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CONTENT S : 'INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER on the Physiological Structure and Functions of the Reproductive Organ y s. CHAPTER IL—Causes of Supermatorrhcea and Impotence; Early Vicious Indulgences. Dangers of Neglect. CHAPTE R Review of the various Disqualifications of Marriage; whether resulting. from Youthful Abuse, the Follies of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection. CHAPTER IV.—The Author's plan of Treatment, Medical and Over Mo aeLiod of 25 yeral being he result of a s uccessful practice extending p_ars. CHAPTERS V. and VI. on the modern Treatment of Gonorrhea and Syphilis. . The Book concludes with numerous varied and interesting eases, to which is added the Author's receipt of a pre ven ti ve Lotion. REVIEWS OF TITE WORK. "Curtis on Manhood.—This is a truly valuable and should be in the hands of young a nd ol d. "— "Sunda "it 23d March, 1856. y Times,' "The author has conferred a great boon by publishing this little work, in which is described the source of those diseases which produce decline in youth or more frequently premature old are."—" Daily Telegraph," March,27, 1856. Sold also by Kent and Co.,' Paternoster-row; Mann, 39 MEDICAL ADVICE. DR. LA'MERT, Registered L.S.A., Honorary Member of the London hospital Medical Society, M.D. of the University of Erlangen, £ c., may be CONSULTED on all cases of Debility, Nervousness, and on the Secret In firmities of Youth and Maturity, from Eleven till Two, and from Six till Eight, at his residence, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON Dr. La'Alert has just published, price Sixpence, with nu merous Engravings and Cases, a New Edition of his Work, SELF-PRESERVATION' which will be sent free, in a sealed envelope. by Mann, :39, Cornhill, London, or by the Author, for Eight stamps. CONTENTS. SECTION T.—The Physioloiiaihe Generative Organs. SECTION ll.—Puberty—Manhood —The Morale of Genera tive Physiology—True and False Morality. SECTION 111.--Marriage In its• Moral, Social, and Physical Relations—lts Expectancies and Disappointments—Aciran" t wets of Physical Contrasts in securing Healthy Offspring. SEerTom TV.—SpermatorrhEea and Impotence—The causes of Sterility in both Sexes—Sell-inflicted Miseries. SECTION V. —The Vices of Schools—Effects of certain per nicious habits on the mental and general faculties. SECTION Vl.—Treatment of Nervous and Generative De bility—lmpotence and Sterility—Dangerous Results of various Hazardous Specifics—The Author's Principles of Treatment; Medical, Dietetic, and General, derived from Twenty Years' successful practice, The above work is intended for the perusal of those who have in early life been induced to swerve from the strict rules of morality. In its pages facts of paramount utility are brought together, wholly divested of tne delusions and incon sistencies so largely introduced into certain quasi medical 'publications given to the world gratis, under the guise of philanthropy, or as "acts of gratitude," by pretended clergy men and others, whose tamperings with the constitution are requetitly followed by oella us wwwlueuoca4 ROUTLEDGE'S ILLUSTRATED VOLUME FOR 1861. in fcp. 4to, price 215., cloth, emblematically gilt, and gilt edges ; morocco elegant, or antique, 31s tid to 425., POEMS BY ELIZA. COOK. Illustrated with a Steel Portrait and Designs by John Gilbert, J. Wolf. Harrison Weir, J. D. Watson, etc., etc. Elaborately engraved by Dalziels. London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, Farringdon street. BRITISH POETS. —CHEAP EDITION.—NEW VOLUME, In fcp. Svo, price 3s. 6d., c l o th , g ilt e d ges, G ERALD MASSEY'S POETICAL WORKS. With Illustrations. 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Statesmen and lovers of intelligent progress will find in it a compilation of facts well worthy their attention. LOndon: Piper and Co., Paternoster-row. Just published, Bvo, in cloth, price 55., by post free, ss. 6d., ON THE SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT of STRICTURES of the URETHRA ; swing why the so often appear Incurable, when in reality they might be y removed by the most simple means. By F. B. COURTENAY, And formerly Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the Cure of Strictures of the Urethra. " This work is the production of a surgeon whose special attention has been directed, through a long professional life, to the treatment of strictures of the urethra. The cases which Mr. Courtenay has given supply ample evidence of his great discriminative power in the diagnosis of the various kinds of stricture, and of the scientific principles upon which their management is founded. By his systematic management an immense mitigation of pain to the unhappy sufferers is attained, and future mischief prevented. The work we can most unreservedly and confidently recommend as a valuable contribution, both to the general and professional reader, and ought to be found in the private study of all who are subject to stricture."—Medical Circular, Dec. Ist, 1858. - - London: H. Bailliere:2l9, Regent -street. A NEVER FAILING REMEDY.- Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, pre pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. Scott, of Bromley, Kent, are a sure remedy for affections of the liver, indigestion, bile, sick headache, giddiness, loss of appe tite, lowness of spirits, &c. They can be taken at any time, without any danger from wet or cold, act mildly on the bowels, without pain or griping, clear the skin, remove sallowness and pimples, purify the blood, brace the nerves, and invigo '.ate the whole system. 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The valuable advantage derived from their invention is, that vision becomes preserved and strengthened ; very aged persons are enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occupation, can see with these lenses of a much ess magnifying power, and they do not require the frequent changes to the dangerous effects of further powerful assist ance.