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oast of , 18,54, 15,55, ca and Wool- oast cf •ftnean. 'cast of 1316, , 1854, , 1854, Chan- 'acific. , 1849, rtcular 53, W. ica. 1850, BANK OF TURKEY.--The Directors Hereby Give Notice that no Application for Shares can be re ceived after One o'clock on SATURDAY, the 7th January. By Order, A. WILKIN, Secretary._ ' T an. 4,1560. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE CIRCUS, Leicester-square. Two performances daily of the successful new Comic Harlequivade entitled THE GOLDEN BULL; or Harlequin and the Enchanted Horn. in which the Educated Bull DON JUAN will appear. Mr. W. H. Frank lyn, the Aerial Voltigeur, and the entire troupe of Artistes, in an entirely new series of Equestrian and Gymnastic Per formances.--Morninz Exhibition, especially recommended, at 2 o'clock ; Evening, half-past 7. Proprietor,Mr. T. 31`COLLUM. ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Grand CASINO, open every Evening - , with the celebrated Band. Established 10 years. Conducted by Mons. L£l,lllotte Principal Cornet-a-piston, M. Boulcotut. Doors open at half- Past 8, commence at 9. Close a few minutes before 12. Ad mission, is. T"E NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 111211 nolborn (formerly CASINO DE VENISE).— This Establishment, pre-eminently distinguished for the Clean and matchless beauty of its decorations, combined with the perfection of its management is OPEN EVERY AVENING. Tht celebrated band, under the direction of Mr. 31 • Packer . plays a nightly-varied zelection of the nit approved classical and modern music. Doors open at hali past R. Overture at 9. Closing at 12 punctually. Admission, One Shilling • [on. J. DR. IC AJIN'S MAGNIFICENT ANATO MICAL MUSEUM, Top of the Haymarket (acknow ledged by the whole of the Press to he the most useful and instructive of any in existence), is OPEN DAILY (for gentle- M en only), from 12 till 5, and from 7 till 10. Admissiot* One Shilling. Descriptive handbook gratis. Dr. KAHN'S Popular Lectures on the "Philosophy of Marriage," daily at 8 and 8 o'clock precisely. Svt,t knus.—Happy and Unhappy tinions, and their causes—Youthful Vices and Indiscretions, and their results — Disqualifications for Marriage, and their enre—the Physiology of Reproduction—Self-inflicted Miseries --Sterility and its causes—How to secure Moral and Physical Sappiness. 11 / 4 1.13.—Dr. Kahn's Treatise on the abora-subjects, entitled "The I , hiloSophy of Marriage," sent post-free on receipt of twelve stamps, direet from the Author, 17, Harley-street, vame ndish-square. W. sport. , Wool- L Far- ranean. lr Ser. Pots, OM h, 1856, '., Chat. anquet, partic. is thin, Best ow sale, to hand t$ met a )s to 311 2s to 25s -s to --1 2s to 451 -s to farmers, ally late business ar, and )ca.s had price, a stead/ ew, 43! ,arlay 0 1 e Od pe beaus, ii &nil >r pais wily os o' l' to 12 to 14 1 to 23 ', to 14 ° to 13 9 to 33 0 W. d' ..18 _lB 6 ..13 I _l9 _l5 7 ..19 ..18 6 _lB 6 , n 22 " m i ~22 .22 6 Masi tails. Next Mail due. 1-nutows AND CO Wholesale Wine Mer chants, LIVERPOOL. Stores Lime-street. Offices 5l, Duke-street. The Proprietors beg most respectfully to call the attention of the trade, noblemen. clergy, Arc.. and the public in general, to their extensive stock of Choice Wines, of rare vintages. Buntlows and Co. are not disposed to comment upon the purity of their wi n es, w hi c h i s d a ily mos t l au d a bly aeknow le. dzed by the public and emine n t me di ca l men o f a ll coun - I nes, as the increasing ratr9nage of tlie _highest families in The find is a sufficient guarantee. They ben. to call particular attention to their pure Tonic Wines, as being so valuable to Invalids and persons of weak stomaes. A sample case, containing three full-sized wine bottles, Will be forwarded to any address on receipt of P. 0.0. for Os. ed., or a dozen for 245. It is a well-known fact that impure and adulterated wises are the greatest foes to health, prod uc i ng ac idi ty i n the Stomach, and debilitating the d'gestive organs, while pure Wines will accelerate the digestive powers, invigorating, strengthening. and bracing the nervous system. Their Tonic Wine is admitted to be most essential to in tends, both old and young, and should never be absent from the homes of the weak and sickly. Its properties are duly acknowledged and appreciated by the leading men of the faculty, both at tome and abroad. To prevent imposition each bottle is sealed with the name Of the firm. All orders to be made payable to HENRY BURROWS. Ir . PURE FLUID 'MAGNESIA of Sir JAMES MURRAY. M.D.. re-carbonated, sparklim " 4 Permanently saturated, is prepared by blot last patented lProrelses (1859), which render it perf ec tly e ff ee ti ve f or pre enting or removing acidities, gout, gravel, and indigestion, ar% a upnlarsting debilitating alkalies. N.8.--Sold by b y Edwards, Sutton, and all respectable druggists; also A.gent le Y and Son, "%Vol ;erhampton and London, Sh'pping This tin lPerse n aeroved fluid Is now completed by the patentee in a ddress t his factory, 104, Strand. London, where orders, attend ed t : Sir J. Murray, or Mr. Linder, will be promptly un ----..._____ b --- r s " I4 „ E ,Y'S FOOD FOR CATTLE.—Every fwd.o h ot I I doh which sII a p i n g i a il s or p o a . v u l e _ D T o f this celebrated and economical interest in domestic or farm animals season. Por k., . _ ,..13,n 4 lnv i a i l n ua g b o l oci e dnrin eo n he it ap is p u ro n ac eg i na tin l g: led. Pigs fatten ' 2 "g ap e ' i 0. rapidity upon it, and their ndrtio t flesh great advanta inereases ze h l i :fi ' a t v h ou su r and a vilue: C keepers will find quantity and improved qua lity of the milk clurt i h n e o• t i lerea r d A qu il a a a nimals are benefited by it. A pamphlet on thrs i t r s it a e a re'sting subject, accompanied by Testimonials from the principal Nobility, Gentry, and i.tgrl caltnrists, forwarded on application. In casks containing 448 feeds (measure s enclosed), p r i ce 50 R ., carriage paid to any Railway Station in th e United Kingdom. Post-office orders payable to Joseph Thorley 77, Newgate-street, London. _, X. B.—The public are cautioned against being imposed upon DY worthless imitations. APPETITE AND INDIGESTION IMPROVED LEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE Cho SA UCE imparts the m os t exqu i s it e r el i sh to Steaks, ps, and all Roast Meat, Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Cur lies, and Salad, and by its tonic and i nv i gorat i ng properties enables the stomach to perfectly direst the food. The daily use of this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safeguard to health. Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrlns, 10, Fenchurch street London, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester; also ty Messrs. Barclay and Sons, tressrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and mercha s, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. N.B.—To guard against imitations, see that the names of "LEA an PERRDIS " are upon the label and patent cap of the bottle. aLENFIELD PATENT STARCH, N-'I USED IN THE ROYAL LAUNDRY, AND PRONOUNCED BY BEN MAJESTY'S LAUNDRESS to 1),5 TUE FINEST STARCH SHE EVER USED. WIZEN YOU ASK FOR , GLENPIELD PATENT STARCH, 41, infertosrEntiTurfdra;reouGETlT, N VOTII o fte n substituted. y lt,. Ch andlers. Grocers, , Sold b " Arc. &a —l / B P° Olir 4IE CO.. GLASGOW AND LONDON Jet Published, I • 01 , Bvo. with numerous Anatomical, postPles free, on receipt of 12 stamps, • VITA VITALIS, , TCii ."ew Me dical Work on the NATURE, TREATMENT and - RE cER MATORRME, and other IMMO-GENI LT/BAL SPSASES, and consequent exhaustion of the NER iffqrSYSTEM' caused by the errors of Man in youth and °d "cillg a degeneracy of MENTAL and PHYSICAL -. NGTH, terminating in debility of the renerative i n ns and and INCAPACITT FOR MARRIED LIFE, sheaving 2Th7 these be so often appear incurable when in reality t hey can wibetheffectually removed by the most simple means, !cation. the Author's remedies for preventing in tocilutjd. a n A . d d Y r s e Lia . n it Sz e c. &c. (registered under the New Medical sold by J. Allen, I , 9 o 3CT l ' T ll a C rwi rS-s e t k rf l e a t n , e ? l'cyr, and all Booksellers in Town and Country, Px Orford-street, e r d r n - sotsrteeert: reEDI"L PRIEND AND MARRIAGE GUIDE. o THE NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED. . 1 , Dr.—,..nt free on receipt of two stamps, for postage, Arc., w. e.• ,Ityt„P,,ICEY,27, Alfred-place. Bedford-square, London, .„," The fi x .`"„,.' 1 130 E TO SELF-CURE." Eview. " Iran of the day in these complaints."—Medical i . " " Those ab tit l l e:al 4 , t h i' t a h nd r di G s t a ll' a y s ' uft e I lit reflects:ngthe Marriage State should peruse fie ~ rue Guide t° those little w h o e r re k, di a t s t u h p e o a n d mm vice he u a giv eo e u s n on d "'weal phih m , 1 much " The t yufici — University Ar D ier.