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It is also intended to apply fur powers to consolidate, regulate, and amend the existing provisions relating to their share stock and borrowed capital, and to raise further capital in shares or stock ; also, to enablik the South-Western Company and the Salisbury and Yeovil Railway Company to oarry into effect any con tracts or agreements for the construction, maintenance, using, and working of the latter railway ' • and to contri bute towards the ca pi ta l o f the Salisbury and Yeovil Railway, by taking and holding shares therein, or to ad. vance money on loan, or to guarantee such interemt or profit on all or any of the shares of the Salisbury and Yeovil Company as may be agreed upon, and to nomi nate and appoint directors of the latter company. ~ ; / ;' a kte „ 1 4 „. ;14. 11- - ,-- , 4 .-- ~ - - - - t- ,-- - : I'l, ~,,,v a:" . 1 !'Jt.,14 ; ~,4 -, ,4ii • ri • • • :- , 4A\ '• ' .o %< .— I A t i V s ' ' - kV W,, , , , ~, 4, dio ig, ,-' i ' 4 ° • --• ~,, • '-' ..: ' .----- 77- .. ~idl y„, , . t.. , -It ,c) ,----. -KV \. i y i 'i ".;,--.. ;,'• i . .6 •00, • ~.. -, N 4 -,"_ • , I -;- cP .Ar I.: 1 ' - •• the , '------ _,Pf 4° A4v i-I`l% »j --- 4 1 — . 1., ,,i. • ..,,,,,,.... . - gt . i\\< -. -,. E I , ~, e ,.., ~ ,,t, 4 ~... , . ... 1 • • . • . / N DON, FRIDAY EVENING NOVENIBEit 161 WH. SMITH and SON, NEWSPAPER • and ADVERTISING AGENTS, have 1% moved to New Premises, 186, Strand, Loam. 7 j . , _ _ . T r___ (_ te„ 1 his (---""d •• py to , n-tru • in tides m, ster Axwinw ROYAL SWEDISH RAILWAY COMPANY. HOPING TO HULT. Notice is hereby given that all Shares in this Company, upon Which the Final Call of 21. per Share became due and payable on the let October, 1855, will, according to the Statutes of the I ompany, be liable to Forfeiture if the Call be not paid on or before the tat day of December next. ieal, eacl -.--, - / ,-, KET- [ PRICE 4D. STAMPED :3D• 16 stones 6,1 to ISA. JOHN SADLEIR, Chairman London, 18, Cannon-street, Noy. 12, 1855. No. 19,695.] LON 1855. UNITY JOINT- STO CK MUTUAL BANKING ASSOCIATION. Pnr cipal Offices—Unity-buildings, 8 and 10, Cannon-street, City. CLOSING OF THE SHARE LIST. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. that no further applications for Shares in this bank will be received after Friday, the 30th of November. By order. HENRY LAKE, Secretary. Unity-buildings, 9th Nev., 1855. PUBLICATIONS. STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON AND NEWCASTLE Spirit of the Public Journals. VA eloquence or argument that Ministers or Pleni potentiarieslcould address to Russia. In this re spect the lapse of two generations has not altered the comparative power of words and deeds when addressed to the Russian ear. Such,'then, was our case 64 years ago, before the extinction of the French monarchy and the terrors of the Revolu tion playedithe game of Russia by directing the attention of Europe to a new danger. Here, then, in the heart of the last century, we are to look for the origin of the present war ; not in the arrogance of the Menachikoff mission ; not in the failure of recent negotiations ; not in a quarrel about holy places : but in the ambition, the insolence, and the audacity of Russia, which two generations ago were clearly seen to menace the liberty of Europe, and which even a minister of peace was driven to meet with the threat of an appeal to arms in behalf of Turkey. THE BANK CHARTER ACT. Third. 41s Od NEW NOVEL RY MRS. LA TOUCHE. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., AND CARLISLE UNION RAILWAY. (From the Times City Article.) While it is quite probable that the Government pro pose giving effect to the provisions of the Bank Charter Act for enlarging the Bank issues on securities to the extent of two-thirds of tl e lapsed country notes, it is certain that most exaggerated and erroneous opinions are promulgated of the effects of the measure, which is simple in character and limited in scope. The authorised issue of the Bank of England on securities was fixed by the act of 1844 at 14,000,0001., and that of the country banks at 8,648,000/. Of this amount of country issues, portions, making an aggregate of 700,0001., have been gradually dropped, owing to the extinction of some banks and the adoption by others of issues of the Bank of Eng land ' • and, although the many modifying circumstances which arise forbid the expectation of precise corres pondence in the results, it is the case that the aver age internal circulation of the notes of the Bank of England, which was in 1843-4 20,000,000/., amounted in 1854 to 20,700,000/., while that of the country banks hhd decreased in a more than correspond ing ratio. It is obvious that if the groundwork on which Sir Robert Peel fixed the credit paper of the Bauk of England at 14,000,000/., and that of the country banks at 8,648,000/., was sound, the resuscitation of the portion which has lapsed is not only safe, but is neces sary to the full operation of the bill. It will, therefore, create no surprise if it be found that Sir Cornewall Lewis has expressed to the Bank directors a desire that an ad ditional issue on securities to the extent of about 600,0001. should be made by the issue department. It may be assumed that the suggestion would proceed from the Government, because in the first place they would be pecuniarily the greatest gainers by the operation, being entitled to the yearly profit of the additional issue ; and in the next, the Bank, who never found it expedient to apply for such an extension when they were far more closely pressed, are not likely to invite it now that they are in an eesieeltelaiLien than for several weeks past and have the prospect of an increased reserve, whiete has in variably occurred in the close of the last quarter of the year, from the action of the incoming revenue. Hence the application on their part will have been merely minis terial. Upon the assent of the Government the results of the measure on the position of the Bank would be as follows_ _ -3 Oil -- -3 Od Od —B Od LADY WILLOUGHBY ; or, the Double MARRIAGE. STAR PACKETS from the TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND. 9, 2. IturtfsWlCK WHARF. BLACKWALL, on the arrival ollowing Trains from Fenchnrch-street, 10U, 814, weather permit ting. The Packets will call at the Bosherville, Greenhithe, Purfieet, and North Woolwich Piers. - To or from Gravesend and 10d. .. is. ~ Gravesend and Blackwell or Woolwich Bd. .. Os. 'Cd . Erith and London.. •• •• Bd. .. Os. 10d Erith and Blackwell or W001wich...... 6d. .. Oa. Bd. between Gravesend and Intermediate Piers.. 6d. .. Oa. Bd. October 23, 1855. By Mrs. LA TOUCH E. " Mrs. La Touche has made a most successful debut. No novelist's first campaign was ever more triumphant."—Observer. • " We have no hesitation in predicting for a work so rich in fascina tion a brilliant success."—J.hri Bull. 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Notices of application to Parliament have been given by this company to extend the time for the completion of the railway and works, and for laying down additional, rails on the broad gauge, and to repeal or alter any p ro . visions of the company's acts which imposes any penalties or forfeitures upon the company in reference thereto ; to enable the above company and the Great Western Rail way COmpany to enter into agreements and arrange ments for the discontinuance of the broad gauge rails on the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, or any part thereof, and for the working thereof on the narrow gauge only, and for the laying down and use of rails on the narrow gauge on any part of the Great Western Railway, and for the release of the company from any obligations imposed on them with reference to the broad gauge or the rights and powers of the Great Western Company with respect to the undertaking, and to enable the company to guarantee an annual or other payment on the shares or stock held by the Great Western Company ; to authorise the Board of Trade to postpone or relieve the company from the further construction of the railway on the broad gauge, to authorise the com pletion thereof on the narrow gauge only, and to enable the company to take up, use, or sell the materials now laid down for the purposes of the broad gauge. On the Thirtieth of November will be Published, to be completed in Twenty Monthly Parts, Price One shilling each, the First Monthly Part of a New Work of Fiction, called L I T T L E DORRIT. By CIIARLES DICKENS. With Illustrations by filator K. BROWNE. Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie-Street. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. —THIS EVENING, and every evening during the week, the GRAND ELEUSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC and MYSTERY, by Professor ANDERSON, the Great Wizard of ths.North, in 12 acts, with ever-changing variety of incidents, continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary effects. Magic and Mystery Is an entirely new entertainment, pos sessing distinctive characteristics and peculiar phases of amusement. It is not a monologue, for the audience them selves perform their parts with the principal actor, some of them on the stage and others in front ; it is not an exhibition, for though everything becomes metamorphosed before the eyes of the visitors no one can be positive that he sees any one thing; but it is a comedy really performed by the Qom- Pany ; a melodrama replete with startling positions and unex pected denouements ; a magnificent spectacle, with 2,000 of tke public every night to appear as auxiliaries ; and an ex travaganza, in which all that seems to be is entirely beyond the bounds of probability. Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged and fashionable audiences which have nightly filled the Lyceum Theatre to overflow, and by means of whose generous aid he bas been enabled to announce Magic and Mystery for con tinuous repetition. He believes that no professor of his art has at any time or in any place been honoured with an amount of success so extensive, so decided, and so unusual. Me would attribute that success to three causes; first, that in his present entertainment he has placed before his visitors the results of life sedulously devoted to the attainment of Perfected skill in one peculiar art, and to perfect which he has travelled the globe in every clime ; secondly, that he has spared no trouble nor expense to put this entertainment on the stage in the most elaborate manner, by the employment of the first mechanicians and artists of the day ; and thirdly, that, while endeavouring to provide amusement for those who honour him with their presence, he has not forgotten that i t is possible to afford information also, and that the oppor tunity should not be neglected of exposing conjuring where ever it has been used for nefarious purposes, or whenever by resorting to the conjuror's arts, in an illegitimate manner, the designing have succeeded in making dupes of the credulous. _ _ ▪ ..23 0 3 2 .. 0 1 22 3 . 6 ..22 _2 V _23 0 ...t1 9 ~ 21 9 The Third Edition.—Just published, price 55., by post, free, ss. 6d ON TRUE FALSE SPERMATORRIREA, with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the Real Sufferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. From kite Germat of Dr. PICKFORD. With an Introduction by the Editor, containing a complete exposure of the system of terrorism and extortion pursued by the advertising quacks of the metropolis towards those who are credulous enough to seek their aid. " Dr. Nekton) Is known to English readers by his frequent practi sal 'contributions to German medical literature. This is the firs rime, he informs as, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi• sal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall detect an, )ther equally flagrant evil which it may be in his -ower to cor rect." —London Medical Gazette. " The tribe of Quiet Sympathisers, and ' Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed ; and if this boo) scald find its way into the hands of those - who safer from the coin• plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds woulc be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less Importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— much money."... This volume is well qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to place the treat ment upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore. likely to do much good." London: H. Balliere, 219. Regent-street. .22 0 ..21 3 ▪ .22 6 • 22 6 .23 0 ..20 0 yp ct~uma PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION. 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CHARLES HENRY LIUDERDALE, Actuary. neer tai" Dec 6 25,000,000 25,500,000 Bullion Securities :Daily Noy. 16 Nov. 16 (Inconel:. 25,000,000 25,500,000 Noy. 15 The 937 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which Pro fessor Anderson has received, from the time of opening the theatre up to the present date, bear witness to the great in terest taken on the subject of this singular delusion ; whilst many of thoni bear melancholy evidence to the dangers which attend a belief in the superstitious nonsense of the " Spiri tualists." Judging simply by the correspondence which has resulted, Professor Aa lerson's exposé of spirit-rapping and his illustration of the so-called table phenomena, have pro duced a sensation unequalled by any previous attempt to ex- Pose a mischievous and impudent juggle. it is impossible for Professor Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of the Communications which reach him on the subject. He regrets that many of these should come from ladies and gentlemen who, from their position in society and their well-known in tellectnal attainments, he would least have expected to have been converts to a belief so preposterous in itself, and so easily susceptible of being controverted and disproved. Every evening, from the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions os spirit-rapping are expressed, and every evening, within th" Lyceum, how tables can be made to rap is exhibited and elucidated. It is respectfully requested that thi ,, Public exposition will be accepted generally as Professor Anderson's only mode of replying at full length to his Multitudinous correspondents. He regrets that the names of the great and learned of the land should h ave been made to figure in the documents emanatinc from the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, at tracted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septem- Per2o, and taken by that journal from the New York Spiri tual Telegraph. - It purports to emanate from an American s Pirit-rapper, Mr. D. D. Hume :—" Sir David Brewster frankly confesses that he is ' sorely puzzled' at what he has Witnessed, and Lord Brougham acknowledges himself to be t horoughly nonplussed. Both of these noted men brought the whole force of their keen discernment to bear upon the solution of the phenomena; but the presence of substantial, actual hands, and the demonstrative strength of the spirits who thus clothed themselves for the time, and moved mate rial obje c t s a b ou t th e ro om, proved to be too much of a ques tion for them to master." Mr. D. D. Hume, the author of the above, has recently left England, and the following account of Who, and what he is, occurs in the Family Herald, No. 648: This young man, who is a Scotchman by birth, and now In Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations Without apparatus. Barnum, who is well-known throughout the Anglo-Sixon world as a splendidhumbug, offered him 2.000 dollar s per annum if he would perform at his museum in New York, Barnum then took it for granted that mediums could be bought. He wailoMesflaatitstOlatalied'aihanlite offer Was refused, Hume, on telling the fact in London lately, simply and honestly remarked, that the money would have been very acceptable to him, for he was poor, young (under 20), an or- Phan, and in very bad health : but he would have been afraid of losing his power as a medium, and he would sooner lose his life. The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful. Re inquired into the subject; and now Barnum, ono of the greatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is One of the firmest believers in spiritualism." It is cer tainly surprising to find such a paragraph as this in the editorial article of an established journal, the editor of whom !night be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe spirit-rapping--does spirit-rapping gain or lose by this accession to its adherents I and, with Barnum's endorse- Inent to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely to be negotiated 1 Professor Anderson would believe not : but, when he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of 4 'ngland have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross a swindle, when he finds that the incumbent of Wortley (the Bev, N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and ,Writes a bciok on the subject, be considers it t be time for flim to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which it effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the Morning Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir -David Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's Hotel, in company with Lord Brougham. He distinctly states that Which the Wizard of the North proclaims every night—that s pirit-rapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad Purposes. In the Morning Advertiser of the following day. however, there is an answer to Sir David's letter from one Who was Present when he and Lord Brougham had their Beane° with the spirits, in which the writer says, that " the table (a large dinner-table, I believe) moved about in the most extraordinary manner, and, among other things, a large ac cordion was conveyed by an invisible agency to my hand and then to Lord Brougham's, in' which, held by his lordship's right hand, apart from any person, it played an air through out," With such a statement, printed for the edification of th e people of the 19th century, with the facts before us that the most talented men of the day are permitting themselves to b e deluded by these juggling spirit-mongers —that the greatest novelist of the age is now engaged in making it the subject of a new work, and that a " spiritual convention" has actually been advertised to be hold in St. Martin's-hall, Professor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual ists of America, as given by him nightly at.the Lyceum, will be received by the people of England as genuine honest at tempts to t provide an antidote for the bane of the spiritual Jugglers. In the course of the last five weeks 100,017 persons have visited the Lyceum Theatre,—a larger number, it is believed, than has ever before been assembled within its walls in so short a period. Magic and Mystery is repeated every even. t ug, the programme being continually