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WANTED, an ENGlNTTER.—TheCommittee of Visitors of the Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum, at 'Unwell, are about to appoint a person to the situation of EN GINEER at that est,blishment, who will be required to su; , eriatend personally the works to be performed, and to give his whole time and attention to the duties of the office, the particulars of which may be learned by personal application, on Tuesday, the 16th, Wednesday, the 17th, or Thursday, the 18th instant, between Ten and Three o'clock, to Mr. James Harris, architect, Hanwell. The salary will be 1101., and a residence within the Asylum. Testimonials of cha racter and ability aro to be delivered to me at the Sessions House, Clerkenwell-green, on or before Wednesday, the 24th lust., and candidates must appear personally before the Committee, at Hanwell, on Thursday, the 25th !mt., at Twelve o'clock. Dated the llth day of October, 1855. CHARLES WRIGHT, Clerk to the Visitors. HANWELL LUNATIC ASYLUM.— RESPECTABLE FE HALE ENIPIAYMENT.— fhe Situa 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 n/. 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 knowledge of music, so as to be ably to assist in playing the organ at the service in the Asylum Chapel. Verbal information as to the duties and qualifies• thms may be obtained upon application to me, between the hours of 11 sad 4. Candidates must forward to me, at the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell-green, letters in their own handwriting, stating ago, 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 Wednesday, the 24th inst., and must attend personally on the following day, at 12 o'clock, at the Asylum at Ilanwell. CHARLES WRIGHT, Clerk to the Visitors. Dated this 11th October, 1855. IROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE: TFITS 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 incidouts, continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary effects, Magic and Mystery is an entirely new entertainment,. pos sessing distinctive characteristics and peculiar phases of amusement. It is not a monologue, for the audience them selves perform their parts with the principal actor, some of them on the stage and others in front ; it is not an exhibition, for though everything becomes metamorphosed before the eyes of the visitors no one can be positive that he sees any one thing; but it is a comedy really performed by the 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 .tka Theitralo,overflow, end by mean, of whose `geeettuis aid 1101 has been enabled to . annonnoty Mee - ant Nrivbest- Par . O 4 i l -` tinnons repetition. He believes that no professor of his art has'at any time or in any place been honoured with an amount of success so extensive, so decided, and so unusual. He would attribute that success to three causes ; first, that in his present entertainment he has placed before his visitors the results of a life sedulously devoted to the attainment of perfected skill in one peculiar art, and to perfect which he has travelled the globe in every clime ; secondly, that he has spared no trouble nor expense to put this entertainment on the stage in the most elaborate manner, by the employment of the first mechanicians and artists of the day ; and thirdly, .that, while endeavouring to provide amusement for those who honour him with their presence, he has not forgotten that 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 the theatre np to the present date, bear witness to the great in terest taken on the subject of this singular delusion ; whilst many 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 deiced 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 laud should have been made to figure in the documents emanating from the spirit-rappers, as for instance tho following, ex tracted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septem ber 20, arid taken by that journal from the Neu; York Spiri tual Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American spirit-rapper, Mr. D. D. Hume e--" Sir David Brewster frankly confesses that he is sorely puzzled' at what lie 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, awl 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 we'.l-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 been very acceptable to him, for ho was poor, young (under 20), an or phan, and in very bad health : but he would have been afraid of losing his power as a medium, and he would sooner lose his life. The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful. He inquired into the subject; and now Barnum, one of the greatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is one of th e fi rmes t b e li evers i n sp i r it ua li sm. " It i s cer - • tainly surprising to find such a paragraph as this in the editorial article of an established journal, the editor of whom might be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe in spirit-rapping--does spirit-rapping gain or lose 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 negotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe not ; but, when he finds that educated clergymen 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 t be time for him to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which it is effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the .21forning Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir David Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's Hotel. in company with Lord Brougham. He distinctly states that which the Wizard of the North proclaims every night—that spirit-rapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad purposes. In the Morning Advertiser of the following day, however, there