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'Porated by 9th and 10th Victoria. c. 103, and 14th and 15th ~._ Victoria, c. 75.) fie, 72 miles in length, will join the Aberdeen Railway at 4t, i iii a nd Proceeding northward through a rich, populous, and Ny , i wael district, will accommodate the towns of Kintore, In- N D "'"tlY, Keith, and Elgin. k i ' l ' , sent issue of stock consists of 36,003 preference shares of ik l , e , eMitled to a minimum preferential dividend of 5 per cent. tie at 'nns for Shares may be made to the Secretary at Aberdeen, e , t ° ll°v ring Stock and Sharebrokers :—Messrs. Carden and ~ -"t 2, Royal Exchange-buildings ; J. C. Morice, 1, Warn eitil:t, London; G. and T. Irvine, 2, India -buildings, Liverpool ; ue r of 'whom forms of application for shares, detailed pro and ' maps of the line may be obtained. WOOLWICH, Dice. 24. The Imperieuse 50-gun screw steam-frigate, Captain Rundle Burges Watson, C. 8., in the dock at the west end of Woolwich-yard, has commenced entering her crew, which is to consist of 530 petty officers, seamen, and marines. Any young stout boatman or fisherman will be accepted, if with a good charadter ; also able bodied stokers. The crew will be hulked on board the Hebe receiving-ship until the Imperieuse is fully ready for their reception. Commander William A. Fellowes (1850), Commander George Hancock (1850), recently serving in the London, 90, and Lieutenant Harry Smith (1845), have been ap pointed to study steam at the factory at Woolwich Dockyard. et A nd ed 3 dill Lin& ° tint 5 , to Iv' oats, 11$ LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 25, 1852. [PRICE SD. No . 18,802.] THE COALITION MINISTRY. hang° t : r Too 's prices , A vi l es t, ," to 'st 2%; ,6s to "s' , 0 6d P e Gd P er cr lb. m arke t; i'derttgi' bold oats 00 tlie top wlie3V to-JO' Fridsl l ian ego; to .oa , ape be get 64 to 340 6 2 0 itoo tr- p, , • 33 :---" k7,771' SO O • 7 51 •• " 65 1 • 0 1 •• " 56 1 '• " 461 ~STRALIA !—GOLD TEST STONES ! ! .(ereliants and the Tiade are informed that we have just re tli4rilsignment of the above in all sizes. Our Winter stock of b a e nd Melting Pots is no w complete, and orders to any ex ip,„, executed at a day's notice. MORGAN and REES, 1, ~.:2escent, London. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. PATRON—H It. H. PRINCE ALBERT. 'U A L PO LYTEC RN IC INSTITUTION. se , TIRELY NEW EXHIBITION. —An OPTICAL and fs ILLUSTRATION of " A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S lop ! the Worth from Shakspere, the Music by Born, Stevens, 'and Dr. Cooke, Daily at a Quarter -past Four, .4Evenng, except Satnrd Ay, at Half-past Niue. —LECTURES ptm ltper, Esq., on the endless AMUSE MEN TS of C EMIST RY q ' t. to a Juvenile Audience; by Dr. Rachhoffner. on the PHI -4.41: et SCIENTIFIC RECREATION ; by Mr . Crispe, on trto,,' S 'lG and the PF.CSFECTS of AERIAL NAVIGATION, byGlyipE a beaut ßOPE, iful ModDIAGRA.MS el of PorrKvl &c . N' PAR DISSOLVING *lncluding Day and Night Views of WALMER CASTLE, CHURC IL &c. "' is. ; Schdols and Children under ten years of age, half-price. ' l4 LAURE NT'S GRAND CASIN O . 'ArYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, St. james's, 4Cliarles Emile Laurent, Onslow House, Brompton-road, tiSed Pursuant to Act of Parliament, of 25th George 11. a v er) . evening with Laurent's Celebrated Band. Principe' "Ilion, Boulcour. Adm i ss i on —ONE SHILLING. ~,uPen at Half-past Eight o'clock. Dancing to com mence at '"'d terminate at Half-put Eleven precisely. ik,\VRENCE'S PATENT IR e s). LESII GLOVES FOR GENTLEMEN (a softer HORSE—BHA for Rubbers for use on the back and s houlders, Mats for pre a;co feet Bath Gloves, &c. These frictors are constantly ended by , medical men as conducive to the development of a lo' t e of health. Manufactcry , I s lin g ton- P lace, Park-road, 41 4 i, Sold by Dinneford and Co. , 172, New Bond-street, and by •— ts i n general. t it ALBION GOLD MINING COMPANY , P ° . l. Working the Gold Mines on Burns' Creek, and the Quartz ; 3 148 , under a Conveyance in Fee•simple, of 1.00 0 acres, near t itgh, Mariposa, California. , £ l OO,OOO, in 100,000 Shares of £1 each, to be paid up in full the without further liability. t i Cost Book system, requiring no deed of settlement. ' til er the directors nor any co-adventurers will have power to debts to bind this Company in California, there being a law 4 4tt . 'lt In that State. 1 41, TRUSTEES. H the Marquis of Donegal], G.C.H. and P.C. R obert P on eeric, Bart., M.P. DIRECTORS. R OBERT , PRICE, Bart., M.P., Foxley - par k, Herefordshire 11 1 - ZStratton-street, Piccadilly, Chairman. M ost Hon. the Marquis of Donegail, G.C.H. and P.C., Ormean ktrk; Antrim,Portland-place. s i °ba 'Villiers Shelley, Bart., Marestield-park, Sussex, and Albe- Wage-street. gt e att t Francis S. Murphy, M.P., 3, Serjeant's -inn. b l ew Crawford, Esq., 8.A.L., Middle Temple, and Haverstock- Hampstead. CC W. Wood, Esq., Britton Ferry, Glamorgansbire. BANKERS. . 114 . Price Marryat, and Co., 3, King William - s treet, Cit y . ~ 4,:aessrs.Cocks, Biddulph, and Co , , 43, Cha rin g -cross. ' II.I NO MINING ENGINEIR.—David T. Anted, Esq., F.R.S. and F.G S., Professor of Geology, King's College. SECRETARY. —George Jackson, Esq. Company OFFICES.-3, Copthall-buildings , Bank. or proposes to take possession (un ler a conveyance in ‘'ne thousand acres of land upon the freehold estate of Alfred in the county of Mariposa, California, and to work, on 'book system, the geld mines thereon. situated in the stnrich of that famous region, the Burns' Creek range of gold depo tljnis unri s valled in the land of unlimited riches. Through the to ol' this est a te , consisting of upwards of 2,000 acres, from south -411.6 north-west, a ridge 01 hills, the great basis of which is the lkt,s 4 `ring quartz rock, discloses to the observer at intervals, veins 4 1t,,,, n re cropping out at the hill sides in manifest splendour. From and banks of the clear stream called Burns' Creek, which t e n 'iner unfailing and in winter unfrozen), flows through the at the base of these hills, it is known by miners of that locality 1::" 1 „rlY a million and a half sterling of fine gold has bee n taken in •" two years, and the placer gold diggings of that stream are as „,!'ed to bebut the washings of ages from the masses of gold-bear itZartz above. To blast these rocks, to sink shafts, pursue the lion ,lnel to be but the washings of ages trom the masses of gold.bear veins, crush the rich ore by powerful steam engines, and ex -4141 remit the gold is the great object of this Company. For "kti 4 4, Poses the most improved 'machinery must be p urchased, i tt 4 eaitted, and fixed; skilful miners , quarry men, and en g ineers ,e t t ; stores furnished. for their support, and dwellings erected , habitation. To command these things and success, large eapi ly",,_skilful direction is required, and in theformation of t his Com ' i; 'nose leading objects have will be attained. Situated in latitude It ll about 37%, with the climate of Italy, and with the woods and , e s ki Pastures aboilnding in cattle, deer and other large game, S r oln the gold mines and quartz-crushing works of the Noveau , Comr,any, and between the Mercede and Mariposa Rive rs, 'power has placed this splendid mining property within 6 weeks' 'epth`l of London, and (excepting only about 25 miles not yet railed, e Isthmus of Panama), railways and flrst-class mail steamers tt , l eY' the traveller and treasure with the safety, punctuality, and of the iron train. between London, San Francisco, and Stock the San Joaquin river, whence a good road runs through this miles from Stockton, to the county town fur Mariposa, 20 'kt n elatant. From the Barns' Creek, ore piece of pe gold was 'lt t l,"weighing 17 pounds, and was sold for 7501. This fact is Ork by an eminent geologist, D Charles F. Spieker, of New 7 11 t Who, in his report of a survey, made in 1850, on the spot, 474 thus I've r 'ne Most important feature in the geology of this district, how ' Which gives it such great value for mining purposes , is the ex- StUse here in the diorit formation of such an astonishing number of cap; 2t quartz, for nowhere in the auriferous districts a California ke 4 S i ke 4 een such quantities of quartz veins accumulated within an k et such comparatively small extent. Neatly every one of the and ridges above described contains the outcropping of a quartz Fi n s ometimes of very large dimensions." And again, "On my 1 ,) t,,,,ning them in reference to the proportion of gold they contained 4,,,ulParison with other veins which I 'had seen in California, I k ly o k! them to be of the best and richest kind wi.ich hail come under 94,'ervatien there. One of these veins was distinguished by great bkittities of cellular quartz, which inclosed a very large amount of told in small particles, presenting alto g ether some of the most Itli a ,;,'ful and richs specimens of that kind of auriferous quartz In California." e t (See Report.) tol l ; age specimens of the gold quartz brought by the proprietor kti., ale veins transferred to this Company, have been submitted to 'Ala s. 8 and assay at the Bank of England, and the great result is Irt the following BULLION OFFICE CERTIFICATE& ehereby certify that four lbs. troy of quartz rock, from the estate dit.red Clapp, Esq., in Mariposa, California, placed in my hands by lt„ , Alfred Clapp and Mr. Henry W. Wood, for mel tin g and assay -11,71t Melded 1 ounce and 9 pennyweights of gold ; the assayer's re- Ito. ° I 'which is, worse than standard 2 car. grs., silver 39)4 dwt. Value 51. Is. 3d. " STEWART PIXLEY, For Haggard and Pixley, Sworn Brokers , 8, Co p thall-court. "“ September, 1852." S o i l certify that the lump of gold weighing 29 pennyweights, melted 44 : a u_ 4 lbs. of quartz rock, belonging to Alfred Clapp, Esq., has been and the report thereon is, worse than standard 2 car. 1 % grs , 39 % dwts. per lb. troy. " W. D. HAGGARD, lao, Chief Clerk, Bullion•office, Bank of England. September, 1852." 