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Lately discovered and now made public by the Author, with Cases and Diagrams, showing the connection between the brain and the sexual Organs. Also prescriptions and the appropriate remedies for the self treatment and cure of those special diseases, and 'Whether acquired in youth, manhood, or old age. By Dr. 'Watson, F.R.A . S ., London:Member of the Medical Society of Rouen, the National Academy of Sciences, Paris, and Fellow of the Imperial Institute of France, arc. &c. (vide Diplomas and Medical Directory). By the same Author, SECRET DISEASES and their REMEDIES, mk-} containing clear instructions, and certain safe and effec tual remedies, recently discovered for the self cure of nervous debility, organic or local weakness, muscular relaxation, may Speedily, effectuall langour, listlessness, depression, ac., by which all sufferers trifling cost. 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ON " The aim of the author is to present a common-sense view of the Causes, Nature, Consequences, and Treatment of this Disease, as also to free these questions from the Professional Fallacies, the Popular Delusions, and the exaggerations of Quackery by which they have hitherto been surrounded, to the destruction of the health and happiness of thousands. These objects are discussed in a common-sense and highly practical manner."—Medical Circular. London : H. Ballliere, 219, Regent-street * Just published, price Is. ; by poet, Is. ld. ; sealed, is. 6d.,. DR. BRIGHT'S MANUAL on SP ERM ann other littiriAttY _DEPOSITS. With Cases and Drawings from Life, &c., &c. Licentiate of the College of Physicians, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, &c. Contents :—Modern Treatment of Syphilis—Stricture— Impotency—Unhealthy and Debilitated Offspring—Diseases of the Urinary Organs—Non retention of Urine—Desdrc for Solitude—Groundless Fears—lncapacity for Married Life, &c. ; showing how these supposed incurable maladies may be effectually eradicated by the most simple means. Pub lished and sold by J. Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, Paternoster row, London. Sixth Edition, Just published, price 25., by post 26 stamps, DEBILITY and IRRITABILITY (MENTAL and PHYSICAL), induced by SPERMATORRIICEA the Symptoms, Effects, and Rational Treatment. By T. H. YEOMAN, M.D., Physician to the General Post-Office Letter- Carriers' Provident Institution; Author on Asthma, Con sumption, Indigestion; late editor of the People's Medical Journal, &c. Notices of Dr. Yeoman's Works : " This is an excellent little treatise by a clever and clear headed practitioner. Dr. Yeoman is well known by his work on. 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Contents : General and acquired debility, from early inexperience, pro ductive of diseases and disarrangement of the muscular system, resultlng in nervous and physical irritability, the cause of total or partial prostration of man. Hours of Consultation from 10 to 2, and s.to 8 ; orby ap pointment. Published by John Churchhill, New Burlington-street. The above works to be had from the Author only, 29, George street, Hanover-square, London, W. DR. KAHN on MARRIAGE.--A new and entirely re-written Edition (the 46th) of this celebrated Treatise, with new Steel Plates, Woodcuts, &c., is now ready. The object of the work is not to maintain any particular hypothesis, but to enable every one to understand for himself the structure and functions of the organs concerned in the fulfilment of the physical obligations of the married state; to acquaint him with the consequences arising . from excesses ; to prevent unnecessary misapprehension from unfounded fears, and to indicate, when those fears are well founded, the means of speedy relief. The work is not crowded with the technicalities of ordinary professional books, nor does it pre sent.the crude c ness which characterises the so-called "popular works" on the subject. Price One Shilling, free by post for 13 stamps, or in a sealed envelope 22 stamps, either from the publisher, J. Allen. 20, Warwick-lane, or from the Author's address, 17, Harley street, Cavendish-square, London. ROYAL NATIONAL LIVEI3 OAT 11 -U INSTITUTION.—The Cotniulitee of this Institution earnestly APPEAL to tin public for PECUNIARY ASSIST ANCE to aid them tt meet the present heavy demands on the limited mac of the Society. THOMAS BARING, Chairman. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Deputy-Chairman. 14, John-street, Adelphi, Feb, 1861. Bankers—Messrs, Willis and Co. ; Coutts and Co. ; Herrles and Co. ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY, FOR FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES, No. 29, Lombard-street, London, E.C. ; and Royal Insurance Buildings, Liverpool. CAPITAL-TWO MILLIONS. FIRE BRANCH. Notwithstanding the large accessions of business male annually through a long series of years, which obviotisly in crease the difficulty of further advances, yet the Fire Pre miums of the year 1859 rise above those of the preceding year—by a larger sum than has been obtained by the increase of any single year since the formation of the company, ex cepting the year 1853, disclosing an advance of 50 PER CENT. IN THREE YEARS. The following figures exhibit the progress of the whole Fire Branch, running over the last Ten years : Total Premium Increase of the year received, above each preceding one. 1850 £44,92710 0 £9,557 19 8 1852 76,925 4 2 24,251 18 3 1851 128,459 11 4 15.895 7 0 1850 151,733 9 6 21,673 17 7 1858 196,148 2 6 21,092 17 10 1859 228,914 7 3, 32,166 4 9 Placing the Company . among the very largest offices in the Kingdom. Indeed, it is believed that there are now only three offices in existence which equal it in Fire re'v'enue. LITE BUSINESS. The Directors desire to call the etpetial attention of the Proprietors of THE LIFE BRANCH of the Establishment. The ACTUARY'S Report on this subject is accompanied by an Appendix, illustrated by two coloured Diagrams, which make plain to the unprofessional eye the mortality ex perienced by the "Royal," as indicated by curved lines, which contrast most favourably with the fanner Averages of mortality, also displayed on the Diagrams. The Bonus apportioned to the Assured, with participation, amounts to £2 per cent, per annum, to be added to the origi nal sum assured of EVERY PARTICIPATING POLICY effected previously to the Ist of January, 1888, for each entire year that it had been in existence since the last appropriation of Bonus thereon, and ha ONE OF THE LARGEST BONUSES EVER DECLAIZED. The Paid-up and Invcsted Capital, including Life Funds, amounts to upwards, of £700,000 sterling. TERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary. CONSUMPTION ana ASTHMA CURED.