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is. we 'here sfac tion. tty. bat ; till we not, !ople ' THE BANK OF INDIA. Capital 100 Lacs of Rupees, or 1,00,000/. sterling, in 40,000 Shares of 250 Rupees, or 25). sterling each. Deposit of sterling per share. SOLICITORS.—Messrs. Hughes, Kearsey, and Masterman, London. BROKERS.—Messrs. Foster and Braithwaite. The Bank of India is established for the purpose of carrying on the general business of banking and exchange in India, Chins, the Mauritius, Ceylon, Singapore, and the other ea , tern possessions of the British empire ; for receiving deposits and snaking remittances ; for granting cash credits and making' advances upon approved securi ties ; for issuing circular notes payable in Europe, Egypt, the prin cipal stations on the Overland r mtes to India, and at the different establishments of the bank ; for granting local drafts and credits ; and for all other legitmate banking business. Application will be made to her Majesty and to the Government of India for charters of incorporation to limit the liability of the Shareholders, and power will be taken to increase the capital of the Company to 2,000,0001. The arrangements for the constitution of this Company are now nearly completed, and full prospectuses, with the names of the Board of Directors, will shortly be published. In the meantime, further information may be obtained at the temporary Offices of the Company, 4, Adam's-court, Old Broad street, London. AUBIN COAL AND IRON COMPANY. Notice Is hereby given, that the SHARES of the above Com pany will be delivered in exchange for the Banker's receipts, at the offices of the Company, 16, Cannon-street, on FRIDAY, the Bth, and ATURDAY, the 9th instant, between the hours of eleven and four. At the same time a report upon minerals and iron works of the Aubin Company, prepared aster a personal survey of the district and works by Professor Rusted, F.E.S., will be delivered to the shareholders. By order of the Board, C. STEWART, Sec. pro tern. Anbin Coal and Iron Company's Offices, 16, Cannon-street, London, October 1, 1852. FAIR HEAD HAIMOUR and NORTH o IRELAND .MINING COMPANY. Registered Provisionally. Capital 150,000!., in 150,000 Shares of 11. each. The Directors of the Fair Head Harisour Company have to an nounce that they have arranged with the proprietors of the adjacent mineral districts of Fair Head, and are in negotiation with those of Baliycastle (comprising in the whole upwards of 20,000 acres), to unite their interests with those of the Harbour Company, and Instead of a previous guarantee of 0 per cent., the Mines become the pro perty of the harbour Company. The Directors further beg to inform the Shareholders of the Fair Head Harbour Company that under the present arrangement they will have the option of receiving back the whole of their deposits, or exchanging the same for shares in the new company. Prospectures may be had at the Office, where also kiplica.tions for Shares can be made. 28, Cornhill, September 39, 1852 DEVON, Chairman. GRAVESEND STAR PACKETS. Fore Cabin. Saloon. To or from Gravesend and London.. •• •• 10d. .. Is. 2d. •• Gravesend and Illackwall and Woolwich Bd. .. Os. 10d. Between Gravesend and Intermediate Piers.. 6d. .. Os. Bd. Na other Packets call at the Grays, Greenhithe, and Purfleot Pierr. The Packets call at the Piers as underlined (weather permitting). PROM TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND. WEER DA YB. SUNDAYS. -I 0 , • Q .4 ' .7 GI '4 e g ''' .4 Z 4 Ti me. i , -. . . 1-.. 7. - : 1 E A . h .. 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Dr. GLOVER'S LETTER will be published in extenso in the next Number of the MEDICAL CIRCULAR, accompanied by an Edi torial Expose of the gigantic ;BEER PUFF, of Messrs. Allsopp, Liebig, and Co. Orders for the Medical Circular to be sent to the Office, 4, Adam street, Adelphi. The trade supplied by Gilbert and Co., Paternoster-row. READING SAUCE, For Fish, Game, Gravies, Hashes, Steaks, &c. JOlNand CHARLES COCKS, the Sole Proprietors 'and Manu facturers of the celebrated READING SAUCE, beg to caution the Public against the daily frauds practised by many persons, who are offering their spurious imitations as the Genuine Reading Sauce. This Sauce is patronised and recommended by most families in the kingdom, and for general use it stands unrivalled. It is sold by all respectable Fish Sauce Vendors. Be particular in asking for " COCKS'S READING SAUCE," which is prepared only by John and Charles Cocks, at their menu actory, Duke-street, Reading. All others are counterfeits. Ob serve the name, "J. and C. Cocks, Reading," on the seal and label of each bottle: without this none are genuine. CREMORNE GARDENS. On the Banks of the Thames, King's-road, Chelsea. Waterside Entrance close to Battersea-bridge Pier. Fare by Steam-boat frotn London-bridge or any of the interme diate Bridges or Wharf Piers, 3d. Strangers should request to be landed at Battersea.bridge for Cremorne. Fare by Omnibus from Charing-cross, 3d.; from the Cit y and remotes parts of the East end, 6d. At the solicitation oProprihtis eor, Mr. T. B. SIMPSON. f numerous patrons and friends, and in Con sequence of the rapt urous applause with which the new Ballet is received nightly by delighted spectators. T. B. Simpson begs leave to inform the public that he has made arrangements for ANOTHER WEEK'S ENTERTAINMENT. Positively the Last Week of the Season. The Pyrotechnic Displays by the Chevalier Mortram. A new Grand Spanish Comic Ballet, entitled Lo Barbier de Cadiz, every Evening, at Half-past Seven o'clock. An Uninterrupted succession of Entertainments from Three o'clock until near Midnight. Open at Three o'clock. Admission, ls.; Children, Half-price.Ou oundays, after Four o'clock, by Refreshment Card, price 6d. Table d'llote at Six o'clock, 2s. 6d. Private Room for Dinners and Coffee. IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS, JuSt published, by 11. Bailliere. 219, Regent-street, London. No I. Second Edition, with Additions, Bvo., in cloth. price 58., by post free, As. 6d., ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA ; with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors n relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers troll). Debility of the Generative System, or Sexual llypochondriasis. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. "Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practi cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medt cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his power to correct."—Londm Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851. —" The editor has conferred a great boon on the sufferers from this distressing malady by translating this little book, and by laping bare the scandalous practices of unqualified adventurers, who profess to cure a disease of which they know nothing, with no other object than to fill their own purses. The difference between true Sperma torrhcea and the various forms of disease which resemble it are accurately described, and thus a safe guide is offered for the treatment of the malady,"—Medical Circular, May 5, 1852. We have delayed so long upon the contents of the preliminary chapter, that w e h ave scarcely left ourselves space for any notice of the subject specially treated of by Dr. Pickford ; but the moderate price at which the ' brochure' is sold, places it within the reach of every one interested in the matter."—Dublin Medical Press, April 18,1852. o. . 'Svo., in cloth, price No. 6 I I T by post free, 4s. THE CURE OF STRICTUR E OP. , ples at once Simple, Safe, and Ellicient7llTevUeß its mETHRost I, Inveterate on and apparently apparently Intractable Forms. To w hi ch is n OBSERVATIONS ON THE TREATMENT () red, PRACTICA L SPERMATORR IKEA. BY CAUTERIZATION ; its Inefficiency and Danger. BY F. B. COURTENAY, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. "Those who complain most loudly are those only who know not bow to use the common instruments geon has been marked with all kinds of vio l ence , an Indiffe rence about the simple cure of diseases, and a passion for operations and all the excesses and horrors of surgery."—John Bell's Surgical Observations.—" In proof of his views he (Mr. Courtenay) has given the history o f a great many cases successfay treated, as b a d as any which M r. Syme adduce d , an d on which he had operated. Such are cases ix., xi., xii., and xviii. No, ix. had resisted, for a period of twelve years, the treatment by dilitation, and was finally removed in as many wee k s. B u t cases will. a nd Nix. appear, both in duration, gravated character than any detailed by Mr. Syme, an d y et the treatment adopted by Mr. Courtenay proved eminently successful." Proteasir Lizars on the Treatment of Stricture. ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF MARRIAGE, AND THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. WITH FIFTY COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL. In French, English, German, Dutch, Spanish, and Italian, in a Sealed Envelope, 2s. 6d., or post-free, far Forty-two Stamps, SELF-PRESERVATION; an Analytical Investigation of the Physiology and Functions of Marriage, in all the bearings in which that important subject affects the health and happiness of Man, with its Disqualifications and Impe diments, tracing their origin to the effects of juvenile solitary habits, Youthful excess, tropical climates, or close study ; followed by prac ticalremarks, founded on twenty years' experience in the treatment of I mpuissance, Nervous Debility, Local Weakness, Spermatorrhosa, . B, 3'Philis, and all diseases of the Urinary and Generative System. Il lustrated by 50 coloured Enzravings, on the Anatomy of the Repro ductive Organs and their relative conditions in Health and Disease. By SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D., 117. EDFORD-SQUARE , LONDON , Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin burgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiat e of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful consequences resulting from irregularities and excesses, which have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man o th hood,er class ,ase known to modern pathologists. The treatment adopted is founded on experience gained in the most celebrated schools of medicine both in this country and in continental Europe. The results of the knowledge thus acquired are here condensed under the personal supervisions of Dr. La'Mert, himself one of the few legally qualified physicians who have devoted their whole and un divided studies to this important branch of medical science. In short, every peculiarity re!atlng to the treatment of the diseases incidental to the generative system, and the means of immediate relief and ultimate cure are described in detail. The professional reputation of Dr. La'Mert, who has taken the most distinguished medical and academic honours at home and abroad, is in itself a sufficient guarantee that those who may place themselves under his care will, in every instance, meet with that delicate consideration and Inviolable secrecy which are so requisite in the treatment of these eases. Published by the Author, and may be had of J. Gilbert, 49, Pater noster-row ; 'Janney, 63, Oxford-street ; Stevie, Titchborne-street, Haymarket ; Mann; 23, Cornhill ; or free by post for forty-two Stars, from the author, who may b e consulted personally, or by I kilit trOm Tel; WI Twee WI ef9l3l_lsLic till MAL //,_ e.:"..),e____ f. ...._ .. -- • - .... .• • , -- •. ~ . __ ...,.._-_—_—. . - -- - --..5.: 0 ... .: ,-- .• -.. 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''L I - = o eilTh- -- - - -- . 3 It 1 v :,- ,' -•- t --,..-- - -e -. - §'T , ' ._, :44 7 --- -‘ 1.6 : 4 . , !0.-- -14 ' - -?4 - - - , - . 1 - :* , k .Y'- , 1 1 ,0e ---- \\ - . ~ --, r; ;- t -We,s;4 / 7 -.. t !: • ''''''''. 4/.+. .-11,,,, ' • \ ,- - . - •- , •- -; 1 7;'- yt 2- • , e,, ' ''.-3.- - 4' ' vg 'l4l7 ' 4 lY: k:c ' ' : -, ---.,,:,'„ ,--- -°:,M,....: - ..': .- k , ) 01 , 0a, ,,,, 54 ~.5. The following is copied from the Appendices in the Repertory of the Court of Aldermen, on the subject of the funeral of Lord Nelson, in the mayoralty of James Shaw, Eq., afterwards Sir James Shaw, Bart. _ y c o e n o s osfiuornio State'sh a , 0 84 ) , " College of Arms, Jan. 6,1806. " My Lord,—Mr. Townshend, Windsor Herald, attended at the Mansion-house to-day in order to communicate to your Lordship a letter which has been addressed to me by his Grace the Earl Marshal, and of which I have the Duke's permission to transmit to your Lordship a copy. " I sincerely hope that the decision upon the ques tion of precedency will be satisfactory to your Lord ship,meheaarvnehave, , sno however, n wn d i al to : h t ohlfe whichrun oayt Corporationyreeltetriaele take ifotvhnet the liberty the ha C en i t y y s u b f i. instructions at e n no d df o i n : . go oun l ar 1 int reference a uveo e fmr,ie, dn o rbssde c heincs Sir —prseo: Lordships r n cpetoo , hlrm,apai a , csli s Idete :B y Lordship iehlyh o nya u cesirut r eerhercewerteelbipeettearborh. "I shall with greet pleasure attend to the com mands received letter rd l o s ISAAC h t HEARD, i:i2d,e lan containingdGarter. o f i‘ira. ";The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor." ~ " Worksop, Jan. 4, 1806. desiring my opinion on the claim made by the Lord Mayor for rank in the procession in the funeral of the late es sword ofhe that st t he rd Lord Viscount Nelson, dated the I st instant. " From the hasty manner in which I have con sidered the precedents pointed oat in the report now sent in, I am of opinion that if his Majestyy attend s i n person,i Lo rd sh d th i e t rei s il h vl e id l t l hb b oe b o rn e erhvvi,sitAhlo b,lujetefe hint sotrtyh' Majesty' s pleasure w yd a t 0 , the placing his Lordship next the person of the King City sw ord (w seems to arise out of the circumstance and is sanc tioned by the precedents of his Majesty's predesors Charles I. and Charles IL, and William 111. end Queen Anne. In the procession on the accession of James 1., when the King attended in person, end the City sword was not borne, a different station was allotted to him at the funeral of Sir Philip Sydney, where the King did not attend, it seems the Lord Mayor and members of thee Corporation closed the procession as conservators where they had the juacisdictien, giving dignity and solemnity to a ceremonial which so much interested the feelings of the English nation and its allies. "I lament I hive not had more time to examine more minutely a case that relates to persons of such high consideration, and much wish for more time to reconsider it. I will immediately re pair to London, where I hope to arrive on Monday night, and request your attendance with the other KAngs of Arms and Heralds at my apart ments at the College of Arms, on Tuesday, the 7th, at two o'clock, and request you will have the goodness to inform the Lord Mayor (immediately), that in case he wishes to make any communication to me on the subject, he may have the opportunity to do it before I return any answer to the reference from the office of the Secretary of State. "I am - , Sir, "Your obedient humblo servant, " NORFnLK, " Sir J. Heard, Garter King of Arms," & . c. " Sir,—l have to acknowledge the receipt of your favour of this day, enclosing a copy of a letter from his Grace the Earl Marshal on the subject of my rank in the intended ceremonial ofLord Nelson's funeral. " As I have this day seen Mr. King, the Under Secretary of State, on the subject of the rank allotted to me, which, on a reference to his Majesty's direc tions—as far as I can understand at present, seems to accord with his Grace's feelings as Earl Marsha), and my own, it seems hardly necessary further to trouble the Earl Marshal with a meeting on the subject ; and, indeed, I have little doubt ere the re ceipt of this you will have received such instructions as will preclude the necessity of any further discussion on my part. " I have the honour, &c., " JAMES SHAW, Mayor." " College of Arms, Tuesday, 7th January, 1806. "My Lord,—l have the honour to inform your Lordship, that I have this moment received a ware rant, under his Majesty's Royal signet and sign manual of yesterday's date, directing me, as Garter Principal King of Arms, to marshal and place the Lord Mayor of London in the procession to the in terment of the late Lord Viscount Nelson in the some station wherever he would have been placed if the King himself had been present, bearing the City sword, provided, nevertheless that this declaration of his Majesty's pleasure be for this special occasion only, and not construed into a precedent for the fu ture, to the prejudice of the rights of precedency of any person or persons whatsoever. " I shall, my Lord, render a cheerful obedience to the commands of the Sovereign, and shall, ac cordingly, marshal and place your Lordship in the procession to the interment of Lord Nelson, on the arrival of the same within Temple-bar, between his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and the herald who precedes the great banner. "It is understood that your Lordship will, on this occasion, bear the City sword, unattended by your officers, and that the place of the aldermen, sheriffs, and City officers, will be the same as in the sketch of the ceremonial which was transmitted to your Lord ship by the Under Secretary of State, on or about the 17th of last month. " This arrangement I propose to announce by a supplementary sheet to the ceremonial already printed. " I have the honour to be, with great respeot, "My Lord, your Lordship's most obedient humble servant, " Isaac HEARD, Garter." 