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No. 114, REGENT - STREET. Messrs. .„,„ A N ICOLL have, in these W arerooms , th e NEW REGISTERED s LETOT in every subqance ; but at present they arc chiefly adapted f or warm weather. The sizes kept ready for immediate ear will embrace all, from a Daniel Lambert to the smallest school boy. Although Nicoll's Patent Pocket Protector, together with other IMPr.vements, have been added, yet the New Registered I'aletot Will retain its predecessor's moderate charge, viz , Two Guineas, or hoed silk, Two-and-a -Half; and the Palctot sl'Ete. One Guinea. No. 116 , REG ENT -STREET.—Messrs. NICOLL have recently attached these premises to those where they have hitherto been ho floured with the distinguished patronage of their Royal Highnesses f. c l i nce Albert, Pri nce G eorge of Cambridge, his Grace the Duke of ellington, the elite of rank and f a shion, as also the chef members bi the senate, pulpit, and the bar. In addition to an increased ac ,eorlanaodation for th e sa l e of the REGIST ERED PALETO r, these Lew WSterooms will contain, ready for immediate use, driving capes, nraPPers, yachting and shooting coats, the substances of which are Loapted for the service of travellers to any clime, be it Kamschatcha, lirabuctoo, or any of the more temperate and genial regions. ',e Nto. 120, REGENT-STREET.—Messrs. NICOLL have here col d the whole of the very large reserve stock of WOOLLEN LOTIIS, FANCY and PLAIN TROUSEI:INGS, VESTINGS, &c., ~!easary to supply their several establishments. Most of the de- SOles for the pre sen t season are either reg i stere d or con fi n ed to their use, but the choice of which (any length being cut) is now offered to to wn and count ry b uyers, shippers, &c., the whole being marked Qs,,,l.ed , figures at the smallest rate of profit perhaps ever previously It would be idl e o f Messrs. Nicoll to invite attention to this able, Were th e y sot determined that the goods themselves should be to prove their assertion. til ie‘). 22, CORNIIILL.—Messrs NICOLL respectfully intimate to f or ir CltY patrons 'that these premises have been expressly opened thelr convenience. The NEW REGISTERED PALL:TOT and other garments can there be obtained in the same degree of excel eeas at their Regent.street Warerooms ; materials, fashions , cut ters,ea Sod others, being under the same direction. xo, l n f i it lE.ALLEY.—alessrs. NICOLL have provided SHOW (the entrance to which is as above), where merchants. ship therr%—di, c ; , i ntaY, without interruption, examine the several samp l e s the same being intended for foreign and colonial pur zhe goods consist of materials only of the first character, to _ wnlcit c att entiou is particula r ly i n vited. IfeeNl PALETOT, newly Registered, 6 and 7 Vic. , Cap. 65. no, " ' NICOLL, whilst inviting general attention to this their m ost el effort in the cause of fashion combined with personal comfort, d os that it will not he forgotten that all that could be said favourably In ing its Predecessor for its neatness and unpretending gentle re appea . ranee, its avoidance of all toreign or extraneous effect, __.4.9oelerate price, durability, and seifeeable lightness ; all these are 21 !tied in the NEW REGISTERED PALETTF, which possesses ZiLbeaPPY c ombination of two different effects, in other words, it SC t° advanta g e a good figure, or improves an imperfect one. seriboOL'S PATENT POCKET PRO I'ECTOIL—This title sle co_ ~.an invention effecte by Messrs. NICOLL, of Regent-street, sin T t n e tli, and elsewhere, whereby a desideratum is achieved in a most bit P- and novel manner. The POCKET PROTECTOR is applies to _ ln an ) garment, and is attacked, free of additional expense, wid:in overcoat, the form of which is registered by theist, and psia k nown under the title of the Registered Paletot. The Pall Merit of the Pocket Protector consists in its preventing I""e'irtvitaluable substance or object from avidentally dropping out, and custoniawearer can place such in, or withdraw the same, with all t o in Ste conveni ence.—Licenses to use this patent will Le granted La w ,. 'eau's. Nicoll's agents, resident in the principal provincial AVIS Arsc •wateut-stree - OYAGEURS.—MM. NICOLL, de 114, 116, et 120, y etei de son t : et 22, Cornhill, London, Marchands Tailleurs, bre lieu? prier log koyal le Prince Albert, la Cour, etc., out l'hon- East e I P Z e s r . 103 strangers voyageurs a Londres de visiterleurs Ma- Rio& r* et belles sont deploy& une grande quantite des rAngt leterre et l'etreatn°l;e7i: Itessieurs Nicoll ant choisi parmi leg meilleurs fabriques de • leur a merit.' Pour l'unique elegance du style, lee ae gols use celebrite qu'ils esparent conserver, I;urope, que le haat patronage de plusieurs Souverains de _nateraus, la supe r i e e r u i ra t , representants Londres, l'excellenee des la Diplornatiqu Cour ou et tine garantie pe e :' "It ---e du travail, soil dans leg timforme t s de la r esti, dans leg costumes ordinaires u qui veulent fear dinner des commandos. rrtriT. REGI' Ts —RED SYRIAN PALETO T, Paice 2/ • awl Co.. rt 9, o.xlo.;(eil r th t o . oting Coat, 3"• At Messrs. 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Experiments with the Diver and Diving- The"`" Music will be by, Dr. Wallis. conducted ~,° P .I I daily Saturday from Eleven to Five ; and the in E ve nings (including Evening) from Seven to Half-past Ten. ...---...._ Admission, ls.—Sehools, Half-price. URES TER R ACES , SIR JOHN TO SIR HARRY. Dicks The races at Chester's old city 'lave induced me to write an inquiring ditty; And I beg you will write me a line (as you ought), With ev'ry particular touching the sport. And not only that, Str—but give. In your letter, A general outline, which none can do better. • . This favour I'm anxiously building upon, So pray don't omit to remember "friend Joins." SIR HARRY'S REPLY. Thus JACL,—..IIII you've sent me a line so entreating, I muen't pass ever the Chester Spring Meeting. With regard to the course you shall hear more anon, For I've other things worthy your notice, Sir John. Had MOSES and SON seen the late Chester Races, A smile of delight would have played on their faces. Ev'ry train that arrived brought its hundreds who wore Much dress as I never have witness'd before. The scene round the " walls" (thanks to'MOSES and SON) Was, " really and truly," a brilliant one. , When I look'd at the styles (which were certain to strike) In over-coats, trousers, coats, vests, and the like, I actually couldn't help saying—" Well done," The dresses do credit to MOSES and SON. But I'm forced to conclude, or the postman won't carry This note to Sir John, from his hearty friend LIST OF PRICES. Beaver Tagileni .. ••..•.••.••• • • .. • • .. • • from .00 9 9 Chesterfield and Codrington's, and every description of Over-coat, handsomely trimmed.. •.• • .. .• • ...... • . The Pacha Coat 1 8 0 The Bulitner, especially adapted for snowy and wet wzather • • 0 15 0 soy's Whiter Coats, in every 5ty1e.............. 0 6 0 Men's Do. Trousers, lined .......... •••. • • .. 0 4 0 Doeskin 0 12 6 Dress Coats .... ........ .......... 1 0 0 Frock do. • . 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Moses and Son regret being obliged to guard the ggainst impostors, but have learned that the untra.lesman ha& men of being connected with them, or it's the same concern, 7.11.17 resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons. L ai t , have Ito connexion with any other house in or out of London; o r iv .,." . ! 0 Who desi!'e genuine and cheiip clothing, &c., should call at, „,, to. Minot - tea and. Aldgate, City, London. Set rio business transacted at this establishment from sun o•Qoe`i: Y. till sunset Saturday, when business is resumed till twelve A R R I A G. E. ,A l j, One half the world are desolately single, and the other -- ' l)llss r theta married, questionahly contented. Diffidence, or a 1itt..".1 rlßbt determine the former, and miscalculated hopes em ef `.e. latter. The solitary one may shield himself under the plea ecix,cs.putien and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un mut b ris r,l i " llo, l7 ; but the troth lies dueper. Physical incapacity, and „VII health, are the great hindrances to domestic happiness tlettent. ti ,, t 'ntellt. The dowry should net be the only marriage !W -in the c or ."'" (24 zr and Justice demand tkat health should form an item legleet -- ( !„ et ,, ; it alone dlgnlies the alliance. Bligkted hopes or theae 5 : ' ,.,,,, --- “ , More sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, if 1 , 1Esi( ) 1""" seg Concern you, procure Dr. CULYERWELL'S little each r h : O4 Single and Married Life, " pub. in 2 vols., Is. Mined, W'sl, in stamps, each). Let no Imaginatively la • ' " prUdish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered Pnieltiterpretatior. of their supposed contents, from obtaining them lo T ey are not intended certainly for mere Idle cariosity, but they are the closet perusal of those mere deeply interested, to whom the o ffered as antagonistic to th e empyrical trash put forth on .logeth above subjects, by anqualifled authors, which alone or littlo er, are a disgrace to. the age. Furthermore, two other is_ Publications claim your attention. (same price Is. each, post Is. 6d.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and fr' ,7 v014 ," and .. How to be Happy." Th ey ' are not merely inl Phlets, but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are they the !litre ephemeral seribbllngs of tug hour, but the study of the author's ble.Who owes his present existence, health, and position to this ob- N ervance of the maxims he would inculcate—to do unto others as he would he done unto—to live alter nature's laws—and to keep always (Al the "sunny side of the way." The abovo works may be bad of S herwood. 23, l'aternoster-row ; Carvalho, 147, Ileet.street ; Mann, 39, Conihill ; Nelson, 457, West Strand ; or direct (by post or other wise) trom the author (who may be conferred with' personally, mornings and evenings). 10, Argyll-plaeo Recent -street; and all 11.okiteners. UNMOVED TO 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE. DB. LA'MEUT ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY.—WITH 40 COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL. Just published, and may be had in French or English, In a Seated Envelope, 2s. Oil„ or post-tree, from the Author, for forty-two BtaVoll4.• SELF-PRESERVATION; a Aledical Treatise on the Physibrogy et Marriage, Infelicitous and Unproductive Unions, and the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Ma turity, usually acquired at an early period of life, which enervate the physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural Ittli:gs, anti exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical u;he:iv:lons on the Treatment of Nervous Debility and Indigestion, nfits :iirmiaing trom these causes, close study, or the Influence of Stricture and at"' Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis, ezetion.itall Diseases and Derangements resulting from Intl's- Anatemy, 1.43.1110 Forty coloured Engravings, illustrating the explaining thelar logy. and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, thihrwa that 4, stractures, uses, and flinctions, and tho various laifection. a p u rod y u s et m l to x th L em LA bT m s E o i li T tary m l D iabits, excesses, and 37, BED Fs) rtT, ~-, - t ' M . " Doctor of Medicine. Ni atrie l'' - at; A nt, burgh, Licentiate of Apoth l ated Member of the University of Edin burgh, the London Hospital N l r rl6 a' Hall, London, Honorary Member Marriage require' the fulfilment cat Society, &c. ofeiiawie of several conditions. in order that It may be really the veil, which covers the origin of y instance disclosed, mutual happiness. Could the domestic wretchedness. be raised, audits true source in ever • It be traced to physical dis qualification In how mazy could in. s and their attendant disap pointments. Excesses are alway s ; the gilt, which when used in moderation is fl-aught Witii' mri°t ' s atticlivantage, becomes, when abused.the prolific source of mischief to the constitutional and vital powers. Tdii,,of greater or less injury Particular excesses. on the are m product aatu ive re nd cof onse reater auence severity of width thmistiel'rreatise professes to dilate, g than any other to which it is subiect. of Yto the human frame, This work contains an accurate and complete account of the Anatomy and Physiology of the Reproductive their relative conditions in health and disease, Organs,d and of requires the closest attention and study, for what Subject -eery d eservedly be of inure Importance titan the preservation of the health musts Should and of the physical capabilities ol which every r E , he posaessed, it unfortunately happens that the victim of excessive indulgence and vicious habits, whether acquiredaPP in .early life or from the follies of advanced age, while suffering trout their Invariable consequexces, unwisely entertains a fear of ap plying to a qualified physician for relief. Shame and the dread so frequently, but erroneously entertained that these complaints are beyoial the reach of art, alike restrict him and prevent his seeking for•Lssistance where alone it can be procured. In acting thus, he forgets that accurate discrimination ii ascertaining the ceases of disease, sympathy with the sufferer, and, above all, secrecy, inva riably characterise the intelliont and practical physician, and to the Le dical man who can show by his posae.sion of the requisite legal Olulllfications that he is entitled to esteem and respect in his profes sional pursuits, the utmost confidence should be extended. Dr. LA'M Eta has obtained the highest medical honours, as his diplomas ce rtify, and the great extent of his practice ter many years is a imorraitee for his professional experience, which has reference almost solely to We treatment of these diseases. _ _Published by t h e Author, and tnay be had of Kent and Richards, il Paternostet .row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Starie, Tichborne !treat, liapnarket ; Mansell, 1 15, Fleet-sr.-eV ; itordon, 146, s ' aa donhall-erreet, London ; or, tree by post ler forty-two iit amp 5 , ton s a, e Author, who may be consulted on these disorders personally ,?!._)1 letter, daily, from Ten till Two, and frOna rive till Eight at his 'misuse. ill. 13 Wirt-mars London. ....-„. i ,-X, : - . : - -- -----____- _ . ._. _. L.-- . " -- L .. .„./Z„ , '" - 7 -..,.T. f' .4 •, , •::-.4t.,k , .... ; „ : „ ., ,, ~ ) . 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' cc '4- ' '` —(11 :, ‘•.- -:'--- ic.4e, • -',',-.,: .- ''•; , ;' , N.a. - - ' - A .-- _::,..,. ~,. • v. < 01 7,4 4..... - _-.,.• -- i• ~.- :-,, v o'N ..‘t! , , , ,T,,,,,;-- ____ ''.v. , ,'''' c}", '.:l .7._ ~ • ---- '''' 1 : ' t 1 ' - , .-;;;:',;..,:i...•:i7 '''' _.... J a t .> 7 .,,,, ,, 4 ..._ _ ... , ..1 . , . • c * g L L " oiLt, ....v ~_ .._ .w, l . , ;;,,, ~,,c . , , A!.- J .,__i i± r., 12 , 2L .. 0 . - v ,„. ; \,.,--. 5 ....„:. , ~,),., pc 1 / 4 „ -. „ 1 / 4 ..., ....,.. 1 / 4 - z G / - - No. 17,354.] LONDON, WEDNESDAY E 3 AN APPEAL to the WIDOW of WILLIAM COMM' 'UBLIC in behalf of the 110 M, Poet of Inverury. ProvoEt Thorns Mr. John Watson Rev. George Gilfillan Mr. James H. Ower Rev. J. R. }'Gavin Mr. William Boyack Dr. Arrot Mr. William Bett Mr. James Westland Mr. James Chalmers, jun. Mr. Patrick Watson Mr. Arthur Be,gg,jtut. Mr. Thomas Saunders. TREASURER—Mr. Patrick Watson. SECRETARY—Mr. William Boyack. The Committee appointed to raise a fund for the relief of the Widow and Family of the late 'William Thom, the gifted but unfor tunate Poet of Inverury, beg leave briefly but earnestly to appeal to the Public, more espeeiaily to the Public of Scotland, is behalf of the trust which has been confided to them. The name and genius of Thom are well known and universally ac knowledged ; many of the feeling and pathetic effusions of his souse have been brought before the public, not only in a combined form, but in various periodicals. His talents attracted the attention of the ablest judges; and the Messrs. Chambers, in their Journal, have de voted a chapter to his autobiography, and to that favourable rutted of praise to which they considered his merits entitled. The life of William Thom has, indeed, combined the vicissitudes of a humble child of the Muses, having formed a scene of trials and dis appointments, accompanied by an overflowing share of poverty and distress. Many of his earliest and best years were passed at the flawkhill of Dundee—the remembrance of which seamed deeply impressed on his mind ; for thither, to use his own emphatic language, he wished to return, like a bird that flutters round her forsaken nest, to spend his latter days in comparative peace and quiet. Ills wishes were fulfilled, for not many months ago he did return from his wanderings, debilitated ann impoverished, and breathed his last on Monday, the 28th of February. Ile has left a widow and three infant children, the youngest but Ave months old, totally unprovided for ; and it has therefore been resolved to raise a fund, in order, if possible, to afford them permanent assistance. A Committee has been appointed, who have cheerfully undertaken this duty, and al ready they are happy to announce that their call has been responded to in a prompt and liberal mariner. Lord Kinnaird, Lord Jeffrey, Messrs. Douglas Jerrold and Robert Chambers, and many others, have spontaneously sent their contributions ; and it is earnestly hoped that the charitable and the admirers of native genius and un obtrusive merit will support and encourage the laudable object which the Committee have in view. Dundee, March 10, 1848. Contributions will be received by any of the Members of Commit tee ; and at the soups of Messrs. Chalmers, Shaw, and Middleton, Booksellers, and Mr. Mills, Perfumer, Dundee. DEATH OF WILLIAM THOM, THE INVERURY POET. (To the Editor of the " Dundee Courier.") Dundee, February 29, 1848. Sir,—The painful task has been deputed to me of announcing to the public the death of William Thum, the Inverury poet. For some time past he had been in delicate and declining health ; and his diseased state - of body was doubtless aggravated by the uncer tainty of his circumstances, and the consequent anguish of his honourable and sensitive mind. Yesterday, in our city, at half past eleven A.M., ho departed this life. Ile has left behind him something more than a name—some true and beautiful strains. which, as " a thing of beauty is a joy for ever," the world will not like the inscription on the conk!, to he buried in the willingly n l . luft lie ehas left behind bins, alas! something of yet ten derer and mere mournful interest—a widow and three children, 07 eldest of whom is only four years, and the youngest but a few months old. These are " utterly destitute," and but for the kind ness of one or two private friends, might have been cast out ere this to the charity of the streets. I make no appeal in behalf of the poet himself; " after life's fitful fever he sleeps well." He has found what the most troubled and tempest-tossed wanderer will at last find, and which to him was peculiarly grateful—rest. llor will I indulge or express any vindictive feelings as to the treatment which Ito rec<ived while yet alive. A true poet, he met with truly poetic usage. Ile was caressed, but not fed ; as if one could sup on incense, or as if one public dinner could keep a man alive for years : But I would bespeak general sympathy in behalf of his destitute family. I would implore every lover of literature— every one who has derived pleasure from the departed poet's lyrics, or from the simile story of his life— to prove their pleasure and their gratitude true by some more substantial evidence than ex clamations or tears. I would call especially upon those who saw bins at our late Watt Festival, and heard almost his latest breath given fortis in those brief, broken, but thrilling accents—accents how far superior to the measured v cadences of rhetoric—to te s tify by generous deeds their sense of melancholy satisfaction that theirs was the privilege of meeting with and hearing him for the last time. No time ought to be lost. Indeed, no time has been lost. Intima• tions to the above effect either have been, or are immediately to be, dispatched to Douglas Jerrold, Charles