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L DR: CULVERWELL, Member of the Royal -1-/ College of Surgeons, Licentiate of Midwifery, and Apo thecaries' Hall, London, can be consulted daily (only) as above, on all cases of Nervous Debility, Languor, Incapacity, Less of Memory, Sterility, and all Functional Derangements of both Sexes, emanating from early and excessive 'indul gences, Has Just published, price le. ; by post, 13 stanll3o, 18 sealed, No. 4, An entire new and orio-inal Work, entitled' OURSELVES. Synopsis : The Physiology and Anatomy of our Generation .The Origin of Disease—Symptoms, Treatment, and Cure. Also, an Exposition of. and Remedy for, all Urinary Derange ments and Marital Disqualifications, MALE. The modern treatment of Syphilis, Stricture, Blennorrhagia (GonorrhCea), Spermatorrheea, Impotency, and all Diseases of the Urinary Organs, with Prescriptions, SLo. FEMALE. The Physiology and Anatomy of Women—Functional Ir regularities in Health and Sickness—Choice in Marriage— Their Expectancies and Disappointments—The Cause and Removal of Sterility—The Theory and Symptoms of a esta and the scouring of Healthy t i er —Use of the Speetlltim, Offspring. Also, No. 1. HEALTH, HAPPINESS, and LONGEVITY ; On Debility, Nervousness, Dyspepsia, and Indigestion, No. 2.' LOVE AND MARRIAGE : Their Obligations, Happiness , an d Disa p pointments ; Lo and other Matches. Sterility Removed, and Healthy Off spring secured.: No. 3. THE CASE BOOK : 100 Cases of SPERMATORRTIMA , Their Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment, Confessions and Cure by Cauterisations, Galvanism, Arc. &c. &c. ;To be had of Mann, 39, Cornhill ; and the Authors. Advice to the Workin , Classes. fee Half-a-Guinea. Dr. Culverwell, consulting' assistant and sole successor to bis late brother, R. J. Culverwell, M.D. TTO BE SOLD, pursuant to an Order of the . High Court of Chancery, made in a cause " Sturch v. 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The whole of the above property is held with other pro perty for the rosidue of a term of 99 years, from the 25th March, 1829, at a ground-rent of £l2O per annum, under a lease dated the 9th December, 1829. Particulars and Conditions of Sale may be had of Mr. R. C. Barton, solicitor, Wolsingham-place, Lambeth, S. ; Mr. Richard Hodgson, solicitor, Salisbury-street, Strand, W.C. ; Messrs. Beckitt and Livett, solicitors, 39, Moorgate-street, E.C. ; Messrs. ICeipliley and Gething, solicitors, 77 Ironmon ger-lane, Cheapside, E.C. ; at Garraway's ; and at the Auc tioneers, No. 46, Hatton-garden, E.C. Dated this 15th day of June, 1860. CHAS. PUGH, Chief Clerk. R. C. BARTON . , Wolsingham-place, Lambeth, Plaintiff's Solicitor. MEDICAL ADVICE. DR. LA'MERT, Registered L.S.A . , Honorary Member of the L on d on H osp it a l Medical Society, M.D. of the University of Erlangen, &c., may be CONSULTED on all cases of Debility, Nervousness, and on the Secret In firmities of Yonth and Maturity, from Eleven till Two, and from Six till Eight, at his residence, 31, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON published, price Sixpence, with nu- Dr. La'Mert has just =emus Engravings and Cases. a New Edition of 'his Work, SELF - PRESERvATION, which will be sent free, in a sealed envelope. by Mann, 39, Cornhill, London, or byCONTENTS the Author, for Eight stamps. SECTION I.—The Physiology of the Generative Organs. SECTION II. —Puberty- Manhood -The Morale of Genera tive Physiology True and False Moralit y . SEC TION 111.--M a rriage in its Moral, Social, and Physic a l Relations—lts Expectancies and Disappointments—Advan tes of Physical ontrasts in securing eahiby Ofrspzic , ., SSECTION V._SpermathrrllaOffspring. ECTION and Impotence—The caus . es of Sterility in both Sexes—Self-inflicted Miseries. SECTION V. -The Vices of Schools—Effects of certain per nicious habits on the mental and general faculties. SECTION Vl.—Treatment of Nervous and Generative De- Impotence and Sterility—Dangerous Results of De bility—lmpotence Hazardous Specifics —The Author's Principles of Medical, Dietetic, and General, derived from Treatment Twenty years' successful practices The above work is intended for the perusal of those who crave in early life been induced to swerve from the strict rules of morality. In its pages facts of paramount utility are brought together, wholly divested of toe delusions and incon oistencies so largely introduced into certain quasi medical publications given to the world gratis, under the Guise of philanthropy, or as "acts of gratitude," by pretended clergy men and others, whose to our with the constitution are ft'CqUently toilowed by serious oonsequenoes. 'V • - . s 5 ; ~,.~. '4l . 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O N TRUE and FALSE SPERMATORRMEA ; with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors in relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from De bility of the Generative system, or Sexual Hypochrondriasis. . . Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. " Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practical contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medical reader. We trust that this may not be the last, if he shall detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his power to correct."—London Medi ca l Gazette. " The editor has conferred a great boon on the sufferers from this distressing malady by translating this little book, and by laying bare.the scandalous practices of unqualified adventurers, who profess to cure a disease of which they know nothing, with no other object than to fill their own purses. The difference between true Spermatorrhcea and the various forms of disease which resemble it are accurately de scribed, and thus a safe guide is offereclior the treatment of the malady."—Medical Circular. " We have dilated so long upon the contents of the preli minary chapter, that we have scarcely left ourselves space for any notice of the subject specially treated of by Dr. Pickford ; but the moderate price at which the 'brochure' is sold, places it within the reach of every one interested in the matter." — Dublin Medical Press. London : H. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street. A New Edition of THE PHILOSOPHY OF MARRIAGE. By JOSEPH KAHN, Graduate in Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery in the Royal and Imperial University of Vienna, Erlangen, &c. 