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• . . • i vsi „,,f Nit lb •kk lk, 0.111 • 4/ 11, g 1,4. •• P , v 14' ‘ 41% )1.,„ j y): A i!; I : l 7° ', 44 941 . 4;11 - • - \_ „-,;' V 1 üblic Journals.- VANTED, an ENGINEER.—TiIe Committee of Visitors of the Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum, at . Hanwell, 'are about to appoint a person to the situation of EN GINEER at that est blishment, who will be required to superin , nd personally the works to be perforrnrd, and t give his whole dine and attention to the duties of the office. the particulars of which may he learned by personal application, on Tuesday, the 16th, Wednesd .y, the 17th, or Thursday, the 18th insta4t, between Ten and Three o'clock, to Mr. James Harris, architect, lianwell. The sa!ary will be 1 MI., and a residence within the Asylum. Testimonial 01 cha racter and ability are to be delivered to me at the Se.sions,Howe, Clerkenwell-green, on or before Wednesday, the 24th Jae., and Candidates must appear personally before the Committee, at Hanwell, PA 'Thursday, the 25th at Twelve o'clock. g-hou e r.ll m .o bo;e itch And a a very LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, oCTOBEit 17, 1855. nspector its letter ren and ;he same o found. tree con- Dated the 11th day of October, 185 h. CHARLES' IVIZIGIIT, Clerk to the Visitors. ,N O . 19,670.] [PRICE 4D. STAMPED SD• HANWELL LUNATIC ASYLUM.- RESPECTABLE FEMALE EMPL7YMENT.— the pit u tion of SUPERINTENDENT of the BAZAAR, who has to direct the female patients in making useful fancy articles, is now vacant. The salary will be P5l. a-year, with board and lodging in the asylum. Candidates must be single women, or widows without children, and between 25 and 45 years of age, of active habits, cheerful disposi tion, sufficiently educated, and possessing a lrnow - ledge of music, so as to be able to assist in playing the organ at the service in the Asylum Chapel. Verbal information as to the duties and qualiflca • Units may be obtained upon application to me, between the hours of 11 aid 4. Candidates must forward to me, at the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell-green, letters in their own handwriting, stating age, residence, present situation, and former circumstances or employ ment, addressed to the "Committee of Visitors," accompanied by testimonials of character and eligibility, on or before Wedn , sday, the 24th inst., and must attend personally on the following day, at 12 O'clock, at the Asylum nt llanwell. CHARLES WRIGHT, Clerk to the Visitors. - Dated this 11th October, 1855. PUBLICATIONS. SAXON LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the ANNUAL GENE RAL MEE ING of the Shareholders in this -ociety will he held at the Head Offices, No. 25, Old Jewry, London, on THURSDAY, the 25 h October next, at 1 o'clock precisely. R. W. ROBERTS, Secretary. Naval and Military Intelligence. TWELFTH AND CHEAPER EDITION. Now ready, in 1 vol., with 15 illus , rAtions, 65., bound, T HE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS, By ELIOT Vir,,RBURTON. Sporting Intelligence. n silver, )er ring, Ile. " The , re-appearance at this moment, in a cheap form, of this admirable book is angularly opportune." --John Bull. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn. CONTRACT FOR TEAMS OF HORSES FOR DEVONPORT AND KEYHAM. be usual newer to Department of the Storekeeper General of the Navy, Somerset-place, 16th October, 1855. THE Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain ml Ireland, do Hereby Give Notice, that on TUESDAY, the 30th instant. at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such Per sons as may be willing to contract for supplying her Majesty's Dockyard at Devonport and Key-ham with commit- • In post Byo., sewed, price One Shilling, - r ITE CURABILITY of CONSUMPTION ; being a Series of Papers, presenting the most prominent and Important Practical Points in the Treatment of the Disease. By FRANCES 11. RAMAIRIE, M.D., Fellow of the College of I'hysicians, late Senior Physician to the Royal Infirmary for Diseases of the Chest, &c. Also, by the same Author, Price 10s. 6a., here, be hind you ❑al than murder. TEAMS OF HORSES. A form of the tender and the conditions of the contract may he seen at the said °Mee. No tender will be received after two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed, unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, nd bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Teams of Horses for Devonport and Keyham," and must also be delivered at S merset-place. accompanied by a ;utter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering in the sum of 1,0001. for the due performance of the contract. A TREATISE on ASTHMA and on DISEASES of the HEART, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. i average at which it altera- ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE; THIS EVENING, and every evening during the week, the GRAND ELEUSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC and MYSTERY, by Professor ANDERSON, the Great Wizard of the North, in 12 acts, with ever-changing variety of incidents, continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary effects. Magic and Mystery is an entirely new entertainment, pos sessing distinctive characteristics and pecutiar 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 com pany ; a melodrama replete with startly positions and unex pected denouements a magnificent spectacle, with 2,000 of the public every night to appear as auxiliaries ; and an ex travaganza, in which all that seems to be is entirely beyond the bounds of probability. Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged and fashionable audiences which have nightly filled the Lyceum Theatre to overflow, and by means of whose generous aid he has 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 et success so extensive, so decided, and so unusual. would attribute that success to three causes ; first, that in his present entertainment he has placed before his visitors the resulte of a life sedulously devoted to the attainment of perfecteft skill in one peculiar art, and to perfect which he has tr•a:velled the globe in every clime ; secondly, that he has Spare d 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 it 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. The 937 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which Pro fessor Anderson has received, from the time of opening tle theatre up to the present date, bear witness to the great In terest taken on the subject of this singular delusion ; wailst Many of them bear melancholy evidence to the dangers which attend a belief in the superstitions nonsense of the Spiri tualists." _ Judging simply by the correspondence which has "resulted, Professor Anderson's expose 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 te a tithe of the C ommunications which reach him on the subject. Ho regrets that many of these should come from ladies and gentlemen ' W ho, from their position in society and their well-known in tellectual attainments, he would least have expected to have been converts too a belief so preposterous in itself, and so easily susceptible of being controverted and disproved. Every "ening, ',tom the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions on s pirit-rapping are expressed, and every evening, within the Lyceum, how tables can be made to rap is exhibited and elucidated. It is respectfully requested that this Mlle exposition will be accepted generally as Professor Anderson's only mode of replying at full length to his Mu ltitudinous • correspondents. Ho regrets that the t a mes of the grea t an d l earne d o f th e l an d s h ou ld ave been ma d e t o fi gure i n t h e d ocuments emanat i ng f rom the spi r it- rappers, as f or i nstance the follow i ng, ex racted from the .21forning Advertiser of Thursday, Septern ter• 20, and t a k en b y t ha t j ournal from the New York Spiri .tal Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American spirit-rapper, Mr. D. D. Hume :—" Sir David Brewster frankly confesses that he is ' sorely puzzled' at what he has 'witnessed; and Lord Brougham acknowledges himself to be thoroughly nonplussed. Both of 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 objects about the room, 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, mud the following account of who, and what he is, occurs in the Family Herald, No. 648: " This young man, who is a Scotchman by birth, and now in Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations without apparatus. Barnum, who is well-known throughout the Anglo-Saxon world as a splendid humbug, offered him 2,000 • dollars per annum if ho would perform at his museum in New - York. Barnum then took it for granted that mediums could be brought. He was somewhat astonished when his offer was refused. Hume, on telling the fact in London lately, simply and honestly remarked, that the money would have bean 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 losin g hi s power as a medium, and he would sooner lose his life. The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful. Ile inquired into the subject ; and now Barnum, one of the greatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is one of the firmest believers in spiritualism." It is cer tainly surprising to find such a paragraph as this in the editorial article of au established journal, the editor of whom might be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe fa spirit - rapping -- does s pi r it- rapp i ng ga i n or l ose b y this accession to its adherents ? and, with Barnum's endorse -Itent to it, is this bill drawn on public credulity, more likely to_ bo negotiated ? I Professor Anderson would believe not : England when h e fi n d s t h at educated clergymen of the Church of c'ngland have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross Itzsewindle, when he finds th a t the incumbent of Wortley (th e .7 - N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and b'Writes a book on the subject, he considers it to be time for um to st a t e th at which he knows of the mechanism by which . 