Dickens, Lord Jeffrey, and others But as Dundee has had the honour of containing his death bed, let us follow the start we have acciden'ally gained by instant, active, strenuous efforts In behalf of his widow and his fatherless bairns. Messrs. Chalmers, Middleton, and Shaw, Booksellers, and Mr Mills, Perfumer, have kindly undertaken to receive donations. The smallest sums will be welcomed I •m, Sir, yours truly, GEORGE GILFILLAN. The last verses of the late William Thom, written shortly before his death : SONG OF THE DWELLERS IN DEAN VALE. Tune—" 3111Ier o' Dee." While we laugh and sing, in this happy ring, With a bright and a brotherly glee, May we never forget that the sun hath set On the homes of misery. For oh I it may be that this chill night wind Sweeps round some fireless hearth, Freezing the heart of the homeless one, With never a friend on earth. Then aye, as we sing, may we closereling, In our bright and brotherly glee ; let !lever forget that the sun may set On the homes of misery. Man was not made for this world alone, The world was lent to man ; 'Tis a debt we owe to Heaven, you know, Then pay it as well as you can. Now winter rides mad in his carriage of snow, With his pelting rain and hls hail; May it never be said that hunger and woo Held abiding in bonny l)ean Vale, Then aye, as we sing, may we closer cling, In our bright and brotherly glee, And never forget that the sun may set On the homes of misery. W. THOM. N UMBER ONE, SAINT PAUL'S CHURCH YARD. This business will be CLOSED at Seven o'clock, on the Evening of THURSDAY, the I ith instant, and will remain CLOSED on FRIDAY, being the day fixed for the Funeral in Derbyshire of Mr. WM. DAKIN, who met Its death by the late sad accident. Business will be resumed on the day following, and will continue to be car tied on as heretofore. LAKIN and COMPANY, TEA-MERCHANTS, NUMBER ONE, SAINT PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD. LADIES' GOLD CHAINS, London made.— Drawings of the various new patterns are kept for the pur pose of sending by post to any part of the country.—For facility OT reference the weight is given by comparison with sovereigns ; the quality of the gold is warranted equal to any that ie worked into articles of this description. T. COX SAVORY and Co., Golslsmithe, Ese., 47, Corn= (seven doors front Gracechnreh-street). London. BOND'S PERMANENT MARKING INK, the original and by far the best, requiring no preparation, offers the sure ,4 means of protection for every variety of household linen and wearing apparel against loss or mistake, for which reason be careful to ask for the genuine article, prepared by the inventor, JOHN BOND, 28, Long-lane. West gmithfield, City. Sold by most Chemists, Stationers, and Medicine Venders. Price Is. a bottle. BRITISH COLLEGE of HEALTH, New road, London. The principles of the Ilygeian theory are contained in the follow ing propositions : I. The vital principle is contained in the blood. 2. Everything in the body is derived from the blood. 3. All constitutions are radically the same. 4. All diseases arise tlT,m the impurity of the blood, or, in other words, from acrimonious humours lodged in the body. 5. This humour, which degenerates the blood, has three sources —the maternine, the contagious, and the personal. 6. Disease and pain have the same origin, and may therefore be considered synonymous terms. 7. Purgation by proper vegetable purgatives is the only effectual mode of eradicating disease. 8. Experience of upwards of twenty years has amply proved MO RISON'S VEGETABLE UNIVERSAL MEDICINES to be such proper vegetable purgative. 9. From the intimate connexion subsisting between mind and body, the health of the one must conduce to the serenity of the other. Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel. OS PHYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPA CITY, kNI) IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. _ _ . - New Edition, enlarged to 19G pages. Just published, price 2 s. 6 d. , or by post, direct from the Establishment, T as. 6d. in postage stamps, SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on the infirmities and decay of the generative system, from ex cessive indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury, with remarks on Marriage, end the means of obviating certain dis qualifications. Illustrated by 2G Coloured Engravings. By It.' and L. PERRY and CO., 19, Berners-street, Oxford-street, London. Published by the Authors : sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row ; Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford -street ; Starie, 23, Titehborne street, Haymarket; and Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street. PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive organs, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings. PART 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive indul gence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative incapacity. It is illustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings. l'Aar 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 sectiod is illustrated by Seventeen Coloured Engravings. PART IV. treats of the Prevention of Disease by a simple ap plication, by which the danger of infection is obviated. Its action is simple but sure. It acts with the virus chemically, and destroys its power on the system. This important part of the Work should he read by every Yonng Man entering into life. PART evoted the consideratin o marriage, and its luties. 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Just published, the Thirty-six th Thousand, an ' r eproved edition, re vised and corrected , 120 pages, price 2s. in a se a l e d envelope- or forwar ed by the Authors, post paid, to any a dd ress, secure f;oni observation, for 2s. 6d., in postage stamps, illustrated with nu merous A n atontical Coloured Engravings. _MAN HOOD: the CAUSES of its PREMA TURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for its PERFECT REsTonATIos. A Medical Essay on those Diseases of the Generative Organs, emanatin; from Solitary and Sedentary Habits, indiscriminate Ex cesses, the Effects of Climate and Infection, &c., addressed to the sufferer in Youth, Manhood, and Old Age ; with Practical Remarks On Marriage, the Treatment and Cure of Nervous and Mental De bility, lispotency, Syphilis, and other Urine-Genital Diseases, by which even the most shattered constitution may be restored, and reach the lull period of lite allotted to Man. The whole illustrated with numerous Anatom;cal Engravings on Steel, in colour, explaia lug the various functions, secretions, and structures of the repro ductive Organs is heaith and disease ; with instructions for private correspondence, cases, &c. By J. L. CURTIS and CO., Consulting Surgeons, 1 " ' Manhood.' A Medical Work.—To t to warn them of the - —7, iiistreet,-;ireet, trust this little work will serve as a beacon lndulgence of their pa lions, t tl . st ai t i ,: i t so danger attendant upon the toe rash Soho-square, q Uar h e e , g L a o y n a d n o a n. thought less we nitlee itaftnilict3t. e s t e r a y: . 1 heir long experience Manhood.' By J. L. Curtis, and Co.—Their I 1 , 1 diseases is the a s s ure a and reputation in the treatment of these pnai • ' , guidem oi n monitor i l i t e t a,l t t l i t i e ., ,_c hour hr o o t n i lel health."—Chronicle pt a • cpuititlettii..,cagitat.rraantee, and well deserves for the work its 'mittens( cir a g,, .` C l u t r i t s i saemn 0 :N ( 111 , 1 a - I l i t o ri o tt d b ' l i s c h a o t u i o h n i , b a e bl i y n t t‘ h , r e i t i hands en, a o n f d youth and elopessildboil,ei reatment of a class the prey of the iilite United Service The Parent, who beholds his beloved child pining Gazette. r l a ' a te i nl a u t l ia mi t a it l:-li d e e s si m gi h j i l c ig h .„_ has too long been .ce which, investigation yrve? In e" o s t e i g t u s en r c e e al o c l disease, a as u "o' s al e ny , e' h a a n s dl e a e s r t approaching to a pr emature set down to the score ~f consumption, will, on perusing this work, he astonished to find, that In vino-tenths of the cases of young per sons of both sexes, who perish of what is called pulmonary con suntpt)on, heart disease, tithes, &c., the sole and exclusive crigla las been the indulgence in certain destructive habits practised by youth much more frequently than it is at all suspects& N.B. Hours of consultation froln alocou 111 Two, owl Slz to Eight In the Evening. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, May 9. snAunorr v. THE QUEEN. The plaintiff in this case is the owner of some pro perty, which is required by the Woods and Forests for construction of the naw park at Battersea. As he claimed some 7,0001. or 3,000/. as a compensation, which the Government refused to pay, the Sheriff of Surrey was directed to call a jury, to assess the amount to which the plaintiff was entitled. He did so, and after much inquiry the jury returned a verdict for 7501. Subse quently an application was made to this Court for a rule, calling upon the Crown to show cause why a writ for prohibition should not issue. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL contended that the finding of the jury was conclusive, and that if the Court were to accede to the application it would establish a dangerous principle, inasmuch as in all cases where the amount of compensation had been awarded similar applications would be made to the Court, and uo end of litigation and expense would be the result. Mr. LUSH, in the absence of Mr. M. Chambers, con tended, on the strength of several cases, that such a pro cec ding was perfectly regular and proper. Lord DENMAN said he would look at the affidavits before they come to a decision. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) HOSTILITIES BETWEEN THE DANES AND PRUSSIANS. —The following ships bound to ports in Germany have put into this port in consequence of hostilities : Humburgh brig Sidonia, Nomens, from Sierra Leone, oil, for Hamburgh. Hamburgh barque, Rio de Janeiro, Lobbe, from Rio, coffee, for Hamburgh. Hamburgh brig Edmond, Smith, from Havannah, sugar, for Hamburgh. Hamburgh brig Georg, Coruellissen, from La Guyra, sugar and coffee, for Hamburgh. Lubec brig Alma, Woulff, from Bordeaux, wine, for Lubec. Danish schooner Berend Wilhelm, Dethlesen, from Bor• deaux, wine, for Copenhagen. Danish schooner Eli za b et h, V eu h e l m, f ro m Rio, coif" , for Altona. Danish schooner Fortuna, Ycuge, from La Guyra, coffee, for Hamburgh. Danish brig Jupiter, Iversen, from Monte Video, hides, for Antwerp. Danish ship M ar i a Ch r i st i na, Voss, f rom Rio, coffee, for Al tons. Prussian brig Pomona, Melenhawer, from Port-au-Prince coffee, for Stettin. The following arrived yesterday for orders: — Dutch ship Neur :Lakkalland, Kremer, from Batavia, sugar, and will proceed to London. English barque Osprey, Williams, from Havannah, sugar. Spanish schooner Euriquiti, Tona, from llavannah, sugar. Belgian barque Anversais, Menlelair, from ilavannah for Antwerp, has put in wind bound. 'The following vessels h ave b een spoken with by the Edmond:—April 24, lat. 46 36 , l on . 24 21, Victory, from London for Quebec; April 26, lat. 46 56, lon. 22 7, Republicain (Oldenburg), from Brake fur Baltimore. The brig Georg reports having sewn the brig Robert off St. Andrew's, N. 8., waterlogged, and with only fore mast \and bowsprit standing, in a gale in lat. 34 29, ion. 52 16. Several passengers have landed at this port from India, brought in by pilot-boats from the Channel. Passed through the roads the ship William Melville, from the Cap e f or P or t smo uth, with a detachment of th e 91st Regiment OR b o a r d. The Ruby st eamer h as been lying here since Wednes day last, exp ec ti ng the arrival of the A m e r ican steam ship Washi ng t on; b ut s h e is not yet in sight. BLOCKADES OF VENICE AND THE BALTIC PORTS. (From last night's Gazette.) Foreign-office, May 9th, 1848. It is hereby notified, that Viscount Palmerston, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has received a diipatch from her Majesty's am bassador at Vienna, enclosing a vote from Count Fiquel mont, the Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs, con taining the following announcement of the blockade of Venice:— (Translation.) COUNT FIQUELMONT TO VISCOUNT PONSONBY, DATED VIENNA, ♦PRIL 30, 1848. The eity of Venice having raised the standard of revolt, the Government of his Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty has found itself compelled, with the view of reducing it again to obedience, to place the port of Venice under effective blockade, from the 23d of the present month. In expressing the hope that this measure will not be of long duration, and that it will cause only a short in terruption to commercial relations, the undersigned, Minister for Foreign 'Affairs, has the honour to request that his Excellency Vi&count Ponsonby, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of her Britannic Majesty, will bring this measure to the knowledge of his Government. The undersigned avails himself, &c. (Signed) FIQUELMONT. Foreign-office, May 9, 1848. It is hereby notified that Viscount Palmerston, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has received from the Danish Minister at her Majesty's Court a note announcing the blockade of the German Baltic ports of Stettin, Stralsund, Rostock, Wismar, Pillau, and Dantzic, and further announcing that the Elbe will be blockaded on the 10th inst. The tenor of the Danish Minister's note is as follows: (Translation.) My Lord,—ln execution of the instructions which I have just received from my Government, I have the honour to notify to you the blockade of the following ports of the Baltic by the forces of his Danish Majesty, namely: Stettin, Stralsund, Rostock, Wismar, from the 2d of May ; Pillau and Datitzic from the 3d of May ; and to request that the Government of her Britannic Majesty will cause the usual publication of the same to be made, in order to obviate all future complaint or reclamation on the part of the trade. Every neutral vessel will be informed, on its entry into the Baltic, that those ports are effectively blockaded. I am informed by the same dispatch that the blockade of the mouth of the Elbe has been provisionally fixed for the 10th of May, but that a further notification will be forwarded to me. In making your Excellency acquainted with the measures adopted by my Government, I have the honour to enclose a copy of the dispatch from my Court, which directs me to make the communication ; and I avail inyselfof this opportunity of renewing the assurances, &c. (Signed) REVENTLO W. Danish Legation, this Bth of May, 1848. (Enclosure.) No. 29. Copenhagen, May 2. 1848. Monsieur le Comte,—You are aware that differences which have for some time prevailed between Denmark and Prussia, as well a s t h e other powers o f t h e N or th of Germany, hav e recently tilities. broken out into open hos- It is not owing to the Ring our august master that they have not been terminated by means of conciliation; every proposition made with that view has unfortunately failed, in consequence of the obstinacy and precipitation of the Cabinet of Berlin. His Majesty, being at present attacked upon his own territory by the German troops finds himself under the painful necessity of employing in his power; and he ha s t h erefore resolve d, i n the first place, to cause the ports an d the mout h s o f the rivers belonging to the enemy to b e blocka d e d by his naval forces. all the means of defence I have the honour, Monsieur le Comte, to announce to yon, in consequence, that the effective blockade of the following ports will take place:— For Stettin, Stralsund, Rostock, and Wismar—from the 2d of May. For Pillau and Dantzic—from the 3d of May. With regard to the mouth of the Elbe, the blockade thereof is provisionally fixed for the 10th o€ May; but. I reserve to myself to transmit to:you a turther notifica tion in this respect, as well as with regard to other ports, the blockade of which may be determined upon. While I request you, Monsieur le Comte, to bring these arrangements to the k now ledge of the Govern ment to which you ar e accredited, I h ave to add, that every neutral vessel will b e warne d , on h e r entry into the Baltic, that those ports ar e e ff ect i ve l y bl o ckaded. The royal ordinance Whi ch, i n d eterm ining the mea sures to be taken relative to the blockaded ports, and the seizure of vessels belonging to the enemy, recognizes and guarantees the rights of neutrals, is in the press, and will be communicated to you as soon as possible. Neutral packets, charged with the conveyance of mails, will be allowed to pass freely, and will only be warned not to bring in.articles contraband of war.—l have, Scc., (Signed) hNUTH. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTBIIoUTII, TUESDAY.—The Andromache freight ship, 500 tons, Captain PasstnorP, arrived this morning. tier dates are — Hung Kong, Decembe r 30; The Cape of Good Hope, March 5; and St. Helena, March 22. She has invalid seamen, marines, and soldiers, from the squadron in China, 12 of whom died on the passage. Mr. She brought home Lieutenant t he Hon. Horace Monc ton, of the 29th, and lady, passengers; Black, late Naval Cadet of the Vulture steam-trigate, and other pas sengers. The Lightning steam-vessel went out and brought the invalids from her, who have been sent to Hasler Hospital. Master Comm an d er Wellington, sailed this a fternoon for Sheerness, with The Adventure naval transport, vo lunteers for the Ganges, 84. The freight ship M elville arrived this morning from the Cape of Good Hope, with troops, we believe the 91st regiment. Captain SEL•SERVICE SICINALS.—A. system of signalling, the invention of Lieutenant Redl, of the Imperial Austrian service, has been in the course of trial in the Solent during the last two months, by an order from the R.N., GB, under coast defences. CHo)iunspttornollesrt-General al of the coast guard service The trials have been most satisfactory, havin g commu nicated from Portland to St. Alban's-head, 174 t o es, and across the bay o f Weymouth, 84 miles, in r a i n y of f the dstend th em . Th ey appear so cheap a nd cones collap se d on i hazy, windy, calm , and floe weather, with t h e rap i d i ty of the electric telegr a p h, and the signals wer e ma d e out at a distance of 22 miles. The method is most sim p le, consisting of two do uble cones of painted black canvas, similar to two nun - bu o y s, one over the other, sh owing the same figure in ever y direction of two black, dia mond•shaped substa nces when open, and when closed showedges tohfe thebl hoops Which s s imple of construction, as well as portable, that it is the opinion of most naval officers who have seen them that they may .. be used for general purposes as signals iu a fleet, and shown e in many positions where flags could no t be se en, An instance in proof of this occurred on Mo nday, when f'n, the Wellington reve nue cruiser, Lieuten ant G rindY ' R.N., commanding. exchan g ed man y si g n als with her Majesty's ship Blenheini, between C a l ac h ot Castle the Southampton wate r and Portsmouth harbour, ' in tanco of eleven miles , with the utmost rapidity, a di ' ''- the flagship Victory was covered wit h signal pennants vvhik" endeavouring to com municate with h er Majesty's Belleisle (whom she m isre p orted to th e Port AdmiralY'sship at the Collingwood) , a t S p ithead, a distan ce of miles, without sucoe , s , until nearl y eight about six eight, in 'consequence of the mirag e , 8,,c,.. o'clock at hoisted on board the Wellington at ti Flags w ere and so unconscious wer e the officers of theie same time, Blenheim of the fact, though answe rin g all the Wiell signals that they were no t seen by them, and they THE QUEEN V. HENRY CRISPIN. Mr. COCKBURN moved the judgment of the Court upon the defendant, who appeared upon the floor of the court. It appeared that ill-feeling had existed for some time between the defendant and a gentleman named Henry Bolton Bennett, in • consequence of the de fendant having alleged (which, however, Mr. Ben nett denied) that he bad run over and killed a favourite dog belonging to him. Subsequently he encountered Mr. Bennett at a concert, and after calling him a snob, and applying other offensive epithets to him, invited