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HALL, Mee of the Nightingale Fund, 5, Parliat eut-street, December 17. LAST FEW DAYS. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. THIS EVENING, and every evening during the week, the GRAND ELEUSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC and MYSTERY, by Professor ANDERSON, the Great Wizard of the North, in 12 acts, with ever-changing variety of incidents, continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary c ffects. Magic and Mystery is an entirely new entertainment, pos teasing distinctive characteristics and peculiar phases of amusement. It is not a monologue, for the audience them selves perform their parts with the principal actor, some of them on the stage and others in front ; it is not an exhibition, for though everything becomes metamorphosed before the eyes of the visitors no ono can be positive that he sees any One thing; but it is a comedy really performed by the eom- I any ; a melodrama replete with startling positions and unex pected denouements ; a magnificent spectacle, with 2,000 of PUBLICATIONS. the public every night to appear as auxiliaries ; and an ex travaganza, in which all that seems to be is entirely beyond the bounds of probability. - Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged an .1 fashionable audiences which have nightly filled the Lyceum Theatre to overflow, and by means of whose generous aid he las been enabled to announce Magic and Mystery for con tinuous repetition. He believes that no professor of his art las at any time or in any place been honoured with an amount of success so extensive, so decided, and so unusual. He would attribute that success to three causes ; first, that in his present entertainment he has placed before his visitors the results of a life sedulously devoted to the attainment of "effected skill in ono peculiar art, and to perfect which he has travelled the globe in every elime ; secondly, that he has tpared no trouble nor expense to put this entertainment on the stage in the most elaborate manner, by the employment of the first mechanicians and artists of the day ; and thirdly, that, while endeavouring to provide amusement for those 'who honour him with their presence, he has not forgetten that it is possible to afford information also, and that the oppor tunity should not be neglected of exposing conjuring wher ever it has been used for nefarious purposes, or whenever by resorting to the conjurer's arts, in an illegitimate manner, the designing have succeeded in making dupes of the credulous. :S kVANAGII'S NEW STORY. Now Ready, at all the Llbrarle*, 10s. 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PIPPINS AND PIES ; or, Young Picklebury Home for the Holidays. Illustrated by McConnell. " Will amuse any family circle they are introduced Into." London : George Routledge and Co., 2, FarringdoE-street. The Third Effition.—Just published, price 55., by post, free, Ss. 6'. ON TRUE c FALSE SPERMATORRU(EA, with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the Heal Sufferers under this disease, and Correcting of wde-spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. From 'he German of Dr. PICKFO}tD. With an Introinction 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. The 937 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which Pro lessor Anderson has received, from the time of opening the heatre up to the present date, bear witness to the great in terest taken on the subject of this singular delusion ; whilst many of them bear melancholy evidence to the dangers which Ittend a belief in the superstitious nonsense of the " Spiri tualists." Judging simply by the correspondence which has resulted, Professor Anderson's expose of spirit-rapping and I.is illustration of the so-called table phenomena, have pro duced a sensation unequalled by any previous attempt to ex- I ose a mischievous and impudent juggle. It is impossible ler Professor Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of the Communications which reach him on the subject. He regrets that many of these should come from ladies and gentlemen who, from their position in society and their well-known in tellectual attainments, ho would least have expected to have leen converts to a belief so preposterous in itself, and so easily susceptible of being controverted and disproved. Evers evening, from the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions o sphit-rapping are expressed, and every evening, within th _ Lyceum, how tables can be made to rap is exhibited and elucidated. It is respectfully requested that this nblic exposition will be accepted generally as Professor Anderson's only mode of replying at full length to We multitudinous correspondents. He regrets that the names of the great and learned of the land should I ave been made to figure in the documents emanatine from the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex tracted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septem ber 20, and taken by that journal from the New York Spiri- Nat Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American spirit-rapper, Mr. D. D. Hume :—" Sir David Brewster frankly confesses that he is ' sorely puzzled' at what he has witnessed, and Lord Brougham acknowledges himself to be thoroughly nonplussed. Both of those noted men brought the whole force of their keen discernment to bear upon the F olution of the phenomena; but the presence of substantial, actual hands, and the demonstrative strength of the spirits who thus clothed themselves for the time, and moved mate s ial objects about the room, proved to be too much of a ques tion for them to master." Mr. D. D. Hume, the author of tho above, has recently left England, and the following account of who, and what he is, occurs in the Family Herald, No. 648: This young man, who is a Scotchman by birth, and now in Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations without apparatus. Barnum, who is well-known throughout the Anglo-Saxon world as a splendidhumbug, offered him 2,000 dollars per annum if he would perform at his museum in New York. Barnum then took it for granted that mediums could I,e bought. He was somewhat astonished when his offer was refused. Hume, on telling the fact in London lately, simply said honestly remarked, that the money would have been very acceptable to him, for he was poor, young (under 2e), an or 'than, and in very had health : but he would have been afraid of losing his power as a medium, and he would sooner lose leis life. The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful. lie inquired into the subject; and now Barnum, one of the greatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is one of the firmest believers in spiritualism." It is cer tainly surprising to find such a paragraph as this in the editorial article of an established journal, the editor of whom might be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe in spirit-rapping--does spiriterapping gain or lose b} this accession to its adherents? and, with Barnum's endorse went to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more to be negotiated I Professor Anderson would believe not ; hut, when he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of England have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross it swindle, when he finds that the Incumbent of Wortley (the Rev. N; J. Godfrey) positively assorts his belief in it, and writes a book on the subject, he considers it to be time for him to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which it is effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the diforning Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir 33avid Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's Hotel, in company with Lord Brougham. He distinctly states that Which the Wizard of the North proclaims every night—that spirit-rapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad purposes. In the Morning Advertiser of the following day however, there is an answer to Sir David's letter from one 'who was present when ho and Lord Brougham had their s4ance with the spirits, in which the writer says, that " the table (a large dinner-table, I believe) moved about in the most extraordinary manner, and, among other things, a large ac cordion was convoyed by an invisible agency to my hand and then to Lord Brougham's, in which, held by his lordship'. light hand, apart from any person, it played an air through out." With such a statement, printed for the edification of the people of the 19th century, with the facts before us that the most talented men of the day are permitting themselves to be deluded by these juggling spirit-mongers—that the greatest novelist of the age is now