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:3 .Y ~. • - • - - - -. - ' ' . . .. g __--.----___...,9---.''' -".- 4 . - 'l_ ' 7 A r, Tfr ( - 7 - 7 .7 T 41 V __., c,, MR. algid MRS. GERMAN REED'S NEW ENTERTAINMENT.—The New Series of - I:Matra ions by Mr. and Mrs. REED (late Miss P. HORTON), every evening except Saturday, at 8. Saturday Afternoon at 3. Admission Is., 25., and 3s. ; Stalls, secured, without extra charge, at the Royal Gallery of Illustration, 14, Regent-street, and at Cramer, Beale, and Co.'s, 201, Regent-street. M R. CHARLES DICKENS'S LIST NIGHT DON.—TO-MORROW 8 o'clock,in Mr. L ON CHARLES DICKENS will READ , ; at ST. ly MAR TIN'S HALL, the story of LITTLE DOMBEY. Stalls (numbered and reserved), ss. ; Area and Galleries, 2s. 6d.; 'Unreserved Seats, Is. Tickets to be had at Messrs. Chapman and Ilan's, Publishers, 193, Piccadilly; and at St. Martin's Hall, Long Acre. • ST. MARTIN'S HALL.—GREAT FEAT OF ME MORY.—Mr. ABEL MATTHES will recite throhout, from Memory alone, the Twelve Books of Milton's " PAR A ug ntsE Lo,t," 'comprising 10,565 LINES. To commence on TUESDAY Evening, the 27th July, at 8 o'clock precisely, and to be continued Weekly. Stalls (numbered and Reserved), ss. ; Area and Galleries, 2s. 6d. ; Unreserved Seats, Is; Tickets to be had at Mr. Mitchell's Library, Old Bond-street, and at St. Martin's Hall, Long-acre. - . , OYAL GARDENS, CREMORNE.-THIS Al • DAY -1 full programme of varied amusements, including 'I fresco Entertainments —Concert—Ballet—Marionette Theatre —Cirque Oriental—Fireworks, &c.—Dancing on the Crystal Plat orm from half-past 8. . N.B. THIS DAY (WEDNESDAY), GRAND GALADAY in Aid of the Butchers' Charitable Institution—Balloon Ascent—Extra Fire works and Illuminations. The usual charge of Admission. CIIRISTY'S MINSTRELS, Polygraphic Hall. TAI —THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIR3T ENTER NMENT.—Change of Program me , i n t ro d uc i ng B u rlesque on the Circus —ltalian Opera.—Evening at 8, and on Saturday Morning, c ommencing at 3. Prices—Boxes, 1/. la.; Stalls, 3a.; Area, 25.; Rack. Is. The Patrons of the Christy's are respectfully informed that the comPanY start for their Provincial Engagements on the Ist August. VP[RISTY'S MINSTRELS.-PROVINCIAL -tierce, Collins, ...- 1 ' TOM. The party of Christy's Minstrels—Messrs. Raynor, have been so Wambold. Christian, Burton, Nish, Seiner, Meeker, and be Brown, whose Concerts in London (now exceeding 4 0) proachlr eminently successful , respectfully announce their ap g departure for the Provinces, and that the MORNING 1..1d EVENING CONCERTS at the ST. JAMES'S HALL, on 'Monday. August 2. will terminate their present performances in Innd°ll' The Christy's Mi ns t re l s will visit all the principal towns En glalld, Scotland, and Trelanl : due notice will be given of their Re _M en ded tour. All applic Wong to be addressed to Mr. Mitchell, Yal 'Libra ry, 33, Old Bond-street, who has entered into an en- Tg e ment with th e party for their services up to their departure for _ r Mertes in the spring of next soar. early all the popular pieces in the Repertoire of the Christy's ?i' nstrels, g .me of which have been sung in London more than 1,000 you;" are new _published, cnruprising—" Willie. we have missed „'' I'm lestvint 'thee in sorrow, Annie .;" " Beautiful Star!" " u.., 00 11. de doodeni do !" "Come wltere my love lies dreaming," Sic. 403111 Library, 33, Old Bond-street. FATHER .THAMES AND HIS PHYSICIANS.—Dr. SEXTON will Lecture on the above im portant subject daily at Dr. KAHN'S MUSEUM (Top a the Hay laarket), at Four and Eight o'clock. Admission, ONE SHILLING. KAHN'S NINE LECTURES ON THE PHILOSOPHY Or f I ARRIAGE, &c., sent post free, direct from the Author, on the receipt of twelve stamps. ALHAMBRA. PALACE Leicester-square (The best Ventil a t e d and Coolest Building in Europe). — _ - - • Lessees- , Messrs. Howes and Cushing. ttrrangements having been made with P. T. Barnum, Esq , the "..ngille GENERAL TOM THUMB will appear at the Alhambra rata ce, on MONDAY, July 19th, and every Morning and Evening, fora short season, In connection with WALLETT'S CELEBRATED CisT COMPANY.- Extraordinary and Brilliant Success of the Ilt_trninvaled Troupe of Equestrian and Gymn stic Artistes, and ua !FL'Etll)n) STUD OF HORSES. Two Performances daily. Mid- Z rttertainment athalf-past 2 ; Evening at 8 o'clock. 1 4:Private Boxes 21. ; Stalls, 55.; Reserved Seats, 3s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; IS. ; Gallery, Gd. Rox-office open from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. •mo tees f,:: • r baoking places. Children under 9 years of age, Half-price. MESSRS. NICOLL'S ESTABLISHMENTS are Vo• 114, R RGENT-STREET, thus h divid their ed:— Depot for Paletots, rni zorrn; Gendemen's Evening and Morning Dress. !, 0 .116, for the manufacture of the Guinea Trousers. No • 118, for the Half-Guinea Waistcoats. „.110. 120. for Waterp: oofed Guinea Capes, and servants' Liveries. .elo 1 4 2 zi aw i. is their new Establishtnent for Ladies' Riding Habits and 13. 2: "14.4 contains their other now Department for Clothing young I/1 7m witb the taste, excellence, and economy whereby Messrs. L have secured wide spread confidence. The Tv h 0 1e,a,e Warerooms are at the rear of the Regent-street ' l nes• viz., 29, 30 , 31 , and 41, WARWICK-ST REET. „ C ll 3' Depot is at 21 and 22, Cornhill. Th e addresses of the various Agents are duly advertised in the Otlrnals of the United Kingdom and the Colonies.! ETROPOLITAN COUNTIES LIFE ae - ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 27, Rnent- treet, Waterloo -0-;;:* London, S.W. Life assurance, annuities, endowments, ani ° ll advantageous terms. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager. A .1 14 L: 13 . Policies in f orce , notwithstanding the Decease of the Life b ei :,'re_.ctlvithin the thirty days of grace, the Premium ,in arrear 0. 2 deducted from the amount assured. FIFTH DIVISION OF PROFITS. NORTHBRITISH INSURANCE COMPANY. Established ISO% Incorporated by Royal Charter. PiEsinENT —His Gram the Duke of ROXBURG HE, K.T. Sir PETER LAURIE, Alderman, Chairman. JOHN I. GLENNIE, Esq., Deputy-Chairman, Florradane, - Esq. John Connell, l• sq. • • _ Archibald Cockburn. Esq. P. Sorthall Laurie, Esq. R. P. Prichard, Esq. Charles James Knowles, Esq., Q.C. golieitor. ALEXANDER DOBIE, Esq., Lancaster-Place. C apital of One Million—accumulating Premlum Fund 614,000/. ,_'renue from Lif e P rem i ums alone 116,030/., annually i ncreas i ng . thlidne - tentbs or Nin e ty per cen t . o f the profits are septennially ed a mong the insurers on th e participating scale of Premiums. ftbutAullredrCtit Policie s a ff ected dur i ng the curren t year w ill s h are in t v , L o r o S a 7 t en pr Y o e n a ts r . s, and will secure a larger BONUS at every 70 phi Bonus accumulations at last investigation ranged from 25 to t, on the Premiums paid.; 4, Bank Buildingsy, R2oßnEdonnT. S E T .c RA . C HAN, Secretary. , Lothbur 144,4pC LETT II TERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE 542, Strand , London, W.C ., Feb. 25, 1858 : estab ha!, b2 37 . -- Payment of Premium lam within Days of Grace,—lt always v olie lo and still is the practice of this society to pay claims under ap,.,.!_ or assurance notwithstandin.7 the death of the assured oc aernioaf within the 30 days of grace, and before payment of the Tha ceturorolum, provided payment thereof be made, or notice ef of•grac@ h be7.Btren to the office before the expiration of such days For the Court of Directors, E. S. SYMES, Chairman. TIT INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSUR I.NCE SOCIETY, po w 142, Strand, London.ar ered by Act of P liament, for LIFE ASSURANCE , SUR maTIES, VI VORSIIIPS, AN ENDOWMENTS, &e. Dili WMusa. R• SHEPPARD SYMES, M.D., Chairman. sarnueenworthy Browne, Esq. Henry J. Hodgsou, Esq Job' •,! 1 9 11 FT-Church, Esq. John Moss, Esq. aulotson. M.D., Cantab., John Symes, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq. 'SECRETARY TO TOE BOARD. Alexander Richardson, Esq. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. • Augustus Blondel, Esq. AUDITORS. Wheatstone, F.R.S., and Professor J. Radford Yo MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL. I Dlllotson, M.D., Cantab, F.R.S., 37. Conduit-straet. ACTUARY. W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., ao. ASSISTANT ACTUARY. • Barker Woolbouse, Esq. RANKERS. Mesas. