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~~ QREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.- WINDSOR and back for 2s. 6d., from Paddington.— Week days at 8.45 and 10.30 a.m.. returning at 6.35 and 8.5 p.m. On Sundays, from Paddington at 9 a.m., returning at Taplow and back, on Sundays, for ,2s. 6d., from Pad dington at 9 a.m., returning at 6.57 p.m. Henley and back for 35., from Paddington, at 9 a.m., returning at 8.55 p.m. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. On TUESDAY, the 21st of September, an EXCURSION TRAIN will leave Paddington at 8 a.m. for PLYMOUTH (offering facilities for visiting Torbay, Brixham, Dartmouth, and the South Coast of Devon), calling at Weston-super- Mare, Bridgewater, Taunton, Tiverton Road, Exeter, Barn staple, and Bideford (for Ilfracombe and the North Coast of Devon), Starcross, Dawlish, and Teignmouth, Newton, Tor quay, Totness, and Kingsbridge Road, and returning on Thursday, -- the 30th of Sept., from Plymouth, at 6.20 a.m., and intermediate stations as per handbills. Fares, There and Back :—Weston-super-Mare and Bridge water, 20s. and 13s. ; Taunton and Tiverton Road, 225. and 15s. ; Exeter, 225. 6d. and 168. ; Starcross, Dawlish, and Teignmouth, 255. and 17s. ; Newton, Torquay, and Totness, 275. and 18s. ; Barnstaple and Bideford, 30s. and 208. ; Kings bridge Road and Plymouth, 30s. and 20s. Children under 12 years of age half-price. Tickets not transferable, and only available by the excur sion train. WEYMOUTH and CHANNEL ISLANDS STEAM PACKET COMPANY (Limited).) DAY PASSAGES.—Shortest Sea Route to Guernsey and Jersey.—The Brighton, Cygnes, or Aquila, from Weymouth Harbour, every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 8 a.m. Ordinary Fare from London 31s. and 21s. Return Fare 4ss. and 355. Stewards fees additional. Passengers may break the journey at Chippenham, Dor chester, Weymouth, or Guernsey. Through-booking from all the principal stations on the Great Western Railway. Steamers from Weymouth to Cherbourg are now placed upon the station, making three trips per week each way. JOSEPH MAUNDERS, Manager and Secretary. ROME AND FRASCATI RAILWAY CO MPANY. The Half-year's Interest on the Bonds of this Company, Nos. 1 to 120, due on the 22d of September and Ist of October, 1858, will be paid at the Agency of the Banque 'Generale Suisse, 2, Royal Exchange Buildings ; or at the Succursule of the same Bank, 30, Rue Louis le Grand, Paris. By Order, F. FRIELIGRATH, Manager of the London Agency of the Banque Generale Suisse. CONTRACT FOR CLOTHING. ROYAL HOSPITAL, CHELSEA, 15th Sept. 1858. T HE Right Honourable the LORDS and OTHERS ' COMMISSIONERS of this HOSPITAL, Do Hereby Give Notice, That they are ready to receive TEN DERS and treat with such persons as may be willing to Con tract for Clothing the Invalid Soldiers, Ac., belonging to the Hospital for Two Years, via.:— WHOLE MOUNTING for 1859. HALF DITTO for 1860. Those persons, therefoie, who may be disposed to treat for the same are desired to apply at the Secretary's Office, any day, between the hours of Eleven and Three o'Clock, for further particulars, where patterns may be seen, and forms of tenders obtained, the latter of which must be filled up and delivered, sealed, atthe Board Room of the said Hospital, by the party or parties tendering, or by an agent appointed on his or their behalf, on TUESDAY, the 12th day of October next, at 12 o'clock, at which time the Commissioners will be prepared to receive and take the same into consideration. A. J. MOORHEAD, Secretary and Registrar. MIDDLESEX LUNATIC ASYLUM, at HANWELL.—Persons willing to TENDER for sup plying the above-named Institution with MEAT, Flour, Malt, Hops, Hay and Straw, Oatmeal, Peas, Butter, Cheese, or Bacon, for six calendar months, from the Ist of October next, or with any of the under-mentioned articles for twelve calendar months from that day, viz. :—Groceries, Soap, Oil colours, Brooms, Brushes, Window-glass, Lead and Leaden piping, Hosiery, Linen and Woollen Drapery, Blankets, Rugs, Straw Hats and Bonnets, Tobacco, Snuff, Cloth Boots and shoes, Leather, and Wine and Spirits for the sick, are re quested to deliver sealed tenders to me before Eleven o'clock on TUESDAY, the 28th inst., at the Sessions House, Clerken well-green, and to attend there personally at Twelve o'clock that day. Blank forms, in which tenders must be made, may be obtained, and the form of contract may be seen, either upon application to me at the said Sessions House, or to the store keeper at the Asylum; and patterns and samples, to which the contractors will be strictly required to conform, may be seen at the Asylum at Hanwell. The Committee of Visitors will not bind themselves to accept the lowest or any of the tenders. Dated the 16th day of September, 1858. CHARLES WRIGHT, Clerk to the Visitors, INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 142, Strand, London, W.C., Feb. 25, Established 1837.—Payment of Premium within Days of Grace.—lt always has been, and still is, the practice of this Society to pay claims under policies of assurance, notwith standing the death of the assured occurring, within the 30 days of grace, and before payment of the annual premium, provided payment thereof be made, or notice of the death be given to the office before the expiration of such days of grace. For the Court of Directors, E. S. SY3IES, Chairman. TH E INTERNATIONAL LIF E ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 142, Strand, London. Empowered by Act of Parliament, for LIFE ASSURANCE SURVIVORSHIPS, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &c. DIRECTORS. EDMOND SHEPPARD STOLES, M.D., Chairman, W. Kenworthy Browne, Esq. I Henry J. Hodgson, Esq. Samuel King-Church. Esq. Johd Moss, Esq. John Elliotson, M.D.,Cantab., John Symes, Esq. F.R.S. I Joseph Thompson, Esq. SECRETARY TO THE BOARD. Alexander Richardson, Esq. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. Augustus Blondel, Esq. AUDITORS. Professor Wheatstone,KKK,aid Professor J. Radford Young. MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL. J. Elliotson, ➢L.D., Cantab., F.R.S., 37, Conduit-street. ACTUARY. W. S. B. Woolliouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., &c. ASSISTANT ACTUARY. Barker Woolhouse, Esq. BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. SOLICITORS. _ _ .31essrs, Gregory, Grego4,girow andXoweliffe, Bedford. row. The next Quinquennial in May, 1860. Examples of Division of Profits will be. declared :uaus up to May, 1855 : i kLHAMBRA PALACE, Leicester-square. Lessees, Messrs. HoNies and Cushing. (The best Ventilated and Coolest Building in Europe.) , Great and Glorious Success. Applause, loud and long, testifies the enthusiasm of the numerous and delighted Audiences who Daily and Nightly throng the Alhambra to witness Madame DELAVANTI in her graceful and daring Ascent, on a portion of the Atlantic Telegraph Wire, to the Dome of the Alhambra Palace, being one hundred feet in height, and two hundred feet in length, a feat never at tempted by any other artiste. WA LLE 11" S celebrated CIRCUS COMPANY. Extraor dinary and brilliant success of the unrivalled Troupe of Equestrian and Gymnastic Artistes and splendid Stud of Horses. Two Performances daily. Midday Entertainment at half-past 2; Evening at 8 o'clock. Private boxes, ; stalls, ss. ' • reserved seats, 3s. ; boxes, 2s. ; pit, ls. ; gallery, 6d. Box-office open from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. No fees for booking places. Children under 9 years of age, half-price. Bonus in Permanent Policy Sum Bonus In addition Cash. Reduction taken Age. Assured. t o S um of Annual out in Assured. Premiums. £ £s. d. £s. d. £s. d. 1838 55 3,000 867 17 7 428 1 4 56 3 8 1841 48 4,000 749 4 0 325 16 0 32 0 4 - 1845 59 2,000 232 18 0 156 15 0 16 6 0 1848 60 2,000 154 2 8 103 16 8 10 15 2 1851 55 2,800 120 17 0 72 14 6 67 7 The following are amongst the advantages offered by the International Life Assurance Society:— The Society was established in 1838. Two-thirds of the profits are divided amongst the assured every five yearn. Its subscribed capital is five hundred thousand pounds. Its investments, at the date of the last annual report, *mounted to one hundred and seventy-one thousand pounds. Its annual income is ninety thousafid pounds. The number of policies now in force exceed six thousand. About one thousand new policies are added every year. Since its commencement the Society has paid in claims upwards of three hundred and twenty thousand pounds. For prospectuses and every other information, apply to the Chairman, 142, Strand. EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman. 142, Strand, London, W.C.•• THORLEY'S FOOD FOR CATTLE.