-39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York II oteL TELESCOPES, Opera, Race-cour se , Fi e ld, an d general Out-door Day and Night Perspective Glasses, very small, for the waistcoat pocket, each containing 12 and 18 lenses, constructed of German glass. Will show distinctly a person to know him at two-and-a-half and three miles, and an object from 8 to 10 miles distant. Her Majesty's Coast Guard are making use of them as day and nizhf glasses in preference to all others ; they are also preferred for deer stalking by sportsmen, gentlemen, and gamekeepers. Tele scopes, 34 inches long, by which a person may be clearly seen and known at 31, miles, and an object at 12 to 14 miles' die tame; and with an extra astronomical eye-piece Ju Ater's moons, Saturn's rings, and the double stars are distinctly seen : they are in endless variety, of larger and all sizes, with increasing powers, and are secured by her Majesty's Royal letters patent. —Messrs. S. and B. SOLOMONS, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, W. S. GREAT MARLBOROUGH-STREET. W.. NEAR THE PANTHEON. CULVERWELL, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Licentiate of Midwifery, and A.po becarißs' Hall, London, can be consulted daily (only) as hove, on all cud; of Nervous Debility, Languor, Incapacity, Less of Memory, Sterility, and all Functional Derangements If both Sexes, emanating from early and excessive indul gences Has Just published, price Is. ; by post, 11 stamps, 18 sealed, No. 4, An entire new and orie - inal Work, entitled' . OURSELVES. _ Synopsis : The Physiology and Anatomy of our Generation The Origin of Disease—Symptoms, Treatment, and Cure. Is% an Exposition of. and Remedy for, all Urinary Derange ments and Marital Disqualifications, E. The modern treatment of MAL Syphilis, Stricture, Elennorrhagia Gonorrhoea), Spermatorrhcea, Impotency, and all Diseases ol the Urinary Organs, with Prescriptions, &e. FEMALE. The Physiology and Anatomy of Women—Functional Ir 'egularities in Health and Sickness—Choice in Marriage— Their Expectancies and Disappointments—Tlm Cause and P - emoval of Sterility —The Theory and Symptoms of.Gesta tien—Use of the Speculum. Also, No. 1. HEALTH, HAPPINESS, and LONGEVITY; On Debility, Nervousness, Dyspepsia, and Indigestion, No. 2.' LOVE AND MARRIAGE: :'heir Obligations, Happiness, and Disappointments; Love 2nd othor Matches. Sterility Removed, and Healthy Off pring secured. No. 3. THE CASE BOOK : 100 Cases of SPERMATORRWEA, Their Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment, Confessions' and Cure by Cauterisations, Galvanism, &e. &c. To be had of Mann, 39, Cornbill ; and the Authors. Advice to the Working Classes fee Half-a-Guinea. (SPECIAL NOTICE.) Dr. Culverwell is the only legally qualified medical practi tioner living of that name, and can be consulted (only as above). means of purgative "The temporary relief obtained by medicines is purchased at the high price of the aggravation nd )f the perpetuating the disease. '—HENRY, M.D. NO MORE PILLS OR ANY OTHER PHYSIC FOR CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION (DYSPEPSIA), PALPI TATION, NERVOUS, BILIOUS, AND LIVER COMPLAINTS, DEBILITY, DROPSY, EPILEPSY, PARALYSIS, COUGH, ASTHMA, CONSUMPTION,. BRONCHITIS, SORE THROAT, FEVBRS. FOOD. which, at a ING REVALENTA ARIBICA. in Medicine, and naves fifty times its cost few pence per day, DU BARRY'S delicious HEALTH RESTOR ING without purging or any of the uncertainties, annoy antes and ruinous expenses incurred by medicine , cod liv er oil, or , visits to distant climates. Certificate No. 36,418.—We find it the safest remedy, An drew Ure, M.D., F.R.S. ; Dr. Harvey; Dr. Wurzer ; Dr. Shor land ; Dr. C am pb e ll . We extract a f ew ou t o f 5 6, 0 00 cures : Cure No. 1,771. L or d Stuart de Decies o f man y years' dyspepsia. Cure No. 49,832. nf fifty years' indisCribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipa tion, flatulency, spasms, sickness.. and vomiting, Maria Joly, of Lynn, Norfolk. Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. Cure No. 54,816. The Rev. James T. Campbell, Syderstone Rectory, near Fakenham, Norfolk of indigestion and liver complaints. Cure No. 56,814. Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester, of two years' diarrhoea. Cure .efo. 180. Mr. w. Reeves, 181, Fleet-street London, of 25 years' nervous ness, eCniitipation, indigestion, and debility. Cure No. 4,028: Eight years' dyspepetp nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms, and nausea, Rev. John W. Piave], Ridlington Rec tory, Norfolk. Cure No. 3,906. Thirteen years' cough, indi ovation, and general debility, James Porter, Athol-street, Deli. Cur l' No 58,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liverp of ten years' dyspepsia, and all the horrors of nervous irritability. Cur e N o. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant of lrileY' Suzy, spitting of ._Bblood,_ liver derangement, partial deafness. of 30 years' diseased lungs, similar testimonial from 56,000 patients who can be re ferred to. ; sold in canisters Ilb . 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ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill -street, Piccadilly RE-OPENED for the WINTER SEASON for PRO MENADE CONCERTS, with the following powerful cast, consisting of selections from Il Trovatore, Martha, Lurline, ITuguenots, L'Etoile du Nord, Dancing at Ten o'clock. The Original Band, established ten years. Conducted by M. LAMOTTE. Admission, ls. THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, HIGH lIOLBORN.—The above popular and splen didly-appointed BALL ROOM, with its various elegant re freshment rooms, is NOW OPEN for the Season. The re cent elaborate decorations and improvements have rendered this the most fashionable ,and popular rendezvous of the metropolis, Mr. W, AL—PackCr's‘ celebrated Band performs nightly selections from favourite operas and the latest aid most fashionable waltzes, &c. Doors open at eight o'clock. Admission, Is. 7.HR NA VY. Her Majesty's ships Black Eagle and Vivid, ten ders to the flag ship Fisgard at Woolwich, Masters John E. Petley and Henry W. Allen, yesterday returned to their moorings off the dockyard, from service with the royal squadron. The former vessel brought up the carriages and baggage . of the Court, which were landed at the Arsenal pier at 10 a.m., and were promptly conveyed to London. The new screw steam frigate Newcastle, sister vessel to the Bristol, under construction at Wool- wich, was yesterday brought down from Deptford in tow of the Admiralty tags Monkey, Bustler, and Widgeon, and was made fast for the night at Greenhithe, on her way to Sheerness, to be brought forward for service. The steam sloop Rosario, launched on Wednesday at Deptford, is moored at Woolwich, to be entered in the steam reserve of that yard. The steam troopship I)ee, T. C. Pullen, Master commanding, yesterday arrived at Woolwich from Plymouth, calling at Portsmouth, and is under orders to reload with machinery and steam gear, for the same destination. In consequence of Admiralty orders having been received at Chatham for laying. down several addi tional vessels at that dockyard the greatest activity now prevails in the shipwright and other depart ments, in order that those line of-battle and other screw-steamers at present on the stocks, and in various stages of progress, may be completed with every possible despatch. The vessels most forward and which it is expected will be completed and ready for launching during the present financial year, are the Undaunted, 51, 