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~~,`; ~. •1 LOANS ON MORTGAGE. -,rEE LONDON, BRIGHTON, an d SOUTH _IL. COAST RAILW AY COMPANY will receive TENDERS far LO ANS on Mortiage Bonds, in sums of 5001. and upwards, and for ter Mot exceeding seven years. Interest at 5 per cent. per annum, ps.3 wilote half yegi iy. lity order, L tortdon Terminus, Dec. 27, 1•47. T. J. BUCKTON, Secretary. E ASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. EXTENSION STOCK, No. 2. Th 4 holders of Scrip Slisres in this Stock are informed that unless all sun h ARRHARS of CALLS as are clue by them be PAID to the Comps ny's Bankers on or before the 10th of January next, they will sot afu ' , yards be permitted to pay soy further sums on the said Scrip 5i hares, and the Extension Stocl:, Ns. 2, to be issued to them will be .11inited to the Wziounts they sball ha''c already paid up. By order ortke Board. C. P. RONEY. Secretary. litaimpsgata Station, Dec. 30, 1847.. N A.TION AL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSURAN CE SOCIETY. 2t, CORNI',ILL, LONDON. Capital .£500,000. Eivpowered by Act of Parliament. This Institution embraces I mportant and substantial advantages 'with resopect to life assurances and deferred annuities. The assured has, on. all occasions, the pow er to borrow, without expense or for feiture of .the policy, two-thi...ds of the premiums paid (see Table); also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his In terests to meet other conve Mendes or necessity. Assurances for terms of 'fears on the lowest possible rates. DIVISION OF PROFITS. The• increasing prospev.ity of the Society has enabled the Directors at the annual meetirg 'Aelel on the 12th May, 1847, to declare a filth bonus, varying from. 34 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid on each policy' effected on I .he profit scale. ESA.MPIEN. • Penne- Sum the .Juinnal Policy Bonus in , vent Re- Assured Age. Pre- taken addition Bonus in Auction of may bor. minsa.. out in Assured. Cash. Annual row •n cs 2 Premiums., Policy. X s. 4. £ n d. X a. d. I X a. d. 1837 243 9 311 . 2 8 5 18 4 6 1494 b 10 d. 1838 218 4 899 810 15 13 5 ;445 0 0 60 1000'74 3 4 1839 193 110 86 9 3 13 4 9 395 11 1 1840 143 S 10 66 8 4 919 1 346 2 3 1841 138 14 2 GI 17 6 9 9 2 296 13 4 1842 111 6 8, 49 10 0, 7 10 4 247 4 5 Tke Annual Tteport, witla tables of rates, &c., may be kad at the o Rice, or any of Its branches in the country ; or, on application. will be forwarded poet free. T. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary. ARGUS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 39, THROGMORTON-STREET, BANK. EMPOWERED BY SPECIAL ACT OF PARLIAMENT. THOMAS FARN - COMBE, Esq., Alderman, Chairman. WILLIAM LEAF, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. Etchard E. Arden, Esq. John Iltunphery Esq., Alderman, William Banbury, Esq.. M.P. Edward Bates, Esq. Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman. Thomas Camplin, Esq. aremish Pllcher, Req. James Clift, Esq. Lewis Pocock, Esq. Inpert Ingle/ay, Fen. Pwrsicti,w—Dr. Jeaffrogon, 9 Finsbury-square. 131:MGEON—IV. Coulson, Esq., 2, Frederick's-place, Old Jerry. C•NelaUTlNlik A CTUAR7—PrIIfetISOr Hall, of King's. College. LOW ZATES or PREMIUM. Persons .Assuring In this Office have the honef",t of the Lowest rate of Premium •which is compatible with the ssrAty of the Assured, and which. is, in effect, equivalent to an Annue.i Bonus ; they have Malaise the security of a large subscribed 'capital—an Assurance Find of a (41121z - ter •f a Million—and an Annaal Income bf 65,0001., arising from the issue of 'early G,I)00 ANNUAL PREMIUM TO ASSL&E £lOO. 4.ge. :0 41 60 For One Year. ) For Seven Years. WholZ i rerm. 11 11 10 2 0 7 2 14 10 4 0 11 6 IS 10 £417 3 I £Ol9 1 1. 1 3 1 2 7 01 6 9 1 14 1 1 19 10 124 3 7 0 One-calf of the " Whole Term" l'tern;nrn may remain en credit ter sew), years, or one-third of the 'tretnium may remain for life as a debt tiro"' the. policy at S per cent,., er may be paid off at any time 'without tetice. Pollak, assigned as it secnrit to others, will not be rendered ♦oid to confseqienee of des th $y suicide, duelling, er by the heads of Justice. in case of d, ath by the above causes, where the Policies are not asdgmed, the 'dross nmouut of Premiums received will be re tuned. Claims mid in on e month after prooth have been approved. The Medical Ott acre attend daily at a Quarter before Two o'Clock, And Policies issued, the same day. . . E. BATES, Resident Director. A. nets I Commission to Solicitors and Agents. LIQUID ENAMEL.—The Liquid Enamel, for &TOPPI" NG DECAYED TEETH without pain, Is a com bination of tins .; substances, of which, according to the most recent analysis, the ni tural teeth are composed; and its successful applica tic)* for many •years by Mona. DE BERRI, the inventor, proves it unrivalled for: its efficacy in restoring Decayed Teeth and preventing Tooth-ache. Artificial Teeth, on a new and infallible principle, sup plied by If • O. de Berri, who also remodels old sets; and those per sona who al realy wear artificial teeth, but wish to avail themselves the nos .t resent improvements, Gan have a new set constructed, and a nor al atowanee will ►e made for those already in nee. Terms ) sa is Paris, where the charges are considerably lower than in liinglar id. 29, Per.'-street, Rathbone-plaec, Oxford-street. At llome froro Tex till nix. MDCCCXLVII. and MDCCCXLVIII. TO THE PUBLIC. " Look on this picte.re, aid on this."—Shakspeare. As now another year is passed away, MOSES and SON their wonted tribute pay; And freely own, with gratitude sincere, The many favours of another year. Oft have their warm acknowlederneets been made, For 'vast success, and glofious public aid ; But never did such staunch support appear, As that which honoureie the departed year. Spring, summer, autumn, winter, bear fresh proof, Of crowding throngs, 'oeneath their trading root. When January's frosts were keenly felt, Thousands with ..LOSES liberally dealt ; And Winter Overcoats. te suit the cold, Were purchase' s at their Warehouse million-fold. In February's month. and hlust'rinp March, The pablle 9 0 .ught the Emporium's lofty aroh. In fickle April, and in milder May, MOS.MS arid SON'iii Spring dresses bore the sway. In phsaituat June, and changeable July, Vast Ilk nititrides were daily seen to buy ; And such nupporters failed not to remember The City Mart in August and September. Anel. in October's month did thousands press, At .3gogEs, Mart for matchless Autumn dress. I'adull November, and December, too, NOSES and SON were ever kept in view. .I.nd thus did new encouragements appear throughout the circle of the by-past year : 'Net only in attire, but boots and shoes, And also in the fare which ladies use ; And throngs of buyers might we daily see, Obtaininlng first-class Hats at Eighty-three. In Hosiery and matchless outfits too, The trade at MOSES' Warehouse daily grew. The glorious marks of favour thus presented. Proclaim the by-gone year unprecedented. 'Tv-as truly pleasing to behold a throng, Crowding the spacieus Warehouse all day long ; W bile all the current coins, with constant Jingle, "Amid the busy stir were heard to mingle. Nor was it any sight to cause a flown, While orders for bespoke were putting down. Swift went the knibs, and orders swiftly took, And very swiftly filled each order-book. The Cutting-room at MOSES' mart has been, " A cutting sight" —an ever-busy scene. No time for idleness—no lengthy leisure, Could here be had for cutter, shears, or measure : .All was activity in every part, And business "riled the roast" at MOSES' Mart. Though scarcity of money roused alarm. MOSES and SON sustained no trading harm. No ; on the contrary, as people found, The roil value of a current pound, They flocked to MOSES' Mart, assured that there, Un'saatched economy is brought to bear. Wlaat ROW remains ? A task devolves oa MOSES, N ow Bighteen Forty-seven for over closes. neat heartily do Messrs. MOSES tender 'Their thanks for what a generous public render. But thanks ten thousand times they might repeat, And leave the task of thanking incomplete. - Tat, happily, they've more that they can state, And thus they're led to Eighteen Forty-eight. In Eighteen Forty-eight they mean t• steer Beyond the bounds of each succeeding year. The reeeat purchases which they have made, Will add new benefits to all their trade. When all the markets wore depressed, they bought For moderate sums their cloths superbly wrought. They saw the opportunity, and now, A most immense redaction they allow. Such are the benefits which hero await The purchaser of Eighteen Forty-eight. May MOSES and the public ever be, On pleasing terms of trading unity ; May both the ituyers and the sellers find, That all their mutual interests are combined ; And may the friends of MOSES (small and great) Enjoy, in every possible estate, A. happy year in Eighteen Forty-eight. LIST OF PRICES. MEADE MADE. _ Beaver Taglioni . from.£o 9 0 Chesterfield and Codrington's, and every description of Over-coat, handsomely 1 5 0 'The Pacha Coat .. .. The Bullrner, especially adapted for snowy and wet weather. • • • • • . Boy's Winter Coats, in every style.. • • ..... 0 6 0 Men's Do. Trousers, lined ..... .. •• • • 0 4 0 Dress Coats... •••.. • • . ••••• • • • • • 1 0 0 Frock do. • Double-breasted Winter Vests •••• • • • • •••• • • • • 0 2 Roll collar. ...... .• .•••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • 0 r 6 Boys' Hussar and Tunic Suits • • •••••• • • • • • • 0 16 6 MADE TO IIEASEEI. Winter Coats, in every style and shape, hand timely trimmed •• • • ••••••• • • • • • • ..... fret i 1 6 0 Milled cloth Over-coats, velvet collar and cuffs .. 2 4 0 Tweed Wrapper •••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • 0 18 6 Doeskin Trousers ••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • I 2 0 Beet, er Dress.. ••• • . • ...... 1 6 0 Dress Coat .. 