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It is about five feet long, with a flat broad head, and a yellow mark at the back of its neck. c on Mr. described e eio G. ti s and the evoßurdett,e condition t fi ao in t n b t e u i. ns whichiir ge i s o fa whoen deceased received was livid, w as the ba rnodu case, gh his t to the hospit a l. Wh en fi rst seen , h o a pp e ared an respiration very imperfect. He moaned but could not speak, and pointed to his throat. He was placed in bed, sad artificial respiration and galvanism resorted to. No stimulants were given, as be was unable to swallow. The notion of the heart was kept up by artificial respira tion 40 minutos after natural respiration had ceased, hut galvanhin had no e fi; , ot. There were 10 snar4ll punctures or wounds on the nose —four on the right aid six on the left side. The largest wai t about the sixth of en inch in diameter, and it had penetrated about the eighth of an inch nearly to the nasal bone. The face of deceased con tinued to get more and more livid, and after d.'nath it extended down the neck below the clavicles. The post owl tem examination disclosed no unnatural appearance of the hrtsiu. The lungs were lets collapsed than usu.ll, and at the backs congested and quite black. The deepest puncture had been constantly since death exuding a thin bloody fluid. By the Foreman—We did not apply anything to the wounds, as the case was too far gone for it to have been of service. The Coroner remarked that the most certain remedy would have been for some person to have sucked the wound the instant after the bite, if any one could have been found having the boldness to do it. Edward Stewart, who looks after the humming birds at the gardens, said that he and deceased left the gar dens at six o'clock on Tuesday, and be returned shortly rep tilebe f room o s m i x woint htthe Wednesday deoesse morning, when t an e A little after eight o'clock he was going out of the door accident with a basket of larks. Deceased was then by the snake glass. He lifted up the glass, and took out the "Bocco" snake, and held it up by its neck. Witness ran to Gir ling, and said, "For God's sake put it back again." Girling laughed, and said, "I am inspired," and then lifted the snake on to witness's shoulder, and let it ran round his neck. Witness said, "For God's sake put it dw asin happened. th e away." Girling then put the snake in, and then came down to where the " Cobra" was, and said, "Now for the Cobra." Witness again exclaimed, " For God's sake leave off—what are you about?" Deceased took the "Cobra" out of the case, and put it inside his waistcoat, and it crawled round from the right side, and came out at the left side of his waistcoat. Girling drew it out, and was holding the " Cobra" between the head and the middle of the body, when it made s dart at his face, and he (witness) saw the blood on Gir ling's nose, and Girling called out, " Run for Hunt," and witness did so, and was much frightened. When witness returned, he found the " Cobra" bank in its case. He supposed it must have been placed there by the deceased. Deceased would sometimes get a little to drink. On the Tuesday night witness had tea with Girling, and they went out together between seven and eight o'clock, and they were out all night. They went to see a friend who was going to Australia, where they had some porter, and afterwards they went to a public house in Shoe-lane. Girling was not intoxicated, but he was in an excited state; they had some gin after they got back to the gardens, bout breakfast time. Another keeper named Baker said he saw (lining handing the snakes, and warned him. He believed that the deceased was intoxicated. Mr. Mitchell deposed that the men had orders never to touch the snakes, and said that any man discovered about the gardens in a state of intoxication would be discharged. He gave these orders to Girling personally on his appointment. Girling had been a guard on a railway before his appointment at the gardens. He had once reproved him, and threatened him with instant dis missal for opening the adder case to feed the reptiles, instead of putting the food in at the top. James Phipps ' engineer at the Zoological Gardens, said he saw the deceased Girling immediately after he was bitten. He ran into the engine -house covered with blood, and begged of him (witness) to take him for as sistance, as he had been bitten by a " Cobra," and was dying. He would be sure to die. He then washed his face, and fancied he had the snake in his bosom. He kept saying, it's here he bit me. A cab was procured and he was conveyed in about 20 minutes to the hospi. tal. Nothing was done for him at the gardens. Mr. Mitchell said the deceased was in possession of a preparation of Libma Cedron, said to be a specific against serpent poison, with the method of applying which de ceased was well acquainted, having seen it used in some experiments which had been made at the gardens. These experiments were inconclusive as to the value of the alleged specific. He gave a bottle of the preparation to Girling at the close of the experiments, although at the time he gave it he remarked that no accident could cccur there except by the negligence of the man him self. The deceased no doubt forgot that he had it. _ The jury returned a verdict, "That Edward Horatio Girling died from the effects of wounds inflicted by a venomous serpent known us the "Cobra de event)," and that the injuries were the results of his own rashness, whilst in a state of intoxication." The inquiry then terminated. THE FATAL DUEL AT EGHAM. RE-EX AMINATIONATTHE TOWN-HALL, CIIERTSEY. (Before Captain the Han. G. J. Cavendish, chairman ; Captain Seymour, R.N. ; Mr. R. W. Edgell, and Mr. J. Dobinson). CHERTSEY, FRIDAY.—The prisoners charged with being concerned in the duel affair on Inglefield-green were again brought up for re-examination this morning. in pursuance of the verbal remand of Wednecdsy last. The accused, who were brought from Egham last even ing, in charge of Chief Superintendent Biddlecombe, of the Surry police force, after having remained all day on Thursday awaiting the result of the inquest, were lodged in the town of Chertsey for the night, two of them, viz,, Baronnet and Allain, having been accommo dated at the Swan Inn, under a police guard ; and the other two prisoners, Barth( 6aiy and Alournay, were similarly provided for at the Crown Inn, which adjoins the Town-hall, they being also guarded by police officers. The accused were brought up in custody at twelve o'clock, and were immediately conveyed to the large room at the Town-hall, where the bench of magistrates were sitting. Chief-Superintendent Biddlecombe stated that the pri soners were brought up in pursuance of the remand on Wednesday last, and related the leading and most im portant features that had transpired at the coroner's l in : quest, held at the Barley Mow public-house. . I fi of eld th yesterday nci u iry Ingle field-green, r f e u e rt er i munortinlinTgu'easnddayofn thet (thea adjournment r a n r n m t g i c e u e n . t Thirteen witnesses, he said, had already t lars of which appeared in our yes t e rda e y x h ' e s e i n m e p x r a e m ss i i h o e n d ) : utmost importance ; and,. and he had still two more, h w e ho r s r o es t n e m s e im d, on n y ire w a a d s y of isu t ifi he . further remand Wednesday next, which until afoierntsevidence had been given to justify him in asking wo uld be after th e coroner's inquest had returned their ve rdict ; inomeantime,u from inquiries he had set o n foot,t but that additional and very im portant ilebad n facts wo uld be obtained. Th e Chairman, after having held a short consultation theo doubt with the bench, inquired of the prisoners, through their interpreter, what they had to say as to why they should not be remanded until Wednesday next, to which two of them, viz., Bartheemy and Mournay, declined saying a nything; the other two, viz., Baronnet and Allain, put in a statement written in the French language, which was interpreted to the Court. The following is a translation of the document as h h 0 I severity i n. made by Captain Seymour, one of the m agistrates: — . " Whatever may be the consequences of t of the English law against duelling (o f bli ations and Imtaonpyanssobthlee formed), I declare that I was the second w of hi ;lons. Cour net on the 19th October; that th h e im o would g not allow of sin cere friendship I entertained for i n this fatal reneontre. my refusing to accompany_ 0. , friend,l and 1 had fou W nd er g e o He was my best did all I could to avoid the ren qualities in him, that b eythelawsof honour, friendship, and the customs of French . duelling . . centre, but I had to o y life in prison, I would never discloee remainder