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The holders of Scrip Shares in this Stock are informed that unless all such ARREARS of CALLS as are due by them be PAID to the Company's Bankers on or before the 10th of January next, they will not afterwards be permitted to pay any further sums on the said Scrip Shares, and the Extension stock, 114. 2, to be issued I. theta will be limited to the amounts they shall have already paid up. By order of the Board. C. P. RONEY, Secretary. IlLshopsgate Station, Des. 30, 1847. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 26, COItNHILL, LONDON. Capital £300,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages With respect to 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 conveniencies or necessity. 4ssurances for terms of years on the lowest possible rates. DIVISION OF PROFITS. The increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors at the annual meeting kehl on the 12th May, 1847, to declare a flfte banns, varying from 35 to 8b per cent. on the premiums paid on each policy effected on the profit scale; EXAMPLES. a I Perms- Sum the Annual Policy Bonus lin nent Be- Assured AM g ~.1i E I Pre- taken addition Bonus in duction of may bor =gi mitun. out in Assured. ; Cash. Annual row on on I Premiums. Policy. ......... -.-. - £ s. 4. £ s d. £ s. d. .£ s. d. r 1837 243 9 3,112 8 5 18 4 6 494 8 10 1838 218 4 8' 99 B'lo 15 13 5 445 0 0 £ As.d. 1839 192 110 86 9 3 13 4 9 395 11 1 60 100474 3 4 1840 143 510 66 8 4 919 1 346 2 3 1841 138 14 2, 61 17 6 9 9 2 296 13 4 1842 111 6 11 , 49 10 0 710 4 247 4 5 The Annual Report, with tables of rates, &c., may be had at the Mee, or any of its branches in the country ; or, on application, will be forwarded post free. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary. ARGUS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 39, TIIROOMORTON-STREET, BANK. EMPOWERED BY SPECIAL ACT OF PARLIAMENT. THOMAS FARNCOMBE, Esq., Alderman, Chairman. WILLIAM LEAF, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. Richard E. Arden, Esq. John Humphery Esq., Alderman, William Banbury, Esq. M.P. Edyrard Bates, Esq. Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman. Thomas Camplin, Esq. Jeremiah filcher, Esq. James Clift, Esq. Lewis Pocock, Esq. Kupert Ingleby, Esq. Plirsimax—Dr. Jeafireson, 2 Finsbury-square. Suitutow—W. Coulson, Esq., 2, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. Co:mut:rum ACTUARY—Preessor Mall, of King's College. LOW RATES OF PREMIUM. Persons Assuring in this Office have the benefit of the Lowest rate of Premium which is compatible with t h e safe! of Vie Assured, sat which is. agivalaut ta se ; ibey have AlMiliniaVellir a large subscribed capital—au Assurance Fund of a Quarter of a Million—and an Annual Income of 456.1)001., arising from the issue of nearly 6,000 Policies. ANNI7AL PREMIUM TO ASSURE £lOO. Whole Term. £0 19 1 £1 11 10 127 2 9 7 1 6 9 2 14 10 1 19 10 4 0 11 3 7 0 6 010 Age. 20 X 0 17 3 30 1 1 3 40 1 5 0 be 1 14 1 GI 3 2 4 For One Year. I For Seven Years, One•half of the " Whole Term" Premium may remain on credit lertseyen years, or one-third of the Premium may remain for life as a debt upon the policy at I per cent., or may be paid off at any time without notice. Policies assigned as a security to others, will not be rendered void in consequence of death by suicide, duelling, or by the baud* •of Justice. In case of death by the above causes, where the P.:Aides are not assigned, the gross amount of Premiums received will be re timed. _ _ Claims paid in one montk after proof!' have been approved. The Medical Officers attend daily at a Quarter before Two o'Clock, and Policies issued the same day. _ ...___ - E. BATES, Resident Director. A liberal Commission to Solicitors and Agents. LIQUID ENAMEL: The Liquid Enamel, for STOPPING DECAYED TEETH• without pain, Is a com bination of those substances, of which, according to the most recent 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 Tosoth-ache. Artificial Teeth, on a new and infallible principle, sup plied by Mons. de Berri, who also remodels o'd sets ; and those per sona who already wear 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 these already in use. Terms as is Paris, whore the charges are considerably lower than in England. 29, Percy-street, Rathbone-place, Oxford-street. At Homo from Tea till Six. MDCCCXLVII. and AIDCCCXLVIIL TO THE PUBLIC. ' " Look on this picture, and on this."—Shakspeare. As now another year is passed away. MOSES and SOS their wonted tribute pay; And freely own, with gratitude sincere, The many favours of another year. . Oft have their warn: acknowledgments been made, For vast success, and glodous public aid ; • But never did Bush staunch support appear, As that which honoured the departed year. - spi big. summer, autumn, winter, bear 'Rosh proof, Of crowding throngs beneath their trading roof. - Whoa January's frosts were keenly felt, , Thousands with MOSES liberally dealt; And Winter Overcoats. to suit the cold, Were purchased at their Warehouse Million-ibid. In February's month. and blust'ring March, the public sought the Emporium's lofty arch. In fickle April, and in milder May, .MO: 4 ES 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 matchlesk Autumn dress. In dull November, and Deoesuber, too, MOSES and SOX were ever kepflu view. And thus did new encouragements appear - Throughout the circle of the by-past year : Not only in attire, but boots and shore, And alm in the flars which ladies use • And throngs of buyers might we daily see, Obtalnining first-class Hats at Eighty-three. - In Hosiery and matchless outfits too, The trade at MOSES' Warehouse daily grew. The glorious marks of favour thus presented, Proclaim the by-gune 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, and orders swiftly took, And very swiftly filled each order-book. The Cutting-room at MOSES' mart has been, " A cutting sight" —an ever-busy scene. No time for idleness—no lengthy leisure, Could here be had for cutter, shears, or measure : All was activity in every part, And business "ruled the roast" at MOSES' Mart. Though scarcity of money roused alarm, MOSES and SON sustained no trading harm. No ; on the contrary. as people found, The real value of a current pound, They flocked to MOSES' Mart, assured that there, Unmatched economy is brought to bear. What sow remains ? A task devolves on MOSES, " Now Eighteen Forty-seven for ever closes. Most heartily do Messrs. MOSES tender Their thanks for what a generous public render. But thanks ten thousand times they might repeat, And leave the task of thanking incomplete. 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 superbly wrought. They sew the opportunity, and now, • A most immense reduction they allow. Such are the benefits which here await The purchaser of Eighteen 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 ; And may the friend. of MOSES (small and great) Enjoy, in every possible estate, A happy year to Eighteen Forty-eight. LIST OF PRICES. ZIADT XiDE. - _ Beaver Tagßoni .• ..... 9 0 Chesterfield and Codrington's, and every description of Over-coat, handsomely •. • . 1 3 0 The Pacha Coat ..............................1 0 The Milliner, especially adapted for snowy and wet wzather• ••• .• ,••• .......... The Premier.— ............. ....... • Boy's Winter Coats, in every style.. •• • ..... •• .. 0 6 Men's Do. Trousers, lined ...• .• •• • • 0 4 0 Doeskin .........• ............ 0 12 6 Dress C0a.t5........ •• .. Double-breasted Winter Vests.. • • .............. 2 0 Roll c011ar...... •. • ............. 0 1 6 Boys' Ilussar and Tunic Suits...—. ••• • .. YADI T• 111143111311. Winter Coats, In every style and shape, hand ' somely trimmed .. • . }torn 1 6 0 Milled cloth Over-coats, velvet collar and cuffs 2 4 0 Tweed Wrapper Doeskin Trousers Best, or Dress• • .... • • ••• . • • .•• 1 6 0 Dress Coat •••• .• .. Best quality made........ •• • • 2 15 0 Frock d 0........ .••• • • • Best quality made....• ••• • • . 3 3 0 Casnrnere Tests . ••• • • • ........ ••..•• • • • • .... 0 6 Satins, I'lain or Fancy ...• .. • ....... .......... 0 12 0 Boy's Ilussar and Tunic Suits ............ Great C0at........ •• • • .. A Suit of Clothes complete.. • ..... ... •• • • 1 16 0 Mourning to any extent at Five Minutes notice. Observe.—Any article purchased, ready made, or made to ama sure, if net approved of, will be exchanged, er if preferred, the money returned. . MOSES and SON, Tailors, Woollenirapers. Clothiers, Batters, H os i er s, Furriers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters, for Ladles and Gentlemen, 154 , 155 , and 156, 157 Mlnories, and 81, 64, 85, and 86 Aldgate, City, London. Cautiou.—E. Moses and Son regret being obliged to guard the public against impostors, but have learned that the untradesman like falsehood of being connected with them, or it's the same concern, hair been resorted to in many instances, aad for obvious reasons. They have no connexion with any other house in or out of Loudon; and these who desire genuine and cheap clothing, /ke., should call at, or send to, Minories and Aldgate, City, London. Notice.