected with the transmission of titles in families, the proving of disputed qualifica tions, the confirmation or recognition of ancient titles. .the scrutiny, should it be . made, into new titles, are numexous and. delicate; It is proper that no guarantee, in the way of inquiry and evidence should be wanting for their solution. I have the honour of submitting, for ,your Majesty's approval , the drift of a : decree diSeussed in the Council of State, and providing for the re-creation of the Council of the Seal for Titles. Created by the second statute 'of March 1, 1808, the Council of the Seal for Titles consisted, under the presidency of the Arch-Cho.nceller of the Em pire, of three senators, two councillors of state, one attorney-general, one secretary-general, and trea surer. (Decree of March 27, 1808, Art. 7.) An ordinance of July 15;1815; replaced it by a commit tee presided over by the keeper of the seals, which was itself suppressed on Oct. 31, 1830. A part of the attributes of the council and of the committee of the seal referred to the formation of entails according to primogeniture,' and to the ma nagement of property set apart for their formation. Under the control of the law of Mareh 12, 1835, which suppressed such fee tails for the future, these attributes can at the present time be applicable alone to whatever concerns transitory questions and the entails still extant. But the changes that have been undergone by the laws touching titles and names have created situations respecting which the deliberations and advice of a special council will be usefully called into play. In this point of view it has appeared neces sary to amplify the attributes of the old council of the seal, to bring them into accord with the existing laws, and to give generally to the keeper of the seals tk;e,ri6ht, of submitting to the scrutiny of the new council all difficulties connected with this subject. Such is the object of the articles 5,6, and 7 in the draft. What, for instance, in looking at a law that no longer authorises the creation of entails, will be the fate of those titles that were only to become here ditary on condition of the estate being entailed? What will be in future, the rules to be observed for the verification of titles and their transmission to families? In what order, what limits, on what conditions, will the father's title secure a title to his sons ? Will it be proper to sanction the rules laid down by the decree of June 4, 1809 (art. 6), and by the ordinance of Aug. 25, 1817 (art. 12) With regard to periods preceding the year 1789, in default of a regular act of scrutiny, acknowledg ment or authorisation, the production of which is not always possible, will there be no means of con ferring on the council of the seal the power of enlarging the circle of proofs and of admitting, according 'to circumstances, as a justification of one's right to the title - or 'name submitted to its scrutiny, a possession proved by acts of public officials, or by historical documents ? An ordinance . of Jan. 31, 1819, not inserted in the Bulletin des Lois, submits'in France to the pre vious authorisation of . your Majesty the using of titles confessed by foreign sovereigns. Ought not these regulations to be restored, and again put seriously into execution ? Those are questions which stWd. over, but the solution of which cannot be long6,stponed, when we consider the new text of the article 259 in the penal code. In devoting itself to its work systema tically, and to the complete, study of the facts, the Council of the seal will collect the elementary matter, and will assist in preparing the bases of your Majesty's decisions. Petitions sent in for change or addition of name continue to be subject to the forms traced out by the law of the 11th Germinal in the year 11. The autho risations of this nature are granted by your Majesty under the form of the regulations for the public administration (art. 5). The Council of the State for Titles may nevertheless be consulted on the changes or aMitions, that might have: ol'o tm 4f a qualification conferring honour or emolum?.nt, and' which would come under,ie categin iirfddes — pro-. vided for by the article 259' of therfieniridde.' • - By the terms of the 7th article in the law of the 11th Germinal of the year 11, every one having a right to do so may, within the space of one year, dating from the insertion in the Bulletin des Lois, prosecute the repeal of the decree that has autho rised a change of name, or an addition to the same. To maintain intact more efficaciously this right of third parties, the 9th article in the draft of the decree requires that the petition for change of name, or for addition thereto, shall be previously. inserted, in the form of an excerpt, in the Moniteur and in other journals therein specified. No sanction of the petition can ensue before three months after the date , of the insertions. This regulation merely confirms, by giving , to it a more obligatory and solemn form, an administra tive rule created by two decisions of Minister of Justice on the 26th of Oct., 1815, and the 10th of April, 1818. (See Moniteur of Oct. 26, 1815, and Aprillo, 1818.) But if it be necessary and just to apply without exception this rule to all parties demanding permis sion to take in future a name they never bore, and by which they are not known, this necessity may appear less absolute when the decree of authorisa tion now solicited, and which itself will not be definitive until