him to meet him at a duel ; adding, he would give anything to have a shot at him, and that he should have the first shot.. Mr. Bennett declined the honour, and appealed to a magistrate to punish the de fendant, for endeavouring to incite him to commit a breach of the peace. The defendant was bound over, but o the same day he met Mr:Bennett in company with his wise and daughter proceeding down a passage towards a steam boat, and there he struck him on the back, with some violence, with the butt end of a whip. The defendant was indicted at the sessions and found guilty of an assault. Mr. Sergeant RINGLAKE addressed the Court in miti gation of punishment, and read affidavits from which it appeared that the defendant had offered to pay 2001. to a charitable institution, and that he contended that the passage to the steam-boat was narrow, and that he accidently pushed against the prosecutor. He had de clined to pay the 2001., because the prosecutor required that he should pay the same sum every year. Mr. CROWDER, on the other hand, said that the de leudant had repeatedly threatened to bring an action against Mrs. Bennett in the Queen's Bench, in which he said he sliculd examine the maid-servant and " elicit some pretty disclosures for the edification of the Court." tle had shown a continual desire to commit a breach of the peace,:and to set the proceedings of a court of justice at nought. Mr. Justice PATTISON characterised the assault as most violent and unprovoked, and sentenced the defen dant to pay a fine of 2001., to enter into his own recog nizances of 2001., and two sureties of 1001. each, for his good conduct for two years, and to be imprisoned in the Queen's Prison until the fine and recognizances are en tered into. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Jane Burgess, of No. 26, Dudley-street, Bloomsbury, and lltarquret Parker, of 13, Bennett's-court, Drury lane (the former being the daughte and sister of the two women who were stabbed a short time back by a man named Parker, who was tried at the last Old Bailey sessions for the crime, and transported for life, and the latter is the sister of the convict), were brought before Alderman Sslomons on the charge of being disorderly, and fighting in front of Newgate. From the evidence of the constable, and the sister of Burgess (the party stabbed), it appeared they all went to see the prisoner. The Burgesses were first there, and the injured woman was admitted to see the party who had attempted her life. When coming out, the prisoner (Parker) said, " So you,have been to my bro ther after sending him away for life," at the same time making an attempt to strike her. Jane Burgess inter fered, and a fight ensued, which lasted until a police man came up and took them into custody. On the way to the station-house, Parker said to Jane Burgess, " I'll serve you the same as my brother did your sister." Alderman SALOMONS said there was little doubt that much ill. feeling might exist between both parties, and he should therefore bind Jane Burgess in the sum of lot. to keep the peace for three months, and make Margaret Parker find security for a similar amount for a like period. WORSHIP-STREET. Mr. Thomas Fuller, of 91, Herbert-street, New North road, appeared before Mr. Arnold, the magistrate, upon an adjourned summons, which charged him, as chief pro moter of the Great Southern Madras Railway Company, with having unlawfully tailed to make to the Registry office the returns of particulars required by the Act 7 and 8;of the present Queen, c. 110. The summons had been granted, with the authority of the Attorney- General, to Mr. Thomas How, of Norton-street, Fit zroy square, who stated himselt to be a railway reporter, and representative of the holders of shares to the amount of 25,0001. in the said railway. Mr. Ballantine having shortly stated the facts for the prosecution, proceeded to call the witnesses. Mr. ARNOLD, however, observed, that to bring the case within his jurisdiction as a magistrate, the complaint should have been made within six calendar months after the commission of the alleged offence; but a much longer time had elapsed, and on that ground only he was bound to dismiss the case, and leave the parties to any remedy in the superior Courts. The summons was accordingly dismissed. THAMES. A person applied to Mr. Broderip to complain of an inconvenience to which ho was subjected by having vehicles stop in the front of his premises, thereby to a considerable extent injuring his business. Ho telt it as a very great nuisance, and biped his Worship would be enabled to afford him redress or protection. Mr. YARDLEY asked whether vehicles stopped there for the purpose of loading or unloading, or for taking up or setting down passengers?—The applicant said they neither did one or the other,_but stopped there merely . at their pleasure. Mr. YARDLEY regretted that under those circum stances he could render him no assistance. The Police Act, 2d and 3d Viet., cup. 47, sec. 54, imposed penalties on persons keeping carts, coaches, trucks, &c., in the streets, for a longer time than was necessary to load or unload, or to take up or set down passengers, but by some strange omission or oversight it neglected to pro vide against that nuisance. The applicant left the court, looking volumes of com mentaries on the wisdom of legislators. CL ERKEIV IV ELL. John Coker was placed at the bar, charged by Elisa beth Wells, a girl fifteen year s of a g e, with having corn muted the following daring outrage. She stated that she had been living with her father and mother-in-law, in the neighbourhood of Ball's-pond, Islington, and on Sunday night last they turned her out of doors. She wandered about until twelve o'clock, when, being fatigued; she sat down on the step of a door in Maiden. lane, Battle-bridge, to rest herself; and fell asleep. At about half-past one she was awoke by the prisoner, who was conducting himself very indecently towards her. He then acted with the utmost violence, but she resisted his brutal attempts and called out " murder ; " and her screams brought assistance to the spot. She gave further evidence, which is unfit for publication. Mrs. Mai 7 Cosher, of Maiden-lane, Battle-bridge, deposed that she was passing near the spot, in company of her husband at the time, and corroborated the evi dence of the prosecutrix. The prisoner, who hung down his head, said he was drunk, and did not know what he was doing. Mr. TYRWHITT said he would commit him to take his trial at the Central Criminal Court, and he directed that the poor girl should be taken care of in the workhouse in the meantime. LAMBETH. Mrs. Mary Rowley, whoa fortnight ago bad been ex amined at this court, with her son, .John Rawson, on various charges of swindling, but who had subsequently neglectedto attend upon her recognizances, was placed at the bar with her son, William flans Rawson, before Mr. Elliott, on a charge of defrauding Mr. George Crook, a draper, 48, Pall-mall, out of 251. The facts of this case, as well as of several others in which the prisoners were implicated, have already been before the public, and after hearing Mr. Cook's state ment, the prisoners were furiher remanded. WE S TM IN STE I?. Thomas Williams, alias Foley, was charged with steal ing u very i►audsome and valuable Skye terrier, the property of Mr. William Witham, of 49, Eaton-square. William Long, footman in the prosecutor's service stated that he took the dog out between twelve and ono o'clock for an airing, and on arriving at William -street, Knightsbridge, had to wait for a moment before he could cross the road. Immediately afterwards he missed the dog, and in consequence of what a boy told him he went in pursuit of the prisoner, who wa.s running, and on overtaking him the latter threw down the dog. Mr. BURRELL committed him fur six mouths to hard labour. Mr. Bishop, of Bond-street, through whose unremit ting exertions, ut considerable cost, the n ew A ct under which the prisoner was convicted was obtained, was present during the examination, and app e a re d to talc, great interest in the proceedings. FOLIESTONE.--The directors of the South-Eastern Folkatone Building Society, with their president, the Rev. Thomas Pearce, assemb ed on Tuesday last, on the ground, on the interesting occasion of opening the pro posed new street, to be called London -street, running trom Dover-street into the railway company's road ; where the society intend to build 25 respectable middle class residences.—Maidstone Gatetc. 10, 1848. • + 4,7 MAY gaez solelykwing d cn ep o e r n i d n e g n ' t o e n rh s e ha : remained ignorant of the circumstances until the fol at immense distances irrespective of colour being p o e n . es be: I readers will figure to themselves two diamonds drawn on paper, one over the other, and were to number them from top to bottom 1,2, 3,4, they would find the sum total Cap tain R.N., commandi eg make 10, which Nv iI 1 ailinit of 15 changes, viz., two 3'd, two .I's, two s's, two 6's, and two 7's, which, by number ing the letters c,f the alphabet, admit of " 3 ' "m -wunie,,tions being made. Sir James Clarke Ross, Cap- L bas LE Ga simple bo as a SEVERITY .v. the E t eeßioneoyf signals, onight tnent..he... search . of Sir John Franklin and his lost voyagers, is going to take out those ' the expedition about to go in signals as the best adapted for certain communication s between ship and ship. Lieu tenant Redl's intelligence and talent deserves encourage ment; in c thisouri accounts signals and signal lamps, as lti portion u of BA : eD d ' of their light far surpasses 4n ri n o °l w P'llll : F t N l .)A— ort \ s ‘ in 'e ou g t a h v , e and o f chargespublication a e B r m e a e C l n a t pg s ourt ; abi b lna u c t kni3acv t ):' nu t, t' h ' sbe C seen. sameß foanythingf .thea g r e e l c s aehot aT t 3ri l in - t gi e e aEe t n h s p: r t r . i 01 which eL e h u s :C iecE c e rh ) d ' cruelty e t l h ty s statements; for r d other some portions : e s; h : 1 1 practised oonf excessive yesterday flogging, tions from the Bellerophon,' ~ com pany during the short time she has been the ship's 1n commission. We are well aware that there was certain * foundations