1 12 3 Best quality [node.. •• • • •• • 2 15 0 Frock do.. • 1 15 0 Best quality made.. • • ••• • • • 3 3 0 Cashmere Vests •• • • • . ••••••••• • • • • • • • .. 0 A 6 Satins, Plain er Fancy •• .• .. ••.•••• • • • • • • • 012 0 Boy's Hussar and Tunic Suits .. ••..••• • • • • • Great Coat. • • • • 016 0 Suit of Clothes complete.... . ....... ...• 1 16 0 Mourning to any extent at Five 31inates notice. ob.erve.—Any article purchased, ready made, •r made to mea sure, if net approved of, will be exchanged, •r if preferred, tke Money returned. E. MOSES and SON, Tailors, Woollondrapers, Clothiers, Hatters, Yielders, Furriers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters, for Ladies and Gentlemen, 154, 155, and 158, 157 ISMerle.% and 82, 64, 85, and 86 Al4gate, City, London. Cantioa.--E. Moses and Son regret being obliged to guard the Publio against impostors, but lave leaned that the untradesman- Lke f aliehood of being connected with them, or it's the same concern, nag been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons. Tey have no connexion with any other houre in or out of London; and those who desire genuine and cheap clothing, lee., should call at, or send to, Mlnories and Aldgate, City, London. „ clock tles.—}Zo business transacted at this establishment from snn o' ' 11 47, till sunset Saturday, when business is remixed till twelve A R R I A G E. • 31 Una half th e worl d are d eso l ate l y single, sad the ot h er a ‘.2Poling them married, questionably contented. Diffidence, or a . "" °I right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes ens bitter the latter. The solitary one may shield himself under the plea of caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un e°.„Tin,bsg harry 1 but the troth lies deeper. Physical incapacity, " "Token health are the great hindrances to domestic happiness and social content. The dowry should not be the only marriage set tlement. Honour and justice demand that health should form au item in the compact ; it alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes or neglect woand tnore sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, if these surmises concern yon, procure Dr. CULYERWELL'S little MEMOIRS 'On Single and Married Life," pub. in 2 vols.. Is. each (by post, in stamps, Is. 6d. each). Let no imaginatively eefined, or Prudish feeling deter yon, by their titles, nor be hindered oy misinterpretation of their supposed them. They are not intended certainly f contents, from or mere idle curiosity, h obtainingut for the closet peru sa l of those more deeply i n t erested, to whom the above subjects they are otTemd as antagonistic to th e empyrical trash put forth on t , by unqualified authors, whi c h a l one or ogether, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other little publications claim b your attention ( same prise Is. each, y post ls. 6d.) called " What to Hat, Drink, and Avoid," and " How to be Happy." They are not merely pamphlets, but equal sc In quantity a library volume, nor are hey te mere ephemeral ribblings of the hour, but the st u d y of the t author' h s lins,who owes his present existence, health, and position to this ob servance of the maxims he would inculcate —to do unto others as he would be done unto—to live after nature's laws —and to keep always On the " mnnny side et the way." The above works may he bid of 411er-wood, 25, Paternoster-row : CF.rvallio, 117, fleet -street ;Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Nalson, 437, West strand; or direct (by post or other yds.) gs from the author (who m a y b e con f erred with personally, BOokaell e mornin end evening's), 10, Azll-place Regent-street; luta all ru gy [A.DYERTISEDIENT.J—CARRIAGE FRBE.—Families residing in the country are supplied with Teas and Coffees at the lowest wholesale price, in quantities not less than six pounds, delivered carriage free to any part of Eegland. Orders must be accompanied by a remit tance, or if a reference be made in London, payment will suffice on receipt and approval of the goods. A list of prices and samples free, on application to G. T. Man sell and Co., wholesale tea-dealers, 2, Bucklerahury, Cheapside. WATER JOKES IN GARDENS.—At Euston, in Ox fordshire, in the gardens of a certain worshipful gentle. man, were the most artistic water ingenuities it has been our lot to meet a description of as existing in this country. They even drew down the marked approba tion of royalty itself. On approaching the spot a venera ble hermit rose from the ground, and, after entertaining one with a " n ea t an d a pp ro p r i ate " speec h, san k d own again like a Jack-in- a-bux. There was a small rocky island in the midst of a l a k e , w hi c h was f u ll o f watery tr i c k s. The visitor was p o li te l y requeste d to wa lk up an d view this spot : and after satisfying his curiosity, and pro ceedingcdollsv crn eta t ‘r o nf w ya i a nc l g k o i. d k n o , w aan n l dl a ss g ei a dn i ed n i wo t h fe e td f ha o er u e n v i t nc a ot i i n t m e s e a r yo h w n oe o wu stream d t r ebobmany , having for its object his l egs , another his loins, ' and ano ther his head. After this funny reception, he was conducted to look at a spaniel hunting a duck, by the force of water — the automata diving and pursuing, each other by turns. Beyond was the grotto; a hedge of sparkling jets of wate r rose fror? the ground to gu a rd it, mimic cascades foamed down in tiny cataracts, a n d countless streams shot up, end appeared to lose them selves by being caught in their return, and not suffered to fall down again. Here , too , a nightingale discoursed very liquid music, and arched jets of water played with one another, and now and then with the visitor, all hope of egress being destroyed by the sudden pouring down of a heavy rain in the doorway. The sport which this caused was thought to be well worth the wetting. Pro bably the magnificent - gardens at Chatsworth are the only places where anything at all similar to the above is now to be found. There are some practical wet jokes even here; and country bumpkins, in their native innocence, may be found willing to pay a visit to the weeping tree. The visit is never repeated.--Chambers' Edinburgh Journal. DEATH or A VETERAN.—Captain Robert Hayley jarld. 8.N., the last survivor of the battle of Bunker's Hill, and one of the few survivors of the glorious let of June, expired on the 29th uit., at his residence at Chel tenham. He had been in eleven general actions with 1 the enemy's fleets, besides cutting out 'vessels, and b fighting with the army on ahem. - Z//7 ( .l -K-,-; .1 71- L--1 --; ' • . - - - -,•/. . . . '. , i LOi 4C€ 7_ --1 e : I- - ‘ . ---..........,..,.' :. : .. • • . AlV?;74'f • ....4 . , 4 41- f u 4 /7/----7----r -,, ~ , . w , If si fe . f ( _ ~,. '_ --- Z-,• - /-.0 t:::' ' • ''' l 'f'. l r:.- .. :.E . ..; ) . . , 1 ; . .. t it ---------, , . i ... •4 ;,• __ .. , v,,, , ..„.„.:„.„4••.,..,,.,.\ \ !4i•• 4.:. ..i... •* • • • .c,,,,t t. j : 6 il .!! . , j . ': fr i e. r i e ,..5.... ~ • ~,..,. 4.0 ,.•,.7, • At4e ,‘ c . k t: C ~' I LpY `f -...- , -., . •',•._ ''' - :•1 ~ • 4, e "' ",1 1.P . , 11: 'l , . -.-• _ A ...... 9 C,-. , ,t, . ••_. , • \, • ••• , PM ci! - C • A^••'•, , . , _., • . •-• •.- ''?"& • .., ' vi_-?, , :a. , - ----- A • ' . N .. • 0 4 , ,-;.- lit 1 , . c • #--' -- -„,..)• ~. - ,--, ~.. ~ I --, i1. 4 p.wv , -- -.. 7 .. ~..„„ .., • ''' '4l. Ili - „...., ~ 1 ; !,,...4. , ~,...,v , A- . .\_- (:‘, ~,..,..... J •-: ), , ~ r ~.‘ ..:- -!''' 1 '''. ' I.' l''.•--',.;:ft1!:•.4---;_ • .;' ,4 1'.1471 , 4' ' ' • • \- ~, '`..,.,.... • - N r o. 17,249.] LeiNDON WEDNESDAY , N G ? E . OPAL HOTEL, GRAINGER-STREET, NEW',',ASTLI:I)N-TTNE. CHARLES ST ATES solicits the patronage of his BROTHER TRAVEL - I:RVt to the above Establishment, winch has recently been wet)" furnished and laid out expressly for a Com mercial Hotel. The COMMERCIAL ROOM, one of the largest and most elegantly fitted in the . liOßril, it Is hoped will be found complete in every respect. The RED-S.'aoms (Sixty in number) have been fttralthea la a style which mast ensaro the approbation of all yisiver t , Gentlerien travelling with STOCK can at all %Slices kayo SHOW ROOMS, witheat any extra ckarge. Th. Music Hall, Lecture Room, and Roysa Motel Assembly Item are - all attached, and under the sane ottnagement. "Thu Royal Hotel is is tke most ooatral situatioa is Newcastle. W T. COPELAND begs to inform the No ,i! • bility, C6ntry, and Public, that haying sold his presont Warehouses to parties Who require immediate possession, the exten sive STOCK if PORCELAIN, EARTHENWARE, aid GLASS Is on SALE at very REDUCED PRICES, precious to his rcar.N'al to new Warehouses in bond -street. 37, Lincoln's lun-fields, and 5, Portugal-street, January 4,181 S. IBBLE NAVIGATION. Notice is hereby given, that the lIALr-yEd.IILY GENERAL t) - MEETING of the RIBBLE NAVIGATION COMPANY will be held at their Office, Chapcl•walka, in Preston, in the bounty of Lan caster, on THURSDAY, the 27th day of January in3tant, at Eleven edeck in the Forenoon. HATDOCK, S4rrttary to the said Company. - Preston, Ribble Nacigation Offirr, December 30, 1847. CIIRI , TMAS HOLIDAYS. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. Dr. RYAN has been engaged to reenter a short COURSE of LPICTURES •a CHEMISTRY, with hPßlliant Experin•afs, Daily at Itull-past Three, and every livening at Nina •'clock, ex•opt Satur day Evening. A LECTURE lay Dr. BACHHOFFNER on tke Laws •f Nature, in reference t• tke important subject of SA NITARY MEASURES, and •a the 'Various modes of VENTILA TION, in wkick • the PHYSICAL PROPERTIES •f a JET •f STEAM will be exhibited Daily at Tw•, and •a Tuesday and Thursday Evenings at Eir;ist P.M. The OXY-HYDROGEN MICRR NCOPE, New ISISSOL'iING 'VIEWS, the CHROMATROPE, PLIA SIOSCOPR, &c. MODELS of MACHINERY at work, and ex plained. The Dr; , ING HELL and DIVER, with HYDE'S NEW APPARATUg ter CONTERSINS ander WATER, &e. &c. Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-price. OLD FLAT HORIZONTAL WATCHES, carefully finished, with engine -turned cases, jewelled in four holes, going barrel t• continue the action of the watch while "winding, arc offered, price fts guineas. These elegant little Watches will be found to perform very correctly, and a printed undertaking is given, with fixed terms on which they will always receive any attention required. T. COX SAVORY and Co., Watchmakers, &c., 47, Cornhill (seven doors front Gracechurch-street), London.—N.:B. Second hand. Watches purchased in exchange. Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel. 02s PHYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAI A CIT Y, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. New Edition, enlarged to 196 pages. J us t p u bli s h e d, pri c e 2s. 6d., or by post, direct from the Establishment, 3s. 6d. in postage stamps, THE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on the infirmities and decay of the generative system, from ex cessive indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury, with remarks on Marriage, and tke means of obviating certain dis qualifications. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By It. and L. PERRY and CO., 19, Berners-stroet, Oxford-street, London. Published by the Authors : sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row ; Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; Starie. 23, Titehborne street, Haymarket; and Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street. Pater I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive organs, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings. PART 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive inclid gence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative incapacity. It is illustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings. PART 111. Treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for their treatment. The consequences of early neglect and of the abuse of mercury, are also clearly pointed out. This section is illustrated by Seventeen Coloured Engravings. PART IV. Treats of Perry's Preventative Lotion, by the use of which the dangers of infection are obviated. It combines with the virus chemically, and destroys its power en the system. Peat Y. Is devoted to the consideration of marriage, and its duties, The causes of unproductive union, are also considered, and the whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into. Toe CORDIAL BALM OP STRIACUM is exclusively employed in treat ing vous and sexual debility, impotence, &c., li s .and 331. per bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilitic remsdy, for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary symp toms, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, I Is. and 335. per bottle. l'erry's Purifying Specific Pills, 2s. XL, 4s. 6c1., and I Is. per box, a certain remedy in gonorrhoea, elect, strictures, and chronic inflamma tion of the bladder. Perry's Preventative Lotion, an application to obviate the danger of infection, 335. a bottle. Consultation fee, if by letter, If. 5/. rackets with advice to be had at the Establishment only, by which the fee, I/. ,is saved. Attendance daily at 19, Ber ners-street, from Eleven till Two, and Five to Eight: on Sundays from Eleven to One. DR. LAMERT ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY.--WITH 40 COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL. dust published, and may be had in French or English, in a Sealed Envelope, 2s. (3d„ er post-free, from the Author, for forty-two Stamps, SELF-PRESERVATION; a Medical Treatise on the Physiology o , f Marriage, Infelicitous and Unproductive Unions, and the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Ma turity, asually acquired at an early period of life, which enervate the physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural feelings, and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical Observations on the Treatment of Nervous Debility and Indigestion, whether arising from these causes, close study, or the influence of tropical climates: Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis, Stricture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Indis cretion. With Forty coloured Engravings, illustrating the Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, explaining their structures, uses, and functions, and the various Injuries that are produced in them by solitary habits, excesses, and infection. BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D., 9, BEDFORD-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON. _ .. octor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin burgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Member of the London Ilospital Medical Society, &c. Marriage requires the fulfilment of several conditions. in order that it may be really the cause of mutual happiness. Could the veil, which covers the origin of domestic wretchedness, be raised, and its true source in every instance disclosed, in how many could it be traced to physical disqualifications and their attendant disap pointments. Excesses are always itkjurions ; the gift, which when used in moderation is fraaght with advantage, becomes, when abused, the prolific source of mischief, and of greater or less injury to the constitutional and vital powers. The particular excesses, on ,he nature and consequence of which this Treatise professes to dilate, are productive of greater severity of misery to the human trains, than any other to which it is subject. This work contents an accurate and complete account of the Anatomy and l'hysiology of the Reproductive Organs, and of their relative conditions in health and disease. It deservedly requires the closest attention and study, for what subject can be of more importance than the preservation of the health, and of the physical capabilities of which every man should be possessed. It unfortunately happens that the unhappy victim of excessive indulgence and vicious habits, whether acquired in early life or from the follies of advanced age, while suffering from their invariable consequences, unwisely entertains a fear of ap plying to a qualified physician for relief. Shame and the dread so frequently, but erroneously entertained that these complaints are beyo s n st ss d ei t tts h hay e a, mi te r ep e aa a wct c ci h h, uyer o rawe f t ie a tah r l d t o , tinsh a ece l r i utsu e na r :a e r s tei t rbo r ,en i c a t pin h nrdo i ,mea ascertaining a. e gln a e tet t hic, s ce , ytai s ,ui eusse lava ekings o, ef d f f r r s e g a a e a all, riably characterise the intelligent and practical physician, and to the medical man who can show by his posse• e i on of the requisite legal qua lifications that he is entitled to esteem and respect in his profes sional pursuits, the utmost confidence should be extended. Dr. LA'MERT has obtained the hi g hest medi cal honours, as his diplomas . certify, sad the great extent of his practice for many years is a guarantee for his professional experience, which has reference almost solely to the treatment of these diseases. Published by the Author, and may be had of Kent and Richards, 52, Paternoster-row; 'Tenney, 63, Oxford-street; Starie, Tlchbonie street, Haymarket ; Mansell, 115, Fleet-street ; Gordon, 146, Leadenhail-street, London; or, free by post for forty-two stamps, from The Author, who may be consulted on these disorders personally or by letter, daily, from Ten till Two, and from Five till Eight at his residence, A. Bedford-street litedford-seuare London. LORD SHREWSBURY AND DR. The following correspondence has been pub lished : " Alton Towers, Jan. 1, 1848. " My Lord Archbishop,—llaving on the 19th ult. sent the following letter to the Bishop of Elphin, one of your Grace's suffragans, and not having yet re ceived any reply, it appears to me expedient to for ward it to his Metropolitan. I have accompanied it by a letter to your Grace. " In adopting the alternative of placing these letters before your Grace through the public journals, I have followed a precedent now in common use, and have thereby anticipated by several days the pro. mulgation of opinions which I deem it essential to put forth in our vindication. " Alton Towers, Dec. 9, 1847. " My Lord Bishop,—lt is probable, through the report of Lord Farnham's speech in the House of Lords on Monday last, that your Lordship has heard, for the first time, of the direct accusation brought against a priest of your diocese, the Rev. Mr. M'Der mott, of having denounced Major Mahon from the altar of his chapel in Strokestown, 48 hours before his assassination. It is not, therefore, surprising that no public notice has hitherto been taken by your Lord ship of that accusation. But, no doubt, the case will now undergo the most searching investigation at your hands, either that the public scandal may be removed by the establishment of Father M`Dermott's inno cence, or that the outraged majesty of religion may be vindicated by the most severe ecclesiastical cen sures upon the offender. " There needs no apology, lam sure, for drawing your Lordship's attention to the very great import ance of the question ; for there has seldom been an event before the public which has created so lively and so deep a sensation against the Irish clergy gene rally, however unjust that view undoubtedly is, and however contrary to the impressions intended to be conveyed even by those who have been loudest in their accusations against individuals. "‘ All, indeed, will be astonished if no investiga tion take place by his ecclesiastical superior, and that immediately ; for all think, that for the honour of the church such investigation should precede any criminal prosecution on the part of Government, if unfortunately there be evidence against FatherM`Der rnott sufficient to put him on his trial for the crime imputed to him. " Again your