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For habitual costiveness, as a flu nily aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appe ite, pro mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, 20, Jermyn-street, Haymarket, London, sad by most druggists, in boxes, is. lid., and three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's 'Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package, with " William Lambert," engraved on the stamp. .RAUCE.-LEA AND P . ERRINS K../ beg to caution the Public against Spurious Imitations of their world-renowed WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE. Purchasers should ASK FOR LEA AND PERKINS' SAUCE, Pronounced by Connoisseurs to De "THE ONLY GOOD SAUCE." *** Sold Wholesale and for Export, by the Proprietors, Worcester; Messrs. CROSSE and BLACKWELL, London, &c. ac., and by Grocers and Oilmen universally. TEA.---STRACHAN and CO.'S Strong Rough " Domestic" Black at 3s. 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A clean body will contain pure blood, when the stomach, body. and blood are pure, from regulating and Cleansing the bowels, health is certain. Be •in at the be ginning, waste no time; strike at the root of 'your ailmont. Again, I say, look to your stomach. One trial of these pills Will force conviction. Sold in bottles, at is. lid., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6&, and Ils. Sold by Buchan and Co., 22, Newman-street, Oxford street. London, W., and to be had of all chemists in town and country, or forwarded on re eipt of stamps. Wholesale Agents :—Barclay a r d Son, 75, Farringdon-st. THE VIGOUR - OF YOUTH RESTORED IN FOUR WEEKS by Dr. RICORD'S ESSENCE OF LIFE. This wonderful agent will restore manhood to the most chattered constitution, whether arising from self-pollution, excesses, nocturnal emissions, the effects of climate, or natu ral causes. 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A. Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, is. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, root office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, Arc., for Varicose Veins an d all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &o. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 108., to 16s. each. Postage 6d. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228,-Piccadilly. Price Gd., or post free for 7 stamps, UNSOUNDNESS OF INDIAN GUA R AN TEES, shown in a Letter to Mtn - rm. SLAUGHTER, Esq., Secretary of the Stock Exchange, London. By IL TEMPLE-HUMPH Ertl"' Tallaut and Co., 5, Ave Maria-lane. DR. LA'MERT ON SELF-PRESERVATION. Price Is. ; post-free, 13, or sealed ends, 20 stamps, with En gravings and Cases. May be had of Mann and Co., 3), Cornhill, London, or direct from the Author. ELF-PRESERVATION.—A popular Essay on Nervous and Physical Debility, resulting from injurious habits contracted in youth, or excesses in maturity, which, by prematurely exhausting the functions of Manhood, de stroy the happiness of Married Life or prevent the fulfil ment of engagements which constitute the most cherished objects of existence. By Dr. LAIEERT, 37, Bedford-square, London. Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, &a The above work contains most useful and interesting information on the physiological changes which occur In the Reproductive System during the periods of youth, Puberty, and manhood ; and on the due attainment of that degree of functional vlgour upon which the hopes of posterity depend. It also points out how all the attributes of Man hood can be preserved to an advanced period of life, how they are lost, and how they can be recovered. It is free from the gross exaggerations, alarming descriptions, and dangerous remedies so generally resorted, to by persons, who, prac tising with false medical qualifications, inflict most serious Injuries, and render judicious treatment frequently abortive. The Author is the only legally qualified practitioner Whose name stands on the Medical Register (the only true test of medical qualification), who has been exclu sively engaged for a series of years in the treatment of the various functional disorders of the nervous and reproductive system, which, owing to the great discoveries of modern Science, are rendered subservient to a rational, simple, and easy mode of treatment. At home for consultation daily from 10 till 2, and from 6 fill 8, either personally or by letter.-37, Bedford-square. DR. CULVERWELL'S LAST NEW WORK, OURSELVES. Price Is., by post ls. Id. ; of Mann, 29, Cornhill. On Spermatorrhcea, Syphilis, Stricture, llmmorrhoids, Oleets, &c . 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" This work, which for twenty years has stood the test of professional criticism and empin c•al hostility, treats in a plain and sympathising manner -on the various disqualifications and impediments arising from hervous excitement and de bility ; and to invalids suffering from youthful errors and axcesses it will be found valuable and useful."—Record. London : Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, Pater noster-row; Mann, 29, Cornhill. fircure 91 consultation-10 tO 3 and 6to 8; tiundays, 10 till / 010111140 ' /. (1714 '!'' # \ -Ctig. : : : TILE GREAT CHRISTMAS CATTLE MARKET. Notwithstanding that the value of live stock has not ruled so high during the greater portion of the present year as in 1860, the exhibition of beasts here to-day, for Christmas consumption, was unquestionably, taken as a whole, the best on record. The great abundance of food in most of our grazing districts, and the improved health of the stock, compared with some previous years, has certainly been in favour of a large show, both as respects number and quality; but we believe that fewer second-rate and inferior animals were brought forward this morning than at the corresponding period since 1857. Owing, however, to the immense number of young beasts, chiefly crosses, on sale, some persons may be inclined to