of °2- person who was the adversary the name of the I know the English law. of M. w that Honour Cournet, no the name of an forbids m y mentioning I .antagonist, if he or c annot do so. am a prisoner, but will never will not, ;,prison by a declaration which is repugnant to Chqu— a and habits. (Signed) „ , r , my aracter my. - pARONNET." a I a dhere to . this declaration ;it in quite in conf • ormity with my sentiments. (Signed) " Madan:' Th e Bench then inform e d th e accused , through an interpreter, that they would be remanded un til next Wednesday, when they would be further examined at Chertsey, and in the meantime they would be conveyed to'Horsemonger-lane gaol, for safe custody. The warrant for the commitment of the prisoners to Horsemonger-lane gaol was then made out and placed in the hands of Superintendent Biddlecombe, who re moved the prisoners from court to the hotels where they had spent the previous evening, and subsequentlS , con veyed them to London by the 3'50 train of the South- Western Railway, under an escort of police. On the return of the prisoners to Chertsey from the inquest last evening, they were visited by their country man, Louis Blanc, who remained at Chertsey in conver sation with some of them for a considerable time, and appeared deeply interested in the affair. Ledru Rollin arrived in Chertsey after the prisoners were remanded, and went to London in their company. The following account of the u nfortunate man's . (Cournet's) early life has b een received from a French gentleman with whom the deceased was intimately ao ,only eighteen qnainted, and may he faithfully relied upon. Felin Uournet, a captain in t he French navy, wasa man of undoubted courage and intrePedity; when years of ago ho and other men in a boat took • Spanish frigate on the lap , s. or this gallant deed, in which his life underwent great perils, he was deco rated and rewarded by the French nation with the honorary distinction of the legion d'honneur, and before he had attained his twenty-tirst year he was made • lieutenant in the navy by Admiral R ouss i n, t h e m i n i s ter of tho marin e service under the Government of Louis _ We are also informed, from id authority, Philippe. goo' t h a t the unfortunate man Cournet had f oug ht fifteen d u ds before_the sad affair when ho mot with such an end, so that we may fairly pre untimely and tragical sumo that Cournet'a opponent must have had the fad 'hat. S 23 1852 OCTOBER , . N°. 18,749.] LONDON, SATURDAY K i s : N 7 LIFE OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS. 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TIMES.—The Tuscan Government has succeeded in exciting the astonishment and indignation of every part of the civilized world, where bigotry and super stition have not annihilated the rights of conscience and the liberty of religions tru'h, by the revival in this age of that persecuting spirit which once lit the fires of S-nithfield and the autos du fl; of Spain. The condemnation of Franc:-3CO Madiai and Roqs, his wife, to upwards of four s ears of brutal and infamous punishment in the prisons of forced labour of Vol terra and the Ergastolo, or female galleys, at Lucca, for the offence of poesessieg and reading the Holy Scriptures and the English Book of Common Prayer, is justly resented as an indignity to the faith of every Protestant nation, and an outrage on humanity and religion itself. Tnis monstrous sentence, which was first pronounced by the Corte Regis of Florence, on the 4th June, after a preliminary detention of ten months in the common gaol of that city, has since been confirmed by the Court of Cassation ; and we are compelled, with great regret, to add, that although the circumstances of the case and several direct appeals for clemency and toleration, made by some of the most illustrious personages in Europe, have brought this case under the distinct personal know ledge of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, that Prince adheres with the implacable bigotry of a fanatic to a sentence that degrades himself far more than it can injure the victims of this cruelty, since it gives fresh force and truth to the worst charges ever brought against the authority he represents and the Church to which he belongs. The King of Prussia, with a most honourable zeal in the defence of rotestant Christians, has made strong and direct appeals to the sentiments of justice and self-respect he might have expected to find, even in an Italian Sovereign, but he has failed to obtain any remission of this iniquitous sentence; and we have reason to be lieve that the interest felt in this case by the most illustrious personages in this country has not been less forcibly and cordially expressed, though with no better effect. M. Von Usedom, the Prussian Minister at Rome, has been instructed to repair to Florence to support the remonstrances of the Protestants, though by a singular perversion of the appropriate functions of a British Minister, it is at this very time, and pending this important discus sion, that Sir Henry Bulwer, instead of being at his post in Fiorence, has been suffered or ordered by Lord Malmesbury to prolong his abortive and dis creditable mission to Rome. All the other Protestant Governments have joined with alacrity in a common protest against the application of penal laws and fero cious punishments to the faith of the Bible. Holland has taken a warm interest in the cause • the Protest ants of France, Switzerland, and Southern Germany have joined the deputation about to proceed to Tus cany, at the head of which Lord Roden, Lord Cavan, and Captain Trotter will personally attend on behalf of a society called the Protestant Alliance. We hope for the sake of the Madiais that these exertions will not be made in vain, and that they will be released from their very undeserved sufferings; but as this concession will, after all, be extorted from the Tuscan Government on the ground of mercy rather than of justice, we must assume that the authorities of that country do profess the ancient and execrable maxims of the Romish Church for the so-called extirpation of heresy by inquisitorial powers and by penal severi ties, for we find that as the influence of Rome has become supreme and absolute over the mind of the Grand Duke, he has sanctioned acts of vindictive per secution such as Rome herself would, a few years ago, have scarcely dared to avow. The law under which the Madiais have been con victed, is one of the Leopoldine enactments of 1786, which provided, by its 60th article, that— . Whosoever, with impious designs, dares to profane the divine mysteries, disturbing the sacred functions with violence, or otherwise committing public impiety, and whosoever publicly teaches maxims contrary to our holy Catholic religion, towards which we have always nourished, and will always maintain constant our love and zeal, we will that, as a disturber of the order upon which society is maintained in tranquillity, and as an enemy to society itself, he shall be punished with the greatest and most exemplary rigour, nor ever with a less penalty than public forced labour, for a term or for life,accoraing to the circumstances of the case." _ Vague as - the language of this statute is, it would seem utterly impossible to bring the case of the Ma dials within reach of it, even if all the counts of the accusation were proved against them. They could be charged with no profanity, no violence, or public impiety, not even with public teaching. The use of the Holy Scriptures, and especially the possession of an English Prayer-book, in which were found the Thirty-nine Articles of our Church, condemning pur gatory and the worship of images as foolish inven tions, were the real offence. For not even any acts of proselytism were established—if, indeed, such acts could reasonably be attributed to two persons of slight education and in so humble a station—the one having been a travelling courier, and the other a maid-servant. But the value to be put upon the accu racy and information of the Tuscan Attorney- General, one Biccbierai, may be inferred from the fact that he coolly assured the Court that " every one knew the Bible Society to have been instituted in France, in 1792, after the extravagances of the fana tic Johanne Souchott" (sic for Southcote)—an asser tion in which we hardly know whether most to ad mire the extravagance of attributing a passion for the diffusion of Christian knowledge to France under the Convention, or the connexion existing in the legal mind of Tuscany between the Word of God and the ravings of Johanna Southcote. Such an advocate was extremely well qualified to contend—as he in fact did—that penal justice must hasten to the defence and protection of Catholicism, not so much for