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AS. raixch AGAINST LOSS OF 'LIFE BY RAMP' iT TRAYELLING. _ _ • /SIETROPOf.TFA: -. 14 COUNTIES and GENERAL LIFE' ASSERA..NCE 27, REGENT-STREET, WATERLOO-PLACE, L')N. INCORPORATED PILOISUANT 'ACT OF PARLIAMENT. At the, pros 'nt day, wren Railway tra :ening has became almost universal, protection ag:iins. the pecuniary loss.to which the families of sufferers fre.n tittaccidents inc'dental to it are exposed, is one of the requirements ()Trite age. To meet this general feeling, this Society affords to all persons, of whatever class, travelling by Railway in Great Britain and Ireland, the opportunityof insuring against loss of life by accident whilst so travelling, at the moderate premium of Ms. per cent., in one single payment, for tho whole period of life, thereby rendering unnecessary the payment of Annual Premiums, as in ordinary Life Assurance. ExAxtrLE.—A per Son may by one single payment of 51. assure to his family or others the sum of 1,0001., to be paid in the event of his °slag his life by railway travelling in Great Britain or Ireland. F. FERCIU.SON CA.MR9 UX, Manager. Prospectuses and Forms of Proposal, and all information may be obtained personally, or on application by letter, addressed to the Manager, at the Offices of the Society, No. 27, Regent-street, Water len-place, London, or of any Of the Local Agents. N ATIONAL MERCANTILE FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY, POULTRY, MANSION-lIOUgE, LONDON. - Capital—Quarter of a Million. TB.U3TEES. Orlando Crease, Esq. Coorge Moore, Esq. James Peek, Esq. Peter Bolt, Esq. DIRECTORS. DATID WADDINGTON, Esq., M.P., Chairman. ROBERT W,ILCOXON, Esq., Deputy Chairman. Charles James Jones, Esq. (William and Thomas Jones and Co.) William Lawson, Esq. (Trower, Lawson, and Trower.) John Mair, Esq. (John Mair, Son, and Co.) James Peek, Esq. (Peek, Brothers, and Co.) Giles Redmayne, Esq., New Bond-street. Hananiah Teape, Esq. (Wiggins, Teape, and Loder.) BAlMERS—Diessrs. Glynn, Halifax, Mills, and Co. - SEourrsity—Jenkin Jones, F.I.A. _ This Society is established for the general Insurance of . Buildings, Furniture, Merchanlize, Stock in Trade, and ether descriptions of Personal' Property, against loss or damage by Fire, and oars to the public thelollowing advantages :- 1. A subscribed capital, amounting to a quarter of a million s'er ling, securing to the insured an ample fund for the payment of losses, and no responsibility of partnership. 2. Rates as low as is consistent with safety. . _ . 3. Each case submitted to this Office will be taken at a Premium, ac awding to its risk, without reference to tariffs which are binding en othersecieties. 4. Policies of seven years are allowed an abatement of one year's premium and duty-. 5. Policies for a shorter period than twelve months can be effected '.)n more favourable terms to the insured than in any other office. I;. irourances are gianted for loss of rent during the period of re instatement of damage by fire ; and a reasonable allowance will be matte for the removal of goods in time of danger. 7. claims, when admitted by this Society, are immediately dls cha,:-..ed. without deduction or discount. _ _ 3. All the permanent and solid advantages conferred by Companies a similar character are secured by this Society. JENKIN JONES, F.1.A., Secretary. G UARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSUR• ANCE COMPANY. No. 11, LOMISAItD-STREET, at the Entrance of the Old Post- offlCe, London. DIRECTORS. JOHN DIXON, Esq., Chairman. JOHN MARTIN, Esq., M.P., Deputy-Chairman. Henry Hulse Berens, Esq. Lewis Loyd, jun., Esq. rancis Hart Dyke, Esq. George Lyall, Esq. Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. StewartMarjoribanks, Esq. Thomson Hankey,jtm., Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq. 'John Harvey, Esq. • James Morris, Esq. John G. Hubbard, Esq. Henry Norman, Esq. George Johnstone, Es.q. John Labonchere, Esq. John Loch, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, jun., Esq. John Thornton, Esq. James Tulloch, Esq. TORS. Samuel Jones Loyd, Esq. Thornton, Esq. Davies, Esq., F.R.S. A. W. Hobart', Esq. Henry Sykes ACTUARY—Griffith In the LIFE• DEPARTMENT, Assurances may be effected at low Rates without participation In the Profits ; or at moderate Rates with participation in one moiety of the Profits every seven years. At each of the three Septennial Divisions which this Company has made, the Bonuses amounted to about 1 per cent. per annum on the sum assured, or about 27 per cent. on the amount of premium received ; and the whole amount of Reversionary Bonus allotted by the Com pany exceeded 530,000/. LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their values, pro vided such Policies shall have been effected a sufficient time to have attained in each case a value not under 50/. In the FIRE DEPARTMENT, a Return of profit was declared on the 7th of June, upon the premiums received on all Policies which had been in force seven years at Christmas 1847, and the same is now in course of payment daily (Friday and Saturday excepted), between the hours of ten and three o'clock, at the Head Office; and also by the Agents in the Country Districts. Notice is hereby given, that Assurances which expire at Christ mas must be renewed within fifteen days, at this office, or with Mr. Sams, No. I, St. James's-street, corner of Pall-mall ; or with he Company's Agents throughout the kingdom, otherwise they become void. GEORGE KEYS. Secretary, T HE ROYAL GENERAL ANNUITY SOCIETY Founded 1827. Supported by Voluntary Contributions. PATRON—The QUEEN. The ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL in aid of the Funds will be holden at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, on WEDNESDAY, February 14, 1849, The Most Noble the Marquis of SALISBURY, K•G., Lord-Lieutenant of Middlesex, in the Chair. A General Meeting df the Subscribers win be holden at the Lon don Tavern, on MONDAY, Jan. 29, 1849, for the Election of Six An nuitants on the Funds, from a List of 61 most deserving Candidates. ABRAHAM GEORGE ROBARTS, Esq., in the Chair. Donations and Subscriptions thankfully received at the Bank of England, to the account of James Bidden, and others, and at the Offices of the Institution, where Lists of the Subscribers, Forms of Recommendation, and every information may be obtained between the hours of Ten and Five daily. STEPHEN J. ALDRICH, Secreirry. Society's Offices, 111 A, •Basinghall-street, Dec. 30, 1848. COUNTY FIRE OFFICE, 2, ROYAL EXCHANGE-BUILDINGS. Established 1807. The Directors beg to give notice, that the Christmas rene'rals are now lying at the East-end Office, as above, where every facility will be afforded to parties desirous of effecting insurances. HENRY BEAUMONT, Secretary. RENLEY and LONDON WATER WORKS and NAVIGATION. A PAMPHLET, explanatory of this project, may be obtained by any persons who feel an interest in the matter on application at Messrs. Burchell and Co., 47, Parliament-street, Westminster. London, Dec. 30, 1848. YORK, NEWCASTLE, and BERWICK RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance of a Resolution of the Board of Directors, the Proprietors of "Extensions No. 1," (late York and Newcastie Extensions,) and " Extensions No. 2," (late Newcsstle and Berwick New) Shares in this Company, are requested to PAY a FURTHER INSTALMENT of 51. per Share (making 201. per Share paid), on TUESDAY, the 16th day of January next, at any of the undermentioned Banks : London.... ....Sir R. Glyn and Co. York ... .. The Union Bank. Edinburgh 1 The City of Glasgow Bank. Glasgow j Interest at the rate of 5/. per Cent. per Annum will be charged on all Calls unpaid after the 16:h day of January. GEORGE HUDSON, Chairman. ROBERT DAVIES, Deputy-Chairman. By order, York, December 20, 1818. JOHN CLOSE, Secretary. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. THE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, REGENT-STREET. A Lecture on the Popular Subject of the Electric Light, by Dr. Eachhoffner on Tuesday, Thursday, :W. Saturday Evenings.—Po pillar Lectures on Chemistry, with brilliant Experiments, by Dr. Ryan, daily, and en the Evenings of Monday, Wednesday, and Fri day.—Pitst Exhibition of an entirely new Series of Dissolving Views 11 Mexico and Switzerland, with historical descriptions.—Childe's Phantasmagoria, with very curious new effects, Mornings and Eve nings. —Microscope at One o'clock daily.—New Chromatrope.— Diver and Diving-bell.—Working Models explained.—Musio di rected by Dr. Wallis. _ . Open - daily from Eleven to Five , and in the Evenings (including Saturday) from Seven till Half-past Ten. . . A Amiislon ,i/alf-price.