engaged in making it the *subject of a new work, and that a " spiritual convention" bas actually been advertised to be held in St. Martin's-hall. Professor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual lets of America, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum, will be received by the people of England as genuine honest at tempts to provide an antidote for the bane of the spiritual ugglers. In the course of the last five weeks 100,017 persons have 'visited the Lyceum Theatre,—a larger number, it is believed, than has ever before been assembled within its walls in so abort a period. Magic and Mystery is repeated every even 'mg, the programme being continually changed. Grand :fashionable Day Performance, or Saturday, December 22, at '2 o'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ; Part 1. —Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinical Capabilities of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do by magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmer ism, and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in he air. Act 2. The Aqua-A.vial Paradox ; exemplifying the power -of producing animated nature from fire and water only, and the possibility of eliciting from the simplest elements the most complex forms of ornithological existence. Act 3. Le Livre des Reeueils Choisies: or, Puck's Own P oc k e t Bock, with Puck himself within it. Typifying the evening's entertainment in the production of the very volu minous from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude out of minuteness, in developing bulk where no space appears for its existence, in discovering odd things in odd places, and in bringing forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely place for to be found. Act 4. Magical Locomotion ; or, Transition without Trou ble. In which will be comprised—the Adventures of a Wed ding Ring, the Peregrinations of a Bank Note, the Transfor mation—black into white, and the Discovery of every Article in the position which would seem the most inappropriate. Act 5. L'Ecrin de Verne; or, tho Casket of Creesus. Into 'which, though made entirely of glass perfectly transparent, and suspended so as to be visible to the eyes of all present, the Wizard will cause the money of his visitors to transport itself, and rain into the casket, though its lid be closed, locked, and the key in the possession of the audience. Act 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ; or, the Transparency a Opacity. Act. 7. A New Bottle of Bacchus ; sr, the Novel Wine and Spirit Store. An improvement upon. the " inexhaustible bottle," inasmuch as the Wizard's bottle will not only be in exhaustible, but will change its contents, ad infinitum, at the word of command, producing soda-water, butter-milk, Epsom salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin, ruin, whisky, noyeau, or any other wine or spirit required ; and finally proving to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly dry, and occupying the whole space when tightly packed. Act 8. Half an Hour with the Spir its ; or, an Expose of Spirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-raPpiug table and tocsin of the invisibles. Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property of the Wizard's patrons will undergo some strange metamor phoses, and, amongst others, their handkerchiefs become transformed into the flags of victory—the banners of Es g land, France, Turkey, and Sardinia. Act. 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comus, in which he who seats himself will be under the magic spell, and appear to the audience, under circumstances least expected, in a posi tion as peculiar as perplexing. Act. 11. The Mystery of the Charmed Chest ; or, the Nucleus of the Night's Wonders. To comprehend which the audience will have the goodness to observe, in an earlier part of the evening, the chest suspended (like Mahommed's coffin) in mid-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which all will be produced. cot. 12. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the She s t es t Route to the Antipodes. Illustrating the easiest mode of ridding ourselves of a troublesome friend, and the advantages of the newly-discovered dia-terrestrial passage from the west ern to the eastern hemisphere. Doors open each evening at half-past 7; commence at 8. Private boxes, 1/. lie. 6d. and 1/. ls., to be obtained at the Box-office, or at the principal libraries ; stalls, 4s. ; dress circle, 3s. ; upper boxes, 2s. ; pit, ls. ; galkvy, 6d. The Box-office is open daily, from 11 till 5, mules the direction of Mr. Chatterton, jun. Grand fashionable Morning Per formance on Raturday, December 22, at 2 o'clock. Doors opus at Lalf•past 1. " Dr. tic uoru 'a known to English readers by his frequent practi sed contributions to German medical literature. This is the first -me, he informs as, that ho has addressed himself to the noa-medi sal reader. We trnst this may not be the last, if he shah , etect ens do..ir equally. flocrant evil which ft may be his p .her to cor rect." —London Medical Gazette. " The tribe of ' Quiet sympathieers,' trul ' Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed ; and if this book amid find its wv Into the hands of those who sall , o - from the com siaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that miiny hundreds would oe saved mach needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of .555 Importence, though it is that which the iituclts most prize much money ......This volume is well qualified to put an end to the mottles.] system of treating Spermatorchna, and , o place the treat moat upon a more rational and physiological basis. it is, therefore., likely to do much good." onclon Ralliere, 219, Rezent-treet. ONDON and NORTH-WESTERN !LW kV. 8 lIOL D AY'S I'AT TicKrrs issued on Saturday, December 22, and intervening days, will be avadable until Wednesday, December 26. By order, General Marager's Ofliee, Euston- Station, Dec., 1855. MARK firisFl. LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN and MID 1.. %. 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LOAN. —The NEW RIVER COMPANY are prepared to receive TENDERS for SUMS of MONEY (raised under the provisions and requirenknts of their Acts of 1852 and 1554) on Bonds of not less than 5001., for three, five, or seven years, at 4% per cent interest, payable Further information may be obtained, 11 required, of the under signed, at the New River Office, Now River Head, Clerk.-nwell, be tween the hours of Ten and Four, to whom Tenders are to be addressed for the Directors. By order. FRED. INGLIS, Clerk. New River Office, Nov. 30, 105. - ESTABLISHED 1837. RITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COM PANT. Naval and Military Intelligence. The transport Diligence, with stores from Pembroke, and the merchant ship Reaper, leaky, from Newcastle, with coal for Constantinople ' arrived at Plymouth on Monday. The Vixen and Rhadamanthus, both fur Woolwich, sailed therefrom on the same day. The Queen of the South steam transport, Capt. Beale, will embark detachments of troops to the number of 800 and upwards at Portsmouth this morning for Malta. On her last voyage she took out a great quantity of 13- inch shell and shot, which she brought home again— why has not been explained. She carries out to Malta a good store of warm clothing for the troops there. The Hydaspes steam transport, Capt. Buller, will go into Portsmouth harbour this morning to land invalids and stores. This ship also took out from England on her last voyage a great quantity of shell and shot (amount ing, it is said, to 600 tons) for the Crimea which was never landed, but, after straining her very much, she de posited it at Malta on her return home. The Zebra steam transport, Capt. Betts, left Ports mouth early yesterday morning for Deptford. The Conflict, 8, Commander Brown, left Spithead yesterday for Plymouth. The William Hammond, convict ship sailed yesterday morning from Portsmouth for Swan River, and was to touch at Plymouth. The Colossus, 81, Capt. Robinson, in the basin at Portsmouth, was paid wages yesterday, and her crew granted leave. The Charger gun-boat, launched from the yard of Messrs. Pitcher, of Northfleet, has arrived at Woolwich, and will be immediately placed under the hands of the riggers. The gun-boats Sandfly, Lieut. B. G. W. Ni colas ; Plover, Lieut. Stewart ; and Seagull, Lieut. Mon tagu O'Reilly are now ready for service in the outer basin, and will leave Woolwich during the week for Sheerness. The Ist battalion of the Swiss Legion arrived in the Great Britain at Smyrna on the 2d cf December, but, as it was Sunday, they did not land ; Monday was a pouring day, ansi so they continued oa board till Tues day. They are a fine looking set of men, mostly Ger man Swiss. The Colonel (Dickson) is a fine, young, active man, and familiar with all the three languages spoken b his corps- French, German, and Italian. The old Turkish hospital is given up to the sick of the Legion, and one or two cases of smallpox occurred among them before they landed. On the 7th inst. the line-of-battle ships Princess Royal. Hannibal, Jean ::'Acre, and two steamers, the Sidon and the Sphinx, anchored in the bay, being part of the Black Sea fleet oo their v. ay t England. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Cominander J. F. C. Hamilton, to the Calcutta ; Lieut. G. W. Carter, to the Ariel ; F. R. 11. Yorke, naval cadet, to the Colossus ; C. S. W. Willis, naval cadet, to the Duke of Wellington. Orders have been received at Pembroke dockyard, from the Admiralty, for the immediate construction of tour more gun-boats. They are to be built with all pos bible despatch, and as many men as can well be employs(' upon them will be at once set to work. The Ist of March ha-, been fixed for their completion ; and, in order to finish them within the three months, the mechanics have comutencet working the long hours. The boats are to be 100 feet in length, 22 feet in width, and 6ir feet in depth, and about 200 tons burden and their draught will be very slight. Tee Flyi ng Fish gun-boat is the first of those new building to be sent afloat. Each of the captains selected to command the gun beat and mortar-boat flotilla for the ensuing year's cam paign will have a line-of-battle ship armed en flute, as a store and depot ship attached to his squadron. The new plan iron mortar-boat, which lately was towed to Portsmouth from Birkenhead, has undergone a series of effective trials within the last few days at Spithead which have developed its warlike properties. 150 rounds were fired with 201 b. charges, and many of the rounds in rapid succession, less than three minutes intervening between each discharge. The vessel is quite free from any injury beyond the bulwarks and some of the light framed wood work on deck. The mortar-bed was considered to be rather too elastic, and some of the elastic material is now being removed, and another trial will then take place. The usual arrivals at Woolwich Arsenal of numbers of Ordnance craft and barges with shot and shell from the Government contractor's foundries continue. Among the several freights landed there are numerous mortars and heavy guns of various calibre from the Lowmoor and other works. The monster 42-inch shells have also been lauded in considerable quantities. A formidable-looking row of these shells is standing under the wall of the long storeroom, to the number of no less than 40. The ordi nary proof of guns and mortars daily takes place at the Royal proof butt, and, with the exception of the trans port department, there is no diminution in the warlike preparations in the Royal Arsenal which were carried out before the capture of Sebastopol. The transport Ilan binger, No. 186, passed Woolwich yesterday morning, laden with military stores for the East. Empowered by Special Act of Parliament. BRITANNIA MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION, Empowered by Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. MaJoa-Garraast. ALIXANDEIt, Blackheath-park, Chairman. Every description of Life Assurance business transacted, at the bwest possible rates consistent with security to the assured. E. R. FOSTER, Resident Director. ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary. 1, Princes-street, Bank, London. -ro COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS and Others.—The TRAVELLERS' and MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY grant Policies of Insurance against EVERY DESCRIP TION of ACCIDENT, whether occurring whilst travelling or other wise. CAPITAL, 250,0001'. TRUSTEES. The Right Itonourabla Earl Fitzwilliam, R.G. Matthew Marshall, Esq. (Bank of England).! William Smee, Esq. (Bank of England). Sir Charles Fox. EXAMPLE OF RATES. AnnuAl Premium. I Sum at Death. I Week Allowa,,ce, [ PRICE 4D. STAMPED SD• Spirit of the Public Journals. (Prom the Times of this day). We have recently Oh several occasions drawn attention to the dangerous position which Russia occupies in the north of Europe. In proportion as the south is more effectually secured against her arms the other obstacles which oppose themselves to the pent-up torrent require to be strengthened. From the supineness of our War Minister, and possibly from the jealousy of our diplomatists, Russia has obtained in the capture of Kars an advantage which ought never to have been per mitted to her, and the loss of which must be re trieved, at whatever cost of men or money. We cannot permit the Power which we have so jea lously excluded from the sea road to Constantinople to obtain an equivalent advantage by land, and to turn the flank of our fleet by a march through Asia Minor just when the last vessels of her own ha-ce disappeared for ever under the waters of the Euxine. But, while vigilance has thus unaccountably slept in the south, we are happy to think that much greater prudence and foresight have been exercised with reference to the plans of aggran disement Russia has so long cherished in the north. While the White Sea and the coasts of that district of Lapland which belongs to Russia are encumbered with ice before mid-autumn, that portion of Norway which is within the Polar Circle is, by a carious caprice of nature, free from ice during the whole of the year. The immense depth-of the long fiords which cleave the coast of this - wild region is, doubtless, one cause of the phenomenon. The influence of the Gulf Stream, the waters of which do not wholly lose their tropical warmth after communicating to the western side of the British Isles a temperature so perceptibly higher than that of the eastern, is undoubtedly another. Be the cause what it may, it happens that while Archangel is locked up for eight months of the year in thick-ribbed ice, and the ports of the Sea of Okhotsk are for the same period inaccessible, the town of Hammerfest, situ ated within the Polar Circle, has an open harbour all the year round, and the inhabitants, instead of yielding to the lazy influences of an Arctic winter, employ the long night in fishing and in hunting. The harbours of this region are, as we have said, enormous. Compared with them the mighty bay of Sebastopol itself is a paltry creek ; a long barrier reef of islands protects the navigation to the south, and a voyage—we are afraid to say of how few days —might transport a fleet from these vast harbours to the shores of theßritish Islands. It is wonderful that Russia, while devoting such enormous expense to the formation of an arsenal and fortress in the south, should have submitted so long to be cooped up within the narrow and shallow waters of the Baltic, and to suffer a blockade in which ice relieves the efforts of a hostile fleet. Of late years Russia has awoke to the full import ance Of this oversight ; all that the most dexterous intrigues, the most cautious encroachments,—all that threats and blandishments could effect, has been tried on the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway to induce them to cede only so much ap parently worthless territory as would bring Russia within reach of this precious strip of coast. A fishing station on the Bay of Varanger was all her modest desire. The Bay of Varanger is forty miles long by six miles wide, and protected by the Island of Skogeso, where a few batteries could defy a numerous enemy. It has two outlets, is only fifty miles from the present Russian boundary, there is in depth from five to fifteen fathoms, it abounds in fish, and affords on its southern side a secure an chorage for any number of vessels. It is easy to imagine how soon the mere fishing station which Russia so modestly demands would grow into a naval station, the naval station into a fortified har bour, the fortified harbour into a fortress of the first class, and the fortress of the first class into a military and natal arsenal, calculated to overawe Norway and to menace the shores of Western Europe. We have great pleasure in announcing that all these schemes of grasping ambition have, so far as human foresight can effect it, been completely frustrated, and as impassible barrier imposed be tween the aggressive designs of Russia and her lodgment on the seaboard of the North Atlantic, which she has so ardently de - sired. - A treaty has been entered into between the Western Powers and the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, by which Sweden and Norway undertake, on the one hand, that they will not cede any portion of their territory to Russia, and the Western