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N ORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY.-ESTABLISHED 1797. Capital, 550,0001. It is provided by the constitution of the Society that the Insured shall be free from all responsibility; and to guarantee the engage ments of the Office, a fund of 550,0001. has been subscribed by a numerous and opulent Proprietary, which fund has been further in creased by the accumulation of an additional reserve, now amount ing to 96,800/. Returns of Three-fifths of the Profits of the Company are periodically made to parties insuring, who have thus from time to time received from the Society sums amounting in the aggregate to nearly 380,0001. Tho Rates of Premium are in no case higher than those charged by the other principal Offices making no returns to their Insurers. • The business of the Company exceeds 62,000,0001., and, owing to the liberality with which its engagements have been performed, is rapidly increasing. The Duty paid to Government for the year 1853 was 73,9711., and the amount insured on Farming Stock was Upwards of 8,974,629/. This Office is wholly distinct from the Life Office. For Prospectuses apply to the Society's Offices, 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars ; and Surrey-street, Norwich. T HE GENERAL LIFE AND FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1837. Empowered by Special Acts of Parliament. 62, King William•street, London. Capital, 1,000,000/. On Thursday next will be ready the One Hundredth Thousand of SOYER'S SHILLING COOKERY for the PEOPLE. This edition will contain entirely new receipts, which will be found most useful fair the approaching Christmas Festivities. The best proof of its popularity and value is the fact that the sale has already reached the extraordinary number of 100,000 copies. London : George Routledge and Co., 2, Farringdon-street. RINK OF ENGLAND, 21sT DECEMBfiII, 1854. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the BANK NOTES of tile GOVERNOR and COMPANY of the RANK of ENGLAND, bearing date on and after the first day of January next, will Le in the following form of England. I promise - to pay the Bearer on Demand, the Sum of (amour rounds. (Date as at present.) For the Governor and Compy. of the Bank of England, £ (amount.) (Name of Cashier.) (The number as at Present.) The sign and general character of the Note will be maintained as at present ; but there will be an alteration in the figure of Britannia and in the water mark, to which public attention is called. JOHN BENTLEY, Secretary. L ONDON JOINT STOCK BANK. 21ST DECEMBER, 1854. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the next GENERAL MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of this COMPANY wit be held in the Board Room of the Bank, in Princes-street, Mansion House, on THURSDAY, the 18th day of January next, at Twelve o'clock precisely, to receive the Report of the Directors, and to elect Pour Directors in the place of Philip William Flower, Esq. ; Ceo:ge Holgate Foster, Esq. ; George Meek, Esq.; and George Taylr, Esq., who will on that day go out of office, in conformity with the provi sions of the Deed of Settlement, all of whom offer themselves for re-election. Notice is also given. that the Transfer Books of the Bank will be Closed on Saturday, the 30th instant, and remain so until Friday, the 19th January next, _ By order of the Board. F. BEWETT, Secretary. T HE MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 39, King-street, Cheapside, London. Established 1834. SPECIAL NOTlCE.—Assurances effected before the 31st instant Will share in the Profits at the end of next year. SAMUEL BROWN, Actuary. BANK OF DEPOSIT, No. 3, PALL MALL EAST, LONDON. Established A.D. 1844. PARTIES desirous of INVESTING MONEY are requested to examine the Plan of this Institution, by which a high rate of Interest may be obtained with perfect security. Interest payable in January and July. PETER, MORRISON, Managing Director. Prospectuses and Forms for opening Accounts sent free on application METROPOLITAN LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. No. 3, Princes-street, Bank. The Directors hereby give notice to Members whose Premiums fall due on the sth of January next, that the same must be PAID within Thirty days from that date. The Premiums are paid Yearly, Half-yearly, or Quarterly, on the sth of January, sth of April, sth of July, and sth of October, either of which several days constitutes the commencement of the year to Members. Persons, therefore, desirous of entering the So ciety as Members on the sth of January next, should appear or lodge their proposals at the office on or before that day. This Society, for Mutual and General Assurance, appropriates the whole of its profits to the benefit of parties assuring their own lives for the whole term of life as Members of the Society. For the year ending the sth of April, 1855, an abatement of 51 per cent. has been declared on the Premiums of all Members of Five Tears' standing and upwards. HENRY MARSHAL, Actuary. Princes-street, Bank, Dec. 4, 1854. SUN LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, London. SHARE OF PROFIT INCREASED FROM ONE-HALF TO FOUR-FIFTHS. Policies effected with this Society now will PARTICIPATE IN FOUR-FIFTHS of the Net Profits of the Society, according to the conditions contained in the Society's Prospectus. The Premiums required by this Society for insuring Young Lives are lower than in many other old-established offices, and Insurers are fully protected from all risk by an ample guarantee fund, in ad dition to the accumulated funds derived from the investments of Premiums. Policy Stamps paid by the Office. Prospectuses may be obtained at the Office in Threadneedle-Street, London, or of any of the Agents of the Society. CHARLES HENRY LIDDERDALE, Actuary. DIRECTORS, Ceorge Bolideld, Esq. I William Hunter, Esq., Alderman. T. Challis, Esq., Alderman, M.P. James Pilkington. Esq., M.P. Jacob Geo. Cope, Esq. Thomas Piper, Esq. John Dixon, Esq. Thomas B. Simpson, Esq. John T. Fletcher, Esq. The Right Hon. Chas. P. Villiers, Chas. Hindley, Esq., M.P. M.P. Edward Wilson, Esq. The CHRISTMAS Fire Renewal Receipts are now ready, and may be bad on application at the Head-office of the Company, or of any of its agents throughout the country. In the LIFE DEPARTMENT FOUR-FIFTHS of the PROFITS divisible by the Company's Deed of Settlement, allowed to Assurers; and the Company transacts all business relating to Life Assurances, Deferred Annuities, or Family Endowments, on the most liberal terms consistent with sound principles and public security. No charge for Starnpa on Life Assurance Policies. LOANS granted on personal security, and the deposit of a Life Policy to be effected by the borrower. To all Agents, Solicitors, Auctioneers, and Surveyors, a liberal allowance is made. By order of the Directors, THOMAS PRICE, Secretary. NIAM-NIAMS ; or, the TAILED FAMILY of CENTRAL AFRICA, will be Exhibited To-morrow for the first time in Europe at Dr. KAHN'S MUSEUM (top of tke Hay market.) Open as usual. Lectures to Gentlemen, by Dr. Sexton; and to Ladies by Mrs. Sexton, Admission, is. N.B.—A Descriptive Pamphlet of the Niam-Niams, price 6d., with a plain engraving ; ditto, coloured, Is. ; to be had at the Museum. AURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS.--. During the course of this week will be played by Laurent's Orchestra :—Overture, Geraldine, Balfe—Waltzes Vermahlung's Toaste (first time), Strauss; La Jardiniere, LabitQky : Jubilee, Tin ney; Le Carnaval de Venise (by desire), H. Laurent, with Varia tions for all the principal performers. Quadrilles: Le Palais de l'Al cazar, H. Lamette ; La Guerre, Bosisio ; Le Serment (first time), Ramain ; Lammermoor, Tinney. Schottische: Carlotta (first time), Zerisini. Polkas : Musen, Strauss ; Bacchus, Strauss ; The New Armen (first time), Strauss. Gallops : The Baltic, Wagner. Les Guides, H. Laurent. Principal Cornet a Piston, M. Boulcourt. All information, relative to music, to be obtained at the music reposi tory under the orchestra. Doors open at Eight; commence at half past.—Admission, One Shilling. ROYAL PANOPTICON of SCIENCE and ART, LEICESTER-SQUARE. LECTURES for the WEEK :—Dr. Noad on Electricity, with de monstrations on the large electrical machine, Monday, 8.15. Dr. Latham on Languages, Wednesday, 8.15. Mr. G. F. Amen on Chemistry, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, at 3.15 ; Thursday, 8,15. 'Mr. L. Bnckingham on the Arctic Regions, illus trated by dioramic views from sketches by Lieut. S. Gurney Cress well, Tuesday and Friday, at 8.15 ; Wednesday and Saturday, at 11. i 5. Principal .Attractions :—Luminous Fountain, daily, at 4.55 and 9.55; Moving Panorama, and Dioramic Views of Verona, at 2.40 and 7.40 ; Grand Performance on the Organ, by Mr. W. T. Best, at 4.15; Cosmorama of St. Petersburg, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday ; Cosmorama of Moscow, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday; Heinke's Diving Apparatus and the Subaqueous Light in the Crystal Cistern, 2 and 7.5 ; Distin's Flugel Horn Union, 9.15.—D00rs open in the morning at 12, in the evening (Saturday excepted), at 7. — Admission, Is.; Schools, and Children under 10, Half-price ; Seascn Admission, 1/. Is.; Life Admission, 10 guineas. GR AVESEND STAR PACKETS. No other Packets call at the Greenhlthe and Purfleet Piers. The Packets call at the Piers as underlined (weather permitting), FROM TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND. WEEK DAYS. SUNDAYS, ! Terrace Pier H I . 0 S H- 2 S e O' 1 8 Pr - I Time I 1 4 7 PI i :g 4 - 1- 4; Omnibuses from Fenehurch-street Station to all parts of London every quarter of an hour. BRUNSWICK WEIA.RF, BLAOKWALL, on the arrival of the fel lowing Trains from the Fonehurch-street Station. Wricx DAYS. SUNDAYS. 5 Fen- .5, - t 2 Fen- 3.2 church .4"; V, church Street 4 sl I Street 4 8 a 3 8 P-i c 10 2'4 4t — Fore Cabin. Saloon. _ __ Ind. .. Is. 2d. Fore Cabin. 