4 h ._ 41 301d for Alfred Clapp, Esq., Californian gold extracted from 4 lbs " a rtz rock, 1 oz. 9 dwts. worse 2 car. 1% grs., silver 39% dwts. ' , Wis. allowed for refining, 19% dwts. per lb. 1 oz. 5 dwts. 22 grs. standard, at 77a. 9d. per 0z... £5 0 9 2 dwts. silver, at 60s. %d.... . ..... ............ 0 0 6 £5 1 3 Crushing and melting.. •ASESay ~.,,, ~,•• .....• ~• •... .X 0 5 0 0 4 0 0 9 e t &OGARD and PIXLEY. ''ondon Sept. 13, 1852." )3 Y these • certificates it is seen that from 45 ounces of the quartz ke When melted, unshed, and washed, one ounce and nine penny ,ghts of gold. value Si. Is. 3d. sterling, was obtained, and this ti.atier the immediate sanction of Mr. Haggerd, and personal inspec -14 of Mr. Pixley and Mr. Wood, at the smelting works in Wood- I sh 'et. employed by the Bank of Enl•land. At this rate of yield one ‘, 4 " of the quartz rock would produce gold value 3,4001. and up ds ; but assuming that instead of this result (viz , 11.55. 3%d. per an average of only one shilling per pound troy was produced, as jelfY tons per da can be readily sep w arated, crushed, and washed 'hese mines, and the yield of gold ould be, at that rate, 1361. per (1, hi ~Nvch mutiplied by thirty ives 4,001., as te result of each working, l being 24.48'1. per g week of B six days, above 100,0001. 'alendar month would be the gross produce. t s ,`, D !llinatincr, therefore, the average yield of gold from these hills, p and lacers, as only sixpence to the pound weight ot quartz, l encome of 600,0001. per annum wi". be afforded —enough, after te i ! v°l,l 3 amply for all expenses, to repay the capital five times in Year's actual working. 14 1 , authentic paper (repablished in the " Times " of September , irom Hussey and Co.'s Circnlar, of San Francisco, July 30th, 1 52 ) shows the gross product of Californian gold, from the official e t riz, to be in the first six months, 1852, to the I st J ul y , 33,849,774 t 5 ,_ 41.8 , or about seven m illi ons ste r l in g , and this when the develop of the rock gold is but commencing. si, ed hope is not the desire of the Directors upon such data to excite ex tb`s of delusive profits, but they feel the highest confidence this undertakieg, vigorously and honestly conducted, must q uickly produce enormous returns to the shareholders in the Albion Mines. The Directors have entered into e. contract with the teprietor of the BUMS' Ranche estate, which entitles the Company tinter immediately upon possession of one thousand acres, free of ' alY or reservation, on which tour openings have already been m ade Ti in the gold-bear , ng vei ns, and s p lendid specimens extracted. terms of this purchase are most liberal on the part of the pro ,letor, w h o , excepting a vet y small proportion, takes the whole atlineer a , i o n, of a third interest (chiefly in shares), to be delivered Periods subsequent to possession and working by the Company. " b 1) Director or subscriber to t his Company will be liable beyond the 7 0, 1nt of his shares subscribed for. ti -the title to this property is undisputed, and possession the estate trnA February, 1851. to the present time.—(See Report.) eneeimens of the quartz rock may be seen at the offices of the ." 1 13any, as taken from the vein by the proprietor, which is inex -I‘tistible and it is a remarkable characteristic of the vast wealth of e3tate that the gold-bearing veins, though but three feet wide ,?!! the surface, run through the whole property, and in depth are " u •e•r in descending and without any known termination. Extract from the Affidavit of Joseph Tryon. 1),::My 'ari residence is at present in the state of California ; I am tem_ b IY in the city of New York , b ut ex p ect to return to California ; y . ave been a resident of California from eighteen months to two s ,rs, and am well acquainted with Californa, and with all parts tt, with the mining districts and all other districts, probably as ' l el ) . acquainted as any other ma n whose official duties did not re quire r him to travel through the country more extensively than Isele I have been in the southern mines ; I know that the richest the quartz veins are in the southern mines. I know Burns' ga uche by reputation. and have bee n u p on it, and it is generally a cknowledged i . to be exceedingly rich. I have see n s p ecimens taken i 1 / 1 it which are exceedingly rich. It is sit uate about 70 miles i° -east of Stockton between the Mercede and Mari p osa Rivers. The road leading to it is the main road leading to Mariposa. It is ;posa county. Heavy machinery Is carried over this road into -4 Darts of Mariposa county." (Signed) JOSEPH TRYON. Sworn before me this Bth day of March, 1852. (Signed) JOHN W. NELSON. U. S. Commissioner. New York, March 10, 1852. have been acquainted with Mr. Joseph Tryon for some years P mt, and from my acquaintance with him, and my knowledge of his -- "„_ u lne in this city, can say that he is a gentleman of the highest t icmctability, and any statements made by him would be entitled to fullest confidence and credit. (Fidlied)—R. J. THORNE, Pres. Protection Fire Insurance Co. 58. Waftstreet. JOSEPH WALKER, Pres. Mercantile Mutual In ur ance Co., 03, Wall street. JAS. M, BROWN, firm of Brown, Brothers, and Co 59, wan-street £1 12 3 Eicbmoncl-hill, Nov, 3, 1852 b :CV, have no doubt in our offices of the signature " Jas. M. Brown" 'lug that of one of our junior partners. (Signed) WILLIAM BROWN , M.P. for Sout ca h Lanshire. lrrn--Brown, Shipley, and Co , Liverpool, an Merchants. k g&Plications tor shares may be made in the usual form to the --LetarY, at the Company's Offices. Pont OF APPLICATION POE MABEL To the Directors of the Albion Gold Mining Company. ;:entlernon,-1 retreat you will allot me 9b Fires of one pound i t 11,, g each in Ihe itbnve tublertkii4, the w } hole of which, or any tber that may be allotted to tile, er' `hen required, to vty theantoant thereon, .. 'tin book of tilt:, Conipati . I am, Gentlemen, your obedlent servant, Date , Address .. • • • ...... IleferenCO , ;ree to a THE HOME CIRCLE ; an Illustrated Family Magazine ; a Welcome Visitor to every fireside. This Werk has received the approving testimony of Mr. Baran Alderson and Mr. Justice Talfourd : " Publications like yours are much wanted in these times."—• BARON ALDERSON. " Yout Work is replete with innocent recreation and Suggestions of practical good."—JusucE TALFOURD. 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Johnson, 60, St. Martin's-lane, London, and of all booksellers. • ALLSOPP'S PALE OR BITTER ALE. THE unanimous opinion of the most eminent scientific and medical men of the day, of Baron Liebig, Messrs. Graham, Hofmann, Musprate,Watson, Budd, Marshall, Hall, Travers, Fergusson, Rowe, Via ian, Heygate, Leman, Arnold, Evans, Formby, Petrie, Macrorie, Vose, Tufnell, Hunter, Davies, Jones, Senior, Maciaren, Macaulay, Gray, Teevan, Hill, Hayward, Harri son, Pepper, Inman, Sir Charles Clarke, the Sanatory Commissioner of "The Lancet," &c. &c. &c. (many of them after careful analyses, and all of them after long experience,) having been pronounced in favour of the healthful and invigorating qualities, as well as the highly dietetic properties of their Yale and Bitter Ales, Messrs. Allsopp have little more to do than to place, once for all, the public, in a brief form, the accredited results of dm late invoiat before gatious and recorded experience of those indisputable authorities. Messrs. .Al , sopp and Son's Pale or Bitter Ales have been thus un quearionably vouched to be a very agreeable and efficient tonic, as a general beverage both for the invalid and the robust and as tend ing, from the pare and wholesome nature of the ingredients em ployed, the moderate proportion of alcohol present, and the very considerable quantity of aromatic anodyne bitter derived from hops alone, which they contain, to preserve the tone and vigour of the stomach, and to conduce to the restoration of that organ when in a state of weakness, debility, or irritability." In all cases in which Malt Liquors are suitable, none meet the de sired effect more certainly, none are prescribed with more confidence by the Faculty. " The careful manner in which the fermentation is conducted, causes them to assimilate to Foreign Wines more than the ordinary ales of this country ; and on this account they do not occasion that acidity of stomach created by tke less perfectly fer mented ales." " These Bitter Beers differ from all other prepara tions of malt, in containing a smaller amount of extractive matter, thus being less viscid and saccharine, and consequently more easy of digestion. They resemble, indeed, from their lightness, a %Vine of Malt rather than an ordinary fermented infusion ; and it is very sa tisf .ctory to find that a beverage of such general consumption is en tirely free from every kind of impurity." Fortified by such opinions, expressed in the above terms, verbatim, by the most eminent authorities, Messrs Allsop and Sons do not feel themselves called upon to go into any further vindication of their justly popular beverage, from the aspersions of malicious and inte rested parties ; but content themselves by announcing that they have commenced supplies from the Brewing of this Season. ALLSOPP'S PALE or BITTER ALE may be obtained in Casks of 18 Gallons and upwards from the Brewery, Burton-on-Trent; and from the undermentioned Branch Establishments: — LONDON, at 61, King William-street, City; LIVERPOOL, at Cook-street ; MANCHESTER, at Ducie-place ; DUDLEY, at Burnt Tree ; GLASGOW, at 115, St. Vincent-street; DUBLIN, at Ulster Chambers, Dame-street; BIRMINGHAM, at Market-hall ; At either of which places r. list of respectable parties who supply the Beer in Bottles (and also in Casks at the seine prices as from the Brewery), may at any time be s en. • NEW FEATURE IN LIFE ASSUR AN C E. THE DEPOSIT and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 18, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London. CAPITAL—ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS. DIRECTORS. _ _ R. Yallowley Barnes, Esq., 11, City-road, Finsbury. G. Noel Clarke, Esq , late 17th Lanrs, Junior United Service Club. George Coode, Eq., Portland-terrac c e e , Wandsworth, and Belvcir, St. Helier's, Jersey Stephen Cracknall, Esq.. 1, St. John's-gardens, Notting-hill, and 11, 2.ew-square, Lincoln's-inn. George Knox, Esq., 15, Connanght . Equare, H y de- p ark, and Tor Lodge, Staffordshire. Alexander Maclean, Esq„ Harrow-on-the-llill. David C. Poole, Esq., 32, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square. William Prinsep, Esq., 147, Leadenhall-street, and 8, ilyde-park place West. Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. Dr. Scanlan, 21, Upper Seymour-street West, Connaught-square. Major Sperling, 14, St. James',.-square. AIIDITOIIS I . F. J. Bigg, Esq„ 12 6 , Stand , Actua r y and Secretary to the Medical, Legal, and General Life Office. William Jones, Esq., Accountant, 3, Guildhall-chambers. BANKERS. Sir Charles Price, Marryat, and Co., 3, King William-street, London PHYSICIANS. Dr. Lewis, Finsbury-place. Dr. Scanlan, 21, - Upper Seymour-street West, Connaught-square. SURGEONS. H. T. Chapman, Esq., 16, Lower Seymour•strect, Portman -square. Michael Teevan, Esq., 44, Gloucester-place, Hyde-park-gardens. CONSULTING ACTUARY. Franc's G. P. Ntison, E q., F.L.S. INSPECTOR OF AGENCIES.. F. P. F. Strousberg, Esq. STANDING COUNSEL. William Wellington Cooper, Esq., New-square, Lincoln's-inn. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Hill and Mathews St. Mary-axe. RESIDENT SECRETARY. Charles W. Bevan, Esq. The public is respectfully invited to examine the principles of the Deposit System of Assurance. which is based upon tables calculated by, and is udder the immediate supervision of, Francis G. P. Nelson, Esq., F.L S., the Consulting Actuary to the CompanY. Comparative Tables to assure 5001 on death , by a person aged twenty next birthday, on the ORDINARY and on the DEPOSIT system ofAssurances. ON THE ORDINARY SYSTEM. ,The sum the ordinary The sum the Life Offices would give ordinary Life him if he were unable Offices would to pay, or if he omitted s, os At the Ills give him for to pay his current ..1 end of policy the surrender annual premium of It Annual thirty at that or sale 81.65. 3d. after he has .n premium yearswhen age, of his policy, paid into their coffers 1: 3 1 to assure the party in case after thirty 249/.75.6d., and which E 500/.* is fifty of years'paymentsdheyhave had the use o years old, death amounting to of at compound to hewillhave willbe 249/. 7s. 6d. interest,t or in paid into werth'wbichtheyhave the event of his death the office. had the benefit omission one hour or after inabilitysc h ofat compound interest. to pay. -- --- --- -------- little more 20 81.68.34 I perhaps 90/ 249/.75.6d. 5001. than PI. . NOTHING. ON THE DEPOSIT SYSTEM. If unable to pay, or not desirous of paying or omitting topay,thePo licy would still remain of its FULL value, 522/.2s.7d.tilldeath, if 20 years after, no fur ther payment beingrc quired. Ifhowever the party,from any cause, wished to cancel the Policy, he could not • onlydraw out all hehas put In, viz., 2251., but a certain bonus of 62/. 20 11. lU Od 2251. 5221.257 d 2871. 2 s. 9 d. 2s. 9d. in the bargain, which is more than one-fourth of the whole s payments, or Mow f could either draw out apar part , 201. or 501., diminishing the Policy only by the assured value of the sum se drawn out at the age when withdrawn. See pagess and 7 In detailed pamphlet, by F. G. P. Nelson, Esq. * The rates here selected are those adopted by the English and Cambrian Office, and advertised in its distinctive features as low rates of premium, and professedly for the lower and midding classes. In most offices, particularly the older ones, such as the Scottish Equitable and the Globe, these rates would be much higher. Ia the former of 101. Is. 6d., with 10 shillings per cent. entrance fee, would be the rate to insure 5001. at 20 years of age. In the latter 81. 13s 4d., to insure the same sum. The higher the rate the more in favour of the DLTOSIT system. t Money laid out at compound interest DOUBLES ITSELF every four- teen years. On comparison of these two tables it will be seen that a person nnd advantages, system of DEPOSIT assurance can secure the follow ing , viz., Ist. For a less sum, paid annually, he can assure a larger sum in case of death than under the ordinary system. 2ndly. In the event of a desire to surrender his Policy he can receive in this Company, by the above example, which applies to all ages, THREE times as much as on the ordinary system. 3rdly. In the event of inability or omission to pay , his policy re mains still his property, of the same value as it was, though he cease his current payments for any number of years ; whereas on the ordinary system, he gets nothing. 4thlv. Should he require to increase or decrease the amount of his policy he can do so at pleasure. He can, at any time, by giving a fortnight's notice, withdraw any part from 1/ up to the whole amount of his previous payments and with interest. After he has withdrawn part one year he can, by a single payment, three years, or any time afterwards. raise his policy to a greater or even its former amount ; and by this system be can at all times regulate his annual savings by his annual expenditure, with the facility in the bargain of having a fund to fly to in case of necessity, the same as in a bank, with this palpable advantage, however, that he gets inte rest for his money, and in case of death his family receive more than the amount of his savings. In ordinary Life Offices be can do no such thing, but his policy at once lapses or is cancelled the moment he ceases to pay his current premiums, and, instead of having any fund to fly to for aid, all his hard-earned savings become forfeited to the society, and his misfortunes serve to benefit the pockets of his more fortunate co-assurers. Such a system is too equitable and too striking to be overlooked and DEPOSIT assurance is the only system of assurance which can be universally recognized and adopted when the principles are impar tially canvassed, and its palpable benefits become widely diffused. It confers greater advantages than a bank because it allows a fair rate of interest in case of withdrawal, and gives twice the amount in the hands of the Company to the representatives of the Depositor in case of death, thus combining the ADVANTAGES OF A BANK WITH THE BENEFITS OF AN ASSURANCE COMPANY. In case of endowment assurances the advantages of the DEPOSIT SYSte'3l are still more striking. ADVANTAGES OF THIS COMPANY UNDER THE ORDINARY LIFE ASSURANCE BRANCH. To those who prefer this branch Policies are granted from 201. to 5.0001. on every known principle thereof. Lives in all but the worst stages of disease, and such aS have been rejected by other Offices, are taken at rates equivalent to the parti cular disease. Loans from 50/. and upwards ranted on every kind of security, real or personal, on the most equitable terms to the borrower Annuities of every description granted on very favourable terms. Non-forfeiture of a Policy —ln case of inability to pay the currant premiums, the Directors wil l either p urchase the Policy at a fair market value, or give a DOW one in lien thereof, less 5 per cent.. inte rest corresponding in amount t o t he whole of the previona payments Wh eh , have been made. Deta prospectuses with tlbles in further illustration of the De posit system, and any further information may be obtained on appli tat oa tO the Agents in the country, or to CHARLES W. BEVAN, Resident Secretary. ; Br—Agenta wanted in all parts 0 tit, World. TTHOMAS HOOD'S GEAVE.—At a General Meeting of the Subscribers t o the 1100 D MEMORIAL, held Dec. 2d, at the WhittingtonOlub, it -a vas resolved that the Subscrip tion List be CLOSED on the Ist of I'e bruary, 1853, and Miss ELIZA COO S Ma.. MURDO YO 0' NG, and Ma. JOHN WATI LENS, were appointed Trustees to the Fund—. The amounts subsctibed are dept ailed at interest in the London and Commercial Bank. Contributions are received by M C. William Strudwlcke, at the Whittington Club, Strand ; by Mlg i Eliza Cook, Treasurer, 54, Great Orrnonde-street, Bloomsbury ;; and by Mr. John Watkins, lion. Sec., 34, Parliament-street. • Among the subscribers a r 3 the following : His Grace the Duke of Devonshi ri K.G.