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OFFICE of the GAS-LIGHT and COKE COMPANY, 19, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London, January 1,1848. I do hereby give notice, that pnrsuant to the Bth Bye-law of thie Company, . _ FREDERICK ALBERT WINSOR, Esq., SIMON ADAMS BECK, Esq., and JONAH SM ITII WELLS, Esq., and Auditor, three of the PROPRIETORS of this COMPANY have severally given ate notice in writing of their intention to stand for the oflioe •f a DIRECTOR, to supply the vacancy which has occurred In the Court of Directors by the resignation of William ➢lorley, Esq., at the Elec tion which will take place at Ratiley's Hotel, 10, New Sridge-street, Blackfriars, on FRIDAY, the 14th day of January instaut. By order, CHARLES BURLS, Secretary. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE issuRANcE SOCIETY. 26, CORNIIILL, LONDON. Capital .£500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. This Institution embraces important aid substantial advantages !with respect he life assurances and deferred annuities. The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for feiture of the policy, two•thirds of the premiums paid (see Table); also the option, of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his In terests to meet other conveaiencies or necessity. AssurAnces for tunes et years on the lowestpossiblo rates. DIVISION 8F PROFITS. The isereasing prosperity of the Society hens enaioled the Directors at the annual meeting hel.4 on the 12th May, 1847, to declare a fifth bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. sit the premiums paid OIL each policy effected on the profit scale. EXAMPLES. Perms- Sam tke . 4 .4 , Annual Policy Bonus in pent Ito- Aesnreil Ago. • V. , Pre- taken addition Benue in Auction of may bor a min Na. out In Assured. Cask. Annual row oa Proniams. Policy. ......—. £ a. 41. £ a d. £ a. d. £ a. d. r, 1837 243 9 3 112 8 8 18 4 6 494 8 10 £ x,. d. 1838 218 4 8, 99 8101 5 13 5 445 0 0 00 1000 74 3 4 , 1839 192 1 ID 86 9 3 13 4 9 395 II I { I , 1840 143 5106684 9 19 1 346 2 3 1841 138 14 i6l 17 6 9 9 2 1296 13 4 1842 111 6 8' 49 10 0 7 10 4 1 247 4 5 The Ahnual Report, with table of rates, &C., may be kad at the (Mee, et any of its branches in the cisantry ; sr, en applicatiel. will b e ferwateled post free. F. TERGUSON CANIRMIX, secretary. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. TORK EXTENSION SHARES. The Holders of these Shares upon which 41., M. be.. 61. 55., or 71. 10s. per Share have been paid, are required to pay to the Company's Bankers, on or before the 22d of January next, all arrears upon the Said Share., and also to deliver their Scrip Shares when so paid up, at this Office, is order that they may be exchanged for Consolidated /Stock Certilcates, otherwise they will not be entitled to receive the Dividends en the A Quarters, or the Interest on the B Quarters, which will he payable tinder the Resolutions of the next Half-yearly Meeting of the Company, to he held in February next. By order of the Board, C. P. ItONET, Secretary. Bishopagate Station, December 30, 1847. CIIHIsTMAS HOLIDAYS, ROYAL POLYTECHNIC STITUTION. Dr. RYAN has been engaged to deliver a short COURSE of LECTURES ea CHEMISTRY, with brilliant Experimenta, Daily at If-past Three, and every Evening at Nine o'clock, execpt Satur day Evening. A LECTURE by Dr. BACIIIIOFFNER on the Laws of Nature, in reference to tie important subject of SA NITARY MEASURES, and en the various modes of VENTILA TION, in which the PHYSICAL PROPERTIES ef a JET of STEAM will be exhibited Daily at Two, and en Tuesday and Thursday Ev,iiings at Eight P.m. The OXY-HYDROGEN MICRO SCOPE, New DISSOLVING VIEWS, the (EROMATROPE. stoscorE, ke. MODELS of MACHINERY at work, and ex plained. The DIVING BELT. and DIVER, with HYDE'S NIhW APPARATU'i ter CONTERSINe under WATER, &c. ke. Admission, Is.; Schools, Half-price. ENAMEL.—The Liquid Enamel, for STOPPING DECAYED TEETII without pain, is a com bination of those substances, of which, according to the most rooeit analysis, the natural teeth are composed; and its successful applica tion for many years by Mons. 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 Mons. de Berri, who also remodels old sets; and those per sons who already ►ear artificial teeth, but wish to avail themselves of the most recent improvements, can have a new set constructed, and a liberal allowance will be made for those already hi •so. Terms as ix Paris, where the charges are considerably lower than in linglund. 29, Percy-street, Rathbone-place, Oxford-street. At Home from Tea till Six. QILVER PLATE, New and Second-hand. — T. COX SAVORY and Co.'s Pamphlet of Prices, with out lines, may be had gratis, or will be sent post free if applied for by a Paid letter. The contents are the prices, weights, and patterns of mew and second-hand Silver Spoons and Forks; new and second hand Tea and Coffee -ervlces, Waiters, Silver-edged Plated Goods, the new plated on white metal Spoons and Forks, Watches, Clocks, Cutlery, Ladies' Gold Neck Chains and Jewellery. T. COX SAVORY and Co., 47, Corithill (seven doors from Grace• Church -street), London. M DCCCXLVII. and AIDCCCXLVIII. TO TIIE PUBLIC. "Look on this picture, and on this."- 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 acknowledgments bee* made, For vast suceees, and gloSious public aid ; But never did such staunch support appear, As that which honoured the departed year. Spring, summer, autumn, winter, bear fresh proof, Of crowding throngs beneath their trading roof. When January's frosts were keenly felt, Thousands with MOSES liberally dealt ; And Winter Overcoats. to suit the cold, Were purchased at their Warehouse million-fold. In February's month. and blust'ring March, The public sought the Bmporiam's lofty meh. In fickle April, and in milder May, MOSES and SON'S Spring dresses bore the sway. In pleasant June, and changeable July, Vast multitudes were daily seen to buy ; And such supporters failed not to remember The City Mart In August and September. And in October's month did thousands press, At MOSES' Mart for matchless Autumn dress. In dull November, and December, too, MOSES and SOX were ever kept in view. And thus did new encouragements appear Throughout the circle of the by-past year : Not only In attire, but boots and shoes, And also In the furs which ladies use ; And throngs of buyers might we daily see, Obtainining first-class Hata at Eighty-three. unit m•tehieSS outfits too, The trade at MOSES' Warehouse daily grow. The glorious marks of favour thus presented, Proclaim the by-guns year unprecedented. 'Twas truly pleasing to behold a throng, Crowding the spacious Warehouse all day long; While all the current coins, with constant jingle, Amid the busy stir were heard to mingle. Nor was It any sight to cause a frown, While orders for bespoke were putting down. Swift went the knibs, uad orders swiftly took, And very swiftly filled each order• book. The Cutting-room at MOSES' mart has beets, " A cutting sight"—an over-busy scene. No time for idleness —no lengthy leisure, Could hero be had for cutter, shears, or measure : All was activity in every part, And business "ruled the roast" at MOSES' Mart. Though scarcity of money roused alarm, MOSES and SON sustained no trading harm. Fo ; on the contrary, as people found, The real value of a =rust pound, They flocked to MOSES' Mart, assured that there, Unmatched economy is brought to bear. What now remains ? A task devolves on MOSES, Now Eighteen Forty-seven for ever closes. Most heartily do Messrs. MOSES tender Their thanks tbr what a generous public render. But thanks ten thousand times they might repeat, And leave the task of thanking incomplete. Yet, happily, they've more that they can state, And thus they're led to Eighteen Forty-eight. In Eighteen Forty-eight they mean to steer Beyond the bounds of each succeeding year. The recent purchases which they have made, Will add new benefits to all their trade. When all the markets were depressed, they bought For moderate sums their cloths saperbly wrought. 'They saw the opportunity, and now, A most immense redaction they allow. Such are the benefits which here await The purchaser of Thighteen Forty-eight. May MOSES and the public ever be, On pleasing terms of trading unity ; May both the buyers and the sellers find, That all their mutual interests are combined I And may the friends of MOSES (small aid great) Enjoy, in every possible estate, A happy year in Eighteen Forty-eight. LIST OF PRICES. Shakspeare. Beaver Tag •• .• .. from X 6 9 0 Chesterfield and Codrington's, and every description of Over-coat, handsomely trimmed.. •• •• •• • • ... The ?ache Coat ••..