The Sun. — London, England, 1846-12-01 00:00:00

THE INDEPENDENT ORDER OF COMICAL FELLOWS. — A few evenings ago a numerous meeting of this ancient order took place at the Coach and Horses, Chiswell street, Finsbury-square, whet) N. G. R. Thomas Sedg wick took th e chair, and was ably supported by D. G. M. Stenlake, S. G. M. Perrin, Secretary Waite, from the City Arms Lodge, Brothers Freeman and Olive from the Whitstable Lodge, Secretary Dorner and Brother Barber from the Haggerstone Lodge, and P. N. G. Greenwood, from the SouthwarkLodge. After the usual toasts had been given, and warmly responded to, the widows and orphans of the No. 7 Lodge were ushered into the room, and were liberally relieved by the brothers of the lodge, in addition to the regular funeral money, such relief being given regular once a year, by each lodge, to their respective widows and orphans, so that in fact, they are never forsaken. The evening was spent in the, greatest conviviality and, good humour. This flourishing society, although bearing a strange appella tion, appears from their address, wherein they state that "to cheer and protect the unfortunate, to sympathise with and aid those whom accident or disease overtakes, in feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, giving drink to the thirsty, visiting the sick, relieving and releasing the captive, a husband to the widow, and a father to the fatherless, are the leading objects of the Independent Order of Comical Fellows, " to have excellent intentions in view, and is calculated to do much good. ‘,.' PHILLIPS' GARDENS RAGGED SCHOOLS.—Yester day evenings public meeting was held at the Nationl School Room, Mortimer's Market, Tottenham Court-road, for the purpose of celebrating the opening of the Phillips' Gardens Ragged Schools. The Right Hon. Lord Ashley presided. By the report of the committee it appeared that the school had been opened on the 26th of last month, with an attendance of forty children of both sexes, which number was afterwards increased to an average of sixty. The total sum received towards the object of the charity was 914 3s. 6d., and the disburse ments amounted to 27L 1 ls. sd. while the annual ex penditure was calculated at 100 1. The Noble Chairman, inlan able speech, adVocated the paramount claims of such institutions to generous and timely support. The Rev. Mr. Dibden, the Rev. Mr. Denam, the Rev. Mr. Hughes, Mr. Bevan, Mr. Carson, Mr. East, and o t her gentlemen, having addressed the meeting, resolutions in accordance with the objet is which they bade . as sembled to promote were passed, and the proceedings terminated. DARING, HIGHWAY ROBBERIES. —Yesterday infor mation of the following daring cases of highway robbery in the metropolis was received by the police: —On Saturday evening, between seven and eight o'clock, as a young man named Dunn, residing at Twickenham, was proceeding through Zion Park, he was met by two men, who stopped him and threw him down, and struck him repeatedly with their fists, and after robbing him of two half-crowns they decamped. On the same night, between seven and half-past, as Mrs. Whettington, the wife of the keeper of the Ship beershop, Cusford-hill, Lewisham, was proceeding along Perry Vale, Syden ham, when near the finger-post she was stopped by a man, who asked her for a penny, and on her declining to Five him one, he knocked her down, and stole from her person a purse containing 14 15s. in silver, with which he got clear off. bUICEDE BY LEAPING FROM A WINDOW.—Last evening, Mr. W. Payne held an baouest at St. Bartholo mew's Hospital, on the body of Walter Bell, aged 53, who committed suicide. The deceased was a hair dresser, lately carrying on business at No. 40, King street, Snow-hill, who had been of weak intellect for some time past, which the family attributed to their being much reduced and disappointed in his business, which had greatly fallen off. On Friday evening last, about six o'clock, the deceased was in his bedroom, on the third floor, . with his daughter, when be suddenly rushed up, and said, "I will give you a shilling if you will go outside of the door. lie then ran to the window, and jumped out into the street, where he was found by his son. Ile was removed on a stretcher to the above hospital, where he died the same night from fractures of the right hip bone, lower jaw, and other extensive injuries. The jury returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity." APPLICATIONS FOR "LOCAL Ac's."—Yesterday was the last day for notice to be given to the Commis sioners of Woods and Forests of intended applications in the ensuing session for Local Acts. By the second sec tion the Commissioners can, within a month, appoint a " surveying officer" to make a local examination, whose duty will be to report to Parliament on er before the lit of March. By this new Act (9 and 10 Vict., c. 106) it is expected that considerable expense will be saved iu procuring local Acts. RAILWAY EXTENSION.—DEPOSITING THE PLANS. —Yesterday being the 30th of November, the day on which it is necessary to deposit plans, and sections of intended railways, in order that the merits of the re spective lines may be brought under the notice of Par liament in the course of the forthcoming session, the portals of the new Railway Board Rooms in Great George-street, Westminster, were thrown open to their utmost width to receive the huge masses of engraved papers, which owe their origin to the inventive faculties of boards of directors, solicitors, secretaries, and the thousand and one other persons interested in the exten sion of railway communication in every district from Cornwall to Caithness. The new main schemes in the list of Bills deposited are very few, though the total number of plans deposited amounts to two hundred and ninety-one. SBERIFFs' FuNDt—The half-yearly general meet ing was held yesterday at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill, when the chair was taken by Mr. Alder man and Sheriff Challis, who was supported by Mr. Sheriff Kennard, Mr. Alderman Johnson, the late Lord Mayor, Mr. Under-Sheriff Tilliard, Mr. Deputy Bed ford, Mr. Eagleton, and several other of its active supporters. The report, which was read by Mr. J. C. Cooper, the Honorary Secretary, recommended the appropriation of 500/. from the permanent fund to the Elizabeth Fry Refuge for the Relief of Destitute Females, on the principles long advocated by the society. Several members spoke in favour of the recommenda tion, which, on the proposal of the late Lord Mayor, was agreed to, and the officers and committee for the ensuing year were appointed. SMITHFIELD CLITB CATTLE SHOW.—The prepafa tiers are now completed for the ensuing show, which takes place next week. Since the erection of the per manent roof over the large area these have not been very extensive; but the part appropriated to the exhi bition of implements, a department yearly increasing in interest and importance, has been this year extended to nearly double its usual size. The last day for receivine. stock will be next Monday; the award of the judges will be made on Tuesday, and the show will be open for the remainder of the week. The entries are more numerous than last year. On Wednesday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when Mr. Frederick Currie eas unanimously appointed a provisional member of the Council of India. A CHINESE DINNER.—An officer of the United States squadron in the Chinese seas gives the following bill of fare at a large Chinese dinner, to which he, with numerous other foreigners, was invited:—" 1. lirds'- nest soup. 2. Pork fat, fried with potatoes. 3. Hogs' hoofs. 4. Mushrooms, stewed. 5. Birds'-nest salad. 6. Giblet soup. 7. Kitten hash. 8. Fried Irish pota toes. 9. Rat hash. 10. Tea. 11. Sharks' fins. 12. Fried ducks. 13. Dog stew. 14. Stewed chickens. 15. 11am stew. 16. Pork stew. 17. Fried cucumbers. 18. Yeti of rats. 19. Feline ragout. 20. Ham stewed with pork. 21. Sucking pig. 22. Snail pate. 23. Snail soup. I tasted the first dish,' and became so disgusted that I could not proceed. They were brought on, one dish at a time, in exquisitely beautiful china bowls. GUN COTTON.--A gentleman residing in the vici nity of Leith-walk, having purchased some of the gun cotton, left it in his study after having made some ex periments' with it. His little boy, a fine intelligent child of five years, entering the room in his father's absence, determined to play him a trick, and seizing some of the cotton, hastened to the nursery, and placed some of it by the side of the fire. Neither the nurse nor governess being aware of the dangerous plaything their young charge had got into his possession, took no notice of what he was doing until they were aroused by a dread tul report, and on looking in the direction whence it Came,__ s!.tv the poor little boy stretched on his back in a Z a m te_ o of perfect stupefaction. Their efforts to restore an t al f ar r m so o m_e_t r im e e seemed hopeless, and at the same time fumes. A t ss t: ata was raised, and the vent found to be in done nce was fortunately soon obtained, and little injury Scottish Gazette.. Count de Pariti.lizo The child is gradually recovering.— The written to M. Le Verrier yon the following letter :--- have receivei the map of the heavens which had the kindness to . I a 1.., Pleasure the planet send toshall s redni 11111: which you- have discov or me, and say „„virs,i4 Vi Bondme, i hear ~s'ou'c haven, uc h f or for a father so P usy- age ;besog as to e i b i 4,,, hin ,;` libout ;14 him thatrkeengratulate him'on havin g `.,_ dglOg4sheck Iksavant." st -71: 1 6 ;;,. .-,--.....%„; ,::,,,, k i ......,.:, ..., 4. • HAMBURGH MAIL. MAGAZINE DAY. ST. PETERSBITRGH, Nov. 19.