The Sun. — London, England, 1854-02-09 00:00:00

NCE. ORE PAR- red to have use of Coal- Railway— taking with the South or one of ey Railway k Railway railway and Hamilton chester Di al Board of irth Shields ;Assurance he Ratbgar icturn for 8,761 2 6 3,552 13 11 —Traffic re -7,796 1 3 7,272 13 7 c return for 3,708 1 3 3,147 7 7 £560 13 8 urn for the ,227 6 7 202 1 9 - atfic return 1214 1 11 58 2 0 RKET- criptions in 16 stones Gd to 68 6d. 3r stone. meal, each 2 at 21.105, Df oatmeal, dull. The down ; and ;time on the and lowest ame as last 1. Third. A 458 Od 318 3d -s Od —s 0,1 —s €l2l lull. The a-, without Ives way in ides, anal- ket : &e. 22 6 22 6 29 6 30 0 30 0 29 6 0 9 0 28 6 29 6 30 0 23 0 30 0 23 9 30 0 38 0 21 0 30 0 29 0 2.5 0 9 3 6 tley 22 6 6 all and in- Chester em Coun ondo n and d Lincoln, aster n and the whole g, though r ss. each res. The Lanca- less doing me which inss,ctions 18s. 9d. ; 1 3,, 5t-wre due In EnT.lana, Each Mon Feb. 20 Feb. 16 rncertaill Fe'). 14 . Feb. 16 Feb. 20 Feb 6 Jai I) reb 1' eb 16 eb. 26 'eb. 26 'u.Th.Sat. wi c.0c14113, wteedstlly ab. 16 :.b. 16 arch 1 ab. I G ab. 20 'b. 16 .b. 10 vvlcedstily !b. 16 16 14 b. 10 b. 26 rola 1 I r. 12 1 0. 16 nen* n b. 12 b. 16 b. 16 b. 26 b. 12 b. 12 b. 16 5. 16 will be lia via Led the of C. Rugg, , the 3, th© ,-. ln-, Esi. stly, nn. ion- [iza- )rd. .12, of 4 , 4044 Enema Station. MIDLAND R AILW A. L— oncE HEREBY GIVEN, Thif the next ORDINARY HALF-Yr AKIN OKNER kL MEKTINt; of the PROPRIET O of the MIDLAND RAIL WAY COMPANY, under thdr Act of Incorporation will be held at the Railway :Station at Der o'cieck by on FRIDAY, the 2 tth day of Fecruary Instant, at half•past One In the afternoon. JOHN ELLIS, Chairman of the Board of Directors. SAMUEL BEALE, Deputy •chairman. By Order, Derby, Feb. 8, 1854. JOSEPH SANDERS, Secretary. LONDON & NORTH-WE S TERN RAILWAY. - NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the next HALF -YEARLY ORDINARY MEETING of the London and North- Western Railway Com , anv will I.e held t the Euston sta , ion, London, on WEDNESDAY, the 224 day s ot February, lEV,t, at Twelve o'clock at noon prec rely. for the transaction of the g nrral business of the Coin,any ; and ,t such meeting a resolution w 11 he submitted for the consolidation into tuck of so many of the London and Birmingh , m 20/ shares, and the Manche ter and ttilnizham C 101 share., as have been sully paid up.—Dated this 6th day of February, 1654. CHAvD' S. Chairman. RORT BENSON, eputy Chairman. IL 800 , 'll. Aecretar ea. C. E. sTEIVAII , f,l CONTRACT FOR NEW CASKS. Royal William Victua , l , g Yard. Plymouth, Feh'llarY, 1854. Notlce is hereby Given , th at on THIIRSI , AY, the 16th blot .nt, I shall he ready to receive SEALED TENDERS, and to treat for the supply of the undermentioned NEW CASKS, required for the service of this Department, namely : Puncheons. llo::she-.ds. Barrels. Half Tilids. TIGHT CASKS.. 5OO 200 1,000 500 DRY DO. .••• • • 500 1,001 Tenders may sent in for the whole of the above Casks, or any less quantities.— the same to be delivered. tree of charge and risk to her Majesty, into the stores of the Rural William Victualling Yard, Plymouth. as follows :—One Fifth pa• t within Two Months frcm the date of Contract, and the remainder in Four equal Mo thly de.ive ries afterward 4, or sooner if preferred by the Contracting Party or Parties. Two Sureties for the due performance of the Contract will be re quired in each inst •nce. Pattern Casks may be seen at the Yard up to the day of Tender. Each Contrac or (should there be more than of e) w II be required to pay half the expense of the , tamps. No regard will be paid to any Tender in which the Price shall not be inserted in Words at Louth and that shall not be delivered betnre ONE o'ciocs on the said Thnrs ay, the 16th instant ; nor unless the Party Tendering, or some Person on his behalf, attends to answer When called for. The further Conditions of the Contract may be seen at m • office. WILLIAMS sANDOM, Captain Superintendent, rpE FAMOUS HIGHLAND CLOAK.- A. 'variety of MACDOUGALL'S FAMOUS HIGHLAND CLOAKS, in all colours, may be seen at Messrs. POOLE and MACGILLIVRAY'S, 25, Princes-etreet, Cavendish-square, as well as samples of the materials of which they are made. GRAND BAL MASQUE at the CASINO DE VENIRE, High Holborn.—) he Proprietor has the honour to announce tbat his LAST B MASQUE this season is fixed tor TO NIGHT, THURSD AY, Feb. 9th, 1854 and which will present a scene of brillancy and splendour unparalleled. WM. Packer's inimitable Bent will p• rform a programme of dance music replete with novelty and excellence Doors open at half past nine o'clock, to commence punctually at ten.—Gentlemen's Ticket., 55.; Ladies' ditto, ?s. each. Aug , er at one o'clock. rickets, 3s each —N .B. Mr. Nathan, Castle-street, Leicester square, is the appointed Cos tumier. Clowns, Pantaloons, or Harlequins no - admitted. .3IR. ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC, including the BERNESE OBERLAND and the SIMPLON, EVERY EVENING at Eight o'clock, (exc,opt S tturda, ), and Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Mornings, at Two Stalls, 35., which can be taken a , the x °file* eve y day from 11 to 4 ; area, 25.; gallery, la. — Mont Blanc bo , Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. EGYPTIAN HALL.--CONSTANTINOPLE Is open TO-NIGHT at Fight, and Every Day at Haif-nast Two o'clock. Th• Lecture is delivered by Mr. CH AR ES KENNEY, and has been written by Mr. ALBER MITEI and Mr. SHIRLEY BROOKS. Admission, Is.; Reserved Seats, 2s. JAPANESE EXHIBITION. The FIRST DIRECT IA POR rATION from JAPAN is NOW or, N for at the Gallery of the -ociety of rainters in Wat.-r Colours, SA, Pall• Mall East, for a limited n. nod, a= the Society re quires the Gallery for their paintings. Admittance, after SatUrday, LATIRENT'S CASING, ARGYLE Rooms, (Lessee, Ca►s. C. LAURENT. OTIRIOW-house, Fu.aam road) The above Rooms aro now OPEN FOR THE SE %SON and will continue open every evening, with LAURENT'S CELEBRATE!) BAND. Admission, is. Doors open 4t half-past Dancing to commence at 9 o'clock, and ter inate at h tlf-past 11. R OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. PATRON—H.R.H. FRI , XE ALBERT. FIU-T EXHIBITION of MAGNIFIED PHOTOGRAPHY" PIC TURES, prepared by Monsieur Ferriere of Park also, COLOU RE PHOTO 4RA PH C PICTURES. each Cloture filling a Disc of one thousand superficial Feet. An ENTIRELY NEW SERIES of DISSOLVING VIEWS. LECTURES by Dr. BAcnorrsax on WILKINS'S NEW PATENT UNIVERSAL ELECTRI . ; TEL , :G :APR LECTURE by J. H. Punts•.. Esq., on SPONTANEOUS COMBUS TION, with Brilliant Experiments. Open Mornings and Evenings. Admission, Is.; Schools and Children under Ten years of age, !Wt . -Price. Annual Suhscribers to the Institution are eligible to he sleeted Members of the Reading and Chess-Rooms, on paying an additional nines per Annum. lINGARIAS PROMENADE CONCERTS. -.admission, Ic—ROYAL, M IRIoNErTE THEATRE Adelaide-street West 4trand—Every EVENIN , I, at Eight by the 'trenoweed HUN' :ARIAN B %NO. whimi performances have created each intense interest throughout the lesdinx European cities The programme is varied nightly, and include+ the finest comooqiti , ns of ancient and modern masters, a 4 well m Hungarian and other na tional Melodies, Mazurkas, Warzes, Cialons, and Quadrilles. Ka load'', conductor. Soloists—Fluaelhorn, Horanvi ; clarlTone4e, Misqes M. A ugar de ; piano, Miss J. Warman. V.,calists e Brougham. Morning Performance, Wednesday and Saturday, at Three. PILOGULAMNZ FOI THE DAY. PAiT I. Overture (Guillaume Tell), Rossini ; Dnett (Oh ! Wert thou in the Cauld Blast), Mendelssohn, the Misses Brougham ; Waltz (Landes farbaden), Strauss; Solo, pianoforte (We're a' Noddin'), Mice Julia Warman . Original Aria, s-10, flugelhorn. Herr Florally', Ma-g; Song (F-nd Memory), Glover, Mr Albert Henry Percy ; Polk (The Royal Sussex Militia). T. Di.tin ; Song (The Swiss Girl), G Miss Elizabeth Brougham; Quadrille (Crescent), Sarkozij. No. 19,150.] Price is . LAW OF CHURCH RATES.The parish is under no legal obligation to repair the Church. The aboliti n ut hutch Rates is no reason .hle excuse for depriviug any une rf the pr Bent univet sal ri ht to the church offices of marriage and burial. By WATKIN IMS, of the inner Temple. James Ridgway. l'icc ly. A Secend Editich. w 11 be issued with as little delay as poss.ble. Just published pric.- 2s b , po t 2 s . 6 d , DEBILITY and IRRITABILIT Y induced b y SPER M A TORR FICE ; the Symptoms, Effects, and Rational Tr. atment. BY T. H. YEOMAN, M 1).. Physiet , n to the General Post °fare Letter- angers' Provident InstitHtion,Sce. Lo..clon : r ttingh am Wilson, 11, ltoysi Exchange t and, by Post on'y, Pam the Author, 25 Lloyd-square. Just published, price 45., free by, post, 55., PHYSIOLOGICAL RESEAIPHES into the Causes of Nervous Debility mil GO to-Drinary Maladies. Apermatorrhtea rationally considered, with inanswerabl Remarks on the empirical ma trer these Diseases are treated; being a Guide to Hea , th, Lang Life, and Heppiness. • By MEDICI 7 4. Sherwood, Piper, and Co., 83, Paternoster-row. This day, price is., T HE WORD " ETER N A L," and the PUNISHMENT of tha WICKED: A Letter to the Rev. Dr. Jelf, Canon of elitist Church, and Principal of K ng's College. FREDERICK DENISON M URIC E, Chaplain of Lincoln's•inn Cambridge : Macmillan and Co. THEOLOGICAL ESSA YS. By FRE 4 E 4ICIC VENISON MAURICE, Chaplsin of Lin coln's-inn, and Pram° , of Divinity in King's College, London. - - PRAT II Selection (La Elonnarnbula), Benin' ; Duett (The Cousins). C IV. Glover, the Mi'ses Brougham ; Mazurka (Heroique), Kalozdy ; Solo, pianoforte (Morceau de Concert), Miss Jula Warman; gong (Dream of the Heart). Glover Mr A. II Percy ; WaPz (Winton), Kalozdy ; Song (B onnie Dundee), Miss Josedrillephine Brougham Qu (Slalta), K a lozdy ; Galop (limes), Kalczdy. TRrESEMAR, protected by Royal Letters Patent of England, and scoured by the Seals of the Ecole de Pharmacie de Paris, and the Imperial , 'ollege of Medicine, Vienna. The long continuance of most Maladies arising from i npurities, while it tends t render detection more certain, and thus freq 'entl, to embitter the domestic hearth, also serves to excite feelings of die appointment, and to induce I wness of spirits, and other sensations of a most painful kind she Till R effectually, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely . eradades icat all traces of these Dise'ses , to whate s s r sta g e they m y have vanced, p ssess ing at the same time the manifest advantages of being utterly devoid of taste or smell, and of an na useating qualities. It may lay on the toilet table without its us, being suspected. Sold in tin cases at I Is. eaci., free by post, 2s. extra, dieded into separate doses, as administered by Valpeau, Lallemand, Roux, Bce , ice. This quantity is sufficient for any case however virulent or protractei.