is an answer to Sir David's letter from one who was present when he and Loed Brougham had their seance with the spirits, in which the writer says, that " the table (a large dinner-table, I believe) m ove d a b ou t i n th e mos t extraordinary manner, and, among other things, a large ac cordion was conveyed by an invisible agency to my hand and then to Lord Brougham's, in which, held by his lordship's right hand, apart from any person, it played an air through out." With such a statement, printed for the edification of the people of the 19th century, with the facts before us that the most talented men of the day aro 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" hal 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 coarse 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, or Saturday, October 13, at 2 o'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ; Part I.—Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinical Capabilities of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do by magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmer isip, and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in the air, Act 2. The Aqua.-Avial Paradox ; exemplifying the power of.producing animated nature from fire and water only, and the possibility of eliciting from the simplest elements the most complex forms of ornithological existence. Act 3. Le Livre des Reeueils Choisies : or, Puck's Own Pocket Book, with Puck himself within it. Typifying the evening's entertainment in the production of the very volu minous from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude ont of minuteness, in developing bulk where no space appears for its existence, in discovering odd things in odd places, and in bringing forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely place for to be found. Act 4. Magical Locomotion ; 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 of every Article in tho 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 Transp arency of Opacity. Act. 7. A Now 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, whisk itoyeau, or any other wine or spirit required ; and finally proving to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly dry, and occupying the whole space when tightly packed. Act 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an Expos© 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 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 Afahommed'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 ad van t ag es of the newly-discovered lia - terrestrial passage from the west ern to the eastern hemisphere. Doors open each evening at half-past 7 ; commence at 8. Private boxes, 1/. lis. 6d. and 1/. ls., to be obtained at the Box-office, or at the principal libraries ; stalls, 4s. ; dress circle, 3s. ; upper boxes, 2s. ; pit, ls. ; gallery, 6d. The Box-ernes is open daily, from 11 till 5, under the direction ,f Mr. Chatterton, jun, Grand fashionable Morning Per formance on Saturcl.l. October 20, at 2 o'clock. Doors open bilfivat 1. N o . 19,670.] PUBLICATIONS. TWELFTH AND CHEAPER. EDITION. Now ready, in 1 vol., with 15 illustrations, 6 5., bound , T HE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS, By ELIOT WARBURTON. " The re-appearance at this moment, in a cheap form, of this admirable book is singularly opportune."— John Bull. Hurst and Blacken, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn. In post Bvo., sewed, price One Shilling, THE CURABILITY of CONSUMPTION ; being a Series of Papers, presenting the most prominent and important Practical Points in the Treatment of the Disease. By FRANCIS 11. RA.MADGE, M.D., Fellow of the College of Physicians, late Senior Physician to the Royal Infirmary for Diseases of the Chest, &c. Also, by the same Author, Price 10s. 6d., A TREATISE on ASTHMA and on DIS i:ASES of the HEART. London : Longman, Brown, Greeol, and Longman; The Third Edition.—Just published, price la., by post, free, bs. 6d. ON TRUE d✓ FALSE SPERMATORRHEA, 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 German 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. Pickford is known to English readers: by his frequent practi _& contribution:, to German medical literature. This is the first :'me, he informs as, that he has addressed htraself to the non-modi ial reader. We trust this may not be the last. if he shall detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his osvcr to cor rect."—London Medical Gazette. "The tribe of Quiet Sympathisers.' and Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed; and if this book could find its way into the hands of those *so gaffer from the corn olaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would 3e saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of *Ss ImPtlrtance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— Much money ......This - vohnnets weliqualitledto jut u an end to the 40rOrtestmatgm ot,treseins Sp e nnatorrhouti. sad to plocelhe treat Izeut iWopittiltlat and physielaelear heal -7 le it,' - thireitiote,: hkely to. do much good." Loadnn: TT. Ralliere. 219. Rex ent-street. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.- TWO I)4YS' EXCURSTON to CIRENCEST Elt, STROED, GLOUCESTER, and CIIELTENII AM.—A train will leave Padding ton on Saturday, October 20, at 6.31 p.m., returning on Monday, 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, 9s. and 5s ; Gloucester and Cheltenham, 10s. and 6s. Tickets not transferable, and only available for the trains specified. GREAT SAVING in GAS.