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The "NEW MODE " is an EXTRAORDINARY DIS COVERY for the Treatment and Self-Cure of Weakness, Debility, Nervousness, Lassitude, Depression of Spirits, Loss of Energy, Appetite, Pains in the Back and Limbs, Timidity, Self-Distrust, Dizziness, Want of Energy, Love of Solitude, Groundless Fears, Palpitation of the Heart, Noises in the Head and Ears, Indecision, Wretchedness, Impaired Sight and Memory, Indigestion, and Bodily Prostration of the whole system. Also, HINTS TO THOSE CONTEMPLATING MARRIAGE. In order that all classes may avail themselves of the above, the Author has not and will not allow the same to be sold, but he will forward it to those who send their address, and two stamps for postage. Address thus—Wm. HILL, Esq., M.A., No. 27, Alfred-place, Bedford-square, London. CURTIS ON MANHOOD - NEW EDITION : A MEDICAL ESSAY ON NERVOUS AND GENERA- TIVE DISEASES. ----- ----- Just Published, the 125th thousand, with numerous plates, in a sealed envelope, price ls., Sold by all Booksellers, or sent post paid, by the Author, for 12 stamps, MANHOOD: the CAUSE an d CURE o f PRE MATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for Perfect Restoration to Health and Vigour. ByJ. L. CURTIS, 15, Albermarle-street, Piccadilly, London. CONTENTS. INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER on the Physiological Structure and Functions of the Reproductive Organs. CHAPTER IL—Causes of Supermatorrhcea and Impotence; Early Vicious Indulgences; Dangers of Neglect. CHAPTER 11L—A Review of the various Disqualifications of Marriage ; whether resulting from Youthful Abuse, the Follies of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection. CHAPTER IV.—The Author's plan of Treatment, Medical and Moral, being the result of a successful practice extending over a period of 25 years. CHAPTERS V. and VI. on the modern Treatment of Gonorrhoea and Syphilis. h h e nr ut e h r o o r u ,s s v r a e ri ce e ip d t a o n f d a interesting Lotion. case The t ß o o w o k h i c c o h n i c s l t addeduies w REVIEWS OF THE WORK. --- • - "Curtis on 11ranhood.—This is a trul valuable work, and should be in the hands of yo un g and old."—" Sunday Times," 23d March,lBs6. " The author has conferred a great boon by publishing this little work, in which is described the source of those diseases which produce decline in youth or more frequently premature old age."—" Daily Telegraph," March 27, 1856. At home for consultation, :daily, from 10 till 3 and 6 to 3. Sundays, 10 to 1/ [ADVERTISEMENT:I Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Indisputable Fact. —The merits of these remedies have been and are acknowledged in both hemispheres, and few would presume to impugn the experience of the whole world. Testimonials from all parts vouch for their efficiency as curative. The ointment soon displays its virtues in over coming abscesses, swellings of the joints, enlargement of the glands, cutaneous eruptions, sores, ulcers, and in allay ing inflammation, and pain in rheumatism and gout. It heals, by cleansing, all animal fluids with which it comes in contact, and promotes a sound and permanent cure. It removes all obstructions to the free circulation through the minutest vessels, and repairs mischief by constantly securing pure blood. The pills effect generally what the ointment accomplishes locally. E ._ • N SVS PAPER , - 7 - I -• , • . r . I titr*. q 3 mencPri. We are by no means coin la _ art • Att.,. 3 Imo_',;4 ,; 4 . t • • 4 .6. . , , - eg ce, for we think the 3 lILIVO • r 4 •,11 right ▪ o , rei her a eomplet " 47 - I • • ' 44 11. T "" * 4.1 .O _ 1,, ‘ l 4 A a 4, , I . 411 11°P.* • ce d e nt s —, ing i▪ nto . • - - 'may dti - s-7)° ' I-6 •A L 1. 1 ' z informing the mind of the reader - upL lateral points ; but, as this long report to be tborpitghly read, we are doing our readers a service in dirceting attention at once to the only part which is of direct relevancy. It appears, then, , that in 1714 the Lords rejected a bill for relieving merchants from part of the duties due on tobacco and wine; and that in the next year the same bill was sent up again, and was again rejected . . In 1767 a bill to allow free importation of—that is, to suspend or repeal the duties upon—salted meat and butter was postponed to a day after the prorogation. In 1781 a bill for reducing the 'duties on salt for manure was in like manner defeated by postpone ment. There are several other precedents which go to a similar extent. The most important, how ever, is the rejection by postponement of a Supply Act founded upon a resolution off' the ,whole house repealing the existing coal dutiesiL. and granting other duties in lieu thereof. The loss of this bill . occurred in 1808. This is all that can' be dug up. It is not much, but so far as it goes it proves that the usage has been uniform, .that the Lords have never been allowed to originate, and never allowed. . to amend a bill imposing or repealing a tax ; but that whenever they have chosen to reject such a bill the Commons have submitted to the rejection, , Satisfied with, in one instance, fixing upon the Lords " the ill consequences that attend the non passing of the bill." The committee produce these precedents, but offer no recommendation upon them. We do not see how they could have done otherwise, now that the nature of these precedents is apparent. There is nothing in them upon which a recommendation of any course of action by the House of Commons eould be founded. They . have discovered cases wherein, the Lords have rejected bills which went to repeal duties ; although, perhaps, none of these cases seem in distinctness to come quite up to the case which has now occurred; but they have'found no precedent of any action taken- by -the -House of Commons upon any one of these rejections. The precedents such as they are, are all in favour of doing nothing. If the Commons wore to again send up the bill, there is a precedent :for the Lords a second time rejecting the bill. If; - as -- Mr. Collier proposes, the Commons should make a protest against the Lords not having passed the bill they sent up, the Lords might very reasonably reply that the encroachment was all on the part of the Commons, who had made a claim not only justified by no precedent, but contrary to all precedent. It is plain that the committee, as a Committee of Pre- PRICE 4 D . STAMPED, 5D i I that character the duty devolved upon them of op ! posing all political innovations, more especially all innovations calculated to overthrow proprietorial rights. He believed they were perfectly justified . in their rejection of a bill which had been recently sent up to them from the House of Commons .; and he was sure that the people generally would sup port them in the course which they had taken upon that occasion. (Cheers.) Lord BRAYBROOKE acknowledged the compli ment. The House of Lords were not, he said, pre pared to be the mere registers of the decisions of the House of Commons, although they would not resist the delib3rate and ,unequivocal will of the people of England. (Cheers.) Mr. MEREWETHER, Q.C., in proposing " The House of Commons," said he believed that a more than ordinary success had attended the efforts of the Conservative party in that house during the present session. Although they had not been able to save the country from an importation of the thinnest of French wines, they had, by the large minority they had brought to the maintenance of church rates, saved the Church from the " Cornish hug" contemplated by Sir John Trelawny, and they had compelled a reputed Whig Ministry to come forward in the white sheet of reform. They had at the