take exception to these observations ; but it must be understood that had it net been for a most extensive system of crossing —so extensive, indeed, as almost to threaten the extinction of some particular breeds—the consumptive demand of the United Kingdom, even allowing a large margin for importations from the continent, could not possibly have been mdt by our graziers. Prices, therefore, would have ruled very high—though stock would have been selling at rates considerably above the views of cautious buyers—and the result would have been highly prejudicial to the inte rests of a portion of the grazing community. We freely admit that great caution is necessary how far the system of crossing is further increased; nevertheless, it is evident that thus far it has proved highly beneficial to the country generally. It is, however, surprising to find beasts, only 15 or 16 months old, weighing from 110 to 120 stones, and of a quality not to be sur passed, even by the best Scots—we hero allude more par ticularly to a portion of the supply from Scotland and Nor folk, but when we consider the high quotations realised for them, we may congratulate the graziers upon the great success of their efforts to meet the demand with a descrip tion of stock which has become highly valuable both to the butchers and consumers. This success has naturally in duced breeders in nearly all parts of the kingdom to extend their system of crossing; hence, to-day, almost every breed exhibited less distinctive features than hither to, and we may safely venture to assert that' there were fully 2,000 beasts on show, chiefly crosses with short horns or Scots—possibly with Devons or Herefords. We may now offer a few observations in reference to the pure breeds. In' number, the shorthorns certainly stood first. The quality of this particular stock is too well known to require any lengthened comment from us ; but we may state that the supply in this particular was a wonderful one, though, at the same time, it must be admitted that the enormous weight of k omo of the animals was against what we should consider a full average price. As regards the Devons, they were in quite their usual force, and scarcely any of them were beneath really fine quality. Possibly some few of them were of a heavier weight than the general character of the stock seems to warrant. The 40 North Devon oxen, fed by Mr. Senior, of Broughton House, near Aylesbury, were certainly remarkable animals. Some of them weighed 200 stones, and the whole changed hands at high rates. There was a superb show of Herefords, but the number was not quite equal to some former seasons. The Sussex beasts were in considerable strength, but most of theniwere of an ago which told against their actual value. No doubt they will die well, but butchers generally do not regard; six and seven years' old bullocks with much favour in this age of crossing. There were some very good Welsh runts in the market, but long-horned stock was a very scarce commodity. Quite the average number of Irish beasts was brought forward, and in a comparative sense they were mostly in prime condition. The arrivals from Scotland were large, and of a quality seldom equalled ; indeed, our impresssion is that the show of Scots was far superior to last year. The finest portion of the supply comprised the 36 Scots exhibited by Messrs. Maidwell and Hoyland, and the six shown by Mr. John Lumsden, all the property of Mr. John M'Combie, of Tillyfour. They were greatly admired for their splendid symmetry, and the prices rea lised were very high. The following return shows the number of beasts exhi bite.l, and the prices realised for them on the great days in the last 20 years : Years. Beasts shown. Prices. 1841 .. 4,503 .. 3s 8d to 5s Od 1842 .. 4,541 .. 3s 4d 4s 8d 1843 .. 4,510 .. 2s 8d 4s 4d 1844 .. 5,713 .. 4s. Od 4s 6d 1845 .. 5,326 .. 3s Gd 4s 8d 1846 .. 4,570 .. 4s Od 5s 8d 1847 .. 4,282 .. 3s 4d 48 8d 1848 .. 5,942 .. 3s 4d 4s Fid 1849 .. 5,765 .. 3s 4d 4s Gd 1850 .. 6,341 .. 3s Od 3s 10d 1851 .. 6,103 .. 2s 8d 4s 2d 1852 .. 6,271 .. 2s 8d 4s Od 1853 .. 7,037 .. 3s 2d 4s 10d 1854 .. 6,181 .. 3s 6d os 4d 1855 .. 7,000 .. 3s 8,1 4s 2d 1866 .. 6,748 .. 38- 4d 58 Od 1857 .. 6,&56 .. 3s 4d 4s 8d 1858 .. 6,424 .. 3s 4d 58 Od 1859 .. 7,560 .. 3s Gd 53 4d 1860 .. 7,860. 3s 4d 5s 4d On Mr. Giblett's stand we noticed some very fine Nor folk cattle, fed by Mr. G. Wortley and Mr. Robert Wortley. Mr. Giblott had likewise on sale a large number of Scotch beasts, forwarded by Messrs. Stewart, Martin, and Knowles, of Aberdeen, and Mr. Maurice of Huntly. Messrs. Morgan and Allday had a very good show of stock, comprising Soots from Mr. Robert Leeds, and from Messrs. Ruddick and Stodart. There were, likewise, some very good Herefords on the stand. Mr. Vorley had an unusually prime supply of beasts. The short-horns forwarded by Mr. Cartwright, of Kirkby, near Sleaford ; the Scots belonging to Mr. North, of Small borough; tho 12 Scots forwarded by Air. Hutchinson; and the five runts by Mr. Thompson, of Thorp, were greatly admired. Mr. Collins had a very fine shot of beasts, including runts and Doyens, belonging to Mr. Coallis, of Coington Grange; Herefords and Devons, the property of Mr. S. Rogers, of Lashbury ; and Scots, from Mr. R. Overman, Blyth, Bow, &c., of Norfolk, together with the latter breed from Mr. Martin, of Newmarket, Aterdeen. Some of the latter were seven years' old. Mr. George Dickson's show of beasts was a very fine one. It embraced, as usual, a large number of Scotch fed beasts of , excellent quality, and many of them wore much ad mired for symmetry. They were forwarded by Messrs. Knowles, Martin, Thomson, Murray, Kidd, Wisbart. Bruce, Longmore, Stodart, Frost, Mitchell, and other graziers. _ . There was a full average number of sheep on offer in fair condition. We noticed some very fine sheep on the stand of Mr. B.Weall, from Oxon andßerks, including some for warded by Mr. W. Micklem, as well as by Messrs. Vidlers, Walters, and