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. ) 40.13,4.. SOLICITORS. "regory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Rowelitfe, Bedrord-row. The - —aye tilt Quin quennial Division of Profits will be declared i Examples of inns up to :ay, 1955 Poll 6 tak e i out in ~........._ Sum Assured. Bones in addition Bonus in to Sum Cash. Assured. Permanent Reduction of &initial Pre mium. 1113% 1 841 ) 845 1 848 1851 3,000 4,000 2,000 2,000 2,800 A Y. d. 667 17 7 749 4 0 232 18 0 154 2 8 120 17 0 d. 424 1 4 325 16 0 156 15 0 103 16 6 72 14 6 X s. d. 56 3 8 32 0 4 16 6 0 10 15 2 6 7 7 Jill: follo wing are amo ngs t t h e a d van tages offered by the I nter - Th!ati Li fe Assurance S oc i e t y : • Society was established in 1838. • 0-t hirds of the profits are divided amongst the assur ed ever! fl Years. Its subscribed capital is five hundred thousand pounds. fine Tivestments, at the date of the last annual report, amounted '?... hundred sad seventy-one thousand pounds. 24 annual income is ninety thousand pounds. The number of policies now in force exceed six thousand. u t one thousand new policies are added every yetr. et For its commencement the Society has paid in claims upwards ee hundred and twenty thousand pounds. • k r DresPectuses and every other information, apply to the Chair au, 142, Strand. I 4 i Rtr •----____2__Uut, Lo n d on w.c , EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman. Mew AND IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE SCIENCE I P atent OP MEDICINE. ent ( Mice Seal of Great Britain. Diplome si'Ecole de Pharmacie ~P•harinacien de Paris. Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. deLitIESEMAR No. 1,2, and 3. prepared in the form of a lozenge, I, o ;Tid of taste or smell, and can be carried in the waistcoat pocket. ‘, 4l `. in tin cases, divided into separate doses, as administered by rt De al, Lallemand, Roux, Ricord &c , and adapted far both sexes i RIESENIA:R No.. 1 is a Remedy for RE SPERMXTORRME k, and all the distressin: e n . LA.XITIO NT, tc °— , e quences arising from early abuse, indiscriminate excesses, or tt„..Ttle residence in hot climates. It has restored bodily and sexual 11 0 ,..“14 1, n and vigour to thousands of debilitated individuals who are bow in the enjoyment of health and the Functions of %tanhood; an t Ikaatever may be the cause for DISQUALIFICA.TIONS for MSR -4(4E, they are effectually subdued by this llr onderfnl Discovery TRIESBMAR NO. 11. eir r eet44ll Y , in the short space ef three days, completely and entirely ; adicates all traces of Gonorrhoea, b ith in its mild Aonnd ii. r a g n r t v o a n t e C. I f 13._, l g. Gleets, Strictures, Irritation of the Bladder , N u; e, Pains of the Loins and Kleiner, and those u d d iso t r e d f e o r r s w h ich to rain and Cubebs have so long been thought an an o , th e .ain of the health of a vast portion Qf the population. s t he TRIBSEMAR NO. lII.' and ondary Symp.. toms, great Continental Reedy r Shilis ---- Scr ofula. and all lit it also constitute a s certain curet r Scurvy ti. lieelts Eruptions, removing and expelling in its co urse all c0rm5 .,:412 .,: 412 and impurities from the 7ital stream, as altogether to eradicate ie virus of disease, and expel it with the insensible Pen n ""gia the medium of the pores of the skin end urine, and P t is iy a tlr r.fai ling remedy for th a t c l ass o f di sor d ers w hich unfortuna tel y do English Physician treats with Mercury, to the sarsaparillan the of the Patient's constitution, and which all the 1 __ World cannot restore. Price 1 Is;, free by post, is. Bd. extra to a ny Part of the kingdom ; or four cases in one for 335., by host, 3s: 2d. 77' . IL.,4sW.hich saves Ils., and in Si. eases; whereby there is a saving of iet ald by Daniel Church, 78, Gracechurch-street, City; Anaf o rd g, s e t r ) ; eef ; Wat t s, 17, Ki ng s Wards, St. Pautl:lllO7h,. William-street, (four doors from London- Strand ; Prout, 229, Strand ; Hannay. 63, Ox , Oxford-street ;B tiller, 4, Cheapside ; Ed urchyard. HUMAN FRAILTY ; a Medical Work Price is., post f ree, illustrated with 100 engravings. containing the opinions of Valpeau, Lallemand, Roux, Ricord, &c. It givesinstruc - Lions for the pe r f ec t restoration of those who are prevented by im pediments from entering into the married state, also showing the dreadful results from early abuse, gonoerkcea, and syphilis, and the benefits arising ftom the chemical tests and examination of the s Pennatoza, by the n ewly - constructed microscop to tqe, with p e rules wer ful anses. The A u t hor may be consulted Daily according In the Book. —Sold b y J. Allen, 20, W arw i ck - lane raternos;er - re w, lad trete all agents fo r th e i sale of " Triesemar." ' `N . ; { 21,. 'lB5B. _. ._.. ._...... .. _ -WP. , - . . .... . , . O."U I • 31.. 1t „„,,•:- . d . , '1 I • ...„. - - kr ' ~., ,v * - - 4 .szth , , ~.. t i gdsl 1 ,: ~,,,•-.: (77 . 7: . , , .) . :... .; I, . - . ''' 3 - .teq r . .7, : ..., ,,, e'4' i lk . , , 2 - '?' l4 ):;Ti.. ,- ''.4t. — d , & 4 T -- ,--..-- ' 6B l"'.'.ll\ .. I is; .._. i.,(4,- , -., , ,-5,7-, fi;,[4, - -i i - 5 . 17 .-- - 0 , ,,,,,,, , „, . v o , ~ , , , o r 11% ~, v „„.... ;y , i , I /:071 . _ ,„, ~, 4 , . - -i ' 0. 1 %!;• c jS - 4' ' `l. - V `4, " ? - ..ti s- ' 1 ' ''- - , V '. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY No. 20,617.) PUBLICATIONS. NEW WORK BY MR. JEAFFRESON. On July 22, in 2 vo7s., with Portraits, 21s. bound, N OV EL S AND NOVELISTS, FROX ELIZABETH TO VICTORIA. By J. C. JEAFFRESON. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colbum, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Just published, price 9d. THE FRENCH STUDENT'S ASSISTANT, for DETERMINING the GENDER of FRENCH NOUNS : to which are added a few Short and Easy Ruies for Transltting English 'lnto French. By L. F. C. SIMEON, Professor of tile French Language. Third Edition, carefully Revised and Corrected. London : Houlstoir and Wright. Bristol : John Laval. T HE QUARTERLY REVIEW, ccvir., is Published THIS DAY. CONTENTS:- I. Admiral Blake. 11. Buckle's History of Civilization: 111. Iron Bridges. IV. Life •of Wycliffe. V. Professor Blunt and his Works. VI. Shipwrecks. VII. British Museum. VIII. The Condition and Future of India. John Murray, Albemarle-street. FEIST'S RACING RECORD for 1858. Part VI., price 31 4 will be published on the Ist of August. The Record, containing a complete calendar of Sport in England, Ireland, and Scotland in 1857, andNominutions for 1858, may be had, price two shillings. W. Wright, Fulwood's Rents. Ar lborn. ON SPERNATORMICEA.—TransIated from the German of Dr. Pickford. Just pubkished, the .FourtkL Xdltion, price 55., by post ss. 6d., (AN TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRIICEA, N.. 1 with a View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors is Rela tion to its Nature, Consequences, and Treatment. By Dr. PICKFORD, With Important Introductory Remarks by the Editor. "The editor has conferred a great boon by translating this little book and by laying bare the scandalous practices of unqualified adventurers who profess to cure a disease of which they know nothing, with no other object than to fill their own purses. This volume is well cal culated to put an end to the etnpyricat system of treating Sperma torrhcea, and to place the treatment upon a more rational and phy siological basis. It is, therefore, likely to do much good."—Nedical Circular. London, H. Balliere, 219, Regent-street. IC lr O MORE PILLS, nor any other MEDI- C[NE for Indigestion (dyspepsia), habitual Constipation, Flatulency, Acidity, Palpitation of the Heart, Torpidity of the Liver, Bilious Heldaches, Nervousness, Ddiousuess, Genoral Diarrhoea, Cough, Asthma, Consumption, Despondency, Spleen, &c. Send 2 penny stamps, and you will receive post free ; 64 palm, the people's edition of "PERFECT HEALTH RESTORED." Without Pills, purgatives, or medicines of any kind, and without expense, by a simple, pleasant, and infallible means which saves fifty times its cost in other remedies; adapted to the general reader. Supported by testimonials from the celebrated Professor of Che mistry, Dr. Andrew Ure, Dr. Shorland, Dr. Harvey, Dr. Campbell, Dr. Gattiker, Dr. Wurzer, Dr. Ingram, and many thou;ana other respectable persons, whose health has been restored by it after all other means of cure had failed. London: Barry du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, and through all Booksellers In Town and Country. CONTRACT FOR COALS FOR GIBRALTAR. Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy, • Somerset-place, July 16, 1858. MITE Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUEiD AY, the 3d August next, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons aq may be willing to contract for supplying and delivering at Gibraltar, 4,000 TONS OF SOUTH WALES COALS, Fit for the service of her Majesty's Steam-vessels. A form of the tender may be seen at the said office. No tender will be received after Two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every tender mina boaddressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words, "Tender for Coals for Gibraltar," and mast be delivered at Somerset-place, accom panied by a letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become 'iound with the person tendering in the sum of 1,4001. for the due performance of the Contract. FOR THE SEA SIDE . ANGOLA SUITS ' £2 15s. Excellence with Economy. GEORGE HOBSON, 57, Lombard-street. ESTABLISHED 1796. EP P S'S COCO A.—EPPS, Homoeopathic Chemist, London.—This excellent preparation cm be obtained of the principal Grocers in Ilb. and lb. paacke a, Is. 6d. and 9d. Each packet is labelled—JAMES EPPS, Homoeopathic Chemist, London. THE. EAST INDIATEA. COMPANY, in expectation of their next Telegram bringing favourable news, have reduced their quotations for Black or Green Teas- to 2s. per lb , in 61b. bags—thelowest price on record.—Warehouses, 9, Great St. ..I.l4lasea-cliarehyard, Bishopsgata-atreet. SCHWEPPES SODA WATER, MALVERN SELTZER WATER, porass WATER, and LENIONADE. Every Bottle of the Alkali Waters Is protected by a Label over the cork with their signature. Sold by all respectable Chemists, Con. fectloners, and at the leading Hotels. Manufactured at London, Liverpool, Bristol, Derby, and Malvern Wells. APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED. r EA and PER,RINS' WORCESTERSHIRE I/ SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, and all Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad, and by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach to perfectly digest the food. The daily nseof this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe guard to health. Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrins, 19, Fenchurch-street, London, and 68, Bror.d-street, Worcester; also by Messrs. Barclay and Sons, Islessrs.Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and mer entnts, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. N.B.—To guard against imitaiim, see that the names of "LEA and PERRIN'S" aro upon the label and patent cap of the bottle. ( - 1 BEAT WESTERN RAIL WAY.- Cu WEDNESDAY, the 28 th o f Jul y , an EXCURSIONTRAIN Will leave PADDINGTON at Bri 8.0 a.m. far PLY Dartmouth , a MOUT EI (offering facilities for •visiting Torbay, xham, nd the South Coast of Devon), calling at Weston -super-Mare, Bridge. water, Taunton, Tiverton-road, Exeter, Barnstaple, and Bideford (for Ilfracombe, and the North Coast of Devon), Starcess, Dawlish, Teignmouth, Newton, Torquay, Totness, and Kin,sbridge-road, and returning on Saturday, the 7th of August, from f lymoutb, at 6.20 a.m., and intermediate stations as per handttills. : FARES THERE AND BACK. Weston-super-Mare and Bridgewater, 20s and 135; Taunton and Tiverton Road, 22s and, 155 ; Exeter, 22s 6d and 165; Starcross, Dawlish, and Teignmouth, 25s and 17s : Newton, Torquay. and Totness, 27s and 18s ; Barnstaple and. Biderord, 30s and 20e; Kings bridge Road and Plymouth, 305 and 205. Children under twelve years of age, half-price. Tickets not trans ferable, and only available by the Excursion Train. WrEYMOUTH and CHANNEL ISLANDS STEAM-PACKET COMPANY (Limited). —DAY-PAS- SAGES (via WEYMOUTH).—SHORTEST SEA ROUTE—RE TURN TICKETS, on and atter the Ist June, between Paddington and all the principal stations of the Great Western Railway, and GUERNSEY and JERSEY, available for one month, allowing pas sengers to break the jou , ney at Chip penham, Dorchester, Weymouth, and Guernsey, en route to or from Jersey. Fares—From Paddington t' Guernsey and Jersey and back, 455. and 3:55., by the AQUILA or CYGNUS, fast steam -ships, from Wey mouth Harbour, every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at Eight, a.m. JOSEPH MAUNDERS, Manager and Secretary. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE RA ILW A Y COMPANY. NOTICE. IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the next Ordinary H iLF YE tIILY MEET] Ni of the Proprietors in the Buckingham hire Railway Company will be held at the Euston Station, London, on FRIDAY, the 13th day of August, 1853, at 11 o'clock a.m. By order ot the Board. HARRY VERNEY, Chairman. The Books 'kept for tho Registration of Transfers of Stock will be Closed on the 2,1 August, and will remain so until after the meetinr.. Office of the Company, Enstomstallon, London, 19. h July, 1858. SPOTTISWOODE and 03., PRINTERS, NEW-STREET SQUARE, LONDON, beg to announce that for the convenience of Members of Parliament, Parliamentary Agents, Solicitors, and othe's, they have established a WES r-END OFFICE at 9, PARLIAMENVITREET, WESTMINSTER, S.W. ENJAMIN EDGINGTON, 2, Duke-street, Southwark, Marquee, Tent, Flag, and Rick-cloth Manufac turer. Temporary Rooms of any dimensions, adapted for any season of the year, for ball', d nners, &a., with conveyance and attendance to any distance. Martmes and Tents for horticultural societies cricket clubs, Eke.. new and second-hand, on sale or hire—Address, at full length, to Benjamin Edgington, 2, Duke-street, Southwark. THE PURIFICATION OF THE THAMRS. The following is the report of the Select Commit tee on the River Thames : " Your committee, in accordance with their order of reference, have proceeded to inquire into the merits of Mr. Goldsworthy Gurney's plan for puri fying the Thames, and they have also considered some other suggestions having the same object in view. They have examined, with regard to these matters, many persons of great skill and eminent in their professions as engineers and chemists ; but the near approach of the termination of the session and other reasons, which will be stated in this re port, have prevented them from examining several other persons who bad suggestions to make. upon the general subject, and information to give, which might doubtless be deserving of attention. " The main object of Mr. Gurney's plan is to discharge all the sewage of the metropolis into the water of the Thames within the metropolis i's lf, and his plan is founded on the assumption that the bad smells which are so much complained of pro ceed from the decomposition of sewage matter de posited on those parts of the bed of the river which are left uncovered by water during the ebb and early flow of the tide. He is of opinion that this matter ferments while in contact wi. h atmc spheric air and exposed to solar heat, and that the fermenta tion thus begun continues afterwards, when this matter is washed up by the rising water ; but he thinks that if this matter could be discharged at once into the stream it would not so ferment, and would be almost inoffensive. "In order to work out this theory, Mr. Gurney proposes that the :bed of the river, commencing fiona an average or mean line of the prosen t wharves and extending for 50 yards towards the low-water line, should be formed with a slope of about 1 iu 12, and covered with gravel. He reckons that on such a slope, so covered, no mud or sewage matter would permanently lodge, and that whatever was deposited upon such a sloping bank at high water would be asrept down into the permanent bed of the river by the receding tido. But in some parts of the river the distance between high and low water masks is so great that a slope of 1 inch in 12, be ginning at the mean of the present wharf walls, would, by the time it reached low water-mark, end at a point a good deal lower than the bed of the river