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Musard begs to announce he will give a SERIES o f PROM ENADE - CONCE RTS at the above Hall, commencing on SATURDAY EVENING, 2d February next. PRICE .4.D . STAMPED, 513 MR. W. S. WOODIN'S NEW ENTERTAIN MENT, the CABINET of CURIOSITIES, POLY GRAPHIC HALL, Ring Wiliam-street, Charing-cross, TO - NIGHT, and EVERY E VENING (except Saturday), at Right. Private boxes, 41 ls. • Stalls and box stalls, 3s. ; area, 28. ; amphitheatre, is. -A ' plan of the stalls may be /wen, and se a t s secured (without extra charge), at the Box office, from 10 till 4. Morning Performance, Saturday, Jan. 19. OU2fY3REAK AMONG ME CONVICTS AT CHATHAM . ;tached having service tuses of Colonel A e onsiderable degree of uneasiness, amounting almost t to alarm,. has been occasioned to the officials of the convict prison, St. Mary's, Chatham, during the la, st few days, in consequence of the disaffection and m ntinous conduct of the convicts confined in that e itablishrnent. The first symptom of anything like a ft outbreak among the inmates of the prison occurr ed on Sunday last, and was intimately con nected with the attempted escape of two notorious convic is on the previous day. From what has transp ired it seems that a plan of escape from the establishment had been arranged by a convict named. Peters, who is under sentence of 10 years' penal servitude, and who had taken some of the others into his confidence by promising to release them illom their cells. Peters, although employed in whatt is termed.the light labour department of the prawn, had managed to become possessed of a skeleton key, but how it came into his possession o'clock on Saturday morning Peters and cannot be ascertained, though it appears probable it w as given him by one of the convicts employed o7ther convicts were in the hall of the prison flack periodical medical examination, when in the dockyard and outside the prison. Between s sintogok the opportunity to escape from the hall 6 ar owe a mt n aeei d rt by unlocking the door with his skeleton key. He then erossed the parade ground to one of the cells occupied by s notorious character, named Bennett, who is under sentence of penal servitude for life for numerous burglaries in London, Eta was in the act of unlocking his cell door, when he was seized by a warder, and secured before he could accomplish his intentions, the key being thrown on the ground. From information received by the prison officials it was , known that a large skeleton key for unlocking the outer doors of the prison, as well as a razor, was in the possession of one of the convicts, and after Peters had been secured, Captain Powell, the governor, directed a minute search to be made of all the convicts and cells with the hope of discovering them. The search, how-, ever, was fruitless, and up to the present time neither, the suspected skeleton key nor the razor has :been discovered. Qn Sunday morning. the convicts, of . whom there were about 1,000 in the prison, commenced disturbing the minister during the service in chapel by hooting, yelling, cheering, and other marks of disapprobation, although no act of violence was resorted t 0 . 4 .; The outbreak, it appears, was led by a few most , desperate menwho have recently been admitted under sentence of penal servitude for life. Immediately on the symp toms of a mutinous conduct developing themselves the governor, Mr. Meason, deputy governor, and the officials used prompt measures to suppress the outbreak. Several of the ringleaders were removed, and placed in the punishment cells to await an investigation into their conduct. On Monday and following days extra warders, of whom there are always about 150 employed in the 'establishment, all heavily armed, were placed in the chapel, but this did not prevent further diSturbances being made by yelling, cheering, and other disorderly sounds. While in their cells the most discordant noises were made, and in g few instances some of the convicts commenced smashing their cell win dows and breaking the cell furniture. Notwith standing that several of the convicts discovered to be the leaders in the outbreak were seized and dragged out of the chapel, this did not prevent those remaining in indulging in the sane mutinous behaviour. About 30 of the principal convicts who have made themselves conspicuous on these occa sions of insubordination are now in separate con finement awaiting the punishment which will be awarded them ; but nearly all these are under sen tence of penal servitude for life, and knowing that their term of imprisonment cannot be extended i makes them reckless in their conduct. An official report of the circumstances has been made by Captain Powell to the Home Secretary, who has directed Captain Gambier, the director of convict establishments, to institute an immediate investi gation. Yesterday the inmates of the prison mani fested scarcely any symptoms of insubordination,and comparative order had been established. Captain Gambier is expected at the convict prison this morning to commence his official inquiry. moray/ Le 27th • p OLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION (Limited).—. --a- Now Open with Great Novelties. Mornings, 12 to b. En veni r ngs, 7 to 1 0 . —Admission, Is. Schools, a n d Chli dten 'ude Ten Years of Age, Half-price. EVANS'S Mqgnificent MUSIC and SUPPER ROOMS, Covreturned ent-Garden. MACKNEY has to this Establishment. Suppers as usual after the Theatres. to sur- Batik- at half ruptcy. ighton, e Court CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. —AR G Y L L N--/ ROOMS.—GRAND MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT `with the Celebrated BAND, Forty in number (established eleven years), chosen from the Philharmonic Concerts, Royal Italian Operas, and the Household Troops. Conducted by Mons. Lamotte. Cornet-a -piston, M. Boulcourt.—Danchig at Nine o'clock.-Is. admission. Wells, Bank- , New twelve, THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, High Holborn.—The most elegant entertainment in the world. The dancing area is most extensive. The reading and smoking rooms on either, side of the spacious galleries are replete with every comfort, and the refreshment rooms at tached to the ball room are unrivalled,. even by Oriental beauty. The wines and refreshments are of the highest qua lity, and the band, oonducted by Mr. Packer, stands alone for Its excellence. Admission, is. at two, Bank- . 30, at 'ourt of gooda, Bank- OClErir for the RELIEF of DISTRESS. —This Society derives its origin from the following cause:— That, notwithstanding the operation of the poor law and the nurnerous existing charitable associations, human beings, although within a stone's throw of the plenty, luxury, and refinement of this wealthy metropolis, die miserably of hunger and the want of the common neces &Tries of life. To prevent as far as possible the recurrence of an evil so disgraceful to our social system, it is proposed in the first instance to establish a co-operative system of visiting the poor, by aiding and increasing the power of existing local institutions which have this object in view. To bring to the notice of parochial authorities such cases aq legitimately belong to them alone, io aid the police and the Mendicity Society, to detect imposture, and to bring to the care of hospitals, refuges, penitentiaries, and existing 'charitable associations those cases for which their several institutions were established. Special and urgent cases of distress indicated by the clergy ministers of all denominations, medical profession, or agents of any existing Society, will b e re li eve d as f ar as possibl e b y the judicious application of funds entrusted to district committees and local responsible persons appointed by them for the purpose. - No cases will be relieved by money or otherwise at the central office. The promoters of this movement now come forward, not in any spirit of opposition to existing societies, but, on the contrary, with the strong desire to co-operate with and assist them in the arduous task in which they, with such praise worthy zeal and perseverance, have been so many years labrJriously engaged. They now claim to be met in the spirit in which they advance, with the sole purpose of furthering, by friendly intercourse, the great Christian object which all charitable associations have in view. The following noblemen and gentlemen having combined to form a Guarantee Committee, by whom the entire ex penses of management are to be defrayed, the Society now call upon the public to entrust it with the requisite funds, which shall be applied, without the smallest deduction, to the relief of genuine distress. an. 31, Bank- Lehire. rictoria, 6th day 1,015,100 3,459,900 ),535,002 1,469,843 1,479,843 3,783,721 1,123,578 1,081,625 770,518 4752,432 shier, GUARANTEE COMMITTEE. His Grace the Due of W.Devonport Bromley,Esq. ' Marlborough M. T.. Bass, Esq., M.P. The Right Hon. the Earl of C. E. Boothby, Esq. Chesterfield A. H. Davenport, Esq. The Right Hon. the Earl of J. H: Reynell de C astro,Esq. Lichfield Richard Gibbs, Esq. The Ri g ht H on . th e E ar l o f H. A. Hankey,!Esq. Sefton • R. Stuart Lane, Esq. The Right Hon. the Earl of D. Meinertzhagen, Esq. Darnley Admiial Meynell The Right Hon. the Lord W. Wells, Esq. Ashburton J. N. Murray, Esq. The Right Hon. the Lord Charles Whitehead, Esq. R a g l an Martin Ridley S m ith, E sq . 