8, To or from Gravesend knd London ••••• • • • • • let• •• „ Gravesend and Blackwell or Woolwieh Bd. Os, Between Gravesend and Intermediate Piers.. 6d. .. OS. BOAT TICKETS.—TweIve Months, 5;. Os.; Six Months, Three Months, N. Os. ; to be had of the Collectors on bOl Packets; or of Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend. Nov. 13, 1854. 31. Os. ; lard the THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. Just published, price 25., illustrated ps, with cases; free by p o st for 30 stam_ _ NERVOUS 'DEBILITY; Its Causes, Symptoms, and Curc.—An Essay on SP er roatorrheea, with Practical Ob servations on a safer and more successful mode of treatment of the diseases of the Generative System, obtained by the use of the Microscope in detecting and distinguishing, by urinary examination, the real cause and effect of every variety of complaint. whether arising from solitary habits, excesses, accident, or climate, followed by practical remarks, founded on twenty years' experience in the treatment of Impuissance, Nervous Debility, Local Weakness, Spermatorrheea, &c. To which are added, Commentaries on the Physiology of Marriage, with pre cautionary hints on the evils emanating from empirical practice, and on the dangerous remedies advocated by various writers on these important disorders. By SAMUEL LAWERT, M.D. 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Doctor of Medicine, M atr i cu l a ted Member of the University of &lin. burgh, Honorary Mcmbar of the London Hospital Medical Soc.iety Licentiate of Apothecaries' Han, London, &c., &C. The essontial object of this treatise is to point out the fearful con accuences resulting Prom certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, which bare proauced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man hood, and premature decay at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, any other class of disease known to modern pathologists. Ito perusal is particularly recommended to Persons entertaining secret doubts of their physical condition, an aro conscious of having hazarded the health, happiness, and privile g es to which every human being is entitled. It is absolutely necessary thatall men should know, that there are principles of personal management which cannot be violated without incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, amt how th,, evil an d it s consequences may be avoided, and above all, physical infirmity or functional that there is scantly any degree of derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. The Author has for a lode; of years been engaged in an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate complaints, which have unfortunately teen too generally cOnflded to me e,re of ignorant empirics, who inflict great injury on those WllO are Induced to place faith in their pretensions. NERVOUS DEBILITY may be had, price 2s, of Messrs. Piper, Brothers, and Co., 23, Paternoster - row; Ilorne, 19, Lelces ter-sncre Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; , a 9, Cornhill ; or free by post for thirty stamps to any address from the Author's residence, 37, Bed ford -square. At home for consultation daily from Faven till Two, and from Bla till Slat. No. 19,420.] PUBLICATIONS. Now ready, at all the Booksellers, CHEAP EDITION of PEPY'S DIARY and CORRESPONDENCE. Comprising all the recent additional Notes and Emendations, printed uniformly with the last edition of Evelyn's Diary, in 4 vols. post Bvo., wills Portraits, &c., price only 6s. each, bound. Published for IL Colbarn, by his successors, Thirst and Elackett. In Two Vols., post Svo., price 245., ,VIISCELLANIES, CRITICAL, IMAGING. LT./IL TIVE, AND JURIDICAL. . _ (Contributed to " Blackwood's Magazine.") By SAMUEL WARREN, D.C.L., Ie.R.S., of the Inner Temple, One of her Majesty's Counsel. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. In One Vol., post Bvo., price 10s. 6d., THE QUIET HEART By the Author of "Katie Stewart." William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. NEW HOPS, ILLUSTRATED BY " PIIIZ." Cn Friday will be published, One Shilling, Fancy Boards ; Two Shillings, Cloth Gilt, for Presents, A DOZEN PAIR OF WEDDING GLOVES. With Eight Illustrations. James Blackwood, Paternoster row, and all Booksellers. SIEGE OF SEVASTOPOL. THE THIRD EDITION OF CAPT. M. A. BIDDIILPH'S Authentic Map and View of Sevastopol and its Environs, including Balaklava, coloured to show the position of the Investing Corps of the Aided Armies, t, December 3,1, 1854, will be published on Saturday, December 23d. Price, in sheets, 2s. 6d. ; per post, 3s. Case, ss. ; per post, ss. Gd. London: Edward Stanford, Wholesale and Retail Map-seller, G, Charing-cross. Stanford's List of the Best Maps and Prints of the Seat of War may bo had on application, or by post for L stamp. STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA. Just Published, price 55., by post, free, 58. ( 0.. THE PATHOLOGY aid RATIONAL TREATMENT of STRICTURE of the URETHRA ; with numerous Cases illustrative of every variety of Urethral Obstruction, and their special Modes of Treatment and Cure. By F. B. COURTENAY, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. " We know of no man to whose care we could with greater confi dence entrust the treatment of a severe case of stricture of the ure thra."—Medical Circular. London Bailliere, 219, Regent-street. A EXMOUTH GIN--This pure and wholesome spirit is offered to the public free to the Paddington Station, in I , 2, and 3 dozen hampers (hampers and bottles included), at 32s the dozen, by BENJAMIN VICKERS, spirit merchant, Newton Bushel, Devon. Cheque or Post•offlce order, payable at Newton Abbott, to accompany the order. TO LOVERS OF FISH.- 100 real YARMOUTH BLOATERS for 65., package included. The above forwarded to all parts on receipt of penny postage stamps, or P. 0. 0. (preferred) for the amount. Send plain address, county, and nearest station.—Address, Thornas - Lettis, jun., Fish-curer, Great Yarmouth.: TRIESEMAR, protected by Royal Letters Patent of• England, and secured by the Seals of the Ecolo de Pharmacie de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TRIESEMAR, No. 1, le a remedy for Relaxation, Spermatorrhoea, and Exhaustion of the System. TRIESEMAR, No. 2, effectually, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely eradicates all traces of those Disorders which Capivi and Cubebs h lye so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health of a vast portion of the population. TRIESEMAR, No. 3, Is the great Continental Remedy for that class of Disorders, which unfortunately the English physician treats with Mercury, to the in evitable destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all the sarsaparilla in the world cannot remove. _ _ . TRIESEMAR, No. 1,2, and 3, are alike devoid of ta3to or smell, and of all nauseating qualities. They may lie on the toilet table without their use tieing suspected. Sold in tin cases at I Is. each, free by post, 2s. extra, divided into separate doses, as administered by Valpean, Laßemand, Roux, Ire., &c.—To be had Wholesale and Retail in London of Robert John ston, 68, Cornhill ; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street. JECHI'S PREPARATIONS for CFIRIST MAS and NEW YEAR'S PRESENTS. Sensible friendship, give their tangible testimonials, MECIII has taken care to provide an abundance of objects for tasteful selection. None need deny themselves the luxury of giving, for the most in expensive as well as the most costly articles are to be found at his Repository of Utilities and Elegances, 4, LEADENIIALL-STREET, near the India House. England bas always been renowned for its hearty Christmas libe rality, wnile " Le jour de I'an" of our lively neighbours the Freneh,is equally consecrated to the gifts of 'affection. mEcur invites a visit from the natives of all countries to his emporium, where they may be sure of putting their kind intentions into an acceptable shape. In his Elegant Show-Rooms are displayed to the greatest ad vantage a superb stock of Ladies' and Gentlemen's dressing cases, work-boxes, tea-trays, work-tables, chess-tables, tea-caddies, card-cases, &c. Those who desire to make really useful pre sents will find in the general department the best table cutlery, scis sors, thimbles, penknives, writing-desks, ivory and other hair brushes and combs, and a variety of goods adapted to every exigency. Also bagatelle-tables, affording a charming amusement on a wintry or wet day. 4, Lcadenhall-street, London. DR. CULVERWELL ON NERVOUSNESS, DEBILITY, AND INDIGESTION. Also, on Urinary Derangements, Constipation, and haemorrhoids, Is. each, by post ls. 6d. WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID. " Abstentia multi curantur morbi." A popular exposition of the principal causes (over and careless feeding, &c.) of the above harassing and distressing complaints, with an equally intelligible and popular exposition of how we should live to get rid of them ; to which is added, diet tables for every meal In the day, and full instructions for the regimen and observance of every hour out of the twenty-four. Illustrated by numerous cases, &c. 2. LIMITS AND SHADES OF MARRIED LIFE. " He which that hath no wif, I hold him lost, Helpless, and all desolat. He that hath no child, Like sun and winde."—Chaucer. Subject : Marriage, its expectations and Necessities—Development of the Affections—Love Matches—Precipitate, impelled, and retarded Unions—Marital Incongruities—Mutual Unsuitableness—Mental Incompatibility and Physical Defectiveness —Advantages of Inter marriage—Theory of Gestation—Hereditary Resemblance--Mode of determining Legitimacy. On Infelicitous, Infertile, and all Unas similable Alliances—Law of Divorce, &c., &c. 3. CHASTITY AND ITS INFRINGEMENTS. A Lecture to Young Men. " What passions hurt the body—what improve, Truths as refined as Athens ever heard." Subject : Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The advent of the passions. Chastity and its infringement. The casualties of licentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narrative, and remediative. Advocacy of early marriages, &C. 