• •• • £2s 0 The Right Hon. Lord John RU el 1, M.P. .•. . •• 5 0 0 M The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P ••• • • .. The Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay,. M.P.••••••••• • Sir William Frazer, 8art.......... ..... •• 0 0 James Harmer, Esq.,. .: 'John Macgregor, • Esq., M.P .• .• ...... 5 0 0 Arnold Rogers, Esq... •••••• • • • • • • ............ 5 5 0 Mrs. Robert Elliot ....• •••• •• . Richard Dawson; Esq., M.D..— •••• • • • 5 0 0 George Peabody, Esq..•• ••..•••••••• • • • • • ' • • • • 6 5 Edward Moorman, Esq •••• • • • • •••• • " • • • • 5 0 0 David Salomons, Esq.. • ... •. • . 5 5 Messrs. Spalding and Hodge-- ••••••• • • • • • • • 5 Miss Eliza Cook.: • ••• .• ...• ••••••••• • • • • • • • • 5 0 0 Proceeds of an "Evening with .good" at the Whittington Club... .. ••• • • ....• ..... 8 8 0 Murdo Young, Esq., and family ••• • • • 4 4 0 Samuel Rogers, Esq.• .. .... •• •• •• •• ... ••; • •• ... 3 0 0 C. W. Dilke, Esq... ••••••• • • • • .. ........ .... 3 3 0 Charles Lushington, Esq.. •• •. Elias Davis, Esq••• •• • •• • • •• • • .. 3 3 0 The Right Hon. the Earl of Ellet aere •• .• 2 0 0 The Right Hon. Lord John Mann o rs, M.P...• .. 2 0 0 Sir James Duke, Bart., .... 2 2 0 R. Monckton Wines, Esq., M.P.• . •• • • 2 0 0 B. W. Procter, Esq., (Barry Corn w all) Douglas Jerrold, Esq..— ..... •. • ..... • • 2 2 0 T. K. Hervey, Esq. .• •••••• • • • • • 2 Rowland Hill, Esq., General Post- office • ...... C. Mackay, Esq., LL.D. ••.. • • • ......... .. 2 2 0 C. W. Dilke, jun., Esq.. ••••.. • • • ..• • 2 2 0 Edward Moxon, Esq.... • •• •• • . 2 2 0 James Coppock, Esq.• • •••• Rev. Thos. Wilkinson, Durham .• . .. ••• • • . ~as. Wyld, Esq., and family.... .•• • • ••2 0 0 Mrs. Theodore Martin (Miss Hele a Faucit) • 2 2 0 A few Young Men at Simpkin and. Marshall's.. 1 5 6 Nine half crowns from ManchestA r ..... . • The Right Hon• - tht Earl of Car .0 , ale.. •••••• 1 1 0 The Right Hon. the Earl of St. C N 3rmans.. • • 11 0 The Right Hon. Lord Brougham • • .. •• •• .. 1 0 0 The Right Hon. Lord Dudley uart, M.P. 11 0 The Hon. and Rev. S. G. Osborne • . ..... Alfred Tennyson, Esq. (Poet Lam is. Lady Sandys— •• • • ...... • W. M. Thackeray, E5q..... Charles Swain, Esq, ....... •• • • • • 1 0 0 W. C. Macready, Eiiq •• . ....... .• .. ••.• • . 1 1 0 J. Westland Marston, Esq ...... ••• .• ...• 1 1 0 Mrs. S. C. Hall ..... ••••..• • • • • • • 1 1 0 Albert Smith, Esq... •• • • ........• ..... •• .. 1 1 0 Lady Morgan.— ..... •• • ..• • • .......... 11 0 W. C M. Kent, Esq. ... •••• • • • • 1 1 0 Alfred Crowquill, Esq. . ..... ....,..... • 1 1 0 William Jerdan, Esq.... • • Hepworth Dixon, E5q...... •• • • ...... 1 1 0 Charles Gavan Duffy, Esq., M.P. • • •••.. • • 1 0 0 R. Swift, Esq., M.P. •• .. .. 1 1 0 James Macgregor, Esq., M.P.. ••.. • 1 0 0 B. Oliveira, Esq., M.P.. ••••••••• .. • • • . . • • . 1 1 0 W. J. Fox, Esq., M.P... •••• • .• • ........... 1 1 0 Sir John Kerle Haberfield, ICnt., B i:stol ...... 1 1 0 Mrs MilnerGibson ... •••••• • • •• • •••••• • • •• • • 1 0 0 Thomas Creswick, Esq. R.A .•• •. 1 1 0 J. B. Backstone, Esq.. ••••• • .. • • ..... . •• . 1 1 0 Mrs. Fitzwilliam • • •• • • 1 1 0 Rev. Felix Palmer, Frierning ••• • • I 1 0 Horace Mayhew, Esq .•. • • •• • •• • • C. Cowden Clarke, Esq. ••..••• • • . • • .......... 1 0 0 Dr. Roberti paliot, Stratford ••••• . • • • • •• • • 1 1 0 Elocution Class, Walworth Literary Institution,. 1 1 0 Rev. J. C. Collins . . Eight half crowns from Preston.. ..... •• .. 1 0 0 In pence from Bideford . In pence from Bristol W.C. Bennett, E5q..... •••• • • • .......... 010 0 E. L. Blanchard, Esq.. • • ....... ...... ....• .• 010 6 A few Poor Needlewomen • • • • .• •. . • 010 6 In other saws ............ •• • • 182 19 0 £382 4 8 Future subscriptions will be armours ced in The Times and other papers. Every subscriber's name will appear in Eliza Cook's Jour nal. JO3 IN WATKINS, Hon. Sec. 111 - 0 W TO ENJOY CHRISTMAS. IL It is useless to complain abottt the weather, since no ono can alter it ; it is our policy to make the best use of the means of enjoyment within our reach. The 1311 ESS prepared for Christmas by E. MOSES and SON is the most suitable for Christmas parties or Christmas journies ; it consists oft he splendid and elegant, or the warm and the waterproof, in clothing: for every person. The JUVENILE CLOTHING p. vpared fcr Christmas by E. MOSES and SON is Cut on principles of art, only known and prac tised at their Establishment. A Suit. of this ATTIRE will enable Youths to enjoy Christmas in true st, y le- The Hosiery Branch of E. MOSES at ad SON'S is highly available for the season ; every choice article in: Gloves, Ties, Handkerchiefs, and articles celebrated for neatness, t: ;At e, and beauty. The HAT and CAP section at E. 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Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion. Cases, &c. By R. J. CULVERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A. (1824), Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee in these matters. Reception hurs daily till Five. Evenings, Seven till Nine. 1 0 . Argyll-place o , Regent .street. IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS, Just published, by H. BaiMere, 219, Regent-street, London No I. Bvo., in cloth, price ss. by post free, ss. 6d., ON TRUE & View FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA, with the to the Correction of wide-spread Errors in relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the Genera ti v e System, or Sexual Hypochondriasis. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. "Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practi cal ontributions to Gelman medical literature. This is the first time c , he i n forms us, that he has add ressed himself to the non-medi cal reader. 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But cases xviii. and xix. appear, both in duration, severity, and complication of symptoms, of a more ag gravated character than any detailed by Mr. Syme, and yet tha treatment adopted by Mr. Courtenay proved eminently saccoseftil." .-111:0040r LIMO on the Treatment of Stricturio4 ripo LOITERS OF FISH.-100 Real Yarmouth jll. Bloaters (cured to keep from two or three months) fcr 65., or 22a for 125., package included. The above forwarded to all parts on receipt of penny postage stamps for the amount.—,Address Thomas Lettis, jun., Fishcurer, Great•Yaxmouth. NEW SPORTING NEWSPAPER. On the Ist of January will be published, price Sixpence, :o be con tinued weekly, the FIRST' NUMBER of THE FIELD ; OR COUNTRYGENTLEMAN'SNEWS ri.rEa, with occasional-Illustrations ; devoted espedally to UNTING SHOOTING, YAOHTII4;, COURSING, CRICKETING, FISHING, ARCHERY, FARMING, GARDENING. and POULTRY-KEEPING ; Agricultural and Hcalth•)iving, pur4ults get - tonally. 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It is particularly useful in confined habit of body, as alto in diarrhcea, bowel complaints, affection of the kidneys and bladder, such as stone or gravel ; inflammatorr irritation and cramp of the urethra, cramp of the kidneys and Wider. strictures, and hemorrhoids. This really invaluable remedy is employed with the most satisfactory result, not only in bronchial and pilmonary com plaints, where irritation and pain are to be removed,but also in pul monary and bronchial consumption, in which it count tracts effectually the troublesome cough ; and I am enabled with perfict truth to ex press the conviction, that Du Barry's Revalenta Arafica is adapted to the cure of incipient hectic complaints and consumption. Dr. Run. WURZER, Counsel of Medicine, and practical N.D. In Bonn. In canisters, suitably packed for all climates, and Nilth full instruc tions-11b., 2s. 9d. ; 21b., 4s. 6d. ; 51b., I Is. ; 1211, 225. ; super refined, 51b., 225., 101 b., 335. The 101 b. and 121 b. tarriage free on receipt of post-office order.—Barry Da Barry and (0., 77, Regent street, London; Fortnum, Mason, and Co., parverrs to her Ma jesty, Piccadilly; Hedges and Butler ; Dietrichsen aid Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Barclay ; Sanger ; Sutton ; Edwads ; Ramsey ; North and Co.; Crosse a n d Blackwell; also at 60 Gracechurch street ; 49, Bishopsgate - street Within; 4, Cheapside Strand ; 54, Upper B aker-str e e t; at the Post-office, .i 330 and 451, amden-town ; 24, Motcomb-atreet ; and may be ordered through respectable Booksellers, Grocers and Chemist. CHRISTMAS EVE IN LONDON.