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IRM E VENTING SUN. C r l R A.VESEND and BLACKWALL. s t The Publics are respectfully informed that the fast Iron. and 'nboat, RAILWAY, i s now runn i ng b e t w een Blackwall Gra.vesend, starting at the undermentioned hours. BLACKWALL. GRAVESEND. ito Fpm Bru nsw i c k Pi er. From Terrace Fi er. rm ;:c ************ .•• 11 Morning Aftern oon I 41 Afternoon tAs the season advances the other fast Iron Beats of the Corn nY, the BRUNSWICK, and the BLACKWALL, will i n .. l ,4 a ced on the Station and will run as during last year, af .,unl_ 4 ° o passages to and nine from Gravesend each day. • season Tickets available by the above boats alone will be issued at the following prices :-- For three months For six months Annual (expiring 3lst Dec. 1842) ' f nee, 60, Fenchurch-street, Jan. 20, 1342. AIANCHESTER and LEEDS RAIL h ere , WAY. TENDER FOR LOANS.—Notice is , 44 le given, that the DIRECTORS of the MANCHESTER ti egv,, R EDS RAILWAY COMPANY are prepared to „R E - E TENDERS for a limited amount of LOANS, in thins of not less than 1,0001. each, secured by the Bonds of re l ? )lll Pany, for theperiod of onc or not exceeding five years. any lender to have the option of calling in his money, at 44tthaim,e between. those periods, on giving the Company six 41 per notice. Interest thereon will be allowed at the rate of t ! , Cent. per annum. payable half yearly. ci f l Y order of the Board, JOHN JELLICORSE, Sec. , Nve s's-buildings, Hunt's bank, Manchester, January 10th, 1842. L O NDON and BRIGHTON RAILWAY 07 41 ,,C 0111 PANY.—Tenders for Loans—The Directors of LPArOpany are prepared to receive TENDERS fur S D Z.," o, karsuant to a resolution passed at a General and T a — ; Aleetih g of their Proprietors, held at the London to rain the 20th day of January instant, empowering them p a -4 " 300 ,000/. on loan notes under the seal of the Company, tirynable at the end of five years, bearing interest in the mean oDtrnat 51 • per cent, per annum, payable half-yearly, with an 4 "n to the holders of such notes to convert them, at the a e t z li ir a . tion of th ree years, into quarter shares of the Company, t a i n oi Per quarter share, under the powers of an Act to be ob parr for that purpose, for which application will be made to of ,I:."fierit at the earliest possible period, and in the allotment Th e 4 1 notes the Proprietors are to have the preference. ad,Ltenders are to express the sums proposed to be lent, to be Benders to the Poard of Directors, at the Company's office, o rt geheourt, Throomorton-street, and are to be sent in c‘ r Lefor e the 101 h day of February next. ot ' er ne-half of the amount is to be paid on the allotment, one ;n1)11 the 15th day of April next, and the , remainder on 1 1 . - . ,"ta day of July next, and interest is to commence from - gine of the respective payments. By order of the Board of Directors, 3 WEET, _Ti EWEN S, and OALMANNE . Y, January 1, 1842. Solicitors. SUPERIOR CANDLES. AVMS'S CANDLES, 6d. per lb.; Wax le d , Candles, Is. 2d. ; Fine Wax, Is. sd. ; Cocoa Nut, t ; Extra Fine Wax Wick Moulds, 7id. ; Transparen , 2 S. 4d. • Ge.luine Sperm, 2s. 4d. ; Genuine Wax, • Yellow Soap, 465., 545., and 60s. per 1121hs. ; keat tti r ,d, 6os. and 665. Windsor and Palm, I s. 4d. per pac -1,1,2 Old flrevrn Windsor Soap, Is. 9d. Rose, 2s. Ot.l. Cr 2 25.; Almond, 2s. 6d. ; Sealing Wax, 4s. 6d per lb. ; Oil, 9s. Od. per Gallon ; Solar Oil, 3s. tid. At ' ash, at DAVIES'S Old-Established Warehouse, 63, .7artin's-lan e ite New Slaughter s Coffee-House. • CAUTION.—The extraordinary demand for er , PARR'S LIFE PILLS has induced several shopkeep e-istoitf. mean and dishonest principles, to try to impose on the ti e i o I °lts variou s counterfeits composed of the most per ?was i ngredients merely for the sake of reaping an extra at, totally regardless of the dreadful consequences which % its e. rottn jerve, that eac h B ox o f t h e genu i ne me di c i ne h as pas t e d ‘t it the Government Stamp, in which is engraved these t r °l. o „ 4, PARR'S LIFE PILLS, in white letters on a red In Nene other can be genuine. i ierf tl ee ll t o instance has this invaluable medicine failed to effect a „ ei ... e cure where due patience and perseverance has been ex ,' d. Read tke following toLXOTRAORDINARY CASE.—Mrs. Joseph . Simpsonhas oou vereiy 4.T 4 and difficulty afflicted for the last 30 year . s,. with a violent of breathing. The affliction has been so t:-! re that she could not fulfil her domestic obligations. She t; '', ll t cold when only 15 years old, and the cough never left her i r she took Parr's Life 'Pills. She had tried almost every kind til.edicine, and had taken laudanum in large quantities, but nl ng afforded relief. 4 She heard of Parr's Pills about last Christmas, and as soon 2 ".ne had taken about half a box she found herself completely th, ed, and was never afflicted in the slightest manner during „ severe weather that followed, and is now better in health `a she has ever been in her lite. /2 11 4 cure does indeed appear miraculous, but for the satis ,zhan of the most incredulous, she has kindly conse - ated to rwer any inquiries, either by personal application, or by letter ;(Idressed " Alry. Joseph Simpson, Church-hi!! Close, Old 4.enton, near Nottingham." **' Notice th e a b ove C aut i on. S old i n Boxes at Is. lid., e,. •s• 9d., and I I s., with full directions. The Life and Times of Old Parr," containing remarks on .vlsease, Health, and the means of prolonging Life, 32 pages, °f ell Engravings, Anecdotes, Poetry, &e., may b e h a d gratis Agents. E. Edwards, 67, St. Paul's Churchyard, Wholesale Agent; 4 4d sold by most respectable Medicine Vendors. THE ONLY GENUINE PECTORAL ke BALSAM OF HONEY, for Coughs, Colds, Asthmas, 8 . 'rented by Sir JOHN BILL, e ' i 3 n i e ll ni Physician, recommended t ro hxoel gle il ii: li p ' re wh a o ratL as n as t v he y most salutary and effect , ua , l ., remedy ha 11 disorders of p tbe Breast and Lungs : and many yeal:_s e cx,)eie e healin cluar, nf irrned the recommendation in the immediat , e ti r o di f and gra_ great e r° ef Coughs, Colds, Astlimas,. and C )nslt is the t Preserver of the Lungs ever discoverer an t e! cont . ains all the I: l . o 4r e ning, and soothing qualities of that salubriou doextract of La te to r TtS . called HONEY. Professional Gentlemen not besi "Aracined"ltlend it, as it never disagrees with . the Stourt . ch, and ew bo 1 4iilds, i r , , „ most cases, yield to its beneficial effects in a f Sole Ed i-- „exi and 2s. Pd. per Bottle. lord-street , 17 ‘ 1. 11 - I s, 67, St. Paul's Church_ and • Sanger, 15 1 , Ox by xa st ' ''''..te, 24 C hill, opposite the Royal Exchange; and ° dealers in Medii.i°l-Rn. ' Ask for .. Sir . I John Hill's Balsam of Honey. ' it N ~ T" eat vivere sed valere .vita."—Ma RTIAL. ill Ta Life is only life, whelk blest with Health." 7_ ar e n t . ra i 4 f ' U .' finest System of Ethics is to confine with bouids and thus to regulate the Passions, which . e 9 1: 1 g 11 : i 1 :; t h etri 1 , 1;::: insubordinate a reeene impethously destroy those harriers ~,, .11ulate tlie an,.. Morality have made sacred • to curb, but not ro, appears the lesson of prudenc'e best calculated to ireaeWleereuuorganization of the human frame requires great medical e 4 siee e e rig remedy, and the public welfare is promoted when . , ros ti'Nee) devote men (disregardin the suggestions of the envious ar?d int,. v.