other graziers. Mr. J. B. Wesll had, also, a fine show of sheep, from Messrs. Rowland,White, &c. Mr. Gurrier had, likewise, a good show. Amongst it were 10 prize Downs from Mr Paul, of the Isle of Wight, and 60 Gloucester's from Messrs. Hewers and Fletcher. The sheep exhibited by Mr. Collins were in prime condition. Mr. Lintoll's sheep were very prime. They were principally Downs, chiefly from Surrey and Kent, forwarded by Mr. Hofgen, near Chichester, Lord For tmore, Mr. Paul, &c. Mr. Eland had 40 very fine Lincolns, sent by Mr. Heanley of Croft, and 20 by Mr. Chatterton of Wigtoft. Mr. Dodd exhibited 20 very fine west country Downs. STATE OF THE TRADE. Owing to the changeable state of the weather, and the large supply of stock on offer, the beef trade was in a slug gish state, and, compared with last week, very little change took place in prices. A. fow very inferior lots, &c., realised 55 2d per 81bs, but the general top figure for beef .was 5s per 81bs. From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northamptonshire wo received 3,000 short horns, &c. ; from Norfolk, 1,600 Scots, &c.; from Scotland, 1,100 Scots and crosses; and from Ireland, 820 oxen and heifers. Primo Downs and half breds were in fair request, at full quotations, viz., 5s 6d per Sibs, but other breeds moved off slowly, and prices had a drooping tendency. Calves were short k upply and steady request, at :full prices- Pigs, the show of which was large, were a slow sale, at late rates. Per Slb. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. Orso. & inf. boasts 3 4 3 8 Second quality do. 3 4 4 4 Prime large oxen 4 6 4 8 Prime Scots, &o. 4)10 5 0 Ors°. & inf. sheep 3 2 3 6 Second quality do. 3 8 4 4 Lambs, Os I Suckling calves, 21s to 30s 21s to 295. s. d. s. d Primecrs-wool d 0.4 6 6 2 Pine. S'thdowndo.s 4 5 6 Largo orse. calves 4 6 5 0 Prime small do 5 2 5 6 Large hogs 3 10 4 4 ISmall porkers 4 64 10 Id to Os Od. and quarter-old store pigs, TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts Sheep 6,260 Calves Pigs. 460 Pigs .... .. ... The total impprts of foreign stock into London, last week, amounted t0:5,192 head. In the corresponding week in 1860, we received 4,525—in 1859, 4,364—in 1858, 5,734 —in 1857, 1,896—in 1856, 1,895—in 1855, 4,326 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON EAST WEER. From Beasts. Sheop. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Rotterdam .... 213 .. 2344 .• 122 .. 30 Harlingen .• • • 147 .. 1140 • • ••••-• • • 2 .. 31 liamburgh .. 158 , Oporto. •••• . . • • • -- .. .. Vigo .. ** • • • • -- • . Dordt— .. —' .. .. -- Amsterdam.... Breme n Boulogne 'ronning — • . • . Medemblik Antwerp Nieu Dicp * - • • ,-- , . '-'"" • • ''"'"' • . ..--* .-- .. '--- • • °""'" • • .... Total 308 4 ) 639 a• 1 24 61 r4: 1115t1 , ,S> ,r,NI ' 169_„0- V a ' A Loxpop,: MONDAY EVENING, goanammasurisisimart comparisons of weekly imports is as f01i0 . % , easts. Sheep. Lambs. CalVes. Pigs. 1860 499 3,702 .. 255 .. 59 1859 .. 678 .. 3,424 .. 141 .. 121 1858 555 .. 4,756 375 .. 48 1857 3lB .. 1,473 .. 195 155 6 485 1,193 .. 285 .. 12 1855 73a .. 3,529 .. 21 .. - COMPARISON O 1 TILE " GREA.T DAYS." A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the great metropolitan cattle market, on Monday, Dec. 17, 1860;and this day, Monday, Doc. 16, 1061. Per 81b. to Sink the offal. Dec. 17, 18GO. Coarse and inferior beasts.... 3 4to 3 8 Second quality do Primo !argeUxen 4 6 5 0 Primo Scots, &c 5 2 5 4 Coarse and inferior sheep 3 8 310 Second quality do. .. 4 0 4 8 Prime coarse-woolled do. 410 5 4 Primo Southdown do. 5 6 510 Lambs Largo coarse calves Prime small do. Large hogs Neat smalliporkers Beasts Sheep and lambs 19,550 Calves Pigs .. 515 The yearl ?HE NAVY. Dec. 16, 1861. 3 4to 3 8 310 4 4 46 4 8 410 5 0 32 3 6 38 4 4 46 5 2 54 6 6 00 0 0 46 5 0 52 5 6 310 4 4 4 6 410 8,040 26,300 202 460 VALETTA; bee: 10. - --:The'greatest excitement here during the past few days owing to orders having been received by telegraph by the Naval Commander in-Chief to despatch, as speedily as possible, all the disposable ships of war to Gibraltar, for the par pee, it• is rumoured, of having them ready, in case of war with the North American States, to send off into American waters. The despatch conveying these order's reached Malta, if is said, in the almost unprecedentecily short time of four hours. Two line of-battle shipo, the' Algiers, 89, Capt. Rice, and the Queen, 80, Capt. Hillyar, and a gunboat, the Alac rity, 4, Commlinder J. K. E. Baird, have already left, and two Other liners, the Agamemnon, 91, Capt. T. Hope, and the James Watt, 91, Captain E. Codd, and another gunboat, the Foxhound, 4, Commander the Hon. H. C. Hobart, will, I hear, leave for the same destination mown as theiare ready for sea, probably about Saturday next. The sloop Firebrand, 6, Commander Bruce, which arrived on the Bth from Gibraltar, was,ordered•back again immediately, and left on the Oth. Two frigates, the Amphion, 36, Capt. Birch, from Messina, and the Liffey, 61, Capt. G. Preedy, C. 8., from Corfu, have been likeirise ordered off by telegraph for the Straits, and it is reported that the naval forces now assembling there in such haste will be still further augmented by some of the ships from the coast of Syria. The Tri- I dent, 3, Commanderß. G. Nicolas, arrived on the Bth, in five days, from Gibraltar, but I have not heard whether she is to be sent back again. The Terrible, 21, Capt. F. H. H. Glasse, C. 8., has also arrived hero from Palermo, and nothing is yet said about her departure. The Algiers before leaving exchanged some 30 or 40 of her condemned guns for serviceable ones,' ncluding the usual complement of Armstrong* with which nearly all the ships are now provided: The Queen was at Syracuse and was recalled by telegraph, arriving here on the Bth, and leaving, as before stated, on the 9th. While there, the Governor of Syracuse, attended by his staff, went on board and was received by Capt. Hillyar and his officers. On