4.. is effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the az am i , ng Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir t'avld Brewst er , re l a ti ve t o t h a t which he saw at Cox's Hotel, company with Lord Brougham. He distinctly states that which theVizard of the North proclaims every night—that ayirit-rapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad P u rposes, ln the Morning Advertiser of the following day, however there is an answer to Sir Da v id's l e tt er f rom one w ho was present when he and Lord Brougham had their seance with th e s pi r it s, i n w hi c h th e wr i ter says, t h at " the table (a large dinner-table, I believe) moved about in the most ext raordinary manner, and, among other things, a large ac e?rdion was conveyed by au invisible agency to my hand and then,, to Lord Brou g h am ' s, i n which, held by his lordship ' s Light band, apart from any person, it played an air through eat." With such a statement, printed for the edification of the people of the 19th century, with the facts before us that the most talented men of tho day arc permitting themselves to be deluded by these juggling spirit-mongers —that the greatest novelist of the age is now engaged in making it the subject of a new work, and that a " spiritual convention" h as, actually been advertised to be held in St. M ar ti n ' s -h a ll , Profess or Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual lets of America, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum, will t" 0 received by th e p eo ple o f England as genuine honest at tett' DtS to provide an antidote for the bane of the spiritual J u gglers. In the course of the last five weeks 100,017 persons have Visited the Lyceum Theatre,—a larger number, it is believed, !hethan has ev er b e f ore b een assem bl e d w ithi n it s walls in so rt a period. Magic and Mystery is repeated every even lug, the programme being continually changed. Grand fas hionable Day Performance, or Saturday, October 13, at 2 o 'clock ; the programme being thu s arrange d ; a , Part 1.--Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinical Ca pabilities of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do I) 3' magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmera ' g lut and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in the air, _Act 2. Th e A qua -A v i a l P ara d ox ; exemplifying the power °I producing animated nature from fire and water only, and the possibility of eliciting from the simplest elements the most c omplex forms of ornithological existence. Act 3. Lo Livre des Reeueils Choisies : or, Puck's Own . rocket Book, with Puck himself within it. Typifying the evening's entertainment in the production of the very Tolle elinous 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 Plac e for to be found. Act 4. Magical Locomotion ; or, Transition without Trou ble. In which will bo comprised—the Adventures of a Wed ding Ring, the Peregrinations of a Bank Note, the Transfer tnation—black into white, and the Discovery of every Article In the pOsition which would seem the most inappropriate. Act 5. L'Ecrin 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 bottle Sirit Store. An improvement upon the " inexha " 'inasmuch as the Wizard's bottle will . not only begoneexhaustible but will change its contents, ad infinitum, at the Word of command, producing soda-water, butter-milk, E psomsalts, Port, Sherry, brandy , g in, rum, whi sky , h P r oving or any other wine or spirit re q uired ; and finally to be filled with pocket handkerchie fs perfectly dry, ' 11 (1- occupying the whole space when tightly packed. of 4 ,. Act 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an Expose c Oirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-rapping t ocsin of the invisibles. tableand Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property of the Wizard's patrons will undergo some strange metamor 13aeses, and, amongst others, their handkerchiefs become transformed into the flags of victory—the banners of Eng land, France, Turkey, and Sardinia. Act. 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comus, in which he who. seats himself will be under the magic spell, and appear to the audience, under circumstances least expected, in a posi tion as peculiar as perplexing. Act. 11. The Mystery of the Charmed Chest ; or, the Nucleus of the Night's Wonders. To comprehend which the audience will have the goodness to observe, in an earlier part of the evening, the chest suspended (like Mahommed's coffin) in mid-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which all will 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 t o the eastern hemispher e . Doors open each evening at half-past 7 ; commence at 8. Private boxes, 11. lls. 6d. and U. ls., to bo obtained at the Bog-office, or at the principal libraries ; stalls, 4e. ; dress circle, 3s, ; upper boxes, 2s. ; pit, I ‘. ; gallery, 6d. The • tox-office is open daily, from 11 till 5, under the direction of Mn. :Chatterton, jun. Grand fashionable Morning Per formance on Saturday. October 20, at 2 o'clock. Doors open at half-past 1. , S. B. ...26 34 ...40 44 ...40 45 ...44 50 ...38 41 ..40 45 ks 45 44' ....39 42 '—.39 41 , received As, from Lre is per It prices. Os to 84s; Is ; beans 8s; peas, ....21 0 ,-.21 9 ....21 6 ._.21 6 .-.21 6 .-.22 6 ....22 6 ,-.21 9 3 -.21 9 ...22 0 ,„.22 3 ...22 6 -.21 9 21 9 ...22 S -.22 0 ...22 6 -.22 0 21 0 lev 19 0 21 6 .ctive to• 's prices. Counties, sle, 69 — ern, 5a — Midland, i—Dutch ex div. has been weaker. - Dovers, lackburn r OF nig Mfr. Fin- Railway, I on the cers and !man, at Town ted bearing i man as ,n, Esq., I way, by ent, as a its many . .nly con )mpany. ards on ye silver —"Pre r guards ieir high I, further iris been it may pectable imously -pose of table to rid Pills residing Profes th a bad I me to erwards re taken riot cure Oint moDth." or Hol ind 80, sure Du Flatu rplaints, t medi extracto ure No. ;e, Wal in d i g es ure No. c Pall• [, Mot • onduit, 67, St. .1%). mrable worth • id, the irs. J. vile of y, Mr. Come, sq., of of AI- Knew ult, of Ipicer, d, the )f the 300 68 870 The Third Edition.—Just published, price 55., by post, free, 53. tax N TRUE tit FA LSE SPERMATORRTICEA , 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 he Merman 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. rickford is known to English readers by his frequent practi :4l contributions to German medical literature. This is the first :me, he informs as, that he has addressed himself to the nort-medi lal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall letect any >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 e.Eposed: and if this book ould find its way into the hands of those who snffsr from the com 31aint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would le saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— .nuch 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: IL Balliere, 219, Regent-street. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.- TWO DAYS' EXCURSION to CIRENCESTER, STROHD, GLOUCESTER, and CHELTENHAM.—A train will leave Padding ton on Saturday, October 20, at 6.39 p.m., returning on ➢fondav, 22d, from Cheltenham at 6.30 p.m., Gloucester at 7 p.m., Stroud, 7.30 p.m , and Cirencester at 7.50 p.m. Fares there and back —Cirencester and Stroud, ds and 5s ; Gloucester and Cheltenham, lOs. and 6s. Tickets not :ransferable, and only available for the trains specified. GR IT SAVING in GAS.—The LAVA NON-CORROSIVE OAS BURNER ,; are sold by all respeetab e Fas-Nters, and at the Depot, 41, Queen-street, Cheapside, London. a RAND BILLIARD MATCH for 2001. a side, lull between ROBERTS, of Manchester, and STARKE, the American, 1001. a side being deposited in the stakeholder's hands, M. 7. John Richmond. of Liverpool. English game, 3,0 0 up, 1 ,500 points to be given to Starke. This Interesting Match will be pla' - ed in the Linwood Oallery, Leicester square, October 19th, at 5 o'clock p.m. Tickets—Gallery and Front Seats in the Hall, 10s. 6d. each ; de. in the rear of the Hall, 55. each, and can he obtained of Burrouglies and Watts, Soho-square, and Mr. Smith, Royal Wine Shades, Leicester-square. 79_ MERICAN TRUNKS.—A. new St oc k o f - these light and convenient Travelling Cases or Poxes is just arrived at the AMERIC tN WAREHOUSE, No. 546, New Oxford street. They are made of the best American Leather, and warranted to be more durable than any othPr in the market. Persons wishi,g for a good and Cheap Trunk should not f-il giving them an examina tion. STAR PACKETS front the TERRACE PIER (INAVESEND, 9,2, 5. itti.U.SSWICK WUAHF , BLACKWALL, on the arrival 0 - fo !a win z Trains from Fenehurch-stree', 10%, 2, 3 1 4, weather per mit ing. The £., diets will call at tte Roaherrille, Greenhithe, Partlcet, and North Woolwich I' ers. v l • It, V !11l WILLA ,OridOn •• • ••• • • • 10d. .. Is. 2d Gravesend and Blackwall or Woolwich Bd. .. Os. 100 ~ Fri ...11 and London • • --• • • •• • Bd. N. 10d Etat] and Mackwall or Won'w!ch.. •• •• 6cl. .. Os. 8d betweer GrAvrsipnd and luterme&atc Piers.. 