— Dr. H. TAMS discovered, while in the East Indies, a certain CUfl for CONSITMTION, Asthma, Bronchitis, Coughs, Colds, and General Debility. The remedy was dis covered by him when his only child, a daughter, was given up to die. His child was cured, and is now alive and well. Desirous of benefiting his fellow-creatures, he will send post tree, to those who wish it, the recipe, containing full directions for making and successfully using this remedy, on receipt o their names with stamped envelope for return postage. — Address 0. P. Brown, 14, Cecil-street, Strand. KEATING'S COD LIVER OIL, just imported. The Pale from Newfoundland, and the Light Brown from Norway , . The supplies of the present season have never been surpassed, the fish being unusually fine, and the oil nearly tasteless. Professors Taylor and Thompson, of Guy's and St. Thomas's Hospitals, have analysed, and pronounced the Pale Newfoundland Oil the best and most desirable for invalids of very delicate constitution. The Light Brown being more economical in price is brought within the reach of all classes. No higher price need be paid than the follow ing:—Light Brown, Is. Bd. per pint, or 3s. per quart. Pale, is 6d. half-pints, 2s. 6d. pints, 4s. 6d. quarts, or in five-pint bottles 10s. 6d. imperial measure, at 79, St. Paul's-churchyard, London. TEETH -1860—Post free, three stamps. A TREATISE EXPLAINING Messrs. GABRIEL'S IMPROVEMENTS in ARTIFICIAL TEETH and FLEXIBLE CORALITE GUMS, whereby one set will wear longer than three ordinary ones, and being fitted without springs, wires or metals, and without any operation, prove a valuable desideratum to all who have occasion for the den tist's services. None but pure first class materials and workmanship employed, while the expense is even less than half the ordinary cost. To be obtained only of Messrs. Gabriel, dentists to the Prince Dottajana, established 1815, see diploma, No. 110, Regent-street, W., (next Mechi's) and 33, and 34, Ludgate-hill, City. " The advantages obtainable by Gabriel's system render It pre-eminently superior, and the nearest approach to perfec tion yet attained."—Observer. " Gabriel's treatise should be read by all who value health; their system will save much money and more annoyance."— Morning Herald. For obvious reasons it is necessary particularly to note the name, and that the entrance to the city establishment is up the private passage between Benson, the silversmith's, and he State Fire Insurance Office.— Liverpool, 134, Duke-street; Birmingham, 65, New-street. THE GREAT SOCIAL MYSTERY.—The recent change in the law of Separation and Divorce has raised up a new problem which taxes the ingenuity of social philosophers to solve. In a nation so renowned as this for the sanctity of its domestic ties, it appears unaccountable that so many marriages, contracted under circumstances apparently auspicious, should result in sorrow, disgust, and degradation, and that this should occur even to those who before wedlock had passionately loved each other. It the inquirers into the cause of this mystery had consulted the great book of nature, instead of dwelling on conventional theories, they might probably have had less difficulty in ...riving at the truth. Have they ever sufficiently considered how much these constant revelations of unhappy marriages may be connected with a peculiar INFLUENCE, frequently originating in corrupt associations at college, or at school, and the pernicious effects of which, too often unsuspected by medical men, poison the very well-springs of life, and produce many of the disappointments witnesscdin the connubial state. It it, a matter that deeply concerns the well-being of thou- I sands who have no idea of the danger that threatens them. Every person of intelligence should ask himself whether there bik not something in his past life which admits of the possi bility that be himself may be concerned, either at present or prospectively, in the subject. 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"The temporary relief obtained by means of purgatitt medicines is purchased at the high price of the aggravation and d the perpetuating the disease."—HENßY, M.D. NO MORE PILLS OR ANY OTHER PHYSIC FOR CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION (DYSPEPSIA), PALPI TATION, NERVOUS, BILIOUS, AND LIVER COMPLAINTS, DEBILITY, DROPSY, EPILEPSY, PARALYSIS, COUGH, ASTHMA, CONSUMPTION, BRONCHITIS, SORE THROAT, AMERICA. ment of those laws ? That Mall—honoured at home and abroad more than any man o n earth ever was honoured—did he go for enforcing the laws ?No ; he went to resist laws that w ere oppressive against a free people, and against the injnstice of which they rebelled. Did Lord Chatham go for enforcing the laws ? No; he gloried in defence of the liberties of America. He made that memorable declaration in the British Parliament—' If I was an American citizen, instead of, as I am, an Englishman, I never would submit to such laws—never, never, never !' Such is the spirit that animates our Southern brethren, and shall we war upon them for it No. We must avert civil war if possible ; and I close by exhorting my. brethren to do all in their power to avert civil war. Concession-.