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': '-- '''' ' '. 4 , 1 1 , ~,, r . , 0,,..' • 86'95) ' . :.^ ,0 A....' \ ' ' ' R01T... 7 \, vs 4 , ,\; • ......-- Levy Igata, idge. hton, book heap- .t, of JIABT INDIA ItIYCSE, 28rnminim 1855. TETCOURT of DIRECTORS of tho EAST DIA COMPANY do hereby give Notice, that the Rate of rachange at which they will receive Cash for Bills on Bengal and Madras will, from the present date, and until further notice, be 2s. Old. the Company's Rupee, and for Bills en Bombay 2s. Id. the Com- PARI's Rupee. JAMES I. MELYILk, Secretary. )CeM. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—The Directors hereby Give Notice that they will receive Money on Loan, to pay off Debentures falling due, and are prepared to accept Tenders for the same for a period of 3,5, or 7 years. at 5 per cent. Per annum. Application may be made to the undersigned. By order of the Directors. CHAS. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary. • Paddington Station, 2d November, 1855. [PRICE 4D. STAMPED SD• LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 29, 1855. No. 19,706.] PUBLICATIONS. THE WAR IN THE EAST. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAIL WAY.—The KING of SARDINIA will arrive at WIN DiOR on a VISIT to the QUEEN, about 2 o'clock p.m. on FRIDAY, 30th November instant. Trains will leave the Waterloo -bridge Station on that day for Windsor at 9.45 and 10.45 a.th., 12.15 and 12.45 p.m. The town of Windsor will be illuminated in the evening. By Orcier Waterloo-bridge Station, 27th November, 1855. PEPYS' DIARY.-NEW CHEAP STANDARD EDITIONS of this Popular Work, with all the recent Notes and Emendations, are now ready at all the Booksellers: The small octavo, in 4 vols., uniform with Evelyn's Diary, pries 6s. each, bound, and the LIBRARY EDITION, In 4 vols. decoy octavo, uniform with Murray's Classics, price 7s. 6d. each, bound. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, succssors to Hoary Colburn. (From, a Correspondent of thiJkorning' :FP34) eared o the met a 701bs ecline nglish d per arley, corn prime ►t the little price. Aerial damp were ply of to 2e . 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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIYEN, that no further applications for Shares in this bank will be received after Friday, the 30th of November. By order. HENRY LAKE, Secretary. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. - THIS EVENING, and every evening during the w eek, the GRAND ELEUSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC wizard MYSTERY, by Professor ANDERSO N, the Great 'Yizard 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 peculiar phases of amusement. It is not a monologue, for the audience them selves perform their parts with the principal actor, some of theta 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 som- PanY ; a melodrama replete with startling positions and unex- Pected denouements; a magnificent spectacle, with 2,000 of the public Avery night to appear as auxiliaries ; and an ex travagania, in which all that seems to be is entirely beyond the bounds of probability. Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged awl 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 leas at any time or in any place been honoured with an amount of success so extensive, so decided, and so unusual. He would attribute that success to three causes ; first, that in his present entertainment he has placed before his visitors thee results of a life aetalratT 4p:s4ated to the attatiiment of t r iTeete'dsialPin - strcrto perfeet which e 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 I. ?sertiag to the conjuror's arts, in an illegitimate manner , the designing have succeeded in making dupes of the credul ous. _ The 937 lette rs on th e su bject of spirit-rapping, which Pro fessor Anderson has received, from the time of opening the theatre up to the present date, bear witness to t he g reat in terest taken on the subject of this singular delusion ; whilst any of them 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 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 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 tellectual 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 on Spirit-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 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 have been made to figure in the documents emanating from the spirit-rappers, as for instance . the following s ex tracted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septem ber 20, and taken by that journal from the New York Spiri tual 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 nonpinased. Both of these noted men brought the whole force of their keen discernment to bear upon the solution of the phenomena; but the presenee of substantial, actual hands, and the demonstrative strength of the spirits who thus clothed themselves for the time, a nd moved mate rial objects about the room, proved to betoo much of a ques tion for them to master." Mr. D. D. Henne, 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 th e Anglo-Saxon world as a splendidhumbug, offered him 2.000 dollars per annum if he would perform at his museum in New York. Barnum then took it for granted that inediums could be ,. bought. He was somewhat astonished when his offer was r einsed: Hume, on telling the fact in London lately, simply and honestly remarked, that the money would have been very a cceptable to him, for he was poor, young (under 20), an or l'nen, 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. lie 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 an established journal, the editor of whom n right be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe spirit-rapping— does spirit-rapping gain or lcise by this accession to its adherents? and with Barnum's endorse ment to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely to be neotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe tit, Wh g en he finds that educated c l erg ymen of the Church of England have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross a swindle, when-he finds that the Incumbent of Wortley (the Rev. N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and writes a book on the subject, he considers it to be time for him to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which Lt . is effected, 'and the mischief to which it tends. I n t he I,4"rnlng Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir - , Javid 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 Spirit-rapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad Prposes. In the Morning Advertiser of the following day, however, there is an answer to Sir David's letter from one W ho was present when he and Lord Brougham bad their seance-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 eceslion was conveyed by an invisible agency to my hand and then to Lord Brougham's, in which, held by his lordship's light hand, apart from any person, it played an air through out,'• 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 the day are 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" has actually been advertised to be held 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 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 ing, the programme being continually changed. Grand fashionable Day Performance,' on Saturday, December 1, at 2 o'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ; Part 1. —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 She air, Act 2. The Aqua-Axial 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 Reenails Choisies : or, Puck's Own Pocket B oo k, with Puck himself within it. Typifying the e vening'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, Magic.al Lecotnotion ; or, 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 pf every Article in the position which would seem the most inappropriate. Act 5. L'Ecrin de Verne; 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 Spirit Store. An improvement upon the " inexhaustible bottle," inasmuch as the Wizard's bottle will not only be 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, rum, whisky, laoyeau, or any other wine or spirit required ; and finally Preying to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly dry, Lid occupying the whole space when tightly packed. Act 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an Expose of Spirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-rapping table and tocsin of the invisibles. Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property of 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. The Enchanted Chair of Comus, in which he who seats himself will be under the magic spell, and app ear to the audience, under circumstances least expected, in a posi tion as peculiar as perplexing. Act. LI. 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 be p ro d uce d . 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. Private boxes, 11. lls.fid. and 1/. la., to be obtained at the Box-office, or at the principal libraries.; stalls, 4s. ; dress circle, 3s. ; upper boxes, 2s. ; pit, Is. ; gallery, 6d: The Box-office is open daily, from 11 till 5, under the direction of Mr, Chatterton, jun. Grand fashionable Morning Per formance onlitaturclay, December 1, at 2 o'clock, Doers open atthalf-pat CARLISLE AND CANOBIE RAILWAY. (Incorporation of Company for making a Railway from the Port Carlisle Railway to Canobie, with Branches to the Caledonian Railway, and to. Canobie Coal Pits—Arrangements with the . Port Carlisle Pock and Rail way Company, and with the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock Company.) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That application is in tended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing Session for leave to bring in a Bill for the purposes following, or some of them—that is - to ray, to authorise the con struction and maintenance of the following Railway and Branch Railways, with all proper works and con veniences therewith connected, :—First, a Railway commencing by a junction wija the Port Carlisle Rail way at or near to the Ki7le Andrews station of that Railway, in the parish of Kirk Andrews-upon-Eden and county of Cum berland, passing from, through, or into the parishes, town ships, or extra parochial places of Kirk Andrew , -upon-Eden, Beaumont, Grinsdale, Stanwix, Cargo, Rockliffe, Churchtown, Castletown, Kirklinton, West Linton, Kirklinton Middle, Arthuret, Lynes;dea Longtown, Kirk Andrews-on-Esk, Kirk Andrews Middle, and Kirk Andrews Nether, and Moat, all iu the county of Cumberland, and the parish of Canobie in the county of Dumfries, or some or other of them, and terminating at Or near to the church of Canobie, in the said par:sh of Canobie and county of Dumfries. Second, a Railway or branch Railway commencing by a junction with the first named proposed Railway at or near to the village of Todhills, in the parish of Rockliffe and township of Castleto een, and passing from, through, or into the parishes, townships, or extra parochial places of Rockliffe, Cast'etown, and Churchtown, and 'terminating by a junction with the Caledonian Rahway, at or near a point about three furlongs south of Blackrig, in the parish of Rook liffe,- and township of Chnrchtown, the whole of the said branch Railway being in the panty of Cumberland. Third, a Railway or branch Railway commencing by a junction with the first-named proposed Railway, at or near to the Church of Canobie, and terminating at or near to the Canobie coal pits, the whole of the said branch Railway being in the parish of Canobie, and County of Dumfries. And it is intended by the said Bill to incorporate a Com pany for the purposes aforesaid, with power to raise a capital, and borrow a sum of money therefor, and to take powers to stop up, alter or divert, either temporarily or 'Permanently, all works, highways and roads, streams, rivers, canals, and other workirsituate within the parishes, townships,_ extra -I_24.tocujoAl.wroibeki-iiivtli-raltyvertteiestiry 14 64 4,t f itii-"Or divert, for-the pinliTses•of, or during the construction of, the said proposed Railway and branch Rail ways ; and, also powers for the compulsory purchase of lands, houses, and other heritages, and for the levying of tolls, rates, and duties, on and for the use of the said intended Railway, and branch Railways, and the works and conve niences to be connected therewith. And Notice is further given, That it is intended by such bill to empower the Company (thereby to be incorporated) to enter into an agreement with the Port Carlisle Dock and Railway Company, and the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Rail way and Dock Company, or either of them, for working the traffic upon the said intended Railway and branch Rail ways, and works, and for the management, repair, and maintenance thereof, and for the use of any stations belonging to the said Port Carlisle Dock and Railway Com pany, or the said Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock Company, and that on such terms and conditions, and for such consideration, as may have been, or may be, agreed upon between the said Companies, or either of them, and the Company so intended to be incorporated ; and also to autho rise and empower the wild Port Carlisle Dock and Railway Comnany, and the said Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock Company, or either of them, to enter into such agree ment ; and, so far as may be necessary for the purposes afore said, to amend the previsions of the several Acts of Parlia ment relating to the Port Carlisle Dock and Railway ; that is to say, " The Port Carlisle Dock and Railway Act, 1853 ;" and relating to the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock Company ; that is to say, local and personal Act 18 and 19 Victoria, Cap. 153. And Notice is further given, That it is intended by the said Bill to vary or extinguish all such rights and privileges as may in any manner interfere with other objects aforesaid, or any of them, and to confer pther rights and privileges. And Notice is further given, That a published map, on a scale of not less than half an inch to the mile, with the lines of Railway and branch Railways delineated thereon, so as to show their general course and direction, and duplicate plans mid sections describing the lines, situations, and levels of the said intended Railway and branch Railways, and the lands, houses, and other property in the line of the said Railway and branch Railways and works, or within the limits of de viation as defined on said plans, or which may be taken for the purposes of such Railway and branch Railways, and of the' works to be connected therewith ; together 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 respectively, and a copy of this rotice, as published in the London Gazette and Edinburgh Gazette, will be deposited for public inspection on or before the-thirtieth day of November, one thousand eight, hundred and fifty-five, with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Cumberland, at his office in the city of Carlisle, and in the office of the principal sheriff-clerk in the town of Dum fries for the county of Dumfries ; and that a copy of so much of the said plans, sections; and book of reference as relates to the several Parishes, Townships, or Extra Paro chial places in and through which the said proposed Railway and branch railways are intended to pass, toge ther with a like copy of this notice published as afore said, will also be deposited on or before the said 30th day of November with the parish clerks of such of the said parishes as are situated in England, at the respective resi dences of such parish clerks, and, in the case of any extra parochial place, with the parish clerk of some parish adjoin ing thereto, at his place of abode ; and with the schoolmaster, if any, and if there be no schoolmaster, with the session clerk of the said parish of Canobie, at the usual place of abode of such schoolmaster or session-clerk. And Notice is hereby given, That a printed copy of the said proposed Bill annexed to the petition therefor, together with other printed copies of the said proposed Bill, will be depo sited in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons on or before tho thirty-first day of December next. MOUNSEY & Mc A.LPIN, Carlisle, DALMAHOY & WOOD, Ediniurgh, Solicitors. 