--,,,,..ti their studies g to the ' treatment of those complaints ge- Liteltase„, Y linprialence and the catebulltn baton(consists at an un teeeeelholetent, “ The ssreng.ll of - "the r a P l e l" but it is melancholy to reflect on the daily sacrifles • as kaatriOrent and unfeeli .g empyricism, and to counteract,. as far towerie.erted e ,ellt ef le, Its further ravages we offer to suffering hurea . nity the ie-e'vese our oxen experience in ' the various 'thee es of Debility. The "ettes assrtire of solitary vice (early acquired at school, before ree. er right over tse minde will, in coneempletitig hi. ; I ' l l thin"fehtate, become susceptible of enlivening sensations, in knot 7 d e tri e illat i j e " e 'nest complicated state of exhaustion . may be roused s e ei e' en .e , XY. Intense study-immoderate anxiety-long re i. l ai` ra lt il e t n e e ' r Z er eel Crimes, and . many other causes, will frequently de. th ce e e soils Sy•tem ;in such case` we can held out an as_ elieec, re- animation, by a treatment which g has•lon answered -444, t b ee tle hopes of Patients of both sexes. , 4h , N I -to human happiness SI PHI Lle, can new be treated s eletetel if ur „e illiprovee state - of , Medical Science having divested its tl ie •siot, ee ',lose distressing properties that so long Ten : leiest its lex taliet*Leerealn and harrassing Some peculiarities incide . nta to ined with not esciped our attention ; in which milness, ell one: . e ffi caey, has superseded the means usually adopted Leessf ui system is unique, peculiarly energetic, and eminently tr'all t: ln 'ta tLattendance is given tot personal consultation; and letters 44,, i 4an c e „ .4r e ntry are immediately Answered . ; these must contain a s Dart tar Advice and Medicines, which can be forwarded to Of the world, however distant. GOSS and CO., M.R.C. Surgeons, t' l ast 7 , Lancaster.place, near Waterloo-bridge, Strand. ee kt ill?e t P lish ed (Twenty-third Edition), I. The _EGIS of LIFE, tiesellsiaeMinentary on Debility ant Nervous D!seeees.- ,1 2 a, The e: . 4 4.1 ee',,.treating of Venereeil Disease. -3 hip El. es f et , eye.elsiyely to the female Sex. May be bed o Sher l tv ' els i d anal eeelietee ie s-ats rnoster.row ; Onwhyn, 4, Catherine-street, Strand; ......."6s! A . Pall Hall; and of all Booksellers. Price ss. each ; by 4 11,1j . " -- ---........ lti mel Published, price 35., and sent `free on receipt of a Post-office OTder for 4 ~ T -4) 1 AINT LY VIGOUR - , a Popular Inquiry into LiNt the CONC 'alle, ; we e . - EALF.D CAUSES of its PP EMATURE DE excessee tn u i t instructions for its COMPLETE RFS I' OR ATION, ee, a siv e , ose suffering from the DestruytiVe Consequences of tse r t r ' l , det e e ul aulgence in Solitary and Delusive Habits, Youthful 'Be e -% or Infection ; with Remarks on the Treatment of Go- A y ,eGleet, Strictureand Syphilis. Illustrated with Cases, &c. s "Nbe •j• L UCAS and CO., Censulting Surgeons, London. s e . 'se ed , Efe ely the Authors; and sold by Britten), 1 . 1, Paternoster til lit; ieengnam Wi4 on, 18, Bishoesgete-street ; Field, P 5, qua t d.. k A tl`, l e el en „ t elreet ; Burgess, IS, Coventry-street . , . Ha d: tin K i e tea !None r ' ll O Holborn; and by all Bookseller. in 44 fle' t ? n e v ariou s f orms of bodily and mental weakness, incapacity, s r) ", Drat . . a n d disease, faithfully delineated in this cautiously written N 4 tr u 'it al work, are ' almost unknown, generally misundersto-d, te„ rr il. 1, - ;'U„: , t l Pori principles correepindinely erroneous and supe •- e i ts eie eue present rece of medleal pr'acti f tiol a e r rs. e flence the ti;,4lle'elinej.th.e publicetion Ise . a timely seg d silent yet efi e c lea t . 1, t 0 0t . , t , o a r where d d e e e e r i t l a ey t h ; mails a threatening i inroads, in •Of restoratioa. evils to tehiClP e br at '' e l tdve a r a ts ar a e e evensive and identical in their secret fi l q,j,.H e a - Pißin, and there are none to whom, as Parents, is G e u e a n: Guar der. the e e - s s of Families, and especially of Pule c Schools, t this work is tt i °l4 of 7 1 e of young people, who ought to rema t in en i n t i nded hat infeemation and those salutary eau i i5,..1 debitit " family physician, hut they require at -'1 tlenn e Not only are the most &heats forms of theirgene tt, 8 ., 3' neglected by the . • de Par; f .,e Management the exclusive study of a life entirely ab_ 441 el e eia e n ha r ttih,ee routine of general practice, and (as in . other . Of,. 911,..c0n5, Professin) . attentivy . ly concentrated in the daily .81 'pal i 4,, ,, n9e . d observation requisite for the correct treatment !(ki lL ', 7,s e „, cnnu sisl t er . th p touched upon, either in a moral or l e e e eile e ' te l- e,eve find th e e interests and welfare of mankind seriou . s n ly f e - Ztset,. h e erects of licentious, indiscriminate, and se r c , r c et a 1 .... ti ee ,'"e tyle.•ceellain practices. are described with an accuracy d Ts ee kt e i eisplay at once profound reflect and ex e . prac_ I ' l'h 1, cnce ."Planet %lip, e - ; , • , sto,t all Friends ‘ ..4e, e ie," es.. ctillsultel l h greater safety and secreey than e in e 's the Professional Friend; and in no ',its ~e'lllel-etslY VigoUr." wil lhe initiation into vicious indulgen tit L o w re - e ",,geiess, - its results in both sexes, are given with faithful, A h L 4t 'e notTnna r n stature, with afflicting truth. However, the Author ; r t. ° W is ki:al , o3l d the evil without affbrding a remedy.. _ It shows Slh p es , v y s . ,!eal t ,;"'"nlY Vigo ur" temporarily impaired, rind men al i cl e l as ; t ons f,24eolarron, orecluced by uncontrolled indulgence . of h p - ' , ete i l l rl be restored ; how the sufferer, who has pine I in anguisn tn el. 4 iltee 6 eC, n u,sequenc e e of early indiscretion -- afraid almost 1 i o ne e ta - 1 t istrag e ',*reellow man, etan regain the vigour of health an. ellslave„ Th e Wor lc aw Titten in a concise and perspicuous style, ft • 4 1 , Pe - ' 1 - " g heir ofte . Is •fond parents are deceived by the outward pity. le fr arance of their youthful offspring; how the attGuation , of liNetearnes Palpitation s t f the heart, derangement of the . nervous ()s si• -• :-' culleh, indigesti‘i ' and a train of symptoms endicattve of him i„"uPtion or general %.e . e ar often ascribed to wrong causes, 411 k ---c i are aie - - 'l4 ‘t'a•- "stea4 ' ar h..ine the zia ' it,:ral e results cf congenital debility er sin (less,- . sonseenences ando _alluring ters sective to the mine b wY•"-New e ' ' ' an d r iae i rpic w. loig k p i r y ac= ise.ellthee.., a n ha met for the ex ofton r. o. news el is not the ord.:nal:Y . holpert toex p c i ic..n itteen the meths of a nig il-- a ' re,,,,, ~ execiltulseityr maeinAienrsstoafn.eteheAv,here it work, this remerk d a te d and t 4 ,„ "*, , uPon that which emit 1 for public study is . directe, Ito nrofessiou are the parties the publi, end not t a n d e . men indiscriminately, \ee 'NA will foxin its will lenient! that inedicd btr,i.,,,,norance. novj . i . n which the scie s ' ' hitherto shrouded its medicine s el",,s._ nedoubti,ssly. The work c o e u' ili,led,eee:gbaPierlee:ditae:le'tiiii:leaolf,tl i•l• in yster i c u s te c h ni_ treats of subjects se believe go tee,';l . yet very strangely the medical attendant, and re 4 ', 4 h entire (as in'o perative s nefdwitery and the surgery of t lie devotedness to branch of stedy. lie p i,olle el this book i highly a deeply important. well written, hr - "ring -' moral, arid it abounds in 11 loled'ital I. :I:eye:multitudese a seitit),lamY De,„er, a:4,811114,m. No him • ' , . he worse for ,ts lan licaig can .. the i 44.11 peal to reason beacon, a well y rirosvue.dzerwinagrne;iiigseq.uent worse Int. is written in a clear, ail,' : t ! ent st , le ; arid ii; ev n i a d n e e n i tqv bl t e h(! tn i g : a. h • o L vr , i ,f a mind long tli,,i , soetically convetsant with the dist; 1 .e 3 13 ' f the most delicate I ,,te of the human organisation " el s' t 4 si l i e . security or happiness in theum. a - rritg a e gn s , ta e - te is the thief anxiety ee c e e e i but many dread emeriti •ste i :t fear of tuititness for the catering matrimonial u obligations. discharge of union through a '4)(4 ' s saY is most particularly addressed are e t ' o llsuffering under a de eel,. pry to the character allude. se • and . 