same time made the prime agitator of the day feel the truth of the words—" All that's bright must fade"—(a laugh)—and they had enabled people to say of that gentleman, coupling his fate with that of his newspaper— " None has fallen so far Since him miscalled the Morning Star." (Laughter.) These were great triumphs for the Conservative party; and they would no doubt be able to increase theni if they would give not a blind, but a faithful, adherence, to that leader who, having twice changed defeat into success, was en titled to the earnest, continuous, and not quarterly gratitude of his followers. (A laugh.) In conclu sion, he had to state that he wished to couple with that toast the name of the Right Hon. James Whiteside. (Cheers.) Mr. WiIITEsIDE, who rose amidst loud and pro longed cheers, to respond to the toast, said that the British House of Commons was unquestionably the only great and free popular assembly in Europe, and the country which that assembly re presented enjoyed, he believed, a larger amount of true liberty than any other nation in the world. The example of America was held up by certain parties for our imitation ; but the misery and guilt of slavery attached to the whole political and social condition of that country ; while e'ccry person who touched the soil of England was a free man, no matter what com plexion his face might have acquired under the burning heat of a tropical sun. (Hear, hear.) Looking at the beneficent fruits of the British monarchy, from his heart he could repeat the excla mation—esto perpetua. He meant not a monarchy surrounded by republican devices, but the ancient and famous monarchy of England. May it (con tinued the right hon. and learned gentleman) flourish in ages to come as it has done in ages past, in splendour, and power, and glory. May the Peers grow daily in the people's love by their pub lic services ; may the members of the House of Com mons, using with moderation and forbearance the prodigious power which they possess, while they exhibit to the world a spectacle of grandeur, and dignity, and freedom, prove themselves to their countrymen to be wise, faithful, and fearless guar dians of the precious trust committed to their charge. (Loud cheers.) Viscount INGESTRE proposed—" The Provincial Conservative Societies." cedents, had not the materials for advising any course of action. They are rather in the position of Be,laam. They were sent out to find curses, and nothing but blessings will come up. This re port only proves that, so far as the law of Parlia ment appears in the action of the two houses, the Lords really have within them the unconstitutional discretion which they have just exercised. (Row tlte Daily :Yea:6.) The Privilege Committee has at length termi- nated its labours, and agreed to a Report which leaves the controversy between] the two Houses precisely where it was when the Committee was appointed some weeks ago. Divided amongst them selves by party predilections and personal tenden cies they have been only able to agree in shirking the duty imposed upon them of declaring what is the law of Parliament in the great and vital matter of taxation. The Tories could of course desire no thing better, for they want nothing done ; and hence their ready acquiescende in the amendment of Mr. Walpole's draft Report by the elimination of every phrase that could possibly be made a pivot of controversy. What the Liberal members of the Committee will have to say for them selves in accounting for their failure and defeat we shall hear in due time. For the present, however, our business is not with individuals or even with parties so much as with the House of Commons itself, and the grave responsibility imposed on it by the conduct of the House of Lords, from the burden of which it has in no respect been relieved by the colourless and runaway report of the committee. As to an armoury of rusty weapons, disputants may resort to that antiquarian collection of by-gone resolutions, bills, and acts ; but Parliament can gather from it no warning as to the peril of per mitting a new precedent to be set for aristocratic encroachment, no counsel as to the mode in which like attempts may be guarded against in future. No ; the House of Commons must defend its inherent prerogative of taxation entire and inde feasible by its own unaided wisdom and courage. The established practice for two centuries, based • on broad and definite principles—principles thoroughly understood and universally recognised by the community at large—cannot depend for its preservation on the texture or number of verbal Sir E. LECIIMERE replied to this toast. The business of the evening was then brought to a close ; and the company began to disperse shortly after midnight. THE PAPER DUTIES BILL. (From the Times.) The British Constitution is built up of prece dents. This is its great beauty in the eyes of writers upon government. This is, in the opinion of philosophical inquirers, the secret of its stability. In other countries when a hitch occurs in the work ing of the State the whole machine is thrown out of gear, citizens turn out into the streets, barri cades spring up, blood runs rife in the kennels, and a revolution is consummated. In England, when a difficulty happens, grave men meet and search, not for arms but for precedents. It has been so ' with us from all times. You will find this cus tom even in the old chronicles ; you will see it active in the reign of Richard 11. When we last changed our ruling dynasty the debates were all of the driest and most technical character. All our history is a cautious onward course from one steppingstone to another, and all those step pingstones are precedents. Passions vary with the time, violence passes away, and leaves nothing behind it but a tendency to reaction ; but when we calmly and patiently dig where we suspect some old constitutional landmark to lie buried, and find it and raise it up and renovate it, it re mains as a boundary stone respectable from its age and safe in the common recognition of the nation. They say this habit has been the salvation of our liberties. Whether this be so or not, it is our habit, and we are not now departing from it. When the Lords intimated their intention to reject the Paper Duties Repeal Bill, people generally were a little startled. We had all a general knowledge that the granting of taxes is entirely the province of the Commons, and the impression was strong that between imposing a tax and preventing the re moval of a tax the distinction is little more than technical. As to the special matter in question, the public thought that the Lords, if they had the dis cretion, had exercised it favourably to the interests of the country; and the event has abundantly proved that the public was right in that opinion; but the constitutional jealousy remained. Any danger to the balance of the Constitution, any con fusion in the sphere of action of the Three Estates, is of infinitely greater importance than a mere financial arrangement, At the instance, there fore, of the