10th November, 1855. HER MAJESTY'S POSTMASTER GENERAL will receive TENDERS for the SUPPLY of UN t FORM CLOTHINi 1 for the Letter Carriers, Mail Guards, Acce lerator Drivers, and Riders of this department, and for the Letter Carriers of the Liverpool, Manchester, Bira,ingham. and Bristol Post Offices. The tenders must be enclosed in sealed covers, addressed to " Her Majesty's Postmaster-General," and superscribed, "Tender for Letter Carriers', Guards', &e., Clothing ;" and they must be deli vered at this office at or before coon on SATURDAY, the 15th December, 1855. They miist show the prices at which the several articles will be supplied for a period of one year and three years respectively. Specimens of the Clothing to be supplied may be seen on appli cation at the Circulation-office of this department. The pales whose tender is accepted will be required to enter into a contract, and to give bond, with two sureties, in the sum of 1001., for its due performance. General Post-office, November, 1855. H ER MAJESTY'S POSTMASTER -1 GENERAL will re •eive TENDERS far the SUPPLY of UNIFORM BATS for the Letter Carriers, Mail Guards, Accelera tor Drivers, and Riders of this department, and for the Letter Carriers of the Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and Bristol Post-offices. The Tenders must be enclosed in sealed covers, addressed to " Her Majesty's Postmaster-General," and superscribed " Tender for Letter Carriers', Guards', &c., Hats ;" and they must be delivered at this office at or before noon on SATURDAY, the 15th December, 1855. They must show the prices at which the Hats will be supplied for a period of one year and three years respectively. Specimens of the Hats to be supplied may be seen on application at the Circulation-office of this department The parties whose Tender is accepted will be required to enter into a contract, and to give bond, with two sureties, in the sum of 501., fir the due terformance of the contract. General Post-office, November, 1855. CONTRACTS FOR FRESII BEEF. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling, Somerset-House, 28th November, 1855. THE Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord Nigh Adrairal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 'lreland, do Hereby Give Notice, that on 111UR4DAY. the 13th December next, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such peruons as may be willing to contract for supplying (under separate contracts) all such quantities of FRESH BEEF as nay be demanded for the use of at the fcllowing places, from the 1 1856, both days included, viz.:— her Majesty's Ships and Vessels, it January to the 31st December, Chatham. Cowes. Kingstown and Dublin. _ ...,.... _ Cromarty. Leith. Deal and in the Downs. Milford and Pembroke. Deptford to London-bridge, inclu- North shields. sive. Portsmoath. Falmouth. Queenstown and Kinsale. Greenock. Sheerness. Guernsey and Jersey. Woolwich to Gravesend, both In- Harwich. elusive. None of the Contracts to be Butt-let, and the Contracts for Dept ford, Woolwich, Chatham, and Sheerness to be taken by persons residing on the spot, and the Cattle for I hatham and Sheerness to be slaughtered on the spot. A Form ofthe Tender may be obtained, and the conditions of the revised contracts, to which particular attention is called, may be seen at this office, or by applying to the Superintendents of the Victual ling Establishments at Deptford and Gosport ; the 4uperintendents of her Majesty's Dockyards at Woolwich, Chatham, Sheerness, and Pembroke; the Clerk in charge of her Majesty's Yard at Deal; the Agent for the Victualling at Haulbowllne ; the Agent for Transports at Leith; the Secretary to the Postmaster-General, Dublin; or to the Collectors of her Majesty's Customs at each of the other places. No tender will be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed unless made on the printed form provided fir the pmposo ; but it will not be necessary that the party tendering or an agent appointed by him should attend at this office, ai the result of the offer received from each person will be communicated to him and his pr noosed sureties in writing. eEdverng Every tender must be delivered at the above Office, and signed by two sooroel.spfoornselacbleh of f er t s h ons e oth e e n re. gaging to become bound with the person tendering in the sum of 1,5001 . for the due performance of each of the contracts for Shee r ness Chatham, and Portsmouth ; and in the sum TOZEAIJ'S COPA_HINE, or SACCHA.RATED CAPSULES, approved of by the French College of Physicians, necessfully administered in the Paris and London Hospitals, and cknowledged by them to be the best remedy for a certain disorder. See " Lancet" of Nov. 6, 1852.) 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B. and Co., care of Messrs. Haurie and Nephew, 8, Great Tower-street, London. • R. ALBERT SMITH has the honour to an -311 nonce that WONT BLANC will open for the Season on MONDAY_ EVENING, December 3d. During the recess several 41ter atIons and improvements have been made in t e Egyptian Hall, which it is hoped will contribute still further to the comiort and pro per accommodation of the audience. The entertainment will be divided into three parts. The first part will comprise the last year's route through Holland and up the Rhine, with the exception that it will commence at Boulogne and terminate at Heidelberg. The second part will contain the ascent of Mont Blanc, entering the val ley of Chamouni by the Col dq Balme, and quitting it by the Tete Noire. The third pal i will bring the traveller back by Paris, allow ing time to visit the Exhibition, and it will be illustrated by the fol lowing views, painted by Mr. William Beverley :—The Palais de l'lndustrie, wit t the Panorama Building, the Annexe, and the Frigate, front the Place de la Concerde —A general view of Paris—The Palate Royal Thu Machinery Gallery of the Annexe—The Interior of the Exhibition, from the great St. Gobain glass. The Ascent 11'9 been entirely repainted, and a view of the large crevices on the Glacier de Hossons in 1853 introducet. The views of Heidelberg, and of the viliate of Chamouni after the fire, are by Mr. P. Phillips. Several old travel ling acquaintances, and a number of new ones, encountered abroad during the autumn, will be presented to the audience. All the re galations with reset to the room, the places, and the box-office, with which the audiences have been pleased to express themselves satisfied during past seasons, will be observed as before. 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'II I RIESEMA R.—On the 29th of May, :1855, an IL. injunction was granted by the High Court oftiChancery, and on the 11th Juno following was made perpetual, against Joseph Franklin and others, to restrain them, tinder a penalty of ono thou sand pounds, from imltatin, this Medicine, which is protected by [loyal Letters Patent or England, and secured by the Seats of the Ecole P iarmacie do Paris, and the Impel ial College of Medicine, Vienna. TRIESEMAR, No. 1, is a remedy for Relaxation. Spermatorrhcea, and Exhaustion of the .Irttem, whether arising from excesses, accident, or climate. persons o ns f w ea h r o ly ar e e rr p o r r e s v i e t n i t s ed in e v n a t l e u r a i b n l g e. the married state by he ro hcotnsoesgeu TRIESEMAR, No. 2, itfectually, in the short spaca of three days, completely and entirely 3radicates all traces of those Disorders which Capivi and Cubebs nave so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health a vast portion of the population. 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THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. lust published, price 25., illustrated with oases; free by post for 26 stamps, ERVOUS DEBILITY; ,1 Its Causes, Symptoms, and Cure.