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C ORK AND KILLARNEY RAILWAY COMPANY. A number of Shareholders in this Company, having endeavoured, without success, to obtain satisfactory information as to the present State of the Company's Affairs, they request the other Shareholders to meet them at the George and Vulture Tavern, George-yard, Lombard -street, on FRIDAY next, the 17th instant, at One o'clock Precisely, to receive such explanations as may then be given, and to determine what course should be pursued to protect their interests, by dissolving the Company, or otherwise. London, April 11, 1846. G REAT NORTH - tux' SOUTH WALES . RAILWAY. Every Sluireltolde . r . :in this.Conipany is particularly requested to attend the meeting convened by the Directors, at the Landon Tavern, ou TUESDAT NEXT, at One o'clock precisely, " For the purpose of auditing the accounts of the Directors." The committee of Shareholders have to announce, that no Re coiling have been submitted to their inspection, neither have any facilities been afforded them of testing their correctness. • It is, therefore, necessary that every proprietor should be at his Post at one o'clock precisely, to protect his own interest. FREDERIC LAWRENCE, Chairman of the " Committee of Shareholders." Founder's Hall, Lothbury. CIRCULAR NOTES AND LETTERS OF CREDIT. 1: 1 11E LONDON and WESTMINSTER BANK ISSUES CIRCULAR NOTES, for the use of Travellers and Residents on the Continent. These Notes are payable at every I mPortant place in Europe, and thus enable a traveller to vary his route without inconvenience ; no expense is incurred except the price of the stamp, and when cashed no charge is made for commission. For the convenience of the public, these notes may be obtained either at the Head Office of the London and Westminster Bank, in Lethbury, or at the Branches of the Bank, viz.:- 1, St. James's-square I 4, Stratford-place, Oxford - street 21 3, High Holborn I 3, Wellington-street, Borough 87, High-street, Whitechipel. By order of the Board, JAMES WILLIAM GILBART, General Manage•. ?FLEE PERFECT SUBSTITUTE for SILVER. The high estimate formed by the public during the tea years WILLIAM S. BURTON'S (late HIPPOS and BURTON'S) chemi cally purified material has been before it (made into every u seful and ornamental article usually made in silver, possessing, as it does, the characteristic purity and durability of silver), has called into exist slice the deleterious compounds of " Albata Plate," " Berlin Silver," and ether so-called substitutes ; they are at best bad imitations of the genuine articles manufactured and sold only by him. Fiddle Threaded King's Table Spoons and Forks, full size per Patten:l. Pattern. Pattern. 12s. Od. Od. 30s. Od. Dessert ditto and ditto, ditto ••• • .. 10s. Od. 218. ed. 255. Od. Tea ditto and ditto, ditto ••• • • . bs. 0,1. 115. Od. 128. Od. ...... as. Od. Sc. Od. 7s. Od. Gravy ditto .. NICKEL ELECTRO-PLITPD.—The REAL NICKEL SILVER, Introduced and m ade only b y WILLIAM S. BURTON (late RI ?PON and BURTON'S), when plated by the patent process of Messrs. El kington and Co., is beyond all comparison the very best article, next to sterling silver, that can be employed as such either usefully or orna mentally. In the lengthened and increasing popularity et the ma terial itself, and the high character of the method of plating, the public have a guarantee that the articles sold by W. S. Burton (and by him only) are, as it regards wear, immeasurably superior to wkat can bo supplied at any other house, while by no possible teat can they be distinguished from real silver. Fiddle. Thread. King's . Tea Spoons, per dozen .... • .... I gs, .. 32 5 , 38 , Dessert Forks „ ...... •••• • - • • 30s• 465. . 58s : Dessert Spoons „ ..... ••••• • • .. 305. 32c. .. 625. Table Forks ~• •..•••• • • • • • . 40s. .. 6sa. .. 75s Table Spoons „ .... •• • • Tea and coffee sets, waiters, candlesticks, &C., at proportionate prices. All kinds of re-plating done by the patent process. Detailed catalogues, with engravings, as well as of every ironmongery article sent (per post) tree. WILLIAM B. BURTON'S (late RIPPON and BURTON'S) stock of general Furnishing Ironmongery is literally the largest in the World, and as no language can be employed to give a correct idea of Its variety and extent, purchasers are invited to call and inspect it.- 39, Oxford-street (corner of Newman- street.) Established in Wells street. 1820. TAKE NOTICE 1 The Establishment of T. MOSES and SON will be Cloned on Thursday Evening next at Six o'clock until Saturd , y Evening, when It will be Re opened at Seven o'clock, resuming business until Twelve. A WORD FOR THE HEAD. Of all the places in the town For covering the human crown, The mart of MOSES you will find t-tands highest in the public mind. MOSES and SON let nought escape, In point of quality and shape; And If you knew what you are at, You'd hasten there to buy a hat. A WORD FOR THE BACK. Try MOSES' coats and waistcoats, too, And see how well they'll act by you. In Riling there is not a wrinkle, Nor will they spoil when rain-drops sprinkle. In durability and make, The highest - value they partake ; And when 3 our largest purchase closes, You'll net find much expense with MOSES. A WORD FOE THE LEG. %the leg's a most important limb, Which folks should always keep in trim. MOSES and SON may safely beg The patronage of ev'ry leg. For not a warehouse, any how, sirs, Can ever equal MOSES' trowsers. In cloth, and cut, and all the rest, These trowsers are " the 'very best." LIST OF PRICES. READY MADE. X E. d. Beaver Taglionis ....... ................ from 0 8 6 Chesterflgds or Codringtons ...• •• . D'Orsays, Attols, Pembroke, and every description of Winter Coats • • .... • • Moya' Winter Coats in every style . ......... &one 0 8 6 Winter troasers, lined .............................. 0 4 6 Does kin, .. Dress Coats, edged •••••• •• • . Frock, ditto ••••••• • • • • • ' • - A Roll Collar 0 1 9 Double-breasted ........ ... • . .• •. •• •• •• •• •... 0 2 6 Itoys' Hussar and Tunic 5uit5.......... Ditto, Winter tr0u5er5........... - Ditto, date Vests ................................ 0 1 6 MIDIS TO ICIA3I7EZ. Winter Coats, In every style and shape, handsomely )filled cloth Great Coats, velvet collar aid rafts ...... 1 12 0 Tweed Wrappers Ditto Trousers ............. ...... •• '••• • • .• 0 8 6 Wi nter Trousers, in all the new patterns ............ 9 12 0 0 10 6 Best 9. ll Salt.V, or dress do ... Liao, best quality made , •••••••• • • • • • • Mock Coats ............ ...... ....... •• • 1 13 0 Ditto. best quality made ••••••• • • • • • •• Cashmere Vests-- • • .. ............... 08 6 Satin do., plain er fancy •••• • • • • Boys' Hussar itsid Tank 5ait5........................ 1 6 0 Great Coats •• •• •• • The New Work, entitled " Habiliment Hall," with faU dt ?actions fjr self-measurement, may be had on application, or fer. warded, " Post Free." Observe —E. 110SES and SON, Tailors, Woollen Drapers, eat• sere, and Outfitters, Minories, and Aldgate, City, London. I mroivratcr.—Any article purchased ordered, if sot approved of or exchanged, or the money returned. NA. No business transacted at this Establishment tram stmseton Friday till sunset on Saturday, when business is resumed at twelve CenTiox.-71:. Moses anti Sou are obliged to guard the public against imposition, having learned that the untradommanlike false hood of being cennestld with them, or its the same concern, has been resorted to in many Instances, and fer obvious reasens. They have no emmexion whatover n tth nny other estalolisnment, in or out of London, and those who desire genuine Cheap Clothing should (to prevent disappointment, &c.) eall or send to 164, It:nodes, or 86. Aldgate. epmeita the Church. HORIZONTAL WATCHES, VERY FLAT. A B. SAVORY and SONS, Watchmakers, 9, O Conlinll, London, opposite tho Bank. Price, in Silver Cases, Throe and Guineas each ; or, in Gold Cases, Six Guineas each. These Watches are accurate and durable, the Horizonte- Escapement being peculiarly suited to combine those Important requi altos. They are jewelled in four holes, and continue going while being wound. A twelvemonth's warranty is given with each. PENCER'S CHINESE LIQUID HAIR DYE eleanges in a few minutes, without trouble, red or grey hair, I rliskera, eyebrows, moustaches, Leo., to a dark brown or black, by mIY Using a comb wetted with the liquid. One application will P r oducts a pleasing and permanent change. Price 3e. 6d., 64., and les. 'per bottle. To be had of the Proprietors, 29, Nottingham-place, Fieldgate 'greet, Whitechapel-road, London ; also of Mr. Johnstone, 68, Corn hill ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Prout, 229, Strand ; Sanger, 150, Oxford- Street; Barclay, Farringdon-street ; Atkinson, 24, Old Bond street ; Hooper, 43, King William-street, London bridge ; Finnigin, Milsints-street, Bath ; Elmore, Bull-street, Birmingham ; and of most Perftuners and Medicine Vendors in town and country. Sent to Stay part of the kingdom by receiving a remittance, pest-paid. Please to ask for Spencer and Co.'s Chinese Liquid Hair Dye." Observe, the Proprietor's address is on the wrapper. of ANCIIOVIE S B URGESS' ESSENCE of the Savoy -steps, London Warehouse, 107, STRAND, cornergp.a::l:ed of the numerous en JOHN BURGESS and SON, being as article for their deayears made by many persons to impose b. t h e attention of the make, feel it incumbent on thee to requ i gt uri° a t . e v righam to Public, in in purchasing vrivit they conceive to serve the Name and Address correspond vrith the I zt appearance of the spurious deseriptions win deceiveThthe gellee Guarded ; and, for their detection, J. B. and Sen, submit ti,: e --e an" cautious:—Some are in appearance at first sight, " th e goin r owi ng without same or address ; some " Burgess's Essence of Aricheo;:; but peen towards the and o th ers " Burgiss's ;" and many more without address. Z e b; itputess and Son, having been many years honoured with each die. nguished apprehation, feel every sentiment of rail Public, and earnestly solicit theta to inspect the labels previous to rr,..ahasing what they conceive to be of their ma ke, which th ey hope Rill prevent many disappointments. lII.T.RGESS' NEW SAUCE, for general purposes, having given such treat satisfaction, continues to be prepared by them, and is recent ,,,,t'snliati A 3 a most useful and convenient sauc e ; will keep good in all '''"mates. Wotehouse, 107, STRAND, corner of the Savoy-steps, London. ____ The Original Fish-sauce Warehouse. .. 13RITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH, NEW-ROAD, LONDON. MORISON'S PILLS, THE VEGE'EABLE mgrvaßsAL for the sale of the above Medicine is to be found in a ev A , B ry fo ren wn t in the United Kingdom, and most of the principal cities Ithreughout the world. See that the words Morison's Universal idisticines" are engraved on the Government stamp attixed to each box, iu white letters on a rod ground, without which none can be Reliable. No chemists or drugg ists are allowed to sell ?godson's sue- Collies. The fullowin; are the principal depots . rtYgetst Office, 364, Strand. Mr. Field, 53, Quadrant, Regent street. 24 " - Good, 53, Cambridge street, Edgeware-road. ----r ' l , °fta, a, Park-place, 1111 e-end-road. 11 . , rtrPiel, $4, Lombard-street, Cornlllll. " 4i nss, 20, New-road, St. George ' s -in-tile-East. air u are, 55, Watling street. tictldwi e, Great Tower-street. I, 'towers. Ilea p ar famare, OS, Oxford-street, and t z ,, 11 .17 and Mrs. t i :“ange. Mr. 128, Tottenliam-emirt-road. Mr. ki. uu 4 rY, Post-office, Bent.Ord. ,„._, Batten's Library, 6, filoaue-sluare, Chelsea. 'fir, Library, Clapham. Z r. -;tt ▪ Langley, 153, Great Chart-street, East-road, Hoxton. ..,▪ ,', / .. °h nson, pe r f umer, &e., 68, Coroldil. ,rruuain Hallett, 83, High Holborn. t,115. p er,42 , Great Queen-street. ti riffin, 182, Strand. Bri tish College of Health. New.road, Lorat , ) Acito O 11; "I 3 9 , .. IN a _d,dresed to MR. GRIMSTONE COMPABABLE BYE SNUFF. sited of men, who by thy wondrous art, It enowned in every clime, through every part, I n Europe's wide and civilised domain; M idst Asia's countless millions, and again, S tretching f rom Afric ' s bread and scorching shore. T o whc re the mighty Niagara rears : 0 h! here accept this tributary lay, IT or deem that I can ever well repay, xcept in gratitude sincere, profound, 'S uch wondrous benefits I so long have found. X 'en from the moment I was led to try Y our niarv'llous Sicurr, the Saviona or TUE Erz 1 E ase, health, and comfort, now attend my day S afe from the lamp's bewild'ring dazzling blaze, N or dreading e'en the Sun's TOO burning rays. U nflt, in former days, for much employ, F eeling, not seeing: now, indeed, my Joy , F roe and unbounded, thrives without alloy Sept., 1845. J. M, S. b servo—The gigantic balance of all, the Public Press eulogise els excellent compound ef British Herbs. The reader will remora .' tbat this celebrated Eye Snuff has been before the Public up -1"Irdll of It. thirty-three years, advancing in the favour of all who use t ,„„ This odoriferous Scu ff is Sold loose at id. per ounee, or in eanit le "taring th e ab ove Royal Authority', and the sanction of her 2,:trY's Lords of the Treasury on each canister , at ls. 3d., „Li 41 . 4d. as. and lbs. 6d. each, by all Tobacconists, Merchants, lat.ie, "4 ,,,Qra• This Nye Snuff is exported in white stone canisters to of the globe. A liberal discount allowed to Merchants, Loeb -- LlCente, and others, on taking large ettantities. 41`c,x7,4d_te the Signature of the Inventor, W. GRIMSTONE, 4 11)0x °4 D STREBT, and 24, KING STREET , LONG ACRE • titt:c ti le eenvenionce of Tobacconists, Grocers, and others who b ...,..'stis,:ltliscootts Rye Snuff loose , and wish to have it in lug* ' - '"`1, (11 tan be now supplied with canisters confainin ten ••7 e au ~ arch, if required. Wi est Order tar a 26. eardolgir Will be putarg pastagobt I an 4 won to Ike ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. WITH TWENTY-FIVE COLOURED ENGRAVINGS. Just published, Sixteenth Thousand, in a settled envelope, price 2s. 6d., or post paid, to any address, fur 3s. Gd. in Postage Stamps or Post-office Order. SELF. PRESERVATION: A Medical Treatise on the secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity. Illustrated with Twenty-five Coloured Plates on the Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Urinary and Reproductive Organs, explaining their various structures, uses, and functions, and showing the injuries that are produced in them, by solitary habits, and other excesses. With Practical Observations on the Treatment of Nervous Debility, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and other diseases of the Urethra. By SAMUEL LAIIERT, CONSULTING SURGEON, 9, Bedford-street, Bedford-square, London ; Metrionlated Member of the . University of Edinburgh, honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &e., &e. , REVIEWS OF THE WORK. "The anther of this singular and talented work is a legally qnall fled medical man, who has evidently had considerable experience in the treatment of the various disorders arising from the follies and frailties of early indiscretion. The engravings are an invaluable ad dition, by demonstrating the consequences of excesses, which must act as a salutary warning to youth and maturity, and by its perusal many questions may be satisfactorily replied to, that admit of no ap peal, even to the most confidential friend."—Era. Published by the Author, and may be had at his residence; also frein S. Gilbert, 52, Pateruoster-row ; nannay and Co., 63, Oxford- Street; Starie, Tichborne-street, Quadrant; Gordon, 146, Leaden all Ilooksel h -street, Loltrs.ndon • Newton, 16, Church-street, Liverpool; aid by At Home for Consultation daily, from Niue till Two, and from Five till Eight ; and all letters immediately replied to, if containing the fee of 1/., for ad v i c oAc. - 9. BEDFORD-STREET, BEDFORD SQUARE. LONDON. THE TWELFTH EDITION. Jest l'ablkshod, in a sealed envelope, price 2s. 6c1., and seat free, on receipt of a Post-oftlee Order for 3s. 6d. ANLY HEALTH : a Popular Inquiry into the Concealed Cause of its premature Decline, with Instruc • lions for its Complete Restoration. Addressed to th )se suffering from the destructive consequences of excessive indulgence, terminating' a Mental and Nervous Debility, Local or Constitutional Weakness, In digestion, and Ceasumption. Including a comprehensive Dissertation on MARRIAGE, Incontinence, and Celibacy. Illustrated with Case; &c. Consulting Surgeons . By ic C o .. 6 .1' 0 . , N L e U vrin Ci an Sli C0., -g a tr nd eeto ford-street, London. ' ; J. Gordon, Hs, Lea. And sold by Brittala. 11, Paternoster-rowx e.ivri have had denhall-street ; and all Booksellers. CAUTION. --Complaints having reached as that several wishing to purchase our work, entitled " Manly H ea lth >,-- persons placed in their hands a fraudulent infringement of our duced by illiterate and dishonourable men, and which, thouge pro a close resemblance of title, is utterly valueless; ye deem it a dut bearing by way of protection, to caution the public against being dup e d t y .; such base imitations. the above work, and not wishing to Persons desirous of obtaining apply to a bookseller for the same, may, to insure secrecy, have it direct from the Authors, by enclosing 3s. t:d., or Postage Stamps. " The best of all friends is the professional friend, and in no shape can he bo consulted with greater safety and secrecy than in " Lucas cr. Manly Ilealth."—The New Bell's Weekl% Messenger. Messrs. Lucas and Co. are to be consulted from "'en till Two, and hem Five till Eight in the evening, at their reside .oe. Ne. 60, New man-street, Oxford-street, London , and country patients may W successfully treated, on minutely describ in g their case, and enclosicg the meal fee of 11. for advice. COPY of a LETTER from WIL LIAM COURTNEY, Esq. To Mr. Tawas Paoirr, 229, Strand, London. Church Farm, Barton Stacey, near Andover Railway Station, Hants, October 26, 1844. Gout. di I fli y air,--I cannot help expressing my astonishment a l a n t t a h k e e e n fr o e i c i tlhave experienced in taking your Pills for the Thur sday night so severely with it as to be with of my bed, and after I arose I had severe pains, w c f u ' o l l t low a o ble o t n e wi get th out hi. ilammation of the foot increasing. I took three of your Pills, and within two hours I found tha pain to entirely cease. I afterwards took two Pills at a dose twice in the day, and I am, thank God, this morning able to walk without the slightest inconvenience. I found in a previous very severe attack very great relief; I had the pains in my knees and thighs so very severe at that time, I thought I must have died, and that it must have gone into my stomach. At that time I had r esor t to your P i lls, and they re li eve d me—within two hours I was quite easy. The use of these Pills ought, really, to be known all over the world. I have a brother, a young man, that suffers horribly with it, and his greatest relief and preventive has been your Pills. Make what use you please of my report.—Yours truly and respectfully, WILLIAM COURTNEY. Among the many discoveries that characterise the present age, none have contributed so much to the comfort and ease of the community, nor conferred such a boon upon suffering humanity, as the impor tant discovery of B LAIR ' S GOUT AND RHEUM ATIC PILLS, the eftleacy o f wh i ch has been tested by the approval and mom raendation o f many of the greatest men of our day. They are effec tive for gout and rheumatism, in all its various forme, including sciatica, lumbago, pains in the head and face, frequently treated as tooth-ache, Sce. They require neither confinement nor attention of any kind, and invariably prevent the disease attacking the stomach, brain, or other vitalpart. Sold by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London ; an by his appoint ment, by all reepeetabLe medicine vendors tinfougkout the United Kingdom. Price 2s. 9d. per box. Ask for BLAIR% GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS, and ob erve the name and address of " Thomas Prout, 229 Strinnl;Londeil , " m p ra ssed upon the Government Stamp aftett each box of the Genuine Medicine. --- , i l cg „L,..__, v,. .... • - if, ~,,,..,- - . ... , .:.,. z .. j, ; .. i., , ... . ~,,-, .. -;.& .. e , -1 - 3-S - -".4 , 4- t , ; ~,,, :„.• ~, __ . ...\.„., , / ,,, i -.., " - ' -- :vW/r ' - -----•,-- --N -IP- OF4:, - - . - v.i.- ..•-• ''''' . 4i V ~'c't' ' ' .