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. . r/i, ~,.-.7 ‘e...e., ....4 ,,,,, ‘ 1.40 ( 1 b (€4le , (. vr - . 4 , . , 4 j ROYAL N.ERAL THEA.TRIP• RN ,t, 4,41:a i 1 ~ , ,-.::::, qty.,' 4<, , , ',.. , , . I , J k' lvt,., ~,/,,,,, ! 1 , • 0.131 - Aritt , I `. . , ...--..--- - -- - .---...-- '4' l ' 4 , " , • , . or 4-, ,Li ______.........,.....-- V' M .. Pi. ' ' ' \ ' 46. 5.. - -.4 .4 ... Hr - . ce `'' ix 11' *l* f...„' I " f'.. -----‘ ' '" . .." . „ -----4:: ; :' 4 '...'1 ? -, j, ( -4 1 '• , + Yesterday the annual meeting the Roy/0 flan ( -:. I t e ,p„. ,Ak . ' 4 llio - , ' , `4 - 1 , ;„,e• __ i, ;_...., ; , ‘,.. 4 , 1 Theatrical Fund was held in the saloon of tilt Lyck .;,. ,:. ~..,c , , ~ t, f ! ' ~ ''.. ,-"' , ;• ~., . ''''° ' ‘:',l'4 ;., " .c.A -",,,, , _ l / 4 7'''' 4,, \ ri- t•IV --------7- 2-' 2 ~., 1 f,' ) ' ;Theatre, for the purpose of receiviog a statemeOt_citpse, , r- ,, ..-„,..„,-,,,, ----- - - tit \ - /1' riT, - si, _ TAW - 4 C9 O ! ' . /I , t ' - . t t• , . . \ A ,i, .', of .' iciatio ,, - ' ..-_,),_ ~, \44, ,, ,,0 , 74 , - .'• / 1.„ „.? ''', (/•-' r , ~.' cP ' ! 1 . : 2 , '"1 ' . ', oN ~,,,, ,-, ..,,,.. ( R. ~._.. r ,.. 6 -,... 4 i A '4' ' .. • , ‘' i. . 00, /j ' Gb r ,1 . - brri! -, ' - $Z0 1 .„ , " - --....L L 1 , 11 , *"1 ~, ' R OLT. w. ' ' cl' . ---- '' , i. . "i TREA.TRE f R a YA a r h ,, is e t OVE P NrCt om. ARDEN. Lessee Mr. J. A. ANDERSON. r ~~-~ 'D tc)t xr -~-~-~.. Positively the LAST SIX NIGHTS of the most success ful Pantomime in London, and termination of the season, in consequence of the opening of the Royal Italian Opera. Rob Roy will be repeated on Friday. Rack-Eyed Susan will be repeated on Saturday. THIS EVENING, Douglas Jerrold's celebrated Drama of BLACK-EYED S IJSAN will be produced, being the second time it has been played at this Theatre for 27 years. William, by Professor Anderson. To be followed each evening by the Grand, National, Histo rical, and Chivalric PANTOMIME, which has been so long in Preparation, and on the Production of which so large au ex pense has been incurred, of YE BELLE ALLIANCE; or, HARLEQUIN GOOD Humoun, AND YE FIELDS OF YE CLOTHE OF GOLDE ; Being a LEGEND of the MEETING of the MONARCHS. " It was a marvellous sweete and goodlye sight to see those two Princes, in the &were of their age, in the height of their strengths and in the dignitie of theit manlye beautyo, corn inaudisg two great Nations, that bade been so long rivals and enemies, instead of leading hostile armies to desolate and destroye, meet in that peaceful valleys, and embrace like brothers, in the sights of the choice nobilitie of either land." —The Chroniclers. Tho Pantomime invented, arranged, and produced by Mr. A. Harris, with the same attention to Scenery, Costumes, and Effects, which has characterised the productions of " Ri goletto," "Il Trovatore," " L'Etoile du Nord," and the various Operas lately produced at this, the recognised chief Theatre in Europe for Spectacular Display. The entirely New and most elaborate Scenery Painted by and under the Super intendence of Mr. WILLIAM BEVERLEY, assisted by Meadrs. Cuthbert, C. Attains, W. Shalders, W. Glover, and numerous Assistants. Tho Openin r written by Mr. George Augustus Sala. The Music composed by Mr. Loder (who has obligingly lent his aid on account of the Pantomime being produced at this Theatre). The Ballet and Incidental Dancesarranged by Mr. Benjamin Barnett. The Comic Tricks invented by the Brothers Brough, Mr. A. Harris, and Mr. William Dorrington. The New Spectacular Designs by M. Guerin, of Paris. The Extensive and Complicated Machi nery by Mr. IL Slomau and numerous Assistants The Ori ginal and Ultra-Grotesque Masks by Mr. G. Ewing. Tho Novel and Costly Properties by Mr. Prescott, assisted by Mr. Moreland. The Ladies' Costumes by Mrs. James, assisted by Mr. Beauchamp. The Gentlemen's Costumes by Mr. Smithery, assisted by Mr. Lawrence. The Armoury Department by Mr. Hogg. The Chappellerie by Mrs. Walker. Copyist, Mr. Horton. Prompter, Mr. Rance. Perruquier, Mr. Rick ards, of Brydges-street. Covent-garden. The Novel Gas Arrangements by Mr. Palmer and Assistants. The Whole Production being minder the Immediate Superintendence of Mr. A. HARRIS. t ,. eI. • • - - f" Tr CAVLANS OE THE alomr, BPJTANNICUS IN SUBTERRANEAN U SSIA. Gnomes—Britannicus (a fine old English Gnome), one of the olden time, bearing a close resemblance to the " Old Gentleman," fully answering to his co-Gnome-en ; a pure un adulterated British Spirit, strongly opposed to anything in the shape of Foreign Wines, French Brandy, and great-in his be lief in Beer, 'Baccy, Beef, and Boxing—Mr. John Neville. Ballabile des Diablotines, by Mesdemoiselles E. Honey, Hicks, Arlington, Cleveland, Granville, Losh, Brown, Page, Gregory, Rose, Kendall, Martinez, Gossclin, Turtle, Ford, Stewart, Ranoe, and Clare Assistant Gnomes—Blue Fire, Mr, Williams ; Phosphorus ton, Mr. Samuels ; Candescentington, Mr. A. Smith ; Match well, Mr. Saunders ; Ignisfatty, Mr. P. A. James ; Red blazes, Mr. Volley; Cratervomit, Mr. Spindle; Torchlight, Mr. Jailer ; Blazeton, Mr. Parkes ; Suiphurite, Mr. Topham ; Flamington, Mr. Paxman ; Gassington, Mr. B. Brown ; Crater vomit, Mr. Simkins ; Hotspark, Mr, J. Jones; Illuminoso, Mr. Blockey ; Nitrebauk, Mr. Pratt. Scene 11. THE LAND'S END, CORN WALL, WITH THE CAR OF THE DRAGONS. Good Humour--(a familiar spirit, whose familiarity is con ducive to the very reverse of contempt. Tho prottieot page in the whole volume of the Pantomime)—Miss Harriet Gordon. Diorama—No. 1. THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON'S ARRIVAL IN LONDON, And his Enthusiastic Reception. Diorama—No. 2. QUEEN VICTORIA'S VISIT TO NAPOLEON'S TOMB, In the Hotel des Invalides at Paris. • " And o'er that shrine the last Bernemirance quench Of Malice 'twist the English and the French !" Scene 111, THE DECK OF " THE GREAT HARRY," FOUR- DECKER, 128 Guns (the first English Man-of-War). The vessel lying alcngsidethe Quay at Dover, with THE EMBARKATION OF 'HENRY 'THE EIGHTII. Henry the Eighth (a stout monarch, of middle age, residing some time ago at No. 1, Westminster, whose idea was that it is impossible to have too much of a good thing, or a good king. A good wife being a good thing, he thought that the more wives he had the better. Himself being a good king, he decided that he could not make too much of himself, and ho is accordingly made as extensive as possible in the person of his faithful representative)—Mr. Horry Pearson. Pretty Poppet (Page to King Henry Vlll.)—Master Sloman. The Queen of England—Mr. Jones. Maids of the Bedchamber to the English Queen— Mesclllos. Rosey, Pinky, Daisy, Pansy, and Lily. Cardinal Wolsey (a nautical gentleman much accustomed to "swim on bladders in seas of glory,") vido Shakespere—Mr. P. Q. Villiers. Sir Jasper Spritsail (commander of the Great Harry), a weather-beaten seaman, who—paradoxical as it may appear —will not allow himself to be beaten by the weather, and whose maxim is " Needs must when the Old Harry Drives " --Mr. D. Stewart. Crew—Tom Bowline, Mr. Silver; Jack Halyards, Mr. Up ham ; Jim Foremast, Mr. Partington ; Bob Holystone, Mr Ledyard ; Joe Sheotauchor, Mr. T. B. Smith ; Davy Docks, Mr. Woodfield; Ted T6inchion, Mr. Freby ; Tim Towrope, Mr. Henry; Dick Longboat, Mr. Barry; Peter Stanchion, Mr. Sims ; Bill Figurehead, Mr. Solomon ; Hal Hammock, I dir—liarvey; Charles Caboose, Mr. White ; Sam Sailcloth, Mr. Mazzoni ; Nat Northpole, Mr. Fredericks ; Bill Bunt line, Mr. Payne. Diorama— No. 3. VOYAGE FROM ENGLAND TO FRANCE, with A STORM at SEA. Sceno IV. THE INTERIOR OF THE CHATEAU OF FRANCIS I Between Guisnes and Ardennes. Francis I.—(Next door neighbour of the aforesaid Henry VIII., No. 1., Westminster, but who himself " didn't quite live in Westminster" for an obvious reason—" he lived Vother side of the water.") A monarch of the same ago as Henry, and nearly of the same size ; joint author (with Henry VIII.) of the original plot of the gorgeous Drama, YE BELLE ALLIANCE, now represented for the first time in a complete state on the Theatre of European Politics. A monarch with a hooked nose (who, in consequence, always looks sharp)— kr. W. Shalders. Pages.—Mesdemoiselles Fitzjerald, Bennett, St. Clair, Webber, Gavcston, E. Gavcston, Prince, &c., kc. Le Sire de Firinboisy.—(Lord Grand Chamberlain to the French King)—Mr. H. Caries. Queen of France.—Mr. Gough. Maids of the Bed-Chamber of the French Qucen.—Mesdles. Drapblanc, Contrepoint, Rideaufin, Oreillorine. Scene V. THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD. Introducing a Grand Pas de Rosiers, by Miss Emilia Horne. Mesdemoiselles Hicks, E. Honey, Gessolin, Rauoe, Kendall, Martinez, Rose, Arlington, Losh, Gregory, Turtle, Ford, Stewart, Page, Rouse, Brown, St. Clair, Granville, Wood- Ward, and Tressider. Eaglish Courtiers.—Norfolk, Mr. Roba. Suffolk, Mr. Ab- Bolen, Buckingham, Mr. Jay. Rutland, Mr. Andrews. Cum berland, Mr. Sphinx. Northumberland, Mr. Cox. Essex, Mr. James. Sussex, Mr. Thomas. French Courtiers.—Chateau Margeaux, Mr. Thompson. Chateaux Lafitte, Mr. Rivers. Bordeaux, Mr. Abby. St. Jul lien, Mr. Charles. St. Estafet, Mr. Reynolds. Bourgoyno, Mr. Waters. De Chablis, Mr. Tower. De Champagne, Mr. Scott. GRAND TOURNAMENT of the FIELD of the CLOTH of GOLD. (After Molbien's eelebrated Picture in Hampton Court Palace.) Scene VI, GRAND CORRIDOR IN THE CHATEAU, Leading to the Boil-chamber of the Monarchs. Fnur Fine !Normandy Lassies, Six Feet Two Inches in their Clogs. Scene VII. THE OUTSIDE OF BLONDETTE'S FARM. Blondette (a - village Rosiere so purely innocent, that she sees no harm in having three lovers at a time, two of them being kings)—Miss Emma Horne. Coquelieet—a rustic youth, whose name being translated vide " Spier's Dictionary") signifies " Poppy." He is, never theless, the reverse of Soporific, being particularly wide awake. (He is one of the three lovers alluded to, who does not happen to be a king, and takes his measures accordingly) C. Brown. Scene VIII, The Abode of the Fairy Queen in THE GOLDEN GROVES OF GOOD HUMOUR. (By Mr. Wm. Beverley.) Miss E. Thorne. The Fairy Queen General Transformation. Harlequin Mr. C. BROWN. Pantaloon W. A. BARNES. (The Transatlantic Pantomimist.) Columbine Miss EMMA HORNE. Clown The GREAT FL EXMORE. ADULTERATION BUILDINGS, TURMERIC-ROW, REDLEAD-SQUARE. A Glass of Ale and a Stomach-ache for 4d. Genuine double you-up-Stout—Up to Snub and down to Pepper—How the Bread Rises—Sweet upon Sugar. All pickles to believe in Pickles—Chalk-farm Dairy Cows v. Pumps—Gunpowder Tea, " warranted to go off"—Pale Ale peculiarities. Imps.