—The Niva has been full BLACKWOOD. of drift ice since the 15th, and the bridges have therefore After an elaborate and impartial digest of the re been taken up, cent lucubrations upon Denmark and the Marshes, by The public safety of this capital has lately been con the celebrated German traveller Kohl ; after a de siderably interrupted by several murders, the first of served panegyric upon the late revered statesman, these crimes was committed by a person who has Lord Metcalfe, and especially in reference to his go hitherto contrived to elude the pursuit of justice. The vernment of Jamaica, Blackwood affords us a delight victim was a young man of the middle class. Imme diately after two victims of the lower orders were ful catalogue raisonne of the " Annals and Antiquities sacrificed by murderers, who were taken in the fact, to of London. Those who are familiar with the latest which they appear to have been induced by the desire of productions in our literature will at once conjecture plunder. that the article above mentioned is nothing less than A report has been spread that the natives of the pr a review of Mr. J. T. Smith's work, entitled " An pro of Livonia, who had lately been converted to th e Antiquarian Ramble in the Streets of London." In Russian Greek Church from other Christian confessions that conjecture they will have been partially wrong and might, if they repented this conversion , return to t he ir partially right. The contribution is scarcely so much a former communion. The Governor , General Golonin, contradicting this report, has publi shed a proclamation, of that interesting production, as a kind of col r. on in which he warns the individua ls in q uestion, against loquial description of some of the scenes and incidents such a step, and threatens the seceders with all the therein delineated. The descriptions, however, are severe punishments which the new penal code decrees rendered original, not only by the newness of the against apostates and their seducers. manner in which they are given, but also by the Srocrenonas, Nov. 20. Baron Von Manderstoom, number of additional facts with which they are be- Cabinet Secretary and Chamberlain, embarked on heard sprinkled. The extraordinary associations connected the Gauthoid steamer for Lubeck, on a special mission with the different parishes, streets, and houses of the from his Majesty the King to the Russian Court, where he will meet our Crown Prince at Berlin. It is conjec- metropolis are but little ' dreamt . of by the tured, of course, that the mission is the betrothing of multitudes who are passing the localities every day. his Royal Highness to Princess Louisa of Prussia. Those who walk down Bennet-street and Arlington- VIENNA, Nov. 19.—The assassin Reinell, who for street, little imagine they are wandering over the site his attempt to murder the Emperor, was sentenced to of the once famous and fashionable Mulberry-gardens twenty years' imprisonment in the celebrated fortress of —those gardens in which Dryden disported himself Munkats, in Hungary, died there a month ago. with his mistress, Anne Reeve, eating tarts and GLIICHSTADT, Nov. 22.—The C omm ittee of Mer- cheese-cakes and guzzling syllabubs ! The unthink chants bas summoned a meeting for Tu e sday next, to ing frequenters of St. James's-park never dream, deliberate on the establishment of a communication, by doubtless, that until it was mercifully enclosed and steam-boats, between this town and Hull. The commit- drained by order of the eighth Harry, that pleasant tee, it is said, intend to effect this project by means of The casual down a was - a swamp. passenger a joint stock company, but which, for the present, will the mall, now a-days ' little thinks that there, accord not have a steam er o f it s o w n, but only raise a capital to ing to that rhyming varlet, Colley Libber, Charles the hire a steam-boat, and in case the experiment should not Second was wont to fondle his dogs and chuck crumbs succeed sufficient to make up the loss. to his favourite ducklings, in a miscellaneous mob of his subjects ; they little reflect that Duke•street Chapel was originally a wing of the house of the notorious and execrable Judge Jeffreys ; that Ho garth's mansion has been changed into a portion of the Sabloniere Hotel, Leicester- square ; that Sir Joshua Reynolds lived almost immediately opposite ; that Titus Oates, and Parsons, the principal, contriver of the Cock-lane ghost, were exposed in the pillory at Charing-cross ; that culprits were formerly boiled to death in Smithfield-market; that Wycheily had lodg ings in Bow-street; that Garrick lived of yore in James street, Covent-garden ; that Benjamin Franklin re sided in Duke-street; that Voltaire was staying some while in Maiden-lane, at the the White Peruke, a wigmaker's shop ; that in the burial-ground and vaults of St. Paul's, Covent-garden, are the ashes of Samuel Butler, Wycherly, and Southerne, the satrical and dramatic poets ; of Sir Peter Lely, otherwise Vandervaes, the portrait painter ; of Macklin, the comedian ; of Strange, the engraver ; of Arne, the musician ; of Walcot, the Peter Pinder. The casual pedestrian is unconcious of many or all of these things, and consequently his peregrinations about London are divested of a fascination which they would otherwise possess. For the opening of a most enthralling world of metropolitan revelations, we commend such to the work lately published from the MSS. of the deceased author of " Nollekins and his Times," or for the nonce to the agreeable contribution here particularised. Two etymological definitions are so curious that we give them. From " a pickadill " being defined in Blount's Glossography as "the round hem of a gar ment or other thing,' it is presumed that the famous ordinary hard by St. James's, which first bore the name of Piccadilly, was so called as being at the time on the outskirts of the suburb. Charing-cross, again, is thought to have been so christened from the Saxon Charan (implying to turn), used in reference to the adjacent bend or turning of the Thames. In ob serving that John Hunter lived next door to Ho garth's House, in Leicester-square, the writer should not have forgotten that the residence of the great anatomist was Earl's- court, Old Brompton. Some times the contributor indulges in a ridiculous affecta tion of being graphic, as where he is speaking of the foreigners in Cranbourne-street sauntering, "cigar in mouth, over the shabby pavement!" The very valu able series of " Marlborough's Dispatches " is con tinued. A tale entitled " Mildred "is commenced with considerable promise, and is followed by an excellent paper on "The Law and its Punish ment-5," and a comical jeux d'esprit hight, " Lays and Legends of the Thames." In the article upon " Recent Royal Marriages," we observe that Black wood declares itself definitively, but somewhat tardily, against the policy which has united the Queen Isa bella with Don Francisco d'Assis, and the Infanta Luisa to the Duc de Montpensier. " How," says Maga, in a just tone of indignation, " how is it that a people, once so great and powerful, still so easy to rouse, and jealous of its independence, has suffered itself to be fooled by an abandoned Italian woman, and a wily and unscrupulous foreign potentate—by a corrupt Camarillo., and a party that is but a name?" From the publication of the - Pragmatic Sanction in 1830 by Ferdinand the Seventh, whereby the crown was secured to his offspring should it be a female, down to the consummation of the perfidious negotia tions between the Courts and Cabinets of the Tuileries and the Hotel Courcelles, the history of Spain is sur veyed, and the principal facts of that history perspi cuously narrated in a few pages. Such a paper is judi ciously produced at a time when, in the angry comments of the press, the exact sequence and bearing of events might be misapprehended by the superficial reader. The vile conduct of Maria Christina, not merely in her amours with the cigar-seller's son, Munoz, Duke of Rianzares, and her wholesale peculation, not merely in her libidinous depravities and extortionate avarice, but in her unmotherly and unqueenly treatment of Isabella, in her thieving her daughter's wardrobe and jewels, and in her successively upholding the claims of the Due de Montemolin and of an Austrian Areh duke in opposition to her own solemn and voluntary engagements to support the claims of the son of Don Francisco de Paulo, is exposed. The episode of her expulsion from the Iberian soil in 1840, and the three years of the regency of Espartero the Duc de la Victoria, is then described. Lastly, the perfidious machinations of King Louis Philippe, from his first plan to marry the Duc d'Aumale to the Queen of Spain, to his hypocritical engagement to Queen Vic toria at Eu, thence to his advocacy of the cause of the Count Trapani, and ultimately to the shameless catastrophe of the Peninsular plot, are well and clearly divulged. The spirit in which Blackwood regards the entire transaction may be discerned from the follow ing ludicrous summary : " We remember to have encountered, in a neglected foreign gallery, an ancient picture of a criminal in the hands of the torturers. The subject was a painful one, and yetshe painting provoked a smile. Some wandering brother of the brush, some mischievous and idly-indus trious Tinto, had beguiled his leisure by transmogrifying the costumes both of victim and executioners, converting the ancient Spanish garb into the stiff and unpicturesque apparel of the present day. The vault in which the cruel scene was enacted, remains in all its gloomy se verity of massive pillars, Tasty shackles, and cobwebbed walls; the grim unshapely instruments of torture were there; the uncouth visages of the executioners, the ago nized countenance of the sufferer, were unaltered. But, contrasting with the antique aspect and time-darkened tints of these details, were the vivid colouring and mo dern fashions of Parisian paletots, trim pantaloons, and ballroom waistcoats. We have been irresistibly re minded of this defaced picture by the recent events in Spain. They appear to us like a page from the history of the middle ages transported into our own times. The darir , and unprincipled intrigue whose dendtrment has just been witnessed, is surely out of place in the nine teenth century, and belongs more properly to the days of the Medicis and the Guise. A review of its circum stances affords the elements of some romantic history of three hundred years ago. At night, in a palace, we see a dissolute Italian dowager and a crafty French ambas sador coercing a sovereign of sixteen into a detested al liance. The day breaks on the child's tearful consent; the ambassador, the paleness of his vigil chased from his cheek by the flush of triumph, emerges from the royal dwelling. Quick! to horst !