after the lapse of one year, ought not to interfere save for the purpose of legalising a name honourably borne for a long period, accepted by the public, inscribed in official acts or made illus trious by important services. The insertion of the petition for the sole purpose of informing' third parties, has then no longer the same interest, and might in certain cases be attended with more incon venienee than advantage. These considerations, joined to the peculiar treatment always enjoined by transitory situations, . have dic tated the construction of article 10, by virtue' of which the keeper of the seal, by and with the ad vice of the council of seals, may dispense with the insertions prescribed by the 10th article, where the petitions are based on old possession, or when it is notorious and consecrated by important services. Nevertheless, the Council of State has thought that, however circumscribed this faculty might be, it ought to be, like the requirements it is intended to satisfy, of an essentially transitory nature. The council has limited its duration to a period of two ' years, dating from the promulgation of the decree. Three senators and two councillors of state will enter, as in 1808, into the composition of the Coun cil. Your Majesty has moreover permitsed that two members of the Court of Appeal should be called to form part of it. Your exalted magistracy, Sire, will worthily respond to this new appeal made to its devotedness and intelligence. It has likewise appeared right to introduce into the Council of the Seal three masters of requests, who according . to the law of their institution will have a deliberative voice in the affairs, of which they will have to make the report, and a consultative voice in the others. Lastly, auditors to the Council of State may be attached to the Council of the Seal. The law of January 29, 1831, definitively 'regu lating the budget of 1828, suppressed the receiving office of the seal. The droits that used to be paid into that office are now levied direct by the public treasury. So long as this legislative regulation shall not have been modified, it will not be possible to create a treasurer of the seal. The petitions brought before the Council of the Seal will have to pass through the office of the referendaries to the Seal. Should your Majesty deign to approve the draft of the decree, the text of which is below, I shill • have the honour to take your orders for the appoint ment of the members to the Council of the Seal for Titles. I am, with . profound resped, Sire, your Majesty's most devoted servant and most loyal subject, The Keeper of the Seals, • Minister Secretary of State to the Department of Justice, E. DE ROYER. The foregoing report is accompanied by the decree which establishes the Council of Seal of Titles, a sort of Heraldic College, and nominates the members of that council. - THE ICING OF SARDINIA'S SPEECH. (From the Times.) This is a moment of suspense, when the words of SOvereigns are substantive :events. The opening of the Saidinian Chambers has been expected - With an anxiety in *no respect warranted 'by the power or intrinsic importance of that kingdom. But we all. hoped to read in the speech of the King of Sardinia some gloss upon the words of the 'Emperor 'of the French, and some indication, of the policy to be pursued by France towards. Austria. If SaFelinia shows a determination to break the .public peace it can only be in the conviction, More or less w4ll founded, that 'France is prepared to protect her in her enterprise. Sardinia defying Austria Would be as a pigmy provoking a giant. So insensate a policy is not to be attributed to tely sane Govern ment. However, incautious, or even intemperate, the King may sometimes have appeared, there is strong evidence that he has upon this occasion only spoken so much as was permitted him to speak. It is even currently reported that the draught of the document was carefully settled at Paris, and that the paper went -hack to Turin much modified in tone. We may take 'it that the speech just de livered by the King of Sardinia is a speech which has .the approval of the Emperor of the French. .Regarding it in this light it is not so peaceful in its tone as the friends of tranquillity might desire.' It would bp a temperate and moderate speech for the King who not long ago told his officers that they might prepare for active service in the spring, but it is not reassuring if we are to read it in connection with those words spoken on New Year's-day, and with the ambiguous explana tion ,put forth in the Moniteur. " The political horizon is not clear," says the Sardinian Sove reign. In what quarter, then, broods the storm ? What European Power threatens the independence of the King's subjects ? Do the inhabitants of Lombardy seek to annex Piedmont in the interest of their Austrian masters ? Or does the Ariny of Occupation at Milan cast eyes of covetousness upon Turin or Genoa ? Whence comes the storm which Sardinia fears; or who holds that future which Sardinia " awaits with rinness ?" The Power that is determined upon a quarrel need not look far out and sweep, the horizon for indications of an enemy. If it were the wish of Sardinia only to hold her own, her small . horizon is clear enough. But we are told that she looks not for a secure, but for a fortunate future. " Her policy is based oh justice and love of its country's liberty." This should be a strictly defensive policy, unless the King of Sardinia interprets