—An Essay on Spar mai,orrhcca, with Practical Observations on a safer and pore iticcessful mode of treatment of the diseases pf the Generative system, obtained by the use' of the Microscope in detecting and tistinguishing, by urinary examination, the real cause and effect of vay variety of complaint, whether arlsirg from solitary habits, A , :,ceses, accident, or climate, followed by practical remarks, founded in twenty years' experience in the treatment of Impuissance, il'ervous Debility, Local Weakness, Spermatorrhasa, &c. To which 9, - .3 added, Commentaries on the Physiology of Marriage, with pre .: tutionary hints on the evils emanating from empirical pmetice, snd on the dangerous remedies advocated by various writers on these important disorders. - - - By SAMUEL LA'MPRT M.D. 37, BEDFORD-SQUA ItE, LONDON, Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edit , burgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Societ; , Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Esc., &o. The essential object 01 this treatise is to point out the fearful con ,e4aences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, *hick have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man lood, and premature decay at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, any , ther class of disease known to modern pathologista. Its perusal is ?articularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts 0 1 their physical condition, and who are conscious of haying hazarded. Ole health, happiness, and privileges to which every human being Is entitled. it is absolutely necessary that all men should know, that there an. ,rincipies of personal management which cannot be violated without neurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed Lhe heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penaltief lay be mitigated, hew the sting of their bitterness may be removed nil how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and above all. tnat there Is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functions tarangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure he Author has for a series of years been engaged in an extensive g,Tactice in the treatment of these delicate complaints, which have , intortunately been too generally confided tc the care of ignore.. erneirics, who inflict great injury on those who are induced to place faith in their pretensions. NERVOUS DEBILITY 'nay be hal price ss, of Messrs. 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To day has somewhat more of the dreary character of the month, but the weather is mild and dry, and from its being so at the new moon it is-hoped will continue so for some time longer. None of the expected appointments, beyond that of lord Wil liam Paulet to the command of the Light Division, appear in this day's orders. It is said that the subdivision of the army meets with 110 approval from the senior officers, and that the telegraphic wires are at present engaged with messages con cerning it. The advantage of it in so small an army as ours no person can appreciate, - as our whole strength when combined does notitimount to what is one of the corps d'armee of on, -.allies the French. The - divisions form suitable Commands for general officers, under the Commaider of the Forces, and any other arrangement seer likely— for a time, at all events —t o upset our system, with which no great fault can be found at present, the evils being apparently in mere minor details, some of which I endeavoured, but perhaps. very imper fectly, to describe yesterday. Whereas; last win ter, we suffered. from want of precantionndi being mostly new to the work,,. oarej&t 13,910k3 thalia:re-m*titirintetittiAllibilte ex r~ eerie, and, having got over the hard work, dangers, and privations we were then subjected to, substitute for our men a nursery of ease and comfort such as to unfit them for a spring campaign ; as any one who has experienced real campaigning will at once know that, were the Land Transport Corps in creased to one hundred times its present strength —supposing it now capable of undertaking the le gitimate calls of a field movement,--it could .not carry coffee mills and pudding cloths for England's dear babies. We must learn smaller lessons of our allies than forming corps d'armees—teach Young Bull to be all in all a soldier for himself, to cook his rations without Soyer, and to entrench his camp without an Army Works Corps. Among the articles that, in this enlightened age, have been found indispensably necessary to the soldier's com fort one thing has been omitted—no supply of warming-pans has-been received, and the lately ar rived heroes who sleep in sheets may possibly very often find them damp when the wet weather sets in. NOVEMBER 14. It was impossible, on awaking this morning, not to remember the feelings with which we were aroused from our slumbers on this day last year, and not to be animated with a feeling of gratitude that, doubtful and dreary as may be our present prospect, it is incalculably superior to what we then experienced. In my own case, which was more or less (and I doubt not that the former prevailed) the case with every man in the army, I awoke in a more helpless condition than on any other day that I can remember in my whole life. For the first time since landing in the Crimea, on .the 14th of September, I ventured, in consequence of having received what was then called heavy baggage—but light enough, in all conscience, to gratify the strictest campaigner—to go to bed with my clothes off, and found myself, at an early hour, with my canvas covering torn from over me, and exposed to the winds of heaven in my shirt alone, for everything else I possessed was fast dis appearing. I will not enter into particulars of the partial recovery of raiment, but that such a day as I never again wish to pass followed the opening scene few will doubt, and will the more easily appre ciate the feelings with which this, the first anniver sary of it, is felt on the same spot, or within a few hundred yards of it, in the same climate, but with every luxury, if not of the season, that good sense gained from experience has taught. The face of the ground changed from the wild appearance of unin habited heights to a busy world—the young oak brushwood, amongst which we first pitched our tents not only swept from the face of the earth, but from under the earth ; as I believe it was lett to but few roots to try and shoot upwards again in the spring of this year, and such as did found it was but a sorry place to thrive, as their kind and kindred then were only used to carry on the deadly work in hand, and the young buds, instead of opening into leaf, were doomed to wither as gabions in those hateful trenches. But the place is changed. Huts have, in a great measure, superseded even tents, and the latter become not a mere locum tenens, but a permanent dwelling, at least for some months in anticipation. Next as to climate ; who could believe two self-same days in successive years could exhibit such a difference ? Then all storm, dire, overpowering storm ; to-day all June, the sun so warm that any extra clothing that a few cold days have from ti me t o ti me di c t a t e d was found superfluous. Yet we must keep in mind the stern fact that our work is not yet over, and that Sebas topol itself, that place which can only be handed down to future generations as a place of, blood, is not yet quite done with. Au unfortunate accident hap pened this afternoon to some men of the Coldstream Guards, on duty in the Redan, by which' One was killed on the spot, and two others severely, and one I fear mortally, wounded. It appears, as I heard it, that two men were endeavouring to obtain from one of the excavated ca bi ns i n th e o ld s t ron ghold some coffee canisters, c a ll e d b y th e men " infernal ma chines," which th e y wan t e d f or h o ldi ng water, or some other purp ose . T wo h a d b een o btained ; and a third—which wa s no t prec i se l y th e same, after wards discovered— w hil s t th e men were about emptying the po w d er it con t a i ne d, exploded,and caused the accident. TERRIFIC EXPLOSION IN THE CAMP. Nov. 15, 5 P.M.