•••• • • •• • •••• •• ... •• • 1 6 0 The Bullmer, especially adapted for snowy and wet iv::ather• ••••••••••• • • • • •• •• • ... 0 16 11 Iley's Winter Coats, in every style• ••••••••• • • • • 0 6 • Idtn'a Do. Trousers, lined .• .. •••••••• • • • • • • • • 0••• • • • 0 4 0 potsmn 0 12 Dress Coats.. •••••••••• • • • • • • " •• 1 0 o Frock d 0....... • Double-breasted Winter Vests•• .• ••••• • •• •• 0 2 0 .• I 6 Boys' Hussar and Tenie Snits •••••• • • • XADI T• KIASTRI. Winter Coats, in every style and shape, kand sotnely trimmed Muted cloth Over -coats, velvet collar and clad .• 2 4 11 Tweed Wrapper ............ •••••• • • • • • • 0 1$ 6 Doeskin Trousers .. •• • .. Best, •r Dress• • ..... ••. • • Dress Coat • Beat quality yaade............ 2 16 0 Best quality made 3 3 e Cs-siners Vests .. • . •• . • • Satins, Plain er Fancy •• • • •••• ...• •• •• • • •••• II 12 0 Boy's Hussar and Tunic Salts ..... .••• • • • Great Coat .• •• •• • • .... ••••••• • • • • • • • I 16 A Suitof Clothes complete.. :: •••• • • • • •• • • 1 1Q 0 Mourning to any extent at Five Minutes noose. Observe.—Auy article purchased, ready made, or made to unm- e ant, if not approved of, will be exchanged, or if preferred, the money returned. E. MOSES and SON, Tailor*, Woollendrapers, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furrie-s, Boot and Shoemakers, and. General Outfitters, for Lidice and Gentlemen, 154, 155, and 156, 157 Miseries, and 83, t 4 , 85, and 86 Ai gate, City. Leedom. Cantina.—E. Moses ant Ben regret being obliged to guard the labile against impostors, but leave learned that the untradesman- Mte falsehood of being connected with them, or it's the same concern, has been resorted to in many instances, and for ehvioas reagens. They have no connexion with any other hours la or out of Lendeek; '3 those who desire genuine and cheep clothing, Ike., should call at, Or send to, stir.ories and Aldgate, City, London. Nottee.—No business transacted at this establishment from sutt ee Friday, till ittnset BatllltAy. when basilicas is resumed till twelve OVock. Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel. Mt PHYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATITE INCA! A CITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. New Edition, enlarged to IS pages. Just published, price 2s. 6d., or by post, direct from the Establishment, 3s. 6d. in postage stamps, IliE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical W ork on the infirmities and decay of the generative system, front ex -IM:salve indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of inerearY, With remarks on Marriage, and the means of obviating certain Us cittalificatlons. Illustrated by 26 Celoared Engravings. By R. and L. PERRY and CO., 19, Bernors-stroet, Oxford-street, London. Published by the Authors : sold by strange, 21, Paternoster-row nantiay, 63, and Sanger, 151, Oxford-street ; Starie, 23, Titehberne- Street, Ilaymarket ; and Garden, 146, Leadenhall-street. PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive organs, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings. Pater 11. treats et the consequences resulting from excessive iadal rnee, And their lamentable erects on the system, producing mental I ' M bin). Weak n ess , nervous excitement, and generative incapacity. ustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings. PART 111. Treats et the diseases resulting irons infection, either in the primary or secondary form, and centaimi explicit directions for their treatment. The conseqttences of early neglect and of the abase of mercury, are also clearly pointed out. This section is illustrated by Seventeen Coloured Engravings. PART Ps. Treats of Perry's Preventative Lotion, by the use of Which the dangers et infection are obviated. It combines with the Viz - us citenitcally, and destroys its power on the system. PART T. Is devoted to the consideration et marriage, and its duties, The causes of unproductive union, are also considered, and the whole subjec t critically and philosophically inquired into. THE 'ORDIAL BALM OP iTRIACUM is exclusively employed In treat ing n o yous'and sexual debility, impotence, &c., 113 .and 335. per bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilitic remedy, for purifying the blood In cases of infection, secondary symp tome, eruptions, and the abase of mercury, I Is. and 335. per bottle. Perry's Purifying Specific Pills, 2s. M., 4s. 6d., and its. per box, a certain remedy in gonerrhcea, facet, strictures, and chronic inflamma tion of the bladder. I'erry's Preventative Lotion, an application to obviate the danger of infection, 335. a bottle. Consultation fee, if bY letter, 11. 5/. Packets with advice to be had at the Establishment wily, by which the tee, 11. ,is saved. Attendance daily at 19, Ber - Ata•lstreet, trona Xleven till Two, and FINN to Kight: on kigadays PCS ZlOTtlt tO CU. A THIEF KILLED WHILE COMMITTING A ROE REar.—On Saturday morning the body of a man, about thirty years of age, was found in the basement-story of a new building now erecting in Upper East Smithfield, in the parish of Aldgate. He appeared to have been dead several hours, and the body was quite cold. The back and neck of the deceased were broken, and be had received other contusions. On the body of the man being discovered, an investigation was made by the police, and it seems that he was in the act . of stripping some lead off the roof of the building which is only par tially covered•in, and while doing so the rafters gave way, and he was precipitated to the ground, a height of fifty feet, and must have been killed on the spot. lie was dressed in a fustian jacket, corduroy knee-breeches, cloth cap, and blue stockings, and low shoes. There was nothing found upon him which could lead to his identity. RESUMPTION or WORK.—Mr. Tyler and Messrs. Gardner and Naylor have resumed " short time" at their mills, and we understand some others commence on Monday. Should the next overland mail bring fa vourable news from India, many mills in Preston will commence working full time. We are glad to hear of r o h y tt e s nm wen lately n t m bi o s re tow so n u ; g c h l t ot a h ft f e o r r , m th a e n l Y nd si i g a ti n s m o a f r i k ra e P t and considerable shipments have been made to that and other makets within the last fortnight. —Preston Chro nicle. ExmosioN OF A BOILER.—On Christmas-day, the boiler at the col lier y of H. A. Thicknesse, E.sq , M.P., Platt -bridge, su ddenl y ex p l oded, and knocked down the chimney, inju red the en gine pillars, and did considerable damage to the engine. Fortunately, th e fireman was the only person on the spot, and he escaped with a little scalding.--Preston Chronicle. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —CARRIAGE FEZE.—Families residing in the country are supplied with Tess and Coffees at the lowest wholesale price, in quantities not less than six pounds, delivered carriage free to any part of England. 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, Bucklersbary, Cheapside. TIIE INFLUENZA.—This epidemic, after having traversed northern Europe, has now extended its ravages to Algiers and the northern coast 01 Africa, as also to Athens and parts of Greece.—Medical Gazette. __ _ __ __ . ----- - -- -- - ~,,,, , / 7 / • -,-, 7:.-----2 ,- 1 -49-.' . . :/, ----'-' iAir , 9. T h w e i s t t h at g u r e ea o t r t p h oinp at: t D st u . k o -e m o e f r. orica n ... 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'l* =, , 41: ..,....._ „4 ,• ---,_ ''',., 4. . _..., _in contact with the Shannunga, from Lirerpool for Boston, and 173 persons drowned. \,•;,,,, -4, - .. . . ~ - ,4 4 •.* -. 1. '',.._....' .- tii!„,,,,- ) -- ''4:L - . • - I, ' ~ - •.or . 6 • • of- sir. ~:''''' ; ...,..,, op ' 11 , ,' ..e.... , ;,,.. 4..t.',N , ,•-•;-..'••: ...-e \ 10. The rie li u 'r s e e n , c w h r m ec e k n e - d ol;l i va t r h , e L h a lan G d lo i t i r o e k a o nd on L -to a , V in ic i to at: 3.5. 47, lon. 126. 1; crews saved. 11. Her Majesty and P lbert embarked on board the royal yacht at es for Scotland. 12. The Right Rev. D. riffiths, Roman Catholic Bishop of the Loud. • istrict, died, aged 56. 13. The Austrian troops took military possession of Ferrara, the Cardinal Legate protesting against the violation of the Treaty of Vienna. 17. The Duchesse de Choiseul Praslin murdered at the Hotel Sebastiana in Paris. 19. The Circassians defeated by the Russian troops, under the command of Lieutenant-General Kot zebue, at Aul Salty, in the Caucasus. 21. Her Majesty's Theatre and the Royal Italian Opera, Covent-garden, closed for the seas.n. 22. Sixty-seven vessels, laden principally with grain, en tered the river Mersey, for Liverpool. 