—To be had holesale and Retail at Barclay and Sow', 95. Farringdon-street ; Johnston, 68, Cornhill; Hannay and Co., Oxford-street, London. THOMAS SALT and. CO., EAST INDII PALE ALE BREWERS, BURTON -ON-TRENT. STORsIFL • .... 22. Hungerford-wharf. Liverpool .... • • ...... 52, Henry-street. Manchester ••••• • .. . 37, Brown-street. Birmingham ••• • .... 264, Bull-street. Bristol Back Hall, Baldwin-st reet. Nottingham •• 14, Milton street. Dublin .. ••• • • • ••• • . 4, rovrn• alley. Edinburgh ....... 17, Downie place. Dundee •• • • •• •• 13, New Inn Entry, High street. CLOSE OF HOLIDAYS. The return of Youth to their re-pective Boarding-Schools induces a solici tude from parents and guardians for their Personal (I ,, mfort and Attraction, and ROWLANDS' MACAR-;AR 011, for a celerating the growth and improving an i beautifying the bah*, ROWLANDS' BALYDOR, for imooving the skin awl comp exbin, and removing cutaneous eruptions,r and ROWLANDA' ODONTO, or l'eart Denti frice, for rendering the teeth beautifully white, and preserving the gums, are co sidered indb-Pensahle accompanimen , s for the attain ment of those Personal Advantages so universally sought for and admired. Beware of Spurious Dtitations. Theon'y genuine of each bear the name of "ROWLANDS' " preceding that of the article on the wrapper or label. Sold by A. ROWLAND and SONS, 20, Hatton-garden, London ; and by Chemists and PerfUmers. THIRD EDITION.—WITH ADDI rIONS: Just published, avu., in cloth, price 5a., by post free. ss. 6d. oN TRUE & FATAE SPERMA.TORRHCEA, with the View to the Corre ction of wide-spread Erro r s in relation to the Treatmeat and Cure of the ImPuhisan t and Sexual iiypochondrisca, T 3 which is adisiirded, fr sTE ' i ll S e A rierma ir en S EXUAL nofD.I' D irC E IC B r I ° I.I R T I T '. , by the his frequent erect , - Editor "Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by eat contributions to German medical literature. This Is the 11 time, he informs th be has addressed himself to the non-medi c eel reader. We a ttest this may not be the last if he shall etect other equally flagrant evil which it ma' be to his owe, to correc a t nv " ondon Medical Gazette, May 30, 1451 The tribe of .Quiet q %leers,' and ' Medical Friends,'are mercilessly exposed ; and if this b ym ook could find its way Into 'he hands of those who stiffer fr , on the corn plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would be saved much needless suffering oi body and mind, and what Is of less importance, though it Is that which the . quacks most prize— much money ......This volume is well qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to place the treat mant upon a more rational and physiological hula. It is, therefore, likely to do much good."—MadVal Circular, June 16. 1852. London; 11. Balliere. 2 19 . I lecr " t-st'Tl ..... l e !:__--- _ _ _----------- ---------_ (ON THE SECRET C AUSES OF SELF-ACQ UIRED MISERIES A ND DISAPPOINTED HOPES., T HE SILENT FRI E ND. PalvEtrrloN or Dlstlria. In Six La CONTAINING THE REMEDY FOR an d mica' Coloured Engravings Illustrated by One Elundred Anato nguages—Firrieth Edition. Cases. th e New Edition, eivarged to 21Y) Esta blishment, 38. - 64 in stamps , Pages,price 2s. 6d., by post, from rrIHE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on JL the exhaustion and physical decay of the system, produced by excessive indulgence, the consequences of infection, or the abuse of I mercury, with directions for the use of the preventive lotion, tol. lowed by observations on Marriage, and the disqualifications whieb prevent it. Illustrated by 100 Coloured Engravings. By R. andxford- L. PERRY and CO., C ons ulting Surgeons. 19, Bern ers -street, O street, London. Published by Sherwood and Co. 23, Paternoster - Tow, and sold by Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; Gor don, 146, Leadenhall-street ; 95, rarrin.tdo -street ; W. Sutton, 10, Bow Pa Church-y ard eats of ; Butler, 4, Cheaand pside ; R Johnson, 68, Cornhal. rrr I. tr the anatomyehysiology of the reproductive organs, and is illustrated by 28 Coloured Engravings. PART IL treats of the consequences resulting from excessive in dulgence, and their lamentable effects on the system, Producing mental and bodily weakness, nervous exciteirent, and generative Incapacity. Illustrated by 10 Explanator3 Engravings. PART 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for their treatment. This section is illustrated by 62 Coloured V.ngrav- ings• PAST IV. contains xßemeEly for the Prevention of Disease by a simple application, by which the danger of infection is obviated. palT V.lll devoted to the convideration of marrifure and its duties. The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and the whole .subject critically and philosophically inquired into. THE CORDIAL BALM OF ' , YRI ..CUM is exclusively employed tre ating nervous and sexual debility, impotence, &c.,1 is and 31s. the blood in cases of infection, secondary pef b o ttle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilitic ;, a nteely, for PurifYitur e tor, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, lis and 33s rer Perry's Prrifying Specific Pills. 24 9d., 48 6d., and I Is. bottle. r a certain remed• for gonorrhort. et, stricture, and Chronic inflamm t tion of the bled. er. .' on4uitat io r. tee , if IL A minute detail of the case is required : huh] , , And posi• tion in society . sj. Packets, with advice, to be had at the Eqablish ment only, by which the fee, 11 ,is saved. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, are a ttendance, daily, at 19, B erners-street, Oxfor(Latreet, Lou. in • : don. groin =even till Two, and rive to Flight; on aando7 f rom _ =situ to Cue. NS. 3. 7. S. d. Feb. 'eb. 26 'eb. 16 eb. 10 eb. 20 C , ,,,...t.. t ..- t , • . • , v• ... . . .. - , . •• , : - - - • ~ ... . _ ...,... . , ..„. --- I to, -' _ ..„..4 ,_ ... .. 4 ,....,iir4, . , . (-J.. r . 4 .,. „, 14 ,14,:::, 4 ,4 , ) . ;..., 1 • 1 , - , °.--- •-; ' ...-/ 1 - 41 - . - 4 A 4 :O ' ' 4 . 4 4. --- C r iCe' - ~,,.. ,41 _.` '1',40',, 72., , s , . ,•,,„,,,forr,.! co -4 , ,_ ,, ,_ . A 1 6 ~ , ~- - , r ~ .... ~ i• ~ • - , ‘,.... ~,,,,,, ~ , : ..!..2, 1 i N , .. 4k,„ 1 „-i k i . .„.., ii,.• -5ke..... k ,,,. ...,,:fr. . ,A, . P. 7 . ~.., .. p, , , ; 1 t , t, : ~, 4 . 1 '-~• "' -,....:.,, !,. •., '1.'7 7 4. 0 h Wl' ~.. i' , '... i... '4' 4..."' ..1.7 . ' -- if , -- ..VA • Ni, ,-, Di 'EAT "3 , 1, , ,e,,,, - 4 ', ' , s \ r4 V - 44 . ' (taiiiirt„. .. r,, , -‘... 4 ' 4PV.+4 y '• . c'- , ...r.-... f /N._'' LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1854. ITNIVERSAL PROVIDENT LIFE ASSi - RAN E, 52, King William•street, London -bridge. it'E ASSURANCE. Ailowan,e in ED WARD PUGHgickness. RAWSELL, Secretary. ANNUITIES ON THE MUTUAL PRINCIPLE ENGINEERS', MASONIC, and UNIVERSAL MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 345, Strand, London. • PITIV:HASEaS OF ANNIUTIES DM AITTE TO PARTICI PA TION N THE PROFITS.D Policy Stamps paid by the Society. Assignments of Pollees Itegktered Free of Charge. A Liberal .7emmis , ion allowed to Solicitors and Agents on the introduction or business. ANTHONY PECK, bLA., Assistant -Actuary. GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE _ASSURANCE C )MPANY, No. I I, Lombard-street, London. DIRECTORS. Sir WALTER R. FARQUEI AR, Bart., Chairman. FRANCIS HART DYKE, Es q., Deputy-Chairman. Henry Hulse Berens, Esq. Stewart Marjoribanks, Esq. John Dixon, Esq. John A artin,Esq , M.P. Sir W. M. T. Farquhar, Bart. Rowland Mitchell, Esq. r T. Hankey, Jun., Esq., M.P. James Morris, Esq. John Harvey, Esq. Henry Norman, Esq. John G. Huttard, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, jun., Esq. George Johnstone, Esq. John Thornton, Esq. John Labouchere, Esq. James Tulloch, Esq. John Loch, Esq. Henry Vigne, Esq. AUDITORS. A. W. Robarts, Esq. I Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. Lewis Lloyd, jun., Esq. John Henry Smith, Esq. SECRETARY —George Keys, Esq. ACTUARY—Griffith Davies, Esq., F.R.S. LIFE DEPARTMENT.—Under the provisions of an Act of Par liament, this Company now offers to fliture insurers Four-fifths of the Profits, with Quinquennial Division, or a Low Rate of Premium without participation of Profits. The next division of Profits will be declared in June, 1855, when all participating Policies which shall have subsisted at least one year at Christmas 1854, will be allowed to share in the Profits. At the several past divisions of Profits made by this Company, the Reversionary Bonuses Added to the Policies from One-half the Profits amounted, on an average of the different ages, to about One. per Cent. per Annum on the sums insured, and the total Bonuses added at the Four Septennial Divisions exceeded 770,0001. FOREIGN RISKS.—The Extra Premiums required for the East and West Indies, the British Colonies, and the northern parts of the United states of America, have been materially reduced. IN VALID LIVES.--Persons who are not in such sound health as would enable them to insure their Lives at the Tabular Premiums, may have their Lives insured at Extra Premiums. LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their values, pro vided such Policies shall have been effected a sufficient time to have attained in each case a value not under 501. ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, received and registered. Medical tees paid by the Company, and no charge will be made for Policy Stamps. FIRE DEPARTMENT.—lnsurances effected upon every descrip tion of property at the usual rates. pURSSELL'S BRIDE CAKES, 1 to 10 Guineas; Dessert Cakes, Is. to 10s., viz., Dundee, Madeira, School, and Savoy Cakes; Swiss an I French Pounds Ca Is. 6d. per lb. ; Swiss and Italian Pastry, for evening parties, Is. to 3s. per doz. ; 11 sorts of Almond Cakes, Retinas, and Maccaroons, 2s. per lb ; Rout Cakes, 3s. per lb.: Mixed Cakes, Is. 6d. per lb. ; Mixed Biscuits, Is. 2d. per lb.; Biscuits in bags or boxes, 14 for is., viz., Arrowroot, Brown, Digestive, Milk, Abernethy, German 41.1ddy or Captain's Biscuits ; Mince Pies, 4s and 6s. per doz.; Jelli& and , ou. s, 4s per qt.: Creams and Ices, 61 per qt.; Made Dishe.+, Raised Pies, Hams, Tongues, Fowls. Caution.—John R. Purssell, 162, Regent-street, and 20, Ludgate-hill, only. APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED. LEA. and PERRINS' WORC ESTERSHIRE SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, and a".. Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad, and by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach to perfectly dige t the feed. The daily use of this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe ; card to health. Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrins, 19, Fenchurch-street, London, and 68 Broad-street, Worcester: also by ,le!•srs. Barclay and Sons. Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and mer chants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. .R.