6d. .. Os. tto October 9. 1853. TO LOVERS OF FISH.-100 GENUINE YARMOUTH BL , ATERs for 65., package included. THESE HIGHLY ESTEEMED DELICACIES AND CHEAP ARTICLE OF FOOD forwarded to all parts, on receipi of penny postage stamps or P. 0.0 (preferred). send full and plain direction, county, and near st sta tion.—Address TflOS. LETTIS. jun., Fish Curer, Of. Yarmou'h. "This is the third season Nfr. Leafs has supplied us with Yar mouth bloaters, and we find the quality excellent.—J. Brashowe, house steward. Blenheim Palace. -- Oct. 20, 1854." " Mr. Lettis,—As soon as you send out your genuine bloaters, 1 shall be glad to have a supply as usual; those I had last year gave great sa'osfaction.— -1. F. Courroux, Ambassador's Court, St. James's Palace.—Oct. 1, 1855." ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAIIRENT'S CASINO NOW OPEN for the winter season. The followin. Music will be perfOrmed by his celebrated Band during •he week : March aux Flambeaux. Waltzes —The lily r•f• the Valley (D'Albert), Zenith Lufte (Gung'l), Fenella (Tinney) Ethel Newcome (Laurent), La Sultane (Bosisio). e Hot du Pastel Lamotte), Les fluzenots (Laurent), Palermo ( IVA!. I•ert), Bride of Lammermoor (Tinney), Ii Trovatore ( rutton) l'olkas—Des Hulands (Lamotte), Italie ((, aviolo), The Lillian (D',ll - Des Coucons (Bousquet). The Zouaves (Laurent). Galops— •fhe Imperial Guards (Laurent), The Freda (Streather). Schottische —La Guirlande de Fleur: (13osquet), La Varsoviana (Laurent). Prin cipal Cornet a Piston, M. Boulcours.—Doors open at 8. Admission One Shlllieg. IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. TRIESEMAIL—On the 29th of May, 1855, an injunction was granted by the High Court of Chancery, and on the I 1 th June following was made perpetual, against Joseph ranklin and others, to restrain them, under a penalty of one thou :and pounds, from imitatinz this Medicine, which is protected 133 , loyal Letters Patent of England, and secured by the Seals of th, Ecole de rharmacie de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TRIESE3IAIt, No. 1, 3 a remed7 for Relaxation, Spermatorrhcea. an.l Exhartgtion of th, -rtem, whether arising from excesses, accident, or climate. To those persons who are prevented entering the married state by he consequences of early errors it is invaluable. TRIESEMAR, No. 2, yfectually, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely :-s.dicates all traces of those Disorders which Capivi and CubelT ave so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health ,1 a vast portion of the population. TRI EFEMAR, No. 3, s the great Continental Remedy for that class of Disorders, whic , infortunately the English physician treats with Mercury, to the in evitable destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all thv , rsaparilla in the world cannot remove. rRIESEM Alt, No. 1,2, and 3, are alike devoid of taste or smell old of all nauseating qualities. They may lie on the toilet tail! Tthout their use beilig suspected. in tin eases at its. each, free by post, 2s. extra, divided int, parate closes, as administered by Valpeau, Lallemand, Roux. be had wholesale and Retail in London of Johnston, 6t, I , ,rnhill; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-streat; end Ranger. I'o, Ox , -1 -street ; R. H. Ingham, druggist, 46, N , arket-street, Manchester ; 11radbury, bookseller, Dean gate, Bolton ; J. Priestly, chemist, 42, Liverpool; Powell, bookseller, 15, Westmoreland-street Witinall. bookseller, High-street, Rirmingham. ELEG 4NT PERSONAL REQUISITES. 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JOZEAU'S COPAHINE, or 'SACCHARATED tit CAPSULES, approved of by the French College of Physicians, uccessfully administered in the Paris and London Hospitals, and .eknowledged by them to he the best remedy for a certain disorder. See " Lancet" of Nov. 6, 1852.) A copy will be forwarded on appli 'ation.—Price per 100, 48.6 d. ; 50, 2s. 9d. To he had of the inventor, GA BRIEL JOZEAU, French chemist, 49, Haymarket, London, and ill the principal chemists. rm.: SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. lust published, price 25., illustrated with cases; free by post for 26 - -. stamps, JERVOUS DEBILITY; Its Causes, Symptoms, and Cure.—An Essay on Sper -atorrhosa, with Practical Observations on a safer and more a accessful mode of treatment of the diseases of the Generative ystem, obtained by the use_ of the Microscope in detecting and Distinguishing, by urinary examination, the real cause and effect of ;eery variety of complaint, whether arising 'from solitary habits, xcesses, accident, or climate, followed by practical remarks, founded ?li twenty years' experience in the treatment of Impuissance, le_rvOtte Debility, Local Weakness, Spermatorrhosa, &c. To which at "" at l ona aaed. Commentaries on the Physiology of Marriage, with pre 7hldntil on the evils emanating from empirical practice, find on hese frapo ln e vi grsremedies advocated by various writera on disorders. EY !SAMUEL LA'MERT M.D. fleeter of Medici-ne . , LONDON, 3 7 , BB n burgh, H onorar E Matriculated. m Member of the "University of Edin• y Licentiate of A IeORD-SQUA I ember of the London Hospital Medical Society, Hall, Lon &c., . The essential object et ye s inuenac3 resulting from certain is d to on, point out the fearful eon , have produced more n habits, irregularities, and excesses, misery in Youth, degradation in ,Man iood, and premature decay at all nages of Life, than, perhaps, any modem m eas m e en kn de o d wn to th isenn pathologists. Its pernsal is , e di co s s entertaining secret doubts oi weir physical condition, and who are commie of h yin hazarded : Ah arti er cu clas iar s iy o r f i() health, happiness, and privileges to ... us ha vin Watch every human being is entitled; It is absolutely necessary that all men shoald know, that there are. )rinciples a pers onal management which cannot be violated without incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed , he heyday of Inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these a t i , nay be mitigated, hew the sting of their bitterness pen e may be removed tnd how the evil and its consequences may ea avoided, and above all, that there is scarcely any degre e of p h y sical infirmity or fan c ti ona : lerangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. the Author has for a series of years been engaged I n an extensiv, practice in the treatment of these delicate complaints, which have antortnnately been too generally confided to the care of igno rant emairics, who inflict great injury on those who are induced to place faith in their pretensions. NERVOUS DEBILITY may be had price 2s. Of Messrs. Sher wood and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Ramey, 63, Oxford -street Harue,l9, Leicester-square; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or free by poet for 26 stamps to any address from the Author's residence, 37, Bert_ fo rd-eon are. At home for consultation daily from ideyen till tWo, and from six till eight, . . RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. NAMUR AND LIEGE—MONS AND MANGO. A meeting of original shareholders in this company was held at the George and Vulture Tavern yesterday, for the purpose of taking into consideration the proceed ings already adopted in reference to the clainiof the said shareholders to the sum of 2/. per share for arrears of interest which they maintain has accrued to them under the statutes of the company ; and also to consider the question of the preference shares, as viewed by eminent Belgian jurists, and whether any and what • further pro ceedings shonld be adopted in relation thereto. The advertisement convening the meeting was signed by Messrs. Barrow, ißoyer, Sanders, gikliutt, Cartwright, Warner, Gobert, M. Martha, M;Leciercq, M:Len,gratn, Mr. Jephson, and Mr. Jones. Mr. JOHN BOWYER, of Chesterfield, consented to take the chair, and the proceedings will be more conveniently recorded by a brief summary of the subject under dis cussion. The first question dealt with by the meeting related to the payment of the back interest due on the original shares. The arrears claimed are due for interest under, and in accordance with, the statutes of the company, which authorise the payment ; and the subject was more especially discussed at the time of the transfer of the line to the Great Northern of France fora fixed sum of money, which was to cover the "debts" of the company. At the time of the completion of the arrangements, however, it was for the first time communicated to the original shareholders that the " consideration" money was indeed sufficient to cover the "debts" of the company, but that the 21. arrear of interest claimed by the original share holders was not admitted as a debt of the company, and was not, therefore, included in the sum to be paid by the Great Northern of France. A small balance equal to about 4f. or sf. was, however, offered to the shareholders, upon signing a receipt "in full discharge of arrears of interest." The transaction was regarded at the time as a manifest violation of the express understanding between the directors and the shareholders ; and the gentlemen whose names we have given above as signing the advertisement convening the meeting of yesterday, felt it to be their duty to take the opinion of Bel gian jurists on the subject, and