23. The organ manufactory of Mr. Walker, in Francis street, Tottenham-court -road, burnt down, pro perty being consumed to the extent of nearly 20,000/. in value. 24. The Duc de Choiseul Praslin committed suicide in the prison of the Luxembourg, at Paris, whilst under confinement on the charge of murdering his wife. 27. Five persons killed and several others severely in jured by the explosion of the Cricket steam-boat at Hungerford Pier. 29. The church of Welton, near Lincoln, struck by lightning during Divine service, and one of the► congregation killed on the spot. SEPTEMBER. 1. Terrific fire at EXete;, — de;troying property in Waterbear and High-street, to the amount of 10,0001. 2. Revolutionary movement at Messina, ending in the defeat and dispersion of the insurgents. 3. Espartero, Duke of Victory, recalled by a royal de cree to Madrid. 6. The Right Hon. Edward Pennefather, late Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, in Ireland, died. 9. Dreadful fire in the village of Cottenham, Cam bridgeshire, destroying property to the amount of more than 15,0001. 11. M. de Rochow, Minister and President of the Prus sian Council of State, died at Aix-la-Chapelle. 12. M. Colletti, Prime Minister of Greece, died at Athens. 15. The city of Mexico stormed and taken by the American forces. 16. The house in which Sbakspere was born, at Stret ford-on-Avon, sold by auction, in London, and purchased by a committee for 3,0001. 18. Forty- six shops and sixteen houses, including a large palace, destroyed by fire, at Constantinople. 19. The Archbishop of Gran, Prince Primate of Hun gary, died at Gran, aged 76. 23. Between three and four hundred officers and seamen of the Mediterranean squadron confirmed in the Church of St. Paul, at Malta, by the Bishop of Gibraltar. 25. The Right Hon. Sir John Bernard Bosanqnet, late Judge in the Common Pleas, died, aged 74. 26. General thanksgiving in all the churches at the Hague, for the abundant harvest. 27. The foundation stone of the Portsmouth, Portsea, and Gosport Hospital, laid by his Royal High ness Prince Albert. 29. The mortal remains of Louis Bonaparte, ex-King of Holland, interred with great pomp and ceremony at St. Leu, in France. No. 17,247.] LONDON, MO DAY, E E N G ROYAL HOTEL, GRAINGER-STREET, NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE. CHARLES STATES solicits the patronage of his BROTHER TRAVELLERS to the above Establiskinent, which has recently been newly furnished and laid out expressly for a Com mercial Hotel. The COMMERCIAL ROOM, one of the largest and most elegantly fitted in the NORTH, it is hoped will be found complete in every respect. The BED-ROOMS (Sixty In number) have been furnished in a style which mast ensare the approbation of all visitors. Gentlemen travelling with STOCK can at all tines have SHOW ROOMS without any extra charge. The Music Hall, Lecture Room, and Royal Hotel Assembly Room are all attached, and under the same management. The Royal Hotel Is in the melt central sitaattoa la Newcastle. CENTRAL METROPOLITAN DISPEN SARY for Diseases of the STOMACH, It t.:ART, and LUNGS, Including CONSUMPTION, ASTHMA, &c. Until suitable premises are engaged for this n. .w Dispensary, the afflicted poor may receive advice and medicine at One o'Clock, pas., on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, at 14, Leicester-place, Leicester-square, by tickets from subscribers, or on application to Dr. Cronin ; George Alnatt, Esq., Westow-lodge, Upper Norwood, Treasurer; or Mr. George Isabell Soper, 46, Curzon-street, May fair, Secretary, by whom also subscri ? tions and donations will be thankfully received in aid of the benevolent object. Profusely illustrated, price One Shilling, AROMANCE of a MINCE PIE : an Incident in the Life of John Chirrup, of Forty-Winks, Pastrycook and Confectioner. By ANGUS B. REICH. Profusely illustrated by H. K. BROWNE (Phiz)..—Also, by the same Author, NATURAL HISTORY of " BORES." Profusely illustrated, Is. NATURAL HISTORY of " 11U3IBUGS." Profusely illus trated, ls. D. Bogue, 86, Fleet-street ; and sold everywhere. Now ready, price Is., profusely illustrated, TFiE BAL MASQUE. By the COUNT 11 CIILCAKII. Frofusely illustrated with Engravings, by HEN .NING and CRAM. 1). Bogue, 86, Fleet-street ; and sold everywhere. MR. BUCKINGHAM'S NEW WORK. Now ready, BELGIUM, the RHINE, SWITZERLAND, and HOLLAND. Mt ♦utumnal Tour. By J. S. BUCK INGHAM, Esq. In Two handsome octavo volumes, with Ten quarto Steel Engravings, containing views of some of the principal cities visited, from the pencil of W. Bartlett. Boand in cloth, and lotteted, price 2Ss. Publshed by Peter Jackson (late Fisher, Sou, and Co.), London, and to be had of all Booksellers. DR. LA'MERT ON MI SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITT.-IYITII 40 COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL. Just published, and may be had in Freach •r English, is a Sealed Envelope, 2s. ed„ or post-free, from the wither, for forty-two Stamps, SELF-PRESERVATION; a Medical Treatise on the Physiology of Marriage, Infelicitous and Unproductive Unions, and the Secret Inflrinittes and Disorders of Tenth aid Ma turity, usually ae,cmired 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 rractical Observations on the Treatment of Nervous Debility and Indigestion, whether arising from these causes, close study, or the influence •I tropical climates: Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis, Stricture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Indis cretion. With Forty coloured Engravings, illustrating the Asatosny, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Orgaas, explaining their structures, uses, and functions, and the various Injuries that are produced la them by solitary habits, excesses, aid Infection. BY SAMUEL LI'MERT, M.D., 9, BEDFORD-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUIRE, LONDON. octor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin burgh, Licentiate of Apotheoarles' Hall, London, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical bociety, &c. Marriage requires the fulfilment of several conditions, in order that It may ha twill,' the cause of mutual happiness. Could the veil, which covers the origin of domestic wretchedness, be raised, and its true source la every instance disclosed, in how many oottld it be traced to physical dlsqnalitlcatiens and their attendant disap pointments. Excesses are always injarions ; tho gift, which when used In moderation is franglit 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 she nature and consequence of which this Treatise professes to dilate, are productive of greater severity of misery to the human frame. than any other to which it is subject. This work contains an accurate and complete account of the Anatomy and Physiology of the Reproduotive Organs, and of their relative conditions in health aid disease. It deservedly requires the closest attention and study, for what subject cad be of more irneortance than the preservation of the health, and of the physical capabilities of which every man should be posiessed. It unfortunately happens , that the unhappy ♦ictim of excessive indulgence aid vicious habits, whether acquired in early life or from the follies of advanced age, while saffering from their invariable consequences, unwisely entertains a tear of ap plying to a qualified physician for relief. Shame and the dread so frequently, but erroneously entertained that these complaints are beyond the reach of art, alike restrict him and prevent his seeking for assistance where alone it can be procured. In acting thus, he forgets that accurate discrimination in ascertaining the causes of disease, sympathy with the sufferer, and, above all, secrecy, inva riably characterise the tatelliAent and practical physician, and to the medical man who can show by Ma posse-sion of the requisite legal qualifications that he is entitled to esteem and respect in his proles sional pursuits, the utmost confidence should be extended. Dr. L aI. 4IERT has obtained the highest medical honours, as his diplomas Unify and the great extent of his practice for many years is a gemantee 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, 12, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, oxford-street; Starie, Tichhorne street, Haymarket ; Mansell, 115, Fleet-street ; Gordon, 146, Lesedenhall-street, London ; or, free by post for torty-two stamps, from The Anther, who may be consulted on these disorders personally by letter, daily, from Ten till Two, and from Five till flight at his residence, 9, Beiltord-street Itedford-sonare London. REMARKS ON DWELLINGS