changed. Grand fashionable Day Performance, or Saturday, November 17, at 2 o'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ; Part I:—Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinical Capabilities of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do by magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmer ism, and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in the air. Act 2. The Aqua-Avial Paradox ; exemplifying the power of producing animated nature from fire• and water only, and the possibility of eliciting from the simplest elements the most complex forms of ornithological existence. Act 3. Le Livre des Reeueils Choisies: or ' Puck's Own Pocket Book, with Puck himself within it. Typifying the evening's entertainment in the production of the very volu minous from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude out of minuteness, in developing bulk where no space appears for its existence, in discovering odd things in odd places, and in bringing forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely place for to be found. Act 4. Magical Locomotion ; er, Transition without Trou ble. In which will be comprised—the Adventures of a Wed ding Ring, the Peregrinations of a Bank Note, the Transfor mation—black into white, and the Discovery of every Article in the position which would s eem th o most inappropriate. Act 5. LEcrin de Verre; or, the Casket of Crcesus. Into which, though made entirely of glass perfectly transparent, and suspended so as to be visible to the eyes of all present, the Wizard will cause the money of his .. visitors to transport itself, and rain into the casket, though its lid be closed, locked, and the key in the possession of the audience. Act 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary : ; or, the Transparency of Opacity. Act. 7. A New Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the Novel Wine and Spiri'c, Store. An innroveroent upon the " inexhaustible bottle," inasmuch as the Wizard's bottle will not only b e in. exhaustible, but will change its contents, ad infinitum, at the word of command, producing soda-water, butter-milk, Epsom salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin, ria,ndwhfiinsitg, toyeau, or any other wine or spirit required; proving to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly d ry, and occupying the whole space when tightly packed. Act 8. Halton Hour with the Spirits; or, an Expose of Bpi/it-rapping. Introducing the spirit-rapping table and tocsin of the invisibles. Act.. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the p ro p of arty the Wizard's patrons will undergo some strange metamor phoses, and, amongst others, their handkerchiefs become transformed into the flags of victory—the banners of Eng land, France, Turkey, and Sardinia. Act. 10. Tne Enchanted Chair of Comus, in which he who seats himself will be under the magic spell, and appear to the audience, under circumstances least expected, in a posi tion as peculiar as perplexing. Act, 11. The Mystery of the Charmed Chest ; or, the Nucleus of the Night's Wonders. To comprehend which the audience will have the goodness to observe, in an earlier pa - I of the evening, the chest suspended (like Mahommed's coffin) in ma-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which all will be produced. Act. 12, The Homological Evaporation ; or, the Shortest Route to the Antipodes. Illustrating the easiest mode of ridding ourselves of a troublesome friend, and the advantages of the newly-discovered dia-terrestrial passage from the west ern to the eastern hemisphere. Doors open each evening at half-past 7 ; commence at 8. p r i va t e b o xes, 1/. lls. 6d. and 11. ls., to be obtained at the Box-office, or at the principal libraries ; stalls, 4s. ; dress circle, 3s. ; upper boxes , 2 s. ; pit , ls. ; gallery, 6d. The Box-office is open daily, from 11 till 5, under the direction of Mr. Chatterten, jun. Grand fashionable Morning Per formance on ifiaturdah November 17, at 2 o'clock. Doors open 4 karst Is - •d - j.. 0 3& - ••• 1..!1.. • I.C. . 1T.T11.7 M' -~,^.wtu dAII ITI riceu<• Dec. 1 . 16tbo fra j n N0v..20 ITwicr3 Nov. IL 5 Nov. 4 Nov. Dec. 1 ;llnae7 tsi° l Uncart $l. 18D160 011 l i&160 0 s will ;t• D C he Ind!: C„; spatchtel t has beef' ) y e sterdsP ,633 4 - 'a Aondon so dancheste r A 61. nevr v t her qui t° V vre, 4' I 1;/. Pro.' se to.del d` De 2 Bola, 81- r Three l'' 15, s7r Lid), 482 t per eepi )üblin an wick, the Nichols' scounte o '. S. Can. 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Ilugh M'Kcan, 4, Royal Exchange-buildings, Cornhill. DISTRICT AGENTS. Captain R. S. Ridge, 49, Pall-mall, Agent for the West End District Renton Seeley, 2, Hanover-street, Regent-street James Harris, Estate Agent, 29, Lower Belgrave-street, Eaton square, Agent for Knightsbridge and Pimlico District. ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SECOND ,SALE. CUSTOM-HOUSE, London, November, 1855. FOR SALE, by order of the Honourable the Commissioners of her Majesty's Customs, at the Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing-lane, on WEDNESDAY, 21st, THURSDAY, 22d, and FRIDAY, 23d November, 1855, at twelve o'clock at noon precisely, the following GOODS for !tome Consumption, viz.:— Agate Ornaments, Asphaltum, Brussels Lace, Brushes, Boxes, Snuff, &c., Boots and Shoo, Berlin Embroidery, Books, Brandy, Cambric Handkerchiefs, Clocks. Cocoa, Coffee, Cordials, Cotton Articles Daguerreotype Instruments, Drugs, Dressing Gowns, Fire Arms. Furniture, viz.—Gilt Pedestals, Buhl and Carved Wood Cabinets Tables, &c. ; Gold Bracelets, Geneva, Glass Articles, tildes, Ivory Ornaments, Ink, Jewellery (Mock), viz. —Bracelets, Brooches, Lockets, &c., Lace, Brussels and Pillow, %I uskets. Machinery, Needle work, viz.—Handkerchiefs, Collars, Insertion, Toilet Covers, Flounc ing-, &e; Painters' Colours. Platting (Chip and Straw), Paper, Per. fumed Spirits, Plums, Picture Mouldings, Planed Wood, Prints, Rum, Segars, Sacks, empty, Succades, &c., Shirt Fri Arts, Silver Plate, Spirits, Plain and Mixed, Silk Manufactures, viz —Shawls, Vest ments, Trimmings, China Gauze, &c.; Straw Trimming, &c., Sugar, Tobacco, Tea, Toys, Timber, Trouserinz, W aistcoats, Cotton and Silk, Watches, Gold and Silver, Wine, Yarn, Woollen, and various other Goods. Po: Exportation or for Home Consumption, on payment of the Duties:—Mill Boards, Sugar, Spirits, Tea, Coffee, Spices, Succades, Wine, &c: For Exportation only.- Dice, Playing Cards, ancrGin. For the benefit of the Crown : —Old Telescopes, Boat, Spirits, Wioe, kc. • The abOve goods may be viewed at the Queen's Warehouse, Cus tom-house, Thanes-street, at the London. St. Katharine. and West India Docks, A.d Tor, ice° Ground, Rotherhithe, on Monday, the 19th, and Tuesday, thelOth of November, 1855. irom Ten o'clock in the morning until Three o'clock in the afternoon, and on the days of sale from Ten o'clock in the morning until Twi lve o'clock at noon. Take Notice, that goods sold at this sale will not be delivered until after two' clear days of the day on which they are sold, and that no lots can be paid for at the office of the Receiver-Generil after Two •'Clock In the afternoon, and that on the days of sale money will not be received by the Receiver-General atter Eleven o'clock in the Fbrennon. Cataloeues may be had at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom house, Thames-street, price Sixpence each. IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. TIRIESEIVIAIt.—On the 20th of May, 1855, an # injunction was granted by the High Court of Chancery, and .n the 11th June following was made perpelual, against Joseph 'rankliu and others, to restrain them, Envier a penalty of one thou sand pounds, from imitatin,t this Medicine, which is protected by Royal Letters l'atent of England, and secured by the Seals of the Ecole d P iarmacie de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TRIESEMAR, No. 1, A remedy for Relaxation. Sperrnatorrtnua, and Exhaustion of the Ay stem,. whether arising from excesses, accident, or climate. • To theee persons who are prevented entering the married state by he consequences of early errors It Is Invaluable. - (Incorporation of Company for making a Railway from the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, at Stocksfield Station, to join the Stockton and Darlington Railway near Conside Iron Works, with a Branch therefrom to the private Rail way of the Derwent Iron Company, near Crook Hall Furnaces.) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Appli .l-N cation is intended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing Session, for leave to bring in a Bill to incorporate a Company for constructing and maintaining the Railways hereinafter mentioned, or some Part ,or Parts thereof, to gether with all proper Stations, Works, and Conveniences con nected therewith, and approaches thereto (that is to say), First—A Railway commencing at, and proceeding from, the Main Line of the Newcastle upon Tyne and Carlisle Rail way, at or near to a Point One Chain East of the Bridge carrying the road from Old Ridley to Bywell, over tho said Line of such Railway, in the Parish of Bywell Saint Peter's, in the County of Northumberland ; passing from thence from, in, through, or into, or situate within, the seve ral Parishes, Townships, and Extra-Parochial Places, or other Places following, or some of them (that is to say), Bywell Saint Peter's, Bywell Saint -Andrew's, Ovingham, Old Ridley, New Ridley, Bromley, Stocksfield Hall, Apperley, Mickley, Whittonstall, Newlands, Hedley, Hedley Woodside, Elindley, all in the County of Northumberland; and Lanches ter, Ebehester, Medomaley, Benfieldside, Consett, and Knits ley, Ivestone, or Iveston, Shotley, Shotley Bridge, Black Hill, Berry Edge, Lead Gate, Crook Hall, Conside and Con set, Rough Side,-and Rowley, all in the County of Durham, and terminating by a junction with the Main Line of the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company, at or near a Point Twenty-one Chains North-east of the Top of the Hownes Gill Ineline of the said Stockton and Darlington Railway, in the Township of Conside, or Consett, or Conset, and Knitsley, in the Parish of Lanchester, in the County of Durham, immediately adjoining to a Field belonging to Thomas Baker, and occupied by John Robinson, and marked A upon the Plans to be deposited as herein mentioned. - Second—A- Railway, or Branch Railway, commencing at, and by a Junction with, the proposed Railway firstly here inbefore described, at or about a Distance of Eighteen Chains from the Junction thereof with the Stockton and Darlington Railway hereinbefore described, in the Parish of Lanchester, in the County of Durham, iu or near a Field belonging to Thomas Baker, and occupied by John Robinson, and marked B upon the Plans to be deposited as herein . mentioned, passing from thence from, in, through, or into, or be situate within the several Parishes, Townships, and- Extra-Parochial Places, or other Places following, or some of them (that is to say), Lanchester, Conside, or Con sett, or Conset and Knitsley, Ivestone, Iveston, Berry Edge, Lead Gate, Crook Hall, Roughside, and Rowley, all in the County of Durham, and terminating at, and by a -Junction with, the private Railway of the Derwent Iron Company, at or near to-Crook-Hall Furnaces, and.in or near to a field belonging to Thomas Baker, Esq., awl occupied by Thomas Browell, situate in the Parish of Lanchester, and Township of Ivestone or Iveston, in the said County of Dur ham, and marked C upon the Plans to be deposited as here in mentioned. And it is intended by such Bill to incorpo rate a Company for the purpose of carrying the said Under taking into effect, and to apply for and take the following Powers, or Sofnb of them (that is to say), to cross upon the Level, or under, or over, or to divert, alter, or stop up,'whether temporarily or permanently, all or any Turnpike Roads, or Other Roads, Watercourses, Streams, Rivers, High ways, Streets, Railways, Canals, Tramways, Sewers, or Drains, within the aforesaid Parishes, Townships, Extra Pa rochial Places; or other places, or any of them, which may be required to be crossed, diverted, altered, or stopped up for the purposes of the said intended Railway and Branch Railway, and Works: Also for the Compulsury Pur chase of Lands and Houses for the Construction of • the said Railway and Branch Railway, and the Works connected therewith respectively. Also for Power to purchase Land's icy Agreement, and to take Leases thereof, and to vary or extinguish all Rights and Privileges in any Manner con nected with the Lands, Houses, Tenements,- and Heredi taments proposed to be taken, and which would in any Nianner imps de or interfere with the Construction, Mainte :lance, or Use of the sa , d intended Railway and Branch Railway, or Works, and to acquire Rights of Way by Agree ment over the same, and to enable the Owners of any such Lands to grant such Leases or Rights of Way. And also to purchase by Agreement, and use, private Railways and TraMways ; and also to levy Tolls, Rates, and Dut-es, for or in respect of the said intended Railway and Brauli Rail- Works, vary 7 d atnoyeoen.fiesrt existing other Rights Tolls, Rates,. and or Privileges, Duties, and to o a alter n V o o r k r r e d . t t o o f confer, vary, Tolls, aexiattilliDguuitsihe,,,Exaenr7ttoionesunfif•corm, vary, or extinguish such other Rights and Privileges as may be expedient, and also to make all necessary Traffic Arrange ments with the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway Company, and with the North-Eastern Railway Company, and the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company, or any of them, or with any other Company, Corporation, Person, or Per sons, whose Line or Lines of Railway join, or shall commu nicate with, the said proposed Railway and Works respec tively. And it also intended by the said Act to authorise lateral Deviations in the Construction of the said intended Railway and Works respectively, to the Extent or within the Limits laid down in the Plans to be deposited as hereinafter mentioned. And Notice is hereby further given, that Duplicate Plans and Sections, describing the Lines, Situation, and Levels, of the said intended Railway and Branch Railway, and other the Works aforesaid, and the Lands through which the same are intended to pass or be made, with Books of Reference to such Plans, containing the names of the Owners, or Reputed Owners, Lessees or Reputed Lessees, and Occupiers of such Lands, and a published Map, with the Lines of the said intended Railway and a Branch Rail way delineated theron, and a Copy of this Notice, as pub lished in the London Gazette, will; on or before the Thirtieth Day of November instant, be deposited for Public Inspection with the Clerk of the Peace for the County of Northumber land, at his Office at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and with the Clerk of the Peace for the County of Durham, at his Office at Durham; and that Copies of so much of the said Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference, as relates to each of the several Parishes and Extra-Parochial Places in or through which the intended Railway and Branch Railway, and Works, are proposed to be made, together with a Copy of the Gazette Notice, will be deposited on or before the said Thirtieth Day of November instant, with the Parish Clerk of each such Parish, at his Residence ; and in the Case of any Extra-Parochial Places, with the Parish Clerk of some Parish adjoining thereto, at his Residence. Printed Copies of such Bill will, on or before the Thirty first Day of December next, be deposited in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons. Dated this Fourteenth Day of NoTember, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-Five: ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAURENT'S CASINO NOW OPEN for the winter season. The followin, iusie will be performed by his celebrated Band during; he week : March aux Flambeaux. Waltzes —The I.W f the Valley (D'Albert), Zephir (Gung'l), Fenella (Tinney). Kthel Neweome (Laurent), La Sultano (Ltosisio). Quadrilles -I.e `?oi du Pastel (Lamotte), Les tlugenots (Laurent), Palermo (D'Al ert), Bride of Lammermoor (Tenney), Il Trovatore (Tutton). t.oikas—Des Hulands (Lamotte), Italic (Gavtolo), The Lillian (D'Al ,ert), Des Coueous (Bou.4quet). The Zouaves (Laurent). Galops— 'he Imperial Guards (Laurent), The F eela (Streather). Schottische —La Guirlande de Fleurs (Boaquet), La Varsoviana (Laurent). Prin ipal Cornet a Piston, M. Bouleours.—Doors open at S. Admission no Shilling. 0* Saturday next, the 17th, 11. Laurent's new Varsoviana will be played for the first time. TO LOVERS OF FISH.-100 GENUINE YARMOUT it BLoATERS for N , package included. THESE HIGHLY ESTEEMED DELICACIES AND CHEAP TRIESEMAR, No. 2, tiectually, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely .radicates all traces of those Disorders which Capivi and Cubebs ave so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health )f a vast portion of the population. • TRIESEMAR, No. 3, is the peat Continental Remedy for that class of Disorders, wb141 3 unfortupately the . English physician treats with Bferettry, to the In evitable destruction of the patient's constitution, and Which ail the sarsaparilla in the world cannot remove. TRItSRMAR, No. 1,2, and 3, are alike devoid of taste or smell, And of all nauseating qualities. They may lie on the toilet table without their use being suspected. •old in tin cases at I Is. each, free by post, 25. extra, divided bite , oparate doses, as administered by Valpeau, Lallemand, Roux, kc., Etc.—To be had Wholesale and Retail in London of Johnston, 68, Gornhill;, Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; and Sanger, I's°, Ox ford-street ; R. H. Ingham, drugg4st, 46, H arket-street, Manchester ; H. Bradbury, bookieller, Deansgate, Bolton ; J. Priestly, chemist, 52, Lard-street, Liverpool; Powell, bookseller, 15, Westmoreland-street , Babliri; Winnall. bookseller. High-street, Birmingham. rtIM'SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY 'ad published, price 25., illustrated with cases; free by post for 26 stamps, V.ERVOUS DEBILITY; 1 Its Causes, Symptoms, and Cure.