28th Jan.—" Resolved unanimously, that the thanks of this Court be given to the Right Honour able the Lord Mayor, for his judicious arrangement of this City's part of the public procession on the Bth and 9th inst., in honour of the late Lord Viscount Nelson, for that manly, temperate, and persevering conduct which procured him a warrant under the King's sign manual to hold in the procession of the 9th inst., within the City, the place due to the chief magistrate—viz., that of the first subject of the realm; for the perfect concord in which he acted with the committee of the other branch of the corporation ; for his excellent disposal and brilliant display of the military force of the City; for his polite attention to all the members of this court, and to every other per son with whom Le had intercourse on that solemn occasion ; and for his liberal entertainments, particu larly that at the Mansion House on the 9th when his hospitable table was attended by the muni cipal authorities of the City, and honoured by an us semblageof eminent p g e r r e so a n t e, ser r v e i n e d e e s re t d he d y ea h r av t e o pe h r i - s in the h onoura bl e pro f ess i ons ffoerllmowe,ictiotiztehnesir b, countrythe of the navy and army. The following has ben abbreviated from the journals of the Court of Common Council upon the subject of the funeral Common Council, 13th Nov., 1805.—The Lord Mayor acquainted the Court that he bad convened them together for the purpose of considering the late. glorious victory, obtained over the combined fleets of France and Spain, off Cape Trafalgar, on the 21st ult., when— " The Court unanimously resolved to present an address to his Majesty upon the subject. " 21st November, 1805.—The address presented._ "Nov. 26.—Resolved unanimously—That this e nua r t e eN c m te eo d lsr Nelson, And the Court do cause a monument to be of the letu.ivl d i la:L . 1 111 of d in t t toirel t i p o e L r p o r e a t u l a r t i e s a ' c t a committee appointed, consisting of all the aldermen and a commoner out of each ward, to procure models said ordesigns monument, and to lay before a fourtuderesigconusrftorsu ?he models as they shall deem worthy, with the expense , of er ec ti ng the same. They f urt h er resolved —that the said committee be di rected to o btain an inscription for the said monument wort hy to record the many g gallant actions, splendid victories, and eminent services 'rendered to his country by the great naval hero, and to prove to-j f u ture ages the very high sense the city of Londoi entertained of merit, as well as to stimulate others t,e emulate his bright example. " 20th Dec., 1805.—The Lcrd Mayor reported be had convened them together in consequence of a letter he had received from Lord Hawkesbury, one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, in relation to the funeral of the late Lord Nelson. Letter read. The Lord Mayor also laid before the Court a subse quent letter from John King, Esq., Under Secretary of State in relation thereto, together with a sketch of the procession by water and land, at the funeral. The Lord Mayor stated that by such arrangement the Lord Mayor of London was placed in a situation different to what had heretofore been observed, and that he should feel it his duty, that the dignity and rank of the chief magistrate of the City should not be departed from, inasmuch as he conceived that within the city of London no subject could claim precedency of him. The Court then resolved unanimously, That it is the duty of this Court to attend in St. Paul's Cathedral on all great national ceremonies, agreeably to precedents established on the late occa sion of his Majesty attending Divine service in that cathedral ;" and referred it to a committee, consist ing of the Lord Mayor, all the aldermen, and a com moner out of each ward, to arrange the attendance of the corporation on the occasion of the funeral of the late Lord Nelson. They also returned thanks to the Lord Mayor for the handsome manner in which he communicated Lord Hawkesbury's letter. 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Chief Office, 22, Moorgate-street, London. The new and peculiar feature of this Company is the Deposit Sys tem of Assurance, combining the advantages of a Savings' Bank with a Life Assurance Company. By this plan a person may invest any sum, from 11. upwards, and, without any further payment, at once secure a Policy for a certain amount commensurate with the age of the party and the amount deposited. Ile may also increase his payment, and thereby increase his assurance, decrease it by with drawing any sum at any time, or he may draw out all he has paid in. For example :—A person, aged Twenty-five, depositing 101. with the Company, will at once secure a Policy for 261. 12s. 3d., payable at death, whenever it should happen, with fall power to increase, decrease, or draw oni the 101. he has deposited. The humblest indi vidual may, therefore, reap many of the advantages of ordinary Life Assurance, and, at the same time, possess all the facilities of a bank ing account. Detailed Prospectuses, in illustration of the peculiar features and advantages of the Deposit System, with Tables by F. G. I'. Nelson, Esq., may be obtained on application to any of the Company's Agents ; or to C. W. BEVAN, Actuary and Secretary. Agents required in all parts of the Kingdom. INDISPUTABLE LIFE POLICY COMPANY. TRUSTEES. Richard Malin% Esq., Q.C., M.P. Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P. I .P J. Campbell Renton, Esq., M. James Fuller Maddox, Esq. William Wilberforce, Esq. COPIES of this year's ANNUAL RE PORT of the business of the Company, and containing Observations by the Manager on the present state of the practice of Life Assurance, as to the validity of Policies, may be had at the chief offices, or from any of the agents. ALEX. ROBERTSON. Manager. DEFECTS in the PRACTICE of LIFE ASSURANCE, and Sug gestions for their Remedy. 6th thousand. By Alexander Robert son, NV.S , A.I.A. Orr and Co. Price Is. PERIODICAL SAVINGS applied to PROVIDENT PUR POSES, with Observations o n F r i en dly and Odd Fellows' Societies, Freehold and Building Societies, Life Assurance, and Self-Pro tecting Assurance. By Is. Alexander Robertson. Orr and Co. Price PATRON-H. R. H. PRINCE ALBERT. DEATH of WELLINGTON The National Song, by Macfarren , . will be sung byGeorgaucil and, Esq., itt the ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, in his Evening Lecture on Music, in which he will be assisted by Miss Blanche Younge, R.A.M. By J. H. Pepper, Es LECTURES. . Districts. q , on Testing Gold, and on the Australian Gold By Dr. Bachhoffner on the Mode of Preserving Fresh Provis ions. By Mr. Crispe, on Morrall's Patent Needles. New Series of Dissolving Views, &c., &c. A 51111331011, is.; Schools and Children under Ten years of age, a a lf_p r ice. For Hours, see Programme. FIT! FITTER!! FITTEST!!! Verbs and Adjectives; sort them. E. MOSES and SON'S Coats for Autumn Fit with exactness, ele gance, and comfort; they are Fitter for this season than any pre viously produced; they are the Fittest illustration of E. MOSES and SON'S capabilities to design the most ingenious styles, to present them in the most Varied Materials, the soundest and most artistic workmanshp, at the lowest prices. E. MOSES and SON'S Sporting Dress, from its Fit, is universally approved ; its materia is being waterproof, render it Fitter for this season than any dress which can be obtained elsewhere ; ant it is the Fittest duty we fian dis charge to tell the world's public that E. MOSES and SON'S Goods of every description are better, and the prices far lower, than those of any other house. EMIGRATION AN IMPETUS TO TRADE. Wherever gold has been discovered it has given a push to trade, brought out capital, and called into requisition a greater amount of the necessaries and elegancies of life. To supply these, no Outfitters in the world could be so qualified as E. MOSES and SON ; their long established and magnificent business embraces every article required by emigrants, and every class of Goads which they may turn to the greatest advantage in any of our colonies. The magni tude and variety of their Stock, comprising the strong and sub stantial or the neat and elegant in everything the Emigrant may desire for his passage or his station. offers advantages in Quality. Suitability, and Price, to be found nowhere but at E. MOf3ES and SON'S Establishment and its Branches undermentioned. • Fall Lists of Outfits, and all information relative to a ailing of vessels and cost of passage may be had on application, or post free to any part of the kingdom. SPECIAL NOTICE.