accordingly Mr. Jenes, who resides at Brussels, submitted the case to M. Niessen and M. Bastoine, both advocates of the Cours d'Appel, in Belgium, and these gentlemen ex press themselves unequivocally in favour of the share iolders' claim. They consider that the 21. arrear of in terest constitute "a debt" of the company, which ought to be liquidated before any distribution of dividend. They argue that the statutes allow such interest, and that certain shareholders having received the same, the equality which, according to law, ought to exist amongst partners, requires that the other shareholders should also receive it. It is also maintained that it was an interest which the original shareholders who subscribed for pre ference shares received by the deduction of the 21., re ceiving the 201. shares for 18/. The conclusion arrived at is, therefore, that the claim against the capital failing Fir want of funds, the arrears claimed are a first charge against the divisible funds of the company. Mr. JONES, having read the opinions to which we have referred, stated that he had " attached" the company's divisible funds (about 4,0001.) in Belgium, and recom mended that the matter should be proceeded with by ar bitration under the statutes—a process which, in point ,f time might take six month s , a t a cos t no t excee di ng 1001, If they failed to obtain the object they had in view by this process the Cour d'Appel would still be open to them. After some discussion, a resolution was passed declar ,ng the opinion of the meeting in support of their legal claim of 2f. arrear of interest, and a further revolution appointing Mr. Field, Major Why, Mr. Barrow, Mr. Jones, and Mr. M`George, a committee to continue the proceedings already commenced, and with fuil power to take such other st e p s as th ey may consider advisable, old to suspend or otherwise regulate proceedings accord ing as they may judge best for the interests of the company. E 1 subscription of 6d. a share was also determined ipon, and was signed in the room to the extent of 1,500 , r 1,600 shares. By the terms of the advertisement it was proposed to take into consideration the question of the preference shares; but upon the subject being brought on for dis pussion, the general feeling amongst the shareholders present appeared to be that the present movement should be regarded as entirely free from any charge of repudia ion or the like, and accordingly no, resolution was 'aken upon the matter. Very severe strictures were generally passed upon the nanagernent, and in reference to the anomalous position , f certain parties in the direction ; and a requisition was irawn up calling upon the directors to convene a special .nesting to consider the affairs of the company. Holders if about 2,000 shares signed this document, but as the 3,600 shares were required (or one-tenth of the capital, ireference and original), the co-operation of other pro prietors is requested. It appears that the share capital of the company con sists of about 25,690 original shares and 10,000 prefer ence. The number of shares, in respect of which the arrears of 2/. are claimed, is 17,000, so that the amount Lt issue is no less than 34,000/. The meeting terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman and the committee for their valuable services. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL. THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE MARTYRDOM OF THE BISHOPS AT OXFORD THREE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. OXFORD, Oct. 16.--In commemoration of this great event a sermon was preached in the church of St. Mary \lagdalen this afternoon (Tuesday), by the Rev. J. C. Miller, M.A., of Lincoln College, rector of St. Mar tin's, Birmingham, and honorary canon of WorceAdr, from the 12th chapter of the Revelations of St. John, verse 11. The discourse was li,tened to by a crowded church, Amongst the congregation were—The Vice- Chancellor, the Senior Proctor, the President of St. John's, the Warden of Wadham, the Warden of All Souls, the Principal of Magdalen Hall, the Principal of New Inn Hall, the Public Orator, the Margaret Pro fessor of Divinity, the Rev. Messrs. J. Lee, Gordon, Andrews, Macreay, and a few other Masters of Arts, and some hundreds of Undergraduates, the Mayor, seve ral of the Aldermen and Town Council of the city, and a large number of ladies. The sermon, which occupied one hour within five minutes, will be shortly published. On this occasion the beautiful memorial of Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer, adjoining the north end of Magda len churchyard, was ornamented with evergreens ; large pants in pots occupying the steps within the iron rail ing, which had a plea.ing effect. MORAL PHILOSOPHY.—The Reader in Moral Philo sophy (Dr. Daubeny, of Magdalen College) will deliver an inaugural lecture in the ante-chapel of Magdalen College, on Tuesday, October 23, at 1 o'clock. He will also deliver in the same place, on alternate Tuesdays during term, a course of lectures on the Philosophy of Kant, to commence on Tuesday, Nov. 6, at 2 o'clock. He also wishes to form a class to read the " Nicornactrean Ethics of Aristotle," in the hall of Magdalen College, every Thursday and Saturday, at 12 o'clock, to commence on Thursday, Nov. 8. This course is open to all members of the University who have passed their first public examination. Those who wish to attend it are requested to call on the Reader. at Magdalen College, on Tuesday, November 6, at 11 o'clock. CAMBRIDGE, Oct. 16.—8. A. EXAMINATION, 1856. The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that there will be a meeting on Monday, the 22d inst., at 11 o'clock, at Caius Lodge, of the Syndicate appointed by grace to con sider the cases of those undergraduates who have de graded and are desirous of becoming candidates for hon ours. The Syndicate wish it to be understood that cases not presented to them at the above meeting will be precluded from consideration till the next regular meet ing in October, 1856. All applications must be made in writing by the tutors, and accompanied by the neces sary medical certificates. HEBREW.—The Regius Professor of Hebrew gives notice that his lectures on Hebrew and Sanskrit will be delivered in one of the lecture rooms of Trinity College, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, during term, beginning on Tuesday, Oct. 23, at the following hours : At 10 a.m., Sanskrit : Nala. At 11 a.m., Hebrew : The Book of Numbers. At 12 a.m., Hebrew : The Grammar, and the Book of Genesis. These lectures are free to all persons. Gentlemen wishing to attend are re quested to enter their names at Deighton, Bell, and Co.'s. THE BRODIE TESTIMONIAL.—The committee appointed to superintend this fund are daily receiving fresh proofs of the sympathy felt for Sergeant Brodie in all parts of the kingdom. From the aristocracy, the clergy, the gentry, and the working classes lett ers h ave come to hand, enclosing contributions, and expressing adhesion to the movement, not only as a meed due to Brodie for his manly conduct, but also as a manifestation of p u bli c opinion as to the case in all its bearings.—South-Eastent anette. I Her Majesty's steam troop-ship Simoom, 13, Captain T. R. Sulivan, R.N., having had new engines and boilers fitted by Mr. Murray, the superintendent en - ginger of Portsmouth dockyard, was taken to Stokes Bay yesterday to test them. The first run at the mea sured knot, with the tide, realised 16 682 knots ; the second, against the tide, 10 . 027 ; third, with the tide, 11 . 726 ; against the tide, 9 . 113, making an average of 10.387 knots per hour, or about 31 knots more than she did with her first engines and boilers. She made from • 52 to 55 revolutions, and every part of the machinery worked admirably. The Simoom, it is reported, goes to Cork to embark troops. The Powerful, 84, Captain Massie, sailed from St. Helens for Lisbon and Jamaica yesterday. The Pembroke and Cornwallis, 60-gun blockshipa, Cap tains Seymour and Wellesley, were preparing to sail last ' evening at sunset from Spithead for Bermuda ; both had the blue peter flying to recall shore parties, and steam was up. A portion of her crew have had wages paid them, and 10 days leave granted ; they are men who prior to going up the Baltic, had been en lengthened service in the Black Sea. Their places have been filled up to-day by drafts from the Calcutta, 84, sailing-ship. The Russell, 60 ; Ha w k e , 60 ; and Hastings, 60,, screw-ships, are to be treated in a similar manner, and are reported to be intended for the same destination-- the reinforcement of the North American and West Indian squadron. The Lizard ,steam-vessel, with No. 14 mortar-vessel in tow, went Tinto Portsmouth harbour yesterday from the eastward. The court-martial on Mr. Youel, master of H.M.S. Hastings, having concluded yesterday afternobn the Court proce e d e d t o t r y M r . Ch arles Edward Stillman, assistant-surgeon on board the Otter, 3, paddle steam vessel, on a charge of having gone on duty to Haslar Hospitdl, on the Bth of October, and not returning to his ship till the following day, and then doing so in a state of drunkenness. The charge was fully proved, and the prisoner was sentenced to be, and was, dismissed her Majesty's service. The Court would have proceeded to-day with the trial of Mr. Jeremiah Hyde, boatswain of H.M.S. Russell, 60, and Mr. William Ridout, boatswain of H.M.S. Penelope, both charged with drunkenness, but by some means or another the last named had succeeded in ef- fecting