—This af ternoon one of the most extensive and appalli ng expl os i o ns of gun powder, bombs, and artill e ry ma te r i a l s that has ever oc curred since the co mmet ce men t of the war, whe ther on the side of th e a lli es or within the ines of Sebastopol, took place on the right of our camp. A greater quantity of gunpowder itself may have been exploded in some of the magazines discharged for the destruction of the buildings and works after the abandonment of the ruined city and fortress ; but this is doubtful, and certainly there were never fired at the same time so great a number and variety of deadly and explosive projectiles. The frightful character of the occurrence was greatly enhanced, too, by its isolated and unexpected na ture, suddenly bursting out in the very midst of the camps at a time when all was supposed to be secure, and when the sounds of the bombardment, once loud and familiar enough, had dwindled down into the occasional dropping shots interchanged between the north and south sides. Another ele ment of alarm was the spreading and fury of the fire after the first great explosion, and the constant fresh communication with other stores of explosive combustibles, the amount and nature of which were involved in uncertainty from the difficulty of learning what had already been destroyed. The close neighbourhood of the great English magazine of gunpowder, where in a closely-packed mass be tween eighty and ninety tons are said to be stored, formed no small ingredient in the general appre hension and panic. All accounts agree that the first explosion oc curred in the French sie g e train de p ot, which is path only separated by a way from the English mright train siege depot rear of the Light Divi- iv m e • ao h : it varied according any distinct description sion. depots appeared utterly be• the blow from the impelled 0 f I t t h ies effectimpossible oft h e t o firstg to circumstances of position and distance. Those the flashing of the fire, the who escaped from the artillery tents and immediate wii vicinity dered o . of The the force e e of a rrested every reasoning faculty, and took away all sense, air, suffocatingthe stunning uksmoke,ing no is 0 save the insti nc ti ve im pulse to fly from the source of evil . These men ran on in all 'direct ions, heedless of the s hells and d grape s a w t hthicehspwcenreee falling around, without l oo ki ng : destruction they were leaving the tents of the n e i g hb our i ng behind them, on never stopped till th ey b a d reached or passed regiments. Ainong the regiments themselves of the Light Division, whether in tents or huts, a d from the concussion of the air. followed the loud report of the sudden sensation WAS felt as if of an upheaving of as s and if waithout the ringing the ground, at the same time that s a in v g i l o e le e n h t ar s g h e oc o k r r of a salvo of artillery, was experielee Almost instal - All number of magazines had etmhboxueanpetgelnao seemingzs 0( i i explosion discharged, decided heaa n c rdi rather dihe s :e o rheu character asdr fired,ii a n f o g at one aft3r the other, so rapidly that all the reports were blended into one. As the thunder of the first report subsided, its place was occupied by the sharp cracking sounds of shells bunting high in the air, the rtub, o f f ragnma t is fall, ing to the ground, and the loud bangs of shells which had been scattered and were exploding on all sides. Simultaneous with these, almost from the very commencement, was the crashing of woodsy huts, splitting of timbers, and noise of falling glass from the 'broken windows. The tents were violently agitated,. and sometimes the 'cords or poles were snapped asunder. • Then followed a continued succession of minor reports, and the roar of flames, and crackling of 'burning weed, as the fire advanced and increased among the huts and . artillery stores of the siege train depots. Those who Tushed out of their tents immediately after the first shock, or who happened to be standing out side at the time, saw the air filled with shells, some bursting at an elevation such as they used to be seen in the siege operations when propelled from mortars by the heaviest charges, some exploding on the ground. Grape and the small iron shot, about the size of bullets, 'of which such great quantities were found in iron cases in some of the Russian magazines, were falling thickly on all sides. Every one sought the nearest shelter, crouching beneath the stone walls of the huts and buildings lately erected, or wherever any protection from the iron shower could be most readily discovered. The air beoarae speedily darkened, as if by a mist, from the smoke which spread around, but this was soon dispersed. Those who were at a still further distance, ap proaching towards the front from the plain, say that they first saw a swelling column of smeke, out of which shot rays of light, ascending to a great elevation, and that these, curving and bursting with brilliant star-like centres of light, had pre cisely the appearance.of a magnificent display of fireworks. The agitation of the ground, and the report of the explosion which followed, together With. the direction,' informed -them of serious naturesaf the occurrence. - Their impressierrwaseat first, as indeed it was among the greater number of persons in the camps near thecatastrophe, that the great English powder magazine had exploded. It may well be excused if the majority of men and officers—subjected as they were to the double horrors of an earthquake and sudden bombard ment—in the camps' around the parks of the siege train were for the moment panic-stricken. But to the credit of all be it spoken that the con fusion of the first event had no sooner passed than one laudable desire seemed to seize all ranks to be instrumental in saving the maimed and wounded, who were unable to escape from the neighbourhood of the fire, or who were lying around, struck by the fragments of shells or by other projectiles. IStretchers were got from the surrounding reg. mental hospitals, and the' wounded, French and English, rapidly carried to them. Medical officers from other divisions, and from the General Hos pital, galloped over to render assistance. The staff of the Light and Second Divisions were quickly at the •scene of action, and not long afterwards General Codrington arrived with the head-quarter staff, many of whom were returning on their way from the Artillery review in the plain near Bala klaVa. A train of ambulance waggons arrived quickly, and were of essential service. Many of the regimental hospitals, being in rear of their regi ments, and therefore nearest to the place of the ex plosion, had been very much shaken or injured by shot and shells ; and as the danger of fire and fur ther explosions had not ceased, the opportunity of removing the wounded rapidly - to - a greater dis tance was urgently required. Fortunately the General Hospital, in the rear of the Third Divi sion, which, previous to the expectation of an at tack on the part of the enemy, it had been intended to break up and convert into winter huts for the troops, was still vacant, and to this hospital many of the wounded were at once removed. There was great danger in approachin g the fire from the con stant explosions, and both men and officers. had frequently to be recalled while searching for those who had been injured, or while attempting, by tearing down canvas or cutting down timber, to stop the communications of the fire. One young officer of artillery, of the name of Dawson, had. his leg carried away by a shell bursting, and was con veyed to the General Hospital. Brevet-Major the Hon. H. Clifford, Rifle Brigade, who is acting as assistant quartermaster-general, Light Division, in the absence of Colonel Airey, was particularly con spicuous in giving directions. It was known that in one part of the English siege train depot, towards which the fire was tending, there was a large collec tion of rockets and some shells, and it was found impossible to save these from combustion. As it was uncertain what havoc might be committed through their agency, whether in setting huts or tents on fire, or from the missiles with which they were loaded, it was thought prudent to.remove the greater part of the troops to a distance. The regi ments of the Light Division were therefore marched some way to the front of their camps ; one brigade towards the Victoria Redoubt, the other towards the picket-house on Frenchman's-hill. A guard from the Second Division had been brought down very soon after the first explosion, and a line of sentries was stretched across to prevent a nearer approach to the scene of danger than the lines of the 88th