there, and to get rid of this difficulty, as well as to ensure a stronger current and a larger body of water at low water-mark to carry away the mat ter swept down from the slopes, ho proposes to form n each tL side line of of theth e b river, dredging and 1.,e a t o w h o o c f h t a h n e n m e channels, followingn present edge of the slopes. The se channels he pro oe po es to make 90 feet wide , and 9 feet deep, and his notiop is that the sewage m atter from each side, washed into thes3 channels, would be carried in offensively down the river, and th at the force of the current would keep these channels c lear. " Having thus, as he conceives , secured the bed of the river between high and low wa ter-mark from any permanent deposit from the water of the rive-, he proposes to lengthen all the sewers that discharge into the river, and to carry them on, so that their mouths should all be below the low water-mark, so that everything coming down the sewers should always be discharged into the water of the river. " But by this arrangement the sewers would al ways be water-locked, and the gases generated in the sewers, having no escape at the mouths, would be more driven than at present to find their way into the streets and houses. In order to counteract this tendency, Mr. Gurney proposes that furnaces should be -erected in various parts of London over some'of the main sewers, and at suitable places, and that these furnaces should draw the bad gases out of the sewers, and by the process of combustion to alter their chywical condition, so as to render them harmless and inoffensive. " Your committee cannot recommend the adop tion of any part of Mr. Gurney's plan. " Your committee consider it a mistake to sup pose that se wage matter does not disengage offensive and noxious gases when it is mixed with water. The contrary is proved by the offensive s moll of those sewers through which large streams of water are constantly flowing, and by the offensive smells which during thepreaent summer have proceeded from the water of the Thames at high tide, at every part from Putney downwards. Any plan, therefore, - which has for its object that all the sewage of Lon don should, in the state in which it comes down the sewers, be discharged into the stream of the Thames, would tend to perpetuate and not to remedy the evils which are so widely felt and so loudly complained of. "S erne 'advantages might possibly be derived from sloping the bed of the river in the manner proposed by Mr. Gurney, in places where the dis tance between high and low water mark would admit of it, but such an operation token singly would not get rid of the great evil which we are now considering. "With regard to the side channels which Mr. Gurney prop lies to make, it seems very doubtful whether they would be kept open without fre quent dredging, and whether if kept open they would produce any beneficial effect commensurate with the expense of forming them and keeping THORLEY'S FOOD FOR CATTLE.- It is only a short time since this singularly efficacious art'cle of animal diet first made its aprearame ; and airea'y its celebrity is world-wide. It has been a subject of wonder, and has puzzled many a brain to explain how this has been brought about. Yet when we are acquainted w:th a few facts concerning the food, our wonder wilt cease. 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Strand ; 4, Cheapshi a ; 49, and 60, Bishops- a sate-street; 63, 15; and 198 Oxford-street. the furl ace by which the gases ate to be burnt, them open. " Your committee are therefore of opinion that those patts of Mr. Gurnsy's plan which relate to the river are not calculated to effect the purification of the Thames. " Your committee, however, thoug:it it was de sirable that they should investigate that part of Mr. Gurney's plan which relates to tho burning of the gases in the sewers, and the mom so, because that process has been practised by Mr. Gurney with success in regard to sewers in the immediate vicinity of the Houses of Parliament.. " Bat the linquities male by your committee have satisfied them that this process, though it may be successful as to sewers within a Aleut distance of condition reat o f o f n th . . . _ . • . could not be successfully applied to the wide range refuse. Common sense is quite rea d y to ado p t the of the metropolis. There are such a vast number. formula recently enitticialed by Mr. F. 0. Ward, "-the sewage toe the soil, and the rainfall to the of unavoidable openingein the imraense ramifeeer river." No doubt if the matter were rtes integra, tions of the sewers of the. metropolis, and in the if. we were sta . ! • house drains which communicate with those sewers, had not ll in the age of cesspools—if we sunk - millions in the vest subterranean that the air which would be drawn out from any works ;which -daily carry all the pollution of the part of a great sewer over —a e he if of the I wbichafarnice.might be capital into the river we now want to purify erected would be replaced, notby the offensive gases ado l) g these ntah v gee i ight e ci a d v u s oe . esttoi or said B sn, u . t n w el:Fthis vour aev i r s e t hg n eo o n t i Ile fi t o l li r n e . in the whole network, of sewers- and drains commu - true nicating with the 'sewer over Which the furnace was sere placed, but in -a great degree-by-atmospheric air year after year constructing a system of costly con rushing down through openingsenear to the fur- duits for carrying every rivulet of sewage int 9 the nace, and thus the gases in the further arts of the Thames. Is this cost and outlay all to go for tno sewers and house drains woalcirremain unaffectedhing ?, No one with a nose and a memory can fail to entertain some gratitude to the drainage doctors by the action of the furnace. for what they have done. They have improved ' " This furnace syistem, therefore, even with the the s dulerity of our houses and the at atmosphere improvements made by Mr. Gurney, though pos- of our streets. Under the recent somewhat excep sibly very efficacious for a - particular andlimited tional circumstances of a long droUght and an in tense heat—with very little flew of fresh water area, could not be relied upon fOr the general von- from above, and a consequently incremed flood of dilation and purification of the sewers of the metro- salt water from below—the Thames has been unut polis at large. - . • terably offensive. But have any portions of Lon " Your committee: have taken much valuable don except those which lie along the line of the and interesting evidence upon the deodOrisation of river been exceptionally inodorons, or has any part sewage. It appears to be easy to reoperate the more of London, even includ;ng the river distticts, been ceptional unhealthy ? solid from the liqUid parts of the sewage, and to ex It may well be doubted, therefore, quite irre deprive both. of all offensive smell. By an infusion spec t• lye of all questions of cost, whether it would of lime into sewage the solid matter is rapidly pre- be wise-to abandon altogether the system of drain cipitated, and the water that is left above the pre- age which has now for some years been so perse cipitate is cleared of all the matter which it held in veringly earriedeent, with effects, on the whole, so suspension, retaining only some salts, which it beneficial to the public health. - But if this be so, what remains to be done unless it be the adoption holds in solution. partly of deodorisitig works, partly of intercepting "If the sewage of London could be so treated, sewers.? We are a quite of opinion the letropol tan and the solid precipitate could be got rid of in a Board- of Works, before arriving at a final decision, . satisfactory manner e etkuielicolel might be discharged is bound once more seriously nod dispassionately to review the whole question. In order that. they , into the Thames without injury or inconvenience may do so, every expression denotin , a fere ' eone provided that no nuisance arose during the process co nclusion, or p!edging the Board to a'ec csp ill , plan, of deodorisation. such - as the phrase " providing outtalls, ' and the " This system is now adopted at Leicester, and, like, should carefully be eliminated from the Ga in as far as it is a sanitary