—Streets aid squares, markets and hucksters' stalls, market baskets, mongers' carts, carts, pastrycooks' boxes ; the gromr's window runmn g over with pudding gear, almonds anC raisins, and candied citron ; the butcher's shop, where tie ruddy man in blue seems to have slaughtered mammotls and masto dons this Christmas, instead of ordinary heel and mutton, and sits smiling on his block, eying triumphmtly a mega therium of an ox he has hung up outside—a )ovine Daniel Lambert, with yellow fat on him like the layer of clarified butter in a pot of ancho - vy paste, an aldernan ox, witlf ribbons in his ribs : and a nosegay stuck on his huge brisket, giving occasionally (the butcher, not the ox) a sly Christmas wink to his pretty wife, who sits sailing over her cash-book, at the other end of the shop, in a go-lit bower of beef ; not only in these shops, but in out-of-die-way little sweet stuff warehouses, where a double stock d alecampane, fighting for the shcp-board, with and "Bonaparte's ribs," small weazen sticks of parti-coloured talkw, popularly believed to be capable of burning in toy to sconces, of ru d e design, known as Christmas candles, i n slap-bang shops of an inferior kind—a: very inferior kind—whore the proprietor has been " cutting roast beif since early dawn, and the proprietor's wife has been dicing-up for midable-looking rolls, and glob e s of large plain puddings, i whose number s unaccountable," whose perfume, riding on the gale as in Araby the blest, is positive , y maddening to the three bare-footed boys, who have been consuming a Barmecide feast of roast and boiled meats through the windows for hours ; in almoat every dwelling in every street, in every quarter of this gigantic city, Christmas is heralded in with a clatter of knives and forks, a flourishing of spoons, and a j in gling of glasses ; in courtly Chapels Royal, where doles of bread are given to the poor, in mi serable garrets, w here the addi t i on o f an o ther red herring is made to the always scanty meal, on the ground that it is Christmas there, low down, as well as elsewhere • higher up, Christmas is brought in with a jovial, genial sort of a—let us not call it b.. 1: a harsh name—gorman- dining. £415 LOST AND FOUND.--Ch Tuesday, the represen tative of a Leeds house, who was a tt en ding the Hudders field market, lost a small brown paper parcel, about twelve o'clock, between Northgate and John William-street, con taining 4151. in 201. and 51. Bank of England notes. On discovering his loss, he immediately repaired to the police office, and informed t he officer s cf the circumsta nce. The bellmani was sent round, and bills immediately posted stating that the finder of the Parcel would be handsomely rewarded on taking it to Superin:endent Thomas. Within ten minutes of the bills being posted, Joseph Beaumont, cart driver to Mr. Joseph Preston, dyer, Holmfirth, pre sented the parcel of notes at the police office, and was re warded with 10/. for his honesty and trouble. He had found them soon after they had bsen lost, and on hearing where the owner could be met with, proceeded with them as directed in the bills. The gentl ema n, on recovering his notes, complimented Messrs. Thomas and Townend, the police-officers, for their activity in aiding him to recover his property. A NEW ENGLIBR PRIMA DONNA.--A young English lady, who has lately appeared on the continent under the name of Mdlle. Normani, promises to be one of the great est celebrities of the day. From amounts which w e have received from Stockholm, where she now is, we learn that she is creating an extraordinary sensation in the arduous character of Fides, in the " Prophete," of Meyerbeer, which she had performed to excessively crowded houses ten nights successively, without any diminution of its attrac tion. She has enabled herself to act and sing in Swedish, having acquired a perfect command of the language. Her first opera sung in Swedish was Mercadantee Giura mento ;" and she has also appeared in Flotow's opera, "Die grosse Furstinn," and inVerdi's " Macbeth," in all of which (as well as in the " Prophets ") she has had the most bril liant success. Mdlle, Normani is described as possessing a voice of great power and beauty, a pure Italian style, and all the qualities, mental and physical, of an accomplished actress. PREVENTION OF FORGERY.—A new act has just been printed to amend a former act for the further prevention of forging bank notes. In consequence of doubts which have arisen, it is now enacted that the signatures of the cashiers of the Bank of England may be impressed on all notes, Bank post bills, and Bank bills, and Bank bills of exchange, by machinery instead of being written, and they shall be good and valid as if they had been 'subscribed in the proper handwriting of the cashiers, and shall be deemed and taken to be Bank notes, &c., within the meaning of all laws, and may be so described in all indictments and other criminal proceedings whatsoever, any law, statute, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding. have never been' disputed by his most inveterate opponents. The Duke- of Newcastle, Mr. Sidney Herbert, and Lord Granville have proved them selves possessed of administrative talents, equal to the high positions which they have long occupied in Parlia ment. When, to the statesmen whom we have named, we add the list of their present colleagues, it is certain that, with two or three exceptions, every political leader of the present day is included in the catalogue. Can it be supposed that the chiefs and spokesmen of the Legis lature stand alone in their opinions or in their policy ? The same reasons which have caused the heads of vari ous sections to unite will tend to obliterate the remain ing distinctions which may still divide enlightened men either in Parliament or in the country. For several years past, the very combination now effected has been the object to which the wishes of all reasonable poli ticians have pointed. Nor did those who desired to witness the union which is now happily accomplished fail to foresee that superficial objections would be sug gested by its completion, and that the fact of the forma tion of a strong Ministry would furnish the best answer to arguments intended to prove that it was inexpedient or impossible. • . . (From the Times.) Within a week of the day and hour when the late Cabinet came to the determination to resign, every place in the new Administration has been filled up. Whether this will be thought too prompt or too dilatory—whether it will be construed to argue too much preparation or too little opportunity—matters very little, seeing that, with a certain class of politicians, and, we presume, with a, corresponding creation of readers, the most contrary suppositions can be constructed out of the same material with equal facility. The names which appear elsewhere, and which need not be repeated here, prove, on their very face, an amount of concurrence and co-operation such as no Government has received in this country for half a century or more. Excepting the one single cir cumstance which must impart to the Government an experimental character, everything about it betokens strength—the strength of vitality and the strength of power. Aberdeen and Lansdowne contribute their long official experience ; Russell, Palmerston, and Graham the same quality, combined with unsurpassed powers of debate ; Wood, Newcastle, Gladstone, and Cardwell supply that mastery of details and that habit of exact exposition which characterise the younger school of statesmen, and are especially required by the increased preponderance of mercantile topics ; Argyll and Granville represent the rising talent of the day, and Molesworth the more advanced section of Liberals, its theories of colonial Government and practi cal reforms. As to the efficiency of the law officers, we presume there will be no dispute. The fact stated in our yesterday's columns, which we believe to be without example, that the retiring Lord Chancellor has not left a single case for judgment, certainly makes one regret the the political necessity which prevents one Admistration from adopting the successful choice of its predecessors. We can only trust that Lord Cranworth will show as much alacrity as Lord St. Leonard's in taking up the great work of legal reform. In Ireland, we believe that Government hopes to be saved the responsibility of appointing a new Lord Chancellor. Ott the comparative proportion between the two great elements comprised in this Administration and the dis tribution of offices there will be some variety of opinions. Over-zealous partizans already complain, it is said, that that they do not find themselves so largely represented as they could have wished,—a complaint which, proceed ing from both parties, seems itself to prove the real fair ness of the proportion. There are thirteen in the Cabinet, Mr. Cardwell, President of the Board of Trade, having no place in it, owing to his being out of Parliament. To Sir R. Peel's friends are assigned the Premiership and four laborious departments, which they will find quite sufficient to satisfy their known love of arduous and honourable employment. The Chancellorship, the Foreign-office, and the India Board, with five other places of less difficulty and labour , are given to the Whigs. As usually happens, specialties are not much regared. We were not aware that Sir C. Wood ever manifested much desire to frame a new constitution for India or that Sir William Molesworth had distinguished himself as much in parks, gardens, and streets, as he has in colonial reform. Lord John Russell has so little of the accomplishments specially required for his new office. that we can only suppose he is keeping it for a successor, most probably Lord Clarendon, who otherwise will not have a seat in the Cabinet. We should imagine that the Ministry is not prepared to immolate itself before its day on one of those crotchets which