his ecape from the Penelope, to the great morti fication of the captain, Sir W. Wiseman, and those who had him in charge. He has not yet been picked up. Her Majesty's steam store-ship Dee, Master Com mander Pullen, left Woolwich yesterday afternoon with machinery, from Mesrs. Maudslay, Sons, and Field, for the Chesapeake, 50, screw frigate, now buildin g at iThatham. The steatn-ve,sel Monkey left with theboil ers, and the dockyard lighter Fly took the remainder of the engine gear, for Sheerness. The screw steam-corvette Pearl, 20, has received her masts, and is now under the shears to finish her engines. The Baron Von Humboldt is at present lying off Dept ford, taking in upwards of 170 tons of bread, and an im mense quantity of warm clothing for the Baltic fleet. The Euphemus, No. 121 transport, has sailed from Woolwich, with a mixed cargo, for the East. She had her sailing orders on Saturday. A steam-tug has been moored alongside side since that day, but, a portion of her crew not answering to muster call, the captain had to engage a duplicate number of seven or eight hands, which was the cause of the delay. The absent men have benefited by what may he obtained on the bar ter of a month's pay-ticket, which was handed to them on signing articles, and have not since turned up. The Euphemus was towed down the river yesterday for Gravesend with an effective complement of hands, and will sail thence for Balaklava direct. The paddle-wheel steamer Dee, Master-Commander Pullen, left Woolwich yesterday for Sheerness with boilers, taking in tow the Fly barge, lad en w ith mac hi ner y for the same port. Yesterday a general muster for the autumn quarter took place in the dockyard at Woolwich, when the whole number of men and boys, to the amount of 1,500 passed in review before the Commodore Superintendent J. Shepherd. Capt. Inglefield's company turned out yesterday at Sheerness for target practice with round shot and shell, firing at a target distant 1,500 yards. Eight rounds had been fired from the 56-pounder, in turn with four 32- pounders, the 55-pounder firing roundshot, the 32's shell. On firing the ninth shot from the 55-pounder the shot bad left the gun, and was near the target, when, from some unaccountable cause, the gun burst into several pieces, the whole of the inner end of the guu dropping at least 100 yards from its original position, the outer end taking an opposite direction, doing considerable damage to the next gun carriage on the same battery. The outer fragments of the gun cot off both legs and part of the body of Gunner George Brown, and took off the upper part of tl'.e head of Gunner George Gosling. Brown was alive when taken from the battery, but has since died ; Gosling was killed on the spot. Several fragments of the gun, with the entireinfter end, passed within arm's reach of Capt. Inglefield and Lieut. George Maule. Had the sad accident occurred 5 minutes sooner, from 6 to 8 persons must have been killed, as they had only that moment left to witness the entry into the gar rison of the two field batteries of horses for practice. The unfortunate men who have lost their lives by this sad accident were both volunteers from the Lancashire Artillery Militia, and joined the Royal Artillery on the 20th of August last. The wood portion of the new barracks at Hobbs Point has now been finished, and a large number of the hands employed have been discharged. A month or six weeks will still elapse before the whole of the fittings, &c., will be completed for occupation. As many hands as can be employed are now engagld upon the gun-boats at Pembroke dockyard. The keels of the,e vessels were laid but a short time since ; yet such are the resources of this large establishment that great progress has been made. The new gas-houses aro to be erected immediately. Colour-Sergeant J. Cunan, Gist Regiment. has re ceived his discharge, a: , d, as a reward for lo ng service, has been appointed Quartermaster in the Italia n Legion at Turin, and will immediately proceed thither. THE MILITIA. The small garrison of the Pembrokeshire Artillery Militia, who have been stationed in the fort at Stack rock, in the entrance to Milford Raven, have been re lieved by another company of the same regiment. The West York Rifles, under the command of Lieute nant-Colonel the Hon. E. Monckton, has received orders to embark at Liverpool to-day for Dublin. THE HASTINGS ON SLIME. [LETTER FROM AN OFFICER.] "Her Majesty's Ship Hastings Sept. 27- " My dearest —, —I sent you a hasty line on Mon day last to let you know we had received our orders for England, where we were required for urgent service, and I had just time to tell you what a scrape we bad got into ; but now I have a little more time to enter into details I will give you the events. On Tuesday wee k the Ho4ue, 60, was sent with our mails and sailing orders to relieve us at Baro Sound. While threading her way through the numerous rocks and islands she ran on a sunken reef. We immediately got our boats out, weighed, and went to her assistance, anchored two cable's length to windward of her, and sent her our hemp cables, by which she got off. During the night we put on board her all the Provisions, stores, its., we could spare, and at daylight on Wednesday morning, in company with the Russell, 60, we started on our passage to England. The breeze from the we=stward soon freshened considerably, and at last made our small aux iliary of no avail ; so we made sail to single reefed top sails, and with our crew hard at work made excellent working down the gulf, leaving the Russell hull down eat ly in the afternoon, when she bore up to anchor un der the lee of Nargen Island. However, the race is not always to the swift. At a quarter before 3 the same night, just as we were in the act of putting the helm down to go on the other tack, to our great astonish ment we ran on shore on the Nyborg reef, going W I knots (you will see it marked on any decent chart of the Baltic, not far from Port Baltic). I was awake at the time, and rushed on deck, thinking to myself, 'Now, my boy, you have got your work cut out. I found a fresh breeze on the starboard beam, and the sea breaking over a reef about a cable's length is the same direction, but the sea very moderate where we were. The ship had listed considerably over to port. The cap tain was instantly on the bridge. I immediately turned the hands up and hove all aback, with the en gine reversed, and there was but one opinion —that there was no time to lose in setting to work. The boats were at once hoisted out, and the stream anchor laid out two cables' length on the weather quarter. Unfortu nately there was nothing but rock all round us, and hardly any strain brought it h o me with its stock. broke n . We put in.a new o ne , an d l a id it out again as a `guess warp' to haul our boats out to,. and then with some difficulty (having no launch) we got one of our bower anchors hung on two spars between the barge and pin nace, and attempted laying it out. Before the boats had got half way the spars, which were both found rotten in the heart, snapped, and down went the anchor. We got the boats under the other bow, end lashed the jibboom across them ; then started our other bower anchor off to try its fate. This, with great trouble, we got out astern to the end of our hemp 'sheet cable (23-inch), and let it go ; but very little •heaving on it brought it on its way home also. However, it was sufficient to keep the ship from driving when lightened ; and. as nothing could be done before that end was gained, the water being still more shallow to leeward, we commenced preparing to lighten the ship as soon as assistance should arrive from the Admiral at Nargen, for which one of our cutters, with a lieutenant, had been despatched shortly after we struck. We started our water, blew the boilers out, slung and bunged the guns for throwing overboard, and at 5 p.m. the Driver came down to us, and let go both her anchors near our stream anchor, and veered towards us, when we immediately sent her our hemp stream (14- inch), and received her hemp sheet (also 14-inch). As soon as these were taut we set to lightening the ship ; the boilers were blown out, the fresh water started, all the cables run up and started overboard under the bows, keeping only the end of one chain cable fast inboard ; at the same time all the boats were engaged transferring e our shot to the Driver, About 9 pas, the Cossack ar• rived with an empty collier to receive our guns, and cast cff her tow accidentally more than a mile to leeward of us, and she was obliged to pick her up again, and we got the collier lashed alongside ; about 11 p.m. prepared her hold for the guns, and landed the first one into it at a few minutes after midnight, when we thought that, as all hands had been at work since we struck, it would be advisable to " splice the main brace." A very few minutes were allowed for this, and at 12.30 we were all at work again. Commencing with the inaindeck guns with a strong party, Goodenough (Second-Lieutenant) prepared them with a party on the maindeck ; Rogers (Third-Lieut.) had two boats getting the Cossack's cables from where she had anchored (500 yards on the weather quarter) down to us ; Jackson (Fourth-Lieutenant) had a party in the collier, receiving the guns and stowing them in the hold, which part of the business caused great delay ; Colomb (Fifth-Lieutenant) had another party getting out the shot and sending them to the Driver ; and Patrickson (mate) had another party, pumping out the fresh water and bilges. We had the additional dis advantage of a dark night for our work, which was par ticularly felt in getting the guns into the collier's hold. However, everything went on admirably, without any noise or confusion, and with a hearty goodwill. At 2 a.m. the shot were cleared (60 tens), and Colomb's party went on with the ballast. Some time afterwards the water and bilges were cleared, and that party went on with the coals. At 6.30 or thereabouts the main deck guns were all stowed, and the cables from the Cossack fast and hove tent. We now went to break fast for half an hour, and then again set to with fresh energy, especially with the lower deck guns. About 10 a.m. she began to get a little lively, and we got a heave on all the cables ; but this proved ineffectual, and our own 23- inch came hoinealittle ; so we madefastagain, and finished the lower deck guns and all the ballast that could be got at without great trouble and delay, and then went on with the shells. About noon we had half an how to dinner, by which time the breeze was sensibly freshen. ing and the sea rising, and the old ship changed her quiet position for an unmistakeable bumping. We went at it again about . 