arrangement, with com- vernmeut Bill. No fetter should be left on their plete success. The town is freed fro aa all offensive discretion. The whole power and the entire should be ' theirs. Under these con matter, and the liquid which is discharged into the responsibility. dstions we are really not aware - that anything river does not polluto the water of the streams. better can be done than to leave the question " Experience hes not yet determined in what of Metropolitan Drainage in the hands of those degree the precipitate can be made useful as manure to whom is ostensibly entrusted. the Len]. Ma for agricultural purposes. nagem3nt of the Metropolis. Somewhere the "Several persons capable of giving valuable in - power mint reside, if the thing into be done at all. If we wait till all the doctors are agreed in their formation on this subject have offered to be ex- specifies, till the whole fraternity of engineers amined by your committee, but your committee are of one mind in their reeonmendations, our fate have not deemed it expedient to prolong their in- will be that of the classical rustic ; the river of quiries on this branch of the subject-, polltr ion will roll and welter with ever growing "In the first place, they have felt it their duty, noisotneu , se while we are disput•ng oo its banks ; considei ipg how near the session is to its close, not labeler. There is ato be done, labitar et _ and that speedily. We mus t thing get sore's one to do to delay longer their report upon the main subject it. Whoever undertakes it must have full powers. referred to them by the house—namely, Mr. Gur- There must b 3 no double gevernm-nt, no veto. ney's Plan ; an i iu the next place, they conceive Well, then, where is tilie depositery of power t, be that the decision as to the expediency of ap- found ? Is there any eingle man so pre-emieently plying a system of deodorisation advantageoualy fitted for the forte iu ion that all VO'C2S would unani- measly concur n his selection? Ti.ere is net. Is metropolis the sewage of the etropolis belonge rather tok thee HOU , '3 of Commons ad equate to the work . the funwiens of the Meropelitae Board of Works Let the - discussion of Monday night answer. There than to those of a committee of the House of Corn- remains, then, the Metropolitan Board—men who mons, and the Metropolitan B and of Works have haye already investigated the subject with colnider-` ample means of making all necessary inquiries on able . assiduity, and may fairly be exp , cted,. under that subject without the assistance of a committee the pressure of e freshly impose 1 respnnsibility, to go through a further process of exhaustive i nq u:r y of the House of Commons. . before committing themselves to decisive action. " Your committee have to observe that some of Really, it is difficult to see what bet'er selectioc the eminent engineers who have been examined could, under the cireumstencee have been made. express an opinion in favour of embanking the If we are to adopt the principle 'het no hing shall Thames for the purpose of increasing the scour of be spent till everybody is agreed, the year 1958 may still find Vie grandchildren of Th wa ites dis puting, in the midst of stench to which that of last "In conclusion, your committee beg leave to Juno w asfragrance, over plans and sections, with state their decided opinion that no plan ought to be the des . .)endants in the third remove of Ur. F. 0. adopted in regard to the sewage of the metropolis Ward. that does not provide for one of two things—either that the sewage shall be carried d )wn to some paint in the river sufficiently f4r from the metropo!is to prevent the sewage from being brought back in an offensive state by the flowing title, or else that the sewage shall be deodorised, and that only the put i fied liquid part of it shall be diiehtrged into then river. TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS. Sir, —lf anything would lead us to doubt the value of a legislative body, when any realty practi cal measure is to be calla d out, it would be the conduct of the House of Commons with r. gard to the "Main Drainage of the MAropolis Bill." The subject has been debated by the houses year after year. It has been suliicted to every kind of in quiry. Commission after commission has been formed; each on'y to undo the work of its prede cessor. A Board of 'Works was form a 3 f )r the ex press purpose of performing the Au4eati task. It rais..9l our rates, produced its own same, as its predecessors had done, but came to a dead lock when the work was to be performed. Then came the filthy smell of the riv. r, filling the Legislative Palace with an unendurable odour. The judges threatened to leave Wistiuinster, and seek a purer atmosphere for the administration of justice. Fear for a time stimulate I our legislators, A practical suggestion was made. Lime was thrown down the sewers, as a temporary remedy. The Government had a favourable opportunity of gain ing the gratitude of at least three millions of peop'e. A. fall of rain diluting the sewage with river water has rendered its smell less intolerable, and the Go vernment and the legislature have taken a col I fit and strive to shirk the respousleility of interfering to prevent the growth of a most gigantic evil. Tneystrivetoevade theqaustioe by a mere money gra A. They say to the Baird. of Works : " You may spend three millions of money in any way you like on the drainage of the metropolis ; only don't plague us with any discussion as to tie way in which the money is to be spent." Had the Board of Works advocated a scheme, Ur originated one, in • any way likely to effect the o`ject of sccarimr the dyer Thames from pollution this might have been a very reasonable course ; but the Board of Works has only been distinguished for its advocacy of, perhaps, the worst scheme which could well be devised. The sum of money granted is vcry significant. Tile Legislature say in effect to the Board of Works: " We have nothing to do with your schemes ; we take away every veto which will prevent you from exercising your own wisdom ; but we give just so much money as will ()nage you to carry your sewage as far as Erith on one side the river, and Barking on the other." There can be lit le doubt how the Board of Works will spend its money. The three millions will be spout in making two brick tunnels or main arteries, one on either side of the river, communicated with by divers other smaller tunnels. More than this the three millions will not do. The deodorising schemes must be provided for after wards. We all know how actively the executors of • works, especially gigantic ones in brick and mortar, enlist recruits fur any scheme which will afford them employment ; how skilfully they can marshal their forces, and how effectually they can manoeuvre even a minority in the pre sence of an ill-disciplined and disjointed majority. Knowing this, there is little difficulty in believing that the Brard of Works will readily spend the whole of their money. The ratepayers of the me tropolis, who are to be taxed for the payment—out of whose pockets it will come—who will be forced to pay it by the act of the L - gislature—have a right to demand " that those who compel them to pay should at least take some litt'e pains to inquire whether the work on which it is expended will really be serviceable or not." Why should not the House of Commons say to the Board of WorkS :—" What plan do you pro pose, and what will be its cost ?" On a subject of such vital importance it is a shame for the legisla tive body of the nation to shrink from its positive duty. Why do they do so ? B.cause they feel assured that the Board of Works would bring for ward a scheme which will not bear discus-ion. The work in accomplishing which three millions are to be spent, is so utterly inadequate that it is felt neces sary in the debates to cast it into the background. When brought for ward it is only by some damagirg. remark Units , efficacy. Indeed, no one seems hold enough to advocate it in open discussion. Surely the millions of inhabitants of the metro polis, whose health and whose w eal.h are so con nee' ed with this matter, wil l not staffHr any wild scheme to be carried out without having some as- • suranee