Lordship has facilities of inquiries not possessed by the Government, and which for the ends of justice and the credit of religion, ought, it is asserted, to be used upon this occasion. The ecclesi astical censure—if censure he deserve—may reach him through the civil law may not, and as the offence is one which more particulary affects the integrity of ecclesiastical discipline, beir.g committed, as it is stated, w ithin the sanctuary itself, so does it seem more peculiarly the province of his bishop to be the first to undertake proceedings which are now indis pensably necessary either to wipe away the stain of scandal, or to satisfy the craving of justice. " This, my Lord, is also the more to be desired, since it will afford a most fitting opportunity of de nouncing the awful crimes now of such frequent oc currence in some portions of your diocese, and which have given such an unhappy notoriety to the county of Roscommon. The Bishop of Limerick's denuncia tions against the crimes of the people within his dis trict have exercised the most salutary effect upon the public mind, though they have come but with half their weight by standing alone. We have long been looking forward to a similar exercise of the eccle siastical authority in others ; and nothing, I am con vinced, would so much contribute to remove the sad impression now so prevalent—that even the higher clergy have proved, by their silence, the little con sideration in which they hold either the crimes of the people or their own reputation as Christian ministers. " Trusting your Lordship will pardon this intru sion, and attribute it solely to a sincere zeal for the episcopacy, I remain, my Lord Bishop, with much respect, your Lordship's most obedient servant, " SHREWSBURY.'" " Dec. 18. " The day after the foregoing letter was written, Father M'Dermott's letter arrived in the Irish papers. Objectionable as that letter is, from its general tone and particular expressions, yet it so firmly contradicted the main point in question—the denunciation of Major Mahon, that it seemed to remove much of the occa sion for an appeal to your Lordship ; and therefore I abstained from sending mine. But as Lord Farnham now appears to have positively substantiated the fact of Major Mahon being in very angry and reproach ful terms held up to the people at the chapels served by Father M'Dermott in August last—a fact substantiated by his silence when accused of the offence—the presumption is that the second accusa tion is also true—of Major Mahon being denounced on the Monday previous to his assassination. So that it becomes doubly necessary that the interference of his ecclesiastical superior should satisfy the public call for a reprimand on so flagrant and dangerous a violation of charity and decorum ; and not only are we now compelled to believe in the allegations against Father M'Dermott, but by his denial of the 7th inst. he adds the sin of tergiversation to his other delin quencies. Nor can any reasonable man be expected to credit even the most solemn assertions of Father M'Dermott as a Christian minister, after the truly unchristian manner in which—and we have it in his own hand—he behaved to the late Major Mahon.* " ' To the Right Rev. Dr. Browne, " Roman Catholic Bishop of Elphin, Sligo.' " " My Lord Archbishop,—Taking advantage of this circumstance, and following the example of my very valued friend, Lord Arundel and Surrey, I presume to address a few observations to your Grace, suggested chiefly by your last published letter to Lord John Russell, of the 17th instant, and your reply to Lord Arundel and Surrey of the same date. Against the letter to Lord John Russell I have the same remonstrance to offer as against all its predeces sors—that it is unjustly accusatory of the Govern ment, and unhappily exculpatory of those who are the enemies of all government ; imputing blame where praise was due, and yet, stranger still, apologe tic for crime. My Lord, I know that you repudiate the very idea, and I believe you ; but the public will not, because the whole tenor of your strictures ne cessarily leads to the opposite conclusion in the minds of those who judge you from a distance. " My Lord, you say, Remove the provocation, and crime will cease. This is your remedy. But sup pose the Minister had it not in his power to remove all at once the exciting cause, and that the stimulat ing provocative will and must exist for a time at least ; has religion no part to perform in the interval ? It might seem impertinent in me to remind you, my Lord, that man's life is but a warfare upon earth, that as long as he lives temptation will never cease to assail him, and so long will he have to battle with the principalities and powers of darkness. But, this admitted, is it not the duty of his guide in spirituals rather to teach him to resist his passions, than to tell him he is not surprised that he should be overcome by their assaults ? If it boa the duty of the Government—and no doubt it is—to exert every means within their reach to mitigate or remove the occasion of evil it is still more imperative on the minister of religion, whilst he preaches to their rulers, to preach also to the people —to instruct, to admonish, to exhort—to announce to them energetically and unceasingly that it is a decree of Providence that no temptation shall come upon there which they are unable to subdue ; that if they are oppressed, the lot of their oppressors is still worse than theirs, and that no provocation can justly drive them to those acts of vengeance which it is now too much the fashion to admit to be almost a neces sity. My Lord, none will assert more willingly than yourself, that if they yield either to the allurements of vice or to the impulse of passion, it is because religion has no dominion over them ; either that its precepts are not enforced, or, being enforced, are neglected ; and that early education, and subsequent religious training, are necessary to elevate a man from that forlorn condition of our fallen nature, which if left to himself, would make him a savage even in the midst of civilization. " My Lord, the public at large look to the prelates of the disturbed districts to inform them whether, in their dioceses, these duties have been punctually and properly performed ; and Englishmen must be ex cused in doubting it amidst scenes which stand forth so prominently to contradict it. My Lord, it is not only incumbent on you to satisfy the inquiries of all interested in the repression of crime, and the preserva tion of the social system against that destruction which now threatens it within your own boundaries and frcrn your own people, but also to answer the earnest appeal of those who have a twofold reason to deplore the evil—that it is a scandal to religion as well as ruin to the state. To all, my Lord, especially does it behove you to reply, when it is currently reported and readily believed, that in what concerns re li g i on your Grace's diocese is in a state of peculiar destitu tion; that you have ever debarred your poor from Jl,w differently does Father Hughes, of Casticbar, now stand before the public, clearing himscg from the aspersions so groundlessly cast upon him, by the most undeniable evidence, and in a mild, distinct, Christian like strain.; the benefits of education under the national system, without any efficient substitute of your own ; that you have never admitted Father Mathew within your limits ; and that, too, many of your parishes are without a school, and some of them without a chapel, though the repeal rent is re gularly levied and ungrudgingly paid. I am far from asserting, my Lord, that in these matters common rumour does not wrong you—l sincerely hope it does—but I do suggest that the occasion offers you an opportunity for redress ; nor should the ignorant or malicious be allowed, uncontradicted, to palm upon the world their solution of the difficulty, and thus account through their own fancies for crimes which spring up as the grass of the field among a people hitherto proverbial for their religious perceptions. Like Lord Arundel and Surrey, I feel too keenly the reproaches cast upon the religion which I profess in England, through the excesses of some who profess Catholicity in Ireland, not to en deavour so show that such are neither the natural nor usual results of the teaching of the ancient and universal Church ; and which I fear your Grace's answer to Lord Arundel and Surrey will by no means establish, for want of sufficient explanation and detail. It is for this reason, my Lord, that it would appear as necessary to address you now as if that letter had not been written. "But my Lord, I must again refer to your letter to Lord John Russell. In the_ very same journal in which that letter made its appearance, complaining that no seasonable aid had, been administered to the starving people, nor yet any contemplated, we are gratified by the still more fc..mal repetition of an an nouncement from that member of the Administration to whose superintending care such office is more pe culiarly entrusted, that, independently of the poor rate levies made in virtue of an Act which occupied so much of the time and attention of the Legislature during the last session, the Government bad a large fund in hand from which they were resolved to relieve those districts incapable of providing for their own amount of destitution. I refer your Grace to Sir G. Grey's reply to the deputation from the Irish Repre sentatives. My Lord, do not your strictures on the apathy and neglect of the Minister come with a very unjust severity after an effort such as no nation has, perhaps, ever yet made—and made at his urgent soli citation—to relieve the distresses of another ? If that effort were not altogether successful, if it still fell short of the necessities of the case, the defect at least was not in the intention ; but may, with far more justice and propriety, I venture