—The LAVA NON-CORROSIVE GAS BURNER.; are sold by all respectable Fas-fitters, and at the Depot, 41, Queen-strut, Cheapside, London. GRAND BILLIARD MATCH for 2001. a side, between ROBERTS, of Manchester, and STARKE, the American, 1001. a bide being deposited in the stakeholder's hands, Mr. John Richmond. of Liverpool. English game, 3,0 0 up, 1,500 points to be given to Starke. This interesting Match will be played in the Linwood Gallery, Leicester square, October 19th, at 5 o'clock p.m. Tickets—Gallery and Front Seats in the Hall, 10s. 6d. each ; do. in the rear of the Hall, hs. each, and can be obtained of Burroughes and Watts, Soho-square, and Mr. Smith, Royal Wine Shades, Leicester-square. AMERICAN TRUNKS.—A new Stock of these light and convenient Travelling Cases or Boxes is just arrived at the AMEBIC AN WAREHOUSE, No. 546, New Oxford street. They are made of the best American Leather, and warranted to be more durable than any other in th , , market. Persons wishirg for a good and Cheap Trunk should not f.,il giving them an examina tion. STAR PACKETS from the TERRACE PIER GRAVESEND, 9,2, 5. BRUNSWICK %VELA KY, BLACKWALL, on the arrival of th, fo 'owing Trains from Fenchurch-stree , 10 1 4, 2, 314, weather per mit' ing. The Packets will call at the Rosherville, Greenhithe, Purfleet, and North Woolwich P ers. jr m tirave4enu duo um:oon •• •• •• • • 10d. .. Is. 2d. ~Gravesend and Blackwall or Woo' Web Bd, .. Os. 10d „ Frith and London • •• • • • ... Bd. .. Os. 10d Eiith and Blackwall or Woo'w'ch.. • • 6d. .. Oa. Bd. bar -pen Grs.v. , vend and Intermediate Piers.. 6d. .. Os. Bcl. October 9. 1855. TO LOVERS OF FISH.-100 GENUINE YARMOUTFI BLOATERS for 65., package included. THESE HIGHLY ESTEEMED DELICACIES AND CHEAP ARTICLE OF FOOD forwarded to all parts, ma receipt of penny postage stamps or P. 0.0. (preferred). send full and plain direction, county, and nearost sta tion.—Address TEIOS. LETTIS, jun., Fish Curer, Gt. Yarmouth. " This is the third season Mr. Lettis has supplied us with Yar mouth bloaters, and we find the quality excellent.—J. Brash Owe, house steward. Blenheim Pal ice. Oct. 20, 1854." "Mr. Lettis,—As soon as you send out..your genuine bloaters, I shall he glad to have a aupply as usual ; those I had last year gave great satisfaction.— %. F. Courroux, Ambassador's Court, St. James's Palace.—Oct. 1, 1855." ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAIIRENT'S CASINO NOW OPEN for the winter season. The followim Music will be performed by his celebrated Band during he week : March aux Flambeaux. Waltzes -The Illy f the Valley (D'Albert), Zephir Lufte (Gung'l), Fenella (Tinney), Ethel Newcome ( Laurent), La Sultane (Bosisio). Quadrilles—Le Itoi du Pastel (Lamotte), Les 1 ingenots (Laurent), Palermo (D'Al bert), Bride of Lammermoor (Tinney), Il Trovatore (cotton). Polkas—Des Ilulands (Lamotte), Italie (Oaviolo), The Lillian (D'Al oert), Des Coucous (Bouquet), The Zouaves (Laurent). Galops— The Imperial (Ina •ds (Laurent), The Hecla (:.;treather). Schottische —La Guirlande de Fleury (Itosquet), La Varsoviana (Laurent). Prin ipal Cornet a Piston, M. Boulcours.—Doors open at 8. Admission One Shilling. IN THE HIGH COITRT OF CHANCERY. TRIESEMAR.—On the 29th of May, 1855, an injunction was granted by the High Court of Chancery, and m the 11th June following was made perpetual. against Joseph ranklin and others, to restrain them, under a penalty of one thou •and pounds, from itnitating this Medicine, which is protected 133 oval Letters Patent or England, and secured by the :seals or t! ,:eote (1, •harmacie de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine., Vienna. TRIESEMAR, No. 1, s remedy for Relaxation. .nermatorrhcea, , and Exhaustion of th , yrtem, whether arising from excesses, accident, or climate. To those persons who are prevented entering the married state by e consequences of early errors it is invaluable. TRIESEMAR, No. 2, - , ectually, in thirshort space of three days, completely and entirely , adicates all traces of those Disorders which Capivi and CubebF, rye so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health a vast portion of the population. 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' • ,4,---,74t .r.r; ' ,.' / 4. 44„' \ 4V 1 1V 0* - - ',.''''. / 4 - . '''.° 4- , •.. ....', • '''' '''9°' . . . ~, . ,„ ,;ems . - . -''''! + \WI f ) 1-7 , ik , sl/ '4 4. ~,, ~.. - r ~ 4 \'' 7 ')4l - 40-li.. ;`-- ".1 .., ' .' • . ' (From the Times of this day.) How far the laws of national hospitality should extend to political refugees is a vexed question in Europe. The continental monarchies for the most 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 con lemned 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 b e 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, Rougee, Jourdain." These three per sons are, we believe, located on British soil. Th e i r prod uc ti on i s 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 be 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 as ever met our notice, it might be published in these columns. But our readers will sufficiently judge of its character without wading through its bl asp h em i es, i ts o b scenities, and itst' 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 i ispplause at a mee ti ng i n L ondon on the 22d of September, the anniversary of the proclamation of the first French Republic. German and Polish lefugees were present, together with t wo E ng li s h Ilepuhlicans, " Citizens Nash and William Jones." Areport of the proceedings appeared in the news paper l' fromme, published in Jersey by the refugees. After it was read at the meeting a Frenchman, Citizen Talandier, 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 propa 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 hope that the justification is at hand." Bap tising their children in the name of the only true trinity—liberty, equality, fraternity—they were to educate them in the cause. It will be seen tliat rebellion and assassination are not the