--Critio. __ absurdity of' who desire a speedy and private —a,- - azine. _ the h° ' NEW AMERICAN DISCOVERY' demonstrates tilt English mode of treating such Led 0 58 11 ..,tB, VW Prove a blessing to the afflicted, who may safely -, uasi , ly r eg ...i... Seated. , __ Evei T ag pri s s: a in r. e health by adopting the means pre- U C b A lie U LT er N a • -- n As a duty due to the profession and the Dr. Rapkey advisee; all persons hav a i n n, ao-abts et the legal qualifications of their medical atten roc d iiir t Parties whom they may be about consulting, to procure ti'l er il l the Royal College ot Surgens, London, the Official List 4...' e gisfered Members, price Is., or Dr. R. will, onre a cei the brit.te „ in stamps, gladly assist and protect the Blii p ct t ed ot 1 2......_____!_'' b "e. b forwarding the same. an. 1 0 an. 4 an.l9 an. 4 'eb. 1 rerdue an. 1 2 rercl lo en. rerd o In. 1% in. 1 0 In. 4 I, 6 . 11 -erdlig in. 4 mi. 10 .n. 11 n. 10 tt. 10 .1 Of !love' 1i D . l 0 Dose, Noma° _...j y S. lend :.B•r egt., rl of T. obi- MEDICAL ADVICE. vt. I.A.'IVIERT, Registered L.S.A., Honorary a thae University a ErTaxmen, f Member of the L on d on H os pital 'Medical Socift9,l,J..p. Z l rrai "tleseass of Debilit y, N ervousness, an d the' oeret In irons &c., may bd CONSUL .. ED f Youth and Afaturit; from Eleven till Two, and Six till Elzht, at his residence, zn D ero r.TAM e ; t I3 II I.I aB DF ORD-SQUARE, LONDON entitled __ Just published,_ price Sixpence, with nu ngravoag3 and Cases, a New Edition of his Work, SELF-PRESERVATION , whicbin h will be sent free, In a sea l ed envelope. by Arvin , 3 / Eight st a m ps Ldo; or by the Author, to any address, for CONTENTS. grcTIoN T.—The Physioloc7., of the Generative OrC.ang. SEcTroN IL—Puberty- Manhood —The Morale of Genera tive Physiolozy—True and False Morality, stelloN tir.liarrtage in its Moral, Social, and Physical Relations —its Rxneetancies and Disapnointments—Advan ta.zes of Physical Contrasts in secnrin9 Healthy OHsnring. Heathynts—Advan tECTLoN 17.—Spermatorrhma and Tmpotence Of Sterility in both Sexes—Self-inflicted Miseries. SECTION V. —The Vices of Schools- - -Effcets of certain Pe r ,: nieloux habits on the mental and general faculties- Import- Moe —The causes Moe of Moral Discipline Results o. 1 SECTION Vt—Treatment of Nervous and Generative De; btlity—Tropotenee and Sterility—Danerous Various hazardous Specifics—The Author's Pri nciples derived from Treatment ; Medical, Dietetic, and General, of Vent Years' successful practice. DU BARRY'S REVALENTA ARABICA CHOCOLATE. POWDER Contains the greatest amount of easily assimilated nourishment for strengthening delicate persons, children, and infants with weak stomachs, ,chest, or ne rves , ' and, at 3-pence per meal, affords a delicious breakfast, lunch, or supper. It is tho best dietetic homcepa thlo preparation, and maybe eaten either alone or mixed with 1)11 Barry's Revalenta Arabica rood. Ad mirably adapted to rear Infants with. In Tins at is. ; 11b., 38.; 21b., ss. 9d. ; Ilb., 12s. ; 121 b., 255. The 121 b. forwarded carriage free, ou o eipt of Post-office order. Dn Barry and Co., 77, Regent reeti London ; and through all Grocers and Chemists. NO MORE MEDICINE? ep T all RAARY's DELICIOUS HEALTH-RESTORING ,-,VAI,ENTA A RABICA FOOD Cures effectually Endige ß . nervousness, " n n MYsp epsi a), constipation, flatulency ; Phl egini - biliousness, liver complaints, hysteria, neuraigia, i sleepless ' re B , acidity, palpitation, heartburn, eruptions, p rritability:low spirits, diarrhoea, dysentery, h m orrhoids , nen * l fthe, noises in the bead and ears, de bi lit e y m , diabetes, pains between the shoulders, despondency, cramps, spasms,taf.usea, sod sickness (during, pregnancy or at seal,_ _ sln dr in en n; , z' s c ouh, asthma. bronchitis, consumption, also Chi' ooniplaints. IllvWe extr ac t a few out of 50,000 expressions of gratitude from ailds thus cured : Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies of de leri 1117 1 r ars' dyspepsia. Cure No. 49,832. " Fifty years' in mu, able arrony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, -a•cheoluti"pation, flatulency asms sickness at the cxcelie , and vomiting., have been removed by Du Barry's shall ti l l l „` , ,, P notl," Maria Joly. Cure No. 53,816. Field Mar- Yous ne „" "like of Pluskow, of dyspepsia, constipation, ner and ....''...and liver complaints which had resisted all baths J a ,,,, b '' s nuical treatment. Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth ;pit re, 84, nerve" fancies. Cure No. 18,216. Dr. Andrew Ice" o. el3ns tiPation, dyspepsia, an dnervous irritability. Cure .1.4,r2.11124.,2e..10. „Dr. Shorlaini. of dropsy and debility. Cure No. ,--Lptain Allan, of epileptic fits. Cure No. 36,418. Rev. nwlitlrBt.zeßrro.fueryey. of 2 . Minster, of cramps, spasms and daily vomitings. Cure No. di arrhont and debility. Cure No. 29,628. Dr. consumption. Curs No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts. Merchan, Friniley, Snrrev, or 2.0 years' diseased :ungs, spitting, of blookllver derangemeilt, partial deafness. Cure No. 4,208. " ifitit years' dyspe psia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, 11 b P e a a l it nl i s, and nausea,have bvn effectually , cured by Du Barry's 4- restoring Food. Rev. John W. Flavell. Ridlington Rectory, Norfolk."—Cure No. 3,906, of thirteen years' cough, B le_ ap ert e h r . ,21:112'estion, and general debility. James Porter, Athol-street, re sold in Canisters, lib. 2s. 9d. •, 21b. 4s. 6d. ; 121 b. 22s ; re quality, Sib. Vs. ; 101 b. 335. The 101 b. and 121 b. Canisters arc tonvartled carriaze free, on receipt of Post-ofEce 42_rdr. Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London ; For "ma s on , and Co., purveyors to her Majesty, 162, r„ . ' ,,, idiny ; ilL;o 'ztt CI, ( 3 1 - ::: - ,11:11 , :, - ,11-strcTI : f:7), mail: I, k ' 0 ealmilde ;49 and 60, Bishop r Kiate-street lO5 and 63 Oxford treet ; 85, Tott enham-court . ..road ; also 'in Liverpool, at ixons, 1, Ca s tl e - street: Leeds, R,einhardt and Co. ;Dui. Iln, Dr. Butler, Medical Ball; Manchester, sharp /and SOOtt ; 21 tuburgb. Balza and Co ;sq. , R OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. Open to the Sick Poor night and day. During the past month (October) 10,275 persons were re lieved. The Hospital is wholly dependent on legactes and volun tary cont ributions. The AID of the benevolent is urgently solicited. Contributions racy be paid to Edward Ilasterman, Esq.. Treasurer and banker, Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street; or at the Hospital, from 10 till 5.-11 v order. STANFORD S. SMITH, Sec. SURE CURE. - LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM', Without confining th@ bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasatit,e admitted to be the best medicine fbr immediately relieving, coughs, colds, confirmed eases of asthma and consumption. It frequently cures per sons whom the fsoulty pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which provokes frequent (soughing. In approach ing consumption its offect, , , arc truly beneficial. Persons de prived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief in a few , minutes after takinz it. Pre pared only and sold by IV. Lambert, chemist, 20, Jermyrt street, Haymarket, and by all druggists, in bottles, 13 td., 2s. 3d. and Is. fid. each. Be particular and ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam. The name and address is engraved on the stamp. 3, GREAT IffAHLBOROEGIT-S PANTHEON. TREET, W., NEAR THE , DR. CULVERWELL, Member of the Royal, Coßego of Surgeons, Licentiate of Midwifery, and Apo thecaries' Flail, London, can b e consulted dail y (only) as above, on all cases of Nervous Debility, Languor, Incapaefty, Loss 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 stamps, 18 sealed, No. 4, An entire new and original Work, entitled OURSELVES. Synopsis The Physiology and Anatomy of onr Generation —The Origin of DiseaseLSymptoms, Treatment, and Cure. Also, anExposition of, 'and Remedy for, meats and Marital Disqualifications, a ll Urinary Derange , The modern treatment of Syphilis, Stricture, Blennerrhaxis , (Gonorrhoea), Spermatorrhcca,impotency, and all Dillealiek of the Urinary Organs, with Prescriptions, &e.j FEMALE. The Physiology and Anatomy of Women--Functional Tr- ' regularities in Health an'i Sickness—Choice in Marriage — . Their Expectancies and Disappointments—The Cause and Removal of Sterility—The Theory and Symptoms of Gesta tion—Use of the Speculum, and the securing of healthy Offspring. Also, No. 1. HEALTH, WAPPINESS, and LONGEVITY;' On Debility, Nervousness, Dyspepsia, and Indigestion, No. 2. LOVE AND MARRIAGE : Their Obligations. Happiness, and Disappointments; Love and other Matches. Sterility Removed, and Healthy Off spring secured. _ No. 3. THE CASE BOOK : 100 Cases of SPERMATORRHCFCA, Their Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment, Confessions and Cure by Cauterisations, Galvanism, &c. &o. dm 'r 0 be had of Mann, 39, Cornhill ; and the Authors. Advice to the Working' Classes, fee Half-a-Guinea. ONE HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD ON CONVICTION The fearful dangers to invalids from . spurious imitations of DU BA RRY's invaluable II T.TII-RESTORING REVA- La: 'STA ARABICA FOOD led to an investigation, and, von application in 1854 for protection, the High Court of Chancery granted an injunction restraining Alfred Hooper geoll, and his agents, under a penalty of .