Regiment. Fortunately the rockets were packed in close bundl es , an d were w ith o ut sticks, so that, when they exploded shortly before five o'clock, they burned almost as if they had been some combustible compound fixed in a single case. A powerful white light, rushing upwards with great force, and accompanied by showers of sparks and a loud whizzing noise, followed by numberless expo- sions of comp tratiyely unimportan t character—and this source of danger was at an end. One source of apprehension, it has been already mentioned, was the great English magazine of gun- powder. Most providentially, at the time of the iirst explosion there was scarcely any breeze, but what wind there was came from the north-west. This bent the flames towards the magazine, chiefly evident from the volumes of smoke driving in that direction. Every one was aware what dire conse quences must have resulted if the magazine were once reached ; and for some time the anxiety on this account was very intense. But the fire had hardly raged 20 minutes, when the smoke was observed to move in another direction. The current of air had changed, and was blowing from nearly due north. The force of the flame was therefore directed to wards the ground in rear, left vacant by the French regiments, which had not long since quitted it. This direction has been maintained since. Had the wind come from au opposite point, that is from the south, a wind which a short time ago was prevailing, the huts and tents of the first brigade of the Light Division, being so close to the siege trains, could scarcely have escaped. As it was, the large com missariat stores of forage and provisions which have been accum u l a t e d f or th e w i n t er co nsumption of the reg i ments o f th i s brigade, an d w hi c h were in great d anger o f b e i ng set f i re to, w h o lly es caped. They wer e pil e d i n rear o f t h e reg i men t a l encamp ments, betwe en th em an d th e ar tillery camps. Great prai se i s d ue to t h e troops, w h o , w hile the fire was burni ng , covere d th e s id es an d roof of the magazine, where th e E ng li s h gunpowder was stored, with wet blank e t s an d s h ee p s ki ns . The source o f th e exp l os i on i s , and in all proba bility will ever be, involved in obscurity. The in dividual who, by his wicked negligence and want of caution, caused the irreparable mischief, as well as the witnesses of the act, must have met with instantaneous death. At first the most absurd statements were made as to its origin. The first impression —and a very general one—seemed to be, that a train had been laid and the depot blown up by a Russian emissary. When it was discovered that the English magazine was safe—long a conspi cuous object--and the difficulties of such an under taking were considered, this idea was dispelled. Then it. was said that a Zouave, excited at having received punishment, had set fire to the siege am munition. But even if the supposition of such a mad and fiendish act could be admitted, the well known caution and strict rules of the French ad ministration prevented it from being entertained. No one at any time was admitted into the French depot without he was engaged there on duty, or was accompanied by a French officer. The more probable story is one that was told by a French artilleryman, that some live Russian shells were being emptied at the depot, and the gunpowder contained in them collected for storage, and that the ignition of one of these must have led to the firing of the principal magazine. Smok ing was forbidden within the precincts of the depot, but some soldier may have been guilty of the act unobserved and a spark fallen in the gunpowder. A commission of inquiry will no doubt bo appointed to investigate the subject. No idea can be formed at present of the number of men destroyed or injured. Some of the men who have been carried by, or picked up among theva rious camps, are greatly mutilated. Th e . w ounds ts are badly scorched—some severely are chiefly shell wounds. Some of the by timbers. But among all the distressing objects around, none perhaps was more melancholy, bruised P a more calculated to excite feelings of pity, than n artil leryman who had been, either by the concussion or by sudden alarm, rendered idiotic. led by , bareheaded, He attracted general attention as be was be tween two of his comrades , uttering silly exclama tions,atlenfalling i and quite lost to ooDsoiousnesa of all that i, sassed by a feeling that he was in England, for all was passing around him. He seemed to. be pos his rambling remarks referred to home ; while a smile on his face, vacant and unmeaning as was its expression, seemed to show that he had at least as much satisfaction as' he was any longer capable of en Wo Wonderful escapes are related on all sides. Per . - haps none are more strikin g than the following :—• A soldier was leading in the camp of the 23d Regi- 1 meat a valuable charger belonging to Major Robert Bruce. A Shell burst,' disembowelling the horse and tearing him into nearly two. parts, ) , it, the soldier escaped unhurt. Two of the la ;e marquees occupied by the sick men of the regi ment were torn by shells, and a round shot passed through one of the wooden' huts, in which were several patients, finding its way out close to the head of one of them, who was perfectly disabled from moving; yet none were injured. Some remarkable , escapes were told at all the hospitals nearest to the siege train depots, for after the regiments had been marched sway for safety, many sick and wounded 'remained in the hospitals, attended by the surgeons:- The very closeness of Some of the camps seemed to-be a source of safety, . for the shells, which were projected Slantingly, and afterwards fell and exploded on the ground, appa rently fell more thickly at a considerable ,distance from the depots than in the immediate .neighbour hood. Many burst among the huts of the e-Second Division and in the Woronzoff rafine, and some fell as far even as the camp of the Fourth Division. There was a painful story spread about that , the sick men in the English siege-train hospital were all burned, from the hospital hut having been overthrown and preventing their escape. This turns out, happily, to be wholly "untrue. The hospital - but was , bk,vrif down br , the . force • of die first explosidh ill the-Pcsuohnapot ; but not one of the patients, of whom thyme were eight or nine in the hut, was injured by the fall of . the timbers. Their escape was almost Miraculous. , It is attri buted chiefly to the men having crept under their iron bedsteads before the yielding timbers of the roof had falleh to the ground. The sick of the French camp were in the Divisional ambulance on the opposite side .of the ravine from the depot. The ambulance is reported to be very much in jured. No man within the boundary of the French siege train could possibly have escaped without loss of life or most severe injury. The English commissary of the field train department is said to be missing. When the writing of .this account was com menced, a little after 5 p.m., the fire was.. still burning briskly. It arose chiefly from the con sumption of timber remaining from the.huts, por tions of platforms, gun-carriages, shell-boxes, and other wooden articles used in artillery purposes. The evening air was becoming misty, and a strong glare was reflected in the sky. But the materials were quickly exhausted, and about 7 p.m. the flames were extinct, and smouldering embers alone remained. The explosion and subsequent fire attracted the notice of the Russians encamped on the north heights and along the range overlooking the Tcher naya valley. They - advanced in considerable num. it ttpoioso upon them said, ni n de ,emvwifedrreneni from the delightpreviously iogun snl at guns omf t a h asn e kme s spectacle to their view. Presently the Frenc a h nd op o e f ned a fire hers towards the edge of the Inkefinan cliffs, and ec ,ba t t a t c o l r e i p ea r , es w e h n i t o e h d , theex istence of which the enemy was in all probability unaware. The Russians were at once driven back, and they appeared to retire in such haste that little doubt was entertained of the French shot having found their way among them. BOARD OF TRADE RETCIBNS. The official returns of the trade and navigation of the United Kingdom for the month ending Oct. 31 have been issued. The comparison of imports for the month is as under : 1854. 