the sake of infallible truth as for the preservation of the State itself; and with equal propriety he quoted laws of Theodosius and Valentinian to the effect, that" it is good to punish by death and confiscation of property him who, by service, persuasion, or advice, has passed from the worship of the Christian religion to any of those in famous sects or rites." Such are the legal advisers of the Tuscan Crown ; and if their reasoning is worth anything, they are bound to proceed to the last extre mities for the extirpation of heresy; for there is no act of barbarity for which their bigotry would not find an excuse. We had hitherto supposed the Grand Duke of Tus cany to be a well-intentioned though weak man ; but his weakness is such that his trials and his supersti tion have turned him into a bad one. These foolish and wicked persecutions are the result of fear ; but, if we are not mistaken, they will have the effect of augmenting one hundredfold the danger they are designed to avert. The trial of the Madiais has re vealed to Europe the existence in Italy, even among persons of a humble station, and far More in a higher rank, of an amount of Protestant conviction and evangelical constancy under heavy sufferings, of which little was hitherto known. The Attorney- General of Tuscany himself assures us that "the work most hidden, though ettensive, is that of the heterodox sect called the Evangelical Confession, or of the Pure Gospel ;" in other words, Protestant Chris tianity, which "is well known to be much extended in Florence and in other towns, as well as in the country." We rejoice to bear it. We rejoice to think that Italy is not eternally condemned to the sterile choice between French atheism and Romish superstition ; and that beneath the load of foreign oppression and indigen ous bigotry, a spark is kindled which may yet bode well for the immortal cause of Christianity and free dom. The persecution of the Madiais has rendered the existence of these opinions in Italy a matter of interest to thousands who had never thought upon the subject; and it will serve to show our persecuted fellow-Christians who worship in secresy and fear in those lands, that, although they may be anathematized by Rome, they are placed in communion with several of the freest and most religious nations of the earth. Lord Roden will not, we presume, be mistaken by by the authorities of Tuscany for a demagogue, or even a Whig ; but he takes with him on this mission the cordial interest of the British public in a just cause, and if he fails, we shall know with what rigour the Roman Catholic Church still exacts its victims and its sacrifices from those Princes who are abject enough to be the slaves of its power. MORNING HERALD.—There is a class of persons who are at least to be htared when they are in your fr on t, f ac i ng you in de Glared warfare. So met, they are n o t formidable. The danger begins r Only hen y ou y ourse lf d o scorn an d di s r e gard them, and w hen th ey h ave thus an opportunity of firing on you fr om b ehind. The Tract ar i an with som e "famous success the t ac ti cs o f th e man w hose gun wasu t allowing themselves to become partyshooting seems rou h t d o have a v h e o r h l a e t r e . l , y , studied They have oag without inflict a serious damage on the Government, edfor to singl e or mmoment. A conspiracy more skilfully pl anned , t o con How ever, we now b eg i tr visible f or a the o am, al e o f faction. re adroitly carried out, is scarcely to be f oun d i n manoeuvre, and the)prehend the whole moment tl le scheme is under stood, it ceases to be dangerous. All who are, acquainted with the newspaper press of London know well, that, fl:on l March last down to the present moment, there has been no more bitter opponent of the present Administration than the Morning Chronicle, the organ 1 of the Tractarian party. Ceaseless, and overflowing with malice, have been its attacks. But within the last fortnight those attacks have somewhat subsided, and especially . has silence been kept, as much as possible, on the subject respecting which the manoeuvre in question was to operate. It was essential to the success of the scheme that it should not be known to time from that part of the field of battle. About a fortnight ego, the plan to which we allude bevait to come into operation. Certain persons of quiet, respectable character, and not of Tractarian views ' were privately inform e d, as a great secret that Lord Derby had given a pledge, or something like it, that if Convocation formally asked permission to sit for the transaction of business, he should think it his duty to advise the Queen to grant it. These state ments were made so confidently, so secretly, and by persons of such station, that the recipients of the news could not for a moment doubt that the news was unquestionably true. We could, if necessary, give the names of parties in high public offices, who felt the fullest conviction of the truth of these statements. We have had no personal knowledge of the Primate's views or expectations, but we quite believe, from vari ous things which have come to our ears, that his Grace himself was one of the parties who gave cre dence to these reports. In a day or two the alarm reached the daily papers. One journal, which is not withheld by party con nexion!, from publishing any rumour which reaches it, at once gave currency to the report. We our selves were precluded from doing so, by a feeling that the statement would be very injurious to the Go vernment, and that it was in aleprobability destitute of truth. Three or four days elapsed, and the Times, uneasy at being behindhand in so important a matter, began to inquire into the truth of the statement; and so well had the conspirators laid their plans, that the Times, when seeking after the facts, was met by a confirmation of the story. Fairly taken in, it came out at last, several days after the first report had been given in other journa's, with a full and entire confir mation of the story ! We now solicit particular attention to the next fact in the case—a fact in which design, and that an in sidious design, becomes clearly manifest. The Morning Chronicle, as the Tractarian daily organ, and the leading journal of the Convocation party, was eagerly looked to day by day, to see how it would deal with the question. Its friends took the most lively interest in the matter; two or three other journals were giving currency to the rumours every morning or evening. " What," every one was ask ing, "did the Chronicle say ?" The Chronicle, day after day, said nothing at all. This was strange ; but the meaning of it is now clear. The object of this silence was —not to say a word until the Times, Globe, and Daily News should first have swallowed the bait. Accordingly, on Monday the Times came out with a fierce article against Con vocation, and against Lord D erb y for granting it ; and then the silence of the Chronicle was at once broken. And what did it say ? It accepted and endorsed the report. It said : "In well-informed quarters it has for some little time been tolerably well understood, thatt Lord the l Cro wn . t o l )erhy is pre pared to advise , or has already a d d to resum e its issue its licence to the nO W Convocation synodical functions. We have long been in possession of the report," 86e. Was such an avowal ever before made by a news paper • ? Here is a journal which coolly tells its readers that it has " long been in possession of a report" of the greatest possible im p ortance ; which report it carefully concealed! Can any one guess w hy ? A fact of greater moment could not easily be imagined, yet a journalist quietly informs his readers that he has long had it in his possession, but has chosen to keep it to himself! A good reason for such suppression is not to be conceived. The fact is, that this singular admission " lets the cat out of the bag." The Chronicle assures us that it has "long been in possession of the report." We have not the least doubt of it. If the Chronicle had even claimed to have been present when the whole story was first concocted and sent abroad, we should not have questioned the fact. The whole " history and mystery" is now as clear as d a yli g ht, The Tractarian party fabricated the whole story. But they took care to warn their own journal not to be foremost in the propagation of it. "If you, good Chronicle, were to be the first to spread the story people would suspect the truth of it. 