the word " country" in a sense different from that placed upon it by the treaties he professes to respect. If by the word " country" he means Italy, then, indeed, we under stand what that policy must be which is based on a love of Italian liberty. Such a policy which would rule all Italy from Turin. It is a 'policy which wouldinake Milan, and Florence, and Naples,. and even Rome herself, departmental cities, send ing Deputies to a metropolis which is scarcery more Italian than Nice or Toulon. This might tend to the expansion of the liberty of Italy ; it might mitigate the stringency . of the Bourbon tyranny in Naples ; it might infuse some energy into the anile burlesque of Government' that obtains in the States of the Church; it might, per haps, improve, although this is rather doubt ful, the present condition of Tuscany ; but is it possible to compass ?—is it a project so capable of realisation as to be ,worth a general European war ? Is it possible that it could be rea lised by the agency of France and Russia; and, if it were realised, could it last ? Would Austria endure it ?, Would 'tome for a moment listen to it ? It would I , itther reduce Italy to the state in which that Peninsula was when ./Eneas landed on its shores. It would only produce a chaos out of which the battling elements should eventually make new combinations. We might consent to go back to the days of our boyhood, when, with our heads full of Livy and our hearts full of Horace, we remembered the glories of the Republic, and drank in the volup tuous literature of the early empire. But the key note of all that sentiment was Rome, not Turin. Eighteen hundred years is a long period, even in the history of Italy. Wave after wave of different families of the great human kind have advanced, with more or less force, upon that interesting soil, and have, to a greater or less depth, covered the whole surface of what was once a nation—even as the debris of ages have buried the old Forum and have choked up Ostium. In Italy's best days her nationality was never "pure. Since then great Powers have risen and have fallen, and there are traditions, far more recent and more powerful than those of the Empire; which divide Venice from Genoa and Naples from .Turin almost as distinctly as Milan from Vienna. It is not enough to over come the great improbability that France and Russia are honestly desirous to create a great con stitu,ticinal Power.; 3ve mast-go turther—rwg must believe that thelragments of races which never yet were united should now unite under a distant and scarcely recognised Italian Power ; and that Rome should be content with a nationality under the rule of TransalPine Gaul. Every Englishman has sym • pathies with Italy. As the King of Sardinia says in the speech upon which we are now commenting— " Piedmont is great in the Councils of Europe on account of the principles it represents and the sym pathies it inspires ; " but our sympathies must be a little under the control of our reason. England will never by act or counsel interfere to impede any effort that may be made towards the over ' throw of the evil Government that now afflicts Italy; but we may and must regret to see the ge neral peace of Europe broken for projects which appear to savour only of ambition and to tend only to strengthen despotism. We cannot see the end; but we can see enough to feel convinced that what the Emperors of France and Russia wish cannot be what we should wish. " Let - us," says the King of Sardinia, " resolu tely await the decrees of Providence." Therei s small philosophy in this. Resolutely or irreso lutely, we must equally be governed by those decrees. Some small parson, when he advertises that he is about to preach, is .so condescending as to interpolate by the words " Deo rolente" a licence to Providence; to interfere with the arrangement. We have always thought that this reservation would be, very ridiculous if it were not rather impious. The queStion, hOwev'er, is, not what Providence may decree, for that we cannot fathom, but what steps the King Of Sardinia is about to take within the limits of his own human free will. We must, acting upon the assumption that he is a sane man, believe that he will do nothing except so far as he is supported by France ; and we must further•believe that France will S not go beyond a menace, unless she is supported by Russia. But Russia is not impatient for war ; she has at pre sent internal troubles to distract her councils, and, whatever strength of hatred there may be in her recent grudge against Austria, it is scarcely suffi cient to induce her to break up the absolute sove reignties of Europe into hostile Powers, and to destroy their 'force by internecine conflict. But, whatever may be the policy of France or the teniencies of Russia, or the ambition of Piedmont, our course of action is plain. We have only to look on and watch the result. In a period of profound peace, and at a time when armed force is irresis tible, and is arrayed under the command of abso lute Sovereigns, any insurrection for merely popular objects is obviously absurd. He must be a very shallow dupe who can suppose that the great military Powers are about to fight for the restora tion of long-lost liberties and long-lost nationalities. There can be .no reason that we should spend one coin or waste one life to support the Poiedorn, or to protect the throrie of the King of Naples, or to continue the hard and unnatural rule of the Aus trians in Lombardy. It