—An Essay on Sper natorthons, with Practical Observations on a safer and more ineceiat4 mode of treatment of the diseases of the Generative ,ystem, - obtained by the use' of the Microscope in detecting and tistinguithing, by urinary examination, the real cause and effect of sa d n 'eery i variety of complaint, whether arising from solitary habits, •xcesies, accident, or climate, followed by practical Teti arks , founded :dtsvon the enty dangerous remedies in the treatment of ImPuissanno, nervous dedrvoa as Debility, Local Weakness, Spermatorrhesa„ &c.. To which . Commentaries on the Physiology o: Marriage, with pre utioary hints on the evils emanating from empirical practice, remedies advocated by various writers on heae , to , po t disorders. g , B z 1_ ,,8Y SAMUEL LA'MBRT M.D. ouzgh, honorary IPORD-SQU A lE, LONDON, octOr of Mediet o e.allatrienlated Member of the University of Eat, sca t:tabor of the London Hospital Medical Society, f.iCentiate of Apoth rite essential object of U,sll, London, Ike., Pal. ,hick have produced more aq fiances resulting from curtain a treatise i is to point oat the fearful con !nun habits, irregularities, and excesses, ,od, and premature decay at a 11317 in Youth, degradation in Man _ stages of Life, than, perhaps, aus• ern pathologists. Its perusal is her class of disease to i y ea r l eco so m mu m tt er , mended wpersh: entertaining secret doubts of ? s na re so swath, happiness, and privileges to conscious of having hazarded es Which every human being is entitled: I. a .e rt ir ic p ul h a ys rl It is absohltelY veeessary that all men Should know, that there are rinciples of persar.al management which cannot b e violated without :caring gr ievous penalties , and when wisdo m and regret succeed le ,heyday of inco nsiderate self-indulgen ce , how _ "If s e penalties say be mitigated. hese the sting of bitternes s their may be removed nd how the evil and its Consequences may be *voide r , a at there Is scarcely tiny doge° of physicai inenni.:, orOd above all _functions' 4 rangement to which the t imely aid of science cannot app ly Pply a cure 'nll Author has for a series of years beet engaged in an extensiv , :attice in the treatment of these delicate Complaints, Whi c h ' h a y, tatortunately been too generally confided to the care of ignore._, emeiries, who inflict great injari on those who are induced to iliac faith in theirpretansions. NERVOUS DEBILITY slay be had price 2s, of Messrs. Sher wood and Co., 13, Paternoster-row: 'Hannay, 63, Oxford -street ; ti , rne, 19, Leicester-square; Mann, 39, Cornhill ;. or free by post fni , 6 4tervpe to ant address from the Author's residence, 37, Boa. ford-innate, At home for consultation daily fora e leven till two, and from six till etibt. a. ; . y ~. _ _ _ _ TOZEAU'S COPAHINE, or SACCHARATED C 4.PSULES.—Copaiba and Cubebs are, doubtless, the best remedies, but, these drugs are of a repulsive taste and odour, and occasion colicky NAM, nausea, and gastric disturbance. St. JOZEAU has succeeded in rendering these valuable therapeutic agents perfectly innocuous, by increasing in his Copahine all their curative pro- perties. This important preparation has been adopted by the Paris Academy of Medicine, after more than 1,000 trials In the Paris and different London hospitals, viz , St. Thomas's, Guy's, and Bar tholomew's, under the care of Messrs. Lloyd, Poland, and Legros Clerk. (See " Lancet " Nov. 6, and Dec. 10, 1852, a copy of which will be forwarded on application.) The Copahine, which is in the form of a pretty pink sugar plum, effects a cure in about six days, either in recent or chronic diseases. One hundred capsules, 4s. 6d. ; 50, 2s. 9d.—To be had of the Inventor, G. Jozeau, sole French Chemist, 49, Haymarket, London, and all the most important chemists. TESTING A NEW COLOSSAL ORGAN FOR THE CHURCH OF ST. NEOT'S, HUNTINGDON.—On Tuesday evening a number of influential clergymen and musicians connected with places of public worship in the metropolis, attended at the manufactory of Mr. G. M. Holdich, organ builder, in the New-road, King's cross, to hear one of the most splendid organs ever before erected tested, prior to its removal to the parish church of St. Neot's. This beau tiful instrument is constructed on the Germap principle, and oonsists of three distinct sets of manuals, with an independent pedal organ. The stops are thirty-four in number. The diapasons, of which there are four in the great orgar, are grave, smooth, and sonorous. The mixtures are bright, subdued, and well-balanced, the unison reed extremely fine, the swells exceedingly effec tive, and the shades when opened pouring forth a com plete flood of musical sound upon the ear. The choir organ is very delicate, and has superior imitative stops. The tones of the pedal open diapason are fine, giving that peculiar double bass effect for which this stop was evidently intended. The general character of the St. Neot's organ is good, mixing well, and producing a rich equal volume of tone, free from all harshness. The manufacturer has evidently taken much pains in secur ing a natural instead of a forced tone from the various stops, an important point often neglected by other builders of modern colossal instruments. Mr. Corelli Beer, organist of St. Peter's. Pimlico, who performed at the Great Exhibition in 1851, presided, and gave gene ral satisfaction by playing a well-selected and classical programme. The overtures to " Euryanthe " and " Grahame Tell " were magaifieently executed The organ was yesterday removed to St. Neot's, under the r penes* ouperiutesdouoo of Air. ,~v.i ( From the Times of this day.) The continual and rapid growth of the Russian empire, north, south, east, and west, for a century and a half, has been described as the most marvel lous fact of modern times. But there is another fact equally strange and portentous, and that is the continual state of passive apprehension in the face of which. this growth has taken place.. Europe has not slept ; she has not been hoodwinked ; she has not been deceived ; nor has hers been an indefinite alarm. As in a trance, with her eyes open, but her hands tied, she has seen Russia advancing upon her nearer and nearer, larger and larger ; occupy ing more and more space in the Eastern horizon ; spreading her wings from the Arctic Circle to the southern shores of the Euxine, and penetrating into the very heart of the Continent. Europe has known beforehand every step of this progress. There never was a time since the days of Peter the Great in which the whole game of aggrandisement and the next move in it were not obvious to all reasonable men. It only so happens that the op portunity of preventing what everybody foresaw has never yet occurred. On the other hand there has been a remarkable series of occasions when the embroilment of Europe, or some more present danger, gave Russia the opportunity of doing that which a few years before all Europe would pro bably have banded to prohibit. We have before us a pamphlet by no ordinary hand, which shows that in the year 1781, on the very eve of .the French Revolution, Russikpresenbedjust the same aspect to English vigilance as shealcl - 11148434 , Yes, 64 years ago our more observant politicians saw and denounced her restless ambition, her un scrupulous policy, her art of profiting by the divisions of her neighbours, her sudden proffers of friendship when a purpose was to be served, her subsequent treacheries, and the rapid strides by which she was ever advancing. Her cherished schemes had even then been all un masked,—her design to close the Baltic and the Black Sea ; to wind round into the Scandinavian peninsula ; to occupy the shores of the Bosphorus ; to command the trade of the Levant and the over land passage to India.; to embrace both Europe, and Asia in her fatal grasp, and so become the mistress of the world. All this was then foreseen, and much of it has since been accomplished in the very face of our foreknowledge. Divided among ourselves, engaged in a war of principles, alarmed by revolution, amused by social changes, pursuing schemes of commercial policy, and flattering our selves with the hopes of a speedy millennium, we have gazed with idle wonder at a giant Power, which, without divisions, without change, without principles, without progress, without opinion, without heart or soul—with nothing but one simple idea of universal dominion, grew every day, and spread the net, and dug the pit, and accumu lated the stores for the conquest of the world. The pamphlet to which we refer was directed against " the principle which some gentlemen of late had laboured to establish, that peace can and ought to be preserved under all possible circum stances ;" and the particular occasion which eli cited it was the report that Sweden and Denmark had been persuaded to defend the entrance of the Baltic while the Arms of Russia drove the Turks into Asia. The writer points out, what events have since verified, and what has just now a parti cular application, that the two nations commanding the entrance to the Baltic formed, as it were, by nature to prescribe bounds to the ambition of Russia, at least on one side of her extensive empire —who ought to be securities to the rest of Europe for her good behaviour—had repeatedly felt the effects of her power, had the most to apprehend from it, and knew how little they could count on her equity and moderation. England herself had frequently • experienced the precarious nature of Russian friendship, and knew not what to expect from her. But what made the country deaf to all warnings against her ambition was the 'old idea that Russia was an ancient and natural ally, and the unhappy circumstance that Englishmen could only imagine one war, and that was with the House of Bourbon in France and Spain. The pamphleteer indeed, though otherwise sagacious enough, par took of this latter delusion, and only argued that Russia, on the supposition of her friendship, was not likely to help us very effectually against the then immense fleets of those two countries. As to Russia being an ancient and natural ally, he says, " If the antiquity of alliances is an argument for preserving them, the Turk has a prior claim to the Muscovite to our friendship ; and this claim