£15,000, from selling any article resembling or being a colourable imitation of Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica, of whinh we are the sole pro prietors. Now, therefore, this i/ t to give notice that the above reward will be paid, upon cou v i c on, to anyone giving infor mation of any breach of the injunction. An intelligent public requires no admonition to shun all shopkeepers who may attempt impositions. London :11BARRY DU BARRY & CO, - - - NO ioitE SICKLY OR ILL - CONDITIONED HORSES OR OTHER CATTLE. RA REY'S TIORSE and CATTLE-IMPBOVING FOOD :stores the efficiency, vigour, endurance, and musc l e of conditioned or apparently: worn-out Horses, Cows, Bul .ocks, Calves, Sheep, and Pigs. In a short time it Improves !heir appearance and value by 20 and 30 per cent. RA RE y end Co., 77, Regent's Quadrant, Loudon. In tine at 35., at 65., lis. ; in casks, of about 450 feeds, 508. ; of about 1,000 feeds, E 5, being about 11d. per feed. Forwarded on receipt of Post-office orders 2The casks free of carriage. NO MORE MEDICINE _ _ lee 2d., free by 1 - (47B.poi;nrart7;iiiiie, sixty-four Panes, !HE NATURAL REGENERATION of the DIGESTIVE ORGANS, prastically illustrating the effectual Cure, without Medicine, of Indigestion (dyspepsia), habitual C ons tipation, Flatulency+ kc, , itty, I'f , lpitoWyn of the Heart. Torpidity of the Liver, bllous IreadQ,ehes, Nervousness, Biliousness, General Debi lity,Cough, Asthma, Consumption, Despondency, Spleen, &c., without Pills, Purgatives, or Medicine of any loud, by a simple, pleasant, and infallible means ; adapted to the general ipAter. Ambit: . Barry Du Barry & Co. 77, Regent-IMM N°. 21,072. PUBLICATIONS. -s Immediately, in 3 vols., with Illustrations, TAE WOOD-RANGERS. By Captain MAYNE REID. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Col burn, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, in 2 vols., with Illustrations, 218., . . • PICTURES OF SPORTING LIFE AND CHARACTER. By Lord WILLIAM LENNOX. " This book should be in the library of every c country gen tleman, end of every one who delights in the sports of the Field. It forms a complete treatise on sporting in every part of the world, and is full of pleasant gossip and anecdote. Racing, steeplechasing, hunting, driving, coursing, yachting, and fishing, cricket and pedestrianism, boating and curling, pigenp shooting, and the pursuit of game with the fowling piece, all find an able exponent in Lord William Lennox."— Herald. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE. Edited by W. M. THACKERAY. No. 1 (for JANUARY, 1660) is now readEak 311 Booksellers and all Railway Stations, Price ONn SturriNG, with Two Illus trations and Map. CONTENTS. Frawley Parsonage—Chap. 5. Father Prout's Inaugura • I. Omnes omnia bona di- tive Ode to the Author of cere. Chap. 2. The Fram- " Vanity Fair." ley Set, and the Chaldi- 6. Our Volunteers. cotes Set. Chap.lll. Chal- 7. A Man of Letters of the dicotes. Last Generation. 2. The Chinese and the "Outer 8. The Search for Sir J. Barbarians." Franklin (from the Private 3. Lore!, the Widower—Chap. Journal of an Officer of I. The Bachelor of Beak- the " Fox.") street. 9. The First MorningoflBfo. 4. Studies in Animal Life. 10. Roundabout Papers—No. 1. On a Lazy Idle Boy. and Co., 65, Cornhill. London : Smith, Elder, On the Ist of January, No. XVII., New Series, price 3s. 6d., THE TOURNA.I OF PSYCHOLOGICAL -- MEDICINE. Edited by FORBES WINSLOW, M.D., D.C.L., Oxon. CONTENTS : Psychological Quarterly Retrospect. Paradoxical Psychology. Hysteria in connexion with Religious Revivals. The Parliamentary Inquiry and Popular Notions concerning the Treatment of Lunatics. On Lesions ~ f the Cutaneous Sensibility among the Insane. William,Cullen—a Psychological Study. Instrumental Music in the Asylum of Quatre-Mares. The,State of Lunacy in Ireland. Pauper Lunatics :- 1. The Commissioners in Lunacy and the Poor-law Board. 2. Statistics. Medico-Legal Trial : Disputed Will—Plea of Mental Incapa city. Skipper and Skipper, v. Bodkin and others. John Churchill, New Burlington-street. 'THE EVENING JOURNAL.—On and after _ll. the 2d of January, 18110, the EVENING JOURNAL will be published EVERY AFTERNOON at loour o'clock, price TWOPENCE. I t will cantain a summary of the Day's News, with the Foreign Intelligence arriving by the day mails up to Three o'clock and by Telegraph, and Stock Ex change, Mining, Joint Stook Shares, Law, Police, and, General Reports up to the hour of publication.—Office, 332, Strand. Just published, price 2s.,'free by post, 2s. 4d, ON SPERMATCvItRitCE A. By F. B. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.E., And formerly Surreon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the Cure of Strictures of tlie Urethra. '‘‘ The aim of the author is to present a comtnon-sense view of the Causes, Nature, Consequences, and Treatment of this Disease, as also to free these questions from the Professional Fallacies, the Popular Delusions, and the exaggerations of Quackery by which they have hitherto been surrounded, to the destruction of the health and happiness of thousands. These, objects are discussed in a common-sense and highly practical manner."—Medical Circular. London : H. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street THE ROYAL STATION HOTEL, Paragon street, Hull, requires only to be visited to be pronounced one of the most splendid hotels in England. The situation is open and healthful, a few minutes' walk from all the public buildings and places of business, and being connected with the Railway Station, affords railway passengers arriving or departing by every train day or night, the advantage of being on the spot, and having their wants and wishes immediately attended so. The public should know that under the present manage ment they win find every comfort and convenience at the same charges they are paving at the minor hotels. It has accommodation for upwards of one hundred and fifty visitors, is fitted up with every luxury an hotel can command, and is so arranged for the advantage of every class of visitor, that Beds can be had from ls. to 25.: Private Rooms, from 25. to 4s. ; Breakfasts, frotn' 18. Gel. to 2s. ; Dinners, from 25.: and all other charges of that moderate character which will give satisfaction to every class of visitor who may pay the hotel a visit. The hotel contains Gentlemen and Ladies' Coffee Rooms ; a special Room set apart for Commercial Gentlemen ; fourteen Private suites of Rooms ; large spacious Rooms for Dinner Parties, Public Meetings, &c., &c. ; two first-class Refresh ment Rooms ; two Smoke Rooms ; Bath and Billiard Rooms. A Night Porter in attendance. EDWIN TAYLOR, Proprietor of the Royal Station Hotel, Hull, and Crescent Hotel, Filey. N.B.—TAYLOR'S CRESCENT HOTEL, fronting the sea, for Families and Gentlemen. It has accommodation for up wards of one hundred and fifty visitors. Table D'lltste at five o'clock. Omnibuses and Cabs from the hotel meet all the trains. Good stabling and coach-houses. Moderate terms. INEGAR. Permlised by her Majesty's Government.—CONDY'S PATENT PURE CONCEN TRATED MALT VlNEGAR.—Families, by using this de licious Vinegar, insure purity, and effect a saving of 50 per. cent. See Report of. Dr. Letheby, City Officer of Health; Dr. Rassall, of the "Lancet" Commission, and others. Sold by the Trade, in bottles labelled and capsuled. Wholesale, 63, King William-street, London-bridge, E.C.—Six Quart Sample sent free to any Railway for 3s. 6d. OYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION.—The Committee of this Institution earnestly -APPEAL t the public for PECUNIARY ASSIST ANCE to aid them to meet the present heavy demands on. the limited funds of the Society. THOMAS B A RING, Chairman. THOMAS CHAPMA.N, Deputy-Chairman. 14, John-street, Adel phi, W.C. Bankers—Messrs. Willis and Co. ; Coutts and Co.; Herries and Co. '~~~~ ~~~ --/ .NEIV.PAPT:h -----... ----- . 7 -- , k ---.----- .. i t , ~,. ~ . . . ~ IA ,- , t; ... , •7 . z-o '''''— ' ... ~,, ib ' I k t ' • 44 ..A1 L: ~., lr. Ve - P ~,,, v ° r ut ' 31 4 t ~ .f'''' '' ' •14 . ~, 7 :4;u 1 .7 , - AT _ /re e. •''‘'''e------1- Ita r ~,7 i I? i t ,A;,` ~,A,4::, , 0 , !!!!, , ,% „e t irs .:k i ,,,,, .i. ,_., . • A . . .. 48 , : ,., ,,, ....„.....-...„4- : ., , ,Al' _ ... ~ EA , 6, ..mAk t - -... ,- 4,,kl:iit.i.v-,,,,,. ) , ~. , • re i f i::: f o 46l lut;r . Liit -, 1 ,4110 .-,,,, '''..— ' v.l" • -,a. ___ ~.., / ''''' . l Al' .4 3 . ~.. - • ' ...,,.. , 4.,..:„ . • A.. "c.,,V 7 : ~ . —__;;-if"( ;.L4 ' -: :.', 2" :i .- 1 ',1.17 , 7 — ei, 11: ', P7rlo st o'Si i lA;;:•" --- . -AIL , ''''i ,s 7 ci;',.., - f' ";:::,:'; - ,-„_' tu • \- ( 444.,. '4 - - .7 -- 4 ie ,_.; .6 - ot at 4 16'6).... 4/ , iti,,,,,,4 \i, , t_,,te ROIT. • ''' v ..,,•-, .-,:-...,-- .:Aro aa -I f ‘ 1 - .61 , ~, ...,,„ ,-,,,, ~. '' 4,""4" r • ' 4 44 , \: 4 : ' ;,, . i t4 ,.., ' - + * -- --I'' ".1.