—and a courier starts 0 tell the diplomat's master that the glorious victory is won. A few days—a very few—of astonishment to Eu rope and consternation to Spain, and a French prince, with gay and gallant retinue, stands on the Bides soa's bank and gazes wistfully southwards. Why does he tarry; whence ails delay? He waits an escort. Strange rumours are abroad of ambuscade and assassi nation; of vows made by fierce guerillas that the In fanta'slt bayonetsi i e t h t a h p e p y e a s nb c d o r i r lda t enge c re o os m o, m e d sr. a p desti ne d h us b an d shall never see M a d r id. At Enclosed in serried lines of g r s o e n c s u t i e n s his n ou a r r n ti e l e.r W ly hat h r a e t a i r s , his welcome? Do the bright-ey ed Basque maidens scatter flowers in his p a th, an d Biscay's brave sons strain their stout arms to ring peals in his honour? Do the poor and hardy peasantry of Castile line the highway and shout vivas as he passes? Not so. If bells are rung and flowers strewn, it is by salaried ringers and by women hired, not to wail at a funeral, but to celebrate a marriage scarcely more auspicious. If hurrahs, few and faint, are heard, those who utter are paid for them. Sullen looks and lowering glances greet the Frenchman, as, guarded by two thousand men-at-arms, he hurries to the capital where his bride awaits him. In aq haste, amidst the murmurs of a deeply offended people, the knot is tied. Not a moment must be lost, lest something should yet occur to mar the marriage feast. And now for the rewards, shamefully showered upon the venal abettors of this rinpapular union. A dukedom and grandeeship of Spain for the ambassador's infant son; titles to mercenary ministers; high and time-honoured decorations, once reserved as the premium for exalted valour and chivalrous deeds—to corrupt deputies; dia mond snuff-boxes, jewels, and gold, to the infamous writers of prostituted journals; Christina rejoices; her Camarillo are in ecstacies; Bresson rubs his hands in irrepressible exultation; in his distant capital the French monarch heaves a sigh of relief and satisfaction as his telegraph informs him of the fait accompli. Then come splendid bullfights and monster pucheros, to dazzle the eyes and stop the mouths of the multitude. Pan y toros— panis ac eircenses—to the many-headed .beast. And in all haste the, prince hurries back to Paris with his bride, to receive the paternal benediction, the fraternal em brace, and the congratulations of the few score indivi . duals who , alone, in all France, feel real pleasure and SUN, LON_DON, T profit in his marriage. And thug, by foreign intrigue and domestic treachery, has the independence of ,Spain been virtually bought and sold." Assuredly M. Alexandre Dumas was never fur nished with a more enthralling programme for an histo rical romance. A dreadfully so •so poem on St. Magnus, Kirkwall, is appended ; and a laborious article upon " The Game Laws" completes a delight ful and characteristic number of the magazine. FRASER. Almost all the magazines of the present month follow in the wake of Blackwood of last month, and take up the subject of English journalism. The opening article in Fraser is on this subject. The writer admits that journalism has risen to the rank of a profession, that it has gained influence over the hearts and intellects of the people, that it has drafted into its ranks education, information, and ability, that it has altogether fulfilled its mission with dignity, and has used power beneficially where it might have abused it. Therefore, the writer argues, that it is necessary to give the journalist a position in the social scale, and compares the condition of the journalist of England with that of the journalist of France. " The French journalist is in the best society, flattered by the homage of the rich, the at tention of the fair. His name is known in all poli tical circles with advantage, in his own with fame and honour. He is sometimes a peer always a celebrity." "Journalism in France is the sure road to the possession of the highest offices in the state, while in England there is no place assigned to the journalist in the social circle, and as for poli tical rewards, except of the lowest kind, such things are never dreamed of." The writer in Fraser would remedy this state of things, and makes appeals ad ntisericordiam and ad timorem to the aristocracy to grant a social position to the English journalist. The writer does not perceive that it is because in France the aristocracy has been annihilated that talent has fair play, and that not only the journalist, but every man of talent, the literateur, the scientific man, the philosopher, the historian, each as a matter of right, assumes that position in the social circle which is his own by virtue of his talent. In Eng land, on the contrary, we have an aristocracy close, exclusive, and like all aristocracies, gregarious from very weakness. "It must," to quote the words of Cobbett, " link and toddle," because (with the ex ception of those among them who belong to the aris tocracy of talent, and who would, therefore, under any circumstances stand alone) if they did not, by linking, afford each other mutual support—if each at tempted to " toddle " singly and alone, each and all would fail in the attempt, and fall. It is, however, the characteristic of talent to stand alone. Men of talent are not gregarious, and the anomalous posi tion which they hold in this country is to be mainly attributed to these facts. Being able to stand alone, the aristocracy at once envy, hate, and fear them. Hence the endeavour to ex clude them from all " 'vantage ground " in society or politics, and as they are enabled by the non-gregariousness of men of talent to isolate them and attack them singly, they generally succeed in their endeavour, but whenever men of talent shall be brought to understand each other, to know the irre sistible power which as an united body they could wield, to become in fact gregarious, then, and not until then, will they assume that position in the social scale which the writer in Fraser would fain assign to them, but which they never will assume until a total change shall take place in the organization, political and social, of the country. The article on journalism is succeeded by a pleasant bit' of sentiment on " Hair Love," and then comes the "Gallery of Contemporary Orators." The subjects of the present portraits are Sir R. Inglis, Mr. W. E. Gladstone, and Mr. Christie. To the first more than justice is done, to the second ample justice, and to the third some; what less than justice. " Passages from an unpub lished French Novel" is a quiet quiz on the mingled ignorance and impudence of the French novelists who write on English subjects, and pretend to improve Shakspere, Johnson, and Richardson. " The History of Etruria" is a learned review of Mrs. Gray's work on that subject. The paper, how ever, of the greatest permanent value in the present number of Fraser is, undoubtedly, that on the pro posed commercial mission to Japan. After giving a resume of the various attempts which have been made to open the commerce of Japan to the world, the last of which, in 1818, had nearly succeeded, the writer proceeds to enumerate the various articles which Japan produces, and which she might be induced to barter for British manufactures. Gold, silver, and copper are among the mineral productions of Japan. Another production of the Japanese islands is coal, to which, in former times, little importance was attached by the foreign traders to Japan, though, were we to suc ceed in obtaining a footing in that country, we should probably set a higher value on it than on anything else found in the whole empire. Respecting its quality, no information has been obtained. We know, however, that it is plentiful, and that the fields extend over nearly the whole of the northern provinces, where it would seem to constitute the only fuel used by the inhabitants. Popular tradition speaks of a mountain wholly com posed of coal, which taking fire some centuries ago, be came a volcano, and has ever since continued burning. In what circumstances the story originated it might now be difficult to discover. The whole group of islands, however, is evidently of a volcanic formation, nearly everywhere rising into sharp and lofty cones, from which smoke and flame perpetually issue. In many places we find the craters of extinct volcanoes, with clefts and vast caverns, from which is obtained an inex haustible supply of sulphur. "In the south nearly all the fruits of the tropics are found in abundance, while the northern provinces greatly resemble in their productions the less favoured climates of Europe." The whole of this article is worthy of attentive perusal, and we hope that no unnecessary delay will be permitted to take place in sending an embassy to the Court of Jeddo. As this writer — justly observes, " A case has been clearly made out in favour of try ing, the experiment, which, if brought to a fortunate issue, would provide a vast outlet for British manu factures, and tend at the same time to enrich us and civilise the Japanese empire." The remainder of this number is occupied by a political article vitupe rating the Whigs and free-traders. A review of Leign Hunt's book on " Wit and Humour," in which the reviewer acknowledges that he prefers Prior to Butler, expresses a desire to see Voltaire in the pillory, depreciates Rabelais, abuses Sterne, and finds nothing but dulness in Andrew Marvell ; an amusing archeological prolusion about Lord Mayor's day, and various poems and articles of minor import. LITERATURE. 