11011. A. H. Vernon The . Bro w V. W. Davenport y (With power to, ad" WOR The Earl of Lichfield KING C Lord Charles Bruce Robert Barnett, Esq. Rev. T. Beames W. Davenport Bromley,Esq. T. H. Reynell Decastro, Esq. William Gilbert, Est Wm. Bevan, Esq. Colonel De Bathe C. Sartoris, Esq. St. Leger Glyn, Esq. Henry Alers Harkey, Esq. 8.. Stuart Lane, Esq. (With power to add to their number.) W. DAVENPORT BROMLEY, F. HAYGARTH, Lieut.-Col., 1 Hon. Secs. WILLI& GILBERT, Temporary office, 28, Ring-street, St. James's, Dec. 21,1860. Amount already advertised ..... 11,814 0 0 LT, com -sth day paid or Great CWT. 10d 101 d Bfd 11d dealers wheat, his day i prices. 1 per qr its and Beans, B. The I to their number.) lOMMITTEE. Hon. E. Chandos Leigh J. •N. Murray, Esq. Rev. W. Rogers Martin Ridley Smith, Esq. Hon. A. H. Vernon Colonel Haygarth Hon. Arthur Egerton W. Ewing, Esq. Rev. P. G. M'Gill Hugh Astley, Esq. Rev. W. Mayd Capt. Cunlifte Owen, R.N. day, at to 6s Oil tm 3s 6ci d males cl to 60 to 7d Ito 01 Beaufort, Emily, 'Horne, Mrs. Duchess of £5 0 0 Huth, Henry, Esq..2o 0 0 Manchester, Duke of 5 0 0 /layter, Capt., Gre- A ilesbury, Maria, nadier Guards.... 5 0 0 Marchioness of ..alO 0 0 Hamilton, J., Esq.. 5 0 0 Darnley, Earl of 50 0 0, Hussey, H., Esq, .. 2 2 0 Leicester, Earl of 5 00H. J. W 2 0 0 Orford, Earl of .... 5 0 0 H. T. Rosebery, Earl of —lO 0 0 Hankey, Henry B , Somert,n, Viscount 5 0 0 Esq. 2 0 0 Ashburton, Lord .. 50 0 0 Hi nc h man ,Mi ss 1 0 0 Ashburton, Lady H. C. 2d don.lo 0 0 H. L H. Colville,Lord2ddon.lo 0 0 Hibbert, • Major .... 5 0 0 Clinton, Dow. Lady 10 0 0 Harvey, Robt., Esq.lo 0 0 Charteris, Lady Mar- Hatton, Lieut.-Col.. 5 0 0 garet Neeld, Lady C. . ..20 0 0 Ir v i ne , Mrs. Mari *Vernon, Lady liar- anne 1 1 0 riet a 2 2 0 Jefferson, T.R.,Esq. 5 0 0 Sor nerset,LadyEdith 1 0 0 Keating,Mr.Justice.lo 10 0 T ernpletown Lord ..10 0 0 K Wenlock, L'ord and Knox, Colonel G. .. Lady 3 1 10 0 Lawrie,Mrs. Andrew 2 2 0 Light, Lady E Boothby, Hon. Mrs. L eveson, S., Esq. .. 5 5 0 C. Coke, Hon. E 5O 0 M a th eson , M a j or - Charteris, Col. Hon General R. 6 0 0 Montgomerie, Hon Fitzwilliam, Hon. Mrs. , 5 0 0 Charles W. 5 0 0 Moncrieff, Major- Warren, Hon. Louisa 1 0 0 G enera l a 1 0 0 Reathcote, Hon. Gil- Murray, Mrs 2 0 0 bert Calder Sir H. Bart. 1 0 0 Do. • a 2 0 0 11 ° , te, , Sir W., , Bart. 5 0 0 Macnamara, Henry, Mackenzie Hon. Esq ll 0 , Mrs. G. Stewart, 10 0 0 Maenny, W. S. Esq 1 1 0 ' 3l ißh, Sir John D . Magniac, H. Esq... 50 0 K.C.B. .7 5 0 0 Macaulay, Rev. John 1 1 0 Antrobus, Miss Char- M. S. lotto H. Arabia, Mrs a 1 0 0 Mackrill, J. Esq... 50 0 A. ii 1 0 0 Mi ss M. E.T. ....10 0 0 A. E A a 1 0 0 N ev i lle, Col. E. a ..1 0 0 . H 1 00 A. W Neave, Rev. Thomas2s 0 0 20 0 0 Ogilvy, Thos., Esq.. 5 0 0 Arnaud, H. 8., Esq, 5 0 0 Ogilvy, Mrs. Thos.. 1 0 0 Bosanquet, H., Esq. 6 0 0 Phillips, P. Lovell.. 5 0 0 Bathyany, Count 5O 0 Pearce, C., Esq 2O 0 Boyle Captain .... 11 0 Porter, Gneral lO 0 0 Boyle, Mary lO 0 Pigou, Frederick —5 0 0 Bacon, Jam - es, Esq 2 0 0 Parry, Miss L., 2d Blane, Thos. Law donation • Esq., ._. .... , 5O 0 Peel, Captain Cecil.. 10 0 Bond, Thomas, Esq 1 0 0 Pratt, Hodgson, Esq 5 0 0 Baxter, Richd., Esq 1 0 0 Peel, Capt. W. Yates2o 0 0 Blake, T. Jaz., Esq 20 0 0 Peake, Mrs 0 10 0 Bateman, Mrs. Jones 5 0 0 Pascoe, Greenfell, Bidwell, John, Esq. 6 5 0 13 A and Co., Messrs... 0 0 50 0 Bayley, C. V., E sq lO 0 Reid, Capt. a E be son, Noel V , . 2 2 0 Beaver, J. H., E sq . 2 0 0 sq. Buxton, T. F0we11..21 0 0 R C . 2 0 0 B, P.... Ronald, Bryan 1..., B. C W 1 0 0 Coutts and Co 21 0 0 Esq., a Russell, J. Watts, C. T..• • Carpenter, Captain, Esq lO 10 0 Smith, Oswald, Esq 10 0 0 R. • 1 0 0 Stedman. J., Esq... 5 0 0 Clements, Rev. H 5 0 0 Slaney, R. A., Esq.lo 0 0 Collyer, Captain 3 0 0 Shaw, Mrs 1 0 0 Cheltenham, G. L.. 2 0 0 Smith, Oswald A , Calpe . .... ... ... .. 1 1 0 Esq. . • lO 0 0 Debenhata, .F. G . , Smith, Samuel G., Du E ff s , q M . .a.j.o; .............. ... 5 5 Duff, Mrs. ....... 3 0 55 0 00 10 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 Dalgetty and Co. • .. 5 0 0 Stuart, Col. Crichton, Davies, W., Esq. .. 5 0 0 M.P E. L. V........... 0 10 0 Smith Robert, Es 10 0 0 E. M. C. .......... 20 0 0 Smith, Eric earring Elmsley, Mrs. .. •• 1 0 0 ton, Esq . Elwes,Windsor,Esq. 50 0 s m i t h , , j . DSciEritto.mscig"eoMnr•P' ervorse, Esq.lo 0 0 E. T. E. F. W 5 0 0 Tottenha , Mrs. L.. 1 0 0 Erle, Peter, Esq. . • 5 0 0 Tritton, Tottenham R. ~ , 5 0 0 P. G. and J. F. G 3 3 0 Tate, G. 1., Es. .. . 5 0 0 Fremantle, Mr. C., a 2 2 0 Tayl or , Gen. H. .G. P., Mr. and Mrs. P. 2 0 0 A. ............. 2 0 0 P. G. .....; . ..,• Pr uer, -w, ~ Esq. 55 0 Trims, ..m. ..... 10 0 0 P. c, N . 'Farquharso n ,J am es, West, T. M., Eget— . 1 0 0 Esfl . P W Glyn Geo. Carr, C.B. ,-, 134 :1•7 M.P. ..20 0 0 Do. ,irrant, Col. 5 0 0 Welby, Mr 2 2 0 .. 1 0 0 Gipps, C01. 2 12 6 Gr • , L,. Grainger 8., Esq. 1 1 0 W. D. a H. W. A.. W. ....100 0 0 Webster, Chas. Fos , 5 0 0 Reatley, G. Tod, Esq. N., ad 9 9 - 0 Ward, Rev. H ..... i 1 0 0 IRill, Mr. Justice 20 0 0 W. M ~ . ......... 1 E.lO 0 0 ' ll g v taYrie, Rev. IV. Wigram, Colone 1 0 0 s-r. . 1 1 0 Wheatlevs,Miss a.. liall' c ......... " Mrs. (2d edges , apt 2 0 0 and Butler, donation) kessrs ... C onti' butions received at the following bankers :—Coutts a lul Co.s, Strand; Ransom,B ' and Co.'s, 1, Pall streetniail , ouvene, ea B T , S•W • Glyn, Mills, and Co.'s, 67, Lombard- E. . . 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The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficulties ex perienced in 1860. The Crisis is at hand. Anxiety in busi ness has now become the grim torture. Purity of motive, intelligently exercised, must animate all Governments, or all is lost, All denominations of Constitutions are carefully examined in J. Groesmith's "Government upon First Prin ciples.:' Kent and Co., late Piper and Co., Paternoster-row. The Fourth Edition, Just Published, Bvo, in cloth, price ss. by post free, se. 6d. ON TRUE aa FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA ; kl with the V er7to the Correction of wide-spread Errors in relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from De bility of the Generative system, or Sexual Hypochrondriasis. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. " Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practical contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medical reader. We trust that this may not be the last, if he shall detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his power to correct."—London Medical Gazette. " The editor has conferred a great boon on the sufferers from this distressing malady by translating this little book, and by laying bare the scandalous practices of unqualified adventurers, who profess to cure a disease of which they know nothing, with no other object than to fill their own purses. The difference between true Spermatorrhcea and the various forms of disease which resemble It are accurately de scribed, and thus a safe guide is offered for the treatment of the malady."