of at least a prospect of an . amelioration of the evil from which they are suffering. The Le gislature hiss converted a tidslr.ivernto a common sewer by compelling th m e h at ortant i s o f the banks to cast all their filth into . s stream, before any means were devised for getting rid of the noxiou s addition to the wate r. New, what is the effect so the tide on the wa ters of the river The tide i e caused by the sea rushing into the t iver, not only stop at; the flow of the fresh wat- rinto the sea but driving back the current of fresh water which would have fl o wed into it during its rise. It is fan/e,l that in the deep water of the river at Rotherhi';he salt water may always be discovered. During high tides or strong easterly winds it may be detected above London or even Blichf r i ars -b r id ge . is Now, if the sea water c tried by the tide some 48 mite; uo the stream from its mouth, how far back will the s ewage matter, which is i n t erme diate in specific gravity between the river and se a wa er, be carded up . the stream, if eischarge I into it at any i n termediate point between London and the mo uth of the river ? If the sewage be l oured int) "The whole subject is.one of gloat and of grow ing public importance.: - The metropolis is extending iu all direetiohs, and in every part of it 3 eimumfe- rence. Every year ft%sli masses of buildings are springing up, whose drains are discharging into the Thaine 4, and streets that had only cesspools are furnished with house drains, leading into the gene- ial network of sewers ; thus every year the quan- tity of sewage discharged into the Thames goes on increasing. "On the other band, year by ye ir the quantity of water in the bed of the river, by which this in creasing quantity of sewage is to be diluted, pro gre=sively diminishes. A large p7,rtion of the water which is supplied to the metropolis is taken from the Thames above Teddington-lodr, and with the yearly increase of the metropolis, and the improv- ing habits of its population, the consumption of this water increases, and a larger portion of the diluting current is withdrawn from the downstream of the river. "An extensive and abundant supply of pure water, and the general substitution of house drains for cess pools, are immense improvements in the arrange ments of the metropolis, and cont'ibute most essen tially to the comfort and health of its inhabitants. But these salutary arrangements must be followed up by others, to protect from p3llution the Thames, which ought to be an ornament of this gre it city, and which must continue to be the main highway of its multifarious traffic." (From the Daily News ) If the Metropolitan Parliament have not attained to clearer notions than the Imperial Parliament as to the best mode of setting about the purification of the Thames, the ratepayers of the metropolis have certainly a cheerful prospec before them. Qaot homines, tot sententice ; every member had his nostrum, and every member's nostrum differed from that of every other member. Well might Mr. Locke (of Sauthwark) exclaim, in the very per plexity of his heart, that., hosvever doubtful it might be, whether sewage admitted of solu'ion, it was plain the sewage question did not. One or two points, however, were elicited in the chaotic dis cussion of Monday night which are deserving of attention. One is, that the Government bill, as in terpreted by its prom itere, loaves the Board of Works free, and does not tie them down to the adoption of any particular scheme. It will be emi nently desirable that before the bll becomes an act this point should be male too clear for the pos sibility of doub‘. Another point to be borne iu mind is the testimony of Robert Stephenson. This able and clear-headed person clecl-res that he has carefully sifted every imaginable scheme, and that he finds no possibility of doing without some sys tem of intercepting drainage. There is one other point, and that is that the. Board of Works, though they may not number amongst them any first-rate names, have at all events given pathful and dili gent attention to all the schemes that have been sul , mitted to th m, and also that they may reason ably be expected to take no important step without further and very anxious investigation, now that the entire responsibility of the great work is, for the first time, imposed upon them. If, indeed, we were driven to conclude that the Board of Works, after being invested with plenary powers, would merely fall back, without further investigation, on the scheme vetoed by Sir B. Hall, there might be considerable cause for well-grounded apprehension. But it may reasonably be hoped that this will not be the case. They can hardly, for instance, neglect the consideration of the evidence which has so re cently been submitted to the House of Commons' committ:e ; and they will naturally be anxious, for their own sake, net to incur the odium of an enor mous expenditure in brick and mortar, unless con scientiously convinced that such expenditure is abFoltvely essential to the end in view. It cannot be denied --as has been very ably pointed out by a corresp-aident writing under the s gnatura of " Common Sense," that the method of pouring, at vast expense, all the fiecal products of a great city into a tidal river is diametrically op posed to many of the plainest principles of a judici ous economy. It is natural that any one writing under the influence of common sense should con demn the apparent solecism of digging at an enor mous outlay two vac' al rivers of pollution, whose functions will be to intercept from the natural river, which it is desired to purify, not only all the sewage which pollut s it, but all the surface water without which it c tnnot be kept pure. Com mon sense naturally inclines to the belief that there must, after all, be same method of making thou sands, by utilising that as manure, which we are now asked to spend millions iu throwing away as - fl 4 . r • • [PRIOR 4D. STAMPED 51)-] the river anywhere, it must first undergo the pro cess of deolorisation. Now, it is extremely doubt ful whether this process can be carried out without leaving a nuisance for miles round'the spot where it is deodorised. Is it fair to the inhabitants of the plague -spot scar c ely o u t of metropolis to erect a their own byandary ? It is extiomely doubtful again whether the deodorised fluid is deprived of its noxious qualities. What, then, ale th e probabi lities of the whole matter ? The Board of Works will spend their three millions in blickeand mortar under ground. They will then have to spend either three millions more, or an equivalent yearly in come, on works ftir deodorisation. And after all is I done we shall find ourselve', if not immediately, at least in a year or two, in as bad a condition as we were before. The truth is we begin the work at the wrong end. It would be better to spend the three millions, or double that sum if necessary, in eradicating the evil at its commencement. What right have we to east our filth into the river at all I' We must, sooner or later, separate the sewage from the surface drain age. iTe throw away valuable manure. We spoil it. Science will not enable us to recover it. Every step taken to preserve the manure of this great city would be one in the right direction. Whether the Board of Works will do it, or whether the Legisla ture, we care no'. Sooner or later we shall be com pelled to carry the excrementitious matter of our city to the fields in a 80,4: serviceable for the growth of the fruits of the earth, or we shall be forced to remove our dwellings from the region we have so lo'n.cr polluted. We have little faith in any of the engineers or surveyors whose views have been narrowed by the routine of their profession. The greatest works have been accomplished by those who have im ported the vig •ur of unbiassed and unprejudiced views into what was to them a new profession. Sted3h ens op worked out the g,„l pat 1 ocom • ,tive system in K ppost.l on. to And-suniii4t*ttutintsiaid taisersk,of ... the profession, which would hardly rec. , gnise him as a member. The schemes for a building for the Great Exhibition were as cumbrous and as expen sive, and nearly as likely to prove failures, as all our drsinage schemes, when Paxton thought in the new oritr of glass and iron, to the constt-rna- tion and disnriy of professional 'architects. Have we no Sephenson or Paxton who can devise an effectual melni of conveying what Proviii , nce in tend.. .d should f,rtilisc the ea.' th to its pr .)per des tination, without risk to the health of the inhabi tants of this great metroplis? The question is not one of spending money. No scheme has', et been propo ed which even bears a ranot6 probahility of effecting its object. Let one be devise I whi.h will secure the health of the me tropolis, and we feel sure its inhabitants will not fs.rodue tin times the aulou , lt now likely to be :.