—conciliation—any thing but that ; and no man amongst us in his dying hour will regret that his conscience is clear, and that he can lay his hand upon his heart and say, I did all in my power to turn from the bosom of my country the horrible blow of civil war." Immense sensation followed the remarks of the venerable Chancellor, and the deep silence that had attended his remarks was followed by an enthusi astic outburst of applause. Mr. George, of Orange, and Mr. Soutter, of Queens, both natives of Vir ginia, responded in touching terms to the remarks of Chancellor Walworth, and a large portion of the Convention gave vent to their feelings in tears. The scene was rendered yet more impressive and affecting when Mr. W. 11. Carroll took the floled or, and with all the eloquenc e of dee p feeling app ea to the North to stay its hand before it did any act to plunge the country in civil war. The venerablk, appearance of Mr. Carroll, and his allusion to his' ancestors, one of whom signed the I.)eelaration of Independence, while his grandfathetiyaniel Car roll, ceded to the United States hisminor on which now stands the Federal Capitol, touched the heart of the Convention, and when he had closed a unanimous call was made for the adoption of a second resolution against civil war by acclamation, and it was carried with a burst of applause that made the rafters of the building ring. This scene was the great feature of the morning session. The resolutions gave rise to some debate, but they were ultimately adopted without amendment. The mass meeting, of which preliminary an nouncement had been made, was held in Baltimore on the evening of the Ist. The call was to all those favouring the restoration of the Union of States, and the ostensible object was the endorse ment of the Crittenden plan of compromise; but the proceedings showed very plainly that the real intention was to exert a pressure towards the calling of a State Convention. About 2,000 people only attended. Messrs. Morris, Teakle, Wallace, and R. M. M'Lean addressed the meeting. Reso lutions were passed denouncing the course of Governor Hicks in refusing to call a State Conven tion ; denying his authority to send delegates to Washington; also, to make arrangements for electing delegates to a city convention, called for the purpose of electing delegates to a State Convention, to give expression to the views of Maryland, 7RE LAW COURTS. 4rwt..4,7 'AA cd \rz.:4o to the police and to those for whose supervisiori N the police are employed. These hovels and ricketty rookeries encumber acres of land and extend hack towards Lincoln's-inn-fields. They must be opened up in some way, just as the region of dens on the banks of the Fleet-ditch was opened up. Government are about to propose to raze these all to the ground, to purify both the physical and the moral atmosphere of the spot, and to build a complete set of Courts, where Justice may sit with all her satallites around her, and whore something like dignity and • order may prevail. We are disposed to think that the natural site for the great Hall of Justice would be Lincoln's-inn-Fields, and that the demolition of the alleys would necessarily follow the presence of the Courts in their neighbourhood. Let this, however, pass for the moment. Government have also found out a means of paying for this great building. There has been for many years in existence a large unappropriated sum of money called "the Suitors' Fund," —an unappropriated sum of money which h es bsen like a bit of " flotsam" in a river_ All the minnows.heve ben nibbling at it at all times; but, strange to say, no great fish has ever swal lowed it bodily. We must explain this almost incredible fact. The first thing the Court of Chancery instinctively does when such a process is possible, is, of course, to get the money in dis pute into its own clutches. It now has some ,forty millions of such moneys. Now, it is open to the -pay . in these sums either to unhappy people who have them immediately invested in Stocks, and take their chance of Stoc ks risin g and falling, but of course receiving intere st, or to pay in the money simply, and take the same money out again without interest. When they adopt the latter course—which many'do, either from a careless hope lessness, or from a fond confidence that the cause must be decided before much interest can accrue — the Court, knowing . better, invests the sum upon the Court's own risk, taking the interest and gathering it up into a Suitor's Fund,but incurring all responsibility in case the Funds should fall when, the ;Timmy is to be paid out. • Now, if it .ppen that our Funds should go down to bU, as tney did in the last war, this would be a very losing transaction ; but as for the last half century the Funds have rather gone up, upon the whole, this has been a very painful transaction, and the Suitors' Fund has been a temptation f general'. plunder of a lawful kind. Pensions haws, oeitiri) been fixed upon it. The rent of the wigytatn i Lincoln's inn has been paid out of it, and has been reduced in various ways and under the autho rity of various acts of Parliament. Still, however, law is so gainful a business that there is now a " rest " of nearly three millions, which is liable to what the Commissioners call " the shadowy and unsubstantial risk" of being called upon to make up deficiencies to the suitors. Unless the Funds should su ffer a very great fall, and unless the Court of Chancery should at the sa me time shut its doors and payoff all its suitors at the same moment, this risk is nothing. The suggestion is that out of this money the new Courts should be built, and that the Legislature should guarantee that if ever the unlikely contingency which this " rest" was created to meet should arise, they will make good the funds required to pay the suitors. The arrangement seems to us to be per fectly unobjectionable. Whether we build in Carey street or in Lincoln's-inn-Fields, we shall get rid of a horrible neighbourhood, we shall get a good set of Courts, we shall pay nothing for them, and we shall remove from the eyes of the Chancellor of the Exchequer,legal reformers with compensat ion designs, and others, the temptation of a large sum of money possible to be conveniently used at any pressing emergency. We shall incur nothing but a risk of being obliged t o re p a y some part of the money in the case of a n event which is, in the nature of human events, impossible to arise. This is the proposition which Lord St. Leonards came down to the Lords to denounce on Friday night, and which he did denounce in a set speech. As, however, every Peer upon Lord St. Leonards' side of the house departed during the course of the speech. we suppose we may take it for granted that the dispersion of the Judges is not likely to become a party question, and that Lord St. Leonardts' lamentations over the poor people of Ship-yard and Shire-lane who will be turned out of their lodgings are not likely to impede a mea sure which, if well carried out, will do more lasting credit to the present Government than anything they have yet done.