is barely possible that any change in Italy can be for the worse. It is scarcely likely that any change produced by France and. Russia can be for the better. This is not the help, nor are these the defenders, we have looked for. We live in days in which we are asked to believe in strange things, but it is too great a demand upon human Credulity to ask our faith in a Tory Ministry shaping a democratic Reform Bill, and an alliance of despotic Sovereigns in building up a constitutional monarchy. (From the Daily News. The speech of Victor Emanuel to the Sardinian Chambers has been looked for with a degree of in terest amounting almost to anxi?ty in every capital of Europe. At a juncture so critical, friends and foes, were.equally solicitous to learn what language the wary but enterprising Ministers of Piedmont would put intothe mouth of their sovereign. After the long protracted suspense in which the affairs of ' Italy had lain, people in general would - have been content to wait with solicitude, but with ealmness, for the announcements that might be made on the day appointed for the opening of the Legislative session at Turin. Some days previously they had been'startled, however by the authoritative utter ance of expressions which, if thermeant anything, seemed to be a forestalling -by a greater Power of the policy about to be adopted and avowed by the lesser state. The abrupt and .laconic declaration of the French Emperor was interpreted generally as a prelude of war. The Funds fell ; diplomacy became hyst er i ca l ; nego ti a t ors looked indi g n an t it the interruption of their unfinished task; -and an ambiguous note appeared in the Moniteur fieggned to adjourn panic sine die, and requesting all discreet and loyal believers in Imperialism to set doWn" the escapade of the Ist January in what the butch would call "their -Forget Book." But the disinterested patriotism of the . Bourse, is not so easily reassured ; and the memories of men are even more prone to disobedience than their convictions 'or their consciences. Public curiosity could not be coaxed to sleep by the softest notes of the Guides. The Sardinian Parliament was summoned to-meet upon the 10th inst.; andin its presence it would be impossible to play fast and loose with the great issues of peace and war, and Italian independence of Austrian domination universally believed to be depending.. n (r. To do M. Cavour justieehe has not attempted to , elude the great responsibility of his position, as chief adviser of a confiding and courageous King. For some years he has deemed it his duty to dis suade his countrymen and their Sovereign from anticipating what they and he believed to be their degtiny. He has been content. to incur s distrust At home at the hands of the impetuous and unreason able, because he would not rashly risk all of good already achieved and of glory hereafter to be won, in a desperate struggle with one of the greatest military, powers in existence. He was equally un moved by the ceaseless complaints of foreign diplo macy at the studied reserve he perseveringly main tained. Neither Count Buol, M. Manteuffel, nor' Lord Malmesbury could lure him or his colleagues into the rash avowal of warlike purposes on the one hand, or into momentary palterinc , with the hopes of Italy on the other. Re felt that the best if not the last chance for freedom in the Peninsula during the present generation had been given him in charge ; and that compared with the duty of wisely exercising that sacred trust all other duties were and ought, to be' subordinate. He could not be unconscious that the character of the youthful Monarch whom ho served rendered him at once peculiarly fitted in many respects to play the part of a Royal liberator, and at the same time rendered him peculiarly liable to be led away to his ruin by injudicious or insincere counsellors. Victor Emanuel is neither an ambitious politician nor a military genius. Is,it too much to say it is fortu nate tor , himself and his country that he is neither? The role which ten years ago he was suddenly called on to undertake is that of a constitutional Sovereign with a small' hereditary realm' in possession and with greatly extended territories in expectancy. Had he been either a diplomatist or a strategist, he would probably have tried long since to realise by anticipation what could only come to him safely and lastingly by way of reversion ; and he would have infallibly lost in the attempt even that which he seems to have. Lombardy and Venetia were not to be won by him at any time during the last ten years by any use of either arts or arms. Until in the ful ness of time he should have proved himself thoroughly trustworthy as a constitutional King, it was not to be expected that millions of people who had never owed allegiance to the House of Savoy would cordially turn to him as a deliverer. It is in finitely to the honour of the Lombardo-Venetians, that amid all their sufferings under Austrian rule they should have been slow to do so. By his very forbearance, blended with unswerving firmness, the priceless conviction has at length 'grown up in Italian hearts that Victor Emanuel is thoroughly loyal—a man whom no temptation will induce to renounce the claim of his,country to indigenous rule, but who cherishes no dreams of personal aggrandise ment incompatible with the will or the interest of that country. In a word, he has by a faultless po litical reign of ten years' duration, satisfied his neighbours that