Powers promise, on the other, that they will guarantee the Scandinavian kingdoms their present bounda ries, and neither permit Russia to encroach upon them to the _North, nor to sieze, as it is very pro bable she might wish to do, the large and impor tant island of Gothland. Thus, it may be hoped, we have succeeded in drawing a line beyond which Russian ambition shall not penetrate, and limiting at last that gradual and constant encroachment which has been for the last hundred years oblite rating province after province from the map of Europe, and transferring them from the domain of civilisation and progress to that of brutal tyranny and retrograde barbarism. In such negotiations as these, based on the strong foundation of mutual expedience, and en tered into for the clear and well-defined purpose of promoting an end thoroughly understood by both parties, we can place confidence, because they are founded on the mutual understanding of the common interest, and the determination to preserve that interest whole and inviolate. How different are such leagues from those to which we have been lately accustomed, where a hollow proposition has been put forward without sincerity or earnestness, only for the purpose of being rejected, and only with the prospect of bringing forward something that may occupy for a moment the attention of diplomatic circles ! We know not whether this proposal may be followed up by any more exten sive form of alliance, whether it will be deemed ad visable by the Western and Scandinavian States to unite in arms against the common enemy, and seek to terminate the war by one great and con centrated effort on the fortifications of Cronstadt and St. Petersburg—of this we know nothing ; but, at any rate, much has been gained by inducing these States to assume a firm and self-respecting attitude towards Russia, and by placing what we may fairly hope is an insurmountable obstacle be tween that aggressive Government and the object of its fondest desire—an access to the Atlantic Ocean never closed by ice, and within a few days' sail of the shores of France, England, and Ger many. £2 0 0 £1 5 0 I £l,OOO 1 X 5 0 0 £5OO I £3 0 0 Forms of Propos 11, Provectusea, &e., may be obtained at the chief °Sizes, 42 and 43, Poultry, Loudon, between 19 and 4 o'clock. FRANCIS COBHAM, Registrar. APPETITE AND DIGESTION IM PROVED. LEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, ind all Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad, aid by its tonic arid invigorating properties enables the stomach to errectly digest the food. The daily use of this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best Safe uardto health. Colour-Serjeant - James Falkner and Sergeant John Laundry have been appointed comes in the Land -Transport Corps. They are the first non-commissioned officers of Sappers who have been awarded commissions for good and distinguished services in the field. One hundred recruits will proceed from Woolwich to Chatham on Friday, to go through the usual field in structions, under Capt. Sandharn. The 21st Company, under the command of Capt. White, R.E., having arrived at Plymouth, from Bermuda, may be expected at head quarters, Woolwich, about the end of the present week. The Coast Guard on the Milford station has been placed under the command of Capt. Forsyth, R.N., vice Capt. Nugent, deceased. 'old by the — proprietors, Lea and Perrins, 19, Fenchurch-street, .ondon, and 68 B roa d- street, Worcester; also by Messrs. Barclay nd Sons, Messrs : Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and iffier. bents, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. N.R.—To guard against imitations, see that the names of "LEA nd PEItItINS" are upon the label and patent cap of the bottle. CITE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY . fast publLthed, price 29., illustrated with cases; tree by post for 26 MILITIA. Yesterday the 4th Noah Lancashire Militia, about 1,000 strong, arrived at Liverpool from Berwick, and embarked the Caine e►ening on board the Niagara for Kingstown. In addition to this the following English Militia regiments are now in Ireland.-2d Cheshire, Cum berland, West ICent, sth Lancashire, 6th Lancashire, South Lincoln, SOuth Westminster, West Norfolk, 2d Somerset, 2d Warwick, let West York, 3d West York. The Irish Militia regiments in England are—Antrim, Arinagh, Cavan, North Cork, City of Dublin, CJuntyot Limerick, Tyrone, Westmeath, and Galway. stamps, NERVOUS DEBILITY; Its Ceases, Symptoms, and Cure.—An Essay on Spur natorrhcea, with Practical Observations on a safar and more successful mode of treatment of tho diseases of the Generative .ystem, obtained by the use: of the Microscope in detecting and ustinguishing, by urinary examination, the real cause and effect of ,very variety of complaint, whether arising from solitary habits, •wesses, accident, or climate. followed by practical remarks, founded ri twenty years' experience in the treatment of Impuissance, , Terrous Debility, Local Weakness, Spermatorrhcea, &c. To which ,re added, Commentaries on the Physiology of Marriage, with pre isi...-Alonary hints on the evils emanating from empirical practice, ma on the dangerous remedies advocated by various writers on these important disorders, ity 6AIIIIJEL LA'MERT M.D. , B{ M em atri be c r ul o a f t th ed e l o em nd b o ej I 35, gi . ta lt l n ie f-n die it a Y l ° Hoo f BEDFORD-SQUA IE, LOIIDO Doctor sl, h o , a re" Medicine, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London the essential object of this treatise is to London, &c., • t the fearful cone juences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses , tdich have produced more Misery in Youth, degradation in M an : and premature decay at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, any cover class of disease known to modern pathologists. Its pernsal is atcularly recounnended to peraons entertaining secret doubts of ell physical condition, and who are conscious of having hazarded .4 health, happiness, and privileges to which every human being is entitled. I is r_i)soHutely necessary that all men should know, that there are inciples of personal management which cannot be violated witbout na leg grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed ,;:e heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties , ay be mitigated, hew the sting of their bitterness may be removed, d how the evil and its consequences maybe avoided, and above all, At there is Acarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functions rangemem to whici the timely aid of rcience cannot apply a cure a Author ha. for a series of ,ears been engaged in an exte,nsiN .fctice in the treatment of these delicate compiainta, which hay. fortunately been too generally confided te the care ce ignora. , emuiries, svho Inflict great iMitze on those wi,o are 'induced to plec, faith in their pretensions. ?NERVOUS DEBILITY may l e had price 2s, of Messrs. Sher wood and Co., 23, Patcreustef -row 63, Oxford-street ; I Leicestcr-square; Mann, Si', Cornbill ; or free ~ e post fo , e••• • ,A rape T* rest d n 7, Rpm - d •i re!- (From, the Morning Post of this day.) The Western Powers have entered on their alliance—have gathered their forces--have won their battles—have seized Sebastopol—have dis armed it of its terrors—with certain objects which England has declared, not diplomatically, but plainly and straightforwardly, to Austria. It is Austria, not France nor England, that urges peace. The terms which those nations have shown that they are able to win by force—to compel from their enemy—they are not likely to stoop to solicit from a foe which has brought on itself as a punishment of the grosse s t d up li c i ty the disasters un der whic h it now suffers. Much less are England and France, strong as they are in the feeling of their people h and in their resources—flushed of success—likely to wait on the char= which has depend from the course of a Government ties of truth fairly shown itself to be fre e . from onthe conscience of and principle usually biili b n e g pushed on with the empires. The war willquarter where war is pos utmost vigour in every the less will be launched Bible. Not a gun-boat has left for St. Peters with the th tr a i t um m p ay silent from its busy hammer will be burg not a "on of the result of his mission. work in expectation ourselves in anticipation of the Far froth crippling t *an intervention, we shall beneficial effects of Austrian because Prince t the preparations now actively push to the utmost attacking the enemy by land and by in fort© for irresistibly, so soon as the spring shall set us sea, free. Our Baltic fleet, much as, it has done for the Ester hazy ruin of Russia, has hitherto done little to satisfy the