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7,..1 % ROYAL OPERA. DRITRY.LANE. Lessee. Mr. E. T. Smith. 'IL" 4:VvNIING, Will be performed MA •ANIELLO. Characters by Messrs Far quhars n, fierberte, H. Brah .m, and Elliot Baler; Julie ant %Its, Lanza To conclude w,th LOVE IN A VILLAGE. Prices of admissioa r 3 the two galleries. 6d.; secer:d circle c boxes and pit, Is.; drew circle, 2s. 6d.; sta•ls, 45.; private boxes to admit two persons, 10s. 6d.; four persons, one gonna. Box-office open from 10 to 6 daily. t'sl4:'A rtte, itOf LIAYMARKEI'. Under the management of Mr. Buckram. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE BUSY 13,1 Dy. To be followed by OLYMPUS IN A MUDDLE ; er, Wrong People in Wrong Places. Followed by COURT FAVOUR. To conclude with THE SI.NISEI DANCERS. KOYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. 'Under the Management of Mr. Owls= Kw,. THIS EVENT/4G, Will be performed HOW STOUT YOU'RE GETTING. After which, KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. Queen Eatha' + Mr 2. C. Kean ; Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. C. Kean. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII. Proprietor, Kt. B. Webster.—Nrectrems, Dis.dame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed PAUL PRY. Characters by Messrs. C. Selby, ?smile, and Wright; Misses Mary Keeley and Woolgar, and Mrs. L. Murray. After which, FRATERNISATION; To conclude with MY PRECIOUS BEVY. ROYAL ATI3AND THEATRE, Under the direction of Mr. Payne. THlsi EVENI/M Will be performed MARRIED DAUGHTERS AND YOUJ (3 THISMANDS. After which, EL TOREADOR. Followed by a new Farce, THE LATCH KEY. THE GALICI ‘l•7 FETE. To conclude with G ♦NEM. ASTLErS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke unabated and triumphant attraction cf Mazeppa. —Fourth and last week of Mr. George Wild and Miss Fanny Williams. tria - iVENING, Lord Beron's MAZEPPA and the WILD HORSE. After which, the Premier's EXERCISES of the ARENA, by the elite of Equestrians. To conclude with THE ARTFUL DODGE, in which Mr. George Wild and Miss Fanny Williams will appear. Mr. William Cooke flatters himself that the above announcement proves the ast unding success of this the most terrifically thrilling of all spectacles. The Wild Horse, taught and trained by mr. W. Cooke, pursuing his mad career, dories all description, and must be "itnessed to be credited. Isoz•oince open :rum Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. ear.,acting manarter, Mr. Nelson Lee. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, Jun. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY Morn. 25 min.aft.• 10 1 Evening 10min aft. 11 To-Moßßow—Morn. 0 min. aft.. -0 j Evening 52 min. aft, 11 0- KATE - 114R.—lias Oprica, Ang. 24 TLICILMONSTICA, TN THE SKADIc 72 h ghost since noon yesterday. 62 -- °west this morning and during the night. 69 —thih day, at noon. BAROMECTICR, 29 . 84—falling. WEND, S. W.—Cloudy weather, with rain. • r-ex e S>. (,` 4/.1:-!s2 ~ 4 ` )111%, LoNDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1855. We earnestly hope that the state of the army before Sebastopol may not form the subject of another inquiry by a select committee next session. We trust and believe that, before winter sets in, a good account may be rendered of Sebastopol, or at least of the southern division thereof —the only portion as yet invested by 'our troops, or exposed to the fire of the Allies. But although we may anticipate the most felicitous results, it is essen tial to be prepared for others of a less favourable character—for the total destruction of the belea guered city, so that it could not afford shelter to our men ; or possibly even the failure of an attack. A good General should give due weight to every element in the calculation. It may at times be indispensable to set the lives of those under his command on a single cast, and " to stand the hazard of the die," but it would be madness to do so if circumstances did not impera tively demand such reckless desperation. What ever excuse might be conceded to the ignorance of the Administration which last year ordered the expedition to the Crimea, and to their sanguine expectation that it would be immediately success ful, no such apology—and at best it would be a very poor oee—can again be available. Ample provision must now be made for a winter cam paign, and to pre-ent our gallant soldiers from enduring any privations or sufferings that can by any possible precautions be averted, or even mitigated. We gladly recognise the ameliorations that have already been effected ; and we are disposed to believe that suitable provision will be made for the probable, nay, more, for the possible, wants and exigencies of the Crimean army during the incle ment season now rapidly approaching. But, as unfortunately Parliament is not now sitting, as interrogatories cannot be exhibited to Ministers, so as to elicit the assurance that every fitting preparation has been made, it- is the duty of every public - journalist to repeat the note of alarm which has been sounded by the Times, and to make urgent inquiries respecting the butting, cloth ing, provisioning, and generally all the needful supplies for the army during the coming winter. It may not be required. The prudent foresight of those in authority may have already taken all the preliminary-measures requisite for the pur pose. But an allusion to the topic can do no no harm, and may be very beneficial. And an official assurance that these interesting and impor tant matters *bad been duly cared for, and that the solicitude of the Fourth Estate was superero gatory, would be eminently satisfactory toallclasses in the United Kingdom, more especially to-those who had friends or relatives engaged in the ardu ous struggle, and participating in the. dangers and hardships of the siege. It does not follow that ; -because of such pre cautions, they must necessarily be required—or that the expenditure thereby occasioned, would be misspent, although it might not eventually be required. Such a notion may enter into the minds of those who refus e to execute a will, be cause at some future tilnye—if spared—they may have abundant leisure t;o make a more satisfactory disposition of their property—or who abstain from insuring in the b Dix) that their property or lives may be presery ed from the casualties to which all are liable:* but prudent men will re pudiate a delusion so, dangerous, and cheerfully contribute to the furid 'reqteired for the security and comfort of our army' in the East. They have well merited 'such at& ration at our hands, and any negligenrae or indCerence on such points would not merelty be acts :of great imprudence, but of gross i ngratitude, that might well call down vengeancTe 01 1 Our hi 'ads. Again then,, we repeat, islat preparations have been made for the hutti•of clothing, and provi siouin.g of our troops duri, ig the winter ? It would be a. severe r aproach to the nation if they remained under can' VMS when prope r shelter could be, provided, that they should be wearing the light ga %merits suitor I fa- summer when the frost and fie ow were cl ailing their limbs, or that they should be withou t ,an abundant supply of wholesome vi 'ands. E' ter ything of the kind can be provid e d i f timely uteri ion and proper allow ance for casualties be made. The fatal words " too late" n eed not 'again be applicable to official proceedings, . and " 1 Gould they be so there can be no apology 110 t ',fling even to extenuate the crimes of the deli u, aents justly responsible. We do ao t wish to be misunderstood. Let it not be sup, Pr ,sed Lhat we are despairing of . success before Seht stopol, or