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Dee. •••.• upten nptos nptenlj , inptou p,rviillll npten i n I) ton 1 , port; itril epton t lO" npton l , ol ------ 0 1 nails of tho deSPatel.' rrolif , OAT, D e°4 r Weather' r . y w Jodi' ,ndl• Noudi , lona/ . row , 460 1 9.4 TO l°ll o / r i e lO6 it 10110944 n the} of . nt Sr i " ►i A -Ext )kor, e or li o , l l/ 1 ab*L'il t , dgibloll i ran i A ,d in ire' it . is. r got, 80, rip' a go ity . 6! ',dor" earl f , A e r 0 ,! Of " ghter of' dent al' I! 0- • ge 0 1.1,110 e, Dr' - -vO ll / 1 4 / 40. 11 i le collo ALBEItT SMITH'S MONT BLANC stalls, 3s.TO-NIGHT at g o'clock, and Every Night (but Saturday). ; Area, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. The 3fernltts Representations take place every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 3 o'clock.— gyptian Hall, Piccadilly. GREAT -WESTERN RAILWAY.- ALTERATION' of TRAINS.—On and af, or Ist JANUARY, 1855 , the 10 p.m. Train from Paddington, and the 10 10 p m. Up- Train fbom Windsor, will be discontinued. The 5.3 i. p.m. Train from Hangerford will start at 6.10 p.m. On SUNDAYS the 11 a.m. Train from Birmirgliam to Wolver , bampton, and the 12.30 p.m. Train from Wolverhampton to Bir- Asinghatn, will be discontinued. For minor alterations, see the Train Bills of the Company. Paddington, Dec. 29, 1854. ORNAMENTS for the DRAWING-ROOM, LIITRARY, and DINING-ROOM, consisting of a new and elegant ass or t men t of Vases, Figures, Groups. Candlesticks, Obelisks, Inkstands, beautiful Inlaid Tables, Paper-weights, &c., in Italian Alabaster, Marble, 'Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. Imported and . Manufactured by JAMES TENNANT (late Mawe), 149, Etra , d, London. Mr. TENworr arranges elementary Collect‘ons of Shells, Minerals, and Fossils, which will greatly laellitate the intere.ting study of Conchology, Mineralogy, and Geology, at 2,5, 10, 20, 60, to 10.) guineas each. GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICE OF SIR WM. BURNETT'S. DISINFECTING • FLUID. Gallons, ss. Quarts, 23. Pinta, 11. Cd. This Valuable DEODORISER and TASTY FECTANT instantane- SWY destroys all BAD SMELLS withnut nreil !clng any itself. Its free use, as directed, PREVENTS CHOLERA a d all CON, t'IGIOL'S DISEASES. Sold by all Chemists and Druggists, and at the Ottlee,l 8, Cannon !!cpset, rondon.brldge. lt.B.—lieware of a spuiious Imitation. AURENT'S CASINO , -- ARGYLL ROO Nis During the course of this week will be played by Laurent's Orchestra :—Overture. La Gazza Ladra. Rossini : Waltzes: Termsh ' Ineg's Toast*, Strauss; Milia (first time),llosisio: Souvenir da Lux embourg, L. Bougnel ; Le Carnival de Yenise (by eeslre). R. Laurent, with Variations tor all the principal perrormers. Quadrilles: Le Pallas de l'Alcazar, Ii Lamotte; La - (Therm /los sio. .shot ische, it/dying, Lamotte. Polkas; illumenlest, Strauss; Fidelite ; The Ilevr Armen (first time). Straus, /lollop, Les Guides, IL Laurent. Principal Cornet Piston, 11d: lionlcourt. All Infbrmation Hatlye to mast* to be obtained at the music repository under the orchestra boors open at Eight; commence at half-past. -Admission, One CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. The follov i REMARKABLE NOVELTIES have been • SP ECIALLY PRI': A RED. LECTURE by J. H. Parrult, Esq., on Professor Wheatatane's 4e4Devintents en th, TRANSMISSION of•SOITND through ilolfd Con ductors, illustrated by a TELEPHONIC CONCERT . FIRST PAR T if as ENTIRELY NEW and SPLENDID OPTI CAL DIORAMA, illustrating the VOYAGES of SINBAD the SAILOR. with Beautiful PHANTASMAGORIA, EFFECTS, and aPPropriate Music arranged by Mr. Wand. MONDAY" EVENING, the let of January, first of a New Course Of MONDAY EVENING LW:TURES to tke INDUSTRIAL C LASSES : On the CHEMISTRY of LIFE, by Dr ',ETHICS!. Great Increase in the VIEWS if the Wl'? : the B ATTLE of the ALMA, SIEGE of SEBASTOPOL, the ENGLISH BATTERIES, ' &c. • LECTURE on the MIME RIFLE, and that powerful implement of tear, the STEAM GUN, projecting Sixty Palls per Minute, wh ch has • erected by Mr. Pzatirrs, and will be discharged daily and in the ~C TURESon•ELF,CTRICITY by Dr. Ittentiornma. CRAWFORD's VOCAL ENTERTAINMENT of tke PATRIOTIC • IBGNGS of SCOTLAND. For th e s p ec i a l A musement o f the Juvenile 'll4litory, DAVIS'S INGENIOUS M A RIONETTES will be exhibited. AA the other LECTURES,EZHIBITIONS of MODELS, &c. &c. &c. Fresh decerations. S Pecial Juvenile Night on the 2d of January, and g r a t u it ous distri - Zntion of the Ornaments of a beautirul Christmas Tree amongst the Y ang People. VAN NOOSHEN'S New Musical Game, the POLT-HARMONI wi'T, explained Daily by the Inventor. tCONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 6, NEW BRIDGE-STREET, BLACKFRIARS. Ilstabliahed 1823. Empowered by Act of Parliament, 3 William IV. DIRECTORS. l'he R ight Hon. Sir T. FRANKLAND LEWIS, Bart., M.P., Chair. • Is TRY FREDERICK STEPHENSON, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. . ogsford Barber, Esq. I Sir Alex. Duff Gordon, Bart. .krthur Kett Barclay, Esq., F.R.S. Archibald Hastie, Esq., M.P. /teorY Barnett, Esq. I Charles Morris, Esq. oe rt Biddulph, Esq. William Routh, Esq. ' 4°131 4 Edgar, Esq. AUDITORS. lt lWa rd Cherrington, Esq. I Captain Robert Gordon, R.N. 'lnds Dtunergue, Esq. John Gilliam Stillwell, Esq. )141. vße...if—John Ayrton Paris, M.D., Cantab., Hon. D.C.L. Oxon. sicia ns ) S, 27. Dover-street (President of th e Royal College of Phy . 4tntozott —Benjamin Travers, Esq., F.R.S., No. 54, Green-street, Grosvenor-square. SO LICITOR—Henry Young, Esq., No. 12, Essex-street, Strand. The ACTUARY—James John Downes, Esq., r.n.A.s. advantages offered by this Society are : „ ziCONOMY combined with Security, and Lower Rates of Premiums Ipan those of any other office, which entitle the assured to participate 1 the profits, and considerably lo wer th an t h ose o f any other Mutual dies ttranes Society. the WHOLE of the PROFITS are di v id e d every fifth year among t Assured, and a B onus i s added, after the payment of the Fifth e9ltnual Preminm to p rior i effected on the participating Scale, a claim accrue thereo to the next division of profits. The sum of 397,000/. was added to Policies at the last division, p eld l . l produced an average BONUS of GM per cent. on the Premiums 11 , rh ura bLr .Rf Policies in force ne ar ly 7,000. 230,067 3 r r ance Fund amounts to 1,400,0001. Income upwards NH No charrAnnuni. 1 Corp tia s alo . p ommy Stamps, nor for Service in the Yeomanry or The subjoined Table showi the advantages offered by this Society, re/Milting from low Premi d divis ion of the entire profits among the Assured : um3' and a 0 :alq tg; t 1.°;.4P4 IT 4 4 ;;J ) . 3: N,f= g al g „ato 711,151 4 4Epe 1854 1855.1 1854. 1855. - - - XX I X 12 25 1383 1413 12 24 1342 13b6 11 22 1231 1303 10 20 1181 )201 X. s. A. 21 15 10 2G 13 33 19 6 45 6 0 1260 1205 1140 1030 P rospectuses and full particulars may be obtained on application to ALEXANDER MACDONA.LD. Secretary. SPECIAL NOTICE. °Meals for Assurance must be made prior to the lst January, p ' 5 . to entitle the Assured to participate in the next Division one Milts in 1859. JOZEAU'S COPAHINE, or SACCFI ARATED to CAPSULES, approved of by the t 7 rench College of Physicians, aci. c .. e4 rallY administered In the Paris and Londo n H os pit a l s , an d 40 o Wledged by them to be the best remedy f or th e care o f certa i n . 48 (see "Lancet" of Nov. 6, 1852).—Price per 100 4s. 6d. ; Wtr9d. To be had of the inventor, GABRIEL JOZEALT, e h chemist, 49, Haymarket, London, whose name is printed on the Government stamp, and of the principal chemists. TRIESEMAR, protected by Royal Letters ?k ora Patent of England, and secured by the Seals of the Ecole de ikcie de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TRIESEMAR, No. 1, 117 4 i4 mi med7 tbr Relaxation, Spermatorrhcea, and Exhaustion of the ty, TRIESEMAR, No. 2, eiraiiM i lY, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely lise"os all traces ot those Disorders which Capivi and Cubebs et v .. l ong been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health -4 Portion of the population. Is the TRI ESE MAR, No. 3, ktife r a r °ltt Continental Remedy for that class of Disorders, which IrritabiPttelY the English physician treats with Mercury, to the in oeetraction of the patient's constitution, and which all the 7 . 1; -11 a,.. in the world cannot remove. 1,1 11 ei - ' 43, IAR, No. 1,2, and 3, are alike devoid of taste or smell, Withe t t ll ,. nauseating qualities. They may Ile on the toilet table e cd uleir us e bear suspected. Post tin cues a dminister e d Ils. each free by post; 28. extra, divided into B,c! doses, as by Valpeatt, Lallemand, Roux, !lon, be had Wholesale and Retail in London of Robert John -156, n,L , ornhlll; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; and Sanger, -.4ord-street. qlt A.VESEND STAR PACKETS. Tkr ot her packets call at the Greenhlthe and Parfleet Piers. Packets call at the Piers as underlined (weather permitting \ . ` FROM TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND. - 2 1 Tarr". 4 1 . 1•4 ti er t 1 5 .f 2 zI • a ---- I , ! • 0 ; Time I E ts s 4 -I • ever 72,424,6 er of an from irenehurch-etreet Station to all parts of London iiit „ ~SWIC K "rt hour. WfIARF, ELACKWA.LL, on the arrival of the fol ~t Trams from the Fenchurch-street Station. DAYS. SUNDAYS. rem. t a 0 •- 4 Aaron V Fen e, Jiltreet .- X Street ,8 r F 10 - - - - 11 - - - ——, 414 , toer Fore Cabin. Saloon. from Gravesend and L0nd0n........ •. 101. .. Is. 2d. ,; G ravesend Am.' • - - to ~" ~ C. ur om Gravesend and L on d on .. •• •• .. • • lOLabin .. 81 Is. ik2l_ Gra vesend and Blackwell or W oolw i ch Bd. .. Os, —`,Teen Gravesend and Intermediate Piers.. Gd. .. Os. vu'iyA.T T CKETS.