—Quassia, Mr. Wyatt; Strychnine, Mr. Scott; Blue Rain, Mr. Carter ; Oxyplumbi, Mr. Strangeways. The terror of The " Times"—The Lancinations of the " Lancet"—Black Crosses in Red Lead-square. THE WIZARD'S LABORATORY IN THE CHATEAU DE MEPHISTOPHILES, HELIGOLAND. Magic Somersaults—The Bewitched Ottoman—The Dragon la diable— The Inextinguishable, Inexhaustable, Uustopper able, Go-a-head Bottle—" 1001. Reward, who'll Shoot a Clown ?"—The Blunderbuss of Botheration —Bursting of the Wizard's Bust—Small Wizards made to order, Pattern Pre sented—Quickest way to Nowhere—How to make -Harlequins —The way to Crush the Crushers. THE NEW CASTLE OF BALMORAL. Rusticity in the Highlands—Pipers and Pastoralities — Highland Reel, introducing a grand Flexmorea,n Medley The Portfolio of Inexhaustibility and Universality—The Incaptur able Harlequin—Very " fowl" proceedings The Seductive Sedan-chair—Strange Birds in a Cage. WATCHMAKERS' ESTABLISHMENT, CHRONOMETI CAL-VILLE—MILLINERS' ESTABLISHMENT, BON NETVILLE BELLHANGERS' ESTABLISHMENT, BELLEVILLE. Home from Scotland—Cab Fares and Mavno Force —The Movements of the Age—What's o'clock—" The Clock strikes two"—How to Ring a Belle—Umbrella Courtship—Who's your Hatter I—Early Closing Association—" Love Laughs at Locksmiths"—La Varsoviana.—The Strike of Belles against Tine. _ _ ---- Grand Equestrian Feats, by Signer Flexmorini. HIGH-STREET, SPIRIT-SQUARE. Apartments to Let. A cola Roll for Breakfast —The Organised Nuisance Ta bleaus--Punch's Pocket Book—Patent Perambulators—Ast ley's Equestrian Feats—Policemen and Cooks—Monsieur Tierce—All-round Collars and Punch's Coats—The quickest way to the Coal-cellar —Spirit Rapping Extraordinary. HAIR-DRESSER'S, FILTER MANUFACTORY, PICKFORD'S PARCEL WAREHOUSE, AND NEWS• VENDER. The Purifying of Old Father Thames—The Invasion of , London—The Russians set the Thames en fire—Foreign Fruits and British Stuffs—Cdcl Importation of Bvar'a Grease—S(lr ._ R. W. S. 'WOODEN'S OLIO of ODDITIES, Fifty instantaneous 'Metamorphoses of Voice, Character, and Costume, concluding with an impersonation of Mlle. Rachel, as Camille In " Les liorri,,s." Every evening, at 8. Private box es and stalls may he secured in advance, without extra Otarge. Poly graphic-hall, King William. street, Charing-cross. BANK OF LOND O N, Threadneedle street, and 450, West Strand. Cnstrivax—Sir .TOHY viLLlErts SHELLEY, Hart., M.?, VICE•CIIAIRBtAN—JOIIN GRIFFITH FRITIA, Esq. Current Acccunts are retched, and interesi allowed on Balances. sd. per cent. Interest is allowed on deposits, with 10 days' notice of withdrawal on sums of 103, and upwards. By order. MATTHEW MARSHALL, Jun., Manager, IiiENJAMINT SCOTT, Secretary. Threadneedle-street, January 19,1856. ~~~ _l. No. 19,764.1 diuians and Zouaves—The Illustrated Loudon News—The Humours of Good Humour. THE APOTHEOSIS OF YE BELLE ALLIANCE, Designed by M. Guerin. ENGLAND AND FRANCE. . . _ Mourners at One Al tar—Victorson&jeil;;One. The Coro• nation with the Coronals of Valour by the Genius of Victory. By general request, another and the last Day Representa tion of the Great Pantomime on Saturday Morning next, at 2 o'clock. On Monday, Feb. 11, awl Tuesday, Feb. 12, the GREAT WIZARD'S GREAT CARNIVAL BENEFIT, on each of which occasions the Theatre will be open from Noon till Alid night. Treasurer, Mr. llinr=ston, to whom the Superintendence of the Auditori um h as been entrusted. The Box-office is now open, under the direction of Mr. O'Reilly. Private Boxes (which may.also be taken at the pria cipal Libraries), 3/. 35., 21. 25., 1/. ls., and 12s. Grand Bal cony, 4s. Upper Boxes, 2s. 6d. Amphitheatre Stalls, 2s. Pit, 2s. Gallery, Doors open at Half-past Six ; commence at Seven. &cowl Price at Nine o'clock. Balcony, 3s. ; Upper Boxes, Is. 6d. Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. PUBLICATIONS. NBIt NOVEL BY MRS. PARRY. Just published, in 3 vol;., OLIVE HASTINGS. By Mrs. PARRY. this story is well calculated to alllll'O an idle hour. ' Olive Hastings' is a pleasing and charming rersonage to grace a romance and adorn a narrative. Her story is capable of enlivening by its variety and interesting by its depth of feeling, and Use right pur pose displayed in its composition."—run. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn. Ready mat week, the Third Edition, greatly enlarged, 1 vol. Bvo , cloth, CYCLOPIEDIA of PRACTICAL RECEIPTS, and ( :ollateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Pro fesi•ions, and Trades, includiaz Medicine, Pharmacy, and Domestic I:::orianiy. Designed as a Compretwn=ive took of Rck,trence for. tiZe illrefsp"er...Tradestnan; Amateur, and Hoildis oalanUaat' a; By ARNOLD J. COOLEY. tondon : John ChurAill, New Burlington•strect. tt. ALBERT SMITII'S MONT BLANC, TO-NIGHT, and every evening (except S xturday), at 8 o'clock, and Tuesday, Thursday, and -aturday Mornings at :I. Stalls, is. ; area, 2s. ; gallery, Is.—Egyptian Ball, M ADAME JENNY GOLDSCHMIDT-LIND. lIANOVER-SQUARE ROOMS. Mr. 31TTCIIELL respectmlly announces that M. and Madame GOLD •CH \HOT'S THIRD MISCELLANKOU3 CON• 'ERT Is tlael to take place at the Hanover-square Rooms on MONDAY Evening, Feb. 11. 1855. Full particular . ; will he duly announced. Conductor—M. Benedict. Prices of Admission: —Stalls Oturnbered and reserved), one guinea ; unreserved seats, 10s. 6d. *.* The Tickets will be appropriated according to the order of applcation ; no more will be issued than the Room can con veniently accommodate. liners open at Seven: to commence at Eight o'clock precisely. Applications for tickets to be made at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. A RGYLL ROOMS.-LA URENT'S CASINO CA. NOW OPEN for the winter season. Principal Cornet a Piston, M. Itouleourt.—Doors open at 8. Admission Une Laurent's new Yarsoviana every eight. CONTRACT for RAILS, CHAIRS, 47C.--- The Joint Committee of the Lancashire and Yorkshire and East Lancashire Railway Companies are prepared to RECEIIT TENDERS for the supply of the following M kTERIALS, viz.:- 500 Tons of Malleable Iron Rails. 150 Tons of Chair Castings. 3% Tons of Screw Bolts. 13 Tons of Spikes. Specifications and patterns may be obtained on application to the undersigned, to whom sealed tenders for all or any portion of the contract must be addressed, not later than the 20th instant, Endorsed "Tender for Rails, Chairs, &c."—By order. JO II ST THORLEY. Se:retary. Joint Secre ,:ary's Office, Salford Station, Feb. 2, 1856. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. Patron—The QUEEN. Founded 1328. Principles on Which this Charity is Regulated. Tn-door PAtients.—Foreignery, strangers, or others, in sickness or disease, having neither friends nor homes, are admitted into the wards of this Elsspital on their own application, so far as the means of the Charity will admit. Out-door Patients.-111sIck and diseassd persons, having no other means of obtaining relief, may attend at this Hospital every day at I o'clock, when they will receive me inel And eurgictl ailvict. and. medicine free. Upwards of 310 sick and diseased persons are relieved daily. Darin:: the past month of January the enormous number of 9,020 sick poor received the benefits of this Charity, either as out or in door-patients, on their personal application, of which 4,002 were new cases, the remain :er (still wider treatment) having been admitted previously. Heavy expenses are inevitably incurred in affording such extensive relief. The Committee, therefore, earnestly entreat the aid of the public. The management of the Hospital is in the hands of 30 Governors. yearly elected from the general body of subscribers at the Annual Gen rat Meeting in January. A Board is held every Thursday, at 4 o'clock, conduct the business, when any sub .criber may at tend, ifs disposed, the Board being at all times desirous of receiving suggestions or giving explanation. The Rospital is net endowed, !nit is wholly dependent on volun tary contribution and legacies, Which are. thankfully received by the Treas•arer, John Ilasterman, Esq., 11. P., Nicholas-lane; also loy Mes'srs. Contts an l Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; (Terries and Co. ; RaAsom and Co.; Prescott, Grote, anti Co. ; Smyth. Payne, and Co •dyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co.; Barclay and Ce. ; Denison and Ce.; IViblams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overdid, Gurney, and Co. ; Nis bet and Co., Berners-street ; Matternaan and Co. ; and at the Hos pital. , a4t-off apparel (male and female) will be gratefal'y acknow ledged. NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, That THOMAS THOMPSON and JOHN WOLMES, of Bridge-wharf; Cres cent-road, and Vauxhall-road, Milbank, in the county of Middlesex, Marble, tune, and Timber Brokers, have by Indenture dcted the tenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, as , igned all their, and each of their, real and personal estate and Effects unto William Tottie, of Alderman's-walk, in the City of Lon don, Timber Merchant, and Thomas, Sheffield, or Adams-court, Old Broad-street, in the said City, Tauber Merchant, in trust for the benefit of themselves and all other the Creditors of the said Thomas Thompson and John Holmes, and that the said Indenture was exe cuted by the said Thomas Thompson and John Holmes on the day of the date thereof, In the presence of, and attested by, John Henry Taylor, of No. IS, South street, Finsbury-square, in the county of Middlesex, solicitor, and that the said Indenture was also executed by the said William Tattle and Thomas Sheffield, on the said tenth day of January, in the presence of and attested by the said John Henry Taylor; and notice is hereby also given, that the said Inden ture of Assignment is now lying in the office of the said John Henry Taylor, for the benefit of the Creditors of the said Thomas Thompson and John Holmes. who shall execute the same. Dated till 6th day of February, P 156. JOHN H. TAYLOR, 15, South-street, Finsbury-Square, Solicitor to the Trustees. IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. TRIESEIViAIt—On the 29th of May, 1855, an injunction was granted by the High Court of Chancery, and on the 11th of June following was made perpetual, against Joseph eranlilin and others, to restrain them, under a penalty of one thou- Sand pounds, front imitating this Medicine, which is protected by Royal Letters Patent of England, and eccured by the Seals of the Ecole de Phrmacie de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. Number Number' Names of of of Date of Arrival. Boards Pieces Remarks. Vessels. and of Scant. Planks. ling. .--.......--. 1854. November 23.... Cottiugham .. 14,431 1,699 1855. Janu 'try 1.. • • Paramatta .... 10,560 3,793 119 6 . ••• Sea Nymph • 22,738 February 3.. • . Surinam .•• • . 1,255 760 )1 9.... Charity .. • • .. 436 217 ft 10.. • .. Niagara. .... 