joining t h e croakers who wish to put forward gloomy views on any and •very occasion. Far from it. We never felt , nore sanguine as to the complete triumph of our ~ rms than at this moment. We never were more oonfiident that Russia would eventually, and per 'laps ere long, be thoroughly humbled, and be come suitors for peace on much more stringent terms than those so arrogantly and contumaciously rejected at Vienna. But even should it be so, our rejoicings at the happy terminatiou of the War wou ld not in any degree be lessened because we had made ample provision for its energetic con tinuance, and that the outlay which had in some degree contributed to that felicitous result had thereby been rendered unavailing. England is the land of testimonials. The gratitude of individuals, in some degree, seeks to compensate the benefactors, either of the aim triunity or of a district, for the apathy and in difference of the Government. The zealous and enthusiastic pastor discovers that his labours have been appreciated by the presentation of a bible, a tea service, or possibly a purse of sovereigns. The persons who take a leading part in promoting any great object frequently receive a recognition of their efforts from their collaborateurs, which are alike honourable to those who give, and to those who receive. We look on these tributes of affec tionate and grateful remembrance with peculiar favour, whether they be bestowed as a pecuniary recompence to those who have expended time, trouble, and money, for the public good, or are applied to the creation or promotion of some institution that may at the same time supply a great public want, and commemorate the name and services of the meritorious individual. The latter is, of course, the form most bene ficial to the community, inasmuch as an object is attained—which of itself should command the sympathy and contributions of every person able to spare his mite to the good purpose, while it affords the deepest and purest gratification to the party whose name is associated therewith. At present there is a project under considera tion which requires only to be named to command the most enthusiastic support. Every one has heard of Miss FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, of the lady whose active benevolence and untiring and judicious labours so greatly alleviated the suffer ings of our sick and wounded soldiers in the East. Her name has become a " household word," as the true heroine of the 19th century. It was not merely that she, in the possession of youth, beauty, wealth, position in society, all in fact that could render life desirable, was willing to undergo toils and privations from which those bound to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow might well shrink—such instances of self-devo tion are happily not rare amongst the gentle sex, of whom she is so fitting a representative—it was not that she had the courage to inaugurate a movementrequiring such untiring energy, or that such miraculous success attended her self-imposed labours, and that in a sphere from whence many of her amiable sisters might well shrink —all these are matters deserving of the highest praise —but Miss NIGHTINGALE possesses still higher claims to the national gratitude. She appeared as a reformer, who not merely in dicated a mode of remedying a crying grievance, an evil of immense magnitude, but stood boldly forward to put her own precepts into practice, and to prove the efficiency of the remedy she had devised. In vain did prudence counsel the seve rity of the ordeal she was about to encounter—in vain was the annoyance which she might have to undergo from the thoughtlessness or intentional rudeness of uneducated soldiers hinted at—no selfish care or personal consideration slackened her noble zeal, or retarded for a moment her acred mission ; and it is only due to the gallant sufferers to say that her confidence in their honour and gratitude was completely justified. No inconsiderate expression or action gave her cause to regret that she had followed the dictates of her benevolent heart, or endeavoured to assuage the sufferings of her gallant countrymen. Surely, then, if ever a person could be regarded as a national benefactor—if we still respect the memory of HOWARD the philanthropist, who spent his life in the improvement of prisons, we may place Miss NIGHTINGALE in the foremost rank of the friends of humanity of all ages, and should strive to give expression to the admirati:}n and gratitude which must be entertained by every true-hearted Englishman ! aye, and Englishwoman. She is, indeed, eminently worthy of a testi monial ; and one has been suggested that would be worthy of her. It is known that the long cherished " wish of her heart," has been to found an hospital in London, and to work it on her own system of unpaid nursing. It is a thought worthy of the woman, and should it not be grati fied to its full extent ? Who is there who could refuse to aid and assist in such an undertaking, to bestow from the superfluous means, with which he has been endowed by Providence, some portion towards die establishment of the "Nightingale Hospital !'• The project requires no advocacy —the mere mention is sufficient to enlist every one in its favour. We shall, by its means, get rid of the SAIREY GAMPS and BETSY PRIGS, and replace those disgraces to womanhood by ornaments to the gentle sex. It is only necessary say that a sub scription list is about to be opened at Messrs. COUTTS'S, to insure that those who have the ability will ;dso have the will to send in their contribu tions to the "Nightingale Hospital Fund," for presentation to Miss NIGHTINGALE on her return to England, so as to enable her fully to carry out her laudable project. To dwell on revelations that attach a disgrace ful stigma on our character as a commercial na tion, exhibiting on the one hand a large propor tion of our tradesmen and manufacturers as the worst of swindlers, and the purchasers of their commodities as the most egregiously foolish of dupes, is anything but a gratifying task. Unfor tunately, however, it is an incumbent duty ; and while we would fain have held our peace with regard to the adulteration of articles of daily consumption, the frightful extent to which it has been shown that system has reached, the neces sarily deadly nature and vast magnitude of its results, the encouragement held out to honest manufacturers and traders, and the certainty of an effective blow being administered to it by con tinued exposure, are irresistible inducements to call attention once more to the subject. The reader doubtless entertains a high opinion, as we do, of Anaericvi smartness—or, to call a spade a spade—raseality, and has, in all proba bility, felt his admiration of the free, citizens of the United States, with their industry, enterprise, and various moral virtues sink now and then towards zero when he has come across some spicy story of wooden nutmegs. sold for the veritable kernel from the spice islands---of ingenious and productive swaps ---of lumber " notions " cleverly got rid of by R ogiN ' s -like descriptions and a raffle—of clocks, sold at cent. per cent. or more profit, whose miraculous virtues before sale have resolved themselves into the power to go after— of mermaids that were never drawn by net or caught by hook drawing millions and hooking the coin out of their pockets—of old women, guiltless of half their years, serving to make the foi tune of knaves warm by pretending to have nursed all honest man—of woolly horses appropriately found in the Rocky Mountains, and of Tom THUMBS hi:l ouden tly foisted on the credulity of Courts, to kiss the lips