1 o'clock, starting coals and getting out our shell and provisions, and lowering the mainyard to be secured for our only remaining guns, the six heavy ones on the upper deck. While this was been prepared we hauled the Driver close to our stern by an 8-inch hawser, leaving the two 14-inch cables' line slack ; then the Driver went off full speed ; we slipped the 8-inch when it had as much strain as it could bear, and she brought up with a tough jerk against the 14-inch cables (at the same time we put 500 men into the collier) ; the result was one inch more water astern, but we wanted nearly two feet to float. However, we tried the expe riment again (the Cossack heaving and steaming at the same time), and when the Driver brought up she car ried away both 14-inch cables like ropeyarns ; but the effect was perceptible ; we deepened the water one foot by the stern, and shoaled it two feet under the bows, evidently having our forefoot under the shoalest part of the reef in our immediate neighbourhood ; but, as we were well hung by the stern that was of no conse quence. While the cables were being carried out again we commenced on the upper-deck guns, and at the same time were busy passing cables from the Bull dog, who had also arrived to our help, the same par ties as before about the coals, provisions, and Ebel'. The breeze had stiffened, and the weather looked dirty with the sea rising, and the old Hastings bumping sensibly, when, at 3.45 p.m., the Cossack's cables hav ing a heavy strain, away the old ship glided off the reef, to the relief and thankfulness of every one. The poor old collier that was lashed to us was cast off es quickly as possible, but nearly the first roll knocked her top gallantmast away, then her bulwarks followed, and she had considerable damage done before she cleared us. Our anchor, with the hemp sheet fast to it, was fortu nately now directly to leeward of the reef, the cable came through the wardroom stern-port on the lower deck, and double-bitted forward ; we swung to this, and found ourselves in 9 fathoms, riding by the stern, and no other cabl e to l e t go . Th e gale was rising fast, and we were, till about 9 o'clock, clearing the hawsers of the other ships, hoisting our boats in, &c., when, our fellows being mu c h knocked up, we spliced the main brace, arid piped the hammocks down. It was about 10.30, after going round the ship, I laid down, but the gale was fast increasing, arid, after an hour's most un satisfactory snoozing, I went on deck to look on a pretty prospect. The night was very dull and black, and by this time blowing very fiercely, with a nasty sea rising and breaking through the stern-ports. About one o'clock, though there had been no indication of dragging, we found the water was only six and a half f ,thorns amidships and six fathoms for ward, and the hemp cable had ground to dust all its chafing-mats, and was being injured seriously ; besides this the upper deck guns showed an evident in clination to capsize, and the empty gun carriages were as lively as the ship, so I most reluctantly turned the fellows out of their hammocks again to make all snug ; and certainly the feeling that we were shoaling our water, and that, if we again struck, nothing could save us from going to pieces, made it an anxious moment. Thank God, however, our anchor and cable held nn till daylight, by which time the weather had considerably moderated, and we were fortunate enough, after a heavy heave, to get one cable (the one we did not slip the in board er.d). About 6 a.m. the wind shifted several points, which took us a little closer to our old danger, so we determined to clear off at once. Accordingly we buoyed the cable that had served us so well during the night, as well as the stream, let fall the sails,and - slipped; and soon nothing but the white foam breaking over the reef indicated our late peril. " We were on the reef 37 hours exactly, and it may interest you to know in detail what we lightened the ship of : Guns (54) Shot Cabies Water in bailers Fresh water and bilge Coals llalla3t Shell Anchors Ton. 140 60 60 50 50 40 30 ...... 12 10 Total.. 452 "The breeze was fair for Nargen, and there we ar rived early in the afternoon, letting go our only cable fast to a sheet anchor close to the Admiral. We met the Edinburgh, 60, on her road down to our assistance, and they were uncommonly glad to find us free. The Dri ver, with the gun collier, had preceded us. The Cossack, who, by the way, parted an anchor during the gale of the night, accompanied us up, and the Bulldog remained by the reef to endeavour to recover the anchors and cables. During the evening (Saturday) we got a hemp sheet ca ble from the Edinburgh, and a great many boats were employed in transferring our shot and shell and ballast back from the Driver, which was accomplished, and the whole of them restored to their places by midnight, when I went to my cabin to lie down and go to sleep for the first time since the ship struck on Wednesday night, though I had not felt much fatigue through it. However I confess when I got up at five next morning (Sunday) I could have enjoyed an hour or two more with great com fort to myself. By some mistake the gun collier was not brought alongside till nearly eight o'clock, instead of daylight, as arranged ; but when once there we set to work and get some guns in, transported and secured with their own gear in their own ports, at an average rate of six minutes a gun, counting from the time the first gun was hooked on till the last was in its place. At the lame time we were coaling, and took in during the day 100 tons of coals, and our condensers in the engine room made us about 30 tons cf water. I was just going to bed at 10 o'clock when Japtain Gordon, of the Bull dog, came on board, having recovered the whole of our chain cables, and one of the bower anchors, so we made arrangements for his being alongside at 7 o'clock in the morning, and after an early breakfast on Monday the Bulldog lashed alongside, and transferred all these valuable stores to us. At 1 p.m. the captain reported the ship ready for sea, the only things deficient being a bower and a stream anchor, our hemp sheet cable (23 inch) and three hawsers (11, 10, and 8 inch). Between Saturday evening and Monday at noon we had got on board and stowed away— Guns Cables Shot Coals . Ballast Shell Bower anchor Tons. . 140 .. 48 .. 60 .. 100 .. 30 .. 12 And made fresh water ... "The Admiral told us to take the afternoon to clear the ship up and rest, remarking the men must be done up, and the day before he had offered us 500 men, but I begged the captain to refuse them, convinced that it would have taken all the officers of the ship to look after the strange men, and then not get the work done half as fast, besides everything going to its wrong place, instead of its right. During Monday forenoon, at the captain's request, a court of iuquiry, composed of Captains Cod rington, of the Royal George, Warren, of the Cressy, and Hewlett, of the Edinburgh, sat on board to inquire into the cause of our mishap, but we sailed early on Tuesday morning without learning their opinion. We had the unpleasant addition on board of 11 hospital dressers and 30 invalids for a passage to England, and the Driver accompanied us to call in at the reef and en deavour to recover the lost anchor and cable, but on arrival we found that the Russians had been beforehand, taken away the small hawsers, and cut away the rest of the buoys. We could see them watching us from the shore, and doubtless but for prompt assistance the gun boats from Port Baltic would have been out, so we gave it up at sunset, and steered down the gulf. I shall no say good bye, devoting this lo ng y arn f or th e gove rnor' s amusement." NEW GIIN-BOATS.--- Messrs. John Scott and Sons, Greenock, have enter e d i n t o a con t ra ct with Govern ment to build six gun-boats of about 90 feet keel each. They are to be of timber, and are expected to be ready next opring.—Ologow Pally WARWICK AND LEAMINGTON OCTOBER MEETING.—TIIESDAY. Sweepstakes of 3 sovs each, with 20 added, for three-yr olds and upwards; The winner to be sold for 100 Boys, allowances if entered to be sold for less. Three-quar ters of a nuie. 8 subs. Mr. Evans's Sextus. 