—Medical Circular. " We have dilated so long upon the contents of the preli minary chapter, that we have scarcely left ourselves space for any notice of the subject specially treated of by Dr. Pickford ; but the moderate price at which the 'brochure' is sold, places it within the reach of every one interested in the matter."— Dublin Medical Press. London : H. Rainier% 219, Regent-street DISEASES OF THE SKIN. By ROBERT J. JORDAN, M.D., Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, England, drc., Author of " Sian Diseaties and their Remedies," dra Containing the modern treatment for the cure of cutaneous eruptions, scorbutic affections, superficial and deep-seated ulcers, torpidity of thecirculatory system, redness, roughness of the skin, &a "This book is, as he has aimed to make it, 'thoroughly use ful and practical.' "—Medical Times and Gazette, August 14th, 1860. Published by John Churehhill. To be had from the Author only, 29, George-street, Hanover-square, London. At home from 10 to 2; and by appointment. KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES.—Statistics show that 50,000 persons annually fall victims to Pul monary Disorders, including Consumption, Diseases of the Chest, and the Respiratory Organs. 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Of fifty years' indiscnbable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipa tion, flatulency, spasms, sickness. and vomiting, Maria Joly, of Lynn, Norfolk. Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. Cure No. 54,816. The Rev. James T. Campbell, Syderstone Rectory, near Fakenham, Norfolk of badigesti"n and liver complaints. Cure No. 56,814. Mr. Samuel Laxton , Leicester, of two years' diarrhoea. Cure rTo. 180. Mr. W. Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London, of 25 years' nervous ness, ecnstipation, indigestion, and debility. Cure No. 4,028: Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms, and nausea, Rev. John W. }level, Ridlington Rec tory, Norfolk. Cure No. 3,906. Thirteen years' cough, indi -2-pe.8,.4.ti,", and general debility James Porter, Athol-street, Cure No. 58,314. Miss' Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liverp oo l ~ of ten Years' dy s p e p s i a , and all the horrors of nervous irritability . Cure No. 46,270. , Mr. James Roberts. timber merchant, of PrimleY, tunes, spitting of blend, liver derangement, partial deafness. Surrey, of 30 years' diseased The Food is sold in canisters, Ilb. !es. 9d., 21b, Similar testimonials from 56,000 patieuts who can be re ferred to. 220,, 24Th. 408.: super refined quali 51b. 225„ 101 b. 335. The 121 b., and 241 b. canisters ca rriage fre on receipt of 4s. 6d., 121 b. Barry Du Barry and Co., 77 , Rezent s7rBete-t°,ffilronodrod;r; Fby ortoom, Mason, and Co., 182, Piccadilly, LOndon ; Abbis, 60, Grace church-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63 and 150, Oxford-street •; 330 and 452, Strand ; 49 rnd 60, Pi nsbury-pavement ; Phillips and - street ; Batty, 16, Petty, Wood, and Co., King William street,ltolboishconoCiscrttyaeta: and la 7, 8i h r and a grocers, THE BUN, LONDON„ SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 1861. BUILDING GROUND, CITY of LONDON:- To be LET, on a Building Lease, for eighty years, a PIECE of GROUIsi D on the north side of Queenhithe Dock, in the City of London. —Plans of the ground may be seen and further particulars obtained on application at the Architect's office, Guildhall FERDINAND BRAND, Comptroller. L AW ' LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE, Fleet-street, London, 3d January, 1861. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That a GENERAL MEETING of Proprietors of the Law Life Assurance Society will be held at the Society's Office, Fleet-street, London, on SATURDAY, the 2d day of February next, at twelve o'clock at noon precisely, pursuant to the provisions of the Society's Deed ofSettlement, for the purpose of receiving the Auditors' Annual Report of the Accourts of the Society up to the 31st day of December, 18,30 ; to elect a Trustee in the room of John Henry Cancellor, Esq., deceased; and a Director in the room of Richard Richards, Esq., deceased; and for general pur poses. The Director to be chosen in the room of Richard Richards, Esq., deceased, will remain in office until the 24th day of June next. By order of the Directors. WILLIAM SAMUEL DOWNES, Actuary. THE INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 142, Strand, London. Empowered by Act of Parliament, for LIFE ASSURANCE SURVIVORSHIPS, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &c. DIRECTORS. EDMOND SHEPPARD SYMES, M.D., Chairman. John Elliotson,M.D.,Cantab., John Moss, Esq. F.R.S. John Symes, Esq. Henry J. Hodgson, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq. SECRETARY TO THE BOARD. Alexander Richardson, Esq. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY, Augustus Blondel, Esq. AUDITORS. Professor Wheatstone, F.R.S., and Professor J. Radford. Young. MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL. • J. Emotion, M.D., Cantab., F.R.S., 37, Conduit-street. ACTUARY. W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., &o. ASSISTANT ACTUARY. Barker_Woolhouse, Esq. „ BANKERS. ' Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Rowcliffe, Bedford row. Policy taken Out in 1838 1841 1845 1848 1851 Examples of Bonus up to May, 1855 : Sum Bonus in Age., Assured. addition Bonus in to Sum Cash. Assured. £ B. d. a. d. 3,000 867 17 7 428 1 4 4,000 749 4 0 325 16 0 2,000 232 18 0 156 15 0 2,000 154 2 8 103 16 8 2,800 120 17 0 72 14 6 Permanent Reduction of Annual Premiums. X N. d. 56 3 8 32 0 4 16 6 0 10 15 2 6 7 7 The following are amongst the advantages offered by the international Life Assurance Society:— The Society was established in 1838. Two-thirds of the profits are divided amongst the assured every five years. For prospectuses and every other information, apply to the Chairman, 142, Strand. EDMOND S. STILES, Chairman. 142, Strand, London, W.C. TO THE RIFLE BRIGADE.--A GOOD SIGHT WILL PROVE ADVANTAGEOUS IN SELF-DEFENCE. To render your sight and hearing per fect take GRIMSTONE'S EYE SNUFF, invented by him to give strength and vigour to the vision, &a Sold in tinfoil peck - ages, 6d. per oz. ; canisters, Bd.. ls. 3d., or in jars 2 oz., 4 oz., Bnz., lbs. upwards at Bs. per lb. for export, under the authority of the Lords of the Treasury, and Medical. authority. Or should you be a smoker, leave it off, it renders your hand un steady. If you must smoke, smoke GRIM STONE'S ARO MATIC HERB TOBACCO. This will strengthen your nerves ; by swallowing your spittle it increases the appetite. The smoke equrl4 Oriental nastules. Sold in square, green packets with red .label, at 3d. per oz., 3s. 61 per lb. GRIM STONE'S HAIR REGENERATOR is the only article that will produce whiskers, moustaches, eye brows, or cause anew growth of human hair upon those n irts nature intends this ornament of the human figure. It is 531 d in triangular bottles, and inclosed in the 77th edition of the pamphlet full of testimonials from ladies and gentlemen. Real addresses, 45.. 75., and lls., this size contains four of the 4s. size, Alt letters to William Grimstone, herbalist, London Denot, 52, High-street, Bloomsbury : and by Messrs. Barclay and Sons, Farringdon-street, and all other respectable dealers volley was fired at them. Under these circumstances Mr. Stuart with great reluctance felt obliged to retrace his steps. He returned to the point he started from on Sept. 9, after having travelled upwards of 2,300 miles in six months and two days, and having penetrated to 250 miles of the Gulf of Carpentaria. The geological character of the mountain ranges was igneous, the appearance of quartz and other granite rocks giving evidence of the presence of metallic treasures. Only one prtion of the route, for the distance of 60 miles, was sterile end sandy. The PRESIDENT noticed one curiousfact, which was that an aged chief made a freemason sign to Mr. *Stuart, and showed great satisfacticAkhen it was answered. Sir R. MtyßcHisorlirogised the enterprising spirit shown both by Mr. Stuart, in accomplishing such a re markable expedition with the comparatively scanty means at his disposal, and byMessrs. Chambers and Finske in prb viding the necessary funds. Ile congratulated the country upon the discovery of a territory in the interior so admi rably adapted for