country. The Russian fleet has declined the dangerous honour of meeting our English ships. Secure under the shelter of enormous batteries, it has preferred to boast the inglorious security of its position to daring a trial with the successors to the place of Nelson and Collingwood. Cronstadt and Sweaborg are reported to be impregnable. The re port may be true, but an early period of next year will probably let us know more of the fact. All this winter while Russia is agitated, if report speak truly, with clamours for peace, with distaste for war, and with dread of its effects—while its over the falsitie s w hi c h i t i s forced to .use—while com merce laments ov er it s ru i n—while its tra d e gro ans an the mass of its p eop l e open t h e i r eye ' s slowlY sadly to th e m i sery to wh i ch a m i s t a ken ambition condemns th em —E ng l an d an d France will be strong and a c ti ve i n p re p ar ation. We shall have a fleet of gun-boats such as the world has never seen those strong forts yet —a fleet such as will command in which Russia has gathered up her st ren gth , an d in trust,aherament that which in conjunction has , just ret urne d from the Baltic, will leave the Russians, th a t as pired to the name of a naval Power, an empir e with witwhhitclhiatsh n e o p b u le ts armament with out a ship—a nation whose fleet had neither courage to meet the enemy on the seas, nor skill and strength to skulk under the walls of her batteries to avoid them in safety. To destroy the Russian fleet utterly will be our next year's business, and no exertion will be spared, no nerve will be relaxed in our preparation for doing this entirely and effec tually. The whispers of peace will not again para lyse our arms and defeat our purpose. We have stated the objects that we are determined to gain. If Austria now obtain the sincere concession from Russia of those objects, we, at least, shall not quar rel with the result. We have no desire to press heavily on a Power already fallen far below the limits of her arrogant pretensions —we have no wish to do more than is enough to secure Europe against the effects of her inordinate ambition. We have spoken of Russia hitherto as of a Power bent on a resistance, desperate to the last—carinc, little for its cost—little for its hopelessness ; trust ing to the distant chance that may arise from the medley, to save something of its reputation —som e vestige of its dreams of ambition. We may be, we hope that we are wrong in thus looking on the future—we hope that a less gloomy prospect may be nearer the truth—that Russia may have counsellors with sense and courage enough to ac knowledge and to recognise the true condition of affairs—to see the wisdom of bending at once be fore a storm which she has roused, and which she cannot possibly face, Let the result of this question be what it may—let us have Peace or War—let Russi. yield to reason, or resist with folly and desperation, it is at least a matter of congratulation to this country to know that no false hopes will weaken our efforts—that no delusive prospects of peace will blind our eyes to the necessary exertion for war. If Russia continue her resistance another year that date will see her stripped and ruined— broken probably externally and internally. With the alliance already formed against her there is uo chance of contention. She must retreat from the strides that she has put forward ; she must reline quish her foreign ambition; she must addict herself to the domestic improvement of her Empire. With her forces more or less worsted—with her power more or less dismembered —now, or a year hence, such is the fate of Russia. At home iOr costsuitation datly.,fron deven till two, and Smut 142 T HE HOUSE OF ELMORE. A FAMILY HISTORY. " A splendid production. The story is worked out in a succession of powerful pirtraitures and of soul-stirring scenes."—John Bull. " This work displays unusual talent. it is a striking and original story."—Sun. _ _ "A novel of no ordinary power and attraction. It will enjoy a wide-spread popularity."—Observer. Hurst and Blackett, publishers, successors to Henry Colburn. IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. RI ESE NI A 1 L—On the 29th of May, 1855, dm Injunction was Kranted by the High Court of Chancery. and o the 11th June following was mode perpetual against Joseph ranklin and 'driers, to restrain them, &tiller a penalty of ono thou i 4 which is protected by red by the th, o o n y d ai po L t e in t ( t l e s r , s fr e o u in te l i m t ti of nn;lgitahnist,ilaineddic,sitice ale a Paarmacie de Paris. and the Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TRIESEMAR, No. I, s A remedy for Relaxation. cipermatorrhrea, and R x h a ustiri-, to •rtam, whether arising from excesses , accident, or cli ma t e . oe To those persons who ar zrrors it is e prevent entering tin married state b , eouisequenees of early od invaluable. TRIESEMAR, No. 2, •ectually, in the snort spaco of three days, completely and entirely adleates all traces of those Disorders which Capivi and Cuhebs -.ve so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health .f a vast portion of the population. TRIFZEMAR, No. 8. ts the great Continental Remedy for that class of Disorders, which ifortunately the English physician treats with Mercury, to the in evitable destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all the sarsaparilla in the world cannot remove. TRIESEMAR, No. 1,2, and 3, are alike devoid of taste or smell, tnil of all nauseating qualities. They may lio on the toilet table 4.ithout their use being suspected. Sold in tin cases at I is. each, free by post, 2s. extra, divided into .eparate doses, as administered "I,y Valpeau, Lallemand, Roux, tc.,&c.—To be had Wholesale and Retail in Londet of Johnston, 68 Cornbill; Hannay and Co., 63. Oxford-street; and Sanger, 150, Ox ord-street ; R. H. Ingham, druggist, 45. Market-street, Manchester ; EL Bradbury, bookseller, Deansgate, Bolton; J. Priestly, chemist, 52, Lord-street, Liverpool; Powell, bookseller, 15, Westmorelvad-street, Dublin; Winnall, bookseller, High-street, Birmingham. ONDON. WED.\ ESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, /855. BOMBAY. —Shippers per CAIRNGORM will please take notice that all Goods must be alongside and cleared b. Friday, the 21st inst., as the Ship will positively clear at the Cu4torn.house_on Saturday, the 2ld. The undersigned wilt rt ,, t be responsible for the shipment of Goods not alongside, &c., accordingly. J tRVIS, THOMSON, & CO., 6, Billiter-square. DESPATCH FROM GENERAL SIR W. CODRINGTON. ( Front the Gazette of last Evening. ) WAR DEPARTMENT, DEc. 18. Lord Panmure has this day received a Despatch and its Enclosures, of which the following are copies, ad dressed to his Lordship by General Sir William Cods rington, K.C.B. Sebastopol, Dee. 4, 1855. My Lord,—The enemy continue to fire occasionally, and sometimes heavily, on parts of the town. They must have expended a considerable quantity of valuable ammu nition without causing us any loss or inconvenience. The enclosed Casualty Return is the first of the sort I have had occasion to report to your Lordship. It may seem unimportant to refer to the state of roads and weather here, but Lbeir condition affects the essen tial communications and well-being of the army. The winter broke upon us suddenly on the 26th and 27th with snow, and has varied with gales and rain ; and a very deep state of the ground has damaged all commu nications. Constant presence of labourers and constant attention are requisite, and are being given to the road, which, from a peculiarity of soil and condition, was worked into holes, but which is and will continue to be of the greatest service to the army and its supplies. I have, etc., W. J. CODRINGTON, General Commanding. P.S.— I beg leave also to forward the weekly report of Dr. Hall, the principal Medical Officer, by which your lordship will perceive that the general state of health of the army continues favourable. W. J. CODRINGTON, General Commanding. The Lord Panmure, eze. Enclosnre 1. NUMERICAL RETURN OF CASUALTIES ON THE IST DECEMBER, 1855. 