to submit, be imputed to the unerring though inscrutable designs of God, who so blinded the under standing of our rulers that his visitation might not be averted by any human ingenuity; and I would even suggest it as a subject for reflection, whether that visitation were not aggravated—whether it be not very grievously aggravated at this particular mo ment—because, my Lord, every sufficient expression of gratitude has been withheld, both from the Go vernment and the people of England, for the very generous sacrifices which in their charity, as in their duty, they were pleased to make last year in favour of their suffering brethren in Ireland ; but which this year have been arrested by the scantiness of her thanks, the bitterness of her reproaches, the crimes of too many of her people, the unrestrained violence of some few of her pastors, the apathy of still fewer, as we hope, of her prelates. When all wer e th us scandalized and astounded, disgusted and dismayed, can we wonder that the sources of charity were dried up? " And thus in sadness do I approach another and still more afflicting portion of your Grace's letter. Would there had been no crimes but those deeds of retaliation' which you so deplore and execrate ! No murder, no assassination, no robbery, no pillage, no injustice, no cruelty, no foul atrocities to disgrace the country,' but those stimulated by the cruel and heart-rending evictions of the poor!' My Lord, if we trusted only to your description for a faithful re cord of the crimes of the people, of all these we should gather nothing hut the pleasing delusion that they had no existence. " But how is the fact ? Why, my Lord, in the very same journal in which I find your Grace's letter, no less than twelve foul, unnatural murders, or at tempts to murder, are narrated with all their hideous details from the Irish papers, in the daily sanguinary column devoted to the state' of your unhappy'eoun try, without one of them being able to claim the extenuating excuse of being stimulated by the cruel process of eviction. No ! they are all, one and all, so many dramas in that demon tragedy now perform ing with such appalling atrocity in the disturbed dis tricts in Ireland, under the multifarious and mystic characters of Molly Maguireism, Terryaltism, White feetism, Whiteboyism, Itibandism, and so forth, all members of one great conspiracy against property — that they who have no land shall have it, that they who occupy the land of others shall henceforth hold it for themselves alone. "In confirmation of this statement I beg to refer your Grace to the following extract from the Dublin Evening Past of the 23d instant :—' We have re peatedly stated it as our opinion that the parties en gaged in the perpetration of the frightful outrages that disgrace the country are, in almost all cases, idle vagabonds, altogether regardless of the sufferings of the poor, but who take advantage of the prevailing destitution to organize secret confederacies. Up to this time we have not heard of a :single case where persons really distressed have been concerned in this system of atrocious crime. Some of the best land 'lords of the country have become obnoxious to those miscreants, and threatening notices have ;been served upon them.' "But our calendar of crime is not yet complete. To all these crying sins are there no abettors before the fact ? no accessories after it ? Is not every indi vidual offence multiplied ten hundred fold by the sympathies of whole masses of the people ? But against all these it is almost in vain that we look for denunciations from the high places of that Church to which the nation has been given in charge, and of which your Grace is so distinguished a member 1 Of all these, my Lord, you are as silent as the grave, in which it would be well indeed if, once and for ever, w e could bury all remembrance of them. o I am well aware, my Lord, that to those who ac cuseretvheerht hierarchy hy caoftarloegmuie o remissness, you triumphantly lnthatsam e refer to the solemn add ress o f t h e assembled bishops in the month of Novemb er . B u t if th a t a dd ress h as failed of its effect wh en d e li vere d i n th e co ll ec t e d nam e of all, why h as i t not been tried in another form —from every individ ua l pre l ate spea ki ng i n t h e m id st of his own people ? ~ What part i n crime, either violent and exciting speeches from the clergy, or denunciations from the altar, may have bor ne , yet remains to be proved. But you are told , my Lord, th a t men were d enounce d f rom the sanctua r y in the morn i ng, an d as a consequence m urdered in the evening —men, too, who were not of their flock, and ove r w h ose delinquencies they had no jurisdiction; and, my Lord, your answer i s , ' S t . Gre gory recommends th e t reatment, and the ancient fa thers denounced the per secutors of the ear l y C hr i st i ans. ' B u t unless you can sho w th at t h e men d enounce d b y the early fathers were thereup on s h o t lik e th e b eas t s o f the forest , y o u are arguing w id e o f th e po i n t ; f o r that is the accusation brou g ht aga i nst certa i n c l ergy in Ireland , and to which it wo u ld b e worse th an fu tile to reply b y sheltering th e accuse d un d er an ir relevant a ppeal to th e great St. Gregory and the an cient father s. M y Lord, we p ra y f or some b e tt e r answe r than this; or do we not risk your passing before the world as a mystifier an d a sophist ? If the denunci ations be all a fiction, deny them by some less equivo cal p hras e than that they are not ' the p ra ctice ;' if ever they b e made, whether followed by the fatal resu lts attrib utable to them or not, from this momen t forbidithem for th e f uture, ; i f it were only to acquit a dignitary of the Ch urc h of the imputat i on b e f ore the public, whi c h with one voice calls for their suppre ssion, and, w hich will accept neither apo logy nor e xplanation for th e i r continuance. Cla i my not ' the right of denou ncing aggre s si o ns a g ai n st jus tice and human it y fro m any quarter'—it is invest ing the priest with a judicial power which he is unfitted to exerc ise wit h impartiality—it is a right too easy to abuse , too dan gerous to enforce. 4i My Lord, the illustration i s at h an d. F at h er M'Dermott charg ed Ma jor Mahon with acts of in justice and cruelty to his People ; the Major rebutted the accusation, and solicited F ather :M‘Dermott to meet him and receive th e explanation. Father M'Dermott rejecte d the proposition with scorn, for he had already co ndemned him on his own ex parte evidence, and upo n that alone had carried the sen tence of denunciat ion i nto effect against him. My Lord, this took pla ce durin g the latter days of August and early in Septe mber la st. " My Lord, you neithe r excuse nor vindicate, but deplore' the int em p er ate language of which we complain ; and you ' su ppose' that the usual evange lical process of ad monitio n has been used to prevent a repetiCon of the offence; but, my L or d, th e evange lical discipline required that for public sins there should be a public penance. A scandal committed before the world is not to be eff ace d b y pr i vate ex hortation ; nor yet, my Lord, as you allege, are the many good deeds, even of a long life, always capable of atoning for one great offence against society with -1 out some special reparation as security for the future. " But even now it would seem necessary once more to sad colum, on that same sad day, is also a long list PUBLICATIONS. -BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. No. CCCLXXXVII., for JANUARY, price 2s. Gd. CONTENTS. I. Thirty Tears of Liberal Legislation.—ll. Something like a Country House.—lll. Evenings at Sea. No. 111., The Surgeon.— IV. Flechier's Chronicle of Clermont Assizes.—V. Don John of Austria.—Vl. A Night's Peril.—Vll. Switzerland and Italy.—Vlll. The Periodical Literature of America.—lX. Ireland and the Minis terial At aa.sures.—X. Note.—Blackwood and Copyright in America. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. A LIFE POLICY PERTINACIOUSLY DISPUTED. This Dsy is published, Seco n d Editi on, pr i ce Si xpence, THE RISKS of LIFE ASSURANCE ; Suggested by a History of the Case of GEACII v. INGALL, in which The IMPERIAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, by the Verdicts of Three iipecial Juries, was defeated in an ♦TTEMPT to EVADE PAYMENT of a POLICY. London : Effingham Wilson, Publisher, 11, Royal Exchange. y 5 , 18 48, JAN UAn [PR ICE SD. • - H of ` of notices for death, too long to not ! THE 4 ARL OF EL ESNIERE'S PANIC LETTER . against 'exterminatin g ' l an dlords, b u t against. so me of enumerate, de eon- Mr. Edit o r , -Notice was taken last week i n you the best and mos t merc if u l—thos e OW r al s e l and re- columns of Mr. i Cobden's startli ng , an d , as I believe, stantly amongst them, and employ th e pee s _. all very rash proposal to disarm. Ab sur dit y vibrate ; lieve th e i n di gen t. N o won d er, t h en, t h at we as. " e pendulum; swing it as far as you can on one amazed at the silent apathy which seems to reign thee - sure ts go just a s f ar on th e o th er. Mr. within the sa nc t uary , am id s t thi s t err ifi c storm w i t h- side, a l, - „.h row your se l ves a t th e mercy o f the out. I n ti mes o f o ld , w h en s i n an d tur b ulence had Cobden says, : a , n their f or b earance, dismiss your overspread th e l an d, t h ere were not want i ng pre l ates French, de is 'e" ~u t 114 le army, save all the cash they to grasp the staff and sally forth into the region of fleet, disband ye i• - us y '1 ess ly, and indeed mischiev contagion, that by prayer and exhortation—by male- cost; it is perfects ) es., 'll only trade with all the diction and anethema, if prayer and preaching were ously spent, for if you , 'is not a man in it that unavailing—they might stay the plague. But now, world on equal terms, there ;s is