leaving the ship ho was saluted with 15 guns. The Neptune, 91, Capt. Hornby, left Malta on the sth inst. for Syra cuse and Corfu. The Coosa; 90, Capt. T. Mason, arrived on the previous day from the Piraeus, hav ing been relieved there by the Melpomene, 51, Capt. E wart ; the Mars, 80, Capt. J. N. Strange; and the Surprise, 4, have left Malta for the Firms. The Mars was inspected previousto her departure by the captain of the Fleei. On the 4th inst. a soldier of the Royal Artillery. quartered in St. Elmo Barracks fired his carbine at his Adjutant, Capt. Keate, who ou hearing the report, exclaimed ' There's another military murder.' It was not until some one in formed him he had been fired at that he was aware of the danger of his life had been in. Th e ruffian, having missed his aim, was seized in the act of re loading his carbine to make a second attempt. He immediately confes sed his crime. There appear s , however, to be some doubt as to the man's sanity. Her Majesty's surveying vessel Medina, Capt. T. A. Spratt, C. 8., came in on the 7th inst. from Alex andria for the winter, to repair. The Victor Em manuel, 91, has left Messina for Corfu. The Megrera troopship is daily expected from that island. Her Majesty's ships in port are :—The Marlborough, 131 (flagship of the commander-in chief) ; Hibernia, receiving-ship (bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral H. J. Codrington, C. 8.) ; Aga memnon, 91 ; James Watt, 91; Caesar, 90; Ter rible, 21; Medina, 4, surveying vessel; Firefly, ditto ; Trident, 3 ; Foxhound, 4 ; and tug Hearty. Foreign :—ltalian war steamer Monzambano." Additional orders have been received from the Admiralty directing the Argus, 6,981 tons, 300 horse power, paddlewheel steamer, to be brought forward for commission with the utmost expedition. In consequence of the numerous steamvessels now being fitted for commission at Chatham Dockyard, Admiralty orders have been received at that estab lishment directing that the fitting of the Jumna, 16, sailing ship, for a guardahip on the coast of Africa, is not to be prcceeded with for the present. Tho screw steam frigate Emerald, 51, Capt. A. Cumming, put back to Plymouth Sound on Satur day, as reported in The Sun; she has been as far and made but little prog r e ss as the Bay of Biscay, under both sail and steam, having encountered very heavy gales from the south-west, in one of which she carried away the yoke of her steering wheel. She returned in consequence. Her boats have also been slightly damaged. The Emerald left Ports mouth originally on particular service, and during an absence of a month incurred suet injuries on the banks of Newfoundland that she was compelled to put back. Her stern -post, knee, &c., were repaired in dock, and she left the Sound again on Monday last, the 9th inst., for the North American station. A number of gunners and first class seamen, in cluding several non-commissioned and warrant offi cers, have left the Pembroke, 60, training ship, at Harwich for headquarters, in consequence of instruc tions from the Admiralty. Three draughts have left, the men being intended to join the ships recently ordered for immediate commission. • , The screw steam frigate Orlando, 51, was on Saturday put out of Keyham basin, and placed at moorings off the Devonport Dockyard for conve nience of fitting her for the pennant. During Saturday and previous day an important series of trials was made at the testing-house in Chat ham dockyard, for the purpose of submitting to powerful tests a superior description of iron from the ironworks belonging to Earl Dudley, at Dudley, which it is proposed shall be used in the construc tion of the Achilles. Upwards of 60 specimens of bar, plate, angle, and T iron have been forwarded to Chatham dockyard, with the request that they may b 6 submitted to any tests thought desirable to ascertain their quality. Accordingly two days were occupied in testing, by means of the hydraulic en gines, the various specimens forwarded, Earl Dudley being represented at the trials by Mr. Smith, his principal manager, Mr. Schofield, and Mr. Azzani ; Mr. Lang, master shipbuilder, and Mr. Cotsell, mas ter smith, at Chatham, superintending the trials on the part of the Admiralty. The average standard required by the Admiralty is that the best iron shall stand a test of 22 tons to the inch with the grain, and ID tons against it. The samples coming up to that qualification are considered very good, a consi derable quantity of the iron recently sent in to Chat ham dockyard for the Achilles having attained no thing like that standard, and consequently been all rejected. Out of the 68 samples of iron sent in from Earl Dudley's works, every kind, with only one ex ception, bore the 22 tons test without exhibiting the slightest flaw, the great majority of the samples re quiring s ci t o h a e r o e n i o u r o m h o b u e s fo f r o o r a c n e y o z 2 O B o a f n a d n e v a e w n 3 0 0 u t d o b n es , 1? DECEMBER ( - "Z NEWSP Sinclair d eficiene INLWSPAPER.. e c v _ c _ 4 . v•tA - t - 0 , 4 •-r . 1g • betra • ofer Z 1 .! ,' ,A 10 . )" le hoVever, le or inappreciable as flaws H . 4 - i - -‘ ,------- vC_-___ ,st—` -“l.