dreams of a single individual. The " Letter to the Queen of 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. He will b e p un ished. How will he end ? He may say that the worst is to ride aA ay 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 Montfaueon." We have quoted 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 slanderers 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 be 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 be 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 , gain plunge Europe in blood. It is the duty of the Government to take some heed of such proceedings as those we have de scr ib e d, an d, i f 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 he Dscemberised if ever Napoleon has the time. But the most striking feature of their minds is their fiendish malevolence. Forgeful that they are refugees, and that at one time En. laud 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 ; lie shall be e xecu t e d even to h i s memory ; even 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 ns inity ought w hich edba i l to be checked, and which would 1 be l checked follow T 1 hint that expulsion from England would repetition of its display. quarter assassina tion cannot be overlooked, fromaillilastever they may come. Let no scrupleswhatever the rights these writers, because of asylum, no tenderness to exile, prevent the nation they are needy and in otipmeraitsy tahnedEtinhe. from taking due care thattthoeEauur life of a ruler so necessary nodt g e endangered. t o give any adequate re presentationperor Napoleon shall in which the Queen of We have not of ventured to style d It is enough to say that England is addresse d ' the brutal audacity of theseted men goes b eyond even what those mo st acquainted with them wou ld con ceive. i t has b een necessary iu these We regr et that in remarks to bring the name of the Sovereign into con neetioa with such ruffians : but h er M a j esty an d t h e n ation may well be satisfel that even these coarse an d venomous natures can find no ill with which to charge the Queen of Englaid. Her only crime i s that she is the ally of the 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 h ave sa id enoug h 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.be Let Citizen Pyat an d hi s friends warned, or they may soon h ave to plot for their democratic and social republi c on some distant and more congenial soil. INCENDIARY FIRE NEAR BARNSLEY . —At a little before one o'clock on Monday morning a fire bro ke out in the stackyard at the New -lodge Farm, at New Laithes, about two miles from Barnsley,on the W a k efield road. On an alarm being given by a adjoining colliery a l eonside! .e number of persons n e n g i nernan at work sten has tened to the spot, but the fire had got too strong a hold to be subdued, an d their efforts were only available in saving the surrounding property, Six wheat stacks and ~ a barn full of w heat were all in flames together, and the c mflagration could be seen from a great distan ce . Ab out ' 1,000/. wor th of wheat was destroyed, only half of which is covered by insurance. The fire is believed to be the work of an incend iary. It was not finally extinguished until Monday evening. • EARLY CLOSING MOVEMENT.--A public meeting for the furtherance of this movement waarheld in the Town Hall, at Croydon, on Monday evening, when resolutions condemnatory of the late hour etatem,.and ill favour of an earlier suspension of businesQ ' were nbanOnleudY passed. Th e c h a i r was occup i e d by Captain .119,1 e, and Mr. Lilwall, the honorary secretary of the parent so ciety, attended all a deputation. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBEIt 17, 1855. SAXON LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the ANNUAL GENE RAL MEE i LNG of the Shareholders in this society will be held at the Head Offices, No. 25, Old Jewry, London, on THURSDAY, the 25th October next, at 1 o'clock precisely. E. W. ROBERTS, Secretary. CONTRACT FOR TEAMS OF HORSES FOIL DEVONPORT AND KEYHAM. 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 and 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 he willing to contract for supplying her Majesty's Dockyard at Devoliport and Keyham with TEAMS OF lIORSES. A form of the tender and the conditions of the contract may be seen at the said office. 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, tnd 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 letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering in the sum of 1,0001. for the due per!ormance of the contract. Naval and Military Intelligence. I Her Majesty's steam troop-ship Simooni, 18, Captain T. R. Sulivan, R.N., having had new engines and boilers fitted by Mr. Murray, the superintendent en gineer of Portsmouth dockyard, was taken to Stokes Bay yesterday to test them. The first run at the mea sured knot, with the tide, realised 10 682 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 3i 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 blockships, 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 on 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 ; Ila,wke, 60 ; and Hastings, 60, screw-ships, are to be t rea t e d i n 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 into Portsmouth harbour yesterday from the eastward. The court-martial on Mr. Yonel, master of H.M.S. Hastings, having concluded yesterday afternoon, the Court proceeded to_ try Mr. Charleet"-Wertr4 l3fi}}ro - assistant-surgeon on board the Otter, 3, paddle steam vessel, on a charge of having gone on duty to Hasler Hospital, 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 o f H.M.S. . . Penelope, both charged with drunkenness, but by some means or another the last named had succeeded in