1,518 „ 12.... Blundell ..... 12,761 6,894 March 1.. • . Herefordshire 675 498 . Those boards were lent to the Depart ,' 3.... Lion .• .... • . 1,030 5,573; ment by the Commissary. General at a time of scar ., 8.... At. Hilda .• .. 5.640 :1 city. I, 13.... William Hutt 6,628 Total... • 77,672 19,434 TRIESEMAR, No. 1, Is a remedy for Relaxation, Spermatorrheea, and all the distressing consequences arising from early abuse, &c., and its effects are effi cacious in youth, manhood, and old age ; and t• those persons who are prevented entering the married state from the results of early errors it is invaluable. TRIESEMAR, No. 2, . . aTectually, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely 3:adleates all traces of those Disorders which Capelvi and Cubebe have so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the healtt of a vast portion of the population. TRIESEMAR, No. 3, is the great Continental Remedy for that class of Disorders, whlei: unfortunately the English physician treats with Mercury, to the in evitable destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all thc sarsaparilla in the world cannot remove. TRLESEMAR, N( s. 1, 2, and 3, are alike devoid of taste or smell end of all nauseating qualities. They may lie on the toilet taloi without thr!r use being suspected. TBIESE LIAR, Nos. 1,2, and 3, are sold in tin cases, price I Is., or four cases in one for 335., which saves lie. ; and in Si. eases, whereby there is a saving of 11. I2s. ; aividea s ~arate doses, as adminis tered by Valpeau, Ls .lemand, Roux, & &c. To be had Wholesale and Re*.all in Louden of Johnston, 6€ l , Cornhill; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-str. et; and Sanger. 150, Ox ford-street ; li. Ingham, druggist, 46, 51 arket-street, Ma nchester ; 11, Bradbury, bookseller, Deansgate, Bolton; J. Priestly, chemist, 52, Lord-street, Liverpool; Powell, bookseller, 15, Westmoreland - stree t . Dublin ; Winnall, boolueiler. High-street, Birmingham TSE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. Just published, price ls., illustrated with cases; free by poet for 14 - - - - stamps, ER - VOUS DEBILITY; 1.1 Its Causes, Symptoms, and Cure.—An Essay on Spar laterrhcea, with Practical Observations on a safer and more +uccesstul mode of treatment of the diseases of the Generative , ystern, obtained by tho ase of the Microscope in detecting and Istinguishing, by urinary examination, the real cause and effect of every variety of complaint, whether arising from solitary habits, "'comes, accident, or climate, followed by practical remarks, founded ni twenty years' experience in the treatment of Impuissanoe, Yervous Debility, Local Weakness, apermatorrhcoa, &c. To which added, Commentaries on the Physiology of Marriage, with pre zau:ionary hints on the evils emanating from empirical practice, and on the danceroua remedies advocated by various writers on these important disorders. BY SAMUEL LA'AfFiIIT 87, BE DFORD-SQUA 88, LONDON, )ctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edit, burgh, Honorary Member of the London hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apeatteomue, Hall, L on d o n, &c., &e. Tile essential Object of thi s t reatise is to point out the fearful con se aiences resulting from certain habits, irregularities,• and excesses, w 'oh have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man ho d, and premature decay at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, any o aer etas , of disease 'known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is p iticularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of and privileges to w hi ch every human b e i ng i s heir physical condition , and who are conscious of ha v i n g hazarded the health, haPPißess , entitled. i is necessary that all men sh ou l d know, that there are principles management which c annot b e violated w i thou t absolutely personal r tricurraig grievous penalties, ard when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties may be mitigated, hew the s tin g of their b itterness may be removed, l physical infirmity or f unc ti ona l an I bow the evil and its conseq uences m ay be avoided, and above all, that aera n there is t scarcely r w c l i } c - ha theny de gr eetimely 0 ad of rcience ca nnot apply a cure. The Author has for a series of years been engaged in an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate complaints, which have untortunetely been too generally confided tc the care of ignoraat emairics, who indict great injury on those who are ind uce d to p l ace faith in their pretensions. NERVOUS DEBILITY nay be had price Is, of Messrs. Sher wood and Co., 24, Paterncster-row; Hannay, 6a, Oxford-stmt; Cornhill ; or froo by p ost for finne, 19, Leicester-square; Mann, f l o 4 rd s . t rra ins a p r s e. to any addras from the Authors residence, 37, Bed. At home for consultation daily trcm ilayec W 1 two, and ton; am till eight. The total was.... ....... And there remained on hand at that date, a; shown at page 125 of Appendix 69,990 I 11,829 Total accountel for . The total quantity received originally was.. 60,531 77,672 Unaccounted for according to the returns fur. nished . 17,141 1,500 13,329 19,434 6,105 " It is stated by Major Hall that great difficulty was expo rienced during the wintor in th e custod y of the timber, in consequence of the want of space near the wharves to stack it properly, and that a considerable loss was also sustained in convoying it to its destination by fatigue parties ; both of which circumstances may no doubt have contribu ted to so large a proportion being unaccounted for as appears in th e above summary. " HUTS FROM TRIRSTR. " The Trieste huts wore not received by the engineer's de partment, and, therefore, we are unable to furnish any par ticulars in regard to the distribution of them ; it is under stood they were principally used for stores, civil establish ments, and the accommodation of some of the labourers and followers attached to tho army, as the boarding and scantling was of too heavy a description to admit of being readily moved to the localities occupied by the troops. " }um FROM ENGLAND. " The huts constructed in England were ready within a very short period, but considerable difficulty arose in obtain ing transport, so that the first cargo did not arrive at Bala klava till the 25th of December. Three more arrived in the COUNQ of that month, Ave in tho Aret wee of January, three " * The circular tent 'sod in the British army, which is calculated to contain 15 men, is altogether unsuited for an hospital in any climate. It affords very insufficient protection against cold, or rain, or heat. When there is much wind in wet weather the rain beats through the canvass, and when it blows upon the door, which is continually opened for ingress and egress, the rain is driven to all parts of the tent. The pole being in two pieces, for the convenience of carriage, is weak at the joint, and in stormy weather is apt to give way. The side wall is too low to admit of any kind of cot, if there be more than two or three men in the tent; the space is too con finedstoNe - to or admit other of m proper the medical officer; and it is impossible with safety to use a be the supposed ad van t ages that have led to it s a d o pti on as a means of attendancewa warming ngit. In sh or t , w h a t ever may on the patients, even by barrack tent, it would be difficult to contrive anything much moo unfit for the accommodation Of the sick." LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, 18556. THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. We continue to-day the publication of the second re port from Sir John APlceill and CA. Tulloch upon the state of the army last year in the Crimea : " TENTS, " Numerous complaints were made regarding the tents, principally that many of them were old, thin, and worn out, and that a sufficient number of marquees had not been avail able for the hospitals. It may, therefore, be necessary, briefly to advert to this supply, although our information in regard to it is very imperfect, owing to the interruption of our in quiries in the Quartermaster• General's department, from the causes previously referred to. " It appears from a return, printed in the Appendix to the third report of the 1 Committee on the Army before Sebasto pol,' that the total number of tents issued to that army, up to the 31st of March, 1855, was—hospital marquees, 194 ; officers' marquees, 223; and circular tents, 10,735. Of these, it is stated that none had previously been issued, except 65 hospital marquees, 101 officers' marquees, and 1,238 circular tents, which had been employed only during the temporary encampment at Chobham ; 122 of the circular tents had also - been used elsewhere. Considering that the ordinary duration of a tent is generally from two to three campaigns, and that those in question were examined, and all requisite repairs effected, before they were again issued, it is improbable that they could have been in an insufficient state. It is more likely that complaints on this head have arisen from the insufficiency of any tents, of the ordinary structure, to afford shelter against the inclemency of the winter in the Crimea. The scale on which the circular tents was issued was:— To Officers of Infantry and S 2 circular tents to each field officer Cavalry To Infantry Regiments 1 do. to every 15 men. .1 4 do. extra for guards To Cavalry Regiments 1 do. to every 12 men 4 de. extra for guards. " Each regiment took out a sufficient number of tents on this scale for the full establishment, though many were consi derably below it, and the draughts subsequently forwarded to the Crimea also took out tents proportioned to their strength.- There muo,tberefore, lip-ye been enaugla, beyond what was really necessary for the accommodation of the troops, to replace any that might have become unserviceable, either from wear and tear or from accident ; but a reserve of above 500 tents was also sent out in the course of the sum mer, expressly.