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4 ilt 04-7 N .-.4.,F,A•?t,' Tins, (i.e., THE NEW) _ 7 '''k' "' - r ~ 1 I'4 ----aa VOR THAT WHICH HAS 888. .._ gs '''',..4s ,s„w --e n M EA.bll4 MO P,PtOTECx r.4.-,-- . 418-- - AI. . i 47. 4. M R. ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BEAN u, HOLLAND, UP THE RHINE, and PARIS, is now Open ILICTED , . 0,5 every evening (except Saturday), at 8 o'clock. Stalls (which can be • I TINUANCE OF THE PRESENT REGULATIONS _.;__ ram new_ -„ . S 4d taken from a plan at the box-office every day between 11 and 4, , area, Is. ; gallery, ls. The Morning ......---............ oa Without any extra charge), 3s. ; Repreeentations take place every Tuesday,! Thursday, and Saturday, ____ _. _ _ -___ .................m.Alliiin, • , theselip :btTli cToffEEgNocodrr,rea TENANT-COLONELS ~T,a ETH siEllyoionnutroßdruCinTtgo BE PT )1.1 at :i o'clock '' 0 i 917 221 - . - - ________________ , This mineralT ECT . E yDoßti FrßeßvOme Mt „is mal INJURY RI Urtßaha ti sAtrNi zDneFirlt r,OM H eTO lAitdiEXPECTATIONS ar aAt..,those DsDISAPPOINTED:cofofciotE the tro e i ca N 7 A `SHOULD NT x )1d 1 Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. t,ON DON TUESDAY EVENING DECEMBEIt 18 1855. [PRICE 4D. STAMPED SD. Ad I )la COURETANTofINDDLA ________ _ THE PANTOMIME OF 1855-6 will be at the - -...:---.-.....-.....-,... ----- 7..................., THEATRE ROYAL, COTE N T-0 ARDEN. PUBLIONEEONS. held at their blouse EncotTtscsEß, 3sh,T ocroaEs, ism. Lieutenant-Colonels, in each battalion, perform ;lie .-- --0-- QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT of the said Company will be THE of the EAST commanding the Battalion in the absence of their commajnd. Charles 11., purchase is the means of obtaining promotion Officers of the in the dutr of 1 blished rule of the service, originating in the reign. of under twenty-seven years, whilst a great number ,f le INTERESTING CHRIST: 111 S PRESENT. INDIA COMPANY do HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That a ing officer:, and are termed ACTING MAJORS, or MOUNTED Ito the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and non-purchase is the twenty A RGYLL ROOMS.-LAURENT'S CASINO Now ready in 2 viols., with ills stratious, 21s bound, in Eleven joA'clioEcksicn.thmeEfoLrNe,nioLoLn: to tweaLty..seixwyilelaartstain it in periods varying from NOW OPEN for the winter setson. Principal Cornet OFFICERS. ; and, as the Returns will show, a Piston, M Boulcourt.-Doors open at 8. Admission One SHIM:. TH E WANDERER IN ARABIA. 19th December use in Leadenhall-street, on WEDNESDAY, the d Laurent's new Varsoviana every if ght. By GEORGE T. LO' NTH, Esq. exception, although (in consequence of improvement in the GUARDSMEN WILL BE DISTANCED BY NEARLY ALL LINES " And, lastly, of the subordinate officers, or subalterns, military system) a considerable one ; and every officer who MEN WHO ARE PURCHASERS. else than thatall L. ' Hurst and Blackett, Publi.hers, succ tensors to Henry Colburn, 13. - rev ls not THE SCARBRO' HOTEL, LEEDS, Great sta.riborough-street. that of Lieutenant, Secretary. TRE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST the" Captains The rank of ofoe Lieutenant Guard by -ye Royalo 1 on o l Warrantw a s ce conferred rtehde u3poothn sal Guards, ridns,t, ehlecLepiotei,n permit a junior officer to purchase over him. In the June, 1804, should be CLOBB TO TIIE MIDLAND RAILWAY STATION. - - EAST INDIA HOINE. 12Th Decemata, 1855. mated. ii B. FLEISCHMANN, having renewed the INTERESTING LITERA 11:Y PRESENT•fromiinie of war, is all but circumstances,univer promotion " YOUR MEMORIALISTS now propose briefly to consider tive positions of the Guards and the Line being approx.- and should not be tel • Lease of his Hotel, in soliciting future favours and grate- Second Edition, Revised, in 2 vols., 211. bound, INDIA COMPANY do Hereby Give Notice, regulations. That of July, 1687 ; that of Captain on the Lieutenants, iu a without purchase is of frequent occurrence. The effect of what the effect of the Royal Warrant may be in accele- . e fully 'Acknowledging the distinguished patronage he has the honour THE OLD COURT SUBVRB ; or, Memorials has a Proprietor of East India Stock, John C. Whiteman, Esq., similar to posses,, begs to announce that, in addition to his Family and given notice of his intention to submit the following in ,tion manner, on the 19th of Jul in ' lease no is shown to some the rating romotion in both services and whether there is I OUR MEY July, 1691, when cam the system of pure , extent by P, of Kensington, Regal. Ceti, nil, Anecdotical. P Coffee-room business, he has opened a SECOND -CL 4SS COFFEE- at the Quarterly General Courtof the said C more fair, err iiy LEIGH HUNT. be held at their House- ' 1d ROOM, the charges in which department will be strictly coin .viz: in Leadenhall-street, on Wednesday, the 19thand intents 'k d: liehtful bock that will he welcome to all readers, aid most 'natant, Lieutenant on the Ensigns on the 29th of Jul 18 ' R kof L• t t•C 1 1 more rapid than if it was ob- nearer together. July, 15, in au ieu enan • o one 61 meretaL"But ' 6d welcome to those who have a love for the best kites of reading.,._ "'that at the General court of the East India CemPany, to be held consideration of the distinguished conduct of th • Examiner. On Wedne rained Purchase. e Brigadewithout "And, first, as to the Guards :-YOUR MEMORIALISTS May. the 9th of April 1856 for the El ction of Five Direct the pre tal LAST FEW DAYS. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, mice visors to Henry Colburn. tors tor the term of six is ' • tth B ttle of Wt 1 a e a s. Waterloo. c.o. " These observations premised, YOUR MEMORIALISTS can perceive nothing that has a tendency to render the 6.1 , ears, it expedient and jest that some of sant, 6d ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. - THIS appointed to be D rectors in 1854 when Of these extra ranks, the one which has had the most proceed to a comparison of the length of service in which general promotion more rapid. In the higher ranks of tea Ud EVENING, and every evening during the THE 14Orn THOUSA ND. . . , _n that body was ( y the opera- important influence on promotion is that of Lieutenant- Von of the Act 16 and 17 Victoria, cap. 95) reduced from 30 MM. the respective positions of Lieutenant Colonel of the Line Regimental Lieutenant-Colonel and Regimental Major pur- , Od week, the GRAND ELEUSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC Now Ready, leers to 15, b- then elected Directors, in lieu of those Directors whose Colonel, conferred in 1687-at a very early period in the and Acting Major of the Guards are attainable, chase has been abolished, and the system in force previ -34i , f ' and HTSTERY, by Professor ANDERSON, the Great s N OYER'S SHILLING COOKERY for the term of ofucs will expire on that day "history of a standing arm • y , at a time when only one-fifth " YOUR MAJESTY will readily perceive that it is alma ously to 1804 has been partially reverted to ; and, as tb' -al 1 Wizard of the North, in 12 acts, with ever-changing variety a That another Proprietor, Maicoitn. Lewin R. q., has given notice PEOPLE, which contains Recipes for " The Christmas of his intention to submit the following motion, (viz ,- ' of incidents, continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary season." " That, in the opinion of this .court, the present system of Indian and when no less than seventeen of the twenty-seven reg. making this comparison, and YOUR MEMORIALISTS there- to realise it, officers will probably not be so ready to v- London : George Rontledge and Co., 2, Farringdon-street. Od • effects. Government is unsuitable for its purposes the. it assures neitherofwhich itthen -1.- efficiency, responsibility, nor redress; that under it the erossest meats Od. Magic and Mystery is an entirely new entertainment, pox- .... .. - raised in 1685 by noblemen and gentlemen for the sup- the Brevet came out, and which may be considered the frequent as to produce any sensible effect ; cache Ad westing distinctive characteristics and peculiar phases of This day is published, in 3 vols. post eve., ritoriee ; that the sole medium of placine our Indian Administration pr •of M 23d amusement. It is not a monologue, for the audience them- AIDE E. 'A. R oon an intelligible basis is a perfect transfer to the Crown, by which moan oinnouth's rebellion, and which were after' lest of the old system, inasmuch as the war, the Brevet (an only benefit the individual who exchanges ;an wards taken upon selves perform their parts with the principal actor, some of MANOR. the jumble of two authorities (being, as respects each other's powers, the establishment. unusual one, in its so rapidly succeeding the former one), retirement is not likely to be accepted by the By MARGARET OLIPHANT. them on the stage and others in front ;it is not an exhibition, itnntilanatttties)ileeabated, and the needless expense of the " TOUR MEMORIALISTS conceive that it was William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London.the delibe. and the late augmentations have created an exceptional cers who usually servo in the Guards. Ir for though everything becomes metamorphosed before thesaved to the territorial revenues of Lida.,, I Establishmentrate intention of the Sovereign, as a mark of Royal State, state of things. MEMORIALISTS do not anticipate that t; eyes of the visitors no one can be positive that he secs any JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. to confer upon the Captains commanding one thing; but it is a comedy really performed by the com- Nir ORKS ON AGRICULTURE.Companies of his "It will appear evident that the comparison here in permanent acceleration of promotion at e pany ; a melodrama replete with startling positions and unex- a duty it was to command the Guard view can only rest and depend upon minute and nominal Re. ficiont to bring the service of an Acti lice t pected denouements •, a magnificent spectacle, with 2,000 of This day Is published, SUN LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, over the Royal Person, as also their subordinates, • • appointments, I with that of a Lieutenant-Coln upon the public every night to appear as auxiliaries ; and au ex - A CATECHISM of PRACTICAL A (--;-' P-TrinT LONDON. ..-- -.L...., - _...e. Policies effected with this Society now will PARTICIPATE IN privilege of increased rank which they at present enjoy, every officer's service on arriving at the prescribed posit " With regard to the Line, th -- e ttavaganza, in which all that seems to be is entirely beyond TURF,. FOUR-FIFTHS, or 80 per cent. of the Net Profits of the Society, and whatever advantages might naturally and necessarily tion,-thus furnishing the data from which the required is likely to be still more advantr O i the bounds of probability. By HENRY STEPHEN'S, F.R.S.E.. Author of the " Nook according to the conditions contained In the Society's Prospectus. accrue from it. are lower than in many other old-established officem, andinaurers a ' Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged and of the Farm." The Premiums required by this Society for insuring Young Lives - . '-' ~ ' , inferences are to be drawn • and apart from eahicheßea a Staff_eituations will bo filled d. , " Such, then, being the relative and comparative consti• turns and data mere assertions (especially by an interested tirement on full pay has by , fashionable audiences which have nightly filled the Lyceum Small svo , pp., 80. With Engravings, price Is. Ed. If taken in addition to the accumulated funds derived from the lwrestments. of quantities for distribution a considerable reduction will be allowed are fully Protected trout all risk by an ample guarantee fund, in tution of the two Services, YOUR MAJESTY will at once party) cannot be viewed without jealousy and distrust. 