t r ia i t d r i a, c i u d lo f u or s , h e; s o enough, alas ! each day is but the harbinger of crimes which will wish to harm you." Th. , on'ng but it is man: ring through the world and chill the blood, as one both as to its fact and to its reas lost exposed se ail lends an unwilling—would it might be an unbelieving ful too. The manufacturer is no, . could not ear—to the thrilling story ; but of the strong voice possessions in Sussex—Sussex the 1. . ,werful. °the," that should be raised against them, hardly a sound is the counties threatened with future in `a, ' l°n * heard ! people have disputed whether we shoat:, guard our "My Lord, I know full well the merits of that selves by land or by sea, whether we' Church of which I am seeking a justification, and make steam as defensively as offensively p‘ whose best interests I trust I am here defending ; I Mr. Cobden would not have us waste our time a,. /) ° 11 t know that even now her moral power, her privileges any such little differences : free trade is the "leather'" for good, have not departed from her. I know that that will do it all. And still I admire his " pluck," where peace and order and virtue reign amongst the and ad m it t h at b y the 999th chance which might Catholic population of Ireland, it is through her that happen, but to which I should be very sorry to trust, they hold their sway. I know that the exhortations he might by possibility prove in the right. But the of the priest of the Most High have yet the force to over-valiant trader finds his antagonist in a terrified allay the passions and maintain the resignation of the Lord. The Earl of Ellesmere has addressed a letter people under their unmitigated and enduring priva- to the Times, from which it appears that his Lordship tions. There are none of any consideration in the has long been suffering under a mute terror, but that country—be they within or without her pale—be they Mr. Cobden's daring has fairly made him call out. English or Irish—in Parliament or out of it (your He can stand it no longer ; "It is as well to be Grace's repeated assertion to the contrary is a palpable killed as frightened - to death." For years and years mistake) who do not amply and honourably bear testi- he informs us, he has been living in the fear of in mony to this. Yet, nothwithstanding, to the public eye vasion, but he did not think it right to mention it of England the guilt of a few individuals taints the publicly, lest the French should hear of it, and take whole body ; and so it will do, and so indeed it ought him at his word. He told the Ministry ; but they [to do, till the hand of those who govern her be exerted would not attend to him. At last comes Mr. Cobden, to remove the stain. And our lament is, that these with his tremendous speech to the South Lancashire few exceptions go so far to prevent the great ends electors, and Lord Ellesmere puts prudence out of and objects of a church. My Lord, lam fully sen- the question, and favours the world at large with his sible that since that great and glorious period of her notion of the situation and prospects of England. history when she assembled within her halls the Let me not be understood as imputing any personal youth of Christendom, to teach them both the science cowardice to our new-made Earl. I will not judge of the saints and the science of the world—when she of his valour by what he chooses to put in print, covered the land with monastic institutions, the re- though I may hereafter call upon Mr. Cobden to lead fuge of the poor and the home of the afflicted—the his forlorn hope, if ever, through his advice, the Catholic Church in Ireland has never yet been set French should catch us unprovided. The Earl of fairly and properly to work for the accomplishment Ellesmere may be, as a subsequent and very different of her destiny. Nor can she be so as long as she writer tells us he is, as brave a man as any in exist remains in her present undue popular subserviency, ence—a man "to make London a Saragossa, or even any more than if she were trammelled and enslaved a Moscow." I have only to deal with his letter, and by the State. It is now her misfortune to contend that being as dastardly an address as ever I had the against every difficulty—against an antagonistic, misfortune to read, being as likely as any production deeply-rooted establishment, cherished by the land- can be to excuse and call forth pusillanimity, wher lord but abhorred by the people—hundreds of thou- ever it may lurk in an English heart, and to excite sands of the public money lavished upon churches French bravado, by a picture of British quailing closed to the poor, open only to the rich, but not a drawn by a British nobleman, it should not pass shilling expended upon hers—where two priests are forth, either to ourselves or our neighbours, without wanted only one, and ke, perhaps just turned out of an indignant protest against its pitiable misrepresen college without either guidance or experience, an tation of the national power, and the national courage absolute dependent on the forced or the adventitious to use it. charity of his flock—her children till of late, almost Lord Ellesmere sneers at Mr. Cobden as being in wholly without instruction, and sometimes even now competent to give any fair opinion on the possibility without a chapel—ever contending against the wiles of landing 50,000 Frenchmen upon our shores. Ile of her adversaries, frowned upon by the world, and takes it for granted that it is no vain fear to expect humiliated by calumny and misrepresentation ;is it this, with our present navy. I shall not go over the surprising that a church so circumstanced does not ale old ground, made familiar to the readers of the ways answer its intent and evangelize and civilize the Dispatch. His Lordship lands them. "I do not people ? My Lord, lam willing to remember, too, in believe it would be impossible," says he, "in our pre what a deplorable condition are these people (prover- sent state of preparation, for a French Minister of bially the most desolate and neglected in the world) and 'War to land on British ground a force sufficient in now weighed down to the very depths of destitution and numbers, discipline, and equipment, to march in any despair by a succession of th e v i s it a ti ons o f P rov id ence d i rect i on along t h e turnp ik e roads of E ngland. " —famine and pestilence. No wonder, then, that the Here they are, then ; and what would his Lordship Church fighting against such odds is always hindered, have us do now they are here ? He goes on—" With often baffled, and sometimes discomfited. But, set our present means of defence, I believe resistance her properly to work, and she will do again what she would be hopeless, and an attempt at armed opposition has frequently heretofore achieved—comfort and as- only productive of useless bloodshed." Again, "If the suage, heal and cure, humanise and correct—turn a French were to appear at one end of London,the wisest'. sinner into a saint, reduce co n fu s i on into order, and movement the Guards could make would be to march lawlesness into obedience—convert slavery into out at the other." The poor Lord Mayor was de liberty, ignorance into knowledge, oppression into scribed by some one the other day as making some justice, enmity into friendship, hatred into love—and hasty effort to scramble together forces for a fight ; thus fulfil to their completion those great and ever- the Earl of Ellesmere would have him do no such lasting destinies entrusted to her, and for which glo- thing. " The Lord Mayor would soon be busy with rious mission she is daily gaining new life and energy the details of billets, and whatever contributions from that illustrious patriot and Pontiff who now might be accepted as a commutation for indiscrimi governs her from the chair of Peter. nate plunder." But his Lordship not only lands and " But because in her present abject, disadvan- brings his Frenchmen to London ; once here, he tageous position in Ireland, she is unable to accom- thinks they would stop. " Don't let them come, I plish all that is expected from her, surely, m y Lord, say; but if they do, let them return as soon as they that is no ground why she should not do her best. can be induced to do so. I really do not see why The public voice in England now pronounces her to they should particularly wish it. In the present state be a conniver at injustice, an accessory to crime, a of this country, 50,000 Frenchmen would find Eng pestilent sore in the commonwealth ; and so long land as safe and pleasant a domicile as any in which will she be so proclaimed till we are shown some the soldiers of Napoleon ever luxuriated !" Really, better reason than has yet been given us why Arch- if his Lordship thought it indiscreet before to men deacon Laffan should remain unrepremanded, and tion his alarms lest the French should take advantage why Father M'llermott should still be permitted to of our weakness, the panic has got the better of him exercise his ministry. My Lord, I will trouble you now . 