5 yrs (20/.), Bst llb (Wells) 1 Mr. Worthington's Vivid, 4 yrs (20/.), 7st 71b (T. Cliff) 2 Mr. B. Laud's Bordeaux, aged (20/.), Bst 51b (Land, jun.) 3 The following also. ran :—Pope Joan, Census, Sack but, Merry Monk, and Hothorpe. Betting-2 to 1 s•sst Sextus, 3to 1 agst Bordeaux. Won easily by a length ; half a length between the second and third • a head between the third and fourth. The winner was bought in for 50 guineas. The Two-year-old Handicap of 1' sovs each, 5 ft, with 50 added. Winners 51b extra. T.Y.C. 27 subs. Mr. Goodered's D:ego, 7st 6lb (Fordham) 1 Mr. Worthington's Adam, 7st 21b (T. Cliff) 2 Mr. J. M. Stanley's Sauve-qu:-Peut, 7st 11h (Quinton) 3 The following also ran.:—Swalcliffe, Miss Harkaway, Jane Shore, and Ugly Mug. Betting-5 to 2 each agst Diego and Swalcliffe, sto 1 agst any other. Wt;r, by a neck ; four lengths separated the second and thin: Vso lengths the third and fourth ; the other three tailed off. .A. Handicap Plate of 50 flees. The winner to be sold by auction for 50/ , and the surplus over the selling price to go to the fund. One mile. 17 subs. Mr. Gulliver's Noisette, 5 yrs, 7st 61b (Prior) 1 Mr. Moseley's Romeo, 6 yrs, Bst 21b (T. Cliff) 2 Mr. Lloyd's Petticoat, 3 yrs, Est 81b (Fordham) 3 • The following also re". Nightcap, Freckle, Miss Goldschwidt, Vestige, Venture, and Dispute. Betting-7 to 4 agst Noisette, 7to 2 agst Romeo, 7 to 1 agst any other (offered). Won in a canter by two lengths ; a length between the second and third. Freckle was fourth, and Vestige fifth. The winner was bought in for 70 guineas. Great Warwick Handicap of 15 sovs each, 5 ft, with 100 added. The winner of the Cesarewitch Stakes 101 b, the second Sib extra; and the winner of any other handicap value 1001., after the declaration of the weights, slb extra. The second to save his stake. Once round, starting at the Stand. 36 sub?. Lord Clifden's Poodle, 6 yrs, 6st 6lb (Fordham) 1 Mr. E. R. Clark's Mr. Sykes, 5 yrs, Bst...(J. Mars* 2 Mr. Pell's Pole Star, 3 yrs, sst 2lb (Snowden) 3 The following also ran :—Gamelad, Mishap, and Imo gene. Betting-6 to 5 agst Mr. Sykes, sto 2 agst Poodle, and 4to 1 agst Pole Star A fine race in ; won by a short head, Mr. Sykes beating Pole Star by a short head also for second place ; very bad fourth. Imogene finished a long way in the rear. A Handicap Stakes of 2 sovs each, with 15 added, for two and three-yr-olds. The winner to be sold by auction for 40 sovs, &c. Six subs. Mr. Wilkins's Dwarf, 2 yrs, fiat 61b (Stagg) 1 Mr. Jone's Indian Queen, 2 yrs, Est 41b ...(Fordham) 2 Mr. Byrne's The Vine, 2 yrs, Est 121 b (Snowden) 3 The following also ran :—Usurer and Cocksparrow. The betting opened at evens on Usurer, subsequently 6 to 4 was betted on him, but at the close 5 to 4 was offered agat him, 3 to 1 agst Indian Queen, 9 to 2 agst the Dwarf. Won by a neck ; bad third. The Leamington Welter Cup, value 100 sovs, the rest in specie by subscriptions of 15 soya each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared, &c. Certain winners extra. Gen tlemen riders ; professionals 51b extra. Once round. 18 subs, 5 of whom declared. Lord Clifden's Poodle, 6 yrs, list (Captain Little) 1 Mr. E. Parr's Little avie, 6 yrs,llost 121 b (111 r. Blake) 2 Mr. Daley's Black Swan, 5 yrs, 104 121 b (Mr. Belville, jun.) 3 The following also ran :—Bright Pbcebus, Master Horton, Man-of-War, Red Rose. Betting-6 to 4 agst Poodle, 4to 1 agst Bright Plies bus 6to 1 agst Master Horton. Won by a head ; bad third ; Master Horton was fourth, Red Rose fifth ; Bright Phoebus and Man-of-War beaten off. HEALTH OF LONDON DURING T.HE WEEK. (.1 7 Pont the Registrar-General's Report.) The deaths of 870 persons were registered in London during the week that ended on Saturday, Oct. 13 ; 449 of the number died under 20 years of age ; 131 young men and women died of the age of 20-40 ; 124 persons had lived to the age of 40-60 ; and 124 more to the Age of 60-80 ; while only 22 had passed 80 years, and ap• proached the natural limit of human life (100 year-). 223 of the deaths were by zymotic diseases, including 16 by small-pox, 50 by scarlatina, 44 by diarrhoea, 4by cholera, 45 by typhus and ether fevers. Couumptioa was the cause of 108 deaths, apoplexy of 23 paralysis of 16, bronchitis and pneumonia of 92 Eighteen violent deaths were registered. The average deaths in the c )r -responding week of the previous 10 years was 995, or corrected for increase of population, 1095. The deaths in the last week were 870, or 225 below the corrected average deaths in London. The stanciard of comparison here is the average mor tality of London ; but that average is itself much above the average of England and Wales, and still fur ther above the mortality in several of the healthiest dis tricts of the country, where the annual deaths have been on an average of ten years at the rate of 14, 15, 16, and 17 in 1,000 of the population ; while the average mor tality of London was nearer 25 than 24 in 1,000. At the annual rate of 17 deaths in 1,000 living, the weekly deaths in London would amount now to 836 ; and the excess of 34 may be referred to causes which were in operation, destroying during the week nearly five lives daily. The 836 deaths may be held for the present to be na tural deaths, as they are the result of natural causes ; the 34 deaths may be considered unnatural deaths. As they are the results of extraneous causes that admit of removal. The steps that have already been taken to supply the people of London with purer water than they received during the last cholera epidemic are already producing beneficial results ; and the next most effectual measure of sanitary improvement will be the purification of the London atmosphere by the complete removal from the houses and streets daily of the residue of the organic matter which is brought into them daily. Last week the births of 793 boys and 771 girls, in all 1,064 children, were registered in London. In the ten ourresponding weeks of the years 1845-54 the average number was 1,313. The new moon on Thursday was ushered in by rain, of which 0.39 in. fell in five days of the week, and wind which blew from the south-west and north-west over Greenwich, at velocities ranging from 70 to 250 miles a day. The barometer was low (29'443 in. ; the thermo meter in the air 52'2 deg., so the mean temperature of the week is now descending to the mean temperature of the year. The mean dew point was 46.8 deg. On Wed nesday night the temperature of the air fell ►.o 42.7 deg.; of the grass to 38.0 deg. The mean of the highest tem perature of the air was 60.1 deg., which was nearly the mean of the highest temperatures of the Thames ; but in the nights, while the air was on an average at 46 2 deg., the water of the Thames remained at 56.7 deg. On Tues day the Thames was at night 13.3 deg. higher than the lowest temperature of the air, and gave off vapour, which in the calm air was thrown down in fog. MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCT. 13 Zymotic Diseases Diseases of Uncertain Seat Tubercular Diseases Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses 94 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 42 Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of Respiration . Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c. Malformations .. Premature Birth and Debility 3O Atrophy 2B Old Age . Sudden 5 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 27 Causes not specified 47 13 7 1 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES B7O Population Deaths in come- Death Enumerated. aponding week in the 1851. of 1854. Week. West Districts North Districts 490,396 Central Districts 393,256 ...... 200 ...... 154 East Districts 485,522 ...... 304 South Districts - 450 -- --- Totals Males ....................................... 440 Fema1e5.................................... 43 0 .----. BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Ma1e5................... Females ................ ............... 793 ............... 771 Total .................................... 1,564 FIIIITTIESt EXTENSION OP LIVERPOOL. —LIVERPOOL, Tuesday;—Last evening a meet i ng of the ratepayers re sidin w ithin the tow ns hi p of Tranmere, situated on g the Cheshire side of the Mersey, was held at the Britan -0;,, Hotel, Tranmere, to take into consideration an ap plicAtion which had been made by Mr. W. W. Perr.l and others, to the Town Council of Liverpool, for the purp)se of a malgamating the township of Tranmere with Liverpool, Birkenhead, and other townships. A reso lution proposed by Mr. C. Woodward and seconded by M.. D. Ross, stating that it was not for the interest of Tranmere that an amalgamation with Liverpool ard,Birk enhea.d should take place, was passed unanimously, and a deputation appointed to wait upon the finance com mittee of the corporation of Liverpool to acquaint them of the townihip'e decision. Spirit Pul -,1%e----) in the Times of this daA)..l:7lrfj • •i• - How far the laws of national hospits, / extend to political refugees is a vexed question- iii ,' Europe. Th e continental monarchies for tlibanosii E part deem their interests identical, and a man who • has offended against one of them is an outlaw under the ban of all. England has adopted another - - course. She permits men of all ranks and creeds to seek an asylum on her shores. The monarch and the conspirator, the fallen Royalist and the fallen Republican, are received without question, and, though condemned to obscurity or poverty, are free and in safety. But Englishmen cannot be forgetful of the plain laws of morality. The limit beyond which one of the family of nations cannot permit the refugee to pass is easily fixed by a little reflection. It is inconsistent with our international duties to allow any action against a foreign Go vernment which we should not allow against our own. The country will not sanction the repression of plain or even violent speaking, because that is permitted to every class in reference to the acts of our own rulers ; but all that English law proclaims seditious or treasonable if directed against the Queen's authority ought to be equally reprobated and punished when it has in view the overthrow of Governments with which the nation is at peace or in alliance. A document has been lately circulated, signed" The Committee of the Revolutionary Society.