600-horse power, one of the improved class of screw frigates recently in troduced into the British navy; the line-of-battle two-decker Bulwark, 91, 800-horse power; and the screw corvette Rattlesnake, 21, 400-horse power. The Undaunted is rapidly approaching completion, and when launched is to be equipped with the long range Armstrong rifled guns. She has been con structed throughout from the plans and drawings of Admiral Sir Baldwin Walker, Controller of the Navy, several alterations and improvements having been effected by him in her form. The Belvidere, 51, 600-horse power, a sister frigate to the Undaunted, has been laid down on the adjoining slip, and is already in a very advanced state. The Royal Oak, 91, line-of-battle screw steamer, 800- horse power, although only commenced a short time since, is progressing very fast and is being pushed forward with all despatch. The Reindeer, 17, screw steamer, 200-horse power, is about half finished. The Myrmidon, 4,200-horse power, screw despatch gun vessel, the last of the vessels laid down at this dockyard, is being put in frame, and orders have been received that she may be finished with the least possible delay. In addition to the above squadron of vessels building the Bombay, 81, 400-horse power, and the Arethusa, 51, 500-horse power, have been converted from sailing ships to screw steamers, and are both nearly ready to leave their respective docks. The ships building and in course of conversion at Chatham Dockyard give an aggregate of 30,000 tons, 459 guns, and 4,700-horse power. The War Department screw steamer Lord Pan mure, H. T. Moore, commander, from Woolwich Arsenal; yesterday continued her voyage from Til bury Fort for Devonport, laden with 340 boxes of Armstrong shot; 3,427 Armstrong shells ; 4,000 6-poimder shot ; 2,000 quarter barrels and 200 half barrels of powder and ammunition; 40 chests of arms, and other military stores, fer coast defence purposes. The lady who christened her Majesty's ship Rosario at Deptford, on Wednesday, was Miss Warde, the daughter of Lieut.-Colonel Warde, Staff Officer of Pensioners, and not of Capt. Ward. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Wm. Scriven, master's-assist., to the Himalaya; Henry J. Ray, paymaster, to be secretary's clerk to the Victory ; Charles A. Prit: chard, paymaster, to be secretary to Rear-Admiral Stopford ; and Francis A. Carter, clerk, to the Hogue. TILE ARMY. The military invalids from Corfu, Malta, and Gibraltar, who reached Portsmouth in the screw steamer Himalaya, Capt. J. Seccombe, arrived at Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham, yesterday afternoon, in charge of Lieut. D. B. Moriarty, 2d battalion, 6th Regiment. The number of invalid troops who reached Chatham was 105 non-commissioned officers and men. No death occurred among the troops on board during the voyage. On their arrival at Fort Pitt yesterday afternoon the invalids were medically inspected by the staff at that establishment, when 27 non-commissioned officers and men were taken into hospital for medical treatment, and the remain der forwarded to the invalid establishment, St. Mary's. In the announcement which appeared in The Sun of yesterday, quoting the regimental order issued by Colonel Charles Bingham, it should have been stated that Major Field had been appointed "Deputy-Assistant Quartermaster-General," in stead of "Deputy-Assist. Adjutant General," to the Royal Artillery on the staff at Woolwich, on the retirement of Capt. Freeth. SUICIDE OF THE HUNTSMAN OF THE DURHAM COUNTY HOUNDS.- - Intelligence has just reached us that a well-known character, whose death will b e muc h d ep l ore d by all those who know him—we mean " Torn, the hunts man" of the Durham County. Hounds —committed suicide yesterday morning by hanging himself at Sedg efield.— Newcastle Chronicle. 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" The operations of the allied forces at Peiho," says the Moniteur, " have assumed a character which has strongly excited public attention, and as the details brought by the last mail are eagerly sought after, it appears useful to point them out. " The embarkation of all the French troops took place on the 26th July at Che-Fu ; they arrived, after a fortunate passage, on the 28th in the Bay at about 12 miles froW the pass of Peh-Tang. " The Peh-tang river, lying to the north-west of the river Peiho, is a stream that falls into the gulf of Petchili. Three leagues from the coast it passes through an agglomoration of 500,000 souls, and one of the largest corn markets in the Empire. As far as the eye can reach all round, the country ap pears to be one vast marsh. Every way, when the tide is up, there is nothing but water ; and when the tide has ebbed nothing but mud. " A reconnaissance composed of officers of the navy and army was sent by General de Montauban into the river of the Peh-Tang, which is very little known ; they left during the night, and were able to ascend three miles up the river without meeting with anything besides fishing boats. " On reaching that distance, the officers endea voured to land on the right bank of the Peh-Tang, but they met with great difficulties. " After having waded for about 200 yards in the water, on a.muddy bottom, they met at low water with a layer of mud, through which a man might walk up to the ankle ;_the layer,ext e nd e d over a width of 300 yards, as kix as the firm ground. The pass of Peh-tang at high water is ten feet deep, and the gunboats alone could cross it. " The sea having become rough, the troops were obliged to remain on board until the Ist August. On that day the weather appeared calm enough for the light steam vessels, drawing less than nine feet water, to tow the different boats having on board in French troops 2,000 men, a battery of 4-pounders, one of mountain guns, a section of engineers, one of ambulance, and 200 coolies. It had been arranged between the commandants of the allied forces that the English should land the same number, minus the artillery. "At half-past 12, the time of high water, the bar was crossed ; the flotilla, having advanced as far as the point at which the reconnaisancetook place, re ceived orders to anchor. The water still covered the banks of the Peh-tang to a great distance, and _ _ the forts on the right and left banks as well as se veral large but poor-looking villages could be dis- tinctly seen. In the midst of the latter might be distinguished that of Peh-Tang-Tcheu, which com municates with the Peiho by means of a rode from six to seven feet wide. " It was important to surprise the forts by a vi gorous movement, and more particularly to prevent the Chinese from destroying a bridge which united the above road to the village. The troops re ceived orders to get into the water at half-past three; and. it was