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1•11 1 ~~~. ) • . el • a k .s' - , I . - -a ( 17^ , ' :mN , 4 „, 1 4' 4,' • • ) - VR _ t ' s -s _ - I,lor _ , P LAI DUBLIN', MONDAY. IT OF ERROR. CONTRACT for SUET. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport Services, Somerset-place, Nov. 4, 1848. The Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. do hereby give notice that on THURSDAY, the 16th instant, at One o'clock , they Will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to Con tract for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling stores at Deptford, 150,000 lbs. of SUET. Te be delivered in equal weekly propor tions between the date of Contract and the 30th April, 1849. The Conditions of the Contract may be seen at the said Office. No Tender will be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed, unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admi ralty, and bear in the left hand corner the words " Tender for Suet," and must also he delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied by a letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering, in tko sum of 251. per cent. on the value for the due performance of the Contract. GRAVESEND via BLACKWALL RAIL WAY, and STAR and BLACKWALL PACKETS. Railway an..l Boat included In one I'ayment. Fares, to or from London. Fore Cabin and Seconia Class Railway, ONE SHILLING: Saloon and First Class ditto, OSE SHILLING and SIXPENCE. To or from Blackwall or intermediate Piers, Fore Cabin •. • • .... 9d. Saloon• ••• Is. No other Packets call at the Grays or Greenhithe Piers. FROM TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND. Week Days, at 7, 8%,* 9%, 11%, 1,3, and .5. Sundays, at 7, 8%,* 11%, 1,3, and 5. FROM BRUNAWICK IVHARF, ELACKW ILL. Week Days, at 9%, 11, 12, 1 l, 3,4, and 5.* Sundays, at 9%, 11, 1%, 3,4, and 5.* The TRAINS starting one quarter of an hour before each of these Passages marked * are run direct, the Packets not being per- Mated to stop at Piers or for Boats. Omnibuses from Fenchurch-street Station to all parts of London every quarter of an hoar. BOAT TICKETS.—TweIve Months, 41. 4s. ; Six Months, 21. 15s. ; Three Months, 11. 155.; to be had of the Collectors on board the Packets ; Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend ; or of Mr. Saunders, Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall. Passengers' Luggage conveyed to and from the Packets and Rail way, at the Brunswick-wharf, without any charge. The charge for Porterage at Fenchurch-street is Id. for small parcels, and 2d. for large parcels. October 25, 1848. SOCIETY • for the DISCHARGE and RELIEF of PERSONS IMPRISONED for SMALL DEBTS through out ENGLAND and WALES. Established 1772. PRESIDENT. The EARL of ROMNEY. ♦ICE-PRESIDENTS. Lord Kenyon Rt. Hen. Sir R. Peel, Bart., M.P. • TREASURER—Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., M.P., F.R.S. AUDITORS : John Pepys, Esq., and Capel Cure, Esq. At a MEETING of GOVERNORS, held in Craven-street, on Wednesday, the Ist day of November, 1848, the cases of 13 Peti tioners were considered, of which 10 were approved, 1 rejected, and 2 deferred for inquiry. Since the meeting held on the 4th of October, TWENTY-TWO DEBTORS, of whom 18 had Wives and 42 Children, have been Discharged frcm the Prisons of England and Wales; the expense of whose liberation, including every charge connected with the So ciety, was 2711. Is. 2d. ; and the following BENEFACTIONS RECEIVED SINCE THE LAST REPORT :- The Receiver-General oriaXesatgomeiset House, Repay ment of Property Tax • • .... £lO 16 5 Sir James Musgrave, Bart., per Messrs. Hoare.. •• • • .... 10 0 0 Benefactions are received by Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., the Treasurer, No. 1, Brick-court, Temple; also by the following Bankers :—Messrs. Cocks, Curries, Drummonds, Herries, Iloares, Veres ; and by the Secretary, No. 7, Craven-street, Strand, where the _books may be seen by those who are inclined to support the Charity, and where the Society meet on the first Wednesday in every month. JOSEPH LUNN, Secretary. LEA. and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE is universally allowed to be the most Piquant and the Richest in Flavour of any Sauce in use, and for Fish, Gravies for Roast Meat, Steaks, Game, &c., or a zest for Curries, Soup, Cold Meat, it is entirely urivalled. The unparelleled success of this Sauce having induced imitations, purchasers are particularly requested to see that the name of LEA and PERRINS ars upon the Label and the Metallic Capsules, as also to read the Testimonials (which are enclosed with every bottle) from the residence of Royalty, the principal Club Houses and Ho tels In London, Edinburgh, &c. &c., and from private Families in the country. Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrins, 6, Vere-street, Oxford street, London, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester; Messrs. Barclay and Sons, Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other Oilmen, London, and generally by all dealers in sauces. J)AVIES'S CANDLES, 51d. and 6d. per lb. ; 31_1 Waxed-wick Moulds, 7d.; Composite, 8%c1., 10d., and 10%d; Wax Candles, Is. ; German Wax, Is. 2d. ; Fine Wax, Is. sd. ; Transparent Wax, Is. 9d. ; Best Wax, 2s. Id. ; Sperm Candles, ls.6d. and is. 7d. Metallic, 7%d. and 9d. ; Mottled Soap, 60s. and w 4 s. per 112 lbs. ; Yellow, 485., 545., and 60s. ; Windsor Soap, Is. 4d. per packet ; Brow* Windsor, Is. 9d. ; Rose. 2s. ; Almond, 2 s. 6d. ; L'ealing Wax, 4s. 6d. per lb. ; Sperm Oil, 7s. 6d. per gallon ; Solar, ". M., Seal, 4s. ; Argand, or Vegetable, 4s. 6d. For Cash—At DAVIES'S Old Established Warehouse, 63, St. Martin's-lane. Export or Grocers' and Oil-shop Goods at lower Prices. EYEBROWS, MOUSTACHIOS, and WHIS KERS produced in a few weeks, and Baldness removed and prevented by the use of GRIMSTONE'S AROMATIC REGENE, BATOR, 2.1 essential spirit, drawn from aromatic herbs and flowers a few drops of which cure headache in a few minutes ; it is also a Most delightful, fragrant toilet perfume. Sold only la triangular bottles, protected by the Government stamp, at 4s. ; double the size, 75.; and double this size, 11s. each ; enclosed in a Pamphlet, con. taining testimonials of undoubted authority, entitled " Three Minutes' Advice on the Growth and Preservation of the Human Hair, &c." By pest, 4s. 6d., 7s. 841„ and 125., for money orders aalr. Sold wholesale only at Grirastone's llerbary, Highgate, near London ; and by Messrs. Barclay and Son, Farringdon-street ; Sanger, Oxford-street; Messrs. Butler and Co., Cheapside Fisher and Toiler, Coniuit-street ; Mr. Johnston, medicine warehouse, 68, Cornhill • and by all Chemists, Perfumers, and others For Edinburgh, J. and R. Raimes, Leith-walk ; for Maachester, eresehe and Son, Adver User-Mike. TO THE LADIES. This lady had the following letter inserted in the "Tines" news. paper on Aug. 7, 1546. Reader, remember, this letter was put into the paper by the lady herself, as a testimony to me. " Mrs. Weekley, of Vie. 3. Swan-street, Borough, takes this oppor tunity of publicly thanking Mr. W. Grimstoee, of the Herbary, High gate for the efficacy of his Aromatic Regenerator, in having cent pletely restored the hair on her head, after using it about four months, and the whole of her hair is much stronger and more luxuriant than lever was before the baldness appeared. "Mrs. Weekley inserts this testimony to - the virtues of Mr. G.'s Regenator, feeling assured that many ladies would gladly purchase an I I s. bottle if they were as certain of its virtues as she is, from ex perience, not only in the restoration and production of hair in abund ance, but as a cure of nervous headache ; as a toilet perfume iti far beyond any to her taste. She will feel a pleasure in answering any lady of respectability to the above fact .-3, Swan-street, Borough. " In eases of the hair becoming thin, weak, or turning grey, afa w drops on the crown of the head occasionally, every week, will pre vent the hair from coming away with the comb, make it strong, and prevent it taming grey, rendering the hair luxuriant and curly. A few drops en your hairbrush before brushing the hair, will give the hair brilliancy, causing it to curl. The most delicate ladies may use this delightful product of th e most aromatic herbs and flowers with confidence ; its refreshing odour removes headache and makes it a most necessary companion is the toilet. In cases el nevous headache, pour tea or twelve drops Oil the crown of the head; if very bad, repeat it every quarter of an hour. In most cases relief is certain in ten minutes. It produces hair on children's heads in a few appplications. If used on infants' heads, it has such a peculiar cooling influence on the brainas hair.—bee convulsions, as well as promoting the growth of Pamphlet of testimonials. All letters addressed to William Grimstone, aerbarv. Highgate. MULTIPLICATION. An excellent title is Multiplication, And that he will prove to a clear demonstration ; The success multiplied each consecutive year, Is a proof which some thousands would wish to appear. Well, thanks to the public, in brief explanation, We'll give • lIY.A.M'S SYSTEM OF MULTIPLICATION. He multiplies friends by the plan he's hit on, Throughout all the cities and towns of Great Britain; -- lie multiplies choice by his wond'rous resources, He multiplies branches by talented forces ; lie multiplies talent—he multiplies trade, lie multiplies all that in beauty's display'd ; Whilst benefits great he deals out to each station, And this is his system of multiplication ! For splendour, try lIYAM ! his equal's unknown, For service in clothing, he's first in the town ; In fact, both for beauty, for splendour, and art, They are multiplied daily at this famous Mart. LIST OF PRICES. READY MADE. X 5. d. Chesterfield 0verc0at5.......... ... ....from 0 10 0 Albert Capes, new style • 1 1 0 • Parisian Sacs.... 1 5 0 Devon Driving Capes, waterproof.... •• • • 2 2 0 The Improved Paletot, an extensive assortment 1 b 0 Balandrap Walking Coats 0 17 0 . The Registered 5h00ting...... • 0 16 0 Dress Coats.... 0 19 0 Freak 1 1 0 Thibet Vesta .: •• •• •• •• •••••• • • • • • • . 