--' ~. well-deserved fruit of_ unceasing exert - 1. In spite of her large army the Fl is the best clad and the best cared __ Although the French army has to rely on conscrip tion, the French soldier is the most intelligent and most independent soldier in Europe. The demo cratic spirit of equality which is paramount in the people has likewise 'penetrated the army, and has contributed to destroy by degrees the old system, wherein the soldier was considered as a machine. You see the effects of it in that free, elastic step of the French soldier which must strike every one in contrast with other armies. H e i s taught to think and rely upon himself, and he acquires the habit of self-reliance, which gives such a superiority in campaigning. This en genders self-consciousness and emulation, which receive an additionil spur by the system of pro motions and rewards. Finally, France was the first to understand that the new weapon would require a new system of tactics, that arms of precision were only valuable in the hands of men trained to act more freely than was compatible with the old sys tem, and that soldiers did not arrive at this free• dam of action by practising the goose step, but that each individual soldier had to be trained in all exer cises of the body, and to be taught to act more or less for himself. The thing was so self-evident that most of the Continental nations have made more or less faint copies of the Chasseurs de Vincennes. This is only the beginning. The new rifles are considerably dearer than the old musket, and it may be questioned whether a large army brought together by conscription for a few years can ac quire, as a body, this higher degree of excellence. Such achange would require considerable outlay; and there may be likewise some few traces of pro fessional prejudice remaining. However this may be, the French have not changed their whole in fantry according to the new model; but, although the old regulations for the rest subsist in practice, the hop _orcler of fighting has slipped in likewise among the rest of the army. Individual freedom, individual energy and enter prise, have been for centuries the boast of England. All her institutions are based on them. She has conquered empires and spread civilization over the most remote tarts of the world by means of them, while such is the superiority of her mechanical skill, and such the excellence of her industry, that all the world recognises them by the establishment of protective tariffs, and envies the colossal wealth accruing from them. Here, then, are the three elements—individual excellence, high mechanical and industrial skill, and great wealth. Verily it will be England's fault if she does not take the lead in the revolution which is going on in the art of warfare for she will not have known how to take advantage of .ber supe- PRICE 4D• STAMPED, SD. says that that sum will fall far short of what will eventually be needed. The officials of the octroi have taken possession of the. posts established in the new enclosure of Paris, now, like ancient Thebes, become the City of The Hundred Gates. Under Louis X.V. Paris had already considerably increased, and some neigh bouring villages were added to it, among others that of the Roule, which was made a suburb of the city, In 1784, ander Louis XVI., the Farmers- General received permission to surround the capital by a wall, which is nearly the same as that now existing, but which will soon disappear. At that period the barrier gates were almost all of wood, and the offices small wooden houses placed on wheels for the convenience of locomotion. The barriers were 60 in number, classed in three divi sions—north, south, and east. The new enclosure of Paris, with its 100 gates, its deep ditches, and its. green slopes, will better respond to the grandeur of the city than the wall by which it has been hitherto surrounded. An immense number of Parisians did not lose the chance of profiting by the change in the barriers. During the afternoon and evening of the day before the alteration was effected they flocked outside the old barriers and made pur chases of every kind, and for some hours before midnight all the barriers were crowded with vehi cles and foot passengers waiting for thp moment' when they might pass through withotif being stopped. When midnight struck the barrier gates were thrpwn open, the octroi men retired, and the whole body entered Paris and proceeded to their respective destinations, ham* athaving tints effected some saving, though at the cost of considerable trouble. In consequence of the extension of Paris, the administration of the Mont do Piete has established three additional offices, in which pledges are re ceived without additional percentage being laid on by intermediate agents. One is at the Batignolles, the second in the Rue de Buffon, near the Jardin des Plantes, and the third at Vaugirard. MILITARY OR G.l NIZ .1 TI ON. (FROM THE TIMES' CORRESPONDENT LATE WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN ITALY.) I hay e endeavoured to bring before you the real cause of the superiority of the French military or ganization over that of any other country in Europe, and I think I have shown , that there are sufficient reasons for producing such a result without there being any necessity for recurring to the usual com monplaces of France being by nature a military nation, having a particular aptitude for warfare ; that her institutions, and above all her administra tive centralization, give her superior means cf organization to these possessed by others ; and numerous other plausible generalties which are re sorted to by ignorance or prejudico to explain a fact which no one can deny. riority. If this is not the case, none of the usual pretexts for shortcomings will be an excuse—neither the stinginess of Parliament nor the plea that England is not a military country. There are above 220,000 men inscribed on the rolls of the British regular army, besides from 140,000 to 150,000 militia, and the sum spent on the regular army alone amounts to nearly £12,000,000, giving one-fourth more for every individual soldier than in any other army in the world. The subdivision of a great part of the army over widely-spread colonies ought to be an advantage rather than a disadvantage, for it ought to be the best school for practically teaching every officer his duties in the field, and educating the sol dier for camp life; nor is there the practice want ing in actual warfare, and thus the means of study ing the defects of, organisation and the improve ments to be effected. If France has her Algeria, England has India and China. England had slumbered longest on her laurels, until the Eastern war awoke her. It would be almost supernatural to expect that she should shake off the drowsiness all at once, and come up to the point where those were who had continuously ad vanced during the last 30 or 40 years. But she has made the first steps in the right direc tion, and she is so alive to the,necesity of advancing that it may be hoped she will soon be up in the race. She has recognised that her military system needs improvement ; she has sought and introduced the most perfect rite hitherto invented, and is now in tent on in:lking her soldiers worthy of their weapon. And in this respect England is already at the head of all others, for she is the first, and hitherto the only one, who has made rifle shooting the object of the systematic education of the infantry soldier. But there it has remained for the present. It has not vet been understood that the rifle is a revolu tion in and subversion of the old system, and that with-the rifle everything else must he reformed and brought into harmony—that the; movements meant for old Brown Bess arctineffective and dangerous in an age of rifles ; Olaf a soldier educated as a. ma chine will wield it only imperfectly ; that he must have the greatest amount of bodily health, strength, and agility ; that he must be trained and clothed accordingly; that in this utilitarian age even soldiers' dresses must be calculated on useful ness rather than ornament; that the command and administration must follow in the same direction— less routine and fewer councils, but more indepen dent action and responsibilities. Its superiority is due to the observance of a few simple principles, self-evident, almost truisms, which are not the particular treasure of the French, but the common property of all those who can raise themselves above old traditions and time-honoured prejudices. Like all great wars, the wars at the end of the last and in the first part of the present century produced a peculiar system of military tactics and organization, the fruit of .long years of bitter experience and sacrifices. The result of this long struggle was that France, which had originated the new system, and Napoleon, who by his genius l'ad contributed most to its development, were overthrown. The result was so great that it was but natural in those who brought it about to conceive a great opinion of tho perfec tion of the means by which they succeeded,— to lie down on a bed of laurels and forget that even a system for standing armies, however perfect, must yield to the common law of progress which regulates everything else in the world. This may seem strange now, which even those who think mummies the ideal of mankind dare only to dispute about the degree of progress to be aimed at; but it must be recollected that the idea of progress, although coeval with the world, is comparatively new as a recognised principle of action. If this principle had to struggle hard to establish its position in other institutions, it re mained almost powerless in a sphere which was less subject to the influence of public opinion, and jea lously guarded, like the mysterious worship of Eleusis, from the eyes of the prorane. Thus it comes that, while France ever since the year 1815 recognised