ef fecting his escape-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 Messrs. Maudslay, Sons, and Field, for the Chesapeake, 50, screw frigate, now building at Chatham. The steam-vessel Monkey left with the boil 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 tong 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 bad her sailing orders on Saturday. A steam-tug has been moored alongside side since that day, but, a portion of her crew ❑ot 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 be obtained on the bar ter of a month's pay-ticket, which was banded 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 B:ilaklava direct. The paddle-wheel steamer Dee, Master-Commander Pullen, left Woolwich yesterday for Sheerness with boilers, taking in tow the Fly barge, laden with machinery for the same port. Yesterday a general muster for the autumn quarter took place in the dockyard at Woolvvich, w)en 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 56-pounder firing roundshot, the 32's shell. On firing the ninth shot from the 56-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 gun dropping at least 100 yards from its original position, the outer end taking an opposite direction, doing considerable (!a,mage to the next gun carriage on the same battery. The outer fragments of the gun cut off both legs and part of the body of Gunner George Brown, and took off the upper part of the head of Gunner Geo-ge Gosling. Brown was alive when taken from the battery, but has since died ; Gosling was killed on the-snot. Several fragments of the gun, with the entire inintr end, passed within arm's reach of Capt. Inglefield and Lieut. George Maule. Had the sad accident occurred 5 !lei:lutes sooner, from 6 to 8 persons must have been killed, as they had only that moment left, to witness the entryinto the gar rison of the tiko field batteries of horses for practice. The unfortunate men who have lost theirlives by this sad accident were both volunteers froth the Lancashire Artillery Militia, and joined the Royal Artllery on the 20th of August last. The wool portion of the new barracks at Hobbs Point has now been finished, and a large numberof the hands employed have been discharged. A monthor six weeks will still elapse before the whole of the fittilgs, &e.) will be completed for occupation. As many hands as can be employed are zow engag upon the gun-boats at Pembroke dockyard. The keels of these vessels were laid but a short time since ; yet such are the resources of this large esta.blshment that great progress has been made. The new go-houses are to be erected immediately. Colour-Sergeant J. Cunan, 61st Regirtent. has re ceived his discharge, and, as a reward for long service, has been appointed Quartermaster in the Itolian 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 Haven, have been re lieved by another company of the same regiment. The West York Rifles, under the cornmaad of Liente nant-Oolonel the Hon. E. Monckton, has received orders to embark at Liverpool to-day for Dublin. TEE HASTINGS ON SHORE• [LETTER FROM AN OFFICER.] " Her Majesty's Ship Hastinge, Sept. 27. " My dearest sent you a hastydine on Mon day last to let y ou k now we h a d rece i ve d our orders for England, where we were required for urgent service, and I had just time to t e ll y ou w h a t a scrape we. had got into ; but now I have a little more time to enter into details I will give you the events, On Teesday week the Hogue, 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 get 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, &c., we could spare, and at daylight on Wednesday morning, i n company with the Russell, 60, we started on our passag e to England. The breeze from the we-tward soon freshened considerably, and at last made our small aux iliary of no avail ; so we made sail to single reefed top rails, and with our crew hard at work made excellent working down the gulf, leaving the Russell hull down early 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 puttiug the helm down to go nn the other tack, to our great astonish ment we ran on shore on the Nyberg reef, going 61 knots (you will see it marked on any decant chart of the Baltic, not far from Port Baltic). I was awake at the time, and rushed on deck, thinking to myself, 'N ow, my boy, you have got y o ur work cut out. I found a fresh breeze on the starboard beam, and the sea breaking over a reef abo u t a cable's length in the same direction, but the sea very moderato where we were. The ship bad 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 home with its stock broken. We put in a new one, and laid it out again a s a 'guess warp' to haul our boats out to, and then with some difficulty (having no launch) w e got one of our b ower 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, and lashed the jibboom across them ; then started our other bower anchor off to try its fate. This, with great trouble, we got ou t aster n 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 cu t ters , with a lieutenant, bad been despatched sho r tl y a f ter 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. in ch). A s 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 l '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 a our shot to the Driver, About 9 ma, the Copeck ex- [PRICE 4D. STAMPED SD• Sporting Intelligence. rived with an empty collier to receive' our guns, and cast eff her tow accidentally more than a mile to leeward of us, and she was obliged to pick her up again, and we WARWICK AND LEAMINGTON OCTOBER got the collier lashed alongside ; about 11 p.m. prepared MEETING.