-to provide for any such wants. It would ha superfluous to go further into the particulars of this supply. That the number of tents furnished to the army munch ex ceeded what Lhoy were ever likely to require, is sufficiently e,tablished by the fact of its having, at the beginning of De cember, been ut,re than equal to one-fourth of the numerical force then present. " In order to provide against any want of hospital mar quees, each regiment, whether of cavalry or infantry, took out at least one witkit ; a few went out in the waggons of the Ambulance Corps, and a reserve of 70 were sent out at the request of Dr. Smith, on the 29th of April, 1851, and reached Varna in August, where they were distributed as stated in page 115 of Appendix. "Altogether there could not have been fewer than 120 hos pital marquees in possession when the force left for the Cri mea, yet, in the end of that year, it appears from the Report of the Medical Commissioners (page 9), that there were only 37 marquees with the whole force. The regiments, it is un derstood, left their marquees with their heavy baggage at Varna, beyond which we have been unable to trace them. It is said that a large quantity of stores was lost or abandoned there after the removal of the troops, of which these may have formed a part ; but we are without any decided evidence to that effect. " When it became necessary, in consequence of the ad vanced state of the season, to provide some better shelter than tents for the troops, great difficulties presented them selves. The whole of the country, within the narrow limits occupied by the army, had already been denuded of wood for the sake of fuel ; most of the houges of the former inhabi tants had been destroyed for the same object; and even the loose surface stones had, in most places, been used up in building low walls to afford a slight shelter for the regimental horses, or for cooking places ; consequently few materials of any kind were available except what could be imported. " No scarcity of wood existed along the shores of the Black Sea, but the difficulty was to provide it at the camp in suffi cient quantities for building purposes. Hired labour could not be obtained, and the demands for the services of the troops in the trenches, and for other military duties, were such that they could not be spared to prepare it, oven had they been capable of doing so. " As soon as it was decided, therefore, that the army was to winter in the Crimea, vessels were despatched by Lord Raglan to several of the ports in the Black Sea, in the hope of obtaining boarding and scantling of such dimensiOns as to admit of being cut into the required lengths, to afford shelter. Contracts were also entered into in England, about t'ie middle of November, for wooden huts, of which the parts were so 'fitted that, with the aid of the .printed directions and litho granhed plans which accompanied them, the whole might be put together oven by unskilled workmen. " These huts were framed of the lightest material that could with safety be used, the boards being only about three-quay ters of an inch in thickness ; they were Dift. long, Oft, wide, and from 11 to 12ft, in height to the ridge pole, with a gra dual slope to about Oft at the side, and c ilculated to contain from 20 to 25 persons, though, under ordinary circumstances, they would scarcely have been considered sufficient for half that number. The men were raised from the ground by slop ing floors, on each side, of inch-plank, leaving an unfloored space of about 3ft. wide down the centre, in which there was a stove for the purpose of cooking and warmth. The total weight of . each but, including the iron-work, was about Si), tons. Of these nearly .1,404-were-sent nut. Another description of wooden hut, but less complete, and formed of heavier timber, was obtained from Trieste, to the number, it is understood, of nearly 100 ; consequently there can be no doubt that a sufficiency of hut accommoda tion or building materials, was provided for all, had it only been practicable to make it available. " The difficulties which subsequently arose in regard to land transport do not appear to have been contemplated when these huts were ordered ; otherwise It must have oc curred to the authorities, that when the whole laud trans port of the army was insufficient to carry to the front the supplies necessary for tho subsistence of the men, the arrival of 2,500 tons of building material was more likely to mid to the confusion of a crowded harbour and crowded wharves than to diminish the sufferings of the troops. Even now it is doubtful whether the labour undergone by the men in carry ing those huts to the heights, during the months of January and February, was compensated by the advantages derived from them, though these were admitted to be great. Some of the commanding officers declined to employ their men on that duty, believing that the evils were greater than the ad vantages. " The first arrival of the loose boarding and scantling from ports in the Black Sea took place on the 25th November, and the distribution commenced on the 2d December, when Major Hall was appointed to superintend it, whose evidence, in regard to the mode of distribution and the extent to which it was carried, will be found elsewhere. " The quantities received, and the vessels by which they were brought, as well as the dates of their arrival, are as follow : at the end of that month, and the remainder in Febrozry. Before the first vessel arrived, however, the troops had to be employed in carrying provisions to the..frent,. and so much had their strength been reduced by V.:eir sufferings, and such was ih• state of the roads, that a weight of from 201 b to 251 b. was as much as a, man could bring up from Balaklava. In deed it is stated in evidence that men conk' not have car ried their arms, accoutrements, and ammunition from the heights to Balaklavannd back in a day through such mud as it was necessary to.trayerse. It consequently required from 250 to 300 men to carry up a single hut sufficient to aecont modate, at the utmost, 25 men ; and as, at this rate, it was impossible to spare &sufficient numbs *oat their other duties, the attempt had to be abandoned, silk )ugh that acconmo la tion, if there' lied been transport, would have been of the ut most advantage during the rest of the winter. " It appears from the evidence of the Commissary-General that 270 Spanish mules were appropriated by Lord Raglan to the conveyance of these huts; but when we arrived early. in March, although they had been erected for a considerable por tion of the corps in the immediate vicinity of Balatlava, only two or three of those in front were hutted; by great exertion a few huts had also been got up there for hospitals. " A summary of the information received from officers com manding corps, in reply to No. 20 of the printed queries, showS that, by the end of April or beginning of May, the Guards, Cavalry, Royal Horse Artillery, and 9 Infantry Corps, with the Artillery of two Divisions, had been completely hut ted; that S Infantry Corps were still without any huts; that 12 Infantry Corps, the Artillery of three Divisions, Naval Brigade, and Siege Train, had huts for their hospitals only ; and that 11 Infantry Corps; with the Royal Marines, were partially hutted, to the extent of from one•fourth to one-half of the men. " A letter from Capt. Keane, of the Royal Engineers, the officer in charge of wooden huts sent from England, shows generally the state of the supply, and the reason.wby it was not sooner made applicable to the accommodation of the men. " SHELTER FOR HORSES. " The date at which the hutting of the cavalry commenced was iu no case earlier than the enel of Jan. or beginning of Feb., and it was not completed before the middle of March, by which time the severity of tbo season had so far abated that this shelter was of.i.- . ."parativ e ly little importance. Con sideritig that these-Melt vptiXC within abbot a mile of the store where the wood might be obtained, that they had no work in the trenches, and that the only duties likely to interfere with the application both of horses and men to this important ob ject was tho carrying up of their own forage from Balaklava, and furnishing parties occasionally to bring down sick, and carry up provisions to the front (which seems never to have occupied more thanabout a sth part of the whole), it appears strange that more rapid progress was not made in obtaining the advantage of hut accommodation, particularly when they are described as having suffered so much in their tents. Considering, also, the suffering and severe loss of horses from exposure to the weather in the commencement of the winter, there appears to have been a want of p rom ptit u d e or baggage-horses o f th e S appers and Miners at Balaklava. Experience has' now p rove d th a t even a very'moderate degree of shelter would have b e en su ffi c i en t shelter, Such uc i l n i a devising e s v a i saved the for them some means o f temporary to save the lives of many of the horses, if not to maintain them iu serviceable condition ; and it must be presumed that such measures were considered practicable, for a proposal to erect, with the assistance of his men, some sort of cover for the horses of the corps, appears to have been made by the officer commanding the Scots Greys, but the manner in which it is stated to have been received by the Lieut.-General com manding the cavalry was calculated to deter other officers from making any similar proposal. not make such appeals, it Nv as because they found that when made by others they prod in ;ed no result. "The Inspector-General. {states that the deficiencies in the general store at Balaklava a rose partly from a failure in the depot at Scutari to comp; v with his requisitions, and the tardiness with which the sL4 plies thence were sometimes for warded, as well as from the:. omission, on some occasions, of any notice of their shipme o t, in consequence of which they were not landed. Difficul! • and delay were also sometimes caused by their being stow e 1 under a great part of the cargo which it was necessary to di a zharge before they could be got at. " Though the correspene It Ince at pages 164 to 172 of Appen . - dix no doubt shows that rep acted applications were made by the Inspector-General to n a reserve dopot at Scutari for me ,. dicines and medical comfort a to inset the wants of the hospi tals in the Crimea, we feel 1 lc .n.nd to express our opinion that, at a time when the existence:. of a great portion, of the sick was imperilled by the tbsence of these supplies, something more than the mere transmission o f the usual official demand on the purveyor or the apothecary :st Scutari was necessary to relieve the Inspector-General of kh; responsibility ; and when he found the inattention to these) applications causing a delay of nearly two months in the :ci rival of supplies for which the demand was urgent, it appes :rs to us that ho ought to have so.ne more decided steps to :insure attention to his requisi tions. A proper officer might; have been sent to Scutari, with instructions to bring back mg hatever was most urgently re qnired for the hospitals. "In some cases, however, the deficiency appears to have arisen from imperfect, arraruements in the Crimea. The storekeeper