decided that the gunboats only shou . ld leave at midnight, pass under the fire of the forts, and then turn and take them in the rear, while the land force, composed of 4,000 men and two French batteries, should take them on the flank by following the road. " General de Montauban got into the water at the head of his troops. General Grant followed his example, and soon the allied forces touched the firm ground, so difficult to reach, and which will not be quitted until after the capture of the forts of the Pei-ho. Cries of Vive l'Empereur !' to which the English replied by an enthusiastic hurrah, proved . . that this improvised sea bath and the tiresome march through the mud of the river, had only ended to excite the energy of the assailants. " The remainder of the troops and the battery of mountain guns were landed while waiting until _ _ _ the state of the ground would allow of the four pounder four pounder guns being got on shore. " The Ist Brigade occupied the Peh•Tang road ; the 2d encamped at a short distance from them, and the English were on the riFht. A detachment of 200 men from each army took up a position on the bridge of communication between the road and the village. " An order had been given? for the troops to be under arms at three o'clock in the morning, when General de Montauban was informed that the Eng lish General (Grant) and Lieut.-Colonel Dupin had penetrated into the fort, which had been evacuated by the Chinese, who had only left there two wooden canon hooped with iron. " The Chinese took the precaution of under mining the fort and of depositing in six different places shells of the largest size with fusees carefully disguised. Our men in walking would have in evitably caused them to go off if General de Mon• tauban had not adopted the precaution of sending a company of sappers to look for any mines made by the besieged. "At five o'clock the allies occupied the fort, and the flotilla anchored under their protection. " The troops entered Peh-tang Tcheu, a large town of 30,000 souls. All the authorities had taken to flight, and the inhabitants appeared greatly alarmed. The populations become more savage or more timid as we advance towards the north. In this country fresh water is ♦ery difficult to find ; the boats which supply the place with it had all left, but the naval officers took measures to obtain a supply. " On the 2d August several groups of horsemen were seen on the road which leads from the Peh tang to the Pei-ho, and a Tartar camp having been perceived the allied generals agreed to make, very early next morning, a reconnaissance in the direc tion of that camp, under the orders of General Collineau. " A rather sharp cannonade was heard at about eight o'clock in the morning ; the t roo p s . _ _ _ had fallen in with about 2,000 or 3,000 horse men and infantry, who protected an entrenched camp at five miles from Peh-tang, and at less than a mile from the point of junction between the road of that place and those of Tien-tsin and the Pei-ho, The frequent discharges, the noise of which put on the alert the English and French garrisons of the fort of Peiho, arose in great part from a battery of large rampart guns placed in front of the enemy's camp, which swept the road by which the troops engaged in the reconnaissance were ad vancing in good order. "As the forts on the left bank of the Pei-ho were not far from the scene where the action appeared to he taking place, General de Montauban mounted his horse, and went in that direction with another section of mountain artillery and a company of in fantry. He found General Collineau, who, with his customary energy, had taken the best dispositions to fulfil the mission confided to him, the object of which was a simple reconnaissance, not a serious engagement. " After it was clearly proved to the Tartars that we had driven them from their advanced posts, and that we remained firm under their fire the troops returned to Peh-Tang without having lost a single man; and only a very few English and French soldiers received wounds which were without gravity. " The entrenched camp, which was defended by the Tartar cavalry, was occupied by the infantry ; it is placed in advance of a rather large village, which appears to be Ta•ku. " These Tartar horsemen remind one of the Arab goums, exclusive of the courage of the individuals ; they appear to manage their horses with facility ; their weapons consist of bows, arrows, and muskets. They have well organised advanced posts, and no one can leave Peh-Tang without the cavalry of those posts making signals which must be seen at a great distance. " The firmness of the European troops appears to surprise the Chinese soldiers. The attack of the entrenched camp was to have closely followed the reconnaissance of General Collineau-; the occupa tion of that point by the allied troops was the " The carrying by force of the entrenched camp was to have taken place on Aug. 10. " At the moment the despatches were sent off, a mandarin with a blue button, escorted by two horsemen, had displayed a flag of truce, and brought propositions on the part of the Chinese Govern ment ; but it was not known what the nature of those propositions were. The nary and the troops of the allies were rivalling each other in devoted ness, impatience, and ardour, and were preparing for a decisive conflict. The next accounts can not, then, fail to be important and of great in terest." CHINESE PROCLAMATION. The following proclamation has been posted on the walls of Shanghae ; the translation is taken from the North China Herald : Le, of the verily Heaven-ordained Celestial King. dem of Great Peace, Commander of the Imperial Body Guard, Imperial Commander-in-Chief, Loyal and Righteous, the Faithful King (Chung Wang), once more most impressively and distinctly proclaims and ordains, that all may understand and not be confused, thereby calling down sorrow on themselves. I, carrying out the heavenly commandsaueiv -no smaappmber of years" led nsi one man my mightf soldiers "to the slaying and extermination of the destructive imps. It having occurred to me that within a hundred li of Nanking itself were many myriads of demons, my heavenly soldiers swept them away as by a flood. Everybody has either seen or heard of these thing s , so th ere is no use in my repeating them. After leaving Nanking we came through Chu Jung, Tanyang, Changchow, and Wuhsi, to Soochow; through a journey of many hundred li we never received a check. We have recovered every place (from the Manchoos) and all the imps have now hidden their carcases by the seashore. Now I ask you people what is the use of shaking and trembling ; why don't you choose the right side ? Everybody is aware of my forbearance. It is my determination now to lead the whole of my mighty troops to the capture of Shanghae