7th Foot-1 officer wounded, by bursting of a shell in Sebastopol. W. L. PAKENHAISI, Adjutant-General. COURT OF .4LDERATEN. Yesterday a court was held. Mr. Lawrence (son of the late Alderman Lawrence) who was elected alderman for Bread•street Ward, on Saturday, the Bth instant, ap• peared at the bar•for the purpose of being sworn into his new office. He was accompanied by Mr. G. W. Sherriff, Mr. Millard, several common councilmen, and a large number of highly respectable gentlemen connected with the ward. Mr. SIIERRIFF, in presenting Mr. Lawrence to the court, said he had the honour of introducing the son of the late lamented alderman for the ward of Bread-street, who had been elected to the office of alderman in the place of his father. The merits of the late alderman bad been fully considered by the electors of the ward, and he (Mr. Sherriff) felt quite satisfied that the eon, from his well known habits of business, and his assiduous at tention to the interests of the Ctty, would not only make an efficient magistrate, but would also be a credit to those who had elected him to represent them in the Court of Aldermen. lie had been born and bred in the ward, and had been connected in business with his father, with whom he kad resided all his life. He bad been well known to most of the electors of the ward for a great many years, and from the particular interest he bad continually evinced in the various matters con nected with the corporation, he (Mr. Sherriff) was con fident that the newly-elected Alderman would prove himself a most useful and efficient member of that court. (Clear, hear.) Alderman Lawrence, after having had the necessary oaths administered to him, and received the congratula tions of the members of the court present, took his seat. The court then adjourned. .ANOTRER FEMAhE IMPOSTOR. A rival to Alice Gray, and one to whom some of the discredit of that young lady's reputed performances should probably be attached, has turned up at Canter bury. She has appeared under various nanras—AarY Eliza Smith, Matilda Tremaine, or Mary Eliza Chippen dale. She is short in stature, slight in figure, with grey eyes, having a cast in the left one, light brown hair, fair complexion, with an occasional flush, projecting nude lip, and a hesitating manner in her speech. She appears to he about 30 years of age. She is well versed in the arts of deception, possessing perfect command of her counte , ance, and rarely betraying the slightest emotion. Her plan is to obtain, by some tale of distress, a footing in a family for a time, where she secures food and lodging during her stay, and decamps on being detected, but sel dom without carrying off some article of easy conveyance. In this way it is believed she has been living for the last two or three years in different parts of England. At one time she represents herself as coming from Liverpool, and being the daughter or niece of a large navy agent there ; that although not quite convinced, she is leaving the Protestant religion, but is detiroue of resolving her remaining doubts. At another time she stated that her father was a medical man residing in the vicinity of Dover, a member of the Baptist chapel there ; that he wanted her to join that denomination, to which she was opposed, as she rather wished to turn Roman Catholic, and was then in search of a convent, having succeeded in getting out of her father's house at night, but that unfor tunately in doing so she fell into the water-butt. In the early part of last year she obtained access to a cottage a t Upper Ilarbledown, about three miles from Canter ' bury, and remained there some time, her first introduc tion being an appeal to the cottagers for shelter and pro tection, as a man had rudely assaulted her. She also visited the Catholic priest of the district, from whom she likewise obtained aid, and a note for Dr. Grant, of London. Her last statement, and the one upon which the superintendent apprehended her, is of an entirely different character. She is now an heiress in search of her grandinamnaa. In this character she called on a small shopkeeper, named Epps, residing at Ospringe, near Faversham, on Friday last, and after a little conversa tion stated that she lett her father's house in consequence of having had some words with him ; that the coachman took her to Maidstone, but on reaching that town she found that her friends had gone to Brighton ; ske was therefore under the necessity of walking to within three miles of Deal, where her grandmamma, whose name was Lane, resided at Belmont-hall. She also added, that in January next she would become entitled to three farms, which would yield her 8,0001. a year, and that if Epps liked she would place him in one of them. Her manner and statement completely effected their purpose ; for the man and bis wife instantly made her welcome to the best of their food and accommodation. The next morning the would-be " heiress," with a thoroughbred liver-coloured setter, which she had with her, were conveyed by omni bus to Canterbury, at the expense of Mrs. Epps, who accompanied them, by invitation, to see the " grand mamma." Fortunately the keen eye of Superintendent Walker detected his customer, and she was speedily in charge of the police. The magistrates remanded ber for a week. On being conveyed to the gaol, she admitted that she was the person who obtained access to the house of a gentleman near Leeds, and remained there for three months, under the pretence that she was the niece of Dr. Hook. A❑ ingenious hatter of Paris has constructed a house of felt, made out of 24,000 old hats. This house con tains parlours, dining and bedrooms, and a kitchen. It is erected upon a platform upon the plain of St. Denis, and can be transported from place to place. (Enclosure 2.) NOMINAL RETURN OF CAUALTIES ON IST DECEMBER. WOUNDED. DEO. 1. 7th Foot—Captain Lord R. Browne, slightly, by burst ing of a shell in Sebneopol, W. L. PAKENHAII, Adjutant• General. (Enclosure 3.) Head-quarters Camp, Crimea, Deo. 4. Sir,—l am glad to be able to point out a continuance of the favourable state of health of the army. The weather has been boisterous, wet, cold, and changeable, which has occasioned an increase of catarrhal affections, arid added some cases of catarrhal ophthalmia to our list ; but the admissions under this head have de creased nearly one-half during the present week, and it is to be hoped by care and removal of those labouring under the comptaiLt to the monastery that the disease will not extend. There has been a decrease in the number of admis sions from fever, but aa increase of mortality, confined chiefly to the Land Transport Corps, as 14 out of the 19 dea hs that occurred during the week took place in that branch of the service alone. This corps has a heavier sick list than any division of the Army, which is not to be wondered at, as many of the Europeans have recently arrived in the country, and are not yet acclimated, and the natives bear fatigue, and the vicissi tudes of weather, like that which we now have, but ill. The f dlowing show the ra,tim3 of sickness and morta lity during the week : per cent. The admissions to strength have been 2 01 Deaths to strength EKclusive of Land Transport Sick to well Ezclu.ive of wounds and injuries J. HALL, Inspector-General of Hospitals. General Sir William Codrington, K.C.8., Commanding-in-Chief. DESPATCH FROM ADMIRAL LYONS. (From the Gazette of last Evening.) ADMIRALTY, DEo. 14. Despatches, of which the following are copies, have been received from Admi ra l Si r Ed mun d L yons , Bart., G.C.8., Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's ships and vessels in the Mediterranean and Brio:4E43oa : Royal Albert, Kazateh Bay, Dec. 1,1855. Sir,—l request that you will lay bebre the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty the enclosed copy of a letter from Captain Sherard Osborn, of the Vesuvius, dated the 24th ult., informing me that, as the formation of ice had commenced in the Sea of Azoff, and as he had been informed by both M. Gopcevitob, the Austrian merchant, charged with the shipment of corn in Austrian vessels, and by the Russian authorities at Mariaupol, that all chance of neutral vessels obtaining cargoes this year was at an end, he had withdrawn to Kertch with the squadron under his orders, after assuring himself that no merchant vessels remained in that sea. I have so frequently had occasion to bring the merits of Captain Osborn under your lordships' notice, that it is perhaps unnecessary, on the present occasion, that I should say more than that he has maintained his high character up to the close of the service upon which he was employed for six months, and he brings under my favourable notice the gallant and zealous support he has received, from first to last, from the 'officers and men under his orders.