—TweIve Months, 5.. Os.; Six Months, iZsZe Months, 21. Os.; to be had of the Collectors on boi - 7, eta; or of Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend. •‘,0•• 1 8. 1854. 31. Os. ; and the Tgx ~, i " t eitET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY cat ael.,,_ - --Lixiled, Price 25., illus trated with cases ; free by post for 31' stamps, 'IN tea t, RITOUS DEBILITY ; tec Causes Symptoms, and Cure.—An Essay on Spar 4ecesanli, 'with ' Practical Observations on a safer and more it,. eillern —. ,'node of treatment of the diseases of the Generative ev,..._-isa,";.°4ltied by the use of the Microscope in detecting and ''''s vcit, b urinary examination, the real (Anse and o el n c%4l.4t Y Of complaint. whether arising from solitaryhabits, xe.._i/telt, dent, or climate , followed by practical remarks , founded "Xis b Years' experience in the treatment of Impuissance Are dde4 ability, Local Weakness, Spermatorrho3a, ..!:c. To which ah e4 ,, °ll ari ,C ), ° , , lcaentaries on the Physiology of Marriage, with pre tFuLon th' fui . . ta on the evils emanating from empirical practiee, " e l irupe,..""Urgerous remedies advocated by various writers on ••••aUlt disorders. ,_ I I. k , By SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D. 11,"'ar ru - 'DPORD-SQUARE, LONDON, t nirge yrucine, Matriculated Member of the University of Ed's, v a . t eilii - i,. ° ,,Ta, 1 7 Member of the London Hospital Medical Society ae...""a Mists of A Dothecaries' Hall, London, toe., &c. 1 , -- -inen iiiial object of this treatise is to point ou t the fearful con- L ic h hk. r . ftul ting from certain habits, irregularities , and excesses, , and'. Pruced more misery in Youth, degradation nber el Premature decay at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, any snit 4 r : 1:1 ass -., disease known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is thei r pia-`47 reco rumended to persons entertaining secret doubts of t he lreal3tlheal c ondition and who are conscious of having hazarded ' haPPluess, a nd privileges to which every human being is PtiipAte , ao,,!iltely necessary thatall man should know, that there are , i. 'netirri na ui Personal management which cannot he violated without ." heydeVeveus penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed ,:,? be -',,,sl_lnconsiderate self-indulgence, how these Penalties 4711104.14cied, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, ret th ere i : evil end Its consequences may be avold9,l, and above all, I.l ai igern.,,, a ,_" , rcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional oar - ` . c.Ant„ - " 1,0 Wch the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. tl ee rr ago fora series of years been engaged in an extensive n ru m ri the treatment of these delicate complaints, which have " " 'Plri, w telY bee n too generally confided . to the care of ignorant kit h i ce ' "110 inflict Sib t ...eir pr e t eesi g r eat injury on those who are induced to place troil*l°llB DEBILI TY May e had, of Messrs. Piper, 11° N, 16 c CO., 23, P a ternoste r -row • H annay , 63, Oxford-street; 'lliirtY stiiirtLeiceeter-sq,,nar fie a,,,,_ pri ; Mann, 39, Cornhill ;or free by post for t .-o ' l 4'l - "' lul l audr e alis from the Author's residence, 37, Bed ...t if • - 44 teals tb, - kat. oftrultation daily from' Eleven till Two, and from i ,:,; ❑ptOL It pton npton 1. 4 lire, No. 19,426,3 PUBLICATIONS. Now Ready. in 2 vols.. 215., bound, rfROPICAL SKETCHES ; or, REMINIS CENCES of an INDIAN JOURNALIST. By W. KNIGHTON, M.A., Author of" For. at Life in Ceylon." " Ihee volumes present a graphic view of Indian life, an I snore particultirly"of European code yin In da. The work is no less to be commended for tho varied instruction it convey s th an f or the rich enter:alio:nem ft afford.."—John Bull. and Elackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Oolburn, 13, Crest Marlborough- st ree t. On FM-1y next Will be published ; pout Bvo., price Gd., rimE WARDEN : A Novel. By ANTILONY London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. B RNTLEY'S MISCELLANy._, Price Hall-a-Crown. The JANCIAUY NUMBER contain , . the commencement of a new entitled "The Sten•ithrift," by W. Harrison Alusworth.—Don Alonzo Al, Taber, by John Oxenford.—The Ecrivain Putlic, by Dud ey Costello.—Winter in the Crimea —Miss Letty Larkins's First Drive in a Hansom.—War, and the Paris Mesmerists.--John Gibson Lockhart.— Initerrean, the City of Caves.—New Year's Adventures of a Box of Bonbons, by the Flaneur, &c , &c. London : Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. Just Pui)lishcd, price One Shilling. POPULAR LIBRARIES in RURAL DIS TRICTS, their adaptation to meet one of the social necessities of the Tim P, with Suggestions for their est-iblishnicist in Rural Dis tricts, on a Self-supporting and Inexpensive Plan. By the Rev. F. W. NAYLOR, /3.A., Vicar of Upton, Notts. London: Simpkin, Marsha!], and Co.; W. Dearden, Nottingham; and J. Whittingbam, :;outhwell. B C RAILWAY GUIDE.—The Number for the pre.ent month !_s now publl3hing. To be had of all Booksellers and ews• end:: Offtct, OM Roswell-Court., Temple bar. r (SHE LAND AND BUILDING NEWS.- 1 No. 21 is now publishing. To be had of all Newsvenders and Booksellers. Price 4.1. QUACKS UNMASKED. The Third Edition.—Just published, p r i ce 55., by post, free, ss. 6d. ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA, with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the Real sufferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. From the German of Dr. PICKFoiti t. ,With an Introduction by the Editor, containing a complete exposure of the system of terrorism and extortion pursued by the advertising quacks of the metropolis towards those who are credulous enough to seek their aid. " Dr. PicSford ls known to English readers by his frequent practi cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first I'me, he informs as, that he has addressed himself to the nos-medi eel reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his sower to cor rect." —London Medical Gazette. " The tribe of ' Quiet Sympathisers,' and ' Medical Friends, are mercilessly exposed; and if this book could find its way into the hands of those who suffer from the com plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— much m0ney...... This volume is well qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrhosa, and to place the treat ment upon a more rational and physiological Wis. It is, therefore, likely to do much good." London: H. Balliere, 219, Regent -street. "THE 16s. TROWSERS REDUCED TO 14s. Trowsers and Waistcoat, 225. ; Coat, Waistcoat, aid Trow ears, 475. ; made to order from Szetch Tweeds, all Wool, and thoroughly shrunk, by B. BENJAMIN, Merchant Tailor, 74, itegent-street. N.B.—A perfect lit guaranteed. APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED. LEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, and all Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad, and by its tonic arid Invigorating properties enables the stomach to perfectly digest the food. The daily useof this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe s uard to health. Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrins, 19, Fenchurch-street, London, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester; also by Messrs. Barclay and Sons, Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and mer chants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. N.8.---To guard against imitations, see that the names of "LEA and PERRINS" are upon the label and patent cap of the bottle. TEETH. —By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. —Newly-invented and Patented Application of Che mically-prepared White India-rubber in the construltion of Artificial Teeth, Gums, and Palates.—Mr. EPHRAIiI MOSELY, Surgeon- Dentist, 61, 3rosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square, Sole Inventor and Patentee.—A new, original, and invaluable invention, consisting in the adaptation, with the most absolute perfection and success, of CHEMICALLY -PREPARED WHITE INDIA-RUBBER as a lining to the ordinary gold or bone frame. The extraordinary results of this application may be briefly noted in a few of, their most promi nent features, as the following !—All sharp edges are avoided ; no springs, wires, or fastenings are required ; a greater increased ftee dom of suction is supplied ; a natural elasticity hitherto wholly un attainable: and a fit, perfected with the most unerring accuracy, are secured, while from the softness and flexibility of the agent em ployed, the greatest support is given to the adjoining teeth when loose, or rendered tender by the absorption of the gums. The acids of the mouth exert f o agency on the chemically-prepared White India-rubber, and a.slt is a non-conductor, fluids of any temperature may with thorough comfort be imbibed and retained in the mouth, all unnionssumess of smell or taste being et the same time wholly provided against by the peculiar nature of its preparation. To be obtained only at 61, Grosvenor-street, London; 22, Gay-street, Bath ; 34, Grainger-street, Newcastle-on-Tyne. DR. CULTERVIELL ON NERVOUSNESS, DEBILITY", AND INDIGESTION. . _ Also, on Urinary Derangement,, 6;nWlpation, d Haemorrhoids, la. each, by coat lc 6d. lITHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID. Abstentla multi curantur mortis" • A popular ovposition of the principal causes (over and careless reeding, &c.) of the above harassing and distressing complaints, with an equally intelligible and popular esposition of how we should 'lye to get rid of them ; to which is added, diet tables for every meal in the day, and full instructions for the reximen and observance of every hour out of tke twenty. four. Illustrated by numerous cases, Sec. LIGHTS IND SHADES OF MARRIED LIFE. " Ne which that hath no wif, I hold him lost, Helpless, and all desolat. Ile that hath no child, Like sun and winde."