he is a safe man and a fit man to be trusted With extended power, and that he will never try to seize it, but wait until they summon him to confer it on him. One thing only was wanting, and that is now wanting no longer. It was necessary that the gal lant King of Sardinia shouldtellthe people of Italy who dwell beyond his frontiers that he was prepared to look all eventualities in the face, and to accept the noble but perilous liabilities they might impose with out hesitation and without fear. " The future," said the King, in his speech of yesterday, "cannot fail to to be fortunate, becaus; the policy of Piedmont is based on justice and love of its country's liberty. Piedmont is small, but great in the councils of Europe, on account of the principles it represents and the sympathies it inspirer. It respects treaties, but is not insensible to Italy's cry of anguish." What is this but a simple though dignified answer to the inarticulate prayer for deliverance which all men have heard of late from the lips of an exaspe rated and oppressed people ? It is as though M. Cavour had advised his Sovereign to say to the .ccivis,strul COinets j of Europe, to hi..own Parlia ment and drity, and. abei'e all"to tilt multitudes who writhe beneath a hated foreign yoke :—" If you want me, I am ready ; if .I arm, it shall not be said I do so .for any unrighteous or unworthy pur pose ; other rights or powers I seek and will have none, but those which I now exercise as a coustitu• tional King ; by the letter of treaties, so long as the status quo exists, I will scrupulously abide, because I am a King; but to the cry of a nation's grief and agony I do not pretend to be insensible, for Italy is my country, and I have the feelings, the in stincts, and the. obligations of a man." Well might Victor Emanuel close his soul-stirring address with the significant words, " Let us resolutely await the decrees of Providence." ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. Yesthrdhy evening a meeting of the fellows of the Royal Geographical Society was held in Burlington House--the president, Sir R. Murchison, in the chair. The first paper announced was " Notes on the Zambesi . Expedition, from the journal of Mr. Baines, communicated by Dr. Livingstone." It was introduced by the reading of a letter from Dr. Livingstone to the president, a portion of which has already been published, in which Dr. Living stone described the enthusiastic reception given to him by the natives who had accompanied his former expedition, and mentioned the general condition of the people, and their treatment by the Portuguese authorities. Though these accounts are less unfa vourable than the one given in a preceding letter, which was read by Sir Roderick Murchison at the last meeting of the British Association, they noticed the unsatisfactory relations between the natives and the Portuguese as still continuing. The enmity - of the natives had not, however, extended to the Eng lish, the name of an Englishman being .a passport to their favour. Dr. Livingstone mentioned that good coal had been received on board their steam boat, and that in the absence of coal lignum vitae and other valuable hard woods had been consumed as fuel. Mr. Baines's journal described the difficul ties encountered in navigating the river from the rocks and want of water, and he mentioned the various astronomical and meteorological observa tions which had been made by-himself and other members of the expedition; but neither he nor Dr. Livingstone entered into any further description of the produce of the country, nor did they . mention any advances having been made in opening com merce. At the conclusion of the reading of Mr.. Baines's paper, a very animated discussion arose on the pro bable value of the territory on the banks of the Zambesi. Mr. Laird and. Mr. M'Leod spoke strongly in favour of the vegetable products of that part of Africa. The latter, who has recently returned from Mozambique, where he was British Consul, has brought with him several specimens of different kinds of wood which he considers will prove of great value in ship-building. Some of the trees fitted for that purpose, he said, are from 40 to 60 feat high, and afford timber four and even six feet square. He spoke of the luxuriance of the vegeta tion, and said that wheat might be grown there in sufficient quantity to supply the whole of Southern Africa. Mr. Crawford, on the other hand denied the possibility of growing wheat under the tropics, except at an elevation of 4,000 or 5,000 feet. when the temperature became European ; and as to the timber, he questioned whether any trees grew near the banks of the Zambesi that could be availiable for ship ,building. Mr. M`Queen, in opposition to Mr. Crawford, maintained that good wheat can be grown even at the Equator, and as to cotton, there was proof that it was grown abundantly in all parts of Africa, and had been so 3,000 years ago. Colonel Sykes, in confirmation of Mr. M'Qucen, stated that at Guzerat lie had seen an extensive track of coun. _ try cultivated with wheat, which "is of such excel lent quality, and contains so large a proportion of gluten, that the Manchester manufacturers prefer it to all other wheat for finishing their cotton goods. He expressed his hope that Dr. Livingstone's expedition would prove successful, and said he had no doubt that th., accounts given of the fertility of the soil and of the capabilities of the country were quite correct. Mr. SQUIER) of the