-11.To business transacted at this establkihment from sun set Friday. till sunset Saturday, wile* business Is resumed till twelve o'clock. A A E. .5 / 1 One half the world are desolately single,Daiftindae,t,tic, o the other a supposing them married, questionably contented. sense el right determine the former, hitter the latter. The so lit ar y o ne m a y shield him of caution and worldly p ru d ence , an d th e i n dissoluble, regret un an d mignal s n e n l i f a u t under e h r ° rhe p e re; comprosing hurry ; but the truth lies deeper. Physical Incapacity, Kilt broken health, ar e th e grea t hi n dr a n c es to domestic happiness and social content. Th e d owry shoul4 not be the only marriage set tlement. Honour end justicedemand tkat health sheuld form au item in the compact ;it alone dignifles the alliance. Llighted hopes or neglect wound more sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, if these surmises concern you, procure Dr. CULYELWELL'S little KY MDIILS 'On Single and Married Life, " pub. in 2 vols., Is. each (by void, in stamps, Is. Gil. each). Let no imaginatively Nllned, or prudish feeling deter you, by their titles. nor be hindered by mi sinterpretation of their supposed contents, Flom obtaining them * They are not intended certainly for mere idle curiosity; but for the closet Perusal of those mere deeply interested, to whom they are offered as antagonistic to the empyrical trash put forth on the above subjects, by unqualified authors, which alone or together, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other little publications claim your attention (same price Is. eacli, by post Is. Gd.) caned " What to Eat, Drink, and Avoid," and " now to be Happy." They are not merely pamphlets, but equal in quantity a library volume, ner are they the mere ephemeral scribblings of the how, 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 unto others as he would be done unto—tc live atter nature's laws—and to keep always on the "sunny side of the way." '— . . tion ; that you nave ever debarred your poor trom —.uric L.lfk NVollid illelllCate-0 do unto others as Ile wouldbeilon7t:ltto—tc live attor nature's laws—and to keep always DEATII OF A ETERAN.—Captain Robert Havley __ on the '' sunny side of the way." The above - works may Le hut of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row Judd, R.N., the last survivor of the battle of Banker's * How differently does Father Hughes, of Castlebar, 39, Cornh111; Nal:;on, 4!,7, - West Str. ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet •street ; M um, And • or d r irec a t (hy i post or other wise) from th e author (who io,. Ar m g a s y , i i y p ei gi c e o e n conferred nt ‘ .. s ' J H u il n l e , , a e n x d p o i r n e e d of on the he few survivors of the glorious Ist of 29th ult., at his residence at Chel- now stand before the public, clearing himself from the aspersions so groundlessly cast upon him, by the un.st mornings aad tunings), ' atr th cer Tat I Zl dist i nct, Christian- , Bccksellers tenham. He had been in eleven general actions with undeniable evidence, and in a mild, .) the enemy's fleets, besides cutting out vessels, and l ik e s t ra i n . fighting with the army on shore. 0 t-.. l, ''._---:-.---'-'" ~., -c - 1 :11 % - ,- , . _ , ... No. 17,249.] LON i)ON, WEDNESDAY, EVENING ROYAL HOTEL, GRAINGER-STREET, NEWCASTLF-ON TYNE _ A . CH - ARLES STATES solicits the patronage of his BROTHER TRIVELLEUS to the above Establishment, 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 *ll be found complete In every respect. The BED.ROOM3 (Sixty in number). have been famished I. a style which mist ensare the approtistiou of all visitors. Gentlemen travelling with STOCK can at all Yates have SLIM ROOMS *without any eAra charge. The Ainslie Hall, Lecture Room, and Royal Motel Assembly Room are all attached, and under the same management. The Royal Hotel is is the most central sitaatioa is Newcastle. T. COPELAND begs to inform the No bility, Gentry, and Public, that having sold his precut Warehouses to parties who require immediate possession, the exten• sive STOCK of PORCELAIN, EARTHENWARE, and GLASS Is on SALE at very REDUCED PRICES, previous to his removal to new Warehouses in Bond-street. 37, Lincoln's Inn-fields, and 5, Portugal-street, January 4, 1848. RIBBLE NAVIGATION. Notice is hereby given, that the HALF-YEARLY GENERAL iIEETING of 1110 RIBBLE NAVIGATION COMPANY will be held at their Office, Chapel-walks, in Preston, in the county of Lan caster, on Tinritsnav, the 27th day of January instant, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon. E. II AYDOC K, Secretary to the said Company, Preston, Ribble Navigation Office, December 30, 1847. CIII4 • TIIAS HOLIDAYS. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. Dr. RYAN has been engaged to deliver a short COURSE of LECTURES en Ci/ESIISTRY, with brilliant Experinionia, Daily at Half-past, Three, and every Evening at Nine o'clock, exeept Satur day Evening. A LECTURE by Dr. BACHHOFFNER on the Laws of Nature, in reference to tie important subject of SA NITARY MEASURES, and ea the various modes of VENTILA TION, in which the PHYSICAL PROPERTIES of a JET of STEAM will be exhibited Daily at. Two, and en Tuesday and Thursday Evenings at Light P.M. The OXY-HYDROGEN MWRO :SCOPE, New DISSOLVING VIEWS, the OHROMATROPE. PLIY SIOSCOPE, &c. MODELS of MACHINERY at work, and ex plained. The DIVING BELL aid DIVER, with HYDE'S NEW APPARATUS ter CONYERSINti ander WATER, &c. Admission, Is. ; Sehsols, Half-price. A LIFE POLICY PERTINACIOUSLY DISPUTED. This Day is published, Second Edition, price Sixpence, THE RISKS of LIFE ASSURANCE ; Suggested by a History of the Case of GEACH v. INGALL, In which The IMPERIAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, by the Verdicts of Three Special Juries, was defeated in an ATTEMPT to EVADE PAYMENT of a POLICY. London: Effingham Wilson, Publisher, 11, Royal Exchange. g OLD FLAT HORIZONTAL WATCHES, carefully finished, with engine-turned cases, jewelled in four holes, going barrel to continue the action of the watch while winding, are offered, price 6% guineas. These elegant little Watches will .be found to perform very correctly, and a printed undertaking is given, with fixed terms on which they will always receive any attention requited. T. COX SAVORY and Co , Watchmakers, &c.. 47, Cornhill (seven doots from Gracechurch-street), London.—N.l3. Second hand Watches purchased in exchange. Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Colourod Engravings on Steel. ON PHYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENEItATIVE INCAIA• CITY, AND I NIPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. New Edition, enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 2s. 6d., or by post, direct from the Establishment, 3s. 6d. in postage stamps, "HE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on theinfirmities and decay of the generative system, from ex cessive indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury, with remarks on Marriage, and the means of obviating certain dis qualifications. Illustrated .by 26 Coloured Engravings. By It. and L. PERRY and CO., 19, Berners-stroet, Oxford-street, London. Published by the Authors : sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row : Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; Starle. 23, Tltehborne .treet, Haymarket ; and Gordon, 146, Lesdenhall-street. PART I:treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive organs, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings. PART IL treats of the consequences resulting from excessive indul gence, and their lamentable erects on the system, producing mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative incapacity. It is illustrated b) Three Explanatory Engravings. PAR/111. Treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for their treatment. The consequences of early neglect and of the abuse of mercury, are also clearly pointed out. This section is illustrated by Seventeen Coloured Engravings. PART IV. Treats of Perry's Preventative Lotion, by the use of which the dangers of infection are obviated. It combines with the virus chemically, and destroys its power on the system. PART Y. Is devoted to the consideration of marriage, and its duties, The causes of unproductive union, are also considered, and the whole subject critically . and philosophically inquired into. THECORDIAL BALM or Svntecum itt exclusively employed In treat ing vows and sexual debility, impotence, &c., lls .and 335. per bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilitic rently, for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary symp toms, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, I Is. and 335. per bottle. Perry's Purifying Specific Pills, 2s. RI., 4s. 6d., and 1 is. per box, a certain remedy in gonorrhoea, elect, strictures, and chronic inflamma tion of the bladder. Perry's Preventative Lotion, an application to obviate the danger' of infection, 33e. a bottle. Consultation fee, if by letter, 11. ht. Packets with advice tube had at the Establishment only, by which the tee, 11. ,is saved. Attendance daily at 19, Bee ners- street, from Eleven till Two, and Five to Eight : on Sundays from Eleven to Que. DR. LA•MERT ax TFIE SECRET INFIRMITtre OE YOUTH AND MATURITY.