—. Felix Pyat, Rouge°, Jourdain." These three per sons are, we believe, located on British soil. Their production is entitled " A Letter to the Queen of England," and is of considerable length. The Em peror Napoleon, with a magnanimity which does him all; credit, so far from wishing that this letter should )3e suppressed, has even intimated a desire that it should obtain the widest circulation possible. If it served any purpose to lay before the world the vilest, most insolent, and flagitious document that has ever met our notice, it might be published in these columns. But our readers will sufficiently judge of its character without wading through its blasphemies, its obscenities, and its instigations to murder. It is in parts so wild and unintelligible that it is charitable to think that exile and sufferings have turned the - writer's brain. It has, however, been not the less accepted by the French refugees in this country as the exposition of their sentiments. It was read publicly and with applause at a meeting in London on the 22c1 of September, the anniversary of the proclamation of the first French Republic. German and Polish refugee§ were present, together with two English Republicans, " Citizens Nash and William Jones." A report of the proceedings appeared in the news paper l'ilemine, published in Jersey by the refugees. After it was read at the meeting a Frenchman, Citizen Tatarilier, Made his comments. He paid a tribute to the memory of the Jacobins of 1793, and divided the duties of the patriot into three heads—conspiracy, study of means, and riropa ganda. " Such attempts," he observed, "as those of Pianori and of the Angers insurgents are only justified in the eyes of the world by success. Let us hoped that the justification is at hand." Bap tising their children in the name of the only true trinity4-liberty, equality, fraternity—they were to educate them in the cause. It will be seen that rebellion and assassination are not the dreams of a sipgle individual. The " Letter to the Queen pf England" is actually addressed to the Queen in terms of insolent familiarity. No feel ing of decency or of respect for the usages of the country which has sheltered them restrains for a moment the ruffianly rhapsodist. " Why have you gone to see the parvenu tyrant, you honest woman, as much as a Queen can be it ?" The Em peror is blasphemously described "as the word of treachery made flesh." An immediate rising is pre dicted. " The lightning of Pianori has preceded the thunder of the people." The Queen is told of her folly in making friends with this Corsican Emperor. whose purple is of French blood, by whom France is no more represented than Prometheus by his vulture. She thinks of the master of to-day with out thinking of to-morrow; but his infallible fate is nigh. Ho will be punished. How will he end ? He may say that the worst is to ride away in a carriage, like Charles X., or in a cab, like Louis Philippe. " But there is a third manner, Madam, —in a van, like Louis XVI. in an executioner's cart, to be executed by Donange, the hangman of Montfaucon." W e h ave quote. enough. A miser able clique of political gossips —the old women of "good society"—have seen in the remarks we re cently felt it our duty to publish on the Prussian alliance the seeds of treason ; but our contempt for these slauderers of our honest endeavours in our country's cause will not deter us from unmasking and branding real treason, wherever we meet it, with all the energy of our soul. Were the public aware that there are men who speak and write like this on English soil ? Did they know that at meetings held in the heart of this city assassination and rebellion could he preached with impunity? Is the nation which permits these things free from blame ? It may be urged that both speakers and audience arc so disreputable and powerless that there is nothing to he feared ; but a Pianori or a Barthelemy is not powerless. The hand of any ruffian who has been roused to madness by these harangues may change the destinies of Europe. The security with which the democratic leaders can publish these sentiments gives to the French peo ple, who never thoroughly appreciate our institu tions, a false idea of their power, and tends to the disturbance of the public mind. The impression is that, in spite of an alliance and common enter prises, the British people secretly favours those who would sgain plunge Europe in blood. It is the duty of the Government to take some heed of such proceedings as those we have described, and, if these men be found incorrigible, to extend no longer to them the hospitality they have profaned. It has been seen what little respect the demo crats have for the feelings of this country. They live in freedom, pursue any private calling they choose, indulge their political animosities, even publish a newspaper to represent their views. Yet from sneers and invective against England they can never abstain. In the late production they, not content with impertinently addressing the So vereign of the country, openly gloat over its ex pected humiliation. We shall be Decemberised if ever Napoleon has the time. But the most striking feature of their minds is their fiendish malevolence. Forgetful that they are refugees, and that at one time England was almost threatened with a coali tion for protecting them, they expatiate on what they will do when power is again their own. " Louis Napoleon," says the letter, "is not a man ' • he shall be executed even to hi s memory ; oven his remains and those of his relations shall not pollute the soil ; they shall be driven out, the living and the dead ; it shall be a casus belli for any nation to give them shelter." All this may be declared insanity, but it is an insanity which ought to be checked, and which would be checked by a hint that expulsion from England would follow any repetition of its display. Calls to assassina tion cannot be overlooked, from whatever quarter hts they may come. Let no scruples about the rights of asylum, no tenderness to these writers, because they are needy and in exile, prevent the n _ nation from taking due care that the autherity.e e d_t ru ne . life of a ruler so necessary to Europe as to . \-r-4 peror Napoleon shall not be endangered- We have not ventured to give any adequate re presentation* te which the Queen of of the style . England is addressed. It is enoughes beyond snady eventh a what those most t the brutal audacity of these men go acquainted with them would con been necessary in these remarks to bring name of the Sover e i gn i nto con ceive. We regret that it has nection with suchtlruffiansname: I but her M a j esty and the nation may we ll b e sa tis re that ev en th ese coarse a nd venomous natures can find no i ll with which to charge the Queen of En L l Ln d . Her only cr i me is that she is the ally of th e man they hate ; that she has received and returned his visit. They do not conceal that for this they desire for royalty in England a fate little less disastrous than that which they predict in France. "Madam," says the Democratic Committee, " let the Revolution be your Cicerone in Paris. It can point out a spot instructive to sovereigns." We have said enough of the revolutionists for the general reader; but to Lord Palmerston and the Home Secretary we re commend the careful perusal of their latest produc tion. We believe that the Premier once threat ened these incendiaries with something like de portation. Let Citizen Pyat and his friends bo warned, or they may soon have to plot for their democratic and social republic on some distant and more congenial soil. INCENDIARY FIRE NEAR BARNSLEY.-At a little before one o'clock on Monday morning a fire broke out in the stackyard at the New-lodge Farm, at New Laithes, about two miles from Barnsley, on ie Wakefield road. On an alarm l:eing given by an engineman at work at an adjoining colliery a considerable number of persons has- tened to the spot, but the fire had got too strong a hold to be subdued, and their efforts were only available in saving the surrounding property. Six wheat stacks and a barn full of wheat were all in flames together, and the c , inflagration could be seen from a great distance. About 1,0001. worth of wheat was destroyed, Only half of which is covered by insurance. The fire is believed to be the work of an incendiary. It was not finally extinguished until Monday evening. Ny EARLY CLOSING MOVEMENT. —A. public meeting for the furtherance of this movement was held in the Town Hall, at Croydon, on Monday evening, when resolutions condemnatory of the late hour system, and in favour of an earlier suspension of business ' were unanimously passed. The chair was o ccup i e d by Captain Tate, and Mr. Lilwall, the honorary secretary of the parent so. ciety, attended hi h deputation. [r. J. lenry born, Tidge Ephen iham, JNC , 112, ity of