of our maidens, and, in effect, dive with gusto into the pockets of their friends. If so, the feeling did him credit in so far as his censure was discriminate ; but when the next tale of American smartness reaches him, let him re member what has been practised, and is still being so, at home. patronage, secretaries, nor members of Parliament of any colour will be able to mystify them, that the great majority of 16,000 Government appoint ments now given in defiance of all law and prin ciple, as means of local bribery and corruption, ire available for the improvement of the educa tional institutions of the country, and for the promotion of industrial science and practical skill of the country. Well might Archdeacon WlGlum rejoice as a minister at the prospect of the social improvement of his flock by the withdrawal of such powerful motives to local party divisions and bitterness of feeling. A new and great force, an organised corps d' armee, is brought in aid of Administrative Reform. Vulgar, impudent, and audacious as such frauds are they only go to pick pockets, lower morals, and perpetuate knaves and fools. They don't sap the citadel of men's lives—they don't lay the seeds of incurable disease—they don't weigh down the blossom of childhood to the grave—they don't sallow the manly cheek and bring the crimson dawn of death to tincture the cheek of beauty— they don't call for incessant drastication or per petual drenching. A man may outlive a thousand cheatings; he can only be once killed with poison. A wooden nutmeg may try a lady's temper, but grated wood in her possets is not so bad as alum, copperas, pearlash, and ammonia in her bread. A clock at double price, and with no qualities out of a hundred vaunted of it but one—that of telling the time in its own way —may be worthy of an unsaintly ejaculation, and provocative of no prayers but prayers for patience ; but jars of pickles verdant with verdigris, a cruet-stand a very laboratory of poisons and nastiness, such as horse-juice and tannin, red lead and vitriol, ar menian bole, ochre, and copper, are enough to make the stoutest start. The mermaid was an impudent draught on. American credulity, but not quite so bad as that which offers you as a wholesome beverage an infusion of malt strengthened with sugar, bittered with quassia instead of hops, and doctored with grains of para dise, sulphate of 'lion, cocculus indicus, lime, &c. Tho woolly horse was an audacious myth, but those who believed it had not to swallow chicory, and chicory adulterated with articles the bare mention of which is enough to make you sick ; nor had they, as its victims, to drink tea prepared from Bohea, a fifth time infused, redried, and curled together, or otherwise mixed with wil low, sloe, and other leaves, coloured and polished with black lead, Prussian blue, and chromate of lead ; nor were they called on to mince at cakes made of potato flour instead of arrow root, and sweetened with coppery preserves ; nor at jellies guiltless of isinglass, and trembling on feet of gelatine. The old nurse of WASHINGTON was a Methuselative imposture, but the decrepit old dame didn't ask you to swallow along with her port and sherry, hot with spirit and cayenne, and bodied with catechu, Dino, and logwo.)d, nor spirit etherealised with nitric acid, and made ardent as the peppers of the Tropics. Nor were I you required to take her with a pinch of ochre, glass, sand, saltpetre, ammonia, and fermented and dried tobacco refuse sold under the misnomer of snuff; nor, if disposed to smoke her, to do so with earth, sugar, oil, sand, treacle, ochre, salt- petre, and hemp-dust. Tom THUMB was a mighty humbug, though but an impudent little dog in other respects ; but his osculations, how ever much they might disgust the fastidious of the other sex, were not so bad as the poisoned kisses sold at every confectioner's shop. Whatever they were they brought to no fair lips, young or old, the verdigris, the Prussian blue, the lead, the arsenic, the mercury (vermillion), the smalts, the chrome yellow, the warehouse scrapings that daily find their way to them in the shape of sweetmeats through the ignorant kindness of parents and relations, nor, we must add, hard as all these things were to swallow, were they so bad as to have palmed on you damaged or poisoned drugs for genuine, to rely on opium, aloes, rhubarb, and scammony in your hour of need, and discover by the effects or no effects, that " they are all something else." In conclusion, while pointing out the turpitude of these adulterations, and administering a correc tive to national vanity, we are far from express ing an opinion that American morality is superior to our own. What we have aimed at has been to indicate that a system deserving the'most in tense moral reprobation is in vogue among the tradesmen in this country, that (until the Lancet pointed it out) the eyes of the public have been blind to the evil, though they could see a vicious system across the Atlantic, and that its destruction is imperatively called for by every consideration of morality and expediency. We would call particular attention to the Report we have received of the proceedings of the Con ference, held at Southampton, of delegates and members of Mechanics' and Literary Institutions of the Hants and Wilts Educational Society in union with the Society of Arts in London. We there see the chief local leader of the Anti-Corn- Law League, together with one of the most influ ential members of the Tory party at Southampton, —Mr. STEBBING—the Archdeacon WIGRAM, and the Hon. Mr. BEST—in unanimous response and agreement in opinion as to the necessity of the abolition of local political patronage, and the con version of party appointments into prize scholar ships, to be given upon competitive examinations to the mos, meritorious candidates, for the en couragement of the local and general edncational institutions for the lower as well as the middle classes of the community. A leading inhabitant promises, on behalf of Southampton, that it shall be got to set an example to other boroughs of a self-denying ordinance, and the renunciation of political patronage, in favour of impartial and competent awards for merit. This movement will, of course, be slighted and treated as Utopian by those who are unaware of the feelings created by recent events in the minds of all classes. The example of the competition for the Indian writer ships has made an immediate and profound im pression on all persons connected with the educa tional institutions. They have been brought, by other evidence, to see the practicability of the extension of the same principle to appointments for merit available as prize scholarships for scholars of the middle classes, and even for merit amongst the children of artisans. Every zealous schoolmaster will soon perceive that every appointment as a piece of party or borough patronage, or political jobbing by the Borough Member, is a prize scholar ship stolen from one of his best scholars, and an act of injustice to his own labours. Every middle class kind of a family will be brought to see that every such outrage is in derogation of the securi ties for the education of his children. The appeal of the Rev. Mr. BOOTH, the Chairman of the Council of the Society of Arts, for exertions to secure the stimulus of examinations and prize scholarships in behalf of the middle classes, must meet with a deep if not loud re sponse. The interests of the educational associations in Hants and Wilts are essentially the same as those of the other affiliated institutions throughout the country. Now, those institutions at present number 400, and comprehend upwards of 