Government, whose measure has been rejected, the House of Commons at once deputed to a Committee the task of searching for pre cedents. They were instructed to look back and ascertain whether in this act the Lords had done anything which they had not been accus• tomed to do upon previous similar occasions. This committee has now made its report, and all the archives of Parliament, so far as they bear upon the question upon which we desire information, lie open before us. As a history of the constitutional practice of granting supplies, and of the rules which regulate the action of the two Chambers in dealing with these questions, it is a very valuable docu ment ; but we think the public will be disappointed at the very small amount of authority which the industry of the committee, aided by the facilities for reference possessed by the officers of the house, has been able to bring together on the question imme diately in hand. Commencing their search with the year 1628, which is the year in which the pre sent form of granting supplies was practically esta blished, and the preamble now in use was settled under the eye of those great lawyers Coke, Glan ville, and Selden, the committee proceed to adduce instances wherein it was distinctly laid down that. the office of Commons is to grant, and that of the Lords is to assent. They quote the declaration of the Lords at a conference held in 1640, that " My lords would not meddle with matters of subsidy, which belong naturally and properly to you —no, not to give you advice therein ; and they show etthe establishment of the practice of returning the supply act to the House of Commons in order ~;~ .. ~, precedents that may be cited in a speech or a report. It is not a thing to be played for dexterously in debate, and won or lost by a turn of the rhetorical game. For generations the people of England have submitted to no other taxing, power on earth but that of their representa tives sitting in Parliament. It is one of the chief of their liberties, and to their legally ap pointed guardians they look t o d e f en d it f or th em . If their representatives surrender this eldest born of their rights they will assuredly be held account able, collectively and individually, for their neglect. It is no question of mere punctilio between the two Houses ; it is emphatically and undeniably the all important question as between the nation at large and an irresponsible chamber of nobles, whether national taxation shall or shall not be subject to the arbitrary will of the latter, or whether it shall continue to be, as time out of mind it has been in England, created, limited, and revoked by the vote of the Commons, and of the Commons alone. It signifies nothing, now, whether the Paper Duty be a good or bad tax; it signifies -nothing whether- the Exchequer could afford to do without it this year or no. The House , of Commons debated both questions and de cided them; and as well might the Queen, by resort to an obsolete prerogative, have sought to set aside that decision, as the House of Lords to consti tute itself into a financial court of appeal unknown to the usage and custom of the constitution. If the House of Commons consisted only of the representatives of trades and professions, while it claimed the right to tax alike incomes derived from industry and from land, the House of Land- Lords might fairly claim a legislative veto on taxing bills; for they might with justice argue that an undue share of the general burdens might otherwise be laid on them. But confessedly there is not a colourable pretence for any such demand in the existing condition of things. More than two-fifths of the House of Commons are members for counties ; and Lord Derby himself, not very long ago, declared that if he were told the acreage of the family estates in any given shire, he could with certainty designate the particular shade of the landed interest that commanded its representation. Beside the county members there are at least 100 relatives or connexions of peers who sit for small boroughs, and the result is, as everybody knows, that far more than half the members of the Lower House are identified by blood, marriage, rank, and property with the hereditary aristocracy. And this is wholly irrespective of party distinction or pre ponderance. The Whigs are, and have ever been, as anxious as their hereditary rivals to thrust the cadets of their great houses into the representation of coun ties and towns. It is not a matter of party or of opinion ; it is one of-social' instinct, and of class. Instead of too little, the landed interest have too much power in the House of Commons ; yet the people have never yet raised the invidious question, or sought to have that preponderance limited. When they recently asked for Reform in the Representation, they did not deny the right of the Peers to oonsult and vote on I, ll e details of the change proposed. And why ?a Be cause they felt that the House of Commons, taxing power of the State, ought to be so ceoslnlstias tuted as to represent landed property. commercial, manufacturing, and p r - ofes t sio gi n , s a . r gains and because they had no desire o give lust cause of jealousy to the great interes t . w ith . Which the Peers are supposed to be specially identified. But if the House of Lords, sitting apart, acting irresponsibly, and consisting of exclusively nation, usively of are one small e small section of a single class have the power to overhaul the Budget, a n d t o vo t e the imposition or forbid the repeal of what taxes they please, then in all conscience their sons - and brothers and nominees ought to be excluded from the House of Commons. They cannot in common fairness or decency pretend that they have a right first to vote with other orders of the community through :the medium of their representatives in the Lower House, and then that they have a right afterwards to vote separately and exclusively in \tvhit i , UPPor House. No question more pregnant consequences has ever been raised in our constitutional history. Who will lead the Com mons on this, great occasion ? We know who ought and who are expected to do so—the Liberal Ministers of the Crown; and great and deep would be our regret for the sake of those Ministers if they hesitated or wavered in the performance of so mani fest a duty. having been assented to by the Lords, it may be presented for the Royal assent by the Speaker. All this is plain sailing. So, also, is the practice of the Commons when the Lords amend a Supply or Tax Bill. The instances in which the Commons have refused to entertain such amend ments will not greatly further us in our inquiries as to the exact limits of the constitutional province of Lords and Commons in the case before us. The only precedent under this heading cited by the committee which bears at all upon the present in quiry is a warning given by the Commons to the Lords in 1678. " The Commons, therefore, leav the bills and the amendments with your lordships, together with the ill consequences that