is strengthened by the consideration that he is the only power in Europe with whom we have never been in hostility, not even through the checkered and collateral means of alliances with other States." The designs of Russia be describes, be it observed, 64 years ago, in the very terms vith which we are now too familiar :—" A spirit of conquest has uni formly marked the conduct of Russia since Peter the Great laid the foundation of that greatness which threatens to overwhelm us. Nothing less than the full possession of Constantinople and the Black Sea at least will satisfy her inordinate ambi tion. In possession of the Euxine at one extremity of Europe, and of the Baltic at the other, she will encircle the fairest and best cultivated portion of the globe." So the writer justly Sayi---" The so le question to be considered is how far it is consistent with the safety of the British Government to per mit the Russians to extinguish the Turkish em pire and establish their dominion on the Bos phorus." The consequences of a dominion so established he follows out without any extrava gance, as it appears to us, to the occupation of Egypt, the possession of the Red Sea, and the ultimate supremacy of Russia in the East. tier designs upon Finland, since accomplished, the author treats in the same way, and his remarks ,3xcite a most painful regret that there was no one to protest against the actual annexation of that pro vince as vigorously and successfully as in 1748, when the King of. Prussia met the hostile prepara tions of the Czar with a remonstrance backed by the threat of 150,000 men. Then, as now, the writer had to meet the objec tions, already old, that Russia was geographically " unattackable ;" that a war with her would de prive us of tallow and other raw material, and cut off a market for our own manufactures ; and that Russia had a species of right to enlarge her borders among her weaker neighbours, which right we had no business to gainsay or restrict till we found our selves the immediate object of attack. He argued, as has lately been argued by our own statesmen, and as the event has fully justified, that ir e can crush Russia whenever we think proper to put forth our strength. This, indeed, he said in 1791 of England alone, and it is no great won der if in 1853 we only ventured to say this of the two great Western Powers. He predicted, indeed, that the task must be more difficult year by year ) and ac cordingly asks—" first, whether it is equitable and politic that the Turk should be .driven out of Eu rope, from the promontory dividing and connect ing the Euxine and Mediterranean ; secondly, whether it is consistent with the safety of Great Britain to allow the Court of St. Petersburg to found, as it were, a new sovereignty on the de struction of the Ottoman empire." Assuming the only possible answer to these questions, he proceeds —" How can Ministers acquit themselves to their Sovereign, their country, and posterity, if they ' should permit a Power to rise into existence, and grow to maturity, that will n ot only eclipse, but that may eventually ex ti ng uish the very name ' of Britain 1" He proceeds to point out that other Powers aiming at universal empire had been so dealt with ; that France herself had been forced to confine her dominion in Europe between the Rhine and the Pyrenees ; and he o nl y applies the same measure t o Russia :—" Why should Russia claim an exemption from restrictions to which other S.overeigus have submitted ? Why should Russia be'suffered to acqui re an addition of force that may enable her to prescribe the law im periously to surrounding nations, and become the arbitress of the world t" And the writer addi, "It is not against what she will, but against what she s be havetter, e may hereafter do, that we are tog uard ; and we all to pr had th event know that it is easier, a s well a W oppression than to resist." harder task—the resistance to an act of oppression long prepared, and backed with the whole force of Russia. The increase of difficulty is the price we pay for our protracted sufferance. We have at last been obliged to come to the very expedient suggested by the writer before us, and whi c h 64 years ago would doubtless h ave been more effectual. " A. British fleet at this instant," he says, " in the Baltic would, perhaps, operate more strongly in persuading Russia to restore peace to Turkey, and leave our ally in repose, than all the rhetoric and all the arguments in favour of equity and expe diency that the noble lord in the Foreign Depart ment and the two gentlenien on mission at St. Petersburg could possibly advance." W e nee d hardly say what noble lor d or .what gentlemen in the British Parliament will suggest- tAiemselyes to the reader of this passage. We are now sufficiently aware of the superior efficacyof a fleet in the Baltic ouci another is CA Y 1 01i bee , comma witu - . AUSTRALIA. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY. By the Overland Mail we have received com mercial advices from Melbourne, 15 days later than those brought by the West India mail steamer Atrato. The advices, which are to the 30th of August inol,usive, were delivered at Ceylon on the 14th ult., in 39 days from Melbourne, by the " White Star " clipper ship Arabian. This vessel's run from Liverpool to Ceylon, via Melbourne, where she landed a full complement of passengers and discharged upwards of 1,000 tons of cargo, occupied only four months and 20 days, the quickest on record. The clipper ship Oliver Lang sailed from Mel boiirne on the 23d of Atgusti and the White Star on the 30th, for Liverpool. The Kent was an nounced to sail positively on the 13th of September. These ships will bring on freight gold vilified at 1,000,0001. sterling. - Besides 80,000 ounces of gold, the White Star has on board 70 tons of South Australian smelted copper for Birmingham and London, via Liverpool, 1,000 bales of wood, and 150 passengers. The Merlin arrived at Melbourne on the 20th of August. The Donald M'Kay, with the mails of the 6th of June, reached on the 26th of August, from .Liverpool. • • : As regards the gold-yielding qualities of Austra lia, we learn that the quantity being produced was decidedly on the increase, not only at the older fields, but also at those more recently discovered, and not merely was the gold produce increasing in amount, but the prospects in regard to the supply were almost daily improving, not only by an eaten■ sion of the area of those fields which were familiar, but by the successful workings of others lately opened. The progress of discovery was principally in the direction of the north-west portion of the colony, although accounts had lately been received of a favourable character from parties who had been " prospecting" to the eastward. As regards immigration, we find from the re turns that the balance of arrivals over departures for the portion of the year which terminated on the 25th of August was 40,172, or about 5,000 a month, a rate of increase which, omitting natural causes, would double the population in four years. The Exports of gold and other produce from Mel bourne for the second quarter of 1855 were of the value of 2,952,692/.against 2,286,5651. for the same p -riod in 1854. The quantity shipped to Great Britain was of the value of 2,675,998/.in 1855, and 1,723,1871. in 1854. The total value of the ex ports from the colony of Victoria for the second quarter of 1855 was 3,025,8221. against, for the same period in 1854, 2,500,5801. We also per ceive that in the increase of the total exports of the colony of Victoria there is an increase of the quan tity of the staple productions, and not simply of the value of goods reshipped ; and also that the in crease has not been to the neighbouring colonies — not to America and other foreign States—but con sists of bona fide shipments of produce to the United Kingdom. The contrast exhibited by the imports is almost favourable. Instead of those ex ceeding the exports by an amount which used to be disheartening, they are now so reduced in amount that the exports much more than balance them. This must eventually improve the internal trade and commerce of Australia. The Melbourne markets generally during the month of August were characterised by an extent of dulness to which the past three years of colonial experience afford no parallel. Rides were a shade lower, the vessels now on the berth being full, and shippers inactive. There was a marked improvement_ in_ iron mongery generally. . In dry goods very little was doing, but there were numerous inquiries for spring goods,• on which a fair profit could be obtained. For timber there was not much demand, but prices were unaltered. •- - The quotations for wool were 6d. to Bd. per lb., in grease ; ls. 3id. to ls. sid. for superior fleece ; Is. 2d. to is. 3d. for good to middling ; and ls, to ls. ld. for inferior fleeces. There was very little offering. Tallow was offering at 581. to 681. per ton for mutton, and a 381. for beef tallow. Liverpool coarse salt was selling at 51.105. to 61. per ton ; 81. to 81. 103. for fine ; and at 41. to 41. 10s. for inferior. In freights, the rates quoted were—to London, wool, Id. per lb:; tallow, 40s. per ton ; gold, iu quantities of or above 1,000 ounces, 4d. per ounce, and dead weight 40s. per too. To Liverpool— wool, -id. per lb. ; light goods, 40s. per ton. To Bristol—wool, id. per lb. ; tallow, 60s. per ton ; light goods, 60s. per ton ; and hides, 50s. per ton. The following are the latest gold circulars re ceived : " Melbourne, Aug. 25. " Gold continues at 765. 