tin purposes of colonisation, and he ex pressed the hope that it would lead to an object he had long had at heart, viz., the formation of a settlement in North Australia, in he Gulf of Carpentaria or in Cam bridge, Gulf, along vith the establishment of a naval post for the protection of air interests in the adjacent seas. Sir Roderick then acknovledged that he had hitherto enter tained the theory, founded upon the observations of pre vious travellers, that the interior of the continent was a vast saline desert, ant he frankly paid a compliment to Col. Gawler, the former governor of South Australia, for the persistency with whil he had adhered to a contrary view. Col. GAWLER, F.KG.S., said that he rejoiced in the dis covery which Mr. Stuart had made, not because it proved his anticipations to b, correct, but because of the immense capabilities it openedup for the extension of a great empire in Australia, numbering perhaps a hundred millions of people, and also that :t would now fairly open commUnica • tion with the north-Welt coast. Mr. BONNEY, a gentleman recently arrived from South Australia, stated that five months ago he was within a few hundred miles of the centre of Australia, and he could well appreciate the difficulties of travel which Mr. Stuart must have encountered. He, however, thought that no hasty concluaionsshoald be drawn from the result of the journey in consequence of the totally different aspects which the country bore under different seasons. Colonel SIKES, M.P., F.R.G.S., remarked upon the meteorological conditions of the equatorial region, obser vable in other quarters of the globe, with respect to rain fall, and said ke saw no reason to suppose that North Aus tralia was not equally well furnished with water during the south-west and north-east monsoons. The abundance of scrub showed that there must be moisture. Lord - A. CIIIIRdHILL, M.P., F.R.G.S., stated that he had just received a letter from Sir. Charles Nicholson, bear• ing out the observations of Sir Roderick Murchison, rela tive to the capabilities for the formation of a colony in the northern part of Australia. Count STRZELECKI, F.R.G.S., referred to the various theories which had been formed respecting the character of the interior, based upon the facts collected by former ex plorers in penetrating the country from different points, and said he was now very happy to recant the view he had adopted, that the interior was an arid desert.: The PRESIDENT next briefly summed up the results, of the exploration, and congratulated the society upon the success which had attended it, and the meeting then ad journed to the 28th inst., when the papers on the North Atlantic Telegraph will be read. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST The directors' of this company have just issued their re port. It states that the accounts for the half-year ending the 31st December last show that the amount of capital raised was £9,654,639, consisting of £4,618,554 ordinary stock, £2,622,995 preference capital, £1,670,775 mortgage debt, and £742,315 debenture stock. The issue of debenture stock progresses satisfactorily, and since the Ist of July a further sum of £100,405 has been placed, making the total amount now issued £742,315. The purchase of the Lewes and Uckfield Railway has been completed, and the cost, £47,300, placed to the debit of capital, which is credited with £33,900 of perpetual 4 per cent,. stock, forming the purchase money, and with the mortgage debt of that com pany, amounting to £13,400. The further amount of capital expended has been £186,806, of which £30,888 is for the Shoreham, Henfield, and Horsham line, £36,725 towards the construction of the Victoria Station, £1,2,148 for doub ling the line from Three Bridges to Horsham, £lO,OOO on further account of this company's contribution to the West London Extension, and the remainder for the enlargement of the Brighton, Three Bridges, Polegate, and East Bourne stations and for additional plant. The gross revenue for the half-year has been £505,269, being £28,662 in excess of the corresponding half of 1859. The receipts for the year have : been. £903,782, or £61,489 more than those of 1859. One great cause of improvement is the opening of the com pany's' Victoria Terminus at Westminster, which took place on the Ist of 'October last. The directors state that the results thus, ar have been highly satisfactory, and have confirMedtheir opinion as to the wisdom of the policy which secured to the company such an access to the West-end of London; and they look forward with confidence to a con tinuous development of this traffic. The directors have concluded an arrangement with the London and North- Western Railway company for the use by them of this com pany's Victoria Station; and that company have inserted clauses in one of their bills of the present session to confirm a formal agreement. The expenditure during the half-year amounted t 3 £231,914, or 46} per cent., including £29,643 for,renewals, against £218,418, or 461 per cent., in the cor responding half of 1859, which included £37,948 for re newals. The expenditure per train mile averaged 3s. 3d:, against 3s. 4d. The progress of the traffic is exhibited in a tabular form, which shows that in the year 1848 2,485,778 passengers were conveyed, on the line. and in the year 1860 9,545,103, including 5,568,235 third-class passengers, show ing an increase of 7,059,325 passengers in the course of 12 years. The total receipts for the three classes of passengers amounted in the year 1848 to £349,977, including £66,392 for third-class passengers ; and in the year 1860 the total receipts for the three classes amounted, to £621,778, in cluding £211,578 for third-class passengers; The receipts from season ticket holders increased from £10,427 in 1848 to £42,624 in 1860. The gross revenue in 1848 amounted to £453,408, and in 1860 to £903,801, showing an increase of £450,393, or nearly cent: per cent. The total working expenses increased from £147,132 in 1848 to £356,114, the preferential charges from £104,041 to £197,528, and the dividend from £3 12s. per cent. to £6 per cent., at which latter rate it has been steadily maintained for the past five years. The increase in the working expenses arises from the additional train mileage, the extension of the company's lines, the opening of the Victoria Station, and the extra charge for taxation ; and also from, the large amount expended on the plant, the carriage waggon stock having undergone unusually extensive repairs. 'During the past year the revenue has been charged with rebuilding the engines and three tenders, and with the cost of con structing five new engines and two new tenders of a large and more powerful description, to replace smaller engines which had become. unserviceable. Up to the . present moment, revenue has, in addition to replacing all engines hitherto Told or broken up, provided 13 new engines in anticipation of the period when a number of the older ones will be no longer fit for use. The ordinary cost of main taining the permanent way and works has increased in pro portion to the mileage. The relaying of the coast lines has been proceeded with, and the outlay, £7,147, placed to the debit of the permanent way improvement account, to which the directors have been again enabled to apply £lO,OOO, instead of the £4,000 fOrmerly charged to maintenance of way and works in the December half-year ; this makes £13,000 provided out of the revenue of 1860 in reduction of the balance remaining to be extinguished. The total amount expended in these improvements is, £155,215, of which £115,921 has already been paid out of revenue.'The net amount at the credit of the revenue account is £166,724, out of which the directors recommend the payment of a dividend at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, amounting to £161,649, leaving a balance of £5,075 to the credit of the current half-year, and making the dividend for the year 1860 amount to 6 per cent. DR. BUCHAN'S PATENT SUGAR-COATED VEGETABLE PILLS, VEGETABLE SKIN OINT MENT, and CONCENTRATED VEGETABLE ESSENCE, for purifying the Blood, Regulating the Bowels and removing Vitiated Humours, Bilious and Liver Complaints, Rheuma tism, Gout, Scorbutic Affections, Costiveness, Skin Erup tions, deep-seated Ulcers, and all diseases of the Nervous System, from whatever cause, &c., affording at once a new lease of life to the sickly and aged of both sexes, whilst in addition imparting a beautiful and clear complexion, so anxi ously sought for by all. 