'On Secret Diseases, their Self-management and Cure. The GREEN BOOK.—A comprehensive and popular exposition of genito and urinary diseases—their nature and treatment, com prising especially primary and secondary symptoms, all forms of urinary derangements, stricture and spermatorrhoaa ; with 250 en gravings and prescriptions. The BLADDER, URETHRA, and RECTUNL—Comprising Urinary Derangements. Constipation, and Hremorrhoids. Vols 6 and 7, companions to the preceding. THE ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. HOW TO BE HAPPY. " Jucunde Vivere." " Few words to fair faith."—Shakespere. Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or of Dl3. RICHARD CULVERWELL, rlrother, Successor, and Twenty Years Consulting Colleague of the ►ate Author of the above, 10, Argyll-place, Regent-street, London, who may be gdylsed with on the above matters daily, from Ten till Five, and in the evenings, from Seven till Nine. QPECIAL NOTICE.—UntiI March 1, 1855, E. 1.0 MOSES and SON'S ESTABLISHMENTS will be CLOSED at EIGHT O'CLOCK EVERY EVENING, except Saturday, when they will be open till I l o'clock. CHRISTMAS PROSPECTS. it is usual for Christmas to be preceded by presents distributed with true English enthusiasm and liberality. The heart overflows with congenial influences, and the prospect of happy gatherings of friends a E. nd risefleastEivseasiblietesome::shaaysteronfilagasetimthueliarntartoraenlagbemoreantetapreenpatz tioonsst.cm prehensive scale, every luxury and comfort in atti re i s m brought to a state of completeness and pgefepctrieoanenstvhetiachteheafsinnvotena e foreign P skill could devise, but it is combined in or which native and ptiroenreadnednmt ;aitilulfearcetitsirnoctoaulldmNr-eodUrce,which any country could import, provisionsmade by E. MOSES and Sois—the exqui sitely Christmas a s, Parties, and Assemblies —the warm, comfort able, and resplendent variety, ( serviceable, for travelling ,ed or ordinary o e rd at i e n n a t r o y f wear—Juvenile s CsiotesliyumeleesßiansnetrfeosP are associated with appropriate and superior perfectly astonishing, employ their money to greater Men, who may cinP • Dress for Working other adv an provided with the same amplitude f attire are prov . htaoguesealtnththeeEwstoarbildis.hments of E. MOSES and Sox than at any All the et ceteras o both places furnish Hosiery Goods LanaddietsheatnrdWaeesnt-tlenemd Gentlemen, which at E. Moses and SON'S Establislitn for r t cannot be equalled for novelty, elegance, utility, or cheapness, Shirts are aed offeredlr,der c l i n e t y l i a l nr variety, t in y a , n u fac excellence,t ure (l o a n n a ct d the Boot a scale economy, n astonishingdsexceedinghoe departments apreviousmagnitudee nt seasons —while the Hat and Cap itn m supplyost r eflar:otn keep at their r e a b t i e e p s r a i m ee p s l . es of English and Fre nch p roductions at the The Wholesale Department which E. Moses and Sox City Establishm en t i s unrivalled for ex t e nt of stock, and secures unequalled advantages in outlays to large or small amounts. the CAUTION.—E. MO NES and SON regre t h a ving to guard fliblie against imposition, having learned that the untradesman7llls,Bo_ ralireliood of "Being connected with th e i r E s tablishment," or '' It the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances , obvious reasons, they bog to state that they have No Ossnairtort WITH ANY OTNEa MUSE IN 011 OUT OF LONDON, ate,gE s t a b e li p p s h e a u a l t e e n t t h , e l 5 C 4 h , e l r s e s h , , except their own Establishments, as follows :- 851; and o n d London , C A I t i y d and for 8-1, London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 5(1161:c and r d i t o r xtufi 157, r c (1 3 a t r 8 1 n: r g ° e • r e l t e , 5 ' 1 , z 13 and Bridge-stroot. n r a a n d , t i o 3 r d , 1 j y a I . - t r - k s , t h r e i r e e t ), a ß ll ra c n om c z gheilleld Branch, 36, Fargate. Colonial Wholesale Branch, Melbourne, Australia. Merchant Tallo: - 7, Clothiaernsy, Outfittersarticle flatters, fon roit give o Ladlessi e s s a , a tnidoc Furriers, te Boot and 'notnle, Gentlemen. e w n U . 1 b e gli gsPO la n k T e A rs a n . d — Cl Sh el o 'e u r id al exchanged if desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned without hesitation_ All goods are marked In plain figures, the 10W09t price, from which no abatement can be made, The Establiskments aro closed from sunset on Fridays to sunset en Saturdays, when business is resumed till 11 o'clock. A new Book for Autumn and Winter. " The Commercial Corm'. copi ,e conthini,..g fob lists of prices, our system of self-xneaiure molt, Bte., &c., may be had on application, or post•free. Tel l'on park Francais. Qui si parla italirno. Hier spelebt man Deets 'lt Aqua sa habla Espano. 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' ( 6 ) i - \ \. 7 LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING-, DECEMBER 22, 1854. ONT BLANC.-CHRISTMAS HOLI DAYS.—Duting the Christmas Week Mr. ALBERT SMITH Will give his MONT BLANC, HOLLAND, and up the EMINE, every morning, and evening, at Three and Eight (except Saturday evening.) Stalls can be taken for any of the representa tions at the Egyptian Hall, every day,-from Eleven to Four. ONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAIL WAY. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.—DAY TICKETS issued. on SATURDAY, 23,1 December, and intervening days, will be available until TUESDAY, 26th December. Byorder. MARK HUISII. General Manager's Office, Enston Station, December, 1654. RTH WESTERN AND .---c lIRIST 11 AS lIOLID AYS.— s will be issued from the EUSTON LONDON AND NOl MIDLAND RAILWAYS First and Secciid Class Day Ticket STATION, London, t 3 LINCOLN, BRADFORD, COLLINGRAM, LEEDS, NEWARK, NORMANTON, FISKERTON, OAKENSHAW, TIICRGARTON, DONCASTER, LOWDHAM, • SHEFFIELD. NOTTINGHAM, and Yomt, MASBORO, by the Ordinary Trains, on Saturday, Dec. 23d, Sunday, 24th, and Monday, 25th ; available to return with, by the Ordinary Trains, up to and including Tuesday, Dec. 26th. Express Day Tickets will also be issued on the same days, available to return by any Train up to and including the 26th. Day Tickets will also be issued from the above Stations to London. By order, General Manager's Office, Euston Station, Dec., 1854. FARRINGDON WARD WITHI f, 0J i. 1854. At a Wardmote, holden this day, Before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, FRANCIS GRAHAM MOON, Esq., (in the absence of the Right Worshipful Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alder man of the Ward), at the Great Hall, Christ's Hospital, for the Choice of Ward Offieers, for the ensuing year, the following GENTLEMEN were declared duly ELECTED to REPRESENT this WARD in the Court of Common Conseil, viz.:— Deputy Eagleton. Mr. Young. Deputy Holt. Mr. C. Phillips. Mr. Virtue. Mr. Nicholson. Mr. Lauchlan. Mr. Heaps. Mr. Blake. Mr. Wheeler. Mr. B. S. Phillips. Mr. Kelday. Mr. Morris. Mr. Reed. Moved by Mr. Cole, seconded by Mr. Ware, and resolved unanimously, That this Wardmote has much gratification in again acknowledg ing the eminent services of its highly respected and much-revered Alderman, the Right Worshipful Thomas Kelly, Esq., who for the 1 ng period of 24 years has presided over the interests of the Ward, for the judgment and impartiality which, as a magistrate of this City, he has en all occasions displayed, and for his great liberality as Patron to our excellent Ward Schools. At the same time, this Wardmote deeply laments it should have been deprived of his pre sence this day through indisposition. Moved by Mr. Buckland, seconded by Mr. Oldie, and resolved I unanimously,— That the thanks of this Wardmote are jastly due, and are hereby given, to Edward Eagleton, Esq , and Thomas Jefferson Holt, Esq., Deputies, and the other gentlemen who have so ably represented this Ward in the Court of Common Council during the past year. Moved by Mr. Blake, seconded by Deputy Eagleton, and resolved unanimously,— That the thanks of this Wardmoie be presented to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor for his able and impartial conduct in the chair. That the respectful thanks of this Wardmote be given to tho Pre sident, Treasurer, and Governors of Christ's Hospital for the use of their hall for this Wardmote. That the foregoing resolutions be signed by the Ward Clerk, and inserted in the usual papers. J. W. WARREN, Ward Clerk. " f HE 16s. 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PEPPER, Esq., on Professor Wheatstone's experiments on the TRANSMISSION of SOUND through Solid Con ductors, illustrated by a TELEPHONIC CONCERT. FIRST PAR I' of an ENTIRELY NEW and SPLENDID OPTI CAL DIORAMA, illustrating the VOYAGES of SINBAD the SAILOR, with Beautiful PHANTASMAGORIA EFFECTS, and appropriate Music arranged by Mr. Waud. Great Increase in the 'VIEWS of the WAR : the BATTLE of the ALMA, SIEGE of SEBASTOPOL, the ENGLISH BATTERIES, &c., Ecc. LECTURE on the LANCASTER GUN, the MINIE RIFLE, and that powerful implement of war, the STEAM GUN, projecting Sixty Palls per Minute, which has been erected by Mr. PERKINS, and will be discharged daily and in the Evenings. LECT URES on ELECTRICITY by Dr. BACIIIIOFFNER. Mr. CRAWFORD'S VOCAL ENTERTAINMENT of the PATRIOTIC SONGS of SCOTLAND. For the special Amusement of the Juvenile Auditory, DAV IS'S INGENIOUS MARIONETTES will be exhibited. All the other LECTURES, EXBIBITIONS of MODELS, &e. St:.. &c. Fresh decorations. Special Juvenile Night on the 3d of January, and gratuitous distri bution of the Ornaments of a beautiful Christmas Tree amongst the Young People. DEATH OF SIR JAMES KEMPT. General the Right Hen. Sir James Kempt, G.C.8., Colonel of the Ist Regiment of Foot, died on Wednes day at his residence in South Audley-street. This die tinguished officer has spent more than 71 years in the service of his country, and his career has been marked by unusual distinction, not less than by unusual length. He entered the army on the 31st of March, 1783, and in 1799 he attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In that year he accompanied Sir Ralph Abercromby upon the expedition to Holland as aide-de-camp, and in 1800 he proceeded with the same general, as military secre tary, to the Mediterranean, and remained with him until his death, after which he was attached to the staff of Lord Hutchinson, and was present throughout the whole Egyptian campaign. In 1806 Lieut.