and the extermination of the imps, nor shall this my intention ever be absent from me early or late. During my march the people everywhere fled, first to Soochow and afterwards to Shanghae—like birds fearing the bow, there is no resting place for them. Is it not so ? It was on this account that I, looking up and acting according to the life loving benevolence of God (Shang-ti) and the world-rescuing heart of the True Holy King, did not wish to lead troops against Shanghae too quickly ; but having pity on you, I issued a pro clamation for your guidance. All good people should have deeply reflected (lit. wash head and wipe face), and with all speed have submitted themselves, thus walking on the right path. Shanghae is but a hundred li or so from Soochow, in which place I have now been for two months; you should have made a book for presentation to me, containing a list of your houses and families ; or standing on the roads, you should have respect fully offered a cup of wine as a token of your sub mission. Instead of so doing, you have seized and killed the messengers sent by me to execute my commands; your wickedness has really no limit, and is unpardonable. The ancients previous to a fight exchanged cour teous civilities, nor were the heralds ever killed. How is it that yoti Shanghae people alone with stand all reason, and still listen to impish man darins who do you nothing but injury ? Your offences have now reached the climax that compels me to set troops in motion for your extermination, and I have consequently ordered a Pai-yuen-shih (Generalissimo) to precede me on the way to Shanghae. Alt - hough I should properly spare you on no ac connt whatever, yet apart from punishment, I have still a merciful intention towards you, and therefore once more emphatically advise and direct you at once on seeing this to reform. I hero hitherto taken cities without number, and it would behove you to amend your faults, and so be in the way of having your lives spared. From the first outbreak of righteousness in Kwangsi until the present time ten years have passed, during which time no enemy could withstand, and no attack could repress us. Should your little place, only a span in size, brave us and refuse to listen to us ? Shanghae is an intel ligent city enough, let the people take the good and the evil, and make their choice (of sides). I issue this proclamation strongly to command and advise you ; you know that an egg can't oppose a stone ; make up your minds, then, speedily, and submit yourselves; and when the soldiers shall have come, not one fraction of anything shall be exacted from you. If you won't put confidence in me, but run away, every one of you, with the idea that you can withstand me, why, do exactly as you please. I will establish my will firm as a mountain, and my com mands shall be as flowing water. Immediately after I have informed you by this my soldiers will arrive; they are not going to wait for you ; don't say that I gave you no warning. Tremblingly obey, and don't slight this. Heavenly Kingdom of Universal Peace, 10th year, 6th month. THE END OF THE SEA-SIDE SEASON. (From Punch.) Our Ramsgate correspondent writes to us as fol lows :—" If the ghost of Goldsmith were to rise up at this time, with a wish to add aline or two to his Deserted Village,' he could not well do better than take the train to Ramsgate, and muse in mournful numbers' on its melancholy aspect. Everything and everybody soon would clearly enough show him that the season is all over. Even the poet Thom son, who wrote four books about the Seasons, could hardly find materials to write two lines now about this. The few visitors who linger sadly on the pier flit noiselessly as though they were the ghosts of the departed, and pass with downcast looks as though ashamed of being seen there. They move about with all the air of melancholy maniacs, and if they stay much longer they will run the risk of being carried off to private madhouses and clapped into strait waistcoats. The steamboats come in daily with nobody on board except the crew and captain. The shilling-an-hour boatmen have laid up their crafts in winter quarters, and have rigged their better halves in bran-new gowns and bonnets. The bathing machines are all drawn up so high and dry that it seems to be a problem if they ever will be wet again. Not a donkey brays defiance on the beach ; not a bath chair is now visible, even with a telescope. Not a wooden spade or sand-heap is there by the sad sea waves ; not an organ, or a bagpipe, or a German band is audible. All the Minstrels with blacked faces have taken themselves off to Charlestown' or some other locality ; and the Tyrolean tenor who sings so sentimentally and sweetly out of tune, with one eye closed in strong emotion, and the other looking out for coppers, has left us with his wife and small harmonium-playing son, and is probably now singing to some al fresco inland audience. More saddening fact still—the vocal vendor of crisp hardbake, delicate drops, and tempting toffy, has at one fell swoop deprived us of his sweet songs and his sweet stuffs, and has left us lollipopless to lament his absence. " Paragon is a wilderness ; grass is growing in High-street, and hay, if there were sunshine, might be made on half the pavements. The shopkeepers have mostly put their chains and shutters up, and are now engaged in counting over their unholy gains, and in sending conscience money to the income tax collector. The lodging-letters have emerged from their coal cellars and dust bins, or whatever other holes be in the summer time their sleeping places. It is believed that they would occupy the bedrooms which in summer time fetch fire guineas a night, but that they are haunted with the ghosts of recent victims, who came, saw, and were fleeced, and flea bitten into the bargain. The flys have flown away, or else hybernating in back slums; the riding horses have returned to their normal occupations, and ate now drawing bakers' carts or working in a circus. The hotel-keepers have vanished to visit their estates, or confer with Baron Rothschild about buying up the Bank, as a safe way of employ ing some of their spare millions. In short, so dullheir is Ramsgate, that the brigand's oc cu p ation is , like Othello's, gone. A cat or two a re no w the only beasts of prey left payable. E ven the fl eas , it is affirmed, have this week hopp ed the t w i g. T flight has been described as the retreat of the ten thousand." A UTUMNAL HERRING VOYAGE, report, is LOWESTOFT.