time we felt assured that the facts were, as usual, very much exaggerated. We are now enabled, on the authority of a communication from Bellerophon, to contradict thfs'a reached was contained in the paragraph extracted Devonport Telegraph' s correspondence,and we are from the s ure our west cou n t ry Contemporary will receive the denial of the horrible imp u t at i on on the officers the Bellerophon with as much sat i s f act i on as wehavof had in drawing it forth. With ref erence to the flug gi e we have also the gratification to be a bl e to correcttit e xaggerations which have been set afloat; but we must confess that the bare truth is painful enough, and whether or not those frequent punishments on board the Bellero phon were justly deserved, and of necessity administered, or the culprits have been harshly treated and excessively tortured, of this we are assured that no body of men, in any position in public or private life, deplore the facts so much as the Lords of the Admiralty do themselves. The Bellerophon was commissioned on the 23d of September, 1847, and, with a crew of 450 men, left Spithead about the middle of December. She then proceeded to Gibraltar, Corfu, and back to Gibraltar ; and, on the 22d of April, to Spithead. According to the log of the ship, from the time she was commissioned O. to the 30th March last 29 of the crew were punished.these 16 were seamen (viz., 5 A.B.'s, 2 landsmen, 2 car penter's crew, and 7 ordinary seamen), 10 marines, and 3 boys. The total number of lashes inflicted was 732, and the average number to each man was 25k. There were 15 punished 2 fur stabbing, and 1 for filthiness, &c. During the run from Gibraltar five men were punished with 9G lashes. Thus the total number flogged since the ship has been in commission is 34, and the total number of lashes in flicted was 828, and not " 1,600," as stated. The number of desertions was stated to be about 94. This is also incorrect ; the number checked as absent without leave is 54, and it is expected that many of this number will return to the ship. These we believe to be the real facts of this painful case, and it is quite bad enough, without any exaggera tioO. Captain Baynes is known to be an excellent officer, and. a very mild disciplinarian. We trust that in future he will be "captain of his own ship." THE: CHANNEL SQUADRON.—Rear-Admiral Sir C. Napier, with the St. Vincent and Prince Regent, are ordered to Spithead, and may be expected in about a fortnight. The Ganges, 84, at Sheerness, is ordered to the Nore; the Powerful, 84, at Portsmouth, to Spithead, on the 15th; and the Caledonia, 120, at Devonport, to Plymouth Sound. THE SURVEYOR'S OFFICE, SOMERSET HOUSE.—It is reported that Mr. Watts, master shipwright of Sheerness Dockyard, is ordered to Somerset House, to assist Sir Baldwin Walker in his duties as Surveyor of the Navy; and that Mr. Read, now one of the committee of refe rence at Portsmouth, is to act as master shipwright at Sheerness during Mr. Watts's absence. APPOINTMENTS. Midshipmen—C. D. Moultrie to the Hastings, 72, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Collier, fitting at Portsmouth for the East India command. Master Assistant—W. B. Shillabeer to the Enterprise discovery ship, at Greenhithe; C. S. Williamson to the San Josef, flag-ship, at Plymouth. Mr. Richard Harvey, the master rigger, at Portsmouth dockyard, has been appointed boatswain of the same yard, vice Wyse, superannuated. Mr. William Andrews is appointed master-rigger of Portsmouth yard, vice Harvey. Charles Bt idges is appointed leading man of joiners at Sheerness dockyard. , George Gates is appointed leading man of sailmakers at Chatham dockyard. On Moaday the pitch-house on the jetty in Ports mouth dockyard took tire. in consequence of the ignition and explosion of some naphtha preparation in connexion with the preparation manufactured by the chemical assistant for the bottom of the Birkenhead iron steam frigate in dock. The damage was immaterial, and no accident arose from the mishap, although very consider able alarm was created. APPOINTMENTS. ADMIRALTY, MAY 9.—Cavendish B. Ilore, Lieu tenant, to the Excellent; John Griffiths and Maurice Dready, leading men of storehouses to the Deptford Victualling-yard; W. S. Jordan, Midshipman, to the Victory; Charles Archer O'Dwyer, Second-Class As sistant Engineer, to the Echo; Henry P. Jones, Lieu tenant, to the Ocean; James Fergusson, Second-Class Assistant Engineer, to the Fitton]; George P. Cooke, Acting Assistant Surgeon, to the Victory. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. We have received further advices from the Cape to the 11th of March inclusive. We extract the following sad intelligence from the Zuid Africuan of that date : `• (Communicated).—We have just received the fol lowing must painful intelligence :—Admiral Dacres' only son, Commander James Richard nacres, of her Majes ty's sloop Nimrod, and Lieutenant George J. Loch of the same vessel, went lately on shore, at Quilimane, in the Mozambique, where they unfortunately remained during the night, sleeping with the windows of their bedroom open. The following morning they returned on board, apparently quite well, but twelve hours after wards were both seized with that dangerous malady the coast fever, which in the course of a few days terminated fatally ; thus depriving the service of two most amiable, excellent, promising young officers, and plunging their families in the deepest affliction. The Nimrod may be daily expected in SirnOn's Bay, Lieut. Russ M. Fiend +►sting commander.-10th March, 1848.' " The popularity of Sir Larry Smith is, if anything, on the increase. Thy• Ga.:Me of the 9th of March contains a number of ordinances, proclamations, and notices connectod with the public service and general improvement of tLe co lony, every one of which may be considered a step in the right direction. The subject of the first is the orga nisation of a Government for the safety of the emigrant Boers and native tribes beyond the Orange River ; and the whole being among the first Lasts of the new Go vernment, from which a notion may be formed of the general character of the policy about to be pursued. A Government notice announces that henceforth two sessions of the Legislative Council will be held annually. The intelligence from the frontier by the last post was simply that everything was quiet in public, and active in private. The new system in Kafirland was maturing ra pidly, and gives the greatest satisfaction. Two vessels have been wrecked the Lady Leith, without a cargo, in Algoa Bay, and the iron schooner Chanticleer, in crossing the bar at Kowie river. No lives were lost. The following notice has been issued:— " NOTICE TO MARINERS. " Colonial-office, 6th March, 1848. " A letter having been received by the Secretary to Government, from Captain Lloyd, R.N., Resident Ma gistrate of Port Elizabeth, relating to the wreck of the brig Lady Leith, in which the loss of that vessel is at tributed to the passing between the Roman Rock and the shore; and as it appears that Mr. Salmond, who sent to the assistance of the Lady Leith, is of opinion that the Roman Rock forms part of a reef extending from the land, and spreading to a considerable distance in that neighbourhood: " It is strongly recommended to commanders of vessels not to pass between the Roman Rock and the shore, or to hug the land in that neighbourhood, until a proper survey shall have been held of such reef, and the rocks in the vicinity. " By command of his Excellency the Administrator of the Government, (Signed) "JOHN MONTAGU, " Secretary to Government." [ADVERTISEMENT.] —A Desperate Wound in the Thigh Cured by Holloway's Ointmentand Pills. —Extract of a Letter from Mr. J. S. Munday, farmer, residing at Kennington near Oxford dated March 31,1848. To Pro fessor Holloway:—Sir, Having received a won d er f ul cure by the application of your Ointment to a dreadful wound in my thigh, and from which I had long suffered, I feel it my duty to acknowledge the speedy and extra ordinary effects produced by your valuable Ointment and Pills in my own case, having previously used several other remedies without success. I have also had vari ous other opportunities of witnessing the beneficial results attending their use among my labourers. Sold by all Druggists, and ut Professor Holloway's establish ment, 244. Strand, London. DESTRUCTION OF A C ANE F ACT ORY. — Yesterd a y . 0 afternoon, about one o'clock, the factory.belongautigthte Mr. P. Phillip s , cane -d resser a nd dyer, situate rear of 3 and 4, Foster-street, Bish o p g a d through natewas dis covered to be on fire. The flames originated through and the overheat of a stove used for dry in trade, owing to the hainamable character or o tt s h p e aci st o n u e s k but few minutes elapsed before no t subdued until the building became wrapped in flames, whichwere The damage done is ver y it was totally destroy , — rh iiii ps was not ipsurcil serious, and unfortunately ur tor a single penny. moment, n o debtor under the At the present sody a circumstance at the Ipswich coun ty gaol, sheriff's writ, is that in has cu not occurred but once before for fifty year s . — ' l-- ( h....Bich Express. [PRICE SD. MAGAZINES, &c.