60,0001. a year. Theatre to overflow, and by means of whose generous aid ho prroonsopyecatinasogg.paaytdbetiy obtainedth e efil Office. by application to the Publishers.. It. bas been enabled to announce Magic and Mystery for con- Premiums. perceive that the extra rank of the Guards has hitherto " A series of such Returns-which have been prepared " YOUR MAJESTY W _ ', tinnons repetition. He believes that no professor of his art By the same Aurae', the Office in Threadneedle-street, brought the Officers of that corps to the position of Feld with the utmost care and accuracy-which comprise, Toon on the 12th Decembr j has at any time or in any place been honoured with au .211 E BO 0 K of the FA R M .and general officers more quickly than the average of the MEMORIALISTS believe, every item of information requi- who are Lieutenan' London, or of any of the Agents of the Society. amount of sa.,etss so extensive, se decided, and so unusual. Eighth Thousand. In Two Volumes large STO., with upwards sr 6n ' Re would attribute that success to three causes ; first, that Engravings, price 31., half-bound. CHARLES HENRY LIDDERDALE, Actuary. Officers of the Line could arrive at those ranks. During site to support and elucidate their assertions, and by in command of t" ' in his present entertainment he has placed before his visitors in. To be had onl -__ _._ the late or Revolutionary war, Officers of the Line rose to which those assertions may be checked and scrutinised at of full Colonel 4 the results of a life sedulously devoted to the attainment of By the same Author, OYSTERS.-BURNHAM RIVER NATIVES the rank of Lieutenant. Colonel with as great and often every stage of their exposition, will be found in the Ap- Majors are P Lin 'skill ' one peculiar art, and to perfect which he e perfected in PESTER DEEP LAND CULTURE : being ofJ Sweating, Fish and Merchant, Cheapside: are the best. Six ears old • four hours from the beds greater celerity than those of the Guards ; but, subsea, pendia to thus Memorial ; and to these, and such others as fore attain has travelled the globe in every clime ; secondly, that he has a Detailed Account of the Method of Cultivation which has been s J. quently to its close, an enormous half-pay and other causes are elsewhere referred to in the succeeding pages, they re- before, th spared no trouble nor expense to put this entertainment on successfully practised Per several years by the Marquess of Tweeddele meat controlßE R Y e fGtlhecontributed greatly to retard the promotion of the Line- spectfally and confidently invite YOUR MAJESTY'S atten. was the v. the stage in the most elaborate manner, by the employment at Tester. In small Pat., with Engravings, price 4s. 6d. of the first mechanicians and artists of the day ; and thirdly, Dedicated by permission to the Queen. the London m an menace .l BILLINGSGATE MARKET.-NOTICE IS an effect, however, which had been gradually wearing out, tion. who 1- Es several Thatral Markets t he Committeei n the ci, City for of t that, while endeavouring to provide amusement for those THE BOOK of the GARDEN.and had nearly disappeared, at the period when the Royal "The results they furnish are briefly as follows :- De, who honour him with their presence, he has not forgetter that By CHARLES lI'INTOSH. meet at Guildhall THURSDAY Commissioners commenced their labours, in 1854. "On the 20th June, 1854, the period selected for the v on SDAY the 21th day of December inst., lip it is possible to afford information also, and that the oppor- at One large Volumes royal Svo., sold separately, viz at o'clock precisely, to Let the 'whole of the Stalls and Standings "IV The Royal Warrant-6th October, 1854--its prin. purpose of this comparison, there were serving 154 Lieu tunity should not be neglected of exposing conjuring whey Completie, w 0 itnheT. Formationo of Gardens and Construction of,Gar'cen in Billingsgate Market.' The terms and conditions for letting y , V. ever it has been used for nefarious purposes, or whenever by Vol- • Edifices,l &c. 776 pages, and 1,073 engravings. 21. 10s. Vol. 11.- be ascertained upon application to the Clerk of the Market. Dmataed - iple- and the change effected by it, tenant-Colonels of the Line and 15 Acting Majors of th resorting to the conjuror's arts, in an illegitimate manner, al Gardening. 865 pages, and 279 engravings. It. 17s. 6d. the third day of December, 1855. Practical " Having made these introductory remarks, YOUR ME- Guards. at the designing have succeeded in making dupes of the v. FERDINAND BRAND, Comptroller • MORIALISTs now proceed to the consideration of the Royal "The average service of the 154 Lieutenant-Color credulous. THE RURAL ECONOMY of ENGLAND, - . The 937 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which Pro- SCOTLAND, and IRELAND. Warrant of the 6th October, 1854. the Line on obtaining their Lieutenant-Colonels' feaster Anderson Las received, from the time of opening the By LEONCE DE LAVERGNE. MR. HOWARD, Surgeon-Dentist, 52, Fleet- " The seventh clause of the Warrant riles thus :- twenty-two years and ten months; while the a' au -, theatre up to the present date, bear witness to the great .in- Translated from the ..rench. With Notes by a Scottish Farmer. FIC street, has introduced an entirely new description of RTI. ' THAT THE RINK OF FU,L COLONEL BE GIVEN TO OM- vivo of the Acting Majors-the average nun terest taken on the subject of this singular delusion ; whilst In Bvo., price 125., cloth. lAL TEETH, axed without s , prings, wires, or ligatures. They so CERS AFTER SERVING FOR THREE YEARS WITH THE RANI it had taken them to become mounted-it w lie ' Mani, of thorn bear melancholy evidence to the dangers which ye. perfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from • attend a belief in the superstitious nonsense of the "Spirit ITALIAN IRRIGATION. A Report on the the original by the closest observer; they will never change colour or OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, IN THE ACTUAL COMMAND OF years and eleven months. decay, and will be found very superior to any teeth ever before I • tualists." Judging simply by the correspondence which hare Agricultural Canals of Piedmont and Lombardy; addressed to the fhis method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painful ised. REGIMENTS, OR FOR THE SAME PERIOD AS SECOND-LIEU- "It therefore appears so far-at t. resulted, Professor Anderson's expose of spirit-rapping and Pon. the Di, e.et,,rs of the East India Company. With an appendix, eperation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is TENANT-COLONELS,' etC., 'OR AS MOUNIED OFFICERS OF were) of inquiry-that the Guards a his illustration of the so-called table phenomena, have pro- eraaeltalii,ridinag a Sketch of the Irrigation System of Northern and Cen- _ruarteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth . , THE GUARDS, OR ON THE STAFF,' IN CERTAIN SPECIFIED in arriving at their starting -point it diced a sensation unequalled by any previous attempt to ex. t By Lieut.-Col. R. BAIRD SMITH, F.G.S., Captain, Bengal rendered sound and useful in mastication.-52, Fleet-street. At some ftom ten till five. SITUATIONS. " YOUR MEMORIALISTS believ 101 pose a mischievous and impudent juggle. It is impossible Engineers. . - " " The effect of the new system thus inaugurated may be admitted principle that avers for Professor Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of the Second Edition. 2 vols , Bvo., with Atlas in folio, price 30s. _ X communications which reach him on the subject. He regret. !M. stated, in contrast with the system which it supersedes, as course, be received as evil an • that many of these should come from ladies and gentlemen THE FORESTER : A Practical Treatise on THE GUARDS AND THE LINE. follows : - That, whereas Officers after attaining the rank of they require to be tested 1, who, from their position in society and their well-known in the Forma ion of Plantations, the Rearing and Management of - Lieutenant-Colonel, to which they are promoted regimen- analysis ; and, therefore, tellectual attainments, he would least have expected to have Forest Trees, &c. The following is the important document to tally, rose, under the regulations in force previously to a clear perception r been converts to a belief so preposterous in itself, and se By JAMES BROWN. which we have Second Edition. Svo. With 109 Illustrations. 21s. more than once drawn public atten- the Warrant, to the rank of Colonel and General b • d•made to ascertain ' y perzo t easily susceptible of being controverted and disproved. Ever. VITI. tion. It is headed :- evening, from the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions o THE ARCHITECTURE of the FARM : A 4, cal general brevets, and no one could pass over the vice, and the rum spirit-rapping are expressed, and every evening, within th A MENIORIA.L FROM THE COLONELS AND head of another except in a case of distinguished merit ; service, which it Lyceum, how tables can be made to rap is exhibited Series of Desi,ns for Farm House.% Farm Steadinga, Factor. Houses, and Cottages. LIEUTENANT-COLONELS OF THE BRIGADE OF this regulation is now rescinded, and it is ruled by YOUR tion from whi• and elucidated. It is respectfully requested that thi- Cy JOHN STARFORTH, Architect. GUARDS TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY'S Warrant that Lieutenant-Colonels having If there was' public exposition will be accepted generally as Professor Sixty-two Engravings, with Descriptions. In medium quarto. me 1 Anderson's only mode of replying at full length to his 21. 2s. MAJESTY. served three years in command of a regiment of the Line vice from t, ix. multitudinous correspondents. Ho rogrets that the OTo THE QUEEN 'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. shall obtain the rank of Colonel, anti then be eligible to be couclusi names of the great and learned of the land should STABLE ECONOMY : A Treatise On the " MAT IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY - u 1 have been made to figure in the documents emanatine Hanagerneut of Horses. • selected as General Officers; and that Guardsmen, under a the rev from the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex- By JOHN STEWART, V.S. " THE UNDERSIGNED, being the Colonels and Lieutee different system of promotion, shall count their three years was A New Edition. Prb e 6s. 6d., tracted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septern nant-Colonels commanding the three Regiments of YOUR from the date of their becoming Acting Majors or Mounted tn' moo x. MAJESTY'S Guards, most respectfully submit for YOUR officers. t • her 20, and taken by that journal from the New York Spiri THE GRASSES of BRITAIN. Illustrated (vat Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American by 140 Fizures. Drawn and Engraved by RICHARD PARNELL, MAJESTY'S gracious consideration, this their humble Me- " YOUR MEMORIALISTS would here freely admit that son 1. spirit-rapper, Mr. D. D. Hume :-" Sir David Brewster M D., _ F.R.s.E. Royal See. 425. morial, which they feel it their duty to present to YOUR the principle thus adopted of making regimental service -- e frankly confesses that he is ' sorely puzzled' at what he has xi. MAJESTY, in consequence of the operation of Youn, MA.- Lieutenant-Colonel the bale of future advancement is • dee 1 witnessed, and Lord Brougham acknowledges himself to he PROFESSOR JOHNSTON'S WORKS, viz.:- JESTY'S Royal Warrant of the 6th of October, 1854, regu• and sound, and that it is calculated to accelerate p :TO thoroughly nonplussed. Both of these noted men brought c ATEcHISM i F AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY AND GEO tl # the whole fore, of their keen discernment to bear upon the LOGY. 39th Ed lion. Is. lating Promotion and Retirement in the Army, in so far as tion and give satisfaction :o the army. But that ' solution of the phenomena; but the presence of substantial, ELEMENFS OF AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY AND eu O. it affects the interests of the officers of the Brigade of the clause which they take exception to is the 6th Edition. 6s. 6d. actual hands, and the demonstrative strength of the spirits O i_Y_ L L(EtiTURES ON AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY AND GEO- Guards, who serve under their immediate Command• therein assigned to the Officers of the Guard who thus clothed themselves for the time, and moved mate- LOGY. Id Edition. 245. "I. The Royal Warrant 6th Oc ober, 1854, establishing prove to be unjust in its operation both to tho vial objects about the room, proved to be too much of a ques- ON THE USE OF LIME IN AGRICULTURE. 