'deice will be found .4 1 4 lased to cheer e ee , esrs. Lucas :ad Co-; Aft n - a e r :P t oig b hear . t,'and po ' itst the way to rents- Oxfore-street ,London. lee._" roln Five till Eight, ii, the ° daily consulted from Ten till Two . , .i' v r nail-street, Evening, at their Zeteidetice, No. fee e eta e i s i ant t ey Patients are request e d s e t n their cases, as to the •be as minute es possibleiin the tee,. , „ duration of the complaint, the syme pan ! age, general habits of liing, aim occupation 4 0 1 ... The communication m e .s ee e e sa 'lett tee of IL ; Without which voacncifc-e---w-h-a-te-4 . life of the eonieetieahi. r usual con , tk tear appLcati n; and in all . 55 Y.. kie. 41,iett ou case r can bet aken s the :most' invielable secrecy air itolvaci le lieturn.nd E n gland 9d. .. ffii• .... ...... ors. I 0 g 0 g 37 0 1 0 9 "if , .10 ix 5 witEg 9 .. .... 3 e. .. 16 , 9 .... ci. ..... 13.- , D AY.) r for hovr he arfi ° ll land at fa / d dcola il r o Cocoa - o t boo° 7 ,, , cogou C. on A cienlariu Bs. ; 116'. til $* 23 # ' 23 0 0 13 6 19 9 0 . O 6 ••"' ti 6 Iran' 44 6 ......... res BA O gle ,spat e it st ate forevoul L i; hell nov• nation S' tbe t : .5 11 ' ' p e t, T b it6 Jet°- ' X 1 6 0 7,1 • D 0 lb 0 l! 0 ro I y s 'e s, ‘,16 be ° %. ....... 1....... ........ .... , to 1. r - ~ --.r n :.}. No. 15,413. TO COMMERCIAL GENTLEMEN. BOOTH HALL COMMERCIAL HOTEL, WESTGATE-STREET, GLOUCESTER. RW. HOLTHAM begs inform COmmer • cial Gentlemen that the above Establishment has undergone a thorough repair, and is now replete with every convenience. The situation is the most central in the city, being in the midst of the principal Houses of Business. which, with the promises of support and recommendation of a great number of the commercial body with whom he is acquainted, induces him to ho:te that he shall obtain a fair share of their patronage. Professions of al kinds he dispenses with, being thoroughly convinced that liberality in the management of a Commercial House is indispensable, and, where it is really shown, is invariably appreciated.—Jan. 19. PROSECUTION FOR BLASPHEMY. SUBSCRIPTIONS are received at the Lam beth Coffee House, 3, North-place Lambeth, by the Committee for the Defence of CHARLES SOUTHWELL, sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment and to pay a fine of 1001. for a Blasphemous Libel ; also by Mr. Hetherington. Wine Office-court, Fleet-street, and Mr. Birkinyoung, 28, Mount-street, Lambeth, London ; 0. I. Holyoake, 179, Broomhall-street. Sheffield ; Heywood, Manchester ; Hobson, Leeds ; Taylor, Birmingham ; Paton and. Love, Glasgow ; and Robinson and Clark, Edinburgh. A full Report of the Trial will appear immediately. N ATIONAL LOAN FUND SOCIETY FOR GRANTING LIFE ASSURANCES, DEFERRED ANNUITIES, &c. No. 26, CORNHILL. Capital £500,000. Empowered by Special Act of Parlament. DIRECTORS. T. LAMIE AIURRAY,_Esq., Chairman. J. Elliotaon, M.D., F.R. S. I John Rawson, Esq. John Griffith Frith, Esq. John Riddle Stodart, Esq. Hunter Gordon, Esq. Clement Tabor, Esq. George Lungley, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq. A UDITORS. Professor Wheatstone, F. R. S. I Professor Graves, A.M. F. R. S. ACT 'JA RY-W. 6. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F. R. A. S PHYSICIAN—J. Elliotson, M.D., F. R. S. SURGEON—E. S. Symes, Esq. SOLICITORS—Messrs. Sweet, Suttra, Ewens, and Omman ney, 6, Basinghall-street. Bawxxus—Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Cat LIFE ASSURANCE. AD VANT G ES. - Perfect security from a large paid-up Capi tal, and accumulations—Equitable Rates—Power to borrow Two-thirds Premium paid, without expense or forfeiture—and Profits annually divided. N. B. Policies for Short Periods at Lower Rates than at any; other Office, with option of continuance for Life, at the usuar rates. DEFERRED ANNUITIES. The best and moat varied provision for after life hitherto of fer,.(l—£2 12s. per annum (Is. per week) at 20, will at 65 give the policy-holder the choice of an annuity of £47 16s. 6d., or £349 I Is. cash, or policy at death of £466. Similar ad vantages at 50, 55, and 60—Two-thirds payments lent at any time, and 'Two-thirds returned in case of premature death. The detailed Plans, and Last Annual Report to be bad at the Office, at any of its Branches, or oa application will be forwarded post free. F. FERGUSON CAMP,OUX, Se,Teigtry. VICTORIA LIFE ASSURANCE AND LOAN COMPA NY. No. 18, King William-street, City. Sir JAMES DUKE, M.P., Chairman. BENJAMIN HAWES, Esq.. Deputy Chairman. William Allen, Esq. John Kniil, EFQ. Benjamin Barnard, Esq. John Nolloth, Esq. Charles Baldwin, Esq. homri s Nesbitt, Esq. James Cockburn, Esq. Major-General Robertson Bryan Donkin, Esq., } R.S. Dania Sutton, jun., Esq. Aaron Goldsrmd, Esq O'Bryan Bellingham Woolsey, James Law Janes, Esq. Esq. EOLICITORS... Messrs. Lake and Curtis, SO, Baslnghall-s . ;reet. Assurances of every description may be effected by this Com pany, on a scale entitling parties to participate in profits, or on a low non-participating scale. Premiums, in any case, made payable to suit the convenience of Assurers. Loans, repayable by instalments, are granted to parties assured with the Com pany, on a liberal and advantageous plan, either on real or undoubted Personal Security. WILLIAM RATRAY, ACTUARY AND SECRETARY. ASYLUM FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC LIFE OFFICE. 70, Cornhill, and 5 Waterloo-place, London, Established in 1824. DIRETTORS. The Honourable WILLIAM FRASER, Chairman. Major-General Sir JAMES LAW LUSHINGTON, G.C.8., Deputy Chairman. J. Clarmont Whiteman, Esq. C. W. Hallet, Esq. Foster Reynolds, Esq. Wm. Edmund Ferrers, Esq. William Pratt, Esq. Thomas Fenn, Esq. Geo. Palmer, Jun., Esq. G. Farren, Esq., lies. Dirac. MEDICAL OFEICERS IN LONDON. PHYSICIAN—R. Ferguson, M.D., 9, Queen-street, May-fair. VISITING PHYSICIAN—J. Forbes, M.D. F.R.S., 12, Old Burlington- street. SURGEON9...