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FREE ISSUE, NOTICE.—The following invaluable works have just been published; and are now beingissued gratis to all who enclose two stamps for postage, to No. 27, Alfred-place, Bedford square, London :_ DR. WATSON'S NEW MEDICAL ESSAY on SPERMATORRCEA and URINARY DEPOSITS, NERVOUS and PHYSICAL DEBILITY, with their EASY DETEC 'ION and SELF CURE. 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, RR...A.5., London, Member of the Medical Society of Rouen, the National Academy of Sciences, Paris, and Fellow of the Imperial Institute of France, &c. &c. (vide Diplomas and Medical Directory). By the same Author, C 1 ECRET DISEASES and their REMEDIES, kJ containing clear instructions, and certain safe and effec trial remedies, recently discovered for the self cure of nervous debility, organic or local weakness, muscular relaxation, langour, listlessness, depression, &c., by which all sufferers may speedily, effectually, and privately cure themselves at a trifling cost. Also showing how all impediments to marriage may be effectually rempved, with numerous illustrative cases of parties who have been restored to health by following the simple means laid down. CENTRAL AUSTRALIA. ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. A very numerously attended meeting of this society was held on Monday evening—Lord Ashburton, president, in the chair. The PRESIDENT explained that this expedition had been undertaken at the joint charge of two of our countrymen in Australia—Messrs. Chambers and Finke, and Mr. Mac dougall Stuart* was appointed to conduct the expedition, which oonsisted only of himself and two attendants, accom panied by 13 horses. Messrs. Chambers and Finke, knowing the great interest which Sir Roderick Murchison took in Australian discovery, had forwarded Mr. Stuart's journal to him, from which extracts would be read. The Secretaries then road brief extracts from the journal, from which it appeared that Mr. Stuart left Chambers' Creek, in South Australia, at the beginning of March, with Mr. Keckwick and one other man, and proceeded in a north-westerly direction, the object being to penetrate the continent to the Cambridge Gulf, on the north-western coast. As he proceeded, instead of meeting with an arid desert, as geologists had predicted, he found a well watered country, with numerous creeks, several rivers, abun dance of grass and scrub. The geological character of the country was for the first 400 miles tertiary and secondary, and occasionally he saw large masses of sandstone. He then crossed a high primary range, and for the remainder of his advance met with little else than the older rocks or those of a volcanic formation. He proceeded without meeting any serious obstacle, and without encountering any of the natives, until he reached the centre of Australia. There he erected a pile of stones, planted the British flag, and en closed within the pile a bottle containing a paper with the notice of the fact. This occurred on the 15th of June. On his progress north-west his difficulties commenced. The scrub was in places impenetrable, and he was obliged to make his route more easterly towards the Gulf of Car pentaria. Water became scarce and the soil sandy. The vegetation hitherto met with had been principally scrub and gum trees, but on approaching the central regions he saw palm trees. Water was procured at a short distance underground, but there was none en the surface. The country Mr. Stuart had passed through after the first, or M‘Donnell, range had been undulatory or flat, but on ad vancing north he came to ranges of mountainous hills, the principal of which he called the Murchison range, and from these hills the rivers that flow north •west and north-east take their :rise. Looking from an eminence towards the west, he saw a high mountain and elevated ground. The valleys between the ranges of hills were fertile, and one river, which was flowing towards the north by west, was about 10 chains wide, and had the appearance of being a constant stream. This he conceived to be the character of many of the creeks and springs that he came to. On look ing towards the east there were indications in the atmos phere of the presence of a large body of water behind the high land, which bounded the horizon in that direction. Until he had reached the range of hills he had not seen many natives, although numerous traces of them were fre quently observed ; but they then began to show themselves and make hostile signs. Two of them were first seen near the scrub ; but as soon as Mr, Stuart approached they ran away. A few days afterwards they, appeared in greater numbers, and with menaces made signs to his party to go back. It was in vain that Mr. Stuart made friendly de monstrations, and at last the natives threw a shower of boomerangs at him. His men were ordered to load their guns, and as the savages approached nearer for the purpose of surrounding the little party they were compelled to fire. The savages did not desist from their attacks, and a second * To Mr. Macdougall Stuart the Council of the Society transmitted a few years ago, through the Duke of Newcastle, a valuable gold watch as a testimony of its appreciation of the discoveries he bad then made. MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER. The following important decision was given on Thursday by the Court of Session : 4OHN THOMAS FENTON AND MANDATORY V. ALEXANDER THURSTANUS LIVINGSTONE AND OTHERS: Admiral Sir Thomas Livingstone of West Quarter and Bedlormie, died in April,lBs3, and a competition immediately arose between his sister, Mrs. Fenton, and the son of her brother, Thurstanus Livingstone, for the entailed estate of Bedlormie. Petitions were presented by each party respec tively to the Sheriff in Chancery, to be served nearest and lawful heir to the deceased, which were conjoined and advo cated to the Court of Session. Mrs. Fenton then raised an action of declarator of bastardy against Alexander Living stone. The Lord Ordinary found that Alexander Living stone was entitled to be served, and also assoilzied him from the action of declarator of bastardy. The first division of a reclaiming note adhered to this result. These judgments were reversed by the Home of Lords, and the case was re mitted back to the Court of Session to proceed, and do therein as should be just. The question referred for deter mination by the House of Lords was whether Alexander Livingstone, the original defender, but now deceased, *as the lawful son of Thurstanus Livingstone, the brother of Sir Thome. Livingstone ? The court to-day proceeded to give judgment upon the cause. The Lord President, after stating that the question re garded the heritable estate of Sir Thomas Livingstone alone, said : The House of Lords had found by their judgment that the Court of Session was entitled and bound to inquire whether by the law of Scotland the marriage of Thurstanus Livingstone with his deceased wife's sister was a lawful marriage; that was, whether the persons who celebrated that marriage were within the prohibited degrees, according ' to the law of. Scotland. He understood from the opinions expressed in the House of Lords, that it was not a lawful marriage in England, They could not inquire into that matter by the rules of the courts in England, but they were not precluded from doing so as to the law of Scot land. There were, perhaps, two questions presented to them. If they went entirely by the law of Scotland, they might find that the marriage celebrated in England was within the degrees prohibited by the law of Scotland, and therefore they could not give effect to it as legitimating the offspring of that marriage. Next, it was said that England was the country in which the marriage was celebrated, but, according to the law of that country, there was no lawful marriage according to the law of the domicile, and thus there had been no lawful marriage anywhere. Now, with reference to the law of Scotland, he must say it was a ques tion