1794 ; to the siege of Calvi, where one of his eyes was destroyed ; to the battle of St. Vincent, 14th February, 1797. We had seen his life saved by the devotion of his coxswain, in the murderous boat action in the bay of Cadiz ; and his loss of an arm in the expedition of Teneriffe. His unparalled victory of the Nile, in 1798, fought at anchor and at mid night; his diplomatic success at the bombardment of Copenhagen, in 1801; and his proceedings, in refer ence to the flotilla of Boulogne, had been successively submitted to our scrutiny in the preceding volumes, together with the family misunderstandings which tended to the embitterment of the life of Lord Nel son. It remained for us to behold the termination of that adventurous and extraordinary career, to watch the closing of that eventful and surprising drama, to recognise the consummation of such unequalled daring, of such assiduous patriotism, of such brilliant ser vices, of such perpetual and unprecedented disinte restedness. We had yet, aided by the accumulated embellishment of his private correspondence, and by a multiplicity of official documents, to scrutinise the circumstances of Lord Nelson's final achievements, to re-consider the glory and solemnity of his death— a death the most heroic in modern history—to lament again upon the tardiness of the recompenses which could only be lavished by a grateful country upon the relatives of one who had done so much for his native land, and who had received so little in return. Nothing could well be more satisfactory, as far as novelty and copiousness of information are concerned, than the pages here devoted to the description of these occurrences. The sea fight off Cape Trafalgar, the demise of the conqueror, the combined paroxysm of joy and grief into which the English nation was plunged on the reception of that intelligence and the funereal pomps and pageantries with which the corpse of our heroic and immortal Nelson were consigned to their resting-place in St. Paul's Cathedral, " under the dome in the midst of the temple consecrated by re ligion to the god of armies." We can readily enter into the emotions of the people on witnessing that august ceremonial, when we recur to the account (given by the editor in the preface to the present volume) of Nelson's last departure from this island, when, on proceeding to the place of embarkation at Porsmouth for the purpose of going on board the Victory, " A. crowd collected in his train, pressing forward to ob tain a sight of his face ; many were in tears, and many knelt down before him and blessed him as he passed. What Lord Hawkesbury said in the flush of anguish consequent upon the arrival of the news of that great man's death, may, nevertheless, be repeated in the calmness of criticism, and after the lapse of many years :—" All the virtues which could adorn I - uman nature were to be found in the illustrious Nelsen. The attribute of mercy was what most eminently dis tinguished him. In the language of the poet, it was not his wish to DISPATCHES AND LETTERS OF LORD IVELSOIV. Vol. VII. Edited by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas. " Wade through slaughter to a throne, Or shut the gates of mercy to mankind." These volumes were absolutely requisite ; they are a splendid memorial of the glory and dignity of the naval service of Great Britain Sir H. Nicolas has admirably acquitted himself of his very difficult and responsible editorial duties. Under his supervision, the work has been issued in a manner most creditable to all who were engaged in its production. Let Nelson's motto be never forgotten—" Palmam qui meruit ferat I" There are few persons, except those who give mi nute attention to the subject, but will learn with sur prise that the average price of wheat, according to the Gazette, at the present time, is only 2s. per quarter higher than at the same period last year.—Mark-lane Express. MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF • LADY. - Yesterday, Mr. Carter resumed, and"concluded an adjourned inquiry from Friday last, at the Plough and Harrow Tavern, Cold Harbour-lane, Camberwell, respecting the death of Mrs. Mary Summers, aged forty-eight years, lately re siding at No. 10, Holland-place, Denmark-street, Cam berwell. The deceased, who was highly connected, had been in the enjoyment of excellent health for several years. On Wednesday last she retired to her dressing room, and having remained for a considerab'e time some alarm was manifested by the other members of the fa mily, and after a few minutes search, one of the servants discovered the deceased lying on the floor by the bedside, in an insensible state. A surgeon was called in, whs pronounced life to be extinct. In consequence of the sudden nature of the death, the coroner ordered Mr. Burridge, a surgeon, - to make a post mortem examination. The inquiry was adjourned until yesterday, to allow time for the surgeon to make an analysis of the contents of the stomach. On the re-assembling of the jury, Mr. Burridge and a chemical lecturer said, they were unable to detect anything of a deleterious nature, but death had clearly resulted from the rupture of a blood vessel on the brain. The coroner remarked on the case, after which the jury unanimously returned a verdict of Death from natural eauses." SUICIDE IN THE TOWER.—An inquest was held yesterday before William Walton, Esq., at the King's Head Tavern, in the Tower, on the body of Mr. George Tidy, aged forty-six. It appeared, according to the evidence of several witnesses, that the deceased had been landlord of the King's Head for some years past, but, in consequence of ill health, he had confided the manage ment of his business to Mr. John Davidson, his brother in-law. His complaint was an affection of the liver, and he frequently suffered such pain that he said he thought he could bear it no longer. His wife left him alone on Sunday afternoon, while she went to open the door, and on her return found him lying on the floor with his throat cut, and a knife, with which he had just been eating his dinner, lying stained with blood by his side. The surgeon said that the deceased had been out of his mind for some time past, probably from long continued suffering; but the brother-in-law attributed his state of mind to the circumstance that he was going to be turned out of his house without compensation, after having paid a very large sum for the good-will. Verdict—" Tem porary insanity." MURDER IN SHROPSHIRE.—We are sorry to record a most brutal case of assault by a carpet weaver of the name of James Smith, on the person of Sarah Hill, a poor girl working at the same factory, that of the Messrs. Southwell, of the Friars, Bridgnorth. The girl, who had been drawer to Smith for some time, did some thing on the day in question (Thurday week) to offend him, when he ran after her in the workshop from his loom, and struck her a violent blow with his fist in the stomach, which bad the effect of rupturing her bowels, and causing great internal injury. The poor unfortunate girl was assisted to her lodgings from the factory ; but, notwithstanding every medical assistance was afforded to her, she expired at five o'clock on Monday morning. An inquest was held on the body on Tuesday and Wed nesday evenings, when a verdict of " Manslaughter" was returned against Smith. On Thursday he was brought up before the magistrates for examination, when the whole of the evidence was again read through, and the prisoner was fully committed to take his trial at the next assizes for the county, for the wilful murder of Sarah Hill.—Eddowes' Journal. VIOLENT SHOCK OF EARTHQUAKE.-011 Tuesday night, a few minutes before twelve o'clock, a shock of earthquake was felt here of greater intensity and longer duration than any remembered. The state of the atmosphere at the time was calm and beautifully clear. Early on the previous morning a very heavy rain had fallen, which had cleared the air and softened the tem perature, and the following day was unseasonably fine and mild, the thermometer standing about 52 degrees. At nine o'clock, evening, it had fallen to 42 degrees, the barometer indicating 29.50 inches ; the greatest cold during the night was 36 degrees, and the barometer inclined to rise, standing next morning at 29.51 inches. The feeling of individuals, during the &flock, depended .' greatly on their situation. It is most generally de scribed as being rather tremulous than undulating, ar.d in high tenements heavy articles of furniture were violently shaken, bells were rung, and crockery ware overturned. Every family was alarmed, and many rushed out to the streets under the impression that their houses were falling. Such as were walking at the time describe the ground as shaken under their fcce, much like the tremulous motion . in steam-boats. The du ration' of the shock, by all accounts, must have been from fifteen to twenty seconds, although the fears of many naturally led them to think it longer. It extended as tar north as our accounts yesterday reached, and along the line of the Grampians it seems to have been particularly severe. Our correspondent at Crieff writes last night thus:-" At twelve o'clock, perhaps two minutes after it, a. low ramble, resembling distant thunder, but one which a practised ear could at once detect to be the herald of an earthquake, was heard. F,,r five or six seconds it approached nearer and nearer, _and waxed louder and louder; then came a heavy underground knock or two, then a sensible up heaving and don nfalling accompanied by a violent shaking of everything on the surface, and the thunder like noise continuing for six or eight seconds, died away in the distance. This may not have been the heaviest shock of earthquake that has occurred in Crieff for the last fifty years, but it certainly was a very smart one, and caused many a timid heart to quake. The air before and at the time of' the shock was calm and still, but a short time thereafter a fresh breeze sprang up."