--Chaucer. subject : Marriage, its expectations and Necessities—Development of the Affections—Love Matches—Precipitate, impelled, and retarded Unions—Marital Inclngruitles—Mutual Unsuitableness—Mental incompatibility and Physical Defectiveness—Advantages of Inter marriage—Theory of Gestation—Hereditary Resemblance—Mode of determining Legitimacy. On Infelicitous, Infertile, and all Unas similable Alliances—Law of Divorce, &c., &c. CHASTITY AND IT3 I2f )rRINrbEMENTS. A Lecture to Young Men. " What passions hurt the body—what improve, Truths as reined as Athens ever heard." Subject : Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The Raven , of the passions. Chastity and its infringement. The casualties • licentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narrative, and remediative. Advocacy of early marriages, &c. 4. 'On Secret Diseases, their Selt-management and Cure. The GREEN BOOK.—A comprehensive and popular exposition of Benito and urinary diseases—their nature and treatment, com prising especially primary and secondary symptoms, all forms of urinary derangements, stricture and spermatorrhcea ; with 250 en gravings and prescriptions. The BLADDER, URETHRA, and RECTUNL—Comprising Urinary Derangements, Constipation, and Hanorrholds. Vols 1 and 7, companions to the preceding. THIII ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. HOW TO BE HAPPY. " Jucunde ♦ivere." " Few words to fair faith."—Shakespere. Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or of DP. RICHARD CULVERWELL, Rrother, Successor, and Twenty Tears Consulting Colleague of the late Author of the above, 10, Argyll-place, Regent-street, London, who may be vivised with on the above matters daily, front Ten till Five, and in the evenings, frora Seven till Nine. "A HAPPY NM W YEAR." HOWEVER we may value past enjoyments, it must he admitted that present hopes have a greater influence than bygone recollections. There are some pleasing reminisecnces of the past year which will sweeten the events of the present. The ld Year, loaded with the precioas fruit 4 of the earth, like a provi dent and tadustrions predecessor, has left ■s the legacy of good food, which we hope, notwithstanding adverse circumstances, to have at a cheap rate. . - Reviewing the past year, we have the highest gratification in re cording our succem, and expressing our thanks for the vast amount of patronage and support which our business in all its departments has received. We think ft no presumption to say we have laboured to merit the distinction we have gained. Business—practical, ener getic, constant, punctual, and unwavering —has been our daily ob ject. We have visited every market ; we have employed the skill and experience with which many years of boundless trade have gifted ■s ; we have encouraged talent, and patronised industry, and have made a'l our resources available to friend", patrons, and the public, In presenting them with superior and fashionable Dress, at very reasonable charges. We have received our reward in the innu merable instances of satisfaction expressed toward our bastion and our manufactures—in the vast increase of our Trade in London, the United Kingdom, the Colonies, and throughout the World. The Ready-made Clothing Department has been publicly acknow ledged the boon of society, and an advantage to individuals and families. Our ambition to furnish the best, most fashionable, and comfortable Clothing, at the lowest possible prices. has met with a most conspicuous response ; and we owe to cur friends, patrons, and the public, a grateful acknowledgment of success which has not been equalled on any former season. We have received the attention of all classes and of all professions—our productions have been declared the most popular, the most gentlemanly, the most comfortable, and the cheapest. Our system of business, now universally known, has been as extensively praised ; and through the past Year, the cordial congratulations we have received have been a source of satisfaction, which we esteem the most brilliant triumph of Trade. As Hatters. we have supplied elegant 'Article" for the intellectual developments of our fellow-subjects, and have neither contracted their benevolent propensities by comfortless hats, nor distorted their apprehensions with exorbitant prices ; but the best productions of London and Paris have been transferred from our Establishments to their proper places—the Heads of families and all the young hope fuls of a future generation. In the Hosiery Department such encouragement has been expe rienced as has exceeded the most sanguine expectation, and at the repeated solicitation of a vast number of patrons we have been in duced to adds Hosiery section to our Oxford-street Branch Establish meat. Being the largest Manufacturers of Shirts and Underci • ~t~ing, and having commercial transactions with every Natio* and King dom in the World, we have the pleasure of offering such articles in Hosiery for Ladies and Gentlemen as are not equalled for supe riority, variety, elegance, or cheapness. Our Wholesale Clothing, Shirt, and Boot and Shoe Business, for which the swat extensive premises aro kept at our City Establish ment, has had the most liberal encouragement from Merchants, Shippers, Captains, and ethers ; and we have the greatest satisfac tion in the uniform testimony which has been awarded to our pro ductions from the celebrity they have gained in all parts of the world, and the conviction that they have proved the most pro fitable investments which were ever made for the export or home trade. We mast gratefully acknowledge the distincuished pal ronave which has been conferred on our Branch Establishments at Sheffield and Bradford, Yorkshire, where we pursue the same plans of business, charge the same reasonable prices, and furnish goods of the same fashionable and excellent order. Though every colony of the British Empire has in it our patrons, Australia, that home of Znglish in dustry, has a large and flourishing Wholesale Branch of our well knows business ; and we are persuaded that in every place that bush:tees will always be worthy of the name and celebrity of E. Hoses end SON. Howerer, as it is E. Noss and Sox's custom annually to recapi tulate the progress of their business, and to express their good wishes towards their patrons and the public, they do so with an ex traordinary degree of pleasure at the commencement of the year 1845 ; satisfied that the name of E. 3losEs and SON is identified with gcod, fashionable, and cheap clothing; that E. Mons and Sox have the greatest celebrity as Merchant Talloap Hosiers, and Out fitters; that there is not a branch of buskess City prothse, but in it indefatigable perseverance enable! teem to succeed ; and in the most animated hopes of !courtig numberless advantages to all classes of patrons, and of preserving distinction and celebrity in all nations, E. MOBES and SON most sincerely wish every body in all parts of the world A aerrx NEW TEAS, z' A T T , I . ' 70/ k . . r• - - • . . -. 41111 , • I \ ~„ . . -• • •.; 4C , ) 70 .(,-1111 • ' OIL" ' 40 .00 t'S•••• -441 • V 4 4 11' , ..' *1111 ; • •,. ' % k /i o • -- • .•\ .• ;i•• - ••= :,1• ‘ •i• :•; , k • ..• • .•,•••t € 36,„. t • , • • . •••••... •' •' • eillW *0"; - , , 'kZt . +' r 4' . • • - . ... ~• • _...- • - • • •• • . 1 . • . . . _ rr r LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY. 1, 1855. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The Marlborough, 131, screw-ship, building in this dockyard, is to be launched by March next. The Royal George, 120, screw, Captain Codrington, C.D., is still in th e Fairway moorings. On Saturday they were busy discharging her guns, &c., to lighten ber. She Is. to go into the basin the next spring tides. Thursday or Friday will be the day. She has sent down her mizentopmast prior to unstopping the mizenmast. By that we conclude the poop is fixed to come off at least, Which, considering - the crank qualities of this three-decker, is most advisable. It is reported that a portion of the crew of the Royal George are to be draughte'l to she Nankin (fit ting at Chatham) on their return from their leave on the 10th inst. The screw steam-ship St. Jean d'Acre, Captain the lion. Henry Keppell; was towed en Tuesday to her sailing mooring's, where she has been fitted with stalls for a few hor-es, for which hay has been F uppli ed from the Royal William Victualling-yard, Plymouth. She has also receive' a quantity of ordnance stores. The St. Jean d'Acre was appointed to go from Hamoaze into Plyinouth.Sound yesterday, preparatory to sailing for Queenstown to embark troops for the Crimea. The screw steam-ship Nile, 91, Captain Cr. R. Mundy, discharged her powder, shell, and shot in Plym o uth Sound on Saturd a y, andis appointed to go up Hamoazo to-day. When the Nile came in contact with the Hogue, in crossing the North Sea, she is reported to have been on a wind on the starboard tack. The Nile tors away two of her foremast starboard shrouds and part of her fore channels, and lost a waist anchor and a bower an chor, and dragged out the wh o l e o f h er c h a i n . Wh en the chain gave way the broken link unfalm e nAtgazitAUSd one of her carpenter's crew. The James Watt, 91, screw steam-ship, Captain Eliot, was paid wages on Saturday, and leave of ab• sence was granted to her crew. The crew of the screw steam-ship Princess Royal, 91, Captain Lord C. E. Paget, commenced coaling in Ha moaze on Saturday. The Majestic, 81, screw, Captain Hope, C. 8., is in No. 3 dock, Sheerness, which is now perfectly dry, and the gates shut. The defect originated through a pig of iron at the bottom, which was removed by the diver. The crew are all victualled on board the hulk Mino taur ; but throughout the day employed