6s. a new system of promotion in the higher ranks of 110 and to the Brigade in, gckerat. :J., lion for them to master." Mr. D. D. Hume, the author of the INS • RUCTICINS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF SOILS, LlME army. ... AND 51 ANURES. Third Edition, enlarged. Is. " The Officers of the Guards make no ten • above, has recently left England, and the following account of STONES, T R.E. Bs. who, awl what he is, occurs in the Family Herald, No. 648: I'. NOTEStu lomet l'ateo AR TL 11A(A41)0IIC' AU AGR lOULTUR A L, EC ONO-" YOUR MEMORIALISTS respectfully remind YOUR MA- Warrant that it does not lay down tl ;es. 'e. .. This young man, who is a Scotchman by birth, and nowJESTY that a war with Russia being imminent in the earl 71. MICAL, AND SOCIAL. 2 vols. 21s. 3' motion above the rank of Lieutenan' in Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations eat William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. period of last year, the attention of the military authorities vices. The have for and They years, W, ' ' t without apparatus. Barnum, who is well-known throughout was necessarily directed to the state of the higher ranks of e the Anglo-Saxon world as a splendidhumbng, offeredhim 2,000 those privileges of their increase dollars per annum if he would perform at his museum in New In post Bvo., sewed, price One Shilling, the army ; and that YOUR MAJESTY was graciously pleased dignity of the Crown, which York. Barnum then took it for granted that mediums could . to appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into the several them by their predecessors z".' be bought. He somewhat astonished when his offer was was PHE CURABILITY of CONSUMPTION ; modes of promotion and retirement, and to re twhat por ,err a being a Series of Papers, presenting the most prominent and doted their promotion me er t refused. Hume, on telling the fact in London lately, simply and honestly remarked, that the money would have been very importantP ti al Pointsl the Treatment of the Dis rac c 11 e. changes it might be expedient or practicable to make in the of system,-but, while Jo, By FRANCIS 11. RAM ADGE, M.D., 'existing system, with a view to the greater efficiency of acceptable to him, for he was poor, young (under 20), an or- they have defended ' mid Phan, and in very had health : ,but Iwould have been afraid i he Royal Infirmary for Diseases of the Chest, &c. the the service :- and from an honov of losing his power as a medium, and he would sooner lose Also, by the same Author, Price 10s. 6d., " That the Commission was composed of officers of high any selfish or ur his life. The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful. A TREATISE on ASTHMA and on DISEASES of the HEART, rank in the army, and of gentlemen who had been con wished by the - Ho inquired into the subject; and now Barnum, one of the London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman,. lie f. ! greatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is nd one of the firmest believers in spiritualism." It is cer- A LLSOPP'S PALE ALE.-Reduction . and that the several branches of the service were each re- celorating t' in Price. od tainly surprising to find such a paragraph as this in the Et _IIARRINGTON, PARKER, and CO., Wine and Beer presented by an officer of rank :- ing the P iv editorial article of ten established journal, the editor of whom merchant,. 514, Pall-Stall, are now receiving orders for the October "That the Commissioners, having before them the pro- equal t .:J might be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe Brewingst theor the above celebratedAleo,rin Casks of 18 Gallons and up- eeedings and Report of the Royal Commission of 1840 matt wards, a in spirit-rapping-- does spirit-rapping gain or lose be reduced price. Also for s this accession te its adherents? and,ewith Barnum's endorse ALLSOPP'S PALE ALE IN BOTTLE, thought it unnecessary to call for fresh evidence; that, Co ' e meat to it, Is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likel3 Quarts, Pints, and Half-pints Imperial measure, after an examination of numerous returns and lengthened # rye I' 5% Pall-mall, Oct, 20, 1855. ' - 1111 t' to be negotiated 1 Professor Anderson would believe not ; • discussions, they completed their Report on the lith of re, 'l but, when he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of England have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross V a swindle, when he finds that the incumbent of Wortley (tho m STAR PACKETS fro the TERRACE PIER, MAJESTY'S GRAVESEND, 9, 2. Warrant was issued, embodying their recd - i mendations, and establishing a now system of prom, Rev. N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and a., writes a book on the subject, he considers it to be time for teRiaNSWICK WHARF, BLACKWALL, on the arrival of the above the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. 8.1 'b him to state that which ke knows of the mechanism by which following flag. Trains from Fenchurch-street, 10%, era, weather permit- •• e - In the statement which YOUR MEMORIAI" at. :34, it is effected, and the mischief to which it tends, In the The packets will call at the Rosherville, Greenhithe, Purfleet, about to offer for TOUR MAJESTY'S consideratio' --- t . .Morning Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir and North Woolwich Piers. Si David Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's sue L0nd0n.......... tod . .. IR. Hotel, To or from Greet:sena _ pose to confine themselves to explaining, ar 2d it* . in company with Lord Brougham. He distinctly states that o , .4t-tivesend and Blackwell or Woolwich Bd. •• os. lod possible, the position in which YOUR MAJ- London •• ••••.•• • •• • • • •• .. Bd. .. 02. 10d ral which the Wizard of the North proclaims every night-that .2 '' Erithl'rtii andand Blackwell or W001wich...... 6d. .. Os. 85 of Guards will be placed by the unavo na spirit-rapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad bet teen o:aveslnd and Intermediate Piers.. 6d. .. os, se operation of the provisions of the now tf "' er purposes. In the Morning Advertiser of the following day October 23, 1855. "YOUR MEMORIALIST3 are away' however, there is an answer to Sir David's letter from one _ _ joy some advantages in being On' , who was present when he and Lord Brougham .had their ~ stlY r*. seance with the spirits, in which the writer says, that "the CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. by exemption from Colonial Sor table (a large dinner-table, I believe) moved about in the most Tappropriate Offerings for this Season • • HE most . . (Instinct from the question of is, of Festivity are those which tend to the promotion of Health extraordinary manner, and, among other things, a large ac- the roe None can be more acceptable than merits of the position o` cordien was conveyed by an invisible agency to my hand and and Personal Attraction. le 1 RowLANDS' MACASSAR OIL, the Sovereign. 9' , then to Lord Brougham's, in which, held by his lordship's right hand, apart from any person, it played an air through. for imparting a transcendent lustre to the Hair, and sustaining it In " YOUR MEmeißeALip. tll M' , out." With such a statement, printed for the edification of decorative charm. of the Guards are not or ROWLANDS KALTDOR ur the people of the 13th century, with the facts before us that Imparts a radiant bloom to the cheek, and a delicacy and softness to caption to any alter the meet talented men of the day are permitting themselves to the 'l' to be deluded by these juggling spirit-mongers-that the ROWLANDS' ODONTO, me their comrades t greatest novelist of the age is now engaged in making it the or Pearl Dentifrice, bestows on the Teeth a pearl-like whiteness, and 0.• id • subject of a new work, and that a " spiritual convention" renders the Breath sweet and pure. equality with their general use by has actually been advertised to be hold in St. Martin's-hall, r The patronage of Royalty throughout Europe, m ,tarank aid fashion, and the univereallyltnown c cacy of these 1 Professor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual a: ee articles, give them a celebrity unparalleled. is . lets of America, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum, willao. Beware of spurious imitations !! I Sold by numbs' ro -; be received by the people of England as genuine honest at-A. ROWLAND and SONS, tempts to provide an antidote for the bane of the spiritual 20, Flattop-garden, London, and by Chemists and Perfumers. 'Cali' 1. 9' .j ugglerS. Pg In the course of the last five weeks 100,017 persons have IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. V D. ' visited the Lyceum Theatre, -a. larger number, it is believed. 1111,1ESElViA It ,--On .- n the 29th of May, 1855, an ,d than has ever before been aseembled within its walls in so Ld , short a period. Magic and Mystery is repeated every even- on injunction was granted by the High Court of Chancery, ar the Ilth June following was naade perpetual, against JO' ! r• ing, the programme being continually changed. Grand . renklin and ethers, to restrain them, under a penalty of one' d fashionable Day Performance, on Saturday, December 22, at ..and pounds, from imitating this atedlcale, which is prote' r, , • 2 o'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ; Royal Letters Patent of England, and secured by the Se, / • Part 1. -Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinica' Fame de Pearmacie de Paris, and the Imperial College o' Vienna. .i., ''`e, ; Capabilities of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do TRIESEMAR, No. 1, r, . by magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmer is a remedy for Kelsoretton. aperenatorrhcea, and le' 4 iclll and illustrate the possibility if sleeping unsupported in , starting from excesses, ~.. a -rtem, whetheraccident, . • fie 'air. ,f, . To those persons who arc prevented entering t' 1 Act 2. The Aqua-Avial Paradox ; exemplifying the power •he consequences of early errors it is invaluable a of producing animated nature from fire and water only, and TRIESEMAR, No. 2 o the possibility of eliciting from the simplest elements the most r.ectuatty, in the snort space of three day' 1 ..:els, complex forms of ornithological existence. , adicates all traces of those Disorders Act 3. Le Lives des Reel:mils Cboisies : or, Puck's Own are so long been thought an antidote r la , Pocket Book, with Puck himself within it. Typifying the • a vast portion or the population. evening's entertainment in the production of the very vole- TRIESEMA' r , Ruinous from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude is the great Continental Remedy !t i out of minuteness, in developing bulk where no space appears teifortunately the English physe (tensible destruction of the pat' p i for its existence, in discovering odd things in odd places, anti . sersaparille in the world can, , -- ~ In bringing forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely cRIESEMAR, No. 1, 2 I place for to be found. ,nd of all nauseating qr • Act 4. Magical Locomotion ; or, Transition without Trou. vithout their use beine blo. In which will be comprised-the Adventures of a Wed- oad in tin cases at • ding Ring, the Peregrinations of a Bank Note, the Transfer- awarate doses, ar 1 I oration-black into white, and the Discovery of every Article tocili4hiell7Labe e in the position which would seem the most inappropriate. . ford-street ; P , .4.. Act 5. L'Ecrin de Verre ; or, the Casket of Crcesus. Into le. Bradbur which, though made entirely of glass perfectly transparent, Lord-stree t and suspended so as to be visible to the eyes of all present, Dublin ; sta the Wizard will cause the money of his visitors to transport , .. ✓ itself, and rain into the casket, though its lid be closed, TT' locked, and the key in the possession of the audience. a Act 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ; or, the Transparency of Opacity. ' Act. 7. A New Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the Novel Wiry and Spirit Store. An improvement upon the " inexhausti' I bottle," inasmuch as the Wizard's bottle will not only be exhaustible, but will change its contents, ad infinitum, word of command, producing soda-water, butt, Epsom salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin, rum, noyoau, or any other wine or spirit required; proving to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs y • and occupying the whole space when tightly p• Act 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; ce - Spirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-n tocsin of the invisiblos. Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in ' . the Wizard's patrons will undergo phases, and, amongst others, a transformed into the flags of v, land, France Turkey, and Sax' Act. 10. The' Enchanted C" seats himself will be under the audience, under circv tion as peculiar as peep' i Act. 11. The Myst, Nucleus of the Nigh' ' audience will have of the evening, t' in mid-air, int' all will be pr Act. 12, Route is ridding of the ern . , . .• - _ • t . , Airß. ALBERT SMITFi'S MONT BLANC, HOLLAND, UP THE RHINE, and PARIS, it now Open every evening (except Saturday), at 8 o'clock. Stalls (which can be taken from a plan at the box-office every day between 11 and 4, without any extra charge), 3e. ; area, Is. ; gallery, Is. The Morning Representations take place every Tuesday,; Thursday, and linturday, at :4 o'cieck, Egyptian Halt, Piccadilly. T,ONDON TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18 1855. o 19,7210 [PRICE 4D. 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FLEISCHMANN, having renewed the • Lease of his Hotel, in soliciting future favours and grate fully acknowledging the distinguished patronage he has the honour to possess, begs to annoance that, in addition to his Family and Coffee-room business, he has opened a SECO ND-CL 4SA COFFEE ZOOM, the charges in which department will be strictly com mercial. INTERESTING LITERA 13:Y PRESENT. Second Edition, Revised, in 2 'vols., 311. bound, T HE OLD COURT SUBVRB ; or, Memorials of Kensington, Regal, Criti, Anecdotical. by LEIGH nirlgr. " A cl: Ihrhtful bolk that will he welcome to all readers, aid most welcome to those who bare a love for the best kind of reading."— Examiner. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, nee esoors to Henry Colburn. LAST FEW DAYS. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. THIS EVENING, and every evening during the week, the GRAND ELEUSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC and HTSTERY, by Professor ANDERSON, the Great Wizard of the North, in 12 acts, with ever-changing variety of incidents, continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary effects. Magic and Mystery is an entirely new entertainment, pos sessing distinctive characteristics and 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 startling positions and unex pected denouements •, a magnificent spectacle, with 2,000 of the public every night to appear as auxiliaries ; and au ex travaganza, 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 ho hag been enabled to announce Magic and Mystery for con tinuous repetition. He believes that no professor of his art has at any time or in any place been honoured with au amount of - sa. , cess so extensive. se decided, and so unusual. Re 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 forgetten that it is possible to afford information also, and that the oppor tunity should not be neglected of exposing conjuring wher 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 th , . credulous. The 937 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which Pro fessor Anderson has received, from the time of opening the theatre up to the present date, bear witness to the great in terest taken on the subject of this singular delusion ; whilst many of them bear melancholy evidence to the dangers which attend a belief in the superstitious nonsense o f the " Spiri tualists." Judging simply by the correspondence which ha , 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 cx pose a mischievous and impudent juggle. It is impossible for Professor Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of Or , communications which roach him on the subject. He regret , 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. Ever. evening, from the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions o spirit-rapping are expressed, and every evening, within th Lyceum, how tables can be made to rap is exhibited and elucidated. It is respectfully requested that thi - public exposition will be accepted generally as Professor Anderson's only mode of replying at full length to his multitudinous correspondents. Ho regrets that the names of the great and learned of the land should have been made to figure in the documents emanatin • from the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex tracted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septern her 20, and taken by that journal from the New York Spiri fetal 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 he thoroughly noinpitussed. Both of these noted mea brought the whole fore, 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, and the follo win g account of who, and what he is, occurs in the Family Herald, No. 648: —" This young man, who is a Scotchman by birth, and now in Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations without apparatus. Barnum, who is well-known throughout the Anglo-Saxon world as a splendid humbug, offeredhim 2,000 dollars per annum if he would perform at his museum in New York. Barnum then took it for granted that medium , could be bought. 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 he was poor, young (under 20), an or phan, and in very had 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. Ho 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 might be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believt in spirit-rapping-- does spirit-rapping gain or lose h:% this accession to its adherents? and,ewith Barnum's endorse ment to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likel3 to be negotiated Professor Anderson would believe not ; but, when he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of England law° 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 ko knows of the mechanism by which it is effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the Morning Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir David Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's Hotel, in company with Lord Brougham. He distinctly states that which the Wizard of the North proclaims every night—that 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 Lord Brougham had 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 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 13th 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 hold in St. Martin's-hall, Professor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual ists of America, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum, will be received by the people of England as genuine honest at tempts to provide an antidote for the bane of the spiritual ugglers. 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, or Saturday, December 22, at 2 o'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ; Part 1. —Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinica' Capabilities of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do by magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmer i cm, and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in the ail. 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 dos Reeneils Cboisies : or, Puck's Own Pocket Book, with Puck himself within it. Typifying the evening's entertainment in the production of the very volu minous from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude out of minuteness, in developing bulk where no space appears for its existence, in discovering odd things in odd places, and in bringing forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely place for to be found. Act 4. Magical Locomotion ; or, Transition without Trou blo. In which will be comprised—the Adventures of a Wed ding Ring, the Peregrinations of a Bank Note, the Transfor mation—black into white, and the Discovery of every Article in the position which would seem the most inappropriate. Act 5. L'Ecrin de Verre ; or, the Casket of Crcesus. Into which, though made entirely of glass perfectly transparent, and suspended so as to be visible to the eyes of all present, the Wizard will cause the money of his visitors to transport itself, and rain into the casket, though its lid be closed, locked, and the key in the possession of the audience. Act 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ; or, the Transparency of Opacity. Act. 7. A New Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the Novel Wi no 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, noyoau, 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 Exposé 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 lrfahommed's coffin) in mid-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which all will be produced. Act. 12. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the Shc.test 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, 1/. lle. 6d. and 11. is., to be obtained at the Box-ofilee, 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 on Saturday, December 22, atl2 o'clock. Deers *pea at balf-pact STAR PACKETS from the TERRACE PIER , GitAVESEND, 9, 2. BRuNSWICK WHARF, BLACKWALL, on the arrival of the following Trains from Fenchurch-street, 104, 3 1 4, weather permit. ting. The Packets will call at the Rosherville, Greenhlthe. Purileet, and North Woolwich Piers. To or from urevimena anti LOadon•• •....... lod. .. is. 2d ~ .iravesend and Blackwell or Woolwich Bd. la d Frith and London .• •• •• •••• • • • •• Bd. .. 02. 10d „ Erith an l Blackwell or Woolwich 6d. .. Os. Bd. bet , ecn Otaveslnd and Intermediate Piers.. 6d. .. oe, ad October 23,1855. T HE WANDERER IN ARABIA. By GEORGE T. LO' NTH, Esq. 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Also for ALLSOPP'S PALE ALE IN BOTTLE, Quarts, Pints, and Half-pints, Imperial measure. 5%, Pall-mall, Oct, 20, 1855. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. THE most appropriate Offerings for this Season of Festivity are those which tend to the promotion of Health and Personal Attraction. None can be more acceptable than ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL, for imparting a transcendent lustre to the Hair, and sustaining it In decorative charm. ROWLANDS' KALTDOR imparts a radiant bloom to the cheek, and a delicacy and softness to the hands, arms, and neck ; and ROWLANDS' ODONTO, or Pearl Dentifrice, bestows on the Teeth a pearl-like whiteness, and renders the Breath sweet and pure. The patronage of Royalty throughout Europe, their general use by rank sad fashion, and the univereally.known emcacy of these articles, give them a celebrity unparalleled. Beware of spuri ous i mi t a ti ons !! I Sold by A. ROWLAND and SONS, 20, Flattop-garden, London, and by Chemists and Perfumers. IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. ttl ESE N't A R.-0o the 29th of May, 1855, an A injunction was granted hV the High Court of Chancery, and on the llth June following was made perpetual, against Joseph ,:ranklin and others, to restrain them, tinder a penalty of one thou quid pounds, from imitating this Medic'ne, which is protected by Koval Letters Patent of P:rigland, and se cure d b y th e Seals of the olc . ole de Poarmacie de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. _ TRIESENIAR, No. 1, is a remedy tor Fie'potation. Apermatorrhcea. and F.xhanntior. 0' rt Qy.tem, whether arising from excesses, accident, or climate. To those person. who arc prevented entering the married state h •he consequences of early errors it is invaluable. TAIESEMAR, No. 2, rt ect uatly , in the vnort spacc of three days, completely and entireis • adleatee all traces of those Disorders which C a pi v i and Cuheb". 