'They would say that the wish was father to the thought.' So, do you keep quiet till we can get the story sent round, by other persons, to the other papers ; and then you may come in, as a bystander, and say, Oh yes, it is all true, we heard of that some days ago.' " The trick has been well played, and it bas answered its purpose. Any one who was inclined to read five or six of the bitterest articles that have ever appeared against the present Ministry might read the Times, Globe, and Daily News of the present week ; and the worst of the matter is, that a good part of these attacks is true—that is it is true that the restoration of Convocation would be a fearfully rash and dan gerous thing. The only mistake is in applying all these censures to Lord Derby, as if he were going to commit so great a blunder. Men of candour, before they suspect any man of high station and character of such folly, should ask themselves whether his previous life warrants such a suspicion ? A man of plain common sense remarked the other day, " I thought that it was expected that Lord Derby would find difficult it to manage one Par liament; and I cannot conceive it to be probable that he is going voluntarily t o un d er t a ke to manage two." It might have been added, with a mark of admiration—" and the second a theological Parlia ment!" Yet the Tractarians, partly from the eagerness of their hopes, and partly from a willingness to injure Lord Derby, will not easily give up the story. Their weekly organ, the English Churchman, says, only last night " We firmly believe, that, whenever Lord Derby can see his way clearly before him, the Royal licence will be issued." If the licence is not issued till "Lord Derby sees his way clearly before him," it will not be issued in our days, nor in those of our children. ADVERTISER.—Mr. Hume and political con sistency are synonymous terms. We said as much yesterday : we repeat it to-day. And so we should, were it necessary to-morrow, and every succeeding day till th e en d of the chapter. But though the Member for Montrose is a very model of consistency, and though no one ever questioned his thorough in tegrity, he i s li a bl e to adopt a wrong course, because he is accessible to persons who are not equally honest with hi mse lf. MH i r. ume s often deceived by parties who have their own private ends to verve. He does not see what they are driving at he perceives no t t h e objects which they have i n view. The letter of th e h on ourable gentleman, which ap peared in our paper yesterday, may with great pro priety be referred to as a case in point. That corn munication was not a spontaneous emanation from Mr. Hurne's own mind. Had he been left to himself he would never have penned that production. It is his only in a mechanical sense. No one can have any difficulty in affiliating the letter. Though it is dated Bromley Hall, it was not born in that latitude. The place of its accouchement is nearer home. Speak ing of it parochially, we should say it would not be difficult to establish its claim to a settlement in the very centre of the metropolis—in a place called Char ing -cross. And as that is in reality the place where this pro duction, with the name of Mr. Hume attached to it, was ushered into existence, so the parentage of the epistle can be traced to the association to which the letter refers, as having a local habitation and a name in that part of our vast metropolis. - Not that we suppose the letter was actually written th ere , but that the inspirati on came from that quarter. Let any one put the question to Mr. Hume, whether the produc tion referred to was the result of some movement of his own mind, and he will frankly answer that it was not. He ie. too honest to say that it was a spontaneous emanation from himself. Ask him again, whether he was not moved to the writing of the letter by parties who are , prominently connected with the Financial and Parliamentary Reform Association, and he will candidl:r answer that he was. Thou gh bearing his name, the letter is, indeed, a sort of manifesto from that body. And should any one deem it necessary to answer the document, it ought to be dealt with throughout as an exposition of the view aof that body—it body that can be called which cmly consists, if we are rightly informed, of a president, a secretary, end a clerk. Ther e is one fact stated in the letter to which Mr. Hume has adhibited his name, which, of itself, if we had no other evidence on the subject, wou ld have sufficed to satisfy us th at it was in reali ty o f Charing cross. manufacture. Mr. Hume informs us that the Financial and Parliamentary Reform Association has 290 branches in the provinces. How, we will venture to affirm, that a fortnight bef ore writing his letter, be had not the remoteat idea of what number of branches this Association could boast;, of as being under its protecting care. We will go 'father, And assert that there is not person the country, except the president, the secretary, or the clerk aforesaid, who could, before the appearance of Mr. Hume's letter, have answered the question as to how many branch associations belonged to it. The public, who never before heard of this large family of branch associattous, must now be lost in wonder at what sort of things they can be, and how they could have been spending their time since they were u;hered into being. As we have never heard of any thing they hive said or done, there is a dramatic unity between them and the parent es:ablishinent at Charing•cross. As the old bird sings, says the pro- verb, the young bird learns. As the parent Associa • !ion in London has done nothing for the cause of Parliamentary Reform, there is a poetic fitness in the provincial brancies spending their days and hours in idleness also. They but follow the example of their parent. They are appropriate chips of the old block. "Do as I do," says the Charing-cross Association, addressing itself to its numerous progeny in the provinces. Like obedient children, they follow their parent's advice ; and the result is, that nothing is done at all. " William, what are you doing down there?" " Nothing, Sir." " And, Tom, what are you about ?" "Helping William, Sir." "Parent Parliamentary Reform Association at Charing-cross, what are you doing in the cause of fi nancial or representative rel. form ?" " Nothing at all." " And what are you, the branch Associations in the country, about ?" " Helping the parent Association in the metropolis !" This is the way, is it not, to get the work of reform done ? Mr. HUME at least would make us believe that it is so, for he, in the unsuspecting simplicity of his soul, is made to eulogise the Charing-cross Asso ciation and its breaches in the provinces. We have, perhaps, a better right to speak unre servedly of this Association than any other journal, because in the earlier periods of its existence we gave it a more liberal support than any of our contempora ries. We did so in the hope that it would make an impression on the public mind, and prove an efficient organization for the promotion of those reforms which it is proposed to accomplish. It has proved a dead failure. That is patent to all, —too manifest to be denied by even the President or the Secretary. It has not made itself felt either in the metropolis or the provinces. We do not blame the originators of the Association for this. Its want of success may not be their fault. We all know it is not in mortals to com mand success. But now that the movement is so notoriously and signally a failure, it would be suicidal for the party of progress, any longer to trust to what it can accom plish. Still we should have spoken of its want of success with regret, and paid a tribute of respect to its memory—for there is no use in denying that it is virtually defunct, had the triumvirate of which the Association now consists, not gone out of their way to interpose every possible obstacle to the contemplated movement in favour of the Ballot. Their conduct, in endeavouring to prevent an agi tation in favour of the Ballot singly, affords a fresh illustration of the old maxim—that there are some, people who will neither do a particular thing them selves, nor allow any one else to do it. The Ballot was one of the great `points" in the movement con templated by the Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association, and if they had been sincere in their professions of attachment to the cause of secret voting, they would, instead of opposing the intended move ment in favour of the Ballot, have given it their heartiest support. But on this aspect of the matter we shall, probably, have a few more words to say on a future occasion. TIMES.