variously about the rigging, &c. We understand the crew will go on leave as soon as everything is put in order, which is ex pected to be by about next Saturday. The bottom of this vessel is good, with the exception of a little of the copper being rubbed. They have commenced stripping it round the stern-post, where the leak is expected to be, and which made a good deal of water when under steam. The Hogue, 60, steamed into Portsmouth harbour on gaturday morning from Spithead, and was taken to moorings off Hardway. She and the Imperieuse, 50, will be paid wages during the week, and the men granted leave. _ _ The screw steam frigate Euryalus, 51, Captain George Ramsay, was placed in the basin dock at the Devonport yard on Thursday, to bare defects made good. The Melampus, store transport, is still in the basin, Sheerness. Tier lower masts are stepped, and on Satur day we observed riggers getting the lower rigging over the mast heads, &c. The Araphion, 34, screw, Captain Key, left her moor- ings on the west shore, and has hauled to the moorings abreast of Sheerness yard. It is settled now she is to remain here, and, weather permitting, will go into the basin on Monday. Independent of her boilers being very defective her lower masts are not sound. The crew are dismantling her, &e., after which it is expected they will go on leave. The Pylades, screw corvette, 21, is s till un d er tb .e sheers. Pen and Son's mechanics are on board fixing the boilerr, &c. _ _ The Esk steamer arrived a►t Spithead yesterday morn. ing from Sheerness. _ The steam-tugs African and Lucifer, from Sheerness, arrived at Plymouth en Saturday with seamen for diffe rent ships at that port. The Argus revenue steam-vessel left Portsmouth yes erday. APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenants.—J. .11. Jackson (1846), from the Horatio, 24, screw steam guard-ship at Sheerness, to the Blen heim, 60, screw steam-sqip at Portsmouth ; H. H. Crof ton (1842), from the Cruiser, 17, screw steam-sloop, to the iloratio, vice Jackson; J. W. Newport (1g50), to the C ae sar, 91, screw steam-ship at Devonpork; John Ward (a) (1849), to the Perseverance screw steam troop ship at Woolwich. Masters —Philip C. D. Bean (1835), recently serving in the Fiszard flag-ship at Woolwich, to the St. Vincent, 102, guard-ship of ordiaary at Portstnoutk ; John J. Pall (1643), recently serving in the Blenheim, 80, serew `steatn-ship at Portsmouth, to the Princess Royal, 91, screw steam ship at Devonport ; W , lliam Jeffrey (1841), recently serving in the Basilisk paddle-wheel steam sloop, to the Bienhim, GO, screw stmant-ship at Ports mouth, vice Ball, to the Princess Royal ; Alexander Brown (1354), to the Basilisk, •ice Jeffrey ; John Jar vis (1841), fr om the Princess Royal, PI, to the Illustrious, 26, training-ship atPortiemuth. Mate Richard Adams (1853), from th• Royal George, 120, screw steam-ship at Sheerness, to the Perseverance, screw steam troop ship, at Woolwich. Paymasters Edward J. Bennett (1851), from the Cruiser, 17, sloop, to the Perseverance screw steam troopship ; J. H. W. Bowman, to the Cruiser, vies Bennett. Naval Instructor J. W. Lawless (1854), :recently serving in the Ajax, CO, screw steamship at Portsmouth, to the Indefatigable, 50, flag-ship en the south-east coast of America station. Clerk's Assistant Daniel W. Hamilton to the Mo narch, 84, at Devouport. Naval Cadets John E. Bruce, E. F. B. Smith, F. A. Sergeant, R. P. Lloyd Madden, and the Hon. H. H. Molyneux, to the Britannia, 120, flag-ship on the Me diterranean Black Sea station, as supernumeraries for disposal among the other ships and steamers of the fleet when required ; E. Purcell to the Hogue, 60, screw steam-ship, at Portsmouth; Daniel Littlejohn, to the Euryalus, 51, screw steam-frigate at Devouport ; Capel Wodehouse, to the Arrogant, 46, screw steam-frigate at Portsmouth ; IL R. Kelly, to the Hogue ; H. M. Doughty, to the Calcutta, 84, at Devonport ; W. E. Miller, to the User, 91, screw steam-ship, at Devon port. t 9 the staff of the army in the Crimea, and is to act as assistant quartermaster-general to the force under Sir Colin Campbell. Brevet Major Lord Alexander Russell has boon pro moted to a regimental majority in the Rifle Brigade without purchase. The Hon. Matthew Fitzmaurice Deane, son of Lord Muskerry, lies been promoted to a liet4enantcy in the 4th Dragoon Guards without purehase;:' The Hon. Richard Vereker, son Of Viscount Gort, has entered the army as an ensign in the GOth Foot. MILITIA. The South Durham Regiment are now assembled at Barnardcaele, their headquarters. The number is not more than 500 men. It is intended to send ecruiting parties into different parts of the country to make up the full quota of 900. The R iyal . Montgomery Rifle Regiment, having been embodied, assembled for permanent duty on the 12th ult. The Ist Regiment of the Warwickshire Militia is in creasing in numbers, and, although many are reported to b e me di ca lly unfit for service, arid a number of mar. riod men have been discharged, fresh volunteers aro offering themselves daily. The 2rl Regiment of the Warwickshire Militia assem bled at Leamington, is rapidly progressing towards a state of efficiency. Since the 20th of November 71 have volunteered into vari us regiments of the line, making a total of 200 since they were dismissed in May last. The Leicestershire Militia, commanded by Colonel King, assembled on Friday on the Racecourse, Leicester, when the circular from Mr. Sidney llerbert, permitting enlistment into the line, was read. The regiment was afterwardsafterwards A es 13 3 Colonel King. DJ'i Y' LAC ETANS AND G a L d d r sl s i e i d LOAD RAGLAN. The gallant member for Viestminster has again landed in Old England, and we are glad to learn is recruiting his shattered constitution at Folkestone. W. under stand that his broken health has been much restored by his voyage home, although there is no chance that he can safely resume kis Crimean command. The climate of the East in autumn and winter, with constant ex posure under canvas day and night, and no rest for body and mind, proved over-much trial for a veteran soldier 68 years of age. Indeed, the command of a division of the army, under such circumstances as these in which the Allies are placed in the Crime a , is perhaps the mos t incessantly onerous and responsible. We need net re peat the universal opinion of his comrades—British, Irish, and French—on the last service which he ren dered to his country. Political detraction and prejudice for a while deprived Sir De Lacy Evans of the rank aid rewards due to his extraordinary military career and his hard-earned distinction as a soldier. The reluctance with which he gave up his command, and the opinion of followingL are fully st a t e d i n th e coatnunicated by a f r i en d ord Raglan, correspondence, o n the of the gallant general, and which we take on our selves the responsibility of riskin g public, though with out his permission. The letters are alike honourable to both, and there can be no reason why the friends and constituents of the memb er for We s t m i ns t er s h ou ld net be gratified by their publicity H.M.S. Britannia, Nov. 11, 1854. My Lord,—On the 30th ult, an aide-de-camp of mine had the honour of informing ycur lordship that after be ing confined to bed in my tent for nearly two days I bad a severe fall on my head, my horse partly rolling over me, which added to previous searing front illness or ex haustion rendered me totally incapable of duty. Your lordship immediately granted ne such leave of absence as I might require, and had the goodness even to send your carriage to convey me to Balaklava. Hearing on the 4th, however, that zone attack against the enemy was intended, I wrote the military secretary to ask when it was to be, being' desirous, if possible, though far from well, to be at least present at it. Col. Steele was so obliging to reply, " Lord Raglan begs to say you must not think of moving until you are quite strong." On hearing heavy firing on the morning of Sunday, the sth, though the weather was bad and I had taken mercury, I proceeded as fast as I could to the point of attack, and remained there till the close of the battle, but felt neither justified nor fit to take the com mand if the division from General Pennefather, which he had exercised with so much ability in the previous part of the day. Your lordship on hearing that I was on the field sent for me, and with your usual kind con siderateness desired me to go back to the ship I had been staying in —which, acknowledging my inability for any useful active service, I obeyed. But the fatigue and ex posure to weather I had undergone did me injury. I have now for nearly a fortnight had the benefit of the greatest care and hospitality possible, and a warm cabin, from my generous naval friends Capt. Dacres in the first instance, and now no less so from the Admiral in-Chief in the litnitannia. 