—WITH 49 COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL, Just published, and may be had in French or English, in a Sealed Envelope, 2s. (id„ or post-free, from the Author, for forty-two Stamps, SELF-PRESERVATION; a Medical Treatise on the Physiology et Marriage, Infelicitous and Unproductive Unions, and the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Ma turity, usually acquire - at an early period of life, which enervate the physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural feeling., and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practice: Observations on the Treatment of Nervous Debility and Indigestion, whether arising from these causes, close study, or the influence .1 tropical climates: Local. and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis, Stricture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Indis cretion. With Forty coloured Engravings, illustrating the Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, explaining their structures, uses, and functions, and the various Injuries that are produced In them by solitary habits, excesses, and Infection. BY SAMUEL LA-WERT, M.D., 9, BEDFORD-STREET , .BEDFORD -SQUARE, LONDON octor of Medicine. Matriculated Member of the University of Edin burgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Member of tke London Hospital Medical Society, &c. marriage requires the fulfilment of several conditions. In order that it may be really the cause of mutual happiness. Could the veil, which covers the origin of domestic wretchedness, be raised, and Its true source in every instance disclosed, In how many could It be traced to physical disqualifications and their attendant disap pointments. Excesses are always injurious ; the gift, which when used in moderation is fraught with advantage, becomes, when abused, the prolific source of mischief; and of greater or less injury to the constitutional and vital powers. The particular excesses, on .he nature and consequence of which this Treatise professes to dilate, are productive of greater severity of misery to the human frame, than any other to which it is subject. This work contains an accurate and complete account of Use ,iiatomy and Physiology of the Reproductive Organs, and of their relative conditions In health and disease. It deservedly requires the closest attention and study, for what subject can be of more itriortance than the preservation of the health, and of the physical capabilities of which every man should be possessed. It unfortunately happens that the unhappy victim of excessive indulgence and vicious habits, whether acquired In early life or from the follies of advanced age, while suffering from their invariable consequences, unwisely entertains a sear 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, lava riably characterise the intelliAent and practical physician, and to the medical man who can show by 111,i posse-sion of the requisite legal qualifications that he is entitled to esteem an d respect in his profes sional pursuits, the utmost confidence should be extended. Dr. LA'3IERT has obtained the highest medical honours, as his diplomas certify, and the great extent of his practice for many years is a guarantee Sro his professional experience, which has reference almost solely to-the treatment of these diseases. Published by the Author, and may he had of Kent and Richards, 52, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Starie, Tichborne street, Haymarket ; Mansell, • 115, Fleet-street ; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street, London ; or, free by post for forty-two stamps, from the Author, who may be consulted on these disorders personally or by letter, daily, from Teti till rwo, and from Five till Eight at his residence, 9, ltedtord-street Bedford-square London. [ADYERTISEMENT.]—CARRIAGE FREE.—Families residing in the country ar9 supplied with Teas and Coffees at the lowest wholesale price, in quantities not less than six pounds, delivered carriage free to any part of England. Orders must he 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 ta•dealars, 2, Bucklersbury, Cheapside. WATER . JORES IN GARDENS. -- At Euston, in Ox fordshire, in the gardens of a certain worshipful gentle man, were the most artistic water ingenuities it has been our lot to meet a description of as existing in this country. They even drew down the marked approba tion of royalty itself. On approaching the spot a venere.- ble hermit rose from the ground, and, after entertaining one with a " neat and appropriate" speech, sank down again like a Jack-in • a-box. There was a small rocky island in the midst of a lake, which was full of watery tricks. The visitor was politely requested to walk up and view this spot : and after satisfying his curiosity, and pro ceeding to walk down again, the fountaineer would bob down, od turn a cock, and send, we dare not say how many, on all sides of the victim, one stream his r tl ita object his legs, another his loins, and ano ther e t a a d. l. A ok fte a r t t a his funny reception a , d h u e ck, w b a y s conducted the force of water spaniel hunting the automata diving andpursuing each other by turns. Beyond w asthe grotto;a hedge o f sparkling jets of wat er rose from the ground to guard it, mimic cascades foamed down in tiny to cataracts, and coun tless streams shot u rs and appeared lose them selves by being caught i n their return, and not sufl e r e d to fall down again. Here. too, a nighting a l e di scourse d very liquid music, and arched jets of water played with or.e another, and now and then with the visitor, all hope of egress being destroyed by the sudden pouring down of a heavy rain in the doorway. The sport which this caused was thought to be well worth the wetting. Pro bably the magnificent gardens at Chatsworth are the only places where anything at all similar to the above is now to be found. There are some practical wet jokes even here; and country bumpkins, in their native innocence, may be found willing to pay a visit to dip weeping tree. The visit is never repeated —Chambers' Edinburgh .Journal. DEATH OF A VETERAN.—Captain Robert Havley Judd, R.N he I, f the k '1 f B ket• LORD SHREWSBURY AND DR. WHALE. The following correspondence has been pub lished : " Alton Towers, Jan. 1, 1848. " My Lord Archbishop,—Having on the 19th ult. sent the following letter to the Bishop of Elphin, one of your Grace's suffragans, and not having yet re ceived any reply, it appears to me expedient to for- ward it to his Metropolitan. I have accompanied it by a letter to your Grace. _ . " Ir. adopting the alternative of placing these !etters before your Grace through the public journals, I hive followed a precedent now in common use, and have thereby anticipated by several days the pro mulgation of opinions which I deem it essential to put forth in our vindication. " Alton Towers, Dec. 9, 1847. " My Lord Bishop,—lt is probable, through the report of Lord Farnham's speech in the House of Lords on Monday last, that your Lordship has heard, for the first time, of the direct accusation brought against a priest of your diocese, the Rev. Mr. M'Der mott, of having denounced ajor Mahon from the altar of his chapel in Strokestown, 48 hours before his assassination. It is not, therefore, surprising that no public notice has hitherto been taken by your Lord ship of that .accusation. But, no doubt, the case will now undergo the most searching investigation at your hands, either that , the public scandal may be removed by the establishment of Father M'Derinott's inno cence, or that the outraged majesty of religion may be vindicated by the most severe ecclesiastical cen sures upon the offender. " There needs no apology, lam sure, for drawing your Lordship's attention to the very great import ance of the question ; for there has seldom been en .event brfcrre the public which has created so iively and so deep a sensation against the Irish clergy gene rally, however unjust that view undoubtedly is, and however contrary , to the impressions intended to be conveyed even by those who have been loudest in their accusations against individuals. "‘ All, indeed, will be astonished if no investiga tion take place by his ecclesiastical superior, and that immediately ; for all think, that for the honour of the church such investigation should precede any criminal prosecution on the part of Government, if unfortunately there be evidence against Father M'Der mott sufficient to put him on his trial for the crime imputed to him. " ' Again your Lordship has facilities of inquiries not possessed by the Government, and which for the ends of justice and the credit of religion, ought, it is asserted, to be used upon this occasion. The ecclesi astical censure—if censure he deserve—may reach him through the civil law may not, and as the offence is one which more particulary affects the integrity of ecclesiastical discipline, beii.g committed, as it is stated, m ',thin the sanctuary itself, so does it seem more peculiarly the province of his bishop to be the first to undertake proceedings which are now indis pensably necessary either to wipe away the stain of scandal, or to satisfy the craving Of justice. " This, my Lord, is also the more to be desired, since it will afford a most fitting opportunity of de nouncing the awful crimes now of such frequent oc currence in some portions of your diocese, and which have given such an unhappy notoriety to the county of Roscommon. The Bishop of Limerick's denuncia tions against the crimes of the people within his dis trict have exercised the most salutary effect upon the public mind, though they have come but with half their weight by standing alone. We have long been looking forward to a similar exercise of the eccle siastical authority in others ; and nothing, I am con vinced, would so much contribute to remove the sad impression now so prevalent—that even the higher clergy have proved, by their silence, the little con sideration in which they hold either the crimes of the people or their own reputation as Christian ministers. " Trusting your Lordship will pardon this intru sion, and attribute it solely to a sincere zeal fur the episcopacy, I remain, my Lord Bishop, with much respect, your Lordship's most obedient servant, " S IIREWSBURY." " Dec. 18. " The day after the foregoing letter was written, Father M‘Dermott's letter arrived in the Irish papers Objectionable as that letter is, from its general tone and particular expressions, yet it so firmly contradicted the main point in question—the denunciation of Major Mahon, that it seemed to remove much of the occa sion for an appeal to your Lordship; and therefore I abstained from sending mine. But as Lord Farnham now appears to have positively substantiated the fact of Alvjor Mahn being' in very angry pad ror.