70,000 of the best-instructed and most intelli gent of the community. They have now their attention directed to the fact, in which neither 11.14E,_ SUN, rittnAv_ EVENINA-, AXYGITWV St. im LOSS OF THE GUN-BOAT JASPER, The Admiralty, we understand, have received official confirmation of the loss of the gun-boat Jasper. The Jasper can less conveniently be spared just now front our Eastern squadron than some vessels of larger armament, her two guns having recently done service at points not to be approached by the Mirandas and Terribles of the fleet. She was last employed off Taganrog. The Rus- Nians make out a consequential relation between her loss and a shot from one of her guns which a few hours before struck the wall of a minster where the faithful were en gaged in holy offices. As the boat was on her way to rejoin the squadron sbe ran aground about 100 yards from the shore. One of those sudden falls to which in land seas are liable upon a change of wind soon left her more and more aground, and she settled firmly in the sand. In this situation she was exposed to a fire of musketry from a party of Cossacks of the Dun, who bad been attracted to the scene. The crew, finding it im possible to save the vessel, left her, whereupon the Cos sacks approached and set the wreck on fire. The Het man of these Cossacks produces a flag, which he affirms was taken from the Jasper. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. SOUTH-EASTERN. The directors have resolved to recommend to the pro prietors at the half-yearly meeting, ou the 30th instant, the payment of a dividend of Bs. 6d. per 301. stock, being at the rate of 21. 169. Bd. per cent. per annum. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. GREAT NORTHERN RAlLWAY, —Traffic return for the week ending Aug. 12, 1855 Corresponding week last year LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. —Traffic re turn for the week ending Aug. 19, 1855 £23,076 18 8 Corresponding week last year 22,667 15 2 CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the week ending Aug. 19, 1855 £6,512 16 10 Corresponding week last year 6,522 14 9 Deaease in 1855. GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY —Traffic re turn for the week ending Aug. 18, 1855 £6,482 11 0 I .3orresponding week het year 6,403 3 6* Increase in 185.5 £74 7 6 * Included Paisley Races last year; they take place a week later this year. THE NORTHERN COUNTIES UNION. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yes. terday at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate street, Mr. Pease in the chair. The Secretary read the report, which was adopted, and the meeting separated. SOUTH WALES. The working of the past, the least favourable half of the year, wilt, we learn, enable the directors to recom mend a dividend equal to the highest yet paid, with a large balance to carry forward. COURT CIRCULAR. PALACE OF ST. CLOUD, AUG. 22. The Queen and Prince visited the Exhibition of In dustry, in company with the Emperor of the French, this morning. Their Majesties and his Royal Highness were accompanied by the Prince of Wales and Princess Royal. After minutely inspecting the various parts of the building, her Msjesty drove to the Tuileries with the Emperor, where luncheon was prepared. At 7 o'clock the Royal party returned to St. Cloud. Last night the Queen and Prince accompanied the Emperor and Empress of the French to the Opera. FUNERAL OF THE LATE DUKE OF SOMERSET.—The mortal remains of the late Duke of Somerset were depo sitA in the vault selected by his grace, in the cemetery at Ken , al-green yesterday. The Duke of Buckingham arrived early in the past week at his shooting box, in Perthshire, where his gram is surrounded by a select circle of friends. The Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford have arrived at Tarbet House, N.B. The Marchioness (Dowager) of Londonderry has left Wynyard-park, near Stockton on Tees, for Garron Tower, her seat in the North of Ireland. The Earl and Countess of Derby have arrived at Blair Athol!, Perthshire, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Athol!, from Elsington House, Lord Etavensworth's seat in Durham. A select party is in vited to meet the noble earl. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has left town for Monington, Herefordshire. After a short stay, the right hon. baronet, accompanied by Lady Theresa Lewis, will proceed to his seat, Harpton Court, Bington, Here fordshire. The Earl and Countess of Malmesbury, who arrived at the noble earl's shooting quarters last week, from Heron Court, Hants, will remain in Scotland until the end of the ensuing month. Viscount and 'Viscountess Ingestre have arrived at Eglinton Castle on a visit to the Earl of Eglinton, from Ingestre Hall, Staffordshire. Lady Mary Wood has accompanied Sir Charles Wood in his official visit to the Channel Islands, At the date of the la,,t advicei the Duke of Newcastle was staying at General Bentinck's tent near the Fourth Division Flagst.ff on CAthcart's hill. DUCHY OF LANCASTER LANDS.—By an act of the late session, the Chancellor and Council of the Duchy of Lancaster are the better enabled to sell and purchase land in right of the duchy. 'DEFAMATION SUITS IN ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS.—An act of Parliament recently received the Royal assent by which the jurisdiction of Ecclesiastical Courts in suits for defamation is abolished. The Oriental Company's steamer Sultan arrived at Southampton yesterday. Her mails, consisting of the heavy portion of the India and China mail, were brought to England in the Alster steamer last Friday, on ac count of the Sultan breaking down between Malta and Gibraltar. M. Kossuth is staying with his family at Ventuor. The Hon. C. Langdale has withdrawn from an agri cultural society in Yorkshire in offence at Lord Lonties borough's proposal. at a late meeting of the society, of the toast, "The Archbishop and Clergy of the diocese." " I coulii not," he says, " consistently as a Catholic, assent to the sentiment implied by such distinction of thM EstabliNhed Church," It appears that M. Soul 6, the ardent American an nexionist, despairing of a successful attack upon Cuba, seeks to induce the Americans to take advantage of the disorganised state of Mexico to annex the peninsula of Yucatan. Count Crotti sent by the King of Piedmont to pay respects, in hie MajeAty's name; to our Queen, has been honoured with an audience. Her Majesty and Prince Albert made some very flattering remarks to the Count relative to the valiant conduct of the Piedmontese army in the Crimea. The mills in the United Kingdom cannot produce a ?sufficient supply of gunpowder, as no less than five car goel, manufactured in Belgium a n d H o ll an d , on account of the British Government, have recently been imported and housed at Purfleet. Mention is mad e in the last Australian advises of the death of Sir Robert Nickle, the Commander of the Forces at Melbourne. The first pocket of bops, the growth of 1855, has reached the Borough market this day, from Mr. Jas. Hartridge, of Yalding, Kent, consigned to Satter, Au4en, and Sons, and sold by them to Messrs. Wolton and Co., cf Norwich, at 10/. 10s. per cwt. THE FOREIGN LEGION.—HELIGOLAND, August 20. Her Majesty's stearn•ves , el Alban arrived here on Fri day, and embarked yesterday 150 recruits for the camp at Shorncliffe. Upwards of 100 fine young men arrived here from the north of Germany during the course of last week, and yesterday another batch (136) landed on the island and reported themselves to the commanding officer. THE MISSING HERRING BOATS.—SHIELDS, Wednesday Night.