-- " l `°r l •'' V' 4 S - cA\ t \• -- - - ,,, ' - ' i v i N t . . \ .. + --............. PRICE SD. 77 No. 16,712. LON DON, MON DA Ezulal NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, 26, CORNITILL, LONDON. Capitsllsoo,oo. Empowered by Act of Parliament. This institution offers important and substantial advan tages with respect both 0 Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured has, on all occasions, the power to bornw, without ex pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid, !see table); also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his interests to meet other conveni;nces er necessity. Ass:a - Juices for terms of years ars granted on the lowest possible rates. DIVISION OF PROFIT:. The success and ir.dresting prl , sytrity of toe Society has enabled :he Directors, at the last animal investigation, to declare a third Bonus, varying from at) to 70 per cent. on the premiums paid on e ach Policy effected on the Pro= scale. EXAMPLES. I Bons 1 11 _OUTIS Premium. added. Boma in glo 3. Cash. Eg F. A 0 e R 1837 £l9l 13 5 A I "' 1838 16S 13 0 1000' 74 3 4 1839 138 13 6 . I • • • 1140, 39 0 0 XB7 13 5,1513 17 1 74 13 10' 11 8 6 61 14 3 9 210 41 13 4 6 0 0 WITII PROFITS. • A,' .£395 II 1 346 2 3 296 13 4 247 4 5 Age 20 I 11.165. lid. I 30 121.95. 2d. 140 131. 6s. 6d. I 50 141. 14s. 2d. A Bonus in ready money, at the rate of 15 per cent. on the pre miums received (equivalent to a reversionary bonus of about 30 per cent.) was declared in May, 1842, on all beneficial policies on which three annual premiums had been paid in the December previous. A division of the profits takes place every five years, and the hold ers of beneficial policies can receive their bonuses in ready money, or have them applied in augmentation of their policies, or in reduction of their fhture premiums Assurers may contract to pay their Premiums either in one sum, in a given number of payments, in annual, half-yearly, or quarterly pay ments, or on the ascending or descending scale. _ Officers in the Army and Navy, on active service, Persons afflicted with chronic and other diseases, and such as are going beyond the limits of Europe, are also Assured at moderate rates. Prospectuses and all necessary information may be obtained at the Office. MICHAEL SAWARD, Secretary. NEW AND AMUSING NOVEL, Entitled " BILL BLAKE," or " A TRIP TO PARIS," by the Author of " Edwin Leslie ;" Also, an Interesting Sketch, entitled, " THE PLEASURE PARTY," will be published in the Columns of THE ULSTER GAZETTE, COMMENCING APRIL 13, 1846, AND CONTINUED IN CONSECUTIVE SECTIONS UNTIL FINISHED. The Ulster Gazette, Irish 'lnd Register and Sporting Chronicle, ,established in 1843), is published every MONDAY, in the city of Armagh, and is a journal devoted to the interests of Agriculture, to the encouragement and record of Field Sports, and other species of rational amusement. It is Non-political, and its columns contain, besides Parliamentary, Army, and Navy News, all the Irish Sport ing Intelligence of the Week, —Racing, Hunting, Coursing, Yachting, Angling, Shooting, &c.,—together with Original Articles on Veteri nary Science and Agriculture. Publishing Orrice, 9, Russell-street, Armagh, and 28, Lower Ormond-quay, Dublin, where Orders for tho Paper, Advertisements, and Communications, are respectfully requested to be addressed. Terms—Single Paper, 4%d. ; Quarterly, 4s. 6d.; or 17s. 6d. a Year. London Agent—Thompson, Palsgrave-place, Temple-bar. FOURTEENTH EDITION of the SILENT FRIEND on Haman Frailty, with Coloured Engravings. _ . Jost published, prise 2;4 . 6d.. free by post (in a sealed envelope) as. 6d. THE SILENT FRIEND ; a Medical Work on tke Infirmities of the System' n both sexes ; and on the loss of the reproductive powers, with mean/ of restoration. The baneful effects of indulge , ce, &c., are fltlly pointed out. Illustrated by En gravings; followed by observations on Marriage. Ey it. and L. PERRY and Co., Consulting Surgeons, London. Published by the Authors, and may be had at their residence 19, BERNERS-STBEET, OXFOUD-STREET. Sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row ; Hannay and CO., 63, Ox ford-street ; Gordon, 146, Leaelenhall-street ; Purkiss, Compton street, Sego; Sanger and Co., Oxford-street; and all Booksellers. "We regard the work before us, the ' Silent Frieed,' as a work embracing most clear and practical views of a series of complaint, hitherto little understood, and pP.sted over by a majority of the me dical profession, for what reason we are at a loss to know. We must however confess that a perusal of this work has left such a favourable Impression on ear minds, that we not only recommend, but cordially wish every ono who is the victim of past folly, or suffering from indis. crcti on, to profit by the advice contained ist its pages."—Age and Argun. The CORDIAL BALM of STItIACUM is exclusively directed to the cure of nervous debility, irregularity, weakness, loss or ap petite, Indigestion, consumptive habits, and debilities arising' from excess, &c. In bottles, price I Is., or the quantity of four in one bottle for 335., by which its. are saved. The Ave-pound cases may be :ad as usual. The CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE, a remedy for searching oat and purifYing the blood from scurvy, blotztes en the head, face, and body, ulcerations, and those painful affections arising from improper treatment or the effects of mercury, removing secondary symptoms, and all eruptions of the skin. Price lls. and 335. per bottle. PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS, price 2s. 9d., 4.5. 6i., and 1 is. per box, are the most effectual remedy Los strictures, inflam mation, Ssc., without hindrance to business. Consultation fee, if by letter, 11. Minute detail of cases necessary. Messrs. R. and L. Perry and Co., surgeons, may be consulted, as usual, at 19, Rerners-street, Oxford-street, London, daily, and at 106, Duke-s'eet, Liverpool, every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday ; and at 10, St. John-street, Deansgate, Manchester. on 2.l:eadays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. EASTER HOLYDAYS. Novelties of extrsina interest and inforwttion at the ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION Scenes in the OREGON TERRITORY form a part of an en tirely NEW SERIES of DISSOLVING VIEWS. PORTRAITS of the most Distinguished Men in the SIRE GOVERNMENT and ARMY of LAHORE, magnified by the OPAQUE MICROSCOPE ; also, Portraits of Blr Henry Hardinge, Sir Robert and Lady Sale. The PHYSIOSCOPE and CHROMATROPE, with new and beautiful variations. Tlie most interesting of the Novelties at work are MACINTOSH'S ROTARY ENGINE, COLEMAN'S PATENT LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE for ascending and descending Inclined Planes, FARRELL'S ARCHIMEDIAN RAILWAY, an ENVE LOPE CUTTING MACHINE, WOOD'S NEW PATENT STEAM ENGINE GOVERNOR, and the ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY. Experiments with the DIVING BELL and DIVER. Lectures on CHEMISTRY and NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, with brilliant ex periments. Admission, Is. ; Selo°is, Half-price. A brief Description of the Oregon Territory, from Notes by a Nine Years' Resident, presented to the Visitors. GENERAL TOM THUMB'S FAREWELL LEVEES at the EGYPTIAN lIALL.—EASTER WEEK. — All Tickets that have been issued will be received, notwithstanding their dates. The little General appea-s in all the costumes and per !ormances in which he had the distinguished honour of appearing three times before her Majesty, and before all the principal Courts of Europe. Hours from Half-past Twelve to Two; Half-past Three to Five and Half-past Seven to Nine o'Clock. Admission, Is.; Children, Half-price. After Nine o'clock he appears at the Lyceum Theatre. E ARLY HAY HARVEST.-RICK CLOTHS, with Poles, Punka, and Lines, complete. "No farmer should be without a good rick cloth, for it Is certainly one of the most useful thins he can lave sit his pre miaes."—Gariener's Gazette. .._. _ _ Rick Cloths, both New and Second-hand, at a reasonable sost, at BENJAMIN EDGINGTO.N'S, 3, Duke-street, Southwark. Early application will ensure prompt attention. A Warehouse at 101, Piccadilly. Marquees, Tents, Flags, Netting and Bunting for Fruit Tress, Railway Truck Covers, &e. RetwL AND'S MACAS SA R OIL preserves and reprodicos the Hair; prevents it from falling off or turning grey ; restores grey hair to its original 'Wear ; frees it front scurf and dandruff, and renders it soft, silky, surly, and glossy —facts abundantly proved by innumerakle testimenials, which are open for inspection at the proprietors. As a mild stimulative, cor rective, and preservative agent, ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL has the exclusive patronage of the several Sovereigns and Courts of Europe, and with rank, fashion, and disownment, supersedes all preparations of professed similar import. A small pamphlet aecam panies each bottle of Rowland's Macassar Oil, wherein important hints and advice will bo found en the culture of the hair of iufaney, and on its preservative and beauty through the several stages of human life. CAUTION.—Ur principled shopkeepers, tbr the sake of gaining a trifle more profit, vend the most spurious trash under the title of "Macassar Oil." It is therefore iinperative en purchasers to see that the words BOWL A.ND'S MACASSAZ OIL, are is two lines en the wrapper of each bottle, and on the inside et the wrapper nearly 1,500 times, containing 2.1,02 i letters. Price 3s. Bel., 7s. Family Bottles (equal to four small), Ifs. Gd., and double that size, 21s. per bottle.—Sold by the Proprietors, A. ROW LAND and SON, 28, Batton-gardaa, Leads's. sad ky Obemietts and Psrfumors. *.