135.,t live months without ces sation under canvas, with some unavoidable privations and alterations of temperature, latterly at night not un frequently severe cold, with the shock occasioned by my fall, have had their effect on ono in his 68th year. In deed, owing to the chances of the service, I believe no other officer of the same advanced age and rank has had the same continuous test to bear up A gainst. And with all my present rest and advantages I am stilt left with but little feeling of strength er freedom from ailment. This has been greatly added to by the heavy and pecu liar responsibility that lately fell to my lot for almost a month, namely, from about the 4th, I think, till the 30th of October. I feel in consequence much depressed, worn out, and exhausted. A severe chronic complaint I am subject to having been also extremely aggravated during the cold nights we latterly had in camp, and which are now becoming more frequent and severe with the advancing winter season. I should not, however, have keen so prolix, for in your lordship's letter of the 31st you were pleased to refer to some of these circumstances as fol lows :—" Nothing can have been more satisfactory than the whole of my intercourse with you, and it is painful to me to see it interrupted. But unfortunately no man can command health, and you have had to un dergo not only great fatigue but anxiety of mind, since your division has occupied the important position it now maintained under your direc thioolndes,a afnewd days iaygiiaalgeny Such expressions of app rova l f rom your lordship are indeed a great happiness to me to have received. About a month ago, whe n the generals of divisions were summoned to head quarters to receive a commu nication, your lordship may recollect my mentioning that I had been only able to attend by taking ammonia and other stimulants. Daring the occasional northerly winds I was obliged sometimes to have my tent for twenty-four hours together wholly closed, and gave and received orders through my unopened tent doors. Some also of your lordship's staff will remember how often in bringing me orders they found me on my bed, •r rather in my blankets, on the ground, when I ought rather to havethough others may not h ave b een, that this invalid con dition bnpeerenv'einf I prevented my on horseba c k. I was we ll aware, attending to many things which I knew it was urgent I Should have personally seen to and executed. —. Under theme circumstances, instead of asking your lordship for longer l ea „, , think it the mo re properwhich courseat s u to yon youricit ou l would l g o r r a d n s ipl permission to resign m y staff appointment with this army, the very arduous executive duties and responsibilities of which my impaired health and want of strength render me no longer adequate to. And I trust that the several would . I have received, and the services I have faithfully endeavoured to perform in various parts of the world, will be deemed to render me deserving to close at length my active duties, when unable to continue them with justice to the publio ser vice or to myself. I have now only to repeat ray expression of warm gratitude for the uniform kindness and indulgence I have been treated with by your lordship. And have the honour to remain your lordship's most c I . :1 1 1 . LAO/ . ETANS. hu T m o b G lo e a n n e d ra o l b t o h d e ie L nt o s r e d r lt v ( a Ca n go t lp , a;,') Lord Raglan's Reply, dated iYo r. 13, 1E54, at night. My dear General—Your letter of the 11th only reached me this afternoon, when I was engaged pre paring my despatches for the mai l, a n d I h ave not until i now found a moment to reply to t. and will, I am sure, b e to m any other s , y our ga ll ant companionst he Sec o nd I Itcontains Division, in what arms, s 1 n t oo and m inful i n t e lli gence —your de.s me, tp a sire to be permitted to resign your staff appointment with this army, which your impaired health and want of strength render you disqualified for in your own estima tion. Every man is the best judge of his own feelings and bodily powers, and I am grieved to have to acknow ledge that you may be right in your impression of them; but I, and those whom you have so recently commanded, with such advantage to the piiblic service, know that your mental faculties and gallant spirit, enabled you no longer ago than the 26th of last month to meet the enemies of your country in the field, and successfully to repel a most powerful attack on the position occupied by the Second Division. . I view the loss of your assistance with the deepest re gret, but I cannot ask you to stay after the statement you have brought before me of your sufferings front ill ness, anxiety of mind, exposure to the weather, and over fatigue. You will be at liberty to go when you please, and be assured that you will carry with you my best wishes and those of all with whom yon have been associated. I trust that English air, and the comforts of home life will gradually restore you to health, and enable you long to enjoy the reputation your services have acquired for you. I cannot close my letter without sympathising with you on the _death of your first aide-de-camp, Captain Allix, who appeared to me to be a most promising officer, and fully to deserve your confidence and good opinion. Believe me, my dear general, very faithfully yours, RAGLAN. Lieut.-General Sir De Lacy Evans, K. 0.8. DOVER, Dec. 29.—Among the arrivals this day at the Lord Warden Hotel, from the Continent, are the follow• ing officers from the Crimea, wounded Travel yan, 11th Hussars ; Captain Crosse, 88th ; Lieutenant Baynes, 88th ; Lieutenant Wallis, , 33d. C a pt a i n Duplat has also arrived this afternoon from Vienna, with despatches for Lord Clarendon, THE TRANSPORT SERVICE. The Imperatrice steam-transport embarked on Satur day at Portsmouth dockyard the detachments of troops for the Crimea reperted in The Sun of that day, and sailed early yesterday morning. The ship Sumroo, Captain Henderson, in tow of the French steam-frigate La Reine Hortense, left South ampton on Saturday with the first instalment of wooden barracks for the use of the French army in the Crimea. The Sumroo has on board 300 of these kuts, calculated to accommodate 30 men in each. Each house has an iron stove with funnel, cocking gear, and other appur tenances, and can be erected in a few hours. The Sa ladin, with a further supply of these houses, will be ready in a few days, and is to be towed to her destination by the William M'Cor►nick steamer. The Coriolanus, Swiftsure, and Falcon, are to be loaded as quickly as possible. A detachment of French Sappers and Miners, consisting of one officer, one sergeant, and six men, embark in each ship for the purpose of superintend. ing the landing and erection of these barracks. Previous to their departure the several companies of French Engineers were entertained at dinner by the detachment of Royal Sappers and Miners stationed at the Ordnance Map-office in Southampton. Appropriate toasts were proposed and enthusiastically responded to, the French and British soldiers fraternising together in the most cordial and friendly manner: The whole company marched through the streets to the place of en tertainment, and attracted considerable notice, each French soldier being escorted between two .British Sappers. The Black Prince screw steam transport when she wont down the river on Thursday had to bring up in Long Reach for tie night. On the following day site proceeded to Greenhithe to have her compasses adjusted and take on board 50 tons of gunpowder from Purfleet. She has on board a large supply of warm clothing for the Crimea. MILITARY. A new carbine for the Royal Sappers and Miners was tried in the Ordnance marshes at Woolwich on Friday by Captain Turner, R.A., and Captain Fitzroy Somer set, R.E., and several officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers were present. The new carbine had Mr. Lancaster's elliptical bore. Mr. Lancaster made very excellent practice with it at 1,000 yards range. The Ist company of Royal Sappers and Miners, under the command of Captain Brown, R.E., at present at Chatham, expect to embark on the 3d or 4th of Jan uary for the Crimea. Captain Adair's company, sth battalion of Royal Ar tillery, and Captain Dixon's company, 9th battalion, were medically inspected at the Ordnance Hospital, Woolwich, yesterday, and placed under orders to hold themselves in readiness to embark for the Crimea. These make seven companies at Woolwich under orders for the Crimea. Four of the companies are for 9-pounder field batteries, and the other three companies for serving with siege guns. Capt. Seymour Dawson Darner, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, has been appointed aide•de-camp, and Captain the Hon. W. H. Wellesley, of the Coldstream Guards, extra aide-de-camp to Major• General Lord Rokeby. We have already stated that Capt. Barnard, of the Grenadier Guards, had been appointed aide•de-camp to Major- General Barnard. These two officers proceed to the Crimea to command either divisions or brigades, as Lord Raglan may direct. Captain G. Hume, 88th Regiment, has been appointed extra aide-de-camp to Major-General Sir John Camp bell, Bart. Captain Addison, who was secretary and adjutant of the Royal Military Asylum, bas been appointed deputy assistant adjutant•general at the Horse Guards, Majer Arthur Pack being about to proceed to the Crimea. Captain Frazer of the 7th Hussars has boon appointed CONDITION OF TDB ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. (From the Times.) Could it be proved to everybody's satisfaction, or rather to everybody's grief, that matters are as bad as they are represented in the Crimea, or even very much worse, there nevertheless exists a cer tain fatal prepossession adverse to any active re medial measures. That prepossession is only a form of our incurable national self-complacency. Are we not the two most civilised Powers of Europe, ourselves the wisest and best, if not also the bravez.t of the two, fighting against the most barbarous Power ? Is not Russia a nation go verned by a despot, assisted by tools, - by means of ukases, tl e' knout, conscriptions, Siberia, forced contributions, martial law, and a system of per sonal brutalities from which oven the highest nobility is not secure? How is it possible but that the free genius of our own favoured country should prevail,tunder all circumstances whatever, against a form of society so low that it may be called abhorrent to liuMan nature itself? May we not be sure that, even if things are bad enough with us— worse-looking possibly from our comparative, innocence of war —they I are, - in reality, stilt Worse