+ _ ~~ 16, 1861. detected. In one instance a small sample of iron of about 2 inches square actually endured the strain of 64 tons, the ponderous chain of the hydraulic press even snapping without any sign of a fracture to the iron tested. So satisfactory were the trials consi dered that the officials of the dockyard who super. intended them state that in all their experience they never tested iron at all equal to that submitted to trial on Saturday. There can be no doubt that the Lords of the Admiralty will at once accept the offer of Earl Dudley to supply the iron for the Achilles, provided an agreement can be arrived at with re gard to the price. It is stated that four 100-pounder Armstrong guns will shortly be mounted at Great Yarmouth-- two at the north and two at the south battery. The following appointments were made on Satur day at the Admiralty :—Commander T. J. Young, additional, to the Colossus, for service in the Coast guard ; N. G. Willoughby, midshipman, to the Stromboli ; W. H. Adlam, second master, to the Investigator; and S. S. Hall, master's assistant, to the Swallow. LITERATURE. THE A.Rllll'. It was the intention of his Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief to inspect the bri gade of Foot Guards, quartered in the metropolis, early on Saturday morning, but the order was coun termanded at the last moment, the Duke having gone to • Windsor Castle at an early hour, on learn ing the dangerous state the Prince Consort was in. The Ist battalion of the Grenadier Guards at the Tower are under orders to proceed to Southampton on Thursday morning to embark at -that port for Canada. The battalion will be of its full complemen t of 100 rank and file. The 2d battalion of the Scots Fusileer Guards at Wellington barracks are under similar orders, and will also embark at that port. The greatest activity prevails in the military store department at the Tower, the men being employed almost continuously day and night in getting the various stores required for service in Canada ready for shipment. • Orders were on Saturday received at the Royal Engineer Establishment, Chatham, from the Horse Guards, directing the various non-commissioned officers and men transferred from the several com panies to the 18th Company at Portsmouth to be held in readiness to proceed on an early day this week to Southampton, where they will join the main body of the 18th Company and embark for Canada. A number of non-commissioned officers, all of them skilled in their various engineering duties, who have been transferred to the 18th Com pany, have joined headquarters from the various out stations, and will proceed from Brompton bar racks with the other detachments. The entire force of the garrison at Chatham, under the immediate command of Major-Gen. Eyre, was engaged in some important military operations on Saturday, the object of which was to accustom the officers and men of the several battalions to active operations in the field by an extended reconnais sance of the country surrounding the garrison. For this purpose advantage was taken of the fine weather on Saturday to assemble the whole of the available troops, including the Royal Artillery, the Royal Engineers, the three battalions of infan try of the line, and the battalion of Royal Marine Light Infantry,-to take part in the proposed man oeuvres. Each battalion assembled in front of its respective quarters at an early hour, and, after 10 rounds of blank bad been served out to each man, the final orders for the day were issued, and the several divisions marched off by different routes to take up the position assigned to each. The plan of the operations supposed the enemy to be assembled in force in or near the town of Maidstone, with the intention of marching on Chatham, the troops of which garrison had been ordered out to intercept his movements and hold him in check until a larger force had been organised in rear. The troops ac cordingly occupied the range of hills extending from Blue 8011-hill, Aylesford, to Bosley, near Maidstone, the line extending somewhere about four miles a position well chosen for strategical purposes, the left resting on a wood, and the right near an extensive valley. The various positions were gained by each division marching by different routes until the rallying points were reached and the line of ob servation formed. Communication with each was kept up by a chain of pi c k e t s , patrols, and videttes. A sufficient force was kept in reserve along the line of road, and sufficiently retired from the crest of the range of hills to be hidden from the view of those in the valley. The Royal Artillery acted as cavalry, the troops on each flank throwing forward patrols to the various cross-roads and keeping up communi cations with the videttes. In anticipation of the enemy retiring from - Maidstone and destroying Aylesford-bridge the Royal Engineers were in structed to be in readiness to construct a pontoon bridge to enable the brigade to cross the Medway to harass his rear until a superior force had arrived from Chatham to attack his flank near the river. The several corps having been detailed in position, Major-Gen. Eyre and his staff visited the various points in order to ascertain if each of the command ing officers was acquainted with the duty devolving upon him. This accomplished, and the whole of the previously arranged details carried out, the order was given for the force to return to the garrison. They arrived there shortly before 3 o'clock, after an absence of nearly six hours. The Colonelcy of the 49th Foot has become va cant by the demise of Gen. Sir E. Bowater, K.C,8., intelligence of whose death was received at Buck ingham Palace yesterday morning by telegraph. Sir Edward died at Cannes at 6 o'clock on Saturday evening. The gallant officer as Groom in Waiting to the Queen was selected by her Majesty to take charge of his Royal Highness Prince Leopold dur ing the Prince's sojourn in the south of France. He had been declining in health ever since his ar rival at Cannes. The late General, who was in his 74th year, was the only son of the late Admiral E. Bowater, of Hampton Court. He entered the 3,1 Foot Guards in 1804, and saw much active service with that gallant regiment during the war. He was wounded both at Talavera and Waterloo. Ho was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Ha noverian Guelphic Order in 1837, by the late King William IV., and had received the silver war medal and five clasps for Talavera, Salamanca, Vittoria, Nivelle, and Nive. Shortly after the late Prince Consort's arrival in this country in 1840 the de ceased General was appointed a Groom in Waiting in ordinary to her Majesty, and in the same year Colonel of the 49th (the Princess Charlotte's of Wales, or Hertfordshire) Regiment of Foot. ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL, PADDINGTON.—A public meeting was held on Wednesday, in the vestry-hall, Har row-road, to consider the financial condition of the hospital. The Bishop of London took the chair. It was stated by the several speakers that a debt of £3,000 was due f or current expenses, but that this did not arise so much from the ex penditure exceeding the income as from the fact that a debt of that amount had existed from the opening of the hospi tal. Resolutions were moved by Canon Boyd, Messrs. Wade, 11. Paull, M.P., R. Martineau, B. Shaw, and Sir R. Carden, expressing regret at the present deireeed con dition of the finances, and pledging the meeting to make a vigorous effort to pay off the present debt. Mr. Capel and Mr. Banting each handed to the treasurer checks for £lOO, and several other donations were promised. The proclamation prohibiting the export or transport coastwise of arms, ammunition, lead, and otlic r military stores, was read at the Market Cross, Edinburgh, at noon on Thursday, with the usual formalities. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills—Health Always Obtained.—With some necessary precautions health may generally be regained by taking a course of these purifying Pills in the spring. They thoroughly depurate the blood, search out all noxious matters, and carry off all morbid humours from the body. Their alterative properties place them in the foremost rank as correctors and improvers of the secretions, They discipline disordered functions, re move the cause of the irregularity, and restore its regular and natural action to every organ without inconvenience, pain, or any other drawback. Where the blood is im poverished, the constitution broken down, or the nervous system shattered, every invalid should make trial of Hollo way's Pills, Their benign action will speedily reassure the most despondeutt ( r *' !1 PRICE..... STAMPED ....sd. AY MUMS NEWT WORK. Norman Sinclair. By W. Edmonstoune Aytoun, D.C.L. 3 vols. Blackwood and Sons: A poet turned novelist is no unusual spectacle. Yet, accustomed though the reading public has been to this spectacle, from the instance of the great Sir Walter downwards, ,it is always interesting to contemplate it. It always has a freshness of its own that piques the curiosity of the most jaded critics. We don't know any literary novelty in its way, for example, more likely to compete in mere attractive ness with—let us say —supposing we could possibly imagine such an occurrence—A novel by Alfred Tennyson. Instead, however, of loitering to muse thus over any such eccentric improbability—here is a substantial "ease in point"—precisely the very phenomenon we are now alluding to as always in vested in our regard with a very peculiar allure ment, as invariably commanding our attention and enlisting our sympathies upon the instant. Profes sor Aytoun has long been honourably known to the reading public in many capacities as one among the more rarely gifted contributors to our contemporary literature. His popularity is not by this time mat ter of uncertainty. It is ripened and assured. As a poet he enjoys, and deservedly enjoys, a very high reputation. We speak not here of his " Bothwell"—but refer more particularly to his poetic masterpiece, "The Lays of the Scottish Ca valiers." The brilliant success achieved by which has stamped upon its very title-page the timbre of public approbation—" Thirteenth Edition" appear ing there upon the last issue of " The Lays" as evi dence that the writer of them has secured to him self a somewhat higher repute than that appertain ing to merely an accomplished versifier. Everyone who knows anything at all about the volume— knows some of it, we would almost wager, by heart. The musical cadence, the rythmic swing, the verve, the passion, at times the very rapture of the verse in Aytoun's Scottish Cavaliers, 'waken in the reader's heart a responsive enthusiasm—he turns the pages unconsciously from the Table of Contents to the Finis—and by the time the book is fairly closed upon even a first perusal of it, there are passages (unless the reader be some what of a dunce) that come chiming back like echoes in his memory. Hence —" Thirteenth Edition." Hence—by reason of this one par ticular effusion—the fact that Professor Aytoun's name approaches us always—secure of its wel come. Besides the poetical reputation, however, gained for himself almost entirely by that one book, the "Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers"—not the least atom in the world, to our mind, by his more elaborated poem of " Bothwell"—Professor Aytoun has won his sours long ago in the lists of letters as a Critic, and in a double sense also as a Humorist, almost equally, that is to say, as a prose and as a poetic Humorist. His contributions to Blackwood's Magazine have been so numerous, so various, almost always so distinguished for their al ternate and sometimes combined vigour and vivacity, that among the public at large he has long been re garded by many as sitting in the chair of Christo pher North, as occasionally wielding the crutch still (in his grip) so much the dread of Noodledom. Who has not laughed over the annals of the Glenmutchkin Railway—A.l. among the "Tales from Blackwood?" Who, again, has forgotten our author's " How I Stood for the Dreepdaily Burghs ?" Then there is that delightful half-reputation —not by any means, however, in the idiomatic meaning of the phrase a " half - and - half " reputation won by Edmonstoune Aytoun and Theodore Martin together (after the Orestes and Pylades fashion of Beaumont and Fletcher, or Johnson and Garrick) under the bizarre nom de plume of the :redoubtable BON GUALTIER ! A personage, by the way, whom we can hardly think of without laughter. Here, again, what is it we read significantly upon the title-page ? " Seventh Edi tion." We only wonder, however, that it has not long since come to be the Seventeenth—" The Book of