— This fishery, we are happy to P ro gressing most favourably. On Monday nearly all the boats had good feand one or two had as many as three l asts. Prices ranged from 3s. 7d. to 4s. 10d. per hundred. One boat has a l rea dy wade °ter 4200,—.8ury and Aronvich Post, Procrastination its advantages, which are hidden from the etes of superficial and common place moralists. Phe philosophers of the Admiralty are clearly alive to/this fact, and are resolved to show that a vice which is said to be the thief of time shall at least prove in their hands the means of saving English money. They will allow the French Go vernment to waste time and money in naval experi ments, and emaimit the folly of being prompt,while they stand ready to reap the advantage and bor row the experiment which, at any rate until , yes terday, they determined not to pay for. Sheridan's maxim of doing nothing to-day that can be done to-morrow, because when to-morrow comes you may not have to do it, seems to be earning some justifi cation in the case of frigate building ; and it is just possible that the habitual propensity of our naval officials, of always being in the wake of the national determination, may in this instance prove an advan tage. The game of paradoxes is, however, always a difficult one, and in such an important affair as shipbuilding is actually dangerous. It is possible that by having waited thus long the Admiralty are just in time for positively the latest invention in naval architecture ; and the country may be saved the expense of six Warriors and as many Rams, which, if it had possessed a hasty and lavish Admi ralty, it would have been obliged to pay for. Without thinking it necessary to consider the Times the supreme authority upon naval architecture the public will commend the enterprise of our con temporary in promptly bringing under its notice the latest scheme for casing our ships with iron. So long as it seems to be a law that Englishmen can not go to bed without the prospect of being faced in the morning with some new warlike contrivance, no invention whatever is entitled to be regarded as final, and every one sees that the difficulty of the authorities lies in the surprising energy of the suggestive or creative faculty of our scientific men. All that can be done is to lose no time in balancing the qualities of each new-born scheme, and to take care that in settling the differences to a nicety we do not get behind our less discriminating and more sanguine rivals. They at least have adopted what seems to be an undeniable truth, that iron is more durable than wood, and while we have been struggling to ascertain how much better one is than the other they have been content to rely upon the general truth. Procrastinating and undecided, the Admiralty have only had time to admit the superiority of iron in a general way, and then in all haste to make an iron construction of some kind upon the most likely principles. The question of its penetrability must be settled at a future time; no matter so that the ships are built. It must be confessed that amid the consternation of alarmists and the differences of scientific men it is something of a relief to hear of a plan which offers a plausible expectation that the difficulty is met—at least for a time. It is too much to hope that the combined efforts of nature will in this case be as final as the poet tells us they have been in the construction of a Shakespeare. If Mr. Jones is not the victim of a fallacy, or ensnared by the sanguine temperament of a man who has patented an invention, we earnestly hope that for the present, at least, the force of nature will no further go, because, in the event of that lady not being exhausted, there is a fear that Great Britain will get no navy. " The rules of the game" which had been going on so long between shots and butts have included the condition that the shot should hit the object at something like a right angle, and an impartial con sideration of the results has proved the contest to have been as nearly " drawn' as possible. Some times the shots have pierced, at others they have failed, and in each case they have done more or less damage—perhaps an inconvenient quantity of less has been observable. But Mr. Jones has devised a plan by which the plane of the mark, instead of being at right angles (speaking in round and not strictly accurate terms) to the line of the projec tile's flight, is at an angle of 50 degrees—that being the angle which a ship built upon his plan makes with the water. All the additional power of resist ance which a ship of this kind may get is clearly due to the direction of its sides, which by their inclination may be said to shirk the bolt directed against them, just as of old an arrow that struck anything at a particular angle would glide off in stead of entering it. Experiments have been made upon a butt encased in iron, 5 feet by 21 in size, and though as many as 17 shots were fired against this limited space, not one effectually penetrated. Not only is the new ship to have the power of resisting shot, but it is to have engines of 1,200 horse power, by which it will run through the water at the rate of 14 knots an hour ; and since it is presumed invul nerable, steam power and steam mechanism are its sole reliance for locomotive purposes. Such is the attractive sketch which is offered to England of the implement by which she is to main tain her naval supremacy. Have we really reached the solution of the problem which has distressed us so long ? or will this last vaunt serve only to delay the Admiralty and provide materials for discussion among mechanists and port captains ? There is nothing in the opening statement made by its ad vocate which has not been predicated of nearly every similar contrivance that has been offered to the public, and we are rather dismayed by the old array of assumptions under shelter of which it is pressed upon our notice. Nothing seems easier to the un initiated than to discover whether a shot does or does not penetrate a given material, or, if it does penetrate, to ascertain what amount of damage is received by objects placed in arrear of the target. But this is, we all know by this time, a popular delusion. It is a matter upon which there may be half a dozen opinions. Englishmen may be for given for dreading the announcement some months hence, by an eye-witness or his initials, that Whit worth's bolts play old Harry with Jones's sides, or that the Jones vessel cannot be got to move in the water on account of a shot being lodged in her principal boiler. It may not be so ; but we must be prepared for something of this kind and its attend ant embarrassment. It is best not to be too sanguine, and, above all, to put a limit upon theoretical as sumptions of the capabilities of a fleet made up of vessels that have never yet been tried or seen. All the balances that are made between sails and steam, between relative capacity for unprecedented rapidity and being waterlogged, must be of limited value until we are unfortunately compelled to test them in the only school in which their truth can be