occasionally inter fere with the effect of Mr. Gladstone's acknowledged high abilities ; and, therefore, we shall not be sur prised to hear that the new Chancellor of the Ex chequer will permit his views of the income tax to be revised by the collective judgment of his colleagues. On either side, several great names are omitted—an unfortunate necessity of the case. On the whole, how ever, it must be acknowledged that a very good selection has been made, and that, if experience, talent, industry, and virtue are the attributes required for the govern ment of this empire, we are as likely to have a good Government now as ever within the period of Parlia mentary history and responsible Governments. Since the high qualities we have mentioned are unde niable, and the Cabinet is absolutely above all criticism on these point*, there can be no doubt that its peculiar character as a composite Administration will be largely insisted on by those who wish it no good. We have lately pointed out that all Governments have been to a certain extent of this character, and that even a set of country gentlemen, confining their attention to the sole object of raising the market for cattle and corn, could not get a Ministry so uniform and pure, but that its two leaders in the Lords and the Commons were both originally and fundamentally Whigs. Political change and coalition are topics that admit of extensive and varied illustration. It is the genius of this country to improve and to combine. To learn by experience and to associate with those who are not exactly the dou bles of one's self, are habits which distinguish man from the brute, the great man from the little man, and civilisation from semi-barbarism. However, be the thing good or bad, there is no doubt that personal change and freedom of political combination are not only honourable in this country, but are its great preservatives against that madness of theory which launches our neighbours at least once in twenty years in a sea of revolution. By the gentler process of many lesser changes we supply the place of a periodical catastrophe. There may be a certain romantic effect in the spectacle of patriots work ing out their theories to the scaffold, to exile, to anarchy, or to empire. None are so perfectly consistent, un changeable, and, we may add, so unsociable, except to their own order, as those who are actually mad. But we, nevertheless, prefer the more domestic and useful virtues of common sense, displayed in a sober review of past opinions, and toleration of political differences. Any man may sit in his study and work his opinions to their most sublime and impossible results, but it is not every man—it is, in fact, none but the greatest class of men— who can combine with others, and help to harmonise the natural variations of human minds to one practical whole. After all, no one point can be named on which there exists any real difference of opinion between the mem bers of the new Administration. Time has done a great deal of late years ; it has so corrected errors and altered circumstances, that no statesman in the list before us need run into collision with his colleagues, unless he is particularly minded to do so. Every man of this Cabinet will desire to maintain the honour of this country every where on the face of the earth, to give such countenance as may be fairly given to the great cause of free and constitutional government, to secure these islands from attack, to protect our commerce, to attach our colonies, to check the waste of public money, to alleviate, and, if necessary, adjust taxation ; to reform our establishments and our law courts—in a word, to give, at the lowest cost, the greatest possible efficiency to all the institutions of the empire. On these points there is more to be ap prehended from an excessive rivalry than from any one lagging behind. Sir Robert Peel's representatives know too well the onward genius of that great statesman's mind to assume the part of drag to their new Whig allies. The whole Cabinet knows too well its vocation to permit of any standing still. It will not so neglect the example of the last Cabinet, or the warning of that which preceded it. We shall have a good, working, im proving Government, and there is not a man in it who is not anxious to give it that character, as well from sheer self-interest, as on public grounds. That the friends of the late Government should en deavour, by anticipation, to discredit their successors, is neither unprecedented nor surprising. Lord Derby's conduct may, perhaps, be neither dignified nor gene rous ; but it were idle to protest against the ordinary operations of party warfare. That disinterested patriot ism which can rejoice to see the country benefited, even by a successful rival, has hitherto been recognised only as a duty of imperfect obligation. Those who wish well to Lord. Aberdeen's Cabinet must console themselves for the hostility to which the new Government is exposed, by observing the vague and indefinite character which the attacks upon it have hitherto assumed. If any tenable ground of opposition had been available, the contest would not have commenced with futile charges of conspiracy, or with loose denunciations of the supposed danger of Protestantism which may be ap prehended from Ministers who are pledged to the cause of religious liberty. It will be seen hereafter whether the measures of the Government are such as to deserve resistance on the part of inde pendent members. In the meantime, it is at least certain that Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli are pro vided with no rival system of policy. So far as the late budget involved any financial principle, it must have been opposed to the favourite doctrines of its official promoters ; and, in default of an opportunity for making a similarly crude proposition, the ex-Ministers have no theory to maintain against the possible assaults of their successors. For the attacks of the defeated party the Government will be prepared ; and notwithstanding some premature intimations of mistrust, we anticipate no serious opposi tion on the part of any section of Liberal politicians. One journal asserts that Lord Aberdeen's Government is hostile to religious liberty, and especially, by way of example, to the claims of the Jews. Yet it will be found that every member of the Administra tion has uniformly voted for the admission of Jews, as well as of all other loyal subjects, to the enjoy ment of every civil right. Elsewhere we find an Irish denunciation of the Ministerial hostility to Roman Catholic pretensions, side by side with a warning voice from the organs of ultra-Protestantism against the approaching betrayal of the constitution for the aggran disement of the Roman Catholic priesthood. Sir William Molesworth's supposed refusal to join the Administration, as well as the similar decision imputed to Lord Palmer ston, is urged as a proof that Lord Aberdeen will adopt a reactionary policy. But, fortunately, Lord Palmerston and Sir William Molesworth are in office, and it may be hoped that they will receive the support of their ardent admirers. When the Roman mob found that Cinna was not the conspirator, but the poet of that name, they pro ceeded to tear him in pieces for his bad verses. Some individual Liberals, of a vehement disposition, may still be willing to attack the Government, but they must find some better reasons than those which have already been falsified by facts. No answer has yet been offered to the inquiry, what other course could have been adopted than that which has been actually taken ? There would have been no want of loud and well-founded remonstrances against faction, if Lord John Russell had excluded Sir James Graham, or if Mr. Gladstone had refused to co-operate with the late Whig Ministers. Neither Lord Aberdeen and his friends, nor Lord John Russell and his friends, could have formed a stable Government without allies. There were absolutely no practical questions in dispute between those statesmen ; and all leading politicians, with a wise contempt for clamour, resolved to lay aside the personal susceptibilities which had hitherto kept them apart. The only alternative was to give Lord Derby a perpetuity of power. The extreme Liberal party are well aware that they could not for a moment attempt to occupy office ; and if moderate men were for ever to re fuse to combine, the other extreme would have enjoyed undisputed supremacy. As the union was inevitable, it was in the highest de gree expedient that the terms of agreement should be fair and equal. The petty diplomacy which consists in snapping up advantages in the progress of a bargain, is altogether out of place in the formation of a loyal and permanent alliance. We are not solicitous to inquire whether this or that office might more justly have been assigned to a Whig or to a Peelite. It is enough that each section has been treated with confidence and libe rality, and that no rankling sense of injustice will dis turb the harmony which prevails between statesmen who are to act in concert. If, according to all probability, the Administration finds itself permanently established, the old associations of political feeling will merge in the result of newer relations. The ablest administrators and the most skilful leaders will win the confidence of the party who follow