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It is headed : " A MEMORIAL FROM THE COLONELS AND LIEUTENANT-COLONELS OF THE BRIGADE OF GUARDS TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. " To THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY'. " MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY, " THE UNDERSIGNED, being the Colonels and Lieute. Rant-Colonels commanding the three Regiments of YOUR MAJESTY'S Guards, most respectfully submit for YOUR MAJESTY'S gracious consideration, this their humble Me morial, which they feel it their duty to present to YOUR MAJESTY, in consequence of the operation of Youn MA JESTY'S Royal Warrant of the 6th of October, 1354, regu lating Promotion and Retirement in the Army, in so far as it affects the interests of the officers of the Briiade of Guards, who serve under their immediate Command. "I. The Royal Warrant 6th Oc ober, 1854, establishing a new system of promotion in the higher ranks of the army. " YOUR MEMORIALISTS respectfully remind YOUR MA JESTY that a war with Russia being imminent in the early period of last year, the attention of the military authorities was necessarily directed to the state of the higlier ranks of the army ; and that YOUR MAJESTY was graciously pleased to appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into the several modes of promotion and retirement, and to report what changes it might be expedient or practicable to make in the existing system, with a ♦iew to the greater efficiency of the service : " That the Commission was composed of officers of high rank in the army, and of gentlemen who had been con nected with the military administration of the country ; and that the several branches of the service were each re presented by an officer of rank : " That the Commissioners, having before them the pro eeedings and Report of the Royal Commission of IS4O thought it unnecessary to call for fresh evidence ; that, after an examination of numerous returns and lengthened discussions, they completed their Report on the lith of June, 1854 ; and that on the 6th of October ultimo YOU. MAJESTY'S Warrant was issued, embodying their recom mendations, and establishing a new system of promotion above the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. " In the statement which YOUR MEMORIALISTS are about to offer for YounMAJESTY'S consideration, they pro pose to confine themselves to explaining, as concisely a s possible, the position in whish YOUR MAJESTY'S Brigade of Guards will bo placed by the unavoidable effect and operation of the provisions of the now Royal Warrant. " Youn MEMORIALISTS aro aware that the Guards en joy some advantages in being quartered in London, and by exemption from Colonial Service ; but these are totally distinct from the question of Promotion, and rest upon the merits of the position of the Brigade as the Guards of the Sovereign. " YOUR iiEMORIALISTS would premise that the Officers of the Guards are not for one moment disposed to take ex ception to any alteration in the system of promotion in the army which is calculated to accelerate the promotion o their comrades of the Line, and to put it more upon an equality with what has hitherto been their own —although the result of any alteration which has that effect must necessarily be to bring into the higher ranks a much larger number of Officers of the Line and Ordnance corps of equal service with themselves, and thereby indirectly to render their position less advantageous than it has hitherto been. Had this been the extent of the influence exerted by the Royal Wsrrant upon the prospects of the Guards, the pre sent Memorial would never have been presented to YOUR MAJESTY. H. The subject of inquiry —.Whether the Officers of the Guards will reach th e pos iti on o f C om mand as quickly as the Ogicers of the Line, or the reverse, under the system, inaugurated by the Royal Warrant Gth October, 1851. , " YOUR MEM ORIALISTS wou ld h er e observe that the point to which the hopes of all soldiers are directed is that of COMMAND, and that the rank which is the object of military ambition is that of GENERAL. The subject of in quiry is therefore this—Whether the Officers of the Guards will have a fair, or indeed any, chance of arriving at the position of General as quickly as the great body of the Officers of the Line, under the new regulation. " YOUR MEMORIALISTS - may at once state that, after a careful examination of the subject, they conceive that great (although, they believe, uninteational) injustice has been done to the Brigade of Guards by the recent Warrant, The Brigade of Guards has unquestionably enjoyed more rapid promotion hitherto than other branches of the ser vice; lint henceforward, in the race of competition for the ranks of Colonel and General, it must enter the lists upon unequal terms; and in the observations which they submit for YOUR MAJESTT'a consideration they will endeavour to show that tho new Warrant COMPLETELT REVERSES THE FUTURE rnosrzers OF THE GUARDS. "111. The Constitution of the Brigade of Guards and of the Line compared. " In order that those observations may be clearly under stood, - null -MEMORIALISTS propose briefly to explain and point out in what manner the rank of tho Guards differs from that of the rest of the Army, also when the increased rank was conferred upon the Brigade, and what hashither to been the influence of that increased rank upon their promotion. "A Regiment of the Infantry of tho Lino is officered by one Lieutenant-Colonel, two Majors, as many Captains as companies, and Lieutenants and Ensigns in proportion; and a Cavalry Regiment is similarly organised, with the sole difference that thero is only one Major. "The Brigade of Guards is composed of three regiments —the first, the Grenadier Guards, consisting of three bat talions—the Coldstream and Scots Fusilier Guards, of two battalions each—in all seven battalions; each batta lion being virtually, in itself, a regiment. " Each of the three regiments of Guards - the Grena diers, the Coldstream, and the Scots Fusiliers—is com manded by an officer who is styled (in the Guards), a Regi. mental Lieutenant-Colonel, who is a Colonel in the army, and is, as it were, a Brigadier commanding the three (or two) battalions, and who arrives at that position, on an average, in 36 years' service. " Each Battalion of a Regiment of Guards is commanded by an officer denominated (in the Guards) a Regimental Major, but who is ex officio a full Colonel in the army, and who obtains his Battalion in about 29 or 30 years' service. " Each Company, again, in a Battalion of Guards, is commanded by an officer who is styled Captain and Lieu- tenant-Colonel, and has the substantive rank of Li eutenant- Colo 4 in *lam: Th 4 to conOr QI Copkin4 cus4l " And, lastly, of the subordinate officers, or subalterns, the Lieutenants have the rank of Captain, and the Ensigns that of Lieutenant. " The rank of Lieutenant-Colonel was conferred upon the Captains of the Guards by Royal Warrant on the 30th of July, 1687 ; that of Captain on the Lieutenants, iu similar manner, on the 19th of July, 1691, when in camp at Gerpynes during the campaign in Holland ; and that of Lieutenant on the Ensigns on the 29th of July, 1815, in consideration of the distinguished conduct of the Brigade at the Battle of Waterloo. " Of these extra ranks, the one which has had the most important influence on promotion is that of Lieutenant- Colonel, conferred in 1687— a t a •ery early period in the history of a standing army; at a time when only one-fifth of the army (as at present constituted) was in existence ; and when no less than seventeen of the twenty-seven regi ments of which it was then composed consisted of regiments raised in 1685 by noblemen and gentlemen for the sup pression of Monmouth's rebellion, and which were after wards taken upon the establishment. " TOUR MEMORIALISTS conceive that it was the delibe rate intention of the Sovereign, as a mark of Royal State, to confer upon the Captains commanding Companies of his Guards, whose special duty it was to command the Guard over the Royal Person, as also upon their subordinates, the privilege of increased rank which they at present enjoy, and whatever advantages might naturally and necessarily accrue from it. " Such, then, being the relative and comparative consti tution of the two Services, YOUR MAJESTY will at once perceive that the extra rank of the Guards has hitherto brought the Officers of that corps to the position of leld and general officers more quickly than the average of the Officers of the Line could arrive at those ranks. During the late or Revolutionary war, Officers of the Line rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel with as great and often greater celerity than those of the Guards ; but, subse quently to its close, an enormous half-pay and other causes contributed greatly to retard the promotion of the Line— an effect, however, which had been gradually wearing out, and had nearly disappeared, at the period when the Royal Commissioners commenced their labours, in 1854. " IV. The Royal Warrant-614 October, 1854—its prin- ciple— and the change effected by it. " Having made these introductory remarks, YOUR ME MORIALISTS now proceed to the consideration of the Royal Warrant of the 6th October, 1834. The seventh clause of the Warrant riles thus THAT THE RINK OF FUL COLONEL BE GIVEN TO OFFI CERS AFTER SERVING FOR THREE TEARS WITH THE RANI OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, IN THE ♦CTUAL COMMAND OF REGIMENTS, OR FOR THE SAME PERIOD AS SECOND-LIEU• TENANT-COLONELS,' &C., 011, AS MOUNIED OFFICERS OF THE GUARDS, OR ON THE STAFF,' IN CERTAIN SPECIFIED SITUATIONS. " The effect of the new system thus inaugurated may be stated, in contrast with the system which it supersedes, as follows : - That, whereas °facers after attaining the rank of Lieutenant• Colonel, to wl►ich they are promoted regimen tally, rose, under the regulations in force previously to the Warrant, to the rank of Colonel and General byperiodi cat general brevets, and no one could pass over the head of anether except in a case of distinguished merit ; this regulation is now rescinded, and it is ruled by YOUR MIJE!STY'S Warrant that Lieutenant-Colonels having served three years in command of a regiment of the Line shall obtain the rank of Colonel, and then be eligible to be selected as General Officer& ; and that Guardsmen, under a different system of promolion, shall count their three years from the date of their bcconing Acting Majors or Mounted officers. " YOUR MEMORIALISTS would here freely admit that the principle thus adopted of making regimental service as Lieutenant-Colonel the bale of future advancement is wise and sound, and that it is calculated to accelerate promo tion and give satisfaction :o the army. But that part of the clause which they take exception to is the position therein assigned to the Officers of the Guards, as it will prove to be unjust in its operation both to those now serviny and to the Brigade in goteral. " The Officers of the Guards make no quarrel with the Warrant that it does not lay down the same rule of pro motion above the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel for both ser vices. They have for years, and with tenacity, maintained. those privileges of their increased rank identified with the dignity of the Crown, which have beeu handed down to them by their predecessors, and which naturally have ren dered their promotion more rapid until the recent change of system,—but, while fully aware of these advantages, they have defended the,,n in duty to a transmitted trust, and from an honourable esprit de corps, rather than from any selfish or unworthy motive; and it had long been wished by the senior officers of the brigade that arrange ments might be made which would have the effect of ac celerating the promotion of the Line, and thereby render ing the service to the rank of Lieutenant• Colonel more equal to both branches of the army. It was therefore no matter of surprise to them, or of complaint, that theßoyal Commissioners did not recommend that Captains and Lieu tenant-Colonels of the Guards hereafter to be promoted should obtain the rank of Colonel in three years. But it is matter both of suprise and complaint that, in adjusting, or assuming to adjust, an inequality, for which the will of the fount of honour and promotion in past times is solely responsible, the Royal Commissioners should have recom mended a principle of promotion by which, so far from equality being attained, the Officers of YOUR MAJESTY'S Brigade of Guards find their position depressed to a grade of absolute INFIRIORITY to that of their comrades in the Line. "That the is actually tho C 230 YOUR MEMORIALISTS will now proceed to demonstrate. V. The questions at issue are-1. Have the Royal ontmissioners, in recommending the starting•point for c rank of Colonel to be fixed at the position of Licute• nant-Colonel in the Li ne , and of Acting Major (or Mounted Officer) in the Guards, acted fairly to the Guards? 