* All other lfooassur 01In are Plauditlost Counterfeits. THE USES OF LIQUID MANURE. A few days since Mr. Moore, the secretary to the Me tropolitan Sewerage Manure Company, in compliance with the request of several influential agriculturists, de livered a lecture on the application and advantages of liquid manure, to a meeting of agriculturists, at the in stitution, at Staines. The lecturer stated that the capabilities of the agri cultural interest were not at present more than half de veloped in accordance with the present state of science ; that in consequence of the deficiency of scientific know ledge, and inattention on the part of the practical agri culturists of the kingdom, fully one-half of the raw ma terial available for the manufacture of food was lost, and that the annual present money value of that loss is equal to the annual profit on the foreign commercial and manufacturing trade of the kingdom. As a practical farmer, who had during the last twenty-five years brought to bear on agriculture the science of the day, he was compelled to admit that during twenty years of that period he had been sustaining that pro portion of loss on the farm which he cultivated, and it was only by accident that he was convinced of his error. The loss referred to is sustained by the general neglect of the liquid manure made on the farm, and also by al lowing the solid manure to ferment and decompose to so ,great an extent before it is used that the principal part of the most valuable portion of it (being volatile) has been dissipated. The soil also, by improved cultivation, is capable of bearing a considerable increase of crop. He was glad to be able to admit that many of the farms in this neighbourhood were in a high state of cultivation in proportion to the depth to which they - were cultivated; but he was convinced that if land was improved to the depth of twelve or sixteen inches instead of six or eight inches, such land would not only be less susceptible of the vicissitudes of the weather, but would yield crops approaching to double in amount; the roots of the plants could obtain food at a greater depth, instead of being forced to contend with each other for food near the sur face in a limited sphere. But the first step in this im provement is that admirable system of thorough drain ing and sub-soil ploughing introduced by Mr. Smith, of Deanston, and which is absolutely necessary for all soils that are so adhesive as not to absorb all the rain water as .it falls upon them. Some years back Sir J. Graham published an account of an experiment made by him on this principle; he let a field of very inferior land to a tenant at ss. per acre, who complained that it was not worth the rent, as scarcely any animal would eat the grass that grew upon it, which induced the land lord to take it into his own hand, and try the effect of Mr. Smith's method of improvement. It was accordingly thoroughly drained, and sub soil ploughed and manured for green crop, after which it was sown with a corn crop and grass seed; after the crop of corn was re moved, it being then under clover, it was valued and let to a tenant on a twenty-one years' lease, at a guinea per acre. If his memory was correct, it was stated that the proceeds of the green crop and corn crop covered the whole of the expenses incurred in the improvement. After the land had been treated as recom mended by Mr. Smith, it was necessary to give it an increased quantity of manure. It might be asked, whence is the additional quantity of manure to be obtained ? In reply, he not only sug gested the necessity of saving the liquid manure made upon the farm, but also solicited the attention of the farmers of the neighbourhood to a source of supply ample to the utmost extent of their wants. A Com pany has been formed for the purpose of transmitting the sewage manure of the metropolis into the country to the extent of twenty-five miles, by the means of steam power and pip* which will enable the Company to dis tribute it in the fields for the farmers at so low a price • as it would cost them to cart it from their farm-yards and distribute it in the fields. It is intended to lay the main pipe along the main road through Hammersmith, Brentford, and Hounslow, and branch mains on to Chert sey, Staines, and Colebrook, from which service-pipes will be laid at about half-mile distances into the lands where the manure will be required ; taps will be in the service-pipes at certain distances, to any of which a hose pipe can be attached by the Company's men for the pur pose of distributing the liquid manure in the respective fields as may be required. The facility and economy of this mode of transmission and distribution enables the Company to supply it on such low terms. Some persons have imagined that it is the solid part of this manure that is the most valuable, but this idea is inconsistent with correct prin ciple and practical results. A reference to a very simple fact, with which we are all conversant, will sufficiently illustrate this principle ; we all know the great profi ciency of the ladies in the making of tea—how do they proceed ? They pour water upon the solid vegetable that they put into the teapot ; in the course of a few minutes they pour out the exhilirating beverage as clear (but coloured) as the purest water. When they are sa tisfied in having thus exhausted all the virtue of the tea, what becomes of the solid matter ? We all know that it is thrown away as useless. Similar treatment is adopted with the liquid manure of Edinburgh ; small cesspools are made along the main course, in which the solid matter is allowed to fall as deposit befot e the liquid is put over the land, and this solid deposit, when occa sionally cleared out, is disposed of as of very little value. One of the very great advantages in the applica tion of liquid manure is, thatit is just in the very state ready to be taken up as food by the vegetable kingdom, as it is well known that no vegetable can take up solid manure before it is dissolved. The lecturer then re ferred to several other advantages attendant upon the application of manure in a liquid state. Agricultural Advocate. FOREIGN week, and transactions, though stillAyPearylL moderate —There extent, hav e been more inquiries for for e i gn woo l thi s S o T oL A T R E AD O E, F LE T ED R s, ADE. was sno improvement LEEDS.—Ther e w have been rath er maintained,somewhat more freely en t ere d i n t o . Recent rat es are cloth•halls, eith e r on Saturday in sales at the still a complete absenc e o f 8 or Tuesd a y. Th ere i s confining their operations top pe n c r u n l h ation, the merchants There is no great accumulation of stock in to order only. n the hands of the manufacturers, and prices continue about of late. Busines s in the warehou ses has als the same as o be en very dull this week, the very wet weather having prevented buyers visiting the town. The foreign houses are also doing little until the fate or the Tariff Bill is decided. On the whole, there is less doing than has been the ease for some years at the sam e period of the season. BRADFORD MARKET, VIIURSDAY.—The demand for all kinds of combing wool is unprecedentedly slack, but p • rices continue firm. There is a fair demand for cloth ing wools. The spinners are very cautious in their business operations, and are only running as many frames as will supply their orders. For the season, we hardly ever remember such a slackness in trade. Prices are ruinously low compared with the price of wool. There was a good attendance of lookers on in the piece mar ket, but comparatively few pieces are changing hands. The manufacturers are merely producing goods to sup ply orders or deficiencies in their small stocks. There is no change in price. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—In the latter part of Tuesday there was more disposition to do busi ness in cloth than has been shown for many weeks past; and parties refusing to purchase on the terms offering in the early part of the day, were willing buyers before the close of the market. This feeling both yesterday and to day has been on the increase, and in a few cases a slight advance has been obtained, though it is by no means general, but the market closes rather buoyant than otherwise. Yarns for the East are tolerably ready sale, and fully as dear. Altogether it may be said that the market is decidedly in an improving state. LEICESTER.—Trade is in the same dull state as last reported. No improvement is likely to take place until after Easter. Wools anti Yarns Are flat, without alte ration in primp. THE SUEZ CANAL. COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE MEDITER. RANEAN AND RED SEA. (From L'llluitration, of April 4, 1846;) " The waters shall fail from the sea, and the brooks of defence shall be dried up."—lsaiah. When one casts one's eyes over the Isthmus of Suez, one is tempted to reproach nature, which has protracted the Red Sea, between Asia and Africa for 500 leagues, ith a deficiency of force to conduct 30 leagues further up to the Mediterranean. Why, one is prompted to in. quire, do we permit an isthmus of barren sands tra versed by the came!, that monotous "ship of the desert," to the other than a maritime strait, ploughed like the Bosphorus or the Dardanelles by innumerable vessels with streams of a thousand colours? The undertaking of the Suez Canal is one of those performances in which the principle of association will have to perform the principal part. It is at the same time one of those which promises future men the greatest enjoyments, and tends to awaken in the present the brightest aspirations. The intercommunication of the Red Sea and Mediterranean is a work of harmony and peace ; for it tends to the intimate union of western and eastern civilisation ; that is to say, of the two great d iv i s i o n s of human existence. This, moreover, is no new tendency. From time im memorial the idea of a canal communication across the Isthmus has subsisted in the world. Never has man lost sight of this crowning work—steadily, faithful to the conviction that it was destined for him at some future day to repair the premeditated oversight of nature, and make a maritim e we ddi ng between the Red Sea and Mediterranean. The Pharoahs, those Titans of ancient times, who erected the gigantic pyramids—dug lakes of a dozen leagues in circuit, and converted granite mountains into monolithic temples, found, it is probable, the junction of the two seas a trivial operation. They realised the project of the junction of the Pelusiac or eastern branch of the Nile by the medium of the Wady Tomilat, or vale of Geshen ; and by the Bitter Lakes, which were then contiguous to the Arabic Gulf. An ancient tradition records that Menelefis, after the siege of Troy, traversed the Isthmus of Su e z in or d er t o visit Ethiopia. Ilerodotus informs us that Darius completed the canal which led from the Pelusiac branch to the Bitter Lakes, and which had been commenced by the successors of Cambyses. _ When, at a later period, the sands. had filled up or t greatly iono f the Bitter obstructed, Lakes,the P i e t 1 wasusi a c found as necessary we l l a t to a dig por tion a o r r clear the canal of the Nile from the Wady Tomilat to one of the navigable branches of the river. This was the system of communication which existed in the times of Strabo and the Ptolemies. In the time of the