with the Russian army, and that even in this fatal struggle with,elimate, with wintsr, - with - storm, and with famine, we are beating the Russian; or mus t eventually beat him? Now, in this great depre ciation of the foe, and in the particular reason for this depreciation, lies our principal danger. We despise Russia for the very reason that we ought to fear her. We hold ourselves vastly her superior for a point on which we ought rather to take a lesson from her. She is a barbarous Power. Grant it ; and a purely military Power. Her system is worked with a rod of iron. The Czar treats her nobles as they do their serfs. Generals are sent to Siberia sr reduced to the ranks ; governors of cities ' are sentenced to work on the roads ; nobody knows whose turn may come next, or how terrible it may be. It is a crime to be incompetent. For a moment's vacillation the services of a long life are forgotten, and it is rebellion not to understand rightly an order that admits of two construc tions. The Imperial family itself is not exempt from this iron law. The incompetent heir is put aside, and his partisans disappear. In such a system the hardest metal is a necessity of State. When the instrument •nce yields, or permits its edge to be turned by the soft compunctions of humanity or personal kindness it is thrown away. It may be good enough in its place, but will not do the work of tke Czar. Such is the quality of the Russian system that we may perhaps hate or despise it, and that we may afford to do so in time of peace, but we cannot afford to do so in time of war, or in any affair that relates to war. We cannot afford to fight with soft iron against hard iron, with foils against naked swords, with holyday pageants against the grim reality, with courtiers against warriors—in a word, with peace against war. Yet that is very much what we are vainly attempting to do. It will not be diniod that if the Czar, by a per sonal inspection or otherwise of an army, ascer tained it to be in the condition of our army be fore Sebastopol, h• would instantly put it into entirely new hands. Even were the case not ■o bad, it will not be doubted that rebukes, peremp tory orders, and other measures of rigour would soon be heard of, and that every man in the ser vice would be put on his mettle. But if we want to know how Emperors and great generals manage these affairs, we have an example in the corres pondence of Napoleon, particularly that with his brother Joseph. It was not with good nature that this man conquered half Europe. He in structed, commanded, reproved, rebuked, and abused everybody, without any exception. He would have everybody about him at his post and up to the mark. He required his viceroys and marshals to do as he did, and transmit downwards the vigour of their chief. If our system be not one of aggression, if we are actually denying our selves the prizes of conquest, and seeking only the barren honours of justice and humanity, never theless the work itself is not in any respect short of that undertaken by Napoleon Bonaparte. In attacking Russia we aro simply attempting to do what he could not do, to cap his greatest triumphs, and to redress hie worst failure. This we attempt to do with about one-fifth of his force, and with the still greater disadvantage of a dividel. com mand. To succeed after his disappointment would be almost miraculous. If he, then, ever required an iron will, an iron head, iron instruments, and a whole system of iron, as, indeed, he always did, much more do we. Yet everybody knows that the whole conduct of this expedition, from first to last, has been rather that of an encampment at Chob ham than an invasion of the soil of Russia, and an attempt to destroy the strongest place of the strongest man in the world. Ministerial favour, nepotism, routine, official punctilios of a hundred kinds, have all been observed in a battle of giants. We are hampered, not by the inexoraqle condi tions of the war, bad as they may be, but by the silken bonds of class, clique, and kin. The real administrators of the army are much too kind hearted to peach against one another, or to give one another unnecessary pain. They are all good fellows, and though one, if report speaks true, who should be the very eye of the chief, is almost blind, another never had much capacity, and has had no experience, a third is too infirm to appear, except in a carriage, and the staff is otherwise crowded with beardless youths, gone to the Crimea to learn their profession, we are no more likely to hear of any complaints than the vulgar public is to hear the quarrels at a ball at Alinack's, or the mishaps of a dinner at Windsor Castle. The Czar is not to be tied within his own dreary continent with such gossamer webs as these. We smile at the Chinese, who defend their empiro with paper ramparts, mock steamers, the clashing of swords, and the sounding of gongs ; but what will the world say of us should it be found that our army had invaded Russia under a staff as showy and thea trical ? Then we are told it is the duty of every true Englishman to enter the official conspiracy, and help to conceal the true state of things from those twin horrors—the British public and the Empe ror of Russia. We are always to report "an im provement for the better"—roiafercements ar- riving, supplies getting up, the roads under repair, the winter clothing coming at last, the weather improving, and something decisive about to be done. What can be tke use of attempting to conceal from the Russian Generals what scores of spies and deserters report to them every day ? Whatever we happen to know they have known a fortnight before ; but at all events the people of this country ought to know that such is the mortality and sickness in our army, that though reinforcements are poured in with a profusion utterly unparalleled in history, the army refuses to increase, or to become equal to its position. We shall not now reiterate the reasons which prove that the fault is mainly in the commanders, though, if the excuses made be ad m itt e d, an d if Lord Rag lan has really undertaken the same amount of work as the French with half their force, and half their facilities of landing and conveyance, he has com mitted the capital error of being outwitted by his ally. Never could there be a more fatal defence than one which admits everything we have said, and adds thereto another charge greater than all the rest put together. For our part, we will not press the indictment so far; we will content ourselves with indicating the great disorganisation of the army, and demanding that the most vigorous steps shall be taken to reclaim it, if possible. Let every officer be sent hone who is not thoroughly up to his work, and who will not put his whole strength into it. Let reprimands, orders, admonitions, and supercessions be sent out. Since Lord Raglan 1 sends home no information as to the state of his army and the condition of his camp, Government has no choice but to act upon the information con veyed in thousands of private letters, and open to the whole world. With that mass of evidence be- fore him, the Duke of Newcastle iiictis-I;;;ifear ful responsibility if lie allows a good-natured regard for this man's feelings or that man's connections to prevent the discharge of his plain duty to the army and his country. NARROW ESCAPE OF Loan CARDIGAN. —Corpora John Robinson, of the 13th Light Dragoons, in a letter addre-sed to a friend in Doncaster, dated Noy. 2, thus describes the narrow escape of Lord Cardigan in the ca valry charge at Balaklava, 4nd the part he took in his lordship's rescue :—" Just as I was unpriming one of the enemy's guns, and passing another, there were three pairs of horses in it, and there was one man mounted on the centre pair : he was in th• act of dismounting when I galloped past Lim and gave him a cut and a draw across the throat, which I thought was the quickest way of getting rid of him. I did not ride many yards further before I saw our commander, Lord Cardigan, very nearly thrust off his horse, and if it had not been for me, the old boy's life would not have been worth a row of pins. I saved him, for I directly saw a Russian had marked him, for he drew his lance and made at hie lordship, but I was too expert for the rascal. I parried the well meant stroke, and then he bolted as if Old Nick was after him."