2. have existing interests been carefully protected ? " Your. MEMORIALISTS venture to submit to YOUR MA- JESTY their decided opi n i on t h a t these questions mu s t b e answered in the negative ; and, in support of that opinion they undertake to demonstrate the two following proposi tions ;---- " 1. That the fixing of the starting point for the rank of Colonel at the position of Acting Major in the Guards will be most detrimental to the interests of the Officers of the Guards in all future times, inas much as the greater part of the army will hencefor ward necessarily arrive at that r Ank with loss service, and as younger men, than the Officers of the Guards. " 2. That the system of promotion recommended by the Royal Comnait4ioners, and now adopted, with respect to the Captains and Lieutenant-Colonels of the Guards existing as such at the period When the Report was issued, must press at once, and has already pressed in individual instances, with peculiar, unjust, and cruel severity on those Officers ; and that it amounts to a broach of faith on the part of tie authorities, and is directly opposed to and at variance with the principle of respect for vested interests which the Report recog vises and affirms, and on which it professes fundamen tally to proceed. "And as the result, on the basis of this demon stration, YOUR MEMORIALISTS will further, and lastly, in vite YOUR MAJESTY'S assent t o this conclusion, seeing that the effect of the recommendation of the Royal Com missioners has been to inflict an injustice on the Brigade of Guards, both as respects existing vested rights and the future prospects of the Brigade, which it is impossible to su ppose that they could have Contemplated or foreseen—an injustice not confined to a moment of time or a single gene ration of officers, but sweeping in extent and permanent in 80 as com pletely t o subvert and change the pros operation, pect of that branch of the service —the state of things thus established is ono to bo deprecated, and such as to call im peratively for reconsideration and r3dress. 4, FIRST PROPOSITION :—THAT THE FIXING OF THE STARTING FOINT FOR THE RANK OF COLONEL AT THE POSITION OF ACTING MAJOR IN THE GUARDS WILL BE MOST DITRIMENTA.L TO THE INTERESTS OF THR OFFI -1 CERS OF THE GUARDS IN ALL FUTURE TIMES, INAS MUCH AS THE GREATER PART OF THE ARMY WILL rigNOEFORWARD NECESSARILY ARRIVE AT THAT RANK wITh LESS SERVICE, AND AS YOUNGER MEN, THAN THE OFFICERS OF THE GUARDS. " The proof of this proposition ev id ently d epends- upon the results of an inquiry with the view of ascertaining the comparative length of service in which the respective posi tions of Lientenant•C olo nel of the Line and A c ti ng M a j or ,of the Guards are attainable. "And here, at the outset, YOUR MEMORIALISTS admit that it seems Clear, by returns which appear in the Appen dix to the Report of the Royal Commissioners, that the C o mmissioners —although they did not enter minutely into the details of the question, or take any evidence 1 1 P" th e subject—did still undoubtedly consider that the periods at which tho respective positions of the command of a Regi ment of the Line and Acting Major of the Guards aro at tainable are so nearly upon an equality as to render the arrangement they recommend equitable. A little further investigation would most probably hare induced a very different conclusion. " i. Comparative length of service in which the positions of Lieutenant-Colonel of the Line and Acting Major of the Guards—that is, the respective starting-points for the Line and the Guards —are attainable, ascer- Itained to be considerably longer in the Guards than in the Line. "In considering this question, YOUR MEMORIALISTS roopootfully naiad Youg iiiming.thet by .the 0114% blished rule of the service, originating in the reign of Charles 11., purchase is the means of obtaining promotion to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and non-purchase is the exception, although (in consequence of improvement in the military system) a considerable one ; and every officer who is not prepared to give the price fixed by regulations must permit a junior officer to purchase over him. In the Guards, except in time of war, purchase is all but univer sal ; in the Line, from various circumstances, promotion without purchase is of frequent occurrence. The effect of the system of purchase, ac is shown to some extent by the Returns in the Appendix, is to render promotion to the Rank of Lieutenant-Colonel more rapid than if it was ob tained without Purchase. " These observations premised, YOUR MEMORIALISTS proceed to a comparison of the length of service in which the respective positions of Lieutenant-Colonel of the Line and Acting Major of the Guards are attainable. " YOUR MAJESTY will readily perceive that it is abso lutely necessary to fix upon some period for the purpose of making this comparison, and You MEMORIALISTS there fore select the 20th of June, 1854, the day uppon which the Brevet came out, and which may be considered the last of the old system, inasmuch as the war, the Brevet (an unusual one, in its so rapidly succeeding the former one), and the late augmentations have created an exceptional state of things. "It will appear evident that the comparison here in view can only rest and depend upon minute and nominal Re turns, giving the dates of appointments, and the length of every officer's service on arriving at the prescribed posi tion,—thus furnishing the data from which the required inferences are to be drawn • and apart from Asshiab..ll.e -turns and data mere assertions (especially by an interested party) cannot be viewed without jealousy and distrust. " A series of such Returns—which have been prepared with the utmost care and accuracy—which comprise, Total Mamonisusrs believe, every item of information requi site to support and elucidate their assertions, and by which those assertions may be checked and scrutinised at every stage of their exposition, will be found in the Ap_ pendia to this Memorial ; and to these, and such others as are elsewhere referred to in the succeeding pages, they re spectfully and confidently invite YOUR MAJESTY'S atten tion. "The results they furnish are briefly as follows : "On the 20th June, 1854, the period selected for the purpose of this comparison, there were serving 154 Lieu tenant-Colonels of the Line and 13 Acting Majors of the Guards. " The average service of the 154 Lieutenant-Colonels of the Line on obtaining their Lieutenant-Colonelcies was twenty-two years and ten months; while the average ser vice of the Acting Majors—the average number of years it had taken them to become mounted—it was twenty-four years and eleven months. "It therefore appears so far—at tho first blush (as it were) of inquiry —that the Guard: are two years lonytr in arriving at their starting-point than the Line. " YOUR MEMORIALISTS believe that it is an universally admitted principle that averages must not, as a matter of course, be received as evidence of a just result, but that they require to be tested by strict scrutiny and careful analysis ; and, therefore, iu this case, in order to arrive at a clear perception of its working, inquiry must be made to ascertain the longest and shortest periods of ser vice, and the numbers promoted in each individual year of service, which it has taken officers to arrive at that posi tion from which they are to count the three years' service. If there was little variation in the different lengths of ser ♦ice from which the two averages are drawn, then a fair conclusion would be arrived at ; but it will be found that the average period in which the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel was attained by the 154 Lieutenant-Colonels of the Line is taken from periods of service varying from ton years, the shortest, to 41 years, the longest, embracing a period of 35 years ; while the average service in which the 13 Acting Majors of the Guards obtained that position is derived from periods of service varying from 21 years, the shortest, to 27 years, the longest, or a period of only seven years us contrasted with the 35 years of the Line. "The result of this is, that no less than 63 Lieutenant- Colonels of the Line have obtained that rank in periods of service shorter than the shortest period of the services from which the average of the Acting Majors of the Guards has been drawn—that is, under 21 years' service ; in other words every ono of these 63 Lieutenant-Colonels of the Lino, had he attained that rank after the promulgation of the Royal Warrant of the 6th October, would have at tained the starting-point for the Lino, and started on his three years' service for the rank of Colonel, before any one of the 13 Acting Majors could have reached the starting - point for the Guards. It is therefore evident that, accord iog to the operation of the system as thus shown forth, two•fcfths of the army would become Colonels in periods of service shorter than would be possible for Guardsmen even in the most favourable circumstances; while, taking 24 years as about the average time from which the Guards will commence their three years' service, two-thirds of the army will pass over their heads. " YOUR MEMORIALISTS also invite YOUR MAJESTY'S attention to this further consideration, already noticed, that, by the established rule of the service, purchase is the mode by which promotion is to be attained, and non-pur chase the exception ; and -that officers who are unable or unwilling to pay the regulated price must permit junior officers to purchase over their heads. It would be mani festly unfair, where so large a proportion in one service (only) are non-purchasers, to compare those who purchased their rank with those who did not do so. In many in stances it would be comparing Officers who have been pur chased over with those who have obtained promotion with out that drawback; and therefore for a just appreciation of the merits of this question the comparison should be restricted to those officers who have purchased the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in both services—which in the Guards is almost invariably the case except in time of war. " Applying, therefore, this further check and rectifica tion to the averages above stated, it appears that of the 154 Lieutenant-Colonels of the Line serving on the 20th of June, 1854, 61 obtained that rank without purchase and 93 by purchase. " Discarding, then, the 61 Lieutenant-Colonels who ob tained their Lieutenant-Colonelcies without purchase, the average service of those 93 who obtained the rank by pur chase amounted only (as by the Returns referred to) to twenty-one years and seven months; whereas the•l3 Acting Itfajo7l of tl‘c Guards (who had all purchased) obtained that rank, as above shown, in an average of twenty-four years of eleven months. " The fact thus stands out, that, when those who have obtained their promotion by purchase are compared toge ther, THE GUARDS ARE UPON THE AVERAGE THREE TEARS AND FOUR MONTHS LONGER IN REACHING THEIR START ING POINT FOR THE RANK OF COLONEL THAN THE OFFICERS OF TEE LINE. " The result of this state of things will therefore be, that while on the one hand it will be almost impossible, except in a period of War, for Guardsmen to obtain the rank of Colonel, at the .soonest under twenty-four years, the Officers of the Line will, on the other, have frequent and constant opportunities of doing so in from twenty to twenty-four years. " YOUR MEMORIALISTS trust they have clearly shown the comparative length of service between the Guards and the Line to the respective starting points of Lieutenant- Colonel and Acting Major, as derived from a comparison of the two services as they stood on the 20th of Juno, 1854. " YOUR MEMORIALISTS do not wish, however, that this question should rest upon one particular date ; and they are therefore perfectly ready (if called upon) to enter