the guidance of the Ministry ; and when it may become necessary to re-adjust the arrange ments of office, no difficulty will be found in profiting by the experience which will have been acquired. At pre sent, it is satisfactory to know that a general spirit of good faith and cordiality will supersede the necessity of discussing the reilative claims of colleagues who have no desire to be rivals. The special departments assigned to the different Ministers will offer more worthy incentives to exertion. The finances, the colonies, the encouragement of trade, the promotion of economy, and the maintenance of the national defences, will furnish more than sufficient occupation even to the able administrators to whom those duties have been committed. Whenever it may be.ne cessary to defend the measures of the Government in either House of Parliament, all the experience and abi lity of which the Legislature can boast will be available on behalf of the principles which every member of the Cabinet is prepared to adopt and to avow. STATISTICS OF NEW SOUTH WALES. The statistics of the colony annually laid before the Legislative Council by the Colonial Secretary are now printed, and, affording, as they do, a very valuable body of information, an abstract of them may not be unnac ceptable. These statistics extend from the year 1837 to 1851, and for the first time they are confined to the colony of New South Wales Proper. The population of the colony, on the 21st of December, 1851, is stated at 197,168, comprising 113,032 males, and 34,136 females. The increase since March, 1851, is 7,217 persons ; the increase by immigration during that period was 7,891 ; by births, 6,396. The decrease by departures was 4,902 ;by deaths, 2,167. The total immigration at the public expense from the year 1832 is 64,807, and the total number of immigrants in the same pe riod is 20,372, making a grand total of immigration during the 20 years of 85,179. The total expense of immigration to the public during this period has been 1,134,511/. 15s. 6d. The total amount of money borrowed on debentures for immigration pur poses has been 336,800/. The amount paid off, 149,700/. The amount outstanding, 187,1001. The amount of in terest paid, 33,7861. 14s. id. The number of births during the year 1851 was 7,675 ; of marriages, 1,915 ; of deaths, 2,600. The total number of acres in crops in 1851 was 152,027, being an increase of 5,500 acres over the year 1850. The produce consisted of 1.407,465 bushels of wheat, 717,053 bushels maize, 133,194 bushels barley, 49,060 bushels oats, 4,891 bushels rye, 731 bushels millet, 13,644 tons of potatoes, 12,530 cwt. tobacco, 36,605 tons of hay. The vessels entered inwards during the year 1851 were 553 ; tonnage, 153,003. Of these vessels 73 were from Great Britain, tonnage 40,867 ; 80 from New Zealand, tonnage 17,577 ; 191 from other British colonies, tonnage 40,190 ; 40 from the South Sea Islands, tonnage 5,643 ; 33 from the fisheries, fisheries, tonnage 8,430 ; 72 from the United States of America, tonnage 20,473 ; from foreign States, 64, ton nage 19,822. The vessels entered outwards were 503, tonnage 39,020. Of these there were to Great Britain 54, tonnage 26,694 ; to New Zealand 77, tonnage 13,920 ; to other British colonies 201, tonnage 41,821 ; to the South Sea Islands 32, tonnage 5,513 ; to the fisheries 33, tonnage 9,658 ; to the United States of America 26, tonnage 9,547 ; to foreign States 80, tonnage 31,957. The number of vessels built in the colony in the year 1851 was 24, tonnage 939 ; the number of ves sels registered was 97, tonnage 9,181. On 31st Dec., 1851, there was 540,766/. 9s. 9d. of coin in the banks and military chest of the colony, being a decrease of 130,0861.95. 2d. on the amount of the previous year. The total amount of the general revenue and receipts in 1851 was 277,7281. 18s. id. The total amount of territorial revenue and receipts was 204,5081. 7s. 2d. The Church and Schools Estate Fund was 4,460/. 18s. 9d., making the total revenue and receipts 466,698/. 4s. The total ex penditurewas 444,108/. 9s. 10d. The number to of pol number st-offices in the colony in the year 1851 was 101; the ta of letters sent through the post-offices was 975,318 ; and of newspapers, 762,487. The amount of income was 18,2521. is. 11d.; the amount of expenditure 16,3241. 13s. 4d. Thg increase, both in number of letters and income over the year 1850, the first year of the uniform rate of postage, is about 12 3 / 4 per cent.---Australian and •ong I New Zealand Gazette. (From the Morning Chronicle. ) The comprehensive character of the new Governmen, is strongly illustrated by the introduction into the Cabinet of the Duke of Argyll and Sir William Moles worth. The former, by his liberal political views, varied mental acquirements, and great talent as a debater, gives promise of a distinguised career of public usefulness ; and the latter is one of the most accomplished members of a political section which has not hitherto been included in official arrangements. The other appointments not indicated yesterday among those understood to have been decided on, still further enhance the claims of the new Administration to the confidence of the country. The public will learn with cordial satisfaction that the Marquis of Lansdowne brings to the Ministry the weight of his long experience, established reputation, extended knowledge, high cultivation, and unimpeachable integ rity. In the Lord Chancellor the profession and the country will see a not unworthy successor even to the illustrious lawyer who has so honourably held the Seal during the last ten months. The late Lord Mel bourne observed of Lord Cranworth that he was the most " satisfactory" law officer with whom he had ever occasion to communicate, and the learned lord has fully justified on the bench the exalted commendation be stowed upon him by his sagacious and discriminating friend. Mr. Cardwell's especial fitness for the Presi dency of the Board of Trade will be universally appre ciated by those who have watched the many proofs he has given of a mastery of the facts and principles which ought to regulate commercial legislation. It Is from no desire to reflect on individuals that we advert to the contrast, in point of ability, which will be presented in almost every department of the State by the new Ministers, as compared with their predecessors. If the obscurity of Lord Derby's colleagues, and the distinguished eminence of their successors, were acci dental, there would be neither advantage nor propriety in paying gratuitous compliments at the risk of wounding the personal feelings of men with whom we have only a political quarrel. But the truth is, that the union now happily prevailing among all the considerable statesmen of the country is something more than a fortunate casualty. In every political school and connection, the ablest men have been led to adopt opinions favourable to that sys tem of rational progress which is best suited to the wants and feelings of the community. Even if Lord Derby had wished to infuse fresh blood into his Ministry, it would have been out of his power to obtain allies of the calibre of Sir William Molesworth or the Duke of Argyll, for the simple reason that the policy which his lordship had long represented was opposed by all men of remarkable intellect and capacity. There is a strr presumption that the opinions in which all Parliamentary THE PRICE OF LAND IN DEVONSHIRE UNDER FREE leaders concur are either just in themselves, or at least 0 Monday there was a public auction held at coincident with the predominant wishe s of the countr y . TRADE.—On Creditors, in the north of Devon, for the sale of an estate Even the bitterest opponent of Sir James Grah am, of which consisted of fit ee n acres, the property of the execu- Lord Palmerston, or of Lord John Russell, will not tors of the late Mr. William Burdge. The biddings were deny that those veteran statesmen have always spirited, and the estate was Ultimately knocked down at possessed the confidence, and influenced the judg - 2,200/., or about 1501. per acre. The value of land ment, of large and important sections of the corn- generally in the county iS enhanced, by the operation of munity, Mr. Gladstone's talents and lull:MI.04o: fee trade, PROMOTIONS DATED DEC. 20. Owen Owen and CharlesMoOre to be assistant en gineers of the first class ; James William German to be acting assistant engineer of the second class. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 24. Echo, steam-tug, towed the old Talbot (now fitted as a hulk), to the Motherbank, at 9 a.m. this day. Medea, 6, paddle-wheel steam-corvette, went out of harbour at 10.30, to try her speed at the measured mile at Stoke Bay. She returned at 2 p.m., her performance having given great satisfaction. Bull Deg, 6, steam-sloop, hauled out of the steam basin to let Simoom, iron screw-transport, in. She is now landing the machinery for the screw fine-of-battio ship Duke of Wellington. Blenheim, 60, screw guard-ship, Captain Henderson, C. 8., having completed coppering her bows, and caulked and payed over the after-part of her run, will go out of the Angle Dock on Monday, to make room for the Lon don, 92, line-of-battle ship. Fairy, screw-tender, has been put in the steam-basin, her masts taken out, and housed for the season. Duke of Wellington, 131, screw-steam line-of-battle ship, will go into dry dock about Tuesday next, to have her shaft fitted. A fine Austrian screw-steamer brought up at Spit head this morning, and came into harbour at four a.m. At Spithead.