in charge of the m edical stores at Balaklava, had instructions to intimate when any drugs were running short, and the sufficiency of the set pply seems to have depended chiefly upon his vigilance and foresight; but as be was not informed of changes in the pvg mailing diseases, he could not anticipate the demand to whi o h that change would give rise, and it was only from the extcx:t of the requisitions for parti cular remedies, which, per?).: tps, exhausted the supply in store, that he became aware...of the necessity of replenishing his stock. • " It therefore happened thrgt, froni the 30th of March to the 20th of April, when fever' most prevailed, and quinine was extensively used as a rentody, and, in some corps, still more extensively as a prophy !static, there was none of that medicine in the general store. at Balaklava, though It largo' supply was lying at Scutari. There was, indeed, a certain quantity in most of the diviai onal stores, but in one there was none, and several corps 'which had been using it exten sively were Urns suddenly depri veil of the remedy on which their medical officers had chic f 1; ' relied. This deficiency was partial and temporary, bat it&- occurrence after so much of public attention had been diredted to the subject indicated a defect in the system, which wues pointed out to Lord Raglan in a letter of the 27th of April" " HOSPITAL ORDERLI EIS AND ATTENDANTS. " Numerous complaints wer a made by the medical officers of the difficulty of obtaining si 6 table persons to perform the duties of hospital serjeants, hoe pital orderlies, and personal attendants. Where the pressur e of military duty was so great, it was, perhaps, natural that t b ere should be some reluctance' to part with efficient non-come nissioned officers or men from the ranks; but it may be dou;V:ed whether persons well qua lified for situations in the hospi .‘al would not contribute more to the relief of their effective < anurades by promoting the re covery of the sick than by to lu g ilm their tour of duty under arms, and leaving the sick wilth less efficient attendance ; whatever view may be taken elhat question, there seems to be no doubt that the arrangem outs have proved insufficient, and that adequate hospital att. , m dance in camp has yet to be provided. It is understood tl tai this defect is in course of being remedied ; but, as it wo a much animadverted upon at, the commencement of the camp etign, we may briefly notice the previous practice in the army, and the course adopted to meet the difficulties as they arose. " The British army has hithe:ello, during peace, been kept on so limited an eetablishment Voat it was necessary to resirt to every expedientin order to economise its numbers. This, no doubt, originated the long-e st ablished practice of having e the hospital dutiesperformed lys men from the ranks, instead of by persons especially enlisted :for that duty. The former, when no great pressure of sicknuas requires their presence in hospital, can be made available for military duty, while the lat ter are a permanent source of ex' imam without any such contin gent advantage. That system bas worked moderately well for a long series of years, but when the army was required for ser vice in Turkey its numbers were so limited that it became ne cessary to add to the effective strength by every possible expo d i ent, and ene of the readiest whic . b. presented itself was to restore to the ranks the men usually withdrawn for hospital service, and to replace them from some other source. " Nations whose armies are ra is ed by conscription are never likely to encounter any diffrculty-in providing attendants on the sick. Out of the large urn. iber of conscripts annually placed at the disposal of the Goweorament there will-always be many who, from their particular aptitude for that service, or on account of their being less flit ed for more active military duty, can be selected with adv at stage ; but an army which has to depend entirely upon voluntary enlistment possesses no such facilities ; the strictnessmvith which all military obli gations aro interpreted in this CD untry renders it necessary, if he is to lag employed exclusi-roly as a hospital attendant, that the merlin should be enlisted specially for that particu lar duty; and, among men in tbe vigour of youth, who are inclined to enter the army, few a) re disposed to place them selves in the position of nurses af. a time when the operations of active warfare are going on. :Although recruiting fOr this particular service has 'now been_ going on for nearly a year, with pay, pension, and other rit Ivantages, much exceeding what is granted to the private soildier, the number required is understood still to be incomplete, notwithstanding that re cruits have been taken at a mete h more advanced age than they would be received Into any' other branch of the service. _ • " But when the war broke o ttt there was not time to ob tain the necessary attendants for , the hospital by the slow pro cess of recruiting; the demand for their services was imme diate, and it was desirable, especially at the commencement of a campaign, that they should have some military experi ence, lest they might prove an encumbrance ; recourse was tkerofore had to a eilectien from, the military pensioners, till some more suitable body of mon could be obtained. " The employment of this clas a, oven for the more onerous occupation of garrison duty at II et me and abroad, was not an innovation ; it has always been tho practice, on the com mencement of a war, to call back: into the service the pen sioners who may have recoverud from their disabilities, or are still of an age to pe•rform garrison duty, and they hold their pensions expreasly on condition of attend ing to such calls. During tho Peninsular war upwards of 10,000 pensioners were employed. in veteran and garrison battalions at home and abroad , and immediately on the breaking out of the present -Fair all those belonging to the navy and marines were re-exami neat, and about 2,000 sent on shipboard, or into the coast-guard, where they have since been constantly employed. Nos ach call was made for the services of the military pensioner's, because it was conceived that they would be equally useful a an enrolled force in their respective districts ; but, as the 7 arc a younger body than the Greenwich pensioners, their :average age being only be tween forty and fifty, it was not an unreasonable supposi tions considering their provims military expeLience and habits, that they might be usefully employed in the hospital and ambulance duties, for which soldiers from the ranks could no longer be spared. " The measures taken to obtain these men, the conditions of their engnonaent, and the precautions adopted in regard to their qualifications are detallel by Colonel Tulloch in a memorandum which is annexed ; and, as the various objec tions which have been taken to their employment are there i nqu i re d into, it appears unnecessary to enter upon thesis here, beyond stating that, if GU and inefficient, as is under stood to have been alleged of therm, they appear by the state ment noted below* to have been singularly fortunate as corn ' pared with the youngest and most effective part of the force ; the deaths between October and April having been only 53 out of a strength which averaged i'7o, or under 20 per cent. ; while the mortality in the infantry during the same period was nearly double that proportion. It is true that these men escaped much of the hard work in the trenches, but they must have sustained a heavy loss by their attendance on the sick, particularly during the prevalence of fever, which in so many instances proved fatal to the orderlies. " Though this supply was estimated to provide shelter for 10,000 men and 3,500 horses, it could be of little use during, the winter, even if there had been opportunities of convey ing it to the front ; for, owing to a want of proportion in the quantities which arrived of scantling for rafters and uprights as compared with planks and boarding, most of the latter received by the Sea Nymph, on the 6th January, were of little or no use till the arrival of the Blundell, with a large quantity of scantling, on the 12th of February; so that, for upwards of six weeks, the supply available for building purposes was limited to the cargoes of the first two ships. It is probable that this circumstance may have given rise to the complaints of wood having been refused during this period, though there was abundance in store. There was plenty, certainly, but not of a suitable description for building pur poses, as boards from an inch to an inch and a-half thick could not be made to serve the purpose of uprights, particu larly where tempestuous weather was to be expected. " Efforts were made by scarping the sides of hills to obtain cover with a very limited quantity of scantling, particularly for horses and baggage animals; but this expedient only af forded a very partial remedy. " The supply obtained by the vessels before referred to was chiefly used by the Royal Artillery, the Cavalry, the 71st and 93d Regiments at Ralaklava, and two or three of the corps in front ; but it must be borne in mind that, for the reasons before specified, comparatively few of the buildings for those regiments could be erected till the severest part of the winter was over. _ 4 , A detailed statement of the quantity distributed to each regiment up to the 30th of April, banded in by Major Hall, will be found in page 124 of Appendix, of which the following is a summary : Hoards and Scantling I planks. pieces. " CAUSES OF MORTALITY. " The returns of sickness and mortality furnished by the medical officers relate to matters which are beyond the limits assigned to this inquiry, and, therefore, have not been sub mitted on this occasion ; but the mortality in the Crimea has been too remarkable not to excite a strong desire to ascer tain, if possible, its causes. The medical evidence appears to be conclusive against attributing it to anything peculiarly unfavourable in the climate, and all the officers, of whatever rank or profession, whom we examined, referred to overwork, improper diet, exposure to cold and moisture, with deficient shelter, inadequate clothing, and defective boots, as the causes of disease. Some of the witnesses appeared to attri bute greater influence to one of these causes, some to another, but there can be no doubt that the mortality was really the effect, not of any cause apart from the others, but of a com bination of the whole. It was the greatest among the in fantry corps employed in front, upon whom the duty fell most severely, but those corps were also more