-Colonel Kempt went in command of a battalion with the expedition to Naples, and commanded the Light Brigade at the battle of Maida. Having obtained the rank of colonel in 1809, he proceeded in 1811 to the Peninsula, and was appointed to command a brigade in the 3d di vision of the Duke of Wellington's army. From thence to the conclusion of the war in 1814, Sir James's ser vices are historical. At the siege of Badajos, he com manded the attack on Fort Picurina, and the brigade which led the attack and carried the Castle of Badajos by esclade, when he was severely wounded. In February, 1812, he was appointed to a brigade in the Light Di vision, which he commanded at Vittoria, the attack on the heights of Vera, at Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse, and in several other minor engagements. Sir James Kempt, who had become a major-gerieral in 1812, was appointed to the command of a division in 1815, and was severely wounded at its head on the 18th of June. His death places at the disposal of the General Commanding in-Chief the colonelcy of the Ist Regiment, and also creates a vacancy for promotion to the list of general officers ; three generals—Major-General Prendergast, Lieutenant-General Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, and General Sir James Kompt—having died since the last promotion took place. Colonel John Bloomfield Gough, C. 8., h.p. 3d Light Dragoons, and Deputy Quarter. master-General in Ireland, becomes Major-General. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. FOREIGN MERCENARIES. (From the Times.) As it is frOm Germany that the British Government chiefly expect to draw the recruits they may be em powered to raise tinder the Bill for the Enlistment and Training of Foreigners in her Majesty's service, it be comes a matter of some interest to ascertain the view taken by the Germans themselves of the measure now before Parliament, and of the practical chances of its success in that country. The contrast which has been drawn by almost all the speakers on bath sides of this question between the gallant troops of England and France and the auxiliaries who may be raised or ob tained from Germany is not Mattering to the military pride of the latter nation ; and it appears to be gene rally felt that before officers of high character in fo reign armiee, or men who have performed with credit their period of military service in their native land, can transfer their services to another State, they must be satisfied that there is nothing degrading in the po sition they are to acquire. If it were otherwise, the men wo might hone to enlist would only be outcasts or emigrants from their native shores, accepting the con dition of mercenary soldiers because they have no other means of subsistence • and th e sc h eme wou ld b e defeated for want of men of character and ability to carry it into effect. When we talk of the Brunel-tick ers and lianoverians who fought side by side with the troops of England in former wars, we speak of corps commanded by men of the highest rank and consider ation in their respective countries ; and the first condi tion in the formation of volvnteernts is , that their chiefs should be men able to command the con fidence of their troops and the respect of their com rades. More especially is this the case in foreign service, where they aro placed in competition with other troops, and have to support the military honour of their own flag. and, we m ay a dd, th e s t a t e changed since those enlistments in f ore i gn service took of Tthheelsatwat,eo of n the pub c li o c n feeling, i e n l e in n g eof Europ e h ave very muc h place half a century ago. In former times the existence of such bodies of men was neither uncommon nor dis honourable. The Kings of France had of old their Scotch Archers, their Irish Brigade, and their Swiss Guards. Gustavus Adolphus had his Scottish troops, and William 111. his Dutch infantry. At Naples a large body of Swiss troops has long formed the nucleus of the army; and the Pope has been compelled to admit a foreign gar rison into Rome since he lost his mercenary troops. Many instances have recently been quoted in debate of German Princes who trafficked i n t h e blood of the i r sub jects, and sold them fo r th e i r own advantage to the ser vice of foreign Powers. Und er th e old constitut i on of the Germanic empire no re s t ra i n t whatever could be put upon tins practice, and it might happen, as it sometimes did happen, that German auxiliaries were fighting against each other on opposite sides of a European quarrel. This state of things, however, no longe r exists in any part of Europe, partly because in almost every country the prac tice of foreign enlistment has been discouraged by muni cipal law; partly because the rules of international law now recognised by civilised Powers regard with great suspicion breaches of neutrality of this nature; and still more because the sense of personal and national dignity condemns the custom. In Switzerland the Practice of foreign enlistment had existed from time immemorial, and the patrician families of the principal cantons held it to be no discredit to their birth and freedom to serve the most absolute Courts of Europe under a foreign standard. Capitulations, as they were termed, were regularly entered into between the Swiss Confederation and certain foreign governments for the supply pf a certain number of soldiers, and the system of recruiting was carried on with the full sanction of the Government. But the important changes which have taken place since 1846 in the federal constitution of Switzerland have entirely abolished this ancient usage. The present Helvetic Government holds that the prac tice of recruiting for foreign armies in Switzerland is in consistent with the neutrality which is the basis of their constitution, and injuri ous t o th e m i l i tary service of the cantons. Every precaution has therefore been taken to prevent the continuance of the custom, and with such effeet that it is •nly by clandestine means that the King of Naples has been enabled to keep up the number of his Swiss regiments, who are the guardians of his throne. In the States of the Germanic Confederation similar measures have been taken to prohibit foreign military service, and this precaution is the more necessary as the military establishments of these States are under federal obligations to the rest of the Bund. By the 18th article of the Federal Act of 1815 any German subject may enter into the civil and military service of another confederate State, but not, we infer, of a foreign power. It stands to reason that no neutral State can allow its subjects to go to war or to take an active partip a war between two other countries without - great innonvenzenne and dan ger, and that itb ound to prevent ouch mats of hostility as a violation the principle and the effect of our own Foreign Enlistment Act, which prohibits the subjects of the Bri tisho its neutrality. That i s f Crown from engaging in war w i t h out th e sanction of their own Sovereign. Even the United States have a similar statutory provision. By the law of France every Frenchman who en t ers i nto the military service of any foreign State forfeits his national character and his civil rights altogether ; and there is a well-known case of a member of the Chamber of Deputies who was un seated because he was held to be denationalised, though born a Frenchman, by having served as a midshipman in a Sardinian frigate. In Germany the present state of this question is wholly unlike what it was in the last century, when the power of many of the smaller princes was almost unlimited, and when the Confederation was not in existence. Lord Ellenborough compared the other night the conduct of sovereigns who sell the blood of their subjects to the cruelty and avarice of the King cf Dahomey ; and, if he referred to the practices of some of the German princes in the 18th century, we agree with the noble earl's opinions of those transactions. But Lord Ellenborough is wholly misinformed if he imagines that any su c h b argain could be concluded at the present time ; and, if any attempt were made to take such a step, the Diet wou l d place an interdict on the offending parties, for, if it were competent to the King of Hanover or the D u k e of Nassau to enter into an agreement with this couatry for the transfer of a certain number of troops, it would be equally lawful for the kings of Saxony and W urtemberg to promote recruiting in their dominion fur the Emperor of Russia. The consequence might be that troops or soldiers trained in the same federal army and belonging to the Caine coun try would be arrayed on opposite sides in this quarrel, and that the national power and the national honour of Germany would be neutralised or sacrificed by carrying on war under any banner hut her own. Such are the considerations which appear to have oc curred to those German writers who have adverted to this subjcot in consequence of the recent debates in Parliament. We believe with Lord John Russell that in no part of Eu rope i s there more military enthusiasm than in Germany, or a more general desire among the people to oppose the ascendancy of Russia by force of arms. We have invariably expressed the most earnest desire to obtain the assistance of the forces of Germany as our allies or auxiliaries in this war ; but we cannot expect the subjects of the German States to plunge into a war from which their Governments stand aloof, nor can we suppose that, their neutrality and h o ld back from tho con t es t, they will or can allow any considerable part of their subjects to take up arms an d j oin the standard