—The New Catalogue, Is. FORTY-EIGHT and FORTY-NINE. Another most eventful year Has ended its disturbed career. Time's clock has struck —the act is o'er, And Forty-eight is now no more. Scarce had the dawn of Forty-eight Been signalled by the dial-plate, When round all Europe, like a cloud, Dread elements were seen to crowd, Not only did our own blest isle Lose, for a time, its peaceful smile ; Not only did the Briton hear, The fearful note of " danger sear ;" But every throne was seen to rock Beneath the social earthquake's shock. The mighty nation of the Gaul (A scene more terrible than all), Beheld a king forsake his throne, And seek a country not his own. Ahl hapless France ! thy land hath been A terrible—a fearful scene ! Adown thy streets where armed Men rode, Thy people's blood hath freely flowed; While nearly all the civil world In dread confusion has been hurled. Few years have seen events so great, So marvellous as Forty-eight ; But happily we still retain Victoria's unmolested reign. Though civil broils awhile were heard, Our realm is now no longer stirred. Peace is restored—Britannia smiles, And order reigns throughout the isles. Commerce and trade once more revive, And promise speedily to thrive. MOSES and SON rejoice to say That stilt their Mart retains its sway ; While palaces and thrones decayed, They Still were monarchs of the trade. MOSES and SON, amid the stir, Are (inner than they ever were; And like Victoria, they can say, They grow in confldenee each day. Nor have they ever had to fear The changes of the bygone year. MOSES and SON, in Forty-eight, Have met with favours more than great ; And multitudes have lent their aid In every branch of MOSES' trade. They feel their gratitude is due For trading favours ever new. - And action—better far than word— Shall liquidate the debt incurred. MOSES and SON, the coming year, In brighter colours will appear ; While all their energies combine In signalising For ty •nine. Their efforts to exceed the past, Throughout the ensuing year shall last. They could a trading ;ale disclose Surpassing far what you suppose. The capital at their command Shall place them on a higher stand; A thousand benefits shall show Thanks for the favours you bestow. MOSES and SON will prove to you What trading enterprise can do. While quality and price combine To claim your aid for Forty-nine. In all the garments you may wear, • Improvements shall be brought to bear. MOSES and SON would thus defray The debt which they have now to pay ; And doubtless in the ensuing year All efforts will be mutual here. While MOSES thus would study you, Your daily favours you'll renew. MOSES and SON request your aid, And trust you'll patronise their trade. ; Co nsult yourselves," they sa y, " an d come For garments at a moderate sum. Think what You've gaited in years gone by, And grant a favouring reply. You never found th em once contemn The trust which you reposed in them ; And when the present Reason ends, Still, still will MOSES' prove your friends. And coming to a climax hero, They wish their patrons, far and near, A happy and a prosperous ye ar. . E. MOSES and S9N, Tailors, Wooliondrapers, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters, for 34, LadiesBs, and 86 and GenAldg atetlemen, , ICis4ty, , 155 London. and 15 7 Min er i es, and 82, Observe.—Any article purchased, ready made, or made to mea sure, if not approved of, will be exchanged, or if preferred, the money returned. reg ret being obliged to guard the public against impostors, but have ' learned that the untrad e " ai , like falsehood of being connected with them, or it's the same concert, has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasenh. They have no connexion with any other house in or out of London ; and these who desire genuine and cheal, clothing, &e., should call at, or send to, Miseries and Aldgate, City, London. Notic4.—No bacineg; transacted at this establinhment from sun set Friday, till sunset Saturday, when buslnes Is resumed till twelve o'clock. No. 173556.] LONDON, PUBLICATIONS. TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, No. CLXXXI., for JANUARY, 1649, Price One Shilling, CONTAINS: English and Dutch in the Indian Archipelago..—Scottish Rivers. The Dee.—Miranda: a Tale of tke French Revolution. — Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell.—Literary and Scientific Society of Edinburgh, 1818-49.—Poetry.—New Year's Books.—Li terary Itegister.—Mr. Cobden's Budget, &c., &c. Sutherland and Knox, Edinburgh; Simpkin, Marshoil, and Co., London. NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. Just published, No. IL, price ls., of, T - . 14.11-1 E KING'S MVSK E R, an HISTORICAL ROMANCE of the HUGUENOTS, and the TIMES of the BARTHOLOMEW MASSACRE. With Por traits and Illustrations. By PERCY B. ST. JOHN. To be completed in-Twelve Numbers. London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. Edinburgh: Sutherland and Knox. THE REV. ROBERT MONTGOMERY, M.A.. 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This Edition of the Work has been most favourably noticed in the metropolitan journals. For Reviews, see Times, Nov. 30th, 19484 Morning Herald, Nov. 30th Morifing — POsf," Nov: 30th; ; Morning Chronicle, Dec. Ist ; Sun, Nov. 30th ; Morning Advertiser, Dee. 2d ; Spectator, Dec. 2d; Atlas, Dec. 2d ; Weekly Dispatch, , Dec. 3d; Globe, Dec. sth ; John Bull, Dec. 9th ; Britannia, Dec. 9th ; Hera path's Railway• Journal, Dec. 9th ; Literary Gazette, Dee. 9th. Kelly and Co. 19 and 20, Old Boswell-court, Temple-bar; and all Booksellers in Town and Country. • THIRD EDITION OF "JANE EYRE." To be had at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post Bvo., JANE EYRE: an Autobiography. By CUBRER BELL. Third Edition, with Preface by the Author. 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London : Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill Great Improvements will effected in the forthcoming issue for 1849 of The LADY'S NEWSPAPER AND PICTORIAL TIMES ; and among other striking Novelties will be given a Series of Illustrations of the CELEBRATED B 4,YEUX TAPESTRY, the only Pictorial Record of the Norman Conquest, designed and executed by the Empress Matilda. Another new fea ture will be A. BEAUTIFUL MONTHLY BOUQUET, with its Botanical Description. The Usual attractions of Fiction, Literature, the Drama, Music, Chess; Court and Fashion, the Work-table, the Fashion., Table-Talk, Parisian Correspondence, and all the Home and Foreign News, Police, accidents, Be., will be given in the amplest form. Orders should be immediately given for the com mencement of the New Volume to any Bookseller or Ne a sman, the Subscription for which is, for the Year, 265. ; for the Half year, 13s. ; for the Quarter, 6s. Gd. 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SAVORY and SONS have published a Pamphlet describing he constructions of the various Watches in use at the present time, and explaining the advantages of each, with Lists of Prices.- It is intended to give the information which should be obtained previous to tke purchase of an article, the principal characteristics of which should be accuracy and durability. It also contains remarks on the proper management of a watch by the wearer. It may be had, gratis, on application personally, o* by post. A. B. SAVORY and SONS, 9, Ccrnhill, London, opposite the Bank. rtillHE ALBERT NIGHT LIGHTS art the 3_ best. Price 6d. per Boa. Sold everywhere. Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel. )zi PHYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPA- CITY, &ND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. ';ew Edition, enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 2s. 6d., or hv nest, direct from the Establishmenf,,3s. 66. in postage stamps, 9111 lIE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on the intimates and decay of the generative system, from ex :essive indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury, with remarks on Marriage, end the means of obviating certain dis ,ualifications. Illustratcol by 26 Coloure4 Engravings. By It. and G. PERRY and CO., Consulting Surgeons, 19, Berners-street, Ox ford-street, London. Published by the Authors: s , ,ld by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row ; Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; Starie, 23, Titchborne-street, Haymarket ; and Gordon, 146, Leaden hall-street. PART I. treats 6f the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive organs, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings. PART IL treats of the consequences resulting from excessiveindul ,gence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing mental and bodily weakness, r ervous excitement, and generative Incapacity. Illustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings. PART 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for their treatment. This section is illustrated by Seventeen Coloured Engraving's. PAIT IV. contains a Prescription for the Prevention of Disease by a simple application, by which the danger of infection Is ob viated. This important part of the Work should not escape the eader's notice. Pans' V. is devoted to the consideration of marriage, and its titles. The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and ,he whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into. TimConnua. Balm or SYRIACTIM is ex finsively employed in treat ng nervous and sexual debility, impoter -3, &sc., ils. and 335. per bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Pssence, an anti-syphilitic remedy, for purifying the blood in cases o.,,nfection, secondary symp toms, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, 1 ls. anti 335. per bottle. Perry's Purifying Specific Pills, 2s. 9d., ds. 6d., and 1 is. per box, a certain remedy for gonorrhoea, gleet, stricture, and chronic inflaroma ton of the bladder. Consultation fee, if by latter, 1/. A. minute retail of the case is required : age, habits, and position in society. 5/. Packets, with advice, to be had at the Es , ablishment only, by which the fee, 'l., is saved. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, are in attec dance daily at 19, Ilen,ers-street, Oxford-stree', London, from N'e von till Two, and Five to Eight on Sundays from Eleven to One. CHRONOLOGY, 1848. JANUARY. I. Two childredstrangled by a woman, named Parker, in revenge for the misconduct of her paramour. 2. An emeute at Milan, occasioned by an attempt on the part of the Austrian Government to make the people smoke tobacco. 7. General Espartero arrived at Madrid, and found an enthusiastic reception from the people. 10. An alarming conflagration among the coffins in the vaults of St.. Saviour's Church, Southwark. 13. A revolution in Naples and Sicily. The city of Palermo bombarded by the troops of the King of Naples. 20. Christian the Eighth, King of Denmark, died at Copenhagen. 29. Ferdinand the Second, King of Naples, by pro. clamation, offers the people of Sicily, a new constitution, founded on the bases of the Frtnch charter. The S4tiliaAs refuse the offer, and require a Legislature selected from their own body. Advices from New Yolk of this date mention that Gcnoral Scott and Mr. Trist had forced a treaty of peace upon the Republic of Mexico. FEBRUARY. 3. Parliament met by adjournment from the 201 h December, 1847. 4. Harriet Parker tried and found guilty of the murder of two children, to be revenged of their father, a me chanic, named Blake. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Howley, died at Lambeth Palace. • 11. A soldier, named Henry Ducker, shot through the head, in St. James's-N.l.k, by Annette Meyer (a French girl), his sweetheart. 14. The voters of New Yarmouth reported by a Committee of the House of Commons to have been guilty of bribery in the election of Lord A. Lennox. The Committee, at the same time, recommended the dis franchisement of the Borough. 21. Harriet Parker executed in the Old Bailey for murder. —. The people of Paris thrown into a state of con sternation by the determination of M. Guizot and the Government to prevent intended reform banquets. 22. A revolution in Paris—many persons killed and wounded. The National Guards took part with the people. Guizot and the Ministers unable to keep their places absconded. 24. It was announced in the Chamber of Deputies that the King Louis Philippe had abdicated in favour of his grandson, the Count de Paris, and conferred the Regency on the Duchess of Orleans. The people and the Cham ber rejected the proposition, and appointed a Provisional Government to summon the National Convention and establish a Republican Government. 29. The Tuileries and Royal Palaces in Paris in the hands of the mob. The throne destroyed and royal pro perty to the amount of 3,000,000 f. taken from the apart ments of the Princes. I.„,fir A A E. VII One half the world are desolately single, and the other supposing them married, questionably contented. Diffidence, er a i3nse of right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes ern eltter the latter. The solitary one may shield himself under the plea of caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un consprosing harry ; but the troth lies deeper. rhysical incapacity, and broken health, are the groat hindrances to domestic happiness and social content. The dowry should net be the only marriage set tlement. Honour end justicedensand that health should form ass item in the compact; tt alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes er neglect wound more sorely than pove - ty or misfortune. Reader, if chose surmises concern you, procure Dr. CULVERWELL'S little VEMOIRS "On Single and Married Life, " rub. in 2 vols., is. each (by post, in stamps, Is. 6d. each). Let no imaginatively refined, or prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered oy misinterpretation of their supposed contents, from obtaining them. They are not intended certainly for mere idle curiosity, but 'or the closet perusal of those more deeply interested, to whom they are offered as antagonistic to the empyrical trash put forth on the above subjects, by unqualified authors, which alone or together, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other ittle publications claim your attention (same price is. each, by post Is. 6d.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and Avoid," and " How to be Happy."_ They are not merely rsmphiets, but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are they the mere ephemeral scribblings of the hour, but the study of the author's life, wise owes his present existence, health, and position to this ob servance of the maxims he would inculcate—to do unto others as he would be done unto—to live atter nature's laws—and to keep always on the " sunny side of the way." The above works may be had of iherwood, 23, Paternester-row ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet•street • Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Nelson, 457, West Strand ; or direct (by post or other wise) from the anther (who may be conferred with personally, mornings and evenings), 10, Argyll-place Regent-street; and all WYARellarß •1 OVE is the leading feeling of the human LA breast. Mere exalted than mere passion, it soars high above every other impulse of nature, and is not only stronger than avarice, but more engrossing even than ambition. No man is exempt from its influence, or can avoid its sway ; and business, pleasure, philo sophy, and divinity Itself become neglected under the enthralling power of LOVE, which, unlike most things, increases in intensity with time, until it receives the sacred consummation of marriage. When union does not take place, however, this passion, this fervour, this golden tide of the manliest feelings becomes a deadly poison in the heart, which now darkens, as it before bright ened, all things upon earth. How is it that men, of most un ctangeahle habits, still change at the very altar, and after a life time spent in the fulfilment, of every engagement, snap the very con tract asunder which should be most binding to an honourable mind? ft is the effect of conscience. The Lover, by enervation of early habits, or the results of secret disease, knows himself to be disqualified, and dares not enter a state which has been h_stituted by Divine Law for the fulfilment of important ends. The wretched condition of such a being must subsequently be beyond measure deplorable ! Loving and beloved, he entails the most miserable disappointments on the object of his choice, and upon himself a desolation the most horrible, when the simple possession of natural attributes would change the scene, and yield to both a life of unalloyed happiness. The subject is interesting, and deserves the attention of all. These desirous of investigating it will find the fullest and most satisfactory information in the little work entitled SELF-PRESERVATION. Illustrated by forty coloured engravings on the anatomy, physiology, and diseases of the reproductive organs ; with practical observa ions on the secret infirmities of youth and maturity, resulting from solitary habits, excesses, or infection. By SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D., Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, &c. This treatise is the result of a long course of study in a peculiar and much neglected branch of medical practice, and the author having ob tained the highest medical honours, is a guarantee for his profes sional experience, which has reference almost solely to the treat ment of these diseases. REPTEW OF THE WORK, La'Mert on the Infirmities of Touth > nd Maturity.—" There are scenes in the drama of life which are acted with no spectator but Conscience ; and of these the result is ever disastrous. Happy the mortal who meets with a timely mentor to snatch him from the gulf Into which such scenes must plunge him 1 In the book before u s such a monitor is to be found, calc u lated to warn and isttruct the erring, without impairing one idea that can vitiate a mind not al ready tutored by the vices of which it treats. It is written in a style of masterly precision and lucidity, blending the profoundest truths of philosophy and physics with the loftiest precepts of morality. It is a production calculated to confer a vital benefit, physically and morally, upon all who are tempted from the rigid path of abstemiousness and propriety. A father may trust it in the hands of his boy. By un taught innocence the book is not, of course, needed ; but wherever laxity has prevailed, the tender yet awful voice breathing in these pages Is likely to prove as strikingly beneficial as the admonitions of a homily blended with the practical advice of a writer on medicine." —United Kingdom Magazine. The work may be had price 2s. Gd., of Kent and Richards, 52, Paternoster-row: Hannay, 63, Orford-street; Staric, Tichborne s'reet, Haymarket ; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street : Mansell, 115, Fleet-street ; or, free by post, for forty-two stamps, from the author's residence, who may be consulted on these disorders personally, or by letter, daily, from Ten to Two, or from Five ttEight. 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON. , . , A i '.. )j ! TA 1 It; r 7 , 3 MONDAY ?g t ip . • L.l ANOTHER ENLARGEMENT. OF THE WEEKLY --- 15ISPATCH This Journal at present the largest in existence—un rivalled forits early ititelligeace and tmeompromisiag • advocacy of the Rights of Mankincrt-will be ENLARGED, On and after SUNDAY, the 7th of JANUARY, 1849, to aiIXT EEN PAGES, CONTAINING SIXTY-FOUR COLUMNS, OF THE SAME SIZE AND FORM AS AT PRESENT, WITHOUT AL• Shrove Tuesday. Ash Wednesday Easter Sunday .. Low Sunday , May 17 . „ 27 June 3 Dec. 2 71 8 14 15 21 22 28 29 .....................z............