— Times. States, from any place or country beyond the limits of the United States or Territories theteof, is for ever prohibited." Just Published, price ls., post free for 14 stamps, or in a sealed envelope for 20 stamps. GUIDE TO HEALTH AND HAPPINESS, a popular Medical Work, beautifully illustrated with 100 Engravings, descriptive of the baneful effects arising from the errors of youth, manhood, and old age, and the debility arising from the too frequent indulgence of the passions. 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City. and 117.111212 Balboni s and all grocers; ANTIQUITY OF HOOPS.—There is a curious little song, dating back to 1601, entitled, " 0 Mother, a - Hoop," in which the value of hoop-skirts is set forth by a fair damsel, in terms that would delight a modern belle. In 1728 we find hoop-skirts and negro girls, and other " chattels," advertised for sale in the same shop. BAD ADVICE.—Horne Tooke's advice to a young friend desirous of venturing on matrimony was, " Look carefully round among the whole circle of your friends, and choose the nicest girl you can find. Make sure that her fortune is good, and her connexions are unexceptionable, and her personal qualities entirely to your liking. When the happy day arrives, 'and the bridal party are on their way to the altar, mount the swiftest horse you can procure, and ride off in an opposite direction." The Armstrong guns, by constant improvement, are now perfection. The same is the case with Herring's Magnetic Brushes, which are now so perfected that failure with them is all but impossible. They are the true remedy for grey hair, neuralgia. and nervous headache. N.B.—Counterfeits are betnow made, (Aces, 8?, Ba§i1104111t11;0114ClIi1011. SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 17. The United States mail steatiship Arago, Captain H. A. Gadsden, with mails of the 2d inst. from New York for tngland and. 'Pratte, arrived off Cowes last night, and went on to Itivre. Congressional proceedings on the Ist instant' were interesting, in view of he facts that for the first time the voice of California was heard on the national troubles ' through tie mouth of one of her senators, and that Mesas showed her hand for the Union through one of her roresentatives. In the Senate Mr. Ten Eyck presented the resolutions of the Legislature of New Jersey in favour of the Crit tenden Compromise, but tock occasion to dissent from their sentiments. He did not believe that they truly represented the feelings of the people of New Jersey. A resolution ofbred by Mr. Trumbull, of Illinois, providing for the appointment of a com mittee to co-operate with a committee of the house in counting the electoral votes for President and Vice-President, was objected to by Mr. 13igler, of Pennsylvania, and laid over. The President's Mes sage was then taken up for further consideration, and Mr. Latham, of California, proceeded to address the Senate. He said : " California was peacefully lying in the arms of Sierra Nevada, removed from the immediate cause of trouble, and wished to speak to-day with her voice: Dif3llllioDrit word which Mr. < Calhoun scarcely dared to utter, had now become familiar. The vacant seats here show the evils upon us, and we must palliate or overcome them as we may. It was vain to try to persuade our Southern' brethern that there was no danger. The South does not complain so much of the acts that have already been committed as the danger they anticipate. They complain of any inter ference with their vested rights, and think it best to meet the dangers at their threshold. He conceded that there was some cause for their apprehension, but never a greater paradox than the constitutional right of a State to secede. It was virtually saying that the Government was no Go vernment, and he would not discuss the right of revolution, as he thought the senator from Georgia (Mr. Toombs) had properly called the present movement. The framers of the constitution did not contemplate secession or coercion, as generally un derstood, and left the Goverment with the sublime alternative to be just or perish He argued that the continued agitation of the slaiery question was the cause of the difficulty and agitation, and it will continue, because it is the life of the dominant party at the North. The Smith wants security that will render it impossible ;o do them injustice. Our Government is one ot mason, and can only exist so long as it is true to itself, and it ceases to be true when it employs fore. If the Southern States were determined to fern a Government for themselves, there was no force to prevent it ; and yet he would not admit that the Government had no power, for there was power adequate to put down revolt in a State. Bu; when.. many States rise in revolution, with the spirit of a mighty em pire, it is idle to talk of forte to subdue them. ' When 10,000,000 people rise in defence of their homes, not all the armies since Caesar's can compel them to live under the Executive they consider hostile. The people fought at the late election on no such issue as is now presented; the question of force was not involved in the contest: The victory of the Republican party was achieved by popular delusion, which has become the ruin of the party, never again to rise. He would say to the South that much trouble was due by divisions among themselves, causing the defeat of the Democratic party. That party will stand up with them for a peaceful solution of the question, and will recover strength and crush the false idols set up for the people. Allowing that there was danger, why should the South separate from their Northern friends, when united they might overcome the enemy? A separate confederacy requires a standing army along its hostile border, making a vast outlay, and the North would be obliged to do the same thing, and both would grow poor together. Seeembion is the foundation of an endless civil war, under which the Government would fall to a military despotism. If we violently separate, we shall strike a death blow to liberal institutions, and