— Perthshire Courier. Now that this magnificent work is completed, we can form from experience some conception of that national importance which, from anticipation, we were disposed to conjecture would be its great cha racteristic. In these seven splendid volumes we dis cover the realisation of the wish expressed so tersely and emphatically by a writer in the Quarterly Review, who exclaimed—" The nation expected, and was en titled to expect, that while cities vied with each other in consecrating statues in marble and brass to the memory of our Nelson, a literary monument would be erected, which should record his deeds for the im mortal honour of his own country, and the admiration of the rest of the world." That literary monument is here completed. To say that it is eminently worthy of the great hero whose prowess, whose wisdom, whose patriotism, and whose genius it is intended to illustrate; to say that these pages constitute the most copious narrative of his history ever published ; to say that the documents are authentic, that the inter. mediate descriptions are detailed without degenerating to unnecessary minuteness, graphic without departing from the severe style most appropriate to the records of such chivalric actions, and varied in manner, without detracting from the uniformity, and, so to speak, the uniqueness of so illustrious a career ; to say, in fine, that this work is a fitting record of the life ant deeds of Horatio Nelson, is to pronounce at once a fact and a panegyric. The present, and concluding volume, comprises the correspondence of Lord Nelson from the Ist of August, 1805, up to the fatal but glorious victory of Trafalgar. Almost every imaginable description of letter or note, whether a business communication to one of the officials in Parliament-street, or the veriest scrap of an invita tion to dinner, are here treasured up as memorials of the writer. We do not presume that any individual will have the folly, or—shall we say it ?—the audacity to cavil at the completeness of this correspondence. It cannot be forgotten that the disposition of an his torical character is better divulged in those trivial circumstances, which the superficial would be disposed to regard as insignificant; that we may best obtain an inkling of the home qualities and mental pecu liarities of such a personage, from the examination of those little domestic epistles, which are thrown off with all the unreserve of familiarity, than from the staid circumspection of professional intercourse. Un questionably the most interesting epoch in the history of Lord Nelson, is that which constitutes its termi nation ; and that epoch is, of course, contained in this concluding volume. Already we had followed the greatest of all sea captains from his birth, in the parsonage-house at the village of Burnham Thorpe, in the county of Norfolk, on the 29th September, 1758. Already we had watched the development of his character, when stealing pears in the school garden at North Walsham. We had pursued him, in imagination from his entrance as a midshipman, on board the Raisonnable ; from his transition to a West India merchantman ; from his promotion to the Triumph ; frorn his East Indian voyage in the Sea horse • from his removal to the Worcester ; from his being lieutenant in the Lowestoffe, commander in the Badger brig, and post-captain in the Hinchinbrook. We had followed him to Corsica, when the English were pretending to sustain tbe cause of the illustrious Paoli ; to the capture of Bastia, on the 19th May, DACCOArteitDurnSiNt U ap r p r e .— B y therreeceanretlays many y e as d 202,051 licensed dealers in tobacco and snuff in the. ParliamentaryTO tyhata United Kingdom. In England there are 170,048; in Ireland, 16,601; and in Scotland. 15,402. From an ex amination of the paper it seems that there are 12,958 dealers in London, and that the number within ten miles of the Excise Office is 23,807. The evening semi-( acial journal the Messager announces that it will cease to appear at the end of the present month. It is said that this journal had a monthly subvention of 7,000 f. from th e Government.— Galignani. A DRUNKARD'S Doom.—We are under the painful necessity of narrating the following particulars of an awful case of death caused by intemperance. It appeared that on Wednesd a y week a number of workmen were assembled in one of those dens of infamy too common amongst us, where they had been partaking very freely of ardent spirits. One old man in particular, a nailer by trade, from the delirious state into which previous excesses had thrown him, c h a llenged his comrade s that he would drink another shilling's-worth of liquor in a given time. The b e t was ta k en up, and the infatuated wretch drank off the quantity of drink almost in a draught. The man went home, and got to bed about nine o'clock, and by twelve was discovered to be a corpse. —Paisley Advertiser. The first sod in the site of the General Station, Court-square, was cut on Monday last, and a large force of workmen will shortly be engaged upon the structure. —Carlisle Journal. ESDAY EIVENING, DECEMBER 1, ie A LOVE AFFAIR IN EVERTON On Tuesday the police-court was crowded with young and old, gay and sedate persons, all anxious to learn th, particulars of an assault case, arising out of a love affair in Field -street, Everton, which was set down for hearing. The respectability of the parties on both sides—the lady being the young, beautiful, and accomplished daughter of a surgeon, and her suitor, or alleged suitor, the clerk in a highly-respectable house in Liverpool—added a raciness and an interest to the disclosures which they would not have possessed had the principal actors been moving in an humbler walk of life. The father of the young lady, Mr. John Ball, is a widower, and removed with his family, which, we believe, consists of two sobs, Archdale and John George, and two daughters, Louisa and Elizabeth, from Ireland to Liverpool, some time towards the close of last summer, and took up his residence here at No. $4, Field -street, Egerton. Shortly after, we understand about the beginning of August, an acquaintance was formed between Miss Ball (Louisa), who, it is said, has not yet attained her nineteenth year, and the clerk to whom we have already alluded, and who, besides being of fashionable exterior and bland manners, is very respectably connected, and perhaps, at a guess, about three and-twenty. The ac quaintance ripened into esteem, friendship, and love. Matters progressed, as matters of the kind sometimes will progress, smoothly, for the space of three months or thereabouts, we cannot be particular to a day; and as the young parties lived contiguous to each other—she in Field-street, and he in Rokeby-street, close by—they had frequent opportunities of interchanging little thoughts without always committing them to paper. His attentions were such as led herself and her family to suppose that he contemplated a speedy marriage ; and about the expiration of the three months a question— not a very pointless one, nor yet one very unintelligible —seems to have been put to him upon this very delicate subject. The answer was by no means of an agreeable nature to the family. The gentleman said something about his mind not having been made up, and also about his not having made any more advances to Miss Ball than he had to her sister Elizabeth ; and, in fact, it be came pretty evident, before the interview terminated, that there was a slight misunderstanding on Mr. Ball's side touching the gentleman's matrimonial views. Here was a discovery I The family felt indignant, and forthwith preparations were made for inflicting sum mary chastisement on the body corporate of " the faith less swain." Mr. Archdale Ball, the brother of the young lady, undertook the task ; and, after two or three un successful attempts to see the gentleman at Rokeby street, he at length made his way up to the drawing room, and vigorously laid about him with a walking-stick. This formed the gravamen of the case heard on Tuesday, for Archdale was summoned for the assault. The case was to have come on last Friday, but owing to a misnomer in the first summons issued, it was postponed until Tuesday, when Mr. Ball, the father of the lath, Archdale, the defendant, John George, their second son, and their friends were all present. Mr. Davenport, appeared for the complainant, and after informing the Court that his client was a clerk in a respectable house in Liverpool, and giving a general ace( unt of the assault. The complainant was sworn and deposed as follows: I lodge in Rokeby street, Everton, and on Monday, the 16th instant, I was at my loigings about one o'clock in the day. I was up stairs in the drawing-room. Miss Harriet, one of the young ladies of the house, told me that Mr. Ball was below, and wished to see me. She said she told him I was up stairs, and he said in reply that he was obliged to see me. Shortly after he came up to the drawing-room, and struck me with the stick he has in his hand at present. I had given him no offence. When he entered I asked him what he wanted, and he immediately struck me, and that several times. The door of the drawing-room then opened, and I met Miss Harriet on the top of the stairs, and in her presence be struck me several times with the stick, and also with his fist. I had given ro provocation whatever for the as sault. Mr. Ruston.—What has the defendant to say ? The defendant. —I admit the charge, Sir, but the cir cumstances of the greatest provocation caused me to break the peace in this manner. He was paying my sister attentions. He trifled with the feelings of that sister, who is, I may say, a mere child, and I, as her brother, took the law into my own hands, and chastised him for the way he treated her. I appeal to you, Sir, under the circumstances, whether the provocation has not been great ? and if you want proof of how he acted, there is a gentleman here (Mr. Owen) who can prove it. Mr. Davenport —We can prove the contrary. We can call upon a gentleman that will prove the complainant never thought of one more than another. The defendant. —The very lady in whose house he lodges was witness to his attentions to my sister, and she even said that he deserved a flogging. The lady.—l said that, if all that has been said of him by your sisters, Miss Ball and Miss Louisa, was true, he did deserve it, but I question it. Mr. Rushton.—But are we here to try the question, whether he treated the girl ill or not ? Mr. Ball, sen.—Sir, I am the father of the young girl, and, Sir, it was impossible not to feel, and to feel deeply, for her. I appeal to every father of a family in the Court, if he would not feel under similar circumstances. Sir, the feelings of our family were indeed excited, par ticularly as we had no redress in any Court for the man ner in which the girl had been treated. • Mr. Rushton.