=.., ....A,- —,...._ _ . . -,--...---..,,,....,===.. Court of Madrid, arrived in Le, on from Spain, having been sent home by the Spanishlinistry. 25. Tho Bill to admit Jews; to sit in Parliament (Jewish Disabilities Bill),- , Orn out on the second reading in the House o f Lords The numbers were— For the Bill 128. A g ai ns t it,. 26. Mr. John Mitchel tried eor sedition, found guilty, and sentenced to transportationjor 14 years. 27. The Princess Sophia, d(ughter of Gigrge the. Third, died. t, -.. JUNE:;. 4. Desperate collisions betAn the p - Alec and the Chartists in Bethnal:green, Vititoria-park, and Bishop Bonner's-fields, &e. 3. 6. The remains of the Piankess Sop!iia interred in Kensall-green Cemetery. . 7. Williams, Jones, and oat* Chartist leaders were arrested, charg e d with using leditious language, ai.d committed for trial. 9. Crowds and rioters in Paris commit great excesses. Cries were uttered in favour of " Prince Louis Napoleon," and charges of cavalry made on the people. The admission of Prince Napoleon as a representative of the people voted by a large majority. 12. A theatrical disturbance in Drury-lane Theatre, occasioned by the attempt on the part of a foreigner to play French melodramas. The theatre was in the end given up to the English, and the French Theatre His torique removed to St. James's. 22.. Another insurrection in Paris. Les ouvriers finding they could not be supported in the ateliers nationaur, rose in large bodies to overthrow the republic. The National Guards and the troops opplsed them. 24. Paris declared state of siege. The Executive Council resigned. 25. The insurgents, after terrible conflicts and slaughter, were nearly subdued, and driven out of Paris. The Archbishop of Paris shot by the mob while in the act of exhorting them to avoid violence. 26. The insurrection in Paris suppressed. • 4 - , 27. A party of fugitives who had taken up a position in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise, were nearly all de stroyed by the troops. The killed and wounded during the outbreak estimated at 10,000. 28. General Cavaignac invested with the executive power, and made President of the Council of Ministers. JULY. 6. Mr. Hume's motion for Parliamentary Reform lost in the House of Commons by a majority of 269. 8. Mr. Duffy arrested in Dublin, and the Nation news paper seized. 10. E. Jones, barrister-at-law, tried at the Central Criminal Court on a charge of sedition at a Chartist meeting, and found guilty. He was sentenced to be imprisoned two years, and enter into heavy recognizances to keep the peace for five years'. The same term of im prisonment was pronounced on five other Chartists. 22. Lord John Russell brought in a Bill to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland, which was passed the same day. 24. The Bill passed the Lords. • 25. It received the Royal Assent. 27. 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Trinity Sunday, Advent Sunday July lAugust September :October .. November December AUUUST. 5. Mr. Smith O'Brien captured at Thurles, and-con veyed to Dublin for trial. 8. A resolution in favour of the Ballot carried in the House of Commons, by a majority of 5. This triumph was recorded with great exultation. 12. The jury in, the case of Mr. O'Doberty were dis charged without coming to an agreement. 16. Martin, proprietor and printer of the Felon news paper, tried for sedition, and sentenced to transportation for tell years. • 17. An awful conflagration in Albany-600 buildings burnt, &c. 24. A collision at Vienna between the workmen and military, and lives lost on both sides. By the vigorous `exertions of the authorities the disturbance was sup pressed.. The Boston packet ship " Ocean Monarch," burnt at sea, with emigrant's for America. One hundred lives lost. SEPTEMBER. 2. Lord John Russell in Ireland—at the Viceregal Lodge, Dublin, received the Attorney-General and others belonging to the Government. 3. IThe. Queen prorogued Parliament, and at five o'clock embarked in her yacht at Woolwich, bound to Aberdeen, in Scotland, the object being to visit the Earl of Aberdeen's residence on the river Dee, and Balmoral,, the hunting seat of Prince Albert. 7. The Neapolitan troops took Messina. 19. Letters from New York of this date mention that gold had been found in the Sacramentos River, in South America, and that the people of California were in search of it. 21. Prince Louis Napoleon elected Member of the Na tional Assembly. Lord G. Bentinck, M.P. for King's Lynn, died of disease or the heart at Walbeck Abbey. 27. Field-Marshal Lamberg haying been appointed an Extraordinary Commissioner to make peace with the Hungarians, shot dead whilst passing the Bridge of Pesth, on his peaceful errand. 21. Smith O'Brien indicted for high treason. 30. Five Chartists tried and found guilty, in London, and sentenced to transportation for life. OCTOBER. • 5. Ahother insurrection in Vienna. The people suc cessful, and !he Emperor forced to leave the capital. 7. Smith O'Brien found guilty of high treason, at Clonmel. The jury gave a recommendation to mercy. 22. 400 National Guards from Paris (in uniforms) came to London as visitors. 23. The special commiation for the trial of rebels at Clonmel adjourned. M'Manus, O'Donohoe, and Meagher found guilty. 26. The mercy of the Crown extended to the Irish state prisoners. O'Brien, and the other leaders found guilty of high treason, had the sentence of death miti gated to transportation for life. 31. The Peace Congress met in Exeter Hall. NOVEMBER. 1. The Imperial troops re occupied Vienna—great slaughter ensued. 9. Sir James Duke, the Chief Magistrate of London, entered upon the duties of the Mayoralty, and gave the customary entertainment in Guildhall. 15. The Adelphi Theatre at Glasgow burnt. 17. The Hibernia, which left Halifax this day, brings news of the election of General Taylor, as President of the United States. _ 18. Viscount Melbourne, of Brocket Hall , Hertford shire, died. 23. Sir John Barrow, Secretary to the Admiralty, died. 25. The Pope having quitted Rome in disguise, arrived this day at Gaeta, the frontier town of the Nea politan dominions. 28. Mr. Jermy, Recorder of Norwich, and his son shot dead. Mrs. Jermy also shot, and her maid servant, by the same assassin, wrapped up in a cloak and wearing a mask. Rush, a farmer, accused of the murder. DECE MBER. 3. Seventy-three emigrants smothered in the steerage of the Londanderry steamer, between Sligo and Liver- pool. The captain and two mates found guilty of man slaughter by a coroner's inquest. 8. News arrived of the abdication of Ferdidand, the Emperor of Austria, in -favour of his nephew, F ranc i s Joseph, son of the Archduke Francis Charles his brother. The Emperor retired to Prague. Vienna tranquil. 10. The election for President of the French Republic commenced this day. Prince Louis Napoleon at the head of the poll. 19. Parliament further prorogued to the Ist of February, 1849. 20. Louis Napoleon elected and proclaimed in Paris President of the French. Republic. 21. The coroner's jury, at Wymondham, found James Bloomfield Rush guilty of the double murder of Mr. Jermy and his son. NA VAL INTELLIGENCE. The Superb, 80, Captain P. L. Corry, at Portsmouth, has a large number of shipwrights and caulkers, and other artificers, at work on board her. New hawse pipes aro being fitted. It now appears that the whole of her lower rigging will be condemned, and she will receive a new gang, fore and aft, so that she will have to be totally dismantled. It is an unfortunate circumstance that her late crew did not execute this operation, which they could have done while her pay-books were being made out. As it is, the shipwrights and other yard artificers interfere much with the progress of the seamen in their work, one party hindering the other ; so that it is a query whether, even at this eleventh hour, it would not be more economical and advantageous for the service generally to turn Captain Purcell, his officers and crew, over to one of the serviceable advanced ships, and allow the Superb to be overhauled and regularly repaired. The Calliope, 26, Captain Edward Stanley, was mus tered and exercised in Plymouth Sound by the Corn mander-in-Chief there, Sir W. H. Gage, G.C.11., on Friday morning, w hen the galla n t a d m i ra l expresse d himself very much plea sed at the manner i n w h ic h t h e crew went through their usual evoluti,ms. Their firing was most excellent. She was afterwards towed into harbour by the Confiance to be paid o ff. The Havannab, 20, Captain J. E. Erskine, ran the distance (13,987 mime) from Plymouth to Sydney in 56 days (sailing.) The liavannah left Plymouth Sound on the 6th of April, 1843, remaining ut Lisbon 18 days; Madeira, 4 days; and at the Cape, 44 days; arriving at Sydney and the Bass's Straits ou the 7th of August fol lowing—making 164 i miles per day from Plymouth to the Cape, and averaging 200 from the latter place to Sydney. She experienced several severe gales, but had not a single accident. A large number of shipwrights are employed on board the Centaur, steam-frigate, at Portsmouth, in the construction of her poop, under which there are to be six cabins, the after ones to be appropriated to the cap tain and commander. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 31.