--B o th the herring boats that were missing after yesterday's gale have cast up. The Brothers came into the Tvne to-day, and the Blanche has been telegraphed from Hartlepool. THE FRENCH RATE or EXCHANGE.—The French rate of exchange exhibits considerable firmness, but, unless this favourable tendency should further increase, a large portion of any gold arrivals that may take place will probably be sent to Paris. The rate, however, is at pre sent sufficiently hi g h to ren d er i t un p ro fit a bl e t o ta k e gold for remitt ance from the B an k o f E ng l an d. Accord ing to th e A ustralian advices published yesterday, some large sup p li es may soon be expected from Melbourne, the Eagle, w hi c h was to be followe d b y o th er vessels. having sailed on the 31st of May with 175,0001., while there is likewise a prospect of augmented receipts-from Califoi rda. A Vassar, BLOWN UP BY GIINPQWDER. — Yesterday advices were received, under date Santa Martha, July the 16th. On the 11th of July the ship Velocity, Cap tain Moult, arrived from New York, with 300 barrels of gunpowder on board. Shortly after anchoring, she was found to be on fire. An attempt was made to scuttle her, but it failed ; the passengers and crew scrambled into the boats, and had hardly reached the shore, when the•veesel blew up with a terrific explosion, scattering portions of the wreck to great distances. The Piedinontese Gazette of the 20th announces that the Due de Grammont, the French Ambassa dor at Turin, wailed upon the King the day before to congraulate his Majesty on the brilliant proofs of valour given by the Piedmontese troops in the late action of the Tschernaya. LATEST N EWS. PARIS, FRIDAY MORNING. After visiting the Louvre, the Queen returned to the Tuileries, and at nine o'clock left for the Hotel de Ville. Paris was brilliantly illuminated. Her Majesty received a magnificent receptica by the population. The Queen opened the ball with the Emperor, at St. Cloud, at midnight. STOCKHOLM, AUG. 17. Accounts received from `Vasa state that some English cruisers had visited the place, and burned the magazines and vessels found there belonging to the Russian Government. The Finland papers report that the Russian loss at Sweaborg was 40 killed and 160 wounded. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY. The Moniteur says :—" The review of troops in the Champ-de-Mars to morrow (Friday), in honour of the Queen of England, will not commence until five o'clock, in consequence of the heat."—Persons having white or yellow ticket s are t o arr i ve b y th e PlaceFontenoy and enter by the Court of the Military School, and those with other coloured tickets are to enter by the gate of the Avenue of Suifren. No person will be admitted after half past four. The Moniteur publishes a decree ordering that from the present time the accounts of such Com munal Primary teachers as have money deposited in the departmental Savings' Banks shall be closed, and the said sums transferred, at the option of the depositor, either in the Caisse des Depots et Con signations or in the Caisse des Retraites for the aged. A letter from Marseilles of. the 20th says : "The steamer Clyde, from Syria, has just landed here six Arabian horses intended for the Emperor, which have been brought by M. de Bourgoing. These horses unite great purity of breed with a size very unusual in Oriental horses." The Andromaque frigate and the Duguesclin line-of-battle-ship left Toulon on the 21st with troops and military stores for the Crimea. A letter from Cairo, of the sth, in the Gazette du Midi, says :—" The Viceroy is now at Alexan dria. His expedition to Upper Egypt has had but little effect upon the Bedouins. There have been some skirmishes, and in an affair of this nature the Viceroy lost 40 men ; others affirm a much larger number. The rebels are said to have taken six guns from the regular troops. What has induced Said Pacha to return is the weak state of his health. He is going to. send, they say, three squadrons of horse artill er y aga i ns t th e re b e l s, an d he has already despatched 100 well-armed cawas, or municipal agents, to Upper Egypt, where his troops have been left to maintain public order and security. To-morrow the Khalige, or great canal around the city, is to be opened with great soleinnity. The cholera has disappeared, at least as an epidemic, and the sanitary state of Cairo is satisfactory." A despatch from General La Marmora states that the number of killed and wounded in the Sar dinian contingent, at the battle of Tchernaya, amounted to 600. The Constitutionmel gives the following as cor rect details of the Russian and Turkish forces in Asia at the end of July : " General Mouravieff commands for the siege of Kars thirty-two battalions of infantry. one of chasseurs, one of engineers, three regiments of dragoons, two of regu lar Cossacks, some Bashi-Rizouks from Chirvan, and some Armenian militia, with SO pieces of cannon. This army may be computed at from 35,000 to 40,000 men. It is divided round Kars into four divisions, and is independent of the diviiion which occupies Sobanli- Daghaud. The Turkish army is divided into two corps d'arai6e, under the command of the Muchi Vassif The Ist corps, .that of Kars, is formed of four divisions —viz., that of General Kmetty (Ismail Pacha) 4,500 strong, that of Ismail Bey, consisting of 3,000 men, a division of 4,000 men, and another of 3,500, in all about 15,000 men. The 2.1 corps d'arm6e, commanded by Mehemet Pacha, Governor-General of Erzeroum, is formed of three divisions ; that of Erzeroum, consisting of 1,500 irregular tr•iops, commanded by Takir Pacha ; that of Kupru Keni, composed of 10,000 irregular troops, under the command of Veli Pacha ; and that of Alti of 3,000 irregulars, commanded by Ali Pacha. This also makes a total of about 15,000 men. The Turks thus have at these two points troops inferior in numbers to the RusAans," The Constitutionnel contains a telegraphic de spatch from Warsaw, of the 20th, which says : " Ten thousand men of the Imperial militia, who were under orders from Ripeff for Poland, have received counter-orders, and will remain in Lithu ania." The fete Napoleon was celebrated with the usual ceremonies at Munich by the French Ambassador. High mass was performed and a Te Deum sung in the parochial church of the Embassy. Among the persons present were some old officers of the Bava rian army, wearing the Legion of Honour, which they had gained in fighting the battles of the Em pire. BO URSE, AUG. 23 . —CLOSING PRICES. Cash. fr. e. End of Month. 4i per Cents 9l 75 94f. 75c. .3 per Cents 66 50 .66 60 Credit Mobilier 1195 Roman Credit Foncier - Austrian Belgian Fives — - Spanish Threes — eiedmontese B5 Home Debt 3oa RAILWAYS—FOB CASH. fr. c. fr. C. Orleans Western Bl7 50 Rouen Cette 722 50 Strasburg Mediterranean 1302 Havre 7OO Northern - • PRUSSIA. The Universal German Gazette says, under date of Berlin, 20th :—" It is asserted that Prussia will serve as the intermediate party in the negotiations relative to the 4th 'Ant, relating to the freedom of the Christians in Turkey. It is said that the Porte itself has requested it. It is also said that the visit of Prince Frederick of Netherlands to the Swedish Court has political motives. The Prince arrived from St. Petersburg, and went on to Chrisliania, after having stopped only one day at Berlin. It seems that his main object is to induce Sweden to keep neutral." GERMANY. - - The commission of the Second Wurtemberg Chamber, charged with the - examination of a pro position from one of its members, demanding a re form in the political organisation of Germany, has made a favourable report by a majority of six to one. The following proposition was framed, which was to be brought forward for discussion on the 20th August : " To pray the Government to endeavour con stantly, and by all the means in its power, to bring about a reform in the political and legal organisa tion of Germany as regards the unity of Germany, and of the active participation of the Confedera tion in the government of its general affairs." But before the above date came round, the Moniteur of Wurtemberg published the following decree : "William, by the grace of God, King of Wurtemberg —As a portion of the question submitted to the delibe rations of the present Diet have been disposed of, but as we cannot wait for a large portion of the others, seeing the direction which the debates of the Chamber of De puties have taken during the last session—evidently not produeinv results such as we could desire in the well known interests of the country, we have, on the advice of our pri v y counc i l, decreed as follows :-Ist, the pre sent Diet is dissolved. 