02 0 Whißlack Satin... •• • • •• •• • • • • • • ** • • • 0 6 6 Marcella, for dress.. • • 0 5 6 Tweed Trousers... •••• • • • • 0 6 6 Fancy Doe ••• • • •• •• • • •• • • • •• •0 9 0 Black 0 10 0 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Tunic and Huss ar S uits .•• • • 0 18 6 Winter Blouses .......... :......... 0 4 6 MADE TO MEASURE. Superior Paletots .............• ........from 1 10 0 Driving 2 2 0 Double-milled superfine Overcoats, of overy style, beautifully made and trimmed .... 2 0 0 Dress Coats ..... from. 1 10 0 1 12 0 Doeskin Trousers, any colour.. ..... - Black Dress Do. .. - • • • ...• 0 18 0 The most beautiful and newest design in Vests 0 9 6 Boys' Hussar Suits An-immense variety of Mourning, of every description, kept con ,..stantly on hand. }late, Caps, and hosiery 'at proportionately low prices. - A sbagle trial will be sufficient to convince any individual of the "anent they will derive from patronising L. lIYAM, Proprietor of the Pantechnethcca, 36, Gracechurch-street, London. No business transacted On Saturday, until the Evening. O V E is the leading feeling of the human _ILA breast. More exalted than mere passion, it soars high above every other impulse of nature, and is not only stronger than avarice, but more engrossing even than ambition. No man is exempt from inluence, or can avoid its sway ; and business, pleasure, philo sophy, and divinity itself become neglected under the enthralling 'Pourer of LOVE, which, unlike most things, increases in intensity With time, until it receives the sacred consummation of marriage. .:When union does not take place, however, this passion, this Teriour, this golden tide of the manliest feelings becomes a deadly Doidon in the heart, which now darkens, as it before bright 'Midi all things upon earth. How is it that men, of most un changeable habits, will change at the very altar, and after a life 'tame spent in the fulfilment of every engagement, snap the very con tract asunder which sholdel be most binding to an honourable mind? •It is the effect of conscience. The Lover, by enervation of early habits, or the results of secret disease, knows himself to be 4 di&tualified, and dares not enter a state which has been instituted by Divine Law for the fulfilment of Important • 'ends. The wretched condition of such a being must subsequently be b47ehd measure deplorable ! Loving and beloved, he entails the 'mast miserable disappointments on the object of his choice, and upon natural a desolation the most horrib, when the simple possession of attributes would change thele scene, and yield to both a life of 1"11•Yed happiness. The subject is interesting, and deserves the attention of all. Those desirous of investigating it will find the fullest and most satisfactory information in the little work entitled „, SELF.-PRES ERV ATION. ology, itstrated by forty coloured engrav in g s on the anatomy, physi m Ind diseases of the reproductive orge,as ; with practical observa tion!** the Secret infirmities of youth and Maturity, resulting from „Solitary habits, excesses, or infection. By SAMUEL LAILERT, M.D., 'etcr . of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of _dinburgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Kali, London, Ho norar y Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, See. This treatise is the result of a long course of study in a peculiar and 'thuds neglected branch of medical practice, and the author having ob tained the highest medical honours, is a guarantee for his profes- Siehal.experience, which hag reference almost solely to the treat plent of these diseases. REVIRW OF THE WORK. La'Mert on the Infirmities of Youth and Maturity.—" There are i_c i res in the dr ama of life which are acted with no s p ectator but Conscience ; and of these the result is ever disastrou s. Happy the _U : rtal who meets with a timely mentor to snatch him from the gulf , e lcte which such scenes must plunge him In the book before us a wienitor is to be found, calculated to warn and instruct the erring, without impairing one idea that can vitiate a miad not al ready tutored by the vices of which it treats. It is written in a style of masterly precision and lucidity, blending the profoundest truths of philosophy and physics with the loftiest precepts of morality. It is a production calculated to confer a vital benefit, physipally and morally, 11 1 3 0t1 all who are tempted from the rigid path of abstemiousness and t a r cpriety. 1 father may trust it In the han ds of his boy. By nn insiocenco the book is not, of course, needed ; but wherever 1 4-11 t1 has prevailed, the tender yet awful voice breathing in these Paps is likely to prove as strikingly beneficial as the admonitions of VtailY blended With - the practical advice o f a writer on medicine." _ cited Kingdom Magaziiaa. The work may be had price 2s, 6c1., of Kent and Richards, 52, paternoster-row ; Hannay, 63, Oxford - street ; Stacie, Tichborne— tre_ MaY'atarket ; Gordon, 1 46 , Leadeuhall-street Mansell, 115, feet-str ee t ; ; or, free by post, for forty - two st am p s, from tba author's resi , den ee, who may be consulted on these d isorders personally, or ant4r. daily, frorn*,Ten to Two, or from Yive toEight. 1703EDFORD-SqUARZ, IoOXDOX. No. 17,509.] LONDON, TUESDAY E _ N G GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. Notice is hereby given, that a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of SHARES in the GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY will be held at the Paddington Station on the 13th day of December, 1848, at one o'clock precisely, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of making an ap plication to Parliament for powers to amalgamate that Company with the London and North-Western and the London and South- Western Railway Companies, jointly or separately, and also to con sider the preliminary and other arrangements proposed in con nexion therewith, and for other special purposes. And if it shall be deterinined to make the said application to Par liament, there will be submitted to the Proprietors of Shares, present at such meeting, for their approval, the draft of a Bill to be intro duced in the next Session, with the title and for the purposes follow ing (that is to say), A Bill to authorise the Amalgamation of the London and North-Western, the Great Western, and the London and South-Western Railway Companies, with powers for the Amal gamation of the Great Western Railway Company with either of the other'Companies, and for other purposes." The Chair will be taken at One o'clock precisely. C. RUSSELL, Chairman. C. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary. Paddington Station, Nov. 2, 1848. 4.;! OUTH YORKSHIRE, DONCASTER, and GOOLE RAILWAY. THE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, REGENT-STREET. _ A Lecture on Sanitary Measures connected with the Progress of Cholera and ether Epidemics, by Dr. Ryan, daily, at Half-past Three, and on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Evenings, at _Nine o'clock.—Also on the Manufacture of Gutta Percha, by Dr. Bach hoffner, Mornings and alternate Evenings.—An entirely new Phan tasmagoria, by Childe, every Evening at Eight •'clock, witk ap propriate Music —The Dissolving Views, with historical descriptions. —The Chromatrope, with New Effects.—The Microscope at One o'clock daily.—Diver and Diving-bell.—Working Models explained. Open daily from Eleven to Five , and in the Evenings (including Saturday) from Seven till Half-past Tex. THE NATIONAL GUARD. The visit from France of the National Guard Is a capital theme for the mercantile bard, Who, with every good Englishman, heartily ernes " Three cheers for our neighbours and friendly allies." The National Guard, from accounts that are written, Seem highly delighted at visiting Britain, And wherever the good allic strangers have been, They've declared themselves pleased at the sights they have seen. The writer of this being present, for one, When the National Guards came to MOSES and SON, Can attest to the pleasure which each seemed to show As he wond'ring stroll'd through the mighty depot, Not one of the visitors failed to admire The shops set apart for the sale of ATTIRE. They noticed the mart in its business design, And they noticed the dress, which they thought very fine. At the sight of the fashions each heart seemed to glow (And Frenchmen are judges of fashion, you know), And every one gave the peculiar shrug On seeing the Over-Coats, stylish and snug, Not a guard did I notice but seemed to be won By the elegant dresses of MOSES and SON. After they inspected the prime HATS AND CAPS, In which you'll imagine some time would elapse, And I scarcely need say that the National Guard, On seeing the goods, stared remarkably hard, Such indeed was the case, and I didn't see one Who gave not due credit to MOSES and SON. They next made thßeir OOT way to the prime S AND RIOS'S, Which of course they had ne disposition to lose, And here (for I judge from the shrug and the start), They were equally pleased with the grand City Mart, And I certainly thought they were " sensible Sirs," When I saw how delighted they U were with the FRS. " Well done, Messrs. Moses ; well done," said each man (I give the translation as well as I can), And having applauded those winter affairs, They looked at the OUTFITS AND HOSIERY WARES, Which goods pleased them well, as the others had done, And caused them to compliment MOSES and SON. And be it remembered that, after inspection, Each one of the " Nationals" made a selection. Many thanks, gallant Guards, for your liberal aid, With warmth is this public acknowledgment made, And with this very view did the mercantile bard Select for his subject the " National Guard." E. MOSES and SON invite especial attention to their Shooting coats, which possess a peculiar cat and style, adding much comfort tu the lit. E. M. and B. are convinced they will be much approved 01 by the public. Shooting Coats, in a variety of raateriols from as. ad. to lie. The Doeskin, or Elastic, Coat, iron.... • • 1.75. Sd. to 328. LIST OF PRICES. MEADE MADE. Autumn and Winter Coats, in all the new styles • • from £0 9 6 Chesterfield and Codrington's, and every description of Over-coats, handsomely trimmed •. • • ....... 