—E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments will be closed on TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY next, Oct. 5 and 6, reopening far business as usual ,on THURSDAY morning, the 7th Instant, at Seven o'clock. CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the public against imposition, having learned that the untradesmanlike falsehood of " Being connected with their Establishment," or " It's the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons. They beg to state that they have No CONNEXION WITH ANY OTHER HOUSE IN OR OUT OF LONDON, except their own Establishments, as follows : London City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, atinories, 83, 84, 85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1, 2, and 7, Hart-street, all communicating. Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19, Bridge-street. Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate. - Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers Furriers, Pant and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlen ion. The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on Saturdays, when business is resumed till Twelve o'clock. A new Book, entitled " The Library of Elegance," containing a full list of prices, and directions for self-measurement, can be had, gratis, on application, or forwarded, post-free, to any part of the singdom. A handsome Almanac for the year ending 1852 can be had, gratis, on application, Id I'on parle FrancaLs. Qui si parla Italian.l liter spricht m an D eutsch. Aqua se habla Espanol. R. CIILVERWR LL'S NEW WORKS. , -street; Mann, 39, D To be h a d of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho, 147 rice p Ploct One Shilling each ; by Post, Is. 6d. Cornhill ; or direct from the author ; ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. "Health, Recreation, and Rational Use of Time." COrrrExrs :—Early Risin g —Spring and Summer Mornings—Ex minions about the Environs of London—The rams, Lanes, Hills, F oo ts, Fields, Hi gh - road; and other pleasant places—Country Trips and Rambles—The Sea—London at Night—Evenings at Home _Music-hittsio—The Draala—On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping, Bathing, II Occupation, &c., Ego. Air, Rest,EaSe, FRAGMENTS FROM THE MOUN'TAnos Vol. I. -- Two You. VISIT TO THE LAKES VoI SKETCH OP EDINB/T RGu. Br 4, . H. TUE LAKES OF KILL LRNEY ; REBtimig_. `-' DUBLIN, &o. 414- clus or TH. WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID. " That three score years and ten our course may rm. . A popular review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner vously-debilitated health and enfeebled constitution, that & Lame the young, besets the man of pleasure, business, or study, and tem bitters old age ; with tables and roles for the diet and physical regu. .atlon of every-day life. Iv. THE PASSIONS. "What passions hurt the body—what improve, Truths as refined as Athens ever heard." Suancx :—Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The ad' vent of the passions. Chastity and its infringements. The casual. ties oflicentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations graphic, nu r. dive, and remediative. Advocacy of early marriages. THE MARRIAGE STATE. To be or not to be, that is the question." riOallaimg :—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and reli gion regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and choice, on both Bides, as to age, temperament, complexion, and figure, to' secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them. Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion. Cases, &c. By R. J. CIILVERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A. 1824). Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee in these matters. Reception hours daily till Five. Evenings, Seven till Nine. 10, Argyll-place, Regent-street. ti THE COURTS OF FRANCE, RUSSIA, AND GERMANY. Now ready, in 3 Vols., 31e. 6d. bound, MEMOIRS OF THE BARONESS D'OBERKIRCH, Countess of Montbrison ; Including Numerous Curious earticulars illustrative of the Secrel History of the Courts of Fraiace, Russia, and Germany. Written by Herself, Colburn and Co., Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CLXXXII., will be published on Thursday next, Oct. 7. CONTENTS: I. British Bards and Stonehenge. 11. lonian Islands.. 111. Irish Salmon. IV. Dr. Chalmers. V. Sindh. VI. Lord Langdale. VII. Gold Discoveries. VIII. Parliamentary Pros! cts. John Murray,. Albemarle-street. LAURENT'S GRANT) CA61.1,40, N RGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, St. James's, Lessee, Charles Emele Lauren t. Onslow Douse, Brompton-road, Licensed pursuant to Act of PF.r:liament, 25th of King George IL, Are Re-opened for the Winter Season. During the recess the Rooms have been entirely Re-decorated, by G. S. Bryer, regardless of cost. Laurent's Matchless Band eve Ty evening. Principal Cornet-a- Piston, 31. lloulcourt. Admission—O.' rE SHILLING. Doors open at Half-past Eight c'n clock. Dancing to commence a' Nine. and terminate at Half-past Eleven. NAVAL 1N ELLIGEN U. MALTA, SEPT. 24.—/. - esterlay the Triton arrived from Corfu, bringing the Large amount of 73 invalids from the lonian Islands, under command of Captain Smith, 30th Regiment. E;he had also 12 prisoners, seven of whom were mid( a. sentence of transportation, and five to be dismissed wait h ignominy. Sickness of a fatal na tare prevails, and numbers die daily—principally of smallpox and malignant fever, the latter carrying off its victim in 24 to 48 hours. The lonian Assembly b a 3 been dissolved, to meet again in 1854. I inclose ,you the Lord High Com missioner's speech, by which you will gain a clear insight into the cause. Sir H. Ward himself bad left Corfu for Constantinople, cal td would not return before the 29th proximo. Mr. Stafford had arrived at Corfu by the Fury on the Bth, and on the 10th .had left for England by Trieste. The Modesto had reache d Corfu from Athens, and, with the Scourge steam-fri gate, was lying there when the Triton left. The Peninsula and Or Company's steamer Madras arrived this mornit tic from the Levant. The following diary of tl le movements of the fleet is not generally known here : - - 9cn. The Tiger, from BI:t Re, joined the fleet. 14th. After a successio]a of calms, and when off Falconera, the Britannia an d the Albion were taken i❑ tow by the Firebrand ; the Bellerophon and the Trafalgar by the Tiger ; the Vengeance and the Phaeton were unassisted by steam. 15th. The Fury, detached on the 7th for Corfu, rejoined, and was immediat e ly sent off to Athens. 17th. Came to anchor in 'Voulah-bay, having been towed about 300 miles. Foun id a Turkish frigate, yith Admiral Slade's flag, two brigs, and a schooner. Sa lutes exchanged. 19:h. The Fury rejoined, .from Athens, and shortly after the Vengeance and the Phaeton. 20th. The Tiger has been. detached to the Greek islands, and will be absent three or four days. Admiral Dundas and 21,11 the captains visited Admiral Slade yesterday. His Turkish title is Muchaver Pasha. We shall remain till about the 27th, when we shall leave for Athens, thence to , Corfu, and about the middle of November shall reach Malta. A Russian brig, the Orpheus, from Athens, reached port this morning. The Sampson steam-frigate, last from Malaga, arrived also this morning, and will proceed to morrow to join the Admiral,. carrying dispatches. The Resistance troop-ship, with Captain Good enough's Company of Royal Artillery, to relieve that of Captain Ommanney here, also arrived yesterday. A few days ago the non-commissioned officers of Major Shone's company, who on their arrival in Malta received some attentions from those of Captain Om manney's company, entertained them to dinner as a requital in some respects, and in proof of the cordi ality and good feeling that has existed between them. The evening passed off with every demonstration of kindly feeling and in the most agreeable manner. Captain Brandling, Adjutant of the Royal Horse Artillery, and Lieut. A. King are among the passen gers by the Resistance, having obtained sick leave of absence. SUNSET.—The Medina, with the India mails, has not been signalised up to the moment of sunfire. She is quits due. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 29.—The Medina, with Indian Mail, expected since the 24th, only arrived at 4 A.M. The only matter of interest since my last is an act of high police exercised by the Governor, supposed to have acted in this instance under the influence of the Austrian and Naples Consuls ; it is no less than the ordering Mr. A. Lemny, late secretary to Kos suth, to leave the island within fifteen days. The Governor has refused to give any reason, so that be yond a surmise that it is owing to Lemny having published a book in which he has been reviewing the state of the Continent as regards the elements of revolution in Europe, nothing is known. The Power to send away foreigners, without assigning SPY mo tive, rests in Government by an Act of 1843, and was largely availed of during the reig n of More O'Ferrall, but it is painful to see is re sorted to b y Colonel Read. us t mad® her The Spitfire screw steam-ship has j number. She is coming in from the west. APPOINTMENTS. WOOLWICH, OCT. 4.—Commander--- Henry Need (1848), to command the Linnet gun brig, commis sioned this day at Devonport. Mate—Graham J. Eden (1850), to the Rodney, at The Terrible steam-frigate, Devonport. C sh .B e Captain James Hope, hav i n g her paddle the river , is is at to pr b e e se p n a t i i d n o t ff he at ri t v h e i r s , port on Saturday next. floats and the outer rim of the paddle wheels taken off, pre vious to her being taken into the basin to have a thorough refit before she again proceeds to sea. proceed with the The Blazer steam-vessel WAS taken down on Friday last from Deptford tow oolwich, and the Napier for the Monkey steam-vessel left Woolwich this afternoon with the Blazer in tow for ,leSheerness here the Blazer will be taken in charge of by Mr. Ay, master attendant at that port, and he will Cyclops steam-frigate and her to the Clyde, as the engines Duke of of 780-horse Wellington,O - ho re Blazer is to receive on board the machinery of the P l4l, er s ' cr m e a w de st b e y am-ship, late the Windsor Castle. The Cyclops and Blazer will bring the engines in pieces, and they will be put on board the Duke of Wellington at Portsmouth, REMOVAL OF NUISANCES. The following circular has been issued by the Poor law Board : " Sir,—The Poor-law Board are desirous of direct ing the attention of the guardians to the provisions contained in the statutes for the removal of nuisances and the prevention of disea se (11th and 12 th Victoria, chap. 123, and 12th and 13th Victoria, chap. 111 ), so far guardians as they arnedlattheetior offithe powers and d u ti es o f t h e eers. " The recurrence of th e diseas e of Asiatic cholera in an epidemic form in some parts of th e con ti nen t, though not sufficient to cau se i mmediate alarm in this country, is nevertheless c alculat ed to require a rea tshonosaeblpenahmlieoufuntneotfiocnaareriteus to whom th e l aw has id vigilance o n th e p ar t o f a ll en trusted authority with reference to sanitary measures for the prevention of disease. " The guardians will remember the duties which have been imposed upon them by the former statute in respect to complaints made to them of nuisances upon private premises. Under this statute they can only act when complaints are made to them by indi vidual householders, and have no power to commence any proceedings. By the latter Act (12th and 13th Victoria, chap. 111), the guardians are enabled to take measures for the removal of nuisances in private houses or premises upon a certificate of their existence from their medical or relieving officer. " It therefore appears to the board to be advisable that the guardians should communicate to those offi cers their desire that they should direct their imme diate attention to this subject, so that, when in the discharge of the duties of their respective offices, they , perceive that any nuisance exist, of the class and de scription to which these statutes relate, these officers may certify the same to the guardians. " The board, however, consider it most important that , the attention of these ffi o cers should not be di verted from the full d• hof th • lac arge their ordinary du ties, and they them distinct- request the guardians to express to conduct e d as in no respect to interfere " To prevent unnecessary trouble and delay, the guardians may, in some di str icts find it conveeient to supply their officers with ' blank forms of certifi cates, to be filled ap where they find that •ma exist, and to instruct them to leav e copies nuisances the s occupiers of the premises, so that the latter may re move , the nuisances without the necessity of legal proceedings. " These steps will not involve the guardians in any great outlay, and the board do not consider it neces sary that they should at present incur any additional expense by adopting other mesaures than those sug gested in this circular. " The board request the guardians to take especial care,that their workhouse is in due and proper condi• tion, as regards the ventilation, drainage, warmth, and general repair of the building, that there is no excess inmates over the prescribed number, and that no ward is improperly crowded. It appears also desir able that the guardians should bear in mind those articles in the general consolidated order, which em power them to make chapges in the diet of the in mates as occasion may render necessary. " They beg, in conclusion, to assure the guardians that, in carrying the" suggesticns of this circular into effect, they may rely on receivitg from this board all such advice and assistance as they may be able to render.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, " W. G. LUMLEY, Assistant Secretary. " Poor-law Board, *Whitehall, Sept. 30, 1852.' SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAL TIMES.—The present situation of the Burmese war, if war it can be called whore there ie no resist ance on the one side and scarcely any fighting on the other, is a paradox with which we might not venture to interfere, were it not that the army itself engaged and the public opinion of India happen to be with us. In a region where war is usually a succession of bold strokes, and where the difficulties of the climate and of the Asiatic character can only be met by the ut most celerity and decision, mail after mail tells the same invariable story—a large British force ander General Godwin, in the best possible position, with abundance of material, with the largest fleet of steamers ever collected in that hemisphere, with the native population not merely unresisting but con spiring and assisting --yet that force doing nothing at all. There is war, to be sure, for there are soldiers and warlike apparatus, there are deaths by the climate, and there is an expenditure of a quarter of a million a month ; but there the war ends, for there is no marching, no collision, no bloelshed, no conquest, no satisfaction for injuries received, or anything, in fact, for which the war has been undertaken. But the absurdity does not end here. The Irrawaddy is the Nile of the Burmese Empire, its whole and sole thoroughfare, and commanding the whole country. Like the Nile, it is navigable much higher up during its annual flood, ond, therefore, must be taken in time, or the opportunity is lest till another year. General Godwin literally stops the way. He chokes up the passage. Every means have been employed to push him, to draw him, to propel, to attract, to set him in motion some way or other. The Governor-General has steamed from Calcutta to give him a shove from behind ; Captain Tarleton has steamed up the Irrawaddy, passed strong batteries, taken the city of Prome, and captured fifty cannon, with only the loss of one man, in order to show the General the way. Yet all is in vain. There are people who will follow, and there are people who can be driven. General Godwin belongs to neither class. He is simply an the way. Really this expedition of Captain Tarleton with his steam flotilla up to Prome reduces the war—that is, General Godwin's share in in—to the level of an Adelphi burlesque. The gallant captain steams up the river half-way to Ave, and only regrets that his instructions do not allow him to go all the way and finish the war off his own hcok. H owever , he does a good deal of w ork with most ridiculous facility. The enemy, fr o m either cowardice or sheer stupidity, pre pares to contest one arm of the stream, and the captain steams up the other. He arrives at their city, and finds them all gone on the above fool's errand ; so in their absence he occupies the city at his leisure. He destroys their iron cannon, and puts the brass ones on board ; his crew take long walks into the country without seeing a soldier ; the popu lation welcome them, help them to destroy the can non, and wish them to stay. Time being up, the Captain returns home, doing a little business on the way with the so-called enemy—that is, putting an other lot of their cannon on board his steamers. It reads, for all the world, like Baron Munchausen storming a battery and coming off with a sixteen pounder under each arm ; yet, strange as it reads, it is all simple fact. Captain Tarleton returns to his chief, and says, " Here you see, General, we have gone up and down all the way, and come back safe sad sound. To certify that we have really been to Prome, here is all the enemy's artillery. Can't you do the same?" The General is not to be stirred. Though seeing, they say, is believ e, ag, he sees the passage of the river done, ' but does not believe it. What can be the principle, or motive, or rule of such conduct ? The truth is General Godwin was in the tlast Burmese war. In those days they had no steamers, and he will have none now. In those days the army marched cross country, and through swamps, forests, and all sorts of impassable places. They shall do so now. In those days more than half the army perished by disease, famine and fatigue. It shall do so now. Everything by precedent—marching, bush-fighting, stockade-storming, starving, sickening, dying—all by rule, according to the best received authorities. It appears to be wholly forgotten that if experience has its use within proper limits, it becomes worse than useless when it rejects all the new means and appli ances of war because they are out of its sphere. General Godwin may have a very lively recollec tion of the former Burmese war, but he is evi dently unaware of the revolution in river warfare which steam has brought about. Oriental warfare is a race against time, and we have already suffered ourselves to be beaten by several months in this instance. During that period, though the deaths in battle have been few, yet, there is the usual obituary of victims to the climate, and by this time we have lost as many as if we had fou g h t a grea t b a ttl e , an d on ly just won it. But the w ors t remains. General Godwin is waiting for the assemblage of a large force at Pegu, to consist of more than 20,000 men—that is, six regiments of European foot, twelve regiments of native infantry, and a full complement of artillery, besides sappers and miners. These are expected to be ready next month, and in December the General thinks the soil and the climatb will be fit to commence the long march from Rangoon to Ave, some 500 miles or more. Can any reasonable person doubt that half of these will perish on the way if the Burmese only take the ordinary methods of retarding the advance of the invaders, and so availing themselves of their best ally, their own climate ? Does anybody doubt that a fifth of this force will be more efficient if transported in steamers than the whole of it toiling on foot ? If Tarleton did so well with five steamers, what might be done with eleven, the amount of force under the commodore's orders ? The preference of the land route over that which nature and art have combined to give us in a fine navigable river and the possession of steamers is about as rational as the humour of an old lady who in 1852 should insist on posting up from Durham to London in her old family coach and four, instead of doing it et a titho of the cost, a tithe of the time, cud ten times as much comfort by rail. But this really is the most favourable estimate of the old General. We trust there is nothing worse than prejudice in this singular and, perhaps, fatal inaction. Unfortu nately, it admits of another interpretation. It is said that General Godwin is rather over-anxious to monopo lize the glory of the approaching conquest, and desires no river squadron, no steamer, no commodore, to di vide the prize. It is impossible to ascribe to him a jealousy so discreditable and so insane ; but equally impossible to account for his taking up his residence at Rangoon from any rational reason. Is there no term to such an error ? If the Governor-General is so con cerned at the spectacle as to have come from Calcutta to ask the reason, why cannot he cut the knot alto gether? He cannot. Though General Godwin is his choice, it appears he must refer home for the set tlement of any difference that may arise. To all the purposes of the present war it appears that the Gene ral is omnipotent. Indeed, we know not whether to wish him to move by this time, for if he perseveres in his plan of refusing the aid of the river, we all know the continual decimation his army will suffer. General Log at Rangoon will only be exchanged for General Stork in his congenial forests and marshes. CHRONICLE.—The progress of the Prince Pre sident through the south of France has worn, from the first, the aspect of a journey undertaken for the sole purpose of canvassing the suffrages of the people. Since he was already in possession of an authority inferior only in name to that of the most absolute monarchs, there is every ground for supposing that the obvious explanation of his intentions as the true one. From the date of the coup etat, Louis Napo leon has wielded uncontrolled power, and the Empire alone remains to tempt his ambition. For the realiza tion of that object it may fairly be concluded that the triumphal march through the provinces, and the solemn entry into the southern cities, were designed. From the language of functionaries who are vying with each other in expressions of devotion to the head of the State, as well as from th e ceremonial observed by persons who may be presumed to act under official prompting, it is difficult to draw any other inference than that the assumption of the Im perial crown is to be his next step. The tele- - graphic announcements made to the Minister; of the Interior and the deportment of the President himself, seem equally to point to the Empire as the legitimate denouement of a melodrama more extrava gent than was ever conceived by the fertile brain even of Alexandre Dumas. The official Ilioniteur tells us of the enthusiastic reception which has been accorded to Louis Napoleon at every point of his progress. It is true that less partial observers ques tion the unanimity and the sincerity of the demon strations so pompously recorded ; but, be that as it may, there can be little mistake with regard to the wishes of those who surround the President. They have systematically set themselves to assure the world that wherever their master bas shown himself the establishment of the Empire is the prevalent idea of the population ; and Europe is daily called upon to believe that, whilst the coup d'etat was necessary for the interests of the "Party of Order" throughout the Continent, the restoration of the Imperial dynasty is no less essential to gratify the national feeling of the French people. We may, perhaps, be reluctant to admit the truth of either proposition. These asser tions are but the pretexts upon which it is hoped that the further development of the existing system of Government may be justified or palliated; but the event can no longer be considered doubtful. Under present circumstances, the mere assumption of the Imperial purple is not perhaps, in itself, a matter of very great importance. The power of the head of the State cannot be enlarged—the degradation of France cannot be made more complete. Louis Napoleon cannot invent either a new pleasure or a new poli tical crime—his tyranny cannot be made more uni versally operative than it is. Neither France nor her President would feel the effects of the contemplated change. Nor is it very material to the other Powers of Europe by what title the virtual Sovereign of France may choose to be addressed. Whether or not he wears the Imperial crown and bears upon his shoulders a mantle adorned with bees, is scarcely a matter of vital moment. Such questions are, as Lord John Russell would say, exclusively for the consi deration of the French nation. Foreign States are not concerned either with the political forms or with the Court etiquette cf France. If thirty-six millions of people, for some inscrutable reason, choose to submit' to the most tyrannical of despotisms, their neighbours have no right to feel themselves ag grieved, however deeply they may lament the retro gression of a country which has already tested by experience the value of constitutional Government. But whilst the particular form which the existing tyranny may assume is a matter of secondary mo ment, both to the French people and to their neigh bours, the