-1 t is expected that in the course of the ensuing week three or four ships will be commissioned, amongst them the Centaur steam-frigate, and the Sappho, 16, at this port. The Arrogant, 46, auxiliary screw frigate, 300 horse-power, will also 5 12 19 26 MARCH. 1. A revolution broke out in Neufchatel, one of the Swiss Cantons, claimed by the King of Prussia. The monarchical regime was abolished, and the federal flag hoisted. Neufchatel is now united to the Swiss Republic. 3. Louis Philippe and his Queen, after an escape in disguise from their revolutionary enemies, landed from a British steamer at Newhaven, near Brighton, in a desti tute condition. 4. The French Royal Family arrived at Claremont, the estate of King Leopold. Prince Metternich, the Austrian Minister of State, resigned. 14. A motion made by Mr. Ewart in the House of Commons for abolition of capital punishment—negatived by a majority of 56. 21. The Prussian Polish province of Posen declared independent, and Russian Poland and Gallicia in open insurrection. 23. The King of Sardinia declared war against Aus tria, and joined the Italian population. —. Venice declared a Republic, and a Provisional Government formed. 28. The King of Bavaria abdicated the throne in fa vour of his son, Maximilian. APRIL. 3. The members of the Irish deputation (including Mr. S. O'Brien), sent to the French Republic, were re ceived by M. de Lamartine, who declared that France did not wish to be enemies of England. 10. It having been proposed that the great body of Chartists should proceed with their petition to the House of Commons, great alarm prevailed in the metropolis. The Government gave notice to the people that the in tended demonstration of force was illegal, and brought troops from all parts to resist the movement. The peti tioners did not, therefore, carry th e i r i n t en ti on into effect, but presented their petition quietly, by means of a deputation. 13. In the House of Commons the Member for Ciren cester (Mr. Cripps) charged F. O'Connor with making a false statement respecting the signatures to the Chartist petition. O'Connor having retired to seek satisfaction, was taken into custody by the Sergeant-at- Arms. After some explanations between the parties, the affair ended without a breach of the peace. —. This day it was declared by the general Parlia ment of Sicily that Ferdinand Bourbon and his dynasty had for ever fallen from the throne of Sicily. 29. A serious riot at Limerick. Mitchell burned in effigy, and S. O'Brien wounded by the m o b. Th e l at t er resigned he representation of the county- M AY. 1. Several indictments having been preferred against the leaders of the Young Ireland Party for sedition, under the new Act for preserving the security of the Crown and Government, Mr. S. O'Brien attended in the King's Bench Court to receive a copy of the informations against him. 2. The Austrian Minister ordered to leave Rome. The Pops consented to permit the Ministry to decide all questions of Temporal Government, including a declara tion of war against Austria. 8. S. O'Brien, M.P. for Limerick, removed by the Lord Chancellor from the Roll of Irish Magistrates. 12. Tom Cribb, once the pugilistic champion of Eng land, died at his house, in Woolwich. 15. Mr. Smith O'Brien tried in the Four Courts on a charge of treasonable speeches. The jury having been out several hours, could not agree upon their verdict, and were:discharged without any decision.—W. M:•agher was also tried for sedition. The jury, as in the former case, could not agree in their verdict. Both traverser! consequently escaped. 24; Sir Henry %diver, the Biitish Minister at the if t " S x - ekifrAVP des:- \ C e: 2 , • „ s 4 A „. .7•,;11 - • , • :, r t & i gy a s ; le•A V$ 12 19 6' 13 20 27 3 10 17 24 4 11 18 .25 1 2 3 8 9 10 ,15 1 16 17 2223 24 29 2#o; 1 6 71 8 13 i 1.4 15. 20,21 22 27'28129 ,z •_• .; [PRI.nE on. a l o 76 , 3 % al i g t7 ' -7 9 JANUARY 1, 1849, shortly hoist the pendant here. Two warrant officers and 60 extra riggers of this yard are ordered to pro ceed to Woolwich by railway to bring her here for commission. The Apollo troop-ship, Commander Riwstorne, goes to China with a regiment to relieve the 98713. APPOINTMENTS ADMIRALTY, DEC. 30.—William Oliver, to be acting boatiwain ; Elmund T. Wild, mld,hipm , n, to the Apollo; IL nry Eden, midshipman. to thc , Victory. Paynr:ster and Purger W. H. \Visemau (1844) wid gpp: - ,inted to the Cet,tanr. Wind N.E., mod,rate brecz.'s and dark h.-zy weather. PLYEIOUTII, DEC. 29.—Some sl:gh: d:lrnage has been done to the Breakwater during the late heavy gales. The brig Arno. Captain Munden, which , ;ut in hero this morning, with less of bulwarkF, bound to London, reports having left the following British vessels at Buenos Ayres on the 28 h of September, viz , the barque Graham, Salter; the brig Mary Winch, llarr4; the schooner Rachel, Hammond; the batcrie Miry Queen of Scots, Wilcocks; the brig Ituna, Clark; the barque Pro mise, Hoseason; and the brigantine Choice, Ozier, for London; the barque Glencairn, Fowler; the schooner Sappho, Eustace; the barque Alice Brooks, Jackson; the brigantine Susanna Collings, Crascombe; and the brig Thames, Rutherford, for Liverpool; the brig Pacific. Maclean; the brig Mary Halket, Thompson; and the brig Lucy Sharp, M'Fee, for Falmouth, for orders; and the brigantine Merchant, Luke, for Fowey. On the 6th of November, 25 miles east by north of Pernambuco, spoke the barque Norval, 34 days from Newfoundland, for Pernambuco. Wind, E.S.E., fine. _ _ Woo'mien, DEC. 30.—The Arrogant steam-frigate, 46 guns, will be tried next week, and commissioned by Captain Fitzßoy, recently acting Superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard. Lieutenant Priest is nominated for First Lieutenant, and the Rev. Mr. Lang to be Chaplain. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC J OURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—Mr. M'Gregor has published his financial programme, and Mr. M'Gregor, from his previous studies as a statistician, has a better right to publish such a document than nine-tenths of the multitude with whose schemes we shall be shortly inundated. The public will be the gainers by the discussion of these amateur budgets. We have no apprehension of the adop tion of any such insane plan of financial reform as would go to shake the credit and imperil the security of the empire. The argument should be met broadly and fairly and with as little vague declamation and visionary prog nostications of a dismal futurity as may be. Even from the enemies of the British constitution, from those who would cut off all connexion with the past, and reduce the political and social systems of this country to the level of others which exist under totally di,similar con ditions from ourselves, useful hints may be drawn. For example, the moment is not arrived for cutting our colo nies adrift, or for handing over the vast empire of British India to the mercy of a regiment or two of New Orleans volunteers or Texian sympathizers. Ireland cannot yt t be left ungarrisoned, nor London be aban doned to the drunken fury of a gang of such nameless ruffians as threatened us with conflagration and pillage during the course of the last spring and summer. We may, however, obtain certain ad►antages from the labours of those who review, even in a spirit of hostility, every item of the public expenditure. Mr. M'Gregor sets forth fairly enough the fact that when very nearly 47,000,000/. are expended on the payment of the interest of the public debt, and upon the .army, navy, and ordnance, it is to this sum alone we can look with any reasonable prospect of effecting a considerable reduction in the taxation of the empire. Even so the issue must be narrowed still more. Mr. M'Gregor distinctly asserts, and his assertion is entitled to belief, that he at least has no thought of tampering with the hypothecated credit of the country. " The failure of that credit would inflict a penalty upon every ono of her Majesty's suhjec:s far more grievous than the payment even of our present heavy taxation. In Great Britain it would be ruinous to those who now employ others, and it would throw those employed out of work. The ca lamity of a stoppage of the payment of the dividends or the interest of the National Debt would break up every monetary and commercial engagement in the United Kingdom; the rights of property, whether in lands or movables, would no longer be sacred ; Bank Stock, India Stock, and all other stocks, together with private banks and private credit, would all be involved in the general calamity of a national bankruptcy." Mr. M'Gregor has a right, then, to credit for his assertion that the saertd principle of public credit, as far as he is concerned, shall be preserved intact. Where interests of such magni tude are at stake, we should not feel inclined to place implicit confidence in the mere assertions of' any man. Were this phrasing merely ancillary to a revolutionary proposition it should be discarded at once. Such is not the case of Mr. M'Gregor. In his opinion not only must the principle of the payment of the dividends of the national debt be preserved, but with all his ingenuity he cannot discover how it is that more than 5,304,0001.; of taxation can be taken off. For this reduction we must look to the army, navy, and ordnance for 4,250,000 L The reductions the lion. Member for Glas gow proposes, without impairing the efficiency of these branches of the public service, are— _ _ For 1847. The Naval Expenditure, to £6,500,000 £7.540,405 The Army, to ... 