into the case either upon any other date, or for a period of five, ten, or fifteen years, and to submit it to the most severe and thorough investigation. " ii. Effect of the disparity thus ascertained on the future promotion of the Gnards, viz., that Guardsmen, will be distanced in the race by nearly all Linesmen who are purchasers. " Having thus ascertained the comparative length of service of the Guards and the Line up to the respective starting-points, YOUR MEMORIALISTS propose now to in quire, judging from past experience and the chances of promotion created by the Warrant, what will be the effect of the now system upon tho professional prospects of the Officers of the Guards. " Hitherto the race for rank has been up to the grade of Lieutenant-Colonel, that being the highest purchaseable rank, after which the promotion to the ranks of Colonel and General proceeded in regular course by periodical Brevets. The rank of Colonel is now for the first time made (virtu ally) purchaseable in the Line, being consequent, Tinder fixed regulations, upon the purchaseable rank of Lieutenant - Colonel. This rank is now attainable by the Line in three years—by Captains and Lieutenant-Colonels of the Guards, who held that rank on the 20th Juno, 1854, in six years (as recommended in the Report of the Commission, and fixed by the General Order of the 23(1 November, 1854, and which will be hereafter notioed)—and, as will be shown, by those promoted subsequently to that date, in eleven or twelve years after becoming Lieutenant-Colonels. " To prove this it is only necessary for TOUR MEMO RIALISTS to show the length of time which it takes officers of the Guards, from their first commission in the Brigade, to obtain the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and the number of years that it takes them to become Acting Majors after they obtain that rank. Referring again to the returns supplied, the average period of the former will be found to be nearly fifteen, and the latter nine years, and, count ing the three years which qualify for the grade of Colonel, it will take altogether from eleven to twelve years to obtain that rank after becoming a Lieutenant-Colonel. " Your MEMORIALISTS therefore respectfully submit to YOUR MAJESTY that it will be impossible, unless in a very exeptional state of things, for an Officer of the Guards to attain the rank of Colonel, on which a soldier's ambition *Mit ItoW be Axed, under twoutpiQur y ears , lad rarely under twenty-seven years, whilst a great number ,f Officers of the Lino will attain it in periods varying from twenty to twenty-six years ; and, as the Returns will show, GUARDSMEN WILL BE DISTANCED BY NEARLY ALL LINES MEN WHO ARE PURCHASERS. " iii. Inquiry whether there is any chance of the compara tive positions of the Guards and the Line being approx . - mated. . . " YOUR MEMORIALISTS now propose briefly to consider what the effect of the Royal Warrant may be in accele rating promotion in both services, and whether there is any chance of the comparative positions being brought nearer together. "And, first, as to the Guards :—YOUR MEMORIALISTS can perceive nothing that has a tendency to render the general promotion more rapid. In the higher ranks of Regimental Lieutenant-Colonel and Regimental Major pur chase has been abolished, and the system in force previ ously to 1804 has boen partially reverted to ; and, as the greater the sum involved the greater must be the tendency to realise it, officers will probably not be so ready to vacate their commands. Appointments to the Staff cannot be so frequent as to produce any sensible effect ; exchange will only benefit the individual who exchanges ; and full-pay retirement is not likely to be accepted by the class of offi cers who usually servo in the Guards. In short, YOUR MEMORIALISTS do not anticipate that there will be any permanent acceleration of promotion at all, much loss suf ficient to bring the service of an Acting Major to an equa lity with that of a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Line " With regard to the Line, their comparative position is likely to be still more advantageous than hats been shown. Stattaituations will be filles:l up. frAgn -pt.y, and this re tirement on full pay has been increased from 38,0001. to 60,0001. a year. " YOUR MAJESTY was also graciously pleased to Order on the 12th December ultimo that, in the case of Majors who are Lieutenant-Colonels by Brevet, the time they are in command of the regiment shall count towards the rank of full Colonel. In the line it frequently happens that Majors are Brevet Lieutenant-Colonels—they may there fore attain the rank of Colonel very soon after, or even before, they become Regimental Lieutenant-Colonels, as was the case with Lieutenant-Colonel Dennis, of the 94th, who became Regimental Lieutenant-Colonel on the 29th December, 1854, but was made Colonel on the 28th No vember, 1854 ; but, as it ie totally exceptional, from the constitution of the force, that a Captain and Lieutenant- Colonel, not an Acting Major, should command a Batta lion in the Guard's, the general tendency of this Regula tion will be to increase the comparatively disadvantageous position of the Officers of that corps. " There is, however, another regulation lately issued, on the Ist of May, 1855, to which Yeun, MEMORIALISTS in vite'l serviceat is t in o n the, which, field, though yet in it e v a e p r p t l h i e e l s t e o s s r a contrary t uo r bil a t r Ma y inA to ejdE t s eh fir principle laid down, viz., that respon eible command shall be the base from which the two highest ranks are to spring ; and, independently of this departure from that principle, it must be noticed here as having an important effect upon the comparative position of the two services. This regulation provides that ' The Rank of Colonel is to be given to Officers who obtain the Rank of Brevet Lieutment-Colonel for service in the field after six years' service with that rank, and may at once have the option of a step of substantive rank, cf:c.' From the na ture of the rank in the Guards, as before explained, it is evident that, unless in a case of extraordinary exception, this rule cannot benefit the officers of the Guards ; r while one step of Brevet Rank will enable au Officer of the Liue to commence the six years' service, the Offiber of the Guards must of necessity obtain two steps of Brevet Rank iu order to become a Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel ; and while YOUR MEMORIALISTS feel satisfaction that their comrades of the Line should receive every reward which can bo conferred upon them for their distinguished con duct, yet they cannot bat feel most strongly that the po sition assigned to the Officers of the Guards by the sions of the Warrant almost totally precludes however distinguished, from competing with thos benefit by this rule ; while even in the corps to they themselves belong the rule acts in an ano manner. " YOUR MEMORIALISTS beg to submit to MAJESTY the following case as an illustration :—C Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, of the Grenadier G being a Brevet Major, was promoted to Brevet,Lieut Colonel for distinguished service on the 12th Dec., and in six years will become a Full Colenel. Capt land, of the same regiment, being a Brevet Major : tinguished service in 1848, was promoted to Capts Lieutenant-Colonel on the 28th of Sept., 1851; w perately wounded at Inkerman, and would, iu circum.tunces, be about ten years before thi - can bf. Colonel. Lieutenant-Colonel Maitland was on the the Army, and if he had not been previously prom his own regiment, he being at the time a Brevet,' would, like others on the Staff, have obtained step of Brevet rank for distinguished service; and would not, ag he is now, be placed in an inferior to a junior Officer. It therefor.) appears that tilt holding tho inferior or Brevet rank will become in six years, while the Officer holding the superior stantive rank will bo not less than ten years. I , have been better for the interests of Lieutenant• Maitland if ho had not been promoted in his r( provi thern, who which )3alous wine a Staff of oted in Major mother Ihen he losition This is therefore an additionalinstance in which th, )1 Officer pOlOllOl iDr sub t would •Colonel of tho Warrant will work with unnecessary harsh' ,he interests of the Guards. :imout. action Lew on "YOUR MEMORIALISTS also venture to point out to YOUR MAJESTY what appears to them to be an inconsis tency in the provisions of the Royal Warrant, the effect of which must most seriously injure the future prospects of the Ensigns and Lieutenants of the Guards. It is ruledi that no Officer can attain the rank of Captain until he has com pleted two years' service, under which regulation no less thln ninctcen Officers from Regiments of the Lino have al ready been appointed to the rank of Lieutenant and Captain in the Guards. YOUR MEMORIALISTS are most anxious that YoUlt MAJESTY should understand that they do not corn plain of this rule, and that they only notice it to show still further the injurious effects of the provision which rbgulates the promotion of Officers of the Guards to the rank of Colonel. The augmentations and the casualties inbidental to war have accelerated the promotion of all rank in both services. But, although there are two or throe Regiments of the Lino which have at present no subalterns eligible for the rank of Captain, and no doubt there will be a few others, yet it is evident that such a circumstance will only occasionally occur, and even then it cannot be so frequent as to have any ♦ery important effect. The reason of this will be at once seen. The establishment of Ensigns and Lieutenants in tho Guards is eight to a Battalion,: while in a Regiment of the Line at the commencement of the war there were twenty subalterns ; and the result was that the casualties and promotions very rapidly worked out in the smaller number all those who had been two years in the service, and for a considerable time the Ensignt of the Guards must still have Officers from other corps appointed to the rank above them; though the effect on the Line has not been to the same extent, yet the Officerii aro not subject to the same restriction as the Guards after attain ing the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. " YOUR MEMORIALISTS therefore humbly request YOUR MAJESTY to recollect that, while one rule regulates pro motion to the rank of Captain in both services, in the higher ranks a separate rule is applied to either branch of the service for the rank of Colonel ; that while in the one case the relative rank is strictly insisted on and adhered to, in the other it is indirectly set aside ; and that the impor tation of a large number of Officers above the janior ranks, combined with the restriction after becoming Captains and Lieutenant-Colonels, must naturally prejudice their comparative advance ; and YOUR MEmomArdsrl respect fully submit that the practical operation of the system in this particular is to give the Guards all the disadvantages of the relative rank ii the junior grade, and at the same time to withhold from them the advantages of the relative rank in the superior grade, and that this forms ian addi tional reason why the provision regulating the Promotion of the Guards to the rank of Colonel should be considered. "In closing this branch of the inquiry TUB MEMO RIALISTS are fally aware that iu consequence of;the rapid promotion caused by the Loss of Officers in action and by the Climate of the East, thine will be some Officers who will arrive at the position of Acting Major in a shorter period than is esti mated in this Memorial; but this will be the result of an exceptional state of things, brought on by special circumstances, and temporary in its operation. YOUR MEMORIALISTS, assuming that they have made good the preceding Proposition, to the effect that the sys tem now inaugurated by the Report of the Commissioners and the Warrant 6th October, 1851, is detrimental, and even disastrous, to the interests of the Brigade of Guards generally, they now proceed to invite YOUR MAJESTY'S attention to the follow* additional Proposition, viz. : " SECOND PROPOSITION : —THAT THE SYSTEM OF PRO MOTION RECOMMENDED BY THE ROYAL COMMISSION gRop