(prAndered us?lessly. CO N 1 SENSE TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. S'r, --The , übj , ct of cleansing . tne Thames is not a question of extrema difficulty, or of ftbul us ex pelse, if we would make usl of till simple but powerful means nature places at our dispo-al, re quirinfr inure common senss to turn them to ; - .c2oun 3 t. A large ship canal front betw. en Po! tsnou h and SJutlitinpton to Loudon would be a paying specu lati-n. 13ring this canal well ab:)ve Lludon, and c-narnuni.a,•it:g with the TlranPs by several flood gatts, having a short branch forking off to c• r y down tall-masted vesels to below bridges. The julieions in!reduction of this immense 111;33 of sea wat .r into the river would produce the same result as takes place during the winter rains—viz., make the ebh ti•!e more rapid and of longer duration thin ih? ilo)d by two cr three hours. Thly, in 12 hours the ebb will run eight or nine hours, the flood sluggiihly ficw three or four hours ; consequently after a few days there will never he an accumulation of sewerage, the ebb taking it off quicker than it can run into the river. The flood gates will keep this mass of sea water under perfect control. It is quite cer' ain that in the event of a war with France, ald with ate tan privateers swarming in the aiantiel, no man in his senses would risk the pas sage from Southampton to London round by Dover —independent of the dangers incidental tonavi- Tating that most dange:ous and intricate coast — if they ha,d such a safe pea as Southampton to run jute at once, with the advantage, in addition, of a 'comparatively short communication to London for vessels of every size. Thus the ship canal would more than pay for itsalf, and convey an immense volume of water to the Thames, which, acting cordiut, to the common laws of nature, would serve to keep the river clear, without demanding any expensive works and upsetting the half of London, and to do that upon which hardly any two engi neers c n perf ctly agree. One thing-is quite evident-, that, whatever may be the opinion of individuals as to 'he mr'st efficient application of the water so b on, ; ht—whether my suggestion be good or bad—there will have been conveyed to the most convenient spot and in suffi cient quintity, and without expense (slo canal be ing a paying speculation), an agent without which no plan for cleansing the Thatten can be per manently successful. Such a canal as I propose has often baen talked of. Thera can be no great engineering difficulties to overcome in the construction of a work of such a nature.—l am, sir,_ yours, &c., G. R. SARTORI'S, Vice-Admiral. thited Service Club, July 16. SUDDEN' .15EATH . THROUGH INTEM- PER ANCE. Yesterday Mr. Walley, coroner for West Mid- I cl!esex, held an inquiry at the Elephant and Castle, Camden-town, torching the death of Eliza Smith, a married woman, aged 50, lately residing at 47, Hastings-street, Burton-crescent, but who died in the workhouse infirmary a few hours after admis sion to that institution, from the effects of severe violence, the unfortunate woman's body being cAvered with bruises and contusions of a dreadful character, so that - rumeurs of a most painful nature had in consequence arisen in the neighbourhood as to the mode in which such severe injuries could have Le.--n inflicted. It appear , d from the evidence of Mr. Coster, surgeon to the infirmary, and Sarah Thompson, a nurse, that the deceased was admitted on Thurs day morning last, when she was in an insensible, and, indeed, dying, condition, for she gradually sunk and expired a few hours afterwards. Her face, head, and body present-d one mass of bruises and contusions, so that parts were perfectly black, be• sides which she had a dreadful wound on her head, extending down to the nose. Teo appearance the deceased presented was dreadful in the extreme, and to add to the horrible sight, erysipelas having set in in the head and face, they were s wollen to au enormous extent. Mr. Coster discovered that death arose from an attack of erysipelas consequent upon the frightful wound on the bead. linternaliy, the deceased's organs presented a hcalt ly pp aear ance, with the exception of the liver, which re semblel that of a person g iven to excessive intoxi cation. The cause of death baying been thus clearly proved, the Coroner remarked that the next thing would be to find out bow the severe injui ies seen were on the deceased produce,ds husband, was call e d j . severe Smith, the deceased to prove deceaseds he slandladydeceased's, identitT (Mrs. Higgins) and a lodger (Alfred _Berwick) were then c a ll e d, w h en they spoke to the deceased's habitual h a bit s o f in toxication, during which time she fell down stairs, ca using, as they believed, the injuries she had died from. They never knew the husband beat the de ceased, nor did she ever complain of his conduct. A man named Costello gave evidence as to a slight scuffle he saw on one occasion between the deeeareel and her husband, but there was nothing o f importance elicited. Some further corroborative evidence was given, when The Coroner having carefully summed up, The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased died from injuries sustained by her falling down stairs while intoxicated. The inquiry then terminated. [From the above it will be seen that the report, which we copied from a c ontemporary ' alleging that the deceased died from the vi knee of her husband, is entirely without foundation. On the contrary, he seems to have tre ited his wife with kindness.] [AD ERTISZMENT.]—RAPID RECOVERY. —Holloway ' s Pit's and Ointment —About twelve months since, Mr li Ime, \Voodsids, Ho: forth, was seized by a serious prostrating weakness. S x months afterwards an erup• tion took plat ein his if g. He immediately placed him self under the fr atment of the most eminent men in Liverpool and Manchester ; but, to use his own " gradeal'y got worse, and was prevented folowing any employment der;ng the whole time." He removrd to flo,for h ; a friend there induced hint to try the Effect of flcl'oway's medicines ; he purchased them, followed the itv.tructionc, and was cured in a few weekP. He wishes Hollings, druggiet, to make his case k nown.-- by all medidn , vendors throughout the world, and at Profasor Holloway's Establishment , 244, Strand, Lnnd.n. 1 DIFATIT PR' A DiVINCfr: • r ;17 . AU - incpfestewas btu, it 'DOvdf s. 4„..,. diy4; - Q - uoi)lo3ied at t At " John Opp,y, pier works. . Isaac Swale, a atas en. by, trade, mid a 1. helmet diver •in thbeemptiey of Messri 'Lee' f Son, was the fir air **rites. examined. He taid,— " I knew. the fleceeeliel.s.44-also a mason ern eiterday, a c o i n oc t k h , e l A w - e m n i t r d aitye own.brth - e ordi the purpose of setting fotindations forte . nary deeeAsed, who P a d b i r p e o Y ss u e t: d f . l o u o r w ac i eo th m th p e an stt i m ed e b a y P . Paratura. • w pi a e s r. pro l vi w de a d s I believe' that that was the first . time he had ;des Before going down I established with -hi m a code • of signals he was to make with his hands, whereby I should know whether he required more or lose' air; and I expreddy enjoined hint by.nomeanate meddle with the air-valve, as - the, comequences might be very serious if he did do. Isle() told him - how to signal with hidlife-line to :those above, in' 'the event of his wishing to be ta.keti up; • Ori get- • • ting to the bottom, Iplaoed-him - against one of the blocks, and pressing his hand and Waving to Mini* 7 - the same time, I conveyed to him that he *isnot - to move. . I then left him for about