- It is only a short time since this singularly efficacious article of animal diet first made its appearance ; and already Its celebrity is world-wide. It has been a subject of wonder, and has puzzled many a brain to explain how this has been brought about. Yet when we are acquainted with a few facts concerning the food, our wonder will cease. A few days since, a gentleman wrote, stating. that he had a horse which was a 4 ` perfect bag of bones." He tried all kinds of things to get 'the animal into condition, but in vain. He then bought some 'of Thorley's food ; and he says the effect was wonderful. The - horse rapidly grew fat, and in the course of a few weeks had 'gained no less than 12 stones. Again we find at the late agri cultural shows at Birmingham, Cardiff, &e., the animals which •earried off the highest prizes had been partly fed with Thor ley's food for cattle. Such facts speak for themselves, and we are forced to the conclusion that its celebrity arises solely from its own intrinsic merits, and the great demand for it can proceed alone from the good opinion and testimony of those who have tried it. All parties interested in horses and cattle 'will do well to apply to 77, Newgate-street, London, for a pamphlet which is sent post-free. NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE. Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Constipation, Flatulency, Phlegm, Nervousness, Biliousness, Liver Complaints, Hysteria, • Neuralgia, Sleeplessness, Acidity, Palpitation, Heartburn, Eruptions, Impurities, Irritability, Low Spirits, Diarrhoea, 1 , Hemorrhoids, Headache, Debility, Despondency, Cramps, ! . Spasms, Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy or at sea), Sinking Fits, Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption, also Children's Complaints, effectually removed/by DU BARRY'S delicious Health-Restoring REVALENTA ARABICA FOOD, which saves fifty - times its cost in other remedies in illness, and is, moreover, the best food for infants and invalids generally, as it is the . 'Only food which never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor interferes with a good liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish /or lunch and dinner, and restores the faculty of digestion, and nervous and muscular energy to the most enfeebled. We extract a few out of the many thousand expressions of gratitude from invalids :—Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de Decies—" I have derived con siderable benefit from Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, and consider it due to yourselves and the public to authorise the publication of these lines. Stuart de Decies." Cure No. 40,332. " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, ner vousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, Sickness at the stomach, and vomiting, have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food. Maria Jolly, Wortham Ling, near Dias, Norfolk." Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Hazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Herts, a cure of extreme ner vousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fan - e r lea. Cure No. 48,3 14 . 3liss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near -Liverpool : a cure of ten years' dyspepsia, and all the horrors Of nervous irritability. Cure N 0.18,210. Dr. Andrew Ure, of con stipation, dyspepsia, nervous irritability. Cure No. 34,210. • br. Shorland, of dropsy and debility. Cure No. 36,212. Cap tain Allan, of epileptic fits. Cure No. 46,116. Major Edfe, of enlargement of the liver, and total prostration of strength. Cure No. 36,41 g, Rev. Dr. Minster, of cramps, spasms, and daily vomitings. Cure No. 26,418. Dr. Harvey, of diarhoea arid debility. CuTe No. 39,628. Dr. Wurtzer , of consumption. Cure No. 32,830. Wm. Hunt, Esq., barrister , of paralysis. vure No. 46,270. 3.r.r. James Roberts, wood merchant, Frimley, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver de . tangerient, partial deafness. Cure No. 58,816. Mrs. Iloize, wed b)7 years, of dyspepsia (indigestion), debility, irritability, Ind ns rvousness, wh:ch had tormented her for 70 years. Cure AO. 5( ,814. Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester, of two years' ( Ilarrli oea. Cure No. 52,612. The Dowager Countess of Castle- Stuart, of many years' nervous irritability, bile, and indiges tion. ' Cure No. 54,812. Miss Virginia Zeguers, cured of con 'flupti ou, after her medical advisers had abandoned all hopes of teeoves y. Cure No. 180. "Twenty-five years' nervousness, tonstcpition, indigestion, and debility, from which I have suf fered great misery, and which no medicine could remove or teller st, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's Food in a v ery r ffaort time. W. B. Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London." ' , o. 4 ;108. "Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, With cramps. spasms, and nausea, for which my servant had %tint Red the advice of many, have been effectually Qured by Du Barry's health-restoring Food. I shall 1, ill, to answer any inquiries. Rev .Tolin . 'lava ill, - Riddlington Rectory, Norfolk." 'No. 32,830, "Thee rears .' excessive nervousness, with pains in my neck and left 411 n, and general debility, which rendered my life very kisel !able, has been radicilly removed by Du Barry's health testo ring Food. Alex. Stuat hdeacon of Ross, Skib ,„eree n. , Cure No. 3.900. "Thirteen years' cough, indigos "oa. and general debility have been removed by Du Barry's 1 e xcellent Revalenta Arabica Food. James Porter, Atlol- Street p e.rth. ~ 1 IM POrta nt Caution against the fearful danger of Spurious taltat:ons i ,ee Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood :,*ranted an 4 14,-, nction or the 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper ' , vine, for imitating "Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food." s p Suitably packed for all climates, and with all instructions. . l i n canisters, 111.'.,. 2s. 9d. • 21h., 4s. 6d. ; 121 b., 225. Super re- Ined quality ILb., 6s. ; 21b., lls. ; Mb., 22s ; 101 b., 335. The ulb. and 121 b. canisters are forwarded carriage free, on re- 1 ZIA of Post-office order. Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent- 1 x ,..reet, London. • Fortnum, Mason. and Co., purveyors to her *testy, 182, Piocadilly ; James Well, 4n, Sloane-street ; also go, 60 , Graoechurch-street ; 330, 430, and 451, -Strand ; 94, o,.geapside ; and 60, Bishopsgate•street , 63, 150, and 108, 'QM-Street. No. 20,668. PUBLICATIONS. Now ready, in 1 vol., with Illustrations, 10s. 6d. bound, MARY HOWITT'S NEW STORY, " TRUST AND TRIAL," From the Danish. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough-street. REV. JOHN COLE'S SERMONS. Just published, 12tuo, 284 pp., price 48. 6d., PWENTY-TWO PAROCHIAL SERMONS (including one for A SICK CLUB), preached at Bride stone and Sourton, Devon. By the Rev. JOHN COLE, 31. A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, and Curate of Sourton, Bridestone, Devon. Plymouth: Roger Lidstonc. Exeter: W. Clifford. Tavis tock : G. Spencer. Callington E. Phelp. Cambridge : Mac millan, and Co. ~ L ondon and Oxford : J. H. and Jas. Parker. And all Booksellers. riEIST'S RACING RECORD for 1858. Part VIII., price 3d., will be published on the Ist of October. The. Record, containing a complete calendar of Sport in England, Ireland, and Scotland, in 1857, and nomi nations for 1858, may be had, price two shillings. W. Wright, Fulwood's Rents, Holborn. NO MORE PILLS nor any oth er MEDICINE for Indigestion (dyspepsia), habitual Constipation, Flatu lency, Acidity, Palpitation of the Heart, Torpidity of the Liver, Bilious Headache, Nervousness, Biliousness, General Dibility, Diarrhoea, Cough, Asthma, ' Consumption, Despondency, Spleen, &c. Send 2 penny stamps, and you will receive post free, 64 pages, the people's edition of "PERFECT HEALTH RESTORED," Without pills-, purgatives, or medicines of any kind, and with out expense, by a simple, pleasant, and infallible means which saves fifty times its cost in other remedies, adapted to the general reader. - Supported by testimonials from the celebrated Professor of Chemistry, Dr. Andrew Ure, Dr. Shorland, Dr. Harvey, Dr. Campbell, Dr. Gattiker, Dr. Wurtzer, Dr. Ingrain, and many thousand other respectable persons, whose health has been re stored by it after all other means of cure had faired. Londons Barry du Barry and co., 77, Regent-street, and through all Booksellers in Town and Country. BANK . OF DEPOSIT. Established A.D. 1844. 3, PALL MALL EAST, LONDON. Parties desirous of Investing Money are requested to exa mine the Plan of The Bank of Deposit, by which a high rate of interest may be obtained with ample security. The Interest is payable in January and July. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. ForMs for Opening Accounts sent free on application. GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH, USED IN THE ROYAL LAUNDRY, AND PRONOUNCED BY HER MAJESTY'S LAUNDRESS to be THE FINEST STARCH SHE EVER USED. Sold by all Chandlers, Grocers, &c., &c. GEORGE HOBSON begs to call the attenti on of Gentlemen to his New Autumnal Trousers, 21s. to 255. Also his New Partridge Mixture Shooting Coats. Excellence with EcOnomy. - GEORGE HOBSON, 57, Lombard-street. Established 1796. PROFESSOR WILIALBA FRIKELL.