AND NOW ADOPTED, WITH RESPECT TO THE CAPTAINS AND LIEUTENANT-COLONELS OF THE GUARDS EXISTING AS SUCH AT THE PERIOD WHEN THE REPORT WAS ISSUED, MUST PRESS AT ONCE, AND HAS ALREADY PRESSED, IN INDIVIDUAL IN STANCES, WITH PECULIAR, UNJUST, AND CRUEL SEVERITY ON THOSE OFFICERS ; AND THAT IT AMOUNTS TO A BREACH OF FAITH ON THE PART 0 1 THE AUTHORITIES, AND IS DIRECTLY OPPOSED TO AND AT VARIANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLE OF R ESPECT FOR VESTED INTERESTS WHICH THE REPORT RE COGNISES AND AFFIRMS, AND ON WHIM! IT PRO FESSES FUNDAMENTALLY TO PROCEED. " In proof of this proposition YOUR MEMORIALISTS have simply to quote the Report of the Royal Commission, completed on the 17th of June, 1854. " The Commissioners in that Report distinctly acknow ' ledge the chins of vestal interests, &lad stet. !via u, THIS' (i.e., THE NEW) SYSTEM WERE AT ONCE etußsn. TUTED FOR THAT WHICH HAS BEEN HITHERTO IN FORCE, WITHOUT ADOPTING BOMB MEANS,TO P,ROTECTMIE TNTE RESTS OF THOSE WHOSE PROSPECTS WOULD BE AFEECTAD -klkt BY THE CHANGE, MUCH INJUSTICE WOULD BE INFLICTED ON MANY OFFICERS WHO HAVE RELIED. ON THE CON TINUANCE OF T HE vPißcilr ought tobe REGULATIONS.'takcnof add, 'that theAm claims of d they a liberal these officers, and that, in introducing a !change whi c h th e public good requires, THEY OUGHT TO BE CAREFULLY PRO. TECTED FROM INJURY AND FROM HAVING THEIR JUST EXPECTATIONS DISAPPOINTED.' They then recommend a general Brevet, and that the new regulations for promotion. o the rank of Colonel ' SHOULD NOT APPLY TO EXISTING -Lair TENANT-COLONELS OR MAJORS, INCLUDING CAP• TAT:Ns AND LIELJTENANT-COLONELS OF TER GUARDS. This YOUR MEMORIALISTS presume can mean nothing else than that all Lieutenant-Colonels and Majors, in eluding those of the Guards, existing as such on the 17th June, 1854, should be promoted, in tarn, as Field-Officers, and should not be passed over by others under the new regulations. " YOUR MEMORIALISTS fully admit that nothing can be more fair, straightforward, or intelligible than the views and intentions thus set forth. • - "But the succeeding paragraph in the Report contradicts the previous one, just quoted ; for it proceeds to say, ' The same regard to vested interests prompts us to recommend that the existing Captains and Lieutenant-Colonels (n o t being mounted Officers) SHOULD SERVE SIX YEARS IN COM MAND OF A COMPANY BEFORE THEY OBTAIN THE RANK OF COLONEL,'—tho reason assigned for this regulation being that ' the duties they perform arc of a less responsible na ture,' and that—but for this provision—these would be ' ultimately' ' an undue proportion of Guards Generals.' " YOUR MEMORIALISTS respectfully submit that, if jus tice requires that vested interests should be respected, the principle must be of universal application, and those inte rests must, O. maintained in their integrity and without compromise under whatever circumstances ; so that the prospects of men who have embarked their fortunes on the public faith shall not be injured or disappointed. "Tol7lt MEMIIIRIALISTS humbly request YoUS.MAJEarr to consider what these vested interests are. " It has been-shown-thatvg.A.o.tha rank of Lieutenant* - Colonel purchase is the rule of the service, and that pro. motion to higher rank has hitherto proceeded by periodical general Brevets. " The system of promotion above the rank of Lieutenant. Colonel has now been altered, in the manner which has boon above explained, but with a provision that existing • vested rights are to bo respected. It therefore follows that all those who became Captains and Lieutenant-Colonels pre viously to the 17th June, 1834, have a vested right to expect that they shall rise to the rank of Colonel in their place en Cte list, Without having officers junior in rank to themselves put over their heads. " Moreover, the vested interests of these officers are ren dered still stronger and more important by their having been acquired under arrangements fixed by authority, and at prices higher than those paid for the equivalent rank in the other branch of the service ; or, in the wards of the Commissioners in their Report, THEY HOLD THE RANK OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, THEIR 1110MMISSIONS BEING EXCHANGEABLE WITH LIEUTENANT-COLONELCIES OF THE LINE, ON WHICH ACCOUNT THE REGULATED PRICE OF SUCH COMMISSIONS HAS BEEN FIXED AND PAID FOR BY THEM ♦T A HIGHER RATE.'* " Though the Report of the Royal Commission alludes only to the rank of Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, that being the most important from its having been already ob tained, yet every Officer who entered or exchanged into the Guards previously to the 20th June, 1854, has a vested interest. The principle adopted will have the effect of comparatively accelerating the promotion of the Line and retarding that of the Guards. Therefore, these Officers, having embarked their services and fortunes according to established system of the Service, have, in strict justice and equity, a claim to have their interests respected. " Such, then, being the vested interests in question— , the protection and maintenance of which are dwelt upon and prescribed as a sacred duty in the earlier portion of the 52d section of the Report of the Royal Commissioners —YOUR MEMORIALISTS feel it their duty to submit to YOUR MAJESTY that, through the regulation recommended, in direct contradiction to it, in a subsequent part of the same section, and since established by the General Order of the 23d November, those vested intoresta have been, and are, day by day, and before their eyes, sacrificed and set aside, insomuch that the Officers of the Guards do not enjoy:the same privilege of immunity and protection which has been accorded to the greater part of their comrades of the Line, both classes of officers having, nevertheless, be come Lieutenant-Colonels under faith of the same arrange ments, and in conformity with the same regulations. " YOUR MEMORIALISTS beg to lay before YOUR 3iA• JESTY the names of three or four Wficers who have already suffered by this disregard of their vested rights, and by this ex post facto regulation, which will suffice to show the effect produced. The first promotions consequent upon the Warrant appeared on the 28th November, 1854, since which Colonel Scott, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, wild Co!onel Gordon, of the Grenadier Guards, have each seen THIRTY•FOUR o f ficers (excluding Ordnance) JUNIOR TO THEMSELVES PA§S OVER THEIR HEADS,—Lieuttnant- C-olond Tyrwhiti, of tit e• &via Pusiller t7uards, has already had THIRTY-ONE JUNIORS placed above hiln,+—and there are others who have not yet been passed over by so many, but who will equally, and to a greater extent, suffer as Lieutenant-Colonels of the Line successively complete the three years' service to the rank of Colonel. In the last few weeks also the injury inflicted upon those vested interests has been very much enhanced. Till recently the Officers 1 of the Guards had to take their chance with the ordinary number of Lieutenant-Colonels in the Army, but now no less than forty-six Regiments have Second Lieutenant- Colonels already added to them, the whole of whom, if not reduced, will become Colonels in three years, and will ho promoted over, and must necessarily still further im pede the progress of, all those promoted to Captains and Lieutenant-Colonels in the three yearii preceding the 17th of June, 1854, and who by the terms of the Report have every claim to protection. " Youß MEMORIALISTS respectfully affirm that, through not allowing the Captains and Lieutenant-Colonels of the Guards, existing as such on the 17th June, 1854, to take their turn of promotion with the Line, but prescribing to them a probation of six years' service before they shall be eligible to the rank of Colonel, those officers have been ar bitrarily arrested in their progress, while the progress of their more fortunate competitors have been unchecked and unlimited. Tho officers in question have, in a word, been fettered and bound, and unjustly retarded ; while, in con sequence of the retrospective action of the Warrant, officer after officer of the Line, junior to them in rank, has been promoted over their beads to their prejudice. " YOUR MEMORIALISTS trust that YOUR MAJESTY will not think they use too strong language in characterising time course of proceeding thus adopted and illustrated as amounting to A BREACH OF FAITH towards those who had risen to the rank of Lieutenant -Colonel previously to the 17th June, 1851, and who have invested their money is purchase of their promotion under the established rules of the service : —While, at the same time, they would repeat, in s o characterising it, th e y f ee l conv i nce d— g i v i ng d ue weight to the profession of regard for vested interests on which the report proceeds, and to the personal character of the Royal Commissioners—that this breach of faith is at tributable simply to an oversight, resulting from inadver tence and ignorance of facts, which, had they been before the Commissioners, would, they entertain no doubt, have induced them to recommend a more equitable system of promotion as applicable to those officers of the Brigade whose interests they now bring under YOJR MA.J.IIESTY'S notice. " YOUR MEMORIALISTS are aware that it has beau urged that it would be unfair and inconvenient to have so larg e num ber of officers of the Guards in the higher ranks of ithe army as would be the case unless the new arrangement was carried out ; but admitting , for the sak e o f argument, th e s upposed inconvenience, it is clear that great alterations for the benefit of the service cannot be effected all at once. nor without the state paying heavily for it for a time. YOUR MEMORIALISTS respectfully beg to state their convict tion that every officer of the army, be he Linesman or be he Guardsman, who was field-officer previously to the 17th June, 1854, has a vested right to become a Colonel and a General in his turn, if he has complied with the regula tions ; and ought not (except in cases of distinguished ser• vice) to be passed over by his juniors. They also admit that there would be a greater number of Generals from the Guards for some years ; but as that increase, caused by ex• isting interests, would bo temporary, it ought to be con siderod o f a supernumerary character, and not interfere with the progress of others to the rank of General. " TOUR MEMORIALISTS humbly lay before YOUR MA JESTY this result of the inquiry into the prospects of the Officers of YoIIR MAJBSTT'S Brigade of Guards as affected by the Royal Warrant of the 6th October, 1854 ; a nd they venture to submit th a t the propositions whic h th e y under took to establi s h h ave b een amply demons t ra ted. " It would be useless to attempt to conceal from YOUR MAJESTY that the Officers of the Guards feel most deeply that the interests of their Brigade have not been adequately dealt with by the Royal Commissioners. They have to re gret that neither the military auth orit i es nor the R o y a l Commissioners have ever entered minutely into the lieu. ings of the question, in oemmu.nication.with those m os t i n terested, or made such inqui ri es rmght have pr eserve d them from ' incurring the re sponsibility of—what Youn M AJE STY'S Guards are convinced has been uniatentional. —injustice. The Officers of the Brigade of Guards brought the subject under the no tice of the m ilit ary authorities throug h their Commanding Officer two months before the Warrant was submitted to YoUR MAJESTY, and solicited i nqu i r y, with a view to a fair adj us t ment —but, although the Commander-m• Chief himself has admitted the injus tice done to the Guards, yet no notice has been taken of their application, and th e i r claims have been treated w i t h I apparent indifference, " YOUR MEMORIALISTS conceive they would b• doing an * " The relative prices of commission (Arro7 B ank) in th Guards and in the Line are as follows : Lieut.-Colonel. capu i,. Lieutensati £ £ £ Guards 4,800 2,050 ...... 1,200 Line 4,500 1,800 t 4 .!.. L 11911414 Onbilace, 1i0.1%. thou ilin•Zin Ottims, .44f,e . a This day is published, in 3 vols. post B♦o., Z AIDEE. A ROMANCE. By MARGARET OLIPHANT. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. Od Od. ~~ t.