of aforeign nation for a cause they while those Governments assert have not yet embraced. When the time arrives —as we trust it will arrive—when the greatest Power in Germany is engaged with France and England in taking "effectual means " to accomplish the objects of th e T r i ple Alliance, and when the rest of Ger many is mere di rectly pledged to the prosecution of the war, it matters littl e in whose pay or under what cock. ade the Germ an troops may fight, they would be serving the common cause —and they cease to be mercenaries by becoming allies. If the measure presented to Par liament for the enlistment of foreigners contemplates and anticipates that result, or if the Government are in possession of means to give effect to it by any p o liti ca l combination w i th the German States, many of the ob jections urged against it fall to the ground, and we should welcome to our side the legitimate auxiliaries of Great Britain ; but without some such prospect the measure appea rs t o us not on l y objectionable, but im practicable, because it is at variance with the existing laws of most of the continental States, and because it would place our foreign recruits in a position which no man of high military honour would cheese to accept without the sanction of his own Sovereign. • (From the Morning Herald.) The Forei gn E nl i stment Bill has b een allowed to pass through com m itt ee without a div i s i on. This is as it should be. Facti ous opposition should take no part in the deci sions of P ar li ament on such a measure, no matter how ob jectionable, how uu-E ng li h, h ow detestabl e .! T o d e l ay the progress of ? the bill through committee would have been easy indeed ; and a Coalition conspiracy would not have hesitated upon the adoption' of such a course of action. The opposition have naturally taken a British line of policy ; aware that many of the truly English members of the House of Commons woro absent from the late division. Who could have expected the introduction of such a mea sure, not alluded to in the speech from the throne, not in timated until introduced ? Who, wo say, co u ld h ave imagined that Parliament should have been called upon to denationalise England in reference to her own defences ? Thus many members of the Lower House wore absent from the recent division ; but to-night wo know that an amendment to the third reading of the bill will be moved —that it shall "be read this day six months." Let no man he absent from this division who regards the safety of his seat or his country. London can be eas il y reached by railway in a very few hours, even from tho most distant part of the kingdom. What is the necessity which demands this measure ? necessity is alleged, but none is proved. The Secretary at War informed us the othe r n i g ht " W e are getting soon, not faster than they are required, but faster than we can form them into regiment's, drill them, and make them skil fularecrowded and useful soldiers to their Queen and country.), If ' this be true, why should we b r i ng 10,000 f ore i gners to this country to be drilled, whe n we are t o ld on suc h authority that more natives are:off er i ng themselves than we can form into regiments? If native If it recruits, be w true that shouldour w depots our selves by asking aid from those petty foreign pr inces who, as in the American war, may - wish to make mercha n di se of with their subjects? Princes who would realise the wish of Sancho Panza, that, if he were a prince, all his subjects should be blackamoors, as he would, by the sale of thou, easily turn them into ready money. The Secretary at War spoke with just exultation of the exploits at Alma and Inkernian. He called the last " the soldiers' battle." " There," said ho, " there you saw the character of the British soldier." Has he now any mis givings which induce his desire to interpolate in their ranks the hired service of the mere mercenary soldier? Does he think the hoaour and interests of Britain will bo clearer to the hireling than to the patriot soldier, or that any vicarious exertions will equal the deeds incited by per sonal zeal ? We deny the morality of this measure. We may have a right, by every means, to defend ourselves from foreign invasion ; but we have scarcely the right to hire battalions of free companions to invade the territory of others. We have no right, as was well said yesterday—we have no right to biro bravos to cut the throats of other people. Even in what is called the cede of honour—the laws of the duello —this principle obtains. What would bo thought of one who, having a personal quarrel, should, instead of fighting for himself, plead that he was not a military person (per haps, not one of what Lord J. Russell called a military nation), and hire a substitute to waylay and destroy his foe ? We desire to carry on the war with vigour, yet with mercy. We do not wish to emulate our enemy. We would not imitate the s!aughter of Sinope. We do not wish revenge. After the strife, our brave soldiers succoured the wounded enemy, while our wounded were murdered as they lay crippled on the field. Better this than that we should follow as vile an example, and add increased bitter ness to the inevitable suffering produced by war. We can trust our own soldiers to carry on the war in such a spirit. The brave are ever the merciful ; but who will guarantee the forbearance and mercy of the mercenary soldier? _We deny the economy of this measure. It is economy to get the best article for our motley, if-wermay -ass such an expression. But will not 100 British soldiers be more serviceable, more true, and more to'be depended on, than any 150 we can get elsewhere to do a hireling's service ? The Briton fights for his country, for her honour, and her interest—not merely for wages less than he could get in many ways, and without peril, if he stayed at home. The mercenary has but one motive—he fights for his pay. The history of all ages confirms what Sir W. Raleigh, in his " History of the Woild," says of mercenary soldiers : " They are seditious, unfaithful, disobedient, devourers and destroyers of all places and countries whither they are drawn, as being held by no other bond than their own com modity." The Royal German Legion has been quoted as a prece dent ; it does not, however, afford a parallel. When we employed it we were fighting almost upon German soil, and less for England than for the liberties of Europe—less to maintain the interests of England than to preserve the rights of Germany. The German Legion fought like gal lant men ; but fighting then in the ranks of the British army they fought entirely for their " fatherland." Lord Palmerston defended the Government against the charge of remissness in having no reserves—" but," said he, " the reserve upon which the Government counted was the British nation." Why, then, this measure ? Has Parliament shown any disposition to refuse men, or ships, or money ? Has the nation suddenly become imbecile ? Do the recruitingpartiesseek in vain for men? Have none of our militia regiments volunteered for foreign service? Is there au end to applications at the Horse Guardsfor commissions ? If this be so, then, like "a nation of shopkeepers," we may traffic in, human blood, and " buy in the cheapest market" that valour which is no longer to be found amongst our own people. If this be so it would then only be a fitting consistency for the Secretary of the Treasury to advertise for tenders for the taking of Sebastopol and the expulsion of the Russians from the Crimea. Lord J. Russell, in moving the vote of thanks of the army the other evening . , lauded their great deeds of arms. He said, moreover, "It is in these things that the life of a nation is seen ; it is by actions such as we have to com memorate to-clay that the spirit of a nation is maintained from age to age." Is this measure consistent with those sentiments ? Let us not ♦ulgarise the sentiment which pervades all classes of the people, that this war is politic and righteous —that we are not contending for spoil, not for vainglory; but to maintain our faith—to aid the weak against the wrong-doer— to support an ancient ally against whom the strong arm of oppression has been raised. Let us not vulgarise our zeal by thus making ourselves huxters for soldiers, and fighting by deputy against the encroachments of barbaric and fanatic despotism. In spite of the recent majority in its favour, we believe that this measure will not be carried to-night, against the feelings of the British soldier and the British people, when such recent deeds have shown that British valour has an actual existence, and is something more than a glorious tradition. If, however (a hypothesis which we cannot bear to dwell upon), this measure should be carried, it will, indeed, be a confession most humiliating to us as a people—an admission most assuring to our adversary— that we will not fight henceforth, except by proxy, and are content to transfer to a mere hireling's hand that flag which for " a thousand years has braved the battle and the breeze." (From at Morning Post.) Whilst the Parliament of Saxe-Coburg Gotha is throw ing its aegis over the army of England, and the nation that recently imagined itself so warlike—nay, so fit for war— is staring . open-monthed at the militia of Purape,-,^' Apernickej," aramMoWed f that Ariil ASAi 'd • h- to its d e t en t e., may be wart uur while to const w e ther, before calling upon the Thuringian Jupiter to our a , sistance, we have honestly and truly put our own shoul ders to the wheel. Not that we desire to indulge in vain repinings ; let bygones be bygones, but let errors be amended. And, first of all, let us look at what must be the nursery of our armies for some time to come, and what is probably the very best nursery that could bo devised—our own militia, as recently reconstructed. Are its arrangements as perfect as they could be made ? Not so ; and what strikes one at the first glance is the enormous number of departments it groans under. There is the Lord-Lieute nant of