27 691 , 1855. ' 44,648 Live animals no. Cocoa Coffee Wheat qrs. Barley qrs. Oats qrs. Indian corn qrs. , Flour Cochineal Cotton ... ..lbs. 112,008 ..lbs. 6,501,795 75,518 132,772 10,475 26,861 41,733 29,067 ~_ .cwt. 1,832 .cwt. 272,579 3,6f6 3G2,196 , Indigo cwt. 2,422 ~ ... 4,575 Flax cwt. 82,735 Currants owl. •14,269 , 25,635 Guano tons 11,782 ...... 30,691 Hemp cwt. 125,484 Mahogany tent - 2,870 Oil, palm cwt. 68,704 Opium lbs. 50i Provisions cwt. 14,289 Quicksilver lbs. 200,136 Rice cwt. 5 ',2 *7 Saltpetre cwt. 29,389 Silk, raw lbs. 297,312 Cassia Lignea lbs. 382 Cloves lbs. 27,215 Pepper lbs. 864,879 Rum proof gallons 619,872 Brandy proof gallons 101,286 Geneva proof gallons 10,175 Unrefined sugars cwt. 743,138 Tallow cwt. 78,916 38,233 13,742 11,686 637,866 229,120 5,119 658,142 32,761 51,913 536,244 858,2 , i9 152,483 15,477 653,3:i3 99,332 Tobacco.. Wine . .gallons. .lbs. 2,358,257 ..lbs. 3,394,959 859,859 ...... 521,722 Sheep's and lambs' wool lbs. 5 ,694,753 The declared value of some of the principal exports, compared with that for the same articles during the cor responding month of last year, was as follows : 1854. 1855. Beer and Ale 64,899 Coals and calm 15',275 Cotton manufactures 1,713,536 Cotton yarn Earthenware 8.3,245 ...... 89,036 Haberdashery and millinery... 156,122 --- 26;901. Hardwares and cutlery Linen manufactures Linen yarn Machinery and millwork Silk manufactures Thrown Silk 10,537 Woollen manufactures Woollen yarn The total declared value of all the exports in the month wag 8,860,5941., which, compared with the four weeks of 1854, to Nov. 5, shows an increase of 2,388,4301. THIS PRESS IN SWEDEN AND NORWAY, (From the Morning Advertiser of thistfay.) Amongst the many points of strking contrast between the two kingdoms—united, indeed, under one Sovereign, but in laws, manners, and social constitution, perfectly independent and distinct—there is none more remark able than the different condition of the Press in each ; its crippled prerogatives in the one, and its perfect free dom in the other. In Sweden the censorship is strict and Vigilant ; and it happens not unfrequently that a newspaper is suppressed, and a published ruined, for the very same article which has gone the round of the Mr wegian papers, without producing any ill effects to the publisher, on the one hand, or to the Government on the other. journals, Iceclsale-eodopof co-operation a a But in Norway the liberty of the press is one cf the fundamental laws of the constitution, and is justly re garded as a protection to the guarantee of liberty fur nished by the Storthing. There is no limit to the free dom of writing, printing, and publishing ; and sucba thing as the suppression of a publication is out of t he question. But at the ;same time. that the writer and publisher üb publisher have this freedom of appeal to the pu bli c mind, they must be able to defend what they have eni p __ lished against charges either of treason, bltsrltuaruk‘ libel. Regarding themselves in the , light o o r f • the press of civil and religious liberty, the sg ep o ti men ; no ne are watchful over the conduct glect or abuse passes unexposed, whe th er remortihtteisdsobryt clergymen or civil officers ; and the i nfl uence o b f ou p n u d bi t ic o public functionaries ars that themselves from them; so servants, end not the m t s . made to feel themselves -the _.,._ g . m ,. hi h prerogative One restdt ot —._ tern of the public. , . the t e mperate and dignified I and freedom of the Press Is t' their controversies. And it Ispirit manifest throughout the high consideration which may be cited as a roof of • the Norwegian •,,- n introit's enjoy, that in the course the Storthing some ytare ago, d n i o s t c i n c s e si 6 o o n m i p s ia su i l tha t s a t d h: a tig of a discussion, i question mhde,satnortneedrefs feel end connected with the Na upon an important atParticle on the subject, the discussion for a week, ' resolved to pos tpone in it was r members should have an opportunity of order that the aidof the • ' it, by the consideringpwaurtufproonmittiaese high prerogatives, the Norwegian Na tional Bank, therehavindarsppleaayrilgi !lc considerable d o e f r t a h b e l e journals ability, Press is intimately connected with the daily wants o f the people, and conducive to their interests. There is no duty on newspapers, no tax on advertisements, no restriction of any kind. They are, therefore, pro duced cheaply—the price per annum of a daily paper being 28s. The most trifling matter is advertised, as well as the most important, from the official notices of a c n o d w, th o e r ir a for ca ei l g f n , o e r nd a turkey. The a T rt he icle p i a l p a e re r , an tl d sr the province or town in which they are published, to the type are superior to those of the French and German the most part, written with very great ability. Int l . resemblance to our own free condition we find an 0 ___, ground for jealous guardianship of the integrity r4r and presentiethe glorious otliftoraNugoogfriweitasariniy,baranvdtaaaantarnotlalroraremelisoptivopelvefoireoadtnue:ei Lieutenant. Colonel Rawlinson delivered yesterday; at the London Institution, the last of three lectures on - the Nineveh sculptures and the cuneiform inscriptions. On the two former evenings the lecturer had described the nature of the writing and language of these inacrip. tions, the monuments—such as monoliths, vases, and cylinders —on which they were found, and the m aces and manner in which the monuments were discovered, as well as the process by which the correct interpreta tien of the hitherto totally unknown language was ar rived at. A go . od deal of personal adventure being mixed up with the subjects, of course gave a ii.veViu terest to them, which Colonel Rawlinson regretted would considered the most valuable would be certainly the most dry. We can assure him that it was very far from tedi outs or uninteresting, as was evident from the fixed at -oil:pica:pi:et t b e e n t t i h o e n c o a f s a e of view, some thonsind years, extending from 2234 B.C. to 1273 • 8.C., have b een removed' rom darkness into historic light by the discovery and interpretation of the cuneiform writing ; and the events ,of another period of nine hundred years, from 1273 B .C. to 33811.0 , have been found - chronicled in this language -by a I;- inimical to the Jews, but corroborating and elucidating in every instance yet met with the amount of those same events in the Scriptures—a newly-speaking an tique profane tongue and a pagan people thus attesting the historic truth of the sacred writings. Cleakly, , • and as minutely as the time allowed, the leCturer traced the manner in which first; one known name and date among the kings of the Assyrian dynasty led to the names and dates of another of the preceding Chal dean dynasty, and this again in its turn to others, until at last nearly half of the kings of the Chaldean period (the 1,000 years above referred to) had their names and dates securely fixed, those of the remainder being more orless accurately conjectured. During this period the language seems to have been in a transition state, from the Hamatic family of languages to the Semitic. In the next period of 900 years, the Assyrian, the language seems to have asrumed its permanent Semitic character and to have remained the same through the third or Ba bylonian period, from 625 B.C. to Ng B.C, We can not, in so short a notice, - attempt to refer specially to Onlonel Rawlinson's account of the doings of most of these kings, particularly as few of them hate been hi therto known to us. 