attend the not passing this bill." We have not got half-way through this report without finding anything to our immediate purpose. The heading "Practice of the Commons, when the Lords do not pass the bill," seems to promise something of more interest. The results, however, is still di sa ppointment. Out of five precedents three are rather cases of amend ing than of rejecting, and all we learn is that in 1708 thee Lords rejected a Supply Bill to lay a duty upon foreign woollens, and that in 1752 a bill to fi x a license tax upon brokers was lost upon a proroga. tion. None of these precedents touch the present point, which is the rejection of a bill for repealing a tax. It is not until we a r r ive at t h e last , and almo s t th e shortest heading in the report, that we find gathered in a bunch all the precedents which are of the least va lue for the object for which the search was Qom- Premature Greyness, Weak or Falling Hair, Neuralgia Nervous Headache, Rheumatism, Stiff Joints, &a, are reme died with ease and certainty by HEnnixo's Patent 3fagnetic Brushes and Combs. Their use is an absolute lultarY• Ills newly-invented Teazle Brushes for Colth, Velvet, &c., are admirable—they not only cleanse, but preserve the fabric in a remarkable manner. The masursotogir-amterielts32, Basinghall- , 7 AD7 r e street. Thepublio are cautioned W g IW I ! , THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 30, 1860. INSURRECTION IN SICILY. A letter from Turin, dated June 27, says :—The telegraph from Sicily informs us that Garibaldi, upon being urged by the Municipal Council of Palermo to proceed to the immediate annexation of the island to the Italian kingdom, answered " that such an annexation was indeed his main intent and desire; that he was full of admiration for King Victor Emmanuel ; that with him and by him Italy could best become a nation ; but that he did not for the present deem the annexation of Sicily alone an expedient measure; that the Italians should first become sufficiently strong. Were he to resolve on immediate annexation, he would have to receive orders from other persons, when he might be placed under the necessity to withdraw." This telegram could not by any possibility be more full of meaning. Garibaldi's programme is as clear and consistent as any man's could well be. He wants to come to no terms—to give no quarter to the enemies of Italy. He has conquered Sicily. He will take Naples, take it as he has taken Palermo, by storm. After that, or even simultaneously with that, he will settle his accounts with the Pope. He goes straight to his aim. He will hear of no com promise; to the Neapolitan and Roman Govern ments he has only one intimation to make—to be gone. If heaven gives him strength to achieve his work, he will show the world that he was only acting for Italy and Victor Em- manuel ; like Joan of Arc, whose task was to see Charles VII. annointed at Rheims, Garibaldi will never rest till he has en- throned his companion in arms, the good Re Galan tuomo, on the Capitol. For his own part, he will then go back to his rock-bound solitude of Caprera, and be seen no more on the scene of his exploits. In order to achieve so much, or at least do his utmost towards such splendid achievements, Gari baldi must have a free hand. Sardinia is bound to France by a thousand ties of gratitude and hope. As a recognised Government she is deep in the toils of diplomacy. Cavour is a great man, he has done much for Italy, he is able and willing to do much more; but Cavour is not a free agent; and Gari baldi, as subordinate to Cavour, would be in a doubly dependent position. France and England have thrown out some hopes at non-intervention. Should that principle hold, Garibaldi feels sufficiently strong to accomplish his task single-handed. Any help—overt help, at.least—from Piedmont might be construed into a violation of the non-intervention principle, it might provoke hostilities from Powers which must, or may at least, by that principle be bound to a system of more or less strict neutrality. The Privy Council of the Bourbon evidently meditate a compromise ; they are patching up a constitution, appointing a so-called Liberal Ministry, pretending to adopt a national policy. Were they to bring the stubborn King to their views, they might come before Count Cavour with proposals which that deeply involved diplo matist might not think it prudent, or might not be at liberty, to reject. Whatever compact Sar dinia may choose, or be compelled to come to, will not be binding on Garibaldi. When Charles Albert signed the armistice of Milan in July, 1848, Garibaldi carried on the war on Lake Maggiore, and when the Royal officers pleaded the suspen sion of hostilities he answered, "La tregua ha fatta it Re—noi non i • en triamo." (" The armis tice has been made by the King ; it is no concern of ours.") He has hitherto acted out of his own head, and the world has thriven with him. As a " Fillibuster" ho conqiaered Sicily, he will subdue Naples in the same capacity; in the same character he will one day knock at the doors of the Vatican. He must follow no lead but his own true, generous inspiration. People here are perfectly nlll9-7All at thn Drannna political tact evinced by that brave chieftain in the present emergency. It was supremely wise to oppose the immediate annexation of Sicily alone. Had the act been consummated, and the Bourbon formd the means of coming to terms with Sardinia, or to enlist the aid of the great Powers • in his -de fence, what good could come either to Sicily itself, to North Italy, or to the whole country from such an annexation ? No ; let King tombicella wriggle himself out of his present awkward predicament as he best may; let him arrange matters with all other sublunary potentates. Garibaldi comes to no compact with him. Garibaldi has wrenched one kingdom from him with 900 men; will he not tear the other from him with 9,000 ? The patriots in Turin, therefore, do not augur any thing like misunderstanding between Cavour and Garibaldi from this important latest news; Nay, matters are proceeding precisely as they always did. Garibaldi planned and executed his first ex pedition under the weight of a formal veto from the Sardinian Government. Count Cavour, how ever, would not have been able to prevent his de parture had ho been willing, neither would he have been willing to do it had he been able. In the same manner he could not now interfere with Gari baldi if he would; and he would not if he could. These two great men march to the same goal, each in his own way, each in obedience to his own pecu liar instinct and the peculiar circumstances in which he is situated. They need never clash with, they may even occasionally help each other ; it must go hard with both of them and with Italy if their respective paths are not found to converge and meet at their journey's end. Advices from Palermo state that on the 23d the organisation of the three brigades of the Sicilian army was almost complete. They consist, in the first place, of the volunteers