Fatimite Caliphs, there was scarcely any other communication between Suez and Cairo but through the interior of Egypt, by means of the Canal of ejan, which traversed the Wady Tomilat, and which thus united Cairo with the Bitter Lakes. This latter system was limited to the mere advantage of Egyptian commerce. A railroad from Cairo might be advanta geously substituted for it. It is sufficiently notorious that Napoleon, at the time of the French expedition to Egypt, devoted bis ambitious mind to the great enterprise of cutting through the Isth mus. According to the project of the French engineers attached to that expedition, it was proposed to fill the Bitter Lakes with water from the Nile, taken at its height in Cairo, and conducted through the valley of Tomilat. It was also proposed to clear the ancient Canal of Suez to the Bitter Lakes (thirteen miles and a half in length), and feed it with water from the Red Sea. In conformity with this plan, the communication would have traversed Egypt and the Delta, as in the times of the Ptolemies. But the chief engineer, La Pere, who headed the commission of numerous and distinguished engineers (including Fevre, St. Genis, Chabrol, Devil- Tiers, Duchenoy, &c.), proposed to combine with this scheme the additional project of a canal proceeding due north from the northern extremity of the Bitter Lakes, and terminating on fr.e Mediterranean at Tineh, near the ancient seaport city of Pelusium. For this purpose he took an elaborate and complete survey, recording in the most masterly manner all the levels of his projected line, and the soundings required for the two seaports at either extremity, which is preserved among the official archives of the French Government. It may be briefly remarked that this important appendix to the project would, if carried out as intended at the time of Napo leon's expedition, have effected a direct and permanent union between the Red Sea and Mediterranean. During his sojourn in Egypt, however, Napoleon did no more than revive an ineffaceable idea and aspiration immemorially handed down from age to age. But it was the destiny of that great genius to contend with men rather than with nature, and it was net given to the last of the now happily extinct race of conquerors to con quer the obstacles which the Isthmus of Suez opposes, uniting the Mediterranean, where he first saw the light, with the ocean which witnessed his dying moments. Peace has now reigned undisturbed for thirty years among the governing powers of the world. Modern civilisation, which bus been charged by some ascetic spirits with irreligious tendencies, may be said at this moment to be accomplishing one of the most religious achievements. It is everywhere creating new and humanising modes of rapid communication•by means of railways and canals. Innumerable steam-vessels plough all the seas of the globe. India and China are open to Europeans, and Japan will, on the first occasion, yield to the resistless sway of th e great c i v ili s i ng movemen t. Already has the ancient route from India by the Red Sea been fully established, as far as concerns the transit of costly wares, letters, and passengers. The passage from Bombay to London has been reduced to au average of 30 days ' • and the desert f rom Suez to C a i ro , i n d e f au lt of a railway, exhibits a tolerably good road, regularly traversed by omnibuses, and accommodated with stations and hotels. All things seem, therefore, to prepare the way for the immediate solution of an important problem, namely, the viability (viabilite) of our globe. The undertaking of the canal of Suez would augment the value of those great European railways which terminate at Trieste, or abut on the Mediterranean. The bankers and capitalists who have supported or constructed those railways, are vitally interested in a free communication between the two seas. That communication constitutes in reality the in - .ispensable completion of the entire chain of European railways. It will supply the last link and final rivet to the system. What system of communication should be adopted ? What is the best mode of execution and of management? After mature deliberation, our opinion is decided that the communication should be direct, and maritime. The medium by which the Red Sea and the Mediterranean should be united must be an artificial Bosphorus. It must be by an arm of the sea projected across it, that the isthmus must be pierced. Created by human agency, the Suez Bosphorus will have the manifest advantage over the Bosphorus of Constantinople, viz., that of being governable by locks. The Red Sea is thirty-two feet higher, as is well known, than the Mediterranean ; four locks would be amply sufficient for the difference of level. At the north and south extremities of this great marl time canal two seaports are indispensable. The harbour of Suez must be deepened, and the roadsteads secured by breakwaters. At old Pelusium (Tineh), on the Me diterranean, a harbour should be constructed with jetties. Such is the principal work of communication. An idea of it may be readily formed by throwing a glance over any good topographical chart of the Isthmus. To this main work, two accessory, but equally neces sary, undertakings must be added; one a canal of Nile water, the other a railway from Cairo to Suez. The last, however, may be dismissed in a few words. Though necessary, it may be transient, and it may be abandoned or surrendered to the Pacha, as soon as it has accom plished its main purpose—namely, of facilitating the labours and accelerating the completion of the canal. Provisions, water, tools, and Workmen may be conveyed by it from Cairo to the scene of operations in three hours, and the rails, which are pirtially laid down in six months. ready, may be The second accessory undertaking is a fresh water canal. This appears to the author an indispensable sup plement to the maritime canal. It will permit the plantation of the shores of this artificial Bosphorus, rendering them as picturesque as those of the Byzantine Bosphorus. The starting point of the fresh water canal being above the barrage which the Pacha is now constructing, there will be an unfailing water level quite adequate to the protrac ments, and the protrac tion of the two rivulets —one to the north as far a Pula siurn, the other on the south to Suez, where fresh water at present is totally deficient. Then will a short period nurse up on the two banks of the maritime canal and of the Bitter Lakes a broad girdle of vegetation, luxuriant d th e e ser s with the hues and redundant with the products of the tropics. Then will the wilderness " blossom as the rose," desert conquered. all nations traverse a verdant and smiling country,qbueerreedst.raiTnehdeninwitlhleitrheenevreosaseehls of through Woodss of palm trees and meadows of sugar cane and cotton. Then will the surprised and delighted navigator . in h a l e as when boating down the Nile, the evenin g roses, orang e fl ower , and jessamine. per f ume of The fresh water canal, above indicated, will f direction of the Wady Tomilat, where traces*allow the ancient canal are still extant. This valley, during of the dations of the Nile, is often covered with tirin g ' :nun inundation sometimes reaches the Serape un3 wat r, Th e ruins, and distinguished by the relics of a' templea t° " in Serapis, celebrated formerly for its cures and for of salubrity of its atmosphere. The maritime canal the restore vitality to this important station, which would a middle distance between its two extremities.occu occupied Tile s we may fairly calculate that a city would grow up, re t once partaking of a commercial and ag r i cultural -a cha racter. Old Pelusium also will again arise f rom it .s ashes. It will become at once an a g reea ble point o f re sidence, and a first - rate co mmercial cit y , In this man ner- will a remarkable prophe c y be realise d — " Then shall they rebuild the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations ; they shall repair the ruined cities and the I PI I d es olations of many generations. digestion very bad,' and weakly state - a . [ADVEnTISEMENT.]—DEBILITY AND W EAltriEss ExTaaoantruitv CASE. CURE BY HottowiT's v.. • Raz. i rs Mitchell, of Bristol-road Birmingham, v . vas , in that not to be able to dress herself ; besides I‘,Lb i li, there was a constant pain In the right side, preventing her from lying u p on it. she . w it never free from head-aches ; her spirits always greatly depressal. Now this l a d y, ere shebe appetite _t!nd di came so extremely ill, visited various watering Places, where she had the beet medical advice, but her case baffled the skill of all, a„,‘ yet, to the surprise of her fam i ly and friends, she is r es t ored to par_ =tient health by the use of Holloway's Pills.—Sold b y all druggist; land at Profelsor IioUVITIO Eltaliguneutp 2441 PitrAnd, London. : -.,7 6441 4 1 APRIL is 184f3. GOOD FRIDAY. From the earliest period of Christianity this day has been observed as a solemn fast in memory of the cruci fixion of our Saviour. Its appellation Good is of no very remote origin, and appears to be peculiar to the English Church. Our Saxon forefathers called it Long Friday, from the length of the offices and fastings on this day; but its ancient title, mid that by which it is known in the Western Church, is Hay Friday. OLD AND POPULAIt CUSTOMS. We are not aware that in Hull, or the district of Ho, derness, there are any customs peculiar to Good Friday. It was formerly the custom of English monarchs on this day to hallow with great solemnity certain rings, the virtue o f o e f s s a ring which poor person had been ho given had dasked touching of whi c h was b e li eve d to prevent cramp and En ing sickn ess . Thi s usage took its rise in the mys terious ward the c n o rbyasEdd alms of him, fur the love he bore to St. John the Evangelist ; and which, having found its way to Jerusa lem, was afterwards brought back to St. Edward by some pilgrims returning from Palestine. It was kept for centuries in Westmirster Abbey with much venera tion ; the Sovereigns of England were thought to be able to impart its virtue to other rings, and there was a peculiar service for their consecration. These were called "cramp-rings," and presented and received with an implicit faith in their sanatory power. Andrew Boorde, in his Breviary of Health, 4t0., 1557, speaking of the cramp, observes :—" The