Ballads" abounds so with exquisite and irresistible drolleries—being a veritable companion (as one may say, a genuine boon companion) to the famous " Rejected Address." Then have we not a delicious recollection of the instance in which Pro fessor Aytoun (apart altogether from Mr. Theodore Martin) once upon a time did " Our Young England's penny trumpet blow I" putting it to his own lips exclusively—through the mask of T. Percy Jones—and thereupon winding a blast "most musical, most" just, exactly the opposite of " melancholy " waking everywhere, echoing and re-echoing bursts of laughter to the tune of Firraillian ! Together with his twin-brother of the pen, Theodore Martin, Professor Aytoun has more recently accom plished, in several instances with exquisite sue cess (ex. gr., as we indicated at the time in their wonderful version of the " Bride of Corinth") — Professor Aytoun and Mr. Martin, we say, have more recently accomplished in re gar d to the Poems and Ballads of Goethe, what Sir Bulwer Lytton ac complished some years since in regard to the Poems and Ballads of Schiller ! Giving them accurately, that is, to the people of another tongue—in our own resounding and melodious vernacular. Already we have spoken of the high position attained by Professor Aytoun among living Critics. His Lectures upon Poetry, delivered several summers back in Willis's Rooms, St. James's —we, viho at tended those lectures, sedulously commenting upon them in these columns one by one as they were given, can assert, from our own knowledge of the fact, are still borne here in London circles in delight ful remembrance. Often though we remember to havefound it impossible to do otherwise than dissent toto ccelo from the conclusions arrived at by Pro fessor Aytoun in the course of his poetical criticisms, we still listened with respect to the earnest avowal of opinions that we could not at the same moment but deem in our (of course we are perpetually conscious of this) fallible judgment altogether erroneous. And, as we listened with the; liveliest sense of pleasure to those same Lectures upon Poetry, while they were in the course of de livery, so after the lapse of eight or ten years, we hold them still in most agreeable remembrance. However, it is not as a Critic that we have now occasion to regard Professor Aytoun anew—any more than we have to scrutinise him in his various characters as a Translator, as a Satirist, as a Humorist both in Prose and Verse, above all, as a Poet—fiege princeps among our living Northern Lyrists. No—it is because he has added a new role to his already long catalogue of parts that we have occasion now to turn our regard upon him, to ex amine into his new evidence of audacity as an enterprising man-of-letters. The Satirist and Humorist, the Poet and Critic, has at length in his own good time appeared upon the scene under a wholly different aspect, in a wholly different capacity—as a Novelist. And now that his new work appears before us in its entirety, it does so in the old approved fashion as a symmetrical 3 volumed Novel, price I ls. 6d.—the old price —before Rail way Libraries for the Million had been dreamt of, and before any Chancellor of the Exchequer had ventured to lay his unhallowed hand upon the once sacred impost levied upon the raw material of literature ! Only, to account now for the main tenance of the old price, upon a work of this cha racter, in an age when the paper duty exists no more, and when cheap editions along the civilised track of our railroads are as " plentiful as black berries" used to be upon the hedgerows skirting the old coach-traversed highways—the publishers can issue their works with adornments of paper binding and typography that contrast rather strangely with the old:dingily bound 3 vols. in boards, that were the ne plus ultra of the pub lishing world in the days of " Waverley." And now that Aytoun is fairly before us as a Novelist — how about the success or failure of his new venture as a man of letters? During the piecemeal publi cation of "Norman Sinclair" as a monthly serial in the pages of Blackwood's Magazine we have had a sense that the writer of the story was labouring the while under somewhat of a disadvantage. An examination of the work as it now lies before us in these three goodly volumes—all the scattered parts ofit being at length thus massed together —only con firms us in this impression, insomuch that we would venture to urge the author of "Norman Sinclair"— should he again undertake to discourse to us in his last developed capacity as a Novelist— we would cer tainly here venture to urge him so to do, not hereafter in a serial form, but at once in a separate and corn plete publication, as "Adam Bede" was publish( d, as all the old talcs—before series were thought of—were Wont to be published ofyore. Norman S:uclair, t here can hardly be a doubt of it—Mr. Aytoun must him self be quite conscious of the fact—hung fire re peatedly during the course of its piecemeal issue, as the current serial in Blackwood. It did so, in one point of view, quite unaccountably, now that we can take an uninterrupted and comprehensive view of the whole narrative. This—as we have said —regarding it excusively from one point of view. But there is another and a very essential one for a serial—the one in which we look upon it, not in regard to its intrinsic merits, but in regard to its peculiar character as a serial. With its merits— and they are numerous quad various, some of them, Ner, in truth, beini as as serial, b, These deft so to speak, imponderabl ppreciaa._ of art, when the work, no ,w that it is actually com pleted, comes to be regarded as a whole. For nar ratives published originally in this piecemeal man-. b n e er, co ti m ie p p lete aram i o n in i i t t s r e e l q r, uisite appears to be capable of definition th us —th at eac h li n k i n th e c h a i n s h a ll . anal that y separate links sh a ll be capable of allt revealingese an instantaneous continuity when