- TO-NIG HT.—POLYGRAPHIC HALL, King William street, Charing-cross.—TWO HOURS OF ILLUSION.—For One Month only, previous to Professor Frikell's departure on a provincial tour. Every evening at 8; Saturday afternoons at 3. Private boxes, one guinea; box stalls, ss. ; orchestra stalls, 3s. ; area, 2s. ; amphitheatre, ls.—Places may be secured at the Polygraphic-hall, and at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33,,01d Bond-street. ADELAIDE GALLERY, CASINO, Lowther Arcade, Strand.—The above ROOMS are OPEN EVERY EVENING. The celebrated band of the An),711 Rooms will play, by particular desire, selections from• II Trovatore, La Traviata, and RigOletto. Conductor, Mons. A. LA3IOTTE. Principal cornet-a-piston, M. Boulcourt. Leader, Mr. Charles Hall. Doors open at half-past 8, commence at 9. Admission, DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM 3, TICHBOURNE-STREET (Opposite the Hay market). Open daily (for Gentlemen only). LECTURES by Dr . SEXTON at Four and Eight o'clock, on important and interesting topics in connection with ANA TOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, and PATHOLOGY (vide Pro grammes). Admission ONE SHILLING, DR. KAHN'S NINE LECTURE§4SV - THE PHILO SOPHY OF MARRIAGE, &c., sent post free, direct from the Author, on the receipt of twelve stamps. ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL. Director, Mr. R. DUFFELL.—LAST WEEK of the SUMMER SEASON.—On MONDAY, Sept. 20, GRAND ILLUMINATION GALA.—Every Evening Concerts in the Handel Orchestra, supported by Mr. P. Corri, Master Haydn Cord, Mr. C. Sloman, Mr. Elijah Taylor, Mr. Russell Grover, and Mrs. Lawrence. On the Ballet stage, Mr. G. Thomp son, in his extraordinary performance of the " Sports of Atlas."—Mr. James Robinson, the Great American bare back rider, who has been engaged for this, the last week of the season, will appear in the Cirque imperial, in conjunction with the new successful Company of Equestrians, under the direc tion of her 3laiesty's Clown, H. Croueste, including Madame Blanche, the Equestrian Magnet, Clowns Croueste and Felix Saffarini. Illuminations and Fireworks of unequalled bril liancy. Wonderful Tight-rope Ascent by Signor Duvalli. Dancing on the Leviathan Platform at Nine, and after the fireworks. Hours of Admission from Monday to Friday, at Seven ; Saturdays at Three. Military Bands at Four. Chapino's Troupe in Maypole and country dances until Six, when the usual performances commence.—Admis sion, is. ; children, 6d. Open on Sundays : refreshment ticket, 6d. TO THE NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED. CHARLES WATSON, I%LD., Fellow and Honorary Vice-President of the Imperial African Institute of France, Corres. Member of the Medical Societies of Rouen and Peru, National Academy of Sciences, Paris, &c., and late Resident Physician to the Bedford Dispensary, 27, Alfred-place, Bed ford-square, London, continues to issue, on receipt of six stamps, " THE GUIDE TO SELF-CURE." " Those about entering* the Marriage State should peruse Dr. 'Watson's invaluable little work, as the advice he gives on health and disease reflects much credit upon him as a sound medical philosopher. "=Critic. " The true Guide to those who desire a speedy and private cure."—University Magazine " The NEW AMERICAN DISCOVERY' demonstrates the absurdity of the English mode of treating such com plaints, will prove a blessing to the afflicted, who may safely and easily regain pristine health by adopting the means pre sented."—Evening Sun._ _ _ For Qualification, vide " Diplomas," and 'the " London Medical Directory." ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS 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, Warwick-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, &c. 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. TERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS constitute an effectnal remedy in either sex for all 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, Gracechurch-street, City ; Bart ley-Hooper, 43, Icing William-street (four doors from LOD don bridge) ; G. F. Watts, 17, Strand ; W. Sutton and Co., 10, Bow churchyard ; W. Edwards, 67, St. Paul's-churchyard ; .T. 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 MATWRIT Y. Just published, price ls., post free, in an Envelope, for 13 stamps. SELF -PRESERVATION.—A Medical Treatise KJ 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 7 siology of 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., 37, BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON, Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Hono rary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Li centiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &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 elite, 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, ho w th e sting of their bitterness may be removed, and how the ev il and its consequences may be avoided, and, above all, that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row, and may be had of Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Horne, 19, Leicester 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 Jr. Von Litzky, Loll Bazaar; Calcutta—Messrs. C.andJ. normusjee. Apollo-street ; Bombay—Circulator Office; Madras—Mofussilite Offi(e, Agra ; Dod swortl I, Colombo, Ceylon ; and of all Booksellers through out the Colonles.3 ".../ _ . . I' Aii."• I . ' .1......:.': -.- ; I , .4 1 i I 00 1 illi , . -;\ •;.-140 . ' ...ivi=;.. / 4 1 \ . .. ' ' \ • WA • iii,.. , - . "6, \ i le , " . 4 • .-` 4 4: ', - - 4' 4_ rt it : . ~.:, 1 / 4 ........... , t. ..... , Na g , , z , - 40q--ig 6 :.......i, n ..,‘ --- .z: - 0,,_' . --'-...5-., itkj i.„ 4 , 4 . , .......-. '.' I • 4 ' )l '• , CA, - A ..... I ' • , , , '' S, t., ...T 4k - a.- - ,,,i, \ ";?••"- , _,A. :l ‘ . ) -- - - 10 c , a, -,,trs, LL 4 v ~..biE ye ~ 'V, . . 0 . ~, • . 4 m. - tß.oir. , Qtt l , , ... „ THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1858. TILE AHERIC_EY SHIP MAY QUEEN. be abhorred, and where the soil is left free to the industry and enterprise of the whole people, You may find a home where such destructive delusions as the " balance of power" are unheard of, and where the toil of the nation of which you become a part is not absorbed to the amount of fifty millions sterling a-year for wars that arc past, and for pre parations for wars that are to come. You may be come a part of some youthful and growing people, with whom a feudal proprietorship of land, national debt, great armaments, oppressive taxes, and a sham representation arc but traditions of a melan choly past, to be'studied only as rocks to be avoided in its new and more prosperous career. " If I do not see how the Government can be called upon to provide the means of emigration, do not suppose I think emigiation unwise. On the contrary, I feel assur e d th a t, w ith th e p as t an d present policy of England, labour will find its best reward in Canada, in the States, or in Australia. I would prefer that Englishmen should stay at home, that its foreign policy should be just and rational, that its burden of taxes should be light ; but, seeing small chance of such a state of things, I not only cannot blame, but I must applaud the resolution of every man who is determined by his industry and his economy - to provide the means of conveying himself and his fathily to another, and, to him and them, a more happy country. " Government cannot enable you to emigrate. Many of you- can, by severe effort and saving, ob tain the means to cross the ocean; to many, I fear, this is not possible.- - I can only hope, for them, that our countrymen may become wiser and that, under the influences of a more sensible policy and a greater economy in the national expenditure, w: may be entering on a period of prolonged peace, during which even the .poortist and most suffering of our population make some, sure progress in the way of comfort and independence. " I must ask your excuse for writing so long a letter, and the more as it is opposed in some degree to your views.