exposed to the other causes of disease. The harbour of Balaklava was the source of all supplies, and the corps necessarily suffered more than the rest of the army from the deficiency of transport. When the men were compelled, in consequence, to carry up their own stores of every sort, they suffered in proportion to the distance to be traversed in the mud, and the length of time they were exposed to the weather. The corps stationed in front also suffered more from the deficiency of everything that was necessary to the proper treatment of the sick ; they could not even get their share of such supplies as, could be procured at Balaklava. Men who were struck down by disease in the camp in front had thus less chance of recovering than those of other corps, and the proportion of deaths to admissions into hospital is accordingly much greater than in the rest of the army. But that is not all; when patients were to be sent to Scutari the difficulty of removing them from the front to the harbour was sometimes found to be insuperable, in consequence of the want of trans port, while the corps stationed near Balaklava removed them with comparative facility. Even when the means of convey ance were provided, it was a formidable demand upon a sick man's remaining strength to require him to sit, exposed to the weather, upon a cavalry horse or a pack mule, floundering through deep mud, for the two pr three hours which the jour ney from the front to Balaklava occupied during a great part of the winter. His chance of recovery was thus further dimi nished by the delay, the exposure, and the fatigue attending his removal. " The mortality in the whole army was further increased by the disease which broke out at Scutari, and carried off many men who had entered the hospital with a prospect of speedy recovery, or who had actually recovered from the dis eases for which they were admitted. Had the sanitary condi tion of those establishments been from the first what it after wards became, there can be little doubt that the mortality would have been perceptibly reduced. " MEDICAL SUPPLIES. " The supplies and arrangements connected with the me dical department of the army in the Crimea have been in vestigated by a medical commission, whose report supersedes the necessity for any detailed consideration by us of those subjects; but, as much of the evidence we have received re lates to a period subsequent to the date of that report, we think it right to state shortly the results of the information we have obtained. " The army landed in the Crimea without hospital mar quees, conveyance for the sick, or any other supplies for the hospitals than were contained in the pair of panniers belong ing to each corps, and the supplies of almost every descrip tion required for the proper accommodation and treatment of the sick in camp seem to have been ♦ery deficient till the middle of February. There was also a scarcity of cots, or of any substitute, such as boards and trestles ; but this was not much complained of, because they could not have been used in the tents in which most of the sick were placed. There was a great deficiency of mattresses ; and straw, or other materials to fill paillasses could not be supplied ; and even as late as the month of April many of the sick in front had no other bedding than blankets or buffalo robes, the latter of which were not issued till the end of January. They suffered still more, perhaps, from the want of adequate shelter and sufficient space to admit of their being properly attended to ; as, owing to the want of hospital marquees in the camp, the greater part of the sick lay in circular tents,* which are alto gether unfitted for the purposes of an hospital, and it was not until the huts sent out from England were erected in Febru ary and March that the accommodation was such as to admit of proper medical treatment. " Nearly all the medical officers of the infantry corps in front complained of the want of transport to bring up from Balaklava even the most indispensable supplies to the hospi tal. Major-General Codringtou, commanding the first bri gade of the Light Division, says :- 4 The hospitals suffered terribly from this want of transport. Their state was fright ful, from the increasing number of sick, the diminishing means of transport, and the consequent impossibility of doing anything for the sick.' " During the month of February the supplies of medi cines and medical comforts began to improve, and by the middle seem to have been generally ample. T nk ts and tbo supp l y o f buffalo robes in the enhdeoisfsJuae of 3a January fuorarihyllahl theyad previously provided a tolerable substitute for bedding, and when the hospital huts were erected, these, together with such marquees as the corps had previously pos sessed, afforded sufficient and comfortable accommodation. In the month of April, When fresh bread was issued, the me dical officers generally declared that they were,perfectly satis fied with the supplies and the accommodation provided for their patients. " Even after the supplies of medicines had become gene rally abundant, it occasionally . happened that some •f those which were most employed by the medical officers could not be supplied from the general store. Thus there had been a deficiency of opium and of some other medicines much em ployed during the prevalence of diseases of the bowels, and after the store had been amply replenished with those reme dies the decrease of that class of ailments and the increase of fevers caused a demand for quinine which the stores were not always able to satisfy. " The proportion of deaths to admissions in some of the diseases bears painful evidence, particularly in the month of December, to the absence of those remedies on which reliance could best be placed for relief. In cholera, for instance, the usual loss has, in our army, been about one in three at home, or on foreign stations where this epidemic has prevailed ; but in the Crimea, during the period under observation, it was two in every three attacked. " As instances of the difficulty of procuring medicines, we have given the requisitions made by several of the medical officers, with the quantities received ; but it must not be supposed, because no such deficiency appears in the requisi tions of others, that they received all they wan t e d . M os t o f the officers, finding it useless to scud for medicines and medi cal comforts not in store, limited their requisitions to such as they knew could be given, and did the best they could with them. ' — ;; - The circumstances in which the medical officers were p placed, descriptionowing e the d i et,accommodation, want of t those or comfort e supplies, as well as of every essen tial to the recovery of the sick, were the mo s t p a inful that can be conceived. We prefer leavlng it to b e des cr ibed in their own words, and shall confine ourselves to the expression l ac of our conviction that if they were unsuccessful in their treat ment to an extent which has seldom occurred in the annals of medical practice, it has not been for want of constant at tention and unceasing and energetic efforts on behalf of their patients. The appeals of s)me of them to those authorities whom they, perhaps erroneously, conceived had the power of assisting them were most forcible and pathetic ; and if all did ;:~== From 20th July to 30th Sept., 1854.• „ Ist Oct. to 31st Dec., 1854 .. „ Ist Jan. to 31St March, 1855.. • Ist April to 30th dune, 1855.. „ Ist July to 30th Sept., 1855.. „ Ist Oct. to 31st Dec, 1855.... Strength. Died. Returned Home. 31S 35 - 2R3 24 2 257 29 27 201 5 67 129 - 70 59 - 31 RAILWAY TRAFFIC .RETURNS. LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTERNTurmr.—Traffic re turn for tho week ending Feb. 2,-18E4 £15,667 6 4 Corresponding week last yeei 11,925 2 6 Increase in 1856 ••• £3,742 3 10 LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND ROUTH COAST RAILWAY.— Traffic return for the week ending Feb. 2, 1856 Corresponding week lasZyear • 8,636 14 2 Total of the half-year to this date, 1856 50,135 13 9 Total of the half-year to this dat0,1855 GREAT NORTHERN RAlLWAY,—Traffie return for the week ending Jan. 27, 1856 £20,615 9 6 Corresponding week last year' 17,223 14 2 LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAlLWAY.—Traffic re turn for;the week ending Feb. 3, 18:i6 £19,339 0 11 Corresponding week last year 1(3,934 17 2 CHESTER AND HoLrunAD RAlL*T.—Traffic return for the week ending Feb. 3, 1856 £4,098 2 el Corresponding week last year lucreas© in 1854 . ... £4 4 11 GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WBSTERN RAlLWAY.—Traf f ic re tarnifor the week ending Feb. 2, 1856 P.,5,270 15 1 Corresponding week last year 4,768 8 0 Increase in 1856 £so2 7 1 SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAlLWAY.—Traffie return for the w)ek ending Feb. 3, 1856 £2,566 14 4 barrespondinr week last year LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANT.—Traffic re turns for the week ending February 2, 1846 (average num ber of omuibmes working daily 241) NAVAL STATION IN QURENSTOWN.—Them are now five men of war on the Irish station, under Admiral Sir G. Sartorius, a part of the Baltic fleet sent to Cork to winter, at the requisition of the citizens of Cork. Their names and stations are as follow :---The Russell and Hastings, 60 gun ship; at Queenstown ; Edinburgh, 60, at Dublin ; Meander, 50, in the Shannon ; and Hecla, frigate, at Waterford. LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE IN PRUSSIA. —The Elberfeld Gezctte publishes a letter from Nordhausen, which ex hibits the position of Prussian dissenters as one not to be envied, It concerns a deb on issued, on the 26th of November last, by an officer c the temporal executive against Edward Baltzer, a clergyman of a free congrega tion. By this decision, adverse to his plaint, he is bound, although a minister of religion, to send his children to receive religious instruction in the p ublic schoo l of the place, or otherwise from duly qualified private te ac h ers. The reason of this is, that the religions instruction he ' himself may impart to his children 13 not recognised as able to replace the religious instruction which the autho , riga require ill the name of the law. [PRICE 4D. STAMPED SD• ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S-INN LANE. The Twenty-eighth Annual General Meeting of the Go7ernors and subscribers of this chetrity was held at the Hospital on Tuesday week. The meeting Wai presided over by Mr. Spottiswoude, one of the vice-presidents of the institution. Mr. FENN, the secretary, read the report of the com mittee of management for the past year. The report stated that, though