FOR THE LABOURING CLASSES AT BIRKEN HEAD-EVILS OF THE WINDOW-TAX. ET J. HUNTER ROBERTSON, N.D. (From the Journal of Public Health and Monthly Record of Sanitary Improvement.) Birkenhead has the credit of having conceived at.d put into operation one of the most remarkable plans yet formed for applying modern improvements to dwellings for the working classes. How imperatively such works are called for, let our Health of Towns Commissioners and our sanitary Bills tell. If society at large knew how very high is the rent which the poor pay for wretched accommodation, they would find that, even independently of kindly feeling, it would be really a profitable investment to build good and comfortable dwellings, which might be let at rates not exceeding those now paid for " fever fac tories," as the closely-pent hovels are, with fearful expressiveness, sometimes called. If society would take the trouble to inquire how largely the poor-house, the hospital, and even the lunatic asylum, are tenantel by those who, but for their pestilent, and pestiferous dwellings, might per haps have been healthy and actively-working mem bers of the community, they would find that, in addition to all that the poor really suffer, the middle and upper classes pay enormously for the defective system, in the shape of increased rates and increased voluntary contributions. The dwellings above alluded to were built by the Dock Company for the accommodation of the work men likely to be required for the construction of the docks and warehouses ; but from their elegant highly finished, and substantial construction, more so perhaps than requisite for the purpose intendqd, the investment, it is to be feared, will turn out an un profitable one. The whole pile of buildings is throughout fire-proof, and made to accommodate 350 families. I shall not here enter into further particulars about these dwellings, as they have already been ao minutely described in that deservedly-popular work, " The Land we Live in ;" besides, as they are on such a gigantic scale, the cost being somewhere about 50,0001., probably it will be more acceptable to give the details of two tenements more recently erected in Birkenhead; the one by William Laird, Esq., called Alorpeth Buildings, consisting of 64 dwellings ; the other by Robert Hughes, Esq., consisting of 70 dwellings. The first of these is built on the Scotch plan, in flats, and constitutes eight blocks, each block con sisting of eight dwellings, making in all 64. Every block has a stone passage leading to the street, from whence the staircase and doors to the various dwellings proceed. The blocks are four stories high, no sunk flats or cellars, and each flat is divided into two dwellings. The internal arrangements are much the same as those of the Dock cottages, the dwellings consisting of three rooms—viz., kitchen, parlour, and bed-room, or two bed-rooms, of the following dimensions : Kitchen, 13 feet by 9 feet 9 inches. The one bed room, 9 feet 6 inches by 7 feet ; the other, 9 feet 6 inches by 6 feet. The kitchen is provided with a range and oven. Immediately adjoining the kitchen, but shut out by a well-fitting door, is a water-closet, with an abundant supply of water, for this and all other purposes, from a large cistern, placed at the top of each block for the use of the eight dwellings; this cistern is supplied from the public works. Through the centre of each block, from top to bottom, runs a square shaft, containing the water and gas pipes belonging to the eight dwellings, and a small iron door about 10 inches square is fixed in one corner of a recess close to the ground, through which all the dust and dirt are swept; the dust shaft receives the dust from all the eight dwellings by eight similar openings, and thence descends to a very large dust cellar beneath the level of the house, from which it is removed at stated periods. Each room is ventilated by two " air bricks " that is, a space equal to the size of a brick is left open for the admission of air, covered within and without by an iron grating, and capable of being closed by an iron shutter if necessary. One of these openings is placed near the floor for the admission of fresh air, the other near the ceiling for the escape of heated or vitiated air. As to the advantages of such dwellings in a sanitary point of view, there cannot, I think, he two opinions ; but before parties will engage in such a speculation, it is but natural they should satisfy themselves as to the return they are likely to get for their money. Through the kindness of Mr. Laird and Mr. Hughes, I am enabled to give full particulars as to the cost and return of their respective buildings. Cost of 64 Dwellings for the Working Classes in Wood street, the property of Win. Laird, Esq. LAND. Length of 8 blocks Width of cottage 25 feet . . Passage behind Given up to make a 12 feet street into an 18 feet street 292 min. 3 sec. by 33, equal to 1,071 yards, 3 roods, at 30s. per yard Contract for building 64 cottages, by Messrs. Walker 5,965 0 0 Extras : fitting shelves, cupboards, and tables, each cottage, 31. 192 0 0 Architect's commission, 3 per cent. on 5,9651. £7,942 19 0 RETURNS. 1 block, containing 8 dwellings, produces the follow ing rental: — On ground floor, 2 cottages at 4s. 6d. per week, or 11/. 14s per annum each £23 8 0 On first floor, 2 cottages, at 4a < per week, or 101. Bs. per an num each... On second floor, 2 cottages at 3s. 6d. per week, or 9/. 2s per annum each On third floor, 2 cottages at 3s. per week, or 71. 16s. per annum each l5 12 9 £7B 0 0 Eight blocks at 781. each =gross rental of sixty-four cottages £624 0 0 DEDUCTIONS. Window-tax, 5 windows to each dwelling, or 40 per block, and 3 staircase windows: 43 windows per block, 14l 8 9p 4 8 10 per cent. additional ll 10 0 -------127 0 0 Township rates -64 cottages, at 30s. per cottage per annum... 96 0 0 Wa:ter -64 cottages, at 6s. per cottage per annum... 19 4 0 InWurance 4s. 6d. per ct. on 7,0001. 15 15 0 ---130 19 0 Perhaps we could not at the present time look for the total abolition of the window-tax, but cer tainly there might be some improved mode of assessment, and one that would not be instrumental in generating disease. The smallest opening made in the walls of an ordinary sized dwelling subjects the tenant to an additional Bs. 3d. per annum ; conse quently cellars, privies, and the roofs of houses, are left entirely without ventilation, the very places most requiring it. Mr. Hickson suggests that for every 1,000 cubic feet covered in for habitations there ought to be a certain number of windows or openings for light and ventilation ; that these ought to be charged for, whether they exist or riot, and the window-tax would no longer operate as a premium upon defective ven tilation. This, however, would not, I think, answer the purpose intended, but have quite a contrary effect. A certain amount of space in dwellings is requisite to health, and the plan proposed by Mr. Hickson would be a temptation to diminish it, and would con• sequently be productive of great mischief. If I might venture an opinion on se intricate and important a subject, I would suggest, that instead of taxing the number of windows or the cubic contents, a certain per Itentage should be charged on the rent of every house exceeding 151. In this way, there would be no object in decreasing either the dimensions of dwellings or diminishing the number of windows, and the benefit of this arrangement would be felt by those most requiring it—viz., the working classes, their houses seldom exceeding in rental 151. per annum. At pre sent, all houses of about this rent are constructed with just the number of windows necessary to evade the tax ; consequently, they are in this way rendered deficient both in light and ventilation. The rents of house property might be taken at the same valuation as for the poor and local taxes, and instead of keeping a vast number of individuals throughout the country, in constant employment at high salaries, for no other, purpose than to annoy people by counting their windows, the rent would at once be ascertained by referring either to the books of the parish or township. I have taken every pains in ascertaining from the tenants themselves their opinion of the dwellings in Morpeth- buildings, and it is exceedingly gratifying to find that they are unanimous as to their comfort and excellent accommodation. As it may not be uninteresting, I give the exact words of a few of the tenants as I had them from themselves. First. Tenant states—My house is most comfort able, well worth the rent I pay. We never have had illness in our family since we occupied it. No one can tell the comfort we feel in having such an excellent water-closet, and so ample a supply of water. I think the air• holes create too much draught. If the rooms were from one to two feet larger, the house would be unexceptionable. Second. Tenant says—l think my house excellent. The water-closet is a great comfort. The air•holes made the house uncomfortable until we pasted paper over them. The great fault I find with the house is the smallness of the rooms. One foot more would add considerably to their comfort. Third. Tenant states—l aave seven of a family. We all like the house very much, but the rooms are too small for so large a family. We resided formerly in Oliver-street, and had much illness there, but have all been in excellent health since we came to reside here. The water- closet is a great comfort, but the air-holes acmit too much cold air. As the windows open from the top, we could dispense with the air-holes. Fourth. Tenant says —I never was in so com fortable a house., If the rooms wero only a little larger, I would willingly pay a trifle more rent per week. 