—Yes, you have redress. If the young man paid his addresses to her, and promised her mar riage in an honourable way, and then declined to fulfil his promise, he is liable for the consequences before another tribunal. Mr. Ball, sen.—But, Sir, we had no written document. Here is a gentleman alongside me (Mr. Owen), and I appeal to him, if the complainant was not received into our family as the suitor of the young girl ? And let me tell yoa, sir, that he (the complainant) introduced him self to our family on religious grounds. His first act was to make me a present of a Bible ! We placed confidence in him as a religious character and a well.conducted young man ; and he came and spent evenings at our house. In the end, he gained the affections of the young girl ; and when I asked him what his intentions towards her were, he turned round and said, that he had not made up his mind, and that he did not think he had committed himself in any possible way ! Then it was that this young fellow, my son, Archdale, said he merited punishment ; and for his having taken the law into his own hands, we humbly submit to the mercy of the court. Mr. Davenport—l am given to understand that he rever proposed for her, and that another young man, as well as himself, used to go and spend the evenings at Mr. Ball's house. Mr. John G. Ball—Will you allow me to ask the com plainant one question, Sir? Mr. Rushton—No, no. If the complainant has done anything of this sort, he has inflicted a gross wrong, and that wrong has caused the brothers of the lady to be impetuous. Mr. Davenport—Was anything of this kind in exist ence between you and the young lady? Complainant—No. I can prove that I never went with one of the young ladies more than with another. Mr. Davenport—l believe you were only acquainted with her three months. Complainant—About three months. Mr. Davenport—l have a lady here, Sir, who can prove that Miss Ball knew the complainant was under an engagement of two years' standing to another young lady.—(Loud laughter.) Mr. Ball, sen.—Will you allow me just to put one question ? Mr. Rushton.—No. There has been a breach of the peace ; and if there is any truth in the provocation, of course you have a remedy in another court. The defendant again appealed to Mr. Owen, and, by permission of the Court, Mr. Owen was briefly examined. He said—l lived in Mr. Ball's house, and knew that the complainant was paying attention to Miss Ball for a considerable time. I understood that he was going to marry her, and that he had promised marriage on several occasions, but not be fore any witnesses lam not an inmate of the house at present. Rushton (to defendant).—You must be fined a shilling without costs. But you ought not to do this. You ought not to take the law into your own hands. although gross provocation has been given, undoubtedly. The shilling was immediately paid, and the parties on both aides:. loft the ooui t. SINGULAR BIRTH.—On Monday last, at Castlehar rison, near Charleville, Mrs. M'Hanrahan, the wife of a poor peasant, was safely delivered of a female child, having three heads, perfectly formed, and on the left hand, which was more than double the size of the right, six fingers. It was at first supposed the child was still born, but after a short time animation appeared, and it is at present likely to do well. Dr. Sullivan, of Cherie ',ilk, has been in constant attendance on the poor woman, and owing to his exertions she is considered out of den. ger. On a previous confinement she was delivered of a son who had en enormous head.—Constitution. OUR FOOD PROSPECTS.—From every part of the country the reports as to the state of trade are exceed • ingly discouraging; and as the supply of food has very much to do with the demand for manufactures, our food prospects become the next most important considera tion. The information we have given in our columns this week will afford our readers an opportunity of ar riving at a tolerably accurate conclusion upon this sub juct; and that conclusion, we think, will be, that we need be under no apprehension that we shall suffer from any greater scarcity, or higher prices, than we have now to contend against; for the authorities we have quoted are confessedly the very best on this question; and that they have taken the most discouraging view of our pros pects, the following analysis we have prepared of the latest official returns of Amer i can food imports received in London and Liverpool alone, seems to us proof con elusive:—Of flour, 36,407 barrels; corn meal, 934 barrels; Indian corn, 83,449 barrels; wheat, 7,466 bushels; peas, 746 barrels; oatmeal, 200 barrels; rice, 200 tierces; beef, 5,708 barrels; lard, 1,573 packages; pork, 1,349 bar rels ; boccie, 1,040 hogsheads , hams, 1,094 ditto ; butter, 966 kegs ; cheese, 6,875 packages; biscuits, 170 barrels ; onions, 292 barrels ; seeds, 50 tierces. Tilt• precise time in which these imports have come to hand we do not know ; but we believe it is of very recent date. It must also be borne in mind that the American trade is but a young one ; there had been no preparations in anticipation of its opening ; and this fact of itself makes these steadily increasing returns all the more encouraging, both with respect to our present exigencies and our pros pects for the ft.ture. The vessels which bring these im ports will not return to the United States with empty bottoms or in ballast ; as the trade of the Americans with us increases, so will their demand for our goods become greater and more steady ; and the prophecies of the free traders will thus every year be proved more and more correct—that from the repeal of the corn laws we shall have to date the commencement of a new order of things •the beginning of a career of peace and plenty throughout the world. What, indeed, would have been our condition had the corn-laws remained iu force ? Leicestershire Mercury. WoRK:4 by ROBERT .7'. CULVERWELL , XX. C.B. lt• One :••btlilta:: each. by Dost t tio. sand AttPen" RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, NOVEMBER 30. STOCK EXCEANGE —The sales are—Caledonian, New. 21. 3.i.—Gre it Western, Quarters, tB l 4 . —Ditto, New, 714 — Midland, New, 6% —North Staffordshire, 3% p.—South Devon, 33. t, 1 F f. 0 N SINGLE andMA.RitiED (An Original Medical ilistorf-f CONTENTS: —.l it—Mia Analysis of the Affections —Early Conventional ReSt...t _.....__ direction—'Marital arital Anticipations and Realities —Laws of Pate. - Ji± . ?„.,, Aiaternai infineme—Phenorriena of Gestation —On Infeliito,l.7; Infertile Unions —Incongruous Alliances —Late Marrige-,--4con. Matches—Curiosities of Twenty-three Years' Medical 14 ' IPe &c. &c. 2. On CHASTITY and its INFRINGEMENTB (An Essay for 1846.) " Of human ills and frailties I discourse, n. • 'I hose taught by nature , and by art anallie Of griefs conceal'd, and disappointments keen, Which young and gentle , the matured and sage, The lonely and the mated —all sustain. In kindly spirit, herein counsel's giv'n, ~„ . , slow health, how hope , how happiness to .. 3. WHAT to EAT, DRINK, and AVOID With Diet Tattles Mr all ConiPla inte• fee li ngs is Contents :—llow to ensure perfect digestion, tranquil ntyheansee , t; . good night's rest, a clear head, and a conteoted mind. seance of the instructions herein containee the feeble. r scout v ful _ou l s p l e y r ( i l o e , l i ic o a f leif,eevaelinatt(e)dthteommoasnt.shattered const'tutien' ..' "h imanealth the the greatest amount of physical happiness, and its.' n-- -6 4e. shun, is 0 " How we should live—what ea t, what drink, w. ••;; 1 - Te reach in health full threescore - rea rs and ten. subjec These interesting little volumes, although bearing tly , . at mimes very delicate import, as their titles imply, wil l be ev e ry,. ring ere*. th su e ra se til e e n a li n g d t, e te c t i i i e e d ra t l im u e ti s l . ity, for they tell of matters every.. ,ation itt g tu u r e e ,t a i b o l n e a tA b e un h d a e:t e a l, n: ought to know, bUt which info *rough In the exposition herebyis ta , , a nature, it human disappointments and their ways of relief, It tsar is e i x oa c n e ve p re t eryd t that rithbele qualitytd till enpunroowtm uhligdadtee: t ru l contended that every roeder shall become his or . her own Ph,Y ei w i t any more than their own lawye., !-....t it is insisted upon Matto, should know the simple principles of our cent organisation, the_,.,,* whereby our existence and the issue thereof in their several lie!rd.u;', states depend, the duties that are expected of us in our ind iv 2 „,,z; capacities in the family circle, and the terms on which the healtn.-- happine , s y s il e l f btheetporuensedntthanbdefuitnureourraceownot intiteenkplinngd,have By such k health knowledge, and which is herein faithfully 111Pan7. within the attainment of all ; by the availment hereof in fe ff i sa rtag our te duty to ourselves, we secure the lift e advantages" ear °..); is ill of follow, e , r a e n a t t l io fi n n s al . ly by the cultivation at our faculties,sn divill9l;lll4ll.,,sy to relY__,,. b o e n exalted to the summit of perfection, as best become., 0 s'' • The author's justification for this seeming eulogy 01 h ie measur e d ,5.a .... 0 wit ibnygst,baeiiird the avowal of their integrity of pprpose, 11 1,1 . 4 '"' tth perusal—his accredited topics broached involve his legitimqautealsifitucadyticin" and pursult. _. IA To be had aln , of tyherwood, 23, Paternoster-row l Carr „. Fleet -street ; Hannay, 63, Oxford. street ; mann , 39, Coll=; to i, direct from the Author, le, Argyle-place, Reg tee (lee. these .reat Mariborough-street), who may be advised Perse lleil .ot Y lin& matters daily till Three, and in the Evenings from Weal ~.. uarantee that LIVERPOOL, NOVEMBER 30. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire Junction, 1 1 % p.—Birmingham and Oxford Junction, 6% p.—Caledonian, 1% dis.—Ditto, Halves, dis.—Chester and Birkenhead, 51 3 / 4 —Ditto, Halves, 25 3 / 4 —Ditto, New, 201 . Shares, p.—East Lancashire, New, No. 1, 37,i p.—Ditto, New, No. 2, 4 p.—Litto, New, scrip, 1 3 / 4 p.— Great Grimsby and Sheffield, Quarters, 3 / 4 die.