—l am, very respectfully yours, " JOAN BRIGHT. " Mr. A. Cumming, 414, Argyle-street, Glasgow. FLOATING RAJA'S. The Receiver of Wreck at Lerwick has made a return to the Board of Trade of four depositions of the master and crew of the brig Jessie Thorns, of Borrowstoness, from Archangel for Liverpool, which picked up the American ship May Queen, of and for Boston (U.S.) ' from Gottenburg, which was abandoned on the 4th inst. Capt. Monro, in his deposition, states that about daybreak, on Sunday, the sth inst., observed a ship to the north-west, distant about four miles, driving about as if unmanageable. As daylight advanced, observed with a glass that there was a signal of dis tress flying half down from the peak. Immediately made sail and bore down on the ship. Sailed close under her stern and hailed her repeatedly, but re ceived no answer. Suspecting something wrong, I ordered the main-yard to be backed, put out a boat, and as the sea was running high, I with consider able difficulty boarded the ship,"when we found her to be totally abandoned. By her name on the stern and quarters, &c.; and surveyor's certificate of mea surement, exhibited in a frame in the cabin-, I found her to be the ship May Queen, of Bath (U.S.) ; and by an address on a sealed parcel in the cabin, found the master's name, Stanwood ; and by entries on a log-slate, I ascertained that she was not abandoned before 10.40 a.m., of the previous day (the 4th), and that the ship, the. Sir John Moore, of and for Glas gow, was then in company. I have since, by exa mination, ascertained that the cargo consisted of malleable iron in bars, and that she was fitted up for, and apparently recently occupied by passen gers, and their luggage, bedding, and provisions were lying about in confusion below and above deck. I hauled down the flag and took possession of the ship. I personally sounded the pumps, and found 34- feet of water in her hold. In other respects the ship was seemingly uninjured, but she had no boats. When boarded the ship was under the following canvas :—The three topsails set, the fore one double reefed, the main and wizen single-reefed, the main aback, the spanker and foretopmast-staysail set, I ship on port tack, and the helm lashed a-star board, the maintop-gallant sail, mainsail, foresail, and jib hauled up, but not stowed. After having, wore the ship round with her head to S.E., Icom municated by hailing, and by means of my boat, with my father, Andrew Monro, the owner of my vessel, and an experienced shipmaster, who was on board of my vessel as supercargo at the time. It was arranged that he should remain in charge of ' the Jessie Thorns, while I, with three of my seamen and a boy, should remain on board of the derelict, , in order to bring her to some port or place of, safety. For that purpose I received on board charts, a com pass, and other 'articles necessary for the naviga tion of the ship,•as no such articles were found on board of the May Queen. It was also arranged that we should keep in company, so as, if necessary. to render mutual assistance and advice to each other. At the time I bore down on the abandoned ship there was another vessel coming from the west ward. She passed round the stern of the May Queen, then hauled round, and proceeded to the N. and W.' ? This unknown vessel rendered no assist ance, and we held no communication with her. At this time the stranger was under close-reefed top sails, reefed foresail, and topmast-staysail. At this time the latitude was 60.32 N., and longitude 5.49 W. Having hoisted on board my own boat, filled the mainyard, and proceeded in company with my vessel, the Jessie Thorns, to the S.E., with the in tention of reachingg a port in Orkney or Shetland ; the wind about S.W., ship heading S.E. by S. to S.S.E., with a considerable swell from the west ward, ship rolling heavily, until Monday morning, Sept. 6, when we sighted Foula Island ; the wind that day inclined more to the southward. We stood in for Vella Sound, Shetland, but as night was coining on we stood off again, and kept reaching to windward. On Tuesday, 7th inst„ at 7 a.m., we got-a boat's crew of six Shetland men to act as pilots for both, and got into and came to anchor with both ships in Cliff Sound, Shetland, at noon. On sounding the pumps at this time I found four feet of water. From the time I took charge of the May Queen until we reached Cliff Sound we had not to pump the ship for a period beyond an hour and a half altogether. On examining the ship on the evening of the day of our arrival at Cliff Sound, I found the bow port unlashed and the bars thrown aside. There If there is one thing certain in war, it is that it is a race of invention. Every great captain, by land or by sea, has been distinguished for fertility of resource, for his use of new materials and expe dients, and for readily availing himself of every opportunity. It is this that leads soldiers to say of the most illustrious names in history, " Oh, they were not soldiers ; they were great men ; they were adventurers with grand schemes ; they were very clever fellows and knew how to use other men ; they were well advised and well helped.; they were fortunate; but they were not soldiers." We have heard this said of every hero of our school books, from Alexander to Wellington ; and the same comment is pursuing the warriors of our day. There is a basis of truth in it which warns us to look out for improved means and improving men. Caesar conquered the world by a singular combina tion of originality and common sense. He made friends with everybody ; he looked sharply after his commissariat ; he kept on good terms with the Jews, and always met one dodge with another. He was a first-rate engineer; he covered his siege towers with iron, rigged his ships with chains, and, in a word, always did that which answered the purpose, without any sentimental prejudice in favour of mere bloodshed. He fought many a stout battle, hand to hand, when necessary ; but he preferred sparing his men. Now, what are we doing in the way of invention ? One hears of nothing but three-deckers and steam line-of-battle ships, each one bigger and carrying more metal than the other. That seems the one idea of doing things handsome. Meanwhile the French are, as usual, adapting the means to the end. They are working out a new idea, which we may some day find a very serious one. It is nothing less than to run down our liners with what they call floating rams. They propose to cast a vessel with thick plates of wrought iron, like one of their Crimean floating batteries, it is as proof as a tortoise or an armadillo is against common attacks. The ugly monster is to steam into the thick of the enemy's fleet, the shot glancing from its sides or its decks as bullets are said to do from the hide of an alligator or a full-grown rhinoceros ; and run first into this ship, then into that, making each time such a hole in the side as must send the ship to the bottom. Our old acquaintance, Admiral Sartorius, no mean authority, thinks that two may play at this game, and that we may as well have our rams ready in case the plan should answer. He has long had such an instrument i MR. HENLEY, M.P., AND COL. NORTH, M.P., ON PROGRESS." THAME, FRIDAY. The annual meeting of the Thame Agricultural Association was held yesterday, under the presi dency of Mr. J. H. Ashurst, of Waterstock. In the afternoon a dinner took place, which was attended by the Right Hon. J. ja r . Henley, M.P., Colonel North, M.P., Mr. T. T. Bernard, M.P., and a con siderable number of the gentry and leading agri culturists of the district. The usual loyal and patriotic toasts having been duly honoured, The CHAIRMAN gave the health of the members view, and even urged it upon the Admiralty in the late Russian war, when two or three such rams might have forced the dreaded boom of Sebastopol harbour and run the gauntlet of all the batteries. So he takes occasion of these gentle hints from Cherbourg to suggest that we may hit on a 'weapon which will render our old ships of war and Cherbourg itself obsolete. . Meanwhile there is another opportunity which may never recur. It is not every day that a bran new ship, of first-rate construction, an eighth of a mile long, double-skinned, as strong as the Bri tannia Bridge, and divided into a dozen water tight compartments, is to be sold for an old song. Yet such, we fear, is the case with the poor Great Eastern. There is some futile talk of its being offered to a new company, who will take the ship at a bargain, and let the original shareholders have some fraction of their money back again. But they have not even settled where to put the ship, or even found out any place on these shores except Milford Haven—which sounds almost as distant as New York itself—where they could put the ship. In this dilemma we can easily believe that the share holders would be delighted to hear of a purchaser at a quarter of the cost, and then all England might put its head together to think what to do with the monster. Why should it not be made a floating battery that would be a match for all the smaller fry of the same species projected by our ingenious neighbours ? We o n ly as k the question. It is true the ship would not fulfil the conditions assigned by Admiral Sartorius for the particular weapon he_ recommends, but it would at least avoid one obvious objection to his project, which is the great quantity of power and work to be done by comparatively so small a vessel. In these days we call 2,500 a small for the county of Oxford, which was enthusiasti cally drunk, " One cheer more" being proposed for " the President