—A paper on " Railway Accidents, their Cause, and Means of Prevention," drawn up from large personal experience, carefully framed and read by a civil engineer before a professional meeting of his brethren, ought to be both an interesting and in. structive document. The two conditions indeed are fulfilled in some respects by the specimen we publish elsewhere, but not exactly in the sense designed by Captain Mark Huish, its author. The name of this gentleman, as connected with the London and North- Western Railway, will not be unfamiliar to the pub lic, and, though perhaps the evidence of so interested a witness may be thought to require some corrective from the other side, it is undoubtedly desirable that railway companies should be permitted to state their own case in their own turn. Omitting, therefore, for the present, all consideration of Captain lluish's general views, we turn to his analytical estimate of railway accidents as they actually occur. The railroad itself, or, as it is technically called, "the permanent way," is very properly made the first subject of the Captain's attention. On this point be remarks, that while the weight, speed, and frequency of trains have on most lines been materially increased, the quality of the rails supplied by manufacturers has heed rapidly deteriorating, insomuch that one com pany has taken the resolution of manufacturing these supplies for itself. The augmentation of traffic, too, has naturally induced an increase of " siding" ac commodation, involving a proportionate multiplication of points and crossing—those fertile sources of risk. Some idea may be formed of the changes in this respect from the fact that the increase of siding during the last few years on the London and North-Western alone amounts, in the aggregate, to no less than 53 miles. Altogether, however, Captain Finish observes, that the casualties directly attributable to the state of " the way" are fewer than from any other cause, and contribute, indeed, but a scanty quota to the great total of railway accidents. This, as far as it goes, is, no doubt, correct; but there may possibly be more of the truth behind. Of late, as we remarked the other day, accidents have once or twice been re presented as wholly inexplicable; and it may be a question whether some of these insoluble problems do not depend on the condition of the road. We are not without a suspicion that they do, and in this case the permanent way may have somewhat more to answer for. From the road Captain Huish passes naturally to the engine; and gives an analysis of no fewer than 1,000 cases of locomotive failures which occurred in a stock of 587 engines on the London and North- Western Railway and its tributaries. In this table the fractures of various parts of various engines are detailed and classified with the utmost minuteness, and probably with equal accuracy, but the particular point of present interest to the public is left without any notice whatever. No doubt, it will be useful to the mechanist to learn that " tubes," " springs," "spindles," " pumps," and " pistons," are more fran gible than all the other organs of a locomotive taken together; and the fact that only one casualty out of the whole 1,000 was due to a " burst boiler" is cer tainly of some general interest. But the true ques tion, is, how many of these thousand failures origi nated in the defective character of the stock and management, in the employment of inferior, worn, or unserviceable engines, and in the attempt to perform more work with less means ? For instance, the Captain's table sets down five casulties to "detached ash-pans." Now, we know that a failure of this description the other day produced a fatal accident, and that opinions were expressed very strongly to the effect that the occurrence was due to a rotten condition of the whole machine ascertainable beforehand. Now, of the five tabu lated examples, how many might have been traceable to very similar causes ? Of course, the reader will understand that the 1,000 "failures " here spoken of were not all attended with "railway accidents ' in the common sense of the word, but all probably involved such liabilities. In respect of carriages, Captain Huish has little more to say than that the companies have as yet found f it impracticable to provide any method or system communication between the passengers and ethn gine-driver, but he enlarges very seriously on e_ results of " inattention to signadlsoo'gaenrdon"anreagillewcatyo!, regularity." "Of all sources of says he, " these are the most prolific.be expected of a railway Human nature is necessarily imperfect, and it company, however cannot that the servants carefully selected and diligently , All this is very plausible, but, ast,utored, will be ex empt from such before, general there is one most iy vorl important ooks Cap . point of view which tain i s imperfect, and for that very reason Human nature should not be taxed too far. The servants of a rail way company, besides being carefully selected," and diligently tutored," should be kept up to such a strength that no man is worked beyond his powers. "momentary forgetfulness," or an "instant's ne glect," are no doubt ~f raught with all the tre mendous co nsequences described by Captain Huish, but nothing is so likely to make neglect or forgetful ness probable as overwork, excessive duty, or general confusion. The true , question here is, how much of t h es e "consequences' was due to the defalcation 01 the servant, and how much to the arrangements 01 his employers ? As to punctuality in the times of trains, Captain Huish is a perfectly audacious free thinker. " The press," he says, and " public opinion, as expressed through a jury whenever an accident occurs, generally seize on this point as the primary cause of the mishap," whereas not only does he con sider this stress as unduly laid, since. " with a well regulated system of signals, and a well -disciplined staff, the greatest irregularity, whatever inconvenience it may produce, ought not to lead to danger ;" but he opines that, " to a certain extent, the very uncertainty of the passage of the trains produces safety, by the continual vigilance it necessitates; and as few tied- [PRICE SD. dents occur in the most busy thoroughfare in Lon ! don, so - the most crowded parts of a railway exhibit the greatest freedom from casualty : " This theory of the operation of a " well-disci as, doubt less,theorypli n well-disci plined very staff," and beautiful; " we but, ll-r unfortunately,e gu 1 at e d signals" i: l only, and it is hard that Captain Huish should forget at this point alone that notorious fallibility of human nature on which he hsd so carefully insisted before. With pfTfect discipline and perfect regulations, per haps trains might run eccentrically without any great danger; but, as the regulations and discipline actually prevailing, even on the London and North Western, are considerably short of the perfection thus contem plated, it is not a bad practical notion to avoid as that mu Captainch risk as possible by keeping things to their time. From what we have said, it will be plain enough Iluish addressed the Institution of Civil Engineers less as an independent member of this so ciety than as a railway manager—a course with which we have no desire to quarrel. But in pleading for his particular clients and in censuring the want of " consideration and sympathy exhibited either by the public or the press during the difficulties under which the railways of Great Britain have struggled into their present position," Captain Huish has almost exceeded even the licence of a professional advocate. The difficulties alluded to were of the companies' own making, and, even if they were not, they would constitute no excuse whatever for their present proceedings. Very likely, railway travelling is still safer than any other, though we do not remember any other which actually suggested a system of private life assurance; but this is wholly beside the mark. The gist of the public complaint is not that railway travelling is short of perfection, but :that it is less perfect than it plainly might be; and, what is more, less perfect than it actually was—the deterioration being visibly trace able to the deliberate doings of the companies them selves. Captain Huish, when he read his paper, had not had the advantage which the public has since enjoyed of perusing the report of the Government Commissioner on this subject, a document which, it will not be forgotten, proved that while railway traf fic and railway receipts had been largely augmented, the proportion of railway servants had been reduced, and the number of railway accidents increased. From a result like this the " fallibility of human nature " supplies no appeal. The case is perfectly clear, not only from these broad statistics, but from constant experience, that railway companies have been disre garding the convenience and safety of their passen gers for the sake of their own profits, and it is this highly natural but insufferable tendency for which some effective check is now required. LAURENT'S GRAND CASINO, JOSEPH CARTWRIGHT BRETTELL, secretary, the circulation A L 148 °PFS PALE ALE AND DR. GLOVER. a lion given to a statement tending to invalidate the Mes s , "of Dr. Glover's opinion in favour of Pale Ale, compels LacALPP and SONS to connect this remarkable dis final : 1 11 .. f • alumny with other insidious attacks upon their and /i nn c " they have reason to know proceed from an unworthy Messrs eighhourly jealously. • cours e t ' ALLSOPP and SONS, in reply, deem it their best nialilar 0 adopt the same line of conduct as in the case of the l e Perversion and mutilation of Baron Liebig's meaning, so talclignantlY repudiated by that eminent man himself. They pub 1, thereore, without abridgement, the letter they rece ved from "r• Gle v alnable v l! r ' (having his permission to do so) ; a lette . r the more oleditatedecause it was not intended for publication , and is an npre l'ftle Al evidence of that learned Chemist's just appreciation of DR. GLOVER TO MR. ALLSOPP. , n " Sl _,r —lt w " Newcastle-on-Tyne, April I I. .he L an ;all not my intention, in writing the . hasty note to Way. _ eet. to cast any reflections upon, or to implicate in any vlt'speetable brewers of pale ale. nin e i.T 1 . 