—H. Mayo, Esq., F. R. S., 19, George - s treet, Hanover-square ; and T. Calloway, Esq., Wellington-street, Southwark, Persons suffering from chronic disease or irregularity of form, in pregnancy or old age, are insured at proportionate rates, the Asylum being the Company which originally extended the be nefits of lift insurance in such cases. NEW SYSTEM OF RENEWABLE TERM INSURANCES. Tho utmost advantages are secured by the smallest necessary outlay,—the Policies being continued year by year for the whole of life, whatever the future health of the assured, at a stipulated slight increase of premium, up to the age of 70, when the rate remains stationary. Extracts from RENEWABLE TERM rates for select lives. AGEI Ist yr. 2d yr. I3d yr. I 4th yr sth yr. 6th yr. 7th yr. -- - - - - - - 30 16 4 17 1 17 11 18 9 197 1 Extracts from the EVEN RATES for select lives. Aim. 2.0 30 140 50 60 7O 180 - - I'rem. 1 11 9 2 2 1. 217 1 4 2 0 1 610 9110 8 6119 1 8 ALTERNATIVE. Two thirds, only, of the even rates, whether for select or dis eased lives, or for the risks of foreign climates, may be paid down, and the balance, with interest at 4 per cent. deducted from sum assured, FOREIGN, AND MILITARY AND NAVAL INSURANCE Distinct classifications of places, according to salubrity of climate ; a specific price for any particular place, or a voyage or voyages. Officers whose destinations are not known, cove:ed to all parts of the world at a small but fixed extra ra'e of premium. GEO. FARREN, Resident D,rector. pAPIER MACHE TEA TRAYS, 50s. the SET, of FULL-SIZED GOTHIC SHAPE. Supe rior London Table, Knives, with ivory handles, 14s. per dozen ; Brass Poles for Window Curtains, 1i inch diameter, Is. 3d. per foot ; 2 inches, Is. Bd. per foot ; bronzed fenders, 4 feet long, 9s. SUPERIOR LONDON TABLE CUTLERY WAR RANTED.—TABLE KNIVES, with Ivory Handles, 14s. per dozen ; Dessert Knives, I Is. ; Carvers, 4q. 6d. per pair ; Table Knives, with white bone handles, Ss. Bd. per dozen , Dessert, 6s. B‘l. ; Carvers, 3s. per pair ; Globe-shape Tea urns, 4 quarts, 275. ; new shapes, 395. ; Papier Mache Tea trays, gothic shape, 50s ; the set o f full sizes. Catalogues, containing the prices, with Engravings of every Ironmongery Article necessary to the furnishing of a house of any size, 25 per cent. under any other old-established house, to be had gratis (post free). RIPPON and BURTON, 12, Wells-strea Oxford-street. Established 1820. FOGS AND DA MP AIR. BARCLAY'S ASTHMATIC CANDY has, for many years, been proved an effectual Preservative from toe ill effects of the Fogs and Damp Air, which, in the Winter Season, are so prevalent in this Climate. Its effects are t• expel Wind, to preserve the Stomach from the admission of aunps, and to relieve those who suffer from Difficulty of Breathing. Prepared only by Barclay and Sons, 95, Farringdon-street, London; and Sold Retail, by their appointment, by Sanger, IS., Oxford-street; tiiffbrd, U 4, and H. Burtield, IRS, Strand; March, 3.11, Holborn ; Johnston, 118, Cornhill ; Hallows, Druggist, , High-street, Is_ llngton ; Heudebourck, Druggist, Church street, Hackney ; and by all respectable Medicine Venders in Town and Country. Observe —None can be genuine, unless the names of "Barclay and Sons" are on the Stamp affixed to each 'ox. Just publish d, the 12th Edition, price 45., and sent Free to any part of the Kingdom on receipt of a Post-otiice Order, for s s. THESILENT FRIEND ; a Medical Work. on the INFIRMITIES of the GENERATIVE SYSTEM in both sexes ; being an inquiry into the 'concealed cause that destroys physical energy, and the ability of manhood, ere vigor has established her empire; with observations on the baneful effects of Solitary indulgence and Infecthn ; and on the I, )53 of the Repro ductive Powers; with Means of Restoration. The consequ Imes of neglected gonorrhwa, gleet, stric.ure, seconda, y symptoms, and the influence of mercury on the akin are pointed out and it ustrated by engravings; followed by observations on Marriage, with directions for the removal of disqualifications. By R. and L. PERRY and CO., Con sulting Surgeons, Birmingham and Leeds. Published by the Authors, and sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster row ; VVilson,lB, Bisho, sgate.street ; Purkis; nnpton-street, Soho; Jacks.'n a d Co., 130, *New Bond-street, London ; and by t- west, Steel house-lane, Birmingham; Bucluon, 50, Briggate, Leeds; and by all Booksellers in Town and Country 11 he fearfullylabused powers of the human Generative System re quire the most cautious proservation; and the debility and disease resulting from early indiscretion or venereal infection, demand, for the cure of those dreadful evils, that such medicines should be em ployed that are most certain to be successful. It is for these. cases Messrs. 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N 7: O . 14, ' , -_---- • • .. • „ e . ‘ ' , kr; -••••••• -•-• • " LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1842. - - ee e /):1 7 -ei-c-- _EVENING SUN. strutted of two old patched and worn-out canoes, manned only by a few negroes and four European 3. From Sandansing, Park embarked with the in tention of descending the river to its mouth ; but, on reaching Boossa, was attacked by the natives and killed, after having previously suffered impri sonment more than three months. The strong det erm i nation of Park to persevere his design of tracing t h e course of the river to its termination, is thus expressed in one of his letters from this place :—" Though all the Europeans who are with me shall die, and though I myself were half-dead, I would still Persevere ; and if I could not succeed iii the object , of my j ourney, I would at least die in the Niger. M. Hornemann, a German traveller, was sent out by the Association, hut he contributed little to the knowledge on the Niger. At the same time, and by tie same parties, another Gerraan, Roeutzen set out, but he is supposed to have been rhurdered by his servant, a person of suspicious character. The next person who is supposed to have visited Timbuctoc, was an American seamen, named Adams, hut his narrative throws no additional light on the course of the Niger. In 1816, Captain Tuckey, of the Royal Navy, with an expedition under his direction, was sent out to penetrate into Africa by the river Congo, and so to arrive at the Niger. The fate of this expedition was the counterpart of its followers ; 2SO miles from the coast was the extent of its progress, and the question was as far as ever from being decided. At the same time, another party, consisting of 100 men, were placed under the di rection of Major Peddie, to reach the Niger by Park's route from the Gambia; this party ascended the river Nunez, but were equally unfortunate with the Congo expedition. 