`"" - ful terms held up to the people at the chapels served by Father M‘Dermott in August last—a fact substantiated by his silence when accused of the offence—the presumption Is that the second accusa tion is also true—of Major Mahon being denounced on the Monday previous to his assassination. So that it becomes doubly necessary that the interference of his ecclesiastical superior should satisfy the public call for a reprimand on so flagrant and dangerous a violation of charity and decorum ; and not only are we now compelled to believe in the allegations against Father M'Dermott, but by his denial of the 7th inst. he adds the sin of tergiversation to his other delin quencies. - Nor can any reasonable man be expected to credit even the most solemn assertions of Father M‘Dermott as a Christian minister, after the truly unchristian manner in which—and we have it in his own hand—he behaved to the late Major Mahon.* " "ro the Right Rev. Dr. Browne, ' Roman Catholic Bishop of Elphin, Sligo.'" " 'My Lord Archbishop,—Taking advantage of this circumstance, and following the example of my very valued friend, Lord Arundel and Surrey, I presume to address a few observations to your Grace, suggested chiefly by your last published letter to Lord John Russell, of the 17th instant, and your reply to Lord Ardndel and Surrey of the same date. Against the letter to Lord John Russell I have the same remonstrance to offer as against all its predeces sors—that it is unjustly accusatory of the Govern ment, and unhappily excu:patory of those who are the enemies of all government ; imputing blame where praise was due, and yet, stranger still, apologe tic for crime. My Lord, I know that you repudiate the very idea, and I believe you ; but the public will not, because the whole tenor of your strictures ne cessarily leads to the opposite conclusion in the minds of those who judge you from a distance. " My Lord, you say, Remove the provocation, and crime will cease. This is your remedy. But sup pose the Minister had it not in his power to remove all at once the exciting cause, and that the stimulat ing provocative will and must exist for a time at least ; has religion no part to perform in the interval ? It might seem impertinent in me to remind you, my Lord, that man's life is but a warfare upon earth, that as long as he lives temptation will never cease to assail him, and so long will he have to battle with the principalities and powers of darkness. But, this admitted, is it not the duty of his guide in spirituals rather to teach him to resist his passim's, tha n to tell him he is not surprised that he should be overcome by their assaults ? If it be the duty of the Government—and no doubt it is—to ex ert every means within their reach to mitigate or remove the occasion of evil it is still mor e imperative on the minister of religion, whilst he preaches to their rulers, to preach also to the people —to instruct, to admonish, to exhort—to announce to them energetically and unceasingly that it is a decree of rrovidence that no temptation shall come upon them which they are unable to subdue ; that if they are oppressed, the lot of their oppressors is still worse than theirs, and that no provocation can justly drive them to thase acts of vengeance which it is now too much the fashion to admit to be almost a neces sity. My Lord, none will assert more willingly than yourself, that if they yield either to the allurements of vice or to the impulse of passion, it is because religion has no dominion over them ; either that its precepts are not enforced, or, being enforced, are neglected ; and that early education, and subsequent religious training, are necessary to elevate a man from that forlorn condition of our fallen nature, which if left to himself; would make him a savage even in the midSt of civilization. " My Lord, the public at large look to the prelates of the disturbed districts to inform them whether, in their dioceses, these duties have been punctually and properly performed ; and Englishmen must be ex cused in doubting it amidst scenes which stand forth so prominently to contradict it. My Lord, it is not only incumbent on you to satisfy the inquiries of :ill interested in the repression of crime, and the preserva tion of the social system against that destruction which now threatens it within your own boundaries and from your own, people, but also to answer the earnest appeal of those who have a twofold reason to deplore the evil—that it is a scandal to religion as well as ruin to the state. To all, my Lord, especially does it behove you to reply, when it is currently reported and readily believed, that in what concerns religion your Grace's diocese is in a state of peculiar destitu tion ; that you have ever debarred your poor from the benefits of education under the national system, without any efficient substitute of your own ; that you have never admitted Father Mathew within your limits ; and that, too, many of your parishes are without a school, and some o them without a chapel, though the repeal rent is re gularly levied and ungrudgingly paid. I am far from asserting, my *Lord, that in these matters common rumour doss not wrong you—l sincerely hope it does—but I do suggest that the occasi-m offtsrs you an opportunity for redress ; nor should tin ignorant or malicious be allowed, uncontradicted, to palm upon the world their solution of the difficulty and thus account through their own fancies for crimes which spring up as the grass of the field among a people hitherto proverbial for their religious perceptions. Like Lord Arundel and Surrey, I feel too keenly the reproaches cast upon the religicn which I profess in England, through the exe;:sses of some who profess Catholicity in Ireland, not to en. deavour so show that such are neither the natural nor usual results of the teaching of the ancient and universal Church ; and which I fear your Grace's answer to Lord Arundel and Surrey will by no means establish, for want of sufficient explanation an detail. It is for this reason, my Lord, that it would appear as necessary to address you now as if that letter had not been written. . "But my Lord, I must again refer to your letter to Lord John Russell. In the very same journal in which that letter made its appearance, complaining that no seasonable aid had been administered to the starving people, nor yet any contemplated, we are gratified by the still more formal repetition of an an nouncement from that member of the Administration to whose superintending care such office is more pe culiarly entrusted, that, independently of the poor- rate levies made in virtue of an Act which occupied so much of the time and.attention of the Legislature during the last session, the Government had a large fund in hand from which they were resolved to relieve those districts incapable of providing for their own amount of destitution. I refer your Grace to Sir G. Grey's reply to the deputation from the Irish Repre sentatives. My Lord, do not your strictures on the apathy and neglect of the Minister come with a very unjust severity after an effort such as no nation has, pet haps, ever yet made—and made at his urgent soli citation—to relieve the distresses of another ? If that effort were not altogether successful, if it still fell short of the necessities of the case, the defect at least was not in the intention; but may, with far more justice and propriety, I venture to submit, be imputed to the unerring though inscrutable designs of God, who so blinded the under standing of our rulers that his visitation might not be averted by any human ingenuity ; and I would even suggest it as a subject for reflection, whether that visitation were not aggravated—whether it be not very grievously aggravated at this particular mo ment—because, my Lord, every sufficient expression of gratitude has been withheld, both front the Go vernment and the people of England, for the very generous sacrifices which in their charity, as in their duty, they were pleased to make last year in favour of their suffering brethren in Ireland ; but which this year have been arrested by the scantiness of her thanks, the bitterness of her reproaches, the crimes of too many of her people, the' unrestrained violence of some few of her pastors, the apathy of still fewer, as we hope, of her prelates. When all were- thus scandalized and astounded, disgusted and dismayed, can we wonder that the sources of charity were dried up? " And thus in sadness do I approach another and still more afflicting portion of your Grace's letter. Would there had been no crimes but those ' deeds of retaliation' which you so deplore and execrate! No murder, no assassination, no robbery, no pillage, no injustice, no cruelty, no. foul atrocities to disgrace the country,' but those stimulated by the cruel and heart-rending evictions of thepoo:!' My Lord, if we trusted only to your description , for a faithful re cord of the crimes of the people, of all these we should gather nothing but the pleasing delusion that they had no existence. " But how is the fact ? Why, my Lord, in the very same journal in which I find. your Grace's letter, no less than twelve foul, unnatural murders, or at tempts to murder, are narrated with all their hideous details from the Irish . papers, iu the daily sanguinary column devoted to the state' of your unhappy coun try, without one of them being able to claim the extenuating excuse of being stimulated by the cruel process of eviction. .No I they are. all, one and all, so many dramas in that (lemon tragedy now perform ing with such appalling atrocity in the disturbed dis tracts in Ireland, under the multifariOUs and mystic characters 'of Molly Maguireism, Terryaltism, White fookism, Wh;t.htsy;.rn, it end so forth, cat