—Leas Mercury. -- [PRICE SD. "DYNASTIC CONSIDERATIONS." ---- Tho Press of Saturday contains an enigmatical announcement, in which it speaks of— "An event now in progress, which will excite the greatest interest in Europe." "It is not to be expected that dynastic considera tions can wholly be excluded from the policy of courts ; and such considerations will soon assum e a s h a p e to demand the gravest deliberation." We do not profess to understand what our ora cular but generally well-informed contemporary means ; but we wish to impress upon our readers the following facts, which in connection with cer tain rumours which have been afloat for som e ( l ays, we consider may give them something upon which they may " chew the cud of bitter fancies" durin g the recess. The enrolment of the militia lias been delayed for More than twelve months after its absolute necessity had become apparent, and is now em bodied for foreign service. Our home recruiting has been " burked "—we can use no other word. Our Government has—to all appearance wilfully—destroyed our army. We use the word advisedly, because, although igno rance and incapacity may be alleged in defence of -the Duke of Newcastle and Mr. Sidney Herbert, no such excuse can be plausibly advanced in favour of Lord Palmerston and some others of the Coali tion. They must have known the inevitable con sequences of their colleagues' blunders. Mr. Sidney Herbert states that he has sent 54,000 Melt to the Crimea. Now, no one will venture to estimate Lord Raglan's army at more than 24,000 men, in cluding all reinforcements. Where are the 30,000? Our Government has systematically set its face against all voluntary associations fer defence, thus absolutely refusing the people the use of arms even for the protection of their own homes and families. Be it observed that this is the act of a " Liberal Government." The Tories were not afraid to arm the people. In 1813 the number of volunteer cavalry alone amounted to 68,000; the local militia, exclusive of the regular force of that description, amounted to 304,000—three ha:ired and four thousand armed men. Our "Liberal Government" have now got permission from a servile Parliament to enlist, pay, aye, and bring into England by degrees, an indefinitely large force of Belgian and German mercenaries. Surely there can be no connection between these startling facts and the dark inuendos of the Press. If there b e any sc h eme on foot to the fulfilment of which such preparations as we have indicated above can be mad• ancillary, there must be persons somewhere far more foolish and wicked than we ever conceived to be possible. We do not mean the Ministry, for we are quite aware that they are foolish and wicked enough for anything. The utter falsehood of the alleged necessity for the employment of foreign troops may be gathered from the following statement of the number of armed Englishmen on foot in 1813. We quote from Sir A. Alison : Land forces, including the British troops in lies. India Embodied regular militia 93,000 Volunteer cavalry 65,000 Local militia and volunteers Sailors employed on board 102 ships of the line, 219 frigates, and smaller ♦essels, amounting in all to 613 sail of different sizes Marinas ... 118,000 18,000 Total 897,000 Nearly 900,000 men. Me population of the islands has since increased one-third, and Ministers, for some purpose or another, have th• audacity to assert that we must fall back on the employment of Bel gian and Germais mercenaries. We ask with what end and object ? for we think it is obvious that the alleged necessity is neither more nor less than a downright falsehood.—Morn illy Herald. THE TERMS OF PEACE. (Feont the Examiner.) It is understood that the indirect negotiations which have been pending at Vienna. If 1 ; 1 l allies nnr. tao exptect the eriaiß whizth may, lead to more active help from Austria, have definitely failed. What the Czar offers, as might have been anticipated, is not satis factory. We do not profess to be acquainted with the details of these negotiations, but as to the main question which they hare broken down we have no reason to doubt the information communicated to us. Agreement even as to the construction of the four points waq thought not unattainable, but it was on the condition required by the allies for the liberation of the Black Sea from the naval and military incubus of Sebastopol that every hope of neentninodation vanished. The Czir will listen to no stipulations his power over the fleet and the fortifications of Sebastopol. Maintaining that each Sovereign must be left to do what he likes within his own territories, and that none can have the right to question his preparations at Sebasto pol, he argues that the Sultan, in like manner, is at full liberty to convert Sinop° into a fortress and arsenal, which he may make, if it so please him, as extensive and as formidable as Sebastopol. Such is said to be the reasoning and resolve of Russia; and manifestly, if assented to or acted upon, the change would be merely from open war to a state of antagonism as fatal to the general interests of Europe. Each coun try would he unceasingly engaged in constructing for tresses, training and paying armies, building fleets— always preparing, in short, for no remote hostilities. It would be that most undesirable and most insecure of all things—an armed peace ; for with Russia and Turkey in such attitudes, how could Europe disarm ? Rus'sia would characterise it as not less outrageous to demand of a great power, than humiliating to suck a power to consent that she should limit her number of ships, and cease to make her batteries formidable in any sea. The first maritime countries, however, have not shrunk from entering into stipulations of this kind. England and France made mutual concessions not many years since that each would keep only a certain number of vessels in the waters east of Malta ; and what would seem to have been demanded of Russia was something tantamount. It Bemire maintain her great fleet at Se bastopol, England and France must keep a correspond ing fleet in the Black Sea or the Bosphorus ; and suck a state of things would be as expensive and disquieting as war, without any hope of ultimate satisfaction from such resuls as are produoed by war. It is idle to set up the point of honour in answer to the demand for a guarantee against aggression. What now must be forced from Russia is the satisfactory secu rity that her future intenticns are those of peace. If her fortresses in the Black Sea are to be kept armed to the teeth, Russia still meditates war. Her very de mands prove it, and necessitate a continuance of the existing struggle till material guarantees shall be ob tained for the effective re-establishment of peace. They lie before us in the Crimea, and the first condi tion now, to whatever we may hope hereafter to achieve, must be the completion of that enterprise. It is no longer upon the Danube, but in the Crimea, that tran quillity must be conquered. The line of the Danube is com paratively safe, but after all that has passed an honourable peace is not possible which would leave Russia possessed of the Tartar province. To do this woeld be to leave Turkey in a far worse strait than we found her. To de prive Russia finally, decidedly, and by force of arms of the Crimea, is the work we have now, therefore, impera tively to do. We have half accomplished it ;it may take the summer to complete ; the Sea of Azoff may have to be entered by vess e l s fitt e d f or th e p urpos e, and the amount of reinforcements required for the reduction of the fortresses of the mountains, as well as of the batteries of Sebastopol, may be larger than we have even yet taken into calculation. But there the great obstacle to peace now lies, and it can b. removed only by the sword. As long as the Czar retains the C r i mea he will persevere in his projects against Turkey ; a n d it is not till we are finally masters of that province that the possibility of peace to Europe can ever be restored. 7 - z t v I i Y.. 1 ~;:., d ~~ _, -_- UNIVERSITY INTELLIGMCB. OXFORD, MXII4I3EII 31. The University sermons were preached this day in the morning by the Rev. R. P. Tiddeman, of Magdalen Hall, and m the afternoon by the Rev. G. Rawlinsen, of Exe ter College. To-morrow the sermon will be preached by the Rev. W. Bedford, of New College. The Rev. G. Marshall, of Christ Church, will preach on the feast of the Epiphany. The election of a new President at Magdalen College will take place on Friday next. The mode of election is unusual. The Fellows present divide for the purposes of the election into two bodies, one consisting of the 13 seniors present, and the other of the remainder. The members of the latter body vote each for two names, and the two names which, after a scrutiny, are found to have had the largest number of votes given in their favour are then sent in to the seniors, who decide between them. Laymen and clerks are equally eligible. Exeter College has sent in its scheme to the Royal Commissioners. CAMBRIDGE, DECEMBER 30. The trustees of Mr. Hulse's Benefaction give public notice that they will proceed to the election of a now Christian Advocate in tlte room of the Rev. J. A. Frere, of Trinity College, on Friday, the 23d of February next, and all the candidates are requested to transmit their names to the Vice-Chancellor on or before Friday, the IGth of February next. E. GUEST, Vice-Chancellor. R. TATEIit, Master of St. John's College. W, WECZWILL, Master of Trinity College, • ~ r[ - ',,t >;;;, :31!". ' A . 11'717. , a:" 4 - ' , :in - ' THE EMPEROIVATAPOLEON'S SPERM .IfIE ' . . . . (Frifit e. P ays.J The Empe ror ' s speech has characterised the general situation and the co-operation which the Government expects from the nation with that manly simplicity which is the mark of truth, and that tranquil confiderice in the public feeling which is the sign of a popular power. France will find in this noble and firm language the echo of the unanimous opinion of the couniry, and the expres sion of its glory, of its dignity, and of its moat legitimate interests. Europe will perceive in it the voice of that elevated policy which is disengaged from all personal ambition, which devotes itself generously to :the inde pendence of nations and the equilibrium of modern States. The enemy will read in it the energetic resolu tion of not laying down the sword until the object in view shall have been completely attained, and the future guaranteed against new disorders. The very reserve of the expression and the moderation of the form add a new force to the fundamental idea. One can comprehend, from this language, exempt from passion, but at the same time so firm and inexorable, that the Government of the Emperor will not yield for a single moment in the great work which it has un dertaken, and for the success of which it has seen the great European powers successively group around it. The means of action will never be wanting to tho .Ge vernment of the Emperor when it asks for them from national patriotism. Should peaed not he soon re-estab 11,fied, should the obstinacy of the Czar prolong the duration of the war, France will not give way before ri,y sacrifice to carry out the policy of the West. Our country is still