both, or many sections, as the case may be, will be involved in financial ruin. We should lose the name American, and be known only as a tribe of Indians are. It would be impossible to depict the desolation and horrors which would follow disunion. He protested against the hope of reconstruction after the Union is once broken up. If war is once commenced, all hope of reconciliation will be effaced, and in the end the people will fly to a monarchy to save themselves from anarchy and universal ruin. The people of California breathe but one sentiment of loyalty and devotion to the Union, and would ratify any settle ment which would satisfy the South ; and if such satisfaction is refused, a large majority of the people say 'Let them go in peace.' He would prefer a peaceful separation to civil war. California, from her position and oommerce, would remain with the Free States; her destiny and theirs are indissolubly connected. In the language of the senator from New York (Mr. Seward), the people of that State speak for the Union, vote for the Union, give money for the Union, and they will fight for the Union,' providing he can show them how such fighting can maintain the liberty, fraternity, and equality of our Southern brethren in the Union. (Applause.) But, if he cannot perform that difficult task, the people of that coast never—no, never ! will imbue their hands in the blood of their Southern brethren. He said that they were willing to vote for the propositions of the senators from Kentucky or Illinois, but he thought the best and wisest plan was that of his friend from Minnesota (Rice). The people expect them here to do something soon. Why should the Union be destroyed and all the evils be brought upon us ? He appealed to senators by all that was dear to their hearts not to turn a deaf ear to the voice of the people, and let patriotism rise above party. He was eager and proud to make sacrifices to save his country." When he had concluded, the Tariff Bill was re ported from the Select Committee, with amend ments, and the Diplomatic and the Executive and Judicial Appropriation Bills were passed. In the house, Mr. Sherman, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported a bill authorising the Presi dent, before the Ist of July next, to borrow 25,000,000 dols., should so much be found necessary. Mr. Kellogg, representative of Illinois, before a vote was taken on the recommendations of the Committee of Thirty-three, wished to offer resolutions as a substitute. He had been constrained to the present course by the disturbed condition of the country. They are joint resolutions, proposing amendments to the Constitution, to be ratified in the manner indicated by that instrument, as follows : " Art. 13. That in all the territory now held by the United States situate north of latitude 36 deg. and 30 min. involuntary servitude, except for the punishment of crime, is prohibited while such terri tory shall remain under a Territorial Government ; that in all the territory now held south of said line, neither Congress nor any Territorial Legislature shall hinder or prevent the emigration to said terri tory of persons held to service from any State of the Union where that relation exists by virtue of any law or usage of such State, while it shall remain in a territorial condition; and when any Territory north or south of said line, within such boundaries as Congress may prescribe, shall contain the population required for a member of Congress, according to the then federal ratio of representation of the people of the United States, it way, if its form of government be Republican ' bo admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, with or without the relation ofipersons held to service and labour, as the Constitution of such new State may provide. " Art. 14. That nothing in the Constitution of the United States, or any amendment thereto, shall be so construed as to authorise any department of the Government in any manner to interfere with the relation of persons held to service in any State where that relation exists, nor in any manner to establish or sustain that relation in any State where it is prohibited by the law or the Constitu tion of such State, and that this article shall not be altered or amended without the consent of every State in the Union. " Art. 15. The third paragraph of the second section of the fourth article :of the Constitution shall be taken and construed to authorise and em power Congress to pass laws necessary to secure the return of persons held to service or labour under the laws of any State, who may have escaped there from, to the person to whom such service or labour may be due. " Art. 16. The emigration or importation of per sons held to service or involuntary servitude into any State or Territory or place within the United Mr. M'Clernand (Opposition), of Illinois, was happy to see such a proposition coming from a gentleman whose relations are so near to the Presi dent elect. I\l r. Lovejoy objected to the reception of the joint resolution, especially after the remark of his colieagtie. Mr. Kellogg said that in offering the resolution he wished distinctly to state that, in view of the disturbed condition of the country, he felt it his duty to offer a proposition, hoping it might avert an impending calamity. No other human being was responsible for it than himself. The resolution was ordered to be printed, and subsequently the report of the Special Committee of Thirty-three was considered in Committee of the Whole. General Hamilton, of Texas, made an elo quent Union speech to-day. In the course of an able argument against the right of secession he made the new point that, by all the laws of nations, Louisiana had practically declared war against Texas, in cutting off her communication with the home Government, by her ordinance of secession. The General was followed 'by Mr. Stokes, of Ten nessee, who also made a telling speech for the Union, An evening session was held for general debate. It appears from despatchce. front Washington that the Floridians already considered themselves in a state of actual war with the United States. Lieut. James E. Jonett, attached to the steamer Crusader, had reportedhimself to the Navy Depart ment under peculiar circumstances. He had