of the Board of Trade." Mr. HENLEY, M.P., acknowledged the compli ment. After speaking in eulogistic terms of the ploughing match and the show generally, he said —I think this town and neighbourhood are quite capable of supporting societies of this kind, and I trust they will continue to flourish, for I believe that their tendency is to improve and elevate the social condition of the labourins classes. (Hear.) Some kind friend at the bottom of the table has been pleased to drink my health in connexion with the office I now hold. I know that politics are for bidden on these occasions, and I shall not trespass or attempt to break through that rule, as it would • be highly improper for me to do so under any cir cumstances. At the same time I cannot refuse to ac knowledge the compliment that has been paid to the Government of which I am a humble member by the allusion which has been made to the office I have the honour to fill. At all events in this neighbour hood; and by this county, my conduct in taking office has not been otherwise than approved (cheers)—and I sincerely hope that the Government ref which I am a member will be able to fulfil the expectations of the country. (Cheers.) There has been a great deal of talk within the last four years of what is commonly called " progress." Now, in my opinion, the word progress - is entirely a catch word. (Hear.) Everybody is calling'out for pro gress, but before we endorse the cry, it is necessary that we should inquire what is meant by.progress. (Hear.) Some mean by two . kress - that Bill is to put his hand into Jack's pocket mid help himself, with out leave or license—(laughter and cheers)—but if that is to be called progress, then I frankly confess that I am not friendly to anything of the kind. (Cheers.) There are other -persons who are for another kind of progress. They are always for keeping the ball rolling. They don't know or care whether it is to go backward or forward, up hill or down hill, or whether when once put in motion it is to roll on until it reaches a place which cannot be named to ears polite, and Which, therefore, I will not mention now. (Laughter.) In point of fact, they don't care where it goes so ibuig as they call it progress. (Hear, hear.) Now I tell you fairly that lam not for progress of that kind. (Cheers.) But if people mean by progress that we are to give ,a patient and careful attention to all the various wants of society—complicated as those wants are in the different phases of society, and divided and split up as society itself is—if they mean by pro gress that we are to de vo t e our b est care and atten tion to- questions affecting the general well-being of the people ; to destroy by every means in our power everything that vre may see wrong, and to amend all imperfections, then I own that I am favourable to progress, and that I have always been. (Loud cheers.) lam not now speaking among strangers, but with men among whom I have lived during the whole of my active life, and I would appeal to any one whether any man ever came to me upon a. public matter and pointed out anything amiss without finding me ready and willing to give him a helping hand in obtaining ,amendment. (Cheers.) I believe myself that we ought to carry on our public affairs on the same principle as we manage our private matters ; but I never will put my foot forward, unless I know where I can safely put it. (Hear, hsar.) So long as I have my foot on firm and solid ground, I will keep it there until I know where to put it on firmer and better ground. But if any man will show me the firmer and better ground, then I should have no objection to go cor dially with him. (Cheers.) I have ventured to make these remarks, because I know among whom lam speaking. I know the kind feeling which everybody in this neighbourhood always entertains towards me, and I thank them over and over again for ten thousand kindnesses. I have never shrunk f ro m giving up my time in order that I might do all in my power to promote the interests of the county, and so long as health and strength are pre- ' served to me, I will continue in the same course. (Loud cheers.) Colonel NORTH, M.p., also responded. After thanking the meeting for the cordiality with which they had received him, he said he was delighted to find that in that, like most other agricultiiral asso ciations, politics were strictly forbidden. They met there upon perfectly neutral ground; for the sole purpose of promoting the improvement of agri culture, and rewarding good and faithful service on the part of the labourers. No matter what their political opinions might be, those were objects which were deserving the attention of any well wisher of his country. (Cheers.) His right hon. friesd and colleague had, however, slightly touched upon a political subject, namely, the true meaning of the term " progress." He (Colonel N ort h) could only say that he most sincerely and entirely con.: curred m every word that had fallen frOm his right hon. friend. He was and always had b een , f or leaving things as they are unless they saw that by a change they would be improved. (Hear, hear.) He could not understand the advantage of upsetting everything simply on the chance of getting some thing better ' and that had always been th e f ee li ng which he had entertained. (Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN, in a brief speech, gave the health of Mr. Bernard, the member for Aylesbury. Mr. BERNARD, • ALE, in responding, observed that though politics were excluded he should have been glad to 'have seen at the meeting some gentle men whose ;political creed was different to that which he himself professed, because he believed that difference of opinion was an essential feature of the British constitution; It-was only in conse quence of a difference of opinion that politics could be discussed at all ; and it was by the discussion of politics that a proper point was ultimately attained. He was therefore always glad to meet his political opponents, and he could not recollect' any period in the history of the country in which politics were more freely discussed than at the present moment. There was a degree of openness and candour in dis cussing political questions in these days which, in his early life, he was rarely accustomed to see, and he thought that that was one of the greatest steps in the direction of progress which the country had ever made. (Cheers.) Some further toasts having been given and re sponded to, the proceedings were brought t 0 ,4 c l ose , - - . .• appeared maul marks on the port and on the side of the porthole, as if a strenuous effort had been made tonnage, and small it would be for a vessel which is to have a very powerful engine, iron sides five inches thick, and twenty guns of the largest calibre. The utmost strength, the thickest coat, the greatest calibre of guns, unparalleled speed, momentum sufficient to run down any - man-of-war, three iron towers of observation on deck, a large projecting solid ram fore and aft, screw propellers at both ends, with every part well sheathed and protected, would be a good deal to comprise within 2,500 tons. It would be all everything—all sides, all deck, all ram, all power, all guns, all iron ; and, lik e a thick to dive the former out while a maul lay on the breast-hook beside it.—The deposition of James Cant, mate of the brig Jessie Thoms, confirms that of the master, and thinks there were about two feet of water in the well when it was sounded. In was given. his (the. mate's) opinion, there seemed to be no reasonable cause for the crew of the May Queen abandoning her. He would have no hesitation in Lavig•atingher in the state they found her to any ►art of the world. Mr. Andrew Monro, owner and. supercargo of the brig Jessie Thorns, adds to his depositions—He went below with a light to ascertain what the cargo consisted of, when his attentton was drawn to the port bow, by seeing the fastenings hanging down. He also saw a maul and a crowbar lying immediately below the breastwork ; and it appeared evident, by marks on the port, that the crowbar had been used as well as the maul in an effort to drive and punch out the port. Malcolm M'Leod, a seaman, deposes to similar facts stated in the preceding reports. rinded orange or a very big walnut, there would be no space or weight left for anything inside. We may be wrong ; but we much suspect that, the pro ject once undertaken, it would be found necessary to double the tonnage, or be content with half the objects intended. o doubt the G: eat Eastern would not be just such a thing as Admiral Sartorius has described, but it might be much more effectual. Suppose it cased with iron plates, and then planked for a foot or two below the water line, and a sufficient height above it. Suppose it then pierced for one row of the heaviest guns that could be worked, with every known improvement and means of working. Sup pose the sides to receive as