1 i 0 .... 0 15 0 1 0 0 Shooting Coats.... •• • • •••••• • • • •• 0 s 6 Autumn aid Winter Trousers .. • • .... • • ............ 0 4 6 Doeskin ditto .. ••.••••• • • • • •• • • .................. 0 12 6 Autumn and Winter Tests •••• ••.. • • ........ 0 2 I Boys' Masser and Timic Suits.... ••..•• • • .......... 0 16 6 MADI TO XEMMIta. Autumn and Winter Coats, in all the new6st style rom X 1 6 0 0 Milled cloth Coat •••••••• •• • • • • • • ...... •. 2 0 Tweed Trousers • ••.••••••••••••• .• • • • . •• .• •• •• . 0 9 6 Tweed Wrappers • • ...... ............. . New Patent Trousers, in all the approved styles 0 16 6 6 Doeskin Trousers •.•.•••••••••••• • • • • • • • " • • •• .• • . 1 2 0 Best, er Dress 6 0 1 12 0 2 15 0 2 3 0 0 8 6 Satin, Plain or Fancy ..... ..• .•.•••••.• • • • • • • • • 012 0 Hussar and Tunic Suits .. ••..••• • • • • • • 1 9 0 Mourning to any extent at Five Minutes notice. A Suit if Clothes complete for 11. 16s. E. MOSES and SON beg to call the attention of Emigrants to Vac's low lists of outfits, commencing (including every necessary) at 755., lower if required. The list can be had on application, or sent poet free. N.R.—E. MOSES and SON invite especial attention to their pre sent Stock of juvenile attire. The designs are elegant and unique, and the workmanship and materials are such as to command univer sal approbation, while at the same time the prices are unusually mo derate. Notlee.—A. New Department far the sale et Parasols and Chil dren's Dresses has been opened at 157, Minories. Observe.—Any article purchased, ready made, or made to mea sure, if not approved of, will be exchanged, or if preferred, the money returned. E. MOSES and SAN, Tailors, Woollendrapers, Clothiers, Hatters, Rosters, Furriers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters, for ladies and Gentlemen, 154, 155, 156, and 157 Minories, and as 54, 55, ani 86 Aldgate, City, London. Claution.—E. Moses and Son regret being obliged to guard the publie against impostors, but have learned that the untradesman eke falsehood of being connected with them, or it's the same concern, has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons. They have no connexion with any other house in or out of London; and these who desire genuine and cheap clothing, &c., should call at, or send to, Minories and Aldgate, City, London. Notice.—No business transacted at this establishment from sun set Friday, till sunset Satarday, when basines is resumed till twelve O'clock. A ft R I A G E. vi One half the wer;d are desolately single, and the other supposing them married, questionably contented. Diffidence, or a sanse of right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes em bitter the latter. The solitary one may shield himself under the plea of caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un comprosiag hurry ; but the truth lies deeper. Physical incapacity, and broken health, are the great hindrances to domestic happiness and social content. The dowry should net be the only marriage set tlement. Honour and justice densand that health should form aa item In the compact; it alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes or neglect wound more sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, if these surmises concern you, procure Dr. CULVEitWELL'S little MEMOIRS "On Single and Married Life," pub. in 2 vols., Is. each (by post, in stamps, Is. 6d. each). Let no imaginatively refined, or prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered oy mieinterpretatier , of their supposed contents, from obtaining teem. 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 er ,gether, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other ittle publications claim your attention (same price Is. nick, by Post Is. 6d.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and Avoid," and " How to be Happy." They are not merely pamphlets, but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are they the mere ephemeral scribblings of the hour, but the study of the author's ifs, who owes his present existence, health, and position to this ob servance of the maxims he would inculcate—to do unto others as he would be done unto—to live after nature's laws—and to keep always n the " sunny side of the way." Tke above works may be - had of Therwood, 23, Paterncsrer-row ; Carvalhe, 142, Fleet-street • Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Nalsen, 457, West Strand ; or direct (by post or other wise) from the author (who may be conferred with personally, mornings and evenings). 10, Argyll-plaeo Recent'-street: and all Itlnksollere. Illustrated by 2b Anatomical Coloured Engravings on meet. 3N PHYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPA CITY. &ND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. Yew Edition, enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 2s. 6d. , or by pest, direct from the Establishment, 3 s. 6 d. In postage stamp'' rHE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on the inarmities 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 ells lualifications. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By R. and U. PERRY and CO., 19, Berners-stroet, Oxford-street, London. Published by the Authors : sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row ; Elannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; Starie, 23, Titehborne street, Haymarket ; and Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street. pjaT 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 excessiveledul fence, and their lamentable effects en the system, producing mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative incapacity. It is illustrated b) Three Explanatory Engravings. Paler 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in the rrimee y or secondary form , and centaies 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 'ay Seventeen Coloured Engravings. PAST 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 eUrp. It acts with the virus chemically, and destroys his important part of the Work should be read every Young its power on the system. phis entering into life. PART Y. is devoted to the consideration of Marriage, and itS duties. The ceases of unproductive uaion are also co nsi and and the whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into. TITECORfrxi.L BALM OF STRIACIIK IS exclusive c ly employed 335. in treat &fag norvous and sexual debility, impotence, 8r.., m s l .and per bottle. The Concentrated Detemlve Essence, an anti-syphilitic remedy, for purifying the blood in cases efinfectloa, secondary symp- Pille 21 Jct 4s. 6d., an 1 Is. per box, a Loma, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, 1 ls. and 335. per bettle. Perry's rarifyitig specific • '' d certain iemedy gueorrhrea,elget, strictures, an chronic inflamma tion of the bladder. Consultation fee, if by letter, 11. Si. Packets with advice tobe had at the Yetabli s h in eut only, by which the fee, 11„ is saved. Attendance daily at 19, Berners-streettram Eleven til Two, nwi rizrp F t iet ;on Sanclays from glom NEW GAS BURNERS.-ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.—Their names are, the Star—the Comet—the Golden—the Glass—the Ring—aid the Reflecting Burners. It is proved, beyond doubt, by men of Science and gas engineers, that no other Gas Burners bear comparison with them. Bright as crystal is the light. Ne smoke emitted. The most economical and the most elegant of all. The improvements are so evident, all should have them. CANDLE LAMPS.-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.—Every improvement possible is now secured. A doable ckain spring. A detached cup to receive the overflow. Pu rity of light, caused by the intimate connexion o! oxygen with the point of ignition ; thus nothing is left undone. The designs are chaste or gorgeous. All tastes can be suited. English opal, or cut and gilded Bohemian glass lamps, and pallier mache pillars richly em blazoned, to be had at all prices. The best and cheapest stock to select from is at the Establishment of the METROPOLITAN LIGHT COMPANY, RICHARD CLARK, Resident Manager, 447, West Strand, corner of Adelaide-street. ON NEBYOUS DEBILITY AND GENERATIVE DISEASES. Just published, the Thirty-sixth Thousand, an improved edition, re vised and corrected, 121 pages, price 2s. in a sealed envelope, or forwaried by the Authors, post paid, to any address, secure from observation, for 2s. 6d., in postage stamps, illustrated with nx merous Anatomical Coloured Engravings. MANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PREMA TURE DECLINE, witk Plain Directions for its PERFECT RESTORATION. A Medical Essay on those Diseases of the Generative Organs, emanating front Solitary and Sedentary Habits, indiscriminate Ex cesses. the ir.eroote or 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, Impotency, Syphilis, and other Urine-Genital Diseases, by which even the most shattered constitution may be restored, and reach the frill period of life allotted to Man. The whole illustrated with numerous Anatomical Engravings on Steel, in colour, explain ing the various functions, secretions, and structures of the repro ductive Organs is heaith and disease ; with instructions for private correspondence, cases, By J. L. CURTIS and CO., Consulting Surgeons, 7 . Frith-street, Soho-square, London. " ' Manhood.' A Medical Work.—To the gay and thoughtless we trust this little work will serve as a beacon to warn them of the danger attendant upon the too rash indulgence of their passions, whilst to some it may serve as a monitor in the hour of tempta tion, Enid to the afflicted as a sure guide to health."--Chronicle " Manhood.' By J. L. Curtis, and Co.—Their long experience and reputation in the treatment of these painful diseases is the patient's guarantee, and well deserves for the work its immense dr ul ation."—Era. " ' Curtis on Manhood' should be in the hands of youth and old age. It is a medical publication, ably written, and developes the treatment of a class of painful maladies which has toe long been the prey of the illiterate and the designing."