—To guard against imfiations, see that the names of " LEA and PE ftlli NS" are upon the label and patent cap of the bottle. TOZEAITS COPAHINE-MEGE, or Saccharatt, C k PSU LES, approved by the French Colle:re of Physicians , successfully administered in the Paris and London Hospitals, and acknowle'ged by them to b , the best remedy for the cure of certain ,'Peases (see " [dulcet " 6th Nov., 1852.) Price, per 100, 4.. 6d. ; 50, 2s. 9.1.—T0 be had of the Inventor, Gabriel Jozeau, French Chemist, 49, Haymarket, London, whose name is printed on the Government stamp ; and all the principal chemists. PAINS in the BACK, GRAVEL, LUMBAGO, RHEUMATISM, Gou P. INDIGESTION, FLATULENCY, NERVOU,NES.4, DEBILITY, &c. —Dr. DE 1:00S' COMPOUND RENAL PILLS, as their name Renal (or the Kidneys) indicates, are a most safe and efficacious remedy for the above dangerous com plaints, discharges of any kind, retention of the urine, and diseases of the kidneys, bladder, and urinary organs generally. For depression of spirits, incapacity for society, study, or business, confusion, giddi ness, drowsiness, nervousness, and insanity itself, when arising from or combined with urinary diseas , s, they are unequalled. Price Is lid , 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., lls., and 335. per Box, through all Medicine Vendors, or sent (free) on receipt of the amount in postage stamps, by Dr. De Roos, 35, Ely-nlace, Holborn, London. At home for con satiation d dly from 11 till 4, Sunday excepted. Advice and Medi cine, .£l. this, that nothing could be done in Parliament through , upon a fair footing in their rivalry with the industry of the representative system except the exertions which knowledget e United States we ought to eive them the power of were made within the house were aided by the cordialedutation and a free press. (Cheers.) He co-operation and the strenuous endeavours of those who ; didnt . l)eli tl eve Y that the population of this country could influenced opinion without the walls of 'Parliament. : maintain . a successful competition against the people of (Hear, hear.) Now they hal endeavoured, as he had cited if on one side of the Atlantic there was an edu said, to conduct this question in Parliament not as a people with a free press, and on the other side of party question. (Hear, hear.) He denied that' it was the Atlantic an . ignorant people and a restricted press. necessarily a party question. (Hear.) No doubt the These considerations, combined with the anomalous state independent portion of the Liberal party had at•all times • of the law, the senseless and d tig i ation which had been pur taken great interest in this matter, but there were, hitch ' sued from time s t( e l n tu e n ess a odu t le d, salallanou l i t i l t s of revenue ligent and enlightened Conservatives who had taken an 1 which the stamp duty produced, justifiedh . in apeeal interest in it also ; and Mr. Disr.,eli himself, f r om his , ing to every well-wisher pr of his e country, Conservative or sympathy with literature, and his desire not to stand in Liberal, to use his most strenuous efforts for the repeal the way of the spread of knowledge, had on many occa- ,of the taxes on knowledge. (Loud cheers.) Mr. Gib sions done what had been in his power to promote the 'son resumed his seat, first proposing as a sentiment — success of their cause. (Hear, hear.) They had been i " The memory of Francis Place, Henry Hetherington, ' charged with what had been called "an unprincipled ! and the agitators of 1836." coalition," but he would put it to the meeting whether Mr. RICHARD COBDEN, M.P., was received with great -the member of Parliament who submitted a motion to cheering. After complimenting Mr. Gibson upon the the house, and made no compromise of principle, was to reject the support of those who did not happen to agree zeal and ability which he had displayed as Parliamentary with him in his general political views ? (Hear, hear.) leader of the opposition to the advertisement duty, and He did not think such coalitions at all unprincipled ; congratulating him upon the success which had attended and he was glad to get support for a good measure his exertions, Mr. Cobden said that there were before wherever it could be found. (Cheers.) Another diffi- them two questions with reference to the future — the culty had been started in the House of Commons. It had been said,• " You should not embarrass the Govern- question of the paper duty and that of the news pap e r ment, you should place confidence in their general stamp. The former of these was simply a fiscal question, good intentions, and trust that they will, at a fitting involving about a million of revenue annually ; and he opportunity, carry out the views you desire." He had believed that there was in this country no party who seen that course tried on many public questionsnever with much success. (Hear, hear.) .In fact, when , but had any prejudice to gratify by the.retention of the paper duty. It would, however, be a waste of time now to the gentlemen who had trusted implicitly to Ministers had expressed disappointment at not finding their wishes dwell much upon a theme the burden of which was the respected, the reply which they had received had been, removal of a million of taxation, because the present " Why, you said nothing at all about it—there was no prospect was that very likely Mr. Gladstone would have pressure upon us. You could not expect us to volun tto ask for an increase of the income - tax. Whether w e tear a measure which was sure to bring upon us con- went to war or remained at peace, the question of the siderable political opposition, or to run our heads against paper duty was not a practical question, because he a stone wall without any necessity." (Hear, hear.), took it that the preparations for war already made The best thing to do therefore was to pursue a straight- would prevent any possibility of the repeal of that duty forward and honourable course—not embarrassing the in the present year. The question of the newspaper Government unneces arily, but, at the same time, not stamp involved revenue amounting to only about allowing party or political feelings to stand in the way 150,0001. or 200,0001. per annum, an amount so small of carrying out an object which they conscientiously be that it would not require any great dexterity on the part lieved to be right. (Cheers.) Ho believed that this of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to d,spense with it fear of embarrasing the Government, which led many under any circumstances. The opponents of the stamp timid men of good intentions to shrink from supporting proposed that instead of every one who printed a a cause which was likely to win, though they were ready periodical with news in it being obliged to put on enough to vote 'for it as long as they could be guaran- the paper that beastly red stamp which was the teed a minority, was the very reason why so many re- badge of intellectual servility in this country—(cheers) — forms had taken years of agitation to accomplish. With any man should be allowed to print news—facts, on respect to the advertisement duty they had certainly paper, as freely as he (Mr. Cobden) could speak facts been more successful than they had been in former years and arguments from the platform ; and that if the with reference to the stamp duty on newspapers. (Hear, printed paper were sent through the pest, postage hear.) Sir Edward Bulwer's mation for the total repeal should be paid for it in the same manner as for the of that tax, was met by the then Government with a suggestion that instead of being repealed it should be transmission of a written paper. But the abolition of this stamp was opposed on grounds apart from conside reduced, the result was that—a division taking place upon this Ministerial proposition—it was found that a rations of revenue. There was a party in this country that was afraid of cheap newspapers ; and the very large number of members, who had professed in the first object of the Stamp Act, as stated in the preamble, was instance to be favourable to total repeal, disappeared to prevent cheap newspapers from circulating among when asked to vote for it, so that in fact only two were the people. If there was an overflowing revenue this left to register their votes in its favour. (Hear, hear.) year, as there was last, still this question would be With respect to the advertisement duty, they had been shirked in the House of Commons. Other taxes would in a better position. They had carried a resolution, of be repealed, and this one would be retained, because it which he was himself the mover, in favour of its total ago- served as a most important check upon the dissemination lition. The Minister proposed a compromise and offered of cheap news. This might be said to be illiberal, un to reduce it to 6d. There was therefore the same charitable, and unjust, but it was true. (Hear.) He was battle to fight as had been fought formerly with respect to the newspaper stamp, but had been fought with a afraid, too, that there w a s another opposition. He did different result. Their friends in the Reuse of Corn not think that the established newspapers generally were enthusiastically in favour of the removal of this restriction, mons had stood sufficiently true to enable them to have a majority against that proposal of sixpence, and to get by which the nu m b er o f news p a p ers w as confined. In rid of the duty altogether. But it would be wrong to this opposition he thought they mistook their own in lead them to suppose that no credit was due to the terests, and in this imitated the example of the oppo- Ministers ; for, although no doubt their success had nents of the repeal of the corn-laws. As he told the landowners who opposed. that measure that there were been considerable, it would have been quite competent to Mr. Gladstone, if lie had thought fit, to hav e defeated persons who eat little o r no b rea d w h o would consume them at last by perseverance, and to have carried his any foreign corn which might be imported, and thus own plan of a sixpenny duty into effect. (Hear, hear.) prevent their land being thrown out of cultivation which Let them, therefore, speak frankly, and give credit to they anticipated 'would be the result of the repeal' of the all concerned—to the Liberals who voted for the repeal corn-laws, so he would now say to the new! a —to the Conservatives who voted for it also—and to prietors, that there were in the United Kingdom p l 13 three ro. the Minister who made a graceful concession, when lie millions of adult males who either never saw a newspaper might, if he had chosen, have persisted in the proposal or habitually never read one, and that if by allowing e which he had himself submitted to the house. (Cheers.) fect freedom of the press they could cultivate a taste for He believed that the effect of the repeal of the advertise- reading in this lower stratum of the social system