occa sion, while temporarily employed on the Wyan dotte, to go ashore at Pensacola, when he was immediately seized by the State troops as a pri soner of war, but was subsequently released on a parole of honour, with the understanding that he was not to bear arms against the State of Florida. He was then furnished with a passport, with which he left the State and proceeded to New Orleans, where he was again threatened with arrest'; con sequently he took the shortest route to Washing ton, where he awaited the commands of the Secre tary of the Navy. This outrage of the Seces sionists, however, does not compare in magnitude with one contemplated at New Orleans, but which was happily frustrated by the cautionof those most immediately interested in its defeat. The Crusader itself, it 'seems, was to be seized by the city autho rities, while the officers were being entertained in friendly way on shore. The bait did not take, and the Crusader still remained in the service of the Government. There was a general expectation in Washington, on the evening of the Ist, that excit ing intelligence would soon be received from Charleston, but what this expectation was based on did not clearly appear. It probably grew out of the knowledge of the fact that Colonel Hayne had received his despatches from Governor Hickens relative to the proposed surrender of Fort Sumter, in connection with the fact that preparations were constantly going on in Charleston for an attack on that fortification. The Diplomatic Corps, it appeared, were generally of opinion that a collision cannot now be avoided, and they had forwarded despatches to their respective Governments to that effect. A Washington despatch of the Ist inst. to the New York Times says : " A gentleman called on General Scott to-day and inquired if it would be safe to bring his family here. The General referre&him to one of his aides, who, it is said, replied that he thinks it is safe now, the necessary points being all guarded. We are playing a game of chess, and every time those who contemplate strife here advance a piece we imme diately checkmate' it. The Louisiana delegation, except Mr. Bouligny, retire from Congress on Mon day next, whether a certified copy of the ordinance be received or not. Mr. Bouligny says he won't withdraw until his district instructs him to do so. Private advices from Charleston to-day show that the Secessionists' preparations for war are much more extensive than is generally supposed, involv ing expenditure enough to nearly beggar the State. The plan for the attack and capture of Fort Sumter is common talk among the citizen soldiery, and they only await the signal from the leading con spirators at Washington to begin the. assault. So imminent is considered the danger of an early colli sion that numbers of people are constantly leaving the city. The plans of attack alluded to have been fully communicated to the Administration by par ties personally familiar therewith. I am assured that a witness before the House Treason Committee testified to a declaration, by Mayor Berret, that if Maryland seceded he would give up this city as far as he was concerned." Another despatch, of the Ist, from Washington, has the following:— "It is evidence before the House Select Commit tee on Treason that a variety of plans have actually been discussed by those in the Soith who have been determined for years to break up the Union. Ist, it was believed that a convention of the two Houses could be prevented on the 15th inst., when the votes for President are to be counted, thereby avoiding a constitutional count of the electoral votes. 2d, to prevent Mr. Lincoln from coming here by assassi nation, or some other means, 3d, to take the Capitol by violence and prevent his inauguration. It is the testimony of several witnesses that these plans were all seriously discussed and abandoned, upon the theory that it would be within the category of crimes punishable with death in the Union, and would not in the end accomplish the object the dis solutionists have in view. After a full canvass of the whole subject it was finally decided to resort to the plan of secession which was immediately ini tiated by South Carolina." The Democratic State Convention continued its session at Albany on the Ist, and was addressed by James S. Thayer, ex-Chancellor Wallworth, W. H. Carroll, of Maryland, and others: A series of reso• lutions was adopted urging the settlement of the national difficulties 'by compromise, deprecating coercion of the seceding States, and appointing Millard Fillmore, Addison Gardner, Greene C. Bronson, Erastus Corning, Horatio Seymour, Amasa J. Parker, Charles O'Conor, and Samuel Tilden as commissioners to attend the Convention soon to be held at Washington. The speech of the venerable ex-Chancellor Walworth opposing coer cion and depicting the horrors of civil war pro duced a great sensation in the Convention. On the second resolution being read Chancellor Walworth appeared on the platform, and his venerable looks claimed instant attention from the Convention, and he was received with an outburst of enthusiastic applause. He said : " Gentlemen of the Convention,—l am far ad vanced in years, and not in the habit of attending Conventions of this character, but I could not resist coming here to enter my protest against civil war. I have seen the horrors of such a conflict. In the war of 1812 my house in Plattsburgh was sacked by the British. A battle was fought opposite my very doors, and the bullets that were fired fell like hailstones around my dwelling. In the casement of my door remains to this day embedded one of those bullets, a memento of the fight. In that struggle I saw my fellow-citizens shot down by my side. I know, then, the horrors of a foreign war; and they are nothing as compared with the hor rors of a civil war. A civil war is a war among brethren. We are all brethren in this Confederacy of States—the people of the South are our brethren, not only nominally, but actually our brethren. In Georgia alone I have the names of 1,000 citizens whose ancestors were the near relatives of my own. In the same State alone are 100 relatives of the family of Hillhouse, whose name is known as that of one of the patriots of the Revolution, and whose descendant now