1 1 Captain Clapperton's expedition was disastrous at its very outset. Himself, Captain Pearce, and Dr. Morrison, had the imprudence to sleep in the open air for two successive nights, on the swampy and unwholesome coast, by which they were all at tacked with fever, and the two latter fell victims in the course of a fortnight, leaving Captain Clap perton to proceed alone. Clappetton, accompanied by Lander, visited Boossa, the place of Park's death. lie had imbibed a strong aversion to des. cending the Niger, and made no secret of it to Lander. His ti; in conviction was, that whoever attempted to t;o down this river would fall by the attacks of the natives. Clapperton crossed the river at Comiex, below Boossa, and arrived soon after at Soeatoo. The successful progress of Clapperton through the interior thus far is well known ; but, sad to say, the first lesson that led to the death of his two friends was quite disregarded, and though athletic of frame, vet, on his arrival at Socatoo, being overcome with fatigue, he laid down unguardedly on a damp spot in tiv.: open air, giving rise to an attack of dysentery, which became aggravated, and ended io his death. This occurred in the presence of his attached se: van t Richard Lander. " Richard," said Clapperton, I shall shortly he no more ; I feel myself dying." Almost choked with grief, Lauder replied, " God forbid, my dear master, you will live many years vet." " Don't be so much affected, my dear ho), I entreat you," said he, '' it is the will of the Almighty, it cannot be helped." He then delivered to Lauder his papers, with di rections for his guidance, and shortly after died. M. Lacaille's safety, who, inspired by the pre mium proposed by the French Society of Geogra phy, has since penetrated to Timbuctoo,and thence to Morocco, appears to have been insured by his following the example of Horuemann and Burek hardt, in assuming the character of a Mahometan. Major Laing was anotLr victim to these expe ditions ; and he met with a more tragical fate than any of his predecessors. The bigotry and rapacity of the Moors first put him in peril of his life. Laing was first surprised in the Desert by a party of Tilaricks, who plundered and left him for dead, having inflicted twenty-four sabre-wounds on him, from which he almost miraculously recovered. At Timbuctoo lie found a kindly reception from the Sheik Boubokar, so long as he had power to pro tect him, but the fortune of war had thrown this city into the ha!lds of another chief, to whom Boubokar was obliged to act as viceroy, and who dispatched him an order which compelled him to send off Major Laing as expelled from the country. The good old chief accordingly put Major Laing undCr the charg,!. , of Barbooski, an Arab chief, who undertook to conduct him in safety as far as Arawan ; but that traitor, on finding Major Laing completely in his power, murdered him, fld took possession of all his property. The spirit of intolerance displayed by some of the African tribes is not, however, unrelieved by instances of genuine pity. Once, when Lander was lying at the foot of a tree, almost expiring with fatigue and thirst, he implored numerous pas sengers for a drop of water, but they said to each other, He is a KafTer—let him die." Yet there was found at last a good Samaritan, who, amid the reproaches of his countrymen, relieved a suffer ing fellow-mortal. The Lander expedition is of too recent date to need our entering into particulars. The mournful assassination of Richard Lander was coupled with strange circumstances. " White man will never reach Eboe this time," was an exclamation that greeted his ears from King Jacket, a relative of King Boy, and one of the heattless and sullen chiefs who ruled over the marsh country on the banks of the Brass River, uttered while his eyes sparkled with malignity. The subsequent am buscades of the natives lower down the river, and the murderous discharges of musketry while the boats were pushing off, fully showed the meaning of the threat, and, from the effects of the musket wounds he received, Lander died on his arrival at Fernando Po. The last expedition, the lamentable accounts of which have just reached us, adds to these records of fatality perhaps a more frightful instance than any that have preceded it. In former cases, a single and valuable life has been sacrificed, or in cases where numbers constituted the expeditious, the largest average of lives sacrificed was in the second expedition under Park ; but when souls, exceeding more than half a hundred, have been rashly hazarded and sacrificed, as in the present case, it is to be feared that so appalling an instance will, from its alarming nature, be the strongest. preventive, both on the minds of individuals and the feeling of this or future Governments, towards attempting a similar undertaking. • . THE LATE Fl HE AT TH TowEn.-4p7 official return has just been made to' the Board of Ortl insure of the exact amount of military and naval storeS, destroyed in the great armoury during the late fire. From this it appears that at the period of the fire the. number of arms in the armoury was considerably below the average amount, which is 600,000 stand. The num-' her of percussion muskets destroyed were 11,000 ; with .t bayonets, 26,000. Flint locks, 22,00 ; percussion - 7,000. 12,158 pistols, 75 doubh4arrelled pistols. with moveable butts, 1,378 swords, 2,41 sword blades, 2,026 plug bayonets, 192 spears, 95 pikes, 210 mus ketoons, 709 carbines, 3 wall pieces, 279 cuirasses, 276 helmets, and 52 drums. Amongst the relics destroyed was a military tri pity erected under the directions of Mr. Stacey, the keeper of the stores in the armoury, only two days prior to the fire, consisting of Chinese. arms, &c., taken by the British troops at capture of Chusan. Several of the large pieces of ordnance still remain in the ruins, and in the south-west portion some have become so amalgamated with the other metal by the fire as to form a mass of such magnitude as to render its removal next to an impossibility. The west end wall of the armoury is razed to the ground. The Board of Ordnance have determined on preserving to the public most of the large cannon and other trophies of England's navy which are in any way whole, and orders have been issued that those which are injured or broken shall be sent to Woolwich, where models will be taken, and the same metal recast into their original form. The loss sustained by the fire is now estimated to be a quarter of a million of money. The Crown jewels have not yet left the custody of Messrs. Itundell and Bridge. . A poor widow, named Azimont, of the com mune of Brax, near Toulouse, was condemned to pay a small flue an some slight offence against the Forest-laws, but being unable to raise the money was liable to impri sonment. A gendarme named Alarteau, and one of his comrades, were sent to arrest her. Her distress was great, and her pleadings for mercy strengthened by the cries of her four children. This made such impression upon the humane feelings of Marteau, that leaving lier, in charge of his comrade, he hastened to the Receiyer,tooi the Domains, paid the fine with the costs, 23E, and then returned to the widow with the discharge. This benevolent act coming to the know nist le P i f War, sent Soult, he immediately, aware that of Mar orders for the appointment of 7%a4r7eitili-titoeisorthealfinrosutntviaargagnet. brigadiership in his Legion, and being t his pay, remitted the gendarme possessed nothing but him all he had paid for the widow. DEATH OF MR. DUCHow.—We regret to have to announce the death mh of M r. Drruicierow,lvhichhtoopoek placeit a quarter to nine o'clock last night, greatest at his resi dence, in the York-road , L a m bet h . were entertained of his recovery until the last paralytic attack. EAST INDIA HOUSE, JAN. 26, 1842. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY do hereby give Notice, That a QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT of the said COMPANY will be held at their House, in Leadenhall-street, on WED!,:rESDAY, the 23a March, 842, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon. JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. EAST4INDIA HOUSE, JAN. 26, 1842. rrilE - I,COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY do hereby give Notice, That the TRANSFF OOKS of tho said COMPANY'S STOCK will be SHU THURSDAY, th e 3d March next, at Three o'clock, mil ENED again on THURSDAY, the 14th April followi That a GENERAL COURT of the said COMPANY will he held at their House in Leadenhall-street, on WEissEsnAv, the 13th April, 1812, from Nine o'clock in the Morning until Six o'clock in the Evening, for the ELECTION of SIX DI RECTORS of the said Company for FOUR YEARS. That the Form of a Letter of Attorney, and of A Declaration, for enabling Proprietors of East India Stock to Vote by Proxy on this occasion, may be obtained upon application at the Treasury in this House. That the LISTS of the MEMBERS of the said COMPANY will be ready to be delivered on THURSDAY, the 31st March next. JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. ESTABLISHED 1821. rEIHE LONDON MARBLE and STONE WORKING COMPANY, are enabled with their PATENT MACHINERY, to execute Chimney Pieces, Mo numents, Tablets, Slabs for Furniture, and every description of such Work, with an accuracy, rapidity of execution, beaut) and durability of Polish, and reduction of cost, which cannot be obtained elsewhere. 'I he Public are invited to inspect their extensive SHOW ROOMS, containing the largest stock in this country. The Trade supplied with every description of Rough Slab, Blocks, or Scantlings; or Blocks sent to the Works cut to order. Esher-street, Holywell-street, Millbank, Westminster. Please to be accurate in copying the Address, to prevent im position, the Company having no connexion with any other Establishment but that in Esher-street. INSTITUTION for CURING DISEASES of the EAR AMONG the POOR, 32, Sackville•street, Piccadilly (established July, 1838). PRESIDENT- The Right Hon. JOHN PIRIE, Lord Mayor. VICE-PRESIDENTS. Sir Edmund Antrobus, Bart. Francis Mills, Esq. 11. Broadwood, Esq., M. P. Hon. Mr. Justice Patteson Sir F. Burslett, Bart., M.P. E. Tennent, Esq., M.P. Right Hon. . Lord Denman W. A. 'Williams, Esq. Ea • Bart., M.P. Sir M. Wood, Bart ., M.P. •kkt r it;.,. t w ig 4 f I arshall, Bart. ' • —Benjamin Williams, Esq., 4, Whitehall. Yearsley, Esq., 29, Sackville-street. Secretary—Alfred Burgess, Esi New-street, Dorset-square. Report of the Committee : The Committee of Management have pleasure in assuring the promoters of the Institution, that its career has been marked by progressive usefulness, in effecting to a conisdera ble extent, the objects for which it was originated, and that al— though little publicity has been given to it, upwards of 1,600 nts have been entered upon the books ; and it is with pe culiar satisfaction that the Committee are enabled to add, that the majority of these patients have been either cured or have received substantial relief. The Surgeon of the Institution, Mr. Yearsley, has pre;ared a Report of the medical proceedings at each s u cceedi g half sear, to which the Committee might refer, were it necessary, as exhibiting some very remarkable and gratifying cases of cure. The Committee, from their own personal observation, can bear testimony to the great zeal and ability which have uni formly been displayed by Mr. Yearsley ; and they consider it a subject of congratulation, that the indigent, suffering under the class of diseases to which the Institution is devoted, should continue to have the advantage of a professional adviser who not only knows how to appreciate improvements in the depart ment of science to which it refers, but who can also judiciously and skilfully apply them. To carry out, however, to their ful extent the various bene ficial purposes for which the Institution was established, addi tional pecuniary aid is required; and the Committee, therefore, put forth their claim to the benevolent consideration of the public, in full confidence that it will not be made in vain. The amount of good which they believe has rewarded their ef forts, with the small means hitherto at their command, affords an assurance that with increased funds the benefits of the Charity can be most advantageously extended, by not only affording gratuitous advice to patients, but also supplying such medicines as their cases require ; whilst to those poor persons whose maladies resist all efforts of professional skill, suitable acoustic instruments could be furnished more extensively than the present state of the funds admit of for their alleviation. It should be observed, that no efforts have hitherto been made, no urgent appeal to public sympathy attempted, with a view to improving the condition of its finances, for a reason which the Committee persuade themselves must be generally approved : they consider that it was their duty to show the necessity of such an Institution before any application was made in its favour ; so that, in fact, every contribution which it has heretofore been their pleasing duty to acknowledge, has been, in the strictest sense of the word, voluntary, because un solicited. Subscription; are received by the following bankers : Messrs. Cockburn and Co., 4, Whitehall; Mesrs. Drummond and Co., Charing-cross ; by Messrs. 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A DAVIS, Sponge Merchant and Brush ...cx.• Manufacturer, by Special Appointment to her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, their Graces the Dukes of Somerset, Northumberland, Arg)le, and Montrose, the Dow ager Duchess of Bedford, and numerous families of distinction, 33, Strand, begs to acquaint the Nobility and Gentry that he has succeeded in constructing a Tooth-brush upon a new prin ciple, which for the preservation of the teeth and gums and du rability, excels any ever yet offered. The fastening is composed of corded silk and India rubber, by which it is impossible for the hairs ever to come loose in the mouth; they are the only kind that can be warranted from corroding ; persons frequently get bad teeth and gums from these causes, the corrosion being poison to the breath, and cancer to the gums. Families in town and country supplied carriage free, with every kind of sponges, brushes, brooms, turnery, mats, berms clothing, blankets, lea thers, and every requisite for the use of houses and stables, of the very best quality at wholesale prices, 40 per cent. under any other house in England. Families in the country can have a list of wholesale prices by a post-paid application, 33, Strand. CONFIRMATION OF THE TRUTH OF THE HYGEIAN SYSTEM OF MEDICINE. T HE' following is a COPY of a LETTER from Lady SOPHIA GREY : " To Messrs. Morison, British College of Health, Hamilton place, New-road, London.—Gentlemen : This is to inform you that many cases of cure by your Medicine have come to my knowledge within the last year (1841), and that, every year since I first took your Medicines (which was in 1834), convinces me, more and more, that your Pills are the only sure and safe remedy for all complaints. " I enclose my 51. yearly subscription to the Exeter Hygeian Dispensary. Will have my authority for publishing this letter. I remain, Gentlemen, your sincerely obliged " SOPHIA GREY. " Sandiway, near Northwich, Cheshire, Jan. 9, 1842." TO SHIPPERS, OWNERS, CAPTAIN N,and OTHERS. Copies of Testimonials, Gratis, by all Agents. GRIMSTONE'S EYE SNUFF.—Under the Patronage of his late Majesty, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and the Lords of the Treasury, is universally recommended by the Faculty for its efficacy in removing dis orders incident to the Eyes and Head. SIGHT RESTORED!