of the first, second, and third expeditions, and comprise a good number of officers who have seen active service in the Sar dinian army. The first five classes of the levy of recruits from 17 to 22 years of age are to be incor porated with them. The command of these brigades will be confided to Bixio, Malenchini, and Medici. Garibaldi wants arms, and above all officers. It is believed that he will soon have several cruisers, with the help of officers of the Sardinian navy who have resigned their commissions, in order to place their services at his disposal. General Garibaldi, as Dictator of Sicily, has issued the following decree :—" 1. To declare that bills of exchange and other commercial securities falling due since the 4th April shall not be con sidered as payable until the Ist August; subject, however, to the payment of 5 per cent. interest ; 2. To request charitable establishments to hand over to the Treasury the sums which they may happen to hold either as legacies or in trust for others; the said sums to be employed in relieving patriots in distress, and a promise being made to restore them in more prosperous days; 3. To send home soldiers of the third category, that is those who are aged from 40 to 50 ; 4. One appointing two addi tional Senators of Palermo ; the six at present in office not being able to get through the duties de volving on them; 5. - To decide that officers of the army shall receive, from June 1, pay at the rate of one-half of that enjoyed by officers of the correspond ing grades in the Sardinian army ; 6. Dismissing the Archbishop of Monreale from the chair of ethics and natural law i n th e U n i vers i ty of Palermo, an d au ias hisbei being successor—the archbishop motives a assigned i n M t h . R e i dismissal b f g or has left Palermo, though his duty as professor re quired him to reside there; 7. To continue the levy of the tax on sulphur; and 8. A decree prohibiting the purchase of stolen objects." A letter from Palermo in the Siecle says : " Alexander Dumas arrived in this city the day after it was delivered of the Neapolitan; and was the first person not connected with the belligerents who climbed over the barricades. Guided byMenotti he met Garibaldi in the Cathedral square ; and the author and the soldier threw themselves into each other's arms, amidst the applause of the spectators. The same day the Dictator gave his visitor apart ments in King Roger's palace, which had been left vacant by the flight of the Viceroy; After passing a week in the city, and having obtained from the lips of the soldiers and eye-witnesses full details of the combat and bombardment, Alexander Dumas and his friends left on the 18th, each with a musket on his shoulder to accompany Colonel Turn's expedition. • A letter from Naples of the 21st in the Sic cle, says :—" There is in circulation a short address which Garibaldi is said to have addressed to some of the King's officers whom he had occasion to see at Palermo. He said—Gentlemen, we have to create an army of 200,000 men, I highly appreci ate the volunteers, but, notwithstanding, I would rather appoint as colonel a good captain, who un derstands his business, than an advocate; and I would prefer to have for captain a sergeant rather than a medical man. If you are Royalists, so am I ; but for king, I prefer Victor Emmanuel, who will one day lead us all against the Austrians, to Francis of Bourbon, who brings Italians against one another. Gentlemen, you have your choice we shall conquer without you, but I should be proud to do so with you." The generals and su perior officers at present detained in the island of Ischia, awaiting their appearance before a council of war, with which they are threatened, are : the Commander-in-chief, General Lanza; Lieut.-Gene rals Salzano, Cataldo, and Pasquale Marra; Bri gadier-Generals Bartolo Marra, de Sury (ex-Swiss), de Wittembach (ex Swiss), Landi,:leetizia, and. Colonel Brionopane." tion"—(cheers and laughter)—and resign their seats —the hurry for reform seemed to end. They did expect, after what they had been told by that great master of reform, Lord John Russell, that at the very commencement of this session they would have had a pure and great measure brought in. (Cheers.) He would no t en t er i nto a h i story of that unhappy and abortive little bill—(cheers)—but only remind them of a few facts. It was born in 'March, condemned and repudiated in April, and abandoned in June—(cheers)—and he could only add, with pain, that no statesman ever stood in a position more humiliating on any great ques tion than that which Lord John Russell occupied with regard to the question of reforni. (Cheers.) Another reason why Lord Derby's Government should be deprived of power they were told was that it was essential that their foreign relations should be placed in a better condition, and that the influence of the English Government abroad would be increased if those affairs were in other hands than those of Lord Malmesbury. What followed ? The influence of the present Government had been exerted, and failed to have any effect. The Go vernment of England had interfered, but without sufficient influence and vigoUr, to -avert that unfor tunate measure, he would not call it the cession but the seizure of Savoy—(cheers)—a measure which reflected the utmost discredit upon both so vereigns concerned, - whilst it showed the respect which was paid to the remonstances of England through her present Ministers. (Hear.) The Go vernment of Lord Derby were not afraid of com parison of the position of their foreign relations and of the influence of these realms in 1859 with that of the present time. How was it that the Government of Lord Derby had been ejected from office ? If he were to turn to his experience at quarter session—an experience which he knew was sometimes used against him to raise a laugh—and any man had been brought before him, charged with possessing himself of anything through the means by which the present Government had ob tained their offices, he would have directed him to be indicted for obtaining goods under false pre tences. (Cheers and laughter.) How came it that they were enabled to succeed in their objects by those false pretences ? Through a meeting held in 1114 very room in which they were then assembled ; to do what ?