the County, the War-office, the Ordnance-office ; finally, its chief master, the Home-office, from which, however, the embodied regiments, to their great relief, have escaped to the Horse Guards. Surely an inexperi enced force, commanded, in too many instances, by inex perienced, not to say incompetent, officers, should have its work of organisation simplified as much as possible ; and no better means of simplifying it could be found than by putting it under one head, to whom all should report 1 ' and all refer. The appointment of a carefully-selected officer of good address and good temper to the office of Deputy-Adjutant-General for the militia would effect this, and give the greatest satisfaction to that force, whilst the public service would benefit accordingly. Another singular circumstance that strikes us is the small number of half-pay officers that have entered the ser vice. With such a list of lieutenant-colonels and majors as cur Army List presents how does it happen that so very few have proffered their services to the militia ? and though the number of half-pay captains has probably recently been much reduced by the late augmentation, enabling many of them to sell their commis ions, still it will soon be swelled again by the many who are in the course of returning from the Crimea with enfeebling wounds and broken health, who cannot, for some years, rejoin their regiments on active service, 3et cannot, in common fairness, be driven from the profession in which they have acquired their tem porary disabilities. These men must be placed on tempo rary half-pay, and might soon be perfectly equal to the duties of the militia at home ; and there are even now old captains on half-pay who might be tempted by the brevet rank they would have attained had they remained on full pay, to give the benefit .of their experience to the new force. There aro plenty of experienced lieutenant-colonels on the half-pay list who would gladly undertake the com• 'nand of embodied militia regiments if that command were allowed to count as regular service for the three years that would entitle them to the rank of colonel in the army. There is, however, no valid reason why the pay of several ranks in the militia should be inferior to that of the line, and their travelling expenses should be allowed from their usual resianco instead of from the verge of the county. But this brings us to a source of serious and growing evil to the militia—viz., the command of regiments by men of no military experience and wholly uiimilitary habits. There was, no doubt, a time when it was desirable that the man of the highest influence in the county should..be at the head of the militia ; but why did the consideration of local influence outweigh that of military experience? Simply because it was necessary to reconcile the county to compulsory service, to enlist the natural chiefs of the soil in the cause lof the ballot. /No such consideration exists now ; the people come for ward spontaneously. There seems little or no prospect of the ballot ; and in the counties which furnish the largest quotas it is not the country gentlemen that sway the masses. Lot it be remembered that, at this crisis, the militia officer who can make some hundred soldiers in three months, and give them to the line for immediate service, renders important service to his country. There are many who aver that this can be done by intelligent and hard-working officers who know their duty already ; it is certainly not a feat to be performed by those who have to begin learning their work now. Teo many of the regiments are commanded by gentle. men of the highest family, the greatest respectability, boundless opulence, and even much natural talent, but who lack the one essential for the command of regiments, viz., that they are not sold iers. Most of them would freely admit that they are not fit to take command of the Grenadier Guards, or the Rifle Brigade, yet the command (which includes the formation) of a militia regiment is an infinitely more difficult task than the guidance of a machine previously highly organised; and owing to the number of old soldiers among officers and men now in the militia, the criticism upon incapacity is quite as sharp in one as in the other. Sir Giles Fatacre, of Fatacre may have twenty thousand a-year and a safe seat for the county ; but when Sir Giles, with labour and stammering, reads out from a card a word.of command, which he can not even then deliver as it ought to be delivered, and listens with a puzzled countenance to the whisper of the adjutant, to him almost incomprehensible, the men are l aug hing in the ranks , and S ir Giles had b etter be at Fatacre - Hall, enforcing the terrors of the law against poachers, or giving that awful judgment of paternity for which ho has so much acumen, or even in the Com rtions House of Parliament, which ho msoseerls t don o r adorns with his e lo q uence, leaving military matters that spare man who sits on his horse in roar of the centre of the right wing, and who has two medals on his breast, which ho most assuredly did not find at a cattle show. There is a place for everybody ; let everybody be in his place. Six years' service in the line is essential to attaining the rank of major; lot this, or even four, be made essential to the actual command of a militia regiment, though the country gentlemen may continue to be gratified by seeing their names in the Army List still. The country would gain by the arrangement, for every one of these civilian colonels costs it. WOG. a year, and renders no sort of equi valent, if ho be not actually mischievous. A glance at the A rmy Li s t w ill, however, show that three-fourths of the civilian colonels are supporters of the present Government. There is another stop which, if taken, would add mate rially to the efficiency of the militia, and especially to its capacity to meet the present crisis. It is well known that in sonic counties the young men have come forward in such numbers that many have been refused, the regiment having reached its establishment, whilst in others the greatest difficulty, has been encountered in procuring vo lunteers at all. Why should not every regiment that can [PRICE SD. get men be allowed to exceed its establishment for the time, and enlist as many as it can get ? When the pressure for men is over, the . restriction m a y b e restored • but, i n the meanwhile, it is undoubted that this would make many good men available who are now rejected, and, disgusted with l;he rejection, which they take as a slur upon them selves, do not offer again. Still, notwithstanding all disadvantages, the country has nc iblyanswered the appeal; and though now all thoughts are di xected to the heroic struggle in the Crimea, let it be recoil ected that the force there engaged may be best re lieved. through the agency of the militia, which is to fur nish :men to swell the regular army. The militia of Eng land lies deserved well of its country ; hit it have fair play, and it will deserve yet better. (Front the Morning Advertiser.) On Tuesday Lord John Russell, in discharging a medley of Er glish history like a canister of grapeshot, alluded to " the disgraceful reign of Charles 11. ' In the hands of the n, able lord and his colleagues England bids very fairly to riv al, and perhaps to putvie, that reign, which he pro noun. see disgraceful. Never, since the time of Charles 11. to th, ) present m omen t, h as the country been placed in a state of humiliation so deep and apparently so irretriev able, for, most unfortunately, its character in the eyes of foreig n nations is bound up with that of its Government. The I stter, by losine , valuable time, which cannot be com pensated, in negotiations, and in protesting confidence in the initegrity of the Czar's intentions, instead of declaring that l )43 would be resisted, induce him to cross the Pruth, and t'bus rendered the war inevitable. That was an error of the, greatest magnitude; for, while Go verns sent with incompetency to conduct public affairs, it is the Cf iuse of all the losses in blood and treasure which have now resulted, and hereafter will result from the war, that it no w appears they are utterly incapable of managing. This its one disgrace, and a series of bluiders follow in such 'rapid succession that they cannot be numbered with eAeur pay from memory. Without having tried the resources of the nation in a war, which is popular only because it holds out the oppor tunit, yr of strikicg a death-blew at despotism, and rousing dorm ant nationalities into action, we are to add to the hazai xis of fair and open combat the risk of being betrayed byle reign mercenaries, for the sake of whom Parliament was bullied by an unconstitutional threat of resignation, and the plainest truths of history are travestied by a Ali nista rof the Crown. The bullying reduces the represen tativ es of the people to the condition of serfs a law- less aespot, While the misrepresentation of facts is an insul t to their understanding. It is now perfectly clear why the extension of the elective franchise, whick is yearly rendered more and more necessary by the progress of the population, has been constantly frus trated, and why the ballot, which is demanded by the impossibilty of putting down the increased bribery and in timidation, is consistently denounced. A trembling or an obsequious Parliament could not be obtained under a popular system. With these measures the war would have been conducted as if we intended to conquer. Instead of a treaty with Austria, discouraging the noble patriotism of Poles, Italians, and Hungarians alike, we should have bidden those nations to win their freedom, and Russia would at once have been checkmated. As it is, the Foreign -Enlistment Bill is a general confession that we are mere braggarts, who have entered into a contest withoutconcep tion of its magnitude, and that we are destitute of the means of carrying it on with Britons. It is a proclamation • that the recent victories have ruined our energies, and that now we most