occupies a seat in our State Senate' and so scattered all over the Southern State the near relatives of the men of the North, there is scarcely a member of this Conventiosn South has not some such ties in the States of the moo It would be as brutal, in my opinion, to send States as I an d Perhaps o butcher our own brothers of the Southern Northern it States. We are told, however, that iit would be to massacre them in tth is There were laws what laws are to to be enforced to, and we must, enforce the lapw. But why, and can Revolution, and the British Parliament and that were to be enforced in th . e time of the Lord North North sent armies here to enforce them. But what did Washington oily in regard to the enforce. The most slatternly housewife in Europe is the British Themis, the mythological personage who presides over law and lawyers. If you go to a house and find the door opene led d t cloth o yoes u byd clotted a dirty maid of all work, with dr a gg an hair ; if you find the rooms all in disorder and everything out of its place, and neither comfort, nor order, nor Cleanliness in the dwelling, you may depend upon it that the occupants of that house cannot do their business as it ought to be done, and that they are muddling away a great deal more money than if they made a respectable appearance in the world and had their comforts about them. This is exactly how justice is lodged in England. She has about forty judges to supply with house room, and she quarters them in all the streets and alleys in the metropolis. You will find the Lord Chancellor any morning in a shed in Lincoln's-Inn. The Lords Justices are sitting in another shed in the same square. All these legal magnates may be turned out at any moment and sent adrift to hold their courts wherever they can find a roof to cover them, for they are but tenants at will of their squatters' wigwam. The Master of the Rolls may be discovered up a yard in Chancery-lane. The Common Law Judges are supposed to sit in. West minster Hall, but in what dingy roam , you will find them, where they have squeezed the Nisi Prius Courts on any given day, or how they have managed to get rooms for the two Nisi Prius Courts and one Court in Banco, which each set of judges has sometimes at work on the same day. not even ',the ushers can tell, You may rash about all day looking for a Vice-Chancellor, and sometimes find him in a garret towards the even ing. Sir Cresswell Cresswell has, properly speaking, no Court at all. The Lord Chancel lor, when he took to the shed in Lincoln's-inn, lent Sir Cresswell his Court in Westminster Hall, where the Bar, the attorneys, the jurymen, the witnesses, and the suitors crush and gasp as though they bad come there to get a divorce be tween soul and body. The Admiralty Court is also homeless, and if the Elder Brethren of the Trinity house had any nautical enterprise they would cut out one of those empty frigates in the Medway and moor her off Westminster-bridge as a better make shift than they now have. As to the officers, they are in Quality-court, Staple's-inn, Southampton buildings, Lancaster-place, Stone -buildings, and other discursive hiding-places. Sometimes you may meet an elderly gentleman hurrying along the Strand, red in the face, and in a state of haste dan gerous for a gentleman of his years. He is one of her Majesty's Judges ; he has just stopped in the middle of a case, and, sending jurors, witnesses, and suitors away, is going to hear a mob of little boys squabble over summonses and orders. He is on his way to the Judges'Chambers in Serjeants'-inn, two miles from the scene of his other judicial labours, and thus wasting nearly an hour of the very heart of the judicial day because there is no room for the Judges' Chambers near the Judges' Courts. As to the Courts themselves, they are fit subjects for the interference of the Inspectors of Lodging-houses. The Royal Commission say "it requires ocular in " spection to conceive fully how insufficient, ineon venient, and unwholesome they are." Nobody ever pities a lawyer. There is a not uncommon conviction that if the judges and lawyers and the pestilent litigious people who support them were all smothered together no great harm would be done. But the odd thing is that the lawyers do not pity themselves. It is a curious fact that close lodgings and unwholesome air become a habit that people come by custom to love. What difficulties we have in making the lower classes ven tilate their lodging-houses ! How tyrannical it. is considered to make householders drain their dwell ings! It is all the same with people of 30s. a-week and people with £30,000 a-year. Rather than give up an old habit any man is satisfied to go on doing as he has done, to his own annoy ance, and to the annoyance of every one else, and to " take his chance" of low fever and shortened life. Judges have generally lived so long that they laugh to scorn all that vapours with long chymical names can do to mortals. Lord Chancellors, until the wiser Lord Chancellor of present date, have been as happy as backwoodsmen in their shed in Lin coln's-inn. Masters of the Rolls would not come out of their yard even to live in a palace. come out toil through the jostling crowd of the Stra d a n d think it exercise; Masters of the different Otte suc cumbing die of dust and mildew and bad smelle,, rh judges contentedly as to a natural death. have not, until now, very much from all to the Bar, such Courts re ose e t ,oeniphlaevained, and, as nt when a cause is reproach if they are not p s i* who are open to an called on. To the attorneery a, action for negligence, p s l o p o I s e a t r h . e advantage of The jurymen this state of things is not and witnesses a lso may not easily find their advan .fianed for not being übiquitous, and in tags in being b e i n g smothe r ed when once fairly boxed. But the destroyinge every reason to be satisfied ; for by destroy the energies of the Judge and jury, and by making the presence or absence of counsel, attorneys, and witnesses a hazard, this system has a tendency to reduce the decis ion to an equal chance on both sides, and to such an equal counterpoise of possibilities of course no litigant ought to object. Lord St. Leonards has seen with great alarm that there is a proposition now