members of one great conspiracy against property — that they who have no land shall have it, that they who occupy the land of others shall henceforth hold it for themselves alone. "In confirmation of this stateihent r beg to refer your Grace to the following eitract from the Dublin Evening Post of the 23d instant We have re peatedly stated it as our opinion that the parties en gaged in the perpetration of the frightful outrages that disgrace the country are, in almost all cases, idle vagabonds, altogether regardless of the sufferings , of the poor, but who take advantage of the prevailing destitution to organize secret confederacies. Up to this time we have not heard of a ,single case where persons really distressed have been concerned in this system of atrocious crime. Some of the best land lords of the country have become obnoxious to those miscreants, and threatening notices have been served upon them. "But our calendar of crime is not yet complete. I'o all these crying sins are there no abettors before the fact ? no accessories after it ? Is not every indi vidual offence multiplied ten hundred fold by the sympathies of whole masses of the people ? But against all these it is almost in vain that we look for denunciations from the high places of that Church to which the nation has been given in charge, and of which your Grace is so distinguished a member ! Of all these, my Lord, you are as silent as the grave, in which it would he well indeed if, once and for ever, we could bury all remembrance of them. " I am well aware, my Lord, that to those who ac cuse the hierarchy of remissness, you triumphantly refer to the solemn address of the assembled bishops in the month of November. But if that address has failed of its effect when delivered in the collected name of all, why has it not been tried in another form —from every individual prelate speaking in the midst of his own people ? " What part in crime, either violent and exciting speeches from the clergy, or denunciations from the altar, may have borne, yet remains to be proved. But you are told, my Lord, that men were denounced from the sanctuary in the morning, and as a consequence murdered in the evening —men, too, who were not of their flock, and over whose delinquencies they had no jurisdiction ; and, my Lord, your answer is, St. Gre gory recommends the treatment, and the ancient fa thers denounced the persecutors of the early Christians.' But unless you can show that the men denounced by the early fathers were thereupon shot like the beasts of the forest, you are arguing wide of the point; for that is the accusation brought against certain clergy in Ireland, and to which it would be worse than fu tile to reply by sheltering the accused under an ir relevant appeal to the great St. Gregory and the an cient fathers. My Lord, we pray for some better answer than this; or do we not ri-k your passing before the w or ld as a mystifier and a sophist ? if the denunciations be all a fiction, deny them by some less equivocal phrase than that they are not the practice ;' if ever they be made, whether followed by the fatal results attributable to them or not, from this moment forbid them for the future, ,if it were only to a cquit a dignitary of the Church of the imputation before the public, which with one voice calls for their suppression, and, which will accept neither apo logy nor explanation for their continuance. Claim no t' the right of denouncing aggressions against jus tice and humanity from any quarter'—it is invest . ing the priest with a judicial power which he is unfitted to exercise with impartiality—it is a right too ea sy to abus e , t oo dangerous to en f orce. My Lord, the . illustration is at hand. Father M‘Dermott charged Major Mahon with acts of in- justice and cruelty to his people; the Major rebutted t h e accusation, and solicited Father ;M‘Dermott to meet him and receive the explanation. Father Al'Dermott rejected the proposition with scorn, for he had already condemned him on his own ex parte evidence, and upon that alone had carried the sen tence of denunciation into effect against him. My Lord, this took place during the latter days of August and early in September last. My Lord, you neiLher excuse nor vindicate, but deplore the intemperate language of which we complain ; and you suppose' that the usual evange lical process of admonition has been used to prevent a repetition of the offence ; but, my Lord, the evange lical discipline required that for public sins there should be a public penance. A scandal committed before the world is not to be effaced by private ex hortation ; nor yet, my Lord, a!: you allege, are the many geed deeds, even of a long life, always capable of atoning for one great offence against society with out some special reparation as security for the suture. " But even now it would seem necessary once more to revert to the catalogue of crime. In that same list sad colum, on that same sad day, is also a long PUBLICATIONS. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE No. CCC LXXX VII., for JANUARY, price 2s. 6d. , . CoNTENTs. • I. Thirty Years of Liberal Legislation.—ll. Something like a Country House.—lll. Evenings at Sea. No. 111., The Surgeon. IV. Flechier's Chronicle of Clermont Assizes.—V. Don John of Austria.—Vl. A Night's Peril.—Vll. Switzerland and Italy.—Vlll. The Periodical Literature of America.—lX. Ireland and the Minis terial Measures.—X. Note.—Blackwood and Copyright in America. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. S 17 N, JANUARY 5 1 1848. of notices for death, too long to enumerate, not against exterminating' landlords, but against some of the best and mast merciful—those who reside con stantly amongst them, and employ the people and re lieve the indigent. No wonder, then, that we are all amazed at the silent apathy which seems to reign within the sanctuary, amidst this terrific storm with out. In times of old, when sin and turbulence had overspread the land, there were not wanting prelates !ci grasp the staff and sally forth into the region of contagion, that by prayer and exhortation—by male diction and anethema, if prayer and preaching were unavailing—they might stay the plague. But now, Alas ! each day is but the harbinger of crimes which ring through the worli and chill the blood, as one lends an unwilling—would it might be an unbelieving ear—to the thrilling story ; but of the strong voice that should be raised against them, hardly a sound is heard "My Lord, I know full well the merits of that Church of which I am seeking a justification, and whose best interests I trust I am here defending ; I know that even now her moral power, her privileges (or good, have not departed from her. I know that where peace and order and virtue reign amongst the Catholic population of Ireland, it is through her that :hey hold their sway. I know that the exhortations .)f the pr!est of the Most High have yet the force to %Hay the passions and maintain the resignation of the people under their unmitigated and enduring priva tions. There are none of any consideration in the country—be they within or without her pale—be they English or Irish—in Parliament or out of it (your Grace's repeated assertion to the contrary is a palpable mistake) who do not amply and honourably bear testi mony to this. Yet, nothwithstanding, to the public eye of England the guilt of a few individuals taints the whole body ; and so it will do, and so indeed it ought to do, till the hand of those who govern her be exerted to remove the stain. And our lament is, that these tew exceptions go so far to prevent the great ends and objects of a church. My Lord, lam fully sen sible that since that great and glorious period of her history when she' assembled within her halls the youth of Christendom, to teach them both the science of the saints and the science of the world—when she covered the land with monastic institutions, the re fuge of the poor and the home of the afflicted—the Catholic Church in Ireland has never yet been set fairly and properly to work for the accomplishment of her destiny. Nor can she be so as long as she remains in her present undue popular subserviency, any more than if' she were trammelled and enslaved by the State. It is now her misfortune to contend against every difficulty—against an antagonistic, deeply-rooted establishment, cherished by the land lord but abhorred by the people—hundreds of thou sands of the public money lavished upon churches closed to the poor, open only to the rich, but not a shilling expended upon hers—where two priests are wanted only one, and he, perhaps just turned out of college without either guidance or experience, an absolute dependent on the forced or the adventitious charity of his flock—her children till of late, almost wholly without instruction, and sometimes even now without a chapel—ever contending against the wiles of her adversaries, frowned upon by the world, and humiliated by calumny and misrepresentation ; is it surprising that a church so circumstanced does not al ways answer its intent and evangelize and civilize the people ? My Lord, I am willing to remember, tpo s in what a deplorable condition are these people (prover bially the most desolate and neglected in the world) and now weighed down to the very depths of destitution and despair by a succession of the visitations of Providence —famine and pestilence. No wonder, then, that the Church fighting against such odds is always hindered, ellen baffled, and sometimes discomfited. But, set her properly to work, and she will do again what she has frequently heretofore achieved—comfort and as suage, heal and cure, humanize and correct—turn a sinner into a saint, reduce confusion into order, and lawlesness into obedience—convert slavery into liberty, ignorance into knowledge, oppression into justice, enmity into friendship, hatred into love—and thus fulfil to their completion those great and ever- Listing destinies entrusted to her, and for which glo rious mission she is daily gaining new life and energy from that illustrious patriot and Pontiff who, now governs her from the chair of Peter. " But because in her present abject, disadvan tageous position in Ireland, she is unable to accom - plish all that is expected from her, surely, my Lord, that ialtio ground why she should not do her best. The public voice in England now pronounces her to be a conniver at injustice, an accessory to crime, a pestilent sore in the commonwealth ; and so long will she be so proclaimed till we are shown seine bettor reason than has yet been given us why Arch . 