in some respects the public events of the day had tended to diminish the amount of sup port upon which this, in common with other charities of the metropolis, had hitherto been accustomed to rely, the committee had, nevertheless, been enabled so to con duct the affairs of the institution, that at the close of the year they had the satisfaction of congratulating the friends and supporters of the charity upon having achieved an amount of benefit to the suffering poor, in ferior only to the preceding year, and mere than equal te that which they had had the happiness to aecomplish in any former year. The number of patients relieved during the past year had amounted to 39,891. It would be in. the recollection of the public that, after the death of the late Duke of Sussex, a subscription was en tered into for the erection of a monument to his memory, and after several meetings of the subscribers, it was de cided that the most suitable mode of carrying out the object would be the erection of a wing to the Royal Free Hospital, to be called the " Sussex 'Wing," with a statue of his Royal rfighness in front. That important work had been commenced during the past year, and. was nearly oompleted. The committee had by &sans of legacies, received during the year, bees enabled to pay off a considerable portiou of the debt, unavoidably in curred by the great pressure on the charity in the years 1853 and 1854. The practice adopted of supplying des titute patients on leaving the hospital with clothes and small sums of money continue 1 to preduce the moat gratifying results, more espetikelly amenget unfortunate females, many of whom had teen restored to their fami lies and friends. The committee had pleasure in calling the attention of the governors to the services of the honorary medical officers Drs. Brinton and Hassan, physicians ; Messrs. Marsden, M.D., Weedon Cooke, De Meric, &a., surgeons, who bad devoted their time and attention during the past year to the patients committed to their care. In consequence of the reduced number of indoor patients (occasioned by the necessity of proceeding with the new building), the committee gladly acceded to the request of her Majesty's Govern ment, to strengthen the medical staff in the Crimea, and readily granted the services of four of their medical officers to that important object—one of whom, after an absence of fifteen months, has just returned, and will shortly resume his duties. The committee congratulated the governors on having obtained the services of the Rev. J. B. Owen, a clergyman of the highest profes sional qualifications, as chaplain, and the report con cluded by the committee congratulating the governors on the continued success of the charity, and humbly hoping that it would, under God's blessing, continue to prosper ; and that, as it proceeded, its usefulness might be more felt and acknowledged by the public at large, its efforts more effectually sustained by the benevolent, and its benefits more widely diffused amongst the afflicted. From the financial statement it appeared that there had been, during the year, received in annual subscrip tions 1.4541. 10s. 6d., in donations 2,1311. 12s. 10d., and in legacies 2,6581. 14s. 7d., making a total of 6,2441. 17s. 11d., while there had been expended in payment of eld debts 2,4861. 7s. 5d., and in payments for the year 1855, 3,745/. 2s. 3d., making a total of expenditure dur ing the year of 6,2311. 94. Bd. The medical report of the number of patients relieved by the charity, from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1855, was next read, from which it appeared that during that time there had been admitted into the hospital— Persons afflicted with malignant and contagious diseases Persons labouring under various disorders Accidents relieved, and the parties sent home 1,430 Patients under the dentist 39,039 In addition to the above, there have been 693 totally destitute persons admitted into the wards, of whom 57 have died, and 636 have been discharged cured or relieved The number of accidents admitted for a brief period into the wards was 109, of whom 18 died and 91 were cared or relieved Making a total 0f... 39,891 which, added to those admitted in former years, made a total of persons admitted into the hospital since its com mencement of 521,493. Mr. BRUGIC then moved that the report he approved of, printed, and circulated, together with the financial statement and medical report; and Mr. Fine having seconded the motion, it was put from the chair and unanimously agreed to. line thanks of the meeting having been then awarded to the committee of management for the past year, to the treasurer, Mr. Masterman, M.P., who was re-cleated, and to the auditors, Mr. PRITCHARD, High Bailiff of Southwark, said Ise had to propose a vote of thanks to a gentleman which he did act rise to do as a mere mattr of routine, for the gentleman he had referred to had rendered great and efficient service to the institution, and it was, therefore, right and proper that, at the close of another year of hie distinguished services, they should at least give expres sion to the appreciation in which they held those ser vices, and the interest he took in the institution. The gentleman he referred to was Dr. Marsden, the founder of the charity; and he begged to propose that the cordial thanks of the meeting be given to him for the interest he continued to take in the institution, and the valuable services he was continually rendering to it. Mr. HoorEa having seconded the resolution, it was put from the chair, and cordially agreed to. Dr. MIREMEN, in acknowledging the compliment, stated that he had now arrived at the twenty-eighth year of his service to the institution, and he rejoiced to think that while his powers, mental as well as physical, might be on the decrease, the powers of the institution were increasing rapidly. There was a pleasing circumstance connected with the meeting, and it had struck him only since he cattle into the room—it was the pleasure he felt at seeing Mr. Spottiswoode in the chair. He called upon that gentleman at the com• mencement of the institution—before the doors of it were opened—in order to request his support to it. That support was readily given, Mr. Spottiswood becoming an annual subscriber of ten guineas, mei promising all the assistance he could give, and it gave him much pleasure to see him now presid ing over them. Another circumstance in connection with the institution ho must allude to. Frequently when lie (and, lie had no doubt, other friends of the institution met with the same remark) is talking of the FreeHospitnt, be is asked what makes it entitled to the appellation of free more than any other in London ? Was not Bartholomew's and Guy's Hospitals as free to destitute persons as it ? Now, to some extent, this was so ; but, in considering the point, they must go back to the state of matters which prevailed at the time this hospital was founded. At that time there was not such a thing as free admission to the destitute sick iu any hospital in London ; but he was happy to say that the example this institution had set had compelled the old aid richly-endowed institutions to relax their rules and regulations, and to become to a certain extent free. (Cheers.) Therefore, they had not only been the means of relieving upwards of half a mil lion of sick and destitute individuals, but they had also been the cause of throwing open all the hospitals in London to the destitute. A vote of thanks was next passed to the honorary medical officers, Drs. Brinton, Hassall, Glover, and Bennet, and Messrs. T. Wakley, Weedon Cooke, De Meric, A. Marsden, J. S. Garugee, T. Carr Jackson, to which Mr. W. Cooke, and Mr. A. Marsden (who has newly returned from the Crimea) responded. Dr. MARSDEN said it would be seen from the report that four of their medical officers had been absent in the Crimea during the past year, and the place of one of these (Dr. Glover) had been supplied by Dr. O'Connor, a gen tleman of professional character not surpassed in the metropolis for ability. The able manner in which he had performed his duties, he, as one of his colleagues, could bear ready testimony to, and be had therefore much plea sure in proposing that the special thanks of the meeting be given to Dr. O'Connor f..r having undertaken anal performed the duties of Dr. Glover during his absence, and that he be requested to continue his ser vices until that gentleman's return. Mr. PRITCHARD seconded the motion, which was cor dially adopted. Dr. O'CONNOR returned thanks. He was happy that the institution. He could say for himself that . w h a ever kis services had given satisfaction to the gover h no t rs of time he had spent in the discharge of the duties o had compensate by the be undertaken he was amply hadne fi t visitedof the g t r h e e a t hospitals sce not ti lieandlyrec.eefive(Ll. London but of the provinces. and . tee United Ring e been k conferred ew f nin on h s a a .a y h B d o been by means of this hospital. That he dom, and he couldgrigtheasilatamegfilty t s h ta e n p ce ee w r h a e 3 re ba of a like character. It wou ld , t h erefore, b e t co uld state after ca refull y ex amining into all those other institutionsa source of pleasure on all occasio ns t o p romo t e its interests, and to gain for it th e suppor t o f hi s ac quaintances and friends. (Ch eers. ) ohim The committee for the current year was then appointed, and the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. - - THE NEW METROPOLITAN POLICE BILL, Sir G. Grey's new bill provides that henceforth only one CAm missioner of police shall be appointed, to be styled "The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis," and the person who, at the passing of ,this act, may to the surviving or continuing commissioner appointed under former act will be such commissioner. Two Assistant- Commissioners may be appointed by her Majesty. The Commissioner of Police will receive a salary of 1,5001., and each of the assistants 8001. per annum - . 'The powers of the present Commissioners of Police are to be vested in the sole commissioner. The Assistant• Commissioners will act under the orders of the Com missioner of Police ; they will be disqualified from sit ting in parliament or interfering At election& iera! , '•!•114:4 1- !;,7, 1 1 • • 1 ,41: - SAW ar . 