50,000 men have only to land, as he says they with but one word more. This is not the occasion may, walk to London, make the Mayor find them the on which to enter upon the relative duties of land- most agreeable quarters and the choicest turtle, as long as lord and tenant, farmer and peasant; to expatiate on they please, with plenty of cash into the bargain, and the vices of some, on the virtues of others ; nor yet then march off, when they are tired of luxury, with to make suggestions for the improvement of as much as they can carry, and our very hearty those classes. I will merely express a wish that thanks for ridding us of their presence. No alarmist means might be devised to establish and protect the has yet drawn such a picture as this. No bait has rights of all. An equitable tenant law would been held out to foreign brigandage half so irresistibly undoubtedly be a boon as far as its influence might tempting. Our fleet is nothing, and the army we be felt ; yet how is it to save from eviction, as too many have is to run away ! Did it not occur to his Lord seem to suppose, the cottier who, far from possessing s hi p, when ho wrote all this, that he was selling us a the means of improving has not even those necessary little too cheap ? Not one tussle for it in Old Eng for the cultivation of his holding ? His protection land ? I have said that I admit his Lordship's per must be in the Poor-law ; and I trust to see the day sonal bravery ; but he is a dillettante dramatic author ; in which the Irish pauper will have the same right as I beg, then, to ask him if he were to describe a noble the English—either to food or work. I desire now man giving this sort of advice and encouragement to only to protest against the injustice—and I deduce his fellow-countrymen, what sort of character would it from the whole tenor of your Grace's writings—of he assign to him in his play ? I think it would be a visiting the sins of a hundred successive Ministers on mistake to make him a hero or a statesman. There the head of one who has now to work against the was a dramatic poet who painted an English leader accumulated evil of ages. As it is not in the power with a few overworn, sick, and dispirited men hemmed of man to flee from the wrath of God in the day of in by a fresh and well-appointed army of ten times visitation, so neither is it given to him to transform a their number. The description is this:— country torn with intestine divisions and sick with a Upon his royal face there is no note unnumbered ills, into a land of peace and prosperity How dread an army bath enrounded him ; in a single season ; nor, indeed, can it ever be done Nor doth he dedicate one jot of colour at all without the cordial co-operation of clergy, Unto the weary and all-watched light, landlords, and people with the Government that un- But freshly looks and overbears attaint, majesty ; With cheerful semblance and sweet dertakes the task. " I have the honour to be, my Lord Archbishop, with all respect, your Grace's most obedient humble servant. " SHREW SBURY. " To the Most Rev. Dr. Archbishop of Tuam." Diss PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY. The eleventh anniversary of the above society was celebrated at the Crown, commercial inn, Diss, Norfolk, on Tuesday, the 28th ult., when a party of about fifty, comprising some of the most influential gentlemen and tradesmen of the place sat down to a sumptuous dinner, which, like its predecessors, reflected great credit upon " mine host." The chair was very ably filled by Mr. Thomas Farrow, builder, of Diss. During tho evening, which passed off with great hilarity and eclat; several overtures, glees, and songs were admirably executed by the gentlemen constituting the band and other members of the society, and which elicited shouts of approbation and applause. The piano-forte was well sustained by Mr. Owen► Whayman, organist of Eye Church, in Suffolk, and teacher of music and dancing. The performances alto gether gave infinite pleasure and satisfaction to all present, and the delighted party did not separate till a late hour.—From a Correspondent. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE AT WOOLWICII. A very lamentable casualty occurred at Woolwich in con nexion with the death of the late Colonel Peebles, of the Royal Marines, who expired on Monday morning, as noticed in our paper of yesterday. It appears that at the moment when Colonel Peebles was suddenly seized with fatal illness, his son, an officer in one of the regiments of the line (we believe the 59th), who was at home on a visit to his parents, rushed out of the house in a state of great excitement to procure immediate medical assistance for his father; on passing hastily out of the gate of the Royal Marine barracks he was chal lenged by the sentry, and, is his excitement, paid no heed to the challenge, but passed on through the gate. The sentry, imagining it was some soldier who wanted to get out of barracks, struck at him with his bayonet, which pierced the back of Mr. Peebles' neck, inflicting a very serious wound, the consequences of which will be doubtful for some time. It is said the the sentry did not exceed his duty, but surely some safer mode of arresting the escape of soldiers from barracks can be found than that of allowing an ignorant, and, perhaps half idiotic sentry the indiscriminate use of a bayonet, the use of which, as in the present case, may be the source of serious if not fatal errors. BENEVOLENCE IN W E sTmirtsrEx.—Yesterday morn ing the soup kitchen in L e wisham-street, Westminster, was opened for the first time this:season. The object of this and similar establishments, of which there are several in Westminster, is to supply the poor with a quart basin of soup and a penny loaf at the moderate charge of a penny, from which it will be perceived that no pecuniary advantage is derived by those who have instituted and presided over this practical scheme of philanthropy. The number of applicants, during the two hours which the kitchen remained open, was between 400 and 500. The establishment is to continue open for two months, to meet the exigencies of the poor during the inclement season which may naturally be expected. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE BlVER.—Yesterday an inquest was held before Mr. W. Baker, at the Queen's Head, High-street, Poplar, on view of the body of Thomas Smith, aged 25 years, a labourer, who was drowned in the river by the upsetting of a boat, when lour other men also perished. Two of the men, named hute and Warner, were found a iew days after the un fortunate occurrence. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death." The bodies of the remaining two have not yet been discolored. That overy wretch, pining and pale before, Beholding him, plucks comfort from his looks. A largess universal, like the sun, Hi* liberal eye doth give to every one, Thawing cold fear." The leader was Henry the Fifth, and his few "pale and pining wretches" won Agincourt. And it is the business of an English nobleman in these days to keep up this heart in those over whom his rank makes him a leader. He is not to publish to the world that the old indomitable spirit can do nothing. He is not to tell those who will believe him among his fellow-subjects, that to shed their blood would be "useless." He is not to preach panic, and counsel running away. His Lordship says he is not well enough to attend in his place in Parliament, and therefore he writes thi s precious mischief, this dis graceful appeal to poltroonery. In Parliament he would not have been heard through. Laughter would have stopped the speech, if not sheer contempt. I will suppose that his Lordship is in a sort of feverish dream ; but his friends should not have permitt e d hi m to publish the ravings .of his weakness. They do great harm, as everything does that would l ower confidence, in a case where re solution would be our only safety. There could be no g rea t er treason than . to bid the men of nation throw away their arms in the belief that their chance was desperate. Des perate it would never be but from pusillanimity. This letter o f Lord Ellesmere's f or t una t e ly calls u p another writer, evidently a n o ld so ldi er , w h o s i gns himself " Philalethes," . an d w h o shows i n so many plain and simple words, that we should defend our land, and that we could do so, even were his Lord ship's 50,000 Frenchmen landed in Sussex. We should do so, because to abandon London to any enemy, would be to give him not only its treasures, but whatever terms, even to the dismemberment of the empire, he might choose to ask ; and we could do it, by that d evo ti on w hi c h th e E ar l so pa t r i o ti ca ll y discourages. He sneers at Mr. Cobden's want of military knowledge. What, then, shall we say to his own, which he puts forth so pragmatically ? Send the women and the unarmed away says Philalethes, by all the conveyances we have, and bring back all who have arms, and can use them. Cut up the roads on the enemy's advance, fell trees and encumber their passage. Send the few regulars forward to the best points of defence, and push on the reinforcements to them as they come up, yeomanry, gentry, volunteers of all sorts, mounted and on foot. Line the hedges, occupy the farms and the country seats , and, if at last we should be driven into London, make every street a battle-field till each enemy is dead or a pri soner. And Philalethes justly ad d * that 50,000 in vaders would be no more in the hands of the entire population than the 1,500 French were in the hands of the Welsh militia at Fishguard. And what does this writer propose more than every Englishman would be anxious to do ? Courage and obedience to a general plan give a chance for life always; cowardice and anarchy never. Our raw recruits helped to win Waterloo by keeping their ground when they ought, as Napoleon said, to have consi dered themselves beaten. They would not consider anything of the kind. .:Many died, bat not would have fallen had they run away. What father or husband, capable of handling a musket, but would feel that the way to save his wife And children from -Q--v f L 'T tip-r_~ , ~, ontrage or murder wo u ld h e t o go forward ant i r aw \ {the danger? Every man kill his man, anid die, Wo be to d o something. uld It is, Sir, a very sad thing that we should into a n y such anticipations. The very indulge nce le of them is harmful to the enlightened hopes of peace. But the discussion once begun, it cannot be avl oided, linand it is of the last importance for the people tin it the matter should b e settled at once and definitively. I "? eprecate beyond measure the constant renev;:al of ti. , ese irritating subjects, and still more any necossity tha t leads to it. It is the