'We never had such continued good health as we have had since we occvpied this house. The principal fault I find with the house, for a family, is the smallness of the apartmeits. From the manner in which we can so easily gee rid of all dust and rub bish through the shaft, we have always a clean house. I don't like the way the house is ventilated. The statements of all the tenants were nearly to the same effect; it is therefore unnecessary to give further examples, but I will proceed to describe the 70 cottages erected by Mr. Hughes. They are built in five blocks, each block consisting of 14 houses, and divided by parallel streets or avenues of 12, 8, and 6 yards in width, the broadest being at the back, and decreasing as they advance towards the main street. Mr. Hughes very kindly took me through the whole of them, and I must say I was both astonished and pleased at their arrangement and accommodation. They are not in flats like Morpeth-buildings, but each house consists of three stories and a sunk one, and has three rooms and a kitchen of the following dimen sions :—each bed-room 12 feet square, sitting-room 12 feet by 9, kitchen 12 feet square. The kitchen is provided with a range and oven. There is an excel lent water-closet, with an abundant supply of water from the public works. Each of the avenues is lighted with gas ; in fact, there appiars to be no ex pense spared in contributing to the comforts of the tenants. The ventilation appears to be excellent, every win dow opens both from above and below, and the stair is lighted with a gas cupola ; indeed, they have the a ppearance of being built for a much higher class of tenants than they are really intended for. I give the cost of these seventy cottages as fur nished me by Mr. Hughes. Land for 70 cottages. 2,250 yards, at 1/. por yard.t2.2so 0 0 Building account 10,350 0 0 PUBLICATIONS. DAUBENY ON VOLCANOS. Just published, price 21s. cloth, with 12 Maps and Plates, A Second Edition, greatly Enlarged, of ADESCRIPTION of ACTIVE and EXTINCT VOLCANOS, of EARTHQUAKES, and of THERMAL SPRINGS ; with Remarks on their Causes, Products, and Influence on the Condition of the Globe. By Professor CHARLES DAUBENT, M.D., P.R.S. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., Stationers-court. NEW SERIES. 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They are not merely pamphlets, but equal in quantity a library volatile, nor are they the mere ephemeral scribblings of the hoar, but the study of the author's life, who owes his present existence, health, and position to this ob servance of the Maxims he would inculcate—to do ante others as he would be done unto—to live after nature's laws—and to keep always on the "satiny side of the way." The above works may bo had o f Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row; Carvalho, 147, Fleet•street ; Mann, 39. Corrihlll; liaison, 457, West Strand ; or direct (by post or other wise) from the anther (who may be conferred with personally, en•rminas amid cveaings), 10, Argyll-place Regeat-street ; and all Booksellers. 1848, S jA NUAR Y 3, REMARKABLE EVENTS IN 1847, ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. JANUARY. 2. Queen Anne's Bounty Office, in Dean's yard, West minster, destroyed by fire. 4. Four young ladies in a boarding-school, at Berlin, lost their lives from suffocation, by means 4.4 a lighted stove in their dormitory. 6. Dense fog in London, making gas-light necessary throughout the day, and suspending the naviga tion of the River Thames. 7. First sod of the North-Western Branch Railway, at Clestop, in Yorkshire, turned, with public cere monial, by Viscount Morpeth. The Archduke Joseph Anthony John of Austria, Palatine of Hungary, died at Ofen, aged 69. 10. The French steam-frigate Caraibe, commanded by Rear-Admiral Montaignes de la Roque, totally wrecked to the north of St. Louis, in Senegal, with the loss of twenty seamen. - George Byng, Esq., Father of the House of Com mons, haring represented Middlesex for a period of fifty-six years, throughout sixteen consecutive Parliaments, aged 82 years. 11. The French Chambers opened by King Louis Phi lippe. 12. Worth Park House, the mansion of Joseph Mon tefioro, Esq., nearly Crawley, Sussex, entirely destroyed by fire. 13. Pope Pius IX. preached a sermon in the church of St. Andrea della Valle, at Rome, being the first time during the last three hundred years that a Sovereign Pontiff had addressed a congregation from the pulpit. 16. The steam-ship Sirius, of 700 tuns burthen, and 320-horse power, the first steamer that ever made a voyage across the Atlantic, totally wrecked on her passage from Dublin to Cork, in Ballycottou Bay, arid nineteen of her passengers drowned. 17. Her Majesty's steam-sloop Sphynx, of 1,056 tons burthen and 500-horse power, went ashore during a dense fog, between Freshwater Bay and St. Catherine's Point, in the Isle of Wight. Tremendous fire at Glasgow, destroying premises and merchandise in Queen-street, to the extent of from 30,0001. to 100,0004 in value. 19. Parliament opened with a speech from the throne by her Majesty in person. 24. Lieut.-General Sir Edward Gibbs, K.C.B , Lieut.- Governor of Jersey, died at Grandville, in that island. 30. Sir Valentine Blake, Bart., M.P. for Galway, died at Menlo Castle, in that county, aged 65. 31. Easton Lodge, in Essex, the family seat of Viscount Maynard, Lord-Lieutenant of the county, en tirely destroyed by fire. FEBRUARY. 2. The spacious theatre at Pesth, in Hungary, burnt down. 3. A constitutional government granted by loyal ordi nance to his people, by Frederick William IV., King of Prussia. Sir John Eardley Wilmot, Bart„ Lieutenant-Go vernor of Van Dieman's Land, died in that co lony, aged 64. 4. The Lying-in Hospital in Manchester burnt down. 6. The opium receiving vessels, Omega and Caroline, in Chimmo Bay, near Amoy, boarded by pirates, their captains, officers, and several of their crews murdered, and plunder committed to the extent of 36 ; 0004 8. Tremendous snow-storm of nearly twelve hours' duration, causing a stoppage of the traffic on several railways, especially between London and Brighton. Lieutet.ant-Colonel Sir Walter Scott, only surviving child of the author of " Waverley," died on his passage home from India. .10. Grand dinner given to Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P., at Rome, in honour of Free Trade. 11. The Duke of Northumberland, K.G., Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, died at Alnwick Castle, aged 62. 12. Seventy-three persons lost their lives by the wreck of the royal mail steam-packet Tweed, on the reef of Alacranes, on the pasago from Havannah to Vera Cruz. 13. The library of the late Right Hon. Thos. Grenville, valued at 100,0001., deposited, according to testa mentary bequest, in the British Museum. 15. The renowned patriot, Don Josh Palafox, Duke of Saragoza, died suddenly at Madrid, at an ad ♦anced age. 16. Ten persons drowned by the overturning of an om nibus in the river from the quay at Bideford, Devon. The Italian Opera House opened for the season. 17. The Queen's Head Inn, ai Newtown, Montgomery shire, destroyed by fire, the landlord, ostler, and a traveller, perishing in the flames. 20. The Brechin Castle, homeward-bound, from Port Adelaide, with the Australian mails, totally wrecked on the Welsh coast, near Swansea, with all her crew and passengers, amounting to 23 persons, and the whole of her cargo, valued, with the vessel, at 20,0001. 25. Her Majesty and Prince Albert attended the per formances at the Italian Opera•house, for the benefit of the distressed Irish. 