1, affairs of the association, and transacting the usual bntsi ness. Mr. T. H. Lacy (in the absence of J. B. Back- ) SAtak stone, Esq.) was called to tho chair. Mr. CULLENFORD, the secretary, before submitting ta the meeting the financial statement for the year, alluded tJ the early period at which Ash Wednesday, this year, occurred, and in consequence he was not able to bring up the accounts so as to include the fourth ptarter of the year, but he believed that it would be within Si. of the amount stated. He next adverted to the grant of 101. to Mre. Macnamara, and although that lady was not a member, the hoard of elirectors left it to the meet ing to c mfirin or reject that grant as they might see fit to do. He then gave the following abstract s f or th e past year :—Members' subscriptions, 6317. ls. ld. ; ad mission fees, 471. 10s. ; interest on capital stock, 210/. 154. ; interest on deposits in the Royal British Bank, 45/. 6'. 11 , 1. ; arrears of donations, 101. Ss. ; profit on annual dinner, 2517. 169. 3d. ; mating a total of 1,1961. 175. 3d. The expenditure was—To annnitants' fund, 5261. 13s. 7d. ; sundry other expenses, 137/. 14s. sd. ; leaving a balance in hand of 5321. 4s, 3d. The funded stock of the association amount e d to 8,649/. 7s. Dur ing the year they had admitted 16 new members, and they had lost four by death. The present nurabei of snbscribing members was 147, and 11 annuitants, mak ing a total of 158 ; and the total number of memberS frim the commerceinent was 243. The meeting had heard the items real, but he should be most happy to answer any questions that might be put to hi m . The CEIATIMAN congratulated the meeting on the ea tisfactory report that had been presented. Mr. \VOERALL proposed that the report should be re ce'ved and adopted, which was seconded by Mr. CowLi, a..id carried unanimously. The following trustees were then unanimously re elected :—Benj. Bond Cabbed, Esq., Charles Dickens, and W. Macready, Esq. John , Bald win Buckstone, Esq., was unanimously elected treasurer fur the ensuinc , year. ;Ate , ars. A. Younge, Cowie, F. Frampton, H. Butler, and Morelli, who went out by rotation, were re elected directors, and Mr. Joseph Reynolds and Mr. Skrnuel Cowell were also elected directors in the place of Mr. J. Howard and Mr. Addison, the latter gentleman being now manager of the York circuit. Mr J. T. JERWOOD, the solicitor to the fund, said that Mr. T. P. Cooke was now present, AO he (Mr. Jerwood) had a bond whi c h was required' '6 be sealed in their presence, being a grant by Mr. Thomas P. Cooke to the Royal General Theatrical Fund of the sum of 1861. 3s. 9d., being the produce of 2051. 3s. 11d. 3 per Cent Annuities. It was the remains of a fund esta blished by Mr. T. P. Cooke some years ago, called the Coburg Fund, and that gentleman had now consented that it should be transferred to this association. Mr. Cooke had oeustilted his solicitor, and if be had given it to them under tie Trustee Act it would have been at tended with great experm ; but he was advised that, if this association entered into a bond, he could then hand it overt o them. Mr. WORRALL moved, arid Mr. COWELL seconded, a nritien, that this association do give Mr. T. P. Cooke a bond of indemnity for the receipt of the Coburg Fond. The bond was then produced, and the seal affixed in the presence of the meeting. Mr. S. COWELL moved the thanks of the association to Mr. T. P. Cooke. Mr. T. P. COOKE sincerely thanked them. He had a'waya been anxious for the welfare of the fund. When he joined the Coburg Fund they got together about 2001., but the person in whose hands it was placed de. camped with it. He was then appointed trustee but he had endeavo ure d t o ma i nta i n t h e money, which was placed in his hands, intact. The fund originally en trusted to him was 861., and yesterday it amounted to 1861., the effect of compound interest. The thanks of the meeting were also voted to Mr. Jerwood. Mr. JEawooD acknowledged the compliment. Mr. FRAMPTON moved the thanks of the meeting to J. B. Buckstone, Esq. (who had arrived), who, for 16 years, had given his valuable assistance to the associa- tion, and who was at all times willing to promote their inte rests. Mr. COIVELL seconded the motion, which was carried by acclamation. Mr. BUCKSTONE made a suitable reply, and the meet ing was dissolvcsi. INQUEST ON JOHN MONAGHAN, AT MANCHESTER.. The adjourned inquest on the body of John Mona ghan, whose body bad been exhumed, after interment since August last, on suspicion of poison having been administered in the form of acetate of lead, took place in the office of E. ['Orford, Esq., coroner for Manches ter, yesterday afternoon. The prisoners in custody on the charge, having been committed since their appre hension on the charge of forging Monaghan's will, were not present. Mr. Edward Frankland, professor of chemistry at Owen's College, Manchester, said—l received five yes eels ; one of them contained the stomach and intestines (of the deceased), the second vessel contained the liver, the third the kidneys, the fourth the brain, and the fifth the lungs. They were sealed up with a private seal. I examined, first, portions of the stomach and intestines. I examined them for lead, arsenic, antimony, mercury, and other mineral poisons. I found no mineral poison in them except a trace of zinc. I then examined the liver, and in that I found a trace of lead, also a trace of (ripper, but no other poison. I then examined the kid neys, and found in them a trace of zinc only. The lungs and brain contained no mineral poison. I did not exa mine for vegetable poisons, because the length of time which bas elapsed since the death of the deceased would preclude the satisfactory detection of such poisons. There was nothing in the appearance of the intestines to indi cate that poison had been taken. I examined the sto• mach and intestines to see if I could find any indication of metallic poisoning, but could find none. By 'gr. Bradlaugh (for the prosecution )—I understand you to say that from the state in which the intestines were you could not say whether death had been caused by poison or not ?—I could not say from the appearance of the intestines whether death had been caused by poison. The state of decomposition was so advanced as to prevent that to a great extent.—Have you any means of estimating the quantity of lead found ?—The quantity was too minute to ascertain it by weight almost, but I should say the Ilead in the liver,would not exceed a grain. —Which of the three did you find in the greatest quantity, zinc, lead, or copper ?—I think zinc.—l un derstand you to say you do not express any opinion as to the cause of death ?—Oh, certainly : I draw the opinion from the analysis, that death had not been caused by poison.—For a quantity of lead taken into the system, about what quantity would be retained in the liver ? That is a question I could not answer ; where mineral poisons have been taken, there is usually a quantity passes into the liver, and would be retained there longer than anyvvLere else.--What quantity of zinc do yon estimate to have been found ?—Not possibly more than three grains, and I think not more than two.—Then, from your analysis, you are of opinion that death was not caused by metallic poisoning ?—Yes. In answer to further questions from the coroner, from Mr. Fernley (for the defence), and f rom Mr. Bradlaugh, the witness went on to say that the quantity of lead found in the liver was far too small to be the residuum of such a quantity as would he necessary for poisoning, and was not much more than would be found in the liver of many persons who had not died from poisons, as, for instance, from drinking water which had passed through lead piping. Lead was one of the substances absorbed into the softer part of the liver more than any other poisons. Acetate of lead, zinc, and copper were commonly given in medicines for cases of dysentery ; but if he had found as large a quantity of lead as eight or ten grains he should suspect poisoning. Acetate of lead would not act as a poison except in large quantities, arid if given in gin or whisky would be likely to pass out of the system without injury. It would not operate as a poison unless absorbed into the system. As much as an ounce had been given (unintentionally) and passed off without acting as a poison. When carbonate of lead was formed it would act as a poison, and even small doses of the carbonate of lead would produce death. He was satisfied that in this case death could not have been produced by a mineral poison. By Mr. Bradlaugh—Large doses uw o n f notu a ilt c di e es t h a wa te voeu o l f ade l hc oaealvdee,given . rated when r ert left. bat Dr.t that a t g Hattonen tle(tio a eat n h, o b li t l it na i i n i t i l l a ik t e ca d se ec l e a a r s g ed eq , been found in the system'. Thema Coroner n had o t arrived n eat c alled had professionally attend e d the deceased in his l as t ill ;less, and was to sallow that lie h as ' a d ministered prepa rations of lead , zinc, and copper in th e d rafts he had tx l c%) n for our Dr. Hatton,p report su pplied as medicine for deceased. SMITHFIELD MARKET. A meeting was held last evening at the London Coffee. house, Ludgate-hill—Sir James Duke, M.P., in the chair —to discuss the propriety of converting the site of Smithfield -market into a central dead-meat market. Mr. Ross addressed the meeting at great length in fa vour of such an object, and concluded by moving a reso lution to the effect, that as the chairman of the Board of Works had been authorised to consider the best site to be selected for the removal of Newgate and Leaden hall markets ; and as it was a question affecting the in terests of two millions and a half of people, and it being desirable to establish a market where the people could procure food in the best condition and at the lowest pos sible rate, it was resolved that the site of Smithfield was adapted to that purpose. Mr. EICEfARDS seconded the motion, which was stip. ported by Mr. G. Brook, of Leadenhalbmarket ; Mr. Potter, of Farringdon-street ; and Mr. Gresham (corn. mon councilman), and was carried un animousl y . Mr. EDWARD CoMPLIN moved that a memo r i a l b e drawn uto Sir George Grey, i n accordance with the foregoing p o thatade t p h u e t s a a t na ion e to the right hon. gentlemen.of gentle men named e resolution requestedu tio ; g ' i d t o present Mr. CHARLES WOOLTORTOX, of Smithfield, seconded the motion in a long speech. Carried unanimously. It was further resolved that a petition to the House of Commons be drawn up, and that the same be entrusted to Sir James Duke, M.P., and Mr. Masterman, A vote of thanks to the chairman WAS carried with acclamation, and the meeting separated. A LONG IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.--Yesterday there died in the Queen's Bench Prison Mr. Du Pr 6, a gentle man who has been incarcerated there for the last 44 years, 109 mile per the vcF. 35s 44s 423 —1 —a a of nly lers oily [or/ 0 7 2 0 70 (Ist 25 as, to, ast ter