and followed the principle of progress in the organisation of her army, in most other great European armies a war was waged against thiiprinciple, and every concession which had to be made to it was bewailed and considered as a defeat. While France reformed almost every detail connected with her army, and made a com plete revolution in military matters, her former ad versaries and victors thought they had done wonders by changing the shape of a shako or the cut of a coat, not with a view of convenience to the soldier, but simply as a matter of appearance. But although wrapped up in the world of the past, it was impossible in this age of intimate inter course of nations to remain altogether blind to what took'place elsewhere. With all the predilection for a peculiar system—a consequence of the national geniue and institutions of each people, it was im possible,in this age of mechanical skill, to deny the superiority of certain improvements which, by de grees and after much opposition, were adopted. Among these the greatest and most important is the improved rifle. We find invariably in the history of warfare that the invention or adoption of a new or improved weapon goes together with, or is followed by, a com plete revolution in the art of warfare. The Mace donian phalanx presupposes the long lance and evolutions by masses. The organisation of the Roman legion is only possible with men of great individual superiority and armed with the short sword and shield. The introduction of full armour after the Crusades engenders the superiority of horsemen over the foot soldiers. The application of gunpowder to warfare re-establishes an equili brium between the two. The systematic introduc tion of fire-arms by Gustavus Adolphus creates a new system in the Thirty Year's War. The aboli tion of tho lance for infantry, and the invention of the bayonet, become the basis of our modern system of warfare. LIVERPOOL, Wednesday.—The screw steamer Anglo-Saxon sailed to-day for Portland, with an average number of passengers and mails for Canada and the United States. The Liverpool, Philadelphia, and New York Com pany's steamer Edinburgh sailed the same day, with 130 passengers and a mail for New York. On Saturday itext the Cunard steamship Africa will be despatched for New York, with the mails for the United States and North Ame rica. Letters, &c., will be received at the post •office till 8 45 a.m., and on the landing•stage, with an extra fee of 6d., until 9 30 a.m. APPALLING SUICIDE —About 3 o'clock on Tues day afternoon a fine young woman, 19 years of age, de stroyed herself by leaping down a coalpit near the Bileton road, on the outskirts of Wolverhampton.- The pit is in Niessrs. Dodd and Williamson's colliery, and near that down which a man recently fell, owing to its being improperly fenced. The victim of love and jealousy in the present case was named Phoebe Davis. A few minutes before 3 o'clock on the day above named she called at a cottage oc cupied by an aged couple close by the shaft-down which she was about to precipitate herself, apparently very much agitated. Pulling a handkerchief from her neck, she handed it to the aged Inmates, saying, " Give this to Jack, for I shall never see him again." She then ran to the pit mouth, and climbing over the fencing surrounding- it east herself ,headlong down the shaft, which has been disused for some time, and is upwards of 90 yards deep. A large concourse of people speedily assembled, and information having been sent to the principal police-station at Wolverhampton, In spector Cordon and a body of policemen proceeded to the spot. Owing to the existence of foul, air in the shaft, a number of precautions—such as throwing down quicklime and placing air troughs—had to be taken before any at tempt could be made to recover the body. At last, after S o'clock in the evaning , an old-seiner named Russell, having been fastened to a chain, was lowered down byhand ; and, isitaching the body of the poor girl to another, it was brought to the surface. Russell himself nearly fell a victim to his exertions, for when brought up he was (mite insensible, and friction and other means had to be used for nearly three-quarters of :in hour before he could be restored. There is no doubt that the poor girl destroyed herself* in a pa roxysm of jealousy, owing to her lover having taken another young woman to a dance. The body was removed to a neighbouring public-house, and an inquest will be held on it to-day (Thursday). • [ADVERTISMENT.] Holloway's Ointment and Pills. 171cers,nVotind9, sprat s.— Bad legs, old wounds, and sprains, whether recent or chronic, yield with surprising celerity to the cooling, healing, and curative properties of this invalu able Ointnicut. It may be relied upon in all such cases as have baffled the skill of our best Hospital trgeons; no matter the length online the malady has endured, this Ointment,. assisted by a course of Holloway's Pills, will quietly but cer tainly reach the core of the complaint, and thoroughly eradi cate it, without additional., impediments to pleasure or busi ness. These remedies will overcome the worst forms of disease, and the foulest state of the blood ; while in glandu lar swellings, scurvy, and all disetscs of the skin, they are equally irresistible, The great perfection of the modern rifle and its general introduction as an arm of the infantry foreshadow as great a revolution in all military matters as any which has ever taken place. It is scarcely necessary - to point out its obvious supe riority over the old musket, but the difference be tween it and the old rifle itself is great enough to give the two weapons an entirely distinct character. If any proof were required it would be found iu the circumstance that the Swiss rifle, which approaches nearest to it in point of perfection, led to the esta blishmyt of the Carabineers—the heaviest of Swiss troops, while the new rifle produced Chasscurs de Vincennes and Zouaves—essentially light troops. But it is, perhaps, even more in the general intro• ductien of the new rifle than in the greater degree of perfection that one must seek for the consequences of the change, which is nothing more or less than a complete subversion of the very principle on which the military organisation was based hitherto. It is characterised in a few words. The old musket was the arm of the masses, and the rifle is that of the individual. The general introduction of the former led to a system where the individual soldier did not exist as such, but '\s as only lotked upon as a part of a whole; the general adoption of the'latter gives back the full value of individual ex cellence and skill to the single soldier. The great aim in the old system was, therefore, to snake an unconscious passive machine of the soldier, while in future everything must tend to develop the indi- Tidual soldier into an intelligent being. [ADVBRTISEMENT.]—The great injury inflicted on many invalids by dr ugs i ncreases th interest the public take in Da Barry's Rev lento. Arabica Food, which cures without medicine indigestion (dyspepsia), flatulency, constipation, nervous, bilious, and liver complaints, cough, asthiria, een sumption,.and debility. • We quote a few out of many thou sand cases of cures by this delicious food :—Cure No. 180. —" Twenty five years nervousness, constipation, indiges tion, and debility from which I have suffered great misery, and which no medicine could •reirtove or relieve, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's Food in a very short time. W. B. Reeveg,lBl, Fleet street, London." Cure 4,208. " Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms, and nausea, for which my servant had .consulted the advice of many, have been effeclually cured by Du Barr y a Health •restoring Food. I shall be happy to answer any in quiries. Rev. J . Flav ell, Ridlington Rectory, Norfolk." in tins, at Is. 6d.; llb., 3s. ; '2lb., ss. 9d. ; Sib., 125.; 121 b., 265. The 101 b. and 121 b. tins carriage free, on receipt of post office order. Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London' Fortnum, Mason, and Co., IS2, Piccadilly; Abbis, 60, Graeechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63, and 150, Oxford street; 330 and 451, Strand ; 49 and 0, Bishopsgate street ; 85, Tottenham-court-road. Also at Dublin, Bewley 'and Draper ; at Edinburgh, Raimes and Co.; ' At Liverpool, Nixon and Thew; at Mancbester, Sharp and ' Scott; at York. Raimes. Blanchard,_,and.Co.; at South. aniptor, Bszdall and Gow The nation which shall first attain this individual excellence and superiority of the soldier in its mili tary system, and hich by its genius and its insti tutions is most adapted to introduce this new principle into its army, will surpass the others in its military organisation. _ . . Hitherto the palm belongs to France, and it is a THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1800. SPAIN AND MOROCCO. Advices from Gibraltar iy the mail steamer Delta, arrived at Southampton yesterday, are four days later, but there is very little additional intelligence from Morocco. The following items are extracted from the Gibraltar Chronicle:— "A Ceuta letter of the 17th inst., published in a Spanish paper, states that the casualties in the army of Africa since the commencement of the campai.gn amounted at that date to 6,007; but; of these it is calculated 1,500 will soon return to join their corps. Volunteers continuo to arrive from all parts to fill up the vacancies occasioned by these casualties. The road to Tetuan was getting on rapidly, and it is said that so soon as the siege train arrived the army would march on that city, leaving Gen. Orozco's division in charge of the earthworks on the heights of the Serail°. "The Epoca announces that the strength of the army in .Africa is to be raised to 80,000 men. This will leave a respectable force to operate, after gar risoning the redoubts, forts, and other advanced lines. Every battalion, according to this journal, is to be completed to 1,000 men, filling up from the corps in the Peninsula the vacancies that may occur. This augmentation is to have effect from the com mencement of the ensuing year." " GIBRALTAR, DEC. 28. "Private letters from the camp before Ceuta have been received to the evening of the 25th. We subjoin some extracts : DEC O 24. " Nothing at all new here. No firing yesterday or to-day. Eleven more battalions are expected from Spain, and nearly all the cavalry has come. It is thought we shall move towards the new year, but nobody knows for certain. For the last week they have had nothing but unimportant skirmishes. They are getting on with the road in tke direction of Tetuan', " DEc. 23, 9 a.m. " Moors attacking the left and centre ; skir mishing going on ; fire rather lively. Began at half-past 8. No app earance o f its proving much mr.me than one of the ordinary encounters; only, having begun so early, it may last longer.' " Another correspondent, writing later in the day, describes the fight as having been one of the sharpest encounters witnessed since the affair of the 9th. It was over and the dead buried by two o'clock. A brilliant charge was made by one of the Spanish generals (name not given), who jumped from his horse, seized a musket, and led his men against one of the Moorish positions, which he took at the point of the bayonet. 38 Moorish dead were found on this spot. The Spanish loss was re ported as six killed and 30 wounded. "Two battalions of infantry—the Soria and Bailen—nsarched from Malaga on the afternoon of the 24th, overland, on their way to Algesiras for embarkation to Ceuta. One of these battalions reached San Rogue between 10 and 11 o'clock last night. '1 he other battalion is expected te-tfight. " Arrivals from the coast of Morocco report that everything remained quiet at the ports of Cass. bianca (Dar-el-Baida) and Saffi. At the latter place a number of Bedouins had' come in from the interior in quest of provisions; and, after getting their supplies, quietly returned into the country. " The Spanish squadron from Algesiras is under way for the eastward. It consists of the sailing line of-battle ship Isabel 11., bearing the flag of Rear- Admiral Segundo Herrera, a sailing frigate, two screw and one paddlewheel frigates; four steam sloops. _ _ " DEC. 29. lc There is no further news from Africa to-day. The Spanish squadron which left Algesiras yester day continued its course to the eastward without touching at Ceuta. At noon to-day the ships were off the coast of Tetuan, with the intention, it is re ported in town, of favouring a forward movement of the troops under Marshal O'Donnell towards that city by the road which they have for some time past been making. " The other battalion of Spanish troops from Malty'a arrived last evening at San Roque. The two battalions--the Soria and Bailer--will shortly leave for Algesiras to embark for Ceuta, to augment the strength of the African expeditionary army." of shipwrights and others on board to carry use Brame extenbive repairs, found necessary after the arrival of the ship alongside the pier, in her maste, rigging, boats, poop, &c., and which are indispen sable to the safety and accommodation,of the ship and cargo.• The repairs will not be completed for six or eight days. THE THIRD CHINESE WAR FINANCE OF TILE CITY OF PARIS. .- - - 4. -.- The report lately presented by the Prefect of the Seine to the Municipal Councils on the bqgeta of 2.1)e city of Paris for 1859 and 1860 contains some points of interest. It states, for example, that so prosperous were the city finances in 1859, that, after largely providing not only for the ordinary expenses, but for the exceptional wants of hospi tals, religious edifices, and schools, for the repairs of bridges and quays, the extension of paving, the making of plantations, the salubrity of houses, and the distribution and .carrying away of water, a sum of £13,2031931., in addition to that which came from the loan which the city had been au thorised to raise, was devoted to the purchase of houses and buildings and the execution of works for the improvement of streets and thorough fares; and that 'sum would have been still larger if one of 6,750,582 f. had not been taken to in crease the reserve of the Municipal Treasury, which had been lessened by a Fein of 10,000,000 f. having been appropriated to the Caisse des Travaux de Paris. " These figures," says the report, "prove that the Municipal Council of Paris, in entering in May, 1858, into an agreement with the Government to execute in the space of ton years works and improvements estimated to cost 180,000,000 f., in return for a subvention of only 50,000,000 f., did not miscalculate the resources of which the city could dispose for that purpose." And, in addition to all this, not only, says the report, laze the sums required for the payment of the interest, premiums', and lots of the debt duly provided, but one of 5,743,415 f. was set apart towards the payment of the debt. The report then goes on to explain what it calls "the secret of these results," and that secret is that within the last seven years—that is, since the establishment of the empire—the ordinary receipts of the city have increased in .a much greater pro portion than the ordinary expenses. Thus, in 1852. the year in which the empire was established, and in which the great works in Paris were commenced, the ordinary receipts were only 52,576,631 f.; and in 1859 they were 79,327,925 f. increase, 26,751,291 f. ; whereas the ordinary expenses, which in 1852 were 54,939,4361., were inlt3s9, 49,163,1781. —an increase of only 14,223,742 f. " That," says the report, "is all the mystery of the pretended marvels accomplished in Paris daring the last:7 years by the municipal administration. What had to be done to obtain this result was very simple— namely, resolution and perseverance ; on the one hand, in obtaining from established duties all that they could be made to yield, and taking advantage of all circumstances that presented themselves for increasing the revenue ; and, on the other hand, restraining as much as possible the continual ten dency of the different branches of the municipal services to increase their expenses." It is to the increased population, to the influx of provincial and foreign visitors, and to the increase of public, and private prosperity that the report ascribes princi pally the augmentation of the municipal revenues ; but it admits that the increase of certain Qctroi duties, the establishment of taxes on wholesale deal ings in the markets, the increased rent for market stalls, the increase of the tax on cabs and omni buses, and a number of other things, as also a more equitable division of charges common to the Govern ment and the municipality, have likewise contri buted to that augmentation. The report then no tices various items in the revenue which are new or have increased. Among them are these :—The imposition of a tax of 2c. per cubic metre on gas consumed, which last year yielded a revenue of 980,000 f. ; the tat on dogs. which, though redu cing the number of dogs from 45,617 in 1856 to about 33,000 in 1859, yielded more in the latter year than 300,000 f. ; the tax on cabs and on om nibuses (these vehicles are 3,997 in number), which in 1852 only amounted to 471,1411., produced in . 