1 1 first saw the statement about the alleged use of strych en oittering ale I looked upon the assertion as incredible, both er"t n int of the Price of the drug and the symptoms it would Nvo nde ; f botnn exp er i ment, I found that strychnine possesses such at l east l' l bitterness, that it might perhaps be wed as AN ADJUVANT to ih o ; 5: UNPRINcIPLED PERSONS. In short, my object was simply Perim' at the thing was not altogether so ,impossible as it ap : pal wi with o i „ lt , et , first sight to be' or b e Z ° Pinion is, that hops should not dorm ejoy the exclusive privilege i p u r t a o c r ti v ea ie l w m . e n . Point .... u sed for bittering beer; but I ut pretend to discuss the farZi_t_h regard rn ed rt now there are bitters which might be used beneficially, in a quiri,L u l l Ysing and chemistry to analysing your beer, my tinge is taken up, i s) iv e Drop are concerned, with two kinds of .enh st, thoSe which are purely scientific ; and 2 . d, those wl a nd .._ table. „ Por t n on Ifyou wish me, in the latter capacity, to analyst your beer, I, of course, can have no objection. , Rod , Joe to Prepare for an ab.sence of three or four days in for whit,; eg You to excuse me replying to the letter of Mr. Bott gen, I am much obliged: 0 18 0 1 4, Leadenhall-: " Tours, &c.. "R. 31. GLOVER, (Signed) , kllsopp, Esq. Lang; Presume you .' will hardly expect me to write to 'The nw., However, I shall be at home on Thursday evening, and the However , I have no desire to say anything which could weaken in radence of tke public in your beer. But that lam not now en:"2,ehnsebit of drinking Bitter Beer, I should be glad to show' my Vi srs e by drinking plenty of it." /itZty• ALLSOPP and SONS beg to refer to the letter of 3 1 1 r. Medical , AL LSOPP on this subject, in the Monthly Journaof . it is sap m cience " for O c t o b er, i n t h e conc l u di ng p a ragraph of which in _ n serted Dr. Glover's good-natured remark on my Bitter Beer F ac 4 a, testimoniarmore. I never called it a cer one. Le ..? nor did I apply to him, or any other medical gentleman, for d Up on st am not responsible that such a construction has been place to in _Te nfthand expressions of good opinion which have been sent iroM all quarters." atter,rd• ALLSOPP and SONS, in conclusion, wish to draw the lo gen w° n Of the public and the trade to the fact, that, by this dine "us system. of attack and the perversions of facts gratui- Bh*l`"n°- f o n- T whichren cour_l' adopted, they are unwillingly drawn into that publicity the Oct. nd 8 8 , an l B a s e 2 e . usation against them. IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS, aUat Published, by H. Rainier°, 219, Regent-street, London. No I. Second Edition, with Additions, Svo., in cloth , price Ss., by p oe t tree, ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA ; with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors ro a ., uon t Systemeatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the .enerative , or Sexual Hypochondriasis. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. eal"contributions to German medical literature. This is the fi rst theaninfyorms us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi eal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his Pulver to correct."—Londen Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851. :-" The editor has conferred a great boon on the sufferers from this !l he easing malady by translating thi s littl e h oo k, a nd by l a yi ng b are le scandalous practices of un qua lifi e d a d ven t urers , w h o pro f ess t o lure a disease of which they know nothing, with no other object than to 1111 their own purses. The difference between true Sperma torrhcea and the various forms of disease which resemble it are accurately described, and thus a safe guide is offered for the treatment of the malady."—Medical Circular, May 5, 1852. 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Table Spoons, per dozen 2 4 0 Mustard Spoons, per dozen 18 0 „ Forks ~ 2.0 0 Gravy Spoons, each - 8 0 Dessert Spoons „ 114 0 Soup Ladle - - -16 6 •, Forks „ 110 0 Sauce do. .. - - 4 6 Tea Spoons Pt 016 0 Sugar Tongs - - - 4 6 Salt do. .street, London. BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY. The highest medical authorities recommend Brandy and water as the best customary beverage, and particularly as art efficient pre ventive of diarrhceatic complaints at this season. They equally con cur in preferring BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY as the purest and most wholesome. It is unequalled for preserving fruits, home-made wines, &e. Sold throughout the Kingdom, by respectable wine and spirit mer chants, in glass bottles, protected by the Patent Metallic Capsules, and at the DISTILLERY, 7, SMITIIFIELD-BARS, in dozens, bottles and cases included, at 18s. per gallon; or in stone jars of two gallons and upwards, at las per gallon. pale or coloured. J. T. BETTS and CO., French Brandy Distillery, 7, Smithfield-bare, St. John-street. ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF MARRIAGE, AND TIIE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. WITH FIFTY COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL. [n French, English, German, Dutch, Spanish, and Italian, in a Sealed Envelope, 2s. 6d., or post-free, for Forty-two Stamps, •- - • QELF-PRESERVATION; an )0 Analytical Investigation of the Physiology and Functions of Marriage, in all the bearings in which that important subject affects the health and happiness of Man, with its Disqualifications and Impe diments, tracing their origin to the effects of juvenile solitary habits, youthml excess, tropical climates, or close study ; followed by prac tical remarks, founded on twenty years' experience in the treatment of Impuissance, Nervous Debility, Local Weakness, spermatorrhcea, Syphilis, and all diseases of the Urinary and Generative System. Il lustrated by 50 coloured Engravings, on the Anatomy of the Repro ductive Organs and their relative conditions in Health and Disease. By SAMUEL LA'MEItT, M.D., 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin burgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful consequences resulting from irregularities and excesses, which have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man hood, and premature decay at all stages of life, than, perhaps, any other class of disease known to modern pathologists. The treatment adopted is founded on experience gained in the most celebrated schools of medicine both in this country and in continental Europe. The results of the knowledge thus acquired are here condensed under th• personal supervision of Dr. La'Mert, himself one of the few legally qualified physicians who have devoted their whole and un divided studies to this important branch of medical science. In short, every peculiarity relating to the treatment of the diseases incidental to the generative system, and the means of immediate relief and ultimate cure are described in detail. The professional reputation of Dr. La'Mert, who has taken the most distinguished medical and academic honours at home and abroad, is in itself a sufficient guarantee that those who may place themselves under his care will, in every instance, meet with that delicate consideration and inviolable secrecy which are so requisite in the treatment of these cases. Published by the Author, and may be had of J. Gilbert, 49, Pater aoster-row ; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; Starie, Titchborne-street, Haymarket ; Mann, 23, Cornhill ; or tree by post for forty-two stamps, from the author, who