ment duty must be beneficial, but he did not think that which now did not read at all—if, by allowing them the full advantage of that measure would be felt by the to get a scrap of news, through the medium of a penny paper, now and then, they could stimulate a country until they had an increase of the number of vehicles for advertisements by the abolition of the penny taste for reading, every man of this class who had tax—free advertisements and free papers, in which learned to read, and took such a paper, would be cultivating a taste which might afterwards raise him to the advertisements should be inserted. They there arch an elevation that he might be a customer for the fore proposed in the course of the present session to press on the attention of the Government the necessity of re- high-priced newspaper. (Applause.) He (Mr. Cobden) did not seek the abolition of th e s t a mp wit i the id e a pealing the stamp duty. (Cheers ) The difficulties of that question remained pretty much the same as they had that he was going to promote a system which would supersede any of our able and well-established news been. for although in the last session an act of Pasha - papers. If the peasant took the Times and supplement ing what a newspaper was, he thought it had failed in its it - lent had been passed avowedly for the purpose of defin home to his cottage, he had not a table large enough to object—that a newspaper was still as undefined a thing spread it upon ; and if he held it i n his hand, the rays of his feeble rushlight would not illuminate the vast surface as ever—and that difficulty and litigation must, of • of print, and he could not find what he wanted. Besides, necessity, from time to time arise, in the present state t of the law. (Hear, hear.) The act in question was, in the news contained in it was not such as he wanted. He did not care for advertisements of estates to he sold, nor fact, nothing more than an act to exempt the interesting for information as to the price of funds, for he had no Rousehold Narrative of Mr. Charles Dickens from any prospect of having any money to invest ; the letters of further persecution on the part of the Stamp office autho- " " rities. (Hear, hear.) The precedent would have to be our own correspondent from Vienna or St. Peters burg had no interest for him, because he had never followed. (Hear, hear.) The litigation which would arise would compel the Government to bring in acts of beard of such places. What such a man wanted to see was the news of the place and neighbourhood in which he Parliament from time to time, to declare particular pub `vas been born, lived, and was destined to die ; and if a lications not newspapers. And the only way to avoid system of freedom was allowed to prevail in the. news it—to get rid of litigation and render special legislation paper press, there would, within five years, be a weekly unnecessary—was to declare at once that news was a paper containing such news published in every market thing which was not fit to he taxed, and to repeal the town, and sold at the price of about a penny. It was the stamp duty at once. (Hear, hear.) The same difficulty knowledge that a paper contained the news of his inn which had arisen in the case of Mr. Dickens existed at mediate neighbourhood—the conviction of any of his this moment in other cases also. He held in his hand a neighbours for poaching, and so on—which would first correspondence between Mr. Timm, the solicitor to the stimulate a man to read it, or to get it read by his child Stamp-office, and the proprietor of the Racing limes• because it came from s c h oo l. (Applause.) It was [Mr. Gibson read the correspondence.] Mr. Timm iecause they could not give such news as this—as pronounced the publication of the Racing Ti -: es, on un stated by Lord Brougham in a letter which he (Mr. stamped paper, a breach of the Stamp Laws ; the pro- Cobden) read at the last anniversary meeting of this prieter insisted that his paper was not a newspaper , society that the Society for the Diffusion of Useful according to Mr. Timm's own definition of the term, Knowledge were unable to obtain for their Penny Ma but a mere "class paper," to which, by that gentleman's own showing, the Stamp Laws did not apply. Mr. gazing a circulation in the rural districts. What we read Timm replied, that no man could entertain a doubt that daily was not extracts fro m geogra phi ca l wor ks, travels, 1 or histories, but the broadsheet of news, and our reason for the publication in question was liable to the tax, and reading it daily was that the events of one day were threatened to commence proceedings if its issue upon connected with another ; we got upon a sort of electric unstamped paper were persisted in. The proprietor re chain of sympathy, and read on to see whither the chain joined that he had taken advice, and was ready to abide would lead us. But for this stimulus, how many of us the consequences, and would furnish the name of his solicitor whenever Mr. Timm should require it. It "• would read at all? (Applause.) The opponents of the peered that no proceedings had yet been taken. What stamp wanted to supply a want which never would be sort of a protector of the revenue was this Mr. Timm, supplied so long as this restricti on was ma i n t a i ne d, be who, when he had got an article which, he said, no man cause it kept the price of papers at a rate which pressed could doubt was liable to a tax, knowingly and wilfully heavily upon the great mass of the population in the allowed it to remain untaxed ?No doubt lie was deterred agricultural districts. And let it b e remem b e red that by his knowledge of the uncertainty of the law and of the you could never permanently keep the intelligence of fact that what was held to be a newspaper one day was towns above that of the agricult u ral districts, because it held not to be a newspaper the next ; and lie was probably was from the latter that the population of the former was acting wisely in not exposing his friends to the difficul- constantly recruited. If they w ere to bring the workings ties in which that uncertainty might involve them. class in the country up to a state deserving the name of But who could tell what effect these threatening letters civilisation, they must let them have cheap newspapers, might have had on those who had not the conrage or in order that they might be stimulated to read. At the means of standing out .against them? Who could present, the newspaper press was designedly kept out of tell how many small publications might have been the reach of these poor people. (Applause ) In a rural district with which he was very familiar, containing frightened out of existence by these petty persecutions ? 140,000 inhabitants, and returning nine members to Some person had thought that their object was only to Parliament, there was not a single newspaper published. cheapen those newspapers which were read by the higher A very respectable individual started a penny newspaper, and the middle classes. He should be glad to see those under the delusion that if it were published fortnightly newspapers as cheap as they could be made. (Hear.) Considering the ability with which they were ' it would require no stamp. It circulated in all :he vil the labour bestowed on them, and the amount of infor lages within twenty miles, in some of which a newspaper mation they contained, it was only astonishing they conduc,ed, had not been seen since the creation of the world. could be sold at the price at which they were now pub- Mr. Timm, of the Inland Revenue Office, heard of this fished. But it was not in reference to this class of papers paper, pounced upon the proprietor, extorting from s that they were mainly ene-aged in advocating the aboli- him some miserable 51.—it wa very like obtaining tion of the stamp duty. (Hear.) They wa nted the cheap money under false pretences—and compelled him to penny newspaper to be allowed to contain the fact s of the stamp his paper. The result was that the price had to be raised to 2d., and at the next issue a circulation day, and to circulate them among the great mass of the of forty-five in three villages fell to five, all of which people. They were told that a newspaper could not be were taken by persons other than labourers. Every published for a penny. The objection was answered by labourer left 4 taking the paper as soon as its price the fact that the London, Journal, with a circulation of was raised to 2d. If it had been desired to offer a pre -400,000 was distributed throughout the country without mium upon ignorance, drunkenness, and vice—to incite the aid of the post-office, and that the whole cost in the poor labourers to go to the beershop, instead of eluding carriage, was covered by the penny which was sitting at home—if it had been desired to take away charged for it. (A. Voice—John Cassell.) Yes, there from them all motive for learning to read themselves , or were others, and John Cassell's publications among sending their children to school, it could not have been ir:n them. What was the meaning of preventing such pub clone more effectually than by stopping t his lications fiom containing the news of the day ? It was said that they might contain it if they would submit towhich, after engaging in some penny novel, the hero of the very same day there was published a tax of a penny ; but this was in effect a prohibition. broa to live upon his every kind of villany, wenta (Hear.) Itwas worthy of remark that the tax had beenwithout any obstruction plunder, and this could be soldne a paper. number . o f repealed as to comments on the news of the day, whileelse. We talked about retained as to the news itself. Surely, if they were pre-education,and were at the same time being in favour of pared to allow cheap comments to be circulated among which enabled the people to educate from Mr. Timm or any o i h n i g n g t e t m o p t Have people cheap how founded. great body of the people, it would be a wiser policy or, at least, to cultivate a taste for reading. themselves, _ to allow the facts themselves to be circulated, so that h rned of such hypocrisy. (Applause.) S ome He was as strangling a system delusive theories might not find favour, in consequence of the absence of the facts on which they professed to belt was by such means alone, (Hear.) The maxim of olden time, however, local ne that a appeared to have been completely reversed. Lord Castle- readev Besides, he was not an enemy to provincial Pu y : o Peh U rft' C h o a n t ld it in wa th s e a be b g a i d nie t local people ar tr e reagh was more afraid of comments than of news. But g. Generally speaking, they were published un d er now sedition and blasphemy was free from tax , while fPhaee r r es ponsibility of a known proprietor,who generally n ews, that dangerous thing—the debates in Parliament , lived in a shop and was a m an of some intelligence, who and