thing itself—the vast amount of power lodged in the hands of an individual apparently un restrained by the most elementary obligations of mo rality—constitutes a source of danger which cannot be too carefully watched. If we were to judge from the present apathy of France, we might infer that she was willing to submit for a time to certain evils, rather than fly to others that she knows not of, and again attempt the task of framing a free constitu tion. For minds, however, which neither philo sophy nor suffering has schooled to this pitch of indifference, the present situation cannot but, be alarming. At this moment the whole mili tary and naval resources of a nation possessing unequalled facilities for aggression, are at the sole disposal of an individual whose religion is false hood, and whose most approved weapon is perjury. Here is a man who violated the pledge which he gave to Louis Philippe as the condition of receiving his liberty—who threw to the winds the vows, false as dicers' oaths, which be made before the Assembly— and who calmly sanctioned the massacre of his fellow citizens to gratify his personal ambition. All who have put their trust in him have been deceived. Some believed in his integrity, others relied on his want of ability; yet he has succeeded in making himself the absolute master of France, and it only rests with him to proclaim the Empire. Although a mere change of official style is scarcely worth considering, and though it signifies little whether Louis Napoleon be designated President, First Consul, or Emperor, we cannot disregard the vast resources which he wields ; nor can we forget the hostility to England which ever characterisod the Empire, and the recollection of which the " heir of Napoleon" seems anxious to revive. Ever since his accession to power there has been increased activity in all those branches of the French service which would be most available for attacking England. Ship after ship is launched at Cherbourg and Brest—an enormous naval force is kept on foot by the Government—and all this without the most shadowy pretence of danger, immediate or remote. It is believed, and not without some foundation, that the official accounts of the French navy have for months past been studiously falsified, in order to beget a baseless sense of security on this side of the Channel. Cause of quarrel between the two countries there is none ; but under the present regime this matters little. Large fleets are paraded before the President, and, departing for a moment from his habitual reserve, he descants on the necessity of making the Mediter ranean a French lake. In spite of his caution, he cannot conceal either his own personal wishes, or the objects to which he desires to direct the am bition of France. The files at Toulon, and the splendid naval review, augur most unfavourably for the preservation of peace. Such signs cannot be disre garded. It is impossible to doubt that the " heir of Napoleon" and the claimant of the Empire is arming for a naval conflict. The character of the man and the nature of his preparations justify the worst anti cipations, and demand the most unceasing attention on the part of our own Government. A few months ago it was the fashion of British statesmen to take a most lenient view of the President and his coup d'etat. Lord John Russell. after bungling a good d ea l a b ou t " the broad seal of England," declared his belief that Louis Napoleon, in doing what he did, had acted ho nestly and sincerely for the good of France. After having delivered himself—we hope not without diffi culty—of that most unworthy sentiment, his Lordship proceeded to condemn the Press of this country for the language which it had held with regard to the affairs of France and the state of our national defences. In the Upper House, the expectant Minister, Lord Derby, and his sagacious coadjutor, Lord Malmesbury, adopted the same strain, and severely critcised those organs of public opinion which had spoken freely and honestly on the two great topics of the day. In spite, however, of that criticism, nothing is more certain than that everything which has since occurred, fully bears out the judgment of the London press, and not that of our over-courteous statesmen. The President has established a perfect despotism ; and, from what is taking place in the arsenals and dockyards of France, it is high time that this country should be made aware of its defenceless state, and in sist on the immediate adoption of proper precautions. Neither we nor any of our contemporaries are anxious to suffer the fate of Cassandra, and we trust that our efforts may prove successful in warning even those who affect to sneer at us, or who, like Lord Malmesbury, complain of our want of information. We only wish that that noble man was duly qualified to judge cf the value of the intelligence obtained by the English journals. If so, he would be a more efficient, and, perhaps, a more grammatical minister. But in one respect his repu tation is safe—no one will ever suspect of intrigue or treachery a man who is so obviously unfitted to con duct the most ordinary business. We doubt not that he is as honest as he is incompetent—and that is say ing'a great deal. But we confess ourselves not a little alarmed that the Foreign-office should be so feebly administered at a time when European politics wear an aspect of peculiar difficulty, and when England is obviously threatened by the unscrupulous policy of the French President. DAILY NEWS.—The legend tells us that Friar Bacon wished to surround Britain with a wall of brass as a protection against intrusive foreigners. As_ we have managed to do very well without the wall of metal, the chance is that the failure of the arch-con juror was no such great misfortune after all. A point of much greater importance to us is, that a portion of our countrymen, who have had had the power and the will to inflict much more evil upon us than any equal number of foreigners could, have long en joyed a protection from the punishment due to their iniquity as secure as that afforded by a wall of brass or any other material. The difference in the two cases is, that whereas the Friar intended to wall foreigners out, the metaphorical wall which we have alluded to has served the purpose of walling honest Englishmen in, and preventing them from overstep ping a boundary which separates them from foes of their own blood. In plain English, the state of the law has been such that a fraudulent debtor, whose property would have been justly sacrificed to satisfy the demands of his creditors, if he remained in England, had nothing to do but to evade the service of a writ by crossing the Channel, and his person would become inviolable, and his property intact. By stepping out of the kingdom he inclosed those foes, his creditors, within an impassable barrier. An agent might transmit to him the proceeds of property he possessed here, and he would be allowed the privi lege of spending, in elegant indolence, once again, a fortune which, but for the protection afforded him by the defect of the law, would have been in the hands of rude, unrelenting creditors. Alas, for the change that a slight alteration in the law will make in the fates of various ingenious and interesting swindlers. A fiat has gone forth which has produced wailing and woe in the breasts of hundreds of bad [PRICE SD. 1 debtors. On the 24th of October down goes the wall of separation which kept the eager creditor from pouncing upon the man who has been " in his hooka" for years, and who intended to remain there for ever. Boulogne fears something like partial depopulation, now that one means of swindling are about to be wrested from the hands of well-dressed English scamps. Baden and Homburg may rue fully upon bare tables no longer look glittering with the gold transferred from the pockets of honest English tradesmen. The loungers at Boulogne, the rattlers of dice at Bad en an d Homburg, are waiting with dismay the arrival of the fatal day, the 24th inst., which will let loose upon all of them who have property in England the horrors of English law. Their imagination must now be peopling the shores of Albion with process-servers, all ready to spring forward when the time shall arrive. They may see with a prophetic eye the day coming when an un grateful country will no longer afford its protection to swindling absentees; they watch mournfully the sacrifice of their property to creditors who have no shadow of title to the same except the justice of their claims. The Act which is to effect this great change in the circumstances of the truants is entitled "An Act to amend the