much additional strength as mi7ht be thought necessary to carry the ponde rous armour. With the calculated speed of 18 miles an hour such a ship would be irresistible. What if any vaisseau belier from the peaceful fold at Cherbourg should presume to butt at the iron MR. J. BRIGHT, M.P., ON EMIGRATION. The following letter has been addressed by Mr. Bright in reply to a circular requesting him to attend a meeting of the Glasgow Council of Trades Delegates on the subject of emigration : " Rochdale, Sept. 1. " I have to thank the Council of your association for the invitation to your approaching meeting : I cannot be present at it, but I hope your discussions will do good to those most interested in them. " I have read your resolutions, and I am not sur prised that great numbers of the working men are anxious to emigrate. If I were younger, and in thdir position, I should strain every nerve to enable me to find a home in the United States or in one of mountain, as a sword-fish is said to bury its sword in a whale, and should even succeed in ramming in a few fathoms of the ship's side, the 11 bulk-heads would enable the ship to stand a few such wounds without going to the bottom. But it would be quite pos — sible — to give k • much additional strength to the line of greatest vulnerability as would ren der such a collision fatal to th'e assailant. So strengthened and_ so armed, the Great Eastern could steam through and through the enemy's fleet, running down everything that came in its way, pouring its broadsides in all directions, much as the British colonies. I do not think you are quite correct in the assertions of the resolutions. Gene rally the waste lands in the colonies belong to the colonies. Canada belongs to the people of Canada, and Australia to the people of Australia, and I think any other a rrangemen t wou ld wor k badly. Any interference by th e h ome Government would do mischief, and would certainly breed disputes between it and the colonial Governments and popu lations. Again, I do not know that it is the ' bounden duty' of the Government to adopt mea sures to enable a portion of our population to emi grate, for if such a duty is laid upon it, I know not where it must end. Every man who thinks he can improve his position abroad may ask to be sent abroad, and, all men having an equal claim upon the Government, the difficulty may become, and soon would become, insurmountable. I do not be our ordinary steamers play with the canoes and junks of our barbaric foes in the East. Granting that a ship one-eighth of a mile might take a couple of miles, and perhaps ten minutes, to turn, it might do so without much further hesitation, as it would not have to consult its own safety , in the mode and place of collision. The terrible effect of collisions at full speed is too well established by the records of daily disaster to leave any doubt as to the result ; and we should imagine that the French flock, whe ther sheep or rams, would be only too glad to get out of the way. We throw out the suggestion, and it seems worth the trial. Ten years hence, when the Great Eastern is no longer saleable or no longer exists, Parliament will be asked for a million to build just such a vessel from the keel, and it will cost two millions to do it. Now we have three-quarters of the work done for us, and can begin from the waterline.—Times. lieve that it is the duty of the Government to pro vide means of emigration for the people, and there fore I could. not support the main point in your resolutions. " What I have told the working men is this— Here you have no political power, for the arrange ments of the Reform Bill purposely excluded you. Here you are mixed up with the wretched confu sion of European politics, and your sweat is pawned by the crimes of past generations. So thoroughly are you involved in European implication that in any year you may have your taxes raised, and the demand for your labour destroyed, in pursuit of some phantom in which your rulers persuade you that you are interested ; and your own want of in formation unfortunately renders you easy victims to the delusions practised upon you. Not five years ago you rejoiced in peace, and there was a growing prosperity evident in every part of the country. Since that time we have sacrificed 40,000 English lives, and have spent £100,000,000 sterling in one war. You were consenting parcies to that war ; your comrades shed their blood in its worthless contests, and you have paid a portion of your day's labour and day's wages ever since to defray the cost of it, and your voice, so far as it was heard at all, was in favour of war. What is gained by it ? Who has gained except the military class and the eaters of taxes ? " To working men these wars with Russia, with. Persia, with China, bring only taxes, want of em ployment, precarious and diminished wages, and that pressure upon the means of living which urges them to look to emigration as a remedy for the evils they endure. And it is a remedy, and the only remedy, until great changes take place in public opinion and in the laws and policy of this country. If you emigrate you may reach a country where land is accessible to you, where there are no great hereditary proprietors, as in Scotland, who dare outrage Heaven and mankind by keeping 20,000, or 50,000, or 100,000 acres of land depopulated that a handful of men may enjoy the pleasures of the chase. You may flee to a land where laws of primo genture and entail are unknown, or known only to - • -7 C-- e." PRICE 4 D . STAMPED, 51). METRO,POLLYI4N BOARD OF WORKS, Yesterday, at 12 o'clock, the Metropolitan of Works met in the Council Chamber at Guildhall for the transaction of business, after an adjourn ment for recreation of five weeks, Mr. Thwaites, the chairman, presiding. FINANCIAL STATEMENT. Mr. Wooutrcu, the secretary, reported that the balance now in the hands of the treasurer on the general current account was £5,331 14s. 5d., after deducting the amount of checks drawn but not presented. The amount of the general de posit account was £35,000, and the aggregate balances on special accounts amounted to £52,198 14s. 3d., making a total general balance in hand of £92,530 Bs. Bd. The aggregate Government secu rities were £93,241 95., including £89,100 for Ex chequer-bills in respect of the Southwark and West minster communication, and £4,141 9s. New Three per Cent. Annuities, a sinking fund for the repayment of mortgage debts. RETIRBMENT OF A MEMBER. The CHAIRMAN announced that he had received a letter from Mr. Drew, a member of the Board held in universal respect, resigning his seat, on the ground of the continued ill-health of a member of his family, with whom it was necessary he should reside abroad and which prevented him attending to the interests of his constituents in Bermondsey at the Board. A SOUTH-EASTERN METROPOLITAN PARK. A deputation, introduced by Mr. Wright, and composed of Mr. Peacock, Mr. Wileher, and Mr. G. H. Drew, vestry clerk, attended from the vestry of Bermondsey, to present a memorial on the sub ject of the formation of a park in the south-eastern district of the metropolis. The memorialists re minded the Board of Works that a similar docu ment was presented to them in July, 1856, from the vestry of Bermondsey, setting forth the urgent want of a park in that densely-populated quarter of the metropolis for the purposes of health and re creation ; that on that occasion the Board acknow ledged there were good grounds for the applica tion ; and that the question of a site was referred for consideration to a committee of the Board. In Feb., 1857, the Board decided upon taking steps to procure the sanction of Parliament to the establish ment of a park as well in the south-eastern as in the northern part of the metropolis, but in the De cember following that decision was reversed and the subject adjourned sine die. The memorialists were of opinion that the question ought not to re main in abeyance, and they urged the Board to take means for obtaining the sanction of Parliament to the formation of a park in the south-eastern part of London, the more so as the subject had been well considered and approved, and a committee of the Board had already reported upon a site. The CHAIRMAN said the main reason why the bill relating to this subject was not proceeded with during last session was the difference of opinion which, existed among the inhabitants on the south side of the river as to the proper site for a park, and while that difference continued the Board had thought it right to adjourn the consideration of the question, though they had previously affirmed the necessity there was for a park in that particular district. Mr. PEACOCK, a member of the deputation, said he believed the inhabitants of the south-eastern district would be unanimous as to which site they would prefer. The CHAIRMAN was glad to hear that the ques tion had made some progress, for when the last