— Meted Service Gazette. The Parent, who beholds his beloved child pining away, and fast approaching to a premature grave, in consequence of some disease, which, for want of carefhl investigation of its real cause, has been set down to the score of consumption, will, en perusing this work, be astonished to find, that in nine-tenths of the cases of young per sons of both sexes, who perish of what is called pulmonary con gumption, heart disease, tabes, &c., the sole and exclusive origin has been the indulgence in certain destructive habits practised by youth much more frequently than it is at all suspected. N.B. Hours of consultation from Eleven till Two, aid Six to Filzht in the Evening. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY. LIVERPOOL NOVEMBER STEEPLECHASE. 5 to 1 agst Captain Madock's Proceed—taken 7 to 1 agst Lord Strathmore's St. Leger 7to 1 agst Mr. Buchanan's Alfred-8 to 1 tkn freely 20 to 1 agst Captain Barnett's Boxkeeper—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. Harrison's Venom—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. Westley's Royston Gower—taken 5 to 4 on the field agst the first three—taken CHESTER CUP. 1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Pedley's Cossack—takes 12 times 1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Bouverie's War Eagle—taken 1,000 to 15 agit Mr. Eddison's Hetman Platoff colt It is as well to mention that the betting on the above race is " enter or not." DERBY. 9 to 2 agst Lord Eglinton's Flying Dutchman—t sto 1 agst Scott's lot 7to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Tadmor—taken 13 to 1 agst Lord Clifden's Honeycomb 16 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Osterley—taken and after wards offered 20 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Uriel—taken 40 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Strongbow 1,000 to 25 agst Mr. Bowes's The Knout (Emma colt) —taken 1,000 to 10 agst Lord Orford's Firefly colt—tkn to 60/. The two favourites were backed for two or three hun dred each; and Osterley and thiel for a "roulcau" each, at the quoted odds. Honeycomb was quite out of favour. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—At this moment the most numerous, the most wealthy, and tEe most intelligent of our county constituencies is seeking for a Member to represent it in Parliament. The West Riding 0 , Yorkshire is perplexed to find a successor to the .e.at which Lord Morpeth's accession to the Peerage le.:s left vacant. No wonder that such a search shout be prosecuted with heat, alacrity, and at the same time fastidiousness. The largest district of the largest county in England has a right to be scrupulous in selecting its representative. The district which blends the most striking features of manufacturing enter prise with the most imposing characteristics of terri torial influence has a clairn to the services of no ig noble senator. But its title is ill-defined by the boundaries of its area, or the amount of its wealth. Though it combine the grimy and aspiring energy of Leeds, Bradford, and Sheffield, with the less modern pretensions of Harewood, Bramham, and Went worth, it has political associations which are more precious than the opulence of its towns, or the ancestral reminiscences of its villages. It has been the source or the scene of the most stirring election contests which are known to this genera tion. Before the Reform Bill had established the principle of county divisions, the West Riding had excited and distracted the great shire by the rivalry of its own candidates. The election wars of the houses of Lascelles and Fitzwilliam were more fami liar to all Yorkshiremen than the war of succession, and on many of them had entailed a greater, but self imposed, burden of taxation. The contests since the Reform Bill have been as momentous as those which preceded it, as well when their result was to reject as when it was to reinstate. native candidates; when it raised Henry-, Dje_ degreek : above the eatiary interests aristocracy, as when it rewarded the public services of Mr. Cobden by ignor ing the many but less showy merits of Mr. Denison. There is not a question of importance which has not found its hottest battle ground and its most summary decision on the hustings of the West Rid ing. Catholic Emancipation, the Reform Bill, and Free Trade, have each received their brightest augu ries from the freeholders who met at Wakefield. A constituency of this kind may well feel embar rassment in the choice of a representative. Divided between its historical traditions and its present aspirations—between the influence of the county and that of the towns—it may hesitate ere it decide upon the man who is to speak and vote for it in the Impe rial Senate. Having been represented for generations by the leading families of the county, it will be warped by no illiberal prejudice against the aristo cracy ; having displaced men of birth and local con nexion for Henry Brougham and Richard Cobden, it will be debased by no unworthy servility in their favour. Its first predilections will be for a name associated with it past history; its repudiation will be of a name which is tarnished, or not worthily sup ported by its bearer. In such a dilemma some of the constituency applied to the Hon. Charles Fitzwilliam, a very young gentleman of ancient family, long con nected with the politics of the Riding. The young gentleman almost anticipated the offers of his sup porters by the readiness with which he embraced them. He announced his intention to be a candidate in terms which were explicit on every other point but the profession of his political creed. This, for a po litical aspirant, was rather an oversight. But much may be forgiven to youth, and much was forgiven to his. Accordingly a body of self- constituted delegates from different towns of the Riding met at Normanton to extract a more open and direct avowal of his creed, and to tender to his inexperience a few admonitory suggestions. His reply was couched in language which expressed the conflict of modesty with caution. He was exhorted to give his votes for economical reform. This elicits a curious but cautious response : " Economy is a thing so universally acknowledged(?) that it did not seem to me necessary to mention it in my address." He was solicited to vote for a gradual extension of the suffrage. He is obscure in his reply to this ; but pleads the obscurity of his interrogators. " With regard to the extension of the suffrage," he write 3, the question concerning it, as put in the re solution, was so ambiguous that I did not see how to give a decided answer, and did not wish to mislead by a decided one." Accordingly, he gives no answer at all. But the crowning question was (of course) a religious question. The Normanton delegates were mortally atraid lest Ireland should be pacified through the agency of mammon. So they made their adhe rence to the Fitzwilliam colours dependent on the youthful candidate's pledge tct,resist any further en dowment of religion by the State ; in other words to vote against the endowment of the Irish Catholic Church. But they got nothing by their motion. The discretion of the aspirant assumes the garb of the most amiable, but at the same time provoking diffi dence. " The most important of the four questions adverted to is one that has been scarcely mentioned in Parliament ;:it would therefore be hardly respectful to the public, were I, at the commencement of my political life, to hazard an opinion on a subject which has never been calmly and considerately discussed by the public." Was there ever ingenuous candour so tender and so discreet as this ? Yet, strange to say it satisfied not the delegates at Normanton. Some said the reply was vague ; others that it was childish ; and others there were who cherished the conviction that the Hon. Charles was "poking fun" at his constituents. Of course this • was at once set down to "landed" insolence ; and will, with the choicest phrases of this memorable letter, be kept for a future occasion. So the discontented ones were convened again. Wakefield put on twice its habitual gloom to welcome the angry deputation. The Mayor of Leeds was called to the chair, and ex pounded how he h a d wr i tten to Mr. Fitz william, and how Mr. Fitzwilliam had replied; how he (the Mayor) had rejoined, and how Mr. Fitzwilliam had taken no notice of his rejoinder. Then resolutions were moved and strong opinions expressed—all con demnatory of Mr. Fitewilliain's conduct, though no three speakers seem e d to agree as to the gist of his offence. Some th oug h t he ought to have said more about Free Trade,'others thatthere was nothing to be said about it; som e thought h e ought to have deli vered a sentiment in favour a ofe a xt end t i h n e g m t s h el e ve s s uffra fa e t , but then they disagreed m that extension ought t o be. T n h g en they all assailed w the contingent payment of the Romish clergy, when to their mutual surprise they found they were not at one among themselves as to the nearer question of the connexion of Church and State ; so, in the end, having disputed and divided one with the other, they unanimously resolved to do nothing at present, but watch their opportunity. Now, it appears to us that both the supporters and the opponents of Mr. Fitzwilliam have overlooked some essential qualifications in a representative of the West Riding. The first should remember that a vast constituency, consisting of great agriculturists and great manufacturers, should be represented by some man of political experience and definite pur pose. We do not w ish to deprec iate the cla ims of an hereditary name and ancestral services. The n ame of Fitzwilliam is linked with many a constitu tional battle fought in hard times against severe odds; with Catholic Ema nci p ation ; with Free Trade in days when Free T rade had few champions ; and with a long course of public-spirited not independence. thrustpendence. uponßu Yorkshiremen as ßut the name of Fitzwilliam should a substitute for knowledge, indus af try, energy, love of business, anthdesheaqbaitaslifiocfabtivasaia busi- ness. The man who i s destitute is not the fit depository of the suggestions, the tthe of some manufacturers,soli citudes, the