ascertained. Hitherto the results of war have shown that it has a great tendency to equalise, to take the edge off nice schemes and nice weapons, and to throw combatants back upon the good old qualities which have always been followed by vic tory. A great deal was said during the late war about the havoc made by the French rifled cannon; but no one doubts that if the the Austrians had been properly handled the war might have ended very differently. Solferino was won by the French because the Austrians had a line of battle twelve miles in extent. All these uncertainties, how ever, do not interfere with th e one gr eat fact, that_ s we must speedily h ave a fl ee t o f iron-cased vessels of of the best kind. Th e Ad m i ra lty mus t at once in judgment up on th e new plan, and if it promises speedily well an experime n tal vessel should con structed. It may be the ill luck of but there is no be this generation to have these things forced upon k it, of help. We have escaped tb gunpow der, which our forefathers einvention had_ to endure and t o discuss, and should not complain that we have to decide the question of shot. To determine the merits of a vessel and its armament with th e requisite nicety in time of peace it Would b e worth while to anchor the Hato two that shall so yards from ppotsbiteeman by be completedto ea c h other, load the guns of bot t h, a f nd fire harm' s way, electric battery, placed OR 0 and then compare the damage. It ought not to be very grea t —at any rate the experi ment would re duce conjectu re to a minimum, and purchase some like security at a n o t very costly rate.— thing Herald. Private letters from Brazil express great dis satisfaction at the circumstance of the English Govern ment having suddenly put a st o p t o t h e procedings of the mixed commission sitting at Rio de Janeiro, by the appoint ment of the tw o G overnments for the adjustment of all outstanding and long -pendi ng claims. There are many claims made by lii itish subjects against Brazil which have never been settled, an d at least au equal number on the part of Brazilians against th e E ng li s h G overnment. The mixed commission, which h a d sat f or a few months only, had given in three eases decisions in favour of Brazilian sub jects? when Lord John Russell put a stop to further pro ceedings. It is reported at Rio that Mr. Morgan, the Commissioner for the English Government, has requested to be removed from his appointment, feeling the false posi tion in which he has been placed, but that as yet his desire has not been acceded to. The reason suggested by the Brazilian claimant s fo r th e sus p ens i on o f proceedings by the En g li s h G ov e rn m en t i s , th a t th e reclamation against England on account of ves se l s an d p ro p er ty seized are so numerous that wo are alarmed at the amount. Looking at the fact that we sanctioned the appointment of the com mission by a special treaty, and nominated our own com missioner, it is not unnatural that in the absence of expla nations severe remarks should be made; but the English public will hope that whenever the question may be mooted in Parliament the answer will be such as to prove isatis factory not merely in a technical p o i n t o f v i ew , b u tin th at - liberal and equitable sense which alone wou ld be cred i table to Great Britain in such a matter. 7s, Lam',, ~:,,,,, 'ZF,Ar ,:te,...:,. 'e iiikOki - ps'4 1, -;t4,it , v i 7.`' , . , te.,lZ L) ,: r.., ( . ---, FREE LIBRARY AT Li Autpeo • .. , .- ----.- The Free Library presented by , Mr. Willie.tig Brown to the people of Liverpool, was inaugurate& on Wednesday. The building itself is described as very handsome : It is placed on the north side of Shaw's-brow, in close proximity with the north end of St. George's Hall, and on a level corresponding with the general features of that structure. Externally its principal front consists of a handsome hexastyle portico,of Corinthian architects-". surmounted by a pediment. The shafts of the c,,,,,.ins are plain, and rest 'on a basement to which access is obtained by a hand some flight of steps. At each side of the central. portico there is a wing, with a slightly projecting flank, sufficiently ornamented to relieve it from any charge of tameness or monotony, yet not of such importance as to interfere with the predominating aspect of the portico. Interiorily the chief architec tural feature of the edifice is a noble central hall, en tering from a vestibule of moderate dimensions and. tasteful decoration. The hall spoken of is 96 feet long by 55 feet wide and 70 high. This hair is divided into two portions in its height by a gallery, on the front of which a handsome stone balustrade extends com pletely round the hall. The gallery is supported on square pillars, above which there is a correspond ing range of lonic columns extending nearly to the roof, and supporting a series of groined arches. The ceiling, which is richly ornamented, is pierced by three square apertures filled with ground glass,. which transmit a copious supply of graduated light, further augmented by the light of seven large win dows on the east and west sides of the hall, so high as to be almost top lights in all the cases. The lower portion of this fine hall it is proposed still further to enrich by the introduction of statuary. lts upper portion or gallery is be appropriated to the purposes of a picture gallery, for which its Ro e mellowed light and great extent admirably fit it. The wing portions of the edifice contain the really working or practically useful apartments of the institution. The right hand, or eastern part of the building, is devoted exclusively to the purposes of the library ; the left, or west part, to those of the museum. The leading feature of the former is la large and commodious reading-room, 108 feet long, 49 feet wide, and 56 feet high in the ceiling. its eastern side is to a great extent occupied by a coun ter, from behind which the librarian's assistants will supply books to the readers. To the south east of this is a " reference" reading-room, in which books of a more valuable class may be consulted. An interesting feature of the museum depart ment consists of the spacious hall, devoted to the purposes of a Polytechnic gallery, or museum of practical mechanical science. This is 86 feet long, by 50 feet wide, and 60 feet high. Mr. John Weightman, the borough surveyor, designed and superintended the building, which, as a minor matter of detail, it may be mentioned has cost somewhere about £40,000. The munificent donor of this very handsome and useful edifice, it should be mentioned, is Mr. William Brown, the principal partner in the extensive mer cantile firm of Brown, Shippley, and Co., of Liver pool, a gentleman who has long occupied a promi nent position among the leadingeommercial