2d, with the promulgation of the present ordonnance the two chambers will cease their functions, but they will elect a permanent com mittee, for whi c h purpose they will hold another sitting, in which tke two chambers will be united. 3d, con formably with Art. 186 of the constitution, new elections will be proceeded to, for which purpose the necessary ordonnances will be published in due course. " Given at Friederiehshaftn, this 17th of August, " WILLIAM." SOUTH AMERICA. PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY NIGHT. The Vixen arrived this afternoon from Rio ,in 37 days, and 15 from Cape de Verds. She spoke the following vessels on her voyage home :—On the Ist of August, the Nimrod, lat. 3 24, long. 5, from London, bound to Sydney with emigrants • o n the sth, th e P a l myra, lat. 11 40, long. 24 16, from the Cape of Good Hope, for London, with invalids ; on the 7th, the Porter, arrived at St. Vincent's ; on the 20th, the Burr na h, l a t. 42 37, long. 11 47 ; on the 21st, the Kate, lat: 45 6, long. 9 ; on the 22d, the Alma, lat. 47 57, long. 7 15. The following ships were at Rio when the Vixen left :—The Indefatigable (flag), Madagascar, Rifle man, Spy, Express. The Sharpshooter sailed two days previous for the River Plate. The French admiral wap; at Rio in the frigate Poursuivante, with the friaate Thisbe. LITEIcATURE. The _History of Europe ; from the Fall of Napoleon to the Accession of Louis Napoleon. Vol. IV. By Sir Archibald Alison, Bart. Blackwood. The extraordinary undertaking upon which Sir Archibald Alison adventured, almost simultane ously with the first announcement of this addition to his great history is, even now hastening to wards its completion with a rapidity for which those most intimately acquainted with his 'facile hand, and fluent style, and indomitable persever ance could scarcely have been prepared. Already two-thirds of the " Continuation to the original work, descriptive of Europe, from the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, to the last great battle in the " war of giants," variously known among the victors and the vanquished as that of Waterloo or of Mont St. Jean, are at this moment in our possession. Four out of the six promised volumes, delineative of the events which trans pired in the comparatively tranquil but still sin gularly momentous interval of thirty-seven years, extending from 1815 to 1852 ; from the downfall of the Great Napoleon to the accession of his Im perial successor, have already made their appear ance. The fourteen volumes of the finest (the library) edition of " Alison's History of Europe," have multiplied to eighteen upon our bookshelves. At this rate of advance on the part of our annalist, the score must very speedily be ranged together in that familiar and frequented portion of our trea sury of literature. Sixty-three years, such as the world has no record of, humanly speaking, com parable in their mighty influences upon the destinies of the race of man, and upon the growth of his wondrous scheme of civilisation, will then have been portrayed by one master hand through the medium of one homogeneous composi tion. The mere labour required to this end from our author, in the way of preliminary research is of itself somewhat bewildering in the mere contem plation. A cursory glance at the catalogue of the principal works referred to by him in the original enterprise will illustrate the fact here implied with sufficient distinctness. That catalogue—prefixed to the initial volume of every recent edition of the " History of Europe"—numbers within itself, as will doubtless be remembered by the majority of observant readers, a library of no inconsiderable di mensions—a voluminous mass of memoirs, diaries, letters, and autobiographies, to say nothing of state papers, public journals, political pamphlets, parliamentary shorthand reports, official corres pondence, and diplomatic despatches altogether beyond the limits of ordinary calculation. Sir Ar chibald Alison, it must not be forgotten by those who would estimate aright the value of his literary enterprise, had to r ad these, to study them piece meal, to weigh one authority against another, to eliminate from the chaos of evidence whatever was simply supposititious or purely hypothetical, and then, after all this enormous trial by way of prepa ratien, to draw out a distinct thread of narrative (if any metaphor so seemingly affected, but in reality so literally truthful in its elucidation, may be allowed) to draw out, we say, a distinct thread of narrative from the tangled mass of crud. facts, dates, and memorabilia accumulated by his re searches, as the fibrous flax is collected upon the shaft of the revolving spindle. That thread of the wonderful narrative has not only been evolved by him from the original jumble of the raw materials required in its fabrication, but it has, in the fabric of this " strange, eventful history," been woven afterwards through weft and woof, in a rhetorical broidery of singular and exquisite elaboration. The opening of each additional volume is like the un folding of a new division of some extended tapestry. The latest portion of these grand historical "hang ings" of the Walhalla spread before us for our contemplation, discloses to view the varying spec tacle presented by the chief nations of Europe be tween 1822 and 1832—a decade fraught with so many momentous consequences. It describes, for example, among other things the deplorable condi tion of Ireland during the earlier agitations, caused on one side by the Orange lodges and on the other by the Secret Societies, such as those of the Rib bonmen, up to 1825, the year of the monetary crisis, and ultimately to the March of 1829, the ever-memorable date of Catholic Emancipation. It delineates, again, England as she appeared in her domestic history from the last-mentioned period —that of Catholic Emancipation—down to the fall of the Wellington Administration in 1830, and subsequently to the passing of the famous Reform Bill in 1832. While in reference to France the annals of the period extend from the accession of Louis Philippe, in the July of 1830, to the abolition of the hei•editary peerage in the September of 1831; the other great continental occurrences including in their number the overthrow of the kingdom of the Netherlands, and the rise and fall of the Polish Revolution. The daring of the enterprise adven tured upon by Sir Archibald, when he resolved upon continuing the History of Europe, from the Battle of Waterloo, down to a time almost mediately contemporaneous, has become, we fancy, in the present volume, even to the least divining, signally apparent. In the