inquiries, andf 20,000 merchants, and farmers. Nor, again, should a county, with . e so many industrial a n d social interests of its own, b manu the confidence gapingabout some go-ahead democrat or fli g hty has sentimentalist. a great mass of local p olitics itself, which must re quire the continual vigilance of some man w h o pos sesses local knowledge—of .some man who will no t be above attending to its railroads, its hi g h ways, its canals, its collieries, its schools, and it s un i ons—who will bring to bear on a number of minute but not unimportant details, observation, accuracy, and judg ment. Such men; we know are to be f oun d among the untitled gentry of the West Riding; and one of them, we fancy, has already r epresented that great d i vision with credit to himself and satisfaction to his consti tuents. CHRONICLE. —Though we are willing to him by ac knowledge that Mr. Georg e Carr Gl yn , judging by his evidence before the Lords Committee, is one of the most candid opponents of the Bank Act of 1844, we must at the same time pronounce his views, upon the questions on which he was examined, to be rather empirical than comprehensive. That the Act was producing embarrassment at the particular juncture when the letter from the Treasury interposed to relax it, is necessarily conceded by those who, with our selves, regard the issue of that letter, under the ex isting circumstances, to have been political and bene ficial. In making this admission we do but acknow ledge that in this, as in all other legislative regulations, we must look at the balance of advan tages, that every positiv e en actment whatever is subject to the contingency of adverse circumstances, and that, more especially in cases where the exercise of discretion is to be regulated, we must make our account to forfeit some part of the benefit occasionally to be derived from its free agency, if we are to be secured at all times from the dangers that NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS, The Directors of the South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole Rail way Company having, under the powor of the Act of Incorporation, this day passed a resolution, calling for an INSTALMENT of IL on each Share in tkis Company, to be paid on or before the 15th day of January, 1849 ; shareholders are hereby required, in conformity , with such resolution, to pay, on or before the said 15th day of Janu ary, 1849, the amount of such Call, to one or other of the undermen tioned Bankers:— London—Messrs. Currie and Co. Sheffield—The Sheffield Banking Company. Doncaster—Sir William Cooke, Bart., and Co. And in default thereof, they will be charged with Interest at the rate of 5/. per cent. per annum from that day until the said Call be actually paid. By order of the Board of Directors, J. CHARLES HANDFIELD, Secretary. N.B. No Shareholder can transfer any Share until the said Can be paid upon every share held by him. Secretary's Offices, 33, Norfolk-street, Sheffield, November 4, 1848. Admission, la.—Schools, Haff-price.--The New Catalogue, Is. NICOLL'S REGISTERED PALETOT.—This most gentlemanly and useful over-coat retains its original mo derate price, and being adapted for the autumn and winter months, has already been honoured with the patronage of his Royal highness Prince Albert, Prince George of Cambridge, Prince Edward of Saxe- Weimar, his Grace the Duke of Wellington, and the chief ornaments of the Court, the Pulpit, and the Bar. The above can be obtained in London only of 11. 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The whole of the burners are constantly burninz at the Establish- ment of the METROPOLITAN LIGHT COMPANY, RICHARD CLARK, Resident Manager, 447, West Strand, corner of Adelaide street. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Mr. Trelawny's hds., Sat., Old Marley Lodge. The Cheltenham stags hds., Fri., the sixth milestone on the Tewkesbury road-12. The Cheshire hds., Wed., Twenslow Hall; Thurs., Tabley Pa,k; Sat., Darnhall. The Earl of Harewood's hds., Wed., Galeforth Com mon; Fri., Tadcaster Bar; Sat., Hook Moor-10i. The Tiverton hds., Wed., Dulvertou; Sat., Quirk hill-1 Oi. SINGULAR HIGHWAY ROBBERY IN DERBYSHIRE. —As Mr. John Frost, watch and clock repairer, of Crich, was returning home from Ripley fair on the 23d ult., and when near the Old Brewery, Ripley, he was attacked by four men, two of whom " bluffed" him with a hand kerchief, and held his arms backwards, whilst the other two rifled his pockets. They took from him his watch, and a few shillings in silver, and instantly disappeared. What makes the circumstance more singular is, that, on his recovering himself from the fright which the attack naturally caused, and when abont proceeding on the road, one of the robbers returned to him, and asked him if he had not been robbed. Mr. Frost answering in the affirmative, the robber held the watch up to his face, and asked him if that was his watch; be replied it was, and that he should like to have it back, as it was a family watch. The robber then inquired of him if he bad any more money; he replied "not that he knew of," sup sp a o i , i i e n ng with they hadthe t un a k a t a w l l om h e mae h r a see d c . eotn, dth u te r i Dig m n reo ,h h ha i en s rd c s o a n ega v am e irne up, when they seized hi h searched watch, his pockets,nd wished himfin d gGoodnothing, onight.ftoh fortune" neo gave tno himfi hisnd arrival home, Mr. Frost had the good escapedtwo half-crown therobbers' p'e pieces noticein on —Derbyof his Reporter. pekeets,rlwyhicclhoshinagd EARLY CLOSING MOVEMENT. The early a m s o so ve ei m at e i n e t n i i s s gnoeiwngenodneaatvoaunriancgcetleerraatisde p fu e n ed d , e a f nd the i,OOO t. in order to enable them to follow up its previous suc cessese with increased energy and effect. We find, s rm an advertisement which appeared in our paper of f y thiseter. day, that a meeting of the association is to be held a t evening, which a w t e t h h e e p L e i t t e o r a fi r n y d I n the s ti t f u r t i i e o n n d , s f l d er sga t the movement e street, alell mustering in great strength. A LOVER PUNISHED.—The village of Harewood was nearly " frightened from its propriety" a few even ings ago, by a messenger from Weeton, " bloody e ith spurring—fiery red with haste," bearing the news that "Jack had puzzand hissen, and was ommost deed, and t'doctor was to gan away directly." Away went the doctor, and found Jack apparently suffering from the effects of some poison which he said he had taken. The medical man proceeded to apply the stomach-pump, but Jack resisted this, and declared he only wanted to die in peace. The doctor, however, was not to be put off in this way, but mustered assistance, and, " will ye, nill ye," deluged the luckless wight with water, and emptied his stomach, in the hope of removing the poison. Now, as this was a proceeding the youth had not contemplated, and by no means agreeable, as soon as he got his mouth to himself, he confessed that he had taken nothing, but had been "shamming," in the hope of inducing a young lady to listen to his suit, but she declined the honour, and was on the eve of her marriage with a most respect. able person in the next village. Of course, the disap pointed lover has now been punished for his rashness, and will not again report himself to be poisoned.— Leeds Intelligencer. A VESSEL ON SHORE.—The Eugene, a French schooner, Thomas, master, from Nantes to Cardiff, when off Carmarthen Bay, in consequence of the tempestuous state of the weather, on Saturday evening last, put into the port of Llanelly. Not being able to obtain a pilot, and seeing some other vessels bound in, she made for them, and succeeded in crossing in safety the Hooper Sands, amidst the breakers. She followed the vessels until within a mile or two of a place of safety in the port, when suddenly a violent squall of wind arose, ac - couspanied with rain and a thick mist, when she lost sight of the vessels, and got on shore on the Sker, a little above Machynis Point, where, we are sorry to say, she received considerable injury. The cargo, which con sists of 70 or 80 tons of potatoes, has been landed._ Carmarthen Journal. ARSON IN THE CITY. , —A WAREHOUSE IN BREAD.. STREET WILFULLY FlRED.—Yesterday afternoon Mr. W. Payne, the City Coroner, resumed at the Gerard's Hall, Basing-lane, City, the investigation, adjourned from Saturday week last, into the cause of a fire on the premises of Mr. Anstey, silk and shawl warehouseman, No. 60, Bread-street, Ctleapside. From the evidence it did not appear that there was anything to cause sponta neous combustion. The stock was insured in the Royal Exchange for 1,5001., while the value of that found after the fire was 6001., Mr. Anstey stating that he had more goods sometimes than at othere. The jury, atter deli berating a short time with closed doors, returned a ver dict of " That the fire was wilfally caused by some person or persons unknown." THE LATE ACCIDENT IN GLASGOW.—We are gra tified to learn that the appeal made on behalf of the un fortunate families of those who perished at the fall of Mr. Wilson's sugar-house has been responded to with great cheerfulness and liberality, a sum of nearly 3004 having bee❑ already subscribed for this purpose. No thing could exceed the philanthropic feeling displayed by the subscribers to the Royal Exchange when their subscriptions were solicited for the object.