two minutes, but was not distant more than six or eightleet employed enyself -the time mentioned-in-setting- -- of the blocks, and then returned to the deceased. I found him in the place at which I had put him, but holding inhis hand a tool called a straight-edge, with which he pointed to one of the blocks, whiolt was slightly out of level. I was pleased at that, as I thought it showed that he was , getting on famously. I then repeated the signal to him not to stir, and again left him, and employed myself at my work. In about ten minutes I went to him again, and he had-then moved about four feet towards the spot at which I had loam employed. I examined the valve .regulating the,- quantity of air supplied to the diving ai s paratuss, which was in the positiOn I had placed it in pre vious to going down, and put him back tothepla.cee I had' first stationed him at, and enjoined him by signal not to move. I then athird time went freak him, and e een my return to him in about two or • - three minutes, ho- vas leaning with his maven the block and the straight-edge in his hand. He shook the later at me playfully, as if he was strike in-e with a sword. I then again left him, . and. in a few minutes, on looking towards him, I missed - him. I directly -wont to where•he ought- to:haTe been, but he had moved from t hat spot about eight feet. On getting to him, I took him by th'e aim, -open- whiett - Ina • turned towards-mei-and toidii,'ties_ agreed signal with his hands that he should like tii e: go up. I directly snatched his life-line, giving the signal to those above to lift him up, and at the same time I lifted my hand to snatch mine, when a sienal came down to me to come up myself. I . give the return signal immediately, and I was lifted to the surface. On getting there I looked about for the deceased, execctieg to find that be also had been raised, tut I was informed that they could not lift him. I said, "Pull him," and they did so, but were still unaMe to raise him up. I then die eAad them to pass the line on to the staging, so as to gel: the lift straight up and down. That was done, but still they could not get h'm up. On le irning this I ice it down Wyse f directly, but was unable to find the deceased, and thinking that Le might b. 1.-0 ben drawn to the surface as I had gone clown, I a2ain had myself pulled up. Finding, however, that they had stia been unable to lift him, I aga'n descended by It's life-line, and guided by the , . I di-iceiere 1 him ly,ng doe n, wi h his bands. {inlay clenehinc , a rope. I then cut off his weights, on w he lif7cd a little, and I augured from that that there was sum hope. After some difficulty I unelenche i his h:nds, and he was then lifted up, upon my in eking the n, , ce,s try signal to those above. I followed him to the sui fsee, and on the glass in front of my In lmet b:iug tak-ni out I askei if he was des I or alive ? —the answer being I fear 113 is dead. I went directly to look at the collar of decelsd's apparatis, and found the regu;ator quite open. 'roc valve being opened, water could get into the I:, elln,t. Ido not think the valve could have bee )me open by aexident, but tau t hove been desiqn7dly turned by decease - I. On the occasion of my firs . 7, going down into the water as a diver I suffer, d extremely from pains in the h-ad, and be- • ginners often suffcr in the same way. Going down immediately alter Ewing would cause the symp`ome to be aggravate 1. The deceased had just come. from dinner when lie descende 1. In my opinion decea , e I began to feel oppressed and uncomfortable, and was induct& dto turn the valve, thinking - thereby to obtain relief." The jury returned a verdict in accordance with this witness's opinion.— Dover Chronicle. ~~ C.s _._:i 4f DA LING ESCAPE. A daring escape was made a few evenings ago.by an Irishman, named M'Quaid, from the Bridewell at Reading, to which place he had been remanded on a charge of felony. The particulars, as far as have been gathered from the official, inquiry, ap pear to be that, about 7 o'clock in the evening the gaoler, who is an elderly and rather infirm man, went into the yard where the prisoner had been placed for the purpose of an airing, and desired that he would return to his cell to be locked up for the night - . This duty had previously been done by the gaol r's son, a strong young man ; but the pri sener, findiug the gaoler alone, at once deter= mined upui seeing whether he could not succ 'ea in effecting Ids escape ; and the prison, being a place adapted from a portion of the old abbey, pre sented no great d:fficulties in the way of his accom• plishing such a feat. The prisoner, who to all appearances possessed great muscular strength, caught hold of the old governor to take the keys from him, but the latter was not willing to part with (hem, and a severe scuffle ensued, which terminated in the primer throwing the old man on hie back, and the shock which he received rendered him unable to offer further re s'stance. The prisoner got possession of the keys, and walked threeigh the door and I 'eked it, leaving the old man help', ss and almost insensible on the ground. Tha long abience of the governor excited the suspicions of a woman living in the house, and her cut iosity led her to go to ascertain the cause. She had not proceeded far into the prison when she met the prisoner with the keys iu his hands. What was to he done was a question which sug gested itself to the mind of The priscen-r, for if she ran back into the house he would be frustrated in his object, as it was teen only by going through the dwelling house he would be able to get clear away. His thoughts served him, and he made up his ue:nd to put her in a place of security. Ho the hh his ii took hold of her, and carried her to a p art of the building, closed the door, and bolted it u p on her . All obstac'es to further egress be in g removed, he then with the utmost g ii p ' ep u° a ifit r astowomraylekt shoese odtaking into on s da n n pd r gteoevt€ andrii or a s c a a p p a o r apartments, n s t h s , ea a departure. -- eo"e came to the flout door, which is . situated in Fria r- stree t , and to disarm people of Euspicion he remained a few seconds in the door way, and then turning round, and apparently bidding adieu by bowing sev era l ti mes, h e quietly wa lk e d away. He got into a street leading in the direction of the Great Western Railway, and, having crossed some gardens and fields, all clue of him for the present has been lost. In all this time what lied become of the governer and his female friend ? No one else being in the house, the only alternative they had was that of screaming and hal looing. They did this as loudly as they could, and the noise eventually succeeded in atra.ctiug some one to the house. The noise was followed to the prisoners, and the discovery was made that the governor and the woman were both in confinement. - The woman was instantly released, as the dgor had • only been belted , but the task of getiing at the governor was more &fficult, as the prisoner had taken away the keys with which the door had been locked. Tue services of a locksmith having been , , obtained the door was opened, and the governor was found to be injured from the force with which he had beeu thrown down. Ho was removed to his bed and received proper assistance, and has now nearly eariliheredcoarrienrg Irishmanedtromthehaesffencotts o b f ee t n hein j cap tured, although a vigilant search has been made for him. [ADVERTISEMENT.] — Fifty Thousand Cures without Medi. tine, by Du Barry's delicious Revalenta Arabica Food, of in digestion (dyspepsia), flatulency, constipation, nervous, bilious, and liver complaints, debility, cough, asthma, consumption, &c.—Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, from the Right lion. the Lord Stuart do Decics—" I have -' derived considerable benefit from Du Barry' Revalenta Ara bica Food, and consider it duo to yourselves and the publio . to authorise the publication of these lines,---SmaaT os DECIES."—Cure No. 49,832—" Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipa. tiou, flatulency, spasms, sickness at the stomach and vomit- . ing, Lave been removed by Du Barry's excellent foo d. 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