that powerful nation which for 25 years was able to sustain a victorious struggle against the most terrible of coalitions. Franco can nactiot forget that at a period when s!ie was t orn b y factions ome, when her credit was gone, and when she was menaced abroad by the forces of all Europe, she was able to oppos e to the enemy 14 armies, and or ganise everywhere the victory. And e ft er twenty years ' ll Am:wand formidable, and as of combats she was still as triumphant as at the beginning. W e are at present, thank God I in more favourable conditions, Europe is no longer with Russia against us, but is with us against Russia. Our strength is increased tenfold by the co-operation of England, our former rival, and now our loyal friend ; and soon we shall have, w e true, the aid of Austria, whom the treaty of December 2d strongly unites to our cause, and of all Germany, , whom all her interests are drawing within the orbit of the western policy. Our economical interests have not as yet been in any way affected by the opening of hosti lities, and the field of credit, closed to Russia, opens for us, as wide as it is productive, on all the markets of Europe. The aid which the Government asks for at this moment froth France, and which France will give with enthusiasm, is besides reduced to the vote of a new national loan. The army is simply kept up at its pre sent amount. Whilst the Car does not cease ordering extraordinary levies, the contingent of this year will not exceed amongst us that of preceding years ; and in order to render still less onerous the exigencies of the conscrip tion, a bill on military enlistment is about to be brought before the Legislative Body. It is consequently to subsidies that will be restricted at present the sacri fices imposed on the patriotism of the nation. These subsidies can only be asked for from taxes or loan. The Government of the Emperor has not hesitated to adopt this latter system. It would not be just to cause the present to support alone the charges of a war, the results of which are to profit above all future genera tions. Is not a loan the most natural system in that point of view ? It must not be forgotten that the mite and all kinds of securities have become exceedingly dis tributed amongst all classes ; that the number of per sons inscribed on the grand-book of the public debt has beim tripled since 1843 ; and that the mass of persons operatin g at present in the public funds is immense. When the loan of 250 millions was announced, upwards of 400 millions were subscribed in a few days, and it was found necessary to reduce the general amount by upwards of 40 per cent. At present that the Govern ment asks for 500 millions, the sum will be granted with the same enthusiasm as the bill has been voted by the Legislative Body. Every subscription will be a new manifestation against Russia ; every franc paid to the Treasury will be an additional arm in the hands of the Allied Powers to conquer and reduce to impotence the ambition which, from St. Petersburg, periodically agitates and comprises the interests of Conservative Europe, and will be at the same time a new testimony 1 of the confidence of the country in the Government. We cannot doubt that the 500 millions will be at once sub scribed, for what is such a sum for the whole of France I Let it also be remembered that the subscribers to the first national & loan not only acted patriotically, but advantageously for themselves. Whatever may be the special conditions of the new loan, we are quite con vinced that private persons will find it their interest to take part in it. The future will show if new sacrifices are to be still necessary for the definitive triumph of the cause of European right and for the honour of the national flag. But France, proud of the rank which the straightforward policy of the Emperor assigns her among nations, and confiding in the firmness and wis dom of the Head of the State, will be always ready to respond to his appeal, and to place at the disposal of the Government the immense resources iffier possession." f ' , COMBINED EXPEDITION AGAINST THE WEST COAST PIRATES. We are glad to find that Admiral Stirling is now making amends, as far as possible, for the six weeks spent by hits at Japan, and that he seems determined to proceed systernat!cally and energetically to work in accomplishing the destruction of the piratical fleets along the Chinese coast. Never were active proceedings more urgently required, seeing that besides those on the west coast, a formidable fleet is known to rendezvous at Chusan, and a second is said to be outside the Fut-tow moon, for the purpose of waylaying the northern junks o n their passage to this port and Canton. The cargo and passage boats which used to ply daily betwixt (Ling Kong, Macao, and Canton, n-iw only venture out four or five in company, and once a week. Two pirate fleets, as mentioned above, have been already destroyed, though unfortunately the crews in both instances effected their escap e on shore ; and we understand it is his excellency's intention to proceed to the west coast immediately with her Majesty's ship Winchester, Sparta, Encounter, Barracouta, and Styx, and the Peninsular and Oriental Company's river steamers Canton and Sir Charles Forbes, which have been chartered for that purpose ; and will, it is under stood, be joined by the United states steamer Queen, and the Portuguese frigate, Dom Joao 1., and lorcha Amazona. In this expedition we think it probable Sir James's first visit will ho to Ileang-shan, which is closely blockaded by a very large fleet (or rather several fleets under different leaders) of west coast junks, whose sole object, it they can accomplish it, is the plunder of the wealthy capital of the district in which Macao is situated, while in the meantime they demand from the husband men in the surrounding country one-half the rice crop as black-mail. Hitherto nothing effectual has been attempted towards the suppression of these miscreants, and it is even said that acts of piracy have been committed so olose to the shipping at Wharnpon, that they might have been wit nersscd from the deck of the United States ship Mace. donia, stationed there. Surely the " non-interference " principle acted upon by foreigners in the internal dis putes of China cannot possibly be construed by our American friends to have reference to sea or river pirates, who prey indiscriminately upon foreigners and natives, imperialists and rebels, though it is now doubted by few that the Triad leaders are in direct communica tion with them ; indeed the pirates at Kulan who plus. dered the CalElera, were all observed to wear the Triad sash. Some time ago, 13,000 chests of tea were cap. tured on the river, and one silk dealer was lately robbed of $lO,OOO worth of raw silk, which, we are told, was subsequently offered for sale to foreigners at $B,OOO. The following comprises the list of piracies reported to the police during the past fortnight : On the 16th of October, a fishing boat was seized near Lintin, and kept till the 26th, when she was released, the pirates having pillaged her of every article of value, and detained three of her crew. On the 22d, a passage-boat was boarded off Cheong sa-wan, and her cargo carried off, consisting of salt fish, saltpetre, opium, &c. A fishing-boat was captured, while sailing off Lintin, plundered of everything of value and then released ; but three of her crew were also detained. On the 25th, a cargo-boat was plundered near the C a -m ct p ;i su t y he oon b y 27th, a six fi u n ke . be . at was seized while sailing off Shek-pai-wan. On the 29th, a fishing-boat was plundered of Chung chow. A cargo-boat was plundered near tb. Cap-sty -Boon. On tho 30th, a stone-boat was taken about two miles south-west of Green Island. A fishing-boat was seized near Chung-ohow. The informant escaped with eight men, two women, and two children, in a sanspai ; but one man and one woman were carried off. On the Ist November a fishing-boat was sttaeked and taken by four pirate junks in the Cap-suy-Moon. One of the fishermen was wounded, and ths boat pin'. dered. On the 2d twe fishing-boats were plundered off Chek• chu. On the 4th a salt-boat was seized in the Fat-tong- moon by three junks. The informant and ten others of her crew escaped in a Sampan. A fishing-boat was taken off Chek•chu by a fleet of ten junks. On the sth a fishing-boat was carried off from Chek•chu by two pirate junks.—Chiral Mail. MIDLAND GREAT WRSTRRN RAILWAY (IS=LAND).--- An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of this them a b i ll p roposed to be company was held in Dublin on Thursday, for the pur pose of hating submitted to t • introduced next session for cashing a branch line from c moved c o i v i m e l d s ta b : s w h l a d r e c h . Longford to Strokestown, and one from Athenry to swtolilletliitlagointettrcaii)sroceed with the pro- Tuarn. Mr. Ennis, chairman of the company, presided, having regard. to the solemn anti madell having i o n directors i rexplained te): that question,i l e , c d t d s e i r n tot.he effe, p l e d ges given by the directors of the company, it is ex pedient that the bill for the branch between Athenry and Timm be proceeded with." After considerable dis cussion, however, the following amendment was carried, with but two dissentients, viz. :—" Resolved--That in consequence of the present circumstances of the country and the prospects of the money market, it is not prudent to proceed further with the extensions to Strokostewn and to Tuam ; but that a line of railway into the county of Mayo ought to be undertaken by this company so 110011 as the cuunties of Roscommon and Mayo shall. agree an to the best course for such line, and the state of the money market shall render it practicable. rl at heu. nptot, 6 .*;