bound to- Rether at the close. Like the juggler's rings (let us say) that—taken up one by one, and then carelessly jumbled together in the wizard's hands,. suddenly, in some mysterious manner, appear dangling from his grasp in one continuous chain. Is it th en asked—now that "Norman Sinclair" lies before us in its entirety —has Professor Aytoun succeeded in his new voca tion, that is as a Poet turned Itomancist ? The answer to this, we will say then at once, may be given very simply and very ern. phatically. As a Novelist—Y es, and Triumph antly. As a Serialist, No, beyond all doubt, and a thousand times No. We prefer therefore to regard the work—now that it comes substantially under our notice in its completed form—we prefer to regard it altogether—not as a serial, but as a whole. Its comparative failure as a serial is really and truly after all a subject of very fugitive considera tion. Its success as a completed story we are disposed on the contrary to look upon as assured and unmistakeable. With the hero himself, Norman Sinclair—a noble-hearted fellow—our sympathies go right cordially through all the joys and sorrows, through all the anxieties andvicissitudes of uto biographic narrative. He claims our own individual interest at occe,of course,from his professional charac ter as a . London journalist.. And we follow- . .the development of his fortimes with the liveliest curi osity from his earliest boyhood to th e happy cul mination of the star of his career as the husband of Mary, nAe Beaton, the charming heroine ! Mary being the daughter of Richard Beaton, the Railway Monarch. Around tile central group a wonderful crowd of imaginary beings, many of them doubtless drawn "from the life," all of them without any exception that we can think of, Mu. - bitably drawn "to the life"---4ttract our notice as we turn the pages of these volimes: fluctuating perpetually in their combinations, as they do, the while•like the parti-coloured fragments of a kaleido scope. Specimens of humanity from various nations, from all classes, in divers garbs and of most viyelly contrasting character, live. and move before us as we sit within the magic ci rc le o f the Romancist. Yonder is my Lord Windermere, an admirable example of the English aristocrat. Yonder Sir George Smoothly, M.P.—" as pliable a glove, as slippery as an eel, and as consistent as April wea ther." Here slouches by in his huge peajacket a genuine original—David Osett, the sterling and the whimsical. There trips past us—dainty, riant, fastidious—Arthur Faunce, better known in the story as Attie Faunce, the universal favourite. The' villain of the narrative—to whom due poetic jus tice is meted out at last—is Joseph Speedwell, the scampish butting man, eventually the forger, and generally coming, in the vilest sense of the words, under the category of a ne'er-do-well. In Mr. Pocock we have a sort of less eccentric Mr. Bucket —otherwise the type and paragon of a Detective. Mr.Shearaway, Writer to the Signet—one of the alarmingly entitled firm of Mucklecay, Littlewoo, and Shearaway—is excellently well delineated throughout as the common sense adviser, " guide, philosopher, . and friend " of Nor man.' •A' word of commendation is due likewise to the lifelike limning of Mr. Poins, the Solicitor. The portraiture of the Yankee adven turer Jefferson I. Ewins—is more_ elaborately done than the majority of the characters introduced. Yet even the best of these are often finished skefehes—pencilled too in styles the most diver sifieda now as it were in crayons, with a delicate tinge upon the cheek—now in sharp and well-cut outlines, like that little black-and-white shadow of a likeness known as the silhouette! Does any one want at a glance to appreciate Professor Aytoun'a perfect master of the genuine, quiint, racy Scottish dialect, let the seventh chapter in the second of these delightful volumes be turned to—the chapter com posed entirely (pp. 0-112) of Baillie M'Chappie's account of his memorable visit to Paris. Again— having thus tested our Novelist's powers as a sus tained Humorist—let his capacity as a pathetic writer be evidenced by Norman's simple and most touching narrative of the death of his uncle good Dr. Buchanan. Occasionally in the dry grotesque. ness of the mere manner of the narrative, one is reminded—particularly in the openings of the chapters—of the mock heroic ; seriocomic oddity • of Fielding. Quoth the writer gravely at the beginning of chap. vi., vol. Lawyers like crabs on a kitchen floor make more noise than speed, and sometimes to the vulgar eye, appear to retrograde instead' of advancing." In the same volume there are introduced at critical stages in the crowded movement of the plot some inimitable racing scenes, that would have glad dened the heart of Mr. Apperly, and that may compete with Jack Hinton's farnous steeplechase on Moderideroo ! As to the recollections of Auld Reekie in Norman's earlier childhood—recollec tions with the record of which the fiction opens to the reader's gaze—they, more vividly than any other portion of the story, appear to partake of the veritable character of autobiographic descrip tion. Altogether, viewing the narrative of Norman, Sinclair as a whole, we hesitate not to offer Pro fessor Aytoun—long ranked so highly in our estimation as Humorist, Critic, Satirist, Poet— our earnest congratulation upon his brilliant debut in his newly developed capacity as a Novelist. LETTERS TO VBNEZUELA. On the Ist January next, and thenceforwad, the following alterations will take place in the British rates of postage chargeable upon letters, book packets, and newspapers conveyed by packets be tween the United Kingdom and the Republic of Venezuela. Letters : The postage of letters will be reduced to the uniform British rate of 6d. the half•ounce, and so on, according to the usual scale for charging inland letters. This postage must, as heretofore, be in all cases prepaid. 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