King's Majesty bath a great help in this matter in hallowing cramp rings, and so given without money or petition." Lord Berners, the translator of Froissart, when Ambassador to the Emperor Charles V., writing to Cardinal Wolsey, on "the 21st of June, 1518," says, "If your Grace re member me with some cramp-rings, we shall do a thing much looked for, and I trust to bestow them well with God's grace," &c. In Suffolk, the use of cramp rings is not entirely abandoned. Instances occur where nine young men of a parish each subscribe a crooked six pence to be moulded into a ring for a young woman afflicted with. ...lu_eannexiou Avith the tramp, and one of its supposed remedies, we will present our readers with the following charm "for one's foot when asleep,' in use in the Blue-coat school, when Coleridge was a little boy 'there, and ever since its foundation in the reign of Edward VI. It runs thus : "Foot! foot! foot! is fast asleep! Thumb! thumb! thumb! in spittle we steep; Crosses three we make to ease us, Two for the thieves, and one for Christ Jesus." The same charm served for a cramp in the leg, with this substitution:— " The devil is tying a knot in my leg! Mark, Luke, and John, unloose it I beg! Crosses three," &c. " And really," says the poet just mentioned, " upon get ting out of bed, when the cramp most frequently occur red, pressing the sole of the foot upon the cold floor, and then repeating this charm wish the acts configurative thereupon prescribed, I can safely affirm that I do not remember an instance in which the cramp did not go away in a few seconds." Eggs and apples were anciently connected with Good Friday. A writer, in 1579, refers to the custom of " creeping to the cross with eggs and apples." One William Rathe, in 1570, says. "that on iliis day the Roman Catholics offered unto Christ eggs and bacon, to be in favour till Easter-day was past." A French writer in 1679, observes, " that he has known people who pro serve all such eggs as are laid on Good Friday, which they think are good to extinguish fires in which they may be thrown." He adds, that some imagine that three loaves baked on the same day, mid put into a heap of corn, will prevent its being devoured by rats, mice, weevils, or worms." In England but one sort of eatable "remains in association" with the day, namely hot cross buns. These are small cakes, slightly sweetened and spiced, sometimes of a round shape, and sometimes long and tapering at both ends, but alway marked on the top with an indentation in the form of a cross. "In Lon don," says a writer before quoted, " as well as in almost every other considerable town in England, the first sound heard in the morning of Good Friday is the cry of Hot cross buns !' uttered by great numbers of people of an humble order, who parade the streets with baskets con- raining a plentiful stock of the article, wrapped up in flannel and linen to keep it warm. The cry, which is rather musical, is strictly— ' Hot cross buns— One a penny, buns—two a penny, buns, One a penny, two a penny—hot c ross buns 1' Hucksters of all kinds, and many persons who attempt no traffic at any other time, enter into the business of supplying buns on Good Friday morning. They make a stir in the streets which lasts till church time, and it is resumed in the afternoon." Sixty years ago pastry-cooks vied with each other for excellence in making hot cross buns; and there were two bakers' shops at Chelsea so celebrated for this manu facture, that crowds of customers thronged benea . h the flat-roofed wooden portico or piazza which ex tended along the front of each, during the whole of the day. Several hundreds of square black tins. each containing dozens of hot buns, were disposed of in every hour, from a little after six in the morning till after the same period in the even ing. Cross buns resemble, in some respects, the con secreted loaves, bestowed by the Western Church on those who, from any impediment, cannot receive the Holy Eucharist. These are made from the dough from whence the Host itself is taken, marked with the cross, given by the priest to the people after mass, just previously to the departure of the congregation, and are kissed before they are eaten. It is remarkable, that the loaves of the Greeks were signed with a cross from the earliest periods, and that such were offered to the gods, under a name which in the accusative case is born. Two loaves with an impression of the cross, within which were four other lines, were found in Herculaneum. In the houses of some ignorant persons, a Good Friday bun is pre served " for luck ;" and sometimes there hangs from the ceiling a hard biscuit-like cake of open cross-work, baked on Good Friday, to remain there until displaced on the next Good Friday by a similar one. This is deemed a preservative against fire. A correspondent of the " Every Day Book" stated that on Good Friday, in the neighbourhood of West Derby, a custom prevails which is called " paste-egg ing." Parties of the juvenile peasantry disguise them selves in the most fantastic habiliments—such as clothes turned inside out, with masks, veils, &c., and betake themselves (in numbes of about four to a dozen of both sexes) to the different farm-houses, and solicit contribu tions towards the " festival" of Easter Sunday. These gifts are generally eggs and oatmeal cakes. One of the party usually carries a basket for the eggs, another for the cakes, and a third is the bearer of a small box for oecuniary contributions. They generally cheer their benefactors with some animated songs, and seldom fail to return homeward with a plentiful supply of their "paste-egg," and no trivial aid in money. With these materials a feast is got up on Easter Sunday evening at the village ale-house. In the midland districts of Ireland it is a common practice on Good Friday, with the lower orders, to pre vent their children, even those at the breast, from having any sustenance from twelve on the previous night to twelve on the night of Friday; and it is common to see along the roads, between the different market towns, numbers of women with their hair dishevelled, bare footed, and in their worst garments. All this is in com memoration of Christ's passion. RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES. An old book, containing the ceremonies observed by the English monarchs, directs the usher to lay a carpet on Good Friday, fur the King " to creep to the cress upon;" and a proclamation of the 30th Henry VIII. enjoins on this day, " it shall be declared how creepingto the cross signifieth an humbling of yourself to Cl rist, before the cross, and the kissing of it a memory of ou r redemption, made upon the cross. ' The "rotting up ' of the Easter sepulehres on Good Friday appears to have been a general pract i ce in Eng land. In this was placed the host with a crucifix, or the host alone, which was watched, according to the Sarum rite, from Good Friday till early in the morning of Easter day. Perhaps the most curious "sepulchre, " of which we have an account was that at St. Mary Red cliffe's Church, Bristol, 1471. It is described as " well gilt with fine gold," and comprising among its deco rations "an image of God Almighty rising out of the same sepulchre, with all the ordinance that belongeth thereto—that is to say, a lathe made of timber and ironwork thereto. Item—Heaven made of timber and stained cloths. Item—Hell made of timber and iron work thereto, with devils the number of thirteen. Item: four knights armed keeping the sepulchre, with their weapons in their hands—that is to say, two spears two axes, with two shields. Item: four pair of angels' wings, for four angels, made of timber, and well painted. Item: the Father, the crown and visage, the ball with a cross upon it, well gilt with fine gold. Item : the Holy Ghost coming out of Heaven into the sepulchre." Barrett's Bristol, oited by Fosbroke, p. 50, note. On the Gospel side of the chancel, and nearly opposite the sedilla, we generally find an arch forming a recess and canopy to an altar tomb. This was often used as an Easter " sepulchre." Pious persons, in their wills, fre quently desired to have their tombs so built as that they might serve for this purpose. Two of the finest examples of stone "sepulchres" are at Eckington Church, Lincolnshire, and Hawton Church, Nottinghamshire •, these are richly decorated in the style of Edward 111., with representations of the Roman soldiers asleep, and other appropriate imagery. The Good Friday ceremonies we have described were neglected in the Church of England after the Reforma tion. As late, however, as the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the following charge occurs in the churchwarden's "Ac compts of the parish of St. Helen," Abingdon:—"Paid to the bellman for meat, drink, and coals, watching the sepulchre, 19d." The anniversary of the crucifixion is now observed in this country, in most places, by the suspension of all business, the closing Of shops, and a solemn service in the churches, many of which are hung with black, and every ornament is removed from their altars. Some members of the English church abstain, on this sacred fast, from any kind of animal food, even from cream to tea ; such we are informed by Boswoll was the custom of Dr. Johnson. Divine service is well attended,, and it is considered proper to appear at ehurch in " sad coloured" clothes. Mr. Secretary 41ficlatone left town on Saturday for Brighton. ; c L THE ROYAL SOCIETY. ILLEGAL AWARD OF THE ROYAL MEDAL (From the Lancct of April 4.) Grave reports of irregular and improper conduct, in ,connexion with the bestowal of the honours of the Royal Society, hare now been for some time both privately and publicly promulgated. In the absence of all contradic tion or explanation by the parties most intimately eon ef.rned,. rumour grows into assured certainty. Tht. Royal medal for the present year, in the depat ttnent of physiology, has been prominently rvfetred to ; but the facts in our possession enable us to slcptch a history of the medals from their institution in 1825 to the present time. After this sketch the writer thus proceeds:— Now comes the recent award of the r Till medal to Jr. Beck, for hi s p a p er on t h e d i ssect i on Gf t h e gravi d uterus. '!his was commented on in Mr. Red Cord's published last week ; and this gentleman certainly de serves much praise for Lis courage in openly detailing many