de putation was before the Board their statement was that they would have one particular site or none. Mr. PEACOCK submitted that it was the duty of the Metropolitan Board itself to decide the question of the site. The CHAIRMAN replied that it was undoubtedly in the power of the Board to determine the site that would be most proper, having regard to the public interests, but at the same the Board had never closed its ears to representations from the local authorities. Mr. PEACOCK said Ile hoped enough had been urged for immediate action in this matter, for it was to be lamented that the question should be left in this way. On the motion of Mr. WRIGHT, after some fur ther conversation, the memorial was ordered to lie on the table, preparatory to being referred to the Works Committee, for which a notice of motion MURDER IN FRANCE. The COurt of Assizes of the Tarn, three days ago, tried a carrier, named Sai sse t, o f St. A mans Soult, for the murder of his wife. On the 10th June this woman, who was his second wife, and. who during the lifetime of the first one had been his servant, was found lying dead in his cellar v.ith her skull beaten in and her throat cut. A mallet stained with blood lying near indicated that it was with that she had been struck, but no knife or other sharp instrument was seen. Herhusband was at once suspected, because he had for some time been in the habit of brutally ill-treating the woman and had promised a young woman of the village that in case his wife died he would marry her. He was absent at the time the body was found, and when he returned, after hearing of his wife's death and descending into the cellar, he calmly remarked that the murder must have been committed for the sake of stealing a sum of 350 f., which he had depo sited in an old closet in the cellar. But there were no marks on the door indicating that it had been broken open. It was then ascertained that he was in the house - at the time the murder mthit have been committed; and it was found that the clothes which he generally, wore, and a large knife which he had constantly used, had disappeared, nor could be say what had become of them. He was arrested, and afterwards a half-witted young man, named Calas, came forward and stated that on the night of the murder, he happened to be.sleeping in the barn of Saisset, when he heard the woman utter dreadful cries in the cellar, followed by the sound of blows—and that shortly before SaisEct had en tered the house, and left immediately after. The jury found the prisoner guilty, but with extenuat ing circumstances, and the court sentenced him to hard labour for life. On hearing the verdict he was greatly agitated, but when the sentence was pronounced he said with a smile, " I did not expect to get off so easily:" THE CITY-ROAD. Mr. MORELAND called the attention of the board to the urgent necessity there was of numbering the houses in the City-road consecutively, there being at present some 30 different " terraces" and " places" in it between " the Angel" at Islington and the city boundary, leading to great confusion. SEWAGE DEODORISATION. Mr. BAZALGETTE, the engineer of the board, read a report on the means employed for the deodorisa tion of sewage near the outlets of the sewers. It stated that since the last meeting of the board a _careful daily watch had been kept as to the condi tion of the water in the River Thames, and that the result had not beer such as to necessitate a re petition of the operation of liming the sewers. The application of lime to the open portion of the King's Scholars' Pond Sewer had, however, been continued upon a special order of the board of the 13th of Aug. last, for the benefit of the adjoining locality, and the necessary apparatus for that purpose was still retained. All the other sheds and apparatus were removed about a fortnight ago, as it appeared more than probable that there would be no further necessity for their use during the present summer. 3,A66 yards of lime, reduced to milk of lime, had been mixed with the sewage and diffused through the waters of the Thames during the past summer, and the sanitary state of the river had continued in an improved condition since the commencement of the operation, the total cost of which had been about £3,990. The board then adjourned, after the transaction of some business of a routine character. FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. The last number of the Comptes Rendus contains a paper, by Dr. Heurteloup, which we strongly re commend to the attention of professionalinen, as con taining a modification in the practice of lithotomy of such importance as almost to change the nature of the operation completely. M. Babinet read a note on an assertion of Hany's, to the effect that a doubly refringent crystal could not separate images, as Iceland spar does, by transmission through two parallel or nearly parallel faces. To this M. Babi net opposes the following experiment :—Take a plate of rock-crystal, of the thickness of one or two centimetres, and stretch a single thread of silk, taken from the cocoons across the lower surface by means of a little wax, and then look through by the aid of a magnifying glass. If the axis be oblique to the two faces, the thread will appear double ; and if the axis be perpendicular to the faces, the double image may be obtained by making the line of vision oblique to the axis. M. Renard sent in a communication on the distribution of eledtricity on the surface of conductors, in the supposition of a single fluid. By mathemati cal calculation, the author shows :-1. That- the quantity of electricity at every point of the medium is directly proportional to the intensity of the electric source, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between that point and the centre of the source. 2. That the acti on . resu l t i ng from the electric current on a given obstacle is proportional to the quantity of electricity. M. Leon Soubeiran presented some researches on the structure of the poisonous gland of the viper, showing that it belongs to those that have the form of a bunch of grapes. To insulate it, the author used a diluted solution of tartaric acid, which has the property of destroying the muscles and tendons without exercising any chemical action on the glandular aliparatus. P,I. Soubeiran arrives at the conclusion that there is reason to doubt the existence of any spacious reservoir to con tain the poison, and that most probably the secretion takes place only when the reptile feels the approach of a fresh supply of the poisonous liquid, just as in man the secretion of saliva is most active during a repast. Dr. Legrand com municated a case of a painful sub-cutaneous tumour, of the size of a bean, situated-at the ex tremity of the deltoid on the arm of a young man aged 19. 1)r. Legrand cauterised it in the direction of its greater axis, and 17 days after this single ope ration the tumour came off together with the eachar, without either pain or loss of blood. The tumour, being analysed, was found to consist of carbonate of Inne, carbonate of magnes i a , an d a littl e p h osp h a t e of lime. M. Dumas communicated a paper, by M. Calhuann, on crystallised valerianate of atropine. The crystals are rhomboidal, very brilliant and light. They melt at 32 deg. centigrade, and under the in fluence of air and light they lose their whiteness and become yellow. This s alt i s ver y soluble in wa ter, less so. in ale 01, and still less_ soluble in ether. %!t-~ -~- N EW AP SPER -- -riF-%,, Le v1.."- , ) ,' •-•-\\ SABBATARIANISM ACOTLAN.D.."4- - -,,,.41. - ''--4 V .:,. y.,., Of the very considerable e • ii" '-. 5 - .