the decisions of the judges—must be dealt out cha- had given bonds to society, by being known amongst rily to the working classes, and they must pay a toll for his n eighbours, that he would not publish in his paper a knowledge of the law as laid down by the judg es of anything which was very • inimical to m • orals and good the land, which they were, nevertheless, required to govern tuent. For this reason he did not see ob any obey. (Hear, hear.) The middle classes bad a deep in- jection to the encouragement of local p apers. What terest in the policy which would place the news —the h was,e aimed at, however,that the pe o pl e s hould be facts of the day, within reach of the grea t mass of the a ble to bu y what t hey pleased. H e did not wan t to set people. (Hear.) They were going to e xtend the fran- up an y class of newspapers chile—to give political power to numb ers who never He only a-k e d for freedom, that the people, should not hitherto enjoyed it. Did not common sense tell them be restrained f • hich stood in the i n t eres t o any newspaper press. that they ought to remove all restrictions w , Of this he was certain, that if th ere were any party in in the way of the circulation of soun d knowledge --4 ` )r this county enga pon t h e news peper press ho facts were the only sound knowledge —among those who thought t h at they verso nterested in preserving the were to to vote at elections of members of the Legislature, st...:ctionof the stamp, to prevent competition in news and so to be instrumental in making laws for the govern- " papers, ment of the people of this count r y ? If they could not their inter est was not t h e public interest. H e had me to get r id o f th e s tamp in seven years from educate the people on account of reli g ious differences, in the time of the commencemen t of the agitation, and if Heaven's name, let them not stand in the way of the people educating themselves. Mr. Gibson p roceeded to we remained at peace he still hoped to do so. The op refer to the law which required s ecurities to be g iven to Ponente of the stamp were often asked what they pro the Stamp-office, in certain cases, against the publication posed to do about the postage. Mr. Rowlarni Hill had of blasphemy and sedition, and to characterise it as ate !stated that he was prepared to deal with that matter anal as the great surd, anomalous, and impracticab le. In conclusio n , he when it was brought before him ; 1 hulk expressed his opinion that the working cl tsses and the of the new simpers were sent into the country, not by capital of this country would be obliged under the system post, but by private parcels, there could not be much of free commercial policy which we had adopted to enter difficulty about it. Again, it was urged that under the more and more into competition with formidable present system a newspaper could be sent by post two rivals, and that in order to enable our people to atiAd or three times for the single payment of the stamp, while TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE-SOIREE TO MR. MILNAR GIBSON, M.P. Yesterday evening a soir e e was given at the Whit- tington Club, by the Association for promoting the Re peal on the Taxes on Knowledge, to Mr. T. Milner Gibson, M.P., in honour of the repeal of the advertise ment duty. The spe 'chest of the evening were preceded and interspersed with music and singing. The chair was taken by Sir J. V. Shelley, M.P. The CHAIRMAN said that the meeting had somewhat reversed the usual course of things. They had had the " flow of soul," and it was now his duty to bring them to the "feast of reason." He should not detain them long, as others would follow him better able to deal with the subject before them. He would remind theln that they had met at the institution for promoting the repeal of the taxes on knowledge, to commemorate a great vic tory gained by the independent liberal party in the House of Commons last year, obtaining the repeal of the advertisement duty, and to do honour to the president of the association, Mr. Milner Gibson—(great cheering) —through whose seal, talent, and assiduity, was mainly owing the great triumph which had been achieved. He (the chairman) did not profess to be able to do justice to this great subject ; but he felt obliged to the association for allowing him to prelider on this occasion, as it enabled him to show, besides, 'What little support he had been able to give Mr. Giblionti the House of Commons, how sincerely he felt the importance, to the great mass of the people, of the spread of knowledge and education among all classes. After the severe struggle which they had gone through for free trade in food for the body, he hoped the time was not far distant when they would ob tain free trade in food for the mind. He would only say, as one who had been engaged largely in agriculture, that, as free trade had been obtained at the expense of his business, he did not see why other trades should not be subjected to free trade ; and he thought the press should not be exempt from the free trade for which they were now fighting. There was no doubt that the great newspapers of the metropolis were the pride of the nation ; but as regarded the working classes, the Times was a thing which certainly they heard of but which they never met with. It was such publications that assisted to spread education ; and it was only proper that they should wish to see good and cheap publications open to all classes. It was the claptrap of all parliamentary addresses to constituencies, and especially of Tory ad dresses to talk of our glorious Constitution of Church and State, and Tories always said they were anxious for the education of the people. But what they meant was " parson education." (Hear, hear.) Such education as the parson approved, and not such as would be of prac tical benefit to all classes. He (the chairman) wished to see in the hands of every Englishman newspapers as you saw abroad and in America, which enabled him to judge of men and things, and did not . leave him at the mercy of a paper (he spoke especially of the agricultural districts) which he could not see, except at the beershop or when he borrowed it from his neighbour, after it had become so dirty as hardly to be readable. (Hear, hear.) Those gentlemen who advocated the education of the people were of opinion that there should be no duty on the means of obtaining know led g e. Take th e duty on li e o ver w y ish on ed e w si o n u ce ld rel d y es t ir o e s t e o e gflon•oedignnowokosrkins. the o ha o u n d e e of w see such books dear. As to the duty on paper, it was now only a question of time, after the speeches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, last year, who said it was only of insignificant amount. And he was glad to say ttett in all the communications he had had with Mr. Gladstone, he found him to be conscientious, and anxi ous to do right— (" hear, hear," and loud cheers)—and that was much to say for a Chancellor of the Exchequer. (Hear, hear.) He looked forward to the duty on paper as soon likely to go by the board. Then there was the stamp on newspapers. They heard a great deal and prided themselves a great deal on a free press, but in fast they had but the shadow and not the substance of a free press ; as thin# were there was no greater mono poly than newspapers. As far as he had ascertained the effect of the repeal of the advertisement duty it had worked well. Newspapers of merit, which had previously been struggling, were now doing well and thriving ; and this bad been brought about without doing any harm or causing loss to the great newspapers. The servant could now advertise and get a place without paying an enor mous tax to the Government. The liberal party had gained a great victory, and his experience enabled him to say that the independent liberal party, which was sometimes called the radical party—he had no objection to the name—(hear, hear) —wasp composed of men who were not to be driven from their course, when fighting for any object which was for the material welfare of the people. As to the security which publishers were re quired to give, he believed the effect of it was that it enabled scandal to be published in any paper which was not unstamped with impunity. It was objected that this was not the time fnr paessing these questions, as we were on the eve of war ; but, on the contrary, he be lieved that if ever there was a time when it was the duty of independent members of the House of Commons to endeavour to remove great social impositions, it was when the people were about to be called upon to bear increased taxation, in order to defend the honour of the country. He hoped and trusted that this association, which had done so much, would pursue that course which the victory of last year so much encouraged them to pursue. He could only add, that as he was the representative of one of the great constituencies of the country, and one in which the interests of the people had found so many advocates, in comparison with whom its present representative must appear somewhat unwor thy, he would always do all in his power to advance every matter which tended to promote the morality and happiness of the people. Apologies were offered for the absence of Mr. G. Daw son, Mr. Miall, and Mr. W. J. Fox. Mr. SAMUEL Lucas spoke at some length to a senti ment—" The right of free speech a primary right, and a means of obtaining all others." He addressed himself principally, howover, to the question of national edu cation ; and vindicated " stump oratory," as a means of reaching large classes unable to read, and deprived of other means of education, Mr. HICKSON proposed " Mr. Gibson and his sup porters in the House of Commons." (Cheers.) The Liberal party had sometimes been reproached with a misplaced jeolousy and distrust of our public men, and there had perhaps been too many instances of political time-serving to warrant that want of confidence but the more nume rous such instances had been, the greater should be their anxiety to give full recognition to those public men who were actuated by higher and purer motives. They had the opportunity of d o i ng so that evening. (Cheers.) The first public meeting on this question was held 24 years ago, on the 20th of April, 18:30. Since then, how numerous had been the public questions carried to a successful i ssue —the Reform Bi ll, municipal reform, t h e Dissenters Marriage Act, free trade, repeal of the win dow duties, and many others ; but this had not been car ried, and that it had not was o wing to the apathy and lukevsarmness of the press (Hear, hear.) Lord Brougham and the most distinguished men could not find any report in the most Liberal journals, When, in those days, they spoke in favou r of it. In _ t hose days, the utmost notice o they could get in some the most Liberal papers was but the corner of an obscure column, printed in their most