4 pswon Lair.. chaltlel rpm sin nnrPprPma n ded , and why Father M`Dermott should still be permitted to exercise his ministry. My Lord, I will trouble you with but one word more. This is not the occasion on which to enter upon the relative duties of land lord and tenant, farmer and peasant ; to expatiate on the vices of some, on the virtues of others ; nor yet to make suggestions for the improvement of those classes. I will merely express a wish that means might be devised to establish and protect the rights of all. An equitable tenant law wou'd undoubtedly be a boon as far as its influence might be felt ;'yet how is it to save from eviction, as too many seem to suppose, the cottier who, far from possessing the means of improving has not even those necessary for the cultivation of his. holding ? His protection must be in the Poor-law ; and I trust to see the day in which the Irish pauper will have the same right as the English—either to food or work. I desire now only to protest against the injustice—aud I deduce it from the whole tenor of your Grace's writings— of visiting the sins of a hundred successive Ministers on the head of one who has now to work against the accumulated evil of ages. As it is not in the power of man to flee from the wrath of God in the day of visitation, so neither is it given to him to transform a country torn with intestine divisions and sick with unnumbered ills, into a land of peace and prosperity in a single season • nor, irides , can it ever be done at all without the cordial co-operation of clergy, landlords, and people with the Government that un dertakes the task. " I have the honour to be, my Lord Archbishop, with all respect, your Grace's most obedient humble servant. "SHREWSBURY. "_To the Most Rev. Dr. Miliale, Archbishop of Tuam." Diss PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY. The eleventh anniversary of the above society was celebrated at the Crown, commercial inn, Diss, Norfolk, on Tuesday, the. 28th ult., when a party of about fifty, comprising some of the most influential gentlemen and tradesmen of the place sat down to a sumptuous dinner, which, like its predecessors, reflected great credit upon " mine host." The chair was very ably tilled by Mr. Thomas Farrow, builder, &c., of Diss. During the evening, which passed off with great hilarity and eclat; several overtures, glees, and songs were admirably executed by the gentlemen constituting the band and other members of the society, and which elicited shouts of approbation and applause. The piano-forte was well sustained by Mr. Owen Whayman, organist of Eye Church, in Suffolk, and teacher of music and dancing. The performances alto gether gave infinite pleasure and satisfaction to all present, and the delighted party did not separate till a late hour.—From a Correspondent. MELANCUOLY OCCURRENCE AT WOOLWICH. A very lamentable casualty occurred at Woolwich in con nexion with the death of the late Colonel Peebles, of the Royal Marines, who expired on Monday morning, as noticed in our paper of yesterday. It appears that at the moment when Colonel Peebles was suddenly seized with fatal illness, his son, an officer in one of the regiments of the line (we believe the 59th), who was at home on a visit to his parents, rushed out of the house in a state of great excitement to procure immediate medical assistance for his father; on passing hastily ou t of the gate of the Royal Marine barracks he was chal lenged by the sentry, and, it his excitement , paid no hoed to the challenge, but passed on through the gate. The sentry, imagining it was some soldier who wanted to get out of barracks, struck at him with his bayonet, which pierced the back of Mr. Peebles' neck, inflicting a very serious wound, the consequences of which will be doubtful for some tirae. It is said the the sentry did not exceed his duty, but surely some safer mode of arresting the escape of soldiers from barracks can be found than that of allowing an ignorant, and, perhaps half idiotic sentry the indiscriminate use of a bayonet, the use of which, as in the present case, may be the source of serious if not fatal errors. Hie.NEVOLENCE IN WESTMINSTER. — Yesterday morn inn tho soup kitchen in Lewisham-street, Westminster, was opened for the first time thia:season. The object of this and similar establishments, of which there are several in Westminster, is to supply the poor with a quart basin of soup and a penny loaf at the moderate charge of a penny, from which it will be perceived that no pecuniary advantage is derived by those who have instituted and presided over this practical scheme of philanthropy. The number of applicants, during the two hours which the kitchen remained open, was between 400 and 500 The establishment is to continue open for two months, to meet the exigencies of the poor during the inclement season which may naturally be expected. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RlVER.—Yesterday an inquest was held before Mr. W. Baker, at the Queen's Head, High-street, Poplar, on view of the body of Thomas Smith, aged 25 years, a labourer, who was drowned in the river by the upsetting of a boat, when four other men also perished. 'Two of the men, named Shute and Warner, were found a few days after the un fortunate occurrence. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental Death," The bodies of the remaining two Win uot yet boa answered. :----.--___ [PAIGE SD. THE EARL OF ELESMERE'S PANIC LETTER. Mr. Editor,—Notice was taken last week in your columns of Mr. Cobden's startling, and, as I believe, very rash proposal to disarm. Absurdity vibrates like a pendulum ; swing it as far as you can on one side, it is sure to go just as far on the other. Mr. Cobden says, " throw yourselves at the mercy of the French, depend on their forbearance, dismiss your fleet, disband your little army, save all the cash they cost; it is perfectly uselessly, and indeed mischiev ously spent, for if you will only trade with all the world on equal terms, there is not a man in it that will wish to harm you." This is ridiculous enough, both as to its fact and to its reasoning, but it is man • ful too. The manufacturer is not arraid fur his new possessions in Sussex—Sussex the most exposed of all the counties threatened with Sussex--Sussex, inva don. Other people have disputed whether we should guard our selves by land or by sea, whether we could not make steam as defensively as offensively powerful. Mr. Cobden would not have us waste our time about any such little ditlerences : free traie is the "leather" that will do it all. And still I admire his " pluck," and admit that by the 999th chance which might happen, but to which I should be very sorry to trust, he might by possibility prove in the right. But the over-valiant trader finds his antagonist in a terrified Lord. The Earl of Ellesmere has addressed a letter to the Times, from which it appears that his Lordship has long been suffering under a mute terror, but thse: Mr. Cobden's daring has fairly made him call out. He can stand it no longer ; " It is as well to be killed as frightened to death." For years and years he informs us, he has been living in the fear of in vasion, but he did not think it right to mention is publicly, lest the French should hear of it, and take him at his word. He told the Ministry ; but they would not attend to him. At last comes Mr. Cobden, with his tremendous speech to the South Lancashire electors, and Lord Ellesmere puts prudence out of the question, and favours the world at large with his notion of the situation and prospects of England. Let me not be understood as imputing any personal cowardice to our new-made Earl. I will not judge of his valour by what he chooses to put in print, though I may hereafter call upon Mr. Cobden to lead his forlorn hope, if ever, through his advice, the French should catch us unprovided. The Earl of Ellesmere may be, as a subsequent and very different writer tells us he is, as brave a man as any in exist ence—a man "to make London a Saragossa, or even a Moscow." I have only to deal with his letter, and that being as dastardly an address as ever I had the misfortune to read, being as likely as any production can be to excuse and call forth pusillanimity, wher ever it may lurk in an English heart, and to excite French bravado, by a picture of British quailing drawn by a British nobleman, it should not pass forth, either to ourselves or our neighb ou r s , w ith ou t an indignant protest against its pitiable misrepresen tation of the national power, and the national courage to use it. Lord Ellesmere sneers at Mr. Cobden as being in competent to give any fair opinion on the possibility of landing 50,000 Frenchmen upon our shores. He 1 takes it for granted that it is no vain fear to expect this, with our present navy. I shall not go over the old ground, made familiar to the readers of the Dispatch. His Lordship lands them. "I do not believe