—l am, &c., _ (Sinned) EDMUND LYONS. Read-Admiral and Coromandel-in -Chief. To the Secretary of the Admiralty, London. Vesuvius, off Kertcb, Nov. 24. Sir,—Being now, in accordance with your instruc tions, on my road to rejoin your flag, I Gave the honour to report the close of operations in the Sea of Azoff, and the proceedings of the squadron in that sea subsequent to my last letter, dated off Ghei-k, 7th Nov. On the 7th I received your in-tructions, with Notices relative to neutrals quitting the Sea of Azoff on the 20th Nov. The weather became most severe, and I could only succeed in serving the notices upon the authorities on shore at Mariaupol. But on the Bth Nov. the shipping anchored off Ma riaupol were duly warned, and on the oth those off Taganrog likewise. A gale < . f extreme violence from the eastward blew continually from that date until the 18th Nov. I then immediately served a notice upon the neutral shipping in l3erdiansk, There, from Mr. Gopcevitch, as well as previously at Taganrog and Mariaupol, we l earnt th a t the Russian authorities had kept th e neutrals in quaran ti ne e v er since their arrival, and th at t h e l i kel ih oo d o f c argo es being procured wag almost at an e n d. A Russian officer at Mariaupol laughed at the idea of the neutrals believing they would get wheat this year, and told Commander Kennedy, whom I sent in there with a flag of truce, that the neutrals must stay the winter. Under these circumstances, looking to your wishes and instructions upon the subject, it became a cause of great anxiety for me lest, by the sudden commencement of winter, or intentionally, the neutral vessels should fail to quit the sea on the 20th November, 1855. I, therefore, as the ice had begun to make and the temperature to fall rapidly after the 13th, despatched all the squadron t , ) Kertch except the Ardent, Snake, and Clinker, and with them proceeded up the Gulf of Azoff. We arrived off Mariaupol on the 19th and found all the neutrals had sailed for Kertch, and on the 20th I sighted Taganrog and found the roads empty, all the vessels that were there having likewise left. The ice already extended oa either hand some miles from the shore, the Don appeared to be frozen, and every indication of winter having set in in that neigh bourhood was apparent. At Mariaupol the river or harbour was frozen, and much ice lined the coast as far down as Bielosarai Light- house ; the temperature at mid-day as low as 29 deg. Fahrenheit. From thence I separated the squadron so as to ex amine the whole coast from Ghenitch to Enikald Light house, most minutely, a nd not a sin g le b oat of the small spelneaiosredoin to employ of a detach e d employ me for small est description was to be se en. In surrendering i nto y our hands the prominent posi tion the last i fivewhich u have m onths, squadron, allow me , sir, to ex p ress, mo st respectfully, my deep sense of t he honour y ou confe rred upon me, ° th a b t e o e f n and the grateful recollection of the unvarying kindness, confidence, and consideration I have experienced at your hands ; without it I feel I never should, as I trust I have, succeeded in carrying out your views and instruc tions. Next to that let me again remind you that my anxiety to execute your plans has ever been an easy task, supported as I have ever been by, the gallant and zealous exertions of every officer and man serving in this squad ron ; I know not how sufficiently to express my appro bation of their conduct. And it is rot the less pleasing part of my duty to assure you of the kindly co-operation I have ever re ceived from the officers of the French Navy serving in the Sea of Azoff. Among those more especially known to me, I feel justified in mentioning Lieutenant Clone, commandin,g the Brandon ; Lieutenant La Juoheite, Fulton ; and Lieutenant Vdal, of the Caton.—l have, &c., (Signed) S. OSBORN. Rear-Admiral Sir Aclmund Lyons, Bart., &c., &c., &c , At the York Ecclesiastical Court, last week, a suit was prosecuted by the secretary of the Bibhop of Car isle against the Rev. Moses Hetherington, perpetual curate of Mungrisdile Greystoke, Cumberland, for drunkenness and other improper conduct. The defen dant did not appear, and the Court sentenced him to suspension for three years, —Newcastle amide. CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS. Yesterday a court was held for the despatch of public business. Mr. Deputy Peacock occupied the chair. THE NEW CEMETERY FOR THE CITY OF LONDON. Mr. DAW, the chief clerk, read the fillowing letter, addressed to himself by Archdeacon Hale : " Charterhouse, Dee. 19, 1855. "Sir,—The Committee of Incumbents cf the City of Landon have expressed to me their wish that the burial ground at Ilford should be consecrated. I fully concur with them in the opinion that it is expedient that the consecration of the ground should take place without delay. I have therefore to acquaint you, for the info' , mation of the Commission of Sewers acting as the burial board for the City of London, that I shall make every endeavour to procure the granting of a commission from the Lord Bishop of London for this purpose. I have to request that you will inform me of the receipt of this letter, and of its contents having been duly coromuM cated to the Burial Board.—l am, sir, your obedient serval t, " H. W. HAM, Arohdeacon and Commissary. "To Joseph D3W, E9q." The CHAIRMAN raid he was very glad, as doubtless the other members of the Commission were, that Arch deacon Hale had acceded to their wishes, and he trusted that an early day would be fixed for the consecration of the burial ground. (Hear, hear.) STATE OF ST. ANDREW'S CHURCHYARD, TIOLROEN. The CHIEF CLERK read the following letter from the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to whom the report of Dr. Letheby, upon the subject of St. An- drew's Churchyard, was ordwred to be sent at the last court : " Whitehall, Dec. 13, 1855. " Sir,—l am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 12th inst., and its enclosures, and to express his regret and disappointment at finding that this new City Burial Ground has not yet been opened, as he was informed so lung ago as the 16th of last March by the City Reinem braucer, in answer to an inquiry, he had addre-sod to that officer, that it would be completely consecrated and opened for use in the month of June, and that should circumstances imperatively require it, a portion of tha ground might be ready in a month's time from the date of his letter. Sir George Grey does not understand the City of London Burial Bard to have made any spe cific application to him on the subject of the differences which appear to have arisen as to the fees, but if the board have any such to make, it will receive his early attention. " With regard to the report on the state of the church yard of St. Andrew's, Holborn, Sir George Grey finds that the time for closing the churchyard was extended by order in council, bearir.g date the 13th September, 1854, until the City burial ground should be fit for use, the effect of which would be that if the City burial ground had been opened for use 'as anticipated, this churchyard would have been now closed. As no definite time is now fixed for opening the City burial ground, Sir George Grey has directed one of the inspectors em ployed u❑der the Burial Acts immediately to visit the churchyard of Saint Andrew's, Holborn, and upon his report such measures will be adopted, without delay, as are required to prevent the oontinuanoe of such evils as, from Dr. Letheby's report, appear to exist from the con dition of this churchyard.—l am, sir, your obedient ser vant, " (Signed) W. MA MEL "To Joseph Daw, Esq., Clerk to the Commissioners of Sewers, Guildhall." Mr. H. L. TAYLOU —Considering the dates of the two letters, it would appear that the view taken by the Se cretary of State for the Home Department has operated very strongly upon the archdeacon's decision. (Hear, hear.) I just now gave the archdeacon credit for yield ing to the public requirements, but I am very glad to find that there is a Home Secretary who feels such an intereA in the public health as to induce him to bring his office to bear when there is laxity ou the part of (Abets in carrying out so necess.ary a measure for the health and comfort of the citizens of London. The CHAIRMAN—We trust endeavour to obtain a conference with the Home Secretary upon the subject of the burial fees, the scale of which must have his ap proval. As the archdeacon has consented to the conse cration of the ground, I think we should direct the committee to see Sir Geo. Grey upon the subject of the fees. Deputy Arretussox--Is it not necessary that we should make the offer to those who represent the clergy before we go to the Home Seeretary? Mr. DAW—The question of the fees to the clergy remains precisely where it was. Sir George Grey has acknowledged our communication of the 9th, requesting a conference, and in the reply he wishes to be informed what proposal the board desire to make before the inter view takes piece. Mr. H. L. TAYLOR—Let us have the report of the collimate° read, and then we shall see wirit it contains. Mr. DAW then read a lengthy report of the iliprove ntent committee upon the subject of the burial fees, and the general arrangements connected with the cemetery. The report was then adopted. The