—TUESDAY. her hold for the guns, and landed the first one into Sweepstakes of 3 soya each, with 20 added, for three-ye. it at a few minutes after midnightovhen we thought that, olds and upwards. The winner to be sold for 100 son, as all hands had been at work since we struck, it would allowances if entered to be sold for less. Three-quar be advisable to "splice the main brace." A very few .ters of a mile. 8 subs. minutes were allowed for this, and at 12.30 we were all Mr, Evans's Sextus. 5 yrs (201.), Bst llb (Wells) 1 at work again. Commencing with the maindeck guns Mr. 'Worthington's Vivid, 4 yrs (201.), 7st 71b (T. Cliff) 5; with a strong party, Goodenough (Second-Lieutenant) Mr. B. Land's Bordeaux, aged (201.), Bst 51b prepared them with a party on the maindeck ; Rogers (Land, jun.) 3 (Third-Lieut.) bad two boats getting the Cossack's cables The following also ran :—Pope Joan, Census, Sack from where she had anchored (500 yards on the weather but, Merry Monk, and Hothorpe. quarter) down to us ; Jackson (Fourth-Lieutenant) had Betting-2 to 1 agst Sextue, 3to 1 agst Bordeaux. a party in the collier, receiving the guns and stowing Won easily by a length ; half a length between the them in the bold, which part of the business caused great second and third ' • a head between th e thi r d and f ourth. delay ; ColomS (Fifth-Li eu t enan t) had another party The winner w as bought in for 50 guineas. getting out the shot and sending them to the Driver ; The Two-year-old Handicap of 10 soya each, 5 ft, with and Patrickson (mate) had another party, pumping out 50' added. Winners 51b extra. T.Y.C. 27 subs. the fresh water an d bil ges . W e h a d th e a dditi ona l di s - M r . G oo d ere d' s Di ego , 7 s t 61b (Fordham) 1 advantage of a dark night for our work, which was par- Mr. Worthington's Adam, 7st 2lb (T. Cliff) 2 ticularly felt in getting the guns into the collier's hold. Mr. J. M. Stanley's Sauve-gui-Peut,•7st llb (Quinton) 3 However, everything went on admirably, without any The following also ran :--Swaleliffe, Miss Harkaway, noise or confusion, and with a hearty goodwill. At 2 Jane Shore, and Ugly Mug. a.m. the shot were cleared (60 tons), and Colomb's party Betting-5 to 2 each agst Diego and Swalcliffe, sto 1 went on with the ballast. Some time afterwards the agst any other. Wen by a neck ; four lengths separated water and bilges were cleared, and that party went the second and third ; two lengths the third and fourth; on with the coals. At 6.30 or thereabouts the main- the other three tailed .off. deck guns were all stowed, and the cables from the A Handicap Plate of 50 sovs. The winner to be sold by Cos - sack fast and hove taut. We now went to break- auction for 501., and the surplus over the selling price fast for half an hour, and then again set to with fresh to go to the fund. One mile. 17 subs. energy, especially with the lower deck guns. About 10 MT. Gulliver's Noisette, 5 yrs, 7st 61b (Prior) 1 a.m. she be gan t o ge t a littl e li ve l y , an d we go t a h eave on M r . M ose l ey ' s Romeo, 6 yrs, Est 2lb (T. Cliff) 2 all the cables; but this proved ineffectual,and our own 23- Mr. Lloyd's Petticoat, 3 yrs, fist 81b (Fordham) 3 inch came hornealittle ;so we madefastagain, and finished The following also ran :—Mash, Nightcap, Freckle, the lower deck guns and all the ballast that could be got Miss Cioldscluoidt, Vestige, Venture, and Dispute. at without great trouble and delay, and then went on Betting-7 to 4 agst Noisette, 7to '2 apt Romeo, 7 with the shells. About noon we had half an hour to to 1 agst any other (offered). Won in a canter by two dinner, by which time the breeze was sensibly freshen- lengths ; a length between the second and third. ing and the sea rising, and the old ship changed her Freckle was fourth, and Vestige fifth. The winner was quiet position for an unmistakeable bumping. We went bought in for 70 guineas. at it again about 1 o'clock, starting coals and getting Great Warwick Handicap of 15 soya each, 5 ft, with out our shell and provisions, and lowering the mainyard 100 added. The winner of the Cesarewitch Stakes to be secured for our only remaining guns, the six heavy 101 b, the second 51b extra ; and the winner of any ones on the upper deck. White this was been prepared other handicap value 1001., after the declaration of we hauled the Driver close to our stern by an 8-inch the weights, 51b extra. The second to save his stake. hawser, leaving the two 14-inch cables' line slack ; then Once round, starting at the Stand. 36 subs. the Driver went off full speed ; we slipped the 8-inch Lord Clifden's Poodle, 6 yrs, Get 61b (Fordham) 1 when it had as much strain as it could bear, and she Mr. E. R. Clark's Mr. Sykes. 5 yrs, Bst...(J. Mame) 2 brought up with a tough jerk against the 14-inch cables Mr. Pelf's Pole Star, 3 yrs, sst 21b (Snowden) 3 (at the same time we put 500 men into the collier) ; the The following also ran :—Gamelad, Mishap, and Imo result was one inch more water astern, but we wanted gene. nearly two feet to float. However, we tried the expe- Betting-6 to 5 agst Mr. Sykes, sto 2 agst Poodle, riment again (the Cossack heaving and steaming at the and 4to 1 agst Pole Star. A fine race in; won by a same time), and when the Driver brought up she car- short head, Mr. Sykes beating Pole Star by a short ried away both 14-inch cables like ropeyarns ; but the head also for second place ; very bad fourth. Imogene effect was perceptible ; we deepened the water one foot finished a long way in the rear. by the stern, and shoaled it two feet under the bows, A Handicap Stakes of 2 sovs each, with 15 added, for evidently having our forefoot under the shoalest part of two and three-yr-olds. The winner to be sold by the reef in our immediate neighbourhood ; but, as we auction for 40 cove, esc. Six subs. were well hung by the stern that was of no conse- Mr. Wilkins's Dwarf, 2 yrs, Get Glb (Stagg) 1 quence. While the cables were being carried out again Mr. Jone's Indian Queen, 2 yrs, fist 41b ...