27. His Royal Highness Prince Albert elected Chancel for of the University of Cambridge, afier a severe contest with the Earl of Powis, the numbers being—for the Prince, 953; Earl Powis, 837 majority, 116. 28. Seventy persons burnt to death in the destruction by fire, of the theatre at Carlsrulie, in the Grand Duchy of Baden. Mencrt. 1. The thermometer (Fahrenheit) in Paris, at six A.M. stood 13 degrees below freezing point. An extensive slip of chalk. containing about 48,000 tons, 353 feet in breadth, occured at the Shaks pere Cliff, Dover. Dr. Adam Black burned to death at his residence in Piccadilly, London. 5. Terrific explosion at the Ardley Main Colliery, near Barnsley, Yorkshire, destroying seventy-five persons. 6. New Oxford-street, London, opened to the public. 11. The Sovereign steamer wrecked off Amity Puint, in Australia, on her passage from Brisbane, when thirty-six passengers, and seventeen of the crew, were drowned 14. Colonel Gore Langton, M.P., for the eastern division of Somerset, died, aged 87, having sat in the House of Commons during successive Parliaments upwards of fifty-four years. 16. Mrs. Sarah Brads:ock died in the Cheltenhani Union Workhouse, at the advanced age of 105 years, the last forty-seven of which she had passed in that establishment. 17. Several houses and farm buildings at STham, in Cambridgeshire, burned down by an incendiary, the damage occasioned amounting to more than 2,0001. 20. Fifteen cottages destroyed by an accidental fire at Hunningham, in Warwickshire. 22. Twenty-six persons killed by an explosion of fire damp, in a coal mine near Mons, in France. 23. Twenty-one arches of the Liverpool viaduct on the Liverpool and Bury Railway fell in with a tre mendous crash, occasioning damage to the extent of nearly 6,0001. Twenty-four persons killed by an explosion of fire damp, at one of the coal-pits of La Graine, in Alsace. Baron Alexander de Cetto, who had represented the Bavarian Government during his life at all the Courts of Europe, died at Mußich, aged 71. 24. General Count Drouot, highly distinguished in the military service of the Empire, and formerly Aide-de-Camp to Napoleon, whom he accom• panied to Elba, died at Nancy, in France. General Fast. 25. Destructire fire at New Orleans, occasioning da mage fo the extent of 300,000 dollars. 26. The funeral of Mademoiselle Mars, the celebrated actress, took place in the Church of the Made leine, at Paris, in the presence of ten thousand spectators. 26. Prince Jules de Polignac, Prime Minister of Charles X. nt the period of that monarch's deposition, died at St. Germain-en-Laye, aged 67. 29. The city of Vera Cruz and the castle of San Juan de lidos, capitulated to the American forces. 30. The Felicidade, armed vessel, employed in the slave trade, captured with 315 slaves on board, by her Majesty's ship Penelope, on the coast of Africa. APRIL. 1. John Platts executed for murder, at Derby. 2. (Good Friday). The Bogue forts, and several others in the river Pe-Kiang, taken from the Chinese by a British force. 5. The new docks and park at Birkenhead publicly opened with great ceremony and festivities, in the presence of Viscount Morpetb, Chief Com missioner of her Majesty's Woods and Forests. Nineteen thousand one hundred and seventy persons visited the I3ritish Museum. 6. The New Royal Italian Opera at Corent-Garden opened. 9. The foundation stone of the Edinburgh station of the Caledonian Railway laid with ,Maiunie honours. 11. (Low Sunday). The annual French steeple chase took place on the road between Paris and (Jr. leans, in the presence of 30,000 persons. 12. Destructive tire at the New Small Debts Court, in the Edgware-road, London. 14. The House of Commons rejected thy proposed Roman Catholic Relief Bill, by a majority of 158 to 119, the Prime Minister and several members of the Cabinet being in the minority. 15. The Peers of the United Kingdom assembled for the first time in the new House of Lords. 17. Catherine Foster executed at Bury St. Edmunds, for the murder of her husband by poison. 18. Two severe shocks of an earthquake felt at Trinidad. 20. Fifty-eight houses, including several valuable public buildings, the Episcopal Seminary, school, tribunals, &T., destroyed by tire, at Rominick, in Moldavia. 21. Dr. Shirley, Bishop of Sodor and Man, died, in his fiftieth year, three mouhs only after his con eecration. [PRICE 51). - The anniversary of the foundation of the city cele brated with great solemnity at Rome, a grand banquet taking place in the baths of Titus, near the Coliseum, attended by 800 guests, and up wards of 20,000 spectators. 22. Brandeston Hall, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, recently purchased by Mr. Austin, Q.C., entirely destroyed by fire. 23. The extensive power-loom factory of Messrs. Fer guson by a which d C o. , calamity of Mile-ends a l s was l s aov occasioned 20,0001., and 300 persons wore thrown out of employment. 24. Alarming food riot s a t St e tti n , i n P russ i a , d u ring GN' burned o down, which the mob were fired upon by the military, when two persons were killed and several wounded. 25. A five-shilling piece of Charles 11. sold by suction in London, at Colonel Durant's sale, for 155/. - The Duke of Argyll died at Inverary Castle, Scot land, in his seventieth year. 26. Fire occasioned by a cinder from the engine on a railway train, destroying, at the village of Stoke Canon, near Exeter, thirty-two out of sixty houses, including the New Inn, school-room, vicarage, and a ladies' seminary, 27. Lord Cowley, brother of the Duke of Wellington, formerly British Ambassador at Vienna, and afterwards at Paris, died, aged 74. 28. The emigrant ship Exmouth, bound from London derry for Quebec, wrecked on the coast of Islay, when the captain, crew, and passengers, amount ing to 251 persons, were all lost, excepting only three sailors. 29. Grand banquet given to Richard Cobden, Esq., NI.P., at Florence, in honour of Free Trade. 30. The Archduke Charles of Austria, uncle to the Em peror, died at Vienna, in his 76th year. - Samuel Crummer executed at Lifford, Ireland, for the murder of his father. MAT, 1. Hon. and Rev. Robert Eden nominated, by letters patent under the Great Seal, to the vacant bishop ric of Sodor and Man. 3. Drury-lane Theatre closed for the season. 4. Commander Boyle and Mr. Milne (master), sen tenced by court-martial at Portsmouth to be dis missed the service for the loss of her Majesty's ship Thunderbolt, on the 3d of February. 6. Grand banquet given to Mr. Cobden, M.P., at Bo logna, by the members of the Society of Econo mic and Moral Sciences. 9. Alarming flood at Manchester, occasioned by the overflow of the Medlock, and serious losses sus tained by the working classes in the district known as Little Ireland. 12. Mr. James Wraith, with his wife and female servant, barbarously murdered at midday, in his house at Mirfield, Yorkshire. 13. The anniversary of the birthday of Pope Pius LX. celebrated with great enthusiasm at Rome. 15. The Carlist Guerilla Chief Tristany captured and executed by General Pavia at Solsona. - Daniel O'Connell died at Genoa. 16. The Earl of Besborough, Lord Lieutenant of Ire land, died at the Vice-regal Lodge in Dublin. 17. seven persons killed by an explosion of fire damp, at Beeston Colliery, near Leeds. 18. Captain Drake, 92d Highlanders, drowned by the upsetting of a boat, at Ballyshannon, Ireland. 20. The Earl of Clarendon appointed by her Majesty in Council Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. - A hundred and seventy emigrants from Sligo pe rished in the wreck of th Carrick brig, in the River St. Lawrence. 21. Grand banquet given to Mr. Cobden, M.P., at Venice. 22. The Earl of Dundonald restored to the Order of the Bath, after a deprivation of the honour during thirty years. 24. Grand banquet given to Mr. Cobden, M.P., at Turin. 25. Five persons killed, and several others seriously in jured, by the full of a railway bridge at Chester. 26. Three hundred houses consumed by fire at St. De metri, one of the suburbs of Pera, in Turkey. 28. The Hon. and Rev. Dr. Herbert, Dean of Manchester, died, aged 69. 29. The cotton factory of Mr. Bushall, at Preston, de stroyed by fire, damage being sustained to the extent of nearly 5,000/. 30. Thomas Hickman, and five of his children, died from the effects of taking arsenic accidentally mixed with flour, at Kensal New Town, nea radon. 31. The Rev. Dr. Chalmers, the distinguislie cottish Divine, died at Morningside, near , burgh, aged 67. JUNE. 2. Eight persons killed by an explosion of firedamp, at Gerard's Bridge Colli er y, St. H e l en ' s , L anca shire } .