-,:ir the..wo 4 which have taken place in the ' ''' a ainaTh, - It"`Y land upon social and religious ' ', --- 't 7a 'Ts • . important have borne upon the qucs of , v a ling or locomotion. In the ante-railway era, mail coaches ran on all the principal routes, and there was of course a supply of other means of locomo tion for whoever could afford to pay. When railways were introduced, enabling many more people to - travel - by - iiiaiis employin g incomparably less lab our and time than wsis fo r _ merly employed for the travelling of a few, the natural result would have been the increase of the public accommodation. And so for a time it was— the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, the earliest passenger line in Scotland, was at first opened and for sevoral years kept open on Sundays. By means which shall be mentioned presently that line was closed about 12 years ago, and that event was the beginning of a crusade which has done a good deal to render us pitiable and ludicrous in the eyes of our neighbours. A babbling war about " Sabbath observance" and such topics—a series of efforts at a general "Putting down"--has been going on ever since, and has reached to the pettiest things. With almost no exception but the two chief railways on the east coast (the North British and the Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee), which have been saved simply by happening to have among their proprietors a few men with courage to say and do what multi tudes were thinking, there is no passage in Scotland on Sundays, the routes most hermetically sealed be ing those between its two chief cities and through its most populous districts. In smaller things, take the two instances that come first to memory. N e i. son's Monument, on the top of our Calion-hill, hideous as an " ornament," us e d t o ma k e i tself humbly and innocently useful by supplying biscuits, sweetmeats, and aerated waters to the youngsters of the many families who, from distant parts of the city, came to the hill on Sunday evenings for its fresh air and fine prospects. Although there was not a whisper against the entire respectability and even gentility of the place, our Town Council, in their capacity of custodiers, issued a ukase to the effect that, because they were virtuous and took their toddy at home on the sacred day, there should be no more cakes and ginger-beer at that once-loved resort. It was an old custom for children, walking in the Queen's-park on the Sunday evenings, to pro cure curds and whey from women who waited with pitchers on the grass; some rev. gentlemen persuaded the Duke of Hamilton, hereditary keeper, to - put down these refresh men t s as s i n f u l . I t would be easy to give other instances of these insensible and tyrannical follies; but the point at which we have arrived is pretty well indicated by the fact of the metropolitan Presbytery of the Established Church being now engaged in calling upon " the civil ma gistrate" to put down Sunday walking. But how are any people but the Scotch -t o blame for such things ? Great in this way—the shutting of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, which operated to revive the Pharisaical spirit, and was the be ginning of the series of annoyances and degrada tions to which the Scotch people have since been subjected, was the work of Englishmen. Former elaperiments had shown that there was a great ma jority for keeping open the line, not only among the shareholders at large, but among the Scotch section taken separately. It hapened, however, that the company was nearly divided on some dis pute about amalgamations ; and the minority— chiefly English —went to a small knot of persons who had for the most part bought in for the pur, pose of agitating the Sunday question, and proposed to close the line in consideration of being supported in the question of amalgamations. And, though the Town Councils of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and all the towns upon the line, earnestly protested, the bargain was fulfilled. By this success the Phari saical party were encouraged to a series of new efforts in which they have not yet ceased, while their opponents were disgusted and disheartened. For having thus " sold " us our English friends, and especially our London contemporaries, owe us not only forbearance, but help. But they seldom, give us either—and that is another plaint we make against them. When anything happens to make an exhibition of the extent to which we are clergy-, ridden, and yet deficient in the weightiest 1144ttCrs of the law, they are very ready, if they do not hap pen to be engaged with anything else, to laugh at and taunt us. But when the battle is being fought here against any of the aggressions of Phariseeism, they seldom throw a word to the few sad dogs on whom the duty of resistance devolves. Since they will laugh at us, as they are quite right to do, they should also take some little care of us. We Scotch like to be taken in charge in things moral and religious —as Witness our voluntary submission as to the new moons and the Sabbath-days to the clew-, • 0„,, and as to meats and dri n k s t o the policeman ____and our London contemporaries might do great goo d , as well as fulfil a so r t o f moral ob l ig a ti on , b y oftener and in better time giving is their advice and ridicule.—Daily Scotsman. NEWSPAPER STAMP RETURNS. - The Leeds Mercury offers the following remarks on this subject : " When the newspaper stamp was compulsory-, so that every sheet issued must of necessity pay- the tax and bear the impress, the publication of the number of stamps issued to each newspaper afforded. (generally speaking) a correct guide to its circula tion. But since the abolition of the compulsory stamp, and the we of the stamp merely for those copies of a newspaper which pass through the Post office, the publication of the stamp returns is almost entirely delusive, and in many cases it is so in the highest degree. Since the Ist of July, 1854, newspapers of any considerable circulation are sent in great parcels by the railways ; and the more populous a district is, and the better supplied with railways, the larger is the proportion of its circula tion that is thus sent, and the smaller the propor, tion sent through the post. Nevertheless, a Parlia mentary return has just been published, stating the number of stamps issued to all newspapers, quarterly, from July, 1855, to Dec., 1857 ; and it professes to be a cont _cation of the reti ra i isued un der the old system. Ilow ridiculously misleading this return is calculated to be may be shown by our own case. According to the parliamentaiy paper there were issued to the Leeds Mercury, in the whole of the year 1857, only 150,000 stamps— which we dare say is quite true ; but during that year our circulation was 1,404,082 without supple ments, and 1,911,014 including supplements. Only about one-tenth of our circulation now passes through the post, chiefly to distant subscribers ; whilst Leeds and all the towns and villages of Yorkshire and the neighbouring counties, are sup plied by means of railway parcels. The Manches ter daily papers received even greater injustice than ourselves from the stamp return. We shall not perplex our readers by publishing a document so purely misleading ; and we are surprised that any member of Parliament should move for, or any Government or House of Commons consent to, the publication of a return which can give no valuable information, but which may most absurdly deceive the public." THE GREENWICH ELECTION.—Last evening a numerous meeting of the electors and non-electors of Greenwich took place at the Lecture Hall of that town, for the purpose of selecting a fit and proper person to represent their interests in parliament. The object of the meeting was t) promote the views of the Political Reform League, aril the election of Mr. Ernest Jones. Mr. Bark er move d tint Mr. Jones was a fit and proper person to represent the borough, and that means should ie adopted to secure his re turn. Mr. Belleville seconded the motion. Mr. Stonehouse opposed it, and moved, as an amendment, " That it is inexpedient for this meeting to decide at present as to the most fitting candidate for the borough of Greenwich, as the writ cannot be issued for some months, and other can didates may appear, and the present limited choice of can didates 'will be greatly extended." After much noise, clamour, and confusion, the amendment was put to the meeting and carried. FATAL EXPLOSION OF FIRE-DAMP.—Yesterday morning, about 4 o'clock, Mr. James Nasmyth, the ma nager of the new Tredegar coal-pit, was aroused by the noise of a tremendous explosion. He took with him three men and repaired to the pit, scarcely hoping to find alive any of the five men who had been at work on the "night turn." The pit, which was made at an immense outlay, had been stopped for a fortnight owing to a strike among the colliers, Who demanded 2s. a ton for cutting, whereas Is. sd. was the sum offered. About one-third of the men who struck had agreed to go back to work again, finding the master inflenible. Three colliers, named John Jones, John Griffiths, and 'William Davis, were stationed within eight yards of the up-cast ; these were all more or less bruised and burned by the explosion, but neither of them fatally. The level is SO yards i n length, and communicates with another similar level, - whore the clown-cast pit is placed. 'When Mr. Nasinyth and his party had proceeded about 20 yards along the level, he came to the body of a man pained Llewellyn Preece, a haulier. He was unable to give any information and died before he could be removed from the pit. The corpse of 'William Davies (the name of the only man still remaining unaccounted for), was discovered a little fur ther on, burned to a cinder. His lamp, which was open, was found about ten yards in front of him, and he must have been blown from the spot where the lamp was found. It is supposed and believed that a blower or jet of inflamma ble. gas had opened during the night, and that the fireman, quitting his post for some unexplained object with a naked hght, caused the gas to explode. 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