6d., with little demand since the sailing of the Ballarat. Number of persons arrived 1,114 Number that have left... Addition this week 797, and year 40,172 "The escorts have brought from— Mount Alexander and Bendigo... 19,212 ounces. Ballarat, including Geelong 14,416 Mary borough 7;281 Daisy Hill Avoca 472 Ounces. Amount this week 43,554, year 1,275,589 Gold shipped in 1855 Per Tornado t 3 C a l cutta 5,419 Per Telegraph t o S y d ney Per Oliver Lan g t o Li verpool 250 Per Bombay t o Hong-Kong 1,555,626 " Exchange on London—Draughts against gold taken at par. "Freight of gold, 4d. per ounce, delivered at the Bullion-office, Bank of England, Landon. Insurance, 2i per cent. " EDWARD KFILILL, Bullion Broker." " GRRLONG, Aug. 25.—There has bees no alteration in the buying price since last circular; it remains steady at 765. 9d. There has been very-little business doing in town. The diggers' lots offered have been few ; but at the same time there seems no very great anxiety to pur chase, nor need it be expected till on the eve of the sail ing of the next English vessel. " In the Ballarat district a good deal of attention is directed to the Buninyong Ranges, at present the scene of some rushes. These ranges have long been noticed as without doubt auriferous, and great results prophe sied on the opening of th e m up. Now a good many are already doing well there, and it bids fair to be a favourite quarter. " Wardy Yallock is still prosperous. The several fields are spoken well of. The district is increasing in its population daily. "It is reported that something good has been met with at Lake Omeo, and that those at present there are getting richly remunerated. It will be recollected that this quarter was prospected the first season of gold-find ing, but without any great result. Although gold was got, the quantity was not a sufficient recompence for the toil and expense in such a cold and inclement quarter. "The other fields aro this week reported mith-about the usual success. _ " Quartz•crushing is getting more and more in favour, and a great many must be by this time engaged in that line, but as yet there appears very little of the result (amalgamated gold) in the market. " Since last circular there lias arrived by escort as follows : oz. dwt . Castlemaine escort 20,611 17 Maryborough ~ Avoca If Ballarat ~ Total.. 41,207 7 " Exchange on London.—The banks at present sell their draughts on London at 2 per cent. premium, and buy at par. " Freight of gold delivered in London, 4id. per oz. ; insurance on ditto, 2 guineas per cent.. exclusive of the war risk. " W. ROBESON." MTSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE or ALA t: —Yesterday morning the walls of the metropolis were placarded with hills offering a large reward from the friends of a lady named Armond, residing at Greenwich, aged 70 years, vho has been missing under most extraordinary circuni stances. Mrs. Armond, it appears, was seen near Kent street, Borough, on Sunday night, about 10 o'clock ; since which time, notwithstanding all the inquiries at the hospittls, workhouses, and police-stations, nothing has been heard of her; and now it is feared that she has 0 0 4 wo6sicl 1aiD4.46114 • -< BANKING DEPARTMENT. Before After additional additional issue. issue. Dr. Capital Rest 3,000 031 3,000,000 Deposits 15,003,0)0 15,000,000 Bank post bills 33,500,000 33,500,000 Cr. -- Securities . Reserve 33,500,030 33,500,000 It is apparent that an accession to the reserve of the Bank of 500,0001. would be wholly inadequate to offer the prospects of results which according to some un• founde 1 statements have induced the entire banking community to petition the Government on the subject. The enlargement would not affect in any sensible degree the value of money or the Bank rate of discount, and it would be speedily absorbed by the heavy foreign expen diture of the Government. Indeed within a very short time from the alteration being made we may find the ac• counts of the Bank stand thus : ARTICLE OF FOOD forwarded to all parts, on receipt of penny postage stamps or P. 0.0 (preferred). send full and plain direction, county, and near, st sta tion.—Address THOS. LETTIS. jun., Fish Curer, Gt. Yai mouth. "This is the third season Mr. Lettis has supplied us with Yar mouth bloaters, and we find the quality excellent.—J. Brashowe, house steward, Blenheim PIZ see.— Oct. 20, 1854," " Mr. Lettis,—As soon as you send out your genuine bloaters, I shall be glad to have a supply as usual; those I had last year gave great satisfaction.— k. F. Courroux, Ambassador's Coto t, St. James's Palace.—Oct. 1. 1855." MR. HOWARD, Surgeon-Dentist, 52, Fleet street, has introduced an entirely new description of ARTI FICIAL TEETH, fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so perfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from the original by the closest observer; they will never change colour or decay, and will be found very superior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not require the extraction of roets, or any painful operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth rendered sound and useful in mastication.--52, Fleet-street. At home from ten till five. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Dr. Notes with the public £20,000,000 Notes with the Bank 5,000,000 25,000,000 Cr. .... S.:3CM Woe 30,500,000 14,500,000 25,000, 000 BANKING DEPAItTIIENT. Dr. Capital Rest Deposits Bank post bills £14,500,001 . 3,C00,000 15,003,000 1,000,000 - £33,500,000 Cr. Securities Reserve .. .. i:28,500,000 .. 5,000,000 £33,5C3,000 . Thus the banking department of the Bank , will be restored to its ft , rmer position, and the entire measure will have been unmarked by any disturbance in prices or the slighte9t interference with mercantile operations. Aleanwhile, however, the country' will have paid bills from the Commissariat in the East for 500,0001., or will have advanced half the stipulated loan to Sardinia from the means which the operation rendered available. WINTER CIRCUIT OF THE JUDGES. Yesterday the judges appointed to hold the special commission of assiz and winter gaol delivery, pursuant to the warrant signed by the Right Hon. Lord Cran worth, the Lord High Chancellor, with the approbation of her Majesty in Council, for such counties on the Northern, Midland, and Oxford Circuits is which it has been represented to the Crown it was necessary such assize should be holden, finally fixed the days and places for holding such assize of over and torminer and general gaol delivery, and returned the same to the Crown•ofce. The following aro the circuits, and the days and places fixed : NORTHERN CIRCUIT. Judges, the Hon. Mr. Baron Martin and the Hon. Mr. Justice Willes. Northumberland, Monday Dec. 3, at Newcastle ; Town of Newcastle, the same day, at the same pllce. Durham, Wednesday, Dec. 5, at the Castle at Durham. Yorkshire, Saturday, Dee. 8, at York Castle ; City of York, the same (lay, at the Guildhall of the city. MIDLAND AND CHESTER CIRCUIT. Judge, the Hon Sir Cresswell Cresswell, Knt., one of the judges of the Common Pleas. Cheshire, Saturday, 1) 3 0. 1, at the Castle of Chester ; City of Chester, the same day, at the Guildhall of tne City, Derbyshire, Thursday, Dee. 6, at Derby. Nottinghamshire, Monday, Dec. 10, at Nottingham ; Town of Nottingham, the same day, at the same place. Warwickshire, Thursday, Dec. 13, at the Castle at Warwick. OXFORD ♦ND SOUTH WALES CIRCUIT. Judge, the T-lon. Sir Ed. Vaughan Williams, ono of the judges of the Common Pleas. Staffordshire, Saturday, Dec. 1, at the Castle at Stafford. Worcestershire, Thurs day, Doc. 6, at Worcester ; City of Worcester the same day, at the Guildhall of the city. Gloucestershire, Mon day, Dec. 10, at Gl , )ucester ; City of Gloucester, the same day, at the same place. Herefordshire, Friday, Dec. 14, at Monmouth, South Wales ; Glamorgausbire, Tuesday, Dec. 18, at Cardiff. The days and places on the Western and Home Circuits, as also Liverpool, are not yet finally fixed. The Messager de Gand states that since the arrest o Madame Van Thielen on suspicion of being connected with the murder of the Marquise d'Ennetires at Somer gen, she has undergone several interrogatories by the examining magistrate. - She _firenly.porsists in the decla rations which she had previously made of her complete ignorance of everything connected with the crime. EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO COMPANY.—At a meeting of this company held on Wednesday—Mr. H. H. Lindsay presiding—the report and accounts were unanimously adopted. The progress of operations is stated to be satisfactory, but, although the amount of revenue has nearly reached the expenditure, three calls are to be made between January asd July to meet the liabilities incurred in building the screw-steamer Labuan, and supplying other requisite means for developing the under taking. It appears that Mr. Radford, the superintend ent,_ has entered into an arrangement with the Sultan of Borneo, by which, instead of paying a duty of one di per ton on the produce of the Moarro mines, an . allow ance of 3,000 dols. per annum is settled as a royalty , ina I . n . addition to an immediate payment of 3,500 dole. in e ''-' have the The coal is described to be good, and the works of steadily advanced. The reports on the coal supplied to the Peninsular and Orientaluscipi Serteatom qCuoems pany continued to be favourable. tions, it was mentioned that the subj ect t and an still under the consideration of the ti v a e r o n f ra t b e e n charter ., — he N r v e e sult fast adjournment was agreed to for ascoer:ainFiltlat. BROADSTAIRS.