twenty-third chapter, for example, we find our annalist beginning with page 280, and ending with page 293, each inclu sively, taking into consideration one by one the characters of the chief statesmen of his time, sketch ing off, in this manner, with a few master touches, the distinguishing features of the late Earl Grey, of Lord Bronghain, of Lord Melbourne, of Lord John Russell, and of Sir James Graham—as in other portions of this same volume we find Psi pencilling the salient point s i n th e gen i us an d cha racters of such men as Robert Peel, George • Can ning, Daniel O'Connell, and William Huskisson. However much Sir Archibald may endeavour to write at these times from the serene altitude of his torical impartiality, he cannot for the life of him help blurting out that vitriolic partisanship which has constituted so long the principal cautery in the political correctives of Maga ! It is evidently with a kind of exalting gusto that he transcribes the diatribe indulged in by Miss Harriet Martineau, when that free-thinking bas bleu undertakes to re prehend, in a kindred strain of high-flown scurrility, what she calls " the atrocity of the language" indulged in by the late liberator. We are glad to observe our author, when he is speaking of Lord Brougham, not only cAnbatting an absurd popular delusion in his regard, when he says of the great law-lord ."it is a mistake to imagine that he proved a failure on the bench," but paying to his genius and his career that full meed of panegyric which will he his indubitably in the hereafter. It is amusing, by the way, after we have scanned the few sentences of feeble commen dation vouchsafed to Lord • John Russell by our honest, plain-spoken Tory annalist, to maditate for an instant over the position perversely assume' by the noble lord since this estimate of his character was written by Sir Archibald —and then to remsm her the almost miraculous exactitude with whicii that position was in a manner foreseen by a writer of fiction several long years ago, we mean by the late W. H. Maxwell, who, in his "Stories of Waterloo," thus unconsciously sketched out the career of Lord John Russell, when he spoke in t h ese wor ds of his imateinary Earl of Eustoeby, " For many years the Earl had held a leading situa tion in the Cabinet ; but owing to causes not rele vant to this story, he had failed in a diplomatic mission, fallen into disgrace, and been obliged to retire, from office." See the tale of " S.irsfiehi" in the "Stories of Waterloo," vol. 1, p. 62. A sen tence that, we take it, to the very T, descriptive of the position arrived at very recently by Lord John Russell. Not thus prophetic in regard to Lord John are the words of the historian of Europe, who kap of him, mal h,propos enough, "In one respect his conduct has always been worthy of the very highest admiration— lie never shirks responsibility"—saying this, observe, on the very eve of that return from Vienna, where the responsibility, ex .lusively in curred by himself, of recommending the Cabinet to accede to the terms proposed by Austiia, was shirked altogether by the noble lord in that speech which cannot very easily be either forgiven or forgotten, in which, by a daring reticence, he shamefully concealed the truth from the knowledge of the Imperial Parliament. Returning to the consi deration of the work before us, however, it will be enough for us to add that it constitutes an accurate record of the more memorable facts which trans pired in Europe, principally as already intimated in England, and France, and Poland, and the Netherlands, during ten of the nearly forty years' peace which succeeded the last deadly European struggle on the plains of Waterloo. As a scrupulous record of facts, indeed,fwe have all along conceiv e d Sir Archibald's great work to be as solidly reliable as we cannot but regard it to be directly the re verse—namely, both fallacious and illusory —in the vast majority of its political deductions. He de duces as a partisan, but he recounts as an annalist. And surely we may concede to him the right to his own opinions, if only in gratitude for his profound researches—researches enabling him, as the Genius o f Fact, to emulate (with an especial emphasis on the participle —an emphasis readily appreciable on a glance at the eighteen large octavo volumes al ready contributed by Alison to our national store of historic literature)—enabling him, we say, to emulate the Genius of Fancy, as described by the poet— " Pouring from the pictured urn, Thoughts that breaths, and words that burn. " The Principles and Practice of the Water Cure, and Household Medical SciPnce ; in Conversa tions, &c. By James Wilson, M.D. Second Edition. John Churchill. . • It would have surprised us had these remarkable Conversations on Physiology and Pathology not . ,partrar.4.. , ` big attained the honours of a second editio ns " - book" though the work is comically confessed 1" c b h e a , t tl w ir ,h o i u e g h h t t a lr es p p le l a a s c a e n i t ie m tw e e d e i n um ti o le f that profs and•bis alter ego, his patient, his lay figure' to Fadlatleeu. Those honours of a second editisnea°o already—as we anticipated would prove to h vilt d case very speedily—stamped these seven 11;a u and odd pages of scientific exposition as T wig "timbre" of a recognised popularity. ,01, of this success may be readily enough exP' s _, big Our author has spoken out of the fullness of own belief and out of the amplitude of his 1 : i . 13 ! 1 0 and estimable knowledge. It would be a gr7 t misapprehension to suppose for an instant tne„rit, reader of this singular volume has nothing I , ° _, to during the course of its perusal, but to listef ib , the crotchets of some practitioner inspiredtbre.,lo out by one all-absorbing enthusiasm --a suPitirio and dominant faith in the efficiency of a tav ° ,, gs ill scheme of treatment, one of those univert. te e applicable systems taking the place in these la to days of the old-fashioned nostrums vended wily squeak of the Jack Pudding's penny trumPebo, the wandering quack-salver, half-physieis e ' is tl at mountebank. The production under n etiee 4 t he merely explanatory, as its title intimates , principles and practice of the " Water Cure a fter something more than that ; it is elucidate r Y i lajoi the most delightful manner imaginable'd ais y i riti lofty truths in regard to our animal econet co ne which every thinking man ought in reason to 'oil in some degree, familiarised. Dr. Wilson sP e . ht to us, no doubt authoritatively, as he bas the ri!de,io do, upon a suLject he is known far and wi , have so completely mastered in capaeitY a . 13Dtt of the most eminent of living Hydropathists: thee beyond this, he discourses to us also throng° t i nt s extraordinarily lucid, and yet i-O , at the satintelt no less extraordinarily elaborated, conre rs . 4 with the wisdom of one whose judgment . I „i n gist grounded in the philosophy of the phYt tn te l and of the pathologist, with one whose rese tt ifss have sounded most of the depths of borne s s tr ati)! inga in an anxious scrutiny after the sin l l 3lB . o o discoverable among the i n t r i ca te raYbte', Did - therapeutics. "Le style c'est l'homrc e ' Buffon. And estimating D r . Wils°ssl4 ' lB cyncracy by that p a rti cu l ar stantla t o f l should assuredly accord to him the we t ; o f 1 11 really marvellous precision of logic, and 410 1 " equally surprising faculty for clearness of Or r pr tion. In the unfolding of hi s physiologica l ° lief)! thological knowledge to his hyp o thetical Px/Ip 0 lit there is no reservation whatsoev er . Ile i! „ e l 6 l, to a degree. In his hands the di sse cting xm t n ag' bare every fibre of his subject. M o reover, 1 nok be said he popularises the recondite w hile eigr n er ing to the unscientific hearer th e w onders e„ a ter tomical structure, and of phy s i o l o gical ° l. a - e ffer tion, and of pathological development, 1 9 bitli t tually as ever the abstruse was populariseu : Ail l philosophic philanthropist. F o rm er ly the 5 ,,, 16 . 