- 4. The American steamer Etna, from Ouachita to New Orleans, blew up opposite the town of Columbia, when upwards of twenty persons were kill, d, and the whole cargo on board destroyed. 5. Seven persons killed by a collision on the North- Western Railway at Wolverton. S. Grand banquet given at the London Tavern to M. Soyer, in testimony of his philanthropic ex ertions fur the relief of the poor in Ireland. 11. Grand State Ball given by her Majesty at Buckieg.. ham Palace to nearly 2,000 persons. 12. Public roc:ning held in London, under the pre sidency of Viscount Morpeth, to promote the erection of a monument in honour of Caxton, the first English printer. 4. A colossal statue of Napoleon inaugurated on the field of Marengo. 5. The Queen and Prince Albert went iu state to her Majesty's Theatre. 7. Grand review in Hyde Park, in the presence of her Majesty and Prince Albert, and the Duke Con- stantine of Russia, &c. 18. The thirty-second anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo celebrated by a grand banquet given at Apsley House, by the Duke of Wellington. 19. The British Hotel, in one of the principal thorough fares at Bombay, destroyed by fire. 20. The house in which Schiller lived, at Weimar, pur chased for a large sum, by the corporation of the town, at a public auction. 21. The first stoke of a new Music Hall, in Long-acre, London, for the pupils of Mr. Hullah, laid by Viscount Morpeth 25. Admiral the lion. Sir liobort Stopford, G.C.8., Go vernor of Greenwich hospital, (lied, aged 79. 26. Several persons killed during corn•law riots at Mul bausen, in France. 27. The English Cardinal Acton died at Naples. 28. Inauguration of the statue of Frederick the Grei t at Berlin. 29. Four newly-appointed Colonial Bishops consecrated at Westminster Abbey. 30. The Robarts, East Indianian, of London, destroyed by fire, two days after her departure from Cal cutta ; the lOU of the vessel and cargo being estimated at 30,000/. The passengers and crew providentially saved. JULY. 1. The Town-hall and adjoining premises at Linlith gow destroyed by fire ; also the spinning mills ef Messrs. James Akroyd and Son, at Halifax, in which property of 30,000/. value was entirely consumed. 2. Grand entertainment given by the Roman citizens in the Campagna to the Jews of Rome. 6. His Royal Highness Prince Albert installed at Cam bridge as Chancellor of the University in the presence of her Majesty. 7. Thirteen houses burnt down at Greenwich during a storm, by the electric fluid. 10. The Mariners' Church, adjoining the Sailors' Home, at \Yapping, consecrated by the Bishop of Lon- ' don, in the presence of his Royal Prince Albert. Highness 13. M. Teste, Minister of Public Works in France, sen tenced to civic, degradation, a fine of 94,000 f., and three years' imprisonment , corrupt practices. 14. Twenty-one persons killed, and others seriously in jured, by the explosion of Messrs. Hall's gun cotton-factory, at Feversham. 17. Calamitous fire at Archangel, destroying nearly five hundred houses and three churches. 19. One hundred and fifteen ships entered the port o f London, chefiy laden with grain and provisions from various continental states of Europe. 20. The foundation-stone of St. Stephen's Church, Ro chester-row, Westminster,:laid by Miss Burdett Coutts, with the assistance of the Bishop of London. 21. Fifty-three Railway Bills received the royal assent, making the number Of 183 passed dating the present Parliamentary session, authorising the several companies to raise, in the aggregate, by capital and loan, 34 ,692,880 L, for the construction of 1,394 miles of railway, being at the average cost of 24,1871. per mil e . 23. Parliament prorogued by the Queen in person 24. The Boar's Head Tavern, Long Acre, London, with the whole of the stock in trade, furniture, and other effects, destroyed by fire. 27 . His Royal Highness Duke Adam of Wirtembnrg, Lifut.-General in the Russian service, died at Langelsewalback, in the Duchy of Nassau. 28. Admiral Sir George Martin, G.C.8., Admiral of the Fleet, died, aged 82. John Walter, Esq., principle proprietor of the Times newspaper, and formerly B.P. for Berkshire, died, aged 73. 30. Mary Ann Miller, under sentence of execution this day, for the murder of her mother-in-law, sister in-law, and niece, found dead in her cell, in Lin coln Gaul, having committed suicide by means of strangulation, leaving a full confession of her guilt. y 31. Theopbilus Wisniowski and Joseph Kapusezinski executed for, treason at Limberg, the populace showering on them crowns of flowers, and treating them as martyrs in the cause of Poland. Grand banquet given to Mr. Cebden, M.P., at Berlin. AUGUST. 3. An eruption of Mount Vesuvius occurred, the stream of lava being fifteen feet deep in width, and two new craters opened, throwing out an immense quantity of fire and stones. 4." The Eavl , of Dalhousie appointed GovernOr.General of India ar a eburrof Directors. ' 5. The funeral of Daniel O'Connell took place at Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, 7, Oevere sh Cairock °Fan ea rthquake fglt Alexandria laid o. -.;112i2r41, OCTOBER. 3. Twenty-one Spanish soldiers drowned by the upset ting of a boat while crossing the river Ebro, near Gandesa, for the purpose of attacking a detach ment of Carlists. 4. Narvaez, Duke of Valentia, appointed President of the new Administration at Madrid. 6. M. Leontre, responsible editor of the Reforme, at Paris, sentenced to four months' imprisonment awl a fine of 3,000 f. fur having published an in flammatory libel. 7. Great damage sustained by an extraordinary over flow of the river Tay in the country round Perth in Scotland. 8. The Right lion. Sir Robert Gordon, G.C.8., late her Majesty's Ambassador at Vienna, died. 0. The Queen Dowager embarked on board her Ma jesty's ship Howe at Portsmouth for Madeira. 10. The l)uke de Guise, infant son of the Duko d'Aumale, and grandson of Louis Philippe, died at the Palace of St. Cloud. 11. Tremendous hurricane at Tobago, destroying 510 h greatly iandniu injured. killing 17 p ersons, many oth ers b e i ng 14. The ex Baja of Sattara died at Benares. 15. The statue of Sir Robert Sale, G.C.8., the hero of Caubul, deposited in St. Paul's Cathedral. 16. The Rev. Dr. Ilodgson Master of St. Peter' s Col lege, Cambridge, died, aged 46. 17. General Thanksgiving for the abundant harvest. 18. The Royal Bank at Liverpool suspended payment. 19. Chartley Hall, the family seat of Earl Firrers, in Staffordshire, reduced to ruins by fire. 21. The Union Joint-stock Bank, at Newcastle-on- Tyne, suspended payment. P. Damage to the extent of several thousand pounds occasioned to the farm buildings and stack of Mr. Loscombe, at Andover, by the descent of a fire balloon. 23. The Rev. James Prince Lee, KA., Head Master of King Edward's School, Birmingham, gazetted first Bishop of Manchester. 24. Magnificent display of the aurora borealis, visible about 9 P. DI. throughout most parts of the king dom. 25. The North and South Wales Bank, at Liverpool, with twenty• one branches in the principality, suspended payment. 27. The new Corn Exchange opened at Birmingham, and a public dinner given in celebration of the event. 2S. Mr. William Davison, solicitor, of Bloomsbury square, London, committed suicide by throwing himself from the whispering gallery in St. Paul's Cathedral, whilst labouring under temporary in -29. The banks of Messrs. Brodie, at Salisbury and Shaftesbury, suspended payment. NOVEMBER. 1. The Queen Dowager and royal suite landed at Madeira. 2. London visited, from five to nine, p.sr., with one of the densest fogs that has occurred in the metro polis for several years. Major Mahon, of :Strokestown, shot dead by an assassin, on his return home from a meeting of the board of poor-law guardians of Roscommon. 4. The Queen of Portugal safely delivered of a Prince. 5. The Most Rev. Dr. Harcourt, Archbishop of York, died at Bishopsthorpe Palace, in his ninety-first year. 7. A solemn service celebrated in the church of Notre Dame de Victoires, at Paris, to invoke divine protection on the cause of the Sonderbund, in Switzerland. 8. The Earl of Minto received an audience of Pope Pius IX. at Rome. 9. The session of the Belgian Chambers opened by the King in person. 10. The packet-ship Stephen Whitney, from New York to Liverpool, totally wrecked near Cape Clear, on the S. W, coast of Ireland, nineteen persons only being saved out of a hundred and ten in number on bOard. 12. The Hungarian Diet opened at Preaburg by the Emperor of Austria, and the Archduke Stephen elected Palatine. 14. Twelve hundred and ninety pounds collected in the Roman Catholic parochial chapels at Dublin for a monument in memory of the late Daniel O'Connell. • 15. The session of the Spanish e. r C o o r rt f e o s r o t y p f z o ed ur a b t a n Ala kr d u r p i t d s London G aze tt e . 