men of this town, and who, it may be remembered, was die of the Parliamentary representatives of South Lan cashire in three successive Parliaments, from which position he retired at the last general election. The library has been purchased by the Library Com mittee of the Town Council, and paid for out of a rate imposed, with their own consent, on the inha bitants of the town. The collection of books amount to upwards of 40,000 volumes, of which man are valuable and standard works; and it is rapidl y y in creasing in the number and importance of the works which it contains. The museum consists chiefly of an admirably preserved collection of objects of natural history, bequeathed to the town by the late Earl of Derby, to which, however, valuable additions have since been made, partly as purchases and partly as donations. A meeting of the working classes was held the same day preparatory to the final presentation of the library. The working men presented Mr. Brown with a silver shield and a clock—testi monials of their gratitude. Mr. BROWN, in returning thanks, said—We hope you will influence your fellow-workmen to visit the library and museum. We promise them spacious; apartments, well ventilated, comfortably warmed, well lighted, and handsomely furnished, and most intelligent and intellectual society, without cost. Many of you will recollect the ignorance and want of thought that prevailed among a large body of the working classes 30 or 40 years ago. When they had any dispute with their master about wages, or anything else, they thought they were reveng ing thems elves and punishing him by breaking and destroying his machinery, forgetting that his capital and his works wore the instruments with which they had to earn bread for themselves and their families. Far different is their conduct now. Education has made such progress that they are much more intelligent ; they see that such suicidal conduct would be as bad as the carpenter destroying the tools by which he lives. It is now pretty well understood that the more we improve oar machinery the more we increase our customers throughout the world, and the more hands are wanted to make articles to meet the demand. We do not give the present generation of working men sufficient credit for their intelligence. They clearly see that accumulated capital is necessary to give them regular employment, and that if by any means that increase of capital was prevented they would be great sufferers. Hence the volunteer movement now going forward as necessary to guard. against invasion, which would be most disastroW to both master and man. It would be a very great misfortune if these two parties were independent of each other or of other nations. It would be a very great grievance if I were to be compelled to be independent of my bootmaker, and I think he would be as great a sufferer without my custom. Mutual dependence of man on man and nation on nation is wisely ordained by Providence. I wish we were more depending on France and France on us. Our mutual material interests might have re lieved us from the anxiety we now feel as to their relative position and ours. Just consider the effect of an invasion of our soil from any quarter. None has more to fear from it than the industrial artiza n• for our commerce would be paralysed, all our im provement suspended, and hundreds of thousa n d s of men thrown out of employment without wag n es s , on which the bread of their families and themhsot _ depends. I hope the good sense of thosewt address, and others, will not leave the connrysub ject to the caprice, whim, or ambition of an y man, but that they will volunteer their serv ice s to ma pre_ vent such a dreadful calamity as an invas ion wou ld produce. Our Library will.iinformyouhowdespots govern their people, and i_ te ach us the blessings we dge i we enjoy under a co ns o t o ituti u o p n o a n l mo it n . are i h ( y n . o f e are well armed no o ne dare deseerateourmesoetil anyby pa power, uttinga and hostileft the more we cultivate o ur If we suffere minds eolitingtehneeyb er .ett we are pre d pared to ourselves to be of f eo th n o tin r e r n e t s a s l , brought unde r the r ule of a despot we shou ld lose the fredom ily our constitution, our liberties, and our laws. It rests with ourselves to protect and preserve these i n estimable advantages, and by the great council o f the nation continue and tour virtuousb ruled and noble Queen. Lord Bnoun GIIAM was the next speaker. He delivered an address on the value of free libraries and museums to the working classes. He alluded to Watt as one who, being a working man, was as well entitled to remembrance as Stephenson, to show that working men, with properly directed energies are capable of producing the most bene ficial effects. There was another working man, however, whom he had two years ago met with ; that was John Plummer, a working shoemaker of Kettering, in Yorkshire, who had just published an address to the working classes, showing the danger and detriment of strikes. The Hon. ALGERNON EGERTON was the next speaker. He said, within the memory of men still living, it was believed that knowledge was and ought to be confined to the aristocracy, and that if any of what was then called the " lower orders," were able to acquire knowledge. the first use they would make of it would be to tear the aristocracy to pieces. That opinion was now exploded. He hoped that before long England, which at present was th© freest, would also be the best educated in the wor ld . JOIIN PRIEST said, while fully recognising t h e f advantages which arise from several distincti on s rank, he gloried in being a working man. lioved, in fact, that the full o bject and attrilbeuttes of humanity were to be found in conjunctiwoenrewinho hard work. The distinctions of doubt, valuable to society ; but theirirt r ank k most reach could not fora moment compare w distinc tions of intelligence. If he might h the be allowed such a liberty, he would say of the l ear ned and noble and venerable lord who had addressed the meeting, with the t distinction which su h ee subject had earned by his int ellec y not think for a moment that o placed n comparison that, much as he valued distinguished it could i b rank, he did (Cheers.) • thmeeand.vanHtaegeislloufstlritaetreadtuhries andbjsicience Sir J. BOWRI NG, who arrived late, delivered an address on t o Chinese theory and p rac ti ce as con ed with what exists in this cou n t ry r to efe7e o n r c k e ing MOW trast Intelligence has been received from Madrid of the d ec ease, after but a few hour s ' illness, of Mr. O'Shea, the eminent banker there. Mr. O'Shea had resided uwards of 50 years in Spain, and. was greatly es t eeme d th r oughout both Spanish and Engheb, ociety in that country. Lee. ims. Ind tes. 353 363 303 543 503