—Hud dersfield Canal and Railway, 5% p.—Leeds and Dewsbury, 12 3 / 4 p. —Leeds and Thirsk, par—Ditto, New, 7 4 4 p.— Liver. pool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, % dis.—London and North-Western, 194—Ditto, New, Quarters, 13 1 % p Manchester and Leeds (late Huddersfield and ShAield), 5 p.—Ditto, Extension, 1 1 4 p.—Ditto, Halves (late Liver pooland Bury), 3% p.—Ditto, Extension, 11/8 p.—Midland, 126—Ditto, 401. Shares, 8 p.—Ditto, New, 4 3 / 4 p.—Newcastle and Carlisle, 113%—North Staffordshire, 3 7 / 8 p.—North Union (B), 151—North-Western, % p.—Shrewsbury and Hereford, % dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 2 p.— Ditto, 91. 12s. 3d. Shares (B), p.—Shrewsbury, Wolver hampton, and South Staffordshire, p.—Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, 1% dis.—Trent Valley, Midland, and Grand - Junction, % p.—West Lancashire, ls. 3,1. p.—West Riding Union, 1 7 4 p.—York and Newcastle, 38 1 4—Ditto, Preference, 5% p.—York and North Midland, Preference, 10% p.—Newry and Warrenpoint, p.—Great Luxem bourg, 3 1 4 dis. MANCHESTER, NOVEMBZK 30. STOCK EXTRANGE. —The sales are—Birmingham, Lanca shire, and Cheshire Junction, 1 3 / 4 p.—Churnet and Blythe, 1 4 dis.—Eastern Counties, Yi.rk Extension, 1 3 4 p.— East Lancashire, No. I, New, 4%—Ditto, No. 2 (late Liver pool, Ormskirk, &c.), 4 c. p.—Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, 1 / 3 dis.—lluddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 5 1 / p.—Leeds and Thirsk, 14 dis.—Ditto, New, 5 / 8 p.—Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 12 1 4 p.—Ditto, Ex tension (green), 1% p.—Liverpool, Manchester, and Cew castle Junction. 1 4 dis.—London, Manchester, and Birming ham, 731%—Manchester and Leeds, Halves, 10 p.—Ditto, Fifths, 5 1 h p.—Ditto, Extension, 1 1 4 p.—Manchester and Southampton, 10s. 6d. dis.—North Staffordshire, 4 1 / s c. p.— North-Western, 3 / 4 p--Oltiham Alliance, 3 / 4 p.—Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, % p.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 214 p.—Shropshire Union, 7-16 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, p.—West Lancashire Coast, 1 4 dis.— West Riding Union, 1% p.—W harfdale (late North-Eastern), % dis. LEEDS, NOVEMBER 30. STOCK EXCHANGE.—the sales are—East Lancashire (Blackburn and Preston), 4% p.—Ditto, No. 1, New, 4% c. p.—Ditto, No. 2 (late Liverpool, Ormskirk, &c.), 4 1 4 c. p. —East and West Yorkshire, 13s. 6d. dis. —Huddersfield and Manchester, 5 1 4 p.—Huddersfield and Sheffield, 4% p.— Leeds and Dewsbury, 11 1 / 2 n. p.—Ditto, Branches (blue), 73% p.—Ditto, Extensions (green), 345. p.—Leeds and Thirsk. % dis.—Ditto, New, p.—Ditto, Preferentials, p.—Malton and Driffield Junction, 20s. p.—Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 514 p.—Ditto. Extensions, 1% p.—Manches ter, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 21s. n. p.—North Bri tish, Thirds, .51s. p.—North Staffordshire, 3% p.—Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, 275. p.—Wharfdale Junction, 10s. dis.—York and Newcastle, New, 7 3 4 p.—Ditto, Preference, 5% p.—York and North Midland, Preference. 9% p.—Ditto (East and West Riding), 12 p.—Leeds, Wakefield, and Mid land, 17s. 6d. dis.—North-Western, 13s. p.—Northern Coun: ties Union, 1% dis.— West Riding Union, 4. HULL, NOVEMBER 30. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—to-day but a small amount of busi ness has been done. Prices, however, are improved, and the market is wearing a more favourable appearance than it did at the close of last week. The sales a-e —B ackburn, Dar wen, and Bolton, 11—Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, Is. dis.—Leeds and Thirsk, p. cash—North British, New Quarters, scrip, 20s. 6d. p.—North Staffordshire, 3/. 18s. p. —North Western, 15s. p.—Preston and Wyre, Halves (A), 3 p.—York and Selby, Preference, 91. 19s. 6d.—York and Newcastle, Preference, 5 1 / 2 p. YORK, NOVEMBER 30. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Direct Northern, 2 —lpswich and Bury, 12 1 / 2 —London and York, D. 4s.—•Mal - and ()riffleld Junction, 3—Manchester. Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 3/. 3s.—Newcastle and Berwick, 34—North British, Quarters, 31A2 ex new—North Staffordshire, 6 1 / 4 North-Western, 11. 17s.—Sheffield, Rotherham, &c 31 / 2 Wharfdale Junction, 2—York and Newcastle, New, 13— Ditto, Preference, 7X—York and North Midland, Half Shares, 46—Ditto, Extension, 37%—Ditto (East and West Riding), 17%—Ditto, Preference. 12 1 / 8 . EDINBURGH, NOVEMBER 28. STOCK EXCHANGE —The sales are—Aberdeen, 184 — Dundee and Perth, New, 10 1 4—Edinburgh and Northern, 15% ex int.—Ditto, Newport, 81s.—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 51s. 6d.—North British, Thirds, 725. 6d.—Ditto, Quarters, 675. ex thirds—Ditto, New Quarters (scrip), 30s. 6d.—Shrewsbury and Hereford, 11 s. 6d.—Stirling and Aid land, 50s.—Strathern Junction, 76s.—Direct Bombay and Madras, 7s. GLASGOW, NOVEMBER 28 STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, New, 425. —Caledonian and Dumbartonshire, 37s.—Direct Bombay and Madras, 6s. 6d.—East of Fife. 31s. —East Indian Rail way, I I s. 9d.—Glasgow General Terminus, 11 3 4—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves, 71. 17s.—Glasgow, Dum fries, and Carlisle, 51s.—Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monkland Junction, 375. 6d.—Glasgow Harbour Mineral, 28s.—Great Southern of Madras, Bs. 6d. —Manchester and Southampton, 27s.—Midland, 31304 Ditto, Halves, 61. 2s.—North British, New Quarters (scrip), 32s.—Scottish Grand Junction, 10s. 6d. ---- - ---------:----------I, 11$ A POPULAR TREATISE en the HEALTH, L.- T,F --' and 'CI° of the BODILY FUNCTIONS. .„ . gealed NINETEETH EDITION, price 2s. 6 d. ; Free by Peg V. " Envelope) 3s. 6d., " SILENT FRIEND. er A cans of rest Work T en the loss of the reproductive powers, with n Str eictureS, Se• tion. The baneful effects of Indulgence, neglect t ed l r'r condary Symptoms, &c., are fully pointed out. 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Debility, Local and Constitutional Weakness , ...- n the Urethra. 0 00 14 ..., By SAMUEL LA'MERT, CONSULTING s A . • des erts" 9, Bedford-street, Bedford-square , 101 ,, - ,,,g -nf lu "' t ots Matriculated Member of the University of Edln"" -- 1,115 0 Member of the London Hospital Medical SOele° Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., Ito. O M dra t° eli CONTENTS OF THE TREATISE•_ s ai DR iislo .;.,s CHAPTEE 1. On the Philosophy of Marriag w],r,, tifea r e - _.„,% andObligatiens, and en Infelicitous and Un e igvy c es -- ,t, t F. -- ,, e ! Cuarria 2. On the Anatomy and Physiology ",,',..14 110 ,,;:fie..,, - a Organs, their functions, structures, and secretions, e,,." boa en en `"_,..- Mental and Physical Power are dependant upon tb . ..'" elleenwicti o :. —CHAPTER 3. On Solitary Babas; their var ;e :f the -of w..; Animal Economy ; the concealed cause of Debility 10,1011. le g of the Stomach, Lungs, and Brain, and general " rde o 0_ . , 0 0. Mental Faculties. CHAPTER 4. On the Secret rd ee .,.. ne bt / 1 .7. O a and Maturity, and the Treatment of Nervous and_ - 3 0 0 000 Mental Debility, and Premature Decay.—Crtarrs7L. Gee' the Disorder? arising from indiscnminate V tee-, o il. Gleet, Strictures, and other Diseases it the Urethra* lega ni 4 ce of REVIEWS OF THE WORE. _i s $ lot_ " The author of this singular and talented were o per ._, of fled medical man, who has evidently had confide: abl e to able sl. M t he abl e the trr, fitment of the various disorders arising frs sn 0 ,01% 10 00 frailtiell of early Indiscretion. The engravings a re ,,... 0 1, til t peraS a ,, dition,' by demonstrating the consequences et e x '" -- dby i'' 0 " ed by the Author, and tray act as a salutary warning to youth and maturity, and f 0 m pe a a n L y e q v u eit e' t ti o on th s e m m a o y st confidential f y riend." —Era. his regldettee6„6l". be batisfactoril replied te, th at a ' Oa be bad at ~,,, A nd On Publish and by all Booksellers. on. Newton, ---s, Ylchbo treat from Kent and Richards, 52, Paterm;ster-row HaVThailog ii i 01, L Oxford - street , Rt.'' , QUAd O"; t , Li eadenhall-street, Lond • rn" Ig,' Church -street, AO ° At HomeeatiOni for Consultation dai l y, from - ,,- 'se g a it ee Five till Eight ; and all lett •mm e d 1 reP.-- to , F s the fee of IL, for advic,e fte era i - - late 37 QTREET 13 9 REDFORD - . , SQUARE. LONDON ' . --"....:' Villa till TWO, aswT\ avnihiateviehaleiii.ei/ storm y - -------- w' 80, 0 2 10 01 THE WELLINGTON MONUMENT ON ---- - ,„,ie.,- 0 HlLL.—Thirty years have elapsed since we 03 .,,'",7 to is the gay throng forming a procession from itm"„ t oee' eh - e Wellington, to lay the foundation of the W u ; 01 11 '.,,," honour of the illustrious Duke of Wellingt7iseibT, summit of the range of Blackdown hills • li, bri p if of) " a ny semblage of visitors to the spot presented i ts ; 6 0 _ a 4 occasion, and never before had so nu p t ri re er s :,,: : d tr e o c l o 7.44 of spectators been concentrated on the denuded • r_.4 thenceforth destined to distinction, by manent testimonial of the reverence, adrelr - e vy r a t gratitude entertained by the surrounding g rr i e o r s t.„. public, towards one of the most illustrious 1 / $ ! viti 'l, , his 0 h ie,. ever achieved his glories to the benefit er ;' o to 0 mibe and the welfare of posterity. On the nce 6 ; s : ° „ c i fliti l .:o• we allude, the late Lord Somerville, assn' a- w ere Y nti . late truly estimable W. A. Sandford, ri ec h e " thell ie c ly mt triangular hi summated,n nt English i n thaaenindr and promotiontßhreimonument,sfoundation-scope discernible i c o h f a n the object s t o , o b j an e n etii, i r :r e p_.. f :?0,... . tga s b ot i iii: t o ors i the ha western division of Somerset. 