—NERVOUS HEAD-ACHE AND DEAFNESS CURED! By the most simple, delightful, and fragrant Compound! Its mode of application is fraught with pleasure ; many thou sand cures have been accomplished by its use, at a trifling ex pense, yet certain in its operation. If testimonies be necessary toi n duce the sufferer to make trial, Kings, Lords, and Com mons have used it. The Lords of the Treasury have sanctioned its use. Their late Majesties, the Duchess of Kent, the most eminent Oculists, Medical Practitioners—with that gigantic balance, the Press—have eulogised Grimstone's celebrated Herbaceous Compound, known as " Grimstone's Eye Snuff," for its efficacy in removing all diseases incident to the Eyes and Head. G. J. Guthrie, Esq., F. R. S. See J. B. Lachfield , Esq.'s Letter, Whitehall. Dr. Thomas. Dr. Andrews calls it a national blessing—see his Reports touching its utility. The late Mr. Abernethy, with many others, recommend Grim stone's Eye Snuff, and call it " Man's best Friend," and the " Student's Vade Mecum."—See the many thousand Letters of Testimonies, of undoubted medical authority, with others of the first respectability. Nottingham, 28th Aug., 1841. This extraordinary cure is attested by Mr. James Wilcecksen , Foreign Snuff and Cigar Merchant, Nottingham. To Mr. W. Grimstone, 39, Broad-street, Bloomsbury, London. feel great pleasure in sending you the particulars of my case, and the miraculous cure performed en myself, by using your truly valuable Eye-Snuff. Sir, I am now in my 93d year, and a native of Holland, have been in this country 26 years. Whether from change of climate, or my advanced age, I ofinnot say, but for six years I have been deprived of sight, therefore unable to follow my business. I do most sincerely believe I should have remained in darkness and pain but for tl.e kind recommendation of a friend to use your invention. I purchased a 23. 4d. canister •f your agent, Mr. Wilcockson, to bacconist, who knows the above to be facts, and will bear wit ness to my extraordinary recovery of that most inestimable blesing of our life—" Perfect Sight"—l declare has proceeded from the use of your Eye Snuff. For the sake of those suffer ing, you niay make what use you please of this letter, Mr. Wil cockson and many others will vouch for its truth. I refer the sufferers to this gentleman, being your Agent, and so nell known in Nottingham. I am, Sir, your obliged servant, 2.lth Aug. 1541._ ANNIS ZENIA DIASSENIA. P. should not do you justice without stating my relief was almost instantaneous. My eyes became clear and freed from humour, and by persevering in its use very fre quently I am enabled to read small print without the aid of Glasses, and continue to enjoy God's greatest blessing—Sight ! free from pain. I have reason to be grateful, and do recom mend your Eye Snuff to all I know. Nottingham. A. Z. M. Observe the Caution.—W. GRIMSTONE is the sole in vestor, and the only genuine is prepared by hi m. This Odoriferous Herbaceous Compound of Herbs is sold in canisters, at Sd., Is. 3d., 2s. 4d., 45. 4d., Bs. and 15s. 6d. each, by the Proprietor, W. 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What they want is to cheapen and extend the manufacture of sugar. Had it not been for this, no plan for extinguish ing the slave-trade, or improving the Africans, would ever have emanated from them, and, least of all, this par ticular plan of a copious emigration to Trinidad. It is unfair, therefore, to frame this argument as though the planters were actuated by benevolent motives, and as though persons not concurring with them must be hostile to their benevolent designs. Mr. Burnley represents his proposal as " a plan of liberating African slaves." This is too bad. It is a plan for buying African slaves. In no sense is it a plan for liberating them, but that (as is alleged) they are to be set freo when bought. But at, on the one hand, this allegation, if it were true, could never sanction the institution of an African traffic in slaves, so, on the other, the allegation itself is untrue. Not one so purchased will have the name of freedom till he reaches Trinidad, or the substance of it when he ar rives there. The thing intended is a f orc ibl e expatria tion, and a state of compulsory servitude ; and this is called conferring liberty ! COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, FOR FEBRUARY.—The New Monthly Magazine, under the able editorship of Mr. Thomas Hood, continues to maintain its high character ; and extraordinary exer tions appear to have been used to make the forthcoming number attractive. Mr. Jerrold has brought to a clever conclusion his amusing " Bajazet Gag, or the Manager in Search of a Star." Nimrod has contributed an ad mirable article on Foreign Sporting. The " Recollec tions of Eton," by an Etonian, are continued with greatly increased interest. The author of "Paul Pry" has furnished another chapter of "Phineas Quiddy," which deserves to be considered the most amusing por tion of that exceedingly graphic story; and the author of " Peter Priggins" has added such materials from the " Proctor's Note-book," as cannot fail to recommend his scenes of Oxford life to readers of every cl ass . A fend of quaint humour may be found in the paper "On tli; Usefulness of Inutilities ;" and the " School for Scolds, or the Memorabilia of Xantippe," appeals to a very large circle quite as effectively. Mr. Laman Blan chard has also an article in his humorous manner, called " Contents, or Non-Contents." Horace Smith still in vites attention to his " Short Rides in an Author's Omni bus." Under the title of " Clian's Pat c h wor k" we a re furnished with some singular fragments of classical gossip ; whilst in " Christmas in Norway," we have a seasonable description of a merry Christmas in the North. There is also an able article on the Life and Times of Madame d'Arblay; in addition to which there is very great attraction in the " Tower of Lanech," a Romance, by the Editor, and, by the same popular hand, " Lines to Dickens, on his Departure for America." PRICB 5d MISFORTUNES AND FAILURES OF EXPEDITIONS TO THE NIGER ,(FROM THE EARLIEST TO THE PRESENT TIME.) Pf lee undiscovered tracts and countries which form *. immense area o f I n t er i or Af r i ca , t h oug h centuries have gone by, and Romans, Arabs, Por tuguese, and English have endeavoured to pene- Aw,e into their circuits, 3et it is astonishing how iqe at the present day is known, to satisfy the in quiring mind. All that we know, may be almost contained in the description given by the mallam or learned priest of the Sultan Bello, who, when Clapperton asked him, answered, that "Of the weat,Tiver, we know not its source, nor of any one wito 'has seen it. It rushes and precipitates itself through the country from left to right, and con tains many islands inhabited by fishermen, herds men, husbandmen, and settlers. As to the variety of its abimals, birds, and fish, it is only known to the Lord Creator." Among the most formidable difficulties in this country to travellers, there are none more alarming and insuperable than those arising from climate. Imminent dangers arising from the presence of sa vage men or animals are of a transient nature, and capable of being guarded against by