—Her Majesty's ship Arrogant, En counter, ,and Leander. Wind N.N.W. glass looking up. The Talbot, 26, has been towed down to Sconce Point to-day, for the use of Mr. Edmund Smith, the contractor for the erection of the defence battery there. The Heck, 6, paddle-sloop, is being masted in the steam basin, to be fitted out as an advance steamer. DEVONPORT, DEC. 23. Captain Chambers and Commander Purvis arrived this morning, and took up their commissions for the Desperate and Argus. The Argus was commissioned yesterday afternoon by the master—they are entering a few good men, but men are not plenty at this port. The Vulture is well manned, and the Magicienne has some very good hands, but the other three—Valorous, Des perate, and Argus—must wait for men from other ports. Avon returned from Portsmouth this morning ; and the Duck, lighter (Savage), arrived this morning with stores from Chatham. Edward, convict-ship, arrived this morning, and will fill up her complement from Dartmoor. Adelaide, mail steamer, is now fairly under the hands of the officers of the dockyard, who will take good care she shall not leave theil hands except in a seaworthy state. Her rudder has been unhung to-day. It is im possible to state when she will be complete. Mr. Henry L. Peake, master-shipwright's-assistant, who has been employed on a committee on merchant steamers, returned this day, and will resume his duty in the dockyard. SAILORS' HomE, DEVONPORT.—We are much grati fied to learn that a memorial from the committee of the Sailors' Home at Devonport having been laid before the Queen, her Majesty, in graciously consenting to become patroness of the institution, has transmitted, through Admiral Sir John Ommaney, the Commander-in-chief, the munificent donation of 1001., and expressed her opinion that such establishments are for the benefit of the seamen of the Royal Navy as well as those in the mercantile service. SHEERNESS, DEC. 23. Commander G. Parker, lately appointed to the Bar racouta, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, has this day taken up his commission. Mr. Frederick C. Dusautoy, pay master of the Barracouta, has also taken up his commis sion under the new regulations. Commander G. Parker has obtained leave of absence for 10 days, by permission of the Commander-in-Chief here, the Hon. Josceline Percy, Vice-Admiral of the White. The Chatham yacht, Second-Master J. Grandy, ar rived here this morning from Chatham with the Treasury clerks, to pay the seamen of the Monarch, 84, guard ship of ordinary here, Captain Charles Hope, wages to the 30th of September last. The crew were paid wages under the superintendence of Captain the Hon. Montagu Stopford, of her Majesty's ship Waterloo, acting captain superintendent in the absence of Captain Charles Hope. The crew of the Monarch come under the new regula tions from this payment—that is, that one month's pay only is to be kept in hand, and in future all ships in port will, at the expiration of every two months, pay their crews up to one month's pay due. The London, 90 guns, Captain George Rodney-Mun dy, has agreeably surprised the port officers here, who were apprehensive as to her sailing qualities, with her copper foul from lying so long in harbour here. On her leaving the Downs in tow of thelsteam-frigate Cyclops, Lieutenant John Seccombe in command pro tem., under her courses and topsails, it was found necessary to clew up her courses in order to prevent her overrunning the Cyclops ; shortly after which the Cyclops was cast off, and the London, under her three topsails with single reefs and jib close hauled, upon a wind, gave them 10i knots off the reel, acting admirably in her steerage. It may, not be generally known that the London, when in dock here, had her foremast placed about four feet fur ther aft, and her mainmast and mizenmasts both raked from the steps to the deck, thereby casing the pressure on the displacement of the water on the fore body of the ship by the lifting power of her canvas. By the recent Admiralty regulation boys of the first class who are fine, growing, healthy lads, between the ages of 16 and 18, and have been at sea in boats or small craft for not less than 12 months, can be entered free in the navy, and it is only second-class boys of the above description who are required to provide them selves with 408. for their outfit of clothes, &c. THE ADELAIDE STEAM-SHIP. PLYMOUTH, Dza. 24. The Australian Royal Mail Steam-Shipping Company have recently engaged the services of Captain James Henderson, R.N., for several years Master-Attendant at Devonport dockyard, a gentleman well qualified by skill and experience to perform the duties of his new appoint ment. He is now here assisting Captain Jackson and his officers in the dispatch of the Adelaide. Aided by the advice of Captain Low, R.N., her Majesty's ship Impregnable, Government inspector of mail packets, and Lieutenant Everest, R.N., mail agent of the Adelaide, they have determined to unship the newly-invented rud der. The head of this rudder is hung on the short outer stern post in the ordinary way, and the heel is supported by a metal spur, which springs horizontally from the keel, in the end of which the rudder works on a pivot. The new, invention, which is, we believe, by Mr. I. K. Brunel, consists in having about two-thirds of the rudder behind a line drawn from its head to the heel, and one third of it before that line. It is contended by naval men that the one-third in front, instead of increasing the power of the rudder, absolutely counteracts it, and it is therefore intended to cut off all the fore part land increase the back, or, in other words, to make it like those in ordinary use. The position in which, perhaps, more is required from a rudder than at any other time is, when the tiller is put hard a-port or hard a-starboard, to bring the ship about. In this position the new invention exposes a large pro portion of the surface of the rudder to the action of the disturbed water of the fans of the propeller, and by this means, in P,ll probability, it retards the ship's way, without effecting much change in her position to the right or left. It is to be hoped that, having secured the services of Captain Henderson, RN., as marine superintendent, the directors will not again readily give consent to any questionable experiment in a large and valuable ship proceeding for the. first time on such a lengthened and important voyage. Besides the alteration of the rudder, the hawse pipes are to be caulked round, and the stem immediately inside is to be fitted with solid timber, the water ways and decks are it be caulked, and the ports, which are now only 1 i nc h thick, are to be made 3 inches thick ; and, in complia nce with the recommendation of Captain Low, preventer shrouds are to be attached to the fore, main, and wizen masts. Four divisions of caulkers and a party oof sohirp. wrights were sent yesterday from the dock y a rd n board the Adelaide to make good defects with all possible dis patch. Eighty labourers were also sent to take out and restow her coal and cargo. They are victualled in the ship to prevent loss of time. Her ports are of teak and will only require additional fastenings. The Great Western, Bristol and Exeter, and South Devon Railway Companies have arran ge d liberally for transmitting additional freightage. Some of the pas sengers and part of the freight of the W. S. Lindsay go out in the Adelaide to Australia. The dockyard artisans have received orders to work' on the Adelaide on Christmas -day and Sunday. She is to be relieved of 150 tons of coal, and to be docked on Tuesday to receive her rudder, which is now in the yard. Before proceeding to Australia she takes an experimental trip under the inspection of Captain Low, of the Impreg nable. The steam-ship Forerunner, Captain Atkins, sailed this afternoon with mails for the coast of Africa. FUNERALS OF THE POOR IN PARIS.— In 1842, M. Pector became contractor, and his contract still continues. On the 24th of the present month a new contract was entered into. Th e contractor is bound to abide by a fixed scale of charges, imposed upon him by the municipal administration, and graduated in such a manner that it is at the option of an executor to provide for the dead a funeral fairly proportion ed to the means available for such a purpose. These are the ordinary and the extraordinary services. The ordina iy ser vice is for the poor. It must consist of a carriage of a cer tain form, drawn by two horses, and driven by a man in mourning. The coffin must be covered with a black pal without fringe, and the accompanying mourners are to guided by a director of the ceremony, and attended by fo bearers. In payment for this service, an inhuman tax sixteen shillings and eightpence for an adult, and eight an four-pence for a child, is levied on the house, and the town adds an allowance of five shillings and Wpm:* for eacla body.—,Didenis lioun4l4 Word. 4 4 14 3 qt'o 2 gro 3 qrs 2ths 2ths 2tb' 2tllo !O do• [6 d°• r evi't" 01. Pe r w do. , c, red, 'fops , ;00, )140 1 238; Wel" 401.,...w abui` ctua Isvas: l .ters , For 125; ear! halo an d eel)