—to unite the great Liberal party ! There were not a few who at the time prophesied that that union wouldfprove but a hollow truce be tween two sections of politicians, for there was nothing in the simple word liberal which could not equally apply to every right-minded Englishman— (cheers)—and could be maintained only by a pro longed system of concession to the more democratic section ; and he could appeal to what had since taken place as to whether that prophecy had not been fulfilled. (Cheers.) He thought they would agree with him that it was due to that sec• tion that the abortive commercial treaty with France was entered into ; and in every step our Govern ment had to give way—proving, in the expressive phraso of a leading newspaper a few days since, that the amateur negotiator and the Government of England had been supremely diddled. (Cheers and laughter.) In July it was announced that everything had been settled with regard to the treaty, but after that Mr. Bright sent his own ne gotiator to arrange it, and Lord Palmerston and Lord John were obliged to eat their own words. Then, again, it was to the same influence that they could trace the rash and improvident budget, which had been universally condemned by every financier of eminence. It had been adopted on the sugges tions of Mr. Bright, Mr. Cobden, and the Finan cial Reform Association of Liverpool, whose object was to do away with the whole system of indirect taxation, and substitute direct taxation instead ; and the system being thus recommended to him, Mr. Gladstone, with a fickleness and tergiversa tion unparalleled in political history, came down to the House of Commons and attempted to double the income tax. The influence could be traced in the Government dem ocra ti c R e f orm Bill, which attempted to hand over all power to one party— they could trace it again in the defection of the leading liberals from the interests of the Church, and their unhappy madness to abandon those inte rests to the great Liberal party. But here again retribution followed them, and they abandoned their principles just as popular feeling had taken an opposite turn, and he hoped and trusted that the Church was now once more in safe hands. T hoe° were th e e ff ec t s o f t h e a lli ance entere d i nto in that room ; b u t now l e t hi m re t urn t o th e bright side of the question. He believed that the effect of these measures had been to raise the conservative feeling throughout the country , and he used th e t erm i n its widest sense. He rejoiced to think that that cause was mak ing strides throughout the breadth and length of the country without regard to party—that conservative opinions were being expressed by mei} having no connection with Lord Derby or his party—uninfluenced by the Carlton or any other club. And how had he arrived at that conclusion ? By watching what had taken place. He saw in the Reform Bill being rejected, in the church-rate question resuming its proper position, and, lastly, in that remarkable event which occupied all men's minds, the overwhelming majo rity in the House of Lords rejecting one of the most objectionable features in the Budget, a majo rity composed of members of both sides of the house, and thereby earning the gratitude of the people of England. He believed there was no subject of the present day that demanded the more anxious consideration of Conservatives. (Cheers.) The Radical party had inveighed against the House of Lords because it had ventured to put forward its just power and influence in legislation. The result of that vote led to the appointment of a committee of the House of Commons to inquire into prece dents. He (Sir J. - Pakington) had had the honour of being a member of that committee, which had presented their report that day. In two or three days more that report would be in the hands of the members of the two Houses of Parliament, and open to the whole British empire. (Hear, hear.) They had found repeated instances in which the House of Lords had rejected bills for the imposi tion and the repeal of taxation—and repeated in stances in which the House of Commons had acknowledged the existence of that power in the House of Lords—but he was sorry to be obliged to add that the Radical party, who were so deeply concerned in the measure, were not content to accept any settlement founded on constitutional principles or precedents ; for he had heard that the Radical party, led on by that friend of Radicalism, Lord John Russell—(cheers)—and seconded by that equally radical, though once Conservative statesman, Mr. Gladstone, were about to make an attempt to prevent the 'precedents having their due force. One thing this inquiry had done. It had made evident to.every man who had attended to what had taken place that there were two sections in the Cabinet—who were divided against each other as wide as possible upon important constitu tional questions. Ho hoped that moderate coun sels would prevail, and that the House of Commons be spared any such discussion as that to which he had alluded, and that it might be very long before the day should come when, instead of upholding the privileges of the House of Lords, the House of Commons should endeavour to prevent that house from exercising its functions and power which up to the present moment had never been disputed or denied. (Cheers.) He hoped that mo derate counsels would prevail in the Cabinet, and he should be glad if his anticipations were falsified of any attempt being made to interfere with the privileges of the House of Lords. If such an at tempt were made, a heavy responsibility would rest on the shoulders of the Conservative party, and it would be their duty to support the more moderate section in her Majesty's Government. It would be their duty to act with moderation, but he hoped and trusted with firmness, decision, and unanimity, in upholding and guarding the privileges of the House of Commons, upon which their constitutional liberty was based, whilst they were no less unani mous in their determination not to invade or trench upon the just privileges of the House of Peers. (Cheers.) Ho hoped that, irrespective of this great question, the Conservative party would continue to act as it had hitherto done, in cordial union, reso‘ lately maintaining its principles, not seeking office by any factious manoeuvres, but ready andwilling at any moment to assume any responsibility which it might be its duty to undertake in furtherance of the welfare of the country and the defence of its in stitutions. (Loud cheers.) The right hon. gentle man, having repeated the celebrated watchword— " Register, register !" concluded by proposing the health of the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, the President of the Association, under whose auspices they were assembled. This toast was duly honoured, and the compli- Ment was afterwards acknowledged by the Chair man. The Right. Hon. JOSEPH NAPIER next proposed "The House of Peers," and in doing so took occa sion to state that he had always thought that our constitution had its moveables in the House of Commons and its fixtures in the monarchy and the House of Lords. The Lords were the representa tives of the fixed property of the country; and in CONS.E.RVA77VE REGISTRATION ASSOCIATION. The anniversary banquet of the members and friends of this association was held at Willis's Rooms, St. James's, last evening. The object of the demonstration was to give a visible proof of the undiminished union and vitality of the party, and to testify, in spite of all the sinister rumours which have been lately current relative to the internal dis- Rensions that have rent its hitherto compact orga nisation, that it still retains unshaken confidence in its chiefs. Neither of the two great leaders