6,000,000 8,013,873 The Ordnance, to ... 1,750,000 2,947,869 £14,250,000 £18,502,147 The question, then, upon which so much discussion is likely to arise can be thus narrowed to two very intelli gible issues :—What degree of force is it necessary to maintain for the security of the country ? How can this force be maintained at the smallest possible expense ? Upon the answers to these two questions will depend the solution of the pompous problems of the Financial Asso ciations and financial reformers in or out of Parliament. Good will arise from this discussion in two ways. In the first place, we shall no doubt effect a saving of some 4,000,0001. or 5,000,000/. on the total sum o; 70,000,0001 (we include county-rates, &e.) which is annually levied from the inhabitants of the British isles. this, as far as it goes, will be a good, and a great good. In the second pace, we may at length hope to see an end of the declamatory stuff of those pothouse orators who are in the habit of presenting to an admirine audi tory the Duke of Wellington and the Archbishop of Canterbury as drunk and bloated on the spoils of the industrious pour. We have but one wish, which is, that all may be made so clear that every man in the three kingdoms of sane mind may be able to understand the justification and necessity of every penny that is taken in the shape of taxation from the pockets of the people. We have spoken of a positive reduction, and of a positive point where the reduction can be effected. So far we heartily go with Mr. M'Gregor, if ho can make out his case. This much, however, is far from giving a just idea of his entire scheme. Not only would he re duce, but he would shift burdens. He would do, by a coup de baguette, that which no thinking man would wish to see effected but by degrees, and with the most extreme circumspection. lie would abolish all Customs' duties but on eight articles, and these, with the exception of tea and sugar, purely articles of luxury. From this source ho expects to derive 18,500,0001. From the Excise, again, he would hope to receive 11,200,0001. upon his scheme of reduction. It may not be amiss to place Mr. M'Gregor's scheme once more before our readers, that they may judge of its practicability:— A gross expenditure, including charges of collection, and all payments now made in its progress to the Exchequer £32,000,000 To meet which I propose:— derived from articles of luxury, and upon a property tax, which would appear to be somewhat in contradiction of the returns that have been made to Parliament hitherto upon the subject. At any rate, however, we shall be glad to see such inquiries followed up in an honest and straightforward spirit, and met with open ness by the Government. Ye e have not the smallest desire to pay in the shape of taxes one shilling more than we can help. CIIRONICLE.—Another amateur financi‘ r has en tered the Frei.; as a cunneritor of Mr, Cobden. The laborious and " ,t.Ltical" Member for Glasgow makes the Christmas (Tiering of an ad,lie,ss o five c aeons to !us constituents, end of a cut-and-dried budget to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Of the manile:to of the Anti-Corn-law Leader, which has now undergone the ordeal of a week's criticism, it a ill be the estimate of re t competent judges that materiam superabat opus. It was an adroit and able paper, vigorous in style, telling in efict, and well adapted to make an im pression on that large class who are quite unversed in financial arithmetic. But, under its plausible surface, there lurked some glaring inaccuracies, and not a few uncandid suppressions, while the principle upon which the reduction of _ten millions, the basis of the whole scheme, was assumed, was too unsound to endure a moment's argument. A given sum was specified as sufficient for all the exigencies of the State, not because it was proved to be so, but merely because it had suf ficed in a particular selected year. It was not attempted to show that that year was one either of average expen diture or of efficient service; it is known to have been the contrary. Moreover, since 1835, the Government has undertaken, or rather it has had imposed upon it, by the will of the nation, new functions and new responsi bilities. All these are summarily passed over in a scheme which, disdaining all examination of details, as sumes, as a premiss, what should have been proved as a conclusion, that the expenditure of the country is twenty per cent. greater than the necessities of the public ser vice require. Mr. M'Gregor, on the other hand, is pre-eminently unskilful in the art of dressing up a statement. His address is not only very long, but has the graver fault of being what, on the other side of the Atlantic, is expressly termed lengthy. He begins the subject ab ovo, by informing his Glasgow friends, with a needless display of erudition, that all civilized nations have had recourse to the device of taxation. " Augustus decreed that all the world should be taxed; and all the world was taxed, and all the world has con tinued ever since to be taxed." So much, and a good deal more, as to taxation in general—at last we come to the more ieenediate topic, the real point at issue—taxa tion in particular. In stating his views, as to the na tional expenditure, Mr. M•Gregor gives us the result, we have no doubt, of long and laborious cogitations on the subject, though, as the items are not specified, we are unable to pronounce as to the soundness of his data. His conclusion, at least, is more modest than Mr. Cobden's—the total saving which he finds practicable, upon the gross public expenditure, being about half the estimate of his rival, vie , 5,304,6141. But in all those parts of the two plans which relate to the re adjustment of taxation, by the remission or substitution of particular imposts, the Scotch and English financiers are as wide as the poles asunder. It is, indeed, an edify ing proof of the inequality which attaches, more or less, to all modes of taxation, to observe how each particular tax in the catalogue has its peculiar demerits in the eyes of one or other of the numerous tribe of fiscal re formers. It must be sport to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who has the hard task of vindicating them all, to observe these financial amateurs practically re futing one another, by fixing, successively, upon each of the public burdens as the most oppressive and objection able in the whole series. For example, Mr. Cobden is prepared to sacrifice five millions for the sake of abolishing the malt-tax. Mr. M'Gregor considers malt, next to spirits, as the least objectionable item in the Excise. On the other hand, the Member for Glasgow denounces, with hearty objurgation, the whole chapter of the Assessed taxes, as unequal, offensive, and highly ob jectionable in principle; while the Member for the West Hiding, with a supp ose d sur pl us o f t en m illi ons a t his disposal, will not spare a shilling from the receipts from horses, carriages, and servan t s; b ut h e i s e l oquent upon the iniquity of the probate and legacy duties. The income-tax, too, Mr. Cobden would preserve, though he drops some vague allusion to the pro priety of remodelling it. Mr. M'Gregor would throw it completely overboard, and proposes, as a substitute, an original pet scheme of his own for raising 11,000,000/. by a direct assessment of five per cent. upon all descriptions of realised property. Finding much difficulty, as he tells us, in arranging any satis factory scale for taxing permanent' and temporary in comes, he has cut the knot by letting off the latter class altogether. The trading and professional classes would, certainly, reap an ample indemnity for having paid too much, under Sir H. Peel's tax, by paying nothing at all under Mr. M'Gregor's. We cannot attempt to follow Mr. M'Gregor through all, the complicated details of his fiscal exercitations. He is what his countrymen would call a " painful" writer; but his judgment is much less conspicuous than his industry, and his faculty et lucid and distinct statemeut bears even a less proportion to his prolixity. As for his plan, it ap pears to us to be neither better nor worse than those of a multitude of other ingenious projectors, who have made finance their hobby, and whose schemes for re generating the National Exchequer annually load their publishers' shelves with unsold pamphlets, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer's paper basket with unap preciated suggestions. For our own part, upon grounds which we have more than once explained, we entertain a settled distrust of those self-confident operators who are ready, at a moment's notice, to take to pieces and re construct the whole fabric of our financial system; and, anxious as we are for a sound and well-advised fiscal re form, we feel for that very reason about as little respect for a " national budget" as sober statesmen entertain for a paper constitution. ESPLANADE AT DOVER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—It has been recently stated in the provincial and other journals that the high seas caused by the late gales of wind have done great damage to the esplanade at Dover, and I fear this is only the beginning of a series of similar disasters of more than probable occurrence in that part of the bay, unless