--(CONTINUED.) BENTLEY. Bentley this Month opens with a biographical sketch of Prince Metternich (illustrated with a portrait en graved by Cook, from the picture by Sir Thomas Lawrence), in which the writer contends that Met ternich has, throughout his whole career, been the victim of circumstances, inasmuch, as during the whole reign of the Emperor Francis, Metternich was only permitted to be the exponent of the views and executor of the designs of the Emperor himself; and that at the Emperor's death he had become so entan gled in the system, that it was less dangerous to proceed and play out the game, than to attempt to retrace his steps. This is a new theory of the character of Prince Metternich, and one by no means improbable; and it has, moreover, the merit of recon ciling. many seeming contradictions in the character of the late Minister of Austria. The next paper is a sketch of the career of M. Guizot, by Mr. James Ward, which, however, communicates no new fact with regard to M. Guizot's career. " The Flaneur" gives some amusing sketches of the Republican clubs of Paris, and these may be considered all the political articles which appear in this month's Bentley, unless the " Chapters in the Life of an Old Politician" may claim to be placed in this category: He is a most amusing purveyor of gossip—is this old politician, and his reminiscences of the days of the agitation for emancipation and reform are very entertaining. A pleasant tale is that of " The Three Nuns" contributed by Alfred Crowquill, and Maxwell's "Robert Emmett and Arthur Aylmer; or, Dublin in 1803, (an owre true tale, we believe,) commences well. The most interesting paper in the present number is " The Hospital of San' Spirito at Rome, by E. V. Rippin gille. After visiting all parts of the hospital he arrives at the ward appropriated to consumptive patients, which he thinks is vacant, and accordingly he sits himself down beside one of the beds At this moment the hour of the Ave . Maria sounded —the e n d of another d ay—a point o f time observed in very touching countri es , and mark e d pretty generally by a v ersation are cere mony, in which all motion and con and rep eats ash Sudde nly suspended, and every one stops ed" prayer. At t hi s moment th e nurse I had seen enter over my shoulder approaching thibed, she reached of holy water by thlePpl94 her fingers in the little vessel head, and sprinkled side of the crucifix just above my she then sank ink acqua .6ettedstia upon the bed, bnried her face in her st i r her knees by its side, and prising to me in this acatads. There was nothing sur similar: but in what words having frequently witnessed a notion of my astonishment and I convey , to the reader my head, I observed that this little emotion when, turning sat so long was occupied! Never,ttle bed by which I had life, shall I fail to see distinctly t o the last hour of my object that now rivetted and abseetcr mind's eye m e actually, for the moment, bewildered mlnYf attention, and a minute or more I gazed with wonder, E L a a b c l u e l ties. For my eyes, or distinguish clearly the truth and to remove reality of what was before me. I had seen so many o w e the last few hours si milar in as pect and situ ation,le s t within for the instant, I believed my fancy had played me this trick, and, aided by my s y m p a thies , had placed this beautiful and soup touching phantom in the li tt l e b ed by which I was sitting. But the nurse, rising from her knees, dispelled the illusion ; her eyes were wet with tears, and she looked with a feeling of deep interest and sorrow upon the wasted form within it. " As soon as I recovered myself so as to speak, I re marked in a whisper, • I thought all these beds were vacant?' " Without raising her eyes, and in a voice evidently affected by emotion, she replied, They will be to morrow!' " No I I ejaculated: 'is it true, must it be so?' " The sympathising woman shook her head, and walked towards the other side of her own room, where, offering me a chair, she seated herself. " Must this beautiful creature die?' said I; if she really still lives, is there no hope for her; pray tell me who is she, and what, and where does she come from, from what country?' " 'Ah!' said the nurse, with a sigh who knows, who can tell anything about her, dear patient girl, too good for this cruel world; who knows her birthplace, the land in which she first drew her breath, the hands that first tended her, the eyes that first looked upon, or the bosom that first warmed and cherished her, who knows, alas! who knows?' and here the kind woman wept bitterly. " Seeing that I regarded her emotion with interest and some surprise, she made a faint attempt to excuse her want of professional firmness, if not insensibility, and remarked, despondingly, that this was the begin ning of her career as a hospital nurse, that this was her last patient, and that when she was gone her vocation should go with her!' " ' And is it possible,' said I, that no one knows who she is, or whence she comes ?' " ' Not unless she has told her confessor;said the woman. She knows not a word of Italian ; and there is but one priest in the Propaganda, I believe, who speaks her languat;e; Good God 1' I exclaimed, 'is it possible ?—no parent, no friend, no one to know the locality or the cause—thus to die, poor creature, so young, so beautiful ! Alas 1 alas 1' "Seeing me look towards the bed, and hearing me speuk in an undertone, the nurse remarked, "0, you need not fear to disturb her; sho has re mained in this state for almost two days, and appears to know nothing. I think she sleeps, and I hope now she does not suffer. The padre, when he left her at mezzo giorno (noon), crossed her hands upon her breast, as you now see them. I expect him soon again, and he will find her as he left her; and to-marrow--to-morrow it will be over.' _ _ "I now rose from my chair, and on tiptoe approached the bed. The light within the last few minutes had been lowered into gloom and obscurity, so that the chamber, the bed, and its beautiful tenant appeared more visionary and affecting than ever; so much so that I felt my foot. ing upon the floor unsteady, and a swimming sensatio❑ in my bead. The bed appeared further from me than it had been, and I was obliged to stoop down in order to see distinctly what was within so short a distance of my eyes. Heavens ! what powers of language are equal to convey an idea of that sweet vision, that image of ail that is melancholy, touching, and sad on earth, or beautiful in heaven—of all that is calculated to inspire serious thoughts, to burst the heart with its own sympathies, to break the bonds of earth, and to recal the soul from its mad career among the trifles of this trifling world ? Who, to have looked on such a face, such a form, would not have given half his life to reanimate it? Alas ! alas ! that anything so beautiful should perish and be lost, or become but "A flower of memory's sad and fickle clime, Chill'd by the frown of all-destroying time; Frail thing of thought, that with oblivion strives, And,"tanned by sighs, bedew'd with tears, survives!" " Fortunately at this moment I heard the burgeon's foot step at the door. Ou joining the kind old man, he apo logised for keeping me so long; but, choked with emo tion. I could make him no reply. I was ashamed of my weakness, and affected to cough to conceal it. It did not, however, escape his observation, and he remarked, ... Ay, these are sad scenes for those not accustomed to them, and sometimes for those, too, that tire.' "It is very nutural to suppose I wade inquiries about this lonely and lost creature ; but the surgeon could tell me nothing except as to the appropriation of that part of the building; upon which point Irfeuudnidd ra n y ot come conjec tures were correct. The patients he. r 0 aware sed within his department. Il e , t h erefore, was not of any such a case as that I described; but h f 0 promised me. H e he would immediately make every inquiry knew some probationers and padri i n the Propaganda; and, if any information was to b e I should have it r . obtained, he promised " Alas ! alas ! how little, and yet how muc h , o f the history of thi s p oor creature ultimately ca me t o m) knowledge. Wh at a victim 1 what a fate!! How often have I reproached myself that I did not speak a word of English t o h er. Perhaps I might have had some mes sage, some mission, some wishconfided to me, and m) promised p er f ormance of anything she could have asked might have given one l' g immer of hope, one gleam of consolation to her sinking heart, in the terrible gloom that was f ast c l osing the short and dismal day of her young life. Never can I cease to regret this, because now I know the country that gave her birth. No doubt the priest had reasons for communicating with her in her native tongue. Perhaps she might have known English but very imperfectly. Her home was in a re mote-part of Ireland. This victim of a cruel destiny WAS an Irish peasant girL" The Gaol Chaplain concludes his mysterious s tory_ „ entitled, " Are there those who Read r the Future and Mr. Warren continues his pleasant a ccount of " A his " Adventures on the Banks of the Amazon. Edward ce Charles well written biography of " Prin etch L., Stuart," and a "Biographical S k iven in this number illustrated by a portrait, are also i_z, reasy gives a com of Bentley, in which Professor C " as the fifth of the mentary on the "Battle of Tours, rld. six decisive battles of the wo . _____—___—_ , AINS WO R 7 11. Another " old familiar face" beams upon us from the cover of Ainsworth's 21!agazzne - associated as it i 3 so plesantly with recollections of " indsorCastl e and Cruikshank.. The , yivid and somewhat gorge ous romanc e of " Ciichton, ' by Harri▪ son Ainsworth— a romance long since familiar to the world of novel needle of readers —is revived in a revised edition with plc " Tale of turesque e mbellishments from the etching a Flirt," which Phiz. "Am I Murdered ?" is an odd contribution by H. R. Addison ; and the choiceis t h s ed , some years back in espteglerie. It remindsf 110 w s i t u , iso of admirable a p i i a r p a e b r l e p f u o b r l i a magazinel the New Monthly, called " The a I s l t e o y c r y a n i d t iissmc capital t t a h l ‘• continuations ,D.Ehraerweinagre-rcooonmti.n" of "lh and " The Countess of Rudolst d "• Mrs. White con tributes a very pretty chapter —seasonable enough too —called " The Footprints, A delightful, of Spring." descriptive paper a b out , The Escurial," the m o st the world, not excepting Windsor, wonderful palace i n Versailles, Peterhoff, , or the Vatican, is suggested by ,-- ~/ .. til the descriptions p'Ale%andre DutiiA, Gautier, an, .1 our countrymen Ford. On completinethe-perusal-O .. 4 It is very interesting paper, the predominant sensitive is that of gloom, of awe, and of terror. 7 Imagiiiivi . _.