(Fordham) 2 we commenced on the upper-deck guns, and at the Mr. Byrne's The Vine, 2 yrs, 6st 121 b (Snowden) 3 same time were busy passing cables from the Bull- The following also ran :—Usurer and Cocksparrow. dog, who had also arrived to our help, the same par- The betting opened at evens on Usurer, subsequently ties as before about the coals, provisions, and shell. 6to 4 was betted on him, but at the close sto 4 was The breeze had stiffened, and the weather looked offered agst him, 3to 1 agst Indian Queen, 9 to 2 agst dirty with th e sea r i s i ng , and the old HaStings bumping the Dwarf. W on by a nec k ; b a d thi r d. sensibly, when, a t 3.45 p.m., the Cossack's cables hay- The Leamington Welter Cup, value 100 sovs, the rest in ing a heavy strain, away the old ship glided off the reef, specie by subscriptions of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, and 5 to the relief and thankfulness of every one. The poor only if declared, &c. Certain winners extra. Gen old collier that was lashed to us was cast off as quickly tlemen riders ; professionals 51b extra. Once round. as possible, but nearly the first roll knocked her top- 18 subs, sof whom declared. gallantmast away, th en h er b u l war k s f o ll owe d, an d s h e Lord Clifden's Poodle, 6 yrs, llst (Captain Littl e ) 1 had considerable d amage d one b e f ore s h e c l eare d us . Mr. E. Parr's Little Davie, 6 yre,llo 121 b (4r. Blake) 2 Our anchor, with the hemp sheet fast to it, was fortu- Mr. Daley's Black Swan, 5 yrs, 10A 12113 nately now directly t o l eewar d o f th e ree f, th e ca bl e (Mr. Belville, jun.) 3 came through the wardroom stern-port on the lower The following a l so ran : —B r i g h t Ph oe b us, M aster deck, and double-bitt e d f orwar d ; we swung t o this, Horton, Man-of-W ar , R e d R ose . and found ourselves in 9 fathoms, riding by the stern, Bt b i ti lril s rg , dh 6 ;t troAhilcsaattguesrst andMH a u s rivi t t e o r ahn-wofa. Horton. ssv af Betting-6 to 4 agst Poodle, 4to '1 eget Bright Phee and no other cable to let go. The gale was rising fast, fourth, e n nR boe y dff a Rosehe ad fifth ft bad h ; and we were, till about 9 o'clock, clearing the hawsers ef the other ships, hoisting our boats in, &c., when, our r u h r W t e h a fellows being much knocked up, we spliced the main brace, and piped the hammocks down. It was about 10.30, after going round the ship, I laid down, but the gale was fast increasing, and, 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 ithoms 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 againestruck, - nnthing could save us from going to pieces, made it an anxious moment. Thank God, however, our anchor and cable held on 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 end). 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. HEALTH OF LoND , )N DURING THE WEEK. ( Front 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, 4 by cholera, 45 by typhus and other fevers. Consumption 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 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 standard 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 he referred to causes which were in operation, destroying during the week nearly five lives daily. The 836 deaths may he 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. " 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 Cables Water in boilers Fresh water and bilge Coals Ballast Shell Anchors Ton g. • 140 . 60 ▪ 60 . 50 . 50 . 40 . 30 . 12 . 10 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 atinosph re by the completz 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 1,564 children, were regi-stered in London. In the ten ourreeponding 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 to 42.7 deg.; of the grass to 33 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. 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, GO, on her road down to our assistance, and they were uncommonly glad to find us free. The Dri ver, with the gun c tiller, had preceded us. The Cossack, who, by the way, parted an anchor durin g the gale of the night, accompanie d us up , an d t h e B u lld og 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 got 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 name 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 of water. I was just going to bed at 10 o'clock when ;:d'aptain 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— MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED Guns Cables Shot Coals Ballast Shell Bower anchor Tons. ~ 140 48 ~ 60 ~ 100 30 12 IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCT. 13 Zymotic Diseases Diseases of Uncertain Seat Tubercular Diseases Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 42 Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of Respiration llO Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c. 3 Malformations _ Premature Birth and Debility Atrophy Old Age 5udden........ ................................................ Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance ........ 27 Causes not specified ....................................... 23 - 30 28 23 ............... ........ 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 inquiry, compos e d f 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 haws ers , an d cu t aw ay the rest.% the buoys. We could s e e th em wa t c hi ng us from th shore, and doubtless but for prompt assistance the gun boats from Port Baltic would have been ou t, s o we gave it up at sunset, and steered d own th e gulf. I s hall now say good bye, devoting this long yarn ter the governor's amusement." • DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ..................... 