1859 2,036,744 f. The report announces that the municipality - has not yet been able to obtain the imposition of a tax on all carriages, horses, and vehicles employed in Paris, and remarks, as a sin gularity, that in this capital it is "the wealthiest classes which manifest the strongest repugnance to new taxes." The report justifies the proposed tax on the ground that it is not right that private car riages,,and particularly the large waggons and vans used in commerce, should have the privilege of using the paving and macadam of streets gratuit ously, when omnibuses, which are chiefly destined for people of modest incomes, pay. The report next refers to the charge for admission to the Bourse—a matter which has excited a pod deal of discussion. This charge, it says, was established in 1856, on the recommendation of the Chamber of Commerce, as a means of preventing the overcrowding of that place, which had become intolerable, and of keeping away petty capitalists, who were tempted to speculate, and by so doing often lost all they had. Another reason for establishing the charge was that the mu nicipality did not think it right that an edifice be longing to it, and whiCh served as a...market for secu rities and merchandise, Should be free from all charge when all the other markets are made to pay heavily. Some persons, says the report, complain bitterly of the charge for admission as injurious to commercial transactions; but it was those persons who profited by the silly hopes and the sudden panics of the petty speculators. But though,tbe report says, the Bourse is less frequented than it used to be, it is still well attended, and on some days is over crowded. The number of persons it can conveni ently accommodate is about 4,000 ; but on certain days as many as 4,200 and even 4,500 havAntered, and rarely, even in the summer, has the number been less than 3,500. Moreover, the number of pay ments for admission steadily progresses—in 1857 the total amount obtained was 1,010,148 f., in 1858 it 'rose to 1,027,4951., and in 1859 was about 1,060,000 f. The report afterwards proceeds to give details respecting the budget of 1860, which, on account of the aggrandisement of Paris, differs con siderably from that of 1859. Among other things it shows that all the communes annexed, except Passy, have debts amounting to 5,962,900 f., which will have to be paid between 1860 and 1874; but it shows also that they have assets amounting to 5,893,425 f, It calculates that 1,400,000 f. will be required to exempt poor families from what is called the personal and furniture tax, and -that in the suburbs annexed the number of families so ex empted will exceed 28,000, consisting of 90,000 persons. It says that the number of octroi en tiances into Paris, which has heretofore been 57, will henceforth be 66 ; and that the duties of the octroi officers will be greatly increased on account of the entries being much more numerous, of the fortifications which they will have to watch being upwards of 20 miles (33 kilometres) in extent, of the neecssity of watching the points at which the railways pass through the fortifications, and the goods stations of railways ; and, lastly, of exercis ing surveillance over what are called the entrepots a domicile. These increased duties will render necessary the augmentation of the ordinary octroi staff from 1,259 persons to 1,862 ;of fro-a 138 to 200 of the men charged to accompany goods which pass through the city in transit, or do not pay at the gates; and the creation of 90 new officers specially charged with the surveillance of the domicile en trepots. The expense of the octroi will, says the report, be increased from 2,925,725 f. to 4,275,962 f. The report notices that, in expectation of the aggrandisement of Paris, many persons residing outside the octroi will have laid in for their on n Frivate use Weiss of wood, wine, &c., in order to avoid paying the octroi duties of Paris, which are higher than those of their communes ; and it expresses a doubt that they have made a good bargain, inasmuch as they have paid for those articles, and especially wine, more than they will be worth this year. It does not propose to interfere with them, hilt it says a great number of other persons in connivance with specu lators have clandestinely collected as many as 300,000 or 400,000 casks of wine, with the inten tion of depriving the city of Paris of the octroi duty thereon, which it calculates at 15,000,000 f. or 18,000,000 f. ; but it says, that in virtue of regula tions adopted by the Council of State, they will be made to pay the duties. On the subject of the cemeteries, the report says that Paris, when en larged, will comprise three large cemeteries—those of the East, or Pere-Lachaise ; the West, or Mont martrc; the South, or Montparnasse ; and 10 otheri less important, those of Auteuil, Passy, the Batig nolles, La Chapelle, La Villette, Belleville, elm ronne, Bercy, Vaugirard, and Crenelle. The com mune of Montmartre besides makes over to the city the proprietorship of a new cemetery situated be yond the fortifications. Of all these cemeteries, the three large ones of old Paris and those of Auteuil, Passy, Betignolles, Montmartre, La Villette, and Vaugirard will alone be required. The others will be closed—that' is to say, will not receive any new tombs ; but they will remain accessible to families, and the existing tombs will be respected. The report concludes by proposing to set aside a reserve fund of 5,000,000 f. for the expenses which the enlarge ment of Paris will necessitate—namely, the forma tion of a magnificent promenade by the union, on the demolition of the octroi wall, of what are now the outegßoulevards and the Chemin de Ronde ; the construction of new mairies,, - & - o.; but the report 2HE NAVY. Orders have been received from the Admiralty for the number of labourers attached to Chatham dockyard to be reduced to 166. In order, however, not to inflict any unnecessary hardship on that class, instructions have been given that the reduc tion is to be made gradually, and that no fresh en tries are to be made to fill the vacancies caused by deaths or resignations. The Lords of the Admiralty have directed a num ber of pieces of timber belonging to the old frigate Shannon, lately broken up at Chatham dockyard, to be forwarded to Somerset-house to be preserved in the model-room of the Admiralty, where they will be converted into blocks and stands for the various models, in order to be kept as relics of that famous old frigate. A considerable quantity of the timber has been sent to Portsmouth to be used at that dockyard, most of the timbers being as sound as they 'ere when the frigate was built. The Hon. Council of India have taken up the fol lowing ships for the conveyance of Government stores to India, viz. :—the Liverpool, 1,454 tons ; the Earl of Eglinton, 1,274 tons ; the Camperdown, 993 tons ; and the Ardbeg, 925 tons, all for Cal cutta; the Howden, 1,122 tons, for Bombay; and the Helvellyn, 1,017 tons, for Madras. The Arctic discovery ship Enterprise, 4, which has been employed in harbour duty as a coal depot Sherness, has been brought up from that port to Chatham to be placed in ordinary. It is intended to break this vessel up. Some of the men formerly employe4 as riggers in Woolwich dockyard, and who voluteered to join the Arctic expedition on board the Fox, have re turned to Woolwich, an d w ill b e reinstated in their former posts in the dockyard. Each of the crew have been presented by Lady Franklin with an ele gant silver watch, valued at £lO, bearing a suitable inscription on the outer case, surmounted by an en graving representing the Fox in full sail. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Vincent Williams to the Ariadne, Lieut. Cuthbert Le Mesurier to the Conqueror; Lieut. Alex. Henderson, additional, to the Hogue, for service in the Goshawk tender; M. Thomson, surg., to the Russell ; John Bower, surg., to the Edinburgh; John Gallagher, surg., to the Blenheim; T. Nelson, surg., to the Pembroke; G. D. M'Laren, staff-surg., to the Dauntless ; Thos. Ramsey, chief engineer, to the Nile • Felix Fore- Tuan, chief eng i ' neer, to the Emerald ; E. J. B. Bird, Ist class assist.-engineer, to the Nile; E. Lilley, Ist class assist.-engineer, to the Conqueror ; G. F. Sutton and John Gibson, 3d class assist.-engineers, to the Nile; S. G. Hill, acting 3d class assist.-engi neer, to the Asia, as supernumerary ; F. G. 0. Patch, assist.-pay master to the Impregnable, as secretary ' s clerk; and C. H. Stone, clerk, to the Britannia. THE ARMY. The officer selected by the War Department to command the surveying expedition of Royal Engi neers about to be despatched to New Zealand is Lieut. V. G. Clayton, the fieldwork instructor at the Royal Engineer establishment, Chatham ' the annou ncement that Capt. J. W . G or d on had been appointed to the command being premature. The time for the departure of the expedition has not yet been announced, but active preparations are being made at head-quarters in getting ready the requisite stores and other necessary equipments re quired by the men selected for this service. The first ten guns made in the rifled ordnance fac tory at Woolwich, under the superintendence of Mr. John Anderson, were yesterday fired at the proof butt in the presence of Colonel Tullochgnspector of Artillery, and other officials. Each gun having been carefully searched and examined, the whole were pronounced faultless. Mr. Anderson was highly complimented by Col. Tulloh on the remarkable suc cess so promptly attained by the new establishment, which he did not hesitate to state was mainly attri butable to Mr. Anderson's intense application and practical persevering intelligence,displayed through out every feature of his, department. The establish ment, it was stated, will turn out for proof 20 guns per week, commencing with the present week; and before the end of the financial year will have com pleted a number far exceeding that anticipated. After the erection of the' huge and powerful steam hammer, the work, it is expected, will be consider ably augmented. The number of men at present employed amounts to nearly 3,000 in the rifle cle partment alone. The two batteries about to be shipped on board the Himalaya, at Purfleet, for China, arc ordered to be encased for transportatic s on. Each battery is provided with two additional gun carriages,thc whole of which have been:strengthened with iron bands underneath, and further secured with clips round the brackets and other parts liable to give way. The. shipment of war