of "her Majesty's Opposition," Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli, were present at the festival, but there was a good mus ter of their Parliamentary colleagues and asso ciates, as well as of the rank and file of their fol lowers. The chair was occupied by the Earl of Shrews bury and Talbot, the President of the Association, who was supported by the Right Hon. Sir J. S. Pakington, M.P., Right Hon. Lord John Manners, M.P., Earl of Darnley, Right Hon. J. Whitesido, Right Hon. General Peel, Viscount Ranelagh, Sir Lawrence Palk, M.P., Colonel Brownloxv Knox, M.P., Mr: I. C. Cobbold, Sir. 11. Stracey; M.P., Mr. J. Potts, M.P., Sir W. Brook Bridges, M.P., Lord Tredegar, Hon. Butler Johnston, M.P., Mr. T. B. Horsfall, M.P., Mr. Archdall, M.P., &c. About 300 guests sat down to dinner. The usual loyal toasts having been given from the chair, and enthusiastically responded to, Lord J. MANNERS rose to propose the next toast. He said,—The toast committed to his charge seemed to him to symbolise in an especial man ner the great cause which had occasioned that mag nificent gathering, and to epitomise, if he might say so without irreverence, all the blessings which they enjoyed here, and all those which they might humbly hope to enjoy hereafter. It was " the Church and the State." (Loud cheers.) The Church, as a spiritual corporation, might well exist and flourish without connection with the State, but, in his humble judgment, and he believed also in that of those whom he was addressing, woe would betide that State which should in its old age cast off the ties which bound it to the Church. (Cheers.) It had been and still was the pride and glory of Eng land to have Christianity lying at the root of and inseparably intertwined with all her secular laws and institutions ; and evil would it be, in his opi nion, for this ancient community if in a rash hour that connection which had so moulded and hallowed every one of our institutions should be sundered. (Cheers.) He could not better conclude than in the unis uf u we2l 3LLuwn Tory amag " Here's a health to Old England, " Her Queen and her Church : And may all plotting contrivers • " Be left in the lurch." 'Cheers and laughter.) _ _ Sir S. NomrrcoTE, - M.P., then gave the " Army and Navy," coupling with the toast the names of General Peel and Admiral Walcott. General PEEL, in returning thanks on the part of the army, said that; looking at the present state of Europe, it was impossible to predict any day what the morrow might produce. Our first defence was our navy ; and if we were to lose the command of the Channel he would not give 24 hours' pur chase for the safety of the country. But the navy, thanks to Sir J. Pakington's efforts, was now placed in an efficient state, and he was never more delighted than in reading the other day the observation of the First Lord of the Admiralty, that the only duty of the army would be to fire salutes in honour of the victories of the (navy. (A laugh.) The navy, however, could not be everywhere.• We had 300 miles of coast on which a hostile army might land, and this country ought always to be prepared to resist any attempt of that kind. (Loud cheers.) He was satisfied that our regular army, with the assistance of the Yeomanry, the Militia, and those Volunteer corps of whom every Englishman had lately so much reason to be proud —(cheers)---would render the invasion of our shores by 100,000 or 150,000 men an act of perfect mad ness. (Cheers.) He had recently seen it stated that we had only 30,000 men in this country, and that they cost us £5OO a-piece. That was one of those ingenious fictions which the well-known writer of the military articles in the Times was so apt to indulge in, (A laugh.) There was just as much truth in it as there would be in his offering to give the fortunate winner of the Derby £5OO for his saddle and bridle, provided he would throw the horse into the bargain, and than going and saying that saddles and bridles cost £5OO a-piece. (Laugh ter.) The writer appropriated the whole of the army estimates to these 30,000 troops, without tak ing into his account the Guards, the 10,000 cavalry, or the 40,000 men stationed in our different colonies. (Hear, hear.) At the same time, the people of Eng land would pay £5OO a-piece for their soldiers sooner than submit to the degradation of having a hostile foot for an hour on their shores. (Cheers.) In conclusion he might, on the part of the army and navy, guarantee them against ever being subjected to any such degradation. (Cheers.) Admiral WALCOTT responded on behalf of the navy. MOWBRAY, M.P., in proposing " the Volun teer Corps," dilated on th e powerful mora l e ff ect which the sublime and patriotic spectacle of Satur day last must produce throughout Europe. Viscount RANELAGII acknowledged the toast. Mr. P E Rgy WATLINGTON, M.P., gave " The Health of the Members of Lord Derby's Cabinet," which we.s drunk with enthusiasm. Sir JOHN PAKINGTON rose amidst loud applause, and thanked the company most heartily for the enthusiastic manner in which the toast had been re ceived, and he felt confident that there was not one of his late colleagues who would not have been present that evening had they not unavoid ably prevented attending. He thought he might infer from the way in which the toast had been received that the Conservatives continued to have the greatest confidence in their talented and patriotic leader--Lord Derby, and that great and distinguished man, Mr. Disraeli—(cheers)—and he hoped and trusted that he did not p resume t oo muc h w hen he stated that he believed those w h o h a d serve d under those distinguished leaders were not unwor thy of being the colleagues of those great men. (Cheers.) A year had passed away since they were ejected from offi . ce—a year mar k ed b y pol i t i ca l events of great interest, and he hoped they would agree with him that he might congra t u l a t e th em on the present position of th e C onservat i ve party, and the increasing influence of Con serva ti ve princi ples. (Cheers.) This he must say for his col leagues and himself that though it was at present the fate of the Conservatives to occupy seats on the Opposition benches, they would rather remain for ever excluded from place and powe r th an consen t to hold upon such conditions and under such cir cumstances as those by whom plac e was now fill e d. (Cheers.) Prompt, signal, and remarkable retribu tion followed that factious combination by which the Government of Lord Derby was overthrown. They were fold when they were ej ec t e d f rom o ff ice that a good reform bill was essential for the coun try. Not only so, but Lord John Russell told them a year ago that they could not wait until February for such a measure—and that one ought to be brought forward in November. When the majority , of 13 rendered it necessaryr for, Lord D er by' s Go vernment, to use a favourite phrase of Lord John -Russell's, to g , walk in the paths of the constitll 1 5 0 5 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 .; 1