may be consulted personally, or by latter. daily. from Ten till Two. and from Six till Eiebt. E. MOSES AND SON. THEIR FRIENDS, THE PUBLIC, AND THE SEASONS. its isand encouragement bestowed on their Establishment and E MOSES and SON, gratified by the patronage and WINTER them that their ma gn ifi cen t arrang e ments fof AUTUMN Branches, express their gra tit u d e t o their friends and the public, assuring e d ve a rc s4 . t v isLcomplete, and embrace every article worthy of being ar c e al in le HOSIERY, FURS, &c & ' TY in the departments of DRESS, , c. EASE, associated with FASHION and ELEGANCE, are the . summits to which they aspire in the TAILOR ING ART, and their the patrons will have ample opportunity of testing very flattering d exertions in of success which have attended their un paralleledseason. To specify n preparations for the Autumn and Winter have the pleasure of the character of each novel introduction they new styles stands 1 presenting is impossible ; but in the labyrinth of designed and naad n just prominence the BELGIUM WRAPPER, and artistic e O nly by E. MOSES and SON. This • . ingenious CLOAK, and contrivanceTRAVELLING serves the The CAPE. threefold purpose of COAT, SON invite public OVERCOAT season having OVERCOA' rs.rAattention to the 1 commenced, E. MOSES and tatingly affirm tha i gi T°TS ' &a*, in a t r i t e es i t and most novel stock of considerably lower ee of each ingdom, and they unhesi- Tice, than at an article will be found better, and Y other Housello in the World. Under the above name RANT'S II or more houses of temp it is intended to °ME ' embark for Australia. ;a.hz forascommodatio e n stablish in London two specting the magnificent ouTwill give ~,,,., many Emigrants about to modious WHOLESALE CLO P TI T I - or —G department, opportunity of in- SHOE making sections of E. A t i- , G 5 4,, nOSlEl t n_e_nt, and the Com lishment. There the Emigrant'sOc and 80 _17, and BOOT and and it may be emphatically called atinf"t is SON'Severy gigantic Estab immediate attention is paid to his nnm he •• Entigrant'ws ay () considered, partment is appropriated to his spe Tands— whore Home," w h ere goods he will require are arranged for h T i a s i i erevenience— epwatriate de where perfect experience and immense transactions give and selection— where eiothe rages in price, quality, and suitability, to be or s ngmive him_ advann— house in the universe. Such are the excellencies of '"no other SON'S OUTFITS, that they provide home enjoym o e f n — M O SES and try, and are thoroughly suitable for any voyage ; the n in any coun ot this statement is the experience of thousands who corroboration cated in Australia and other parts, and the application have now lo more for these first requisites of emigration, all of which E. MOSE S and SON engage to supply with the same punctuality, economy, dispatch which has hitherto distinguished all their transactions, and Full Lists of Outfits, and all information relative to the saim . „ f vessels, &c., &c., may be had on application, or post tree to any Pa o rt of the Kingdom. CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the public against imposition, having learned that the untradesmanlik u falsehood of " Bent , conne.:ted with their Establishment," or "it' s the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons. They beg to sta te that they have No CONNEXION WITII ANY °TITER HOUSE IN OR OCT OF LONDON, except their own Establishments, as follows : London City alstataltstiment, 104, 150, 100, and Iti'i, ,ainorlec 83, 84, 85, and St, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all conamunicating London West-end Branch, 006, 507, 508, New OzfOrd-street, 1,2, and 3, Hart-street, all communicating. Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19, Bridge-strest. Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate. ' Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers Furriers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gontlemtr. The F.stablishments are closed from sunset Friday to sr.;:w. On Saturdays, when business is resumed till Twelve o'clock. A new Book, entitled " fhe World's Pharos," containing the Emigrant's Assistant, f :11 list of prices, and directions for iself-mea surement, may be had on application, or post-free, to any part of the kingdom. A handsome Almanac for the year ending 1852 can bo bad, gratis, on application. lei I'on parle Francais. I Qui al parla Italians. liter ppricht W4ll DOUOCII. I Astua re Dittda Espanol. ket to exten- ldanee, all, and it figure 0/. 100; l calves, per lb. res, 4id :larceses ins 7s to ; geese, id to 48 .trid gee. its, 10d; ); eggs. st about 4s 6d a; flour, ore and and the fight fa tally le it a pro- ay very our WI well at 3es much ) market 1; prime i 6; lor to 2a Bd. Swede d; fowls, 18 oz. Ling 621 b 621 b per weighing weighiall r imperial 1; barley bran, per to 35s Od; ►ne of 141 b ; barley. first flour, 2s 4d ere pound, 44 3d to 4d dd ; ducks, ter, fresh, .ds), 2d to , 4d to od; ket ... 17e 9d Od ... 18s 0 1 ig i Oa 17e 3 1 o s 9a 17s 3d 178 31 17s 6d 17 8 Od 189 Od 169 Od end .... 21e 9 1 , 21s 04 VEEK. , - an d Centr e, iral Post-00161 lat When dne• Oct. 25 Oct. 26 Oct. 2° Nor. 24 Nov. 1 Nov. 2° Oct. 29 Daily Nov. J" Nov. 1 " , Nov. 1 Oct . 29 Oct. 99 Oct. 39 Nov. 1 To. TO 9 Nov. I ,oli Twicvo Nov. 9 t, Thee. Otto Sun. Tb Nov. 16 0 TwiCei Nov. Nov. 1 Nov. 2, Nov. 2" ," TUE GRAND MOVING DIORIAIA. of tte EXPLOITS and PRINCIPAL EVENTS in the Career of NAPOLEON the EMPEROR, NELSON, and WELLINGTON. Painted by Clueles Marshall, Esq., of her Majesty's Theatre. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' BENEVO LENT INSTITU HON, fur the Relief of Member , : perma nently incapacitated by age or otherwise, and the Widows of Mem bers. An ELECTION of ANNUITANTS will take place on the 27th December next, and the Board of Management have resolved that Four Candidates may be elected, viz. :—Two Commercial Travellers and Two Widows. Forms of Nomination and all necessary information may be had of the Secretary, at 8, Devonshire-square, Bishopsgate. CHARLES NASH, Secretary. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, 6th October, 1852. IrH E PRINCIPAL OFFICERS of Her MAJESTY'S ORDNANCE do HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That they are ready to DISPOSE OF, to such persons as may be willing to Tender for the same, a quantity of old IRON ORD NANCE, SHOT and SHELLS, in Store at the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, which have been divided into lots, and may be viewed upon application to the Storekeeper at that place any day (Sundays excepted) previous to the day fixed for the delivery of the Tenders. A Catalogue of the several Lots may be obtained by per.ons will ing to become purchasers at the Storekeeper's office, Woolwich ; the principal Storekeepers at the 'rower; and at the Secretary's Office in Pali-mall, where the Tenders for the whole or any number of the said Lots are to be delivered on or before Wedne'day, the 27th lust. By Order of the Board, G. BUTLER, Secretary. CONTRACTS FOR COALS FOR ANTIGUA. AND BER3IUDA. Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy, Somerset-Place, 22d October, 1852. riMIE COMMISSIONERS for executing the -IL Office of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KING DOM .4 GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND de HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on TIESDAY, the 9th November next, at 1 o'clock, they Hill be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and delivering into Store at her Majesty's Naval Yards at Anti.gua and Bermuda the follo+ving quantities of SOUTH WALES COALS, fit for the service of her Majesty's Steam. vessels : ANTIGUA.... • . 600 Tons. BERMUDA .. • . .1200 „ The Conditions of the Contracts and a Form of the Tender may be seen at the office. No Tender will be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed, unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admi ralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for ," and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, accom panied by a letter, signed by a responsible person, engaging to be come bound with the person tendering in the sum of 200/. for the tue petormanee of the Contract for Antigua, and in the sum of 4001. f or the Contract for Bermuda. ri I HE DEPOSIT and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. Chief Office, 22, 3foorgate-street, London. Every description of Life Assurance business transacted. Loans and Annuities granted on most liberal terms. " Diseased" lives, and lives " declined" by other offices, taken. Medical referees liberally remunerated for their reports. C. W. BEVAN, Actuary and Secretary. N.B. Clergymen and Ministers of all denominations are particu larly invited to examine the principles of the Deposit System of As surance adopted by this Office. Agents Wanted. UNDER THE ESPECIAL PATRONAGE OF HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN, AND FIELD-MARSHAL HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT, K.G., K.T., K.P., G.C.8., and G.C.M.G. THE ROYAL NAVAL, MILITARY, AND EAST INDIA LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, Established A.D. 1831, FOR GENERAL ASSURANCE ON LIVES. 