materials for China on board the Adelaide, undertaken to be in readiness on the 31st of December, has been mate rially delayed by the employment of a large number , TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,--As the subject of our fu; are military opera tions in China is one of such great national interest and importance at the present juncture, I venture to request your insertion of a few words in reply to the remarks which have been called forth by my letter of the 29th ult. As Captain Osborn objects to initials, I have given, my name in full. This expe rienced officer has so satisfactorily disposed of the ob lections urged by J. C., th a t I o n ly allude to his etter for the purpose of correcting one or two inaccuracies calculated to mislead. And first as to myself. J. C. says :—" Fiom the local knowledge and ready-writing of your corre spondent, one is tempted to believe that he writes semi-officially." This imputation I must beg in the most unqualified manner to repudiate. lam quite unaware of the views of the Government beyond what is generally known by the public, nor have I discovered that "local knowledge' or "ready writ ing" are qualifications for which even semi-officials are usually selected. It is not, as J. C. says, 100 miles from Takoo to Tien-tsin by water, but about half that distance ; and if it is, as he suggests, beyond the skill of oui engineers to remove the wooden obstructions with which the Chinese may bar the river, for the allu vial plain does not supply them with stone, -- it will be satisfactory to know that it is only 35 miles by land, over a dry level plain, admirably adapted for the movement of troops. I mentioned that beyond Tien•tsin the road was in some places on a causeway. This, says J. C., implies the existence of a marsh; "they (the Chinese), by cutting through the causeway, will force the allied army, without any means of trans. port, to march through a bog." Here he is again quite wrong ; except where the country is flooded at particular seasons, the most luxuriant crops ex tend as far as the eye can reach on each side of the causeway, and during the spring, at all events, the army will neither have to march through bogs no: be likely to starve, even in the event of the total destruction of commissariat animals predicted by J. C. The policy of J. C., however, if ineffective, has the merit of being harmless, while that advocated by Captain Osborn seems to me pregnant with such serious and dangerous consequc nces to our commer cial interests in China that it is of the utmost importance that the measures he urges should not be adopted lightly. Captain Osborn must admit that the residence at Tien-tsin of a few hundred marines and blue jackets in 1857 obtained us the treaty, but he denies that the occupation of that city again with 22,000 men would produce a simi lar effect, unless we conceded the two most impor tant clauses in the treaty. The result alone can prove who is right ; but he surely will not deny that the Government would yield if they saw us in I possession of Toong-chow. This, however, is ob jected to by Capt: Osborn on the ground of its be ing a petty war. "I do most earnestly," he says, " deprecate any idea of partial hostilities—petty war." "We must teach the Chinese from one end of the empire to the other that peace is far better than war with us outer barbarians.' " Captain Osborn then suggests the nature of these hostili ties, and triumphantly points to the first China war, which lasted for three years, and involved the sacri fice of upwards of 2,000 British troops, the destruc tion of many cities, and countless unfortunate Chinese. As a proof of the advantage of this mode of procedure, "a peace was obtained," he says, " that lasted 14 years, a very fair duration for any Asiatic engagement." But Capt. Osborn must surely have forgotten that in 1839 the coast of China was not dotted with British settlements. The effect of read ing this lesson to the Chinese from "one mid of the empire to the other" will be the total destruction of the foreign settlements at Shanghai, Foochow, Ningpo, Amoy, and Swatow, all as exposed and liable to incendiarism as were the ill-fated factories at Canton. The British merchant building in China who adopts Capt. Osborn's view will be careful not to build a house that will last above 14 years. Capt. Osborn accuses the mercantile guilds of the north of being the instigators of the war. lam at a loss to conceive how he has acquired this piece of information: I question whether any Englishman, however intimate his acquaintance with the inner springs which set in motion the complex and intri cate political system of the Chinese Government, can positively affirm such to be the case. Upon this assumption, however, he charges them with the expenses of the w ar — sugges ti ng incidentally the seizure of the grain fleet, and "an embargo upon all taxes levied upon European exports in the open ports of China." The revenue to be derived from this latter source, with ini-" partial" hostili ties going on, and the settlements at the open ports in ashes, would not be extensive. J. C. accuses the Government of sending out 20,000 men to play "a game at brag" with the Chinese ; he himself, with his permanent acquisition of Nankin, may very fairly be accused of a partiality for "crib bage," while the great end and object of Capt. Osborn's policy seems to be a game of " beggar my neighbour" once every 14 years. Unfortunately, it is a game two can play at. London, Jan. 4. LAWRENCE OLIPHANT. RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION IN SPAIN. A correspondent of the Beraid calls attention to the case of Escalante, a colporteur employed by the British and Foreign Bible Society at Gibraltar. He is a British subject, born and bred at Gibraltar, where he has a wife and five children. The crime imputed to him is the distribution of the Bible. The following narrative is given " Towards th e en d of April last lie and a guide left Gibraltar on horseback, to attend the fair at Vehez (a town some few leagues to the east of Cadiz), which was to be held there on the Ist, 2d, and 3d of May. On the night of the 2d of May last, about 12 o'clock, Escalante was aroused by the entrance of six gendarmes (guardias civiles), under a captain. He was immediately arrested and taken to the local gaol. Seventeen diamond Testaments were found in his possession, and nine had been previously given away —and be it here remarked, that all of them wereßoman Catholic editions, trans lated by Padre Scio from the Latin Vulgate, de clared to be authentic by the Council of Trent. "For two days Escalante was confined at Vehez, closely guarded, after which he was conveyed to Chiclana, 12 miles distant, and there cast into a loathsome dungeon. It was damp and almost dark, and in this place he was kept for 20 days, by which tinge, as was to b e expec t e d, h e b ecame ver y ill; On the 24th May he was removed to Cadiz on horse back, handcuffed, having had a doctor's certificate, stating that his health ,necessitated the removal, the prison at Cadiz being somewhat bettor than the dungeon at Chiclana. He has been in Cadiz gaol ever since without having been, brought to trial. His arrest was suggested by rfr. Scandella, the Vicar Apostolic of Gibraltar, for it appears that on Escalante's leaving the Rock he sent a message (by telegraph probably) to Vehez, informing the priest there that the hated Propagandista' was in that direction, and advising his capture. The captain of the gendarmes received orders from the cura: of Vehez. " It may naturallybe said that if a person chooses to break the laws of a country he must take the con sequences. Granted. But what laws has Escalante broken ? There is no law in Spain prohibiting the circulation of the Roman Catholic edition of the New Testament, in Spanish, and without notes; conse quently, Escalante cannot be legally imprisoned on that ground. Neither will the fact of the books being contraband (because printed in London) con demn him; for, in the first place, he is not com mitted to prison on a charge of smuggling; and, in the second place, the small value of the Testaments are not sufficient by the laws of Spain to condemn him, even to a month's imprisonment. " The charge on which he was arrested is his hav ing infringed the 128th Article of the Penal Code• which states that the 'attempt to overthrow or change (variar) the religion of the country, shall be pumshed by imprisonment of from six to ten years.' " Under this law Escalante is to be tried. When, we know not. It may be years before his turn comes—it may be only months. And now, sir, per mit me to ask two questions. Why has a British subject been permitted to lie for nearly eight months Ina Spanish prison, untried, uncondemned, and neither convicted, nor likely to be legally convicted, of having infringed the penal code? Why, and on what authority, did 11.8. M. consul at Cadiz, Mr. Brackenb ur y, delay for four entire days to answer a request put by Escalante, at the instigation of the judge of Chi c l aua , as ki ng for his (the consul's) pro tection, the judge having stated that on the consul's appearing Escalante could be released ? This delay obliged the judge to send the care to the Supreme Court of Seville to be decided."