invisible typ e. (Laughter , ) It was not till upwards of thirty persons had been immured in prison for the infringement of the stamp ditties that the public began to take any notice. The newspapers themselves talked of the blessings of a free press ; but if a dear free press was a good thing, would not s cheap ter ? Yet, even now , when there free press be a bet was not so much heard of "opening the flood-gates of democracy," and "poi soning the poor with chea p sedi tion,. they did not get very extravagant eulogies in the daily papers—(laughter) —though they did occasionally get some admission of what they were doing. The Speaker concluded, amid symptoms of impatience, with some complimentary ex pressions regarding Mr. Gibson and his colleagues. Mr. MILNER GIBSON, M.P., was received with the most enthusiastic cheers. He could assure them, with perfect sincerity, that he had accepted with great plea sure and satisfaction the very complimentary invitation which he bad received to be present on this occasion. (Hear.) His hon. friend who had preceded him had spoken in too flattering terms of the exertions made in Parliament up to the present time in order to carry the repeal of the taxes on knowledge. For himiolf, he could only say that the course which he had taken he believed to be consistent with his duty as a representative of popular interests. And, with respect to the other gen tlemen with whom he had had the honour of acting, he felt confident that they would bear him out, when he said that they had upon this question not only expressed their own conscientious convictions in Parliament, but had also let the House of Commons know what were the feelings of the Liberal portion of ther constitutents. (Hear, hear.) It must not be forgotten, indeed, that members of Parliament were frail reeds to rest upon unless they were back ed up by the public voice, and unless intelligent public opinion in the country should sustain them, and carr y them through in th e course which they had chalked out for themselves. (Hear, hear.) Their strength consisted in the pressure from without ; and a speech from a member of Parliament —be his talents what they might—be his energy and zeal what they might—would be but like the idle wind, which men regarded not, unless it were felt that his words were echoed by large numbers of people without the walls of the house, and were backed by intelligent public opinion. (Hear, hear.) This question had not been dealt with altogether as a party question. It had had support from both sides of the house. (Hear.) They had had votes from gentlemen whose votes they did not expect, and they had a right to presume that those gentlemen had probably received an intimation from sortie of their influential friends that such votes would be acceptable. (Hear, hear.) He was no advocate of an absence of deliberation or of a want of knowledge of the subjects upon which they were to vote upon the part of membera of Parliament ; but what he upon the meeting was wished to impress emphatically THE FIRE AND LOSS OF EIGHT LIVES IN SOHO. No fire that has occurred for some years in the metro polis has created such a painful sensation as the one which occurred in Princes-street, Soho, on Tuesday morning last, a report of which appeared in this journal that day. Owing to the excited state the survivors were in on the day the fire took place they were unable to give many particulars respecting the melancholy catastrophe, consequently much remains untold, particu larly of the scenes which occurred before the arrival of the engines. During yesterday morning Mr. Paul Giraud, the en gineer left in charge of the ruins, together with the brigades-men under him, made a searching inquiry, for the purpose of ascertaining how, and in what part of the building the fire commenced. The result of that inquiry was as follows :—Mr. Arthur, house-decorator and grainer, who occupied the first floor, stated that he was awoke by the servant, who slept along with his daugh ter on the game floor, but nearest the street, by hearing her clapping her hands, and crying "murder" and "fire. He got out of bed, and found the room so full of smoke that he could scarcely breathe. He, however, shook his wife for some time, and at last succeeded in awaking her. Owing to the confusion they were both in,_ ne ither of them were able to unlock the room door. Mr. Arthur, therefore, was obliged to force it, when on entering the front room he found an exceedingly small portion of a wooden cornice, immediately over a cupboard running from the floor to the ceiling, in flames. So dense, how • ever, was the smoke that neither he nor his wife had time to collect a single article of wearing apparel, and they were obliged to rush into the street in their night dresses. Mr. Arthur is of opinion, from the fact of Mr. Puget's children sleeping on the floor over his on loose shavings and straw, and his not returning home until half•past 3 o'clock on the morning of the fire, that he had probably struck a match to light a candle before going to bed, and by that means had dropped a spark amongst the straw, which had smouldered for some time, and eventually had broken out in flames. The same person also stated that Hannah Daday, his servant, on discovering the fire ran up stairs in her night dress to Mr. Puget's floor, when on entering she found the room in flames. She cried out " Murder and fire," hut was unable to awake him for some tune, and when she at length succeeded he jumped out of bed, said nothing, but opened the window and, without attempt ing to arouse his wife and family, leaped out, and met with the serious accident of which he is stall suf fering, and which it is feared will cost him his life. After that the woman had time to return to her room on the first floor and save her boots and two or three articles of wearing apparel. She is tberefore of the same opinion as her master, that the fire commenced in Mr. Puget's apartments. Giraud, on the other hand, entertains quite a contrary opinion, for as fire always ascends, and from the examination he has made he has no doubt that the fire began in or near the cupboard in Mr. Arthur's front room. He is led to this conclusion from the flames having devoured everything in that particular part of the premises, whilst the joistings and girders over are comparatively only triflingly charred, which be imagines could not have been the case had the fire broken out in the upper instead of the lower room. It is an extraordinary tact that the fire took place within a few yards of the engine-house connected with St. Ann's parish—so near, indeed, that Spendlow, the engineer, an old experienced fireman, formerly connected with the County Fire Insurance engine, could, had ne cessity have requiTed it, set the engine to work from a pump in front of 'his engine -house, and thereby have confined the fire to whatever part the house was then on fire. Strange to say about 12 months ago Spendlow received orders in writing that he was not again to take his engine out to any fire that might occur in the parish. How far the churchwardens who issued the orders were justified in preventing the engine from running will no doubt be fully discussed and inquired into at the coroner's inquest, which will not take place until Friday evening. Before the arrival of the engines many of the inmates were seen at the front and back windows, and so loudly did they scream for aid that their cries could be heard as far distant at Newport-market, and had some of the neighbours taken a few carpets to the spot, there is little doubt entertained but that those in the upper part of the house might have jumped out of the window and been rescued in safety in the carpet. Mr. and Mrs. Reeves, who tenanted the ground floor, knew nothing of the disaster until they heard the cries of those above, and even then they guarded their doors, thinking that one of the lodgers had come home again drunk, and was beating his wife ; and it was not until the females cried " murder," that she consented to open the street door. She then saw the policeman and told him that the person, had, in her opinion, murdered his wife, and had likewise set the house on fire. Those parties have unfortunately perished, and it will be diffi cult, it is thought, to decide how the fire took place. Several houses near were preserved from injury. The official report states that the upper part of the house, from the second floor, is destroyed, and the con tents consumed. Eight persons burned to death, and the lower part of the house damaged by water. PARLIAMENTARY. —The opening of Parlia . mrrt . 1 h tis , attended session i w with looked upon hthesplen as the doura expression pre in of p brilliancy o of the pi o h. i n ti l 'h c on through the represeidatives of our CITIES, COUNTIES, and rowNS• Every individual in the Empire desires to be rspre• stilted by fashionable and well made i mr-isS, it is best obtained at the Establishment of E. M an O d SE e S v a x e SON Branch. Public a A t T t T h i e ß ir E W , 1 repressPu e a ry n o d n s e co k N no , knows i t e o a p il inlo c n las i s i e u m d in eei s ci T ed yL th E a s t E. !mined to maintain the distinction oi p M r O ov S i E di S ncz a' D d res B s ON to sh b a l l EASUßE or READY- MAr)E, the most r h y lo o n n a e bl as e, c E om ieg p a le n t t e , l HOSIERY, SHIRTS, BOOTS aundulcal. Their HATS, CAPS, completely equipped for the season, which may F ev a e s SHOES, &c., will represent con tinue damp or rainy. Every description of WATERPROOF CLOTHING is manufac tured by E. MOSES and t-,().4. and "xhibits more variety than the prWuctions of any House in the World—it i c onsid.r.rbly cheaper the , any hitherto offered The serviceable, and The Colonies are represented by E. Mi iSF.S a in formation is direct from Australia and all other and SON—their and the Goods in their Immense Wholesale Departmentarts °' the World, pre pared in accordance with the present state of the are se Merchants, Shippers. and •Emigr_n_Tke.ts abroad, greate4 advantages from purchasing Clothing " 1' aerive the and Outfits at the Establishment of E. MOSES and SON. Full lists of Outfits for Ladies and Gentlemen, with ship-sailinr information, may be had on appltiation, or post free. - CAUTION. -E. MOSES And SON regret having to guard the ~ahlic against Imposition, having learned that the untradesman-:ike alsehood of " Being connected with • heir Establishment," or " It's he same concern." has been resorted to in many instances, and for bv i ou s reasons , they beg to state that they have No CONNEXION WITH ANY °TAM HOUSE IN OR OUT OF LONDON, t their own Establishments, as follows : LondonexcepCity Establishment, 154, 155. 156, and 157, Minories, 83, urch all communicatin 4,55 and 86, Aldgnte. opposite the Ch , g. New Oxford 4itreet, I, 2 London 'Nest-end Branch, 506,507, 50a, and 3, Hart street, all communicating B r anch, 19 and 20, Bridge-street. Bradtord (Yorkshire) Sheffield Branch, 36 Wargate. Colonial Branch, tri Melbone, Australia. Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Merchant Patio. - Clothiers, adies and Gentlemen. Shoe Makers, and General Oatfltters for Lad a sa tisfaction, it will be I MPORTANT —Should any article not gi money will be returned exchanged if desired, or, if preferred, theGROG AT THE DIGGIN 11 es the lowest GEL—It is expected that licenses without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain Fur , for the retail of ' price, tram which no atatteipent can be made spirits will b e extended to the diggings , Fridtras to ontneet and that sev 1 The Establishments are cloned from sunset on • era. respectable sto k hfi ld re eepers on eac e on -laturiays, when huni nets , i rkr•lnne4 011 12 Aire- will be selected. There There can be little doubt but this plan A new Rook. " The Epitome of Comfort arid I'J , ; &C. &c ' w i l t ha -a a good i -.g tall lists irr prices. rur syAtent of golf rneftslMlllo,' • • • effect , as the licensed parties will ' alwzi , be 3 s ready to • "el' he had on apnbenpQn. nr post-tree. assist the authorities in rooting out Can be had ratis •that class • g , handsome Almanac for the year ending I tifvl ea shops which are notoriously the haunts on application. of the idle and vicious A • Id Pon pads Francais. (lei. si parialtallano. . ustraltan and New Zealand Gagette. Ultr gPricbt Ruin Deoticb. Mutt so hals EOM Crown Bvo., 10i. COI4TENT9.—I. On Charity. 2. On Sin 3. On the Evil Spirit. 4. On the Sense of Righteousness in Ms n and their Disc very of a edeemer. 5. On the Son of God. 6. On the Incarnation. 7. On the atonement. 8. On the Resurrection of the Son of God from Death, the Grave, and Hell. 9. On Justification by Faith 10. On Regeneration. 11. On the 4 vension of Christ. 12. On the Judg ment Day. 13. On inspi •ation 14. tin the Personality and Teach ing of the Holy - pirit. 15. On the Unity of the Chisrch. 16. On the Trinity and Unity. Conclusion—On Eternal Life and Eternal Death " They are valuable as a complete exposition of his views of Chris tianity—the view- of a man who is powerfully influencing his gene raion, arid who profoundly believes in rev sled rel gion as a series of facts disclosing God's plan for educating and restoring the human race " - Spectator. August 6, 1853. " r. Maurice is aiming eta high object. He would reconcile the old and the new. He would disencismber what is popular of what is vulgar, confused sectarian, and preserve and i lustrare it by dlsen• cumbesing it. He calls s n us not to be afraid of the depths and heights, the freedom and largeness, the spirit end the truth' of our own theology. It 1- a warning aid a call which every age wants. We sympathise with his arm, With much of his p solve teaching, with some of his aversions and some of his fears. We do not respect Lim the less for not being afraid of being caned hard names. Rut eerta'nlst su - h a writer has need in no common degree, of con forming hims'lf to that wlse maxim which holds n writing a well as in art, ' 1: 'sow what you want to An, then do it.' "—Guardian. 't Thronvheut these Essays -nos a targe-hearted, truthful, and ear ne=t spirit, which provokes a similar warmth of teeling in the reader. Their catidou• and straight: orasardriess, the anxiety evinced to put the best construction upon disssent ents and not to es ape from any just charge against ourselve-, are as rare in Iristian and Church .krivocat Et as they are val , rable in their cause Even tho>e who may not he able to agree with Mr. Maurice throughout, will cen t duly admire the charity ssnd forbearance he ,a• plays in dealing with difficult and delicate auljects : none can well he other than gainers by witnessi .g a treatment of them so remarkable in respect both of t m ,er and ability."—Clerical Journal. Every author of real mark has a parpossi in writing a book and , with- t out a knowledge of which it cannot b e fairly appreciates'. by should be estimated the method of his reasonings, illustrations, and we Li e s think, o help to phraseology. v7,irsf This p fr ‘s o l in n canon of r writing i h m tl i e g rn have been brought e against hlm."—Church of England Quarterly Review. By the same loth THE PROPHETS and KINGS of the OLD TESTAMENT. Crown 8-‘o., cloth, 10s. 6d. "No statesman, no politician, no student of history, can fail to deriv • ins rue ion from this volume.' Spect tor Jan. 22 " Whatever obscurity there may b, in our auth •ir's other writing logs, here -4 least there is none. We cannot but rejoice that it is so, and that thus so much that is true and valuable becomes p o p ular."—• Scott•sh Ecclesiastic , ' Journal. " Evince not mer ly undiminished but inccreased intelectual power. The tone is practical a"d heAthj —English Review, April 1853. Has already stamped its impress deeply on the public mind, and promises to rai‘e its author to a higher position than ever as a leader of modern thouglit."—British aid Foreign Evangelical Review, June 1853 " A volume hat will take rank with the beet of its class, and that will w.•rthily ()cm y a pia .e side by -id with the Sermons of llotsley and Butler."—Britlsh Banner, June 15, 1853 Macmillan and Co., Cambridge. COMMON SENSE for SIXPENCE ! A Book for Thong Men. By a Physician. For the public good and the suppression of quackery. Numerous anatomical descriptive engravings, price 6d. , through all Book-ellers, in a sealed envelope, or sent post tree tor 6 postage stamps. SILENT HINTS on Certain .zuhlects ; a Medical Mentor for the Mi lion containing numerous prescriptions and directions by which mpirtcism and Quack r' are defea'ed, and all usual remedies superseded. By following very simple direction. , all those complaints resulting from error are speedily removed, natural strength restored, and vigorous health imparted. " No young man should be without it."—Globe. "Just the thing that was waisted.'—Pollician. Ad 'ress. Mr. Lewes, Med.eal Publisher, 2, Charles-street, Hatton. garden London. THE REPORT of the BRITISH COLLEGE of HE ‘LTH. New road, London, for 1853, is now Printed, and may be had or all the Agents for Morrison's ills throughout the conntrv. 4lso, Mr. FRASER'S LECTURE on the \IEDICAT. LIBERTY of the 4 UBJECT, and the BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH of JAMES MORISON, the Hygeist. MEDICAL All YO U TH AND MATURCE ON THE SECRET T INFIRMITIES OF Y Y. DR. SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, E d o n of Medicine, and Matriculated Member of the University 0' Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical ,4,, e lety. Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. MAY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on the various disorders of the nervous anti generative system, •esulting from juvenile Irregularities and eacesses, which have pro luced more misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema. Aire decay at all stages of life, than perhaps any other class of dia• aces wn to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience in the treatment of these diseases has proved that th.sre are in eats: ante secret causes of self-acquired miseries and disappointed hopes in ixistence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous Debility, various corms of Insa nit y , Unhappy and Unfrultfhl Marti wet. Impotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their indless modifications owe their almost entire origin it is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there art orinciples of personal management which cannot he violated without incurring. grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret sncceed the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties may he mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may he remove , . and how the evil and its con equenc es may be avoided, and above all, hat there b scarcely any decree of physical infirmity or functlona, 'erangement which the timely aid of science cannot app'.y a cure DOCTOR LA'MERT has for a long series of years been engaged in an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate corn• plaints, and is the only legally qualified Physician who, recardless of the taunts an envy of the hs pocritical and mock-modest, has had the confidence, d through the medium of the public press, to direct attention to these enormous evils, from which no grade of society is free. In selecting thi department of practice, he has been amply re' arded by the great success that has attended his efforts in the treatment of these cases, which are too generally confided to the etre of unqualified and ignorant empirics, who, with their pirated publications, Assnmed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues 0 , their patent nostrums, have inflicted serious injury on those who dive been induced to place faith in their pretensions. At home for consultation daily from Eleven till Two, and iron , six till Eight. All letters must contain the fee of if., and advice and ,medicines can be forwarded to any initials or address. It it desirable that patients wishing to consult Dr. LA'MEET bould first obtain a copy of his work on SELF-PRESERVATION Medical Treatise on the Philosophy of Marriage and Nervous and lenerative , Illuitrated by fifty-coloured engravings, and des ..:ribing in detail the various disorders resulting fro n secret habits and , xcesses. The perusal of this treatise will assist in the correct leseription of their cases, and tray be had, price 2s 6d, in English, French, Spanish, Indult, Italian, or German, of Messrs. Piper Brothers and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Storie. Tdchborne-street, Haymarket; or free ry oost for forty-two stamps, to any address from the Author's re:J. nee • -{‘ IT aketze_ .077t7) if the /damp were obtoliehed f%70 would hays $e paid for each transmission. To `.iris he replied, that If the price of newspapers were reduced by the abolition of the stamp, persons would riot have, as they now had, to club together to take a paper, and there would be no oe casino for sending papers four or five days old about the country. The system of securities proceeded upon the assumption that every one who started'a newspaper did so with the intention of libelling- some one else; and as it was not only useless—as- proprietors of news. papers were generally persons having property who could be reached by an action at law —but also nunilting, he utterly abominated it. (Cheers.) In conclusion, Mr. Cobden said that he hoped that the proinoters of this movement might rely upon the support of the people in carrying on this question in its successive stages ; and that they would be able 'to prei-ail upon her-Majesty's Ministers to act in regard to the stamp as they had acted in regard to the advertisement duty, the total repeal of which, last session, they might, if they had chosen, have prevented. (Cheers.) The vacated chair