Coin t, after fining several of the contractors for cleans ing the streets and thoroughfares for neglect of duty, adjourned. MET ROPOLITAN SE WE RS COMMISSION. A. general meeting of the Metropolitan Commission ers of Sewers was hell yesterday, at the Court-house, Greek -street. Mr. F. Chalmers (in the absende of Mr. R. Jebb) presided. The commissioners present were—Sir J. V. Shelley, M.P , Dr. Waller Lewis, Dr. Sayer, Mr. Hodgson, Mr. Thwaites, Mr. Pascall, Mr. Offor, and Mr. Cuthbert Johnson. THE CHIEF BNGINEER AND MR. F. 0. WARD. The Secretary presented the usual list of sums re commended for payment, and the sum of 3/. ss. 4d. for the short-hand writer's notes of the speech of Mr. Ward, containing the charges against Mr. Bazalgette, the chief engineer, bei n g proposed for payment, Mr. Thwaites, Sir John Shelley, and Dr. Sayer objected to paying for a report of Mr. Ward's speech, chiefly on the ground that Mr. Bazalgette had refused to furnish the court with a copy of his answer to Mr. Ward, although he had given a copy of it to the reporters of the daily papers. Mr. C. Johnson hoped the objection would be waived. Mr. Bazalgette said he had been called upon to answer a great number of charges, which he could not do without having a copy of them. He had only bad a fortnight to prepare his defence to a long series of charges, and, therefore, he had not had time to prepare a document in such a manner as to make it fit to be a court document. He would withdraw the claim for the amount. This, of course, put an end to the discussion. In answer to Sir John Shelley, the Secretary said the expense of carrying a sewer from Whitehall to St. James's-park, for the purpose of getting rid of the foul ness of the ornamental waters, would be defrayed by the government. After some routine orders had been made, the court adjourned. SIR J. V. SHELLEY AND THE BOARD OF WORKS. Ye t s e t r e , r meeting of St. J ames, Nest min s subj ect of the disputed e l ect i on for this s t ub a j vestry Yesterday, a district to the Metropolitan Board of Works came on for discussion. On a motion for the confirmation of the minutes of the previous vestry meeting, held on the 12th inst., I.lr. DUFF said he did not find upon the minutes, as read, any mention of a protest he had made against the return of Sir J. V. Shelley, upon the ground that the number of voting papers, including one picked up from the floor, agreed exactly with the number of gentlemen present at the vestry. One of them had admitted the paper to bear his writing, and it therefore ought to have been admitted in Mr. Geeson'a favour. He moved, therefore, that that portion of the minutes which de clared Sir J. Shelley to be elected, should not be con firmed ; a motion which he believed he had a perfect right to make, as they were still under the operations of the old act, the new Act not coming into force until January 1. The motion having been seconded, The CHAIRMAN said the reason why Mr. Duff's pro test had not been entered upon the minutes wag, be cause it had not been handed up in writing. Mr. TAYLOR thought the protest legal, although not put into writing. After some further conversation, The CHAIRMAN decided not to put the motion, and added that therefore no question was before the meet ing, and he then formally signed the minutes, and the matter ended. Sporting Intelligence. BETTING AT MANCHESTER, TUESDAY. Speculations were almost ent;rely confined to events decided to-day at Wolverhampton. 2,000 GUINEAS STARES. 70 t 20 agst Fly by Night (takeu) DERBY. 100 to 8 agst Yellow Jack (take 14 to 1) 1000 to 48 agst Rogertherpe (taken) WOLVERHAMPTON RACES AND STEEPLE CHASES.—TIESDAT. The Soling Steeplecl.ase Handicap of 5 sovs each, with 20 added. The winner to be sold by auction for 401., &c. About three miles. 7 subs. Mr. Goldby's Ploughboy, aged, list (carried list llb (S. Darling) 1 Mr. Ward's Eviogton Lass, 5 yrs, 10st ...(T. Ablett) 2 Mr. George's Dice Box, 4 yrs, 9st ..... White) 0 Batting-3 to lon Ploughboy. Evington Lase and Dice Box refused, and did not pass the post ; Ploughboy therefore cantered i❑ alone. Free Handicap Hurdle Race of 5 soya each, with 40 a'lded. Twice round and a distance, over eight flights ( f hurdles. 15 subs. Mr. lienderbon's Harry Lorrequer, by Shalom, 4 yrs, Bit 1006 (W. Fowler) 1 Mr. E. Herbert's Sally, 4 yrs, 9st (R. Sly) 2 Mr. W. Moseley's Bourton, aged list 71b (3 Darling) 3 Mr. Davies's Minerva, (4 b) 5 yrs, lest 81b (M. Devenport) 4 The Following also ran :—Timotheus, Hopeless Star, Battle, Parchment, Ginger, and Brompton. Betting-5 to 2 agst Bourton-4 to 1 agst Harry Lor. requcr-4 to 1 agst Hop&ess St tr--5 to 1 apt Sally-6 to 1 agst any other. Won in a canter by two lengths ; the second beating the third by half a length ; good fourth. Hopeless Star, Brompton, and Parchment were the next three past the post. __ _ Juvenile Selling Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 20 added ; for two-yr-olds. The winner to be sold by auction for 501., allowances if entered to be sold for less ; winners extra. Straight half mile. 4 subs. Mr. Leach's Prince's Mixture, by Malcolm, 7st 11Ib (201.) ........(T. Cliff) 1 Mr. J. H. Smith's Midhope, 7st 71b (201.) (Cresswell) 2 Mr. Byrne's Cripple, 84 (201.) (Kendall) 3 Betting-5 to lon Prince's Mixture, who won by half a dozen lengths ; the second beating the third by a length. The winner was bought in for 27 guineas. The Autumn Handicap of 50 sovs, added to a Sweep- stakes of 10 sovs each, 3 ft, The second to save his stake. Certain winners extra. About one mile and a quarter. 12 subs. Mr. Moseley's Alonzo, by Alpheus, aged, Bst slb (Wells) 1 Mr. T. Butler's Colt, by Ki ng o f Kildare, dam Lady Sale, 3 yrs, sst 4lb (carried sst 81b (Cresswell) 2 Mr. Leach's Master Slender, 6 yrs, 6st 121 b (J. Walters) 3 Mr. Clay's Battle, 5 yrs, Est (Pritchard) 4 Betting-4 to lon Alonzo-6 to 1 agst any other. Woa easily by two lengths ; a length between the second and third ; Battle was beaten off. Handicap Mate of 40 sovs for two-yr-olds and upwards. The winner to be sold fur 501. Certain winners extra. One mile. Capt. Christie's Little Tom, by Scamander, 5 yrs, 7st 111 b (including 71b extra) (W. Sharpe) 1 Mr. Buyer's Cock Sparrow, 3 yrs, sst 121b...(J. Hall) 2 Mr. Jones's Indian Queen, 2 yrs, 54 (Pritchard) 3 Mr. Wilson's Plausible, 3 yis, 63t 81b (Snowden) 4 Betting-5 to 4on Plausible-5 to 2 agst Indian Queen-3 to 1 agst Little Tom. Plausible and Indian Queen ran away with their riders before the signal was given to start, the former going completely round the course before she could be be stopped. Won easily by two lengths ; bad third ; Plausible was beaten off. The Consolation Scramble (Handicap) of 3 Boys each, with 50 added. Three-quarters of a mile. 7 subs. Mr. S unwell's Usurer, 3 yrs, 6$ 4lb ...(Cresswell) t 1 Mr. Thomas's The Lady's Hack (late Vivid) 4 yrs, 6A Glb The following also ran :—Master Slender, Useless, Anglo-Saxon, and Siege. Betting.-6 to 5 agst Master Slender, 4to 1 apt Anglo-Saxon, 4 to 1 agst Usurer, 5 to 1 agst The Lady's Hack. A very fine race home ended in a dead heat with Usurer and The Lady's Hack. A length between the second and third—good fourth. Deciding Heat.-6 to 4on Usurer, who won easily by two lengths. CHI P PEN HAM STEEPLECHASES. -TUREIDAY. Grand7lb each. t e e: . p 1 e A c hi:sue t o f f ou s r s m ov i s lis e . ach with 50 added • the second to save his stake . Gentlemen riders, P l 2 t Mr. E. Jones's Rockley (Mr. Jacobs) 1 Mr. A. Waller's Billy Bean (Hon. Mr. Morton) 2 Mr. Flower's Grey Momus (Owner) 3 The following also ran :—The Giant, Bushranger, and Miss Won by four lengths ; two lengths between the second and third ; the Giant and .Bushranger beaten a long way. Miss Lovell fell. The Wiltshire Grand Handicap of 50 sous., about four miles, was won by Mr. Long's Wild Huntsman, aged, lOst slb (T. Barrows), beating Mr. Montgomery's Smuggler, aged, 9st 71b (R. James) ; Mr. ; Thomas's Bull's Eye, aged, 9 st 410 ; and Mr. Watson ' 3 gelding, by Gabbier, 3 yrs , B st 41 b ( T . Watkins). Mr. Sait's Dieppe was declared not to start at two o'clock p.m. Robert Taylor, better known by the cognomen of “Tip," formerly in the employ of the late Mr. Joseph Rogers, of Newmarket, died on Sunday morning last, after a long and severe affliction. The deceased, who was well known and much respected by many members of the sporting community, has left a widow and family totally unprovided for. Mr. Butt, of the King's Arms, Duke-street, Grosvenor-square, has kindly consented to recaive subscriptions towards defraying his funeral ex penses and assisting his bereaved family. [ADVERTISSIIINTI—SIGIIT AND lISA RINC—DIAPNESS AND DBFECTITA VISION RELIEVED.— Messrs. S. and B. 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