prompt and efficacious measures are taken to prevent further encroachment. I have no doubt whatever that the injury has arisen from a gradual denudation of the shore of its ordinary supply of shingle, which has been wasting away ever since the large masses of chalk, exploded in the forma tion of the railway, were deposited at the loot of the cliff through which the tunnels were pierced, opposing a formidable barrier to the prevailing easterly drift of the shingle. I foresaw the danger to which the esplanade property wou'd in the course of time be liable, and, in a letter published in one of the London daily papers, soon after the great mine was sprung, I warned the :proprietors and the local authorities of the certain effect of this barrier, sooner or later; recom mended then to watch the beach narrowly; and advised the construction of numerous short groynes in order to retain the shingle then in the bay. Nothing, however, was done, and cause and effect are now plainly enough to be traced. How long the chalk deposition may continue to im pede the passage of the shingle it is impossible to say, but, undoubtedly, until an accumulation sufficient to fill up the angle formed with the line of coast to the west ward shall have taken place, when the new alignment there given to the pebbles becoming a tangent to the outer point of the barrier, they will drift round it, and travel on to the eastward, as iu time past. But, meanwhile, mischief has occurred, and the espla nade may be entirely swept away, if left unprotected; for a new feature is growing up, which will quickly prove to the most sceptical that no further supply of shingle can ever be wafted to the shore in front of the town. The western breakwater of the Harbour of Re fuge, commenced last year, lies to the west of the old south pier, and, being connected with the land, inter poses a second, and an impassable, barrier, which must for ever divert the shingle from its natural path, and in stead of following the contour of the bay it will travel to seaward of the Harbour of Refuge, after an accumula tion, and disposition similar to what has been before described, shall have taken place in the angle formed by the breakwater with the line of coast. I believe this view of the matter is strictly correct, the deductions incontrovertible; and, if so, surely it behoves the corporation of Dover and the owners of esplanade property to give the whole subject the earliest and most serious deliberation. I do not know the extent of the ravages lately made by the sea, and, therefore, can offer no opinion as to the propriety of now constructing groynes. It may be too late to do so, and a retaining wall, or piles and planking may be the only safc!e a s t .::_ e I to Moreover, these plans may be separately pi e to a pru different localities, and the choice must b a ra tfie judgment of an engineer, who can only c .o o n, an d dal dent determination after personal inspect' weighing all the circumstances. seek i n g professional Again I counsel promptitude in , have the honour advice, and energy in following er i vau s , i f c t to the to be, Sir, your most ebedise.nt4. late itoyal Engineers. Lieutenant- Colonels DECEMBER 30.--The 1849. th: de The ad- a AT BAIDGNORTII --BR Ramsgate, Jan. I, IDG- Tim LATE MortDE nn Newton, NORTH, journed inquiry,. 0 .t, was alleeeel hat aged 80 years, wh i ou the 4th of last • , been murdered by her (laughter month, by beine first d and arterwar s d stable, SALOP, S t o A u T e u h l i i n p g A Y. burned, in order to make her ea r accidental, d eat h app was held yesterday in the Town mu, in this Wan. The evidence was confirmatory of the particulars already published. Richard Esans, the policeman, who apprehended the prisoner, said, I charged 1 her with murdering her mother, and cautioned her not to say anything to me. It " s going up the High-street, when I was taking her to the lock-up, she said to me, " I suppose this will be another Severn Hall job " (the prisoner's brother was hung for the murder of his wife at Severn hall). I said, " What do you mean by thet ?" and she said, " Passion, passion ; I am very passionate, and as soon as my passion is over I forgive directly." The evidence of Messrs. Stranger, Coley, Newell, and Martin, the surgeons, who all deposed to the cause of death, was read by the Coroner, after which the jury adjourned until the 28th of February, on which day they I will deliver their verdict. COWES,,,I‘LE OF WI ij (FRoSI OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) OSS OF NE DOWNS AND TWO C PILOTS. COWES, DEC. 31. Accounts were brought to Cowes on Saturday naCu ing that a boat with three hands in it from the-pilot vessel No. 4, in attempting to land at the back of the Wight, between the Needles and Freshwater, had been capsized on the preceding; day, and three pilots drowned. The crew of the Hero were William Jacobs, Thomas Burton, E. Math, and C. Nutkins, the latter being at home at the time, and the three former only on boar.i. Great hopes were entertained that the report might prow untrue, Jacobs having a wife and eight children, Burton a wife and seven children, and every prospect of another being added to the number in a short time, Moth a sick wife and large family. No further news was received ell the afternoon, and as Friday was a fine day, with only a very light wind off the land, the unfortunate ftmi lies buoyed themOves up wi!h hopes that as the vessel wou'd certainly not be left a ithorit one of ttw men on board, it c,uld not be three men (as that would be the whole crew) from the Hero. In the evening, however, all doubt was removed by the arrival of one of the Rural Police, who came in to give notice to the Coroner, and to summon the survivor, C. Moth. He stated that ta 0 of the holies had been washed on shore, in the pocket of one was found some paper.:, by which his name ap peared to be Johnson, a Deal pilot ; the other name was not known, but supposed to be Burton. The body of Jacobs was washed on shore next moreing. The pilot vessel is not yet returned, but it is understood that they had taken a Dawns pilot out of a ship, and when attempt ing to land him near Freshwater, the boat (which is con sidered one of the best in the employ) was swamped by one of those tremendous rollers which are so common • on this dangerous coast; the boat was on a smoe th and glasssy sea, close in with the shore, but there was a heavy ground swell, and the Preven tive men on the shore waved to them, but they seemed not to understand the object of it, and laid on their oars, when a mountainous wave rolled in upon them, and no vestige of the boat was seen afterwards. An in quest will be held on the bodies at twelve o'clock on Monday. Scarcely a year passes but some of our pilots are swept from this life in following their dangerous calling. In this instance two widows and fifteen chil dren are thrown on the charity of the public. Johnson may also have a family, which by his untimely end may be deprived of their only support. On the books of the Compassionate Fund of this town there are between 70 and 80 poor widows. The earnings iof the seagoing pilots of this port have been very much reduced within the last few years, and if some alteration for the better is not made there will soon be no pilots outside the Wight to guide the mariners from the dangers of that rock-bound coast. Even on Friday, when the channel was so still and smooth, the ground swell and rollers were so heavy that the sea broke over the Needles rocks. The pilot who braves the storm for weeks in the channel, looking out for ships, if he brings one in bound to Southampton gets superseded by a Southampton pilot at the entrance of the river, and the latter takes the ship out without being liable to be superseded after leaving the river. Thus the Cowe s pilot for all his knocking about gets only ss. per foot to divide amongst the vessel's crew, where formerly he got 15s. for taking in and out; while the Southampton pilot, who has only a boat, with no crew to share with him, and never goes outside the Needles, gets 10s. per foot ! DEATH OF COUNT CORBINEAU. Few Generals have seen such service as the Court Jean Baptiste Corbineau, who has just died, with the title of General of Division and Grand Cross of the Le gion of Honour. Born at Marchiennes (Nord) on the Ist of August, A.D. 1776, he was, at the age of 16, a sub-lieutenant in the Berry Cavalry, and was dispatched to the frontiers. He was destined to see home no more, for he served in all the campaigns of the Republic and the Empire from 1792 to 1815, including the battle of Mont St. Jean. M. de Corbineau was appointed a chief of squadron in 1805, and a colonel in 1807. Promotion was rapid in those days of danger and glory combined. If our readers wish to know how it was that M. de Cor bineau, a colonel of dragoons in 1807, merited the rank of general of brigade in 1811, we must refer them to the report of the Duke of Dalmatia, commander of Andalusia, on the battle of Alcalala-Real, in the Moniteur Universel of the 20th of February, 1810. M. de Corbineau served in the Russian campaign of 1812, and on the 20th of No vember in that year he threw himself, by a forced march, between the corps of Tchitchakof and Witgenstein, and crossed the Beresins at midnight at the head of his bri gade of light cavalry, in order to precede the French army, which he rejoined near Bobr. It was he that pointed out to the Emperor