business of the Government ; s ii en, tly, and thereby without offence, to provide for urpos e, rance choos€'a g our fl eet, lel the et\ • c i ent safeguard of the realm. This paper has never e, Q ase d i n i ts claim for the performance of that duty. p l\ F egland r equ i res so small a force for this t cat it s amount is quite answer enough to Europe th at i,' ca nno t b e used for aegressive purposes.: If to play th e frog wiih the ox, i n m i m i cl :- her; the folly is suicidal. If we Ines 0. sure things by ni•teels, we must have a large navy, an d she requires but a na.9derate one. Let us hit, in th a expense, the right :ne e. dium betw een f r i ght and ovr confidence It is, doubtless, cheapest to he prepare 3; no more of such economy as stripped the dockvan Is. And as such men as the Ea."l of Ellesmere evidently feel that their " stake in the country" is the thing to he defended, as they are well-conterit, and only desir e to keep things as they are, let the tax that p ay, s for the new army Lill on the properties it uar ds. Lord F ranc i s Egerton. was made E ar l of Elle g sin ere principally because he is immensely rich. If rici lea ' y re to make such senators for us, let their wealth, a t i e , ? , , t, serve their country. Another Lord, Lord Ingests . e., asset.!, • that we want nothiz, g but a due appreciation Oi f Capt.lV:. , rner's shells. I would leave him to talk over this w i t h th € ,Zarl. But our try e safety is, in common prudence, in the hone s t resolution of our G overnment to ask for whx tis wanted, and no more—in its aban-» donment of ali party patron ag e in the services—int justice and sufficient pay to the seaman—in a rational method of ship4)uilding—in goc‘il' treatment for the soldier—and if the worst should ti,ome, if we are beaten after taking all these wise knd honourable precautions, then in the old bull-dog resolution that will fasten :.:iad not leave its hold but with life. May we never need the help of one of these :means ; but the surest way not to need one is to keen all ready. The mission of England is peace and gooc,l fellow ship to the world ; the right hand is honemtly held forth in amity even by the least enlightened among us : we must only be ready to double the fist, if we see a blow offered as a return for our adl Tances. TVeekiy Dispatch. CRUST_ IC. THE JEWISH DISABILITIES RELIEF BILL. We yesterday received a copy of this import ant measure from the Parliamentary Paper-office. l.t is entitled, "A Bill for the Relief of her MajeF. ty's subjects professing the Jewish Religion," and i s en dorsed with the names of Lord John Russell,, Sir George Grey, and Viscount Morpeth. The number of clauses amounts to ten. The first clause sttbsti tutes the following form of oath to be taken by the Queen's Jewish subjects (including public fun ction aries and Members of Parliament) instead of the obnoxious formula, " on the true faith of a Chri:itian," viz.:— "I. A. 8., do solemnly promise and swear, ,that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to her Majesty Queen Victoria, and will defend her to the utmost of my power against all conspiracies and attempts whatever which shall be made against her person, crown, and dignity ; and I will do my utmost endeavour to disclose and make known to her Majesty, her heirs and successors, all treasons and traitorous conspiracies which may be formed against her or them ; and I do faithfully promise to main tain, support, and defend, to the utmost of my power, the succession of the Crown, which suc cession, by an Act, entitled, An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject,' is and stands limited to the Princess Sophia, Electress of Hanover, and the heirs of her body, being Protestants, hereby utterly renouncing and abjuring any obedience or al legiance to any other person claiming or pretending a right to the crown of this realm ; and I do declare that I do not believe that any foreign prince, prelate, person, state, or potentate bath or ought to have any temporal or civil jurisdiction, power, superiority, or ire-eminence, directly or indirectly, within this realm : I do swear that I will defend, to the utmost of my power, the settlement of property within this realm, as established by the laws ; and I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any intention to subvert the present Church establishment as settled by law within this realm; and I do solemnly swear that I will never exercise any privilege to which I am or may become entitled to disturb or weaken the Protestant religion or Protestant Government in the United Kingdom ; and I do solemnly, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare that I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plaint and ordinary sense of the words of this oath, without. any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation what soever. " So help me God." This oath is to be taken in the same manner as Jews are now sworn in courts of justice, &c. The sth clause allows persons professing the Jewish religion to make the declaration set forth in the Act Bth and 9th Victoria, cap. 52, instead of that pre scribed in the Act 9th George IV., cap. 17 (Repeal of Sacramental Test Act), in all cases which are not within the provisions of the last recited Act ; and, in short, extends the relief sought for in the widest and most universal manner. A few restrictions are still retained, such as the disqualification of Jews to exercise the office of guardians and justices, or Re gent of the United Kingdom, that of Lord Chancellor, that of Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and that of her Majesty's High Commissioner to the General Assem bly of the Scotch Kirk. Clause 7 continues the disqualification of any per son, otherwise than now by law enabled, to,hold any office, place, or dignity in the Church of England, or in any other ecclesiastical establishment ; and clause 8 deprives Jews of the right of presentation to benefices, which right, in the event of the descent of an advowson to a party of the Hebrew persuasion, is to devolve on the Archbishop of Canterbury pro tem. Clause 9 renders it illegal (although how it can be rendared compulsory, we know not) for any Jew to advise the Sovereign, directly or indirectly, to make any appointment to offices in the established churches of the country. Such is the scope of the Bill which now awaits a second reading in the House of Commons. POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. We were highly gratified by hearing yesterday an admirable lecture by Dr. John Ryan, the w ell-known professor of chemistry at this institution. He com menced his subject by stating,; trele , -.4244ter was of three kinds, solid, liquid, and gase ous ; that under one degree of temperature a body would assume a solid form, but when the at mos p here around it became of a warmer degree it would assume a liquid state, which by still further application of heat would be come eventually of a gaseous form. It was an erroneous idea to suppose that large bodies, such, for instance, as bars of iron, br ass , or l ea d , or blocks of wood, or indeed anythi ng w ith w hi c h we come in daily contact, were comp ose d en ti re l y o f one st 'lid , mass this was not th e case , th ey were rather form of minute particles, so minute that separately the) . could not be discerned by the naked eye. Each of these small particles was surrounded by an atmo-- sphere of its own, which became so interwoven with its neighbour as to form all the appearance of a solid body. This was sufficiently proved by the heating of a rod of brass or iron, which on gain ing a certain :degree of heat would be found not only considerably increased in circumference, but also very much in its length ; this arose from the atmospheres of the various particles being expanded by the warmth, and driving these particles to greater distances from each other. The lecturer then pro ceeded to speak of physical, magnetic, and chemical attraction ; the first named, he said, was the affinity which one body exhibited to another of the same sort, as was shown by the joining of two p i e ces of phosphorous together. The only result arrived at by physical attraction was an increase in the bulk, the properties and state of the body re maining as formerly. With magnetic attraction it was almost the same, sav e that the bodies under its influence were re ndered magnetic ; how ever, this was poised so ni cel y between physical and chemical attraction, and partook . , so equally o f th e properties of these, that it was difficult to say whi c h it most resembled. With chemical attraction it was totally different; for the union of the two bodies produced a third of a nature entirely at variance with its two component parts; but, however wonderful it might appear, the body formed was exactly of the same weight as the particles u n it e d i n it s com p os iti o n. At the conclusion the Learned Doctor was greatly applauded by a densely crowded audience. TIIE EPISCOPATE.—The first Archbishop in Eng land was Vaulinus, Archbishop of York, in 622. St. Austin was the first Archbishop of Canterbury, ap pointed by Ethelbert, the first king converted to Chris tianity. Canterbury was once the royal city of the Kings of Kent, and was given to Austin in 508. There are 24 Bishops and two Archbishops-26; and 18 Collegiate Bishops. There are 26 Deans and 4 Collegiate Deans, of which Westminster is one, 5 Deans of Peculiars, and 60 Archdeacons. The Archbishops are enthroned, the Bishops only installed. They (the Archbishops) are said to be appointed by Divine Providence, the Bishops by Divine permi4f;on. The former are addressed by the title of Your Grace, the latter only as Lords. The .Ireit'ulsnop of Canttl.bury was Primate of Inland till 1152. The Archbishop of York was Primate of Scotland till 1470, when the Bishop of St. Andrew's was made Metropolitan by Sextus IV. 1 4e- . I