-.. structure built out of solid granite, in the fora of ' • 7 , 5 ; stupendous gridiron, containing 12 cloisters, 16 ea* '",: - -:',7j: yards, 80 staircases, 63 fcuntains, and 3,000 feet. of% painted fresco! Imagine the church of this pal c&. being supported by four square pillars each of NOW is 112 feet in circumference!. Imagine the reliquary of this church containing 7,421 relics - ! • Imagine the windows alone of this structure numbering no less than 11,000! Imagine it situated in the midst of a barren wilderness, and this wilderness s,p rinkled with stones of a bluish-gr e y- ciilani - "Saving Ire aspect of warts on the back of a centenary scrogodile l" Imagine this stupendoni. fine standing at an elevation of 2,700 feet above the level ot' the sea! Imagine' the ahnoit innumerable passages which intersect 'tte . granite bulk of the edifice like " narrow guts of stone!" And then you will comprehend why it is called by Ford " a gloomy pile," by Gautier "a leviathan of archi tecture," and by Dumas " a sepulchral colossnir Altogether the contribution about the Escurial pos seised for us a delightful attraction. COLBUTh,'S NEW MONTHL Y. Mr. Ainsworth evinces a rare industry and a fair amount of - discrimination in the responsibility of his double editorship. What with John • Ozenford's "Austrian Legends," Charles Rowcroft's " Tick," Cyrus Redding's " Life and Reminiscences of Thomas Campbell," and Mr. Jolly Grec,n's " Visit to .Paris since the French Revolution," the -very title page to the number for - May . has an enticing appearance. Both " Paquerette" and the "Richest Commoner in England" are pursued with ability,_Froulthe!c9entric chapter headed " The Time Table - of a Rich Septuist genary" we transcribe this deplorable but in too lastly instances accurate catalogue of yeirs . . • Here is the epitome of many a man's life—a true " TIME-TABLE OF A RICH SEPTUACENARY. - • Years. I will begin with the years which, from the require ments of our common nature, or from my ha bitual waste of time, may be considered, so far as regards any serviceable purpose, to have been-- absolutely lost. Including the somnolent periods of infancy and childhood, and making allowance for the sluggish habits of my whole after-life, I calculate that I have slept, and doled, and dreamed '0" away nine or ten hours in every twenty-four, which, for seventy years, absorbs about At school, with tutors, at college, I spent about twenty years, and having forgotten, in two or • three, all the Latin and Greek and nearly every thing else that I had learnt, except my collegiate vices and expensive habits, I cannot put down for actual loss of time less than 134 Wasted, not iu doing nothings, for that would em brace nearly my whole life, but literally in doing nothing, two hours a day, about Expended in stag, fox, hare, and badger hunting; M coursing, racing, cockfighting, fishing ; in shooting birds and beasts of all aorta—as I always was an indefatigable sportsman, and began the work of destruction when I was ten years old, I cannot reckon this waste at less than six hours a day, which, in sixty years of 313-days each, for - on Sundays I killed nothing but time, amounts to 14 (N.B.—Estimating my slaughter as au amateur butcher at the very moderate number of only two lives a day,exclusively of the intiumerablwara,,e that I have maimed and lacerated; reeving most of them to die in anguish, I find that in sixty years (excluding Sabbaths) I have, for my mere amuse- I_npG m grsato e emmas n :o t bsn , ii,t d iiinnn e dngg s a t o: r c o e le t d cr n ea ea tu r r ly es thirty - eight thousand of In two hours pefrrodmiemm,yorenatrbaonuet entrance at college to the y s , te l e c p annot have puffed out less than but stay, let me recko n g re i c on does the sum total— do ing-bouts. yatchinhurdle-racing, drink- '4 ylounginguwp_a wasted th t ee club e haor windows, years alreadyup—hey—how—what! hst Thaemroeuinstaton awful. ' mora l in this paragraph. Several 9" of the other contributions. are clever—for instance, the one on Southern Africa by Lieutenant Colonel Napier. 110 W ITT'S Ju RNAL. Among the biographical notices of the poets of the people, William Howitt, as vlitor, has not forgotten the life of Thomas Cooper the ingenious author of " The Purgatory of Suicides." The biography is interesting, and proves Mr. Cooper to be a man of no mean accomplishments. A similar attraction will be found in the memoir of " Albert the Artizan," written by Goodwyn Barmby. Several lett6rs, by the same contributor, about the state of affairs in Revolu tionized Paris, will be found in the journal. They are, of course, more than curious at such a period of legislative transformations. Besides the articles al ready enumerated, we are glad to see a republication of some of Mrs. Howitt's lively descriptions of " Ger man Students' Life"—a theme of peculiar interest at this moment, when the students of Germany are in volved in the turmoils of their Ath q land. Recently they have anything but augmated - their reputation by participating in the infamous expedition of con ' quest, butchery, and spoliation against Denmark in the duchies of Holstein and Schleswig. CHAMBERS'S EIII.I 7 BURGH JOURNAL. We would particularly direct the attention of the multitude to a paper published in Number 225 of this admirable journal (the fourth number in the April part, just completed). The article ie delineative of the life, the fortunes, and the character of " The Beth Postboy." Ralph Allen, at first a poor postboy in that city, and ultimately the wealthy proprietor of the estate called Prior Park, a noble, generous, and intellectual man, the friend of Addison, Steele, Gay, Pope, Arbuthnot, and all the famous luminaries of the reign of Queen Anne. His princely residence, near Coombe Down, now a Catholic college called Prior Park—a structure more like a palace than a seminary, and situated in a landscape as exquisitely beautiful as any spot on the lakes of Como or Geneva—will for ever remain a monument of his industry, his taste, and his munificence. A great variety of agreeable contribu• tions are, as a matter of course, grouped together in Chambers's Journal, which, from the period of ita commencement up to the present time, has been a repository of instructive and entertaining literature. 31LSCELLAIVEOLIS. Foremost again among the miscellaneous magazines and periodicals we place the Eclectic Review, the best contributions to which are unquestionably the notice of Mrs. Fr and of Mr. Brooke, " The White Raj a of the East." Every publication almost, of any emi nence, has added its expressions of eulogium to those originally pronounced in the political circles respect ing the enterprise of the civilizer of Sarawak, and the Christian adventurer in Borneo. Another article will be perused with avidity, we mean the one commemo rative of the Chartist movement, and in which the necessity for reform is temperately enforced. Of Mr. Charles Knight's new serial called The Land we Live In we must speak in terms of unqualified praise. It is a book eminently qualified to be a me inento of the age and the nation, a book for the homes and hearths of Englishmen, a book at once of pictorial and literary excellence. The writing is wholesome, and the engravings are neat and faithful. In Part IX. there is an elaborate delineation of Edinburgh, and in Part X. there is an equally elaborate defines. tion of the eastern coasts. Of Lowe's Edinburgh Magazine, we cannot speak in language of such de cided commendation, some of the papers being intole rably superficial. One, however, in the . n h u ea m ucu fo,_r May has afforded us deep pleasure : it memoryitiq entitled " Pictures of Dr. Chalmers from the n. iii the o th n e e portion of Newton's lyle. In the supplementaryt as there will be fount loosev‘•ho loved but hi Repertory of Patent Inventions . and several sensible argu ceoanrtnreibstutsotyleis some admirable fragm ents masculine m .' T a h n e d e ndency adorn the pages of the merits of a practica l op;ncnaerd. e vents of a political character . furtherance of sani tary' interest in the abate the popular. fcgazth.nae;elAntlttehrolyugthendreecdentnt and educatiori those reforms will very speedily Quarterly Educationalai the enthusiasmwe are sanguine that Sharpe . revive. It is no longer decorated novel guise. month in a ~ s , but with more pretentious with wood engravings , for ',f London o er l e icl fo o r n m, Magazine appears dm e portrait of Alfred Tennysen's A fanci ful provement.lgchange promises to be an im "—that triple lyric of lore and _ 0 e " B :f e t el he May . beauty, its advance, and so sorrowful is " -"" en so gladsome, so pensive, so solemn, so glad in p ngt so sad in its (:). enClusion—forms the frontispiece to the May i ts con plates number of the Belle Assemblee. To the agricultural reader, the Farmer's Magazine will offer its attrac tions ; and to the religious reader the Church of Eng.. land Magazine will afford fitting subjects for consi deration. Before we close our notices of the miscel• laneous publications just issued from the press, we must mention the appearance of the first number of e very striking and singular atlas, the Descriptive Atlas of Astronomy. It is a series of maps arranged on a new and ingenious system, a system which promises not only to re-arrange the geographic knowledge of the subscribers, but also associate their political ideas with the facts gleaned in the acquisition of the science of geography. ____ THOM, THE .INVERIIRT POET.—The secretary of the committee in Dundee for raising subscriptions for the widow and children of Thom, the Inverury poet, writes to us thus :—I am glad to say that our fund pro gresses in a very satisfactory way ; already it amounts to nearly 2001., which sum, however, includes a grant of 2u/. from the Royal Literary Fund, and several col lections made at a distance sent iu a lump to us ; but a good deal will, doubtless, yet be done in other places ; and in London the Caledonian Society bows ' . ormed a committee. We may thus, one way or other, mus.er more than 3001., which, invested safely and judi cii usly, will be a very great assistance to the family."— Dumfries Herald. MANLY' ACTION. — Last week, at Jersey, the lives of two children, who had been surrounded by the tide, were saved by a little boy, son of Major Ca!lton, who, disgusted at the apathy of the spectators, rushed into s the water at the risk of his life.—Bristol Paper. Wel