coming before the House to put an end to this ancient and much vene rated system. The Government is said to have been struck by the idea that while reforming the law it would be well to render it possible to carry the law into effect, and to provide Judges and lawyers with decent accommodation for the discharge of their duties. To the north of Temple-bar there is a labyrinth o courts and alleys known chiefly PROPOSED INCREASE OF THE *EPISCOPATE. Lord Palmerston has received a memorial signed by the Puke of Buccleuch, the Duke of Marl borough, the Marquis of Westminster, the Earl of Denbigh, the Earl of Carvarvon, the Earl of Romney, the Earl Nelson, the Earl of Verulam, the Earl of Effingham, the Earl of Galloway, Lord d Eversley, Lord Calf horpe , L o r d Redesdale, Leigh, Lord Ebury, Lord J. Manners, M.P. ; Lord R. Cecil, M.P. ; Sir J. Patteson, Sir J. T. Coleridge, Mr. Adderley,lll,l'. ; Mr. Sotheron Esteourt, M.P.; Mr. Mownray, M.P. ; Vice-Chancellor Sir W. Page IVood, Sir W. Ileathcole, M.P.; Sir W.James, Sir W. Farquhar, Sir J. R. Glynne, MY Hubbard, M.P. ; Mr. Kekewich, M.P. ; Mr. J. J. Rogers, ; Mr. P. Wallington, M.P. ; Mr. Whateley, QC. - Mr. R. l'almer, Q.O , and a large number of other influential laymen, asking his lordship to adopt measures for an increase of the Episcopate. The memorialists state that the population of Eng land and Wales has more than doubled itself during the last 50 years, but that the number of bishops has been only increased by one since the middle of the 16th century. In America and the British colonies the episcopacy may be increased according - to the needs of the population, and they hold that it would be reasonable and just that a similar benefit should be enjoyed by her Majesty's subjects at home. The memorialists express their opinion that more frequent personal intercourse than is now practic able between a bishop and the clergy and laity of his diocess would promote unity and efficiency in the labours of those who are endeavouring to advance the moral and spiritual welfare of the people. They proceed to direct his Lordship's attention to cer tain dioceses which seem to need subdivision, and l in which there are already resources available for the foundation of additional sees. The diocess of London contains more than 2,000,000 of souls. That diocess might be divided, and another see might be formed by converting the collegiate church of 'Westminster into a cathedral church, as it formerly was, and by raising the Dean to the dignity of a Bishop. Another diocess which re quires subdivision is that of Exeter • it is the most e xtensive of any in Eng land and Wales, and the cathedral city of Exeter is distant about 145 miles from the western extremit y of the diocess. Another similar instance may be found in the diocess of D ur ham. Its population has increased with unex ampled rapidity in the last few years. The income of the Bishop is £B,OOO a-year, which greatly exceeds the average income of other episcopal sees, Means might thence be derived for the subdivision of that populous diocess, and for the erection and endowment of an episcopal see in the town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The memorialists, having also called attention to the dioceses of Rochester, Lincoln, and Glocester, conclude as follows : " Other dioceses might be mentioned which need sub division. We consider, however, that tho inhabitants of those dioceses are the persons most competent to express an opinion on this subject, and that, it they are desirous of such a subdivision, local contributions would not b n e wanting when once the necessary powers may haV9, given by Parliament for the erection of additionai?,en, With this view her Majesty's Commissioners for incituri 2 ".! h re into the State of Cathedral and Collegiatebill should e commended in the year 1855 that a be framed and introduced into Parliame ter _a. jesty and Act 31st of Henry VIII,, c. 9,emrwerinctiocese under cer her Majesty's successors tangyv de an on, t and with the Perrnissiv:imilhr to the tain condons of territory Ropula; s p posed to effect the consent of the Bishop, This recommen .°among whom were comm a the e bishop of London, and elationdivision e fb herefor emts.hicesatvyo,sidanwcel7fsetilbeti::se, the two Archbishop of fYork and the Bishop of Oxford, alists to deserve attentive considc understand, your lordship on a and since, expressedtarhapteropurrs,esetfeatA.clurcrhmbilisreshstefiep an opinion, in which they entirely recent occasion question of episcopal extension ought to idtheraetdanwrth reference to the country at large, they meetly entreat your lordship either to introduce t co eo n ad,,, cuL ea , i n to Parliament, or to support such a legislative measure as m ay enable her Majesty's subjects who desiro an exten sion of the opiscopate to profit by such an exercise of the Royal Supremacy in constituting additional sees at home as has already boon called into action, and is now in operation with very beneficial results, secular and spiritual, in the colonial dependencies of the British Crown:' Lord Palmerston has promised that the attention of the Government shall be directed to the subject. The famous Doomsday Book of William the Conqueror is now at the Ordnance Map Office, Southamp ton, for the purpose of being copied by the new process of photozincography. A BEGGARLY EMPIRE.—If, says Punch, Austria ever studied finance in any particular school, we should ' say it must have been the ragged school; for not only is she pauperised and beggared almost to her last kreutzer, but her very bank notes are what a cook would call " done to rags." A ROYAL INCENDIARY. —A letter from Frosinone, in the Nazione, of Florence, says :—" Count Trapani is making experiments with incendiary articles. A few days back he went with his wife and two other persons to a place called Ponta Salaro, and there, at some distance from the roadside, put on the ground certain ingredients, and fired at them with pistols--each shot set fire to theoe things, a thick smoke arising• The Cana, the Countess, and their two companions, all fired. The new discovery is, no doubt, destined to burn the Italian fleet, but the poor FrillCO i 0 losing his time. f© of Mrs. Itru, rn's, •ace bra- ter'g son lar ;ley, tada ine, rde-