vigilance and strength ; but the secret and devastating opera tions of a pestilential climate are too subtle and deadly to permit in almost any shape of device for counteraction. The treachery of the tribes of Africa has done little towards destroying travellers and explorers, compared with the destructive and exterminating influences of her noxious clime ; and it is almost solely to this that the slow progress of African discovery is to be attributed. The banks Of the Joliba, Quorra, or Niger, seem invisibly sen tinelled by an ever-repelling power. In the ensuing paper, a brief recapitulation of all former rtistrnodern attempts to discover the source of theyiger,. aint - the misfortunes, failures, and partial sucetsSes that have attended upon the travels and investigations of inquirers, will show the absolute fatality, attending in some shape or other all expeditions of a similar nature to that which has just dispatched homeward its new ad dition to the catalogue of calamities which have already been its precursors. The first notice in history on this point, appears . in Herodotus, who states in his " Geography of Africa," that some young Nasamonians, a people who dwelt on the borders of the Mediterranean, travelled in a westerly direction from Egypt, until they came to a large river full of crocodiles, and flowing towards the rising sun, and they were con ducted by the natives to a considerable city, situated on its banks. The difficulty of determining the ex pression due west at this period of time, leaves the passage doubtful. Colonel Leake, however, in a recent letter read by him to the Geographical Society, considers that they travelled along the Niger, and the city to which they were conducted was Timbuctoo. Strabo speaks little of the Niger, but Pliny largely ; he traces it through Mauritania, but falls into the error of Herodotus, who considers the Nile and Niger one river. Mela was the most reasonable geographer, and coincides as to the general opinion of the source of the Niger, but with proper candour acknowledges, that no one knew what became of it at the centre of the con tinent. Ptolemy, whose account of the Niger is very vague, closes all that the ancients knew of it. From the Arabians some fuller accounts of the geograpy of the country are to be gleaned. Abul feda and Edrisi knew it, and state that it assumed a westerly course across the continent, until it reached the Atlantic Ocean, or " Sea of Dark ness," and to distinguish it from the Nile, called it the " Nile of the Negroes." The maritime enterprise of the Portuguese led them early into the interior, but though they ob tained a considerable store of information respect ing the Niger, they turned it but to little account. In their maps a remarkable circumstance is ob servable regarding the position of Timhuctoo. This city is placed so near the sea, as to excite suspicion of its being the same as that on the Niger, and another place called Tamboucanee, on the Senegal, is mentioned as answering their Tim buctoo. The source of the Niger, however, as well as its course, remained in obscurity till English geogra phers and travellers took the field. With Great Britain, a new era in the progress of African geo graphy commenced, and in 1788, a number of wealthy and philanthropic individuals formed them selves into a Society for the express purpose of pro moting discovery in that country. Mr. John Ledyard, was the first person de spatched under the auspices of the " African Asso ciation " upon this mission ; he had already been round the world with Captain Cook, and had undergone hardships and privations in a journey through Russia, which, as the exploits of a single traveller, stand unrivalled. In June, 1788, he de parted, and reached Cairo in the month of August following—when, becoming impatient and vexed by the delay of the caravan with 2 which he was to have travelled, his anxious mind sunk under disappointment, and death quickly terminated his career. His instructions were, to have penetrated into Africa by way of Egypt, and to traverse the Continent in the latitude of the Niger. Mr. Lucas was the next who went to explore the Niger. The journey of this traveller is remark able for the additions he contributed to African geography, but he did not penetrate further titan to the south of Mesurata, five days' journey from ripoli. In h's account of the Fezzan merchants, who crossed the Niger at a ferry two miles south of Cassena, may probably be discerned the ferry of Comic, below Boossa. Major Houghton, on the part of the African Association, next undertook the task. Travelling as far as Jarra, he was plundered and deserted by the Moors who accompanied him, and he died, after several days' wandering, from hunger and exhaustion. Mungo Park, in 1795, next took up this hazardous enterprise. The terrible sufferings that Park underwent are related in his own Journal. In his first journey, he nearly fell a prey. Having encountered all the horrors- of the rainy season, and being worn down with fatigue, his health had, at different times, been seriously affected. But soon after his arrival at Kamalia, he fell into a severe and dangerous fit of sickness, by which he was closely confined for upwards of a month. His life was preserved by the hospitality and benevolence of Karfa Taura, a negro, who received him into his house, and at tended him with the kindest solicitude. In Park's second expedition, arranged with the Secretary for Colonial Affairs, the plan was to send him with a detachment of soldiers, and a few seamen and carpenters, to construct vessels for the navigation of the Niger. With these 35 soldiers, their Lieutenant, and the others, he arrived at the wished-for-point, ready to embark on the Niger, but the rains destroyed his men with a fatal rapi dity. He lost the whole of his companions, except Lieutena n t Martyn and three soldiers, of whom one was in a state of mental derangement. The death of his friend and brother-in-law, Mr. Anderson, affected him most deeply. " No event," says he, " ever threw the smallest gloom over my mind, till I laid Mr. Anderson in the grace ; I then felt myself as if left a second time lonely and friendless amidst the wilds of Africa." Of this melancholy affair, he writes to Lord Camden thus,—" Your Lordship will recollect that I always spoke of the rainy season with horror, as being extremely fatal to Europeans; and our journey from the Gambia to the Niger will furnish a melancholy proof of it. We had no contest with the natives, nor were any of us killed by wild animals, or any other accident ; and yet, I am sorry to say, that of 44 Europeans who left the Gambia in perfect health, five only are at present alive."—Dated Sansanding, Nov. 17, 1805. At thin most trying moment, however, his habi tual constancy did not forsake him. Though about to embark on a vast and unknown river, through the midst of savage nations, and a long succession of rapids and cataracts, this voyage, one of the most formidable ever attempted, was to be under taken by him in a crazy and ill-appointed vessel, which, principally by his own labour, he had con- WYLD'S GLOBES Wyld's 12-inch globes on chair, high stands £6 0 0 Ditto on short mahogany stands 3 18 6 Ditto on black stands Wyld's Übe of Globes James Wyld, Geographer to the Queen, Charing-cross East. London. r_ iff II ~~