upon which he had no doubt at all. It was a question he had by no means considered for the first time, and he never had any doubt upon the question. He did not think it necessary to go into the discussion upon the footing of biblical criticism which had been indulged in with reference to that case. He thought, in reference to the construction to be put upon the prohibitions in Leviticus, that they had an authoritative interpretation by the law of Scotland, which lawyers must follow. He left other ques tions to other classes of persons. There was, perhaps, no book with reference to which questions had been raised more generally and widely, or where interpretations more perverse had been adopted, than with reference to the sacred volume. Hence the great variety of sects which existed in this Christian country. There were sound views. But they had to deal with this question as lawyers, and he found an authoritative interpretation given by the law of Scotland in that matter. It was an interpretation which they were to follow, and that interpretation ran through all their writers. He did not think it necessary to go further back than the act of 1567, which implied that provisions more stringent, perhaps, existed previously with reference to the degrees in which marriage might be celebrated. The interpretation authoritatively laid down in that statute, and put upon the 18th chapter of Leviticus, was that, without ambiguity of any kind, that marriage within the degree here, namely, with the sister of a wife, was the same as if of consan guinity, and was a forbidden degree of marriage. On that statute law that construction had been put by every writer on the subject. Stair, Erskine, Wallace, and others, were of that opinion ; and, still more, it was the opinion of Professors Bell and More, and of Mr. Ferguson, who was much experienced in consistorial law. Hume only raised doubts as to the penal consequences. That was with reference to criminal law. They were here, however, not dealing with criminal law, but with civil law, and with reference to that there was no room for hesitation. He had no doubt in saying that, according to the law of Scotland, this was an unlawful marriage, and was within the prohibited degrees. The consequence of that was that, according to the instructions they had received from the House of Lords, this party was not the legiti mate son of his reputed father. With reference to the question arising out of the English law, he had already said that if it was to be held that there was no lawful mar riage, and that it was between parties within the prohibited degrees, then it never was a marriage at all. Then he could not understand how a ceremony which did not make a marriage where the parties lived and died, could be re garded as a marriage anywhere ; and he could not take it as the law of Scotland that what did not constitute a mar riage between parties who never were in Scotland, could be a marriage in Scotland. Therefore, in either view this party must be regarded as the illegitimate son of the marriage, between h's father and the sister of his deceased wife, and consequently the judgment must go to that effect. The terms of the judgment would require a little care. They had to deal both with a declarator and an advocation, and the judgment would receive consideration. Lord Ivory entirely concurred. Lord Curiiehill gave a long and elaborate opinion entirely in conformity with that of the Lord President. Lord Deas held that the law in Scotland rightly recognised the status of legitimacy in Alexander Livingstone, because he held that status by the law of England, and it followed him everywhere. He, however, agreed, that according to the interpretation put by the constitutional writers or statutes regarding the 18th chapter of Leviticus, and laying down the prohibited degrees of marriage, that Thurstanus Livingstone's marriage was a nullity by the law of Scot land; and therefore that the judgment of the court should be as suggested by the Lord President. The interlocutor, it was arranged, should be adjusted at an after day; but should be to the effect that the defender was illegitimate by the law of Scotland. Agent for pursuer, W. Waddell, 'W. S. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK. Miles Opened. Receipts. Railways. ~....__A_____. „.____..... 1861. 1860. 180/. 1863. ---I X Ballymena and Port Rush.. 35 35 2 X 41 255 Belfast and N, Counties.... 65 65 1,098 1,105 Belfast and County Down.. 21 21 546 494 Birkd., Lane., & Ches. June. - , ._ _ Blyth and Tyne 2O 20 1,349 1,127 Bristol and Exeter 125 125 5,222 5,514 Caledonian C o ckermouth & Workington 85 85 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 314 262 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 65 65 193 200 Cork and Youghal . 26 - 189 - Cornwall Deeside l7 17 231 267 Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1,345 1 , 261 Dublin and Drogheda 63 63 , 1,544 1,539 Dub. & Wicklow (in.Kingst ) 105 4 0 1 1,553 1 ; 388 Dundalk and Enniskillen Dundee aud Arbroath 1 74 17 4 494 579 Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l 31 1,007 853 East Anglian 674 675 F 66 866 E.Counties,Nrfk.,&E.Union 499 199 21,575 24,155 Edinburgh and Glasow Edinburgh, Perth,& Dundee 78 78 3,233 3,230 Forth & Clyde Junction Furness Glasgow & South-Western 183 1 183 4 6,427 6,296 Great Northern 283 283 23,156 ' 23,574 Great North of Scotland 5' t.Southn. & Westn.(lrlnd ) 329 2491 7,308 6,278 Great Western 58 34 578 32,071 33,243 I nverness & Aberdeen June. 55 55 645 706 Irish South-Eastern 255 255 290 242 Lancashire & Yorkshire 3955 3955 33,423 32,410 L eom inster and .Kingf on Limerick and Ennis... 241 24 4 173 146 Limerick and Foynes 26 26 6 1 153 127 Llanelly 46 4 502 361 London & North-Western . 950 943 72,218 72,110 London and Blackwall 54 339 13,530 1,263 1,379 London & South-Wesl - ern . 389 "' 13,530 14,380 Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast. 22 2235 11,976 11,955 London, Chatham, & Dover 5 . 19 5 581 255 Lond., Tilbury, & Southend 42 40 771 984 51.an.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh 173 173 t 10,085 10,489 Blanch. S.Jun.& Alt rincham 9 9 1,015 934 Maryport and Carlisle ,28 2 : 8 6144 1,127 1,027 Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6145 _,. 34,912 35,532 Midland Gt.Westn. of hind 177 1 / 1 4,611 4,999 Monkland 56 56 - - Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 4 ,„, ° 4 n 2,149 2,074 i Newcastle and Carlisle 7B 2,975 2,650 North British (incl. Selkirk and Galashiels) North Devon 35 35 326 301 N-Eastern(Bedale&Leybrn) 764 764 „ 30,306 31,283 North London 9 2,233 2,303 North Staffordshire I 246 233 4,995 7,683 Oswestry and Newton...- 2O -- 378 _ Rhymney l9l 191 637 525 St. Helen's Canal & Railway 30 P, 1,918 1,896 Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern ll5 115 3,820 3,800 Shrewsbury & Birmingham 29 5 29 5 ___ - Shrewsbury and Chester - - Shrewsbury & Hereford Shropshire Union 29} ; 291 721 785 745 South Devon . 721 2,740 2,591 South-Eastern 306 306 15,893 16,480 South Wales l7 ll 171 1 6,264 6,826 S. Yorkshire and River Dun 118 118 2,446 3,681 Stockton and Darlington j 123 119 6,960 6,747 Taff Vale 55 65 5,118 4,608 Ulster 5l 51 1,633 1,582 Ulverstone and Lamas' er Vale of Clwyd Vale of Neath 2 54 254 1,521 1,504 Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 249 229 Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,290 1,142 West Cornwall 2 75 27 5 623 574 W.Hartlepool Harbr.& Rail 39 158 19 3,363 3,718 West Midland. W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt 7 7 313 298 Whitehaven Junction l2 12 531 548 Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 559 505 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 838 905 Austrian B2B 673 - - Belgian Eastern Junction 265 265 223 205 Buffalo and Lake Huron Demerara (fortnight) - - - - Detroit and Milwaukie lB5 185 1,341 1,471 Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France . 1032 1006 12,613 7,75 C Grand Trunk of Canada.... 970 970 12,780 11,801 Great Indian Peninsula.... 