of the facts connected with the award—facts which tend very much to bring the medical section of the Royal Society into contempt for their extraordinary . vacillation. Up t o th e present date, the proceedings of the Royal Society have expressed, five separate times, an opinion on Dr. Leo's dissections. Of these, three are favourable and two are adverse. Dr. Lee's first paper was printed in the " Philosophical Transactions ;" a supplement also was printed , then an additional sup plement was reported as not to be printed ; next, Mr. Beck gets the royal medal for contradicting all Dr. Lee's labours ; and lastly, the second supplement, once reported against, is now ordered to appear in the forthcoming transactions. . The chaiges brought against the medical section of the Royal Society are as follow ; if they can be proved to be incorrect, doubtless the proof will be supplied : On the 19th of June, the last paper of Dr. Lee was read before the Society. On the 28th of Ootober, (four months afterwards), the physiological committee met, to receive reports on the merits of the different paper , , an to re commend to the council the award of the meda's, Mr. Lawrence being in the chair. After the disi:atch of the ordinary business, and after voting the recommendation fur the Copley medal, Mr. Lawrence dissolved the meet ing, on being informed by the secretary, 1)r. Roget, that there was no further business for transaction. As soon as Mr. Lawrence had left Somerset House, the com mittee was re-formed, Dr. Todd being placed in the chair; and Dr. Todd and Dr. Sharpey, being the referees, produced from their packets reports favourable to Mr. Beck's paper. On these reports, it was resolved to re commend the award of the Royal medal to Mr. Beck. It should be mentioned, that Mr. Lawrence had been the referee of Dr. Lee's papers on former occasions, and was, of course, well. acquainted with the subject, and that neither Dr. Todd nor Dr. Sharpey had seen Dr. Lee's preparations and dissections for four years. Another extraordinary fact (as we are informed) is, that Dr. Lee's paper, which for four months had remained unreferred in the secretary's possession, was actually produced at this extraordinary committee, and, as if in mockery, put in competition with Mr. Beck's paper and some others. The very next act of this alleged illegal committee was to refer 1)r. Lee's paper to Sir Benjamin Brodie, to ascertain whether it was worthy of being printed in the transactions. Sir Benjamin Brodie re port°d in its favour, but it was blackballed by the physiological committee. It must, however, in justi e to the council, be stated, that this body afterwards or dered it to be printed. It will scarcely be believed, that on the 30th of Octo ber, two days after the recommendation of this irregular committee, the council met and adopted the award of the committee, after which it resolved itself into a com mittee of papers, to consider whether Mr. Beck's paper. should be printed ! They then could know nothing of the grounds on which the award bad been made ; the only persons who had seen Mr. Back's paper were Drs. Todd and Sharpey, and the secretary, Dr. Beget ; it had not, as yet, even been read to the society ! In such a mole-like manner were the proceedings conducted, in volving a most important point in anatomical discovery, and implicating the reputation and labours of a Fellow of the Royal Society Another extraordinary circumstance is, that Mr. Beck, after presenting his paper, was allo,ved to have it back for correction ; and it is even alleged that Mr. Beck had been permitted access to Dr. Lee's papers ; for it is stated that his corrected paper contains allusions to the subject matter of that which had been presented by Dr. Lee. Such proceedings are subversive of all order and justice. IVho can say that Mr. Beck's paper for which he received the medal is the same paper as that origi nally presented, or that the paper, when printed, will be the same paper as that upon which the award was made? There are yet other singularities connected with this affair. From some cause or other, the council, ap parently not satisfied with the first recommendation of the committees, ordered them to state the grounds upon which the recommendation was made. The physiologi cal committee, on the 20th of November, ap pointed Drs. Sharpey and Todd to draw up report ; on the 27th, the committee met, received the report, and adopted it. On the Ist of December the council met, received the report, confirmed the recom mendation of award made by the irregularly constituted committee on the 30th of October, and an hour after, the Royal medal was given away by the Marquis of Northampton. Thus, then, the recommendation of the award was made by the referees, Dra. Sharpey and Todd, and adopted by the physiological committee, and by the council, before even the paper was read to the Society, and before it was known whether it was to be printed or not. The medal was given before the minutes of the council had been confirmed, and before the paper for which it had been given had been printed. Even now it has nut appeared in print! And this is in glaring con travention of the regulations according to which the foundation of the Royal medals was restored by her Majesty, which orders—" That the Royal medals be given fur such papers on ly as h ave been presented to the Royal Society and inserted in their Transactions.'" This regulation is printed, too, on the front page of every volume of the "Philosophical Transactions." The justice and propriety of such a regulation are obvious. Time is afforded for weighing the merits of different communications, and the possibility of unfair alterations and omissions in a paper printed subsequently to its re ward prevented. The scientific world has no guarantee whatever, looking to the previous conduct of the parties concerned, that the paper may not be adapted to suit any contingency that may arise. Properly, morally, and, it would appear, legally, Mr. Beck could not have appeared as a candidate for the medal, supposing his paper to b. printed during the course of the present year, until De cember, 1848. Thus time would have been allowed for deliberation, and the award of the medal would have had some force; now, it falls to the ground, utterly valueless to its recipient. But supposing Mr. Beck's dissections to be quite cor rect—supposing the uterus has no nerves at all, or that Dr. Lees ganglia are fictions, creations from cellular tissue, what are Mr. Beck's researches words? One might imagine a great discovery, so Instant in its re ception and application, that anch hot haste to reward it might have been in some measure pardonable. But Mr. Beck's pretends to be none of these. According to all that the profession yet knows of it, even granting it true, it would be but the pains-takingcorrection by mere mechanical dissection of the mistake of another anato mist. The medal is actually given for not making a discovery. One might imagine Sir Charles Bell ashamed of the medal he received. The first falls to Bell—the last, to Beck! What a difference! what a decadence! If all this be severe to Mr. Beck, let him thank Drs. Todd, and Sliarpey, and Roget, who have placed him in a false position. No ono would more readily have ren dered legitimate praise to his labours than ourselves. The relation of the Royal Society to men of science shoul I be distinctly understood. If the council or the committees do wrong, the Royal Society must suffer. In the eye of the world there is no injustice so odious, and so severely resented, as that of unjust judges, in any case. There is no misconduct so vile as that of malversation of office ; the higher the office the greater the atrocity, when wrong is perpetrated. Even the Royal Society is not omnipotent ; it cannot make, though it may " adjudicate," the bad to be good, and the good to be bad. A paper unjustly treated may bring temporary pain and discredit to its injured author, but ft reflects lasting ignominy on his judges. A medal un justly awarded brings a double discredit—discredit on those who give, and on him who receives. It was a true and beautiful saying of one of the most illustrious pre sidents of the Royal Society, Sir Humphrey Davy, " It is better to deserve and not to have, than to have and not deserve." Justice it is which gives value to honorary rewards. Could fifty Royal medals raise Mr. Newport to a level with those who were insulted by the award in his case ? Could fifty awarded to Mr. Beck, under the circum stances detailed, have the effect of destroying the credi bility of Dr. Lee's dissections ? Would they not rather create a prejudice in their favour ? The recoil acts always upon the doers of injustice. Let the Royal So ciety look to it, particularly the medical section of those in authority. They are on trial before their pro fession, upen whose opinions their reputations rest. Let the Royal Society look at the Society of Antiquaries, where intestine cabals have already caused the resigna tion of the president, Lord Aberdeen, and take warning. We are not sure whether, in the present state of things, it would not be proper to call on all the parties ag groved to state what they know respecting the events in question. But wo wait awhile. Time is an in structive monitor. (From the Lancet of April 19 We understand that the council has refused to revise the scandalous proceedings of the committee extraordi nary, upon which we commented last Reek. In the case of Dr. Lee, the recommendation of even a commit tee formed out of order by a mean trick, is held to be inviolate. Dr. Lee protested against the proceedings of this pretended committee, and Mr. Lawrence, the chair man to one of the meetings, moved their repudiation, but in vain. Properly considered, the whole atilkir is as grossly insulting to this person as it is unjust to Dr. Lee. It is incredible that he should have so far stultified him self as to pnt, the illegal recommendation for the Royal medal to the next meeting for c onfirmation. But though the council have refused to retrace their false steps, they have humbly confessed their error by re. Solving to print, in the next volume of " Transactions," different regulations respecting the future a war d s of medal., though this is in contradiotlollto the regujittigni anctioned by her Majesty. But will a loophole for t l he future be a veil for the past ? We have heard, too,t}ta t the Jesuitical dogma has been broached by th e heat o f the society, that whatever the doings of thettSuncil, however unjust, partial, and fiagitipus, onee - piiimulgatecl, they are, to have the fano of law to the fellows; and they are told- they are in honour bound to lick the rod that injures them. This would, indeed, be in the school of L )yola—to uphold the dishonour, instead of the hot oar, of thl society. ..But what ought to be done to purify our first scientific institution, SD jobbed and so abused ? Will the Physio logical Committee, which has caused the Society to stink in the nostrils of all decent people, be allowed to remain unreformed ? Will the medical section of the Royal Society still be marred by the exhibition of scientific) Jetuitry. of partisanship, of petty cliqueries, of favour itism,. of selfishness, of mean cringing, of want of sympathy with real genius, of private enmities, and other baleful. feelings, which degra - le both Vie men and the pr)fession? If fte individual, who might almost bo call , d the medical portion of the Royal Soeitty, be indis adssible, the Marquis of Northainpton should resign, and repudiate his acts. If he dues not the one or the other, the blame and discredit will he divided between them. One thing is iery certain, that suspicion will luiver about the proceedings of the Society for some time to come, and every step will be narrowly watched. When medical even see, that of six Royal medals in physiolv.y, the award done only hes been perl'ee•ly satis!aetery. they will for the future a s k, not who obtained the Royal medal? but, what was it pbtained for? The professional eye, once awakened, will be keen enough for the detec tion of injustice; and when injustice is doLe, a Royal or a Copley medal will be a very poor Agis to ward off the deserved punishineht. REPORT UPON T HE LOSS OF THE GREAT LIVERPOOL STEAMER. Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Cpm pany's Office, 51, St. Mary-axe, London. April 7, 1846. The committ , e appointed by the minutes of the Buard of the 31st March, 1846, to investigate the circum stances cmnected with the loss of the Great Liverpool steam-ship, on the morning of the 24th of February, at four o'clock, about ten miles from Cape Finisterre, re port that : Havinrrread the letter of the lata commander of the Great Leverpool, dated Vice. Consulate Office, district of Corcubion, Feb. 24, 1846, announcing the loss of that vessel at four o'clock in the morning of that day, by her striking on a rock or shoal ; Having cloiely in4pecied the log of that ship for 48 hours previous, as well as her logs for l ,previous home ward •boutid"Yriptegre's—th'e ni Mtn. toc.N fate commander : containing the orders given on the night of the 233 of February, at eight o'clock, as well as the day's works or reckonings of the officers of: the ship, as sent in on the previous noon ; . . . Laving closely examined the followi ng witnesses, who were on board the Great Liverpool when she was wrecked, viz.:—Mr. George llamilton, chid' officer; Mr. GeOrge Miall, third ditto; Mr. Neil Cook, second ditto; Mr. William Beneraft, fourth ditto; Mr. Edward Lane, purser; Richard Williams, seaman (man at the wheel); James Beale, carpenter ; Mr. Samuel Wright, first engineer, As well as Captain John Bowen, of the merchant ser vice (a passenger on board, and who has been a com mander in the coasting trade upwards of four years, and twelve years in the merchant service in India): That gentleman expressed himself to the committee to the following effect:— That, "He felt perfectly satisfied with the truthful ness of the compasses. That, " The vessel was steered very correctly. That, "Having worked the ship's reckoning for that day, as was his usual practice on the voyage, he felt satis fied the course steered, N.N.E. and N.N.E. E., ought to have taken the vessel nine to twelve miles to the westward of Cape Finisterre. That, "He was of opinion the vessel was carried so far to the eastward by reastm of some unaccountable in draft, which he afterwards supposed to be occasioned by a succession of easterly gales, which had prevailed in the Atlantic for some days previous to and after the wreck of the Great Liverpool. That. "He (Captain Bowen) was very much pleased and gratified with the good order and discipline which prevailed on board the Great Liverpool. That, "Captain M'Leod was always most attentive to his duties, as were a1..0 the several officers of the ship, and the orders were given and carried out with a degree of quietness that struck him forcibly. That, "He never observed the duties on board a ship carried out with more efficient regularity." On the' examination of Captain C. F. Burney, of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Pacha, and Mr. James Carter, the chief officer of that vessel, they stattd That, " After leaving the Rock of Lisbon, on her last homeward voyage, on the afternoon of the 2d of March, 1846, they experienced an unusual inset, the vessel being draWn towards the land, and that the course was conse quently altered two points to the westward of the course then steering, which circumstance was noticed in the log at that time. That, " On the 4th of March, when the loss of the Great Liverpool was heard of on heard the Pacha, Captain Burney, was of opinion that it must have been occasioned by the extraordinary and unsual inset which had prevailed on the coast fur several days." Having examined Captain John Soy, of the Penin sular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Oriental, he stated kS follows : That, " The Oriental passed Cape Finisterre, on her lust outward voyage on the 25th of February, at six P.M., the shy after the Great Liverpool went on shore, at a distance of from eighteen to twenty-two miles to the westward of it. That, "He found a remarkably strong inset, so that, instead of making the Burlings ten miles on the port bow, as he expected, he wade them on the starboard bow, showing a difference in the position in which the vessel ought to have been, according to the course steered, of from fifteen to twenty miles in a run of 210. That, " He had experienced an inset b6.)re, but never to such an extraordinary degree as on the occasion alluded to." Un the ipspeetion of the abstract of the log of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's steam-ship Tweed, Captain George Parsons, on her last outward voyage from Southampton to Madeira (which ship denarted from Southampton on the lith of February, 1846, at three P. 3.1.), it appears that on the 23d of the same mouth it blew a " pt.rfect hurricane" from the S.W. We find that these westerly gales had lasted for up wards of nine days Sti th great severity, and it has been remarked that inset towards the shore is always more apparent during the prevalence of such gales, although the degree and direction of the wind experienced on board the Great Liverpool on the coast of Spain and Portugal (being S.S.E. to S. by W. by compass) was not such as to cause any apprehension of inset in the mind of the late Captain Al`Leod, who bad made his course true from Cape St. Vincent' to the Rock of Lis bon, and thence to the Burlings, from whence he shaped his course to clear Cape Finisterre. Tee committee examined a copy of a chart by which the Great Liverpool was navigated (the original having been lost with the vessEl). They find, from the evidence, that the compasses were in good order and true, and that the vessel was correctly steered. They further find the course steered on this last voyage was the same as that which had been steered by that vessel with safety on twenty-one previous homeward passages, and that Captain M`Leod had himself been stationed on the fore castle, looking out for two hours previous to the acci dent, where he continued until the ship struck. The committee deem it due to the character of the late commander of the Great Liverpool, to state that the utmost vigilance and care fur the safety of the vessel and those on board committed to his charge have been lamenteduni formlyfestedbythat on officer thewhole e evi dence the c omm manifested adduced, t committee, are unanimously of opinion, that the after i mature deliberationloss of the Great Liverpool was occasioned by a very unus ual inset from the ocean, which had never been met with in any of her former voyages, or in the experience of the several commanders and officers whose evidence tins been taken. (Signed) SAMUEL THORNTON, Capt., R.N. RICHARD BOURNE, Commr., R. N. ALEXANDER NAIRNE, Capt., H.E.I.C.S. Resolved, That the report of the committee be re ceived and adopted. Resolved, That with a view to guard against the pos sibility of the recurrence of danger from any extraordi nary inset for the future, the attention of the com manders of the Company's vessels be drawn to this report, and with reference to the circular of the board of directors, dated September 9th, 1845, they be again strictly enjoined not to neglect to keep the most vigilant look out in approaching the land in the night, or in thick or foggy weather, and to use the deep-sea lead when practicable. And the board further 'direct that the ships of the Company, on the voyage direct between England and Gibraltar, both outward and homewards, are never in future to be steered within twenty miles of Cape Finis terre during the night or in thick or foggy weather. It was further resolved, That application through the Admiralty and Foreign office should be forthwith made to the Spanish Government to procure the erection of a navigation.lighthouse on Cape Finisterre, for the greater safety of By order of the Board, JAMES ALLAN, Secretary. 1846.—The following is the House List of Governors and Directors of the Bank of England for the year ensuing, viz.:— FOR GOVERNORS. John Benjamin Heath, Esq , Governor. William R. Robinson, Esq., Deputy Governor. . DIRECTORS. Arthur Tames Pattison, Esq. William Cotton, Esq. Sir John Henry Pelly, Bart, Bonanly Dobree, Es e q i Es Christopher Pearse, Esq. Chas. Pascoe °rent 1 4 'l. . Henry James Prescott, Esq. Arthur Edward Campbell, Fon E D sq ißE . Thomson Hankevju.;. ~ N• . Esq David Powell, Esq. ~. Tc ro hn Horsley Palmer, Esq. John Gellibrand Hunt) ro Sir John Rae Reid Bart. William Little, Esq. ~ Thomas Chas. Smith, Esq. lialcolmson, L q. James ' . J o h n 31ildmay, Wm. Thompson, Esq., Ald. 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