the passage of Sterdzianka. As a reward for these signal services, the Emperor made Corbineau his aide-de-camp two months afte rwards, and soon raised him to the grade of a general of division. Count Corbineau then took the command of the cavalry of the corps of Vaudamme; and when the latter had been made prisoner, Corbineau, by an impetuous charge of the corps d'armee commanded by the Prussian General Kleist, re-established the momentarily interrupted com munications of the French army. Taking the command vice Vaudamme, he rescued and brought back 18,000 of the 26,000 men composing his division. Six months later he was included in the number of the aides-de camp who saved the Emperors's life wh 1 he was at tacked by the Cossacks in the evening of the 30th of January, 1814, on his return from Brienne to Mez:eres. A month later, on the 6th of March, 1814, he seized the town of Rheims at midnight, and by that coup de wain sef,arated the Russian army, commanded by M. do St. Ptie.,t, from that of Blucher, and so enabled Napoleon to cross the Aisne at 136 5-au-Bac. Corbineau, incessantly attacked in Rheims by St. Priest, maintained his pcsi don without being dislodged, notwithstanding his enrr mous numerical inferioity. After the farewell of Fon tainebleau, the Count Corbineau retired to his domestic hearth, and did not resume his military duties until the 20th of March, 1815. Dispatched to Lyons to arrest the progress of the Duke d'Angouleme, who wished to cross the I 41:•e, he captured that Prince at the Bridge of St. Esprit, on the 9th of April, but restored him to liberty in accordance with the instructions of the Em peror. Napoleon testified his satisfaction by a letter to the Minister of War, inserted in the Moniteur. He was immediately sent to La Vendee to replace General Laborde, but was soon relieved by General La Marque, and resumed his post near the Emperor. After the battle of Mont St. Jean, he once more re tired into private life, but emerged again in August, 1830, when he was appointed to the command of the 16th military division, at Lille, and exercised that office till 1844. In 1835 ho was made a Peer of France, and in 1838 received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. His memory will be revered by all his companions in arms. A lad named Seapy, belonging to the Fate, which was a fortnight since reported as having sunk at sea, owing to injuries sustained from a collision with the Glenalyn steamer, had a very narrow escape from drowning. He had turned into his hammock before the accident happened, and, strange to say, was not awoke either by the shock or the subsequent uproar on the deck of the vessel. As soon as the accident happened the crew got on board the steamer, but the brig not going down as quickly as they expected, they returned to her, in the hope of running her on shore, and so sav ing some of her stores. They soon, however, found this to be impracticable; but before finally abandoning her, at the suggestion of the master, they went down into the forecastle to secure their clothes; and in search ing for these, one of the men laid his hand on the face of the sleeping boy, who had not previously been missed; of course, he was soon aroused, but could at first scarcely be convinced of the dangerous predicament he was in.— Lynn Advertiser. DEATH OF SIR SAMUEL CROMPTON, BART.—WO have to announce the decease of the above respected Baronet, who expired on Wednesday last, at Wood-end, his family seat in Yorkshire. The respected Baronet had suffered from impaired health some months, but it was only within the last three weeks that his illness as sumed such appearances as to prepare his family for the worst. The deceased was born in July, 1785, and mar ried, Nov. 3, 1829, Isabella Sophia, daughter of the lion. and Rev. Archibald 11. Cathcart, by whom he leaves issue several daughters, but no son. The late Baronet was a great patron of agriculture, and had expended considerable sums in the improvement of his e s ts , . tenantry. He represented East Retford in th e that Commons from 1818 till 1826, the year wasb elected borough was disfranchised, and then to 1830. In Member for Derby, which he sat for_ or uP • r - Tei sk, which 1834 he was the successful candidatehel n . De retired from he continued to sit for up to 1841,, 00 Baronetcy (created Parliament. Failing male issue, tb n 1838) becomes extinct. __Li e; rusTMAs,--peel, e f s o ld r o e t e u s s e of LIR PURITANS AND . ,, tikaPs no Illustrates the temper their conduct respecting* Chris of the precisians t had been, from tim© Chris 'somas mss - day. Chris an, domestic affection mie immemorial, single circums the season of jolr i d : 1 when children, the season when fanailies assein a e rrels were came home from school, when cie made up, when carols were house was decorated s a el d son ev a e l r l y h t ea b r l ts not utterly destitute of pithkindnesspdoaonpoor were w were enlarged and a n v g er lY y so e ft w en , a e s d. loa A de t d th w a i t th se g a o s o o d n tanecehtnanovvriesitiroe c heer. admitted to partake largely of the over the acceptable on account of the flowing% of the wealth of rich, peculiarly the whose bounty was ee e ry se st v r er e tty of the weather. At that season shortness of the days e ve .A rg t r h en a s t , the interval between landlord and tenant, master and servant, was less marked than through the rest of the year. Where there is much enjoyment there will be some ex cess; yet, on the whole, the spirit in which the holiday was kept was not unworthy of a Christian festival. The ' Long Parliament gave orders, in 1664, that the 25th of December should be strictly observed as a fast, and that all men should pass it in humbly bemoaning the great national sin which they and their fathers had so often committed on that day by romping under the mistletoe, eating the boar's head, and drinking ale flavoured with roasted apples. No public act at that time seems to have irritated the common people more. On the next anni vers:ary of the festival formidable riots broke out in many places. Tho constables were resisted, the magistrates insulted, the houses of noted zealots attacked, and the proscribed service of the day openly read in the churches. —llf acaulay's History of England. ECLIPSES IN 1849.—There will be four eclipses in the year 1849 two of the sun and two of the moon. bath e will of February and on the 17th of August, but. The eclipses of the sun wi ll take place on th 22d be invisible at Greenwich. The moon w ill be partially eclipsed on the B th of M arch, and again on the 2d of September. The form er will be visible, and the latter invisible in this country , and it will end sixteen minutes before the rising of the planet. LUGGAGE.—A lady who had a steam-boat full of luggage, made an excite) for it by saying, " She was going to Rome, and wouldn't for the world be without the Thirty-nine Artieles."—Punch's Almanac. 1.-I)UTIES OF CUSTOMS. X. A) Tobacco 4,000,000 B) Sugar (at present duties) 5,500,000 C) Distilled spirits, all kinds ... 2,500,000 D) Wines (at duties adjusted for revenue) 2,000,000 E) Spices of all kinds ... 100,000 F) Fruit of all kinds 500,000 (i) Tea, at Is. per lb. 3,000,000 . 11) Silk manufacutures, and other articles of luxury, at an:ad valorem duty, ex eluding all raw materials and articles of food ... 900,000 2.—ExcisE UNDER ONE OFFICE WITH STAMPS. Spirits and Malt ... X 10,000,000 } 11,200,000 Licenses ... 1,200,000 Stamps, Legacy Duty, and Probates 7,500,000 3.—Post-office, gross revenue ... 2,300,000 4.—Crown Lands (should givo more) ... 500,000 Total from ordinary sources Z 11,000,000 s.—Duty of 5 per cent. upon the rents or profits of all realised property, whether funded, houses, lands, warehouses, docks, East India Stock, Bank Stock, and all stocks and shares whatever, bought and sold in the market, which I estimate at 220,000,000/. sterling par annum ... 11,000,000 Total estimated revenue to meet esti mated expenditure ... £52,000,000 We are fully prepared to admit the desirability of many of the changes proposed. For instance, could the Ex chequer bear the strain, no one could for a moment ad vocate the policy of maintaining the Excise duty upon bricks or upon soap. No one would deem it expedient to saddle the house property and commercial transactions of the country with the stamp upon fire and marina assuraucea—no one but would be willing to reduce the tea tax to ls. per pound, and to abolish the assessed tax • upon windows to morrow. Even as at present some of these chance may bo politic and expedient; but would seem little short of insanity, with an untried future before us, and at the very moment the corniner eml and agricultural interests of the country are just failing into the new groove cut for them in 1546, to give up all held on the past, aPe nd confront a certa in ex d n " t ea ture with an uncertain revenue. We dread the.sedance i:tut-and-dry schemes, which stri ke so neat b apon paper. Fifty-two millions expenditure; )er contia, fitty-two millions, receipts. Wh at can be m o re delight ful ? Th.," o ffice of the Chancellor o f the Exchequer may - amongst others, as well b e abolished. The machine will work or itself. Deficiencies will be unheard-of thirtgs upon the scheme of Mr. Al‘Gregor, if all goes nigh t. It is, however, difficult not to be struck with the Customs fisec that this amateur budg et mainl y rests upon 1111 P. '‘• 5 6 12,13 19 20 126,27