2975 1941 3,6.4 3,642 Great Luxembourg l2B 128 2,004 1,91 i Great Western of Canada 345 .345 7,119 7,011 Lyons and Geneva 142 142 1 3,852 3,445 Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 301 :284 I 12,050 11,071 Northern of Canada Sorthern of France 613 /502 41,726 41,449 Norwegian Trunk 44 44 711 706 Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 879 840 29,166 14,06' Paris and Orleans 922 922 26,256 12,961 Paris and Strasburg - - - - Royal Danish 69 69 Sambre and Meuse 6B 68 1,053 1,15:. South Austrian Southern of France 777 773 6,890 2,921. Welland - - West Flanders W. and N.W. of France 742 730 1 8,994 5,88 f. 525 1,896 2,926 3,800 1,583 745 2,591 16,480 6,826 3,681 6,747 4,608 1,582 205 1,164 7,750 11,808 3,643 1,912 7,016 3,445 11,079 41,414 709 14,063 12,961 1,155 27,167 2,923 799 5,883 [ADVERTISEMENT.] — Holloway ' s • Ointment and Pills. — Better and Worse.—The varying tax operatures of our win ters are always accompanied by a large increase of pul monary diseases. To-day they ao re better, to-morrow worse, which frequently occurs wi thout fresh exp9sure to cold. This arises from the irritable, state of the air tubes, and may be entirely prevented b y rubbing Holloway's soothing ointment over the back an d front of the chest. It penetrates t penetrates to the lungs, allays their irritability, reduces hurried respiration, and regulate: ; the circulation both the blood and restore through the heart and lungs. Ho) 7oway's pills should be taken at the same time ; they Puri' 4 1 tone generally. Chest complain .ts require no remedial measures besides Holloway's prep arations and a regulated temperature. PLUNDER OF A WRECKED ENGLISII VESSEL BY ARABS. -- r --- Messrs. Brain and Son, of Bristol, have received from the captain the following report of the loss of their ship Liverpool : "I herewith beg to hand you particulars of the loss of the Liverpool, which took place on the morn ing of the 17th December, about twenty mileS to the northward of Azimor, at 2 a.m. When nearing the coast, with light winds from the N.E., the wind shifted suddenly to westward, accompanied with a heavy squall ; and after taking in sail we tacked ship to the northward, when the wind died away, and the vessel became unmanage able. At this time there Was a heavy swell setting towards the shore ; and finding the vessel was driving, we let gu the starboard anchor. The vessel still driving, we let go the port anchor, which held on for a short time. The sea at this time was making a clean breach over the ship, and both anchors came home. The vessel drove on a reef of rocks, and struck heavily abaft. I then gave orders to slack away the cables, in order that the vessel might go up as far on the beach as possible, with the hope of saving the crew, stores, and ship ; andlearing the ship would not last till daylight we got one of the boats ready, in order to abandon the vessel. At this time the water was up to the beams, and the sea breaking completely over us. Myself and Crew were all aft, anxiously waiting for daylight, which brought with it horrors worse than shipwreck, for with the first gleam of daylight hun dreds of armed Arabs made their appear ance on the beach, some on horseback and some on foot, and as soon as they came near the ship they dismounted, stripped and swam off with their swords, and in a short time there were from eighty to one hundred men on board. Seeing so many, we knew that resistance would be useless, and therefore took to the rigging, and then the work of destruction began. Some part of them took to the cabin, some to the forecastle, while large numbers of them were cutting away everything about the galley, decks, and boats, and all the plunder they threw overboard to their companions, who carried it on shore. After this they forced us to come down out of the rigging, and upon reach ing the decks we were stripped of everything but our trousers and shirt ; two of them stripped me, while two of their companions held their drawn swords over my head; they next began with the sails, not giving themselves the trouble either to haul them up or lower them down, but cut them to pieces with their swords just as they could reach them. After this we were driven over the side into the sea, marched up the beach and made to go down upon our knees, where I suppose a consultation was held over us to decide our fate. After a short time we were allowed to stand up, but were ill-treated by them and knocked and pushed about, but two of them who appeared to be chiefs protected us as much as possible from the people. After being on the beach for about two hours, I went on board, and in the cabin, or the place where the cabin was, I found 15 or 20 Arabs cutting away, and scarcely a vestige of any thing to denote that ever there was a cabin, doors and everything being torn to pieces ; at the same time numbers of them were cutting away the star board quarter, taffrail, stern-post and lower rig ging, and all the running gear. I then went on shore again, where we were continually annoyed with inquiries for ' Rice,' which we have since been told was the name they gave the captain —being all stripped so near alike, they could not tell, or the chances are I should not have been here to-day. The plunder they had was in a h ea p: viir ° d n e the beach, and when the signal was givelont' °of wild it they made a rush and a yell like a beasts, and everything disappear ed in a short time. Some time after this we were driven from the wreck and lured towards the theto zimor. We u were insulted by the Arabs, upon o muskets A r road,s om ,e arunnothersing after us with swords, knives, a fter great difficult spat upon us, and y we reached ust at dark. We were th the t o wn of Azimor j taken before the governor of that town, and fortu en - nately there was one man there who spoke Eng lish ; and after stating the way in which we had been robbed and ill-treated by the Arabs, he ordered as to be taken care of, ha ii --—es Patched a messenger to the consul at Mazagan. We were then taken to a Jew's house, named Simon, who treated us with the greatest kindness,,which will not be forgotten by myself and crew, The next morning the British Consul came from Mazagan, procured some soldiers to go to the wreck s and arriving there we found the copper stripped off the starboard side, the rigging cut away and the vessel cut to pieces, and everything moveable gone ; in fact, they were just driving off several camels loaded with parts of the vessel. There were more than 100 armed Arabs there, all of whom' I could recognise ack. , '-e_ -- , /';''' :zz7a=z; r ' / y as being the principal pluralerers laedalletOpy;44.j,4 and upon the British Consul remonstratzti - g'iftdt::..% .4 - 0 1 t. z 7 them on their outrageous conduct , they ordered -trey* to leave the place, for they were determitied,M'' part of the vessel should be taken from thy. S. I s ing the condition the vessel was in, we thought it would be best to give .7t them and leave the place, our Moorish soldiers beng afraid of them, as they stated they would not be dictated to by a dog of a Christian. It was afterwards arranged the vessel should be sold, which was accorditcgly done, and purchased by one of the chiefs. We then returned. to Mazagan, where we reeeived the greatest atten tion at the hands of her Majesty's Coosul. He procured us a passage toGibraltar,andfron; thence we were put on board the East India mail boat Itipon, where we experienced the greatest kindness and attention from captain, officers, and crew, and landed at Southampton about 6.m. Saturday, Jan. 12, 1861." TIIE TRANSIT BET WEBN LIVERPOOL 4Ifl) MAATCHES TER. For some considerable time past con.wlaints have Caen loud and numerous as to the difficulty e,xpe ijkneed in transferring heavy goods, particulai - ly cotton, from Liverpool to 3 liAnchester with sufficiect rapidity to answer the requirements of manufac-4 tuters in that city and its vicinity, whilst com plaints ,similar in character have been equally fre quent as to the delays in transmitting manufactured goods from that neighbourhood for shipment at , Liverpool. To obviate these grounds of grievance the different railway companies have made great exertions to increase their available means of con veyance, and the carriers by canal have also exerted themselves to attain the same end. In the midst . of those exertions, however, the efforts of both were in a great measure paralysed by the recent severe and protracted frost. It is true the traffic; on the railways was not