having been taken by Mr. Cobden, Dr. JOHN WATTS, of Manchester, proposed a vote of thanks to Sir John V. Shelley, which was seconded, and carried by acclamation. After it had been briefly acknowledge-1 by Sir Joat V. SHELLEY, the proceedings terminated. [PRain SD. NAV AL T ELLIGENO.E. APPOINTMENTS. Chaplain—The Rev. C. 0. Yeo (1854), to the James Watt, 91, screw steam ship, at Devonport. Surgeon—Charles K. Nutt (1840), from the Excellent, gunnery-ship, at Portsmouth, to the Edinburgh, 58, screw steam flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Henry D. Chad', C. 8., at Devonport. Naval I n st ruc tor—Charles R. Tompkins (1854), to the Dauntless, 24, screw steam frigate, at Portsmouth. Assistant-Surgeon—Joseph Coulter, M.D. (1846), from th e E xce ll ent, gunnery - s hi p , a t Portsmouth, to the Edinburgh, 58, screw qeam-ship, at Devonport. Second Master—E. C. Dyei (1848), from the Coast guard, to the Impregnable flag-ship ' at Devonport. Clerks Assistants--John, E. Evans , S. B. Giles, and John H as t ey , to the Victory, flag-ship, at Ports. mouth. WOOLWICH, FEB. 8. The Sprightly, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, tender to the Victory flag-ship at Portsmouth, arrived here yes terday afternoon from Devonport, Portsmouth, and Sheerness, and left to-day for Portsmouth. Lieutenant Robertson, of the steam reserve, Master Commander H. W. Alien, of the Lightning, with a portion of her crew, and of the Medea and Fisgard, returned to Woolwich in the Sprightly, after having navigated the Prometheus from Woolwich to Devonport, where she is now stationed as an advanced war steamer. __ The Manceuvrer arrived at Woolwich on Monday, from Portsmouth, and brought round the furniture of Commodore John Shepherd to this port. A number of young men were inspected to-day on their applying to be entered in the flag-ship at this port, and the total number of those passed and joined for the naval service is about 60. The Coldstream Guards, at present doing duty at Deptford Dockyard, are to be relieved by a detachment of the 38th Foot from Chatham. Captain Rea and Lieutenant Harrison, with two ser geants, two corporals, oue drummer, and 150 privates of the Woolwich division of the Royal Marines, left the Dockyard station of the IsT,rth Kent Railway at six a.m. today for Devonport, the greater portion to em bark and do duty in the Nile, 91. screw steam-ship, at that port, and the others to remain with the Plymouth division until draughted for embarkation from that division. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 8. Vice Admiral - Sir Charles Napier, K.C. 8., will have the "command of the Baltic fleet, with Rear Admirals Corry and Chads under him. Her Majesty's ship Blenheim, 60, screw, Captain the Hon. F. T. Pelham, will be ready to leave the basin to morrow or Friday, and will be one of the Baltic fleet. She is painted like a frigate,. with only one streak of ports, so that any enemy falling in with her, and mis taking her for a single-decked frigate, will be taken in. We regret to say Rear Admiral Martin, Superinten dent of this dockyard, is indisposed. We understand Mr. A.sh, foreman of shipwrights, has accepted a present of plate from the officers of the Russian corvette, Navarin, lately refitted in this dock yard. The Canar, 91, Captain Robb, received her bowsprit this afternoon, and will be masted to-morrow. The Dragon, 6, paddlewheel steam frigate, Captain Willcox, has been placed alongside the jetty to-day, pre paratory to her being docked to-morrow, to have .her copper, &c., examined. biders were received at this port to-day for the Nep tune, 120, Captain Scott, and the Excellent gunnery ship, Captain Sir Tho►nas Maitland, C. 8., to prepare for the reception of 300 coast-guardmen each to morrow The Frolic, 16, Commander Nolloth, sailed from Spit head this evening for a cruise to exercise her ship's com pany. The Argus revenue steam cruiser, Commander Grandy, came into harbour this morning, and the Mermaid reve ntie cruiser, Lieut. Stokes, anchored at Spithead this afternoon. These vessel , , we believe, are to be employed in collecting the coast guardmen, and conveying them to the different stations as they may be required. The Hecla steam-sloop, for surveying service in the North Sea, adjusted her compasses to-day, and will be ready to leave about Saturday. Capt. Fremantle, of the Juno, 26, at Spithead, is in dispose 3, in London. Rear-Admiral.Corry's squadron are expected at Spit , head by the 14th, and provisions are being prepared for them at the Royal Clarence-yard. The Talbot, 26, jury-rigged, in charge of Mr. King. master of the Neptune, sailed this afternoon for Dept ford, to be fitted as a store-ship for the Arctic regions. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 8. Her Majesty's sloop Racehorse, 14, Commander Bar• uard, was towed into the Sound on Monday, and took her powder and shell on board the same day. The screw steamship Edinburgh, 58, Capt. Hewlett, bent Rails in Hamoaze yesterday. She has been ordered to Portsmouth, and will go out of harbour to-day. The steam-vessel Avon left on Monday with super numeraries for Portsmouth. The guardship St.. George, 121, Capt. Kingcombe, is ordered to be taken into dock and to receive her top masts and other spars. She is to be ready to leave for Portsmouth on the 7th of March. The screw steamship Royal George, 121, Capt. Henry J. Codrington, is also ordered to be ready for sea on the 7th of March. The screw steamship Nile; 90, was commissioned on Monday by Commander Augustus S. Booth. The ropehouse boys in the dockyard have been granted 2s. per week additional wages. Twelve shipwrights', four caulkers', and two ropemakers' apprentices were entered yesterday. BRITISH SEAMANSHIP.—The brig Sea Adventure, 192 tons register, Capt. Glazebrook, belonging to Shoreham, has arrived here in a most perilous condition. She left Buenos Ayres three months since, viz., on the Bth Nov., with a full cargo of hides and bones, for Cork or Fal mouth, for orders. On the 19th of Jan., when about 250 miles north-west of the Azores Islands, she experienced 'a hurricane from west north west, which carried away her foremast, bowsprit, cutwater, figurehead, cook's galley, boats and stanchions, and bulwarks on the lar board aide. So . powerful was the sea that the galley, cooking apparatus and all, were floated clean over her side. On the 22d she encountered another storm, which cleared the remainder of her bulwarks and stanchions, started her stern frame and carried away the companion, compelling the master to batten down the entrance to the cabin, abandon the use of it, and take his quart ers among the crew in the forecastle. The mainmast and the cabin skylight were all that was left standing. There was not a single spar to rig a jurymast, and the loss of the foremast and bow. , prit sent the brig down by the stern, in order to remedy which it became necessary to throw some of her after cargo overboard; but this could only be got at by entering the hold from the forecastle, and dragging the hides forward. The tedious and tire some duty was rendered more irksome through the salt with which the hides are cured, having penetrated the hands of the men, one of whom was obliged to desist. During the gale one of the crew was washed overboard twice, but was providentially recovered. Nothing daunted by this series of misfortunes, Captain Glaze brook, having set three jibs as staysails, persevered in bringing his disabled craft a distance of 1,300 miles; he courageously declined assistance on entering the Chan nel, and completed his purpose by steering her safely into the Sound yesterday. The Sea Adventure is , we believe, insured in the Topsh am Cl u b f or 1,0001 , and for a simi lar sum in the Sh ore h am M utual Association. The un derwriters will, no doubt, justly appreciate this com mendable instance of the preseryation of a ship and cargo through the determined perseverance of a master mariner. The crew of the brig consists of ten hands, including Captain Glazebrobk. Contracts for the supply of 3,000 quarters of wheat were entered into to day at the Royal William Victual ling yard. The quantity taken is unprecedented, it being "ordinarily 1,000 quarters. The parties to the contracts are—Mr. Hurrell, 1,000 quarters; at 86s. ; ) Mr. Boswarva, 1,000 at 87s. 4d.; 100, at 88s. 9d. ; and \ 1 500, and 895.; and Mr. Edwards, 400, at 89s. 10d. LUMLEY V. GTE.—This cause is specially fixed to be tried in the Court of Queen's Bench, on Monday, the 20th instant, and is expected to occupy more than one d a y, The action, it will be remembered, is brought by Mr. Lumley, of her Majesty's Theatre, against !Ir.Gye, of the Italian Opera, Covent-garden, toiecover compc±n cation for the non-appearance of Mdlle. Wagner. The damages are laid at 30.0001. For the plaintiff Sir F. Thesiger, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Mr. Hoggins, Mr. Cowling, and Mr. Huddleston have been retained ; and for the defendant the Attorney General, Mr. Willes, and Mr. Creasy will appear. A special jury has already been nominated by Messrs. Lewis and Lewis for the plaintiff and will be reduced in a few days. The case has created a great deal of interest in the theatrical world. SOUTH DEVON ELECTION.—The writ for the election of a representative for the southern division of the county of Devon has been received by the High Sheriff (Mr. R. S. Gard), who has appointed Tuesday next, the 14th inst., as the day of nomination. Only two candi dates are at present in the field, but a third is talked of in the person of • a - ballot advocate. The elector s are being actively canvassed by the friends of Sir Stafford Northcote, Bart., and Mr. L. Palk, whose influence seems to be almost on a par. Placards have been issued calling on the Radicals to reserve their votes for the ballot candidate. It is doubtful 'vhether he will ma k e hi s a ppearance, as he will not have th e s li g ht es t chance of mimeos. FRE•CH IN A MONT I ! The 36th &Mon, ls. 6d. hoards. DE PORQUET'S TRESOR, for Turning Enaish into French at S ght Secret9ire t r aU. 3s ; Grammar, 3s. d. ; Phraseology,2s. Gol.; First Read ing Book, 2s. 6d. ; Dictionary, ss. London : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. A list of Forty other Works for Italian, French, and German, by same Author, may be had. Just published, price 10s., in vols. Bro., cloth lettered, THE JEW OF VER ONA: An Histotical Tale of the Italian Revolutions of 1846-9. Translated from the second revises Italian Edition. London : C Dolman, 61, New Bond-street. and 22, Pat( rnwter-row. RUSSIA AND TURKEY.-LAMBERT'S COLOURED HAP, Second Editi..n (3ft. 41n by 2ft. 3in.), showing the Seat of War on the Danube, the [slack Sea, and the Eastern Fortier. t'rics Is.; in Case, Is. 6d.; by Post, 6d. extra. Dobbs, 10,1 d, and Co , 134, Fleet-street, London ; Menzies, Edinburgh; Lambert, Newcastle-en. Tyne ; and all Booksellers.