United States, next read a paper giving an account of the Lake Tojoa or Taulche, in Central America. This lake lies nearly midway across the isthmus south of the Bay of Honduras, and it- possesses the remarkable pecu liarity of having 10 outlets, nine of which are sub terranean, and only one of them is an open river course. The lake is- about 25 miles long and eight miles wide, and it has not been previously marked in any maps. It is surrounded by mountains that rise 5,000 feet above the level of the sea. The special interest attached to Mr. Squier's paper arose from the circumstance that the maps which accompanied it traces a line of railway across the isthmus which offers some peculiar advantages. .The map of th at part of Central America exhibited the mountain chain as broken up in various directions, through which chasms the line for the railway was traced. The summit-level would be 2,900 feet high, but it would be a continuous ascent to that point, and the gradients would in no part be steeper than 60 feet in a mile, which is much less than many of the important railways in the United States. Colonel SYKES observed . , that one great advan tage of the proposed line from the Bay of Honduras would be, that it would pass through the territory of only one Government, which rendered it prefer able to any other proposed communtation between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. After some fur ther remarks on the character of the lake and its peculiar outlets, the meeting adjourned. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—Rarey's Horse and Cattle Improv ing Food improves the stamina, vigour, endurance, and muscle of ill-conditioned or apparently worn-aut Horses, Cows, Bullocks, Calves, Sheep, and Pigs. It causes no extra expense, as it contains far more and better nourish.. ment than its cost of lid. per feed supplies in corn or hay; hence ensures an actual saving. rn a short time it improves the appearance and value of horses and cattle by 29 to 30 per cent. _Furey and Co., sole importers, 77, Pic cadilly, Quadrant, LOndo n . Packed in tins of about 42 f e eds, 6s. ; of about 90 feeds, 11 s.; in casks of about 450 f ee ds, 50s. ; of about 1,00 0 feeds, X.,5, being a b out lid, feed. Goods forwarded on receipt of Post -office Orders. per Important Caution—Beware of spurious imitations offered by the ignorant and unscrupulous. All imitators will be proceeded against. A CHANCERY VICTIM. At the Leicester Quarter Sessions, the other day, the report of the visiting justices referred to a most extraordinary case, in which a poor woman, who had been engaged in a chancery suit, was the vic tim. She had "been detained in gaol for several months on account of the non-delivery of certain , papers which her attorney had neglected to deliver over, when he ceased to act because all her money was expended. The magistrates regarded the case as a scandalously cruel one ; but they did not see that the court could do anything further than had been done already. The deputy-clerk of the peace has, since addressed aletter to a Leicester paper, de tailing the circumstances. He stated that the poor woman was advanced in years, a widow, having children and grandchildren. She was sent to prison for not obeying an order of the Court of Chancery, directing her to deposit in court certain title deeds and other documents for the inspection of the attorney on the other side. When she re ceived a paper directing her to leave the documents with the clerk of records, she thought all that was necessary was to tell the person bringing the order that she had none of them, as they were all with .her. attorney. A few day after this she was taken into custody, and as there were no other female prisoners in the debtors' ward of Leicester gaol, she was of necessity placed in solitary confinement. The deputy clerk states that the plaintiffs attorney knew perfectly well that the papers were not in the prisoner's possession ; and appeals were made in vain to the prisoner's attorney that something should be done for her release. August, Septem ber, and October had passed away; and in Novem ber the plaintiff's attorney obtained, under counsel's opinion, an order on the prisoner's attorney to give up the title deeds, other papers, of no value, being left-in his possession. But still the old woman re mained in gaol, "in such a state of mental anguish as was pitiable to witness." In December the visit ing magistrates took the matter up, and placed it in the hands of the deputy clerk of the peace. He firmly believes " that a little longer imprisonment would have sent her to the lunatic asylum." The plaintiff's attorney now denied responsibility in the case ; he knew the other attorney had the papers, and it was his fault that the poor woman had been kept in gaol a day. The prisoner's attorney pro fessed to have given up all interest in her case, and said he had written to her to desire her to employ some one else. He promised that the remaining documents should at once be sent to London. This was done, and the poor woman was at length re leased. She had been in prison for upwards of four calendar months.- = --Manchester Guardian. CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE CHEST, VICTORIA-PARK.—The number of patients relit-veil at this institution during last week was 941 of which 141 were new cases. V . G .o wifo street, [orris/ inges t ware. lurch, Ser- Kadier in 110 malty Toad, air. nal,/ m ithf gate - q., of rN O ' 11% o) ff