870 Population Deaths in corre - Deaths Enumerated. no n :ar in the 1851. Week. West Districts North Districts 490,396 ...... 229 ...... 190 Central Districts 393,256 ...... 200 ...... 151 East Districts 485,522 - South Districts ..... • 616,635 » 450 ...... 1 61 225 Totals ......... 2,362,236 1,394 - 870 Males ........ : .............................. 440 Females .. t ................................. 430 BIRTHS IN TICE WEEK. gales ....................................... 793 F *tales .................................... 771 Total ............. . ...................... 1,564 NEW GUN-BOATS.—Messrs. John Scott and Sons, Greenock, have entered into a contract 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 ;text opring.—.ousrow Doily me. FUETIEE2 EXTENSION Or LIVERPOOL.—LIVERPOOL, Tuesday.—Last evening a meeting of the ratepayers re siding • • within the township of Tranmere, situated on the Cheshire side of the Mersey, was held at the Britan nia iLtel, Tranmere, to take into consideration an ap plicAtion which had been made by Mr. W. W. Perry and others, to the Town Council of Liverpool, for the Purpose of amalgamating the township of Tranmere with Liverpool, Birkenhead, and other townships. A reso lution proposed by Mr. C. Woodward and seconded by Mr. D. Ross, stating that it was not for the interest of Tranmere that an amalgamation with Liverpool andßirk enhead 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 township's decision. 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 claim of the said shareholders to the sum of 21. per share for arrears of interest which they maintain has accrued to them under the statutes of the cotnprny ; and also to consider the question of the preference shares, as viewed by eminent Belgian jurists, and Whether any'and what further pro cee4inge should :he:adopted in 'refatioit. thereto. The a"civertisernent convening the meeting was signed by Messrs. Barro%e, ;Boyer, Sanders, Elliott, Cartwright, Warner, Gob‘At, M. Martha, M. Leclercq, M. Lengram, Mr. Jephso:a, and Mr. Jones. Mr. Joriav BowTErt, 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, fiat 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, a.nd 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 "debt," 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 st. was, however, offered to the shareholdeis, 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. Jones, 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 holders' 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 r,Jartners, 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 181. The conclusion arrived at is, therefore, that the claim against the capital failing for 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 .4 time, might take six months, at a cost not exceeding 1001. If they failed to obtain the obi -ct 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 ing the opinion of the meeting in support of their legal claim "of 2& arrear of interest, and a further resolution appointing Mr. Field, Major Way, Mr. Barrow, Mr. Jones, and Mr. M'George, a committee to continue the proceedings already commenced, and with fuil power to take such other steps as they may consider advisable, tnd to suspend or otherwise regulate proceedings accord. ing as they may judge best for the interests of the company. A. - sul;seription of 6d. a share was also determined I pon, 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 ~tiares ; but upon the subject being brought on for dis cussion, the general feeling amongst the shareholders .resent appeared to be that the present movement should be regarded as entirely free from any charge of repudia don or the like, and accordingly no resolution was :aken upon the 'natter. 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 drawn up calling upon the directors to convene a special tneeting 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, )reference and original), the co-operation of other pro prietors is requested. It appears that the share capital of the company con -lists of about 25,690 original shares and 10,000 prefer rießasruse of 21. 2 n / o . are less claim, tha n e,nce. Th e num b er o f shares, in respect of which the ar at The meeting ter m i na t e d w i t h a vote o f th an k s t o th e e 3 d 4,0 i 3 00 1 1 7 : ,000, so that the amount 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.—1 n commemoration of this great event a sermon was preached in the church of St. Mary Magdalen this afternoon (Tuesday), by the Rev. J. C. I.liller, M.A., of Lincoln College, rector of St. Mar tin's, Birmingham, and honorary canon of WorceAr, from the 12th chapter of the Revelations of St. John, verse 11. The discourse was listened to by a crowded church, Amongst the congregation were—The Vice- Chancellor, the Senior Proctor, the President of St. John's, the Warden of Wadhatn, 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 plants in pots occupying the steps within the iron rail ing, which had a ph.a•ing effect. MORAL PHILOSOPHY.—The Reader in Moral Philo sophy (Dr. Dauheny, 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 " Nicomactrean 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 22(1 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 lectured 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 letters have come to hand, enclosing contributions, and expre3sing adhesion to the movement, not only as a meed due to Brodie for his manly Conduct, but also as a manifestation of public opinion as to the case in all its bearings,—Soutk•Easterls Garotte. ) ix ) lX mon to. )1- 61 3d., and o, 'ork )een ker. ans, ing• ness red. 64i vere area and •eu ilia- tera pro. t by wife mes , in a del eric a th ill, the )go, , of her, Aer An.. nah ord, late gr, 112, r of w •i