it would be impossible," says he, " in our pre sent state of preparation, for a French Minister of War to land on British ground a force sufficient in numbers, e discipline, and equipment, to march in any direction along the turnpike roads of England." Here they are, then ; and what would his Lordship have us do now they are here ? He goes on—" With our present means of defence, I believe resistance would be hopeless, and an attempt at armed opposition only productive of useless bloodshed." Again, "If the French were to appear at one end of London, the wisest movement the Guards could make would be to march out at the other." The poor Lord Mayor was de scribed by some one the other day as making some hasty effort to scramble together forces for a fight ; the Earl of Ellesmere would have him do no such thing. " The Lord Mayor would soon be busy with the details of billets, and whatever contributions might be accepted as a commutation for indiscrimi nate plunder." But his Lordship not only lands and brings his Frenchmen to London ; once here, he thinks they would stop. " Don't let them come, I say ; but if they do, let them return as soon as they can be induced to do so. I really do not see why they should particularly wish it. In the present state of this country, 50,000 Frenchmen would find Eng land as safe and pleasant a domicile as any in which the soldiers of Napoleon ever luxuriated !" Really, if his Lordship thought it indiscreet before to men tion his. alarm:a It-et the Preach ebould take ad want e t r.. of our weakness, the panic has got the better of him now. 50,000 men have only to land, as he says they may, walk to London, make the Mayor find them the most agreeable quarters and the choicest turtle, as long as they please, with plenty of cash into the bargain, and then march off, when they are tired of luxury, with as much as they can carry, and our very hearty thanks for ridding us of their presence. No alarmist has yet drawn such a picture as this. No bait has been held out to foreign brigandage half so irresistibly tempting. Our fleet is nothing, and the army we have is to run away ! Did it not occur to his Lord ship, when he wrote all this, that he was selling us a little too cheap? Not one tussle for it in Old Eng land ? I have said that I admit his Lordship's per sonal bravery ; but he is a dilettante dramatic author ; I beg, then, to ask him if he were to describe a noble man giving this sort of advice and encouragement to his fellow-countrymen, what sort of character would he assign to him in his play ? I think it would be a mistake to make him a hero or a statesman. There was a dramatic poet who painted an English leader with a few overworn, sick, and dispirited men hemmed in by a fresh and well-appointed army of ten times their number. The description is this :—• "Upon his royal face there is no note How dread an army hath enrounded him ; Nor doth lie dedicate one jot of colour Unto the weary and all-watched light, But freshly looks and overbears attaint. With cheerful semblance and sweet majesty ; That every wretch, pining and pale before, Beholding him, plucks comfort from his looks. A largess universal, like the sun, his liberal eye doth give to every one, Thawing cold fear." The leader was Henry the Fifth, and his few " pale and pining wretches" won Agincourt. And it is the business of an English nobleman in these days to keep up this heart in those over whom his rank makes him a leader. He is not to publish to the world that the old indomitable spirit can do nothing. He is not to tell those who will believe him among his fellow-subjects, that to shed their blood would be " useless." He is not to preach panic, and counsel running away. His Lordship says he is not well enough to attend in his place in Parliament, and therefore he writes this precious mischief, this dis graceful appeal to poltroonery. In Parliament he would not have been heard through. Laughter would have stopped the speech, if not sheer contempt. I will suppose that his Lordship is in a sort of feverish dream; but his friends should not have permitted him to publish the ravings of his weakness. They do great harm, as everything does that would lower confidence, in a case where resolution would be our only safety. There could be no greater treason than to bid the men of this nation throw away their arms in the belief that their chance was desperate. Des perate it would never be but from pusillanimity. This letter of Lord Ellesmere's fortunately calls up another writer, evidently an old soldier, who signs himself " Philalethes," and who shows in so many plain and simple words, that we should defend our land, and that we could do so, even were his Lord ship's 50,000 Frenchmen landed in Sussex. We should do so, because to abandon London to any enemy, would be to give him not only its treasures, but whatever terms, even to the dismemberment of the empire, he might choose to ask ; and we could do it, by that devotion which the Earl so patriotically discourages. He sneers at Mr. Cobden's want of military knowledge. What, then, shall we say to his own, which he puts forth so pragmatically ? Send the women and the unarmed away says Philalethes, by all the conveyances we have, and bring back all who have arms, and can use them. Cut up the roads on the enemy's advance, fell trees and encumber their passage. Send thefew regulars forward to the best points of defence, and push on the r&nforcements to them as they come up, yeomanry, gentry, volunteers of all sorts, mounted and on foot. Line the hedges, occupy the farms and the country seats, and, if at last we should be di iven into London, make every street a battle-field till each enemy is dead or a pri soner. And Philalethes justly adds that 50,000 in vaders would be no more in the hands of the entire population than the 1,500 French were in the hands of the Welsh militia at Fishguard. And what does this writer propose more than every Englishman would be anxious to do ? Courage and obedience to a general plan give a chance for life always ; cowardice and anarchy never. Our raw recruits helped to win Waterloo by keeping their ground when they ought, as Napoleon said, to have consi dered themselves beaten. They would not consider anything of the kind. Many died, but not half that would have fallen had they run away. What father or husband, capable of handling a musket, but would feel that the way to save his wife and children from outrage or murder would be to go tbrward an meet the danger? Every man kill his man, and p, would ' et be to do something. It is, Sir, a very sad thing that we should be led into any such anticipations. The very indulgence of them is harmful to the enlightened hopes of peace. t!. Bat the discussion once begun, it cannot be avoided, _ and it is of the last importance for the people that the 'a matter should be settled at once and definitively. I deprecate beyond measure the constant renewal of 7 , these irritating subjects, and still more any necessity' that leads to it. It is the business of the Government silently, and thereby without offence, to provide for the efficient safeguard of the realm. This paper h, never ceased in its claim for the performance of toa s t duty. England requires so small a force for this pm-pose, that its amount is quite answer enough to Europe that it cannot be used for aggressive purposes.lf France chooses to play the frog with the ox, in mim:.ck. ing our fleet, let her; the folly is suicidal. if we mea sure things. by needs, we must have a large navy, and she requires but a moderate one. Let us hit, in the expense, the right medium between fright and ovet confidence. It is, doubtless, cheapest to he prepared; no more of such economy as stripped the dockyards. And as such men as the Earl of Ellesmere evidently feel that their " stake in the country" is the thing to be defended, as they are well-content, and only desire to keep things as they are, let the tax that pals for the new army fall on the properties it guards. .• Lord Francis Egerton was made Earl of Ellesmere ; 1 principally because he is immensely rich. If riches are to make such senators for us, let their wealthdit least, serve their country. Another Lord, Lord IngesU'e t asserts that we want nothir g - but a due appreeiatioa of Capt. Warner's shells. I would leave him to talk over this with the Earl. But our true safety is, in common prudence, in the honest resolution of our Government to ask for what is wanted, and na more—in its aban donment of all party patronage in the services,-in justice and sufficient pay to the seaman—in a rational method of ship-'wilding—in good treatment for the soldier—and if the worst should come, if' we are beaten after taking all these wise and honourable precautions, then in the old bull-dog resolution that will fasten and not leave its hold hut with life. May we never need the help of one of these means; but the surest way not to need one is to keep all :egay,- - The mission of England is peace and good uwf fellow shiposer:ths ew t ei o ne a t ta h nbm e ul oiswttwyo only d even yee ; nr t eb h dbe e y ar r tse i ha g ae, hand is honestly ready return tatoustrndeonfulbi for our het ei held among our the dv fi a s n t es i f . Weekly Dispatch. CAUSTIC. THE JEWISH DISABILITIES RELIEF BILL. We yesterday received a copy of this important measure from the Parliamentary Paper-office. It is entitled, " A Bill for the Relief of her Majesty's subjects professing the Jewish Religion," and is en dorsed with the names of Lord John Russell, Sir George Grey, and Viscount Morpeth. The number of clauses amounts to ten. The first clause substi tutes the following form of oath to be taken by the Queen's Jewish subjects (including public function aries and Members of Parliament) instead of the obnoxious formula, "on the true faith of a Christian," viz.:- "I. A. 8., do solemnly promise and swear, that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to her Majesty Queen Victoria, and will defend her to the utmost of my power against all conspiracies and attempts whatever which shall be made against her person, crown, and-dignity ; and I will do my utmost endeavour to disclose and make known to her Majesty, her heirs and successors, all treasons and traitc•ous conspiracies which may be formed agailitt..