—North British Daily Mail. - 7 N OVEMBER 7, 1848. may result from its unregulated laxity. These are the principles by which the Act of 1844 ought to be judged, and they require for their application a some what wide survey, and an enlarged judgment. The history of former crises, the conduct of the Bank Direction at those periods, as well as sinc e th e p ass i ng of the Act, a n d th e peculiar and very distinct cha racter of the two periods of April and October, 1847, must be carefully weighed and balanced before a just sentence 9 can be pronounced upo n th e m er it s o f t l a law. It must be judged, too, not only by what it effected, but by what it prevented ; the security which. it gave to public credit must be allowed for, as a large set-off against any pressure which it may nave occasioned to individuals; and it must never be forgotten how much even of the relief procured by its relaxation was due to the beneficial operation of the Act itself. Those who argue, as we find both many of the witnesses and some on the Committee arguing, that the pressure of the mercantile world in the October crisis was, gratuitously cruel because the convertibility of the note was at that very time beyond the reach of danger, forget that it was owing to the operation of the law which they arraign that the credit of the Bank paper throughout that most trying juncture was never for one moment impaired. With eight millions of specie in the issue department at the period in question, in addition to the banking reserve, the Government were enabled, without any compromise of convertibility, to offer a latitude which, if the bullion had been allowed to run down, as in 1799, to 1,200,000/. ; as in 1825, to 1,027,000/. ; and as in 1839, to 2,400,0001., could not have been ven tured on without the fearful risk of superadding, to the commercial embarrassment of 1847, the scandal and disaster of a currency discredit. It is no question of alternative or of a comparison between the two exile .A;- With .A2r. Cotton; Mr. 'Norman, and Mr. Jones Loyd, we are compelled, by a careful retrospect of all the circumstances, to conclude, that had the principles of the law of 1844 not been acted upon, we should, in all human probability, have had both. Now, we cannot help remarking, that of the ex tensive range of facts which ought to form the ele ments for a sound decision on this matter, Mr. Glyn has comprehended but a small section in his view. The " experience" upon which he so emphatically condemns the law, is a narrow and microscopic one. He bends his eye sharply upon a single point of time, and, without allowing it to take in a wider field of vision, fastens upon the restrictive enactment of the law as the cause of all the mischief. He admits, in deed, in the most distinct terms (1,648), that the pressure in April (which was manifestly produced by the sudden and precipitate contraction of the Bank's advances) was beneficial, and that it was not carried beyond the extent required. Though he was not asked the question, we are sure that he is too can did to deny that the rapid rate at which the Bank had been reducing its Reserve from January to April, when it came down to two millions and a half, was brought to a check at that time by the positive provisions of the Act, and that, but for the existence of this barrier, the drain would, in all probability, have gone on. The " bene ficial pressure," therefore, which in April rectified the exchanges, is a circumstance most material to be included in any estimate of the Act ; and the train of consequences which, as we may reasonably presume, must have followed from a contrary pro ceeding—viz., from not contracting at all, or from contracting too late—ought to enter largely into the conclusion which an impartial mind is called upon to pronounce. It is neither philosophical nor just to say—" It is impossible for any human being to imagine what might or might not have happened had the discretion of the Bank in 1847 been perfectly unfettered. I see what did take place in fact—l can count up the number of firms that failed—l know the rate of interest at which money was screwed up— I heard what fears were expressed about the confined position of the Bank—l witnessed the relief which the relaxation afforded and the satisfaction which it gave, and therefore I gave it as my opinion, founded upon these facts, that the Act decidedly failed." Such appears to us to be the drift of the argument on which Mr. Glyn grounds his opinion ; but this is surely not exactly the sort of "experience" by which measures of wise legislation ought either to be origi nated or to be judged of. Mr. Glyn himself has, in one part of his evidence (1,744), correctly discrimi nated the crisis of 1847 from that of 1825, by cha racterising the former as a banking panic, and the latter as a commercial one. He has enlarged more fully in other passages upon the character of the mercantile failures and the causes by which they were produced. In his enumeration of these he dif fers little, if at all, except that he gives rather less weight to the operation of railway calls, from Mr. Morris, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Horsley Palmer, and the other principal witnesses. Like Mr. Cotton, he ascribes a great part of the ruin of commercial establishments, at that period, to a speculative extension of trade wholly disproportioned to the capital of the parties. " With some few excep tions," says Mr. Glyn, speaking of the failures in the corn trade, and the East India and Mau ritius trade, " (and there are exceptions), I am not prepared to say that those houses ought not to have failed. As far as I am connected with any of them, there is not one that ought not to have failed. It turns out now that in 1846 the East India trade had been carried on upon a system of credit to a very great extent." The consequence of this system, and a very natural one certainly, the same witness describes to have been "a great degree of discredit and want of confidence throughout the country, which was very mnch increased by the failure of banks in Liverpool and in other parts of the country, and, during the week ending the 23d of Oc tober, by a general distrust that seemed to operate amongst nearly all mercantile classes." This picture is a very true one, and the fact is equally notorious which Mr. Glyn goes on to allege, that the operation of this distrust, during which no man thought himself safe, and every one doubted the credit of his neigh bour, was to induce the hoarding of the circulation to a very considerable extent. Bankers strength ened their reserves, and merchants and traders were anxious to supply themselves with notes much exceeding their wants, in order to be provided against a possible emergency. Then it was, when the extent of accommodation given by the Bank, and the quantity of their notes issued to the public, exceeded, by many millions, both the 1 average amount of the circulation and the actual requirements of trade, that attention was drawn to the diminished amount of the banking Reserve, re duced by about the middle of October to little more than 2f millions, and an appr e h ens i on arose th at " the reser ve would soon be driven down so very low that, in point of fact, persons who were possessed of property would not be able to convert it into Back of England notes." This is, we believe, a faithful epi tome of Mr. Glyn's evidence respecting the October panic; and when the several parts of his evidence are thus brought into connexion and harmonised, it is curious to observe how closely they coincide with the exposition given of the same events by Mr. Jones Loyd, in which that gentleman accurately distinguishes the mercantile from the monetary dis order, the latter being the effect and not the cause of the former. " Persons attribute the inconvenience," says, Mr. Loyd, viz., commercial embarrassment, "to monetary derangement, but the monetary derange ment was one of the inevitable effects of these circum stances, and not one of the causes." The panic, so far as it was monetary, which grew out of this revul sion and distrust, was cured by the interposition of the Government relaxing the Act. The conclusion which Mr. Glyn appears toe ready to adopt is, that wherever there is panic there must necessarily be erroneous legislation. There is no law that ever existed which such a test would not con demn. For a panic it is impossible to legislate ; the infinite diversity of shapes which it may as sume can never be met by any enactment founded on principle. It defies both foresight and regulation. The Act of 1844, in permitting 14,000,0001. to be issued unrepresented by bullion, and yet convertible, practically repudiates the possibility of guarding against panic. At the same time it tikes the only securities against panic which are practicable, though none are absolutely safe, by adopting the sound prin ciple of conforming the variations of the paper medium to the bullion which it represents, and it thereby secures the currency of the country aga i nst reasonable alarm. Unreasonable alarm, which is panic, can only be met by discretionary measures ; and the question to be decided is, whether this dis cretion should be perpetually left open, to be ready against such an emergency, or whether it should be exercised exceptionally, and impromptu when the crisis has occurred. We shall state on another occa sion, our reasons for differing upon this point from Mr. Glyn. HERALD.— The Times considers that the proposed amalgamation of the London and North-Western, Great Western, an d South- Western Railway Companies present an ex cellent opportunity for the Legislature to make further encroachments on the rights and value of railway property. Our contempt iary ven tures on the assumption, that large profits are synony mous with maximum rates of fares and minimum numbers of trains, and discovers is the operation of the penny postage, an argument why the state would, if the proposed amalgamation were granted, "be new branches bound to claim a power of dictating [PRICE SD. new trains, new accommodations, and lower fares." Our contemporary, whose assumption is as original and bold as it is groundless, says, " A monopoly commanding the traffie'of at 'least half the island," alluding to the desired amalgamation of the three great companies, " is a property of indefinite and ahnost optional value ; for it is; in fact, as much as the fortunate owners may choose to extract out of it." Happy, indeed, would be the condition of the " fbri ulnae owners," .