13, WATERLOO-PLACE, LONDON. Assamlces are granted upon the lives of persons in every profes lon and station in life, and for every part of the world, with tke ex ception of the Western Coast of Africa within the Tropics. rhe Rates of Premiums are constructed upon sound principles with reference to every colony, and, by payment of a moderate addition to the flume Premium, in case of increase of risk, persons assured i n °Mee may change from one climate to another without forfeitin g their policies. Four -fifths of the Profits are divided amongst the Assured. Table I. exhibits the necessary Premiums for the Assurance of lOW. on a Single Life d, 3. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN. The following circular has just been distributed : " Secretary's-office, Easton Station, London, Oct. 20, 1852. "TO THE PROPRIETORS OP THE LONDON AND NORTH- WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. " Experience has satisfied the directors of the London and North-Western and Midland Companies that it would conduce to the stability of the undertakings, and to the convenience and advantage of the public if the co-operation (based on an identity.of interest) which has subsisted for some years in working the two under takings, were rendered more complete and permanent ; and they have determined, therefore, by an unanimous resolution of each board, to recommend for adoption by their respective proprietors an agreement to apply to Parliament for a bill to amalgamate the companies, on terms to be settled by referees of high standing. The directors are led to recommend this course from a conviction that by such means alone can they obtain the fall advantages to be derived from the existing arrangements or secure with cer tainty an uninterrupted continuation of that cordial co operation in the working of the two undertakings which is essential to the welfare of the proprietors, and to the interests of the public. In addition to the special rea sons in favour of an amalgamation of these two compa nies, experience is daily proving, beyond all question, that a state of hostile rivalry between railway companies leads, of necessity, to great and general inconvenience, and to a needless and wasteful expenditure in the con duct of the traffic common to both, without any corre sponding advantage to the public ; and leads also to the outlay, year by year, of large amounts of capital in the construction of duplicate lines and stations, instead of being devoted, as the interests of the country dictate, to the wants of towns and districts still devoid of railway facilities. The directors trust that you will be able to attend personally the general meeting on the 3d No vember ; if. however, you are unable to do so, and should desire to be represented by proxy, you may ob tain the necessary form on application to this office. — By order, CRAS. E. STEWART, Secretary." Resolutions intended to be submitted for adoption at he General Meeting, called for November 3, 1852: " Resolved—That it is expedient to effect a perma nent union of interest between the London and North- Western and Midland Railway Companies, and to amal gamate the undertakings on the following terms, viz.:— That the relative values of the two undertakings be ascertained and fixed by three referees of high standing; that their decision be given after the passing of the act of amalgamation : bat in case the first application to Parliament fails, further application shall be made in the following and ensuing session, and it shall be competent for either company to call upon the referees to fix the relative value of the two undertakings ; such values to be in any case fixed after 31st December, 1853." " Resolved—That the directors be accordingly autho rized to introduce and prosecute, in the ensuing session of Parliament, a bill to carry into effect the foregoing resolution, and to take such measures, in furtherance thereof, as they may deem fit, and as counsel may ad vise, consistently with the powers of the parties." OXPORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVERHAMPTON RAILWAY.—The exertions of this company to obtain an independent metropolitan outlet for its traffic are to be met by the most determined opposition of the London and North-Western and Great Western Companies. _ BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD Maim Av.—the London and North-Western authorities are quite alive to the mischief which this line may inflict upon its traffic. There is a considerable season traffic from Leamington northwards, and to prevent the Great Western Company getting hold of it, the Euston-square authorities have resolved to run a train from Leamington to Nuneaton, upon that most unprofitable of all lines the Trent Valley, to meet the express trains at that point. This will of course secure the Leamington northern traffic to the London and North-Western Company. BOSTON AND MIDLAND RAILWAY.—The Marquis of Bristol, through whose land this line proceeds for above seven miles, has given in his adhesion to the project, which is now supported by every landowner from end to end. The Ambergate line has cost nearly 30,0001 per mile. This line will cost, exclusive of the proposed docks, less than 8,5001. per mile. It will, when con structed, bring into active working th e Ancestor quer,: ries, the stone from which is said to be unequalled i the kingdom. RAILWAY MERCHANDISE DEPOTS.--The Grea a t Wes tern Railway have just ope ned twenty-four, nd the Great Northern twenty extensive goods depots in all parts of the metropolis. SOUTH WALES RAILWAY. —Consequent on a notifica tion from the railway department of the Board of Trade, this company have discontinued their open third-class carriages, the Act of Parliament requiring that all third class carriages shall be covered in. EMIGRATION TO SOUTH AUSTRALIA, Lest evening a public meeting was held in the British and Foreign School-room, Cowper-street, City-road, for the purpose of marking the departure for Australia of a party of 180 intending emigrants of both sexes, who are to sail in a few days by the ship Lord Delaval, which has been chartered under the auspices of a committee of gentlemen connected with various dissenting denomina tions. The room was well filled with an assemblage of all classes, drawn together by the expectation that Mrs. Chisholm would attend to address a few parting words of advice to the emigrants, which she did. In the course b of her address, one of the emigrants asked " Shall we ) e_3 shaved, Ma'am, when we cross line—(Loud laughterthe? Mrs. Chisholm said that the razor used on crossing I iron; line was a very rude one, generally apiece ec w e of with only one and they were very fortunate who escapedpassengers were or two cuts from the operation. generally irritated by the process, aThdaitaogfete.n neat te h d a a d bad feeling during the rest of t'hoemavmooyo _ a d passenger therefore made it a rule not to r d ec (Hear, hear). She to a ship were it was permitteto ge . t th e committee to advised the emigrants present add a clause to the contract prohibiting the barbarous practice. (Cheers). Dr. Thomson eaidhe had twice crossed the line, but never easy any sha v ing. However, he thought its discontinuance in all cases should be made imperative. Mrs. Chisholm said that within the w last t wo months she kn ew of five cases of shaving, h were all bad ones. The custom was like that of making workmen pay their footing. She did not wish to trench upon poor Jack's old established perquisites; but let the passengers substitute a supper, by subscribing 3d. a-head or so, at the end of the voyage, as a mark of good feeling to the crew. This would be much better than giving them drink. TUE ASSASSINATION OF MR. MANIFOLD.—The Lord Lieutenant has offered a reward of 1001. for such infor mation as may lead to the conviction of the assassin of the late Mr. Manifold. IRISH .EMIGRATION. — Th e em i gra ti on f ever i n Ir e land has certainly received some check since the close of the summer ; but still considerable numbers are taking their departure for America or Australia. A local journal gives an account of the "complete decay , of the once prospero us an d happy village of Ki nvara , ' from which most of th e s h op k eepers an d o th er inhabitants huxe emigrated. / . „ 0 :