be indebted to the scum of Germany for probably our national existence. The Times warned us that we were tottering on the verge of our greatness ; and, behold ! the Coalition Cabinet has toppled us over, at the very outset of the war. If we are now to rely upon foreign bayonets, and if re verses ensue, as is most likely since treachery is to be ap prehended, are we still to trust to mercenaries ? No other conclusion can be formed from Lord John Russell's histo rical speech. But the people themselves may put a self question, whether a country thus insulted and thus hum bled, be worth defending with native blood. Already the t indication is taking place, for the popular enthusiasm Eats ' tained a shock at the unexpected proposal to associate men who sell their blood, their limbs, and lives, with the heroes of Alma and Inkerann ; and it cannot be recovered, for who knows not that men who hire themselves for war for the sake of money will again sell themselves to a higher bidder ? What are Lord John Russell's precedents for the unpatri otic and dispiriting course now pursued ? We cannot go over a tithe of them for want of space. Fie reverts to the times of Elizabeth and Cromwell, when English and fo reigners fought side by side. Every schoolboy knows that Spain and France at that time threatened the existence of every other nation in Europe, and that those foreigners were no more mercenaries than are the French in the Crimea. Then we are told of William 111., and every body knows that he involved us in his Dutch wars. All the troops that fought for William were partisans in the quarrel, and not mercenaries. Next we have Marlborough and the wars of Queen Anne. Now, what was the case? Louis XIV. had denied the legitimacy of the English succession, and proclaimed the Pretender King of England; besides which, he had in vaded the territories of an ally, in the pursuit of universal dominion, the object for which Nicholas is now hopelessly contending. Foreign troops were then taken into the pay of the Allies; but they belonged to nations all of which had an interest, more or less strong, in defeating the enemy's ulterior design, but were not rich enough to join innor Th_respectij _ 111., so far hadEngl and to do with the - employment of mercenaries, that when he requested to retain his choice troops in England he was peremptorily refused. Other statements equally unfounded as justifications were made in this speech ; but the last is sufficient to prove the low estimate which the noble lord had formed of his audience. He treats the German Legion, who fought gallantly in Spain, as foreign mercenaries, when, in fact, the great body of them were as much the subjects of the British Crown as the English, Scotch, and Irish troops. On inquiring where we are to get the foreigners, his lordship tells us of the 30,000 German emigrants who pass every year through England. And ho expects these men to stay for the sake of a soldier's pay. Why, each of these emigrants is travelling at his own expense, and with an outfit purchased with his money, saved in the course of years by depositing his earnings in public offices established in the principal towns of Germany for the very purpose. To induce such men to abandon the pros pects in which they have long indulged, and striven hard to accomplish, we must not only reimburse them for their outlay in Germany, but offer them a much higher induce ment than a soldier's daily pay. If the foreign enlistment scheme is nauseous to the popular feeling, this expectation of carrying out displays an absence of consideration and information. DEATH OF ADMIRAL LA WRENCE. We regret to have to announce the death of Admiral Daniel Lawrence, at Swansea, on the 15th inst., in his 70th year. We take the following account of his ser vices from " O'Byrne's Biography" : "This officer entered the navy in March, 1798, as a volunteer on board the Grand Falconer, hired cutter, Lieutenant-Commander John Chilcott, stationed off the coast of France ; and on removing to the Cynthia sloop, Captain Malbon, was employed as midshipman and master's mate in the expeditions to Holland, Quiberon, Ferrol, and Egypt. He continued to serve with Cap tain Malbon in the Aurora, 28, and _Liebe, 32, on the Newfoundland, home, and Africa stations, until April, 1806, and while in the latter ship was ften engaged with the enemy's flotilla and batteries near Boulogne. Proceeding next to the West Indies, Mr. Lawrence, after he had been there borne for short periods as a su pernumerary on the books of the Dolphin, Canada, and Northumberland, flag-ships of the Hon. Alexander Cochrane, was successively nominated in June, 1806, and Jan., 1807, sub and acting lieutenant of the Ori noco, Lieut.-Commander George Alexander Briarly, and Heureux, 16, Capts. Wm. Coombe and John Watt. Being confirmed to the latter vessel by commission, dated May 19, 1808, we find him, on the 28th of the following November, accompanying three boats under the personal command of Captain Coombe in an at tempt to cut out 7 vessels lying under the protection of two batteries in the harbour of Mahaut, Guadeloupe. Having arrived at their destination after a row of about 6 hours, Lieut. Lawrence— while Capt. Coombe, in the barge with 19 men, was boarding a schooner of 2 guns and 39 men—landed with the remainder of the party, amounting to about 44 officers and men, and spiked the two 24-pounders upon the nearest battery. He then succeeded in boarding a brig, but before either the schooner or the brig could be got off, the shore was lined with musketry, and three field-pieces were brought to bear upon the two captured vessels. These, having the misfortune to ground on their way out be came fixed objects for the enemy's fire, and were ulti mately abandoned, but not until Captain Coombe had been killed, and Lieutenant Lawrence wounded by a musket-ball just above the wrist. Having distinguished himself in various other boat attacks, our officer (to whom the Patriotic Society awarded a gratuity for the injury we have alluded to) was permitted, as soon as he had served the necessary time, to ascend the next step in his profession, and his commision as commander accord ingly bears date May 19, 1810. Previously, however, to his promotion, Captain Lawrence appears to have been in acting command of the Wanderer, sloop, at the reduction of Gaudaloupe. His next and last ap pointments were May 23, 1814, and Oct. 21, 1815, to the Alceste and Weser, troop-ships, in the former of which he attended the expedition to New Orleans. He acquirel his rank of Admiral Sept. 2, 1816, and ac ccpted the retire men t Oct. 1, 1816." A CLIIJAX.--Recently a local preacher, distinguished for a grandiloquence of style unattainable by m en o f common genius, conclu ded a fervid supplication for the success of the Allied arms with the—we shall not say elegant, we fear to say pathetic, but we may safely say unmistakeable petition, " Lord, smash the Russians ! Lord, smash 'em Amen !"—Manclicater Express. , / -~ THE FOREIGN ENLISTMENT BILL. This anti-English and unconstitutional measure, which hourly increases in unpopularity with all classes in the country, passed through committee last night, and is ap pointed for a third reading this evening. We know not what the house may do with regard to the third reading ; but this we can with confidence say, that those represen tatives of popular coustituenoies who will have the teme rity to repeat this evening their vote of Tuesday will have cause to regret the course they have taken. And herelet us warn these Liberal members, that if their conduct was not to be justified on Tuesday a repetition of it will be more strikingly inexcusable now. The additional knowledge we have acquired in the in terim, respecting that measure, has only seemed to place it in a still more odious light. The public will learn with an astonishment and indignation which no language can express, that instead of, as Parliament, the press, and the public, had all equally imagined, only authorising a levy of 10,000 foreign mercenaries, the bill actually provides for the raising of any number,—say 40,000 or 50,000,—the 10 000 being kept in England as a depot. This is a startling fact. It is one for which we venture to say not one indi vidual in the country was prepared. And, to make the monstrosity of !the measure complete, not only will this country have to pay for the maintenance of the 40,000 or 50,000 foreign butchera of human beings which the bill enables the Government to hire, but it will have to sub sidise the German States. Are Englishmen prepared for this? Will the House of Commons this night so far 'forget what it owes to the country and to itself as to sanction the third reading of a bill which contains such odious provisions ? It will not do for the Liberal members to vote to-night for the third reading as they did on Tuesday for the second, on the ground, as scores of them told Mr. Muntz, the member for Birmingham, that they must vote for it, though utterly disapproving of it. Why this " must ?" Whence comes the compulsion? Are they apprehensive of a dissolution, and afraid, in that case, of losing their seats? They may rest assured that a repetition this evening of the vote of Tuesday, in favour of this Gorman Mercenaries Bill, will be the most effectual means they eould adopt to insure their rejection whenever they have again to appeal to their constituents.—(Morning Advertiser.) SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TA TTERSA.LL'S—TRITESDAY. Scarcely a dozen members met, and only the followi ng bets were laid : . THE DERBY. 275 to 25 agst Mr. Howard's St. Hubert, 1,500 to 1,200 and 500 to 400 on Rifleman agst Oulston. 1,000 to 25 agst De Clare's winning the Derby and Bonnie Morn the Two Thousand. WALTHAM ABBEY STEEPLECHASES. THURSDAY. Handicap Hurdle Race of 5 sovs each, with 25 added. Two miles and a half, over 6 flights of hurdles. Mr. B. Land's Odiham, 6 yrs, 10st glb (Land, jun.) 1 Mr. Mayo's Baustead, 4 yrs, llst .(H. Bell) 2 Mr. Evans's Alp, aged, llst 41b Mr. Wycherley s Warwick, aged, 103 t 21b...