1 1 7 6 , The Th peb uy ß b i lt g ih ehh unprec edented teg e ne vi the D en r . Musgrave, Bshop of Hereford, translated to the archiepiscopal see of York. 18. The New Parliament assembled at Westminster, and the Right Hon. C. S. Lefevre unanimously re-relected Speaker. 19. Convocations of the clergy held at St. Paul's Ca thedral, London, and at York. 20. His Royal :Highness William 11., Elector of Hesse, died at Frankfort, in his 71st year. 21. Smart shock of an earthquake felt at Comrie, in Scotland. 23. The Swedish Diet opened by the King in person at Stockholm. 24. Netley Place, in Sussex, the property of J. Fraser, Esq., totally destroyed by fire. 28. The Rev. John Lloyd, of Smith Hill, near Elphin, Ireland, shot dead by assassins, on returning from the parish church at which he had officiated. 29. The Polish Refugees at Paris and in London cele brated the seventeenth anniversary of their rev°. lution. 30. The Provisional Government of Lucerne passed a decree, excluding the Jesuits for ever from the canton. DECEMBER. 1. Shandon House, near Glasgow, the seat of Walter Buchanan, Esq., destroyed by fire. 3. Six Polish conspirators sentenced to death as traitors at Berlin. 5. Six Liverpool pilots drowned in the River Mersey, by the upsetting of a boat. 6. Twenty fishing beats foundered during a heavy gale, at Newhaven, N.B. 7. Mr. Liston, the eminent surgeon, died, aged 52. 8. Four children murdered at Birmingham by their mother, a widow, named Jane Ridout, who after wards destroyed herself. 10. The Right lion. CI arles Burton, ore of the Judges of the Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland, died, aged 89. . 11. The Rev. Dr. Hampden, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, nominated to the vacant see of Hereford. 13. The editor of the National, at Paris, sentenced .to ' eight months' imprisonment, and a fine of 6,0001., for a libel on the Government. • 15. William Newton Allnutt, aged only . " twelve years, found guilty, at the Old rifey SesiCre, of the wilful murder of his grAndfather by poison. 16. A royal decree isped by. the King of Bavaria, abolishing ,in his dominions the censorship of the press. 17. The Archdlichess Maria Louisa, widow of the _ Emperor Napoleon, died at Parma, aged fifty six years. 25. Count Dubois, Prefect at Paris during the ga3pire, died at Paris, in his ninetieth year, 257 19 0 Deduct Net rental £366 1 0 Or a little more than 44 per cent. The foregoing statement shows only a return of 44 per cent., or a trifle more, on the outlay, being con siderably under what is usually looked fog on house property. We must not, however, take the buildings in question as a fair criterion to go by, for I consider they are built on much too expensive a plan for the purpose intended. From conversation I have lately had with an eminent architect, I believe a tenement o► dwellings for the working classes, of the same di mensions and accommodation, could, if judiciously gone about, ha built for about 30 per cent. less than Morpeth-buildings. A fair sum to allow for each dwell ing, not including the ground, would be, I am informed, 701. Now, multiply this sum by 64, and you have 4,4801. instead of 5,9651., making a difference of 1,485/. ; and leaving the price of the ground as it is in the statement, the sum would be for the 64 dwel lings 6,0871., which would, supposing the net rental to be the same, give a return of 6 per cent. The great drawback on buildings of the above description is that most grievous of all taxes, the wind6w-tax. It is, without doubt, the most effectual means of preventing healthful, cheerful, and comfort able habitations being erected for the labouring classes ; and so long as this tax is in existence, or at least levied on the present system, we Reed never look for cheerful, well-aired, or well-ventilated dwelling'. As a matter of course, this tax falls upon the tenant in the shape of rent; and as he cannot afford to pay for it, the landlord very naturally does all in his power to erect houses with just the light necessary to evade this tax. The net rental of Morpeth-buildings is 366/. is., or a little more than 4f per cent. on the cost, which is decidedly no t an a d equa t e re t urn; b u t d e d uc t t h e window-t ax , and the return will be ample. The window -tax on the buildings in question is 1271., or more than 20 per cent. on the gross rental, and 1 per cent. on the price, which, if added to the 4i per cent., gives upwards of 6 p er cen t. The window-tax on the Dock-cottages is 6001. per annum ; and owing to the depressed state of trade at present in I.3trkenhead, tr a d esmen are una bl e to pay the required rent, and consequently it is con sidered more prudent ,to shut them up altogether for the present, merely to avoid paying this heavy tax. 12,600 0 0 Gross rental of seventy cottages BO 0 0 DEDUCTIONS. Township rates. 70 cottages, at 303. per annum ...... £lO5 0 0 Extra public gas lights for avenue 24 15 0 Water, 6s.per ann. en 70 cottages. 21 0 0 '------ 150 15 0 Insurance, 4s. 6d. per cent, on 8,000 1 ........ 18 0 0 16S 15 0 Net Rental £6Bl 5 0 Or equal to 51 per cent. The foregoing statement shows a considerably higher return than on the Morpeth buildings, solely in consequence of these cottages not being liable to the window tax. This is an exceedingly hard case as regards Mr. Laird, for although the dwellings in Morpeth buildings h ave the same number of win doves as Mr. Hughes' s co tt ages, t h ey arc taxe d , w hil s t Mr. aughes's are not. This is the great objection to dwellings being built in flats, as the law has determined, that in any b u ilding with a doo r opining into t h e street, all within that door are as liable to the window-tax as if they were one house; consequently, as there are in each block in Morpeth buildings eight dwellings, each dwelling having five windows, besides three in the staircase, forty-three windows are taxed, making per blo c k, or .1271. on the whole te -141. Bs. 9d. nement- As to the convenience, comfort, and healthfulness of such houses , there c annot, I t hi n k , b e a d ou b t ; and now that Birkenh ea d h as shown such a praise worthy e xample in contr ib ut i ng so largely towards the health, comfort, and enjoyment of the labouring classes, I trust it may ere long be universally followed throughout the kingdom ; For it is a well-ascertained fact, that no means can be more effectual, not only for rendering a man a better member of society, but also a better labourer thin that of increasing the comforts of his home. 40, il em ilton•square, Bi r k en h ead, Dec. 13, 1847. SERIOUS ACCIDENT AND COLLisroN.—On Monday morning, the 20th instant, about seven o'clock, as the sloop Flora, of Inverness, belonging to Mr. Hugh Mac kintosh of this place, was lying, at anchor on the oth e r side of Corran Ferry, the mate (who was on the watch) observed, a t about a mile distant, a steamer, the Dun troon Castle, coming in the direction of the vessel. As sh e approached nearer, and still k ept di rect towards the sloop, the mate called out to those on board to change their course; but, from whatever cause, his advice was not attended to, and the steamer bore down upon the vessel, and struck her near the stern. On the sloop being struck, the captain, who was sleeping, instantly awoke, and, jumping out of bed on the c abin floor, found him self up to his waist in water. With great difficulty he made his way to t he deck, and , on arriving there, the board all cried to the steamer— s h e b e i ng men on at this time about a hundred yards off—to turn and save them, as they were in a sinking state. No notice, they say, was taken of their cries. They then betook themselves to the small boat, the bow-rope of :which, fortunately, was loose, and no sooner were they in than the vessel immediately went down in about six fathoms of water, not more than three or four minutes having elapsed from the time she was struck by the steamer to the time she went down. The men saved nothing but the clothes that were on them.—lnverness courier. RoTAL ARTILLERY.— Forty-five young men en listed by the recruiting party under Lieutenant James Clarke at ' qsbutne in Ireland, joined head quarters on Friday last, making with sixty previously, 105 recruits sent by that veteran officer in the month of December last. Captain Knox, recruiting at Colera'ne, sent about twenty young men during the same month, and there are now so many recruits in the garrison, in the various stages of drill, that they would b© suifident to form `mother battflion. . i .~ . _, ~:.~ '~.jt..s I