process, practice, and mode of pleading in the superior courts of common law at Westmin ster," &c. ; and a clause which is to bear so hardly upon the men who " can pay" but " won't pay," runs as follows:—" In case any defendant, being a British subject, is residing out of the jurisdiction of the said su perior courts, in any place except Scotland or Ireland, it shall be lawful for the plaintiff to issue a writ of summons in the form contained in the schedule (A), which writ shall bear the endorsement contained in the said form, purporting that such writ is for ser vice out of the jurisdiction of the said superior courts, and the time for appearance by the defendant to such writ shall be regulated by the distance from England of the place where the defendant is residing; and it shall be lawful for the court or judge upon being sa tisfied by affidavit that there is a cause of action, &c., &c., and that the writ was personally served upon the defendant, or that reasonable efforts were made to effect personal service upon the defendant, and that it came to his knowledge, and either that the defendant wilfully neglects to appear to such writ, or that he is lie ing out of the jurisdiction of the said courts, in order to defeat and delay his creditors, to direct from time to time that the plaintiff shall be at liberty to proceed in the action in such manner and subject to such conditions as to such court or judge shall seem fit." Here is a successful attempt made to attack propertied swindlers in their strong holds. Heretofore a fraudulent debtor, by transfer ring his person beyond the boundary of the country, in numberless cases, preserved his property. This privilege exists no longer. A residence abroad after the 24th of October will avail but to protect the per son. As the person, however, is of no possible use to any one but the debtor himself—to whom even it is often of questionable service—all that is necessary for the protection of creditors is gained. A swindler residing beyond the sea, receives at the hand of the process-server a writ containing a message from the Queen, desiring his presence in court, and ending 1 with the words " take notice that in default of your so doing, the said A. B. may, by leave of the court or a judge, proceed to judgment and execution." The value of this change in the law, as a protection to cre ditors, is very great. Many a fair estate which is now supplying a dissolute absentee with the means of con tinuing a course of extravagance abroad, similar to that by which he has ruined confiding tradesmen at home, will fall into the hands of its rightful posses sors—those who have supplied such present owner with goods for which they have never received an equivalent. The Act will operate, in a small way, as an Incumbered Estates Bill—only always against the will of the dishonest owners. They will now be forced to do what all honest men do without forcing— ' pay their debts. The Act is also another step in the direction of removing an unfair advantage possessed by the rich man over his poorer neighbour. Pro perty has so many natural privileges, that there is no reason why we should go out of our way to endow it with such as do not essentially belong to it. Under the previous state of the law the proprietor of land, if he chose to be dishonest, had nothing to do but to change his place of habitation, and he might indulge in his vicious propensities to his heart's con tent. His estate could be managed as well by an agent as by himself, and his person was under the protection of a foreign state, whilst cut of England he could not be served with a writ. A tradesman, on the contrary, is unable to leave the spot on which his business is carried on. If he cheats his creditors, he must pay and abide the brunt. His absence would be ruin. While the rich man, therefore, escaped the punishment due to his misdeeds, the poorer man was obliged to stay and suffer the penalty he bad in curred. Though we are far from holding that a poor rogue should be allowed impunity because the rich rogue can purchase it, we still maintain that a state of the law which punishes roguery in rags, while it lets roguery in superfine cloth and polished boots strut free, is mischievous in the highest degree, as it impairs that reverence due to law which is the foun dation of all social order. GREAT GUNPOWDER BLAST. A monster blast by gunpowder, fired by means of a galvanic battery, took place on Wednesday last at Furness quarry, on Lochfine, near Inverary. The quarry rises perpendicularly above the margin of Lochfine to a height of about 80 feet, and presents a surface to the sea of 100 feet in length. Near the centre of this face, and 30 feet inward or back from the front, a vertical shaft was driven down through the granite mountain to a depth of 60 feet from the surface. It was 3 feet 6 inches square. From the bottom of this shaft two galleries or tunnels, of equal capacity with the main shaft, ran each 17 feet in length, in a line or parallel with the quarry face. A I the extremity of each of these little tunnels was placed a box containing a ton and a half of the strongest blasting powder, or, giving in separate divisions, a total charge of three tons, or 4,500 pounds. The great event on Lochfine was looked forward to with various feelings by various groups—by some with pleasurable excitement, and by others with sen timents of no small terror. The Condorrat band per ambulated the village to infuse a little pluck into the hearts of the natives. But in the majority of cases it failed ; for, about the hour mentioned, a very ex tensive emigration commenced from the district im mediately around Furness. The great mass of the lower order of Highlanders had no faith in the great blast which the big Sassenach was about to blow off in the midst of their own country. In fact, not a few of the old crones and gaffers conceived that the pros perity of Lochfine was to pass away with this mon strous explosion, and that the herrings would be seen no more. Accordingly, the movement was extensive —the young, the aged, and the bed-rid were carried off. But the people were not content to carry away their ancient kindred ; for not a few of them marched off with as much of their goods and chattels as they could carry. In fact, for miles around not a single soul remained near Furness, with the exception of Mr. Sins himself, his coadjutors. and a few courageous friends. Some departed in boats ; but the great majo rity betook themselves to the tops of the distant hill s , where they stood in groups watching the outburst of this Highland Vesuvius. But while the natives went out, strangers poured in, and took up their stations in the vicinity, some on the land and some on the loch. When the signal gun was fired, nearly all took to the boats, and went to a wary distance on the bosom of the loch, while some of the extremely cautious sort went right across the loch, and landed on the opposite shore of Stratchur. About a quarter-past four o'clock the last signal gun was fired, announcing the charging of the battery. But this first attempt to fire the mine failed, from the battery not being of sufl cient strength to carry the electric power along such a length of wire. The line was then shortened, and the battery carried to a spot within sixty. feet of the mouth of the shaft. From this point the battery was charged, and the stroke or explosion was most effectual. By those on shore the great mass was seen to rise suddenly, and then subside, accom panied with a dull noise like the g rowl of dist an t thunder. Those on the boats in Lochfine witnessed the explosion to much more advantage. They sa w the whole of the lower part of the rock, on a line with the bottom of the shaft, belch forth a s h eet of flame, and instantaneously the mountain rose, and settled down in broken masses. Clouds of sm o k e , th e pent-up refuse of 4,500 P ounds of gunpowder, rushed up from every disrupted crevice, and floated calmly away on the bosom of Lochfine. Those close at hand heard the sound produced by the innumerable masses of granite rock falling into the quarry below. The blast, therefore, has been of the:most successful cha racter. It is computed that from 7,000 to 8,000 tons of granite have been torn up, varying in size from five tons downwards. — Glasgow Herald. A PROFESSIONAL DESCRIPTION OF A HORSE: In a horse case tried at Leicester, Sir B. Sutton's steward gave the following evidence :—" The mare in question was a bad goer altogether. lie could make neither end or sides of her. She had no sort of hind legs at all. She had very bad ones. 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