1 of medicine used to imagine, o b v i o uslY, vulgar could alone be effectually awed :nt ° in t) mage for their abilities by an indulgeo ce v oll incomprehensible jargon, such as might leitiodli sense as to the extent of ieir learning unre B° ,; to the conjectures of the popular imaginati e ai 9 cording to their notion, as with men, ° s e' things—ornate ignotum pro magnifico. 11°,„wie the a wiser spirit is happily ab roa d—now' ww, v la 11 : 1 masses are drinking in exoteric dr a ughts ' 3 ' l o' soppy, upon chemistry throu g h th e interpos l Liebig, upon optics through that of Brewste r : r e electricity through Faraday, upon corn anatomy through Owen, upon astrononit i t i ,,,iar Hind, upon g ology through M urc hison. I 'sol of the schools have not disdained to despoil t OO the porch into the market-pl ace , th e re te s n t°. th e abroad tlmPelementary stores o f k no wledge, re d ' appreciiiion almost, we bad said, of the nu le l o t . . 116 Dr. Wilsd7ir has here in his turn so spok e "hew apprehension okthe masses up on th ose great w ten ell; of physiology and pathology which are of 6 ° n era preme and, literally, vital import to the 1,v%, multitinle. Dividing his wor k i n t o s ix wel t iM, sive sections, he has impa r t e d t o hi s r each t li nt sense sense of the mechanism and e functions of th e , frame, of the nature and origin of its vari et l o , dies, and finally, of course, of the infidee , 4 8 0 11 , i cised upon th o s e v ar i ous ma l a di es by the T R ide,! f water-cure processt s. Setti ng a lt o gether - hsol'l we will, the final or sixth section of 0 1 0 01 namely, that relating to the sy s t em atic aPP , o f, ) Land practical details of Hydropathy, we, pre' we so list, derive from the five sectionatiale6, ceding it, ayfund of information, the abstra ct t ol4 of which its Would he som e wh a t difficult, nl o lol l ' absolutely idle r to attempt t o es timate, ta le se , by any scheme of comparison whatsoever goo' tion, or Part, I.—consisting of certain in 0 0 04 . tory conversstions bet ween " Patient" 80,4 :a t r," the interlocuto rs throughout,• prePa h - hel" way for those more important themes whi t tic il i' to he taken, one by one , f o r a f ter cons iuv After impressing u p on us th e t r ot" h" o f t r prOfeSgif nil subjects are f requen tl y worthi. 4 attention of unprofessional p eo pl e , it enlarg!; i tu" the duty of our acquiring, each and all alu e lte a knowledge of the human constitution 01 0 0 13 '. lations to external nature. It reminds us te riot?' sources ofAisease are neither occult nor nlY s ut, on the contrary open and palpable' n iitO n ,, closes to view by a suffi c i en tly i m pressive n tike the baneful consequences of ignorance 11 . ni r - 0 01 subjects of organisation, health, disease, l ' o uh regimen, diet, air, and exercise. I t dese d il i otelr fine, upon the in- 'pendent, impartial, s li t pll e h r o able operation of the laws of nature, moi l ' t o cal, ae-d physiological. Section 11. relawi n srill grand themes of life and organisation , r by a variety of ramifications through all "l e pP e t p o of Physio'ogv. Section 111. consists of i k t i o a exposition of the scientific details of Not ri :6 o Pr y! Digestion. Section IV. unfolds the scient l 01 4 0 ciples of Diet and Regimen. Section Ire e # , l { o o 3 ll the general grin ples of Pathology; andSe e ' ro co7,. as already related, those of the Water-Care_PsOstif in their manifold application. Among th e btetib the tinned are, of course, included the shallow,alir.,ol sitz bath, the douche bath, the plunge - t he " w swimming bath, the sweating processes/ 0 00;r sheet peeking, the wet sheet rubbing, th,e,: e 0 11 ,7 ‹ , tions, hot and warm, and the water driEw n w iee e r , - 1. water cure treatment. Finally, a s an 00.4 we have presented to us a number of ca, s 7etf, s e ing evidence of the efficiency anu, s , n tea, n l the Water Cure, ev id ence autheo` l 4l/ I " f 4 having been accumulated under • Dr. 0 0 0 1 4. own individual obser va ti on . It is ii , e/ to find enumerat e d among this donee cases of gout, rheumatism,blonr . .„ s ' f t d w pep s . a, nervous indi ges ti on , t'e" jerp4 bronchitis, .neuralgia, a p op l exy , sciatica t ' er y, the cons estion, debility, chronic 08 0 , 10 0 0• chronic inflam ma ti on ! W e g l a nce : a neel be e 0- long and - v• ried catalogue in dumb 51 '01 0.0 We think of Hysseia turning out atte r a - t sel l ole Naiad, and 2Esculapitis a River God• " - 040°* - 0 3% for a while, as over a fitting subject f o ra g r oisg io l it gorical cartoon, upon the memory esb 0 11i 1 'll fl throwing cold wa t er upon th e ill s that - d A Od io to. Anti then we revert with increaserstiort-osi increasing pleasure to the earlier cu nsre , v itl 3° * ite r the volume, those in which Dr. Wilson' g v . oli e f or admirable lucidity, displays before 11 ,101 another, the mar vele, Loth structure', t oo ° f of tit nal, presented to us by the contege:oideet.ro' human body when viewed under th A e ftbe . t j- tirr so skilled and gifted a physiologist. • 'of. mien, t ° scope discloses to view the wonder s hie ` - s oieu," imagined creation, so does this renla,E% - g . 01300u those readers who ahr, strictly speak in ;t s hg eti t ° , tifie and unprofessional. We rise fl ii r ° 1 1 10_,1 - tor nation thankful for that labour wh i 'ditt l 'iltrilse ri f us a lens thrceagh which we have se r " Dr . °' L ai , A crocosm—the labour of love by Tvg..,'" 114 A, cow" has been enabled to discard from whi e n ," pee abstruse studies every condite detnoniiiib re ` he n. by possibility preclude them from h e- ra l larised under his guidance to the gelle sion. an The .Numismatic Di ct B dit ' s- P u ion; . ; lisped by Peter Whe l e b e r The want of a numismatic dictionlrehava s„ fr concise and complete, has been long fin e d as we can see Mr. Whelan has Bile e ' - ni bra Ce ' n ol plying it. The book, little as it is, e — 111 0 " t chIP formation.of every-day utility resPec ir out coins from the earliest period to Pr e THE FAX CROP IN lOLA The registrar-general constabulary to the following effect : i-I t ibliS' thec, "Sir,— er r e e n p t ort l , showing the extent of f l ire ( ' ' dfed direct t: Ireland e.ch e nu t m h i e s ra v t e o a r r i , 1 being s a th n e rs.htouiriind enclosedi the iti f eo o forms reacbej, . y cur office, you will cause on y e of the forme for P a o ei "It l i u s in r:g ra u cure th'ee flax sent to be accurately filled from the tow nieed retur each e de to P ro ; t e ° ,3 r ted that every exertion be nos d e to` and ,a they may be transmitted to me as soon as 1305 digit -icy' also the A and B returns of tillage and stock for be zoor in piled der that tq, general abstract for 1855 to, c y O. without delay, and laid before his Bsceille°ot, Lord-Lieutenant. —I am, sir, your obedient seleaerol. yous returns for wreicit ohtufhoe eausytitiotyl idu:erellunannuyvirf discairei n it e rl d t r i 14:::teaott 1 r r o i e o s h olla t t a t l 'l e l di::: 10:1 :niil'olt', ~ WILLIAM DONNELLY, Registrer,iotle. " Constabulary Office, Dublin v f orb gc , Th e immediate attention of sub-inspectorsfro°o the stabulary is directed ti this communication regiararl en eral. , Go 1141. "' D 111‘GREcoR, Inopecbor P " To the Sub-Inspector of C ani ta• bulary at -."