+ ho )o have had their property arbitrarily and injuriously interien.d with by Legis lative enactments, if what is termed monopoly would enable them to render their traffic " of indefinite and almost optional value." So far from the " for tunate holders " being able to make as much as they " may choose to extract out" of a " monopoly" of railway traffic, the fact is, patent to all who give the slightest attention to railway management, that profits are almost entirely dependent, not so Much upon the rates of fares and number of trains, as upon the character of the traffic 'which has to be dealt with. There are but few lines upon which high fares and a small number of trains would yield the largest possible amount of net profit, while mode rately low, fares and an ample number of trains will . be found the true policy of the majority of our railway companies. We. believe Parliamentary returns will show that a reduction of high rates has increased the gross receipts of a raikvay com pany more frequently than' it has decreased them, though we doubt whether in some of the cases, the increase of the working ,expenses has not more than balanced the augmentation of the • net income. Railway statistics prove that the productiveness of low fares depends in a great measure, not only upon the amount of population that can be accommodated, but upon the distance to be travelled, and that while very low fares, in conjunction with - frequent trains, will develope a very large increase of paying traffic over short portions of the lines running from the metropolis, a similar reduction in the fares between London and Liverpool, or London and Exeter, would not realise anything like a comparative increase of net profits. The reason is evident. The persons who can be induced to travel, for instance, between the metro polis and Greenwich, and Richmond, by the adoption of low fares and frequent trains, are to be counted by thousands or tens of thousands, but those who would be able to take advantage of low fares and frequent trains between London and Exeter, and London and Liverpool, are to be counted by hundreds only. People will not travel 300 or 400 miles simply because the fares have been reduced from 375. or 40s. to 344. or 365. It is but a comparatively limited few who can find time or money to make such a journey, and a reduction beyond a certain amount, which experience seems to have pretty clearly fixed, results in a loss upon what may be termed the remunerative customers of railway companies, without a commensurate increase of traffic being developed. For example, it is doubted whether any material reduction in the present rate of fares of the London and North-Western Company would much increase the through traffic, and those best able to judge are of opinion that the fares could not be further reduced without decreasing the net revenue of the company. The amount and character of the Lon don and IN orth- Western traffic will always oblige the company to run at least six or seven trains daily to Liverpool, a number amply sufficient for the present requirements of the public. The ordinary trains run the distance in eight or nine hours, and the fares are, first class, 37si, and second class, 275., which are the maximum fares by Act of Parliament. We cannot see how, with these facts before us, the London and North-Western Company would, by its amalgamation with the Great Western and South- Western, be able to get as " much as they chose to extract out of" the passengers travelling by their railways. " But," says our contemporary, " the tri umvirs who have partitioned so large a portion of this island, and who are now about to ask Govern ment to consolidate their rule, may spare themselves all further trouble in the affair, unless Oey are pre pared to submit to a regular national control. With out this condition their demand is extravagant in deed. The carriage of passengers is a traffic not very different from the carriage of letters. The difference is more in a few practical difficulties than in principle, and these practical difficulties have been vastly re duced by the invention of the railroad. A monopoly of letters in the hands of Government, and a monopoly of passengers in the hands of a private company, would inevitably suggest that either the one or the other must be wrong. Railways are now the highways of England, and therefore of public right. If we are consigned to one vast management, we must at least be assured that the convenience of all shall not be sacrificed to the profit of some. The management of the Post-office itself will suggest a model. Its net revenue to the State might have been made three or four times what it is now, but advantage has been taken of its wealth to cheapen postage, to multiply communications and deliveries, and in every way to consult tbe general convenience. By the same rule the state will be bound to claim a power of dictating new branches new trains, new accommodations, an d lower fares. It is not likely that much dictation will be necessary, but the State must reserve to itself the right before it constitutes so vast a monopoly." The Times altogether mis-states the case. The " trium virs" are not, as far as we can understand the matter, seeking a monopoly, but to put an end to a ruinous system of competition which has been encouraged and promoted by the Legislature. Our contemporary thinks this system has not sufficiently deteriorated the value of railway property, and the " State" is now called upon " to c l a i m a p ower o f dictating new branches, new trains, new accommo dations, and lower fares." The three companies in question do not seek, by their proposed amalgamation Bill, to do anything which ' s they cannot now indivi. dually carry out at their pleasure ; all they desire is, to live in peace with each other for the benefit of their shareholders, and for the purpose of neutralising as far as possible the effects of restrictive and aggres sive Acts of Parliament. The Times, however, sug gests that Parliament should refuse this reasonable request unless those corporations will consent to expend fresh capital in the construction of the most unproductive portion of railways—viz., branch lines; add to the already unnecessarily large number of trains, and decrease fares, already, it is believed, too low to yield a remunerative return to the share holders. In what way " the management of the Post-office itself would suggest a model" of "a regular national control" over the three companies, should they be amalgamated, we cannot. conceive. If railway passengers could be induced to travel, and could be carried like 'letters in " indefinite" numbers, and if such numbers did not materially interfere with the cost of transit and rate of speed, profits would indeed be " optional," and the " fortu nate owners" of railways might get as " much as they chose to extract out of" their passengers ; but we humbly submit that such is not exactly the case. The Post-office has not •a capital of some fifty or sixty millions to pay a dividend on, and we cannot under stand upon what principle it is the Times claims the right, on the part of the State, further to interfere with this enormous amount of private property for the purpose of benefiting the public, irrespective of the undoubted rights of the shareholders. It is very true that the " net revenue" of the Post office " to the State might have been made three or four times what it is now," but it is monstrous from such a proposition to lay down a principle that the State will "by the same rule be .bound to claim a power of dictating new branches, new accommodations, and lo wer f ares, " for how the'paral lel is to be borne out unlesi the suggested supervision of the State is to reduce the present revenues of the three companies to a third or fourth of what they now are it would puzzle the Times to explain. If " the same rule" by which the efficiency of the Post-office has been increased by a loss of four-fifths of what might have been realised, is to be applied to the ma nagement of railway companies seeking powers to prevent further deterioration in the value of their property, it follows that the present net profits are considered to be three or four times the amount of what they will hereafter realise. To expect that by reducing railway fares in the same proportion, or in anything like the proportion, that the rate of postage has been decreased, one-half of the present dividends of the London and North-Western, the Great Western, and South-Western Companies could be realised, would be speculating upon an impossibility. If the shareholders of the London and North-Western, Great 'Western, an d South-Western are to have a permissive Act granted them on such conditions as are suggested by the Times, we are quite certain the discussion upon the propriety of making use of it will be as short as, the decision against its adoption will be decided and unanimous. We have had too much legislative interference with raw property already. CHEAP FOOD.—At a meeting of the .A„ottdOmie 'des Sciences, on the 16th ultimo, a paper was. read by M. Payne, on the part of the author, SI. Plandin, who ex hibited some specimens of horse chestnuts fecula, en. tirely deprived of bitterness, and other specimens of bread and biscuits prepared with one part of this fecula and three parts of wheat flour, The .author declares that a horse chestnut is worth as much as a potato, and that two trees bearing this fruit at the - door of every cottage in the country are equivalent to several acres of potato fields, the more so t as the horse chestnut almost always yields a good crop and requires hardy ;ay aare_ - The initiatory proceeciingq, upon the writ. of error in the case of Mr. Smith - O'Brien will be raised be fore the Judges on Wednesday, the 15th instant. It is calculated that the argument will not occupy the Court beyond the second day. The decision of their Lordships, whatever it may be, will apply equally to all. the prisoners capitally convicted at the Special Commission in Cloninell. Alluding to a report that the 13th had been the day fixed for hearing the argu ments, the Freeman's Journal says,— " This is far from bvihg correct. Oar reasons for believing this opinion me !Minded on. the practice of the . Queen's Bench relative :to urits of error, which ni;y render an argument doling the - pre: eat term not altogether probable. It is true th e 13th li.s (ten fixed, nut for arguing the main questions, but f or 1.