—TH z WRE ci c week alluded to delay in the r i va l of the Ramsgat e 1) o engine when the brig H A i oee' oenP or t e mouth, took fir e o ff this place. W d that after it got to Broad stairs, and waseraera-dynfrwfor working, a large number of boatmen, calling themselves the salvors of the vessel, who had the charge of the engine, rushed upon those itth over v fi e flames. e h s e and threatened to w out the hosteo a e n x d tio t g h o ro is w h pier if any attempt was possession of the hose; They subsequently from the vessel to the • which they hauled pier, and f o rcibly presented the use of proper means to put out the fire for m ore than an hour, while, as the tide was ebbing, th e fire was extending fro m stem to stern. At last Lieutenant Wells, of the Coast Guard ser vice, b oa rded the brig an d i nduced the miscalled “ sa lvors" to permit the working of the engine, when tke d ames were speedily and effectually extirguiehed. The reason assigned by the boatmen for their disgraceful con (luet was, that in cane the flames should be put out by 'the engine the superintendent would have a claim with them for salvage. Had the engine been allowed to work at first the vessel would have been worth at least 2001. !Gore ; and if it had not been got into play at all the hull would have been burned to the water's edge, and i F r spars totally lost. The 'circumstances of this case have been s u b m i tte d to J . C ut l er , E sq ., L or d Warden's ' deputy, and through hiwito the Board of Trado.—Scou (MA 4. 0 0744 , . _ _ - THE TERMINATION OF THE INQUEST. On Wednesday the adjourned inquest was resumed at Low Walker, at the house of Mr. Stewart, the juryms L who, from indisposition, was unable to attend last forts. night. During the interim he had sufficiently recovered to hear evidence, but was still unable to leave his house, hence the jury assembling as above, in order to finish the inquest. Mr. M. Dunn, Government inspector, was again in at. tendance to assist the inquiry. The Coroner, before calling witnesses, read over the evidence previously tendered, in order to refresh the minds of the jury. Mr. M. Dunn, Government inspector of mines, then read the following paper relative to boiler explosions : " I have thought proper to lay before the jury assem bled at Walker a few extracts relative to the power of steam, under various circumstances, as bearing upon the inquiry now before the coroner and jury, which may probably serve to lead to the consideration of circum stances by scientific purposes ; but, after duly consider ing these and other similar circumstances, I have come to the conclusion that the explosion has originated, from whatever cause, in the proper quantity of water in the boiler having been wanting. " Such want of water might take place from neglect of the person in charge, or it might take place from the priming of one boiler into the other, up the steam or feed-pipes, by which means the boilers were intercommu nicated. The boilers would appear to have been well guarded against such an accident, each boiler having duplicate safety and feed valves, the latter being fur ' wished with flaps, within the boiler, for the prevention of the priming. Notwithstanding these precautions the boiler seems to have undergone undue heat ; and although there is no evidence to show that any new feed had been recently admitted, yet I conceive that it is very possible that the agitation of the steam might throw the water within the boiler upon the plates, already so betas to occasion an instantaneous undue expansion of steam, and to produce the explosion. " I am, therefore, against the opinion that hydrogen gas has occasioned the catastrophe ; because it will not explode at an ordinary red heat, and it could not com municate with the bailer fires. " With respect to the prevention of such accidents, and under the impression that they tt'inost always origi nate from want of water (unless the safety-valve either goes wrong or is overweighted), I am greatly of opinion that the revival of an old practice would be advantageous, viz., to adopt a plug of lead or some alloy which would melt or consume at a temperature approaching 350 (legs. as explained by experiment, to red heat, such plug to be placed in a tube boil , r, at the upper part of the tube ; and in a common cylindrical boiler half-way between the surface of the water and the boiler bottom. The said plug once consumed, the steam and water would rush out and recall immediate attention to the boiler, which must necessarily then be k.ft to cool down, during which the steam valves would be - oktied7 "It would be quite proper, whilst the boiler was being cleaned, to punch out the said plug and substitute a new one. " The advantage of this over many other devices is its extreme simplicity and freedom from friction or com plicity. Ac any rate, I trust that these remarks will cause investigation and decision amongst practical en gineers, so as to diminish these appalling mischiefs. "It is &so an excellent precaution to adopt a flap, er hcrse.foot valve, at the foot of the feed pipe, to prevent priming up that pipe. " MATTHIAS DUNN, Government Inspcctor of Mines." " P.S. I aid to the above report some experiments made by Mr. Ilornsley, et3gineer, &Thin, at my re quest, to show the rate of steam dimiLutien under dif ferent circumstances, the boiler beino. 27:j feet in length, 6 feet in diameter, and the safety-valve having au area of 3 inches: _ _ Steam indicator, At the end of 25 lbs. 5 min. 10 min. 15 min. -20 min. lbs. lbs.. lbs. lbs. 1. Fire-door open 231 203 18 16 2. Fire damped 2l 181 16 14 3. Fire pulled out 221 19 16 131 The Coroner briefly summed up, after which the jury returned a verdict cf "Accidental death." GENERAL TOTLEBEN. The following biographical notice of General Totleben we take from the 11 7 e14, Prussian Gazette : Francis Edward Totleben was born at Mitau, in Cour land, on the 20th of May, 1818. His father was J. H. Totleben, and his mother's maiden name was A. Sophia Sander. His father having removed his business to Riga, took there his young son, and soon after died. After receiving the first portion of his educatiou in the I schools of Riga, the young Totleben was reeetuverga, at the College of Engineers in St. Peterbold, of Peters b o ld, his name now shines, engraved in letters g with the inscription, " Sebastopol." When the war broke out he was second carps of field engineers ; he distingm ahrupaign, and re paired General Schilder in the Danubia captain ni eelf u i n n the e r open city longs to history. Out of , an .11 formidable fortress, to the Crimea. What be didtycatbeSsehuacseteoepdoeldbien. tha raising, under the enemy. fire, a year he passed through a ;eilf me gig antic efforts of the tlbleauntenant-colonel, full colonel, enema, and received, amongst e t d resisted arm ies for i n n e l a e r4 , raotflosnaoinftthGeeo4rtglie,, awnhdiethhe.ti the grades of captam t • general adjutan -g other distinction is only conferred for distinguished deeds. Seldom has a ineegeneral of brigade received this high distinction. orafatj:er-3gle c lass . of s'ththeeodrdeceor Besides himself, it was only conferred on his noble coin a„ion in areas at Sebastopol, Pri nce W ass il tc hik o ff, ' w ho, more fortunate than he, was able to remain at his post to the last hour, whereas Totleben, having been wounded in the foot., had to be carried out of the be. sieged city. Strange to say, so rapid a _promotion has not excited the least envy, but liiitTen saluted with acclamations, as being due to real merit—to courage combined with genius, HIGIIWAY ROBBERY.—On Tuesday evening last Mr. James Pearson, corn miller, of Sams Mill, Horton, near Bradford, was attacked by three men, and robbed of a large iutri of money, nearly 3001., while on his way from Bradford to his residence at Sams Mill. Mr. Pearson, who:had been attending Leeds corn-market, arrived its Bradford about 6 o'clock on Tuesday evening, and about an hour afterwards be departed on foot in the direction of his own residence. When he had got to the eewdhoolges place called Brick-lane he observed three me n, at appearance he did not like , lurking on the r m o o s i e d d: a short distance before him. In order to i'vroute. He in contact with them he went by allot the act of had proceeded some distance, and ! called Waterside, g k e n o o n o k rand d d oviwans lefty crossing a style in a field at a pla n ce _ coming when he was suddenly at,traocrakeda b r i e li v d d iously avoided, and the three men whom he had P., .„,_ knocked moneyhe had had, robbed of down with several blows of insensibility. On re . who sprung from behind the wall. He was on the ground in his pocket-book and he amounting The money consisted chiefly of Bank to about 3001. covering he diseovearael d l the that of Enk,rlan d and other notes, and 701, in gold. The place w h er e the robbery was committed was subsequently examined, and two bludgeons, stained with blood, were found, Mr. Pearson was shockingly mangled, his head and face having been violently beaten. He is now in a precarious state. The police have apprehended three notorious characters, one of them a ticket-of-leave mani on -suspicion, and they stand reman d e d f or a week, Mira Pearson being in such a helpless and danger= condi. : tics that lae wag 'Airiblo to atelyi tko court. _