‘?tr or them ; and I do faithfully promise to nl• tain, support, and defend, to the utmost of any power, the succession of the Crown, which sac= cession, by an Act, entitled, 'An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject,' is and stands limited to the Princess Sophia, Electress of Hanover, and the heirs of her, body, being Protestants, hereby utterly renouncing and abjuring any obedience or al legiance to any other person claiming or pretending a right to the crown of this realm ; and I do declare that I do not believe that any foreign prince, prelate, person, state, or potentate hath or ought to have any temporal or civil jurisdiction, power, superiority, or pre-eminence, directly or indirectly, within this realm : I do swear that I will defend, to the utmost of my power, the settlement of property within this realm, as established by the laws ; and I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any intention to subvert the present Church establishment as settled by law within this realm; and I do solemnly swear that I will never exercise any privilege to which I am or may become entitled to disturb or wcaken tnr Protestant religion or Protestant Government in the United Kingdom ; and I do solemnly, in the presence • of God, profess, testify, and declare that I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words (.f this oath, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation what soever. " So help me God." This oath is to be taken in the same manner as Jews are now sworn in courts of justice, &c. The sth clause allow .r p•-tc,,,,iog the diVish religion to make the declaration set forth in the Act Bth and 9th Victoria, cap. 52, instead of that pre scribed in the Act 9th George IV., cap. 17 (Repeal of Sacramental Test Act), in all casys which are not within the provisions of the last recited Act ; and, in short, extends the relief sought for in the widest and most universal manner. A few restrictions -are still retained, such as the disqualification of Jews to exercise the office of guardians and justices, or Re gent of the United Kingdom, that of Lord Chancellor, that of Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and that of her Majesty's High Commissioner to the General Assem bly of the Scotch Kirk. Clause 7 continues the disqualification of any;per son, otherwise than now by law enabled, to hold any office, place, or dignity in the Church of England, or in any other ecclesiastical establishment ; and clause deprives Jews of the right of presentation to benefices, which right, in the event of the descent of an advowson to a party of the Hebrew persuasion, is to devolve on the Archbishop of Canterbury pro tern. iP • • , -;.„., POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. Clause 9 renders it illegal (although how it can be rendared compulsory, we know not) for any Jew to advise the Sovereign, directly or indirectly, to make any appointment to offices in the established churches of the country. Such is the scope of the Bill which now awaits a second reading in the House of Commons. We were highly gratified by hearing yesterday an admirable lecture by Dr. John Ryan, the well-known professor of chemistry at this institution. Ile com menced his subject by stating, that matter was of three kinds, solid, liquid, and gaseous ; that under one degree of temperature a body would assume a solid form, but when the atmosphere around it became of a warmer degree it would assume a liquid state, which by still further application of heat would be come eventually of a gaseous form. It was an erroneous idea to suppose that large bodies, such, for instance, as bars of i ron , b rass, or lead, orblocks of wood, or indeed anything with which we come in daily contact, were composed entirely of one solid mass ; this was not the case, they were rather formed of minute particles, so minute that separately they could not be discerned by the naked eye. Each of these small particles was surrounded by an atmo sphere of its own, which became so interwoven with its neighbour as to form all the appearance of a solid body. This was sufficiently proved by the heating of a rod of brass or iron, which on gain ing a certain 'degree of heat would be found not only considerably increased in circumference, but also very much in its length ; this arose from ale atmospheres of the various particles b:ing expanded by the warmth, and driving these particles to greater distances from each other. The lectuter then pro ceeded to speak of physical, magnetic, and chemical attraction ; the first named, he said, was the affinity which one body exhibited to another of the same sort, as was sh , ) , :;ii by the joining of two pieces of phosphorous together. The only result arrived at by phv.ical attractio,• was an increase in the bulk, the properties and state of the body re maining as formerly. With magnetic attraction it was almost the sane, save that the bodies under its influence were rendered magnetic ; how ever, this was poised so nicely between physical and chemical attraction, and parto , k so equally of the properties of these, that it was difficult to say which it most resembled. With chemical attraction it was totally different; for the union of the two bodies produced a third of a nature entirely at variance with its two component parts; but, however wonderful it might appear, the body forine,•l was exactly of the same weight as the particles united in its composition. At the conclusion the Learned Doctor was greatly applauded by a densely crowded Audience. THE EPISCOPATE.--The first A rchbishop in Eng land was eaulinus, Archbishop of York, in 622. St. Austin was the first Archbishop of Can=llury, ap pointed by Etbelbert, the first king converted to alls tianity. Canterbury was once the royal city of the King: of Kent, and was given to Austin in 508. There art 24 Bishops and two Archbishops-26; and 18 Collegiate Bishops. There are 26 Deans and 4 Collegiate Deanf of which Westminster is one, 5 Deans of Peculiars, ar 60 Archdeacons. The Archbishops are enthroned, t . Bishops only installed. They (the Archbishops) said to be appointed by Divine Providence, the Bish by Divine permission. The former are addressed by title of Your Grace, the latter only as Lords. Archbishop of Canterbury was Primate of Ireland 1152. The Archbishop of York was Primate of S. till 1470, when the Bishop of St. Andrew's wa 1 Metropolitan by Sextus IV, _ .~ I right, in the event of the descent to a party of the Hebrew persuasion, on the Archbishop of Canterbury lers it illegal (although how it can be ilsory, we know not) for any Jew to reign, directly or indirectly, to make it to offices in the established churches cope of the Bill which now awaits a in the House of Commons. CHNIC INSTITUTION. lily , gratified by hearing yesterday an re by Dr. John Ryan, the well-known mistry at this institution. Ile corn- )ject by stating, that matter was of lid, liquid, and gaseous ; that under emperature a body would assume a when the atmosphere around it became gree it would assume a liquid state, further application of heat would be- y of a gaseous form. It was an to suppose that large bodies, such, for s of iron, b rass , or l ea d , or blocks of !(I anything with which we come in were composed entirely of one solid not the case, they were rather formed ides, so minute that separately they scerned by the naked eye. Each of !tides was surrounded by an atmo- vn, which became so interwoven with 5 to form all the appearance of a solid was sufficiently proved by the 'od of brass or iron, which on gain- degree of heat would be found not bly increased in circumference, but h in its length ; this arose from ale the various particles b:ing expanded , and driving these particles to greater each other. The lectuter then pro- k of physical, magnetic, and chemical first named, he said, was the affinity ly exhibited to another of the same 1 , 3 , :;11 by the joining of two pieces of Dgether. The only result arrived at attractio,• was an increase in the operties and state of the body re- ormerly. With magnetic attraction t the same, save that the bodies fence were rendered magnetic ; how- poi‘ed so nicely between physical and ction, and parto , k so equally of the hese, that it was difficult to say which led. With chemical attraction it was ; for the union of the two bodies rd of a nature entirely at variance with lent parts; but, however wonderful it the body forme,•l was exactly of the the particles united in its composition. tsion the Learned Doctor was greatly densely crowded Audience. oenTE.—The first Archbishop in Eng- mus, Archbishop of York, in 622. St. e first Archbishop of Canc..-Ilury, !T- -olbert, the first king converted to CLris- bury was once the royal city of the King: vas given to Austin in 508. There art two Archbishops-26; and 18 Collegiate T are 26 Deans and 4 Collegiate Dean , ninster is one, 5 Deans of Peculiars, ar s. The Archbishops are enthroned, t installed. They (the Archbishops) inted by Divine Providence, the Bish ission. The former are addressed by 3race, the latter only as Lords. Canterbury was Primate of Ireland libishop of York was Primate of S.: , I the Bishop of St. Andrew's we y Sextus IV. _ _