(C. Boyce) 4 Mr. Barling's Malmesbury, aged, 10st 71b(G. Eatwell) 5 Betting—Even on Odiham, 2 to 1 agst Malmesbury, 4 to 1 agst Warwick. Won by two lengths ; half a length between the second and third ; Moderate fourth ; Malmesbury beaten off. Selling Plate Race of 3 sovs each ; for 3-yr-olds and upwards. Optional selling weights. One mile. Mr. Littler's Firebrand, 3 yrs (40/.), Bst 21b (Stewart) 1 Mr. Green's Alma, 5 yrs (40/.), Bst Blb (S. Poole) 2 Betting-3 to lon Firebrand, who made nearly all the running, and won by four lengths. Free Handicap Selling Hurdle Race of 3 soya each, with 20 added. Optional selling weights. About a M rn r il E ie v a a n n d s,B a l l‘ i l a, over p lf (2ol. five ),lo3 fl t ig 3 h lb ts huid - les. (Gruen) 0 1 Mr. B. Land's Masssroni (201.), 9st ...(Land, jun.) 0 2 Mr. Barling's Old Misery (20/0, Ost (G. Ea.twell Mr. Clark's Young Spider, 9st 41b ...............(Bailey) 0 Mr. Jackson's Muid of Kildare (601.), Ost 11b(D. Poole) 0 Betting-6 to 4 agst Alp, 2to 1 each aget Massaroni and Old Misery. A fine race in with Alp and Massa roni ended in a dead heat. Deciding heat-6 to 4on Mwsaroni, who was defeated easily by three lengths. The Open Steeplechase did not fill. %mil/~ NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The Royal George, 120 guns, screw steam-ship, Cap tain Henry J. Codrington, C 8,, remains at present at her moorings at Blackstakes. The Cressy, 81, screw steam-ship, Captain R. L. Warren, was taken into the fitting basin at Sheerness yesterday preparatory to her being docked. The Majestic, 81, screw steam-ship, Captain James Hope, C. 8., at 11 a.m. yesterday, completed discharging her powder and shell, previous to her being taken into the basin at Sheerness. The Blenheim, 60, screw ship, Captain Hall, arrived at Spithead on Tuesday night, from the Baltic, and will go into Portsmouth harbour after discharging her pow der, &e t _ The Euryalus, 51, sorew-frigate, Captain Ramsey, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning, from the Baltic, bearing unmistakeable evidences of her mishaps in her collision with the Imperieu!ie lately, as before reported. She will require an extensive refit, for which purpose she is ordered to Devonport after recoaling. The Gorgon, 6, paddle-frigate, Commander Cranford, embarked 100 of the 2d battalion of the Rifle Brigade, on Tuesday, for passage to the Crimea. Captain Cooper was the officer in command of the detachment. The Gorgon went to Spithead yesterday morning, and, after taking in her powder, left for the Crimea with all speed. She took out the Admiralty consignment of 39 bales of warm knitted and wove jackets for gratuitous distribu tion to the seamen and marines of the fleet serving ashore in the Crimea, as mentioned in The Sun of Mon day last. the Balmoral screw -ship, w hi c h arr i ve d a t L e ith yes terday morning from Ki el, passed the Edinburgh on Monday evening, off the Naze, Norway. Admiral Chads desired to be reported. Instructions have been received in the Tyne that the Bulldog war steamer has to remain in that river during the next three months. ~z ~~ APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenant William A. R. Pearse (1841), h as been pointed to the Ajax, 60, screw steam-ship at ports month. Masters—Vincent Williams (1841), recently send er in the Prince Regent, 90, and Stephen Court, reoe ntty promoted from Acting-Master of the Investigator di e . oovery-ship, to the Fisgard gag-ship at Woolwich ;W. C. Pyper (1854), to the Perseverance iron screw steam troop-ship at Woolwich. Clerks' Assistants—W. Shott to . the Star, 8, sloop, on the south-east coast of America station ; Allen F. Gain to the Geyser paddle-wheel steam-sloop at Portsmouth. ROYAL MARINES. The following promotions and appointments have taken place in the corps of Royal Marines : Second Lieutenant C. F. Witham, to be First Li eut., vice Douglas, to half-pay. Dated the 16th inst. First Lieutenant and Adjutant Thomas Val antine Cooke, of the Portsmouth division, to be Captain, and appointed to the Woolwich division, vice Harlot, deceased. Second Lieutenant Albert Highman, of the Plymouth division, to be First Lieutenant, vice Cooke, promoted. Dated December 19th inst. The division will be here after notified. • THE TRANSPORT SERVICE. The Royal Victoria, steam transport, left Portsmouth on Tuesday afternoon, with wooden huts, duo., for the Crimea. The Foyle, steam transport, arrived in Portsmouth harbour on Wednesday evening to embark huts and stores for the Crimea. Yesterday the Oscar transport hauled out into the river from Woolwich Dockyard with 153 tons of ordnance stores, and the Agnes Blakey, with 180 tons of shot and 250 of coke, for the Crimea. The steam transport Adelaide, taken up by the Ad miralty some time ago for the conveyance of troops to the Crimea, has taken in her stores in the river, and is now on her way to Portsmouth to receive detachments of the 19th, 38th, and 86th Regiments, and 2d battalion of the Rifle Brigadge. She also calls at Plymouth for a detachment oft he 34th Regiment . The L'Emperatrice, chartered steamer, is expected at Portsmouth, from Liverpool, to embark detachments of the following :- Ist Regiment ... 4th Regiment.... 7th Regiment.... 20th Regiment.... 23d Regiment.... 28th Regiment.... 44th Regiment.... 46th Regiment.... 77th Regiment... 88th Regiment . 95th Regiment. Rifles 106 men 65 . 75 30 100 ... 65 ... SO ... 25 247 100 ... 39 . 50 , In all —.. 932 privates. 4 captains. 7 lieutenants. 9 ensigns. 25 sezjeants. , Total . 99-7 MISCELLANEOUS. Yesterday a merchant-ship which has been engaged by the committee of the Crimean Fund left Irongate wharf fort he Crimea, heavily laden with provisions, clothing, &c., for the troops in the Crimea. The cargo oonsisted_oX ar.oral (wheats of tea, a large quantity of boxes containing cocoa, preserved vegetables, meat, and milk, coloured blankets, a supply of warm clothing, &c. In a few clays the yacht of the Earl of Ellesmere, which is placed at the disposal of the committee by his lordship, will start with a similar description of cargo. The Wildfire, Capt. Downward, the first vessel to be despatched by Messrs. Peto, Brassey, and Co., as a por tion of their railway expedition to the Crimea, is still de tained at Birkenhead by unfavourable weather. She has on board 52 "navvies" and a cargo of railway plant. Tyne owners, who sent coal out on speculation to Con stantinople, have been advised by their captains that the whole of the cargoes have been taken up by the Govern ment, and that the vessels are now delivering at the Crimea. The Duchess of Cambridge has ordered that every widow in the Cambridge Asylum shall be supplied with a good dinner of roast beef, plum pudding, and ale on Christmas-day, at her Royal Highness's expense. THE CREW OF THE ATLANTIC. The crew of the Atlantic (lately condemned as a legal prize) were released from on board the Devonshire re ceiving-ship for Russian prisoners yesterday, having vo lunteered to serve on board ships chartered from Lon don for Australia and China, and proceeded to their respective ships. The crew of the Atlantic, 13 in num ber, have left the Devonshire with an excellent charac- ter. They speak in the highest terms of the kindness they have received from the commander and officers of the Devonshire during their detention on board that ship, Yesterday a great number o l f ß se Y rv . iceable men were en tered for her Majesty's land forces at the Staff-office, Delahay-street, Westminster, at the reduced height of 5 feet four inches, and an increased bounty of 61. per man. Yesterday Colonel Jones issued orders, pursuant to instructions from the War Office, for the first company of the Royal Sappers and Miners to proceed forthwith to the Crimea. THE MILITIA. The drill of the Dorset Regiment progresses satisfac torily in Dorchester. The number now on duty is about 600. . _ The recruiting parties in Liverpool and the surround. ing districts are very busy ; and, since the Ist of last January, no less than 24,103 army recruits, including 1,010 militiamen, have been "passed" at the police office. Since the Ist of November 7,016 billets have been issued in the town. The Second Royal Lancashire Militia have mustered very well at the barracks. Not withstanding the cumber of men who have entered the line, we understand that they muster nearly 1,000 strong. The regiment is embodied for active service, but whither they will be removed is not yet known. According to the returns from the recruiting parties now out from th e militia regiments already embodied, nearly 800 men h ave already joined to fill up i the vacan cies creat e d b y t h ose who have volunteered into the re gular service. The County of Dublin Regiment is being actively en rolled at the Linenhall Barracks. Considerable numbers have been already sworn in, and ordered to be embodied forthwith. A. new corps, under the title of "The City of Dublin Artillery Militia," is to be immediately enrolled. The following, among the officers, have been already ap pointed . • Li eu tenant -Colonel the Hon. R. F. Han cock ; !Captain Crampton, late of the 20th ; Captain Shaw, Captain Packenbam, Lieutenant Pelly, and Adju tant M'Killean' late of the Royal Artillery. The corps is to consist of 320 men, in four companies. Major M'Kenzie, lately in command of the depot of the 60th Rifles, has arrived in Belfast, holding the spu pointment of Adjutant of the Antrim Rifles, and will forthwith proceed to enrol and organise the regiment which has been already embodied, and is at present in actual occupation of the infantry barracks, conjointly with the depot of the 92d Highlanders. Enlistment in the militia has been very brisk in the capit a l of Uls ter nearly 200 enrolments appear on the b oo k s as hay ing ; - taken place within the past six weeks. Tint LATE STORM IN THE BLACK SEA.—Advieed f rom Eupatoria mention that the Asia, of Liverpool, Newlands ; and the Glendalough, of the same port, have been condemned. 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