-...stsi4ning errors on the writ. The Attorney. G. nera / real ' move the Court to quash the writ to .e r sou fr.int oot by the statute ; and, should he :.u..eced in till.; - p; tin ry step, ttio judgment b low stands he does not pursue this course, tor we apprehend the proceedings are perfectly regular, then, on the day al ready named, the plaintiff in error assigns errors, The Clown will then pursue one of three cours es—either to join in error, plead specially, or demur. The first being the most probable, after the joinchr it. error is filsd the cause will b. entered in due coure f argu ment, and the practice in such case we eru?erstand to be that the cause should be entered by the Clerk of Etrora ten clear days befOre argument. Paper bucks, contain ing an'abstract of the entire proceedings from the at raignMeni of Smith O'Brien down to the errors assigned, must be 'made out for, the information and guidance of the judges, and these helps to judicial knowledge must, by the rules of the Queen's 'lnch, be delivered to their Lordships four clear days at least before the hearing of the cause. So our readers will perceive that a consder able interval must take place before the writ can he ar gued, and, a fortiori, before it can be finally c!eter mined. The' law's acl.y' will interfere several stages before these complicated preliminary proceedings can end in solemn argument. In e4lculating the number of days which the practice of the Court interposes before the last stage is reached, we are inclined to believe that the matter must stand over until the Hilary Term. When the argument takes place, we have good reason to believe that the case on the part of Smith O'Brien will be argued by Mr. Napier, q.c., and Mr. Francis Fitzgerald." - LIBERATION OF STATE PRISONERS. The Lords Justices held a meeting of the Privy Council last Saturday, when leave was granted to take bail for the appearance of the following political prisoners, who are confined in Dublin and elsewhere for treasonable practices, viz.:— Eugene O'Reilly, J:imcs Mlienna, John De Courcy Young, John Russell, James Russell, Patrick Corvan, James O'Donnell, Lasrence Gahaghan, Patrick Conway, George Whelan, Nicholas Nagle, Michael Doherty, Robert Cave, Richard Dalton, Edward Egan, John Hickey, Patrick Dunne, Thomas Hennessey, Anthony O'Ryan, Thomas Parker O'Flanagan, and Robert Lambkin. On Saturday morning an order was received at the county gaol (Limerick) for the discharge of Mr. Richard Dalton, of Tipperary, one of the political offender; on finding bail, himself in 100/., and two sureties in 50Z each. An order is also expected to admit to bail Mr. Thomas M'Namara, soiicitor, of Rathkeale, and Mr. William Hartnett, of Newcastle. The other political offenders remaining in custody are Mr. Richard O'Shaughnessy, of Rathkeale, grocer, and Michael O'Neil, stonemason. ATTEMPT TO MURDER. ___ The Limerick Chronicle bas the following:— " On Wednesday evening, between seven and eight o'clock, the inhabitants of St. Mary's parish were alarmed by a cry that a man named Purcell had been murdered in the public streets, close to the Castle bar racks. On inquiry it was ascertained that the rumour was not far from the truth, for on arrival at the scene a man was found lying in the centre of the road weltering in blood. The police from George's-quay station soon arrived, and were informed that the injured victim had been attacked by three men from Coonab, named Hayes, who waylaid him on his return home, knocked the un offending man down, stabbed him with a knife in the chtst, kicked him in the body, and almost severed the nose from his face! In this deplorable state the sufferer, James Purcell, aged 56, was conveyed to Barrington's Hospital, where he received prompt medical aid at the hands of Dr. Gelston, who entertailis but little hope of his recovery. The perpetrators of the brUtal deed, John, Pat, and Michael flayes,:w ere soon after arrested by the police, and, having been brought before the magistrates at the Town-hall on Thursday, were committed to the city gaol." THE FUGITIVE LEADERS. The following incidents in connexion with the escape of Messrs Stephens and Do'neny are furnished by the Limerick Examiner:— " When Mr. Stephens had taken his exit from the col lies, he directed his wandering footsteps to Tipperary, suffering from a wound he had received in his side. He reached Tipperary early in the night, and, having dis guised himself, walked up and down the streets, think ing to meet with some ki n d f r i en d w h o might assist him in his misfortunes. He met with some. He called at the house of a respectable family in Tipperary, but they, of course, received him coldly, aware of the penalty of the law. Poor Stephens, however, made the best of his way out of town, accompanied by friends, who shared his dangers and misfortunes for the night. They slept with him in a stack of bay. Next morning he disguised himself as a poor scholar, and made for the Commeragh mountain, where, peradventure, he met his old friend Mr. Doheny, who had assumed the character of a schoolmaster. Both ' school masters' lived in the Commeragh mountains for some weeks, baffling the police. It is stated that, a policeman once gave Mr. Stephens a few pence, such was his forlorn appearance, being, of course, quite igno rant of his identity. The track of the fugitives was at last, however, found, and immediate separation was deemed the only alternative to secure the safety of both. They parted, Mr. Doheny for Cork, and Mr. Stephens for Waterford. The history of Mr. Doheny's escape to Paris has already been told—that of Mr. Stephens re mains to be narrated. It is said that he disguised him self in the costume of a woman (he had a feminine ap pearance), and, having lingered away some days in Waterford, was met at last by some friend, who gave him - money to travel to England or to France. With great courage and cleverness he crossed the Channel, leaving his enemies behind ; and having travelled by railway to Dover took a passage. ticket for Boulogne. There he was detained a prisoner .by the English au thorities in France, and was subsequently liberated by order of the Republic. It is said that he instituted an action against the English authorities for false imprison ment, and received 504 to compromise the proceedings. The end of all poor Stephens 's misfortunes and dangers was his arrival in Paris, where he is now in the National Guards, in the rank of an officer." • GEMS FROM THE "HUE AND CRY." Maria Boyle, who stole 13s. from Louisa Byrne, of Bride-street, is described as wearing a gown "all blue with a white stripe." Bessy Brennan stole a quantity of money and , clothing from the house, 49, Clarendon -street, but in stead of her description we have the description of the house as follows:-24 years of age, middle size, red hair, which has the appearance of fdling off, brown eyes, pale face, fair complexion, has a mark on the forehead, and walks with lameness!" (The above piece of confusion arises—No, we won't tell the reason.) "In a description or Anthony Lawler (who stands charged with a murderous assault on James Lennon, near Rathvilley, county Carlow), we have his whiskers set down as " small, smart, and of active appearance!" Two heifers which were stolen from Catherine M'Carrey, of Starlogford, county Donegal, are described —lst, "four years old, all black except some brown on the back;" 2d, "all yellow colour, with white on her back!" Biddy Conroy absconded from her uncle, Thomas Murphy, Pathacurry, ,county Galway, taking 7L with her. The Rue and Cry says the dress of the girl can not be described, as ,she had three dresses, " one a blue spotted, one a brown ditto, and one a brown stuff ditto, and a blue fla nne l cloak, and it is supposed she will be dressed in some of them I" The following is a mark whereby Honors Keenan, who stole 201 from her uncle, John Delany, of Broc kerry, Queen's County, may be known--" right leg much swelled, but it has no appearance I" Instead of describing a horse which was stolen from hn Haire, of Dromure, county Sligo, th e d escr i ption is given of the robber, who is "5 years old, 11 bands high, and light gray colour, with a long switch teil !" Myles Magee, of Dernaholier, county LeitriM, lost a cow, which is said to be "giving milk with two short cocked horns !" THE MEETING OF LIBERAL ELECTORS AT WAKE.. FIELD.—A meeting was held on Friday last. The fol lowing is a summary of what occurred:—The first resolution, moved by the Mayor of Bradford, se conded by Mr. Solly, of Sheffield, was adopted by the meeting. The other two resolutions were also adopted, the second being moved by the Mayor of Wakefield, and seconded by Mr. T. Todd, of Dewsbury. The third resolution was moved by Mr. E. Baines, of Leeds, and seconded by Mr. F. Crossley, of Halifax. Some gentlemen present who were favourable to Mr. Fitz william's claims then attempted a compromise, but all their proposals to that end were negatived, and a reso lution was passed expressing the dissatisfaction of the meeting with the address which Mr. Fitzwilliam had issued. Finally a resolution waspassed, constant-. ing the delegates present a committee, in order to take the opinions of the Liberal voters for the riding, in their respective districts, as to the propriety of bringing out another candidate in opposition to Mr. Fitzwilliam. The meeting broke up about five o'clock, having lasted nearly four hours and a half, HERRING TRADE;--WICK, OCT. 26.—Our local market exhibit; no symptoms of reanimation, as there are no inquiries making on the part of purchasers, ir,r are shipments being made on the same extensive scale as some weeks ago. Four vessels are loading for various Irish ports and one for the Baltic. Advices have this week been received from Stettin. They are written in rather. a desponding tone, from the prospects of the country. Cholera is spreading rapidly, and is fatal, and civil war is not less injurious to the interests of commerce. Account sales are pretty favourable, but a decline i t prices is looked for. From Irish ports we learn that., partial fall in prices has taken place. T ly h h e ol g e se L a roi t o : pke ouor our coopers are now out of work. This re m ark,. Wth- e are sorry to say, refers to a large proportion of I. tant ill-remunerated class OR OA cout.....invernes4 auricr, "'"? .:3~