stopped by that cause, but that by canal' was entirely suspended, thus throwing an inordinate as well as unexpected amount of demand. upon the traffic resources of the railways. To such. an extent was this true that the goods stations were completely gutted with the influx of heavy goods, chiefly cotton, and still heavily loaded teams continued to pour in ceaseless streams towards the respective stations, although from the extent to which they were filled it was impossible to admit the vehicles within their yards. So true was this that on Tuesday and Wednesday last long ranges of heavily laden floats and lorries stood along Great Howard-street, and other thoroughfares lead ing to the principal railway stations, for many hours together, in vain expectation of getting their loads admitted within the station-yards. The loss of time, and consequently of money, entailed by this detention of men, horses, and vehicles has caused loud complaints; On Monday a meeting of team owners was held, at which it was resolved tb at loads intended for the railway stations or canal wharves would be refused unless the sum of eigh teenpence per hour was allowed for each vehicle while it was so detained, and public intimation of this determination, signed by 48 of the principal ;warn° vvners in Liverpool, has been extensively poste d. all over the town. On Wednesday a meeting,. which was attended by the heads of the commercial associations, was held in the Mayor's Chamber at the Town-hall, the Mayor presiding. At this meet ing resolutions were adopted calling on the different associations to represent to the various railway companies the necessity of doing all i si their power to facilitate the transit of goods; and so request ing that the commercial associations of Manchester and the adjoining towns will co-operate with those of Liverpool in urging the rail way companies to afford additional facilities for the ,extensive and still rapidly increasing goods traffic between Liverpool and the inland towns. THE STATE OF EUROPE. A new pamphlet, Etat de l'Europe a la: fin de 1860 (" The State of Europe at the Close of 1.860"), has just appeared—n'ot this time, however, from. the miscellaneous press of Dentu, which seems to look more to quantity than to quality. These pamphlets threaten to become a plague ; they have long been a nuisance. The Etat de l'Europe to which I now allude presents a more recherche ap pearance than the majority of those that preceded it. It is superior in type and accessory ornaments ; its lie2t green colour is a relief to the eye, so long wearied with the dirty white envelope of the semi official or e b i-disant semi-official productions ; and, lastly, it issues from the printing-office of Arnyot. The writer (the pamphlet is anonymous,' takes rather a gloomy view of the state of affairs, and is puzzled to know how they will end. His views may be gathered from fhe preface : " The Revolution has fixed a date fatal to Europe, the let; of March. It defies it on every field of battle—not only in Italy, and jn Venetia, but in Hungary, Poland, Croatia, Herzegovina, Moldavia, and Wallachia. It does not con ceal its designs ; legions are recruiting—armies are form ing ; it holds its public congresses and its solemn inter views in the island of Caprera. " We cannot but recognise the audacity of its deeds and the extent of its plans. It throws down tie glove to the Cabinets with an energy it would be difficult to deny, and which we ought even to admire in a certain point of view. " Will Europe accept the challenge ? Will traditional Royalty, the aristocracy, this noble and great family of the Middle Ages, feel their danger? Such is the question the solution of which is necessary, and which cannot be post poned. "We have been told that a compromise is possible. Let Austria yield, let her sell even Venetia, and all will be settled. I say no I The struggle is on a stage more vast, the question is otherwise imposing and important. Do we not see by a certain uneasiness that weighty interests and a. supreme crisis are at stake ? " And what is this new public law which proposes in coin promise the sale of provinces and of peoples ? " Why, after selling Venetia, should not Austria be asked to sell Hungary and Croatia? "Why should not Russia sell Poland in order to make her railroad shares rise, and give greater value to her roubles ? _ _ " Of what value is dignity, or honour, or tradition when credit is in question ? Sell even the tomb of your fathers, your escocheon, your old armour, to *make a rise of three francs, and improve reports. "Well, then, supposing this baseness accomplished, the question would not be over; it would hardly be a halt in the vast movement which is yreparing. The Revolution wants to remodel the map of Europe; it would not accept, in solu tion, even the principle of the purchase of Venetia—this recurrence to the Middle Ages, when the seigneurs sold liberty to the communes. If Venetia has a right to her independence, why force her to buy it ? "Austria on her part may lose Venetia by the fate of arms, as she has lost Lombardy. 11l fortune has never die honoured a Cabinet or a people; but the day she accepts that policy of purchase and sale she is disgraced in the eyes of history, and the question will not be more advanced. " The year which has just closed is remarkable for two ' important things in a diplomatic point of view. " It has been a period of agitation and preparation. " The agitation hasbeen everywhere profound—the pages of Congress have been torn—hereditary and traditions/ rights destroyed ; defection has received praise, and has been sometimes raised to a principle ; the geography of treaties has been singularly modified. "The revolutionary element is the principle of that se' tation. It is in veiin that it disguises itself under various forms—it reveals itself Everywhere. It is impossible either. to disdain or to disguise it. It lives in the new sYstem " education and civilization—in the materi alism of efi s ije t i h en a ce t . t] in the equalizing civil law ; it runs on the railway -1 strikes like the flash of electricity. "Itis a severe trial for tradit i onal as violent as it IS contest which is about to conaniAnt 4. h dei • stic of the decisive ; and this is why the other year that finishes is preparation. " Arms are manufactured on both sides ; the spirit of revolution reveals itself proudly. A certain audacity reigns which braves all respect for acquired right—for all tradi. tional possession. The Hungarian legions fraternize with the Italian and Polish legions. An adventurous breeze comes from the island of Caprera which will blow a tempest f ro m the Adriatic to the Vistula. it is the importance of this strange struggle that the a uthor of the present paper wishes to point out. He hete neither the pretension to advise nor to teach ; he has cast w glance on the year which closed ; he has been enabled to foresee the necessary facts of the year which commences. That is his entire work. If he has attempted to indicate the bases of a transformation and of a solution it is because they are indispensable, and that we may arrive at them. God wills not that human difficulties shall be prolonged in defmitely. The 19th century has need of its Congress of Westphalia." MILITARY TRAINING AT COMMERCIAL SCHOOLS. —While wandering the other day in Essex over the richly wooded and lofty country near Buckhurst-hill, we suddenly came upon some 50 boys in the full enjoyment of military drill. We learned that twice a week, with their vegetable leather gaiters, and otherwise accoutred, they start from as academy near Woodford, officered by Mr. Hopkins, the principal, and their French and German masters, for a five or more miles march out to some one of the many of the lovely and picturesque spots around. A hardy, handsome, and firmly-knit little band was this, and while ferocious appetites thus acquired were subdued upon their return with ample and healthful food, we could not marvel at hearing that the doctor and his phial crew had been wholly expelled the school. The love of such training is clearly natural to us, and the results, under judicious management, are a lengthened draught upon life when thus drawn esci accepted at so early a date.—United Service Gazette. .. ;.i