'The familiar names of Sennache cherib and Nebuchadnezzar, and Sardanapalus, should not, however, be .passed dyer in silence. The history of the last of these is written upon the fragments of a ainglfistone, which must hav4 grigly s been 65 feet long by%2sliiet wi6lt'lVittrfeglid WYtinnicherib, Vol: . _ Rawlinson read a translation he had made of an inscrip tion on a stone brought to this country five years since by Mr. Layard, which is a detailed account of Senna oberib's first campaign against Judah, and the submis idon of Hesekiab, and which, though much longer, agrees with the account given in the 18th chapter of the 2d Book of Kings in every respect, except the amount of silver given up by Hezekiah. No account, however, has been yet found of the second and unsuccessful cam paign of Seneacherib, when 185,000 of his hosts were Smitten with death in one night, whioh is described at length in the 18th and 19th chapters of Kings 11. ; nor is it likely that such an account will be found, the Assyrians not being wont to chronicle their own defeats. Colonel Rawlinson also read a translation of an inscription on a marble now in the India House, giving _an accoaat of the great public works undertaken by Nebuchadnezzar, in which a passage occurs supposed to refer to this king's mad ness. It is very difficult and obscure, but it runs some what in this way :—" At this time it pleased the Gods t ) harden their hearts against the King Nebuchadnezzar, so that he became dark, and his works were stopped ; but when the Gods repented, he again continued his labours." Another incident related in the cuneiform ' character is of great historic value, as it does not merely show that profane and sacred history on a particular point are reconcileable, hut actually corroborates the latter by the former. From them we learn that Nineveh really did fall in the reign of Nabonidus, but that he had retired upon Borsippa, leaving his son Belshazzar as viceroy or acting king, at Nineveh. ' In conclusion, we would add, that if the two former lectures of Col. Bawlinson were like that of yesterday, they contained just as much and no more matter than such lectures ought to coatain, and set it forth in ex actly the proper style : not full, but highly suggestive ; .giving evidence•of correctness andillabour, but not over laid. Col. Rawlinson's delivery, too, is excellent—in fact, just that of a gentleman talking at his ease. If we might venture to hint an improvement, we would suggest that in any future lectures he should pronounce the-difficul..t and unfamiliar names of these old Chaldee and Assyrian times more slowly, distinctly, and in a more English, though no doubt less correct, manner. APPRECIATION OF ARTISTS IN BELGIUM. The Belgian artists who have received honours and rewards for their share in the Paris Exposition are now enjoying the homage of their fellow-citizens. To each some tribute of respect has been paid. Antwerp, on Monday, was the scene of a remarkable demonstration, men of all classes and orders of occupation utiting in doing honour to the well-known artist, M. Leys. As early as ten o'clock in the morning nags floated from the houses and.the streets were liped with people. At noon the Minister of the Interior and. deputations from the artistic societies of Brussels, Ghent, and Malines arrived and proceeded in carriages to the Museum. Artists, burgomasters, senators, representatives, and military authorities were there assembled, while M. Leys was conducted to the spot at the head of a long procession, accompanied by music and banners. M.Leya on taking his seat looked very pale and was much af fected ;in the salle were his wife and children. After music and speeches, M. Loos, in the nam e o f th e Muni cipal Council, read an address, which, written on parchment and splendidly bound, was then presented to M. Leys amidst the acclamations of the crowd. A crown of gold was then placed by the Minister of the Interior upon the artist's head amidst a " tempest" of braves. After another address M. Leys rose and addressed the as,emblage as follows : " Gentlemen, --You have planted in my heart an in effaceable souvenir. In return for the ovation which you have paid me, I can say but one word, but it is a word from the heart—' thanks, Messieurs, thanks I' I accept the clown which you offer me in the name of Antwerp. But belongs it to me alone? Its leaves should be stared by all those who labour for "the glo'ry of the Flemish school : by all those who have consolidated its renown at Paris. It is the triumph of Flemish art more then a personal triumph which has excited your sympathies. I can only accept your tributesiu this sense _; it is then only that they will become fruitful fur the futuie; fruitful for art itself. The crown you offer me thus be comes a symbol of union, of touching fraternity ; awl the confraternity of artists is the progress of art. Is not this union already accomplished? Delegates of the Cordes of other cities come to applaud our triumph. One day the Antwer plan artists will join in honouring the laurels ob tained by other cities, and the grand fusion of the apostles of besuty will so accomplish itself. From this fusion wo can all derive new courage for these contests, which are always regenerative. How can it be otherwise ? Are w not enstained by all that can give us energy and courage ? The presence at this fete of M. the Minister of the Interior speaks of the sympathy of the Government ; the eagerness of our magistrates makes known the goodwill of the com mune.; this immense public assemblage proclaims the ap preciation of every citizen. Each artist will find in this supreme encouragement a new impulse —a new stimulant. New progress will be made •, your sympathy will provoke it. In the name of art, then, gentlemen, I once more thank you." The ceremony over, M. Leys was reconducted in triumph to his house. The scene recalled to mind all the old Flemish traditions. The artist, leaning upon the arms of two friends, followed two others who carried the crown upon a cushion of velvet, while behind came dense crowd of the citizens. In. the eveni n g al Antwerp Philharmonic Society. Leye•was present at a banquet held in the ealleogf the THE BIBLE BURNING iff EINGSTOWN. New T estaments l r e m s at and i on T s e w e t e a r m e ------ KINGSTOWN POLICE-01110r, Wednesday. Father Pecherine was present, accompanied by Mr. Thomas O'Hagan, Q.C., and Mr. Charles KErnan. Mr Cor wnerelßniftTestaments in the heaps of books that were wheeled to be burnt, were found in the cinders after the fire. Father Pecherine was identified as o ne of b d a e l r l e i d s appearedt to theeffefootr that the there were ties present M the fire, aiding and abetting , ' the w oo defeLce entered ; whereupon Fatter There was tered into reeognisances, himself - tered of 501. each, to abide his in 10Q/. and two seen mission. and that fragments of the Old a n d trial at the next com- DUBLIN, Nov. 28.—rIt appears that, after all that has been said to the contrary, the wishes of the people of Cork to have some of the vessels of the Baltic fleet stationed for the .winter in Queenstown Harbour will be gratified ; and that as soon as they shall have been re• fitted at the English dockyards the ships intended for that station will proceed there. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. Corresponding week GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—Traffio return for the turn for the wee w k ee e k ndi las n t g week ending Nov. 18, 1855 ending Nov. 25, LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.--Traffi° re . £ 2 4, 30 51 6 1 15 4 6 1 Corresponding week last year ................... 18,26 S 17 2 CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD Ramw.“.—Trafflo return for Increase in 1855 Corresponding week last year .............. GLASGOW AND SOUTII-WXSTERN RAILWAY.— Traflo re turn for the week ending Nov. 24, 1855 £6,148 1 3 Corresponding week last year 5,653 2 year Nor 25 , 1855 :22:5::,4977176t 5 1 141 Inaosse in 1856..... £464 18 8 " Margaret Malt a::t(tseanytion, the author may be considered to the author of which is now attract ings the Examiner) is a sequel to the 50 muc h all her former stories, popular as they are. have exec, .7,! 3 this new work, charming passages in the life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland, told also by herself in her own quaint way, and full of the same touching grace which won for that gentle woman the hearts of so many people, young and old. It is to be said but rarely of a sequel that it possesses 0 0 much beauty and so much sustained interest as the tali , of " Lillieslte." land." ii i: l3 e s ar,vt }`.~