0 111 ; T : that t" i i be pen which so exultingly recgorded the , ° - ,, t its °,7" t o ffi nu ci m en en tl t y s l h o o n uld to no re vi c i t l v e ,tb it a io e n ro o i: fi i: A fen ellth position uo on which it stan -s edit) el e° id , to the most subversive the influeneese° ligbt;tl,,-riee nillpeagaystatosetpndeademse of many miles. almost ~,,ditorisiu. mane "era t s e ason and the rigours of' the frost have "era & q uires so equinoxes, the scathings 01 he ir "- the monument, to an extent which req OO e l able intervention to avert further b raise liei. e threttecinsli small as 1001. timely applied may t ares' . " to e ; B o t 1) destruction of this fine and costly etr uc ho does ',NS who feel intere s t e d i n its preservation (I" e rag are invited to contribute to the P tlr P °s . ,of CO roe etine bo ve GENERAL RAILWAY STATION. ---A ~, r ibie b itisb deputations from the four railway con3Pelicii- 0 the l a de agreed to erect a United Station was era be do l n e o re ferei, ct i ; inn, on TuPsday last, when several alt in the original plan of the building. TheintenaLbsodonle` o t ing a yard for minerals near the station vis s . w i s at fr i e , e i l ig being considered better to allow the coal r o " - ro peof ve r. in existence to remain where they are, oche te nt t° / ...401 at liberty to fix on the site most cooveneli clisillmoor Lieutenant Colonel Maclean was apPniq ' ; 0 0 c o ot and Mr. E. S. Bolden, Secretary, of tn e s pst 1 1 ° mitteess and in all the proceedings the gr e _.0.• mit t - prevailed.- CO rlOOlO 171,41 IIIAL 0 1 9 PY ita 1-ADVERTISEMENTI—CURE OF DROPSY , job.--_„' pe tle-couri, , wpiGr„,o WAY'S PILLs.-Nirs. Langley, residing at Com t e durino D e 7"...4.1 been su ff ering from dropsy for the last two Years!uought 0 "ow-, rind she had been tapped several times ,no one thong oL o pf , get over it ; however, by living on solids, e atin: l DI „Telt,' • co too u d r , se a abstaining a ii i n o i l n i gwfrayo,ms celebratedth eus e of pillsall gintboabultess,efre'eviroetcyreolTr perfectly cared. Females at the turn of life, NY" , little 0 e s t dropsical, would do well to take from time to tte3e,, dog ero.. 03 4 g enerating medicine, thereby speedily removing 11:: Arug giP" toms attending this critical period.-Sold by ir L o pe. rm.. , .or Finllnway.a Establishment, 24 4, Strati.. t Of 4 BIRTHS. -,I he l On Saturday last, at Grove House, near Le.- 5, - bter• '. ug sol i Joseph Middleton, Esq., barrister -at-law, of 8 I,n ear On the 25th ult., the wife of Mr. Ralph Plir'— eitor, of a son. On the 25th ult., at Cadogan•place, Mrs. • e. 9 I°ll ' P•Ors° .4 of a daughter. RevS t°ll On the 26th ult., at Boulogne, the wife of the James Gambier, of a son. f ifell I°l' On the 26th ult., at County- terrace, Ca nibe. .1 / be E ro y a r d e , , t E he sq w ., i o fe f aofdlSalurg.Jtoehr.n M'Alpin, of a daught.enesteourge Pe On the 27th ult., in Lowndes-square, the wife fg . Al f G.° s, TaOttnertshaeu,27Etlq.u,lotiainsonC.adogan-place, the .' e ° i W s ' , le, On the 28th ult at Carlton -villas, gai"4"°- Sr°. lg gyde-Par Reid, of a son. " 1; ' be dIdRRIED• Wir e ' I flan°,leur:sfito thteDelr On the 28th ult., at St. George's, Hon. Beilby Lawley, eldest son of Lord NY enl °c u is av , Elizabeth Grosvenor , ' third daughter of the Agarcl minster. v c obas B w ' On the 2d of August last, at the British icor. Dr Lardner, to Mary, only daughter of Colonel On the 28th ult., at Oxford -terra ce ' G. Ward, of a daughter. ___ of Jo w ly' jaCsinneastohene,_2Edtssqutitu.:t., at Inverness, Mary, the wife On th 2*) at Kensington, C. Dyer, ~i.A., Rector of Abbess Boding, Esselc,..w widoif° the On the 25th ult. at Weston-super -Mare, blr lz " u ter late J. O. Goodford, Esq•_, aged 90. . De l " I clo ClO tt nn i, Hi?t n on th ll's 2 c 6 ne Esq., aged 79. ...._ v . C o olq", , ,ir 26th ult., at the Priory, Great ?elver], • the e e 25th ult., at New ' NV indsor, Mr.Aldernian troop E , q . , a t h g u d l t 6. , 4 a . t Guildford, - On the 26th ult. at Millfield House, York, PI boll# 4 On the 27th ult., at the Whitehall, Mr. Brice M`Gregor aged 65 ..goret On the 28th ult., at Grove 'House, Kensingto'• Right Hon. Lady Elizabeth Whitbread, aged 82 ' Foot Guards Stattlior to S,,”lr°" '•:figt°4sl7, Lon4on: Ve l nted 'fl e Publ i s hed by if v.— _ n d, i 0 -triml. nu , :At ~” office, Ng... g Str' 0.1. Of the Savoy, in the County 01 middies , comber 1, 1846, THE ARMY. PROMOTIONS AND PURCLIASES.-Thirty-six gentle men ;have been gazetted as cornets or ensigns in the Army during the preceding month, twenty-four of whom have purchased their commissions, varying in price from 4501. to 1.2001. and amountieg in the aggregate, to the sum of 12,7701. The following non-commissioned officers have been presented with commissions during the month, and have also received the usual bounty of 1001. to assist them in their outfit as commissioned officers.-Sergeant-Major C. Carter, to be Second Lieutenant in the 2d Regi ment of Foot ; Quartermaster and Sergeant P. Owen, to be Quartermaster in the 36th Foot; and Sergeant- Major J. Swaine, to be Quartermaster in the 56th Foot. Forty-three ensigns have been promoted to the rank of lieutenant, twelve without purchase, and thirty-one by purchase. Amount which has thereby changed hands 5,5501., the regulated difference of the commis sions varying from 2501. to 350!. Thirty-seven lieutenants have been promoted to the rank of captain, twenty-six without purchase and eleven by purchase. Amount which has thereby changed hands 15,6201., the regulated difference fur the commissions varying from 1,100/. to 2,7501. Two hundred and two captains have been promoted to the rank of major, one hundred and eighty-eight by brevet, eleven without purchase, and three by purchase. Amount which has thereby changed hands 4,1501., the regulated' difference for the commissions varying from 1,3501. to 1,4001. Seventy-seven majors have been promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonels, fifty-five by brevet, twenty with out purchase, and two by purchase. Amount of pur chase-money; 2,900 L, the regulated difference for the commissions being 1,3001. and 1,6001. One hundred and eleven lieutenant-colonels have been promoted to the rank of colonel by brevet. One hundred and six colonels have been promoted to the rank of major-generakby brevet. Forty-five major-generals have been promoted to the rank of lieutenant-general by ditto. Thirteen lieutenant-generals have been promoted to the rank of general by brevet. Three generals have been promoted to the rank of field-marshal by brevet. Three assistant-surgeons have been promoted to the rank of surgeon, and five medical gentlemen have been gazetted as assistant-surgeons during the month. In the Royal Marines, six colonels have been promoted to the rank of major-general. Three lieutenant-colonels have been made colonels. Two majors have been made lieutenant-colonels, and eighteen captains have been made majors. CHATHAM, Nov. 30.-The 56th Regiment, lately ar rived from Manchester, and at present quartered in Chatham barracks, is under orders for embarkation l 'at Gravesend, an board the ship Herefordshire, on the 10th of next month, for Gibraltar. THE ARMY IN IRELAND. - The troops in Ireland for the month of December consist of the 2d Dragoon Guards, Newbridge; the 14 ditto. Dublin;t t h h e io l i s le t ;DBrtah goons, Cork; 2d ditto, C/Osimel; 4th Light D ragoons, D u blin; 6th ditto, Longford; 7 th Hussars, A ditto, Cahir; 13th Light Dragoons, Newbridge; 17th Lancers, Dundalk; 3d Foot, Dublin; sth, Buttevant; 26th, Dublin; 41st, Mullingar; 44th, Belfast; 47th, Cork; 49th, Galway; 55th, Limerick; 59th, Limerick; 64th. Kilkenny; 67th, ARth, 70th, Tom_ plemore; 75tH, A.tnlone; 83d, Dublin; 85th, Birr; 92d, Enniskillen. The depot companies of the following re giments on colonial service:-Ist Foot, Newbridge; 7th, Newry; 15th, Waterford; 29th, Boyle; 33d, Mullingar; 38th, Londonderry; 48th, Dublin; 54th, Kinsale; 66th, Templemore; 72d, Nenagh; 73d, Clare Castle• 77th, Ferm()) 7 ; 7 9 th, Castlebar; 82d, Fermoy; 88th, Birr; 93d, Naas; 95th, Tralee; making in all, including bat talions of the Royal Artillery, companies of the R(iyal Marines, and Sappers and Miners, about 24.000 mut). The latter have been actively employed in furthering the public works for the relief of the poor. POTATOES.—We have previously stated that in many cases in this neighbourhood where the farmer s had allowed their winter potatoes to remain in the ground, instead of hurrying them into the market at the early part of the season, they found their crops in a much better condition than they could have anticipated, the long interval of dry weather in the autumn having arrested the progress of the prevalent disease 1 and though the potatoes were small, most of them were sound and good. We are glad to find that this statement has been generally verified. but we have just heard of a re markable exception. Mr. Hobson, farmer, of Birklands. near this town, planted about an acre of winter potatoes, and allowed them to remain in the ground as we have mentioned, but on going lately to examine them, the tops of all he took hold of broke off by the soil, being com pletely rotten. He bad them afterwards ploughed up, and was not able to find a single sound potato on the whole acre.—Kendal Mercury. REPRESENTATION OF KNARESBOROUGH.—A meet ing of the liberal electors of this borough was held in the Court House, on the evening of Thursday week, at six o'clock. Mr. Thomas Addyman in the chair. The following resolution was agreed to :—" That, while this meeting has heard with deep regret that Henry Rich, Esq., has decided to relinquish the prospect of again re presenting this borough in Parliament, it begs to tender to him its best thanks for his services, not only as a late faithful, but also for his unwearied and useful exertions to serve the public and private interests of all connected with the town, without respect of creed or party." The meeting then entered into the consideration of adopting measures to secure the return of two liberal members, as the state of the registration appeared to leave no doubt that such a consummation might be effected. Letters were then read from several gentlemen who had offered to become candidates, but it was deemed advisable to de. fer coming to any decisive line of action at present, es pecially as the time for calling a new Parliament was um certain ; but it was considered necessary to be provided with two candidates to be ready to take the field, which ~should be decided at a future meeting.— Yorkshireman. ' o , 1 ti